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The Appeal of Paul

Understanding Ron Paul’s enduring popularity in the Inland Northwest

BY MARY LOU REED

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lthough Ron Paul trails in the presidential race for Republican delegates nationwide, hundreds of North Idaho Republicans showed their enthusiasm for his brand of libertarian conservatism at the March 6 Super Tuesday caucuses.

The Texas Congressman came out on top in five of the Idaho Republican northern-county gatherings. Congressman Paul’s supporters outtalked, outnumbered and outvoted fellow caucus attendees in Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint, Moscow, Lewiston and Grangeville.

In like manner, Paul’s appeal to Republicans living in the northern-tier states across the country has been shown to be widespread. In Washington state, Paul carried the caucuses in five of the six counties that border British Columbia.

From Washington to Maine, including the Live Free or Die State of New Hampshire, Ron Paul earned second place in the Republican primaries or caucuses of the states along the Canadian border.

It has often been observed that the Idaho Panhandle is the jumping-off place for individuals seeking freedom — from neighbors and government regulations — with the wilderness of Alaska just a road trip away. We’re imagined as the last outpost of the rugged Old West, where real men wear guns in their belts and cowboy boots on their feet.

Paul’s showing in the northern border states suggests that North Idaho is not unique. The entire stretch of rural land from coast to coast on this side of the Canadian border exudes the lure of space and wild country and the promise of a life of independence.

And Paul’s campaign strategy has played to that allure.

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bviously, candidate Paul’s pitch sells best in rural America and catches conservative voters who hold individual freedoms close to their hearts. Ron Paul’s personal visits have targeted caucus states. He made several visits to Idaho: one stop in Sandpoint, two in Moscow.

Zooming in on North Idaho, I’ve looked for answers to the question: What has Ron Paul got to offer small-town Republicans in North Idaho that Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich do not have?

First off, I’ve read all the position papers posted on the Ron Paul official website. Freedom and individual liberties are highlighted throughout.

Dr. Paul is anti-abortion and claims to have delivered 4,000 babies during his years as a practicing obstetrician. While he strays from a true libertarian position by not supporting a woman’s right to choose, there is some comfort in recognizing he isn’t talking, as rival candidate Santorum is, about the evils of contraceptives.

Paul holds sacred the Second Amendment’s

protection of gun ownership. He supports socalled “Right to Work” laws. He champions families choosing to home-school their children. If president, he would repeal the hard-fought Affordable Care Act. All of the above are standard Republican positions. As far as I know, Congressman Paul is the sole candidate who wants to return the country to the gold standard and to do away with the Federal Reserve System.

The story is told that Paul’s passionate concern about fiat money and the Federal Reserve System got him into politics. After he ran out of family members, friends and patients to listen to his views, he decided to run for office and talk to people who hadn’t heard him before.

Although supportive of national defense, Congressman Paul has opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His platform states the United States should “send our military into conflict with a clear mission and all the tools they need to complete the job and then bring them home.”

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talked with University of Idaho student Stephen Burleigh, an active Ron Paul supporter from Berkeley, Calif., who named Ron Paul’s anti-war position as the No. 1 reason he signed on as a volunteer. Hooked and proud of it, Burleigh lauded Paul’s humble demeanor as an admirable trait in Paul’s favor. He’s impressed with Paul’s long allegiance to the cause of freedom. No question of flip-flopping there.

Timothy Fry, Ron Paul coordinator for Sandpoint’s Bonner County, responded spontaneously to my question: “Why Ron Paul?” Fry said he watched a video of Ron Paul in 2007 and was immediately taken by Paul’s advocating for individual freedom. Fry likes that Ron Paul appears to be a non-slick, non-politician kind of guy.

Fry says his allegiance to Ron Paul boils down to agreeing with a principle of limited government based on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. “Humanity seeks freedom,” Fry said. “And respect for each individual.”

I personally shudder at the thought of any of Ron Paul’s positions ever being put in place, with the exception of his opposition to extraneous foreign wars. He’s way too libertarian for me. But I certainly can admire the spirit of his campaign and the recruitment of young followers to his camp.

And I enthusiastically applaud all young voters who are excited about the presidential election, even after (or maybe especially because of) this long season of Republican presidential debates. n

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Pain at the PumP

As a gallon of gas flirts with the $4-a-gallon mark, it becomes a political weapon. Heck, it was in 2008, when gas was over $4 a gallon and everybody from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi was pointing out how George W. Bush’s policies were pushing the price higher. At the time, multiple FOX News folks defended Bush — as Cal Thomas put it, “No president has the power to increase or to lower gas prices.”

Fast-forward to now, and Rick Santorum blames high prices on Obama “policy”; Mitt Romney says there is “no question” that Obama is to blame.

Gas prices are a wild-card issue for the fall, but Obama may not be the only one defending his record. Romney will have his own flank to watch, as his top energy adviser is Harold Hamm, who Forbes magazine tagged in 2008 on its list of “petro princes” whose “fortunes … are driven higher every time you feel pain at the pump.”

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In the summer of 2010, at a sleepy little Republican rules meeting, it all changed. States later in the primary season got their wish to be a bigger part of the process. Like Democrats have done for years, the Republican Party switched to a system of awarding delegates proportionally. Those winner-take-all primaries — the ones that allowed John McCain to effectively take the nomination after just five states voted — were gone.

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Perhaps the elongated primary is genius. Rick Santorum said this week that the long primary means a shorter general election, and, “If we only have a two-month campaign, their money advantage … won’t make as much difference. There’s only so much money you can spend in two months.”

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As I bike through Spokane and Seattle, I am amazed Regarding coal trains moving through our Inland that cyclists don’t acknowledge each other. For many, Empire (“Coal Dust Express,” 3/15/12), I agree the enbiking is a lifestyle choice that brings with it an elevated vironmental concerns are serious and legitimate. Comdegree of consciousness. If like-minded, socially munities along the proposed routes must be involved. conscious people who are making the very deliberate However, there is another aspect to this situation. decision to pedal won’t nod, wave or even smile at one We are exporting our precious resource of coal another, how are we ever going to gain enough social to China. This reminds me of exporting old-growth cohesion to ever stand for change, for justice and for logs to Japan during the spotted owl controversy. The accountability?

American Empire is exporting natural resources. Most This is the day of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube empires, from Sumer through Rome to Great Britain, that allows us more connection than imported natural resources. Instead, we the ever before, but this hyper-connectivity people are allowing a small group to enrich is leaving us marooned on islands of themselves by exporting our natural resources.

Send comments to What does this mean for future generations editor@inlander.com. ire. Unfortunately, the car is largely to blame for this disconnected society we of our nation? What if there is a future discovery now live in, because we zip from place for the use of coal that becomes vital to our to place in this glass and steel bubble that pollutes, kills nation. Who knows? Does anyone care? and makes people lazy and morbidly unhealthy. Over 60 percent of Americans are now obese! duwane huffaKer One hundred years ago, it was normal to walk a Spokane, wash. mile or two from place to place; it was normal to wave at strangers in the street and to have conversations with them. I want to bring it back.

Can we all please start by making an effort to acknowledge our fellow cyclists?

The Inlander article “Life without God” (3/1/12) should

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God and rEliGion: Two diffErEnT ThinGs

have been titled “Life without Religion.” God could be any number of things to people, but religion uses rules and dogma as requirements to believe in a particular form of God. Humans have looked up into the stars and imagined God or the Great Spirit for thousands of years, but modern, organized religion creates a political religious belief system.

The controversial mixture of religion and politics drives many people away from God. We are asked to vote for political candidates on the basis of how well they say “God Bless America.” It all sounds very insincere and phony to me. Political ads are full of religious code words aimed at gullible voters.

Politicians use religion as a wedge to drive between voters in a divided-we-fall application of public policy. Clearly, you are evil if you don’t support them. If you vote them into office, you are saved. pete SCobby newport, wash.

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Thank you for “Facing Facts” (3/22/12), reminding us all of what good journalism is, and the dedication to truth that it requires. It is a work of scholarship.

Reporters can profit from your points by reviewing their responsibility to their readership. Also, readers can benefit from your thoughts by considering how much effort is given to report news using correct principles, and be a bit more respectful.

My appreciation of the profession has increased and I feel more capable in sifting truth from wishful thinking, exaggeration, distortion, etc. lynn brinK Spokane, wash.

Jaydra Cope: No, and the reason there still is no agreement about a “sustainable” budget stems from the fact that the budgets being proposed are cruel to those with no voice and no means. This state needs to get in-line with the other 47 states doing it and increase revenue by implementing an equitable tax structure. debbie Kinney-Moran: Yes! Our city, county, state and country have got to get are finances in order. We have got to get out of debt!

MiChael CathCart: Councilwoman McLaughlin is, and has been, a true voice of reason on the Spokane City Council and she will continue to be a strong advocate for a better Spokane in the state Senate! Go Nancy!

Morgan oyler: Regardless of ideology, how can you argue that Lisa Brown has been competent in her job?

We are currently in the fifth special session in 2.5 years. She lost control of her own party because she simply refused to even address the budget issue. Nancy’s a wonderful lady and would be a much better representative for the people of the 3rd District. angela red: A woman with common sense, finally. bethany Copeland heath: All the 3rd Legislative District needs is someone who’s willing to cut from labor and the safety net to give the rich and corporates a free pass. We’ve seen her work. levi hanSon: I blame [Initiative] 1098 for the impasse and resulting special sessions — not Senator Brown.

If we hadn’t tied the hands of our elected representatives with that Eyman crap, we’d have a balanced budget: one that includes cuts and revenue! n

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Tough Year For Bigots W by andy borowitz

ith a fall presidential contest between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney seeming increasingly likely, America’s bigots are finding themselves in a quandary over which candidate to support, prominent bigots confirmed this week.

Across the United States, voters who describe themselves as bigots are complaining that a first-ever matchup between a black man and a Mormon, while historic, is forcing them to ask a difficult question: Which group do they hate more?

“I’ve always seen myself as pretty versatile, bigotry-wise,” said Herb Torlinson, a hardware salesman from Wilkes-Barre, Penn. “But I guess this is going to be an election that really puts my different hates to the test.”

At the Clapboard Corner Café in Youngstown, Ohio, a group of bigots who gather for breakfast once a week to discuss their dislike of various racial and religious

groups echoed Mr. Torlinson’s sentiments.

“I actually cried when Rick Perry dropped out of the race,” said David Colehurn, a disgruntled hater who works at a nearby auto parts shop. “He may be brain-damaged and all, but at least he’s white and Christian.”

Mr. Colehurn said that his bigotry towards both black people and Mormons was making him entertain thoughts of voting for a third-party candidate, but that he was “turned off” by the possibility of a bid from Texas congressman Ron Paul: “I hate old people.”

In other political news, former Sen. Rick Santorum revealed that he made his first sweater vest himself when he tore off the sleeves of his straitjacket. n For more fake news from Andy Borowitz, visit borowitzreport.com.

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Worst of the Worst H by jim hightower

ere’s an amazing fact: Oklahoma is the only state in the union with a U.S. senator worse than its own far-out rightwinger, Tom Coburn.

That would be Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican extremist and dedicated nutballist who’s further out than Pluto. For example, Inhofe is completely obsessed with the fantasy that global climate change is an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a vast conspiracy of environmentalists, Democrats, non-Evangelical Christians, the media and 99 percent of climate scientists.

How does he know it’s a hoax?

Because the Bible tells him so! In a radio interview with an equally conspiratorial outfit called Voice of Christian Youth America, this august United States senator explained that the truth is right there in Genesis 8:22: “As long as the Earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat… will never cease.”

In case that’s too opaque for us infidels, Inhofe goes deeper: “My point is God’s still up there.” It’s outrageous arrogance, spoketh the senator, “to think that we, human

beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate.”

Ironically, just days after Inhofe’s insightful interview on radio KOOK, two new scientific analyses were published documenting a relentless and fast-worsening rise in Earth’s sea levels due to the continued warming of our planet. As one of the co-authors of the scientific papers said, the devastating rise of the oceans is “building force while we do almost nothing.”

Not to worry, though, for Inhofe assures us that climate change is a hoax, and even if it’s not, it’s God’s work, not the fault of industrial polluters, so we should do nothing to stop them.

By the way, a scientific fact that Inhofe never mentions is that he has taken $1.3 million in campaign cash from Big Oil. n For more from America’s populist, check out jimhightower.com.

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Development

Eco-Homesteaders A young developer wants to bring New Urbanism to the Spokane Valley. But she needs everyone’s help

by Luke Baumgarten

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he land rises until the field becomes a hill. It rises until the trailers and split-levels lining its north end give way to the McMansions bordering its south. It rises away from the infrastructure of the Sprague/Appleway couplet until the roads become dirt and the communities become gated.

This is the land Cassie Price’s family homesteaded.

For nearly 100 years, her ancestors have owned various parcels of this ragged rectangle until, in 1991, all 195 acres came to belong to her father, Ross Taylor.

It is this land — the largest spit of dirt left in Spokane’s urban growth boundary — that Price and Taylor want to develop into a low-impact, mixed-use, coop-

Cassie Price, left, and her father, Ross Taylor, walk their family property in Spokane Valley. young kwak photo

erative-built, neighbor-focused, LEED-certified green community. It is land she and her father are in danger of losing altogether.

If things go to plan, in a little under a month, father and daughter will have raised the $2.5 million they need to shore up their debt and begin a project that they believe will create a neighborhood akin to Browne’s Addition or South Perry just off Park Road near the Dishman Hills Natural Area. If things go to plan, you — 26,000 of you, whoever you are — will have pitched in some cash.

If things do not go to plan, in a little under 45 days, Taylor’s lender will seize the property.

And while father and daughter talk about their

last-ditch effort with the conviction of believers, both acknowledge that nothing has gone to plan in a long time.

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t the turn of the century, the family’s land supported a pig farm, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, a rendering plant and an illicit still for moonshine in the woods above the valley floor. Price’s grandfather was born on this land in 1916. His parents were among the six original families that settled the area. Her grandmother and her great-grandparents came in 1928, from up the hill in Chester.

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news | development “Eco-Homesteaders,” continued... minutes to Millwood and 11 minutes to cap it at 700, leaving the rest of the space downtown Spokane. Park Road already for commerce, recreation and gathering, has a bike lane. “We didn’t even have to open to anyone. ask for it,” Price says.

That’s the dream. Then there’s the Taylor says the neighbors are still reality. friendly, the way they were when he was n November 2006, Taylor borrowed growing up. It was a community back $2 million to get his dream off the then. It ceased to be a community, Taylor ground. He began plans for Phase says, “when everything got cookie-cutter.”

One of construction, engineering and The man has, for decades, wanted infrastructure. By 2008, there were signs this to be a community again. Price says that the market was starting to collapse. it wasn’t necessarily a green project that That spring, Taylor’s health started to go percolated in her father’s mind all those with it. He got pneumonia in May, then years, but “he’d always envisioned a suffered two pulmonary embolisms in mixed-use village sort of thing.” A develJuly. “You’re apparently not supposed to opment not just with houses and streets survive those,” Price says. but with sidewalks and trails and a little He signed over power of stream with a bridge over it attorney to his daughter, but and lots of common spaces. her focus for the next few A development with a town Send story ideas to months was caring for him. center — restaurants, cafes, tips@inlander.com or They were paying $20,000 a offices — a place where people call the tip line at month in interest on the loan, could live, work and play and (509) 325-0634 ext. 264 and when her attention turned not need to drive. Price wants back to the project, she realized the buildings to have a netthe money that was supposed to get them zero energy footprint, meaning they make through building infrastructure wasn’t as much energy — with solar power and even enough to start. geothermal — as they use.

And it isn’t true to say the land is pure The land here — the 195 acres owned upside. There’s basically nothing around by the Taylors and another 19 kicked in it. The closest grocery store is two miles by like-minded neighbors — can support away, if you count Costco as a grocery 1,100 units of residential. Price wants to

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The closest place to buy a book is a porn shop that probably doesn’t stock Little Women. The closest bank is a Citibank ATM. But that’s their main reason for wanting to create a town center. Taylor and Price want to draw people to their community whether those people live in it or not. But that might be a problem.

Jim Frank of Greenstone Homes worries, without having specific knowledge of Taylor’s plans, that the area around the development doesn’t have the density to support a lot of retail. Regardless of how utopian and beautiful the plan, he

says, “You still have to use the normal principles of retail development.” That means several thousand households within a mile radius of a grocery store, for example.

Proponents of New Urbanism — which values walkable, compact, mixeduse development — say that you can get by with lower density in areas where people are committed to driving, which people in the Valley certainly are. WalMarts in the Dakotas draw people from 100 miles away. Taylor and Price just need to draw them from five or 10, where there are 70,000 and 140,000 households, respectively.

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Price thinks that’s not unreasonable. She thinks their land can become a magnet for folks in Opportunity and Millwood and maybe even Greenacres and Lincoln Heights.

“There are a lot of people hungry for community,” she says.

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or four years, people have been telling Taylor and Price that their dream is a good dream, if it wasn’t for the reality of things.

A market analysis conducted by RCLCO, a national firm that advises on real estate and development, rated the project an “A-” overall, saying that a “master-planned community that follows the theme of sustainability” would do exceedingly well at the price points that Price and her father have worked out. It rated the project favorably against all other comparable projects in Spokane and the Valley, including Greenstone Homes’ River District development.

Greater Spokane Incorporated issued a report last week saying that the Taylor project would create jobs in the area’s green sector.

The chamber of commerce estimates the housing aspect of the project alone will bring nearly $180 million in economic activity.

The mixed-use and retail side of the plan — which is years off — would add close to another $2 million, along with 25 new jobs and over $500,000 in salaries.

Local green builders and architects are excited about it, too.

While the location worries him, Jim Frank says the commitment to building common space is a smart one. People have begun to see the value of sacrificing a little private space for greater public space, and the people who like the idea — Generation Y and retirees — are the fastest-growing segments of the housing market.

“You don’t walk your dog in your yard, you walk your dog on the trail with your neighbor,” Frank says, “It’s not for everybody, but a lot of people like that value proposition.”

Gavin Tenold, the owner of Pura Vida Homes, a sustainable builder, says, “I’m excited to see someone step up to the plate and attempt to use energy efficiency in the development model rather than just the construction side of things.” He says he’s not worried about a project like that taking off in this economic climate. He started Pura Vida just as everything went to hell. Tenold says it has grown “completely because we offer energy efficiency.”

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The list of people Price has approached to invest since 2008 runs on for three pages. “[I’ve talked to] brokers, banks, investment bankers, people on the Forbes [100] list,” she says, “I’ve written letters to Brad Pitt. ... I can’t believe he never got back to me.”

Most of them say the same thing, she says. “It’s, ‘Cool project, too bad it’s right now. Wait five years.’” But Price and her father don’t have five years. When people say no, they say it “like they know I’m going to lose [the land] and any other thoughts are delusional,” Price says.

After all this, Price believes her last shot to save the family homestead is you. This week, and probably before this paper hits stands, Price will have started a funding drive on IndieGoGo, a crowdsourcing site like the ultra-popular Kickstarter. She is looking for $2.6 million dollars (the $2.5 million she needs plus the $100,000 the site will take as commission). Representatives for IndieGoGo have told her that the average donation she should expect is $100, which means she’s looking for 26,000 backers.

The conventional wisdom of crowd-sourcing is that 1 percent of everyone who sees your campaign will donate to it, which means Price needs to get 2.6 million sets of eyes on it.

Under normal circumstances, Price says, it’s not a good idea for developers to talk publicly about their problems. So much of getting financing is about lender confidence. She has already been turned down by everybody, though. There’s no one left to say no.

And so, although crowd-sourcing a housing development is not a traditional path, it feels like the only one left to her.

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A long-serving Spokane city councilwoman plans to take on a long-serving Spokane senator.

District Three Councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin announced Tuesday that she will run against Democratic state Sen. Lisa Brown.

“I’ve been thinking for quite some time knowing that there’s term limits with City Council,” says McLaughlin, whose two terms on the council will end next year. “I’ve loved my time on City Council. [I] wonder if I can take my experience to a higher level, if I can take my experience to the 3rd District.”

McLaughlin says she will run as a Republican against Brown, who is the Senate majority leader. The councilwoman criticized Brown for letting the Legislature’s budget deliberation repeatedly go into a special session.

Brown, who also announced her re-election campaign this week, brushed off McLaughlin’s claims.

“Frankly, it seems like she’s been reading Republican press releases on the budget rather than talking to people in Spokane affected on the budget,” Brown says.

While confident in her work, Brown acknowledges that elections can be unpredictable. “You never take any election for granted. But again, I feel very good about what I’ve been able to do.”

— CHRIS STEIN

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An aviation program at Spokane Falls Community College that was begun to train local students for careers as pilots and engineers in Washington is drawing to a close.

The Community Colleges of Spokane announced in February that the school’s partnership with the University of North Dakota would end on June 30 because of state

budget cutbacks.

The decision to eliminate Spokane’s only college flight program leaves 20 to 30 SFCC aviation students without a local option.

“I’ve always wanted to be a pilot, and I didn’t know how to get into aviation, so SFCC was a nice way to get started,” says Arias Auni, an aviation pre-major at SFCC. He adds that he’ll now have to transfer a year early to North Dakota, where many SFCC students complete their aviation degrees.

There was a momentary glimmer of hope for students like Arias, however. Spokane Community College had announced its own intent to open an aviation program, but it was not able to commit in time to keep a local option alive.

“Part of why the program is being cut is it is a budget issue,” says Jacob Canty, site manager and assistant chief flight instructor. “SCC is waiting for a number of things so they can start a flight program, but it’s taking longer than they expected.”

Washington has the nation’s third-highest employment rate for the aviation and aerospace industry, behind California and Texas. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual mean salary for aircraft pilots, copilots and flight engineers nationally is $103,210.

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atricia Searl, 69, had crossed Northwest Boulevard at Buckeye countless times before.

She’d cross the street to buy groceries and food for her cats at the Cenex minimart. On the overcast evening of Oct. 25, 2010, using a cane, she slowly hobbled across the street, still wet from the rain.

Cars stopped to allow her to cross. Except one, a white City of Spokane-owned pickup truck.

Though the driver, city engineering employee Daniel Hirst, braked hard, the impact threw the old woman nearly 19 feet, records indicate. For Searl, it changed her life. She suffered an injured arm, a head injury that made it harder to think, and a broken back that meant she’d never walk again.

For the City of Spokane, it meant the possibility of a huge lawsuit, one that could cost the city at least $1 million.

As police began investigating the case and Searl lay in a hospital, the city’s risk management team hurried to control the story — contacting Searl before she got an attorney and, according to city emails, trying to influence the police investigator.

In November, Searl’s family found an attorney and sued the city anyway. And when those attorneys, Kathleen Paukert and Breean Beggs, started gathering public records and interviewing witnesses, they discovered how the city’s risk management sometimes worked.

“What we’re realizing is a lot of this manipulation is going on behind the scenes,” Beggs says.

“We don’t want her to get an attorney…”

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Pam Schroeder, the city’s risk manager, laughs when asked if a risk management employee would meet with a police investigator, asking him to help save the city money.

“Can you imagine a situation where we were doing such a thing?” she says, though she won’t comment on ongoing cases. And no, she says when asked, risk management employees wouldn’t try to influence the city or police department’s press releases. Yet emails sent after Searl’s collision paint a different picture.

Beggs says the police department and city should operate independently in such situations. The police want the facts of the accident, while the city wants to protect itself from lawsuits. But from

the first night, some of the efforts were coordinated, records show.

The morning after the accident, Jennifer DeRuwe, public information officer for Spokane police, sent the initial internal emails from the police investigation to city spokeswoman Marlene Feist.

The ensuing police press release was actually written by Feist with the city, not DeRuwe from the police department. DeRuwe says that’s common. They’re both city-employed communications staff, so they share workload.

Beggs is more concerned with emails from Alternative Service Concepts, a national third-party risk-management firm with office space in City Hall. The city pays ASC $260,000 annually to help handle claims and quickly investigate any liability issues. In fact, ASC advertises that it financially rewards its employees for contacting injured parties within 24 hours of notification.

After Searl was hit, ASC employee Debra Eubanks first sent an email requesting the police department issue no public press release at all — because the media wasn’t “aware that it was a city vehicle,” email records show. (Eubanks did not reply to several requests for comment.)

When Feist began working on a press release anyway, Eubanks asked for the release to say “near the intersection” instead of “at the intersection.” The police investigation had not been completed yet, and the city would be less liable if Searl was crossing in the middle of the street rather than at the intersection.

Eubanks’ next suggestion went even further, asking the press release not to name the hospital Searl was recovering at. In an email to Feist and other city employees, she worried that “an unscrupulous attorney will find out who she is and take advantage of her current condition to sign her up before we can sit down with her and try to work with her to fairly resolve her possible claim.”

Despite Eubanks’ objections, Feist’s press release named the hospital. “We always err on the side of openness and transparency,” Feist says.

In response, Eubanks complained — not to Feist, but to Cpl. Dave Adams, the police officer investigating the accident.

“Well, Marlene was insistent on her press release and now it’s a huge headline.” Eubanks wrote in an email to Adams. “Please let me know, Dave, as soon as we can contact Ms. Searle [sic]. I would

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“I would like to gain control of her and her claim before any more damage is done out there.”

To Searl’s lawyers, the fact that this document was withheld underscores the lengths the city has gone to limit its liability.

“None are saying it was an accident, or they were confused,” Beggs says. “At this point, my understanding is they’re pointing the finger at each other.”

Beggs had already drafted a suit against the city for the missing document but says the city has agreed to investigate the matter and attempt to resolve it outside of court. (Coincidentally, just last week, Beggs helped a client win a landmark $400,000 settlement from Spokane County, after the county failed to produce a missing document in a public-records request.)

Paukert adds that, according to Adams’ deposition, Paradis was trying to convince the police officer to help protect the city from an expensive payout — that way, the city could afford to give Adams a raise.

“The city decided the civil [case] took precedence over the criminal investigation,” Beggs says. “You’re trying to put money on the table to influence how someone could do a public investigation.”

Beggs and Paukert say this is a story of a cop doing the right thing despite the pressure. He was the whistleblower. “He’s a hero in this case,” Paukert says.

Already, Adam’s comments have had an impact. Mayor David Condon met with City Administrator Theresa Sanders to discuss the concerns, and on Monday, Sanders asked Chief Financial Officer Gavin Cooley to examine the 10-year relationship the city of Spokane has with Eubanks’ employer, Alternative Service Concepts. “[Their] comments don’t represent what we could call appropriate, or professional,” Feist says. “We take this very seriously.” n

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Searl’s lawyers discovered even more. On three separate occasions, Paukert and Beggs requested all documents relating to the collision.

They received hundreds of pages.

But when Paukert deposed Adams, the police investigator, she discovered that “the smoking gun”— a single page handwritten by Adams — had been left out of the official record provided to her.

In it, Adams outlined his frustrations: Risk Management had been interviewing witnesses before he could. He worried it would cause “bias in civil investigation/witness contamination.”

“We’re after the truth, not trying to [defend the City of Spokane],” he wrote.

He then quotes Eubanks saying, “We don’t want her to get an attorney…” and Dennis Paradis, a subcontractor, saying “If you guys want a raise…”

Adams, in an email to The Inlander, says he can’t give many details, restricted by the ongoing litigation and the police department’s media policy.

“Please understand I am not trying to be evasive or confrontational, I just don’t think I can talk about the case without SERIOUS repercussions to the parties involved, and (quite frankly) my continuing employment with the City,” he says in an email.

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like to gain control of her and her claim before any more damage is done out there.”

Fewer than two days after her accident, while Searl was still fighting for her life, according to her attorneys, she did receive a visitor in the hospital: then-Mayor Mary Verner. In an email, Verner says she was accompanied by Schroeder, the risk manager, and left a card.

Feist says that’s common practice. Public officials want to express their sympathy. Late Mayor Jim West visited the wife of an employee who died in a wastewater treatment plant accident.

But Searl’s lawyers felt it crossed a line. “That is not the appropriate time to do it,” Beggs says. “She was so vulnerable. It’s not like the mayor went to her family.”

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Like A Rock A controversial city attorney continues to litigate police cases

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early three months after Mayor David Condon took office, Rocky Treppiedi, a controversial assistant city attorney whom Condon once stated should be fired, is still litigating cases on behalf of the police department.

The mayor defended Treppiedi’s work this week, saying the attorney will not be involved in upcoming mediation between the city and the family of Otto Zehm, who died after a 2006 encounter with Spokane police officers.

“The transition period is what we’re working on right now,” Condon says. He says he also removed Treppiedi as police advisor, a position in which he provided legal advice to the department. “I thought that was a structural way of conducting business so I immediately made that change the first day I was here.”

But during his election campaign last year, Condon laid harsh criticisms on Mayor Mary Verner over Treppiedi’s continued employment.

In court filings, federal investigators have accused the attorney of interfering with their investigation into Zehm’s death. “[Verner] cannot look at everything through a lawyer’s narrow legal perspective. According to the news reports, I believe Treppiedi should be dismissed immediately,” read a statement from Condon’s campaign in early September.

After he was elected, Condon held a press conference where he said, “It would be very difficult for me to maintain [Rocky Treppiedi’s] employment at City Hall knowing what has been made available to me.”

But in an interview last week, Condon denied ever saying he would fire the attorney, stating that he was instead reviewing the approach taken in the city’s litigation and was looking for outside attorneys to take over some of the cases.

“The reports at the time were all about the Zehm case, and Rocky has been dismissed from that case. The course of action for the Zehm case is now substantially different,” Condon added in an email after an interview with The Inlander.

Meanwhile, Treppiedi is still busy defending the city and the police department from a variety of suits, including some filed after Condon took office.

Treppiedi, who did not return messages, is defending the city against Jeff Harvey, a former police detective who in February filed suit against the city and former police chief Anne Kirkpatrick for damages related to his firing last year.

And he’s continued to litigate other police cases, including the case of Logan Frederick, who says the department is liable for letting a police dog bite him in the course of an arrest for alleged domestic violence and the case of Darlene Karu,

who is trying to get police to hand over money seized in a drug bust that she claims belongs to her.

“My understanding was that new cases are not going to him, but he was still litigating existing cases,” says City Rocky Treppiedi Council President Ben Stuckart, who was not aware of Treppiedi’s involvement in the Harvey suit. “I know Mayor Condon had said he wasn’t involved, so that surprises me.”

Condon says the city is looking for attorneys to take over the police cases. When asked if he has faith in Treppiedi, the mayor says, “I’ll stand by my previous statements.”

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espite Condon’s intentions as a candidate, Bob Dunn, who is representing Harvey against the city, says Condon may have found his hands tied as mayor.

“According to the news reports, I believe Treppiedi should be dismissed immediately.”

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“The mayor was not in a position to fire anyone but [former city attorney Howard] Delaney, who reported directly to him,” says Dunn. Condon fired Delaney earlier this month and nominated Nancy Isserlis to take over the office. “I wouldn’t have expected the mayor to be involved in the Treppiedi matter.”

The mayor says he expects Isserlis to decide who she wants to employ as city attorney, when she takes office next week. Isserlis says she will decide about Treppiedi then and will also be personally supervising the city’s handling of the ongoing mediation with the Zehm family.

If Treppiedi is fired, he would take with him over 30 years of institutional knowledge in the city attorney’s office.

“Obviously Mr. Treppiedi’s record has been, for lack of a better word, stellar, in that he continually wins on behalf of the city of Spokane,” says Councilman Mike Fagan.

His departure could also change the city’s practice of fighting lawsuits tooth-and-nail.

“Rocky has a reputation for being very tenacious and focused on defending the city and his offices at all costs. But part of being a good lawyer is knowing when it would be most effective to settle a case,” says attorney Breean Beggs, who is suing the city on behalf of Frederick. “If the city wants to pursue a strategy of wanting to litigate everything to the final hour, they will probably be missing some of his skill sets.” n

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One more twist in Verner’s play for back pay

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ess than three months before outgoing Spokane Mayor Mary Verner asked the city to pay her a portion of her salary she had voluntarily given up, she signed a city ordinance banning council members from doing the same.

Recently obtained public records show that in October, Verner put her signature on an ordinance that set guidelines restricting how the City Council could forgo salaries. The ordinance is similar in nature to a law enacted by the state Legislature last year to combat the promises of political candidates peddling lower salaries as a campaign prop. Both laws state that candidates can only give up 3 percent of their salary; both laws also bar candidates from changing their mind later on and asking for that money.

Verner volunteered to take only $100,000 in salary each year in her four years as mayor, rather than the city’s full mayoral salary of $170,000. On Dec. 29, she requested $140,000 in back pay from the city for her last two years as mayor. If that wasn’t possible, Verner asked that her city pension be calculated as if she had earned the $170,000. The city denied both of Verner’s requests.

In a Facebook post she made in January, defending her request, Verner said she surrendered about $300,000 over her term.

“The job was about service, not about money, and the money I declined was put to good use keeping others employed,” Verner wrote.

In an email to The Inlander this week, Verner says a mayor’s signature on a new city council’s ordinance is just a formality. She also questions whether the newsworthiness of the ordinance.

“You seem to be digging quite deep to try to find something negative to say about me,” Verner says in the email.

Nevertheless, Councilman Ben Stuckart says he is open to the idea of creating similar guidelines for the mayor’s salary.

“I think you should stipulate that the mayor has to take the money,” he says. “I think once you start playing with the salaries, it becomes a little gimmicky. If you want to give, you can give back to the city, you can give to nonprofits, it’s up to you.

“She shouldn’t have asked for the money back,” Stuckart continues. “Once you give up your salary, you don’t ask for it back later.”

Current Mayor David Condon is taking $100,000 this year, but only because the city had budgeted for that amount. As for new mayoral salary guidelines, he says citizens already provide their own guidelines.

Says Condon: “It’s called the election.” n joeo@inlander.com

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LocaL roasters on the fight to fiLL your cup in the new coffee economy

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t was April Fool’s Day of 1993 — a hell of a day to open a new business, thought Simon Thompson and his wife, Becky Templin.

Especially in this neighborhood.

The two Seattlites had decided to open a cafe and coffee roaster in downtown Spokane, across the street from a shady bar on the corner of First Avenue and Cedar Street, in what was then a “horrible part of town,” Thompson recalls.

The space was awkward. The Eldridge Building, built in 1925, had been home to the Northwest’s most successful Buick dealership and was once “the largest building in the state of Washington devoted to the sales and service

of motor cars,” according to the city’s Historic Preservation Office.

But working around the large car ramp leading into the building — and without a cash register — the couple soon turned the 800-square-foot space into one of the city’s first specialty cafes.

Nearly 20 years later, the cafe is gone, but the business remains. With a yearly output of half a million pounds of roasted coffee, Craven’s Coffee has become a staple in the region.

For Thompson, the 70-hour work weeks roasting coffee in the small shop seem like a lifetime ago. ...continued on page 24

Origins

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Once processed and packaged, beans pass through several hands before they reach roasters. Importers, exporters and brokers arrange deals between farmers and roasters and coordinate shipments of coffee.

Within the bright red cherry of the coffea tree is a seafoamgreen pit. This is the coffee bean in its unroasted form. Beans are often named for the region they hail from, such as Guatemalan, Arabica and Nicaraguan.

roasting Beans are typically roasted using specialty-roasting equipment that heats the beans to between 400 and 500 degrees. This usually lasts anywhere from a few minutes to nearly a half an hour — the darker the roast, the less acidic they become.

Because coffee cherries ripen at different times, the beans must be hand-picked, making coffee one of the more labor-intensive crops. After they are peeled, they are washed and laid out to dry.

Mistakes can be costly. If picked too soon, the beans taste grassy. If not washed properly, they taste vinegary. If not dried correctly, they can have a vegetable favor.

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Tom Hutchinson and his wife opened Spokane’s first roastery, 4 Seasons Coffee Company, in 1976.

“It just seems like a blur,” says Thompson, his British accent still perceptible. “But I think it was just that we were in the absolute right place, at the right time.”

Coffee was going through a revolution at the moment.

First, there had been Folgers and Hills Brothers. Then Starbucks and others came along and began treating coffee less like a commodity — like wheat — and more like a treasured foodstuff — like wine. And then came the specialty coffee roasters, representing what has come to be called the Third Wave, which aspires to produce the best artisanal coffee.

The Inland Northwest certainly has been swept up in that wave, with the number of roasters growing from three in the early 1990s (Four Seasons, Craven’s and Uccello’s) to nearly 30 today.

Locally, it’s become a high-stakes game, as specialty roasters compete not only against each other but also against the big players, like Starbucks and Tully’s, and the grocery megastores, like Costco.

“The pie has been baked,” Thompson says. “Now it’s a question of everybody trying to get a piece of the same-sized pie, whereas all through the ’90s and the first part of the 2000s, the pie just kept getting bigger.”

Small roasters strive to set themselves apart, looking for their niche, and have some things working to their advan-

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tage. Because of their scale, they can invest in organic and fair-trade certifications, use specialty equipment, focus on the quality of the beans and develop relationships with farmers.

“The best way to market yourself is to define who you are and let everyone know what you’re all about,” says Thompson.

As a whole, the global industry stretches from farmers in Africa, South America and Asia to importers and wholesale buyers and, finally, to roasters. In 2010, the U.N.’s International Coffee Organization reported that the United States alone imported 21,340,853 bags of unroasted coffee beans, each weighing 60 kilograms. That’s almost 3 billion pounds.

At several dollars a pound, there’s a lot of money tied up in coffee.

In the Inland Northwest, though, it started much smaller.

Changing Seasons In 1976, Tom and Leslie Hutchinson plopped Spokane’s first coffee roaster in a small cafe space in downtown Spokane, on Wall Street. They dubbed themselves the 4 Seasons Coffee Company and began roasting. But not just coffee beans.

“I remember we had a gentleman who came up from ...continued on page 26

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“spilling the beans” continued... the Palouse, and he wanted to know if we would roast triticale, which is a cross between wheat and rye,” Leslie Hutchinson recalls.

She says his plan was to make a coffee substitute, much like the ones common during World War I. It was that type of side operation, which they ran on the graveyard shift, that helped sustain 4 Seasons as Spokane’s first and longest-running coffee roasting operation.

The Hutchinsons hail from Berkeley, Calif., and the Bay Area, a region considered among the “it” places for coffee in the States. But Tom Hutchinson wanted to move somewhere with four separate seasons, so they made Spokane, a previous vacation spot, their new home.

Introducing the area to specialty-roasted coffee was a challenge, Leslie Hutchinson says, especially given how expensive coffee was at the time.

“We knew it was going to take time,” she recalls.

“Because even though Starbucks was maybe a couple years ahead of us … I think specialty coffee was resonating here a little bit, but there certainly wasn’t that much on the shelves, let’s put it that way.”

But it did catch on, and soon the Hutchinsons hired more staff. One of them was a ponytailed Gonzaga student named Thomas Hammer.

‘Hip and Cool’ The coffee boom of the ’90s meant Four Seasons soon had company on the local specialty-roasting scene. When

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Craven’s Simon Thompson has developed a reputation as a worldly roaster. FACING PAGE: Thompson in Nicaragua 1993 arrived, so did two new competitors: Craven’s and Thomas Hammer. For them, settling down in Spokane to roast was not a random or romantic decision. Both knew the market and both came prepared for domination.

Thomas Hammer left 4 Seasons after his two-year contract had ended with the roastery. Armed with an MBA from Gonzaga, Hammer bought a mobile coffee cart at the NorthTown Mall and began the process of launching his empire, along with the help of a former roaster of 4 Seasons.

Three decades later, Hammer boasts more than 250 accounts, 11 retail stores and a large, trendy roastery in a downtown Spokane warehouse. He made a name for himself, and that name became his marketing strategy.

“From the retail end of it … we look at ourselves, proudly, as being like a junior Starbucks. I’m not afraid to say that,” Hammer says. “We just look at their model and say, ‘How do you do that, but make it cool? How can you make it hip and cool?’”

Hammer stands out among his peers because of his emphasis on branding — his logo is on his cups, T-shirts and the Thomas Hammer cafes (their newest store is in downtown Pullman).

Craven’s Simon Thompson, meanwhile, has worked to build up a reputation as a worldly roaster — traveling, meeting with farmers and experiencing different coffee regions. Even in the initial cafe space downtown, the walls were decorated with pictures of Thompson at the farms where their coffee originated.

Craven’s Coffee photo

“A lot of what we do is about travel,” says Thompson. “That’s really very unique to us. We’re really the only roaster that goes to source countries consistently, every year.”

Organic and Fair-Trade On the outside, DOMA Coffee Roasting Company’s headquarters are as inconspicuous as any warehouse complex in Post Falls, Idaho — just one cell in a series of barely-distinguishable units. But as soon as the door opens, the rich smell of coffee begins to fill your nostrils and, soon, the fibers of your clothing. Five minutes inside and you’ll be perfumed with its product for hours.

DOMA is owned by husband-wife team Rebecca and Terry Patano, who, after owning a successful specialty cafe in Utah, decided to try their hand at roasting. Now in its 12th year, the roasting company has made a name for itself by introducing and embracing Third Wave principles — the coffee is all organic and fairly traded, their roasting equipment is eco-friendly, and they follow sustainable business practices.

But what really distinguishes DOMA is how they buy their beans. DOMA is a member of Cooperative Coffees, a buying co-op that allows a group to act as their own coffee broker. It’s a simple idea — cutting out the middle man — but the logistics of the coffee industry make putting this into reality difficult.

“In order to bring coffee to the United States, you

When I see these people open up,

’I m thinking, ‘Where are you going to get your business from?’” have to fill a shipping container. Now, a shipping container is 250-300 bags of coffee.

Each one of those bags has 150 pounds,” says Jim Hottenroth, a former chemist who roasts and is in charge of buying beans for DOMA. “And 300 bags of coffee is not one little guy, tilling his plants out there. It’s a lot of coffee.”

Aside from the math, there are also ethical concerns, especially when it comes to the struggles facing the world’s coffee farmers.

“Every farmer we’ve met everywhere … it’s the same story,” says Terry Patano.

“Governments come in and do awful stuff. … The stories truly are tragic.”

Producing fair-trade coffee hasn’t necessarily answered all of the economic concerns facing farmers.

“The U.S. may want it, they may think it’s a good thing to buy fair-trade coffee, organic coffee, but we’re finding it harder and harder to get our hands on it,” Hammer says. “The farmers have just stopped, because they can fertilize their crops and get 20 percent more yield, because the price is so high. They can make just as much money and they don’t need to monkey around with all these covenants to qualify.”

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-simon thompson of craven’s

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Roasters, too, struggle with the regulations of organic and fair-trade certifications.

“We’re monitored here like you wouldn’t believe,” Leslie Hutchinson says.

“They need to be able to track every sale, every pound, and know that that legitimately was a fair-trade organic coffee.”

Hutchinson says that certifications must be kept up on a quarterly basis, which means two thick binders full of paperwork.

It also means strict regulations on how the roastery must operate.

“Because we roast non-organics as well, a section of the warehouse has to be designated for the organics. You cannot have the [organic] burlap bags touching the other [non-organic] ones,” says Hutchinson. “It’s just not an easy process at this point.”

Hutchinson says they pay between $2,500 and $3,000 in fees each year and worries that all the hoops that roasters — like farmers — have to jump through may be the death of organics.

“I think they are finally recognizing, that if [governing organizations] don’t make it easier for the roasters, there’s going to maybe be a little bit of a back-off from doing it,” says Hutchinson. ...continued on next page

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roaster now supplies several local cafes — Huckleberry’s and Main Market, among others. Part of Di Bernardo’s success, she says, comes from Deborah Di Bernardo has an edge to her. It’s not her marketing the roastery as part of the Third aggressive per se, but tough.

Wave.

It could be connected to her upbringing in a “We knew how much competition was in 1,200-square-foot house crammed with her “loud town,” says Di Bernardo. “[But] nobody in and chaotic and loving” New York Italian family.

Spokane was doing 100 percent sustainable It could also be the challenges she has faced since coffees, meaning all the coffees are fairly traded, then. In what sounds like the beginor directly traded so the farmers are nings of a rom-com plot, Di Bernardo earning more than fair trade.” (DOMA, married, then divorced a divorce which embraces Third Wave principles, Send comments to lawyer. She lost everything, she says, is in Post Falls.) including her north Spokane business, editor@inlander.com.

Still, it’s not easy. The competition is the Broadway Deli, which she ran intense, by all accounts. from 1990-94.

“When I see these people open up, I’m thinkBut she picked herself up again and got into ing, ‘Where are you going to get your business marketing and sales, eventually working for from?’” says Thompson. “What happened in Thomas Hammer for a stretch.

Spokane from the early ’90s to the 2000s was a Immediately after leaving Hammer, Di Berone-off. It was the birth of an industry.” nardo got to work on her own coffee company.

Some agree with Thompson, saying that Six months later, she was joined by Hammer’s Third Wave roasters face challenges with the former roast master and green bean buyer, Dave current economy and with convincing consumers Rier. Together, they launched Roast House two to give a damn. years ago.

Still, for those committed to the movement’s So far, Roast House is faring well. The ideals, it’s not really a matter of choice.

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“It’s about sustainability,” says Terry Patano of DOMA. “That’s a throw-away word. But here, it’s practical.”

One-Man Show Brian Ellsworth used to make $200,000 to $350,000 a year as a stockbroker. His expansive home on the South Hill can attest to that. But after a health scare, Ellsworth needed a change. So, after 20 years, Ellsworth decided to quit the stock market in favor of roasting coffee.

Ellsworth started Waverly’s Coffee, Inc., in 2005. He bought a roaster from Sandpoint and jumped into the game, building a massive garage on his property to serve as his roastery. But what began as a romantic leap has become a struggle.

Since losing the employee in charge of roasting, Waverly’s has become a one-man operation. Ellsworth does everything himself — roasting, packaging, delivering and billing. The only outside assistance he gets comes from a bookkeeper.

“Right now, to compete with Craven’s and bigger firms, I have to offer coffee systems, I have to service them, I have to do all this crap that’s not coffee,” says Ellsworth.

Then there’s the problem of collecting on bills.

“I’ve had a hard time getting paid,” says Ellsworth, who just received $20,000 owed to him from an espresso stand. “I had to fire them and threaten lawsuits. … You become the bad guy when you have to play collector.”

In Ellsworth’s massive roasting garage, bags of green beans lay in haphazard piles. He apologizes for the mess. It’s just that he is doing everything himself, he says.

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I’m not afraid to say that.

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There is an air of fatigue in place of his normally extroverted, chatty demeanor as Ellsworth discusses his struggles in the market. Some are obscure issues, like how a client recently backed out of an account after Ellsworth made a joke about Starbucks, calling it “Charbucks.” It comes up several times in conversation.

“I’d always made that comment because everybody laughs at ‘Charbucks’ and ‘Starburnt,’” he says. “Somebody had told that to me and I had thought that it was funny as hell.”

There’s also the constant threat of accounts being taken over by other roasters, who may have the means to seduce clients out of his grasp — promises of better equipment, training, service, delivery, quality, and price are always floating around.

In an attempt to compete with the other roasters, big and small, Ellsworth is focusing on low price points or “Costco pricing” — a tactic looked down upon by Third Wave roasters. He even has plans in the works to start a roasting association, in which he would act as a “hired gun” for coffee roasting — customers would go in on some beans, and he would roast them, saving the customers what he estimates to be $2-$4 a pound.

With the economy in its current state, Ellsworth is onto something with price. While roasters are trying to save money, their clients are, too, and Ellsworth is trying to set himself apart from competitors who got a big head start over the years.

“I need to do something more innovative,” says Ellsworth. “I don’t have the resources that Craven’s or Hammer has. I know I needed to do something if I want to grow my business. … My original goal was to be the specialty roaster of choice in this area.” n

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n 2009, the website AskMen produced a list of the world’s 49 most influential men. Above Olympian Usain Bolt, above Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — above even Barack Obama — the men of the Internet chose Don Draper.

A television character.

But no mere television character. Don Draper is a brilliant, excellent-looking serial adulterer with a dark past, an artist’s soul and the jaw line of John Hamm. He is an iconic character who has become more so during the show’s 17-month hiatus, which ended with Sunday’s Season Five premiere. Don Draper disappeared and Banana Republic created a clothing line in his honor.

To say almost everyone loves Mad Men is to make no grand claim. The hour-long drama about a Madison Avenue advertising firm has won the Best Drama Emmy

every year of its existence and propelled its network, AMC, from also-ran to the vanguard of serial television.

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There is a sense that, because of this, Mad Men’s progressive, pro-equality hook lacks a barb. As Jessica Maucione, professor of English at Gonzaga, put it recently, the show “lets you off the hook if you want to be let off the hook.”

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nn Ciasullo, another English professor at Gonzaga, says you can tell the media is missing the point when a show that revolves around incredibly unhappy marriages inspires articles in magazines with headlines like, “How to Mad Men your Wedding.” A story in last Saturday’s Spokesman went on at length about the women’s fashion of the decade, with scarcely a word about women’s struggles during that time (there was one throwaway reference to “bra burning”).

Heather Gasser directs the Women’s Center at the University of Idaho. Every Monday at lunch, the center screens an episode of Mad Men and then hosts a discussion of the show’s themes and conflicts. The audience for these discussions isn’t large, but there’s a diverse range of ages, sexes and sexual orientations. ...continued on next page

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The general consensus here is that people who idealize the ’60s tend to be too young to have lived through it. People who were the age of Don Draper’s daughter in the show in the mid ’60s — growing up pouring their daddies drinks after a hard day at work and who are now middle-age — see past the glamour more easily.

Gasser says a woman who regularly attends, but who wasn’t there on a recent Monday, worked on Madison Avenue in the ’60s. “She totally identifies with Peggy,” Gasser says of the young copywriter who works her way up from secretary. Specifically, she notes “Peggy’s personal evolution alongside the early feminist revolution at the same time.”

Colleen Kulesza, a doctoral student who is currently studying female hunters, says the more she watches Mad Men, the more she thinks the show is about Peggy than Don. While Don flounders with meaninglessness and drink, Kulesza says, “Peggy continues to grow.”

Talk turns to masculinity and marriage. All of the Mad Men firm’s most successful men are the worst to their wives. They marry trophies and then ensconce them in the suburbs while they drink and carouse in the city. Gasser notes that one of the best husbands — someone who actually listens to his wife and seems to care for her — is a closeted gay man. “Salvatore is one of the few people who is kind to his wife and considerate,” she says.

“But they’re still stereotyping gay men,” Kulesza says, “He’s sweet, artsy. He cooks. He cleans.”

Gonzaga’s Jessica Maucione, who wrote a paper on the show’s “racial erasures,” says this is her main problem with Mad Men. The white

male and female characters are written with nuance and care, while the minority characters — especially black people — are flat and thin.

In Season Two, a white copywriter named Paul Kinsey dates a black woman named Sheila White, going with her on freedom rides to the South. Maucione says that, while we are given an extended peek into the troubles of white women like Peggy, Sheila White scarcely says a word, effectively turning her character into window dressing for a liberal white man.

By the numBers On Sunday night, after leaving viewers dangling

on the cliffhangers presented by the Season Four finale, Mad Men returned after some 17 months to give diehard fans the sort of 1960s drama they’ve come to drool over since the show’s launch in 2007. And clearly, there are more of these fans these days.

It turns out the year-plus off the air while creator Matthew Weiner wrangled with AMC only added to the Mad Men fan base, which has purchased upward of $100 million in DVDs and downloads of the show.

Sunday’s two-hour season debut scored 3.5 million viewers, who found the gang in May of 1966 with questions of racial inequality blooming, the cultural revolution in full swing and Don Draper having just turned 40.

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Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men cast have built an empire on ’60s nostalgia.

“If they even would have spent 30 seconds,” Maucione says, “taken us into [White’s] apartment, shown us her world, that would have been enough.” But they didn’t. (Sunday’s season premiere ended with Draper’s firm about to hire its first black secretary. This character will presumably offer Maucione the window she’s looking for.)

All told, though, Ann Ciasullo thinks Mad Men has done about as well as it could to strip the era of its nostalgia while still being affectionate toward its characters. She points specifically to the way music — jangly, saccharine pop tunes of the era — are juxtaposed against moments of crisis or absurdity, as when Bobby Helm’s hopelessly sentimental “My Special Angel” plays while Betty Draper (Don’s wife at the time) takes a shotgun and, cigarette dangling from mouth, kills her neighbor’s pigeons.

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Maybe critics are spending too much time fretting over a show that, while beautifully shot and smarter than most, is ultimately still light, Sunday-evening entertainment. Kulesza considers the argument but doesn’t buy it. We are what we consume, she says. The things we are exposed to change us.

Perhaps more importantly, the lens through which we view those things changes the way we are changed. “Context matters,” Kulesza says. “The jokes we tell, the things we laud, matter.”

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Native American tribes saw their But we all too often forget burial grounds turn from sacred land about the Grand Coulee Dam, to the floor of Lake Roosevelt and the concrete behemoth located their fishing resources depleted by less than 100 miles from Spokane the impeded salmon run. We also that not only transformed the learn of Grand Coulee’s human toll — landscape of Central Washington 72 men were killed in accidents in the but also served as a symbol of the seven-plus years of construction. country’s we-can-do-it ascension But the Grand Coulee ultimately out of the Great Depression. plays the hero when the U.S. dives Grand Coulee Dam, the into World War II and the dam is soon-to-air documentary from able to play a pivotal roll in providing PBS’ award-winning American electricity to airplane construction in Experience series, details not just Seattle and nuclear experimentation the genesis of the dam but also the in Hanford. cultural, social and political impact Ives leaves few stones unturned of what was, upon its construcIt’s more than just a story about a dam. and, for Washingtonians, this is a tion, the largest concrete structure chance to see the reality — warts and all — behind what in the world. Directed by Stephen Ives, known for other has essentially become a tourist attraction in the minds of PBS documentaries, including the acclaimed series The many in this state.

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n 1984, Brad Upton was living in Pasco. He in Spokane this weekend. Upton figured he’d was 28. He was married. He was several been in town, so he might as well take the stage. years into a career as a fourth-grade teacher.

While he’s a family man, and still very much Things were going well, but he had an itch. He’d driven by his comedy career, it seems that, at always wanted to perform stand-up comedy. least for this weekend, it was his family life that One Sunday afternoon, he got in his car and dictated his comedy career. And for Spokane drove up to Spokane, where he’d attended school comedy fans, that’s a coup. A keen cultural and worked, landing at the Red Lion Barbecue observer, Upton delivers material that runs the on the east edge of downtown. That night, he gamut between one-liners and highbrow remarks, took the stage and told the jokes that had been but sometimes it’s his kids that might influence incubating in his his material. He’s got a mind of the past pretty good bit about eight years. Then, young people who use he got back in his their debit cards for car and drove back everything, and you to Pasco, getting a can tell where that few hours of sleep came from. before he’d need to But his kids don’t be back in the classnecessarily think their room to kick off the dad is a funny guy. school week.

“To them, I’m “I was just their dad. Sometimes I thrilled that I was can tell they’re trying able to do it. Sure, not to laugh,” says I probably wasn’t Upton. “There are making enough to times when my son even cover gas back and his friends are to the Tri-Cities,” downstairs and I’ll recalls Upton. go down there and The show went start riffing with these well, or at least well teenagers and making enough to inspire them laugh, but I can Upton to begin see my son looking at routinely making me like, ‘Just go back the out-and-back upstairs.’” drive from the TriRecently, though, Cities on a regular the teenybopping tanbasis. A few years dem of Justin Bieber later, he moved to and Selena Gomez Seattle. Now, he were spotted at one of performs all over Upton’s shows. Sudthe world, opening denly, he wasn’t such shows for the likes a dorky dad.

In 1985, Brad Upton played his first gig at the Red Lion Barbecue. of Joan Rivers and Upton still has Johnny Mathis or performing corporate gigs for a fond memories of his time in Spokane. He speaks corn growers association in Chicago like he was with a nostalgic giddiness about running the the night before he spoke with The Inlander. He’s hurdles with his Spokane Community College also been around the world on cruise ships. track team and his place in Hillyard and going to But somehow, he’s never been back to school at Eastern.

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He liked living here, yet his career took him This weekend, however, at age 56, Upton finally elsewhere. Not too far away, though. returns.

“I probably should have moved to L.A. or “It will be fun to be back in the neighborNew York, but never have. I have no regrets hood and drive around. You know, look at some about that, though,” he says. n of the old places,” says Upton. mikeb@inlander.com He’s not just coming to Spokane to perform.

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Dustin Parvin and his mother, Beccie, receive food from the Northeast Food Bank.

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By Jordy Byrd

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he Northeast Community Center is a honeycomb of classrooms. Today, the Hillyard facility is full of giggling children and people waiting for food from the Northeast Food Bank, just a small alcove within the facility.

In the lobby, Russian grandmothers wait, leaning on walkers, in long pleated skirts, with scarves wrapped neatly around their heads. Mothers and daughters thumb through magazines, and a man with a cross around his neck waits with a shopping cart full of groceries, his eyes fixed on the floor.

The Northeast Food Bank has operated for 30 years and functions under the umbrella of the Spokane Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP). In 2010, volunteers fed 2,239 people. In 2011, that number rose to 3,798 — approximately 20 households per day.

“It gets a little hectic around here in the middle and end of the month,” says food bank coordinator Cara Kowalski. “In the beginning of the month, people have

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gotten their food stamps or assistance elsewhere.”

According to the Washington Food Coalition, Washington is the 11th-hungriest state in the nation. Already in 2012, the coalition reports record-high numbers of people — nearly 2 million visits this year so far — accessing food banks, putting the emergency food system under stress.

The Northeast Food Bank is one of 20 emergency food banks in the area. These emergency outlets receive private donations, but the bulk of their food comes from state and federal commodities that are allocated through Second Harvest, the regional hunger-relief network. And some of those allocations come with bureaucratic restrictions.

Last year, the food bank received about 125,000 pounds of food from the state, and another 43,000 pounds from the federal Department of Agriculture and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

The TEFAP food can only be donated to people living in specific Hillyard zip codes. This makes distributing

multiple piles of food — coming from private, state and federal donations — somewhat difficult.

“We get people who don’t know where they’re supposed to go,” says Kowalski. “And we can only give people outside of our jurisdiction food from Northwest Harvest [a statewide nonprofit food bank distributor], but we can’t give them federal food.”

In contrast to the federal and state-allocated food, Northwest Harvest allows its donations to be provided to anyone in need.

“Our policy is to try to be accommodating and locate emergency resources,” says Kowalski.

Because of the need and the parameters surrounding food allocation, the Northeast Food Bank is participating in the Feinstein Food Challenge, marking the first time the food bank has relied on such a contest.

Philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein has pledged to divide $1 million amongst hunger-fighting agencies across the country. Between now and April 30, the more

monetary and food donations Northeast Food Bank receives, the more of the Feinstein Challenge money they will get.

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he Northeast Food Bank is comprised of one window and two small stock rooms. The window is covered in pamphlets about healthy eating and community resources. Behind the window is a city of cardboard boxes and the sound of rustling plastic bags.

Kowalski’s position was granted through AmeriCorps.

She and 10 volunteers dole out food five days a week. People can access the food bank by appointment only once a month.

Volunteers hand out three to five days’ worth of food, including canned soup, rice, beans, eggs, apples and some vegetables.

“We are an emergency food bank, which means [people] really need this,” Kowalski says. “We understand there is a stigma surrounding emergency food assistance. No one wants to be in a position where they have to come to the food bank.”

Jim Funk, 55, has soft blue eyes, a friendly moustache and an even your money or non-perishable food items friendlier demeanor.

— especially peanut butter, non-perishable He’s lived in Hillyard for more than 20 years, proteins, cereal, baking ingredients and hearty soups — at any Spokane SNAP but he didn’t know location between 8 am-4:30 pm. Visit: about the food bank snap.org for locations. Call (509) 487-1114 until six months ago. for more info.

His neighbor mentioned it when he went weeks without employment, then months, then a year.

“I didn’t go on unemployment right away, but I probably should have,” Funk says. “I just didn’t feel good about taking unemployment so I went through my savings first.”

Funk lost his job in the meat department at Walmart. These days, he marks his appointments with the food bank, the unemployment office, DSHS and SNAP with a red marker on the calendar he keeps in the kitchen.

He comes to the Northeast Community Center every day and looks for jobs in the computer lab. He receives food from the food bank once a month.

“Nobody I know needs to come here,” he says. “They’ve all got good jobs. But I’m not embarrassed about it. I’m having a problem keeping up on my bills, and things like this really help me out.”

Funk doesn’t have health insurance. His glasses are badly scratched, and two months ago, his water was turned off.

“It’s gonna get worse,” he says. “It’s not gonna get any better until I get a job, and I really don’t want my power turned off.”

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Ramil Khanaliyev, 25, has lived in Spokane for one year. He’s originally from Azerbaijan, a small country south of Russia. He moved to the United States four years ago as an international student studying economics. He plans to live permanently in Spokane.

“I have a mission to become a better person, prove myself and get an education,” he says. “I’m very appreciative of the people and government that has given me an opportunity to improve myself.”

Khanaliyev works full-time in the kitchens at Gonzaga University. He goes to school full-time at Spokane Falls Community College and volunteers at the Northeast Food Bank, with SNAP and Catholic Charities Spokane.

But occasionally, this volunteer receives donations from the food bank for the household he shares with five other family members.

“Everyone needs help,” he says. “Me included. This community is very important to me. I can’t give money, but I can donate my time and my generosity to help families like mine in need.”

Despite the increased demand in services — and the tightrope they walk with donations — Kowalski says the food bank remains a strong entity within the community.

“Myself and my volunteers are trying to be as positive a force as we can be in their times of need,” she says. n jordyb@inlander.com

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By Mike Bookey

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t’s still about two hours until the tip-off of Friday night’s Sweet Sixteen basketball games, but the Ref, a new sports bar in Spokane Valley, is already filling up. A group of Titleist-hat-wearing men huddle around a couple of post-golf pizzas, sipping beers as Tiger Woods performs exceptionally well at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on several of the massive television screens surrounding them. Pairs of diners eat late workday lunches as servers, wearing baseball-uniform-style T-shirts, each with a different jersey number, circulate busily through the 7,200-square-foot Sprague Avenue location.

Since opening just three weeks ago, the Ref — thanks in part to the frenzied nature of the NCAA basketball tournament — has been packed, according to general manager Allison Sattin, a restaurant industry veteran who helped open Brews on Washington in downtown Spokane.

“We wanted to provide a good place for people to watch games but somewhere families can come. We want to do good food, not just bar food,” says Sattin, who was also key in conceptualizing the Ref’s layout and menu.

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“I anticipated being very busy, but this exceeds my expectations,” says Sattin of the steady-to-overwhelming turnout the restaurant has enjoyed since opening.

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f you’re on Francis Avenue and you head one block north on Wall Street in search of a transmission mechanic, you’ll have to chomp on a 100-percent beef burger instead, because Phil Costello, a Mead native and owner of Stop N Go Family Drive In, has leased the shop to house his company’s second location.

The shop has been cleaned out, the equipment removed and the office extended into a seating area. Shiny chrome columns, black-and-white checkered flooring, red tables and white walls with black-and-red accents provide a sharp, retro style devoid of irony or kitsch.

Cars pull in and out of the corner store with ease. Stop N Go’s emphasis is on drive-thru service, especially in the evening, when families are looking for a quick dinner, and later, when those returning from the neighborhood’s bars are looking for a quick snack.

“We don’t use any crazy ingredients in our burgers. No preservatives. No ammonia. Just beef and fat. It’s as healthy as a burger and fries can get,” says Costello, who opened the original Spokane Valley Stop N Go in 2010.

The menu also offers fish-and-fries or chicken-and-fries baskets ($4.50 each). For lunch, I opted for the fish meal and a single patty cheeseburger ($1.25). The burger was the perfect size for a kid or maybe someone needing a quick bite after last call. A double cheeseburger ($2.25) or triple patty ($3.25) would be just right for

an adult meal. Each burger is topped with minced onion, pickles, mustard and ketchup.

The fish basket contained hand-cut pieces of lightly breaded cod (with an optional fresh-cut lemon slice) sitting atop a bed of straight-cut fries. The fry sauce is distinctive, with an emphasis on smoke and heat rather than tomato and sugar, while the tartar sauce has a slightly more Get the scoop on the local food scene complex flavor than typical mayonnaise-heavy dressings. with our Entrèe newsletter. Visit They keep it simple here, Inlander.com/newsletter to sign up. and simple is good. All transactions are cash-only, which helps keep the price low. Counter service is quick and the employees are invested in the restaurant’s success. Travonn Thomas, who works the counter, mentioned that she has heard horror stories about working in fast-food restaurants, but her experience at Stop N Go has been great, she says. “This is a real family establishment.” n food@inlander.com

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“Right now we have a spring menu,” says VanStone. “There are some savory crepes on there and coq au vin blanc [a traditional French dish with bone-in chicken breast, onion, mushroom ragu, whipped potatoes and crisp bacon].”

Madeleine’s, which opened in the summer of 2008, is known around town for not only for its extensive menu of pastries, but also other fare, including their award-winning reuben and a collection of other items that VanStone calls French comfort food.

“My mother and I are world travelers,” says VanStone. “We love the culture and the French way of life. And, of course, the food.”

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ITALIAN Ferraro’s Homemade ItalIan 11204 E. Sprague | Spokane Valley 928-2303 Authentic Italian family recipes from owner and chef Pat Ferraro, who originally hails from Casole Bruzio, Italy, makes dinner at Ferraro’s like a quick gastronomical trip to Europe.

Mildly spicy broth chock-full of peas, celery, tomato, green beans, kidney beans and tiny pasta team up to make Ferraro’s delicious minestrone, and the signature dish, spicy Chicken Al Diavolo with peppers and spices, will make your mouth water and your tongue tingle. rock cIty ItalIan-amerIcan GrIll 808 W. Main, River Park Square 455-4400 Rock City departs from the slightly hokey decor found in many Italian restaurants with its cool, clean atmosphere replete with large windows, sleek chairs and classic rock playing in the background.

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Stick a (pitch)fork in it. swordfighters and, of course, the huge, black-and-red Kronos, who is made out of molten lava, makes a lot of noise, tosses a few fireballs, and must surely want to be known as the new Kraken, but only comes across as a ripoff of the mountaintop devil in Disney’s Fantasia.

There are a whole lot of characters to keep track of here, and it’s hard to remember if they’re good or bad or just conflicted. It’s harder still to care.

Near the end, one of them does a 180-degree turnabout in attitude, jumping from being a bad guy to a worship, which means the gods might lose their immorgood guy, without benefit of any explanation to anyone tality. Zeus’ wicked brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) — the who’s still trying to make sense of what’s going on. god of the underworld — won’t just sit back and let this In a few cases, specifically those involving Fiennes happen. Nope, he wants to unleash their dad, Kronos, and Neeson and especially Bill Nighy as the weaponmakupon the heathens so that the Earth shall be cleansed, or er Hephaestus, there’s some good acting. But, as in Clash some such malarkey. of the Titans, Worthington’s Perseus comes across as a One brother kidnaps another. One flat, cardboard figure who’s going about son goes to the rescue. Other relatives his heroic business as if it were a chore WRATH OF THE TITANS of others gods show up and exude rather than a challenge. And it’s hard to Rated PG-13 either malevolence or goofy comedy figure out why the warrior Andromeda Directed by Jonathan Liebesman relief. But all of that is after those first is even in the film, beyond the fact that Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, 15 minutes, and by then, the film has Rosamund Pike, who plays her, looks Rosamund Pike started to devolve into an excess of good in tight brown leather. confused storytelling, overblown visual There’s at least a hint of a theme: effects and poorly rendered 3D that’s about as effective Only family matters. That idea shows up often in Greek to regular viewers as it would be to members of the film’s mythology. But the central story that’s told here isn’t happy Cyclops family. based on any myth. It’s a modern contrivance — what Yes, that’s happy Cyclops family — creatures that fit might have happened if Perseus didn’t settle down into a not so neatly in a film that also features flying, fire-breathpeaceful civilian life — and it’s all a bunch of hooey. n ing, two-headed creatures and big, angry, two-torsoed arts@inlander.com

Wrath of the Titans manages to eclipse the awfulness of its predecessor

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here’s a rule in Hollywood: No matter how bad your movie is, if it makes a boatload of money, there’s gonna be a sequel. The pretty darn awful 2010 film Clash of the Titans took in just shy of half a billion dollars at the box office. So, on to the inevitable, but I doubt the sequel will be its equal.

That’s not saying much, since the original (itself a remake of a bad 1981 film) was all flash and no substance, telling of how the Greeks are losing interest in their gods, and, in return, the gods are losing patience with the Greeks. There were heroes, like Perseus, and villains, like Hades, and monsters, like the Kraken, and it was all a big, loud slog to watch.

I’m not sure if it’s enough to say that this sequel is better than its predecessor, but for the first 15 minutes, it’s pretty good. The demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) has retired from the fighting life to be a fisherman and a good single dad to 10-year-old Helius. But his dad, the full-fledged-god Zeus (Liam Neeson) has noted that the Greeks are now even less interested in any kind of

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Audiences may do a double take as the lovable Julia Roberts takes on the charmingly cruel role as the queen, leaving room for Lily Collins to melt our hearts as a courageous Snow White. In this untold tale, the princess fights her way as the leader of dwarf bandits into the arms of Prince Charming and to her rightful place in the castle. (JF) Rated PG

SAlMoN fIShING IN ThE yEMEN

A British fisheries scientist (Ewan McGregor) tries to help a billionaire Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked) with a yen for flyfishing bring North Atlantic salmon to his country amid backdrops of political intrigue and marital boredom. Despite a frequently clever script

by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty), though, Lasse Hallström — a director

In the tradition of Starsky and Hutch (taking a self-serious cop show and turning it into a loutish buddy comedy for the big screen) comes 21 Jump Street. What once was a steamy, street-smart hot rod for Johnny Depp and Richard Grieco (remember him?) has become more of an ice cream truck with a flat tire — loud, churlish, calling attention to itself.

Basic idea is the same, though: Two young-looking cops infiltrate a high school to root out some bad guys.

(LB) Rated R

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While on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent, a team of active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs stumble upon a terrible and fast-approaching global threat. The team must immediately plunge into a secret battle to stop this horrible fate for all the world. With gunfire, big explosions and skydiving, this fictional thriller dramatizes the real life of Navy SEALs and the challenges that they face. (LM) Rated R

AlBERT NoBBS

Though an intriguing centerpiece for a story — a woman who must pretend to be a man in order to live independently — Glenn Close’s Nobbs is something of a recluse. When Nobbs meets Hubert (Janet McTeer) — another woman who lives as a man, but with a personal life as well — she begins to see the possibility for something more than a solitary existence. Close’s take on Nobbs feels inauthentic, like a gender-spin impersonation of Anthony Hopkins’ emotionally-repressed manservant in The Remains of the Day. At Magic Lantern (SR) Rated PG-13

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(SR) Rated PG-13 What at first seems better than its predecessor, Clash of the Titans, turns out to be not nearly as good. This loud, confusing story of Greek gods and demigods, stuck in the midst of family tiffs and troubles with non-worshipping humans, is filled with overblown visual effects, creatures that are more silly than scary, flat acting (except for good spots from Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, and Bill Nighy), and poorly rendered 3D. The “monstrous” Kraken in the first film was hokey. The huge, molten Kronos in this one just seems to be in a bad mood. (ES) Rated PG-13

cASA DE MI PADRE

Will Ferrell stars in this all-Spanish send-up of telenovelas, the tacky Spanish-language soap operas that helped (alongside the dual-family income) kill our tacky English-language ones. Not a movie so much as a concept, by all counts, and one that seems to win fans and detractors at about the same rate as Ferrell himself. (LB) RetuRning

ThE GREy

What first appears to be one of those standard horror films about “monster” animals hunting down stranded humans (in this case it’s wolves going after survivors of a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness) turns, slowly and subtly, into a meditation on mankind intruding into nature. Yes, it’s violent and has really scary moments, but it gets kinda hard to figure out who are the bad guys. Terrifically acted, very tense, and an interesting, wellwritten study of the lead character, played by Liam Neeson. At Magic Lantern (ES) Rated R

hUNGER GAMES

The first entry in Suzanne Collins’ hit young-adult trilogy of novels makes a great transition to the screen. After failed uprisings against the government, the citizenry is punished via annual Hunger Games, in which 12 boys and 12 girls are picked by lottery to fight to the death, leaving one winner. The story’s told from the viewpoint of possibly heroic, definitely anti-establishment 16-yearold Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence). Violent and thoughtful and entertaining.

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uly 16, 2011 will go down in Shock lore as the most dramatic regular season game in Spokane Shock history. The San Jose Sabercats came to town as 3x Arena Bowl champs.

The former af2 powerhouse, and 2010 Arena Bowl champ Shock, would for the time host the ’Cats.

Winner to the playoffs, loser out.

Starting QB Erik Meyer left the game due to a shoulder injury suffered in the first series – thrusting back-up QB Kyle Rowley into the spotlight.

Down by one score with :04 seconds left, Kyle threw the ball as far as he could. Two Shock players, and one San Jose player, jumped into the crowd attempting to catch the ball. WR Randy Hymes was trailing the play and caught the ball on a deflection with no time left on the clock.

Pandemonium ensued on the field and the Shock went to the playoffs.

The 2nd chapter of this rivalry will be written Friday night. Due to bad blood between these two teams, fireworks are sure to spark.

empers will be short and emotions will be high as San Jose travels to Spokane this Friday looking for revenge. The taste of last season’s defeat still runs deep in the Sabercats’ veins.

Having the Shock win on a last-second Hail Mary to knock them out of the playoffs may have started a fierce rivalry between the two teams.

I was on the field as Rowley dropped back to heave the pass into the end zone. Randy Hymes was able to reel in the ball as time expired and the crowd went crazy (as did I). The game was perhaps one of the most exciting in Shock history and will forever stain the Sabercats 2011 season.

As we prepare for the ’Cats this Friday, we remember a great game from a year ago, but hunger to make our own stamp in 2012. You won’t want to miss it!

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In her twilight years, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) reflects on her life and career as she finally prepares to dispose of the belongings of her late husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent) . Daughter of a Grantham grocer, she successfully broke through a double-paned glass ceiling of gender and class. Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom and remained as such for 11 consecutive years, until declining popularity forced her to resign. At Magic Lantern (LB) Rated PG-13

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The Rock and some kids have a Honey I Shrunk the Kids moment all over a Jules Verne story, traveling to a mysterious island — a combination of Atlantis, El Dorado and Brigadoon — with massive insects and whatnot.

(LB) Rated PG

The LoraX

The Lorax introduces — in Seussian rhyme — the story of what happened to the walled-in town of Thneedville, where long ago there were trees and lawns and animals and a regular paradise of nature, but now practically everything green is made of plastic, and people must purchase fresh air.

The film borrows quite a bit from the plot of Wall-E, just not very well. (ES) Rated PG

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A young woman with various strange medical problems that may or may not be tied to her birth starts investigating, only to find out that she was adopted and adoption wasn’t her birth mom’s first option. She tried, unsuccessfully, to abort the kid first. The daughter goes looking for the mom to find out why. (LB) Rated PG-13

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This is why we love Denzel. He’s the only superstar leading man with any sort of chops who loves playing a bad guy. Here, Washington plays a rogue CIA agent who conducts some psychological warfare on a green agent, Ryan Reynolds. Who hasn’t thought about terrorizing Ryan Reynolds?

Denzel does it! Bad ass. (LB) Rated R

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Rampart, the story of a scummy cop drowning in his own shit pond, has James Ellroy’s bloody prints all over it. Ellroy, who penned noir-novel-cum-film L.A. Confidential, writes a slow, grinding obituary for an old-school L.A.P.D. bruiser, Dave Brown.

Brown (a seething Woody Harrelson) is every bent card in the deck: a racist, misogynist, homophobe and womanizer. Everything he touches endures damage, from lover Linda (Robin Wright) and wheelchair-bound vet General (Ben Foster), to Catherine (Anne Heche) and Barbara (Cynthia Nixon), Brown’s estranged lovers.

As he draws fire for multiple police-brutality incidents, Brown struggles to survive. Investigating him is Kyle (Ice Cube), who’s also dogging Brown for an alleged murder he committed years before.

The new cliché — for now, a welcome one — is movies that reject standard Los Angeles glamour scenery, a la Drive, Bellflower and The Lincoln Lawyer. Rampart takes the grit of these films a notch further. At Magic Lantern. Rated R

— JOE O’SULLIVAN where — between friends, within families — A Separation won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film follows a wife who asks for a divorce after her husband refuses to emigrate with her away from Iran. The family split leads to a power struggle between not just man and wife, but a whole community. This may take place in Iran, but the story transcends culture. It’s a universally human film.

At Magic Lantern (SR) Rated PG

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Greg Kinnear is a conniving, broke insurance salesman who enlists Billy Crudup, an equally conniving security system installer, to help him steal a violin worth $25,000 from a loony elderly man. Things go bad, though: Crudup reveals himself to be batshit insane, and we go speeding off down black-comedy lane. (LB) Rated R

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Life is hard for super-sexy but supersingle Reese Witherspoon. Just when she thinks she’s never going to find a man, she finds two! And, unbeknownst to her, they’re both spies!

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Despite being propelled by interesting ideas, Ewan McGregor’s latest drowns in its own lack of focus here’s a recurring line throughout direcMinister’s no-nonsense press liaison (Kristin Scott tor Lasse Hallström’s adaptation of Paul Thomas) tries to wrangle the sheikh’s project into Torday’s 2007 novel, regarding what’s some much-needed positive public relations for possible “in theory.” It relates primarily to the the Brits in the Middle East, even as the sheikh’s fanciful premise — the desire of a own people attempt to stop billionaire Yemeni sheikh (Amr the project out of fear that he’s SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN altering both the landscape and Waked) with a yen for fly-fishing Rated PG-13 to create a functional habitat for their way of life.

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by Lasse Hallström North Atlantic salmon in his Despite a frequently clever Starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, country — but it could just as script by Simon Beaufoy (The easily apply to the aspirations of Amr Waked Full Monty), though, and one of the film itself.

Thomas’ snappiest performancIn theory, there’s potential in the story of es in years, Hallstöm — a director who, in recent the British fisheries civil servant Dr. Alfred years, has tended towards filing down the rough Jones (Ewan McGregor) — whose marriage to a edges of every project he touches — can’t quite workaholic banker (Rachel Stirling) has grown connect all those disparate elements. as tedious as his job — assigned to assist the Salmon Fishing in the Yemen attempts to fuse sheikh with a plan Dr. Jones considers absurd. tentative romance with snappy political satire, It might be possible to create a connection and combine a meditation on mysticism with a between Dr. Jones and the sheikh’s financial plot involving terrorism. The story itself may be manager, Harriet (Emily Blunt), despite Harriet’s about the collision between cynicism and faith, still-fresh relationship with a missing-in-action but jarring tonal shifts and lack of focus rarely British soldier (Tom Mison). And, theoretically, work — even in theory. n it might be possible to mix all that into a cocktail of pragmatic international politics, as the Prime arts@inlander.com

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Girls Just Wanna Be Punk Equal parts playful and punk, the Coathangers have become much more than a girl band

By Leah Sottile

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t first, it was just playtime.

The thoughtful music, slick video production, New York Times attention and South by Southwest performances — that all came later.

Because when the Coathangers, an Atlanta punk band made up of four 20-something females, first started, they had just one member who knew her way around an instrument. Singer Julia Kugel had played a little acoustic guitar before. In this band, she picked up an electric guitar, and her friends tried out drums, bass and keys for the first time in their living room.

“This is all our first band. We’ve never been in any other bands,” Meredith Franco, the Coathangers’ bass player, says over the phone from the checkout line at a Tucson Target. “We were just, like, hanging out.”

Hanging out turned into practicing and writing

short, sassy punk songs. And practicing turned into performing at house parties and shows around Atlanta. For their band name, they decided on a backalley abortion reference. And instead of Meredith, Stephanie, Candace and Julia, they called themselves Minnie, Rusty, BeBe and Crook Kid Coathanger.

But back then, their sugary punk songs made them seem like just a bunch of girls making skin-deep music. “We just wanted to play music that we wanted to make,” Franco says.

The Coathangers’ 2007 self-titled debut is filled with mildly shocking, in-your-face ditties, like “Shut the F--- Up” and an eye-roller called “Nestle in My Boobies.” Their songs existed in a musical gray area.

On one hand slightly feeble and simplistic, and on the other, an empowered, femme-y update on No Wave, like Lydia Lunch or Inflatable Boy Clams.

“Don’t Touch My Shit” showed Kugel and keyboardist Candace Jones yowling and screeching “You say you like my boyfriend, you think he’s really hot? You look at him like that, I’ll punch you in the twat!” The band was perfectly aligning itself to be a Bikini Kill/ Bratmobile revival vehicle.

But five years later, the Coathangers — who released their third album, Larceny and Old Lace, in June 2011 — have grown past those boob jokes and flimsy Tonya Harding quips. Their girlhood stage is behind them.

That’s not to say the band isn’t shocking anymore. The cover to Larceny features a naked woman crawling on all fours. But, lyrically and musically, the Coathangers ditch the schoolyard snark of their previous work. Instead, the band seems to focus on two idealized and completely opposite female archetypes: ...continued on next page

(From left) Rusty, Minnie, BeBe and Crook Kid Coathanger

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MUSIC | pop “girls just wanna be punk,” continued... the sweet, pillow-talk vocals of Kugel and the hoarse, cigaretteburned howling of drummer Stephanie Luke. On “Trailer Park Boneyard,” Kugel is doting and hopeful when she sings of a boy passing through the middle of nowhere to rescue her, “Where you go I will go/ what you see I see.” She’s a dream girl begging to be whisked away.

But then on “Hurricane,” the

band mucks up that girly-girl image with Luke’s scratched-up vocals, yowling “You’re doin’ what you want, you don’t give a f---/666 let’s take this devil down.” She’s the slightly scary tattooed chick who’ll drink you under the table.

That juxtaposition is now the most shocking and fantastic thing about the Coathangers.

Once they shed the boobie songs, the clever darkness and pain behind their lyrics became more evident. Without a candycoating, this band is able to really show its power.

Larceny’s thick sound and clever arrangement is partially due, according to Franco, to the fact that the band was able to stew on their songs for longer than they could with past recordings.

“We had more time to practice and record [Larceny],” she says. “We had the songs before we went on tour, so we were practicing them every night and we got really good at them. For [our second album], Scramble, we had a few days to record it. With this album, we had like a week.”

With a better grasp of how

to actually play their instruments, the Coathangers do what few other bands do really well: They keep moving. Franco will hand her bass off to Luke in order to sing, while Kugel plays drums. Or Luke will take the mic.

All of it — the clever manipulation of femaleness, their balls-out live show and ability to truly crank out a rocking song — has skyrocketed the Coathangers into the earspace of national listeners. Their live show has received praise from The New York Times, and Larceny has gotten

big thumbs-ups from the Village Voice and Pitchfork.com. They’re so much more than a party, girlsjust-wanna-have-fun band.

Asked if all the talk about their female-ness gets old, Franco shrugs it off: “People always ask if it’s different to be in an all-girl band,” she says. “I don’t know — I’ve never been in a band with boys.” n leahs@inlander.com The Coathangers with White Mystery and Myth Ship • Fri, March 30, at 10 pm • Mootsy’s • $7 • 21+ • (838-1570)

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6 Foot Swing doesn’t just play the music of the Jazz Age — they recreate it

By E.J. Iannelli

H

eather Villa has a pet theory.

The lead singer for 6 Foot Swing, a local six-piece jazz/blues outfit, says that when times are tough economically, bands like hers thrive.

“When things are shitty and the world is falling apart, you want to escape and you want to be happy.”

And escapism is precisely what 6 Foot Swing offers. Of course, the very nature of the music — timeless ballads like Gershwin’s “Summertime” and the sprightly standards that came to define the repertoire of artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington — has a lot to do with that.

Yet there’s another component, too, which might as well be considered a form of time travel.

That rests with the band and its ability to evoke the authentic zeitgeist of an era that lies well in the past.

Crucial to that ability is the band’s strict adherence to songs from the 1920s to 1940s. That means no original material (for now) and no Bee Gees covers at weddings.

Then there’s their innate theatricality, which manifests itself in the way Villa (who is also an account executive at The Inlander) and her bandmates deliver vocal harmonies or solo on instruments like washboard, clarinet, and trumpet. Her own background in arts administration has been channeled into 6 Foot Swing. “This has kind of become my theatrical outlet,” she says. “We’re very showy. We all dress vintage, so I think that makes it very enticing for people.”

Anecdotal evidence abounds. There was, to name just one example, the incredibly positive audience reaction to their performance of “Sum-

mertime” in Coeur d’Alene Park last summer.

“I know it’s a song that a lot of jazz musicians pooh-pooh, as if everybody does it, but we really paint a picture with it. It’s a number I can really belt out, and the way [trumpeter] Michael [Lenke] does the fabulous Louis Armstrong intro to it — it’s beautiful, and he does it with a lot of the same purity that Louis did,” she says.

As their fourth album nears release, Villa is brimming with even more enthusiasm than usual. The CD, titled It Don’t Mean a Thing ... If It Ain’t 6 Foot Swing!, is clearly the band’s most polished to date. Their talented lineup — which includes founding member Jamie “Papa Scrubs” Flanery on washboard and veteran guitarist Steve Bauer — is as strong as it’s ever been. And their performances are turning the region’s lindy hoppers into ardent fans.

Nor is their music finding favor only among the growing swing community. Although Villa says they tend to play with the twisting, twirling acrobatics of swing dancers in mind, that certainly hasn’t limited their appeal. In fact, 2012 marks the fifth straight year that 6 Foot Swing has been voted Best Local Cover Band in The Inlander’s annual readers poll.

That string of good fortune might have made it harder for the band to sing the blues, but there is perhaps one potential cause for concern. What are the implications of those five consecutive wins if Villa’s theory is correct? n music@inlander.com 6 Foot Swing CD release party • Sat, March 31 at 7 pm • A Club • $10, $22-27 for VIP seating • 21+ • aclubspokane.com • 624-3629

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POP OBERHOFER

“I

love Oberhofer!” That’s what Paul Shaffer, the bespectacled longtime pianist of the Late Show with David Letterman, yelled after the New York band performed on the program last week. It’s praise not every band gets — and it’s the latest in a tidal wave of love that Oberhofer (the name of one young singer and his band) has received in recent months.

The Guardian’s Paul Lester named the band in a recent “Band of the Day” column, where many emerging artists — like Lady Gaga — got early boosts.

It’s gritty pop music about rejection and malaise. Oberhofer is refreshing; even when he uses plinky xylophones, the music maintains its boyish raucousness and never swings into being too adorable.

— LEAH SOTTILE Oberhofer with Pond • Wed, April 4, at 8 pm • A Club • $10 • All-ages • aclubspokane.com • 624-3629

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pokane ain’t exactly a rock-skip away from Austin, Texas — and yet, somehow, we’re lucky enough to see a slew of bands from South By Southwest coming our way. Like Chicago’s Unicycle Loves You, a band that takes the freshness of someone like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and smashes it together with the whale sounds and moans of, say, My Bloody Valentine. On “Mountain Lungs,” the band conjures up this great, sun-soaked optimism, and then on “Evil Unmasked,” Unicycle Loves You just makes a lot of scary, strange sounds. In Spokane’s local music scene — a scene that flocks to experimentation — this band should be welcomed with keys to the city. Or just a Baby Bar T-shirt.

— LEAH SOTTILE Unicycle Loves You with True FO • Thu, March 29, at 10 pm • Baby Bar • Free • 21+ • 847-1234

uerto Rico’s Los Vigilantes reinforce that — as cheesy as it sounds — music transcends culture.

I’d argue that it’s impossible to not dance to this band, even if you don’t know a word of Spanish and are the type who pronounces the double-L in “tortilla” like a honky. Los Vigilantes has emerged from the garage punk scene of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a sound that hearkens back to the early days of rock ’n’ roll. Doo-wop vocals back up nearly every song, with lots of tra-la-la-la-las —like on “Nunca Sabras” and “Me Imagino.” It’s a modern take on the type of stuff you would have heard on diner jukeboxes in 1950s America. You and your ex-greaser-turned-salesman Dad will be snapping your fingers in sync at this show.

— LEAH SOTTILE Los Vigilantes with Whiskey Dick Mountain • Sun, April 1, at 9 pm • Baby Bar • Free • 21+ • 847-1234

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music | venues 315 MARTINI BAR & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace Ave., Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-9660 ACLUB • 4061/2 W. Sprague • 624-3629 BABY BAR • 827 W. 1st • 847-1234 BAJA BARGARITA • 115 N. Second, Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-7676 THE BELLTOWER • 125 SE Spring St., Pullman • 509-334-3182 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BIG AL’S • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-777-8312 BIG FOOT • 9115 N. Division • 467-9638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague Ave. • 891-8357 BLUE SPARK • 15 S. Howard St. • 838-5787 BLUZ AT THE BEND • 2721 N. Market • 483-7300 CARR’S CORNER • 230 S. Washington • 474-1731 CHECKERBOARD TAVERN • 1716 E. Sprague Ave • 568-9004 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 South Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2467 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St. Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIZZIE MULLIGAN’S • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GIBLIANO BROTHERS • 718 W. Riverside Ave. • 315-8765 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 ICHIBAN • 202 W. Third Ave. • 747-8877 IRON HORSE • 407 Sherman, Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-7314 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208883-7662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague Ave. • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 4480887 LIBRARY LOUNGE • 110 E. Fourth Ave • 747-3371 MARQUEE • 522 W. Riverside Ave • 8383332 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 922-6252 MOON TIME • 1602 Sherman, Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-2331 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive, Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY• 220 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 SPOTLIGHT LOUNGE • 321 W. Sprague Ave. • 624-0722 THE SWAMP • 1904 W 5th Ave • 458-2337 UGLY BETTIE’S • 211 N. Division • 747-8940 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens • 326-2942 WAVE ISLAND SPORTS GRILL & SUSHI BAR • 523 W. First • 747-0556 WINE CELLAR • 313 E. Sherman, Coeur d’Alene • 208-664-9463 WORKING CLASS HEROES • 1914 N. Monroe St. • 327-0448 ZOLA • 22 W. Main • 624-2416

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SPORTS Respect the Scrum

For the 21st year, the Spokane Rugby Club is inviting men’s and women’s teams from all over the western U.S. and Canada to join them at the Spokane Polo fields to slug it out at the annual Fool’s Fest. Chances are, you are an American and thus know little, if anything, about this whole rugby thing. It’s kind of like football, but with a dash of soccer-style speed mixed in. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of violence to be seen — it’s just done in a more, shall we say, “elegant” manner.

— MIKE BOOKEY Fool’s Fest • Sat, March 31 • Spokane Polo Club • 7500 W. Hwy. 2, Airway Heights • Times vary • Free admission

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VARIETY Ladies’ Night

They’re calling it the Angry Woman Cabaret, but as far as we can tell, this show might be better named the Night of Spokane’s Women. This variety show is, in fact, a benefit to help other women — specifically the ones served by local nonprofit Transitions — who are in dire need. This doozy of a show should help. There will be performances by rapper Jaeda, rock band Laylah’s Drink, tribal dancing, ballet, a fashion show and live comedy, among other things.

— LEAH SOTTILE Angry Woman Cabaret • Thurs, April 5, at 7 pm • Bing Crosby Theater • $10 • All-ages • ticketswest.com • (800) 325-SEAT

LECTURE Building, Not Destroying

Just in time for the destruction of the Jensen-Byrd Building: The WSU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students presents “Preserving Identities,” a conference that boasts three much-lauded architects speaking in various ways about the need to “establish an educational dialogue on historic preservation and adaptive re-use issues ranging from design to construction to ownership.” Basically topics on how to not just, you know, knock rad old buildings down and build something new in their place. Good time to have this discussion, since we’ve been talking a lot about doing just that lately.

— Luke Baumgarten Preserving Identities • March 29-April 1, various times • $10-$59 • WSU Riverpoint campus • spokane2012.com

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You think there’s nothing exciting about bingo? Tell that to the characters in the Spokane Civic Theatre’s latest production, Bingo, a zany musical about a group of middle-aged women trying to brave a brutal storm to make it to their bingo night. Directed by Scott Doughty, the production puts the audience into the middle of the action at times with the characters engaging you from the stage (and next to your seat) with, among other antics, a gameshow-like contest. And you can win prizes, too.

— MIKE BOOKEY Bingo • Through April 15, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $25 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard St. • 325-2507 • ticketswest.com

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MUSIc Low, Down, DIRTy

Celebrate the sweet and salty sounds of the bayou at the annual Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival. Weekend festivities include a good old-fashion dock party, blues cruises — singing “I’m on a boat” is encouraged — and concerts throughout the Coeur d’Alene Resort and events center. Go for performances by the Fat Tones, Laffin’ Bones, Sammy Eubanks, Big Mumbo Blues Band, Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings, Coco Montoya, Kenny James Miller Band and the Spokane Community Gospel Choir.

— JORDY BYRD Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival • March 30-April 1 • $20-$23; $35 weekend pass • Coeur d’Alene Resort • 115 S. Second St., Coeur d’Alene • cdaresort. com • (866) 990-9491genre title

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Where to Belt Out “Don’t Stop Believin’” This Week

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Thursday

Music | Café DOnna, 12005 E. Trent Ave. Music | CalypSOS COffee, 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA Music | Blue Spark, 15 S. Howard St. Music | rOCk Bar anD Grill, 13921 E. Trent Ave., Spokane Valley

Music | Opa, 10411 N. Newport Music | uGly BeTTie’S, 211 N. Division St. spoken Word | riverpOinT CampuS, Phase 1 Auditorium, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. coMedy | unCle’S COmeDy unDerGrOunD, 14700 E. Indiana Ave.

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Music | pekinG nOrTh, 4120 N. Division St.

coMedy | BreWS On WaShinGTOn, 7 S. Washington St.

Music | Carr’S COrner, 230 S. Washington St. Music | irOn hOrSe, 407 E. Sherman Ave. spoken Word | neaTO BurriTO, 827 W. First Ave.

TaSTe Of life Hospice of Spokane benefit feat. Chef Urs Moser’s gourmet cuisine. March 30 from 5:30-8:30 pm. $75.

Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside Ave. (456-0438) 24 hOurS aT SChWeiTzer The 24 hour skiathon raises funds for cystinosis research. March 30-31. Times vary. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) ShamrOCk Gala Family Maternity Center at Providence Holy Family Hospital benefit feat. food, fine wine, dancing and auction packages. March 31 from 6-11 pm. $150; table sponsor for $2,000.

The Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. phc. org (474-4923) an eveninG WiTh harley-DaviDSOn Auctions, diner and music by Sammy Eubanks in a benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. March 31 at 7 pm. $60. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. (325-3902) remeDy Drive COnCerT Holly Starr and Dan and Shelley Powers. April 1 at 6 pm. All-ages. $15-$38. Kroc Center, 1765 Golf Course Rd., Coeur d’Alene (208667-1865)

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COmeDy niGhT Terry Canfield, Darryl Burns, Zaq Bell and Ed Clark. March 29 at 8 pm. $10. A Club, 416 W. Sprague Ave. aclubspokane.com (624-3629) CarlOS menCia March 30 at 7:30 pm.

TBA. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, Wash. (481-6168)

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Downtown Library, 906 W. Main Ave. (444-5336) DiverSiTy mOnOlOGueS Student performances followed by Shihan the Poet, a former National Poetry Slam Champion. March 29 at 7 pm. Gonzaga Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone Ave. (313-4105) auTO BOaT SpeeD ShOW Vendors, booths, exhibits, hot rods, race cars and more. March 30 from noon-10 pm, March 31 from 10 am-10 pm, April 1 from 10 am-7 pm. $10-$14. Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org (477-1766) animal aDOpTiOn evenT Adoption fees will be waived during the Pet Savers, SCRAPS, SpokAnimal and Spokane Humane Society event. March 30 from 4-7 pm and March 31 from 8 am-noon.

Subaru of Spokane, 423 W. Third Ave. (534-8133) WaShinGTOn STaTe QuilTerS Sale featuring fabric, patterns, books and more. March 31 from 8-11:30 am. Free.

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March 31 at 7 pm. $5. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow, Idaho (208-3018039) ShOOTinG STar DanCerS Coeur d’Alene tribe dancers. April 2 from noon-1 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene (208769-3300) hOOp DanCerS Tangled Roots Dance Studio. April 4 from 12:30-1:15 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene (208-769-3300)

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621 W. Mallon Ave. Suite 416. thekitchenengine.com (328-3335) Gluten-Free CookinG Barbecue chicken tenders, Mexican pasta, chocolate banana cupcakes. March 29 from 6-7:30 pm. Pilgrim’s Market, 1316 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene. pilgrimsmarket.com (208-676-9730) Bread MakinG Workshop Techniques with yeast, flour, dough temperatures, shaking and baking. March 29 from 6-8 pm. $35. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. Fifth St., Moscow, Idaho (208-882-8537) italian Wine tastinG Eight different wines, including barolo and barbaresco.

March 30 at 7 pm. $20. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (343-2253) GourMet Cheese dinner Gourmet dinner prepared by Chef Jack Louie in a benefit for Angels Home Orphanage.

March 31 at 6 pm. $20. St. Thomas More Hall, 505 W. St. Thomas More Way (4670290) salad Workshop Quinoa and tabbouleh salad, ahi tuna salad, rainbow chicken salad and dressings. March 31 from 11 am-2 pm. $45. 315 Martinis and Tapas, 315 Wallace Ave., Coeur d’Alene.

315martinisandtapas.com (208-6679660) salad CookinG Class Rainbow chicken salad, Russian curry salad dressing, French seafood salads and more with Chef Kris Mcllvenna. April 2 at 5:30 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com (328-3335) Free iCe CreaM day Free scoops of select ice cream. April 3. Ben & Jerry’s River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. (455-8500)

inter-triBal Food Feast Salmon, fry bread, corn, huckleberry dessert. April 4 from 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $6. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene (208-769-3300) Behold Jesus! Easter drama. March 31 at 1 pm and 6:30 pm. Free. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanedreamcenter.org (9242630)

Lectures

p anel disCussion “The Future of Women’s and Gender Studies in Christian Universities.” April 3 at 3:15. Free.

Whitworth University Weyerhaeuser Hall, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. (777-4937) norM staMp er Former Seattle chief of police and author of “Breaking Rank” will host a question-and-answer series with community members. March 29 at 7 pm. Free. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. mettheater.com (2277404) JiM MCdonald Preservation architect.

March 29 at 6:30 pm. WSU Riverpoint Campus, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. spokane2012.com lindy sCott “Latin American Christians and U.S. Foreign Policy: The War in Iraq as a Case Study.” March 29 at 7:30 pm.

Free. Whitworth Robinson Teaching Center, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. (7774937) reverend Bry an MassinGale “Cultured Indifference.” March 29 at 7:30 pm. Free. Gonzaga University Cataldo Hall, 502 E. Boon Ave. (313-6782) Curtis Fentress American Institute of Architects honored architect. March 30

at 6:30 pm. WSU Riverpoint Campus, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. spokane2012. com kevin daniels Historic-preservation real-estate agent. March 31 at 4:30 pm.

WSU Riverpoint Campus, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. spokane2012.com donna Freitas “Sex and the Soul.”

April 1 at 6:30 pm. Free. Whitworth Robinson Teaching Theatre, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. (777-4535) aMeriCan indian heritaGe Week “American Indian Heritage Week: Storytelling” featuring Marie Poirier. April 2 at 10 am. “Coeur d’Alene Tribal History Presentation” featuring Quanah Matheson.

April 2 from 1:30-2:30 pm. Free. North Idaho College Student Union Building, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene (208-769-3300) p hy llis step hens Gardening expert at the Compass Club women’s luncheon.

April 3 at 11 am. $18. Manito Country Club, 5356 S. Hatch Rd. (448-2045) JiM Frank The founder of Greenstone Homes will speak. April 5 from 7:309:30 am. $25-$50. Greater Spokane Incorporated, 801 W. Riverside Ave. greaterspokane.org (321-3641) david MontGoMery “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations” followed by a beer and wine reception. April 14 at 4 pm. Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931)

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keith sWeat Hip hop concert. March 29 at 7 pm. $40-$50. Coeur d’Alene Casino,

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relationships

Advice Goddess MAnure And Wife

My fiancee insists on having our wedding at “THE most magical place to get married,” this beautiful lake resort.

Her family’s well-off, but having it there creates a financial hardship for my relatives and our friends, who are working crappy jobs in a terrible economy. Our guests mostly live in our hometown, and the lake is a four-hour drive each way, and there are no affordable places to stay. I’ve suggested that we have the wedding in this beautiful space on my uncle’s farm, just outside of town, but my fiancee, who’s amy alkon typically unselfish, remains inflexible. She wants it to be “truly special” and says people who care about us will find a way to come.

— ConCerned She’S So Unyielding Brides-to-be can easily lose touch with reality. They start by pricing the VFW hall, and before long it’s “oh, is the international Space Station booked? okay then, we’ll rent the grand Canyon for a white-water rafting wedding. not to worry, grandma — you can use your oxygen tank as a flotation device!” destination weddings are great if you can send the private jet to pick up grandpa lou, great-Auntie Myrtle, and all your Ph.d.-equipped barista friends and then put them up in a vast estate you rented for the wedding-ganza weekend. But, in a tough economy, maybe your special day doesn’t have to be other people’s special day to go bankrupt: “Please join us after the ceremony for dinner and dancing, followed by credit counseling.”

Because boys don’t grow up having misty daydreams about someday being a groom, it can be hard for a man to understand how an otherwise sweet and reasonable woman can go all weddingzilla: “My dress must have a 50-foot train, trimmed with the skins of puppies!” The question is, is this just a case of bride fever — temporary blindness to all forms of sense and reason related to wedding planning — or is it that her true colors are graduating shades of bossy selfishness (one part Kim Kardashian and two parts Kim Jong il)?

When two “become as one,” decisions need to be a product of “we” and not “she” (as in, she decides and then tugs the leash for you to come along). A stumbling block to compromise is self-justification — the ego-protecting tendency to stubbornly defend ourselves, insisting we’re right and shoving away any information that suggests otherwise. (To err is human — as is doing everything in our power to avoid admitting we’ve erred.)

Preventing this takes putting marriage before ego — and making a pact to resolve conflicts by really listening to each other, putting yourselves in each other’s shoes, and working out solutions that work for you as a couple. Ask her to explain why this location is so special to her. let her know that you truly appreciate her efforts, but that what’s special for you is having everybody there (and without feeling guilty about what it cost them to come). offer to help her find someplace closer; maybe suggest having a pre-wedding photo shoot at lake Perfectweddingspot. Since there’s no wiggle room for friends and relatives who are broke, let’s hope she’ll come to understand that your guests won’t cry fewer tears of joy if you’re saying your vows in your uncle’s pasture. As for what’s “truly special,” anybody can have a fancy hotel wedding; how many women get the opportunity to have bridesgoats?

doctorS Without BorderS

My normally very sweet boyfriend told me that the doctor who gave him his physical was hot and flirted like she was into him. I told him he could’ve kept all that to himself. He said that she just is hot and that if she were ugly, he would’ve told me that instead. Clearly, he was checking her out, and I think it’s disrespectful to tell me about it.

— diSMAyed A person might “get points for honesty,” but if he’s somebody’s boyfriend, he’ll get lots more points if his honesty involves statements like “The lady doctor who just palpated my groin was a ringer for lou Ferrigno.” Most people get that merely having a thought isn’t reason to release it and let it bound around like a puppy. That’s a good thing, because contrary to what women want to believe, pretty much all men are checking out all women at all times. That said, if your boyfriend is a sweet guy, chances are his message wasn’t so much “She’s hot” as it was “I’m hot. hot women want me.” The implication being “Better hang on to me!” let him know that hanging on to you takes respecting what you don’t want to hear. As for the doctor’s intentions, considering the prospect of license revocation and men’s tendency to mistake friendliness for interest, it’s possible she saw something in him — and probable it was something like two benign polyps. ©2012, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa monica, Ca 90405 or email adviceamy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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events | calendar 37914 S. hwy 95, Worley, idaho. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) Spokane Symphony CaSual ClaSSiCS opera in love concert. March 30 at 7:30 pm. $16-$24. Fox Theater, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane. com (624-1200) Coeur d’alene BlueS FeStival dock parties, concerts and more.

March 30-April 1. Times vary. Coeur d’Alene resort, 115 S. Second Ave. cdabluesfestival.com (208-765-4000) BoSton BraSS Band Pend oreille Arts Council concert. March 30 at 7:30 pm. $10-$25. Panida Theater, 300 n.

First Ave., Sandpoint, idaho. panida. org (208-263-9191) kanSaS Classic country/rock concert.

March 31 at 8 pm. $30-$40. Beasley Coliseum, Pullman, Wash. beasley. wsu.edu (509-335-3525) norwegian pianiSt Knut erik Jensen. March 31 at 7 pm. Free. Steinway Piano gallery, 13418 e. nora Ave. (3274266) whitworth wind Symphony Concert featuring saxophonist lawrence gwozdz. April 1 at 3 pm. $5-$7. Fox Theater, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.com (777-1000) raChel dorFman Classical violinist.

April 1 at 3 pm. donations accepted. holy names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer dr. (701-2911) knut erik JenSen Accordion champion of norway. April 1 at 2:30 pm. $5-$10. First Presbyterian Church, 521 e. lakeside, Coeur d’Alene. knuterikjensen.com (208-667-8446)

Bill BirdSong miller grammy-winning singer-songwriter will present a lecture. April 5 from 1-2 pm. Musical performance at the inter-Tribal show.

April 5 from 7-8:30 pm. $5. Schuler Performing Arts Center, north idaho College, 1000 W. garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene (208-769-3300) maSterClaSS Jazz orCheStra and danCe gourmet dinner, big band orchestra, dancing and dance lessons.

April 7. dinner at 5 pm, dance lessons at 6 pm, dance from 7-9:30 pm. $10$25. Sons of norway, 6710 n. Country homes Blvd. mcjo.org (326-9211)

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Silver Cup raCeS Alpine J3-J7 race.

March 31-April 1. Times vary. Silver Mountain resort, 610 Bunker Ave. Kellogg, idaho. silvermt.com (866-3442675) pond Skimming Craziest costume competitions, family-fun poker run, treasure hunt, kid’s piñata party and annual pond-skimming races. March 31. Times vary. Brundage Mountain resort, 1410 Mill rd., McCall, idaho. brundage.com (208-634-4151)

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women’S rugBy Women 18+ team.

Mondays and Thursdays from 6-8 pm.

Mission Park, 11123 e. Mission Ave. spokanewomensrugby.com paCiFiC northweSt QualiFier volleyBall tournament March 30-April 1. Times vary. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls

Blvd. pacificnwqualifier.org (3536500) adult Co-ed SoCCer Three divisions, 18+, 30+, 40+ registration ends March 31. dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 n. Assembly St. svsl.com Spokane ShoCk Against the San Jose Sabercats March 30 and the Milwaukee Mustangs April 14 at 7 pm. TBA. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (242-7462) Fool’S FeSt rugBy tournament Men’s and women’s rugby teams from Western United States and Canada.

March 31-April 1. Free to watch. Times vary. Spokane Polo Fields, Airway heights, Wash. spokanerugby.wordpress.com gS Cookie Fun run Three-mile and one-mile fun run. March 31 at 9 am. register by March 25. $15, includes Tshirt. dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 n. Assembly St. (327-3803) Spokane ChieFS game against the Vancouver giants. April 1 at 7 pm. $5$10. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) BaCkpaCking workShop equipment and training discussion. April 5 at 7 pm. Free. rei, 1125 n. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) ConQueSt oF the Cage MMA fighting. April 19 at 7 pm. 16+ $27.50$62.50 northern Quest Casino, 100 n. hayford rd. Airway heights, Wash. northernquest.com (242-7000) empire ClaSSiCS Body Building Bikini and physique competition. April 28 at 9 am. Bodybuilding, fitness and figure competitions and gnC pro deadlift

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St.Patrick’s Day You: Beautiful, short haired brunette. Wearing a dark green dress and watching the crowd from the window one the second floor of Zola’s. Me: Lost in a sea of Green. How about we grab sushi sometime?

the Monterey a few weeks prior. You seemed so excited to see me again and nearly left me speechless. You took my hand and I followed you outside and just as quickly as you appeared, you vanished into a car and off into the night. I couldn’t stop thinking about you the rest of the night. If you see this email me at Lawncrab9@hotmail.com.

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own life, to be by my side. This was very courageous. I will be forever grateful for this gift. You are smart, beautiful, talented, and above all, you show a great deal of compassion towards others.

May the clouds part, the sunshine bright, and gold at the end of your rainbow, as you continue your journey through life. Happy Birthday Baby Girl. Luv Mom

inspirational, and a good time was had by all. Can’t wait to see it online.

Dog Walker Walking south on Grand with your dog (off-leash) at your heel, when I saw you on your daily walk I knew only two things.

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Ugly Betties Angela on St. Patty’s Day. I shouldn’t have let ya walk away. I never asked your number or if you were single for that matter. Loved the green glasses and talking to you. You’re quite rad I must admit. Hope you or someone that knows you sees this. dailydreamer1978@gmail.com. Will keep my fingers crossed.

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Hopefully you’re single and you’ll respond.

Monroe St. Post Office We were in line and I was short 75 cents on my total and had left my purse in the car! You said you would have given me the 75 cents but I ran out before you had the chance. What a sweet smile, and kind eyes...you were sending paperwork to get your alcohol license for your bar....can I come buy a drink sometime?

Downtown Revolver St. Patrick’s Day. I saw you for the second time.

We recogonized each other from

Blue Impala I saw you Monday, March 19th, driving on Sunset Blvd.

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Put a non-identifying email address in your message, like “petals327@yahoo.com” — not “j.smith@comcast.net.” a cig. Just for those brief seconds, you took my breath away. I see you from time to time driving the same route (guessing your going to SFCC) I would love if one day we could meet in the student union building and get to know each other.

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You’re the love of my life and the apple of my eye. I have never met a girl as nice and as good looking as you. I love you so so much. I am so lucky that I get to spend the rest of my life with someone as amazing as you. You make me smile every day. You make me as happy as I have ever been in my life. Thank you for putting up with me. Love ~don~ Flutterby 21 Yrs. ago, the Easter Bunny brought me the best gift ever, YOU. After the loss of your brother, you left behind your

J There once was a girl with a big bowl of chocolate ice cream. She was given a tiny little spoon. We laughed until we cried. Thank you for your endless love and support.

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I Saw You Chris for a little while, just long enough get to know the real you, beautiful, loving, caring. I fell in love with you, but was too scared to admit it. I wish I could be with you, I miss you, your touch, your kiss, your smile. I love you Chris.

Love Rachael.

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I really can’t thank you enough! I was able to get to my College finals My Proposal Jeanette and George, without a worry! Since I didn’t catch you two come as a pair and I your name, this was the only way I wouldn’t have it any other way. could think of to say thank you!!

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Gratitude For Kindness I have had a few lovely interactions with people in downtown Spokane recently; moments in which I have received the benefit of a simple kind gesture.

Thank you to the woman who works at the library that helped us race at the last minute to print out our very important page before you closed!

I don’t know why you were so patient and helpful to such rushing, disorganized fools, but thank you. Also, I would like to tip my proverbial hat to the smiling man who told me he had 50 minutes left on his parking meter up ahead and I could take his spot and use it when he left. I was feeling so run down right then, and you melted my heart with your random act of niceness to a stranger like me.

Thank you. Cheers to the everyday philanthropist!

St. George’s School “Cheers for hosting the first ever TEDx conference in Spokane! It was very

To My Love C hris I know that you always read this so I figured that I would say how much I love you. You mean the world to me and I am so glad that we are still together after all the bad stuff that has happened to us. I just want to say that I would not want anyone other than you to help me through all the bad that we have been through. You are the greatest person for me and I hope that we will still be together for many many years to come. I love you so very much you are my heart and soul. Love Jen Dr. MC Steamy A girl could get lost in those eyes. In fact you are so smart and handsome that I can never get my words out straight when we talk, or I just freeze up and stare like an idiot. Man you’re hot!

Stay steamy and dreamy! Hope to see ya around.

Act of Kindness Thank you to the gentleman at Rosauers at the Y on March 21st. My daughter ran in to grab a couple things while I was in the car with her little brother, she was short a few dollars, she was calling me and going to come out to get money, you kindly gave her some money so she could complete the transaction. She was telling me what happened, I was watching to see if you came out of the store, but

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nobody did. I appreciate that and she was speechless to your act of kindness. Thanks so much.

probably save hundreds of dollars every month by putting child safety covers over those outlets to make it harder for people to steal electricity. Using the outlets without permission obviously doesn’t seem like a big deal to the teenagers who basically live at the Plaza, but that is the kind of thing that can contribute to fare increases and service cutbacks. The next time the cost of a ride goes up, we can all thank the wannabe gangsters who spend 10 or 12 hours a day at the Plaza.

RE: Dear Customer Jeer AMEN to YOU! I couldn’t have said it ANY better!! That is by far the BEST jeer I’ve ever read and I’ve been showing it to all my customers, so maybe they’ll get a clue! Thank you for putting it best and Cheers to everyone in the service industry who deals with one of your well put examples everytime they go to work!

Almond Joy To the love of my life, you’ve made me happy to see you again! We can re-discover US while making our way through life together. I luva luva you! Your German Chocolate B.W. Over a year ago you came into my life out of no where, and a year later I’m the happiest man in the world. How did I get so lucky? I know at times I’m a jerk and hard to deal with so just want to say thank you for putting up with me. I know sometimes you question or wonder if I really love you, so I just hope you read this and realize it was just one more way for me to tell you how much I do love you!! Snuggle tonight? Love Always C.N. This Is Forever Babe! To the most beautiful, intelligent, caring woman I have ever laid my eyes on. You are an inspiration to me and everyone around you. Our love will never die. Your words are my food, your breath my wine, you are everything to me!

Bike Thief To the person that stole my bike from the Cheney Safeway Sun 3-25. I hope it brings you as much fun and excitement as it has me over the years; and my son for the first few rides of this year. It’s a good bike, and well deserved.

Kudos to you for finding it unlocked.

I really loved that bike, and it’s my own damn fault for leaving it unlocked. Hopefully, guilt gets the better of you and you ditch it

Jeers Spokane Idiots I moved to Spokane in October last year from Cd’A and I have already had my car stolen, thank God I have insurance, and now I go outside and I see f*****g key scratches all over the car I bought to replace the stolen one. I have people I don’t know knocking on my door to borrow money, people in parking lots and every street corner begging for money...

WTF is wrong with people in this town...

Voltage Thieves STA Plaza. The wall outlets at the STA Plaza downtown are there for the maintenance staff.

They aren’t there so people can plug in their laptops or recharge their phones while they loiter on the second floor. STA would

Car Burglar Jeers to the jackholes who broke my nephew’s car windows on the late evening of 3/19 or early morning of 3/20. This is a car that he busted his ass to buy by working full-time all last summer, including working wheat harvest.

The windows are replaceable,and he’ll have to save money for a new stereo and speakers. Worst of all, his backpack with his Senior project was in there, as well as other homework, was in there.

This is a good 17-year old kid who doesn’t deserve this shit. Oh, did I mention that he turns 18 this week?

What a crappy way to learn that people sometimes suck. Luckily, my nephew will have good karma coming to him, while you idiots won’t! Have fun with his backpack and his Senior project, dum-dums.

Karma is gonna hurt you BAD and I wish I could be there to see it!

E Cigarettes Just because you are not smoking a real cigarette, It does not give you the right to still smoke that E-cigarette at work. They still STINK! Read what these things are about, they are not much better for you. Who knows what you’re still sucking on? They are not aproved by the FDA. I hate the smell of it.

Voting I was anxious to see the Inlander’s Best Of list. I just don’t understand how anyone could possibly vote for a chain restaurant.

The only business allowed to be in the Best Of list should be strictly local. I thought that was the point, right?

Pet Owner 28th and High Dr. To my dog-owning neighbor. You think it’s perfectly OK to let your dog out when he most likely won’t be seen, so he can do his business. Well, he has spent the winter using my yard to do it! I don’t own a dog because cleaning up after dogs is not my thing. After having spent an hour picking up pounds of *%#!, he is now using my garden beds for the same purpose. You know who you are, and I know who you are. You also know there is a leash law and you can be fined for this behavior.

Now that it’s getting lighter in the morning, it won’t be long before your dog ends up in my garage until he gets picked up and you get fined. Do the right thing and be a considerate neighbor and responsible pet owner.

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