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f you believed that every terminated pregnancy was an act of murder, what would you be willing to do to stymie women contemplating ABORTION? Would you pose as a medical clinic, would you lie and say abortions cause cancer, would you show them rusty medical tools and graphic videos, would you play on their ignorance and fear to trick and shame them? Crisis pregnancy centers, as they’re known, have done all that and more all in the name of saving unborn babies, and as of late, their prominence in America is growing.

Locally, some pregnancy centers like MyChoice say they have changed their ways in favor of a more holistic approach. “It wasn’t loving and kind. I realized that I was hurting women every time I did that … even if that wasn’t the intention,” one local provider tells us. This week, staff reporter Samantha Wohlfeil takes a deep look at the practices of these pregnancy centers, how they’re gaining traction and why they try to locate themselves as close to Planned Parenthood as possible (page 24).

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itt Romney did a very brave thing. You know what I’m talking about. He became the first senator in the history of the United States to vote to impeach a president from his own party.

Even as Romney announced his decision, he acknowledged that he knew what came next.

He would be attacked and demonized by many of his former friends. He probably also knew he would be briefly praised by his opponents. And, I suspect, he hopes that he will be remembered better for it in the history books and, as he stated, by his descendants.

Despite the predictability of it all, I still find it frustrating to watch people turn on a consistent ally because he took an inconvenient principled stance. I can’t help but believe that much of the outrage is fueled by how clearly it reveals the

cowardice of others.

After all, as several senators who voted to acquit noted, the facts of what the president did were not truly ever in dispute.

The president attempted to leverage foreign policy to defeat his domestic political opponents. It is, as they noted, clearly impeachable.

But — and here I digress from their exact words and instead focus on what I believe to be their intentions — it was just too politically difficult for them to do the right thing and actually impeach the man.

Here’s the thing, though: There are undoubtedly other politicians who have made the same

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calculation when facing a similar decision. Politicians who voted against impeachment of a president from their own party when surely they would have voted to convict if the same actions were taken by their opponents — and the reverse.

The choice to do what is politically easy is far too common among people whose only true success can come from accomplishing something politically hard. And yet that criticism, too, is a dangerous take on politics, as to remove concern about the public’s judgment can be a first step away from the democratic instincts that have gradually improved our republic.

The choice to do what is politically easy is far too common.

Nevertheless, that minor digression aside, I am often puzzled by how quickly elected officials become attached to public praise, how fast they buckle to public pressure, and how rarely they will stand for what’s right when it involves even a potential personal sacrifice. In more than one way, it’s these weak-kneed leaders that got us to Donald Trump — allowing him to chip away at the dignity of the presidency piece by piece.

The other challenge, of course, is that Romney’s action ought not to have taken such bravery. A majority — a slim one, but still a majority — of Americans supported impeaching the president.

For a variety of reasons, most of the U.S. Senate was shielded politically from this reality.

It’s all frustrating, but the frustration I most often return to is how many Republicans will respond to this moment by lashing out and disowning Romney. “He isn’t a real conservative.” “He’s just jealous of Trump.” “He’s never really been one of us.”

A conservative friend of mine recently nearly begged other Republicans on social media to watch Romney’s speech announcing his decision and consider how — whether they agreed with him or not — it seemed impossible to doubt his sincerity. I agree.

And Romney’s brave vote should be greeted with a moment of introspection rather than jeers by the right.

But perhaps the greater challenge thrown down by Romney is to the liberals cheering him on. If, like me, you believed Romney was fundamentally unfit for the presidency in 2012; if you questioned his decency; if you, even if you’d be reluctant to admit, hated him and what he represented; then perhaps this is a time for you and I to do some introspection, too.

Perhaps we need to consider how we can match Romney’s bravery and, also, remember: Greatness and courage are not limited to our friends, but perhaps the most difficult courage to see is when our friends’ courage requires them to stand up to us. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Council member, studied at the College of Idaho and has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s Republican Party politics.

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Q&A JUSTIN WILDER DOERING Why a Coeur d’Alene native traveled the country to interview homeless people

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ust out of college, Coeur d’Alene native Justin Wilder Doering decided to start a nonprofit called Fifty Sandwiches. The goal was to humanize the homeless. To do so, he toured the country in his van, finding people experiencing homeless who wanted to tell their story.

The nonprofit project is now releasing a book Fifty Sandwiches: Humanize the Homeless, featuring the stories Doering captured on his 14,000-mile, 105-day journey.

Here, he shares his thoughts on the project. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

INLANDER: Why is your nonprofit called Fifty Sandwiches?

DOERING: The original intent of the project was to come up to a homeless person and ask them if they want to share a meal.

And the idea I originally had was this intimate discussion between two strangers. And that’s where the sandwiches came from. I quickly learned that if someone’s in a long-term shelter or program, they can’t really leave. And if I’m doing an interview on the street, they have all their things right by them, and they can’t exactly just leave. So I ended up purchasing like four sandwiches throughout the entire project.

So at this point, the title has little meaning. But I think that just goes to say don’t judge a book by its cover, which is very much what the book is about.

Did you find any commonalities among the people you talked to?

They were all, you know, absolutely unique. I think the one thing they had in

common, and I actually mentioned this in the book, is the final question I asked for every interview: If you could say one thing about the homeless experience to society, what would it be? I would argue that all their answers came down to the simple sentiment that “we are people and it can happen to you.” I think many people don’t exactly realize the fine line that separates themselves from the lives of the people that they ignore on the street every day.

When the issue of homelessness is discussed, there are often those who are more sympathetic — some would argue too much — and those who maybe see homeless people as criminals. Where were you going into this project and did you come away feeling differently?

I don’t think I came into it personally with either — if anything more on the sympathetic side. But I was trying to be more empathetic than sympathetic. With that said, I definitely interviewed people you might consider bad people, but, I mean, they’re people. I had some strong disagreements with the way they live their lifestyle, but I think that I presented them in an articulate and honest way so that you might be able to empathize.

What do you hope people take away from this?

I hope for people to connect and maybe find a slice of their struggles they might be able to empathize and see, “OK, wow, I can find myself in that situation as well.” I hope that I’m going to leave people with more questions than answers by the time they finish the book. n

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Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott

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not the cause of our democracy’s dysfunction, but rather a symptom.

Thomas Jefferson famously said that “an educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”

I know 7-year-olds with a more rational, coherent, complex, and nuanced understanding of the world than Scott. As Daniel Walters suggests in his excellent reportage (“The Two Worlds of Heather Scott,” 2/6/20), it takes vast amounts of money and energy to keep American citizens wrapped in a bubble of conspiratorial nonsense about how the world works, and LETTERS who we should properly consider our Send comments to enemies. The real conspiracy has to editor@inlander.com. do with the capture of our political system by corporations, billionaires, theocrats, and the NRA under the guise of a Trump-loyal GOP. An integral part of this scheme is the capture of mass media in order to sell to people like Scott and her constituents a medieval and essentially white supremacist world-view driven by paranoia and fear of anyone who does not look like you or believe your same superstitions and dogma.

As someone who grew up in the former Confederacy and is old enough to remember both legal segregation and the ugly racist aftermath following Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, it is beyond pathetic to see an Idaho state legislator proudly hoisting a Confederate flag well into the second decade of the 21st century.

The sadly comical notion that more guns are the solution to our problems notwithstanding, I respectfully suggest that anyone troubled by these trends use their First Amendment rights to push back vigorously against Scott, Matt Shea, and all other fake-Christian demagogues of the far right.

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‘NO PLACE TO GO’

In Eastern Washington, young children needing immediate mental health care often have few options

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ichelle Madigan didn’t know where to go. Her son, who has a disability that can cause him to become assaultive, had just tried to light his sister on fire, and the family didn’t feel safe with him in the home.

But in Moses Lake, where they live, there weren’t any good options to receive immediate mental health care for young kids like Madigan’s son, then 8 years old. The best

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option? Driving some 175 miles across the Cascades to Seattle Children’s Hospital.

“This is a child who, when he gets dysregulated, could jump out of the door of a moving car,” Madigan says. “We’re in a crisis, and we’re having to go over a mountain pass.” ...continued on next page

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At Seattle Children’s, Madigan’s son was admitted into a program meant to give young kids short-term care during a mental health emergency. But her experience four years ago illustrates a major barrier for young kids in a crisis: In Eastern Washington, there are no beds for them.

Last week, Inland Northwest Behavioral Health opened a new inpatient unit for teens 13-17 who are experiencing a mental health crisis. And Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center has a Psychiatric Center for Children and Adolescents, but hasn’t offered those beds to children 11 and younger for at least seven years.

Only Kootenai Behavioral Health across the state border has a program that provides acute care for younger kids having a mental health emergency. But being 45 minutes away from Spokane can cause issues. When a student has an outburst at school, schools may encourage the family to drive the student to Kootenai for the care needed, only to have the student calm down by the time they get there and then be refused admission.

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“It takes a very well-trained and dedicated staff to do this work with children.”

“Sometimes the distance is prohibitive,” says Dave Crump, the director of mental health services for Spokane Public Schools.

He adds that families may not have transportation to drive that distance either. “Some of our families don’t have cars that work.”

Those challenges are more pronounced in rural areas. Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, says he knows of families like Madigan’s who either drive hundreds of miles for their child or who are simply unable to make the trip.

“What I hear is: There’s no place to go,” Dent says. “There’s nobody to go to.”

FINDING THE GAP

Serving families from Eastern Washington to Western Montana, Kootenai Health’s youth acute program provides stabilization for kids 17 and younger in severe crisis. It has 24 beds, and children stay there on average for eight days, during which a team that includes child psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and case managers help children develop coping strategies when stressed.

During the school year, the beds are often full, says Claudia Miewald, Kootenai Health’s director of behavioral health services.

If there are no beds, the closest options for young children are in Seattle or Boise.

“Though, often Seattle Children’s has a waitlist,” Miewald says. “So it’s pretty difficult for us to transfer over to Seattle.”

In that case, sometimes children will just stay in the emergency room, Miewald says.

Kootenai regularly coordinates with Providence Sacred Heart for children’s mental health care. But while Providence provides outpatient psychiatry services for children as young as 8, Providence decided years ago to close its stabilization crisis center for kids under 12 in Spokane. In a statement, Providence says “our pediatric unit serving patients under 12 routinely experienced low census,” as the need for older kids increased. Providence described it as a “joint decision” with Kootenai Behavioral Health.

A Providence spokesperson declined to answer Inlander follow-up questions regarding the decision.

But Tamara Sheehan, director of behavioral for Providence Sacred Heart, says she does see a need currently for more acute inpatient services for children under 12.

“For children there is definitely a gap,” she says. “There are gaps at all ages for inpatient and outpatient services, not just children.”

Part of the reason for that comes down to a lack of certified psychiatrists nationwide. And it can be even more difficult to find people to work with children.

“There are just not a lot of children’s programs,” says Miewald. “It takes a very well-trained and dedicated staff to do this work with children, and even more staff than other units because of the nature of the kids that come in and the care they need.”

In more rural areas of Eastern Washington, it can be more challenging to attract any mental health professionals. Rep. Dent says he heard that Grant Mental Healthcare recently advertised for several mental health counseling positions, but only got one application in total.

Dent has pushed for more ways to incentivize mental health professionals to work in Washington state, but also says you “can’t just create them” overnight.

“I would love nothing more than to find more people to work on this so we can help our children,” he says.

There is, at least, one option coming soon that may address the gap in mental health care for young children: Excelsior Wellness Center in Spokane has plans to open up its own crisis stabilization unit that will be available for children ages 6-12.

Andrew Hill, CEO at Excelsior Wellness Center in Spokane, says it stems from the organization’s desire to keep children with their family.

“We’ve done a lot to try to help families and children in these scenarios, but haven’t been able to do that in a secure environment and with the proper resources,” Hill says.

Excelsior has a contract with Spokane Public Schools for a behavior intervention program, and Hill agrees that there’s more crisis stabilization services needed for children. Hill says providing interventions for children is important to do at an early age, instead of waiting until their behaviors might be more problematic later on.

“Twenty years ago, it perhaps was uncommon to need a service like this for someone who’s 10 years old,” Hill says. “As the pressures of our society change, it affects children younger and younger.”

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For Madigan, finding immediate care for her son across the state proved difficult. But it was only a small part of the many challenges she’s faced in finding appropriate treatment for her son, who’s now 12.

Following his initial stay at Seattle Children’s, which lasted for a couple months, Madigan’s son enrolled in an inpatient treatment program on the west side. Now, he’s in a group home in Spokane and attending school locally. But the group home LETTERS recently notified Madigan that Send comments to her son, a client under Washeditor@inlander.com. ington state’s Developmental Disabilities Administration, would soon need to find a different place to stay. His behaviors are so severe that he can’t live at home, and the only other option might be a facility in Tennessee, Madigan says.

“We don’t want our son moved out of state. It’s not right,” Madigan says.

It’s not only a lack of short-term care options for her young child, she says. It’s a lack of long-term options as well. She fears that without appropriate resources, he’ll be destined for homelessness or incarceration.

“He is not a criminal. He is a disabled person,” she says. “It just so happens that the disability that he has makes him a danger to himself or others.”

Having resources for her son closer to home, she says, is a solution that can prevent further problems down the road.

“It’s very heartbreaking to know that here you have a child who you’ve been tasked with raising, who you want to have the best hope for a future for, and currently with our resources in Washington state the best we can hope for is homelessness or incarceration.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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Pay Up Or Your Son Dies After Washington state Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber’s son was diagnosed with diabetes, she was horrified by the cost of insulin

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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ine-year-old Rowan says he loves going down “crazy-steep hills” on his sled and “making sounds on a hair-comb.” As for what he hates? Spider bites. Hospitals at night.

And, most recently, “getting shots with a [big] needle every two days.”

Rowan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last March. His pancreas wasn’t properly producing insulin, and so he’d need to get it artificially for the rest of his life.

His mom, Jacquelin Maycumber, recalls standing in the pharmacy at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, reeling with the cost of the devices and medicine he’d need — $1,000 initially, and then possibly hundreds of dollars every month for insulin for the rest of his life. Luckily, both she and her husband had insurance.

“I said, ‘Thank you, God, for us being able to pay for this,’” she says.

But then the thought of all the parents who couldn’t afford it hit her. Without insurance, Rowan’s insulin would have been as high as $500 a month, Maycumber says. Effectively, kids are being held hostage, their parents told they have to shell out hundreds every month or their child dies. And the cost of the ransom keeps increasing: In only a decade, insulin’s price tag has skyrocketed by 250 percent.

But unlike so many parents, Maycumber could actually do something about it. She’s a Republican Washington state representative from

deeply conservative northeast Washington. This year, she’s rallied together a bipartisan group of legislators to cap the cost of insulin copays and figure out how to stop the price increases.

“Parents have contacted me — this is a 24hour disease. This is a 3 am disease,” Maycumber says. Her voice cracks over the phone. “I can’t imagine the stress of either buying bread or keeping your kid alive.”

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aycumber wasn’t the only legislator who’s been grappling with insulin’s cost increase. Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins, a west-side Democrat, recalls speaking at a camp for kids with diabetes last spring. A little girl raised her hand.

“I was expecting some off-the-wall question,” Jinkins says. “She was 5. And she asks, ‘Can you help my family with the cost to pay for my insulin? Because it’s hard for my family to pay for my insulin.’”

Jinkins knows the struggle. She was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 12. She’s been taking insulin for 43 years.

“Every job choice I’ve ever made since I became an adult has to do with having insurance coverage,” Jinkins says. “I didn’t look at how much they were going to pay me. I looked at whether I was going to have fair coverage.”

But for others, it’s not as easy. Young adults, Maycumber says, sometimes feel the need to

scrimp on their insulin payments to save money. But cut back too much on your insulin, and it can damage your eyesight, your limbs, your kidneys and even kill you.

“I was just stopped yesterday in the hallway and a woman was crying,” Maycumber says. “She almost lost her brother.”

Maycumber says it wasn’t difficult for her to get signatures for her bill — almost immediately, she had 30 co-sponsors.

The bill, which was heard in a House committee this week, mandates that all health insurance plans issued next year cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $100 per month. But it also goes further than that: It establishes the Total Cost of Insulin Work Group, a team of representatives from state agencies — including the Attorney General’s Office — and a variety of medical professionals. Their mission will be to figure out how to drive down the cost of insulin as quickly as possible.

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t may seem odd for a conservative Republican to champion a bill capping prices, but Maycumber doesn’t believe there’s a contradiction between her bill and her support for capitalism.

After all, the American health care system isn’t a free market, she says. It’s a mess of bureaucracy and convoluted rules and obscured prices and hidden costs and backroom negotiations.

“When you talk about the free market, you don’t have this over-regulation, nontransparent piece,” Maycumber says.

Jinkins, meanwhile, has a one-word explanation for what’s gone wrong.

“Greed,” she says.

It’s been 99 years since insulin was first developed as a drug.

But as a 2015 New England Journal of Medicine article explains, in the years since pharmaceutical companies have repeatedly patented new versions of the drug — effectively preventing generic versions of the complicated drugs from being developed by their competition. And instead of the three manufacturers of insulin trying to undercut each other on price, they’ve all been hiking their drugs effectively at the same rate.

Meanwhile, pharmacy benefit managers — firms that were developed originally to help cut drug prices — further complicate matters. Instead of simply pushing for lower prices, endocrinologist Kasia Lipska writes in the New York Times, the pharmacy benefit managers are raking in what are effectively kickbacks from drug companies, contributing to as much as 50 percent of the list price of insulin.

It’s a “black box,” Jinkins says. “No one can really see what’s happening.”

But Maycumber hopes that her bill can pull the curtain back, and reveal the problems with what she considers a “governmentrun scarcity.”

“We have to see why this is occurring. I think this is the most important part: We recognize that there’s a problem. And now we’re going to try to solve it,” Maycumber says. “If I can help one person — all of the politics is worth it.”

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owan says that grappling with diabetes comes with a lot of challenges, beyond just the “poke, poke, poke, poke, shot, shot, shot, shot” rhythm of needles and pumps. As a fourth grader, it’s a stressful thing to feel different.

“You’re going to feel like a loser,” he says. “You’re going to feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, nobody’s going to like me because I have this weird disease.’”

But Rowan says he’s learned that there’s good that comes along with the bad. There’s a whole community of people out there like him. Maycumber points to Jinkins as a role model for what’s possible.

“When she became speaker, I sat my son down and said, ‘You can do anything,’” Maycumber says. “I think that’s really important for kids to see that success.”

But even with his loving parents, both employed, both with health insurance — there’s that lingering question in the back of Rowan’s 9-year-old mind.

“Dude, what if we don’t have enough money to buy this insulin for me? I’m going to die if that happens,” Rowan says. “It’s something that I worry about. Death is a big fear for me.” n danielw@inlander.com

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Teenage Jailors

Spokane County officials want to hire 18-year-olds to work as correctional officers at the jail, but critics argue the move could endanger both staff and inmates

BY JOSH KELETY

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n 2013, over a dozen correctional officers at a Baltimore jail were charged in a federal racketeering indictment for helping a gang run a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from inside the facility, according to Washington Post reports. The guards, prosecutors alleged, basically relinquished control of the jail to gang leaders and sex between inmates and staff was rampant.

One commonality among the guards was that seven of the 13 were hired when they were between the ages of 18 and 21. The hires were a result of a policy change in 2002 that dropped the minimum hiring age for correctional officers in Maryland to 18 from 21 in an effort to help rural jails fill job vacancies. But after the indictment, some criticized the wisdom of letting teenagers work as guards in correctional institutions where inmates often attempt to manipulate staff.

Now Spokane County officials are considering lowering the minimum age for hiring new correctional officers from 21 to 18, pointing to chronic vacancies. But some skeptics think that hiring teenagers may actually be unsafe for both jail staff and inmates. And incidents like the Baltimore jail scandal indictment serve as a grim reminder of an utter worst-case scenario where young correctional officers get compromised.

“We’re strongly opposed,” says Gordon Smith, a representative of the Washington State Council of County and City Employees, the union that represents correctional officers who work for Spokane County Detention Services. “Do people that young really have enough life experience and maturity to deal with [that] very challenging job and environment?

“These are concerns coming from the rank-and-file,” he adds. “It’s been a big topic of conversation.”

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or the proponents of the measure, it’s a straightforward issue of supply and demand. Mike Sparber, director of Spokane County Detention Services, says that the agency has had correctional office vacancies in the double digits for years.

Currently, the staff shortage has dropped to only seven open positions. But that doesn’t mean that the number of vacancies won’t spike again with regular attrition of staff leaving work at the jail, Sparber argues.

Additionally, filling the positions would help cut down on overtime costs.

“The real reality is, we’re still going to be at low numbers that are turning out for our test, folks that want to be corrections officers,” Sparber says. “The jail is a 24hour operation. Those posts have to be staffed.”

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Mike Sparber, director of Spokane County Detention Services, supports hiring jail guards as young as 18. correctional officers came from a group of county staffers who have been brainstorming ways to address chronic overcrowding at the Spokane County Jail and boost guard-to-inmate ratios that would permit inmates to be out of their cells for much of the day. Some of the ideas that have been churned out include building a temporary jail outside of Geiger Corrections Center to hold overflow inmates, along with other efforts aimed at attracting and retaining correctional officers, such as parking a food truck near the jail for guards working back-to-back shifts.

Another argument from Sparber and other officials is that the county can hire recent high school graduates who are interested in careers in law enforcement before they are scooped up by law enforcement agencies who have minimum age requirements of 21.

“There is a fair amount of transferring from our agency over to other law enforcement agencies, and you have to be 21 years old to apply for a law enforcement agency,” Sparber says. “Essentially, it would give us two years of employment before they would be eligible to transfer out of there.”

While the Spokane County Board of Commissioners has yet to make any final decisions on lowering the minimum age for hiring correctional officers, both commissioners Al French and Josh Kerns are generally supportive of the move. (Commissioner Mary Kuney did not respond to the Inlander’s requests for comment.)

“This expands the pool of potential candidates and it’s something that we ought to look at,” French, chair of the Spokane County Board of Commissioners, tells the Inlander. “We get more and more folks who are retiring and we’ve got to be able to replace those folks.”

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ut Smith and other critics argue that limited life experience and ongoing psychological development make teenagers less than suitable candidates to be corrections officers.

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fry Finer, a local defense attorney. “I think this is putting a burden on an 18-year-old that very few 18-year-olds, in my opinion, can handle.”

“When you have a shortage of staff, lowering the qualifications for the age group, I think it’s a risk management fiasco. I don’t think it’s safe for guards or the inmates,” he adds. “Someone is going to get hurt.”

Eric Trupin, a psychologist and professor at the University of Washington who specializes in adolescent medicine, argues that lowering the minimum age for officers to 18 is a bad idea. He argues that research shows that young people’s brains aren’t fully developed until they’re 25 and that they struggle to regulate their emotions.

“Their life experience doesn’t necessarily allow them to assess when they’re being manipulated,” Trupin says.

“Being a correctional officer, you’re having to display a capacity to develop respect and you don’t want to be using coercion all the time. My concern would be that you might be creating circumstances where their capacity to be effective would be undermined by their own personal development.”

Sparber and other officials who support the change point to the fact that 18-year-olds can currently serve in the military as evidence that teenagers are qualified to guard inmates.

“We’ve got 18-year-olds that serve in the military, can be sent to war at a moment’s notice, and people don’t sit there and say they’re not qualified to do that,” Commissioner Kerns says.

Smith says that county officials should consider raising correctional officer pay and benefits before lowering hiring standards. Currently, wages for county corrections officers range from $22.75 to $30.70 per hour. He says Spokane County’s pay and benefits are lagging behind those of comparable counties like Pierce and Snohomish.

“It’s definitely something they should look into before they consider hiring 18-year-olds,” he says.

When asked if he thinks current pay rates for correctional officers are adequate, Commissioner French says: “I’ve got nothing to tell me otherwise.” n joshk@inlander.com

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eeks after being raped at a wedding — an experience already wrapped in feelings of self-blame and fear — the 18-year-old Eastern Washington University student realized something else was wrong.

She’d been throwing up, missed her period and now she was starting to lose weight. Hannah Lainhart knew she was likely pregnant. Living in Cheney, the college freshman decided to go to a pregnancy center she’d seen offering free pregnancy tests just a few blocks from her home near the EWU campus.

After all, the clinic was named iChoice, so if she was indeed pregnant, going there to talk about getting an abortion seemed to make sense.

What would ensue was far from the medical-style appointment the student thought she was getting, and as she’d later learn, was actually centered on one thing: convincing her to carry her pregnancy to term.

The advertising for the crisis pregnancy center had worked as intended — appearing on the surface as a legitimate medical health center for low-income women in need of free pregnancy options, when in fact it was being run by a religious nonprofit intent on preventing abortions.

During her visit, Lainhart would hear doubts from a volunteer as to whether she’d actually been raped, get a graphic description of a late-term abortion (complete with rusty forceps for dramatic effect) and would be convinced to do an ultrasound in order to “learn the gender,” though she was just a few weeks pregnant.

“I said, ‘I want an abortion, I’m not going to talk about pro-life stuff with you,’” Lainhart says. “And she said, ‘We’ll just talk about it, because rape is one of those things where maybe tomorrow you won’t feel like it’s rape. And if you get rid of your baby, then how will you feel?’”

Her story is not uncommon. Crisis pregnancy centers are gaining popularity, buoyed by the pro-life movement. Using private donors and, in some cases, public money, volunteers operate thousands of centers around the country. While operating under far less scrutiny than the medical health centers they vastly outnumber, the movement’s mobile clinic vans and brick-and-mortar pregnancy centers often locate as close as possible to clinics that offer abortion, in part to divert women on their way there.

Some lawmakers have tried to stop the centers from providing clients with incomplete or misleading information, as they often exaggerate the risks of depression or suicide after having an abortion and wrongly link the procedure with increased rates of breast cancer. But the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment protects the centers’ right not to have to share certain information about abortion.

Dozens of states have funded the centers with money for abstinence-only education, and leaders at every level of government have strengthened the movement as they rail against abortion. A few weeks ago, Donald Trump became the first president ever to speak at the anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, a 2018 survey found that abortion clinics located near a crisis pregnancy center were seven times more likely to be subjected to violence and harassment as those that weren’t.

Crisis pregnancy centers, sometimes referred to as CPCs, defend their work as balancing undue pressures some women may feel to receive an abortion, and some say they have improved the way they interact with clients.

20-25-week-old fetus.

“I didn’t know until I had my son how ridiculous that was,” Lainhart says. “They were just trying to blow smoke to get me to keep my pregnancy.”

Shortly after the experience, she went to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. Lainhart says she was crying during the procedure and wracked with guilt, which she largely attributes not to the abortion itself, but to the experience at the religious pregnancy center.

“It was pretty devastating. I remember just thinking that there was something totally wrong with me [at the center], even though I had felt it was fine if I had an abortion. Intellectually, I felt like I was OK,” she says. “Had I gone to Planned Parenthood first and had I been counseled by them instead of iChoice saying I was making the wrong decision, I think I would’ve had a lot less guilt.”

But the folks behind religiously based pregnancy centers such as MyChoice would point out that after their counseling, patients such as Lainhart are clearly allowed to make their own decisions. Even if that means getting an abortion.

MyChoice operates both a brick-and-mortar clinic and a maternity home on Ash Street in Spokane, and a mobile van (facing page), where women can take a pregnancy test and get an ultrasound for free.

“So often, gals come in and they say, I have no choice, I have to have an abortion,” says Glendie Loranger, executive director of Life Services of Spokane, which operates MyChoice (formerly iChoice). “We want them to know you absolutely do have a choice.”

More than a decade after she went to that sinceclosed iChoice facility in Cheney, Lainhart now describes how she was met with doubt, shame and fear tactics, as a seemingly well-intentioned volunteer tried everything in her power to steer Lainhart away from abortion.

Among the first questions Lainhart recalls getting was how she thought she’d gotten pregnant. Lainhart says she opened up about her recent sexual assault for the first time, but the volunteer’s response was less than supportive.

“She puts me in this room to counsel me, and I ask, ‘Are you a counselor?’ and she says, ‘I counsel people on faith,’” Lainhart says.

As an atheist, Lainhart says that immediately put her on edge. The volunteer, Lainhart says, went on to say multiple phrases along the lines of “this is God’s gift,” and “you wouldn’t have been raped if it wasn’t what God wanted.”

Partly feeling like she needed a way out, and partly still wanting to confirm she was pregnant, Lainhart, now 31, says she stuck around for a pregnancy test. While waiting for results, she says the volunteer explained an abortion to her, pulling out metal forceps and describing a baby being ripped from her uterus and “shanked in the brainstem.”

“I didn’t know a lot about abortions because I hadn’t done the research, but I was pro-choice and I knew that this wasn’t real,” she says. “But it was still just terrifying.”

Lainhart declined to watch a video of an abortion, but after being told her pregnancy test was “inconclusive,” the center offered to conduct an ultrasound.

Crisis pregnancy centers often use ultrasounds to hammer home their message that each fetus is a baby.

Although she was just about five weeks pregnant at the time, Lainhart specifically remembers that the staff asked if she wanted to know the gender, something she now knows is not visible via ultrasound until about 18-20 weeks into a pregnancy. The volunteers provided her with a printout of what they said was her ultrasound, which Lainhart now believes was of a

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risis pregnancy centers, also called pregnancy resource centers, first popped up about five decades ago. The concept for the pro-life centers was born around the time Roe v. Wade confirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. In the decades since, CPCs have ridden a wave of religious donor support, growing to outnumber medical clinics that offer abortion more than two to one.

Often opening locations as close as possible to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer abortion, CPCs perform hundreds of thousands of free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds around the country every year.

At times, CPCs draw in patients with the offer of free services as they’re on their way to an appointment at a health clinic nearby.

Many pregnancy resource centers also offer discounted testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and diseases, but most do not offer birth control. The signature constant across the board is that the centers do not provide or refer for abortion, despite offering counseling for that service and frequently appearing high in internet search results for it.

With recent changes to Title X — a federal family planning program that provides comprehensive birth control and reproductive health services to low-income Americans, but does not pay for abortion — some CPCs have also seen an opportunity to fill a void.

Over the last two years, the Trump administration reimplemented a domestic “gag rule” preventing providers that receive Title X funding from referring patients for an abortion elsewhere. Doctors around the country cried foul over the change, explaining they need to be able to discuss all medical options with patients, and doing otherwise is unethical.

As lawsuits over the issue play out, at least six states — including Washington and Oregon — have dropped out of the federal program completely rather than adhere to the rule. Planned Parenthood clinics have also stopped participating.

Some have suggested that pregnancy resource centers could partially fill that gap. Indeed, with potentially millions in federal money newly on the table, a group of CPCs in Texas has decided to start offering comprehensive birth control. But at the centers without state or federal funding, patients can still receive misinformation, and their practices often fall short of accepted medical standards.

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“There’s this narrative of, ‘Oh, we offer all the same services as Planned Parenthood.’ But in thinking about all the expansions we’ve done, offering primary care, trans care, behavioral health, we’re really, I think, innovating in the region and looking at whole-patient care. There’s just straight up no comparison at all to what we do.”

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he appeal of free pregnancy tests at CPCs can be especially strong for teenagers and young college students.

When she was 17 and still in high school, Janie Wright says she was practicing safe sex, but after a condom broke, she worried she might be pregnant.

She didn’t want to go somewhere that might bill her parents or require her to ask them for money, and she’d seen signs for free tests at the MyChoice clinic on Ash Street in Spokane, since it was near her bus stop for school.

Wright let the staff know she wanted a pregnancy test, and that if she were pregnant, she’d be wanting an abortion.

“So I went in there, and they started asking me a lot of questions that at that age, I thought they were trying to kind of create a safe environment, almost like a therapy session for me,” Wright says. “But at the same time, the questions that they asked me were very invasive and did cause a lot of guilt and shame. I remember crying because of the way they went about things.”

While waiting for the results of a urine pregnancy test, she recalls being asked if she knew who the father was and if he was going to be her forever partner.

“I remember the last question they asked me was if I did have a positive test result, if I was planning on keeping the baby — they used ‘baby’ — or planned to abort the baby,” Wright says. “I told them very clearly I would want an abortion.”

The staff members told her they were going to go grab some information for her, and since she’d been in the room for a while, she thought they’d be coming back with her pregnancy test results.

“But what they came in with was a TV and a tray of different tools that would be used in an abortion,” she says. “So the rest of that time while I was waiting for a pregnancy test, they started to go through what an abortion would look like.”

After starting to feel uncomfortable at the graphic descriptions, she asked not to be shown the video and said she’d changed her mind about getting an abortion. The conversation quickly shifted to asking if she could make a serious relationship with the man she’d been having sex with, whether he’d be able to help raise a child, whether he’d be a good father.

“And in the end, I had a negative test result,” Wright says. “When I look back at that, it frustrates me to know they had that result five minutes into this conversation, but they watched me suffer through all those different emotional decisions. … They really made me worry about what I was doing with my life.”

After that experience and another she had during a second pregnancy scare years later, Wright started working with Planned Parenthood, where she’s now public affairs community organizer for the Yakima clinic. At that location, a mobile pregnancy center van often parks just across the street.

“They target low-income people, and low-income women of color as well. They are set up in areas that are low income,” Wright says.

Sometimes people will rally around the mobile clinic and yell at patients on their way to the Yakima Planned Parenthood, so Wright has helped coordinate volunteers

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Unlike CPCs, Planned Parenthood operates a full health clinic with primary care, behaviorial health and reproductive health services. They are one of the only regional resources for women who want an abortion. to walk patients inside.

“They’re abusive,” Wright says. “They create a lot of shame and guilt in women who may already be experiencing shame around pregnancy or getting access to abortion or STI testing.”

But not every CPC or pregnancy resource center is created equal, and scrutiny in recent years over deceptive tactics has led some centers to shift their practices.

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n recent years, multiple documentaries and news segments have highlighted some crisis pregnancy centers’ misleading practices, including stalling women on the phone who call in believing they can get an abortion, in order to convince them to come in for a free pregnancy test or ultrasound.

Since the experiences that Lainhart and Wright had 8 to 12 years ago, many things have changed at MyChoice, Executive Director Glendie Loranger says. The staff of nurses there no longer show a tray of abortion tools or videos to girls who come in. They also tell women upfront they don’t provide abortion, Loranger says.

Several years ago it was common, she says, for centers to show videos and describe what would happen during an abortion, because it would make it more real for women and give them information to change their minds.

But that practice was dropped for multiple reasons.

“We know that gals feel like they don’t have a choice and they’re very often coerced by circumstances, by the verbiage used by people pushing them towards an abortion,” Loranger says. “Unfortunately, it’s taken us a while to get to this point, but I think we’ve been learning with the rest of the country how to approach abortion-vulnera-

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Samantha Wohlfeil covers the environment, rural communities and cultural issues for the Inlander. Since joining the paper in 2017, she’s reported how the weeks after getting out of prison can be deadly, how some terminally ill Eastern Washington patients have struggled to access lethal medication, and how child marriage is still allowed in many states. She can be reached at samanthaw@ inlander.com or 325-0634 ext. 234.

ble women in a way that’s not coercive or manipulative.”

Part of the push to stop using graphic imagery and tools came from nurses on the center’s staff, including Janine Moore, the clinic director.

“I was one of the biggest zealots for the change,” Moore says. “I think that it was the experience with patients and it is also that I’m post-abortive myself. I realized that it triggered a deep pain in me every time I saw it, and it wasn’t loving and kind. I realized that I was hurting women every time I did that, if it was hurting me, even if that wasn’t the intention.”

Moore explains that their starting point with clients who come into their center is generally to slow down the thinking surrounding the decision-making process, figuring out which concerns may be most pressing. In cases involving safety issues such as an abusive relationship or a recent rape, that takes priority, with staff working to make sure the woman is connected with resources or is taken to the hospital.

The focus is largely on talking through what type of support someone has, including family, friends and faith, Moore says.

“I think most of our clients who are contemplating abortion are doing that because they feel like they don’t have any support,” she says.

If someone wants to talk about abortion, Moore says the staff will explain what someone can expect, from a medication abortion to surgical options.

Generally, the mission of the center is to “come alongside those who are facing or have faced an unplanned pregnancy and provide help and support,” Loranger says.

MyChoice is unique among pregnancy resource centers in the area in that they provide a maternity home on site. Teens and young women can apply to live at the center for part of their pregnancy, during which time they take parenting and birthing classes, create a plan for their life goals, and get partnered with a host home meant to provide long-term mentorship and support, as many of the girls who stay there don’t have a good family support system, Loranger explains.

Over the last 20 years, the average age of residents has trended upward. Where they used to primarily house pregnant teens, now the maternity home more often sees women from 18-28, she says.

For Kallie Kohl, the home offered exactly boyfriend at the time dropped out of the picture, the type of support she needed when she found and with multiple people pressuring her to herself pregnant at 20. choose an abortion, she says she did so.

Kohl, now 28, was raised in an extremely For years, Loranger says she struggled with conservative Christian community in Moscow. unhealthy coping mechanisms, including alcohol When she went to WISH Medical, a CPC on use and anger issues that simmered well into her the Palouse, and found out marriage. Things boiled over she was pregnant, her parents when she and her husband adwere upset. She says her dad opted a son, and Loranger says lectured her about fornicatshe found herself in a rage and ing, and her parents told her unable to explain what was she needed to tell their pastor going on. Through counseling, about her situation. she recognized she’d been cop“So I Googled on my ing with intense guilt. computer ‘maternity home’ “I knew that I had taken because that just like popped the life of my first son through into my brain as a way to abortion, and yet my new escape because there was so son’s mom, his birth mom, much shame,” says Kohl, who had carried him all the way now lives in Spokane. “I didn’t to term, even though it was know anyone else who was an embarrassing for her,” LorJanie Wright visited a CPC at 17; she now anger says. “And then she had out-of-wedlock mom. In a reworks at Planned Parenthood. COURTESY PHOTO given him to me to adopt and ally big community, it was like, unheard of.” embrace him, and I felt incredAt the maternity home, she was able to live ibly unworthy to be his mom. The guilt factor with host parents and other pregnant girls and was huge.” women who cycled in and out depending on Crisis pregnancy centers often warn women the phase of their pregnancy. Some were teens about the potential for depression, grief and even aging out of the foster system. Some had a suicidal ideation after abortion. history of drug addiction or abuse. But they all Certainly, for some women that is the case. were able to bond together, with Kohl saying she However, it is not something most women grew very close with her host parents, whose experience. Studies show that many factors that daughter helped Kohl transition out of the home contribute to someone’s choice to get an abortion eventually into a place of her own. Residents are — such as an abusive relationship, preexisting incentivized to complete classes and mentorship mental health issues or experiences of violence goals with points they can use to get baby clothes — more likely contribute to the prevalence of from MyChoice/Life Services’ boutique, or to get depression or anxiety. occasional hair and nail salon services offered in The vast majority of abortions happen at the home by volunteers.

12 weeks or earlier, making up 88 percent of abortions as of 2016, according to Guttmacher data. Medication abortion, which is only given up to 10 weeks of pregnancy and can be similar to a heavy period with cramping, made up 39 percent of abortions.

Dillon, from Planned Parenthood, emphasizes the dangers of perpetuating false information “Life Services is awesome with connecting about abortion risks, including the idea that churches and organizations all over the area to, people become more suicidal. like, put their money where their mouth is, you “Those claims are unsubstantiated and it’s know?” Kohl says. put out by groups that are anti-choice to push She sees a lot of division from people who this ‘post-abortion stress syndrome,’ claiming that feel there’s an us-versus-them mentality between it damages patients psychologically,” Dillon says. pro-choice or pro-life, when in the end, Kohl “It’s not a medically recognized condition. It’s says, people can actually agree on a lot. just part of the overall agenda to restrict abortion “What it comes down to is, we really need access and make abortion illegal.” to see and honor the fights that people fight for Regardless of the fact the American Psyand why they’re doing that,” Kohl says. “A lot chological Association doesn’t recognize the of people I think would be more supportive of condition, Loranger says that, for her personally, places that are openly pro-life if they could see post-abortion grief and depression were very that they’re trying to help, and vice versa. We’re real, and she’s spoken to and worked with many all just humans trying to help.” women in similar situations.

Indeed, women who have had abortions and “I almost lost my kids and my husband are dealing with grief or depression are welcome because of the guilt over my abortion, it wasn’t to come to small group sessions organized at something I made up,” Loranger says. “My MyChoice, explains Loranger, who is also a voldepression wasn’t something I made up or my unteer pastor at Life Center North Church. anxiety. So when you’ve suffered something like Part of her passion for doing the work she that, and you come out on the other side with does stems from her own experience. Loranger freedom, and health, you want to help other says that when she was 17, she found herself people find that same kind of freedom.” ...continued on next page pregnant just as she was heading to college. Her

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n the Inland Northwest, very few options exist for those who want to terminate a pregnancy. While both hospital systems in Spokane offer comprehensive maternity care, neither Providence (Sacred Heart) nor MultiCare (Deaconess) offer elective abortion. Each system provides very narrow exceptions for medically necessary termination, such as when there is a lethal fetal condition or the woman’s life is at risk.

That means that many women facing an unwanted pregnancy do not have the option of asking their primary care provider or gynecologist, who they are familiar with and have worked with, for help terminating their pregnancy.

A map of abortion options throughout the Pacific Northwest compiled by the Northwest Abortion Access Fund (NWAAF) shows that for many living in Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and North Idaho, the nearest clinic is a Planned Parenthood center that in some cases may be more than 100 miles away.

The fund provides about $4,000 per week in assistance to help pay for abortions around the Northwest, with the average assistance coming in around $250, explains Sam Katana, an Idaho board member for NWAAF. Women who are facing abusive relationships, homelessness or incarceration often receive priority as there isn’t always enough funding to match the need of callers.

“We see over half of our callers come from Idaho,” Katana says. “That’s really just because access looks really bleak here and abortion providers are really congested in the southern part of the state. For folks seeking care up north, they tend to go to Spokane and need more travel funding for that.”

In cases that qualify, the fund provides financial assistance the same week an abortion is set to happen, and because of that, most people are only coming to the fund for resources after already scheduling and finding out how much they’ll have to pay for the procedure, she says.

The fund is there to help people in the same type of financial situations that may make crisis pregnancy centers look appealing. “[CPCs] purposefully have their storefronts next to Planned Parenthood.

They’re next to the Planned Parenthood in Boise and also the one in Meridian,” Katana says. “If you don’t have disposable income, which people in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon and a lot of Idaho don’t have for health care — they’re living paycheck to paycheck for the most part — those can look like really good places to start at.”

MyChoice often locates its mobile clinic van next to the Spokane Planned Parenthood on Indiana Avenue. Down the block is the Path of Life center, which also provides unplanned pregnancy counseling.

In response to criticisms in recent years, as well as lawsuits in some cases, many centers now show on their websites that they

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Glendie Loranger has served as executive director of Life Services of Spokane/MyChoice for nearly three years. do not provide or refer for abortion. When To try to stop the abortion, a woman cold-called and asked how much it would who took the first pill less than 72 hours be to schedule an abortion, MyChoice, ago would get an ultrasound to ensure the Path of Life and WISH Medical in Mosfetus is still viable, then be provided with cow all said within the first two minutes large doses of progesterone under superof a phone conversation that they do not vision of a doctor over multiple weeks, provide abortion. with continued checkups through the first To varying degrees, the Inland trimester to make sure the pregnancy is still Northwest centers still offered free preghealthy, MyChoice Clinic Director Janine nancy screening and an ultrasound as a Moore explains. resource, in one instance explaining that an “It’s the same protocol that’s been used ultrasound could find an ectopic pregfor years for women that have high cases of nancy outside the uterus, which can be lifemiscarriages,” she says. threatening and wouldn’t be ended with a Birth control, on the other hand, is not medication abortion. One nurse mentioned one of the options MyChoice offers or will that 20-25 percent of all pregnancies are not likely ever offer, Loranger says. viable anyway, so an ultrasound might be a “What we don’t want to do is just good idea. throw birth control at a situation,” Loranger It’s true that miscarriages are fairly says. “What we want to do is focus on lifecommon, ending about 20 percent of style for gals and health for our clients. And pregnancies. But Planned Parenthood in when our clients come and they’re facing an Spokane has never had a patient report a unplanned pregnancy, they’ve got some big failed medication abortion due to ectopic life issues. So our entire goal is to help come pregnancy, Dillon says. alongside them in a holistic fashion.”

“We perform an ultrasound to make Because of that stance, the center does sure a pregnancy is intrauterine before not have current plans to apply for public administering the mifepristone,” Dillon says. funding and would not apply for funding “It just seems again like they’re weaponizthat requires comprehensive birth control ing language to manipulate and sort of twist coverage, she says. the truth to conform to their agenda, which “What we do is leave the birth control is to restrict access to abortion.” piece to their medical provider,” Loranger Ultrasounds are certainly one of the says. “One of our services is plugging them main tools CPCs use to change a woman’s in with medical care.” mind.

Currently, CPCs will still talk through “One of the things that we are absoall choices a woman has, including aborlutely convinced of is that tion, but at the end of the we want women to actually day, none of the national LETTERS see their child, not out of networks they affiliate Send comments to a manipulative bent, but with, including Care Net, editor@inlander.com. oftentimes ‘out of sight, out Heartbeat International or of mind,’ doesn’t help a situthe National Institute of ation or a decision,” Loranger says. “When Family and Life Advocates, support access they see their baby on the ultrasound … we to abortion. hear their pronoun change from it to he or “Personally and professionally, I don’t she and they realize it’s an actual baby.” think abortion should be an option ever. I In recent years, MyChoice and other believe life begins at conception. Abortion CPCs throughout the Pacific Northwest ends an innocent life and we think that’s have also started offering what’s known wrong,” Loranger says. “But we’re very as abortion pill reversal, a procedure that careful not to force our belief systems on hasn’t been verified in controlled studies people. Even though we don’t believe in or and isn’t FDA-approved, but which they refer for an abortion, because it is on the tasay has helped save pregnancies for some ble, yes, we most definitely will give clients women who have only taken the first pill of accurate information about what happens a medication abortion. during an abortion when they ask.” n

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t started in my blood when I was a kid in Canada. Dad moved us to Alberta when I was 11.

He had enough of Miami and was ready for a new life, a new adventure. We had a big farm and it had a huge hill on it, we’d always ski and toboggan on it. One day I took to trying to stand up and ride the toboggan down the hill, and I think that’s what planted the seed.”

Steve Matthews is one of the original pioneers of snowboarding and even though he’s been out of the sport as a professional for over 25 years, he’s still greatly respected in the snowboard world as a badass of the backcountry.

Over the past 40 years, Steve has accomplished quite a few things — all stemming from that first time he hopped on a snowboard back in college.

“1980 was my first year of college at U of I. I wasn’t fitting in that well with the whole system and I met a guy in my dorm that was kind of a skater, long-haired, kind of outcast,” Steve says. “And he said, ‘Hey, you’ve got to check this out.’ He pulled out a Burton Backhill, which was the original Burton snowboard, it had just a rope, no bindings, and we went out on the U of I golf course. There must have been 3 to 6 inches of snow on the ground. I think we were out there until 2 or 3 in the morning. I was like, ‘This is the funnest thing I’ve ever done,’ so I immediately sought out a board and never looked back.”

It’s hard to look back when you’re charging full speed ahead, breaking boundaries and helping pioneer a new sport. Steve spent some time in North Idaho in the Silver Valley in the early ’80s perfecting his new passion.

It was here he met up with some like-minded people like Kevin “Boog” Lamphere, Keith “Duckboy” Wallace and Jeff Yates, to name a few. This core group of guys pushed each other and helped evolve a relatively new sport.

Steve was always pushing himself to become better.

He spent some time one summer on the Mount Hood glacier where he met the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly. This turned out to be the start of a strong friendship.

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If you saw another snowboarder, you had a place to stay, someone to hang with, and you instantly had that bond.

So, Craig came over to me and we BS’d for a while, then he said, ‘Hey, you want to race?’ I was like, ‘Sure.’ And essentially, he kicked my ass that day and the rest of my life. I think there’s only two times I’d ever say I had a better line than Craig did.”

Kelly went on to be a four-time world champion.

Steve wasn’t into the competition scene but he had a real soulful connection being immersed in the mountains.

“I was probably one of the first to kind of take snowboarding to the backcountry,” Steve said. “I had a love for the mountains and being free. Having this open gate to go out is all I needed.”

Steve followed his own path and took to the mountains where he became the first to do numerous first descents on a snowboard. Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier are just a few of the more notable ones here in the Pacific Northwest. Steve tried to scale it

big ‘boomari,’ essentially a cyclone or a hurricane hit the mountain and had crazy winds. We went back up to that high camp the next day and everything was destroyed. I tried to make a push for the summit, but the avalanche conditions were just nuts. I had one of the biggest slab failures I’d ever witnessed in my life and I was like, OK, I truly have to stop and turn around.’ That was a really hard decision in my life to not continue on, but it was one of those moments you have where you are like, ‘The next step will be death. I’ve just got to reel this in a little bit.’”

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p until 1992, Matthews was traveling to remote parts of the world challenging himself and exploring new mountain ranges like Mount Asgard on Baffin Island and the Dolomites in Italy.

Steve spent many of his professional snowboarding days riding blower powder in British Columbia while doing photo and video shoots for his sponsors. It was from those epic experiences that Steve changed gears and in 1992 he started up Peak Adventures, a snowcat skiing business based out of Cataldo, Idaho. Peak Adventures was now Steve’s future. He and his first wife Terry ran and operated Peak Adventures from its infancy in ’92 until 2011 when he sold it.

Steve wore a lot of hats in this business, especially during the startup days. “My typical duties were snowcat mechanic, guide, road builder, host, entertainer, food prep and lunch maker. I got out of making lunches quickly,” he says with a laugh.

It was a hard business physically with the long hours and the stress of wanting to always please guests. In the early years, a typical day for Steve was up at 5:30 am,

“It was one of those moments you have where you are like, ‘The next step will be death.’” up a bit, and with the financial help of his new snowboard sponsor, Burton Snowboards, Matthews set off for the really big mountains. The Himalayas were in Steve’s sights, where he would be the first to ever do a snowboard descent.

“I picked a 20,000-foot peak called Naya Kanga.

We were there about a 40-day period, and we made it to 19,200 feet. We never got to 20,000. We almost died in a kind of massive episode of cerebral edema and had to descend, and then while we descended, there was a

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meet the guests at 7, do the waivers and avalanche safety meeting by 8:30, guide and ride with guests all day and then bring the guests back down to Cataldo. He’d then hop back in the cat and go punch in another 10 miles of snow roads through the night and usually get back home anywhere from midnight to 3 am and then wake up at 5:30 and start all over again. Thankfully, as business increased over the years, Steve was able to hire people who could help take some of the load off.

There were lots of great memories and a couple of life-changing days. “I had a guy come to me with tears in his eyes. His dad had recently died and there were these sunbeams that came down through the cloud. It was gorgeous looking,” Steve says. “The guy pointed to the sunbeams and said, ‘It’s my dad, he always wanted to take me cat skiing. My life’s never been the same since he died, but today you changed my life.’ I mean, it puts tears in my eyes.”

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hen came the phone call.

“A guy called me up one day and he said, ‘I see you’re advertising in Silver Mountain ski brochure and you can take people in a snowcat to go skiing. Could you take me to a mountain to do an electronic site?’ This is about two years before the advent of any cellular,” Steve says.

“I took the guy to Wardner Peak, and then the guy who owned that site heard about it and two days later he had me go to another site out of Post Falls. I did that twice and I honestly made … three times what I was making a day with the cat-skiing business, all in about two and a half hours, and there’s a lot less logistics involved. It’s not quite as glorious, but I instantly saw, there’s something on the other side here. This is legit.”

Fast-forward 20 years where Steve is currently running six snowcats working in remote places like Yellowstone Park at 10,000 feet. For a while Steve was literally

the only person in the Northwest that had a mobile snowcat and just like everything Steve does, he goes all in.

“It made it quite a crazy business, I was running both of those businesses at the same time. I honestly don’t know how I did it.

I’m sure multitudes of people saw me step off that mountain after skiing, climb in a truck, drive to Seattle, do a job. I’d get a phone call, ‘Oh, we need you in Livingston, Montana,’ drive all night, no sleep, do that job until 7 at night and then be back in Idaho to meet the guests at 7 am the next morning for cat skiing. It consumed every ounce of energy and time any man could have.”

This incredible workload was starting to take a huge toll on Steve both mentally and physically.

“One day I looked in the mirror, my face looked like a skeleton, and I was like, ‘Holy crap,’” Steve says. “I had to tell myself and come to the realization to slow down … I’m an A-type person. You can’t tell an A-plusser anything, because really if we put our minds to it and we’re physically able, we’re going to go accomplish it. But what I didn’t realize was that you truly have the power to kill yourself, and that is something I had to really hone in on, ‘I’ve got to take a breath here. I am going to kill myself if I keep this up.’”

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ver since the sale of the snowcat business in 2011 Steve has been able to maintain a somewhat normal work schedule. Yes, he still spends a lot of time working in remote areas, but he makes it his every effort to spend as much time as possible with his wife Kim, his young stepson Mitch, and Evan, Steve’s 14-year-old son.

Steve describes Kim as the mortar that holds this brick wall together.

“Kim’s really been a blessing in all of our lives, and she has this really wholesome desire to be in the mountains,” Steve says.

“She appreciates every bit of it and she lets me be me.”

I have known Steve for over 30 years and over the past few years I’ve been seeing some of Steve’s social media posts. If ever there was a “Rad Dad,” Steve Matthews is it. I’ve watched his 14-year-old son grow up and experience many of life’s exciting adventures in the mountains with Steve. Steve has been an incredible father and mentor to Evan, teaching him the ways of the mountains.

“I go overboard on most things, but I spend every bit of time I can with Evan,” Steve says. “I try to be a ‘Rad Dad’ in many ways. I want him to learn all the activities, I mean dirt biking, snowboarding, mountain biking, kayaking I’ve got every moment planned out, Evan’s like, ‘Dad, what are we doing? Dad, what are we doing?’ And to me, that’s just magical.”

When there isn’t snow covering the ground, you can find Evan and Steve wrenching on their enduro motorcycles at many of the tracks in the Northwest where they’re known as Team Matthews and when the snow’s flying you can probably find Steve passing on his wealth of backcountry knowledge to Evan as they shred blower pow in British Columbia.

You’d think having a first descent down one of North America’s tallest volcanos or snowboarding off a 20,000-foot peak in the Himalayas would be something etched in Steve’s mind.

Think again. Steve told me one of his more memorable experiences happened just last year.

“Some of the best turns I’ve ever had are full-moon powder sessions. I swear your senses are 10 times more keen when you’re under a full moon, you can hear the stuff settle behind you. I was able to take Evan out on a full moon last winter, we were up at 1 in the morning, staring down a wide-open powder slope as the hoar crystals were glistening from the moonlight, the rip down through that with our shadows was incredible. Those are the good ones you remember and I got to experience it with my best friend Evan.”

It’s nice to see someone so passionate about life and family pass that passion on to the next generation.

I asked Steve if he thought Evan would eventually go pro snowboarding like his old man. As soon as Steve started talking I lost my cell signal.

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NEWS

SLOW START, LATE REWARDS

It ain’t over yet! SILVER MOUNTAIN RESORT PHOTO

This season wasn’t looking good early, but the new year brought plenty of fresh snow to please Inland Northwest powderhounds BY MACIE WHITE

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l Niño may just be the worst thing you can tell a skier in the Inland Northwest. The southern shift of precipitation that comes with a warm Pacific jet stream typically means less snow, and less snow means less skiing.

The threat of a warm winter is never good for snow sports enthusiasts and going into the 2020 ski season, no one knew what to expect. We’re halfway through winter and the supposed El Niño, but looking back on the first half of the season, did original predictions hold true?

Hypotheses of a late start weren’t wrong and every local resort we reached out to could vouch for this.

“The season got off to a slow start due to snow conditions,” says Silver Mountain Resort General Manager Jeff Colburn. And by snow conditions, he’s referring to the general absence of snow.

Despite the considerable lack of powder, local ski resorts did their best to get operations up and running, and we can only applaud them for getting the ski season started as soon as physically possible.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort in Sandpoint originally planned to open Nov. 29 and they made it happen.

Thanks to the wonders of snowmaking technology, Schweitzer was functional. With one lift operational and crazy discounts, the resort made the best of a rocky start, and they weren’t the only ones.

“Despite some less than desirable weather in the past two months, we’re very happy with our 2019-2020 winter performance. We’re sharing the best that 49 Degrees North has to offer,” says Emily McDaniel, 49 Degrees

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North’s marketing and communications director.

Seasonal operations are always risky, and guest services manager for Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park Brenda McQuarrie is no stranger to the fickle nature of snow.

“Every season is different and this one has proven to be a weather roller coaster,” says McQuarrie. “We’ll have tons of fun regardless, and sometimes in spite of what Mother Nature delivers.”

Optimists were rewarded this year, as the slow start has been mitigated by one of the snowiest Januarys on record.

“Lookout Pass has enjoyed great snow in January with over 15 feet of snow in that month alone,” says Matthew Sawyer, director of marketing and sales at Lookout Pass, located on the Idaho-Montana border.

With 311 inches of snow accumulation this season, Lookout is planning on running operations through April 19.

Mt. Spokane, Silver Mountain, 49 Degrees North and Schweitzer also benefited from the powder dump in January. The cold is suggested to continue and fingers are crossed for that perfect combination of high precipitation and low temps that keep us shredders happily supplied with fresh gnar.

“We expect the season to finish out strong as we have a good snowpack to get us through the season and, historically, seasons that start slow have solid finishes,” Sawyer says.

Every skier and snowmobiler, snowboarder and

snowshoer knows you can’t trust the weather, though.

Sometimes the weather comes to you, but oftentimes you have to chase the weather, and that’s exactly what I did to jumpstart this season.

Rather than wait around for winter, I turned to our northern neighbor for epic snow. In search of untracked powder I crossed the Canadian border more than once this winter. Revelstoke Mountain Resort, six hours north of Spokane in British Columbia, was my first stop.

Revelstoke lays claim to North America’s greatest vertical, and with 5,620 feet to ski and an average snowfall of 34 feet per season, it’s more than worth the road trip. I can confidently say I will make the trek back up there before the season’s end to enjoy another weekend of free refills and après-ski.

The hunt for pow also took me to Fernie Mountain Resort, which delivered hands down the best snow of the season. Granted, Fernie delivered the goods the same week Schweitzer got absolutely dumped on at the beginning of January, but just four hours north the weather gets colder, the snow gets lighter and the bars get better. I have nothing but love for our local ski resorts and you can find me at Schweitzer most weekends, but there’s something to be said for a winter getaway with nothing but fluff in the forecast.

At the end of the day, snow is snow, no matter what country, and as long as there’s enough coverage to slide, I’m happy. So here’s to a solid end to a solid season.

The mountains are calling, from Idaho to Canada, and it’s hard not to go. n

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SAFETY

FIRE IN THE HOLE A morning doing avalanche control reveals dedication and professionalism from patrollers tasked with keeping skiers safe

BY JOHN GROLLMUS

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t’s sometime around 4 am when the alarm chimes start ringing, buzzing, playing music or whatever particular form of disturbance has been chosen by the particular Schweitzer Mountain patroller to roust him or her from a deep winter slumber this powder morning here in North Idaho.

It’s 5:45 am when I show up at Schweitzer ski patrol headquarters to join my designated tour guides, so to speak, whom I’m scheduled to shadow as they head out for a morning of avalanche mitigation work. I’m tagging along with Miles, a somewhat recent addition to the SMR patrol who moved to town from Monarch Mountain, Colorado, where he was the assistant ski patrol director, and Kim, a 16-year veteran SMR patroller from Sandpoint. They are the two designated bomb makers this morning and as such the first to arrive on the scene.

It’s not long, however, before a number of other patrollers show up and busy themselves with some of the important morning tasks. Tom, the snow safety director, starts gathering weather info from various sources and reviewing the route sheets for each team who will head out to control the hazards on a specific area of terrain. Assistant patrol director Greg is here as well, moving around the room and chatting with fellow patrollers to quietly assure himself that everything is proceeding smoothly and according to plan.

The smooth sounds of Kurt Vile singing “Rollin’ with the Flow” emanate from the stereo to create a more mellow backdrop than what my eyes see as more and more patrollers arrive and get busy. Kim calls out over the radio to the overnight grooming staff and receives an update of 8-10 inches up top and remarks that with the wind effect this could easily be 16 inches in some spots.

It’s 6:20 am when snow safety director Tom calls out the relevant info and plan of attack for the day. Then Kim, Miles and I head out into the morning darkness to saddle up on snowmobiles and head to the bomb cache tucked away on a ridge high atop the mountain. Zooming into the darkness, the heavy snow falling is illuminated in the machine headlights, creating a look that can’t help but make one think of the Millennium Falcon launching into hyperspace. A few minutes later we arrive at the bomb cache, a sort of mini-Fort Knox housing gold of a completely different variety. Headlights shining directly on the thick metal box to light up the darkness, Miles and Kim release the double-locked door and carefully document each explosive, then load the explosives onto snowmobiles and head off to two designated locations where they will begin assembling the bombs.

The actual assembling is typically pretty solitary work as the bomb maker will usually be the only person in the mountaintop shed as they insert caps and fuses into the explosives and put them into their final stage — now needing just to be ignited. However, on this morning I’m here, too, observing as Kim assembles the 20 or so bombs which will be carried by the teams working in

her zone this morning. Soon the smiling faces of fellow patrollers begin to fill the room and I can feel a palpable sense of camaraderie amongst this group of individuals charged to work together on such a serious task.

With the explosives divided amongst the teams, I head out onto the ridge above Schweitzer’s North Bowl with route leader/ thrower Kim and her teammate/packer Leigh. As we move from one carefully selected location to another, a certain routine is revealed. Kim decides on where best to place the explosive based on terrain and wind loading and is then provided an explosive by Leigh. The final decision on where to place a particular charge becomes almost an art to a veteran patroller with as much experience as Kim. After attaching a long ribbon that can be used to retrieve the explosive in rare “no light” situations, Kim will ignite the fuse using a device known as a spitter and then lob it into the location she has determined will provide the best results. At that same time, her packer, Leigh, begins a two-minute countdown and places a “fire in the hole” radio call noting their location. At the 1:30 mark of the countdown, Leigh will announce the remaining time and we cover our ears and open our mouths to lessen the effect of the nearby concussion. Following the explosion of the charge, Kim and Leigh observe and discuss the movement of the snow it caused before carefully moving on to the next location and starting the process over again. Simultaneously, this same process is unfolding with the four other teams spread out across the 2,900-acre ski area. These teams will continue to work diligently throughout the early morning hours, throwing charges, ski-cutting ridgetop wind deposits and communicating their shared results until they can collectively be sure that each and every zone is safe for the public to ski.

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Following my morning of observation, I head out to free ski the resort and the patrollers head off to continue on with a workday, which, in all reality, has just begun. As I ski my first few laps, my mind begins to reflect on the seriousness of the work I’ve just witnessed — teams of highly skilled and licensed professionals with decades of combined experience dispatched to a variety of locations across the vast mountain landscape working ever so diligently to keep skiers just like myself safe from harm.

I’ve stood in line at a chairlift on more powder mornings than I could ever count and on more than a few of those mornings listened to the complaints of fellow snow sliders when certain lifts or terrain don’t open as early as those anxious riders would like.

Considering the amount of work I witnessed over the course of the morning, and the seriousness of its nature, I’d suggest that all those bit chompers sit back, relax and be thankful that ski patrollers are willing to get up so early and work so hard just to keep those very people alive to ski another day. After all, the key to skiing as much fresh powder as possible isn’t just getting out there early, but also staying alive to ski another day. n

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MOUNTAIN PEOPLE

REANIMATOR

Backed by a community’s passion, a new owner brings Teton Pass back to life

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qually clouds hang low over the eastern boundary of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, all but obscuring the peaks above Montana’s Teton Pass Ski Area.

Intermittent sunlight bathes the slopes in a bright white haze. A single snow devil twists between pine saplings on the ridge above the mountain’s lone double lift.

Outside the A-framed lodge, Charles Hlavac gabs with a couple of locals in ski boots. Their conversation is that of old friends, hinting at Hlavac’s family roots in the nearby farm-and-ranch town of Choteau, Montana, as well as his six years managing Teton Pass on behalf of former owner and New Zealand resort tycoon Nick Wood. Hlavac took over the role of owner last August, and his battered work gloves and stained flannel tell the story of a man who’s spent the months since struggling to revive a beloved ski area after two seasons on mothballs.

“We’re just taking it one step at a time,” Hlavac says of Teton Pass’ first winter back in operation. “This season, we just knew we were going to try to offer what we’ve offered in the past, and even scale it down a little bit more so we can make sure we cut the fat and just survive.”

That Hlavac ended up at the head of a remote momand-pop ski area along the Rocky Mountain Front makes a ton of sense. He grew up in Minneapolis skiing similarly small areas like Afton Alps, then turned his attention to an engineering degree before working on wildfire crews

BY ALEX SAKARIASSEN with the Forest Service. Fixing machines, solving complex problems, navigating agency policies and procedures — Hlavac’s is a learned-and-lived skillset uniquely tailored to the ski industry. But core to his desire to take the reins was an awareness of what Teton Pass meant to locals, and the toll its shuttering took on the community.

“All of the satisfaction, all the enjoyment is because of the people that come ski here. Without that, there’s nothing,” Hlavac says. “I’m not doing it for myself. It’s fun, rewarding and challenging, but only because you get to reap the benefits of seeing all the people showing up on a busy Saturday with powder and smiling ear to ear.”

Hlavac isn’t alone in that awareness. When Wood opted to forego opening for the 2017-18 season due to personal financial hardships, citizens in Choteau began exploring their own options. In mid-March 2018, roughly 100 locals crowded into a conference room in the Stage Stop Inn to discuss alternative ownership models. The meeting included input from the Montana Ski Areas Association and Montana’s Office of Outdoor Recreation, much of it focused on nonprofit and cooperative approaches. Several of the individuals involved in that meeting wound up forming the nonprofit Friends of the Teton in February 2019, broadening their focus to year-round recreational opportunities in the Choteau area.

“Our focus is anything that involves recreation in

this whole Teton River drainage,” says Friends of the Teton member Terry Barch. “We’re not exclusionary to anything that goes on here as long as it’s legal. You want to serve a number of interests, and that’s going to help the community to try to grow.”

Even with Hlavac’s takeover last fall, uncertainty continued to swirl around whether Teton Pass would reopen for the 2020-21 season. Hlavac acknowledges he kept his head down intentionally, not wanting to promise skiers a speedy revival he wasn’t sure he could pull off. When he finally received the green light from the Forest Service via email at 10:30 am on Dec. 28, he considered holding off operations until the next day. Instead, he flung the doors open shortly after noon, sending out word on Facebook and drawing a crowd of roughly 40 locals.

The news spread fast through western Montana.

Barch was across the Continental Divide that weekend, cross-country skiing out of a Seeley Lake cabin he and his wife had rented in case Teton Pass failed to reopen for the winter.

“Five people came up to us and said, ‘Hey, Teton Pass is open,’” Barch says. “The word got around like wildfire.”

The lift may have groaned back to life, but the work community members like Barch accomplished in the interim underscores that the road ahead for Hlavac isn’t an easy one. According to a feasibility study commissioned

“We’re just taking it one step at a time,” Charles Hlavac says of Teton Pass’ first winter back in operation.

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by the Choteau Area Port Authority, Teton Pass would need to see roughly 20,000 skier visits annually to become self-sustaining; the area’s average between 2012 and 2017 was around 6,000 skier visits. The study notes that the potential is there, though, provided the area diversifies its recreational offerings.

To that end, Friends of the Teton is in the process of putting together a Recreation Trails Program grant to establish a network of Nordic ski trails around Teton Pass. A portion of that network already falls within the resort’s permitted operating area, and Barch posits that the lodge could serve as a central hub for winter activities. He adds that the Forest Service finally looks poised to repair the rough and pitted road leading to the mountain, which he jokingly refers to as the “Ho Chi Minh Trail.” Much of what Barch talks about is anchored around a functioning Teton Pass, and he’s emboldened by Hlavac’s presence at the helm of the ski area.

“Chuck’s a smart guy, very intimate with the operations up there,” Barch says.

“So if you’re going to have somebody in charge of the place and it’s going to be on a limited staff, Chuck’s the guy to do it.”

Teton Pass’ two-season closure clearly sparked a passion among Choteau residents to reclaim what they’d lost. And as much as Hlavac kicks himself for not marketing more heavily ahead of this season, he realizes that just getting the place up and running again has helped to boost local morale.

Hlavac has his own visions for Teton Pass’ future, visions he says he’s mentally shelved for the time being.

This season, it’s all about giving the skiing public what it’s thirsted for: normalcy.

“Now is not the time for changing course and doing a bunch of weird stuff and trying out new ideas,” Hlavac says. “I think we just need to provide a product and continue to do what we’re doing and slowly develop and change.” n

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MOUNTAIN OF LOVE A special Valentine’s Day chairlift speed dating event (wear a ribbon if you’re participating), with a live DJ (5-8 pm) in the lounge and a steak and shrimp dinner (4-7 pm; $24.50/person or $49/couple). Fri, Feb. 14 from 9 am-9 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220)

NIGHT SKIING Mt. Spokane’s night skiing schedule has expanded to four nights a week, every Wednesday through Saturday, through mid-March. The mountain’s fullservice cafeteria stays open late, and live bands play most Saturday nights.

Wed-Sat from 3:30-9 pm, through March 14. $23. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220)

LADIES’ DAY Spend a special ladies-only Friday this with the best female coaches from Mt. Spokane’s Winter Sports School.

Includes three hours of instruction, coffee, lunch, two drink tickets at the apres party and door prizes. Feb. 14 and, March 13 from 9:30 am-3 pm. $69; add lift ticket for $26 and rentals for $22. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220)

FREE ICE SKATING LESSONS Riverfront Park offers weekly ice skating lessons at the Numerica Skate Ribbon, skate rentals included. Register on site; lessons available on a firstcome, first-served basis. (Paid lessons also available; see website for details).

Sundays at 11 am through Feb. 23. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. riverfrontspokane.com (625-6600)

PRESIDENT’S WEEKEND AT SCHWEITZER The long weekend offers many family activities, including snowshoeing, tubing, twilight skiing, live music and the “Let it Glow” night parade and fireworks show. Feb. 14-17. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555)

The Sandpoint Winter Carnival features a fireworks show at Schweitzer on Sunday, Feb. 16.

SANDPOINT WINTER CARNIVAL Activities for this annual festival kick off with the Parade of Lights through downtown Sandpoint followed by an after party, and continue with activities through the coming week, including sleigh rides, live music, a “dessert theatre” show, wine tastings, events at Schweitzer and more. Feb. 14-23.

Events in downtown Sandpoint and at Schweitzer Mountain Resort. Complete schedule/details at sandpointwintercarnival.com

NIGHT SKIING AT 49 Night skiing is great for the whole family and a fun way to see the mountain in a different light. Rentals available at half-day pricing, no lessons offered.

Sat, Feb. 15 from 4-8 pm. $5 with three cans of food. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com CROSS-COUNTRY SKI LESSONS (MT. SPOKANE) Learn the basics of cross-country skiing at Mt. Spokane Selkirk Nordic Area,

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Feb. 16-17. Schweitzer Mountain Re-

sort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) SUNSET SNOWSHOE HIKE TO BALD KNOB CAMPGROUND Mt. Spokane State Park staff lead a 2.25-mile roundtrip snowshoe hike on Trail 131 to the Bald Knob campground. Participants can return on the groomed snowmobile trail (Summit Road) for sunset and mountain views depending on the weather.

Dogs are welcome on leash. Bring water, snacks, warm clothes, headlamp, extra batteries and snowshoes.

Sno-Park permit required. Meet at the Lower Selkirk parking lot. Fri, Feb. 21 from 4-7 pm. Details at rei.com/spokane.

DELTA ‘KAN’ PHI COLLEGE KNIGHT College night at Mt. Spokane, offering $12 lift tickets for students with a current ID, along with $2 Rainier and food specials in Foggy Bottom Lounge. Fridays from 3:30-9 pm, Feb. 21 through March 13. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO ALUMNI DAY Wear your U of Idaho gear to show your school spirit, and enjoy beer

specials, an outdoor barbecue and discounted tickets with a valid alumni ID. Fri, Feb. 21. Lookout Pass, I-90 at Exit 0, Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com MASTERING THE MOUNTAIN CLINICS This coed session is designed for intermediate or advanced skiers/riders who’d like to learn new skills while exploring the mountain. Offered Tue, Feb. 18 and Tue, March 17 from 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $59. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (935-6649) GET THE GIRLS OUT The fifth anniversary of this event brings the spirit of the luau to the mountain with activities for all ages and abilities, including crowning a “Queen of the Greens,” hunting for the elusive “Golden Girafficorn,” runs down the NASTAR course, a raffle and more. Sun, Feb. 23 from 8 am-5 pm. $10-$40. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com or shejumps.org (208-263-9555) FAT TUESDAY ON A SUNDAY Celebrate at Lookout with party beads, gumbo, barbecue and drinks.

Sun, Feb. 23. Lookout Pass, I-90 at Exit 0, Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com

FAT SUNDAY FISH FRY Celebrate Mardi Gras on the mountain with a southern-style buffet, live music and more in Foggy Bottom Lounge.

Sun, Feb. 23 from 11:30 am-2 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane. com (238-2220) MEGA DEMO AT SCHWEITZER At least 20 brands are represented with over 400 pairs of new skis and boards. Test gear and help support the Panhandle Alliance for Education.

Sat, Feb. 29 from 8 am-3 pm. $40-$95.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) UPTOWN THROWDOWN Silver Mountain and Radio Brewing are inviting the region’s best skiers and boarders to uptown Kellogg, blocking off the street for rails, boxes and jumps. Beer is flowing and music bumping as judges determine who’s got the most style. Sat, Feb. 29. Radio Brewing Co., 319 Main St., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com

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TELEMARK FESTIVAL An event for telemark skiers looking

to sharpen their skills, meet other enthusiasts and explore the mountain, and for those curious about telemark skiing to try it out. Festivities include telemark lessons from certified PSIA instructors, swag and a telemark tour.

Sun, March 1 from 8:30 am-3 pm. $49.

49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com WILD SKILLS SKI JUNIOR SKI PATROL A day camp at Schweitzer for young girls to learn mountain safety and first aid while working with the strong women and men of the ski patrol community. For intermediate to expert skiers/snowboarders ages 8-17 who identify as female. Sun, March 1 at 9:30 am. $45. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE HIKE Quietly explore the meadows and woods around Mount Spokane. Guides, transportation (departs from Mead Yoke’s, 14202 N. Market St.), headlamps, walking poles and snowshoes all provided. Additional information emailed after registration. Ages 16+.

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SUNRISE SNOWSHOE HIKE TO BALD KNOB CAMPGROUND Mount Spokane State Park staff lead a 2.25-mile roundtrip snowshoe hike on Trail 131 to the Bald Knob campground. Participants can return on the groomed snowmobile trail (Summit Road) for mountain views depending upon the weather. On-leash dogs welcome.

Bring water, snacks, warm clothes and snowshoes. Sno-Park permit required. Meet at the Lower Selkirk parking lot. Sat, March 7 from 8-11 am. Details/registration are rei.com/ spokane.

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DOUG E. FRESH BANKED SLALOM This annual event, hosted by the Ski Shack team and Silver Mountain, offers prizes to top competitors who hit the hand-dug course, which weaves its way down the terrain park with the finish line ending next to the Grand Teton Brewing beer garden. Proceeds support kids who’ve lost parents, in loving memory of Doug Johnson. Sat, March 7.

Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. Silvermt.com BOYD HILL SORTANATURAL SNOWSKATE BANKED SLALOM Snowskates are binding-free skateboards for the snow. This annual event consists of timed runs on a technical banked course. Local snowskate maker Boyd Hill utilizes equipment manufactured in conjunction with Spokane master ski builder TJ Sneva. Sat, March 7 at 10 am. Lookout Pass, I-90 at Exit 0, Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com CROSS-COUNTRY SKI + MOONLIGHT DINNER Wander peacefully through the woods on snowshoes and then enjoy a meal of lasagna, salad, bread and more from Greenbluff Fresh Catering. Cost includes equipment, dinner and guides; some crosscountry ski experience is recommended. Sno-Park and Discover Pass required. Ages 18+. Sat, March 7 from 6-9 pm. $50. Meet at Mt. Spokane State Park Selkirk Nordic Lodge. Register at spokanerec.org (755-2489) SKI BUM PROM NIGHT Ski under the lights and dance the night away at 5,600 feet. Night skiing (3-9 pm) tickets are $15. There’s also live music in Moguls and drink specials from Grand Teton Brewing.

Wear your classiest retro ski bum attire and get awkward snapshots with your date. Sat, March 7. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKI LESSONS (49 DEGREES NORTH) Learn to cross-country ski and tour the trails of the 49 Degrees North Nordic Area with the mountain’s certified ski instructors. Ticket includes equipment, trail pass, instruction and transportation (departs from Wandermere Rite Aid, 12420 N. Division St.). Additional information emailed after registration. Ages 13+. Sun, March 8 from 9 am-4 pm. $55. Register at spokanerec.org (755-2489) LAST NIGHT OF SKIING RETRO PARTY Wear your neon spandex and party in the Foggy Bottom Lounge after the final night skiing run of the season. Sat, March 14 from 3:30-9 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) SHEIMO CUP An annual event sponsored by Hale’s Ales to benefit 49’s FAST racing program. The course is open from 10 am-2 pm; each competitor gets two runs, with prizes awarded for the fastest turns by age category and discipline. Race your friends, family and other people on the mountain during this fun event. Sat, March 14. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n. com BRING A FRIEND DAY Season pass holders can bring a friend for one free lift ticket, or buy two tickets for half off. Fri, March 20. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) HAWAIIAN DAZE The annual end-of-season event includes the pond skim, deck barbecue, poker run, costume contest, live music and more. Sat, March 28.

49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. Ski49n.com 2,400 FEET OF SCHWEITZER The endurance-testing vertical challenge starts at Sky House and finishes at the Outback, and lets participants experience a sunrise load and racing before Schweitzer opens to public traffic. Teams of skiers, boarders and telemarkers ride for prizes, bragging rights and to fundraise for Cystinosis research through the local nonprofit 24 Hours for Hank. Sat, March 28 from 5:30 am-9 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer. com / 24hoursforhank.org n

LAST RUN

IT’S ALWAYS THERE The fluttering that never really goes away BY ALEX SAKARIASSEN

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ike’s text read like the excited shouting of a flyfishing newbie hooking into his first trout. The skies were finally opening above the Northern Rockies in time for my trip to Bozeman, with the forecast calling for snowfall edging into the double digits. Mike had already been champing at the bit to introduce me to Bridger Bowl, his new hometown mountain. Now our first outing of the season together looked primed for “epic powder day” status.

Then he asked a question that sent my heart hurtling into my throat: “Should we skin the ridge?”

Bridger’s ridge terrain is the stuff of wild chairlift fables in Montana, infamous and unforgettable. It’s expert-only fare, a towering wall of steep chutes and cliffs, and riders venturing into the area are required to wear avalanche beacons. That double-digit day sud-

Bridger Bowl’s ridge terrain is expert-only fare. denly sounded a whole lot scarier. I told Mike that we could check the avalanche report the morning we went, an unspoken “maybe” I knew he’d read with a mix of frustration and disappointment.

As many lessons as I’ve taken, and as many backcountry turns as I’ve made, some butterflies never really go away. You learn to choke them down, to remind yourself of your skill, to let the promise of powder cascading over your face overpower the tickling of their wings in your stomach. But the fear is still there, as sure as it was the first time you stood on rickety legs in a lift line not knowing what awaited you at the top.

Throughout my childhood, one run in particular

embodied that fear. My dad would talk about it in a tone otherwise reserved for ghost stories, pointing from the lift at Red Lodge Mountain to the run’s one visible patch.

The sign alone, perched on a tree near the summit, was enough to spark both curiosity and terror. And it was taken for granted that someday, I’d have to prove my salt on Drainage.

When that day finally came, I skied past the sign, trembling as the earth began to melt away in a steep sea of trees and Volkswagen-sized moguls. The hot-dogging parallel turns I’d perfected were cast aside as I traversed from one side of the slope to the other, guts rising and sinking as I operated in pure survival mode. With every traverse, the run narrowed, until I was making slow stem christies down a narrow gully. I finally emerged at the base of an old double chair and collapsed, exhausted, next to my dad. I’d skied Drainage and lived, my family’s metric for expert skier ranking. Dad smiled.

The fear subsided for a while after that. But like a bad penny, it still turns up. It turned up at the top of a narrow chute in the French Alps, below a cornice on the Beartooth Pass, halfway down an icy headwall with a loaded toboggan behind me. Each time the butterflies have hammered my ribcage with their wings, and each time I’ve swallowed hard in a fruitless bid to calm them.

We’re told repeatedly in our lives to conquer fear. We watch the pros shredding the world’s toughest peaks and convince ourselves it’s possible to banish that nervous fluttering entirely. In truth, though, there’s no silencing the alarm bells that sound as we approach our limits, only a learned ability to cope with the wail. We hone our skills, we share our stories and we surround ourselves with supportive people so that when we finally do skin up that ridge, the fear we feel doesn’t take control. n

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Emergency to Re-Emerging From

Emerge Director Jeni Hegsted estimates the gallery spent $30,000 on space improvements before a recent fire.

Coeur d’Alene’s Emerge artspace rebuilding after recent fire through help of community

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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n Monday, Jan. 20, Jeni Hegsted awoke to a nightmare: Fire had ravaged several Coeur d’Alene businesses at Fourth and Lakeside.

That’s where Emerge, a contemporary art gallery and teaching space she developed six years ago, was located.

She didn’t yet know the extent of the damage that would eventually destroy five of her neighbors: 720 Haberdashery, Cole Taylor Salon, Heart City Tattoo, Schmidty’s Burgers and the Farmer’s Insurance office for agent Michael Shore.

When she arrived on the scene that morning, charred

debris littered the streets and snowy sidewalks. She was relieved to find that not only had Emerge’s firewall held, firefighters saved computers and a good portion of the artwork inside, temporarily relocating it to nearby Cisco’s Gallery.

“Any time there’s a fire, we always try to salvage anything we can,” says Coeur d’Alene Fire Department Fire Inspector Craig Etherton. Weighing the possibility of fire spreading northward, they sent some crews to grab what they could until it was no longer safe, says Etherton, who notes the origin of the fire is still under investigation.

Fortunately, between social media, cell phones and the proximity of artists and art supporters living close to downtown, Hegsted was able to muster help retrieving more items before the building was sealed off. They hauled most of Emerge’s pottery equipment and some of the photography darkroom, although supplies and other items are either damaged or sitting in what is now frozen water.

They then relocated the rescued artwork to the

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Human Rights Education Institute (HREI), with whom Emerge has partnered on numerous projects in the past and where Hegsted has set up a temporary office.

HREI is also hosting the current exhibit “Natural Selection” as well as Emerge’s multisession Emerging Artist Incubator program led by Eastern Washington University adjunct Reinaldo Gil Zambrano. Emerge’s pottery classes will be held at Gizmo, while Calypso’s Coffee is the new destination for Emerge’s Open Mic and Open Draw events.

Artist Jeff Weir, who got his start through Emerge and now has a thriving studio and business in Coeur d’Alene’s Rockwood Building, raised $3,375 through the sale of several paintings.

“Now that my art career is doing very well I want to encourage others to follow a path that they are passionate about,” Weir says, “and nobody encourages and drives artists like [Emerge does].”

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Before the smoke had cleared, Lake City Playhouse offered to donate proceeds from a play, Art Spirit Gallery offered exhibition space and five locals — Armando Cantarero, Bre Gotham, Bronwyn Riley, Hanna Rebecca and Tyann Bjorkman — had created a Facebook page, “Here to Help: Cda Business Fires,” to coordinate support for all the businesses affected.

“We’re so thankful for all the different programs or businesses helping us out, for sure,” says Hegsted, who is waiting to hear from the Fire Department, the insurance companies and the property owner. Then they’ll determine their next move, she says. Until then, they’re in limbo, unable to even look for a new space without breaking their lease.

Hegsted figures it would be at least $8,000 to get into a new place, yet she doubts a comparable space exists downtown.

“There’s so many elements to Emerge that we were able to house in that space that it’s going to be very challenging,” says Hegsted, who estimates that in 2019 alone, they invested $30,000 into improving their rented space, from texturing the walls and installing gallery-appropriate lighting to redoing the floor. All of that was from fundraising and grants.

The 3,500-square-foot space encompassed three floors: teaching areas and a kitchen in the basement; a gallery, closet, bathroom and small stage for live events on the main floor; and offices and studio spaces on the uppermost level.

Rhys Gerwin, one of Emerge’s tenants

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who taught music out of one of those studios, scrambled to rescue his baby grand piano and other instruments, many of which reeked of smoke but were otherwise structurally sound. Although he relocated much of his equipment to his home, the piano is sitting at his piano technician’s showroom being treated with an ozone generator to remove the smoke odor.

“It’s definitely affected its value,” says Gerwin of the piano, who is quick to point out it could have been worse.

Like many in the arts community, Gerwin works multiple jobs: teaching music privately and at North Idaho College, as well as working in food service. And, like Hegsted, he’s awaiting the fate of the building before considering finding a new studio.

“My first inclination is [I’m] probably not going to find something comparable,” says Gerwin, who knows the $200 monthly rent, downtown location and supportive community will be hard to replicate.

“It was amazing to see all the people who were helping [after the fire], people I’ve never seen before,” says Gerwin. “I was so stressed out I couldn’t take a second to appreciate it but looking back, wow. What a great community.”

Those wanting to help can donate to the “Rebuild Emerge” campaign via gofundme.com, or they can simply go out and support the artists of Coeur d’Alene.

“Show up for events, for art, for the artists,” Hegsted says. “Just show up.” n

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The Handmaiden

Beyond Parasite

E REDEFINING “MERIT” After a career of dividing Americans, degrading women and insulting minorities, the cigar-smoking conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. His reward for a lifetime of hatred? Only the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just a few gems attributed to Limbaugh: u “The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” u “You’re a foreigner. You shut your mouth or you get out.” u “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back” (to an African-American caller).

(QUINN WELSCH)

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

arlier this week, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite made history as the first Korean film to win at the Academy Awards and the first non-English language film to ever snag a Best Picture trophy. It’s a well-deserved victory, but Hollywood was, unsurprisingly, late getting the memo: The Korean film industry has been producing some of modern cinema’s most adventurous work. If Parasite is the first Korean film you’ve seen — or even heard of — there are so many more out there for you to discover. Here’s a good starting place: MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) Bong’s sophomore feature is a twisty, genre-bending mystery inspired by South Korea’s first serial killer and the two detectives (one played by Parasite’s Song Kang-ho) investigating the case. It blends genuinely disturbing material with broad swipes at comedy, and its ending will knock the wind out of you. Streaming on popcornflix.com.

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) Park Chan-wook is another of Korea’s most revered filmmakers, though his material (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) tends toward the perverse. Start with this, arguably his most accessible film, an ingenious,

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PET PLAYLISTS Music streaming behemoth Spotify is getting some unusual user demographic insight by asking subscribers to create a “personalized playlist for you and your pet, based on music you’ll both love.” To start, pick your pet from the list options of dog, cat, hamster, bird or iguana (sorry, aquarists whose fish like to jam out). Then, share some details about your pet’s personality (Is it shy or friendly? Active or lazy?), upload a pic, and boom: playlist created. My friendly/curious/ sort-of-inactive cat’s ultra-weird playlist included a Christmas song by Perry Como, some lo-fi electronic and a super upbeat STRFKR track. OK? (CHEY SCOTT)

NIGHT PROWLERS Lurking in the shadow of night, where our human eyes fail us, animals around the planet live out complicated dramas each night, from hunting on the savanna to lighting up the depths of the deep dark sea. Netflix’s Night on Earth, filmed with super-sensitive nighttime and infrared camera technology, is sure to fill the craving you didn’t even realize you’d been having for more Planet Earth-style nature documentation. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

romantic puzzle box about an heiress, a pickpocket and an unlikely scheme. Streaming on Amazon Prime.

TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016) A zombie movie that’s also kind of a crowd-pleaser, set on a bullet train that has been overtaken by a virus that turns the passengers into flesh-eating ghouls. It was a smash in its home country and has become a cult favorite in the states. Streaming on Netflix.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music hits online and in stores Feb. 14. To wit: HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS, Weather. Due to a hearing disorder, Lewis’s first new album in 19 years is probably his last.

TAME IMPALA, The Slow Rush. Album title as apt description of this long-time-coming, much-hyped addition to Kevin Parker’s catalog.

NENEH CHERRY, Raw Like Sushi 30th Anniversary Edition. The most exciting release of the week is three decades old, but doesn’t sound dated in the least. (DAN NAILEN)

POETRY (2010) One of the best films of the last decade, Lee Changdong’s remarkable drama follows an elderly woman (the revelatory Yoon Jeong-hee) as she finds her voice in a poetry class, all while being wrapped up in a horrific crime. See also: Lee’s 2018 mystery Burning, a beguiling enigma of a film. Streaming on Tubi.

I SAW THE DEVIL (2010) For the more extreme side of South Korean cinema — and they’ve produced some violent films — here’s Kim Jee-woon’s brutal, haunting epic of revenge and bloodlust, the story of a cop hunting the man who killed his fiancée. Not for the squeamish. Available to rent on YouTube.

RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (2016) Like Before Sunrise and In the Mood for Love, Hong Sang-soo’s quiet drama is about two people who meet, fall for each other and are inevitably separated by circumstance. But just when we think we’ve seen the end of things, Hong reverts and starts the story over again with a few slight changes, mirroring the chance and serendipity of life. Streaming on Kanopy. n

TRUE CRIME BUT WITH DEMONS I knew nothing about The Outsider, HBO’s new show based on a best-selling Stephen King novel, before I sat down to watch. And despite the fact that the show eventually trends towards the supernatural — which on its face doesn’t seem like it would mix with true-crime vibes — I’ve enjoyed it so far. It starts out as a conventional yet well-made crime story that tries to unravel the brutal murder of a young boy in a small town before revealing that paranormal forces may be at work. Ben Mendelsohn plays a great gritty detective while Jason Bateman serves as the key murder suspect. Notably, the show opts to play up tension and suspense over jump scares or cheap thrills, making the slow descent into its supernatural elements more palatable. It’s like True Detective but someone sprinkled in some demons. (JOSH KELETY)

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Immortal Views Spokane International Film Festival

A new MAC exhibit brings Pompeii’s victims of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption back to vivid life

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taly’s Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD. And yet, as the new Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s exhibit Pompeii: The Immortal City illustrates, life in Pompeii has transcended time.

The exhibition presents a kind of living history gracefully preserved through careful study of its remains, balancing the destructive potential of an active volcano with a celebration of first century Roman life.

The international traveling exhibition has broad appeal. The first American host, for example, was the Science Museum of Virginia and after the show leaves the MAC, it will head to Orlando Science Museum in Florida before returning to Italy for refurbishing.

STEM-minded individuals may appreciate the exploration of ancient machinery, such as the models of a crane used to lift segments of architectural columns and an odometer that enabled horse-drawn carts to accurately measure distance in real-time.

WEEKEND Among the C O U N T D OW N 2,000-yearGet the scoop on this old artifacts weekend’s events with are weight our newsletter. Sign up at scales, Inlander.com/newsletter. medical devices and an extraordinary bronze stand with four lamps and a statue of Dionysius. The presence of a marble sundial is a reminder of our debt to the Romans for our modern calendar.

Those interested in archaeology will appreciate the role Pompeii and neighboring Herculaneum played in the development of archaeology. Although discovered in the early 1700s, excavation didn’t commence until almost 50 years later, and is still ongoing, with roughly one-third of the city still buried. In the mid-1800s, an Italian archeologist formalized the excavation process and developed a method of preserving the bodies immortalized in ash by pouring concrete into the hollow where their bodies stood or lay or crouched in their final moments.

Replicas of two such body casts are included on an elevated platform inside one of two immersive enclosed displays. One figure, identified only as “a slave,” lies prone, his (or her) bare feet visible, as are wrinkles of fabric and a possible head covering, all appearing as if sprayed with sand. The surrounding video depicts nine modern dramatizations of typical citizens of Pompeii, underscoring the human element of the disaster.

An even more powerful video plays inside

the 360-degree, immersive projection room, which features 16 projectors and a dramatic sound and musical score. It takes viewers from a bluebird day in (recreated) first century AD Pompeii through the rapid escalation of thick, rolling smoke, furious rumbling, fire and falling ash. It’s a compelling video, ending with images of figures engulfed in gray ash. It’s well worth seeing several times.

Another section addresses how ancient Pompeians ate and drank — and drink they did, the region being known for winemaking.

The Roman god Bacchus figures in several frescoes, a kind of painting whereby pigment is applied to damp, plaster-covered walls.

Artifacts include clay amphorae — large, sturdy elongated vessels with thick walls and handles for carrying things like wine and oil — and a model of a device that epitomizes the Bacchanalian lifestyle: a glass vessel which allowed one to drink wine while reclining.

Looking more like a flattened cloche from atop a Parisian woman’s head than a loaf of bread, the world’s earliest evidence of baking is otherwise perfectly preserved. It’s one of several items of everyday life that still fascinate several thousand years later.

Look for the metal bathing tub, quite small by today’s standards, plus jewelry, farm implements and a model of a first century olive press that looks uncannily similar to those still in use.

There’s something for art lovers in the exhibition, too. Frescoes, for example, provide a fascinating cross-reference to other artifacts, illustrating food, clothing, hairstyle and recreation. Still others show the pantheon of Roman gods and goddesses, highlighting their importance in everyday life. There are also several pieces of Roman glass, most of it pale turquoise.

“Crafting Glass: From Roman Pompeii to Today,” a lecture by WSU art historian Hallie Meredith, is one of numerous events accompanying the exhibition, which runs through May. Other events address such topics as Roman gladiators, prostitution in the ancient city, and epicurean delights, including an April exploration of winemaking using clay vessels, and a May event investigating Pompeian foods and wines.

And, lest we forget that we, too, live in an area vulnerable to volcanoes, the MAC’s companion exhibit highlighting the 1980 eruption of Washington’s Mount St. Helens runs through Sept. 6. n Pompeii: The Immortal City • Through May 3; Tue-Sun from 11 am-5 pm • $10-$19.50 • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

Various artifacts on display at the MAC.

DINING

WE WANT IT ALL

A wishlist of food concepts and cuisines we’d like to see come to the Inland Northwest

BY CHEY SCOTT

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o stay in the loop on what’s happening in the local food scene, we (and probably a lot of you) spend a lot of time on social media, scouring Instagram, Facebook and Reddit for events, new menu releases, word on openings and more. During these routine scrolls, we also see lots of requests and inquiries from locals along the lines of “I wish Spokane had more [fill in the blank] food,” or “Where can I find [specific cuisine or dish] in the area?”

We got on Facebook and asked local diners and food lovers what they’d most like to see added to the region’s ever-expanding dining profile. While the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area has seen major culinary progress in the past decade, there’s much to look forward to, and hopefully that includes some of the concepts and ideas suggested here. Did we miss anything? Drop us a line at food@ inlander.com.

DIM SUM

If you’ve spent any time on local food-related Facebook groups or Spokane’s subreddit, you’ve seen posts asking where to find authentic, Cantonese-style dim sum, or small bites. It’s become sort of an inside joke in the community each time a new, unsuspecting soul posts another dim sum inquiry. While some regional Chinese eateries serve dim sum-style dishes, what most of these inquirers mean is dim sum in one of its most authentic forms, in which tea carts stacked with bamboo steamer baskets of food — dumplings, buns, rolls, veggies, rice, desserts and more — are pushed around the dining room for customers to order on the spot. Traditionally, dim sum is enjoyed with tea service, or yum cha, and the food is shared, family-style. In Western Washington, dim sum eateries abound, and include the ultra-popular Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung (its specialty is soup dumplings, xiao long bao) along with locally owned spots like Harbor City and Jade Garden restaurants in Seattle’s International District.

Hauser, Idaho — nowhere around here, to our knowledge, is doing it like they do in Chi-Town. By definition, an authentic deep-dish pizza is a hefty treat with pie-crustlike sides 2-3 inches tall. This buttery, biscuity crust is then topped in reverse order: cheese, meat, veggies and sauce; the latter goes on top to prevent the cheese and other goodies from burning during a longer bake time.

McMENAMINS

This wish comes straight from my personal list after a recent visit to one of the Pacific Northwest brewpub and boutique hotel chain’s newest locations, the spectacularly restored Elks Temple in Tacoma. I’ve also been to McMenamins’ historic Edgefield, just outside of Portland on a 74-acre site that once served as the Multnomah County Poor Farm. Considering the regional chain’s focus is transforming dilapidated historic properties into incredible spaces that house hotels, music venues and casual eateries filled with funky art and architectural features, the Spokane area, with its wealth of buildings 100 years old or older, is ripe for the picking. We reached out to McMenamins to ask if they’ve considered expanding east of the Cascades, and adding another venue to their growing list of 62 locations in Western Oregon and

Washington, but didn’t hear back. If they’re reading this now, please consider this our official request!

MORE INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS

While the Inland Northwest has a surplus of worthy Vietnamese, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Korean, French, Italian and Japanese eateries, savvy commenters pointed out the region’s obvious lack of many other international cuisines. This list is long — and by no means comprehensive — but of those mentioned more than once, we heard pleas for the following: Cuban, Jamaican, Peurto Rican and other Carribean cuisines; more Brazilian food options, along with traditional eats from Peru, Venezuela and El Salvador; British fare (Coeur d’Alene is home to the sole purveyor, the Crown & Thistle); Swiss cuisine, Russian food; more places that offer Chinese hot pots or ...continued on next page

CHICAGO DEEP DISH PIZZA

While working on the Inlander’s recent Pizza Issue (Jan. 16), we came up against a glaring void amongst the region’s massive collection of pizza purveyors: Chicago-style, deep-dish pizza. Though a few pizzerias in the area serve close imitations — Rocky Rococo, a Midwest-based chain with a location in downtown Spokane, and the locally owned Embers by the Lake in

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Japanese shabu shabu (both employ a hot pot of broth to cook meat and veggies); a Turkish doner kebab spot; Polish perogies; a high-end oyster bar; authentic Spanish tapas; specialties from the American Midwest, like Maid-Rite sandwiches (sort of like a crumbly ground beef sandwich, or a sloppy Joe sans slop) and Italian beef sandwiches.

FOOD HALL / FOOD TRUCK PARK

This request isn’t entirely unfulfilled when you zoom out and look broadly.

Downtown Pullman is home to one of the region’s first food halls, the Lumberyard.

Its lineup includes a grain bowl and salad counter, gourmet burgers, ice cream, a fried chicken stand and coffee.

In Post Falls, Prairie Pavilion (7777 Heartland Dr.) has offered a stationary home for some of the area’s otherwise mobile food trucks since late summer 2019. The site can house up to 12 trucks and has on-site parking, restrooms, a semienclosed dining area and other services for its food truck tenants.

While both of these are a great start, locals suggested similar concepts in the Spokane core, including a larger food hall — don’t forget that Saranac Commons, home to a brewery, pizza place, sandwich shop, coffee and more, fits this concept — like Pine Street Market in Portland or Pybus Public Market in Wenatchee. The Spokane Central Market by developer Rob Brewster, announced in early 2018 and intended to open that fall, had once planned to house a variety of counter-service eateries inside the large downtown venue at 111 N. Wall St. That hasn’t happened yet, and the project’s status is unclear.

A semi-permanent home for local food trucks in Spokane, serving beer and wine and with heated indoor seating, was another hopeful mention for the wishlist. n cheys@inlander.com

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FOOD | UPDATE

From left: Darby and Jovanka McKee, Simon Moorby, Austin Conklin, CJ Callahan.

Chapter Two Inland Pacific Kitchen and Hogwash Whiskey Den continue serving creative drinks and dishes after ownership shift

BY CHEY SCOTT

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or many weeks after its former owner, chef Jeremy Hansen, left town for a new gig, unfounded rumors spread that Inland Pacific Kitchen and its neighboring basement bar Hogwash Whiskey Den were permanently closed.

Neither ever were, presenting a frustrating challenge for the staff leading the kitchens and bars of each. As of early this year, though, new ownership has stepped in with the goal of effectively upholding the status quo.

Darby McKee and his wife Jovanka purchased both restaurants from Jeremy and Kate Hansen with the intent of keeping the same trio of leaders in place at both Inland Pacific Kitchen (IPK for short) and Hogwash.

At Hogwash, bar manager Simon Moorby and chef CJ Callahan are both maintaining their creative leadership of the drink and food menus, while upstairs at IPK, chef Austin Conklin continues to experiment with its creative fine dining concept, with support from Moorby and Callahan.

“It’s their baby; they’ve been running it forever as far as day to day, and we didn’t want it to be sold to someone who would change the team or concept,” Darby McKee explains. “I don’t know that anyone would know it’s changed.”

The McKees co-own Overbluff Cellars on the main level of the Washington Cracker Co. Building, at 304 W. Pacific Ave., and Darby McKee is a part owner of the historic building that houses both restaurants and the winery, along with event spaces, the Terrain art gallery, Anvil Coffee and many business tenants.

“When [Jeremy] moved, it was frustrating because everyone thought that he was selling the business and people stopped coming in, or I’d hear at another bar ‘What are you going to

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do?’” Callahan says. “When Darby stepped in, it was an ideal solution. Jeremy and Kate set a very high standard and put us all in a position to run the businesses for them, and separate from them we can maintain and raise that standard. It’s a challenge we’re up to.”

Moorby and Callahan have both been at Hogwash essentially since it opened in late 2016.

Conklin joined the team at IPK about a year ago.

Conklin plans soon to launch a special Tuesday tasting menu to expand IPK’s weekday operations with a rotating, multicourse, fixedprice menu that he and his staff can get creative with.

“We want to get people in the door to see what kind of food we’re doing,” he adds.

Callahan chimes in: “With IPK it’s worth noting that we’re making a very concerted effort to get away from the exclusive concept that it started as. We’re trying to make it more approachable and accessible. We want to establish regular and weekly customers.”

Downstairs at Hogwash, Moorby is working on compiling a comprehensive list of the more than 300 whiskeys he’s stocked the bar with. In the kitchen, Callahan is happy to focus his energy on one venue, rather than spreading himself thin across the Hansens’ former multilocation restaurant group.

“I feel more focused. This is what I always wanted to do, in this restaurant and kitchen and bar. I can now fulfill ideas I wrote down six months ago,” he says.

Eventually, the team leading each spot will have a chance to join with the McKees as part owners.

“To watch this team’s work is impressive,” Darby McKee says. “It’s really cool to see how much they care about the product, and figuring out how to keep moving it forward and driving to bigger and better things. I wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t this team.” n cheys@inlander.com

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Haters Gonna Hate Miss Americana, Netflix’s new Taylor Swift documentary, is both slick PR product and cutting pop critique

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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aylor Swift has always been as fascinating as she is divisive — as a mainstream musician, as a cultural obsession, as a supposed pop confessionalist. Tabloids have speculated breathlessly about her relationships, her feuds and her friendships, and yet the most she has personally let us in on her life is through her lyrics, which have long been considered vulnerable diary entries set to buzzy, danceable melodies.

I’ll admit I once approached Swift with a sniffy condescension. I saw her celebrated switch from country to pop as opportunistic rather than organic, and I was dubious of the authorial control she reportedly held over her own music and image. But I’ve been proven wrong, not only by Swift’s longevity but by the sheer irrepressibility of her songs, and I’ve been converted from skeptic to casual fan.

So I watched Miss Americana, a new feature-length Netflix documentary about Swift, with about as much appreciation as cautious incredulity. Either this film is a carefully calculated PR campaign, or a rare instance of a famously private celebrity granting us unadulterated access, however brief, into her universe. Or maybe it’s both, because perhaps those things don’t necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

Lana Wilson’s film neatly bisects Swift’s career into two distinct eras: There’s the rise of Taylor Swift the politically neutral superstar, followed by the recent emergence of Taylor Swift the opinionated individual.

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The first half of the doc is presented in a rush of media inspiring a minor bump in youth voter registration in coverage, a breathless montage illustrating Swift’s rise Tennessee. from girl-next-door country ingenue to Top 40 crossover, Miss Americana has been advertised as a more personal the revolving door of A-list boyfriends, the infamous moportrait of Swift than we’re used to, but as with any pop ment when Kanye West interrupted her during the MTV star documentary, the moments of truth are shot through Video Music Awards, the hatred she regularly inspires a Vaseline-coated veneer. The vulnerabilities we’re online. The second half, meanwhile, has Swift talking allowed to see, after all, have been handpicked at the candidly about the unfair scrutiny with which she views behest of the artist herself. herself, her struggles with an eating disorder, and how a But in the ways it dissects the harsh truths about the self-imposed exile refocused her career. ways women are treated in stark contrast to men, Miss And then there’s the moment Swift, raised in an Americana kind of makes a case for that exact kind of preindustry that shuns divisiveness, finally gets political. meditation. That might sound like a weird contradiction, Much of this was spurred not only by a sexual but then again, being Taylor Swift is assault case Swift brought against a Denver MISS AMERICANA fraught with inherent contradictions. radio DJ who groped her in public, but by the She says so herself: She has to keep Directed by Lana Wilson 2018 senatorial election in Tennessee. Despite reinventing herself to appease critics, Not Rated misgivings from her management, Swift took though the very act of reinventing Streaming on Netflix to social media to denounce Republican canherself makes her seem less genuine. didate Marsha Blackburn, a surprise coming She wants her songs to sound effortfrom a high-profile celebrity who had heretofore been less, as all the best pop music is, but being too effortless totally apolitical. makes it appear as if she isn’t trying hard enough. And We see all the behind-the-scenes machinations of that if she speaks out about her beliefs, she’s shunned into decision — how Swift’s father worries about it affecting silence. Silence, meanwhile, is cowardly. her career and her safety, and how the statement itself is In that sense, the carefully manicured image that is meticulously worded and vetted before it’s uploaded onsuperstar Taylor Swift comes across less like a craven line. It might seem ridiculous to treat an Instagram post calculation than mere defense mechanism. “It’s time for as an act of defiance (or even as an act of minor heroism), me to take the masking tape off my mouth,” Swift says but it made national news and was even credited with near the end of Miss Americana. “Like, forever.” n

FILM | SHORTS

OPENING DOWNHILL

A remake of the Swedish black comedy Force Majeure, in which a couple (Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is forced to reassess their marriage after avoiding a natural disaster. (NW) Rated R

FANTASY ISLAND

The cheesy ’70s TV show becomes a slick supernatural thriller, as tourists on a tropical isle have their greatest desires realized and then suffer the bloody consequences. (NW) Rated PG-13

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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

After some fan-demanded CGI tinkering, the video game star finally blastprocesses his way onto the big screen, wisecracking and battling it out with Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik. (NW) Rated PG

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a third team-up, and here they’re partnered with a much younger crew to take down a Miami cartel. A decent action-comedy that could spawn a new franchise. (NW) Rated R

BIRDS OF PREY

Margot Robbie returns as Harley Quinn in her own Suicide Squad spinoff, and it’s a step up, a colorful and violent neonoir involving a teenage pickpocket, a

diamond and Ewan McGregor’s delightfully scummy kingpin. (NW) Rated R

DOLITTLE

Everything that’s old is new again, as Robert Downey Jr. plays yet another version of the whimsical veterinarian who can talk to the animals. (NW) Rated PG

FORD V. FERRARI

From director James Mangold, a slick dramatization of the relationship between the Ford auto designer (Matt Damon) and the pro driver (Christian Bale) who set out to beat Ferrari in the ’66 24 Hours of Le Mans race. (ES) Rated PG-13

FROZEN II

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In Taika Waititi’s WWII-set satire, a little boy with an imaginary friend who looks just like Hitler befriends the Jewish girl being hidden by his mother. Its juggling tones and bleak subject matter might not work for everyone. (ES) Rated PG-13

JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL

Another week, another unnecessary sequel. The teens from the first Jumanji return — with their grandpas this time — and leap back into the video game realm to rescue a missing friend. (MJ) Rated PG-13

JUST MERCY

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KNIVES OUT

Rian Johnson’s all-star whodunit centers on the death of a wealthy patriarch, and the craven relatives that would profit off his demise. As a mystery, it’s merely OK. As an evisceration of the one percent, it’s satisfying. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Louisa May Alcott’s literary classic about four sisters growing up during and after the Civil War gets a brilliant modernist twist courtesy of Greta Gerwig. A film that’s as timeless as it is timely. (MJ) Rated PG

PARASITE

Satire, slapstick and secrecy collide in Bong Joon-ho’s twisty, Oscar-winning contraption about a poor South Korean family that insinuates itself into the lives of an upper class clan. Surprises abound. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

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Seattle’s Social Justice Film Festival brings a package of short and featurelength nonfiction stories to the Magic Lantern Theater on Feb. 15 and 16, a potent lineup of films that highlight issues from around the world. Included in this year’s group is the recent Oscar-winning short Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), as well as films about Iranian salt mines, prison reform, gentrification, and the effect of climate change on the Amazon.

The fest concludes at 6 pm on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at Gonzaga University with a screening of the documentary True Justice, about civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. All screenings are free; donations accepted. For a complete schedule, see socialjusticefilmfestival.org. (NW)

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As she falls in love, a photographer simultaneously uncovers the details of an old romance involving her late, estranged mother. Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield star. (NW) Rated PG-13

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ROMANCE

SILLY LOVE SONGS For Valentine’s Day, we pick the songs that most remind us of romance, heartbreak and love

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n the summer of 1976, the No. 1 song in the country asked a rhetorical question: What’s so wrong about filling the world with silly love songs? The Paul McCartney confection is an ode to outright sentiment, but its origins are more cynical: It was meant as a grinning middle finger to John Lennon, who had vocally criticized McCartney’s 1970s output for being too treacly.

The sentiments of “Silly Love Songs” are nonetheless timeless, because a good love song can make even the most hardhearted cynics into sentimentalists. Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so we’re reflecting on the love songs, silly or otherwise, that are most important to us — the tunes we associate most closely with romance, or maybe even heartbreak. Don’t mind us while we get a little mushy for a minute.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

BRIAN’S SONG

Most blatant displays of emotion come across as unbearably maudlin to me. I’m more of a Lennon than a McCartney in that regard. In fact, the track that my wife and I have designated as our song is a joke: “Faded,” the only hit by long-forgotten Canadian funk-rock band SoulDecision. We’re clearly too cool for sentimentality. But when we saw the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in concert, we found ourselves blubbering like babies as he lit into “God Only Knows,” the crown jewel of 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds. It’s arguably the greatest pop song ever, but it’s the opening lyric that gets me every time: “I may not always love you.” It’s kind of cold, cruel almost, yet also achingly romantic, because it’s so honest and forthright and realistic. Love stories are so much more powerful when there’s a possibility that they could end at any moment. (NW)

MUSIC | HIP-HOP

JUST MY TYPE

Like any millennial coming of age in the 2000s, burning CD mixes — for road trips, first crushes, workouts, etc. — was an essential teenage rite. I still make plenty of dedication playlists on Spotify. I have one for my partner, Will, and even for our cat Dellie. Mostly I save songs that remind me of them and happy moments in our lives. One day, when I heard “My Type” by Saint Motel, I added it to Will’s playlist. I’ll admit: I’ve never been the savviest lyric interpreter. Sometimes, all that matters is how a song makes you feel versus the meaning of the words, right? Later when I played it for him and he heard the chorus, “You-you-you’re just my type / Oh, you’ve got a pulse and you are breathing,” his reaction contained significantly less romantic appreciation than sarcastic surprise.

(CHEY SCOTT)

LIP SERVICE

Among the oddities of high school dances in Omaha was the fact that they were called “sock hops” despite it being the 1980s and not Happy Days, and that they ended with a slow dance to “Stairway to Heaven.” Just try to shift gears from gentle, awkward teen-dance swaying into something that’s not breathtakingly uncool when that song goes nuts at the end. But I digress. I was one of many who experienced my first kiss in a dimly lit gym at a sock hop. I remember the girl. I remember wondering if I was doing it right. I remember peeking with one eye to see if her eyes were closed. And I’ve always remembered the song, one I literally never heard again until looking it up for this assignment: Eric Carmen’s “I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips.” Does it hold up?

About as well as calling a dance a “sock hop.” But it’s planted in my brain forever. (DAN NAILEN)

SAD SACKS

Considering it’s about the inevitable slow death of passionate love over a lifetime, “Brothers on a Hotel Bed” by Death Cab for Cutie probably shouldn’t be what a couple calls “our song.” But that’s exactly what it is for my wife and me. It connected with both of us in a time of uncertainty — we’d recently started dating, yet I was about to move 300 miles away just as our relationship had blossomed. Would our relationship fade with the distance, like it can fade over time? As it turns out, the answer was no. We survived the distance, and now, years later, that song represents something entirely different, something we were able to conquer together. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

PROBLEMATIC VENTURE

Impulsive decisions generally aren’t the best ones. Partially because they tend to involve blowing excessive amounts of cash.

Like that time I hopped on a redeye flight to spend a weekend in New York City with a woman I was smitten with at the time.

We had been friends and she was visiting a few American cities on business when a poorly thought-out romance developed. She loved Radiohead and we listened to tracks like “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” and “All I Need.” After the brief trip out east, the quixotic relationship quickly crashed and burned in a less-than-amicable fashion. But now, whenever I hear those songs, I always think of that sun-drenched summer evening happily meandering around Brooklyn with her. It’s an absurd, expensive and sad-but-comical memory forever linked to a band that I’m otherwise ambivalent about. (JOSH KELETY)

ICE KING

Time has a weird way of icing over feelings. My once deeply held beliefs on love and relationships have hardened since my sentimental teenage years. But “Mountain Annie” by bluegrass group Fruition is one of those songs that manages to break through that icy barrier. It’s not so much about being in love with someone as it is falling for someone who won’t reciprocate. We’ve all been there. It sucks. The song’s perfectly executed licks from the mandolin and vocal harmonies make it energetic, despite how depressing it is. “Get out of my head, give me back my heart Mountain Annie.” Sad, yet sweet. Maybe even happy after all.

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Slug (left) and Ant of Atmosphere return to Spokane on Tuesday night.

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Slug, half of the hip-hop duo Atmosphere, reflects on the inspirations behind the biggest songs of his career

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ean Daley has always embraced darkness in his music, lacing his lyrics with emotional rawness, unvarnished truths and a wicked sense of humor. Better known as Slug, the MC half of long-running Minneapolis hip-hop duo Atmosphere, he’s no different in conversation.

Atmosphere rolls through Spokane on Tuesday, and the Inlander caught up with Slug, 47, to discuss the inspiration behind several classic Atmosphere tracks.

“Virgo,” Mi Vida Local (2018): The song off Atmosphere’s 2018 LP contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever else is presently threatening humanity. One line goes, “You can sacrifice me to the weather / If you promise that you’ll let my songs live forever.”

Slug: “I had been writing a lot about death over the past few years. After your obsession with death is done, what’s the next thing? Do you obsess over life again? That song was me trying to dig through that. What can I be obsessed with?

What can I be worried about? It made me realize it’s OK to write about actual stuff a person my age worries about. It’s not super common, in my genre of music, to write things about how I might be in the last generation of grandparents. This is what I’m concerned with in real life. I wrote that as an exercise, or a catalyst, to stop writing about death.”

“The Best Day,” To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP’s (2010): A bouncy jingle is juxtaposed with Slug’s tendency to place rain clouds in even his sunniestsounding songs. The message is world-weary yet ultimately hopeful, but not to begin with: “I had a rough day, but that’s life, it happens / Woke up on a dark side of my mattress.”

Slug: “I was hoping to make that a song with me and [L.A. rapper] Murs. A lot of times, when I did songs with Murs, I would look for songs that were tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic … So I wrote a

verse about having a bad day at work. I can’t remember exactly why, but Murs wasn’t feeling it. So I chose to finish it myself and do the Atmosphere thing where I write two verses about two different people, and then I write one about me. And if it wasn’t going to be a funny song, then it had to be about hope. … I don’t know why people like it. It turned out to be one of our most popular songs, and I have no idea why.”

“Shoulda Known,” When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (2008): Slug rhapsodizes on addiction and loving people who are also enslaved by substances.

Slug: “We were working with live musicians on that one. … Ant [the producer half of Atmosphere] had a concept of how he wanted it to work, but in the studio, everyone was playing and playing and pushing until they all felt like their parts were standing out. That’s the thing about musicians, man, they’re all a bunch of egotistical [inaudible].

I’m not talking about rappers. We all know rappers suck. But guitar players and keyboard players and shit, man? Everyone’s got these egos and wants to hear their own part. So, this was a song where everyone kept turning up their part until they could hear it, but it ended up making a pretty dope recipe. And I can’t even tell you if there’s guitar on the track. I mean, can you hear it?”

“F--- You Lucy,” God Loves Ugly (2002): Over a mournful, dead-eyed beat, Slug addresses his fictional character, Lucy Ford — the love of his life that forever leaves him spurned — in increasingly resentful terms: “Most of this garbage I write that these people seem to like / Is about you and how I let you infect my life.”

Slug: “It’s about booze. Yep — alcohol.” n Atmosphere with the Lioness, Nikki Jean & DJ Keezy • Tue, Feb. 18 at 7 pm • $27.50 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

HIP-HOP BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

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one Thugs-n-Harmony have been at it since the early ’90s, when they knocked out classics like “1st of tha Month,” “Look into My Eyes” and their chart-topping, Grammy-winning smash “Tha Crossroads.”

They’ve had some starts and stops over the years — a few of them have broken off for side projects and solo endeavors — but the original members (that’d be Krayzie, Layzie, Wish, Bizzy and Flesh-n-Bone) have mostly been going strong for nearly three decades now, and their more recent collaborations with Akon, Mariah Carey and Ty Dolla $ign prove they’re adapting with the times.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Bone Thugs-N-Harmony with Young Neves and Zero • Thu, Feb. 20 at 8 pm • $29.50 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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Thursday, 02/13

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic Night with KC Carter BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S BAR & GRILL, Blues Society Boogie w/Usual Suspects J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Charles Swanson J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CRUISERS, Open Jam Night J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LION’S LAIR, Karaoke LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Windoe & Jenny Anne Mannan MOOSE LOUNGE, Last Chance Band MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Kosh THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos NYNE, DJ Storme J THE PIN, Crobot, Aeges, Like Machines, Phantom 309, AA Bottom THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Friday, 02/14

219 LOUNGE, The Rub 1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Shanner ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, One Street Over J BABY BAR, Indian Goat, Fun Ladies, Gotu Gotu BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Heather King Duo BEEROCRACY, Wyatt Beaulieu BERSERK, Nausoleum: Gothic Romance Dance Party BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn

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COUNTRY LOGAN MIZE

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f you’re a local music fan, you probably associate the Pin with hard rock or metal shows. But the downtown venue is hosting one of its rare country concerts this weekend, with rising star Logan Mize taking the stage.

He’s been bubbling under the country charts for a few years, getting airplay with singles like “Ain’t Always Pretty” and last year’s “Better Off Gone.” Mize is touring with former X Factor contestant Willie Jones, who also appears on Mize’s song “I Ain’t Gotta Grow Up” and is another name you might start seeing on bigger and bigger marquees.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Logan Mize with Willie Jones • Sun, Feb. 16 at 7 pm • $20 • All ages • The Pin • 412 W. Sprague • thepinspokane.com • 385-1449 BIGFOOT PUB, Cary Fly Band BOLO’S BAR & GRILL, Karma’s Circle BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, AlleyCat BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Sara Brown Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Pick Axe Bluegrass THE BULL HEAD, Last Call Band CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Nick Grow CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL (CDA), Pat Coast COSMIC COWBOY GRILL (SPOKANE), Son of Brad CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Robinsong CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz HAPPY TRAILS TO BREWS, Chris Molitor THE HIDDEN MOTHER BREWERY, Brent Edstrom Jazz Trio HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB, John Firshi HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Dallas Kay

IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mike & Shanna Thompson J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., The Midnight Goats IRON HORSE (CDA), The Nudge IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Evan Denlinger J KNITTING FACTORY, Minnesota J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Bubble & Squeak LIL SUMTHIN’ SALOON, Line Dancing LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Lip Sync Battle: Valentine’s Edtion; Emo 2000: V-Day Edition MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Bright Moments & Maya Goldblum MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta La Vista MOOSE LOUNGE, Dangerous Type MULLIGAN’S BAR, Alejandro Vargas MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Tom Pletscher

THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos OLD MILL BAR AND GRILL, Gil Rivas PACIFIC PIZZA, Jason Perry Trio PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Lucas Brookbank J J THE PIN, Brother Ali, Open Mike Eagle, DJ Last Word PRIME TYME BAR & GRILL, Steve Starkey Band THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J SARANAC COMMONS, Kevin Partridge SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Just Plain Darin (at Noah’s) STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ RUSS J THE JACKLIN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER, Friends of Guitar Hour feat. Mateusz Kowalski THE VIKING, Meghan Sullivan Band J TTS OLD IRON BREWERY & BBQ, Okay, Honey ZOLA, Pastiche

Saturday, 02/15

49 DEGREES NORTH, Quarter Monkey 219 LOUNGE, Devon Wade A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Kevin ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Spare Parts BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Buffalo Jones, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, Soultree BIGFOOT PUB, Cary Fly Band BOLO’S BAR & GRILL, Karma’s Circle BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, AlleyCat BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Shuffle Dawgs J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Dan Maher THE BULL HEAD, Chicken on the Bone CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Nick Grow J COSMIC COWBOY GRILL (CDA), Just Plain Darin COSMIC COWBOY GRILL (SPOKANE), Lyle Morse CURLEY’S, Loose Gazoonz

FREDNECK’S SALOON AND BEANERY, Gil Rivas GARLAND PUB, Usual Suspects J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Into the Drift IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Tracy Shornick J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Uh Oh and the Oh Wells IRON HORSE (CDA), The Nudge THE JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL, Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Solid Ghost J KNITTING FACTORY, Shoreline Mafia LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Valentine’s Jazz Night ft. Branden Cate, Matt Henson Group MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta La Vista MOOSE LOUNGE, Dangerous Type MULLIGAN’S BAR, Truck Mills NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ONE TREE CIDER HOUSE, Starlite Motel PACIFIC PIZZA, Brotha Nature & Icky Business

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PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner & Utah John J THE PIN, Vale of Pnath, Gorod, Wolf King, Rot Monger, Withheld Judgement POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Christy Lee RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Limberlost, The Shrike, Sarah Wild, Heroes for Ghosts THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Sam Leyde (at Noah’s) J SPIKE’S PHILLYS & MORE, Acoustic Showcase Saturday J J SPOKANE ARENA, Blake Shelton with The Bellamy Brothers, John Anderson, Trace Adkins and Lauren Alaina STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, DJ RUSS J THE JACKLIN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER, Tango Volcado WESTWOOD BREWING, Son of Brad ZOLA, Pastiche

Sunday, 02/16

CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam CRAVE, DJ Dave CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Nick Grow MARYHILL WINERY, Dawna Stafford THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Traditional Irish Music

HAPPY HOUR

1/2 OFF DRINKS DAILY 46 PM

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano with Peter Lucht J J THE PIN, Logan Mize with Willie Jones (see facing page) RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Glass Honey

Monday, 02/17

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Shanner THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Eric Neuhauser CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S PUB, Jam with Truck Mills THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 02/18

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke KNITTING FACTORY, Atmosphere MARANDOS, Gil Rivas THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Gemini Dei THE VIKING, Songsmith Series feat.

Rick Lillemon ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 02/19

J 291 BREWHOUSE, Just Plain Darin BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Hogslop String Band with Guests J BLACK DIAMOND, Zaq Flanary CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night EICHARDT’S PUB, Maya Goldblum GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MAD BOMBER BREWING, Open Mic MILLWOOD BREWING CO., Kori Ailene THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE PIN, Ladies Night w/DJ Dreadfull RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Pamela Jean ZOLA, Cruxie

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J J KNITTING FACTORY, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (see facing page), Feb. 20 J KNITTING FACTORY, ZZ Ward, Feb. 21 BERSERK, Lip Sick, Itchy Kitty, Portable Morla, Feb. 22 J PANIDA THEATER, Roger Fisher of Heart, Feb. 22 J SPOKANE ARENA, Korn & Breaking Benjamin with Bones, Feb. 26

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake • 924-1446 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Pacific • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside, CdA • 208-665-0591 CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw, Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice, Post Falls • 208-7734706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar, Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls • 279-7000 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 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman, CdA • 208667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague, CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth, Moscow • 208-883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset 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, 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 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford, Airway Heights • 242-7000 THE NYC PIANO BAR • 313 Sherman, CdA • 208930-1504 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Pacific • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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OUTDOORS SNOW PRO

If you have any intention of becoming a professional snowboarder, you might want to learn the tricks of the trade from one of the best. Davey Baird is sliding into Spokane this week, after a successful top-five finish at the 2020 Freeride World Tour, to share the ins and outs of his life as a pro. The 26-yearold Alaskan adrenaline junkie has podiumed — that’s a top-three finish in Olympic sports lingo — the last three years at the Freeride World Tour and has made a name for himself on the circuit traveling to competitions via mini house. Get all your questions about competitive snowboarding, and tiny living, answered when he drops by REI in Spokane.

— MACIE WHITE Davey Baird and the Freeride World Tour • Sat, Feb. 15 at 5 pm • Free • REI • 1125 N. Monroe St. • rei.com/events • 328-9900

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THEATER LATE LOVE

CLASSICAL ROSY SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Fireflies • Feb. 14-March 1; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $15; $13/seniors, students, military • Ignite! Community Theater • 10814 E. Broadway Ave., Spokane Valley • ignitebroadway.org

Spokane String Quartet: A Garden of Roses • Sun, Feb. 16 at 3 pm • $12-$20 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • spokanestringquartet.org

Eleanor has a quiet life in her small Texas town. The retired teacher is respected by her community and set in her ways, and she likes it just fine. But a hole in her roof threatens to turn her happy existence upside down thanks to the charms of the man who comes to fix it. Abel is a smooth talker, and sparks soon fly between the two, launching a romance that thrills Eleanor, but has her friends questioning whether this mystery man is maybe too good to be true. Playwright Matthew Barber adapted Fireflies from Annette Sanford’s novel Eleanor and Abel, and this romance about love later in life could be your perfect Valentine’s Day date — even if you have to see it later in its run.

— DAN NAILEN

For its first concert of 2020, the Spokane String Quartet presents a special premiere of local composer Cary Boyce’s newest work, “A Garden of Roses.” Boyce is perhaps more widely known as general manager of Spokane Public Radio, a position he’s held since 2012.

He also serves as composer in residence for the Aquava New Music Studio, a group that helps publicize and schedule performances of new contemporary works. This won’t be the first time the quartet has performed Boyce’s work; it premiered his “Nightshade” in 2015. Also on the program this Valentine’s Day weekend is Mozart’s “Hoffmeister” quartet and music by Hungarian composer Ernst Von Dohnányi.

— CHEY SCOTT

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DANCE BEYONCÉ ON POINTE

If going to the ballet sounds like a snooze fest, let it be known there are alternatives to the traditional Swan Lake. Hiplet (pronounced “hip-lay”) incorporates African, Latin, hip-hop and urban dance styles with classical pointe technique. Tchaikovsky, Arabesques, Beyoncé and beat-boxing — you’ll find it all on stage at Gonzaga’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center this week. The Hiplet Ballerinas transcend the realm of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty with so much sass and style that their African rhythm and hip-hop beats have earned them national attention. Featured on Good Morning America, Buzzfeed and HuffPost, this unique group performs in Spokane one night only.

— MACIE WHITE Hiplet Ballerinas • Tue, Feb. 18 at 7:30 pm • $20-$50 • Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center • 211 E. Desmet Ave. • gonzaga.edu/mwpac • 313-2787

+ THEATER WE WERE HERE

Like Tony Kushner’s groundbreaking Angels in America, Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet is a piece of theater that was written in the midst of the AIDS crisis and that reflects on tremendous loss with equal parts anger and pathos.

But unlike the epic and mystical Angels, Planet is a compact, one-act play about two gay men, Carl and Jody, growing closer to one another as their friends, lovers and acquaintances succumb to an ailment that’s still a mystery to everyone. Lonely Planet, which opens at Stage Left this weekend, may consider a dark period in recent American history, but it conveys humanity and a twinge of therapeutic humor, all while staring unflinchingly down the barrel of an epidemic.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

Now on Inlander.com: National and international stories from the New York Times to go with the fresh, local news we deliver every day

Lonely Planet • Feb. 14-March 1; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $15-$25 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third Ave. • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727

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CHEERS

I SAW YOU SLITHERING SNAKE How do you live with yourself? Your a very evil man ripping off seniors, singles, young vulnerable mothers/woman, handicapped. You con, scam and defraud millions. You love no one not even yourself. I continue to bring awareness on what your all about. It’s as if you have no heart or no soul. You make the world a sad hurtful dark place...No more trust or belief, only grief from the fight!

You can take all and leave nothing and not blink an eye. Causing turmoil & destruction! Wrecking lives, destroying ones trust, character, and faith in mankind. Fraud/ Identity theft is a crime!

GET AIR SEXY DAD 2/8/20 Around 11 am we both took our daughters to Get Air. My daughter was enticed by you and your beautiful six year old playing while we waited in line. My daughter introduced herself to both of you. Then we introduced ourselves. Our daughters ended up being obsessed with each other. I thought it was super cute that our daughters were paying so well and YOU are super cute. I had a great time with the girls but would like to get to know tall dark and handsome DAD. Your name started with an S. Please get a hold of me If you see this!

Bigbootyjudy421@yahoo.com BROKE BOTH HIS LEGS AT SLAYER One of the more epic stunts I’ve witnessed. I have a photo of you leaving the arena on a stretcher throwing a “rock on” hand in the air. safety3rdthird@gmail.com

UBER DRIVER LOSE MY NUMBER To the Uber driver who drove me home from Lucky You Lounge last Saturday night, I am grateful for your service and want to apologize for throwing up while I was your passenger. I’m a lightweight when it comes to drinking, and someone at the bar kept buying shots. I forgot after the 3rd one that I wasn’t in college anymore... sigh, not my finest moment. Anyway, I don’t remember getting into your car, but I do remember feeling very queasy in your backseat, and then a flash of the window rolling down in a hurry as I expelled the contents of my stomach down the side of your fine vehicle. I am eternally sorry that I left you like that, in no condition to even comprehend that my body fluids probably cost you some later night fares. Or how your car may have smelled and/or looked as you drove off. Somehow I made it home with all my personal items. That alone is a miracle. What’s also a miracle is that there are people like you willing to risk driving drunk strangers home safely. This stranger is grateful you never once seemed upset at me, even though I deserved it. I hope we never meet again for both our sakes, and that all your rides are nothing but 5 star big tippers the entire year. You deserve it!

Sincerely, Sober now REPUBLICANS Cheers to the Senate Republicans for unwittingly coming up with a plan that will reduce jail and prison populations. From now on all criminal trials will no long have witnesses and evidence presented against the accused, and his friends and family will be the jurors.

GOODMORNING SUNSHINE Thank you for the tea. In the rush of the AM I often forget to grab anything for breakfast and end up totally sick by the time lunch rolls around.

Your “oh this is for you” often makes the mornings just a little bit easier and I am so grateful for that and for you.

NERD LOVE Happy Valentine’s Day and happy birthday to the Arthur to my Molly, the Bernie to my Jane, the Wash to my Zoe, the Jamie to my Claire and the Westley to my Buttercup. I love you more.

You are amazing and every day with you in it is better.

WILL I love you... in spite of ourselves. I always have. I always will. Unconditionally.

-KateYOU HELPED OUT A GRATEFUL ARTIST Cheers to the amazing employee at the

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IT’S JUST BEER. RIGHT? I love beer as much as the next person and respect the craft of brewing. However, in a saturated market of small micro breweries, shouldn’t you maybe consider that you’re the newbie and charging $9 (+tax) for 12 oz (three 4 oz samplers) is a little over the top?

PHONES HAVE 10X THE BACTERIA AS A TOILET SEAT You pulled your phone out of your dingy gray bra then put it on the conveyor belt. Expecting me to pick it up and look at your coupon. You got mad when I said I wasn’t going to be responsible for your phone. It could fall off the belt onto

I had a great time with the girls but would like to get to know tall dark and handsome DAD. Your name started with an S.

downtown FedEx Office store who found my full sketchbook, located my phone number inside and took time out of her day to call me so I could get it back instead of shipping it off with all the other unclaimed lost and found items. I lost it a couple months ago and didn’t think I’d see it again. Your thoughtfulness made my entire week and I am super grateful.

YOU’RE AMAZING!

JEERS TAKE DOWN THE WALL Jeers to Kendall Yards for putting up a fence between the Spokane Regional Health District and the parking lot for My Fresh Basket. Way to further isolate yourself from this community and your west central neighbors.

Hard to tout walkability when you put a wall literally in the middle of a pedestrian walkway. Mad about people parking in your lot inappropriately? Ticket them and make some money! Or is it more about how SRHD provides opioid treatment and a number of other incredibly important and needed services to keep our community healthy? If Kendall Yards was a neighborhood for all Spokane, why wouldn’t you want an agency doing so much good for Spokane as your neighbor? Wouldn’t you want design a space that encourages their staff and clients you shop and enjoy your streets?

Don’t get me wrong, the beer was good.

Just maybe not $96/gal good. Or, maybe it’s just me.

ANIMAL ABUSER To the jerk in the Lowe’s parking lot on 2/8 with the beautiful black dog. I wish I had called the cops on you when I saw you kick your dog then forcibly take him to the ground. You are a sorry excuse for a man. That’s not how you train a dog you jerk! I feel horribly for your dog and wish I was able to beat your a**. I’m a woman and yelled at you but was pretty sure I would have been on the ground next. You’re a jerk and don’t deserve that beautiful dog or any pet for that matter. JERK! RE: FREEBIE PARKING I sympathize with the person who wrote the jeers about “freebie parking” and the issue with SCC students and staff parking in front of their residences. However, try to exercise just a little compassion. After all, these are community college people. They may not be smart enough to understand. Perhaps they just don’t know how to purchase a parking pass. Also, I’ve been told that many cars get broken into or stolen at Spokane Tech.

Maybe they’re just trying to park in a safer spot than the community center. You may also want to put notes on their cars telling them about Falls Community or Eastern which are places where high school students can get some skills to help getting into Washington State or Gonzaga.

TURKEYS A few words of wisdom for people who encounter turkeys in the roadway: 1. They won’t move if you honk your horn.

2. They won’t move if you just sit there. 3.

They WILL move if you JUST KEEP GOING. Slow down if it makes you feel better but they will get out of the way of any moving vehicle. Please don’t cause an irritating and unsafe situation by stopping for these pests. n

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PUPPY LOVE SOCIAL & SILENT AUCTION A night out filled with wine, live music and eats from Nectar Catering & Events and Pizza Rita at the Spokane Humane Society’s annual Puppy Love Social and Silent Auction. Feb. 13, 5:308 pm. $25/$30. Overbluff Cellars, 304 W. Pacific. (329-8522) HOPS FOR HOUNDS / PINTS FOR PAWS SpokAnimal is partnering with River City for this monthly benefit, with adoptable dogs and cats on site. Second Fridays from 5-8 pm. River City Brewing, 121 S. Cedar St. rivercityred.blogspot.com VALENTINE’S DAY ART WALK Original impressionist landscape paintings by L.R. Montgomery, artist in residence at the Dishman Hills, are available for viewing and/or purchase. Complimentary champagne and chocolates provided. Feb. 14, 5-8 pm. $10. Shape Executive Center, 5915 S. Regal St. dhnaa.wildapricot.org HILLYARD HOBO DINNER Support the Hillyard neighborhood and Hillyard Heritage Museum Society with a homecooked dinner and silent/live auctions.

Feb. 15, 5-6:30 pm. $15. St. Pat’s School, 2706 E. Queen Ave. (509-483-2383)

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BRIAN REGAN Whether it’s a riff on school spelling bees or shipping a UPS package, expect Regan’s trademark body language and facial expressions to punctuate it at these all-ages shows. Feb. 1213 at 7:30 pm. $49-$79. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford. northernquest.com

SAM MORRIL The NY-based comedian and star of the MSG Networks series “People Talkin’ Sports” also has a comedy special produced by Amy Schumer.

Feb. 13-15 at 7:30 pm; Feb. 15 at 10 pm. $8+. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com NICK HOFF Hoff is an actor/comedian based in Los Angeles who recently shot episodes for the MTV show “Acting Out.” Feb. 14, 10 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) PLAYTIME Nostalgia and comedy collide in this new take using audience suggestions of favorite childhood games and toys for an all-improvised comedy show.

For general audiences. Fridays at 7:30 pm through March 6. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced, short-form show that’s generally game-based and relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. For mature audiences (16+). Saturdays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOKSALE The semi-annual event offers books priced as low as $1; find some literary treasures among 100s of books for sale.

Feb. 12 (presale; $10) from 4:30-7:30 pm; Feb. 13-14 from 10 am-4 pm; Feb. 15 from 10 am-2 pm. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org MT. ST. HELENS: CRITICAL MEMORY An exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the eruption on May 18, 1980

of Mount St. Helens, which remains the most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Through July; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm; third Thursdays until 8 pm. $5-$10.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org PARIS TO POMPEII: THE CAMPBELL FAMILY GRAND TOUR In 1909 the Campbells followed in the footsteps of many other wealthy Americans for a year-long grand tour of Europe. Designed in part to further daughter Helen’s education, the Campbells traveled from Paris to Pompeii in search of the great classics of the western world. Visit the Campbell House to follow their journey and learn about the broad and lasting impact the “grand tour” tradition had on the development of the American identity. Included with regular admission. Tue-Sun, 12-4 pm, through May 31. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org POMPEII: THE IMMORTAL CITY Explore the heart of the drama and the ruins of this ancient city. Artifacts and artworks excavated from Pompeii and interactive mechanical models take you into the world of a first-century Roman city. Feb. 8-May 3; Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm; until 8 pm on Fridays and third Thursdays.

(Closed Mon except Feb. 17 and April 6.) $10-$19.50. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931) RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS IN SPOKANE Join local historian and EWU grad Logan Camporeale for a presentation and discussion about restrictive covenants, Spokane’s history of segregation, and what we can do to address this remnant of segregated neighborhoods.

Feb. 13, 12-1 pm. Free. EWU Monroe Hall,

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Greyhound Park & Event Center, 5100 Riverbend Ave. bit.ly/2RTQMGz SIP & SNUGGLE For ValenWine weekend, 10 percent of all sales at the tasting room are being donated to Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary. On Feb. 15-16, come by to meet the animals in person, including baby goats, pigs, kittens and puppies.

Also enjoy $5 glass pour specials, fresh mimosas and wine case specials. Feb. 1416 from 12-5 pm. Free. Townshend Cellar, 8022 E. Greenbluff Rd. (509-238-1400) 40TH SPOKANE AUTO SHOW Featuring more than 20 new car dealers offering lowest prices of the year on new models. Feb. 14-16. $6-$7; kids free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokaneautoshow.com WALLBREAKING CEREMONY FOR DOWNTOWN LIBRARY RENOVATION Hear from local leadership, including Mayor Woodward and Council Member Kinnear, on the importance of this project for the downtown neighborhood and all of Spokane. Feb. 14, 10:30 am-noon.

Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org DAY OF UNITY TOC Diversity Resource

hosts Paulette Jordan of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe to give a presentation at the second annual Day of Unity event, “Defending the West; Our People, Our Environment, Our Future.” Feb. 15, 12-1:30 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. tocdiversityresource. org HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR Explore the major aspects of the homebuying process in an unbiased format with SNAP Spokane instructors certified by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Registration required at 319-3040 or snapwa.org/educationcalendar. Feb. 15, March 7, April 11, from 9 am-2 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (319-3040) MASON BEES Learn what beneficial Mason bees need to thrive and how to easily make your garden into a great habitat for them. Make and decorate a small bee house to take home. Feb. 15, 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley. scld.org/events OPEN OFFICE HOURS WITH FUTURE ADA Drop by with general technology or computer-related questions, as local IT professionals assist the public. Feb. 15 from 2-4 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org MISS SPOKANE & OUTSTANDING TEEN COMPETITION The crowning of 2020 titleholders, who go on to represent Spokane at the Miss Washington and Miss Washington’s Outstanding Teen competitions, with hopes of competing at Miss America and Miss America’s Outstanding Teen. Feb. 16, 3 pm. Free-$25. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash.missspokane.org

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Some of this growth can be simply attributed to the fact that legal marijuana continues to spread from state to state. Michigan and Illinois opened legal markets since last year’s report came out.

That’s not the only driver of growth, though. Our state was one of the original legal markets in the nation, and growth continues here in Washington, too.

The Evergreen State saw an 8 percent uptick over last year and is now home to 23,756 cannabis industry jobs.

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“The Evergreen State saw an 8 percent uptick over last year and is now home to 23,756 cannabis industry jobs.”

Leafly puts together its report not just because it’s a massive cannabis website, but also because nobody else does a good job of tracking the industry. The report points out that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t even try to count legal marijuana jobs — which makes some sense considering cannabis remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government.

Plus, there’s still a stigma surrounding marijuana users. It extends to marijuana workers as well. By not treating the marijuana industry like every other legal industry in America, that stigma will persist. People have to consider how a work history including a marijuana job will impact their career opportunities going forward. It’s a shame because the marijuana industry is as R E S TA U R A N T impactful and broad as any in FINDER America.

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The city of Portland is currently searching for a Cannabis Program Supervisor. It’s a government job with a salary projected by Indeed to reach up into six figures. Dharma Pharmaceuticals out of Virginia is looking for an applicant with a master’s degree to fill a lead scientist opening.

Whoever fills the position will literally be a scientist with a sixyear college education. This is the modern marijuana industry.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR PFLAG EDUCATIONAL & SUPPORT MEETING This month’s meeting includes a guest speaker from the SPD’s Community Outreach Office. Come join a conversation about issues facing the LGBTQ+ community in Spokane. Feb. 18, 6:30-8 pm. Free. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (327-1584) GENEALOGY: RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY Donna Potter Phillips introduces the hobby of genealogy and shows you how to find info about your family’s history from online resources. Feb. 19, 2-3 pm. Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb St. scld.org MOBILITY SERVICES WITH SPOKANE TRANSIT AUTHORITY Learn about STA’s mobility mentor program, fares, senior travel groups, and other programs. Feb. 19, 10 am-1 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave. scld.org/events (509-893-8390) RALLY FOR THE PRIMARY Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of women’s right to vote in the U.S. at this resource fair organized by Women+s March Spokane. Learn about how to register to vote and where/how to get your ballot. Includes local nonprofits and a silent auction to benefit Women+s March Spokane. Feb. 19, 4-7 pm. Free.

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HARRIET The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroines. PG-13. Feb. 1316, times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org PARASITE All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident. Rated R. Feb. 13-16; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org THURSDAY MATINEE MOVIE CLASSICS: THE BRIDGE (1959) The MAC continues its exploration of American and world cinema with this first of four outstanding post-WWII German films.

Feb. 13, 1:30-3:30 pm. $7. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org SPOKANE SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL This “Best of the Fest” screening features short and fulllength feature films and documentaries from across the globe. Feb. 15-16 at 2:30 and 6:30 pm, Feb. 18 at 6 pm (at GU Law School). Free. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. socialjusticefilmfestival.org MOVIE NIGHT: THE FITS Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Not Rated. Feb. 19, 6-7:15 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. (444-5300) LEARN ABOUT THE 50 HOUR SLAM Adam Boyd, 50 Hour Slam co-founder, shares the competition’s origins, takes a look at past submissions and offers advice on how to prepare for and be successful while competing. Also learn what The Studio can do to support your team. Feb. 20, 6-7 pm. Free.

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Includes a glass of champagne and a three-course meal. Feb. 13-16. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com VALENTINES MEAL FOR TWO Bring your best friend to make a meal for two while sipping sparkling rose. Feb. 13, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030) ROMANTIC VALENTINE DINNER FOR TWO A four-course candlelit dinner for two. Seatings at 6 and 8 pm; reservations required. Feb. 14. $120. Nectar Catering & Events, 120 N. Stevens. nectartastingroom.com VALENTINE’S DAY WINE DINNER A three-course dinner with wine pairings. Feb. 14, 6 pm. $110. Brandywine Bar & Bottle Shop, 2408 W. Northwest Blvd. brandywinespokane.com VALENTINE’S WINEMAKER DINNER Featuring wine pairings from Sawtooth Winery with a seasonally inspired menu by chef Molly Patrick.

Feb. 14, 6 pm. $90-$170. Red Lion Hotel Templin’s on the River, 414 E. First Ave., Post Falls. (208-773-1611) VALENTINE’S BBQ DINNER Nathan from 3BQ is in the taproom with some great barbecue. Try multiple new sour beers on tap, along with new ciders.

Feb. 14, 5:30 pm. NorthStar Taps, 1818 Second St., Cheney. northstartaps.com BLACK LOVE BRUNCH Shades Of Me hosts its first brunch event, featuring music, eating, drinking and the celebration of Black Love. Singles, LGBTQ+, inter-ethnic and poly all welcome.

Includes a tasting of Uncle Nearest Whiskey, the only Black-owned whiskey distillery in the U.S. Reservations recommended; 50 seats available. Feb. 15, 10 am-4 pm. $12/singles; $20/couples $35/poly. Logan Tavern, 1305 N. Hamilton. bit.ly/2RlTHcd (474-0584) FEBRUARY SUPPER CLUB: A TASTE OF MOROCCO A five-course dinner featuring a spicy lamb appetizer, harira, roasted chicken with preserved lemon and olives, Kefta meatball tagine and sfenj for dessert. Features wines from La Ferme Rouge. Feb. 15, 6:30 pm. $77. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison. petuniasmarket.com FOOD IN JARS Anna Kestell, Food Preservation/Safety Education Coordinator with the WSU Spokane County Cooperative Extension Service, shares food canning basics, including choosing produce, deciding between a pressure can or water-bath can, and selecting jars, lids and canners. Feb. 15, 2-3 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org/events THE SOUL OF SOUL FOOD Douglas Williams, owner of Dots Soul Food, shares his secret family recipe in this demo and tasting show. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Black History Month. Feb. 15, 2:30-3:30 pm.

Free. To Be Continued: A Spokane Public Library, 4750 N. Division St., Suite 1074. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) NEW ORLEANS STORIES COCKTAIL CLASS Celebrate Mardi Gras by experiencing the drinks that made New Orleans the cocktail cradle of America.

Hosted by local cocktail experts Simon Moorby and Renée Cebula. Tickets include three drinks, light appetizer and recipe book. Feb. 16, 3 pm. $50. Hogwash Whiskey Den, 304 W. Pacific Ave. bit.ly/2ShbMaz (509-464-6541)

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I’m a woman who’s fiercely competitive in the business world. I’ve been rewarded for pursuing deals as relentlessly as highly successful men do. Yet, taking this approach in my dating life — energetically pursuing men and confidently asking them out -- has been a bust. The men I go after seem to find my openness, excitement, and confidence off-putting. I keep hearing that I need to chill out and let men pursue me. This seems crazy. I shouldn’t have to act like a debutante, waiting for a man to ask me

out. —Irritated In seduction, more is not more. You’ll be most attractive if you simply let who you are sparkle — a term that has more in common with “twinkle” than “immobilize men with the alien death ray of your personality.”

As a heterosexual woman, pursuing romantic partners as ferociously as you’d pursue a business deal is especially counterproductive. Though we’re living in modern times, we’re stuck with an antique psychological operating system, calibrated to solve ancestral mating and survival problems. This means the psychology driving us is sometimes seriously mismatched with our modern world.

For example, we now have reliable birth control, and even if that fails, children won’t die of starvation or be eaten by feral goats because the dude who fathered them “hit it ’n’ quit it.” Yet, we’ve still got our evolutionary legacy running the show.

In vetting potential sex partners, women evolved to be more quality-conscious — choosier, more “hard to get” — while men evolved to take a more, shall we say, quantity-driven approach: “The more the merrier! Hey, next time, invite your sisters!”

These differences in sexual choosiness emerge from what evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers explains as men’s and women’s differing levels of “parental investment.” The members of a species with the greatest possible costs from having sex -- like pregnancy and a screaming kid to feed — evolved to be more selective in mate choice.

Women’s emotions are their parental investment watchdogs, pushing them to make sure a man’s willing and able to stick around and provide resources. Though some women can take an emotionally Teflon approach to casual sex, anthropologist John Marshall Townsend finds that for many, hooking up comes with some emotional reflux — even when a woman knows a one-nighter is all she wants from a guy. She’ll boot some himbo out of bed only to get all angsty afterward, worrying that the guy she wants nothing more from doesn’t want anything more from her.

These differences in male and female mating selectivity showed up in a big way in a recent study looking at heterosexual Tinder users. Belgian econ doctoral candidate Brecht Neyt calculated the percentage of profiles men and women gave “super likes” to -- a function on Tinder as of 2015.

For those uninitiated in Tinder-ese, swiping right “likes” another user, but they will be none the wiser unless they, too, swipe right on you. Swiping up, however, is a “super like,” which triggers an automatic notification to the super-liked person.

(Annoyingly, the researchers didn’t mention or take into account that super likes are generally seen as super uncool — a sign of desperation — leading many Tinderers to note in their profile, “If I super like you, I did it by accident.”)

Neyt and his colleagues found that men super liked 61.9% of women’s profiles, while women super liked only 4.5% of the men’s. Their finding is a pretty dramatic reflection of men’s evolved quantity-over-quality default. In short: Stripperliciousness is nice, especially when packaged with kindness, intelligence, and killer cooking skills, but “Same species! Not in jail! Has internet access!” works, too.

So, if you’re reasonably attractive and in a man’s age range, there’s a good chance he’ll go out with you simply because you ask — though he may not be interested beyond a hookup. But let’s say he’s somebody who would be interested in you.

Because men co-evolved with women, men expect women to be choosy, and they tend to devalue women who just tumble out of the sky into their lap.

The best test for whether a man has real interest in you is seeing whether he’ll lay his ego on the line to ask you out. You aren’t without control in this approach; you can flirt with a guy you’re interested in to signal that you’re open to being pursued by him.

Should things be different? Well, sure, in a more perfect mating universe. But if you want to be successful in this one, you should do what works -- which is driven by men’s evolved psychology. Though men will eventually take a selective approach when considering a woman as a long-term partner, many will have sex with anything this side of a pound of liver in the refrigerator (and sometimes that will just have to do). n ©2020, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR ELLA’S SUPPER CLUB A classic threecourse dinner and live jazz; see link for menu options. Feb. 19, 6 pm. $0-$45.

Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. montvalespokane.com PREMIUM TASTING: STAG’S LEAP WINE CELLARS A tasting with Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, considered one of Napa’s “First Growth” wineries producing top tier wines. Feb. 19, 4:30 pm. $20. Nectar Wine & Beer, 1331 W. Summit. nectarkendallyards.com SIP WITH A SOMMELIER: WINE 101 Featuring seven wines with charcuterie pairings. Feb. 19, 7 pm. $30. Brandywine Bar & Bottle Shop, 2408 W. Northwest Blvd. brandywinespokane.com ASTRONOMY ON TAP Enjoy segments on the rocky planets, along with a discussion of some old and new science from observations in the field. Lumberbeard Brewing take over a few taps and gives away some merch. Feb. 20, 7 pm. NorthStar Taps, 1818 Second St., Cheney. northstartaps.com (498-4052)

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GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FT. VIOLINIST MIDORI A winter program, conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah. The concert opens with Tchaikovsky’s powerful and passionate First Symphony, followed by Schumann’s dramatic Violin Concerto, featuring internationally acclaimed legend Midori.

Feb. 13, 7:30-9 pm. $13-$16 Free for GU faculty, staff, students w/ID. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. gonzaga.edu/gonzagasymphony-orchestra/performancecalendar (313-6733) DALLAS STRING QUARTET ELECTRIC With a fusion of classical and contemporary music on both traditional and electric strings, DSQ performs as a quartet with the full accompaniment of drums and guitar. Feb. 14, 7:30-9:30 pm. $40-$50; $20-$30/student, youth.

Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/ mwpac (313-2787) MOVING WITH HEART COUPLES WORKSHOP Tap into the magic of dance and shared rhythms and connect with your partner at a deeper level to bring more awareness into your relationship through dancing. All couples/ partners/pairs welcome. Feb. 14, 7-8:30 pm. $25/couple. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. danceecology. com/workshops (206-849-2473) VALENTINE’S SWING SHINDIG A romantic night of hot jazz, swing dancing and handcrafted cocktails on the Spokane River with the Zonky Jazz Band.

Tickets include parking and a catered buffet at the new Osprey Restaurant.

Feb. 14, 6:30-11 pm. $30/person; $119/ package. Ruby River Hotel, 700 N. Division St. SpokaneValentine.com ORGAN RECITAL A concert celebrating 20 years of the Aeolian-Skinner/Balcom & Vaughan Organ, featuring guest organist John Bodinger, of the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist. Feb. 16, 2-3:30 pm. Free. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. clspokane. org (624-9233) SPOKANE STRING QUARTET: A GARDEN OF ROSES The Spokane String Quartet, along with the Spokane Kantorei Choir under the direction of Timothy Westerhaus, perform the premiere of “A Garden of Roses” by Cary Boyce.

Also on the program are Mozart’s

“Hoffmeister” quartet and Ernst von Dohnanyi’s Quartet in D-flat major. Feb. 16, 3-5 pm. $12-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spokanestringquartet.org

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

DAVEY BAIRD & FREERIDE WORLD TOUR Hear from Davey Baird, rider for Jones, Mons Royale, and Backcountry Access about his tiny house, camper trailer and travels to engage the snowboarding community and compete in the Freeride World Tour. Feb. 15, 5:306:30 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) SWEETHEART SKATE NIGHT A Valentine’s skate night with the Rolling Hills Derby Dames. Includes concessions, games and more. Feb. 15, 3 pm. $7. Gladish Community Center, 115 NW State St., Pullman. gladishcommunity.org MONSTER JAM TRIPLE THREAT SERIES The action-packed motorsports experience for families returns to Spokane for another high-octane weekend of high-flying action and four-wheel excitement. Feb. 21 at 7 pm, Feb. 22 at 1 and 7 pm; Feb. 23 at 1 pm. $20+. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000)

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DEEP CALLS An urban fairy tale, “Deep Calls” centers on a young woman attempting to leave a life of prostitution.

Feb. 12-14 at 7:30 pm; Feb. 15 at 2 pm. $6-$17. The Forge Theater, 404 Sweet Ave., Moscow. idaho.edu/theatre A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he’s eighth in line for an earldom, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Feb. 23. $10-$35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) LOVE LETTERS The Panida Playhouse Players present a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love between friends who’ve exchanged notes, cards and letters for over 50 years. Feb. 13-15 at 7 pm, Feb. 16 at 3 pm. $15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) MURDER ON THE RED CARPET A murder mystery set in the Golden Age of Hollywood by The Lion’s Share Theatre.

Proceeds support Spokane Community Court, to fund meals and necessary items to lift people out of poverty.

Feb. 13 at 6 pm; Feb. 15 at 6 pm. $40.

The Gathering House, 733 W. Garland. streetwisespokane.org (879-0302) SHE LOVES ME An endearing romantic comedy that explores the adventure of love through two unexpecting shop employees who begin their relationship with a rocky start. Feb. 13-23; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 1:30 pm. $20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand Ave., Pullman. rtoptheatre.org ‘TIL DEATH DO WE PART An interactive murder mystery event. Feb. 14, 6-11 pm. $15-$55. House of Cards Bar & Grill, 830 N. Spokane St. (208-369-3695) FIREFLIES A moving story about how the unexpected might bring something more to the life of retired schoolteacher

Eleanor Bannister. Feb. 14-28; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (509-795-0004) MARDI GRAS MURDER CDA Murder Mystery Theatre presents this fun New Orleans-themed murder mystery. Tickets include glass of beer/wine. Feb. 14-15 and 21-22 at 6:30 pm. $40. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdacellars.com (208-664-2336)

VISUAL ARTS

20/20 Featuring a variety of original works created by NIC faculty, including Donna Bain, Otis Bardwell, Priscilla Cooper, Jen Erickson, Michael Horswill, Jessica Raetzke, Carrie Scozzaro and Lindsey Johnson. Feb. 11-March 27; opening reception Feb. 11, 5-7 pm, with a lecture at 4 pm. Gallery open MonThu 10 am-4 pm; Fri 10 am-2:30 pm.

Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Bldg. 22. nic.edu JAZZ HANDS In the Third Street Gallery’s latest exhibition, visual artists join in Moscow’s season of musical celebration that includes the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Artist reception on Feb. 19, 5-7 pm, features “Contact Jams,” a dance and music improvisation by performing artists from the University of Idaho’s DancersDrummersDreamers, starting at 6 pm. “Jazz Hands” runs Feb. 7-April 3; Mon-Fri 8 am-5 pm. Free.

Moscow City Hall, 206 E. Third St. (208883-7036) FOUR OLD GUYS WALK INTO A GALLERY... Join local artists Jim Loney, Jim Gale, Scott Plummer and Peter Vincent for their group exhibit. Working in print, photography, paint and sculpture this exhibit offers something for everyone.

Reception Feb. 14 from 5-7 pm; through April 11, Tue-Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St., Moscow. (208-885-3586) NATURE’S REVERENCE A show featuring artists Del Gish, Jessica Bryant, Shannon Troxler and Valerie Seaberg.

Each of these creators draws upon inspiration from the great outdoors; their nature-inspired work reminds us of the surrounding beauty to be revered and celebrated. Opening reception Feb. 14, 5-8 pm. Open Tue-Sat from 11 am-6 pm. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com

WORDS

NAT GEO LIVE! KARA COONEY: WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD Join Dr. Kara Cooney, professor of Egyptology, for a look at a time in ancient history when women ruled the world. Feb. 13, 7-8:30 pm. $21.50-$30. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. broadwayspokane.com LECTURE: VIEWS OF THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST This presentation by Dr. Kenney from EWU provides a fair and balanced overview of current scholarly opinions with suggestions for further study. This talk is part of SPL’s Religions & Philosophies Series. Feb. 15, 3-4 pm.

Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (509-444-5300) HIGHER POWER: THE HISTORY OF EVANGELICALS IN AMERICA WSU professor Matthew Sutton traces the history of the religious right in America.

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hen actress Julianne Hough wed NHL hockey standout Brooks Laich in a romantic outdoor wedding the summer of 2017, stunning images of sparkling Lake Coeur d’Alene were splashed on magazine covers and exploded all over the internet. The luscious photos and videos not only showcased the stunning couple but also put a spotlight on the sweeping lake views and unspoiled natural beauty of Coeur d’Alene. If the resort town wasn’t already considered an ideal location for a destination wedding, the images clearly illustrated the Lake City should be in the conversation.

We’re definitely on the map, whether it’s because of Black Rock, or Gozzer Ranch or the work the Coeur d’Alene Resort or the Convention and Visitors Bureau.”

Over the past several years, local wedding vendors say the region’s appeal has only grown.

While more brides and grooms are choosing Coeur d’Alene for a destination wedding, Day says she’s also seeing tremendous growth in the region’s vendors. “Even three years ago, if someone was to Google getting married in Coeur d’Alene, there weren’t a lot of options to make that happen. Now there are so many resources available.”

“I think Coeur d’Alene is turning into a big market for destination weddings,” says Andreas John, the organizer of the Nspire Wedding Show, a boutique-style wedding expo. “We’ve got a lot to offer here.”

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Day, who was recognized as a “Top 10 Wedding Planner in the World” by Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Abroad Magazine says that roughly 75 percent of her clients are from outside the area — places like California, Texas, Chicago and Boston. Like Hough, who grew up vacationing on the lake, some of Day’s clients spent time here before, but others simply seek out the region for its beauty and amenities.

Many of those vendors are participating in the NSPIRE WEDDING SHOW, Feb. 22 from 4-7:30 pm at the Coeur d’Alene Inn. The intimate event will feature 40

hand-picked vendors (photographers, DJs, florists, etc.), a fashion show, complimentary mimosas, giveaways and a beauty bar for quick hair and makeup touch-ups.

So what are the biggest trends you can expect to see at the show? According to Day, the biggest trend going with weddings right now is all about personalization.

“It’s all about making the wedding your own,” Day explains. “It’s not just about hiring a caterer. It’s about saying this is my favorite food. My favorite place. My favorite experience, so this is what I want to give my guests.”

Now, more than ever, Coeur d’Alene is ready to deliver personalized products and services for brides and grooms, from Claddagh and Celtic knot and other traditional Irish wedding bands at ALL THINGS IRISH to four unique venues at the COEUR D’ALENE RESORT (where Hough chose to be married). Don’t be surprised if the Lake City also becomes known as the Love City.

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Aspire Community Theatre presents 9 to 5 the musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton — based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. ThursdaySaturday 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm.

Scenic Hot Cocoa Cruises FEBRUARY 14-16

Warm up this winter on Lake Coeur d’Alene! These fun 90-minute cruises feature a for-purchase hot cocoa bar — original cocoa for the kiddos, spiked cocoa for the adults. Cruises depart twice daily: 12:30

pm and 2:30 pm. Adults ($15), seniors 55+ ($14), children ages 5-17 ($10), ages 5 and under free.

Inlander Restaurant Week FEBRUARY 20-29

The 10 most delicious days of the year are here — when more than 100 restaurants in the region offer three-course meals for one set price of either $22 or $33. To see all the participating North Idaho menus, go to InlanderRestaurantWeek.com.

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