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PARK PROTECTION:
Saving space on
San Juan Island, P.8
REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
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Alan Rhodes, P.06 * The Legacy, P.11 * Tweets, P.30
SEVEN SUMMITS:
Dave Mauro’s continental
climbs, P.14
BEST OF SKAGIT: Your vote goes here, P.30
B.B.KINGListening to a legend, p.20
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A glance at what’s happening this week
Orchid exhibits, artwork, sales and more will be part
of the Mt. Baker Orchid Society’s annual Show and
Sale March 9-10 at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley
Gardens
Mycle Wastman, a Seattle soul singer and former contestant on The Voice, performs at a benefit concert for local toddler Liam Smith March 9 at Northwood Hall
The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden A Rotten Demise: 7:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount Vernon Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront TheatreThe Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICMarvin Johnson: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, LyndenFlute Studio Recital: Performing Arts Center, WWU
FOOD & FILMCinema Thyme: 6:30pm, Pickford Film Center
[03. .13]ONSTAGE Hairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School Deadman Wonderland Circus: 7:30pm, Cirque Lab Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, LyndenBlender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEDance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
MUSICPeter Mayer: 7:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellow-ship
COMMUNITYInternational Women’s Day Rally: 7:15pm, down-town Bellingham
GET OUTWhatcom County Home & Garden Show: 10am-8pm, NW Washington Showgrounds, Lynden
[03. .13]ONSTAGE Hairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School Deadman Wonderland Circus: 7:30pm, Cirque Lab Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, LyndenSeven Brides for Seven Brothers: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Blender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEContra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
MUSICBellingham Chamber Chorale: 3pm and 7:30pm, St.
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ONSTAGEShrek the Musical: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
DANCEBallroom Dance: 6-8pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom
MUSICComposers of Western: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
COMMUNITYGreen Drinks: 5:30-7:30pm, Pure Bliss Desserts
[03. .13]ONSTAGEHairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School Comedy Night: 7pm, Concrete Theatre Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Deadman Wonderland Circus: 7:30pm, Cirque Lab Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
Gear up for
at a “Wearin’ O’ the Green” Run March 12 at Fairhaven Runners and a “Runnin’ O’ the Green” March 16 in downtown Bellingham
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Paul’s Episcopal Church Gary Stroutsos: 4pm, Village Books Onyx Chamber Players: 7:30pm, Maple Hall, La Conner Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon Mycle Wastman: 8pm, Northwood Hall B.B. King: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre
COMMUNITYTrain Fest: 1-4pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Pavilion Gym, WCC
GET OUTOrchid Society Show & Sale: 9am-5pm, Skagit Valley Gardens Whatcom County Home & Garden Show: 10am-8pm, NW Washington Showgrounds, Lynden
FOODCommunity Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of FerndaleVietnamese Heritage Dinner: 6-9pm, Sehome High School
VISUAL ARTSArtist Trust at Large Talk: 4pm, Anacortes Public Library
[03. .13]ONSTAGETwelfth Night: 2pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Legacy: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, LyndenSeven Brides for Seven Brothers: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Company: 3pm and 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Deadman Wonderland Circus: 6:30pm, Cirque Lab A Rotten Demise: 6:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount Vernon Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran Church Whatcom Chorale: 3pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Keyboard Friends Piano Concert: 3pm, Fire-house Performing Arts Center Carver Audain: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
GET OUTOrchid Society Show & Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit Valley Gardens Whatcom County Home & Garden Show: 10am-5pm, NW Washington Showgrounds, Lynden
VISUAL ARTSArt in Architecture Opening: 10am-5pm, What-com Museum’s Lightcatcher Building
[03. .13]MUSICDave Nachmanoff: 7pm, Burlington Public LibraryWWU Orchestra: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
[03. .13]ONSTAGECompany: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Mailbag
6: Gristle & Rhodes
8: Park preservation
10: Last week’s news
11: Police blotter, Index
ARTS & LIFE 12: A world of women
14: Climb every mountain
16: Legacy in Lynden
18: A focused gathering
20: B.B. King’s royal pedigree
22: Clubs
24: Rebuilding Oz
25: A compressed epic
26: Film Shorts
REAR END 27: Bulletin Board
28: Wellness
29: Advice Goddess
30: Best of Skagit ballot, Free Will
31: Crossword
32: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug
33: Sudoku, Slowpoke
34: Going big at Tweets
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PARK PROTECTION:
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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
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Alan Rhodes, P.06 * The Legacy, P.11 * Tweets, P.30
SEVEN SUMMITS:
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BEST OF SKAGIT: Your vote goes here, P.30
B.B.KINGListening to a legend, p.20
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TOC LETTERS STAFF
THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEADI felt my head would explode when I read
Rick Hermann write, in his “Decivilization” es-say, that the rise of violent crime/mass shoot-ings started in the 1960s and “for whatever dark, murky reason... seem to be a curse on 20th and 21st century America....”
I came of age in the 1960s. People I knew and loved were among the tens of thousands of Amer-icans and millions of Vietnamese who had their lives shattered after Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, lied us into a war with Vietnam, just like George W. Bush, the 43rd President, lied us into a war with Iraq (and we were told, “impeachment is off the table!”).
We have been betrayed by the 1 per cent of us who steal our tax money by making war, like Dick Cheney, Bush’s vice president and former CEO of Halliburton, who provided his former company with millions of dollars in no-bid contracts in Iraq.
Violence and mayhem do not happen in a vac-uum. We cannot commit war crimes around the world and not understand we will no longer be safe in our own little bubble. Whether we admit it or not, we are all citizens of a military empire.
For the ideal of being civilized, Hermann quotes Steven Pinker, the eminent psychologist, who wrote, “individuals should be embedded in webs of dependency that obligate them to other people in stable economies and organizations.” I agree!
Blaming the “Sixties Zeitgeist” for “deciviliza-tion” is stupid. There is an old Mafia saying: “The
fish rots from the head.” And unless we demand truth and accountability from the representa-tives we elect to govern us, then we are lost.
—Judith A. Laws, Bellingham
MASS KILLINGS ARE INCONSEQUENTIAL
Rick Hermann counts 18 mass shootings per year since the mid ‘70s. That’s 40 years: times 18, times, let’s say, 20 killings each, that’s 14,400 people. Divided by 7 billion, that’s a rate of .0002 of a percent of the human population. What a huge problem!
How many people die falling down stairs? May-be we should outlaw stairs and require elevators in every house. Let’s not mention the number of people killed by drones, just last year.
—Richard Lovaas, Ferndale
PAVE PARADISE, PUT UP A PARKING LOT
I am writing because I am concerned about the expansion of the Cornwall Church parking lot. Last week, I was sent a letter from the county stating that they planned to issue a “Determina-tion of Nonsignificance” for this project. I do not understand how adding 673 parking spots, with a total of 43,458 square feet to be paved (9,200 of which are wetlands) is deemed to have nonsig-nificant environmental impacts. When my hus-band went to the county planning department to ask about this, they also told him that adding
THISWEEK
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, 58, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. The recently re-elected leader—who was known for his socialist leanings, anti-U.S. stance and legacy of repression against those who opposed him—hadn’t been seen in public since his last operation in mid-December.
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these parking spots would somehow de-crease traffic. Can someone help explain to me how adding more than 650 parking spots will potentially decrease traffic?
It seems to me there are other ways the already huge parking lot might support more people. Maybe they could encour-age parishioners to carpool, or set up a shuttle. The parking lot that exists is an an eyesore and the traffic is already an is-sue on Sundays, even with a state patrol-man hired every week to manage it.
I live in Whatcom County because it is a beautiful place and because we have a community of engaged citizens who are careful about how we manage our amaz-ing landscape. I hope more people will get involved.
—Liz Stuart, Bellingham
SUPPORT RECONVEYANCEOn March 12, Whatcom County Council
may vote to protect Lake Whatcom and create a large backcountry park. The council should decide to reconvey 8,800 acres in the Lake Whatcom watershed from the state Department of Natural Re-sources to Whatcom County. Creation of the Lake Whatcom Forest Preserve offers many environmental, recreation and eco-nomic benefits to Whatcom residents.
Creating this preserve will protect the steep slopes within the watershed from logging, helping to improve water qual-ity in the lake and the drinking water for half the county’s residents. This large backcountry park will provide hiking, bird watching and other passive recreational activities; it will also provide valuable wildlife habitat and help restore the for-est to old-growth conditions. These en-vironmental and recreation benefits will also strengthen our economy, as noted recently in a letter signed by more than 100 local business owners.
Please contact county council ([email protected]) and urge them to vote yes on this important environmen-tal, recreational and economical mea-sure. Better yet, show up and speak at the 7:30pm public hearing on March 12.
—Eric Hirst, Bellingham
TERMINAL ADDICTIONThe ironies concerning the coal ter-
minal proposal range from coal replac-ing ancestral Lummi burial grounds to it blowing back across the Pacific as instant karma. This issue is parallel with the to-bacco industry. American smoking con-tinues to decline while corporate profits continue rising. This is because we are pushers who pawn off an addiction that we are learning to resist upon less-edu-cated countries that are in earlier stages of development. The net effect is corpo-rate profit and sick people.
Coal is going through the same cycle. Our country has found cheaper and more
environmentally friendly fuel sources. Corporate America’s solution is once again to pawn it off on other countries for profit. Except this time there would be a trail of tears from mining to transpor-tation to blowback. If left in the earth, new clean technology may someday make it valuable for us.
American Electric Power recently agreed to close three coal plants in the Midwest. The Clean Air Task Force determined that doing so will prevent 203 deaths, 310 heart attacks, 3,160 asthma attacks, and 188 emergency room visits annually.
What is a fair price for profit? What will it take for us to wake up?
—Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham
END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Washington representative Cathy Mc-Morris Rodgers is sponsoring the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) under current legislative consideration at the national level. A version of the reauthorized bill released by House Republicans differs from the bill previously passed by the Senate. One critical contrast is the omis-sion of protection for LGBTQ peoples and Native Americans.
Exclusions raise significant concern for our country’s support of human rights. The House bill allows states to determine the best recipients of the VAWA funds, based on the concentration of area vic-tims. While the bill improves on the Senate version—for example, granting tribal courts the authority to prosecute non–Native Americans who abuse Native Americans on reservations, with the ca-veat that they could move their case to a federal court if they felt their consti-tutional rights weren’t being upheld—the fact remains that the VAWA deserves greater attention.
If a genuine, bipartisan process were enforced in the drafting of the VAWA leg-islation, and more interest devoted to open, civil dialogue before voting, our leaders would improve safeguards for the rights of women and children. I encour-age everyone to not only research and follow the VAWA legislation, but also to take an aerial view of violence against all people. By courageously defending each individual’s right to feel protected and safe in this country, we could sow seeds of humanitarian potential that will grow into stalwart trees of true, American compassion for all.
—Ariel Morrison, Bellingham
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THE GRISTLE
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPIN IONS THE GRISTLE
BY ALAN RHODES
Our Town of Subdued ExcitementWITH APOLOGIES TO THORNTON WILDER
(The following is the opening scene of a new adaptation of the play Our Town, relocated from Grover’s Cor-ners, New Hampshire to the Pacific Northwest. The stage manager steps onto a bare stage and speaks.)
This play is called Our Town of Subdued Excitement. The name of the town is Bellingham,
Wash., located just a little south of the country of Canada. Let me show you how the town lies. (Pointing at the back wall.) Over there is Railroad Avenue. There aren’t actually any trains running through there, but it can still be darned noisy on Saturday night when the college kids come down the hill to drink beer and let off a little steam.
Over there’s the Unitarian church, and the Congregational church down that way. Lots of churches around town, which seems peculiar in a state with some of the lowest church attendance in the country, where people generally prefer moun-tain biking to hymn singing on Sun-day. But, come to think of it, with gay folks finally able to get married here, I reckon the churches may be a little busier than usual these days.
That ugly building across from the post office is the jail. It’s pretty near busting it’s so overcrowded. They’ve been talking about building a new one for the longest time, same as the library. And don’t get me started on what slowpokes we’ve been when it comes to fixing our lake.
You’ve probably noticed those signs that say “No Coal.” Some rich fellers from the city want to build a coal terminal north of here, and a lot of folks in our town are mad as hornets, as I’m sure you can rightly understand.
If you need groceries, the Co-op’s on the corner. An organic tomato will cost you about three dollars, but it’ll be mighty tasty.
That tall building down the street’s our daily newspaper, the Herald. Not much in the paper to read, I’m afraid. I took my copy with me when I left home this morning, folded it up and put it in my wallet so it wouldn’t get wet in this rain. Speaking of rain, better get used to it if you’re planning on staying.
Nice town, you know. Nobody re-markable ever come out of it but…wait a minute; that’s not true. I for-got about Dana Lyons, Death Cab for Cutie, and the Roller Betties.
It’s about dawn now. (A rooster crows from a backyard, followed by shouted obscenities from annoyed neighbors.) The only lights on yet are in the espresso bars. There must be about 700 of ‘em in the city limits—half of those belonging to the Woods Coffee. Out in the rural county, the lights have been on for some time. Folks are up early, cleaning their guns, setting up their “Land Grab” signs that blowed over in last night’s wind, and waiting for Patti Brooks to come on the radio so they can call up and complain about the government. Up Lynden way, people are already out milking cows and thinking about sin—how to avoid it, that is. There’s so darn many ways to sin in Lynden: mowing the lawn on Sunday or voting Demo-crat, just to name a couple.
That little trail over there runs along Whatcom Creek. Lots of parks and trails in town. Unlike some people these days, folks in our town don’t mind too much paying taxes if it helps make life a little nicer.
If you like to go to the picture show, the Pickford’s up the street. I don’t go there too often because it seems like whenever I do they’re showing a movie in a foreign language and I can’t read fast enough to keep up. But the seats are real comfortable.
Say, look at that. Our former mayor Mr. Pike is coming down the street.
These days he likes to get up and away early. Folks say he does it to avoid running into the new mayor, Ms. Linville. Mr. Pike’s been saying some things about the way port business is handled that the mayor hasn’t taken kindly to, and when she runs into him he’s been getting the bad eye.
Well, sit back everybody. For the next couple of hours I’ll walk you around town and introduce you to some folks. When it’s time to go I’ll draw the curtain and spout a few homespun homilies, and we’ll be done. Welcome to our town. I think you’ll like it.
,It’s about dawn now. (A rooster crows from a back yard, followed by shouted obscenities from annoyed neighbors.)
A SIMPLE MAJORITY: In a bold but not entirely un-expected decision, the Washington State Supreme Court last week struck down the supermajority re-quirement binding the Legislature. Mirroring similar decisions in other states, including Alaska, justices found such restrictions—despite their popularity with voters—impose the “tyranny of the minority” on lawmakers and make obstruction the operative principle in government.
“The supermajority requirement unconstitutionally amends the constitution by imposing a two-thirds vote requirement for tax legislation,” justices found. “More importantly, the supermajority requirement substantially alters our system of government, thus enabling a tyranny of the minority. The framers were aware of the extraordinary nature of a supermajority requirement as evidenced by their decision to use it only under special circumstances. The passage of or-dinary legislation is not one of those circumstances.
“If the people and the legislature wish to adopt such a requirement, they must do so through con-stitutional amendment,” justices wrote, noting their opinion is supported by other states that have simi-larly addressed this issue.
Six Supreme Court justices agreed in support of con-stitutional democracy. Of the three dissenting opin-ions, only one argued the people’s power of direct legis-lation essentially overwhelms constitutional concerns. The final two believed the issue was not yet ripe for the court and wanted to punt it back to the legislature.
The decision greatly assists lawmakers in revising the state’s revenue portfolio to fund public schools, in an environment where even efforts to close loop-holes and make revenues more transparent without touching the tax rate are deemed “tax increases,” easily blocked by a handful of legislators. As such, it is the anticipated bookend to a ruling by justices last year that found the legislature was not doing enough to meet their constitutional duty to fund schools. Justices could hardly scold on that failure without providing tools to succeed.
The decision drew howls from Republican leader-ship, the overstimulated minority able to use voter-approved supermajority requirements to obstruct and hijack those efforts.
“The court has opened the floodgates of taxation,” complained Sen. Pam Roach (R-Auburn), chair of the senate’s government operations committee and pri-mary author of the GOP response.
Of course, no such floodgates are opened. The Democratically controlled legislature has shown no interest in ignoring voter initiatives and raising tax-es. Two years after an initiative becomes law, law-makers are free to tinker with its innards; lawmakers have made no effort to tinker with a series of tax restrictions imposed by voters dating back to 1993. That was, in fact, the complaint of two justices, that such initiatives were not yet ripe for the courts, not justiciable, having never received adequate challenge by the paralyzed legislature or the governor.
In a cycle of tax revolt dating back two decades, professional signature gatherer Tim Eyman has built a lucrative personal empire using corporate (oil) money to brilliantly goad single-issue voters activated through the 1990 motor voter act to create what is—by far—the most regressive tax structure in the United States. Putting anti-tax restrictions on the ballot year after
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THE GRISTLEyear,—even as past restrictions were still in effect—has allowed Eyman to pocket hundreds of thousands of dol-lars. In a succession of initiatives from I-601 in 1993 through the most recent I-1105, Eyman and his cohorts have suf-focated the state’s financial portfolio. State general fund revenues as a share of the state economy have collapsed from 7 percent in 1995 to under 4.7 percent in 2012, the Washington State Economic & Revenue Forecast Council reported in De-cember. The effect is a permanent struc-tural deficit. Probably worse from a policy perspective, the supermajority require-ment empowers an obstructive political faction almost permanently in exile in Washington—state Republicans—and places them fully in command of spend-ing policy: We’re not electing them in numbers, but they sure are in control.
“The supermajority requirement gave a legislative minority the power to squelch ideas even when those ideas had majority support,” Gov. Jay Inslee commented. “That is inconsistent with our fundamental form of representative democracy. Majority rule is a foundation of our system of government.”
Sen. Doug Ericksen pledged to redou-ble efforts to change the state constitu-tion to require supermajorities to raise taxes, the so-called Roach amendment supported by the 25-member GOP cau-cus, which is indeed the correct path to address the restriction. Yet—as Inslee notes—the framers of the state con-stitution were extraordinarily careful in proscribing supermajorities, in balanc-ing the rights of the minority not to be overwhelmed against the rights of the majority to govern as elected.
“The seven supermajority require-ments in the original constitution were all relegated to special circumstances, not the passage of ordinary legislation,” justices observed in their decision. “These circumstances included expelling a member of the legislature [one could expel the entire opposition through this procedure] or overriding a veto.”*
By contrast, they warned, “a simple majority of the people or the legislature could require particular bills to receive 90 percent approval rather than just a two-thirds approval, thus essentially ensuring that those types of bills would never pass. Such a result is antithetical to the notion of a functioning govern-ment and should be rejected as such.”
Wise words, in a sweeping decision.
*Ironically, another supermajority require-
ment is the two-thirds threshold needed in the
Senate and House to propose disruptive changes
to constitution like the Roach amendment. Half
doesn’t do it. The framers were smart like that.
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San Juan Island gets an expanded park, as the National Park Service (NPS) announces the addition of
a 34-acre property to San Juan Island National Historical Park. The newly pro-tected land, located along 2,500 feet of pristine shoreline on Westcott Bay, will enable the park service to enhance the park’s educational and recreational offerings at English Camp.
Known to many San Juan Island resi-dents as part of the Westcott Bay Sea Farm, the property also offers rich up-land forest and wetland habitats. The land was previously owned and man-aged by the Webb family. Representa-tives of the Webb family, local con-servation groups and the park service approached the nonprofit Conservation Fund with the intent of protecting the property. The Conservation Fund and the NPS worked together to design a unique conservation plan that would preserve the land’s natural state, while allowing use of a portion of the tide-lands for oyster farming.
“The National Park Service was look-ing for a way to add valuable land to the
park without compromising the ability of the oyster farm to operate; and we’re pleased that we will be able to achieve both goals here,” said San Juan Island National Historical Park Superintendent Lee Taylor. “The beautiful property will be a wonderful addition to the national historical park and will provide real benefits to the community.”
The NPS acquired the first portion of the 70-acre property from the Conserva-tion Fund with support from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a federal land protection program that receives a percentage of proceeds from offshore oil and gas royalties. Congress appropriated the LWCF funding in 2010 with strong support from U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Representative Rick Larsen.
”The conservation and preservation of our natural resources reflects the values I grew up with here in Washing-ton State,” Sen. Murray said. “I want to leave the same kind of legacy for my grandchildren and for future gen-erations to enjoy. I am proud to have worked with Senator Cantwell and Con-
gressman Larsen to expand the San Juan Island National Historical Park for all Washingtonians to enjoy.”
“The preservation of this important land within San Juan Island National Historical Park builds upon our efforts to protect and expand public access to Washington’s natural landscapes and cultural heritage,” Sen. Cantwell said. “I was proud to work with local stakehold-ers to preserve nearby Mitchell Hill and keep it in the public domain.”
Congressman Larsen added, “One-hundred and fifty years ago, hundreds of American and British troops faced off for control of San Juan Island. The historical importance of the Pig War is only matched by the outstanding beauty of the San Juan Islands. The expansion of San Juan Island National Historical Park will help preserve this site of natural and historic significance for residents and visitors to-day, and for future generations.”
LWCF is one of the nation’s premier conservation funding sources, which has been protecting forests, natural resourc-es, state and local parks and recreation areas since 1965. An additional $400,000 is required for the NPS to purchase the remaining 36 acres of adjacent forest and wetland property from the Conser-vation Fund.
Formerly owned by the late Bill and Do-ree Webb, the property was once the site of the Webb Camp-School, a summer camp for boys.
“Our parents would be pleased with our decision to sell our family land to The Conservation Fund so that it could become part of English Camp,” the Webb sisters said in a statement. “We and our parents have worked hard to keep this land natural and open and to support a healthy and clean Westcott Bay. We are grateful that the land will continue in its natural state for years to come and that others will have the opportunity to expe-rience and enjoy it as we have.”
San Juan Island NHP was established in 1966 by Congress to commemorate the peaceful resolution of the San Juan Boundary Dispute, or “Pig War,” between Great Britain and the United States. Military forces from both nations jointly (and peacefully) occupied the island from 1860 to 1872 following a crisis over a slain pig in 1859. The Webb property—along with Roche Harbor proper—was part of the military reserve charted by Captain George E. Pickett of the U.S. Army and Captain George Bazalgette of the British Royal Marines in 1860, fol-lowing a low-key dispute over lime de-posits at Roche Harbor.
“We’ll be engaging in careful planning for the use of this beautiful property in the coming year, and there will be op-portunities for islanders to weigh in on what they would like to see happen,” Taylor said.
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The
Week that WasBY TIM JOHNSON
LAST WEEK’S
NEWSFEB27-MARCH05
02. .13WEDNESDAY
A suspected gang member is arrested on drug charges. After an extensive investigation, Whatcom County Sheriff deputies and federal agents serve a warrant on Joseph Garcia, 33, believed to be a gang member and methamphetamine dealer after months of investigating. Garcia was arrested at his home for possession of approximately one pound of meth, with an estimated street value of about $12,000.
03. .13FRIDAY
Police investigate two attempted abductions in north Belling-ham. In the first, a 13-year-old girl was approached by a man and told to go with him. She ran. In the second, a 24-year-old was grabbed by the arm by a man. In both cases, the suspect sprayed the victims in the eyes with an unknown substance. Neither woman was harmed by the spray.
The Washington State Supreme Court overturns the supermajority restriction on the Legislature. In a 6-3 opinion, the state’s high court rules that such a requirement limiting tax increases must be achieved through a constitutional amendment, rather than through direct leg-islation. Sen. Doug Ericksen (R-Lynden) says he is disappointed by the decision. Sen. Kevin Ranker (D-Orcas) says such supermajority requirements are a source of gridlock and obstruction by a minority of lawmakers.
03. .13SUNDAY
The Skagit County Sheriff's office says a man has surrendered in connection with the death of a man whose body was found last month near Sedro-Woolley. The 32-year-old went to a home in Mount Vernon Sunday night and asked the resident to call police because he wanted to turn himself in. He was wanted in connection with the death of Dean Jackson, whose body was found Feb. 25 with the help of a cadaver dog.
03. .13TUESDAY
Testifying before a state House commit-tee, Gov. Jay Inslee insists that Washington state must lead the fight against climate change and urged lawmakers to help him move quickly on the issue. In the wake of changes to his inaugural climate change bill made in
the Republican-controlled state Senate, Inslee pushed for his measure in the House Environ-ment Committee. The senate version of the bill would limit the governor's role in shaping climate recommendations into legislation. As chair of the Energy, Environment and Telecom-munications Committee, Sen. Doug Ericksen (R-Lynden) played a pivotal role in recommending those changes.
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Ten years ago this month marked the lead-up to the invasion and war in Iraq, the so-called “global war on terror.” Sides drew up around the Federal Building in downtown Bellingham, supporters of the President's plan on one side of the street shouting back at the opponents of mili-tary aggression and ginned up intelligence on the other. As author Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects, “It seemed, back then, that every ‘sensible’ and ‘serious’ person you knew—left or right—was for the war. And they were all wrong. Never forget that they were all wrong. And never forget that the radicals with their drum circles and their wild hair were right.”
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IN January, the Community Energy Challenge completed a home energy assessment for the 1,000th home in Whatcom County. The CEC is a collaboration between the
Opportunity Council and Sustainable Connections and is an initiative designed to create jobs, increase energy efficiency, and reduce utility bills in homes and small business.
AMOUNT, in millions, in direct economic activity prompted by the Community Energy Challenge, which has created
more than 47 jobs in Whatcom County.
AMOUNT saved by a typical homeowner in energy-saving upgrades prompted by the Community Energy
Challenge.
NUMBER of metered solar installations in Whatcom County in 2009.
NUMBER of metered solar installations in Whatcom County in 2012 as a result of the Community
Energy Challenge
NUMBER of businesses assisted by energy upgrades through the Community Energy Challenge.
AMOUNT saved in local energy costs through the Community Energy Challenge.
SOURCES: Sustainable Connections
SPECIAL REPORT: LURKERS AND LURERSOn March 1, a 13-year-old girl was waiting for a school bus on West Bakerview Road when a man approached her and told her to go with him. Bellingham Police said the girl refused. The suspect reportedly punched the girl in the face and then sprayed her in the eyes with an unknown substance. The victim ran home to report the assault to her parents. The suspect did not follow the victim. After providing the information to police, the victim was driven to the hospital by a private vehicle after she was checked by medics at her home. There were no apparent injuries at that time. The location where the assault took placed was searched by police, however the suspect was not located.
On March 1, in an apparently related at-tack, a 24-year-old woman reported she was was walking alone on a sidewalk near Aldrich Road when a man came up from be-hind and grabbed her by the arm. The man then sprayed the woman in the eyes with an unknown substance and demanded she go with him. The victim refused and yelled. The suspect was last seen running toward West Bakerview Road, and then out of sight. The area was checked by police K-9. The vic-tim was checked by medics. In both cases, the victims described the suspect as a white male, in his 20s with “lighter” colored facial hair. He was wearing dark rimmed glasses. He was described as being between 5’5’’ to 5’7” with a thin build.
On Feb. 28, a man jumped from the bushes on North Garden Street near Western Wash-ington University campus and grabbed a woman by the wrist, Bellingham Police re-ported. He may have said something to her but the woman did hear him clearly. She punched him hard the face and he ran off in the direction of downtown.
On Feb. 22, a tall, slender man approached a woman in the courtyard of Fairhaven Col-lege on WWU campus. He grabbed her and attempted to pull her into the woods near campus, police reported, but she broke free and ran. She described the man as wear-ing a dark, baggy hoodie and jeans. He ap-peared to be in his teens or early 20s.
On Feb. 8, a teenage girl reported she was walking on H Street near downtown Bell-ingham when a van quickly pulled up beside her and the man driving it asked her if he could give her a ride. The girl ran away and called her parents. Her father picked up his frightened daughter and they reported the incident to police. An officer searched the
area for the van and suspect without suc-cess. Police encourage women to walk in the company of others, in populated and well-lit areas.
On March 3, a caller reported a suspicious man watching a bus stop in Fairhaven with young children in it.
MOTHER INSTINCTOn Feb. 26, a mother was arrested after she attacked her 17-year-old son with a butcher knife. Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies said the Birch Bay woman report-edly threatened to kill her son, but the teen was able to knock away the knife. He was not cut. The 37-year-old mother was booked on assault and felony harassment for making the threat.
On Feb. 26, Bellingham Police issued an alert to watch for “the welfare of two small children possibly living in a van driven by a drug-influenced mother and boyfriend,” police reported.
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSEOn March 2, Bellingham and University police responded to a report of someone brandishing a weapon on campus. A search uncovered a zombie party on campus. No weapon was found among the undead.
PHANTOM CALLEROn Feb. 26, a caller in Roosevelt neigh-borhood reported she’d heard a woman screaming for someone to call the police. Bellingham Police responded but did not find anyone needing assistance. “Neigh-bors who were contacted stated that they had not heard anything,” police reported.
SPOOK LIGHTSOn Feb. 16, an eyewitness reported spot-ting a fireball in the skies over Bellingham. The viewer reported “six or so bright orange lights that did not blink and they were si-lently flying in a ‘V’ formation, but would move so it did not appear to be one object. They seemed higher than helicopters fly but much lower than planes,” the witness re-ported. “When I called a local radio station to see if anyone reported it, he said not that he knew of but he has seen the same thing before and said it was drones.”
FUBAROn Feb 28, Bellingham Police assisted a 22-year-old woman in York neighborhood who was so drunk she could not remember where she lived. “A roommate was found via her cell phone who provided her address,” police reported. The woman was taken home and released to the roommate.
On Feb. 18, a caller reported that someone might have put something in her alcohol while she was having drinks in downtown Bellingham.
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I nternational Women’s Day means different things to dif-ferent people. In some countries, women are wooed much as they are on Valentine’s Day—with flowers and choco-
late and declarations of love—while others celebrate March 8 by calling attention to women’s economic, political and social achievements—as well as focusing on areas in which women’s equality is still sorely lacking. Following are a few worthy events to take note of. Please apply to your life as necessary.
“The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum” has been declared the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, while the United Nations has chosen to focus the annual event on end-ing violence against women. To that end, those interested in knowing more about the 200 million girls that are missing in the world today because of “gendercide” can show up for a free screening of It’s a Girl at 6pm Thurs., March 7 at Western Wash-ington University’s Viking Union 552. The documentary, which was shot on location in China and India, covers everything from human trafficking to abandonment, dowry-related violence and
more. At 7:15pm Fri., March 8, meet at the corner of Bellingham Railroad Avenue and Holly Street for an International Women’s Day rally, then march to Chuckanut Brewery (601 W. Holly St.) for live music with Jenna Freeman and Misty Flowers, a dance party and more. More info: 647-3888 or www.facebook.com/Bellingham-International-Womens-Day
For nearly 50 years, Robert Zenker lived a big lie. Although he was married and the father of two, the successful Montana attorney and popularly elected public official felt he was living an inauthentic life. In 2007, that all changed when he made the decision to become a woman. It cost Zenker a lot—his marriage and many friendships, for example—but he came out the other side a much stronger person. When Zenker—who now goes by the name Roberta—comes to Vil-lage Books at 7pm Fri., March 7 to share stories from her book TransMontana: A Memoir of Transformation of Body, Mind & Spirit, she’ll share what it’s been like to make the biggest change in her life. More info: www.villagebooks.com or www.transmontanathebook.com
Sister Brigid Collins, who died in 1990, was a St. Joseph’s Hospital administrator and advocate for ser-vices supporting healthy women and children. These days, her namesake—the Brigid Collins Family Support Center—employs a staff of 28 and relies on countless volunteers to work to break the cycle of child abuse and promote family support as a means of prevention. Melinda Shenk, the founder of Marianne’s House—a day activity center that enriches the lives of adults with developmental disabilities—named the center in honor of her sister. Cyndie Shephard is a volun-teer director at Compass 2 Campus, which introduces middle school students to higher education and pro-vides Western Washington University student men-tors for them through 12th Grade. Finally, Vi Zurline used her successful business acumen from the 1960s to become a model and coach for emerging women entrepreneurs. What do these women have in com-mon? They’re all being feted at the YWCA Northwest Women’s Hall of Fame celebration coming up March 24 at Bellingham’s Northwood Hall. The annual celebra-tion draws attention to women in Whatcom County who continue the legacy of community service, so come support them and show the women—both past and present—that what they do matters. More info: www.ywcabellingham.org
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WED., MARCH 6BOYNTON POETRY CONTEST: All residents of Whatcom County—regardless of age—are invited to submit poems to the annual Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest from March 1-31. Winning poems are displayed for a year in front of the library and on WTA buses, and will be read at a public awards ceremony May 16.
WWW.BOYNTONPOETRYCONTEST.WORDPRESS.
COM
MON., MARCH 11GREEN BOOK GROUP: Join the Environmen-tal Conservation Book Group to discuss ideas from Kenny Ausubel’s Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature at 5pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
BLAINE BOOK GROUP: Discuss John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley at the Blaine Monday Book Group monthly meeting from 6-8pm at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St.
332-8146
TUES., MARCH 12POLITICAL BOOK GROUP: Join the What-com Democrats for a Political Book Discussion Group focusing on Drew Reston’s The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of a Nation at 7pm at the group’s office at 1216 Bay St.
647-7661
WED., MARCH 13WEDNESDAY BOOK GROUP: Discuss Nicho-las Edlin’s The Widow’s Daughter at the Blaine Wednesday Book Group meeting at 11am at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St.
332-8146
WRITERS THEATER: Read your original writing on the topic and style of your choice at the monthly Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater Open Mic at 7pm at the café at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
WWW.CHUCKANUTSANDSTONE.BLOGSPOT.COM
THURS., MARCH 14 MINDFUL BIRTHING: Nancy Bardacke, CNM, will share ideas from her book Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body & Heart for Childbirth & Beyond at 7pm in the Rose Room at the Leopold, 1214 Cornwall Ave. Entry is free.
WWW.MINDFULBIRTHING.ORG
BADASS: Ben Thompson will tell “unstop-pable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands and military engage-ments of all time” when he shares tales from his book Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
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WED., MARCH 6GREEN DRINKS: Join likeminded environ-mentally conscious community members for networking and fun purposes at the monthly Green Drinks gathering from 5-7pm at Pure Bliss Desserts, 1424 Cornwall Ave.
733-8307 OR WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG
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A World of Change DRAWING ATTENTION TO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
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THURS., MARCH 7 TULE LAKE: Fumio Otsu, who was born in 1945 in the Tule Lake Concentration Camp, leads a presentation focused on “Tule Lake: A Story of a Japanese American Concentration Camp” at 12:30pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
MARCH 7-14HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL: A variety of gath-erings will happen this week as part of the 10th annual Skagit Human Rights Festival. On March 7, attend a showing of Genetic Roulette and stick around for a panel discussion at Skagit Valley College’s Phillip Tarro Theatre. “Trans-gender/Transformation” happens at 2pm March 9 at the college’s multipurpose room, and “The Skagit Food System” takes place at 7pm March 17. Other events happen through March 28.
WWW.SKAGITHRF.WORDPRESS.COM
FRI., MARCH 8COMMUNITY TRIVIA NIGHT: An all-ages Community Trivia Night will help raise funds for Meals on Wheels from 7-9pm at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. There will also be a performance by members of the Bellingham Circus Guild and a dessert dash. Entry is $6 for adults or $15 per family.
756-0999
SAT., MARCH 9FUNDRAISING BINGO: Attend a fundraising BINGO gathering from 2-4pm at the Blaine Se-nior Center, 763 G St. The event is open to the public (must be 18 to play). Entry is $20 to play eight games, and refreshments are included.
332-8040
TRAIN FEST: Bring your wooden track, trains and accessories (marked, so you can ID them later) to Fairhaven Toy Garden’s 6th annual Train Fest from 1-4pm at the Firehouse Perform-
ing Art Center, 1314 Harris Ave. The day will also include a treasure hunt and prizes. Parents are welcome to play too, and children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Entry is $10 per family.
WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM
ROLLER BETTIES: The Bellingham Roller Bet-ties will continue their season of roller derby bouts at 5pm at Whatcom Community College’s Pavilion Gym. Tickets are $6 for kids ages 8 to 12 and $14 for adults (children under 7 are free).
WWW.BELLINGHAMROLLERBETTIES.COM
SUN., MARCH 10PICKETT HOUSE TOUR: Tour Captain George E. Pickett’s 1856 home at the monthly Pickett House Tour from 1-4pm at 910 Bancroft St. This is the oldest documented wooden structure, on its original site, in the state of Washington and was built with planks sawn at the Whatcom Creek 1853 Roeder Peabody sawmill. Entry is by donation.
WWW.COB.ORG
THURS., MARCH 14SKAGIT TOPIC: “Twenty Years of Innovation” will be the focus of a “Skagit Topic” talk with Jim Payant of Janicki Industries at 6pm at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. Payant will focus on Janicki’s many contributions to the maritime industry. Entry is $4-$5.
WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM
CELEBRATE AMERICORPS: Join current Americorps volunteers and alumni in Whatcom County for a “Celebrate Americorps Week!” gathering at 4pm at Western Washington University’s Viking Union (room #552). In addi-tion to the sharing of stories, Bellingham City Council’s Cathy Lehman will speak. Entry is free.
383-3146
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Thursday March 7, 7pm Skagit Valley College Phillip Tarro Theatre
GMOs with Film “Genetic Roulette” & Panel
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Saturday March 9, 2-4:30pm
Skagit Valley College Multipurpose Room
Transgender: Transformation
Film: “Faces and Facets of Transgender Experience”
Speakers & Panel Discussion
Thursday March 14, 7pm Skagit Valley College Multipurpose Room
The Skagit Food System & Panel Discussion
Thursday March 21, 7pm
Skagit Valley College Phillip Tarro Theatre
Dana Lyons: Singer/Songwriter in concert
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Saturday March 23, 2-4:30 pm Skagit Valley College Phillip Tarro Theatre
Women in Leadership
Film: “Miss Representation” & Panel Discussion
Thursday March 28, 7pm Lincoln Theatre
Film: “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue
American Healthcare” & Panel Discussion
Kids and their keepers can make tracks to the Firehouse Performing Arts Center March 9 for the Fairhaven Toy Garden’s 6th annual Train Fest
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H IK ING RUNNING CYCLING
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Seven SummitsJOURNEY TO THE TOP(S) OF THE WORLD
A lthough he’s made it to the top of six of the seven highest moun-tains in the world in the past six years, Bellingham’s Dave Mauro can pinpoint the scariest moment of his mountaineering adven-
tures thus far. “Last summer, while climbing Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, I had
to hang from a cable at 16,000 feet and pull myself across a Tyrolean traverse 40 feet long,” he says. “It was about a 1,000-foot drop beneath me. It was very exciting.”
Mauro, 50, didn’t set out to conquer each of the seven continents’ gnarliest mountains. In 2006, he was at a low point in his life when his brother-in-law, Ty Hardt, invited him to join an ascent to Denali, “the ceiling of North America.” After initially saying no to the Mt. McKinley ascent, Mauro reconsidered and signed on for the trip. In a blog post he
getout WED., MARCH 6SNOWSHOE BASICS: Learn more about what you need and where to get started at a “Snowshoeing Basics” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Please register in advance for the free class.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
FALCON TALK: Research wildlife biologist and educator David Drummond schools attendees with fresh information about the Merlin falcon at a “Merlin Movin’ in the ‘Hood” presentation at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free and open to both adults and school-age children.
778-7188
GARDEN CLUB MEETING: Krista Rome of the Backyard Beans and Grains Project will cover growing beans and grains in Whatcom County at the Birchwood Garden Club’s monthly meeting at 7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. All are welcome.
WWW.BIRCHWOODGARDENCLUB.ORG OR
WWW.BACKYARDBEANSANDGRAINS.COM
THURS., MARCH 7SKI CLUB MEETING: New and prospec-tive members can get their bearings at the Nooksack Nordic Ski Club’s last monthly meeting of the season at 6:30pm at the WECU Education Center, 511 E. Holly St. At 7pm, Jeremy Boyer will lead a slide presentation on backcountry skiing. Bring a potluck dish to share and a slide presentation.
WWW.NOOKSACKNORDICSKICLUB.ORG
PERUVIAN PASSAGES: Students from Ex-plorations Academy will share images and stories from their international service-learning program in Peru at a “Peruvian Passages” Travelogue from 7-9pm at What-com Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
FRI., MARCH 8WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventur-ers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild Things!” excursions from 9:30-11am every Friday in March at Whatcom Falls Park (Scudder Pond entrance). Entry is by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
MARCH 8-10HOME & GARDEN SHOW: More than 200 vendors will be sharing their home and garden wares at the annual Whatcom County Home & Garden Show from 10am-8pm Friday and Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday in Lynden at the NW Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Entry is $6-$7.
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SAT., MARCH 9MT. ERIE HIKE: Join members of the Mount Baker Club for the annual Mt. Erie Beer and Burger Hike today. Meet at 9am at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool (car-pool fee is $7).
332-3195 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG
WORK PARTY: Join the Nooksack En-hancement Association and the Whatcom Conservation District for a Spring Work Party from 9am-12pm on Silver Creek. Park-
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wrote after successfully reaching the 20,320-foot summit, he posited that he remembered thinking before he left that if he could make it to the top, his life might just turn around.
“At that point, my brother had died, my mar-riage was ending, my wife had stopped believing in me and I had stopped believing in myself,” he says. “I thought if I could make it to the top of Denali, I might come to believe in myself the way Ty believed in me. I thought that might be the start of reversing all of this. What I learned is that you don’t come to believe in yourself by climbing mountains. You come to believe in your-self by facing your problems. I did that and things started to improve.”
Fast-forward a few years. In addition to his work as a financial planner and his longtime par-ticipation as a mainstage performer at the Upfront Theatre, Mauro has managed to climb five more of those famous peaks since his first memorable ascent. He’s crossed ice shelves in Antarctica, tra-versed the Andes mountain range in Argentina, mastered Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro, braved Russia’s dormant volcano, Mt. Elbrus, and, as mentioned above, risked life and limb to make it the top of Carstensz Pyramid.
When he leaves for Nepal’s Mt. Everest at the end of this month, Mauro will be attempting to do something only 65 Americans before him have done—reach the top of all seven summits.
In addition to the rigorous training he goes through before each climb, this time around Mauro wants his adventure to benefit more than his respi-ratory system and leg muscles. “Climbing for Kids,” a fundraiser he’s started that will direct each dol-lar he raises to programs for the Bellingham Boys & Girls Club, asks people to donate as little as $5 (camp support) to as much as $100 (sherpa) or even $10,000 (Mt. Everest). Those who donate—and others who are cheering Mauro on—can follow him at www.mauroeverest.blogspot.com, where he’s currently posting and will continue to post once he makes it to Nepal.
When asked what he learned from his first climb that helped him with all the others, Mauro says he tries not to think too hard about what’s to come.
“Focusing on the summit will allow the difficult things before you now to crush your will,” he says. “I’ve seen it happen. Just worry about today and try to find some joy in this day. It might be a really small joy—like thawing cheese in your armpit to add to your freeze-dried mashed potatoes—but it counts, and you need it.”
To donate to Dave Mauro’s “Climbing for Kids” fundraiser for the Bellingham Boys & Girls Club, go to www.whatcomclubs.org
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MARCH 9-10ORCHID SHOW: The Mt. Baker Orchid Society will host its annual Show and Sale from 9am-5pm Saturday and 9am-4pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley Gardens, 18923 Johnson Rd. (I-5 Exit #221). Orchid exhibits and judging, sales by members and regional vendors, detailed info about growing the plant, an orchid-related art exhibit and more will be part of the flowery fun.
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SUN., MARCH 10RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mt. Baker Bike Club for the weekly “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8:30am at Fairhaven Bike & Ski, 1108 11th St. The 32-mile route sees riders heading down Chuckanut and back via Lake Samish.
733-4433 OR WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG
MON., MARCH 11WINTER CAMPING BASICS: Patrick Kennedy will helm a free “Winter Camping Basics” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Find out what you need, how to stay warm and what to expect when setting up camp and during your overnight. Register in advance.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
TUES., MARCH 12GREEN RUN: Wear green and get the chance to win a free pair of Adidas shoes at a “Wearin’ O’ the Green Run” starting at 6pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Other prizes and swag will also be avail-able at the Adidas-sponsored run. Entry is free. Be sure to bring a headlamp or flashlight for the 40-minute run.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
VOYAGE THROUGH TIME: “A Voyage Through Time via Northwest Passage and Greenland” will be the focus of a talk and slideshow presentation with local traveler Janet Collins at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Register in advance for the free event.
647-8955 OR WWW.REIC.COM
MOUNTAINEER TALK: Ian Nicholson, a mountaineer and SuperTopo guidebook author for Washington Pass in the North Cascades, will give a talk at tonight’s Bell-ingham Mountaineers gathering at 7:30pm at Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. Entry is free and open to all.
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
The Legacy A FAMILY AFFAIR IN LYNDEN
M arla has been talking about this play almost as long as I’ve known her,” my colleague whispered to me in the moments be-fore the lights at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre came up on
the first act of The Legacy. She was referring to director Marla Bronstein, a Bell-
ingham resident who’s long wanted to bring Mark Hare-lik’s play about a Jewish family living in rural Texas in the early 1960s to the stages of Whatcom County.
The fact that Bronstein is herself Jewish likely had something to do with wanting to share the story of the Estanitskys, but it was the bigger themes found within the play that really resonated with her.
“To me, the most important message of The Legacy is the need for tradition and community in one’s life,” Bronstein writes in the Director’s Notes of the pro-gram. “Tradition is that thread that you get from your parents and grandparents and give to your children. It weaves you all together. Whether from family or friends, the support of the community will help you get through all of the challenges life can throw.”
Once audiences are introduced to the Estanitsky family, it soon becomes clear what their particular challenges are. The biggest is that the mother, Ra-chel (Stephanie Blankers), is dying of cancer and is struggling mightily to come to terms with her anger at God and the fact that, at 35, she’s not in the least bit ready to leave her family behind. Her husband, Dave (Mark Miller) seems resigned to losing his wife, but perhaps he’s just really good at hiding his pain from her and their son, Nathan (Jonathan Henry).
Smaller struggles soon reveal themselves, as well. Nathan’s trying to study for his bar mitzvah, but is hindered by the fact that he lives in the middle of
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WED., MARCH 6SHREK THE MUSICAL: DreamWorks The-atricals and NETworks Presentations bring Shrek the Musical to Bellingham at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets to see the story of the swamp-dwelling ogre who goes on a life-changing adventure are $20-$69.
734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
MARCH 6-10TWELFTH NIGHT: Western Washington Uni-versity’s Theatre and Dance Departments pres-ent showings of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at performances at 7:30pm Wed.-Sat. and 2pm Sunday at the Performing Arts Center Mainstage. Tickets are $8-$12.
650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU
THURS., MARCH 7COMEDY NIGHT: Standup comedian Vince Valenzuela will perform at a “Comedy Night” fundraiser at 7pm at the historic Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St. Admission to see the nationally renowned comic are $15.
WWW.CONCRETE-THEATRE.COM
GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $7 for the early show, $4 for the late one.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MARCH 7-9HAIRSPRAY: Racial barriers, humor and pop music will all make appearances when the 1960s-based musical Hairspray shows at 7pm Thursday through Saturday at Ferndale High School, 5830 Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets are $7-$10 at the door.
383-9261
MARCH 7-10DEADMAN WONDERLAND CIRCUS: An all-star cast of six local performers will present “Deadman Wonderland Circus” performances at 7:30pm Thurs..-Sat., and 6:30pm Sunday at the Bellingham Circus Guild’s Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., Suite #101. Juggling, acrobatics, puppetry, dance, magic and more will help tell the story of a young man trapped in the world of demons. Tickets to the all-ages show are $5-$12, and an ad-ditional showing happens March 14 at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre.
584-6646 OR WWW.
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DINNER THEATER: Enjoy a four-course meal while trying to solve a deadly case when A Rotten Demise shows at 7:30pm Thursday and 6:30pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s 1st Street Cabaret, 612 S. First St. Tickets are $30-$45. The show continues through March 24, and additional entertainment happens through the week.
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
MARCH 7-14COMPANY: Get a “sophisticated look at modern relationships” when MBT’s Winter Rep-ertory Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim’s landmark play, Company, with 7:30pm show-ings Thurs.-Fri., 3pm and 7:30pm Sun., and 7:30pm Tues.-Thurs. at Mount Baker Theatre’s Walton Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $10-$20 and additional performances of
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nowhere and is getting his schooling via mail-order lessons and old recordings from his Russian grand-father. With his parents focusing on his mother’s health, there’s not much more he can do to help make the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Throw in complications brought about by Ra-chel’s Aunt Sarah (Jill Likkel) and a visiting rabbi (Kit Vonnegut)—both of whom cause the family to question their religion in various ways—and the troubles the family faces seem nearly insur-mountable.
Although all the actors are strong and steadfast in their portrayals of a family in distress, major props go to 12-year-old Jonathan Henry, who an-chors the two-act play with his portrayal of a kid
who is hanging on to childhood as long as pos-sible. In scenes that could be maudlin and over-wrought, he inserts a knock-knock joke at just the right minute, bringing much-needed brevity. The tears he musters at a penultimate moment seem not the least bit faked. His line load is heavy, but I couldn’t find one misstep among his delivery.
Bronstein, who was glowing after the opening-night performance my officemate and I attended, tells me Henry was the first to have his lines memo-rized, and says she was as blown away by his the-atrical aplomb as I was. As far as she can see, she adds, those tears he sheds are real.
I’m not going to tell you if I cried or not, be-cause I don’t want people to think The Legacy is one big downer. But I do think—as Bronstein pointed out to me after I’d seen it—that it will resonate with audiences in many different ways.
Some, of course, will relate to what it means to lose a parent, while others will no doubt ruminate on what their religion really means to them, and what they’re willing to do to make it part of their life. But, hopefully, if The Legacy does anything, it highlights what it means to live, and what it means to love. Go. See for yourself. And bring a hanky, just in case.
WHAT: The LegacyWHEN: 7:30pm March 7-9 and 14-16; 2pm March 10 and 17WHERE: Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St., LyndenCOST: $8-$12INFO: www.clairevgtheatre.com
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what’s been called the “first modern musi-cal” happen through March 17.
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MARCH 8-9BLENDER: Local improvisers will be joined by performers from points both north and south at “Blender” shows at 8pm and 10pm Friday and Saturday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MARCH 9-10BRIDES AND BROTHERS: Lyric Light Opera offers up showings of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at 7:30pm Saturday and 2pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College St. Showings of the barn-raising, axe-jumping, seven-times-everything musical happen again March 15-17 and 22-24. Tickets are $19-$45.
WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG
SUN., MARCH 10DYNAMO: Discover a new way to spend your Sunday nights when “Dynamo” shows at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The performances feature 12 improvis-ers vying for the “Dynamo” title through a series of games and elimination rounds. Entry is $2.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
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WED., MARCH 6BALLROOM DANCE: Sentimental Journey will provide live music at tonight’s monthly Ballroom Dance from 6-8pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave. Admission is free, and all skill levels are invited.
733-3500
THURS., MARCH 7FOLK DANCE: Learn more about Balkan, Romani, Greek, Turkish and Israeli folk dancing when the Fourth Corner Folk Danc-ers meet from 7:15-10pm every Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. All ages are welcome, and no partner is neces-sary. Suggested donation is $5 (first-timers are free).
380-0456
MARCH 8-9DANCE GALLERY SPRING CONCERT: Dance and multimedia works by local and national choreographers can be seen when the Dance Gallery presents its 22nd annual Spring Concert at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. The event includes a silent auction to raise funds for the nonprofit arts group. Tickets are $12 and additional performances happen March 15-17.
676-4113 OR WWW.DANCEGALLERY.ORG
SAT., MARCH 9CONTRA DANCE: Come call some dances, play in band or simply dance at the Bell-ingham Country Dance Society’s Open Band Night Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm at Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Beginners and singles are welcome. Suggested dona-tion is $8-$10.
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N early five years ago, Bellingham photographers Clinton James (Clinton James Photography) and Aaron Nelson (Evantide Pho-tography) were on an airplane returning from a networking trip
to Las Vegas when they got to talking about what it might look like to utilize their resources and put together a homegrown event to help pro-fessional and aspiring photographers connect and learn. This weekend, their vision will become a reality. “PhotoLush,” the fruit of their brain-storming, will feature a variety of workshops focusing on everything from techniques and technology to business lessons and beyond. Cascadia Weekly: What’s with the name?Clinton James: “Photo” was a given. “Lush” seemed appropriate for our
part of the country. Plus, when local photographers have gathered so-cially in the past, wine is always involved. “Lush” just seemed right.
CW: Do you have to be a professional photographer to take part?
Aaron Nelson: You don’t need to be a profes-sional photographer to join, but the event and classes as a whole are aimed at those that do have a desire to work in the photography industry.
CW: Is this event meant for just digital pho-tographers?
CJ: There will be several hybrid (digital and film) shooters participating, but most par-ticipants are firmly in the digital camp.
CW: How did you choose your instructors, and what strengths do you feel they’re bringing to the table?
AN: We selected each presenter for their
knowledge and unique skill set. One of the strengths we find in this crop of presenters is that many would admit they are not teachers, but photographers in the trenches.
CW: In an age when people can take service-able photos with their cell phones, what is the benefit to having a “real” camera?
CJ: Both big and small cameras are becoming more accessible and have leveled the play-ing field, allowing the true artists and in-novators to express their vision. Sometimes the best tool is your iPhone. Sometimes the job requires more. To use a culinary analogy: if you’re only making popcorn, use the microwave. Press one button and you’re done. But if you envision an excep-tional meal, five courses served to beloved and discriminating guests, the microwave won’t cut it. In that situation, you need the best equipment.
CW: What’s so great about photography as a profession?
AN: I love people and I love taking photos! This is the simple, honest answer. I don’t consider myself a journalist, but I really do love documenting and capturing the beauty in all of life’s changing seasons.
CW: What do you hope people take away after taking part in PhotoLush?AN: I feel like there will be something for ev-eryone. The takeaways will be abundant. Some may find the most value in learning more about bookkeeping and color management while others might really gain great insight from the presen-tations on personal work or client interaction. CW: What’s a good camera for those hoping to make photography into some-
thing more than just a hobby?AN: Nikon.CJ: Canon. I would say the piece of equipment
that raises one above “hobbyist” is great glass. The digital sensor in a $1,000 camera body and a $8,000 body are very similar—and both are equally amazing. But a great scene captured through an average lens be-comes an average picture. A high-quality lens makes all the difference.
CW: Is Whatcom County a good place to be a photographer?
CJ: Whatcom County is a great place to be a photographer. I’m paraphrasing Mark Twain when I say you can’t swing a cat by the tail in this town without hitting a photogra-pher. That’s a good thing. Whatcom county has a rare collection of photographic art-ists and technical experts who value col-laboration, love to share business strate-gies and motivate their colleagues to kick the collective bar up a few notches. Plus, this is the Northwest. Point a camera in any direction and you’ve got rich material to work with.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
WED., MARCH 6ART TALK: Current exhibiting artist Anna Halpin will be available for an informal discussion of her inspirations and techniques used in her abstract paintings at an Art Talk at 7pm at Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. Entry is free.
WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM
FRI., MARCH 8TODDLER ART: Young artists will create their own masterpieces as they experiment with materials and acquire skills at “Toddler Art” sessions at 10am every Friday in March at the Whatcom Museum’s Family Interactive Gallery (FIG), 250 Flora St. Entry is $2.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
SAT., MARCH 9BASKETRY CLASS: Learn to make willow baskets using locally sourced materials when Shannon Robertson schools participants at a free class from 1-4pm at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. Space is limited, and registration is required.
592-2422 OR WWW.WCLS.ORG
ARTIST TRUST TALK: Artist Trust at Large speaker Jean Behnke will talk about how Washington State artists of all disciplines can utilize Artists Trust’s essential re-sources, grants, career training, exhibition and performance opportunities at 4pm at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 Tenth St. Entry is free; please RSVP.
WWW.ARTISTTRUST.ORG
SUN., MARCH 10ART IN ARCHITECTURE: Jim Olson’s “Art in Architecture” exhibit opens today from 10am-5pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. (which, by the way, Olson designed). At 2pm, Olson will give a talk focusing on the exhibit at the Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
MARCH 14-16CRAFT AND ANTIQUE SHOW: The 27th an-nual “Spring Craft & Antique Show” happens from 10am-8pm Thurs.-Fri. and 10am-5pm Saturday at Lynden’s Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front ST. Entry is $4-$5.
WWW.LYNDENCRAFTANTIQUESHOW.COM
ONGOING EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: “Go Figure!,” an exhibit fea-turing works from the ceramics group Cascade Clay, can be seen through March 30 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG OR WWW.
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ANCHOR ART SPACE: “Ours,” an exhibit about people taking up their space and stak-ing their claim, shows March 1 to April 18 in Anacortes at Anchor Art Space, 216 Com-mercial Ave.
WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG
ARTWOOD: “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall” will be featured through March at Artwood Gal-lery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
BLACK DROP: Charles Jones’ “The Codex of Hope” shows through March at the Black Drop
Coffeehouse, 300 W. Champion St.
WWW.BLACKDROPCOFFEEHOUSE.COM
FIREHOUSE: Ben Mann’s “Paintings from a Bella Excursion” is currently on display at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
WWW.MANN-ALIVE.COM
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem-porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
GALLERY CYGNUS: “In the Spirit of Our Grandmothers: Contemporary Art of the NW Coast and Ancestral Tradition” shows through March 24 in La Conner at Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St.
WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM
GOOD EARTH: AnnMarie DeCollibus’ “Sea-sons” can be viewed through March at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
JANSEN ART CENTER: Sign up for classes and workshops at Lynden’s new Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. There’s also currently a multi-artist Winter Exhibit currently on display.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Alien Art,” featuring collaborative art by Tom Wood and Randy Clark (FishBoy) shows through March 23 at Fairhaven’s Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St.
WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
MAKE.SHIFT: “What’s Up! 15 Years of Local Music” will show through March 23 at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.
WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM
MATZKE FINE ART: “The Steamroller Print Show” shows through April 14 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way.
WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM
MONA: “Black and White Color Study from the Permanent Collection” and “Eduardo Calderon: Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists” are on dis-play through March 13 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. Admission is $3-$8.
WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
SMITH & VALLEE: Oil painter Becky Fletcher’s “Waiting on the Light” solo exhibit will be on display until March 31 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
WESTERN GALLERY: View a selection of works from the faculty of the Departments of Art and Design through March 9 at the Western Gallery on the Western Washington University campus.. Entry is free and open to the public.
WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection,” and “Wild East Meets Wild West: Photos from Nakhodka, Russia” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall and the Lightcatcher Building.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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musicSHOW PREVIEWS › › RUMOR HAS IT
WELL, THE BIGGEST Weekend of Music Ever happened, and I can say without qualification that it was a total blast. While I’d like to provide a blow-by-blow recap of the whole shebang, I’m not going to do that be-cause 1. I don’t have enough space to properly do it justice and 2. I lack the attention span and organiza-tional ability to properly do it justice.
But I did come out of the weekend with a couple of takeaways about our music community and the people who support it.
Chief among them is that it’s a pretty astonish-ingly wonderful thing that we live in a town that offers such a bounty of local talent that 60-plus bands and musicians can be tapped to play shows during a single day. Not only did 60-plus bands play, but they also all played for free, which is incredible in and of itself. And, since many musi-cians around these parts play in multiple bands, there was more than one instance during Saturday’s crazy roundup of shows that a musician who was part of one band would play at a venue and load out at that venue, only to scurry to a second venue to load in and play a second show—and did I hap-pen to mention they all did it for free? I think I did, but it bears repeating.
So, from someone who had no stake in Satur-day night’s affairs other than as a spectator, to all those musicians and all those bands, I offer every ounce of sincere and heartfelt gratitude I can mus-ter. You created a weekend none of us is likely to forget anytime soon.
Of course, once all those bands and shows were booked, the question became: Would enough peo-ple show up to adequately fill the participating venues or would this whole experiment die from lack of attendance?
Well, after Saturday, I now know the Bellingham show-going public’s love of free music can’t be un-derestimated. While I didn’t attend all the shows, reports from all quarters suggests in almost all cases, shows were either at capacity or pretty darn close. That, too, is a pretty big deal.
I know we all like to believe we live in a special little corner of the world up here, one that is rife with musical magic, and this weekend was nothing if not ample proof of that. Indeed, even for one as cynical as I, it was pretty hard to come out of this weekend without being impressed with our music community—bands and audiences alike—and in-spired by what it can do.
I’d also like to offer up a shout out to Brenda Beehler (aka Brenda Grimm), who certainly de-serves a gold star for the weekend. Beehler, always an incredible badass, broke her arm (an injury that required a surgical fix to install some hardware into her splintered limb) mere days before the weekend of shows and still took the stage Friday night with Black Eyes and Neckties and again Saturday night with Rookery—and did so with all the guts and style that are her stock in trade.
All in all, it was a pretty damn good weekend. Can’t wait to see what the next one brings.
Rumor Has It
BY CAREY ROSS
length of King’s career. The bluesman first be-gan performing in 1949 and hasn’t stopped for a minute since. That makes for 64 years of play-
ing shows and winning over audiences—and he hasn’t exactly been taking it easy all that time. He played 342 shows in 1956, an aston-ishing total, certainly, but barely overachieving for a man who averaged 250-300 concerts a year until he was in his 70s. His always-on-the-road lifestyle cost King two marriages, but even that didn’t slow him down. These days, at age 87, King per-forms 100 concerts a year, a hefty load for a touring musician a quarter his age,
much less for an octogenarian. He hit 15,000 lifetime concerts played awhile ago, and shows
BY CAREY ROSS
B.B. King JUST GETTING STARTED
D uring the past decade or so, I’ve written about all manner of musicians, famous, obscure and every-thing in between. Without hyperbole, I can say that
B.B. King trumps them all in terms of length of career and legendary status.
Indeed, his has been a career so impressive and influential that writing about him is, frankly, a little intimidating.
First things first. “The King of Blues” will pay Bellingham a visit at 8pm Sat., March 9 as the featured entertainment of the Mount Baker Theatre’s yearly Gala event. As King is the epitome of a Pretty Big Deal, and the Mount Baker Theatre’s annual Gala is the epitome of a Pretty Good Time, I should probably divulge that tickets for the concert are sold out. But that shouldn’t keep us from giving King his due.
Next, it’s probably worth mentioning the sheer, staggering
WHERE: Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.COST: $49-$99 (show is currently sold out)MORE INFO: www.mountbaker theatre.com
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WED., MARCH 6COMPOSERS OF WESTERN: Western Washington University’s Department of Music presents a “Composers of Western” concert at 8pm at the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. Entry is free and open to the public.
650-3130
THURS., MARCH 7MARVIN JOHNSON: Blues and jazz clas-sics can be heard when Marvin Johnson—also known as “Marvin J”—performs from 5:30-7:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry is free.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
FLUTE RECITAL: Solos, ensembles, and a flute choir will perform at a Flute Studio Recital featuring the students of Lisa Mc-Carthy at 8pm at Western Washington Uni-versity’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. Entry is free and open to the public.
650-3130
FRI., MARCH 8PETER MAYER: Listen to “songs and laugh-ter to refresh the mind, calm the heart, lift the soul and move forward into Spring” when Peter Mayer performs at 7:30pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth. Tickets are $4-$15.
WWW.BUF.ORG OR WWW.PETERMAYER.NET
SAT., MARCH 9BELLINGHAM CHAMBER CHORALE: “American Masterpieces” will be the focus of Bellingham Chamber Chorale perfor-mances at 3pm and 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. Works by Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, Aaron Copland, and Eric Whitacre will be on the bill. Tickets are $5-$15.
WWW.BCCSINGS.ORG
GARY STROUTSOS: Flutist Gary Stroutsos plays music and shares his short film, Remembering the Songs, at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The project sprang, in part, from Stroutsos’ own path after he gave up a career as an Afro-Cuban jazz band leader in 1995 to pursue the simple and incredibly pure sound of the Native American flute. Entry is free.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
ONYX CHAMBER PLAYERS: As part of the “Winter Into Spring” music series, listen to a variety of early music played by modern instruments when the Onyx Chamber Play-ers perform at 7:30pm at Maple Hall in La Conner. Tickets are $15-$17.
WWW.LACONNERARTS.COM
MYCLE WASTMAN: Seattle soul singer and former contestant on The Voice, Mycle Wastman, performs at a “Liam’s Journey” benefit concert at 8pm at Northwood Hall, 3240 Northwest Ave. Whatcom County native and country singer Taryn Cross will join the show. Tickets are $30; proceeds will help defray medical expenses for Liam Smith, a two-year-old battling a rare blood disorder.
WWW.LIAMSJOURNEY.COM
MARCH 9-10BAYSHORE SYMPHONY: Organist John Evans French will be the featured performer at Bayshore Symphony concerts
this weekend at 7:30pm Saturday at Mount Vernon’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (415 S. 18th St.) and 3pm Sunday at Bellingham’s Central Lutheran Church (924 N. Forest St.). Suggested donation is $10.
WWW.BAYSHOREMUSICPROJECT.COM
SUN., MARCH 10WHATCOM CHORALE: The 90-voice Whatcom Chorale will present its “Spiritual Journey” concert at 3pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. The rich resonance of Russian composers Tchaik-ovsky, Gretchaninoff, and Chesnokov will contrast with the toe-tapping optimism of African American spirituals at the show. Tickets are $5-$20.
738-7166 OR WWW.WHATCOMCHORALE.ORG
KEYBOARD FRIENDS: “Do-Si-Do Duos” will be the focus of a Keyboard Friends piano concert at 3pm at the Firehouse Per-forming Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Five pianists, in ever-changing partnerships, present dances composed for piano duet by Brahms, Barber, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and others. Entry is $5-$15.
WWW.BELLINGHAMHOUSECONCERTS.COM
CARVER AUDAIN: Show up for an evening of ambient electronic music with Carver Audain at 8pm at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center Con-cert Hall. Audain’s works explore harmonic structures utilizing the “slow change music” method. Entry is free and open to the public.
650-3130 OR [email protected]
MON., MARCH 11DAVE NACHMANOFF: Acoustic music ranging from folk to pop can be heard when guitarist Dave Nachmanoff—a musi-cian who’s performed with the like of Don McLean, Al Stewart, the Pogues, Alison Krauss, and many others—performs at 7pm at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. Entry is free.
WWW.BURLINGTON.LIB.WA.US
WWU ORCHESTRA: All are welcome at a free concert featuring the talents of the WWU Orchestra at 8pm at the school’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
650-3130
WED., MARCH 13BRUCE MOLSKY: Master fiddler, banjo player and singer Bruce Molsky performs at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Entry will be $10-$15 at the door.
WWW.BRUCEMOLSKY.COM
COLLEGE BAND: The Dordt College Con-cert Band and Chamber Orchestra performs at 7:30pm at Lynden Christian High School, 515 Drayton St. Entry is free and open to all ages.
(360) 354-2748
THURS., MARCH 14 JOHN REISCHMAN: Join John Reischman on mandolin and mandola, Eli West on guitar and bouzouki, Trent Freeman on fiddle, and Patrick Metzger on bass for a CD release concert for Reischman’s Walk Along John album at 7pm at the ballroom at the YWCA, 1026 N. Forest St. Admission is $8-$15 at the door.
WWW.JOHNREISCHMAN.COM
musiceventsno signs of stopping anytime soon.
And during the course of his half-centu-ry-and-then-some of life as a professional musician, King has managed to profoundly influence those guitar players we widely consider as legends in their own right. Al-though primarily considered a bluesman, King’s ability to mash up such genres as blues, jazz, swing, jump and more, and the style with which he does it has drawn a musical map that Eric Clapton, George Har-rison, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck—and countless others—have all been quick to admit they’ve followed.
As the list of guitar luminaries who have been influenced by him would suggest, the King of Blues hasn’t exactly toiled in obscu-rity. He’s a card-carrying member of the Rock and Roll Hall Fame, has played every presti-gious blues festival under the sun as well as the Kennedy Center Honors, and has a museum dedicated to him in Mississippi. He’s a Nation-al Medal of Arts recipient, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, holds hon-orary doctorates from the likes of Yale and Brown universities and has been awarded the keys to countless cities. We won’t even get into all the “best guitarists of all time” lists he’s appeared very near the top of.
Then there’s the matter of the Grammys he’s won. King had already won four of the coveted trophies when he was given a Grammy Life-time Achievement Award in 1987. While the accolade is definitely a prestigious one, it is typically bestowed near the end of a perform-er’s career—and in 1987, King’s relationship with the Grammy was a mere flirtation. Since then, his romance with the honor has become far more serious. Between then and now, he’s won 11 more, with his latest Grammy—Best Traditional Blues Album for One Kind Favor—coming in 2009.
If you were to ask King what the secret of his remarkable success has been, he’d likely sum it up with one word: Lucille. The Lucille in question isn’t a woman, but she’s been with King—in one form or another—for eons, and he’s loyal to her the way he is to no one else. It’s safe to say that few gui-tars in all of music history have achieved the level of fame and lore enjoyed by Lucille. A variant of the Gibson ES-355, Lucille isn’t the only guitar King has played, but she’s his favorite, and her name has become synony-mous with his.
Certainly, King’s legacy is a rich one and his legend looms large. All that aside, one thing has always been true of the musician, whether at the beginning of his career or the height of his fame: he is a consummate performer. His considerable musical skill is married to a ge-nial and effortless onstage presence, and his long history in the music business means that when he tells a story, it’s one worth listening to. And, at the end of the day, that’s what has kept people coming back for more—and, if history is any indicator, almost 65 years and more than 15,000 shows in, King’s nowhere near calling it quits.
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Blue Horse Gallery Prozac Mtn Boys D'vas and Dudes
Boundary Bay Brewery
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Brown Lantern Ale House
Open Mic The Wandering Soles
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Swingers
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Conway MuseJean Mann, Alicia Healey,
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filmMOVIE REVIEWS › › MOVIE SHOWTIMES
W ant to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz? You’re in for a wait. That’s because Sam Raimi has gone down the origin story path in this L. Frank Baum reboot, introducing the title
character of MGM’s 1939 classic as a callow charlatan with an eye for the ladies who wants more from life than performing for pennies in a rundown travelling circus.
It takes a good two hours for Oscar Diggs, Oz to his friends, (James Franco) to change his spots sufficiently to be a potential friend of Dorothy—time enough both for an audience to be won over by Raimi’s lush 3D spectacular and for minor doubts to fester over whether it was really worth the trouble.
Legally prohibited from replicating elements from Victor Fleming’s origi-nal (no ruby slippers or exact matchup of the Wicked Witch’s green hue al-lowed), the Spider-Man director still finds plenty of ways to emulate it, most notably by starting his movie in black-and-white and traditional 4:3 ratio and holding off on the widescreen and color until Franco arrives in Oz.
Co-writers David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner also throw in a scarecrow, a lion and a squadron of flying monkeys, not to mention some farewell gift-giving for services rendered and a cackling, green-skinned witch who’ll get you my pretty (and your little dog too).
Yet being so beholden to another film, especially one so cherished and revered, prevents Oz from establishing a life of its own. Indeed, there are
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Oz The Great And Powerful OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD…AGAIN
times you wonder if Raimi has his movie’s best interests at heart, so intent is he on prompt-ing memories of one his can’t hope to better.
It doesn’t help that Diggs starts out such an unappealing character—a shallow, selfish show-off who treats his assistant (Zach Braff) like dirt and scoots away from every confrontation. (Ear-ly scenes have Oscar turn his back on a girl in a wheelchair who thinks his conjuring can cure her and steal a hot-air balloon to avoid a beat-ing from a strongman he’s cuckolded.)??There’s also a confusing literalism here, Raimi blurring the possibility that the action might all be un-folding inside his protagonist’s head despite mirroring the Judy Garland version’s deploy-ment of actors in multiple roles.
Braff crops up in Oz as a winged simian, Michelle Williams plays both an old flame of Franco’s and good witch Glinda, while that lit-tle disabled girl has a CG doppelganger in the form of a china doll unsettlingly introduced
with her porcelain legs snapped off.Oz The Great And Powerful fully succeeds in
earning its title’s adjectives in the visual de-partment, its Middle-Earth-textured Oz offer-ing a veritable feast for the eyes with its lus-cious reds, verdant jades and epic panoply of mountains, forests and waterfalls.
Franco’s arrival in an enchanted glade is nothing short of wonderful, popping with fan-ciful foliage, river fairies and rainbow dazzles.
The Emerald City, home to Rachel Weisz’s conniving sorceress Evanora (regally cold) and her love-addled little sister Theodora (Mila Kunis, a genuine surprise), is an eye-popping metropolis in shimmering chartreuse, while the twister which whisks Franco off his feet in Kansas makes for an exciting set-piece that sends plenty of 3D debris whirling stereoscop-ically in the viewer’s direction.
Raimi pulls out the stops again in an elabo-rate climax that sees Oscar’s smoke-and-mir-rors talents come ingeniously into their own as two key characters duke it out with the au-thentic magic at their disposal.
Don’t miss the opening titles either, ef-
fectively presented as a puppet show to the strains of a typically Tim Burton-esque Danny Elfman score. Franco’s rather sleazy charm is well-suited to his character when he’s in feck-less chancer mode.
Yet once the role moves into convention-ally heroic territory he is on distinctly shakier ground, as demonstrated by the scene in which he has to deliver a rousing eve-of-battle speech to a throng of tinkers and Munchkins and has trouble reining in the smirk.
Playing the embodiment of decorous virtue proves no such restriction to Williams who glows with convincing goodness, ably matched by Weisz’s vamping and Kunis’ sizzle—literally, in a nicely dark touch, as a witch whose cor-rosive tears sear rivulet scars on her cheeks.
Still, it would have been nice to have more genuine comic relief, the scant laughs gener-ated by Braff’s Finley and Tony Cox’s cantan-kerous Emerald City herald making them un-worthy successors to the likes of Bert Lahr’s Lion and Ray Bolger’s Scarecrow.
Chances are that a younger audience with little knowledge of the ’39 The Wizard Of Oz will find much to captivate them—and if it makes them curious enough to check out the original (or the books), then that can only be for the good. Older viewers, though, may wish Raimi had left well enough alone.
,Being so beholden to another film, especially one so cherished and revered, prevents Oz from establishing a life of its own
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I don’t need a history lesson, your Excellency,” says Matthew Fox as U.S. General Bonner Fellers to a
Japanese diplomat in Emperor. However, the filmmakers behind this compressed epic clearly believe the audience does. An earnest retelling of the deliberation over the fate of Emperor Hirohito follow-ing his country’s World War II surrender, the handsome production is honorably intentioned but padded out with a wan romantic subplot that struggles to gen-erate emotional heat.
Emperor is directed with polished pe-riod reconstruction and an admirable bid for cross-cultural sensitivity by Pe-ter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring). Its main selling point will be a wily depiction by Tommy Lee Jones of General Douglas MacArthur as a vainglorious tactician who tosses about the title of Supreme Commander with relish.
Not so interesting, unfortunately, is Fox’s Gen. Fellers, a real-life military in-telligence officer and Japanese special-ist, saddled for too much of David Klass and Vera Blasi’s plodding script with the onerous role of exposition.
With Washington still fuming over the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the peo-ple of American-occupied Japan living among death and rubble but fiercely loy-al to Hirohito, the question of what to do with the country’s self-professed deity is a delicate one. Mindful of this, MacArthur assigns Fellers to conduct an urgent in-vestigation into the Emperor’s culpability.
Should he be tried as a war criminal and executed, or exonerated as a figure-head outside of political and military do-mains? As the screenplay tells us, noth-
ing in Japan is simple black and white. A chasm of gray separates how things may appear from how they really are.
While Fox tries to invest his charac-ter with human dimensions, much of his screen time is spent in the dramatic equivalent of history-class discussions, defining cultural distinctions, or in repeti-tive face time with interchangeable Japa-nese power players. We hear over and over that the Japanese operate according to different codes of honor from Americans; that devotion, loyalty and obedience are essential qualities; that they are a people capable of great self-sacrifice.
Bonner’s investigation is interwoven with flashbacks to a thwarted relation-ship with college exchange student Aya (Eriko Hatsune), which initially drew him to Japan before the war. The daughter of a semi-noble family, she left America abruptly to return home. When Bonner tracks her down, working as a school-teacher whose English students are dwin-dling in number as the army breeds hatred of foreigners, the writers fail to carve a substantial place for her in the story.
Klass and Blasi’s screenplay doesn’t tread lightly in hinting at parallels between the U.S. occupation of a foreign territory back then, and those of today. The rami-fications of decisions made during regime changes, the potential for “quagmire,” and the blurry distinction between conqueror and liberator all point unsubtly to a pat-tern of global intervention that endures in Afghanistan and Iraq.
When it stops preaching, the film is on surer footing. Still, though the approach is somewhat by-the-numbers, the 1945 scenes in which Fellers slowly cracks the intricate web of secrecy around the Em-peror work well enough.
Production design by Grant Major and costumes by Ngila Dickson are impres-sively detailed on what was likely a lim-ited budget by Hollywood standards. Too bad Emperor’s thematic range is not so textured.
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21 and Over: It’s just like The Hangover, but instead of a bachelor party, it chronicles the madcap antics of a 21 run. Real clever. ★★
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Amour: Michael Haneke’s drama about a couple who must deal with a health crisis earned him a Best Foreign Film Oscar. ★★★★★
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Argo: This may appear to be a little-known story about the Iran hostage crisis, but to its director, newly minted Best Picture winner Ben Affleck, it probably looks a lot like vindication. ★★★★★
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Emperor: See review previous page. ★★★
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Jack the Giant Slayer: Some people grow up to be doctors or lawyers, while some are destined to kill giants. ★★★
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Kuroneko: In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. ★★★★
The Last Exorcism, Part II: If it was the “last exorcism” the first time, how could there be a part two? ★Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
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Life of Pi: To the surprise of nearly everyone, Ang Lee nabbed a Best Director Oscar for his adaptation of this beloved bestseller. ★★★
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Lincoln: Another astonishing performance by Daniel Day-Lewis yields the actor another Oscar. Nice work, DDL. ★★★★
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Notre-Dame de Paris: Inspired by Victor Hugo’s novel, with music by Maurice Jarre and costumes by Yves Saint-Laurent, this ballet returns to La Scala af-ter more than 10 years. ★★★★★
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Oz The Great And Powerful: See review previous page. ★★★
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PFC’s Rendezvous with French Cinema Series: This series includes a profile of documentarian Raymond Depardon (Journal de Francerelationship (PersecutionPatrice Leconte (The Suicide ShopPickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
Phantom: How a movie starring Ed Harris and David Duchovney could be this bad can only be chalked up to that old Hollywood magic. ★Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Quartet: The always watchable Maggie Smith plays
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Safe Haven: Stop it, Nicholas Sparks. Just stop it. ★★
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Side Effects: Stephen Soderbergh says goodbye (for
thriller about the dastardly deeds perpetuated by the pharmaceutical industry. ★★★
Silver Linings Playbook: My mom tricked my dad into seeing this movie by telling him it was a fluffy rom-com. Good job, mom. ★★★★
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Snitch: This is based on a true story, but it stars the Rock and the trailer is full of action that defies real-ity, so I’m guessing liberties have been taken with the truth. ★Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Warm Bodies: Remember that guy Isaac Marion, who hails from around these parts? Because he’s the dude who wrote the novel this movie is based on. Good job, Mr. Marion. ★★★
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Who Bombed Judi Bari: When one of the most prominent environmental organizers of her day, Judi Bari, was car-bombed, the FBI arrested Bari herself for the crime. This is the story of that crime and its
-ducer Darryl Cherney and Earth First! cofounder Mike Roselle. ★★★★
Wreck-It Ralph: Poor Ralph is sick of being a videog-ame villain, so he hatches a game-hopping plot to improve his pixellated rep. ★★★★
The WSSN Showcase: A roundup of short films in categories ranging from animation to experimental to amateur that were all produced in Washington state. ★★★★
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Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow details the hunt for Osama bin Laden with her typical unflinch-ing style and intense direction. ★★★★
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BY AMY ALKON
THE ADVICEGODDESSMADAME OVARY My wife needs a medical test that will involve her being naked in unflattering positions in front of another person, pos-sibly male. I know she won’t enjoy this and it certainly isn’t sexual, but I want her to request a female gynecologist. She says she’s embarrassed to do that, refuses to be controlled by me, and says having a male doctor doesn’t bother her. Well, it bothers me terribly. I’m fairly young and not religious, but I was taught that a cou-ple’s bedroom—what happens there, their nude bodies, etc.—is for them alone. I’m not insecure, and I know she isn’t leaving me, but I strongly feel that her being seen naked by a male practitioner violates the sanctity and intimacy of our marriage, and I can’t help but feel like it’s cheating. —Distressed
It’s pretty hard to confuse an exam room with a singles bar—unless the singles bars you’ve experienced have men leaning over and asking women, “So, when was your last period?” and “Do you leak urine?”
Cheating involves having a romance with a person other than your partner, not having him give you a Pap smear. Also, male doctors generally have a female nurse present while examining a female patient (so they won’t be ac-cused of any funny business). There will be that rare Dr. Pervo, but accord-ing to doctors I spoke to, by week two of their residency, bodies might as well be giant steaks. So, for a male doctor, your wife’s “special area” is anything but special; it’s the seventh vagina he’s seen before lunch.
Stamping your feet and denying the obvious—that there’s a vast differ-ence between medical touch and sex-ual touch—helps you manipulate your wife with this ridiculous notion that she “violates the sanctity” of your marriage by getting a male doctor in rotation. So, according to you, what’s special about your marriage is just that since you tied the knot, no other man has been assigned to see your wife naked (in a setting more in keep-ing with performing an autopsy than staging a seduction). Take your “logic” a step further and your wife is two-timing you by even speaking to people who aren’t you, and never mind that she isn’t exactly revealing her deepest hopes, dreams and fears to some man in line behind her at the mall.
People in loving relationships will often accommodate their partner’s ridiculous requests simply to make them happy. Your wife might’ve been more willing to do that if only you’d appealed to her sympathy instead of demanding that she do all the chang-ing while you lift nary a brain cell to consider whether your position might be unreasonable. (Refusing to even consider another person’s point of view generally causes them to cling even more firmly to it.) Of course, if only you’d look at this through rea-son-colored glasses, you’d probably acknowledge the reality: If somebody does come between you and your wife, it’s unlikely to happen while she’s upset, afraid and grossed out during a medical test. And give doc-tors a little credit. If you’re a doctor, a woman will take her pants off for you because you drive a sports car. There’s really no need to come up with some ploy about scraping her cervix for cancerous cells.
BED, BATH, AND BEYOND DISAPPOINTINGFor Valentine’s Day, my boyfriend of two months gave me a gift basket of smelly lotions and shaped soaps. Not my kind of thing, but even more not my thing because I recognized it as a regift of something somebody gave his mom. When I met his parents, this basket was in his mom’s bathroom. He’s seemed sweet so far, but maybe this gift says he’s just us-ing me. —Overscented
Ideally, if you’re surprised on Val-entine’s Day, it isn’t because your boyfriend’s given you that gift that says he cares enough to look under his mom’s bathroom sink and see what’s still in the package. (Good thing she’d already cracked into that gallon jug of toilet bowl cleaner.) There are several possible explana-tions for his gift: A. He doesn’t care. B. He doesn’t have a clue. C. He does care, but Valentine’s Day popped up early in the relationship, and he went back and forth on how much lovey-dovey to express—until he ended up at the last-minute gift counter in his mom’s bathroom. Give him the gift of time. Paying attention to how he treats you over the next few months will tell you whether he’s caring and maybe clueless or whether all he cared about was placating you with what-ever gifting roadkill he came upon. You can’t train a guy to adore you. A woman can work with caring and clue-less—although when her birthday rolls around, she may find herself do-ing it from behind the wheel of his mom’s almost-new car.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’re not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may neverthe-less be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: “We may experience exile as a lack of recognition, a period of transition, an identity crisis, a place of stuckness, or else having a gift and no place to give it.” Do any of those describe your current predicament, Aries? The good news, Meade says, is that exile can shock you awake to the truth about where you belong. It can rouse your irrepress-ible motivation to get back to your rightful place.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have a re-curring nightmare that has plagued you? If so, I sus-pect it will recur again soon. Only this time, Taurus, you will beat it. You will trick or escape or defeat the monster that’s chasing you. Or else you will outrun the molten lava or disperse the tornado or fly up off the ground until the earth stops shaking. Congratu-lations on this epic shift, Taurus. Forever after you will have more power over the scary thing that has had so much power over you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The following re-quest for advice appeared on Reddit.com: “My iden-tical twin is stuck in an alternate dimension and she can only communicate with me by appearing as my own reflection in mirrors and windows. How can I tell her I don’t like what she’s done to her hair?” This question is a variant of a type of dilemma that many of you Geminis are experiencing right now, so I’ll respond to it here. I’m happy to say that you will soon get an unprecedented chance to commune directly with your alter egos. Your evil twin will be more available than usual to engage in meaningful dialog. So will your doppelganger, your shadow, your mirror self, and your stuntperson.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Usually I advise Can-cerians to draw up precise borders and maintain clear boundaries. As a Crab myself, I know how important it is for our well-being that we neither leak our life force all over everything nor allow others to leak their life force all over us. We thrive on making definitive choices and strong commitments. We get into trouble when we’re wishy-washy about what we want. O.K. Having said all that fatherly stuff, I now want to grant you a partial and temporary license to get a little wild and fuzzy. Don’t overdo it, of course, but explore the smart fun you can have by breaking some of your own rules and transgressing some of the usual limits.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the course of formulat-ing his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin read many books. He developed a rather ruthless approach to getting what he needed out of them. If there was a particular part of a book that he didn’t find useful, he simply tore it out, cast it aside, and kept the rest. I recommend this as a general strategy for you in the coming week, Leo. In every situation you’re in, figure out what’s most valuable to you and home in on that. For now, forget the irrelevant and extraneous stuff.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s a passage from Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Judging from the astrological omens, Virgo, I suspect your life may be like that in the coming days. The emotional tone could be sharply mixed, with high contrasts between vivid sensations. The nature of your opportunities may seem warm and bright one moment, cool and dark the next. If you regard this as interesting rather than difficult, it won’t
be a problem, but rather an adventure.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I worked as a hair styl-ist in Chicago’s Gold Coast for 20 years with some of the most gorgeous woman and men in the world,” writes sculptor Rich Thomson. “Once I asked a photographer who shot for the big magazines how he picked out the very best models from among all these great-looking people. His response: ‘Flaws. Our flaws are what make us interesting, special, and exotic. They define us.’” My challenge to you, Libra, is to meditate on how your sup-posed imperfections and oddities are essential to your unique beauty. It’s a perfect moment to celebrate—and make good use of—your idiosyncrasies.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The genius of Leonardo da Vinci was in part fueled by his buoyant curiosity. In his work as an artist, musician, inven-tor, engineer, and writer, he drew inspiration from pretty much everything. He’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Just assume that you will find useful cues and clues wherever you go. Act as if the world is full of teachers who have revelations and guidance specifically meant for you. Here’s some advice from da Vinci himself: “It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ready for a reality check? It’s time to assess how well you know the fundamental facts about where you are located. So let me ask you: Do you know which direction north is? Where does the water you drink come from? What phase of the moon is it today? What was the indigenous cul-ture that once lived where you live now? Where is the power plant that generates the electricity you use? Can you name any constellations that are currently in the night sky? What species of trees do you see every day? Use these questions as a starting point as you deepen your connection with your specific neighborhood on planet Earth. Get yourself grounded!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There’s a writer I know whose work is brilliant. Her ideas are fascinat-ing. She’s a champion of political issues I hold dear. She’s well-read and smarter than me. Yet her speech is careless and sloppy. She rambles and interrupts herself. She says “uh,” “you know,” and “I mean” so frequently that I find it hard to listen, even when she’s saying things I admire. I considered telling her about this, but decided against it. She’s an acquaintance, not a friend. Instead, I resolved to clean up my own speech—to make sure I don’t do anything close to what she does. This is a strategy I suggest for you, Capricorn: Identify interesting people who are not fully living up to their potential, and change yourself in the exact ways you wish they would change.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The German word Verschlimmbesserung refers to an attempted improvement that actually makes things worse. Be on guard against this, Aquarius. I fear that as you tinker, you may try too hard. I’m worried you’ll be led astray by neurotic perfectionism. To make sure that your enhancements and enrichments will in-deed be successful, keep these guidelines in mind: 1. Think about how to make things work better, not how to make things look better. 2. Be humble and relaxed. Don’t worry about saving face and don’t overwork yourself. 3. Forget about short-term fixes; serve long-range goals.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen,” says musi-cian and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing. It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea—thereby sapping your willpower to make the ef-fort necessary to accomplish it! The moral of the story: Don’t brag about what you’re going to do someday. Don’t entertain people at parties with your fabulous plans. Shut up and get to work. This is especially im-portant advice for you right now.
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TweetsBIG SERVINGS, AND BIG FLAVORS, IN EDISON
Despite my enthusiasm for all things Edison, I somehow had never made it to Tweets until recently.
One of many great food destinations in the tiny slough-side town near Samish Bay in Skagit County, this little café attached to the Edison Eye Gallery is run by David Blakesley and Charles Atkinson, who also own Shop Curator across the street. Talking to other locals about Tweets usually inspires enthusiastic comparisons of what everyone ordered the last time they were there. I figured I ought to finally try it myself.
They’re only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 9am until 6 pm or until the food runs out, as far as I can tell. The menu changes constantly (so prices for food mentioned in this review are not guaranteed, and in some cases unknown). They don’t take credit cards, so make sure you have either cash or check.
There’s a small deck for eating outside in good weather, plus the garage door rolls up to open the whole restaurant to the outdoors. Seasonal flow-ers or produce are often piled up for sale near the entrance. The indoor space is also full of flowers, gorgeously arranged in various odd contain-ers, with funky mismatched furniture and the occasional chandelier. Regu-lars know that you should find your table and save it with a jacket or cell phone, then go to the counter and place your order. The staff can be a little abrupt if you’re still figuring out how things work, but once you know
the drill, you’re set. Drinks—espresso, tea and hot chocolate—are collected at the counter as well (sadly, Tweets does not have a liquor license).
Maybe the most important thing to know about the food at Tweets is that the portions are big. I mean, really big. On one occasion when I ordered breakfast there, the people standing behind me gasped as my plate was set down. But the food is so good that you may have trouble not eating it all.
Options range from a classic breakfast plate of eggs, bacon, fruit and potatoes ($12), to less typical dishes like a half a roast chicken with a fried egg on top ($18). They always seem to have a few vegetarian and vegan options, including a burger made with lentils and mushrooms ($14). I once watched a young girl order a huge salad of mixed greens ($10) and devour it for breakfast.
My husband likes the taco plates. He’s tried one with chorizo with egg and another with spicy pork topped with mango ($13), and has informed me that he never intends to order anything else at Tweets. The tacos, folded in soft blue tortillas, come piled absurdly high with vegetables, cheese and sauces, and need to be eaten with a fork and knife lest you drop all the fillings into your lap. And they taste wonderful.
On one recent visit, I tried the biscuit break-fast sandwich ($11). It came piled high with turkey, bacon, micro-greens, aioli and a fried egg. When I put the two halves together it was several inches thick—almost impossible to fit in my mouth. The chef opened a fresh jar of Samish Island blackberry jelly for me, in spite of my protests, telling me that I might have some biscuit left and it would be shame not to have jelly for it. He was right.
On another trip, I had to try the Torta Rustica. I asked one of the owners what was in it, and he said “everything.” He wasn’t kidding. An enormous wheel of pastry encasing several kinds of salami, cheese, roasted peppers
and basil, the torta looms over everything else in the pastry case. The generous slice I was served came surrounded by fresh fruit and a huge green salad. It was epic, to say the least.
Another lunchtime special is pizza. A friend and I shared one coated with onions, gruyere, a bit of pesto and studded with the occasional olive, topped with a salad of mixed greens in a lemony dressing ($15). It took a long time—20 minutes—but we amused ourselves by eating clementines from the bowl on the table and listening to the kitchen staff bicker. When the pizza came, the chef came by to remind us to eat it with a bit of salad in each bite, which I admit was an excellent idea.
If you happen to have room, there are always sweets in the case: brioche with lemon and blue-berries, several kinds of pie, chocolate truffles, or “Edison petit-fours,” which appear to be fat rice crispy treats with a chocolate layer in the center. Everything looks fabulous, but so far I’ve always been too full. Someday I’ll have to go there just for pie.
WHAT: TweetsWHERE: 5800 Cains Court, EdisonWHEN: 9am-6pm every Fri.-Sun. INFO: (360) 820–9912 or www.tweets cafe.com
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June 14 & 15 at 8 pm
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GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP BAND
30 Years – All Five Original Members
RESTLESS HEARTFriday & Saturday,
April 19 & 20 at 8 pm
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