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WEDNESDAYON STAGE
Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
MUSICCommunity Chorus: 7pm, Moles Funeral Home Three Wise Guys: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Gravitas Quartet: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
01.29.09
THURSDAYSTAGE
The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com-munity Church Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE Folk Dance: 7:30-10pm, Fairhaven Library
WORDS Leslie Walker Williams: 7pm, Village Books
VISUAL ARTS Trespassing Talk: 5:30pm, Fairhaven Presen-tation Hall, WWU
01.30.09
FRIDAYON STAGE
Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com-munity Church Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU The Flying Karamozov Brothers: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Upfront Unleashed: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
DANCE Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Cancer Bash: 9-12pm, Elks Lodge #194
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A glance at what’s happening this week
CREATIVE COSTUMES AND A DASH OF HUMOR CAN BE SEEN WHEN THE MODERN DANCE COLLECTIVE KNOWN AS PILOBOLUS GETS PHYSICAL FEB. 3 AT THE MOUNT BAKER THEATRE
MUSICShemekia Copeland: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon
VISUAL ARTS War Experience Project: 6-10pm, iGallery
01.31.09
SATURDAYON STAGE
Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com-munity Church Cheat: 7:30pm and 10:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Theatresports: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
WORDS Student Sampler: 7pm, Whatcom Museum
COMMUNITY Chili for Children: 12-4pm, Chuckanut Brewery Family Festival: 1-9pm, Old Foundry
GET OUT Chuckanut Run: 9am, North Chuckanut Mt. Trailhead Work Party: 9am-12pm, Whatcom Falls Park
VISUAL ARTS Jim Orvik, Robert Gigliotti: 5-7pm, Lucia Douglas Gallery
02.01.09
SUNDAYON STAGE
Sherlock Holmes: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
DANCE Scandinavian Dance: 2-5pm, Norway Hall Stage Match: 3pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
MUSICDueling Duos: 3pm, Amadeus ProjectAnne Feeney: 7pm, Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
MONICA RODERO AND DAN SCHUCHART TEAM UP WITH THE CODY RIVERS FELLAS FOR A THEATRICAL DANCE COLLABORATION DUBBED “STAGE MATCH” JAN. 30-FEB. 1 AT THE FIREHOUSE. PH
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COMMUNITY Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange Laughter Club: 4pm, Community Food Co-op
GET OUT Super Bowl Run: 1pm, Fairhaven Runners
02.02.09
MONDAY WORDS
Poetry Night: 8:30pm, 1426 Cornwall Ave.
GET OUT Boating Skills Class: 6:30pm, Salvation Army Center
02.03.09
TUESDAYON STAGE
Variety Show: 7pm, Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co.
DANCE Pilobolus: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
WORDS John Graham: 7pm, Village Books
TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND DETAILS TO [email protected]
sculptures by Robert Gigliotti can be viewed alongside landscape paintings by Jim Orvik starting Jan. 31 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Clarifications
6: Retiring words
8: Bookish pursuits
10: Last week’s news
11: Police scanner
ART & LIFE 12: Cowboys and dinosaurs
14: Stormy adventures
15: Cheat sheet
16: Art and activism
18: What’s up? A party
22: Wrestlers and spies
REAR END 25: Help Wanted, Wellness
26: Advice Goddess
27: Troubletown, Ogg’s World, Crossword
28: This Modern World, Tom The Dancing Bug
29: Free Will Astrology
30: Midnight munchies
THIS ISSUE
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CONTENTS CREDITS LET TERS
TEA TIMEJust read Grace Jackson’s
lovely article on the art of tea.I first learned to make tea
while living in North Van-couver, B.C. My neighbor was very strict. Loose tea only. Never put boiling water on tea leaves. While the water is getting hot, warm the tea pot with some of it. Swirl it around and pour it out. Bring the wa-ter just to a boil, because if it boils long the oxygen will be boiled away and the tea will be flat tasting.
Offering a cup of tea to someone is a true gift of peace and tranquility. People become still and relax. Very nice atmosphere for chatting and laughter.
Also, thank you for the tea biscuit recipe. Simple and tasty.
—Colleen Marie, Birch Bay
SEEDS OF CHANGEI appreciated Ari Levaux’s
timely article on the winter rite of curling up with your favorite seed catalogue and trying to endure the dark months until we can be back out digging in the soil. And, I second his en-couragement to seek out com-panies who specialize in selling seeds suited to our specific cli-mate. I was surprised, however, to see mention of companies in Oregon and California with-out noting two seed compa-nies right here in northwest Washington, Uprising Seeds in Bellingham and Locally Grown Seeds/Greenheart Gardens based on Lopez Island.
Most seed companies source their seed from far and wide, and as it is a labor-intensive agricultural product, increas-ingly they are following the labor market overseas. Both Uprising and Locally Grown
seeds are not only selling va-rieties suited to our PNW cli-mate, but produce all the seeds they sell organically here in the Northwest as well. With a lot of interest over the past sev-eral years in connecting people with their local farmers, we are encouraged to see the recog-nition of locally grown seeds as being an integral part of a healthy local food system and a notion of food security.
Check for both companies at the food co-ops in Belling-ham and Mount Vernon, the Public Market and other stores throughout the Puget Sound.
—Brian Campbell,Uprising Seeds
AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION
An important distinction did not make it into my letter, “Consider the Homeless.” The revised letter explained how although a debit card could minimize cash flow and risk of robbery at motels, it may be unacceptable without a credit card logo. Meaning a debit
DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS
Once again, we failed to update the sources list to our last weekly Index.
We regret the error.
John Updike, a man The New York Times called the “lyrical writer of ordinary,” died of lung cancer Tuesday at a hospice near his Massachusetts home. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was 76, was set to release what will be his final work in early June.
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MORE ON GAZAIt might have been deep sadness for
one of the two letter writers last week to read pervious letters critical of Is-rael’s assault in Gaza; it’s with outrage that I write a reply to their often re-peated official line.
As Uri Avnery, one of the leaders in the Israeli human rights community, a former Israeli soldier, writes, “In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity be-tween the forces, between the Israeli army—with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks—and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the po-litical arena, the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.”
“Almost all the Western media ini-tially repeated the official Israeli propaganda line. They almost entirely ignored the Palestinian side of the story.... The view from the other side, that the Qassams are retaliation for the siege that starves the 1.5 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, was not mentioned at all.”
One of the writers “implore Cascadia Weekly readers to think twice before condemning Israel for legitimate self defense.” Legitimate self defense? The “missiles” stated coming from Gaza are a little more than a grenade on a rock-et. The retaliation is F-16s, made right here in the good ol’ USA.
This writer also states, “Never has a nation tried so hard to avoid inflict-ing casualties on civilians as Israel is doing now.” Give me a break. Using 155mm shells (which cause damage up to 300 meters away) in the middle of Gaza City, whatever the target, is not trying very hard. Imagine one of those landing on the bus station downtown and killing folks in Starbucks on Holly.
It’s not hard to understand “the facts.” The fact is, more than 1,300 people have been killed in Gaza, 13 in Israel, in this latest assault. Is it now 100 eyes for an eye? Fact is, 18,147 homes have been demolished in Pales-tine by Israel, zero homes in Israel by Palestine. Fact is, Palestine holds one Israel prisoner, Israel holds 10,756 Pal-estinians. Fact is, since Sept 2000 123 Israeli children have been killed, 1,050 Palestinian children have been killed.
Fact is, just one child killed in this, or any other war, is an evil tragedy that is insane.
—Terry Garrett, BellinghamEdited for length
During the Israeli attack on Gaza, Canadian TV showed white phospho-rus shells exploding in the air over buildings in the middle of the city. White phosphorus is a chemical el-ement that ignites on contact with air. It burns until it is consumed and it gives off toxic smoke. The Oxford Dictionary says it is a “waxy sub-stance.” Since it is molten, it cannot be knocked loose if a burning frag-ment falls from the sky and hits a child or a baby in the arms of a par-ent. It will burn down to the bone or until it burns itself out.
Imagine what it feels like to see a child burning and not know what to do. Water will stop the burning temporar-ily, but it will re-ignite if it is exposed to oxygen. This is one of the most hid-eous and painful weapons yet invented by the twisted mind of some perverted weapon scientist.
The Israeli people, just like every other people, are compassionate and justice-seeking. But like every other people, they can be manipulated by appeals to fear and prejudice. Because of the very real threat they have faced of being wiped out as a people, they are susceptible to almost any lie told about the “enemy.” This allows unscru-pulous American and Israeli leaders to keep Israel and Palestine in a constant state of war.
The Israeli military has engaged in a very calculated campaign of lies about its actions in Gaza. First, they said they were using all weapons le-gally. Now they say they will investi-gate whether certain units used white phosphorus improperly. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, and foreign doc-tors in Gaza say there is overwhelm-ing evidence that the Israeli military used white phosphorus illegally as a weapon against civilians. The me-dia keep repeating that white phos-phorus is used as a smokescreen or for illumination at night, but TV film of shells exploding in daylight over a city proves this is not true. The Is-raeli military used it as a weapon of terror to burn civilians.
Children can never be the enemy. If misguided parents teach their chil-dren to chant “Death to America,” their children are still not our en-emies. Bad leaders who teach fear and hatred are the enemy, and they exist in every country. Working for peace includes being able to discard the lies and instead see the essential truth about all human beings—that we all want to love and protect our children. The best way to do that is to seek peace and justice, not to make excuses for war.
—Bill Distler, Bellingham
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6THE GRISTLE
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPINIONS THE GRISTLE
THE BELLINGHAM Bay Foundation (BBF) made its final com-mitment to the thorough cleanup of Bellingham Bay this week by con-tributing the remainder of its funds (approximately $1,600) to the City of Bellingham. The money is intended to help the city in affirming its com-mitment to a clean waterfront by re-mediating contaminated properties near the old Georgia-Pacific mill.
Formed in early 2005 in the after-math of the Port of Bellingham’s ac-quisition of the GP properties, the BBF has worked in good faith as a public advocate for these major goals: Thorough cleanup. In 2006, ap-proximately 6,400 Bellingham resi-dents signed an initiative petition mandating a thorough cleanup of the waterway and former GP site—a cleanup more rigorous than that proposed by the port. While the petition was eventually blocked by a lawsuit, the effort generated public interest and attention, and demonstrated the level of commu-nity support for cleaning the site to residential standards. Quality redevelopment. It is too early in the process to judge the effects of the BBF’s advocacy for a more comprehensive view of water-front development. However, the city now insists on reexamining the timing and phasing of development; and comments at the recent series of public meetings on the waterfront indicate that economically sustain-able development is still very much on the minds of Bellingham and Whatcom County residents. It is be-coming increasingly clear there is real support for a planning process that looks beyond the short term. Public Ownership. Since its in-ception, the BBF has advocated
for public ownership of the water-front. In July 2008, the city cre-ated a Public Development Author-ity primarily focused on waterfront development. While the Bellingham PDA does not have management au-thority over the port’s properties, it is clearly a step in the right di-rection. The creation of a separate PDA between Western Washington University and the port to develop a site for Huxley College is further demonstration of the importance and viability of public ownership for the entire site.
Many challenges remain. Among these are: Cleanup and other site issues. Un-fortunately, a single-minded focus on creating a new marina has caused the port to take an expeditious, rather than rigorous, approach to cleanup. While the state Dept. of Ecology was compelled to approve the port’s plan to dump clean sedi-ment over contaminants in the bay, it is not clear that this approach is optimal. The cleanup process will require continuous monitoring to ensure representation of the com-munity’s interests. Concerns contin-ue about the seismic stability of the soils on the site, as well as vulner-ability to sea level rise. We recom-mend that the press and community organizations place attention on the importance of a thorough cleanup, and that the real costs and risks of the current plan for the removal and disposal of mercury and other toxic materials be incorporated into the economic analysis of waterfront de-velopment. Only then will we have an idea of the full value of a clean, downtown working waterfront. Economic viability. While water-front redevelopment may be one of
the most important opportunities in the history of Bellingham, it may simultaneously present the some of the greatest risks. There is reason-able doubt that future markets will support the development of a new marina as it is envisioned. The port’s waterfront plans depend on fund-ing from the Model Toxics Account; however, Gov. Gregoire has proposed the transfer of these funds into the state’s general fund. In addition, recent instabilities and downturn in the financial markets may make all of the current economic assumptions about waterfront development moot. More than ever, it is imperative that the economic models for waterfront development are revisited, made public, and debated openly.We, the retiring board members of
the Bellingham Bay Foundation, still care a great deal about the waterfront, but it is time to let others move the vision forward. The process has been daunting and demoralizing at times, but our objectives, vision and hopes for the future—as individuals and col-lectively—remain positive. We thank our supporters and volunteers for standing with us, and we are commit-ted to supporting those who will carry on the vision. There is much to be hopeful about. Mayor Dan Pike and the new City Council have taken a much stronger line than their predecessors in representing the community’s inter-est in the waterfront. We thank Mayor Pike for accepting our financial con-tribution toward cleanup of the city’s properties, and we look forward to a healthy thriving waterfront that our community can enjoy with pride.
Scot Barg and Anne-Marie Faiola repre-sent the board of directors of Belling-ham Bay Foundation
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE:Pledging to reduce redundancy in state gov-ernment, Gov. Chris Gregoire in her Jan. 14 second inaugural address noted, “We have three agencies managing natural resources, each with its own scientist standing in the same Washington stream.”
How many scientists are standing in the streams that feed Lake Whatcom; and do any of them have a clue what other learned col-leagues have discovered there?
Last spring, state Dept. of Ecology scien-tists issued an analysis (TMDL) that found Lake Whatcom had been substantially over- urbanized and recommended steep reductions in the “roofs, driveways and lawns [that] inter-rupt the absorption and filtration provided by forests and soils, instead sending phosphorus-laden stormwater rushing into the lake.” Some existing surfaces might be improved to create the same benefit as removing them; however, as Mayor Dan Pike remarked at a forum on lake quality he shared alongside Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen last August, when you find yourself in a deep hole the first step is stop digging. This he pledged to do.
So it was with dismay elected leaders learned that county planners had recently issued a de-termination of non-significance (DNS) for a two-mile stretch of road and the hundreds of additional homes that road will service in one of the most urbanized sections of Lake What-com’s north shore below Squalicum Mountain.
“The construction of a road [will] serve future residential home construction on up to 26 existing 20-acre residential proper-ties currently located in the Rural Forestry zone,” North Shore Estate developers noted in their application. “The proposed private road will require clearing and grading for roughly 10,300 linear feet of roadway.” The project im-pact area, off Academy Road, is more than 11 acres in size, the application claims.
A puzzled County Council Natural Resourc-es committee chair, Carl Weimer, observed, “Seems like the county has provided the miti-gated DNS based on the belief that the new road would meet all existing county develop-ment rules, the most recent Ecology storm-water manual, and would have to be granted a discharge permit from Ecology. In other words,” he guessed, “’if they can meet all the existing laws and rules how can we legally deny their application?’ On the other hand, we have a TMDL [study] that says that existing rules and laws have not been adequate to pro-tect the lake, and that more needs to be done. So the crux seems to come down to whether the existence of a TMDL gives local govern-ment the authority to deny permits that meet current rules and law,” Weimer concluded.
Yet—to the Gristle’s knowledge—neither the city or county have officially adopted DOE’s new stormwater manual; and the department has been slow to issue specific TMDL guidance. Thus the DNS is likely to stand.
“It doesn’t seem possible that two miles of
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Passing the BucksCITIZENS’ GROUP ENCOURAGES CITY TO MOVE FORWARD
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THE GRISTLEnew road (mostly in the watershed) can be completely mitigated,” re-marked Virginia Watson, president of the Squalicum Valley Community Asso-ciation. “The rains that fell during the first week of January 2009 completely overwhelmed the stormwater sytem at the bottom of Academy where it meets North Shore Drive. The water was shooting five feet into the air where it was supposed to be entering drains. Residents along Academy and North Shore experienced flooding. The inadequate sizing and maintenance of culverts on private and county roads contributed to the problems that oc-curred in the area. The construction of a new road and the development that it will facilitate can only increase the number and severity of future floods and exacerbate the deterioration of the Lake Whatcom watershed.”
Attorneys informed City Council members last week that the mayor intended to file an appeal against the county’s DNS. Following their execu-tive session this week in which they were briefed on litigation, council an-nounced they would oppose both the Squalicum Ridge road and the exten-sion of water and sewer service to the North Shore Estates development.
“Clearly this flies in the face of all of the city and county efforts to halt development and with it the flow of phosphorus into the lake,” council member San Snapp observed. “This road represents the equivalent of 11 acres of scraping and clearing that cannot be mitigated. ...The person who needs to justify why he’s allowed the County Planning Department under his direction to issue a determination of non-significance is County Executive Pete Kremen.”
Last summer, City Council withdrew efforts to annex a water district that controls the flow of water and septic service in the Lake Whatcom reser-voir. They backed off after they heard Ecology had issued new rules to bet-ter govern these districts; yet it seems clear, as council must now sue to en-force control, their withdrawal reveals a continuing pattern of passivity in COB’s protection of the city’s drinking water resource.
Whether COB waits for the County Executive to pony up and police his portion of Lake Whatcom (he won’t) or for DOE to force him to do so (they won’t), the effect is the same: Without leadership, the road to hell is literally paved with good intentions.
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Council member Terry Bornemann chafed at the idea that the $600,000 requested is still required for the central library.
“So if we give this $600,000, then you’ll be right back asking for another $600,000,” he said. “If we’re continuing in these tight times, as we may very well be, and we have to look at a choice between staff positions and services, and money going out of the general fund for things that have been deferred.”
Council members were re-lieved to learn a more detailed financial analysis may arrive in February, which prompted them to postpone a decision.
“My personal view is that we look at that additional informa-tion, which I think is going to be valuable, before making a decision on how best to allocate
this,” Finance Director John Carter advised.Yet, Mayor Dan Pike cautioned, “It’s becom-
ing obvious that we’ll have to spend more money collectively on the central library and Fairhaven library than was originally proposed. But the Fairhaven library repairs are more critical at this point. If we don’t spend that money now, appro-priately, on Fairhaven, it’s going to cost us more next year, and more money the year after that. The requirements for the central library are needs that are real, but are more easily deferrable—less downstream additional expense as a result of de-laying them,” he said.
“We still need the work done in the central library,” agreed David Edlestein, library board president, “but we believe it is arguably a better use of the money today to do the complete job in Fairhaven all at one time. It’s all coming out of the same pocket.
“The board was unanimous that we need to do this right.”
BY TIM JOHNSON
COUNCIL DELAYS ACTION AS LIBRARY REPAIRS GET MORE EXPENSIVE
RENOVATIONS TO the Fairhaven Library have gotten more expensive—with the price tag now estimated at about $3.3 million—while city leaders have grown more cautious about budgets.
Council delayed a request by the library’s board of trustees to move $600,000 slated for repairs to the city’s central li-brary to the aging Fairhaven branch, where repairs are more urgently required, they were told. Repairs to the exterior stucco of the historic structure, together with seismic work and other upgrades, were initially projected to cost about $1.8 million. City Council set aside $1 million for the re-pairs in 2008, together with another $2.3 million budgeted in 2009. But costs have jumped again, leaving a $1 million shortfall to complete a full renovation.
The proposal would leave $40,000 at the central facility, where security doors are badly needed.
“The library board met at their regular meeting last week and voted to ask the council to allow the $600,000 allocated for central library repairs and renovations to be used to supplement the Fairhaven project in order to do it all and do it right,” Bell-ingham Public Library Director Pam Kiesner reported. “Out of the $600,000, we will still need to decide which of those repairs and renovations are absolutely critical.”
Kiesner said, “Early estimates are coming in at approximately $3.3 million in order to do everything—that is all phases of the project. That amount is approximately 82 percent repair and about 18 percent renovation” to the interior of the library. Kiesner said a public meeting Feb. 5 may help the library board refine its eval-uation of critical improvements.
Initial consultants BOLA Planning + Architecture, who per-formed a basic condition assessment in 2006, estimated seis-mic rehabilitation at about $290,000 in 2009 dollars. But that work would actually cost about $1.1 million, according to a more detailed and recent analysis by Fletcher Farr Ayotte, Inc., a consulting firm in Portland, Ore.
Part of the uncertainty is “until you pull the stuc-co off, you really don’t know how much repair is needed,” Myaron Carlson, library facilities manager, advised council.
“The seismic issue is strictly voluntary,” Carlson cautioned. “There are no codes that say we have to do anything seismically to the building. The level that FAA is advocating is pretty minimal, to just get people out of the building should there be an earth-quake.” However, he noted, “there may be codes coming down the road at some time. We could cut the option for seismic altogether, or we could do a partial response.”
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In a reeling economy, tens of thou-sands of fresh layoffs are announced and more companies are expected to cut payrolls in the months ahead. A new survey by the National Association for Business Economics depicts the worst business conditions in the U.S. since the report’s inception in 1982. NABE’s fore-casters predict job reductions through attrition or “significant” layoffs over the next six months.
The only thing certain in government is death and taxes. Bellingham City Council agrees to increase cemetery fees at the city-owned Bayview Ceme-tery. The 3 percent increase will raise an estimated $14,000 in additional revenue this year.
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01.21.09WEDNESDAY
Authorities seize more than 200 dogs in two separate incidents in Skagit County. More than 150 dogs, filthy and crowded into small spaces, were seized from a home outside Mount Vernon after the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office linked the homeowner to a ring of Snohomish County puppy mills. Officials say it is the biggest dog seizure in Skagit County’s history. Owners of both kennels could face animal cruelty charges, authorities said.
01.22.09THURSDAY
The Washington Department of Ecology proposes 33 projects across the state take a share of $71.5 million in available funding. The funding is intend-ed to protect water quality across the state and create jobs. About a third of the projects benefit Puget Sound, including two water quality improvement projects in Skagit County and three in Whatcom.
01.24.09SATURDAY
Tests confirm the presence of the H-5 avian flu virus on a commercial turkey farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports the strain is “low pathogenic”—which means it’s not easily transmitted. But two dozen farms remain in quarantine and as many as 60,000 birds will have to be euthanized. All poultry owners in the area have been asked to monitor their flocks and immediately report any sick or dead birds; the Washington State Department of Agriculture requests 13 Whatcom County farms that regularly send in eggs for testing to send an additional batch to be tested for avian flu antibodies. In 2004, 17 million birds in the Fraser Valley died or were destroyed during an outbreak caused by an avian flu virus.
01.25.09SUNDAY
Two teens are robbed at gunpoint at a residence near Maple Falls. A 17-year-old boy and 18-year-old woman tell authorities that three people entered a detached shop where the pair was sleeping and forced them into a bedroom at gunpoint, tied them up and robbed them of $2,800 worth of property. Sheriff’s officials say it is likely the teenagers were specifically targeted by the robbers and this was not a random crime. The case remains under investigation.
Work is underway on a Bellingham Bay cleanup project. Bellingham City Council approves a noise variance for crews removing old pilings and other structures south of the central waterway to Boulevard Park. The variance allows crews to work at night to better take advantage of tides. The work is scheduled to continue through next month.
The area continues to dig out from January’s torrential rains and resulting land- and mudslides, this one blocking SR 542 east of Deming. Crews finally reopened the Mount Baker Highway to a full two lanes last week.
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5,000 NUMBER OF ITS 94,000 employees Microsoft plans to lay off in the next 18 months, including 1,400 last week.
32 PERCENT FEWER JOB vacancies in Washington during the last six months compared to the previous six months.
40 CHANCE IN 100 a job in Washington pays less than $10 per hour.
6.2LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN December, up from 5.6 percent in November, compared to 4.1 percent during the same period last year. Statewide unemployment rose to 7.1 percent last month.
22 PERCENT DROP IN pending home sales compared to the previ-ous year. Median home prices are down 4 percent, from $260,000 to $250,000.
42 INCREASE IN FOOD stamps applications in Washington in November.
SOURCES: Associated Press; Washington State Job Vacancy Survey; Northwest Multiple Listing Service
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fuzzbuzzCRIME SNIFFERSOn Jan. 19, Lynden Police officers noted the strong odor of marijuana while investigating an unrelated in-cident. Searching, they found more than 100 marijuana plants in various stages of maturity, from seedlings to fully mature and budding sinsemi-lla plants. They booked the alleged weed farmer into jail for manufac-turing and distributing a controlled substance with an estimated street value of about $95,000.
Back in November, Blaine Police Of-ficer Yoschi and his partner as-sisted U.S. Border Patrol agents in their search for two suspects who had fled from them on foot. Officer Yoschi dis-covered the men hiding in the bushes about two blocks away.
Also in November, on the same evening, Officer Yoschi was again called to assist USBP agents who be-lieved a subject had illegally entered the U.S. and was hiding in shrubs nearby. Yoschi nosed the man out of the underbrush, where he was taken into custody without incident.
On Jan. 18, on the eve of retire-ment, Spokane Police Officer Var cornered a teenager sought for in-vestigation of murder. A tip led of-ficers to surround a house Sunday night, and in the ensuing search Officer Var and his partner found 19-year-old hiding in the basement. It was Var’s last night of duty after eight years on patrol.
DAMSELS WITH DECIBELSOn Jan. 9, Blaine Police responded to a report of a woman screaming. Officers located the woman at her home and discovered she was unin-jured, and not being assaulted. “She and her boyfriend were watching a sports match on TV, and got a little overzealous in proclaiming their team spirit,” police reported. “The couple agreed to suppress their support in deference to the neigh-bors—hopefully the penalty action did not cost them the game.”
On Jan. 18, officials responded to a report of a person at Marine Drive Park screaming and beating on a ve-hicle with a large stick. Police and Border Patrol agents learned the ruckus was caused by a woman en-ergetically packing her vehicle. She was vocalizing her feelings about inadequate cellphone reception. She was asked to finish packing in silence to avoid disturbing the nea-by waterfowl.
TURN-DOWN SERVICE TURNED DOWNOn Jan. 13, Blaine Police scolded a woman who was caught knock-ing on room doors at a local motel, pretending to be the maid. “The
real staff wanted the imper-sonator exorcised from the premises,” police noted. “The management uttered the ritual Trespassing In-
cantation, and the pretend-er was quietly banished from
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POOCH PERPSOn Jan. 11, Blaine Police responded to a report of a large, fluffy white dog wandering loose, not the first time the beast had strayed from home. Po-lice issued the owner a warning that a citation and fine could follow if the animal was not properly corralled.
On Jan. 12, Blaine Police received another report that the fluffy white dog was loose again. When police arrived, they discovered the owner was also engaged in a search for his pet. As he had already received a stray dog warning, the critter was found dragging a long length of rope as he wandered. Police patient-ly issued the owner a final warning about the dog.
On Jan. 12, Blaine Police responded to a report that a dog had nipped a visitor in the leg. “The suspect mutt got the worse end of the deal,” police noted, “because the victim happened to be wearing a cast on the leg that the dog chomped down upon. The owner of the dog was warned that a criminal prosecution, animal im-pound or both could result from an-other incident. The victim was agree-able,” police continued. “The dog was strangely subdued.”
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WORDSWED., JAN. 28JANEY BENNETT: Bellingham author Janey Bennett reads from The Pale Surface of Things at 7pm at the Barkley Branch Li-brary on Newmarket St.
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THURS., JAN. 29WRITING WORKSHOP: Bestselling au-thor Garth Stein—he of The Art of Racing in the Rain—leads an animal-themed writ-ing workshop from 6-8pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The fee is $40.
671-2626
FRI., JAN. 30PRUDENT MARINER: Leslie Walker Wil-liams reads from The Prudent Mariner at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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SAT., JAN. 31WRITERS LEAGUE: The Skagit Valley Writers League will host a book launch party for the World Weavers anthology from 1-3pm at the Tattered Page, 514 First St., Mount Vernon.
(360) 419-7278
STUDENT SAMPLER: Poetry and prose will be shared at WWU’s 10th annual “Graduate Student Sampler” at 7pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. The reading is free and open to the public.
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MON., FEB. 2POETRY NIGHT: Sign up by 8pm to read your words at the weekly Poetry Night at the future home of the Anker Café, 1426 Cornwall Ave. Readings start at 8:30pm, and all are welcome.
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TUES., FEB. 3SIT DOWN: John Graham reads from his autobiography, Sit Down Young Stranger at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WED., FEB. 4GUILD MEETING: The Bellingham Story-tellers Guild will hold its monthly meet-ing at 7pm at Stuart’s at the Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave.
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COMMUNITY SAT., JAN. 31ROLFING CLINIC: A free “Rolfing Clinic for Children” happens from 12-4pm at the Co-op’s Connection Building, 1220 N. For-est St.
734-8158
CHILI FOR CHILDREN: Attend a “Chili for Children” fundraiser being put on by Big Brothers Big Sisters from 12-4pm at the Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. A cook-off, live music by Bent Grass and more will fill the afternoon. En-try is $10.
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FAMILY FUNDRAISER: Wheels of Life School will hold a Family Festival and Fundraiser (emphasis on fun) from 1-9pm at the Old Foundry Building, 101 E. Maple St. Live music, food a drinks, face paint-
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Bones to PickGRAPHIC NOVEL COMBINES SCIENCE AND ADVENTURE
ALTHOUGH IT was primarily the prospect of wresting precious metals like silver, gold and copper from the ground that lured the bulk of eastern ex-plorer-capitalists into the distant, uncharted expanses of the American West between the Civil War and the end of the 19th Century, for a pair of pioneer-ing scientists the rarefied terra firma of the frontier held a treasure far more valuable: dinosaur bones.
Sweeping wide-screen vistas, galloping action-adventure and robust larger-than-life characters are part and parcel of the enduringly popular all-American genre known as “the Western” and, true to form, the 168-page graphic novel Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards deals them out in spades.
Page after page, panel after panel, you watch and read spellbound as one of the Wild West era’s most intriguing, but largely underplayed contests of will—the so-called “bone war” between O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope—plays out in exquisite, sepia-toned fashion.
The story, written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Big Time Attic, twines together a rollicking mixture of historical fact and fiction that paints rich, compelling portraits of the fiercely competitive “fathers” of American pale-ontology while incorporating sundry scientific tidbits into a litany of stage-coaches, tumbleweeds and six-shooters.
Special guest appearances by President Ulysses S. Grant, P.T. Barnum, La-kota Chief Red Cloud, “Buffalo” Bill Cody, and a “petrified man” called the Cardiff Giant help round out a veritable rogues gallery of enigmatic frontier characters, adding some extra-spicy flavor to the drama.
“The whole ‘war ’ aspect [was] over-hyped,” Ottaviani admits in the Comics Reporter. “These guys never came to blows or even did anything
that went very far be-yond questionable eth-ics like personal attacks, ‘salting’ of scientific digs, bribery of work-ers, spying, trespassing on Indian lands. That said, it ’s an interest-ing story about science, and more importantly, about greed and ambi-tion. And the setting is marvelous.”
Born to a Quaker family in Philadelphia in 1840, Edward Drinker Cope re-
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Subsequently, after serving as a member of the Hayden Survey through Wyoming and Colorado and the Wheeler Survey through New Mexico, Cope undertook a series of self-fi-nanced fossil-hunting expeditions throughout the region, discovering hundreds of species, publishing more than 1,200 papers and re-peatedly driving himself to the brink of physi-cal and financial ruin.
Although Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) lacked the verve and genius of Cope, his considerable political and financial con-nections made him a formidable foe. Their “bone war” started in 1870 when Marsh, observing one of Cope’s fossil findings of a large aquatic plesiosaur in his laboratory at Yale, determined that Cope had placed its head on the wrong end (the tail, not the neck) and used the discrepancy to inflict lasting damage upon Cope’s reputation.
The two men never reconciled, choosing in-stead to invest the reptile’s share of their re-maining lives trying to discredit and disprove the others work and findings.
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756-0008
SUN., FEB. 1COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: A monthly Community Breakfast happens from 8am-1pm at the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. Cost is $2 for kids, $5 for adults.
671-7862
LAUGHTER CLUB: Certified laughter leaders will helm the monthly meeting of the Bellingham Laughter Club at 4pm at the Community Food Co-op’s Connec-tion Building, 1220 N. Forest St. All are welcome.
920-3617 OR WORLDLAUGHTERTOUR.COM
TUES., FEB. 3TROLLEY TALK: Photo historian Jeff Jewell will lead an illustrated talk on “Bellingham’s Trolleys” at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. The talk is free.
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FEB. 3-4WORLD ISSUES: Edna Bonacich, a scholar focusing on issues of race, labor and immigration, will talk about “Black/Brown Conflict in Los Angeles: What are Unions Doing About It?” at 7pm Tues. at WWU’s Communications Facility, room 110. She’ll also speak on “Immigrants and African Americans: The Dynamics of Job Competition” at noon Wed. in the Fairhaven Auditorium. Both events are free.
650-2309
WED., FEB. 4HALL OF FAME: Bellingham’s YWCA is cur-rently seeking nominations for the North-west Women’s Hall of Fame.
734-4820 OR YWCABELLINGHAM.ORG
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getout WED., JAN. 28SKI TUNING: Find out how to do minor base repairs and wax your gear at a free “Ski & Snowboard Tuning 101” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
SAT., JAN. 31CHUCKANUT RUN: Fairhaven Runners will host a “Chuckanut Run” starting at 9am at the North Chuckanut Mountain Trailhead on Chuckanut Drive at the base of California Street. The event is free, and will last about 1.5 hours.
FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
HIDDEN SKAGIT: Join North Cascades Institute naturalists and historian Brian Scheuch today and again Feb. 8 for a “Hid-den Skagit” outing at the Port Susan Bay Preserve. Cost is $50.
(360) 856-6700 OR NCASCADES.ORG
WORK PARTY: Plant native vegetation in an effort to restore an ivy slope at a work party from 9am-12pm at Whatcom Falls Park.
778-7105
TEAM IN TRAINING: Come learn about Team in Training, a program that will train you to run or walk marathons and triathlons, at 10am at the Mt. Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. The event is free.
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GARDENING SEMINARS: Chuck McClung will lead a “Why Orchids Fail to Re-Bloom” workshop at 11am at Bakerview Nursery, 945 E. Bakerview Rd. At 3pm, show up for a “Pruning and Maintaining Home Orchard Fruit Trees” clinic. Both events are free.
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SUN., FEB. 1SNOWSHOE EXCURSION: Join tracker and teacher Dave Moskowitz of the North Cascades Institute from 9am-4pm for a “Nooksack Snowshoe Excursion.” Cost is $95 and includes snowshoe rental.
(360) 856-5700 OR NCASCADES.ORG
GARDEN TRAINING: If you’re interested in becoming a Master Gardener, sign up for basic training, which starts today from 8:30am-4pm at the WSU Whatcom Exten-sion Office, 1000 N. Forest St.
676-6736 OR WHATCOM.WSU.EDU
SUPER BOWL RUN: Get some exercise before settling in to watch the big game at a short Super Bowl Run & Walk starting at 1pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The event is free.
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SEED SAVING: Celebrate International Seed Saving Day from 2-4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Uprising Organic Farm’s Crystine Goldberg and Brian Camp-bell will give a presentation at the free event.
201-0468
MON., FEB. 2BOATING SKILLS: A 13-night “Boating Skills and Seamanship” course starts to-night from 6:30-8:30pm at the Salvation Army Center, 2912 Northwest Ave. Cost is $40.
933-4147 OR CGAUX.ORG
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STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO
Hiking the StormsA TRIP TO THE BEACH
MOST REASONABLE people would agree the weather forecast is not good: snow, wind, rain and fog. But if you’re looking to experience the drama of a winter storm on the beaches of the Olympic Peninsula, then you couldn’t ask for more.
Arriving at the Rialto Beach trailhead, we shoulder our packs and pick our way through the driftwood jumble and set off down the beach. The ocean is raging, enormous waves breaking on each other in splendid chaos, throwing foam into the air.
We encounter Ellen Creek, the primary obstacle on this stretch of beach, and cross it on a convenient log. Nothing but open beach now; the tide is low and it’s clear sailing to the Hole-in-the-Wall, a sea arch that straddles the point at the end of the beach.
We make camp here among a cluster of dramatic sea stacks, safely above the high-tide line.
In the morning, we gird ourselves in Gore-Tex and head north on the retreat-ing tide amongst prodigious flotsam and jetsam, making our way out on the intertidal shelf, where we slip through the Hole-in-the-Wall and around the point into the next cove. Great cedar beach logs gleam in the muted light, their smooth trunks streaked with vivid shades of day-glo orange.
Taking advantage of the low tide we clam-ber over and around the next point on slippery, slime-covered rocks. A little pocket beach lies beneath an undercut stone cliff—it’s a sea arch waiting to happen. High above, twisted trees crowd the edge of the headland, many hanging off the precipice by a few forlorn roots, seem-ingly ready to answer the call of the void and join the beach logs on the sand below.
The tide is turning and the ocean is white and burly. The rain falls in sheets. We turn back toward camp and the shelter of our tarp. As darkness descends, the tempestuous music of the waves draws nearer, filling the darkness beyond the glow of the fire. It occurs to us that we haven’t seen another soul today.
Misty morning: the sea stacks look like fanci-ful castles from a Grimm’s fairy tale. We strap on our packs and start back up the beach, facing the wind and rain. New creeks have appeared in the last days, cutting routes across the sand to the sea. When we reach Ellen Creek, we find it’s now raging, in full flood. It’s cut an entirely new channel, vanquishing the log crossing that afforded passage two days ago.
We contemplate attempting a ford, but think better of it when we observe uprooted trees roaring downstream. Nothing for it but to clamber upstream over the rain-slippery log jam beside the torrent until, eventual-ly, we find a series of logs that will get us
across. Back at the parking lot
(empty save my intrepid Co-rolla) we stow our sopping gear and head up the road away from the sea, happy and content, heater blast-ing, music cranking…an-other successful encounter with the awesome forces of nature. Storm watching isn’t for everybody, but with the right gear—and the right companion—it makes for an unforgettable experience.
GETTING THERE:From Port Angeles, drive 56 miles west on Highway 101 to La Push Road. Turn right, and drive 7.6 miles to Mora Road. Turn right and continue to the Rialto Beach Parking Area, an-other 4.8 miles.
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stageTHEATER DANCE PROF ILES
ESCHEWING THE notion that too many cooks spoil the broth, Cheat, the latest production from the WWU theatre depart-ment, represents months of close work between a team of people acting as what director Rich Brown calls “theatre generalists.”
Under Brown’s direction, the team of 18 actors, writers and pro-duction designers shepherded the piece from its initial butcher paper brainstorming sessions to the production that begins this weekend at the Underground Theater. “All of the theater artists, as theater generalists, were working together—they weren’t de-signers or actors or writers, they were theater artists working to create these moments and they were writing performance rather than writing text,” Brown explains.
For their initial subject matter, the production team turned to David Callahan’s book The Cheating Culture, not dramatizing the piece so much as using it as a starting block for a theatrical exploration of the nature of cheating and what it means in our culture. What counts as cheating? Why do we do it? And perhaps most importantly, what does cheating do to us? When work began, each member of the team was responsible for providing research into the facets of cheating, fidelity and competition that most interested them, as well as bringing their personal experiences and stories to the table.
BY IAN CHANT
CheatFROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE BEDROOM
STAGEJAN. 28-29ANNIE: The 30th anniver-sary tour of Annie heads to town for 7:30pm shows at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tick-ets are $20-$55.
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THURS., JAN. 29GOOD, 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.” Cost is $5 for the early show, $3 for the late one.
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JAN. 29-31TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL: The Alger Lookout Thespian As-sociation presents The Trip to Bountiful at 7pm at the Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane. Tick-ets are $10-$12 and ad-ditional showings happen through Feb. 14.
(360) 424-5144 OR
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FRI., JAN. 30GREATER TUNA: Gain insight into Texas’ third-smallest town when Greater Tuna shows at 6:30pm at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner Theatre at the Old Grainery Building, 100 E. Montgomery. Tickets are $16-$25.
(360) 336-3012
KARAMOZOV BROTHERS: Juggling, dance, wordplay, music, comedy and the-ater can all be expected when the Flying Karamozov Brothers perform at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $32-$45.
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JAN. 30-31MIXED BAG: Anything can happen at “Upfront Un-leashed!” shows at 8pm and 10pm Fri. at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Satur-day night, show up for The-atresports matches. Tickets are $8-$10.
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JAN. 30-FEB. 1SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes shows at 8pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets are $7-$11, and additional shows happen through Feb. 15.
733-1811 OR
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DANCETHURS., JAN. 29FOLK DANCE: The Fourth Corner Folk Dancers host a dance from 7:30-10pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested dona-tion is $4-$5.
380-0456
FRI., JAN. 30CANCER BASH: Dance les-sons will be followed by a social dance from 9-12pm at tonight’s fundraising “Cancer Bash” at the Bell-ingham Elks Lodge, #194, 710 Samish Way. Tickets are $15.
733-3333
JAN. 30-FEB. 1STAGE MATCH: A col-laborative dance with the “Cody Rivers Show” mas-terminds and Milwaukee performers Monica Rodero and Dan Schuchart hap-pens at 8pm Fri.-Sat. and 3pm Sun. at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets are $10.
1-800-838-3006 OR
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SAT., JAN. 31OPEN HOUSE: Dance, music demonstrations and more will be part of an Open House happen-ing from 3-6pm at La Vida Dance Studio, 929 N. State St.
LAVIDADANCESTUDIO.COM
CONTRA DANCE: Northern Contraband will provide live music at tonight’s Contra Dance from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested dona-tion is $8-$10.
676-1554 OR
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SUN., FEB. 1SCANDINAVIAN DANCE: Takk for Dansen will per-form at a Scandinavian Dance from 2-5pm at Nor-way Hall, 1419 N. Forest St. Entry is $8.
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TUES., FEB. 3PILOBOLUS: Get bowled over by inventive athleti-cism when Pilobolus per-forms at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $20-$45.
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Collaborators then present-ed their work to their cohorts using the languages of the theater in dialogue, dance and scene setting. “People would present an idea, and then the whole ensemble would respond to that,” Brown says. This style of exploration allows people to bounce ideas off of one anoth-er, getting a lot of different takes on their work.
Cheat consists of several sto-rylines, some of which inter-twine, and others that stand alone. “We wanted to make sure we weren’t just working with collage,” Brown says, “so there are four clear storylines that
run through the piece.” By looking at the concept of cheating in disparate situations, from the bedroom to the boardroom, and tackling the subject from a num-ber of different perspectives via interwoven mono-logues and thematically related scenes whose plots are unconnected, the creators seek to provide “as panoramic a view of cheating as possible.”
At its heart, Cheat is less interested in providing answers than it is with questioning assumptions about the nature of cheating—what it entails, why it’s so common, and even whether it’s always good or bad. Following this line of thought, the performance of the piece is designed to challenge assumptions about theater—how it’s put on, when it’s put on, and how it’s experienced. To this end, Cheat is performed in the round, with most of the audience standing on elevated platforms for the duration of the perfor-mance in an effort to recall the fierce battles of the Roman Coliseum and remind viewers that cheating is an integral element of competition that has been with us from ancient times. (It also means audience members for the late-night viewings should be pre-pared to be on their feet for a time.)
By engaging the audience in new ways, Brown hopes to make viewers think not only about the work on stage, but what it means in their own lives. “With such a grey area as integrity,” Brown says, “we want the audience to be put in the place of questioning themselves, as well as the characters.”
ATTEND WHAT: CheatWHEN: 7:30pm Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 4-7; 10:30pm Jan. 31 and Feb. 7WHERE: Under-ground Theater, WWUCOST: $9-$12INFO: 650-6146
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visualGALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Activism Before ArtFLIGHT OF THE HUMMINGBIRD
IN ORDER to help save his home-land, Michael Nicoll Yaghulanaas dedi-cated more than 20 years of his life to help prevent it from being decimated.
As a native of Haida Gwaii—a clus-ter of land masses on Canada’s British Columbia coast also known as “Islands of the People” and the Queen Charlotte Islands—Yaghula-naas studied art in Vancouver before returning home to work with others in the community on issues related to land and social justice for his people.
By the year 2000, with a preserved rainforest and a $17 million fund controlled jointly by both indigenous and white citizens, Yaghulanaas felt ready to devote himself full-time to creative endeavors. These days, he’s known around the globe for a form of art he’s dubbed Haida Manga, which merges traditional images with contemporary narratives to form a hybrid style of Japanese graphic design.
“By marrying them together, I’m saying this work comes from a different lineage, a different place,” Yaghulanaas says. And, since activism has taken up such a large part of his life, it’s only natural his art also contains messages that are much bigger than the pages they’re printed on.
With his latest venture, Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment, Yaghulanaas uses his talents to tell the story of a tiny, headstrong winged creature who does everything she can to quell a raging forest fire. While other animals wonder how in the heck they should react, she ferries minuscule droplets of water back
EVENTS WED., JAN. 28ARTISTS FOR KIDS: Author and educator MaryAnn Kohl will share ideas from her book, Great Ameri-can Artists for Kids, at 7pm at Vil-lage Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
THURS., JAN. 29TRESPASSING TALK: “Contem-porary Sovereignty: War, Spiritual-ity and Identity” will be the topic of a moderated panel discussion featuring artists involved in the “Trespassing” exhibit at the What-com Museum at 5:30pm at WWU’s Fairhaven Presentation Hall.
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FRI., JAN. 30WAR EXPERIENCE PROJECT: View individual expressions of war created on the back of soldiers’ uni-forms by local artists at tonight’s “War Experience Project” exhibit from 6-10pm at the iGallery, 1105 N. State St.
SAT., JAN. 31LUCIA OPENING: Northwest landscape paintings by Jim Orvik and figurative bronze sculptures by Robert Gigliotti can be seen at an opening reception for the artists from 5-7pm at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. The works will be on display through Feb. 28.
733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
ONGOING EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: View “Trespassing” through Jan. 31 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The exhibit, showing simultaneously at the Whatcom Museum, features contemporary works by seven Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawai-ian artists.
ALLIEDARTS.ORG
ARTWOOD: Small tables of all sizes—and featuring a variety of woods—can be perused through January at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
647-1628
BAGELRY: Paintings by Kelcey Bates can be viewed through January at the Bagelry, 1319 Railroad Ave.
734-8663
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MU-SEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
393-7540
BLUE HORSE: Vote on your favor-ite pieces of art during the multi-artist “Public Hanging” exhibit through Jan. 30 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
671-2305
CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Acrylic and metal leaf works by Belling-ham artist Karma Stephens will be
on display through Feb. 1 at the Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
752-3377
DIGS: “Loophole,” an exhibit of dynamic compositions by Adriana Phillips, is on display through Feb. 28 at DIGS, 200 W. Holly St.
306-8301
FERNDALE LIBRARY: Handmade works from Whatcom County arti-sans will be on display as part of the “Potpourri of Quilts” through Jan. 31 at the Ferndale Library, 2222 Main St.
384-3647
MONA: “Graceful Exuberance,” a retrospective of works by artist Manfred Lindenberger, can be seen through March 8 at La Conner’s Mu-seum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. Glass artist Kait Rhoads’ “As Be-low, So Above” is also on display.
(360) 466-4446 OR
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MINDPORT: “Escape Routes: Map-ping Many Worlds” is on display un-til March 29 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Admission is $2.
MINDPORT.ORG
MCCOOL GALLERY: Raku jars, ki-mono tiles and more can be seen at an exhibit featuring works by ceramic artist Marguerite Goff at the McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
MCCOOLART.COM
PAPERDOLL: “Loose Ends,” a col-lection of original works by Erin Clancy, will be on display through January at the downtown Paper-doll, 312 W. Champion St.
738-3655
QUILT MUSEUM: “Ralli Quilts: Textiles from Pakistan and India” and the multi-artist exhibit, “All Things Not Quilted,” can be seen through March 29 at the La Con-ner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.
(360) 466-4288 OR
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ST. JOSEPH: Artwork by William Burney can be perused through Jan. 30 at the St. Joseph Hospital Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, 809 E. Chestnut St.
715-6420
VIKING UNION: The traveling exhib-it “Race, Lies and Stereotypes: Post-ers on Racism and Anti-Semitism,” shows through Jan. 30 at WWU’s Viking Union Gallery, room 507.
650-6534
WESTERN GALLERY: “Ken But-ler: Hybrid Visions” is up through March 14 at WWU’s Western Gallery. A reception for the exhibit, which features hybrid musical instru-ments and installations, happens Feb. 11.
650-6146
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of the Shipwright” and “Trespassing” are currently on display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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and forth in an attempt to save her home. Told with spare prose, stark shapes and simple, vibrant colors, the visual tome ends with the hum-mingbird saying she may not save the forest in the end, but is “doing what I can.”
Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, the work—and the message of courage and hope it conveys—is at once an environmen-tal shout-out and a call to the global community to make positive changes when and wherever they can.
“Activism really gave me a nar-rative,” Yaghulanaas says. “In the absence of that life experience, I wonder if the work I do would be entirely self-referential. Now, I’m conscious about the qualities I want to put in the work; is it relevant in the bigger sense of the world?”
To further drive the messages behind his art home, Yaghulanaas teamed up with Greystone Books to publish Hummingbird. Since 2002, the eco-friendly publishing com-pany has been committed to using only 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper in the books they publish, making them a perfect fit for a story so focused on saving the
place you call home.
“The mes-sage is really about finding the inner ac-tivist, if you will,” Yaghula-naas says. “And with graphics, you can convey more complex messages than you can with text. You have a larger audience because graph-ics speak to the vast spectrum of society.”
SEE IT WHAT: Artist Michael Nicoll Yaghulanaas shares images and tales from Flight of the HummingbirdWHEN: 7pm Sat., Jan. 31WHERE: Village Books, 1200 11th St.COST: FreeINFO: 671-2626
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A FEW months ago, during a conversation with What’s Up! Magazine Editor Brent Cole, I happened to ask what he had planned for this year’s What’s Up! awards show. His answer was surprising, to say the least.
“I’m not sure I’m going to do the awards show this year,” he said.It was one of the few times in my life I’ve been stunned into ac-
tual speechlessness.“Not do the awards show?” I finally managed to gasp out when I’d
regained my ability to speak.Cole then went on to explain the amount of time and effort in-
volved in putting on the yearly event, as well as his concerns about finding an appropriate venue, given the still-closed state of the Nightlight Lounge, the award show’s former home.
As a former What’s Up! staffer, I’m well acquainted with the work involved in staging the show. From counting the ballots to book-ing the bands to lining up presenters to the crafting of the actual awards themselves, the What’s Up! awards are a labor-intensive un-
I KNOW WE’RE excited for the What’s Up!awards and all, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of other worthy music going on for you and your listening pleasure. First up is a big ol’ noisy all-ages show at Thurs., Jan. 29 at WWU’s Viking Union featuring Akimbo, Black Eyes and Neckties, and Piano Mover. In their past Bellingham outings, fans have come out in solid numbers for Seattle’s Akim-bo, probably because they’re heavy, loud and just plain good—although I have it on good authority that at least one member of the band is “pretty cute,” which may go a long way toward explaining the band’s popular-ity here. As for Black Eyes and Neckties, this was supposed to be guitarist Josh Holland’s (that’s Josh Homicide in the Black Eyes ver-nacular) last show, then it was his second-to-last show, now, apparently, he’s back in the band to stay. Next week he’ll likely be starting a yacht rock band with the old mem-bers of the Trucks and USS Horsewhip, but for now, this is where the matter stands.
If you’re one of those folks unable to brave the chaos of the What’s Up! awards and would rather hang out and have a quiet drink at your favorite bar, well, if that bar hap-pens to be Cap Han-sen’s you’re just plain out of luck. Helms Alee, a Seattle band that features mem-bers of both Harkonen and Lozen, will play a set there, along with Police Teeth. The outing will serve as a CD re-lease show for Police Teeth’s new album, Real Sized Monster Series, so although the show itself is free, bring your pennies and ready yourself for album purchasing. Also, I’d like to send a shout out to Bradley Lockhart, the creative genius behind the flier for this show. Frankly, Brad, those sumo wrestlers terrify me a little. And I’m not afraid to say I like it.
If you plan to gather around a television and yell at the little men tackling each other all over the place this Super Bowl Sunday, might I suggest you do it at the Copper Hog? The rea-son for this, aside from the tasty brews avail-able for quaffing and the delicious foodstuffs for eating (I recommend the sliders), is that, for every pint of beer sold during the game, the Copper Hog will donate $1 to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom Coun-ty. While the long-held belief that more women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year can be chalked up to urban myth, that doesn’t make the cause any less worthy. So, for those of you who are keeping score, you can watch the Super Bowl at the Copper Hog and the more beer you drink, the more you donate to charity.
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dertaking. And that doesn’t even count the behind-the-scenes work that goes on the night of, which usually consists of cycling bands on and off the stage while making certain both the presenters and winners are where they’re supposed to be when they’re supposed to be there—not to mention keeping an eye on the show’s unpredictable emcee, Poops. It can be a lot to deal with.
However Cole, who, over the past decade or so, has taken a small, grassroots music magazine and built it into a thriving con-cern, is not one to back down from a chal-lenge—at least not for long, that is. When next I inquired about the fate of the What’s Up! awards, Cole informed me that, far from
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WED., JAN. 28HORVITZ & CO.: Composer and jazz pianist Wayne Horvitz will perform with the Gravitas Quartet at 8pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $7-$10.
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calling the whole thing off, he had in-stead increased his award-show invest-ment—doubled it, in fact. Suddenly, the man who wasn’t sure he even wanted to put together one show had signed on for two. You can chalk the internal cal-culations that made this phenomenon occur up to some kind of new math, but as anyone familiar with the man and his magazine knows, it’s best not question these things. The important thing is to simply sit back and enjoy the spectacle. Or spectacles, as the case may be.
Which brings us to the shows them-selves. The first, which takes place Fri., Jan. 30 at the Old Foundry is ac-tually the What’s Up! pre-awards show, and the event’s first foray into all-ages action. While no awards will be given out at the pre-show, it will allow the kids the chance to see Idiot Pilot, the Russians, the Tread Abraham, Con-necticut Four, and DJ Postal play to what is certain to be an enthusiastic audience. Aside from its purpose as a warm-up for the next night’s awards show and to recognize a faction of music-loving, scene-supporting folks not yet old enough to get into the real thing, the pre-awards show also serves as a benefit for WhAAM, an or-ganization for which Cole serves as a board member (in the interest of full disclosure, I am also a member of the WhAAM board).
However, it is Sat., Jan. 31 at the Wild Buffalo that the real party gets started. This is the night the golden beer cans (yes, they are back, in what I am as-sured is a new-and-improved state) are bequeathed unto the bands you voted for as your favorites. Usually, a couple of bands sweep numerous categories, and this year could prove to be no different. If I have to guess—and mind you, my
past predictions have proven to be trag-ically, habitually wrong—smart money’s on Yogoman and his Burning Band to be the awards night cleanup crew. But, with plenty of awards to go around, odds are, a broad cross section of the music com-munity will go home clutching a coveted golden beer can.
Of course, a big part of the show is the musical perfor-mances that take place between the bestowing of various awards. And with the likes of Lucky Brown, Sugar Sugar Sugar, the Rooftops, Holy Tailfeathers, Can-dysound, and Hot Roddin’ Romeos tak-ing the Wild Buffalo stage, there’s a little something to suit most musical tastes.
However, it’s not just the awards or the bands—or the likelihood of unde-sired nudity—that makes the What’s Up! awards, in my opinion, one of the best nights of the year. Frankly, in a music community that can be as cyni-cal as it is close-knit, it’s nothing
short of heartwarming to see musi-cians come out on such a scale for the purpose of appreciating and support-ing other musicians. Which brings me to my next point: Given the kind of crowds this event can generate, it is best not to be fashionably late lest you not be able to get in and miss the show entirely. And this is not the night you want to be left out in the cold.
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8:00 pm shows Jan. 30, 31 Feb. 5, 6, 7 Feb. 12, 13, 14
2:00 pm Sun shows Feb. 1, 8, 15
Tickets Adults $11 Seniors/Students $9 Children $7
HEARWHAT: What’s Up! Pre-awards Show feat. Idiot Pilot, the Russians, moreWHEN: Fri., Jan. 30WHERE: Old Foundry, 100 E. Maple St.COST: $5MORE INFO: whaam.org
WHAT: What’s Up! Awards feat. Lucky Brown, Sugar Sugar Sugar, moreWHEN: Sat., Jan. 31WHERE: Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St.COST: $5MORE INFO: wildbuffalo.net
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Boundary Bay Brewery
The Hands, Holy Tailfeathers
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Brown Lantern Alehouse
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Chuckanut BreweryBent Grass (early), The Pro-zac Mountain Boys (late)
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TrioThe Otters Fritz and the Freeloaders
Get Lucky Variety Show & Open Mic
Commodore Ballroom Cradle of Filth
Common Ground Cof-feehouse
Blood and Thunder, Asema, The Age of Dusk
Edison Inn Ron Bailey and Al Kaatz
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Graham's Restaurant Open Mic
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Honeymoon The Naked Hearts Doug Allen and Reid Kerr The Shadies
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Pink Lincoln, Voodoo Gracenotes
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Richard's on RichardsAnberlin, Between The
Trees, Madina LakeIncura, Kill Rhythmn, Room
Se7en, Dating DestinyDivine Brown, Sean Jones (early), Players Club (late)
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Skylark's David Post Rane Nogales Trio Equinox Irish Session
Star BarHowlin' Lane and the
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Sugar, Rooftops, moreSaltwater Octet Monday Night Funk Club Acoustic Oasis Open Mic
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REVIEWED BY RENE RODRIGUEZ
The WrestlerWELCOME BACK, MICKEY
REVIEWED BY ELLIOTT NOBLE
TakenNOT BOURNE YESTERDAY
WHEN SEX-TRAFFICKING scum snatch his teenage daughter in Paris, retired U.S. Secret Serviceman Liam Neeson launches a one-man rescue mission—and takes no prisoners.
With dialogue as convincing as power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe, characters so two-dimensional they’d be drummed out of a comic strip, and a hero who makes 24's Jack Bauer look like a dith-ering idiot, Taken is hands down the un-intentional comedy of the year.
Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former spy whose cloak-and-dagger activities cost him his marriage to frosty cliche Lenore (Famke Janssen). But he still loves his little girl Kim (Maggie Grace)—shallow, 17-year-old bubblehead that she is.
Like Kim cares. She just wants to go to Paris with her even more irritating friend because French culture is, like, totally sick.
But just as Kim calls to say they’ve ar-rived safely, along come the gullible-mo-ron snatchers. Ever the spy, Bryan tapes the call and tells the kidnapper to leave his daughter alone or there’ll be what-for.
Foolishly, the villain speaks. Within minutes, the two words he utters are enough for Bryan’s old buddy Sam to de-termine not only what country he comes from (Albania), but also what village—and even his name.
Reckoning he has less than four days before Kim becomes an untraceable, drug-addicted sex-slave, Bryan hurtles around Paris killing anyone who talks Balkan and/or hasn’t had a shave. Clearly, this guy was not Bourne yesterday.
After the clunking, exposition-heavy opening, director Pierre Morel gradually regains the momentum of his free-run-ning debut District 13 to conduct the en-suing gunplay and fisticuffs with breath-less aplomb.
It would be interesting to see what he could do with a script that hasn’t undergone a lobotomy. Mr. Morel? Meet Mr. Bond.
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YOU HAVE to wait a little while to get a good look at Mickey Rourke’s face in The Wrestler. For the movie’s first few minutes, di-rector Darren Aronofsky keeps his camera mostly behind and to the side of the actor, playing the washed-up pro wrestler Randy ”The Ram’’ Robinson, as he signs autographs for a pair of fans, catches his breath after his latest match, goes home to discover his trailer has been padlocked by his landlord for late rent, and ends up spending the night inside his ramshackle van.
When you finally get to really see Rourke’s face, the result is a bit startling. Rourke hasn’t exactly disappeared from the public eye—he’s been acting somewhat steadily in films for the past 10 years—but his puffy, lumpy mug in The Wrestler still takes a little getting used to. He doesn’t just look like 100 miles of hard road; he looks like he’s been paving it, too.
That’s part of what makes Rourke the perfect choice to play the Ram. Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) persevered to cast the actor, against the advice of everyone in Hollywood, for a reason: The Wrestler is one of those pictures where the lines be-tween performer and character are intentionally blurred for dra-matic gain.
Watching Rourke as the Ram, with his garishly bleached mane, artificial tan, steroid-pumped physique and ineffably sad, wounded
eyes, you don’t have to squint too hard to see the parallels between the two men.
This is the fictional story of a wrestling su-perstar who, long removed from his heyday in the 1980s, is struggling to eke out a simple ex-istence, dealing with a body crumbling from the abuses of the past and consumed by loneliness, having alienated everyone who was once dear to him, including his resentful daughter (Evan Rachel Wood).
The script, written by Robert D. Siegel, is re-plete with potentially corny cliches, including a stripper with a heart of gold (played by Marisa Tomei with her usual strength and poise), the closest thing the Ram has to a romantic rela-tionship. The Ram also has been told by his doctor that if he enters the ring again, he risks a fatal heart attack. Befitting a picture about grown men in tights smacking each other around, subtlety plays a small role here.
But Aronofsky, leaving behind the high cin-ematic style of his previous films in favor of a straightforward, near-documentary approach, plays each of the story’s turns (including its more improbable ones) with complete earnestness, counting on the sympathy Rourke earns from the audience to carry the film.
The Wrestler presents a fascinating peek at the workings of the pro-wrestling industry (the ten-derness and humor the athletes share backstage is the complete opposite of the ferocity they dis-play in the ring). It is also, at times, breathtak-ingly graphic in its depiction of the lengths wres-tlers will go to entertain the audience.
Mostly, though, The Wrestler is Rourke’s show, and the movie reminds you just how engaging he can be, whether with a comical sequence in which the Ram tries to make a go at working be-hind a deli counter serving obnoxious patrons, or a heartbreaking scene in which we watch him playing a wrestling video game on an ancient Nintendo with a kid who lives down the street, momentarily lost in the memories of his golden past. It’s a wonderful, career-reviving perfor-mance, and you can’t imagine the movie without him. Welcome back, Mickey.
TAKEN IS HANDS DOWN THE UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY OF THE YEAR
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FILM SHORTSBride Wars: Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson don their wedding dresses and get their catfight on in this movie that details, in what I am sure is painstaking fashion, just how bitchy a couple of spoiled girls can be when they don't get their way. Thank you, once again, Hollywood. ★
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: All I have to
of Brad Pitt and director David Fincher don't make you want to see this film, well, you were never going to see it to begin with. ★★★★
Defiance: Daniel Craig takes time off from being the
fighting Jew during WWII. While his performance is more than adequate, look for Liev Schreiber, portraying Craig's hotheaded brother, to steal the show. ★★★
Frost/Nixon:
disgraced former president Richard Nixon. What happens when Frost puts Nixon in the hot seat makes for fascinating history and even better cinema. ★★★★
Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood returns to the big screen—both in front of the camera and behind it—playing a man who finds himself at odds with both his neighborhood and, perhaps, the times in which we live, but refuses to put up or shut up. ★★★★ (R
Hotel For Dogs: A group of intrepid kids saves a bunch of happy hounds by putting them up in an abandoned hotel in this canine caper. Bring food and toys for the Whatcom Humane Society to the theater,
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Inkheart: Whatever happened to Brendan Fraser? I
(Gods and Monstersexclusively take on projects that involve costars created by CGI. Mr. Fraser, please step away from the green screen. ★★
Last Chance Harvey: Two unhappy folks—played by Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson—meet cute in London and proceed to have a nice little romance. ★★★
Marley & Me: Based on the popular book, this is the story of a loveable train wreck of a dog and the
who somehow find a way to live with and love him. ★★★
New In Town:girl forced to do a bit of business in a small town.
gettable and formulaic comedy. ★★
Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Kevin James plays a mall security guard who must foil criminals, thereby saving the world. Truth is, those of you who want to see this movie will do so regardless of what I say about it, while the rest of you already know better. ★
Revolutionary Road: Kate and Leo star in this ad
appreciated classic. Whether you'll like the film seems to depend strongly on whether you've read the book. So read it, already. ★★★★
Slumdog Millionaire: Danny Boyle's uplifting story of a "slumdog" trying to win the grand prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionairenominations, and has already won four Golden Globes and a prestigious Screen Actors Guild award. If you haven't seen this film, what are you waiting for? ★★
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Taken: See review previous page. ★★
The Unborn: I'm not going to come right out and say this is a bad movie, but when a plot deals with a bloodthirsty fetal twin, a curse dating back to Nazi
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The Uninvited: First, there was The Unborn. Now, The Uninvited. What's next, The Unremarkable? How about The Unwatchable? ★
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: I bet you didn't know that the Underworld saga required a prequel. Apparently, it does. And here it is. Sans Kate Beckinsale. Since she's pretty much the whole reason to see these films, what then, is the point of this one? ★★
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THE ADVICE GODDESSBRAKING WIND The guy I’ve been dating for three months has only had one relationship, lasting a year. On the continuum of Friends With Benefits and serious dating, I told him I was generally more toward the serious side, and he said he’s in the middle. He does sweet things for me and treats me really well, but he’s never verbal about his feelings or where he sees things going. I complained, and he said I “deserve better,” but said he didn’t want to say anything right then because it would be forced. Still, nothing’s changed. His friends assure me he’s “head over heels,” but I’d like to hear it from him. He’s the most solid guy I’ve met in years, but I’m a 38-year-old woman who wants kids, and I don’t want to waste time in a dead-end situation. —Edgy
There’s a reason they don’t put women in your position on interrogation duty at Guantanamo: “Why won’t you tell me your feelings? Where do you see us next year at this time? Don’t you love me? I’m 38, and I want a baby!” Sure, this is torture to a guy, but not the kind that’s gonna make him talk.
I’m guessing your guy actually was “verbal” about how he’s feeling. When you asked—and asked and asked—he probably told you “I dunno.” And that’s probably the truth. You know how girl parts are kinda different from boy parts? Well, girl brains and boy brains and hormones aren’t exactly alike, ei-ther. Brain imaging studies show that men tend to have less brain matter for processing and verbalizing emo-tion, like a smaller orbital frontal area, says neuropsychologist Ruben C. Gur, “related to the ability to regulate and contextualize emotional experience.” Research by Gur suggests that men’s knee-jerk emotional response tends to be physical—like socking somebody—where women’s is likely to be verbal. All in all, as Gur said to tell you, “some of the blunting of emotional expression in (your) boyfriend is part of being a biological male.”
By the way, what’s “the serious side of dating”? You sit around together in Amish shoes looking grim? A guy keeps seeing you because the fun outweighs the unfun. Any guy, even one who’s looking to get serious. Of course, you
should mention early on how much you want kids—winnowing out men who can’t picture themselves saying “Come to daddy” to anyone who isn’t wearing a sequined G-string.
This guy has been telling you a lot, just not in girlspeak. He told you he’s had a single one-year relationship—which suggests his determination to marry and make babies may pale in comparison to yours. Still, he shows you in lots of ways that he’s into you, he has some integrity, and he doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. If you’d like that to continue, work harder to figure out what he’s saying his way instead of stamping your feet and demanding he talk like a girl. Maybe consider vitrifi-cation, a new process for freezing your eggs, which might help you stop acces-sorizing for dates with a stopwatch. Dinner and a movie are more likely to lead to future dinners and movies (and then some) if you aren’t spending the entire time silently screaming at your date, “My eggs are aging by the minute! After this movie, they’ll be a whole 92 minutes older, and that’s not counting the previews!”
TOT AND BOTHERED I’ve been with my guy for four months, hanging out seven days a week. It’s mostly good, but when I’m with friends, he’ll complain he’s getting shorted on attention. Last week, I invited him, but if he wasn’t sitting between my girlfriend and me, he was miserable. Later, he said disgustedly that he has nothing in common with my friends, and called some “train wrecks.” Some are far from perfect, but what’s the harm in meeting a pal here or there for a beer? —Pressured
There are times in a man’s life when it’s acceptable to turn to a woman and say, “Pay attention to MEEEEE!” All of these times are when she’s his mommy and he’s 3 years old. Emotion-ally healthy adults have a natural sense of “Maybe we should take a break to-day” or “I think I’ll just pick my nose by myself this evening.” This guy is so small and needy that he has to shrink your life down so he’ll be the only one who fits in it. Meanwhile, you’ve let him colonize your head to the point where you’re actually wondering whether it’s okay to meet a friend for a beer. The real harm? Babysitting this brat keeps you from meeting an adult man—one who also likes sitting between two women, but not because it doubles his chances that somebody’ll catch his binky before it hits the barroom floor.
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t tell me you have nothing to be thankful for, Aries. Your parents could have named you “Hooligan” or “Lightsaber” or “Flu,” and they didn’t. There are no photos floating around the Internet that show you riding a pig in the nude. No one has ever broken up with you via text message. Now please keep going in the direction I’ve pointed you. Count your blessings up to at least 101. Create an ongo-ing list of all the things in your life that work pretty well and make you feel at home in the world. Why do this now? Because it’s Massive Explosions of Gratitude Week for you—a time when you can attract even more good fortune into your life by aggressively identifying the good fortune you already enjoy.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Sometimes a great idea whose time has come springs up in two or more places at once. In the 1850s, for instance, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace independently hap-pened upon some of the key concepts of evolution. And in the 1840s, mathematicians Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams virtually duplicated each other’s predictions of the previously unknown planet Neptune, although they knew nothing about each other’s work. I suspect a similar phenomenon is about to happen in your own sphere, Taurus. Act fast if you’d like to get as much credit as you deserve, like Darwin and Le Verrier, and not suffer the fate of Wallace and Adams, whose efforts were more invisible.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before she died at the age of 101, photographer Ruth Bernhard attributed her longevity to her restlessness. “Never get used to any-thing,” she advised. I recommend that approach to you right now, Gemini. You’re in a phase of your astrologi-cal cycle when thinking big and wild and free will be rewarded. To improve your physical health and boost your mental hygiene, unfamiliarize yourself with the people and things you’ve grown accustomed to. Sneak away from your habits. Disrupt and tamper with your normal responses. Find good excuses to be unpredictable.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “We are all stupid,” wrote Mark Twain, “just on different subjects.” Ain’t that the truth? Sometimes I get overwhelmed when I think about all the blanks in my education and the ignorance that pockmarks my understanding. The good news for me—and for all of you, my fellow Canceri-ans—is that we’re now in an astrological phase that’s ideal for getting a crash course in any subject we’re dumb about. If you’re brave and humble, you could fix several holes in your intelligence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You should definitely not attempt to re-route a mighty river anytime soon. I don’t recommend trying to change the location of a mountain, either, or commanding the wind to obey you, or shooting a flaming arrow at the sun. On the other hand, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to turn one of your so-called liabilities into an asset or use a stumbling block as a shield. And you might have pretty good luck if you try to convert an adversary into an ally or move sideways in order to advance your pet cause. In conclusion, Leo, seek modest gains that involve reversals and switcheroos.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture,” said author Fran Lebowitz, “you would pretty much be left with [the TV game show] Let’s Make A Deal.” That’s an exaggeration, of course, but it contains a large grain of truth. I offer this as a prod for you to deepen your understanding of the complexities of gender, Virgo. Astrologically speaking, it’s an excellent time to do so.
If you identify yourself as a heterosexual, meditate on the qualities you express that are commonly thought of as the specialty of the opposite sex. Consider the possibility that you are actually 65 percent female, 25 percent male, and 10 percent neither, or maybe 15 percent female, 70 percent male, and 15 percent transgender. If you regard yourself as gay, explore the hypothesis that a part of you is secretly kind of straight. Open your mind to the possibility that human beings come in hundreds of different genders.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Jack Spicer was a native Californian who wrote most of his poetry while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He did, however, spend a short time on the East Coast. “Like most primi-tive cultures,” he reported after returning home, “New York has no feeling for nonsense.” I don’t agree with that assessment. Some of the best nonsense I ever experienced transpired during a November night in 2005 on New York’s West 23rd Street. In any case, Libra, your assignment in the coming week is to avoid primitive en-vironments that have no feeling for nonsense. You need a maximum dose of silly, goofy, loopy bursts of diversion. I promise it’ll make you both smarter and wiser.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your world is going to get very wet in the coming days. At least I hope it will. There are wrong moves you could make that would keep things pretty dry, or else move you away from the imminent deluge. But I hope you will go with the cosmic flow and allow yourself to get the full benefit of the replenishing flood. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel the deep moisture that’s beyond language. You need to be carried along in the fertile surge and returned to the source of your emotional life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If your actions speak louder than words,” rants TV pundit Stephen Colbert, “then you’re not yelling loudly enough.” That’s a funnier variant of the advice I have for you, Sagittarius, which is as follows: The coming week is a time for crafty talk, not impulsive deeds; a time for intense discussion, not brash exploits. Engaging in almost any kind of nego-tiation, even if it’s heated and convoluted, is better than leaping into an adventure prematurely. It’s my opinion that you and yours will have to express a lot of ideas and feelings in order to uncover the understandings that should be at the root of your next moves.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Studies suggest that one out of every 10 men and one out of every 20 women carry around an excess of anger—so much so that they’re capable of damaging property in an outburst. If you’re one of these rage-aholics, Capricorn, you now have a window of opportunity to calm way, way down. The cosmos is conspiring to relieve you of a significant amount of your chronic aggravation. And even if you’re not among the world’s most furious people, I hope you will take advantage of this grace period. You have the power to purge at least 20 per-cent of the ever-simmering agitation that you accept as normal. How to begin? Meditate on what it would mean for you to love yourself better.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground,” says an ancient Egyptian proverb. Keep that thought in mind as you head into the thick of your new phase of growth, Aquarius. What part of you needs to deepen as you rise up? What growth needs to unfold in the hidden places as you gravitate toward the light? How can you go about balancing and stabilizing your ascension with a downward penetration?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to Harper’s Index, an Iowa farmer can generate an annual revenue of $300 per quarter acre by growing corn to produce ethanol. If the farmer instead puts a wind turbine on that same patch of land, however, he could earn $10,000 per year. I urge you to meditate on that scenario as a metaphor for your own life, Pisces. Are you underutilizing one of your resources? Are you failing to fully capitalize on your potentials? Have you accepted a low-yield reward in a situation that could bring you much, much more? If so, what are you going to do about it?
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2am every Friday and Saturday next to Hohl’s Feed & Seed on Railroad Avenue, keeps it simple without skimping on quality. Each Hempler sausage weighs in at a solid one-fifth of a pound, and the French rolls they’re served on are made fresh. From the jumbo dog (all beef), to the Polish dog (beef and pork, slightly spicy), to the Veggie Boca, most offerings are just $3.75.
“They’re really, really good,” we were told recently by a slurring, well-dressed 20-something who hadn’t re-alized the Captain (owner Marc Rava-ris), wouldn’t open the sliding doors for another hour or so, no matter how many times he knocked. Having sam-pled the wares before at Ravaris’ spot on campus and at his summertime harbor venture, Dogs on the Dock, we were quick to agree.
For those looking for more of a food commitment, the Bowl N’ Roll—also open till 2am on the weekends—is just around the corner. With a goal to create gourmet edibles while still keeping menu items economical, the Holly Street eatery whips up every-thing from fresh falafal ($3) to hand-made egg rolls ($2), gyro sliders (2 for $3 or 5 for $5.99), dumpling soup ($4.99), and specials like chicken pot pie, meat loaf with parsley potatoes and chicken risotto balls. A recent night found me noshing on the co-conut curry with Yukon Gold taters, carrots and chicken ($4.99). It was flavorful, warming and filling, and, dare I say it, healthy.
“We are very proud of the fact that everything we serve is made in-house from scratch—with the exception of the noodles and bread,” owner Danielle Kazemzadeh says.
To make your night last forever, head farther down Holly Street to “the Shoe.” The venerable restaurant and bar—which has feeding hungry souls in downtown Bellingham since its first incarnation in 1886—is pretty much
the only place in town where you can go and witness the moon and the sun come up in the same sitting.
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Horseshoe Cafe—which was also the first licensed bar in Whatcom County back in 1950—is where you go whether you want a big platter of cheese fries ($4.99) to soak up the li-quor, chicken-fried steak ($10.99), or a Hop-A-Long Special (2 eggs, 2 piec-es of bacon, 2 slices of toast or a hot cake for $3.99-$5.99). If the hour is right, order a Blood Mary ($4), which, made Horseshoe style, is pretty much a meal in itself.
Another late-night eatery of note is the Cop-per Hog on State Street, a gastro-pub that serves delectable menu items such as curry chips ($6) and Colcannon ( I r i s h - s t y l e mashed pota-toes, $4) till around 1am ev-ery night of the week. If sim-plicity is what you’re seeking, head farther down on State to Pel’ Meni, which cooks up Russian dump-l ings—choose from meat or po-tato for $6—till
around 2am. Add some sour cream and hot sauce, and you’re good to go.
So, next time you’re out dancing and belatedly realize you put off fueling your body till after the midnight hour, keep these places in mind. They may not save your life, but they’ll keep you going till morning comes.
BY AMY KEPFERLE
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