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nthony Garver was just THE KID NEXT DOOR, a quirky teenager who lived down the road from the House family in the foothills of Mount Spokane. He’d come by on a daily basis, and when he was 15 and needed somewhere to stay, the Houses took him in as one of their own. “We were trying to change the course of his life and mentor him and give him some sense of normalcy,” Dawn House recalls. They had no way of knowing what would happen next — a brutal murder, an escape from a mental hospital and warnings from police that they needed to leave town. Don’t miss staff reporter Mitch Ryals’ chilling story, beginning on page 26. Also this week: staff writer Daniel Walters profiles two fathers who lost sons to suicide and found support and strength in their forged-from-grief friendship (page 13). — JACOB H. FRIES, Editor

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WHAT SURPRISED YOU ABOUT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE? DANIEL LOUIS

I was surprised he didn’t get Obamacare repealed. Do you think it should be repealed? Yes, because the way the rates on families have gone up. In some places it’s doubled. I’d also like to see the budget passed and the government reopened. [Congress passed a short-term spending bill just hours after this interview.]

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Nothing. When you have a Republican-run government, all those policies are what they’ve been working on for years. So no surprise. Is there anything you’d like to see this administration do? No. Inaction is the best we can hope for right now.

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hen Congress first offered Medicaid expansion to the 50 states, the Idaho Legislature didn’t just turn down the opportunity; it ignored the offer completely. No legislation, no official hearings, little talk. Medicaid expansion was royally snubbed. As a result of our state’s stubborn refusal to recognize the need for a better health care plan of action, millions of dollars have been lost over the last five years to Idaho’s medically needy — and to the Idaho economy. Although we pride ourselves on being sturdy stock, we Idahoans are not any healthier than the average American. We are just more obstinate — and more Republican — as reflected in the Idaho Legislature’s refusal to even discuss accepting more federal help for the folks who can’t afford to be sick. Finally, this January, after five years of the silent treatment, Idaho has not one but two health-care options on the table. One is an initiative petition that, if passed, would add Idaho to the list of states signing on to Medicaid expansion. The other is a waiver strategy that seeks approval from two federal agencies, which will need legislative approval to go forward. Both options are positive and forward-looking.

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uke Mayville, Ph.D., a native of Sandpoint and now a postdoctoral student at Columbia University, has started a new movement, Reclaim Idaho. In the summer of 2017, Mayville and his hardworking lieutenants, Garrett and Emily Strizich, commandeered a 1977 camper festooned with a large, green “MEDICAID FOR IDAHO” sign and drove it all over the state. Starting with Bonners Ferry in the north, they traveled from city to city, interviewing people up and down the streets about their medical concerns. The Medicaid for Idaho bus received a friendly reception in every one of the 20 cities visited. Idahoans in general don’t consider health care a partisan issue. Across the state, Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike agreed with the Reclaim Idaho volunteers on the need to bring additional Medicaid to the people of Idaho. This month, Reclaim Idaho members filed an initiative petition to put Medicaid expansion on the November 2018 ballot for the voters of Idaho to decide if our state should join the 32 other states who accept the additional federal dollars. The petition simply states that the state health plan will be amended to expand Medicaid to cover Idahoans under 65 years of age whose income is 133 percent of the federal poverty level or below. That’s a $20,030 a year income for a single person, or $33,941 for a family of three. The initiative process is a last resort for a frustrated public to fall back on when the legislature fails to act. Over the years, the Idaho legisla-

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ture has made it harder and harder for activists to get an issue on the ballot. Idaho’s initiative law now requires verified signatures from 6 percent of registered voters in 18 legislative districts in the state. The initiative will need an estimated 56,000 signatures to make it onto the November 2018 ballot. That’s a tall order. Reclaim Idaho and its trusty volunteers have just four months to gather signatures. The big task is connecting those willing signers, who must be registered voters, together with petition carriers.

he economic impact of millions of medical dollars is also significant. Our local hospitals cannot turn away anyone with a medical crisis who is delivered to them, regardless of the patient’s ability to pay. Even though Medicaid doesn’t always cover the complete cost of a procedure, Medicaid dollars are a significant portion of any hospital’s budget. In the case of rural hospitals, Medicaid dollars keep the hospital doors open. We have learned that Idaho has the fastest growing population in the country, and that Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls are the fastest growing cities in this fastest growing state. In addition, a majority of the people moving in are 55 and older, moving from California or Washington to escape crowding and the high costs of living. These older people moving into the state will need more medical care. They may bring their Medicare with them, but they will need doctors to cure their ills, more nurses and support staff. Idaho is 49th in the nation in doctors per population. The waiver requests that are now before Idaho legislators are two-pronged. One prong would allow an individual or family with incomes under 100 percent of the federal poverty level to receive deductions and tax credits to make the policy affordable. The second prong would allow individuals with specific expensive medically complex conditions, such as cystic fibrosis, to receive treatment covered by Medicaid for the duration of their illness. Idaho legislators are fully aware that the initiative petitions are circulating in every one of their legislative districts. That’s a healthy nip at their legislative heels. It would also help for them to receive messages of support for the waivers from their constituents. I urge every Idahoan who’s registered to vote to sign the petition to expand Medicaid in Idaho. Better yet, download a petition and get 12 friends to sign with you. n

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COMMENT | ESSAY know what we were looking for but I stood next to Ian and looked at the part of the house where the mystery space was located and said, “Hmm,” in various intonations. “Well, there are no vents or pipes coming out of that space,” Ian said. “Weird.” I was pretty content in not knowing what was in the mystery spot and moving on with my life, but Ian brought it up frequently after that. “I wonder what’s in there,” he’d say. “It’s so weird to just have unaccounted-for space. Let’s cut through the drywall.”

“It’s so weird to just have unaccounted-for space.”

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Hidden Treasure Solving the mystery of the weird boarded-up space in our house BY CHELSEA MARTIN

few weeks after moving into our new house, I noticed a strange, unaccounted-for bump-out in our bathroom. It was a big, square space between the bathroom and the bedroom I use as a writing studio. Since buying the house, I’ve been humbled to realize the magnitude of all that I don’t know about how houses work. I’ve become extremely comfortable asking my boyfriend, Ian, Very Stupid Questions about our house, including, “What is a storm window?,” “Why can’t we just rip up all the carpet this afternoon?” and “What are

rain gutters for, exactly? Like I know they collect rain and put it somewhere else, but why do you need to do that?” So when I asked Ian what was in the bump-out space, I fully expected him to know, because somehow Ian knows the answer to all my Very Stupid Questions. I was expecting the kind of response I always get, where Ian looks at me with more patience and kindness than I’ve ever had for anything, and says something like, “The water heater is in there,” or “The pipes for the drainage system run through that space.” But he said, “I don’t know,” and started knocking on the bump-out with his fist. “It sounds hollow.” We went outside to look for clues. I didn’t really

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“Absolutely not,” I said. There was probably some good reason one of the previous owners closed the space off. You don’t just cordon off a section of your house for nothing. There was probably a dead body or an evil spirit lurking within those walls. Why would we want to deal with that? “It could be treasure,” Ian said. “It’s never treasure,” I said, but I’ll admit I got to thinking about the possibility of finding treasure hidden in our house. After a few weeks, I finally agreed to let Ian cut into the mystery space. He carved a sandwich-sized square into the drywall and used the flashlight on his cell phone to peer into the space. Anticlimactic final scenes from episodes of Scooby-Doo flashed through my mind, and I prepared myself for the let down of unmasking our mystery bump-out only to find some kind of dusty crawl space or load-bearing beam long ago deemed too ugly and rightfully hidden away. Unless it was like Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998), in which Scooby-Doo and gang uncover two voodoo-loving werecats using real zombies and real ghosts as bait to lure unsuspecting tourists to their island to murder them (sorry, spoilers). “It’s… nothing,” Ian said. “It’s just an empty space.” I took the phone flashlight from him and looked into the space. It was a small walk-in closet with wood floors and crown molding, the kind of random windowless space that could be rented out for $500-$600 if our house was in Seattle or San Francisco. “What the hell?” I said. “Why would someone board up a perfectly good closet?” Ian didn’t know. n Chelsea Martin is the Spokane-based author of five books, including Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life. Her website is jerkethics.com.

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DEMONIZE THE RIGHT DRUG lcohol is responsible for more human suffering than weed, period

(“Questions Remain After Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Shift on Marijuana,” 1/11/18). It’s proven in study after study. Alcohol and tobacco is sold in convenience stores directly across the street from elementary schools throughout the greater Spokane region. Weed is not. Is it recommended that people sit around and smoke bongloads of dope for hours on end? Probably not, and the same goes for drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking tobacco. Should humans under the age of 21 partake of the sweet leaf? Not advisable. However, my point is, because of a random stigma-fication of weed, the U.S.A. has spent untold dollars trying to get folks to not use weed, the so-called “war on drugs.” In the process the U.S. government has destroyed lives, careers, relationships and even a national perception of our governLETTERS ment being just and fair. Alcohol Send comments to good, weed, bad. editor@inlander.com. Jeff Sessions is merely a tool. A tool in a tool chest of hammers, named the Trump administration. They too shall pass. In their wake, hopefully all of the stoners can get up off the couch and vote for progressive candidates, such as Lisa Brown, who believe states whose constituency votes to legalize Mary Jane suffer no legal consequences from the feds. STEVE LACOMBE Spokane Valley, Wash.

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Bonds of Suffering How two fathers became each other’s lifeline after their sons’ suicides — and how they want to stop more deaths in the future BY DANIEL WALTERS

When Phil Tyler lost his son to suicide, he reached out to a Gonzaga parent, who’d also lost his son.

hillip Tyler is in his son’s bedroom at his old house, pleading with his friends in law enforcement to let him see his son. He needs to see Devon’s body out in the garage, he thinks, to make his 22-year-old son’s suicide seem real. His voice rises as he argues with them: “I’m his father. I’m going to see my son. Nobody is going to stop me from seeing my son!” Tyler recalls saying. “It needs to be real to me.” At first nobody can persuade him otherwise — not the cops, not the medical examiner, not the sheriff’s chaplain, not the fire chief. So his wife, the woman he’d just married, gets someone he’d listen to on the phone: Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, his old boss, his mentor for more than a decade. “He said, ‘I need you trust me today,’” Tyler remembers Knezovich saying. “‘You don’t want this to be the lasting image of your son. I’ve done this too many times, with too many parents.’” Today, Tyler is glad he listened. Since that painful day in November, there’s been an outpouring of compassion and advice from friends and colleagues like Knezovich,

people offering solace in the face of his grief. But there’s one person in particular who’s helped him keep it together: A stranger he’d just met five weeks earlier. Their backgrounds are radically different: Phillip Tyler is a black man, a Gonzaga campus security officer, who stepped down as president of the local NAACP chapter to plan a Spokane City Council run. Philip Martin is a white man, a globe-trotting company executive at a Boston-based manufacturer of laser and medical products. But they’ve been brought together by the similarity of their excruciating loss. Martin also lost his son, a 20-yearold Gonzaga student, to suicide. In the months since, they’ve clung to each other in their pain. They text each other in difficult moments, talk on the phone, work through the rawness of their grief. And when they learned this month that another young man in Eastern Washington had committed suicide — Washington State University quarterback Tyler Hilinski — it released a flood of emotions all over again for both fathers.

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“It all came rushing back,” Tyler says. “It made me scared for the rest of the community — is there going to be another one? And how can we stop it?” They want to find a way to reach out, to be there for his parents like they were there for each other.

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Five weeks before his own son’s suicide, Tyler gets an assignment from Gonzaga’s director of security: Take Chris Martin’s mom and dad to the room off-campus, the room where their son killed himself, and help them pack up his possessions. Tyler watches Chris’ mother weeping as she gathers up what remains in her son’s room. His computer. His imitation Rolex watch. The Sony digital camera he just bought that fall. “I realized that Chris, to his parents, was reduced to, you know, nine boxes and a duffel bag,” Tyler says, “and I just started to cry.” They lock arms and pray together with the college chaplain. Sunglasses obscure Tyler’s teary eyes. ...continued on next page

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As a parent, he can’t imagine ever having to go through what the Martins went through. He’s shaken. He texts his kids to tell them he loves them. He talks to Devon on the phone. “I remember [Martin’s] words: ‘This is the hardest day of my life,” Tyler says. “Those just rang in my ears all day long.” And then that day comes for Tyler.

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At first, Tyler doesn’t talk to anyone about his son’s suicide. Calls and messages come in but he doesn’t answer. He can’t. Devon had left a note — and several videos on his smartphone — aimed at easing his parents’ guilt, trying to assure them it wasn’t their fault, that he loved them, but never really explaining why. Devon tells his parents he doesn’t want them to mourn or grieve. But of course they do. Tyler’s angry, he’s wounded. It’s a more intense pain than he’s ever experienced. When he’s sedated for a colonoscopy the day after, it almost feels like a blessing. He doesn’t eat. He doesn’t sleep. The notion of sleeping feels crass, almost a betrayal of his own pain. “I’m not going to sleep,” he tells his wife, “because my son never gets to wake up,” For a time, he doesn’t tell anyone what happened. And then he can’t take it anymore. He needs to talk to someone who knows exactly what the hole inside him feels like. So he calls Martin. At first, he greets him like everything’s fine. But then: “I lost my son from suicide, just two days ago—” That’s when the dam breaks, and he loses it again. These aren’t subtle tears. It’s ugly, messy, wailing. “You no longer have to wear that mask of toughness, if you will,” Tyler explains later. “You’re with someone who could really know what you’re going through, who showed his humanity and vulnerability in front of you.” In these situations, no one knows what to say,

Tyler says. But Martin did. He’d lived it. “You’re going to go through emotions. Don’t beat yourself up about the ‘why,’” Tyler remembers Martin saying. “There’s not going to be an answer.” He tells Tyler to rely on his community around him. He tells him not to feel guilty for those brief moments when he feels happy. He urges him to believe that Devon and Chris are in a better place. “It probably kept me from going down a spiral of depression,” Tyler says. Other people had given a lot of the same advice, of course.

“It will be hard for us tomorrow starting 2018 without our beloved sons.” But the power of their conversations, Martin tells the Inlander, wasn’t necessarily what he said or what Tyler said. It was the embrace of solidarity of someone who’s been there. Together, they know about the rush of complicated emotions that comes with being a “suicide survivor.” “Sometimes, you’re lonely, sometimes you’re sad, sometimes you’re angry,” Martin says. “One day you miss your son, the next day you’re mad at your son.” Almost daily, Martin checks in on Tyler, particularly as they go through difficult milestones. When Tyler posts a Facebook message pouring out his emotions, Martin calls it “powerful.” After Tyler finally sees Devon’s body laid out at the funeral home, Martin shares his own experience seeing his son’s coffin. “It was one of the times I felt most sad, most angry, most afraid, most in disbelief and when I missed him the most,” Martin texts. “But I also thought of him in a place of healing and love.” They reach out on holidays — on Chris’s birthday, on Devon’s birthday, on Christmas. “It will be hard for us tomorrow starting 2018 without our beloved sons,” Martin texts Tyler on New Year’s Eve. “Hope you are with

family and friends.” “It is, as you say, a bit strange,” Tyler says in his message back. “Seems new but the old hurt remains.”

“LIFE IS CHAOS. BE KIND.”

Tyler’s sitting his kitchen table with his wife as he talks to Martin, his phone balanced on his balled fist, a childhood picture of his son behind him. “How ya doing?” Martin asks. “I’m, uh — as always, I’m up and down,” Tyler says. “It’s a new-normal kind of thing,” Martin says. “Day by day.” “Yessir,” Tyler says. “Yessir.” They talk about what they’ve heard from media coverage about Hilinksi’s death. All three of these suicides were young men, all likely struggling with something deep inside them. “Our sons probably had this impression they wanted to convey that everything was OK — they probably tried to hide their pain,” Martin says. Chris had grappled with “reactive attachment disorder,” stemming from trauma he endured as an infant before the Martins adopted him, all his life. Tyler, however, doesn’t have a simple diagnosis he can point to with Devon. “He was just tired,” Tyler believes. “He couldn’t reconcile with the way this world had become. He felt he didn’t give enough — although he gave everything.” The Hilinskis weren’t ready to speak to the media last week, HELP If you or someone you care but in a speech to the WSU football team last week, they about is contemplating struck similar notes as Tyler and suicide, please seek out Martin did: They hope that their professional help or call son’s death can lead to more the National Suicide openness in discussing mental Prevention Lifeline at health. 1-800-273-8255 Maybe they can all help each other, Martin and Tyler says. “Really, those of us, unfortunately, that have experienced this tragedy — the message, and the connection and the compassion that we can have for them is just immeasurable,” Tyler says. The phrase “Life is chaos. Be kind” is stamped into a multicolored rubber bracelet around his wrist. In the weeks before his death, Devon started using that phrase everywhere. It was in a text he sent to his dad. Devon wrote it in green dry-erase marker on Tyler’s fridge on Thanksgiving — a message Tyler still hasn’t erased. The phrase, Tyler learns later, came from comedian Patton Oswalt’s raw and grief-stricken Netflix special, recorded after the sudden death of his wife. Oswalt’s wife didn’t believe that “everything happens for a reason.” Instead, life is cruel and doesn’t make sense, she would say, so the least we can do is be compassionate. That’s the way these two fathers remember their sons — full of kindness. Devon even talked several of his own friends out of suicide. “He wanted the world to be a kinder place,” Tyler says. Martin and Tyler channel their grief into activism. The Martins are starting a foundation focused on childhood trauma and reactive attachment disorder. Tyler is focusing on suicide prevention. He’s aiming to get a Suicide Means Prevention committee authorized this week through the city’s Human Rights Task Force. He’s working with Gonzaga and the Jed Foundation, an anti-suicide nonprofit, to get suicide prevention taught in high schools. It’s not just that: Tyler wants a total cultural demolition of the sort of masculinity that is afraid to seek help. “For me, for an African-American male, I’ve been raised, just like many in communities of color, to display a strong mask,” Tyler says. “Our paradigms of what it is to be a man not only needs to shift, they need to be destroyed.” Something, both fathers say to each other, needs to change. “Ultimately, it’s the same story, over and over,” Martin says to Tyler. “Yeah,” Tyler responds. “We’ve got to figure out a way to end this story.” n danielw@inlander.com

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A PLACE IN THE HALL Spokane is looking for its next class of CITIZEN HALL OF FAME inductees. Nominations are open now through Feb. 6. The fourth annual event will recognize six individuals in categories including arts and letters, economic development and business, education, innovation and leadership, public service and philanthropy and science, health and medicine. Winners will be announced during a breakfast May 1 in the downtown public library. The event is open to the public; tickets are $50 each. Proceeds from breakfast will support the library’s subscriptions to databases and an online education network. Previous Hall of Famers include beloved artist Harold Balazs, author Jess Walter, Spokane’s first woman mayor Vicki McNeill and civil rights crusader and national collegiate boxing champion Carl Maxey. Nomination forms are available on the library’s website. (MITCH RYALS)

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LET’S GO TO THE TAPE With thousands attending the Spokane’s Women’s March on Sunday, the last-minute scramble of activists to hold the event paid off. But debate around the identity of the march continued to rage last week, as the Spokesman-Review reported that Rep. CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS — not exactly an opponent of the president — would speak by video at a protest focused on resisting Trump. But it was not to be: The organizers informed McMorris Rodgers’ staff that only those were able to attend the event would be able to speak. The video she intended to show, posted in full on the Inlander blog, focuses on generalities, listing economic gains of women, encouraging women “to be bold, strive and fulfill their dreams, to be positive disruptors.” It ends with a Margaret Thatcher quote. (DANIEL WALTERS)

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO… ERIC AGNEW, the third-party candidate facing Democrat Lisa Brown and Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers, has dropped out of the race, citing the infeasibility of competing against powerful parties. On the Inlander blog, before his announcement, we covered Agnew’s final major campaign event, talked about why he voted for Hillary Clinton and why his politics have shifted in a more liberal direction over the past decade. In an email, Agnew says that he’s not endorsing either of the two candidates left in the race. “It would be a radical shift for either to actually stand for County Over Party, and that is the main criteria by which I endorse a candidate,” Agnew writes. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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How Tall is Too Tall? Spokane considers development restrictions around Riverfront Park; plus, Olympia takes another look at capital punishment EYE FOR AN EYE?

Washington state lawmakers are again considering whether to abolish the DEATH PENALTY for those convicted of the most heinous murders. In Washington state, the death penalty is only an option for those convicted of first-degree murder when one of 14 aggravating factors exists, such as when the victim is a police officer or when the murder is committed along with a rape. The Senate Law and Justice Committee heard testimony earlier this week on a bill introduced by Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, that would completely abolish capital punishment in Washington. Previous attempts to do so have been blocked in the Senate. Lawyers, advocates, researchers and family members of victims testified and offered compelling arguments in support of and opposition to the state’s right to hasten a

murderer’s death. Attorney General Bob Ferguson testified that 75 percent of death penalty cases are overturned on appeal. “Where else in government are we satisfied with a 25 percent success rate for a program that costs taxpayers millions of dollars?” he asked. Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe personally believes that some people deserve to be executed, but added that the debate should focus on moral objection or support, rather than economics. Roe cited as an example the murder of Washington state corrections deputy Jayme Biendl, who was killed by a man already serving a life term. “If you are already serving life in prison, which that man was, and you kill another inmate or a corrections officer, you aren’t going to face any more punishment,” Roe said. There are currently eight men on Washington’s death row. In 2014, Gov. Jay Inslee placed a moratorium on capital punishment. That means no executions will be carried out, but death row inmates are still appealing their cases. (MITCH RYALS)

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Spokane planners want your input on city rule changes that could allow much TALLER BUILDINGS to go in across the street from Riverfront Park. Current rules require that above 100 feet, every floor on a building along Spokane Falls Boulevard has to be set back 15 feet from the one below it, to keep building shadows from crossing the street into the park. But developers and property owners in the area have said that those rules would make it hard for any development there to pencil out, says Kevin Freibott, assistant planner for Spokane Planning and Development Services.

A 3D model of the current building code So, at the direction of the Plan Commission, Freibott is collecting input from people on different options that could allow for taller towers to be built there, which he’ll take back to the commission so they can ultimately make a recommendation to the city council. To show people what the options might look like, the city has put together an interactive survey webpage where people can learn about the possible changes and watch a video showing how shadows could be cast on the park. The page can be found at arcg.is/2BO3KNd and input will be accepted until at least mid-February, Freibott says. An important note about the interactive sketches is they are just meant to show the largest buildings that could be built, but nothing has been proposed there, Freibott says. “We’re showing the properties that are most likely to develop in the next 10, 20 years, but who knows what’s going to happen?” he says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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Chemical Brothers Two Washington state bills aim to phase out chemicals like the ones that contaminated water near Fairchild BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

hemicals in the same family as those that caused drinking water near Fairchild Air Force Base to be deemed undrinkable last year could be partly banned in Washington if two proposed bills pass the legislature. The first, HB 2658, would tackle per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, in food wrappers and packaging by 2021. The two such chemicals that were tested for and found near Fairchild, most commonly known by the abbreviations PFOA and PFOS, were widely used for decades in firefighting foam, as on the base, and in many consumer products, such as nonstick cookware, carpet and clothing. Since those two chemicals in particular have been linked with potential health impacts, including cancer and reproductive issues, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration no longer allows them to be used in food wrappers, but their closely related PFAS cousins are still widely used. “What we’re learning as these chemicals are tested is they appear to have many of the same health effects,” says Erika Schreder, science director at Toxic-Free Future.

The same characteristics that make the chemicals work well on hamburger wrappers and the sheets of paper you use to pick up bakery items — their durability and resistance to grease and water — are the same qualities that can make them dangerous. The state Department of Ecology identifies PFAS as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic.

“A quick ban is appropriate in this case because other alternatives are already in wide use.” The bill hinges the PFAS-treated food packaging ban on the results of an Ecology-led study of alternatives, which would have to be done by January 2020. “A quick ban is appropriate in this case because other alternatives are already in wide use,” Schreder says, “and this is an area where we can quickly reduce exposure.” A second bill, HB 2793, would tackle PFAS exposure

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NEWS | EDUCATION schools. Reardan-Edwall Superintendent Marcus Morgan says Dornbos “explained the situation to my satisfaction,” though Morgan adds that the district had not reviewed the university’s investigative report. To his understanding, all Dornbos did was say something that somebody “took offense to.” “We’re always willing to give someone a second chance,” Morgan says. (As of press time, Morgan says the district is reevaluating Dornbos’ job status based on new information.) Meanwhile, the woman who made the complaint, speaking to the Inlander on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, says she left her job at the EWU Police Department, partly because of the fallout from her complaint. As a senior at EWU, she worries she hurt her chances of becoming a police officer because she said something.

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n December 2016, a student employee at the Eastern Washington University Police Department walked into a deputy chief’s office, ready to level allegations against one of his veteran officers. She was a student who had worked for the EWU Police Department as a cadet, hoping to learn the ropes on her way to a career in law enforcement. But in lodging her complaint with Deputy Chief Gary Gasseling, she alleged that over the previous year and a half, Cpl. Bryan Dornbos had made the job “uncomfortable” for her, according a copy of the complaint obtained by the Inlander. She said in the complaint that Dornbos made inappropriate comments about her body and called her his “hot assistant.” She described an instance where Dornbos allegedly told her Cheney police officers were “wondering how long it would take me to sleep with him” and that they saw her as a “badge bunny,” a woman attracted to police officers. She said that Dornbos would ask her for hugs and linger around her. She writes in the complaint that she looked forward to days when he wasn’t at the office. “When he is there, I feel uncomfortable,” she writes in the complaint. “I feel that if I would have given him the chance, then he would have slept with me even though he knew I was only 19.” The university launched an investigation into Dornbos’ alleged “sexual harassment and stalking behavior,”

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according to investigative records. Dornbos denies the allegations, records show, and says she’s the one who made inappropriate comments. A March 3, 2017, final investigative report, however, concludes that the allegations — that Dornbos made inappropriate sexual comments to the woman, asked where she was, lingered around her and watched her to the point of causing her concern and discomfort — were “substantiated.”

he woman started working closely with Dornbos in summer 2015, according to records. She assisted him as he developed active-shooter training. Everything was appropriate at first, the woman told the EWU investigator, Chelsea Goss. But soon, the woman said, Dornbos began commenting on her looks, referring to her as a “hot assistant,” commenting on her “legs or my butt,” and recounting that Cheney police thought she was a “badge bunny.” She said she didn’t know what to do so she just “laughed it off,” Goss reported. The woman tells the Inlander that she saw it differently than the “locker room talk” she witnessed at the police department, which she says didn’t bother her. It only bothered her when it got personal. She alleged that Dornbos would ask her to go on errands, but instead they would just drive around and he would say something to the effect of, “I just want to talk with you, it makes my day,” the investigative report says. She recalled that Dornbos once asked her for a hug in front of the whole department. A witness, a male EWU sergeant, recalled such an incident to Goss, the investigator, saying, “He could see the discomfort on [the woman’s] face; however, she hugged him anyway,” Goss’ report states. “Him being an authority figure made me feel like I couldn’t say anything,” the woman writes in the complaint, which was provided to the Inlander by Dornbos’ attorney. The woman added that she didn’t file a complaint earlier because she thought “he often appeared very depressed about his life, so she was worried what he might do,” according to investigative records. In winter of 2015-16, the woman moved to the front desk, where she didn’t work so closely with Dornbos. Still, he would frequently ask others where she was and linger around her, she told Goss. Others, including her fiance, encouraged the woman to say something, but she still resisted. Goss interviewed three employees of the EWU Police Department — a sergeant, a patrol officer and an administrative assistant — who all said the woman expressed concerns to them about Dornbos’ behavior before she made the official complaint. “There was a part of me that was like, who’s going to believe me? Who’s going to believe he’s doing this to me? Because I’m just a little office person,” she tells the Inlander. The incident that caused her to file the complaint happened in the fall of 2016, the investigative report states. She was working out with another officer, the re-

“On no occasion did I make any verbal comment or take any physical action toward her that could be construed as harassment, sexual harassment, intimidation, or an attempt to gain sexual favor.” Dornbos, who declined interview requests, spent time on paid administrative leave during the investigation. After the investigation, he transferred to a job as an EWU truck driver — “voluntarily,” a settlement agreement stipulated. Then, in fall 2017, roughly a year after the original complaint, the Reardan-Edwall School District hired Dornbos to become the resource officer for all of its

port says, and Dornbos “slowly walked behind” the woman, “lingering and keeping his eyes on her the whole way.” Another officer recounted to Goss a similar episode at the gym, the report says. Three other EWU Police Department employees interviewed as part of the investigation, however, said they never saw or heard anything inappropriate. When the Inlander attempted to reach members of the EWU department, they said they couldn’t discuss the situation and referred all inquiries to the EWU spokesman, Dave Meany. Dornbos, again, denies everything. “On no occasion did I make any verbal comment or take any physical action toward her that could be construed as harassment, sexual harassment, intimidation, or an attempt to gain sexual favor,” he said in a declaration provided to the Inlander. He said he did not recall saying he had a hot assistant, did not recall asking about the woman’s sex life with her fiance, never remembers trying to hug her, and denied lingering around her or watching her. Rather, he said she would put him in an awkward position. He told the investigator, for example, that the woman once lifted her shirt to show her stomach and said “I have a fat tummy,” and Dornbos felt the need to respond. (The woman acknowledges that comment, but says it was not intended to harass Dornbos.) He said she once LETTERS spoke about Send comments to taking her top editor@inlander.com. off at a party and made an inappropriate joke about a “dick garage” while they were at Starbucks with other officers. (She disputes that characterization.) Dornbos argued that the complaint was part of a larger effort among his supervisors to squeeze him out of the police department because he frequently asked for shift accomodations for personal reasons, a claim three Cheney police officers have supported in official declarations. One EWU police officer, too, told Goss that he suspected the woman was pressured by supervisors to file the complaint. Many allegations, Goss noted in her report, “came down to one party’s statement versus another.” Goss was tasked with determining if it was more likely than not that the allegations were factual. In her report, she sided with the woman, partially because, she writes, Dornbos was the woman’s supervisor and much older. “[The woman] was a 19-year-old college student,” the report states. “And Dornbos is a middle aged married man.”

ver since the initial December 2016 complaint, Dornbos and his attorney, Michael Riccelli, have attempted to discredit the investigation and the woman who lodged the complaint. In a 10-page rebuttal statement, Riccelli argued the March 3, 2017, investigative report was “fully deficient for its stated purpose of investigating the subject allegations.” Among his objections: He said it violated EWU’s own policies and Title IX policies, that there was no objective evidence of Dornbos using sexual language in front of the woman, and that the investigator showed bias in her techniques.

Riccelli says that Goss promised Dornbos and a second officer that their claim that supervisors pressed the women to lodge the complaint would be confidential. And by including that assertion in the report, Riccelli says, Goss “poisoned the well” for Dornbos and the other officer, putting their employment status with EWU in jeopardy. EWU says it can’t comment on the specific investigation because it’s a “personnel matter.” However, when asked about accusations that other EWU officers encouraged the complaint to force Dornbos out of the department, spokesman Dave Meany directed the Inlander to a passage in Goss’ report in which she writes that she “saw no evidence of that claim.” “On the contrary,” Goss writes, “witnesses on both sides discussed feeling that the entire department has gone above and beyond to try to help him by offering their own leave and rearranging schedules to cover for him.” In May 2017, Dornbos, EWU and the Washington Federation of State Employees reached an agreement that allowed Dornbos to transfer to a position as a truck driver, mandated he complete anti-harassment and Title IX training and agree that any inquiry from a future employer will be forwarded to someone at EWU who will only offer dates of employment, job classification, rate of pay and that Dornbos “voluntarily demoted” out of his position as an officer for personal reasons. The agreement included no admission by any side as to validity of claims in the report. Deborah Danner, Associate Vice President of Human Resources, tells the Inlander that rebuttal statements are “not uncommon” in employment matters following an investigation. The settlement, she notes, says nothing about any perceived flaws in the investigation. The Inlander learned of the case after filing a records request for EWU employees found to have committed “sexual misconduct.” Alerted by the university of the paper’s request, Riccelli called the Inlander to argue that his client should not be included among those files. Through dozens of phone calls and several emails, Riccelli attempted to persuade the Inlander not to give credibility to the woman’s complaint. He added that the Inlander should instead look into the “professionalism and competency” of the EWU Police Department and whether members of the department encouraged the woman to make the complaint. Riccelli says the woman had “a potty mouth.” He added, “It’s almost as if the girl had a crush on this guy.”

hen the woman who complained about Dornbos learned he got a job to become a school resource officer, she says she was concerned. She previously had told Goss that “based on how he acted around her, he should not be an officer working on rape cases with young college girls.” She praised EWU and the campus police for how they handled her complaint, but she says she’s rethinking her career. She’s worried local police officers have heard about her complaint and won’t give her a chance. That’s why, she says, the idea that she would make up these allegations doesn’t stack up. “I had no reason to make up these allegations,” she says. “I just had nowhere else to go.” n

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PERSISTEN CE A year into Trump’s administration, women continue their march against injustice, prejudice and the current state of affairs PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK

year after Donald Trump took office, spurring millions of women and men to march around the country, protesters again took to downtown Spokane to stand against injustice, support women’s and LGBTQ rights, call attention to violence against indigenous women and back a slew of social and environmental justice issues. By noon, Sunday, Jan. 21, thousands had packed into Riverfront Park as they waited to start the Spokane Women’s Persistence March route through downtown. Before the march, Shawnee Bearcub stood in a red skirt near the corner of Stevens Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard holding one side of a large banner drawing attention to missing and murdered indigenous women. Bearcub, a member of the Confederated Colville Tribes, joined women from area tribes over the weekend to make red outfits as a sign of support for the Red Skirt Project, which aims to call out the increased threat of violence and homicide against indigenous women. “It’s creating awareness for the issue at large, but also bringing some of the indigenous women in our community together,” Bearcub said. “They become more aware that

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we are not here alone. In the urban environment we have sisters.” Some shared personal stories of grief and suffering. Julie Vargas, a Kalispel tribal member, held a photo of Margaret Cordova, a Native American woman who was murdered in 2004; her remains, partly eaten by animals, were later found in Spokane. Nearby stood Chantel Hill, whose cousin Lynn was burned alive and left for dead on the Crow Reservation in Montana in 2016. She survived in the hospital for months before dying from her injuries. “There’s hundreds of cases out there, and we just don’t hear about them,” Hill says. Sprinkled throughout the crowd were hundreds of protest signs and some people dressed in costume, from pink tutus and pussy hats to a floor-length long-sleeve red dress worn by Alexandra Baxter, whose face was blocked from view by a large white bonnet that completed her Handmaid’s Tale outfit. “I am here today because women’s rights are under attack and they have been by the Trump administration, and I am here with everybody else to help fight back,” Baxter says. “In Handmaid’s Tale, women are relegated to breeding stock… and men control the government, they have all the power. It is becoming increasingly relevant and obvious that women are being treated as second-class citizens.” The crowd marched for the better part of an hour as they shouted chants such as “we want a leader, not a creepy tweeter,” “dump Trump,” and “no justice, no peace,” before wrapping up the day with a rally at the Convention Center. — SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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The

Kid Next Door A local family tried to care for Anthony Garver as a kid, and now has to go into hiding whenever the accused murderer escapes

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A prison mug shot of Anthony Garver, who’s accused of torturing and killing a 20-year-old woman in 2013.

n the summer of 2006, the House family arrived home to find the power cut to their secluded cottage in the foothills of Mount Spokane. Their security cameras had been snipped from their mounts and placed neatly on the ground below. Bolt cutters were left leaning against the house, and someone had broken in and made a sandwich, recalls Dawn House. “I think he was trying to send a message at that point,” she says. “He was communicating that he could get into our house if he wanted to.” The “he” she’s referring to is Anthony Garver, whose family lived just up the road from the Houses. When Garver was about 15, his mother struggled with mental illness and his stepfather was in jail. So Dawn and Richard House, who’ve worked as pastors and social workers for the past 30 years, took Garver in as one of their own. The boy lived with the House family from 2002 until he turned 18, in 2005. During that time, Dawn House says she tried to correct what she considered quirky, but harmless behavior — listening to a police scanner, obsessively checking his watch, bragging about his weapons stash and tinkering with computers.

I saw a soullessness inside him. There was an emptiness. For the most part, Garver, who also goes by Anthony Burke, abided by the rules, and his odd behavior began to disappear for a time. That changed in 2006, after Garver moved into his own place. His criminal record started to grow, and the young man, who endured domestic abuse and struggled with mental illness from a young age, began to threaten violence of his own. Within a decade, Garver threatened to kill his mother, stepfather, a federal prosecutor, a judge and Dawn House more than once. At one point, while in jail, he told other inmates about plans to bomb the Pig Out in the Park event and a Department of Social and Health Services building in Spokane, according to authorities. He pleaded guilty to a federal possession of ammunition charge (Garver is not allowed to possess firearms or ammo because he’s been committed to a psychiatric hospital), and repeatedly violated his probation. In 2013, while he was a fugitive from federal authorities, Garver allegedly tortured and killed

Phillipa Evans-Lopez, a 20-year-old mother in Lake Stevens, Washington. He was repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial for the murder, and in 2015 he was committed to Western State Hospital. By April 2016, Garver escaped out a first-floor window at the hospital. Because of the threats, each time authorities lose track of Garver, the House family goes into hiding. They’ve moved houses a total of four times since 2009. In August of 2017, Richard and Dawn House sued the state of Washington for its failure to keep Garver confined and to notify them of his escape. Dawn House says she only learned of Garver’s 2016 escape from a friend in Western Washington. Neither police nor the hospital contacted her, she says. Now, the Houses hope the lawsuit will bring changes to a system that they believe failed to rehabilitate Garver from a young age, and has failed to keep track of him once his threats of violence grew more credible. Additionally, they’re seeking damages for medical treatment and moving expenses from when they were driven into hiding. “We were trying to change the course of his life and mentor him and give him some sense of normalcy,” Dawn House says. “I never thought too much beyond that until much later. I saw a soullessness inside him. There was an emptiness.”

n 2002, the House family moved to a home on Offmy Lane, an unpaved road that winds up into the foothills of Mount Spokane. If not for the cluster of mailboxes and a street sign high up on a telephone pole, you might miss the turnoff. By the time their moving truck rumbled up the hill and into the driveway, Anthony Garver was already waiting for them at the front door, Richard House recalls. At the time, Garver’s welcome didn’t seem odd. The skinny 14-year-old with curly hair was just being neighborly, Dawn and Richard House thought then. The boy even helped them unload. After that, Garver would stop by their house almost every day, Dawn House says, and she formed a relationship with him. He didn’t seem to connect with their other eight children. “He was more my buddy. He always was,” she says now. “But I’ve run youth groups, so it’s natural for me to take in an odder teenager.” Dawn House also began to learn a few details of Garver’s tough home life, some of which are recorded in court documents. His mother, Taldja Garver, reported that as early as 5 or 6 years old, Garver would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and talking of seeing monsters and hearing voices telling him to stab his younger stepbrother, according to a psy...continued on next page

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE “THE KID NEXT DOOR,” CONTINUED... chologist’s courtroom testimony. At age 11 and again at 13, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Reports of abuse from his stepfather surfaced as well. “His mother reported that he had been abused, beginning when he was 3 years old, and that his stepfather had been rough with him,” psychologist Dr. Debra Brown testified in federal court. Dawn House says she heard stories of Garver’s stepfather throwing hot pizza in the boy’s face. Garver’s mother, Taldja Garver, acknowledges that her husband was “very firm, very disciplinary,” with Garver. She also recalls, though, how her son taught himself how to fix computers as a kid. He was constantly taking them apart and putting them back together. He also liked to ride his dirt bike and spend time in the woods surrounding their house. “He didn’t have a nice childhood,” she says. “Anthony has some mental issues, but I don’t believe he’s dangerous.” In a recent conversation Taldja Garver had with her son while he was committed to Western State Hospital, he expressed gratitude for the Houses taking him in. “She’s the last thing on his mind,” Taldja Garver says of Dawn House. “He wants nothing to do with her.” For the most part, Richard and Dawn House say, Garver was a normal teenage boy with a few strange behaviors they worked to fix. Garver frequently spoke about weapons he had stashed throughout the woods, for example, and showed Dawn House knives, ammunition and a pistol, she says. He would brag about his ability to pinpoint anyone’s location using computers, and he believed he was infallible, Dawn House recalls. He thought of himself as a survivalist and was proud of his ability to live off the land. While he lived with the Houses, things seemed to get better. Garver agreed to wear denim jeans rather than his typical camouflage. He stopped talking obsessively about weapons and even got a summer job. He took his prescription medication regularly, Dawn House says, though he fought it the whole time. As Garver was about to turn 18, when his ties to the House family would loosen, the odd behavior started to return, Dawn House says. She recalls a conversation where Garver expressed a desire to be remembered, even if it was for something horrific: “They’ll at least know I was on this Earth,” she recalls him saying. “I asked him one time, ‘So Anthony, what happens if they fire on you?’” she says. “He said ‘All the better. I should have never been born.’”

he first time the Houses were told to hide was in 2009. It was dark when Dawn and Richard House pulled into their driveway with a car full of kids. They’d just returned from watching a fireworks display on the Fourth of July and were greeted by bright white police spotlights. They needed to stay in a hotel that evening, police told them. It wasn’t safe to sleep in their home. Officers told the House family to pack a bag, but first, they had to make sure Garver wasn’t inside. He’d been released from federal prison in California. He was supposed to take a bus to Spokane and check in at Geiger Corrections Center. But he never showed. It took authorities a month to find him, according to the Houses’ lawsuit, and during the manhunt, Garver’s brother told TV news reporters that “the only people his brother Anthony wanted to kill were Richard and Dawn House.” Garver was eventually found hiding in the woods near their home with a 7-inch hunting knife. Federal au-

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Dawn House says Anthony Garver often bragged about surviving in the woods and stashing weapons around their home. thorities told the family that it would never again be safe to live on their secluded 13 acres nestled among the trees. After his capture, Garver wrote a letter to the judge: “I had great intentions when I was released from prison, but I became overwhelmed with anxiety,” he writes in 2009. “Every single day I regret not showing up because I destroyed my chance to be free and to go to school, establish myself, and get it over with and move on with my life.” The Houses had to uproot their lives again in 2010, 2013 and after his most recent escape in 2016 from Western State Hospital. In 2013, the Houses were moved temporarily to Edmonds, Washington, in Snohomish County. Within weeks, Garver was arrested less than 30 miles away in Everett and charged with the torture and murder of Evans-Lopez. Police found her body tied to a bed with electrical cords, according to court documents. She was

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stabbed 24 times, and her throat was slashed. “We have a suspicion of a possibility that because we went over to Edmonds, that maybe he could have known we were on that side of the state,” Dawn House says. “That’s when that woman was murdered.” Garver’s DNA was found on the electrical cords, and when police arrested him, he was using a laptop computer that belonged to Evans-Lopez’s boyfriend, according to court documents. A folding knife in his pocket was stained red. Garver initially denied knowing Evans-Lopez. But when police asked about the blood-stained knife, he “smiled, repeated his denial and said ‘I’ve told you everything I want to say,’” according to court documents. A crime lab DNA analysis confirmed that the blood on knife was a mixture belonging to Garver and EvansLopez. ...continued on page 30

TIMELINE

NOTABLE MOMENTS IN ANTHONY GARVERS LIFE 1998-’99: Garver, 11, is sent to a behavioral program at a psychiatric hospital in Spokane. His mother reported that he had been abused, beginning when he was 3, and that his stepfather had been rough with him.

Oct. 3-17, 2001: Garver, 13, is admitted to a psychiatric ward in Spokane. “Teachers rated him as being out of touch with reality, having strange ideas, babbling to himself and repeating one fact over and over,” according to a psychiatrist’s courtroom testimony.

February 2002: The House family moves to Offmy Lane. By mid-summer, they take Garver into their home.

June 2006: Garver’s mother, Taldja, confronts her son about cutting the power and security cameras on the Houses’ property. He becomes agitated and threatens to kill his mother, stepfather, stepbrother, Dawn House and then himself. He is arrested and charged with harassment. When police find 100 rounds of ammunition in his bag, Garver is charged in federal court. He is not allowed to possess ammo or firearms because of his previous commitment to psychiatric hospitals.

July 17, 2006: Garver pleads guilty to felony harassment in Spokane and is sentenced to 42 days in jail.

June 2008: Garver is sentenced to 37 months, and three years of probation, for the federal ammo possession charge. During the sentencing hearing, he threatened to kill the prosecutor, the judge and Dawn House.

July 2009: Garver is released from federal custody in Victorville, California, and is supposed to take a bus to Spokane and check in for supervised release at Geiger Corrections Center. He never shows.

July 4, 2009: The House family arrive home to find police waiting. This is the first time they’re told to go into hiding.

July 31, 2009: Garver is arrested by U.S. Marshals for violating federal probation. He’s sentenced to seven months in custody and another 28 months on probation, including time in a halfway house.

April 27, 2010: Garver does not return to the halfway house after a medical appointment. He then leads police on a high-speed chase through Montana, during which he drove the wrong way on Interstate 90, attempted to hit police, sideswiped another vehicle, smashed into a guardrail and fled on foot through a creek.

Nov. 22, 2010: Garver is sentenced to four years in prison for the vehicle chase. May 28, 2013: Garver is released from federal prison, but again fails to check in with a probation officer in Washington.

June 14, 2013: Garver is seen with Phillipa Evans-Lopez on video at a Lake Stevens McDonald’s. It appears as though Evans-Lopez buys him food.

June 17, 2013: Evans-Lopez’s body is found in her apartment, bound to the bed with electrical cords, stabbed 24 times and her throat slashed.

July 2, 2013: Garver is arrested in connection with Evans-Lopez’s death. He is found with a laptop that belonged to Evans-Lopez’s boyfriend and a bloodstained knife.

June 2015: Snohomish County prosecutors drop the murder charge against Garver after he’s repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial. Garver is later civilly committed to Western State Hospital.

April 6, 2016: Garver and another man escape from WSH out of a first-floor window. Garver buys a bus ticket to Spokane. Hospital staff do not immediately notify law enforcement or the media, as Garver is considered “not dangerous” despite his history. n

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE “THE KID NEXT DOOR,” CONTINUED... Kris Evans remembers her daughter as a free-spirited young woman with a heart for homeless people. Evans will never know for sure, but she suspects that her daughter was trying to help Garver. Surveillance video footage recorded days before Evans-Lopez’s body was found shows the two ordering food in a McDonald’s. Evans has nearly driven herself crazy trying to figure out how and why Garver ended up back at her daughter’s place. Maybe he asked for a ride. Maybe he wanted to take a shower. “He will forever have the last moments of her life, and that’s not fair,” Evans says. “I’d like to know what happened, I’d like to know why, and what was said. I just want to know. But I’ve come to conclusion that I’ll never know the answer to some of these things.” Evans-Lopez had a 3-year-old son when she died. Evans says the boy doesn’t remember his mother, but he knows she’s in heaven, and he’ll get to see her again, Evans says. For two years after his arrest, Garver underwent competency evaluations and was repeatedly found unfit to stand trial. In 2015, the murder charge was dropped, and he was civilly committed to Western State Hospital. In April of 2016, Garver and another man escaped from the hospital out a window that other patients said had become so loose it would whistle in the wind. Garver then purchased a bus ticket to Spokane. Meanwhile, the Houses had no idea.

awn House received a call from a friend in Western Washington late on the night Garver escaped. This was the first she was hearing about it, and by then, Garver had enough time to travel to Spokane, the

Houses’ lawsuit says. Richard House was in the hospital for an unrelated injury, while Dawn House scrambled to take the kids somewhere safe. Taldja Garver says her son briefly stopped at their house before disappearing into the woods. “I was happy to see him,” she says. “He was agitated. He’d escaped, and I told him the marshals were looking for him.”

“He will forever have the last moments of her life. It took police two days to find Garver. He was hiding in the woods near the Houses’ former home, where his parents still live. The escape amplified scrutiny of Western State Hospital, which was already in danger of losing federal funding. Gov. Jay Inslee fired then-CEO Ron Adler following Garver’s escape, and ordered a security review by Washington State Department of Corrections officials. That review, which is referenced in the Houses’ lawsuit, suggests that Garver was able to unscrew a window lock that was supposed to be fastened with screws that required a special tool to loosen. Some had been replaced with regular Phillips head screws that could be loosened

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ashington state’s two psychiatric hospitals have been the subject of scrutiny for years. Staff shortages and turnover, a lack of funding, patient assaults on staff and other patients and concerns over quality of care are just some of the issues. An evaluation by Washington State Department of Corrections officials in 2016 found that one of the most significant struggles is hospital staffs’ efforts to balance patient care with safety for staff, other patients and the public. Over the years, several high-profile events have called into question the hospitals’ ability to allow safety and treatment to coexist.  In 2009, Phillip Paul escaped from Eastern State Hospital during a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair. Paul was committed to ESH in 1987 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of strangling and cutting the throat of a 78-year-old woman. Paul also escaped from ESH in 1990.  In 2012, a patient at ESH, Amber Roberts, told hospital staff that she’d strangled another patient, Duane Charley, with a belt. Washington state later settled a lawsuit with Charley’s family for $500,000.  In 2015, a federal judge ruled that Washington’s state hospitals regularly violated the constitutional rights of people charged with crimes, who were waiting as long as 100 or more days in jail for competency evaluations. The judge has set deadlines for the state to reduce the wait time in jail. Although the state has made progress, it’s paid more than $12 million in fines for missed deadlines.  In 2016, Garver and another man, Mark Alexander Adams,

Eastern State Hospital, in Medical Lake, is one of two state psychiatric hospitals. escaped from a first-floor window at Western State Hospital. Officials originally said that escapes were rare, and cited just two instances in the previous seven years. But a 2016 Associated Press investigation identified 185 incidents where patients escaped or walked away from the facility since 2013. The escapes in 2016 intensified criticism of the hospital’s security and patient care. Already in danger of losing federal Medicare and Medicaid funding, the state then signed an agreement with federal regulators in June 2016 to make the facility safer and reduce patient escapes. Since the escape, the state has established a committee to

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monitor the hospitals’ staff, financing and safety, as well as a behavioral-health fund to support improvements to its state hospitals. The Department of Social and Health Services, which oversees both state hospitals, has hired more employees, as well as a new chief security and safety officer, says spokeswoman Kelly Stowe. “He has made adjustments and changes,” Stowe says referring to the new head of security, Sean Murphy. “There hasn’t been another event at Western State Hospital.” In 2017, however, a patient with a violent history escaped from Eastern State Hospital. The man was arrested a short time later at the Intermodal bus station in Spokane. (MITCH RYALS)

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE “THE KID NEXT DOOR,” CONTINUED... deceitful and having a lack of remorse for his actions. Both psychologists determined that Garver is competent to face the probation violation, but they disagree whether he’s fit to stand trial for murder. Dr. Cynthia Low, who works for the Federal Detention Center in Seattle, describes Garver during her testimony as “anxious every time I saw him, a little bit dysphoric or sad, not suicidal though.” She says Garver would frequently say “I’m in deep psychosis,” which she says is unusual and suspicious. Ultimately, Low believes Garver is exaggerating his mental illness in order to avoid criminal charges. Dr. Debra Brown, who was hired by Garver’s attorney, disagrees. She says the court needs to consider Garver’s documented history of mental illness, starting in his early childhood, rather than only the most recent reports. “Mr. [Garver] has been involved in this system for a very, very, very long time,” Brown says in court. “And that with all of the accusations and treatment and non-treatment that he has received, the system hasn’t done well by him.”

arver is currently awaiting trial for the murder charge in the Snohomish County Jail. It’s possible that his attorneys will re-

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quest a competency evaluation ahead of trial. If that happens, it’s also possible that Garver would again be found incompetent, which would throw the case back into legal limbo as he receives treatment. “It could take exactly the same track as it did in 2013,” says Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Matt Hunter. That means Evans and her family could again be denied substantive answers and closure in Evans-Lopez’s death. “She hasn’t been forgotten,” Evans says. “She was killed years ago, but in terms of the trial, that’s a whole other chapter. We’ve been waiting for years to move on, and until the trial happens, we’re not going to get the closure that we need.” As for the Houses, they hope their lawsuit will spark change to Western State Hospital’s security and notification protocols. But they also want to bring awareness to a flawed system that they believed failed Garver. “He just wanted to be loved and accepted,” Dawn House says. “A lot of us have points where we’re disappointed with the family that surrounds us, or the school system or maybe the community, but he was disappointed at every level.” Still, Dawn House believes Garver is guilty of murder and hopes he’s convicted. “Not because we don’t care for him,” she says. “But because of who he’s become.” n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mitch Ryals comes to the Inlander from St. Louis, Missouri. He covers criminal justice and has written about a teenage confidential informant, bounty hunters and the train hopper who lost his leg. Contact Ryals at mitchr@inlander.com, or 509-325-0634 ext. 237.

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lot has changed since Katie Goodman started Broad Comedy in 2001. Back then, her musical comedy — powered by an all-female team of comics singing, dancing and performing sketches heavy on political satire and wit — drew inspiration from reacting to George W. Bush’s administration. And while the touring act is still tackling everything from sexuality to parenting to abortion, politics in 2018 demand they also figure out things like how to ship a Tiki torch to someone’s house so they can use it in their Spokane show. “I couldn’t take it on the plane,” Goodman explains, joking that she needs to find someone who makes a collapsible version. It’s just one of the small wrenches Goodman and her husband and writing partner Soren Kisiel have dealt with since the 2016 election. Each fall, the duo writes a whole new set of hilarious songs and sketches for Broad Comedy to perform around the coun-

try while nodding to (and poking fun of) the latest in politics. In 2012, that meant taking a jab at Tea Party policies with a rap called “I Ain’t Funding That Shit.” In 2014, their work included the ’60s callback “It’s All Gonna Be Okay,” in which the women cheerfully sing about apocalyptic climate change being nigh, but hey, at least they’ve got a tambourine. So, six days before Election Night 2016, they’d already written their whole show thinking they knew how things would turn out. “And then we were blindsided completely,” she says. They had to rewrite at least a third of the show in five days, but with Donald Trump taking office, there was plenty to be passionate about. “That came right out of our gut,” says Goodman, calling from the Minneapolis airport while travelling between shows last week. Still, she wouldn’t exactly say that over the last year, the new administration has inspired her — that’s too positive a word. ...continued on next page

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“We’re distraught and exhausted and frustrated,” she says. “And we want our country back.” It was a little harder to find the funny when writing this year’s show. “This shit is real, so it’s not funny,” she says. “DACA, climate change, North Korea. You want to find a very careful mix between satire that points out what’s wrong to fire people up, but not dismiss what’s happening by laughing it off.” But the silver lining to this administration and time, Goodman says, is that “people are kind of waking up and standing up.” And that’s exactly who she and the other women of Broad Comedy hope to inspire with their shows. Their performance Friday at the Bing Crosby Theater is presented by and benefits Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, and takes place just a few days after the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. “Look, people say, ‘You’re preaching to the converted’ and the answer is ‘Absolutely!’” she says. “We are trying to inspire the converted to act, and we’re trying to give them some support.” That support may come in odd, hilarious formats, like rapping about how a literal lack of support makes “boobs look funny when you’re having sex.” Or it could be flipping the narrative to show two lesbians, dressed in Stepford-like attire, living in a world where the norm is to be homosexual, as they express their horror upon realizing the couple who just moved in next door is straight. Or, it might just be Goodman explaining to millennial A-listers who claim they aren’t feminists that, “Sorry babe, you’re a feminist.”

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“You like to vote? You like to drive? You’re a feminist,” Goodman belts in the tune, which is one of the hits from previous years she and the cast plan to bring to the stage. The other performers include Molly Kelleher, Carlita Victoria, Danielle Cohn and Tana Sirois, and only two short days after they perform in Spokane, they’ll be taking their show Off Broadway in New York City. Because the Spokane show is a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, the group has chosen the sketches and songs that will MORE EVENTS be particularly Visit Inlander.com for meaningful to complete listings of that audience. local events. While the show is always feminist, Goodman says, this show is sure to be even more political than normal. “What’s great about the Planned Parenthood audiences is you never have to explain the jokes,” Goodman says. “They get everything.” That may come in handy if the “United States Right-Wing Cheerleading Squad” leads the crowd in such cheery (and very sarcastic) refrains as “sex education, is not the way, only abstinence is a-OK” and “Equal rights? There’s no debate. Who needs them when you’re white and straight?” n Planned Parenthood presents Broad Comedy • Fri, Jan. 26 at 8 pm • $31 • The Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Evolution of a Nerd BY CHEY SCOTT

FULL STEAM AHEAD After more than six months of extensive renovations, Spokane’s historic Steam Plant has reopened, including its main-level space rebranded as the Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery. The remodel is the first since it opened as a mixeduse space back in 2001. New interior designs by Spokane’s HDG Architecture highlight the space’s industrial history, and a new rooftop event space was also part of the project. The Steam Plant’s enlarged kitchen allowed for a total menu transformation, and lunch has returned to the venue after a 10-year hiatus. (CHEY SCOTT)

’ve always been a nerd. Yet, there’ve been times when I didn’t realize this truth of my character, nor did I care to openly acknowledge it. In early childhood, my love for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved book series was so strong I wore my homemade pioneer costume for elementary school class picture day so that all my classmates “remembered me” as a pioneer (but probably just a weirdo). In middle school, I graduated to another historically rooted obsession: The Beatles. While my peers fawned over *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, I wore John Lennon-style glasses from the dollar store perched on my head as a perpetual accessory. I was teased, but inside I scoffed at the other girls’ base obsession with “modern” boy bands.

The number of Oscar nominations for The Shape of Water, opening in Spokane this weekend.

This year’s Academy Award nominations turned out to be pretty great. Guillermo del Toro’s morbid fairy tale The Shape of Water led the pack with 13 total nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Along with del Toro, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele hit the nomination trifecta: Their respective films, Lady Bird and Get Out, are Best Picture nominees, and their direction and writing is also being recognized, making Gerwig only the fifth woman and Peele the fifth black man to ever be nominated for director. The Oscars air March 4 on ABC. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Jan. 26. To wit:  MOTOWN: Hitsville U.S.A.: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971. OK, not a new release, but if you’re inspired by seeing Motown: The Musical at the INB through Jan. 28, this set will satisfy.  CALEXICO, The Thread That Keeps Us. The Southwestern desert dwellers with a globetrotting sound introduces some sonic chaos to match the world’s mood.  STEEP CANYON RANGERS, Out in the Open. The bluegrass aces and Steve Martin collaborators are coming to play with the Spokane Symphony March 3.  TY SEGALL, Freedom’s Goblin. The prolific Californian’s been called the “boy king of the garage-rock scene.” He returns with a doublealbum. See, prolific!

During the socially awkward time from ninth grade onward, however, I came to believe that my “unique” obsessions actually made me “uncool.” I grew to deeply care about what people thought of me and my interests. In the throes of young adulthood, being nonconformist was shelved in favor of safe acceptance. Here today, I’m happy to report that I’m long past that stage, and back to ultimate nerd status. (Young nerds: It does get better.) I proudly play Magic: The Gathering, a game I wish now I’d more than barely noticed being played by my classmates. I enjoy indie video games, sci-fi/fantasy literature and TV, superheroes, and other nerd-doms of notoriety that I somehow missed during youth (Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, but not Harry Potter — I read the first book in sixth grade right after it came out!) because I was too busy roleplaying as Laura Ingalls, or an all-female version of the Beatles, with my siblings and cousin. In a throwback to my pioneer-dress-wearing days, I’ve even created a cosplay for my favorite Magic character. And just recently, I added perhaps the quintessentially nerdiest of nerd activities to the line-up, one I formerly thought I’d never partake, despite all previous indications: Dungeons & Dragons. Ask me about my wizard! n

BOOK TO SCREEN Spokane young adult author Stephanie Oakes got the news last summer, but had to keep mum until last week that her award-winning debut novel, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, is being made into a 10-episode TV series. It’ll stream on fledgling Facebook Watch, and is being produced by a duo known for their work on True Blood. Filming is likely to take place in the Northwest (the book is set in the Montana wilderness), Oakes tells the Inlander, and casting will start soon. Minnow Bly, inspired by the Grimm fairy tale The Handless Maiden, tells the riveting story of a young girl who escapes from a cult after having her hands cut off. (CHEY SCOTT)

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ckart Preu knows that classical music audiences, including those in Spokane, require a steady diet of, well, classics. But the Spokane Symphony’s music director also knows that the only way to keep orchestral music a viable, living thing is to support modern composers and their work. “I’ve had really good experiences with this audience where I feel I’ve programmed quite a lot of living composers over these past years,” Preu says. “Slowly, slowly. There’s a lot of European music that’s really out there, and you have to really watch out and choose it wisely. “You have to give them the meat and potatoes, but if there’s a little kimchi on the side, that’s OK, too.” This weekend might be the spiciest bit of “kimchi” Preu has served up in his decade-plus in the Lilac City. The symphony’s Classics 5: Scheherazade show sandwiches the U.S. premiere of German genre-pushing composer Torsten Rasch’s Tropoi violin concerto between some Bach and RimskyKorsakov’s Arabian Nights-inspired piece that provided the concert its name. Preu and Rasch were students together in the Dresden Boys Choir, and Preu says Rasch is one of the few musicians from the school who went on to a successful career as a composer. Rasch has done everything from movie scores in Japan to operatic heavy-metal shows with German rock stars Rammstein to collaborations with British synth-pop pioneers Pet Shop Boys on a silent-film soundtrack. “He’s very open to all these collaborations, and I think that influences his own work,” Preu says of his old schoolmate. “What is striking about his music is it just really blows you away. It’s just overwhelm-

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BY DAN NAILEN ing, the sound. He uses a big orchestra, and this is a concerto, where mostly you have a solo instrument and you try to keep the orchestra out of the way and let the soloist shine. … This is a different ballgame. It’s virtuoso music for all the instruments. It’s actually concerto music for all the instruments, with just the violin being the main person.” The Spokane Symphony joined the Dresden Philharmonic and South Carolina Philharmonic in commissioning the work from Rasch, and it was performed in Germany in 2016; the Spokane shows will be the first time American audiences will hear the piece. Preu says commissioning original works is always a gamble because you never know exactly what you’re going to get in return, but it’s important to do because you’re “helping define how the future of music is going to go” by identifying composers you think are important and giving them an opportunity to push themselves. “You go for some risks,” Preu says, and with Tropoi, he received a piece that’s “just big, with everyone playing something different at the same time. It’s literally 20 different instruments playing different things at the same time.” Preu knew he’d need a soloist of serious skill to stand out among Rasch’s epic soundscapes, so he tapped Chinese violinst Mira Wang, a musician he worked with years ago when he was resident conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York. That group was known for tackling “big unknown pieces that nobody ever performs,” Preu says, and Wang was able to come in and play some of the “difficult, unknown stuff.” “For a piece like [Tropoi], where you fight as a single violin against a 90-piece

orchestra, you need a certain personality and not only the skills but the personality and energy to cut through. To compete, basically,” Preu says. In an email from China, Wang explained that she’s played on some of Rasch’s previous chamber music works, and added that “it is always exciting to premiere a new piece. It gives you so much pleasure to bring music of our generation to the audiences.” Wang has been an in-demand instrumentalist since she was one of 150 children out of 30,000 candidates chosen to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Most recently her and her husband Jan Vogler have toured as part of Bill Murray’s

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“New Worlds” group that blends music and the actor reading literature passages. While Wang dubs that experience “very exciting,” taking on Tropoi is, too. The piece, Wang writes, “offers many melodic singing lines and some very exciting fast passages. Of course, one needs to know that it is the music language of our time. That language is definitely different from the classical or Romantic period.” Let’s call it the international language of kimchi. n Spokane Symphony Classics 5: Scheherazade • Sat, Jan. 27 at 8 pm & Sun, Jan. 28 at 3 pm • $17-$60 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

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ou probably know some natural athletes, or natural artists — people who just have a knack for a certain talent with seemingly little training required. Nick Bokarica just might be one of those types when it comes to the art of crafting craveable macaroni and cheese. “I have zero culinary training. I never worked in the food industry as even a dishwasher or busser or cook,” admits the man behind the new Mac Daddy’s Pub & Grill, and co-founder of the Mac Daddy’s food truck. “I just always had a kind of passion for food, cooking on my own. I kind of raised myself since I was a teenager, so I always had to come up with my own meals. “Pretty much all the recipes I do now I’ve been doing for years,” he continues. “We have these big family dinners for Thanksgiving and I would always make mac and cheese, and they just always loved it. So I kind of took that and really worked on different recipes.”

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You can now find those recipes dotting the menu of the new pub that Bokarica opened in North Spokane in late November. The spacious former home of the Unforgiven Lounge is now a bright, roomy bar and restaurant with a massive patio out front, several TVs and an overall sporty vibe that Bokarica says is a reflection of his personality, and the culmination of a dream he had to take items from Mac Daddy’s food truck and his Shameless Sausage hot dog carts and give them a brick-andmortar home where people could gather for a game and some grub. “I put a lot of my own personal background into the space,” Bokarica says of the spot he landed after exploring options in Browne’s Addition and the former Tonicx bar spot on Ash Street. “I’m a huge sports fan and I have baseball bats on the wall, turf on the floor. I collected baseball cards since I was 5 years old, so I have baseball cards and football cards plastered all over the bar ...continued on next page

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top, on the bar back, on the counters. I just wanted certain things that are different, that you can’t find anywhere else.” That idea extends to the menu. While fans of the Mac Daddy’s food truck and the Shameless Sausage cart will find their favorites on the menu of the pub and grill, Bokarica has added new flavors to the old standards, as well as appetizers and a full slate of hand-pressed burgers like the Mac Daddy Burger ($12), a 1/3-pound, hand-pressed burger topped with jalapeno bacon, chipotle mayo, house-made bacon-cheese sauce and a scoop of Mac Daddy’s Bacon mac and cheese. Bokarica stresses that the kitchen tries to do everything by hand when possible. The Crispy Boneless Wings ($12) are hand-breaded, and the curly fries are hand-cut and served with either a scoop of bacon mac and cheese or the house cheese sauce ($9). In addition to the familiar, you can get a more-thangenerous serving of the Pizza Mac (pepperoni, olive, marinara mozzarella, parmesan) or Spicy Mac (jalapenos, hot sauce, bacon mac and cheese) for $12, and it would be Mac Daddy’s Nick Bokarica. TESS FARNSWORTH PHOTO daunting to try and eat an order in one sitting. For people looking for lighter fare, there are several salads available, too. The bar serves primarily local beers — Young Buck Brewing even made the pub a signature IPA — as well as standards like Blue Moon and Coors Light, and as the new year continues Bokarica is going to add more specials like pulled pork and lobster mac-and-cheese dishes. As the weather warms and he’s able to start using the patio outside, the vision Bokarica had for his first brick-and-mortar restaurant will come to life. He envisions customers enjoying the farmers market that sets up in the strip mall’s massive parking lot, and he plans a food truck festival in May. “We just ran across this spot on Craigslist, and I came up and looked at it and I just had a vision and saw it had a lot of potential,” Bokarica says. “I think it’s a great location. I think there’s a lot of opportunity, a ton of potential up here.” n Mac Daddy’s Pub & Grill • Open Mon-Thu noon-midnight, Fri noon-2 am, Sat 11 am-2 am and Sun 11 am-10 pm • 415 W. Hastings • facebook.com/macdaddyspubandgrill • 270-7069

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‘Virtuosity Without Being Stuffy’ Inside Eyvind, the next project from Ruins’ chef-owner Tony Brown BY JACOB H. FRIES

he space is raw, dusty and cold — it doesn’t yet have electricity — yet as chef Tony Brown walks through what will eventually become his swank new downtown restaurant, he excitedly explains where everything goes. There, upfront by the floor-to-ceiling windows, will be the main dining room, with 28 seats. Along the side, running deeper into the space, will be a reclaimed 19-foot-long bar, leading eventually to the kitchen, which Brown hopes to keep visible to diners. “I still have to talk with the fire marshall, but my goal is to enclose it in glass,” Brown explains during a tour of the 1,800-square-foot, firstfloor space inside the Bickett building at 225 W. Riverside. The restaurant’s name, Eyvind, is a nod to Eyvind Earles, an American artist noted for his background illustrations in 1950s-era Disney films. But don’t expect any Sleeping Beauty murals inside the restaurant, set to open this spring. “Eyvind Earles’ art is mysterious, abstract, super-precise,” the 41-year-old Brown says. “It has a level of virtuosity without being stuffy because the subject matter is simple, yet elegant. Everything I think a restaurant should be.” Brown himself is best known as the chef and owner of Ruins, a small place on North Monroe Street, in the shadow of the county courthouse.

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Ruins’ name was in part inspired by the condition of the building when Brown opened for business in 2014, but since then, it’s become renowned for its innovative and ever-changing small-plates menu. At one point, Brown was switching the featured cuisine each week, serving everything from Thai to Russian to Filipino and Phoenician. It’s earned him a solid following among foodies in the region. Indeed, when Seattle’s hipster publication the Stranger sent writers to explore Spokane, they had “planned to go to what is supposed to be the city’s best restaurant, Ruins.” (They ended up leaving without eating because there was a wait.) But despite his rising-star status, Brown eschews the pomp and pretension that often surrounds food culture. “The idea of a celebrity chef, I think, is completely ridiculous,” Brown says, laughing at the cheffy hashtag #truecooks and the associated (though totally impractical) line of apparel. “That stuff to me is just bullshit. … Maybe I’m selling myself short, but my job is to cook for people, and they give me money.” His no-bullshit perspective has been shaped by an unusual journey to this point. Born in Eugene, Oregon, he was raised inside the conservative Worldwide Church of God, described by some as a “doomsday cult,” and he left home at 15 (after his family had moved to Spokane). He dropped out of high school a year later, got his GED, started at Spokane Falls Community College and found himself working in kitchens. He later got married and moved to Chicago, where he continued cooking and studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. They had a daughter, moved back home to Spokane and promptly got divorced, Brown says. With Eyvind, Brown sees a blank slate, a do-over of sorts, a chance to fix the mistakes he made with Ruins and Stella’s, the beloved sandwich shop he closed last year — from the setup of a kitchen to price points and hiring. (He’s already made one new rule: no hiring friends.) Eyvind’s food will be like Ruins’, but a bit more refined, he says, and the space — it’ll be just as he imagined, everything in its rightful place. “I’ve never been able to do that — make it look the way I want it to look.” n

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FASHION VICTIM Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is stunningly beautiful, darkly funny and entirely unexpected BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

here’s a certain thrill in watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread and realizing with intensifying delight that you have no idea where it’s headed. It is not the film it initially appears to be: It has the look and feel of an austere, even stifling costume drama, and yet it ever so gradually reveals the twisted morals at its core. Perhaps this shouldn’t be much of a surprise coming from Anderson, one of the greatest working American filmmakers, who has never followed a straightforward narrative and who has frequently reinvented his style over the course of eight features. While Phantom Thread is arguably Anderson’s most formal work to date, its florid tale of romantic infatuation is something of a Trojan horse for a wicked, sometimes sadistic black comedy of manners. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis — who won his second Oscar working with Anderson on There Will Be Blood a decade ago — as the memorably named Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dress designer in London sometime in the early 1950s. Day-Lewis has said this will be his final screen performance, and how appropriate that the world’s most exhaustively method actor would take a final bow portraying an artist so wrapped up in his own artistic techniques that he’s nearly driven to ruin. Woodcock runs a respected fashion house with his sister Cyril (the terrific Lesley Manville), all pursed lips and contemptuous looks, and it’s her job to keep business operations in tip-top shape. She seems to be the only woman in Reynolds’ life who he doesn’t treat as merely a dress model, as a faceless mannequin he can style and shape into whatever he desires. Reynolds becomes smitten by a younger woman named Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress in a seaside cafe where he orders an absurd amount of food and is impressed when Alma commits it to

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memory. His creative obsessions are as voracious as his derson’s own The Master: Both explore the antagonism appetite: After their first dinner date, Reynolds rushes that develops between two violently self-possessed Alma home and furiously fits her for a dress, dictating people, and hints at the sick thrill they might be getting the measurements to a taciturn Cyril. out of it. As brother and sister go through these motions It goes without saying, I’m sure, that Day-Lewis with the detached efficiency of memorized routine, we is remarkable and assured; with merely a flourish of begin to wonder: How many times have they done his hand or a quiver in his voice, we know exactly this before? How many women have come what he’s thinking. He works before Alma? PHANTOM THREAD wonders with his face here, But Alma is different. She becomes a particularly in the film’s final, Rated R model for Woodcock’s creations, then a pivotal scene, which involves anDirected by Paul Thomas Anderson muse, and finally a reluctant collaborator, other fortuitous meal. If this is, Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, though her lack of finesse begins to disrupt Lesley Manville in fact, Day-Lewis’ swan song, Reynolds’ pathological need to keep everyit should also represent the start thing just so. And just when we think we of a brilliant career for Krieps, a understand what’s developing between these characLuxembourgian actress who will be unknown to most ters, Anderson upends everything, and Phantom Thread viewers. She is self-assured and magnetic playing opbecomes something far darker. posite our finest living actor, pivoting from soft naivete In spite of its subversions, the film has the rarito steely resolve with remarkable dexterity. fied air of the high-brow cinema of the ’40s and ’50s, Phantom Thread was beautifully photographed by especially the opulent melodramas of Max Ophüls and Anderson himself, and there are individual images that Douglas Sirk. It’s obvious that Anderson is toying with are so brilliantly composed I found myself gasping a the same themes that fascinated Alfred Hitchcock, parbit too loudly. Pay particular attention to the ways in ticularly those in Rebecca and Vertigo, both about women which Anderson positions his characters within the held captive by the emotional whims of overpowerframe, and how that corresponds to their ever-shifting ing men (and Cyril is no doubt inspired by Rebecca’s power dynamics. The musical score by Radiohead’s menacing Mrs. Danvers). I’m reminded, too, of Martin Jonny Greenwood (this marks his fourth collaboration Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age with Anderson) is also fantastic, as lush and exact as of Innocence, which also starred Day-Lewis as a any of Woodcock’s gowns. It’s the best work he’s done high-society dandy tangled up in a thorny as a composer. romance. The film’s meticulous craft is in keeping with the And in some ways, the movie feels compulsions of its characters, and how their artistic like a companion piece to Anprocesses inform and intersect with their personal relationships. We’re told early on that Woodcock stitches secret messages into the seams of his dresses, and that’s exactly what Anderson is doing with this cunning movie: It’s about people who always seem to be holding onto a mystery, whose true motivations aren’t always clear, who say one thing and mean another. This is a beguiling and strange film, and while it might not work for everyone, I wanted it to begin again the second it was over. n

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A racist military man (Christian Bale) is forced to transport a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) to his homeland in the 1890s. Scott Cooper’s brutal tale of frontier justice is unfortunately far more concerned with the redemption of the white man than the Native American experience. (MJ) Rated R

MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

Yes, they’re still making Maze Runner movies, and in this third and final installment, our generic post-apocalyptic hero and his friends must escape yet another trap-filled labyrinth. Or something. (NW) Rated PG-13

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This Bollywood epic dramatizing the legend of a 14th-century Indian queen has inspired plenty of controversy in its native country, with its cast and crew receiving death threats over its supposed historical inaccuracies. It’s also one of the most expensive Indian films ever made. (NW) Not Rated

THE SHAPE OF WATER

With apologies to Pan’s Labyrinth, this is Guillermo del Toro’s finest film to date, a grisly adult fairy tale about a mute cleaning woman’s plans to free a captive amphibious creature from the government facility where she works. Weird, gory, eye-popping, disarmingly sweet and featuring a masterful star turn from Sally Hawkins. (SS) Rated R

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A true story about the first Special Forces who were deployed to Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11 and witnessed the escalation of the war in the Middle East. Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Peña star. (NW) Rated R

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One of the best films of the year, a swooning romance in which a 17-yearold American kid (Timothée Chalamet) spending a summer at his family’s Italian villa becomes infatuated with his dad’s slightly older research assistant (Armie Hammer). A delicate work of art and a passionate love story, simultaneously ethereal and earthy. (NW) Rated R

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

THE COMMUTER

Liam Neeson plays a former cop who swings into action-star mode when a shadowy cabal offers him a fortune to locate a mysterious object on his train ride home. As preposterous as you’d expect, but only sporadically exciting. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Gary Oldman is unrecognizable under pounds of makeup and prosthetics as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who’s settling into his first term right as Hitler’s power intensifies. If Oldman doesn’t take home the Oscar for this one, it won’t have been for lack of trying. (ES) Rated PG-13

DEN OF THIEVES

A January release starring Gerard Butler that runs 140 minutes? This should be good. Here he’s an LAPD officer on the trail of an elusive group of bank robbers planning to knock over the Federal Reserve. (NW) Rated R

FERDINAND

An animated adaptation of the 1936 children’s book about a misunderstood bull (voiced by former wrestler John Cena) who would rather frolic in fields of flowers than fight in an arena. A smart, funny family film that espouses a refreshing message about gender stereotypes. (MJ) Rated PG

FOREVER MY GIRL

In what’s sure to be the best Nicholas Sparks story Nicholas Sparks didn’t actually write, a hunky country star returns to his small hometown only to discover he has a daughter with the woman he left at the altar. (NW) Rated PG

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In Scott Cooper’s Hostiles, the white characters are portrayed as complex, flesh-and-blood humans. The Native Americans? Not so much.

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all Blocker’s redemption requires: They just need to meet the abuse he doles out on their journey with quiet dignity, all the better to start thawing his cold heart a little, so obviously they don’t need much in the way of dialogue or character development. But then we also have some marauding Comanches, faceless boogeymen who swoop in and kill. They did that to Mrs. Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), a nice white lady the travelers encounter who is the only survivor of a Comanche attack on her family. The Comanche are still out there, and still dangerous, but can Yellow Hawk and his son, Black Hawk (Adam Beach), convince Blocker that they must team up to defeat them? Blocker believes of Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Still, there is a long way to go for Blocker. On one Studi), who has been held prisoner — along with his side, he has his master sergeant (Rory Cochrane), who family, including a young grandson — for seven years at has “the melancholy” over “our treatment of the Natives,” an Army compound in New Mexico. The year is 1892, and on the other, an unrepentant soldier (Ben Foster), the frontier is closing, and attitudes toward the Indian who the party is transporting to his hanging for unspeciback east are softening. The order fied but heinous crimes. An alliance with the HOSTILES comes from Washington: Yellow Hawk, Cheyenne is too much for Blocker to contemRated R who has cancer, and his family are to plate, but they still have the kindness to honor Directed by Scott Cooper be escorted back to “sacred Cheyenne Rosalie’s grief. If they can be gentle with a territory” in Montana, where he can die Starring Christian Bale, Rosamund white lady — just like Blocker is — maybe Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach in peace. As his one last mission before they’re not so bad after all. retirement, Blocker is assigned the task. “The essential American soul is hard, This is an indignity that Blocker would rather not have isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” D.H. to endure, but his pension is at stake, so off they go. Lawrence wrote that in 1923, and Cooper uses the quote I’d hate for you to think that the film does anything to open his film. But joke’s on Lawrence, because here too radical, like present Yellow Hawk and his family we see Blocker’s soul starting to melt way back in 1892. as complicated human beings or anything. The Native Granted, the American soul has barely budged since. But Americans here are strictly one-dimensional, which is it’s only been 126 years. Give it time. n

Hostiles is a revisionist Western that’s totally tone deaf about its racial politics BY MARYANN JOHANSON

ou know what the real white man’s burden is? Living with the guilt of the colonialism, oppression and genocide you are party to. I mean, look at North America. Sure, millions of Native people dead and ancient cultures destroyed, but who has to live with that? Won’t someone think of the white man? Scott Cooper is only thinking of the white man in Hostiles, his revisionist Western that revisions the genre right back into the white man’s perspective. Oh, there will be lessons learned, but isn’t the biggest crime in all this how the white man is forced to suppress his emotions and his humanity, how he suffers while making others suffer? U.S. Army Captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) is a “good soldier” who has made a career of fighting “wretched savages,” but now, even at the end of his army days, he is not satisfied that he has done enough. “There ain’t enough punishment for his kind,”

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osh Ritter says songs are like hiccups. He’ll be doing something mundane and a tune will pop into his head involuntarily, as if due to some reflexive bodily function. But he doesn’t question where the melody came from or how it appeared: He just makes sure to capture it in the moment. “Over time, I’ve grown less and less concerned about not being able to sit down and write a song,” he says. “I just have to be ready to write when it hits me. I don’t forget ideas — I write them all down — and very few of them turn into actual songs. The others make up this mulchy kind of garden where I let the weirdest vegetables grow.” When it comes to cultivating a productive creative garden, the veteran singer-songwriter, author and painter is among the best. For the past 20 years, Ritter has written nine albums’ worth of narrative-driven songs that land somewhere between Americana, gospel and soul, drawing praise from critics and building a devoted fanbase along the way. Speaking to Inlander from Brooklyn, the Moscow, Idaho, native Ritter discusses his hands-off approach to songwriting. He says his stories unfold line by line, and he’s always surprised by where they end up. ...continued on next page

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Josh Ritter’s ninth album, Gathering, is a collection of musical character studies.

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“FROM MILES AWAY,” CONTINUED... “Really, it’s a matter of connecting the story by finding the next rhyme,” he says. “I’ll have preoccupations, like polar exploration or archaeology or whatever learning tangent I’ve been on, and that stuff always influences me somehow, but I never know where the rhymes are going to take the story.” For example, he wrote recent standalone single “Miles Away” after flipping through a book of photos of Earth from space, but had no way of knowing that this would emerge: “So I went to Cape Canaveral and I went to the moon / And I stayed up there for a year or two / Famous picture of me above the blue parade / A man a million miles up, still miles away.” There’s been a strong connection between what Ritter reads and writes since he first started making music as a child, when he played violin and voraciously read literary fiction. “I think the two interests kind of traveled on a parallel path,” he reflects. “Then I discovered that I could play guitar and sing at the same time, sort of tell my own stories. But it wasn’t until I heard Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash that I realized I could express myself in a way I had never imagined.” To this day, Ritter is beholden to those all-time greats. He thinks of his own songs as character-driven stories, like skeletons of novels that listeners flesh out with their own imaginations. “You try to be concise as possible,” he says, “because there’s a level of detail a song just won’t support. The song becomes a list.” Indeed, he paints in appropriately broad strokes on “Showboat,” a single off his most recent album, Gathering. His lyrics confront the male tendency to bottle up emotions over a soulinfused blues arrangement: “I’m just a showboat / Won’t catch me crying, no / Won’t catch me showing any hurt.” Ritter’s inspiration for the song came from an odd source: the Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam. As someone who disguises his underlying fragility with bluster, false bravado and pistolwaving, the cartoon character represents the legions of real men who are far more comfortable

expressing anger than a “weak” emotion like sadness, Ritter says. And he carries that theme throughout Gathering. On quiet tracks such as “Strangers,” “Thunderbolt’s Goodnight” or “Train Go By,” cracks form in his characters’ facades, ultimately exposing their vulnerabilities. “What does it mean to be a young man?” Ritter asks rhetorically. “I was writing about the characters because of the world around me right now, you know?” The album also touches on Ritter’s own vulnerability. The recordings are partly a result of wanting to move on from his earlier work, because he knows some fans remain fiercely devoted to his earlier albums, such as The Animal Years (2006) and So Runs the World Away (2010). He grew tired of trying to meet outside expectations, but also found energy in the possibility of freeing himself from those constraints. Throughout his career, Ritter has been energized by the knowledge that he’s contributing to something much bigger than himself. Ritter studied the history of American songwriting in college, which he says has provided him with a long-term perspective on how civilization and music have co-evolved, and his own place in humanity’s ongoing musical tradition. “We’re all part of this unbroken chain of musical creation,” he says. “I’m fascinated by the humanity of songwriting and songs as a biological thing, that we create music due to an overflow of emotion. That’s a beautiful thing to realize.” n Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band with Nicki Bluhm • Fri, Jan. 26 at 8 pm • $25 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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A little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll: Banditos bring their classic sound and already legendary live show to the Bartlett on Friday.

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Banditos’ sound is all over the map, but its roots are deep in their native South BY DAN NAILEN

irmingham, Alabama, is the kind of place where it’s great to be a music maker, but not necessarily a music fan, according to Banditos guitarist Jeffrey

Salter. “It’s kind of near Atlanta, and kind of near Nashville, so growing up a lot of the big bands would come to those cities and pass Birmingham by,” Salter says. “That’s a bummer.” Perhaps you know of such a town? What Birmingham lacked in big concerts when the Banditos were growing up, it made up for with what Salter calls “its own thing” — namely, a strong local scene of musicians and all-ages venues where Salter and his band mates learned their chops playing in various groups before joining forces. Eventually, as so often happens, the sounds of their parents’ record collections and regional radio started seeping into their own musical tastes. Banditos, in turn, created a sound that incorporates everything from scuzzy Southern rock and soul to psychedelia and bluegrass.

Guitarist Corey Parsons and banjo man Stephen Pierce share lead vocals with powerhouse belter Mary Beth Richardson, while Salter, drummer Randy Wade and bassist Danny Vines round out the sextet. Spend a little time listening to Banditos, and you’ll hear hints of the Band, Janis Joplin, the Black Keys and more. “Growing up in the South, all of us grew up on classic rock and blues and country, everything from cheesy ’90s country to the classic stuff,” Salter says. “We all went through the punk and hardcore thing because you want to rebel against what your parents like. Now, we like to play fast and loud, and start and stop and play jerky tunes, and it all goes back to that.” The Banditos’ live show has become a thing of legend since they formed in 2010. They played relentlessly and toured throughout the Southeast in their early years, somehow saving enough money to record their first album the week they collectively picked up and moved to Nashville — before they ever got a record deal. Eventually, they signed with Chicago’s Bloodshot Records and

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put out their slightly reworked self-titled debut in 2015, taking their show nationwide on tours with the likes of St. Paul and the Broken Bones and Old 97’s. They paused long enough in 2017 to head to Texas and record their sophomore set Visionland, a collection that maintains the frantic energy of Banditos’ debut — Salter says both were “90 percent recorded live,” warts and all — while honing their songwriting into sharper focus on songs like surf-y “Lonely Boy” and killer garage rock of “Fine Fine Day.” Banditos’ tour in support of Visionland stops in Spokane Friday. It’s the band’s first visit to the Lilac City, but expectations are high given what Salter says is a special, if unexpected, affinity between the band and WEEKEND the Pacific Northwest. C O U N T D OW N “The U.S. is interGet the scoop on this esting because growing weekend’s events with up in the Southeast, our newsletter. Sign up at there’s a lot of great Inlander.com/newsletter. music, but people would rather hear bar bands around here,” Salter says. “It’s like, no matter how good you are, nobody cares … But the West Coast and the Northwest, I feel like when we played there the first time, we just fit in.” n Banditos with Buffalo Jones • Fri, Jan. 26 at 8 pm • $10 advance, $12 at the door • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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SINGER-SONGWRITER MARC COHN

arc Cohn is best known for his 1991 Grammy-winning single “Walking in Memphis,” which is one of those ubiquitous songs you’ll inevitably hear if you listen to an adult contemporary station long enough. It’s still his biggest hit, but he’s been active ever since, collaborating with the likes of James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby, and he heads to Spokane this weekend on a tour that takes him all around Washington. Cohn’s most recent release was called Careful What You Dream, and it’s built upon an interesting conceit: It’s a collection of decades-old demos that Cohn says he’d completely forgotten about, recorded and abandoned before he was an established artist, and now they’re finally seeing the light of day and making their way into his regular setlist. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Marc Cohn with the Empty Pockets • Sun, Jan. 28 at 8 pm • $35-$55 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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re there any other current local bands whose names scream “Spokane” louder than the South Hill? Funnily enough, the five members of the group are recent transplants to the Inland Northwest, so their sound (a little bit contemporary folk, a little bit classic country, with a hint of old-timey bluegrass here and there) is appropriately eclectic. Since settling in Spokane a few years ago, the South Hill has become a regular presence in the local live music scene, and the band dropped its debut album Half It All back in July. Its retro vibe — from the cover, designed to look like a dog-eared vinyl sleeve, to its nods to alt-country and soft rock of the ’70s — should please anyone who likes their music vintage but polished. — NATHAN WEINBENDER The South Hill • Sat, Jan. 27 at 7 pm • Free • 21+ • Community Pint • 120 E. Sprague • communitypint.com • 953-8266

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J THE BARTLETT, Cattywomp, Smackout Pack BLACK DIAMOND, Tommy G GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Eric Neuhausser JOHN’S ALLEY, The Sweet Lillies J KNITTING FACTORY, Stick Figure, Twiddle, Iya Terra THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Mama Doll and Friends LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Joshua Belliardo RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic Night with Vern Vogal SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Donny Duck Entertainment Karaoke ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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J KNITTING FACTORY, Big Wild, Daktyl, White Cliffs, Feb. 1 J THE BARTLETT, The Original Wailers, Feb. 2 J SPOKANE ARENA, Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi, Turnpike Troubadours, Feb. 2 J THE BARTLETT, Marshall McLean and the Holy Rollers, Jeffrey Martin, Taylor Kingman, Feb. 3 J BING CROSBY THEATER, Eric Johnson, Feb. 3 J BING CROSBY THEATER, Beth Hart, Feb. 5 J KNITTING FACTORY, Sleeping with Sirens, Set It Off, The Gospel Youth, Southpaw, Feb. 7

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

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Catch Fleur de Sel owners Patricia and Laurent Zirotti serving a preview of their Inlander Restaurant Week menu at the second annual First Bite.

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Local food lovers can get an early taste of the upcoming, sixth annual Inlander Restaurant Week (February 22 to March 3) during a special preview of the 10-day culinary celebration. Benefiting Restaurant Week’s designated charity, Second Harvest Inland Northwest, the second annual First Bite event features samplings of menu items from seven of this year’s participating restaurants, along with artisan cheeses from select Dairy Farmers of Washington creameries. Perhaps the best part, though, is that guests will be first to see the official list of all restaurants participating in this year’s Restaurant Week, and can browse the more than 100 three-course menus for all of those restaurants across the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area. — CHEY SCOTT First Bite for Second Harvest • Thu, Feb. 1 from 6-8 pm • $31/ person • 21+ • Barrister Winery • 1213 W. Railroad Ave. • Inlanderrestaurantweek.com

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Jamie Kennedy • Thu, Jan. 25 at 8 pm, Fri, Jan. 26 at 8 pm and Sat, Jan. 27 at 7 and 9:30 pm • $15-$20 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

Tod Marshall: New Beginnings • Sat, Jan. 27 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com 838-0206

Many first saw Jamie Kennedy as an actor after he moved to Hollywood after high school and landed high-profile roles in movies like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet, As Good As It Gets and, especially, Scream, where his conspiracy-minded video clerk was the perfect outlet for Kennedy’s high-energy geekiness. But acting is just one aspect of Kennedy’s skills, and as a standup comic he’s able to draw on his vast Hollywood experiences as a writer, producer and fake rapper (Hello, Malibu’s Most Wanted) to craft his hilarious live shows. — DAN NAILEN

Tod Marshall’s two-year stint as the Washington State Poet Laureate was marked with some serious road trips. Humanities Washington notes that in fiscal year 2017, Marshall visited 190 different communities in 30 Washington counties, and he did most of that in his own car, rolling from Spokane to points every which way. Now that his term is coming to an end, Auntie’s is hosting a celebration of Marshall’s term with readings from Chris Howell, Nance Van Winckel, Maya Zeller, Laura Read, Devin Devine, Terry Lawhead and Kate Peterson, as well as Marshall. — DAN NAILEN

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Coinciding with the culmination of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month is the debut of an emotionally charged and empowering exhibition at the Spokane Public Library’s downtown branch. The collaborative, social justice art project “If You Really KNEW Me” features interactive photography and video telling the stories of local women who have survived unimaginable abuse and oppression of human trafficking. The exhibit, sponsored by multiple community arts and social justice organizations, is on display through the end of February, and can be viewed during regular library hours. During an opening reception, community members can meet project artists, who say: “We hope these images and stories raise awareness, engagement, and political will, so all those still in risk may find safety and freedom.” — CHEY SCOTT If You Really KNEW Me: Stories of Survivors and Warriors • Tue, Jan. 30 from 6-8:30 pm • Free • Spokane Public Library • 906 W. Main • bit. ly/2DYMG8z

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Let’s be clear: The design team in charge of the Riverfront Park redevelopment project isn’t actually considering any dramatic redesigns of the park bathrooms by, say, tearing down the walls and having the toilets facing each other. And Keenan Bennett, the artist behind “Future Defecations: Riverfront Park Public Restroom Planning Forum,” isn’t an official architect involved with the park project. Instead, the Philadelphia-based artist-in-residence at Laboratory is using models of radical open-bathroom designs, including one based on Riverfront Park’s topography, to spark provocative conversations. In particular, he wants to explore how restrooms, once havens for spontaneous encounters between gay men, could, with the right design, again become boundary-breaking social spaces. — DANIEL WALTERS “Future Defecations” • Tue, Jan. 30 from 5-8 pm • Free • Richmond Art Collective • 228 W. Sprague • bit.ly/2DxB92z • 230-5718

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are justified. LIGHTNING BEFORE THE THUNDER To the four girls driving on Boone street after the Spokane chiefs game Saturday 11/20. Thanks for admiring my emphatic singing while I was parked next to you at the light. There was no time to get any numbers as I had to take the chorus. If any or all of you want to hit up a chiefs game again some time let me know, and perhaps I’ll serenade you with another song if you’re lucky. If you think this might be you then email me at gochiefsgo27@ gmail.com

I SAW YOU KOREAN INGREDIENT AT TRADER JOES You were at Trader Joes South Hill on MLK Day, checking out with one item, I was behind you in line and remarked about that. It was Korean, you said it was for a recipe you were making. We exchanged smiles as you were leaving. You have great energy! Same time(3:30) & Place Mon 1/22 ? CHEESE PIRATE I saw you, looking like a pirate, with your curly brown ponytail and teal shirt on, Thursday the 18th at the Main Market. You were looking for booty in the cheese section. I was in the blue cartigan, grabbing a Hanson’s soda and contemplating a bottle of wine. Wanna grab a 3 buck meal next week?? YOU SHOULD KNOW ...better. We were phone/filming the revelers and dancers that night. You left with someone’s belongings that were parked on a seat. Not yours. We have it on camera. You should know better than to leave with that “mistake”, and then not do the right thing. Thinking a reward is offered for the safe return of that coat. Take it back. You really want this attached to the information gathered, thus far? Be brave, not stupid. That doesn’t work out in the end. Happy New Year!! You’re gonna need “one” if you think your actions

CHEERS U HELPED! Morning of the 16th U 2 men helped our son who had fallen on the ice downtown near the 7-11 on division. Got him up,offered to call 911 then helped him complete his errand and saw him home safe. Thank you so much. Words cannot express our gratitude. Faith in mankind restored. CHEERS MR. PRESIDENT & INVOLVED CITIZENS THAT CAN STILL TALK TO EACH OTHER! Whatever shortcomings you have, and there are plenty just like the rest of us, I see companies giving bonuses and hiring workers. I estimate my taxes dropping by a considerable amount, North Korea and South Korea are going to bargaining table for the first time in a few years. 401Ks are way up, and I no longer see news stories in the paper every few days that make me want to wrap my head in duct tape so it doesn’t explode. I’m in a better mood day in and day out, America is on the rise again and we’re not being pushed around by countries and people that will never like us anyway. Here’s to you Donald. One year in, I am convinced I cast the correct vote last year. Cheers also to people from both parties that can discuss politics like adults, without shouting, turning backs on speakers or demonizing the “other side”. Most of us try to be good people, we love our kids and try to

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make the world a better place we just have some disagreements about how we get there. Cheers “clink” & drink. KEITH AT AMC I’m replying to last weeks “Cheers” section about the gentleman named Keith who helped a high functioning young man with some special needs find a seat for the new Star Wars movie. I don’t know the person who wrote the original Cheers and I don’t know Keith from AMC. All I know is that this post made my day, as I’m sure Keith made that young mans day! Keith, you will be remembered in these peoples lives for a long time, if not forever. Maybe you were just doing your job, but your compassion is something that I hope you never lose in life! Kudos to you! WOMEN’S MARCHERS Cheers to the wonderfully diverse group of men and women who filled the streets of Spokane this Sunday. Change is not something to be handed down to us by our betters, but something we must demand for ourselves. The enormous group that turned out to bring attention to a wide range of human rights issues brought warmth to my heart. Thanks as well to the police officers, firefighters, and volunteer peacekeepers keeping an eye on things. You all rock, keep fighting the good fight. HERE WE GO AGAIN Cheers to Inlander for putting the wisdom of Robert Herold and Jen Sorenson on the same page (it’s easier to turn the page faster). His writings are always

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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personal opinion sprinkled with a couple facts. In the January 18th issue one claim is we won’t really get a tax cut. We’ll know next month. I’m sure he’ll apologize if he’s wrong. Jen Sorenson hates Trump so much she probably doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. Maybe we should send her a card. Don’t worry be happy!

JEERS CAUGHT YA You’re on our camera with that coat you took, New Year’s Eve at the piano bar. We filmed with our phones, as we partied. It’s not yours. We told your friends to suggest you do the correct “thing”, and return it. They seemed concerned, and not at all cowardly. Your motive is known only to you. No excuse to not return it. Maybe you already have a police record? If not that, your “record” with your friends is shoddy, in the integrity and honesty columns. Get it right. Turn it around. They’ll respect you, if they even tell you they know.......Perhaps they’ve just moved on. Nobody prefers the company of a thief. BROWN SNOW BONEHEADS A colossal jeers to the dog owners who don’t pick up their waste where kids sled at Downriver. There aren’t words adequate enough to describe your level of suck! DON’T AIR YOUR DIRTY LAUNDRY So I’m at a local laundromat (because that’s my life now). It’s a clean, “fam-

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ily-friendly” place where good folks come to clean their stuff. Great staff. Anyway, there’s this guy in there having a loud, animated discussion on his phone about how people “f’ed him” (I’m editing here). “Dude,” I’m thinking, ”can’t you see the kids in here? Can’t you see the adults quickly and quietly moving away from your general location? Do you have to talk about this stuff here? And now?” I was listening to music with earbuds in, and now I know way more about this guys life than I need to. I had my fill when he started talking about “the Jew”... no name, just “the Jew” over and over again. Sir, I think a greater concern to you should be your health...morbidly obese men shouldn’t get so worked up...you’re a heart attack in waiting. If you want to air your dirty laundry (see what I did there), don’t do it in public. Get help. n

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POP UP SALE! Project Beauty Share is offering shampoo, conditioner, hair products, lotions, and makeup of all kinds at significant savings. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit serving women and their families overcoming abuse, addiction, homelessness and poverty. Jan. 25 from 3-6 pm and Jan. 27 from 9 am-noon. Project Beauty Share, 2718 E. Sprague Ave. projectbeautyshare.org NORTHWEST FEST & SALMON FEAST Family Promise of North Idaho’s 11th annual dinner/auction begins at 5:30 pm with silent auction items, followed by a catered dinner of salmon/chicken, sides and more. Jan. 26, 5:30-9 pm. $50. Coeur d’Alene Eagles, 209 Sherman Ave. familypromiseni.org (208-777-4190) BARN/CONTRA DANCE An old time contra dance with live music by Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots. No experience or partner required. Wear comfortable clothing and non-marking shoes. Proceeds support Meadowbrook Hall. Jan. 27, 6-9 pm. $5$8. Meadowbrook Hall, 8088 W Meadowbrook Loop. (208-416-1534) HOSPICE OF NORTH IDAHO WINE TASTING An elegant, black-tie affair featuring gourmet creations from local chefs and samples of hundreds of handselected specialty wines. Feb. 3, 5-10 pm. $125. Hayden Lake Country Club, 2362 E. Bozanta Dr. hospicewinetaste.org PAIRING WITH PARASPORT Join ParaSport for an evening of celebration, storytelling and fundraising. This engaging evening provides all in attendance an opportunity to meet athletes and better understand that mission. Includes an auction, wine tasting, heavy hors d’oeuvres and more. Feb. 3, 5-8:30 pm. $45/person or $350/table of 8. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. parasportspokane.org SOUPERBOWL SNOWSHOE & NORDIC SKI EVENT All proceeds benefit the Women and Children’s Free Kitchen. “Souper” Bowl lunch provided; snowshoes also available for rental. Feb. 4, 8 am-1 pm. $35. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. souperbowlspokane.com (828-2488)

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2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) JAMIE KENNEDY The actor and comedian is best known for his work in Wes Craven’s “Scream,” “Enemy of the State,” “Three Kings,” and his television show “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” which launched the film “Malibu’s Most Wanted.” Jan. 25-26 at 8 pm; Jan. 27 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $15-$28. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) CHOOSE TO LOSE Audience members compete in this wacky all-improvised game show, in which winning is losing! Fridays at 8 pm through Feb. 9. Rated for general audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests. Events on the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. blue-

doortheatre.com (747-7045) PLANNED PARENTHOOD PRESENTS: BROAD COMEDY Entertaining audiences with politically-savvy adult comedy since 2001, Broad Comedy is a nationallytouring, award-winning, all-women musical comedy and sketch troupe that has been touring for 15+ years. Jan. 26, 8 pm. $31. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (509-822-7938) COOKING LIVE COMEDY A live cooking segment with a comedic twist, featuring local comedians. Last Tuesday of the month, from 7-9 pm. $13. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd., Ste. 120. modernistcooks.com (789-0428)

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7TH ANNUAL HOMELESS CONNECT This annual free event offers a wide variety of services under one roof for anyone experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, including legal consultations, medical checkups, and referrals to community services. Jan. 25, 10 am-2 pm. Free. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana. (325-6810) TALE OF TWO RIVERS An evening of conversation on rivers and dams, salmon and orcas, people and politics, with regional journalists Lynda Mapes and Rocky Barker. Jan. 25, 6-9 pm. Free. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. wildsalmon.org THURSDAY EVENING SWING Weekly swing dance classes and open community dances; Thursdays from 6:45-10 pm. Includes progressive (6:45 pm) and dropin (7:45 pm) lessons, followed by open dancing (8:30-10 pm. $8-$50. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (509-838-5667) TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Visitors experience the legend of Titanic through more than 120 real artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Through May 20; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 8 pm). $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/ages 6-17, $13/college students w/ID. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org A WALK THROUGH POVERTY This new documentary examines the complex nature of poverty in our region through and an immersive experience that includes portrait sketches of some of the individuals who share their experience with the audience about poverty. Jan. 25, 4:30 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library,

906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org DROP IN & CODE FOR KIDS Explore the world of coding using game-based lessons on Code.org and Scratch. For kids grade 3 and up. Meets the last Friday of the month, from 3-5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org/events/drop-in-code ANNUAL CRUISE THE WORLD U of I international students showcase the culture, food and music of about 30 countries during this annual event, held in the International Ballroom of the Bruce M. Pitman Center. Jan. 27, 11 am-4 pm. Free and open to the public. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. bit.ly/2G9Efbn ARTISAN FLEA MARKET Featuring vendors of new and used vintage, modern and collectible items, along with handmade goods. Jan. 27, 9 am-4 pm. $3. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. northidahofair.com BLACK LENS THIRD ANNIVERSARY Join friends of The Black Lens to celebrate the third anniversary of the local newspaper. Jan. 27, 4-8 pm. By donation. House of Soul, 120 N. Wall St. bit.ly/2rzjHFN COMMUNITY DANCE An evening beginning with a nightclub two-step lesson, followed by general dancing, with refreshments, door prizes, mixers, etc. All levels of dancers are welcome. Jan. 27, 7-10 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First. cityofsandpoint.com EASTERN WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE Faith and nonprofit leaders address “Framing Faithful Discourse for the Common Good” in a panel discussion and workshops on the environment, criminal justice, breaking the school to prison pipeline, homelessness, the Doctrine of Discovery and its implications, and faithful response to hate. Jan. 27, 9 am-3 pm. $20/person; $15/groups of 5+; scholarships available. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th Ave. thefigtree.org HAROLD BALAZS MEMORIAL A celebration of the life of local arts icon Harold Balazs. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to organizations supporting the visual arts. Jan. 27, 10:30 am. St. Charles Parish, 4515 N. Alberta. stcharlesspokane.com (509-327-9573) HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR In this free seminar, explore all of the major aspects of the home-buying process in an unbiased format with SNAP Spokane instructors certified by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Registration required; email Dunning@ SNAPWA.org or call 319-3032. Offered Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 from 9 am-2 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) SUICIDE PREVENTION TALK A presentation by Jane Clementi, co-founder of the Tyler Clementi Foundation and mother of Tyler Clementi, who died by suicide in 2010 after being cyberbullied on his college campus. Jan. 29, 7-9 pm. Free and open to the public. Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet. (509-313-6942) SYRINGA SPEAKS Syringa Mobile Home Park has received much media attention because of the residents class action lawsuit filed against the park’s owner Magar E. Magar. This event offers an opportunity for attendees to learn about residents’ experiences from public sociologist Leontina Hormel and directly from park residents. Jan. 29, 6 pm. Free. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. bit.ly/2EWSTBd CHINESE NEW YEAR An open presentation on the Chinese New Year celebra-

tion’s history and importance in the community. Jan. 30, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3500) DOLLARS & SENSE: GIVE YOURSELF A RAISE Discover how to succeed with your budget and avoid money troubles in this workshop from SNAP Spokane. Jan. 30, 6-8 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (509-893-8350) MAKING MENTAL HEALTH ESSENTIAL HEALTH Patrick Kennedy, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and longtime advocate for health care reform related to preventive care and the treatment of mental illnesses, comes to Spokane to lead a community conversation about the importance of mental health in our region. Presented by EWU and Providence Health Care Jan. 31, 6-8 pm. Free. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanecenter.com (279-7000) CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance with the band All in Good Time playing, and caller Penn Fix. No experience necessary; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Jan. 31, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org PREVENT FRAUD & IDENTITY THEFT Learn how to protect your hard-earned money from predators and scams. Register online at stcu.org/workshops. Feb. 1, 6-7 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350)

FILM

THE DISASTER ARTIST The real life story of writer/director Tommy Wiseau, the man behind what is often referred to as “The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies,” The Room, is brought to life, chronicling the odd film’s troubled development and eventual cult success. Jan. 25-28, times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org SPOKANE JEWISH CULTURAL FILM FESTIVAL The 2018 film lineup includes The Last Laugh (NR) on Jan. 25 at 7 pm; Past Life (NR) on Jan. 27 at 7 pm; and A Quiet Heart (NR) on Jan. 28 at 2 pm. See site for details. $7-$10/film; $18/$28 festival pass. Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. sajfs.org PLANETARIUM SHOW: PLANET NINE Join astronomer Mike Brown on the journey toward the scientific discovery of the century, the discovery of Planet Nine. Shows on Jan. 26 at 6 and 7:30 pm and Jan. 28 at 3 and 5 pm. $6/adults; $3/CCS students and ages 3-18. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu/Planetarium HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE MOVIE: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Guido, a JewishItalian, and his son Giosue are sent to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game. Rated PG-13. Jan. 27, 3 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. (444-5331) KID’S SHOW: EARTH, MOON & SUN This educational planetarium show explores the relationship between Earth, Moon and Sun with the help of Coyote, a character adapted from Native American oral traditions. Ages 5-11. Jan. 27, 3-3:30 & 5-5:30 pm. $6/adults; $3/CCS students and ages 3-18. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu/Planetarium DIGIMON ADVENTURE TRI.: LOSS The first English-dubbed Digimon feature to

be released in the U.S. in 16 years. At Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone (CdA0. Feb. 1, 7:30 pm. $13. fathomevents.com (509-482-0209)

FOOD

BARRISTER WINE DINNER A fourcourse dinner at Sante’s Butcher Bar, featuring pairings from Barrister Winery. Jan. 25, 6:30 pm. $65/person. Santé Restaurant & Charcuterie, 404 W. Main Ave. santespokane.com (509-315-4613) CUPCAKE DECORATING Participants learn how to use different frosting tips to make spectacular-looking cupcakes. Space is limited; registration required. Jan. 25, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) PINTS FOR COMMUNITY For the month of January, Community Pint is supporting the West Central Community, with a portion of all No-Li Brewhouse pint sales benefiting its mission and efforts. Jan. 25, 6 pm. Community Pint, 120 E. Sprague. bit.ly/2mOVwPd SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) TASTY THURSDAYS A weekly event featuring live jazz by “The Tasty,” and complimentary wine and beer tastings. Thursdays, from 6-9 pm. Uva Trattoria, 309 E. Lakeside Ave. uvacda.com/events THURSDAY WINE SOCIAL The weekly complimentary wine tasting event features different wine themes and samples of the shop’s gourmet goods. Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. (208-762-1333) YEAR OF THE SAINTED BREWERS KICKOFF The brewery made a Belgianstyle tripel with local plums from the Spokane Edible Tree Project. The beer and kickoff event celebrate St. Veronus, the patron saint of Belgian brewers, who often brewed with what they had available. The brewery is donating $1/pour of this beer for the life of the batch. Jan. 25, 3-9 pm. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2EoH06M BEER DINNER: NEW BEERS FOR A NEW YEAR Join Chef Brian Hutchins and “Baron of Beer” Drew Smith to explore six new brews paired with six gourmet courses. Ticket includes meal, beer, and a discount to use in the store. Jan. 26, 6-8 pm. $55. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com CAKE DECORATING WITH KIDS Learn how to decorate with buttercream and fondant. Jan. 26, 4-6 pm. $19. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd., Ste. 120. modernistcooks.com (789-0428) MILLWOOD BREWING RIBBON CUTTING Come check out the new brewery during a community grand opening and ribbon cutting. Jan. 26, 1 pm. Millwood Brewing Company, 9013 E. Frederick. facebook.com/millwoodbrewery VINO WINE TASTING Friday’s tasting (Jan. 26) features Gamache Vintners, from 3-6:30 pm. On Saturday (Jan. 27), sample bargain wines under $15, from 2-4:30. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (838-1229) WINE TASTING: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ Taste six wines from six different West Coast AVAs. Jan. 26, 4-7 pm. $15. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess BURDEN OF “POOF!”

AMY ALKON

Out of the blue, my boyfriend of two years broke up with me. Not long afterward, I saw pix on Facebook of him with some other girl. It’s been two months since our breakup, and he wants to reconcile, so whatever he got into obviously tanked. We were planning on moving in together in the spring. (Maybe he got cold feet?) I still love him, but I’m worried. Did he just break up with me to be with this girl? How do I know this won’t happen again? —Fighting Uncertainty

We crave certainty, and we get freaked out by uncertainty. If we weren’t like this, there would be no horror movies, because somebody would say, “Whoa…I hear this weird, unearthly growling in the basement,” and their friend would say, “Yeah, whatever” and keep playing chess, and the monster would cry itself to sleep off camera. Interestingly, there are some lessons for dealing with potential romantic horror from actual horror fare. Evolutionary researcher Mathias Clasen, author of “Why Horror Seduces,” believes that one reason we appreciate horror movies is that they allow us to have an intense scary experience under safe circumstances — basically acting as a sort of mental training to help us protect ourselves in dire situations. For example, from a list of horror movie survival tips at the website Slasher Mania: “As a general rule, don’t solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.” Because horror movies are “evolutionarily novel” — meaning they didn’t exist in the ancestral environment that shaped the psychology still driving us today — our brains tend to respond to fictional slasher/zombie/demon stuff as if it were real. So, upon entering a tall building, I occasionally flash on a helpful life lesson I picked up from “The Shining”: If the elevator opens and a flood of blood comes out, take the stairs. Research by Clasen and his colleagues (presented at a 2017 academic conference I attended, but not yet published) appears to give preliminary support to his horror-movies-as-life-prep hypothesis. There is also published research showing benefits from what I’d call “preparative worrying.” For example, social psychologist Kate Sweeny found that law students who worried more about taking their bar exam felt much better about their results — whether they passed or tanked the thing — compared with those who didn’t fret or didn’t fret much. Sweeny notes that findings from her research and others’ support two benefits of worry. Worry amps up motivation — spotlighting “the importance of taking action” to head off some undesirable outcome. Worry also leads people “to engage in proactive coping efforts” — providing an emotional airbag should things go badly. As for your situation, sadly, Apple and Amazon have been remiss in giving Siri and Alexa a crystal ball feature, so there’s no way to know for sure whether this guy would just end up bouncing again. But there is a helpful way to “worry” about a possible future with him, and it’s to do it like a scientist, estimating “probabilities” — what seems likely to happen based on prior experience and information. To do that, ask yourself some questions: Is he generally a person who feels an obligation to be careful with other people’s feelings? How in touch is he with his own? Is he easily bored and does he have a big lust for novelty and excitement (called being “high in sensation-seeking” by psychologists)? Next, factor in your own temperament — how emotionally fragile or resilient you are. Practically speaking, the question to ask yourself: “If he left again, how crushing would that be for me?” However, in answering that, it’s important to get specific about the actual worst-case scenario; for example: “I’d spend four months deforesting the Pacific Northwest by binge-weeping into Kleenex.” This might be a price you’re willing to pay for a shot at being with the man you love, especially if you hate trees. Ultimately, as psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, who studies decision-making, writes: “Understand that there is no certainty and no zero-risk, but only risks that are more or less acceptable.” If you conclude that you can accept the potential downsides of trying again with him, consider that his aborted jaunt off into Otherwomanland may have been a good thing. Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to point us in the right direction. Or, putting that another way, perhaps through your boyfriend’s going for what he thought he wanted, he figured out what he really wants. To avoid being resentful over this little detour of his, maybe use the experience as a reminder to appreciate what you have as long as you have it. As we’ve seen, there are no guarantees in life — not even that the government has safeguards on the missile strike warning system stronger than your grandma’s AOL password. (Hi, Hawaii — glad you’re still with us!) n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR COMMUNITY BREAKFAST The grange’s month Sunday breakfast offers an all-you-can-eat menu of pancakes, sausage, eggs, and drinks. Jan. 28, 8-11 am. $3.50-$5. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com (979-2607) DATE NIGHT CLASS: BEEF WELLINGTON CLASS Learn to make puff pastry and a delightful dinner plate cooking the famous Beef Wellington. Jan. 28, 6-8 pm. $67/couple. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd., Ste. 120. modernistcooks.com (509-789-0428) GOURMET COMFORT FOODS Learn the secrets of decadent, made-fromscratch mac and cheese, starting with how to make a béchamel sauce all the way through to choosing the right cheese combinations. Includes other recipes. Offered Jan. 29 and Feb. 26 from 5:30-7 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. thekitchenengine.com PLANNING MEALS FOR NUTRITION & SAVINGS Educators from Second Harvest share tips for planning easy, nutritious meals and shopping for quality, affordable food. Jan. 29, 4 pm. Free and open to the public. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org CREATE A FREEZER MEAL PLAN Learn the easy way to plan for a week, two weeks, or up to a month in advance for meals. Plus get recipes for great freezer meals and healthy shortcuts you can always have on hand. Jan. 30, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St. scld.org (509-893-8300) CUPCAKE DECORATING Participants learn how to use different frosting tips to make spectacular-looking cupcakes. Space is limited; registration required. Jan. 30, 1-2 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8340) RIVER CITY BREWING BEER DINNER A seven-course dinner featuring unique pairings from the local brewery; reservations required. Jan. 30, 6:30 pm. $65. Clover, 913 E. Sharp Ave. bit.ly/2rvkGqF COOKING CLASS: SUPER BOWL SNACKS This demonstration-style class features five appetizer recipes to wow football fan friends, including cranberry salsa, buffalo wing cauliflower, whipped brie and more. Jan. 31, 5:30-8 pm. $30. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front. secondharvestkitchen.org (252-6249) TOFU TRANSFORMATION Jamie Aquino shares proper cooking techniques and how to transform tofu’s texture from soft and bland, to chewy and complex. Offered Jan. 31 and Feb. 5 from 5:30-7 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. thekitchenengine.com FIRST BITE: A preview event for Inlander Restaurant Week 2018, with samplings of menu items, artisan cheese, live music and the reveal of this year’s restaurants and fixed-price, three-course menus. Proceeds from the event benefit Second Harvest Inland Northwest. Feb. 1, 6-8 pm. $31. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. bit. ly/2DJnhQk (509-465-3591) GRUITFEST 2018 Local breweries celebrate gruit, a historical botanical “pre-hops era” style of beer, which utilizes herbs and spices for flavor in lieu of hops. Seven local breweries and one meadery showcase their gruit ales during this annual event. Entry includes five drink tickets and a commemorative glass ($2/extra tokens). Feb. 1, 5-9 pm. $25/person. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2n1RkM4

ONE DINNER The Inland Northwest Food Network’s series of multi-course benefit dinners featuring one ingredient made by one chef on one night only. Dinners each highlight a seasonal ingredient that will be incorporated into each of the courses; February’s dinner by Chef Tony Brown highlights local grains. Feb. 1, 6 pm. $70. Ruins, 825 N. Monroe. inwfoodnetwork.org RIVER CITY FIRST FRIDAY GARAGE PARTY Celebrate another year of River City Brewing at an anniversary party that doubles as the first official First Friday Garage Party. Featuring music by Funky Unkle, with food from David’s Pizza (limited supply), plus featured beers. Feb. 2, 4-9:30 pm. Free. River City Brewing, 121 S. Cedar St.

MUSIC

AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES A performance by The Ying String Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music, and an ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Jan. 25, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. University of Idaho Administration Building, 851 Campus Dr. uidaho.edu/class/acms FRIDAY MUSICAL The series’ 2018 season opener presents favorites and some fresh chamber music, featuring soprano Sara Duggin, Sheri Jacobson, flute; Germaine Morgan, cello; and Nisha Coulter, piano. Violinist Tiffany Wang also performs several solo pieces. Jan. 26, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Moran United Methodist Church, 3601 E. 65th Ave. moranumc.org (509-448-7102) VIOLIN MASTER CLASS WITH MIRA WANG The public is invited to observe a master class as Spokane Symphony guest violinist Mira Wang gives tips and advice to four local violin students who have auditioned for this rare opportunity to learn from a master. Jan. 26, 3-5 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER CABIN FEVER BENEFIT CONCERT Henry C. & the Willards perform a concert for the Friends of the Clearwater. All proceeds support public lands programming and protecting fish and wildlife habitat in the Clearwater Basin of north-central Idaho. Jan. 27, 7-10 pm. $5. One World Cafe, 533 S. Main, Moscow. friendsoftheclearwater.org (208-882-9755) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS 5: SCHEHERAZADE Chinese violinist Mira Wang performs the U.S. premiere of Torsten Rasch’s “Tropoi” Violin Concerto, his dramatic new work. The rest of the concert, under Music Director Eckart Preu, includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s blockbuster, “Scheherazade,” and Leopold Stokowski’s orchestral arrangement of Bach’s “Komm Susser Tod.” Jan. 27 at 8 pm and Jan. 28 at 3 pm. $14-$57. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY The third concert in the 2017-18 season features guest conductor Dr. Edward Dixon, pianist Melody Morrison, and the music of Grieg and Sibelius. Jan. 27, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. Pullman High School, 510 NW Greyhound Way. washingtonidahosymphony.org (509-332-1551) JUDY COLLINS WITH THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY Singer-songwriter Judy Collins has inspired audiences for

five decades, singing traditional and contemporary folk standards and her poignant original compositions. Feb. 3, 8-10 pm. $39-$86. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200)

SPORTS

MONSTER JAM TRIPLE THREAT SERIES World-class Monster Jam vehicles and athletes deliver more trucks, more racing, more freestyle, more donuts, more wheelies and more action. Jan. 26-27 at 7 pm and Jan. 27-28 at 1 pm. $21-$43. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) BACKCOUNTRY FILM FEST Celebrating winter and human-powered adventure through eight award-winning films about our environment and climate, youth outdoors, and ski culture. Proceeds support the Winter Wildlands Alliance and efforts for the protection of non-motorized winter recreation in the Lookout Pass-Stevens Peak Area. Feb. 1, 7-9:15 pm. $10. Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet. BackcountryFilmFestival.com

THEATER

CACTUS FLOWER Falling in love is rarely simple, as illustrated in this hysterically funny, quirky romantic farce. Through Jan. 28; Thu-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $14-$29. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) MOTOWN THE MUSICAL The American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more. Jan. 24-28; WedSat at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2 pm and Sun at 1 and 6:30 pm. $39.50-$79.50. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (509-279-7000) WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play, this intense and riveting drama exposes the gritty and visceral breakdown between George and Martha, an affluent middle-aged couple. Through Feb. 11; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com AT THE SWEET GUM BRIDGE A play dedicated to the Choctaw nation chief Apushamatahahubih. Through Jan 28; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) LIVING VOICES’S KLONDIKE: THE LAST ADVENTURE A live storytelling performance based on real events, telling the tale of a young woman who braves the perilous journey to the Yukon in search of gold and opportunity. Jan. 26, 7-8:30 pm. $5-$15. Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery, 302 N. First. artinsandpoint.org (208-263-6139) MET LIVE IN HD: TOSCA Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Netrebko. Jan. 27 at 9:55 am and Jan. 29 at 6:30 pm. $15$20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) THE LAST MOTHER IN THE HOUSE OF CHAVIS A family drama exploring relationships through the lens of a father

who discovers his estranged son is to appear in a reality TV show...for drag queens. Jan. 31-Feb. 3 at 7:30 pm, Feb. 3-4 at 2 pm. $10/public (free for UI students). The Forge Theater, 404 Sweet Ave. uidaho.edu/class/theatre COMING HOME: A SOLDIERS’ PROJECT A new theatrical production exploring the experiences of what it is like to return from war to study at Gonzaga University, by Kathleen Jeffs and directed by Charles M Pepiton. Feb. 2-11; Thu-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. (Benefit show on Feb. 1 for Our Place Community Ministries; $25.) $15/ general; $10/GU staff, students; free/ active-duty and retired military. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone Ave. bit.ly/2DnMeDQ FAST & FURIOUS V Stage Left’s fifth annual staged reading of 35 short plays, including new comedies and dramas by local and national playwrights. Feb. 2-3 at 7:30 pm, Feb. 4 at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org YORK A one-man play from the perspective of Clark’s childhood companion and slave, who accompanied the Corps of Discovery as the only black man on the expedition. Feb. 2, 7:30 pm. $15-$22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com

ARTS

HAROLD BALAZS: I DID IT MY WAY A showcase of works by the late, local iconic artist. Balazs’ work populates churches, colleges, parks, and numerous public spaces around the country. “I Did It My Way” features 130+ pieces representing the seven decades of Harold’s work, including new paintings from 2017, along with enamels, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media assemblages. Through Feb. 3; Tue-Sat from 9 am-6 pm. Free to view. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. SONG OF SILENCE: EMBROIDERED TAPESTRIES OF KYRGYZ NOMADS EWU student Angeline Nesbit curated the gallery exhibit with Kyrgyzstan tapestries from Anne Marie Burk’s collection located in Spokane. Through Feb. 9; Mon-Fri from noon-5 pm. Artist reception Jan. 25. Free to the public. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St. ewu.edu/downtowngallery WHAT YOU SAW IS NOT THE SEA An installation by Nicole Pietrantoni and Devon Wootten. Jan. 25-March 1; reception Jan. 24 at noon. Gallery open Mon-Fri from 9 am-5 pm. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Building. ewu.edu.cale/ programs/art/gallery (509-359-2494) BREATH STROKES Create your own artistic energy on paper or canvas using gentle yoga practice and mediation as your foundation. Jan. 27 and Feb. 10 and 24 from 10 am-2 pm. $40/ session. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland. spokaneartschool.net FUTURE DEFECATIONS Join experimental architect Keenan Bennett in a community forum exploring public restrooms as a community resource, combining the current redevelopment of Riverfront Park with queer histories of public restrooms as spaces of equality. Jan. 30, 5-8 pm. Free. Richmond Gallery, 228 W. Sprague. bit. ly/2DxB92z (230-5718) IF YOU REALLY KNEW ME A collaborative, interactive photography exhibition in honor of Human Trafficking

Awareness Month. Participating artists hope their work and the featured stories raise awareness, engagement, and political will, so all those still in risk may find safety and freedom. Reception Jan. 30 from 6-8:30 pm; open Mon-Sat during daily library hours through Feb. 28. Free to view. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org (509-444-5336)

WORDS

INLAND NORTHWEST MILESTONES Hosted by the library in partnership with the Museum of North Idaho, the monthly series is presented by regional historian Robert Singletary. Fourth Thursday of the month, at 7 pm, through May 26. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) POETRY WRITING WITH MARK ANDERSON Fairy tales and myths connect our personal stories to a shared, human story. In this workshop we’ll be drawing upon the strength of these collective stories to investigate our own personal histories. Ages 12+. Jan. 24 and 25 from 6-8 pm. Jan. 25. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.org TITANIC: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS In this first of four RMS Titanic-themed lectures, Premiere Exhibition’s VP of Collections Alexandra Klingelhofer discusses in-depth stories about passengers who were aboard the famous ocean-liner. Jan. 25, 6:30 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) TOD MARSHALL: NEW BEGINNINGS Marshall’s 2016-18 term as Washington State Poet Laureate is coming to an end, and he’s bringing together a group of local poets to help him close out his term in style. Jan. 27, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. DROP IN & WRITE Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of Spark’s supportive local writing community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Meets Tuesdays from 4-5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org MONARCH BUTTERFLIES & MORE IN THE INLAND NW A presentation by John Baumann, naturalist and vice president of the Washington Butterfly Association. Feb. 1, 6:30-9 pm. Free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. tieg.org SPOKANE AUTHORS & SELF-PUBLISHERS Local author and editor Emily G. Moore speaks at the February meeting of Spokane Authors & SelfPublishers. The group meets the first Thursday of each month. Attendees purchase lunch to enter. Feb. 1, 2:303:30 pm. Free. Golden Corral Buffet, 7117 N. Division. spokaneauthors.org 3 MINUTE MIC FEATURING PATTY TULLY Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic continues with featured reader Patty Tully. Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. This is a free speech event, so content is not censored. Hosted by Chris Cook. Feb. 2, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com n

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Association, told the Associated Press. “They can have their guns or their marijuana, but not both.” The plan was for those purchasing marijuana to be put on an online database available to state policing bodies, but now Pennsylvania’s Department of Health is not taking part in the database and asking the federal government to reconsider the drug’s scheduling. The patients’ registry would have been seen in a background check, excluding them from purchasing firearms in the state. Instead, law enforcement will need a patient’s actual medical marijuana ID card to verify their participation, with no information found in background checks.

In 2016, Chief District Judge Gloria Navarro of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal ban of gun sales to state-legal medical marijuana users did not violate the Second Amendment. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) added a warning of the exclusion to their Firearms Transaction Record form for the gun purchasers. Buying a firearm would result in perjury charges — a felony — for cannabis consumers. It is unclear how gun ownership will change as states see more consumers in both the medicinal and recreational pot market than ever before. In Washington state, the medical marijuana authorization is not connected to any registry so it presumably would not affect prospective gun owners’ right to purchase or carry a gun at the state level. But Washington’s Department of Health does recognize that owning firearms is federally illegal for users. What may be most interesting in this battle is the uncharacteristic silence from the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA is a group that is known for their unwavering defense of the Second Amendment, demanding that being placed on a no-fly list or a diagnosis of a severe mental illness should not be grounds for preclusion from gun ownership. n

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