serving hard time: p. 22 - cascadia weeklycascadiaweekly.com/pdfs/issues/200637.pdf · serving hard...
TRANSCRIPT
REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
SERVING HARD TIME: WEEKLY GOES TO JAIL, P. 22 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: MESSAGE FOR THE MASSES AT BTG, P. 16 THE COUNT LIVES: ORCHESTRA KEEPS BASIE SWINGING, P. 18
11.22.06 :: 1.37 :: FREEc a s c a d i aLACTIVISM:
BREASTFEEDERS GRIN AND BARE IT, P. 11
HOMES ON HOLD:CROSSROADS AT CORDATA, P. 13
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
2
10TH ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE
Free Gift Wrapping10% Discount on Everything in the Store
Free Samples Local Artisans Appetizers & Hot Cider Demonstrations
Toys from Around the World
FR I DAY, DE C E M B E R 1 S T F RO M 5 TO 9P.M.TH E FI R S T 25 PE O P L E I N T H E STO R E GE T A FR E E GRO OV Y GI R L
2 4 1 6 Me r i d i a n S t r e e t , B e l l i n g h a m 3 6 0 - 7 3 3 - 6 2 0 2
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
3
DO I
T 3
11.25.06
SATURDAY
For more event information, see complete listings starting on p.14
11.23.06
THURSDAY
WORDSDavid Suzuki: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8pm, Stuart’s at the Market
COMMUNITYMaple Alley Inn Thanksgiving: 11:30am-1:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
VISUAL ARTSFestival of the Arts: 10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
DANCEScottish Country Dancing: 7:30-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library
FILMBanff Mountain Film Festival: 8pm, Perform-ing Arts Center, WWU
WORDSYoung Authors Group:6:45pm, Barnes & Noble
Flor Fernandez Barrios:7:30pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYGlobal Justice Talk:4pm, Western Washing-ton University
Travel Talk: 6pm, REI
VISUAL ARTSFestival of the Arts:10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
11.22.06
WEDNESDAY
COMMUNITYOld Town Thanksgiving: 10am-3pm, Old Town Café
11.26.06
SUNDAY11.27.06
MONDAY
11.28.06
TUESDAY
ON STAGEIt’s a Wonderful Life: 8pm, Belling-ham Theatre Guild
Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Theatresports: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre
West Side Story: 7pm, Bellingham High School
The Lion, the Witch and the Ward-robe: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Peter Pan: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
COMMUNITYSwedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Hall
Wreath Making Party: 11am-5pm Glen Echo Community Building, Everson
Railroad Display: 11am-4pm, Alger Community Church
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square
Belly ‘Cross: 9am, Lake Padden
VISUAL ARTSTour d’Art: 5-10pm, historic Fairhaven
Holiday Sale: 10am-6pm, Roeder Home
Festival of the Arts: 10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
Artist Trading Cards: 2-4pm, Fanta-sia Espresso
WORDSPoetry Night: 8pm, Fantasia Espresso
Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books
VISUAL ARTSFestival of the Arts:10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
ON STAGEWest Side Story: 2pm, Bellingham High School
Peter Pan: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
DANCESquare Dance: 6-8pm, YWCA Ballroom
MUSICArt of Jazz: 4pm, Lucia Douglas Gallery
Bellingham Commu-nity Chorus: 3pm, United Church of Ferndale
VISUAL ARTSHoliday Sale: 10am-6pm, Roeder Home
Festival of the Arts:10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
11.24.06
FRIDAYON STAGEIt’s a Wonderful Life: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Theatresports: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre
West Side Story: 7pm, Bellingham High School
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: 8pm, Ana-cortes Community Theatre
Peter Pan: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
DANCEDance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance
COMMUNITYNorthwest Youth Services Anniversary: 6pm, the Majestic
Lighthouse Mission Thanksgiving: 12-2pm, Church of the Assumption
VISUAL ARTSTour d’Art: 5-10pm, historic Fairhaven
Holiday Sale: 10am-6pm, Roeder Home
Festival of the Arts: 10am-7pm, Whatcom Center
Get glimpses into remote cultures and places when the 31st annual Banff Mountain Film Festival showcases some of the world’s last wild places Nov. 28 at WWU’s Performing Arts Center
EEKLYc . a . s . c . a . d . i . a
clip it post it plan it do it
Tom Wood’s “Caseopia from Cypress Head” will be among the pieces on display at the multi-artist “Starry Night” exhibit at Lucia Douglas Gallery debuting during the Tour d’Art gallery walk Nov. 24-25 in historic Fairhaven
TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND TO [email protected]
If you haven’t yet perused the “Shoot the Family” photo exhibit—which includes Annee Olofsson’s “Un-forgivable”—on display at West-ern Gallery, you should know you only have until Dec. 1 to do so
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
4
LETT
ERS
4-5
Give thanks todayToday is a calmer day. There
are no 80 m.p.h. gusts and tor-rential downpours. But tomor-row is another day.
Please remember to be thank-ful—our one day for specifi cally “giving thanks” is coming up, but we have a lot to be thank-ful for everyday. I would like to thank all those who’ve been out in our recent weather doing those things like unplugging our city’s drains, clearing and cutting branches, answering alarms, fi re calls, aid and acci-dent calls, electric line repair, and all those other jobs no one likes to do in bad weather. As I type this inside, I say thank you to all of you outside, working to make it possible.
—Jo Wallace Guthrie, Bellingham
Symbols closer to home
Now that COB has tossed its maligned municipal Puget Sound imagery on the scrap heap, it
might consider a more regional fl avor for the sequel. Our city celebrates a shop and buy lo-cal philosophy and, as a result, paying 25 grand for a mercury puddle fronting an abandoned Big-Box store fl ows contrary to its independent Cascadian nature. Oh, did I say mercury puddles? Excuse me, they’re concentric circles of a time-lapsed satellite photo taken over a three-hour period while following the path of an Audi circling Fairhaven in search of a parking space. It looks like a B.F. Skinner rat maze on a win-dow pane.
This time make it in-house, with local knowledge and tal-ent that celebrates the unique-ness of our city.
Perhaps Ben Mann of Mallard, wall clock and magnet fame could be persuaded to paint an image of a homeless crack addict on Railroad Avenue squeegee-ing the windshield of a Vespa. Maybe wallmeister Lanny Little could be persuaded to condense a mini-mural of Rowdy Buckaroo
getting strip-searched by Bell-ingham PD while spread-eagled in front of an abandoned LUKE machine. Give up those loonies, cowboy. Susan Bennerstrom, the goddess of light, shading and nuance might be enticed into doing a refl ective portrait of developer Rick Westerop sit-ting in a COB offi ce with a long white beard, reading War and Peace while waiting for a build-ing permit.
My name is Peter Gunn and I approve this message.
—Peter Gunn, Bellingham
Impotent POTUSGeorge Bush has been a di-
saster. Defi cit reduction has become out-of-control debt. Global warming is denied. His accountability for the Katrina fi asco is summed up in the words, “You’re doing a great job, Brownie!” He has scared people into allowing wiretap-ping and giving up other basic Constitutional rights such as habeas corpus.
The biggest problem is Iraq.
letterstable of contents credits letters
Views & News 4: Wind, logos, Iraqi death count
8: Doing time with Tim Johnson
10: Nursing a grudge
11: Busting out all over
12: Which way for Greenways?
13: Crossroads at Cordata
Art & Culture 14: Cyclocrazed!
15: Clyde Ford’s way with words
16: Welcome to Bedford Falls
17: Poster power
18: The orchestra as instrument
19: From sex queen to blues diva
23: Parodies, requiems and assassinations
Rear End 25: Crossword, Help Wanted,
Buy/Sell/Trade & Rentals
28: Real Astrology
29: This Modern World, Mannkind & Troubletown
31: Talking turkey
INSIDE
©2006 Cascadia Weekly (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: [email protected] Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia
Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecutionSubmissions: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material
to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned of you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list-ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Letters Policy: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and
content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courte-ously. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your letters to fewer than 300 words.Subscriptions: One year $70, six months $35. Back issues $1 for walk-ins, $5
for mailed requests when available. Cascadia Weekly is mailed at third-class rates.Postmaster: Send all address changes to Cascadia Weekly, PO Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98227-2833
ContactCascadia Weekly:Phone/FAX360.647.8200
EditorialEditor & Publisher:Tim Johnson� ext 260
News Editor:Emily Weiner� ext 205
Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle� ext ext 203
Music & Film Editor:Carey Ross� ext 204
ProductionArt Director:Jesse Kinsman
[email protected] All Advertising Materials To
AdvertisingAdvertisingDirector: Marc McCoy� ext 250
Account Executives:Kevin Brown� ext 251
Marisa Papetti� ext 252
DistributionDavid Cloutier, Robert Bell, JW Land & As-sociates
LettersSend letters to [email protected]. Please keep letters shorter than 300 words.
Cover: Art by Allen Peterson, based on “Freedom from Want” by Norman Rockwell Newspaper Advisory Group: Yvonne Cartwright Bianchi, Robert Hall, Seth Murphy,
Michael Petryni, David Syre
Director Robert Altman: 1925-2006
Economist Milton Friedman: 1912-2006
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
5
LETT
ERS
4-5
ticket GIVEAWAY
Who knows why he created excuses for our invasion? Was it the oil? Was it a crazy and unrealistic neoconservative idea that we would waltz into Iraq and create a democracy as a model for the rest of the Middle East? If so, it shows a total ignorance of the region and its people. The implementation of his at-tack lacked any follow-up.
Iraq has become a training ground for terrorists, and the entire Middle East is now much more volatile. Our recent elections show that we are wak-ing up.
Congress had rubber-stamped Bush’s destructive agenda. Hopefully, issues such as ending the war, basic citizen rights, health care for all, raising the minimum wage and fiscal responsibil-ity will command center stage.
Impeachment proceeded against Clinton for lying about sex with an in-tern and yet Bush gets a free ride.
—Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham
650,000 dead650,000 Iraqis are dead since the
March 2003 “Shock and Awe” attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq. (The British medical journal, Lancet, pub-lished the 650,000 death total in Oct. 2006.) If you have any doubt that not only torture but also genocide is being committed in the name of the Ameri-
can people, please listen to the Nov. 4, 2006, Public Radio International broadcast of “This American Life” (available online at thislife.org).
Interviews include:• Iraqi citizens, who have witnessed
so much death that they are getting tattooed with their own names and addresses so that, if killed, their bodies will be returned to family;
• Les Roberts, the professional statis-tician from Johns Hopkins University, who with great courage and integrity said, “I made a conscious decision: it was worth trading my life to find out how many Iraqis have been killed.”
• A past Pentagon official, who could not understand why no record is kept of civilian casualties, also known as collateral damage. (Fifty thousand pounds of bombs have been dropped on Iraq, a country with a land area slightly larger than California.)We attacked a country that was no
threat to us. It had no air force or navy; its military was less than one-fifth the size of the U.S. military; and more than 50 percent of its popula-tion were children. Whatever retribu-tion awaits us for this terrible crime against humanity is nothing compared to the suffering now being endured by the Iraqi people.
—Judith A. Laws, Bellingham
Got a BEAF?It’s time once again for the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, which takes place Nov 30-Dec 2. Withshows at four locations throughout Bellingham, you have no reason not to dance, boogie and dancesome more. If you want to unsa unsa, email your ticket needs to [email protected] and youcould win a pair. Check out bellinghamelectronicartsfestival.com for more info.
Prefuse 73
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
6
FOCUS ON THE ARTS: Bellingham’s blossoming “Cultural District” suffered a little frost last week with the resignation of one of its ardent champions.
Whatcom Museum of History and Art Director Tom Livesay delivered his resignation to Belling-ham Mayor Tim Douglas, citing “a small popula-tion explosion of grandchildren” luring Livesay and his wife Amanda south. That, and a new po-sition as director of the Louisiana State Univer-sity Museum of Art in Baton Rouge. The native Texan leaves some big boots to fi ll.
Livesay, 61, was appointed director of the mu-seum in June 2000, after serving as director for the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe for 15 years. His last day is Jan. 7, just as construction bids are expected to go out on the new art and children’s museum. The Bellingham-Whatcom Public Facilities District (PFD) voted last week to put the project out to bid; construction is sched-uled for next year on what Livesay describes as his crowning achievement while director here.
“Tom was able to bring policies and proce-dures to bear on how museums should operate,” said Stan Miller, past president of the Museum Society’s board, the private, nonprofi t organi-zation that supplements the museum’s budget. “The institution went from dealing with opera-tional issues to one dealing with strategic plan-ning issues. Obviously the new museum is one outcome of that.”
“He will be missed,” agreed architect Jeff McClure, current president of the Whatcom Mu-seum Society.
“I didn’t do anything by myself,” Livesay said. “I’ve got a wonderful staff and a great group of volunteers and a wonderful board. All I did was have the pleasure of being the director while all that was happening.”
And indeed, while Livesay’s leadership was in-strumental in bringing the Cultural District into being, the effort has been assisted by a number of diverse interests focusing their attention in the vicinity of Flora Street. Not only will rev-enues from the state sales tax rebate that cre-ated the PFD drive an estimated $17 million into the district over 25 years, but the Campaign for the Arts—an organization chaired by McClure and funded by local patrons of the Arts—is also gearing up for a second round of fundraising after having raised more than $3.5 million last year.
To a large extent, these high-profi le organi-zations—the PFD, the Campaign for the Arts—fund the dream of Bellingham’s future cultural center. Another source funds what actually is the current cultural center of Bellingham—the taxes collected from every hotel and motel bed in the city. The trick is to make sure the Dream eventu-ally lines up with the Reality.
When Mayor Mark Asmundson brought ur-ban planner Fred Kent to town last June, Kent stressed that you build great places around what already exists. Kent is president of the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofi t organization dedi-cated to creating and sustaining public spaces that build communities.
Kent’s words are wise; and if one surveys what
The Gristle
As you get older and you can afford to eat well, your metabolism shrinks to that of a common warbler. A cruel irony. That is why, at pricey restaurants, you see old coots pay $35 for a big white plate with three scallops on it and a dollop of rice and some emulsifi ed celery. That is all the food they need, plus a pipkin of prune pate for dessert. They are not ranch hands after all. They’re not NFL line-men. But eating habits die hard, and the holidays roll around, and the old guys shuffl e up to the chow line and load up, and around midnight they are whinnying in their stalls, begging to be shot and put out of their misery.
The same happens with sex, not that we need to discuss this or anything. And something similar with work: You try harder than ever and keep falling farther behind. So gluttony and lust and pride start to fade late in life. So does anger. You can still work up a lather about the Current Occupant, that strange narcissistic man with the attention span of a 12-year-old, a national embarrassment whenever he travels abroad, but Bush-bashing is like slapping cockroaches with a slip-per. After six years of it, you’re done: It’s time to fi nd a new apartment.
Greed is persistent, of course, may-be worse, but who has time for sloth nowadays? And envy truly fades. Photographers line up behind bar-riers yelling, “Over here! This way! This way!” and a starlet climbs out of a limo, in a bright red dress with a neckline down to her gall bladder, and she looks this way and fl ashes her 50-dollar smile, and briefl y you envy her and wish you looked that good in bright light, and then you walk on
and you try to remember her name and the movie she was in—what was that about?
Last Sunday at church we walked
up to Communion as two teenage boys played electric guitars. They were so busy being observed and maintaining their cool, they didn’t notice how amazingly out of tune they were. Their pants hung as low as pants can hang as they praised the Lord in several keys at once, all sleepy and full of attitude and their hair hanging down, but I was moved by them, I really got caught up in the moment—you know how it is, some-times perfection can irritate you and some dopey thing knocks your socks off—because, hey, it isn’t Sweden, it’s America! They struck me as mes-sengers of grace, possibly angels, though I wouldn’t want to carry that too far. I knelt at the altar next to my sandy-haired gap-toothed daugh-ter, who is afraid someone will make her drink the wine, so she crosses her arms and looks forbidding. The lady with the wafers puts her hand on my girl’s head and she winces.
It’s a good life. A November morn-ing and you walk home under the bare trees, listening to a frenzy of ques-tions—Why do we live here? Why do other people live in California?—and you open the door to the smell of cof-fee and cinnamon. You make a fi re in the fi replace and ease yourself into an old easy chair that has conformed to your own back and haunches, and dutifully you read the paper, but then you look over the top of the front page at the soft light streaming in, the delicate browns and yellows and greens of fall, the quiet street.
If you had some paint, you could make a painting of this, if you were a painter. You could entitle it “No-vember Morning, 2006” and 50 years from now at the Museum of Old Stuff, a teenage boy on a fi eld trip with his media class might look at it and think, “Cool.” Teenage boys will be wearing something like jumpsuits then, with the waist up around their nipples and fl ared collars and two-tone hair and a pocket watch with a four-foot gold chain and clear plastic shoes with curly toes. What they see in the paint-ing is exactly what your heart desired, a quiet life among autumnal people. The mess that was on the front page back then is all forgotten, wars, leg-islatures, judges, trivia, but the lovely world of oaks and yard and boulevard is of permanent interest.
Thank you, dear Lord, for this good life and forgive us if we do not enjoy it enough.Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Com-panion” can be heard Saturday nights on public radio stations across the country.
BY GARRISON KEILLOR
We Gather TogetherLow riders in church and then we went home
viewsyour opinion the gristle
VIEW
S 6
-7
Views expressed here are not necessarily those of Cascadia Weekly.
Last Sunday at church we walked up to
Communion as two teenage boys played
electric guitars. They were so busy
being observed and maintaining their
cool, they didn’t notice how amazingly out of tune they were. Their pants hung as low as
pants can hang as they praised the Lord in
several keys at once, all sleepy and full of
attitude and their hair hanging down, but I was moved by them
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
7
currently exists, one fi nds the real cultural center of Bellingham actually lies a few blocks west of Flora Street, nearer to Old Town, where a variety of galleries, muse-ums, shops and theaters have mushroomed up in this low-rent district. The Gristle suspects that, as waterfront redevelop-ment proceeds, this pull to the west will strengthen and lengthen.
Scraps of money are all that stand be-tween these tenants—so important to the cultural nucleus of Bellingham—and ex-tinction. And despite the good intentions of the PFD, the Museum Board, the Mount Baker Theatre, and the Campaign for the Arts, fundraising attention focused on Flora Street has had the cumulative effect of draining the fundraising efforts of these tenants. In other words, the Dream is suck-ing energy from the Reality.
The City’s Lodging Tax fund has helped in a small but important way to offset this drain. We say “small” because even though the fund itself is large (in 2005, the tax gen-erated $818,000), most of it is absorbed by Bellingham’s Tourism agency, the museum, and the Mount Baker Theatre. Together, the Big Three—already in receipt of funds from other sources—soaked up 78 percent of Lodging Tax grants in 2006. The remainder was divided among some two dozen hungry organizations, including the Whatcom Sym-phony, Bellingham Festival of Music, and Whatcom Film Association.
As no one comes here just to sleep, the Lodging Tax may be viewed as a rebate back to the engine that fi lls city hotels and motels in the fi rst place—Bellingham’s tremendous recreation and entertainment industry. Without question, the Big Three contribute mightily to this industry; but we’ll argue that it’s the little guys that actually keep people here overnight—you come for the Mount Baker performance, you stay over for the American Museum of Radio or Projections Film Festival.
This distinction is not lost on the fund managers, the Lodging Tax Advisory Com-mittee (LTAC), who last month sent their 2007 grant recommendations on to Belling-ham City Council for review and approval. A few years back, during a budget crisis, Mayor Mark did a clever thing and diverted a major portion of the Lodging Tax to main-tenance and operations of the museum and MBT, freeing up the City’s general fund for other purposes. But, despite recent budget surplus, operating funds continue to get siphoned from Lodging Tax revenues. This year the LTAC rejected the operations grant request for the museum… knowing Douglas would put it back in... not because mem-bers do not support the museum, but to send council a gentle message to provide adequate funding from revenues other than those that precariously support the Arts here in all its forms.
The Gristle
Barefoot Dreams® robes in twelve
colors~
Children’s through adult sizes
Throws & Blankets
“The SOFTEST Robe you’ll ever own…”
featured on Oprah’s ‘favorite things’ show
Arabella1306 11th St., Fairhaven
360-752-0355M-Th 10-6 | Fri & Sat 10-7 | Sunday 11-5
VIEW
S 6
-7
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
8
NEW
S 8-1
3
newslocal regional
drives me to jail after one stiff drink in a Mexican bar.
The soon-to-be-open $7.9 million Jail Work Center is out at Irongate, on the fi ttingly named Division Street. It is a stark box ringed with mer-cury vapor lamps, topped with four vent houses like guard shacks.
The foyer is painted that Institutional Green. Walls are adorned with nothing beyond the bro-chures of Good Citizenship. Behind the window of his guard station, one of Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo’s men takes my driver’s license and claps a heavy plastic bracelet around my wrist and fi xes it with metal rivets.
“You are Inmate Number 24,” I am informed. “Remember that.” I am directed to sit with a half dozen other inmates awaiting their night in jail at the invitation of Sheriff Elfo.
Soon we’re marched down the corridor to a small room. Two plastic tubs are shoved into our hands. One tub has a lid. The other contains a standard issue of two grey woolen blankets, a white cotton top sheet and a rough towel that wouldn’t cover a child’s ass. On top is a paper sack containing half a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and a pocket comb. Yeah, and with some waxed paper, who needs a harmonica?
“Personal items go into the lidded container and will be returned to you when you are released. You may keep,” Deputy Mosier barks, “a wedding band. A book. A pillow. You will not be strip searched. Everything else goes into the box.”
We’re handed jail issue—sleeveless, blood-red scrubs, an itchy polyester blended with just enough cotton to make ’em tolerable. Materials are produced in the U.S.A., the garments are sewn—I quickly note—in the Dominican Re-public, perhaps in some penal colony. On the back, white letters initial us White Convicts or Whatcom County inmates. We’re handed a pair of Kmart huaraches in orange plastic, our footwear
in the stir.We’re led by pairs into tiny cells, where we strip
and climb into our new identities. Our possessions are taken from us without ceremony and we are led defenseless down a cold concrete corridor to Ward 503, where we will spend the night.
It is 6:09pm. Others are here before us. They’ve staked out their bunks—iron affairs branded with numbers and stocked top and bottom with a thin foam pad. I stow my gear on a bottom bunk and case the joint.
Ward 503 is a large, mostly featureless room, some 30 feet across by 50 feet deep. In the back, open to the damned world, are two sets of toi-lets—no seats—separated by as many sinks. Above the sinks are aluminum mirrors polished bright enough to refl ect the despair in a man’s eyes. On the far side of each set of johns are showers with nozzled jets capable of throwing cold needles into a man’s hide.
I plan my escape.Overhead, 30 feet up, is a naked ceiling criss-
crossed by conduit and beams. Twelve feet up, over the door and windows facing into the cor-ridor, the sheetrock wall turns to a tight chain link mesh. Behind the mesh running the length of the corridor is the ducting and conduit and mechanicals that keep this prison operating.
6:09pm: Others are here before us. They’ve staked out their
bunks—iron affairs branded with numbers and stocked top
and bottom with a thin foam pad. I stow my gear on a bottom bunk
and case the joint.
BY TIM JOHNSON
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
9
NEW
S 8-1
3
360.676.1168 www.wecu.com
L VE WECU!Members
Live, work, or go to school in Whatcom County? That’s all it takes to join!
Another reason to join: WECU’s 1% Cash Back VISA®Receive a cash award at the end of the year. Find out more about the Cash Back VISA® by visiting our website, or any of our 11 convenient locations.
Bellis Fair - now open!
Nicole Ocean:Business Owner, Hardworking Mom, Rollerblader & WECU member since 2000
What she most appreciates:WECU’s help fulfilling personal & professional goals.
Holly Barkley Birchwood Fairhaven Fountain Blaine Everson Ferndale Lynden Delft Square
Served Fresh Every Wednesday
High up, in the center of our cell, a large armored duct crosses the room and pierces the chain link wall into the corridor. Could someone press through the chain link?
Yeah, that’s the ticket out. Sizing up the 25 feet between me
and that ceiling duct, the vents along its sides you might squeeze a large cantaloupe through, I am reminded of the old cartoon of two prisoners manacled wrists and ankles to the wall. “First,” the one says to the oth-er, planning a brilliant escape, “we get rid of these manacles.” Right; it’s that easy.
I glance around at my fellow blood-red yardbirds, 17 chawbacons like me in blood-red pajamas and plastic slip-pers, ranging from their early 20s into their 60s.
I laugh.The whole prison is a Nation of Is-
lam wet dream—a jail full of nothing but middle-class white folks, most of them (I learn) are Christians and law enforcement officers. We’re all lilywhites—pastors, parishioners and pencil-pushers, the rest are turkey ba-con and rent-a-cops. Louis Farrakahn would pee himself with laughter.
We have a little time to meet one another. One—Ray—is a chaplain for inmates; another—David—is chap-lain for the deputies and other law enforcement officers. Both pastors are here with their volunteers. I sense a rumble before dawn. The rest of us are students and law clerks, reserve deputies and court personnel—a ver-itable riffraff of County employees. Still others, I learn to my dismay, are journalists who’ve finally found their place in this world.
Suddenly it’s 6:45pm and deputies are throwing open the door and bark-ing. Time for our “orientation.” We’re marched into the corridor, where we meet up with the dames.
Now there’s 37 of us in all, lined up
like a freaking slumber party against the wall. The women, I learn, are kept around the corner in a security room that’s also designed to hold in-custody inmates awaiting process-ing by a judge. Across the corridor, Sheriff Elfo and his boys size us up with steely stares. Hey, they’re being nice, letting the boys play alongside the girls; most nights you wouldn’t get within two armored doors of one another.
This facility is purely cuff and stuff.Rowdy-sheeters go downtown where they do the hard time. To make the point, helmeted bulls in black riot armor bang the gourd of some de-monstrative loudmouth up against a wall.
Yeah, some character in Ward 504 is vocalizing for our benefit, hollering and carrying on. Seven of Elfo’s squad gather in front of the door. “Be quiet, or you will be tased!” one deputy shouts. Unwisely, the character be-hind the door keeps shouting.
Impatient deputies rush through the door, shouting, laser sights flash-ing on their tasers. After a scuffle, they haul out their quarry—a solid-looking black man named Deputy Bob Kelly. They push out another rough-neck named Deputy Eric Grant.
“You guys don’t feed me right,” Kelly sobs as he’s forced face first against the wall for transport down-town.
“This is a minimum security facil-ity,” Kelly is informed. “If you make trouble you will be taken downtown where you will serve with maximum security inmates.”
With this example fresh in mind, we men are marched back to Ward 503. The women—churchgoers, court personnel, hospital staff, the curi-ous just like us—are likewise sealed away.
“As we stamp the new facility, we want to make sure we work out any
bugs… and do it before inmates ar-rive next week,” Sheriff Bill Elfo says, defining the purpose of our incarcera-tion.
Obligingly, Chaplain Ray promptly hangs himself from the television rack with a bedsheet. “This looks like one bug you’ll want to work out,” he gasps as grinning deputies play their laser sights over his body through the observation windows of our cell.
Now comes the slow crawl of hours
as we are led in small groups into the corridor to have our mug shots taken. One bird breaks free from her group and plants her lips against the glass pane of our cell door, leaving a soft circle imprint of her mouth to tanta-lize us all night.
8:10pm, and dinner is served—a sack full of a hoagy, carrot sticks, chips and low-fat milk. Most nights this meal would be hot, prepared and cleaned up by women inmates on work-release detail while the men clean ditches and fields. Tonight, the women are too busy hollering down the hall and carrying on like a stag party.
Bless them, the women also gave the guards a rough time, using sheets tied to door handles to lock the
We’re all lilywhites—
pastors, parishioners
and pencil-pushers, the
rest are turkey bacon
and rent-a-cops. Louis
Farrakahn would pee
himself with laughter.
CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
10
NEW
S 8-1
3news:: local national
at
1200 11th St in Fairhaven • www.villagebooks.com • 360.671.2626VB Gift Cards are also accepted at Paper Dreams and Hundreds of BookSense Stores Nationwide!
GIFTS They’ll OpenAgain & AgainBuilding Community
One Book at a Time
VILLAGEBOOKS
Books...
guards out of the room. More design fl aws that need to be overcome, deputies say.
In our ward, Chaplain David strikes up a con-versation about the offi cers he serves.
“As a pastor, I know I am dealing with eternal issues. These men often face life and death, a condition called ‘Critical Instant Stress,’ mean-ing they are already under stress and then a cri-sis comes along—divorce, a death in the fam-ily—and throws them into critical stress.
“It,” he says, “sobers you up about life.”We’re brought cards and board games to pass
the hours. A couple of inmates read. Others, the youngest among us, decide they’ll mess with the bulls and start shoving game pieces under the door. Patrolling offi cers kick them back un-der our door. Just once. One wiseacre among us shoves them back into the corridor. The door fl ies open. Deputy Rudy, without one fl icker of emotion, confi scates all of our games and in-forms us further outbreaks will not be tolerated. The hollering cats down the hall, he says, have also been disciplined and will be quiet for the rest of the evening. We have been warned.
9pm, and a movie begins. One of Elfo’s favor-ites, we’re told— Cool Hand Luke. You know the one: Paul Newman messes with The Man With No Eyes and and takes a bullet through the head for his trouble. Message received, sir!
11pm and we begin to turn in. That’s when the guards storm in and start another loud movie. The overhead lights go partially out, but it is still bright as day in our cell. It begins to seep in that we are not in control of this situation. On the bunk beside me, Prisoner Dale starts to snore like a cement mixer. Again I plan my es-cape.
The walls of my cell are reinforced sheetrock. I fi gure with the tooth of my comb and the stub of my toothbrush, I can tunnel through into the next locked cell in less than one year.
2:45am and Dale’s snores go up an octave; 3:30 am and the guards come noisily into the room and case our security. Dale doesn’t miss a gasp or rattle.
6am arrives long before I’m ready with the fl ush of sleepless men relieving themselves. I get up, maybe a bit more rested than the men in top bunks who had no shield to block the over-head fl uorescents from their eyes.
Deputies arrive to pass out the brown paper sacks of our breakfast. One shirtless prisoner rushes for chow and is held back.
“You are not dressed,” the deputy barks. “You must be dressed before you will be served.”
Breakfast is brutal. Two hard-boiled eggs. Two slices of plain white bread. Some kind of vege-table oil spread that makes oleo margarine seem like Jersey cream by comparison. One battered green orange. Stale shortbread. Two packets of straw-colored stickum called “apple jelly.”
We eat in a subdued humor, each of us be-coming vaguely aware that even 48 hours of this fare constitutes hard time. The novelty has worn thin. Not a man dares risk a shower.
“The monotony can really get to you,” warns Lt. Wendy Jones Whatcom County’s chief of cor-rections. “Boredom is a big enemy. This is meant to be punishment.”
“The greatest fear is ‘Where am I going to go when I get out?’” says Chaplain Ray. “People do not want to come back here but sometimes they just do not have options. That’s what we’re here for.”
After breakfast, the “God Pod” clusters among themselves, serving up Scripture and fellowship. Yeah, and I can already see that in a few days this clique might prove rough for the rest of us scattered heathens, demanding the miracle of our Wonder Bread… our apple jelly as tithe.
Before breakfast coagulates in our bellies, two deputies jingle their keys in the lock and throw back the armored door.
“Work detail,” one of them storms. “We’ll take you a few at a time. Line up.” I leap for freedom.
We’re marched down the corridor and are given our belongings. We strip our jail togs and plas-tic slippers and dress quickly. We carry our togs, along with blankets and towels, to the laundry room where all is dumped. Along the way, we’re given a last bleak survey of the facility.
“There’s the exercise yard.” Deputy Gerner points to a box encircled by a chain-link fence. “You can walk around. Don’t run. Sports are not allowed.”
We’re given the starlight tour and shown the door.
I am released without fanfare into the pre-dawn, into a sodden industrial wasteland with-out sidewalks or wayfi nders, the sky above me a lid of gray, featureless as the walls that encased me. As I walk, dawn breaks rosy and free.
Hard Time,From previous page
Ten women nursed their babies at Bellingham Airport on Tuesday morning, joining a nationwide “Nurse-In,” called to protest that a breastfeed-ing mother was thrown off a Delta/Freedom Air fl ight in Vermont in October.
Demonstration organiz-ers say the issue is about a woman’s right to nurse in public and also children’s right to eat and receive comfort and nurture at the breast. The demands:• Delta and Freedom Air apol-
ogize to the family and of-fer written proof that poli-cy and training procedures
have been changed.• All airlines revisit breast-
feeding and transport of pumped breastmilk poli-cies to support traveling families.
• Passage of pending Fed-eral legislation that offers civil rights protection for breastfeeding women in the workplace; and new Federal legislation to pro-tect a nursing mother and child’s right to do so when-ever and wherever they are legally allowed to be.
• Businesses adopt and use a new breastfeeding accessi-bility icon.
BY EMILY WEINTER
Lactivism‘Nurse-In’ calls for breastfeeding rights
Photo by Greg McCracken
Jessa Parrish and nine other mothers nursed their infants at the Bellingham International Airport Tuesday to protest a recent incident on Delta Airlines in which a breastfeeding woman was removed from a fl ight.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
11
NEW
S 8-1
3
INSTANTBIRTH CONTROL:saving his marlboro miles for a pool table.
(almost)
online birth control from planned parenthood.no stirrups. no clinic. no hassle.
instantbirthcontrol.com
INSTANTBIRTH CONTROL:
INSTANTBIRTH CONTROL:smooth jazz.
INSTANTBIRTH CONTROL:magic tricks.
Thursday December 14th, 2006 1-6pm at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal Free Sessions Open to the Public
Workshop Topics include:
Energy and water conservation for the home and landscape
ENERGY STAR and BuiltGreen certified homes
How to make green building materials fit your budget
Solar electric for your home and business For more information check out www.sconnect.org
Fuzz BuzzBike, boat and bus bustsOn Nov. 18, the president of the Bell-ingham chapter of the Bandidos Motor-cycle Club was sentenced to four years in prison for organized crime conspir-acy. Glenn Merritt, 65, was sentenced in federal court in Seattle as one of 32 people in Washington, Montana, and South Dakota who were indicted last year. Merritt was the fi nal Bandidos defendant in Whatcom County to be sentenced. In May, he pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine and traffi cking stolen motorcycle parts. When he was arrested, federal agents recovered 52 guns at his home.On Nov. 17, a 37-year-old British Co-lumbia woman was convicted of trans-porting 200 pounds of marijuana into Whatcom County in a boat last June. The Coast Guard stopped the boat as it was leaving Birch Bay after the woman had delivered the pot to two men on shore, prosecutors say.On Nov. 14, a Blaine resident report-ed that the horn on a Blaine school district bus was blaring in the school bus storage area late at night. An of-fi cer notifi ed a school transportation offi cial, who fi xed the horn.
Smokey smokedOn Nov. 17, a black bear was evi-dently electrocuted by a live power line that was downed near Kelly Road more than 24 hours before. The bear was found on its stomach, facing the road, the end of the power line direct-ly over its head. Wildlife offi cials say the bear’s nose was raw, as if skin had been burned off it. A singed branch lay nearby.
In case of a water landing On Nov. 18, rescue teams recovered the body of a man who drove his car off a pier into Drayton Harbor near Blaine the previous day. Blaine Police say they received a call concerning a man who threatened suicide by drowning. An of-fi cer went to the scene but as he ap-proached to talk to the man, the man fl ed and crashed his vehicle through a retaining wall at the end of the pier and into the harbor. The car immediately sank, police said. A Coast Guard boat, helicopter and Whatcom County Sher-iff search and rescue team were called to the scene Police said the currents in the harbor were moving fast due to the recent heavy rains.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
12
NEW
S 8-1
3
Fall Boot Sale on Now!In May, Bellingham voters approved the Greenways III levy to raise more than $44 million for more parks, trails and open spaces. Now the Greenway Advisory Com-mittee wants to know just where residents think a big chunk of that money should be used.
“We want input from the public on where they see the needs and … where they see gaps and missing links in their neighborhoods and throughout the city,” says Commit-tee Chair Kenni Merritt. “We don’t want to make our recommendations in a vacuum; a very important part of our process is getting input from the public.”
To that end, the committee and city Parks and Recreation Depart-ment are co-sponsoring a meeting on Nov. 28 to educate the public about the acquisition process and give residents a chance to voice their opinions about what is need-ed and what lands are available and appropriate for such projects.
The levy passed with 58 per-cent of the vote to approve a 10-year levy that is expected to raise $44.2 million for parks, trails and open space. The tax hike goes into effect in January as 57 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value. Almost $14 million is slated for de-velopment of future and continuing projects and another $4.2 million is to be set aside as an endowment, but the majority, $26.2 million, is earmarked for property acquisition. And while $12.1 million of that amount is to purchase land in the north side of Bellingham and $6 million in the south, specifi c prop-erties have not been chosen.
The town now has almost 3,290 acres of parks, or 42.15 acres per
1,000 people. That surpasses the standard of 34.45 per 1,000 set by the National Recreation and Park Association.
The forum also will give the Parks and Recreation Department input as it updates its acquisition plan that is funded with money from park impact fees and other sources, says Leslie Bryson, the department’s design and develop-ment manager.
Bryson says the committee will likely hold another forum in Janu-ary if turnout is good at the Novem-ber meeting.
Merritt says residents can also email or write in their opinions, speak up at the monthly committee meetings and request committee members to speak to neighborhood associations.
“Hopefully, we are saying loud and clear that we want input from the community, and they can do it in writing or orally,” Merritt says.
BY GREG MCCRACKEN
Greenways AcquisitionsFirst the vote, now the details
Be heard
A meeting for Bellingham residents to learn about the Greenways process and suggest where parks and trails are needed is 7-9pm Tues., Nov. 28, at the Squalicum Boathouse in Zuanich Point Park.Letters can be sent to Bellingham
Greenway Program, 3424 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225; or email [email protected] Greenway Advisory Committee
website is cob.org/parks/greenways.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
13
NEW
S 8-1
3
Featuring the work of Al Charles Jr.
300 W. Champion Street, Downtown738-DROP
Our coffee monkeys are
trained.
SINCE 1979FULL SERVICE CENTER
100 E. Chestnut • Downtown Bellingham • m-f: 10-7 • sat: 9:30-6 • sun: 11-4
733.6440www.kulshancycles.com
THANK YOU BELLINGHAM!
TREK • ROCKY MOUNTAIN • GARY FISHER • LEMOND • ORBEA • REDLINE
VOTEDBEST BIKE SHOP
CASCADIA WEEKLY
* While supplies last. Lots of sizes available.
NIRVANA SGREAT BELLINGHAM BIKE!
NOW$34999S $46999
Nikki and Jon Lazzerini, both 26 years old, are impatient to move into their own home, with their own backyard.
“We’ve been married four years, and we’re ready to get rid of roommates and start a family and buy a home,” Nikki said. “But it’s on hold. The house has to be built fi rst.”
A moratorium on building permits in Cordata has put a brake on their transi-tion from renters to homeowners. Last January, they put money down with D.R. Horton for a new house at the north end of Cordata. The company has scheduled construction of their house to begin in December—but only if the moratorium is lifted.
The pending permit for Nikki and Jon’s house is one of 36 permits—all for D.R. Horton homes—the City has approved but won’t issue until the moratorium is lifted. D.R. Horton plans to build about 750 homes—single family, duplexes and triplexes—on about 110 acres at Cordata.
“It’s frustrating,” Nikki said. “We’re fi rst-time homebuyers. We don’t really understand what’s going on.”
What’s going on is the City of Bell-ingham and Trillium Corporation—Cor-data’s developer—are arguing about how much money Trillium will contrib-ute to the cost of building four roads in or near Cordata: Eliza Avenue (which the City has already built), Stuart Road between Cordata Parkway and Meridian Street, Thomas/Horton Road between Cordata Parkway and Aldrich Road, and June Road between Cordata Parkway and Aldrich Road.
Planning documents Trillium agreed to in the 1980s and 1990s say the construction and fi nancing of these roads must be resolved before the City is allowed to issue building permits that would let Cordata grow bigger than 3.25 million square feet. In September, Tim Stewart, Belling-ham’s planning director, issued the moratorium.
Bellingham Public Works Director Dick McKinley said what’s dividing the two sides is how much of the traffi c impact Trillium is responsible for. He said the City’s position is Trillium has to pay its share based on the build-out of Cordata starting from zero, whereas
Trillium’s position is the company is responsible only for impacts of future build-out – starting with construction above 3.25 million square feet.
On Nov. 14, Mauri Ingram, a Trillium project manager, spoke to the Guide Meridian/Cordata Neighborhood As-sociation. She wouldn’t discuss nego-tiation details but said she hoped the moratorium would be lifted by the end of the year.
Questioned about why the differ-ences weren’t resolved before the 3.25 million square foot trigger was reached, Ingram said the company had not been monitoring the square footage. The au-dience applauded enthusiastically in response to a call for Trillium’s presi-dent, David Syre, to himself speak to Cordata residents. (Syre is an investor in Cascadia Weekly.)
If the Cordata moratorium lasts much longer, it will delay construction of Community Food Co-op’s second store, on the corner of Cordata Parkway and Westerly Road. At the same meeting on Nov. 14, Jim Ashby, the Co-op’s general manager, presented the plans for the 18,600-square-foot store. He said per-mits to start construction were hope-fully two to six weeks away.
“If the moratorium drags on, it will be bad news,” Ashby said.
BY EMILY WEINER
Cordata MoratoriumFuture homeowners wait for Trillium and City offi cials to settle money issues
Nikki and Jon Lazzerini are impatiently waiting for the house they’re buying at Cordata to be built.
“It’s frustrating. We’re fi rst-time homebuyers. We don’t really understand what’s going on.”– Nikki Lazzerini
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
14
GET
OUT
14
get outhiking running cycling fi tness
LISTINGS
FRI., NOV. 24TULIP TREKKERS: The NW Tulip Trekkers will hold a seven-mile Volkswalk dubbed “Fun, Fitness and Friendship” beginning at 2pm in Anacortes at Is-land Hospital, 1211 24th St. Entry is free, but you must register. For more info: (360) 392-0101 or nwtrekkers.org.
SUN., NOV. 26WEEKLY RUNS: Drop-in runs and walks for both experienced and begin-ning athletes happen daily starting at various times at Fairhaven Run-ners, 1209 11th St. For a full listing of these free events, contact the store. For more info: 676-4955 or fairhavenrunners.com.
TUES., NOV. 28BANFF FESTIVAL: See some of the world’s last wild places on the big screen when the 31st an-nual Banff Mountain Film Festival shows at 8pm at the Performing Arts Cen-ter Mainstage at Western Washington University. Tickets are $6-$9. For more info: 650-6146 or banffcentre.ca. AUDUBON MEETING: The public is invited to join the North Cascades Audu-bon Society for a meet-ing and presentation by Nina Carter (execu-tive director of Audubon Washington) at 7:30pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Entry is free. For more info: 380-3356. TRAVEL TALK: “World Travel With Analese Vo-ple” is the title of a free talk at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Vople will share stories and give tips on how to travel the world on your own. For more info: 647-8955. MOUNTAIN FITNESS:Sign up for “Mountain Fitness for Skiers and Riders” starting at 7pm today and continuing Tuesdays and Thursdays through Dec. 21 at the Whatcom Family YMCA, 1256 N. State St. Cost is $20, and you don’t have to be a member. For more info: 733-8630.
You know how it is. You do pretty well in one race and suddenly you get it in your head that everyone in the world is look-ing at you differently. Your friends, your ri-vals, people you see at the grocery store, that blondish bearded guy who’s always running around downtown—you think they’re all eye-ing you like you’re the biggest mega-stud who ever lived.
But then the next time you line up to race, you’re dropped right at the start. Dropped like a forgotten piece of luggage left sitting on the trunk of a car when it pulls away from the curb.
Such is what happened to me a few weeks ago at Viking ‘Cross, a cyclocross bike race that took place at Western Washington University. (It was part of Cyclocrazed, a three-race se-ries put on by local bike racer Ryan Rickerts.) Cyclocross racing has the pell-mell, mad-dash feel of a cross-country running race, only it’s done on bicycles, usually cyclocross bikes, which look like road bikes, but have wider, knobbier tires.
At Western, we raced across grassy fi elds and gravel parking lots, through a mini-tunnel and that “Rock Rings” sculpture that looks like something you’d see on a ‘70s prog-rock album cover, down a slippery ravine and over mini barriers where we had to hop off and carry our bikes. The fun, curvy-swervy course was about 1.6-miles long, and we kept rid-ing it over and over and over again for about an hour.
I don’t actually have a cyclocross bike and so, like several riders, I used my mountain bike. My recent third-place fi nish in the Mount Baker Hill Climb (Rec Division) race gave me a false sense of my own cycling prowess, such as it is. I thought I’d be fi ne, able to keep up with the skinny, long-femured Lance Armstrong-types on much lighter cyclocross bikes.
Not a chance. From the start, the other 30-some riders bolted away from me as if they feared I were infected with bird fl u, or taking up a collection to add a little something extra
to Donald Rumsfeld’s severance package. At one part of the course we had to carry our
bikes seemingly straight up a 50-foot embank-ment—six times!—once for each lap. Those with cyclocross bikes seemed to fl y up the hill, hoisting their bikes upon their shoulders as if they were mere backpacks full of cotton balls. My 30-plus-pound mountain bike, on the other
hand, turned me into Sisyphus, struggling mightily to roll my boulder to the top.
But it didn’t matter. It was a rollicking blast in that kinda out-of-control, “Wuhoo, we have a substitute teacher to-day!” way, and I highly recom-mend it to any and all.
Cyclocrazed has one more race in the series. Belly ‘Cross happens Nov. 25 at Lake Padden. Races start early, and of-ferings exist for riders of all skill levels. One of the cool things about cyclocross racing is that they always have a race for little kids. At Viking ‘Cross, a four-year-old girl fi nished a shortened version of the course. How cool is that?
Mike McQuaide is a Bellingham writer and author of fi ve books including Insiders’ Guide to Bell-ingham and Mount Baker (Globe-Pequot). Con-tact him at [email protected]; check out his blog http://mcqview.blogspot.com.
STORY AND PHOTO BY MIKE MCQUAIDE
CyclocrazedNot for the faint of heart
Ride ItWHAT: Belly ‘Cross
WHEN: 9am, Sat. Nov. 25
WHERE: Lake Padden
COST: $15 general, free for WWU students
INFO: cyclocrazed.com
Step ou
t of Bellingham and into
where everything has astory
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
15
WOR
DS &
COM
MU
NITY
15
wordscommunity lectures books
WORDS
WED., NOV. 22SUZUKI SPEAKS: Author, PBS host and environmentalist Da-vid Suzuki will give a slideshow and sign copies of his fi nal book, David Suzuki: The Autobiography ,at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Although the event is sold out, a limited number of seats may be available at 7:20pm. For more info: 671-2626 or 734-6080. SPOKEN WORDS: Peter Gunn leads Spoken Word Wednesdays at 8pm at Stuart’s at the Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. Info: 714-0800.
MON., NOV. 27POETRY NIGHT: Read your words at Poetry Night at 8pm every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 1332 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 715-0632 or poetrynight.org. OPEN MIC: Community members are invited to share original fi c-tion, nonfi ction, poetry or works-in-progress at a literary Open Mic at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
TUES., NOV. 28YOUNG AUTHORS: The Young Authors Group invites kids ages 9-16 who enjoy writing to hone their skills at 6:45pm at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian St. For more info: 647-7018. MASK OF OYA: Flor Fernandez Barrios shares ideas from her latest book about spiritual self-discovery, The Mask of Oya , at 7:30pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
WED., NOV. 29ZAPATISTAS CHRONICLE: Author John Ross reads from his fourth volume in his coverage of Mayan rebels, Zapatistas! Making Anoth-er World Possible, Chronicles 2000-2006 , at 7:30pm at Village Books. 1200 11th St. Info: 671-2626.
COMMUNITY
WED., NOV. 22MAPLE INN MEAL: The Maple Al-ley Inn will serve a free Thanks-giving meal for the hungry from 11:30am-1:30pm at the Belling-ham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. For more info: 734-5121.
THURS., NOV. 23OLD TOWN THANKSGIVING: For year number 32, enjoy a free community Thanksgiving dinner from 10am-3pm at the Old Town Café, 316 W. Holly St. For more info: 671-4431.
FRI., NOV. 24 LIGHTHOUSE DINNER: Light-house Mission Ministries will hold its annual free Thanksgiving dinner from 12-2pm at the Church of the Assumption, 2116 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 733-5120. BUY NOTHING DAY: We know it’s the biggest shopping day of the year, but if you choose to par-ticipate in Buy Nothing Day, you should keep your credit cards at home. Info: buynothingday.org.
SAT., NOV. 25FARMERS MARKET: Attend the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every Saturday at the Depot Market Square. For more info: 647-2060 or bellingham-farmers.org.PANCAKE BREAKFAST: One and all can attend the monthly Swedish Pancake Breakfast from 8-11am at Norway Hall, 1419 N. Forest St. Entry is $3 for kids and $6 for adults. For more info: 920-6916. WREATH PARTY: Join a Wreath Making Party from 11am-5pm at Everson’s Glen Echo Community Building, at the corner of Good-win and South Pass Roads. Bring greens to share, food, stories and songs. For more info: 966-5777. RAILROAD DISPLAY: The Belling-ham Society of Model Engineers will open its model railroads to the public from 11am-4pm at the Alger Community Church and Grange, 1475 Silver Run Lane. Do-nations are appreciated. For more info: (888) 511-3293.
SUN., NOV. 26INNER TEEN: Renowned teen ex-pert Margit Crane presents a free talk titled “Embrace Your Inner Teen” tonight at Bellingham Uni-tarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Spe-cial music by local youth will be included. For more info: 733-3837.
TUES., NOV. 28GLOBAL JUSTICE: Author and ac-tivist John Ross leads a Paths to Global Justice talk dubbed “Mex-ico: An Upsurge from the Bot-tom” at 4pm at Western Washing-ton University’s Communications Facility 120. The talk is free and open to the community. For more info: 650-2309.
WED., NOV. 29 CLEANUP WORKSHOP: Learn to read the regulatory documents for the cleanup of the Whatcom Waterway and GP treatment la-goon at a free Bellingham Bay cleanup initiative workshop at 7pm at Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. For more info and to register: 733-8307.
BY EMILY WEINER
Clyde Ford HonoredAfrican American leaders embrace local authorBellingham writer Clyde Ford has in the past few months started to be recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding African American intellectuals.
Bellinghamsters may know Ford best as the fi ery emcee for Martin Luther King Day gatherings in City Hall, or as the au-thor of novels including the Charlie Noble mystery series set in the San Juan Islands, or perhaps as the 2006 winner of Cascadia Weekly’s “Best Writer.”
In September, Ford was one of six featured artists at a literary salon in Charleston, Miss., at the home of Morgan Freeman and Myrna Colley-Lee, sponsored by their SonEdna Foundation. The other authors were Ntozake Shange, Roscoe Orman, Ifa Bayeza, Hasna Muhammad, and Curtis Wilkie.
On Nov. 3, Ford’s novel The Long Mile, a detective thriller set in New York City, won the contemporary fi ction award from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which recognizes cur-rent writers of African descent. The National Press Club ceremony was covered by The Washington Post.
StudyWITH FORDOn April 14, Clyde
Ford will teach “Writing on the Wa-ter: Place and Nar-rative,” a one-day writing workshop aboard the trawler M/V Snow Goose,sponsored by North Cascades Institute, $165.REGISTER NOW:(360) 856-5700, ext. 209, or online at ncascades.org.
Freeman and Colley-Lee said that Ford “greatly deserves the recogni-tion of the Hurston-Wright Founda-tion, and we were proud to be able to be there to support him.”
At a subsequent Bellingham Yacht Club celebration of the award, Ford announced that Freeman is interest-ed in a fi lm project for Precious Cargo,the second Charlie Noble mystery.
Ford said these honors recognize “that in all my novels there’s at least an undercurrent that speaks to is-sues of concern to African Ameri-cans. Certainly in my East Coast novels are issues of violence, anger and redemption. That was the heart of The Long Mile. ”
Ford says even his West Coast nautical mysteries have issues that resonate with the African Ameri-can experience. For example, in the book Precious Cargo, undocu-mented immigrants are brought into the country.
“It resonates with my character, Charlie, as being modern-day slav-ery,” Ford said.
Freeman and Colley-Lee have in-vited Ford to be a founding board member of their SonEdna Foundation, which is creating a writers retreat on their 120-acre estate.
“There has never been a place for a retreat for African American authors,” Ford said. “Writ-ers need that—that place of incubation.”
Ford said it has been special to be among his peers, in a con-text with deep origins in the African Ameri-can community that goes back to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, if not further. But even while be-ing embraced by a new milieu, Ford values the “incredible community” that supports him in Bellingham, he says. “I wouldn’t give that up for anything.”
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
16
ON S
TAGE
16
manager named George Bailey who, facing fi -nancial ruin on Christmas Eve, seriously con-templates suicide.
Fortunately for George—a family man with a self-doubting nature—he’s visited by a trainee angel named Clarence who shows him what his town, Bedford Falls, would be like if he had never existed. It’s not a pretty picture Clarence paints, and George eventually returns to his life with a renewed faith in himself and humanity.
“We’re hoping that a lot of children will see the play, and that they’ll have an experience—and maybe a lesson—they can carry with them the rest of their lives,” explains Jeff Braswell, BTG’s executive director.
Director Kathryn Murray agrees that It’s a Wonderful Life is a story with appeal to all ages. “The over-all message of the play is that every-one is on this earth for a purpose,” she says. “George was lucky to be able to see how his world in tiny Bedford Falls would be different if he was never born. Clarence shows him
what life would be like without George’s infl u-ence, and he then realizes what a positive im-pact he has made on his environment and those around him.”
Twenty-nine community members—includ-ing six children—make up the large cast. Scott Fassett will man the title role, Erin Flood takes on the character of George’s wife Mary, and seasoned actor Ted Grandke embodies the angel Clarence.
“I deliberately cast many people who are new to the theatre world,” Murray furthers. “There are many roles in Wonderful Life with just a few speaking lines, which makes for an ideal way to become acquainted with theatre without a huge memorizing line load.”
Murray is familiar with the world of the BTG, having occupied every Board of Director seat (except Treasurer) since she fi rst became ac-quainted with the community theater in 1988. She’s confi dent that people will line up to see their latest offering, which has never been per-formed in the 77 years of Bellingham Theatre Guild history.
Murray adds, “With the Christmas season coming up, what better way to help celebrate and get in the mood than seeing America’s own classic holiday play?”
stagetheater dance profi les
Don’t pretend you’ve never been down in the dumps and had the morbid thought that the world would be a better place without you. We’ve all been there. But if you’re reading these words, you made it out of your emotional quagmire without offi ng yourself. You’ve come out on the other side, and realized maybe the world needs you around.
If you’ve ever watched the classic 1946 fi lm, It’s a Wonderful Life, you know the themes of pain and redemption are com-mon to humankind. Starting Nov. 24, the Bellingham Theatre Guild (BTG) will revive the holiday favorite, which follows the trials—and eventual joys—of a small-town savings-and-loan
See ItWHAT: It’s a Wonderful Life
WHEN: 8pm Nov. 24-25, 30, Dec. 1-2, 7-9; 2pm Nov. 26, Dec. 3, 10
WHERE: Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St.
COST: $7-$11
INFO: 733-1811 or bell-inghamtheatreguild.com
Wonderful
ON STAGE
FRI., NOV. 24 - 25CODY RIVERS: New sketch comedy ma-terial abounds at The Cody Rivers Show: Volume 11 at 8pm at iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Reservations are strongly recommended. Tickets are $10. For more info: 201-5464 or idiomtheater.com. UPFRONT THANKSGIVING: This week-end’s Thanksgiving special features “Turkey Bowl” Theatresports matches at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at the Upfront The-atre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. For more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com. LION, WITCH, WARDROBE: Find out what happens when four children in-advertently wander from an old ward-robe into the land of Narnia when The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe shows at 8pm at the Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $14. For more info: (360) 293-6829 or act-theatre.com.
NOV. 24 - 26WEST SIDE: See the Jets and the Sharks do their musical thing when West Side Story shows at 7pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $8. For more info: 676-6575. PETER PAN: The literary classic fanta-sy, Peter Pan , comes to life at 2pm and 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $14-$32. For more info: (866) 624-6897.
WED., NOV. 29TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT: Travel through biblical Egypt when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat shows at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $20-$55. For more info: 734-6080 or mountbak-ertheatre.com. MUSICAL PARABLE: Whistle Down the Wind , a musical parable about faith, conviction and the fragile optimism of children, opens tonight at 7:30pm at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Additional showings happen through Dec. 16. For more info: (360) 354-4425 or clairevgtheatre.org.
DANCE
FRI., NOV. 24DANCE PARTY: All are welcome at a Dance Party from 9-11pm at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry is $7-$12. Show up at 8:30pm if you need a lesson. For more info: 676-0292 or uandmedance.com.
SUN., NOV. 26SQUARE DANCE: Local caller Lucas Hicks leads a monthly Square Dance from 6-8pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. The string band Clean and Friendly will provide tunes, and all dances will be taught. Entry is $3. For more info: 733-5960.
Pain and redemption at Theatre Guild
BY AMY KEPFERLE
It’sa
Life
Photo by Stan Rubin
Matthew Thogerson (Sam Wainwright) and Lauren DeLorme (his girlfriend) place a phone call in the Bellingham Theatre Guild’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
17
ART
17
visualgalleries openings profi les
ent from their own,” Wells explains. “That’s when I suddenly recognized the importance of the poster as an educational, organizing and con-sciousness-raising tool—my activist side. But my art history side under-stood the power of art and the poli-tics of culture.”
Wells brought home as many Nicara-guan posters as she could, and even-tually her collection expanded to in-clude a variety of topics and subjects such as women’s and prisoner’s rights. She exhibited the posters at various solidarity groups across the United States, but it wasn’t until 1988 that she started the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. The compilation has since grown to more than 50,000 posters.
S i x t y - f i v e posters from the Center will comprise the “Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Indus-trial Complex” exhibit open-ing Nov. 27 at Western Wash-ington Univer-sity’s Viking Union Gallery.
Many of the artists responsible for the posters in “Prison Nation,” Wells notes, come from grassroots organizations. Professional graphic designers, teachers, students and union organizers are also on the list of contributors. The exhibit includes vintage posters from the ‘70s and contemporary posters from through-out the United States and Europe.
Wells explains that, “While a single poster will make one or two points, the posters in ‘Prison Nation’ com-prise dozens of the critical issues surrounding the system of mass in-carceration including: the death pen-alty, the Three Strikes law, racism, women’s right to self defense, access to education and health care, the growing rate of incarceration, slave labor, divestment, privatization, tor-ture, and re-entry into the commu-nity. They demonstrate the power of art to educate and inspire.”
Carol Wells has been protesting social injustice since she was in high school. She rallied against segregation, supported the Civil Rights Movement and opposed the Vietnam War. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in art history, she spent 13 years teaching what she now calls the “art of the rich and the powerful.”
It wasn’t until a trip to Nicaragua in 1981 that she realized the posters she’d been waving during demonstrations over the years were actually heady pieces of art indelibly connected to politics.
“I used them but didn’t see them,” Wells recalls of her epiphany, which came about as she soaked up the messages of the Sandinista Revolution through the posters of the movement. The images and words on paper supported the literacy crusade, healthcare, women’s rights, and opposed U.S. intervention.
“I saw how posters could grab someone’s attention when they weren’t expecting it, and make them look at the issue from a perspective differ-
See ItWHAT: “Prison Nation”
WHEN: Nov. 27 - Dec. 15; opening reception 6-8pm, Nov. 30
WHERE: Viking Union Gallery, WWU
COST: Free
INFO: 650-6804
BY AMY KEPFERLE
PrisonNation
OPENINGS
NOV. 22 - 29FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS:Allied Arts holds its annu-al Holiday Festival of the Arts from 10am-7pm until Dec. 24 (except Thanks-giving) at the Whatcom Center, 1310 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 676-8548 or alliedarts.org.
NOV. 24 - 25TOUR D’ART: More than 30 galleries, shops, and businesses will feature works by established and emerging local and regional artists from 5-10pm at the Fairhaven Tour d’Art. Music and re-freshments will also be available at many venues at the free event. For more info: 647-1638 or Fairhaven.com.
NOV. 24 - NOV. 26ROEDER ARTS: The 34th annual Roeder Home Hol-iday Arts and Crafts Sale continues from 10am-6pm through Sunday at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Live music will be part of the fun. Ad-mission is free. For more info: 733-6897.
SAT., NOV. 25LUCIA OPENING: In conjunction with the Fairhaven Tour d’ Art, attend an opening for the multi-artist “Starry Night” exhibit from 5-10pm at Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. For more info: 733-5361 or luciadouglas.com. TRADING CARDS: Local artists of all stripes are invited to bring 2.5-inch-by-3.5-inch pieces of art to trade at the monthly “Artist Trading Cards” event from 2-5pm at Fan-tasia Espresso, 1324 Corn-wall Ave. Entry is free. For more info: 652-3818.
EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: “Works on Paper and Wood,” featur-ing art by Meredith W. McPherson and Audrey Mei-Yee Tsui, can be pe-rused through Nov. 25 at Allied Arts, 1418 Corn-wall Ave. For more info: 676-8548. BELLINGHAM RAILWAY
MUSEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tuesdays and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Com-mercial St. For more info: 393-7540. BLUE HORSE GALLERY:See artworks inspired by trips taken to Italy and Ireland by local artists through November at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. For more info: 671-2305. HANDPRINT ARTS: See works by more than 50 local artists at Handprint Arts, 1611 N. State St. For more info: 647-9087 or handprintarts.org. IMPORT 12: Seattle art-ist Angelika Hauck-Burns will be featured through Nov. 30 at Import 12, 2711 Meridian St. For more info: 752-3233. MONA: See Lanny Bergn-er’s “Entering Ether” in-stallation through Jan. 7 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. For more info: (360) 466-4446 or mu-seumofnwart.org. RADIO MUSEUM: “The Dawn of the Electrical Age” exhibit is currently being featured at the American Museum of Ra-dio & Electricity, 1312 Bay St. For more info: 738-3886 or amre.us. VIKING UNION: “In-ner Landscapes: Collage Paintings of Angela Wales Rockett” can be seen through Nov. 22 at WWU’s Viking Union Gallery. For more info: 650-6534. WESTERN GALLERY:“Shoot the Family,” a pho-tographic and multimedia exhibit, is on display un-til Dec. 1 at the Western Gallery, WWU. For more info: 650-3963 or west-erngallery.wwu.eduWHATCOM CHILDREN’S MUSUEM: “By the By: Working on the Wa-terfront” is open from 10am-5pm Thurs.-Sat. and 12-5pm Sundays at the Whatcom Children’s Museum, 227 Prospect St. Admission is $3.50. For more info: 733-8769. WHATCOM MUSEUM: The exhibits “Rodin: In His Own Words” and “Build-ing Tradition: Contempo-rary Northwest Art are on display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. Info: 676-6981 or what-commuseum.org.
Posters show power of art, politics of culture
Produced by Ernest Pignon Ernest, 1972
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
18
MUS
IC 1
8-21
prowess, he was also not known for being an important soloist. What Basie did was different: He treated his entire orchestra as an instrument, concentrating on lively arrangements and allow-
musicpreviews rumor has it
IF THE COLD, wet weather has you hanging out at home, swaddled in blankets and hun-kered down for warmth, it’s almost time to emerge from your cocoon and hit the town once again. The reason? Shortly after we all take a break to stuff ourselves silly with Thanksgiving goodies, Bell-ingham will play host to a whole slew of notably good bands and shows.
K i c k i n g things off on Dec. 1 at Chiribin’s is an all-local lineup that features no less than three bands made up, in part, of former members of U.S.S. Horse-whip (including one with the cheeky moni-ker of Horsequit), along with rare appear-ances by Chris Con Carne and GNS. While all bands will likely offer up unmatched en-tertainment value, for me, the real draw is rapper Guinness, who has spent the better part of the last several months sampling songs by local musicians and making them his own. The whole shebang is a birthday party for local booking diva extraordinaire Carly of Starbird Promotions.
Following on the heels of that show is a fl urry of musical activity. The Hand-some Family hits town for a Dec. 6 show at the Nightlight, followed by Pretty Girls Make Graves the next day at WWU’s Viking Union. As many people well know, Pretty Girls Make Graves have had more than one near-miss when it comes to playing shows in Bellingham, so it will be nice to see them fi nally grace a stage here.
If you’re ready to take a break at this point, it should be noted that Dec. 8 is the day that ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead hits town for a show at the Nightlight, and it should also be noted that they are well-known for memorable live shows, so it would be unwise for you to miss it. And, last but not least in this unoffi cial all-star music series is the sweet sounds of Devotchka, who will play Dec. 9, also at the Nightlight.
That’s a whole bunch of music in a very short amount of time.
In the realm of rumors that exist as nothing more than pure, unsubstantiated speculation comes word of a possible re-opening of a popular and much-missed burrito house. These same rumors have this particular den of dining delight re-emerging sometime after the new year. Admittedly, I have in no way verifi ed the truthfulness of this gossip, but that has certainly never stopped me before. Does this news herald the return of the Rancho? Only time will tell.
Rumor Has It
BY CAREY ROSS
The Count Basie OrchestraDon’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swingSeventy years is a long lifespan for just about anything, but in the ever-changing realm of music, a band that’s been not only performing but also somehow manages to remain relevant and vital after almost seven decades is rare enough to be unheard of. Unheard of, that is, if it were not for the Count Basie Orchestra.
Now, those of you familiar with the history of jazz may be a little con-fused. After all, this particular king of swing died more than 20 years ago, and it is a safe assumption to think his award-winning orchestra died with him. However, the legacy of Count Basie and his famous ensemble of able musicians is such that, even without its namesake, the band plays on.
Before he became a Count, Basie, the son of musicians, hailed from Red Bank, NJ—a place not exactly renowned as a musical Mecca. However, proximity is everything and Harlem was just a short trip from Basie’s New Jersey home. It was there that Basie would learn a thing or two about tickling the ivories, among other things, from legendary pianist Fats Waller before embarking on a storied career of his own.
The interesting thing about Basie—and, possibly, one factor in his band’s ability to carry on after his death—is that, unlike his contemporary and jazz great Duke Ellington, Basie was not a composer. And, despite his piano
BY CAREY ROSS
music PREVIEW
CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
19
MUS
IC 1
8-21
misc MUSIC
show PREVIEW
BY CAREY ROSS
Candye KaneBold, brassy blueswomanEveryone has a story. Nowhere is that more true than in the music industry, where it sometimes seems like having a colorful history is a prerequisite of success. If that’s the case, blueswoman Candye Kane should be the most successful musician in history.
Kane was born in Los Angeles to a musician father and a hippie mother whose idea of passing along parental wisdom was to teach her daughter to shoplift at the tender age of nine. However, Kane eschewed this life of petty crime, dreaming instead of becoming a musician, eventually earning a scholarship to USC’s Music Conservatory. Although the siren’s song of mu-sicianship was calling Kane, she never made it to USC. She got caught up in gang activity and eventually became pregnant at 16 years old.
So far, Kane was following the standard path to musical success: a hard-luck beginning followed by bad choices and further hardship. If Kane was any other musician, she would toil in relative obscurity for awhile before being discovered, becoming famous, succumbing to drug and alcohol abuse, breaking up the band, getting the band back together for a successful second coming and, fi nally, winding up on a VH1 Behind the Music special. But Kane is not just any musician.
When she realized that welfare combined with her other meager earn-ings were not enough to support her, much less her son, Kane took stock of her god-given assets and decided to become a model—albeit not ex-actly the high-fashion, runway-strutting variety. It proved to be a lucra-tive decision, as Kane has appeared on the covers of more than 150 men’s magazines, some with household names and others you’d never admit knowing about. She even managed to parlay her centerfold success into an advice column for Gent magazine.
It was during this time that Kane rediscovered her musical dream or, more specifi cally, California’s burgeoning punk scene. She found herself
Candye Kane
SUN., NOV. 26 ART OF JAZZ: John Stowell shows off his guitar and sax chops as part of the Art of Jazz series starting at 4pm at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13 St. En-try is $10 general, free for Jazz Project members. For more info: 650-1066 or jazzproject.org. COMMUNITY CHORUS: The Bell-ingham Community Chorus per-forms to benefi t the Ferndale Food Bank at 3pm at the United Church of Ferndale, 2034 Wash-
ington St. Nonperishable food donations and monetary con-tributions will be accepted. For more info: 384-3302.
WED., NOV. 29CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Harp-ist Bronn Journey and soprano Katherine Journey perform a concert of Christmas music at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Mc-Intyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $16. For more info: (866) 624-6897.
ing band members to solo in a way that best served his music, rather than his own ego. His band was then, as it is today, characterized by a razor-sharp rhythm sec-tion that took standard-is-sue swing music, melded it with the complexities of jazz to create a sound that quickly became known as “Basie swing.”
And his signature sound has been one that people respond to, time and again, decade after decade. Since its inception so long ago, the 19-piece Count Basie Or-chestra has won a whopping 17 Grammies (not counting two Grammy Hall of Fame awards), recorded with such other legendary musicians as Frank Sinatra, Tony Ben-nett, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and many, many more. The band’s latest of-fering, Ray Sings, Basie Swings , combines never-be-fore-heard vocal tracks by Ray Charles with brand-new arrangements by the Count Basie Orchestra.
These days, the orches-tra is led by trombonist Bill Hughes, one of fi ve current band members lucky enough to have actually played with Basie during his life-time. The group travels and tours incessantly, introduc-ing people to Basie swing and infl uencing such mod-ern-day groups as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.
A visit by the Count Basie Orchestra is much more than a trip down a musical memory lane, it’s a way for 19 of the world’s fi nest musicians to edu-cate, entertain and show the audience a swingin’ good time.
show PREVIEW
Hear ItWHO: The Count Basie Orchestra
WHEN: 7:30pm Wed., Nov. 29
WHERE: The Lincoln The-atre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon
COST: $25-$35
MORE INFO: 360-336-8955 or lincolntheare.org
Basie,continued from page 18
starting a series of country punk bands and sharing the stage with such seminal bands as Black Flag, Social Distor-tion, and the Circle Jerks.
Eventually, Kane was discov-ered and offered a recording contract as a country singer. But pure country was not a good fi t for Kane, and Kane’s checkered past was not a good fi t for her record label and the two eventually parted ways.
So, what was a woman with music in her soul but a past too naughty for the music business to do? If you’re Kane, you start singing the blues. Unlike main-stream music, blues musicians are often celebrated for their colorful histories. Many famous blueswomen had followed a path similar to the one Kane had traveled, yet were still able to make music that celebrated all parts of their lives without shame. And Kane’s big, bold, powerful voice and brassy, hu-mor-fi lled stage presence (she has likened herself to a black drag queen trapped in a white woman’s body) proved to be ideally suited to blues music.
Since her transformation from sex queen to blues diva, Kane has gone on to win many awards, has headlined several blues festivals, recorded a se-ries of well-received albums and plays more than 250 shows a year. It seems that Kane’s col-orful story is one with a happy ending.
Hear ItWHO: Candye Kane, Baby Gramps (What the heck is in that guy’s beard?)
WHEN: 8pm Thurs., Nov. 30
WHERE: Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St.
COST: $12 advance/$15 at the door
MORE INFO: 752-0848
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
20
MUS
IC 1
8-21
wednesday november 22
Eric Scottthursday november 23
Give Thanks! We’re Openfriday november 24
Ron Hardesty & The Cainthardlyplayboys
saturday november 25
Red Wreckerssunday november 26
Singer/Songwriter SLAMtuesday november 28
BIG RIG
HAPPY HOUR
4-6PM WEEKDAYS
Born here, raised here, live here...
BELLINGHAM’SLOCAL TAVERN
SHOWS START AT
9:30PM, 21+
902 State St. #104 23 West Coast Beers on Tap | Free Peanuts
We sell beer to go!
Now Serving
1320 Cornwall Ave738-0405
kbilliards.com
$3999America’s Top 180
Over 240 channels
month
$ 99DishHD Silver
25 high-definition channels plusover 200 standard channels
month
$1999America’s Top 60
Over 80 favorite channels
month$DishHD Bronze
25 high-definition channels plusover 80 standard channels
$2999America’s Top 120
Over 200 great channels
month
SLI
CK
1411
Q3.
06 4
cB_b
ubb
les
PLUS PICK ONE PREMIUM3 MONTHS FREE 8 Channels 5 Channels 8 Channels10 Channels
Prices valid for 10 months.(after mail-in redemption)
Choose to add Local Channels, just $5/month (where available)
FREE DVR Receiver Upgrade – Record up to 100 hours without videotapeFREE Standard Professional Installation (up to 4 rooms)
NO Equipment to BuyProgramming offers require participation in Digital Home Advantage. Savings on standard-definition programming requires subscription to America’s Top 60 package or higher; customer receives one $10.00 credit each month for up to 10 consecutive months. Savings on high-definitionprogramming requires subscription to DishHD Bronze package or higher; customer receives two $10.00 credits each month for up to 10 consecutive months. Customer must mail in redemption form and copy of first bill. Visit www.dishnetwork.com/100back for more information. After 3free months of qualifying movie package, customer must call to downgrade or then-current price for selected package will apply. Digital Home Advantage: Pay $49.99 Activation Fee. Requires Social Security Number, valid major credit card, credit approval and qualifying programmingpurchase. Equipment must be returned to DISH Network upon termination of qualifying service. Limit 4 tuners per account. Monthly package price includes an equipment rental fee of $5.00 or $6.00 for first receiver, based on selected model. In addition, a monthly equipment rental fee of$5.00 or $6.00 will be charged for each receiver beyond the first, based on selected model. A $5.00/mo. additional outlet programming access fee applies for each dual-tuner receiver; fee will be waived monthly for each such receiver continuously connected to Customer’s phone line. HDprogramming requires HD receiver and HD television (sold separately). Customer must subscribe to qualifying HD programming or a $6.00/mo. HD Enabling fee will apply. Lease upgrade fee will apply for HD DVR receiver, and may apply for a second DVR receiver (based on model).Offer ends 1/31/07 and is available in the continental United States for new, first-time DISH Network residential customers. All prices, packages and programming subject to change without notice. Local and state sales taxes may apply. Where applicable, equipment rental fees and programming are taxed separately. All DISH Network programming, and any other services that are provided, are subject to the terms and conditions of the promotional agreement and Residential Customer Agreement, available at www.dishnetwork.com or upon request. Local channels packages by satellite are only available to customers who reside in the specified local Designated Market Area (DMA). Local channels may require an additional dish antenna from DISH Network, installed free of any charges with subscription to local channels at time of initial installation. Social Security Numbers are used to obtain credit scores and will not be released to third parties except for verification and collection purposes only or if required by governmental authorities. All service marks and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
$2499month
DishLATINO DosOver 160 English- and
Spanish-language channels
PICK YOUR PACKAGE. PICK YOUR PRICE.
Monthly DVR fee $5.98
Free
dom
Wire
less,
Inc.
1401
Iowa
St.
Belli
ngha
m(3
60) 6
47-2
553
STUDENT OPERATED RADIO
AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
DEMOCRACY NOW
FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS
SPECIALTY SHOWS
40 HOURS/WEEK OF NEW MUSIC
WWW.KUGS.ORG
STUDENT OPERATED RADIO
AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
STUDENT OPERATED RADIO
AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
STUDENT OPERATED RADIO
AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
89.3FM89.3FM
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
21
MUS
IC 1
8-21
See below for venue addresses and phone numbers
11.22.06WEDNESDAY
11.23.06THURSDAY
11.24.06FRIDAY
11.25.06SATURDAY
11.26.06SUNDAY
11.27.06MONDAY
11.28.06TUESDAY
Boundary Bay Brewery
Gertrude’s Hearse The Brent CoalminersJazz Invitational feat.
Dave Carlson, Grant Wilson, Dan Rainard
Chiribin’s Sleepy Three Sparrows, The Places Karaoke w/PoopsThe Jim Beam Medicine
Show
Commodore Ballroom
The Philosopher Kings, Jon Levine Band
Ozomatli, Santa Lucia
Department of Safety
Kimya Dawson, Ange, Paul Baribeau, Woelv
Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar
Karaoke Spaceband Death by Radio Comedy Open Mic w/Chuck D College Night
Fantasia Espresso & Tea
Mount Eerie/ The Microphones, 1985, Chin Up, Merriwether!, more
Poetry Night
Green Frog Cafe Acoustic Tavern Eric Scott
Ron Hardesty and the Cainthardly Playboys
Red Wreckers Singer/Songwriter SLAM Hoss BIG RIG
Main Street Bar & Grill
Ten Feet Thick Ten Feet Thick KaraokeLine Dance Lessons
with Bev Ollerenshaw
Nightlight Lounge Mr. Lif & The Coup Eye Candy DJ Deerhead and Friends
Poppe’s Lounge
Richard’s on Richards
Christopher Lawrence, Tigerstone, PH1.ca,
TwistedSin City The Dears
Rockfish Grill Fidalgo Swing Firkin FridaysThe Colonel And
Doubleshot
Rogue Hero Offset, Focus PointOur Fallen Heroes,
Megalodon Juan, Heroes Amongst Thieves
VonDisco
The Royal ’80s Night Ladies Night Party Night w/DJ Flex Karaoke w/DJ Komodore
Rumors CabaretBetty Desire Show w/DJ
VelveteenDJ Q-Bnza Drag Show
Full Moon Masquerade Fetish Night
Mondays w/Marcus
Silver Reef Casino Tony & the Tigers Tony & the Tigers Tony & the Tigers
Skagit Valley Casino Resort Gruvbox Gruvbox
Skylark’s Tim Mathies The Spencetet Misty Flowers
Stuart’s at the Market
Spoken Word Wednesdays
Underground Coffeehouse (WWU)
Open Mic Night
The Wild Buffalo Acoustic Oasis Open Mic
feat. 3 D’va’s
Happy Hour Jazz Project (early), Fat James and
Friends (late)
Little Charlie and The Nightcats
Paul Sorensen QuartetWild Buffalo Weekly Blues Invitational Jam feat. the
Colonel
Boundary Bay Brewing Co. 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Chiribin’s 113 E. Magnolia St. • 734-0817 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Department of Safety 1011 12thSt. Anacortes • (360) 293-8361 | Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar 1114 Harris Ave. • 671-6745 | Fantasia Espresso & Tea 1324 Cornwall Ave. • 715-1622 | Green Frog Café Acoustic Tavern 902 N State St. • 756-1213 | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • 384-2982 | Nightlight Lounge 211 E. Chestnut St • 527-1531 | Poppe’s Bistro & Lounge 714 Lakeway Dr. • 671-1011 | Richard’s on Richards 1036 RichardsSt. Vancouver • (604) 687-6794 | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave. Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Rogue Hero 1313 N. State St. • 756-0069 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 1119Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N Darrk Ln, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 |Stuart’s at the Market 1530 Cornwall Ave. • 714-0800 | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included in this esteemed newsprint, send pertinent info [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5 pm Friday.
Mr. Lif/Nov.24/NightlightLounge
Woelv/Nov.25/Departmentof Safety
Ozomatli/Nov. 26/Commodore Ballroom
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
22
FILM
22-
24
Starting at $279.0010 yr Full Warranty
Queen Mattress… $329.00Full Mattress… $229.00
$99.00with 6" mattress… $199.00
$279.00with 6" mattress… $379.00
Twin… $99.00 ea. pieceFull… $119.00 ea. pieceQueen… $129 ea. pieceKing…$139.00 ea. piece
$199.00with 6" mattress… $299.00
Manhattan – Birch Futon Denman – Metal Futon
Timberline – Pine FutonDenali
Haven Pillow TopWITH
BACK TO SCHOOLBED SALE!
4 2 2 0 G u i d e M e r i d i a n A c r o s s f r o m P r o G o l f D i s c o u n t
Newport-Pine Platform
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
23
FILM
22-
24
fi lm REVIEW
fi lm REVIEW
fi lmreviews fi lm times
REVIEWED BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
For Your ConsiderationChristopher Guest takes on Oscar
Having demolished, sweetly, everything from heavy metal ( This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner) to small-town theatrics ( Waiting for Guffman ), dog shows ( Best in Show ), and folkies ( A Mighty Wind ), Christopher Guest and his associates submit themselves to Oscar lust in the ensemble comedy For Your Consideration. True to form, Guest’s newest doesn’t pull out the long knives. On the gentleness scale, this one’s way over here, as opposed to the fi lm of the moment, Borat, which is way, way over there.
Like its precedents, the new fi lm chronicles a passionate group of dream-ers whose lives are spent just east of the limelight. Unlike Guffman, Show ,and Wind, this one is not a fake documentary. Catherine O’Hara leads the way. The once-and-forever SCTV alum portrays Marilyn Hack, an insecure ac-tress of a certain age. She’s fi rst glimpsed at home in front of the television, mouthing Bette Davis’ lines from Jezebel. Her latest job is a role in a low-budget independent picture being released by Sunfi sh Classics, a 1940s-set Southern Jewish drama called Home for Purim.
On the set one day, Marilyn hears she has been mentioned on a website as a probable Oscar nominee in the making. Soon she can think of nothing else. One of her Purim costars, sometime hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller (Harry Shearer, with monstrous fake white teeth), generates his own Oscar buzz. Then the word on the street—a very slippery street indeed—has the
gold guy going to the ingenue played by Parker Posey.
If For Your Consideration re-quires a certain amount of for-giveness, it’s because awards-show obsessives have been sent through the wringer before. When it sets its sights on the outer ring of media barnacles who stoke all the Oscar blather, as opposed to the actors them-selves, Guest’s picture jumps to a higher satiric level. Fred Willard and Jane Lynch play co-hosts of an Entertainment Tonight -type television show, and the way Willard’s Mohawk squares off against Lynch’s Xena-like warrior stance is a sight to behold. Riffi ng on William H. Macy’s hyper-crisp diction, John Michael Higgins plays a publicist who isn’t yet up to speed on this new thing called “the inter-web” and who believes that inside every actor lies “a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale.”
As swell as O’Hara is, For Your Consideration relies aw-fully heavily on the pathos of Marilyn’s Oscar hopes, as well as the tragedy of elective sur-gery that leaves a 50ish dame looking like Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs. (It’s even more remarkable when you realize O’Hara achieved her character’s new look without the usual latex add-ons.) Still, felicities abound. Watch for Michael McKean, playing the co-author of Home for Purim, trying to get a word in edge-wise when being interviewed by a Charlie Rose-type butt-insky. And in a parody of Eb-ert & Roeper, here called Love It/Hate It, Don Lake plays the co-host who says things like: “Well, I see a lot of fi lms... I love all of them.” Such details can only come from genuine comic talents, working a room they know very, very well.
REVIEWED BY LESLIE FELPERIN
The FountainRequiem for a careerBackburnered four years ago after original star Brad Pitt pulled out, then long in the making, The Fountain, the third feature by one-time wunderkind Darren Aronofsky ( Pi, Requiem for a Dream ), made more of a splatter than a splash on Venice’s Lido with its world premiere. Greeted by booing at its fi rst press unspooling, the fi lm’s hip-py-trippy space odyssey-meets-contempo-weepy-meets-conquistador caper starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz suffers from a turgid script and bears all the signs of frantic editing to produce a still-incoherent 95 minutes.
The fi lm’s plot interweaves three stories in different time frames and switches throughout somewhat abruptly between them, although audi-ences can parse what is going on when by paying attention to how much hair Jackman is sporting at any given time.
During the 16th century, a bearded and long-locked Jackman plays Spanish explorer Tomas, dis-patched by Queen Isabel (Rachel Weisz) to the New World to fi nd the biblical Tree of Life, whose sap be-stows immortality. In Central America, Tomas must battle mutinous underlings and assorted growling, war-painted Mayan extras to get to a pyramid that hides the tree, whose powers produce fl oral special effects Tomas wasn’t expecting.
Turns out the latter storyline is the plot of The Fountain, a novel being written in cursive hand in the present, or near-present by Izzi (Weisz again) who is married to Tommy (Jackman again, this time sans beard). Izzi has a terminal brain tumor, for which Tommy is working full-out to fi nd a cure via experimental surgery on monkeys, assisted by a team of gowned-and-masked, personality-free supporting actors.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 25
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
24
FILM
22-
24
Babel: Starring Brad Pitt and directed by the stunningly talented Alejandro González Iñárritu, this film about the collision of the lives of four groups of people might just be one of the best you’ll see all year. (R • 2 hrs. 22 min.)Sunset Square 4:00 | 7:00
Bobby: See review previous page.(2 hrs. • R)Sunset Square 1:30 | 4:15 | 7:10 | 9:55
Borat: Cultural Learnings of Americafor Make Benefit Glorious Nation ofKazakhstan: This, if most critics are to be believed, might just be the funniest movie ever made—unless, of course, you’re a slighted frat boy or snubbed eti-quette expert. (R • 84 min.)Sehome 12:15 | 3:00 | 5:25 | 7:45 | 10:30
Casino Royale: Daniel Craig, the first-ever blond Bond, arrives just in time to resurrect the longest-running cinematic series in film history—and not a mo-ment too soon. (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 24 min.)Bellis Fair 12:50 | 1:20 | 4:05 | 4:35 | 7:20 | 7:50 | 10:35 | 11:00
Deck the Halls: Neighbors Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito do battle over DeVito’s desire to erect a Christmas lighting display so bright it can be seen from space. (PG • 1 hr. 35 min.)Bellis Fair 12:10 | 2:40 | 5:10 | 7:40 | 10:10
Déjà Vu: Denzel Washington uses the phenomenon of déjà vu to solve a mys-tery in what is sure to be an action-packed effort by director Tony Scott.
(PG-13 • 2 hrs. 8 min.)Sehome 12:30 | 3:30 | 6:45 | 9:50
The Departed: Martin Scorsese shows why he’s the master in this film starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, and Leonardo Di-Caprio that tells the story of the cops, the mob and the moles that come between them. (R • 2 hrs. 29 min.)Bellis Fair 10:10
Flushed Away: From the whip-smart team responsible for Wallace and Gromit comes this animated caper about an up-per-class rat who takes an unintended trip into the London sewer system. (PG • 1 hr. 26 min.)Sunset Square 12:40 | 3:00 | 5:15 | 7:25 | 9:40
For Your Consideration: See review previous page (PG-13 • 1 hr. 36 min.)Pickford Cinema 4:30 | 6:45 | 9:00 | Fri.-Sun. @ 12:00 & 2:15 | Wed.-Thurs. @ 4:50 & 7:00 only
The Fountain: See review previous page. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 36 min.)
Sunset Square 12:30 | 2:55 | 5:10 | 7:30 | 9:50
A Good Year: Russell Crowe plays a failed Type A London banker who finds love and himself when he inherits a vineyard in Provence. Alternate film title: How Rus-sell Got His Groove Back. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 58 min.)Sunset Square 1:00 | 10:00
Happy Feet: Animated arctic adventure about a tone-deaf penguin who must use his stellar tap dancing abilities to make the hearts of the lady penguins sing.
(PG • 1 hr. 27 min.)Bellis Fair 11:00am | 11:30am | 1:40 | 2:10 | 4:20 | 4:50 | 7:00 | 7:30 | 9:40
Let’s Go to Prison: If you’re someone who thinks jokes about “dropping the soap” are funny, this movie was clearly made es-pecially for you. (R • 1 hr. 24 min.)Sunset Square 10:10
The Prestige: Two fiercely competitive magicians (Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale) let their rivalry overtake them, ultimately jeopardizing the lives of ev-eryone around them. (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 11 min.)Sunset Square 1:00 | 4:15 | 7:15
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause:Tim Allen reprises his role as an inadver-tent Santa in the third installment of this holiday series. (G • 1 hr. 38 min.)Bellis Fair 11:35am | 2:05 | 4:30 | 7:10 | 9:45
Stranger than Fiction: Will Farrell plays Harold Crick, a real-life character who exists at the whim of Emma Thompson’s literary leanings. (PG-13 • 1 hr. 53 min.)Sunset Square 12:15 | 2:45 | 5:20 | 7:50 | 10:20
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny: The Jack Black-led duo known as Tenacious D searches for the Guitar Pick of Destiny in order to become the greatest rock band in history. (R • 1 hr. 33 min.)Sehome 12:50 | 3:50 | 7:15 | 10:10
Film Shorts BY CAREY ROSS
50% O
ffOn
e Whit
e Tag
Item
With
This
Coup
on11-
6 Mon
.-Tue
s. 11
-7 W
ed.-S
at.
360-733-2610
Me
n’s
Co
nsi
gn
me
nt
Clo
thin
g
NO
W O
PE
N!
Sli
gh
tly
Use
d C
loth
es
Com
e Se
e Us
@ 13
09 C
ornw
all
(Bet
ween
Holly
& Ma
gnoli
a Dow
nTow
n Bell
ingha
m)
Deja Vu
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
25
FILM
22-
24
film REVIEW film REVIEW
REVIEWED BY CHRISTY LEMIRE
BobbyRevisionist history, with cameosIn telling the story of the life and death of Robert F. Kennedy, writer-director Emilio Estevez could have chosen an actor to play him, could have had him hone that famously hard New England accent.
Instead, he created 22 fictional characters—disparate figures who might have populated the Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968—and had their stories connect in the ballroom, just as Kennedy was giving his victory speech after winning the Cali-fornia primary and just before he would be assassinated.
It’s an innovative approach, and you have to give Estevez credit for that. In tackling such an emotional, historic topic on such a complex scale, the one-time Brat Packer has come a long way from his early filmmaking efforts, including the 1990 com-edy Men at Work, in which he costarred with his brother, Charlie Sheen. (It gave a whole new meaning to the word “garbage.”)
Bobby has far loftier ambitions. And that’s also its down-fall. Estevez has crammed too many characters and too many plot lines into one building, one two-hour period. He also intersperses footage of Kennedy making speeches, meeting voters and generally being greeted like a rock star wherever he goes.
Clearly Estevez aims to draw a striking contrast between RFK and the political leaders of today, depicting him as the last great bastion of idealism, the last great hope for peace, the likes of which the nation hasn’t seen since.
But the result feels rushed and superficial. So many people come and so many people go, and the movie bounces between them all so quickly, it’s impossible to get to know or sympathize with any of them. And when the bullets start flying wildly in the hotel kitchen, it’s hard to care whether any of them make it out alive.
Estevez probably could have cut the cast in half and come up with a richer, stronger film. Besides, the all-star lineup can be
The last plot strand shows a now-completely bald Jackman, called Tom Creo, living inside a clear bubble traveling through space toward the Xibalba nebu-la, an astrological body believed by the Mayans to be the location of the underworld.
Supposedly, it’s the 26th cen-tury, and Creo’s craft is driven merely by mind-power—or, per-haps more precisely, screenwrit-er’s whimsy. His only company is a nearly dead tree from whose bark he gains sustenance, while he spends his days reliving mem-ories from the 21st century of Izzi, and occasionally levitating around in the lotus position.
What’s problematic about The Fountain is the fact that it’s hard to muster much engage-ment with characters who are so sketchily drawn. Izzi, for instance, is little more than a beatifically smiling presence. Charismatic Jackman does his best to carry the film through its many lulls, but it feels like a lot of time is spent watching him cry or trashing offices in frustration.
No doubt the filmmaker’s in-tention was to celebrate a love that transcends centuries, hence repeated use of lines, scenes and motifs. In the end, however, the effect is less transcendent than it is flat-out monotonous.
Fountain,continued from page 23
distracting: Lindsay Lohan as a young woman marrying a high school classmate (Eli-jah Wood) to keep him from being shipped to Vietnam! Sharon Stone as an aging beautician, with William H. Macy as her cheating, hotel-manager husband! Laurence Fishburne as the hotel’s philosophical sous chef! (The least fleshed-out storyline features Estevez’s father, Martin Sheen, as an East Coast executive trying to reconnect with his much younger wife, played by Helen Hunt.)
Some strong performanc-es do emerge, however. Demi Moore does some of her most juicy, vibrant work in a while as a pop singer who’s too drunk to realize she’s past her prime. (And there is a certain gory, voy-euristic allure in watching her boozily spar with her
husband/manager, played by Estevez, since the two were once engaged in real life.)
Joshua Jackson is solid as one of Kennedy’s top campaign aides and Ash-ton Kutcher provides some laughs as the intensely earnest drug dealer who introduces a couple of young, impressionable campaign volunteers (Shia LeBeouf and Brian Geragh-ty) to LSD.
Estevez meanders through all these storylines and more, but never stops at any of them long enough to allow us to become im-mersed. And the shooting itself is, as you can imag-ine, violent and jarring, a mix of actual footage and recreations. But afterward, Bobby makes you want to watch a documentary about Bobby Kennedy instead.
A NEW COMEDY FROM THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT YOU BEST IN SHOW!
Fri-Thr, Nov 24-30 @ 4:30, 6:45 & 9:00 PMFri-Sun, Nov 24-26 @ 12 & 2:15 PM
USA • 2006 • 86 min • English • PG-13
“‘For Your Consideration’ is, except for ‘Borat,’ the funniest film of the year. Or, it’s the funniest film that you don’t have to watch through parted fingers.”
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
26
CLA
SSIF
IEDS
25-
29
c l a s s i f i e d s @cascadiaweekly.com
Help Wanted DRIVER - CDL training: $0 down, financing by Central
refrigerated. Drive for Central
& earn up to $40K+ 1st year!
1(800)727-5865, x4781; www.
centraldrivingjobs.net.
A NATIONAL Sports and Fashion firm has immedi-
ate openings for sharp en-
ergetic people! Make great
money and see the USA! Must
be 18. Call 1(877)646-5050.
DRIVER: Take care of your
family. Join ours. Swift offers
excellent miles and compensa-
tion. Regional and dedicated
runs available. No experience
necessary.1(866) 897-7324;
www.SwiftTruckingJobs.com.
EOE.
GROUND Floor opportu-nity! Green-R-Power Wind,
Solar Systems requires am-
bitious local distributor. Pro-
tected territory. Wholesale
prices. Expanding market. In-
novative products. Explosive
earning potential. Details:
1(877)693-7050.
PHAT JOB. Hiring 18-25
sharp outgoing people to
travel US representing sport/
fashion publications. Expense
paid training. Trans & hotel
provided, return trip guaran-
teed. Call today start tomor-
row. 1(800)282-0381.
DRIVER: DON’T just start
your career, start it right! Com-
pany sponsored CDL training
in 3 weeks. Must be 21. Have
CDL? Tuition reimbursement!
CRST. 1(800)553-2778.
PT SALESPERSON want-ed: Need extra money for the
holidays. Make $100 per cli-
ent in your spare time. Call for
more info: 1(800)253-1355.
COORDINATE Exchange Program! International
High School Exchange Pro-
gram seeks enthusiastic coor-
dinators and ESL instructors.
Develop exciting short-term
programs for international
students. 1(800)333-3802,
ext. 238; [email protected]
Business Opportunities
ALL CASH candy route. Do you earn $800 in a day?
Your own local candy route.
Includes 30 machines
and candy all for $9,995.
1(888)771-3503.
BREAK the Cycle Are you
tired of working more for less
& less? Home based business,
1(877)621-5801; www.findy-
ourfreedom.ca.
Education-Instruction
ATTEND College online from home. Medical, Busi-
ness, Paralegal, Computers,
Criminal Justice. Job placement
assistance. Computer pro-
vided. Financial Aid if qualified.
Call 1(866)858-2121; www.On-
lineTidewaterTech.com
200Services
Building Supplies
BAMBOO DESIGNER Flooring, 2317 sqft, sell all
or part. New $5.99 sqft, sac-
rifice only $2.50 sqft. Project
cancelled. Email if you can?
[email protected]. Just
moved, live locally, (206)686-
4774; (360)850-4311.
FinancialThink you can’t afford a home of your own? Applying for a home loan
has never been simpler...now
yoy can apply for financing
in minutes www.lowrateap-
provals.com/33173 and for
credit repairwww.mabs.
biz/33173/credit.
LOCAL private investor loans money on real estate
equity. I loan on houses, raw
land, commercial property
and property development.
Call Eric at 1(800)563-3005,
www.fossmortgage.com
REAL ESTATE loans Want
to make home improvements,
refinance, purchase, cash-
out? Credit problems work-
able. Free approval. Com-
petitive rates. 9-9, 7 days.
Primewest Financial, since
1987. 1(800)676-0550.
HomebuildingSEEKING quality log home
manufacturer? Original Old-
Timer Log Homes needs deal-
ers in your area. Protected
territory, high commissions,
stability/support. Contact
Mr. Henry, 1(800)467-3006;
w w w. o l d t i m e r l o g h o m e s .
com
MANUFACTURED/Mo -b i l e / M o d u l a r / P a r k Homes factory directory
from $17,900. Save $1,—’s.
Factory tours daily, floor
plans and more online at
www.ModularExpo.com or
call 1(800)889-8548.
Mind Body Spirit
National Lic#MA00017175
What to get him/herfor Christmas? Massage Gift Certificates make great gifts!
And you don’t have to go to the Mall!( )*
300Buy Sell Trade
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE SAWMILLS from only
$2,990.00 -convert your logs
to valuable lumber with your
own Norwood portable band
sawmill. Log skidders also
available. Free information:
1(800)578-1363, ext. 300-N;
w w w. nor woodindus tr ie s .
com.
400Wheels
AUTOS WANTED DO-
NATE your car to the original
1(800)Charity Cars! Full re-
tail value deduction if we pro-
vide your car to a struggling
family. Call 1(800)CHAR-
I T Y ( 1 - 8 0 0 - 2 4 2 - 7 4 8 9 ) ;
www.800CharityCars.org.
Rentals: WWURoom for rent on south side of WWU I’m looking
for someone to take over
my part of the lease as soon
as possible, one bedroom
in a two bedroom/one bath
apartment. Half of the rent
is $362.50. Close to WWU on
the south side of campus and
on the bus line. Washer/dryer
in apartment. W/S/G paid by
landlord. Parking available.
Email me with any questions
1 BR - GREAT DOWN-TOWN APARTMENT! Great location for Downtown
Bellingham. Near WWU cam-
pus, on bus route. W/S/G
Included W/D, D/W 1 Bed, 1
Bath Kitchen Balcony Secure
Entry/Parking Garage $700/
mo $700 deposit Available
December 1st 2006!! email:
anon-236707373@cascadi-
aweekly.com
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Open 1BD $495
All Utilities Included!
1313 1/2 Railroad Avenue #14
Clean, bright character.
Remodeled 50’s style. Natural
wood floors. Skylight in
kitchen. Natural wood floors.
Shared bathroom.
SPACIOUS STUDIO FOR RENT Spacious studio for
rent. CLOSE TO WWU CAM-
PUS!!! Lots of light, divided
bedroom and living space.
Kitchen w/disposal & D/W.
W/D in unit. Parking on site,
well lit, and in a safe neighbor-
hood. W/S/G paid. Only $575
a mo. BONUS: $575 Deposit
is YOURS at the end of lease
term!!! Call 425-890-4553
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
2BD $495
All Utilities Included!
1313 Railroad Avenue #2
Remodeled Bright 50’s style
Downtown apartment. High
ceilings, large windows pro-
vide natural light and fresh air,
city views, kitchenette, shared
bathroom. Secure building
with intercom.
1 Bedroom avail. in 2bdrm/1ba apt - Close to WWU Looking for clean and
considerate female roommate
to share a newer 2bd/1ba
apartment. The lease would
begin January 1, 2007 and end
June 30, 3007. The apartment
has two bedrooms, 1 bath-
room, balcony off the living
room and a dishwasher. It is
located on south side of cam-
pus on 21st and is very close
to WWU. Water, sewer, and
garbage included. Deposit is
$325 and utilities run about
$50 per person (electric, gas,
cable/internet). No smoking/
drugs or pets. Please contact
me if you are interested or
have any questions! email:
anon-236478741@ cascadi-
aweekly.com
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Retail / Office $1,400
Water, sewer & heat paid by
Lessor. Electric and garbage
paid by Tenant Approximately
2,500 Sq ft . 1201 N. State
Street , Suite 46 Fantastic
retail / office location in the
heart of downtown. Great
exposure from Chestnut street
with high traffic count. Natural
wood floors. Two Bathrooms.
Bedroom Available ::: 10 minute walk to WWU Hey, I’m trying to move out of
this house at 336 S. Garden St
and am looking for someone
to take my place on the lease.
Contact Cullen by e-mail:
anon-236377742@cascadi-
aweekly.com
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Retail / Office $850 water /
sewer paid by Lessor. Electric,
garbage paid by Tenant
1,000 Sq ft 923 N. State St.
Free Rent! Great apartment
available Mid-December
Available Mid-December Pay
no rent until February! 1 Bed-
room apartment Amenities:
Full sized washer and dryer in
the unit Tons of closet space (5
total) Huge kitchen with lots
of cupboard space Dishwasher
Garbage disposal Built-in
microwave High ceilings Top
fl oor Corner unit Shares no
walls with neighbors Balcony
Secure entry with intercom In-
terior corridor entry Reserved
parking space Locked Mailbox
Location: Excellent location
for WWU On bus line and near
Lincoln Creek Park and Ride
Close to grocery stores Great
freeway access Take over lease
in mid-December. email: anon-
235989478@cascadiaweekly.
com
Rentals: Bellingham
Fairhaven House for Rent Charming
2B e d r o o m , K , L R , D R ,wo o d
floors, Full bath plus 1Bed-
room-LR-K 3/4 bath garage
suite, plus large storage for
quiet profl or family, NS/NP,
avail Dec. 1, all for $1300/mo.
+ dep. + utils. 360-756-8726
Apartment on yew st. Moving closer to town. Need
someone to rent out my 1 bed-
room apartment which is on
classifi edsjobs services rentals real estate buy sell trade bulletin board
100Jobs
100Jobs
000Crossword
000Crossword
000Crossword
200Services
500Rentals
500Rentals
TO PLACE AN ADclassifi eds.cascadiaweekly.com
b road ca s t
Across1 Sights tough to
turn away from12 Statement of
disbelief14 He says “Feel the
burn”16 Somewhat17 Cincinnati’s river18 Michael’s brother19 Patsy and Edina’s
Britcom, to fans21 Rowing machine
unit23 Letters before a
colon24 They come before
UV25 Like Neil Patrick
Harris, after 11/2/06
28 Almost all males, to Foghorn Leghorn
30 ___-de-France (brand of Brie)
31 Beck song with the lyric “Soy un perdedor”
33 “Fraggle Rock” constructionworker
35 Marvin Gaye classic
39 34-down and 34-down?
40 Dinner partner41 56042 Band with the
compilationalbum “And I Feel Fine...”
44 Female enlistee, pre-1978
45 Theater major’s deg.
48 Play parts50 Path of virtuous
conduct, to Confucians
52 Gear up54 ___-tat (snare
drum sound)55 Check for prints58 Coll. near the
Mexican border59 Blabbed63 Spread, like
fi ngerpaint64 “House,” in 2006
Down 1 Penny pinching2 Ganja smoker3 Get from ___ B4 “Then ___ longer
be in your mind” (Sheryl Crow lyric)
5 He took pairs6 “Nets to Catch the
Wind” poet Elinor7 Copter parts8 Second-smallest
cont.9 Org. that named
Kenny Chesney their 2006 Entertainer of the Year
10 David’s boyfriend on “Six Feet Under”
11 Clean
12 Jack and Jim and Spud
13 Stinging herbs14 Carson’s “Tonight
Show” predeces-sor
15 “Three’s Com-pany” spinoff, with “The”
20 Nasal nugget22 Famous naked
horse rider26 Venue for news-
groups27 New Year’s Day,
in Hanoi29 “Let me point
out...”31 Tyler of “Jersey
Girl”32 Butter in the fi eld34 Bad rating35 Trees of Lebanon36 Format that looks
like shouting37 When the villain
vows to catch the
hero38 “I’m amazed!”43 Surname followed
by a year in video games
45 Lighter stuff46 Fan47 Killer ___49 Willamette Uni-
versity locale51 Top53 Liverpool lineup56 Hoax57 Eva and Felicity’s
costar60 On the ___ (fl ee-
ing)61 Suffi x meaning
“place of busi-ness”
62 ___ vivant
©2006 Jonesin’ Crosswords([email protected])
By Matt Jones
“Cutting Corners”—more themeless magic
Last Week’s Puzzle
REPLYINGTO ADS Certain ads have been
blocked by anonymous
posters who do not wish
to receive unsolicited
emails or attachments.
When replying to
anonymous ads (anon-),
please do not send HTML
or formatted mail, or
attachments. For best
results, send brief, plain-
text messages under 150K
in size. Include contact
information.
Executive Assistant Non-profi t seeks assistant to
manage database, outreach one day a week. Some event and board support. Applicant would work
from home. Grantwriting and bookkeeping a plus. Whatcom Parks and Recreation Founda-tion is not a government agency and cannot be reached by calling Whatcom County Parks. Resume and cover letter to 1200 Harris Ave. #408, Bellingham, WA 98225.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
27
CLA
SSIF
IEDS
25-
29
the top of yew st. rd. The place
is very nice, separated kitchen
area, living room, large bed-
room and bathroom. Lots of
cabinets plus large outside
storage. Very quiet area! Rent
is $495/month. I am not the
landlord but send me an email
and I will show you the place!
email: anon-236896845@cas-
cadiaweekly.com
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Retail / Office $3,392
Water, sewer and heat paid by
Lessor. Garbage and Electric
paid by Tenant 3,779 Sq ft
1209 North State Street Well
known, successful, downtown
Bellingham location! Plenty
of foot and car traffic. Alley
access. Features include high
ceilings, natural wood floors,
lots of natural light.
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Retail Store Front $1,000
Tenant pays their own utilities
1,500 Sq ft 1017 North State
Street. Downtown Bellingham,
signage, high ceilings, exposed
brick, lots of light, well known
successful location.
Spacious & Updated Elizabeth Park 4 bed-room Spacious 4 bedroom,
1 3/4 bath home right across
from Elizabeth Park near
Downtown Bellingham. Mas-
ter bedroom and full bath on
main floor, with 3 additional
bedrooms and another bath-
room upstairs. Many updates
including newer appliances,
windows, gas heating system,
flooring, and paint. Huge liv-
ing room, dining room and
kitchen with pantry area. This
home has a gas cookstove,
refrigerator, and a washer,
dryer and dishwasher. Don’t
miss the oversized double
garage with shop space and
220. Hard to beat this quiet
location: historic neighbor-
hood and right across from
Bellingham’s oldest park!
Rent includes WiFi, water
& sewer. Deposit and refer-
ences required. No Smokers.
Phone 360.920.8811 for more
information or to schedule an
appointment to view.
Remodeled House! Huge Yard! 1901 34th
Street (available in January)
Remodeled 3 bedroom, 1 bath
house with lots of room and
light two blocks East of the
Fairhaven exit. Basement is
nicely finished and makes a
entertainment room or could
even be another bedroom,
with it’s own entrance. Has
W/D, ample parking, large
fenced yard, and gas heat.
Huge kitchen has new wood
floors, new cabinets, gas
stove, DW, lots of storage and
sliding glass doors opening
onto a patio with a fire pit.
Perfect for entertaining and
dogs! W/S Paid. Rent $1100
Deposit $1125 Pets OK with
additional deposit!! 1 year
lease. The lease is through
Son-Rise Property Manage-
ment #360-738-3700.
Daylight Properties360-734-6600
daylightproperties.net
D O W N T O W N
Retail / Warehouse / Storage $1,400 All utilities
paid by Tenant
4,070 Sq ft 210 East Laurel
Street. Lots of exposure! High
ceilings. Parking included.
Apartment For Rent 2 bedroom 1.5 bath apart-
ment for rent. Newer Carpet
and paint through out. Clean
apartment with dishwasher.
Close to freeway and busline.
$575. 920-6168
2 br silver beach area older home with modern up-
dates—gas heat and water—
mudroom with washer and
dryer—sits on 2 lots near the
lake and park—great yard—
great neighborhood—water—
sewer paid—call—360-647-
1918 or 360-739-2179
Apartment For Rent 2
bedroom 1.5 bath apartment.
Clean apartment with hard-
wood floors and dishwasher.
Located in a central location
close to freeway and bus line.
$600 920-6168
Townhouse Style Duplex Nice newer 3 bedroom, 1 bath
townhouse style duplex. Bed-
rooms are extra large. Has
1 car garage, large fenced
back yard and gas heat. On
busline to WWU. Email Lauren
at: DragonsLaur@rocketmail.
com or call 360-671-4877.
Condo with Gorgeous View of Bay Quiet senior
living with fantastic view. Sits
above Blvd park. Water/sew-
er/garbage/extended cable
paid. Elevators, onsite laun-
dry, pool, sauna and cabana.
classifi eds jobs services rentals real estate buy sell trade bulletin board
500Rentals
500Rentals
500Rentals
500Rentals
400Rentals
400Rentals
400Rentals
400Rentals
broadcastTO PLACE AN ADclassifi eds.cascadiaweekly.com
All real estate advertising in this newspa-
per is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status
or national origin, or an intention to make any
such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial sta-
tus includes children under the age of 18 living with parents
or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing
custody of children under 18.This newspaper will not know-
ingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation
of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings
advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal op-
portunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll-
free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free number for the hearing
impaired is 1-800-927-9275.
HoneyDewHome Servicesrepairs & maintenance
“Safe & Sound”homeowner consultations
First 30 minutes Free
Call Jerry319-7776
By Rob Brezsny
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): I suspect you’ll be a genius of awkwardness in the coming week, Aries. What that means is that you’ll have a knack for doing the half-right thing at the half-right time—and yet that’s exactly what’ll be necessary in order to bring about unexpected outcomes that are in everyone’s best interests. In the short run you may make a perfect mess, but I bet that will ultimately add more beauty and intrigue to the big picture.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Dear Grandma and Grandpa of the Taurus this horoscope has been prepared for: I’m hoping you will bring your helpful infl uence to bear on our little darling’s dilemma. I know that in your own past you once had to navigate your way through complications similar to those that Taurus is now facing. So even if you have died and are in spirit form, please bestow your advice and encouragement, whether that’s delivered by phone, via telepathy, in dreams, or in per-son. One more thing: Please don’t let your wise blessing get tainted by any lingering disapproval you might be harboring about the path our beloved Taurus has chosen. This is a time for your smart love, not your judgment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the language of archetypal psychology, the term hierosgamos means “sa-cred marriage.” It may refer to a literal coming together of two people whose bond is a gift to God. Their love for each other serves as an inspiration to their commu-nity and galvanizes them both to express their wildest beauty. Because their union is dedicated to a higher cause beyond their personal happiness, they strive with ingenious devotion to transmute the dark, unripe aspects of their own nature. The term hierosgamos also has a bigger meaning, beyond the enlightened relationship of two intelligent people. It may refer to any merger of opposites that’s precipitated through divine grace and that unleashes surprising healing in all directions. In the coming weeks, Gemini, you are a prime candidate to ex-perience at least a metaphorical version of hierosgamos.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A quiet evening alone with friends can be an ecstatic experience for Canceri-ans,” say Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers in their book The Secret Language of Birthdays. “Yet many born under this sign have strange aspects to their personali-ties which must be periodically revealed in public.” I suspect this description will be particularly apt in the coming weeks. You may feel an irresistible urge to ex-press your eccentricities to a bigger audience. My advice is to make defi nite plans to unveil the most interesting versions of your oddness at times and places of your choosing. That way it won’t unexpectedly pop out half-cocked when it might cause embarrassment.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian,” wrote philosopher George Santayana. I agree with him. That’s why, as I analyze the astrological omens, I can confi dently predict that you will have the right to claim all of the following titles in the coming weeks: the Beguiler with the Most Enticing Ideals, the Moral Authority with the Most Trustworthy Al-lure, and the Charmer with the Most Ethical Temptations.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” a wicked stepmother convinces her husband that the only way the two of them will survive poverty and starvation is to take his children deep into the woods and abandon them. That way there’ll be two fewer mouths to feed. The kids overhear the plan, and as the adults lead them into the middle of nowhere, Hansel, the son, surreptitiously leaves a trail of white stones. This allows him and his sister Gretel to fi nd their way back home later. The stepmom is chagrined. A few weeks thereafter, she once again convinces her spouse to
leave the children in the wastes. This time Hansel drops breadcrumbs to mark the path, but they’re eaten by birds and the kids have no way to get back. Moral of the story: When you get sucked away from your source, leave clues that are more like stones, not crumbs. Alternative moral of the story: Don’t return to a source that doesn’t want you there.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The ancient Greeks knew that learning comes from playing,” writes Roger von Oech in his book A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. Their word for education, paideia, he says, was close to their word for play, paidia.Your next assignment, Libra, is right in line with this theme. First, identify the teachings that will be most important for you to master in 2007. Second, fi gure out how to include play as a major component of your learning process.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You know those fuel-delivery planes capable of pumping gas into a larger plane that’s already aloft? I think you’d benefi t from enlisting the services of their metaphorical equivalent in the coming week. Given how high and fast you’re soar-ing, it would be a shame for you to have to come all the way down to earth to fi ll up your tank. And yet it’s clear to me that one way or another, you’re going to have to replenish your supply of propellant.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Whether we are on the threshold of a Golden Age or on the brink of a global cataclysm that will extinguish our civilization is not only unknowable, but undecided,” said Edward Cornish, President of the World Future Society. I bet that in the past year you’ve had comparable fantasies about the fate of your own personal destiny, Sagittarius. At times, it must have seemed as if you were teetering on the brink of a sulfurous abyss that was within shouting distance of the yellow brick road to paradise. Talk about confl icting emotions! But now that crazy-making chapter of your life story is coming to an end. No more teeter-ing for you. No more inhaling noxious fumes from the infernal regions. I believe you have already been offered or will soon be offered an escort to the beginning of the yellow brick road. Let’s hope you’re not so addicted to the fascinating glamour of your pain that you turn down the escort.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The problem, if you love it,” said Jiddu Krishnamurti, “is as beautiful as the sunset.” He did not mean this ironically, nor was he indulging in sentimental wish-fulfi llment. He was one of the toughest-minded spiritual teachers ever born. As you slip into a phase when your problems are especially gorgeous and entertaining, Capricorn, I urge you to remind yourself of his wise thought at least fi ve times a day. Here’s a second nugget for you to chew on often. It’s a lyrical, hard-assed Zen proverb: “The obstacle isthe path.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aquarius, is to become a coordina-tor of synchronicity and director of synergy in all the environments where you hang out. To begin, remind yourself of what those terms mean. Synchronicity is the wonderfully spooky feeling that comes when two or more events occur in a way that might superfi cially seem to be mere coincidence, but that is actually a sign of a deeper underlying pattern that transcends rational understand-ing. Synergy is when two power sources collaborate on a surprisingly energetic creation in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. (For more ideas on synchronicity and synergy, go to tinyurl.com/d2jqb and tinyurl.com/mows3.)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you want to be in perfect alignment with the astrological omens, you will live your life in the coming weeks with a restless con-fi dence that bigger is better. You’ll risk going over the top, digging too deep, and stretching your limits beyond the comfort level. I suspect you’ll even begin to resonate with the description once applied to Hong Kong by its last governor: “sparkling, noisy, argumentative, hand-some, cluttered, exotic, international—all the things a great city should be.”
Sign up for Classes Today
Cardio Striptease
Sexy Flexy
Pole Dancing 101
1400 N. State Street, Suite 103 647-1777
FREE Teaser Class Every
Saturday at 11:15am
E x e r c i s e t h e i n n e r d i v a
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
28
CLA
SSIF
IEDS
25-
29
classifi eds jobs services rentals real estate buy sell trade
broadcast
endtmw mannkind troubletown
500Rentals
500Rentals
500Rentals
500Rentals
How to Sudoku: Arrange the digits 1-9 in such a way that each digit occurs only once in each row, only once in each column, and only once in each box. Try it!
A must see! Cat ok $25 ap-
plication fee Susan Hoffman
360-510-5840
Spacious House with fenced yard Nice clean 2
story home on C St. Nice little
porch, fenced backyard, close
to Bham high school.Tenant
pays all utilities No pets $25
app fee Susan Hoffman 360-
510-5840
One bed One Bath for rent asap One Bed One Bath,
nice living room and kitchen.
nice big walk in closet, medium
size storage room. washer and
dryer on site. area surrounded
by mainly families, college kids
and new couples. email: marie_
Home on a Quiet Cul-de-sac with Greenbelt Simply
clean & beautiful home located
in the largest cul-De-sac in a
wonderful & serene neighbor-
hood. In Spring & Summer, en-
joy the wildlife from your very
private deck w/c is facing the
greenbelt. Well kept front &
back yard, up to date applianc-
es are all included in the sale.
This is truly a place you can call
Home. PRICE TO SELL!! Owner
is a Licensed Agent. There will
be an Open House on Saturday
Nov.18 from 12noon till 3pm,
drop by and check it out. Call
360-223-4750.
Quite and peaceful Tweed-20 family neigh-borhood Three bedroom,
three bathroom, 1,692 square
foot, split level home with an
abundance of storage areas in
a safe family community. Din-
ing room just off the kitchen
opening into the living room
and out to the rear deck.
Downstairs family room with
a separate den and half bath.
Fireplace in the family room
and living room. Gas forced air
heat, double pane windows,
and energy efficient flores-
cent lighting throughout.
Master bedroom has separate
bathroom. Huge backyard.
Direct access to the attached
two car garage with auto-
matic openers and separate
laundry area. Conveniently lo-
cated close to schools, parks,
shopping, restaurants, and
freeways. Beautiful home and
location make this a wonderful
place to call home. Call Sherry
at Son-Rise Property Manage-
ment for more information at
360-738-3700.
$300.00 OFF FIRST
MONTHS RENT 2 bed-
room 2 bathroom, 945 square
foot apartment with full size
washer, dryer and dishwasher
in every unit. Rent is $725.00 a
month with a $600.00 security
deposit. We are currently run-
ning a special of $300.00 off of
your first months rent if you
sign a years lease and move
in before November 30th. Cats
are OK. Newer quiet complex.
Check out www.villageatbak-
ercreek.com
New Beautiful Home for Rent Beautiful 4BR 3 bath
home, office, large fenced yard,
3 car garage. This is a great
new home with plenty of space
and nice finishes; 9 foot fir
doors, cherry kitchen cabinets,
hardwood floors, master suite.
Perfect location while you build
or look for your dream home in
Watcom County. The house is
for sale but will come off the
market soon and be available
for rent. We plan to relist it for
sale in the Spring and will lease
it thru June. After June it will be
month to month. This could be
the perfect WIN/WIN for both
our short term needs. Please
call 415.637.3419 if you have
questions or would like to see
the house.
OWN A PIECE OF PARADISE!$307,600
Charming, inviting, hard-to-find rambler. Entire home is floored with new easy-care, durable ceramic tile. VERY private yard backs to the woods.
In quiet mini-cul-de-sac on a dead end street.The wonderful energy will envelop
you as you enter!
Meredith Ann Murray, Realtor®
“Serving You From the Heart”
360-739-0871
When neither partner is particularly domestic.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
29
CLA
SSIF
IEDS
25-
29
WhatcomSmartTrips.orgCITY OF BELLINGHAM | WHATCOM COUNTY | WTA | WHATCOM COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS | 756-TRIP
A Smart Trip is any trip you make
by walking, biking, sharing a
ride or riding the bus–instead
of driving alone. Log your trips
at WhatcomSmartTrips.org and
you’ll be eligible to win prizes
like $1,000 cash!
Fairhaven 2 bdrm Duplex 1bth, carport Fairhaven
duplex for rent. 2 bedroom,
1 bath, washer dryer shared
between the two units. Water,
sewer, garbage included. No
pets please. email: davidbar-
Tweed Twenty 4 bed-room Well maintained home
in Tweed Twenty. 2 fireplaces
vaulted ceiling, newer appli-
ances and skylights and deck.
Lower level has a full bath,
bedroom and family room.
Nice private backyard with
interesting, massive boulders.
Room for RV. Call Sherry Miller
360-739-8888 Coldwell Banker
Miller Arnason
Rentals: Ferndale
3 bedroom w/large fam-ily room Large back yard, fully
fenced. Quiet neighborhood on a
cul-de-sac. Call 510-2789.
Rentals: Maple Falls
A-Frame Cabin in Para-dise Lakes Area Cozy A-
Frame Cabin in commuting
distance to Bellingham, or
Mount Baker as a ski getaway.
Approx 580 sq ft with 1 bdrm,
1 loft bdrm, and 3/4 bath.
Electric Heat with optional
propane furnace, new carpet,
front entry deck. Located in
quiet cult-a-sac on wooded lot
back from the road. Call Mark
@ (425) 879-7028 if interested.
Available for show on Satur-
day. Pets Negotiable
Rentals: Commercial
Nice room to trade for light office duties We
are traveling teachers in the
Healing Arts/ music business,
looking for someone who can
work 10-20 hours/week in our
office in exchange for a nice
place to live! Possible duties
include: — building Flyers on
Photoshop — assistance with
Dreamweaver — phone call
inquiries for networking — cre-
ating and distributing promo
pack for music business quiet
room with private entrance,
nice yard washer/dryer, in-
ternet, phone any questions?
360-738-7650
Premier Retail Space Downtown MV - $0.75/Sq.Ft. This premier retail
space is located in the heart
of downtown Mount Vernon
on the north side of South First
at West Montgomery on the
ground floor of the historic
Oddfellows Building owned by
our family. The 2350+ square
feet is the north half of the for-
mer long established Deming
Jewelers store. The location
is well recognized with new
City owned off-street parking
lot immediately to the east
and street parking available in
front and on the side streets.
The space is very clean and
well lit with a full 24+ foot
glass display and entry door
under a covered recently refin-
ished oak-faced portico. Space
includes display platform at
one side of front window, re-
cessed and indirect lighting
and includes four changing
stalls, back office, private em-
ployee kitchen and bathroom
area with extra storage room
upstairs for stock. Wired for
phone and high speed inter-
net is available from the back
alley. $1,750 per month rent
with $1— refundable damage
deposit. Tenant pays all direct
or proportional share of utili-
ties/services and will carry
comprehensive $1M general li-
ability insurance policy. E-mail
below for more information or
contact Doug at (360)-757-2912
to arrange to see the space.
Rentals WantedHelp! Just sold my house, need housing Mom, 9 year
old son and 2 older lab mixes
need a two or more bedroom
home, duplex or townhouse
preferably with a fenced yard,
somewhere in the Bellingham
School District. I have worked
at the same job for 13 years
and have owned a house,
always made mortgage pay-
ments, for 9 years. Can provide
additional pet damage deposit,
my dogs are nice dogs. Prob-
ably will need housing in early
to mid December when house
sale finalizes. Please contact
me if you have housing that
fits my needs. I can pay up to
$950.00 if the water/sewer
and garbage is included, if not
probably up to $875.00 email:
anon-236961679 @ ca scadi -
aweekly.com
Roommates Wanted
room in shared house-hold in letter streets We
are: a shared household of
5 (shared food, social atmo-
sphere) in the lettered streets,
drug-free, ages 25-30. We all
work or study full-time. We are
bike riders. We are left-leaning
with feminist values. We are
looking for someone who is:
queer-friendly, pet-free, non-
smoker, nice. Two rooms will
be available soon. $255.00 per
room, plus utilities—one person
or $355.00 per room, plus utili-
ties—for two people in a room.
email: anon-236961869@cas-
cadiaweekly.com
Room for rent ASAP I am
looking to rent out my room
asap. I live in a four bedroom
house near downtown Belling-
ham with three other people.
My roommates are really laid
back, easy going, and open
minded. The house is pretty
big, furnished, has a fire pit
in the backyard, and we might
accept pets. The rent is not in-
cluding utilities but they aren’t
very expensive. Email Sarah
ASAP if you’re interested.
email: finiteredemption@hot-
mail.com
Room for trade Home with
room for trade, need help with
child care, House has hi-speed
DSL, Cable and is in a good
location. Must be honest, ac-
tive, love children, good driving
record, be able to cook, help
clean, and like to be around peo-
ple. Must be in good shape and
able to go on walks, rides and
things like that. Must be able
to pass a security back ground
check and no drugs. The house
has an office in it so if you work
from home this may fit you very
well. Please this is for ladies
only. email: anon-236821551@
cascadiaweekly.com
500Rentals
500Rentals
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.3
7|
11.2
2.06
Doit
3|
Lett
ers
4-5
|Vi
ews
6-7
|Ne
ws
8-13
|Get
Out
14|
Wor
ds&
Com
mun
ity
15|
OnSt
age
16|
Art
17|
Mus
ic18
-21
|Fi
lm23
-25
|Cl
assi
fied
s26
-29
|Fo
od31
30
LIVE MUSIC
Every Sat. at 8 p.m
.
Casc
adia
Wee
kly
#1.
37 |
11.
22.0
6
D
o it
3 |
Let
ters
4-5
| Vi
ews
6-7
| Ne
ws
8-13
| Get
Out
14
| W
ords
& C
omm
unit
y 15
| On
Sta
ge 1
6 |
Art
17
| M
usic
18-
21 |
Film
23-
25 |
Clas
sifi
eds
26-2
9 |
Foo
d 31
31
FOOD
31chow
recipes reviews profi les
the café for the past 11 years, but worked there for six years before taking charge. She’s seen what a hearty meal served in a warm, well-lit place can do for those who aren’t used to everyday tactile pleasures.
It’s no easy thing to pull off the annual event, but Brainard says it’s gotten smoother since she was fi rst in charge. The last couple years have seen as many as 450 people come through the doors for the buffet, and she predicts this year’s numbers will be similar.
Brainard points out that not ev-eryone who shows up for the meal is homeless. “There are lots of people who don’t have a lot, or don’t have family,” she notes. “We also get stu-dents. People who can afford it who come might leave a donation.”
In addition to those being served at the Old Town Thanksgiving, the volunteers that make the annual event possible are numerous. Brain-ard says there’ll be about 45 on Thanksgiving Day, but the behind-the-scenes folks are also important cogs in the wheels.
“There are probably about 80 to-tal,” Brainard says while looking over her extensive list of names and numbers.
“People want to give, people want to help. Volunteers start call-ing in August, and I usually have to turn people away.
“My favorite part is working with the same volunteers each holiday—sometimes I don’t see them through-out the year until Thanksgiving.”
Other numbers factor in to pull-ing off the com-munity dinner: 10 gallons of gravy, 25 turkeys, 60 pies, and mounds upon mounds of stuffi ng, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, salads and rolls—all donated by lo-cal grocery stores, schools, bakeries and church groups.
One other thing that makes the Old Town meal special, Brainard says, is that the food is “really, re-ally good.” Stuffi ng is made from Breadfarm and Avenue Bread offer-ings, yams and potatoes often come from local farms, and the pies are donated by people who often work from their family recipes.
“The day of, everyone’s so happy,” Brainard says. And for that, she is thankful.
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Food for ThoughtGiving thanks when times are toughMy father recently told me that this Thanksgiving he has more to be thankful for than ever before. He’s recovering from a triple bypass that, left undetected, likely would have taken him from us by this time next year. Even though he’s still weak from the surgery, he’s looking to-ward the future.
I, too, am immensely thankful that the man who gave me a happy childhood will be around for years to come. Although his heart has given him some serious problems of late, I’m convinced it’s still as big and generous as it’s ever been.
I won’t be with my dad this Thanksgiving, but I’ll be thinking about him as I sit around a feast with friends. I’ll revive my clan’s tradition of going around the table, one by one, and articulating what exactly we’re all thankful for. The list will be long.
I’m well aware of how lucky I am to have a home, a job I enjoy, food to put on the table, and love in my life in the form of family, friends, and a man whose embrace makes me feel safe. I know there are a whole lot of people who aren’t as fortunate.
Although you don’t have to be going through tough times to partake in the free Thanksgiving dinners that are going on this week courtesy of the Maple Alley Inn, Old Town Café, and the Lighthouse Mission, there’s something about sitting down to a shared meal that is guaranteed to revive the senses.
Diane Brainard is well aware of how good food can lift spirits. She’s the owner of the Old Town Café, which will be hosting its 34th annual free community Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday. Brainard has owned
THANKSGIVING DINNERSMAPLE ALLEY INN:11:30am-1:30pm, Wed., Nov. 22, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Info: 734-5121.
OLD TOWN DINNER:10am-3pm, Thurs., Nov. 23, Old Town Café, 316 W. Holly St. Info: 671-4431.
LIGHTHOUSE MIS-SION DINNER:12-2pm, Fri., Nov. 24, Church of the Assump-tion, 2116 Cornwall Ave. Info: 733-5120.
214 W. Holly, Bellingham • 360.543.5678Hours: [Sat - Wed] 10 to 6 • [Thu - Fri] 10 to 7
Hike,Ski
Repeat&
Backcountry Essentials carries a wide variety of backcountry and telemark ski gear. Let us help you get hours of enjoyment out of those three little words.
Celebrating Our One-Year AnniversaryThree Day Open House & Wine Tasting
Noon to 5pm Each Day
FR I DAY, DE C E M B E R 1S T
Willis Hall Winery with Winemaker John Bell
SAT U R DAY, DE C E M B E R 2N D
McCrea Cellars with Owners Bob & Susan Neel
SU N DAY, DE C E M B E R 3R D
Champagne TastingH EE