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Stock up on annuals, perennials and everything
in between May 19 at the
Cascade Cuts Plant Sale and
also at the Backyard Habitat
& Native Flora Fair at the
Fairhaven Village Green
FOOD
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Poet’s Table Dinner: 5:30pm, Maple Hall, La Conner
VISUAL ARTS
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Salmon Lifecycles Reception: 3-6:30pm, Lummi
Gateway Center
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The Wiz: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth
Just Right for Right Now: 7pm, Bellingham Children’s Theatre
Twelve Angry Men: 7pm, Alger Community Church
Cinderella: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Rent: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
One-Act Plays: 7:30pm, Syre Theater, WCC
Happy Days: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
Frankly Scarlet, You’re Dead!: 7:30pm, RiverBelle
Theatre, Mount Vernon
Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Cops 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Charlie King, Karen Brandow: 7:30pm, Roeder
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Early Music Festival: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal
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COMMUNITY
The Road Less Graveled: 8:30am-12:30pm, Bellingham Technical College
Ladies Night Out: 5-8pm, downtown Bellingham
GET OUT
Bike to Work and School Day: 6:30-9:30am,
throughout Whatcom County
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Food Solidarity Conference: Today and tomorrow,
Academic West, WWU
Rent: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
Happy Days: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
One-Act Plays: 7:30pm, Syre Theater, WCC
Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Rodeo May 18-19
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The Provocateurs: 8pm, Spark Museum
on the grounds
MUSIC
Firehouse Performance Fundraiser: 6pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
Happy Days: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
The Wiz: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham Arts Academy
for Youth
Just Right for Right Now: 7pm, Bellingham Children’s Theatre
Twelve Angry Men: 7pm, Alger Community Church
annual sculpture
competition known
as the Welding
of the Bellingham
Technical College
Wind Symphony: 8pm, Performing Arts Center,
WWU
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Skagit River Poetry Festival: Through Sunday,
throughout La Conner
Welding Rodeo: 8am-5pm, Bellingham Technical
College
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Plant Sale: 9am-4pm, Cascade Cuts
Backyard Habitat & Native Flora Fair: 10am4pm, Fairhaven Village Green
Adaptive Cycles Expo: 10am-2pm, Civic Field
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Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway
Hall
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot
Community & Arts Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Wine Tasting: 3-6pm, Vartanyan Estate Winery
VISUAL ARTS
Welding Rodeo: 8am-5pm, Bellingham Technical College
Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Camano Island
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Tim Scott: 6pm, Spark Museum
Skagit Symphony: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall,
Mount Vernon
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Mambo Mania: 7-10pm, Blue Moon Ballroom
Life in the Garden: 7pm, Blaine Performing
Arts Center
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DANCE
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Cinderella: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Rent: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
One-Act Plays: 7:30pm, Syre Theater, WCC
Frankly Scarlet, You’re Dead!: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Theatre, Mount Vernon
Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Cops 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
GET OUT
Haulin’ Axe Fun Run: 9:30am, Barkley Haggen
FOOD
Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery
Southside Community Meal: 5-6:30pm, Our
Saviour’s Lutheran Church
VISUAL ARTS
Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Camano Island
Israeli Ceramics Celebration: 2-4pm, Whatcom
Museum’s Lightcatcher Building
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Keyboard Friends Concert: 3pm, Amadeus
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Organ Society: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Allegra Women’s Choir: 3pm, YWCA Ballroom
Faculty Recital: 4pm, Performing Arts Center,
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Just Right for Right Now: 2pm, Bellingham
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Happy Days: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
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A SUMMER OF CINEMA, P24
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SUPPORT RECONVEYANCE
SOS: SAVE OUR SLEDDING
It is time for the county to move forward with
the reconveyance of 8,700 acres of DNR-managed
land in the Lake Whatcom watershed. Doing so
would enable the county to create a park that
would permanently protect 25 percent of the watershed from logging.
Until very recently, we have drastically underestimated the adverse impacts of logging on
water quality. We now know that logging in the
watershed has channeled sediment to the lake
and triggered massive landslides. This sediment
delivery has degraded water quality, resulting in
increased costs for water treatment, and will lead
to significantly increased risks to public health.
The DNR lands that are being considered for
reconveyance include the steepest and most unstable slopes in the watershed. The risks of logging these types of sites have been very well
documented. In other watersheds, these risks
might be justified, but not in a watershed that
serves as the sole drinking water source for more
than 90,000 people. In the Lake Whatcom watershed, we need to recognize that water is a far
more important natural resource than timber. It
is noteworthy that many other cities, including
Everett, Seattle, and Portland, have completely
discontinued logging in the watersheds that
serve as their water supplies.
The best sledding hill in Bellingham is going to
be destroyed. Save our hill from the excavators
and do not let them turn it into another baseball
field because then we would not have a safe hill
to sled on when it snows. We like the sledding
hill a lot because it’s good for lots of things to
do. I like it.
—David Wallin, Bellingham
—Nathan Long, 1st Grade
Cordata Elementary School
PIER BRINGS JOBS, REVENUES
As a 75-year-old Whatcom County resident and
a father of two lifelong blue collar sons, I am totally in favor of Cherry Point as the location for
the Gateway Pacific deepwater terminal.
I believe the family-wage jobs this facility will
supply to our community are very much needed
to keep families together in our home area and
secure a future for working years and a comfortable retirement, while also providing our community with local, state and federal taxes to
support our communities.
—Larry Johnson, Ferndale
MONEY: WAY AHEAD OF
WHATEVER’S IN SECOND PLACE
I just don’t understand the growing skepticism
in our little corner of the world. What’s to not
like about a few more coal trains? And what’s
—Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham
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You’ve seen it before. Humongous
pockets are so big that the numbers lose
meaning. They shake free some pocket
change—millions to you. There’s a barrage of robo calls, TV and radio ads.
You’re told what’s good for you. You’re
not supposed to think about their motive. You’re not to think.
Divide and conquer. It works great.
Tell them it’s jobs or the environment.
Surround them with a media blitz. Give
our coal project a feeling of inevitability. Break their spirit. These words echo
from think tanks and seasoned corporate warriors.
You feel depressed. The other side has
so many resources. You’re just a ragtag
group, mostly occupied with daily life.
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make out what they’re saying. Suddenly,
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the problem with expanding waterway
activity at Cherry Point? It’s going to
bring in some pretty great freighter
traffic (i.e., Money).
Just think of the Money to be made
on that entire grand venture! China has
more Money to spend than they know
what to do with anyway.
And let’s get that luxury marina built
in the heart of our downtown waterfront. Just think of the rich people, and
the Money, that will attract.
What’s with these people who don’t
seem to get that Money is what it is all
about! What else is there? And how could
something else possibly compare with
Money? Let’s figure out how many corners
we can cut on that costly bay cleanup
thing. That will save us a ton of Money.
(Mercury cleanups are so expensive!)
Why not expand the airport and bring
in lots more air traffic? There’s good
Money in that, isn’t there? Think of the
Money somebody will make on that venture and how much better things will
be for us all simply because big Money
is involved.
What’s with the delays in Semiahmoo
Spit development? There’s an awful lot
of open space there, and think of the
Money to be made (by somebody).
Time’s a-wasting! Let’s quit dragging
our feet and putting obstacles in front
of Governors Point development too.
There are a lot of folks who would love
owning a piece of that action! So what’s
with all these delay tactics?
And what about all that open space
north of Bellingham, just waiting to
generate small fortunes for someone.
How can we not want all of these great
things? We are talking MONEY here. So
what’s the problem?
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RED HERRINGS NOT ON ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST: Rising to crisis, Port of Bellingham Commissioner Jim Jorgensen this week joined the motion of fellow Commissioner Michael McAuley, agreeing to place a proposal
to expand the commission to five members on the November ballot. If approved by voters, two additional
members could be added to the commission roster in
a special election as early as February 2013, according to Whatcom County Auditor Debbie Adelstein, who
advised the commission on their options.
While the increase admittedly does not guarantee
good decisions, it perhaps stalls bad decisions. Given a dysfunctional port authority, that is no doubt a
preferred outcome.
At their creation, port commissions by default
have three members. State law enacted in the early
1990s allows voters to add representatives, creating
five-member commissions. Former state Sen. Harriet Spanel, who sponsored the original legislation,
attempted to explain its intricacies to a confused
commission on Monday.
Under the law, the commission can place the option
on a ballot for consideration by voters. Citizens also
have the option to collect signatures, and force the
question on to a ballot by initiative. A citizen’s initiative would require about 7,000 signatures to qualify
for the ballot, the auditor explained.
Civic leaders—former mayors, activists, and
board and commission members—spoke in favor
of the measure introduced by McAuley, urging the
commission to action.
While Jorgensen and McAuley untangled their tackle,
Commission President Scott Walker chummed the waters with red herrings aplenty. Opposed to the expansion, Walker suggested supporters go right on gathering signatures in an effort to demonstrate depth of
support for the idea—as if tendering the matter to
Whatcom voters was an insufficiently high bar.
“I don’t see how this makes us any more accountable to the public,” Walker complained. “It just means
we’d be subject to more lobbying” and decisions would
take longer.
Evidently, throwing obstacles in the way of the
public’s control of their commission—in the form
of dissembling non-sequiturs, misleading arguments
and procedural obstructions—is Commisar Walker’s
way of improving the commission’s accountability
to said public.
Yet inefficiency in decision-making, which creates
time and opportunity to attempt to persuade (“lobby”)
elected leaders, is the public’s guarantee—the only
guarantee, really—of accountability in government.
Small inefficiencies (we call them checks and balances) are in the very gears of our Madisonian instruments
of government, as brakes to machinery. A decision to
structurally improve the port commission—to in effect make it a more representative, more deliberative,
more responsive body—extends far beyond trying to
overwhelm one commisar’s obsessive experiments in
micromanagement of port operations. As one commenter wryly noted, the only thing more efficient than
a commission of three is a dictatorship of one.
Under the current structure, Commisar Walker need
only twist the feeble arm of one other commissioner
to gin up a series of disasters that have rocked the
agency in recent weeks. Two can negate one. Under an
expanded commission, a commissar would have to ma-
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BY AMY GOODMAN
Power, and Demand
COAL, FORECLOSURES AND BANK OF AMERICA’S ‘EXTRAORDINARY EVENT’
SHAREHOLDER
meetings
can be routine, unless you are Bank of
America, in which case it may be declared an “extraordinary event.” That
is what the city of Charlotte, N.C.,
called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of America is currently the second-largest bank in the
United States (after JPMorgan Chase),
claiming more than $2 trillion in assets. It also is the “too big to fail”
poster child of Occupy Wall Street, a
speculative banking monstrosity that
profits from, among other things, the
ongoing foreclosure crisis and the exploitation of dirty coal.
North Carolina, which went for
Barack Obama in 2008, is a swing
state in this year’s presidential election. Current polls indicate the Tar
Heel State is a tossup. To boost its
chances there, the Democratic Party
has chosen Charlotte to host this
summer’s Democratic National Convention. In preparation, the Charlotte City Council passed an amendment to the city code allowing the
city manager to declare so-called
extraordinary events. The ordinance
is clearly structured to grant police
extra powers to detain, search and
arrest people who are within the
arbitrarily defined “extraordinary
event” zone.
Many activists expressed outrage
at the bank’s role in the subprime
mortgage industry and the foreclosure crisis it helped spawn. As part of
a federal settlement over widespread
mortgage fraud, Bank of America
agreed to hand over $11.8 billion.
Just two days before the protest, the
bank announced it was contacting
the first 5,000 of 200,000 mortgage
customers who are eligible for a loan
modification, with a potential decrease in their mortgage principal of
as much as to 30 percent.
Earlier this month, Rainforest Action Network members climbed 100
feet to suspend a banner on Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium,
where President Obama is scheduled
to make his nomination acceptance
speech on Sept. 6. The banner read
“Bank of America” with the word
“America” crossed out and replaced
with “Coal.” RAN is part of a broad
coalition fighting the destructive
practice of mountaintop removal.
RAN Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton told me: “Bank of America is
the lead financier of mountaintopremoval mining, which is a practice
of mining which is really the worst
of the worst mining that we see anywhere, essentially blowing the tops
off of mountains in Appalachia,
destroying people’s homes, polluting their water supplies. And that’s
even before it gets into the coal
plants, where it’s burnt and creates
air pollution in inner-city areas and
all around our country... [It’s] the
canary in the coal mine for our reliance on fossil fuels.”
The broad coalition in and out of
the shareholder meeting demonstrates a key development in Occupy
Wall Street’s spring revival, and also
foreshadows possible confronta-
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tions with the Obama re-election
campaign this fall.
President Obama clearly responds
to pressure. Look at the issue of
marriage equality. In 1996, while
campaigning for state senator in
Illinois, Obama wrote that he supported same-sex marriage. While
campaigning in 2008, then-U.S. Sen.
Obama stated, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man
and a woman.” This week, he told
ABC News, “It is important for me to
affirm that I think same-sex couples
should be able to get married.”
Given the political climate, it
certainly is brave for Obama to endorse marriage equality, especially
just hours after the voters of North
Carolina voted in favor of a state
constitutional amendment that
bans same-sex marriage. But he was
once a community organizer, and no
doubt recalls the words of Frederick
Douglass: “Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did, and
it never will.” The LGBT community
was organized and vocal, and the
president’s position moved.
Those gathered inside and outside
the Bank of America shareholder meeting this week—homeowners fighting
foreclosure, environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street activists—will take
note of the president’s change. They
are sure to continue their struggles,
right through the Democratic National Convention, making it truly an
“extraordinary event.”
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nipulate at least two others to achieve
the same mischief. Other commissioners could cross-check the details of the
blind con, without breaking state sunshine laws. But beyond that, and long
after the peculiar mischief of any single
commissioner is long forgotten, better
structure invites better government.
Commissioners and petitioners also
have the option of creating an expanded commission in different flavors:
Easiest is a commission with two atlarge representatives, commissioners
not tied geographically to one of the
county’s three legislative districts.
More cumbersome, the port commission
could draw its own five districts, based
on voting populations, and require one
commissioner of each distinct district.
The added complication of flavors
appeared to stir apprehension in Jorgensen. The Blaine resident expressed
unease representation could become
heavily weighted by Bellingham. Yet
there’s no malady for the cure: Ultimately, all county elections in Whatcom County involve all county voters,
and Bellingham—as the county’s population center—will inevitably produce
a surfeit of candidates for office.
At sea, Jorgensen’s waters were further chummed by the port’s legal counsel, Frank Chmelik, who—appearing to
read the governing statutes for the first
time—saw these flavors as mutually
excluding one another. One path chosen, he suggested, would prevent the
commission from considering the other. Chmelik’s hesitant herrings nearly
swamped the commissioner’s resolve.
But, in fact, the law allows for the commission to readily adopt either flavor
or, for petitioners—again, in the law’s
symmetry—to force a preference on to
a future ballot.
While time permits the proposed expansion to appear on the coming August primary ballot, McAuley expressed
his preference that the measure appear
in November’s general election, where
more voters may participate.
Yet even that produces a prickly outcome: While it’s true more people may
be involved in the decision to change
the commission’s structure in November,
fewer will vote on the commission’s actual representatives in a special election
in February. Given the latter will have
a much more profound effect on the
commission and its decision, a November election might’ve yielded a better
balance of competing imperatives.
If approved by voters, the top votegetter in the special election will serve
through 2015. The candidate in second
place could stand for re-election to a full
four-year term in the fall of 2013.
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The Bellingham City Council
Monday night sent a letter to
Whatcom County asking that
BNSF plans for transporting
coal through Bellingham to
the proposed Gateway Pacific
Terminal be made a part of
the application for the terminal, because of its potential
impact on the city. Mayor
Kelli Linville and Council
President Terry Bornemann
signed the letter; it passed
5-0, with Stan Snapp and
Gene Knudsen absent.
Whatcom County is co-lead
with Washington Department
of Ecology and U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers for environmental review of GPT. The
county last month accepted
applications from proponents,
but allowed until May 16 for
added comments. The county
can accept added material
under its conditions.
The Council was told in a May
14 letter from BNSF government affairs director Terry Finn
that BNSF has long considered
a second siding in Bellingham
to allow expanded growth but
such plans have nothing to
do with Gateway Pacific’s proposal. “The railroad is looking
at several ideas, and, as yet,
has not concluded that a new
or longer siding is the answer.
Double tracking in certain
areas may serve just as well,”
Finn wrote. CWB’s Jack Delay
told council that BNSF should
reveal its plans in order for a
fair assessment of the entire
project to be made.
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DID ANYONE
see this train coming? I mean, we looked both
ways and then, bang, there it was, knocking down everything in its
way. What happened?
For more than a decade, state rail planners worked on plans for
high-speed Amtrak from Portland to Vancouver, B.C. and a freight rail
plan based on statements from the BNSF railroad that it saw no big
changes ahead. “From a freight perspective, BNSF believes sufficient
capacity exists for the foreseeable future,” state freight rail planners
said as late as 2009.
Meanwhile, planners in railside communities such as Bellingham
and Marysville aggressively forged ahead with “green” ideas that
sometimes co-existed with the tracks.
What happened about three years ago was the world woke up to
China and India growing like crazy and it was all based on burning
coal. Suddenly America’s coal giants had a market to replace the U.S.
coal plants that were being shut down to combat global warming. The
coal giants could sell their coal to Asia.
But they had no West Coast ports to
ship their coal. They did have an eager
railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe
(BNSF) with its new deep-pocket owner,
Warren Buffett.
That was the marriage made in... well,
choose your word based on your worldview... and that was the train we didn’t
see coming.
State rail reports—a freight rail plan in
2009, Amtrak long-range plans in 2006,
and 2008, and even a Discovery Institute
study in 2011—simply didn’t reflect the
new train in town. All were based on a
1992 plan for high-speed passenger rail.
So we are aggressively seeking federal
funds—the only game in town right now
for a high-speed rail that is problematic
unless someone comes up with big money
to build a separate track and divorce the
system from BNSF. Certainly that is true
north of Seattle, where major bottlenecks
persist on the present system.
The serious nature of adjusting to the
new world of massive coal unit trains to
feed the Chinese dragon was illustrated
Monday (May 7) in a presentation to Bellingham City Council by Jack Delay, president of CommunityWise Bellingham (CWB),
which bills itself as working to inform the
community about impacts of a planned
coal-export terminal at Cherry Point, north
of Bellingham. SSA Marine of Seattle wants
to export 48 million tons of Powder River
coal a year and already has a contract with
Peabody Coal for half that tonnage.
Delay told council members that doubletracking the present BNSF rail lines through
the heart of the city’s waterfront appears
to be the priority of both the state’s rail
planners and BNSF. Details are contained
deep within appendixes of state rail plans,
he said, and include massive disruptions
to one of the city’s most popular parks
as well as homes, businesses and future
waterfront development. The cost of the
project, labeled the “South Bellingham
siding,” was estimated at $102.6 million
back in 2006, when it appeared in state
long-range plans for Amtrak. Another $2.3
million is planned to relocate a portion of
the rail line that bisects a proposed new
waterfront development.
CWB’s consultant, Transit Safety Management (TSM), is a national firm hired to
examine ways added coal traffic might impact Bellingham. Their report concluded:
“BNSF has made no public announcement
of how it intends to handle the additional
traffic, nor what infrastructure must be
constructed to support it. It appears likely from examination of the infrastructure
proposed in the WSDOT Long Range Plan
for Amtrak Cascades, that the infrastructure solution developed for increased coal
train traffic will probably be similar.”
Studies declare that the BNSF mainline
is the only practical way to ship the coal,
and it is clearly BNSF’s preference. The
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day now use its tracks between Everett
and Bellingham; that’s practical capacity for the present system, according to
state reports and TSM. If Cherry Point
is built to capacity it adds another 18
trains to the line—more than double
present capacity. Without dramatic improvement, the coal can’t be shipped.
Thus the sudden pressure on those
old plans to add capacity for Amtrak,
because they would also add capacity
for the coal trains.
Building a second track through Bellingham’s waterfront and also expanding
the Samish siding south of Chuckanut
Drive would boost daily train capacity to
24 trains, TSM believes. But that is still
far short of the 33 per day that would be
needed when the Cherry Point terminal is
built to capacity.
It would be possible, a 2008 WSDOT
Amtrak report and the 2011 Cascadia
Study concluded, to add a third Amtrak
train between Seattle and Vancouver
without the south Bellingham or Samish
sidings. “This study shows that the addition of Bellingham-Everett regional rail
service, plus the operation of one additional Cascade round trip Seattle-Vancouver, will not degrade current freight
performance, but instead will improve it,
assuming concurrent track capacity improvements,” the studies stated.
But they also stressed that BNSF, if
the coal terminal is approved, would
be well beyond the capacity of the rail
line to ship the coal, and could reject
the third Amtrak run because its lines
would be full. In that event, communities like Bellingham could wind up with
more freight trains and rail tracks, but
no added Amtrak.
There is simply no other way to move
the coal other than add the second Bellingham line, and probably other sidings
along the route north of Everett. If the
state can justify these improvements as
benefitting Amtrak, taxpayer funds could
be used. Otherwise, BNSF would need to
finance the expensive projects itself,
perhaps with help from its export partners. And Amtrak could be out of luck.
State planners—and the TSM study
agrees—see the added Bellingham sidings as the only solution if Gateway Pacific Terminal is built. In effect, if the
city doesn't like the second siding, its
only option is to work to defeat the coalexport terminal itself.
WSDOT wants both an enhanced Amtrak
and an enhanced rail-freight corridor
from Everett to British Columbia. Clearly
a second track would allow both—at a
price to communities like Bellingham—
but even that may not be enough to serve
a full-capacity GPT operation. Because
the second track only brings capacity to
about 24 trains and GPT at capacity will
need 33 trains.
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railroad has a little-used inland line running from Burlington parallel with Highway 9 to Sumas; conceivably it could be
upgraded and expanded, but it could not
qualify for high-speed transit taxpayer
dollars so it would need to be financed
by the railroad itself.
The pattern of rail capital investments
has been to depend on public funding
when an opportunity is presented. For
decades, federal investment in freightrail infrastructure has been minimal;
funds have been directed to passenger
rail. On smaller branch lines or in rural
areas without mass transit the railroads
are generally on their own.
In its 2006 Amtrak report, the Washington Department of Transportation
(WSDOT) listed $607.7 million spent to
that time on upgrading the rail system,
with BNSF contributing $9.4 million, or
2 percent. Many of the improvements,
such as stations, would not benefit BNSF,
but others dealing with tracks and safety
clearly would. The pattern is similar to
that in other areas. As TSM commented
in its report, “BNSF can be expected to
support any new business, including the
proposed coal trains, with the minimum
amount of effective investment.”
Washington rail planners did not design this system for coal trains; the plans
originated well before coal exporting
from Puget Sound or Columbia River ports
was envisioned. WSDOT assumed for two
decades that freight-rail traffic would be
intermodal stack cargo along with grain
and other products of the region. Coal
caught them by surprise, as it did others; fortunately for BNSF, it has a railroad
that connects to deep-water ports. And
fortunately for SSA Marine, it owns 1,000
acres at Cherry Point with an 80-foot
deep channel from which it once planned
to ship grain and potash.
During the past two decades, since the
Legislature approved the high-speed rail
plan in 1993, the state has plugged away,
using federal and state grants to expand
service, particularly between Seattle and
Portland, where trackage is more developed and there is greater demand. Seattle to Vancouver limped along, finally
getting two round trips a day, but is still
far from its goal of four trains. Serious
rail bottlenecks, particularly between
Burlington and Blaine, and between the
U.S. border and Vancouver, require huge
investments and still wind up with the
trains sharing tracks with freight.
State plans to overcome the bottlenecks were not secret—they are outlined
in 2006 and 2009 state reports—but the
details have not been widely discussed,
in part because the likelihood of their
ever being funded is not high. Local
planners worked on the basis of future
freight traffic growing but not exploding
with coal exports.
Railroad officials have said 15 trains a
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County Council is advised they may no longer receive comments about the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal port during
council's open public comment period. The prosecutor’s office
issues an opinion that council members are prohibited from
learning about the facility because they will ultimately judge
whether permits should be issued to construct it. The public
may submit written comments council members may review
when they formally consider the application for the coal port.
Ferndale. Bergman was reported missing nearly two
months ago. His death is ruled a suicide by the county
medical examiner.
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City policymakers may continue to control decisions about
medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. The City
of Bellingham issues a legal opinion noting that conflicts in
state and federal laws governing medical marijuana open space
for local rules that govern collective pot gardens. The City of
Seattle, for example, allows medical marijuana dispensaries to
set up shop like other businesses.
Port of Bellingham commissioners agree to place a
measure on the November ballot, asking voters to consider expanding the commission to five members. If
approved, new commissioners could be elected next
February.
Perhaps in consideration of that point,
BNSF told city officials last week that three
tracks might be needed through at least part
of the waterfront. The third track might be
only a short siding, or it could be part of
a plan to add track capacity along a much
longer segment.
The South Bellingham siding, WSDOT documents reveal, would close several busy crossings and eliminate vehicular access to the
popular Boulevard Park and Taylor Dock; the
city continues to make heavy investments in
the park and dock, a walkway over Bellingham
Bay that will eventually connect the historic
Fairhaven village to downtown. Environmental reviews may be needed; the line runs
along the bay.
The process will be long and laborious and
cost both SSA Marine and the public a bundle;
it’s likely to take a couple of years, during
which the volatile coal market could shift and
political decision-makers change. Our historic and fractured rail system—or the way
we make decisions for it—may not emerge
unscathed.
Determining a rational rail system for a
state like Washington appears to be done in a
“silo” system, with separate agencies (not to
mention private railroads) drawing up grand
plans, without knowing what’s in the nextdoor silo. Some in Bellingham claim to be
blindsided by plans for massive rail changes,
yet the plans have been published for years.
Northwest Washington is certainly a different place than when these plans were adopted two decades ago, and coal transports
for Asian furnaces was never on the table.
Does it make a difference and, if it does,
do we even have a process to rethink this
complex an issue?
Bellingham City Council rejects a zoning amendment to the Fairhaven neighborhood plan. Haggen,
Inc., had proposed a plan that could change residential boundaries and partially restrict street access for
an expansion of their Fairhaven market. The Bellingham Planning Commission had earlier recommended
against the change.
This article originally appeared in Crosscut, a
Seattle-based online news site, on May 8. Floyd
McKay is professor emeritus of journalism at
Western Washington University and a Bellingham resident. He has edited the original story
for space considerations, with an update, as of
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A park has been planned for the area since 1968.
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A body is found in the Nooksack River near Hovander
Park. The body is identified as that of Daniel Bergman, 48, of
Crowds in Seattle wildly cheered President Barack Obama one day after
he expressed support for same-sex marriage. Appearing at fundraiser at
Seattle's historic Paramount Theater on Thursday, Obama said his vision for
a better America applies to everyone. Washington state has passed a law
approving same-sex marriage, but opponents are gathering signatures for a
ballot initiative to overturn the law.
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On March 24, Bellingham Police attempted to pull over a van observed
driving without lights in Roosevelt
neighborhood. The driver jumped out
of the van and ran, leading police on a
short pursuit. A K9 unit eventually located the man’s hiding spot. He was arrested for multiple traffic offenses and
vehicle theft.
On March 31, callers reported a man
and woman arguing inside a white minivan. The woman got out and walked
away in the rain. The man followed
her in the van. Bellingham Police located the couple on the Southside and
learned that they were having relationship issues. The woman had decided to
walk home to her instead of continuing
to argue with her boyfriend.
On April 8, a man was reported offering rides in his vehicle for fare. Bellingham Police reported he did not have a
taxi license.
On May 11, a caller told Bellingham
Police a man was acting aggressively
in the parking lot at Barkley Village.
She said he challenged customers and
swore at them.
On May 11, a drunk was spotted groping his way toward his car in Barkeley
Village, possibly preparing to drive.
Bellingham Police advised him not to
drive until he had sobered up.
On May 13, a drunk was yelling and
vomiting outside the Birnam Wood
apartments on WWU campus.
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On May 10, a citizen wanted Bellingham Police to know about an incident
that happened about seven or eight
years ago.
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Police to report the elderly woman next
door was using her rocking chair, which
was keeping him awake.
On May 10, Bellingham Police logged a
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the ignition of his van while he went
into Quiznos on Samish Way to pick up
lunch for his wife. The van was stolen and driven away, traveling south.
Bellingham Police issued an advisory
broadcast on the theft to state and
county units. The van was reported
traveling south on Interstate 5 in a
manner that led police to believe the
driver was intoxicated. State troopers
stopped the van after a short pursuit
near College Way in Mount Vernon. The
thief was taken into custody. Bellingham Police let the owner know he could
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On May 12, a fight broke out near
Western Washington University campus. Reportedly, one of the combatants
came after another with an axe. “The
victim was able to disarm the suspect
and incurred minor injuries consisting
of bruises during the incident,” Bellingham Police reported. They arrested
the 27-year-old alleged attacker.
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On May 10, a Spokane man with ties
to white supremicists was sentenced to
13 years in prison on federal weapons
charges. According to court testimony,
the 54-year-old had told associates he
was saving for a "final solution" that
would include a bombing bigger than
the 1995 Oklahoma City blast. During his sentencing, the man disputed
the testimony of federal agents, and
said he had no plans to blow up a federal building or kill President Barack
Obama. Calling Obama "the best thing
since Skippy peanut butter," he told
the court, "He's done more damage
than 1,000 terrorists."
On May 9, a guest at a Samish Way
motel confronted a man he suspected
had slashed three of his tires the previous day. The 50-year-old assaulted the
guest. Bellingham Police were called
in, but by that point the 50-year-old
had barricaded himself inside his motel room. The standoff ended when a
SWAT team lobbed “less-lethal impact
munitions”—pepper ball shot from a
bean bag gun—into the room to subdue
the man. He was arrested on charges of
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Bully
A CALL TO ACTION
ALL OF us have known an Alex Libby.
He’s a geeky kid with a weird, stiff walk and goofy-looking glasses. We
might have spotted him as bigger boys poke him with pencils, or witnessed
him being tormented at the bus stop.
Yet we probably did nothing.
The relentless bullying of the 12-year-old boy in Sioux City, Iowa, is
the heart-wrenching center of Bully, an intensely moving documentary that
chronicles the 2009-10 school year in the lives of three harassed youths,
and the tireless anti-bullying efforts of two families whose sons committed
suicide.
It’s a disturbing, beautifully realized piece of advocacy filmmaking—an
urgent call to action for students, educators and communities to deal with
the challenges facing the reportedly more than 13 million American kids
who are bullied every year.
Unfortunately, most of what we know about Bully comes from the distraction about the MPAA rating. To recap, the Motion Picture Association of
America dug in its antiquated heels over an F-bomb quota, originally slapping Bully with an R. The studio trimmed out three so it could earn a PG-13.
By doing so, they’ve made it much easier for young people to see it.
It’s ironic the controversy revolves around words since they—as the movie so stirringly illustrates—can draw blood.
Doubt it? I invite you to look into the redrimmed eyes of David and Tina Long of Murray
County, Ga., for proof. They’re the parents of Tyler, a 17-year-old who came home one day and
hanged himself in a closet. The Longs turned
their grief into action, preserving Tyler’s legacy
by rattling indifferent educators and the community into acknowledging that steps need to be
taken to prevent it from happening again.
We also see Kirk and Laura Smalley of Oklahoma
become the unlikeliest of national advocates for
change after their 11-year-old son takes his life.
Kirk, who describes himself as “a nobody,” and
his wife launched the anti-bullying group Stand
for the Silent, organized via social media and recognized by President Obama.
In addition to Alex, who also has Asperger’s
syndrome, we learn about 16-year-old Kelby—a
lesbian—from Tuttle, Okla.,
and 14-year-old Ja’Meya—
an African-American honors
student from Yazoo County,
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But it is Alex’s narrative that hits the hardest.
Here’s a sweet kid shunned by virtually everyone. By showing us life through his eyes, the
filmmakers give us a palpable sense of how petrifying it is for him to go to school each day.
We watch in horror as the harassment on a bus
intensifies to the point that Hirsch—fearing for
Alex’s safety—shows the footage of the abuse
to educators and his family. Alex’s parents are
stunned by what they see.
When they meet with an assistant principal
about stopping it, there’s a sense she’s placating
them with old-school thinking and not addressing their concerns. (A school investigation does
follow and Alex is placed on another bus.)
As adults try to figure this all out, our hearts
go out to Alex. Throughout his ordeal, you want
to reach out and hug the kid, protect him and tell
him that things will get better.
Bully wants to provide the building blocks to
help Alex get there.
Now the onus is on all of us to play our part in
making it happen.
URBAN FARM REVIVAL: Learn more about
brothers David and Michael Hanson and
urban farmer Edwin Marty’s new book Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm
Revival at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. The book documents 12 successful urban
farm programs.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
MAY 17-20
SK AGIT POE TRY FEST IVAL: Nikki Giovanni, Simon Ortiz, Tony Hoagland, Lorna
Crozier, Tim McNulty, and Simon Ortiz will
be among the many poets taking part in
this year’s Skagit River Poetry Festival happening Thurs.-Sun. throughout La Conner.
Interviews, literary conversations, musical
performances, workshops and much more
will be part of the wordy fun. Ticket prices
vary.
WWW.SKAGITRIVERPOETRY.ORG
FRI., MAY 18
LIFE OF REIKI: Hawaii Reiki master
Shalandra Abbey signs copies of her
book Living a Life of Reiki: From Complete
Healthcare to Ultimate Freedom in Day-to-Day
Life from 5-8pm at Barnes & Noble, 4099
Meridian St.
319-5744
FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Members of the
Bellingham Storyteller’s Guild will tell tales
at Family Story Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven
Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free.
778-7188
MONK MESSAGES: Katherine Jenkins shares
stories and passages from her autobiographical book, Lessons from the Monk I Married, at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SAT., MAY 19
UNBREAK ABLE SPIRIT: Local bestselling
author Dawn-Marie Hanrahan discusses the
book Unbreakable Spirit: Rising Above the
Impossible at 2pm at the Ferndale Library,
2007 Cherry St.
384-3647
SUN., MAY 20
MINDFUL WRIT ING: Writers Brenda Miller
and Holly Hughes will discuss ideas from the
book The Pen & the Bell: Mindful Writing in
a Busy World at 4pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St.
671-2626
MON., MAY 21
POE TRYNIGHT: Read your original verse
at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus
Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start
at 8pm.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., MAY 22
POETRY CHALLENGE: Writers who took part
in the annual Kumquat Poetry Challenge will
read from their works at 12pm at Whatcom
Community College’s Syre Theater. The poems
submitted all include the following 10 words:
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THURS., MAY 24
WRITERS LEAGUE: Acclaimed author Bill
Dietrich will focus on “Using Facts in Your Fiction” at a Skagit Valley Writers League meeting
from 6:30-8:30pm at the Mount Vernon Senior
Center, 1401 Cleveland St. The workshop is free,
but participants need to sign up in advance.
(360) 391-2042 OR WWW.SKAGITWRITERS.ORG
CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Outdoor writer Mike
McQuaide will be the featured author at tonight’s
Chuckanut Radio Hour starting at 7pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave. Columnist Alan Rhodes, serial radio comedy live music
and more will be part of the fun. Entry is $5.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
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FRI., MAY 18
ROAD LESS GRAVELED: Local tradeswomen
will demonstrate and teach skills and provide
information about their nontraditional careers,
training resources and employment opportunities at “The Road Less Graveled” from 8:30am12:30pm at the Bellingham Technical College.
Register in advance.
752-8483 OR WWW.BTC.CTC.EDU
BARN BINGO: Help build the South Whatcom
Public Library at a “Bingo in the Barn” fundraiser from 6:15-9pm at the Sudden Valley Dance
Barn, Gate 2. The event is all-ages.
306-1800
LADIES NIGHT OUT: Local retailers and restaurants will host exclusives sales, promotions
and food and drink specials at Ladies Night Out
starting at 5pm in downtown Bellingham. The
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WOMEN VOTERS: “Why Are We Voting for
Judges Anyway? A Reality Check of Today’s
Judicial Campaigns” will be the focus of a talk
with political and media consultant Cathy Allen
at today’s League of Women Voters annual meeting at 12pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 Forest
St. Lunch will be available for $15.
INFO
Visit DowntownBellingham.com for a
complete list of participants or pick up
a map at participating businesses on
Friday May 18th.
WWW.LWVBELLINGHAMWHATCOM.ORG
OLDER AMERICANS CELEBRAT ION: Participants of all ages can celebrate Older Americans
Month from 12:30-4pm at the Bellingham Senior
Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. A panel discussion, dancing, singing, billiards and more will
be part of the free fun.
733-4030 OR WWW.WCCOA.ORG
WONDERS OF WHATCOM: “The Search for T.G.
Nicklin” will be the focus of today’s Wonders
of Whatcom presentation at 2:30pm at the
Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free.
778-7323
ARMED FORCES DAY: Retired Lieutenant
Colonel Tom Schornak, a career Air Force pilot,
will talk about his experiences at an Armed
Forces Day presentation at 3pm at the Everson
McBeath Community Library, 104 Kirsch Dr.
966-5100
FUNDRAISING AUC T ION: Whatcom County’s
Habitat for Humanity will host a Fundraising
Auction starting at 5:30pm at the Hotel Bellwether Ballroom. Tickets are $75 and include
the auction, dinner and entertainment.
WWW.HFHWHATCOM.ORG
MON., MAY 21
ROCK S & GEMS: The public is invited to the
monthly meeting of the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem
Club at 7pm at the Bloedel Donovan Community
Building, 2214 Electric Ave. There will also be a
silent auction, door prizes and refreshments.
WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG
FREE Primp, Shop and Sip: 5-8pm at participating businesses in
Downtown Bellingham
$15
Party for a Cause: 8pm at The Underground. A benefit for Womencare
Shelter including a fashion show, live music, raffle, and goodie bags (21+)
Updates: Check our Facebook event page for updates
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Greenhouse
Downtown Bellingham Partnership
Womencare Shelter
The Underground (8pm Friday May 18)
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BOOK SALE: The Ski to Sea Book Sale takes
place from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat. at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Books, CDs
and DVDs will be available for purchase.
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BACK 2 BELLINGHAM: A carnival, concerts,
live theater and improv, a lowrider show,
educational and reunion activities, a golf
tournament and much, much more will be
part of the Back2Bellingham Alumni & Family
Reunion Weekend from Friday through Sunday
at a variety of venues both on the WWU campus
and off. Prices vary.
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GLASS BEACH: Acclaimed novelist Heather
Barbieri reads from her new work of women’s
fiction, The Cottage at Glass Beach, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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MEMORY INTO MEMOIR: The writers of Laura
Kalpakian’s 2012 memoir class will read from their
words at 6pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
evening will continue at 8pm at the Underground with live entertainment, a fashion show,
raffles and more. Tickets to the Underground
event are $12 in advance and $15 at the door;
funds raised benefit the Womencare Shelter.
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TRAWLER FEST: A five-day celebration of
the cruising-under-power lifestyle known as
Trawler Fest takes place through Saturday
at the Cap Sante Boat Haven in Anacortes.
A boat show, educational seminars and
much will be part of the fun.
WWW.PASSAGEMAKER.COM
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Ride On
BIKING IN BELLINGHAM (AND BEYOND)
BELLINGHAM IS home to an astounding array of bike
riders.
Some of them are clad head-to-toe in Spandex and enough assorted gear to bankrupt a small nation. Others dress for success
and cinch up their work slacks so as not to get them caught in the
spokes of their handy conveyances. Then there are those who ride
as if they’re perpetually on the way to the beach—shorts, flip-flops
and as little clothing as possible (if the sun is out, it doesn’t seem
to matter that it’s only 55 degrees).
However they’re dressed, one thing is certain: Around here, people
like to get on their bikes and go. Whether it’s a short jaunt to the
Farmers Market or a roller-coaster ride down Galbraith, if it’s a sunny
spring or summer day, you should expect to share the roads and
trails with those ambulating on two wheels.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an everyday biker, a sometimes-rider or
someone who’s been thinking about dusting off the vintage cruiser
in the garage and joining the cycling hordes—there are plenty of
events right around the corner that can make it easier to be a part
of the biking community.
As part of National Bike Month, Whatcom County will be more than
ready for Bike to Work & School Day, which kicks off from 6:30-9:30am
Fri., May 18 at approximately 30 “celebration stations” in the area.
While the bulk of them are located in Bellingham—everywhere from
Sehome Village to Marine Drive to Whatcom Community
College—there’ll also be welcoming committees at the
Lummi Fitness Center, Lynden Public Library, Blaine
Schools, the C Shop in Birch Bay, Ferndale’s Main St.,
and at the Nooksack Valley Middle School.
Even if you don’t have time to stick around at one
of the stations for complimentary
treats and beverages, pause for at least a minute or
two in order to be counted. The
numbers will come in handy
next year, when organizers can
demonstrate to nonbelievers
(and city planners) just how
many people in our community
are biking or walking for transportation.
Additional activities will
happen
throughout the day,
ATTEND
WHAT: Bike to Work &
including a tricycle race at
School Day
noon at Bellingham City Hall
WHEN: 6:30-9:30am
and, beginning at 5pm, an
Fri., May 18
after party at the Chuckanut
WHERE: Thirty
Brewery & Kitchen.
celebration stations
throughout Whatcom
Once you’ve biked to work
County
and proven you can do it, the
COST: Free
choices for social riding just
INFO: www.biketo
keep coming. For example, even
workandschoolday.org
though the seasons haven’t
----------------------WHAT: Summer Rides
technically changed over just
WHEN: Weekly
yet, Everybody Bike’s Summer
through Aug. 26
Rides
series has already kicked
WHERE: Throughout
off,
and
doesn’t show signs of
Whatcom County
slowing
down
until the end of
COST: Free; no registration required
August.
INFO: www.every
For those who didn’t catch
bodybike.com
wind of the series last year,
the free, guided rides focus on different places and
themes each week. Whether it’s the Petite Parks Tour
featuring small parks and led by a Whatcom Museum
historian (May 20), a Diva Ride (June 8), a Ferndale
River Ride (June 17), a Birch Bay Beach Pedal (July 22),
or a Lynden-based Dutch Treat Bike Ride (Aug. 5), each
excursion brings with it a brand new experience.
“The real story behind these themed bike rides is that
it gives an opportunity for cyclists of any skill level to
participate in learning how to safely navigate our city
streets with a group of other cyclists in a non-competitive guided ride,” says outreach coordinator Linda
Blake. “All the rides include routes that encourage riders to explore local businesses, connecting city trails,
parks and historic elements of Bellingham.”
The rides are all free and don’t require registration,
so simply pick a themed outing of your choice and
show up on time. As to how you dress, well, the possibilities are endless.
BIRDING 101: Learn how to identify
birds, birding etiquette and much more at
a “Birding 101” Brown Bag presentation
with expert Ken Salzman at 12:30pm at the
Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
TEDDY BEAR RUN: Join staff from
Fairhaven Runners for a “Run for the Teddy
Bear (Cove)” at 6pm starting at the Interurban Trail’s Rotary Trailhead parking lot off
Old Fairhaven Pkwy. Entry is free.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
FRI., MAY 18
SPRING FARM TOUR: Join Skagitonians to
Preserve Farmland for a behind-the-scenes
look at Skagit agriculture at a Spring Farm
Tour starting at 8:30am at Mount Vernon’s
Northwest Washington Research and
Extension Center, 16650 State Hwy. Tickets
are $15-$25 and include a continental
breakfast and lunch.
WWW.SKAGITONIANS.ORG
NATURE BABIES: Children, adults and adventurers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for
“Nature Babies” excursions from 9:30-11am
every Friday in May at Cornwall Park. Entry
is by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
SAT., MAY 19
CASCADE CUTS SALE: Help raise funds
for Sustainable Connections’ Food & Farming Program at the annual one-day-only
Cascade Cuts Plant Sale happening from
9am-4pm at the nursery at 632 Montgomery
Rd. In addition to bargains on everything
from hanging plants to ornamentals and
veggie starts, there’ll be live music and
lots to look at.
WWW.SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG
SK I TO SEA JR.: Come cheer on young
participants at the Jr. Ski to Sea races
happening from 9am-4pm at Lake Padden.
Registration has closed for the event.
WWW.JRSKITOSEA.COM
HABITAT AND FLORA FAIR: A native
plant sale, guided plant walks and tours in
Fairhaven, activities for kids, information
booths and much more will be part of the
annual Backyard Habitat & Native Flora Fair
from 10am-4pm at the Fairhaven Village
Green and beyond. Entry is free.
778-7105 OR WWW.WNPS.ORG
BAY VIEW RUN: The 30th annual Bay View
Women’s Walk/Run begins at 10am at the
Bay View State Park. Attendees can choose
from a 2-mile walk or run or a 10K race.
Entry frees are $20-$45; proceeds benefit
Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services.
WWW.SKAGITDVSAS.ORG
ADAPT IVE C YCLES EXPO: Conveyances
for both kids and adults can be tested at an
Adaptive Cycles Expo from 11am-2pm at the
track at Bellingham’s Civic Field, 1225 Civic
Field Way. Entry is free and all are welcome.
778-7025
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ZOMBIES VS. HUMANS: If you’re interested in taking part in the “Save Our City:
Zombies vs. Humans” water balloon battle
today, meet at 1pm at Maritime Heritage
Park. The full rules for the event, as well as
details for play and inspiration for costumes,
are (or will be) available at the website
listed below.
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HAULIN’ A XE: Benefit the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County at the Haulin’ Axe Fun Run/Walk
starting at 9:30am at Bellingham’s Barkley
Haggen, 2900 Woburn St. Cost is $35.
WWW.WCFD4.ORG
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CLUB EXCURSIONS: Join the Mt. Baker
Club for excursions to Lake Whatcom’s North
Shore Trail and Bald Mt. today. Carpoolers
will meet at Sunnyland Elementary.
OIL IN EDEN: Eco-sailing adventure leader
Dave Lutz leads an “Oil in Eden: The Great
Bear Rainforest” presentation from 6:308:30pm at the Cordata Community Food
Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is free, but
registration is requested.
734-8158
BACKPACK ING BASICS: Learn how to
choose and load a pack, select proper clothing and gear and find out where to go at a
“Backpacking Basics” course from 7-8:30pm
at REI, 400 36th St. Entry is free; register
in advance.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
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Exploring non-traditional careers for women
The ROAD Less Graveled
FRIDAY, MAY 18
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
BTC CAMPUS
Women are welders, builders, engineers,
and electronics technicians.
Talk to women who are thriving in these
high-wage careers–and give them a try
yourself, with hands-on experiences you
won’t forget.
Register Today. It’s Free!
tthayer@btc.ctc.edu
360-752-8483
www.btc.ctc.edu/roadlessgraveled
The Road Less Graveled is made possible by grants through the Carl
D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990 and the
SBCTC Non-traditional Employment and Training Grant.
VOLCANO PRESENTAT ION: Geologist Dave
Tucker talks about the volcanic history of
Mt. Baker at a free presentation at 7:30pm at
Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St.
WWW.BACKCOUNTRYESSENTIALS.NET
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SOCIAL RIDE: Join the Mt. Baker Bike Club
for a Social Ride every Tuesday starting at
10am at Ferndale’s Pioneer Park. The 30- to
40-mile ride is chosen based on where the
riders want to regroup for lunch.
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For Celebration Station locations, and
to check out all the day's festivities,
visit BiketoWorkandSchoolDay.org,
or call 360-671-BIKE.
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TRIATHLON BASICS: Brent Detta leads a
“Triathlon Basics” clinic at 7pm at REI, 400
36th St. You’ll learn how to get started, how
to train and what to expect on race day.
Register in advance for the free course.
Stop by a Celebration Station
for Free goodies & prizes
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GARDENING WORK SHOP: As part of the
WSU Whatcom County Master Gardener season of programs, show up for a “Poisonous
Weeds” presentation at 2pm at Ferndale’s
Hovander Homestead Park. Entry is free and
registration is not required.
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RENT: The song-and-dance spectacular
known as Rent can be seen at 7:30pm
Wed.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center
mainstage. Tickets are $8-$12.
650-6146
THURS., MAY 17
BY AMY KEPFERLE
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Cops and Robbers
WHEN CRIME IS A LAUGHING MATTER
ONCE, DURING
a dark time in my life, I lived
with my sister in Tacoma in a super-sketchy apartment
complex for a couple of months.
While my sibling worked late hours at her nursing residency, I often spent my down time watching cable and
wondering what the hell I was doing with my life.
One night, my channel surfing led me to an episode
of COPS. As the folks in blue cuffed the perpetrator—on
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this night a drunk dude who was in trouble for slapping
SEE IT WHAT:
his baby mama and walking around outside without his
Cops 911
pants on—I thought the surroundings looked familiar.
WHEN: 10pm May
18-19 and 25-26
I was right: When my sister walked in the door, she
WHERE: Upfront
noted, “Oh, this is the episode that took place a few
Theatre, 1208
doors down from me.”
Bay St.
Suffice it to say I got my behind out of Tacoma soon
COST: $8-$10
after that. And now, years later, I can see the inherent
INFO: 733-8855 or
www.theupfront.
humor in the situation.
com
While it’s true that in many cases law enforcement
is no laughing matter, the brilliant minds behind the
mockumentary Comedy Central show Reno 911 proved that, once in a while,
poking fun at those who do stupid things and get arrested for it can make for
good entertainment.
Of course, anyone who watched the nowdefunct series knows the biggest laughs came
from the parody of the cops, a perverse bunch
of men and women who slept on the job, slept
with others on the job, cursed, drank and generally proved themselves to be unfit for duty.
Which brings us to “COPS 911,” a show
playing every Friday and Saturday through
May at the Upfront Theatre. Like its predecessors, it brings the voyeurism that is reality television entertainment to the stage,
while keeping the shenanigans of the inept
badge-carriers intact.
On a recent Friday night, after listening to
a reminder that the show was not for young
kids and there was a strong chance of “blue”
language, the host for the evening—a guy
in shady sunglasses and a sheriff’s badge—
asked the audience for a list of misdemeanors.
Among the gems were spitting, public intoxication, urination, peeping, public nudity, vandalism, possession of illegal substances and
shoplifting. Someone yelled out “tax fraud!”
but was quickly informed that particular crime
didn’t make the cut.
Once the show got underway, it was soon
clear the cops outnumbered the criminals, and
those portraying the bad guys would have to
pull double duty.
Keeping track of who was who was part
of the fun, and I spent the next hour and
a half watching the cops—one who complained incessantly that his uniform was too
tight, another who dubbed his patrol car
the “Phoenix” and bragged about his sexual
exploits—respond to streakers at the Co-op,
bomb threats, a spray-paint-wielding hooligan and, among other things, a hilarious
scuffle between elderly inmates at a retirement center.
“He took my Jello!” one old man yelled as
the guys with the badges tried to separate the
dueling dodderers. “Well, he took my wife!”
the other recounted.
Since the shows are improvised, each showing of “COPS 911” promises to be completely
different from what came before it—so rest
assured you’ll get a fresh batch of crimes and
officer quirks each time around.
And, although it’s poking fun at the funny
side of breaking the law, the show also gives
props to those who work in the enforcement
aspect of it. By flashing a real, or fake, badge
at the door, you’ll get it for a measly $5. That’s
so cheap, it’s almost a crime.
GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday
at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At
10pm, stick around for “The Project.”
Entry is $4-$7.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MAY 17-19
ONE-AC T PLAYS: A variety of studentwritten, acted and directed one-act plays
and monologues can be seen at 7:30pm
Thurs.-Sat. at Whatcom Community College’s Syre Theater, 237 W. Kellogg Rd.
Tickets are $5.
WWW.WHATCOM.CTC.EDU
BRISEIS: A new play by Glenn Hergenhahn
, Briseis, opens this week with 8pm showings Thurs.-Sat. at the iDiOM Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave. The comic tragedy focuses
on one of the lesser-known characters of
the Trojan War. Tickets are $5 opening
night, $10 otherwise. Additional showings
happen through June 2.
220-5446 OR WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
MAY 17-20
HAPPY DAYS: Happy Days, A New Musical
shows for the final weekend at 7:30pm
Thurs.-Fri. and 2pm Sat.-Sun. at Lynden’s
Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St.
Tickets are $8-$12.
WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM
MAY 18-19
MURDER MYSTERY: Frankly Scarlet, You’re
Dead!, a murder mystery parody, shows
at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. at Mount Vernon’s
RiverBelle Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery.
Tickets are $30.
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
MIXED BAG: Through May, view showings
of Doubles at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for
“Cops 911.” Tickets are $8-$10.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MAY 18-20
FOR RIGHT NOW: The Bellingham Children’s
Theatre presents Just Right for Right Now at
7pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at its home base
at 1412 Cornwall Ave. The play delves into
stereotypes that elders have about kids, and
vice versa. Tickets are $6-$12.
734-9999 OR WWW.
BELLINGHAMCHILDRENSTHEATRE.COM
THE WIZ: Bellingham Arts Academy for
Youth students present showings of the
musical The Wiz at 7pm Fri., 2pm and 7pm
Sat., and 2pm Sun. at the group’s digs at
1059 N. State St. Tickets are $10.
WWW.BAAY.ORG
CINDERELLA: Wicked stepmothers and
glass slippers will make appearances when
the Northwest Washington Theatre Guild
presents the timeless fairytale, Cinderella,
at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat., and 2pm Sun. at the
Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial
St. Tickets are $15-$24.
734-6080
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T WELVE ANGRY MEN: A.L.T.A. Theatre
presents the jury room drama, Twelve Angry
Men, at 7pm Fri.-Sat., and 2:30pm Sun. at
Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run
Lane. Tickets are $12-$14.
SAT., MAY 19
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FIREHOUSE FUNDRAISER: Performances
by the likes of Stone Town Theatre Works,
Mike Mathieu, Dance Gallery, Bellingham
Repertory Dance, Kuntz and Company, and
others will be part of a fundraiser for the
Firehouse Performing Arts Center at 6pm
at the eponymous space at 1314 Harris
Ave. Tickets are $65 per person or $100
per couple and include food and drink.
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WHATEVER’S CLEVER: Expect everything
from comedy to burlesque to music at the
monthly “Whatever’s Clever” Variety Show
starting at 8pm at the Shakedown, 1212 N.
State St. Entry is $7.
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BODY LANGUAGE: The Provocateurs present “Body Language,” a cabaret/burlesque
variety show exploring the dynamics of
relationships through movement, at 8pm
Thurs.-Fri. at the SPARK Museum, 1312 Bay
St. Music from Bar Tabac will be part of the
show. Tickets are $12.
WWW.SPARKMUSEUM.ORG
SAT., MAY 19
MAMBO MANIA: USA Dance Bellingham
presents “Mambo Mania Under a Rumba
Moon” from 7-10pm at the Blue Moon
Ballroom, 1213 Cornwall Ave. Beginners and
singles are welcome. Entry is $7-$10.
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SPRING SHOW: Day-to-Day Dance Productions and Whatcom Fitness’ children’s dance
program present a spring benefit show,
“Life in the Garden,” at 7pm at the Blaine
Performing Arts Center, 975 H St. Tickets
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again Tuesday at the Firehouse Performing
Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
FESTIVAL OF PLAYS: Advanced drama
students will present their Spring Festival
of Plays at performances at 7pm Tues.-Fri. at
Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave.
Different plays will show each night. Tickets
are $5 at the door.
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GRIFFITH TALK: Seattle-based artist
and curator Cable Griffith will present
his work at a free public lecture at 4pm
at WWU’s Community Facility Building,
room 105.
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Embodiment
MOLLY LANDRETH’S QUEER VISIONS
“EVERY TIME
I look at this photograph, I stand up a little
taller and feel a little braver.”
The above words were written by Adrien, one of the many participants
in photographer Molly Landreth’s far-reaching exhibit, “Embodiment: A
Portrait of Queer Life in America.”
Although viewers don’t learn Adrien’s last name, Landreth includes the
town he’s from—Washburn, Wis.—and the fact that the photo was taken
in 2009. We also intuit that he used to be a woman, but now identifies
as male.
“It’s been an intense journey since then and looking back at the boy I
was in that photograph, I know he has the strength to get through it,”
reads Adrien’s statement that goes along with the portrait.
Landreth says she started collecting images for “Embodiment” in 2005
as her thesis project for a graduate program at the School of Visual Arts
in New York.
“I did it out of a real need to see images of the queer community
I could connect with,” Landreth says. “I started out taking pictures
of friends in Brooklyn, New York, and Seattle, but once I graduated, I
started thinking about it in a much broader way.”
Calling the exhibit a work in progress, Landreth says when she first
started branching out, the project was pretty much funded out of her own
pocketbook. If she knew she was going to be visiting Toronto, she’d do
things like arrange to land in Ohio so she could shoot there for a few days
before heading north—and photograph participants in Michigan on her
way back to Ohio.
Once her portfolio was beefed up, Landreth applied for, and got, a few grants. She also waged
a successful Kickstarter campaign, and relied on
sales of prints from the exhibit to fund a 2009
tour across the United States.
“I decided to make it a national survey, in a
personal way,” Landreth says. “As much as they
are environmental portraits, they are also selfportraits. As I reached outside of my comfort
zone—to those living in the Ozark mountains,
for example—I realized I was shattering my own
preconceptions of the project.”
Landreth hasn’t been taking as many photos
for “Embodiment” these days, but is still focused
on publicizing the exhibit
and talking about why it’s
important to draw attention
to the men and women—and
those who identify as one,
the other or somewhere between—caught in her strong
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WHAT: “Embodi“I want it to be an archive
ment: A Portrait
of
a moment of history in a
of Queer Life in
America”
big, diverse country,” she
WHEN: 12-4pm
says. “A lot of the exhibit is
Tues.-Sat., through
looking at people living in
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places where we’re told queer
WHERE: Jinx Art
people don’t exist or thrive.
Space, 306 Flora St.
INFO: www.make
Part of the visibility I want
shiftproject.com
to create is around that. Just
--------------------people who are living day-toWHAT: Molly
day. It’s proof that this comLandreth gives a
munity is everywhere—and
talk relating to the
exhibit
it’s also about understanding
WHEN: 6pm Fri.,
that queer people don’t live in
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one place or look one way.”
COST: Free
When Landreth speaks May
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at Jinx Art Space, where
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or www.molly
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landreth.com
on display, she says she’ll be
open to questions about what she’s learned in the
six-plus years she’s been seeking out those who’ve
been brave enough to come along for the ride.
When asked if she thought Americans were
coming around when related to the topic of
equal rights for gays and lesbians, the discussion naturally turned to President Obama’s admission last week that he believed same-sex
marriage should be legal.
Political move or not, Landreth says she’s
on board with what he had to say. “I think it’s
amazing,” she says. “There’s still so much more
to be done, but I think these victories should
be really celebrated. I think it was a really historic moment.”
SALMON LIFEC YCLES: View “Honoring
the Lifecycle of the Salmon” at an opening reception from 3-6:30pm at Ferndale’s
Lummi Gateway Center, 4920 Rural Ave. In
addition to the art, there’ll be storytelling, performances and more. The display
shows through May.
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WELDING RODEO: Watch the sparks
fly at the 11th annual Welding Rodeo
happening from 8am-5pm Friday and
Saturday at Bellingham Technical College,
3028 Lindbergh Ave. Amateurs will weld
sculptures on Friday and pros will do their
thing Saturday. In addition to watching
what’s created from an “In the Garden”
theme, there’ll be industry vendor booths,
auctions of the items, food and more.
Entry is free.
WWW.WELDINGRODEO.COM
MAY 19-20
CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: More than 60
artists will show and share their creative
wares at 37 studios and galleries from
10am-5pm Fri.-Sun. as part of the Camano
Island Studio Tour. The self-guided tour
is free.
WWW.CAMANOARTS.ORG
SUN., MAY 20
CERAMICS CELEBRAT ION: Attend
a “Contemporary Israeli Ceramics”
celebration from 2-4pm at the Whatcom
Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora
St. In addition to being able to check out
the exhibit with a docent, you can learn
dance steps with help from Temple Beth
Israel student dancers and practice with
live music from What the Chelm. Entry is
free with admission.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
TUES., MAY 22
KIDS ART RECEPTION: Meet the artists
of the children’s art program, “Art with B
Calvert,” at a Kids Art Show reception from
6:30-9pm at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St.
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WED., MAY 23
PHOTO BASICS: Patrick Kennedy leads
an “Outdoor Photography Basics” course
at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. Register in
advance for the free talk.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
MCGEE TALK: Photographer Jeanne McGee
will host an informal art talk related to her
current exhibit at 7:30pm at the Chuckanut
Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St.
WWW.ARTOFPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
ONGOI NG E X H I BI TS
ALLIED ARTS: View professional work
by teaching artists in Whatcom County
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ART ISANS NORTHWEST: View works from
as many as 100 Whatcom County artists on a
regular basis at Artisans Northwest Art Crafts &
Eats, 1215 Cornwall Ave.
733-1805 OR WWW.ARTISANSBELLINGHAM.COM
ART WOOD: Works for Mother’s Day will be on
display and for sale through May at Artwood,
1000 Harris Ave. Small tables of all shapes,
sizes and wood choices will also be available.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues.
and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
JINX: Planned Parenthood’s TASK Force presents “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in
America” through May 27 at Jinx Art Space, 306
Flora St. The show can be seen from 12-4pm
Tues.-Sat.
WWW.JINXARTSPACE.COM
LUCIA DOUGLAS: View the works of 23
contemporary printmakers through May 26 at
“The Art of Prints” exhibit at the Lucia Douglas
Gallery, 1415 13th St.
WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
MONA: “Everett DuPen and His Legacy,” “Veruska Vagen: Somewhere in Time,” “Tulipieres: The
Tulip Vase Revisited,” and “Works on Paper from
the Permanent Collection” can be seen through
June 10 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest
Art, 121 S. First St.
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JANSEN ART CENTER: Sign up for classes and
workshops at Lynden’s new Jansen Art Center,
321 Front St.
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ANCHOR ACCESS: “Take Me With You: Drawings
from Near and Far” will feature work from artists Mara Baker, Lanny Bergner, Cara Jaye, and
others through May 19 at Anchor Access, 216
Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
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GOOD EARTH: Stoneware artist Andy WollmanSimson’s “Classic Forms with a Twist” can be
viewed through May at Good Earth Pottery,
1000 Harris Ave.
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through May 30 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall
Ave. In honor of statewide Arts Education
Month, the works will be up through May 30.
AMADEUS PROJEC T: “Shadow Coats,” featuring mixed-media paintings by Maren Larson, can
be viewed through May at the Amadeus Project,
1209 Cornwall Ave.
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BLACK DROP: View collages by Clayton
Medeiros through May at the Black Drop Coffee
House, 300 W. Champion St.
738-3767
QUILT MUSEUM: “Deep Spaces” and Carol
Taylor’s “Contemporary Art Quilts: Working in a
Series” can be viewed through June 24 at the La
Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second St.
Entry is $5-$7.
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CHUCK ANUT BREWERY: Works by photographer Jeanie McGee are currently on display
at the Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W.
Holly St.
SMITH & VALLEE: A multimedia, multi-artist
exhibit called “Vessels” shows through May 27
at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey
Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
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FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contemporary folk art of RR Clark from 12-5pm every
Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists at
the Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Harris Ave.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM
FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: “Here’s Looking
At You,” featuring paintings of the majestic
mountains of the Cascades, will be up through
May 31 at Fourth Corner Frames, 311 W. Holly St.
734-1340
GALLERY C YGNUS: View an exhibit featuring works by Becky Fletcher and Patty Detzer
through June 24 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus,
109 Commercial Ave.
WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM
ST. JOSEPH: The latest Healing Through Art
exhibit, “Spring Reflections: A Group Show,”
will be up through May 19 at the PeaceHealth
St. Joseph Medical Center. The works are by
Shirley Erickson, Ruthie V., Yvette Newman,
Mary Froderberg, and Mary Jo Maute.
WWW.PEACEHEALTH.ORG
WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am-6pm every
Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom Art
Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St.
WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “From the Melting Pot
into the Fire: Contemporary Israeli Ceramics,”
“Art of Recycling,” and “ARTIFACTual” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Old
City Hall and the Lightcatcher Building.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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CEDARWORK S: Peruse and purchase a variety
of Native American art from 10am-6pm Wed.Sat. at the CedarWorks Art Gallery, 217 Holly St.
SK AGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Murrow
Brothers: Peak of Their Professions” shows
through Dec. 21 at La Conner’s Skagit County
Historical Museum, 501 4th St. The exhibit
celebrates the lives of the sons of Skagit County
who made an impact on their world.
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BOUNDARY BAY: Works by local artists who’ll
be taking part in the June 2 Appliance Art
Revival can be seen though May 30 at Boundary
Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave.
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SCOT T MILO GALLERY: The Women Painters
of Washington’s “Summer Daze” can be viewed
through `June 28 at Anacortes’ Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave.
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BLUE HORSE: “Sea Froth,” featuring new works
by Erin Libby, can currently be viewed at the
Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
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BY CAREY ROSS
Metric
DON’T BE LATE TO THE PARTY
I’M NOT
going to lie; I was a little late to the
Metric party.
It goes without saying that a person can’t keep tabs
on all bands at all times, so the guilt I feel about the
Metric-sized hole in my musical knowledge is minimal,
at best. It simply meant I had some catching up to do.
Although I’d been aware of Metric as one of the many
bands orbiting the musical sun known as Canada’s Broken
Social Scene (singer Emily Haines and guitarist James
Shaw both do time in that collective when they’re not
busy being half of Metric), that was pretty much where
my knowledge—or my ignorance, if you want to view it
that way—of the band began and ended.
That is, until their song “Gold Guns Girls” ended up
in heavy rotation on any number of so-called “alternative” radio stations. With its distinctive opening salvo
of “All the gold and the guns in the world couldn’t get
you off” sung out in Haines’ serenely self-assured style
and set to a backdrop of danceable synth pop, the song
was perfect light radio fare—but
also boasted a lyrical bent that was
decidedly darker (the song was reportedly inspired by Scarface).
The song was, I would come to
ATTEND find out, a proper introduction to
WHO: Metric
this distinctive band.
WHEN: 7:30pm
As introductions go, this was a
Thurs., May 24
WHERE: WWU’s
late one, as Metric has actually been
Viking Union MPR
around since the late ’90s, when
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Haines and Shaw first met in Toronto
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scene. Both had been active musicians for years, each befriending and playing separately
with various members of the soon-to-be-formed powerhouse musical collective Broken Social Scene. He was
born in the UK and educated at Julliard. She was born to a
poet father in India and raised in Canada. Together, they
found themselves to be artistically simpatico and part of
Rumor Has It
TIME TO TALK turkey on some Summer Meltdown
action.
If you’re anywhere near the internet—or anywhere in the vicinity of the Wild Buffalo, unofficial
Meltdown booking headquarters—you’re probably
well aware most (all?) of the lineup for this year’s
event has been made public. This is a thing we are all
very excited about, right? Aren’t you very excited?
No matter. I am exceedingly capable of being very
excited enough for everyone.
Before I get down to the just-announced nitty
gritty, I’d like to make it known that one of the
Meltdown headliners was divulged to me weeks ago,
and despite a strong and pesky desire to blab the
word all over town, I managed to keep the info to
myself, per very strict and stern instructions. What
I’m trying to convey by
saying this is, tell me your
secrets. All of them. They
will be marginally safe
nearly all the time. I can
promise you that, or my
name isn’t Rumor Has It.
Since I’ve gone off on
one tangent already, no
sense in getting to the
point now. Because I’ve
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got something else to
say, and it goes like this: the Wild Buffalo’s Craig
Jewell and Buildstrong’s Austin Santiago have been
working various parts of their respective anatomies off for months now to book Meltdown, and if
you like anything (read: everything) on this year’s
roster, much credit goes to them. I don’t know
what kind of arm-twisting, haranguing, whining,
flat-out begging and general promising of shameful favors went into securing the acts they booked,
but I have an idea, and they are owed a debt of
gratitude by the Meltdown-loving masses.
Joining the already-announced crew of performers will be Beats Antique (it’s O.K. if a spontaneous exclamation of “holy shit” escapes you while
reading this), Blitzen Trapper, Vicci Martinez, Lukas
Nelson and the Promise of the Real, Pickwick, Mr.
Rogers, Five Alarm Funk, Skerik’s Bandalabra, and
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons.
They’ll be joining a lineup that already includes
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, EOTO, the True Spokes
(the artists formerly known as Flowmotion, the
band that founded Meltdown), Kraddy, the Moondoggies, Acorn Project, Polecat, Ha Ha Tonka, That
1 Guy, and so very many more.
Of course, all this talk of Meltdown also brings
to mind another much-beloved local festival, that
being the Subdued Stringband Jamboree. While I
don’t have a lineup announcement to offer you regarding that fest, I do have a question for organizers of both of them: For the love of all that is holy, is
there any way you can schedule them for different
weekends? I know, I know: you’ve tried. And tried.
And then tried again. But on behalf of fans of both
festivals who don’t want to have to choose: We will
come to both Meltdown and Stringband if given
the opportunity. I promise. I know you can make
this happen. You’ll just need to move a little bit of
heaven and a tiny bit of earth to make it so.
KING AND BRANDOW: Musical storytellers and
political satirists Charlie King and Karen Brandow
perform at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600
Sunset Dr. Suggested donation is $10-$15.
WWW.CONCERTSPIRITUEL.ORG
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T IM SCOT T: Musician Tim Scott and his band
Red House will perform at a fundraiser for the
Rainbow Recovery Center at a concert and dance
happening from 6-10pm at the SPARK Museum,
1312 Bay St. Tickets are $20-$25.
752-2577 OR WWW.SPARKMUSEUM.ORG
SK AGIT SYMPHONY: Violinist Mary Kay Robinson and oboist Joseph Robinson will be the
featured performers at the Skagit Symphony’s
“Masterpiece Concert” at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets
are $20-$40.
WWW.MCINT YREHALL.ORG
FIDDLE FUN: World-renowned Finnish composer
and master fiddler Arto Jarvela and the FinnishAmerican folk band Kaivama perform at 2pm
at Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested
donation is $15.
WWW.NANCYSFARM.COM
KE YBOARD FRIENDS: Pianists Ford Hill, Cassandra Carr, Dan Sabo, and Victoria Ebel-Sabo will
be joined by guests from Western Washington
University at a Keyboard Friends concert at 3pm
at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave.
Tickets are $5-$15.
WWW.BELLINGHAMHOUSECONCERTS.COM
ORGAN SOCIE T Y: Jeff and Jody Fox will perform
at a Mount Baker Theatre Organ Society concert
at 3pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Suggested donation is $10.
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EARLY MUSIC FEST IVAL: As part of the Salish
Sea Early Music Festival, attend “An Evening with
Wilhelmine” at 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 2117 Walnut St. Performers include Jeffrey Cohan (flute), John Schneiderman (baroque
lute, cello), and John Lutterman (cello). Suggested donation is $15-$20.
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WIND SYMPHONY: Guest artists Charles Vilarrubian and composer Donald Grantham will perform
with WWU’s Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band
at 8pm at the school’s Performing Arts Center
Concert Hall. Entry is free and open to the public.
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more fans to the band than the product their music was supposed to push—an unintended victory for a band that was
becoming increasingly well-known for their anti-consumerist
stance and unconventionally successful DIY approach to handling their artistic output.
During the next several years, Metric would only build on
this success, releasing a couple of albums—Live It Out and
the previously shelved Grow Up and Blow Away—to critical
acclaim and platinum-selling success in Canada. As well, the
band that had once struggled to convey their sound live had
now become an onstage force to be reckoned with, and the
next few years would see them touring nonstop, bringing their
music to nearly every corner of the globe.
Then came the album that forced Metric into my orbit.
Tracks from the album, which would eventually be titled Fantasies, began to emerge live as early as spring 2008. Later that
year, under the guise of a Haines solo show, Haines and Shaw
played all 10 tracks from the album at an acoustic outing in
Brooklyn, NY. By the time Fantasies finally dropped in April
2009, fans were more than ready to receive it.
Fantasies, which features more personal lyrical content and
a further refinement of Metric’s engaging synth-pop sound,
has won the band some Juno awards, and led them to an opening slot on a Muse tour. As well, songs like the aforementioned
“Gold Guns Girls” and “Sick Muse” have helped Metric’s reach
grow farther and wider than ever before.
Currently, the band has another album in the hopper—current working title, Synthetica—slated for a release just a few
weeks after their May 24 show at WWU’s Viking Union. And this
time, when the party starts, I won’t be late.
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a music scene that encouraged collaboration early and often.
They’ve been together and making music as Metric ever since.
Shortly after they discovered each other, Haines and Shaw
moved to New York City where they became more famous for
sharing an apartment with the up-and-coming Yeah Yeah Yeahs
than they were for their music.
But that would all change soon enough.
After making geographical changes and courting labels and
engaging in other seemingly music-related activities that
serve to distract fledging bands from the business of actually making music, Metric got serious about their craft. They
worked on and recorded an album they dubbed Grow Up and
Blow Away in 2001, but a dispute with their record label saw
that album shelved for more than six years.
No matter. Haines and Shaw had more than just one album’s worth of music up their sleeves—and they were about
to double in size.
Although Metric’s layered, synth-pop sound overlaid with
Haines’ lovely vocals sounded great in the studio, it was tough
for the duo to translate that experience into a dynamic live
show. Using synth tracks and drum machines live made for
a bogged-down stage show, and Metric’s onstage appearance
didn’t exactly match their sound. Time to add a drummer. And
a bass player because, well, why not? Which is how drummer
Joules Scott-Key and bass player Josh Winstead became fullfledged Metric members.
The timing of Metric’s personnel increase couldn’t have been
better, as the band was enjoying an uptick in popularity owing
to their having sold a song for use in a Polaroid commercial.
The song, “Grow Up and Fly Away,” probably served to draw
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As if to prove the world is indeed full of heartless savages, the Hub—Bellingham’s much-beloved nonprofit community bike shop—was robbed last
month. Thousands of dollars in tools, inventory, cash and the personal belongings of devoted Hub staffers were stolen.
And when the Hub gets ripped off, the greater community as a whole feels the loss—which is why the greater community has shown a strong interest in
helping the Hub right this wrong. Besides, we don’t much like heartless savages around here.
If you’d like to help out the Hub, it’s as simple as showing up to the Shakedown on Fri., May 18 (the same day as Bike to Work and School Day and the
Hub’s yearly pancake feed) where Rhombus (the band for whom every show is their last), So Adult, Totalizer, and the Bellingham Circus Guild will be on
hand to entertain you in the name of raising money so that the Hub can continue to do what it does so very well.
Strike a blow against heartless savages and win one for the Hub.
The Hub benefit takes place Fri., May 18 at the Shakedown, 1212 N. State St. Cost: $5-$10. More info: www.shakedownbellingham.com
—by Carey Ross
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REITZ, SPRING, FULLER: Guitarist, singer and
songwriter Karen Reitz will be joined by Tracy
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at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested
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oboe player Jennifer Weeks, bassoonist Pat
Nelson, violist Leslie Johnson, and marimba
master Kay Reilly at 4pm at WWU’s Performing
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1026 N. Forest St. Tickets are $12-$15.
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Conway Muse
Ben Starner
Argentine Tango
The Muddy Sons
Yogoman Burning Band
Robert Sarazin Blake
Commodore Ballroom
Mark Farina, DJ Sneak
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Green Frog
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Steve Frame & The Western Rebels
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Throwback Thursdays w/
DJ Shortwave
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DJ Mike Tolleson
DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave
Robert Blake and the High, Wide
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White Hills, Kinski,
Sunshine
’90s Night
Silver Reef Hotel
Casino & Spa
Skagit Valley Casino
Skylark's
Jazz Open Mic
Hub Benefit feat. Rhombus,
Bellingham Circus Guild, So Adult,
Totalizer
Devilry, Bell Witch, more
Tony and the Tigers
Tony and the Tigers
The Randy Linder Band
The Randy Linder Band
Telefon
Steve's Acoustic Jazz Trio
Temple Bar
Metal Tuesday w/
Casey and Anjali
Bar Tabac
The Underground
’70s Funk and Disco
Underground
Coffeehouse
Jesse Morrow, more
Last Band Standing
Girls Night Out (early), DJ BamBam (late)
Reverend JD and the Blackouts
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Get what you’ve got coming
ALTHOUGH THE official start of summer is still more than
a month away, with the April 25 release of The Avengers, the season of summer blockbusters is clearly upon us. And, much like the
cinema of summers past, studios are offering up a steady diet of
superhero movies, sequels and remakes of movies that were probably just fine the first time around.
But this isn’t just any summer. The Avengers, director Joss Whedon’s superhero spectacular, has already raked in record-setting
revenue at the box office—records that are expected to stand only
until the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, easily the mostanticipated cinematic event in recent memory.
But other blockbusters lie in wait to carve out their piece of the lucrative summer box-office pie, and this guide, in order of release date,
will help you get what you’ve got coming—at least as far as summer
cinema is concerned.
THE AVENGERS (April 24): This big-budget bonanza is clearly the
standard-setter for this year’s crop of blockbusters. It Hulk smashed
every box-office record in sight during its opening weekend, and
even managed to accomplish that which is typically fairly difficult
for movies of its ilk: garner universally positive reviews. Much credit
for this goes to Nerd King Joss Whedon for capably helming a huge,
multi-pronged affair from the beginning to its explosive, city-demolishing end.
THE DICTATOR
DARK SHADOWS (May 11): The latest collaboration between director Tim Burton
and his muse, Johnny Depp, this remake
of the weird late-’70s television series
shows this dynamic duo recording one of
their rare misses. Does anyone else think it
might be time for this cinematic coupling
to try on a temporary separation?
BATTLESHIP (May 18): This movie stars
Rihanna and is based on the board game of
the same name. I don’t know exactly know
what to make of the former, but the latter pretty much guarantees at some point,
someone will utter the phrase, “You sank
my battleship.” Must miss.
THE DICTATOR (May 18): I have no great love
for Sacha Baron Cohen, but even I have to admit that, with the creation of characters like
Borat and Bruno, he's one of the better satirists of our time. And it seems his tale of an
oppressive dictator who comes to the United
States in order to deny his country democracy
at all costs will be yet another success for the
distinctive funnyman.
MEN IN BLACK III (May 25): Yeah, I wasn’t
aware this franchise required another installment either, but Hollywood has never exactly
troubled itself with questions as to what is
necessary when it comes to green-lighting
projects. As well, it’s pretty tough to deny the
box-office draw of the ever-affable Will Smith,
and with Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin
(who memorably shared the screen together
in No Country for Old Men) both costarring as
Agent K, Smith will have his hands full with
more than just alien invaders.
MOONRISE KINGDOM (May 25): I realize the
following statement will cause all of my minimal hipster cred to be revoked but here it is:
I do not especially favor Wes Anderson. I very
badly want to like him, but, in reality, few
filmmakers try my patience more. However,
there is no doubt he’s inventive and engaging,
and has a knack for brilliant casting. From all
indications, Moonrise Kingdom seems to play
directly to Anderson’s strengths, and you
can’t beat a movie that has the good sense to
cast Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton,
and Tilda Swinton all at the same time. Will
this be the Wes Anderson movie that finally
steals my heart?
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (June 1):
For whatever reason, Snow White is the trendiest fairytale heroine around these days. The
second film this year based on the classic
story, this one sees Snow White (played by
Twilight’s Kristen Stewart) ditching the Seven
Dwarves in favor of a huntsman (Thor’s Chris
Hemsworth) and a righteous helping of girl
power. If you’ve ever wanted to see this fair
maiden throw down against the wicked queen
(Charlize Theron) in a winner-take-all battle
complete with eye-popping action sequences
and fancy special effects, this is the fairytale
for you.
PROMETHEUS (June 8): Back when we all
thought this Ridley Scott film was an unofficial prequel to Alien, we whipped ourselves
into all kinds of a frenzy. Now we know that’s
not the case, but that fact barely dampens
the anticipation surrounding this release—
and its killer preview featuring Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, and Noomi Rapace
isn’t hurting anything either. No one brings
dark style and bone-chilling scares like Scott,
and he appears to be at the top of his mindbending directorial game with this sci-fi creature feature.
ROCK OF AGES (June 15): I’m going to guess
there may be more than one reason to see
this movie, but this one is all I need: It’s a
glam-rock musical that stars Tom Cruise. Yes,
the correct response to that news is indeed,
“OMFG.” See you in line for popcorn.
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laserlike focus on the world of Mexican drug
cartels seen through the lens of a pair of
weed dealers that run afoul of one. Lest you
forget, this is the director responsible for
Midnight Express, which means this subject
matter lies well within his comfort zone.
And with a cast that includes Taylor Kitsch,
John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, and Uma
Thurman, Stone has positioned himself well
for cinematic success this summer.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (July 20): If
I’d had any doubt (I didn’t) this is the
Biggest Cinematic Event Ever, Ever, the
reaction of the audience watching a
just-released trailer for it during an opening-night showing of The Avengers more
than confirmed that fact. It is impossible to overstate how visionary a director
Christopher Nolan is, and in Christian Bale
and a floundering Batman franchise, he
found the perfect vehicle and outlet for
that vision. With The Dark Knight, Nolan
created the best superhero movie in existence and, in doing so, forever changed
how superhero movies are both made and
perceived. Expectations are sky high for
Nolan’s swan song to the franchise he
singlehandedly saved, but if that crowdwowing preview is any indication, Nolan
has the world’s expectations well in hand.
Step aside, Avengers. The Dark Knight is
about to rise.
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cess of Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen is,
at 76 years old, currently a hot Hollywood
property. This time, the locale is Rome,
Woody appears both in front of the camera and behind it, and Jesse Eisenberg
seems to be the heir apparent to Allen's
mantle of neuroses. Always a Tinseltown
anomaly, the prolific filmmaker has spent
the past several years producing the best
work of his long career, and anticipation
runs high for this effort.
MAGIC MIKE (June 29): This is a movie
about male strippers starring Channing
Tatum (former male stripper) and Matthew
McConaughey (clearly a man who favors a
clothing-optional lifestyle) directed by Steven Soderbergh. Seduce me, Hollywood.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (July 6): I
think all would agree that, after the last
installment in this franchise, Sony could’ve
let a sleeping superhero lie a little longer.
However, with a new star (Andrew Garfield)
and retooled style, the studio is hoping to
strike a little summer blockbuster gold.
Frankly, I have a hard time believing any
superhero movie can compete with the
one-two punch that is The Avengers and
The Dark Knight Rises, but maybe there’s
enough box-office love to go around.
SAVAGES (July 6): Few directors can pull off
a topical, gritty thriller like Oliver Stone.
The ever-controversial filmmaker trains his
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(June 22): Question: What do we love right
now more than vampires? Answer: Nothing.
Predicated upon a decidedly weird premise—that, along with saving the United
States from itself by intelligently and
compassionately shepherding the fledgling
country through arguably the darkest time
in its history, Abraham Lincoln also took
time out to hunt vampires—this movie
would get my most skeptical eye roll were
it not for one thing: it is directed by Timur
Bekmambetov, the man also responsible
for Night Watch and Day Watch. The Great
Emancipator gets gory.
BRAVE (June 22): Last year, the perfection palace known as Pixar made its first
misstep with its critically drubbed sequel
to Cars. I think we all knew their run of
instant animated classics couldn’t last
forever—no matter how badly we might’ve
wanted it to. But rather than licking their
collective wound, animation’s foremost
brain trust went to work on this story of a
sassy Scottish lass who defies the customs
of her kingdom, falls in with an eccentric
witch and learns to watch what she wishes
for. Will Brave be another feather in the animation studio’s already well-adorned cap?
Probably. It is Pixar, after all.
TO ROME WITH LOVE (June 22): Thanks
to the unexpected but well-deserved suc-
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THE BOURNE LEGACY (Aug. 4): As a born
skeptic, I also used to be a Bourne skeptic. I mean, Matt Damon as an action hero?
At best, it seemed to be an egregious case
of miscasting. Then I saw the first Bourne
movie. And I understood what a genius decision it was to tap the impossibly versatile
Damon to anchor the Bourne series. Fast
forward to the present day, to a time when
Damon has called it quits as the Unlikeliest
Action Hero, leaving a franchise hanging in
the balance. Again, an inspired casting call
is made, and Jeremy Renner has now found
himself the anchor of his own Hollywood
megafranchise (his role in The Avengers
notwithstanding). With a tagline of, “There
was never just one,” and original Bourne
screenwriter Tony Gilroy trying his hand at
directing, a new Bourne is born.
TOTAL RECALL (Aug. 4): Every summer
spawns a pointless rehash of a movie no
one required a remake of, and this year
Total Recall gets the reboot. I realize this
film is all about what is real and what is
invented, so it’s in that vein that I express my wish that I lived in a reality that
didn’t see a need to reinvent this movie.
THE CAMPAIGN (Aug. 10): It wouldn’t be a
summer movie roundup without some talk
of what the season’s breakout comedy will
be. And while summer 2012 boasts some
worthy contenders (read: everything featuring Steve Carrell), methinks this Jay
Roach effort is the funny film to beat.
First of all, the story—that of two rival
politicians vying for the same congressional seat—lends itself well to a comedic
treatment, and the stars in question—
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis—are just
the men for this job. Add to that a script
by Eastbound & Down’s Shawn Harwell
and a supporting cast that includes Jason
Sudeikis, John Lithgow, and Dan Aykroyd,
this will be one comedic campaign trail.
THE EXPENDABLES 2 (Aug. 10): After
the success of The Expendables, I suppose I should’ve seen this coming. It
stars a group of almost-washed-up action
stars—Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Dolph
Lundgren (as well as the not-yet-washedup Jason Statham)—as a group of almostwashed-up mercenaries. If you’d like to
spend part of your summer with a mustachioed Stallone sweating through his
action sequences and slurring out witty
one-liners, be my guest.
SPARKLE (Aug. 17): This movie—a remake
of the 1976 movie of the same name—
didn’t exactly have anyone salivating with
anticipatory delight. However, it costars
Whitney Houston and is pretty much the
last thing she’d worked on before her sudden death, meaning our semi-interest has
coalesced into a more rabid curiosity. With
this, Houston has hopefully crafted a swan
song worthy of both her voice and the tremendous talent that came with it.
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Battleship: I imagine the pitch meeting for this
movie went something like this, "So, I know as board
games go, this one isn't even much fun. But we can
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Per fect Sense: An epidemiologist discovers a
group of people who have lost one or more of their
senses after experiencing some sort of emotional
upheaval. She soon comes to understand what seems
like an inexplicable anomaly is actually a threat to
all of humankind. ★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO
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Damsels in Distress: Just when you think Whit
Stillman has called it a day, he surprises the world
by making another movie. His whimsical sensibilities
on full display, this good-natured comedy revolves
around three girls—one played by my new favorite
actress, Greta Gerwig—who are just trying to make
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Pickup on South Street: Sam Fuller is at his finest with this story of a bad man, a lady spy and the
hell that breaks loose when their paths crisscross. A
nasty little piece of eminently watchable film noir.
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dictator who somehow wants to save his country
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its debut weekend. And I'd like to commend the Nerd
King, Joss Whedon, for capably helming this oldschool superhero flick in such entertaining fashion.
The Hunger Games: As predicted, this movie is
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it fails to address the time I was forced to endure a
campfire sing-along of "No Woman, No Cry" carried out
by a bunch of people who otherwise should've known
better. ★★★★1(tISTNJO
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The La Leche League will
host a breastfeeding support
and informational meeting
from 10am-12pm Wednesday,
May 16 at Mount Vernon’s
Skagit Valley Food Co-op.
Older children and partners
are also welcome. More info:
www.skagitfoodcoop.com or
www.llli.org
Certified Feng Shui practitioner Chikeola Karmiou leads
a free “Skipping With Joy: Feng
Shui Your Space and Your Life”
clinic at 7pm Wednesdsay, May
16 at the Bellingham Public
Library, 210 Central Ave. The
event will help you begin to
transform your spaces and
achieve awareness and harmony in your surroundings. More
info: 778-7206
“Ask the Organizer” will
be the focus of a free talk
with professional organizing
consultant Rhonda McNett
at 6:30pm Wednesday, May
16 at the Skagit Valley Food
Co-op in Mount Vernon. Register in advance. More info:
Attend the Mystical Winds
Bellingham Holistic Fair from
10am-5pm Saturday, May
19 at the Majestic, 1027 N.
Forest St. Massage, energy
work, tarot readings, local
art and jewelry, workshops,
free speakers and much more
will happen throughout the
day. Entry is free. More info:
(425) 220-9029 or www.olson
walderevents.com
Feng Shui design consultant
Chikeola Karimou leads a miniworkshop focused on “Glowing
With Confidence: Feng Shui
Your Home, Office & You” from
4-6pm Saturday, May 19 at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Entry
is free. More info: 671-2626 or
www.villagebooks.com
Waste reduction community education/outreach
specialist Callie Martin leads
a “Vermicomposting” primer
at 6:30pm Tuesday, May 22
at Mount Vernon’s Skagit
After Hours
Social
SPARK
1312 Bay St.
May 9
5:00–7:00 pm
Share a drink. Meet
up with friends.
Talk about the role
of affordable
housing in
MyDowntown
Bellingham
planning
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Certified nutritionist Jim
Ehmke leads a “Take Control of Your Immune System
Health” discussion from 6:308:30pm Wednesday, May 23 at
the Community Food Co-op,
1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $5$6. More info: 734-8158
“Healthy Aging Strategies
on Stress” will be the focus
of a workshop with Richard
Tran, DC, at 6:30pm Thursday,
May 24 at the Community Food
Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. This
workshop will cover specific
strategies to address stress
and is also customized to address participant questions.
Register in advance for the
free gathering. More info:
734-8158
Master
reflexologist
Sandy Melina leads a “Foot
Reflexology” clinic at 6:30pm
Thursday, May 24 at Mount
Vernon’s Skagit Valley Food
Co-op. Register in advance
for the free event. More info:
www.skagitfoodcoop.com
“Healing
the Earth,”
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takes place
Powers from
a workshop on
and geology,
at 12pm Satur-
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day, May 26 at Bellingham’s
Ayurvedic Health Center, 203
W. Holly St. Ashlie Lalonde
and Phil Roberts will lead the
way. Advance registration is
recommended. More info:
734-2396 or www.ayurvedichealthcenter.com
Nutritionist Karl Mincin
focuses on “Hormonal Health
and Building Better Bones”
at a presentation at 6:30pm
Tuesday, May 29 at Mount
Vernon’s Skagit Valley Food
Co-op. Register in advance
for the free event. More info:
www.skagitfoodcoop.com
Find out how to “Take Control of Your Hormonal Health”
at a workshop with nutritionist Jim Ehmke at 6:30pm
Wednesday, May 30 at the
Community Food Co-op, 1220
N. Forest St. Entry is $5-$6.
More info: 734-8158
Co-Dependents Anonymous meets from 7-8:30pm
every Tuesday at PeaceHealth
St. Joseph’s South Campus,
809 E. Chestnut St. Entry is by
donation. More info: 676-8588
Intenders of the Highest
Good Circle typically meets
at 7pm on the second Friday
of the month at the Co-op’s
Connection Building, 1220 N.
Forest St. Len-Erna Cotton,
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on sound as a powerful modality that promotes health,
beauty and well-being at a
“Nourishing Tones” workshop
at 1pm Saturday, May 19 at
the Community Food Co-op,
1220 N. Forest St. Suggested
donation is $7 or the equivalent in food (both of which
will go to the Bellingham Food
Bank. More info: 734-8158
Valley Food Co-op. Entry is
free, but you need to register
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Thursdays at the Firehouse
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Harris Ave. Entry is $10 per
class, $48 for five or $90 for
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snake
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baseball
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week
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company
6 ”SportsCenter”
network
7 ”Mystic Pizza”
actress Taylor
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9 Words before “Take
a Walk on the Wild
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Indiana”
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warning system is
joking with you?
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with Dennis Quaid
and Louis Gossett,
Jr.
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pregnancy sighting)
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Perfect Sense (R) HD/88m. “An intriguing
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Damsels in Distress (PG-13) 35mm/99m.
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Bully (PG-13) 35mm/99m. “Forces you to confront not
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extent to which that cruelty is embedded in our schools
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Marley (PG-13) 144m. “Embodying all of
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THE ADVICE
GODDESS
I GET A KICKBALL
OUT OF YOU
My boyfriend of three months is 22, and so
am I. He tells me he loves me but is horrible about returning texts and calls and
following through with dates. (He seems
to ditch me if something better comes
along.) He also doesn’t treat me very well
around others. Recently, he got really
drunk at a party and was hitting on my
friend all night, though she ignored him.
I finally pulled him aside and said he was
hurting my feelings, and he said I was too
sensitive and I’m just jealous that people
like him. He later disappeared from the
party for over an hour, and when I asked
him where he’d gone, he said, “What are
you, my mom?” I know I don’t deserve to
be treated like this, but he can be so sweet
and kind when we are on my couch watching a movie or in bed snuggling. Part of
me wants to leave, and part thinks he just
needs to get used to being in a relationship, because this is his first “serious”
one.
—Loved and Unloved
If you’re like a lot of women,
you’ve dreamed about this since you
were a little girl—that moment the
man in your life puts his hands on
your shoulders and says, “Would you
mind ducking your head so I can
see if that woman across the room
is hot?”
Men, like golden retrievers, have
their flaws. They shed on the furniture, leave hairs in the soap and
hump your leg at inappropriate
times. But when it’s clear a particular man generally means well,
these things are to be overlooked.
Your boyfriend, on the other hand,
claims to love you but ignores you,
stands you up, belittles you and publicly humiliates you, making it pretty
clear he’s looking to leave hairs in
other women’s soap. And sure, he’s
sweet to you when you’re snuggling
in bed—probably because there are
no other women under your comforter for him to hit on.
Like many people, you place too
much importance on hearing “I love
you.” You want to believe that these
words mean something—and they
probably do: that he needs to throw
you a chew-toy from time to time so
you’ll stick around for all the casual
cruelty. In an abusive relationship,
which this is, you begin to crave the
little moments of sweetness and intimacy that you use to justify staying through all the spirit-chomping
parts. The big picture is, you aren’t
so much this guy’s girlfriend as you
are his backup girlfriend (the spare
tire of girlfriendhood)—the one he
keeps around in case there’s nothing
or no one better to do.
Part of you wants to leave? Follow that part. And turn this into a
meaningful relationship after the
fact—one you use to represent what
you won’t put up with in the future.
Sure, in the process of figuring out
what you want in a man, you’ll have
to “kiss a few toads,” but if you’re
honest about who a guy is, you’ll see
no reason to stick around for an extended makeout session.
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LIVING ROOM
I’m staying at a friend’s house while on
a business trip. She and I talk frequently,
but since I moved away, we have not had
any quality time. We’d both looked forward
to hanging out and catching up, but her
boyfriend of six months has been here every night. I like him well enough, but the
worst, the absolute worst, is the extreme
PDA. They share long, passionate kisses
and lie on top of each other and make out
while we’re all watching TV. I want to say
something, but what? —Grossed-Out Girl
How nice to have time to catch up
with your friend—to learn how her
job’s going, what’s happening with her
family, the kind of faces she makes
while being dry-humped. When you’re
a houseguest, the things you should be
expected to bring are wine and maybe
a box of fancy soaps, not earplugs
and a blindfold. As welcome as they’re
making you feel, it must be tempting
to go passive-aggressive when they’re
getting it on: “Mind if I tweet this?”
Or “Should I move over? I don’t want
to be sitting on third base.” But, your
best bet for shutting down the heavy
petting zoo is evoking sympathy, not
defensiveness. Do that by telling your
friend that you feel bad—like you’re
interrupting something—and that it’s
no problem for you to stay at a motel.
Sure, there may still be live sex acts
there, but they’ll be separated from
you by a wall and some innocuous
framed print. You’ll hear everything,
but in the morning, you’ll leave with
the image of an adequately painted
lighthouse forever burned into your
brain.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You spend nearly
one-third of your life sleeping. For one-fifth of that
time, you’re dreaming. So pretty much every night,
you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes’
worth of movies created by and starring you. Much
of this footage is obscure and confusing and not
exactly Oscar-worthy, which is one reason you may
not recall many of the details when you wake up.
But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different. Your dreams
should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals
important information about the mysteries of your
destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s Oxymoron Season
for you. That means you’re likely to encounter more
than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes.
The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost
certainly have to seek assistance from your nonrational wisdom. I’ll give you a heads-up on some
of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace:
1. a humbling triumph; 2. a tender rivalry; 3. a selfish blessing; 4. an opportunity to commune with
risky comfort; 5. an invitation to explore a relaxing
challenge; 6. a chance to get up-close and personal
with a long-distance connection. For best results,
Leo, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman’s
“Leaves of Grass” and recite them periodically: “Do
I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict
myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s at least
a 50 percent chance that the coming days will be
over-the-top, out-of-the-blue, and off-the-record.
I’m half-expecting florid, luscious, and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo, swashbuckling, and
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometimes I
have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless
when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize
it was a brilliant insight into what I most needed
to transform about my life. If you don’t recall many
of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you’ve probably had waking-life
experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be
given at least one of those in the coming week. It
may confound you while you’re in the midst of it,
but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the
power to change your life for the better.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may not
have heard about the “forbidden colors.” And you
certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which
the cells of your retina are not built to register.
However, scientists have figured out a trick by
which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky
people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I
bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I
suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough—seeing something
that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like
to read more about the forbidden colors, go here:
tinyurl.com/ForbiddenColors.)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There’s no such
thing as a wrong note,” said jazz pianist Art Tatum.
“It all depends on how you resolve it.” Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. “It’s not
the note you play that’s the wrong note,” he said.
“It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right
or wrong.” I think that’s an excellent understanding
for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks,
Pisces. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions
about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song
and see the bigger picture.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A Russian woman
named Marija Usova decided to go skydiving even
though she was eight months pregnant. “I wanted my baby to have the beautiful feeling of flying through the air and free-falling before it was
born,” she said. Soon after she jumped out of the
plane and opened her parachute, she went into labor. Luckily, her daughter waited until she landed
to be born. What does this have to do with you?
I don’t recommend you do anything even remotely
like what Usova did in the next few weeks. But do
be alert for healthier, saner approaches to the basic
theme, which is to be adventurous and wild and free
as you birth a new possibility.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless
prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism.
It’s not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude.
When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate
about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit
and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous
approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might
not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind—at
least at first—but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene
sparkling clean.
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of your life as a book, the title of the next chapter could very well be “In Quest of the Primal.” I
encourage you to meditate on what that means to
you, and then act accordingly. Here are a few possibilities: tapping into the mother lode; connecting
to the source; communing with the core; returning to
beginnings; seeking out the original; being in tune
with the pulse of nature. Does any of that sound like
fun? According to my reading of the astrological
omens, you have a mandate to be as raw as the law
allows—to be the smartest animal you can be.
bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,”
said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words,
the oppression from which we have freed ourselves
may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches
might keep distorting our decisions and twisting
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AMONG THE aluminum-sided
buildings that dominate the landscape
of Bellingham’s industrial district, a
small, electric orange structure acts like
a highlighter, letting you know you are
now in the Sunnyland neighborhood.
The neon mass is the Homeskillet,
one of Bellingham’s most recent restaurant upstarts, and the loud decor
follows you from the exterior to the interior, from the chicken fried steak
with chorizo gravy to the flourless chocolate cake.
The joint’s modus operandi is good, cheap, fast food. With more than 50
years of cooking and restaurant experience between them—often in rough
environments, including Antarctica—owners
Tina and Kirby White are testing their personal relationship with a venture in the soul
food biz.
“We purchased a fixer-upper when we moved
to the Sunnyland area, and once we saw this
space was for sale, we started brainstorming,”
Tina, who acts as waitress, host, cook and chief
decorator, says. (My favorite touch is the My Little
Pony figurine positioned
atop the fireplace mantle
in the dining room.)
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WHERE: 521
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INFO: 676-6218 or
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sunnyland.com
reminds me what it
would be like to live inside Joseph’s Technicolor Dreamcoat at an American diner.
“Everything you see with acrylic on it was
my wife’s doing,” Kirby says, as he reassures me
that the menacing crow figures staring down at
as us from the roof are actually statues.
On the other hand, once you move past
the energetic color play, and the funky accessories (including a plastic Santa stuffed
inside a chimney shoot), the focus is on the
food. Classic diner fare, combined with the
culinary delights of the couple’s eclectic travels around the world, make for a tasty and
assorted menu.
“We love food,” Tina says. “The real focus
is being able to serve good, hearty meals to
our friends and family, and use fresh, local
ingredients whenever possible.”
After weeks of driving past the construction site in anticipation of the restaurant’s grand opening, I was finally
able to indulge in some Homeskillet’s
carte de jour, as promised by their trifold menu that was hanging for weeks in
their front window.
Originally designed to be a breakfast,
lunch and dinner spot, it wasn’t difficult
to see why Kirby and Tina decided to scale
back their hours and menu after my first,
hectic visit.
The diner was empty when I arrived but
quickly became awash with patrons and
activity within just a few minutes upon
ordering my drink—but not before Tina
brought over “set-ups,” a term used for
forks and knives typical of many classic
American diners and cafes of yesteryear.
An appetizer of tater tots ($2) seemed
fitting as a starter for my friend and I.
After a nostalgic trip back in time to my
elementary school cafeteria, I decided on
the daily special of salmon cakes ($8.50)
and my friend ordered the pulled turkey
sandwich ($7.50).
As eager foodies continued to insert
themselves into the landscape, I overheard
our waitress—who, remember, is also the
owner, line-cook and cashier—repeat that
several menu items were out of stock. A
credit to good marketing, but a tall order
for a two-person show, especially when attempting to satisfy the time standards of
“fast food” and the lofty expectations of
Bellingham’s foodie crowd.
Ultimately, after a few missed orders and
“We love food. The real
focus is being able
to serve good, hearty
meals to our friends
and family, and use
fresh, local ingredients
whenever possible.”
—TINA WHITE, HOMESKILLET OWNER
a bees nest of a dining room, the food we
ordered was simply lovely. My salmon cakes
were creamy, not heavy, and my salad with
edible flowers was as tasty as it was attractive. Likewise was my friend’s turkey sandwich I stole a few bites of—a scrumptious
diner spin on pulled pork, no doubt.
Days later, I rode by the colorful Sunnyland spot, and noticed a sign with
Homeskillet’s new hours. After a hectic
first week, the Whites made the executive
decision their efforts will be best served
through breakfast and lunch. I applaud
their decision. Breakfast and lunch are
best served with a side of local hospitality, good eats and a PBR tallboy.
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