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few months ago I checked an item off my Spokane bucket list. I attended my first Gonzaga men’s basketball game after years of desperately waiting for one of those elusive tickets to appear on my doorstep. Thanks to the generosity of some friends who knew someone, who knew someone, who knew someone, I finally got my wish. As I walked into the McCarthey Athletic Center, toward our seats, located directly behind the Gonzaga players bench, I immediately sensed this experience would spoil me for life. We arrived early to watch warm-ups, and while

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or the past three decades, Lynn Everson has been helping some of the community’s most vulnerable, stigmatized and overlooked populations: drug users, drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps and gangsters. As coordinator of the Spokane Regional Health District’s needle exchange program, Everson has seen some of the most tragic existences residents of our community are living, from childhood prostitution and all forms of abuse and neglect, to chronic homelessness and deadly drug addictions. Through this dismal reality, Everson has also seen signs of hope: clients overcoming the lasting effects of trauma, and going on to college or successfully holding down jobs. At the end of March, Everson will retire and pass the torch of the needle exchange program’s all-important work to a new leader. As that day approaches, she reflects on her career and the biggest social welfare and health problems facing our community. INLANDER: How did the needle exchange program begin? EVERSON: In 1990 we started talking about opening a needle exchange program. They had been proven very effective in reducing the spread of HIV, so finally in 1991 after we won a long court battle, we opened the needle exchange. We were so excited our first day of needle exchange — we had marked hundreds of needles; we had all our supplies out. Three people each came separately and exchanged one needle. It was very anticlimactic. I think yesterday we did a little over 5,000 and Tuesday we did 8,000. Why is it important that society takes care of these people — the addicted? The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study was conducted in the mid-’90s. And what they discovered was that the more adverse childhood experiences a person has, the more likely they will use tobacco, alcohol and injection drugs, have terrible health outcomes and die early. The major adverse childhood experiences are physical, sexual, emotional abuse, abandonment, neglect, a parent with an addiction, a parent in jail or prison, a parent with a mental health condition, violence in the home. When I talk

about that at the needle exchange, people are shocked because they have always blamed themselves for being drug addicts, when in fact it’s stuff they had no control over. And sadly, as a society we leave children in some pretty horrific places and then we seem oddly surprised when they have problems. What change needs to happen in Spokane to end the city’s homelessness and addiction crises? If we want to start at the beginning, we start helping families be healthy and know how to parent. It’s a societal issue as well, making sure that we have healthy practices and leave for families so that when a child is sick a parent doesn’t have to leave that child at home alone or with someone who might not be safe. It’s totally complex. It’s not one thing or two things or six things, it’s a whole life thing. So if we want to invest in children from the very beginning, then we will have to do a lot of things differently. People have to be able to have living-wage jobs, daycare for their children, a clear understanding of parenting and support in getting there. How can people be more compassionate and sympathetic to the many issues your program’s clients face? I think if people didn’t spend time with moral judgments on a problem that has nothing to do with morals. And if it did have to do with morals, the moral problem is with society not making sure all children are safe. And understanding that our [clients] come from very painful places. And just remembering that addiction is a reaction to trauma, and folks would like to be emotionally numb from all their childhood trauma. Plus, they get more trauma every day. Prostituted women have people throw pennies at them and call them names and throw them out of moving cars and rape and rob them. I think the world would be a better place if everybody just helped in any way they could. People are overwhelmed by the problem. I mean, I am everyday. But I also know that I feel better when I do whatever I can to help. I am one person and I am not solving anything by myself. n

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f Spokane Public Schools officials Googled “Shawn Audie” before hiring him as a resource officer, they would have found that the former sheriff’s deputy once used a chokehold that caused a man named William Berger to lose consciousness and die. If the district had called Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, they would have learned that Audie was ousted from the Sheriff’s Office as the result of an internal investigation accusing Audie of excessive force. If the

district did more research, they would have found two other lawsuits accusing Audie of excessive force. But Spokane Public Schools didn’t know Audie retired from the Sheriff’s Office in lieu of being fired, or that he had been sued three times prior to that. Instead, the district learned about it last week when the Inlander published a story uncovering the string of controversial incidents that Audie faced as a deputy before September 2018, when he was hired to be a school resource ...continued on next page

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officer at Ferris High School. As a result of the report, Spokane Public Schools put Audie on paid leave as the district tries to understand all that it missed. “That was new information,” says Spokane Public Schools spokesman Brian Coddington. Within months of being hired as a resource officer at Ferris, Audie has found himself in the center of another controversy involving an alleged violent arrest at that school. Witnesses thought he was too violent when restraining a black teenager last month, but the school district has so far cleared him of wrongdoing. Audie could not be reached for comment. The incident — which ended with three staff members going to the hospital and three students in handcuffs — has become a rallying cry for members of the community who feel it’s indicative of the disparate treatment against students of color, as suspension and arrest Shawn Audie has been placed on paid leave. SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS PHOTO rates have disproportionately impacted black students in recent years. Some students walked out of school in pro“The assault was brutal and violent and test of how their classmate was treated. And now unprovoked in any way,” the lawsuit reads. “Mr. community members are demanding to know Jones was not able to defend himself against why Audie was hired in the first place. the brute force of these officers, with defendant “The community is not happy and this has to Audie particularly violent and out of control.” stop. This is part of our battle with the Spokane The lawsuit, which accused Audie of unconPublic Schools district. It goes on and on,” says stitutional use of excessive force, was eventually Morning Star Baptist Church Pastor Walter Kendismissed. dricks. “And this one right here, this is it. This is In June 2013, Audie and another deputy, the line in the sand.” Steve Paynter, responded to a call of a disorderly man in Oz Fitness on the South Hill. The man, he first lawsuit against Audie stemmed William Berger, was frightening other people from an incident in 2008. According to at the gym, and when deputies arrived he was the lawsuit, Audie responded to a domesswinging at passing cars. His father later detic violence call where he found Richard Howley, scribed it as a manic episode for Berger, who was an elderly disabled Army veteran who has since dealing with mental health issues. passed away, and Howley’s son. The deputies used a Taser on Berger, but Audie ordered Howley’s son to lay on the Berger reportedly then tried to use a Taser ground, according to the lawsuit. When Howagainst the deputies. In a further attempt to ley’s dog came up to sniff Audie, according to control him, Audie put Berger in a chokehold. the suit, Audie “struck the dog two quick blows Berger stopped breathing and he died at the with his police baton.” As Howley, unarmed and hospital. dressed in a bathrobe, tried to retrieve the injured Audie was cleared of any criminal wrongdodog, he passed by Audie on the porch. Audie ing, and jurors ruled the deputies did not use struck Howley with the baton, sending Howley excessive force during the arrest. But the jurors down the stairs of the porch. Audie then “struck wrote a note to the judge that stated, “While [Howley] in the back and placed his booted foot the jury exonerate Deputy Audie and Deputy and his weight onto [his] back,” according to the Paynter from the charge of using excessive force suit. Howley received a dozen stitches after the during William Berger’s arrest, we have reservaincident. tions regarding the actions of Deputy Audie on Jeffry Finer, the attorney for the alleged vicJune 6, 2013.” tim, says it left him concerned that Audie would Audie remained a deputy until summer of cause further harm as a deputy. 2018, when he retired in lieu of termination as “I said to his lawyer that I thought he was the result of an internal investigation. According a danger,” Finer says. “I said he’s a cowboy and to the investigation documents obtained by the he’s going to kill somebody.” Inlander via public records request, Audie was A second lawsuit against Audie involved anaccused of using excessive force during an arrest other domestic violence call, this one in Decemof a man during a traffic stop. Audie allegedly ber of 2011. According to a lawsuit, Audie and choked the suspect around the neck, dug his another deputy “burst into” a home of a couple knee into his spine while the man lay face down and “immediately began assaulting” a man on the ground and then kicked him. Audie was named Race Jones. also accused of making false or misleading state-

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ments about the incident during the internal investigation. The Sheriff’s Office sustained the allegations against Audie in September 2018. It wasn’t just that Audie used excessive force, but investigators found Audie also made false or misleading statements to a supervisor regarding what took place. Spokane Public Schools never called Sheriff Knezovich to check his background. At the time, Mark Sterk, formerly Spokane County sheriff, was serving as director of safety and security for the school district before he retired in the fall. Coddington, the district spokesman, says a supervisor for the Sheriff’s Office other than Knezovich said “favorable” things about Audie during the hiring process. Kevin Morrison, who is serving in Sterk’s old job in an interim role, says the district may make changes to the hiring process in the future.

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espite Audie’s past, Morrison maintains that Audie did not use excessive force during a fight last month at Ferris. “I have no reason to believe that there was an unreasonable use of any kind of force on any individual,” Morrison says. “It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback these situations … You have to look at the totality of the incident and the evidence of the incident.” The details of what exactly happened during the fight that sent Ferris High School into lockdown on Jan. 24 remain murky. It started as a confrontation between students, Morrison says. When a staff member attempted to intervene, the staffer was assaulted by a student, he says. That prompted Audie to then step in, at which point he attempted to restrain that student. Photos taken by students show Audie pressing his shin into the student’s neck as the teen lay sprawled face down on the ground. An 8-second video shows Audie attempting to restrain the unwilling student, who appears to be flipping Audie off while pinned on his back. At some point during the restraint, Morrison says, other students got involved and escalated the situation. No weapons were involved.

“I can’t see anything that justifies the use of force I’ve seen in the videos so far. It just looks really concerning. I just can’t believe this is OK.” But student Tayona Allen, who says she witnessed the fight, paints a slightly different picture. Yes, two students originally were in an altercation. But she disputes that any staff member was assaulted before Audie took down the teenager. In a Facebook post, Allen says when the student couldn’t breathe, other students tried to pull the officer off of him. Rosey Thurman, an attorney at Team Child, a child and parent advocacy group, says from the photos and video that she’s seen, the use of force used by Audie went too far. “I can’t see anything that justifies the use of force I’ve seen in the videos so far,” Thurman says. “It just looks really concerning. I just can’t believe this is OK.” According to district policy, any use of force must be based on “reasonability of actual event and circumstances,” Morrison says. Resource officers undergo 80 hours of training that includes deescalation techniques. No specific maneuvers to control students are banned under the policy, but officers rely on state law to guide them. Kendricks, the Baptist pastor, says he and others in the community are still looking for answers. “The school district has set themselves up now for so many other questions that have to be answered,” Kendricks says. “There’s a very large segment of the community that is outraged, first of all that this incident happened at all, and now the background of the person involved.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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GONZAGA BEN MISSING YOU Gonzaga University President Thayne McCulloh says he will let conservative political commentator BEN SHAPIRO (above) speak on campus this spring, reversing a decision made by the university in the fall. In November, the university said it would not allow Gonzaga College Republicans to bring Shapiro to campus, citing security concerns. The College Republicans appealed the decision to President McCulloh and his decision was announced Monday. Shapiro is a former editor of Breitbart and now runs conservative website the Daily Wire. In a statement, McCulloh says the university is committed to facilitating exposure to a “broad range of intellectual ideas and debate” and also to upholding the university’s faith-based values. “This process is reflective of our efforts to do both,” he says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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CROSS THE STREET AND GET ARRESTED On Jan. 28, Spokane Police Officer Ben Maplethorpe arrested Zoey S. King in downtown and booked her into the Spokane County Jail for allegedly JAYWALKING and obstructing law enforcement. Jon Lossing, a passerby, filmed what he considered a “ridiculous” arrest on his cellphone, later telling the Inlander that King had entered a crosswalk when the pedestrian walk signal was flashing — but not solid red. (A Spokane Police Department spokesperson said that Maplethorpe had to stop his car to avoid colliding with King.) Upon reviewing the video, local defense attorney David Partovi called the arrest “petty,” framing jaywalking as a minor legal violation that the broader public commits on a regular basis. Meanwhile, Lossing has filed a complaint over the incident with the Office of the Police Ombudsman. (JOSH KELETY)

GUNS, DRUGS AND THE WHOLE PICTURE The University of Idaho sent out a CAMPUS ALERT last week urging students and employees to call 911 if they saw Denise Bennett (above), who was not allowed on campus, and noting she had recently told police about drug use and access to firearms. The alert failed to mention the professor in the Journalism and Mass Media school had been placed on paid administrative leave that wasn’t supposed to be punitive, or that the leave was over issues with superiors who were completely unrelated to the information in the alert. The drug and gun information actually came from a nonviolent police call in November, when Bennett and her husband had an argument. The couple told police Bennett’s meth use had been an issue in their marriage and she was trying to hide her husband’s guns in her car to “hurt his feelings,” according to the Moscow Police Department report. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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HAVING IT BOTH WAYS Spokane County Sheriff OZZIE KNEZOVICH (above) held a press conference on Feb. 1 where he both criticized a slew of other sheriffs around the state of Washington who have publicly stated that they won’t enforce Initiative 1639 — a package of gun control laws — as “grandstanding” and claimed that he can’t enforce the recently approved initiative. Specifically, he said that the initiative — which included new regulations such as enhanced background checks and added a felony penalty for people who don’t lock up their guns — is “unconstitutional” and that “there’s nothing” in the law “for a sheriff to enforce.” (Technically, while the majority of the initiative doesn’t go into effect until July 1, the law raising the age requirement from 18 to 21 for buying a semi automatic rifle has already gone into effect.) In justifying his statements and the positions of other sheriffs, Knezovich said that sheriffs “interpret the law all the time.” (JOSH KELETY)

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Broken Records Washington state lawmakers still want to shield some of their work from the public

he last time the Washington lawmakers tried to rework the state’s PUBLIC RECORDS rules, attempting to codify special exemptions for the Legislature, their bill ended up sparking numerous newspapers to take out furious front-page editorials. The outcry grew so loud that Gov. Jay Inslee ultimately vetoed it. A year later, the Legislature is ready to try again with a new bill, sponsored by state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle. “Sen. Pederson has dropped this bill as a starting place for a discussion about how we can make the Legislature more transparent,” says Sen. Majority Leader Andy Billig, D-Spokane, a co-sponsor. Billig notes a number of changes to this latest bill that would please the media outlets that condemned last year’s version. The bill firmly establishes that the public records act applies to the Legislature. It allows people to take the Legislature to court for disagreements. And in a major concession from the Legislature, it would reply retroactively: Journalists would be able to, say, get old emails from Rep. Matt Shea sent before the bill was passed. Yet the Washington Coalition for Open Government

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opposes the latest version, mostly because of some major exceptions the Legislature has carved out for state lawmakers: For example, unlike with a City Council, drafts of bills, memos, proposals, counter-offers, whip counts and internal communications in the Legislature would be permanently kept secret. Legislators argue that being able to negotiate in secret is crucial to be able to come to a compromise. “How are we supposed to know as voters if our state legislators are making good choices, if we can’t even see what the choices are that they considered?” says Washington Coalition for Open Government President Toby Nixon. Another part of the bill would allow legislators to redact almost all the identifying constituent information in their correspondence, including names. While those exceptions wouldn’t apply to official lobbyists, Nixon says, they still would allow, say, a Boeing executive to lobby for tax cuts while keeping their identity hidden. The bill will go before the Senate’s state government committee next week. “It may or may not move forward depending on the reaction,” Billig says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

FIRE, POLICE, AND A SPECIAL ELECTION

On Feb. 12, Spokane voters will decide whether they want to let the city raise their property taxes beyond the allowed amount in order to pay for about 30 firefighters and 20 police officers. PROPOSITION 1, put to voters by Spokane City Council, would raise the regular property tax levy 30 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, except for eligible seniors and people with disabilities. That’s $60 a year for a home assessed at $200,000. Starting in 2020, the roughly $5.8 million per year

Spokane voters will consider a levy next week to pay for about 30 firefighters and 20 police officers. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO from the tax would pay for most of 48 firefighter positions currently funded with federal grant money set to expire this year. The firefighters were hired for a pilot program to test “alternative response units” (also called ARUs) that can respond to medical calls while leaving other fire trucks available. Not everyone is convinced the pilot has proven to be effective. “We wrote a grant to test some things in the fire department, and we have yet to demonstrate whether the community has received a benefit from that,” says City Administrator Theresa Sanders. “The quarterly performance measures have not improved with the addition of these positions.” But City Council President Ben Stuckart says those positions in particular are worth saving, as they have helped keep the city’s response times reasonable despite more demand being placed on the department. “Over the last two years, we’ve seen a 30 percent increase in the number of medical calls,” Stuckart says. “What it’s allowed us to do — having those ARUs out there — is keep our response times level.” The levy money would also help fund five new

downtown police officers, additional behavioral health unit officers, and more detectives to work on property crimes, in addition to other positions focused on neighborhood policing. “The No. 1 concern I hear from citizens, in person, at council meetings, email, phone calls, is concern with crime, and these 20 additional police officers will help us catch up to the numbers we need,” Stuckart says. “We’ve heard overwhelmingly this is [voters’] priority, so they deserve a chance to say if they want to purchase those services.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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A judge in Whatcom County last week approved revisions to a lawsuit that the state Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) says will help the state meet its goal in preventing youth in FOSTER CARE from running away from placement. Judge Charles Snyder allowed revisions in the case of Braam v. Washington, a class action lawsuit started in 1998 meant to improve the foster care system in Washington. As part of a settlement agreement in 2004, the state agreed to a series of more than 20 “outcomes,” or goals in its effort to improve foster care. As of 2017, the state had met all but two of those outcomes, says DCYF spokeswoman Debra Johnson. But it still failed to meet certain goals related to youth running away from foster homes or facilities. About 375 kids run away from out-of-home placement each year, according to the DCYF. The modified settlement agreement approved by Snyder sets new goals for addressing youth who run from care. Those goals include decreasing the percent of youth who run away from care more than once by 20 percent and decreasing the length of time kids are away when they run, says Johnson. “The new measures offer a more robust and realistic way to measure the state’s performance in helping these youth than did previous measures,” says Mary Van Cleve, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, in a statement. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Dividing Lines How settling a North Idaho estate sparked a small-town divide over property rights and a proposal to recall the entire government BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

s sidewalks suddenly drop off, and backyard pastures come into view, it’s easy to tell where neighboring Hayden and Coeur d’Alene end and the small North Idaho city of Dalton Gardens begins. There’s a distinct shift in character in the suburb of roughly 2,400, where winter fog clings to the tree-covered foothills that border its valley one recent January day. Plenty of homes here sit on “Dalton Acres” — only a full acre if you count the road out front. Many boast front yards and acreage in the back providing space for horses and massive gardens that hearken back to the area’s farming history. There are no streetlights, no sidewalks, and there’s no sewer system either. That’s how the people here like it. But recently, there’s been a rift, a growing division among the neighbors in this community as they debate whether one family’s proposal to build a couple homes on back acres could threaten the very character of the city they love so much. With the city striking a deal to allow the family to build beyond what current city ordinances allow — a move that opponents worry could open the floodgates to other development — the opposing outcry has sparked a recall effort, with the mayor and all four City Council members placed on a special March ballot with the potential to be ousted from office. At the heart of it all, Dalton grapples with two values intrinsic to the semi-rural area: property rights and government fairness.

ack in 1975, Jerry Streeter’s parents decided they wanted to divide their 5-acre Dalton Gardens property, keeping their home and the land it sits on and setting aside an acre for each of their four boys. It wasn’t until 2016, after both parents had passed away, that Jerry Streeter was tasked with settling the estate. By that point, Jerry and his two living brothers, and the widow and children of their other brother, stood to inherit the properties. He went to the city to make sure the lots that had been divided out roughly 40 years before could be sold and built on. “As soon as my mother passed away, I started this process because I wanted to divide up the property and get the estate settled, that’s what triggered all this,” says Streeter, 62. The city was ready to work with the Streeters until concerned neighbors, including lawyer Jeff Crandall, intervened. The city, they argued, has an ordinance that doesn’t allow for homes to be built on lots with less than 110 feet of street frontage, which would make the back three lots on the Streeter property not buildable. With that and other concerns brought up, the city

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Residents of Dalton Gardens say they appreciate its open spaces and mountain views. SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL PHOTO opted to hold off, and eventually, the Streeters sued. Their property had been split up a month before that 1975 frontage ordinance was passed, and it should be grandfathered in as a result, the Streeters argued. A judge encouraged the parties to settle, and Dalton and the Streeters soon did that: Instead of four new homes, the family would be allowed to build three, with the back three acres now split in two and accessible by a new easement for a driveway through the front properties. That seemed to be the best fix to all involved, Dalton Mayor Steve Roberge says. “Ultimately what we’re looking at here is the property rights of Dalton residents that have lived here for 60 years,” Roberge says. But neighbors who’ve organized under the name “Save Dalton Gardens” argue that the back land shouldn’t be grandfathered in and they’ve filed a suit to try to stop the city from allowing homes there. They claim other developers could try to do the same elsewhere in town, and they worry that if enough development happens, individual septic systems might no longer be allowed. If required, a city sewer system would be costly to property owners, Crandall says. But the city contends any precedent the settlement might set would only apply to properties that were divided before the 1975 rule was passed, and they know of only one other property that might apply to, Roberge says. “The only people it’ll effect is the Streeters and the individuals that live around that property,” he says. Crandall says he wonders why the Streeters shouldn’t have been required, like most everyone else who wants a project to go outside of city rules, to get a variance — a public and individualized process that allows the City Council to make an exception, or not. “If you really boil it down, that’s why I’m fighting this,” Crandall says. “I think laws need to be enforced, and they need to be enforced without prejudice, without bias. It doesn’t matter how long the Streeters have lived in this community.” So Save Dalton Gardens is suing the city to argue its case and keeping an eye out for building permit filings or other actions allowed under the settlement that might require an injunction to be put on hold, Crandall says. In the meantime, the group is leading a last-ditch effort to oust the city government. “I don’t fault the Streeters at all for trying to maximize the value of their property as property owners,” Crandall says. “Our dispute is not with the Streeters at all, it’s with the city and what the city is doing and allowing.”

he reason people want to live in Dalton Gardens is because of its unique character, Crandall explains. “It’s very quiet, yet it’s close to everything else that’s in town, and Dalton residents kept it that way on purpose,” Crandall says. “They want to feel like they’re

living out in the middle of nowhere, and they’re not.” Mayor Roberge agrees that large properties are what make Dalton unique, and despite concerns, says he’ll fight to maintain the city’s character. His family settled in the area in the late 1800s and he’s served in leadership roles there for nearly 20 years, including 16 years on council and the last three and a half as mayor. “Nobody is trying to change that at all,” Roberge says. “I love Dalton Gardens. … I will do nothing that will harm this city.” The mayor and the four council members, who make $850 and $400 a month respectively, (a dollar amount that hasn’t changed in nearly 20 years), are all up for recall on the March 12 ballot. About 345 to 355 people signed recall petitions for Roberge and each of the council members, including Joe Myers, Denise Lundy, Jamie Smith and Scott Jordan. For a recall to happen, a majority of voters in the election need to agree to recall that official, and there must be at least the same number of votes as the number that voted them into office in the first place. That number varies for each official: Roberge (345), Myers (110), Lundy (112), Smith (418), and Jordan (337), according to the Kootenai County Clerk’s office. Having the entire city government up for recall is at the very least exceedingly rare. The Idaho Secretary of State’s office had to be consulted for what would happen should the city be left without enough officials left to appoint others to any vacated seats. “The governor would appoint enough councilmen so there’s a quorum, once there’s a quorum the council would fill the other positions,” says Tim Hirst, chief deputy secretary of state for Idaho. “Normally the governor reaches out and asks for recommendations from the people in that community, and he interviews the candidates and will select a couple.” Save Dalton Gardens continues to try to make its case to voters, including that it feels city dealings were wrongfully moved behind closed doors using claims of pending litigation, and that removing the officials “from office before they can cause further damage to this city is critical and essential.” The Streeters feel caught in the middle, waiting to find out if and when they can list their property. “We’ve got a list of people interested in buying the acres as we speak,” Jerry Streeter says. “It’s just very frustrating, losing two-and-a-half to three years, ’cause we’re not — the boys — getting any younger.” Roberge, meanwhile, working with others under the name “Dalton Gardens Property Rights,” has tried to distribute more information, including that the city wouldn’t be required to switch to a sewer system if the Streeter property is built out (as confirmed by the Panhandle Health District) and that the city does not plan to divide and make more back acres buildable. “I think that the individuals that signed the petition just had the wrong information,” Roberge says. “I want to make sure the city, after this is all done, is whole.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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The Exodus As key staffers leave the lame-duck Condon administration, the mayor’s choosing not to replace them BY DANIEL WALTERS

othing like this has ever happened in the city of Spokane. “It’s been 50 years since Spokane has had a lame duck mayor,” City Administrator Theresa Sanders says. Under the strong-mayor form of government — adopted in 1999 — Spokane has never had a mayor reelected to a second term. And so the city has never had a situation like this: A mayor in his final year, unable to run for re-election, facing an exodus of some of his most experienced directors. At the beginning of 2018, Jonathan Mallahan, Mayor David Condon’s director of neighborhood and business services, left for a job at Catholic Charities. He was replaced by the city’s Community Housing and Health Services Director Dawn Kinder. But by the end of 2018, Kinder had left as well, also for a job at Catholic Charities. Communications Director Brian Coddington left to become the spokesman for Spokane Public Schools last July — the same year Finance Director Tim Dunivant retired. After only a year in her position, Spokane’s assistant fire chief, Trisha Wolford, left to become a fire chief in Maryland. And this week, Parks Director Leroy Eadie — a former city planner who’s been with the city since 1994 — is leaving, too. But since Condon can’t guarantee the next mayor

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will keep any of his cabinet picks, he’s been left with a dilemma. “How do you recruit somebody who understands that they may only have less than a year to serve?” Human Resources Director Chris Cavanaugh asks. Condon’s answer? You don’t. The mayor isn’t replacing any of them. That choice, Sanders says, could allow the next mayor to chart a new course with new people in leadership. But for one of those vying to be that next mayor — City Council President Ben Stuckart — that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. “I think a lot of employees would rather have managers in those positions,” Stuckart says. “And I think there’s a way to get there where they have stability.”

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There are a lot of reasons why longtime staffers are leaving the city. “I think a lot of it, as I look at our demographics, our average age is coming up on 49 years old for the entire city. Leroy retired. Tim retired,” Cavanaugh says. “A lot of us have been there two decades or more.” In other circumstances, family responsibilities can play a role: Both Mallahan and Kinder recently had newborn kids, a difficult enough responsibility even without needing to juggle the high stress and long hours of a high-level city job. Part of the recent exodus of cabinet-level staffers has been driven by the approaching end of the Condon administration. “My job at the city is at the pleasure of the city mayor,” Coddington told the Inlander last year. With no guarantee that the next mayor would keep the sometimes controversial communications director in that role, an opening at Spokane Public Schools was too good to pass up. “It was an additional level of security for me,” he said. In the meantime, as the behind-the-scenes conflict between the council and the mayor has simmered, the Condon administration became wary of how a new hire

could get caught up in the hostility. After Dunivant, the finance director, left in July, the city initially did move to fill that position. They conducted rounds of interviews and even identified a potential candidate. But then Stuckart says he brought forward a concern from another council member about a possible perceived conflict of interest with the proposed hire: The candidate’s wife works for Human Resources, Stuckart says: “How would we handle an HR complaint, when the director’s wife works for HR?” To Sanders, the prospect of the appointment becoming a nasty political confirmation fight was too big of a risk. “Honestly, that to me was an important signal that we’re risking people’s careers and reputations,” Sanders says. “That was the time, really the moment, that we [decided] we just need to let the next mayor decide who to bring in.” It’s never easy to find a great fit for a high-level administrator position, especially in a tight job market. And the limited time frame, Sanders argues, makes that even harder. “I can tell you that I wouldn’t be able to make a decision to join an administration with just a year left,” Sanders says. Meanwhile, it’s not just the political uncertainty that’s at issue. Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer says Condon’s approaching departure isn’t what’s stopping him from trying to replace Assistant Fire Chief Trisha Wolford. The problem is budgetary. In 2016, Condon celebrated the fact the city won a $9 million federal grant, enough to hire nearly 48 firefighters. But the grant expires this year. Stuckart has championed a Feb. 12 levy that would save many of those firefighter jobs and would pay for additional police officers. But Condon has opposed it, arguing that the city’s data showed little apparent benefit from the additional firefighters. If the levy doesn’t pass, Schaeffer argues, it would be unethical to try to hire a new assistant chief instead of using the money to protect firefighter jobs. “In this situation, when we’re looking at potentially

losing a lot of our department, we can’t bring anyone on in the administration, morally,” Schaeffer says. “It’s not the right thing to do.” If the levy doesn’t pass, the fire department would eliminate the assistant chief position entirely, for the first time since the department’s creation in 1884.

MORE WITH LESS

To City Councilman Breean Beggs, there’s a solution: Temporarily promote existing city employees to the empty director positions, and then hire temps to fill the newly vacated lower-level positions. If a new mayor doesn’t want to keep

worked staffers as a source of frustration. “I think it has negatively impacted my role as a councilwoman,” Burke says. “Not only am I not able to get questions answered at any sort of regular pace, their plates are so full that I often times feel that I’m really burdening them while asking them questions.” Stuckart says he offered Condon a potential solution: If he and the mayor could come to an agreement about a new director for one of the vacant jobs, he’d be able to promise that he’d keep them on his staff if he were elected mayor. “If somebody is leaving, if you want to replace them, let’s do a collaborative process to replace them,” Stuckart says. But the Condon administration didn’t bite. “I think that makes an assumption that Ben is going to be the next mayor,” Sanders says. What if it’s Shawn Poole? What if it’s Kelly Cruz? Not only that, but Sanders worries that Stuckart’s plan could have sent a signal to all the employees who didn’t have that guarantee that their jobs were at risk if he became mayor. Indeed, if Stuckart wins, the fate of some of the remaining members of the Condon administration remains particularly uncertain. For example, last year, Stuckart accused Public Works Director Scott Simmons of treating city employees “like shit,” going so far as to temporarily stop attending city infrastructure committee meetings because of his frustration with Simmons. Asked in a text message if he planned to keep Simmons on if he won, Stuckart responded, “I am not answering any questions like that ;)”

“I’m doing both jobs right now. Maybe not as effectively as I could. You have to pick and choose what you can get done.” the interim director, the employee can simply revert to their old job. In fact, that’s pretty close to what’s been done in the case of Leroy Eadie’s parks director position. Garrett Jones, the city’s experienced parks planning and development manager, has been tapped to serve as the interim parks director. The institutional knowledge that Jones will bring to bear is crucial, Eadie says. “It’s a tricky position,” Eadie says. “In a lot of ways, you have three different bosses.” He points out that the parks director has to answer to the City Council, the mayor and the Park Board. But in most of the cases, responsibilities are simply being shifted or divvied up. After Coddington left, public works spokeswoman Marlene Feist found herself doing double-duty. “I’m doing both jobs right now,” Feist says. “Maybe not as effectively as I could. You have to pick and choose what you can get done.” The workload tends to pile up — and most cabinet-level appointees don’t get paid overtime. Chief Financial Officer Gavin Cooley says he and other members of the mayor’s finance department have managed to spread out the finance director’s duties between them. “Having [the finance director position] open for 18 months is problematic,” Cooley acknowledges. But the generally optimistic Cooley sees a benefit, too: They get more cross-training in different positions. “It’s clearly been more challenging,” Cooley says. “Probably in a good way.” Meanwhile, Sanders, who has taken over some of Kinder’s responsibilities, says she’s felt a bit of additional pressure. “I think it slows us down a little bit,” she says. Beggs says he’s noticed that slowdown. He’s been frustrated with the city’s slow pace in developing rental relocation and security deposit assistance for low-income tenants, but knows that city staffers are overwhelmed. “I know that me trying to get those programs to go faster is challenging, because people have a lot to do,” Beggs says. Councilwoman Kate Burke, who has clashed publicly with city employees, points to over-

PASSING THE BATON

After the next mayor is elected, more highprofile departures are inevitable: Unsurprisingly, Theresa Sanders is among them. As essentially Condon’s chief of staff, she will leave when he does. Human Resources Director Chris Cavanaugh also says she’s planning to leave in early or mid-2020. Chief Financial Officer Cooley wouldn’t confirm or deny reports that he also plans to leave at the end of the year, but he did say that, if he did leave, he’d make sure he stuck around long enough to hand off the baton. “I think it’s a shared viewpoint by the entire cabinet,” Cooley says. “We want to make sure there’s continuity.” That’s a stark contrast with Burke’s more conspiratorial tack. She argues that Condon is intentionally trying to sabotage his possible successor, by depriving Stuckart of expertise and momentum. “I think he is trying to pave the worst path for the next mayor, because he thinks it will be Ben,” Burke says. “I think he is trying to make the next administration fail as hard as he can.” Yet Sanders says that couldn’t be further from the truth. She says that the administration is working to try to create a robust transition plan so the next administration can succeed. “The mayor and I and the entire cabinet feel a really intense personal and professional obligation to hand off this city in the best condition we can for the incoming mayor and their administration,” Sanders says. “We think about it a lot.” n danielw@inlander.com

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esus walks into a Hooters bar… It sounds like a good setup to a bad dad joke, but in reality, it goes something like this: Jesus walks into a Hooters bar... and instead of finding boobs and hot wings, he discovers a joyous group of faithful followers — singing, dancing, clapping — led by a humble guitar-playing pastor who says God called him and his singer wife to convert an old Hooters bar and casino into a new home for their expanding flock. Pastor Joe Pittenger has heard all the jokes. When your church is called Uplift and you take over what used to be part of the original “breastaurant” chain, you’re going to need to have a sense of humor. Thank God, Joe does. His favorite one-liner? “Uplift: The church that gives a hoot.” Let’s clear up one thing: The name Uplift wasn’t inspired by Hooters; it came to Pittenger at 3 am one morn-

The evolution of local churches and what it says about the state of religion in America BY JACOB H. FRIES

ing as he suddenly woke thinking of John 12:32, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” Uplift is the name that adorned Pittenger’s church for five years when it was located in a warehouse in Liberty Lake and — despite the puerile wordplay it invites — it’s the name he brought to the Spokane Valley Hooters’ building last summer, with its huge sign soaring over Interstate 90. “We’re not going to take ourselves too seriously,” says Pittenger, 52, chatting over coffee recently in what used to be the restaurant manager’s office. “We take Jesus seriously.” In many ways, the location has been a godsend, he says: “We went from being hidden in Liberty Lake to ‘Hello, here we are!’” Churches like Uplift are popping up in surprising places all across America — in abandoned big-box stores, empty mega malls, strip malls, storefronts and, yes, in a

PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK failed Hooters next to the highway. Nationwide, exact figures on these building conversions don’t exist. But the phenomenon, driven in large part by contemporary evangelical Christian churches, is clearly visible well beyond the Bible Belt. Locally, you’ll find churches in old movie theaters (Southside Christian Church in Spokane), hardware stores (The Cause in Coeur d’Alene) and supermarkets (Victory Faith in the Valley). And in one of the wilder examples in America, a long-dead shopping mall in Euclid, Ohio, was revived for a time by 24 churches that jointly came to call it home. Not everyone celebrates this trend. When a church is able to take over what was once valuable and commercially productive property, it often signals that business activity is faltering. Among property owners, houses of worship have long been viewed as second-tier tenants because the foot traffic they draw is often limited to Sunday ...continued on page 26

RELIGION MEETS POLITICS

The rise of nondenominational churches is driven in large part by evangelical Christians, who tend to strongly lean Republican, oppose gay marriage and believe humans always existed in their current form (rather than having evolved), according to studies by the Pew Research Center. Their politics generally put them at odds with the so-called “nones,” those people unaffiliated with any particular religion. However, their approach to worship — contemporary and accessible — may be appealing to those who have negative associations with more traditional churches, says Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.

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After working at local churches, Joe Pittenger considered two paths â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a musician or a missionary. In the end, he says, he was called to plant this church in Spokane Valley.

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“IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS,” CONTINUED... mornings. And while they tend to the spiritual needs of their congregations, churches — unlike retail businesses — don’t pay property taxes or generate sales-tax revenue that state and local governments rely on. But it’s not a problem the churches themselves created. That story is much bigger, and there’s plenty of finger pointing to go around. Blame the implosion of brick-and-mortar retail. Blame Amazon. Blame overbuilt mega malls rotting in neglected corners of suburbia. Or in the case of Hooters, do as some have suggested, and simply blame those pesky kids today: “Hooters had to close a bunch of locations because millennials don’t like boobs very much,” Maxim declared in 2017. Not surprisingly, Pittenger — a flannel-wearing, mountain-bike-riding pastor — takes away a different message. Inside Uplift, he’s left the old casino’s cashier sign hanging in the church as a reminder: “I believe God can redeem anything.”

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

The apocalypse in commercial property can broadly be blamed on America’s supersized portions: Simply put, we built way too much retail space. “We as Americans are vastly over-retailed,” explains June Williamson, a professor of urban design and architecture at the City College of New York, who co-authored the book Retrofitting Suburbia. In the United States, we have more than six times the square footage devoted to retail, per capita, than Europe — and 50 times, per capita, more than China. This problem long predates Amazon. In hindsight, Williamson says, the second half of the 20th century was less about urbanization and more about suburbanization.

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“It’s almost a kind of user-friendly, easy way to slip back into church.” Developers would scoop up cheap land, build malls and shopping districts and take advantage of tax breaks that incentivized new construction. Those properties would inevitably decline, and new developments would spring up, cannibalizing the market. Additionally, Williamson says, companies like Walmart would insist on non-compete clauses in their development projects so that if they were ever to close a location — say, to build an even bigger “supercenter” nearby — Target would be prohibited from moving into that vacant spot. Add to that the emergence of online shopping, and — ta-da! — we have dying malls, empty big-box stores and companies like Sears filing for bankruptcy. But it’s not all doom and gloom, Williamson says. In fact, her book is all about the creative ways Americans are “reinhabiting,” “re-greening” and “redeveloping” these types of failing properties. As Williamson and co-author Ellen Dunham-Jones

write: “The big development project for the next 50 years likely will be retrofitting suburbia.” Churches aren’t the only ones emerging to fill the gaps. Property owners are finding eager tenants in other business categories, including what Williamson calls “meds and eds.” Indeed, the number of retail health clinics has exploded in America, growing by 445 percent between 2006 and 2014, according to one count. The Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, anchored by Trader Joe’s on Spokane’s South Hill, is a good microcosm of what Williamson describes. On one side of the development, there’s a retail clinic, Providence Express Care, right next to a tutoring business, Mathnasium. And on the other side? The Southside Christian Church now occupies about 33,000 square feet of what used to be a restaurant, a liquor store and a movie theater. Lead Pastor Dave Long likes that the church is right in the center of the action. It fits his goal of being accessible: “We want to be a church where you don’t have to learn a different language to understand it,” he says, adding that he’s proud that one word in particular stands bigger than the rest on the front of the building: “Jesus.” Southside Christian first leased the property in 2001, with an option to buy; the purchase terms were favorable — Long believes the owner didn’t think they’d ever do it — and in 2006, the church bought the sprawling space for $2.25 million. It’s since been transformed into administrative offices, classrooms, meeting space and a food bank, but the main sanctuary, where they hold Sunday services, remains as it was, with original theater seats and curtains from its days as Lincoln Heights Cinema. “Don’t touch the curtains — they’re so old they might disintegrate,” Long says with a laugh during a tour of the

FROM LEFT: The interior of Uplift Church, with the cashier sign from its days as a Hooters; Southside Christian Church Pastor Dave Long during a Sunday service; the interior of Southside Christian, which occupies an old movie theater.

property. “The uglier and poorer a church is, the happier I am.” The church now claims about 1,000 members, and the building stays busy most days of the week with various programs and by loaning out the space to other community groups, he says. But being in a hub of activity has required that they also be vigilant about security, including stringing razor wire on the backside of the building to keep skateboarders off the roof. It’s a small price to pay to be caddy-corner to the heavily trafficked Trader Joe’s — a company that shares food and flowers with the church, even though, as Long says, the two entities probably don’t share the same values when it comes to the ballot box. “Churches can be upper-class country club-ish,” says Long, 44, wearing Doc Martens, blue jeans, a hoodie and sports coat. “We just take a lot of joy that there’s a Goodwill across the street. We love the breadth of people that come to our church.”

CHURCH-OWNED PROPERTY

In Spokane County, churches own more than 400 tax-exempt properties valued at more than $503 million, records show. In Kootenai County, religious organizations own another 200 properties worth an estimated $260 million. The most valuable piece of tax-exempt property between the two counties is the Salvation Army’s Kroc Center, assessed at $29 million.

‘NOT YOUR GRANDPARENTS’ RELIGION’

Churches like Southside Christian and Uplift — that eschew steeples and dour architecture in favor of modern, nontraditional spaces — are part of a much larger cohort of evangelical Christians trying to make religion more accessible in America. No Latin or secret codewords required, these churches tend to have generically inspirational names (like Hope, Life or Grace) and are often led by handsome, charismatic pastors in blue jeans and untucked button downs. They have slick websites, active social media channels and a drum kit on stage. In large part, they’re nondenominational or independent Christian churches, and taken as a whole, they’ve become a growing force in the religious life of America, says Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, who prepared a expansive 2010 report on these types of congregations. By his count, these churches are second in number only to Southern Baptist ones, and third in adherents behind the Baptists and Catholics. “It’s almost a kind of user-friendly, easy way to slip back into church,” Thumma says of these congregations. “They have more contemporary music, they use screens, often their buildings don’t look anything like what one would think would be a church and they have names like Willow Brook. … So it does lower the barrier.” Their success has led many mainline churches to rebrand themselves, dropping their denominational affiliation in name, or practice, or both, Thumma says. A 2017 report by Gallup noted that the number of Christians not identifying with a specific denomination doubled between 2000 and 2016. The report concluded that “Churches

that adhere to specific and historical denominational affiliations appear to face the biggest challenge in American Protestantism today.” By dropping those labels, churches are able to shed any unflattering associations people may have with a particular denomination, and it forces people seeking a congregation to consider each church individually, without the aid of a shorthand identifier, Thumma says. “They can’t really anticipate what it’s going to be because it doesn’t have the label, which carries some sort of identity baggage, and so the only way they can really learn about it is going inside,” Thumma says. “And once they go inside, they feel the community and excitement of worship.” That’s certainly the hope of Aaron Richner, 36, lead pastor of The Cause, who prefers the term “worship experience” to “church service.” He opened the doors to his nondenominational church about two months ago in what was formerly an Ace Hardware on Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene. Like Pittenger from Uplift, Richner is a guitar player turned preacher, and the converted worship space reflects that, with a drum set, colorful stage lighting and musicians backing Richner’s sermons. “We get a lot of comments like, ‘This is not what I pictured it to be. This is not what I thought church was,’” says Richner, wearing, as he often does on Sundays, a full beard, torn jeans and a black leather jacket. “One of our key phrases is: We like to make it loud. We mean that in the spiritual sense. We want to share the gospel, but also — literally — it’s loud.” The aesthetic and approach of these churches is also common among today’s biggest “mega churches,” ...continued on next page

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RELIGION “IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS,” CONTINUED... many of which are nondenominational themselves, says Thumma. In 2010, he conducted a national survey of mega churches — defined generally as Protestant congregations of 2,000 or more — and counted 1,600 across the country. He’s planning an updated census in 2020, and he estimates there are now about 1,750. That figure is probably an undercount, he says, because the current trend among these churches is to plant multiple sites. “The phenomenon is still growing,” Thumma says, adding that traditional worship features (like organs and choirs) continue to decline among these huge congregations. “There was a negative impression of traditional religion, in those organ and steeple models, so they intentionally tried to design a religious community that didn’t look like that. They wanted to clearly have a message that this was not your grandparents’ religion.” Real Life Ministries, headquartered in Post Falls, is the largest church in the Inland Northwest and, according to its founder, the largest in the state of Idaho. More than 8,000 attend weekly services. That’s just at the one location: Real Life has added three satellite campuses and helped to plant eight other churches in the Northwest and Texas, including the local Valley Real Life, which now draws more than 2,000 people a week.

WASHINGTON AND IDAHO

Churches are automatically tax-exempt and don’t have to register with the IRS or, generally, with the state in which they reside. Still, many opt to incorporate as 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Washington state records don’t differentiate between churches and other nonprofit organizations, but a search of nonprofits with “church” in their name yields 3,523 active groups. The same search in Idaho yields 1,545.

“People think they know what church is. They don’t,” says founder and senior pastor Jim Putman, 52, a former wrestling coach. “We called it Real Life Ministries because if you were to do a word association game with non-Christians, and I were to say, ‘What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of church,’ it’s usually not very good.” Real Life’s sprawling Post Falls campus is surrounded by state-of-the-art sports fields and a new gym. Meanwhile, its main building, a massive 100,000-square-foot facility, serves as launch pad for everything from job training and child care to treatment for addiction to porn. Putman says it wasn’t his intention to build a mega church back in 1998, when they first started meeting on Sunday mornings in a local movie theater. But as he says, “healthy things reproduce.” He attributes the shrinking influence of other churches, especially denominational ones, to them becoming “very liberal” and losing sight of their mission. “When you start coming up with new doctrine about sexuality, when you start coming up with new doctrine about salvation, we were warned all throughout Scripture about fake news,” he says. “Fake news is nothing new.”

RISE OF THE ‘NONES’

Here’s a bit of real news about the nons versus the so-called “nones”: While the nondenominational movement remains a powerful force reshaping Christianity, the bigger story in American religion today is the rise of people who claim no religious affiliation at all,

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Thumma says. These “nones” self-identify as atheists and agnostics or answer “nothing in particular” when asked about their religion. “Increasingly it’s not necessary to belong to a particular religion, whatever it is, and so when you ask someone now, they don’t even give you, ‘Oh yeah, well, my parents were Methodist so I guess I’m Methodist.’ They just say, ‘Well, I don’t really affiliate with anything,’” Thumma says. “That loosening of the importance of having a religious label is pretty significant. That really reflects on a change that is taking place in all of society, in the entire culture.” Nones make up about 23 percent of the country, according to Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Land-

scape Study, up from 16 percent in 2007. They tend to be younger — 35 percent of Millennials (born 1981-1996) are considered to be nones — but even Baby Boomers are increasingly moving in that direction, Pew found. Not all are atheists. Follow-up research by Pew found the most common explanation for being unaffiliated was the fact the nones questioned religious teachings. The second most common reason? They didn’t like the social and political positions taken by churches. The majority of the nones lean politically Democratic and support LGBT and abortion rights. Interestingly, though, while Americans overall are becoming less religious, Pew at the same time noted increases in feelings of spirituality. Perhaps, then, these

The sprawling complex of Real Ministries sits on 18 acres in Post Falls valued at over $14 million. The mega church is the largest in the Inland Northwest and the largest in the state of Idaho, says Jim Putman, founder and senior pastor (pictured).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jacob H. Fries is the editor of the Inlander. Growing up in Spokane Valley, his mom was Jewish, his dad a non-practicing Catholic, and at home they celebrated Christmas and Easter. Before joining the Inlander in 2008, he was a staff writer at Florida’s biggest newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times), and around 2004, he had happened to visit the original Hooter’s location in Clearwater, Florida. Even then, he found the restaurant chain to be out of date and tacky. Send comments to editor@inlander.com.

are people who might be open to more contemporary churches that look and feel different, that are located next to their favorite Trader Joe’s or in the old Hooters they used to frequent. “I’m not sure that they do it out of a marketing strategy,” Thumma says of nondenominational churches, “but it is an adaptation that seems to work well in the current culture and climate.” For his part, Uplift’s Pittenger says the goal in planting a new church is not to steal members from other congregations, but rather to reach “unchurched” people who’ve never been to one. In that regard, he says, it doesn’t hurt that a building had a previous life, even a colorful one.

“People, they don’t feel threatened here,” he says. In fact, he’s had several worshippers attend Sunday services, only to tell him some version of the same story: “I used to play slots right here, drinking,” Pittenger recalls, adding, “You are welcomed here as you are.” In comparison to many of the bigger congregations in the area, Pittenger’s “no thrills community church all about Jesus” remains a relatively modest space — with 200 donated chairs, a small stage with a drum set, two classrooms and an area for nursing mothers. But don’t forget the spacious walk-in refrigerator built to store kegs. Standing in what used to be the bar, which he hopes to eventually convert into a kitchen, Pittenger boasts of his beer fridge: “Not many churches have one of those!” n

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f he was the son of Mexican immigrants and not famous, we’d hardly consider him American at all. But because he was the son of Italians (who we no longer hate) and because he was famous (though irrelevant today, except at Christmas) and because he was Abraham Lincoln’s grand nephew (Lincoln’s mother was a Crocetti) and because Lincoln is a Rushmore president, Dean is an undisputed hero villain — not as heroic villainous as Malcolm X or Billy Graham or Billy the Kid or Susan B Anthony, but more so than Kick Kennedy, who was a Kennedy doll, yes, but also actual royalty — the Marchioness of Hartington, by marriage — and the second of three Kennedy plane crash fatalities, dying years before Judith Campbell would have affairs with JFK and Sam Giancana, forcing Bobby and J Edgar Hoover

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to dump Frank and the rest of the Italian American contingent, leading to the Kennedy assassination, the end of Camelot, and the beginning of everything bad. Like Lincoln, Dean had no royal titles. “Anytime something happens,” Dino said, “they blame the Mafia, even if the Mafia had nothing to do with it. I love every bit of being Italian, and I don’t think of the Mafia.” “He was a good sex man,” Herman Hover said, “but his big interest was golf.” He was racist, sexist, fatist, yes, but he was cooler than Frank when the Rat Pack mattered, though he’d never be as cool as Bogart or Bacall or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or Hendrix or Dylan or Dr. Dre or Doris Day. If you were to make your own list of coolest Americans, Dino would probably not make the cut, and neither would Frank or Ray Charles or Calamity Jane. The people who found those people cool are all dead now and irrelevant. And while you’re not dead, dear student of history, you’re not cool yet either — thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson greasy tallow-catch, thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog. Is/was Shakespeare cool? Maybe to theatre people, who are notoriously uncool, at least in high school, but not to Dino, who was an unpretentious commoner, the grandnephew of our greatest president, often high on Percodan, but not a theatre person. “They say this is hard work,” he said, “this acting. Work my ass. I signed the NBC contract for thirty-four million. I do an hour. I sing maybe ten songs.” He knew he was getting away with something, all that money for — not nothing, exactly, but close to nothing — the coolness he had that could not last. He knew the American dream had nothing to do with hard work. “If your past is limited,” President Franklin Pierce

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the philanthropists all beating someone to death with a bag of something, the price they had to pay for their goodness). “Everything was Jerry Lewis,” Dean said. “I was an idiot in every picture. And I was making a lot of money, you know, but money isn’t all.” Because there was also honor — onore. And dignity — dignita. But sometimes honor and dignity could get mixed up with something bad, like the night at the Sands when Dino wondered, “Did you ever see a Jew jitsu?” and Sammy comes bounding out and the three of them say all kinds of weird, racist shit to each other, as if they’re somehow above it all, as if saying weird, racist shit makes it all untrue, Frank making Sammy do a monkey dance and Sammy calling Dean whitey and Dean karate chopping Frank in the face, then throwing him to the mat judo style, Sammy like, When are we gonna sing? touching Dean’s shoulder, and Dean says, “Hey, hey, Zelda” — tapping Sammy’s thigh — “I’ll go out and I’ll drink with you” (because they’re Rat Packing buddies), “I’ll go pick cotton with you (the crowd loves this one), “I’ll go to shul with you” (because Sammy’s Jewish), “but don’t touch me,” and he slaps Sammy’s hand away. “Have you forgotten the South?” Somehow suddenly everything’s even less funny than it’s been all along, even in the wake of that hilarious joke, a black man forgetting the South — good one! — forgetting centuries of bondage and beatings and lynchings and rape, but remember that Dino had Lincoln’s blood too, whose greatness lay in his humanity, his belief “that all men are created equal” (men meaning people, because while women

THE STORY

A fraudulent historian who makes his living conning the survivors of mass shootings returns home to save the young daughter of the woman he loves, taking her with him on his roadshow across the worn-out heart of America, staying one step ahead of what’s after them.

Suddenly everything’s even less funny than it’s been all along, even in the wake of that hilarious joke. were people then, sometimes we just said men). Lincoln was big and beautiful and weird and warty. He invented the Republican party and hated as fiercely as he loved. What he hated most were taxes and big government and national health care and George McClellan and slavery and the Russians, and what he loved most were selfreliance and a more perfect union and the Russians and state’s rights, which he would have loved even more if he’d lived long enough to stop hating them. And so did Dino love and hate these things. Have you forgotten the South — meaning, not the South, but something bigger and more fundamental to who we are and haven’t yet unbecome. In 1852, Frederick Douglass wondered if he was supposed to “argue that it is wrong to make men brutes… to work them without wages, to beat them with sticks… to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth… to starve them into obedience and submission,” and he did have to argue that — again and again and again. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was only a beginning, and we still want to believe, like he did, “that our fathers brought forth a nation

MAIN CHARACTERS

Miller Cane: A fraudulent historian, who’s been making his living conning and comforting the survivors of mass shootings. Carleen Callahan: The 8-year old daughter of Lizzie James and Connor Callahan. Has no idea she’s

dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” words delivered after Gettysburg, when that battle’s 57,000 casualties obscured or proved that we were moving toward greater liberty, greater equality, even though we would fail over and again to live up to our simple, beautiful ideals, Lincoln himself praying over blood “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” and we’re still praying that such a government — us — will find a way to do what’s right, even knowing how we killed Lincoln for doing just that. Dean Martin died on Christmas morning 1995, the very day and hour that Lincoln had died a hundred years earlier, reminding us how far we’ve come, abolishing slavery and instituting women’s suffrage and legalizing same-sex marriage and electing a Catholic president (and an African American president a few years after Dino’s death) and so much more — creating national parks and interstate highways and beautiful colosseums — but so much less too, losing wars on poverty and drugs and imprisoning millions and fracturing into fundamentalist factions enraged by any violation of our narrow orthodoxies, showing how far we still have to go, but holding onto hope that we might someday get better. “I do not despair of this country,” Frederick Douglass said in 1852, when three million of us were still enslaved. “The Constitution,” he said, “is a glorious liberty document.” And so might it always be. That’s amore. n

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recently become an heiress or that her mother has shot her father. Lizzie James: An artisan jewelry maker, and a baker at the Mount Vernon co-op, currently in Skagit County jail for shooting her estranged husband, Connor.

Connor Callahan: Son and grandson and great grandson of money, which somehow skipped him, going to his daughter instead.

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he Spokane New Car Dealers Association is excited to announce our 39th show, the 2019 Spokane Auto Show, coming to the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, Friday February 15th through Sunday February 17th. There will be 26 different new car brands onsite, in 20 different Bob McLean auto exhibits. The theme of this year’s show is SEE SHOP SAVE! As an association we have all committed to making sure that each of the 26 new automotive brands onsite provide you with their lowest prices. Between the 34 different dealerships, we employee over 2,000 team members, and we are all proud to call Spokane home. We live here, we raise our families here, and we believe in supporting our local community. In an effort to help those in need, we are doing a food drive for FREE admission tickets. Stop by any of the 34 new automotive dealers and donate food, or stop by a BECU branch location to donate food, and receive a FREE admission ticket for Friday February 15th from 10am to 4pm. Find a list of all donation locations at spokaneautoshow.com. No show is complete without some FUN added in! This year is projected to be our MOST FUN year ever! We have prizes every half an hour, and LARGE daily prizes to give away. Friday someone will win tickets to the Rolling Stones in Seattle with airfare and hotel; on Saturday someone will win tickets to a NASCAR weekend in Las Vegas, with airfare and hotel; and on Sunday, which is our FAMILY DAY, we will be giving away 4 round trip tickets on Alaska Airlines and a $1,000 Disney gift card. You will SEE every new make and model onsite at the 2019 Spokane Auto Show, and you can SHOP cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, luxury cars, hybrids and more! I can’t stress enough how much you will SAVE! We have all teamed up to make this the BEST weekend of the year to buy. You will be able to shop indoors and test drive as many vehicles as you want. In an effort to make sure your buying experience is as easy as possible, we have teamed up with three of the BEST credit unions in the area, WSECU, Numerica and BECU. They are all onsite and able to help you with onsite financing and special low Spokane Auto Show interest rates. Because your safety and protection is important to us, we have also teamed up with Accurate Insurance as our official Insurance Agency of the Spokane Auto Show. They are offering special Auto Show rates to anyone who attends the show and will be onsite for all three days. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s Spokane Auto Show! Bob McLean President, Spokane New Car Dealers Association

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SHOP LOCAL AT THE AUTO SHOW W

ith so many “Shop Local” signs hanging in the storefront windows of independent retailers, we often start to associate the idea of local with small. But that’s not always the case. The enormous scale and international brand representation of the Spokane Auto Show can obscure just how locally rooted the event truly is. Take Kristin Goff, for example. She’s a thirdgeneration dealer with deep ties to Spokane. Together with Wayne Stoddard, her grandfather Chud Wendle Sr. opened a Ford franchise on 2nd and Jefferson along Spokane’s Automobile Row back in 1943. Two decades later, Chud’s son Dick joined the dealership. Today, Dick’s daughter Kristin helps lead the ever-expanding Wendle Motors franchise, where her husband Shane works as well. “We love the car business and the community,” she says. “Now our kids are working here. They started out washing cars and working in admin. They both love the car business too, which is exciting. And even though he’s retired, my dad still comes in almost every day.” As it’s grown to include more franchises

like Suzuki and Nissan, the family business has where we get to provide you with exceptional created dozens more jobs too. Having started service for the majority of your experience with with just 24 employees, Wendle Motors is now your car,” he says. That experience begins as home to over 140 staff. early as the decision-making phase and continues You don’t need to have multiple family with maintenance and upkeep over the car’s generations in this area to be deeply invested in lifetime. it. Just this past summer, Craig and Amber Fruin Francois Chaker has a similar story to moved with their young daughters from Alberta, the Fruins. Originally from France, he joined Canada, to assume co-ownership of Spokane AutoNation Land Rover Jaguar three years Hyundai. ago after many years working all over the “We moved our entire family for this United States. Like other dealers who grew opportunity,” he says. “It was a no-brainer. up elsewhere, he was drawn to the area for its We’ve been coming here for years distinct seasons, its competitive “WE LOVE because we love this area and we cost of living and its hospitality, love this community.” and he remains committed to THE CAR With the help of their staff, making his business a part of BUSINESS AND the couple has worked to give the community that was so their dealership a warm, “mom welcoming to him. THE COMMUNITY,” and pop” flavor that takes the full “Most importantly, scope of car ownership — not just it comes down to the car buying — into account. people who live here,” he says. “Moving here “I think people tend to focus on the sales was an incredible experience, and more people experience, but dealers like us aren’t selling you are realizing that. The city is growing, and the a car just to send you on your merry way. We’re Spokane Auto Show is growing along with it. looking forward to a harmonious relationship The future is very bright here.” •

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ake no mistake: The Spokane Auto Show is a competitive event. As one of the only auto shows in the entire country that combines vehicle showcasing and on-location sales, the dealers know that they’re vying for your attention as well as your business. At the same time, it’s also a hugely collaborative event. Each year the dealers have to work together as a team to make the auto show happen at all. And each year they work together with the automakers and lenders to help their customers score optimal deals on new cars. “The auto show is the one time each year that we all come together. All of our local dealers are there representing 26 manufacturers under one roof,” says Kristin Goff of Wendle Motors. “Everybody steps up to the plate, and ultimately that makes it the best time for customers to look for the perfect vehicle.” Most area dealers consider the Spokane Auto Show to be the unofficial kick-off to their sales season. The latest vehicle models are hitting showrooms, warmer spring weather is just around the corner and buyers are starting to envision what kind of car they’ll be driving in the year ahead. That atmosphere creates a unique and palpable buzz. It’s

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something that caught the attention of Spokane Hyundai’s Craig Fruin, who is participating in the Spokane Auto Show for the first time ever. “One thing that I’ve noticed is that there’s certainly an excitement among the dealers,” he says. “Everybody’s working very hard to make sure the show is a hit. The dealers are focused on providing great value, and there’s an exceptional opportunity for customers to save a ton of money while also experiencing pretty much every brand on the planet.” Like previous years, the Spokane Auto Show is designed to cater to every kind of driver. Whether they’re actively shopping for a new car or just checking out the latest styles and features, they’ll be able to view and test drive a range of family-oriented minivans, high-octane muscle cars, rugged trail-ready SUVs or premium luxury sedans — and of course lots of trucks! “Our dealers love the auto show, but the real advantage is to the consumer,” says Don Kellman, executive director of the Spokane New Car Dealers Association. “With so many brands being represented, they’ll have the opportunity to see all of them in one place, compare their favorites and make the best deal that they can.”

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National Gumdrop Day! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH

Friday Night Flights Keep calm and join us for a night of fun! For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to enjoy your favorite drinks from NO-LI BREWHOUSE and BARRISTER WINERY, in multiple pop-up beer and wine lounges at the Spokane Auto Show. Join us from 5 to 8 pm during the exclusive Friday night of viewing the biggest discounts and savings of the year. You will also have a chance to win the Friday giveaway prize of two tickets to the Rolling Stones at Seattle’s Century Link Field with hotel and airfare. Be sure to turn in your map with the 20 unique stamps at the BECU booth to be eligible for the prize.

On this special holiday, you know what to do… eat as many gumdrops as you want. Onsite, the Spokane Auto Show will have a GIANT jar of gumdrops and you’re invited to guess how many are in it. The one who gets closest to guessing it correct will win the entire jar!

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Family Day The Spokane Auto Show is a place for kids of all ages to come and enjoy! On Sunday, February 17, kids will enjoy FREE face painting provided by Micaelas Fancy Faces, a virtual racing simulator sponsored by the Spokane Festival of Speed, D1:10 RWD Drifting provided by Spokane RCDrift Syndicate and Team Warhorse Karate Jiu Jitsu will be onsite! You will not want to miss our Sunday giveaway prize of a trip for four to a Disney Resort, including airfare and a $1,000 Disney gift card! Make sure to get your map at the entrance of the show and collect 20 unique stamps for your chance to win this Disney trip!

Give Food Drive, Get Tickets! Find a new car and give back to the community this February, only at the Spokane Auto Show. This year we’ve teamed up with 2nd Harvest Food and BECU to give back to those in need. How can you help? Simple! Stop by any of the participating locations below before Feb. 14 and drop off two nonperishable food items. Your good deed will get you free admission to the show valid on Friday, Feb. 15, between 10 am and 4 pm.

We’re painting the town RED at the Spokane Auto show with chances to win incredible prizes EVERY HALF HOUR! From 20 different RED vehicles specially displayed across the show, guests will be encouraged to pick the one they LOVE the best! Then simply take a pic of your top pick and share your photo on Instagram with #LoveSAS! Participants will be entered to win one of these amazing prizes, drawn every half hour throughout show! 30 Chances to win tickets to the Historic Grand Prix presented by the Spokane Festival of Speed 15 Chances to win Zip Wax products presented by Zip Wax

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ach year the automotive world holds the promise of the new. All-new cars, new styles, new features, new capabilities. And all this innovation is typically unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where SUVs and trucks stole much of the spotlight this year along with the cutting-edge driverless technologies of tomorrow. Each year also holds the promise of a few further surprises. Sometimes carmakers give us the opportunity to see one of our favorite models from years past re-emerge in a more contemporary form. This year and next, several previously retired model lines are being given a new lease on life. Whereas muscle cars like the Dodge Challenger and Charger were at the center of this phenomenon not long ago, this time around it’s primarily SUVs and off-roaders that are getting the phoenix treatment. Last produced in 2002, the HONDA

PASSPORT officially returns this year to mark the start of the vehicle’s third generation. In terms of looks, there are faint visual traces of its predecessors in the newest model, but it’s certainly no throwback. It’s also equipped with state-of-the-art technology to handle more types of terrain better than ever. The same goes for the much-anticipated Jeep Wrangler-based pickup, which had become the stuff of dreams for off-road enthusiasts after the Scrambler was discontinued in 1986. First teased all the way back in 2005 as a concept car, the JEEP GLADIATOR, as it’s now called, has all the stylings and ruggedness of a classic Wrangler, but with a pickup-style bed for hauling bigger loads. After going quiet in 1996 following a successful 30-year run, the FORD BRONCO is slated to return in 2020 as a midsize SUV. As far as chassis and powertrain go, the sixthgeneration Bronco will have quite a bit in

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common with the recently reintroduced Ford Ranger midsize truck. The CHEVROLET BLAZER is also back for the first time since 2005. Unlike its previous incarnations, which were brawny derivations of Chevy’s popular pickups, the 2019 Blazer is being positioned as a sleek, Camaro-inspired midsize crossover SUV that is very much its own vehicle. Unfortunately, automakers can’t always bring old favorites back to life. The beloved VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE, which saw its last visual refresh in 2012, is entering 2019 in the solemnly named Final Edition. Available in coupe and convertible configurations, the last vehicle in the Beetle line will come in two extra nostalgic colors honoring its long lineage: Safari Uni Beige and Stonewashed Blue. Once production ends this summer, though, you’ll have missed your chance to own the iconic Bug. For now, at least. •

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Replacing Lincoln’s midsize MKX, a best-seller for this luxury carmaker, the Nautilus is a fivepassenger crossover SUV that starts at $40,340. Whether you opt for the standard inline turbo four or upgrade to the twin-turbo V6, you’ll get solid torque, plenty of pep, class-typical fuel economy and scads of cabin perks like adaptive cruise control. The premium Black Label trim comes with eye-catching color schemes, upgraded interior leather, a dual-panel sunroof as well as four years or 50,000 miles of complimentary maintenance. Just $25,500 can get you into Toyota’s popular RAV4 crossover, which has been revamped for 2019. More fuel efficient and more powerful (by 27 hp) than the outgoing 2018 model, the new sporty midsize SUV also features an infotainment system with a larger screen and high-tech safety assists like driver drowsiness monitoring. A wide range of affordable trims — extending from the base LE all the way up to the Limited with heated seats and digital rearview — let you customize and upgrade the sporty RAV4 without breaking the bank.

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Ever since the Telluride was shown off as a concept car at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, auto enthusiasts have been eager to see it enter production. With the start of the 2020 model year, that long wait is finally over, and Kia’s threerow, eight-seat flagship SUV will soon be ready to roll into your driveway. This is the largest, most luxurious SUV the brand has ever produced, and it’s being assembled at home in the very market it was designed for: America. Pricing is TBD, but you can still get a sneak peak of the 2020 Telluride.

The carmaker best known for the 911 scored a massive hit with its high-end SUV, and on looks alone, the third-generation iteration doesn’t appear to mess with success. But the quietly remodeled Cayenne now rides on the robust Audi MLB platform and starts out (at $65,700) with a turbocharged 3.0-liter V6. The two available upgrades will boost the engine specs significantly — up to a strapping twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8, in fact. Inside, it’s elegance down to the last detail, with Panamera accoutrements and first-class ride comfort. ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE INLANDER

With its XT4, Cadillac eliminates some of the hard work for you. The all-new subcompact SUV, which starts at $34,795, comes with just one engine option — a spry turbocharged fourcylinder. Remote start, LED headlights and Cadillac’s CUE infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay integration are also standard. That leaves you free to spend your time deciding how you’d like to enhance this roomy five-seater. The sunroof and 13-speaker premium Bose sound system are enticing options, as are the Premium Luxury and Sport trims.

Those with long automotive memories will recall that there was a Honda Passport in the 1990s. Now you can safely forget it. The relaunched Passport of 2019 is as fresh and contemporary as it gets, with adaptive cruise control, LED exterior lighting and three-zone climate control as standard. Honda’s optional i-VTM4 (Intelligent Variable Torque Management) is an advanced AWD system with discrete Normal, Sand, Snow and Mud drive settings for superior handling in all conditions. Pricing for this two-row, five-seat midsize SUV is TBD.

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Honda Passport

Lincoln Nautilus

Buick Envision

Subaru Ascent

HYUNDAI SANTA FE

Spoiling you for choice with seven trim levels from the base SE ($24,250) to the Ultimate 2.0T ($35,100), the Hyundai Santa Fe excels as a family-oriented crossover. It offers ample interior space, two rows of seating with 60/40 power push-button folding rear seats, lots of outside visibility, optional wireless device charging and Hyundai’s attractive SmartSense safety and assist package. The practical Rear Occupants Alert, for instance, uses an ultrasonic sensor to warn the driver of a child or pet moving in the back of the car.

BMW X4

Billing itself as a sports activity coupe, the all-new X4 is one of the most distinguishable compact SUVs on the road today. Its sleek side profile is defined by a low-slung roofline reminiscent of sporty fastbacks, and yet its eight inches of ground clearance and brawny front apron put it firmly in the SUV camp. Along with the choice of two turbocharged engines, X4 drivers can leap from the base model ($51,445) to include BMW’s optional Gesture Control, which is a nextgeneration way of using simple hand movements to interface with your infotainment system.

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Porsche Cayenne

SUBARU ASCENT

The Subaru Ascent wants to be your all-rounder. Sporting three rows of seats and up to 153 cubic feet of passenger space, capable of towing up to 5,000 pounds and bundling symmetrical AWD as standard, the Ascent is the largest crossover Subaru offers and the first to implement its 2.4-liter turbocharged flat-four BOXER engine. The base model starts at $31,995, and three additional levels of trim pack in even more bonus features like full LED headlights, additional USB ports and a larger touchscreen.

BUICK ENVISION

For its $31,995 starting price, the Envision gives drivers a lot of standard equipment, including 60/40 folding second-row seats that also recline. Plus there’s Buick’s proprietary QuietTuning technology to minimize cabin noise and increase the accuracy of the IntelliLink voice-control system. But this understated five-seater SUV can be kitted out even further with the top-end Premium II trim, which adds ventilated front seats, a 2.0-liter turbo V4 with a nine-speed automatic transmission and the feature-packed Driver Confidence package.

JAGUAR E-PACE

Not to be confused with Jaguar’s all-electric I-PACE, the E‑PACE is the very first compact SUV from the renowned British carmarker. Starting at $38,600, the E-PACE features allwheel drive along with what’s called All-Surface Progress Control (ASPC), which helps to compensate for slippery conditions. It’s got the mix of sportiness and luxury that drivers expect from Jaguar, handling on- and off-road surfaces with equal agility while equipping its passengers with plenty of cargo space and optional high-end audio systems.

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PICKUPS & 4x4s Truck makers continue to refine one of America’s best-selling categories, with special editions of old favorites, revivals of classic nameplates and handy new features like power liftgates

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Chevy Silverado

CHEVY SILVERADO

This year the ever-popular Silverado has been redesigned from the ground up and offers an expanded range of eight distinct models and six powertrain choices. Those include the rugged Trail Boss models with a 2-inch lift straight from the factory and the High Country model with a two-tone chrome and bronze finish and a new power tailgate. For all its muscle, though, the 2019 Silverado (base price $29,795) takes advantage of advanced manufacturing and mixed materials to shed up 450 pounds compared to its predecessor.

GMC SIERRA

Starting at $33,500 and sporting an all-new look for 2019, the GMC Sierra has been rethought from grille to gate. And that’s no exaggeration. The broad, rearview-dominating grille suits the Sierra’s husky frame, and the MultiPro tailgate in the SLT trim, for example, has an extender that can be used as a step or even a laptop stand. Optional packages can get you advanced cooling, an even heavier-duty suspension and as much as

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12,000 pounds of towing capacity to suit your specific uses, making the Sierra as versatile as ever.

FORD RANGER

The Ranger is back in North America after an eight-year break, and it’s returned like a more confident, more attractive version of an old flame. For a compact pickup, the Ranger boasts excellent towing capacity of up to 7,500 pounds and an impressive 1,860-pound payload. Its turbocharged four-cylinder engine offers a potent mix of thrust and fuel economy that suits hauling just as well as highway driving. The cabin is kitted out, too. Even the base model ($24,300) comes with Ford’s SYNC infotainment system and WiFi hotspot features.

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of best-in-class features like the Uconnect 12inch touchscreen, a 900-watt Harman Kardon premium audio system (with 19 speakers, no less) and 12,750-pound towing capacity, this special edition commemorating the 144th Run for the Roses is aimed squarely at truck owners who place equal value on muscle and exclusivity. Only 2,000 units of this special-edition model will be made. Starts at $53,190.

JEEP WRANGLER JL MOAB EDITION

The visuals of the JL Moab Edition are unmistakably Wrangler. The trim, however, is top of the line. Leather-trimmed seats. A premium nine-speaker Alpine audio system complemented by an 8.4-inch Uconnect touchscreen. Navigation system as standard. Nine color choices, including Granite Crystal, Ocean Blue Metallic, Punk’n Metallic and, yes, even Mojito. Rock rails for the craggiest of trails. A 3.6-liter, 285-hp V6 Pentastar engine capable of generating 260 pound-feet of torque. All this off-road luxury in a classic Jeep package runs $51,300 to start.

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GREEN CARS & HYBRIDS

The clean, electric revolution is hitting its stride, with lots of options for consumers, from hybrid minivans to the first all-electric SUVs

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Lexus ES 300H

CHRYSLER PACIFICA HYBRID

You might expect some fanfare for America’s first-ever hybrid minivan, but when that minivan checks all the right boxes — roominess, safety, solid handling, SUV-like looks — that fanfare is even more justified. Capable of traveling up to 520 miles on a single tank and up to 33 miles on e-power alone, the Pacifica Hybrid starts at $39,995 and holds the prospect of vastly increased fuel economy and efficiency tax credits. New for 2019 is the optional S Appearance package, which adds black design elements on the interior and exterior for added style.

LEXUS ES 300H

The ES sports sedan was one of the first models that Lexus ever introduced, which means it has a legacy that spans three decades. For its 30th birthday, the ES has been given a major revamp. It’s now powered by the brand’s fourthgeneration hybrid drivetrain and an improved battery, leaving it with as much trunk space as its non-hybrid counterpart along with a 43/45 mpg (city/highway) economy rating. But that’s only under the hood. On the outside, the ES 300h is fronted by Lexus’ distinctive spindle grille and has a lithe, catlike appearance.

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Mercedes EQC

Range Rover P400E

HYUNDAI KONA

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AUDI E-TRON

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Slated to appear early this year, the all-electric Hyundai Kona transforms the SUV that won North American Utility Vehicle of the Year into a zero-emission greenmobile. Offering an EPAestimated range of up to 258 miles on a single charge, the Kona lets you fill up at home with the EV fast charger and then enjoy its high-tech safety and entertainment features on the road — or the trail. Base pricing is TBD, but there will be three trims to choose from: the SEL, Limited and Ultimate, the last of which will net you rainsensing wipers and smart cruise control.

Audi’s first purely electric SUV combines the brand’s characteristic sporty styling with powerful dual asynchronous electric motors and a premium Bang & Olufsen 3D sound system for a crossover that wows on every level. When using 150kW chargers, the e-tron is capable of juicing up its battery to 80% charge in just half an hour. That will still get you an estimated range of nearly 160 miles. The first shipments are scheduled to start in spring of 2019, so if the e-tron’s $74,800 base price is in your ballpark, be sure to get on the waiting list now. ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE INLANDER

Previewed as a concept car at the 2016 Paris Motor Show, the fully electric EQC is charging up for a proper launch in mid-2019. It took 200 prototypes and pre-production vehicles to refine its engineering to such a high level. In terms of size, the EQC is close to Mercedes’ gas-powered GLC model, but the electric crossover features an all-new vehicle platform and a distinct exterior design that belies its eco-friendly drivetrain. There are also five driving modes, allowing drivers to choose a power-hungry option for max performance. Pricing is TBD.

With so many carmakers debuting hybrid or e-vehicles in 2019, it was only natural that Land Rover would choose this year to introduce the first hybrid powertrain in its 70-year history. And yet, with typical understatement, the P400e doesn’t make a big show of its abundant battery power. Or the fact that it bests its V6-powered counterparts in terms of horsepower and torque. Of course, the styling of the P400e is Range Rover through and through, whether you’re eyeing the rugged-sporty exterior or admiring the plush space inside the cabin. Pricing starts at $79,295.

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SEDANS

The classic sedan just keeps getting better via major upgrades both inside the cabin and under the hood

Nissan Altima

VW Jetta

VW JETTA

The Jetta is a staple of the Volkswagen lineup, and it’s easy for staples to start to feel too familiar. That’s why the German automaker completely redesigned its compact sedan for 2019, introducing ubiquitous LED lighting, sleeker looks and the more modern MQB ride platform. There are also some high-tech additions, such as optional integration with the VW Car-Net Security & Service, which can notify you if the Jetta’s sunroof is open when rain is forecast. But all those clever perks aren’t reflected on the window sticker. Base pricing starts at just $18,745.

NISSAN ALTIMA

Boasting premium looks and premium features as standard, Nissan’s incredibly popular Altima was given an overhaul this year in an effort to sprint out to the front of the midsize sedan category. The base model (from $23,900), simply called the S, includes cutting-edge infotainment integration with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as well as intelligent all-wheel drive and remote start.

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Mazda3

Acura ILX

Opting for the top-end Edition ONE VC-Turbo trim, available later this year, kits out your Altima with exterior ground lighting, a rear spoiler and 19-inch alloy wheels.

MAZDA3

Available from early 2019 in both sedan and hatchback models, the fourth-gen Mazda3 has been thoroughly re-envisioned and now adopts the company’s Japanese-inspired Kodo design language for a synthesis of sportiness, elegance and sophistication. The head- and taillights are thinner, the bumpers are cleanly integrated into the body and the interior has been refined for an upscale, minimalist aesthetic. Upgrade options will include a 12-speaker Bose audio system and the new SKYACTIV-X engine. Pricing will be announced soon.

ACURA ILX

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drive powered by a 201-hp 2.4-liter V4 engine, and it also comes with the automaker’s featurepacked AcuraWatch safety and driver assistance package. Drivers can add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto by bumping up to the Premium or Technology trim, which will also give them the option to add the A-Spec package. That includes sporty visual tweaks like diffusers, spoilers and 18-inch wheels.

DODGE CHARGER SXT

For the $28,995 base price of the 2019 Charger SXT, you get the sort of muscle you expect from this iconic powerhouse — and that goes for looks as well as raw power. Paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission, the SXT’s 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 cranks out 292 hp, and you can notch that up by another 8 hp by shifting to an all-wheel drive configuration. The advanced Uconnect infotainment system makes the Charger as appealing on the inside as it is on the outside, especially if you opt for the eye-catching Go Mango or B5 Blue exterior finish.

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he was spun up from wild threads of imagination, yet Mildred Groves is at once a reflection of our darkest selves and a beacon of warning for a potentially dire future. Groves is the troubled and simultaneously empowered protagonist of award-winning Spokane author Sharma Shields’ sophomore novel, The Cassandra. Releasing on Feb. 12 with a launch party at the Spokane Public Library’s downtown branch, the book’s plot centers around the nuclear weapons program at Washington state’s Hanford Site during World War II. While deeply rooted in the recorded history of the 586-acre site bordering the southern reaches of the Columbia River, Shields’ story was also heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks’ epic Cassandra myth. The tragic princess of Troy was gifted with accurate foresight of the future, but likewise cursed because no one believed her prophecies. So, too, is Mildred Groves, an unusual young woman from rural Omak, Washington. “I’ve loved Greek myths since I was a little girl,” Shields says. “It was my gateway drug to all things mythological and monstrous. I read myths before I read fairy tales, and that has always been a strong pull in my work, touching on those stories and using those metaphors from mythology.” ...continued on next page

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CULTURE | LITERATURE “ATOMIC PARABLE,” CONTINUED... Not unlike her 2015 debut and Washington State Book Award-winning novel, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, in which a man struggles to process his mother’s abandonment for an intimate relationship with Bigfoot, The Cassandra hovers between realistic fiction and fabulism. To balance the novel’s fantastical protagonist who sees the future, Shields was mindful not to take too much creative liberty with the historical details she discovered while researching Hanford and the often grisly experiences of its wartime workforce. The Cassandra begins in 1944 as Mildred Groves lands her ticket to freedom from an oppressive home life in the form of a well-paying secretarial job at Hanford, where she is then assigned to assist one of the site’s top scientists. Like the majority of its wartime employees, Mildred isn’t informed of what “the product,” as the top-secret nuclear weapons project was called, being manufactured there really is. Nevertheless, she becomes plagued with horrific, recurring visions of the forthcoming annihilation unleashed by the nuclear bomb Fat Man, loaded with plutonium from Hanford and dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Mildred also perceives the radioactive fallout the project is having on the living residents, human and animal, and the land surrounding Hanford. Just like the novel’s namesake, she is dismissed, even by those she trusts, as mentally unstable or unreasonably paranoid. “When you look at the numbers of how many [in Japan] were killed, it’s so astronomical and unbelievable. It’s like the population of Spokane — an entire mid-sized town destroyed,” Shields reflects. “All of that was on my mind as I was writing,” she continues. “I do feel like I have a lot of anxiety about how this book will be received because it is so dark.” Despite these reservations, unanimously positive reviews of The Cassandra have poured in the weeks leading up to release, not unlike the preliminary national praise Shields received four years ago for The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac. Amazon named The Cassandra one of the best new books of February, and Nylon magazine and the Huffington Post included it on lists of mostanticipated new releases, as did several other publications.

hields began writing early drafts of The Cassandra in late 2014. The next year, she was squeezed in to tour Hanford’s decommissioned B Reactor, which created the plutonium for the Fat Man bomb and is now designated as a national historic landmark, open seasonally to the public for scheduled tours. The author recalls completely scrapping her first working draft of the novel after seeing the B Reactor and Hanford in person because it en-

abled her to “completely reimagine” the book’s setting and plot. “Really it was one of the most useful things I’ve ever done in a writing process,” she reflects. The initial inspiration for a story set at Hanford came to Shields not long after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2013. The Spokane area is in the “downwind” radius of Hanford; wind-carried radioactive fallout throughout this regional designation is believed to have caused serious health conditions in thousands of residents. “That kind of piqued my interest a little bit, and I started looking into it more than I ever had. People talk about it as this very menacing place,” Shields notes. “A lot of the plot of the novel started coming to me when I was researching the workers in general. … [Hanford] wasn’t a safe place for women.” In conjunction with the novel’s reflections on the often traumatic experiences of the young women and minorities employed at the nuclear site, Shields uses The Cassandra to critically explore humanity’s complicitness. At one point in Mildred’s personal prophetic journey to be believed, after the bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, she thinks to herself: “... It occurred to me that the distance from one human being standing besides another was just as incalculable. It is happening to someone else, but not to me. From that dark gap in our imagined spaces, indifference was born, and cruelty, and murder.” From the safe confines of her South Hill home, while her young children, ages 6 and 9 — whose own futures Shields worries will be irreparably harmed by the same nuclear ideology that began during Mildred’s time at Hanford — are off at school, she reflects on this deeper message of the new novel, an American parable for the modern world. “I think we’re all guilty of complicity. It’s easy for me to get worked up about something and then forget about it 10 minutes later,” Shields admits. “Mildred is trying to battle against [complicitness] in herself and what she sees around her, and I’m trying to battle that in myself, too — that almost kind of lazy, ‘Well I’m comfortable, so I’m not going to strain myself,’ or ‘It’s too foreign to me because I can’t understand it’ — I think that is erroneous thinking that severs ties of empathy and aids in our being cruel to one another.” n cheys@inlander.com The Cassandra: Book Release Party with Sharma Shields, Alexis M. Smith and Megan Kruse • Tue, Feb. 12 at 6:30 pm • Free; books for $28 from Auntie’s • Spokane Public Library, downtown branch • 906 W. Main • spokanelibrary.org

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D GREAT SEX An awkward high school virgin and son of a sex therapist joins forces with a classmate “bad girl” to offer relationship advice to their peers — not a bad setup. What makes Sex Education one of the best new shows in recent memory is how it mines laughs from that setup in a way that treats its characters with utmost respect. All sexual preferences, genders and races are part of life in this bucolic English town, and the characters are complex rather than the stereotypes they might first appear to be. It’s geared toward mature audiences — refreshingly so — and Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield are great as the mom and son Otis, but Ncuti Gatwa steals the show as Otis’s best friend Eric. (DAN NAILEN)

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id you miss Dryuary, the annual self-imposed month of abstaining from alcohol? Yeah, me too — hard. Entering the New Year sober is an admirable, if misguided, practice. February, aka Sobruary (still workshopping a “sober” title), is a far better month to eschew booze. For one, it’s shorter; secondly, it’s not as long. Don’t try and tell me that liquor affects cognition, you no-drinkin’ squares. In that spirit, here are five series that deal with the concept of sobriety to stream in February while sucking down shaky tumblers of club soda. FLAKED (Seasons 1-2 on Netflix) In underappreciated 2016-17 Netflix series Flaked, allegedly recovering alcoholic and Venice Beach knockabout Chip (Will Arnett) chugs wine from a “kombucha” jug, lies to his AA compatriots, and sleeps with clueless women half his age — but redemption is only a Pavement song away. MOM (Seasons 1-6 on Hulu) As much as TV critics hated Flaked, they love CBS sitcom Mom — probably because of the non-sociopathic characters. Despite its hacky laugh-tracked setting, Mom (which stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney as formerly

THE BUZZ BIN estranged, newly sober daughter and mother) tackles dark material, addiction and beyond, consistently hilariously. It’s also dirty AF. LOUDERMILK (Seasons 1-2 on DirecTV Now) Sam Loudermilk (Ron Livingston) is a former alcoholic and, even worse, former rock critic, who’s prone to rants against modern culture and rumpled flannel shirts. He also runs a recovery group and lives with two sketchy ex-addicts (Will Sasso and Anja Savcic). Sounds like a downer, but Loudermilk is sneakily funny and smart, with dashes of heart and of High Fidelity music nerdiness. THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Feb. 8. To wit: ARIANA GRANDE, thank u, next. Resistance is futile. Bow before your new pop queen. MERCURY REV, Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited. Guests like Norah Jones, Margo Price and Hope Sandoval join the band for a cover of Gentry’s 1968 album. BOB MOULD, Sunshine Rock. The former Hüsker Dü guitarist is still making brilliant, heavy rock albums. MAVIS STAPLES, Live In London. An American legend and awesome live performer captured in her natural element. (DAN NAILEN)

ALT-HISTORY I first read one of David Neiwert’s books, In God’s Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest, 20 years ago when I was a then-new resident of Idaho and trying to get my bearings. The journalist with deep roots in the Inland Northwest has a new book every bit as riveting even as Neiwert’s focus has expanded mightily. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump is a great history illustrating how things like the rise of the Tea Party, Alex Jones conspiracy fetishists and white nationalist groups coalesced into a mass movement few saw coming before Donald Trump’s election. A disheartening but eye-opening read. (DAN NAILEN)

RECOVERY ROAD (Season 1 on Freeform) At this point you may be thinking “What’s with all the olds? Aren’t there any rehab shows about teens?” Here’s one: 2016’s Recovery Road, about vodka-swigging high schooler Maddie (Jessica Sula) being forced to do 90 days in a sober living facility. Sula is captivating, and Recovery Road’s writing mostly transcends the usual teen-soap angst. Yep, it was insta-cancelled. INTERVENTION (Seasons 1-10 on Hulu; Seasons 1-19 on A&E) Sure, it’s exploitative as hell — how else could Intervention last nearly 20 seasons? Families confronting loved ones about their booze and drug problems is a natural fit for reality TV, but Intervention also covers addictions to food, gambling, plastic surgery, sex, video games and even exercise. A&E has an evil knack for producing, ahem, addictive reality shows; Intervention is the best/ worst of them all. n

KILL TIME Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes acts like the “tapes” featured in the documentary will illuminate a side of Ted Bundy nobody’s ever seen before. The docuseries doesn’t really deliver on that. We already knew Bundy was a monstrous killer and attention-seeking bullshitter who portrayed himself as a familiar, decent-looking guy. Still, the sheer craziness of Bundy will keep you watching and should satisfy the inner true crime lover in everyone. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

TREKKIN’ Explore the final frontier with the crew of the USS Discovery in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. The new season brings fans back on board the high-tech science vessel, now under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, a name fans of the OG series should recognize. Pike teams up with Michael Burnham, Sylvia Tilly, Saru and the rest of the crew to investigate some mysterious signals spread across the galaxy that seem to be connected to the disappearance of Burnham’s adoptive Vulcan brother, Spock. Discovery is set 10 years before the original series, and can be streamed weekly on CBS All Access. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Valentine’s Card Love Lessons from a tarot reader BY ELISSA BALL

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o you want to look at any specific relationship?” I ask my clients. They inevitably turn sheepish: “Well, it’s just a small crush, but…” they stammer, or “We’ve only started seeing each other, but, umm, I am curious about someone if there’s time.” As a tarot reader, I’ve heard a lot about love. When it comes to matters of the heart, most feel like they have no clue, yet assume everyone else has it all figured out. Well, no one has it figured out! Romantic love requires vulnerability, honesty and self-reflection. Intimacy delivers high highs at the risk of excruciating heartbreak. Not even wild success can cure loneliness or prevent love gone wrong. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a list of seven love lessons I’ve learned as a tarot reader:

CHEMISTRY COURSE

Great chemistry is not compatibility. If physical attraction is the sole Velcro, that’s not a lasting bond. You also need some common values, interests and lifestyle choices. There’s nothing wrong with pleasure! Hooking up with a hottie you feel intensely drawn toward can teach you things. However, trouble arises if one person wants a “solid” relationship and the other just wants a between-meal snack. It’s OK to admit, “We connect splendidly in some ways, but we’re walking different paths.”

HOW WILL I KNOW?

Two-and-a-half months of in-person dating is the average to know if you really click. By then, you have a basic feel for their message-response rate, too. If your text goes unanswered, you can discern whether they’re: a) enjoying necessary alone time b) genuinely busy or c) actively avoiding — or straight ghosting — you. It’s normal to feel ooey-gooey in love at 2.5 months. However, if you’re approaching month No. 4 and remain painfully unsure, that’s not a good sign. And if, after many months, someone keeps finding ways to express that they’re *shrug emoji* ambivalent about you, that’s not good, either. You deserve to feel chosen and valued.

DRESSING ROOM RULE

When trying on clothes, we tell ourselves, “These pants fit a little weird, and the waist itches. But they’ll stretch out eventually.” Yet garment flaws usually get more annoying outside the dressing room. Similarly, when we notice troubling characteristics in a person we like, we want to believe they’ll improve over time. That’s delusional. In the relationship tarot spread I created, one card placement represents “what you can change about yourself to improve the relationship” because — listen up —you cannot change anyone else. You can express preferences and make requests, but a person has to want to change and then prove they’ve changed. No amount of therapy or self-help books can make someone choose loving actions.

POLICY OF TRUTH

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distrust?” Yup. Even “little” lies corrode a union. If a partner claims, “I didn’t tell you the truth because I knew you’d overreact!” (read: show emotion), that’s an eye-roll of an excuse. People lie to protect their image, not to help you. Truth may involve initial discomfort, but it brings lovers closer.

BRAVE COMMUNICATION

Most relationship troubles I hear about could be solved with brave communication. Even if you’re casually dating, check in with each other about expectations, boundaries and desires. Not just once — again and again! There’s a disturbing dating phenomenon where people make specific (but fake) future plans in order to create the illusion of commitment. Don’t do that. While you don’t owe anyone an essay on why you want to stop seeing them, a simple, “Hey, I’m just not feeling it,” is better than a Houdini vanishing act.

STAY SAFE

On a serious note: Intimate partner violence rarely starts with physical abuse; it usually begins with emotional

abuse. If a partner frequently puts you down and says, “I’m joking” or “You’re too sensitive!” — or if they refuse to admit when they’re wrong — those are red flags. You should be allowed to express opinions, disagree and change your mind without fear. Emotional abuse is real, and its effects can be as traumatic as being hit. Abuse isn’t an anger problem, it’s about control and power. If you feel unsafe, get out.

THE LOVERS CARD

When clients draw the Lovers card, they assume it’s about romance. But the Lovers is a card about choice and honoring your desires. I’ve seen too many people stay in miserable situations because they worry, “My partner will be disappointed! What will my family think? We just signed a lease!” Your heart is yours. When you trust your true passions to guide you, the universe has a way of sending along something better. n Elissa Ball is a comic, poet, and former Seattle Weekly columnist. She lives in Spokane, reads tarot cards at Chosen Vintage, and is the author of three books.

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· Where to find information about your parents’ accounts, insurance policies, investments, and other obligations. · Whether your parents have an advanced health care directive (living will), which may establish limits on medical care.

4. Credit cards. A list of all credit cards. 5. Statements. Location or copies of statements for pension plans, Social Security earnings, 401(k) plans, and Individual Retirement Accounts.

· Your parents’ wishes for any special possessions. · Whether your parents have purchased cemetery plots or have special memorial requests. Let the folder do the talking.

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Wallis suggests including these seven items. 1. Directions. How to access their safe deposit box to secure important documents such as their will, marriage license, property records, insurance policies, and records of military service. 2. Inventory. A list of personal property such as expensive jewelry, artwork, or other valuables. You can create this

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tand-up comedy is one art form in which aging gracefully can be particularly tricky. Once an audience has embraced a comic, they don’t necessarily want to see that comedian evolve. We never really wanted to see Rodney Dangerfield get any respect, or George Carlin stop swearing. Jim Breuer has managed to shift gears several times over the course of his career, and he’s done it with relative ease — and a lot of hard work. The guy many first met as the braying “Goat Boy” on Saturday Night Live in the late ’90s, in stoner flick Half-Baked or as a heavy-metalobsessed shouter now elicits laughs with stories from his everyday life on a wide array of TV, radio and online outlets. Breuer had his first stand-up gig in 1989, and he’s still going strong even if the Breuer who takes the stage at the Bing Crosby Theater Saturday is nothing like the Breuer you would have seen 30 years ago at a Clearwater, Florida, open-mic night. In an interview from a Nashville tour stop, Breuer says he basically looks at his career in three 10-year periods. “The first 10, I’m just trying to be a star,” Breuer says. “I want to be on TV, I want to be in films. And, technically, I pulled that off. ’89 started and by the time I got to ’99, couple of sitcoms, television development, SNL, couple of films. “[In] ’99 I walked away to start a family, so the next 10 years was more family and I went

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into radio so I could be home and do dates here and there. And the last 10 I’ve been full-blown stand-up, and doing my best to write and be passionate.” Breuer calls his latest era “my all-time best.” For his current stand-up, he steers far from the topical temptations of the country’s political warfare in favor of being as relatable as possible to as many people as possible. And it’s been that way ever since he and his wife started having kids nearly 20 years ago. “I just talk about what I know. I’m not trying to be clever,” Breuer says. “I’m not trying to be the smartest guy out there. I’m a father. I’m a husband. I’m a son trying to take care of elderly parents. And it turns out a lot of people are just like me. As long as I have a normal life, I’m going to have material.” Lest you think aging has totally mellowed Breuer out, hop online and give his Jim Breuer Podcast or Howard Stern Show appearances a spin. Or, better yet, catch him on the road with Metallica where he’s putting his metal fandom to use revving up the crowds of 15,000-20,000 fans before the band takes the stage. He did just that in Spokane back in December. That gig came about through the comedian and band’s mutual fandom and long-standing friendship, and Breuer calls his nights opening for Metallica “the greatest gig I ever had, hands down.” “Basically, what they wanted was a fan experience,” Breuer says of the Metallica job. “So, make it about Metallica, make it about their fans. I went, ‘Oh my God, that’s easy. I’m a diehard Metallica fan. These are my people!’” Even so, Breuer had to win over Metallica fans antsy for the concert to start, people who maybe weren’t aware a comedian was going to kick off the evening. At his own shows, that’s not a problem. “I have a pretty loyal, deep following of fans,” Breuer says. “And it’s all from stand-up. Not from SNL. Not from Half-Baked. That got you in the door, but once you’re in, you’re going to be all ‘Oh my God, I had no idea what a powerhouse stand-up he was.’” n Jim Breuer • Sat, Feb. 9 at 8 pm • All ages • $25.50-$48 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

PORK

Divine Swine Celebrating the Chinese zodiac Year of the Pig with a primer on all things porcine BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

appy new year, China, and welcome to the Year of the Pig. The traditional Chinese New Year celebration, which runs Feb. 5-19, presents an opportunity to explore pork, from farming and butchering to cooking and the stories behind favorite dishes at eateries throughout the Inland Northwest. And when we discovered a study that found pork fat to be one of the most nutritionally dense foods out there — on a top 10 list alongside almonds, chia seeds, ocean perch and Swiss chard — we couldn’t help ourselves from going hog wild for all things porcine.

etable scraps, and pasture in warmer weather. Bent Tree utilizes Sandpoint-based Woods Meat Processing for USDA-certified butchery and packaging of its meat — chops, roasts, bacon — which is sold directly to consumers throughout Bonner and Kootenai counties. It’s an all-day affair of loading pigs for transport to the butcher that invariably occurs on a snowy or rainy day, says Jones. Pigs don’t see very well, so if a pig gets loose, it’s inclined to go the opposite of where you want it to, he says. “You’ve just started the pig rodeo,” he adds, laughing.

FARM FRESH AND FUN

GOING WHOLE HOG

“It doesn’t take you long to learn about pigs,” notes Tom Jones, who runs Bent Tree Farm on 20 acres in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, with his wife Kelli. “They’re fascinating animals. They’re really smart — as smart as any dog. They’re fun. Most people would like hanging around pigs.” Bent Tree purchases piglets from as far as Montana, and ensures they’re cared for properly before bringing them to the farm for fattening up. “There’s nothing I feed my animals I wouldn’t eat myself,” says Jones, whose pigs eat barley, oats and veg-

A typical pig yields slightly less than 60 percent of edible retail product, according to various industry experts. A 250-pound hog, for example, would garner somewhere around the following: 28 pounds of ham, 23 pounds of loin (roast, chops, tenderloin), 6 pounds of spareribs, 23 pounds of side bacon, 9 pounds of Boston butt (pork steak, butt roast), 12 pounds of picnic (hocks, shoulder), 3 pounds of feet, 8 pounds of head and jowl, 23 pounds of back fat, and 9 pounds of assorted trim ideal for sausage. Some butchers and farms, including Bent Tree, also

harvest offal (kidneys, liver, heart) which has various uses, including the making of braunschweiger sausage, which is similar to liverwurst. For local butchery expertise, try Tim’s Special Cut Meats in North Idaho, which also makes their own bacon, smoked pork chops and sausage. Sonnenberg’s Market & Deli in Spokane, meanwhile, is known for its variety of bulk-meat packages, and will sell customers an entire pig for roasting or just the parts, from feet to ears. Look for a variety of fresh and cured pork products at Egger’s Meats, which has four independently owned locations; three in Spokane and one in Deer Park.

A CUT ABOVE

All the parts of a pig have a place to shine depending on the preparation. When choosing a cut for meatballs, for example, says Wild Sage Bistro executive chef Charlie Connor, you’ll want to use shoulder meat because of the fat content. “Fat equals flavor,” Conner notes. Another tip: Incorporate other types of meat such as beef or veal and make a panade, a paste of milk, egg, cheese and bread crumbs, to bind the meat together and keep it moist. ...continued on next page

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Wild Sage executive chef Charlie Conner’s pork tenderloin au poivre from the restaurant’s winter menu.

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“DIVINE SWINE,” CONTINUED... For slow-cooked pork dishes such as pulled pork, however, choose a cut with an even higher fat content (no argument from us!), such as pork butt (shoulder), Boston butt or country-style pork ribs. To keep thick pork chops tender, try brining, says Connor. “The salt water solution will keep the meat from drying out, as long as it’s not overcooked.” Remember to drain, rinse and pat dry before cooking, he adds. For a leaner cut of meat, try tenderloin, such as the Snake River Farms’ Berkshire pork that Conner uses for Wild Sage’s pork tenderloin au poivre ($31), a variation of the classic pepper-crusted steak. Berkshire is called kurobuta, or black hog, in Japan and is revered for its unique flavor and deep red hue. To cook it, says Connor, sear it and cook on low until the internal temperature reaches 130 degrees. “A low-temperature oven is better because it will penetrate the meat slower and produce a uniform tempera-

ture from end to end,” he notes. Once cooked, says Connor, the meat must rest to allow juices to recirculate. Contrary to what our grandparents might have said, a little pink is OK.

PIG OUT ON THESE DISHES

Dumplings, Umi Kitchen and Sushi Bar, $6 The ubiquitous pockets of dough filled with meat and/or vegetables — they can be gyoza in Japan; shumai or wontons in China — are filled with finely chopped chicken and pork at Umi, which offers them steamed, grilled or fried. (We suggest one order of each). Moo Phad Prik Khing, Linnie’s Thai, $15 Sliced thin and cooked quickly at high heat, stir-fried pork upends the notion of lengthy cooking, with tender mouthfuls of pork that hold their own against the pop of red curry and fresh basil. Pork Ribs, Nordic Smoke BBQ, $6 The perfect balance of sweet from the honey and fat, coming both from the meat and a butter baste, these ribs

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T The young chef plans to someday open his own restaurant.

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Chef Chats: Travis Tveit

The Inlander gets to know the head chef of Iron Goat Brewing’s Spokane kitchen BY CHEY SCOTT

ravis Tveit heads the kitchen at Iron Goat Brewing Co.’s downtown Spokane taproom. The 29-year-old rising chef graduated from the Oregon Culinary Institute in 2010 and went on to work at kitchens in Portland before coming home to Spokane. He was recently crowned champion of Chef Battle Spokane, part of a national culinary competition, and will travel to California in late 2019 to compete in the West Coast regional finals. In his spare time, Tveit is the drummer for rock duo Indian Goat. The Inlander recently sat down with the chef to learn more about his cooking philosophy, future plans and more. INLANDER: When did you know you wanted to become a chef? TVEIT: I’ve always had a cooking or restaurant job, whether it was Subway or a sit-down restaurant. When I lived in Portland and was doing a firefighting program — I thought I wanted to do that — and I did an agility test, I almost passed out. Then I was like, “This sucks, I don’t want to work a job where I could die doing it.” I was really into [Portland’s] food scene and was really exposed to it. I wanted to be around that and have access to the nicest food and know chefs around town and know I could always eat and never be hungry. What’s your favorite guilty pleasure boxed, frozen or fast food dish? I love ramen noodles, like instant ramen noodles. I know that’s a cop-out thing because there is a stereotype that [chefs] cook good food for people all day and go home and eat PB&J and go to bed. But even before that, I remember cooking those as a kid with my little brother and seeing who could make them spicier. I still eat them. I have some at my house right now. Name one restaurant in the Inland Northwest you return to over and over again. Park Lodge is my favorite, they do an excellent job. All around, I think it’s the best restaurant in Spokane.

They have great service, food, staff, excellent drinks and an excellent space. What’s your favorite kitchen gadget? An immersion blender is pretty helpful. You can do a lot with an immersion blender. Finish this sentence: “You can never have too much ____.” Butter. What’s next for you, five to 10 years down the line? Oh, absolutely owning my own restaurant in Spokane and being a creative force of the culinary scene. What’s your favorite thing to eat off your own menu, currently? I have a sage and brown butter gnocchi right now that I have to really talk myself into not eating, because we need to sell it. It is ENTRÉE so good and there is Get the scoop on local so much butter, and food news with our weekly the sage is so nice and Entrée newsletter. Sign up there is a bunch of at Inlander.com/newsletter. cheese on it. And any time someone orders it I have to tell them that it’s my favorite thing on the menu. What’s the hardest thing about your job? Getting a group that all works very well together and nobody has problems and everyone stays. Kitchens always have a pretty high turnover, and in the industry in Spokane, I mean everybody knows everybody, and it’s a small community of workers, so it’s pretty hard to get a really solid crew. But I am fortunate enough to have a small enough crew that everyone back there right now is good. It’s hard to get to that point where you are all working together like a well-oiled machine, as they say. n

he lutefisk doesn’t smell up the kitchen like it used to, says Barbara Rostad, as she passes out fliers for the upcoming Sons of Norway Lutefisk Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 16, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coeur d’Alene. The annual event raises funds for local Harald Haarfager Lodge 2-011, a 109-year-old organization of about 80 members dedicated to preserving and promoting Norwegian culture in the region. “It’s not just about the money; it’s about sharing the heritage with as many people as possible,” says Rostad. The event is one of many the organization holds, and easily one of the most popular. This year’s dinner offers three scheduled seatings (reservations are required). The menu features traditional Norwegian food such as sandbakkels, a crisp little buttery cookie, and lefse, a flexible, potato-based flatbread typically served with butter and/or sugar. But the real draw, at least in terms of conversation, is the lutefisk: a Norwegian staple that hearkens to olden days and celebrates this coastal culture’s dependence on the sea. First, the fish — typically cod, but also burbot or ling — is dehydrated and preserved using lye (yup, the same stuff that unclogs your drain). To prepare the fish for consumption, it must be reconstituted and cooked slowly by either steaming it or baking it (which thankfully mitigates the lye). The fish, properly cooked, has a unique gelatinous consistency that invariably inspires a reaction from the very first bite. “We also have meatballs,” says Rostad. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for youth; ages 6-and-under are free. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

BLACKBIRD TAVERN & KITCHEN TO CLOSE

An announcement on social media from Spokane restaurant owner Patrick McPherson this past weekend proclaimed that the Blackbird, a downtown spot just north of the river YOUNG KWAK PHOTO specializing in barbecue and weekend brunch, would soon permanently close. “We let the staff know that we’ll be closing the Bird in the coming days due to a lack of business,” McPherson wrote. He posted again on Monday to say that the restaurant would remain open through this week, and would be offering 50 percent off wine bottles regularly priced at $50 or more, as well as 35 percent off beer and wine from its cellar, discounted glass growlers for $5 and 35 percent off growler fills. McPherson previously sold his first Spokane restaurant, Manito Tap House, to Nelson Phelps Hospitality (Steelhead Bar & Grille, Morty’s, the Barrel and others) late last year. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Chip Off the Old Brick With its meta jokes and catchy songs, The LEGO Movie 2 is more of the same. That’s not necessarily a bad thing BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

very Hollywood film is a business transaction, and yet 2014’s The LEGO Movie looked like it was going to be even more blatantly corporate than your typical cinematic toy tie-in. What a shock, then, that it turned out to be both a feature-length commercial and a brilliant, inventive animated comedy, exuberant and visually playful and highly self-aware. It inspired two spin-off movies and now the requisite sequel, which is also pretty breezy and occasionally very funny. What’s missing in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, though, is any novelty — the sheer I-can’tbelieve-this-is-actually-good surprise — that came with the original. It’s kind of like putting together one of those elaborate, thousand-piece LEGO sets for a second time: You already know how all the bricks fit together, and that sense of discovery is gone, but it’s still an enjoyable way to pass the time. That’s to be expected, of course, when a franchise goes back to the well for a fourth time. At least Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the sharp writing and directing team behind the first LEGO Movie, are responsible for this script. It’s up to its eyeballs with their trademark winkwink, nudge-nudge jokes, boasting surprisingly sophisticated pop culture references for the adults and goofy slapstick for the kids (although I found myself laughing at a lot of the same gags as some of the preschool-aged audience members). The Second Part takes us back to the all-LEGO town of Bricksburg (the crumbling sign now reads “Icksburg”), which has devolved into a dusty, sepia-colored Mad Max hellscape — excuse me, heckscape. Why? Well, because a

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sequel has to be grittier and darker than its predecessor. the Justice League, exasperated because Green Lantern Returning is the dopily optimistic Emmet Brickowski demands to tag along on their adventures. And there are (voiced by Chris Pratt), who we last saw stumbling into even more clever tunes, including a Lonely Island song heroism, and the cyberpunk Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), extolling the virtues of sitting through the end credits, who’s too busy delivering brooding voiceover to settle and a jingle that rivals “Everything Is Awesome” as the down with Emmet in the suburbs. most aggressive earworm you’ve ever heard. There are As if the city didn’t have enough problems, it’s also more live-action interstitials this go-around, involving attacked by an army of cutesy Duplo toys — little pink a brother and his little sister learning to play together and hearts and smiley-faced stars that, despite their chirpy blend their respective LEGO sets. toddler voices, explode like grenades. Their leader is the Most of the movie feels like an extended third mysterious General Mayhem (Stephanie Beatriz), who act, racing toward the next plot development with the kidnaps Wyldstyle and a coterie of suppatience of a kid making up a toy porting characters — Batman (Will Arnett), on the living room carpet. It’s THE LEGO MOVIE 2: story Unikitty (Alison Brie), MetalBeard (Nick not as formally audacious as the first THE SECOND PART Offerman) and Benny the overeager Spacemovie, and it doesn’t have the same Rated PG man (Charlie Day) — and takes them to a joke success rate as 2017’s The LEGO Directed by Mike Mitchell planet overseen by the seemingly devious Batman Movie. Yet it’s still an amiable Starring Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi (Tiffany Hadadventure with a few great meta gags Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish dish). — I particularly liked Rex’s function She’s a shapeshifter (read her name as a Chris Pratt surrogate (amongst out loud to yourself), changing forms between a sweethis skills are “chiseled features previously hidden beneath looking horse and a tentacled, magenta-colored blob, baby fat”), and the use of an apparatus called a C.P.D. and she wants to marry the stubborn bachelor Batman. (short for “Convenient Plot Device”). Meanwhile, Emmet teams up with the adventurer Rex The original film ended with a discussion of the two Dangervest (also voiced by Pratt, doing his best Kurt types of LEGO builders — those who follow the instrucRussell impersonation) to save his friends and stop the tions to the letter, and those who are more freeform, queen’s wedding, which he fears will bring about an “areschewing direction to find their own shapes. This movie mom-ageddon.” is more the former than the latter, rehashing a formula Not much has changed since that original film. There that seemed much fresher five years ago, but it’s no less are a handful of new, recognizable figurines, including entertaining to watch the finished product (and yes, it’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gary Payton, Bruce Willis and still very much a product) be put together. n

FILM | SHORTS

Cold Pursuit

OPENING FILMS COLD PURSUIT

Murder! Revenge! Snowplows! Liam Neeson is a snow removal specialist who goes after the drug dealers that killed his son. Based on a 2014 Norwegian film. (NW) Rated R

COLD WAR

A pianist and a singer fall in love in post-WWII Poland, and are separated and reunited many times over the course of a decade. A haunting portrait of a broken relationship and of a country in turmoil. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART

In this sequel to the 2014 hit, Bricksburg is attacked by exploding Duplo toys and Batman is entrapped by a shapeshifting queen. It might not have

the novelty of the original, but it’s still entertaining. (NW) Rated PG

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This year’s Academy Award-nominated live-action and animated shorts are presented in separate packages of five films each. See these and win your office Oscar pool. (NW) Not Rated

THE PRODIGY

An unusually intelligent little boy starts displaying killer behavior, and a supernatural force might be to blame. Doesn’t sound familiar at all. (NW) Rated R

WHAT MEN WANT

A gender-swapped version of the Mel Gibson-Helen Hunt comedy, in which Taraji P. Henson hits her head and gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. (NW) Rated R

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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

saw the trailer, you’ve basically seen the whole movie. (NW) Rated PG

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BUMBLEBEE

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

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 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

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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

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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

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breakable 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

THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING

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

MISS BALA

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 in the process. (NW) Rated R

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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

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

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

Peter Jackson’s documentary about British troops in WWI, featuring colorized and CGI-augmented footage from a

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century ago, is more of a museum piece than a film. Still, it’s an often moving monument. (MJ) Rated R

THE UPSIDE

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

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

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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

NOW STREAMING VELVET BUZZSAW (NETFLIX)

An L.A. museum causes a stir with its latest collection of a recently deceased, previously undiscovered artist, until the paintings themselves start killing. Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette and Rene Russo are having some fun, but Dan Gilroy’s latest is pretty facile as an art-world satire, and derivative as a supernatural slasher. (NW) Rated R

FILM | REVIEW

Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot are lovelorn musicians in the bleak, beautiful Polish drama Cold War.

Love Is a Battlefield The Oscar-nominated Cold War tells a turbulent love story amidst the terrors of 1950s Poland BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

awel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an epic in ing that their feelings are expressed most clearly, miniature, a story that spans more than a their angers and frustrations and desires flowing decade in the lives of two people and is set through the music — when Zula cuts loose in a against the most tumultuous period in 20th-cennightclub as “Rock Around the Clock” blares tury Europe, and yet runs less than 90 minutes. over the speakers, or as a despondent Wiktor It’s remarkable how much feeling, human nature hammers away at a piano solo while the rest of and history he captures in that short amount of his band looks on. time, and it never feels rushed. Pawlikowski has said that Zula and Wiktor’s The story begins in 1949 Poland, which is love affair was inspired by his parents’ on-again, still reverberating from WWII. off-again relationship, even using Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a pianist their names for the characters. AlCOLD WAR at what can best be described as though the specific details of their Rated R a music academy specializing in lives are different (his father was Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Polish folk songs and dances. One Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot a doctor, his mother a literature of his pupils, a singer named Zula professor), he captures the tempesAt the Magic Lantern (Joanna Kulig), catches his eye, and tuousness of two fiercely indepenthey begin an affair as they tour the country with dent and yet inextricably connected people, the a big variety show. The performances quickly instability of their romance exacerbated by a take a pro-Communist bent, and before long precarious political climate. Zula is singing in front of a portrait of Stalin, Pawlikowski’s last feature, 2013’s Ida, won much to the chagrin of the instructors. the Oscar for best foreign language film, the stoAt a show in East Berlin, Wiktor hatches a ry of a young nun and her aunt who are haunted plan to escape to Paris with Zula, but she never by ghosts of the Holocaust. He’s working again shows up at their meeting point. It’s the first of with cinematographer Lukasz Zal, who shoots in many separations that define their relationship, a crisp black and white that lends the images an but they keep managing to find their way back icy clarity. Both Ida and Cold War employ similar to one another. Cold War, then, is structured visual strategies: The camera is often fixed to the like a series of blackouts, each chapter detailing ground, the compositions are deliberate and caretheir encounters over the years, from France to fully controlled, and our focus is often directed Yugoslavia and back to Poland again. Their musito subjects in the bottom half of the frame, giving cal careers rise and fall, the world around them us the impression that the world around them is crumbles and thrives again, and yet their destidwarfing them and their personal problems. nies remain entwined. Pawlikowski isn’t so much Like Ida, Cold War is a portrait of two people concerned with the details of how the couple who seem to be trapped wherever they go, returns to one another; it’s about the electricity because of political upheaval or professional obliand volatility of their time together. gations, or because their emotions are hopelessly Much of that time is spent deliberately trying tethered and probably shouldn’t be. That also to hurt the other, openly flaunting their other seems to describe the soul of their country, which lovers, picking fights, poking at wounds that has never healed and maybe never will, but is haven’t healed. It’s only when they’re performforced to go on anyway. n

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SINGER-SONGWRITER

BEYOND HER YEARS Coeur d’Alene songwriter Gabriella Rose’s debut EP brings a retro approach to her own experiences BY HOWARD HARDEE

abriella Rose sings with a world-weariness that sounds like it could only have been cultivated over years of lived experience. But that’s the thing — it wasn’t. She is a 16-year-old from Coeur d’Alene with a rare gift for understanding and channeling other people’s emotions, a fully realized singer-songwriter who happens to be a junior in high school. Some of the heavy sadness present in Rose’s hairraisingly beautiful, six-song debut EP Lost in Translation is her own, though. From a young age, she had to care for a family member living with mental illness, and she was present for much of her grandmother’s “really short but brutal battle with a rare form of cancer.” As an eighth grader, it fell on her to plan and organize her grandmother’s wake. “I’ve seen and experienced a lot of things a normal kid probably wouldn’t have to deal with,” she says. “That definitely shapes me. I had to grow up really fast. I’ve always had to be a little more mature than people my age, and sometimes I struggle with depression issues. Some-

times I write from a really sad place. … So, I definitely have applied some of my experiences to the songs.” Lacking an abundance of personal life experience, however, Rose also draws on her emotional responses to books and movies. “Lost in Translation,” the wistful lead single off her EP, is based on the 2003 Sofia Coppola film, while Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel In Cold Blood and Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums inspire other songs on the EP. “She has a really unique ability to empathize with other people’s stories, to be able to really feel it,” says Chris Molitor, who recorded and produced Lost in Translation. “Somehow, she’s able to take those emotions and craft them into beautifully original,

very deep songs. I can’t imagine what she’ll be writing in her 20s, 30s and 40s, when she has more depth of experience. I think it’s going to be pretty special.” The pair are celebrating the release of Lost in Translation on Friday at the Bartlett. Molitor will play a solo set before Rose takes the stage. An accomplished songwriter himself, Molitor was extremely impressed when he first heard the 16-yearold’s demos. Rose’s mother had reached out a couple of times about potentially working with her daughter, and Molitor was initially skeptical. “Generally speaking, if a mother is like, ‘My daughter is amazing,’ there’s a chance that she’s not amazing and the mother is trying to live vicariously through her daughter or something weird like that,” he says. “But that turned out not to be the case at all — her mom just recognized this ...continued on next page

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Keeping It Together For more than 25 years, Guster has been on the everlasting quest for pop with a purpose BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

hen three college buddies at Tufts University started a band called Guster in the early ’90s, there’s no way they could have known they’d still be on the road together two and a half decades later. Founding members Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner and Brian Rosenworcel — alongside multiinstrumentalist Luke Reynolds — have developed a low-key following for their melodic, tightly controlled songs, and now they’re touring behind their eighth studio album Look Alive. Miller, Guster’s frontman and guitarist, spoke to the Inlander in anticipation of the band’s upcoming concert at the Bing. As he walked around San Francisco, where Guster was about to play its third sold-out show in a week, Miller talked about the icy production style of the latest album, his ever-evolving collaboration with his bandmates, and how the state of the world creeps into his songwriting. (Responses have been edited for space.) INLANDER: You’ve been playing with a couple of these guys for more than 25 years. How have those relationships changed? MILLER: It’s beyond family. You can’t choose your family, but we can choose to be in this relationship. We met when we were — well, I was 18 years old when I met these guys, and now I’m 46, and we pretty much started playing music from the day we met. So yeah, do the math. It’s incredibly intense and very rewarding and very complicated, but at this exact point in our career, we’re getting along really well and we’re proud of the music we’re making. How did this new album, Look Alive, come together? I think every record we kind of have to do a gut check — “OK, what do we wanna do? How do we want to do it? How’s it going to work?” It’s three or four years between records, but we’re writing that whole time. It’s a lot of writing until we feel like we have enough songs we want to record, and then there’s the whole process of finding who our collaborators are going to be, and we found a real interesting and inspiring one in our producer, Leo Abrahams. What made you gravitate toward him? I had heard of him through a mutual friend. He wasn’t a producer that made, like, 25 records a year; he’s pretty choosy. But it was really a conversation we had on the phone. He was

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remarking how our records sounded warm and vintage-y, and he was more interested in cold and icy sounds. That really crystallized what my thinking was. We really make an effort to not repeat ourselves sonically, and not make the same record more than once. We got in the studio, and within three or four days it was clear we were in some uncharted territory in terms of his bag of tricks. It was really quite magical, and we hadn’t locked in with a producer like that since we made a record with Steve Lillywhite in 1999. I hear themes of optimism running through the album, or of people struggling toward positivity. Is that an accurate reading? I definitely think the optimism is a real thing I was trying to put forward, so I’m glad that’s something you’re picking up on. A lot of this was written against a backdrop of Trumpism and what I think of as the order of the universe being momentarily toppled, where good begets good and the arc of history bends toward the just. And I think there’s some existential shit of being a middle-aged dad and being married for 13 years.

The City of Spokane’s federal SAFER Grant will expire at the end of 2019. Unless we take action we will lose these firefighters who we have already invested in being trained and deployed. Prop 1 will allow the Spokane Fire Department to continue to send the right resources to the right calls, while still being staffed for major emergencies. Prop 1 will add 20 Police Officers and allow for more proactive community policing, an increase emphasis on property crimes including more property crimes detectives, more major crimes detectives and more targeted crimes detectives.

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Do you think about big-picture themes when you’re writing? We’re a pop band. We’re writing three-anda-half-minute pop songs. To me, the fact that there’s these kind of doom-and-gloom lyrics on top of sunny melodies was always kind of a thing, but as a listener, I listen to lyrics, and the ones that have followed me through my life tend to mean something. So I think there is a general quest for meaning in the songs, at least to me. Guster has become known for its live shows, and a lot of recordings are available to stream. Is that the best way to experience your music? I definitely wouldn’t say it’s best. It’s completely other in a lot of ways. The live thing is so much about energy — the energy we’re putting out, the energy the crowd’s putting back. It’s that little feedback loop that’s happening. The songs are the delivery method for that energy. On record, there’s some kind of energy happening, too, but it’s so indirect. I don’t think of it as a hierarchical thing in terms of “best.” … Our records are labored over. There’s not a note out of place; there’s nothing accidental on our records. Especially this last one — it’s so molecular and granular, these little blips and blops. That’s not happening live. It’s gotta ride on a different thing. n Guster with Henry Jamison • Tue, Feb. 12 at 8 pm • $29.50-$58.50 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater. com • 227-7638

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ROCK RICHARD THOMPSON

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Thursday, 02/7

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 J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Northwest Big Band THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flanary and the Songsmith Series J KNITTING FACTORY, Hippie Sabotage, Sebastian Paul J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Kevin Dorin J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, O’Pen Mic Thursdays ONE WORLD CAFE, Vanna Oh! J THE PIN, Farewell Winters, Samsara, Seconds Ago POST FALLS BREWING CO., Dallas Kay THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROXIE, Music Challenge ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 02/8

219 LOUNGE, The Zach Cooper Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, One Street Over J J THE BARTLETT, Gabriella Rose Album Release with Chris Molitor (see page 47) THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Slow Cookin’ J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Richard Thompson Electric Trio (see above), Ryley Walker

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t’s going to be a busy February for the Bing, with its stage hosting three of the biggest of the new year’s concerts this week. First up is Richard Thompson, the British musician who’s as acclaimed a songwriter as he is a smashing guitarist. He broke out in the ’60s as a founding member of Fairport Convention and later gained notoriety with his then-wife Linda Thompson, exploring the dissolution of their marriage on the 1982 masterpiece Shoot Out the Lights. Thompson has had numerous side projects and made many stylistic detours over the years, and he comes to Spokane with his Electric Trio, showcasing the more rocking side of a career that has encompassed so many genres and attitudes. — NATHAN WEINBENDER

ALT-COUNTRY COWBOY JUNKIES

Richard Thompson Electric Trio with Ryley Walker • Fri, Feb. 8 at 7:30 pm • $30-$40 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

nd once you get your Thompson fix, recuperate for a couple days and head back to the Bing for one of Canada’s most enduring alt-country acts. Cowboy Junkies have been producing finely observed portraits of heartbreak and lost souls for more than 30 years, with the sibling trio of Margo, Michael and Peter Timmins and bassist Alan Anton melding their individual voices into a perfect harmony. The Junkies were last in our neck of the woods in 2017 when they played Sandpoint’s Panida Theater, and since then they’ve released a studio album called All That Reckoning, a collection of gorgeous songs inspired by everything from 21st-century politics to the 19th-century poetry of William Blake. — NATHAN WEINBENDER An Evening with Cowboy Junkies • Sun, Feb. 10 at 8 pm • $27-$57 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

BOLO’S, Usual Suspects BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Luke Yates J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Eric E and the Royal Blues CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Justin James COEUR D’ALENE TAPHOUSE UNCHAINED, Nick Canger CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Sam Leyde CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Donnie Emerson Duo CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, NightShift THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Brent Edstrom Jazz Trio HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Just Plain Darin

HUMBLE BURGER, Vanna Oh!, Okay Okay IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Muffy and the Riff Hangers IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dario Ré w/Michael Starry & Zack Zuniga IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), JamShack THE JACKSON ST., One Sunday J KNITTING FACTORY, August Burns Red, Fit for a King, Miss May I LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Karen McCormick MARYHILL WINERY, Nick Grow MATCHWOOD BREWING, Birds of Play MAX AT MIRABEAU, Laffin’ Bones MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Gre3ne Trio MOOSE LOUNGE, The Happiness MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, John Keith Walton NASHVILLE NORTH, Last Chance Band

NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Pastiche O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots ONE WORLD CAFE, Yellow Dog Flats J OUTLAW BBQ & CATERING MARKET, Songsmith Series PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Doug Bond and Marty Peron QUACKERS, Truck Mills THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Son of Brad SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Honky Tonk A’ Go-Go STUDIO 107, Ron Kieper Jazz Duo ZOLA, Whisk&Keys

Saturday, 02/9

219 LOUNGE, The Zach Cooper Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Isaac Walton BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Gil Rivas J J THE BARTLETT, Tangerine, Runaway Octopus, Late for the Parade J THE BIG DIPPER, GS3 BIGFOOT PUB, Slow Cookin’ BOLO’S, Usual Suspects J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, The Mad Andersons CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Justin James CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, Rumours Fleetwood Mac Tribute COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Justin James CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Robinsong CRUISERS, Sins & Sinners, Thunder Knife, Icarus, Nothing to Gein

CURLEY’S, NightShift FREDNECK’S, Cassandra Wheeler & Eric Patton GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Into the Drift THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike HOGFISH, The Dead Channels, Crusty Mustard, Quaggadog HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, Vanna Oh! J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Talmadge IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi IRON GOAT BREWING CO., BG3 IRON HORSE (CDA), JamShack THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Kerry Leigh J THE LOCAL DELI, Ally Burke MARYHILL WINERY, Nicolas Vigil MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Truck Mills and Carl Ray MAX AT MIRABEAU, Laffin’ Bones MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Big Phatty and The Inhalers MOOSE LOUNGE, The Happiness MULLIGAN’S, Fancee That NASHVILLE NORTH, Last Chance Band NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Pastiche

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J THE OBSERVATORY, Indian Goat, Rotgut Whines, Wayward West PACIFIC PIZZA, Smackout Pack PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Bright Moments THE PIN, Stylust with Brainfunk, Madd Matter, Sneaky J, Gooby POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Christy Lee THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, DJ LG SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Echo Elysium SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Theresa Edwards Band STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke WESTWOOD BREWING, Son of Brad ZOLA, Whisk&Keys

Sunday, 02/10

J J BING CROSBY THEATER, An Evening with Cowboy Junkies (see facing page) J CREATE ARTS CENTER, Scotia Road CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Land of Voices LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Eric Neuhausser MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Ken Mayginnes J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Chris Janson

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Bob Beadling THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 02/11

THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Solemn Two CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 02/12

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Guster (see page 49) with Henry Jamison BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Talmadge GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Head for the Hills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue. LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, The ShuffleDawgs Blues Power Happy Hour RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Echo Elysium THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 02/13

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Carl Rey BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series with Zaq Flanary CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night Hosted by The Jam Band GENO’S, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Maxie Ray Mills THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, GIl Rivas ZOLA, Cruxie

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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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Head to Heritage Bar & Kitchen to enjoy a cold one and add a new title to your home library.

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COMMUNITY BEERS & BOOKS

This is the kind of book club I can get behind. Heritage Bar & Kitchen is introducing its new “Blind Book & Brew” night that’s a bit like a White Elephant gift exchange, but one in which you don’t trade the goodies and you do enjoy a delicious beer no matter what you get. Here’s the deal: A selection of books are wrapped up and labeled simply by their genre and first sentence. For $8, you get a beer and a used book, and for $20 you’re guaranteed a beer and an award-winning or bestselling book from 2018. Either way, you’re going home with a new-to-you read and having met some fellow book lovers with a taste for mystery (or romance, or history or fantasy, etc.). — DAN NAILEN Blind Book & Brew • Wed, Feb. 13 from 6-9 pm • $8 or $20 • Heritage Bar & Kitchen • 122 S. Monroe • heritagebarandkitchen.com • 863-9235

COMMUNITY GOODGUY KATZ

What does it mean to be a strong man? That’s the question Jackson Katz — a renowned educator, author, filmmaker, cultural theorist and pioneering activist on issues of gender, race and violence — is asking Spokane. Presented by YWCA of Spokane’s GoodGuys, Katz explores the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence. GoodGuys was cofounded in 2015 by long-time YWCA supporters Doug Kelley and Manny Hochheimer. After becoming aware of the area’s domestic violence statistics, Kelley and Hochheimer began working to make the problem a community issue, not solely a women’s issue. — ARCELIA MARTIN Jackson Katz: What Does it Mean to be a Strong Man? • Mon, Feb. 11 at 5:30 pm • $10 • Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center • 702 E. Desmet Ave. • ywcaspokane.org • 326-1190

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WORDS HEROINE FINDING OPIUM

Debut novelist Katrina Carrasco’s first book of fiction, The Best Bad Things, centers on a former Pinkerton Women’s Bureau Agent Alma Rosales who, in the late 1880s, goes undercover to find stolen opium in Washington Territory. In trying to impress her boss and ex-lover, Rosales finds herself in bloody and lustful confrontations. The Best Bad Things notably works as a trailblazer in the crime genre by adapting a queer perspective. The book landed on a number of lists for 2018’s “best crime” books, and she’ll be discussing it at this Auntie’s stop. Carrasco’s other works have appeared in Witness, Post Road Magazine and Quaint Magazine. She holds an MFA in fiction from Portland State University. — ARCELIA MARTIN Katrina Carrasco: The Best Bad Things • Sat, Feb. 9 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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ARTS ARCANE EVOCATIONS

A dozen local artists have teamed up for the newest showcase at Coeur d’Alene’s Emerge gallery and arts education center. Story and Image features a collection of illustrations based on Spokane author Sharma Shields’ short story “Witch Lake,” a piece inspired by actual historical events. Shields’ story was originally printed in 2016 by the Spokesman-Review for its annual summer short story series, and tells of a young woman who seeks to overcome, with the aid of her supernatural powers, severe trauma and abuse while living in the wilderness of North Idaho near Lake Pend d’Oreille. Artists who’ve taken inspiration from “Witch Lake” include Tiffany Patterson, Susan Webber, Daniel Scully, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano and Derrick Freeland, who curated the show. — CHEY SCOTT Story and Image • Opens Fri, Feb. 8 from 5-8 pm; on display through March 2, Wed-Sat from 12-4 pm • Free • Emerge • 208 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene • emergecda.org

COMEDY EVERY WHICH WAYANS

There are 10 siblings in the Wayans comedy dynasty, and that’s not counting any of their kids, many of whom are also in show biz. One of the first performers to break out of the family was Shawn Wayans, who appeared on his brother Keenen Ivory Wayans’ groundbreaking sketch show In Living Color and in the first couple entries of the Scary Movie franchise. He also formed a comedy duo with his other brother Marlon (they’re the two youngest siblings), starring in the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. and in movies like White Chicks and the cult favorite Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. His standup career is nothing to shrug off, either, and he’s bringing his comedy stylings to Spokane this weekend. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Shawn Wayans • Fri-Sat, Feb. 8-9 at 7:30 and 10:30 pm • $25-$40 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

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CHEERS JEERS

I SAW YOU SMELLY STUFF I saw you at the northtown Bath & Body works. You were debating about purchasing a bottle of “Graphite” due to its similarities to your beloved “Oak.” I was the blonde fascinated by the bread scented candle. I hope the future brings you the smelly stuff of your dreams. HAWAIIAN SHIRTS AND ITALIAN FOOD I saw you at Ferraros on Friday. You managed your screaming companions with ease. You ordered steak and spaghetti and looked fabulous in that Hawaiian shirt and sweatshirt ensemble. I wish I had your patience and confidence. ZOBOOMAFOO BLUES You, cute guy on 22 Bus to Downtown. Me, man carrying large package of oatmeal that was slowly leaking onto the floor. My eye (singular) met yours. We started talking about the kids show Zoboomafoo and how sad it was that the lemur who played him was dead. I should have asked if you wanted to go out some time for some paella, but balked. I’m on the 22 most days. Come find me X FAIR TAILS FIE Well here we are two people who were supposed to be together till the end. Now we can’t even talk. You swore you loved me with all your heart. I’m gone two days and you already have someone living with you. And yet I still care i always will. You are a wonderful lady and I am so utterly lost I don’t know if you stayed until I could do for myself but I’m thankful. I don’t like to think you were unhappy but the way

you talk you were not happy at all makes me feel rotten. I want you happy one day. I truly hope we can be friends. But no matter what I will always love you. Have a great life RV SHOW AT THE FAIRGROUNDS ON SATURDAY You are a very cute, petite woman with long, dark hair and you wear glasses. You were standing with a group of people when we made, what felt like to me anyway, meaningful eye contact a few times. Here it is 4 days later and I’m still thinking about you. I just want you to know that you are beautiful. YOUR KINDNESS STACKS UP I saw you at the Northside IHOP on Saturday the 2nd. You were celebrating your birthday early with a stack of Tres Leches pancakes and commenting and the finer things in life. You told your short companions that you were proud of them several times and were so kind to the waitstaff. I owe you a stack sometime.

YOU SAW ME SEEKING ICE CREAM LOVER Seeking ice cream lover: This is her daughter and she says she saw you too. Valley Assembly of God in the Valley goes to DQ frequently on Wednesdays after small group and she is at church on Sundays. Yes, she is no spring chicken but is a lot of fun and does have awesome earrings. I think she would feel better if we all met up for ice cream or dinner the first time. We don’t want her to miss a chance either! What are the chances her friend saw this and brought it to her? A million to one! How do we connect with you?

CHEERS PEACE MAKER Cheers to the woman who fearlessly broke up a fight outside of 7-11 on Monday afternoon, 1/28. She stopped her maroon van in traffic to get out and assist the situation with the utmost strength. You’re willingness to help the good of everyone was inspiring. Takes a village, and you’ve promoted my goals to be proactive and kind. SEXY Thank you for being there for me the past 6 years. You’re the best friend i

have had in along time. And I hope we are still friends six years from now. Love your Timmy Tim THANK YOU To the guy with the red truck at Sullivan gas station Monday evening. Thank you for jump starting my brother’s vehicle. We appreciate your help and kindness. Thank you so much!!

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to stop away from entrances and aisles. It’s not difficult. CRUISIN’ Some of y’all learned to drive in big cities, and it shows. NEGLIGENT DOG OWNERS Jeers to the couple seen at Chipotle around lunch on 1/31 with their small dog confined in a

we are given. No one brings us food, or gives special deals and discounts on our purchases. If you are getting $60,000 or more a year be humble, never complain, and wipe those tears away cause your ordeal is not anywhere as bad as it could be and for many is! Keep it up you selfish whiny little ingrates.

My eye (singular) met yours. We started talking about the kids show Zoboomafoo and how sad it was that the lemur who played him was dead.

THANKS COMRADES Thank you Spokane DSA, even though I’m long gone from my American home, knowing you’re still there to fight the good fight always makes me feel better. Much love to you all, especially the ones who stood by me this time last year X LETTER FROM THE UK To Spokane friends near and far, it’s been coming up onto a year now since my life fell apart in the city I loved so much. I had hoped to live there the rest of my life. Maybe I will again someday. But I just want to say thankyou to you all, the people who stood by me. You stopped me from ending it all in some soulless apartment to spite someone. I love you all X

JEERS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS To the people who go into the entryway at Costco a few feet and then stop causing customers behind them to stack up like pancakes. Wake up! Look around! Ditto to the people who get on their cellphones at the check in scanner at Health Clubs so no one can check in. Also to the people who stop to visit with 10 of their dearest friends to visit in the aisles in the grocery store or by the entrance. To all of these: find a better place

bag. You left your whimpering animal at a table, crammed in a tiny backpack while you selfishly took your sweet time ordering and eating-showing no mercy for your distressed dog! Animals are NOT accessories to be toted around. Leave your dog at home or figure out how to travel with them humanely. Please be kind and think of what is best for your pet. Your heartless ignorance makes me sick! BOO HOO! GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES I am so sick of people who barely suffer and whine like a small child whose parent won’t buy them a toy at the store! I am referring to Federal government employees and the recent shutdown. I will make this simple to understand, the average Federal employee annual salary is roughly $80,000! let that sink in, $80,000! So if the federal government shuts down for three months that would be one fourth of their annual salary or $20,000. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? Keep in mind they still have $60,000 left! No need to mention the on average 13 days of paid vacation, 13 days of paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, full health insurance, student loan payback, child care, 401k.... So BOO HOO! Many people, just like me, work extremely hard and don’t even make near $20,000 a year. Benefits? What are those? Yet we carry on doing the best with what

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BENEFIT 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) PUPPY LOVE A silent auction benefiting the Spokane Humane Society, with light food and wine. Feb. 13, 5-8 pm. $20/$30. Maryhill Winery Spokane, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2GaDlxT (773-1976) MEALS ON WHEELS’ CINN-A-GRAM Help feed local seniors in need by ordering a Cinn-A-Gram, which can be purchased through Feb. 7 for delivery on Valentine’s Day. Each box includes two Cinnabon rolls, Valentine mug, an assortment of goodies, and a personal message. $35-$45. mowspokane.org

COMEDY 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 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. Feb. 8 at 7:39 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.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 and 9; times vary. $25-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com JIM BREUER The freewheeling, New York bred comic storyteller who made the list of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Standups of All Time came to national attention during his seasons on Saturday Night Live (1995-98). Feb. 9, 8 pm. $27.50-$55.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show. Ages 16+. Saturdays at 7:30 pm through March 30. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com WHITNEY CUMMINGS Best known for

creating and starring in the NBC series Whitney, Cummings was also the cocreator and co-writer of the Emmy-nominated series 2 Broke Girls. Feb. 14-15 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $25-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998)

COMMUNITY CHOCOLATE LOVERS CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society presents its annual Valentine-themed 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. (747-2640) JIGSAW PUZZLE SWAP Trade in those puzzles you’ve completed for a new challenge. Please only bring puzzles that have all of their pieces; can be any difficulty. All ages. Feb. 9, 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org KYRS OPEN HOUSE Get a tour and meet DJs, learn about KYRS’ plans for 2019 and beyond, record a station ID for air, eat snacks. Also includes a live broadcast from the street and live music from The Misty Mountain Pony Club playing oldtime folk. Feb. 9, 12-4 pm. Free. KYRS, 25 W. Main Ave. kyrs.org (209-2428) ORAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP Gather loved ones and learn to tell each other stories. Once your story is polished, share for an audience at an open mic event. For ages 12+. Presented by Pivot Spokane and GU’s Department of Organizational Leadership. Feb. 9, 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org (893-8400) CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL Celebrate the Chinese New Year with members of the Spokane Chinese Association and the Sister Cities Association of Spokane. The celebration includes dancing, games and family activities. Feb. 9, 2-5 pm. Free. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. bit.ly/2GqYjJ0 THE CRITICAL TENETS FOR THE SPHERE OF DOMINANCE AND WHITE FRAGILITY A presentation by Dr. Claudine Richardson from Spokane Falls Community College. She examines and discusses the five critical tenets of power and white fragility. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Black History Month. Feb. 9, 3:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org THE BEE GIRL A workshop is free for teachers, student teachers, educators, and bee enthusiasts who would like to

learn about bees and pollinator health and how to engage and inspire kids to get involved. Registration required; see link for details. Feb. 10, 1-3 pm. Free, registration required. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. bit.ly/2Tr3lZi (321-7137) SPOKANE VALLEY YOUTH VOICE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENT Join youth leaders for this “welcome to all” community event with local teens sharing their ideas, information from local resources and life experience conversations about making a difference in our community. Feb. 11, 6-7:30 pm. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (992-2691) WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A STRONG MAN? Take a stand against domestic violence in our community by joining YWCA’s GoodGuys and Jackson Katz as he explores the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence. Katz is an internationally renowned educator, author, filmmaker, and cultural theorist known for his pioneering activism on issues of gender, race, and violence. Feb. 11, 5:30-7:30 pm. $10. Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. ywcaspokane.org (742-0111) ALMA WOODSEY THOMAS FOR KIDS: A BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT Join us to learn about the artist Alma Woodsey Thomas, and then create your own art in her style. A program for grades 2-6; young children should be accompanied by a caregiver. Feb. 12, 4 pm. Free. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes. (444-5331) CHINESE CULTURE CLASSES A course based on the culture and story of Chinese festivals, including some traditional history, and how the festivals are celebrated now. Second Thursday of the month, from 7-8 pm, through April 11. Free, registration requested. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org SPEED DATING WITH BOOKS Each 15 min. session invites patrons pick a book with an attractive cover, read for 90 seconds and find a new selection. Speed daters sample up to 10 books, and are encouraged to take as many as they like. A social time is set after every round to enjoy sparkling cider, sweets and chat about your “dates.” Feb. 14, 12-6 pm. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. whitco.lib.wa.us

age. 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 teen 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. kenworthy.org 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 (fest. passes sold out). spokanefilmfestival.org REFLECTIONS BY THE RIVER: EXPO ‘74 VIDEO SCREENING The 1974 Spokane World’s Fair is recalled in interviews with community leaders who organized the event; home movies of the construction of the site; and footage of activities in the international pavilions. Feb. 8, 1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Touchmark South Hill, 2929 S. Waterford Dr. (536-2929) INJUSTICE AT HOME: LOOKING LIKE THE ENEMY Featuring the inspiring stories of people in our community, the hour-long documentary focuses on Japanese Americans during WWII, both inside and outside the U.S. internment camp evacuation zone; chronicling their struggles, experiences, and perseverance through discrimination, racism and injustice. Hosted by KSPS and the MAC. Feb. 12, 4:30 pm. Free; reservations requested. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org JUSTICE PICTURES PRESENTS: A MURDER OF INNOCENCE A special 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. justicepictures.com SPOKANE FILM PROJECT OPEN HOUSE Learn more about the SFP’s upcoming programs and events and meet fellow local filmmakers and content creators of all levels. Feb. 12, 6 pm. Free. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2SsunT7

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MARDI GRAS FEAST Chef Adam Hegsted and staff prepare a Mardi Gras-themed dinner celebration with traditional New Orleans dishes served with Mardi Gras-

famous 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) THE HISTORY OF YUM: CHOCOLATE Join food historian and professor Monica Stenzel for this course on the history of chocolate, from Aztec hot chocolate to American chocolate bunnies. Talk is followed by a tasting of chocolates from around the world, including local favorites, Hallett’s and Theo Chocolates. Feb. 9, 11 am. $22.50-$25. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) BLIND BOOK & BREW A mystery book selection process: Each book is handwrapped and curated from a wide range of popular genres and best of lists. Each wrapping is tagged with a genre and the first sentence of the book. Step outside of your comfort zone and let the mystery of the book be a part of this story. Book prices are $8 for previously loved books and $20 for a 2018 award-winning or best-selling book. Both options served with a local tap beer. Feb. 13, 6 pm. $8 or $20. Heritage Bar & Kitchen, 122 S. Monroe. heritagebarandkitchen.com HEART HEALTHY COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS In this special Valentine’s Day class, learn some tasty recipes that are easy on your heart and help lower cholesterol. Class is designed to teach families with limited resources how to cook nutritious meals on a budget. Registration required. Feb. 14, 11:45 am-1:15 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org SAVORY SIDE OF DESSERTS Learn tools to balance acidity and sweetness. How does grilled pound cake with port reduction or Thai basil and lemongrass crème brûlèe sound? That’s the direction this class will take. Feb. 14, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. campusce.net/spokane/category/category.aspx (279-6030) VALENTINE’S DAY COUPLES CLASS Chefs walk guests through the preparation of a menu that’s shared at candlelit tables. Menu features shrimp cocktail, caesar salad, pomegranate and honey glazed chicken with acorn squash, chocolate dipped strawberries and one glass of sparkling wine. Feb. 14, 5:30-8 pm. $100/ couple. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org VALENTINES COOKING CLASS Chef Jeannie walks guests through a culinary celebration of Valentine’s Day, preparing tiramisu and a 5-course dinner with two glasses of beer/wine. Feb. 14-15 from 6-9 pm. $80/couple. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini.com

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CONSUMERS “ALL FIRED UP,” CONTINUED... It’s the hottest trend in weed these days. So we asked some local retail stores what the most popular products are. Weed-infused candies are flying off the shelves, says Erin Moore, assistant manager at Green Light in Spokane Valley. She says the “RINGS and BELTS” are favorites for customers. The “rings” are basically like Peach Rings, but infused with cannabis and coming in various flavors. The “belts” are like Fruit by the Foot, the classic strip of candy that every child under 12 has in their lunch box. Green Light also sells what they call “PEBBLES,” or hard candy. (The state almost banned pot-infused candies in 2018, but instead decided just to require the candies look more boring to not appeal to children.) In 2019, Moore expects VAPE CARTRIDGES to become more popular. Retail stores will continue selling an increasing array of products. Farmers will focus on their best-selling weed strains more, instead of creating as many strains as possible. “I think more companies are focusing on quality over quantity,” she says.

“We’re seeing more and more of it all the time: creative, inventive new things.” At Locals Canna House, the top-selling retail store in Spokane County, flower remains the most popular product, says customer service manager Reese Sarff. Still, Sarff says they’ve seen more people buy edibles, vape cartridges and an emerging new product: WEED SODAS. “Essentially [sodas] are still an edible,” Sarff says. They may act a little bit quicker, however, so they usually recommend to start small. Eric Skaar, regional manager of Sativa Sisters in Spokane, says he’s selling a lot of cannabis-infused BATH BOMBS. Drop it in the bathtub with you and get ready for the most relaxing bath of your life. “We’re seeing more and more of it all the time: creative, inventive new things, or putting a new spin on something that’s been around,” he says. Skaar guesses that people are starting to become more healthconscious with their weed consumption. People who are 45 and older are major consumers of recreational pot, and they’re wary about inhaling smoke if they don’t have to. “As consumers become more educated, they’re starting to get away from smoking flower,” Skaar says. “I think it’s going to continue in that direction. They’re going to want more sophisticated products.” n A version of this article first appeared in the GZQ, the Inlander’s cannabis-focused quarterly magazine.

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Advice Goddess AMERICA’S NEXT TOP REMODEL

I’m seeing so many women on Instagram who’ve had themselves made over to be super hot through cosmetic surgery and injectable fillers. They all have the same face – with big, luscious lips and huge doll-like eyes. In every shot, they’re in full makeup – crazy eyeliner, tons of contouring. Do guys actually like this plastic Barbie look? Are guys cool with cosmetic surgery in general? – Curious

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If only these women of Instagram were honest in their photo credits: “Hair by Luigi. Makeup by Annabelle. Face by Dow Corning.” Countless men insist that they prefer “the natural look” – no makeup (let alone surgical re-mod) – yet they never go “Wow...gorgeous!” when you sashay toward them with a face full of unconcealed pimples. Helpfully, zoologist John R. Krebs and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explain that “living organisms” can easily be tricked by crude fakes – fakes that bear only the itsy-bitsiest resemblance to the organisms’ real life stimuli. They give the example of what I call “Popsicle birdie” – how “a black-headed gull will show its normal aggressive response to a stuffed gull’s head mounted on a stick, with no body.” And then there’s the male stickleback fish, which gets red on the underside when in mating mode and will attack any other red-bellied male that enters its territory. In fact, (mail also seems to be a problem – which is to say, a researcher’s male sticklebacks were observed attacking the side of their aquarium when a red mail van passed by the window of the lab. Well, guess what, fellow humans: We shouldn’t be too quick to feel superior to our friends with beaks, gills, and tails. Krebs and Dawkins note that a man can get “sexually aroused” by a mere photo of a naked woman. Of course, he knows it isn’t an actual woman, but the photo “has enough visual stimuli in common with the real thing to have a similar effect on his physiology.” Though it’s unlikely that women getting their faces remade in Klonedashianesque ways are versed in anthropology, the enhancements they’re having done align with the female facial features that anthropologists like Douglas Jones have found are attractive to men across cultures. These are “neotenous” features – meaning somewhat babylike ones -- like big eyes, full lips, a small jaw and chin, and clear skin. These features are basically evolution’s billboard, advertising a highly desirable interior – meaning that they are cues to health and fertility. (Of course, men just think HAWWWT.) However, though men evolved to prioritize looks in a woman, it’s obviously not all they value – especially when they’re hoping to get into a relationship. So these cosmetically and surgically redeveloped features may catch a man’s eye – but then, mentally, he may take a step back: “Oh, wait – she’s gotten all this work done.” And beyond how we all tend to feel threatened and even angered by fakery, many men see a woman’s extensive re-mod as a red flag, reflecting less-than-healthy psychology – an empty interior hidden behind a fancy paint job and a new, um, deck. Also, consider that women who get their faces and bodies remade often seem to go by the reality TV standard, which seems to stem from stripper standards – exaggerated in-your-face sexuality. Research by Cari Goetz that I cited in a recent column finds that women with an overtly sexual look are generally not seen as long-term mating material by men. Though that research explored what women wore – scanty attire – it’s possible that women who wear a pile of makeup, with an overtly sexual look, would trigger the same reaction in men: basically, thumbsup for a hookup or regular sex sessions – not so much on introducing Mom to a woman who looks as if her work uniform is sequin nipple tassels. However, there’s a counterpoint to all of this. Consider that it’s now possible, through medical innovation, to survive many diseases and conditions that were usually fatal. We don’t expect people with diseases to do what’s “natural” – suffer terribly and die. Maybe we’re a little too harsh on women who jump ahead in the beauty hierarchy through cosmetic procedures. (After all, we don’t knock men for using Rogaine, those little blue pills, or deodorant.) Additionally, maybe stigmatizing any sort of line-jumping stops discussion of the need for restraint in beauty-upgrading. As I see it, the most successful “work” is the sort we don’t notice – women who look like themselves, only, uh, “better rested” or something. Ultimately, if a woman invites a man to meet her closest relatives, he isn’t at a loss for whether she’s asking him to a family reunion or to hit the aisle in Home Depot where they sell that expandable foam insulation stuff that people spray into their walls. 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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MUSIC SECOND FRIDAY MUSIC WALK Downtown Coeur d’Alene rings with live musical performances from local favorites on the second Fridays of Feb. and March. Visit supporting restaurants, shops, businesses and galleries with friends and family. Feb. 8 from 5-8 pm. Free. artsandculturecda.org MY BELOVED’S VOICE: A VALENTINE’S CONCERT The Spokane Kantorei Chamber Choir, under the direction of Tim Westerhaus, and St. John’s Music Series presents a program featuring settings of Solomon’s Song of Songs and George Shearings settings of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Feb. 10, 3-4:30 pm. $5-$20. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. facebook.com/SpoKantorei FERRIS ADVANCED PERCUSSION & WIND ENSEMBLE Both groups have been selected to perform at the National Association for Music Educators All-Northwest Convention in February. Before heading to Portland, the ensembles host a preview concert to thank everyone for their support. Feb. 11, 7-8 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly Contra dance, with the band River City Ramblers and caller Ray Polhemus. No experience necessary; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Feb. 13, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. myspokanefolklore@gmail.com

SPORTS & OUTDOORS CONQUEST OF THE CAGE A mixed martial arts event card featuring Craig Feistner, “T-Wrecks” McKinney, Shay Johnson, Dan Gadley and Derek Crum. All bouts subject to change. Feb. 8, 7 pm. $45-$125. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford. (242-7000) SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. VICTORIA ROYALS Promo for the game is the Washington Lottery Night. Feb. 8, 7:05 pm. $11-$25. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SILVER MOUNTAIN BACKCOUNTRY WEEKEND The second annual event is meant to get hardened outdoor experts, beginner enthusiasts and the casually curious interested in backcountry travel. Feb. 9 and 10. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. KOOTENAY ICE Promo for the game is the Centennial Hotel buck night. Feb. 9, 7:05 pm. $11-$25. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE BICYCLE CLUB GENERAL MEETING Representatives of World Relief Spokane speak about the Ride Across Washington in support of Refugee Resiliency. Feb. 11, 6:30-8 pm. Free. Mountain Gear Corporate Offices, 6021 E. Mansfield. spokanebicycleclub.org SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. RED DEER REBELS Promo for the game is the TicketsWest player magnet giveaway. Feb. 12, 7:05 pm. $11-$25. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com

THEATER DOG SEES GOD 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. When confronted by the person he spent years bullying, C.B. discovers his dog’s death isn’t the only problem on his mind. Feb. 7-9 at 7:30 pm. Rated R. $5. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/theatrearts 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 (325-2507) 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. Through Feb. 17; ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27-$29. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com LIFE SUPPORT This performance features two characters facing imminent death of their spouses and how they draw on one another for support. Feb. 8-24; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org PJ MASKS: SAVE THE DAY LIVE! The new musical show features preschoolers’ favorite pre-school superheroes and familiar songs from the popular show along with brand new music and a whole new adventure. Feb. 10, 3 pm. $27-$113. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) CABARET Set in early 1930s Berlin, with rising social-political unrest, a local cabare becomes a center for avant-garde culture and theatrical misfits of the Roaring Twenties. Feb. 14-24; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm. $12-$20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand Ave. rtoptheatre.org (334-0750) DRINKING HABITS The Panida Playhouse Players present this farce filled with accusations, mistaken identities and romances running wild. Feb. 14-16 at 7 pm, Feb. 17 at 3:30 pm. $10-$15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES The performance features an ensemble cast of students, staff, faculty and community members and is produced as a part of V-Day 2019, the international movement that raises funds to end violence against women (biological and identifying). Benefits YWCA Spokane. Feb. 14, 7:30 pm. $10-$15. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. (313-6553)

VISUAL ARTS I’LL NEVER LET GO A night of Titanic themed art by local artists. A portion of profits support cancer 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 A selection of illustrations from Inland Northwest artists featuring an adaptation of the story “Witch Lake” by author Sharma Shields and music from Jilly FM. Reception Feb. 8 from 5-8 pm; on display through March 2, Wed-Sat noon-4 pm. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.org TODAY’S MODERN: JERRI LISK, MAYA RUMSEY, MARK LISK New work by Boise artists Jerri and Mark Lisk and local ceramist Maya Rumsey. Open-

ing reception Fri, Feb. 8 from 5-8 pm. Show runs through March 2; Wed-Sun 11 am-6 pm. Free. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com SPOKANE FUTURES ART TRADE A free, flash art market that encourages art trades between local artists. Participate by hand-selecting art you wish to trade for other art and meet fellow artists and arts supporters. Feb. 9, noon. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. bit.ly/2RndXGW (444-5336) VALENTINE’S DATE NIGHT Spend an evening learning how to use the potter’s wheel and see a raku firing. All guests take home a finished piece. Includes refreshments and sparkling cider. Feb. 9, 5-8 pm. $90/couple. Urban Art Co-op, 3209 N. Monroe. urbanartcoop.org (327-9000)

WORDS PIVOT MAINSTAGE: CROSSROADS Join Spokane storytellers as they share their own “crossroads” stories. Feb. 7, 7 pm. $10 suggested donation. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. pivotspokane.com SOUTH AFRICA: AN AFRICAN PLANT SAFARI A presentation on the flora of South Africa from photographer Barbara Murray. Feb. 7, 6:30-9 pm. Free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (535-8434) EWU VISITING WRITERS SERIES: CONNIE VOISINE A reading with the author of “Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream,” a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. Her poetry has been widely published. Feb. 8, 7:308:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org KATRINA CARRASCO: THE BEST BAD THINGS Auntie’s hosts the author of new historical fiction hit. In 1887, former Pinkerton Women’s Bureau agent Alma Rosales goes looking for stolen opium in Washington Territory. In order to catch the thief and recover the drugs, she disguises herself as a female ingénue. Feb. 9, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) SPOKANE POETRY SHOWCASE Featuring writers from throughout the poetry spectrum and across borders, geographic and otherwise. Join Roger Dunsmore, Fitz and Jodi Miller for the series’ next installment. Feb. 10, 7-9 pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (714-3613) BOOK RELEASE PARTY: SHARMA SHIELDS’ THE CASSANDRA Washington State Book Award Winner Sharma Shields unveils her newest novel, The Cassandra, alongside two of her favorite Northwest fiction writers, PNBA/ Lambda Award Winner Alexis M. Smith and PNBA Award Winner/National Book Foundation “5-under-35” writer Megan Kruse. Feb. 12, 6:30 pm. Free to attend. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2sFoeUZ MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP Author Chelsea Martin shares approaches to writing about your own life, including ethical considerations when turning real people into characters in your stories. Feb. 12, 2-4 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. scld.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running open mic series. Wed at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org n

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