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irst, the bad news: The perpetual-distraction machine that is Twitter may, in fact, do a number on your brain. At least, it’s true of one person we know (page 25).

Now, the good news: Idaho is the fastestgrowing state in the union, and some of the reasons why may surprise you (page 20).

Now, the cold, dark and wet news: Our latest Snowlander edition includes ideas and suggestions for those who don’t necessarily want to fly down mountains at high speeds (page 28).

Now, the sweet and delicious news: How the humble apple played a starring role in the history of the Inland Northwest (page 29).

Finally, the fire and fury news: The feds have made it known that they don’t love cannabis, but what that means, if anything, for Washington’s legal market remains to be seen (page 22).

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Resolution Time The President, the Congress and the Supreme Court could all stand to take on some key New Year’s resolutions

BY GEORGE NETHERCUTT

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very year brings a new start for Americans, but New Year’s resolutions are especially important for congressional Republicans and President Trump in January.

Resolutions will help policymakers shore-up public support ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

Here are a few helpful hints: President Trump should resolve to stop taking criticisms so personally. Politics is fraught with critics whose existence depends on their loyal opposition to majority policies. President Trump, new to elective politics, must learn that such criticism will occur, regardless of his cries against it, via Twitter or his being personally offended by those who do so. Part of the process of being president is rising above such criticism, focusing on one’s presidential agenda, legislative program or policy objective. Let staff deal with critics in the New Year, but don’t get caught up in the pettiness of political drama — it goes with the territory of being president.

Congress should resolve to coordinate legislative policy with President Trump. Approval ratings, according to recent Gallup polling, hover around 35 percent for President Trump after nearly a year in office, and 13 percent for Congress — poor numbers. Congress’ highest approval rating was 28 percent in June of 2017 — it’s dropped ever since. One current congressional representative mentioned that Trump is on one page this week while Congress is on a different page. Next week, Congress will be on one page and Trump will be on another. Coordination is lacking for a president and Congress of the same political party, meaning that the legislative machinery necessary to move America forward is malfunctioning. And it’s not about “draining the swamp.” Trump has not submitted enough qualified individuals to run the federal government, a necessary function of coordination of public policy objectives required of both Congress and the president.

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ongress and President Trump should resolve to avoid war with North Korea at all costs. It will take effort to do so, but America should not rush to judgment or take personally the slights leveled at America by North Korea’s president. Nuclear war would change for the worse the world’s political landscape, to say little of death and destruction for all nations. Diplomacy requires excessive amounts of patience.

It should be exercised without sacrificing the principle of peace through strength.

Policymakers should resolve to solve America’s immigration policy by March 1, 2018, including resolution of the DACA issue (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Immigration policy should include securing the United States border, making delays inherent in American citizenship for applicants shorter and less expensive,

providing those of undocumented status with a “special” resident status, including passage of background checks and civic learning knowledge, preparatory to applications for citizenship, and payment of a fee for entering America without documentation. While it’s a big, complicated subject, it deserves policymakers’ immediate attention.

Legislators should resolve to adopt spending provisions that reduce the federal debt (some $20 trillion today) and deficit (about $440 billion).

They should trim entitlement programs, too, a necessary function of balancing the budget.

All policymakers should strive to raise their approval ratings in 2018. Politics is such that it’s unlikely voters will quickly abandon their opinions about politicians’ ratings. More statesmen, fewer ideologues and self-serving leaders will improve ratings. Recent sexual harassment claims have further tarnished leaders’ reputations and solidified negative feelings about congressional members. That can change if voters will encourage upstanding people to seek high public office.

Alleged child molesters and insecure politicians should be rejected. Congressional harassment training should help.

Congress should resolve to spend less time raising re-election campaign funds and spend more time on public-policy measures. Some members spend at least 40 percent of their time raising campaign funds instead of attending to national business. Restrictions through congressional rules should be implemented.

The Supreme Court should resolve to fix the problem of congressional gerrymandering next term, thereby making congressional districts more competitive. They’re not now, because 95 percent of all incumbents are re-elected.

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resident Trump should tweet less, smile more and enact more sound public policies. Though Trump boasts more than 1 million Twitter followers, media criticisms only make public criticism sharper. Print outlets will always have more ink than the president — and they’ll use it against him.

Finally, congressional Democrats should resolve to resist being against “all things Trump” and vote with Republicans sometimes.

Resolutions like these represent new starts.

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COMMENT | CULTURE misguided? Suddenly, I was questioning my optimism.

The movie felt gritty and layered, it felt messy and uncertain; everyone operating from their own conceptions of reality brushing up against one another’s perceptions.

That sure felt a lot more like life to me. People are complex, and truth... well, it lies somewhere in the middle.

Let’s be honest, the case of what goes into making heroes and villains is never all that clear. If Star Wars is art imitating life, then this portrayal could force us to ask some difficult questions: What are the stories we tell about others and ourselves? Have we perhaps been a bit too basic in our assessments? Is truth purely subjective?

Are we too fixed in our realities? In our labels? In aligning with those whom we see as “good” and in rejecting the beliefs of those we deem “evil?”

Have we perhaps been a bit too basic in our assessments? Is truth purely subjective? Are we too fixed in our realities?

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A Little Stardust in My Eye Finding balance — and truth — in Star Wars, and in the light and dark of reality

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’ve always been a sucker for epic battles of “good and evil,” where questions of life as we know it seem to precariously hang in the balance. Yes, fretting over whether the light will win out over the darkness is definitely one of my signature moves. Needless to say, I was in ultra-nerdfan-girl mode over The Last Jedi. While I know this is tad bit controversial, I’m going on record to say this was my favorite Star Wars yet. I’ve been waiting quite a while for this type of episode.

Something that has always bothered me about the

saga was the rather simplistic duality portrayed between “good” and “evil,” as if we can draw such bright and decisive lines (that literally play out in black and white) with respect to the Rebels and the First Order. And while I’m not entirely sure that I was ready for many of my illusions to be shattered, I was certainly ready for something more real.

I have more questions than answers (Spoilers ahead).

Did Luke’s actions lead Ben Solo further along the path to darkness? Suddenly, I was questioning my hero. Was Finn naive to think that the Rebels weren’t also purchasing arms illegally? Suddenly, I was questioning my judgment. Was Rae’s hope in her ability to reach Ben Solo

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In reflecting, I look back and cringe over the many times when I have been “evil:” petty, dismissive, judgmental, obsessive, manipulative, vindictive or haughty, but I know that I must make peace, internalizing those times when I have been “good:” giving, nurturing, patient, forgiving, warm, gracious or loving. My life is better when I have a more representative picture of the whole — when I’m able to acknowledge and accept both truths. I am certainly not the worst thing that I have ever done nor should I rest on the assumption that I will solely be defined by the best.

We are simply the sum of all our parts, a composition of both light and dark.

And yes, at the end of the day, I will most likely always come down in support of the Resistance assuming they continue to hold true to the values that I ascribe, but I must also recognize my own capacity for holding some darkness. In fact, while it was a really close call between Rose’s (“saving what we love”) and Kylo’s words, ultimately it was his lines and his wisdom that resonated the most deeply within me: “Let the past die, kill it if you have to, it’s the only way to become who you were meant to be.” n

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Keep in mind: Organic is nice but not essential.

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Buy as many of those items as you can in bulk to save money as well as prep time.

“One thing I do is buy the family packs of chicken when they’re on sale and freeze them in meal-size portions,” Young says. “I also like to buy frozen broccoli and take out just the portion I need for that evening.”

When planning your menu, Young says it’s wise to incorporate lots of “nutrient-dense” ingredients to get the most bang for your buck.

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“Any fruits and vegetables are going to be nutrientdense and low in calories. Beans go a long way,” she says. “Oatmeal is going to be packed with nutrients, too. The same goes for whole-wheat bread

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Protecting American consumers and workers from dangerous chemicals is at the heart of E.P.A.’s mission.

And action on these toxic chemicals LETTERS is long overdue. Their health risks Send comments to are serious and well documented. In editor@inlander.com. fact, a 21-year-old in Tennessee died recently after stripping a bathtub with a product containing methylene chloride.

Delaying these rules will needlessly expose two million workers and consumers to these hazardous chemicals. Yet Administrator Pruitt and his team have prioritized the chemical lobby ahead of our health.

Workers and families need more, not less, protection from toxic chemicals. EPA should end this dangerous delay.

This is horrid as the tax scam itself as I myself already suffer from chemical sensitivity. It showed up after working in a computer factory. Chemicals are dangerous and they can cause so many problems with your lungs among other body organs. Sad to see this White House is taking us back into the dark ages through their E.P.A. Like their tax scam, it’s so harmful to our citizens. It’s unforgivable.

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Call of Duty These Spokane nurses want to make sure every sexual-assault victim has access to specialized care

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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hen someone goes to a Spokane emergency room after a sexual assault or rape, they can expect part of their care may be going through a rape kit, where evidence is collected and they are treated for any wounds or possible sexually transmitted infections.

However, while those exams are offered at each of Spokane’s emergency departments, there is no guarantee that the nurse gathering the kit has specialized training to be a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) with experience minimizing any further trauma for the victim, and knowledge about testifying in court.

A victim could get a nurse with 40 hours or more of detailed training, or someone with only three or four hours on the basics of a rape kit — a disparity professionals across disciplines agree is not fair to victims or ideal should their case go to court.

“It shouldn’t be luck of the draw as far as where you turn up, what day you’re assaulted, which hospital you show up at, as to whether or not you’re lucky enough to have a nationally qualified sexual assault nurse,” says

Beth Sheeran, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to increase victims’ access to trained nurses.

Beth Sheeran, a Spokane nurse who’s undergone the training.

To change that, trained nurses like Sheeran, victim advocates, and people involved in law enforcement and the court system have recently renewed efforts to ensure that victims have access to that specialized care. They’ve been applying for state grants and looking for ways to create a unified team that could ultimately provide 24/7 coverage across the city’s ERs. For years, Sheeran and other SANE-trained nurses have volunteered during their free time to try and create the framework for a coordinated Sexual Assault Response Team that could send trained nurses to regional hospitals.

“We want to try to bring to our community a program that is going to enable any victim, any time, to have access to a trained forensic nurse,” says Aleshia King, another nurse working on the effort.

After a previous attempt to start an on-call team wasn’t funded, Sheeran and King took it on themselves this fall to create Spokane SART, an LLC they hope they

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can use to raise money to coordinate an on-call roster, provide training and work with law enforcement, nursing schools, and advocates. Neither has experience running something like this, but both say the need for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners is so important, they felt they had to act. They’ve created a GoFundMe with an initial goal of $50,000.

“Our community is not a small community anymore,” King says. “We need to deal with this on a metropolitan level, because we have so many people that are affected by sexual assault, both children and adults.”

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Having a nurse with specific training in sexual assault care is the gold standard for patients, explains Terri Stewart, Harborview’s SANE program coordinator.

“There’s a lot of components,” Stewart says.

“It’s not just about opening a box and collecting evidence, which I think sometimes hospital administrators think it is.”

Being a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner involves an intimate understanding of how to help patients in trauma through a difficult evidencecollection process, and ultimately making sure they know they are in control of the situation.

These nurses may also be called to court as expert witnesses, and most importantly, they actively want to help with sexual assault examinations, Stewart says, while others may not want to.

Some nurses may themselves have been sexually assaulted, she says, which could make conducting an exam difficult for them.

“All the nurses that work for us are coming to us because they want to do the work,” Stewart says.

FINDING FUNDS

Sheeran and King have been in close contact with Lutheran Community Services Northwest and Partners with Families and Children. Both advocacy agencies learned at the end of December they’ll receive grants from the Washington Office of Crime Victim Advocacy to cover 18 months of forensic nursing for adults and children, making a huge step towards 24/7 coverage.

With its grant, Lutheran plans to hire a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner to work nearly full-time, conducting kits for teens and adults oncall, once contracts are worked out with Spokane hospitals.

Partners, which focuses on children, has long provided medical staff at its offices to give sexualassault medical exams to children who’ve been abused, says Carol Plischke, executive director.

But until now, whenever any of the roughly 300 children the agency sees per year needed to have a rape kit done, they still had to be taken to a hospital.

“When we do a medical exam, it could be

where the child is disclosing something months after something has occurred, so it’s not like something fresh where you’re going to get DNA evidence,” she says.

With the grant, which is expected to be finalized this month, their nurse examiner will be available to take kits onsite, Plischke says. The agency also anticipates that nurse having a few on-call hours per week when they could respond to pediatric cases at hospitals after-hours.

Having the additional coverage is a great start, Sheeran says, but she and King, like the agencies, still want to see the community move to a full 24/7 model.

“It’ll be a great thing to have that reliable access,” Sheeran says. “If we raise that $50,000, we might just give it to them to cover the night hours with a third nurse.”

EXPERT WITNESS

When it comes to cases that go to court, having a trained nurse can be pivotal to providing expert information so jurors can understand an assault, says Kelly Fitzgerald, the Spokane County deputy prosecuting attorney in charge of the office’s special assault unit.

About a decade ago, when there was more coordination between involved offices in the area, Fitzgerald says she regularly used a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with experience testifying to explain how the behavior of sexual-assault victims isn’t always what people assume it might be.

Where juries may expect someone to be crying or emotional, oftentimes sexual-assault victims have a flat affect, Fitzgerald says.

“When we have a SANE nurse, we have somebody qualified as an expert who has the historical experience to say, ‘This is, in fact, a typical response,’” Fitzgerald says. “You’re not just bringing in someone who knows about the mind, but somebody who knows about this and does this on a daily basis. I find that is more effective with juries.”

Without a SANE team in place, Fitzgerald says she has cases where multiple nurses or doctors get involved, rather than one trained nurse, which means more witness interviews, and more

strain on hospitals when those employees are required to be away from work for court.

In general, an outside team can also help ease impacts on ERs by saving other nurses from needing to leave the floor, says Erin Williams Hueter, director of Lutheran’s victim advocacy and education.

Exams can take three to five hours, depending on the case, and the evidence needs to remain in custody that whole time, meaning that nurse is tied up and not able to help other patients.

“I would say eight or nine times out of 10, when a patient comes in requesting this kit to be done, it is usually not a day where we have five open rooms and nobody in the ER,” says Kelley Murphy, who has been a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for over a decade in the ER at Deaconess Hospital. “It’s usually the exact opposite.”

Murphy helps train other nurses who don’t get the chance to do the full training, and as she’s able, if she isn’t working when a case arrives, she’ll come in, even though she is not technically on-call for that.

“I’ve worked in the ER for 12 years at Deaconess specifically, and one of the reasons I stay is because it’s such a great group of people, who care about helping people and taking good care of them,” Murphy says. “I don’t like leaving staff high and dry.”

But, she says, it’d be better if the city could get more nurses trained and an on-call system running. She helped back similar efforts about a decade ago that never got funded.

“We need more nurses trained in that 40-hour course,” Murphy says. “That hands down needs to be the top priority for the city of Spokane.”

PREVIOUS ATTEMPT

In a similar push a few years ago, Lutheran Community Services drew up a proposal for an on-call SANE team after Providence Health Care approached the agency to see if it might be interested in coordinating that service, Williams Hueter says.

The idea was to have maybe 20 on-call nurses who could stagger schedules and cover every shift through the week, coordinated by Lutheran, which already provides on-call volunteer advocates who respond to hospitals to be with victims.

“It’s very expensive to do that, so it wasn’t funded,” Williams Hueter says. “We went back to the drawing board.”

Currently, Providence is working to make sure all ER nurses are trained to perform sexual-assault exams, according to Robbie Thorn, manager of the emergency department at Providence Holy Family Hospital.

“Providence is working with many of our community partners to develop processes to allow seamless and ongoing care of the sexual assault victims,” Thorn says by email.

Difficulty convincing hospital systems to pay for a SANE team isn’t unique.

“SANE programs are expensive, and hospitals are not always inclined to pay for them,” Harborview’s Stewart says. “I think one of the barriers is always having competing hospital systems and LETTERS how to work together.”

Send comments to Indeed, one of the main editor@inlander.com. questions raised about Lutheran’s pitch was how these trained nurses could contract with ERs without running into issues with unions, even between hospitals in the same health care system, Williams Hueter says.

But it can work, Stewart says. When Harborview’s program first expanded, its first new partnership was with a non-University of Washington hospital, which got some pushback initially, Stewart says, but ended up working out great.

For years, the only place people in Seattle could get a rape kit was Harborview. If they went somewhere else, they were told to transfer, but they often wouldn’t. Now, with contracts in place, nurses go meet victims where they feel comfortable.

“Part of the reason we expanded was an understanding that patients often have a hospital they prefer,” Stewart says. “It’s a willingness to say, ‘Hey, in this arena, we can partner together to work.’” n

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‘ANOTHER FEE AND ANOTHER REGULATION’ In response to complaints of MARIJUANA ODOR emitting from certain farms, the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency will start charging fees that could cost producers and processors in the county up to $1,250 this year. But the agency’s board promised to re-examine the fee schedule before next year, when higher fees of up to roughly $5,000 could be charged, depending on the size of the grow operation. Marijuana producers and processors, like Crystal Oliver, who owns a pot farm north of Spokane, say the decision seems like a burdensome regulation that could harm their business and the industry locally: “It’s another fee and another regulation for the farmers who are already struggling under the weight of overtaxation and overregulation,” she says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

JAIL SENTENCE OVERTURNED Craig Noll’s 364-day jail sentence, which stemmed from a ROAD RAGE incident with Stevens County’s only elected District Court judge, has been overturned. Although the judge involved in the roadside dispute, Gina Tveit, did not rule on the case, her employee and regular fill-in judge, Lloyd Nickel, did. Nickel slapped Noll, who is autistic, with the unusually harsh sentence despite his lack of criminal record and despite a recommendation from the prosecutor for no jail time. Noll appealed his sentence, and another judge ruled that Nickel should have removed himself from the case from the get-go. (MITCH RYALS)

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Over 5,000 marchers had attended last year’s march in Spokane. But last month, Angie Beem, president of the board for Women’s March for Washington state, announced the state Women’s March group would be pulling its support for the Spokane event. She says she’d clashed with local organizers over the degree to which the march should be inclusive and non-political.

Beem also says the state Women’s March group wasn’t willing to pay for the expensive convention center. Soon after, Cynthia Hamilton, leader of “Project Snowflake,” an effort to connect local voters to their political leaders, announced that Indivisible Spokane, an informal organization of local progressives, would take over the Jan. 21 march. But that’s meant risking thousands of dollars of her own money to secure the convention center, and scrambling to raise enough funds to pay for the event. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Using hundreds of public records from law enforcement agencies across the state, the AP built a database of close to 6,000 firearms that were in some way involved in crimes, and then resold by police agencies in Washington. The AP found that those resold firearms reappeared in drug houses, domestic disputes, a drive-by shooting and at least one suicide.

Local police agencies in Washington have discretion whether to sell, trade or destroy confiscated weapons. While some law enforcement leaders shiver at the possibility that guns taken from criminals end up used again for nefarious purposes, others contend that resale of confiscated items is an essential source of income.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office resells forfeited guns at auctions in Idaho, the AP reports. The Spokane Police Department also resells some forfeited guns to licensed dealers, Chief Craig Meidl says, and destroys others.

From Meidl’s perspective, the fact that SPD sells confiscated firearms to licensed dealers, which require a background check, is enough to ensure the weapons don’t again land in criminal hands.

The Washington State Patrol, however, has less discretion. Under current state law, WSP does not have the option to destroy guns that it takes from criminals. The state’s law enforcement agency has pushed back against that mandate, and at one point had stockpiled more than 400 weapons, holding out for a legislative fix, says WSP communications director Kyle Moore.

Rep. Tana Senn of Bellevue has introduced a bill, co-sponsored by Spokane Rep. Timm Ormsby, this legislative session that would give WSP the option to destroy confiscated weapons.

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Mandy Manning, a teacher from Spokane Public Schools, has a realistic shot of being named NATIONAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR. Manning teaches English and math to refugees and immigrant students at Ferris High School. She’s already been named the 2018 Washington Teacher of the Year, and last week the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) chose her as one of four finalists for the national award. The winner of the award would likely be recognized by President Trump in a White House ceremony this spring.

Manning, however, is quick to give credit to her students.

“It’s actually my students’ voices that have been chosen and it’s an opportunity for their stories and needs and experiences to get out there,”

Ferris High’s Mandy Manning is a finalist for Teacher of the Year.

Manning says.

Kevin Morrison, Spokane Public Schools spokesman, says the honor came as no surprise to the district, given the work she does.

“She’s a great role model,” Morrison says.

“She’s highly respected by her peers.”

This is Manning’s seventh year at Ferris, and her 10th year in Spokane Public Schools. The CCSSO describes her as “an ambassador and mentor to her colleagues” and says she is known for her “collaborative style and determination to bring marginalized voices into decision-making.”

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More water may be spilled over eight dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers this summer following a Jan. 8 U.S. District Court decision.

Sierra Club of Oregon, Save Our Wild Salmon, and the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association announced Tuesday they are all hopeful the move will help endangered and STRUGGLING FISH RUNS, as more water moving through the dams can help juvenile salmon make their way to the ocean, improving the chances of their return in a few years.

“This order gives our fish and the communities that rely on them some breathing room in 2018 while our region comes together on a long-term plan,” says Joseph Bogaard, executive director of Save Our wild Salmon, in a statement.

The 2018 plan was developed as part of a lawsuit seeking sufficient river flows for the fish, and jointly filed by environmental groups, the

Nez Perce Tribe, and the state of Oregon, and the federal agencies they’ve sued, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan, approved by Judge Michael Simon in Portland, “requires as much spill as is allowed under current state water quality rules for total dissolved gas ... unless there are compelling reasons to reduce it.”

The plaintiffs note that while the federal agencies helped submit the plan, they’ve also appealed an earlier decision in the case requiring the increased spill. That appeal could be heard in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before the juvenile salmon start migrating to sea in about April. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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The Republican federal TAX OVERHAUL would have an odd impact on Idaho — potentially increasing Idaho’s state tax revenue by nearly $100 million if not for a proposed tax cut from the Idaho governor.

The state generally uses the federal tax code as a baseline to determine state income taxes. And while the federal tax bill increases the standard deduction, it also slashed a number of other exemptions and deductions. So overall, without reform, the state tax burden in Idaho is expected to increase. That’s what the Idaho governor wants to prevent.

“It’s true that our tax burden in Idaho is relatively light compared with other states,” Idaho Gov. C.L. Butch Otter said in his final State of the State speech on Monday. “But our income levels also remain comparatively low, and beneath our own expectations.”

Otter’s tax cut proposal is big enough that it would actually reduce Idaho taxes by nearly $95 million. It would lower individual and corporate tax rates and include an $85 child tax credit.

And thanks to significant projected revenue growth, the proposed budget also includes big spending increases, including $10 million for technology for schools, $42 million for the new teacher salary system, $28.4 to help Idahoans get health coverage, and $2.6 million for three crisis centers throughout Idaho, including one in Lewiston.

The plan received criticism from both the left and the farright.

“An $85 nonrefundable tax credit for children, that is laughable,” Democratic House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding said, according to the Idaho Statesman. “Eighty-five dollars is one day of a babysitter for most families.”

And the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman criticized the spate of new spending, particularly the governor’s health care plan.

“It’s a big-spending lollapalooza,” Hoffman says. “It’s a cornucopia of spending on a lot of different things… I think they could cut taxes more if they spent less.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Where to Grow From Here

NORTH IDAHO POPULATION SHIFT BOUNDARY 2.8%

PERCENT OF NET MIGRATION TO POPULATION BONNER 1.7%

In North Idaho, leaders brace for rapid population growth

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

W

hen Hilary Anderson looks ahead to Coeur d’Alene’s future, everything points in one direction: up.

The city population will go up. New, taller buildings will be built up. The demand for housing, and housing prices overall, will go up.

“We have a lot of people moving into the area,” says Anderson, community planning director for the city of Coeur d’Alene.

Coeur d’Alene is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the fastest-growing state in the nation, U.S. Census Bureau data show. That metro area, the 11th fastestgrowing area in the country, includes Coeur d’Alene, but also the rest of Kootenai County — Post Falls, Hayden, Rathdrum, Athol.

The city of Coeur d’Alene, currently with a population of about 51,000, is projected to reach 81,000 people by 2035, Anderson says. Post Falls, nearer to the Washington border, is growing even faster and at this rate would surpass Coeur d’Alene’s population sometime between 2025 and 2027.

The growth is largely driven by people fleeing California or other Western states in favor of North Idaho’s relatively low cost of living, outdoor lifestyle and, yes, the conservative politics. But along with the influx of growth arises more questions for politicians, developers and city planners, all bracing for what’s to come.

“Hopefully,” says Idaho state Rep. Vito Barbieri (R-Dalton Gardens), “we’re not gonna see any high rises.”

COMING CHANGE

From July 2016 to July 2017, Idaho grew its population by 2.2 percent — more than any other state in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That represents an increase of about 37,000 people. Other states saw more of an increase in the number of people — Washington, for example, increased its population by 124,809 — but no state saw more rapid growth than Idaho.

Geographically, urban areas saw the most growth. In 2016, three of Idaho’s metro areas ranked in the top 25 fastest-growing in the country, including Coeur d’Alene and Boise. And it’s not a matter of births outpacing deaths. It’s people, usually people 55 and older, moving to Idaho from places like California.

Barbieri says people want to get away from where they were living due to economic or political factors.

“People are recognizing, if you want to prepare against a progressive liberal agenda, then there are some places that may have a better chance of holding it off than others,” Barbieri says.

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From 2015 to 2016, Kootenai County saw a net migration — the difference of people moving in and out of an area — of nearly 3,200 residents.

All this growth promises to change the economy. Just as urban areas in Idaho are seeing population growth, they’re also seeing most of the employment growth, says Sam Wolkenhauer, a North Idaho labor economist for the Idaho Department of Labor.

With the increase in baby boomers, health care jobs will become more in demand, he says. Construction jobs will open up, as will manufacturing jobs and serviceindustry jobs, he says.

Housing costs, too, will rise. Numbers from the Coeur d’Alene Realtors Association already show that the median home price rose 12 percent from November 2016 to November 2017, reaching $248,755. For people born and raised in North Idaho, that’s a lot. For people coming from out of town? It’s not bad at all.

Amanda Kuespert, an agent for North Idaho Real Estate, says that’s why clients are drawn to the area.

“North Idaho’s pull is that people want land and space,” Kuespert says, “and not to be living on top of each other.”

URBAN PLANNING

For cities like Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls, the influx of growth creates one major question: Where can the city expand?

And for those two cities, the answer is completely different.

In Coeur d’Alene, there’s isn’t that much space to expand, with the lake and mountains in the way, Anderson says.

“We are somewhat constrained,” Anderson says.

So the city is updating its comprehensive plan, focusing on “infill,” or development within the city limits instead of expanding outward. That could mean taller buildings, she says, with a variety in types of housing.

People in Coeur d’Alene are interested in low-mainte-

nance homes, without a yard to maintain, and condominiums, she says.

New homes will likely be constructed to the north on the prairie, moving away from Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Coeur d’Alene Public Schools recently passed a bond measure that adds space to its high schools and will add a new elementary school on the north side of the school district that should open in 2019. Already, the district is trying to find property in anticipation for another new school on top of that.

“It’s a situation where we’re always playing catch up,” says Stan Olson, Coeur d’Alene Public Schools superintendent. “What I’m trying to do is meet with developers and meet with municipalities and put this stuff on their radar screen.”

To the west, in Post Falls, it’s a different story. Realtors in Coeur d’Alene like Tom Torgerson are excited for the residential development taking place there.

“Post Falls has the most land mass to expand to,” he says.

Since it’s still considered “rural,” home buyers benefit from a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan mean to support housing in rural areas. Post Falls is planning for an annual 5 percent increase in growth for the coming years, part of it fueled by the USDA loans, says city administrator Shelly Enderud. However, once the population reaches 35,000 in Post Falls, as it’s expected to within the next few years, that benefit might expire for home buyers since Post Falls would no longer be “rural.” Enderud says Post Falls may try to get an extension, but by 2020 it could be gone.

When that happens? Expect more development between Post Falls and Rathdrum, a city currently with less than 10,000 people, Torgerson says.

“I have a strong feeling that you’re gonna see that market segment come in on the south end of Rathdrum,” he says.

“Our infrastructure in the Kootenai County area is failing. It’s going to be a major barrier to safety...”

For the state, there’s another consequence of growth that officials want to mitigate: traffic congestion. State officials with the Idaho Transportation Department, the city of Coeur d’Alene and the city of Hayden are gearing up for improvements to Highway 95, including smarter traffic signals and median crossings, aimed at reducing congestion.

State Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene, doubts it will be enough. Statewide, he says, Idaho needs hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements, and he says the state needs to do more than just maintenance.

He says he’s “eager to have a conversation” about how to find a revenue source to pay for infrastructure.

“Our infrastructure in the Kootenai County area is failing,” Malek says. “It’s going to be a major barrier to safety and quality of life.”

For Anderson, with the city of Coeur d’Alene, this is the reality of planning for growth — managing expectations from all angles to provide the quality of life that those in North Idaho expect.

With all the change, she says, it may be a challenge to preserve the character of North Idaho. Even though everyone’s looking up, she says, it’s still important to stay grounded.

“We’re going to work really hard to make sure we maintain the character that people love.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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‘Good People Don’t Smoke Marijuana’ Questions remain after AG Jeff Sessions’ unsurprising shift on marijuana enforcement

BY MITCH RYALS

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ast week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions withdrew a set of Obama-era guidelines outlining how states that have legalized medicinal and recreational marijuana can avoid federal interference. Those guidelines essentially told weed farmers, sellers, users and patients that as long as they follow state laws, the feds will leave them alone.

Sessions, whose anti-marijuana views are well established, has now paved the way for federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges in states where weed is legalized. Exactly what the new policy means for Washington state, other states that have legalized and those that are considering legalization, is unknown.

“He let the dogs off the leash,” says Douglas Hiatt, a Seattle-based lawyer who handles federal drug crimes. “If you’re a U.S. Attorney in a state where marijuana is legal, and you don’t want it, you’re now authorized to go after it.”

WILL THE POT SHOPS IN WASHINGTON START TO CLOSE THEIR DOORS?

messing around in defending the will of the voters.”

Beyond that, Ferguson and Gov. Jay Inslee say they’ve requested to meet with Sessions, as they did with then-AG Eric Holder during the Obama administration. So far, Sessions has not agreed to a discussion.

IS SESSIONS’ MOVE IN LINE WITH AMERICAN VOTERS?

Nope.

A Gallup poll from October 2017 found that 64 percent of Americans believe marijuana should be legal, the highest level of support in almost five decades.

The only two demographic groups in a Pew Research Center survey, also from last October, whose majorities do not support legalization are Republicans and white evangelical Protestants.

Beyond that, 29 states have legalized medical marijuana, and eight, plus Washington, D.C., have legalized the drug for recreational use.

It doesn’t appear like that will be the case, at least not immediately.

“I suppose there are people who might panic, but I wouldn’t recommend that,” says Sam Calvert, owner of the retail shop Green Star Cannabis. “I think it’s unlikely they’re going to start going after people. They don’t have the budget in the DOJ to shut everybody down.”

IS SESSIONS’ MOVE IN LINE WITH TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN PROMISES?

WILL BANKS CHANGE HOW THEY INTERACT WITH MARIJUANA BUSINESSES?

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE INTERIM U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, JOSEPH HARRINGTON?

This is the biggest area of concern for retailers and lawyers who spoke to the Inlander.

Carol Ehrhart, co-owner of 4:20 Friendly, says her bank has already contacted her to say “we’re not closing you down just yet.”

But if the time comes, “will we have to go back to strictly cash?” she asks. “That really boils down to a security issue for us.”

Along with memos that address farming, sale and use of marijuana, Sessions also rescinded memos that guide prosecutors considering going after banks who take money from marijuana businesses.

“He repealed the memos on banking issues and referred to the money laundering statutes [in his memo],” Hiatt says. “That may be pointing toward the direction they’re going. They start in on that, and I think they’ll have a good chance of shutting things down.”

WHAT’S WASHINGTON STATE DOING TO PUSH BACK?

There’s not much they can do at this point.

But Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson addressed reporters last week, saying that his office has been preparing for this moment since voters approved marijuana for recreational use.

“We work with other AGs and have a structured organizations of states ... who’ve legalized marijuana,” Ferguson said.

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Nope.

Asked by a reporter in Colorado about marijuana legalization, candidate Trump said: “I think it’s up to the states, yeah. I’m a states person. I think it should be up to the states, absolutely.”

In a prepared statement following Sessions’ policy shift, Harrington emphasized that “public safety is always at the fore” when his office considers criminal charges “including those that may relate to marijuana.”

“This United States Attorney’s Office will continue to ensure, consistent with the most recent guidance from the Department of Justice, that its enforcement efforts with our federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement partners focus on those who pose the greatest safety risk to the communities in Eastern Washington, by disrupting criminal organizations, tackling the growing drug crisis, thwarting violent crime and corralling white-collar fraudsters in this District,” the statement says.

Reached by phone, Harrington declined to elaborate.

Some of the more high-profile cases that have come out of that office recently involve heroin, meth and cocaine distribution, child sex crimes and child pornography and violent criminals.

However, it was also this office that prosecuted the family now known as the Kettle Falls Five for growing medical marijuana in 2012. That case was brought under then-U.S. Attorney Michael Ormsby, an Obama-appointee. Convictions in that case were eventually overturned, and the case was dismissed earlier this year.

“That office over there, I have no idea what the hell is going to happen,” Hiatt, the Seattle lawyer says. “Who knows? At that point, the whole thing could blow up again.” n mitchr@inlander.com

Clouds of Smoke Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ actions against legalized marijuana have put Republican politicians like Cathy McMorris Rodgers in a tough spot

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ith closely cropped, graying hair and notecards sticking out of his short-sleeved dress shirt, Doug Perry, an attendee at Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ August town hall, didn’t look like the stereotypical dude asking questions about weed.

He said he’s a conservative. A cancer survivor. He’d voted for McMorris Rodgers.

But there was one thing he didn’t understand: Why was she so opposed to legal marijuana? He’d never used the stuff, but what about cancer patients who needed it to relieve their suffering?

“As [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions has publicly stated, he intends to prosecute marijuana users and businesses. Are you agreeing with that?!” Perry asked. He shook his head incredulously. “Or are you against that stand? I’m very interested to know.”

The crowd erupted in applause.

“Right now it’s against the law at the federal level,” McMorris Rodgers said in her response. “I would support his efforts.”

Last week, that question stopped being theoretical, as Sessions announced he would be striking down the Cole memo, an Obama-era Department of Justice policy taking a largely hands-off approach toward enforcing the federal prohibition in states that have legalized the drug.

Theoretically, it means federal prosecutors in states that legalized marijuana, like Washington and Colorado, could prosecute businesses selling or growing weed.

For Republicans like McMorris Rodgers, the decision creates a tension between the anti-drug contingents of their party and those who’ve often called for the federal government to back off and let the states be laboratories of democracy.

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t the August town hall, McMorris Rodgers explained her opposition to legalized marijuana — medical or recreation — from the perspective of a mother.

“I think about my kids. I think about access to marijuana,” McMorris Rodgers said. “I have a lot of concerns on this is taking us and where it’s going to lead.”

In particular, McMorris Rodgers suggested that legalizing marijuana could exacerbate the opioid crisis, arguing that marijuana is a gateway drug to more dangerous substances.

“I think marijuana is a part of leading to more abuse and more addiction in this country,” she said.

The research on that claim is mixed. On the one hand, one recent National Institute on Drug Abuse study suggested that marijuana users were more likely to become addicted to prescription opioids than non-users.

Realize Your Resolutions Former Washington State Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown says that Congress needs to find a way to protect businesses in states that have legalized marijuana from federal prosecution. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO But other studies have suggested that opioid abuse and overdoses have actually fallen in states with legal medical and recreational marijuana.

Either way, the political tides on the issue have clearly been shifting: Thirty years ago, only a quarter of Americans supported legalizing marijuana. But a Gallup poll in October showed that, today, nearly two-thirds do. Even a majority of Republicans supported legalization. Back in 2012, around half of McMorris Rodgers’ Republican-leaning district had voted for Initiative 502 to legalize marijuana.

Last week, though, McMorris Rodgers didn’t exactly leap to support Sessions like she had in August. Instead, she declined to be interviewed by the Inlander, her staff saying she needs more information.

“The congresswoman wants to look deeper into how this decision will impact states, like Washington, who have already legalized marijuana,” says Jared Powell, spokesman for McMorris Rodgers.

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y contrast, former Washington State Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, who hopes to unseat McMorris Rodgers in November, doesn’t hesitate to wade in. Supporting Sessions or saying “more information is needed,” Brown says, is a cop-out.

“There is now a cloud of uncertainty for businesses that are operating in Eastern Washington,” Brown says. “I’ve heard from growers, I’ve heard from consumers, from people who are very concerned about the implications for the banking system.”

But she also chooses her comments carefully. Brown says she supported Initiative 502, and calls for more support for scientific research on the issue, but declines to speculate on what Washington state can learn from its legalization of marijuana. While some Democrats, like Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, had called for the nationwide legalization of marijuana, Brown declines to join them.

“I don’t have any interest in telling other states where they need to go on the issue,” Brown says.

Instead, she says she supports a bill from a pair of Oregon legislators that would officially allow states to legalize marijuana without fear of federal interference. Washington’s voters, she says, have made their preference clear.

“I’m mostly listening to what people have to say about the issue,” Brown says. n danielw@inlander.com

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dysseus had a tightly tied rope, a mast and a crew with wax-plugged ears to stop himself from dashing his ship against the rocky shoals.

Me? I have an internet app that, for 25 excruciating minutes at a time, stops me from checking Twitter.

You don’t really know, however, how deep an addiction is until you try to fight it.

During those 25-minute breaks imposed by the Strict Workflow app, I still found myself clicking back to Twitter whenever I encountered the slightest bit of writer’s block.

“Page blocked until a break timer starts,” the Strict Workflow app chides every time. “Back to work!”

A few minutes later, I check again. Still blocked.

Then again. Blocked. 13 minutes left. Still blocked.

It’s not just the sense that I’m addicted that creeps me out. It’s the Black Mirror-horror possibility that the app has been rewriting my brain. It’s that the app has managed to worm its way into the cracks of attentiondeficit-addled mind, to exploit the vulnerabilities, sap my ...continued on next page

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or a reporter with ADHD, Twitter offered the sort of deal with the devil impossible to pass up: You’ll never be bored again.

Journalists like me crave to be read, after all. Twitter gives us brief flashes of glory, the pathetic but undeniable thrill of seeing their published one-liner get retweeted 200 times. Worse, we’re information addicts, blessed and cursed with an undying, desperate need to know everything and need to know it now.

For the information addict, Twitter’s like being on a glorious, unending bender.

Information is pleasure. Dopamine — that lovely brain chemical connected to pleasure — drives you back to the source of that pleasure faster and faster and faster until you want nothing else.

These days, I’ve got 13 Twitter columns on Tweetdeck — 13 dopamine-drenched compulsion loops — streaming full blast at all times.

The torrent has made me a better reporter: Immerse yourself in a firehose of news for nearly every single waking hour, and you end up positively soaked in information.

But it’s done something awful to my ability to write.

Carr. “The net seizes our attention only to scatter it.”

At its core, writing is about concentration.

You’ve got immerse yourself in an idea or a phrase. The worst thing you can do is to abandon a half-written thought, at the first sign of boredom and difficulty, and check Twitter.

Lately I find myself clicking through dozens of Chrome tabs with increasing speed. I get splitsecond flashes of images, the tabs flashing like

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ext time you’re giving a wedding toast, ask your nephew to blast an air horn every few seconds during your speech.

That’s what it’s like to write with Twitter in the background.

Or it’s worse. Lately, sometimes simply getting from the start of a sentence to the end feels like wading through a swamp. I’m sinking further with every step, until I’m up to my neck in muck, unable to move my arms or see through the fog.

ADHD isn’t new for me. I was that irritating guy in your college class who’d ask ceaseless questions because it was the only way I could pay attention.

But back then LETTERS it wasn’t a Send comments to weakness, exeditor@inlander.com. actly. Curiosity made me more obsessive. Stray thoughts made me more creative.

Both good traits for a writer.

But our brains are plastic, moldable things, writes Nicholas Carr in his 2011 Pulitzer-Prizenominated book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Spend too much time skimming vast amounts of bite-sized information, Carr writes, and your neural pathways get rewritten to make yourself better at skimming and worse at deep understanding.

I can’t prove that Twitter’s made my ADHD worse. But there’s plenty of reasons to suspect it.

“Psychological research long ago proved what most of us know from experience: frequent interruptions scatter our thoughts, weaken our memory, and make us tense and anxious,” writes

strobe lights, my brain dancing mindlessly to the beat.

ADHD isn’t always about juking from one thought to another. Sometimes, it’s experiencing every thought at once, being flooded with so much mental noise, it’s indistinguishable from thinking nothing at all. The gulf between words and meaning grows into a chasm. Speech sounds distant and fuzzy. I can’t think good no more.

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few years ago, medication probably saved my career. Methylphenidate — 20 milligrams, extended release — felt like the superpowered pills from Limitless. I’d pop one, and I was smart again. Concepts had clearly defined shapes and sharp edges. A followed B, which then snapped directly into C. It was glorious.

But in the last few months, methylphenidate has lost its magic. Upping the dosage hasn’t helped. The swamp is getting foggier and the muck is getting thicker. This, I think, is how it feels to be that Stephen King character whose mind starts to slip.

Maybe it’s that my tolerance to the medication has increased.

Or maybe it’s that Twitter, in the age of Trump, has become all the more pernicious.

To become president, Donald Trump didn’t just harness Twitter — he hijacked it. Twitter became meaner, faster. The half-life of a news cycle fell to 140 characters or less. Trump’s tweets are wild expressions of a president’s id, a constant stream of insults, misspellings, absurdities and rants — each one sparking a cascade of punditry, rage, snark and punchlines. And then he tweets again, and the cycle starts over.

Who could possibly concentrate on work with a bonkers reality show about the direction of the country playing out in another tab?

I’ve tried to adapt. Work earlier when my mind’s sharper. Drink more coffee. Bold the sentence I’m working as soon as I find my attention drifting so I can someday find my way back.

And yes, I can shut off Twitter. But padlocking your fridge shut doesn’t make you any less hungry. Temporarily stamping out a fire doesn’t un-burn the living room. Tying yourself to the mast doesn’t suddenly make you a better sailor.

And as soon as my 25 minutes are up, my destination is assured. It’s back to the siren song and the rocky shoals and — oh my god — Trump just tweeted a nuclear war threat.

Because he can’t stay away either. n danielw@inlander.com

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BETTING BIG The Spokane Tribe opened the doors Monday night to its new 38,000-square-foot casino featuring 450 slot machines, 12 table games, a deli, a full-service restaurant and a game-floor bar. The $40 million project is only the first phase in a larger $400 million master plan for the tribe’s land along Highway 2; down the road, the Spokane Tribe plans to add a hotel, a cultural center, retail space and an entertainment venue at the 145-acre site. (JACOB H. FRIES)

To the People Who Move into This Apartment After Us

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BY MITCH RYALS

his is your place now, but it used to be ours. We lived in this corner apartment in Browne’s Addition for almost three years, and we did not want to give it up. Maybe you don’t care who we are or why we love this spot so much, but just in case, I’ll tell you.

I’m from St. Louis. She’s from Palmer, Alaska. We met at the University of Missouri, where we both studied journalism. She was a grad student. I was in my senior year. We moved to Spokane in March of 2015. I’d taken a job at a newspaper and asked her to come with me.

She’s an editor for a website based in New York and, until recently, worked remotely.

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ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Jan. 12. To wit:  ANDERSON EAST, Encore. The soulful roots musician (and beau to Miranda Lambert) releases a second set of killer country just a couple months after a “secret” show at No-Li Brewhouse.  BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Wrong Creatures. Dark, sinewy grooves are the rule with these guys, back after a fiveyear hiatus.  CAMILA CABELLO, Camila. The former Fifth Harmony singer landed single “Havana” among Barack Obama’s favorite songs of 2017. Her solo debut arrives a year after quitting her old group.  UMPHREY’S MCGEE, it’s not us. Progrock-loving jam-banders take a pause from their noodling long enough to record some new songs. Here they are. (DAN NAILEN)

In this place, we learned to compromise — I got my Batman shower curtain and she got the floral entry rug.

We argued over whether to tuck the sheets under the mattress or keep them loose. We pushed our relationship to the brink, several times, and brought it back. We learned that even in love, you need space from each other.

We hosted Friendsgiving, and I threw her a surprise birthday party. We ran out of chairs for both occasions.

Sunday mornings I made breakfast, and we sat on the couch soaking in the natural light from the huge wall of windows. On nights in alone, we drank wine and played Monopoly, with our clothes as currency, by the brick fireplace that doesn’t work.

By October of last year, her company needed her to relocate. She couldn’t turn it down.

I still have some things to do in Spokane, and unfortunately I can’t afford this place on my own. So I moved in with a buddy on the South Hill, and she now lives in Brooklyn.

The reason we love this place so much is not because of the in-unit washer and dryer, the massive closet space, the dark wood beams on the ceiling or the parking spot in back.

It’s because this is the place where we figured it out together. We built a life here on our own. This is the place where I truly fell in love with her. I think she would say the same.

We’ve been together for five years, and we’ve never lived this far apart. Now, our future is a little less certain.

I hope we make it through. She’s one of the smartest people I know, and she’s my best friend. That relationship was etched right here, in your apartment. Enjoy it.

Love, Mitch and Celia n

WELCOME BACK Our long national nightmare of not having David Letterman cracking wise on television is over. His new Netflix talk show, the concisely named My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, launches its first episode Friday, Jan. 12, with Barack Obama as its debut guest. It’s the former president’s first talk show since leaving office, and a fine way to kick off Letterman’s series that will also include Tina Fey, George Clooney, Jay-Z, Malala Yousafzai and Howard Stern. Letterman’s stellar retirement beard will be serving in the role of sidekick. (DAN NAILEN) THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS Netflix brought us into 2018 with some seriously twisted British TV brilliance. To ease away from the depressing specter of Black Mirror’s dystopian near-future, try The End of the F***ing World to center you back in the melancholy present. All eight episodes dropped Jan. 5, and it’s just your normal teen love story, as Alyssa, the black sheep of her family, meets James, who kills small animals and wants to move onto bigger prey. Watch as they find out they’re not the most messed up people in the world after all. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

HOW ’BOUT ANOTHER PARTY, PAL? Ryan Dean Tucker delivered a surreal and hilarious one-man version of Die Hard over the weekend.

Through inserting himself into the film via not-sosmooth editing and a creative use of green screen, he was able to fulfill the role of John McClane on the Bartlett stage while “acting” alongside himself as several other characters. The place was packed, and the laughs were steady watching Tucker run himself ragged. Watching made us think of some other movies with the potential for hilarious, similar treatment: • ROADHOUSE. Fisticuffs, tai chi, sweet love — the Dalton character does it all.

• THE BIG LEBOWSKI. The Dude seems a natural for a live show.

• BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. Tucker could reuse his John McClane tank top to be Kurt Russell’s Jack Burton. (DAN NAILEN)

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pokane’s monthly arts showcase features events — including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists — across the downtown core and sometimes beyond. Though most galleries held receptions last week, First Friday organizer Downtown Spokane Partnership decided to officially host January’s events on the second Friday of the month, Jan. 12, from 5-8 pm (unless otherwise noted below, events listed alphabetically by venue).

The following listings were compiled from information provided by Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists.

Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information, visit firstfridayspokane.org.

Spokane’s rescheduled January event also coincides with downtown Coeur d’Alene’s Second Friday Music Walk from 5-8 pm (details at artsandculturecda.org/music-walk). Also, if you missed receptions for your favorite venues or artists last week, make sure to check their regular hours of operation, as many venues display featured art through the month. (CHEY SCOTT) AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone January’s featured show “Spokane: My Favorite Places” features large-scale acrylics by artist David W. Barron, which remains on display throughout the month and is open for viewing Tue-Sat from 11 am-4 pm.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second An eclectic show featuring favorite pieces from local artists who displayed their work at the winery throughout the last year. Reception from 4-9 pm.

J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

An opening reception for the Chase’s latest show, “Connectivity | Matters,” featuring work by Heidi Farr, Jake Miller, Naoko Morisawa, Rachel Smith and Patrick Sullivan.

The group show explores how we connect and relate with the world through materials, surroundings and people. Show runs through March 29; gallery is open Mon-Fri from 8 am-5 pm.

J COMMUNITY PINT, 120 E. Sprague A collaborative project by local photographer (and Inlander art director) Derek Harrison and mixed media artist Lizzie Skaer, featuring scenic black-and-white photographs of the Northwest altered by abstract visions. On display through Jan. 31.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main “Stern Beauty” features mathematically based, computer-created art by Bertrand Russell. On display through Jan. 29.

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J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams Shana Smith’s “Perceptions of an Artist” features a portrait series of self-reflective drawings and paintings. The series is on display by appointment through Jan. 26, with a closing reception that day from 5-8 pm.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington See watercolor and acrylic paintings by local artist Rachel Nichols, who was inspired by the human connection and her travels throughout the Pacific Northwest. Art is on display through the month.

LIBERTY CIDERWORKS, 164 S. Washington “Northwest Scenes” by photographer Nathan Huestis features iconic landscape photography of places such as the Palouse and the Cascades. On display through Jan. 28; open during regular business hours Thu-Sat from 4-9 pm and Sun from 1-6 pm.

J MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

For January, the gallery is featuring a collection of abstract art by Gonzaga University alum Jim Dhillon.

MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

The winery has partnered with Kendall Yards neighbor Marmot Art Space to feature work by painter Alfredo Arreguin, sculptor Ruben Trejo and Spokane-based art legend Ric Gendron.

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POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington January’s guest artist is local fiber artist Jaquetta Holcomb, for a show titled “Warm and Cozy, Bright and Clear,” which features hand-spun and -dyed wool. Holcomb’s art is on display through Jan. 28, and can be viewed during daily business hours; Mon-Sat from 10 am-9 pm and Sun from 11 am-6 pm.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific The winery features Bari Cordia Federspiel’s whimsical chickenthemed painting series.

SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Members of SAP present “Move Me,” a kinetic group show of art that moves or has the potential of movement. Reception from 5-9 pm; on display through Jan. 27, open Fri-Sat from 2-6 pm.

SARANAC COMMONS, 19 W. Main See original charcoal and pastel drawings by local artist Beau Charles Ferderer in a show titled “Steady Young Man,” on display through Jan. 31 during regular hours.

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SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main A live concert by local heavy metal/thrash/punk/space rock band Children of Atom, consisting of M. Fenris, James Drapeau and Gabriel “The Drumlord” Tsagakis. Concert from 6:30-8 pm.

J TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY, 115 S. Adams The studio hosts a closing reception for its fourth annual “Cup of Joy” invitational, showcasing ceramic cups and unique interpretations of drinking vessels by more than 30 professional artists across the U.S. n

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ere’s a cool little secret for fans of animals: The winter months are often better to spot animals on hikes than summer, spring or fall.

The leaves that would allow animals to hide are off many trees. The snow background makes the animals stand out all the starker. And the comparative lack of food often sends creatures out foraging.

You won’t spot the marmots or osprey that dominate Spokane during the summer. But the Northwest still thrives: Winter’s a perfect time to see deer, moose, coyotes, eagles and more. And because larger animals prefer lower, less snowy elevations during the winter, you don’t even have to climb a mountain to see them.

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tion over the treeline.

Or savor the beauty of a trumpeter swan, long neck curled around its body, alabaster-white feathers almost blending with the pale hues of snow. And if you’re lucky — as I was when I went to Turnbull — you’ll spot a coyote, softly skulking across the trail.

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Deer are a dime a dozen. But moose? Now, a moose, in all its ugly majesty, is special.

During the winter, the Iller Creek trailhead is one of your best bets for moose-spotting, says Jeff Lambert, executive director of the Dishman Hills Conservancy. Just use caution. Moose are no joke.

“Moose are dangerous. Dogs have to be on a leash,” Lambert says “You don’t shoo moose off of the trail, because they might decide to trample you instead.”

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Picture snow stretched out in the wilderness, a blanket of white as far as the eye can see, sparkling in the brilliant sun. Now take that first step onto the pristine snow, as — for a quarter of a second — the frozen crust holds your weight. And then it doesn’t, and you plunge through up to your calves, and the surrounding snow dumps into your boots.

Now repeat for every step you take until your ankles are sore and your socks are soaked.

I’ve been there. And I desperately wanted snowshoes after only walking a couple hundred feet.

“Snowshoes are something you should keep in your car,” says John Schwartz, manager at Mountain Gear.

If it’s only four to six inches of snow, you might not need them, he says. Otherwise, they can be crucial for keeping your winter adventure a hike instead of a trudge.

No matter what, it’s crucial to have some sort of traction. Even when the snow looks safe, you don’t know what kind of icy surfaces are directly underneath a thin layer of powder.

Nothing ends the fun of a hike faster than when you find yourself suddenly staring up at the sky, wincing at your bruised tailbone. At minimum, wrap some Yaktrax around your boots.

Trekking poles, meanwhile, can be a quick way to test the depth of a snow, to avoid stumbling against a buried log, or provide one more defense against a slippery surface.

“Poles keep you from tripping,” Schwartz says.

And for goodness sakes, you’ll also want some waterproof boots to combat the Spokane slush. Of course, you should also bring food — I recommend at least three granola bars per person — and water. Throw in a piping hot thermos of hot cocoa while you’re at it.

As for tips for spotting animals?

Nothing more than covering ground.

“Put one foot in front of the other and keep your eyes open,” Schwartz says.

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the skies. It’s pretty incredible to see them plummet down, claws outstretched, to snatch a Kokanee salmon from the water.

But it might be even more incredible, if you’re into the whole beautiful serenity thing, to watch an eagle glide across the backdrop of the snow-dusted hills.

RIVERSIDE STATE PARK

First up, check out the Riverside State Park’s Little Spokane River Natural Area, off of the Painted Rocks trailhead. The lack of cars or horses, says Washington State Parks Program Specialist Lara Gricar, tends to lend itself more to wildlife spotting. We’re talking about deer, turkeys, moose, eagles, quail and blue heron.

Otherwise, Holly Weiler, Eastern Washington regional coordinator for the Washington Trail Association, says you should head north from the Bowl and Pitcher trailhead.

“Almost every single time I go out there I see the mule deer,” Weiler says. “Right off of the trail. It’s excellent.”

Failing that, if you live on Spokane’s South Hill, you can often simply look out your front window like Weiler did during our conversation.

“I’ve got two turkeys walking across my front yard,” Weiler says. n

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SKATING

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To avoid peak times, consider a visit to Riverfront Park’s ice ribbon on a weekday, before 4 pm.

Riverfront Park’s new ice ribbon blows away expectations; plus, how to enjoy your next visit there BY CHEY SCOTT

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s you may have already seen or heard, community interest in Riverfront Park’s newest attraction has greatly surpassed expectations during its first month of operations.

Since opening on Dec. 8, the new ice ribbon has hosted more than 33,000 visitors, and has more than doubled all of 2016’s ticket sales for the now-shuttered Ice Palace, which it replaced.

“The sheer number of people coming to the ribbon is a surprise,” says Riverfront Park Director Jon Moog.

“We really missed the mark in terms of how much Spokane really embraced this... that has been pretty cool to see, and seeing the vibrancy that it instantly created downtown — that first night made it feel full of life,” he adds.

Because the ice ribbon’s debut was timed with the holiday season and local schools’ winter breaks, park staff expect that visits will decrease in the coming weeks, giving a more realistic picture of the venue’s typical demand.

Park staff are also working to alleviate wait times during peak hours by developing an online ticket reservation system so skaters are ensured access when they arrive for a designated session, regardless of how many walk-up visitors there are. Currently, and since opening, park staff have been allotting 150 color-coded admission wristbands to be sold each half hour, which equates to about 300-350 active skaters who could be on the ice at any given time per hour.

“That is one way we monitor how many people are on the ice to keep the experience enjoyable and not overcrowded,” Moog explains.

Since skaters often take breaks, the ribbon is unlikely to often reach its capacity of 450 skaters, he adds.

Park staff also foresee that the forthcoming online admissions will address demand for rental skates during busier times. Moog says the park also plans to purchase more skates.

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f you end up arriving at the ribbon on a busy day between now and when the online ticket system launches (or if you don’t prepay), consider grabbing a bite to eat or a beverage to sip as you wait for your session.

The ice ribbon’s ticketing center (which will also serve as the Sky Ride ticketing center when it reopens later this year) is also home to the new Sky Ribbon Cafe, which offers various freshly

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prepared entrees, snacks and drinks.

Entrées include classic concessions fare like burgers ($8), hot dogs ($5.50), chicken strips ($6.50), chili ($3-$5) and mac and cheese ($5), along with pizza served by the slice ($3) or pie ($12-$15). Guests can also order wraps or a variety of sandwiches (both $8/each) and salads ($7.50): caesar, cobb and spinach. Daily specials and soups also rotate, based on the season.

Sides and snacks include fries, tater tots, bagged chips, yogurt parfaits, fruit cups, ice cream, cookies, candy and muffins ($1.25$5). Coffee, hot chocolate, fountain sodas, bottled beverages and beer and wine round out the Sky Ribbon Cafe’s liquid refreshments.

“We make all the food on site, and one thing we tried to do was improve the quality of ingredients and the menu,” Moog explains.

The cafe will be open year-round, and functionally replaces the park’s Fountain Cafe nearby. The new Looff Carrousel building will also serve concessions food, he says.

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o far, the Ice Ribbon has been impacted by inclement weather requiring its closure just one day this season.

Moog says weather events that may cause unscheduled closures include heavy snowfall or rain that accumulates too quickly on the ice for removal by the ice-scraping equipment.

Such closures will be posted on Riverfront Park’s website, Facebook and Twitter, and he advises visitors to check there first on snowy or rainy days.

When it comes to safety, Moog says the ice ribbon has seen some injuries, including one major accident requiring an emergency room visit.

“It’s an inherently dangerous activity, but we’ve found you’re more likely to get an injury when it’s less crowded. Some skaters take opportunities to go faster and horseplay more on the ice, and that is when we’re really alert looking for people doing unsafe activities,” he says. “When it’s busier, you have to go with the flow of traffic and you’re less likely to get hurt.”

Guests should also be aware that the ice requires refinishing every hour and a half, which takes about 20 minutes. Skaters impacted by the refinishing also get a little extra time compensated to their session, Moog says. n

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TIPS WHEN YOU GO:  To avoid busy times, consider a daytime visit during the week, before 4 pm.  Moog advises skaters, especially novices, wear helmets on the ice as a safety precaution.  Lace your skates up tightly to prevent ankle injury and general discomfort.  Wear lots of layers, like long underwear or leggings under your pants, and don’t forget hats, scarves, gloves and a pair of thick, cozy socks.  Bring quarters to secure your shoes and other items in a rentable locker, which cost $1/use (free, unsecure cubbies also are available).

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UNDER THE STARS, IN THE SNOW Everything you need to camp out in middle of winter BY JASON STILL

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t may sound crazy, but the great, All-American pastime of sleeping outside is not off-limits in the months between October and June; with some preparation and some essential know-how, winter camping can offer a beauty and solitude unmatched in the summer months.

If the thought of sleeping in the snow sounds like more punishment than reward, let us guide you through the essentials.

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First things first, if you are going to partake in the magic that is winter camping, it’s essential to prepare yourself for staying comfortable and safe. The folks at REI have provided a short list of appropriate gear for the beginner.

Staying dry and warm is the most important thing to consider when preparing for snow camping, so learn to layer clothing correctly. For premier protection you are going to wear three layers: one that manages body moisture, a middle layer for insulating heat, and finally your outer layer that will protect you from the elements. Your base layer should either be synthetic-blend fabric or merino wool.

Harald Starnegg of REI recommends a zippered turtleneck for flexible changes in temperature: “You want to avoid sweat at all costs; if you are starting to sweat, zip down or remove layers.” Moisture wicking material for your top and bottom base layer, as well as socks, will keep you dry and cozy when you’re having frigid fun, but make sure to avoid cotton. Out in the snow your middle layer should consist of micro-fleece fabrics for your shirts and pants, and a lightweight down jacket will finish off your middle layer, assuring you have ease of movement and proper insulation.

Top yourself off with a water resistant and breathable jacket made with Gore-Tex fabric, stick your feet into a set of winter boots, cover your head with a wool cap, place your hands into a pair low-temperature gloves and you will have built yourself up as an impenetrable force to be reckoned with.

Starnegg recommended OUTDOOR RESEARCH REVOLUTION GLOVES (A) as an affordable option, saying, “These out-perform gloves twice the price.” With a temperature range down to -5 degrees and at $69 dollars, these gloves are a solid option for keeping toasty fingers.

A pair of OUTDOOR RESEARCH CROCODILE GAITERS ($85; B) will go a long way in keeping snow and debris out of your boots.

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Ok, phew, we have made it through dress up, but what you curl up in to go to sleep at night is equally important.

Sleeping bags come in all sorts of fabrics and sizes, but these days it’s good to have one made from synthetic materials. I camped in cotton sleeping bags as a kid, but unless you are in an environment where there is no chance of moisture, this will not suffice. A lightweight winter sleeping bag can make or break you. If you’re planning on driving in to your camp spot, a lightweight and super compact bag might not be necessary, but if you plan on snowshoeing or hiking any distance, go for something that rolls tight and light.

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You can bring in your own firewood for a night under the stars and snow and forgo a camp stove, but camp stoves make cooking a breeze compared to a fire. Colder temperatures necessitate a liquid gas-cooking stove. Consider the MSR WHISPERLITE liquid stove ($100; D).

While you are at it, grab a headlamp. If you ever decide this camping thing is not for you, it’ll still be of use to you when you go on some wimpy summer time camping trip you’ve been dying to go on since December. It’s best to have a strobe function on your headlamp for emergency situations and there are dozens to choose from so pick your preference.

WHERE TO GO

So you are all set and ready to roll, but where? For your initial foray into winter camping, it’s best to keep it safe and simple.

An enchanting spot to venture just 20 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene is Farragut State Park at the southern point of Lake Pend Oreille, home to 223 campsites and open year-round with no hike-in required. Even closer is Bowl and Pitcher campground within Riverside State Park, 9 miles north of Spokane and offering 16 year-round campsites.

Snow camping is not as complicated as it may seem — you’re still standing around a fire with your friends and loved ones drinking hooch and eating sausages — so gear up, start a fire and get some fresh air. You’ve been in the house too long. n

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SNOW FOR BEGINNERS When there’s snow on the ground, you don’t need to be perfectly poised to enjoy the outdoors BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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ure, people who are good at balance like to spend their winters gracefully gliding down mountain sides on one or two polished pieces of wood, but what about those with a little less coordination?

If downhill skiing or snowboarding aren’t your thing, there are still ways to get outside to enjoy some fresh powder, cool air and maybe even a glass of wine. From snowshoeing to biking, there are plenty of opportunities for snow beginners in the Inland Northwest.

SNOWSHOEING

Through March, the city of Spokane parks department puts on dozens of guided snowshoeing adventures throughout the area with snowshoes, trekking poles and transportation all included in the price.

The tours offer a way to get outside and try out snowshoeing without the startup costs of getting all your own gear. This year’s schedule includes jaunts on Mt. Spokane in both the daytime and in the moonlight, treks on 49 Degrees North, and hikes around lakes in the Colville National Forest.

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All of the trips are geared at teens and older, and a few are only for adults, like the snowshoe treks on Mt. Spokane that are capped off with a wine tasting at Townshend Cellar on Green Bluff.

Each tour is geared to be accessible to entry-level snowshoers and typically includes downtime for lunches that participants are asked to bring with them, says Ryan Griffith, assistant recreation manager for Spokane Parks and Rec. “If somebody is going to go out snowshoeing with us, they should be able to walk a leisurely one to 1 ½ miles and come dressed for the weather conditions,” Griffith says.

That means wearing synthetic materials that wick moisture from the body, avoiding cotton, which stays wet, and wearing plenty of layers so you can adjust as you get warm or cold, he says.

Groups are limited to about 12 people, plus two guides, and the tours fill up very quickly, so if something on the schedule catches your eye, register sooner than later, Griffith says.

“They do book up pretty quick — a couple weeks out we’re looking pretty booked — so book early,” Griffith says. “It’s a great winter. When we have snow here in town, it makes it all that much more exciting for people to get out and have fun.”

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING AND FAT BIKING

Getting out on the local trails doesn’t even have to mean leaving the city, or spending money if you’ve got your

If speeding down a mountain isn’t your idea of fun, fret not — there are plenty of other options. own equipment.

This year, city crews are grooming both cross country ski trails as well as a fat bike trail.

“If people want some free skiing, we did just groom Indian Canyon Golf Course, as well as the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex,” Griffith says. “People can go out there and use it if they’ve got their own equipment, and it’s no charge.”

The trails are groomed by the staff as weather and time allows, not on a set schedule, he says, and fat biking

is only allowed on the trail at Dwight Merkel.

Not familiar with fat bikes? They’re kind of like mountain bikes with bigger tires meant to give you the ability to ride anywhere that you need to sort of float, explains Mic Woodruff, manager of the Bike Hub’s downtown location.

“One of the most frustrating things is when people see a fat tire bike and call it a snow bike,” Woodruff says.

“Yes, it works well in the snow, but also in sand, mud, or any time flotation will be needed — that’s when they’ll

pay off. They’re equally fun in the summer.”

While the Bike Hub shops don’t have any fat bike rentals anymore, they do give riders the chance to demo a bike for a fee, and if you decide to buy the bike after that, the fee is discounted off the total price.

“It gets people out on a real test ride,” Woodruff says.

“If you’re buying a bike worth a couple grand or more, and can only ride it around the block at a store, that’s not how you’re going to really ride a bike. Ultimately for the most part, it steers them back to us.” n

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Offered Jan. 12, Feb. 9 and March 2, from 9 am-3 pm. $89. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (2382220) LOOKOUT FREE SKI SCHOOL PROGRAM Kids can learn how to ski or snowboard, or hone their skills, with options for beginner, intermediate and advance levels. Ages 6-17. Free. Saturdays starting at 10 am, through March 10. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) DOWNHILL DIVAS The mountain’s ski and snowboard program for women is taught by its top female ski/snowboard instructors, who create a welcoming learning environment for all. Fridays from 1-3 pm, through March 9 (not on Jan. 12 or 16). $45/session or $199/all eight. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) NIGHT SKIING AT 49 The mountain is illuminated after sunset for four nights this season, with runs open on the upper and lower mountain. Each evening also serves as a canned food drive, with discounted ($5) lift tickets offered to those who donate three or more cans of food ($15 without). Offered Jan. 13 and Feb. 17 from 4-8 pm. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n. com (509-935-6649) CROSS COUNTRY SKI OF FRATER LAKE Explore this glacial lake of the Pend Oreille Chain, which offers more than 10 miles of trails for all levels. Includes guides, transportation, equipment and ski area fees. $45/person. Sat, Jan. 13 from 9 am-4 pm. Departs from Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division. Register at spokaneparks.org SHEIMO CUP The annual dual-course slalom includes one run each on the blue and red courses for a combined time, with prizes for the top three competitors in each age group of male and female skiers. Jan. 13-14. $23/youth and $35/ adults (plus lift ticket). 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (509-935-6649) MLK WEEKEND AT SCHWEITZER Celebrate all weekend with live music

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in Taps, the Northern Lights fireworks show, the Deschutes Red Chair Weekend, lots of family events (including Kids Night Out) and more. Events from Jan. 13-15. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com WINTER CARNIVAL + FAMILY FUN DAY The tradition returns with the annual wife-carrying contest at 1 pm, along with a three-legged race, eggy carrying contest, snowman-building competition and more. Sun, Jan. 14. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) SNOWSHOE & WINE TASTING Enjoy a day exploring the trails of Mt. Spokane followed by a wine tasting at Townshend Winery on Green Bluff.

Equipment, guides and transportation included. $37/person. Offered Jan. 14, Feb. 11 and March 11 from 10 am-3:30 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods, 14202 N. Market. Register at spokaneparks. org MT. SPOKANE SNOWSHOE TOUR Learn the basics of this winter activity during a guided hike on the mountain’s trails. Fee includes equipment, guide, trail fees, guides and transportation. $29/person (ages 13-17 are $25 with participating adult). Offered Jan. 15 and 21; Feb. 3, 17 and 19; and March 17 from 10 am-2 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods, 14202 N. Market. Register at spokaneparks.org LEARN TO SKATE Members of the Lilac City Figure Skating Club coach all levels, including beginners, recreational, figure and hockey skaters. Meets on Wednesday starting Jan. 17, or Saturdays, starting Jan. 27, for 8 weeks. $99/session. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. Register at spokaneparks.org WINTER TRAILS DAY Kids and adults can try cross-country skiing and snowshoeing with free access to all Nordic skiing and snowshoe trails, as well as multiple hosted snowshoe hikes throughout the day. Sat, Jan. 20 from 9 am-3 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com WOMEN’S 49 DEGREES SNOWSHOE TOUR Tour the trails with a guide who offers tips on how to have better control on your snowshoes in a non-competitive atmosphere geared toward women.

Includes lunch in a yurt, trail pass and all equipment. $39/person (ages 15+).

Offered Jan. 20, Feb. 17 and March 10, from 10 am-1 pm. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. Reg-

Lookout’s Winter Carnival + Family Fun Day returns on Jan. 14, including the wife-carrying contest. ister at spokaneparks.org

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Fund. Events throughout the weekend include night skiing, an old school trick contest, banked slalom and live music.

Jan. 27-28. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt. com (208-344-2675)

of Mt. Spokane, starting at the Selkirk Lodge. Fee includes equipment, guide and transportation. $39/person. Sun, Jan. 28 from 10 am-2 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods, 14202 N. Market. Register at spokaneparks.org

MOONLIGHT CROSS COUNTRY SKI TOUR & DINNER An evening tour across Mt. Spokane State Park followed by dinner from Greenbluff Fresh Catering Co. Snowshoeing experience is recommended; a discount offered for using your own equipment. $53/person. Offered Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 from 6-9 pm. Meets at Mt. Spokane State Park, Selkirk Lodge Nordic Area. Register at spokaneparks. org

AVALANCHE AWARENESS ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATION The Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center is hosting a course during which attendees learn how to recognize avalanches, how to avoid them, factors that result in each type, and how to become your own avalanche forecaster.

Meets Wed, Jan. 31 through Sat, Feb. 8. $350. REI Spokane, 1125 N. Monroe.

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TOYOTA SKI FREE DAY Drive your Toyota, Scion, or Lexus to Schweitzer and receive a free lift ticket.

(One for each family vehicle driven to the resort; valid for that day only.) Fri, Jan. 26. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com

MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE HIKE & DINNER Explore the moonlit trails of Mt. Spokane and return to the Selkirk Lodge for a warm dinner from Greenbluff Fresh Catering Co. Fee includes guide, equipment and meal. ($5 discount for using your own equipment; Sno-Park and Discover Pass required). $53/person (ages 18+). Offered Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 from 6-9 pm. Mt. Spokane State Park, Selkirk Lodge. Register at spokaneparks.org

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MT. SPOKANE DEEP FOREST TOUR An advanced snowshoe outing (1.25 miles) led by members of the Friends

CROSS COUNTRY SKI LESSONS Learn the basics of this outdoor winter activity with the Spokane Nordic Ski Association’s certified instructors. Fee includes skis, boots, poles, fees, instruction and transportation. $45/person (ages 13-17 are $37 with participating adult). Offered Jan. 20; Feb. 3, 17 and 24 from 9 am-3 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods, 14202 N. Market. Register at spokaneparks.org BAVARIAN BREWS, BRATS & MUSIC FESTIVAL Another annual tradition at Lookout, the event offers locally-crafted brews, grilled brats and live Bavarian music.

Events coincide with the Annual Media Cup Team Races and Appreciation Day. Sun, Jan. 21. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208744-1301)

HEADLAMP SNOWSHOE HIKE A nighttime hike through the quiet, snowy forests of Mt. Spokane. Fee includes guides, equipment and transportation. $21/person (ages 15+). Feb. 2 and March 3, from 6-9 pm. Departs from Yokes Foods, 14202 N. Market.

Register at spokaneparks.org MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE HIKE Activity Center staff lead a guided, 3-mile hike through the old growth forests with the moon to light the way. At the end of the hike, enjoy warm food and drinks in Gourmandie. $40/person

(pre-registration required). Ages 13+. Offered Feb. 2 and March 2 from 4-8 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com USASA SKI/BOARD CROSS & RAIL JAM Head-to-head racing takes place all day on a specially-built course, with entrance categories for all ages and skill level. (Note: a portion of the terrain park will be closed for the Rail Jam competition.) Sat, Feb. 3 starting at 9 am.

Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt. com (208-344-2675) MEDITERRANEAN MOONLIGHT DINNER Start off the evening with a ride to the summit on the quad chairlift, followed by a special sevencourse dinner from Chef Jordan Hansen, featuring wine pairings.

After dinner, take a snow cat ride back down the mountain. $200/ person; reservations required. Sat, Feb. 3 from 5:30-8:30 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com

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COLLEGE DAZE College students from near and far can head up to Schweitzer for a discounted weekend on the slopes (valid ID required), including lift tickets and food and drink specials. Feb. 3-4. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com

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SUPER BOWL SUNDAY PARTY Spend the morning on the runs and then head to the Loft to watch the big game, with prizes and drawings, including the kick-off contest. Sun, Feb. 4 (game starts at 3:30 pm). Ages 21+. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) SNOWSHOE ANTOINE PEAK Explore the Antoine Peak Conservation Area in this uphill trek, offering 360-degree views from the summit. Hikers may also see wildlife in this critical corridor connecting Mt. Spokane and the Spokane River valley. Includes guide, equipment and transportation. $19/person (ages 18+). Sun, Feb. 4 from 10 am-2 pm. Departs from Rocket Bakery, 3315 N. Argonne Rd. Register at spokaneparks.org ...continued on next page

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WINTER EVENTS SPECIAL OLYMPICS EASTERN WASHINGTON INVITATIONAL A one-day event hosting approximately 110 participating athletes. Sun, Feb. 4 from 9 am-3:30 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) USASA SLOPESTYLE Competitors take to the Terrain Park to compete against each other for the best tricks and runs, with categories for all ages/levels. (Note: the terrain park with be closed during competition.) Sun, Feb. 4 starting at 9 am. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208344-2675) BACKCOUNTRY WEEKEND Events throughout the weekend include an on-snow avalanche class, avalanche beacon practice, a deep burial rescue and a few fun events, like the Wardner Peak Uphill Downhill Race and a transition race and raffle. Feb. 10-11 (Sunday events on the mountain also includes the Trail Maniacs Shoeshoe and Fat Bike races; see site for details). Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt. com (208-344-2675)

MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL & BEER HOIST COMPETITION A mountaintop celebration includes live music in the Loft Pub, grilled brats on the deck and a beer hoist competition, in which five people line up with a beer mug in each hand and attempt to keep their mugs raised high the longest. Sun, Feb. 11. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY Local educators can show their school ID at the ticket window to receive a free lift ticket. Sun, Feb. 11. Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301)

during this exclusive women’s event that includes breakfast, lunch, equipment, instruction and an apres party.

Wed, Feb. 21 from 9 am-4 pm. $139/ person, plus $20 lift ticket. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220)

Women have the chance to learn from downhill racing champion Lisa Densmore Ballard Feb. 21 during the Your Turn event at Mt. Spokane.

VALENTINE’S DAY SPEED DATING Pick up a free pass at the bottom of Chair 2 and enjoy an 8-minute ride with someone else who shares your love of spending a day on the slopes.

The evening also includes a romantic dinner at Noah’s Loft. Feb. 14. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (208-3442675)

downtown Sandpoint, and continues with daily events, including live music, fireworks, a pub crawl, and much more.

The festival concludes with the K9 Keg Pull, on Sun, Feb. 25. Events from Feb. 16-25. Events in and around Sandpoint, including Schweitzer Mountain Resort.

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SANDPOINT WINTER CARNIVAL The annual winter festival kicks off with the Parade of Lights (Feb. 16) through

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING AT DEER CREEK Explore this little known pass of the

scenic Kettle Range. Fee includes transportation, instruction, equipment and ski area fees. Sun, Feb. 18 from 8 am-6 pm. $45/person (ages 18+). Departs from Wandermere Rite Aid, 12312 N. Division. Register at spokaneparks. org YOUR TURNS! LADIES EVENT Spend the day developing your skills with Lisa Densmore Ballard, former U.S. Ski Team member, current Master Racer and 2017 Super G Champion,

SHE JUMPS AT SCHWEITZER The national campaign She Jumps unites women as they support and mentor each other in the outdoor sports world. This retro-themed event at Schweitzer benefits the nonprofit’s programs for women and youth. Sun, Feb. 25 from 8:30 am-5 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com UP, DOWN, ROUND & ROUND This late season event includes fat bike, telemark, splitboard and and AT events, with prizes for the top three finishers in each category, male and female. Sun, Feb. 25 starting at 8:30 am. (event coincides with military, firefighter, EMT and nurses appreciation day). Lookout Pass, I-90 Exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208744-1301) n

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hroughout life we are programmed to look forward to hearing those “three little words” that can make a person melt. The first time they are heard, you may not be sure of what they are really supposed to mean. The feeling of butterflies dancing in your stomach and the feeling of pure bliss are usually two of the common responses to hearing those words.

But while waiting for those three little words, your emotions can be toyed with, with false predictions that come in many forms but usually in the form of absence.

The anticipation of the three little words can leave you sleepless, up all night, wondering what to wear to make sure you are at the perfect temperature for when those three little words come to fruition, the obstacles that you might face and the plan of action after the three little words come to life.

Will those three little words be accompanied by the backdrop of romantic music or with the greeting of an epic amount of shininess?

For those who haven’t heard those three little words in a while and have it mean something, they are usually left with the feeling of jealousy or confusion. And then there are those who have heard those three little words so many times that they are tired by them and would just like to hear anything other than those three little words; for those, the thought of those words being spoken is met with hatred.

For skiers and snowboarders, they hear those three little words a little differently that most of the population.

They hear, ditch the snow shoveling, get up before the alarm, blaze through snow drifts and rally around switchbacks to make it to first chair during the times of those much-anticipated three little words: “Winter Storm Warning.” n

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UNDER COVER Exploring the Inland Northwest’s lasting, historic ties to the versatile and durable apple

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

Watercolor illustrations of Jonathan, Yellow Newtown and Winesap apples by Deborah Griscom Passmore.

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ikki Conley thought the Red Delicious apples growing on scraggly trees in the front yard of her Athol, Idaho, home would be mealy and tasteless like most store-bought fruit she’d known.

She was wrong.

“It reminded me of what they used to taste like when we were kids,” says Conley, whose family relocated to North Idaho in 2016 on land east of Silverwood Theme Park, a stretch dotted with homesteads where the prairie gives way to national forestland. This new home, paired with that delicious bite into an old-growth apple, became the genesis of Athol Orchards, founded last year.

The Conley’s 10-acre, semi-wooded lot is more of a mini farm than a full-fledged orchard; it’s also home

to chickens, pumpkins, flowers, bees and an old tractor named Leaky Pete.

The family has since planted 50 new apple trees, including varieties like Yellow Delicious, Cortland, Winter Banana and Honeycrisp (Conley’s favorite). They chose each tree for its distinctive traits, like high juice content, good eating quality or longer storage capability.

Until Athol Orchards can press its own cider (the trees won’t produce fruit for several years), the farm locally sources unfiltered and pasteurized Honeycrisp apple cider, which they reduce to a molasses-like product Conley calls “apple pie in a bottle.”

The orchard’s spiced Apple Cider Syrup ($8/8 oz., $16/16 oz.) is good on barbecued meats or ham, in des-

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serts and beverages, or anywhere a more complex sweet element is needed. Social media helps ensure Conley receives feedback about how customers are using the product, which she sells at Coeur Fresh Market, online at atholorchards.com, and at Kootenai County farmers markets.

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onley’s newfound interest in her orchard’s output and the regional history of apple growing also led her to Dave Benscoter, sometimes referred to as the “apple detective” for his research-based identification techniques and his prior career in law enforcement.

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FOOD | LOCAL CROP “UNDER COVER,” CONTINUED... with her trees, Benscoter became intrigued with determining the apple’s specific variety, joining an exclusive group of people who hunt “lost” apples. Benscoter now works with the Whitman County Historical Society on the Lost and Heritage Apples of the Palouse Project, and occasionally gives talks on his work and discoveries, such as one he did for Inland Northwest Food Network this past November.

“The Spokane Valley consisted of hundreds of small orchards that banded together for purposes of marketing and selling,” explains Benscoter, who’s garnered national headlines for his discovery of a lost apple growing on the Palouse’s Steptoe Butte.

“By the 1920s there were over a million apple trees in the Spokane Valley,” he says.

“A lot of people have inherited fruit trees upon moving to a new home, and don’t quite know what to do with them.”

Believed to have been brought across the pond by pilgrims, apples quickly proved to be a hardy crop for the New World. They’re cultivated through grafting — joining a cutting of one plant onto a different plant so the two grow together — or by seed, including by the likes of historic figure Johnny Appleseed. Since European colonization of North America, apples have meant cider to drink or trade, and food through the winter for both people and livestock. The Red Delicious, for example, can grow to 25 feet tall, yielding up to 20 bushels of apples annually (around 800 pounds) that can be stored for up to six months.

Benscoter’s focus on lost apples is no small feat given the fruit’s sheer diversity. Of the estimated 17,000 varieties that formerly grew in North America, it’s estimated as many as 13,000 have vanished, and with them a bit of history.

From his dogged research into catalogs and shipping records, plus a lot of shoe leather exploring orchards throughout Eastern Washington, Benscoter has helped reshape our understanding of how apples influenced Spokane — especially throughout the Spokane River valley spreading east from the city’s core toward the Idaho Panhandle — which held court as Washington state’s “apple capital” for a generation or so.

In 1908, for example, Spokane hosted its first-ever National Apple Show as the region grew, then besting even Yakima and Wenatchee. Fred Overley, Horticulturist Emeritus for WSU, estimates that the nearly 5,000 acres of apples and as many as 45 varieties grown around Spokane led to a thriving industry of growers, packers and shippers — the city’s railroad hub was also paramount — until peak production in 1925. That year, he says, prices fell, the market was glutted and many orchard owners failed.

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he Arcadia Orchard in Deer Park was once one of the largest in the region at 18,000 acres, though its sheer size led to its eventual demise.

The orchard’s vestiges are still visible today in concrete road underpasses and the Dragoon Creek dam, as well as namesakes like Arcadia Middle School.

Aged remnants of many other commercial and private apple orchards dot the Inland Northwest’s landscape, both in rural and urban areas. And until recently,

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These “old variety” Red Delicious apples at Athol Orchards taste “nothing like what you’d find at a modern-day grocery store,” says Conley. NIKKI CONLEY PHOTO many of these forgotten fruit-bearers’ bounties had gone mostly unused, if but for foraging insects and animals.

“There are thousands of residential apple trees in Spokane County, and many of those apples aren’t being used,” says Nicki Thompson, who is a Harvest Against Hunger AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the local nonprofit Spokane Edible Tree Project.

Spokane Edible Tree Project’s primary focus is coordinating volunteer gleaners to help harvest this unused fruit so it can be donated to food ENTRÉE banks and community Get the scoop on local kitchens. food news with our weekly Last fall, roughly Entrée newsletter. Sign up 50 volunteers helped at Inlander.com/newsletter. collect nearly 5,000 pounds of apples from Resurrection Orchard, a rediscovered and restored historic orchard at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane Valley.

“A lot of people have inherited fruit trees upon moving to a new home, and don’t quite know what to do with them. Many trees end up neglected,” adds Thompson. “We’d like to raise awareness and provide tree owners with resources to learn about tree care.”

In March, Spokane Edible Tree Project is partnering with the Inland Northwest Food Network and Episcopal Church of the Resurrection to host a class on apple tree grafting. The session also seeks to share apple scionwood, wood cut from an original tree being propagated, from its rare varieties in the orchard to help preserve and even resurrect apples that could otherwise be lost.

It’s the type of event that the nonprofit hopes will attract people, like Conley, who want to know more about apples and their deep ties to our region — in history, economy, agriculture and community culture.

“My No. 1 thing is history and teaching,” says Conley, whose past careers include graphic design and photography, as well as a few years teaching elementary school. Now she dreams of turning Athol Orchards into a teaching farm.

In the near future, she says Athol Orchards plans to partner with University of Idaho Extension and U of I Master Gardeners for hands-on classes on historic apple trees and cultivars, among other topics like beekeeping.

In the meantime, she’ll be savoring the sweet success of her Apple Cider Syrup, which is helping sustain her family just as apples have done for so many others throughout history, and keeping an eye on her trees for the first blooms in spring. n

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Cinematic Splendor The best movies of 2017 were challenging, thought-provoking and human, perfect antidotes for the year that was

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017 was fraught, to say the least, a year of dirty politics, propaganda, white supremacy, natural disasters, sexual harassment allegations and, against it all, a rising tide of resistance.

Whether or not this year’s films were knowingly made with our country’s current moral temperature in mind, it was often impossible to separate the fractious social climate from what was happening on the screen, especially when some of the most disturbing headlines came from within Hollywood itself.

In terms of actual filmic quality, however, it was a very good year. I’ve had a number of individual images, scenes, musical cues and performances bouncing around my brain, and actually putting the following 10 titles into a sensible, non-arbitrary order felt a little foolish.

As is the case every year, I have yet to see a few prestige pictures that everyone seems to like, including Phantom Thread and The Post, but there’s still a whole lot to recommend. Here are my personal picks for the best films of 2017.

a vivid and expansive futuristic world that comes alive through Roger Deakins’ jaw-dropping cinematography.

9. THE BIG SICK The best romantic comedy in a while was inspired by the real-life courtship of screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani (who also stars) and Emily V. Gordon (played here by Zoe Kazan), and the unexpected illness that brought them closer together. Charming and funny as a simple love story, and perceptive as a look at cross-cultural differences.

8. MOTHER! The year’s most divisive movie, Darren Aronofsky’s brutal, relentless fever dream is a heady allegory for… well, you decide. Mainstream audiences recoiled from its baroque self-indulgence (hard to believe something this esoteric was released in more than 2,000 theaters), but few films in 2017 gave me such a pure cinematic rush.

Totally insane, certifiably sick in the head and impossible to shake.

10. BLADE RUNNER 2049 A real relief, considering long-awaited sequels almost never work. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi watershed compellingly builds upon the heady themes and glorious images of the original film, creating

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7. A GHOST STORY A man dies and haunts his own house, covered in a white sheet with eye holes in it, watching silently as the world moves on without him. Director David Lowery’s hushed meditation on the mysteries of mortality and the vastness

of human existence is simultaneously enormous and hyper-focused in scope. Like its central image, it’s simple yet profound, and quietly devastating.

6. GET OUT A remarkably confident debut from comedian Jordan Peele, who announced himself as a true auteur with this horror film that’s as darkly funny as it is terrifyingly resonant. Both an exploration of black fears and a savage evisceration of white liberal racism, Peele has brilliantly structured his script to deepen and mutate upon repeat viewings. It’s a film that will no doubt be looked back upon as an essential text on our country’s current sociopolitical climate.

5. DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan’s immersive, time-shifting WWII triptych is an experimental art film on a blockbuster budget, a study in sensory overload in which the holloweyed young men we send to fight our biggest battles are swallowed up by the deafening thrum of combat. It works most effectively on a giant screen, with Hoyte van Hoytema’s staggering images filling your periphery, but its structural and stylistic daring will still be apparent on your living room TV.

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4. THE SHAPE OF WATER This love story between a mute cleaning woman and — stay with me here — a bipedal amphibious creature is everything you want a Guillermo del Toro fairy tale to be: elegant, beautiful, horrifying, disgusting, eccentric and unabashedly sentimental. He takes some chances that could have easily derailed his delicately crafted vision, and yet they all pay off. You’re always aware you’re in the hands of a master director.

3. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Timothée Chalamet makes a star-making turn as a 17-year-old musical prodigy who, during a summer at his family’s Italian villa, becomes infatuated with the slightly older archaeology student (Armie Hammer) working for his professor father. As languorous and sweaty as a long July day, Luca Guadagnino’s ode to swooning romance and almost combustible lust sneaks up on you with its emotional force, with a final shot that beautifully encapsulates the simmering intensity of everything that precedes it.

2. THE FLORIDA PROJECT Sean Baker is a humanist first and a filmmaker second, and his latest is a free-floating, sun-bleached snapshot of life inside a dilapidated Orlando motel and the wayward souls who call it home. As Baker follows the routines of a frequently unsupervised little girl and her impulsive young mother, we cycle through every emotion imaginable — joy, sorrow, horror, anger, disbelief and, ultimately, understanding. It’s alive and electric in ways few movies are, a portrait of poverty and displacement that not only avoids hectoring and heavy-handedness but never exploits the people it’s about.

1. LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut was the great unifier of the year, a film that seemed to win over just about everyone who saw it.

It’s one of the smartest, wittiest and most insightful movies ever made about teengers and parents, the story of a fiercely intelligent 17-year-old girl finding her identity and a sense of independence in a world that’s intent on keeping her grounded. Saoirse Ronan is magnificent as the stormy title character, and Laurie Metcalf finally gets a big-screen role that suits her talents as Lady Bird’s equally stubborn mother. It seems like a modest film upon first glance, but having just watched it again, I’m struck by just how artfully it’s structured, how perfectly it’s paced, and how much emotional truth Gerwig packs into 90 minutes. And in a year defined by the voices of women, Lady Bird feels all the more vital. n Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Good Time; Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2; I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore; Logan; The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); My Life as a Zucchini; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; War for the Planet of the Apes and Wonder Woman.

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Remember that movie where Liam Neeson was on a plane and had to figure out which passenger was the bad guy? Well, this movie is pretty much the same thing, except now it’s set on a train. What will they think of next? (NW) Rated PG-13

I, TONYA

A raucous bio-comedy about figure skater Tonya Harding, who triple-axelled into infamy in the early ’90s. The film may be predicated on questionable morals — it wants us to laugh at its subjects, then condemns us for laughing — but it’s also centered on blistering performances by Margot Robbie as the disgraced Harding and Allison Janney as her monstrous mother. (NW) Rated R

PADDINGTON 2

The second feature inspired by Michael Bond’s popular books follows the raincoat-wearing, marmalade-loving bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) as he

The Post

goes searching for a stolen present that wrongfully lands him behind bars. Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson and Hugh Grant co-star. (NW) Rated PG

THE POST

Steven Spielberg’s latest film concerns 1970s Washington Post publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), the first woman to ever hold such a position, and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) fighting for the right to publish the notorious Pentagon Papers, which detailed the Johnson administration’s lies regarding the Vietnam War. Give it all the Oscars. (NW) Rated PG-13

The 1973 kidnapping of oil fortune heir Jean Paul Getty III is dramatized in Ridley Scott’s dark thriller, as the teenager’s mother (Michelle Williams) tries to convince her miserly father-in-law (Christopher Plummer) to cough up the ransom money. More concerned with methodology than motivation, wellmade but emotionally uninvolving.

(NW) Rated R

COCO

On the eve of Día de los Muertos, 12-year-old Miguel finds himself in the land of the dead, where he discovers he’s descended from a legendary Mexican musician. The latest from Pixar creates a vivid world and then runs around in it, all while conveying a message about the importance of family that actually feels sincere. (ES) Rated PG

PROUD MARY

Taraji P. Henson stars as an assassin-forhire who becomes the unlikely chaperone of a young boy after a hit job goes wrong. Sounds kind of like a genderflipped version of The Professional, but hopefully without that movie’s weird predatory vibes. (NW) Rated R

DARKEST HOUR

Gary Oldman is unrecognizable under pounds of makeup and prosthetics as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who’s settling into his first term right as Hitler’s power intensifies.

If Oldman doesn’t take home the Oscar for this one, it won’t have been for lack of trying. (ES) Rated PG-13

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A Ghost Story

NOW STREAMING A GHOST STORY (AMAZON PRIME)

One of the best films of 2017, a beautifully photographed and languidly paced rumination about mortality, the nature of time and the inner workings of the universe itself. As the title suggests, it’s about a ghost (visualized as a white sheet with eye holes cut into it) haunting his old house, looking on with fascination and sadness as life goes on without him. Weird, funny and morose in equal measure. (NW) Rated R

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MARJORIE PRIME (AMAZON PRIME)

A pensive sci-fi drama that imagines a near future where dead loved ones are replaced by uncanny hologram lookalikes. It might sound like a Black Mirror premise, but it’s far more introspective. Occasionally stagey (it’s based on a play, and you can tell), sometimes quietly profound. Starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins. (NW) Not Rated

The funniest movie of the year is a behind-the-scenes look at the worst movie of all time. James Franco directs and stars as Tommy Wiseau, the wannabe auteur behind the misguided 2003 curiosity The Room, which became a so-bad-it’s-good cult favorite. This is a hilarious tribute to the original film, but it also has a compelling message about the elusive nature of artistic success.

(SS) Rated R

DOWNSIZING

In director Alexander Payne’s imaginative satire, a drab middle-class couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) sign up for a procedure that shrinks you down to just a few inches, hoping it’ll make the world a better place. The film functions both as social commentary and broad comedy, but it perhaps works best as a thought experiment about our place in the universe. (ES) Rated R

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children’s book about a misunderstood bull (voiced by former wrestler John Cena) who would rather frolic in fields of flowers than fight in an arena. A smart, funny family film that espouses a refreshing message about gender stereotypes. (MJ) Rated PG

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

A lavish, Moulin Rouge-y musical fantasy inspired by the life and career of P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), the circus empresario who created modern show biz as we know it. The splashy songs are co-written by Oscar-winning La La Land lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

(NW) Rated PG

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The Bellas a cappella troupe reunite for one last gig during a haphazard USO tour in this third (and hopefully final) installment of the once enjoyable musical-comedy series. A flailing attempt to recreate the success of the earlier movies, without appreciating what made them work. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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As the evil First Order tightens its grip on the galaxy, Jedi-in-training Rey and her fellow Resistance fighters team up for a last-ditch attempt at victory. The most anticipated blockbuster of the year seems to be dividing audiences, but love it or hate it, we should all be happy that the Star Wars universe still sparks fiery imaginative passion. (SS) Rated PG-13

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

The third film in the Thor franchise is the best of the bunch, with the character’s comic energy getting a muchneeded jolt from director Taika Waititi.

This time around, the God of Thunder learns he has a long-lost sister (Cate Blanchett, snacking on scenery), who casts Thor and Loki off to a prison planet and steals the throne of Asgard.

(SS) Rated PG-13

If horror franchises have taught us anything, it’s that the word “last” means nothing. This fourth Insidious movie, which delves into the backstory of the series’ central parapsychologist Elise Rainier, might wrap up the saga or inspire a whole new branch of spinoffs, but do you care either way? (NW) Rated PG-13

The magical board game from that 1995 Robin Williams movie returns to the big screen, this time in the guise of an old gaming console that pulls some high schoolers into its perilous world.

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black star as the kids’ in-game avatars.

(NW) Rated PG-13

LADY BIRD

Greta Gerwig’s first foray behind the camera is a funny, observant and empathetic coming-of-age story about a fiercely independent teenage girl finding her true identity in post-9/11 Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan is phenomenal as the title character, as is Laurie Metcalf as the mother she’s often at odds with. A remarkably assured directorial debut. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

MOLLY’S GAME

Jessica Chastain is absolutely badass as Molly Bloom, a competitive skier who starts running high-stakes poker games in L.A. after an injury derails her career.

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, based on a true story, is a hugely engaging movie that could represent a harbinger of good for women, from both Hollywood and reality. (MJ) Rated R

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When her daughter is murdered, an angry mother (Frances McDormand) erects a trio of uncouth billboards calling out the local police department, causing a stir in her tiny town.

While the all-star cast delivers emotionally wrenching, award-worthy performances, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s inconsistent script occasionally veers into idiotic absurdity that undercuts the gravity of the drama. At the Magic Lantern. (SS)

WONDER

A little boy with facial deformities (Jacob Tremblay of Room) is sent off to a public school for the first time, with his encouraging parents (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson) looking on. A sweet and gentle adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s bestselling YA novel that nonetheless bashes you over the head with its already obvious themes and messages.

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Margot Robbie skates circles around the competition in the true-life tragicomedy I, Tonya.

On Thin Ice

I, Tonya is an undeniably entertaining, morally questionable comedy about an infamous public figure we thought we already knew

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

I

’ve often heard Tonya Harding’s life story All of this leads to what everyone in the film described as a uniquely American one, which gingerly refers to as “the incident,” which is the I think says more about America than it does reason anyone likely still remembers Harding.

Tonya Harding. Growing up amidst poverty and Her abusive ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian abuse in Portland, her rise was as precipitous and Stan) allegedly orchestrated an attack on her perilous as her fall: She went from scrappy figure competitor Nancy Kerrigan, hiring goons to skating underdog to world-famous athlete to latecrack Kerrigan’s kneecap with a club in what night TV punchline, all before she was 25. he hoped would leave an open spot on the ’94 It’s the stuff of you-can’t-makeOlympic team. this-up tabloid sensationalism, and Or maybe he wasn’t I, TONYA the new biographical comedy I, Tonya involved. That “wildly contradicRated R adopts the lurid, volatile temperatory” claim that starts the film Directed by Craig Gillespie ment of a National Enquirer piece, an defines the whole thing, and we Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian therefore approach what we’re approach this material probably Stan, Allison Janney deserves. It’s furiously paced and told with a healthy dose of skepfoul-mouthed, and it deliberately ticism. But I, Tonya is resolute in clouds the truth surrounding its strangest details. one thing: its conviction that Harding knew nothThe movie opens with a title card informing ing of the Kerrigan assault before it happened. us that it’s been inspired by “irony-free, wildly There’s no doubt that Harding was a victim contradictory interviews” by the real-life figures of Gillooly’s violent temper, and her eventual involved in Harding’s life and career, which are criminal sentence may have been a bit harsh, but then dramatized on-screen. Characters are also I’m not convinced she was quite as innocent as prone to interrupting the action to either corrobothe movie suggests. rate or refute what’s happening; other times they There’s a sense, then, that the movie wants pop in to complain that they’ve been missing to have its sickeningly rich cake and eat it, too: from their own story for too long.

It invites us to gleefully laugh at how trashy and That’s an unusual stylistic gambit, but it’s in clueless its characters are, only to turn around keeping with the very contradictions that define and chastise us for laughing in the first place.

Tonya Harding as a public figure. She’s played This is no more apparent than during a moment here by Margot Robbie, who has never been near the end of the film in which Tonya looks better. She has the steely-eyed resolve to prove directly into the camera and effectively tells us all her critics wrong, especially her pushy mother we’re as complicit in her professional downward (Allison Janney, who skates away with the spiral as her actual abusers. movie), a chain-smoking monster in a thrift-store She may have a point, in a way. But I’m not fur coat and a pageboy haircut that suggests a certain this film quite earns the right to make it. disturbing affinity for Dorothy Hamill.

What the movie does do well is ask us to Harding, all sharp edges and screw-you consider the complexities of a person we perhaps attitude, didn’t fit the cookie-cutter ideal of a assumed didn’t have any. We often forget that traditional figure skater, pugnacious and excitable there’s a human being behind those old Saturday in a sport that values gentility and fastidiousness.

Night Live and David Letterman jokes, someone And yet her talent was undeniable. In 1991, she who likely never could have had a fair shake became the first female skater to land two triple in life. Tonya ended up fulfilling the depressing axel jumps during a competition, a feat that prophecy laid out by her biggest skeptics, but seemed to surprise and delight her even more damn it, she found fame through infamy. And than the spectators. what’s more American than that? n

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BASS FROM BIRTH Victor Wooten, one of the greatest bassists ever, stops in Spokane this weekend

BY MITCH RYALS

V

ictor Wooten remembers sitting on his mother’s lap backstage at a Curtis Mayfield show. He was about 6 and, along with his four older brothers, had just finished playing the opening set for the influential soul musician. His oldest brother, Reggie, was about 14, Wooten says.

Now 53, Wooten (above, center) recalls that Mayfield was supposed to play two shows that evening, but left after the first, sending the promoter scrambling.

“You boys should get out of show business while you’re young,” Wooten recalls the promoter saying to the young band.

Good thing they didn’t.

Wooten, one of the founding members of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, is now a five-time Grammy winner, and is widely considered one of the greatest bass players ever.

While his wife emptied the dishwasher, the Mountain Home, Idaho-born musician spoke to the Inlander from his home in Nashville about his upbringing as a touring musician, his new record TRYPNOTYX, taking a knee before NFL games and his role as a music teacher.

became popular in the ’90s and the rest of the world got to see it, the techniques became more widespread. But I’m not the only bass player to have ever done it. I owe credit to Reggie, Larry Graham and Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson.

INLANDER: You started learning music at 2 years old? Who taught you?

WOOTEN: It was my oldest brother Reggie who taught me how to play. He was 10, and he’s teaching me at 2 years old. How did this 10-year-old boy get his younger brothers good enough to be an opening act on a major tour in just a few short years? That’s the real story.

We still call him the teacher, and that’s what he still does.

You were very young when the Wooten Brothers were touring and sharing the stage with the likes of Curtis Mayfield, the Temptations, War and Maze. What was it like as a 6- and 7-year-old hanging around those guys?

It’s just what we did. We played music. I’d come home, do homework, take naps, and play gigs on the weekends. But my gigging started really before I even started school. I grew up knowing that. In a sense, there was nothing for me to learn or adapt to. Just grew into it.

You’re often credited with popularizing a different technique for playing the electric bass. Can you talk about that?

Larry Graham [of Sly and the Family Stone] is the guy known for inventing what we call ‘thumping,’ what’s now called ‘slapping.’ He used his thumb, and so my brother Reggie showed me how to use my thumb in the same way he would use a guitar pick in an up-and-down motion. That opened up a portal for creativity in my brain.

When I joined Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and

Are there performances you recall seeing as a kid that have shaped your approach?

It doesn’t just come from music. I learn from athletes, too — Michael Jordan, Bruce Lee, Tiger Woods, Pelé.

What I noticed about Michael Jordan, when he came back [after playing baseball], he was an older, more mature athlete. He figured out a new game because there were younger, faster and more athletic players. So instead ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | JAZZ “BASS FROM BIRTH,” CONTINUED... he’d shoot a fadeaway jumper or use his teammates.

I feel like that’s where I’m at in my career now. I don’t have the same athleticism. I don’t have to do backflips with the bass like I did when I was younger. But I still have a story to tell, and I can take the Michael Jordan approach.

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After 10 solo albums, is there one song that holds particular significance for you?

Quite a few years ago I put out a song that I was reluctant to even talk about called ‘I Saw God.’ It’s just about, ‘Hey, I just saw God walking down the street. He looked like you. She looked like me,’ ya know? It represents God as a male or female.

That was one I knew was going to make people think, question, maybe rebel. But it was a song I felt was necessary. In history, a lot of times it’s musicians who are causing changes.

You’re a thoughtful, philosophical person. Are there any social issues on the top of your mind currently?

There’s always something. Our president, like him or not, he’s got us communicating.

Like with Colin Kaepernick [kneeling before NFL games], a lot of people didn’t ask why he did it, they just said he was disrespecting the flag.

We want to condemn without getting into the reasons for it. To understand the reason is to find the solution. He was kneeling for a good reason that needs to be addressed. A lot of African

American men and women are and have been abused by the police. I’ve seen it since I was a kid.

I am against the president’s criticism and calling those players names that my mother wouldn’t let me use. This is our top man calling these guys names, but not addressing why they’re doing it.

As my mom would say, ‘Now you know you’re wrong.’

Your most recent album, TRYPNOTYX, features Dennis Chambers on drums and Bob Franceschini on saxophone, who you’ll play with in Spokane. What’s different about this record from your previous work?

I treated it as a band record, so it’s not just mine. It’s just the three of us, so there’s no designated chordal instrument, which was fun to figure out and forced us to exercise our creativity.

In the end, we supplemented it with vocalists, but they’re singing sounds and melodies, not lyrics. One vocalist is Michael Winslow from the Police Academy movies, Spaceballs and stuff with Cheech and Chong.

I also found a woman from India, Varijashree Venugopal, and heard her singing on Facebook along to John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps.’ She’s on the record singing these jazz tunes, and doing it in a way I’ve never heard. n The Victor Wooten Trio • Sun, Jan. 14 at 8 pm • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • $37$117 • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Silver Torches, the solo project of Erik Walters, hits the Bartlett on Saturday.

The Fire Inside

Erik Walters keeps the dream alive with Silver Torches

BY BEN SALMON

W

hen Erik Walters and his bandmates in Silver Torches started making their new album Let It Be a Dream, they did so… sort of by accident.

“We weren’t even looking to make a record,” Walters says in a telephone interview. “As I kept writing songs, I stopped putting any kind of preconceived ideas on them. I just let them speak.

So the songs got better and we just kept recording them.”

The result: Let It Be a Dream was released last fall. It’s the third Silver Torches album, and it differs from its predecessor — 2016’s Heatherfield — in a way that’s very much reflective of Walters’ evolving taste and songwriting.

“We wanted synths, and we knew we wanted that from the beginning,” he says. “Once we had a bulk of the tunes and we saw the shape of the record, we were like, ‘OK, this is a country or an Americana record because that’s the kind of songs I write, but we don’t want it to sound like a typical country or Americana record.’”

If this all sounds a bit vague, let’s clarify.

Walters writes beautiful, melodic folk songs, but on Let It Be a Dream, they’re streaked with synthesizers and shrouded in atmosphere that’s unmistakably ’80s in flavor. For the old-timers: These songs wouldn’t sound out of place soundtracking a wistful scene from a John Hughes movie. For the youngsters: Reviews of Let It Be a Dream often include comparisons of Silver Torches to Philly classic-rock revivalists the War on Drugs.

That comparison is fair, Walters says, though he thinks the sound is rooted more in his youthful consumption of acts like Bruce Hornsby and Neil Young, as well as early 2000s indie rock like Broken Social Scene. Add in the studio wizardry

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of Let It Be a Dream producer Andy Park and you end up with a song like “If I Reach,” with its easy going pace, soaring synth line and simmering disillusionment.

Walters grew up in Spokane, and moved to Seattle in 2007 with his band the Globes, who toured a bit and put out an album on Barsuk Records before breaking up. But in moving to Seattle, Walters met Jonathan Warman and Sean Lane, both of whom are in Silver Torches today.

(Lane and Walters are also both in the lineup of rebooted indie heroes Pedro the Lion for the foreseeable future.)

And so, it’s been 10 years since Walters left Spokane, which has given him time to meet people and make music his living, but it also means he’s getting older. He’ll be 30 this year. And you can hear him grappling with that throughout Let It Be a Dream.

“It’s all touching on that fear and anxiety about aging,” he says, “but also kind of feeling helpless, which I think a lot of people feel right now.”

That wasn’t necessarily the plan, Walters says. Instead, a narrative revealed itself as the songs came together, often told through a character’s perspective, like the barback in “At the Lantern” (named after the Spokane taphouse) who lives in his mom’s basement and is still chasing his teenage dreams. Or the guy in the title track who ignores calls from debt collectors and watches TV to fend off loneliness.

“That’s just how I was feeling,” Walters says.

“I was going through a hard time personally and financially, and then I’m turning on the news and seeing all this shit about Trump and watching the country unravel and not feeling super hot about any of it.”

Walters wrote much of Let It Be a Dream during the final quarter of 2016, after the presidential election. And while that decision still casts a considerable shadow over the country, Walters can at least take some comfort in some positive developments on a personal level. His gig in Pedro the Lion has given him the opportunity to make music his full-time job — a major achievement for any musician these days.

“It’s like, ‘OK, great. I did that part,’” he says.

“Now let’s just work on making it so I can keep doing it.’” n Silver Torches with Ruthie Henrickson • Sat, Jan. 13 at 8 pm • $10-$12 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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HIP-HOP ESHAM

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he rapper known as Esham has split his time between Long Island and Detroit since he was a kid, and his music similarly fluctuates between two distinct places: It’s as influenced by classic hip-hop as it is classic rock. Esham has been at this for a long time, having dropped his debut album, 1989’s Boomin’ Words from Hell, when he was still a teenager. He eventually became part of the roster at Psychopathic Records, most famous as the home label of the controversial Insane Clown Posse, and his work is as deliberately shocking and confrontational as you might expect. It’s not for everyone. How do you best describe it? Horrorcore? Acid rap? Alt-metal?

You decide.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Esham with Kagah, Legion Sik, Rowdee, Parodime and more • Tue, Jan. 16 at 8 pm • $12 • All-ages • The Pin! • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 624-0746

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J THE BARTLETT, Tango Volcado and Prairie Songs, Remembering Antonia with The Willa Cather Project BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRUISERS, Open Jam Night HOUSE OF SOUL, Take2 THE JACKSON ST., Acoustic Jam with Zaq Flannery J JOHN’S ALLEY, Nappy Roots J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Evan Denlinger THE LOCAL DELI, Wyatt Wood MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open Mic with Kevin Dorin NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown RICO’S, Odd Bird THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 01/12

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, VisionSeekerz 219 LOUNGE, Brian Stai J J THE BARTLETT, Brown Friday: A Father/Son Double Bill with Kevin and Caleb Brown (see above) BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Tufnel BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Ashley Pyle J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Phoenix Blues Band THE BULL HEAD, The Sidemen Live J CEDAR COFFEE, Kaylee Goins

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t’s going to be something of a family affair at the Bartlett on Friday night, and it’ll also be a celebration of two distinctly American musical styles. Kevin Brown and his son Caleb are taking the stage, and they’ll be dabbling in their respective genres of choice — folk and bluegrass from Kevin, jazz from Caleb. And while they’re of different generations, both Browns have impressive credentials within the local music scene: Kevin is the music director of the Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival, a member of the long-running bluegrass outfit Big Red Barn, and a solo singer-songwriter in his own right; Caleb, meanwhile, is the saxophone player in the popular Spokane band Super Sparkle, and he’s previously played with the Whitworth University Jazz Ensemble.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Brown Friday with Caleb and Kevin Brown • Fri, Jan. 12 at 8 pm • $8 advance, $10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, Bright Moments Jazz CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Wyatt Wood CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Dylan Hathaway CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, The Usual Suspects FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi J FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Jenna Johansen GARLAND DRINKERY, Drinkery Presents w/ Chad O. Moore IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ben Olson and Cadie Archer THE JACKSON ST., Wide Stance JOHN’S ALLEY, The Copper Children J LAGUNA CAFÉ, The Ronaldos

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Cristopher Lucas & Cary Beare MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Ron Greene MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Bill Bozly NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Loose Gazoonz NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Sid and the Emergency Exit, Wasted Breath, Foxtrot Epidemic J J PANIDA THEATER, David Raitt and the Baja Boogie Band with Peter Rivera PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike and Shanna POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade RICO’S, Horace Alexander Young Quartet THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Lucas Brookbank Brown THE ROADHOUSE, Dangerous Type SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Just Plain Darin SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Stella Jones SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Texas Twister SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West J VESSEL COFFEE ROASTERS, LIAM

ZOLA, Dragon Fly

Saturday, 01/13

219 LOUNGE, Devon Wade BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison J J THE BARTLETT, Silver Torches (see page 39), Ruthie Henrickson BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Tufnel BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Delta G. Blues CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, Oak Street Connection CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Wyatt Wood COMMUNITY PINT, Kori Ailene J CRUISERS, Running Down a Dream: Tom Petty Memorial with

MUSIC | VENUES Ragbone and The Sidemen CURLEY’S, The Usual Suspects FLAME & CORK, Son of Brad IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Justin Lantrip THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke with James JOHN’S ALLEY, Scott Pemberton Band LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kari Marguerite MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Scotia Road J MOOTSY’S, Ian Miles, Feral Anthem, Perenne MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, The Cole Show NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Echo Elysium J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Shakewell, Blake Braley, Partygoers J REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Ethan Perry and the Remedy Band THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos

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Sunday, 01/14

J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Victor Wooten Trio feat. Dennis Chambers and Bob Franceschini (see page 37) DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Steve Livingston LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Sunday Karaoke Night SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, The Cole Show ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 01/15

J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Evan Dillinger

Tuesday, 01/16

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic

GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke KAIJU SUSHI & SPIRITS, John Firshi LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Three Doors Down Acoustic J J PANIDA THEATER, Smooth Hound Smith J J THE PIN!, Esham (see facing page) with Kagah, Legion Sik, Rowdee, Parodime and more RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/ Jam Night THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke J UNION GOSPEL MISSION, Ministry of Angels ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 01/17

BLACK DIAMOND, Wyatt Wood EICHARDT’S, John Firshi ETSI BRAVO, Joseph Hein and Mise GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Dan Conrad THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Mama Doll and Friends LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, The Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Ronaldos feat. Ron Criscione, Ray Younker and Emily Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Better After Dark THE THIRSTY DOG, Donny Duck Entertainment Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRAVO CONCERT HOUSE • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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FOOD MAC ATTACK

Ready your belly to be filled with lots and lots of cheese-smothered starches. The Lake City’s inaugural Mac and Cheese Festival is offering plenty of delectable dishes for your sampling pleasure, from the chefs of 14 local restaurants, including Crafted Tap House + Kitchen, Mac Daddy’s, Bardenay Restaurant and Cosmic Cowboy Grill. As they compete for the Golden Noodle and People’s Choice awards, each restaurant will try to tempt your tastebuds with creative and unusual variations on this kid food fave. Wash it all down (and get ready for a carb-induced nap) with featured adult beverage pairings from Daft Badger, Bombastic Brewing, North Idaho Cider or Post Falls Brewing. The mac and beer package ($25) includes six mac tastings along with six 6-oz. beer tastings; allages packages are $15 each, and include six samples. Extra tasting tickets for both noodles and booze are offered on site throughout the event. Unfortunately if you haven’t already pre-ordered your admission, you’ll have to hope for day-of tickets when you show up to the event. (These are included if you reserve a room at the Resort.)

— CHEY SCOTT Coeur d’Alene Mac and Cheese Festival • Sat, Jan. 13 from noon-6 pm • $15-$25 • All-ages • Coeur d’Alene Resort Plaza Shops • 210 Sherman Ave. • bit.ly/2EljNTi

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THEATER SWINGING SITCOM

It’s happened to all of us at one time or another: You pretend you’re married with three kids as a ruse to keep your bevy of would-be paramours from becoming too emotionally attached. But then one of those heartsick lovers tries to commit suicide, so you propose marriage out of a sense of obligation.

Which, unfortunately, means going all-in on the marriedwith-children gambit by getting your assistant and several other acquaintances to join you in the charade. Wait, does that sound too farcical? Not for Cactus Flower, the 1965 Broadway hit that’s now on the Civic’s main stage — although director Jessica Loomer describes it as more of a lighthearted situation comedy that masquerades as a farce. “It gets a little crazy as the lies start to compound,” she says. “The fun is in the scenarios that get more absurd over time and how they handle it.” Amid plenty of swinging ’60s music and set design, Dave Rideout stars as philandering dentist Dr. Julian Winston.

— E.J. IANNELLI Cactus Flower • Jan. 12-28: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $27-$29 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

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CULTURE RULE THEM ALL

When Tim Meadows left Saturday Night Live after performing for the entire decade of the ’90s, he was probably best known for just that — the longevity of his tenure, at the time a record for an SNL cast member. His “Ladies Man” character was popular and inspired a feature film, but his post-SNL career has largely mirrored his time on the show. He’s a seemingly constant (and always funny) presence in movies large and small, and on TV shows like The Goldbergs, but often overshadowed by bigger stars. He’s front and center on stage, though, as he’s returned to his roots doing live improv and standup, including a tour stopping in Spokane this weekend.

— DAN NAILEN

Set aside plenty of time and spend the week binging all three cinematic adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s timeless trilogy, because you’ll need to brush-up on your LOTR knowledge if you’re heading to this special trivia night hosted by the Spokane County Library District. We’ll also help you practice with a few warm-up questions (answers on facing page): What is the name of Gandalf’s horse?

How old is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, during the events of The Return of the King? What’s the full name of the hobbit Pippin? What’s the name of the massive spider that attacks Frodo and Sam on their way to Mordor? What is the former capital of Gondor, on the river Anduin, captured by Mordor’s Uruk-hai? A few more things to know before you go: cosplayers are welcome, and you can bring your own snacks or order food for delivery to the library during the event. Have fun, but also remember there will only be one team to rule them all…

— CHEY SCOTT

Tim Meadows • Fri, Jan. 12, at 8 pm and Sat, Jan. 13, at 7 and 9:30 pm • $20 ($27/premium) • Ages 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

Random Fandom Trivia Nights: Lord of the Rings • Fri, Jan. 12 from 6:30-8:30 pm • Free • Ages 16+ • Spokane Valley Library • 12004 E. Main • scld.org • 893-8400

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BENEFIT

UPTIC STUDIOS + SPOKANE ARTS: Please join Uptic Studios at its third annual fundraiser for Spokane Arts, featuring three local artists: Christy Branson, Matt Smith and Aryn Lindsey.

A percentage of all proceeds directly support Spokane Arts. Jan. 11, 5-8 pm. Maryhill Winery Spokane, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2qekawH

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. (244-3279) GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) HOLLYWOOD BABBLE ON Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman take a twisted look at showbiz news and bite the Hollywood hand that feeds them. Jan. 11, 7 pm. $35-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) CHOOSE TO LOSE Audience members compete in this wacky all-improvised game show, in which winning is losing! Fridays at 8 pm through Feb. 9. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) TIM MEADOWS Known for his roles on SNL and in movies like and “Ladies Man,” “Mean Girls,” and “Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story.” Jan. 12 at 8 pm and Jan. 13 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $20/$27. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) HOG WILD AT THE HOGFISH Mark Morris Comedy presents a night of comedy featuring Mika lahman, headliner Harry J Riley and special guests. Jan. 13, 9-11 pm. Hogfish, 1920 East Sherman. facebook.com/hogfishbarcda SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com WEED & WHISKEY LIVE! The first live recording of the Weed and Whiskey Podcast with local comedians and hosts Josh Teaford and Casey Strain.

Guests include artist Joseph Zelkan and the band Phantom 309. Jan. 13, 8:30-10:30 pm. $5. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. bigdipperevents.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com COMEDY SHOWCASE The Monday night showcase lets the audience help pick the “Best Set” of the night from among four local comedians. Third Monday of the month, 8-9:30 pm.

Free; 2-item min. purchase. The Buzz Pizzeria, Bar & Lounge, 501 S. Thor St. thebuzzspokane.com

COMMUNITY

TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit features more than 120 real artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along

with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Through May 20; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 8 pm). $13-$18.

The MAC, 2316 W. First.(456-3931) ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE Includes live music by the Prestwold Players. All dances are taught and called by Mitchell Frey. No experience necessary. Jan. 13, 7-10 pm. $7/$10. East Spokane Grange, 1621 N. Park. spokanefolklore.org THE GOOD LIE A screening of the feature film about the work Sun City and other Valley churches to help refugees in area schools and about the new Unaccompanied Refugee Foster program at Lutheran Community Services. At Sun City, 10920 E. Sprague. Jan. 14, 3-5 pm. Free. (343-5018) COMPUTER PROGRAMMING DAY CAMP Join other girls and learn how to solve problems, create a computer game, and explore basic computer coding using Scratch and other interactive activities. Pre-registration required; open to Girl Scouts and nonGirl Scouts in grades K-8. Jan. 15, 9 am-4 pm. $25. Girl Scouts of E. WA and N. Idaho, 1404 N. Ash St. (747-8091) CUT THE CABLE CORD Many are choosing non-traditional ways of getting their entertainment. Come learn how to save money and still watch TV. Jan. 16, 2 pm. Free. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes. (444-5331) MINDFUL IDENTITY DOODLES If you like coloring pages or are interested in Zentangling and Mindfulness, you’ll this session which is a cross between a Zentangle, a self-affirmation and a meditation session. Jan. 16, 6:30 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance with music by the band All in Good Time and caller Nancy Staub. Beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Jan. 17, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. womansclubspokane.org CITYWIDE EMPOWER HOUR YOGA An hour of yoga and a chance to connect with a network of local, likeminded women. This monthly event is held at new locations in and around downtown. Bring a mat and business cards to enter giveaways. Jan. 18, 12-1 pm. Free. McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. (981-5886) LILAC CITY LIVE! The second installment of the local, “late night” talk show, hosted by Ryan Dean Tucker, features Shawn Vestal, Newman and Shelby Anne Allison and Casey Strain.

Proceeds from a cash bar benefits the SPL Foundation. Jan. 18, 7 pm. Free.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2qKC7mV (444-5336) SPARK SALON 2018 The second annual benefit for Spark Central brings video game developers Rand and Robyn Miller of Cyan Worlds back to their hometown of Spokane. They’ll sit down with author Jess Walter to share the story of creating their first big video game, Myst (and its sequel Riven, as well as their new ventures into Virtual Reality. Jan. 19, 6:30-9 pm. $65/person; $625/table of 10. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org/sparksalon

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I SAW YOU TO THE OFF DUTY EMTS IN FRONT OF YOKES YESTERDAY Thanks Guys! I really appreciate you checking me out after that chick hit me on my bike in front of Yokes.

Sore but uninjured otherwise.

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SUSHI JACK @MY FRESH BASKET Cheers to Jack @ My Fresh Basket for his beautiful and delicious sushi creations. You’re awesome! Great job!!

I SAW YOU HANDSOME GENTLEMAN AT WINCO Winco, north Nevada. You were grocery shopping with your daughter??, about 7:30p on New Years Day. Well dressed, silver fox. Wow. When I realized I was staring, I quickly disappeared as to not catch your glance. You see, a bottle of brut from the night before left me looking, well, not quite my best. I’d love to run into you again.

Perhaps on purpose. I promise to be pulled together :) If you’re curious, post in the ‘Missed Connections’ personals on Craigslist. I’ll be stari-----oops! I mean watching!

COAT CHECK You left The Ridler Piano Bar with a long, black coat. New Years Eve. It is not yours. Return it to the bar with “all” intact. You will be greatly rewarded.

You were seen. Have a friend return it, if you’re not O.K. with how it all went down.

No questions asked. Thinkin’ you weren’t just too drunk to know it wasn’t yours.

Hoping you just left in a hurry, havin’ all kinds of fun, and grabbed it off the back of that chair. Thanks in advance. Your reward awaits.

BURGER JOINT BABE I saw you at the 5 Guys up North on Friday the 5th. You were trying out different drink combos and helping calm down your friend. He seemed pretty upset about his mom; I really admire how well you calmed him down and talked him through the struggle with such kindness and empathy. Maybe I can buy you a burger sometime soon? I was the blonde in the pale green cartigan.

LOST & FOUND PHONE AT ALBERTSONS CDA After getting back home from grocery shopping at Albertsons in CDA on January 3rd, I realized that I had lost my phone.

Frustrated and upset, I was sure that it was gone for good. . A few hrs later after being convinced by my partner, I reluctantly went back to Albertsons to see if I could find it. I was shocked and delighted to find out that someome actually turned my phone into CS after finding it outside! So, to the person whom has restored at least 11% of my faith in humanity, Thank You and I hope positive happenings & good karma surround you.

SWEETO BURRITO IS THE SWEETEST! On behalf of the CDA Fire local 710 wives group and CDA Fire, I can’t begin to tell you how grateful we were for the support and kindness from Sean at the Coeur d’Alene Sweeto Burrito. One of our local firefighters that had gone into cardiac arrest and we had an army of people standing vigil at the hospital. We were sending food to the family to make sure everyone was fed. Sean was quick to respond and more than generous when I emailed that we were in need for the next day at lunch It was one less thing for us to worry about and the food was nice and hot when I picked it up. It was delicious. THANK YOU for everything! You really went above and beyond. I’m happy to say, our guy is home and making a fast recovery. Your generosity was truly thoughtful.

THANKS, AUTOZONE JOHN W! Thanks, John W, (at the AutoZone on Division) for fixing the super-corroded battery terminal on my Camry last Saturday afternoon. I truly appreciated your willingness to get out the tool box and take the time to solve the problem! My Camry is running great!

FAITH RESTORED I just dig humans with integrity. Thank you, kind sir, for going out of your way to turn my lost cell phone in to the T-Mobile store. All good things to you!

JEERS FOCUS! You took my friend’s coat and left the venue, New Years Eve. When you realize you have it, please return it to the place you found it. If you don’t remember, your friend does. If you left it in a Ride Share, track it down and return it. The same would be offered you. It would be uncomfortable for all involved to have the camera footage

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THE GAME OF LOVE Please stop playing games with my heart. I don’t understand how you could woo me with your beautiful love poetry and then deny that you love me the next day, and then tell me and everyone else that I am “insane” and that I am “stalking you” just because I wanted to tell you how sorry I was. This is not fair. Deep down I know you have the courage to not just say you love me through these unrequited love nots, but say it to my face, until then my heart is not a toy.

FAST FOOD WORKERS Jeers to the fast food employees who are making decent money but can’t get an order correct. Every time I order food I end up wasting so much money and food because something gets forgotten to be put in my bag or whatever I asked to be taken off of an item doesn’t get removed or some other random thing happens that ruins my meal. I know the answer to this is just to not eat fast food, but I like what I like and everyone deserves a treat sometimes.

Pay attention to what you are doing. I work just as hard as you for the money I spend at your establishment. I’m expected to do my job correctly so why can’t you!? If you can’t figure it out then you must have a bright future of fast food ahead of you!

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Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

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RE: DRIVING IN SNOW Cheers to the lady who wrote the essay last week about some Spokane drivers who don’t drive well in the snow and ice. You absolutely nailed the issue brilliantly. I think perhaps the problem is that there are so many scummy people in the city who have no respect for others that they charge on mindlessly since they lack one. All one has to do is look around the city to see this. Spokane may be one of the least courteous cities in the nation. Not only do the drivers seem totally disinterested in those

I don’t understand how you could woo me with your beautiful love poetry and then deny that you love me the next day.

“splashed” all over town showing the CoatKeeper-Creeper-Caper. Let’s not go there.

Drop it at the venue on Riverside, in the condition you “found” it, and all is forgiven.

Thanks! You looked great that night! Don’t do “Ugly” with this “little” oversight.

SOUND OFF

OFFICER ON 195 Wow! Officer who pulled me over on 195 for doing 10 over while trying to merge. If what I was doing was actually negligent driving in the second degree and deserved a 500 dollar ticket then why did you let me off with a verbal warning?

You baited me into opening my mouth by forcing me to explain myself and then verbally cut me off. I believe your words were “now you want to argue with me.”

You are a bad example to the future drivers in your vehicle. you just dont get it.”You

should never have made me get out of my truck at a traffic stop. The future drivers in my car did learn something. No matter how polite you are to a cop sometimes they just abuse their position anyways. Officer, you need anger management. After that I had a great day. Because I am a polite and safe driver and i know it. No tickets or accidents in 20 years. Let’s see your record.

PAY ATTENTION WHEN DRIVING. 1. The light is green, why are we still stopped 20-30 seconds later? 2. If you’re on I-90 and not entering or exiting, please move out of the lane where all oncoming or exiting is happening. 3. Go the speed limit, or weather permitting. 4. Turn on your lights. The new vehicles have [faux] lights inside, but your lights outside aren’t on. 5. Pick a lane, don’t ride the line. 6. Stop trying to pass on the rt when the lanes merge. 7. Signal! 8. Move!!!!

9. Replace your headlights or brakelights that are out. 10. Clear your vehicle of debris instead of attempting to drive with a frozen windshield or a ton of snow on it. We’re all in this together, please remember your fellow drivers. Safety helps us all.

IMPATIENT DRIVERS If I’m doing 70mph on the freeway in the passing lane and i am actually passing a car, you do not have a right to blare your horn and flash your brights at me. We get it, your Mazda protege is way faster than my Camry, and it’s way more important for you to get to your destination 10 minutes earlier than it is for me to get my kid to daycare safe. People like you are the epitome of ‘D’ words.

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driving beside them, but some grocery store employees seem to think they’re beneath helping their customers. Try this one for size. Head to Safeway on Market and try to get helped in a line efficiently. Not only will you wait in line for an interminable amount of time, but when you do finally get helped, you will be treated like a second class citizen.

What’s to like? Oh yes...Near Nature. Near Perfect. At least the first part is correct. It’s near nature. BTW, because the city has so many scumbags, don’t use $50 bills because the dumbos who work in the grocery stores aren’t smart enough to elucidate they’re real without using their dumbo proof pens.

Therefore they insult their customers by drawing a line across them. Hey stupid, you can tell the bill is real via an assortment of means that don’t require a pen or even light. It’s not really their fault though.

They’re just following management rules and they’re the dumbest of all. Most accurate motto for the city. Near nature but not as polite as the south. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR BUILD YOUR CAT A CASTLE Come use the library’s supplies to build your cat (or other small pet) a fun castle.

Families and adults welcome. (Adults will use the sharp tools.) Jan. 20, 3 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org DICE THRONE CONVENTION 2018 The creators of the locally-made board game host the first ever convention, with tournament prizing, live art with co-creator Manny Tremblay, swag bags for all attendees, raffles, free play and hands-on play with new heroes. Jan. 20, 10 am-8 pm. $30. Red Lion Hotel River Inn, 700 North Division Street. bit. ly/2CUZhwg (328-9526)

FILM

PALOUSE CULT FILM REVIVAL: TROLL 2 Doors for the series open at 8:30 for raffles, a bar sponsored by Best Western Plus University Inn, and other surprises. The film: A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them. Ages 21+. Jan. 15, 9 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: FACES PLACES Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: a passion for and the exploration of images in general, and more precisely, for places and for ways of showing, sharing, and exhibiting them. Jan. 16, 7 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

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LATTE ART COMPETITION: WINTER FORMAL A black tie/formal version of the local latte art competition series. Doors open at 6:30, event starts at 7:30 pm. Jan. 11, 6:30-11 pm. Vessel Coffee Roasters, 2823 N. Monroe St. bit. ly/2CZdDvO (509-290-5051) PAUL’S PALE ALE RELEASE Iron Goat Brewing Co. celebrates the release of Paul’s Pale Ale, the new name for its iconic Garbage Pale Ale, in honor of the late Paul Edminster, IGB co-founder and legendary brewer. A portion of the proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. Jan. 11, 5-10 pm. Community Pint, 120 E. Sprague. bit.ly/2mj6o7u 5TH ANNUAL WINTER BEER FEST Winter seasonal beers from Washington and Oregon are on tap inside at the bar, and outside in the Winter Wonderland beer garden with fire pits.

Enjoy live music Fat Lady on Friday and Dodgy Mountain Men on Saturday (both start at 9:30 pm). Jan. 12-13. The Lantern Tap House, 1004 S. Perry St. bit. ly/2melHNQ (315-9531) WINE TASTING: AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Taste six wines from the “other” hemisphere. Jan. 12, 4-7 pm. $15. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com JANUARY SUPPER CLUB: MODERN INDIAN CUISINE Featuring guest chef Deepak Saxena, chef/owner of popular food cart Desi PDX. Dinner includes five courses paired with wine. Jan. 13 at 5:30 pm and Jan. 14 at 4:30 pm. $60/person.

Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257) MAC & CHEESE FESTIVAL Celebrate your favorite childhood dish by sampling variations prepared by local Coeur d’Alene chefs, who also compete for awards. Packages include mac only, or beer + mac. Jan. 13, 12-6 pm. $15-$25.

Downtown CdA. cdamac.eventbrite.com COOKING CLASS: BREAKFAST In this demonstration style cooking class, will learn four different breakfast recipes for a casserole, no-bake energy bites, gingerbread pancakes and homemade granola. Jan. 17, 5:30-8 pm. $30. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org PLANNING MEALS FOR NUTRITION & SAVINGS Educators from 2nd Harvest share tips for planning easy, nutritious meals and shopping for quality, affordable food. Jan. 17, 4 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org

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ELVIS PRESLEY TRIBUTE FEAT. KRAIG PARKER Named the “world’s foremost Elvis tribute performer” by the London Times, Kraig Parker brings his electric moves to Coeur d’Alene. Jan. 11, 7 pm. $15+. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com MUSIC WALK Held every second Friday of the month, January through March, beginning at 5 pm, downtown Coeur d’Alene rings with live music from talented local musicians. Free. artsandculturecda.org/music-walk CELLOBRATION SPOKANE The annual cello festival brings together 50 cellists from across the region for a day of learning and performance and a concert. Jan. 13, 7:30-9 pm. Free; donations accepted. EWU, 526 Fifth. (359-2241) IDAHO BACH FESTIVAL Attendees of this year’s festival can hear music in a way that hasn’t been heard in more than 200 years. On Jan. 16, Miranda Wilson, associate professor of cello, bass and theory in the Lionel Hampton School of Music and co-artistic director of the festival, performs Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello on a five-string cello. Other events include baroque music concerts and student recitals. Jan. 16-19.

See website for complete details. $3$5. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu/music (208-885-6111)

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SPOKANE CHIEFS Regular season matches; vs. the Prince George Cougars on Jan. 12; Everett Silvertips on Jan. 13; the Brandon Wheat Kings on Jan. 17 and the Tri-City Americans on Jan. 20 all matches start at 7:05 pm. $10-$35.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) A CONVERSATION WITH RICH LANDERS Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness celebrates 13 years of working for wilderness at an event with the former Spokesman Review outdoor and adventure writer. Jan. 13, 6:30-9 pm. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) FREE STATE PARK DAYS All Washington State Parks are open for use without needing to show a Discover Pass; includes access locally to Riverside, Mt. Spokane and Palouse Falls state parks.

Upcoming free days: Jan. 15, March 19, April 14 and 22. parks.state.wa.us GSL BASKETBALL RIVALRY GAMES The annual high school rivalry games with the Rubber Chicken (LC vs. Ferris) on Jan. 16; Groovy Shoes (Shadle vs. North Central) on Jan. 18 and Stinky Sneakers (U High vs. Central Valley) on

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FALSETTOS Told through a series of rapid-fire vignettes, the play examines the early ’80s through the eyes of Jewish father Marvin, who is still trying all methods of constructing a “tight knit family.”

Jan. 5-21; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. (208-673-7529) AT THE SWEET GUM BRIDGE This play is dedicated to the Choctaw nation and particularly to Choctaw chief Apushamatahahubih. Jan 12-28; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) L.A. THEATRE WORKS: THE MOUNTAINTOP Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play, this production by Katori Hall explores the human side of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. as he forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid on the eve of his assassination. Jan. 15 at 2 pm and Jan. 16 at 7:30 pm. $9-$18. Jones Theatre, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu NT LIVE: FOLLIES Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. Jan. 18, 6:30 pm. $12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

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HAROLD BALAZS: I DID IT MY WAY A showcase of art by the late iconic artist, whose work populates churches, colleges, parks, and numerous public spaces around the country. See 130+ pieces representing the seven decades of Harold’s work, including new paintings from 2017, along with enamels, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media assemblages. Jan. 12-Feb. 3; Tue-Sat from 9 am-6 pm. Opening reception Jan. 12 from 5-8 pm. Free to view. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com WORKING WITH A MASTER A panel of local artist Harold Balazs’ friends gather at the gallery to share stories about this artist’s uncanny adventures and inspiration. Jan. 13, 1 pm. Free. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com (208-765-6006)

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DIVERSE VOICES WRITING GROUP A writing group for all experience levels that supports and elevates diverse voices. Open to teenagers and adults. Jan. 11, 5:30-6:45 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org CELEBRATING SPOKANE AUTHORS Spokane Authors and Self Publishers (SASP) have released their first anthology, a collection of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Jan. 12, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com VOICEOVER The student reading series of the EWU MFA program in Creative Writing, featuring Nate Sand, Tessa Bryant, Daniel Cote, Jenny Catlin, Deanna Duplechain, alumni reader Maya Zeller and faculty reader Gregory Spatz. Jan. 13, 6-8 pm. Free. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. bit.ly/2CL3nTw n

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My husband and I have been married for eight years.

We have a 5-year-old son, and we both work full time.

We used to have these amazing crazy sex marathons, but now we’re too tired from our jobs and parenthood.

We have sex about once a month, if that. I’m worried that this isn’t healthy for our marriage. —Sex Famine The good news: You two are still like animals in bed. The bad news: They’re the sort on the road that have been flattened by speeding cars.

This is something to try to change, because sex seems to be a kind of gym for a healthy relationship. Clinical psychologist Anik Debrot and her colleagues note that beyond how sex “promotes a stronger and more positive connection” between partners, there’s “strong support” in the research literature for a link between “an active and satisfying sexual life and individual well-being.”

Of course, it’s possible that individuals who are happy get it on more often than those who hate their lives and each other. Also, rather obviously, having an orgasm tends to be more day-brightening than, say, having a flat tire.

However, when Debrot and her colleagues surveyed couples to narrow down what makes these people having regular sex happier, their results suggested it wasn’t “merely due to pleasure experienced during sex itself.” It seems it was the affection and loving touch (cuddlywuddlies) in bed that led couples to report increased “positive emotions and well-being” — and not just right afterward but for hours afterward and even into the next day.

The researchers found a longer-lasting effect, too: In a survey of 106 couples (all parents with at least one child younger than 8), the more these partners had sex over a 10-day period the greater their relationship satisfaction six months down the road. (The researchers did report a caveat: For the bump in relationship satisfaction, the sex had to be “affectionate” — as opposed to, I guess, angry sex, breakup sex, or “You don’t mind if I tweet while we’re doing it?” sex.)

My prescription for you? Have sex once a week — a frequency that research by social psychologist Amy Muise finds, for couples, is associated with greater happiness. Make time for it, the way you would if your kid needed to go to the dentist. Also, go easy on yourselves. Consider that some sex is better than, well, “sex marathon or nuthin!”

And then, seeing as affection and loving touch — not sexual pleasure — led to the improved mood in individuals and increased relationship satisfaction in couples, basically be handsy and cuddly with each other in daily life. Act loving and you should find yourself feeling loving — instead of, say, feeling the urge to sound off to strangers in checkout lanes that the last time anyone took an interest in your ladyparts, your health insurance company sent you a bill for the copay.

AMY ALKON

HEAD OVER HEALS

My boyfriend broke up with me last month. We still talk and text almost every day. We’re still connected on social media. We’ve even had dinner twice. I feel better that he’s still in my life, even just as a friend, though we don’t work as a couple. Is this healthy, or am I prolonging some sort of grief I’m going to have to feel down the road?

—Clinging Your approach to a breakup is like having your dog die and then, instead of burying it, having it taxidermied and taking it out for “walks” in a little red wagon.

Note the helpful key word — “break” — in breakup. It suggests that when someone tells you “It’s over!” the thing you say isn’t “Okey-dokey! See you tomorrow for lunch!”

As painful as it is to stare into a boyfriend-shaped void in your life, continued contact is the land of false hopes — fooling you into thinking that nothing’s really changed (save for your relationship status on Facebook).

In fact, research by social psychologist David Sbarra finds that contact offline after a breakup amps up feelings of both love and sadness, stalling the healing process.

Staying in touch online — or just snooping on your ex’s social media doings — appears to be even worse. For example, social psychologist Tara Marshall found that “engaging in surveillance of the ex-partner’s Facebook page inhibited postbreakup adjustment and growth above and beyond offline contact.”

This makes sense — as your brain needs to be retrained to stop pointing you toward your now-ex-boyfriend whenever you need love, attention, or comforting. Tell your ex you need a real break, and stick to it. Block him on social media. Drawbridge up. No contact of any kind -- no matter how much you long to hear, “Hey, whatcha up to tonight?

How ‘bout I come over and slow down your healing process?” n ©2018, 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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aste in television is subjective, of course, and the way different people react to taking a bong hit or munching a weed-laced brownie is likewise highly individualized.

Even so, one thing most recreational cannabis users can agree on is how couch- and TV-binge-friendly their intoxicant of choice is. The modern television landscape is littered with good pot-y humor (Broad City, The Good Place) and stoner-ific sci-fi (The Orville, the new Star Trek: Discovery series). But new shows typically take a week’s pause between episodes, so here are some older options that allow for a good multi-hour session on your favorite recliner or sofa:

THE SKETCHY

Mr. Show with Bob & David This show, led by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross between 1995 and 1998, holds up remarkably well, particularly for people with a taste for absurdist comedy. Episodes were typically tied together around loose themes, with utterly unrelated sketches segueing into each other in increasingly odd but hilarious ways — they definitely owe a debt to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Along the way, the cast that at various points included Sarah Silverman,

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Jack Black, Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins and more now-famous faces mocked everything from Satanism to the KKK to afterschool specials and sex toys. A new reboot of the show, W/ Bob & David, hit Netflix in 2015.

THE SPACEY

The X-Files Talk about binge-ability; The X-Files ran for nine seasons, offering plenty of opportunities to smoke out and relive the UFO-chasing, government conspiracy theories and (best of all) the one-off “monster of the week” episodes that were glorious throwbacks to ’50s-era drive-in creature features. There are drama, humor, sci-fi and horror tropes all wrapped up in The X-Files, and it’s fun to relive the adventures.

THE MULTILAYERED

Arrested Development This sitcom originally aired on Fox starting in 2003 and immediately became a critical darling and, briefly, a ratings hit as it won six Emmys and a Golden Globe.

The intricate, asinine story of the Bluth family’s business scandals and personal entanglements is packed with Easter egg jokes that reward repeated viewings. Jammed with

winning performances and ongoing gags about the Blue Man Group, banana stands and the family “cornballer,” Arrested Development remains great. If you haven’t seen it, you’re making a huge mistake.

THE TRIPPY

The OA If you’re the type of cannabis user who likes to delve into the strange and surreal, fire up Netflix series The OA. The eight episodes throw any ideas of traditional narrative storytelling out the window early on, but the tale of the reappearance of a once-blind woman at her parents’ house after being missing seven years — having regained her sight in the process — is increasingly riveting as it gets increasingly stranger, incorporating elements of fantasy and sci-fi with its more traditional thriller aspects.

It’s visually stunning at times, and thought-provoking throughout.

THE GOOFY

Happy Endings If you missed this sitcom during its brief life, you’re not alone. But it’s not too late to rectify that with your Hulu account. In many ways, Happy Endings is Friends set in Chicago with a lot more edge to the humor, and a lot more diversity among the “friends” involved, thanks to a biracial couple and a slovenly gay man being among the six main characters. Episodes are peppered with enough jokes to warrant repeat viewings, and besides the likable main cast, the regular guests include comedy pros like Paul Scheer, Megan Mullally, Michael McKean and Rob Corddry. n A version of this article first appeared in the Green Zone Quarterly (GZQ) magazine.

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ast week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, a guidance for federal prosecution on offenses related to cannabis.

Sessions’ Jan. 4 memorandum states that this move is “a return of trust and local control to federal prosecutors who know where and how to deploy Justice Department resources most effectively to reduce violent crime, stem the tide of the drug crisis, and dismantle criminal gangs.”

Sessions’ act leaves many in politics wondering where states’ rights end and medical and recreational users wondering what’s next. Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have tried to shift the language from being a “states’ rights issue” to that of “rule of law.” Sessions used the phrase three times in the memorandum and Rosenstein repeated it 19 times at a speech to the Palm Beach Forum Club the next day.

The move has divided many within the Republican Party, including miffed Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who announced that he was willing to hold up Department of Justice (DOJ) nominees until Sessions “[lived] up to the commitment he made to me prior to his confirmation.”

LETTERS In terms of how Sessions’ Send comments to move affects Washington editor@inlander.com. state, Gov. Jay Inslee quickly came out after the memo and issued a statement saying, “Make no mistake: As we have told the Department of Justice ever since I-502 was passed in 2012, we will vigorously defend our state’s laws against undue federal infringement.”

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DOWN 1. “____ mañana” 2. Something lent or bent 3. Capturer of some embarrassing gaffes 4. Friend of Huck 5. Followed instructions 6. Order after “Ready ... aim ...”

7. Apt anagram of “Russ.”

8. “So I guess that’s a thing now” 9. Part of a tuba’s sound 10. Jar top 11. More than gnawed at 12. Shrimp catcher 13. Suffixes with mountain and auction 18. ____ browns (breakfast order) 22. “Charlotte’s Web” author’s monogram

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57 64

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Coaching

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36. URL starter 40. Figure in the high 60s 43. Rose once seen on many fields 44. Clued in 46. “No need to wake me” 48. “I spy with my little eye ... a character who debuted in a 1929 comic strip!”

53. Pendergrass and Roosevelt 54. Busybody 57. PBS’ “____ the Science Kid” 58. “Slow and steady wins the race” source 62. Bibliophile’s suffix 63. “Western” or “Spanish” dish 66. “I spy with my little eye ... a national seashore park north of San Francisco!”

68. Lies 69. Shade of bleu 70. Kit ____ bar 71. Country singer Trace 72. Grand Canyon sight

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1. “Like I’m supposed to believe THAT!” 4. Staple of a vegan diet 8. Burning the midnight oil 14. It ends in diciembre 15. Kimono securers 16. ____ d’ 17. “I spy with my little eye ... a late-night TV host!”

19. “My, my!”

20. Author Janowitz 21. He passed Lou in 2009 to become the Yankees’ alltime hit leader 23. “How cute!” cries 24. Take ____ (chance it) 26. Bogart’s “The Big Sleep” costar 29. “I spy with my little eye ... a state capital home to an annual event called Frontier Days!”

34. Dirty 35. Not stick to one’s guns

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Mentoring

Counseling

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Psychic Readings

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“I SPY”

25. Daniel who wrote “Flowers for Algernon” 27. Dairy animal 28. “Do I need to draw you ____?”

30. Nonverbal “yes” 31. Puppy’s bite

32. Fashion designer Perry 33. Princeton Review subj.

36. Chance, poetically 37. Cheated on 38. Cassette player 39. Victimized, with “upon”

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THIS W ANSWE EEK’S I SAW RS ON YOUS 41. Actress Thurman 42. Fashion designer Anna 45. What boarding precedes, for short 47. Brief memo nicety 49. Alternatives to Hiltons 50. Suffix with legal 51. Getting the job done 52. Mr. ____, Tattoo’s employer on “Fantasy Island” 55. Lease period, often 56. Tagliatelle, e.g.

57. Coke or Pepsi 59. Email best not replied to

60. Seep 61. Papal name chosen 12 times 64. Niihau neckwear 65. “Ich bin ____ Berliner” 67. Grp. sponsoring the Muzzle Loading Championship

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THIS WEEK

Extra mac and/or beer tickets will be available for purchase on the day of the event.

Not sold separately.

Coeur d ’Alene

Crowd-pleasing Macaroni and Cheese Gets its Own Festival

Sample from more than a dozen local chefs competing for best mac and cheese

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*All tasters must be consumed on site. To-go boxes prohibited. Must be 21 years or older to purchase Mac & Beer Package and consume alcohol. Tickets available while supplies last. Must purchase package with wristband to taste Mac.*

CDA Upcoming Events COEUR D’ALENE

t’s simple, yet satisfying, and easy to make and yet, as you’ll discover at the first annual Mac and Cheese Festival January 13, there’s more to this humble dish than meets the eye.

Collective Kitchen Public House, for example, smoke-tenderizes their brisket for 18 hours, then adds mouth-watering bits to their cheesy pasta, while Sweet Lou’s knows bacon does make things better so they add plenty of it, along with tomatoes and mushrooms to their macaroni and cheese. And Daft Badger Brewing, one of four breweries and cideries participating in the noon-6 pm festival, adds smoked pork belly and a garlic parmesan panko topping to their dish.

Sounds yummy, but which one should you choose? Choose any six of the 14 local chefs participating. And you be the

judge of who deserves People’s Choice award, while the soon-to-be-revered Golden Noodle Award will be presented by a panel of industry judges.

All that mac and cheese is bound to make you thirsty. For those 21 and over, pony up just $10 more for the Mac & Beer package of six, 6-ounce beer tastings, one for each sampling of mac and cheese. Yes, you get the commemorative pint glass, too.

We know: All that comfort food might be tiring, so ask about the Coeur d’Alene Resort’s Mac & Cheese overnight package for January 13, including two event tickets starting at $189. January 13, Noon-6 pm; The Plaza Shops; For tickets, go to cdadowntown.com or cdaresort.com/discover/activities/ events.

Falsettos

Music Walk

Harold Balazs Exhibit

When it debuted on Broadway, this Tony Award-winning musical endeared itself to audiences for its poignant look at the struggles of one modern family. Tickets $23-$25;

Stroll through shops, galleries and other businesses to hear live music during Coeur d’Alene’s popular Music Walk, held downtown the second Friday in January

The recent passing of iconic local artist Harold Balazs makes this exhibit of more than 130+ pieces representing seven decades of Harold’s work all the more prescient.

The exhibit entitled “I Did It My Way” includes paintings, sculpture, enamels and mixed media works.

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Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm; Lake City Playhouse; Call 208-676-7529 or go to lakecityplayhouse.org.

JANUARY 12

through March. Free; 5-8 pm; Go to artsandculturecda.org for a map.

JAN. 12-FEB. 3

Opening reception Jan. 12, 5-8 pm; Panel discussion Jan. 13, 1 pm; Viewing Tue-Sat 9 am -6 pm through Feb. 3; Art Spirit Gallery; 208-765-6006.

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