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hen WSU’s new Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art opened in 2018, the crimson cube on the Pullman campus held promise of amazing art shows to come. They’ve had several noteworthy events in the years since, even through the pandemic, and their INDIE FOLK show opening this week looks like one of the best yet. Staff Writer Carrie Scozzaro chatted with the show’s curator, artists and museum representatives to get the inside scoop on this show blending disparate artistic styles and a killer soundtrack — all with a Pacific Northwest bent, and all in an attempt to discern what “folk art” means in 2022 (page 14).

Also this week, reporter Daniel Walters introduces a political odd couple in Spokane city government (page 8), our Drink Local editor Derek Harrison checks in on the local beer scene (page 28), and Madison Pearson joins the world’s sudden obsession with Wordle (page 35).

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ashington state’s unofficial theme song is “Louie, Louie” — the early 1960s rock hit made famous by the Kingsmen and many Northwest bands. The lyrics they sang were almost unintelligible.

But something else is also hard to figure out: Who invented the Northwest seafood salad that everyone loves? Who invented crab Louis — or should it be crab Louie Louie?

The origins of crab Louis turn out to be muddy. It is widely served all over the country — it was very popular and considered a kind of cocktail era luxury for those who eschewed big steaks. It was served in seafood diners and fancy hotels.

The salad’s origins appear to have been on the West Coast. That makes sense because in the late 19th century, we had an abundance of fresh crab.

San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Portland served crab on menus dating to the 19th century.

We had a secret weapon: the Dungeness crab.

A century earlier, British Royal Navy Capt.

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George Vancouver named Dungeness Spit, near what’s now the town of Sequim in Washington, because it reminded him of Dungeness, a headland back in England. When he and his expedition landed at nearby Discovery Bay in 1792, they hauled in fish and crab for the crew. What the Dungeness Spit area had was an abundance of sweet, tasty crab that was the best eating.

Dungeness crab thrived from Northern California to Alaska. It became a commercial hit.

And as access to fresh crab expanded in the late 19th century with rail refrigeration and road systems to spread it around, more and more people could eat fresh crab without fear of food poisoning. Bad crab could kill, a fact newspaper stories widely advertised.

Fresh produce became more widely available, too — lettuce, for instance. In the 1800s, a crab salad might be crab — fresh or canned — mixed with mayonnaise. But in the early 20th century, crab with lettuce and other veggies and ingredients was a splendid novelty for the swells.

Healthy, too. By the 1930s, crab Louis had become very popular in Seattle. An article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer back then declared, “A trip to Seattle without a feast of crab a la Louis is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower.”

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o, what was crab Louis? Its first appearance in a Northwest cookbook dates to 1912 in the Portland Council of Jewish Women’s Neighborhood Cookbook. It calls for lettuce, two hard-boiled eggs and shredded crab meat. But the key was the Louis dressing — in this case, three tablespoons of oil, one tablespoon of vinegar, one-half tablespoon of catsup, two teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, paprika, salt and a tad of English mustard.

Mix and serve on lettuce leaves.

That’s a fancy meal that’s not hard to prepare — especially if you have the best crab in town. The key part is the dressing, not just plain mayo, but a zesty and often pink concoction.

The origins of Louis are disputed — success has a thousand fathers and mothers. One version says Italian tenor Enrico Caruso came to Seattle in 1904 and ate crab Louis at the Olympic Club or Olympic Hotel and developed an insatiable appetite for it. The only problem with that story is that the inimitable Caruso never performed in Seattle, though he was going to be invited to open the Moore Theater, which, alas, wasn’t finished in time for him to accept. He was in San Francisco, however, during the city’s 1906 earthquake, which he fled unharmed.

San Francisco was an early adopter of Louis. The old French Poodle Dog restaurant in 1908 is said to have named Louis dressing after its chef, Louis Coutard. The restaurant was also decorated in Louis XIV style; perhaps that was a reference, too.

The Coutard dressing lacks the familiar catsup, but includes Dijon mustard, champagne vinegar, chives, olive oil, tarragon and shallots. Another San Francisco restaurant, Solari’s, also laid claim to inventing crab Louis.

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That’s a fancy meal that’s not hard to prepare — especially if you have the best crab in town. The key is the dressing, zesty and often pink.

Famed chef James Beard grew up eating crab Louis in Portland, his hometown. He said he first encountered it at a fine dining establishment called the Bohemian. Portland, he believed, was the origin of Louis dressing. In the 1920s, the Bohemian boasted of its “famous crab Louis” and in the ’30s advertised it on the radio.

Beard re-created the Bohemian’s recipe in the 1980s, saying, “The dressing is what makes the dish.” His modernized version called for homemade mayo and an equal part yogurt, chili sauce, grated onion, a dash of Tabasco sauce and some whipped cream.

Oh, and as much crab as your generosity could afford. The yogurt was a nod to slimming down crab Louis calories, but it was rather offset by the whipped cream.

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ouis is still a signature dish for some establishments — even ones far removed from the coast.

At the Historic Davenport Hotel in Spokane, for example. It appeared on the menu the year the hotel opened in 1914 and is still there, named, it is said, for the hotel’s founder, Llewellyn “Louis” Davenport. The hotel’s salad includes fresh Dungeness crab, ripe tomato and lemon wedges, seeded cucumber, and hard-boiled eggs. It won’t say what is in the Louis dressing. Put all that together, chill and serve.

In the Northwest, for the last century at least, it’s always Louis Louis time. n This article first appeared on Crosscut.com. Visit their website to see Knute Berger’s video version of this story, including his visit to Spokane’s Historic Davenport Hotel.

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RIVALS How liberal activist Nicolette Ocheltree went from warning Spokane about Jonathan Bingle to working for him

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s activist Nicolette Ocheltree stood in front of Planned Parenthood, local politician Jonathan Bingle’s allegiances had seemed disturbingly clear.

It was 2019, two years before Bingle won a seat on the Spokane City Council, back when he was mounting a doomed race for mayor. Ocheltree, running a largely symbolic write-in campaign to the left of liberal mayoral candidate Ben Stuckart, could see Bingle across the street at the “The Church At Planned Parenthood,” the hybrid church service/protest that had become a central flashpoint for the fight over abortion in the city.

Bingle was in a prayer circle with other candidates — including then-state Rep. Matt Shea, who had made national headlines for publishing the outline of a document that said “kill all males” if they don’t yield to biblical law.

“Their ideal candidate for Mayor is Jonathan Bingle… enabling them to further push their evil political agenda,” Ocheltree wrote on Facebook. “This should be seen as an attempt to overthrow our local government —

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Spokane City Council member Jonathan Bingle (left) and his council legislative assistant Nicolette Ocheltree. because it is.”

Today? Ocheltree is working for Bingle.

This month, the activist — who’d had a Facebook profile picture of herself yelling into a megaphone while wearing a bright pink “I stand with Planned Parenthood” T-shirt — became the legislative assistant for the City Council member who believes “abortion is the greatest moral evil” in our country.

At minimum, a legislative assistant serves as a kind of secretary for a council member, but in many cases that role can expand to influence policy or develop legislation.

For Bingle, the choice provides insight into the kind of council member he aims to be, while for Ocheltree, it’s a lens into how an activist’s tactics can shift, sometimes dramatically, in a few years.

The reaction from some of the local partisans, however, has been incensed.

“It’s ferocious,” Ocheltree says. “It’s ridiculous—” “It’s stupid,” Bingle interjects.

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On the right, Ocheltree says, some think she’s “a spy,” while some on the left tell her “he’s just trying to silence you,” she says.

“I can’t tell you how many phone calls I’ve gotten from people in all kinds of different organizations, going like ‘I was really surprised,’ or ‘How could you pick her?’ and ‘Why?!’” Bingle says. “Honestly, at this point, I’m just sick of explaining it.”

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ingle and Ocheltree are sitting together in a City Hall conference room, Ocheltree wearing a mask, while Bingle’s sporting a mustache. The two tell the story of how they met like an old married couple.

After Ocheltree wrote in another 2018 Facebook post that it was “grooooooossssss” that “Nazine Woodward” had been endorsed by Bingle, “Matt Shea’s first pick for Mayor,” Bingle invited Ocheltree to have a conversation over coffee. ...continued on page 10

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“I had a picture of Nicolette in my mind, this crazy super pro-abortion person,” Bingle says. But their first meeting didn’t go the way either expected.

“You were in mourning that day, do you remember?”

Bingle says to Ocheltree.

Her bearded dragon had just died, Ocheltree says, and she was dressed in all black.

That, in itself, took some of the tension out of the room. It turns out, Ocheltree says, that Bingle didn’t know Matt Shea back then. They found points of common ground, even surface-level ones. Bingle was wearing black too. They bantered back and forth about how they have the same birthday and were born at the same hospital, and isn’t that crazy?

“I definitely got a lot of backlash for meeting him in the first place,” Ocheltree says. “I’ve actually lost a lot of what I thought were friends, because I am willing to have conversations with people that I disagree with.”

It’s a constant debate on the left — when is it OK to meet with someone you consider an extremist? When should they be called out and shamed, and when would doing either be “giving them a platform,” effectively doing their promotional work for them?

When a local conservative launched a “500 Mom Strong” Facebook page to oppose a local “Drag Queen Story Hour” reading at the local public library, Ocheltree launched “500 Drag Queen Strong,” a sometimes acerbic counterprotest page.

Both publicly and privately, Ocheltree sometimes clashed with other activists, accusing one in particular of actively sabotaging her events. But with time her approach shifted.

“I realized, ‘What the hell am I doing?’” Ocheltree

says. “Who actually changes policy? It’s City Council members.”

So when virtual meetings became the norm at City Council when COVID-19 hit, Ocheltree was often the only citizen testifying on ordinances. And after a threehour-long conversation at Shari’s with Bingle last year, they realized there were a lot of core principles — like transparency and financial responsibility — they could agree on.

That’s when Bingle says he started considering Ocheltree for his council assistant.

“I really respect her intelligence, her thought processes,” Bingle says. “There would be tons of issues where I wanted to talk to somebody who might think differently than me: How can I hear that side without a lot of nonsense?”

Ocheltree had applied for similar jobs. She’d applied to be the legislative assistant for Councilwoman Kate Burke, Ocheltree says, but didn’t get an interview.

“I have way more people telling me it’s a bad idea than it’s a good idea,” Ocheltree says. But those who supported it were the people who knew her best.

Bingle was wary of the fact that, if she were his assistant, he’d be having sensitive conversations with Ocheltree about extremely controversial matters, on subjects where she might fervently disagree. But ultimately, he decided to trust her.

“One of my rules is, you know, don’t second guess a good choice made in the presence of God,” he says.

But one of Bingle’s other worries — that the choice might cost him with some of his conservative supporters — quickly bore fruit.

“If this is who you choose to have on your side, please don’t expect support or respect from me,” Lesley Haskell, the wife of Spokane County’s prosecuting attorney, wrote in a Facebook post that tagged Bingle, according to a screenshot Ocheltree sent the Inlander.

“This is what happens when Satan puts on a charismatic show and Christians are too weak to see the devil himself,” Lesley Haskell wrote. “I happen to believe our children should be protected from mentally ill psychopaths, not literally exposed to them. Wow.” (During a controversy over Lesley’s social media posts in 2015, Larry Haskell wrote to the Inlander “she does not represent me in these forums, either personally or professionally.”)

The response from the left has trended a bit more supportive, though several say they initially had concerns.

“I had a visceral reaction to it,” says Anwar Peace, a policing activist who has clashed with both Spokane’s police chief and county sheriff. But he came around to be

“There would be tons of issues where I wanted to talk to somebody who might think differently than me.”

“Honestly the fact that Nicolette hasn’t had this job before kind of pisses me off because she’s so great,” Bingle turns to Ocheltree, half-laughing. “I was so mad for you.”

But there were doubts on both sides.

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Terri Anderson, Spokane director of the Tenants Union, lamented that they’d be losing Ocheltree’s pro-tenant public commentary at council meetings. In Anderson’s “suspicious mind,” she says she wondered if it was some sort of strategy to take Ocheltree off the board, but she adds that Ocheltree absolutely deserves the job.

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cheltree isn’t quite sure whether she has less or more total influence after trading her public activism for a behindthe-scenes role. On one hand, she has a direct conduit to a council member and helps prep him with the information she believes he needs. On topics like homelessness, she’s able to share her own personal experience of being homeless as a child.

Still, while answering a conservative Christian group’s questionnaire while running for City Council last year, Bingle gave the maximum amount of agreement — 10 points out of 10 — to a statement that explicitly cited “drag queen story hour in libraries” as an example of normalizing “alternative lifestyles” and undermining “traditional families.”

Today, in her new role, Ocheltree says she’s reduced her activity on the 500 Drag Queen Strong page.

Both downplay the likelihood of abortion coming up as an issue in the local level.

Yet Paul Dillon, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, points out that issues specifically involving the abortion provider have come before City Council LETTERS multiple times Send comments to in the past editor@inlander.com. decade, most recently in March 2020, when the City Council passed a noise ordinance intended to lower the volume of the protesters at Planned Parenthood.

“I will be very fascinated to see how they work together,” Dillon says.

Indeed, it’s one thing to disagree about property tax rates or how to reduce Fire Department overtime. It’s another when they disagree on issues involving what they see as fundamental human rights.

Still, each praises the other’s spirit of inquiry.

“The thing that I love about our conversations is that I can tell that you’re searching for truth,” Bingle says to Ocheltree, while Ocheltree says Bingle is “very much persuaded by truth and honesty.”

And yet, when the Inlander asks Bingle if there’s anything specifically she’s convinced him of, he can’t point to anything — at least not yet.

“I don’t think she’s presented anything that has changed my mind,” Bingle says. “I think she’s helped to reinforce my beliefs as she’s asked difficult questions.” n

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Family Feud Spokane County and its small cities want to change state law to prevent utility tax from Spokane; plus, lawmakers push for safer staffing levels for hospitals

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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s Spokane considers collecting millions per year in wastewater taxes from residents who live outside the city, regional leaders are trying to stop the “taxation without representation” by taking the argument to the state level.

Spokane County Commissioner Al French said the tax — which the county has estimated would raise affected residents’ utility bills by about $12.50 per month — will only benefit city residents.

“Quite frankly, this is like forcing your neighbor to pay for your new car,” French told lawmakers last week.

Since 2005, the Spokane city code has included a 20 percent tax on the gross income of wastewater utilities within city limits. At the time, the city’s wastewater treatment plant was serving residents throughout Spokane County, and the tax was levied on the city’s own plant.

By 2011, the county built its own wastewater treatment facility to take pressure off that plant and serve outlying residents in places like Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake and Millwood. The county plant sits within Spokane city limits, but the city has not been collecting the tax on the facility.

That could change if Spokane City Council members decide to collect — a move discussed for about a year.

While negotiations are underway, a new bill in the Legislature has been proposed to prevent the tax. State Sen. Mike Padden, a Republican representing the 4th district (including eastern Spokane County), introduced

Senate Bill 5621, which would prevent cities from levying taxes on a county-owned “sewerage facility or water facility.” Under the bill, cities could charge facilities only to mitigate the actual impacts they have.

People on either side testified to the Senate Housing and Local Government Committee on Jan. 12, with committee chair Sen. Patty Kuderer, D-Bellevue, saying, “It does sound a bit like a family feud.”

“By taxing this facility, the city will collect revenue from 30,009 residents in the city of Spokane Valley, 944 in the city of Liberty Lake, 900 in the city of Millwood and 15,594 in unincorporated county, all of which lack a voice at the city of Spokane’s government level,” Spokane Valley Mayor Pam Haley told lawmakers. “Those paying the taxes to Spokane wouldn’t have any say on how the money would be spent. … This is contrary to the very core, foundational ideas of representational government.”

Spokane City Council President Breean Beggs, however, said Spokane has offered to spend the estimated $8 million per year on projects that benefit the whole county.

“One of the things we’ve offered is to waive back taxes,” Beggs told lawmakers. “We’ve also offered to use the money on regional projects that would help everyone, like homelessness, public safety, roads and transportation.”

Beggs warned the bill could set a dangerous precedent by requiring the city to tally impacts from the county’s facility — such as counting how many fire or police calls go there, how much paving it required, etc. — in order to charge taxes. He also noted the 20 percent tax was on the books before the county chose to build within city limits.

“For the general kinds of taxes, which this is, we go for the collective good and you pay your fair share,” Beggs said.

Candice Bock, government relations director for the Association of Washington Cities, expressed concerns about the bill’s potential to impact other cities that are not part of this specific argument.

“AWC always has concerns when there are proposals that would limit local taxing authority,” Bock told lawmakers.

Bill proponents said they’d be willing to narrow the language to ensure it applies only to the Spokane situation.

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In response to health care worker pleas to require safe staffing levels and address how overtime and meal breaks are handled, lawmakers in both chambers of the Washington State Legislature are promoting bills to address concerns. In the House, Spokane Democrat Marcus Riccelli, Spokane Republican Mike Volz and more than 40 other lawmakers are promoting House Bill 1868. The companion Senate Bill 5751 is sponsored by another 14 lawmakers.

The legislation aims to prevent any health care worker from having a dangerously high patient workload, close loopholes around existing meal and break time requirements, and end the overuse of mandatory overtime that has been seen in recent years, according to unions representing health care workers throughout Washington.

In a survey of about 1,200 of the three unions’ members (who total about 71,000 health care workers in Washington), 84 percent said they’re burned out, and 49 percent said they’re likely to quit in the next few years.

“Among those likely to quit, 71 percent said short staffing was among their primary reasons,” the unions reported.

Health care workers for years have said hospital staffing practices left them without sufficient staff. As the survey indicates, nearly two years into the pandemic, which exacerbated issues with things like overtime and missing breaks, things have reached a breaking point for many.

“We are in a crisis with hospital staffing levels falling off a cliff as a record number of workers burn out,” Riccelli said in a news release about the bills. “[Hospital] executives have spent millions of dollars in bonuses for themselves during the pandemic alone. Instead, we need our resources focused on having enough nurses and health care workers and for them to be well-trained, wellrespected, and well-compensated.”

Volz agrees lawmakers need to take action.

“Taking care of our frontline health care workers is and has been a priority of mine, both before the pandemic and during the last two years,” Volz said in the bill announcement. “The statewide staffing shortage has reached a point where we need to find a legislative solution. This is a conversation we need to be having, and I look forward to working with my colleagues.” n

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WSU art show explodes with color and sound from the Pacific Northwest — and a new examination of what “folk art” can mean

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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redit the Pacific Northwest’s music scene with inspiring the name of Washington State University's new exhibition, Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest.

“When I found out that the Northwest was a hub for indie folk, which is a genre that hybridizes traditional acoustic folk with contemporary instrumentation, I found a title for the show,” says Melissa Feldman, the East Coast-based independent art curator who developed Indie Folk.

The music may have inspired the title, but it was the Pacific Northwest art scene that caught her eye several years ago when she lived in Seattle.

“I noticed that there was a lot of involvement with hand making and craft-based methods in the Pacific Northwest, as opposed to hands-off conceptual work, and a preference for rough-hewn, graphic directness that you could describe as ‘folk,’” says Feldman, who worked with Portland-based Adams and Ollman Gallery in 2020 to stage Indie Folk online before approaching WSU with the exhibition.

Folk — as in folk music, folklore, folk hero — informally refers to people. It also implies a group of people’s commonly held traditions. That might make folk art one of the easiest-to-understand categories of artmaking because it is of the people.

Although an individual’s experiences with folk art may differ due to culture and history, there are commonalities in the form.

Folk art exemplifies resourcefulness, like scrap-metal sculptures fashioned from old farm implements. It is often personal, narrative and sometimes functional, such as the heirloom quilt that conveys both the history and heritage of its maker and users.

And folk art is graphic versus scripted, emphasizing authenticity over artifice; it may be created by someone who doesn’t know or care about structured techniques, and who may or may not call themselves an artist.

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s democratic as folk art sounds, however, the term is also problematic, says Ryan Hardesty, executive director of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. “Historically it was used as a bit of a catch-all term for really — sadly — any artist that was viewed outside the traditional art historical canon.”

Similar labels like “outsider art” or “low art” used in academic or other institutional settings have historically segregated artists — and therefore the art they produce — according to education, gender and ethnicity.

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“I think what’s exciting about today and the world we’re living in now is seeing an effort to kind of reclaim the term ‘folk,’ to work to dissolve some of those boundaries, giving greater value to wider forms of human artmaking and ingenuity,” says Hardesty, who worked with Feldman since 2021 to bring Indie Folk to WSU. Neither Hardesty nor Feldman would call the exhibition’s participants folk artists in the traditional sense, and few, if any of them refer to themselves that way.

“Rather the point [of Indie Folk] is really to reflect on sensibilities, chosen aesthetics and influences of a select group of contemporary artists of the Northwest,” Hardesty says.

Feldman concurs.

“None of the artists in the show are interested in reproducing early American wooden toys or a classic quilt pattern,” says Feldman.

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lthough the artists in Indie Folk might not label themselves as “folk artists,” they do reference folk traditions in various ways, Feldman says, including in terms of “aesthetics, formal and material inventiveness, connection to the past, closeness to human experience and ordinary life.”

Aesthetically, Andrea Joyce Heimer’s painting, “The Big Sky Rodeo Finals That Summer Were Marked By A Flash Lightning Storm, A Horse Fight, And My First Handjob In A Haystack,” illustrates a complex outdoor event from both straight on and overhead so that viewers “read” the action almost like a graphic novel.

Indie Folk: New Art and Songs from the Pacific Northwest runs through May 21 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 N.E. Wilson Road in Pullman. The show is free and open Tue-Fri from 1-4 pm, and Sat from 10 am-4 pm. For more information, visit museum.wsu.edu or call 509-335-1910.

Vince Skelly’s carved wooden benches and sculptures are a hybrid of two ways of working, featuring both rustic and highly refined surfaces and forms. His sculptures also bridge to the past, reminding of ancient monoliths, as well as the modern art those historical pieces inspired.

Denzil Hurley similarly steps in two worlds, says Feldman, who describes Hurley’s mixed media pieces like "Glyph Frame #6" as sophisticated and modern from a distance, with its monochromatic coloration and minimalist composition. Yet Hurley also employs handmade objects in his work and — upon closer inspection — you can see his scribbles and brushstrokes, which are more related to folk traditions.

“The reason why he loved the language of art is it’s more open and allows more ambiguity than the language of words,” Feldman says of the late Barbados-born, Yale-educated artist who died in 2021.

Many of the Indie Folk artists incorporate common materials in uncommon ways, especially D. E. May, but also Marita Dingus, whose work symbolizes overcoming historical oppression.

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“The discarded materials represent how people of African descent were used during the institution of slavery and colonialism then discarded, but who found ways to repurpose themselves and thrive in a hostile world,” writes Dingus, in her artist statement.

Visually, Dingus’ work seems fragile or fragmented, yet conceptually it is nuanced and cohesive, reminding viewers that the materials in contemporary folk art might be common, but the thought process is not.

Sky Hopinka’s video, “Jáaji Approx.,” shifts the focus away from inventive material usage in contemporary folk art and toward thematic commonalities.

Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people, juxtaposes a range of rural to urban landscapes with voice recordings of his father over a 10-year period.

Superimposed over the imagery are transcriptions of the elder Hopinka’s words in one of three languages: English using the disorienting yet familiar phonetic alphabet; English using the (conventional) Roman alphabet; and Hočak, the traditional language of the Ho-Chunk people.

On one level, Hopinka’s work reflects similar themes throughout Indie Folk: family, community, oral and documentary traditions, rural sense of place, cultural traditions. On another level, it signals the continual evolution of the contemporary folk genre.

Indie Folk is not an endpoint; it’s more of an exploration of the concept of folk, says Feldman, whose lifelong interest in art and curating has been fueled by travel and innate curiosity.

“I think my familiarity with art scenes in different places I have lived — which include London, Glasgow, [Washington] DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York, where I’m from and return to regularly — gives me a basis of comparison and has sensitized me to difference,” Feldman says. “With Indie Folk I’m trying to figure out where this trend came from to give some historical context for that.”

Interest in contemporary folk isn’t limited to the Northwest, she says.

Indeed, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City is celebrating its 60th anniversary with four different folk art exhibitions that will travel the nation through 2024. And when Indie Folk ends its Pullman run in May, it will travel onward to Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, and the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington.

“I’m not the only curator these days looking at nonurban, nonmainstream, nonacademic sources and histories that affect art-making now,” Feldman says. “I think there’s a lot of interest in that.” n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FROM TOP: Marita Dingas' “Metal Basket,” Cappy Thompson's “Beekeeper” and Jessica Jackson Hutchins' “Butterfly Kiss”

Carrie Scozzaro joined the Inlander as a staff writer in 2021 following 15 years freelancing for publications throughout the Northwest. Her niche is art/design, food, and local/regional culture. She’s worked in public education (kindergarten to college), marketing communications, graphic design and, briefly, the food industry. Carrie has degrees from Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of Visual Art, Eastern Washington University and University of Montana.

FOLK SOUNDS

Luz Elena Mendoza is featured on the Indie Folk playlist.

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Mississippi Records makes the Indie Folk show sing with an aural assist

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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ashington State Univerity’s Indie Folk is a unique art exhibition for many reasons, not the least of which is its original soundtrack of nine songs gallery-goers will be able to listen to.

“I’m always looking for novel ways to engage audiences,” says Melissa Feldman, Indie Folk’s art curator, who previously incorporated a soundtrack for a 2013-17 traveling exhibition called Push Play, featuring “playable” artwork. The idea of music as a way to connect with viewers stuck with her.

For Indie Folk, Feldman approached Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson, who has also created soundtracks for exhibits in Japan and an event produced by San Francisco’s THE THING Quarterly magazine.

Mississippi Records is an 18-year-old Portland-based record store and label that has released more than 360 small-edition LPs, mostly archival and many with handmade covers, according to Isaacson.

Isaacson remembers Feldman asking him for music “that had one foot in the world of contemporary DIY Northwest culture and one foot in the world of more traditional American folk music.”

He immediately thought of Dragging an Ox through Water, aka Portland-based musician Brian Mumford.

Mumford plays songs that are modally similar to old folk songs such as “Man Of Constant Sorrow,” Isaacson says via email, yet “innovates by adding electronic textures and very oblique lyrics.”

Another of Isaacson’s instant picks was Dead Moon, a Portland-based band active from 1987-2006, whose songs have been covered by big names like Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. “Most people in the Northwest rock/punk/indie scene have a story about one of the members of [Dead Moon],” says Isaacson,

who rates them as the greatest rock band ever.

Isaacson also has high praise for Michael Hurley, whom he calls an American original and whose song “In the Garden” is first up in the nine-song playlist.

“I put this song first because it is a prime example of how a song can sound like it’s always been here...like it’s ancient... when in fact it is pretty new,” says Isaacson, who considers Hurley a folk artist, even though Hurley considers himself as rock, pop and country.

“I classify him in his preferred genres as well as folk, because whether he likes it or not his music sits well next to the Irish music and old-time ballads he grew up with (folk ballads that were passed down from generation to generation orally),” Isaacson says.

Like Hurley, Luz Elena Mendoza’s upbringing also influenced her music, Isaacson says. She wrote “Ojos Del Sol” as a pop song, “but it’s chord progressions and style reference the ranchera, corrido, bolero and huapango songs she grew up listening to,” he explains.

“The performers all reach back to the music of their ancestors and communities,” says Isaacson, who also contributed the intro text and short musician bios included in the exhibition.

“I tried to feature musicians in the tracklist who worked along similar lines to the artists featured in the show,” Isaacson says, adding “songs rooted in tradition but also with an individualistic and contemporary edge… and all very DIY, Northwestregion specific.”

Later in the spring, look for a collaboration between Mississippi Records and WSU to bring several of the playlist’s performers to the museum. n

INDIE FOLK PLAYLIST Michael Hurley, “In the Garden” Ural Thomas, “Smile” Ted Lucas, “Baby Where You Are” Dead Moon, “Unknown Passage” Luz Elena Mendoza, “Ojos Del Sol” Dragging an Ox through Water, “True and False Comforts” Sávila, “Fantasia” John Fahey, “Remember” Fred Louise and Ella Thompson, “Haida Song”

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Artist Mary Welcome is documenting rural post offices in a project called God Bless the USPS.

FOLK POSTS Mary Welcome’s art reflects her interest in advocacy for rural communities

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ven though Mary Welcome often uses photography to document her process, including for the work featured in Indie Folk, the Palouse-based artist doesn’t consider herself a photographer.

“I tend to use ‘rural cultural worker,’” says Welcome, whose real last name is Rothlisberger. Welcome, she explains, is not only easier to spell, it conveys her relationship-based approach to making art.

To her, the work of an artist is more about cultural problem-solving, says Welcome, who studied religion as an undergraduate before earning her MFA at Washington State University in 2008.

She is especially interested in building relationships with people in the communities with which she is involved, whether that’s her recently concluded stint on the Palouse City Council or her current gig as artistin-residence for the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Indie Folk showcases six of Welcome’s images of the exterior of rural post offices in small towns like Elgin, Oregon, and Carlton, Washington. The images are part of a larger long-term project called God Bless the USPS, which Welcome began in 2012 when she snapped an impromptu photo of the post office in her hometown of Palouse.

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BY CARRIE SCOZZARO “I had a really steady pen pal at the time, so I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sending a letter before I leave for two months,’ and wanted to carry a picture of the post office with me,” says Welcome, whose parents were in the military. That meant a lot of moving around, as well as writing letters to create and maintain connections with others, Welcome says.

To date, Welcome has photographed about 2,000 postal offices across the country.

“I realized once I started doing this research that no archive exists,” Welcome says. “You can find a fair amount about the New Deal post offices, but for the most part, post offices — especially rural post offices — are a reflection of the vernacular landscape; they’re like a fingerprint of the place.”

Although the project is ongoing, Welcome doesn’t have a timeline for which of the roughly 18,000 remaining buildings are next on her list.

Although Welcome doesn’t consider photography to be the focal point of the project, she sometimes introduces herself to postal workers as a “post office portrait photographer.”

The reaction?

“Mostly they’re stoked,” Welcome says. “Being able

for them to talk about their community of post offices almost always opens the door to talking about the criticality of post offices,” which Welcome calls conversational research. “It’s such a pleasure to have all these interactions with people who are probably sick and tired of the work but also pretty passionate.”

Welcome’s post office imagery addresses similar themes found elsewhere in Indie Folk: rural sense of place, documentary traditions, historic legacy, even the “material inventiveness” that Indie Folk curator Melissa Feldman describes as one of the hallmarks of contemporary folk. The Deary, Idaho, post office, for example, has been operating out of a delivery truck since being pushed out of their former home in a historic, yet unsafe, older building.

Feldman believes Welcome is engaging with folk traditions “not to reproduce them but to use them as a starting point for contemporary conversations.”

For Welcome, conversation is imperative to the deeper work of being a cultural worker.

“In academic settings, [my work] becomes postal advocacy and our ability to maintain the system that is affordable for all, accessible to all and will disappear if we don’t pay attention to and maintain it.” n

F OLK TALES

Joe Feddersen’s printmaking and basketry ties Native traditions to the present

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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oe Feddersen works in several mediums — printmaking, glass, mixed media basketry — but above all, he considers himself a storyteller, he says. And that shows in his artwork, especially the three works included in Indie Folk.

With titles like “Blue Chief at Elk Crossing” and “Red Star,” the mixed-media monoprints (a form of printmaking where the image can only be printed once) have been printed, then augmented with spray paint and collage elements. Feddersen, who was born in Omak, also employs stencils to repeat specific images — abstracted elk, a canoe, human figures, trees, geometric patterns — referencing the land he grew up on, as well as representations of modern humanity’s impact on the land like high-voltage electrical towers.

The result is artwork that is richly layered in symbolism, some of it more overt, other parts more difficult to interpret. That, says Feddersen, is by design.

“One thing about Native stories is that there are multiple stories, there are multiple interpretations of stories,” says Feddersen, a member of the Okanagan and Arrow Lakes bands of the Colville Confederated Tribes.

“When you tell a Native legend or story, there’s no moral, you know, like [there is] in European stories,” says Feddersen, whose father’s side of the family is of German ancestry. “In a Native story, it’s more like a horoscope; you read it and you relate to it in your own experience to gain meaning.”

Feddersen also has several baskets in Indie Folk, which combine traditional basket forms and weaving materials with unconventional imagery, like the top-down view of parking lot lines.

These abstract little images read like historical pictograms, says Indie Folk curator Melissa Feldman, who describes how Feddersen is one of the artists in the exhibition “interested in showing how traditional imagery doesn’t only belong in a historic setting or context.”

“I often think if there’s something that reoccurs in my work, it’s about portraying the world around me,” Feddersen says.

Sometimes his inspiration comes

Joe Fedderson's artwork employs familiar representations from the land, both urban and rural. from a conversation or news article. Vehicle tires with alluring names like “Eagle” or “Open Country” inspired another of Feddersen’s basket series, one not in the exhibition. It incorporates the graphic patterns of SUV tire tracks, reflecting on how the Western ethos is both romanticized and commercialized.

His choice of imagery feels as natural as his interest in making things, says Feddersen, who liked

art as a young man but didn’t pursue it in earnest until his early 30s.

In 1983, Feddersen earned his BFA in printmaking from University of Washington, followed by his MFA a few years later from University of Wisconsin.

Feddersen now has works in permanent collections of numerous Northwest cities and universities, as well as such venerable institutions as the Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian and Whitney Museum of American Art. “Being from a rural place I didn’t really understand the art world very much,” Feddersen says. “I didn’t really know if you could be an artist.” n

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Stefani Rossi upscaled a series of small artwork during her Hive residency. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

VISUAL ARTS

Creative Hub Spokane Public Library’s inaugural artist-in-residency program at The Hive offers the public an opportunity to “check out” artists working on-site

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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ike many people in their careers, artist Stefani Rossi’s productivity correlates to her immediate resources; working from a tiny studio (aka her living room) in her 600-square-foot apartment means correspondingly small paintings, no more than eight inches across.

“My definition of a good painting is: They work from far away and also up close,” says Rossi, whose home studio limited her ability to spread out her work at once.

And messy materials like oil paint were also not feasible.

Then she got super-sweet news. In August 2021, Rossi joined four guest artists and one writer to become

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the inaugural cohort to receive six months of free studio space at The Hive.

The Hive is one of three Spokane Public Library facilities resulting from the 2018 voter-approved bond measure that also funded the new Hillyard and Liberty Park locations.

Located at 2094 E. Sprague Ave., The Hive has three roles. The building accommodates Spokane Virtual Learning, which had outgrown the nearby Libby Center in the East Central neighborhood. It also provides free meeting spaces, including one room with running water and a garage door opening onto an outdoor area for such

things as art classes and receptions. The third function is the guest artist or residency program.

Residency might imply that guest artists live in the space (they do not). Rather, The Hive artist-in-residency provides studio space for a specified time — up to six months — and the artists provide their own tools and materials.

Artists must also meet conditions like scheduling events (mostly on hold due to health protocols) and open studio hours when the public can view or interact with artists.

Rossi, who applied to share a studio with fellow artist

Shantell Jackson, posted on her website when she and Jackson would be in the studio, which is otherwise locked, as is The Hive building.

Like many people during the past two years of COVID upheaval, Rossi was feeling the effects of isolation, she says, noting that she looked forward to reconnecting with the community throughout the residency.

“We had to balance between being a good ambassador for the program and ‘Hey, I’m in my space to work,’” Rossi says.

Rossi spent the residency upscaling an abstract series she calls kəˈnekt, “an exploration of the rhythms of human interaction: isolation, connection, and belonging.”

Having room to spread out her upscaled paintings — on tables, on the plywood wall, on easels — made a big difference in helping her self-critique her work and process, she says. “I can see them in context of each other.”

Artist-in-residence Shantell Jackson’s work space at the Hive.

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ike Rossi, Jackson’s small, home-based studio hampered her ability to make larger work.

The Hive residency, Jackson says, enabled her to create bigger pieces for her exhibition at Terrain Gallery in October 2021, the same month Spokane Arts hired her as program director. Now her goal is to complete a body of work by February, when her residency ends.

The Hive studios are between 540 and 800 square feet of space — larger than Rossi’s apartment — and designed specifically for artists, says Eva Silverstone, the library’s arts education specialist in charge of the residency program.

Spaces have concrete floors, plywood walls, and abundant natural and overhead light. Wall-to-wall storage and rolling tables mean artists can leave everything out and customize the space to their needs, says Silverstone, who is also an artist and a Spokane Arts commissioner.

The Hive program encourages collaborations and is not limited to specific media or kinds of artists, Silverstone says. In addition to Rossi and Jackson, for example, the inaugural group includes a photographer capturing images of BIPOC community leaders and a textile artist.

When health protocols allow it, programming intended to facilitate more interaction with residents and the public should resume, says Silverstone, who is currently reviewing applicants for the 2022 cohort. That includes workshops, artist-led discussions and regular open studio hours. Plans are also still underway to exhibit resident work at the Central Library, which is slated to open this year, Silverstone says.

Rossi says “the promise of exhibiting at the library is not a small thing.” Maybe even more significant, she adds, is how “The Hive is a way of Spokane affirming the importance of art.” n

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Breaking Down Bear-iers

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Wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant spends most of her time with bears, and she’s anything but afraid

BY MADISON PEARSON

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he story usually goes like this: A kid grows up in a small, rural town with nothing better to do than explore the surrounding fields and forests, leading them onto a nature-related career path.

For Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, though, the concrete jungle was home, and practically all she knew.

Wynn-Grant is a large-carnivore ecologist, meaning she works with lions, tigers and bears (Oh my!).

However, nature wasn’t exactly accessible to her while growing up in San Francisco. Wynn-Grant got her fix of the outdoors in the form of nature shows on television — telling people she was going to be a nature show host when she grew up, despite never having experienced the natural world for herself.

“I lived in a ton of big cities growing up,” WynnGrant says. “There was very little natural land around, and I think that sets me apart from most of my colleagues who are also wildlife professionals. I knew what career I wanted without even having the experience, but that’s how I realized I was passionate about it.”

Wynn-Grant is kicking off the 2022 National Geographic Live series on Jan. 26 with a discussion about her lifelong passion for large carnivores, specifically bears, and the secret lives they lead. It’s the first National Geographic Live at the Fox Theater after being held at the First Interstate Center for the Arts.

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intertwined. College allowed her to put a name to and practice her passion for nature. It was Emory University where her path became clear.

“Once I got to college I realized there was a science to the life that I had always dreamed of having,” she recalls.

“I always thought of science as like, you know, lab coats and beakers, never like what I now know it to be.”

She had dreamed her whole life about traveling to faraway places like Asia, Europe and South America and studying the carnivores that inhabit those regions.

“By the time I saw my first bear in the wild, I had no idea what to expect,” she says. “It was 2011, and I remember it so clearly. My mentor and I were in western Nevada, and we had set a trap for a black bear. We wanted to attach a GPS device to it and collect various data about that specific bear. My mentor got notified that the trap had been triggered, and that’s when I realized I was about to see a bear for the first time.”

Wynn-Grant and her mentor hiked up the mountain in anticipation. She recalls her thoughts racing.

“I was hoping I wasn’t going to make a mistake mostly,” she says. “My mentor let me be completely involved. I’ll absolutely never forget it.”

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hough Wynn-Grant is set apart from her colleagues in terms of experience, she also stands out due to the intersection of racial and social justice and protecting the environment.

“As a Black woman traveling to numerous rural North American towns, the reactions are variable,” she says. “All of it has been directly shaped and impacted by my identity as a Black woman. My experiences have been made harder, but not always. I definitely have gotten a lot of positive attention for being a Black woman who studies large carnivores as there are so few of us, and

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sometimes it is just me. It’s a complicated situation to be in, but being unique in these spaces has allowed me to have a platform that I wouldn’t have otherwise, which is important.

“It’s hard to show up and be a free, innovative and creative thinker who is poised to solve the problem of the environment when the Black community is under fire. Being able to have a relaxed and focused mind really requires knowing that your community is safe and protected. And when that’s not the case, it makes it tougher to show up and do my best work.”

On her podcast Going Wild, Wynn-Grant recalls racially charged experiences in her past professional life that only added to the feeling of not belonging in the world of wildlife ecology, but she also explains how she perseveres and continues her work despite the challenges that she faces in her professional life.

Her main goal is to teach others about large carnivores, and specifically she wants to inform audiences about misconceptions and information that they definitely don’t know about the wildlife that surrounds them.

“What I love about this show with National Geographic is that it’s not a lecture,” she says. “It’s giving the audience visuals and immersing them in things that they never knew about these animals. I’m basically taking the audience on a trip around the world with me where we’ll learn about the eight different types of bears out there and what it is about them that most people don’t know. It’s just a really different and unique and fun way to learn.” n National Geographic Live: The Secret Life of Bears • Wed, Jan. 26 at 7 pm • $25-$31 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • foxtheatrespokane.org • 509-624-1200

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MAMMA MIA! The Lost Daughter on Netflix has gotten much buzz thanks to some stellar performances from Dakota Johnson, the eminently watchable Jessie Buckley and the always brilliant Olivia Colman.

Seriously, any movie that gives Colman two solid hours of screen time, I’m here for it. And while I knew Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut delved into some heavy complexities of motherdaughter relationships, I had no idea viewing it would bring such a tense, thriller vibe. It’s an uncomfortable, slow-grinding tale, injected with some brief bursts of levity, but never for long. And I might never look at a baby doll the same way again. (DAN NAILEN)

Is it raining outside the window?

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BY DANIEL WALTERS

“I

f someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both,” goes a quote often attributed to journalism professor Jonathan Foster. “Your job is to look out of the f---ing window and find out which is true.”

The point, of course, is that journalists aren’t just supposed to be stenographers who write down what both sides are saying — certainly not on issues like climate change or vaccines, or who won the 2020 election — they’re supposed to report the objective reality.

It’s the sort of quote that felt like wisdom the first time I heard it, but increasingly irritates me every time I hear it repeated. It’s like an Aaron Sorkin-smug version of smart, as if there were always a right answer, and all it takes is the courage to turn your head and glance out the glass.

But that thinking can also quickly lead to the kind of journalism that trades nuance for arrogance, curiosity for dogma.

Say you look out the window, see it isn’t raining and file a story: “FACTCHECK: Rain Alarmists Claim Rain Without Any Evidence.”

But then you step outside and your ankles get soaked, because it only just stopped raining a minute earlier.

Or maybe it wasn’t raining where you are, but it was where the other person was. Or maybe it’s snowing. Maybe it’s hailing. Maybe it’s dumping tons of volcanic ash — has the health care system reported any significant increase in pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? Maybe it’s raining men and raining cats and dogs, and some of the men are biting the dogs, and that’s the real story.

“Is it raining” is where your reporting should begin, not end.

Is the rain falling equally on the just and the unjust? If the city’s public works department is blaming

their skyrocketing overtime on the big rainstorm, is that the real issue? Or is it poor management?

Say one side is blaming flooding after a storm on climate change and the other is blaming poor rivermanagement techniques. Maybe both are right.

Report that, of course, and you’ll have a chorus of critics on Twitter slamming you for your anti-precipitation bias, or charging that writing about how it’s raining during the Biden administration is a “both-sides” distraction from the real downpour that happened under President Trump.

What if the data shows the rain is falling twice as often, but a drizzle instead of a downpour? So more people are getting wet, but most of them aren’t getting soaked. But the sheer numbers are still really testing the capacity of the dryers in local laundromats. What if the governor starts firing state employees who absurdly claim their faith prohibits rain slickers?

Vaccines save lives; the climate is changing; Biden won the election. But those facts don’t tell you if vaccine mandates are worth staff shortages, how effectively carbon taxes fight climate change, or how social media companies should deal with disinformation.

Yes, journalism is about reporting truth and capturing reality. But reality is a pointillist painting of a billion truths, constantly changing and falling around us like, well, rain.

We have to do more than look out the window.

Our job is to walk out the door and soak it all in — the stats, the facts, the claims, the evidence, the personalities, the history, the conflict — and then wring out the complicated mess into something coherent enough to serve our readers.

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LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE Demand for buffalo continues to grow, yet Elsie DuBray and her father see buffalo as more than meat. Members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation, the DuBrays believe buffalo are key to rebuilding Indigenous food systems, reclaiming traditions and combating health woes. Theirs is one of several narratives in Gather, a documentary that takes viewers across the country and back in time, all from Indigenous perspectives. Find Gather, whose executive producers include the First Nations Development Institute and actor Jason Momoa, streaming on Netflix. (CARRIE SCOZZARO) THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Noteworthy new music arriving in stores and online Jan 21: JOHN MELLENCAMP, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. As if a new Mellencamp album wasn’t enough to get heartland rockin’ dads excited, the singer’s latest features three collaborative songs with Bruce Springsteen.

AOIFE O’DONOVAN, Age of Apathy. We may be living in an age of apathy, but it’s hard to not feel warmth in your heart listening to O’Donovan (of the folk supergroups I’m With Her and the Goat Rodeo Sessions) dreamily croon her finely crafted lyrics.

KIEFER SUTHERLAND, Bloor Street. The upside is if you don’t like the actor’s vaguely Springsteen-ian tunes, you needn’t spend 24 hours trying to escape that predicament. (SETH SOMMERFELD)

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Joss Tribble (left) and Rachel Nalley took over the craft beer bar last year.

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SUDS ON SPRAGUE Community Pint continues to deliver craft beer to Spokane under new ownership

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eer can be more than a drink. It can bring a sense of community to the casual bar-goer. Consider all the friendships and ideas that have been developed throughout history with a beer in hand.

That’s been the idea behind Community Pint since TJ and Sarah Wallin opened the craft beer-focused bar in 2017. The Wallins sold the Sprague Union District spot shortly before opening Garland Brew Werks in late July last year, but longtime regulars Rachel Nalley and Joss Tribble purchased the business with the intention of keeping its original spirit alive.

Nalley and Tribble have proven such in their first six months of ownership. Walking in today, you’d be hard-pressed to find many surface-level changes. The tap list is sure to impress craft beer drinkers of all levels,

and the fridges are stocked with beer from all over the region, thanks in part to the couple’s continuing Community Pint’s tradition of traveling to places such as Portland and Missoula to grab cans and kegs that aren’t locally distributed.

Nalley is also no stranger to the industry. She holds a degree in craft brewing from Central Washington University and, on top of now managing Community Pint, she’s the head brewer for TTs Old Iron Brewery & BBQ in Spokane Valley. Getting her start at the now-defunct Orlison Brewing, she worked her way up to head brewer and won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2017. She’s also worked on the production side of things at No-Li Brewhouse and Iron Goat Brewing. ...continued on page 30

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“Throughout all that, Community Pint has always been one of the places that I’d like to go just to have a beer,” Nalley recalls.

“And when the opportunity came up to become owners, we jumped on it.”

Nalley and Tribble are also the owners of Vandervert Automotive Services, an auto repair shop in North Spokane. Tribble still spends his days managing Vandervert and helps run things on the back end of Community Pint.

The couple says taking over a business in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic made for some challenges, and Sprague Avenue being closed for revitalization for the first few months ENTRÉE didn’t help. However, that never Get the scoop on local hindered their excitement of food news with our weekly keeping Community Pint alive.

Entrée newsletter. Sign up “It’s easy to get bogged at Inlander.com/newsletter. down in what’s going on right now and in the problems that you’re facing,” Nalley says. “But knowing what this place is capable of is more important than the struggles that we’re facing now.”

The road reopened in November, and the bar has already seen an increase in business. The project added designated parking spots on the street and more sidewalk space, and new landscaping includes redesigned light poles and planter boxes made from reclaimed concrete.

“We look forward to being part of the revival of this area,” Tribble explains. “It’s important that there’s active owners in this neighborhood to help promote the change that I think everyone is wanting to see happen.”

“We look forward to being part of the revival of this area.”

Nalley and Tribble are also working to make Community Pint more inclusive and inviting. While they’ll remain focused on craft beer, they’ve been slowly adding more hard seltzer and nonalcoholic options. They’ve embraced the business being known as a sort of “soccer bar,” showing every Portland Timbers match, and have added other sports to the mix as well. They’d also like to eventually bring back a trivia night.

Nalley says the goal is to highlight the community aspect of Community Pint. “A place where anybody in your group can go and enjoy their time here,” she says.

They’re currently preparing for a grand reopening party and delayed four-year anniversary celebration. From Feb. 24-27, they’ll tap various barrel-aged stouts and sours from Community Pint’s cellar, a triple IPA from Imagine Nation in Missoula, and multiple beers from Great Notion in Portland. They’ll also be releasing limited anniversary glassware. n

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The first two years operating the business were spent distributing kegs to local bars and restaurants as a side project, while Netz slowly worked at opening his own taproom.

Now, a month after No Drought’s debut in its new home, Netz says he’s seen amazing support from the neighborhood. The one-barrel brewhouse is focused on German-style beers.

“Oktoberfest is my favorite time of year,” he says.

The current lineup of beers consists mostly of those German beers like Kölsch, altbier, schwarzbier, hefeweizen and a Pilsner.

Also on tap is an IPA still using Netz’s first recipe and a chocolate baltic porter on nitro. Along with beer made in-house, the taproom serves cider, kombucha and a cream soda.

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’m shocked to discover that the Robert Harris novel this tedious “thriller” is based on — titled simply Munich — was published only in 2018. Because the primary reaction I have to its movie version is mystification at how dated it feels. This is the same old by-thenumbers World War II–ing we’ve seen countless times before, finding nothing new to say and with no diverting suspense to offer in a milieu that has been extensively explored onscreen and in pop culture.

A mix of fact and reality, Munich: The Edge of War focuses more on the made-up stuff than the historical stuff — and if Harris or screenwriter Ben Power thought that was a better way to go, they should have invented a more gripping story. What we have here is earnest WWII fan-fic about former Oxford chums Hugh Legat (Geoge MacKay) and Paul von Hartman (Jannis Niewöhner).

By 1938, the two indistinguishably bland young men find themselves on opposite sides of the brewing war, and conveniently placed in positions of relative power and influence. Hugh is private secretary to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, while Paul works high up at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. They had a falling

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Young Marie-Josèphe’s life is turned upside down when it’s discovered she’s the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan) and goes to live with him at the Palace of Versailles. But that’s mild compared to her discovery that the king has captured a mermaid as part of a quest for immortality. Full review at inlander.com. (SS) Rated PG

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out years ago, but now they will take it upon themselves to get in the way. Paul insists to Hugh that they are “the to save Europe by thwarting Hitler’s nefarious plans for last hope of stopping Hitler,” and yet there’s not a lick of continental domination. urgency or tension.

Hugh and Paul are fictional, but this is true: In SepThe film looks elegant enough, even if Hugh and tember 1938, Chamberlain (and other European leaders) Paul are woefully underdeveloped (the few female charwent to Munich to get Hitler to agree not to invade the acters are even worse). I’d say that the entire endeavor is Czech region of Sudetenland, as he’d been fairly inoffensive, except for its apparent threatening. It’s even true that there was a plot attempt to reimagine Chamberlain as a MUNICH: among some high-ranking Germans to arrest misunderstood hero playing 10-dimenTHE EDGE OF WAR or possibly assassinate Hitler, with that illegal sional chess with Hitler instead of the Rated PG-13 invasion as the reason to remove the madman Directed by Christian Schwochow naive appeaser historians have generally they could see would be Germany’s downfall. agreed he was. Jeremy Irons cuts a dashStarring George MacKay, Any appeasement of Hitler by Chambering figure as the prime minister — quite a Jannis Niewöhner, Jeremy Irons lain would merely delay the inevitable, and contrast to Ulrich Matthes as a positively Streaming on Netflix Fri, Jan. 21 Hitler was certainly not going to stop with Susniveling Hitler, as if Hitler needed to be detenland, as he had promised. So now Paul and Hugh, portrayed even less flatteringly than usual. But completely attached to their respective diplomatic delegations at the missing here is Chamberlain’s woefully miscalculated inMunich summit, must engage in espionage shenanigans sistence that, with his agreement from Hitler in Munich, to get a secret document detailing Hitler’s actual plan for he had achieved “peace for our time.”

Europe — which has made its way into Paul’s possession I’m not sure anyone was looking for a rethink of — into Hugh’s hands, and hence Chamberlain’s, so the Chamberlain, or that it is in any way warranted.

PM can appreciate just how dangerous Hitler really is.

Perhaps the best thing this movie might have had Alas, it’s just dull how casual these halfhearted spies going for it was a sense that intelligent young people who are as they have meetings in crowded public places and wanted to be optimistic about their futures were lookopenly discuss their supposedly covert business. Director ing with total despair at their stodgy, hidebound elders Christian Schwochow seems unaware of any potential and thier misguided attempts to fix the world. That idea danger, too: He’s not able to muster any suspense in these could have resonated today. But there’s nothing of the sequences, even when a third party does actually show up kind to be found in Munich. n

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Words, Words, Words A word-game obsessive finds a new outlet with Wordle

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isten, when people ask what your hobbies are, you’re supposed to retort with something that makes you look cool and interesting, like rock climbing or rollerblading — not “I play word games for fun.”

Though it made me look like a bit of a loser, as a kid there was nothing I found more enjoyable than trying to create anagrams with Scrabble tiles for hours on end. This has followed me into adulthood, where I’ve lately found myself waking up every morning only looking forward to one thing: Wordle.

When I started seeing chatter on Twitter about a new word-based game, I had to find the source. Wordle quickly took over my feed. All I’ve seen for the past weeks are little green-andyellow squares arranged in grid formation and memes about the game. Perhaps you can relate?

Of course I joined in on the fun. When I tweeted my first grid of the day, I was suddenly bombarded with texts from friends asking “What is Wordle?”

Every day is different when it comes to Wordle. The goal is to guess what five-letter word the game is “thinking” of by typing in an initial guess and going from there. The browserbased game reveals which letters are in the day’s word by turning them yellow, and if you also guess the right placement of a letter, it’ll be green.

If the letter’s grey, try again, it’s not in the word.

Players get six guesses until they’re told “better luck tomorrow!” The trick, and reason for all those cryptic, letterless solution grids on Twitter, is that everyone playing is tasked with guessing the same daily word.

Wordle recalls my first inklings of a love of word games that must have started with “hangman.” Obsession is an understatement when it comes to hangman — I lived and breathed this word-guessing game. I forced just about anyone in my vicinity to start a game with me

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from the ages of 7 to about 12. My grandmother took the brunt of it. On road trips, I’d bust out a yellow legal pad, and we’d spend the entire car ride thinking of the most ridiculous words for each other to figure out. My go-to was always “zephyr.” That threw her for a loop.

Once I was a bit older, having acquired an iPod Touch, the device became absolutely riddled with word-game apps, from Words With Friends to buggy crossword puzzles. I’d play them instead of completing my algebra homework, often staying up past my bedtime playing Words With Friends with schoolmates who lived only a couple of blocks away. We’d reconvene at our lockers the next day to discuss who won and to set up new games. I also still played Scrabble with my family, much to their disdain. Often, board game night ended with me arguing that the “word” I’d played was, in fact, a word. (It never was.)

I’ve since played almost every iteration of unscramble-these-letters-to-make-words games that I can find. And sure, they’re fun, but after a while I start seeing the same combinations of letters over and over. I know off the top of my head that you can make nine five-letter words out of the word analogy and too many three-letter words to count. Wordle, so far, remains appealing.

The internet is a fickle place where no two users can seem to agree on anything. Maybe Wordle is a step in the right direction, though, helping people arrive at the same conclusion. n Wordle with the rest of the world: powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle

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Game, set, match: Supercrush.

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PERFECTOS Supercrush is the embodiment of Mark Palm’s journey from metal to melody

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s a guitarist for Bellingham-based death metal band Black Breath, Mark Palm was a driving force behind some of the most adventurous heavy music to come out of Washington over the past decade.

But when the band wasn’t busy laying waste to everything in sight, Palm would throw on some headphones and pump his ears full of pitch-perfect guitar-pop bands like Teenage Fanclub, Sugar and Sloan.

“It’s a balance, you know?” says Palm, pictured in the orange shirt. “You don’t always want to be listening to the same type of music that you’re playing.”

Palm still seeks balance, though the pendulum has swung in the other direction.

These days, he fronts Supercrush, a Seattle power-pop band that would’ve sounded at home alongside all those standout ’90s bands in Palm’s headphones years ago.

(And as a natural counterbalance, he’s now listening to more heavy music than ever before.)

After years playing punk and metal, Palm recognized (and accepted) his primary strength as a musician and songwriter: pairing fuzzy electric guitars with catchy, candy-coated melodies. So he left his other musical ventures and turned his attention to Supercrush, which started as a low-pressure, just-for-fun project.

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“At that time, I was touring with Black Breath and with another band called Devotion, and both of those bands were in the process of working on full-length albums,” Palm says. “So I started Supercrush to have something to do in between. The plan was really just to do it occasionally, when the mood struck.”

The mood struck often. From 2013 to 2018, Supercrush released four 7-inch singles, each containing two sugary sweet songs that showcased Palm’s promise as a writer, while also leaving listeners wanting more.

In 2018, he finally moved Supercrush to the front burner, compiling those singles on a collection called Never Let You Drift Away and working in earnest on the band’s debut full-length, SODO Pop, which dropped in October 2020.

With 10 irresistible tunes and nary a note out of place, SODO Pop would go down as a power-pop cult classic in a just world. It’s jam-packed with memorable moments, from the perfectly sculpted keyboard lines that kick off “On the Telephone” and the understated twang of “Have You Called Him By My Name?” to the way the lead guitar mirrors the vocal melody in the chorus of “Be Kind to Me.” Speaking of guitars, searing J. Mascis-style solos slice through a handful of the album’s songs, while an airy acoustic ballad (“When I’m Gone”) brings the album to a beautiful end.

“When it comes to songwriting, I have a very organized mind and organized approach, for better or worse,” Palm says. “For me, it would be unnatural to try to create chaotic music because I’m just a very detail-oriented person.”

Palm’s meticulousness extends beyond songwriting and into the design of Supercrush’s striking visual aesthetic. The art for each of the band’s first four singles features a close-up photo of a woman, a WEEKEND particular color scheme C O U N T D OW N (first purple, then light Get the scoop on this blue, orange, then weekend’s events with pink) and the word SUour newsletter. Sign up at PERCRUSH running Inlander.com/newsletter. vertically up the side of the cover. Never Let You Drift Away’s art is colorful and nostalgic, while the cover of SODO Pop is a photo of Supercrush-branded tennis balls that match the color schemes of the first four singles.

All of this visual detail is carried through the band’s shirts and other merch.

A band does not have to have a cool and cohesive visual aesthetic to be good, of course. But it’s a nice bonus, and for Palm it’s an important part of the whole.

“I went into the early singles with an idea of what I wanted to do, and that I wanted people to be able to lay them all next to each other and to be able to get what we’re all about,” he says. “I think all the design work is definitely a reflection of that same sort of low-level OCD that I bring to the music.”

He calls it low-level OCD, but it’s easy to spin it this way: Palm has a strong vision for Supercrush, and he puts in the time and effort to bring that vision to life. It’s a vision with roots in the ’90s grunge and alt-rock of his youth, and those pop bands he’d listen to in the heavy metal tour van hurtling down the highway.

“Even a band like Black Breath, it was loud and aggressive, but there was always kind of a pop or rock ’n’ roll sensibility to the music, and there were melodic elements that came through,” Palm says. “At some point, it just occurred to me that melody is what I do. It’s always just kind of been my natural inclination.” n Supercrush, Militarie Gun, Shine, Lipsick · Fri, Jan. 21, 7 pm · $15 · All ages · The Big Dipper · 171 S. Washington St. · bigdipperevents.com · 509-863-8098

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SPORTS BALLIN’!

I’ve never been much of an autograph seeker, but when I was a kid there were few things I treasured more than my little book boasting the signatures of Curly Neal and Meadowlark Lemon. They were two legends of the long line of talented basketball players, comedians and performance artists who have filled the roster of the Harlem Globetrotters for nearly 100 years. The names on the jerseys might change, but the family-friendly shenanigans stay the same (as long as you’re OK with the occasional de-pantsing of a referee) when the Globetrotters come to town. There are acrobatic dunks, intricate ball-handling displays and abundant confetti tosses — if you’re sitting courtside, you might just become part of the action. The current squad includes players with names like Moose, Bulldog and Cheese. I’m pretty sure Meadowlark and Curly would approve.

— DAN NAILEN Harlem Globetrotters • Mon, Jan. 24 at 7 pm • $26-$112 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon Ave. • spokanearena.com • 509-279-7000

PERFORMANCE DANCE YOUR HEART OUT

Flamenco dance is a visual spectacle rooted in traditional Spanish folklore. For the past five years, Monica Mota, creator of Quiero Flamenco, has been dedicated to bringing those traditions to the Inland Northwest. The company has put on a flamenco performance annually since 2017 after receiving a Spokane Arts grant. In Clasica, their newest production, performers showcase the enchanting art of flamenco through classical Spanish music and dance. Clasica highlights local performers as well as flamenco dancers from across the country, and dazzles audiences with a brilliant ode to Spanish traditions.

— MADISON PEARSON Clasica • Sat, Jan. 22 at 7 pm • $25-$35 • Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center • 211 E. Desmet Ave. • quieroflamenco.com • 509-313-4776

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MUSIC SCREEN-TO-STAGE

When stages shut down in 2020, Live from Somewhere stepped up to give Spokane musicians a place to play. The group’s video series took local acts to atypical spots around town — from a record store to dusty back lots — to play their music and capture the performance with cinematic flair. Now, Live from Somewhere is stepping into the actual live music space, launching a new monthly concert series at the Magic Lantern. The venue is a perfect fit given what the series values: local connection, unusual music spaces and a finely crafted visual product. The first edition features indie folk band Heat Speak (a previous Live From Somewhere act) and the vibraphone pop of Rosie CQ. — SETH SOMMERFELD The Magic Lantern Concert Series: Heat Speak, Rosie CQ • Sun, Jan. 23 at 6 pm • $15 • All ages • The Magic Lantern • 25 W. Main Ave. • magiclanternonmain.com • 509-209-2383

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MUSEUM FLOUR POWER

Perhaps the most versatile and reusable food product packaging ever, flour sacks are the focus of the MAC’s next showcase of artifacts from its permanent collection. Cloth flour sacks on display for this exhibit date from the late 1800s and early decades of the 20th century, featuring artistically designed and colorful imagery honoring Eastern Washington’s wheat-growing legacy. Vintage and antique collectors should enjoy this showcase, which also includes clothing and other household objects made from flour sacks repurposed by thrifty homemakers. Still today fabric flour sacks (and similar animal feed sacks, especially from the Depression era) are a coveted item for collectors, both to display or even remake into modern clothing pieces with a unique, vintage flair.

— CHEY SCOTT Golden Harvest: Flour Sacks from the Permanent Collection • Jan. 22-May 15; Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm (third Thursdays until 9 pm) • $7-$12 • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First Ave. • northwestmuseum.org • 509-456-3931

FILM THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING

Follow the extraordinary life of grizzly bears or dive into a frozen lake with one of the world’s best competition high divers in this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival. This festival began touring internationally in 1986 when organizers sought to share the creativity with those who couldn’t travel to the Canadian Rockies. The tour kicks off in Alberta at the beginning of fall and then makes its way around the world. The next tour stop is the Panida Theater in Sandpoint with a weekend full of films that range from 60 seconds to 50 minutes. Can’t make it to Sandpoint? No problem! The Bing Crosby Theater is also hosting the festival in February.

— JAMI NELSON Banff Mountain Film Festival • Fri-Sat, Jan. 21-22 at 7 pm and Sun, Jan. 23 at 6 pm • $19-$24 • Panida Theater • 300 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • panida.org • 208-263-9191

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anyone out there might know him, please give me his contact. Thank you for your help. Please share my post; maybe I can find this very kind young man. Thank you.

BLUE FANNEL SUITS YOU It was a couple days before Christmas. You entered through the Sweet Frosting entrance. Briefly thought you recognized me but completely unsure as you rushed away. The blue flannel was unexpected, but you wore it well.

Hope you have been good.

I SAW YOU PLEASE HELP MY NEIGHBOR FIND THIS KIND MAN This is my neighbor’s story.

She is a lovely kind elderly women from Indonesia, Here is her story: On Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, I was the fortunate senior on the receiving end. I was on my way to an appointment at 10:30 am. Walking on Victoria Drive and crossing 13th to 14th, I slipped. The other two times I slipped in less than one week, I was able to get myself up.

Not this time, but an angel appeared… this young man said I will help you up.

Once I was standing, he inquired “Are you OK to stand on your own?” and said, “I will get your cane.” And then he said, “Just wait here. I will get my car and drive you.” In these days of the pandemic, helping a senior Indonesian lady is more than an act of kindness, it is also a heroic act. Arriving, he waited as I pushed the intercom till the manager appeared. I thanked him, but forgot to ask his name and address? I plan to get a gift certificate from Starbucks for this kind man, as a small token of my gratitude. He had a Starbucks cup on his dashboard and might be a self-employed painter or carpenter. He mentioned he could not get his truck out from his snowcovered driveway. Please, please if

SOUND OFF

MISSING SOMETHING? I saw you at Mass, a family of adults. There were boxes of masks at every entrance. The cantor’s first words: Please wear a mask. The priest wore a mask. Your faces were bare. A woman approached you, smiled, offered you masks, and asked you to wear them. One of you said, “I’m good.” The woman laid the masks, one each, on the pew between you. Your faces — your mouths, your noses — remained bare. Then you all got in line to receive Communion with your sisters and brothers, so many so much older than the oldest of you.

You joined them and stood in line in front of them and behind them. They sat in the pews beneath you at your right elbow as you breathed in and out, head bowed. They passed you in the aisle, face to face, elbow to elbow.

I saw 100 strangers wearing masks for each other — and for you. I saw Jesus on the Crucifix. I saw you, maskless, receiving without giving. I wonder: Does it ever seem like you might be missing something?

CHEERS THANKS FOR THE CAFFEINE! Cheers to the STCU Rocket Bakery barista at 2:44 on Tuesday for being so patient with two frazzled, un-caffeinated teenage girls who cannot make up their mind on what they want AND for so kindly bringing it to the table, when we have

made ourselves at home. We know you were just doing your job, but it helped cheer up some sad sacks who needed a nice stranger and a lot of bean juice.

THANKS TO KIND LADY AT FRED MEYER So I was checking out at Fred Meyer, and I was a couple dollars short,

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BLACK CONGRESSMAN BILLBOARD The Spokane GOP has placed a

and the highest authority will NOT be as incompetent! You’ve caused a severe hardship to a wonderful young man who probably would have given it to you if you had asked, and definitely did not deserve this! I am the young mans father, and I wish you nothing but misery and hardship.

I saw Jesus on the Crucifix. I saw you, maskless, receiving without giving.

so I proceeded to take a couple things off, and the lady behind me said I’ll pay for your stuff. So then I tried to give her the $ I had, and she wouldnt take it. So I just wanted to say thanks to the very kind lady at Fred Meyer! It mesnt a lot to me, and I will pay it forward some day most definietly!

JEERS NOT SO FITNESS The signs on your South Hill doors state “No Mask No Entry.” Yet 99% of the people in your facility do not wear a mask. Change the signs to state “We Do Not Give A Crap About Our Exhausted ICU Workers.”

Hard to be fit when you are gasping for every breath with COVID pneumonia.

Maybe our hospitals should put signs on their doors: “If You Don’t Try To Help Us, Don’t Expect Us To Help You.” JEERS TO JEERS It used to be mildly entertaining to read the Jeers section each week. But, lately they’ve just been so stupid that it’s hard to find anything of interest. Perhaps it’s time to retire that section of the “news.” I have a suggestion to offer in its place similar to The Green Zone. How about The Hop Zone or The Beer Zone? Each week you could spend as much time

1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3.

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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talking about a local alcohol product (such as beer) as you do marijuana, thereby supporting local business and economy. “Spokane: It’s not just for dummies anymore...or maybe it is.”

billboard on Francis just off of Division in North Spokane touting that fact that the first Black congressman was a Republican. While that is factually true (It was Joseph Rainey, a Republican from South Carolina who served in Congress from 1869 to 1879), I found the billboard to be quite disingenuous.

The Republican Party at that time stood for equality and the elimination of barriers to political participation by formerly enslaved people. The Republican Party of today is engaged in a variety of voter suppression tactics designed to reduce participation in elections by members of marginalized communities. The hypocrisy of this billboard is blatant.

NORTH CENTRAL TIRE THIEVES To the brazen jerk tire thieves that came into my fenced yard and up to my back door at 7 am to steal one of my sons mag wheels and tires, I’m sure you planned to take the rest until I interrupted you when I chased you to your accomplice in the waiting U-Haul van. I wish I would have had a handful of heavy objects to throw at your thieving a-and rented getaway vehicle! Since it took crime check four days to call me back to take the report, I have little doubt you will get away with your crime, I also have NO doubt that karma

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DRUNK GIRL AT FIDDLER ON THE ROOF To the girl in the middle of row Y on Friday night’s showing of Fiddler on the Roof: I consider myself to be a very patient person, but you were incredibly loud and drunk. I missed so many scenes simply because you kept swearing, tapping your feet, and talking with your boyfriend. You openly criticized the dialogue as they were saying their lines. You openly criticized the music as they were singing. I’ll remember this as a show with great dancing, great music and an obnoxious drunk girl. Your boyfriend apologized to us, and I hope you apologized to your boyfriend. Next time your drunken self wants to go to a show, please don’t. Let the rest of us enjoy what we paid for. n

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COMEDY

BRYAN CALLEN The American actor, comedian and podcastr is most known for his recurring role as “Coach Mellor” on ABC’s Schooled and The Goldbergs; which he’s played since 2014. Jan. 20-22, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat and Sun at 10:30 pm. $25-$50.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com PHILLIP KOPCZYNSKI Hosted by Rob Wentz and also featuring Charles Hall Jr. Born and raised in the mountains of eastern Washington, Kopczynski started comedy at age 11 doing pratfalls to make his Down Syndrome sister laugh. Jan. 20, 7-10 pm. $15. The Draft Zone, 4436 W. Riverbend Ave. (208457-7917) NEW YEAR, NEW YOU Tell the Blue Door Theatre players your New Year’s resolution and they’ll show how it’ll play out in this all-improvised show.

For general audiences. Fridays in Jan. at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com COMEDY NIGHT FT. HEATH HARMISON Heath Harmison, as seen on Fox’s Laughs and Dry Bar Comedy, performs with physicality and a humorous outlook on life. Jan. 22, 5-6 pm. $20$35. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. merlinscomedyclub.com SAFARI A “Whose Line”-esque, fastpaced short-form improv show with a few twists and turns added, based on audience suggestions. For mature audiences. Saturdays at 7:30 pm. $8.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (509-747-7045)

COMMUNITY

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY: TREASURES FROM THE DRIEHAUS COLLECTION A celebration of the artistry and craftsmanship of the Tiffany artworks from Chicago’s distinguished Richard H. Driehaus Collection, highlighting masterworks never before presented in a comprehensive exhibition. Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm through Feb. 13. $7-$12. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org ONLINE STORYTIME Children have fun learning while reading stories, singing songs and sharing fingerplays during storytime. For ages 2-5 and their families. Registration required.

Weekly on Thursdays from 6:30-7 pm and Fridays from 9:30-10 am. Free. scld. evanced.info/signup/list?df=list&nd=15 0&kw=Online+Storytime USED BOOK SALE Over 1,000 titles in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books will be available for a free-will offering.

Sat, Jan. 22 from 9 am-1 pm and 3-5:30 pm, Sun. Jan. 22 from 9:30 am to noon.

By donation. St. Joseph Church, 3720 E. Colbert Rd. stjosepholbert.org (509466-4991) EASTERN WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE Explore some of the issues before the 2022 Washing State Legislature, including climate change, housing/homelessness, food security, welcoming refugees, human trafficking, securing our democracy and public schools. Jan. 22, 8:30 am-1:30 pm. $20.

Online: thefigtree.org (509-535-1813) GOLDEN HARVEST: FLOUR SACKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION The MAC’s collection of cloth flour sacks offers a unique window into

the early development of Eastern Washington’s wheat industry, which today contributes billions of dollars to the state’s economy. The sacks are also a tangible reminder of the mills that played a critical role in Spokane’s early growth. Jan. 22-May 15, Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm, Third Thu from 10 am-9 pm. $7-$12. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931) WINTER OPEN HOUSE Join the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center for frost-covered fun. Play games, meet and learn about the animals that live onsite and wander a wintery-science wonderland. Jan. 22, 10 am-1 pm. $5 suggested donation. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEARS Join Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant for a fascinating look inside the secret lives of bears and a report from the front lines of the mission to help humans and carnivores coexist peacefully. Jan. 26, 7 pm. $25-$31. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.org (509-624-1200)

FILM

BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide.

Jan. 21-22 at 7 pm, and Jan. 23 at 6 pm. $19-$24. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191) UNITED BY WATER In conjunction with the exhibit “Awakenings” are regular screenings of the documentary “United by Water” created by the Upper Columbia Unified Tribes (UCUT).

The film follows the first tribal canoe journey and gathering at Kettle Falls, Washington, since the Ceremony of Tears in 1943. Saturdays at 1 pm; first and third Wednesdays at noon through Jan. 29. Included w/ admission. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org

FOOD & DRINK

TAPHOUSE BEER DINNER Kick-start 2022 with a beer dinner featuring Wallace Brewing. Includes five craft beer tastings and four chef-curated courses, with shared knowledge and conversation from brewery representatives. Jan. 20, 5:30 pm. $50.

The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com (208-209-5031) VA PIANO WINE DINNER A dinner featuring Va Piano wines paired with New Orleans-inspired courses. Winery owner and winemaker Justin Wylie shares insight. Reservations required.

Jan. 20, 6:30 pm. $100. Vieux Carre NOLA Kitchen, 1403 W. Broadway Ave. vieuxcarrespokane.com ROCKET WINE CLASS Rocket Market hosts weekly wine classes; sign up in advance for the week’s selections.

Fridays at 7 pm. Call to reserve a seat, or register online. Price varies. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket. com (509-343-2253) BEAN & PIE NATIONAL PIE DAY PICK UP Escape the frosty winter weather for a taste of the tropics at Bean and Pie in celebration of National Pie Day.

(Ordering closed Jan. 19 at 9 pm). Jan. 22, 5-7 pm. $16-$32. Lumberbeard Brewing, 25 E. Third Ave. beanandpie. com (208-930-4065) WINE & MURDER Tickets to this interactive muder-mystery event include two glasses of wine and hors d’oeuvres. Jan. 22, 7-10 pm. $44. Two Winey Bitches Tasting Room, 107 S. Madison St. (208-369-3695) KILL THE KEG & SERVICE INDUSTRY NIGHT This weekly special includes $2 off select GHP beer, $1 off select guest beer and a 20% discount for service industry patrons. Tuesdays from 3-9 pm. Golden Handle Project, 111 S. Cedar St. goldenhandle.org (509-868-0264) VINO! SMALL PLATES TASTING With Woodward Canyon Winery GM and co-owner Jordan Dunn-Small as your guide, taste two wine samples with each of three delicious small plate offerings. Experience this real-time interaction between foods and wines, demonstrating how each affects the other. Jan. 25, 6-8:30 pm. $75.

Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside Ave. spokaneclub.org (509-838-1229) MEDICAL PERSONNEL APPRECIATION NIGHT All medical and healthcarerelated personnel, students, staff and professionals receive a 20% discount off all GHP beer and food. Wednesdays from 3-9 pm. Golden Handle Project, 111 S. Cedar St. goldenhandle.org PIZZA, CALZONE & STROMBOLI! Besides a great recipe for your own pizza dough, you’ll also prepare calzones, authentic stromboli and pizza with a variety of toppings and fillings.

Substitutions to accommodate dietary restrictions are available. Jan. 27, 6-8 pm. $69. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. campusce.net/ spokane/course/course.aspx?c=1153 LUMBERBEARD BEER DINNER Executive Chef Steven Swanson collaborated with Lumberbeard owner Bret Gordon to create a five-course plated dinner. Jan. 29, 6-9 pm. $70.

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DJ NIGHT ON THE ICE Get your ‘skate’ on with DJ A1 for themed nights, music, lights, contests and more. Fridays, 6-9 pm, through Jan. 28. Numerica Skate Ribbon, 720 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. riverfrontspokane.com CLASICA An evening featuring classical and Spanish music and dance, plus some of the best Flamenco performers from across the country. Jan. 22, 7-9 pm. $25-$35. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. quieroflamenco.com MATTHEW LEVINE SONGWRITING CLASS Matthew Levine’s career has seen him writing songs of many styles: choral, cabaret, pop, gospel, musicals, etc. Musicians of any level can learn new songwriting tools during this 8-week class. Tuesdays from 4-5:30 pm, Jan. 10-Feb. 28. $20/lesson; $120 prepay for all 8. Clearwater Music, 9107 N. Country Homes Blvd. clearwatermusicserves. com (661-472-9920)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR WEDNESDAY EVENING CONTRA DANCE Join the Spokane Folklore Society each Wednesday for contra dancing. Events feature a different band and caller each week. Come 15 min. early for a lesson. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30 pm. $7/$10 (18 and under free). Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org

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Free parking. Jan. 20-22; Thu 12-8 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. $10 weekend admission; kids 12 and under free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanervshow.com MT. SPOKANE FIS RACE Mt. Spokane Race Team and Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park welcome elite ski racers from across the Western United States. Jan. 20-23. Free. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com NIGHT SKIING SESSIONS Mt. Spokane offers regular night-skiing sessions, Wednesday through Saturday from 3-9 pm, through March 12. $32. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com WINTER SURVIVAL BASICS Join experienced staff for a presentation on the basics of winter survival, from how to prepare and plan for winter outdoor pursuits, to what to do when things don’t go as planned. Jan. 20, 5-6:30 pm.

Free. Online: rei.com/events/98386/ virtual-winter-survival-basics CROSS COUNTRY SKI LESSON (MT. SPOKANE) Learn the basics of crosscountry skiing at Mt. Spokane. Lessons are taught by Spokane Nordic Ski Association’s certified instructors.

Additional information emailed after registration. Sessions offered on select dates through March, from 10 am-2 pm. $34/$59. Register at spokanerec.org CROSS-COUNTRY SKI TRIP TO GEOPHYSICAL AREA Travel groomed cross-country ski trails at one of the USGS’s 14 geophysical observatories, this one near Newport. Fee includes guides, transportation, ski area fees and equipment. Ages 18+. Jan. 21, 9 am-3 pm. $39. Register at spokanerec.org FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB SHRED A new kids event offering a chance to learn and practice ski skills. Each session includes a kids-only dinner. Skiers level 1 and 2 only, ages 4-10. Fridays from 5-8 pm through Feb. 25. $39. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com TURNS UNDER THE LIGHTS Twilight skiing is offered via the Basin Express high-speed quad and Musical Chairs double, plus in the Stomping Grounds Terrain Park and the beginner terrain off Musical Chairs. Fridays and Saturdays from 3-7 pm through March 5; $20/$40. Schweitzer, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer. com/to-do/twilight-skiing PBR PENDLETON WHISKY VELOCITY TOUR The PBR’s Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour brings the excitement

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Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SNOWSHOE NEWMAN LAKE Learn the basics of snowshoeing on this guided hike at the McKenzie Conservation Area.

Includes transportation, equipment and guides. Ages 15+. Jan. 23, 10 am-1:30 pm. $29. Register at spokanerec.org THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: SPREAD GAME TOUR Part streetball from the players who defined it, part interactive family entertainment, the new tour shows off the best of the Globetrotters in a dazzling exhibition of talent and game. Jan. 24, 7 pm. $26$112. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com CHEAP SKATE TUESDAY Free skate rental included with paid admission, every Tuesday through Feb. 22, from 10 am-9 pm. $5.95-$7.95. Numerica Skate Ribbon, 720 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. riverfrontspokane.com

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STAGED READING: MAD UNDERGROUND Join Spokane Playwrights Laboratory for a fully-acted staged reading of “Mad Underground” by local playwright Sandra Hosking.

Then join a live “talk back” session with the playwright. Free, donations accepted. Jan. 20, 7:30 pm. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. spokaneplaywrightslaboratory.com CORPUS CHRISTI A story of faith, redemption, love and betrayal. Lead character Joshua, struggles with his identity, not only as a gay young man, but as a Christlike figure which some have come to follow as the messiah.

Jan. 21-Feb. 6, Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$25. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. stagelefttheater.org ALMOST, MAINE One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Performed by Spokane Civic Theatre Academy Students. Jan. 22-23 at 2 pm. $10. Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside Ave. spokanecivictheatre. com/productions/almost-maine THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG The story of Cornley Drama Society’s newest production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” where things are quickly going from bad to disastrous. Jan. 28-Feb. 20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com

VISUAL ARTS

FROM THE COLLECTION: THE BIBLE IN ART A show exploring centuries of art based on religious imagery, and featuring works from art masters ranging from Rembrandt to Dalí. Jan. 15-May 7, open Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt INDIE FOLK: NEW ART & SONGS FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Artisanal woven baskets and tooledwood objects mix with works that are makeshift, improvisational and often employ salvaged materials. Jan. 18-May 21, open Tue-Fri from 1-4 pm, Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson Rd. museum.wsu.edu (509-335-1910)

MOSCOW 3RD THURSDAY ARTWALK The monthly event (Oct-June) features visual, culinary, performing and literary arts in host locations throughout the community. Third Thursdays from 4-8 pm. Free. Moscow, Idaho. ci.moscow. id.us/189/Artwalk (208-883-7036) REVISITED: A GRAND TOUR: IMAGES OF ITALY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION A showcase of works from the Jundt’s permanent collection, featuring pieces by artists who spent time in Italy and created work inspired by their travels. Jan. 15-May 7, open Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt (509-313-6843) THE FIRST TIME I EVER HEARD THE BLUES Karen Christeson-Swanson makes paintings, drawings and mixed media artworks. Her new collection depicts women’s struggles and honors them. Jan. 7-28; Fridays from 4-8 pm.

Free. Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. kolva-sullivangallery.com JANUS, SPIRIT OF THE OPENING Featuring the artwork of Travis Chapman, Roch Fautch, Jesse Swanson, Darrell Wilcox, John Thamm, Matthew Wolf, Audreana Camm, Rick Davis and Hank Chiapetta. Fri 5-8 pm; Sat 12-4 pm through Jan. 29. Free. Shotgun Studios, 1625 W. Water Ave. (509-688-3757) ART JOURNALING WITH DINA NATALE Through different techniques, styles, and tools you’ll turn your journal into a personal journey. Jan. 22, 12-4:30 pm. $90. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net RIVER RIDGE ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTS MEETING The group swears in the new board. Attendees should be fully vaccinated. Don’t forget to bring your latest creation to show and talk about. Jan. 26, 10 am-noon. Free.

Spokane Art Supply, 1303 N. Monroe St. (509-325-0471) ROIN MORIGEAU: PULL IN CASE OF EMERGENCY III An exploration of ideas of hidden difficulty and crisis, by artist Roin Morigeau. The exhibition consists of multiple site-specific installations.

Jan. 27-March 5; Mon-Fri from 9 am-8 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Building. ewu.edu/cale/programs/art

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COLLECTING 1900 MODERN Seattle architectural historian Lawrence Kreisman presents on his and Wayne Dodge’s extensive collection of turnof-the-century decorative items and furnishings. Free for SPA members.

Jan. 20, 6-7:30 pm. $10. Online: spokanepreservation.org TELLING YOUR STORY: A PERSONAL ESSAY WORKSHOP In this interactive and generative writing workshop, Kristen Millares Young helps participants tell their own stories.

Available in English and Spanish. Jan. 20, 7 pm. Free. Online: humanities.org VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB: THE BOOKSHOP OF SECOND CHANCES A group discussion of “The Bookshop of Second Chances” by Jackie Fraser.

Jan. 22, 10:30-11:30 am. Free. events. spokanelibrary.org/event/5884942 DROP IN & WRITE Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org n

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“THE CROWD GOES WILD!” —The New York Times

My apartment building has paper-thin walls, and I overhear a lot of what goes on between the couple next door.

The man makes constant belittling remarks — calling his wife “ugly” and “stupid” and saying she’d cheat on him but no other man would want her. What leads a man to talk to his wife like this? —Horrified Among the tips strangely absent on those “Ways to Keep Your Marriage Alive” lists is “If you can’t say AMY ALKON something nice, scream it at your wife.”

However, evolutionary psychologist Todd Shackelford finds that cruel putdowns are actually a “mate retention” tactic — of certain men: seriously low scorers in the What Women Want department. Women prize men who are kind, intelligent, emotionally intelligent, generous, and hardworking “providers” (“high mate value” men). These men have the emotional and financial chops to take the mate-retention high road: showing the wife she’s loved, romancing her with trips and gifts, listening to her, making her laugh, and always having her back.

In contrast, a typical lumpen loser “low mate value” man is lazy, selfish, dull, and unattractive, and has a low-paying, dead-end job. He lacks the psychology and resources to “provide benefits” (make his wife feel too happy and loved to ditch him). So, he’s prone to resort to “cost-inflicting mate-retention behaviors” — verbal abuse or violence or both — with the subconscious goal of making her too emotionally broken to leave.

When the abuse is verbal, evolutionary psychologist Aaron Goetz finds it plays out in four ways: cutting remarks about a woman’s looks, her intelligence, and her value as a partner and a person, and (often baseless) accusations that she’s cheating.

The message — because men evolved to prize beauty, intelligence, kindness, and fidelity in their mates: “No other man would want you.”

There is a pinprick of light in the gloom. Relationships researcher Jason Whiting reports that most women in abusive partnerships eventually leave — often because they reach “a breaking point when the fear and pain” become “overwhelming.”

Ideally, she’ll join that sisterhood — sooner rather than later. Sadly, right now, probably all you can do — without possibly endangering yourself or her — is hope for a brighter future for her: “Hold fast to your dreams, honey! — unlikely as it is that a random hit man will kidnap your husband and dissolve him in lye in a motel bathtub.”

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I’m a woman in my 20s. I’m sick of guys who try to take my being nice as something more, turning that into an opening to press their own agenda. I’m angry at having to act cold and guarded to keep men from hitting on me (so I don’t have to lash out and tell them how rude they are). Being clear about my boundaries gets me called the “B word,” but it stops them from coming at me till I have to put my foot down.

—Disgusted “I feel ya,” said the gazelle. In a perfect world, lions would carefully inquire about a gazelle’s boundaries and politely skirt them rather than rudely “pressing their own agenda”: chasing her down and turning her into the brunch special.

Here in the less-than-perfect world, people, like lions, “press their own agenda,” which is why medieval castles were surrounded by moats instead of welcome mats.

Annoying as it must be to kindly but firmly inform a man his interest is unwanted, men don’t — as you put it — “try to” interpret a woman “being nice as something more”; they’re psychologically prone to do it.

Research by evolutionary psychologist Martie Haselton suggests we evolved to make protective errors in judgment — either underperceiving or overperceiving threats or opportunities, depending on which error would be the “least costly” to our mating and survival interests. For Joe Loincloth, the possible downside from overperceiving interest -- a woman jeering at him in front of his cave bros — would’ve been way less costly than missing an opportunity to go behind a bush with her and maybe pass his genes on to future generations.

Since anger changes nothing but your blood pressure, you might consider a rethink. If a guy isn’t doing anything rude or criminal (grabbing your boob or saying he’s gonna do you in the elevator), why not respond as you would to anything else you don’t want: with some version of “No, thank you”?

Treating a guy with kindness and dignity — being politely firm — costs you nothing and gains you a good deal: keeping the interaction from going ugly. You might also take a historical view: Consider how possibly unwanted remarks — “You’re really pretty. Wanna have coffee?” — have shaped your entire existence. “I think, therefore I am,” is a lovely sentiment, but the reality is more like “My dad had enough game to get my mom into bed.” n ©2022, 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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The study, published in the Journal of Natural Products, found that cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), have an affinity for the spike proteins that line the outside of individual coronavirus particles.

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Instead, they exist overwhelmingly in their “A” forms.

When heated, like by flame, decarboxylation occurs, and they become the chemicals that we know and love.

However, they also lose their affinity to bond with spike proteins.

While cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, there is reason to believe this potential breakthrough treatment can be studied further without dealing with all the red tape surrounding cannabis research in general.

“These cannabinoid acids are abundant in hemp and in many hemp extracts,” researcher Richard van Breemen said in a statement. “They are not controlled substances like THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and have a good safety profile in humans.”

The combination of their legal status and being effective against multiple variants makes them a potentially important weapon, along with vaccination, in the fight against the pandemic.

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slogan “Cure ignorance”) 27. Susan of old TV’s “The Partridge Family” 28. Trumpet or guitar effect 29. Slightly 30. Steals from 33. “____ a Putty Tat” (Friz Freleng short)

35. Source of the words “spunk” and “trousers” 36. Like Eeyore 38. Some people like them dirty 39. Quinceañera, e.g.

40. Order for a big party, maybe 41. Pirates’ home 42. Where something’s always brewing?

46. Award since WWI 48. Go on the offensive 49. Entertained 50. Stunning weapons 51. Brooklyn’s Medgar ____

College 53. Baseball’s Alejandro, Carlos and Tony 54. Catch ____ (surf) 56. Religious offshoots 59. “Zip-____-Doo-Dah” 60. 38-0, e.g.

61. Fabled loser to a tortoise 62. Author Sarah ____ Jewett

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