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This week, however, staff writer Mitch Ryals looks at the fugitives who skip out on bail and the BOUNTY HUNTERS who chase them down (page 20). While these trackers use the best of modern technology, their guiding document is a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1872; that ruling gave them nearly free rein in the pursuit of wanted fugitives — even more latitude than sworn law enforcement officers enjoy. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s an arrangement not without its problems, especially when the hunters find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

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ou graduate from college but find that your degree won’t get you into what we used to call “a career.” You might head into a graduate program but find that upon graduation, while you have more intellectual, even practical, skills for employment, you are no better off than before.

Yes, you can perhaps find a job, but even in fields that we have always associated with a profession, today you are more likely to work part time, you won’t have benefits and you will be paid not much. Even some nurses increasingly find themselves doing what amount to “gigs.”

Many colleges and universities, which profess to prepare you for a professional career, are hiring adjuncts to avoid adding tenure-track faculty. The American Association of University Professors reports that more than 50 percent of all college classes are being taught by part-time faculty, which means no job security, no benefits and little chance for career development.

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artending requires the combined skills of the raconteur, conversationalist, therapist and entertainer, along with, of course, knowing how to pour every drink in the book, keeping up with the latest on microbrews (hops, yeast, barley, where it comes from), choosing the-best-for-your-money scotch when asked and being able to describe, between pours, just what is the story on rye whiskey making such a comeback. Of course, then there’s wine: Why are those grapes from the Wahluke Slope so special?

The bartender also needs a tactful, go-to response for the occasional self-important patron who has just returned from Leonetti down in Walla Walla and wants you to know all about it.

Many are well-read; they are millennials, after all. Gonzaga graduate Brian St. Clair may set records in the “well-read” category: James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Leo Tolstoy? He’s read every book they wrote.

Chantel Decker has a masters of social work from Eastern Washington University. She got into the field because she believed that the work was important and, for her, fulfilling. She worked for two nonprofits. As she put it to me, “I tried to save people from freezing to death under the Monroe Street Bridge.” But then, she went on, “this is when the work really begins; helping the homeless is a long process — a heartbreaking, always emotionally draining process.”

Yes, she was putting her education to good use, but she was also burning out while making around $16 an hour. That’s all this economy is

willing to pay. So she became a bartender/ server and today makes between $20 and, on a good night, $36 an hour.

St. Clair majored in business and finance.

He was persuaded to “get a practical degree,” although he continued to read fiction into the night. Like Decker, he tried to put his degree to use. He got a job in a big bank; the loan subsidiary in the refinancing department. It was 2005 and the bank was, like most all banks, in the middle of the subprime feeding frenzy. “Here’s how it worked,” St. Clair says. “You buy a refrigerator, which you can’t re-

“But here’s the thing...

Bartending is a trap.” ally afford. The salesman tells you that they have this six-month, interest-free loan, which goes to 20 percent the day after six months is up. I saw all the customers’ credit reports; I knew how much debt they had. My job was to convince them to take on more debt, to sell ‘bundling’ of debt by way of a subprime refinance.” St. Clair says he was terrible at his job; he actually tried to talk his cold-call customers out of taking on more debt.

Like Decker, he found that he could make more money tending bar than he could in a loan department doing work that he regarded to be unworthy, if not downright shady.

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ut here’s the thing, and I heard this over and over again: “Bartending is a trap.”

While you can make good money, you can’t advance. You will be doing the same thing two years from now — five years from now.

St. Clair, who is 35, would like to work as a bartender no longer than five more years and then get himself a teaching credential. He has always wanted to be an elementary school teacher — even at an income likely less than what he is making tending bar. It’s a job clearly worthy of his talents, and the world needs more great teachers.

Decker, 32, would someday like to return to her calling — helping her fellow citizens. But she knows that likely means a loss of pay.

So here’s a toast to their futures — hoping they can find work that at least pays benefits.

And isn’t that telling? No wonder so many millennials want to rewrite the social contract as it stands here in 2016. n

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Next Up: Carolina WILL BLACK VOTERS FEEL THE BERN?

The fast-approaching South Carolina Democratic primary could answer one key question: Can Vermont Sen. BERNIE SANDERS appeal to black voters, a key constituency of the party that has long been loyal to former Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON? Blacks are expected to make up a majority of Democratic voters in South Carolina, and polls have shown Clinton with a commanding lead, giving her a clear shot at regaining momentum after losing by 22 points in New Hampshire and virtually tying Sanders in Iowa.

Sanders, who represents an overwhelmingly white state, occasionally has had a chilly relationship with African Americans. Black Lives Matter activists interrupted his speech in Seattle last year. Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer for The Atlantic, wrote a piece last month sharply criticizing Sanders’ opposition to reparations for slavery. Congressman John Lewis, a leader in the 1960s civil rights movement, threw further shade last week when he said he never saw Sanders during the struggle, while praising Clinton. Lewis later walked back his remarks, saying he did not intend to question Sanders’ commitment to racial equality or doubt his participation in the civil rights movement.

Black voters may well be feeling the Bern. The daughter of Eric Garner, a black man whose choking death at the hands of New York City police in 2014 sparked outrage, has endorsed Sanders, as has Atlanta rapper Killer Mike of hip-hop group Run the Jewels. Even Coates says he’ll still vote for Sanders.

Now, Clinton’s lead in South Carolina is narrowing. (JAKE THOMAS)

THE TRUMP WILL RISE AGAIN

Liberal-leaning polling outfit Public Policy Polling has a long history of trolling Republicans by asking questions that make them look bad. Their poll of South Carolina Republicans released Tuesday not only reveals that DONALD TRUMP is leading significantly in the state, it also supports the stereotypes that many people have about Trump voters.

The poll found that 38 percent of Trump voters in the state “wish the South had won” the Civil War, with 38 percent undecided. It found that 31 percent of Trump voters supported banning homosexuals from entering the United States, 40 percent support shutting down mosques in the U.S., a third said Islam should be illegal, and 70 percent think the Confederate flag should still be flying over the South Carolina state capitol.

Want a polling question with even more stark results regarding race relations? Consider this: 16 percent of South Carolina Trump voters agreed that “whites are a superior race” while another 14 percent said they weren’t quite sure. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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CALEB WALSH ILLUSTRATION

White Privilege, Macklemore and Me An opportunity to abandon the luxury of silence and join the necessary conversation regarding race in America

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have loved Macklemore and Ryan Lewis from the moment I heard “Thrift Shop.” The song felt like a celebration of my self-identity. I still have a plaid coat with a faux-fur green collar that I bought in high school from Goodwill in the back of my closet.

Their next song I encountered was “True Love,” a pro-gay-marriage rap ballad that spoke to my activism and cemented me as a fan. (The recent “Downtown”

music-video pop celebration of retro-cool Spokane didn’t hurt, either.)

From these brief statements alone, you may assume a few things about me. For example, that I don’t listen to a lot of other hip-hop, that I consider myself to be socially conscious and that I am white. All three assumptions would be true.

Recently, Macklemore dropped a new track that again deeply spoke to my identity, but also challenged it.

“White Privilege II” is a monster of a single. In it, Macklemore acknowledges that a systemically racist culture has

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made him a famous, wealthy hip-hop artist and wrestles with how he can ethically utilize that same privilege to shape a more just society.

His answer is that he ONLINE can’t, and that he must.

Listen to Macklemore’s Macklemore opens “White Privilege II” at the song by rapping whiteprivilege2.com. about his participation as a white man in a protest march with Black Lives Matter. He wonders: “Am I in the outside looking in, or am I in the inside looking out? / Is it my place to give my two cents? / Or should I stand on the side and shut my mouth?”

Like Macklemore, I am a straight white man.

Though I am not a millionaire musician, I still have an enormous amount of privilege. I too often wonder, “To what degree do I need to step aside and allow other voices to be heard, and to what degree do I need to raise my own voice?” If I’m going to be honest, though, my greatest hesitation in participating isn’t a fear of drowning out the voices of others, but the judgment that could fall upon me.

The bold certainty of the Black Lives Matter movement has both awakened my awareness of the depth that white supremacy shapes our society and made me wary of engaging in a conversation where I fear being declared a racist due to an inevitable, inadvertent LETTERS misstep.

Send comments to I fear that I’ve editor@inlander.com. already made a series of offensive statements here, even after rewriting sentences and paragraphs multiple times, trying to pick just the right words. I’ve even scrapped this whole piece a couple of times in favor of more comfortable topics, like politics or religion.

But I decided that I cannot continue to cower from openly discussing the issue of race. “White Privilege II” closes with Jamila Woods singing, “Your silence is a luxury / Hip-hop is not a luxury.” The point, I believe, is the national conversation about race, and my participation in it, cannot be limited by my privileged, white fragility.

So I thank Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and their collaborators for this invitation to abandon the privilege of silence and join the conversation. I accept — and I hope that all their other white fans out there like me will too. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s Republican Party politics.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

We asked Inlander readers: In light of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, should President Obama nominate a replacement or leave it to the next president?

Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Saturday.

CHARLES ROTH MPC: Why on earth would he leave it to the next POTUS? It’s his duty to nominate a successor and the Senate’s to advise and consent.

MJ CRITES: President Obama has 11 months left in office and it’s his job to appoint Supreme Court justices.

He should do it. If he had a week or two left in office, it might be a different story.

SHAWN THOMAS GRIFFIN: A few short hours after the death of Justice Scalia and the political fight over his successor has begun.

Absolutely disgusting. No wonder in this election cycle, most distrust and strongly dislike career politicians. The Republicans in Congress should be ashamed of themselves.

President Obama should name a successor in a timely manner, as he is constitutionally required to do.

COREY DOUGLAS: Here’s a gamble for ya, Republicans. Either confirm a choice of Obama’s, or obstruct until next term. Now should next term be Democrat, they can nominate Obama for the seat! Ha! DON LAMP: Obama should nominate someone for the position and let the Democratic nominee for president point to the predictable Republican obstruction and obfuscation as a reason to vote not only for a Democrat for president but to vote for a Democratic senator. Democratic control of the Senate is a real possibility. The Democrats need only pick up four seats and Republicans are defending many more seats than Democrats, a number of them in states that voted for Obama.

RAY I. SMITH: The political fallout is too severe for the Republican Party in an already iffy election year. If they want the presidency they will have to trade the justice.

SUE NOTT: POTUS needs to do his job. We’ll see if they let let him.

There’s that whole Constitution thing but some people like to cherry-pick it as much as their Bible.

Leave it for Bernie or Hillary?

SHAUN PETERSON: He has every right under the Constitution and the Senate can refuse the nominee by unanimous vote after a fair hearing, but they are basically refusing to even give a person a fair hearing and won’t acknowledge any nominee he sets forth. That’s pretty outrageous. This is really bad and could lead to a constitutional crisis. 

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Sonya O’Brien says Spokane’s Human Resources Department mishandled her sexual harassment complaint; federal regulators agree

BY JAKE THOMAS

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eginning in 2013, Sonya O’Brien began writing down, in a red, spiral-bound notebook, all the retaliation she says she received after complaining of harassment while working as an operator in the male-dominated subculture at Spokane’s wastewater treatment plant: the sexualized environment, the befouled locker rooms and the dread that marked her final days before she quit.

O’Brien says she complained to her union representative and the city’s Human Resources Department. But she says the city’s response didn’t end the harassment, which she says effectively ended her career in water resources.

“I felt like I was fighting against the world,” she says. “I still do.”

In a city with 2,000 employees, there’s bound to be friction between different personalities. Some appeal to HR in hopes of a resolution; some of those are invariably left unsatisfied by the outcome.

O’Brien’s case is different. She complained to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws; it found in 2015 that O’Brien was indeed subjected to a “hostile and intimidating” work environment and that HR’s efforts to end the harassment were so “ineffective” that O’Brien was forced to quit.

The EEOC also found that O’Brien was subjected to retaliation by other employees after the city improperly released documents during its investigation. The EEOC further determined that the release had a “chilling effect on other employees’ willingness to speak out against or complain about employment discrimination.”

O’Brien thought her situation was rare. But in recent months, documents released by the city have shed light on allegations that former police Chief Frank Straub verbally abused subordinates, with one accusing him of sexual harassment. The Spokane City Council and Mayor David Condon have hired an independent investigator to look into the circumstances surrounding Straub’s ouster, as well as how well the city handles employee complaints of discrimination and harassment.

“If enough people speak out, maybe something will change in city leadership,” O’Brien says. “I don’t want to be in the limelight, but I think it’s my time for the side of the story to be heard.”

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“To work in wastewater, you have to have a sense of humor. You have to have a thick skin,” says O’Brien. “You’re dealing with raw sewage.”

O’Brien describes herself as a “tough girl” accustomed to working in male-dominated environments. But this, she says, was different.

Of the 30 men she worked with, she says a lot were “good men.” But she says there were a lot of “not-good” men, who she says made trouble for her almost immediately. After a day of surveying sewer lines, O’Brien would use the women’s locker room (used only by her and a clerk) to shower and change. She says she routinely found the toilet covered in urine and chewing tobacco spit. She says the message was clear: You are not wanted here. But even after complaining to her supervisor and having the three-digit lock rekeyed multiple times, she says the problem kept reoccurring — for five years.

O’Brien says she worked in a highly sexualized environment, where her male co-workers spoke openly about their porn collections and showed each other explicit videos on their phones. She says that some male co-workers openly speculated about her sex life.

The breaking point, she says, was in December 2012, when she found smeared feces in the women’s locker room along with more urine and chaw spit.

“At that point I decided enough was enough,” says O’Brien, who filed complaints with HR and her union representative. “This is threatening behavior, and not normal behavior.”

Heather Lowe, the city’s HR director, doesn’t recall all the details of O’Brien’s situation, but says the city took her complaint seriously and responded to it.

“I recall hearing about that issue [with the locker room], and as soon as we were made aware of it, we called in the police department,”

she says. “Unfortunately, when we heard about it everything had been cleaned up, so there was no way for us to see what had happened in there.”

Lowe says that HR launched an investigation in January 2013 and found evidence of sexual harassment at the plant that resulted in three managers leaving (she wouldn’t say if they were fired). HR held a mandatory sexual harassment training for all employees at the plant, says Lowe, and the keypad lock on the women’s locker room was replaced with a swipe-card lock.

But O’Brien says things got worse after the investigation. She says that as part of the training, employees were given handouts. One side, she says, described harassing behaviors. The other side described behaviors that constituted retaliation. O’Brien says she began to find copies of the handout with the side about retaliation face-up on her equipment.

Wanting to prove that she was tough enough, she would just crumple them up. But later, she says, she would find the settings on her equipment altered. She also says that a co-worker started alluding to potential accidents that could happen while she was surveying sewer lines.

“If a person were to fall into one of the basins, you’d never be able to get out,” she recalls hearing. Fearing for her safety, O’Brien quit her job in April 2013. Around the same time she filed her complaint with the city, she filed a similar complaint with the EEOC, which opened an investigation.

Two years later, the EEOC sent a two-page determination letter to both the city and O’Brien, concluding that she had been “subjected to an illegal, hostile work environment, consisting of egregious harassment because of her sex (Female), sexual harassment, and harassment in retaliation for opposing the illegal, hostile work environment.”

The determination states that the city retaliated against O’Brien by sending out an unredacted copy of the EEOC subpoena to other employees, violating the investigation’s confidentiality.

Lowe disputes the EEOC’s conclusion that the city HR’s response was inadequate. She says her department strives to treat employees respectfully and fairly. She says she’s also troubled that O’Brien waited years before complaining.

“I want them to come to HR the first time something happens,” says Lowe.

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ob Dunn, a local employment lawyer known for successfully suing the city, says that he’s seen situations like O’Brien’s, where a woman is harassed in a male-dominated work environment.

“The typical scenario is you get a couple neanderthals that are resentful that their boys’ club is being violated,” he says.

He says that city HR has an incentive to not thoroughly investigate complaints, because doing so could give an aggrieved employee ammunition in a lawsuit against the city.

“I have so little faith in the HR department,” says Dunn. He points to a $230,000 jury verdict he won against the city and Lowe in 2014 that he says proves how “disjointed” the department is. The case involved Liane Carlson, who was hired as an HR analyst in 2007 and was dismissed in 2012 after having a stroke. The following year she sued for discrimination.

Carlson told the Inlander that’s she’s not surprised by the EEOC determination in O’Brien’s case, and says Lowe doesn’t have adequate training in civil rights and doesn’t take HR procedures seriously.

Noting her 18-year career in human resources, Lowe dismisses Carlson’s criticism as ill-informed. Lowe says Dunn’s characterization of her department is inaccurate, saying the city wants to be the “employer of choice” and that means responding adequately to employee concerns.

In November, the city released records showing that former police spokesperson Monique Cotton accused Straub of sexual harassment. The allegations weren’t investigated by the LETTERS city. Condon has said that HR Send comments to didn’t investigate because Coteditor@inlander.com. ton was unwilling to cooperate.

The local chapter of the National Organization for Women filed an ethics complaint against the mayor for not investigating the allegations.

But in December, Cotton told the Inlander that she was fully expecting an investigation into complaints of a hostile workplace.

Carly Cortright, a former police department executive, clashed with Straub over his allegedly abrasive style. She says she didn’t bother to file a complaint with HR because she didn’t think there would be a response.

The city’s HR policies state there “shall” be an investigation of harassment complaints. But it also states that these problems should “ideally” be resolved informally at the lowest level. Lowe says that sometimes a conflict between employees is just a misunderstanding that can be resolved with a face-to-face meeting, negating the need for an investigation.

“The ultimate goal is to resolve the issue, whatever it might be,” she says.

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fter leaving her job at the wastewater treatment plant, O’Brien says she collected unemployment before taking a job at a similar facility. However, she says her reputation in the relatively small industry followed her to this job, one that she ended up quitting as well.

She says she’s currently in negotiations with the EEOC and the city to resolve the issue before it becomes a lawsuit. In the meantime, she says she’s barely making ends meet and her career has been wrecked.

“I knew the moment I filed a harassment claim, my life would change,” she says. “That’s part of the reason why I didn’t speak up for five years. I was trying to provide for my family. I was trying to make my house payment. I was trying to do what everyone else does.” n jaket@inlander.com

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH A couple of weeks ago, it was thought that only Gonzaga students, faculty and staff would be able to see DINESH D’SOUZA speak on Feb. 24. As it turns out, the Spokane community will actually get two chances to see the conservative author, filmmaker and felon in the coming months. After learning that the university had closed his talk to the public, the Spokane County GOP announced that D’Souza would be the keynote speaker at a fundraising event in April, adding that the party “supports free speech.” Days later, Gonzaga reversed its decision to close the talk to the public. “A fundamental principle that sits at the heart of Gonzaga’s educational mission is the commitment to freedom of expression,” Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh wrote, before explaining that the talk was initially closed to the community because of the “potential hurtfulness of Mr. D’Souza’s words/views.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTY The long soughtafter EXPANSION OF MT. SPOKANE Ski and Snowboard Park could be delayed or even halted by requirements from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation that the project not disturb a site that holds cultural significance for the Spokane Tribe.

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has given the ski area the go-ahead for its expansion, which could include a new lift and trails. But the new development will mean that the ski area will have to hire experts to conduct an archaeological survey of a trail long used by the tribe for hunting, gathering and vision quests on the mountain. No one’s quite sure what the results of the survey will mean. They could result in more mitigation before the ski area grows, or it could proceed as planned.

Opponents of the expansion say it could result in the project not happening at all. (JAKE THOMAS)

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‘Stand on My Record’ More controversy for the Spokane Police Department’s leadership; plus, the effort to keep some pot business private McDEVITT’S WORDS

Ever since former U.S. Attorney Jim McDevitt was tapped to be Spokane’s next interim director of law enforcement, local activists have circulated a guest editorial he wrote for the Spokesman-Review responding to the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and controversial police shootings. In that editorial, he criticized protest leaders as forgetting the “real problem” — black-on-black crime, driven partly by high levels of poverty, unemployment and single-parent households.

“As a result of this high instance of crime on the part of young men of color in some areas, law enforcement there develops a ‘convenient shortcut,’” McDevitt wrote.

“This mental shortcut becomes almost irresistible. It is a somewhat rational form of profiling.”

That editorial became a particular item of contention during last week’s Police Leadership Advisory Committee meeting. In particular, committee member Naima Quarles-Burnley, the local NAACP president, was bothered by his line about a “rational form of profiling.”

“I think that’s abhorrent,” she later said. “He just doesn’t have an understanding of racism in this country, and how that affects who ends up in jail and who gets charged.”

McDevitt took offense.

“I think that you’re ignoring a long career in law — and the military and in the Justice Department — of fair and equal treatment for everybody,” he said. “I’ll stand on my record and I won’t have my integrity be questioned.”

After the dispute over the editorial, McDevitt gathered his things, resigned from the committee, and left.

McDevitt says the primary reason why he stepped down from the committee had more to do with a conflict of interest. As the current interim director of law enforcement, playing a role on the committee that outlines the criteria for choosing the next police chief might create complications, he says.

Later that day, the committee raised their concerns about McDevitt’s appointment with Mayor David Condon. (DANIEL WALTERS)

POT AND PRIVACY

Information about marijuana-related business could become EXEMPT FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE thanks to a couple of bills passed in both chambers of the Washington State Legislature.

Both the Senate and House passed legislation earlier

this week that would withhold from the public’s view financial records and building security information, as well as data that would allow requesters to track shipment and delivery information such as driving schedules.

Those applying for new or renewed licenses for marijuana businesses must provide this information to the state Liquor and Cannabis Board. Nearly all the information is currently available through a public records request. Both bills are very similar, and it’s now up to the respective sponsors to decide which one will be sent to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.

The Washington CannaBusiness Association has been pushing for the new exemptions, saying they would protect those in the business of growing and selling pot.

Sen. Andy Billig, a Spokane Democrat who voted for Senate Bill 6207, called the exemptions “common sense.”

“There’s very detailed and personal information required to be submitted by marijuana licensees,” he says.

“It’s reasonable for the state to have that information, but it could pose a safety risk if personal details like checkingaccount information is released.”

Republican Sens. Michael Baumgartner of Spokane and Ritzville’s Mark Schoesler also voted for the bill, which passed the Senate 42-6. Sens. Brian Dansel (Republic) and Mike Padden (Spokane Valley) voted against it.

The House version, HB 2584, passed 89-8 with bipartisan support from Democratic Reps. Timm Ormsby and Marcus Riccelli, both from Spokane, and Republicans Jeff Holy (Cheney), Joel Kretz (Wauconda), Bob McCaslin and Matt Shea (both Spokane Valley), Kevin Parker (Spokane), Joe Schmick (Colfax), and Shelly Short (Addy); Mary Dye of Pomeroy voted against the measure. (MITCH RYALS)

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History Repeats Itself In the shadow of two investigations at the Museum of Arts and Culture, executive director Forrest Rodgers has been fired — again

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he water department thought there was a leak. Water usage had skyrocketed so much in the previous few months at Spokane’s Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the water department wondered if something had gone wrong.

Nothing had.

Thanks to the “Nature Connects” LEGO exhibit, visitors were drinking from fountains, flushing toilets — in other words, attending the museum like they hadn’t in a very long time. In two months, the museum received 40 percent more visitors than it had in all of 2014. This — after years of dismal attendance, state budget cuts, staff resignations and internal turmoil — was something like victory.

And that’s when, on Feb. 10, the MAC’s board fired the museum’s executive director, Forrest Rodgers.

It turns out that two separate external investigations were scrutinizing the MAC last fall.

In October, a whistleblower sent a complaint to the state auditor’s office, triggering an investigation. And in November, the board asked a regional state human resources manager to look into a hostile work-environment complaint against Rodgers.

If all this seems eerily familiar, it should. This wasn’t the first HR investigation into Rodgers.

Nor is it the first time Rodgers has been fired by the museum. And now, just like back in 2012, Rodgers says he has called the office of employment law attorney Bob Dunn, and is thinking about suing.

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Back in 2012, Rodgers’ termination sparked an inferno of public outrage, including an Internet petition, a heated public forum and letters to the editor. Community pressure, combined with Rodgers’ lawsuit, resulted in him being rehired.

But today, public outcry is largely absent.

Some of the most visible protesters against Rodgers’ firing in 2012 haven’t rallied to support him.

MAC board president Toni Pessemier has responded to community questions over Rodgers’ firing by saying it’s a “personnel matter,” without elaborating.

Four years ago, the board had been deeply divided over Rodgers’ firing. This time, Pessemier said, the vote was 10 to 0, with one absent.

(Absent board member Elizabeth Kelley resigned on Monday, writing that she wouldn’t have voted to terminate Rodgers.)

Until recently, the MAC had continued to struggle under Rodgers’ tenure.

“Our attendance is unacceptably low,” Rodgers told the Inlander in August 2013. Over the next two years, attendance remained dismal.

Rodgers intentionally avoided bringing in

any out-of-town blockbuster exhibits, hoping to rely on programs based on the local “100 Stories” exhibit to drive attendance.

“Those were not sufficiently developed and delivered,” Rodgers says. With Forrest Rodgers YOUNG KWAK PHOTO staff overwhelmed and state funding uncertain, Rodgers says the MAC instead took the time to reassess.

In late November 2014, Rodgers and the board hired John Moredo-Burich as the director of museum experience. Moredo-Burich says that when he arrived, educational programming and museum marketing were virtually nonexistent.

Not only had the main exhibit not been changed in more than a year, he says, there were no major upcoming exhibits scheduled at all.

“Most cultural centers are booked five to eight years in advance,” Moredo-Burich says.

Getting the LEGO exhibit installed at the MAC in less than a year, he says, meant calling in favors with old industry contacts.

By the time he started dismantling “100 Stories” in October, however, the MAC was hit with another challenge. An employee whistleblower had contacted the state auditor’s office, accusing the museum of “improper governmental actions,” which can include violating state law, gross mismanagement or gross waste of public resources.

Multiple investigators from state auditor’s office visited the MAC, interviewing staff members and gathering documents. “We learned about many of the policies that the museum had been following for decades that violated state rules and regulations,” Rodgers says.

The MAC won’t know the specifics of the whistleblower complaint until the investigation concludes. Moredo-Burich says that could take as long as until next October.

PERSONNEL PROBLEMS

In the meantime, a different investigation scrutinized Rodgers himself.

Richard Bruce, a graphic designer and museum assistant and a member of the Kalispel Tribe, lodged a complaint about Rodgers with the board. In response, the board asked Lois Bergstrom, a regional human resources manager at the Washington State Department of Corrections, to investigate the issue.

At press time, Bruce had not returned phone calls from the Inlander and a records request for the investigation had not been filled.

Rodgers says the complaint claimed he was

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“creating a hostile work environment and … was retaliating and intimidating.”

Rodgers admits there was a rift between Bruce and the museum, but refuses to take the blame. “He refused to meet with me,” Rodgers says. “I can’t be intimidating if I’m not talking with him and he’s not talking with me.”

To try to get Bruce to talk, Rodgers says, he changed the lock on Bruce’s office door, and appended a note saying, “You want the key, come talk to me.”

Ultimately, Rodgers says, the investigation concluded that issues between staff members needed to be resolved. “The agreement was that he would participate along with me and three other staff in a mediation to identify the issues and find the solution,” Rodgers says.

Again, this echoes the past. In 2013, the state launched an extensive investigation into allegations of gender discrimination and retaliation by Rodgers. The investigator cleared the executive director of the primary accusations, but identified serious staff discontent, concluding he had likely had “significant and detrimental impact on the MAC.” Despite this, the board stood unanimously beside him and celebrated his business plan.

This time, however, it isn’t just the “hostile work environment” complaint the board had concerns about. In January, the board sent letters and memos to Rodgers identifying concerns about his work plan, the museum budget and how he responded to instructions from the board.

Rodgers says he had a response to the budget memo prepared on the day he was fired. But he was too busy working on a state capital budget request, he says, to respond to the board’s demand for a reformatted work plan, or several other board complaints.

“I did not respond to the two-and-a-half page memo criticizing me for the fact a member-preview postcard was mailed late,” he says. He suspects that the spate of recent board memos to him were designed to lay out a case for his termination.

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In January, Pessemier and Rodgers presented a united front to the Inlander, celebrating state funding for a “predesign,” a thorough analysis of the physical and financial structures of the museum in order to ensure its future.

Today, by contrast, Rodgers says he disagreed significantly over the board’s view of the predesign and condemns the board for overstepping its authority. After five board members resigned in May, Rodgers says, the board has attempted to “govern by memo,” directing the director specifically instead of guiding through general policy.

“That’s a violation of the delegation of day-to-day authority to the chief executive of the museum,” he says.

Pessemier says the board has sought to clearly answer Rodgers’ questions about his role and the board’s.

“We felt it was important to have clear communication with him and communicated regularly,” she says. “We consistently consulted the attorney general’s office to confirm the appropriate processes.”

In fact, Pessemier says, during the same board meeting when they fired Rodgers, they voted to adopt his predesign recommendations.

As the MAC enters its 100th year, it’s looking forward.

Moredo-Burich — now the interim director — can rattle off all the reasons to be excited about the MAC’s present and future, from the current “Treasures” exhibit to Nez Perce artifacts to an upcoming ancient Egypt show.

Rodgers, for his part, can point to successes he’s brought to the museum, from opening on Sundays to providing digital access to the photo archives. But as he pursues litigation, Rodgers’ traditional optimism about the MAC sounds absent.

“The board talks about recruiting a new executive director,” Rodgers says. “What museum professional is going to look at an institution like this, that has — especially within the museum community — a reputation?”

He answers only with slow shrug of his shoulders.  danielw@inlander.com

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hese two are prepared for all manner of shit that may come their way. Hanging from their bulletproof vests are handcuffs, expandable batons, Tasers, gloves, flashlights and GoPro cameras. One wears a patch on his vest that says “The Dude Abides.” An insignia on the other’s chest declares “I’m Your Huckleberry.” Handguns hang on their hips; in the trunk is their backup: high-powered rifles capable of cutting down a man from 300 yards.

They’re not cops, but they’re here to make sure fugitives keep their promise to show up for court. In the driver’s seat is Scott Gribble, a former border patrol agent with a trim, graying goatee.

Next to him is his partner, Steve Krause, formerly in the Navy.

They’re modern bounty hunters, and they’re looking to get paid.

“The only reason to do this job is for the money,” says Gribble, who made over $100,000 last year. “If you’re in this to clean up the streets and make the world a better place, you’re disillusioned.”

Should they run into any problems during their manhunt, Gribble carries a copy of a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1872 that says, in essence, they can go wherever they need to in pursuit of a wanted fugitive. Because they aren’t cops or “state actors,” they’re not bound by the constitutional rules protecting due process and prohibiting illegal searches and seizures.

Today, they’re in a parking lot across from a quiet residential neighborhood, watching a wanted fugitive’s mother’s house. Krause thumbs through Facebook on his phone, looking for leads. Nothing online, and no activity at the house.

Krause moves down to the next name on their wanted list, a man they’ve linked to a local prostitute. They’re going after his weak spot.

“Call your hooker,” Gribble barks to Krause, who phones the woman and arranges a meeting. And just like that, their trap is set.

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Bail enforcement agents, as many prefer to be called, chase people who missed court dates after posting bond to get out of jail.

They catch a bad rap in part because of pop-culture depictions like the reality TV show Dog the Bounty Hunter, and because of hotshots who think they can do the job but have little or no experience.

Gribble is trying to change that “knuckle-dragger” persona. He teaches a bounty hunter boot camp that meets the state’s training requirements, where he tries to instill a sense of professionalism to the job.

“My philosophy is I treat everybody the way I would wanna be treated,” he says. “If I’m an asshole, treat me like an asshole. But everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and everyone deserves their day in court. We help them keep that promise.”

Still, bail enforcement agents — and the hazy rules under which they operate — are not above criticism.

“The system — where [bounty hunters] put themselves at risk and trap offenders who can resort to violence to get out of that situation — is flawed,” says former Ada (Idaho) County Sheriff Gary Raney. “They don’t all necessarily have a sense of really understanding what the law says about how much force they can use, and the legal and moral sense of what it means to take a life. Law enforcement is better equipped to do that.”

‘MAY BREAK AND ENTER’ The commercial bail bond system is ancient. Its origin is often traced to English common law when, before state-sanctioned law enforcement, citizens would chase after fugitives, says Brian Johnson, a criminal justice professor at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University who studies the industry.

With the exception of a handful of states, the modern businesses still follow the same principles: You pay a bond company a ...continued on page 22

Scott Gribble draws his gun while searching a house for a fugitive. Last year Gribble made more than $100,000 chasing wanted men. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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“The seizure is not made of due process. none is “THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH,” CONTINUED... percentage of your court-imposed bail.

The company promises to make sure you show up to court. If you don’t, they’re on the hook for the rest of your bail unless they can find you.

That’s where bounty hunters come in. That Supreme Court case from 1872 remains the authority on what they’re allowed to do.

“They may pursue [a fugitive] into another State; arrest him on the Sabbath, and, if necessary, may break and enter into his house for that purpose. The seizure is not made by virtue of due process.

None is needed,” the opinion reads.

Not until the 1960s did a system that requires money in exchange for pretrial freedom begin drawing criticism for its inherent discrimination against poor people. The Vera Foundation’s (now the Vera Institute of Justice) Manhattan Bail Project in 1961 and the National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice in 1964 led up to the federal Bail Reform Act of 1966, which in part put restrictions on money bail bonds, but did nothing to rein in the people who hunt those who skip out on bail.

“I submit that the commercial bail bond companies have a greater influence on who stays in jail, and who gets out, than judges do,” Raney says. “We need to change that.”

In 1971, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the abuse in the commercial bail system “offensive” and “odorous,” and in 1974, Oregon abolished commercial bail bonds altogether. Wisconsin followed suit in 1979. Illinois and Kentucky also have abolished for-profit bail. In those states, the court generally takes the place of commercial bondsmen.

Robust pretrial monitoring programs also play a huge role in allowing judges to decide between detention and release.

Although case law has chipped away at the 1872 decision, Taylor v. Taintor, its authority largely remains intact. Congress tried to regulate the industry in 1999 with the Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act, but those efforts failed. As recently as 2009, a U.S. Court of Appeals reinforced bounty hunters’ exemption from constitutional protections against “state actors.”

It wasn’t until 2006 that Washington state began requiring licenses to hunt fugitives. In fact, state law specifically references the Supreme Court case by name: “The legislature does not intend… to restrict or limit in any way the powers

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Bounty hunters Scott Gribble (with a goatee) and Steve Krause captured two fugitives during one day earlier this month. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

of bail bond agents as recognized in and derived from the United States Supreme Court case of Taylor v. Taintor.”

If you ask the local criminal justice players — judges, attorneys, law enforcement — they’ll tell you they don’t know much about bounty hunters and the rules they play by.

That’s because there are some gray areas, especially surrounding bounty hunters’ relationships with police.

One recent example landed a former Spokane police officer on unpaid leave and left a former unlicensed bounty hunter facing criminal charges.

Dennis Kariores, who now lives in Florida, says he was friends with several Spokane cops who would call when they needed help getting around those annoying constitutional rights.

“Those were some of the craziest years of my life,” Kariores tells the Inlander. “As a bounty hunter, I had so many informants. There were several times where I had relationships with people the cops were looking for. They’d say, ‘Hey, go get this guy and run a red light, and

we’ll pull you over.’”

Former Spokane police Officer Alan Edwards was suspended for two weeks without pay in 2011 after an internal investigation determined he violated department policy by LETTERS concocting Send comments to a “ruse” editor@inlander.com. to illegally enter a Spokane home with Kariores’ help. Edwards, Kariores and another bondsman planned to take a man Kariores had captured to a home where Edwards believed some stolen Cadillac rims were being kept.

When the fugitive ran inside, Kariores chased him, which allowed Edwards to follow them inside without a search warrant. (Edwards was later fired for a separate incident.)

For Spokane County Superior Court Judge Annette Plese, bail enforcement agents are a “necessary evil.”

“I think we get more cases brought back quicker because the [bond companies] are going to lose money if they don’t

bring them back here,” she says. “They allow us to resolve the warrant so it doesn’t just languish in the system for years.”

‘HOUSE OF RECORD’ The men’s thick black boots squish the soft earth around the home they’ve been watching for the past 30 minutes. Krause sprints through the backyard to the back door. Gribble walks calmly to the front and knocks.

“Washington state bail enforcement!” he says, flipping through the thin manila folder. No one answers. Krause radios that the back door is unlocked. He opens the front door for Gribble.

The two-story house in north Spokane is the address that William Berg, who is out on bond for a misdemeanor charge, put on his contract with the bond company. In the bail bond world, that’s known as “house of record,” and it means that bail recovery agents can walk in anytime without permission. Had the back door not been unlocked, legally they could have kicked the door down, but Gribble says he wouldn’t have.

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“If we have to, yeah, but everybody’s got this mentality that we’re kickin’ doors all the time, and that’s just not what we do,” he says.

They start searching upstairs: in each bedroom, under the beds, the bathrooms, the closets.

Then they move downstairs. No one is home.

Gribble calls local police dispatch to let them know they’ve entered the house as a safety precaution. As they walk out the door, Berg’s 17-year-old sister is just getting home from school.

She hasn’t seen her brother in months, and he rarely comes to the house. Gribble asks her to message her brother on Facebook. Soon, Berg is on his way to the house. Krause goes out to the car to wait. Gribble takes a seat on the couch in the living room and chats with Berg’s sister.

Minutes later, Berg walks through the door.

Gribble arrests him without a problem. His sister gives him a hug before they leave.

“I apologize for bringing this shit to your mom’s house,” Gribble says to him.

“It’s all good,” he says. “I brought this on myself.”

“So why’d you miss court?” Krause asks after loading Berg into the car.

“I just ended up oversleeping,” Berg says.

They have to take him to the courthouse

for paperwork before dropping him at the jail.

Krause offers Berg a cigarette while they wait.

“If they’re cool,” Gribble says, “we’re cool.”

But they’re not always cool.

ON THE WRONG SIDE Last year, Christopher Schulthies, a 30-something bounty hunter from Idaho Falls, shot and killed Philip Clay, a fugitive he was chasing. Schulthies, whose training was as a nightclub bouncer, reportedly told Clay to drop his handgun multiple times before he fired five shots, killing him.

Bonneville County prosecutors decided not to charge Schulthies in the death, saying that earlier in the day, Clay had pointed a loaded gun at other bounty hunters chasing him.

But lawmakers in Idaho are now drafting a bill that would require bail enforcement agents to distinguish themselves from law enforcement in appearance, in part, by not wearing badges.

Unlike Washington state, where bail recovery agents have to be licensed by the Department of Licensing, Idaho has no such restrictions. The only requirement to be hired as a bounty hunter in Idaho is state residency.

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Despite stiffer licensing requirements, some Washington state bounty hunters have still found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Jason Stomps, for one, is serving a 15-year sentence in state prison after forcing his way into a house in Vancouver, Washington.

On the evening of March 20, 2014, Stomps and his partner said they saw Courtney Barnes, who was wanted for felony warrants, inside a split-level house. The three people inside refused to open the door, so Stomps broke it down using an antique railroad-spike hammer.

When the police arrived, Stomps was standing in the doorway, his gun drawn. Two of the people in the house were handcuffed together because “they weren’t listening to us,” Stomps told authorities, according to court documents. Police arrested him before he had a chance to search the house.

“We thought the guy was in the house, and in the state of Washington, that means we can go in,” Stomps tells the Inlander from the Monroe Correctional Complex.

Stomps had the contract Barnes signed with the bond company listing the address as the “house of record,” and he says he had “reasonable cause” to believe Barnes was in the house.

Dan Gasperino, the Clark County deputy prosecutor who handled Stomps’ trial, says the “reasonable cause” standard is not as well defined as, say, the probable cause standard that police must abide by.

“I don’t know if there’s really a definition for it,” he says. “A reasonable person gets to determine that, which would be the 12 jurors.”

Stomps was charged with kidnapping, assault and burglary. He was offered a plea deal for nine months of work release, but turned it down.

Stomps says he spent 12 years in the military, some of those as military police.

“They wanted my gun rights, and I told them to get f---ed,” he says. “I didn’t commit a crime. I was obeying the law the best that I could. There’s a lot of gray areas in the law.”

He believed that if he testified at trial, the jury would see he didn’t intend to commit a crime. If convicted, he was looking at nearly 20 years in prison, but Gasperino recommended an

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exceptionally lower sentence of 12 months. Clark County Judge Derek Vanderwood agreed and sentenced Stomps to one year, but mandatory firearm enhancements tacked on another 14. “One for every bullet I had in my gun,” Stomps says.

THE LIAISON It’s 7 pm now. This is the time Krause arranged to meet the prostitute at a hotel along Division Street. Kellen Jaeb, a fugitive they’ve been chasing for two weeks, is known to date her, and they’re banking on Jaeb driving her to the fake meet-up.

Krause waits in the hotel lobby while Gribble sits in the car.

A dark Dodge Charger rolls by.

“We were told they might be in a Charger,” Gribble announces. He puts the car in gear but doesn’t turn his headlights on. As he approaches the car, a young blonde woman comes into view, and Gribble pulls right in front of their car.

“Hands in the air! Put your f---ing hands out the window!” he yells, gun drawn, approaching the fugitive’s car. “What’s your name?”

“Johnny Walker,” Jaeb says.

“Johnny Walker, huh?” Gribble says, cuffing Jaeb’s hands. He pats him down against the car.

“Got anything on you that you don’t want to go to jail with?” he asks. “Get rid of any drugs or anything, or they’ll stick you with more charges.”

Jaeb, who has a wad of cash in his front pocket, says to give it to his girlfriend.

“OK, hang on. You understand that 90 percent of the time when guys give money to the girls when they go to jail, they never see that money again,” Gribble tells him quietly. “You need to think about that.”

“I know, I seen it before,” Jaeb says, turning to the sobbing woman. “Baby, calm down. It’s way better than the police catchin’ me, for real.”

Outside of the Spokane County Jail, Krause lights up a cigarette for Jaeb, whose hands are still cuffed behind his back. Jaeb spent some time at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center while Krause was a corrections officer there. They swap stories before a jail guard takes Jaeb in for booking.

“Good luck to ya,” Gribble says. Jaeb is the second fugitive they caught today, and another turned himself in. They’ll get paid for all three.

“That’s a $1,300 day for us,” he says. “Not bad.”  mitchr@inlander.com

Thinkers and Tinkers A Coeur d’Alene makerspace is inspiring and educating the next generation of tech innovators

BY CHEY SCOTT

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otors whiz and whir. The scent of fresh sawdust and hot metal waft through the air. Teenagers with safety glasses perched atop their heads confidently bustle around a shop that’s filled with all manner of gadgets and machines: a laser cutter, plasma cutter, UV printer, lathes, CNC (computerized numerical control) machine, a 3-D printer and more.

On Thursdays after school, Gizmo Coeur d’Alene is taken over by a dozen or so students on the local FIRST Robotics Competition team. The nonprofit makerspace — a do-it-yourself, creative learning lab offering use of its specialized equipment, tools and technology — is ground zero for coding, building and testing each component of the extracurricular project. Gizmo’s team for the nationwide engineering and technology competition is open to students from

all Coeur d’Alene-area high schools. FIRST Robotics’ regional competition in Boise this spring is fast approaching, and the team needs to finish their robot

by Feb. 23.

Three-and-a-half weeks before that deadline, they conduct the first live test of the robot’s motorized track wheels. So far, it’s going well.

“It moved, in low and high gear,” one of the students excitedly reports to Gizmo co-founder Marty Mueller, the team’s mentor.

“I saw — that’s great!” Mueller responds.

At the competition, teams compete in various challenges — maneuvering the machine across uneven terrain, launching a projectile at a target and moving the robot up and over a vertical obstacle, explains Gizmo’s Barb Mueller, Marty’s wife.

“The next couple of days will be a lot of ‘first

times,’” she says of the students’ testing process.

The Muellers launched Gizmo almost two years ago, after decades working in the field of engineering research and design. The couple designed and built special IMAX cameras used in the International Space Station, which 20 years ago earned them an Academy Award in Scientific and Technology achievement. Those cameras became the basis for the 3-D technology used in the film industry today, Barb says.

While now retired from MSM Designs, their Coeur d’Alene-based venture through which that project was developed, the couple are passionate about sharing their collective talents with the next generation of thinkers and builders.

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on any given day at the midtown Coeur d’Alene warehouse with a bright orange facade. Classes and workshops for all ages cover everything from metal welding and jewelry making to computer coding and woodworking. There’s also a frequently rotating schedule of workshops and day camps especially for kids, giving the youngest learners a chance to explore Gizmo’s diverse array of technology and tools.

“There are makerspaces all over the country,” Barb says. “Some are really kid-based, and some are really adult-based, but very few of those allow kids into the shop as early as we do. I think we’re a good blend of kids and adults, and I think that’s what makes us unique.”

During daily operating hours, makerspace members (varying rate tiers are offered) can drop in to use its equipment and resources, with the option to request assistance and advice from the Muellers and other experts willing to volunteer their knowledge on whatever project is underway.

Gizmo was born out of original plans for an arts-focused space, Barb explains. At the time she was applying for grants to launch that envisioned arts hub; however, the civic planning venture CDA 2030 was also just getting started. Citizens and stakeholders involved in that endeavor were interested in bringing a makerspace to the Lake City. Mueller’s plans shifted toward an arts-plustechnology resource; the makerspace that now serves all of Coeur d’Alene and beyond. “[A makerspace] allows all kinds of growth in tech, and it’s also a place that could incubate

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ideas, bringing ‘K through gray’ in one space,” Mueller recalls of those early discussions.

Two short years later, she notes they’ve already outgrown the 3,000-square-foot warehouse. Everything in the shop that can move is on wheels to accommodate various sessions and projects, like the weekly “Muddy Mondays” pottery wheel classes and the Friday afternoon “Let’s Science It” session for local homeschoolers.

Marty built a rotating, vertical system to store materials in plastic storage bins — Gizmo’s “toteevator” — to save floor space. Gizmo could move to a larger home in as soon as a few months.

With a professional career based in art and design — she’s also a trained machinist — Barb stresses that Gizmo’s mission is STEAM (the ‘A’ stands for arts) rather than STEM. The Muellers deeply believe, based on their own experiences, that creative, imaginative thinking and processes are critical to the STEM components: science, technology, engineering and math.

“If a kid makes a decision not to be involved in technology because they think they’re not smart enough, or good enough, and don’t see why it’s important, they made a decision that is going to affect them for the rest of their life,” Barb explains. “Gizmo is a place to see why it’s important not to say ‘no’ to technology.”  cheys@inlander.com Gizmo CDA • 806 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Mon-Thu, noon-9 pm; Fri and Sun, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-5 pm • gizmo-cda. org • 208-651-6200

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evin Pangos will be long cherished by Gonzaga fans, mostly due to the fact that it felt like he was on the team forever. By starting nearly every game of his four-year career and serving as the team’s go-to leader for most of that time, Pangos became synonymous with Gonzaga basketball. His absence has certainly been felt this year as the Zags struggle to find solid guard play.

Now, Pangos’ basketball career is the subject of a book, which might seem a bit odd, given that the 23-year-old has capped his Gonzaga career and is now playing in Spain. This isn’t a revealing look or exposé of any sort, but Can’t Miss: The Kevin Pangos Story, a self-published effort by Chris Dooley, a Canadian basketball coach who worked alongside Kevin’s dad, Bill Pangos, will give the serious Zag fan some excellent backstory on Pangos.

Perhaps the book’s most fascinating angle is the way in which Dooley describes Pangos’ basketball life before coming to Gonzaga. It was occasionally mentioned in broadcasts, but Dooley drives home the point that Pangos was a legitimate star athlete in Canada before arriving in Spokane. He played alongside current NBA stars as part of the

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Canadian national team as the youngest player ever to wear the country’s colors.

Although he calls Ontario home, Dooley was a regular fixture in Spokane during Pangos’ final two seasons with Gonzaga, and his time on the ground is apparent in the book, which offers a look inside the often closed-off program. There are interviews with coaches and fellow players, and an insightful look at the personal goals Pangos set for himself for each year of his career.

Dooley says that the book wasn’t just about portraying a unique and talented basketball player, but also someone who he’d come to think of as a remarkable individual.

“The respect and admiration that Kevin garnered in Spokane over his career is the same respect and admiration that Kevin has from so many people throughout his life and process in basketball thus far,” says Dooley.

“This book is about Kevin, yes, but it is also about all the people who impacted Kevin in his journey from Newmarket [Ontario] to Spokane. Zags will get much insight into their adopted son.”

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AWARDS THE GRAMMYS GET RETROSPECTIVE A lot of famous musicians have died lately, and Monday’s Grammys drove the point home. The show seemed focused more on dead icons than the fresh-scrubbed pop stars winning most of the trophies (Taylor Swift for Album of the Year, Kendrick Lamar for seemingly everything else). Most folks tune in for the performances, and this year’s were dominated by homages to David Bowie, Glenn Frey, B.B. King, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Maurice White. People who saw Lionel Richie get on stage to join the celebration of his songs might have been surprised he’s still alive and kicking.

MUSIC VIDEO OK Go’s lighter-than-air “UPSIDE DOWN & INSIDE OUT” is entirely impressive. The same quartet who brought you the choreographed treadmill romp and stunning futuristic unicycle music videos is back, singing and flying during a zero-gravity airplane ride.

The pop-infused song isn’t all that memorable, but the weightless effect will certainly stick in your brain. Over the years, the bells and whistles are what this band has come to count on to stay relevant. So where can you get in on your own parabolic flight? The Zero Gravity Corporation, using a Boeing 727-200 aircraft, will take you on one wild ride for a mere $5,000.

DVD Christopher Guest movies are all so similar, with quirky looks into countercultures like dog shows, community theater, Hollywood award season and terrible bands trying to make it, all in a mockumentary style. But each one is absolutely worth watching. With A MIGHTY WIND, a 2003 film recently released on Blu-ray which includes new commentary and deleted scenes, the subject is a reluctant folk-music reunion show. It’s a sweet, silly and sentimental picture, one that will have you singing more than a few tunes by the end of its short 90-minute run time that promises a “kiss at the end of the rainbow.”

TV Don’t get confused by the rockinfused show trailers; HBO’s VINYL is mostly about the business side of the 1970s NYC music scene, rather than the music itself. After all, business, legal and otherwise, is the area that co-creator Martin Scorsese feels most comfortable exploring. Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) is a coke-addled family man who also happens to have one of the best ears for new musical talent around. Trying to save his struggling music label, he soon stumbles across the underground punk scene, but will he be able to keep his life together over the next nine episodes? No, not everything here is historically accurate, but with the help of co-creators Mick Jagger and Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) and strong performances, Vinyl should give us a taste of what that crazy moment in time was like. n

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Fruit in Fast-Forward WSU researchers stumbled on a new way to breed trees, five times faster than the old way

BY TARYN PHANEUF

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n the tree fruit industry, time can be the biggest impediment. After all, what is more unchanging than the time required to grow a tree?

“The nursery business is one of the slow parts,” says Doug Hemly, a fifth-generation pear grower from California. “Once you know what you want to do, you have to get the tree grown correctly and as quickly as possible. And you want it to be consistent. You want it to be reliable (so) that you get exactly what you ordered.”

Until recently, Hemly and other growers like him had to make the best of the situation. Apple orchards covet the most productive and resilient trees, but there aren’t enough to go around. Pear growers see little research done to improve breeding in their crop.

But that could change as a Pullman-based company takes root. Phytelligence — a Washington State University startup — found a way to accelerate the natural process of growing trees, nearly cutting the time in half while saving 200 gallons of water per tree.

Such an innovation could bring unheard-of flexibility to some of Washington’s most bountiful crops, allowing growers to adapt sooner to consumer demands or replenish orchards ravaged by disease.

Years ago, a WSU plant geneticist wanted a soilfree way to grow more plants more quickly to aid his research. An expert in fruit, Amit Dhingra directed his research assistants to divvy up species: sweet cherries, apples, pears, grapes, and strawberries.

“I started 3,000 [sweet cherry] buds and lost them all in the research lab because we were starting from scratch,” says Tyson Koepke, who worked in Dhingra’s lab. “We were just trying to make the process work for further experiments.”

They found success growing plants in solutions that Koepke describes as “jello with Flintstones vitamins for plants.” In that nutrient-rich media, one bud can multiply into 250,000 individual plants in a year.

Thanks to insight from an undergraduate working in the lab, Dhingra’s team learned that its methods, if applied commercially, could relieve a longstanding bottleneck in the fruit industry. Where growers typically have to wait three to five years for new trees propagated at a nursery, these researchers invented a way to yield fruit in 12 to 18 months.

Phytelligence started production in 2013. Plants, including 11 different species, grow for about four weeks in jars crowded on shelves, filling three rooms in the office at WSU’s Research and Technology Park.

After a month, each plant is cut into two or three pieces, creating two or three new plants.

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quickly.

When the time is right, Phytelligence moves the plant into media that tells it to grow roots. Then it’s transported to a nursery near Seattle, where it will live in a pot until it’s 18 to 24 inches tall.

The plant is a dormant stick called a rootstock, Koepke says. Once it’s planted in the ground, it can be budded in the same season, which means the grower inserts a stem with leaf buds into the rootstock.

Altogether, Phytelligence shaves two years off the traditional process.

Last fall, a cherry grower in Washington became the first to plant trees propagated in the lab.

“The Phytelligence approach lends itself to a lot of the concerns that have been present over the years,” says Hemly, who invested in the company.

He hesitates to plant new trees because committing four or five years in advance is daunting. A lot can change in that time. In the end, he might not even have the right tree.

“One of the big issues in the industry has been cross-contamination. People are sold plants that aren’t what they’re supposed to be. You wait three to five years to realize the tree isn’t growing right,” Koepke says.

Phytelligence genetically tests each tree. It’s the only nursery with that level of quality control. With that kind of assurance, combined with speed, Hemly feels more positive about the possibilities for his orchards.

“We haven’t been doing a lot of planting because we haven’t had the materials available to do what we want to do,” he says. “I think the science Phytelligence is bringing to this area is exciting.” n

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The Wages of Sin The Witch finds its terror in obsession with corruption

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he witch in The Witch is real; of that, genre fans who have grown accustomed to there can be no doubt. While writer/ jump-scares and overt booga-booga creepiness. director Robert Eggers easily could While he does employ the unsettling sonic have created a version of this story in which the effect of dissonant strings and moaning choral existence of his antagonist as a physical entity voices, his individual scenes are almost clinical was a matter of interpretation, he provides clear in their depiction of things like a possible deevidence of a creature acting independent from monic possession. Throw in the characters’ use the perception of his characters. It runs alone in of archaic English diction — a post-film title card the woods. It does… unspeakable things, with notes that some dialogue was taken verbatim no one else watching. This is no mere delusion from period accounts of witchcraft — and The of its devout Christian characters in 17thWitch becomes a challenging change-up from century New England, not a creation of their most contemporary supernatural horror films. collective paranoia. The witch exists.

It’s also considerably more unsettling, That internal reality of The Witch is crucial thanks to the way Eggers digs into the idea of — and it also makes this subtly terrifying movie people consumed with the doctrine of sinfulan incredibly difficult narrative to unpack. ness. A key scene finds William and oldest son While it works simply as a horror yarn crafted Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) hunting together to inspire bone-deep dread, it also seems like a through the woods, with Caleb responding, catstory divided against itself. Is this a tale of reechism style, to his father’s quizzing about the ligious fundamentalism transformed into mass nature of human corruption and the need for psychosis? Or is it a recognition that such belief grace. That’s quite a load to bear for the adois a perfectly rational response to a world full of lescent boy, who fears that his lost, unbaptized genuine, implacable evil? baby brother has been doomed to hell, and that This is the world in which we find our his own growing lustful thoughts — we see him central family, which has been gazing curiously at Thomasin’s banished from a New England cleavage — mean that he is THE WITCH settlement because of the refusdamned as well. Eggers ties Rated R al of patriarch William (Ralph that moment to the inherent Ineson) to back down from his Written and directed by Robert Eggers fear of budding female sexualinsistence that the leadership is Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph ity, as Thomasin comes under Ineson, Kate Dickie full of “false Christians.” Left suspicion for bringing tragedy to set up a farm alone on the to the family. Surely she must edge of an ominous forest, William, his wife be the witch.

Katherine (Kate Dickie) and their five children Except that she’s not; the witch is out try to scratch out subsistence. Then their in- there, and the witch is real. That’s what makes fant son Samuel disappears while in the untangling The Witch’s perspective on fire-andcare of oldest daughter Thomasin brimstone faith such a messy business. But the (Anya Taylor-Joy), and the family answer, if there is an answer, might be there in gradually comes to suspect that the film’s subtitle: “A New-England Folktale.” Besome dark force is threatencause in a folktale, the monster may be real, but ing both their lives and the monster isn’t just a monster; it’s a lesson, a their souls. piece of moral instruction to be conveyed from Eggers’ direction one generation to the next. There’s an element displays the kind of hubris in William’s decision to accept banishof restraint that ment from the settlement; “We will conquer might be unfathis wilderness; it will not consume us,” he tells miliar — and, Caleb, even though his crops and his attempts frankly, at hunting all fail. Eggers’ most daring conceit even in The Witch may be suggesting that people unwelobsessed with evil, who throw themselves come proudly into confronting it, may be even more — to vulnerable to it.

Or, like some of the best genre tales — and most enduring folktales — there may be other levels of meaning still to be unwrapped in The Witch. That may be part of what makes it so disturbing, even when Eggers doesn’t set out to shock you: He’s wrestling with something that we don’t fully understand, but that we know in our gut is real. 

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In 2001, we saw Zoolander and Hansel as arch enemies in the world of high fashion. Now, in 2016, America’s favorite super model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) returns with rival Hansel (Owen Wilson) to team up with hot-shot Valentina (Penelope Cruz) to fight an international conspiracy to kill the world’s most beautiful people. (MM) Rated PG-13

WHERE TO INVADE NEXT

In Michael Moore’s latest documentary, the provocative director “invades” other nations — stalking into Norway and Italy, and also France and Germany and Finland and Iceland, even Tunisia — in search of great ideas America can steal, from improved health care to better childhood education. (MJ) Rated R

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NOW PLAYING stories of the investment banking insiders — including fund managers Michael Burry (Christian Bale) and Mark Baum (Steve Carell) — who saw the mortgage collapse coming as early as 2005, and began to realize how much the game was rigged. (SR) Rated R

BROOKLYN

Saoirse Ronan’s lovely central performance as a fresh-off-the-boat Irish immigrant lifts Brooklyn’s perfectly pitched narrative of love and homesickness as the young woman learns to navigate her new life.

CAROL

Already at the top of numerous critics’ lists of 2015’s best films, Carol is a sweeping story of forbidden love between two women — Carol Aird (Kate Blanchett) and Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) — in 1950s New York City. Eleven years in the works, the historical drama carefully examines how repressive society was in response to homosexual relationships as Carol and Therese struggle to express their feelings while trying to hide their secret. (CS) Rated R

THE CHOICE

In this latest Nicholas Spark lovefest book adaption, chance brings an unlikely pair together. Travis Shaw is an easy-going bachelor and Gabby Holland is a medical student with a long-term boyfriend. When Gabby moves next door to Travis, the two soon realize their attraction for each other is undeniable.

As their relationship grows, their lives change forever and they must decide how far they are willing to go to sustain their love. (CS) Rated PG-13

CREED

Donny is an angry orphaned teen, rescued from the foster-care system by the widow (Phylicia Rashad) of boxing legend Apollo Creed from the Rocky series. She has learned that Donny is the illegitimate son of her late husband and has decided to take responsibility for him — and that unique backstory of a tough kid brought into a life of privilege gives Michael B. Jordan the opportunity for a terrific performance. Donny then heads into the ring for a boxing career with help from his trainer, none other than Rocky himself (Sylvester Stallone, of course). (SR) Rated PG-13

THE FINEST HOURS

In Disney’s most recent take on a historical event, a hurricane-force storm batters the U.S. Coast Guard’s SS Pendleton tanker ship into two pieces with more than 30 sailors taking refuge in the sinking stern. Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) and three other men embark on a rescue mission with all odds against them.

(MS) Rated PG-13

DIRTY GRANDPA

Jason (Zac Efron) is a responsible, buttoned-down young gent who’s about to get married. But before he does that,

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he agrees to drive his grandpa (Robert effin’ De Niro) to Florida. One problem, though — his grandpa is a sex-crazed, booze-fueled maniac who detours the trip to spring break in Florida. (MB) Rated R

HAIL, CAESAR!

The latest offering from the Coen brothers features an all-star cast including George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.

Set in 1950s Hollywood, the film follows “fixer” Eddie Mannix (Brolin) as he tries to find out what happened to Baird Whitlock (Clooney) who disappeared during the filming for epic Hail, Caesar!

(CS) Rated PG-13

KUNG FU PANDA 3

Jack Black returns to voice the titular martial arts master, Po, and this time around he’s tasked with teaching sweet fighting skills to his crew, the Furious Five. And not a moment too soon, what with an evil, horned spirit named Kai (J.K. Simmons) threatening to steal the chi of every kung fu master in China. (KJ) Rated PG

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Check out a program of animated short films that have been nominated for Academy Awards, in addition to a selection of other animated flicks that didn’t quite make the cut. At Magic Lantern (MB)

OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILMS

Before the Academy Awards, check out all the films nominated in the short film category, form an opinion about which one should win, and then share that opinion ad nauseam at whatever Oscar party you end up at. At Magic Lantern.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

Think Jane Austen with a mix of newage zombie apocalypse twist. Based on a parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith (and listed as co-authored by Jane Austen), the 19th century tangled love story of two lovers from different classes must do all they can to survive a zombie apocalypse caused by the Black Plague. Will love of the heart trump love of brains?

Rated PG13. (MM)

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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, fresh off the success of Birdman, returns with this period drama featuring Leonardo Di Caprio as Hugh Glass, a guide in the Western wilds of the early 1800s who is attacked by a bear and has to cling to life and crawl back to safety. The problem with Iñárritu’s visual pyrotechnics are that although he seems to be making sure that audiences appreciate the gritty realism of it all, he also wants to make sure they know they’re watching a movie. (SR) Rated R

ROOM

Jack lives with his mom (Brie Larson) in Room (no “the”), the only place on earth the 5-year-old has ever known.

Room is a dingy toolshed supplied with nothing more than life’s essentials (a single bed where they both sleep, a toilet, dilapidated fridge, ancient TV and unreachable skylight) where Jack and Ma go through their daily regimen of washing, exercising, reading, eating, etc. On Jack’s fifth birthday, his mom decides to tell her son about the outside world… and hope for a life outside of Room. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, the Boston Globe editor-inchief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) asked the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team — Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children.

And as they begin digging — at first reluctantly — into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a massive scale in hushing up cases of abusive priests.

(SR) Rated R

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

If you are reading this, we assume you are just now learning of this film’s existence here on the 33rd page of our venerable publication and not from the marketing you may have seen on a cereal box, bottle of brake fluid or tube of hemorrhoid cream in your household.

The seventh installment of the franchise is the biggest yet, full of all the big scifi visuals we’d expect from new director J.J. Abrahams. (MB) Rated PG-13 

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Rated R Telling people, especially generaIt’s Saul’s bad fortune to Directed by László Nemes tions removed from the Nazi war witness a young boy who miracuStarring Géza Röhrig, Marcin machine, to “never forget” is more lously survives the gas. Although Czarnik, Jerzy Walczak often than not a losing proposithe youngster dies soon afterward, Opening at Magic Lantern on 2/26 tion. We’re hard-wired to forget or Saul gets it into his head that the consciously submerge the unspeakboy is his son and sets out on his able; it’s a survival trait. own secret mission to make sure So now we have the terrifyingly intimate Son the boy’s corpse is inhumed in a proper Jewish of Saul, a film unlike any other Holocaust film burial, rabbi and all. One of director Nemes’ best you’ve ever seen. It’s not as graphic as many, ideas in Son of Saul is never allowing the audience but Hungarian director László Nemes and actor to know if the harried, grim Saul is actually the Géza Röhrig, who plays the titular Saul and is in dead boy’s father. Is he delusional? virtually every shot, employ a heart-shattering Röhrig, in his acting debut, is mesmerizing. form of “you are there” filmic composition to His Saul labors with the grim determination of a put the audience dead center amidst the horrific, man somehow seeking to expiate the sin of being workaday world. We see everything from Saul’s a Sonderkommando. Nemes pulls few punches — POV. as though we were standing or running the story ends on a low note, as it tended to do right behind him, his shoulder or head always in real life — but this is no concentration-camp in frame in front of us. The effect is devastating, exploitation picture. Instead, it’s a harrowing both emotionally and physically. reminder of exactly why we must never forget. n

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Pickin’ and Grinnin’ Bluegrass lifer Jenny Anne Mannan hosts a new Spokane acoustic showcase

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Jenny Anne Mannan brings a new bluegrass series to Spokane.

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hen Colville-raised Jenny Anne Mannan and her brother Luke moved to Nashville, she was just 18 and leaving her family’s hard-touring bluegrass band, the Bullas, behind for a buzzing musical metropolis where the siblings knew few people.

Almost immediately — literally, the first weekend — they found themselves on stage with bluegrass legend and family friend Ricky Skaggs, first on Friday at a club, and then Saturday at the Grand Ole Opry. Just as quickly, Mannan found herself part of a community of songwriters who would meet up at bagel shops and small venues to swap songs, test new material and collaborate on classics.

From that beginning, her brother went on to play in Lyle Lovett’s band, while Mannan toured and collaborated with bluegrass and country luminaries like Skaggs, Jim Lauderdale and Paul Overstreet while having her songs recorded by the likes of John Cowan and Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek, Watkins Family Hour). After years playing and writing for herself, she decided to get out of the touring grind and turn to freelance songwriting and occasional one-off performances around the same time she got married and started a family.

That decision led to Mannan and her husband Caleb eventually moving back to Spokane two years ago to raise their four kids. Now, she brings the collaborative spirit she found in Nashville with her for a new series, set to appear monthly at the Bartlett.

Northwest of Nashville kicks off Tuesday, and Mannan hopes to capture some of the feeling she had in back in Tennessee when Skaggs called her to the stage that first day.

“That was our introduction to the scene — ‘Hey, come on up and play!’ — and that was really special,” Mannan says. “That’s what I hope to bring to this event.”

Mannan’s role is as the showcase’s curator, and what she calls being a “positive instigator” at the shows, where she will host, play some of her own music and accompany as needed.

One thing Mannan has noticed about the regional bluegrass and roots-music scene: While there are talented players like the “amazing community of fiddlers” led by the Ludiker family in Spokane Valley, and “guys

with hotshot bands who do Western swing and bluegrass” and some Irish groups, there aren’t many venues dedicated to the genre, or many shows beyond the annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival each August in Medical Lake.

“There are really vibrant, active pockets of great music that don’t really overlap that often,” Mannan says. “We always say, ‘Hey, let’s get together and play,’ but it’s only, like, once a year that it happens. And when it does, it’s in our living rooms and no one gets to see it. So the idea is to kind of have a place that is more centralized, where people overlap more and get to know each other.”

Enter the Bartlett, where co-owner Karli Ingersoll had considered bluegrass a natural for the club; as she isn’t part of that scene, she didn’t know where to turn. She and Mannan met through their mutual friend Kimber Ludiker of Della Mae and came up with Northwest of Nashville in just a coupleminute conversation, Ingersoll says. “[The Bartlett] is a great listening room,” Ingersoll says. “It’s hard to do that kind of music in a bar unless it’s more the jam style, so it’s a great spot for it. It just takes the right person to facilitate the community to come around.”

Mannan is happy to fill that role, since most of her time is spent on her kids, save for the occasional trip to play the Telluride Bluegrass Festival or collaborate with friends like Watkins. With this showcase, she can help build a part of the local music community, and do it in a way that’s been a part of bluegrass music forever.

“There’s an openness and curiosity about being willing to listen to what someone else has to say musically that is unique to that style of music,” Mannan says.

“There are standards, so it’s a little bit like jazz in that way, in that there’s a songbook you grow up hearing. You have this common language that everybody speaks, so you can throw together people and they can play.” n dann@inlander.com Northwest of Nashville with Jenny Anne Mannan, Gregory Spatz & Caridwen Irvine-Spatz, Kevin Brown and Prairie War • Tue, Feb. 23, at 8 pm • $5 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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he United Kingdom is nowhere near New Orleans. Yet while growing up in Wales, New Mastersounds guitarist Eddie Roberts was continually drawn to the jazz and funk music coming out of the Big Easy. Forming his band in Leeds, England, in the late ’90s, that exploration of soulful grooves continues to this day. This Saturday — as one of the Sandpoint Winter Carnival’s final events — the four-piece provides the perfect, mostly instrumental soundtrack for those looking to let loose and feel at one with the earth.

Expect a lot of tunes off New Mastersounds’ sprawling October release Made For Pleasure, which includes a cover of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” and, unsurprisingly, was recorded in New Orleans.

— LAURA JOHNSON The New Mastersounds • Sat, Feb. 20, at 9 pm • $15 • 21+ • The Hive • 207 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • livefromthehive.com

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by Emotionz BooMErS CLASSiC roCk BAr & griLL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BooTS BAkEry & LouNgE, The Song Project J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE puB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCkHorN iNN, The Spokane River Band J CHApS, Spare Parts CoEur D’ALENE CASiNo, PJ Destiny FizziE MuLLigANS, Kicho THE FLAME, DJ WesOne iroN HorSE BAr & griLL, JamShack JoNES rADiATor, Death x California J LAguNA CAFé, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANk WiNE BAr, Nick Grow J MoNArCH MouNTAiN CoFFEE (208-265-9382), Open Mic hosted

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mily Wells refuses to sell out. Even as a teenager, when music labels came knocking, she never gave into the commercialization of her sound. While it doesn’t seem like this one-woman wonder-act concept would transfer well to the stage, through the magic of looping machines it works. Combining violin melodies with haunting/wailing vocals, drums, keys, beat machine and guitar, Wells creates powerful music that manages to straddle the realms of futuristic and classical sounds. Wells released a new album, Promise, in January under her own label Thesis & Instinct, proving she continues to create art her own way.

— LAURA JOHNSON Emily Wells with Lorna Dune • Wed, Feb. 24, at 8 pm • $12/$14 day of • all-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

BoLo’S, FM BooMErS CLASSiC roCk BAr & griLL, Rampage J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE puB, Dale Cavanaugh CoEur D’ALENE CASiNo, Kosh CurLEy’S, Tracer EiCHArDT’S, Truck Mills FEDorA puB & griLLE, Kicho FizziE MuLLigANS, Chris Rieser and the Nerve THE FLAME, DJ WesOne iroN HorSE BAr & griLL, JamShack THE JACkSoN ST., Steve Livingston and Triple Shot JoHN’S ALLEy, Will West & the Friendly Strangers J kNiTTiNg FACTory, STRFKR, Com Truise LEFTBANk WiNE BAr, Carey Brazil MAx AT MirABEAu, Mojo Box MiCkDuFF’S BEEr HALL (208-2096700), Devon Wade

MooSE LouNgE (208-664-7901), Cary Fly Band MuLLigAN’S BAr & griLLE (208765-3200), Eric Henderson NASHviLLE NorTH, Luke Jaxon, DJ Tom NECTAr TASTiNg rooM, Daniel Mills, Son of Brad NorTHErN QuEST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin NyNE, Gonzaga Health Law Society Benefit Concert feat. QParris, iLL Defined, Zikki J THE oBSErvATory, Dead See Squirrels, Siamese Suicide, Bird Fight pEND D’orEiLLE WiNEry, Tom Catmull rEpuBLiC BrEWiNg Co., McDougall THE riDLEr piANo BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE roCk BAr & LouNgE (443-

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BEvErLy’S, Robert Vaughn BoLo’S, FM BooMErS CLASSiC roCk BAr & griLL, Rampage J BuCEr’S CoFFEEHouSE puB, Samuel Dickison CoEur D’ALENE CASiNo, Kosh CoEur D’ALENE CELLArS, Vinyl Instinct CurLEy’S, Tracer FizziE MuLLigANS, Chris Rieser and the Nerve THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike gooD TiMES TAvErN (208-7772694), Sax Man John Bybee & the Mixed Company Band J THE HivE, The New Mastersounds (See story above) J HuCkLEBErry’S NATurAL MArkET, Daniel Mills iroN HorSE BAr & griLL, JamShack THE JACkSoN ST., DJ Dave JoNES rADiATor, Lions Beside Us,

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THE BARTLETT, The Round No. 16 feat. Vaughn Wood, Ben Jennings, Laura Read, Jan Francisco, Morgan Rose Lynch, Feb. 26 THE BIG DIPPER, Country Showcase - Writer’s Round feat Robbie Walden, Courtney Biggs, Christy Lee, Erika Anderson, Kinsley, Feb. 26 THE RESERVE, Mudhelmet, Feb. 26 KNITTING FACTORY, The Backups, Angela Marie Project, Feb. 27 THE PALOMINO, Jennifer k, Brotha Nature, Ch3vyboy, Willie B The MC, Raw-B, T-Bird, Sage Tellah, Feb. 27 THE BARTLETT, Barcelona, the Young Wild, Lavoy, Feb. 27 JONES RADIATOR, Dark White Light, Cold Blooded, Phlegm Fatale, and Why did Johnny Kill, Feb. 27

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315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BIG BARN BREWING • 16004 N. Applewood Ln, Mead • 238-2489 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent, Spokane Valley • 309-3715 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MIK’S • 406 N 4th, CdA • 208-666-0450 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN RAIL PUB • 5209 N. Market • 487-4269 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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CATS KITTIES IN THE CITY

This weekend, dozens of show cats of all breeds descend upon Spokane for the first cat show the Lilac City has hosted in at least a decade. We’re talking Ragdolls, Sphynxes, Bengals, Siberians, Rexes, Munchkins — cats you’ve never even heard of.

Even the craziest cat lady among those you know likely hasn’t encountered a cat from every registered breed in the domestic feline species. Nearly all of the 63 recognized cat breeds will be represented at the Evergreen Cat Fanciers’ all-breed show this weekend, which also features a special highlight of the popular Bengal cat, bred down several generations from wild Asian leopard cats. Gather up all the cat lovers you know for a fun, educational event that’s out of the norm for our city and, maybe, your own expectations of feline diversity.

— CHEY SCOTT The Evergreen Cat Fanciers Presents: On Safari • Fri, Feb. 19Sun, Feb. 21; Fri, 1-9:30 pm; Sat, 9 am-5 pm; Sun, 9 am-6 pm • $5-$8/day, $8-$12/weekend pass • DoubleTree Hotel • 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. • onsafari2016.org

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THEATER GHOSTS OF WAR

COMEDY POWERPOINT GONE WILD

Last of the Boys • Fri, Feb. 19 through Sun, March 6; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $20-$24 • Modern Theater Spokane • 174 S. Howard • themoderntheater.org • 455-7529

GREAT IDEAS: Spokane: Today! • Wed, Feb. 24, at 8:30 pm • $7 • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com

Vietnam caused some of the worst mental health consequences for young soldiers the United States had ever seen, and in Steven Dietz’s production Last of the Boys, that aftermath of war and death is manifested on stage. In a drama set 30 years after the war ends, veteran buddies Ben and Jeter are brought together as a result of the death of Ben’s father. Ben’s ghosts continue to haunt him as he and Jeter move closer to the end of a friendship that kept them bound together during a time of deep division and fracture in American history.

— MEG MACLEAN

When God gave PowerPoint to the people of Earth, He intended it to be used for classroom lectures or business meeting. Thankfully, local comic Matt Dargen defied the heavens and skewed the medium with his bizarro showcase GREAT IDEAS: Spokane: Today!

The ensemble comedy show features a litany of hilariously off-the wall slide shows that make for one of the funniest local humor events you’ll see. In addition to Dargen, the show also features Tony Russell, Matt Slater, Mara Baldwin, Phil Lindsey, Annica Eagle, Phil Kopczynski and David Honeycutt.

— MIKE BOOKEY

Mind, Body, Spirit Holistic Fair Presents:

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Saturday, February 20th, 10am-5pm

FILM THEN AND NOW

A new film of social and historical meaning from the local public television station KSPS aims to both entertain and educate. After nearly 18 months of production comes the premiere of Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, celebrating the life and work of its namesake: local lawyer and civil rights activist Carl Maxey.

The documentary airs on PBS the same night as a special benefit screening and reception, proceeds from which will help fund this project and more like it. For locals, however, celebrating Maxey’s life doesn’t end after the screening. On the following morning (Friday, Feb. 19, at 10 am), there’s a public forum at Gonzaga Law School on the state of civil rights in Washington, featuring prominent panelists: authors Jim Kerschner and Dr. Dwayne Mack, GU law professor Jason Gilmer, and Harvard Law graduate Emily Chiang.

— CLAIRE STANDAERT

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Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life • Thu, Feb. 18, at 6:30 pm • $50 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Larry G Jones Dinner, Silent Auction & Entertainment

Greyhound Park & Events Center, Post Falls ID • PostFallsSeniorCenter.org • 208-773-9582

WORDS STANZA WIZARDS

It’s a big deal for our region’s writing community — penners of poetry and prose alike — that Spokane’s own Tod Marshall was chosen earlier this year as the next Washington state Poet Laureate. Since taking on the title, it’s already been a busy time for the Gonzaga University professor; he traveled to Olympia to promote the arts to the state legislature and to meet with Gov. Jay Inslee. Now back in Spokane, Marshall is joined this week by current Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read and former Spokane laureate Thom Caraway for a special group reading at Auntie’s. Don’t miss a chance to hear all three sling some creative phrases and words at the mic, all on the same night.

— CHEY SCOTT Poet Laureates Reading • Thu, Feb. 18, at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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BENEFIT

PAINT WITH YOUR HEART FOR PARKINSON’S All proceeds support the local Parkinsons Resource Center. RSVP requested. Snacks and drinks included.

Feb. 19, 6-8 pm. $35. Parkinson’s Resource Center, 613 S. Washington. spokaneparkinsons.org (443-3361) 6TH ANNUAL SDDS FOUNDATION GALA Grab your Mardi Gras beads and masks for a night of food, drinks, live entertainment and music and more.

Proceeds benefit the Spokane Dental Society. Feb. 19, 5:30-11 pm. $100/ person. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (838-0436) KIDS AT HEART The annual luncheon, hosted by the Providence Health Care Foundation, raises funds to support the Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital’s

mission in a fun format, and recognizes local advocates of the hospital.

Feb. 23, 11:30 am. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. kidsatheartcharitylunch.org (474-2819) KYRS BENEFIT Join KYRS at Lindaman’s Gourmet To-Go & Neighborhood Bistro for Community Day. Lindaman’s is donating 15 percent of all sales to KYRS. Feb. 24, 8 am-8 pm. Lindaman’s, 1235 S. Grand Blvd. (747-3012) TASTE SPOKANE Wishing Star Foundation’s 10th annual benefit event, showcasing local food, beer, wine and desserts, with live music, a live auction and more. Proceeds support the organization’s mission to fulfill wishes for terminally ill children. Feb. 26, 7 pm. $60-$100. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford. tastespokane.com

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I SAW YOU SHAKEN Saturday, Feb. 13, 330ish, at Trading Company, McDonald and Sprague, in the fresh produce section.

You; tall, attractive highlighted just-pastshoulder-length hair, snug blue jeans, heels (?)....me; dashing Dave Grohlish figure...I mentioned the difficulty level of opening the produce bags...I wasn't able to formulate a compelling follow-up conversation. If I had been on the ball, I would've asked if you would like to meet for coffee.

SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? Okay, redbeer lover, I’m calling your bluff. Was it enough merely to be flattered by “I see you”? Or maybe now, enough for you read I Saw You — and see yourself? Or, you want to satisfy your curiosity — same day, same time, same place.

A GREAT SMILE I recently took my son to go get a fade at the Barbershop on Monroe! While I was there I seen this young handsome barber checking me out! I tried to avoid eye contact as I didn't want him to see me staring back at him!

He has to be no older than 21, and let's just say I'm quite a few years older than he is, but what I would give to be 21 again! I believe he had his hair in braids, but I'm not completely sure? I just want to let him know that I saw him checking me out, and I definitely noticed him! My favorite thing about him, was his smile!

YOU SAW ME TEACHER RODEO You saw me at the Pipeline Bar. You were strong and lively, at trivia with your friends / teachers and doing a Rodeo Barstool trick, and you said that I should try it too? (R U Nuts?!

I'm too old for that!). Anyway, I'm just the guy at The Bar, went back to work my crosswords, and we chatted off and on for a good long time that evening, and I cannot tell you how very nice it was to listen to you. I really needed that, a wonderful distraction, you seemed a bit edgy, & wanted to talk some more, sorry but I have to work in tomorrow,.... Now I'm sorry that I didn't see that you got home, but as you had friends waiting to take you home, I took to the road. I really must have frustrated you, but I had my own stuff to work on, and a mess at work waiting for me. Sorry, sad excuse, my bad... C'mon back for trivia, or coffee, or anything.. Or send a message to my office. ~:-). -LM

CHEERS MY FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTNER K - I love that you play music for me so I can dance, because you know how much I enjoy it. I love the way you wake me up in the morning. I love the way your eyes sparkle when you smile. I love the way you grab your guitar and start playing at random times, even though you won't let me record it. I love your sense of humor and the way you make me laugh about the silliest things. I could go on and on. I LOVE YOU. That is all, carry on ;) E. BOLDLY I THANK YOU I know how it feels to read the "Cheers" and "I saw you's" and think to oneself, "How cool that this person has someone who is bold enough to put their thoughts and heart into print." It feels good to voice one's appreciation of the people who mean the most to you. That said, I cheered my sister once before, and now I'd like to cheer a friend I hold just as dear. Thank you Little Sam, for becoming one of my best friends and being an integral part of my life. You are faithful, kind, loyal, talented, beautiful, loving and lovable, not to mention spunky and strong. I'm undeserving and deeply grateful for your love and

friendship! As long as we are together, I know that we can make it through just about anything! I love you as my sister and as my best friend. Even better, I know you feel the same way for me and doubt will never convince me otherwise!

Thank you for the above and also for anti-social nerdy hugs, letters, phone calls from across the sea, always having

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comfortable, and brought you and your wife a second round of drinks. I checked in with you shortly after and you complained about your meal even more, so I had the kitchen completely remake it.

I offered you complimentary items and you demanded I bring you free alcohol.

After you were finished I brought you a bill which had already been reduced

I pray that your sound system breaks, and that you cannot afford to fix it until my lease is up.

my back, and everything else! Cheers to you! I grin and hope this sits well with you; I put this into print so you'd feel like a star and to let all who happen to read the "Cheers" section know just how much I love you because of who you are.

JEERS TURN DOWN YOUR DAMN MUSIC! Jeers to my neighbors across the street who think that their music is so great that the neighborhood should hear it. Aside from the torture you are inflicting on me, my spouse, and probably all of your neighbors, you often interrupt my daughter's nap as well, so you're also torturing toddlers. I would ask you to turn it down, but you don't look approachable. I would call the police, but I don't want you to get shot. I pray that your sound system breaks, and that you cannot afford to fix it until my lease is up.

PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE NO MORE I am so sick and tired of people not caring on victimless crimes anymore this includes illegal dumping at various Goodwill Donation Sites though out the city. Spokane police will not do anything on victimless crimes because it's not a

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

Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

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big issue well technically it is. Its a costly issue and anussance and a eye soar for seeing these places used as a dump site because people cant afford to go to the dump. Spokeites are not utilizing the dump passes that some of the neighborhood community areas issue so many of them each year or have no way to dump their unwanted items but donate them

— TURN DOWN YOUR DAMN MUSIC! to goodwill that is in very horrible conditions. I read that it cost Goodwill over a million dollars in dumping fees annually in illegal dumping that the people of the city of Spokane has no pride in and Illegally dumping unwanted things at various donations centers through out Spokane. Technically that cost more money for programs they can't have for you people because you keep dumping trash on their property. If you need to go to the dump and have no money for a dump run their are resources at your local community center for dump passes use it.. Thank You COMPLAIN MUCH? I'm a server at a local restaurant and, unfortunately for me, you and your wife came into my work for dinner one night. I had the displeasure of serving you on our dining patio on this particular beautiful, early fall day.

I brought your appetizer and shortly after, was returning with a heavy tray full of your food as you stormed passed me back into the restaurant and said you wanted to change tables, and that your appetizer was terrible so you left it outside. You wandered around the bar looking for open seats in a packed facility as I stood like a servant still holding your tray of food. You settled on a different table and I got you situated, made you

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by 20% of its original total, and you continued to complain about the price and demanded to see the manager. After complaining to him you received another 25 dollars off of your tab. In the end you "thanked" me for my service and left me a crumpled up dollar bill on the table.

Gee thanks... That's really going to help me pay my bills. To you sir I say, don't bother going out to eat if this is how you are going to act. Stay home and make your own meals, and save yourself that dollar bill. 

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COMEDY

STAND-UP OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online.

Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com (483-7300) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third. reddragondelivery.com STUPID CUPID February’s improv show is about “love and all that nonsense.

Fridays in Feb., at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER IMPROV SHOW Liberty Lake’s improv comedy troupe performs live. Feb. 20, at 8 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. (342-2055) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; signup at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+.

No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com GREAT IDEAS: SPOKANE: TODAY The locally-created comedy show returns with what will surely be the tallest pile of knowledge you have ever seen. Featuring Matt Dargen, Phil Kopczynski, Annica Eagle, Matt Slater, Tony Russell, Mara Baldwin, David Honeycutt and Phil Lindsey. Feb. 24, 9 pm. $5. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. AFTER DARK A adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7.

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

COMMUNITY

TREASURE! A touring exhibit exploring the history of treasure and treasure hunting, the technology used to look for it, and the people obsessed with finding it. Through May 15. Museum open Tue-Sun, from 10 am-5 pm. $5$10/museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org BUILD GUILD A monthly networking event where designers, coders, hobbyists, and tech-focused makers of all kinds get together to talk and share ideas. Free pizza and beer. Feb. 19, 6:30 pm. Free.

Startup Spokane Central, 610 W. Second. on.fb.me/203gDXD (202-6875) EVERGREEN CAT FANCIERS CAT SHOW All-breed show for pedigreed and non-pedigreed cats. Includes a showcase of the Bengal, one of the most popular breeds of cat worldwide.

Cats are also available for adoption and vendors offer cat-related products for sale. Feb. 19-21. $7/adults; $5/seniors, kids; $20/family. Double Tree Hotel, 322 N. Spokane Falls Court. onsafari2016.org THIRD FRIDAY SWING DANCE A monthly dance for all styles. Open to all ages. Includes a lesson from 7-8 pm, and dancing until 11 pm. Feb. 19, 7-11 pm. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com SCC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OPEN

HOUSE Faculty, staff, and students open the doors to SCC’s laboratories for interactive experiments, demonstrations, and fun activities. Feb. 20, 10 am-1 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. (533-7234) TEDDY BEAR PICNIC Bring your teddy or favorite stuffed animal and Auntie’s provides stories, snacks and activities.

RSVP by Feb. 18; recommended for children 5+. Feb. 20, 10:30-11:30 am. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) COMMUNITY SEED SWAP Hosted by the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild. Come buy, sell or trade your seeds and help promote northwest seed conservation. Feb. 20, 12:30-5 pm.

Free. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com FULL MOON FIASCO The monthly bike club ride returns, concluding the casual ride at a local bar or restaurant. Ages 21+. Feb. 22, 7 pm. Swamp Tavern, 1904 W. Fifth Ave. on.fb.me/1oHbOYy LANDSCAPING FOR FIRE PREVENTION A workshop for rural homeowners to learn about fire prevention/ protection techniques, discuss wildland fire experiences and participate in an exercise to assess their homes’ interface fire risk. Feb. 22, 6-8 pm. $10. U. of Idaho Kootenai County Extension, 1808 N. Third St. (208-446-1680) OUR GENES AREN’T BLUE Discover what you and an onion have in common with this fun, hands-on class from Mobius Science Center. For grades K-8; children under age 6 must bring an adult Feb. 22, 4-5:30 pm. free. Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St. (893-8300) GIRLS WHO CODE Learn to code, about circuits and conquer new technologies in this session that meets weekly, Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30 pm, Feb. 2-March 8. Free. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth St. gizmo-cda.org (208-651-6200) GRANT-HUNTING 101 Find out the tricks of grant-hunting with the help of Mark Pond, who can show how to navigate the grant databases offered

by Spokane Public Library. Feb. 23, 6-8 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS MEETINGS Join local County officials, fire district chiefs, the WA DNR and neighbors to learn what action you can take now and in the future to protect your land and your community from wildfires. At the Chewelah Civic Center. Feb. 24, 7 pm. (684-2588) MIDDLE EAST REFUGEE CRISIS LECTURE & PANEL DISCUSSION Contribute to an engaging conversation and learn more about the Middle Eastern refugee crisis and conflict. In the Robinson Teaching Theater, Weyerhaeuser Hall. Feb. 24, 6-8 pm. Free. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-1000)

FILM

CARL MAXEY: A FIGHTING LIFE Based on the biography by Jim Kershner of the same name, this film tells the inspiring life story of a man who changed attitudes about civil and gender rights in Eastern Washington. Feb. 18, 6:30 pm. $50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com 8TH ANNUAL LEONARD A. OAKLAND FILM FEST This year’s evening showings feature alumni filmmakers, an international film, and an evening about faith and film led by Dr. Matthew

Rindge, professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University. Events Feb. 20-22, at 7 pm. Free. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu/oaklandfestival FIRED UP FILM FESTIVAL An amateur filmmaking contest for teens, run by teens for teens. If you enjoy film-making and want to learn how it all works, plan on registering for FUFF 2016. Feb. 26, 6-8 pm. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org

FOOD & DRINK

GIRLS PINT OUT BEER & CHOCOLATE PAIRING Includes a flight of five beers with five delicious varieties of Ghirardelli chocolates (tax and tip included in price). Feb. 19, 7-9 pm. $12/person.

Downdraft Brewing, 418 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls. downdraftbrewing.com INVEG POTLUCK Join the local group for a community potluck on the third Sunday of each month, offering delicious food and time to connect with others. Please bring a plant-based dish to share (no honey, eggs, meat or dairy). Free. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. inveg.org (542-7829) COOKING CLASS: FRESH PASTA RAVIOLI Chef Jean-Pierre leads a hands on class on making homemade ravioli. Once you master this technique the possibilities for fillings are endless. Feb. 23, 6-8:30 pm. $40. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. on.fb. me/1QCmQHy (208-762-1333) SMALL PLATES + WINE Kelsey Malm, wine importer rep just back from Argentina leads a tasting of two wine samples, each paired with three small plate offerings prepared by Spokane Club Executive Chef Mark Miskiewicz.

Feb. 23, 6 pm. $45. Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside Ave. spokaneclub.org COMMUNITY COOKING NIGHTS Each class offers a positive and relaxed environment to learn valuable scratchcooking skills, and to apply those skills to simple, healthy, and cost-effective meals. Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Free; register online. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front. secondharvestkitchen.org PERFECT PAIRINGS: MICROFOOD & BREWS An evening of microbrew and food, featuring five courses and six drink tastings prepared by Swilly’s Pony Bar & Bistro, paired with beer from Seattle’s Two Beers Brewing Co. Yellow Dog Flats performs live music.

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MUSIC ROCK & WORSHIP ROADSHOW Featuring the Newsboys, Jeremy Camp, Mandisa, Danny Gokey, Family Force 5, Audio Adrenaline and more. Feb. 19, 7 pm. $10/door; no tickets required.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena (279-7000) INLAND NW BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION SHOWCASE Live music performed by local and regional bluegrass bands and related acoustic music performers. Monthly on the third Saturday, from 7-9:30 pm. $5-$7; ages 12 and under free. Trent Elementary School, 3303 N. Pines. spokanebluegrass.org SPOKANE UNPLUGGED ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC Express yourself through word and music at Auntie’s new open mic night. Feb. 20, 6-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206)

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I’m a very successful guy in my 30s. I had a lot of casual sex in my 20s, but I got sick of the disconnection and emotional fallout. I’m looking for a relationship, and I’ve started waiting to sleep with women (for at least a month). I tell them this, but the waiting thing seems to make them want me more and push to have sex. What I don’t get is why some get so angry at me. —Slow Train

AMY ALKON Women are used to men wanting sex right away — or sooner, if possible. Your being the one with your legs crossed? Well, it’s like offering a dog a strip of bacon and having him look up and say, “Aww…thanks, doll, but I’m good.”

Now if these women getting angry with you were just lusty, there’s an app for that — one that allows a moderately attractive woman to swipe a sex partner over faster than Domino’s can get there with a pizza. The problem here is female sexual psychology. We all want to be wanted, but research by clinical psychologist Marta Meana finds that women, especially, seem to have an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. This makes evolutionary sense, in light of women’s need for reliable signs that a guy would stick around after sex to “provide.” A man having an uncontrollable longing for a particular woman is pretty great insurance — right up there with leg-shackling him to the cave wall.

Not surprisingly, according to research by evolutionary psychologist Patricia Hawley, if there’s catnip for women, it’s those “bodice ripper” novels. They feature intense male desire for a woman, but not of just any male — a “powerful, resourceholding” one, like the playboy prince or titan of industry. This alpha god cannot be tamed, until…whoops…up pops our heroine, the apparently ordinary maiden. The hunky royal or CEO is so taken with her unique (and otherwise overlooked) beauty and spirit that he can’t help but grab her and “ravish” her. Of course, in real life, we call this felony rape. In romance novels, when the guy is uber-rich and cruelly handsome, it’s the start of a beautiful relationship.

So, women’s inability to defeat the time lock on your zipper is telling them something — no, not “Wow…he thinks I’m really worth getting to know,” but “Wow…he thinks I’m uggo” and “That two-week sabbatical from Booty Barre has really caught up with me.” It may help a little to reassure them that you find them wildly attractive — like by “confessing” that you have to take three cold showers and stare at pictures of steamed vegetables before every date. For you, this is the only possible way to keep from giving them one of those man-scam long hugs that turns into sex…uh, that is, three weeks and four days later.

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I was dating this girl for about three weeks, but I just wasn’t really feeling it, so I “ghosted” — stopped asking her out and just didn’t respond to her texts. Some of my friends said I was mean to “ghost,” but honestly, I think it’s a lot kinder than telling somebody you’re not into them. Why have an uncomfortable conversation when you can just slip out and everybody is spared?

—Faded Away Why take 45 seconds to text a girl that it’s over when you can make her obsess about you for two months straight, stalk you on Instagram, and bore her friends catatonic with “Is his phone broken? Is my phone broken? Did he see that drunken Facebook post? Should I have waxed my moustache?”

Wordlessly disappearing on somebody you’ve spent more than a couple of hours with at a coffee bar is a kick in their dignity — telling them they aren’t even important enough for you to tell them they aren’t important. It also makes a person go unnecessarily berserko, due to what’s called the “Zeigarnik effect.”

Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik observed that unfinished business causes administrative problems for our mind — leaving it in a “state of tension” and causing it to annoy us (over and over) to get “closure” on whatever’s been interrupted and left incomplete.

This isn’t to say you owe a woman a detailed rundown on your feelings; you just need to tell her that you’re done. Ideally, open with something complimentary, and then bring down the ax: “Not working for me.” “Not feeling it.” That sort of thing. She’ll cry, she’ll eat some cake, and she’ll move on. Ultimately, if you want to be kind, a breakup should feel more like ripping off a Band-Aid than hysterically searching for your car for four hours in a multi-level parking structure. n ©2016, 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 VOCAL POINT WITH GU BIG BING THEORY BYU’s premiere 9-man A Cappella ensemble combines pop, jazz, and classics from the 50’s. In Spokane, they’re opened by Gonzaga’s Big Bing Theory. Feb. 20, 7 pm. $12-$35. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (279-7000) SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY Featuring the four orchestras of the SYS: the strings, sinfonietta, philharmonic and symphony orchestra, performing Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Feb. 21, 4-6 pm. $12-$16. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokaneyouthsymphony.org NORTHWEST BACH FEST: BACH FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Featuring the Matt Herskowitz Piano Jazz Trio with Zuill Bailey, cello, who turn Barrister Winery, into a “Bach Jazz Club.” Feb. 24, 7:30-9 pm. $40. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. nwbachfest.com NORTHWEST BACH FEST: BACH’S LUNCH Artistic Director Zuill Bailey gives a free performance of selections

by Bach and other composers. Bring bag lunch or purchase at the River Park Square Food Court. Feb. 25, 12-1 pm.

Free. Kress Gallery, 808 W. Main Ave. nwbachfest.com (326-4942)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

KING OF THE CAGE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS “Explosive” features three CdA fighters across the bantam, heavy, and featherweight divisions. Feb. 18, 7-11 pm. $25/$40/$60. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com SOLE SNOW SHOE EXPERIENCE Youth in grades 5-7 venture out with field instructors on snowshoes to learn about their winter wildlands in a fun and engaging manner. Offered Feb. 18, 20, 27 and March 3. See site for times/locations and details. $25-$40. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth. soleexperiences.org SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. TRI-CITY AMERICANS Regular season hockey match. Feb. 20, 7:05 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE GOLF & TRAVEL SHOW The consumer golf and travel hosts 100+ exhibitors, PGA professional seminars, demos, contests and more. Admission includes a free round of golf and a bonus offer from select courses. Feb. 20, 9 am-5 pm and Feb. 21, 10 am-4 pm. $12. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanegolfshow.com GOTH RUGBY WINTER TRAINING Spokane’s first boys high school rugby club holds indoor winter conditioning/ training through to prep for the 2016 season. New players welcome. Wed/ Sun, 7:30-9:30 pm, through Feb. 28.

Free. SYSA Indoor Sports Center, 730 N. Hamilton. gothrugby.com (228-8170) WATER SAFETY PRESENTATION Paul Green, outdoor recreation and business instructor at EWU, discusses moving water hazards and how to minimize risks while paddling during cold, highflow, springtime run-off conditions.

Feb. 22, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Mountain Gear Offices, 6021 E. Mansfield Ave. sckc.ws BIKE MAINTENANCE FOR TRAIL RIDING In this class, we’ll cover critical maintenance tips that will help you get the most out of every ride, no matter the season. Feb. 23, 7 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. REI.com/Learn

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THE BOYS NEXT DOOR The comedy/ drama by Tom Griffin is performed by students in Mead High School’s theatre department. Feb 18-20 and 25-27 at 7 pm. $5-$10. Mead High School, 302 W. Hastings Rd. (465-7006) I DO! I DO! The local theatre stages the romantic musical comedy made famous on Broadway. Feb. 11-14 and 18-21 at 7:30 pm; also at 1:30 pm on Feb. 13-14 and 20-21. $12-$20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N Grand Ave, Pullman. rtoptheatre.org (509-334-0750) A LITTLE PRINCESS: THE MUSICAL Presented by students in Pullman High School’s drama club. Feb. 17-20, at 7 pm, also Feb. 20 at 2 pm. $8-$12. At Jefferson Elementary, 1150 NW Bryant, Pullman. rebecca.cooney@wsu.edu OLIVER TWIST Students perform a play based on the Charles Dickens classic.

Feb. 18-20 at 7 pm, also Feb. 20 at 2 pm. $6-$8. Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, 4904 N. Duncan. (208-676-1667) SORDID LIVES When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.

(Rated R) Through Feb. 21; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES The U. of Idaho Women’s Center presents its annual V-Day benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s production, starring 14 students. Proceeds locally benefit Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse. $10$12. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-2777) ALL IN THE TIMING A performance of six one-act plays by David Ives.

Performing at various locations in the Palouse, Feb. 19-21 and 26-27. $8-$10.

See website for locations/dates: moscowcommunitytheatre.org COLD FEET Unknown Locals presents a new original comedy about an upcoming nuptial. Feb. 12-20, Fri-Sat at 7 pm. $10-$12. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak, Sandpoint. heartwoodsandpoint.com THE HOBBIT Theater Arts for Children presents a stage performance based on the classic novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Feb. 12-21; Fri-Sat at 7 pm; also Sat at 3 pm and Sun at 2 pm. $8-$12. Theater Arts for Children, 2114 N. Pines. theaterartsforchildren.weebly.com (995-6718) LAST OF THE BOYS Conjuring the 1960s and the war in Vietnam, this is a fierce, funny, and haunted drama about a friendship that ends — and battle that doesn’t. Feb. 19-March 6; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$24. Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org (455-7529) WITTENBERG A cocktail of brainy allusions, absurdist plot twists, sly wordplay and disarming anachronisms, fortified with serious ideas. Directed

by Patrick Treadway. Feb. 19-March 6, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. on.fb. me/1SMnt5r (838-9727) HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Lewis and Clark Tiger Drama presents the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical.

Feb. 25-27 and March 3-5 at 7 pm. $10.

Lewis and Clark High School, 521 W. Fourth Ave. (354-7000)

VISUAL ARTS

IDAHO BOOKERS DOZEN + LIONEL HAMPTON POSTER TOUR The dual exhibits feature handmade books from the Idaho Center for the Book in Boise, and a collection of Lionel Hampton posters from the past 30 years. Bookers Dozen runs Feb. 18-March 15; the Lionel Hampton Poster Tour runs Feb. 18-29. Reception Feb. 18, 4-6 pm, with live music by the Palouse Jazz Project.

Gallery hours Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Free.

Third Street Gallery, City Hall, 206 E. Third St., Moscow. ci.moscow.id.us/art WINDOWS ON LIFE The exhibit features nine antique window boxes filled with historic treasure from Margaret Hilty’s lifetime in the Palouse region.

Open to the public daily through February. Free to view. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. whitco.lib.wa.us (509-397-4366) CANVAS STRECHING Learn to make your own canvases and save money, or create custom sizes. Participants leave with a canvas of their own; all materials included. Feb. 20, 12-4 pm. $45.

Emerge, 208 N. Fourth, CdA. emergecda.org (208-818-3342) THE ART OF THE RENASSAINCE Explore some of the most influential artists and their famous works of art from the Renaissance, with art historian Dr. Meredith Shimizu. Feb. 21 and March 13, at 2 pm. $10 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) RIVER RIDGE ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTS Join the local arts group for its monthly meeting. Guest speaker is Spokane muralist Todd Benson. Feb. 24, 10 am-noon. Free. Spokane Art Supply, 1303 N. Monroe St. (325-0471)

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INLAND NORTHWEST HALL OF FAME A new history series presented by regional historian Robert Singletary. Feb. 18, 7 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org POETS LAUREATE READING Featuring Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read and former Spokane Poet Laureate Thom Caraway. Feb. 18, 7-8 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) CIVIL RIGHTS IN WASHINGTON: THE POST-MAXEY ERA A panel following the Feb. 18 screening of the new documentary film based on Jim Kershner’s book about the life of Carl Maxey. Feb. 19, 10 am. Free; limited seating. Gonzaga School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St. (747-3304) MARRY A MONSTER BOOK RELEASE PARTY Hobnob with the local authors and editors of the new anthology, “Marry a Monster,” the second volume in the Lilac City Fairy Tales series. All book sales directly benefit INK Artspace. Feb. 20, 6-8 pm. Free; donations welcome.

INK Artspace, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. on.fb.me/1T9ogNk READING: BEN NICKOL The Helena writer and professor reads from his book “Where the Wind Can Find It: Short Stories.” Feb. 20, 3-4 pm. Free.

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Keith Witt has been chosen as the Spokane Empire mascot. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

SPORTS

Engineering Team Spirit The Spokane Empire found a natural to be the team’s first mascot

BY DAN NAILEN

“Y

ou ever been in a suit before?”

As far as smack talk goes, that’s not exactly Muhammad Ali or Richard Sherman. But delivered as it was, with an innocent lilt and a smile at the tryouts to become the first Spokane Empire mascot, it made clear that at least one of the competitors on hand had experience in the costumed-character game.

That competitor, 29-year-old Keith Witt, is going to be the man behind the mask and in the mascot suit for Spokane’s arena football team, opening its inaugural season Saturday in the Tri-Cities as part of the Indoor Football League. The Spokane team took on a new name, ditching the Shock, when it left the Arena Football League.

Witt was a rabid Shock fan, sitting with the “Goal Line Bandits” fan crew that spent a lot of time getting the crowd pumped. He was ready to try out to be the Empire mascot well before the team announced it would hold open tryouts.

“I was the annoying guy on Facebook,” Witt says. “As soon as they announced that the Spokane Empire was the name, I was on Facebook going, ‘When are tryouts?’

“I know a lot of the mascots. I know the Eastern eagle, Swoop. I’ve met Boomer [the Spokane Chiefs’ mascot].

The stuff they get to do seems fun. You’re a local celebrity without people knowing who you are.”

Witt spent some time last year playing Super Otto for the Spokane Indians, dressing as a 7-foot-tall dinosaur in temperatures that were in the 90s outside the suit and considerably hotter inside. He’s also spent some time as a mascot hired gun, dressing as the Red Robin Bird and the

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Arby’s Mitt for some special events.

At the Empire tryouts held at the downtown YMCA about a month before opening night, Witt works the room like an old pro. He does some gymnastic moves and pushups to showcase his strength, does a little break dancing, and delivers some spazzy flops and quick spins in a T-shirt and shorts before donning a hamster outfit provided by Empire officials to show that he has serious moves — even when wearing a giant rodent head.

“I can dance pretty well,” Witt says of the skills he brings to the role. “I’m pretty athletic. I can break dance without breaking dancing.”

Ryan Eucker, the team’s director of operations, wasn’t going to bring the hamster costume, but he and his fellow Empire officials who ran the tryouts figured they wanted to give the competitors every option to impress.

“Our original idea was, no, we’re not going to let these people dress up,” Eucker says. “We’re going to put them out there in their true skin, because if they’re comfortable jumping around and dancing and doing their thing without the costume on, they’ll be that much more comfortable behind the mask.”

Witt is clearly comfortable as he chats up the hiring committee. Asked in the job interview why he’d fit the role, he coolly answers, “Whether it’s behind the mask or in front of the mask, I’m very people-oriented.”

For Witt, a father of three who does data analysis for energy companies by day, becoming a mascot is a culmination of a lifelong love of cuddly, costumed cheerleaders.

“I grew up in Kansas, and the KC Wolf came when I was in third grade. I remember everything about it,” Witt says of meeting the Kansas City Chiefs’ mascot as a child.

The Spokane Empire’s mascot doesn’t have a name yet; it probably will be picked by fans in a contest or vote. Being the mascot does come with some responsibilities. Witt can’t be photographed drinking beer or doing anything unseemly in the costume, or post any inappropriate photos on social media. He can’t be a distraction during the national anthem, or distract referees or players on the opposing team. He can never speak while in costume, and must never dress, undress or remove the head in public.

A couple of weeks after getting the gig, Witt is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his costume from the company putting together the cartoonish engineer outfit.

In the meantime, he’s plotting out some moves to make the role his own. He might join the players for touchdown celebrations, or come up with a personalized handshake for some of the players to use during team introductions. Wearing the costume will go a long way toward what becomes part of the repertoire. And if there’s anyone more eager for the season to start than the players, it’s Witt.

“Football is my passion,” he says. “Football’s my life.”  dann@inlander.com Spokane Empire home opener vs. Wichita Falls Nighthawks • Sat, Feb. 27, at 7 pm • $15-$110 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokaneempire.com • 279-7000

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