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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIASKAGIT*WHATCOM*ISLAND*LOWER B.C.
01/16/08 :: 03.03 :: FREE
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LA CONNER: ART AND ADVENTURE, P. 19 | WHAT’S UP?: AWARDS, MUSIC AND NUDITY, P. 20
01.15 1929 - 04.04 1968
HEAVEN & EARTH: THE ALGEBRA OF RECONVEYANCE, P. 8
A DREAM DEFERRED
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WEDNESDAYON STAGEThe King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett
MUSICMusic Circle: 7:30pm, Roeder Home
WORDSWilliam Stafford Celebration: 7pm, Village Books
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham Public Market
GET OUTActive Living Talk: 5:15pm, Communications Facil-ity, WWU
Native Plant Society Meeting: 7pm, Fairhaven Park Pavilion
01.17.08
THURSDAY ON STAGEKermet Apio: 7pm, Viking Union, WWU
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett
MUSICCabin Fever: 6-8pm, Community Food Co-op
Jeff Bradetich: 7:30pm, Ferndale High School
WORDSMLK, Jr. Readings: 7pm, Lynden Library
Greta Gaard: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYSustainable Connections Party: 6pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal
GET OUTBike Maintenance 101: 6pm, REI
Travel Talk: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library
Fitness Forum: 7:15pm, Fairhaven Runners
01.18.08
FRIDAYON STAGETheatresports: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre
48 Hour Theater Festival: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater
The King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett
Upfront Unscripted: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEDance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance
MUSICFritz and the Freeloaders: 7pm, Bellingham Public Market
Owls in the Attic: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
WORDSFamily Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library
Joanne Harris: 1pm, Village Books
Pennie Morehead: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYPrayer Vigil for Peace: 5:30pm, Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Shabbat Celebration: 6:30pm, Chabad Jewish Center
VISUAL ARTSA Public Hanging Reception: 5-9pm, Blue Horse Gallery
01.19.08
SATURDAYON STAGETheatresports: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre
48 Hour Theater Festival: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater
The King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett
Upfront Unscripted: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEContra Dance: 9-11pm, Fairhaven Library
MUSICThelonious Monk Tribute: 7:30pm, Lairmont Manor
WORDSWill North: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYSwedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Hall
Immigration Reform Panel: 9am, WECU
MLK, Jr. Human Rights Conference: 10am, Syre Center, Whatcom Community College
GET OUTEagle Watchers: 10am-4pm, Milepost 100 and Howard Miller Steelhead Park
Night Beach Walk: 8-10pm, Wildcat Cove, Larrabee State Park
VISUAL ARTSBoys & Girls Club Exhibit: 10am-5pm, Center for Expressive Arts
Family Art Day: 10am and 1pm, Museum of North-west Art, La Conner
Sean O’Connor Reception: 6-8pm, the Paperdoll
01.20.08
SUNDAYON STAGEH.M.S. Pinafore Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden Valley
The King and I: 2pm and 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett
MUSICBill Evans, Megan Lynch: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm
Swing Connection Big Band: 2-4pm, the Leopold
Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre
WORDSLana Ayers, Nancy Pagh: 4pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYRoe v. Wade Anniversary: 3pm and 5pm, Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood
GET OUTEagle Watchers: 10am-4pm, Milepost 100 and Howard Miller Steelhead Park
01.21.08
MONDAYON STAGEH.M.S. Pinafore Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden Valley
Theater Lab: 7pm, Whatcom Family YMCA
WORDSMLK Read-In: 11am-4pm, Village Books
MLK Poetry Reading: 7-9pm, Swan Café, Com-munity Food Co-op
Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso
COMMUNITYRock & Gem Club Meeting: 7pm, Bloedel Donovan
01.22.08
TUESDAYMUSICPiano Interlude: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum
Celtic Harp Concert: 7:30pm, Roeder Home
COMMUNITYEating Locally Talk: 6:30pm, Co-op Connection Building
GET OUTWinter Camping Clinic: 6pm, REI
Audubon Society Meeting: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library
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A glance at what’s happening this week
TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND INFO TO [email protected]
WORLD-RENOWNED BANJO MAN
BILL EVANS hooks up with fi ddle fi lly Megan Lynch for some fast-paced fi n-ger fun Jan. 20 at Nancy’s Farm
SEE POP CULTURE AND ART COLLIDE at an opening reception for an exhibit featuring TEEN HEAT STUDIO’S SEAN O’CONNOR Jan. 19 at the Paperdoll
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Mailbag missives
6: A civil response
8: Of land and logs
13: Robberies, trials, resolutions
ART & CULTURE 15: Virgin snow
17: Continuing the struggle
18: Ten plays, two days
19: Loving La Conner
20: Awards, music, nudity
24: Clubbin’
26: Savage siblings, mad money
REAR END 25: Help Wanted, Services
26: Crossword, Free Will Astrology
27: Wellness
28: Troubletown, This Modern World, Advice Goddess
29: Bulletin Board
34: Tangy treasures
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JESSE JACKSON, P. 6 VIRGIN SNOW, P. 15 FREE WILL , P. 30
REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIASKAGIT*WHATCOM*ISLAND*LOWER B.C.
01/16/08 :: 03.03 :: FREE
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LA CONNER: ART AND ADVENTURE, P. 19 | WHAT’S UP?: AWARDS, MUSIC AND NUDITY, P. 20
01.15 1929 - 04.04 1968
HEAVEN & EARTH: THE ALGEBRA OF RECONVEYANCE, P. 8
A DREAM DEFERRED
NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
CONTENTS CREDITS LET TERS
HEIGHTS AND HIGHLANDS
OK. Lets have a discussion of the ethics of Mischaikov’s tower and Chuckanut Ridge. But fi rst I have to disagree with you on the facts of those matters. Your recent Gristle played a little loose with the facts in my estimation—loose in a way that seemed designed to incite prejudice against Fairhaven Neighbors and Southsiders who are op-posed to Chuckanut Ridge de-velopment.
In the case of Fairhaven Neighbors, you implied that the group tilted consensus by excluding participation by all stakeholders by citing “planning commission com-plaints” as evidence of that. This is hearsay at best and I
challenge you to provide real evidence of intentional ex-clusion. Then, in the case of Southsiders against Chucka-nut Ridge development, you accuse them of “gerrymander-ing” a park district and caus-ing north side residents to suf-fer due to south side rejection of any growth. A look at the boundaries of the proposed park district shows a border that includes the Chuckanuts and the communities that im-mediately border them (from south Bellingham to Edison). You also fail to mention that the parks district was being discussed by Skagit residents well before Bellingham resi-dents got involved. Addition-ally, tying the parks district to the Chuckanut Ridge issue doesn’t wash.
While some of the parks district supporters are also Chuckanut Ridge preserva-tionists, you won’t fi nd funds from the parks district in the purchase funding plans being proposed by those preserva-tionists. It is clear that any money that might come from the parks district would be a very small part of the pur-chase price of CR and would be very far away in time if the elected commissioners were to even vote to seek funds for that purpose.
Then, in your worst preju-dicial statement (“residents in north suffer when south rejects growth”), you trot out the tired and false argument that reduced development in one part of town forces devel-opment to another area.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the fi rst person to stand atop Mount Everest, died Jan. 11 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was 88. Hillary, along with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, were the fi rst to conquer the world’s highest mountain in 1953.
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Can Fairhaven Neighbors be fairly accused of rejecting growth in the face of all the new units that have sprung up in the last five years? Did you read the South Neighborhood As-sociation’s proposed neighborhood plan amendment in which they en-couraged development of an urban vil-lage at 30th and the Parkway?
Despite these facts, appropriate preservation of natural areas cannot be linked to forcing development in other neighborhoods. I am a South-sider and I have worked for preser-vation of natural areas in the York Neighborhood, Whatcom Falls area, and the King and Queen Mountain ar-eas as well as Chuckanut Ridge.
One ethical issue that we might discuss even if we don’t agree on the above issues is that of the environ-mental ethic of continuing to destroy our natural environment in the face of impending global catastrophe. The ar-gument that we have to destroy some habitat in order to save others is ee-rily similar to the Vietnam-era phrase, “We had to destroy the village in or-der to save it.” That logic didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.
It’s a whole new ball game in terms of our ability to survive on this plan-et, and we have to take a whole new approach. The old politics of control by the landed elite will have to end. The process is tilted in their favor. Truly democratic control of land use decisions and housing needs to be our goal.
The Weekly called for an ethical de-bate where all parties can participate. I agree with that, as long as all par-ties are equal. It’s not that way now. Until it is, I don’t see how there can truly be an ethical debate.
—Michael Chiavario, Bellingham
DIGGING OUT OF A HOLEThe transportation element of Bell-
ingham’s Comprehensive Plan rec-ognizes, in principle, that widening our way out of the traffic problems caused by the old pattern of land use is neither practical nor desirable. The decision to allow some road segments to become congested at rush hour (LOS-F) was loudly criticized, but I think is the right policy.
Two blocks from my home in the Roosevelt Neighborhood, a deviation from that policy has been implement-ed; and the results of the exception prove the rightness of the rule.
The corner store at Woburn and Ala-bama was purchased and demolished to make way for a right turn lane, al-lowing cars traveling south to turn east more quickly. Three times in the past month I have had vehicles us-ing the new lane dangerously ignore
me and the pedestrian right of way as they speed through.
While congestion at the intersec-tion, a problem for about one hour each weekday, has diminished, so has the walkability of the neighborhood. Wider roads are in opposition to the needs of pedestrians and residents. And the loss of the corner store re-quires more car trips by neighborhood residents who used to walk; this adds to congestion throughout the city.
We cannot dig our way out of the hole, and trying to do so harms our neighborhoods. The wise solution lies in understanding the link between homes, land use and transportation. Most people will drive to the grocery store if it is three miles away; but few will drive if it is only three blocks away. This common sense should be incorporated when we plan for hous-ing and commercial centers (as in urban villages) rather than when the road to the store gets congested.
I applaud the city’s general policy, and urge them to fully enact it with-out creating new exceptions.
—Alex Ramel, Bellingham
RAINING ON CYCLISTS’ PARADE
In answer to Bo Richardson’s an-swer to Bill McKibbon regarding less car use, more bike riding, to save the environment, it just ain’t that easy.
For 2½ years I drove a company truck, which I took home from work, too. I couldn’t perform my job with-out a vehicle. Try carrying your tools and supplies in the mini-rickshaw at-tached to a bike from Bellingham to Anacortes, or worse, to Point Rob-erts.
So I went without a car of my own for 2½ years until I recently became a card-carrying member of the unem-ployed. Try showing up to an inter-view on a bike still freshly dressed. Try doing that in the rain. Sound crazy? I’ve done it. And don’t forget your helmet!
I now own a used vehicle due di-rectly to the rain. While biking down the alley behind State Street Depot on the way to pay my late PSE bill, I hit the old railroad channel and spilled, landing hard on my head. I was a filthy, disoriented mess. I truly believe I wouldn’t be writing this to-day had I not wore a helmet. In fact, I’m done with biking it. I don’t feel like losing 15 pounds, thanks. And the population of extreme sports fa-natics in this town, who gear up when the weather’s the worst, baffles me.
Biking to work in this damn town between October and April we should just not do.
—David A. Czuba, Bellingham
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VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPINIONS THE GRISTLE
WHEN I think back on the Rev. Martin Luther King on his birthday, I know he would have been both pleased and troubled by our current state. He would surely have been pleased at a picture of the Democratic debate in New Hampshire—an African American, a woman, a white male populist and a Hispanic compet-ing for the Democratic nomina-tion to be president. When King had his dream, he knew a day like this might come.
He surely would have been trou-bled by the state of our country. Poverty is up; hunger spreading. Millions of children go without adequate health care. Affordable housing is lacking, and now in the subprime mortgage crisis, millions face losing their homes. Wages are more unequal than ever; parents are working harder and longer and not keeping up. For much of America, the recession has been going on long before the econo-mists woke up to it.
King had a dream, but he was not a dreamer. He kept challeng-ing this country. He understood that equal protection under the law was a necessary but not suffi -cient step toward a good society. He spent his last birthday orga-nizing a poor people’s campaign, meeting with whites from Appala-chia, Latinos, leaders from many different religions. He wanted to build a march—across lines of race, religion and region—that would call on this wealthy nation to deal with entrenched poverty. He was looking for justice, not for alms. The right to a job and a living wage, the right to orga-nize and bargain collectively, the right to health care and afford-
able housing: These issues were the next stage in his struggle.
That’s why the current press fo-cus on the sniping between the campaigns is a dangerous distrac-tion. Candidates are tired; the campaign is close. Advisors argue for going negative; surrogates take cheap shots. Little things get magnifi ed out of proportion, and start rubbing the raw wounds of race and gender.
When Obama said that Hillary was “likeable enough,” it was not a gender insult; it was a gentle com-pliment. These two were friends; they have campaigned together.
To turn it into anything else is simply silly. When Hillary said Lyndon Johnson was necessary to get the Voting Rights Act passed, of course she’s right. It took years of demonstrations, litigation and legislation to challenge segre-gation. King appreciated what Johnson helped achieve, even as he continued to challenge him. Hillary’s statement is not a racial insult. When surrogates start de-meaning Obama’s experience as an organizer or insinuating garbage about his past, that degrades all of us, not just him.
The problem with this stuff is that it can easily get out of hand, embittering supporters on both sides. We’re having a vital compe-tition inside the team about who should be the fi rst-string quar-terback. And it’s great that the competition is stiff and the com-petitors all highly skilled. But the battle for position shouldn’t be so bitter that it divides the team and makes it impossible for the winner to bring us together to meet the real competition.
Show us your stuff; let the vot-ers make the choice. Who can best bring about the change we need? Who has the best plan to make this economy work for working people? Who will stand up for the poor and stand up to the power-ful? Who will best lead us out of this misbegotten war, so we can begin to rebuild America?
Let’s appeal to people’s hopes, not their fears, and give them someone to vote *for*, not against.
©2008 TMS, Inc. Contact the Rev. Jesse Jackson at [email protected].
ONE-TWO PUNCH : Bellingham’s new mayor is gifted with skills that deserve comment and praise.
First is the knack to read or listen cursorily and not only get the gist, but tie that to other diverse snippets he’s gleaned—a facile mind. In other words, he needn’t read the last line to surmise how the story must end. That this skill is not yet fully tied into Bellingham’s Byzantine politics may be both blessing and curse. Re-lated to the fi rst, he has experience unlike that of any other candidate who ran for the offi ce in 2007, that of a technocrat at the state level, where one must—to succeed—view the landscape from 40,000 feet… and see the handwriting on the wall:1. The mayor counterpunched adroitly at a recent Northwest Business Club forum, where he presented ar-guments against urban growth area expansion he would later lay in front of Bellingham City Council this week. That Mayor Dan Pike had to counterpunch rather than lead in with a TKO is perhaps a symptom of Pike’s inex-perience in the political arena (a “shortcoming” voters found refreshing in their candidate)—NWBC paleocons are a tough-to-please crowd, and they fi ght rough; but Pike jabbed and weaved appropriately.
Pike laid out to pro-development forces, as he did with council this week, his essential argument against UGA expansion at this time: Once done, it cannot be undone.
“I don’t know of,” he observed, “and I challenge any-one to fi nd for me, one instance of a UGA expansion that was approved and later withdrawn.” Things irrevocable need to be approached with caution, Pike reasoned.
To that end, Pike proposed a resolution this week that the city would not quarrel with Whatcom County’s fi nal analysis of Bellingham’s land supply, but might agree to agree. In proposing that, he leaped farther than most on City Council were willing to follow in a bound.
At issue is COB’s land supply analysis, which found that the physical size of Bellingham must increase by 13 percent in order to accommodate a growth in popu-lation projected over the next 20 years.
We’ve written before of the threads upon which this imperative rests: an expected average for future growth based on historic highs; a plan for future park acreage more generous than current; and—most troubling—an expected average density for new home construction in added greenfi elds at the lowest allowable density. These threads mesh to create a land catastrophe that suits the aims of greenfi eld developers oh-so-well. Pluck at these threads, and the garment of land supply crisis begins to unravel.
Equally important, as demonstrated by fl edgling council member Jack Weiss in council committee, these dire assumptions fl y apart in the face of modest re-development and infi ll proposals, already in existence and supported by neighborhood plans, that could close the gap in projected housing shortfalls.
Pike understands a rubbery urban edge removes the urgency from a robust discussion of infi ll. He asked policymakers to yield more time before admitting ad-ditional UGAs; instead, council gave itself more time to sandbag its woeful original decision, stalling to hear more developer comments that Whatcom County Coun-cil will likely shrug off. What purpose does it serve?
Whatcom County Council acknowledges what City Council does not—that the state’s Growth Management Act, while providing a framework for slow sprawl, also embodies a hope that communities may choose a dif-
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The Gristleferent future, given political will and the conviction of elected offi cials.
GMA encourages policymakers to settle their differences before a county makes its fi nal determination, a deci-sion counties alone are empowered to make. One purpose in this reconcilia-tion is to unite municipalities against inevitable lawsuits from the very peo-ple who gamed the land supply debate in the fi rst place. Pike’s resolution must be understood in that light.
City Council dithers. Watching from the gallery above, County Council members slowly shake their heads in bemused wonderment: Their train has already left the station. It’s chugging slowly only to give COB fellow travelers a chance to scramble aboard.2. Pike this week landed a second blow with similar rapidity, proposing a (long-overdue) public development authority for the waterfront.
Under the laws of Washington, spe-cial purpose PDAs can be established by cities or counties. They are typi-cally formed for specialized projects best managed outside the bureaucracy of general purpose government, such as fostering real estate or marketplace development. To this end, PDAs tend to be more entrepreneurial than their sponsoring municipality, involving pri-vate sector participants as board mem-bers or partners. PDAs allow municipal-ities to boldly participate in projects they may be otherwise disinclined to commit to due to project risks and competing priorities.
That defi nition aptly describes COB in its uneasy relationship with the loom-ing liability of the Port of Bellingham’s watershed redevelopment schemes.
Council has—time and again—re-vealed itself, swamped with diverse and distracting priorities, incapable of keeping pace with the port’s dogged fi xation on a waterfront plan that, while certain to shovel public sector loot into the overstuffed wallets of the agency and its private sector pals, probably makes for a poor city plan in the long run. Why should that be a surprise, when COB— not POB —has the experience (and duty) to make a city viable and livable?
A PDA levels the playing fi eld, as the city considers how gamely it may continue to facilitate and fi nance the port’s aggressive swindle—under the hokum of “economic development”—to churn public assets into private ownership via no-bid contract.
Pike’s proposal is perhaps less a roundhouse than a studied jab intend-ed to put an aggressor back into his corner.
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BY TIM JOHNSON
THE YEAR is 1990, and Trillium Corporation has proposed logging 210 acres on property the company owns above Dellesta Park, an affl uent neighborhood on the north shore of Lake Whatcom. Lake dwellers howl.
Scarcely seven years previously, torrential rains and meltwater tore open a seam on an old Georgia-Pacifi c clear-cut on Stewart Mountain, hurling nearly 80 acres of rock, soil, timber and slash into Smith and Olsen creeks, blowing homes, cars—even a woman—into Lake Whatcom. Now, seven years later, the scar is still bloody in residents’ minds.
Homes and population had mushroomed in the watershed in previous decades, and the economics of intensive logging on the steep, unstable slopes above them began to collapse. Muttering softly in the background, like a kettle beginning to warm over fi re, is a whisper that neither logging nor homes fi t well with the role Lake Whatcom also served as a municipal drinking water supply for half the county’s population—but that debate was still years from full boil. No, the issue now is private property rights.
Trillium had come to a reckoning that the ease of logging steep hillsides in Whatcom County were fading along with revenues; and had, at any rate, diversifi ed the company’s interests.
Trillium sought a solution and approached the State of Washington with a proposal to swap some 20,000 acres around Lake Whatcom and the Chuckanut Mountains for more productive forest lands elsewhere. The swap would help consolidate certain state trust lands and would remove one more private interest from the watershed. The state recognized benefi t in this proposal and agreed. For its benevolent silence, Whatcom County received a certain portion of state lands through an act of legislation called reconveyance.
Under the laws of the State of Washington, land acquired or designated as state forest land cannot be sold to county governments. Upon proper application, forest land the state no longer wishes to harvest can be reconveyed to local management as parkland.
Should the land ever cease to be a county park, it reverts back to state management.
The 1992 reconveyance creat-ed Pine and Cedar Lakes Trail, a steep and primitive path up the forested slopes of the Chuckanuts from Old Samish Road to remote ponds teeming with trout—a forest cruiser’s dream.
THE ALGEBRA OF RECONVEYANCE
The management of state trust lands by the Department of Nat-ural Resources is tricky business, according to Public Lands Com-missioner Doug Sutherland, who heads DNR.
The law requires that these lands be managed for the benefi -ciaries of the trust, which means they’re harvested for revenues. Indeed, in 1984, the Washington Supreme Court ruled revenue col-lection was the only criteria of concern to the manager of these trust lands. The so-called Skama-nia decision found that the state must act “with undivided loyalty to the trust benefi ciaries to the exclusion of all other interests.”
Yet, scarcely a decade after this decision, Sudden Valley residents Jamie Berg and Linda Marrom successfully halted a proposed 212-acre timber har-vest on Austin Flat authorized by DNR on behalf of trust land benefi ciaries. They did so by ap-pealing to the state Legislature, which agreed, unanimously, that there were matters of concern in the Lake Whatcom watershed just as important as revenue col-lection—namely, human health and safety.
In 1999, the Legislature passed SSSB 5536, Lake Whatcom Bill, which sought to protect the lake against potential impacts from proposed DNR timber harvest practices.
The bill set up an unhappy
churn for DNR—ordered on the one hand by the Supreme Court to promote forestry practices with undivided attention to maximize revenue to the trust benefi ciaries; ordered, on the other, by the Legislature to ease up on intensive forestry around Lake Whatcom.
The DNR headache worsened in 2001, when more than 400 citizens and lake denizens com-mented on DNR preliminary plans for forestry around Lake What-com, supporting an alternative that included no logging at all in the watershed—far more strin-gent than alternatives supported by the Lake Whatcom Watershed DNR Advisory Committee.
By June 2004, in a meeting with County Executive Pete Kre-men and council representatives made curious by a very unhappy, very uncomfortable lands com-missioner, Sutherland asked for solutions.
“The department,” Sutherland said, “would be willing to con-sider options that we may not have discovered yet.”
At a follow-up meeting beteen Sutherland and his Board of
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Natural Resources, board member Bruce Bare—dean of University of Washing-ton’s College of Forest Resources—sug-gested DNR look into transferring these lands to the county.
RECONVEYING A SOLUTIONFor Sutherland and BNR policy makers
the directive that these trust lands re-turn logging revenue rubs against the political certainty that they will never successfully be logged. The crisis boiled when, in September 2004, Whatcom County initiated a lawsuit to force the department to sit in one of those un-comfortable chairs, to formally adopt a Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan.
County and DNR staff had already inde-pendently investigated a solution where certain trust benefi ciaries might volun-tarily surrender revenues from the logging of these lands—primarily Whatcom Coun-ty and a sliver of Skagit on forest board lands; primarily Mount Baker School Dis-trict on common school lands. The state might then transfer management of these lands to another public agency; indeed, the only way the state might successfully dump these pesky lands is by reconveying them as a forest reserve park.
A forest reserve is a protected area for wildlife and other special inter-ests, which is reserved and managed for conservation.
Skepticism simmers among some naturalists and water quality advocates concerned that DNR lands are already under protected status and that a recon-veyance to county management reduces that protection. The county has no cred-ible record of responsible management within the watershed, they argue.
“There are no statutory restrictions on timber harvest once the land is re-conveyed as long as whatever harvest is done is in accordance with the parks
plan,” warns Tom Pratum, co-chair of the North Cascades Audubon Society section on Lake Whatcom forestry and watershed issues. “If all 8,500 acres were trans-ferred, a least some of this area would be available for harvest by this, or a future county administration, if desired.”
State Senator Harriet Spanel—who sponsored the Lake Whatcom Bill in the Legislature—disagrees. “The Lake What-com Landscape Plan applies, no matter who manages the land,” she notes. “The Legislature will enforce the plan, which prohibits uses incompatible with steep, unstable slopes within the watershed.”
“The argument the county would al-low more extensive logging in the wa-tershed than DNR is just not credible,” argues Lisa McShane, project manager for Whatcom Legacy, an advocacy group for long-range planning of county re-sources. “The county has a mandate for watershed protection; DNR recognizes the goal of watershed protection but has a management plan focused on tim-ber sales for trust benefi ciaries.”
“The two are really different,” agrees Michael McFarlane, director of Whatcom County Parks and Recreation. “We’re looking at it from, really, a watershed protection standpoint and old growth forest as being the end product; DNR, on the other hand, is looking at timber pro-duction in order to generate revenue.”
McFarlane explains that any cutting the county envisions would be selec-tive, with an eye toward sustainable forestry practices.
“We envision those practices would be toward getting those forests into a more diverse, old-growth forest eco-system, not harvest or production,” McFarlane explains.McFarlane encour-ages the long view.
“If you were to look 200 to 300 years down the road at what the two types of management would look like,” he explains, “the county would have a much older, mature forest, with no logging or forestry going on there. If the state continued, I imagine it would look pretty much like it does today.”
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Timeline: 25 Year ‘Secret Plan’Jan. 1983: Logging roads, clearcuts and a rain-on-snow
event trigger large landslides and debris fl ows throughout the watershed.
1985-1988:
DNR, Georgia-Pacifi c, and Scott Paper pay out-of-court settlements on property damage caused by landslide. Cost to DNR is estimated at $5 million.
1989: Trillium and GP propose logging a 210-acre parcel in the watershed. Bellingham Mayor Tim Douglas starts a forum to discuss logging impacts in the watershed.
1990: Trillium proposes a large land swap involving properties in the Chuckanuts, the South Fork Valley, and the Lake Whatcom watershed.
1991: Whatcom County Natural Heritage Plan directs the county to seek public ownership of the Chuckanuts and Lake Whatcom watershed lands.
1992: County and DNR sign an Interagency Agreement to initiate the Trillium land exchange.
1993: Trillium swaps 20,000 acres, including 7,500 acres added to public ownership in the watershed.
1998: DNR begins logging above Sudden Valley. Jamie Berg and Linda Marrom begin protests.
1999: SSSB 5536 passes unanimously to authorize a pilot project to study management of state trust lands in Bellingham’s municipal watershed.
2000: ESSB 6731 (Lake Whatcom Bill) passes unanimously to create and put in place new rules for logging on state trust lands around Lake Whatcom.
2001: Reps. Doug Ericksen and Kelli Linville introduce HB 1060, “Allowing for the conveyance of certain forest board transfer lands to protect municipal drinking water supplies.” The bill dies.
2001–2004:
Lake Whatcom Landscape Committee works on a landscape plan. Hundreds of citizens ask for little to no logging in the watershed. BNR declines to adopt this plan.
2003: Reconveyance actively debated on Lake Whatcom online public discussion list.
June 2004:
Public Lands Commissioner Sutherland meets with local offi cials and asks them to “consider options that we may not have discovered yet” as an alternative to passing the landscape plan.
Sept. 2004:
Whatcom County and Bellingham fi le suit, insisting BNR pass the landscape plan under E2SSB 6731.
Nov. 2004: BNR agrees to the landscape plan.
Feb. 2005: Skagit County fi les suit against DNR to overturn the landscape plan, complaining of lost revenues.
Sept. 2006:
Whatcom County Council discusses reconveyance as a 2007 planning item.
Spring 2007:
More public debate on reconveyance occurs on Lake Whatcom online discussion list.
Sept. 2007:
DNR issues a press release hinting at reconveyance. Opponents theorize reconveyance is a plan crafted in secret by candidates, an “October Surprise” designed to steal the coming election.
Sept. 2007:
Whatcom County Council authorizes $300,000 in 2008 budget to study reconveyance.
Nov. 2007: DNR proposes a tentative reconveyance agreement that would otherwise suspend the landscape plan; the county rejects it.
COMING DEBATEUnderstandably, school dis-
tricts and similar benefi ciaries do not want to surrender rev-enues from forestry on common school lands; and DNR will brook no net loss to common school trsut lands, according to Suther-land. That effectively removes nearly half of the 15,700 total DNR acres in the watershed from reconveyance.
Yet, DNR might shift the sta-tus of selected common school lands and forest board lands, consolidating parcels. Common school lands in less- sensitive harvest areas would keep work-ing to produce revenues, while forest board lands—approxi-mately 8,400 acres—might be reconveyed to Whatcom County.
“Arguably,” McShane says, “benefi ciaries of the common school trusts might receive bet-ter revenues than they’re re-ceiving currently on lands that really can’t be logged in the wa-tershed.”
For the larger public debate, “the county needs to put to-gether a timeline for that that will include—I would imag-ine—a lot of public meetings,” McFarlane explains, “including, fi rst, whether we should explore this at all.”
The process will not be quick.“We’re looking at perhaps a
year and a half to get all of the appraisals done once it gets past the county’s public process,” Mc-Farlane explains. “So there is the public process for the council, obviously, to move this forward; and then there is an additional public process for the reconvey-ance itself, which is a state re-quirement.”
Now imagine it—an area the size of Bellingham east of Inter-state-5 as a forest reserve park.
McShane reasons, “We should really be talking and thinking about what an old growth for-est 15 minutes from Bellingham might look like in 100 years—in terms of wildlife habitat, in terms of whether fallen trees should be removed—not wheth-er we should want 8,500 acres of 100-year-old forest within cy-cling distance of Bellingham.
“That’s been the tragedy of the public debate so far.”
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THAT WASeeTHE
currents A LOOK BACK AT THE WEEK
01.08.08TUESDAY
A Korean foreign exchange student, thrilled by his fi rst day in the United States, is struck by a van on Bill McDonald Parkway near West-ern Washington University. The driver fl ees the scene. Un Kyu Choi, 25, later dies of his injuries. Police arrest Ashley E. Wick, 20, on charges of felony hit-and-run and vehicular homicide. Investigators allege she was intoxicated at the time of her arrest.
Police capture a Ferndale man they say robbed a bank in Mount Vernon earlier in the day. Police were tipped after a surveillance video of the robbery aired on television. Ryan Byers, 23, is booked into Skagit County Jail.
Citizens express outrage over climbing fuel prices in Whatcom County at special hearing by state Attorney General Rob McKenna and economist Keith Leffl er. The two speculate that Canadian demand could be pushing prices higher here, refl ecting what the market will bear. Listeners remain skeptical.
01.09.08WEDNESDAY
Offi cials for the Alaska Marine Highway System say ferry trips from Juneau to Bellingham will be reduced to just one per week this sum-mer. In previous years, Alaska made two weekly jaunts from May to September.
01.10.08THURSDAY
With the 2010 Winter Olympics looming, U.S. Senator Patty Murray arrives to listen to challenges faced by local municipalities helping to secure the border with Canada. Local law enforcement, fi re and border offi cials emphasize the need for a multi-agency management center.
01.11.08FRIDAY
A Western Washington University student dies from what the county medical examiner fi nds is an overdose of addictive drugs . Nicholas L. De-Lauder of Spokane, 22, was found unconscious earlier by another student
in his dorm room. Toxicology tests suggest he died of an overdose of heroin, cocaine and oxy-codone. The death is ruled an accident.
Bellingham investment broker Carl Zarem-ba, 34, is sentenced to more than two years in prison after being convicted of bilking as much as $800,000 from his clients. Prosecu-tors say Zaremba spent much of the money he held for clients on wine, jewelry and other personal items.
The trial of a 24-year-old Bellingham man accused of killing his father is postponed while lawyers gather information on his men-tal health history. Brian Williams had recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and was in a schizophrenic rage when family members say he stabbed his father for trying to make him take his medication. Mark Williams, 52, died from the attack.
A second dealer at the Nooksack River Ca-sino is sentenced to two months in prison for his involvement in a cheating scam that in-volved the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. Levi Mayfi eld, 24, plead guilty to conspiracy July 31/ The Bellingham man is sentenced to 90 hours of community service and three years of supervised release.
The Washington Liquor Control Board ap-proves a permanent liquor license for the Nooksack Tribe’s Northwood Casino. The casino was issued a temporary license last month after a judge rejected Whatcom Coun-ty’s appeal of an earlier liquor control board ruling allowing the license.
01.13.08SUNDAY
Seattle is up 14-0. It starts to snow. Then the Seahawks, and their Super Bowl fan-tasies, are crushed by the cold-hardened Green Bay Packers, 42-20.
Bellingham Public Library is burglarized again. For the second time since the Christ-mas holiday. Library employees fi nd that un-known suspects have broken into the library and attempted to steal cash from one of the registers. Police say it appears entry was gained by prying open the front doors with an unknown tool.
01.14.08MONDAY
Bellingham City Council postpones a re-quest by Mayor Dan Pike to adopt a resolu-tion in support of Whatcom County’s stance on expansion of the city’s urban growth ar-eas. The county favors a smaller UGA than originally proposed by the city. Stalling the mayor, the council agrees to hear more public comments Jan. 28.
City Council tosses out the bids for the second phase of work on the Mount Baker Theatre after Dawson Construction complains that Ebenal General did not fully complete the proper paperwork. Ebenal had earlier made a similar complaint against Dawson’s bid to re-model the city’s WTA transit station. The city will seek a new round of bids for the project.
Lawmakers return to Olympia for a 60-day session. Governor Chris Gregoire wants the Legislature to add $234 million in spending to the $33 billion budget approved last year.
01.15.08TUESDAY
Bob Kelly joins colleagues on the Whatcom County Council in its fi rst meeting in 2008. Kelly replaces Dan McShane in District 1.
The Waterfront Advisory Group gets a re-cap from Port of Bellingham offi cials on the recent draft environmental impact state-ment issued for the central waterfront. City Council suggested a 30-day comment period. WAG members thought 60 days was more ap-propriate to fully digest the document.
Gov. Chris Gregoire delivers her 2008 State of the State Address as she welcomes the return of the Legislature.
Washington lawmakers return with a big budget surplus but lots to burn it on as they head into their election-year session.
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THURS., JAN. 17ARROYO HIKE: Hook up with the Sandy Point Hiking Club for a hike from Arroyo Park to Hemlock Trail start-ing at 9am at the Sandy Points Heights Clubhouse, 4460 Decatur Dr., Ferndale. For more info: 312-9189. SPOKE DOPE: Gain confi -dence in your two-wheeled conveyance at a free “Bike Maintenance 101” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. For more info: 647-8955. TRAVEL TALK: Richard Barnes will give a slide pre-sentation on his “Vagabond Journey to Paris, Egypt, Turkey, Amsterdam, and Be-yond…” at 7pm at the Bell-ingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Entry is $2. For more info: 676-6985. FITNESS FORUM: Triath-lete Maureen “Mo” Trainor will talk about the ben-efi ts of triathlon training at a free Fitness Forum at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Run-ners, 1209 11th St. For more info: 676-4955 or fairhavenrunners.com.
SAT., JAN. 19TRACKING AND TRAIL-ING: From 9am-2pm, Brian McConnell and Cody Beebe of Earthways Nature Educa-tion will lead “Tracking and Trailing Animals in their
Natural Habitat.” Cost is $25. For more info and lo-cation details: 599-1393 or earthwaysnature.org. BEER AND BURGERS: Join members of the Mount Bak-er Club today for a Mt. Erie “Beer and Burger Hike.” The group will make an optional stop at the Edison Longhorn Tavern on the way home. For more info: 332-3195BEACH WALK: Explore the winter low tide and observe various sea creatures at tonight’s naturalist-guided “Night Beach Walk” from 8-10pm at Larrabee State Park’s Wildcat Cove. The event is free, but donations are appreciated. For more info: 733-8307 or [email protected]
JAN. 19 - 20EAGLE WATCHERS: Learn more about the largest win-tering bald eagle popula-tion in the Lower 48 when the North Cascades Insti-tute offers up its annual Eagle Watchers program, which happens from 10am-4pm weekends through Feb. 3 at Howard Miller Steel-head Park, Milepost 100, and Marblemount Hatchery. For more info: (360) 856-5700 or ncascades.org.
SUN., JAN. 20HIDDEN SKAGIT: Find out more about the Port Susan Bay Preserve when a North Cascades Institute natural-ist leads a four-hour “Hid-den Skagit” tour today. Cost is $50. For more info: (360) 856-5700 or ncascades.org. LAVAS AND ASH: Dave Tucker will talk about “Cal-deras, Lavas, Ash and Mud-fl ows” at a free gathering at 2pm at the Whatcom Mu-seum, 121 Prospect St. For more info: 676-6981.
TUES., JAN. 22FOR THE BIRDS: The North Cascades Audubon Society will feature a talk by Mark VanderVen titled “In Search of the Ivory-bill” at a meeting at 7pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The public is welcome. For more info: 380-3356. SNOWED IN: Learn more about the basics at a free “Winter/Snow Camping” clin-ic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Attendees will receive a free snowshoe rental. For more info: 647-8955.
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BakedA pilgrimage
JUST LIKE job interviews or meeting the in-laws, the fi rst impression a ski resort makes on you sticks around long after the initial sensation, provid-ing the inner—and outer—personal anchor from which all subsequent experiences are inexorably linked.
My virginal journey to the Mt. Baker Ski Area, for instance, proved such an epic/nerve-shattering expe-rience that even now, a full decade later, the memory of it simultaneously elicits laughter and sends chills up my spine.
It was a dark and stormy night. Rain poured down in sheets. The highway was shrouded in mist. Our win-dows kept fogging up. The CD player didn’t work. The only thing we could tune in on the radio was an an-noying, badly garbled French-Canadian station.
Blasting winds heaved us sideways. Logging trucks roared menacingly out of the night. Our tiny little Suba-ru kept shuddering and hydroplaning all over the place.
The forest grew thicker. The night grew colder. It started to snow. Only it wasn’t like any snow I had ever known; rather than falling, it seemed to leap from below.
The whirling soda-cracker-sized fl akes made our eyes hurt. We took refuge at the nearest roadhouse, where locals strongly advised us to save the remain-der of our journey for the morning. But, as usual, we didn’t listen.
The snow pack got deeper and denser. The high-way curved sharper, narrowing into a frozen tree-lined tunnel. It felt like we were driving on a hiking trail. With the blinding blizzard howling all around, we crept cautiously but enthusiastically up the dark, lonesome thoroughfare.
The fi rst fallen tree across the road proved small enough to drive over, but the second one was thicker (and about three feet taller) than our car. After an hour of fruitless sawing and chopping with prepos-terously undersized hand tools, we were relieved by a trio of chainsaw-wielding locals who proceeded to power-winch their way through the obstacle in an awe-inspiring blur.
We gratefully followed their tracks as far as we could and pulled into a turnout. After a brief, toe/fi nger/face-numbing snooze, we were jarred rudely awake by the thunderous tsunami of about 5,000 pounds of projectile-like snow being plowed atop our already half-buried vehicle.
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fi nally started creaking our way up the hairpin switch-backs, it was snowing again. Queasy, disoriented and increasingly lost in the deluge, we somehow man-aged to park, purchase our tickets and reconnoiter our way to a chairlift.
Although the balmy coastal-induced temperature
proved tolerable, visibility was subzero. All around us on every horizon, sky and slope merged together as one. We didn’t know where the hell we were and we couldn’t see where we should be going.
The powder was exces-sively deep and heavy and our boards were much too small. We kept get-ting stuck. If we weren’t digging ourselves out, we were either getting lost in
the trees or being sucked down one gnarly, sick-ass chute after the other.
By noon my legs were jelly and I wanted to go home. But fi rst, I had to honor my promise and fol-low my buddy out to some remote backcountry prom-ontory where he could erect (and scenically photograph
for his family) a giant Wis-consin State fl ag in memo-rial of his recently deceased younger brother.
“Up there,” he said, point-ing wistfully at Mt. Shuksan.
But we only got as far as the cat road below White Salmon before the constant rumble of cleaving ice and avalanches fi nally spooked us to a halt, postponing our pilgrimage for another winter afternoon.
THE POWDER WAS EXCESSIVELY DEEP AND HEAVY AND OUR BOARDS WERE MUCH TOO SMALL
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WORDSWED., JAN. 16 STAFFORD CELEBRATION: Celebrate the memory of Oregon poet William Stafford at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Bring your favorite poem by Stafford, or come listen to others read theirs. For more info: 671-2626. SPOKEN WORD: Poets of all ages and abilities are welcome to drop by Spo-ken Word Wednesdays every week at 8pm at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. The event is free. For more info: 714-0800.
THURS., JAN. 17REMEMBER, ACT: Honor Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. at a “Remember, Cel-ebrate and Act” reading at 7pm at the Lynden Library, 216 Fourth St. All ages are welcome. For more info: 354-4883. ON GAARD: Former WWU prof Greta Gaard talks about her book, The Na-ture of Home: Taking Root in a Place , at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
FRI., JAN. 18FAMILY TALES: The Bellingham Sto-rytellers Guild offers up Family Story Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Maya Norton, a 12-year-old, will be the featured teller. For more info: 676-6877. HARRIS, MOREHEAD: Joanne Har-ris—author of Chocolat —reads from her fi rst children’s book, Runemarks , at 1pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. At 7pm, Pennie Morehead talks about her book, Green River Serial Killer: Bi-ography of an Unsuspecting Wife . For more info: 671-2626.
SAT., JAN. 19LONG WALK: Vashon Island’s Will North reads from The Long Walk Home at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
SUN., JAN. 20OLD AND NEW: Lana Hechtman Ay-ers and Nancy Pagh will share poems from their various collections—both old and new—at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
MON., JAN. 21MLK READING #1: Kids can drop by the “MLK Read-In” from 11am-4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The event features WWU students reading stories containing messages of social justice and equality. For more info: 671-2626. MLK READING #2: Bob Paltrow will host the annual MLK, Jr. Poetry Reading and Open Mic from 7-9pm at the Co-op’s Swan Café, 1220 N. Forest St. All are in-vited to share a poem or song focusing on diversity, human rights or related issues. For more info: 734-8158. POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read your creations at Poetry Night at 8:30pm every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 1322 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 715-1634 or poetrynight.org.
WED., JAN. 23MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS: Local au-thor Jo Dereske leads a workshop on “Mysteries: Concept and Conclusion” at 6pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Cost is $40. For more info: 671-2626.
COMMUNITYTHURS., JAN. 17SUSTAINABLE CELEBRATION: Sustain-able Connections will celebrate six years of operations with a party and meeting at 6pm at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. The event is free. For more info: 647-7093.
FRI., JAN. 18PRAYERS FOR PEACE: All denomina-tions are welcome to attend a Prayer Vigil for Peace in the Middle East at 5:30pm at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1110 14th St. For more info: 734-2850. ONE SHABBAT: Light candles, attend prayer services and share a meal at the “One Shabbat, One World” event at 6:30pm at the Chabad Jewish Cen-ter, 717 High St. Cost is $4-$9 and res-ervations are required. For more info: 933-4818 or jewishbellingham.com.
SAT., JAN. 19PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Attend the Swedish Pancake Breakfast—fea-turing “Swedish pancakes made by Norwegians”—from 8-11am at Norway Hall, 1419 N. Forest St. Cost is $3 for kids and $6 for adults. For more info: 733-6618. CANDIDATE FORUM: The League of Women Voters will hold a public fo-rum on “Immigration Reform” at 9am at the Whatcom Educational Credit Union, 511 Holly St. For more info: 756-0730.
SUN., JAN. 20REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: Cel-ebrate 35 years of reproductive free-dom and the anniversary of Roe v. Wade at 3pm and again at 5pm at Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood, 1530 Ellis St. Clinic tours, a documentary, guest speakers and more are on the lineup. The event is free, but reservations are required. For more info: 603-7705 or [email protected].
MON., JAN. 21ROCKS AND GEMS: Attend the monthly meeting of the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club at 7pm at the Bloedel Donovan Beach Pavilion, 2214 Electric Ave. Visitors are welcome. For more info: 384-3187.
TUES., JAN. 22OFF-SEASON EATING: The North Cascade Institute’s Charles Classen will explore “Eating Locally in the Off-Season” at 6:30pm at the Co-op Connection Building, 1220 N. Forest St. Cost is $20-$24. For more info: 734-8158.
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BY MARIE MARCHAND
‘Creative Insecurity’King friend and colleague con-tinues his beautiful struggle
“BREAKING THE silence is a career of agony,” he proclaimed on April 4, 1967, exactly one year be-fore his assassination four decades ago. “ Beyond Viet-nam,” delivered at The Riv-erside Baptist Church in New York City, was a turning point for Martin Luther King, Jr.: it redefi ned for him his true friends and challengers, and put in jeopardy his relation-ships with President Lyndon Johnson, the media, and even colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This historic speech was drafted by King’s friend and colleague, Dr. Vincent Harding.
During the 1960s, Harding was chair of the history de-partment at Spelman College in Atlanta. He and his wife Rosemarie and their children lived just blocks from King’s family. Following King’s assassination, Coretta Scott King invited Harding to be the fi rst director of the King Center in Atlanta.
Harding was a professor of mine at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, where he served as Professor of Re-ligion and Social Transformation. He was a mentor to me as I prepared for an action of civil disobedience at the Raytheon Corporation in April 2003. It is a serious oc-cupation having Dr. Harding as a mentor. Harding lived the tradition of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement, and had me consider the possibility of facing the ultimate consequence: death. I suggested that times had drastically changed; he suggested that, in many ways, they hadn’t.
“Love and compassion are not shields against the instru-ments of physical destruction,” he writes. “Rather, they provide us with the power to stand and face the enemies of light; they generate energy to create perpetual starbursts of brilliant hope, even as we take our last breath.”
In his book, Martin Luther King, Jr: The Inconvenient Hero, Harding writes about the transformation of King’s thought processes and actions during the last four years
of his life. Harding submits that this part of the hero is rarely recalled or publicly lauded on MLK Day. He writes, “Sometimes we wish to forget that by April 1967, King was a belea-guered public fi gure.”
Toward the end of his life, King called for “radical reconstruction” of our society’s triple evils of racism, ma-terialism and mili-tarism. “We’ve got to fi nd a method that will disrupt our cities,” he cried out. “We’ve got to camp in—put our tents in front of the White House.”
King said, “The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.” Of course he was com-mitted to nonvio-lence as a lifestyle and political strat-egy to the end.
King called his ministry “the long and bitter—but beautiful struggle for a new world.”
Harding invites us to partner with King in what he calls “creative in-security;” he chal-lenges us to take up King’s “unfi nished business.”
When we meet a person as remark-able, gentle, and powerful as Vincent Harding, a whole new world of pos-sibility and struggle opens up. We see that the spirit of MLK is alive, and we fi nally understand that we have a role in making all parts of King’s dream a reality.
Marie Marchand is executive director of What-com Peace & Justice Center in Bellingham.
HEARFIVE ENGAGEMENTSWHO: Dr. Vincent HardingWHEN: 10 am, Sat., Jan. 19; WHERE: Whatcom Hu-man Rights Task Force’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Conference: Breaking the Silence, co-spon-sored by Whatcom Peace & Justice Center, What-com Community College Syre Center
WHEN: 1-4pm, Sun., Jan. 20WHERE: Youth of Faith Peace & Justice Retreat hosted, Faith Lutheran Church, 2750 Mcleod Rd, Bellingham
WHEN: Noon, Mon. Jan 21WHERE: Keynote ad-dress at MLK Celebration at Bellingham City Hall, emceed by Clyde Ford with The Kulshan Chorus
WHEN: 9:20am, Tues., Jan. 22WHERE: Bellingham High School Assembly
WHEN: 12-1:30pm, Weds., Jan. 23, WHERE: Western Washington University’s World Issues Forum, Fairhaven Auditorium.INFO: WHRTF.org
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STAGEJAN. 16 - 20THE KING AND I: Song and dance will be on the lineup when the family-friendly musical The King and I shows at 8pm Jan. 16-19, and 2pm and 7pm Jan. 20 at Everett’s Village Theatre, 2710 Wetmore Ave. Tickets are $12-$14. For more info: (425) 257-8600 or villagetheatre.org.
THURS., JAN. 17GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch seasoned improvisers try new things and newer performers spread their wings when you visit “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront The-atre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are only $5. For more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com. COMEDY FEST: Seattle comedian Kermet Apio will perform as part of the Viking Comedy Fest at 7pm at WWU’s Viking Union Multipurpose Room. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 general. For more info: 650-3738.
JAN. 18 - 1948 HOUR FEST: Watch original plays created from “page to stage” in 24 hours as part of the semi-annual 48 Hour Theater Festival at 8pm and 10pm at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Morgan Grobe, Glenn Hergenhahn, Eva Suter, Sol Olmstead, and Bryan Willis will pen the plays, which will be performed by local thespians. Tickets are $10 for the 8pm show and $8 for the 10pm show. For more info: 201-5464 or idiomtheater.com. MIXED BAG: Bellingham improvisers will com-pete for glory as part of Theatresports matches at 7:30pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 9:30m, stop by the space for “Upfront Unscripted.” Tickets are $8 for students with identifi cation and $10 general. For more info: 733-8855 or theup-front.com.
JAN. 20 - 21AUDITIONS: Adults, teens and children can audi-tion for roles in upcoming performances of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore at 6:30pm at the Barn Theatre at the Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Gate 2. For more info: 756-9916.
MON., JAN. 21THEATER LAB: A new series of Theater Labs with Bellingham Plays! and instructor Gene Schankel kicks off tonight at 7pm at the Whatcom Fam-ily YWCA, 1256 N. State St. Enrollment is open to both beginners and experienced actors who want
to hone their skills. Cost is $99 for eight weeks. For more info: 671-7854 or [email protected].
DANCEFRI., JAN. 18DANCE PARTY: All are welcome at tonight’s weekly Dance Party from 9-11pm at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Show up at 8pm if you want to take a lesson. Entry is $7-$12. For more info: 676-0292 or uandmedance.com.
SAT., JAN. 19CONTRA DANCE: Vancouver, B.C’s Giblitz Fancy will provide live tunes at the fi rst Contra Dance of 2008 from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Gordy Euler will do the calling. Suggested donation is $8-$10. For more info: 676-1554 or bellingham-countrydance.org.
MON., JAN. 21MODERN MOVEMENT: Drop-ins are welcome at the weekly Beginning Modern Dance class at 6pm every Wednesday at the Firehouse Performing Arts Cen-ter, 1314 Harris Ave. The class is open to all ages. For more info: 676-4113.
Kermet Apio, a Honolulu-born comedian who now makes his home in Seattle, will bring his funny business to town Jan. 17 at the Viking Comedy Fest at Western Washington University
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
Skagit in SightLoving La Conner
IN WHAT diminutive town in the Skagit Valley can you fi nd the following: wild turkeys, brilliantly eccentric author Tom Rob-bins, and a plethora of both contemporary and classic art?
If you guessed La Conner, you’re on the right track. Those familiar with the riverside town’s charms will nod their heads in agreement, while those who’ve never ventured into the val-ley’s back roads may puzzle over how a town barely a half-mile long can contain such wonders.
Daytrippers don’t have to wait until the spring tulips nudge their way toward the light to explore La Conner. New exhibits at the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) and the La Conner Quilt Museum provide a perfect opportunity for those with cabin fever to break free from the winter doldrums for a few hours.
Proving that art doesn’t have to be approached with a tight-lipped severity, MoNA is currently featuring “No Joke: Selec-tions from the Pruzan Collection.” Guest curator Vicki Halper culled more than 40 sculptures and paintings from the col-lection of Lucy and Herb Pruzan for a varied exhibit she says provokes responses from amusement to discomfort.
“In almost 50 years of collecting, we’ve come to learn that humor can be just as valid artistically as realism, sheer beauty and gravity,” the Pruzans explain. “We now believe
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EVENTSWED., JAN. 16CALL FOR ART: If you’re inter-ested in showing your works in the small gallery of the historic Roeder Home, there are still openings for 2008. The Roeder Home displays new exhibits on a monthly basis. For more info: 676-9255.
THURS., JAN. 17FIGURE STUDY: An open studio and nude fi gure study happens from 7-9:30pm every Thursday at BellinghamART, 1701 Ellis St. Cost is $10 per session. For more info: 738-8379 or BellinghamART.com.
FRI., JAN. 18PUBLIC HANGING: A recep-tion for “A Public Hanging” happens from 5-9pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. The exhibit—which features works from more than 80 professional and amateur artists—will hang through Jan. 31. For more info: 671-2305.
SAT., JAN. 19BOYS AND GIRLS: As part of a national fi ne arts exhibit pro-gram, see a Boys & Girls Club exhibit from 10am-5pm at the Center for Expressive Arts and Experiential Education, 1317 Commercial St., suite 202. The event is free. For more info: 671-5355. FAMILY ART DAY: Artist and educator Stephany Vogel will lead Family Art Day workshops from 10am-12pm and 1-3pm at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. “Quirky Self Portraits” will fea-ture cloth, drawing and acrylic paint. Cost is $2-$5. For more info: (360) 466-4446 or museu-mofnwart.org. TEEN HEAT: Attend an open-ing reception for Teen Heat Studio’s Sean O’Connor from 6-8pm at the Paperdoll, 1200 10th St. The works are culled from the “Instructions for a Better Tomorrow” collection and merge fi ne arts, graphic design and art history. The ex-hibit will be on display through Feb. 8. For more info: 738-DOLL or thepaperdoll.net.
SUN., JAN. 20YEAR OF THE RAT: Kids can celebrate the Year of the Rat by creating paper fi sh, lanterns and other decorative items from 1-3pm at the Whatcom Children’s Museum, 227 Prospect St. For more info: 738-2101.
ONGOING EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: The talents of
Helen Dorn, James Eisenhart, Nicolette Harrington, Ron Pat-tern, Laurie Potter, and Brian Simpson can be seen at the “Modern Landscapes” exhibit through Jan. 29 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 676-8548. BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MU-SEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. For more info: 393-7540. CHUCKANUT RIDGE: Photos by Joe Cosby, and landscape paintings by Nancy Leshinsky, are currently on display at the Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co., 1017 N. State St. For more info: 527-0900. COLOPHON CAFÉ: Paintings by watercolor artist Michael Heath, and pencil and oil painter Paul Temperio can be seen through January at the Colophon Café, 1208 11th St. For more info: 647-0092.GOOD EARTH: Works by Sehome High School art students will be featured through the month at Good Earth Pottery, 100 Harris St. For more info: 671-3998 or goodearthpots.com. LINCOLN THEATRE: Pho-tographs By Eddie McHugh focusing on “extraordinary” in the “ordinary” can be seen through February at the gallery at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln The-atre, 712 S. First St. For more info: lincolntheatre.org. LUCIA DOUGLAS: Works by a variety of local and regional artists can be perused at the “Nocturne” exhibit through Jan. 26 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. For more info: 733-5361 or luciadouglas.com MINDPORT: Recent works can be seen when a “Staff Show” shows through the end of the month at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2. For more info: 647-5614 or mindport.org.ROEDER HOME: An “Instruc-tors’ Exhibit” shows through Jan. 31 at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. For more info: 733-6897. WESTERN GALLERY: Fifteen artists will be represented at “Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite” through March 8 at the Western Gallery on the WWU campus. For more info: 650-3963. WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Love, Murder, Magic,” “Let Children Be Children,” “The Bellingham YWCA: 100 Years of Challenge and Change,” and “Photogra-phy Biennial: Nine to Watch from the Pacifi c Northwest” are currently on display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Pros-pect St. For more info: 676-6981 or whatcommuseum.org.
that works of art in a witty vein can enter-tain, uplift and challenge as much as the most serious pieces.”
When you’re done contemplating comedy and culture, check out Randy Walker’s “Heartwood” collection at MoNA’s Benaroya Glass Gallery. Inspired by the many colors and textures of the Northwest, Walker’s blown and hot-sculpt-ed glass breathes rich color and unmistakable energy into the delicate art form (see the piece to the left for an example of his work).
Those who’ve never thought of fi ber as fi ne art should prepare to have their minds changed with a visit to the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, located in the town’s historic Gaches Mansion.
As one of only 12 quilt museums in the United States—and the only one in Washington state—the space is cur-rently featuring the tal-ents of three Northwest fi ber artists. “Our Prog-ress as Quilters: Works by Roxanne Carter and Linda Tellesbo” show-cases the breadth of two quilters who, over the past 20 years, have managed to solidify both their talents and friendship through in-tricate stitching.
“Then & Now: Tex-tile Artistry of Larkin Van Horn” is also new to the space. Van Horn utilizes materials from Guatemala to Japan to create her mixed-media works. In addition to dying and painting silk and cotton, Van Horn may fuse glass beads to twigs, wood or buttons to created her tex-tured pieces. Pieces from the Whidbey Island artist—who purportedly has seven sewing machines—range from garments and quilts to paraments.
To fi nd out what more La Conner has to offer, you’ll have to explore on your own. Have fun, and look out for the wild turkeys.
SEE ITWHAT: “No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collec-tion” and “Randy Walker: Heart-wood”WHEN: Open daily from 10am-5pm through March 9WHERE: Museum of Northwest Art, La ConnerCOST: $2-$5INFO: (360) 466-4446 or museu-mofnwart.org. WHAT: “Then & Now” and “Our Progress as Quil-ters”WHEN: 11am-4pm Wed.-Sat. and 12-4pm Sun., through March 16 WHERE: La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.COST: $5INFO: (360) 466-4288 or laconner-quilts.com
RANDY WALKER’S, “ORANGE MAPLE,” 2006
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musicPREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT
WHILE WE’RE ALL still mourning the impend-ing loss of the Nightlight Lounge, last week the music community suffered another loss that served to bring things into perspective a bit. Michael Griffen, he of Noggin, Behead the Prophet, Artie Smudges Trio, Bright Shiny Object, and other musical projects too vast and numerous to name, died Mon., Jan. 7. In his 71 years, Michael lived an undoubtedly full and rich life, but that does not mean his loss will be any less deeply felt by the legions of folks who had the great good fortune to know and make music with him.
My connection to Griffen was slight—I’d spoken with him only a few times, seen him play several times and always thought of him, as many of you likely did, as that rad old guy who loved to make music. But to many he was an example and an inspiration and so much more.
By what others have said upon hearing of his death, it seems Griffen was a shining example of what we all should be: a person who loves music for the sake of music. If he was aware of the poli-tics and the posturing and the pettiness that are sometimes part of this tight-knit music scene, he never let on. He just wanted to make music. Lots of it. With as many people as pos-sible. In fact, an entire room in his house was devoted solely to music-making, and he wasn’t one to utilize it alone. Local musicians and traveling bands alike found themselves in his music room, the recipient of his ever-gracious hospitality, playing his instruments and jam-ming into the wee hours. He would have it no other way.
As a musician, I can attest to the fact that Griffen was fearless. People often talk about music having no boundaries, but he actu-ally lived and created as though he believed it, and, in doing so, inspired countless other people to be just a little braver with their own art. I remember the fi rst time I saw Noggin, which, to my untrained ears, sounded like little more than a cacophony of noise. But it was noise that stuck with me long afterward, and drew me back when I would’ve written off most other bands. Over time, I realized what I was really hearing was music that was as inno-vative as the people who were making it—and that the “rad old guy” who seemed to be at the center of it was onto something new and real.
I don’t know if Griffen knew how many peo-ple he inspired through both his music and his outlook regarding it. I do know he was beloved and lucky enough to be surrounded by the kind of people who nurtured him the way he nurtured everyone else. Although he never in-tended it to be, his life was a lesson we could all stand to do a bit of learning from.
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arguably the most fun you can have in public, year after year.
This year’s event promises to offer all the delights of past shows—a dizzying variety of bands, hilariously terrible presenters (hey, I’ve been one too), lots of liquor and general good-will toward all—plus one welcome addition: the night also happens to mark the release of Music from the Center of the Universe , an all-local com-pilation dreamed up and put together by some of the most dedicated minds in Bellingham’s music community.
Judging by the attendance at last year’s awards show, very few of you need to be reminded to mark your calendars for this one. But just in case you’re unconvinced, here’s fi ve reasons why I think you should get a little awards show action.
1. THE AFOREMENTIONED COMPILATION. Dubbed Mu-sic from the Center of the Universe , the release con-tains 20 tracks from some of Bellingham’s fi nest pur-veyors of sonic bliss. Bands such as Black Eyes and Neckties, the Braille Tapes, the Mission Orange, Cicadas, and the Wastelanders have all contributed songs, as have such singer/songwrit-ers as Jenni Potts, Robert Blake, and Thea Rosenberg. While the idea for the comp originated some years ago
with What’s Up! editor Brent Cole, it took a col-laboration between him and the powers that be at both Clickpop and Murder Mountain records to bring the album into being. Speaking of collab-oration, the album also features a song that is a hip-hop mashup of Mark Heimer of No-Fi Soul Rebellion, the Educataz, and the boys from Idiot Pilot. Wrap your mind that, if you can. Now the comp, complete with original artwork by Scott Rickey, has been polished and fi nished, and it will be unleashed upon the general public at the awards show.
showPREVIEW
BY CAREY ROSS
Music from the Center of the UniverseAnd some awards too
PERHAPS THE liquor I drank that night has dulled my memory a bit, but it seems like it’s been about a million years since the fi rst What’s Up! Awards show. I can’t really remem-ber who won what or even who played (although I do seem to recall then-Amy Roeder shrieking, “It should’ve been Leather Pants!” when she was gifted with the Person Most Likely to Wreck Your House award), but I do recall that a good time was had by the many in attendance. Since then, the awards show has only gotten bigger and crazier, and continues to be
BY CAREY ROSS
LISTENWHAT: What’s Up! Awards/CD Release feat. Black Eyes and Neckties, No-fi Soul Rebellion, The Love Lights, The Braille Tapes, Go Slowpoke, Robert BlakeWHEN: 8pm Sat., Jan. 19WHERE: Night-light Lounge, 211 E. Chestnut St.COST: FreeMORE INFO: 527-1531 or night-lightlounge.com
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WED., JAN. 16MUSIC CIRCLE: All ages—and all acoustic in-struments—are welcome at a free Music Circle meeting at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. For more info: 671-4511 or 671-3480.
THURS., JAN. 17DOUBLE BASS: Jeff Bradetich, a double bass player from the University of North Texas, will perform at 7:30pm at Ferndale High School, 5380 Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets are $4-$7. For more info: 383-9312. CABIN FEVER: Hear original and traditional Ameri-cana songs when Cabin Fever performs songs from their CD, The Door is Always Open, at a free concert from 6-8pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. For more info: 734-8158.
FRI., JAN. 18OWLS, ATTIC: An all-ages show from Owls in the Attic happens at 8pm at the Firehouse Perform-ing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets are $3. For more info: 734-2776. FREELOADERS: Hear originals and cover songs when Fritz and the Freeloaders give a free show at 7pm at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 714-0800. LOOKING AT JAZZ: Attend a viewing of Straight, No Chaser when the “Looking at Jazz: America’s Art Form” series starts back up at 7pm at the American Museum of Radio and Electricity, 1312 Bay St. The documentary focuses its lens on Thelonious Monk. Tickets are free, but must be reserved. For more info: 650-1066 or jazzproject.org.
SAT., JAN. 19MONK TRIBUTE: Bill Anschell, Doug Miller, and Robert Rushing will perform a Thelonious Monk Tribute Concert at 7:30pm at the Lairmont Manor,
405 Fieldston Rd. Tickets are $11-$13. For more info: 650-1066 or jazzproject.org.
SUN., JAN. 20EVANS AND LYNCH: Banjo man Bill Evans and fiddler Megan Lynch will perform at 2pm at Nan-cy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested donation is $10. For more info: 966-4640. SWING CONNECTION: The 18-piece Swing Con-nection Big Band performs from 2-4pm at the Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave. Suggested donation is $5. For more info: 733-3500. ROMANTIC MASTERS: Violinist and Grammy nominee Corey Cerovsek will be the featured per-former when the Whatcom Symphony Chamber Orchestra performs a “Romantic Masters” concert at 3pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Com-mercial St. Tickets are $19-$23, and student rush tix will be available for $5-$10. For more info: 734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com.
TUES., JAN. 22INTERLUDE: David Carlson will perform a free “Piano Interlude” at 12:30pm the Whatcom Mu-seum, 121 Prospect St. For more info: 676-6981. HARP CONCERT: Celtic harpists Patrice Haan and Paula Lalish will join Flip Breskin and Zeke Hoskin for a concert at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested donation is $8-$12. For more info: 671-4511.
WED., JAN. 23PINT AND DALE: The hurdy-gurdy, tin whistle, mandolin and more will be utilized when William Pint and Felicia Dale perform songs of the sea at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested donation is $8-$12. For more info: 305-2236.
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2. THE DIVERSITY OF THE BILL. Maybe in some alternate universe, you’d see Robert Blake on the same stage as Black Eyes and Neckties on the same night and it wouldn’t cause you to bat an eye, but in this one, it’s only likely to happen at the What’s Up! Awards. This year, along with Blake and Black Eyes, No-fi Soul Rebellion, the Braille Tapes, the Love Lights, and Go Slowpoke will provide a wealth of top-notch local music from which to choose.
3. LOVE IS IN THE AIR. In our un-deniably close knit but admittedly sometimes catty music scene, events like the What’s Up! Awards remind us all why we do what we do. It’s one of the few times that musicians come together solely to appreciate other musicians, and the fans show up en masse to show their gratitude as well. While the awards are clearly the rea-son for the gathering, they are hardly the point. Goodwill flows as freely as
does the liquor, and we’re all a little better for it.
4. IT’S FREE. Sure, most people in the music community would be more than willing to spend a few bucks to at-tend the show, but thanks to a deci-sion made by Cole a couple of years ago, no one has to. I can’t think of a single other event in Bellingham that affords you the opportunity to see so much crackerjack local talent in one night and doesn’t expect you to kick down any cash for the privilege.
5. BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE SAID, THERE WILL BE NUDITY. Nope, it’s not on the program and no one re-ally asks for it, but since the in-ception of the show five years ago, someone’s clothes have come off onstage. Usually that person is Scott K. Seitz, which once prompt-ed Cole to say he was making a documentary of the phenomenon called Scott, Put Your Pants Back On, but the chance always exists that someone else will get in on the nakedness as well.
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Boundary Bay Phil Sotile & Phil EmersonThe Moondoggies & Wis-
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Felix Sonnyboy and the Muddy Boots
Jazz Jam
Commodore Ball-room
Circle JerksHedley, State Of Shock,
Social Code
The Edison Inn Spoonshine
Fairhaven Pub Karaoke Karaoke The Marion Weston Band The Retros ComedyOpen Mic w/Chuck D feat.
Pinki TuskaderoCollege Night
Fantasia EspressoYes We Are, Vintage
Rhymes and ValentinesPoetry Night
Green Frog Café Acoustic Tavern
Jay Irwin Jeremy Serwer Drunken Prayer, WillistonTed Wallis and The Broken
DaysOpen Mic The Gallus Brothers Christopher Stewart
Honey Moon Ashaman Gray Doug Allen and Reid Kerr
Main St. Bar and Grill
KaraokeOpen Mic w/Chuck D. feat.
Allison PreisingerSunset Superman Sunset Superman Karaoke
Line Dance Lessons w/Bev Ollerenshaw
Nightlight Lounge 80s NightWhat's Up! Awards feat. Black Eyes and Neckties,
No-Fi Soul Rebellion, moreEye Candy DJ Deerhead
Old FoundryThe Lonely Forest, The Mission Orange, Karate Kitchen, Go Slowpoke
Poppe's Marvin Johnson Spencer Redmond Spencer Redmond Marvin Johnson
Richard's on Rich-ards
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Silver Reef Hotel Casino & Spa
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Skagit Valley CasinoBruce in the U.S.A.
(Showroom), Emerald City Throwdown (Lounge)
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Skylark's Gadjo Gypsie Rane Nogales The Unusuals Irish Session
Three Trees Coffee-house
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fi lm REVIEWS F ILM T IMES
REVIEWED BY MICK LASALLE
The SavagesThe ties that strangle
TAMARA JENKINS has made a movie about some-thing that lots of people are going through but nobody wants to deal with, not even in life, much less in entertainment. And she’s done it fearlessly, with the right mix of humor and horror and with not even a shred of sentimentality.
The Savages is about young middle-aged adults dealing with an elderly parent who is losing his mind and can no longer take care of himself. It is, in a sense, a comedy about having a father who is smearing his feces on the wall, but to say that doesn’t quite convey the tone that Jenkins fi nds here. The movie is not a farce. Farce would be easy—the audience would be invited to turn off its emotions and view the situation as spectacle. Rather, Jenkins grounds The Savages in reality, a brutal, abso-lute reality that’s funny-awful enough to make farce look like an evasion and straight drama look like compromise.
The characters’ situation refl ects the fragmented nature of families today. A brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a sister (Laura Linney) live far away from each other on the East Coast, and their father (Philip Bosco) lives on the other side of the country, in Arizona. But when there’s a crisis, the kids have to drop what they’re doing (somewhat grudgingly) and fl y out
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there, where they learn the distinctions be-tween assisted-living facilities and nursing homes. Suddenly, they have to fi gure out where the old man should live.
Movies about adult siblings are rare, and even when we see them, they’re usu-ally about same-sex siblings working out, in adulthood, the competitive stresses of their childhood. The Savages deals with a brother-and-sister relationship, and it gets the details right—the ease of that interac-tion, the unspoken bond and the complete willingness of both parties to be rude to the other because they know the sibling can’t be fooled anyway. Hoffman and Lin-ney suggest a complete history in their conversation and even in their body lan-guage. They don’t look alike, but they seem like brother and sister.
Both siblings are involved in theater, but from different angles. Wendy is an unpro-duced playwright who keeps applying for Guggenheim Fellowships, and Jon has a doc-torate in theater studies, teaches in a univer-sity and is writing a book on Bertolt Brecht. These are not the arbitrary career designa-tions sometimes found in movies, in which every nice guy is an architect. The protago-nists in The Savages had unwelcome drama in their childhood, thanks to an angry and dif-fi cult father, and each has chosen a different way of dealing with it. Wendy has chosen to dive into the drama by writing about it, and Jon has chosen to analyze the phenomenon of drama itself and to study an artist whose whole career was founded on the deconstruc-tion of dramatic techniques.
Hoffman and Linney are superb, but as the fi lm mainly follows Wendy, it’s Linney who has the opportunity to give the stand-out performance, and she does. She’s full throttle and energetic, knows exactly what she’s doing at every moment, and she’s fun-ny—very funny.
It’s a mildly comic motif in The Savages that whenever someone has a television on, the scene onscreen is frantic and emphatic, while the scene in the room is quiet and ambiguous. Jenkins is telling us that, in this movie, she’s endeavoring to show life as it’s lived on our side of the TV screen. She does.
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Mad MoneyAll hail blissful mediocrity
WHEN IT was pitched to the studio, I’m sure Mad Money was sold as some sort of feminized version of Ocean’s 11 . Truth be told, most of the Ocean’s audience is probably women anyway, so why not give them an all-girl edition of another big heist tale?
Since this is a heist fl ick, its success or fail-ure centers entirely on the crime. The theft in question involves three women (Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes) knocking over the United States government. Keaton plays a wealthy suburbanite whose husband loses his job, forcing her to abandon her nail appointments and work for the fi rst time in her life. Having no ac-tual qualifi cations, she’s forced to take a position as the janitor at a federal facility where money is shredded.
That’s right: While you’re struggling to make your tax payments, somewhere in America money is being shredded by the bushel. When a bill gets old and worn out, it’s sent by your bank to Uncle Sam for recycling. After a few weeks watching millions end up in the dumpster, Keaton’s char-acter decides it’s time for a little robbery. She comes up with a cunning plan that takes ad-vantage of the government’s inept—to say the least—security.
In order to steal the stash, Keaton’s character needs more than a good pair of bolt cutters. So she enlists the help of two cohorts: A ditzy 20-some-thing who’s seen one too many iPod commercials (Holmes), and a single, sassy black mother who’d like to get her kids out of the ghetto and into a private school (Latifah). Together, they put their plan into action, and run off with a lot of cash. Then they decide to do it again.
The specifi cs of the big robbery centerpiece are pretty stupid, and most of the cast spends the movie sleepwalking. Mad Money is almost deliber-ately banal, but not particularly harmful. It’s not an offensively bad fi lm, just a blissfully mediocre one. In January, considering what the big studios typically churn out, it’s always a good idea to lower your movie-going expectations. Mad Money may be just the thing to do that.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Well, thanks to the wonders of CGI, we all knew it was a matter of time before singing rodents Alvin, Simon, and Theodore got to take a star turn on the big screen. My one question: Jason Lee, what the hell are you doing in this movie? ★★
Atonement: Keira Knightley and James McAvoy channel author Ian McEwan, while director Joe Wright channels some serious Merchant-Ivory in this searing, sensitive story of love in the face of insurmountable obstacles. ★★★★
The Bucket List: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman team up to fulfill their every heart’s de-sire before they both, you guessed it, kick the bucket. Terminal illness has never been so funny. ★★
Charlie Wilson’s War: Despite the presence of both Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in what seems to be, at best, a “truthy” version of real-life events, this film is worth seeing for three rea-sons: director Mike Nichols (CloserSorkin (The West WingPhilip Seymour Hoffman. ★★★★
Cloverfield: Information about this J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie has been locked
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along and scared the bejesus out of us. ★★★★
First Sunday: Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan team up to rip-off a church, only to be taught that crime doesn’t pay by the parishioners they’re holding hostage. Because no situation is more rife with comedic potential than the armed rob-bery of a church. ★
The Great Debaters: Denzel Washington gets all Remember the Titanstime the setting is an African American school in the deep south and the sport in question is debate rather than football. ★★★★
I Am Legend: The verdict is in: After the biggest December opening in Hollywood history, it seems
if you don’t want to see the Fresh Prince do Dawn of the Dead, the visuals of an abandoned New York City make this film worth the price of admission. ★★★
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale:rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son—two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the
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Juno: If Ellen Page (Hard Candyfor superstardom, all is not right with the world. In this endearing and acerbic comedy, she plays a pregnant teen forced to fall back on her own—as it turns out, considerable—resources in making some difficult decisions. ★★★★★
Mad Money: See review previous page. ★★
National Treasure: Book of Secrets: I will not lie: I enjoyed the first installment of this film series, despite the dubious history and the presence of both Nicolas Cage and Jon Voight. So
sequel. ★★★
One Missed Call: We all liked this movie a lot the first time around when it starred Naomi Watts and was called The Ring. Note to filmmakers: peo-ple just aren’t that scared of their telephones. ★
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veg-gie Tales Movie: Veggie Tales is still around? Really? I thought this group of anthropomorphic produce had gotten smacked down and sent on
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P.S. I Love You: I can tell just by the preview there’s no way Hilary Swank is pulling down an-other Academy Award for this forgettable flick. Seems like she should be working a little harder to make her hometown proud. ★
The Savages: See review previous page. ★★★★
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp—the real-life equivalent of a Dynamic Duo—team up once again to craft may this deliciously gory bit of musical cinema. ★★★★★
27 Dresses: Katherine Heigl celebrates the sil-ver-screen fame she found with Knocked Up by do-ing what most newfound movie stars do: making an absolutely regrettable second film. Better luck
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep: When Angus, a young Scottish boy, finds an enchanted egg, he takes it home and soon finds himself face-to-face with an amazing creature: the myth-ical water horse of Scottish lore. Angus begins a journey of discovery, facing his greatest fears. ★★★
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My sensitive poet friend Carson taught criminals in a penitentiary how to write haiku poems. Novelist Margaret Atwood gave a class on the absurdist writing of Franz Kafka to engineers in British Columbia. And in 2008 I’ll ask you to share your gifts with people you’ve always assumed wouldn’t be receptive to you, let alone be able to benefi t from your unique talents. Get ready to push past your boundaries in the coming months, Taurus. Extend your sphere of infl uence and appeal to a larger audience.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As I approached a pick-up truck from behind while out driving my car, I saw an unlikely bumper sticker. It said “Surf Colorado.” But Colorado is a landlocked place, I thought to myself, more than a thousand miles from the ocean. At the next red light, I got closer to the truck and was able to read the fi ne print: “In your river kayak, you don’t need an ocean to catch a wave.” What a perfect message to convey to my Gemini readers, I mused, and resolved to write it into this horoscope. In fact, you are currently in a phase when you don’t need an ocean to surf. Nor, for that matter, do you need a plane in order to fl y, a soulmate to achieve romantic rapture, or money to be rich. Your imaginative powers are peaking at the same time as your resourcefulness.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: Help! When I give love I feel powerful but when I accept love I feel weak. So even though I dearly crave love, when someone tries to give it to me I run away. I’m afraid of the vulnerability that comes from being the recipient of the gift; I’m afraid of being in debt to the person who’s offering it; I’m afraid of the loss of control that comes from not providing myself with everything I need; and I’m afraid that if I accept love, I’ll get addicted to it, and then how will I cope if it goes away? What can I do? -Cowardly Crab.” Dear Crab: In the coming weeks, the universe will conspire to help you fi nd new ways to think about these riddles. You’ll have tremendous access to the precise kind of courage you need.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1954, the writer Albert Camus said, “A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart fi rst opened.” In the fi rst month of 2008, a humble astrology columnist,
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FRISK MANAGEMENT I’m being tormented by a co-worker’s
husband. He visits our offi ce often, fl irt-ing with me every time, but it’s gone from “Hey, good lookin’!” to getting right in my space and whispering “Hot butt” or “Lemme see your cleavage.” He’ll come up behind me at my computer, so I’m trapped. He’ll put his hand in my hair or on my neck or shoulders, even when his wife’s there. She’ll snort and call him “a perv,” but he doesn’t stop. I talked to my boss, and she said just ignore him, don’t encourage him, but I haven’t encouraged him at all. When he touches me, I try to duck away. When he says dirty things, I put my hand up and say, “Don’t even start.” It’s gotten to the point where I’ll hide in the back room un-til he leaves. He’s not an employee, so my boss’ hands are tied. And I don’t want to cause tension with his wife. Short of yell-ing at him (a bad idea, since I can imagine the fi ery-tempered redhead comments), how do I stop this?
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Why be known as the “fi ery-tempered redhead” when you can cower in a sup-ply closet until they start selling the “hostile workplace” companion to the Post-it-dispensing highlighter, the Post-it taser?
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Personally, the day somebody who isn’t my boyfriend, my granny, or an em-ployee of Supercuts starts putting their hands in my hair is the day they lose a fi nger. I don’t have to storm around announcing this like some Big Angry Bertha. The memo comes from within. Think about the message you’re sending by ducking, hiding and kinda-sorta tell-ing him off. You want to be liked, you don’t want to make waves, you’re ripe for the picking. What you need to do now is what you should’ve done from the start: Get right up in his face, without shout-ing or screeching, and tell him, “Don’t touch me, don’t talk to me, don’t come near me.” If you don’t quite feel you have it in you, not to worry. You should even-tually fi nd it if you just keep putting it on. If he bothers you again, rinse and repeat, and go back to your boss. Remind her not only of the law, but also of what they’re unlikely to be crowing about at the next stockholders’ meeting: “Why 40 percent of our profi ts this year came from employees curled up in a fetal posi-tion under their desks.”
Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail [email protected] (www.advice-goddess.com).
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HOMEMADE SAUERKRAUT (Recipe adapted from Sandor Ellix Katz’s Wild Fermentation )
INGREDIENTS:
5 lbs cabbage (traditionally green)
3T Salt
EQUIPMENT:Ceramic crock or food-grade plastic bucketPlate that fi ts inside crock or bucketLarge glass jug or jar to weigh down plateCloth cover
BY DANA ZEMEL
Stink Up Your KitchenHow to make sauerkrautTUCKED AWAY in the rolling green hills of Bavaria lays a gastronomic treasure so prized, so esteemed, that a princess must guard its name and honor.
Stephanie Glaßl has been the Krautprizessin since 2003. She wears an elaborate silk and velvet dirndl adorned with a sash and a cabbage in hand. She is Germany’s Princess of Sauerkraut and works closely with producers like the Reuter family of Merkendor-fer Kraut in Bavaria to promote the region’s tangy treasure. The town of Merkendorfer is home to the annual Krautfest, an all-day event that celebrates the sour cabbage.
Last year I had the honor of meeting the Prin-cess of Sauerkraut at the Reuter family’s 11-acre cabbage farm and sauerkraut production facility. I sampled several of their 20 varieties of kraut, tried a kraut hand cream Mrs. Reuter swears can work miracles and tasted a fi ery alcoholic beverage made from distilled sauerkraut brine.
Like so many of our favorite gastronomic de-lights, sauerkraut was created out of the necessity to prolong the life of a perishable food item. Yo-gurt, wine, beer and salami all undergo a fermen-tation process that extends their table life, while enhancing fl avor, digestibility and nutritional value. Sauerkraut and other fermented foods made essential nutrients available during long winters and voyages before the advent of refrigeration, freeze drying and vacuum packaging. In fact, Cap-tain James Cook was credited for preventing scurvy among crewmembers by packing large barrels of sauerkraut on his oversea voyages.
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Clean all equipment, including hands. Rinse cabbage and remove any damaged outer leaves. Cut cabbage heads in half and remove solid core. Slice or grate cab-bage as fi nely as you like using a large knife, or food processor. Place half of cabbage (and any other vegetables you are experimenting with) in crock or bucket, sprinkle with half the salt. Repeat with the remaining cab-bage and salt.Using clean hands, mix
the cabbage and salt, using a lot of pressure to help extract the water
from the cabbage. The salt will help draw the juices as you knead and mix. The juices should be quite visible, covering al-most all of the cabbage. Add a little salt water to cover cabbage entirely. Place the plate over
the cabbage and use the large jar or jug fi lled with water to weigh down the plate (this keeps all of the cabbage submerged in the juices, which will allow it to ferment with-out spoiling). Drape a large towel or pillowcase over the whole thing to keep out dust, fl ies, etc.Check the kraut every
two days. Occasionally remove the jar of water and plate to skim off any surface mold, discarding any cabbage that comes in contact with the air. Rinse the plate before returning to crock or bucket. Kraut should be ready in 1-2 weeks. Taste the kraut during
the process. It will get sourer as more time passes. When you are satisfi ed with the fl avor, transfer into jars and refrigerate. Enjoy the kraut cold for maximum health benefi ts, or warm it up alongside some sausage links!
The benefi ts and fl avor can be yours for a fraction of the price by making your own. Making sauerkraut is easier than you can imagine, and it doesn’t smell as bad as the title suggests. Al-though you’ll have to wait until next summer for fresh local cab-bage, decent cabbage at afford-
able prices is available year round at most grocers. Better yet, plant your own kraut garden this spring. As for the only other ingredient, salt, it is best to use sea salt or non-iodized salt. The iodine in most table salt is an anti-microbial and may hinder the fermentation process.
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