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ART & ACTIVISM

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CHEAT: FROM THE BEDROOM TO THE BOARDROOM, P.15

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01.28.09

WEDNESDAY

MUSIC

Shemekia Copeland: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon

ON STAGE

Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre

VISUAL ARTS

War Experience Project: 6-10pm, iGallery

MUSIC

Community Chorus: 7pm, Moles Funeral Home Three Wise Guys: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Gravitas Quartet: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU

01.29.09

THURSDAY

STAGE

The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Community Church Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre

01.31.09

S AT U R D AY

ON STAGE

Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Community Church Cheat: 7:30pm and 10:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Theatresports: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre

DANCE

Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center

DANCE

Folk Dance: 7:30-10pm, Fairhaven Library

WORDS

Student Sampler: 7pm, Whatcom Museum

WORDS

Leslie Walker Williams: 7pm, Village Books

VISUAL ARTS

Trespassing Talk: 5:30pm, Fairhaven Presentation Hall, WWU

01.30.09

FRIDAY

COMMUNITY

Chili for Children: 12-4pm, Chuckanut Brewery Family Festival: 1-9pm, Old Foundry

GET OUT

Chuckanut Run: 9am, North Chuckanut Mt. Trailhead Work Party: 9am-12pm, Whatcom Falls Park

VISUAL ARTS

Jim Orvik, Robert Gigliotti: 5-7pm, Lucia Douglas Gallery

ON STAGE

PHOTO BY ROBERT WHITMAN

Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Community Church

02.01.09

SUNDAY

Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU The Flying Karamozov Brothers: 7:30pm,

ON STAGE

McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon

Sherlock Holmes: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild

Upfront Unleashed: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront

Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub

Theatre Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre

DANCE

Guild

Scandinavian Dance: 2-5pm, Norway Hall

DANCE

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Stage Match: 3pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center

Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing

Arts Center

Cancer Bash: 9-12pm, Elks Lodge #194 2

COSTUMES AND A DASH OF HUMOR CAN BE SEEN WHEN THE MODERN DANCE COLLECTIVE KNOWN AS PILOBOLUS GETS PHYSICAL FEB. 3 AT THE MOUNT BAKER THEATRE

MUSIC

Dueling Duos: 3pm, Amadeus Project Anne Feeney: 7pm, Whatcom Peace & Justice Center

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COMMUNITY

Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange Laughter Club: 4pm, Community Food Co-op

GET OUT

Super Bowl Run: 1pm, Fairhaven Runners

02.02.09

MONDAY

WORDS

Poetry Night: 8:30pm, 1426 Cornwall Ave.

GET OUT

Boating Skills Class: 6:30pm, Salvation Army Center

02.03.09

T U E S D AY

ON STAGE

Variety Show: 7pm, Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co.

DANCE

Pilobolus: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre

WORDS

John Graham: 7pm, Village Books

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THIS ISSUE

John Updike, a man The New York Times called the "lyrical writer of ordinary," died of lung cancer Tuesday at a hospice near his Massachusetts home. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was 76, was set to release what will be his final work in early June.

VIEWS & NEWS

4: Clarifications 6: Retiring words 8: Bookish pursuits 10: Last week's news 11: Police scanner

ART & LIFE

12: Cowboys and dinosaurs 14: Stormy adventures 15: Cheat sheet 16: Art and activism 18: What's up? A party 22: Wrestlers and spies

REAR END

25: Help Wanted, Wellness 26: Advice Goddess 27: Troubletown, Ogg's World, Crossword 28: This Modern World,

Tom The Dancing Bug 29: Free Will Astrology 30: Midnight munchies

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CONTENTS CREDITS LETTERS

TEA TIME

Just read Grace Jackson's lovely article on the art of tea.

I first learned to make tea while living in North Vancouver, B.C. My neighbor was very strict. Loose tea only. Never put boiling water on tea leaves. While the water is getting hot, warm the tea pot with some of it. Swirl it around and pour it out. Bring the water just to a boil, because if it boils long the oxygen will be boiled away and the tea will be flat tasting.

Offering a cup of tea to someone is a true gift of peace and tranquility. People become still and relax. Very nice atmosphere for chatting and laughter.

DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Once again, we failed to update the sources list to our last weekly Index. We regret the error.

Also, thank you for the tea biscuit recipe. Simple and tasty.

--Colleen Marie, Birch Bay

SEEDS OF CHANGE

I appreciated Ari Levaux's timely article on the winter rite of curling up with your favorite seed catalogue and trying to endure the dark months until we can be back out digging in the soil. And, I second his encouragement to seek out companies who specialize in selling seeds suited to our specific climate. I was surprised, however, to see mention of companies in Oregon and California without noting two seed companies right here in northwest Washington, Uprising Seeds in Bellingham and Locally Grown Seeds/Greenheart Gardens based on Lopez Island.

Most seed companies source their seed from far and wide, and as it is a labor-intensive agricultural product, increasingly they are following the labor market overseas. Both Uprising and Locally Grown

seeds are not only selling varieties suited to our PNW climate, but produce all the seeds they sell organically here in the Northwest as well. With a lot of interest over the past several years in connecting people with their local farmers, we are encouraged to see the recognition of locally grown seeds as being an integral part of a healthy local food system and a notion of food security.

Check for both companies at the food co-ops in Bellingham and Mount Vernon, the Public Market and other stores throughout the Puget Sound.

--Brian Campbell,

Uprising Seeds

AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION

An important distinction did not make it into my letter, "Consider the Homeless." The revised letter explained how although a debit card could minimize cash flow and risk of robbery at motels, it may be unacceptable without a credit card logo. Meaning a debit

card requirement could essentially be the same as a credit card in excluding a person seeking a room in a motel.

--Bruce Deile, Bellingham

MORE ON GAZA

It might have been deep sadness for one of the two letter writers last week to read pervious letters critical of Israel's assault in Gaza; it's with outrage that I write a reply to their often repeated official line.

As Uri Avnery, one of the leaders in the Israeli human rights community, a former Israeli soldier, writes, "In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army--with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks-- and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena, the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite."

"Almost all the Western media initially repeated the official Israeli propaganda line. They almost entirely ignored the Palestinian side of the story.... The view from the other side, that the Qassams are retaliation for the siege that starves the 1.5 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, was not mentioned at all."

One of the writers "implore Cascadia Weekly readers to think twice before condemning Israel for legitimate self defense." Legitimate self defense? The "missiles" stated coming from Gaza are a little more than a grenade on a rocket. The retaliation is F-16s, made right here in the good ol' USA.

This writer also states, "Never has a nation tried so hard to avoid inflicting casualties on civilians as Israel is doing now." Give me a break. Using 155mm shells (which cause damage up to 300 meters away) in the middle of Gaza City, whatever the target, is not trying very hard. Imagine one of those landing on the bus station downtown and killing folks in Starbucks on Holly.

It's not hard to understand "the facts." The fact is, more than 1,300 people have been killed in Gaza, 13 in Israel, in this latest assault. Is it now 100 eyes for an eye? Fact is, 18,147 homes have been demolished in Palestine by Israel, zero homes in Israel by Palestine. Fact is, Palestine holds one Israel prisoner, Israel holds 10,756 Palestinians. Fact is, since Sept 2000 123 Israeli children have been killed, 1,050 Palestinian children have been killed.

Fact is, just one child killed in this, or any other war, is an evil tragedy that is insane.

--Terry Garrett, Bellingham

Edited for length

During the Israeli attack on Gaza, Canadian TV showed white phosphorus shells exploding in the air over buildings in the middle of the city. White phosphorus is a chemical element that ignites on contact with air. It burns until it is consumed and it gives off toxic smoke. The Oxford Dictionary says it is a "waxy substance." Since it is molten, it cannot be knocked loose if a burning fragment falls from the sky and hits a child or a baby in the arms of a parent. It will burn down to the bone or until it burns itself out.

Imagine what it feels like to see a child burning and not know what to do. Water will stop the burning temporarily, but it will re-ignite if it is exposed to oxygen. This is one of the most hideous and painful weapons yet invented by the twisted mind of some perverted weapon scientist.

The Israeli people, just like every other people, are compassionate and justice-seeking. But like every other people, they can be manipulated by appeals to fear and prejudice. Because of the very real threat they have faced of being wiped out as a people, they are susceptible to almost any lie told about the "enemy." This allows unscrupulous American and Israeli leaders to keep Israel and Palestine in a constant state of war.

The Israeli military has engaged in a very calculated campaign of lies about its actions in Gaza. First, they said they were using all weapons legally. Now they say they will investigate whether certain units used white phosphorus improperly. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, and foreign doctors in Gaza say there is overwhelming evidence that the Israeli military used white phosphorus illegally as a weapon against civilians. The media keep repeating that white phosphorus is used as a smokescreen or for illumination at night, but TV film of shells exploding in daylight over a city proves this is not true. The Israeli military used it as a weapon of terror to burn civilians.

Children can never be the enemy. If misguided parents teach their children to chant "Death to America," their children are still not our enemies. Bad leaders who teach fear and hatred are the enemy, and they exist in every country. Working for peace includes being able to discard the lies and instead see the essential truth about all human beings--that we all want to love and protect our children. The best way to do that is to seek peace and justice, not to make excuses for war.

--Bill Distler, Bellingham

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