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“You’re not a city with a decent cultural identity without a good film festival,” says Chase Ogden, one of the SpIFF organizers. “Film festivals are an opportunity to see things you wouldn’t otherwise see. It’s bringing the world to Spokane.”

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resident Trump wasn’t so much “disinvited” to deliver his State of the Union speech at the Capitol — no, Speaker Nancy Pelosi “informed” him that, due to his government shutdown, she would be unable to pull off such a major event safely. Good for Nancy!

Trump still fails to grasp that we have a government of divided powers: He runs the White House, the speaker runs the Capitol. Pelosi is reminding him of something he should have learned by the sixth grade.

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to scare everyone with reports that last year 17,000 criminals were apprehended at the border.

If you have three minutes, you can debunk this bit of cheap demagoguery.

The serious drugs are smuggled in at border crossings, and even by air and sea. (Meanwhile, Trump is cutting the Coast Guard budget.)

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legal entries have fallen to their lowest numbers in half a century.

Of course the United States needs an immigration policy that cleans up the road to citizenship and better regulates migrant labor while recognizing the need for asylum. Trump’s wall is no answer at all — especially now that Mexico isn’t paying a dime.

The real crisis is here at home, now that we hear that Trump wants to deliver Putin his biggest wish by taking America out of NATO. You heard that right: NATO, the foundation of world peace since the 1940s. On top of that, the CBO predicts that a trillion-dollar deficit is on the way.

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Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in the popular vote by just under 3 million votes, but she lost the election. That’s minority rule. In the 2018 midterms, the disparity was even more pronounced: Yes, the Democrats took back control of the House, but because of the way states draw district lines, they didn’t win as many seats as they should have. Democrats carried the total national vote by about 12 million votes in the midterms — but actually lost seats in the Senate!

We have lived with this deal for more than two centuries, but consider the costs. We needed a Civil War to end slavery and ensure the right to vote, but those voting rights are still being denied to many more than a century later. And let’s not forget we have a Supreme Court that also reflects minority rule.

We’re off the rails, but at least the list of reforms we need to get back to what our Founders intended has been made completely clear.

Let’s end where we began, with Trump’s monthlong shutdown, followed by a three-week reprieve with no real plan after that. Economists now estimate that the negative impact on the economy is twice what they first predicted.

Trump always finds a way to deflect all his self-inflicted bad news, but he really outdid himself a couple weeks back, managing to be insulting, embarrassing and completely oblivious all at the same time. I refer to his tasteless (pun intended) hamburger feed for the Clemson football team — the single strangest White House gathering ever and perhaps the most emblematic of this moment.

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Q&A DAINEN PENTA The new executive director of Center for Justice promises to continue the influential local group’s equity-minded mission

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he Center for Justice, the Spokane-based legal advocacy organization, has made a name for itself since it was founded 1999 as a defender of the public interest and vulnerable populations. Its staff attorneys were on the frontlines of successful litigation against the city of Spokane over the 2006 fatal beating of Otto Zehm by local police officers, and it currently offers a slew of low-income legal services. Now, its new executive director, 42-year-old Dainen Penta — a graduate of Whitworth University — promises to bring his past experience as a consumer bankruptcy and real estate attorney to bear in continuing the center’s work.

INLANDER: What’s your vision for the Center for Justice?

PENTA: My chief concern is to continue the work that’s been done already and to further the mission.

The center does direct representation, re-licensing, helping people get their licenses back so they can drive legally. They also run rental-rights clinics and do a lot of work around housing. And then handle one-off cases that are likely to have an impact.

[We] also are moving towards a dual-purpose where we have direct representation, making a difference on the micro level, and [then] the macro piece where we engage in advocacy efforts. I think the center really wants to be seen broadly as a go-to … as a subject-matter expert on what [local] laws might look like.

The center is a place where we take ourselves outside of the usual lawyer model of an adversarial relationship because we’re trying to build a better community and a more inclusive community. I think a conciliatory and restorative justice perspective is really important at the center.

How would you differentiate the Center for Justice from the Gonzaga Law Clinic and the Northwest

Justice Project?

I think it is the advocacy perspective. We’re another voice, another player, another stakeholder in a lot of different things. One of my goals will be to not try and reinvent the wheel or duplicate efforts. If somebody else is doing something positive, I think we can work with them, share resources, bolster our efforts, and hopefully that will improve outcomes, whether that’s criminal justice reform, race equity, [or] housing justice.

How will your previous legal experience influence your work at the Center for Justice?

I was a consumer-side bankruptcy lawyer and [it was] really rewarding. It’s stressful because you’re working with people who are in often dire financial straits. The three top reasons that people file for bankruptcy are job loss, medical reasons, divorce. And a lot of times those three are tied together.

I really learned that there’s a very thin line separating the gainfully employed, contributing members of society from people who are living on the streets.

We have to stop saying “us-versus-them” and in our minds creating a separate class of society because it just takes one health care episode [to go bankrupt].

What originally drew you to law?

I wish I could say that I had always wanted to be a lawyer. I didn’t have any specific ideas about what I wanted to do, I just knew that I wanted to make a good living and change the world for the better.

That’s kind of what led me to law school. I think the key piece of it is access to the legal system and understanding a lot of the inner workings of not just the legal system but also the way that our government works. It’s a really powerful thing to be able to write a letter and maybe influence somebody that is making the laws. n This has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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HARD CHOICES our cover story on attitudes about climate change (“Act Now! The

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We who already live lightly must LETTERS confront the mindset that restricting Send comments to the greed of corporate polluters and editor@inlander.com. war profiteers is against our best interests. Supporting the war economy increases the temporal wealth and power of a few, but it is strangling and poisoning us all.

RUSTY NELSON, Rockford, Wash.

Readers respond to a story about Jake Eakin, an anti-abortion activist and murderer who was invited on Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan’s radio show:

ANGELA LALONDE: I know my monthly donation to Planned Parenthood has saved far more lives than these anti-abortionist nitwits have.

TERRY PARKER: The scariest part is Fagan continues to get elected and a local media outlet has provided him a platform.

SUSAN TRIMBLE WINLOW: Well, that’s some incompetence on Fagan’s part. One would think you’d dig up background on who you’re interviewing. From a retired newspaper editor, kudos to the Inlander. Good work!

SHAY EDWARDS: None of these people are pro-life… they are pro-birth. They don’t give a hoot about anything except regulating a woman’s uterus and the decisions she can make.

JOEL CROW: The very last point made in this article is a great one.

Eakin clearly lacks a strong community to disciple him as a new Christian and help him overcome the past one day at a time. Instead, he drowns out the past with fury against others’ sins. But the rest of this article is misguided. It emphasizes that he killed a child — he was himself 12 years old. There is something much more evil and broken at work in that situation than just that he’s a bad person.

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University District Director Lars Gilberts says of housing: “Right now, we’re pretty close to 1,000 units short in the University District.”

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hen the University District Gateway Bridge finally opened last year, connecting the eastern part of downtown Spokane to the East Sprague neighborhood, it was only the latest accomplishment for the public development authority charged with transforming the 770-acre district.

The University District — the economic and educational hub roughly between Browne and Hamilton streets, Sharp Avenue and Interstate 90 — includes Washington State University-Spokane, Gonzaga University and the eastern third of downtown Spokane. And lately, it’s been booming.

Today, Washington State University’s Spokane-based medical school is not only churning out new doctors, the University of Washington’s partnership with Gonzaga has made Spokane a top destination for UW medical students as well.

And within the next two years, the Central City Line will bisect the district with high-frequency bus access from the district to downtown, Browne’s Addition and Spokane Community College.

And yet, as City Councilwoman Candace Mumm raised during a council meeting this month, there’s a big

hole missing from all the recent development: housing.

“I’m very concerned — and I’ve said this many times — that we’re creating a commuter campus with the University District, because the [educational] institutions are not wanting to be in the housing business,” Mumm says.

It’s a concern that Lars Gilberts, executive director of the University District Public Development Authority, generally shares. As successful as the district has been, he says, there are still a lot of gaps.

“It’s like Swiss cheese,” says Gilberts. “It’s not one hole. It’s lots of holes.”

THE HOLES

As the University District is preparing to launch the next update of their master plan in March, outlining how to generate more educational and business growth, Gilberts expects the housing gap to be featured prominently.

“Right now, we’re pretty close to 1,000 units short in the University District. With how things are developing, those could be absorbed pretty darn quickly,” Gilberts says. “We’re going to have more students, more programs, more professors. … I can see the current need being doubled or tripled.”

After all, the housing crisis is citywide. For around three years, the city’s apartment vacancy rate has hovered at about 1 percent.

In particular, Gilberts says, there’s a lack of diverse housing options south of the University District bridge.

Yes, Catholic Charities has built hundreds of units in the area targeted at housing the formerly homeless. Spokane Housing Ventures manages a number of low-income housing complexes in the district.

But there’s not a lot of nonsubsidized housing in that area, Gilberts says.

“I want to place the person who is on disability who needs to be close to medical services [right next to] their doctor,” Gilberts says. “The market can support both.”

Ideally, he says, there would be a broader mix of apartments. There would be more condos. And there would be more of the holy grail of walkable urban design: Mixed-use buildings, combining retail on the ground floors with housing on the top.

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“WHERE WILL PEOPLE LIVE?,” CONTINUED... broker at American Real Estate. “Those type of areas flourish in bigger [cities].”

But so far, despite all the demand for more housing in the district, development has been slow to respond.

“With vacancies so low, why aren’t we seeing some of those things happening here?” Gilberts asks.

THE WORD ABOUT THE BYRD

Eight years ago, it looked like the universities themselves might be intending to build a lot more housing in the University District.

In 2011, a company called Campus Advantage announced plans to purchase the six-story Jensen-Byrd Building at Washington State University-Spokane, tear it down, and build enough housing for 425 students. But that sparked a flurry of opposition from local historical preservation advocates, and the proposal was nixed. Eight years later, the Jensen-Byrd is still empty, its future still unclear.

Layton calls the Jensen-Byrd an “albatross,” noting that its low ceilings and other obsolete design features make rehabbing hard to pencil out for developers.

“I heard someone say: The best thing that building could have is a match, some gasoline and someone to walk away and it mysteriously gets burned down,” Layton says. “That’s not going to happen.”

Ultimately, the logistics of the Jensen-Byrd may be irrelevant. As WSU-Spokane has pursued the development of the medical school, the notion of pushing for student housing has faded away.

“The question came up again when I was chancellor,” former WSU-Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown says. “Given that we have a graduate and professional students, students with families, dormitory housing just didn’t seem like the right option.”

That sentiment has continued. Jim Mohr, WSU-Spokane vice chancellor for student affairs,

says that a 2017 survey found that only about 25 percent of students indicated an interest in WSU adding student housing.

“The schools announced they are not going to be providing housing,” Mumm says. “Well, then, who is?’”

Anyone interested in building housing in the University District faces a number of challenges.

“Trying to assemble enough land is difficult,” says developer Chris Batten of RenCorp Realty.

“Generally speaking, most of the parcels that you could buy are relatively small.”

If you want to build big apartment complex, you’ve got to corral all those little properties, a project that can take years and cost millions.

And unlike the downtown core, much of the University District is still saddled with parking minimums. Want to build higher? Then you need to build more parking LETTERS spaces, which Send comments to can often take editor@inlander.com. more land.

Either way, Layton says, mixed-use downtown development means taking a big risk in a city that’s often wary of rolling the dice.

“This isn’t a home-run-hitting town. It’s a lot of singles and doubles,” he says. “And so you’ve got to be careful how hard you swing.”

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Three years ago, Downtown Spokane Partnership Director Mark Richard says he and Californian developer David Schneider started specifically looking for buildings in the University District that could be transformed into apartments.

“We were going door-to-door and asking property owners that didn’t have for-sale signs on their buildings if they were interested in selling,” Richard says.

And Schneider, owner of University Housing Partners, seemed like the right guy for the job.

He was responsible for 940 North, the 61-unit,

six-story, high-end Gonzaga student apartment complex that opened in 2016. That year, he’d also proposed a $20 million mixed-use project at the site of the old Midas Muffler building on Division and Spokane Falls Boulevard.

“That is a gateway location,” Gilberts says. “That is a prime spot.”

The plan was to call it the University District Apartments, 154 apartment units on top of 12,000 square feet of retail space.

“This isn’t a home-run-hitting town. It’s a lot of singles and doubles.”

But Schneider pulled out of the deal. The ground itself was polluted. He says it would have cost $2 million to clean up.

In the University District, you’ve got more than a century of pollution, starting with the burnt wood and slag left behind by Spokane’s Great Fire 130 years ago. On top of that, Spokane built and tore down railroads and factories, old gas stations and dry cleaners, that all left behind a slop of contaminated soil.

Schneider says he tried to get the city of Spokane to pay the full cost of environmental remediation, but the city declined.

“Who’s the biggest loser there? The city,” Schneider says. “If I would have built the building with apartments, where are the tenants going to go? They’re going to go around the corner to eat.

They’re going to do their dry cleaning there. It would dramatically increase the revenue in the area.”

Teri Stripes, a Spokane city planner, says that there were routes that Schneider could have gone down to ease the cost.

But she also says that “brownfields” — potentially contaminated ground — remains one of the biggest challenges for the University District.

“As an individual property owner, you don’t know what you don’t know,” Stripes says.

Both the city of Spokane and the University District have put a major focus on addressing the pollution predicament. They’re both part of a coalition applying for an Environmental Protection Agency grant to provide environmental assessment and remediation planning funds to repair brownfields.

In the meantime, there’s still hope for the Midas Muffler lot.

Last March, the lot was sold to wealthy local developer Lanzce Douglass. Douglass did not return an Inlander request for comment, but the name of the LLC he used to purchase it, “Riverpoint Campus Apartments,” suggests that the dream of more housing at the lot isn’t dead.

Douglass hasn’t yet fixed the contamination issue. But according to the Department of Ecology, Douglass is working with them to try to finalize a voluntary cleanup plan. Gilberts says the University District might be able to help ease issues with such sites.

“If the community saw that as a catalytic site, there’s a lot of ways to impact that,” Gilberts says.

THE CATALYST

This month the Spokane City Council voted to hand another opportunity to the University District: They transferred an estimated $1 million property — the former Visit Spokane building on Main, on the eastern edge of downtown — to the University District PDA. “This is an opportunity on this corner … to look at really providing the housing that is needed to support our future doctors and our people who are professors there,” Councilwoman Mumm said from the dais.

Gilberts says that’s a possibility. But he also says the role of the University District PDA isn’t necessarily to be the developer that fills in what the district lacks. The key with the new property, he says, is to try to figure out a project that isn’t just another nice building, but one that’s a catalyst to spark a whole wave of University District development.

“We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to say, how do we want to use that to benefit our region?” Gilberts says. “We need to be a steward of opportunities.” n danielw@inlander.com

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LEFT AT THE ALTERNATOR Avista and Canadian utility company Hydro One have decided to call off their wedding, following two denials of their proposed merger by the Idaho and Washington utility commissions. The two companies announced Jan. 23 that they would no longer pursue the merger, which means Hydro One has to pay a $103 million termination fee to Avista. “While disappointed with the outcome, I want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who worked with us on this effort over the past 18 months,” Avista CEO SCOTT MORRIS said. “Avista is a strong, vibrant, and independent utility, and we look forward to building on our legacy.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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USING HER PLATFORM Mandy Manning, the Spokane teacher who is the National TEACHER OF THE YEAR, has spearheaded a campaign called Teachers Against Child Detention. Next month, she and other teachers from across the country plan to hold a “teach-in” in El Paso, Texas, advocating against the detention of migrant children. “We are putting children into detention facilities across the nation simply because they were born outside the United States,” Manning tells the Inlander. “I know that’s not something most people in the U.S. agree with.” The teach-in will be held on Sunday, Feb. 17, and broadcast on Facebook and YouTube from El Paso. “Most likely, I have had children in my classroom who in a different time would have been placed in detention,” Manning says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

LAWMEN AND LAWBREAKERS Portland-based stand-up comedian Mohanad Elshieky’s account of being interrogated by Border Patrol at Spokane’s Greyhound bus depot went viral on Sunday. Border Patrol says that Elshieky didn’t have the asylum paperwork he’s legally required to carry. But here’s the thing: Arguably, BORDER PATROL was also breaking the law. Last year, the Spokane City Council passed a law that barred the Border Patrol from entering into the nonpublic spaces of the city-owned Intermodal Center — like the Greyhound bus depot — without explicit permission from the mayor. But both Border Patrol and Mayor David Condon have concluded that the city’s law is trumped by the federal authority given to the Border Patrol.

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THOU SHALT NOT MURDER City Council member Mike Fagan, and co-host Tim Benn, had a lot to talk about on their radio show with Moses Lake-based anti-abortion activist Jake Eakin (pictured). Eakin and several of his allies have been attending Spokane City Council meetings, using the public forum to demand that the City Council defy Supreme Court rulings and ban ABORTION within its city limits. Eakin has also been active during Planned Parenthood protests, calling women who have abortions murderers. What Fagan didn’t know, he says, was that Eakin himself had a second-degree murder conviction on his record.

When Eakin was 12, he and a friend killed a special ed student in Ephrata, Washington. Today, at 28, Eakin says he’s found purpose in the movement to abolish abortion. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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NEWS | BRIEFS

Security Lesson

A stolen hard drive contained information on 1.2 million people.

It could be a costly one for WSU

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lost HARD DRIVE at a storage facility in Olympia could wind up costing Washington State University $5.26 million to settle a lawsuit.

The Washington State University Board of Regents last week authorized lawyers to negotiate up to that amount to settle a class-action lawsuit that came as a result of a burglar stealing a safe containing the hard drive.

The hard drive contained sensitive information of about 1.2 million people, including their names and Social Security numbers.

Phil Weiler, WSU spokesman, says that any settlement will be covered by the university’s insurance. A tentative settlement agreement has been reached, though the final payout could be less than the $5.26 million the Board of Regents authorized. The possible $5.26 million settlement is in addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars the university spent in response to the data breach that included a security firm and the mailing of letters to those who may have been impacted.

Weiler says the university is still unsure if whoever stole the hard drive from the storage facility has attempted to use the sensitive data. The hard drive was locked

in a safe that was stolen from a locker in 2017, but it’s unclear if the burglar was able to break into the safe.

“We haven’t seen any evidence that anyone’s data was compromised,” Weiler says.

Police in Olympia have not been able to solve the case. The class-action lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court says the university should have protected the private information and failed to do so. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

FINAL VERDICT

Richard Sovenski, the Hayden, Idaho, man who hurled RACIAL SLURS at a Spokane youth group and allegedly assaulted an adult accompanying them last summer, was recently found guilty of misdemeanor battery by a jury. Now, he’s reportedly been sentenced to 180 days of work-release.

Under his work-release sentence, Sovenski must sleep in a correctional facility but will be allowed to leave during the day for his construction job.

“I’m happy that he will be serving some time,” says Jose Ceniceros, the former youth community director at

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Immanuel Church in Spokane who was with the teens during the incident. “I’m glad he got what he got.”

The case stems from an altercation last summer. On July 12, Ceniceros led a group of teens — some of whom were biracial — to Coeur d’Alene to hear a preacher speak before heading to a McDonald’s for ice cream. As they were leaving, Sovenski, 52, allegedly knocked Ceniceros to the ground and proceeded to yell racial slurs and profanities and told them to “get the f--- out of Idaho.”

(Ceniceros says he started filming with his cellphone after he was punched, and captured Sovenski’s outburst on video.)

Sovenski was charged with misdemeanor battery and felony malicious mischief. However, on Dec. 20, a Kootenai County jury only found him guilty of committing battery, and not the felony harassment charge, which is a hate crime.

Ceniceros, who was present at Tuesday’s sentencing hearing in Coeur d’Alene, says that the county prosecutor originally only asked for 60 days of work-release for Sovenski. But the presiding judge, Scott Wayman, increased it to 180.

“The judge was pretty strong worded … and was not happy with [Sovenski’s] actions and considered him a threat to the public,” Ceniceros says.

Michael Palmer, Sovenski’s attorney, tells the Inlander that the final sentence was excessive given the conviction and Sovenski’s criminal record. “His only criminal history is a DUI from six and half years ago,” Palmer says.

“He literally has never been in the criminal justice system other than that.”

Ceniceros adds in a text that he and several other community members who were present at the hearing were surprised with the length of the final sentence. “We were all fearing no jail,” he writes. (JOSH KELETY)

CUTTING THE SALON BILL

An impassioned crowd of hair stylists and barbers tangled with legislators Tuesday over a bill that, initially, would have banned the common “BOOTH RENTAL” model of hair salon businesses.

While some salons and barbershops have a stable of employees, many simply rent their chairs to individual barbers and stylists, who run their own one-person businesses on their own schedule.

The bill, introduced by Washington state Sen. Karen Keiser and co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig, was intended to address what some salons complained as an unlevel playing field between salons that had official employees and those who simply rented out booths.

Kari Reddinger, owner of Haven Hair Studio and Spa in Kennewick, claimed that there were over 800 small businesses that would go under if the bill passed.

After an initial wave of backlash, Keiser modified her bill last week. Instead of banning “booth rentals” entirely, it attempted to subject booth rental businesses to the same legal structures — like paying unemployment and workers comp — as salons with employees. But it also would expand the new restrictions to include booth rentals at barbershops.

Chris Banka, owner of the Brickyard Barbershop, says stylists and barbers all across Spokane have been upset about the bill.

“People are pissed. It’s trying to screw with our livelihood,” Banka says. “What they are trying to do is to cut out the little guy and take out any competition.”

While Billig says one goal of the original bill had been to ensure that stylists were able to have access to the state’s social safety net, he says the bill will not move forward in its current form. He credits the public for sharing their concerns.

“I do not support the original bill any longer, because of the helpful information we have been provided,” Billig says. “This is just how democracy is supposed to work.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

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NEWS | HOMELESSNESS

Give Me Shelter

Do Spokane’s warming centers provide enough shelter to enforce the sit-lie ordinance on the homeless?

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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ll of Timothy King’s belongings — some clothes, a pair of boots, a toothbrush — fit into a suitcase small enough to carry onto an airplane. Its wheels were meant for the smooth tile floors in airports, not the rough city streets of Spokane in winter.

King, 24, brings the suitcase wherever he goes. That might be across town for a shower at a local center for homeless youth, or the downtown mall, or wherever he can find his next meal. But he tries not to linger on public streets or sidewalks downtown. There are a couple reasons for that. One, it “doesn’t look good,” he says. And two, it will soon be against the law.

“I’m not a criminal or anything like that,” he says.

In November, the Spokane City Council voted to suspend an ordinance that allows police to cite people who sleep or lie on downtown streets and sidewalks. The law, commonly referred to as “sit-lie,” can only be enforced when shelter space is available, and council members decided to erase any ambiguity in that interpretation by suspending it all together this winter until more shelter space was available. Now, with the opening of several warming centers, the city plans to enforce the law again starting Feb. 8.

But it’s debatable whether the warming centers count as “shelter space” for people like King. He sleeps on a mat at Westminster Congregational Church, with his suitcase at arm’s length because there’s no storage room.

And while the warming centers provide a place for the homeless to sleep at night, sit-lie isn’t enforced at night, but only between 6 am and midnight.

Councilwoman Kate Burke, who has always been against the sit-lie law, argues it’s an injustice to homeless people.

“Where are they supposed to go?” she says. “I can’t imagine, in this weather, being pushed out of everywhere you go. It would feel so burdensome and irritating that you’re being treated like that as a human.”

WHAT IS A SHELTER?

It’s unconstitutional to prosecute people for sleeping on the streets if they have nowhere else to go, a federal appeals court ruled last year. But Spokane’s sit-lie ordinance attempts to work around that by specifying that it’s only enforceable when shelter space is available for the homeless.

Proponents of the sit-lie law argue that it’s a critical tool to compel homeless individuals to seek services that could help them. Those who are cited under the law in Spokane are directed to community court, where they can have access to services they may need. Others, however, argue it criminalizes homelessness when they have few other options.

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Timothy King, 24, says he has been homeless since the death of his father last summer. that of 2014, 2015 and 2016 combined. On Sept 1, the city’s main 24/7 shelter, House of Charity, run by Catholic Charities, ended its 24/7 model. Yet despite the loss of shelter space, city records provided to the Inlander show that sit-lie citations continued until Nov. 19, the day City Council decided to suspend the law.

Councilman Breean Beggs says the council suspended it because it was unclear when there was adequate space or not. Even Beggs acknowledges that it’s not clear in the city ordinance what “shelter space” means exactly.

“That’s kind of an open question that might require some amendment,” Beggs says.

Beggs personally doesn’t count warming center spaces as shelter beds. Warming centers keep people safe while they sleep at night, but they don’t have the services that shelters do. Beggs visited Truth Ministries recently, a shelter east of downtown on Sprague. And the difference between that and a warming center is stark.

While warming shelters like Salem Lutheran and Westminster can’t offer food or storage inside, shelters like Truth Ministries on Sprague do. Truth Ministries has 54 beds, not mats on the ground. It offers LETTERS a meal and shower to Send comments to everyone who stays editor@inlander.com. there. Usually, there are rules to get in, including no weapons or drugs, and that those who stay there must have a goal to get off the street. But Truth Ministries relaxes those rules in winter, says director Marty McKinney.

So if warming centers don’t count as “shelter” spaces, can sit-lie be enforced now just because of the additional warming centers?

“Someone could challenge that,” Beggs says. “I would imagine someone will, probably.”

City Council President Ben Stuckart, however, remains confident in the city’s legal analysis that says it is enforceable. He says the intent on the night City Council suspended sit-lie was always to start it again once warming shelters opened up. And now, there are 275 warming shelter spaces. When he hears arguments that those aren’t adequate, he feels like it’s moving the goalposts.

“We didn’t say permanent shelter beds. That wasn’t the ask. The people who asked us were concerned di-

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rectly about warming centers not being opened,” Stuckart says. “You don’t get to change the terms of everything because now you want more.”

SHELTER IN THE WORKS

Mike Shaw, executive director of the Guardians Foundation, which runs warming shelters in the city, has mixed feelings on sit-lie. On the one hand, he says it does criminalize homelessness, especially for people with few options during the day.

“You can’t enforce that without places for people to go,” Shaw says. “During the day, there’s still really no place for them to go.”

But on the other hand, he sees why it might work for some people. At the warming center on South Cannon Street, he says people leave the shelter at 7 am and then, with nowhere to go, sit right down on the sidewalk.

“Not one of them is looking for services,” Shaw says.

“They’re just waiting for my doors to open back up at 7 at night. Sit-lie would be a tool to say, ‘Hey guys, let’s go find services.’”

Mark Richard, president of the Downtown Spokane Partnership, argues the sit-lie ordinance should have never been suspended in the first place because the ordinance itself specifies that enforcement can occur only when there’s no space available in shelters. He’s in favor of sit-lie being enforced again, even if it’s during the day when warming centers aren’t open.

“Its intention is to compel people to get under a roof,” even if the time doesn’t align perfectly, he says.

While Burke hopes the sit-lie law is erased altogether, Beggs says he thinks it will be amended. His suggestion would include two amendments: one that changes the definition of “shelter” to an actual bed, and another that changes the ordinance to only enforce it if someone is blocking a street or sidewalk, not just standing on the corner not causing any problems.

Stuckart, however, says there’s no consensus on the council yet for any changes. What there is consensus on? A new 24/7 shelter that gives the homeless a place to be all the time. The warming centers will close in April unless the city decides to keep them open for longer. Yet Stuckart says the goal is to open a 24/7 shelter by July 1.

“And that needs to be followed through on,” Stuckart says. “That’s a discussion we’re having with the mayor.” n

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Spokane International Film Festival

Directors’ Commentary SPIFF’s co-directors walk us through the process of putting together a weeklong FIlm festival

By Nathan Weinbender

I SpIFF’s current directors Chase Ogden and Kendra Ann Sherrill, who have both been involved with the organization for six years. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

t obviously doesn’t take much effort to watch a movie: You’re just sitting in the dark and staring at a screen for a couple hours. But for the folks behind the Spokane International Film Festival, it takes a whole lot of work to make your attendance a lot easier.

SpIFF’s current directors are Chase Ogden and Kendra Ann Sherrill, who have both been involved with the organization for six years and have each seen the process from various angles — as interns, programmers and marketers. Now they’re at the helm.

In the week before SpIFF’s 21st opening night, Ogden and Sherrill sat down with the Inlander to give us some behind-the-scenes insights into the festival, and they detailed what it takes to pull off an event like SpIFF every year.

PROGRAMMERS WATCH DOZENS OF FEATURES AND HUNDREDS OF SHORTS.

It starts with the movies: The programmers have a pool of about 40 feature-length films and nearly 200 short films, all of which have be watched by more than one programmer before they’re considered for the schedule.

“We try to get at least two people on every film,” Ogden says, “because we all have different tastes.”

THERE’S A FINE ART TO CURATION.

The SpIFF schedule isn’t put together at random.

If you’re showing two movies at once, for example, you want to pick titles with as little audience overlap as possible: With a children’s film on one screen, a political documentary might be playing on the other.

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different voices as possible — different crew types, different genres, different countries — and making sure those work to create a whole program that has appeal but also cultural value.”

He also points out that around 37 percent of the screened films were either directed or produced by women, the most female filmmakers SpIFF has had on a single program.

“And once we have [the program] set, it’s off to the races,” Sherrill explains. “I have to put together the program, gathering all the info from the filmmakers and distributors, and contacting the filmmakers and coordinating their travel.”

EVERYTHING IS DONE BY VOLUNTEERS.

Both Sherrill and Ogden stress the heavy lifting done by volunteers, who do everything from distributing schedules and posters to spending hours looking at films, most of which never make it to the final schedule.

“This festival wouldn’t be possible without all the support we get,” Ogden says. “It truly is amazing how many people volunteer their time to make it possible, and it is an event I think Spokane should be proud of.”

HERE’S WHAT THEY’RE SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO.

Sherrill points to the opening night festivities, which will feature back-to-back programs of regionally and locally made short films.

“We had so many really great Northwest films come to us, we decided to make two programs — the Best of the Northwest shorts, and a program of three mid-length films,” Sherrill says. “One ticket gets you to the whole night and the party, and there’s a break in between the screenings. It’s supposed to be a nightlong experience.”

“I think the opening gala is the premiere Spokane film event,” Ogden says. “I’ve met equity investors that have helped fund films I’ve worked on, all the producers that I’ve worked with in the last six years came from meeting at a gala. As far as networking and talking to people about film, I always look forward to that.”

“Film festivals are an opportunity to see things you wouldn’t otherwise see.

It’s bringing the world to Spokane.”

Ogden also singles out the family-friendly animated film Big Bad Fox (Feb. 2 at 12:30 pm at the Magic Lantern), an anthology of fairy tale stories from the filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine.

“In the last six years, we haven’t had a single film that would be appropriate for my children, so it was really important for me to find a film that my kids could come watch with me,” he says. “I’m excited to take my 4-year-old to that.”

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT FOR SPOKANE TO HAVE A FILM FESTIVAL.

Sure, Spokane isn’t exactly Cannes, but SpIFF has become the go-to event for curious moviegoers to expand their horizons and have conversations with like-minded cinephiles.

“You’re not a city with a decent cultural identity without a good film festival,” Ogden says. “Film festivals are an opportunity to see things you wouldn’t otherwise see. It’s bringing the world to Spokane. It’s curated for you, so there’s a stamp of quality that you know you’ll be getting, and I think that’s valuable, as opposed to just browsing Netflix.” n

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SpIFF

Local Portraits A look at two short SpIFF documentaries that tell distinctly Spokane stories

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very year, Spokane International Film Festival programmers put together a package of their favorite regional short films, both scripted and documentary, known as the Best of the Northwest.

2019’s SpIFF is opening with that showcase of 11 short films — both narrative and documentary — of various lengths, focused on everything from perilous forest fires to gentrification in Portland to women running a pho restaurant.

We talked to the directors behind two of those featured shorts — Proof of Life and From Parts Unknown — both of which screen Friday night and tell remarkable Spokane stories.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER The Northwest’s Best shorts program opens SpIFF on Feb. 1 at 5:30 pm at the Bing Crosby Theater. Tickets are $15 at spokanefilmfestival.org.

PROOF OF LIFE Three days before Brad Thiessen (pictured) was to participate in a 50K trail run in Riverside State Park, he was being wheeled into surgery. It was 2015, and the brain cancer he had successfully battled back in 2001 had returned, as he always knew it would.

Proof of Life, a 20-minute documentary by local filmmaker Adam Harum, chronicles Thiessen’s long recovery from that third bout with cancer — he also overcame testicular cancer in between his brain cancer diagnoses — and how a community of trail runners became something of a support group for him.

It was Thiessen who, having just completed his last round of chemotherapy in late 2016, approached Harum to document his progress as he worked toward the 50K he had missed a year earlier. (Thiessen himself is credited as a producer on the film.) Harum and his crew began filming in early 2017 and shot through that October, and editing was completed last August.

“When I started documenting him, his body was at zero,” Harum says. “I found his story and his angle on it so fascinating, and it’s been pretty awesome to be a part of this with him.”

Thiessen’s is an inspirational story, yes, but what’s most disarming about his personal outlook is how it avoids empty platitudes. The moral question driving Proof of Life — does surviving the trauma of a terminal disease improve your standing in life? — isn’t one you often see in stories of sickness and recovery.

“I kind of became bitter, I think, at life,” Thiessen admits in the film. “You feel like you’re supposed to learn something; you’re supposed to get wise. But I feel like I didn’t.”

“That was fascinating to me,” Harum says, “the fact that he was able to admit that going through something like that doesn’t automatically make you a better person.

How you go forward from it does.”

When Harum and his crew began the filming process, it wasn’t with a clear end point in mind. That is, of course, the challenge of molding a nonfiction narrative, because real life doesn’t always deal you a dramatically

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satisfying hand.

“Documentaries evolve as you film them, and then they evolve in editing,” Harum says. “The dangerous thing people do is they try to craft the story as opposed to letting it happen. I kind of let it play out as it was, and as it went along, I saw aspects of him and what he was doing that were interesting.”

Case in point: As the fateful 50K run draws closer, there’s the possibility that it will be canceled due to dangerous wildfire smoke.

“You kind of go in blind, hoping the light shines at some point and the story forms,” Harum says. “Reality is what you should be aiming for anyway.”

Proof of Life won the grand prize at last year’s Las Vegas Running Film Festival and took home a bronze award at the IMDb Independent Shorts Awards. It has also played as part of the Trail Running Film Festival in Seattle, and Harum says he’s still submitting it to other festivals. But it means a lot, he says, to have it on the SpIFF docket, which is also where his narrative short Lifeline premiered in 2017.

“I can’t give enough credit to SpIFF,” Harum says.

“I’ve toured around and gone to a lot of festivals … and I’ve always been impressed by the films they present and how they do it. If you’re a filmmaker and you don’t want to show off your film to people, why are you doing it?

“I think Brad’s story is inspiring, and it’s something people should watch, and it’s amazing that SpIFF is a venue to get that out into the world.”

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

FROM PARTS UNKNOWN “It gave me a feeling when I had no feelings going through my body.”

So says Hillyard’s Jesse Lawson of his decade on the ropes in the underground wrestling league he founded in 2006 (and left in 2015), now immortalized on-screen in a tender documentary portrait called From Parts Unknown.

Lawson, who performs in the film as the character “Madman” Manson, says Spokane Anarchy Wrestling (S.A.W.) is a product of suburban ennui and bleak economic prospects, of wanting to rally the listless neighborhood kids with “nothing to do other than sit at home and watch their parents do drugs.” His efforts, motivated by a hard-luck hand of personal travail and tragedy, attracted a band of outsiders — “Sic Boy,” “Chaos,” “Mizery,” “Sleazy P,” “Porno Mike” and his cousin Jay “Trashman” Manson — united in their enthusiasm for powerslams and piledrivers.

“Pro wrestling is what I eat, sleep, and breath [sic] everyday of my life,” Lawson, 29, admits on his Facebook page. “A lot of people don’t understand it, but I have a bunch of people who do.”

One is director Michael T. Workman, of Missoula, who first met Lawson at a match in Spokane after discovering S.A.W.’s YouTube videos of backyard mayhem.

“I’m fascinated by professional wrestling. I think [it] has inherent drama because of the storytelling, struggle and the theatricality,” Workman says. “The stories of the wrestlers are an interpretation of the world they live in, their desires, their anger and their struggles.”

Workman, 25, found them so compelling he ditched plans for a fiction film and instead convinced a reluctant Lawson to play the lead in a profile of his beloved — and bloody — art form.

“Jesse’s story drew me in because of his openness when talking about his struggle with depression,” Workman told We Are Moving Stories last year. “He is a sensitive, caring soul in a hyper-masculine space.”

That paradox is the crux of From Parts Unknown, which proves to be not only a local tale of triumph but a timely vignette of a broader conversation unfolding now around toxic masculinity, gender stereotypes and what sociologist Charles Murray has termed the “coming apart” of the white working class.

“At its core,” says Workman, “this film explores the pain that comes with having to leave what you love because it is destroying you and how you begin to build your life back after.”

The physical toll of Lawson’s impassioned investment in independent wrestling is sobering, but, like the best of cinéma vérité, it is the nuanced inner revelations of the film that nudge it beyond a mere “story about wrestling.”

“Everybody knows what this sport is,” Lawson affirms over the film’s opening sequence. “It’s fixed.

But if you don’t believe in what you’re doing, none of them fans are going to believe it either.”

— CONNOR DINNISON

What’s Playing?

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hat’s your favorite movie genre? Comedy? Drama?

Psychological mindbender? Do you prefer animation over live-action, or documentary to narrative storytelling?

Either way, the schedule for the 21st annual Spokane International Film Festival has something for you. Here’s a rundown of the 11 feature-length films you can check out in the next week, listed in order of showtime; see spokanefilmfestival.org for information on the various short film programs. (All screenings are at the Magic Lantern Theater unless otherwise noted.)

FEB. 2 AT NOON

ROSALIE (FRANCE)

Moussa Djigo’s deconstruction of romantic comedy tropes centers on a young woman who finds herself in a mental spiral after a sudden breakup with a street musician. In the midst of her distress, she embarks on a reflective journey through her important memories, as she and the film explore the complicated nature of love. (ISAAC HANDELMAN)

for literature, Gary led a fascinating life that included serving as a World War II fighter pilot. Based on Gary’s autobiographical novel (previously adapted in 1970 by Jules Dassin), Promise at Dawn explores the tumultuous life of a literary legend. (IH) FEB. 3 AT NOON

TIME FOR ILHAN (U.S.)

Ilhan Omar made headlines in 2016 when she was elected to Minnesota’s House of Representatives, becoming the first Somali Muslim woman to occupy an American state office. In this inspiring documentary, director Norah Shapiro looks on as Omar, a former community organizer, launches her (eventually successful) campaign, and shows the various complications of the electoral race.

(NATHAN WEINBENDER)

BIG BAD FOX (FRANCE)

FEB. 2 AT 3:30 PM

COLD NOVEMBER (KOSOVO)

This political drama is set against a backdrop of Yugoslavia’s rescinding of Kosovo’s autonomy in the 1990s. The vessel through which viewers experience this turbulent time is Fadili, an archivist who, facing immense pressure from multiple sources, must make an impossible decision in order to ensure the well-being of his family. (IH) FEB. 2 AT 5:30 PM

PROMISE AT DAWN (FRANCE)

French filmmaker Eric Barbier takes the helm on this sweeping historical biopic about French novelist Romain Gary. Before becoming the first person to win France’s prestigious Goncourt Award

FEB. 6 AT 7:30 PM

SHADOW (CHINA)

Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou’s latest is a dramatic period action film stuffed to the brim with political intrigue, long-kept secrets and the requisite epic battle sequences. In it, a military commander coordinates with his mysterious doppelganger to pull off seemingly impossible feats. Yimou is responsible for some of the most bombastic, large-scale films ever to come out of China (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), so expect nothing less than a spectacle. (IH) FEB. 7 AT 7:30 PM

ULYSSES & MONA (FRANCE)

Sebastien Betbeder’s Ulysses & Mona is a tale of two artists. Ulysses is disgruntled, middle-aged and past his prime. He has run out on his family and lives a depressed, secluded routine. Mona is a chipper young art student searching for guidance, and she just might be persistent enough to pierce Ulysses’ icy exterior and prompt an adventure that will prove transformative for them both. (IH) FEB. 8 AT 7 PM

YOU GO TO MY HEAD (FRANCE/BELGIUM)

In this psychological drama from Dimitri de Clercq, a young woman finds herself burdened by amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of a mysterious car crash that leaves her stranded in the Sahara Desert. She’s “rescued” by Jake, an architect who soon becomes infatuated with her and is willing to go to great lengths to ensure her presence in his life. (IH)

FEB. 2 AT 12:30 PM

Animators Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert, responsible for 2012’s Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine, bring Renner’s graphic novel to cinematic life with this family-friendly treat. A collection of interrelated shorts focusing on an eclectic ensemble of countryside animals, Big Bad Fox promises imaginative visuals, slapstick comedy and heartfelt reflections on life’s difficulties. (IH)

You Go to My Head

FEB. 4 AT 7:30 PM

ENORMOUS: THE GORGE STORY (U.S.) Any Washington music fan who has lived here long enough has had a magical experience at the Gorge Amphitheatre in the tiny town of George, Washington. At the very least, you’ve dreamt about having one. Enormous: The Gorge Story is a documentary that examines how the isolated scenic spot became a destination music venue, where the now-defunct Sasquatch festival blew up and Dave Matthews Band recorded a popular live album. (NW) FEB. 5 AT 7:30 PM

FEB. 8 AT 7:30 PM

The Borough Park Neighborhood of Brooklyn is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish populations in the world, and yet all of the workers in its Hasidic ambulance service are men. The documentary 93Queen is a rousing look at the city’s first ambulance corps of female volunteers, all of whom are tenacious and passionate, but it’s also a thoughtful portrait of the obstacles and discrimination that the women face in their new EMS positions. (NW)

Kornél Mundruczó, director of 2014’s acclaimed canine revolt film White God, continues to explore the boundaries of reality in this pseudo-fantastical drama about a man with the mysterious ability to levitate. While attempting an illegal border crossing, the man is captured. Soon enough, others begin to take notice of his physicsbending skill and, as is always the case, everyone has their own ideas about how it should be put to use. (IH) n

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Miller Cane has stopped in Spokane to visit his sister Dena and check on their ailing mother, Noreen, who’s in a nursing home and losing her mind. Miller has also been taking care of an 8-year-old doll-making girl named Carleen while her mother, Lizzie, is in jail for shooting and injuring her estranged husband. Before all this, Miller had been making his living comforting and conning the survivors of mass shootings, a calling he found after the Sunny Day massacre; in that case, Miller’s own nephew Billy was the shooter, and it ended in the death of Billy and Miller’s brother, Charles.

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t was in his mother’s blood,” Noreen said to Carleen, who was holding the old woman’s hands in her own. There was weight in the room that hadn’t been there before. Dean Martin was still singing, but quietly now. “That’s nice, dear,” Noreen said, nodding down to their hands. “Constance was stuck-up,” she said, “from Massachusetts money. She thought she was better than everyone else. So what do you expect her child to think?”

“I don’t know,” Carleen said.

Miller took a seat on the couch.

“Didn’t you tell her about Billy?” his mother said.

“My mom did,” Carleen said. “A little bit.”

“It’s not a secret,” Noreen said.

She seemed perfectly herself. Her old self. And while the Sunny Day massacre wasn’t a secret, it also wasn’t something Miller wanted to talk about, certainly not

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around Carleen. Why breed fear and nightmares? Even if the world could be harsh and horrible, it didn’t have to be for Carleen yet.

“People wanted to know if Billy was bullied, but that wasn’t it,” Noreen said. “I don’t know what it was exactly. There was goodness in him — I know that much.

There was meanness in him too, something wrong. But there was goodness.”

It was odd that she wasn’t veering off topic, and Miller didn’t know how much more of this Carleen needed to hear. Dino started into “Bella Bimba.”

“His mother was a Stevens,” Noreen said, “a descendant of the first territorial governor of Washington State. Did you know that, dear?”

“No,” Carleen said.

“Did you learn about Governor Stevens in school?”

“I don’t think so,” Carleen said.

“You will,” Noreen said.

“They’ll lie to you about him.

Isn’t that so, Miller?”

“Maybe,” Miller said. “Would anyone like a snack?”

His mother waved him off. Carleen kept rubbing Noreen’s hands in her own, as if she were smooshing butter into flour for pie dough. The nurse said they wouldn’t notice any effects of the new drug for weeks.

And changes wouldn’t be dramatic.

“He was a hateful man,” Noreen said.

So how was she capable of staying on subject? Miller knew some days were better than others, but he hadn’t seen her this lucid in years.

“He was a dwarf,” Noreen said, “though that’s neither here nor there.”

Miller wondered if “dwarf” was still an acceptable

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word. Had it ever been?

Carleen kept rubbing his mother’s hands.

“What he did to the Indians was unthinkable,” Noreen said. “He got killed in the Civil War, but what I’m talking about was earlier, after Franklin Pierce appointed him and he moved West. Pierce was a doughface you know.”

“A doughface?” Carleen said.

“That’s right,” Noreen said.

“And a dwarf.”

What did she know about Franklin Pierce and doughfaces?

“And bad for the Indians,” she said.

Yes, but how did she know?

“And that blood was in Billy is what I’m telling you, dear, a kind of poison.”

“Okay,” Carleen said.

“Would you touch my face, dear?” Noreen said.

Carleen stood and put one hand on Noreen’s neck, the other rubbing her cheek and up to her forehead.

“That’s nice,” Noreen said.

Miller would have been terrified as a child to touch the head and face of an old woman. But Carleen seemed comfortable.

Lizzie had always been comfortable touching people, too.

“You can say what you want about nature and nurture,” Noreen said, “but what I’m saying is that the blood was in him.”

This was not Miller’s mother, or it was a version who’d been lost for years, her eyes closed as Carleen stroked her face. Miller needed to touch her more, maybe that was part of it — touch and Dean Martin murmuring in the background.

“You know those books about the girl on the prairie?”

“I know Little House,” Carleen said.

PER MONTH PER LINE

“Miller had never heard his mother suggest that Billy’s blood was somehow responsible for the Sunny Day massacre, though it seemed as good a reason as any.”

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“That’s the one,” Noreen said. “The governor’s name was Isaac Ingalls Stevens, just like that girl. He was from a Mayflower family, as are we — not Cane, but Goodman.

Allerton too. Miller has lots of Mayflower blood.”

Oh, lord — not the Mayflower blood.

“I’m not sure those are the same families,” Miller said.

“They are,” Noreen said.

“Pa’s family was on the Mayflower,” Carleen said.

“It’s in the books.”

“That’s right,” Noreen said.

“But he was nice.”

“The governor was a hateful dwarf.”

“I don’t think being a dwarf had anything to do with him being hateful,” Miller said.

“I don’t either,” Carleen said.

Miller had never heard his mother suggest that Billy’s blood was somehow responsible for the Sunny Day massacre, though it seemed as good a reason as any. He joined his mother and Carleen at the table. “How you doing, Mom?” he said.

“Great,” she said. “But I’m trying to tell you what happened.”

“Okay,” Miller said. “But how do you know all this?”

“All what?”

“What you’re telling us about the governor and the Mayflower.”

“I just do,” she said.

“It seems like you do,” Carleen said.

“The problem was money,” Noreen said, “as much as anything. All that money on his mother’s side. She beat it into him that he was better than everyone else, though of course the money was long gone by then and my Charles would never make enough to replace it. And Billy knew he wasn’t better than the other children. He was fine. He would’ve been fine. But he knew he wasn’t better. There was goodness in him. But I don’t know if he was best at anything, not that many people are. It was the mother.

Charles could be fooled by status, seduced, the reason he wanted to go to school in Boston, to affiliate with that awful Eastern blue blood.”

Carleen started packing her Care Clinic.

“Just give me a moment,” Noreen said, walking into the bathroom.

“What happened to Billy?” Carleen said.

Miller stood and turned off the music.

“I don’t know,” Miller said.

“What did he do?”

“He hurt people,” Miller said, “some children at school.”

“Did he kill them?”

“No,” Miller said.

He heard the shower start in the bathroom.

“Yes,” Miller said.

“We have lockdown drills at school,” Carleen said. “I hate them.”

“Me too,” Miller said.

“Why did he do that?” Carleen said.

“I don’t know,” Miller said.

“Was he nice?”

Would it be more terrifying to know that a nice person, a sweet child, could become a mass murderer?

Probably.

“Yes,” Miller said, “he was nice. But something happened to him.”

“His mom?”

“No,” Miller said. “Not his mom. That’s not what it was.”

“What was it?”

“I don’t know. But not that. Something was wrong with him.”

Miller’s mom came out in her bathrobe, followed by a cloud of steam, the shower running full blast behind her. “Oh, hello,” she said. “Is that you, Miller?”

“Hi, Mom,” Miller said.

“And who is this adorable child?”

They didn’t go out for ice cream. They went down to the pretend kitchen and played with their dolls with all the other lost ladies of Fairhaven. n

Didn’t they themselves have awful Eastern blue blood. Hadn’t his mother just said so?

“And then they passed it onto their son.”

“He was mentally ill,” Miller said.

“Yes,” his mother said. “But my question is this: was it nature — Constance’s contaminated blood — or nurture — the way that she raised him.”

“Mom.” “Or something else.”

“Something else,” Miller said.

“Something inside him,” Noreen said. “I don’t know what it was.”

“Nobody does,” Miller said.

“He would probably be sorry if he really hurt someone,” Carleen said.

Miller had no idea what she knew.

Noreen patted Carleen’s hand on her face, dismissing her.

Carleen sat and opened her Barbie Care Clinic.

Miller’s mother put her hand over his.

He looked at her and she was all there, or almost all there, a kind of fear or pain or terror brimming up in her eyes.

“He was sick,” Miller said.

“Can you get me out of here?” she said.

He looked at her looking at him, pleading.

“How about we go for ice cream?” he said, and Carleen said, “That sounds good.”

Maybe surfacing was the worst thing that could happen now. Why had they ever brought her here in the first place? Why hadn’t he taken care of her?

“Please,” Noreen said. “Take me out of here.”

“I will,” Miller said.

Could he take her with them? Of course he couldn’t.

Or maybe he could.

But in few minutes or seconds she wouldn’t know who he was. Or maybe, somehow, she was better — because of the new drug.

“What if we went for ice cream first,” Miller said, “then to Dena’s for the night.”

Maybe they could move her back into the old house.

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ou can tell a lot about a person from their domestic surroundings and even more by their workspace.

Inside Melanie Lieb’s north side home, two dogs have the run of the living room, crammed with estate sale and thrift shop finds, assorted plants, remnants of Lieb’s travels and past art exhibitions, as well as works by other artists. But when it comes to Lieb’s studio, the excitable and uber-friendly Pekingese Pomeranians named Arthur and Rose are blocked by a baby gate.

And, oh, what a treasure trove is Lieb’s studio, packed with works-in-progress from Mutation, her upcoming exhibition at Kolva-Sullivan Gallery.

On the floor are several paintings that started it all: self-portraits from images morphed via the kind of face-

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Melanie Lieb creates worlds of wonder in multifaceted, mixed-media exhibition at the Kolva-Sullivan Gallery

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

altering apps you often see on Facebook. To those she added 3D elements — fluff balls, spiky things, bits of paint — nudging ideas around. Or maybe the ideas nudged her.

“I’m overwhelmed right now with our universe… politics, issues, social media,” she says, noting how the idea of change itself mutated, prompting the name of the show and guiding the many forms of expression she chose for what is her second solo exhibition at the KolvaSullivan.

The puffballs ended up as part of several large, amorphous, soft sculptures, including a star-like one several feet across with an umbilical-like cord extending from it. It sits safely behind the baby gate on the floor of her studio. Other works — all untitled — sit on small pedestals on top of her workspace, gathered like alien pods. The

textures, forms and some of the colors — browns, pinks, peaches, yellow — evoke a sense of body parts: breasts, mouths, vaginas, penises, fingers and the assorted lumps and bumps of the human body witnessed from unusual angles.

Nearby are several peachy-pink ceramic cylinders that will be mounted on the wall above the soft-form sculptures when Lieb finalizes the gallery installation. A pile of 4-6 inches wide irregular strips of fabric laying on the floor will become the “guts” emanating from the wallmounted cylinders. Lieb is improvising, yet focused.

Stacked against a worktable are a series of monotype drypoint prints Lieb created with help from fellow Saranac Art Projects gallery member Margot Casstevens.

Elsewhere: raw wood panels in various states of comple-

tion that will form the bulk of paintings in the exhibition.

They, too, echo the theme of body and of change.

Lieb pulls up on her iPhone the soundtrack she created for the exhibition, which combines a heartbeat, sounds from space, Albert Einstein talking, water. Although Kolva-Sullivan is her favorite gallery — it reminds her of her native Chicago — she wanted there to exist a sense of fullness and presence in the space, especially when people aren’t there.

She likes science, she explains further, and watches shows about dinosaurs, ancient works and worlds, evolution, PBS’s NOVA series. Indeed, her jewelry business — she sells at festivals and online, and through Pottery Place Plus — is called Nucleus. Necklaces, earrings and other jewelry often feature sciencey elements: irregular round shapes melded together like a cluster of cells, pendants of meticulously fused glass or brightly colored enamels resembling miniature universes.

When she’s not ramping up for an exhibition or making jewelry, Lieb works as a floral designer, a lifelong pursuit that she began as a young woman. And her father, a cartoonist, was an influence from the beginning. “I was born with a marker in my hand,” says Lieb, who had several of her father’s cartoons transformed into tattoos on her arms.

She attended but didn’t graduate from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, pursuing instead a self-directed course of study, mostly in painting and drawing. She worked in conservation framing, jewelry design and exhibited artwork, including at the Opposite Gallery, which she founded.

Winter Wanderings February’s Winter Arts Tour boasts music, art, theater and more

F LEFT: Artist Melanie Lieb in her studio. ABOVE. Untitled artwork by Lieb.

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After her mother passed away when Lieb was 24, she travelled both nationally and internationally, returning to Chicago for another 10 years or so before relocating to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where she ran a flower shop and met her husband David. They moved to Hawaii and in 2014 to Spokane, where Lieb has steadily built large bodies of work.

Lieb has participated in Terrain, Bazaar, Window Dressing, Art on the Green and had exhibitions at Saranac Art Projects, Object Space, 29th Avenue Artworks, Little Dog Art Gallery and Kolva-Sullivan, where she most recently showed The Comeuppance of a Lazy Antisocial Rabbit, an all-encompassing show similar to Mutation in its variety of media and attention to detail.

For the Mutation opening, says Lieb, she’s planning on serving assorted confections, some of which will be spherical and boob-like. At this Lieb smiles a little smile.

“I have a tendency to create my own universe,” she says. n Mutation • Feb. 1-22 • Opening reception Fri, Feb. 1, 5-9 pm • Free • Kolva-Sullivan Gallery • 115 S. Adams St., #A • 458-5517

or February, Spokane’s monthly arts showcase gets even bigger for the annual Winter Arts Tour, a weekend-long event that hosts even more gallery receptions, music, performances and other events than a typical First Friday. Don’t let the cold weather keep you from getting out of the house to go meet local artists and see live performances across the downtown core and beyond. Most receptions for the Winter Arts Tour are Friday, Feb. 1, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue. Some Winter Arts Tour events run through the weekend, to Sun, Feb. 3. These listings were compiled from information provided by Winter Arts Tour organizer, Spokane Arts, and local artists and venues. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information visit spokanearts.org. (CHEY SCOTT) AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone Landscapes of the American West features photography by Pat Schilling; also includes oil paintings by Denny Carman.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Observations, a group exhibit from the Art Spirit gallery in Coeur d’Alene, with live music by the Cronkites. Feb. 1 from 5-10 pm.

BELLWETHER BREWING CO., 2019 N. Monroe Photography by Jon Jonckers. Feb. 1-3 during regular hours.

BEN JOYCE STUDIOS, 806 W. Third Artist open house on Fri, Feb. 1, 11 am-8 pm.

BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens Photography by Kelly Fay Vaughn.

Fri, Feb. 1, 6 pm-2 am.

J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

Explorations XVI features artwork by students from Whitworth, Gonzaga, EWU, North Idaho College and SFCC. Reception 4-7 pm.

THE CLAY CONNECTION, 714 E. Sprague Oil paintings by Teresa Adaszynska and others.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Watercolor paintings by Vicki West and music by Nick Grow. Fri, Feb. 1, 2-9 pm.

Works from All in All by Vanessa Swenson.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main Art by Janie Edwards.

FIRST AVENUE COFFEE, 1011 W. First Art by Paiton McDuffie.

J FELLOW COWORKING, 304 W. Pacific Ave. All in All by Spokane artist Vanessa Swenson.

INDABA COFFEE ROASTERS, 518 W. Riverside Ave. Live painting by Elle Brown and music by JoJo. Fri, Feb. 1, 6:30-9 pm.

J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Paintings and drawings by Karen Mobley; reception Feb. 1, 5-8 pm.

Music by Nick Grow on Sat, Feb. 2 at 7 pm.

JUNDT ART MUSEUM, 502 E. Desmet Ave. A faculty exhibit featuring work

by Mary Farrell, Matt McCormick, Mat Rude and Laura Truitt. Feb. 1, 4-9 pm.

J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. Mutations by Melanie Lieb (see story on page 28) features paintings, drawings and mixed media art. Receptions Feb. 1 from 5-9 pm and Feb. 2 from 12-4 pm.

KRESS GALLERY, 808 W. Main (third floor) Unearth features art by Central Valley High School students.

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Spokane’s own Grammy Awardwinning baritone, Thomas Hampson, explores poems and songs from over 250 years of US history for an engaging journey through American culture. Works

by Foster, Bernstein, Ives, and more, accompanied by pianist Lara Downes and an ensemble of Spokane Symphony musicians.

Artist Daniel Lopez is featured at Spokane Art School.

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HANDEL’S JOURNEY JORGE LUIS UZCÁTEGUI, Conductor MATEUSZ WOLSKI, Violin ERICA RICHARDSON, Violin SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHORALE

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Spokane Valley Church of the Nazarene Explore the musical lives of Handel and friends in Germany (Bach), Italy (Corelli), and England (Purcell).

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LIBERTY CIDERWORKS, 164 S. Washington Etchings by Michel Campbell.

Reception Feb. 1, 4-9 pm.

LUCKY LEAF CO., 1111 W. First Art by Sam White. Feb. 1 from 7 am to midnight.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

Who We Are by Michael Dinning; also featuring art by Melissa Cole, Ric Gendron, Alfredo Arreguin and others.

MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Live music all weekend: Kyle Richard, Feb. 1 at 5:30 pm; Daniel Mark Faller, Feb. 2 at 5:30 pm; Dallas K, Feb. 3 at 1 pm.

Also featuring photography by Oliver James.

NEW MOON ART GALLERY, 1326 E. Sprague Embodiment of Spring features art by Kim Long and E.L. Stewart. Reception Feb. 1, 4-8 pm and Feb. 2, 10 am-4 pm.

NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE, 2316 W. First See current gallery exhibitions

including Modern Masters: Group f/64, RYAN! Fedderson: Phantom Lands, and As Grandmother Taught: Women, Tradition and Plateau Art. Feb. 1-3, 10 am-5 pm. ($5-$10 admission applies).

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington Leather and Lace features works

by February guest artist Betsy Pozzanghera.

J RICHMOND ART COLLECTIVE, 228 W. Sprague The group exhibition Transformations: Visual Representations of Changing States features work by RAC members.

RIO WELLNESS, 1003 E. Trent, Ste. 130 Conditions features mixed media works by Ildikó Kalapács.

SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Text and Repose features work in various media by SAP members and invited guests.

J SPOKANE ART SCHOOL, 811 W. Garland Spokane artist and muralist

Daniel Lopez’s My Delicate Flower.

STEELHEAD BAR & GRILLE, 218 N. Howard What I See features photographs of Nick Nelson.

TERRAIN GALLERY, 304 W. Pacific Scrutinearsighted by Richard Smolinski.

TRACKSIDE STUDIO, 115 S. Adams T42 features ceramic teapots and cups by Chris Kelsey, Mark Moore and Gina Freuen.

J WASHINGTON CRACKER CO. BUILDING, 301 W. Pacific The Explorers Art Exhibit hosted by the Arc of Spokane features art, music, poetry, photography and dance, and benefits artists in the disabled community. Donations suggested.

WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. “Women Composers, the Untapped Source: Piano Music of Today” features guest artist Roger McVey. Feb. 2 at 8 pm (free). n

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WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU? He’s a cute, nerdy bookstore manager falling for a writer who hasn’t quite found her voice yet. Or he’s a manipulative stalker, inserting himself into Beck’s life in ways she doesn’t realize, willing to do anything to have her. Maybe both. Where the binge-worthy series You falls flat with fickle and sometimes naive female leads — we’re supposed to believe Beck just doesn’t have curtains and has sex where anyone could watch??

— it brilliantly succeeds in taking the viewer on an emotional roller coaster of feelings toward the main character Joe. One minute you want to puke in disgust at his actions, the next you find a little part of yourself rooting for him. Nearly everything about what he does is wrong, but just as he convinces himself of the good intentions behind every action, so too, are you, the viewer, stuck fighting that manipulative, complex portrayal.

Streaming on Netflix. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Everything We Needed: An Ode to Shopko

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BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

y heart sinks a little at the email subject line: “Important Information Regarding Shopko’s Restructuring.” On the list of stores the corporate suits are closing in a bid to salvage what little they can, it stands out like a sore thumb: 1450 S. Grand Ave., Pullman.

See, it’s not like Shopko is my favorite store ever, or that it’s even that unique among the other box store giants. It has a little bit of everything you need: a pharmacy and eye center, furniture, clothes, shoes, odds and ends. But in a small place like Pullman, the important thing was that, well, it was there.

THE BUZZ BIN

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Feb. 1. To wit: GIRLPOOL, What Chaos Is Imaginary. (above) Deceptively simple and consistently entrancing thanks to dueling vocalists Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad.

CHERRY GLAZERR, Stuffed & Ready. Potentially one of the best rock albums of the year, coming early.

GUIDED BY VOICES, Zeppelin Over China. 32 songs! 75 minutes! Can you tell I’m excited about this new GBV double album?!?

DEER TICK, Mayonnaise. Alternate versions of old favorites and cool cover songs from one great American band. (DAN NAILEN)

There were no other real options for a lot of things we found in the Shopko aisles when I was growing up, so, for many of us, even if at first just by default, the store became integral to our lives.

When we needed shoes, when we wanted toys, when we had to replace the vacuum, Shopko was just a few minutes away.

When my brother and I were ready to graduate from our starter hand-me-down bikes, we went to Shopko to search for new ones with my dad. Our living room rocking chair was purchased there, and so was the futon I had for a bed. My dad became a pro at finding the best deals hidden in the racks, and we bought countless air mattresses, movies and games there.

At Christmas, we’d coordinate separate shopping times so we wouldn’t cross paths in the store and spoil the surprise.

Because it was literally the only place to buy clothes without leaving town, it had an outsized influence on my bizarre fashion choices over the years. For years, I only wore men’s cargo shorts and boxy T-shirts in the summer. Later I favored bootcut jeans verging on bell bottoms, and they had the market cornered when it came to flowy, “bohemian” style shirts.

My parents taught me to be independent and work odd jobs, so Shopko is also where I blew my babysitting money on jewelry, CDs and prepaid cards to load my clunky cell phone with minutes. I now regret not taking more advantage of the store’s intercom code our friend divulged after getting hired there in high school.

And in recalling all of this, I’m sure our family can’t be the only one in Pullman to get so attached. With all sincerity, after the store closes in April, we will feel that void up on the hill. n

LOCAL CONNECTIONS Retro-tinged garage rockers Shannon and the Clams played a stellar sold-out show at the Observatory Friday, and the Oakland-based band revealed some Spokane ties over the course of the night.

First, singer/bassist Shannon Shaw noted that the band’s original drummer lives in Spokane. Then she revealed the man who built her first bass moved to town that very day of the show. (DAN NAILEN)

SOARING RAMS As you sit down to watch the Super Bowl Sunday, you might not need a reason to root against Tom Brady since you’ve probably been stewing since he led the Patriots over the Seahawks in 2015. But hatred of the MAGA-hatted quarterback is such a negative energy. Instead, how about you root for the Los Angeles Rams because they have three former EWU Eagles on their squad in starting linebacker Samson Ebukam, wide receiver (and, sadly, injured) Cooper Kupp and backup center Aaron Neary. The Patriots/Rams showdown kicks off Sunday at 3:30 pm on CBS. (DAN NAILEN)

PROFIT AND PRISON Undercover reporting can certainly produce phenomenal public interest journalism. In his page-turner American Prison, Mother Jones journalist Shane Bauer describes working undercover as a prison guard at a private Louisiana prison. What he found was both shocking and unsurprising: the company running the prison, Corrections Corporation of America, cut corners at every opportunity, resulting in a dangerous, dysfunctional and chronically understaffed facility. With an astute eye for detail, Bauer skillfully alternates chapters between the arc of his experience — for example, he describes how he eventually comes to subconsciously enjoy the power dynamic — and a raw history of private prisons and convict leasing in America. It’s a gripping read. (JOSH KELETY)

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CULTURE | WORDS

Some compelling books to fill your Black History Month.

Free Your Mind Get up to speed for Black History Month with these revealing reads

BY MINDY CAMERON

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ondering how to honor Black History Month? I can think of no better way than to read a few great books about black people’s experiences in America. Why? Because black history is American history and book shelves are filled with compelling stories, including heart-breaking tragedies and the horror of white-on-black injustice that has so permeated life in the United States.

Your local librarian will have suggestions for creating a do-it-yourself exploration of Black History Month.

Here are mine: Start with James Baldwin, of course. He was a prolific writer so there’s lots to choose from. THE FIRE NEXT TIME was a bestseller in 1963 and, more than half a century later, still sears with the voice of a black man who experienced what he called the “racial nightmare” of injustice and inhumane treatment in America.

Baldwin was a black intellectual of his time and some reviewers have tried to put the same label on Ta-Nehisi Coates, a contemporary writer who rejects that label, even though he has said he wanted to write like Baldwin. Desired or not, Coates deserves the label. Author of BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME and WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER, Coates also was for a decade a writer for The Atlantic. The latter book is a collection of articles from that magazine, fused with personal memoir-like introductions to each chapter. It all adds up to powerful writing that explodes the myth of America’s story of freedom and independence by delving

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into another story, what he calls “the nostalgic moment’s corrupt and unspeakable core” — slavery and its legacy.

AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, by Tayari Jones, is a good selection for readers who prefer modern fiction.

In this beautifully written contemporary story, a young black man is wrongly imprisoned, forever changing the lives of three people and their dreams of middle-class life in America. Months after reading it, this story still haunts me.

But for deepest understanding of why Black History Month matters, turn to Isabel Wilkerson’s THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA’S GREAT MIGRATION. A highly touted book published in 2010, I scouted it in bookstores, but always left it on the shelf due to its hefty 500-plus pages. While on vacation a few months ago, I had time to spare and found a store where Wilkerson’s book was featured. I bought it, dived in, and soon found myself in the midst of the “great migration,” a silent pilgrimage from 1915 to 1970 when 6 million blacks left the South hoping to find better lives elsewhere.

Wilkerson is a former New York Times Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter. In Warmth of Other Suns, she weaves the separate lives and circumstances of three southerners — Ida Mae, George and Pershing — who become singular threads in the story of the migration.

This is a deeply reported masterpiece of harsh truth-telling layered with tenderness for the trio whose

stories she tracks. Wilkerson’s work grows out of the same personal experience and determination that drives the writing of Baldwin, Coates and so many other noted black writers. You see that in her dedication: “To my mother and the memory of my father, whose migration made me possible, and to the millions of others like them who dared to act upon their dreams.”

Reading these books is a reminder that dreams are often fueled by a nightmare. George, in Wilkerson’s book, grew up in Florida, where vigilantes lynched more black people between 1882 and 1930 than any other state. He was a bright boy and managed to get more education than most blacks but wound up working in the orange groves. He had the soul of an activist and organized workers for better pay, a dangerous activity that drove him out of Florida, which probably saved his life. Six years later, living in New York City, George learned of an activist friend who died at home after a bomb exploded in his bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife. The investigation determined the bomb was place by the Ku Klux Klan, but no one was ever charged or jailed for the murders.

You can’t read these books and contemplate the black migration story of the last century without thinking about the current immigration debate in this country and coming away with a better understanding of why people leave a home in search of a new place. Those of us who live in a region with few minorities and a lesser impact from modern migration patterns have a compelling reason during Black History Month for reading these authors and myriad others: To confront the common desires that bind us to all humanity and to the history of our nation. As Baldwin wrote: “To accept one’s past — one’s history — is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.” n Mindy Cameron is a former editor at the Seattle Times who now lives in Sandpoint, Idaho. She can be reached at mindycameron@gmail.com.

ROUNDUP

Thing for Wings Our team sampled our way through some of the most recommended chicken wing joints in the Inland Northwest

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o to a bar or pub anywhere in America and chicken wings drenched in some form of barbecue, buffalo or heat-heavy sauce are ubiquitous. In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl 52 — an unofficial wing holiday — and the heart of college basketball season, we sent seven Inlander writers to some of the region’s most popular wing spots to nibble, gnaw and lick our fingers clean before sharing what we think.

THE VIKING

1221 N. Stevens What we got: Pound of wings, $14 There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who eat chicken wings for the chicken, and those who eat them for the sauce. If you’re the former, get out of here! It’s all about the sauce. And the Viking rules when it comes to sauces.

I tried both the traditional buffalo and barbecue sauces. Both were delicious. The wings are draped in sauce and sit in a puddle of it just in case you didn’t get enough. I like just enough spice on my wings, and both had a little bite to them. If you want more spiciness, there’s also fire buffalo and sriracha barbecue.

Oh, and here are some other all house-made flavors at the Viking: island sauce, gold sauce, garlic pepper sauce, Cajun rub, ranch rub and garlic lemon pepper rub.

You can order bone-in or boneless wings, and if you stop by on Monday, a half-pound of wings for $4 is one of the bar’s weekly specials. Maybe you’ll turn out like me and leave satisfied, a little delirious and unable to utter a sentence without the word “sauce” in it. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

OUTLAW BBQ

4429 W. Wellesley What we got: Outlaw Josie Wangs, $11.95/pound As someone willing dive into a pile of wings from virtually any establishment willing to put them on the menu, I clearly don’t have the most exacting standards. Even so, knowing that a place specializes in offering a world of delicious meats as basically its entire business plan, my expectations were definitely higher dropping by Outlaw BBQ than they would be stopping at some random corner pub.

Thankfully, the Outlaw Josie Wangs delivered, and I credit the fact that the two-year-old Outlaw first smokes its meatier-than-average wings, then fries ’em up to finish the job. The result is a distinctly flavorful bite that doesn’t just rely on buffalo sauce, and still has that nice, crispy crunch many wing lovers require. The Outlaw Josie Wangs come in either traditional buf-

falo or barbecue style, and both are legit and lightly sauced when they arrive; you can always add one of the Outlaw’s barbecue sauces as a dipper. The wings are served with ranch or blue cheese and a small side of coleslaw that has some kick, too. (DAN NAILEN)

THE REF SPORTS BAR

14208 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley What we got: 12 wings, $17 The wing gods were smiling on me as I walked into the Ref in Spokane Valley. It happened to be Wing Wednesday ($.75 wings), and happy hour to boot (2-6 pm).

A dozen wings and a cold PBR. That’s all I needed to walk away fat and happy. I ordered six with the chipotle raspberry and six with the peanut butter and strawberry jam (just because I’d never tried it).

Both were good, but I wish I had ordered all 12 with the former. These wings were so damn good I was crunching on the cartilage for more. Spicy, but with a nice raspberry sweetness to neutralize the kick. I also sampled the huckleberry barbecue, which favors the sweet over the smoky, but is still just as tasty.

As someone who rarely visits Spokane Valley on purpose, the Ref was a nice surprise. With plenty of seating, TVs and an assortment pool tables and arcade games, I’ll definitely be back to catch a game.

(QUINN WELSCH)

24 TAPS BURGERS & BREWS

24 N. Lincoln What we got: 1 pound of buffalo and homemade barbecue sauce wings, $12.50 24 Taps is a sports bar, the sort with dozens of bigscreen TVs lining the walls broadcasting either basketball or music videos. Wings may not be the raison d’être of 24 Taps, but they are a necessary staple of the sports bar genre. And while the selection of teriyaki, buffalo or barbecue wings isn’t anything particularly radical, 24 Taps acquits itself well.

The meaty wings occupy a solid middle ground on the crispy-to-messy chicken wing spectrum. Both barbecue and buffalo were crowd-pleasing. And don’t be scared by the incendiary menu rhetoric warning that the buffalo wings are “HOT.” Unless you have particular delicate sensibility, they’re not particularly spicy. Instead, they have a warm, friendly type of heat, not the sort that makes you start chugging blue cheese or ranch dipping sauce. Either way, the wings are just the opener for the true headlining star of 24 Taps’ menu: the titanic, gloriously messy Roadhouse Burger. (DANIEL WALTERS) ...continued on next page

Wings can be coated in a range of tasty sauces at the Viking pub, which offers special pricing on Mondays.

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“THING FOR WINGS,” CONTINUED...

THE SCREAMING YAK

118 W. Francis What we got: Wings with Korean sauce, $10.90 I need to start this with a blasphemous confession: I don’t really like wings. It’s largely because they’re a chore to eat and incredibly messy. Tearing tiny pieces of meat off of bone and cartilage with my teeth is not my favorite way to eat. Nonetheless, for the sake of consumer food science, I found myself nibbling away at some wings my guy and I ordered at this longtime North Spokane sports bar. He enjoys both wings and super spicy sauces.

We met in the middle, ordering the Screaming Yak’s Korean sauce, listed at three stars and described as a “sweet chili blend with a big kick,” and also the most popular sauce amongst customers. It was as predicted, slightly spicy with a hint of sweet.

Other sauce choices on the impressive list of 12 total at the Yak include the mild and locally made Booey’s barbecue (one star), all the way up to the “Screamin’ Demon,” at an off-the-charts eight stars — masochists who successfully down a full order coated in this hellfire earn the glory of their photo going up on the Yak’s “Wall of Pain.” At the Yak, all wings are made to order, and come with the traditional sides of carrots, celery and ranch dressing. Crispy breaded wings ($11.90) are also an option. (CHEY SCOTT)

FLAMIN’ JOE’S

7015 N. Division (also 11618 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley) What we got: 12 wings, $18 I’m into spicy food — my taste buds were clobbered into accepting heat during my exchange year in Indonesia — so that’s why I walked into Flamin’ Joe’s, which specializes in hot wings. The restaurant is geared towards serious wing-consumption: at the bar where I sat, massive paper towel rolls are strategically placed to keep you (relatively) clean. I ordered a 12-piece bone-in wing meal with two sauces: sweet chili and southwestern. What I got was a platter of thoroughly sauce-drenched wings. (Personally, I prefer less sauce because I don’t want to feel like I’m slurping gravy with my wings.)

The southwestern was a little bland, but not bad. The sweet chili was superior since it was spicier while maintaining an appropriate dose of sweetness. But neither flavor delivered the total annihilation that I was expecting from a joint marketing itself as serving “fiery wings.” Then I realized that I screwed up: The restaurant’s hottest sauce — Code Red — is under the somewhat misleading menu section title of “Original Buffalo Sauces Gluten Free.” (I should have read the menu more carefully.) So now I’m left wondering what kind of experience Flamin’ Joe’s is really capable of. Until next time. (JOSH KELETY)

CAPONE’S PUB & GRILL

751 N. Fourth, Coeur d’Alene What we got: Single order each of regular and boneless wings, $9/each When Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives visited Capone’s for the “Wings n’ Things” episode in 2010, they weren’t after the wings; it was pizza the garrulous Guy Fieri wanted. This time around — the latest episode featuring the Coeur d’Alene-based restaurant aired this past October — Fieri was all about the wings.

Not content to offer just traditional bone-in wings, Capone’s also offers boneless. My partner in this wing-speriment preferred traditional, with its perfectly cooked chicken skin and dark meat, but the boneless tenders get chops for crunchiness with a breading-like coating that really soaks up the sauce.

The buffalo sauce hit all its marks: a dry, smoky heat and appropriately reddish tinge. The Korean barbecue, while a little salty, had a savory sweetness that paired well with beer. You can mix-and-match flavors to some degree, so try a batch each of sweet hot, barbecue, teriyaki, sriracha soy and Thai peanut, the latter of which reminds diners that the menu is full of other options like sandwiches, pizza (try the Thai pizza!), subs and even salads.

Another feature: Capone’s wings are volume-priced, so the double, around 16-20 wings, is a bargain at $16; the triple tops out at 24-30 wings for $24. (CARRIE SCOZZARO) n

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Find MiFlavour’s signature macarons at its new Spokane Valley headquarters.

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MiFlavour’s New Home Plus, new bites at Northern Quest and Syringa Sushi’s new spot

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fter getting its start at a rented commercial kitchen in downtown Spokane, MiFlavour bakery has grown up and moved out to a new home in Spokane Valley. Centrally located at 3403 E. Sprague, MiFlavour is already producing its signature cakes, macarons and more at the new space, with plans to roll out a full-service cafe counter offering those sweets and more, as well as espresso coffee and even savory breakfast and lunch foods like salads and sandwiches. Though that space won’t open until later this year, sometime in June, MiFlavour owners Ella and Max Piskun are celebrating their expansion with a soft opening on Friday, Feb. 1. Starting then and until the cafe is ready, MiFlavour will offer its customers a walk-in bakery counter with daily rotating selections of its cakes, eclairs, tarts, macarons and other sweets for purchase to go. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the couple is also rolling out special gift boxes, heart-shaped pastries and other themed items, available from Feb. 1-14. Hours at the walk-up counter are Monday through Saturday, 7 am to 8 pm, and Sunday from noon to 8 pm. Once the second phase of renovations on the bakery’s retail cafe space is complete, the Piskuns hope to start offering baking classes and hosting other events. (CHEY SCOTT)

SYRINGA EXPANDS IN SIZE, MENU

Like the tasty crab served on its menu, Syringa Sushi & Japanese Café in Coeur d’Alene has shed its former shell in search of roomier digs than its 2007 startup location. Now in a larger spot formerly occupied by Bistro on Spruce, and still on Fourth Street, Autumn and Viljo Basso’s Syringa has gained more all around: 18 seats in the dining area, more elbow room at the sushi bar and a private dining area for 20 they’re still putting the finishing touches on (call for booking information). They’ve consolidated the lunch and dinner menu, adding select dishes like Japanese-

style curry with tonkatsu-style (breaded and fried) chicken, pork or tofu and veggies over rice ($13). New small plate offerings include ohitashi (steamed spinach) and gyuniku maki, a roll with cooked New York steak and veggies ($16). The new location also features Syringa’s trademark mix of traditional Japanese and funky décor, like the noren fabric screens that help divide dining areas and an outrageously colored new mural by Robert McNeil. Look for more events, like a beer pairing they hosted right before reopening, and stay tuned for word on what will become of the Fourth and Walnut home they recently outgrew.

(CARRIE SCOZZARO)

GOING UPSCALE AT NORTHERN QUEST

Visiting Northern Quest Resort & Casino for a concert recently, I stumbled across its new Riverbank Taphouse, a beer and craft cocktailcentered space replacing the old Impulse dance club. That’s probably a good call because while I never visited Impulse myself, I could see making frequent visits to Riverbank. The space is huge, which matches its impressive selection of beers; on the night I visited, Post Falls Brewing Company was having a tap takeover, but plenty of other regional craft beers were available as well, from Hidden Mother to No-Li, Twelve String to River City. One could spend hours sipping through the ever-changing beer lineup (follow Riverbank Taphouse on untappd.com for up-to-date beer lists), but that would require skipping out on the high-end cocktails like the Manhattan ($14) made with 10-year-old Redemption High Rye or a Woodinville Whiskey Flight ($15). Riverbank also serves a small menu of shareables like a brie, fig and onion flatbread ($12), brat sliders ($9) and a Cougar Gold dip ($8.50), and the pleasantly smoke-free environment makes it a nice oasis at Northern Quest for folks with a taste for high-end drinks. (DAN NAILEN) n

Kid Power

Likable tweens save the world in The Kid Who Would Be King

BY JOSH BELL

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oe Cornish’s 2011 debut feature Attack the Block effectively combined a fun genre adventure with some refreshing social realism, in its story of teenagers living in a South London housing project who fight off an alien invasion. Cornish’s new film, The Kid Who Would Be King, is sort of a toned-down version of the same approach, a lighter, more family-friendly fantasy with only slight hints of social commentary.

It’s not as bold a vision, but it demonstrates the same warmth and humor as Cornish’s previous film, along with a throwback style that recalls 1980s-era tween pulp adventures like The Goonies. That genial vibe carries the film over most of its (somewhat overlong) running time, although the story never quite becomes as rousing as it’s made out to be.

Part of the problem is that the kid himself, who’s meant to be the fated leader of Great Britain (and possibly humanity), is a bit of a bland cipher. Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, son of Andy) has the requisite Spielbergian back story about an absent father (he’s lived with his single mother since his father left years ago) and is mildly bullied at school, but otherwise he’s relatively undistinguished.

That doesn’t stop him from being the only person

able to pull the legendary sword Excalibur from the stone in which it’s lodged, in the middle of an abandoned construction site. Soon Alex is menaced by supernatural undead knights, commanded by the evil sorceress Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson), who’s determined to prevent the legacy of King Arthur from being resurrected.

To combat Morgana, Alex must recruit his own Knights of the Round Table, starting with his meek but enthusiastic best friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo). Following King Arthur’s example of turning enemies into allies, Alex also convinces school bullies Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kaye (Rhianna Dorris) to join his cause, and they set out on a quest led by the resurrected wizard Merlin, who now mostly takes the form of an awkward teenager.

Angus Imrie is very entertaining as the exuberant young version of Merlin, who casts spells almost exclusively via goofy hand gestures and expresses constant good-natured exasperation with the youngsters he must help to save the world (Patrick Stewart gives the older Merlin appropriate gravitas in a handful of scenes).

Chaumoo is the standout among the four knights, capturing Bedders’ mix of wide-eyed wonder and sheer terror at the group’s mission, but the other three never really

rise above their stock characterizations.

That may be partly by design, since Cornish fills the dialogue with direct references to other well-known chosen-one quest narratives, from Star Wars to Harry Potter to, uh, Percy Jackson. The movie embraces the familiar devices of those stories while also occasionally subverting them gently, especially in Alex’s fixation on findTHE KID ing his father. Likewise, WHO WOULD BE KING Cornish incorporates most Rated PG of the expected elements Directed by Joe Cornish of the King Arthur story Starring Louis Ashbourne while making them work Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Rebecca in a contemporary setting, Ferguson, Patrick Stewart pulling off a better King Arthur reimagining than Guy Ritchie or Antoine Fuqua have managed in big-budget studio efforts over the last 15 years. He handles the action set pieces (with some strong, judicious use of special effects) just as well as the lively little comedic moments.

The message about the need for modern-day knights in a world that has lost its way only comes across sporadically, and Alex’s family issues get resolved a bit too neatly. The story also drags as it heads toward the two-hour mark, and Morgana turns out to be an underwhelming villain, despite Ferguson’s formidable presence.

Kids probably won’t mind too much, though, and as long as the movie can reach that audience, it’s done its job. n

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GREEN BOOK (123 MIN) FRI: 2:00, 6:40, SUN: 2:30, MON-THU: 2:10 SHOPLIFTERS (120 MIN) FRI: 4:45, SUN: 5:10, MON-THU: 4:15 THE FAVOURITE (114 MIN) FRI: 4:25, SUN: 3:00, MON-THU: 2:00 ROMA (135 MIN) FRI: 2:15, 7:00, SUN: 4:50, MON-THU: 4:30

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In this remake of an acclaimed 2011 Mexican film, Gina Rodriguez plays an American woman kidnapped by a drug cartel, becoming an insider for the DEA

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AQUAMAN

The half-man, half-fish superhero gets his own vehicle, in which he inherits the Atlantean throne and fights with his evil brother. It’s got some crazy visuals and hammy performances but still manages to be kind of a slog. (JB) Rated PG-13 The band Queen and late frontman Freddie Mercury (played by Rami Malek) get the biopic treatment, and the results won’t exactly rock you. It takes a disappointingly conventional approach to a wildly unconventional figure. (JB) Rated PG-13

BUMBLEBEE

A surprisingly fun Transformers origin story, with the yellow Autobot coming to Earth in the ’80s and befriending a teenage outcast (Hailee Steinfeld).

Unlike its Michael Bay-directed predecessors, it coasts by on low-key charm.

(NW) Rated PG-13

A DOG’S WAY HOME

A plucky canine is separated from its owner, and makes a dangerous crosscountry trek to get back to him. If you saw the trailer, you’ve basically seen the whole movie. (NW) Rated PG

ESCAPE ROOM

In this Saw/Cube hybrid, a group of strangers are drawn to an escape room that promises a reward to whoever can get out. No surprise — it turns out to be deadly. About two-thirds of a compelling thriller. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE FAVOURITE

In 18th-century England, two women jockey for a position of power within the coterie of an ailing Queen Anne. A lacerating, cutthroat dark comedy with great performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.

(SS) Rated R

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in the process. (NW) Rated R

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

Peter Jackson’s documentary about

British troops in WWI, featuring colorized and CGI-augmented footage from a century ago, is more of a museum piece than a film. Still, it’s an often moving monument. (MJ) Rated R

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FREE SOLO

A documentary following climber Alex Honnold’s attempt to successfully ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan rock formation sans rope and safety harness. Not for acrophobes, especially in its stunning final minutes. (NW) Rated PG-13

GLASS

M. Night Shyamalan continues his Unbreakable saga, with the indestructible Bruce Willis returning to fight supervillains Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy. It’s got some intriguing ideas, but the payoff is meager. (NW) Rated PG-13

GREEN BOOK

A white driver (Viggo Mortensen) ferries a black jazz pianist (Mahershala Ali) through the American South in the 1960s. Its racial politics are undoubtedly simplistic, but its central performances more than make up for it. At the Magic Lantern. (MJ) Rated PG-13

BE KING

THE KID WHO WOULD

From Attack the Block director Joe Cornish, a family fable that finds 21stcentury British kids stumbling into King Arthur territory. Slight but winning.

(JB) Rated PG

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

In this long-awaited sequel to the Disney classic, the magical nanny lands again in London to again help out the Banks children, now adults and with kids of their own. A slab of candy-coated excess that laboriously tries to copy the original’s charm. (JB) Rated PG

THE MULE

Clint Eastwood squints and scowls his way through this thriller, inspired by the true story of a WWII veteran transporting cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel.

(NW) Rated R

ON THE BASIS OF SEX

After the success of the documentary RBG, we now get the Hollywood dramatization of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s trailblazing legal career. It’s well intentioned, but it’s also pretty forgettable and clumsily told. (JB) Rated PG-13

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET

This animated sequel finds Wreck-It Ralph exploring the vast unknown of the internet in an attempt to stop the shutdown of his friend’s video game.

When it isn’t retreading the original, it relies on pop culture references that already feel dated. (JB) Rated PG

ROMA

The best film of 2018 is finally hitting the big screen in Spokane, and it’s worth a trip to the theater. Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white epic is sweeping yet intimate, a powerful study of class divide in 1970s Mexico. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

SERENITY

A fishing boat captain is approached by his femme fatale ex-wife, who wants him to kill her abusive new husband.

Despite that premise, it’s really not what you think it is, for better or worse.

(NW) Rated R

SHOPLIFTERS

A strange, moving drama about a surrogate family of petty thieves and the dark secret that unites them. One of Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s best films. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Spider-Men from various dimensions converge in the world of a teen web slinger, and they help him find his powers. A brilliant and funny animated feature that looks and feels like a comic book come to life. (SS) Rated PG

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GLASS

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STAN & OLLIE

Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly play legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the twilight years of their long career, in a gentle biopic that’s a bit cheesy but still enjoyable to watch. (JB) Rated PG

A STAR IS BORN

This third remake of the classic ragsto-riches story finds a booze-soaked musician (Bradley Cooper) eclipsed by his protege and lover (Lady Gaga, who can really act). An engaging rock melodrama that offers both the glitter of escapism and the grit of serious issues. (EB) Rated R

THE UPSIDE

A remake of the French hit The Intouchables, with Bryan Cranston as a paralyzed millionaire and Kevin Hart

WATCH IT AT HOME

SKIP IT

as the troubled man who becomes his caretaker. It thinks it’s a feel-good drama, but it’s actually manipulative trash.

(ES) Rated PG-13

VICE

Adam McKay’s follow-up to The Big Short is another experimental dark comedy, this one following the career of Dick Cheney (an unrecognizable Christian Bale). The gimmicks and gags feel limp and unfocused this time around. (JB) Rated R

THE WIFE

After her husband receives a Nobel Prize for literature, his doting spouse (Glenn Close) comes to terms with the significant contributions she has made to his work. An involving character study that unfolds like a mystery. (NW) Rated R n

A before and after image showing the original film on the right and the restored, colorized image on the left.

War Wounds

Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old is less a documentary than a somber museum piece

BY MARYANN JOHANSON Note: They Shall Not Grow Old has been shown in occasional one-off screenings since December, but it begins a regular run at River Park Square this weekend.

There’s an inevitable poignant eeriness to it all: We are looking into a past that suddenly feels touchably close and immediate like never before, looking at the faces of men that, many of whom, will not have survived the war. (The film’s title o London’s Imperial War Museum went to comes from Laurence Binyon’s 1914 poem “For Peter Jackson and said, “Look, we have all the Fallen”: “They shall grow not old… Age shall this amazing archival footage from World not weary them…”)

War I. Can you do something cool with it for the But They Shall Not Grow Old never transcends Armistice, the 100th anniversary of the end of its gimmick. And yes, it is a gimmick — one used the war?” And the BBC said, “Hey, we also have respectfully and to honest, heartfelt purpose, and a ton of audio of WWI veterans talking — in, without overwrought sentimentality or any hint like, the 1960s — about their experiences during of tackiness. But this isn’t a movie: It’s a museum the war. You could use that.” exhibit, one that you might sit and watch for a And Peter Jackson, of The Hobbit and Lord of few minutes at, say, the Imperial War Museum, the Rings fame, said, “You got it,” and They Shall and be deeply moved by.

Not Grow Old is now here.

And yet there are limits to that.

THEY SHALL There’s no story here, no narrative Technically, They Shall Not Grow NOT GROW OLD Old is a marvel, a use of CGI and beyond the progression of the war itRated R who-knows-what other computer self. There are no characters to speak Directed by Peter Jackson wizardry to bring to life the world of. Even the narration — which comes of a century ago, and in a way that solely from the reminiscences of survifeels more natural to our eyes today than the vors decades on describing everything from how jittery, unaltered early film now appears to us. they lied about their ages in order to sign up, to Footage of everything from soldiers queuing to the camaraderie and the adventure of the war, to volunteer for army service as the war broke out the discomfort of the mud and the horrors of the in 1914, to tanks rolling over trenches toward gas — is provided by voices that are not identithe end of the war, has been colorized faithfully. fied, and so we cannot even connect them from The frame rate has been stabilized so that motion one sequence to the next (if indeed any are even is smooth and realistic. And it’s all even been the same from one sequence to the next). The extruded in 3D for the theatrical versions. Ambicomplex messiness of the war has been flattened ent sound has been added, sometimes with actors out into a video photo album. providing dialogue extrapolated from lip-reading They Shall Not Grow Old is an important docuthe faces in the original footage, which of course ment, but cinematically it’s a novelty. A solemn would have had no sound. one, but a novelty nonetheless. n

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NOW STREAMING THE INCREDIBLES 2 (NETFLIX)

While it lacks the novelty of its 2003 predecessor, this long-awaited Pixar sequel has a lot going for it, including eye-popping visuals, kinetic action and slapstick. Mr. Incredible is a stay-at-home dad this time, while Elastigirl is out in the field, doing public service and fighting a new villain known as Screenslaver. (NW) Rated PG

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ROCK

Regardless of what they’re singing about, BRONCHO’s wiry, hedonistic indie-rock is going to get stuck in your head

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

S

ince talking with BRONCHO frontman Ryan Lindsey last week, I’ve had his band’s most recent album, Bad Behavior, on steady rotation. It runs just short of half an hour, but its 10 terse, tightly wound songs have morphed into a kind of musical hydra, all of its catchy choruses merging into one behemoth chorus that’s always swirling around inside my head.

It’s true that BRONCHO — that’s how it’s stylized, in all caps — has an undeniable knack for hooks. Look no further than their signature song “Class Historian,” which has an infectious “dit-dit-doot-doot” refrain that burrows its way into your brain. It makes sense that BRONCHO’s songs have been featured on soundtracks and in commercials.

That doesn’t mean the Oklahoma quartet is a

blatantly commercial band, though: They have a spacey, wiry sound, with Lindsey’s pinched, slurry vocals matching perfectly with his I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-butlet’s-party-anyway demeanor. Lindsey actually started the project as a solo venture, tapping drummer Nathan Price for occasional assistance, but he soon realized he needed fuller instrumentation, eventually bringing guitarist Ben King and, later, bassist Penny Pitchlynn into the fray.

“We just ended up coming up with a bunch of songs, so much so that there was really no choice but to start a band with them,” Lindsey says. “Our hands were tied.

There was nothing we could do.

“It all happened real naturally. I feel like I didn’t have to do much work to make it happen.”

When Lindsey discusses his earliest musical influ-

ences, his answers are a bit surprising: As a kid, he was obsessed with the Jackson 5, and with an album by the juvenile reggae band Musical Youth, best known for the 1982 hit “Pass the Dutchie.” He also had a musician uncle — who, incidentally, gave him that Musical Youth record — and he remembers being taken to his shows.

“My mom got us in to see him play in bars when we were really young, and I thought that was cool,” Lindsey says. “All that was probably a big influence on where I am now, which is playing in bars.”

Bad Behavior is the band’s fourth LP, and it continues the trend of each new BRONCHO album branching off in an entirely different stylistic direction. Its sound is a noticeable departure from its fuzzed-out, reverb-drenched ...continued on next page

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predecessor Double Vanity — airier in its production, with noticeable space left between the instruments.

“Every record has its own thing going on,” Lindsey says. “There’s a similarity between all the records just because of the way we work, but they come to different conclusions production-wise.”

The band started demoing tracks in their warehouse space in Tulsa, “which isn’t temperature controlled,” Lindsey says. “I can’t remember if it was too hot or too cold. Or it might have been rainy.” They eventually moved the sessions to a studio in Norman, Oklahoma, where they chipped away at the songs during breaks in a year touring before finishing the whole thing in a mad, two-week dash.

The tracks on Bad Behavior flow together in a rush of melody, with the end of one song bumping into the start of the next one, and the melodies come through with even more clarity.

“The last record, the songs were slower.

More of a slow chug,” Lindsey says. “So we added reverb to fill in the spaces, and just kept adding more until it felt good. And this record, it was the opposite. We started with reverb, and started taking off more and more. There’s some-

thing happier about this record. Maybe there’s a little less darkness.”

Lindsey’s lyrics are deliberately cryptic, though it sure sounds like there are allusions to drugs and debauchery, with talk of risky positions and something melting on tongues. Or maybe it’s just the sheer strut of the songs, the come-hither attitude of the basslines and the jittery nature of the guitars, that gives us the idea we’re hearing something salacious.

Or perhaps it’s the album’s title — winking at its perceived themes of hedonism, Lindsey toyed with calling it Coke, and then Caffeine Free Diet Coke — that suggests all these things.

Bad Behavior “It’s almost a ‘choose your own adventure’ in how you look at it,” Lindsey says. “You can be offended by the notion, or you could be more playful with what ‘bad’ is.

“Like, Michael Jackson had the Bad record.

What did that mean? It meant ‘cool.’”

Whatever it means, you’ll have it stuck in your head. n BRONCHO with Pinky Pinky • Wed, Feb. 6 at 8 pm • $15 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | COUNTRY

Vintage country music nuts will find a kindred spirit in Whitey Morgan, who plays the Knitting Factory on Saturday.

The Hard Road Whitey Morgan turns heartbreak and rough road into killer classic country

BY DAN NAILEN

“I

never get sick of hearing songs about men getting their heart ripped out by women,” Whitey Morgan says. “That’s classic country.”

In many ways, Whitey Morgan is classic country, too, if you listen to his hardscrabble songs full of broken hearts and drunken nights, slathered in pedal-steel guitar, that would fit right in alongside the music of Waylon Jennings or Merle Haggard in any well-curated roadhouse jukebox.

Like many of the Michigan native’s heroes, Morgan’s songs are inspired by reallife trials and tribulations, and on his two most recent albums — 2015’s Sonic Ranch and the new Hard Times and White Lines — he was able to turn some rough years on the road and at home into the best music of his career.

“Leading up to Sonic Ranch, I went through a divorce and I was really just a mess on the road a lot,” Morgan recalls. “I didn’t want to go home, so we were on the road all the time and I was drinking and other things way too much.”

While he kept working on songs through the haze, Morgan says, “what was therapy for me back in those days was other people’s music.” He gravitated toward “more crooner stuff” like Ray Price and Faron Young. And in those songs about men getting their hearts destroyed by women, Morgan found himself inspired “even though technically my divorce was

me doing the opposite to her.”

“There’s just something about that vulnerability of what we would consider a strong ‘alpha man’ in a bar, and this little petite woman can own him with three or four words, or by ignoring him for a week,” Morgan says. “I really fell in love with that feeling I would get when I was drinking and listening to those songs.”

As Morgan pulled himself out of his post-divorce blues, he found himself writing a hell of a lot of great songs. Tunes like “Around Here” and “What Am I Supposed to Do” on Hard Times and White Lines add to a hot streak he started with the brilliant Sonic Ranch album, named after the remote Texas studio where Morgan and his longtime band the 78s set up shop to record his two most recent records.

“I’m a creature of habit,” Morgan says of working at Sonic Ranch, and producing Hard Times himself. “I do not like change.

I do not like strange and uncomfortable atmospheres. To me, the studio is a very weird place to be. You go into this room to capture something, and you’re under a microscope to capture something that’s supposed to be great. It’s just a weird environment.”

And it’s an environment where it’s basically impossible to capture the live sound Morgan and his band create as they play upwards of 200 shows a year. Knowing that, Morgan just tried to make Hard Times “sound big,” and he definitely succeeded.

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It’s a great headphones album, especially when you crank up the covers of ZZ Top’s “Just Got Paid” and Dale Watson’s “Carryin’ On,” or the moody album opener “Honky Tonk Hell.”

“Country music is kind of a different animal when it comes to energy on stage or energy in the studio,” Morgan says. “I just want to make it sound big and raw, not too polished. Don’t fix all the vocal parts. If this part didn’t line up with that part, who gives a shit? Let it fly. That’s what real music’s about. I get a little tired of these people who go in and try to make everything sound just too perfect.”

“Perfect” would never work for Whitey Morgan. The man needs life’s rough edges to hone his songcraft, and they’re getting sharper with each WEEKEND passing C O U N T D OW N year.

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“I’m a little bit more of a focused business-type person, not in a bad way, just in trying to get the best out of myself,” Morgan says. “I’ve been drinking not a ton less, but just drinking for happier reasons instead of drowning memories and shit. I’ve been enjoying music again and being on the road. The band is so tight right now, it’s a machine and I’m loving it.” n Whitey Morgan and the 78s with Alex Williams • Sat, Feb. 2 at 8 pm • $23-$27 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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HARD ROCK KISS

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Thursday, 01/31

BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flanary and the Songsmith Series J KNITTING FACTORY, The Green with Eli-Mac & Fia LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Kyle Swaffard MOON TIME, Pamela Jean NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Stephen Carey; PJ Destiny O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, O’Pen Mic Thursdays J THE OBSERVATORY, Daniel Champagne, Bossame POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, The Rock Jam Series THE ROXIE, Music Challenge J J SPOKANE ARENA, Dierks Bentley with Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes, Hot Country Knights ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 02/1

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Notorious 253’s 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills Quartet ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Randall, Gardner & Catlett BARILI CELLARS, Matt Henson Group J THE BARTLETT, Naked Giants, The Black Tones, Bad Motivator

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keptics might doubt that KISS’ End of the Road jaunt is truly going to be “the final tour ever,” given most bands’ difficulty in actually staying off the road after they’ve said goodbye. But the long-running masked rockers haven’t so adamantly floated the “final tour” thing before, so let’s assume Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and company are telling the truth. That would mean this is Spokane’s last chance to see these pioneers in rock ’n’ roll stage excess and showmanship. And if the firebombs, sparklers, stage blood and Simmons’ flickering tongue aren’t enough, how about a night full of tunes from America’s classic-rock canon: “Love Gun,” “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Detroit Rock City” and more.

— DAN NAILEN

ROCK THE RECORD COMPANY

KISS • Mon, Feb. 4 at 7:30 pm • $36.50-$252 • All ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 325-7328

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he L.A. trio the Record Company specializes in the kind of rock that nostalgists like to say nobody makes anymore. OK, so it’s not exactly blazing up the Billboard charts, but it’s found a fervent following amongst those whose vinyl collections are firmly stuck in 1974. A little bit bluesy, a little bit twangy, the band’s latest album All of This Life suggests they’re well-versed in the Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin in its prime — dig those meaty basslines and rollicking harmonica solos, the hollering background vocals and steely guitars. It’s as if Derek and the Dominos never broke up.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER The Record Company with Buffalo Jones • Tue, Feb. 5 at 8 pm • $15-$20 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

BERSERK, Nausoleum Dance Party J THE BIG DIPPER, Sol Seed, Jus Wright, Collection of Lone Souljahs THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Kori Ailene BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., Nic Vigil BOLO’S, Pastiche BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Rieser and Rawley CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kicho CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Bill Bozly CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, KOSH Duo CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Nick Grow CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, Derek Hardt and The Ramblers

THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Just Plain Darin IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Jamison Sampson JOHN’S ALLEY, Scott Pemberton LAGUNA CAFÉ, Pamela Benton MARYHILL WINERY, Kyle Richard MAX AT MIRABEAU, Hot Mess MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift MULLIGAN’S, Wyatt Wood NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Stephen Carey; Rewind NORTHERN ALES, Christy Lee & the Broken Rosary Whiskey Thieves

OMEGA EVENT CENTER, We Party, We Rave ONE WORLD CAFE, Range Benders J OUTLAW BBQ & CATERING MARKET, Songsmith Series PACIFIC PIZZA, Fun Ladies, Doublebird PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Jake Robin PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic THE PIN, Tarvali, Dj Funk, Mags Power, Samwize, I_T_Brian RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jantsen & Digital Ethos THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Sam Leyde SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Mark Ward ZOLA, Raggs and the Bush Doktor

Saturday, 02/2

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, The Company Band 219 LOUNGE, Right Front Burner ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Nick Grow BIGFOOT PUB, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice BOLO’S, Pastiche J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Natalie Greenfield CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kicho COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Clint Darnell CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz DRY FLY DISTILLERY, Runaway Symphony FREDNECK’S, Hannah Jo Lally THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Justin Lantrip

THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Sol Seed J J KNITTING FACTORY, Whitey Morgan (see page 41), Alex Williams LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Brian Jacobs MARYHILL WINERY, Daniel Mark Faller MAX AT MIRABEAU, Hot Mess MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Stephen Carey; Rewind J THE OBSERVATORY, The Home Team, T-180, Sid Broderius and The Emergency Exit, The Pink Socks ONE WORLD CAFE, Lara Vivian Quintet PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Baregrass POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROXIE, DJ LG SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, Quarter Monkey SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Just Plain Darin (at Noah’s)

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STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke VFW POST 5924, DRSLY and the Culpretts WESTERN DANCE CENTER, Bluegrass Showcase ft. Sondah, Hawkins & Thomsen, Heartbreak Pass, Kettle Creek with Dan Gore WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Christy Lee ZOLA, Raggs and the Bush Doktor

Sunday, 02/3

THE BLIND BUCK, Show Tune SingAlong Sundays DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Dallas K MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Ken Mayginnes NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Stephen Carey STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke

Monday, 02/4

THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Justine Ponsness CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills ONE WORLD CAFE, MMCM J THE PIN, Biddadat

RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown J J SPOKANE ARENA, KISS End of the Road World Tour (see facing page) ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 02/5

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J J KNITTING FACTORY, The Record Company (see facing page), Buffalo Jones LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Pamela Benton THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 02/6

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Scott Reid J J THE BARTLETT, BRONCHO (see page 39), Pinky Pinky BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Meghan Sullivan CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night Hosted by The Jam Band GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding

IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Gil Rivas THE PIN, Rec Riddles POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), Justin James RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROXIE, Steve Starkey STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Nate Ostrander ZOLA, Cruxie

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J THE PIN, Farewell Winters, Samsara, Seconds Ago, Feb. 7 J THE BARTLETT, Gabriella Rose Album Release with Chris Molitor, Feb. 8 J BING CROSBY THEATER, Richard Thompson Electric Trio, Feb. 8 J THE BARTLETT, Tangerine, Runaway Octopus, Late for the Parade, Feb. 9 J THE BIG DIPPER, GS3, Feb. 9 J BING CROSBY THEATER, An Evening with Cowboy Junkies, Feb. 10 J BING CROSBY THEATER, Guster, Henry Jamison, Feb. 12

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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. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 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 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 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 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 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 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 • 381-5489 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. 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 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 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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PERFORMANCE UNRAVEL AFRICA

Since capturing the attention of at-home viewers as finalists on America’s Got Talent back in 2011, Cirque Zuma Zuma continues to enthrall audiences internationally. Their performance is full of energy and mystery as performers — all of African descent — twirl more hula hoops at once then thought possible and jump from pole to pole as if gravity was solely a suggestion. The pool of 120 Las Vegas-based performers involved in Cirque Zuma Zuma showcase the rich culture of the continent in what has been described as an African-style Cirque Du Soleil. Experience the striking musical score and strength of Cirque Zuma Zuma at the Fox. — ARCELIA MARTIN Cirque Zuma Zuma • Fri, Feb. 1 at 7 pm • $25-$60 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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VISUAL ARTS SADDLE UP!

SPORTS SPOKANE SMACKDOWN

Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo • Feb. 4 through April 30 • UI Library Second Floor Gallery • 850 S. Rayburn, Moscow • lib.uidaho.edu • 208-885-6559

WWE Live: Pre-Game Pandemonium • Sun, Feb. 3 at 1 pm • $17$107 • All ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000

There might be nothing more stereotypically “manly” than daring to hop on a bucking bull or bronco at a rodeo, and a new art exhibit opening Monday at the University of Idaho helps illustrate that stereotype transcends many of our ideas of sexual identity.

Photographer Blake Little spent years documenting the gay rodeo circuit, and the result is a stunning collection of 41 black-and-white photos curated by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. The show, Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo, is jointly sponsored by the UI Library and the Latah County Historical Society, and includes a gallery talk on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 4 pm about the creation of the exhibit.

— DAN NAILEN

Just one week after the WWE’s big annual Royal Rumble showcase, some of the franchise’s biggest superstars are heading to the Spokane Arena to kick, flip, slam and trash talk their way to victory. On the card is WWE Champion “The New” Daniel Bryan, in a rematch against AJ Styles, just one week after their last meeting. Also headlining the event is unexpected women’s 2019 Royal Rumble winner and current Smackdown champ Becky Lynch, who faces off against Charlotte Flair. Other stars of the night include Asuka, the New Day trio, Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev. Considering the lingering excitement and tensions from the WWE’s most recent event, Spokane wrestling fans are in for a treat.

— CHEY SCOTT

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CLASSICAL SOUND + VISION

You can always count on the four musicians in the Spokane String Quartet to bring a little extra spice to their shows, and this one is no different. When violinist Mateusz Wolski, violinist Amanda Howard-Phillips, violist Jeannette Wee-Yang (left) and cellist Helen Byrne (right) hit the stage Sunday afternoon for a show featuring the music of Mozart, Ciurlionis and Debussy, they’ll do it backed by massive projections of works of art on a big screen behind them, capturing this gig’s theme of “art-inspired music” quite literally. In this combination of music and visual arts, you might have the best bit of Super Bowl counterprogramming in town.

— DAN NAILEN Spokane String Quartet • Sun, Feb. 3 at 3 pm • $20; $16 seniors, $12 students • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanestringquartet.org • 624-1200

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CLASSICAL NEW PIANO MAN

Known as the “new Piano Man,” Michael Cavanaugh reinvents American rock classics including those of Billy Joel as the “new voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook.” Cavanaugh was also hand-picked by Joel to star in his Broadway hit Movin’ Out after hearing Cavanaugh perform in Las Vegas.

Joel left his seat in the middle of Cavanaugh’s performance to join him on stage in 2001. Since then, Cavanaugh has performed for Movin’ Out for three years, and over 1,200 shows, and was nominated for a Tony and a Grammy.

Creating their own rendition of Uptown Girl downtown, Cavanaugh will be backed by the Spokane Symphony as he delivers a set of the original Piano Man’s music.

— ARCELIA MARTIN

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Spokane Symphony Pops: Michael Cavanaugh — The Music of Billy Joel • Sat, Feb. 2 at 8 pm • $39-$86 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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I SAW YOU SWEET TURNS I saw you snowboarding, you were practicing your toe-side carving. You had on a green jacket and helmet. When you crawled up the hill I said you looked like a turtle and we both started laughing. Good times, let’s do it again.

ICE SKATING BEAUTY We spoke following your beautiful moves last week at Eagles Ice Arena. I was astounded to hear you’d been skating only two years. I was too shy to ask for personal lessons from you.

NEWPORT HWY SAFEWAY I was shopping in the afternoon 1/28 around 1 pm, saw you come into the store and thought to myself, “wow a very attractive man in a grocery store in Spokane of all places.” I went through the checkout then you followed with one person between us. You then moved to the lane next to mine when the clerk mentioned they could ring you up. I couldn’t stop staring. The long wavy dark hair, those eyes, and the whole demigod demeanor had me so flummoxed I used the wrong card. You finished paying first and I ran after you, but it was too late you had gone away.

YOU SAW ME ROAD RAGE ON A BICYCLE To the lady I yelled at. Whoa sorry. That got out of hand and I was totally out of line. Here’s where my head was. It takes a lofty amount of courage to simply go through the Washington Street tunnel on a bike. To top it off, the road “improvements” were only to pave which made it dangerous for bicyclists and the park construction keeps us out. So I was already fuming and when you honked at me I totally lost it. So, sorry again. It ended up as a little lesson of humility for me. Have a great day =)

CHEERS CHEERS TO THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY!!! This past weekend’s shows at the Martin Woldson Theatre further prove that the openness and versatility of our local Spokane Symphony Orchestra shall forever reach out to welcome every citizen in our vicinity. As a musician, student, teacher and performer, I have — since childhood — always appreciated, attended and celebrated our very own SSO. Last Friday and Saturday, the Symphony performed along with a professional touring group to present the ingenious and highly intellectual music of Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and Freddie Mercury — known as the British band QUEEN: A most amazing experience for fans, yet it also introduced a new generation to the beauty of Symphonic Rock music.

Besides keeping alive the eternal works of past “classical” composers, the SSO also performs with infamous and legendary visiting artists while also presenting pop concerts, educational shows for schools, free concerts in parks, and famous films and Broadway musicals. Please, if you have the means and the time, explore and

attend. If you don’t have the means, call their office and you can find ways to attend. Help our city keep this greatest treasure.

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DOUBLE GREAT! I can’t tell you how lucky I feel that you are mine. I’m so grateful for everything you do for me and the love you have for me. I was smitten from the start. I often think how we met and here we are now, me never wanting to let this go. You make me feel complete and not afraid of the future because I have you. Matt, I love you IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY “I know you’re facing some very hard trials right now. BUT I love you and I promise it will be okay.” Those were your words. I love you too and this isn’t getting any easier but with you - I believe in the possibilities and the joy in the everyday.

JEERS SIDE SLAP To the southbound SUV driver on Wall just before Francis, Tuesday, January 22, at about 4:45 pm: If you have to slam on your brakes because your brain can’t calculate fast enough if there’s enough room to squeeze past me on my bike and the car turning left, you either have to admit that a) you didn’t see me — dressed in a neon yellow reflective jacket with a reflective yellow ankle band, on a bike with reflective accents and a super bright red blinking rear

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maneuver and risk nearly killing me.

After all, you were so close that I could easily reach out and make contact. So which is it: you were driving blind or you were driving unsafe?

“MONKEYS” A message from a dear friend is what prompted this jeer. This friend of mine is living under a student visa and studying at my college and tonight he reached out to me.

When he got a hold of me he was full of uncertainty, but it was obvious that he was plagued by a bad feeling. He asked if it was more or less culturally normal for me to hear my dark skinned nephew referred to as a monkey by strangers. I was confused and perturbed by his question until he revealed to me the source of discomfort. While grocery shopping with his young daughter in Cheney, a grocery checkout clerk scowled at my friends daughter and called her a monkey without any prompting.

Without a smile or a hint of playfulness, he looked at her with a frown and called her a monkey. My intention behind writing this jeer is to shine a light on the ugliness and pernicious hatefulness that may go unseen by those fortunate enough to not experience it for themselves. For those that are not around for when it happens.

I reassured my friend that this is not

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CALM DOWN!!!! To the woman at the self checkout line at Walmart Shadle on Monday morning Jan. 28. You had a heavy accent and “didn’t have time for this.” Just so you were aware, their system went down momentarily and that employee was doing everything she could to fix the situation for myself and the other three people in front of you. I waited for you to let you know that this world didn’t spin around you and you called me an asshole. Agreed, I am an ass at times but that woman at Walmart did not deserve what you did to her. So am I the ass or was it you?

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BENEFIT PAIRING WITH PARASPORT The 2019 event features a new venue, new look, new tastes and more. A full dinner, silent auction and paddle raise comprise the schedule of events. Feb. 2, 5:30-8 pm. $50/person; $350/table. Felts Field, 6105 E. Rutter Rd. (850-6858) WINE TASTE 2019 Sample from 100s of specialty wines, play to win adventures and bid on premium live auction packages. This elegant, black-tie affair features gourmet creations from area chefs and supports regional hospice care. Feb. 2, 5-9 pm. $115-$125. Hospice of North Idaho, 2290 W. Prairie Ave. hospicewinetaste.org (208-772-7994) POTTER POP-UP TRIVIA EVENT Due to such high demand for the last event, Get Lit! Programs is hosting a one-day, all-day Harry Potter themed trivia event, with three sessions at 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 pm. Open to teams of up to four members. Individual tickets required. Feb. 3, 1:30 pm. $7.50. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. bit.ly/2sGKQEz SOUPER BOWL Spend the day playing in the snow while supporting the Women and Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen. This year’s theme is Hawaiian. Includes free lunch in the Selkirk Lodge. Snow Park Parking Pass is required; bus transportation also available. Feb. 3, 8:30 am-1 pm. $35-$45. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. souperbowlspokane.com (828-2488) FOR THE LOVE OF BEER & SCIENCE Mobius has partnered with Mountain Lakes Brewing and EWU to unite beerlovers and science enthusiasts. Sample Mountain Lakes craft beer while learning the art of tasting beer and the basics of brewing. Feb. 8, 6:30-8:30 pm. $25.

Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. bit. ly/2G3Xzt0 (509-321-7137)

COMEDY 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. (847-1234) JASON MEWES & HIS A-MEWES-ING STORIES The indie film icon is perhaps best known as the vocal half of the onscreen comedic duo, Jay and Silent Bob. Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at 7:30 pm. $25-$50.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com REAL COMEDIANS OF SOCIAL MEDIA Hosted by Tahir Moore, with performances by Tony Baker and headlined by KevOnStage. Jan. 31, 7-9 pm. $12-$25. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (534-5805) WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? Ninety minutes of improvised comedy and song all based on audience suggestions, performed by cast members Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Dave Foley and Joel Murray. Jan. 31, 8 pm. $35-$52. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) I SAW YOU! Join the BDT Players as they pull the comedy from the weekly readersubmitted section of the Inlander. Guests are encouraged to bring their favorite (family friendly) posting to the show.

Fridays at 7:30 pm through Feb. 8. $8.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave.

bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more.

First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) 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 MATT BRAUNGER Matt’s TV credits include a recurring role on NBC’s Up All Night, a series regular role on MADtv, and various roles late night comedy. Feb. 2, 7 pm. $15-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show that’s generally game based and relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays at 7:30 pm through March 30. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) FIRE BRIGADE IMPROV The theater’s in-house, family-friendly comedy troupe performs monthly. Feb. 3 at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org 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 (822-7938) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com HARRY J. RILEY Harry won the Spokane Valleyfest PG Comedy Competition twice, and was recently a semi-finalist in the prestigious Seattle International Comedy Competition. Feb. 7, 7:30 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com SHAWN WAYANS A two-night engagement with the comedian known for his work on/in Scary Movie, In Living Color, White Chicks, The Wayan Brothers and much more. Feb. 8-9; times vary. $25$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY MAKERTOTS A class for kids ages 4-6 to gain experience using tools to assemble and finish projects. Thursdays from 9:3011:30 am, Jan. 24-Feb. 14. $50. GizmoCda, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Hedlund Building, Suite 142. gizmo-cda.org FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Learn easy circle, line, folk dances and contras at this monthly event. No experience or partner needed. All dances taught by Susan Dankovich, with live music by Whirl’d Peas. First Friday of the month from 6:30-8 pm. Donations accepted. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohnscathedral.org (533-9955) 1912 CENTER WINTER MARKET Local artists, craftspeople, growers and producers gather at the center to sell their products, including handcrafted art and artisan goods, food products and more.

Feb. 2 and March 2, 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. (208-669-2249)

CRUISE THE WORLD University of Idaho international students, faculty and staff showcase the culture, food and music of about 30 countries during the annual event in the International Ballroom of the Bruce M. Pitman Center, Moscow. Feb. 2, 11 am-4 pm. Free and open to the public.

University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu/ipo (208-885-6519) PIZZA & POLITICS: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Get in the loop and join a legislative update featuring Mat Erpelding, Idaho’s House Democratic leader. Representative Erpelding provides information about what’s on the agenda for the upcoming legislative session and answer questions from the audience. Join us for free pizza and beverages, sponsored by the Kootenai County Democrats. Feb. 2, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Human Rights Education Institute, 414 W. Fort Grounds Dr. kootenaicountydemocrats.org BECOME DEBT FREE Assess your current finances and learn how to use tools that make debt-free living possible. Registration required at stcu.org/workshops. Feb. 4, 6-7 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. (893-8260) FIRST MONDAY NETWORK FOR SPOKANE ENTREPRENEURS A networking event held the first Monday of the month (5:30-7:15 pm), hosting sponsors and speakers who can help business owners and entrepreneurs in taking their business to the next level. $10. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. (208-640-1331) DOLLARS & SENSE: GIVE YOURSELF A RAISE Discover how to succeed with your budget and avoid money troubles in this workshop from SNAP Spokane.

Learn how to take control of your money, make achievable goals, and recognize predators. Feb. 5, 6-8 pm and April 30, 6-8 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.evanced.info/ signup/Calendar (509-893-8350) LEVEL UP CREATIVITY Join Spark for daily activities to ignite your creativity, innovation and imagination with science, writing and art projects. Wednesdays at 3:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing, and build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Priority seating provided for participants age 17 or younger. Held on the second and fourth Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org CHOCOLATE LOVERS CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society presents its annual Valentine-themed Chocolate Lovers Contra Dance with the River City Ramblers and Nancy Staub/Nora Scott calling. Dessert potluck at the break.

Newcomers welcome. Info at myspokanefolklore@gmail.com Feb. 9, 7-10 pm. $8/$10. East Spokane Grange, 1621 N. Park Rd. (509-747-2640)

FILM THE FAVOURITE In early 18th century, England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country on her behalf. When a new servant arrives, her charm endears her to Lady Sarah. Rated R. Jan. 31-Feb. 3; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) GREEN BOOK A working-class Italian-

American bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) on a tour of venues through 1960’s American South. PG-13. Showing Jan. 24-27 and Jan. 31-Feb. 3; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org THE RELUCTANT RADICAL A film following activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Ken breaks the law as a last resort, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. Jan. 31, 6:30-8:45 pm. Free. Rockwood Retirement Community, 221 E. Rockwood Blvd. (995-2264) WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL The 14th annual festival benefits the Spokane Mountaineers Foundation. The lineup of award-winning films includes adventure, environment and climate, youth outdoors and ski culture. Doors open at 6 pm for pre-show event. Jan. 31, 6-9 pm. $12.

Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. winterwildlands.org/ backcountry-film-festival SPIFF 21: SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 21st annual film festival celebrates local and regional filmmakers, including the Best of the Northwest Shorts program, along with internationally produced features in all genres. Feb. 1-8; times and locations vary.

See website for full schedule. $10-$12/ show (festival passes sold out). spokanefilmfestival.org JUSTICE PICTURES PRESENTS: A MURDER OF INNOCENCE A special event screening of this award winning film based on the life and family of local resident Aimee Filan Anderson. Feb. 5 at 5:30 pm and Feb. 12 at 6:30 pm. $10.

The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. justicepictures.com OSCAR SHORTS See the 2019 Oscar nominated shorts — live action, animation and documentary categories. Feb. 7 at 6:30 pm, Feb. 8 at 5:30 pm and Feb. 9 at 1:30 pm. $8-$10/show or $18-$22/ package. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales suddenly develops mysterious powers that transform him into the one and only Spider-Man. When he meets Peter Parker, he soon realizes that there are many others who share his special, high-flying talents. Feb. 7-9; times vary. $3-$7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar (208-882-4127)

FOOD FIRST BITE FOR SECOND HARVEST Get a first taste of Inlander Restaurant Week 2019 at this second annual preview event benefiting Second Harvest, presented by Dairy Farmers of Washington.

Sample featured IRW entrees, along with samples from Washington state-based creameries and artisan cheesemakers.

Also pick up the 2019 event guide early.

Jan. 31, 6-8 pm. SOLD OUT. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. inlanderrestaurantweek.com GRUITFEST The third annual beer festival showcases an ancient style of beer infused with herbs and spices (no hops!).

The event features historical-inspired and modern takes on gruit beers from local breweries, a collaborative beer and more.

See link for full list of featured breweries

and details. $15/commemorative glass + 5 drink tickets; additional tickets and glasses available for purchase. Feb. 1, 5-10 pm. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2sGJJ7R (509-280-8345) SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. Interactive sessions include appetizers and featured wines at discounted bottle prices. First Saturday of the month, at 3 pm. Ages 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second St. beverlyscda.com COMMUNITY COOKING CLASSES The Kitchen at Second Harvest provides nutrition information, scratch cooking skills, budgeting, and more. Free handson cooking classes in the kitchen teach low-income families how to prepare nutritious meals while making optimal use of their limited resources. See website for dates and times; typically meets Tue and Wed from 5:30-7 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org/classes-events/ MARDI GRAS FEAST Chef Adam Hegsted and staff prepare a Mardi Gras-themed dinner celebration with traditional New Orleans dishes served with Mardi Grasfamous Hurricane Punch and a local brew to wash it all down. Feb. 7, 6 pm. $35. The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. thewanderingtable.com (443-4410)

MUSIC SONG OF AMERICA: BEYOND LIBERTY FT. THOMAS HAMPSON This special show created by Thomas Hampson first premiered at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2018 with a libretto by Royce Vavrek staged by Francesca Zambello.

This Spokane “coming home” staged performance features an ensemble of musicians from the Spokane Symphony.

Feb. 1, 8 pm. $39-$78. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com GIRLS ROCK LAB JAM SESSION Kids of all musical abilities are invited to jam with their friends and experiment with sound in an encouraging environment.

Sign up online. Grades 3-7. Feb. 2, 10 amnoon. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org THE GREAT FOLK SCARE: AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL, 1958–65 Explore the folk singers and songwriters of the late ’50s and ’60s who rediscovered artists and songs from the 1920s–30s that they then reintroduced to national audiences. Brad Keeler and Linda Parman perform music celebrating this watershed moment in American cultural history. Program for adults. Feb. 2, 2-3 pm.

Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb St. scld.org (893-8330) SPOKANE SYMPHONY POPS 4: THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL FT. MICHAEL CAVANAUGH Hand-picked by Billy Joel to star in Joel’s Broadway smash hit, Movin’ Out, Cavanaugh wowed audiences for three years and over 1,200 performances, culminating in both Grammy and Tony Award nominations. Feb. 2, 8 pm. $39$86. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org SPOKANE STRING QUARTET: MUSIC AND ART The Quartet presents music by Mozart, Debussy and Ciurlionis with art projected on the big screen. Feb. 3, 3-5 pm. $12-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanestringquartet.org (624-1200)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess CARE BARE

I’m dating this new woman. I like her a lot, but she keeps complaining that I still have pictures of my ex-girlfriend on my wall, saying that it makes her uncomfortable, especially when we’re having sex. I was with my ex for a while, and we lived together. They’re just pictures. What’s the big deal? —Irritated There’s a place for the photographic Museum of Relationships Past, but it isn’t the area around your bed — assuming that your sex partners don’t require inflation AMY ALKON with a bike pump.

Actual human beings have feelings. They long to be treated with dignity — to be given the sense that others value them and care about how they make them feel. This would be reflected, for example, in replacing what, to a woman, probably looks like a wall shrine to the ex with pix of your other, less inflammatory loves, like Linda, your family’s late Rottweiler.

It’s possible that you have some sort of empathy gap — something keeping you from the usually automatic “fellow feeling.” This is a way researchers have described the sort of empathy that involves “emotional contagion” — “catching” and then feeling an emotion another person’s feeling, to some degree. Even if this isn’t natural for you, you can bring it into your relationships through “perspective-taking” — making an effort to imagine how another person feels in a situation. (This is different from imagining how you would feel.)

Research by C. Daniel Batson suggests that trying to feel what another person is feeling leads us to have empathy, “which has been found to evoke altruistic motivation.” This means that it motivates a person to behave in kind and compassionate ways. In contrast, though imagining how we would feel if we were in the other person’s shoes produces empathy, too, the researchers found that it also produces “personal distress, which has been found to evoke egoistic motivation” — which is to say, “Me! Me! Me! All about me!”

In general, treating other people as if their feelings matter — even when you don’t share their feelings or think they’re entirely legit — makes for far happier relationships.

If you aren’t interested in putting in the work to show empathy, you can still have a relationship — but with an atypical partner. Your best bet is probably a Boston fern — specifically one advertised to have “durable plastic leaves that are resistant to fading.”

BAD STARE DAY

Do men fall in love at first sight more than women do? My male friend says it’s mostly men who’ll see a woman from across a room or subway platform and fall for her. Yeah, I know that happens. Don’t women do this, too? Like, a lot?

—Wondering Dude A guy’s claim of “love at first sight” plays better with the ladies than “I wanted to spend eternity with your boobs.”

Research by psychologists Andrew Galperin and Martie Haselton finds that men, far more often than women, report experiencing “love at first sight.” However, they conceded that “some men might be reporting some episodes of sheer sexual desire as ‘love at first sight.’” (Ya think?)

This sex difference in love at first sight aligns with the different pressures ancestral men and women had to contend with to survive and pass on their genes. Because women alone get pregnant from sex, female emotions evolved to push women to take the slow route in mating — to assess a man over time for his level of commitment and character — lest a woman end up with a baby daddy who’s all “Beep, beep! — I’m outta here” like the Roadrunner.

Men, on the other hand, have an evolved sexual business model of volume and variety (kind of like Walmart). However, because ancestral men could bolt right after sex and still have a chance of leaving surviving descendants, it was in men’s evolutionary interest to hook up with an endless parade of hot-erellas. As I often mention, female features we think of as beautiful — like youth, clear skin, an hourglass figure, and pillowy lips — are actually cues of health and fertility. So, not surprisingly, male mating imperatives evolved to be visually motivated — “Do you look like the woman for me?” — in a way female ones did not.

Ultimately, though evolved male mating psychology is pushing you — even today — to be eyeball-driven, understanding its origins can help you be mindful to take a step back and put in the time to explore a woman’s character. This may help keep you from jumping into a relationship with some woman who turns out to be an extremely hot sociopath. As you might cry to your friends, “I’m so confused; she seemed so genuinely interested in me — wanting to know where I bank, the name of my first pet, and the last four of my Social.”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 THE GREAT FOLK SCARE: AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL, 1958–65: Explore the folk singers and songwriters of the late ’50s and ’60s who rediscovered artists and songs from the 1920s– 30s that they then reintroduced to national audiences. Brad Keeler and Linda Parman perform music celebrating this watershed moment in American cultural history. Program for adults. Feb. 5, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave. scld.org/ discover-a-story-through-music/ JAZZNIC FESTIVAL A concert featuring Cardinal Vocal Jazz directed by Jesse Hampsch, the NIC Jazz Ensemble directed by NIC Director of Bands Bryan Hannaford, along with special guests Andrea Olsen, and Phillip K. Jones II. Feb. 5, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-3424) WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with the Redwood City band and caller Nora Scott. No experience necessary; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm.

Feb. 6, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. More info: myspokanefolklore@gmail.com OF EBONY EMBERS: VIGNETTES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Chamber Music Theatre is a unique performance format created by the Core Ensemble, featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance.

Actor Dracyn Blount portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion. In Showalter Auditorium.

Feb. 7, noon. Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu

SPORTS & OUTDOORS THURSDAY THEME NIGHT Come dressed to impress in themed attire for a $1 discount off admission; includes food specials, music and more. Thursdays, from 5-9 pm through Feb. 28. See link for details. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. (625-6600) SNOWSHOE HEADLAMP HIKE WITH TRANSPORTATION Watch the glimmer of your headlamp illuminate the snowy trails as we hike through the quiet forest of Mt. Spokane. Snowshoes, guides, walking poles, headlamps and transportation (from Yoke’s in Mead) provided. Ages 15+. Feb. 1 and March 1 from 6-9 pm. $23. spokaneparks.org SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. KELOWNA ROCKETS Promo night is the White Claw Viva Las Vegas trip giveaway. Feb. 1, 7:05 pm. $11-$25. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com PRIEST LAKE SLED DOG RACE The 49th annual race is sponsored by the Inland Empire Sled Dog Association, and administered under permit with the US Forest Service. Events include multi-dog sled team sprints, a mid-distance 20 mile race, skijoring, PeeWee and Teddy Bear. Feb. 2-3 at 9 am. Free ($5 parking fee). Priest Lake, Idaho. iesda.org (991-4488) SNOWSHOE MT. SPOKANE: DEEP FOREST TOUR A more advanced snowshoe outing starting at the Selkirk Lodge and heading down the hill to the east through the forest. Basic route finding skills will be reviewed. Snowshoes with crampons provided. Loop is about 1.25 miles with about 460’ of

elevation loss/gain and the trip will take 2-3 hours. Ages 16+. Transportation from Yoke’s in Mead provided. Feb. 2, 10 am-2 pm. $39. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. spokaneparks.org (755-2489) CROSS COUNTRY SKI LESSON Learn to cross country ski and tour the trails of 49 Degrees North Nordic Area with 49 Degrees North’s certified instructors.

Includes equipment, trail pass, instruction, and transportation (departs from Wandermere Rite Aid). Bring a lunch and water. Additional info emailed after registration. Ages 13+. Feb. 3 from 8 am-4 pm. $49. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd. spokaneparks.org WWE LIVE: PRE-GAME PANDEMONIUM A WWE Championship match featuring Champion Daniel Bryan vs.

AJ Styles. In the WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship match, current champ Becky Lynch takes on Charlotte Flair. Plus many more WWE stars. (Card subject to change) Feb. 3, 1 pm. $17$107. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com

THEATER DISNEY’S THE LION KING The winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, returns to Spokane with its story filled with hope and adventure set against an amazing backdrop of stunning visuals. Through Feb. 3; times vary. $28-$147.50. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (509-279-7000) THE MEMORY OF WATER Three sisters gather for their mother’s funeral. Each has her own memories of her childhood and this creates conflict, which is, by turns, angry, desperate, poignant and wildly funny. Through Feb. 10; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. In the Firth J. Chew Studio Theatre. $14-$27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com UP CHIMACUM CREEK Presented by U of I Theatre Arts is this coming of age story about life, love and loss in the Pacific Northwest. Written by Ben Gonzales, directed by Justin Cerne. Contains adult language and content. Free/U of I students; matinees are “pay what you can.” Jan. 30-Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm; Feb. 2-3 at 2 pm. $10-$15. The Forge Theater, 404 Sweet Ave. uidaho.edu/class/theatre (208-885-6465) YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU The play follows the engagement of Tony and Alice, and what happens when they introduce their very opposite families to one another. While Alice hopes for harmony, what she gets is hilarity. Will the union end happily? Jan. 25-Feb. 17; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27-$29. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com CIRQUE ZUMA ZUMA With live music and percussionists, this action-packed show includes aerial acts, Egyptian limbo dances, South African gumboot dances, Gabonese tumbling, and South African contortionist feats. Feb. 1, 7 pm. $25-$60. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) CLOSING IT UP Stage Left Theater Resident Playwright Molly Allen’s latest original work has been selected to be a part of the AACT-American Association of Community Theatre Festival. Two local performances serve as a fundraiser to help with costs. Feb. 2 at 2 and 7 pm. $24.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W.

Sprague. spokanestageleft.org MET LIVE IN HD: CARMEN Clémentine Margaine is opera’s ultimate seductress, opposite Roberto Alagna, who captivated Live in HD audiences as Don José in 2010. Feb. 2, 9:45 am. $15-$20.

The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD BY BERT V. ROYAL Following the tragic death of his dog, C.B. finds himself reflecting on what comes after death. With no insight from his friends, C.B struggles to find closure. But, when he is confronted by the person he has spent years bullying, C.B will discover that his dog’s death isn’t the only problem on his mind. Feb. 7-9 at 7:30 pm. Rated R. $5.

Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/theatrearts

VISUAL ARTS PUSH FACTORS: PERSPECTIVES ON GUATEMALAN MIGRATION An exhibit of provocative photography that explores the factors driving residents of Guatemala from their homes in search of a better life. Through Feb. 24; TueSat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Free admission. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. uidaho.edu/caa/galleries/ prichardartgallery (208-885-3586) ARTS BUZZ Learn what arts and culture-related activities are in the works for the CdA area. First Friday of the month at 9 am. Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce, 1031 N. Academic Wy. artsincda.org FIRST FRIDAY / WINTER ARTS TOUR Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Feb 1 from 5-8 pm. Free.

Additional details at spokanearts.org SPOKANE WOMEN TOGETHER: PORTRAITS & STORIES Celebrate Women’s History Month with an exhibit combining portrait photography and personal stories to illustrate the quiet diversity of women from nine countries all living in Spokane. Feb. 1-28; open daily during library hours. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org TOM MOHR: IN OUR COMMUNITY Mohr’s collection captures the culture of the region through colorful photographs of local events and celebrations.

Feb. 1. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us BLAKE LITTLE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GAY RODEO Photographs documenting the lives of cowboys on the gay rodeo circuit in the late 1980s and early 1990s are on display as part of an exhibit in the second-floor exhibit space of the UI Library at Moscow. Feb. 4-April 30. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. libcal.uidaho.edu NATHAN SANDBERG GLASS EXHIBIT The Portland-based artist’s primary material is glass, although his installations commonly make use of other materials such as wood, metal and concrete. His art can be found in private and public collections around the world. Reception Feb. 19 from 5-6 pm, followed by a lecture by the artist in Lied 102 from 6-7pm. Exhibit runs Feb. 5-March 22; Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm. Free. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu/art/ MOSCOW FIRST THURSDAY The city of Moscow’s monthly arts celebra-

tion, featuring art displays around the downtown area, live music and more. First Thursdays, from 5-8 pm.

Details at facebook.com/moscowfirsthursday I’LL NEVER LET GO: A TITANIC THEMED SHOW A night of Titanic themed art by local artists. A portion of all profits will go towards the cancer bill funds of Kelly Fay Vaughn and Susan Webber. Feb. 8, 6-9 pm.

Free. Resurrection Records, 1927 W. Northwest Blvd. (503-853-0591) STORY & IMAGE: ILLUSTRATION IN THE INLAND NORTHWEST A selection of illustrations from Inland NW artists featuring an adaptation of the story “Witch Lake” by author Sharma Shields and music from Jilly FM. Curated by Derrick Freeland.

Feb. 8, 5-8 pm. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.org

WORDS 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic continues; open mic readers can share up to three minutes’ worth of poetry. Feb. 1, 8-9 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s all-ages performance poetry competition with a $50 prize. First Sundays; sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org POETRY AT THE PODIUM: CHRIS COOK Hear the Gonzaga professor, Spokane Symphony trumpeter and renowned Slam poet read for Poetry at the Podium before the weekly Spokane City Council meeting. Feb. 4, 6 pm. Free. Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Spoken word warriors battle for Inland Empire supremacy, and a $50 prize.

Each poem is judged by five audience members, and after two rounds of poetry, the poet with the highest cumulative score is declared winner.

Doors at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. spokanepoetryslam.org AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH LECTURE: AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN The leading new voice on racial justice and author of “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” is committed to exploring the intersections of racial justice, faith and black womanhood. Feb. 5, 7-9 pm. Free.

Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic series. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org FRAGMENTED HISTORIES & THE HISTORY OF FRAGMENTS This lecture explores the ancient history and modern re-emergence of two ancient Roman sites of the seaside town of Oplontis. Feb. 7, 6:30 pm.

Free. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) PIVOT MAINSTAGE: CROSSROADS Join Spokane storytellers Harry Neff, Kent Hoffman, Glenn Ward, Anthony Schoen, Alex Frankee, Keleren Millham, Jerusha Emerson, Kari Marguerite and Aileen Keown Vaux as they share their own “crossroads” stories. Feb. 7, 7 pm. $10 suggested donation. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. pivotspokane.com n

FE BRUARY 1 3 MINUTE MIC

Auntie’s Bookstore / 412 W Main Ave 8 - 9:15 p.m. / Free

ALL IN ALL - ARTWORK BY VANESSA SWENSEN

Fellow Coworking / 304 W Pacific Ave, #210 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

ART BY PAITON MCDUFFIE

First Avenue Coffee / 1011 W 1st Ave 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

ART BY VICKI WEST & MUSIC BY NICK GROW

Craftsman Cellars / 1194 Summit Pkwy 2 - 9 p.m. / Free

BEN JOYCE STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE Ben Joyce Studios / 806 W 3rd Ave 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. / Free

EXPLORATIONS XVI

Chase Gallery / 808 W Spokane Falls Blvd.

4 - 7 p.m. / Free

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY EXHIBITION Featuring work by Mary Farrell, Matt McCormick, Mat Rude, and Laura Truitt Jundt Art Museum / 200 E Desmet Ave 4 - 9 p.m. / Free

LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAN WEST Photographer Pat Schilling with guest artist Denny Carman

Avenue West Gallery / 907 W Boone Ave, Suite C 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

MIXED MEDIA BY ILDIKÓ KALAPÁCS Rio Wellness / 1003 E Trent Ave, Suite 130 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

MUTATION - ARTWORK BY MELANIE LIEB Kolva-Sullivan Gallery / 115 S Adams 5 - 9 p.m. / Free

MY DELICATE FLOWER

Spokane Art School / 811 W Garland Ave 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

PAINTINGS BY KAREN MOBLEY Iron Goat Brewing / 1302 W 2nd Ave 5 - 8 p.m. / Free

SCRUTINEARSIGHTED RICHARD SMOLINSKI

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON JONCKERS

SPIFF OPENING PARTY

SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Terrain Gallery / 304 W Pacific Ave, #190 5 - 8 p.m. / Free Montvale Event Center / 1017 W 1st Ave 9:30 - 11:30 p.m. / Free

UNEARTH - PRESENTED BY CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Kress Gallery / 808 W Main Ave 5 - 8 p.m. Free

Bellwether Brewing Co. / 2019 N Monroe S Fri, 3 - 10 p.m. / Sat, 1 - 10 p.m.

Sun, 1 - 7 p.m. / Free

Times and locations vary / Feb 1 - 8 Please visit spokanefilmfestival.org for full schedule and to purchase tickets.

FE BRUARY 2

WHO WE ARE - ARTWORK BY MICHAEL DINNING Marmot Art Space / 1202 W Summit Pkwy 4:50 - 8:05 p.m. / Free

CLOSING IT UP

Play by Molly Allen Bing Crosby Theater / 901 W Sprague Ave 2 & 7 p.m. / $24.50

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH - THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL

FE BRUARY 1-3 AS GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT: WOMEN, TRADITION AND PLATEAU ART Featuring work by Leanne Campbell, HollyAnna CougarTracks DeCoteau Littlebull, Bernadine Phillips

Northwest Museum of Art and Culture 2316 W 1st Ave. / 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. / $5-10

THE MEMORY OF WATER

Spokane Civic Theatre, Firth J. Chew Studio 1020 N Howard St / Jan 18 - Feb 10 Thu - Sat, 7:30 p.m. / Sun 2 p.m. / $14-27

MODERN MASTERS: GROUP F/64

Featuring work by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, Edward Weston Northwest Museum of Art and Culture 2316 W 1st Ave. / 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. / $5-10

RYAN! FEDDERSON: PHANTOM LANDS Northwest Museum of Art and Culture 2316 W 1st Ave. / 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. / $5-10

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 1001 W Sprague Ave / 8 p.m. / $39-86

NICK GROW MUSIC

Iron Goat Brewing / 1302 W 2nd Ave 7 - 9 p.m. / Free

WOMEN COMPOSER’S CONCERT Whitworth University Music Department 300 W Hawthorne Rd / 8 p.m. / Free

FE BRUARY 3 DALLAS K AT MARYHILL WINERY

Maryhill Winery Spokane / 1303 W Summit Pkwy, Suite 100 / 1 - 4 p.m. / Free

MUSIC/ART WORKS BY MOZART, DEBUSSY & CIURLIONIS Spokane String Quartet

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox / 1001 W Sprague Ave / 3 p.m. / $12-20

THE SNOW QUEEN

Spokane Children’s Theatre 2727 N Madelia St / Jan 25 - Feb 10 Fri, 7 p.m. / Sat - Sun, 2 p.m. / $10-14

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

Spokane Civic Theatre / 1020 N Howard St Jan 25 - Feb 17 / Thu - Sat, 7:30 p.m.

Sun, 2 p.m. / $14-29

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STRAINS

Super Bowls In case you need a little help this Sunday

BY TUCK CLARRY

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f you’re like me, this year’s Super Bowl seems to be lacking. Be it the tired narrative of Tom Brady and the Patriots once again representing the AFC or Maroon 5 headlining the halftime show, there’s going to need to be something to spice up an underwhelming rendition of the biggest American sporting event.

Which is why I’m advocating for all fellow pigskin and pot fans to let this year’s game be an opportunity to try out new methods of enjoying the game by fusing the two. Maybe prep some infused olive oil or butter and dank-ify your party’s guacamole or popcorn. Stop by a shop and grab some of the infused trail mix bags to mix with a bigger batch of supermarket party favors.

If you’re not part of the party planning committee, you might just need to settle on some suitable strains to toke on intermittently. Here are some ideas:

BLUE CHEESE: If you don’t have a vested interest in the result of the game or are maybe even being dragged to a party you weren’t necessarily excited attending, this indica strain is a great way to make it through with a smile and a few giggles. It’s one of the rare heavy indicas that doesn’t make you drowsy or lethargic, but excels at dealing with stress or anxiety. Get ready to enjoy a nostalgic visit from someone in the pop culture zeitgeist hawking you pistachios or sugar-free lifestyle sodas or what have you.

LAUGHING BUDDHA: The Super Bowl halftime show’s de-evolution is mind boggling. As the entertainment industry becomes more and more divided and pop culture’s consumption gets further individualized, it’s hard for the NFL to book an act that moves the needle whatsoever. That point couldn’t have been proven fur-

ther than by the booking of Maroon 5 and subsequently sweetened by the additives of Travi$ Scott and Big Boi. The block of content in between game action has proven to be the birthmother of memes ranging from Katy Perry’s dancing sharks to the selfie kid being bewildered

by Justin Timberlake. This euphoric sativa strain is only going to make those giggle fits better. You may even coast with the added benefits of the awkwardly too serious commercials seeming pretty funny.

MANGO KUSH: If you’re looking for a strong uplifting sativa, look no further. A few hits off of a vaporizer or bowl of Mango Kush will help you spark up conversations with your fellow party goers and give plenty to be amped about if you’re not into the action of the game.

Plus it will definitely inspire you to double fist on gameday appetizers and tortilla chips. n

NOTE TO READERS Be aware of the differences in the law between Idaho and Washington. It is illegal to possess, sell or transport cannabis in the State of Idaho. Possessing up to an ounce is a misdemeanor and can get you a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine; more than three ounces is a felony that can carry a five-year sentence and fine of up to $10,000. Transporting marijuana across state lines, like from Washington into Idaho, is a felony under federal law.

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There’s something extra special about a restaurant that has endured through several generations. HUDSON’S HAMBURGERS is that kind of place, where people perch happily on age-old swivel stools, tucked into a juicy “Huddy” burger. Or two. Or four. Founded in 1907 and having attained a mythic reputation for their all-natural, bona fide burgers and sandwiches — ham, egg or both, but no fries or frills — Hudson’s is where you go for a nostalgic and delicious bite of the past.

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For that classic ’40s vibe, remember ROGER’S ICE CREAM AND BURGERS another local fave like cheeseburgers piled high with onions, crispy fries and old-fashioned malts and shakes.

Would you rather your beef arrive in slab form? Head to WOLF LODGE STEAKHOUSE, where everything about this rustic 1930s-era building looks and feels like the Old West. And taste? How about a prime cut of beef — from 1026 ounces — wet-aged for up to 60 days and cooked “cowboy style” over a tamarack wood fire.

Have a sweet tooth? The Coeur d’Alene Resort’s signature Gooey dessert served at the DOCKSIDE is a shareable extravaganza of ice cream and assorted add-ons like cookies, candies, cakes, syrups and sauces. They even have one with huckleberries — another Idaho local must-have — which you can find in abundance throughout the resort, from the dessert menu to the beverage list

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If the views are as important to you as the meal, then CEDARS FLOATING RESTAURANT should make your list. Inlander readers voted it the best patio dining in North Idaho in 2018.

Year, after year, Inlander readers also vote the GARNET CAFE, their favorite place to grab breakfast, which makes it worthy of putting on your list. While it doesn’t sound like a breakfast dish, the Spaghetti and Eggs is their signature dish. Check your doubts and order it. Really.

And if being on top of the world makes you feel the same way, no bucket list is complete without a trip to SKY HOUSE at Schweitzer Mountain for a gourmet meal — try prime rib sliders — and a view down the mountain, across the lake and even to Canada that you just can’t get elsewhere.

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