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GET OUTPuma Pacific Coast Challenge: Through Sunday, Northwest Soccer Park
08. .09SATURDAYON STAGE
The Princess and the Pea: 3pm and 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre Mark Twain in Fairhaven: 7:30pm, Lynden Pioneer Museum Curse You, Jack Dalton: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon Jon Reep and Adam Ferrara: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort Bus Stop: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Theatresports: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCESquare Dance: 9-11pm, YWCA Ballroom
MUSICHog August Jazz: 4-6pm, American Museum of Radio
FILMVicki Christina Barcelona: Dusk, Fairhaven Vil-lage Green
WORDSChuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Fairhaven Village Green
COMMUNITYFerndale Farmers Market: 9am-3pm, the River-walk Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square
VISUAL ARTSPlein Air Paint Out: 10am-3pm, downtown Bell-ingham Art at the Winery: 10am-5pm, Dakota Creek Win-ery, Blaine
08. .09SUNDAYON STAGE
Mark Twain in Fairhaven: 2pm, Lynden Pioneer Museum Carter Family Marionettes: 2pm, Whatcom Mu-seum Charlie Brown Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn Theatre Mything Love: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
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A glance at what’s happening this week
ARE ONE OF THE MANY ODDITIES TO BE TREA-SURED AT THE NORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR, WHICH CONTINUES THROUGH AUG. 22 IN LOVELY LYNDEN
08. .09WEDNESDAYMUSIC
Jeremy DesChane: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Dagwood: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Emerson Drive: 7:30pm, Northwest Washington Fair
WORDSRobin Hemley: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYNorthwest Washington Fair: Continues through Aug. 22, NW Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green
GET OUTChowder Charter: 6pm, Squalicum Harbor
08. .09THURSDAYON STAGE
Bus Stop: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Bard on the Beach: Continues through Sept. 26 at Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C. The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICDagwoods: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Jazz Concert: 6-8pm, Swan Café Foreigner: 7:30pm, Northwest Washington Fair, Lynden
08. .09FRIDAYON STAGE
Mark Twain in Fairhaven: 7:30pm, Lynden Pio-neer Museum Curse You, Jack Dalton: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Din-ner Theatre, Mount Vernon Jon Reep and Adam Ferrara: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort Bus Stop: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Harold: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEDance Academy Performance: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
MUSICGaither Vocal Band: 7:30pm, Northwest Washing-ton Fair
THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE CURRENT OLD-TIME REVIVAL, PEER NO FURTHER THAN THE FOG-HORN STRINGBAND. SEE THE PORTLAND FELLAS INACTION AUG. 22 AT A SQUARE DANCE AT THE YWCA
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MUSICInspiration Jamboree: 1-5pm, Woodstock FarmSwing Connection: 2-4pm, Fairhaven Village Green Asian Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch State Park
GET OUTWorld Bikini Football League: 11am-6pm, Civic Stadium
VISUAL ARTSPlein Air Paint Out: 10am-3pm, downtown Bell-ingham
08. .09MONDAYON STAGE
Charlie Brown Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn The-atre Faith County Auditions: 6pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
WORDSOpen Mic: 7pm, Village Books Poetry Night: 8pm, the Darkroom
08. .09TUESDAYON STAGE
Faith County Auditions: 6pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
MUSICChris Davis: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum
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An American icon will be reborn—and may even sing—when Mark Twain in Fairhaven takes the stage Aug. 21-30 at the Lynden Pioneer Museum
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mailVIEWS & NEWS
4: Missives
6: The winner takes it all
8: Your vote here
10: Last week’s news
11: Burglaries, borders, banks
ARTS & LIFE 12: Olympic history
14: Have a field day
16: Love and monkeys
18: Artists in action
20: Out of the Cave (Singers)
24: Nazi hunters
25: Emotional manipulation
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28: Lodging Guide
29: Wellness
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33: Free Will Astrology
34: Tasting America
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CONTENTS CREDITS LET TERS
PEAK PERFORMANCEThe critique of the Peak Oil
message is a shallow under-standing of the issues involved and a prime example of the denial that places an imperiled planet on course to suffer the worst consequences. Here is a view that obstructs an effec-tive response to the multiple threats confronting humanity.
He asks, “But why should we buy this assumption?” We ignore at our peril warnings sounded by many of the best minds on the planet reporting mountains of evidence that resource depletion, climate change, biodiversity loss and population overshoot are oc-curring at an accelerating pace. It is not “weirdly ahis-torical,” but tragically ahis-torical to suppose that some techno-magic will ride to the rescue and expand the planet’s carrying capacity. It is a case of seeing what one looks for instead of what one looks at. We already have the know-how to address our predicament,
if only we can free ourselves from Andrew Potter’s insistent delusion.
Finally, it is deeply offensive that he implies that anyone takes pleasure in anticipating the widespread loss and suf-fering that current trends fore-shadow. This failure of imagi-nation could be excused if the stakes were not so high.
Hope can be found in heed-ing the warnings and acting with courage.
—Becky Pillai, Bellingham
Andrew Potter’s book, The Rebel Sell, which was an at-tempt to demonstrate that all counter-culture movements share a common fatal error in the way they understand soci-ety, has been criticized for its “unsavory combo of faulty rea-soning and weak arguments.” The same can be said about his article published in last week’s Weekly. The Peak Oil tent is ac-tually much bigger and broader than the description that Pot-ter paints of the “peakniks.”
When the International En-ergy Agency warns—as it did in its last World Energy Out-look report after a comprehen-sive evaluation of the world’s 800 largest oil fields—that field-by-field oil-production declines are accelerating and that “current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable,” we know we have a problem of serious proportions, and that this is not just the thinking of cranky doomers who “reject the foundational economic principle of our civilization,” as Potter claims.
What Potter apparently does not understand is the role en-ergy plays in our civilization, the unique characteristics of fossil fuels, and the bigger picture and longer range per-spective.
The energy density of oil and natural gas has provided an extremely inexpensive and powerful form of energy far beyond anything else that has been discovered. There are no
Les Paul–otherwise known as the “father of the electric guitar”—died Aug. 12 at the age of 94 in White Plains, NY. The string-slinging instrumentalist and inventor, a talented musician in his own right, created the Gibson solid-body guitar that bears his name, and that musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton brought to the world’s stages.
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new resources with all of the charac-teristics fossil fuels provide on the horizon. And that is a problem. An im-portant study done for the U.S. Dept. of Energy, known as the Hirsch Report, found that for a smooth transition to a post-oil economy, “mitigation will require a minimum of a decade of in-tense, expensive effort, because the scale of liquid fuels mitigation is inher-ently extremely large.” The report char-acterized the peaking of conventional world oil production as “unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society,” and stated that “without timely miti-gation, the economic, social, and po-litical costs will be unprecedented.”
The point is none of the alternatives in place today, even when combined, come close to being able to power our society at its current level.
I’m not sure Potter recognizes that all of the growth and development of the last 100 years was possible only because we spent the one-time cheap energy bonus embodied in coal, oil and natural gas. When taking the lon-ger view, as systems ecologist Howard Odum has shown, we see in human history, growth spurts have always oc-curred as the part of a pulsing cycle at times of high energy availability. Because we live in a finite world, at some point, a climax/transition point is reached, followed by descent.
The question then is how to prepare for and respond to energy descent. Now is the time for us to take stock and to start recreating our future in ways that are not based on cheap, plenti-ful and polluting oil but on localized food, sustainable energy sources, re-silient local economies and an enliv-ened sense of community well-being.
—David MacLeod, BellinghamEdited for length
HEALTH CARE MADNESSThe right’s successful usurpation of
the August town hall meetings are a dangerous sign. We should be alarmed so many people truly believe the gov-ernment would choose to forcibly eu-thanize the elderly or the disabled.
We dismiss these protesters at our own risk. We should instead recognize the sentiment many of them express for what it is: class antagonism. It is hard to miss that the target of much of the seething rage from the right is something they label the (liberal) elite. The truly spectacular success of the insurance industry has been to channel this class anger away from themselves, and away from the corpo-rate world that is responsible for many of the things the anti-healthcare pro-testers despise—from vulgarity in the media to corporate power agreements like NAFTA that force central American
peasants off their land, in the pro-cess ensuring that their only hope for survival is immigration to the United States.
The long-term solution must in-volve reclaiming class antagonism for the left, which also means forcefully challenging the Democratic Party, the benefactor of Goldman Sachs.
We could begin by reflecting on the crucial role of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Health Insurance Lobby) in postpon-ing the vote on health care reform until after August, thus setting the stage for the current madness to be played out across the country. Will he return to D.C. in September to say that the public option must be scrapped in light of the intense opposition?
—Matteo Tamburini, Bellingham
Single-payer, public option, national healthcare reform? D.O.A.! Surprise! Sur-prise! Will U.S. citizens ever live to see the day when getting sick is no longer a criminal offense? Most of the industrial-ized, civilized world has for some time proclaimed that health care is an innate right awarded at birth guaranteed and till the grave.
Yet, our paid, “elected” representa-tives survive in a corrupt pay-to-play po-litical process. If you can’t raise several million dollars for Congress, forget it! If you don’t make promises and deals with influential donors, say $5-$10 million worth, no Senate seat for you! Without a government funded political system, we will never have anything resembling single-payer health care.
The health care “industry” literally has a death grip around the necks of the middle class and the poor. The two-par-ty charade is exposed. Dems and Repubs have been bought and paid for by health industry conglomerates.
It clearly appears national health care has been aborted—thanks to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the Re-publiCant Party guided by their corpo-rate puppet masters. So, the millions of bankruptcies due to medical bills will continue, catastrophic monthly premium hikes will continue, tens of thousands will continue to die each year because they can’t afford the premiums, medi-cines, medical tests and operations.
For U.S. residents the only “hope we can believe in” is in a green card or mar-riage proposal from a citizen of West-ern Europe or Canada! So much for “the greatest country in the world!”
—Jon Noggle, BellinghamEdited for length
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THE GRISTLE
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPINIONS THE GRISTLE
IT’S TIME for a change in the Whatcom County elections process. Due to the “top-two“ system now in use, primaries are required if there are more than two candidates running for the same office. This election process costs taxpayers thousands of dollars in unnecessary time and paperwork.
Using a system known as Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), the people in Pierce County have avoided the high cost of primaries through a winner-take-all general election. This sys-tem was approved by that county’s voters and has been sanctioned by the Secretary of State.
RCV allows voters to rank a first-, second-, and third-choice candidate for a single county office. For RCV races no primary is necessary. The outcome is decided in a single gen-eral election.
Through successive vote counts, RCV eliminates from the race the candidates who received the fewest first-choice votes. Second choices are added to the tallies of remain-ing candidates; again, the lowest-ranking candidate is eliminated. The process continues until one receives more than 50 percent of votes. With modern voting software, these suc-cessive calculations only take a few moments. If a ballot has no second or third choice candidate marked, that ballot is considered exhausted. The algorithm continues to eliminate in rounds until one candidate remains with a majority of votes.
Whatcom County would save sig-nificant costs by adopting RCV and
folding the primary into the general election for county level officials. Whatcom County’s system of electing its county level officials in odd-num-bered years is significant in obtain-ing more cost savings.
The current “Top Two” system for electing local officials causes districts discourages multiple candidates vying for office because a multitude of can-didates costs money. While “Top Two” may work for partisan races, when adapted for nonpartisan races like those in Whatcom County, it simply limits choice in the general election.
RCV encourages a multitude of candi-dates and enriches the debate.
The Whatcom County Auditor’s of-fice predicts only a 27 percent return on the 116,464 ballots mailed to What-com County voters in this primary. That would be about 31,500, and a low turnout. A low turnout in elections is costly to democracy and to taxpayers.
Much has been written and said about the costs of RCV in Pierce Coun-ty, but little analysis has been applied to Whatcom County elections and how they might be affected by the adop-tion of RCV for county level elections.
To see how this might work locally, let’s examine the last set of county level elections.
In the August 2007 primary elec-tion, six jurisdictions held primaries. The county had one County Council seat in the primary, while the City of Bellingham had a primary for the mayor’s race as well as two City Coun-cil primaries.
The total cost of the election was about $238,600. Costs were allo-cated amongst the various jurisdic-tions and the county’s portion was $47,866. Eliminating the need for a primary would have saved the county almost $50,000 in 2007.
Local jurisdictions incur costs in the
primary when “too many candidates” file to run for office. The City of Bell-ingham had three such races, so their bill for the August primary was higher than Whatcom County’s bill.
Holding its local elections in odd-numbered years, Whatcom County could adopt RCV for those elections while continuing to run “Top Two” pri-maries for state and federal elections, in accordance with state law. The vot-ing public would be able to welcome more candidates in those local races, rather than dreading the costs. This would strengthen our democracy.
Note: The cost allocation numbers are based on information received from the Whatcom County Auditor’s Office.
BY CHARLES LAW
New Choices in VotingHOW WE COUNT VOTES COULD SAVE MONEY AND STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY
ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACK: While the Port of Bellingham staggered from news earlier this month that the federal marine agency NOAA will not relocate facilities here after all, the City of Bellingham received a slap from the state Department of Ecology. Eclipsed by the larger news, Ecology slipped a letter into COB’s mail slot that found fault with the mayor’s curious surrender last April to the port on waterfront planning issues.
Entreating Bellingham City Council to lay aside skepticism and support a joint planning framework, Mayor Dan Pike in that April meet-ing ominously warned council that “eyes” were upon their next moves for signs of co operative agreement between the city and port.
Seems some of those “eyes” belonged to Ecol-ogy, which expressed regret COB would unilater-ally agree to matters that were not agreeable to all parties. The state environmental agency observed, “Since the city is a member of the Bellingham Bay Demonstration Pilot (Pilot), through which waterfront activities have been coordinated for years, Ecology is disappointed over the lack of early direct coordination on this project. The hallmark of the Pilot is to coordi-nate early and often to facilitate effective and efficient integration of cleanup, habitat res-toration, and land use. Moreover,” the agency scolded, “it seems that the city is not as aware as it could be of the fact that the proposed proj-ect is occurring within a MTCA cleanup site at which the city is operating under a multi-party consent decree.”
In their April meeting, a pressured City Coun-cil agreed to a compromise street layout that would connect Central Avenue to Laurel Street by a diagonal arterial that would cut through the heart of the old mill site. At the time the Gristle observed, the western portion of “Cen-tral Avenue, built in more innocent times over an impaired waterway now under rigorous envi-ronmental scrutiny, seems a poor place to plan a permanent road.”
Ecology apparently agreed, noting they op-pose “the proposed re-development of the ex-isting trestle until a thorough analysis of non-shoreline location alternatives is provided as outlined in our prior comments on the port’s [plan] for the waterfront redevelopment. En-vironmental impacts resulting from increased vehicular traffic over the water and adjacent to the waterway should be avoided by constructing an alternative route.”
While noting the challenge of constructing such a route, the agency suggests, “One possi-bly might be for the traffic to be routed from the intersection of West Champion and East Holly Street, westerly, either over or at grade level with the railroad tracks, to align with the pro-posed Central Avenue arterial. The Roeder Street bridge approach would need to be reconstructed accordingly.”
Ecology’s notice likely forces a redraft of the city’s and port’s draft traffic circulation plan for the central waterfront. More critically, the no-tice may crimp early development actions and
FOR RCV RACES NO PRIMARY IS NECESSARY. THE OUTCOME IS DECIDED IN A SINGLE GENERAL ELECTION.
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THE GRISTLEtimetables at the mill site by reducing the role Central Avenue may play.
Under the proposed framework, traf-fic into the mill site would be routed primarily along Central Avenue while a bridge on Cornwall Avenue is removed and rebuilt to accommodate the reloca-tion of rail lines through the site (the relocation is funded in 2013). A require-ment to modify the Roeder Street bridge first would add millions to the public cost of redevelopment. Adding to the misery, a modification of Roeder is notcurrently envisioned in the city’s six-year trans-portation improvement plan (TIP), a requirement for the improvement to be eligible to receive state funding.
Into this morass hobbles the Bell-ingham Public Development Authority board, which delayed the anticipated hire of a PDA executive director in their regular meeting this week. Not that there’s much for this new executive to do right now anyway.
Board members said they needed more time for salary negotiations, which has been offered in the range of $125,000, roughly that of a COB department head. And, no, the PDA CEO compensation does not trigger a linked salary increase for the mayor (as mandated in the City Charter, the mayor is the highest paid COB employee). The PDA is a separate and distinct corporate entity, accord-ing to City Attorney Joan Hoisington. The board expects to name a director Sept. 2.
While granted citywide development authority over COB properties, the PDA faces a limited role (and budget) ini-tially, quarantined mostly to the old Sash and Door property on Whatcom Waterway, the former Parberry site, and a parcel the city recently purchased for parking along Cornwall Avenue. De-centralizing Central likely further delays PDA deliverables.
The port, with limited experience building cities, might have been wise to support and jointly fund a PDA with comprehensive authority over the water front district; however, the agen-cy declined. More so, the PDA’s creation (together with uncustomary pushback from the city on POB antics as envi-ronmental lead) coincides in an unfor-tunate way with the port’s deteriorated relationship with the city in the same period—November ‘08—a relationship pulled from the brink by city surrender to the port’s lead on the waterfront—an aggressive lead that, gauging from Ecol-ogy’s response, has stranded larger Pilot team goals.
The PDA has their work cut out for them, but it’s tough to imagine where they’ll begin.
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news commentary briefs
currents
Ferndale City Council, Position 5
Ken Downey 42.61%Jon Mutchler 28.11%Jeff Stover 21.17%
David Lee Wilson 8.11%
Lynden City Council, Position 4
Brent Lenssen 36.84%Rodney VanderWerff 23.63%Bob Johnson 22.46%
Greg Penner 17.07%
Bellingham City Council, Ward 6
Michael Lilliquist 48.37%Catherine Chambers 26.56%Christopher Morrison 25.07%
Blaine City Council, Ward 2, Position 4
Charlie Hawkins 66.92%John George 19.92%David Gallion 13.16%
John Blethen51.49%
Mike McAuley38.83%
Laurie Caskey-Schreiber45.28%
Scott Walker35.87%
Doug Smith37.86%
Bill Knutzen44.29%
Ham Hayes 12.64% Doug Karlberg 23.31% Dave Pros 10.43%
At LargeDistrict 2District 1
PORT OF BELLINGHAM WHATCOM COUNTY
CITY COUNCIL
RESULTS AS OF 8PM TUES., AUGUST 18, 2009
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More than 450 people attend a meeting on property rights at Merid-ian High School. Local farmers and business owners complained of strug-gles with county land restrictions at the first meeting of the newly formed Whatcom Chapter of the Citizens’ Alli-ance for Property Rights (CAPR).
08. .09WEDNESDAY
The Skagit County Sheriff’s Of-fice says a 9-month-old infant was attacked twice in two days by her grandmother’s dog. Her parents were not home when the attacks occurred.
A Bellingham man, described as a “very experienced diver,” goes miss-ing after a dive off the north side of Orcas Island. Michael Scherner, 40, never resurfaced from a planned 90-minute dive between Clark and Barnes islands, U.S. Coast Guard of-ficials say.
The man accused of strangling a teenage girl to death pleads guilty to the crime, but will go to Western State Hospital for an evaluation to determine if he’s mentally capable of making such a plea. Nathan Goninan, 23, is accused of strangling 17-year-old Jessica Franklin in 2007.
The curious trial of Bruce Hummel, a former Bellingham resident accused of murdering his wife in 1990, continues in Whatcom County Superior Court. Prosecutors don’t have a body. They don’t have a crime scene or direct evidence of a crime. They don’t have a confession. But they’re seeking a pre-meditated murder conviction.
08. .09MONDAY
Federal prosecutors file criminal charges against a manufacturing company in Bellingham where 28 people were arrested during a Febru-ary immigration raid. Yamato Engines Specialists is charged with conspiring to encourage undocumented immi-
grants to remain in the United States between 2006 and 2009. Prosecutors also charged two employees with al-lowing undocumented workers to file false employment forms with the gov-ernment. Company employees are ex-pected to plead guilty to the charges.
A Horizon Air plane carrying 76 passengers skids off a runway at Bell-ingham International Airport and ends 50 feet into the grass. The passengers and four crew members are unhurt in the landing.
The Washington State Department of Transportation plans to auction sur-plus buildings, including 22 ski cab-ins in Glacier. The buildings, includ-ing the two-story Glacier Creek Lodge and a manufactured home, will be part of the auction that begins Wednesday at 10am. Bids start at $10.
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CURRENTS THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Congressman Rick Larsen dodged a few hardballs from the outfield as he pitched health care reform from home plate at an Everett ball field last week. The Washington Democrat swung at a few curves thrown by an uncharacteristically civil crowd of 2,500. Few spitballs. A similar town hall event in Mount Vernon drew 600, three times more than the room could hold.
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CURRENTS POLICE SCANNER
FUZZ BUZZOFFICER OLYMPICSJuly 31 through Aug. 9, public safety officers competed in the World Police & Fire games in British Columbia, the larg-est WPFG since the games began in Cali-fornia in 1985. Police officers, firefight-ers and Customs and corrections officers from around the world competed in more than 65 sporting events. Officers from the Bellingham, Everett, Lynden, and Redmond Police department formed a basketball team calling themselves the “Lawmen” and took home a silver medal. Bellingham Police Officer Jon Knutsen won a silver medal in high jumping. Darren Sandstrom, Bellingham Police Neighbor-hood Compliance Officer, brought home the gold, sil-ver and bronze medal in three separate bow-hunter events.
KISSING CAT BURGLAROn Aug. 9, three Bellingham women were awakened at 2:30am by what they believed to be a small explosion fol-lowed by the sounds of someone walking around in their home. A male voice was heard calling out to one of the victims but she did not recognize the voice. The women called 911. Responding officers found a broken window and the three females hiding together upstairs. Offi-cers discovered a bottle of wine on the back porch of the Maple Street home that matched the description of one stolen earlier that evening from a home on In-dian Street. Officers realized the crimes were connected. Earlier that evening, a woman on Indian Street reported she’d been awakened by someone kissing her forehead. When she opened her eyes she saw a man standing over her as she was laying in bed. Her boyfriend was awak-ened and saw the suspect walk out of the apartment. While officers were in-vestigating both burglaries, the suspect evidently walked by the crime scene and was immediately identified by the couple on Indian Street. The man had met one of the Maple Street women at a party, but she had not given him permission to break into their home and steal their be-longings. The man was in possession of items which belonged to the victims at the time of his arrest.
SMUGGLED IS AS SMUGGLED DOESOn Aug. 11, one month after a Ko-
rean national had been sentenced for trafficking Korean sex slaves across the international border in Blaine, a Brazilian national was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to smug-gling Brazilians into the United States through the international border at Su-mas. According to court documents, on March 19, 2009, remote sensors alerted Border Patrol agents that a group of people had passed over the border from Canada near the Sumas River. A search of the area turned up four Brazilian nationals. One of the men admitted he had led the group across the border
to pay off the last of a $5,000 debt he’d incurred when he himself
had been smuggled into the Unite States. As in previ-ous smuggled episodes, the man planned to call a taxi
to pick up the group when they arrived in downtown
Sumas. He was sentenced to five months in prison followed by
probable deportation.
BANK ERRORSOn July 21, Bellingham Police collared a man trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill. The man was outraged and said he’d received the bogus bill from Bank of America and there was no rea-son it should be fake. The money did not pass the “pen test,” so it was im-pounded for processing. The man was given a case number and told to con-tact his bank.
FLESH PEDDLERSOn July 8, Blaine Police responded to reports of a suspicious person trying to sell meat from the back of a vehicle door-to-door. Police checked the scene but found no one with whom to lodge a beef.
On July 24, a man called Blaine Police to report that 50 people were trespass-ing on native lands and shellfishing on the Drayton Harbor side of Semiahmoo spit. Officers arrived to speak to the man, but he had left. The groups shell-fishing on the tideflats were legally li-censed and on property owned by the City of Blaine, police reported. “They advised that a man had told them they were illegally harvesting shellfish on native land, and then offered to sell them already harvested shellfish from the back of his minivan. The gentleman was not located.”
AMOUNT OF U.S. deficit. New York Times economists analyzed Congressional Budget Office estimates and broke down the deficit as follows: 37 percent reflects recent economic
downturns; 33 percent arrives from Bush Administration legislation and tax cuts; 20 percent comes from extensions of Bush policies such as foreign wars and Wall Street
bailouts; 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill Obama signed into law; only 3 percent comes from Obama’s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas.
NUMBER OF YEARS it would take to spend $2 trillion if you spent one dollar per second.
NUMBER OF DAYS $2 trillion would fund the U.S. government.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE observed carrying guns outside the VFW National Convention where President Obama was speaking Monday. Two carried AR-15 assault rifles.
NUMBER OF WASHINGTON’S 39 counties that conduct elections entirely by mail. Whatcom was among the first to do so.
CHANCE IN 100 a homeowner in Whatcom County owes more on the home than it’s worth. National average, 32 percent.
PERCENT OF HOMES in Whatcom County that were sold for a loss.
PERCENT OF BELLINGHAM 10th graders who met the science education standards of WASL. State average, 38.6 percent.
PERCENT OF MOUNT Baker School District 10th graders who met the science education standards of WASL. State average, 38.6 percent.
SOURCES: Congressional Budget Office; New York Times; Wallstats.com; Associated Press; Washington Secretary of State; Bellingham Herald; First American CoreLogic; Zillow.com; Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL)
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wordsCOMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS
BY CHRISTIAN MARTIN
The Olympic PeninsulaTIM MCNULTY REVISITS HISTORY
NATURE NEVER stands still, is never static, but instead is ever chang-ing, morphing, evolving. Charles Darwin brought this unassailable truth into clearer focus 150 years ago with the publication of On the Origin of Species (the Chinese expressed it much earlier when Lao Tzu dictated the Tao Te Ching in 6th century BC). Olympic Peninsula naturalist, educator and author Tim McNulty reminds us of it again today with the publication of a new edition of his pioneering work, Olympic National Park, A Natural History by the University of Washington Press.
Originally published in 1996, McNulty’s tome bravely at-tempts to observe and interpret the myriad natural forces that compose and comprise the 1,400 square miles of wil-derness at the heart of the Olympic Peninsula ecosystem.
Less than 15 years later, our understanding of those forc-es have significantly advanced, including new research on marmots and black bears; migratory salmon, steelhead, and bull trout; salamanders; recently arrived barred owls, threatened northern spotted owls, bald eagles and per-egrine falcons; sea otters; and the possibility of reintro-ducing extirpated wolves and fishers.
Seems an auspicious time to take a closer look into the most recent chapter of the long story that is the Olym-pic Peninsula, and McNulty is an exceptionally qualified guide to take us on the journey.Cascadia Weekly: What’s included in your Olympic book
and what’s new in this updated edition?Tim McNulty: Olympic National Park, A Natural History tells
the story of Olympic National Park and the peninsula from its geological origins and Ice Age history through alpine ecology, forests, wildlife, rivers and salmon to the coastal intertidal areas, sea mammals and birds. The final chapters recount the 12,000-year story of hu-man presence on the land and the conservation history of park, forest wildlife refuges and coast
The new revised edition revisits this story a dozen years after my original research…the reality of global warming has become a major factor and new element in this story throughout the park’s ecosystems.
CW: Why did you write it?TM: I originally wrote it out of passion for the place I’ve lived most of my life, to
foster a deeper understanding and appreciation for its unique nature.CW: How does your experience with writing poetry impact your nonfiction writing?TM: I read aloud—and listen to—everything I write. Poetry engages a reader
with music images. I try to make my prose do that, too.CW: Ecologically speaking, what are some of the ways in which the Olympics differ
from the North Cascades?TM: The Olympics are an island eco-
system, geographically separated from other western ranges by an inland sea and extensive lowlands to the south. Like many islands, this isolation gave rise to a couple dozen endemic plants and animals (species that exist nowhere else). It also created a paucity of wild-life species—grizzly, wolverine, mountain sheep, pica—that do not exist in the Olympics. Lastly, geo-graphic isolation slowed the level of resource exploitation and devel-opment, which meant that Olympic National Park was able to protect significant portions of low-eleva-tion old-growth forest and temper-ate rain forest. And then there’s the ocean...
Read McNulty’s book to under-stand how the Olympics, and our comprehension of them, are evolv-ing. As McNulty points out, “the mountains and rivers remain ”time-less,’ but our understanding of the life forms that inhabit them—and the effects our actions have on their future—is an ongoing, ever-deepening story.”
WHAT: Tim McNulty shares photos and stories based on the revised edition of
Olympic National Park, A Natural History WHEN: 7pm Wed., Aug. 26WHERE: Village Books, 1200 11th St.COST: FreeINFO: 671-2626 or villagebooks.com
WED., AUG. 19DO-OVER: Former Bellinghamster Robin Hemley returns to town to read from his autobiographical tome, Do Over! In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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THURS., AUG. 20MAPLE FALLS ANNIVERSARY: Nosh on cake at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Maple Falls Library, 7509 Mt. Baker Hwy. The event happens during regular business hours, and is free.
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FRI., AUG. 21SELF-HELP: Local writer Rachael Brownell talks about her autobiographical tome, Mom-my Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore, at 7pm at Vil-lage Books, 1200 11th St.
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STORY NIGHT: Members of the Bellingham Storytellers Guild will tell tales at “Family Story Night” at 7pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave.
676-6860
SAT., AUG. 22BOOK CLUB: Join the Deming Book Club for its monthly meeting to discuss A Spot of Bother at 10am at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
592-2422
CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Visiting author Randy Sue Coburn—author of A Better View of Paradise—takes part in the Chuckanut Radio Hour starting at 7pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The monthly taped broadcast will pre-cede the outdoor movie of the night, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Cost is $7.50 and includes the flick.
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MON., AUG. 24OPEN MIC: Share the write stuff at the monthly Open Mic starting at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Writing instructor Lau-rel Leigh will host the free event.
671-2626
POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read from your written verse at the weekly Poetry Night at 8pm at the Darkroom, 310 W. Champion St. Readings begin at 8:30pm.
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Spend the night at the Fairhaven Village Green Sat., Aug. 22. First off, attend a live taping of the Chuckanut Radio Hour, then stick around for a viewing of Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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TUES., AUG. 25CROW PLANET: Lyanda Lynn Haupt share her book, Crow Planet: Finding Our Place in the Zoo-polis, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WED., AUG. 26BARKLEY SPOTLIGHT: Local poet and au-thor James Bertolino will be the featured guest at tonight’s “Barkley Author Spotlight” from 7-8:30pm at the Barkley Branch Library on Newmarket St. He’ll read and sign his new volume of poetry, Finding Water, Holding Stone, at the free event.
778-7206
FLAMBOYA TREE: As part of Bellingham Reads, Clara Olink Kelley will read from her autobiographical book, The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother’s Wartime Courage, at 6:30pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave.
778-7323
WED., AUG. 19WEDNESDAY MARKET: The Wednesday Mar-ket can be visited from 12-5pm weekly at the Fairhaven Village Green.
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AUG. 19-22NORTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR: Yep, it’s time once again for the Northwest Washing-ton Fair, which continues through Aug. 22 at Lynden’s NW Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Gates open at 9am daily. Entry is $5-$10.
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FRI., AUG. 21RUMMAGE, BAKE SALE: The annual “Rum-mage and Bake Sale” occurs from 9am-4pm at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St.
733-4030
DINNER AND AUCTION: Help raise funds for the “Breast Cancer 3-Day” at an Italian dinner and silent auction happening from 6-9pm at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Cen-ter, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. Tickets are $15 at the door.
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SAT., AUG. 22ANACORTES MARKET: From 9am-2pm every Saturday through Oct. 10, make your way to the Anacortes Farmers Market in downtown Mount Vernon.
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FERNDALE MARKET: The Ferndale Farmers Market happens from 9am-3pm every Satur-day through Oct. 17 at the Riverwalk on Main Street.
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MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The Mount Ver-non Farmers Market occurs from 9am-3pm ev-ery Saturday through Oct. in downtown Mount Vernon.
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BELLINGHAM MARKET: The Bellingham Farmers Market is open for business from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, locat-ed at Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street.
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FOOD PRESERVING: A “Food Preservation” workshop occurs from 9am-12pm at the Corda-ta Community Food Co-op. Jodi Mackey, Mas-ter Food Preserver, will lead the workshop.
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Fly the FlagOF FOOTBALL AND BIKINIS
THE WOMEN come from all walks of life. They are doctors, scientists, data processors, models, actresses and former Olympic gymnasts. But regard-less of what they do in their day-to-day lives, they all have one thing in com-mon: They are members of the World Bikini Football League (TWBFL), and they are coming to an arena near you.
According to TWBFL cofounder Curt Shriner, the women who will be making passes with the pigskin and hustling down the field at Civic Stadium Sun., Aug. 23 are much more than hot chicks in sassy swim-wear. He says they are beautiful, intelligent women with athletic abilities that make them worth watch-ing. Yes, their uniforms happen to be bikinis, but that doesn’t stop them from putting their all into the games of flag football.
“You will be amazed at the level of play,” Shriner says. “They may be models, actors and business pro-fessionals, but when they cross those white lines they become fierce competitors.”
In fact, Shriner notes, before he and cofounder Pat Reagan held their first tryouts, they thought they were going to have to have the women play on a small 40- or 50-yard field. But as they watched them play-ing catch and running patterns, one player dropped back for a pass and threw the ball the length of the field. The receiver reached out with one hand and pulled it in. That’s when they knew they were going to need a bigger field.
Until now, the TWBFL’s 80 teammates have competed in an enclosed soccer stadium in Seattle, and they haven’t had live audiences. Instead, the sports events have been filmed, then rebroadcast on the company’s website. Members pay $25-$48 per year, and can get player profiles, watch games, check out the “bikini blog” and find out more about what the different teams have been up to (for the record, the players are all co-owners, and re-ceive a portion of the revenue from subscrip-tions).
This Sunday’s event will herald the first pub-lic games of the year-old league. In addition to the seven flag football games on the roster, there’ll be a model shoot, live entertainment, autograph sessions, photo opportunities and more. Two bucks from every ticket sold will help out the Bellingham Lyons Club, making this a community-wide, family-friendly event.
So, let’s get this straight: women in bikinis will be playing flag football, and the kids are welcome to come along?
“I am 58 years old and I have three daugh-ters. If any one of them had the least bit of interest in playing in the league I would not hesitate for one moment saying yes to them,” Shriner says.
“This is a clean, fun environment which is designed to be safe and anything but lech-erous or obscene. Pat and I actually have a radio show on KRKO Radio 1380 AM called Eyes on Women’s Sports which deals with the exact opposite of what the public implication is in our league. We deal with equity in the sports and the lack of appreciation toward women’s sports. These players are very attractive, girl-next-door types, but they are not strictly beauty queens. We have all body types, we have all ethnic types and they just happen to be women.”
ATTENDWHAT: The World Bikini Football LeagueWHEN: 11am-pm Sun., Aug. 23WHERE: Civic Sta-dium, 1601 Orleans St.COST: $8-$15INFO: twbfl.com
doitWED., AUG. 19CHOWDER CHARTER: The weekly three-hour sail known as the “Chowder Charter” takes place from 6-9pm every Wednesday through Aug. 26 on the 65-foot Shaw-manee leaving from Squalicum Harbor. Cost is $45.
734-9849 OR BELLINGHAMSAILING.COM
BACKCOUNTRY COOKING: Expand your talents as camp cook at a free “Back-country Cooking” class at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
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NIGHT PADDLE: Sign up for a “Biolumi-nescence Paddle” starting at 9pm at the Community Boating Center, 501 Harris Ave. Cost is $45.
714-8891 OR BOATINGCENTER.ORG
THURS, AUG. 20GEAR REPAIR: Gear gurus McNett and the Gear Doctor will lead a free “Gear Repair in the Field” workshop at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. If you’ve got a favorite piece of gear that needs some love, bring it along.
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GET GARDENING: Penelope O’Sullivan, author of The Complete Homeowner’s Tree and Shrub Handbook, will lead this month’s “Get Gardening” event at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
FITNESS FORUM: Learn how to “Get Your Chi On” at a free Fitness Forum starting at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Running instructor Stacey Nordtvedt will lead the way.
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AUG. 21-23PUMA PACIFIC: The “Puma Pacific Coast Challenge”, a high-level premier boys soccer tournament, happens through Sunday at the Northwest Soccer Park, 5238 Northwest Dr. The competitions are free to watch.
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SAT., AUG. 22GLACIER BASIN HIKE: Join members of the Mount Baker Club for a backpack hike to Glacier Basin today. Meet to carpool at 6am at Sunnyland Elementary, 2800 James St.
676-9843 OR MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG
WATER GARDENS: A free “Small Water Gardens” workshop begins at 9am at the Garden Spot, 900 Alabama St. Please reg-ister in advance.
676-5480 OR GARDEN-SPOT.COM
GARDENING & HARVESTING: Learn about “Using Tunnels and Hoop Houses for Productive Gardening” at an outdoor workshop from 10:3am-12pm at Everson’s Cloud Mountain Farm, 6906 Goodwin Rd. From 1:30-3pm, show up for “Preserving the Harvest.” Both events are free, and registration is not required.
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SUMMER TRAIN: At noon every Satur-day and Tuesday through Sept. 4, ride through the woods of Wickersham (about 14 miles south of Deming) on the Lake Whatcom Railway. Tickets are $9-$18, and reservations are not required.
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RIVER STEWARDS: NSEA’s River Stew-ards program continues with a “Wild About Salmon” campfire talk at 6pm at the Douglas Fir Campground Picnic Shelter in the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. Tomorrow, meet at 9am at the Horseshoe Bend Trailhead for “Noisy Waters: A Nook-sack River Walk.” Both events are free.
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SUN., AUG. 23CROSS-COUNTRY POTLUCK: Attend a potluck dinner welcoming a group of 30 bicyclists who are on a cross-country tour to support affordable housing at 6pm at Lynden’s Hope Lutheran Church, 900 E. Front St. The Bike & Build members—who will end their 3,830-mile journey in Vancouver, B.C.—will also offer up a free presentation about their trip and organization.
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MON., AUG. 24BOCCE BALL: At 5pm every Monday, meet for Bocce Ball tournaments on the Fairhaven Village Green. All are welcome, and there’s no fee.
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BIKE TO BEER: Fanatik Bike Co. will host its final Women’s Summer Series of the season with a “Bike to Beer Cruiser” start-ing at 6pm at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. The event will end at Boundary Bay Brewery.
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BIKE MAINTENANCE: Gain confidence in your conveyance at a free “Bike Mainte-nance 101” clinic at 7pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
647-8955
TUES., AUG. 25MESOAMERICA: Learn what Explorations Academy students gleaned from their trip to Guatemala and Belize at a free “Meso-america Presentation” at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
WED., AUG. 26OLYMPIC HISTORY: Nature writer and teacher Tim McNulty shares photos, sto-ries and more based on his revised book, Olympic National Park: A Natural History, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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At 5pm every Monday through the sea-son—or until the weather takes a turn for the worse—drop by the Fairhaven Vil-lage Green to play some Bocce Ball. No experience is required, so c’mon down.
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Monkey LoveTHE SEARCH FOR SOMETHING REAL
AMANDA ROUNTREE knew at first glance the guy she’d agreed to meet via an online dating service wasn’t her soul mate. She wasn’t attracted to him, she admits, but thought since they were in a bar that had a lot of board games—and because she’s a sucker for Scrabble—she’d stick around. His first word was “p-e-t.” Hers: “v-e-h-e-m-e-n-t.”
Three hundred points later, Rountree, 34, was the clear winner. Sulk-ing, the dour date suggested they play a round of pool—a game Roun-tree says she’s not so good at—to even the score. She won and, again, he was an embarrassingly sore loser. Still, that didn’t stop him from inviting her over to “watch a movie” at his place.
Rountree’s experience with the “Scrabble guy” is briefly alluded to during her one-woman play, “The Good, the Bad and the Monkey: Singlehood, Dating and the Search for Something Real,” as part of the larger picture of the travails of looking for love in the modern age. Based on both real and imagined experiences with people and affairs, the show deals with her being single, then coupled, then uncoupled, then dealing, once again, with the trials and tribulations of dating.
“My real experience from the past year has been show-worthy,” says Rountree, a former Seattle improviser, actress and teacher who left the west coast for Chicago two years ago. “Of course, in a show you have to have a resolution. I didn’t, so the ending was kind of a hard thing to recreate. I found some peace with it, so it has been this nice cathartic
THURS., AUG. 20GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project: Mad Com-edy in the Making.” Cost is $5 for the early show, $3 for the late one.
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AUG. 20-22BUS STOP: Find out what happens when an odd assortment of travelers meet up during a blizzard when the comedic play, Bus Stop, shows at 7:30pm Thurs. and 8pm Sat.-Sun. at the Anacortes Com-munity Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $16.
(360) 293-6829 OR ACTTHEATRE.COM
AUG. 20-27BARD ON THE BEACH: Othello, The Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Richard II play in repertory through Sept. 26 during the 20th season of Bard on the Beach at Vancouver, B.C.’s Vanier Park. Ticket prices vary.
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AUG. 21-22MIXED BAG: Show up for “Harold” shows at 9pm every Friday in August at the Up-front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 9pm Sat., come back for competitive Theatresports matches. Tickets are $8-$10.
733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM
REEP AND FERRARA: Jon Reep (winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing) and Adam Ferrara (from the FX series, Rescue Me) take the stage for some funny business at 8pm Friday and Saturday at Bow’s Sk-agit Valley Casino Resort, 5984 N. Darrk Lane. Tickets are $25.
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CURSES!: Show up for the melodrama <i>Curse You, Jack Dalton<i> at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner The-atre, 100 E. Montgomery St. Tickets are $12-$14 and additional showings happen Aug. 28-29.
(360) 336-3012 OR
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AUG. 21-23TWAIN IN FAIRHAVEN: Watch a “magical musical tribute” to America’s foremost humorist when Mark Twain in Fairhaven shows at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217 Front St. The locally written and produced play will also show Aug. 28-30. Tickets are $7-$10.
354-3675 OR LYNDENPIONEERMUSEUM.
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SAT., AUG. 22PRINCESS, PEA: Dancing dust bun-nies, icicle sharpeners, a royal family, some phony princesses and many other quirky characters will take the stage when members of the Missoula Children’s Theater and local youth perform a musi-cal version of The Princess and the Pea at 3pm and 7pm at the Mount Baker The-atre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $6-$10.
734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
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SEE ITWHAT: Amanda Rountree performs her one-woman show, “The Good, the Bad and the Monkey: Single-hood, Dating and the Search for Something Real”WHEN: 8pm Sun., Aug. 23WHERE: Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St.COST: $8-$10INFO: 733-8855 or theupfront.com
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stagepresent that I’ve gotten.”
But, um, where do the monkeys come in? They’re not puppets, so they don’t have speaking roles. And Rountree doesn’t fill in the voices for them, either. One monkey portrays the wide swath of all the men she dated, and the other two—who look different from each other, and thus have their own personalities—play her girlfriends.
“I’m on a stage with stuffed animals,” Rountree acknowl-edges, “and all of their dia-logue is imagined by the au-dience. So when I tell one of them that I don’t want to do it—I don’t want to just meet losers—there’s a pause while I wait for her to speak and then I say, ‘Oh, good point.’”
Promising it’ll all make sense once she takes the stage, she says the show wouldn’t have come together as well as it has without help from director Jen Ellison, who took Rountree’s words and talent and formed it into a cohesive piece of theater.
Rountree will perform “The Good, the Bad and the Mon-key” in Seattle and for a full run in Chicago in the fall, but Sunday night’s show will be the first public viewing. Up-front Theatre audiences may remember Rountree from the numerous times she joined Seattle’s Unexpected Produc-tions for shows in Belling-ham, and should be excited an actress and comedian of her caliber is making her way here again.
Once there, theater patrons will also get to find out what happened on Rountree’s dates with “Guitar Guy,” “German Candy Guy,” and “Married Guy.” And that is something you don’t want to miss.
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SUN., AUG. 23 MERMAIDS AND MARIONETTES: The Carter Family Marionettes present The Knight & the Mermaid at 2pm at the What-com Museum, 121 Prospect St. Expect chivalry, fantasy and magic at the family friendly performance. Tickets are $4-$5.
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COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly Comedy Night happens at 8pm every Sunday at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Har-ris Ave.
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AUG. 23-24CHARLIE BROWN AUDITIONS: Audi-tion for upcoming performances of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown at 6:30pm at the Barn Theatre in Sudden Valley. Parts are available for eight women and 10 men.
820-1052 OR THEBARNTHEATRE.ORG
AUG. 24-25FAITH COUNTY AUDITIONS: Auditions will be held for Faith County—a “hilarious tale of a small town county fair”—at 7pm at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Men and women from 18 to 60 are invited to try out.
820-8406 OR CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG
WED., AUG. 26PIPPI AUDITIONS: META Performing Arts will hold auditions for Pippi Long-stocking from 6-9pm at the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. Prepare a one-min-ute song and a one-minute monologue.
(360) 466-3072
THURS., AUG. 20FOURTH CORNER FOLK: Meet up with the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers from 7-10pm every Thursday at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. Forest St.
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FRI., AUG. 21YOUNG DANCERS: Kids who took part in the “Dance Academy for Youth” this month will show off what they’ve learned with a free showcase at 7:30pm at West-ern Washington University’s Old Main Theatre.
650-6146
SAT., AUG. 22STRINGBAND SQUARE DANCE: The Foghorn Stringband will perform during a Square Dance happening from 9-11pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. Lucas Hicks will be doing the calling. En-try is $5.
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Last Comic Standing winner Jon Reep joins another funny fella, Adam Ferrara, for two nights of hilarity Aug. 21-22 at the Skagit Valley Casino Resort
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WED., AUG. 19DOCENTS WANTED: Applications are now being accepted for the Whatcom Museum’s new docent program, which is being de-veloped in anticipation of the November opening of the new Lightcatcher Building. If you’re interested in being an informed guide, training begins after Labor Day.
778-8938 OR [email protected]
FRI., AUG. 21GARDEN GA-GA: Skagit Artists Together and the Museum of Northwest Art pres-ent “Garden GA-GA Skagit” from 4-9pm at Mount Vernon’s Juntunen Farm & Gardens, 18091 Burkland Rd. Tickets are $30 and in-clude appetizers, garden tours, artists in action, live music and dancing. Proceeds benefit Seattle Children’s Hospital.
(360) 336-6114 OR SKAGIT.ORG
SAT., AUG. 22ART AT THE WINERY: More than 50 lo-cal art vendors will have their wares avail-able to peruse and purchase at “Art at the Winery” from 10am-5pm at Blaine’s Dakota Creek Winery, 3575 Haynie Rd. Wine tast-ings, food and live music will be part of the event.
820-4752 OR DAKOTACREEKWINERY.COM
MINSON TALK: Seattle glass artist James Minson will be available to talk about his work and his current exhibit from 12-4pm at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
(360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
ALLIED ARTS: “Perspectives & Presenta-tion, Chapter 1: Landscapes,” part of the 2009 Juried Artist Series, can be seen until Aug. 28 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
676-8548 OR ALLIEDARTS.ORG
ARTWOOD: “Something Fishy” and Doug Hudson’s “Fall Run” will be shown through August at Artwood, 1000 Harris Ave.
647-1628
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Com-mercial St.
393-7540
BIG FAT FISH: “Natural Splendor,” featur-ing artists from Bellingham to Long Beach, shows through October at the Big Fat Fish Co., 1304 12th St.
733-2284
BLUE HORSE: An eclectic collection of current works by local artists Mira Kamada, Steve Satushek, Joy Olney, Shirley Erickson, and others can be seen through Aug. 28 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
671-2305 OR BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM
GALLERY CYGNUS: Works by potter Al-lan Moe and painter Michael Clough can be viewed until Sept. 27 at La Connor’s Gallery Cygnus (formerly Gallery 109), 109 Com-mercial St.
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GOOD EARTH: Patricia Morse’s hand- and coil-built stoneware and porcelain will be featured through August at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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Painting the TownTHIS IS NOT A SIDEWALK SALE
“I LOVE this look down Holly Street where the road dips down and shows the other side of town,” says artist Jennifer Schwartz as she stands on the sidewalk in front of her large easel near the intersection where the downtown hub connects with Bay Street. “I think it’s one of the quintessential Bellingham views.”
The YouTube video highlighting Schwartz and a handful of the dozens of art-ists who took part in last summer’s Plein Air Paint Out makes it clear the annual event—now in its fourth year—is about a lot more than creating pretty pictures of the place we call home. It’s also about making art public by bringing attention to the creators who live and work downtown. It’s about making sure people know that those who add to the city’s art scene are cultural contributors who help make Bellingham unique.
Studio UFO’s Trish Harding, the mastermind behind the outdoor painting soiree, wants to keep it that way. She created the event because she wants to make sure artists continue to have affordable working spaces as Bellingham edges ever closer to gentrification and thought the Paint Out was a way to keep the dialogue flowing in a lot of different directions. Those who are painting in the outdoor spaces are en-couraged to talk to passerby, and she’s also hoping spectators ask questions, come by for a second look to see how the progress of the paintings is going and, come
November, check out the resulting exhibit at the Blue Horse Gallery.
“Artists are one of the reasons down-town Bellingham is so attractive,” Harding says. “We don’t want hand-outs; we just want building and galler-ies we can afford, and then we can sustain ourselves. We don’t need hard-wood floors. We don’t need pristine walls.”
Harding acknowl-edges the city has worked with her to make the event a success, and hopes they continue to do so. Last year they received a Small and Simple Grant to help advertise PAPO, and Mayor Dan Pike has been more than willing to sit down with local artists and listen to their concerns.
This weekend, as many as 100 artists will, rain or shine, set up their easels, canvases and painting supplies and at-tempt to capture their visions. Their only mandate is to be visible to the public and to paint what they see, whether it’s an abstract vision of Bellingham Bay, the towering visage of the Whatcom Museum and its many turrets, a bearded guy lounging on a bench on Holly Street, the bustling universe of the Bellingham Farmers Market or a brick wall with an alder tree growing out of it, like artist Ron Pattern chose last year.
“I love to paint—and to see other art-ists paint—outside,” Harding says. “You have to be totally in the moment, be-cause in the next moment everything changes; the clouds, the birds. It’s like a sundial, almost. You have to go with the air, the rain and the wind. You chase your painting, if you have to.”
WHAT: Plein Air Paint OutWHEN: 10am-3pm, Aug. 22-23WHERE: Down-town BellinghamCOST: $35 for par-ticipating artistsINFO: 319-6115 or studioufo.net
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Bellingham artist Ruthie V’s PAPO submission won last year’s “People’s Choice Award”
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INSIGHTS: Works by oil painters Suzanne Anderson and Liana Bennett and photog-rapher David Grant Best will show until Aug. 27 at Insights Gallery, 516 Commer-cial Ave., Anacortes.
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LUCIA DOUGLAS: An inventory show featuring works by gallery artists is on display through Aug. 28 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. Until then, the space is only open by appointment, so call ahead.
733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
MINDPORT: “Playing in 3 Dimensions: Rhythms of Texture, Color and Scale” will be shown until Sept. 15 at Mindport Ex-hibits, 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2.
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MONA: “Elusive Elements” and Ellen Sol-lod’s “Lake Washington Palimpsest” shows until Oct. 4 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
(360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
PAPERDOLL: View “MashUp,” a new col-lection of small drawings and wall-based sculptures by Tal Conner, through Sept. 3 at the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St.
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QUILT MUSEUM: The Fidalgo Island Quil-ters’ “Color Me Wearable” exhibit and “The Fiber Quest” can be viewed through Sept. 27 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Mu-seum, 703 S. 2nd St. Admission is $5.
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SEASIDE GALLERY: “Painting the Town,” an exhibit by members of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, shows until Aug. 31 at La Conner’s Seaside Gallery, 112 Morris St.
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SKAGIT MUSEUM: Peruse “Harvesting the Light: Images of Contemporary Skagit Farm Life” at La Conner’s Skagit County Histori-cal Museum, 501 S. 4th St. Entry is $3.
(360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNTY.NET
SMITH & VALLEE: Bellingham artist Todd Horton’s “Future Perfect” can be viewed from 11am-5pm every Wed.-Sun. through Aug. 30. Sculptures by David Eisenhour are also on display.
(360) 305-4892 OR SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
VILLAGE BOOKS: See different visions of “Home” at the Readings Gallery through August at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “On a Grand Scale” and “ARTIFACTual: The Object In View” are currently on display at the Whatcom Mu-seum, 121 Prospect St.
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SHE DROPPED the tidbit of news so casually, it took a couple of seconds for what she was telling me to register: “Cave Singers are doing an in-store here on Aug. 21.” The “here” she was speaking of was Everyday Music, and the free, all-ages show she was alerting me to is part of a trio of such outings the Seattle band is scheduled to play to celebrate the release of their second album, Welcome Joy.
I don’t recall what my response was, but I do know the exchange had enough of a surreal quality to it that I almost thought I’d imag-ined the whole thing—until later that night when I pulled the busi-ness card I’d scrawled the pertinent details on out of my pocket. Only then, did my excitement begin to mount.
While it’s certainly not unheard of for a band to celebrate the release of an album by playing a set at a record store, it is a bit more unusual for said band to do so without an attendant bar show to follow shortly thereafter. Typically, an in-store serves as a sort of warm-up for the “real” show to come, and as a way for bands to check an all-ages obligation or two off the list. But when the Cave Singers drop by Everyday Music, the show there will be
LOOK, I AM trying not to take it personally that all my favorite Bellingham bands are breaking up, but, frankly, it’s getting difficult. Seriously, bands, WTF? I get it that people and lives and circumstances change. But why does it have to come at the expense of my musical enjoyment? I don’t ask you for much, bands. Get it together.
The breakup du jour that spawned the above rant is that of the Russians. If word on the street is to be believed, this parting of the ways is a geographic one and has been per-colating for some time, so it comes as little surprise that their show Sept. 5 at the Wild Buf-falo will be the band’s last. Along with this unfortunate news come breakup rumors concerning two of my other most favorite local bands (I would name them, but I will announce no breakup be-fore its time).
However, as if to remind me that it’s not always called a breakup because it’s broken, comes word that Lands Farther East has been talking about staging a reunion of sorts. In the in-terest of perfect honesty, it should be noted that I’ve been talking to Lands Farther East about this more than they’ve likely spoken to each other, but the idea itself did originate with the band. Figuring out how to make it happen, however, could prove difficult, with Josh Goodman stubbornly insisting on liv-ing in Seattle (he also made the claim that relearning all that intricately precise math rock might be biting off more than he can chew, but I think he’s just underestimating his skill set). But if I can make this happen through sheer force of gossip and will, it shall be done.
Which brings us to this question: What do you get when you mix two-thirds of Federa-tion X (three-quarters if you count sometime Fed X member Josh Holland) with a healthy dash of Black Eyes and Neckties? Why, you get a little band called Masters of the Unitard. The band is comprised of Fed X’s Beau Boyd and Ben Wildenhaus, who have spent the past several months or more in a bicoastal frenzy of joint music making. More recently, Beau enlisted the talents of BENt’s Rich Canut and Josh Holland to round out the band, and, with Ben back from New York for an extended visit, Masters of the Unitard will finally see the light of day. They’ll play two shows in Bellingham—the first is all-ages and takes place Thurs., Aug. 20 at an easily discerned downtown destina-tion, and the second happens just two days later at the Cabin Tavern with Wooden Wings and Cheetah Speed—and then Ben will depart for the East Coast and presumably Masters of the Unitard will lie dormant once again. Hope to see you there.
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the only one they’re slated to play in town, before heading back to Seattle, to an upcoming Bumbershoot show and an extensive tour to follow.
But, as their history has shown, the Cave Singers don’t make it common prac-tice to traffic in that which can be con-sidered “typical.” They’re the band that signed a record deal—with uber-indie powerhouse Matador, no less—before they’d even completed their first album, 2007’s excellent Invitation Songs. Said album features the oft-commented-upon and distinctively compelling guitar work of a man who, by his own admission as well as those of his bandmates, doesn’t know how to play the guitar. However, in
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WED., AUG. 19PIANO CELEBRATION: Jeremy DesChane gives his ninth annual brown bag piano recital at a free per-formance at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. Bring your lunch along, if you so desire.
FOR MORE INFO: WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
THURS., AUG. 20JAZZ TUNES: Carolyn McCarthy, Jeff Reier, and Mark Woodward will perform a free concert featuring a va-riety of jazz tunes from 6-8pm at the Community Food Co-op’s Swan Café, 1220 N. Forest St.
FOR MORE INFO: 734-8158
DAGWOODS: Listen to rock, blues and pop tunes when the Dagwoods give a free show from 6-8pm at Bellingham’s Elizabeth Park.
FOR MORE INFO: 778-7000
SAT., AUG. 22 HOT CONCERT: Raise funds for the Bellingham Youth Jazz Band at a “Hot August Jazz” concert taking place from 4-6pm at the American Museum of Radio & Electricity, 1312 Bay St. The concert will feature high school musician Alex Roemelle, band director Mark Kelley, Mark Hunter, and Julieanne Thomas. Tickets are $10.
FOR MORE INFO: JAZZPROJECT.ORG
SUN., AUG. 23 INSPIRATION JAMBOREE: Live music by the Coun-try Messengers, root bear floats and jaw-dropping scenery will be part of a free “Inspiration Jamboree” from 1-5pm at Woodstock Farm on Chuckanut Drive.
FOR MORE INFO: COB.ORG
SWING CONNECTION: The 18-piece Swing Connec-tion Big Band performs from 2-4pm on the Fairhaven Village Green. Admission is by donation.
FOR MORE INFO: SWINGCONNECTION.ORG
ASIAN CONCERT SERIES: Roger Del Rosario and Filipiniana Arts and Culture perform traditional music and dance of the Philippines as part of the free Peace Arch Asian Concert Series at 2pm at Peace Arch State Park.
FOR MORE INFO: PEACEARCHPARK.ORG
TUES., AUG. 25BROWN BAG: Pianist Chris Davis performs a free concert featuring classical classics at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
FOR MORE INFO: WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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what has to be the biggest incongruity of this band, it features two members with an impeccable post-punk pedigree (not to mention one decidedly proggy drummer)—Derek Fudesco of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Murder City Devils on the aforementioned guitar, Pete Quirk of Hint Hint holding down vocal duties, and former Cobra High drummer Marty Lund—cranking out languorous, sensitive folk music.
Much has been made of this turn for the anachro-nistic these former rockers have tak-en—right down to the beardedness that has them drawing more than just musical comparisons to their like-haired brethren in Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses. And, much like those musical counterparts, to sim-ply categorize the music of the Cave Singers as “folk” is dismissive, if not downright deceptive.
The songs of the Cave Singers, while they might have the sensi-tive, stripped-down feel of tradi-tional folk, tend to be more per-sonal—and tougher to pigeonhole. In some ways, despite their odd origins and unschooled lead guitar player, the Cave Singers sound ex-actly like what they are: a bunch of hairy dudes who claim to never have listened to folk picking their way through notes and chords to make music that sounds right to them, regardless of how it may be labeled by anyone else. It’s folk by way of Quirk’s New Jersey roots and Fudesco’s post-punk past, distilled through a million jam sessions that sound as though they should’ve taken place around a roaring campfire during a dark night. Should’ve, but probably didn’t. Because when it comes to the Cave Singers, nothing happens quite like it should.
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WHO: Cave SingersWHEN: 6pm Fri., Aug. 21WHERE: Everyday Music, 115 E. Magnolia St.COST: FreeMORE INFO:myspace.com/thecavesingers
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Foghorn StringbandTHERE’S NO DANCE LIKE A SQUARE DANCE
ALTHOUGH LUCAS Hicks was responsible for single-handedly starting a square-dance revolution in Bellingham not long ago, it’s been an entire year since the musician has called a square dance. However, he wasn’t so much in retirement as he was waiting for a good enough ex-cuse to lead folks through the intricacies of the do-si-do and allemande left.
It seems as though Hicks has found his reason in Portland’s Foghorn Stringband, who will pay a visit Sat., Aug. 22 to the YWCA to provide the sound-track to a night filled with the sweet sounds of old-time mu-sic and the simple delights of square dancing.
Hicks made it clear he
wouldn’t end his square-dance hiatus for just anyone. Rather, it was the musical prowess of the Foghorn Stringband—a band Hicks says has inspired many current practitioners of the old-timey arts—that lured him back to his old square-dance stomping grounds.
And not a moment too soon. Consider this an apt warm-up for the upcoming Subdued Stringband Jambo-ree or just a reason to dust off that gingham skirt and fluff your petticoats. Then get ready to bow to your partner and bow to your corner.
Square Dance with Foghorn Stringband will take place at 9pm Sat., Aug. 22 at the YWCA, 1026 N. Forest St. Cost: $7-$10 suggested donation.
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filmREVIEWS F ILM T IMES
EVERYTHING IS an allusion, a pose, in the films of Quentin Tarantino, right down to the font and colors he uses for his title se-quences. More curator than creator, Tarantino’s overbearing cinephilia appeals to audiences who not only lost it at the movies but also can’t seem to live without them: From Reservoir Dogs to his Kill Bill diptych, Tarantino’s films are solipsistic totems to his favorite things, and even when I’ve liked them (Jackie Brown) they’ve still managed to make me feel suffocated—as if I were being cornered at a party by some creep whose lunatic ramblings suggest someone completely unable to talk about anything beyond the movies he’s seen and wants to make, the music he’s heard and wants to play for you and the girls he wants to fuck but doesn’t know how to talk to.
Inglourious Basterds, a WWII-set revenge fantasy about the secret, sometimes not-so-secret, maneuverings of a group of gung-ho Jew-ish-American Nazi hunters known as the Basterds, is no less meticu-lously engineered than Tarantino’s other pulp fictions, except this one is more linear and—gasp—humane than most, lush with dialogue that rings weighty even at its smuggest, and featuring women that
actually sound and feel like real women—not just men (or, more accurately, Tarantino) in drag. The film may or may not completely win over the Taran-tino naysayer, but it certainly feels like progress for the director, as it sees him moving beyond just flaunting his attention-mongering cine-geekitude: He actually seems to be scrutinizing his obsession with the cinema by cleverly placing it into an apt historical context.
Chapter one, the French countryside. Nazi colo-nel Hans Landa (a brilliantly fiendish Christoph Waltz) slinks into the home of a farmer with three bodacious daughters and a sterling command, like Landa, of the English language, sniffing for infor-mation as to the whereabouts of a missing family of Jews. Throughout this tense, impeccably craft-ed sequence, compromised only by the stupid, meaningless sight gag of Landa whipping out a
freakish smoking pipe from his jacket, Tarantino keys his roving aesthetic to the homing-missile instincts of the Nazi snake, whose twisted use of language and inflection suggests a wristwatch dangling from the fingertips of a master hypno-tist, manipulating the farmer into revealing that the Jewish family is hiding beneath his floor-boards. Violence explodes—fabulously, yes, but without trivializing the value of human life—and as a girl escapes into the distance, in a perfect stylistic and thematic homage to The Searchers, a revenge plot is set into stunning motion.
The escapee, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Lau-rent), will go on to Paris, where she will inherit a movie theater from her aunt, playing works by filmmakers whose morals repulse her but whose art she nonetheless respects. It’s easy to ponder the life and work of tragic artistic figures like Ro-man Polanski and Emil Jannings throughout this chapter, which has Shosanna catching the eye of a popular young soldier, Fredrick Zoller (Dan-iel Bruhl), who calls himself a German version of Sergeant York. Even though it is made without irony, you can see how this boast is off-putting to her, perhaps because the sincerity with which he makes the comparison is the problem: the way his belief that his heroism—revered in a propagan-da film produced by Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) that will premiere in Shosanna’s theater—is no different than York’s doesn’t take into account the concept of goodness. A lushly intriguing grap-pling with morality, ideology, nepotism, and au-thorship, the entire chapter may be the deepest Tarantino has ever gotten.
Even the film’s more gleeful, purely geek-pan-dering chapters are not without their riches. When Lt. Aldo Raine’s (Brad Pitt) Basterds are in-troduced, it’s with a pulpy artistic bluster that matches the posse’s giddy bloodlust. Deprived of homegrown cinematic entertainment during the war, their acts of violence are ways for them to stage their own movies. Would that they did it more in a style familiar with the cinema of the ’40s (their mode of expression is more Eli Roth than Jacques Tourneur), but this gripe almost becomes moot the second Eli Roth walks on screen hold-ing a bat with which he busts open Nazi heads. One walks into Inglourious Basterds expecting a certain measure of anachronism, but one doesn’t anticipate Tarantino’s surprisingly frank confes-sion—at last!—that cinema, like killing Nazis for the Basterds, is a way to live out his male wish-fulfillment fantasies.
REVIEWED BY ED GONZALEZ
Inglourious BasterdsTARANTINO TAKES ON THE NAZIS
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DeparturesTHAT’S NO TRAVEL AGENCY
LAST WINTER’S surprise foreign language Oscar winner, Departures is one of the most shameless examples of emotional manipulation I’ve seen—and one of the most effective.
Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) is a callow cellist cast adrift when his orchestra goes broke. He confesses to his wife, Mika (Ryoko Hirosue), that he’s not good enough to find another post, so they relocate to his snow-swept northern home-town and move into the modest bar his mother owned. His father, who deserted the family when Daigo was a child, is a fading memory.
A newspaper ad leads Daigo to a job with elderly Sasaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki), who “encoffins” the deceased for burial. Preparing the body entails a ritual as refined and formal as a tea ceremony. The corpse is tenderly eased into a resting posture, the long funeral kimono sleeves are folded just so, makeup is applied carefully, all while the mourners observe. It’s a graceful procedure that conveys a feeling of closure.
It’s also a job involving serious social stigma. Daigo can’t believe how much Sasaki will pay him to sign on at what he assumes is a travel agency. When he realizes that these departures are permanent and he’ll be handling corpses for a living, he’s aghast. He hides the details of his employment from Mika and dodges childhood friends who are appalled at his new position.
People keep dying, however, and the dead need tending. Daigo grows ac-customed to the work and begins taking pride in the service he provides, while gruff, good-hearted Sasaki becomes a sort of father-surrogate to the younger man. When Mika learns how Daigo earns their keep, she bolts.
Daigo, who has begun playing again on his old beginner’s cello, finds unex-pected serenity in his craft. He has the soul of an artist, and now he has the craft that enables him to express it. He matures and learns humility, just as the film evolves from dodgy dark comedy in its opening scenes to touching drama.
As the town’s elderly characters come under his care, Daigo comes to accept that impermanence, grief and loss are basic conditions of every life. His calm professionalism offers solace to the bereaved, just as his musicianship soothed his audiences. Mika comes to respect his newfound soulfulness, as do we. And when he gently prepares the body of a loved one—well, I’m not ashamed to admit I had tears pooling in my collarbone.
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BY CAREY ROSS
FILM SHORTSBandslam: Vanessa Hudgens (she of the High School Musical franchise and the nude photo scandals) flexes her musical muscles once again, this time as the leader of I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On (possibly the worst band name in history), a band with the skills for success—if they can overcome all the obstacles in their path. ★★★
Departures: See review previous page. ★★★★ (PG-
Distr ict 9: Proof that a movie with a cast of un-knowns, helmed by an untried director, made on a shoestring budget in an often-tricky genre (sci-fi) does stand a chance against all those Hollywood mega-blockbusters. Score one for the little guy—and those kibble-eating aliens. ★★★★★
(500) Days of Summer: This movie stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and soon-to-be Mrs. Ben Gibbard, Zooey Deschanel, which pretty much makes it the must-see, super-hip indie romance of the summer. I’m guessing it comes complete with a killer sound-track to boot. ★★★★
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: As a youth, I used to watch G.I. Joe cartoons before venturing outside to blow up the attendant action figures with firecrack-ers. However, neither the cartoon soldiers nor their plastic counterparts were near as foxy as the silver-screen version of the “real American hero” (played by Channing Tatum), so were I to come across him, it is unlikely he would suffer the same fate. ★★★
G-Force: Not long ago, I wrote a summer movie pre-view in which I mentioned this film, which is about a group of highly trained guinea pigs that must stop a diabolical billionaire who plans to take over the world using household appliances. Several of you ac-
cused me of making this up. I did not. And here’s the proof. ★★★
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard: I know very little about this movie except that it stars Jeremy
Ari Gold mode. If that’s the case, sign me up. ★★★
The Hangover: Sure, Bradley Cooper is the break-out star of this decidedly funny movie—and well he should be after laboring in semi-obscurity in a number of supporting roles on television as well as film—but none other than Mike Tyson might be the scene stealer in this show with his rendition of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” Oh, Iron Mike, what will you do next? ★★★★
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Harry Potter gets darker and deeper in the sixth install-ment of this, the highest-grossing movie franchise in Hollywood history. I’d divulge a few plot points, but you’ve all read the books. You know. ★★★★ (PG
The Hurt Locker: Ever wonder who has the unen-viable task of disarming all those roadside bombs in Iraq? This inspired-by-actual-events story takes a look at the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Dis-posal squad and their struggle to make the streets of Baghdad safer for everyone. ★★★★
I Puritani: Following five years of extraordinary success with La Sonnambula, Norma and Beatrice di Tenda, I Puritani is the last opera written by a young
of the transition from lyrical classicism to the pas-sion of romanticism. ★★★★★
min.)
Inglourious Basterds: See review previous page. ★★★★
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: This is the big--
plete with a star turn by Donald Sutherland—not to mention all those pesky pod folks who insist upon taking everything over. ★★★★★
Julie & Julia: I’m still not OK with bloggers getting book deals, but now they’re invading Hollywood, too? Seriously, my cat does some pretty clever stuff. Let’s give her a three-picture deal with Paramount and see what develops. ★★★
A Perfect Getaway: Here, let me lay out the plot -
tion on a remote island. Giggle, giggle, giggle, fol-lowed by gratuitous swimsuit shots of the women. One of them is a killer. Blood, blood, blood, followed by death, death, death. Apparently there’s some sort of twist at the end. Boring, boring, boring. ★
Ponyo: Sure, this animated adventure stars charac-ters voiced by the likes of Tiny Fey and Matt Damon. It’s also based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” But really all you need to know is that Hayao Miyazaki directed it, which is more than reason enough to see it. ★★★★
Post Grad: Alexis Bledel, who is sort of like the mainstream Ellen Page, plays a recent college gradu-ate dealing with all those issues recent college grads deal with, but with more humor, less pathos and, presumably, a happy Hollywood ending. ★★
Shorts: Robert Rodriguez—the man who brought us Sin City and the El Mariachi trilogy, as well as the Spy Kids franchise—is back to making movies for the younger set. This one involves a kid named Toe, a company town and a wish-granting rock. It’s no crime-fighting guinea pigs, but, then again, what is? ★★★
The Time Traveler ’s Wife: If you’re in a book club,
book this movie was based on. If not, this treacly story of the romance between a man who flits be-tween eras and the woman who loves him in spite of it will be new to you. Either way, don’t say I didn’t warn you. ★★
The Ugly Truth: Featuring Katherine Heigl and Ge-rard Butler, this is a played-out, battle-of-the-sexes rom-com starring two folks who should really know better. Which sort of makes The Ugly Truth both a title and its own punch line. Clever, that. ★★
Vicky Cr istina Barcelona: The Chuckanut Radio Hour, with special guest Randy Sue Coburn, takes over this installment of the Fairhaven Outdoor Cine-ma with their blend of poetry, music and interviews. Following that will be music by Brother Dalton’s Euphonic Elixir, which will be followed, in turn, by Woody Allen’s sexy, big-hearted, Oscar-winning film. ★★★★★
Whatever Works: This is a Woody Allen film. Know-ing that, regardless of what it’s about or who is in it, will, I’m guessing, be the main impetus behind whether or not you see it. That said, this one stars Larry David and sees the prolific filmmaker returning to his beloved New York City. ★★★
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THE ADVICE GODDESSSQUEAK TRUTH TO POWER An incident with a bodyworker and another with my husband have me ques-tioning everything. Upon entering the bodyworker’s apartment, you see a bunch of nude photos of him. He makes you strip to your underwear and stand there while he “evaluates” your body structure. He seems to cross certain professional boundaries that should be in place to make women feel safe. When I mentioned this, he got incredibly offended and said it was my issue. Am I crazy? Prudish? My husband, who I’ve found myself support-ing financially since we married six months ago, also made me feel like the crazy one. He just moved out—after inform-ing me that my 6-year-old daughter has an energy field that shocks him and that she “can’t connect with the divine.” Am I doing something to cause this stuff? Why can’t my husband just love me or be kind? —Bewildered
Going along with whatever you’re told can really muck up your life (or your afterlife, if you believe in that sort of thing). Take the jihadists. They’re told they’ll go to heaven if they blow them-selves and a bunch of other people up for Allah. As for what they’ll get upon arrival, it’s 72...well...it turns out there’s some dispute about the translation: It’s
either 72 virgins or 72 white raisins. Meanwhile, back at bodyworker
ranch and nudie museum, you, too, were just following orders. Like too many women, you can sense trouble, but care more about not seeming like trouble. You finally hinted that you were uncomfortable, but he only had to get huffy, and your self-doubt made you quick to give him the benefit of the doubt. Being so compliant doesn’t just lead to creepy experiences but to dangerous or deadly ones.
Unfortunately, your actions don’t just affect you; there’s the love child of Adolf Hitler and Freddy Krueger (also known as your 6-year-old). Not only does your new husband believe, sans evidence, in utter crap, he weaponizes it and uses it against your kid. Now, it’d be one thing if he’d pointed out little Priscilla skinning the neighbor’s cat. Instead, he announces that her “ener-gy field” is “shocking” (pink?) and she “can’t connect with the divine.” Please. Whatever “the divine” is, she’s 6. She can barely connect with silverware.
You end up in these situations be-cause you have the ability to reason but you live like meat meandering through life. Your husband didn’t be-come a mean mooch; he always was one. Why are you only noticing now? Figure out who you are and what you value, then develop the self-respect to stand up for it. It beats believing ev-erybody but you is a guru. That’s the kind of thinking that’ll have you tak-ing your daughter in to have her “aura” steam-cleaned.
REAR END AMY ALKON
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you weren’t listened to very attentively as a child. Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn’t like, hugged only three times a year, and fed food you were allergic to. I suppose it’s even possible that your parents were psychotic drug dealers who kept you chained to a radiator in their squalid basement. If that’s the case, Aries, I would understand if you had an urge to devote the next three decades to bewailing your bitter past and scheming up ways to wreak revenge on the cruel world. But if you have ever been curious about whether there might be better ways to allocate your time and energy, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have it in your power to overcome your toughest memories and set out on a course to become almost as secure as if those bad things had never happened.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s say you’re listen-ing to your favorite band on a stereo system. There is a place between the two speakers where you will hear the two streams of music blend perfectly, exactly as the sound engineer intended. This place is called the sweet spot. If you play tennis or baseball, you know about another version of the term “sweet spot.” It’s the area on the racquet or the bat where you get best results when striking the ball. According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, this will be your ruling metaphor for the next three weeks. You have arrived at your very own sweet spot—the embodiment of all that is melodious, graceful, delicious, aromatic and effective.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Squirrels often bury the nuts they find, intending to come back and retrieve their bounty at a later time. The only trouble is, they sometimes forget where their hiding places are, and the nuts go uneaten. This, at least, is the story told by children’s book writer Beatrice Potter, and I regard her as an authority on such matters. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because you’re entering a phase when it will be wise for you to track down and accumulate extra reserves of a prime resource. As you do, make sure you remember all the pertinent details that will allow you to fully access them when you need them in the future.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): For better or worse, you are at least temporarily becoming more psychic. It could be a blessing, or it might be a bit of a burden. You may really enjoy having an enhanced ability to tune in to what people are thinking and feeling, and it could prove eminently useful. Knowing what’s really on everyone’s mind might give you a significant edge as you work to turn grand fantasies into well-grounded realities. But it also might tax your empathy or tempt you to ignore boundaries that should be upheld. I hope that by informing you of this situation, I have made it far more likely that your higher sensitivity will be a gift instead of a glitch.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your strategies are very close to working. The results you’ve generated so far are almost useful, bordering on successful, and on the brink of being beautiful. My question now is: You won’t stop here, will you? You’ve already garnered a measure of recognition. You’ve gotten a taste of victory over your old bugaboos. Will you be satisfied with these partial breakthroughs, or will you fight and kick and scratch to strip away the almosts and ascend to utter triumph?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No more rotten des-sert, Virgo. No more silky danger or juicy poison. No more worthless treasures or empty successes or idiotic brilliance. Soon all those crazy-making experiences will be gone, blasted, dead. By this time next week, the
bad influences that were trying to pass themselves off as good influences will have fallen away in response to your courageous drive for authenticity. You will be primed to restore your innocence and play in places where purity is the rule, not the exception. Already, the wisdom of your wild heart is regenerating, giving you the strength to overthrow the sour, life-hating influ-ences that were threatening to smother your spirit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An epic treasure hunt will soon begin. Are you ready for it? I don’t think you are. To get yourself in shape to perform at a high level, I suggest that you open your mind wider than you ever have before. The clues that will be most helpful won’t resemble any clues you’ve ever valued in the past, and they’ll be arriving from unforeseen sources. I’ll give you a hint about what to look for in the early going of the quest for the magic boon: What circumstance in your life has a certain metaphorical similarity to a speakeasy during the time when alcohol sales were illegal in America?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s not a favorable moment to get your honey’s name tattooed on your forearm. Maybe in November, but not now. On the other hand, it’s an excellent time to determine whether your lover is willing to have your name tattooed on his or her forearm. In the coming weeks, I also encourage you to figure out which of your allies would give you half of their fudge brownie and which wouldn’t; which authority figures would be inclined to give you precise-ly what you want rather than see you walk out of their lives; and which of your associates are too jealous of you to be truly helpful. Be cagey about how you apply the tests, Scorpio. See if you can subtly gauge where everyone stands in relationship to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’d like to dis-cuss The Game. Do you know what I mean? I’m talking about The Unnamed Game. The Uber-Game that is so vast and all-encompassing that it’s virtually a secret. What if you discovered that one of the seemingly sacrosanct rules of The Game was really just a local ordinance, and no longer applied if you played in a different arena or at a higher level? And what if I said that in this different arena or higher level, new allies are poised to introduce you to loopholes and shortcuts you never imagined existed?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I think you’ve been lurking and slinking long enough, Capricorn. For now, you’ve learned all you need to know about wrestling with camouflage and subterfuge. You’ve done all you could to clean up the crooked places and bring integrity to the twisted stories. Now it’s high time for you to come out and play—to exit the claustrophobic maze and make a break for wide-open spaces. Some cautionary advice: To keep from getting pinched by trick endings, make sure all sales are final and all good-byes are complete.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Technically, this would be an excellent time to shuck all your responsi-bilities and plunge into a week-long bacchanalia, com-plete with rowdy feasting and delirious dancing and lunatic laughter and erotic abandon and mind-altering emotions. Realistically, though, while such an interlude might do wonders for your relationship with yourself, it could dampen your relationships with people who rely on you. Unless of course you could coax them into joining you on your binge.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Did you ever notice that some people seem to be addicted to falling in love over and over again? While they may truly have a natural propensity to exult in the beauty of a great variety of their fellow humans, I also suspect that their addiction serves as an excuse for them to fall in love with themselves over and over again. At least in part, each new romantic partner is a pawn in their strategy for coming back home to themselves. Here’s what I’m inclined to ask these people: Why not simply eliminate the middleman or middlewoman? I’m not necessarily implying that you’ll benefit from this advice right now, Pisces. But then why did a soft, lulling voice in my head just suggest that I tell it to you?
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EVER ENJOY eating something so much that you wind up eating so much of it you can’t even taste it anymore?
Same thing happens to me sometimes when I accidentally spend too much time im-mersed in the forests, beaches and mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
Psychologists refer to such sensory impairment as “habituation” and the most immediate remedy for this condition is to get the hell out of Dodge for a while—shock the palate back to life with a fresh dose of gastro-cultural perspective.
Not owning an automobile anymore has enriched my life with a multitude of environ-mental and socioeconomic benefits. But being able to take off on road trip whenever the fancy strikes me is not one.
In order to break through the Far Corner’s indomitable magnetic pull, I have been ready and willing to take whatever motorized travel opportunities happen to come my way.
Such was the case when I recently volunteered to help relocate my lady friend’s gour-mand 73-year-old father from Hazard, Ky. to Lummi Island.
Admittedly, balling that jack across the country behind the wheel of a 27-foot Penske moving truck might not be everyone’s idea of the most stress-free mode of de-confinement therapy, but for me it was just what the doctor ordered.
This 10-state 2,900-mile regime of self-administered shocks began in a location just
about as opposite from the health-obsessed environmentally con-scious Pacific Northwest as any: central Appalachia.
As coal trucks rumbled down the roads at will and the rivers ran foul with brown toxic sludge, I found myself shopping in grocery stores where more than half the bread aisle consisted exclusively of jum-bo-sized packages of glazed dough-nut-like confections called “honey buns” and the meat aisle consisted exclusively of steak, salt pork and pickled eggs.
Through a miraculous Herculean effort, we managed to get the truck loaded as fast as the crippling hu-midity and Maker’s Mark allowed and struck northward into the Ohio River valley where—upon reaching the residence of my passenger’s el-dest brother—I was finally able to sink my fangs into a veritable feed lot of the Corn Belt’s finest farm-fresh roughage.
Next day, with the muggy Mid-western temperature hovering in the mid-80s and our average speed topping out at a solid 75-80 mph, Indiana and Illinois shot by in a shimmering yellow-green blur of crops and cows.
However, that night, things took a nasty turn in Wisconsin.
Harried by road construction and pummeled by tornado-producing thunder showers, we limped into a town called Tomah where it took us the better part of a tense, irascible hour just trying to locate the Su-per 8 through a shadowy morass of gun dealers, taxidermy shops and cheese curd stands.
It was only thanks to our mutual high regard for each other that we didn’t come to blows.
Fortunately, other than the mas-sive bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic of the Twin Cities, all I seem to remember of Minnesota is strug-
gling through a piece of rhubarb pie ala mode about as big as a tractor tire and an endless patchwork of small, tidy-looking family farms.
North Dakota greeted us warmly with its trademark infinite expanse. However, since the overbooked ho-tels in Bismarck could offer us no quarter, we had to decamp to Man-dan, where we just barely eked out a full night’s rest tucked between the noisiest roadhouse on earth and the greasiest greasy-spoon breakfast joint of all time.
Gradually, as civilization thinned out into the rangelands of eastern Montana, I was reduced to a des-perate gas station diet of cheese-burgers, Diet Coke and popcorn.
Increasingly lethargic and rap-idly succumbing to the throes of dehydration, if it wasn’t for the all-you-can eat salad bar at the Flying J truck stop in Billings, it is highly unlikely my digestive system would have lasted until the next available salad bar in Livingston.
I don’t care what cartographers say, as far as cross country road trips are concerned, the food and culture of the Pacific Northwest be-gins in earnest somewhere around Missoula and continues unabated all the way to the coast.
After nearly running out of gas in the middle of the Idaho panhandle, I threaded a fast and furious bee-line from Spokane to Moses Lake to Snoqualmie Pass unable to think of little else other than treating my-self to a plate of tasty-fresh nigiri or even just pulling off at the Alger exit for a decent pound of jo-jos.
The vast and varied agricultural face of our nation was rapidly re-ceding through the rearview mirror and I could smell ocean in the air. True, we still had a couple hours to go, but my appetite for all things Northwest was back full force.
My recovery was complete.
BY TRAIL RAT
Taste of America2,900 MILES OF FARM-FRESH FLAVOR
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