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I think it really depends on how long you plan on going to college for, and how much money you’re going to make in your given field, and how many jobs are in the market that you’re trying to get into. I do think that a lot of young people have a false sense of security about being able to get a job that’s going to actually have them profit within the first 10 years.

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I do. I actually just started going to college again. Where did you start? At Carrington, for dental assisting. I think it’s worth it to continue your education. Do you think the cost is outweighing the benefits these days? It is expensive, but in the long run I think it’s more worth it.

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I think it’s definitely worth it to go to college. It opens up more job opportunities for people. Even though I’m not going to a four-year college, I’m still going to a different college for mechanics. Do you think that it’s too expensive? I know they’re trying to pass that law about community colleges, where you can get in for free. I think that’d be a good thing to pass.

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aul Kattenburg, a State Department analyst during the summer of 1963, urged that America withdraw from Vietnam. Both Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara immediately marginalized him. If Rudolph Giuliani were riding high in the Fox News saddle back then, Kattenburg would certainly have been dumped into his “doesn’t love America” category. Kattenburg observed that America is an “idea country,” not a “people country” — not the “Fatherland” nor the “Motherland.” To fill a kind of psychic hole, we Americans tend to romanticize our ethnic roots. Irish-Americans still tear up when they watch, for the umpteenth time, The Quiet Man — a sappy John Wayne movie that makes my Irish friend from north Dublin “want to barf.” Have you ever heard an American use the term “homeland?” I haven’t. When asked, we typically respond with “I’m an American,” or maybe even “I’m from New York” or L.A. — you needn’t even mention the country. It’s true that in the American experience, it’s the ideas that really matter — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution. And our bag of ideas is full of “protest” and “criticism,” both of which do battle with loudly asserted patriotism, sometimes imposed in the form of that simpleminded “America, love it or leave it” brand of jingoism.

o just what “American ideas” does President Obama not subscribe to? Introducing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to a roomful of rich, would-be donors last month, Giuliani alludes and deflects — he says to his fat-cat audience (the same profile who took Mitt Romney right out the race) that “Obama wasn’t brought up like us.” He dismisses charges of racism by pointing out that “Obama’s mother was white” — an asinine line that only digs him in deeper. Then he heads back to “Obama isn’t sufficiently patriotic.” Giuliani has also called the twiceelected President of the United States a moron, promising his right-wing audience, aka “the base,” that he would go anywhere and fight anyone and — then, his punch line — “I wouldn’t give a damn what the President said.” Really? Enter Wayne Barrett, a longtime New York journalist and author of two books on Rudolph Giuliani. He reports that during the Vietnam years, our superpatriot managed to arrange for four draft deferments, “ …even getting a federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him.” This puts Rudy into second place on our moralizing, right-wing draft-dodger list, right behind our all-time champion, Chicken Hawk Dick Cheney, who had five. Let’s take a closer look at the line “Obama

wasn’t brought up like us.” Here’s where it gets really good, because Giuliani again is correct — Obama wasn’t brought up like him. Giuliani’s father and five uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II, whereas Obama’s grandfather and uncle both served; his uncle even helped liberate Buchenwald. Growing-up years? Rudy’s correct again. His hero and role model was his father, an acknowledgement that begs the question: Was that before or after Harold Giuliani did time in Sing Sing prison “for holding up a Harlem milkman and was a bat-wielding enforcer for a loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by his uncle.” Then there are Rudy’s marriages, which further make his point that Obama isn’t like him. First, Rudy marries his second cousin, then divorces her because she was his cousin, which he knew when he LETTERS married her. Wife Send comments to No. 2 discovers editor@inlander.com. that she is about to be dumped when Rudy announces just that at a press conference. Ouch. Then we come to wife No. 3, whom Rudy was seeing before he dumped wife No. 2 — as mayor, he made 11 trips to Long Island to see her, accompanied by police bodyguards. Public cost? About $3,000 per trip. And he asks us to compare this with Barack and Michelle Obama? It’s like The Godfather meets Father Knows Best.

ut as I sift through Barrett’s treasure trove of Giuliani-related hypocrisy, I find myself dealing with feelings of abandonment. Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show — and just before the 2016 campaign begins. The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum puts it best: Stewart… “revived the notion that satire might be an expression of anger or sadness, the product of high standards, not a nihilistic game for know-it-alls.” You see, Stewart lives in a world defined by our American ideas and ideals, with so many unfulfilled. He’s a guy Giuliani would say “doesn’t love America.” To cause us to reflect on our often self-created theater of the absurd, Stewart has deftly played off foils — all those overmatched, pretentious hacks like Rudy Giuliani. The realization that we’ll have to put up with all the Giulianis out there in right-wing land? In an election year? Without Jon Stewart? That’s a dismal prospect, indeed — worse even than when Johnny Carson retired back in 1992. n

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on’t fail, Idaho.” That’s the tough-love message that’s been beamed across the Gem State by the Albertson Foundation. Kind of like our own cover headline this week, it aims to grab you and force you to pay attention. Yes, Idaho and Washington have a big problem — both states are seeing fewer than half their high school graduates moving on to higher education. As a result, we’re not producing enough qualified workers for the fields that are fueling the 21st century economy. Despite the campaign, the situation is not improving. As documented in our cover story, young people have a lot of reasons for not “going on.” In Boise, legislators haven’t made funding enough of a priority, and the new state superintendent of public instruction, Sherri Ybarra, simply refuses to share her views on the subject. But on the front lines, like at Sandpoint High School, dedicated, creative teachers are starting to make headway. They hold fill-out-your-college-application parties, and counselors underline job-training opportunities beyond the traditional four-year options. One student is aiming for a physical therapy degree as a way to fund his true passion for building guitars; another is looking into Avista’s lineworker program with a possible $50,000-a-year salary. The “Don’t Fail, Idaho” campaign has identified lots of elements to a plan for success, but confusion remains. Right at the time we need to engage individual students and focus on their strengths and passions, we seem to want to make them more the same via testing. I am all for standards, but too much testing can overwhelm the mission. It’s also a plain fact that college has become too expensive. Starting out in life with a millstone of debt is scaring students away. Finding how to publicly pay for two years of community college is a step in the right direction. So when you hear that slogan, think of old Joe Albertson, who founded Albertsons in 1939; today, more than 250,000 employees work under the Albertsons corporate umbrella. It’s a homegrown success — the kind Idaho and Washington both need more of. Albertson was an innovator and tireless worker, but his story started with two years at the College of Idaho in Caldwell — studying business, gaining the confidence to strike out on his own and meeting his wife, Kathryn. The Albertsons thought so much of those two years that they gave away millions to further the goals of public education. I don’t agree with every initiative their foundation funds, but the spirit is right on. We all need a little kick in the pants to care enough to take on the challenge. 

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n a downtown Spokane restaurant kitchen during Hoopfest weekend 2013, Isaiah Kibwe Day naturally struggled to keep up with the biggest rush of the year. He was dicing an avocado when his knife slipped into his palm below the thumb. He barely avoided damage to the nerve and connective tissues and recalled that “picking up something as unimposing as a piece of paper

was excruciating.” Under pressure from supervisors, Day returned a day and a half later. He dropped kitchenware and suffered avoidable burns, while blood soaked through the bandages on his hand. Literally adding insult to injury, he was never compensated for missed time. Why? Though he worked five or more days a week for two years, he was still not allowed paid sick days. Day is not alone. Two in five workers in Spokane make the choice between their health and paying their

bills. These are minimum wage jobs with few to no benefits. But if you’re not one of them, why worry? Because once they get sick, they go to work sick. They handle your food. Your groceries. Things you take home. After a brutal flu season, not only should employees not have to go to work sick, they shouldn’t be forced to go to work when they have a sick child waiting at school. Without paid sick days, a parent must decide whether to lose pay to stay with a sick child or send the child off to daycare or school, where they may infect other children. Tara Lee, a registered nurse at Sacred Heart’s pediatric ward, sees this scenario play out where parents have to leave their kids in the hospital to go to work, and she “absolutely” supports paid sick leave. “We have a higher percentage that is struggling in Spokane, and single moms are disproportionately affected,” Lee says. The impact on kids, working families and public health have sparked a movement across the country to provide earned sick leave for all workers. To date, 17 cities (including Seattle and Tacoma) and three states have passed sick leave laws. This common sense policy is now being considered in Spokane. The Human Rights Commission made it a 2015 priority, noting that only 21 percent of workers nationally making $15,000 or less have access to sick leave. The Spokane Alliance — a nonpartisan and nonprofit alliance of congregations, unions, schools and community groups — has been meeting with small business owners, public health professionals and impacted workers to craft a solution that works for Spokane. While the vast majority of the public supports earned sick leave, it has been a target for free-market fundamentalists. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker set an overturn model and we can expect similar alarmist rhetoric here about how the sky will fall, but businesses in other cities have been surprised by the low cost of implementation. I would pose the question: When it comes to the health of our communities and kids, can we really afford not to have earned sick leave? Washington is not Wisconsin. And in Spokane, we have an opportunity to emerge as leaders on a meaningful policy change. Day is now a leader himself. An organizer at UFCW 21, he represents the United Food and Commercial Workers and his experience motivates his career path. “Everybody wins when we find a way to work together to raise our standards,” he says. “We can finally stand as equals.” n Paul Dillon is the Eastern Washington Program Director for YMCA Youth & Government, teaching democracy to youth through hands-on civic engagement. He has worked in the state legislature and currently lives in downtown Spokane.

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BROWN BAGGING | After the Lake Pend Oreille School District got rid of HOT LUNCH at the small rural Clark Fork Junior/Senior High School, Clark Fork community members banded together to serve homemade hot lunch to students anyway. Shawn Woodward, district superintendent, says the problem was that there were only around 20 kids eating hot lunch at Clark Fork, so the reimbursement from the federal government for the program didn’t even come close to covering the $56,000-ayear cost for the district. By switching from hot lunch to cold lunch, they’re now able to offer every student “free” lunch and still save the district about $30,000 — almost as much as a first-year teacher salary in Idaho. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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BARING IT ALL | The Spokane City Council voted to send a citizen initiative, spearheaded by a group of moms who want more regulations on so-called bikini barista stands, to the county auditor, which will determine if it has enough valid signatures to make it on the November ballot. But before doing so, they got an earful from a group of local NUDISTS who worried that if the initiative became law, it would unfairly clamp down on their activities. No owners of bikini barista stands showed up to speak against the initiative. Beth Solscheid, the initiative’s sponsor, asked the city’s legislative body to surpass the validation process and vote it into law because they had more signatures than they needed. Although councilman Mike Fagan was supportive of the idea, the council declined to do so. (JAKE THOMAS)

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Last week, the Inlander reported online comments made by Lesley Haskell, wife of Spokane County Prosecutor LARRY HASKELL, which appeared racially and religiously prejudiced. “I don’t care what he said, I do not trust muzlims [sic] no matter what,” reads one such comment. Of all the people who read the article, few were more surprised than Assistant U.S. Attorney Aine Ahmed, head of all criminal federal prosecutors in Eastern Washington. “Larry knows me personally,” Ahmed says. “He never called me, never even bothered to call me that this article was coming out.” Ahmed and his wife are Muslim. They’ve long been a friend and supporter of Haskell. “What Mrs. Haskell fails to recall is that she was at a fundraiser for her husband last August, where the hosts were Muslim. And these ‘Muzlims’ spent over $1,000 to provide food for a fundraiser for her husband,” Ahmed commented on Inlander. com last week. “Mrs. Haskell’s comments are atrocious and her husband’s response is weak-kneed. I expected more from him.” After the campaign dinner, Ahmed says, Larry Haskell offered to reimburse him for the event, but also asked him for additional donations.

“I’ve gotten about 20 to 25 calls from people saying, ‘Hey, is this the conversation that happens in the Haskell house?’” Ahmed says. He says that Lesley Haskell has the right to believe that she wants, but he worries that her prejudicial comment could reinforce bigotry in the community. Ahmed, a Pakistani, says he contradicts a lot of stereotypes people may have of Muslims. He drinks on occasion. Two of his best friends are Jews. But he’s also seen the consequence of anti-Muslim prejudice. Three times, he says, he was prevented from flying because his Arab last name landed him on a no-fly list. He takes a handgun when he goes out with his kids because he’s worried about violence from bigots. Larry Haskell declined to comment on Ahmed’s concerns, saying he directly spoke to him. In last week’s article, Haskell called his wife a “strong, independent, and conservative woman,” who did not represent him in online forums, either “personally or professionally.” But Ahmed says the prosecutor should go further. “As a public figure he should disassociate himself from her comments,” Ahmed says. “He should apologize to the community for his wife making these comments.” — DANIEL WALTERS

The Board of Directors for Spokane Public Schools is concerned about a bill making its way through the Washington State Legislature that’s intended to bolster the clout of MINORITY POPULATIONS in local elections. The Washington Voting Rights Act, which passed out of a House committee, would give members of a protected class, such as racial minorities, a way to bring legal challenges against cities, counties, school districts and other local governments on grounds that they don’t have an adequate opportunity to elect their own candidates or influence the election. The legislation was crafted, in part, for situations where local governments use at-large elections, which critics say dilute the influence of minority voters residing within them. Robert Douthitt, a member of the Board of Directors for Spokane Public Schools (which is elected at-large and has had few minority members), went to Olympia to raise concerns over the bill. He tells the Inlander that while he’s supportive of getting more minorities in public office, the standards and language in the bill, as it currently stands, are too ambiguous. Specifically, Douthitt says that he’s not sure what the bill could mean for very small protected classes. The district has 70 protected classes, divided along linguistic, racial and ethnic lines, and some make up less than 1 percent of Spokane Public School’s total student population, he says. “What does equal opportunity mean in the context of a really, really small [protected] class?” he says. — JAKE THOMAS

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eveloper Ron Wells is ready, set and eagerly waiting the shot of the starting pistol. Over the past week, every 36 hours or so, he’s been making phone calls to an investor, asking if there’s anything he can do to speed up the process. He was hoping that the investor’s letter of intent would have arrived last Thursday. Once it does, Wells can finally start running full speed, purchasing the rest of the vacant Ridpath Hotel buildings and rehabbing them into a 13-story apartment complex. It’s something Wells, not to mention the city of Spokane, has been anticipating for a very long time. It’s been six years since a Las Vegas hotelier shut down the Ridpath, a once iconic symbol of the Spokane skyline. It’s been more than two and half years since Mickey Brown, who’d been snookered by con artist Greg Jeffreys into buying

an inflated chunk of the Ridpath, approached Wells about getting involved. It’s been more than a year since Jeffreys pleaded guilty to fraud. By contrast, slightly more than two years have passed since Davenport hotel developer Walt Worthy trumpeted his plans to turn a parking lot into Spokane’s biggest hotel, and it’s already risen high into the air, with a scheduled June opening. (See “Checking In,” page 13.) Wells has spent that time hacking away at the nightmarish thicket of lawsuits, competing ownerships, regulations and financing challenges in his effort to rehab the Ridpath into a downtown apartment complex. “When I got into this business as a developer, 35 years ago, I was an extremely impatient person,” Wells says. “I had to just develop all the patience necessary. This is a test of how much patience one might ought to have.”

he misfortune of the Ridpath’s 13 unlucky stories extends into the building itself. In December of 2013, a pipe burst, taking all the water and antifreeze in the sprinkler systems from the 13th through the fifth floors and dumping it into the basement. It flooded the electrical transformers, costing his insurance company millions. “Ironically, it was a not a setback time-wise,” he says, but that’s only because it’s taken so long to line up the financing. From the very beginning of the Ridpath process, Wells says, he had the best condo attorney in Spokane trying to untangle the legal morass left by Jeffreys, who helped split the property into more than two dozen pieces. The legal fees, he says, are well into the seven figures. That includes the cost of successfully defending against a lawsuit by former Red Lion CEO Art Coffey. Wells says all the legal issues will be resolved once he purchases the rest of the hotel. “And my life’s just wonderful again,” he says. Many, like one-time self-appointed Ridpath savior Stephen Antonetti, hoped the buildLETTERS ing could be resurrected as a Send comments to hotel. But Wells considered that editor@inlander.com. unrealistic. When Worthy resurrected the shuttered Davenport Hotel, Wells says, he took a Bobcat to the top floors, knocking down the old walls to build new ones in a more modern layout. But all the cross-bracing between the walls made that practically impossible in the Ridpath, Wells says. Instead, he wants to turn it into an apartment complex. The composition of the building has changed over the years: Currently the plan is for 41 studio apartments, 55 one-bedroom apartments and — uniquely— 110 micro apartments. At 255 square feet, they’re tiny, but Wells says his market study shows they’ll fetch $435 a month. It’s a model that’s thrived in dense communities like San Francisco and Seattle, where demand for housing is intense. The big question is whether the same will work in a vastly different Spokane market. “There’s no challenge. We already had 248 people on the waiting list from the Craigslist ad. We’ve got more people than we’ve got apartments,” Wells says. “The appraisers, the market study analysts, the lender, the [Federal Housing Administration], everyone agrees the demand is solid.” That doesn’t mean that convincing investors has been easy. A number of potential investors, Wells says, were immediately dismissive about the project, starting with the city in which it was located. To reduce the risk, making the project more palatable for investment, he cut the number of micro apartments in half. “It took a very large time to find any tax credit investors willing to decide they even liked Spokane and the project,” Wells says. “Fourteen of them said no before one said yes.”

nce the other investor details are clear, the city of Spokane may help provide additional financing, using a few different instruments. The slow process of turning the Ridpath’s ruin into something worth selling again has already begun, starting with the top two floors, where Ankeny’s Restaurant served escargot and racks of lamb a decade ago. Wells plans to turn those top two floors into condos. He’s made an offer to buy the Ridpath once before, in 2006, when it was still a functioning hotel. Back then, he planned on focusing on the condo project. In retrospect, getting outbid was the one of the best things that could have happened to him. The condo market dropped out almost immediately, and the subsequent economic crash bankrupted plenty of well-known developers with grand dreams and terrible timing. That’s not to say that Wells’ Ridpath sojourn hasn’t been rough. Asked whether it’s all been worth it, Wells lets out a long, wry laugh. “It probably wasn’t,” he says. “No sane lender would have wanted to take this on if they’d known it would take this long.” But he can’t quit now, he says. He’s too stubborn. Too many people are counting on this. Wells walks over to his office and brings out a framed quote from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: “Everything will be all right in the end. If it’s not all right then it’s not yet the end.” n

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NEWS | INTERVIEW has been more egregious than the assault under George W. Bush. Obama passed Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which overturns over 120 years of domestic law and permits for the first time the military to be used as a domestic police force and seize American citizens who ‘substantially support’ al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or ‘the associated forces’ — another nebulous undefined term — put them in military facilities and strip them of due process until ‘the end of hostilities.’ In an age of permanent war, that’s forever.

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Why Chris Hedges thinks we’re ripe for revolution BY TAYLOR WEECH

hris Hedges, the best-selling political author, activist and Pulitzer Prize winner, is visiting Spokane this week for a talk on the “Wages of Rebellion,” the name of his forthcoming book examining revolution and its causes. Once a New York Times foreign correspondent, Hedges is now known better for his outspoken criticisms of Israel and the Iraq War and his support of movements like Occupy Wall Street. We caught up with him by phone and discussed the wave of revolution the globe is riding, and what it means for the disenchanted here at home. INLANDER: Why do you think our society is ripe for revolution? HEDGES: In the U.S., half the people live in or near poverty, over six million have been evicted and foreclosed on, and unemployment or underemployment has made life extremely difficult for the working poor. The average worker at Walmart works 28 hours a week, but still falls below the poverty line. You’re counted as employed. … It’s a great system for the Walton family, who make about $11,000 an hour. They give food stamp LETTERS applications to their Send comments to workers because they editor@inlander.com. qualify. It’s this bizarre system where the U.S. government is subsidizing the Walton fortune. Resources go toward the maintenance of empire; meanwhile, schools, libraries, firehouses are closed, bridges and roads are crumbling, our public transportation pales compared to [other countries]. It’s a joke. And social services are being cut in the name of austerity. It’s a system that’s not sustainable. We’re set up now for revolutionary backlash. That could be a right-wing backlash. There’s a very strong proto-fascist force within

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this country embodied in the Christian right, the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, militia groups. Where we’re going to go, how that’s going to play out, those are unanswered questions, but across the political spectrum, [people feel that] the system’s just not working. Congress has a 9 percent approval rating. It’s not working for anyone unless you’re fabulously rich and inside Citibank or ExxonMobil or one of these other corporations. What about that far-right approach is working better than a progressive approach? The right is doing what all fascist movements do: It’s channeling a legitimate rage toward the vulnerable. As people struggle with despair and economic insecurity, you channel that rage towards Muslims, undocumented workers, homosexuals, liberals, feminists, intellectuals. They have a very long list of people they hate. And that’s classic fascism. Often the forces responsible for the decline, the Koch brothers and others, are funneling finances and resources into these proto-fascist forces. [This power] is not the fault of the left, because the left in this country was destroyed. Instead, we get faux liberalism embodied in figures like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who speak in the traditional ‘feel your pain’ language of liberalism while assiduously serving corporate power. Clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding, he’d get corporate money. In 2008, Obama actually got more money [than the Republican Party] and he has continued that tradition. Obama’s assault on civil liberties

If we look at ideas like ‘We are the 99 percent’ or ‘Black Lives Matter,’ I think that a more discerning, different group of the dispossessed in this country are swayed by the concept of revolution and a different kind of society... Well, I don’t know that they’re the dispossessed. Occupy was a largely white movement of the children of the middle class. They’re what [the Russian revolutionary anarchist Mikhail] Bakunin calls déclassé intellectuals, those whose expectations for their position in society could not be met. After college, they’re heavily in debt, working at low-wage jobs, they realize the system is not going to offer the opportunities they once expected. Unemployed lawyers, journalists, teachers. Bakunin argued that these intellectuals were vital to any revolutionary movement. Revolutions are not just carried out by the poor. Many of the poor are more easily seduced into these proto-fascist formations that work on behalf of the elite. So when you have a group of déclassé intellectuals marrying itself to a dispossessed working class, it becomes dangerous because that class of college-educated disaffected come equipped with managerial and ideological tools that make revolution possible. We have seen the rise of that class, building alliances through Black Lives Matter, through Occupy, with a beleaguered working class — a prerequisite for successful revolt. It helps give language to the unspoken knowledge that section of the working class has about the situation, but hasn’t felt validated in in the same way... Yes, and [anarchist and political activist] Alexander Berkman writes that all revolutions are invisible, like a pot with boiling water you only notice at its eruption. When we look at the utter disconnect between how we describe ourselves as a democracy and the reality, as that gap widens, those ideas and that language are rapidly losing their credibility. Once they’ve lost it, these systems of power have only one thing left and that’s naked force, which they will use, but at that point they’re exposed for who they are. I think that process is something that’s well

“As people struggle with despair and economic insecurity, you channel that rage towards Muslims, undocumented workers, homosexuals, liberals, feminists, intellectuals.” underway. The bottom line is: There’s no possibility to vote against the interest of corporations like Goldman Sachs. You can’t do it. What leverage does that leave for people who are getting to the point of wanting to make it stop, and what role does technology play in that? We’re not going to bring about any kind of realistic change sitting in front of computers. In the end you’re sitting alone in front of a screen: exactly what the state wants. If it comes, it’s by pulling people into the streets on a sustained basis, not with violence, because we can’t compete with the state in terms of violence. It will come

by discrediting the system itself. I saw in East Germany tens of thousands marching through the streets of Leipzig. In the fall of 1989, the dictator [Erich] Honecker sends down an elite paratrooper division to fire on the protesters in the streets who refused to comply. Honecker managed to hang onto power — after having had it for 19 years — for another week. Those who are tasked with the implementation of control, the police, the bureaucrats, the civil servants; they know the system’s rotten. The hope is that you create enough defections within these systems to create paralysis. When these forces will no longer protect that tiny oligarchic elite, they’re finished. In this way, most revolutions are fundamentally nonviolent. Do you believe that as these interlocking crises affect more of us directly, that this revolutionary consciousness will bloom as that anger and knowledge spreads further through the social strata? I do, but also rising with it will be this kind of proto-fascism which has marked American history. Because the left has been weakened, the populist movements which really opened up American democracy, the Liberty Party that fought slavery, the suffragists for women’s rights, the labor movement, the civil rights movement, have been decimated, so we who care about an egalitarian, open society are facing a tremendous crisis at a moment we’ve been terribly weakened. I take hope in consciousness. I take hope in the understanding that it’s up to us, that the system isn’t going to save us, that we’re either going to save ourselves or be trapped in this corporate totalitarianism. But I don’t want to be naive about what we’re up against.  Chris Hedges’ “Wages of Rebellion” • Tue, March 10, at 7 pm • Bing Crosby Theater • $18/$20 day of; $10 student • pjals.org/ hedges

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Idaho and the Case of the Missing Degrees

Why Idaho kids don’t go to college and what that means for the Gem State By Daniel Walters

he first advertisement a shopper notices when entering Coeur d’Alene’s Silver Lake Mall isn’t one for spring fashion or Cinnabon. It’s the one painted across an entire wall in big, brash deep red, telling shoppers to go to college. “CARDINAL RED LOOKS GREAT ON YOU!” the ad proclaims, with the North Idaho College cardinal mascot peeking out. “Apply now at www.nic.edu/Apply.” Nearby, in a bright pink Payless ShoeSource aisle, Geoffrey Hess says he actually did apply to North Idaho College, back in 2013. “I had the acceptance letters, I had taken the [ACT] Compass test, had everything squared away,” he says. But then his parents kicked him out their house: “I didn’t have access to the Internet. I ended up living out of my vehicle.” In the chaos, he missed his financial aid deadline. Instead of school, he ended up working odd jobs, mostly manual labor, often getting paid under the table. His friend next to him didn’t

make it to college either. Damian Johnson, decked out in a camo sweatshirt, planned to take just a year off after high school before college. But one year became five. Five years of bagging groceries, pushing shopping carts and manning gas station registers. “It’s been rough,” he says. The reasons for missing out on college vary. Just ask the people in this one mall: The employee at the body-piercing parlor says her mom refused to fill out her financial aid information. The young woman walking through the mall arm in arm with her boyfriend says a mental health diagnosis nixed her culinary school plans. The tattooed dad, eating at the food court with his two little blonde girls, says his first daughter was born before high school graduation and work made more sense than college. Jon Byrum, 25, and his wife, Paris, look through the window of a jewelry store. “Never saw the point of it,” Jon says of college. High school, he felt, had mostly been a waste of time. Why would college be any different? “I didn’t know what I wanted to

do,” he says. “So why go to college, get my general education, get all that nonsense, so I can have an A.A., which means absolutely nothing, and still not know what I’m doing?” Add all of these reasons together, zoom out, and you’ve got a problem that plagues most Western states, but especially Idaho. A year after high school, nearly half of Idaho’s 2013 high school graduates hadn’t enrolled in higher ed. In 2010, Idaho ranked last in the nation in its college-going rate, and it’s remained in the bottom five ever since. You can quibble about the data — some measurements don’t account for military service, apprenticeships or Mormons who do door-to-door missions after high school — but it all points toward the same grim conclusion: As Idaho’s economy is struggling, its high-tech jobs are going unfilled and the solution — an educated workforce — means that a lot more Idahoans need to start getting college degrees. Idaho knows this: Since 2013, the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson

Foundation has been pumping out ads calling out the dismal state of Idaho education. “Look at it this way: For every 10 high school freshmen, eight will graduate, four will go to college, and only one will graduate with a degree,” former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe narrates in warm, earnest tones in one ad. “Let’s get to an educated state. Don’t Fail Idaho.” The foundation had tried positive ads. For five years, it ran an $11 million “Go On” campaign encouraging students to go to college. They didn’t work. Districts, universities, business leaders and legislators have banded together to fight the problem, but after rising briefly, the statewide rate of kids going to college actually declined from 2013 to 2014. “It alarms me that people aren’t more alarmed by this,” says Jennie Sue Weltner, foundation spokeswoman. “We’re not making the kind of progress everyone hoped we would make.” The question is why. ...continued on next page

During a tech tour at North Idaho College, Diesel Technology Instructor Tony Christiansen shows a group of high school students options at the institution. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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“IDAHO AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING DEGREES,” CONTINUED...

The isolated geography It was 11 degrees below zero in Pocatello, researcher Jered Hinchcliffe recalls, when he flew into Idaho in December of 2013. Over nearly two weeks, he visited Pocatello, Coeur d’Alene, Boise and Twin Falls. He looked everywhere: leadership classes, malls, a bowling alley, a Boys and Girls Club, a KFC and a Carl’s Jr. He’d been hired by the Albertson Foundation’s ad agency to find kids to talk about their plans after high school. “One of the things we noticed the most, especially for the younger people, is that they all had a plan,” says Hinchcliffe. “They all wanted to go to college.” But the closer they were to graduation, he says, the less certain and more skeptical they had become. Brand strategist Jen van Arkel and her colleague followed up with in-depth interviews, the entire thing filmed by a documentary crew. All this to ask: “Why don’t more kids go on to college after high school?” The kids shared their fatigue and frustration with school, the lack of support they felt and the mixed messages they’ve heard about the value of college. And as she interviewed them, she saw the dramatic disparity between kids with bright academic futures and kids with dim ones.

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Income mattered. Day-to-day struggles like paying rent or avoiding domestic violence can make higher education the last thing on their parents’ minds. Location mattered too. “We talk to some kids in more rural areas whose families are in agriculture, and they would say, ‘My dad didn’t go to college, and my grandfather didn’t go to college, and they’re doing just fine,’” van Arkel says. “So why bother?” These are places like Bonners Ferry, a town of less than 2,500 near the Canadian border with the lowest per-capita income in North Idaho. A year after 2013’s high school graduation, only 41 percent of Boundary County students enrolled in college, one of the lowest rates in the state. “A fair amount of that is probably just financial hardship and difficulties,” says Tim Gering, principal of Bonners Ferry High School. “This is a very economically depressed area.” As a rule of thumb, poor, rural communities struggle to send their kids to college: Nationally, a National Student Clearinghouse study of the class of 2013 showed high-income suburban high schools had college enrollment rates nearly 50 percent higher than low-income rural schools. Idaho is especially rural and poor. Legislators cringed last year as the Idaho

Department of Labor reeled off 2012’s economic rankings. Idaho: last in the nation in average wages, per-capita income and wage increases; first in percentage of minimum-wage workers. The pothole-pocked roads and isolated communities in Idaho can hit education hard. For the more than 400,000 Idahoans living rurally, it’s easy for college to seem out of reach. Take Chad Copenbarger, for example, a recent high school grad from Wendell, north of Twin Falls. “I did go to college for two weeks and had enough of that,” Copenbarger says. During those two weeks, he had to juggle classes, work and the distance between. He drove his used Chevy pickup from his jack-of-all-trades job in the city of Wendell a half-hour to the College of Southern Idaho, and then the half-hour back. “I liked the class. I liked to learn how to weld,” Copenbarger says. But gas alone, he estimated, was costing him $100 every month: “I couldn’t make what I was spending.” So for now, he’s dropped his college plans. Idaho, filled with federal lands, has very few colleges. In fact, for most of its history there were only two comprehensive community colleges in the entire state. Until 2009, even Boise didn’t have one. (Idaho actually is in the middle of the pack in sending students to four-year

colleges — it’s community-college attendance where Idaho’s in dire straits. ) A look at state data shows that isolation and poverty are hardly the whole story, however. Chart Idaho’s “go-on rates” by how well schools are funded, or by the poverty level, and the result looks like a shotgun spread. No obvious correlation. There’s another factor at play, something elusive to define and unique to each community: culture.

The self-reliance doctrine Matt Handelman, superintendent of Coeur d’Alene Public Schools, says when he moved to Idaho from Spokane a few years ago, “the fierce independence of Idahoans” stood out, with their sense of “don’t tell me my life’s trajectory.” “There’s less of a sense of the importance of education for education sake’s as much as other places I’ve lived,” Handelman says. “Early on, people I met here preached that you’re throwing away money by just going to a four-year liberal arts school.” If you’re not exactly sure what you want to do, he says, the sense in Idaho is that you’re just piling on debt. Instead of seeing college as an exercise in intellectual edification, Handelman says many Idahoans view it in practical terms: Is it worth it? ...continued on page 26

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cover story | education “IDAHO AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING DEGREES,” CONTINUED... In the long run, studies still suggest that it is. An associate’s degree results in annual salaries more than $6,500 higher than just a high school diploma, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Georgetown University research finds that recent college graduates were making more than even employees with decades of experience and only a high school diploma. Even art and psychology majors made nearly 30 percent more than their non-college peers. (Engineering majors? 138 percent higher.) Yet the case for college has become more muddled lately, partly a victim of its own success. At one time, an applicant with a bachelor’s degree stood out from the crowd. Now, they’re competing with a horde of peers holding degrees just like theirs. Combine that with exploding tuition — 30 percent higher at University of Idaho and Boise State University than in 2008. “Kids are hearing their peers getting saddled with a ridiculous amount of debt,” van Arkel says. For the seven years she’s been a postsecondary transition counselor at Sandpoint High School, Jeralyn Mire has watched students struggle with the decision to go to college. Facing uncertainty over what they want to be and the huge price tag, many choose what seems like a sensible option: Take a year off and work. Then, once they’ve saved up,

idaho currently ranks

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on to college NCHEMS (2010) College-Going Rates go to college. An improving economy, where entry-level jobs are becoming more available, can make that path seem even more attractive. “Until they get a truck payment. Until they get a cellphone bill. Until they get a girlfriend. Until they get a boyfriend. ... and they have no money,” Mire says. “Life happens. And it gets harder.” She pleads with students to keep at least a toe dipped in education. Pell Grants and scholarships are

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available to help with financing, especially for low-income parents. But that’s only if they know how to get them. One report estimates that nearly $20 million in financial aid went unclaimed in Idaho in 2013. The FAFSA form for federal financial aid has 108 questions, and one 2007 Brookings Institution study calculated that completing it took 10 hours on average. For parents who’ve never been to college, taking that on can be especially intimidating. “You want me pissed off?” Mire asks, then rattles off a story about a bright kid losing a scholarship from Boise State University because he won another scholarship from a regional foundation. She’s yelling, swinging her hands. “There you go! Here, kid! Go apply, go do some work, bring in an extra scholarship! Oh, we’re going to take yours away! Because we’ve met your” — she shifts into a mocking tone — “federal need.” Mire helped the family get the issue resolved. But many parents don’t have someone like Mire to guide them through the process, while others are downright skeptical of what college represents. “Education has a reputation, straight up into higher ed, for being a bastion of liberalism,” Handelman says. “Bastions of liberalism aren’t received too well in Idaho.” In 2012, for example, the Coeur d’Alene School Board ended the International Baccalaureate program after two years of the program being attacked for allegedly having a liberal, United Nations-backed agenda. So why would Idahoans want to spend tens of thousands of dollars to send their kids to a place that contradicts their values? To some conservatives, like the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman, all this obsession with college has a dark side. “It’s causing people to emphasize college to everyone, people that don’t need to go to college,” Hoffman says. He’s worried about “credentialism,” the idea that the letters of a degree matter more to society than the training it represents, that employers may be turning down qualified applicants because of educational requirements. Degrees, critics worry, can just as easily be artificial barriers, perpetuating inequality, as they can be signs of expertise. Last month, the credentialism debate invaded the 2016 presidential race as pundits wondered whether — despite being the governor of Wisconsin — potential GOP candidate Scott Walker’s lack of a college degree disqualified him from the presidency. Rowe, who voiced “Don’t Fail Idaho” ads, leapt to Walker’s defense. “I think a trillion dollars of stu-

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dent loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people,” Rowe wrote on Facebook. “And I think that making elected office contingent on a college degree is maybe the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” Many of the Idahoans fighting to improve college-going rates would agree. College, in the classic four-year sense, isn’t for everyone. Van Arkel worries that society’s focus on the four-year degree is so unrelenting, it drowns out the other options — community colleges, trade schools, apprenticeship programs. It’s why they’ve shifted from the phrase “college” — implying four-years, ivy-covered dorms and tweed-jacketed professors — to “postsecondary,” alluding to community colleges, trade schools, the military and apprenticeships. “People learn in different ways. A trade school, where a school is doing hands-on-work, that’s a way a lot of the kids learn,” van Arkel says. “These kids, they need to know there are other options.”

The morphing economy The path to a job in Idaho wasn’t traditionally through the classroom. It was in the field or the forest or mine. That reality has changed so gradually

that many haven’t noticed it. Blue collar and white collar have blended together. These days, auto body shops use computer programs to mix the paint they use to coat dinged fenders. The semi-trucks that cross Idaho’s highways are equipped with high-tech computer systems. “If you went into a sawmill 25 years ago, everything was done by hand,” says Rod Gramer, president of Idaho Business for Education. “Now if you go into a sawmill, when they cut the boards, they do it by lasers and computers. It’s all high-tech.” Technology has been a double whammy for underskilled Idaho: It’s meant fewer well-paying blue-collar jobs that require a lot more training. Hess, at the Silver Lake Mall, knows what it’s like looking for jobs without the degree on his résumé. “It’s definitely closed a lot of doors because I have all the experience in the world, but there’s only so much you can do,” says Hess. He has three Automotive Service Excellence certifications but needs 13 for full master certification. “I can’t even get a job at a shop, and I’ve been working on cars since I was 8,” Hess says. “If you’re not master-certified, they just don’t want you. ” Multiple studies have shown that in just a few years, 60 to 70 percent of Idaho jobs will require more than a high school diploma. Two years ago, Gov.

Not just an Idaho problem Idaho’s struggle to get its children to college isn’t unique to Idaho. College-going rates in Washington and Oregon are nearly as bad, and districts throughout both states are fighting similar battles. After improving its dismal graduation rate, Spokane Public Schools has shifted focus to “T-2-4,” referring to technical, two-year and four-year colleges. Now, for example, Spokane high schools are expected to have every eligible student apply for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship. Because of the influx of legally required basic education funding from Washington state, Spokane schools have a lot more money to work with than schools in Idaho. They’ve hired a load of new counselors to tackle the after-high school transition. “What we’ve learned is that our kids think going to college is like registering for high school,” says Melissa Pettey, college and career readiness coordinator for Spokane Public Schools. “They’re caught off guard when it turns out to be a lot more complicated than that.” — DANIEL WALTERS

Butch Otter’s education task force unanimously set a goal to increase the number of 25-to-34year-olds with postsecondary credentials from 40 percent to 60 percent by 2020. “That’s our North Star, if you will,” Idaho State Board of Education Director Mike Rush says. Everything they do is geared toward improving that rate: “It is our economic future.” But when Bob Lokken, CEO of WhiteCloud Analytics in Boise, addressed the legislature earlier this year, he was blunt: It was already too late to meet the goal by that deadline. And at least for tech companies, Lokken says, that’s a huge problem. If you can’t recruit enough talent locally, growth is slow and stunted. Companies look elsewhere, launching branches in other states, or even move entirely. Lokken saw it happen. In 2006 he sold the ProClarity Corporation to Microsoft, which he hoped would continue to hire engineers for its team in Boise. It didn’t. “After four years of not being able to keep up with attrition, they shut it down,” Lokken says. That’s the nightmare: If Idaho can’t get kids to college, it won’t hurt just their future, but the future of the entire state.

The struggling schools When Education Week ranked Idaho a dismal 46th in the nation for education this year, it didn’t just cite the state’s bottom-rung postsecondary rate. It blamed the state’s mediocre test scores, near-last per-pupil spending, and 50thplace ranking in early education — behind only Utah. It slammed Idaho for inequality: The reliance on local levies means Idaho schools in regions with higher property values raise money easier. So in Preston, schools get less than $5,000 per student, but in Blaine County, schools get more than $15,000 per student. Low pay means some districts struggle to recruit teachers who meet even the minimum qualifications. Several of the kids interviewed by van Arkel said they could feel that the state didn’t care enough to invest in education, that many

of their teachers had given up on them and didn’t care whether they were learning. The state’s high school graduation rate — 83.6 percent — is one of its few bright spots. But even that has some observers questioning whether the graduation rate is so high because standards are so low. Of the Idaho students who do make it to a four-year college, nearly a third never make it to their second year. In fact, a letter from Idaho’s education leaders last year, including then-Superintendent Tom Luna, blamed the state’s lousy academic standards for not preparing “students for the rigors of postsecondary education” and contributing to Idaho’s low college-going rate. (The solution, the tougher Common Core standards, isn’t exactly beloved by North Idaho conservatives.) Many Idaho kids are unprepared for the rigors of college. “A lot of those people have 4.0s and have to go to remedial classes when they go to college,” Lokken says. Half of Idaho’s community college enrollees have to take catch-up courses. It’s a massive task for Sherri Ybarra, the controversial new state superintendent of public instruction. When she proposed her educational budget to the legislature, she came under fire for her modest request — substantially less than the governor’s — and lack of details. Despite repeated requests over the course of three weeks, Ybarra declined to be interviewed about the high numbers of Idaho students failing to enroll in college. “Right now she’s worried about other stuff,” spokesman Kelly Everitt says. The State Board of Education, however, has been hammering away at the problem for years. It increased funding for the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship and made it available to more students. It pushed classes that also count for college credit — from 2008 to 2014, the number of high school students taking dual-credit classes grew from 5,000 to more than 12,000. Two years ago, Idaho became one of only two states to pay for SATs for every student. The state held a “College Application Day,” ...continued on next page

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cover story | education “IDAHO AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING DEGREES,” CONTINUED... where students could apply to an in-state college without an application fee. College applications skyrocketed at the participating high schools. Otter’s latest proposed budget includes more money for teacher salaries, nearly $3.4 million extra for colleges, and an additional $2.5 million for college and career advisers in high schools. “I think Idaho education is on a good trajectory,” says Rush, the state board of education director. “But we have a lot of work to do.”

The local solutions It’s a rainy Friday morning at Sandpoint High School. Pennants from numerous colleges — Whitworth, BYU-Idaho, Carrington College, Montana Tech, University of Southern California — line the walls of the counseling center. Lewis-Clark State College enrollment specialist Justene Garner leads a small crowd of high school seniors through the nuances of dorm room setups, scholarships, parking passes, roommate matchups and the campus Quidditch club. “Are you guys feeling way overwhelmed right now?” Garner says, her peppiness contrasting with the groggy unease of the students. “Like, overwhelmed to the max? Garner’s here to try to ease their minds.

For seven years, Postsecondary Transition Counselor Jeralyn Mire has been trying to get Sandpoint students to college. ANNIE KUSTER PHOTO Zale Filce, a Sandpoint senior with a red beanie and braided goatee, flips through a brochure. “How is it dealing with the paper mill?” he asks about the college’s Lewiston location. “I hear it smells.” “That is the smell of the economy and money,” Garner assures him. A lot of Filce’s friends aren’t planning on going to college. “I have a friend currently who’s dropped out. He’s working at a pizza parlor,” Filce says. “It’s tricky, because they affect my life. I see what they’re doing — that looks like fun.” But Filce is sticking to his plan: Go to college for business, nursing or physical

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Justene Garner, from Lewis-Clark State College, walks Sandpoint High students through the list of things they need to enroll in college. ANNIE KUSTER PHOTO therapy, get a solid job and then use that to support his passions: glassblowing and guitar manufacturing. For the past seven years, Sandpoint High School has been a grand experiment. Supported by grants from groups like the local Panhandle Alliance for Education and the Albertson Foundation, the school has tried anything and everything to promote college. Mire, the transition counselor, walks out of the counseling center, and there are a handful of students outside her door, thumbing through the “Great Wall of Scholarships” — multicolored folders taped against the wall and filled with scholarship paperwork. “Look at these guys!” Mire says. “Taking their scholarships!” She walks down the hall, where outside every teacher’s room there’s a poster with an educational story attached to it — where the teacher went to college, what they majored in, which activities they did while in school. Not just the teachers, but the counselors, the principal and the staff. Kids can see that the lunch lady went to the University of Wisconsin, majored in resource management and minored in biology. Enter the library, where sophomores are tapping away at keyboards. “Adrenaline junkie job,” writes Trevor Eidson, a kid with a Carhartt patch duct-taped to his cap. “Linemen have a job filled with danger and excitement at the same time.” The very first big paper that freshman students write is about what they want to do with their lives. The next year, they write about the education they need to get there. So when Eidson graduates, he wants to be one of those guys who dares to climb power poles in storms to fix downed electrical lines. His friend beside him, in a camouflage jacket and mud-speckled black hat, wants to be a mechanic.

They both sketch out plans in their papers. Eidson’s friend has his sights set on WyoTech — a Wyoming-based technical institute. Eidson calls up a Spokane Community College video about Avista’s Pre-Apprentice Lineworker school. It’s a pricey, exhausting four-month program, but at the end of it, if he’s hired, a preapprentice groundman starts at $50,000 a year. As for that intimidating financial aid paperwork? Sandpoint High countered with “FAFSA Frenzy” nights. Attendees scarf down pizza and sandwiches and enter raffles to win gift cards as they work through the knottier parts of pre-college paperwork. “First Generation” students — students whose parents never went to four-year colleges — have a club where they and their parents can work through each step of the college process. All of this can seem a bit much to keep track of for a high school student. But there’s an app for that, too. “They let you sign up for texting — they send you reminders,” Filce says. “Here’s scholarships coming out. Here’s counselor meetings. Here’s field trips.” Filce says the school has taken him on multiple trips to see the North Idaho College campus. At Sandpoint, applying for college is nearly mandatory. Senior Paige Schabell was dead set on not going; she wanted to travel instead. But Mire insisted that Schabell apply somewhere. She recounts sitting stubbornly in the library computer lab a few weeks ago as her classmates were applying for college, refusing to comply for most of the class period. Finally, grudgingly, she applied to North Idaho College. “I applied so she wouldn’t keep nagging,” Schabell says. That, and a conversation with her mom, changed her mind. Now she plans to take Idaho community college online classes this summer. So far, there have been encouraging signs. Sandpoint’s SAT scores recently

have been among the highest in the state. Student surveys the past few years have shown that about three-fourths of Sandpoint seniors plan to go to a four-year, two-year or technical college, with an additional 5 percent joining the military. Yet a year after graduating, only 59 percent of the class of 2013 had enrolled in college. Sandpoint resident Jim Elsfelder, for one, doesn’t have a college degree. He’s 57 and has spent 40 of those years butchering hogs, cows and sheep in a meatpacking plant. He likes the variety, but he knows the cost as well. Coming home exhausted, clothes smelling like decomposing pig guts, with back, shoulders and neck aching. Or worse. “I’ve had well over 300 stitches,” he says. He lost a kidney after a bullet missed a cow’s head, blew through his right side and tore through his liver, kidney and spine. He lost a tear duct when a roller fell on him, the hook swinging around hitting him in his eye. Behind the scenes, Elsfelder and thousands of parents like him may be the most crucial players in changing Idaho’s educational landscape: Parents who didn’t go to college but are doing everything to make sure their kids get the chance. His daughter, Sandpoint senior Topi Elsfelder, plans on attending the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. “My parents always wanted us to be better than they were,” she says. “They were always pushing us.” Her dad, like many in Idaho, still has a traditional job. But he looks around and sees firsthand how different the world is now. “It used to be, a kid would get right out of high school and go to the mill or go cut trees. And that’s gone away,” Elsfelder says. “More [Sandpoint kids] are saying, ‘I cannot get out of high school and make a living in this town.’ Unless you want to flip burgers or cut hair.” n danielw@inlander.com

FIND ART

and more this Friday, March 6th! Venues open 5 - 8 pm unless otherwise noted. For more information about the artists and an interactive map, visit downtownspokane.org

AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE 6PM 402 W MAIN, 6PM

Performance Art 3 Minute Mic! Featuring Allison Collins.

AVENUE WEST GALLERY

707 W MAIN, SKYWALK LEVEL, 5 TO 8:30PM

Joyce Miller: “Embracing Spring.” Jewelry created from old coins and mahjong pieces.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS 331 W MAIN

Sarah Benton: Nuances of woman’s purses and a conceptual three-piece collection of glitter, paint and the female form.

GLAMAGAIN FASHION CONSIGNMENT, AT MARKETPLACE WINERY 39 W PACIFIC

Designer consignment clothing, $10 admission includes wine, and parking.

THE MODERN THEATER’S GELLHORN GALLERY 173 S. HOWARD, 5:30 TO 7:30PM

Drink Specials Visual Art Performance Art, Art by Larry Ellingson.

NECTAR TASTING ROOM

120 N STEVENS, 5 TO 10PM

Connie Janney: Vivid colors. Music from Gator Loops with Coyote Canyon Winery.

NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE

BARILI CELLARS

GR CELLARS

Art by Anthony Gallaher and music by Free Whiskey.

Ira Gardner: Photography.

1213 W RAILROAD AVENUE, 5 TO 10PM

Conrad Bagley: Paintings acrylic and oils.

Music by Mike Ross and Sculpting Demonstration by Cheryl Metcalf. View books created by students from The Community School.

401 W MAIN, 6:30 TO 9:30PM

232 W SPRAGUE

608 W SECOND AVE, 4 TO 9PM

BARRISTER WINERY

Tom Shine: Watercolor paintings.

BOZZI GALLERY & LATAH CREEK WINERY TASTING ROOM

221 N WALL, SUITE 226, OLD CITY HALL

Kim Long, Imaginative Tendencies.

BRICKWALL PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY 530 W MAIN, SKYWALK LEVEL, 4 TO 8:30PM

“The Photogs Again”: Colin Mulvaney, Frank Knapp, Jay Cousins, Rick Singer, John Rodgers, Ira Gardner, David Sams, Melissa Rackham, Robert Lloyd and Richard Heinzen.

BROWNE’S ADDITION WELLNESS CENTER 2013 W FOURTH

Art For Roller Derby: Artists Heather Swanstrom, Jason Bagge, Jason Wiebe, and Scott Butner. Proceeds support Spokannibals Roller Derby.

CHASE GALLERY-CITY HALL

808 W SPOKANE FALLS, 8AM-5PM THROUGH MARCH

Group Exhibit: Explorations XIV: Student Invitational.

THE CHOCOLATE APOTHECARY

621 W MELLON, INSIDE THE FLOUR MILL

Anthony Galaher: Painting on handmade boards.

DODSON’S JEWELERS OPENING AND ARTIST RECEPTION 516 W RIVERSIDE, 5 TO 8PM

Charles Gurche: Spokane River Impressions, photographic images.

EAST SPRAGUE ART GALLERY 1812 E SPRAGUE, 5 TO 8PM

Over 20 artists: Painting; Metal Sculpture; Blown Glass; Leather Pictorials; Paper Mache; Etchings; Photographs; Fabric Arts; Wood Frames.

906 W SECOND

HERBAL ESSENCE CAFE 115 N WASHINGTON

2316 W FIRST

HILLS’ RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE

NYNE BAR & BISTRO

The Front Porch Trio: Steve Simmons Guitar and Vocals, Alan Fisher - Mandolin and Trumpet, Rick Singer - Drums.

Latest series of acrylic light orb paintings by Audreana Camm.

HOUSE OF POP

227 W RIVERSIDE, 7:30 TO 11:30PM

Jilly Ballistic, CS Stanley, and John Paul O’Grodnick. Urban artists out of NY and Indiana inspired by social and political happenings across the globe.

KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY

115 S ADAMS, FIRST FRIDAY HOURS WITH SATURDAY DEMONSTRATION, 11AM TO 2PM. CLOSING CEREMONY MAR 27, 5 TO 8PM

Ron Hormann: Photographer, gallery framed and matted prints. Kathleen Morris: Acrylic on gallery bound canvas. Deanna Hormann. Acrylic on gallery bound canvas.

LABORATORY 301 W MAIN

Atif Akin: Mutant Space is a techno-critical generative art installation, driven by a radioactive core, that aims at demystifying technology with its lo-fi approach to research on physics of radioactivity.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR

108 N WASHINGTON, THROUGH MARCH 31

Painter Hara Allison wth Carey Brazil, El Corazon Winery.

LIBERTY CIDERWORKS

PATIT CREEK CELLARS

822 W. SPRAGUE AVE, 6-9PM

Enjoy an evening of whimsy with a glass of wine and some artisan cheese, surrounded by art by Beth Hart and Denny Carmen, serenaded by classical guitar and vocals from Michael and Keleren Millham.

PINACLE NORTHWEST (AKA THE PIN) 412 W SPRAGUE, 4 TO 2AM

Ben M. Hoteling: An organic homage with watercolor mediums.

PINOT’S PALETTE

32 W SECOND, 4 TO 7PM

Pinot’s Palette artists: Ali Blackwood, Ashley Moss, Heather Hofstetter, and Todd Rhoads. Paint a masterpiece of your own for $10.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS

410 W SPRAGUE, NOON TO 8PM

Alaina Steel: Wildlife/realism

157 S HOWARD

Brittany Bennett: Fingernail polish on glass and canvas.

THE SATELLITE DINER AND LOUNGE THROUGH MARCH 425 W SPRAGUE

Ode to Spring: Several artists expressing their yearning for spring by way of creation.

SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS 117 N. HOWARD

Drew Blincow: “Exhibiting Power,” canvas and Mixed Media Travelscapes.

STA PLAZA

701 W RIVERSIDE, 5 TO 7PM

Serge with music by Sean T.E.E.: Immerse yourself in the surreal...Art and Music combined.

STEAM PLANT 159 S LINCOLN

The Art of Steampunk!: Featuring Karmen Naccarato, Kristy Carey, Melissa Corey, Robert LaMonte, Leanna Reed, Morgan Wren, Sarah Campbell, Carol Schmauder.

TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE

912 W SPRAGUE, 4PM TO CLOSE

No-Li Brewhouse with special menu from Chef Dani Briceno.

TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY 115 S ADAMS

168 S DIVISION, 6 TO 8PM

Liquid Art Series From Moose and Todd: One-time beer we made for each First Friday.

RIVER PARK SQUARE

FIRST FLOOR, NORDSTROM

THE MISSING PIECE

ROCKET BAKERY-HOLLEY MASON BUILDING

121 S CEDAR, 3 TO 9PM

RIVER CITY BREWING

MARMOT ART SPACE

Grand Opening of the Marmot Art Space, a White Box gallery in the Kendall Yards part of West Central. Visit marmotartspace.com for more information.

Travis Chapman: Realistic paintings with a quirky comic relief. Wine by the glass or bottle.

Toni Spencer: BATIK, using silk, wax and dyes to create images on fabric.

164 S WASHINGTON, SUITE 300, 4 TO 9 PM

1206 W SUMMIT PKWY, ADAMS ALLEY

115 W PACIFIC, OPEN UNTIL 8PM

“Show of Hands”: Gina Freuen, Chris Kelsey, and Mark Moore. Graphite drawings and ceramics, of the hand, made by hand, held by the hand.

203 N WASHINGTON, ADJACENT TO AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE

808 W MAIN, 5:30 TO 7:30PM FIRST FLOOR, NORDSTROM

Painter Amalia Fischl.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS

Gay Waldman: Gay uses many studio methods to make her photo-art. Ken Davis and Tui of “In Transit” FIRST NIGHT RISINGS STARS

Musha Marimba and The Grant Elementary Drummers and Dancers.

URBANNA NATURAL SPA SALON & WINE Josh Hansen: Gravity Paintings.

VINTAGE HILL CELLARS 319 W SECOND

JoDee Moody: Wall art, Raku, functional pieces and porcelain jewelry.

V DU V WINES 12 S SCOTT

Mary Dewey presents original watercolor landscapes. Music by Crushpad.

KRESS GALLEY

Young Artists Rising: Spring Art Exhibit by Spokane Public School Students. Presented by Spokane Tribe of Indians.

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A Show About Nothing Ryan Tucker asked his friends to reenact a sitcom with him, and they said yes BY MIKE BOOKEY

hen he shows up, he’s already dressed for the part: The dark blue jeans, the tucked-in button-down, the slightly toowhite sneakers. And when he sits down at what’s filling in for a table at Monk’s Diner, across from Jeanette Bocook and her bouffant of brown Elaine Benes hair, Ryan Tucker talks the part, too, with the nasally, sing-songy voice that was the hallmark one of TV’s greatest sitcoms. He can’t explain exactly why he’s here in a closed restaurant on a Wednesday night, other than that he’s the sort of guy who jokes aloud about how funny it would be to make all your friends reenact an entire episode of Seinfeld, then actually follows through with it. “Caught you? Doin’ whaaat?” he says across the table to Casey Strain, who has recently shaved off his beard and donned an oversized winter jacket to play George Costanza. “You know, I was alone… ” If you’re a Seinfeld fan, you already know the episode. It’s called “The Contest” and if you had to explain Seinfeld as a whole to a friend, you’d show them this one. It’s also about masturbation, which was off limits for network TV in 1992, but there’s hardly a sexual line in the entire script, making it doubly hilarious. The players run through the entirety of the episode, which hits the Big Dipper stage next week, calling out for a line when they need it. Missy Narrance plays George’s mom, who’s laid up in the hospital recovering from a fall after she saw her son… well, you know. She’s got the nagging accent mastered and the cast is having trouble keeping a straight face, as they’ve struggled with for most of the rehearsal. ...continued on next page

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“We spend most of our time cracking each other up. Not all of us are actors, per se, but we wanted to be a part of it,” says Colleen Vice, Tucker’s longtime friend and his bandmate in the surf-rock outfit BBBBandits. She’s playing Elaine’s friend Joyce in the production. It’s a bit on the rough side, but gorgeously so. It looks exactly like what you’d expect from someone who got his friends together to stage an episode of Seinfeld. Or “something like Seinfeld,” as Tucker keeps saying, because they don’t want to get sued. “I just thought this would be an inside joke to myself, but now it looks like it’s getting some traction, and now I’m getting a little nervous that we’re actually going to do it,” he says. But even if — worst-case scenario — it’s a train wreck, Tucker still thinks it’s all hilarious. The comedy, it seems, lies not only in the genius of Larry David’s script, but also in the fact that they’re staging the production at all. here’s a sad, half-inflated balloon above Tucker’s cubicle. He turned 34 a few weeks ago, a reminder that the father of two isn’t getting any younger. He’s been at Community Colleges of Spokane for about four years, working in video production. He’s cutting a cooking show before he breaks away and sits back in a work area that, in addition to his computer and dual monitors, features an old typewriter, a photo of Katy Perry, a beat-up guitar and a stack of VHS tapes. This is the cubicle where he once filmed a series of YouTube videos of him dancing to pop songs. Before he was the guy who staged a live Seinfeld episode, Tucker was known as the guitarist for BBBBandits and a host of KSPS’ Saturday Night Cinema. He’s one of those youngish Spokanites who seem to be everywhere. “I’ve been a lazy guy forever, so this is new to me,” Tucker says. He might have been lazy, but Tucker hasn’t been uninteresting. He bought a house in West Central when he was 18 years old. He’d been working at Nordstrom, first in the café, then selling men’s clothes, at 15 and had the money, so he figured what the hell, he’d do it. One day, he was celebrating a co-worker’s 30th anniversary on the job and realized that working sucked, so he took his lunch break and drove his Lincoln Town Car out of town. He landed in Wyoming when his money ran out and washed dishes at a truck stop to get back to Spokane. Upon his return, Tucker found a brochure for a photography school in Santa Barbara, California. He enrolled there, then transferred to the Los Angeles Film School, where he lived out of a

Toyota Camry and worked nights at a gas station to make things viable. After some editing on the Warner Bros. lot and projects for VH1, Tucker headed back to Spokane and eventually made his way into the local film and video industry. Things changed when Tucker’s wife gave birth to their first child, only to see Tucker rush off to Portland with the baby boy for several days of surgery and a couple of months in the NICU. “He’s literally a million-dollar baby,” says Tucker, looking up at a photo of his boys, perhaps two of the hippest-dressed kids in Spokane. Now 5, his boy Coen has cerebral palsy and moves around with the assistance of a walker. He’s in a Head Start program and is progressing well, says Tucker. His other son, Townsend, already has his dad’s knack for music. Tucker is a family man, but again, that balloon over his desk had him thinking about things. “Maybe it’s a distraction, but I just turned 34, and do I want to just drift into the obscurity of being an old married dude?” he asks, seemingly of every 34-year-old man in America. “Should I buy a polo shirt and tuck it into my khaki shorts and wear some white sneakers? I think it drives you to keep doing silly, fun things.”

ucker and Jon Brown, the co-owner of Stella’s Café — who not only has donated his restaurant as a practice space but also taken on the role of Kramer — are looking out at a naked woman neither they nor their pretend audience can see. Their castmates, sipping beers and soft drinks at a nearby table, are laughing to the point of distraction and also trying to help the scene along. They jump to the next scene, then the next — Seinfeld had a way of bouncing around like that, you might recall. Tucker says it will make more sense with the show’s signature slap bass interludes in between, but in the rehearsal, it’s all on the chaotic side. There will be commercial breaks, and more props (cereal boxes, of course) and backdrops, Tucker promises, not that he has to justify any of it at this point. Other venues have already hit up Tucker about doing another production. He’s thought about Friends or maybe Golden Girls, or whatever they could pull off. “Two months ago I posted on Facebook that if I was super rich I’d pay my friends to act out my favorite sitcoms for me. Then someone said, ‘I’d do that,’” says Tucker. “So who knows where this could go.”  Re-Run Theatre presents “The Contest” • Thu, March 12, at 7 and 9:30 pm • $5/$7 day of • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com

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Artist Ben Joyce with his newly installed piece at the Spokane Convention Center. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

ast week, the Spokane Convention Center unveiled the final product of more than two years of construction for its 92,000-square-foot expansion. Included in the project was the installation of permanent art pieces from local artists. Ben Joyce’s Spokane to Coeur d’Alene (seen above) is an abstract map of the two cities and everything in between, painted

with texture on a wood base. You’ll find the piece at the west end of the wall of the convention center. Also installed were Memory and Hope, an LED-lit fabric sculpture by Steve Adams, and two pieces, Tapestry and You elegant fowl!, by renowned local sculptors Bill and Karma Simmons. — MIKE BOOKEY

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TV | Maybe Robert Durst is just a hard-luck guy cursed with demonic eyes, but it seems more likely with every episode of THE JINX that his eyes are so creepy because they’re those of a stone cold killer. The six-part HBO documentary series tells of how Durst, a mega-millionaire from birth, saw his wife disappear, and then his friend, and the person who probably knew the most about that disappearance murdered before he wound up in Galveston, Texas, dressed as a woman and accused of yet another murder. The thing to know is that Durst is a free man, and for reasons that make no legal or practical sense, he sits down for a series of unremorseful, unemotional interviews with director Andrew Jarecki. There are a couple of episodes left, so catch up on the creepiness. ARTICLE | Find a comfortable chair before you let your eyes grace the poetic wonder of J.R. Moehringer’s “THE EDUCATION OF ALEX RODRIGUEZ” in this month’s ESPN The Magazine, because the thing is 12,000 words long. If you hated Rodriguez and can’t remember quite why, the article, which details the disgraced slugger’s year exiled from the major leagues, likely won’t cure you of your disdain, but it just might soften it. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize winner, spent more than 100 hours with the famously reserved Yankee (and former Mariner, remember that?), becoming a fly on the wall, accompanying Rodriguez to doctor’s appointments, lunches with friends and dance parties with his kids. And through the whole damn thing, Moehringer never quotes Rodriguez. The piece is better because of that. ALBUM | It’s now March and coming up on SXSW time, so perhaps it’s fitting that I’ve fallen in love with a band from Austin. Later this month, CARRY ILLINOIS (yes, the geography is confusing) drops its debut full-length record, Alabaster, a collection of excellently melodic and slightly nostalgic indie folk tunes powered by the voice of Lizzy Lehman. There’s a bit of Neko Case in there; maybe you’ll pick up a hint of Stevie Nicks, too, as Lehman leads an at-times poppy and occasionally twangy band that will continue to pull you in, track by track. Here’s hoping they hit the Northwest sometime soon. 

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t’s a half-hour after midnight at Zip’s in bunch. Cheney, and some Eastern Washington From his vantage point at a podium that University student is unloading a loud rant doubles as a “THANK YOU!” bin where EWU of young, inebriated entitlement on the poor latestudents dump their greasy corndog wrappers night fast-food slingers: “Fast food! That I f---in’ and their ravaged fry tubs, Wallingford stands paid for! Fast food that I paid for!” watch. He breaks up the fistfights, quells the food “He saw me, and pushed me and said, fights and calls the fire department when some‘You’re just a security guard, and I don’t have to one passes out in the bathroom. He takes notes do a damn thing you say.’ He said, ‘I should just (1 am: 30 people, all intoxicated, very loud). He hit you in the mouth,’” Jim Wallingford recounts throws away trash and wipes off tables when he’s a few minutes later. He’s 62, white-haired, with a bored. faint moustache and a “State Protection Services” As this particular night wanes on, Wallingbadge logo on his sleeve. “I really wanted to deck ford quietly observes the raucous crowd through him. When he pushed me, I rehis thick bifocals: The guy who ally wanted to just smack him, doubles over, lying down in his D I S T I L L E D booth, arms flapping with unconand take him to the ground. I’ve got my cuffs. I’d cuff him trollable laughter at nothing in A SHOT OF LIFE up and throw him outside and particular. The neon-green-haired wait for the cops.” co-ed who props up her rag-doll-drunk friend up But then would come the paperwork and in his seat. The kid who leaves a dribbling trail of the blowback from his bosses and all manner of fry sauce all the way back to his table. hassle. Instead, he pulls out his old flip-phone Sure, the crowd can sometimes annoy Walland calls the cops. “Asshole!” Wallingford barks ingford. to himself as the police officers drag the kid “I want to go up to ’em and tell ’em, ‘Inside outside. voices,’” he says. But he’s sympathetic. After all, All the more frustrating because, until a few he was once young, drunk and stupid. Forty years ago, Wallingford could have been the one years ago, he was once a student at Eastern too — arresting them. He spent 20 years as a Cheney Theta Chi fraternity president — back when this cop — including time as a K9 officer with a dog was still a drive-in A&W. Heck, he wouldn’t be named Rex. Twelve of those years he was on the surprised if his frat brothers got in drunken fights graveyard shift. back in this very spot. But now, after the bars close in Cheney, he’s “I remember when I was their age, you here: this late-night beacon for drunk collegeknow. I remember doing the stupid stuff they somethings, the whole screaming, tartar-saucewere doing right now,” Wallingford says. “Oh, tossing, corndog-cramming, selfie-snapping God. I remember doing a lot of stupid stuff.” 

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Spokane South Zag Nation sets up in Las Vegas for this weekend’s WCC tournament BY WILLIAM MAUPIN

o West Coast Conference campus lies as far from Las Vegas as that of Gonzaga. Yet for one week each March, Sin City may as well be Spokane South. Since 2009, the West Coast Conference tournament has been held at the Orleans Arena, about a mile west of the Las Vegas Strip. This weekend, both the men’s and women’s Gonzaga teams head to Vegas as the top seeds in the tournament, and you can count on fans following them down there. Last year’s championship game, between Gonzaga and BYU, drew 1,900 more fans than Gonzaga’s final home game of the season, also against BYU, on Feb. 28. “I wouldn’t say it’s as good as the McCarthey Athletic Center, but I would call it the Las Vegas Kennel,” says Gonzaga season ticket holder Ellen Klohe. Klohe is one of the many Gonzaga fans who make the yearly trip south, a tradition she has taken part in each year since the WCC settled on the Orleans Arena as the site of its tournament. “Zag Nation really turns out,” Klohe said. “The arena isn’t so big that you don’t have a great fan experience. You get the intimacy of this crowd that is there going crazy.” That crazy crowd isn’t quite the same as it is when the Zags play here in Spokane. The most obvious difference is the travelsized, TSA-approved version of Gonzaga’s student section, the Kennel Club. At home games the Kennel Club stretches from one basket to the other, loudly dominating the arena’s north side. In Las Vegas, student sections are limited to the triangular slivers extending from behind each basket. With fewer seats set aside for students, the opportunity arises for those not lucky enough to find a way into the always sold-out McCarthey Athletic Center. “We’ve got lots of friends who have gone over the years,” Klohe said. “They’re not season ticket holders, so they make the trip because they know it’s a way they can see the Zags play.”

Getting a chance to see Gonzaga isn’t easy. Of course, there’s the annual Battle in Seattle at KeyArena and the yearly Zags-Pilots conference matchup in Portland. But those are just single-game events. The WCC tournament is a college basketball fan’s paradise — located technically in Paradise, Nevada. Not only do fans get anywhere from one to three Gonzaga games, but the die-hards can take in say, Santa Clara vs. Loyola Marymount, or do some advance scouting on Saint Mary’s or BYU. “The other schools simply don’t travel as well,” Klohe said. “In fact, for some of those games there are more Gonzaga fans than fans of the teams playing.” Gonzaga fans do travel well, and this weekend in Las Vegas they’ll be out in full force. If you plan on interacting with one on the street, be warned that the social customs aren’t the same down there. “There are lots of fans all over Las Vegas,” noted Klohe. “When you’re walking around, you just look for people who have their Bulldogs apparel on. You don’t say ‘Hi!’ You say ‘Go Zags!’” Zags fans near and far can take pride in their high level of support, because it helps. “It means a lot to us to have that kind of support and help us out to get the win, hopefully,” former Gonzaga forward Elias Harris said during the 2013 WCC tournament. Coming off a loss on senior night, this is a team that needs to get a win. n editor@inlander.com Gonzaga’s first men’s game is Sat, March 7 at 6 pm against the Pacific vs. San Francisco winner (ESPN2). The Zag women play Fri, March 6 at noon against the Loyola MarymountPepperdine winner.

New Beginning After opening quietly last fall, Happiness Chinese Restaurant is turning heads on East Sprague BY DENNIS HELD

reat food at reasonable prices with generous portions: that’s any diner’s idea of happiness. At Happiness Chinese Restaurant, that’s exactly what you’ll be served: a bellyful of joy. Happiness opened quietly in October, on the site of the former Peking Garden. The new owner, Kingsley Chen, is also the chef, and his sister Natalie will be your waitress. “He makes the food from here,” she says, pointing to her heart. “He wants his food to make everyone happy.”

Kingsley’s English is still a work in progress, so his sister explained that he had worked at their uncle’s restaurant in Portland for 11 years before moving to Spokane. He cooks with fresh ingredients, and “there is no MSG anywhere in the kitchen,” Natalie says with sisterly pride. Meals come with a complimentary pot of hot tea and most include soup; the egg flower soup is good, but the hot and sour soup is a knockout, not to be missed. The meals themselves are also much better than the

Happiness Chinese keeps a focus on authenticty. COURTNEY BREWER PHOTO standard Americanized Chinese fare, and are served with a helping of perfectly prepared rice. Most of the dinner meals are under $13, and lunches are $7.95 and $5.95. The $7.95 lunch special includes soup, spring roll, pork fried rice, fried wonton, and a choice of two entrées. Dinner portions are huge, and even big eaters will have enough leftovers for a hearty lunch the next day. Takeout food is prepared when the customer comes to pick it up, ensuring freshness. The food is delivered in minutes, and takeout diners are offered tea while they wait. The restaurant is spotless and welcoming. Strictly for research purposes, I’ve eaten at Happiness three times since a friend tipped me off to its charms. Standouts include the green bean chicken, the sizzling shrimp, and Szechuan tofu. The hit of the day was the sizzling shrimp, served with a faceful of steam as the waitress poured the ingredients onto the hot serving platter. The whole room filled with an intoxicating aroma. n Happiness Chinese Restaurant • 3420 E. Sprague • Open Sun-Thu, 11 am to 9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am to 11 pm • happinesschinesespokane.com • 534-2525

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The View From There Summit Cider is rising up in North Idaho BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

ven though they’re not at the apex of their journey, Summit Cider’s Davon Sjostrom and Jason Fletcher are well on their way. Already, Slate Creek Brewing, Capone’s (downtown Coeur d’Alene and Hayden), Bardenay, Downdraft Brewing, 315 Martinis and Tapas, Paragon Brewing, Pucci’s and Taps (both at Schweitzer), Syringa Japanese Café & Sushi Bar and Daft Badger Brewing carry Summit Cider. The only place you couldn’t get Summit Cider — until recently — was, oddly Summit Cider’s tasting room in enough, Summit Cider. CdA is now open. That’s because the swarm for their Corduroy and Fall Line ciders left little time for finishing the tasting room. Still smelling of fresh paint, the industrial park location (adjacent to Coeur d’Alene Cellars) seats 15 to 20 people with a view to operations. What makes Summit Cider unique is its hybridization of beverage benefits. It combines the brighter flavors of wine with the quenching mouthfeel of carbonation. “Our process is just like wine, but we carbonate it,” says Sjostrom, who shares a science background with Fletcher. Sjostrom graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in plant sciences, and Fletcher was an environmental science major at Sonoma State University in California. Fletcher hears that beer brewers equate their process to being a chef. Making cider, by comparison, “is like being a chemist,” he says. The duo even refers to their kitchen as the laboratory. Unlike a brewery with multiple tanks and yards of pipes, their cider involves two tanks. One contains a fresh-pressed blend of five varietals from Wenatchee and Yakima apple growers. The other tanks are the fermenters, and — who says science guys can’t be sentimental? — each is named after the owners’ grandmothers: Beverly (Sjostrom) and Margaret (Fletcher). Sjostrom, who has been gluten-free for five years, hated what was on the market. He tried cider, but found commercial brands high in sugar, which obscured taste. In one bottle of Angry Orchard, for example, there are 24 grams of sugar (and 210 calories). By comparison, says Sjostrom, their cider has about 4 to 5 grams. “What most people are doing is all these crazy flavors,” he says. “What we want to do is cider that’s just cider.” n

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Return To Nature Liberty Naturals offers a place to shop for natural, organic and local essentials BY JO MILLER

he island had an abundance of farmers markets and health food stores, so when a couple moved back to the mainland from Oahu, they wanted to start a business that would create that option for Liberty Lake. “We really liked the easy availability of healthy, local foods,” Kramer McNett says. Early last month, McNett, originally from Liberty Lake, opened up a health food market called Liberty Naturals along with his girlfriend, Heather Del Carlo. The market fills a space that has long sat empty in a small strip mall on Country Vista Drive. McNett’s father, the third partner in the market, owns the building and had been trying to come up with something to put in the space when McNett suggested a health food store. “Heather and I were particularly passionate about this,” says McNett. “Definitely, we thought it’d benefit the community as well,” Del Carlo adds. The inventory features an array of organic and natural grocery items including coconut oil, ketchup, dried fruit, canned beans and soups, baby food, tea and coffee. They also stock allergen-free foods like sunflower seed butter and gluten-free breads and pastas. A whole section is dedicated to items like natural dish soap, paper products, lotion and toothpaste. “The main goal in the long run is to be completely locally based

with our produce,” McNett says. Currently they have local root vegetables along with local eggs, milk, meat and honey, and plan to increase the selection as they go. Soon they plan to open up their drive-through so customers can call in a The fresh items of Liberty Naturals. grocery order and pick it up at the window, grab deli items from Pilgrim’s Market in Coeur d’Alene or get a fill-up from the three taps of Bare Culture Kombucha they aim to install soon. For McNett and Del Carlo, it’s about encouraging people to return to eating natural foods and moving away from the artificially produced foods developed over the past several decades. “I don’t think our body is receptive to those,” says McNett. “So I believe in going back to natural forms of eating things that we know what they are.” 

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f something about Java’s newest location in Hayden’s Prairie Avenue Shopping Center seems familiar — foresty green paint is still visible along window frames — think Starbucks. Or maybe you remember the place as Caffe Capri. How will Java Hayden succeed where others haven’t? Longevity, for one. Dave and Lindsay Patterson opened Coeur d’Alene’s original Java on Sherman more than 20 years ago, filling a niche the area didn’t realize needed filling. Java became the go-to hub, essential to experiencing downtown. Last spring, they relocated and

expanded their iconic coffeehouse a few blocks up Sherman Avenue, adding alcohol and a full lunch menu. Now with its bigger kitchen capacity, Java on Sherman can supply the new Hayden location with a smattering of baked goods: Try the Lumpy Loaf-Fin bread of applesauce, apple chunks, walnuts, and raisins ($2.50), panini ($6.29) or breakfast sandwiches ($4.59-$6.29). The coffee? There’s plenty of that, including our favorite go-to: a Bowl of Soul. — CARRIE SCOZZARO

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SUSHI BAEK CHUN SUSHIYAMA 13032 W. 14th St. | Airway Heights 624-5553 A sushi chef can have his fish sent from Seattle or Sydney or wherever. He can have it overnighted to his doorstep. But that’s not good enough for Charlie Yamamoto. To make sure he’s offering the freshest fish, he drives to Seattle every week to personally examine every fish he buys. That’s the sort of service that’s hard to come by these days. So you know the sushi is fabulously fresh, and the bulgoki, yakisoba, udon, bibimbop and donburi are good, too. SUSHI MARU 808 W. Main, #105 | 455-3900 Sushi Maru, located in River Park Square across the hall from Rock City Grill, is perfect for the nervous sushi eater who doesn’t know what to order. A conveyor belt carries little multicolored plates of sushi right past your table, ideal if you like to see your food before you order it.

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Each plate is a different color, which corresponds with a set price. SUSHI SAKAI 1120 E. Sprague | Spokane Valley 922-9960 The family-owned Sushi Sakai lays out a variety of sushi suited for all kinds of people, whether you like to stay safe with your food and order the simple California roll, or go bold and try the Octopus, Rattlesnake or Caterpillar rolls. WASABI ASIAN BISTRO & SUSHI BAR 10208 N. Division | 290-5573 This spotless and welcoming sushi place on the corner of Division and Hawthorne, just across the street from Whitworth University, provides fresh fish for decent prices. The Las Vegas roll is the most popular dish from the sushi bar, they claim. The Spider roll is a favorite, as well as the Spicy Tuna roll for only $5.

GINGER ASIAN BISTRO 1228 S. Grand Blvd. | 315-5201 Come here if you want to feel classy. Ginger Asian Bistro, which is located on the South Hill and first opened in 2009, provides fresh, delicious sushi. Their most popular roll, they say, is the Las Vegas roll, containing shrimp tempura, asparagus and avocado, topped with fresh, spicy tuna, sprinkled bread crumbs, mayo and eel sauce and finished with masago (fish eggs) and scallions. SUSHI.COM 430 W. Main | 838-0630 Don’t bother going to Sushi.com online. It doesn’t exist. Just go to the downtown joint that rolls some of the finest sushi around. Sushi.com recently upped its game with an interior redesign, but it didn’t impact its rolls; they were always awesome. Go there at lunch for its bento-style combos. n

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Robot Rock Tired of aliens, Neill Blomkamp tries his hand with robots in Chappie BY ED SYMKUS

here’s havoc in the streets near the speaking in his Australian accent). Vincent start of Neill Blomkamp’s third does not like Deon or his scouts. science fiction film, the follow-up to There’s a lot of setting up in this film, District 9 and Elysium. But it’s soon brought accompanied near the beginning and the under control by robotic cops. Later on, there end by furious, all-hell-breaking-loose action are numerous point-of-view shots from some sequences that are, at different points, loads of those robots. Still later, he introduces a big, of fun and extremely violent. bad robot called Moose that looks an awful It’s a human story, it’s a robot story, and lot like the iconic ED-209 from Robocop. A lot it’s a combination of the two. The bad-guy of this looks and even feels like Robocop. But trio plan to find out who builds the scouts, while Blomkamp has admitted that Moose is steal what they’re sure is a remote control, a direct tip of the hat to ED-209, everything and turn them off, making it easier to commit else feels quite original. crimes. Meanwhile, Deon has been trying Except for the fact that Chappie isn’t origto figure a way to give consciousness to his inal. It’s an expanded version of Blomkamp’s robots, to allow them to think for themselves. 2004 short Tetra Vaal. This is something he He steals a damaged, ready-for-reprocessing likes to do; it’s exactly what he did with his scout, and brings it home to work on. 2006 short Alive in Joburg, later turning it into Wouldn’t you know it, it’s the same night that District 9. our idiot trio kidnaps him Blomkamp is back in and his trashed scout. CHAPPIE Johannesburg with this Threats and deals Rated R one, and it’s that city’s are made and the robot, Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp streets that are overrun dubbed Chappie (BlomStarring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackwith crime, until the Tetra man, Sigourney Weaver, Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser kamp regular Sharlto CoVaal weapons company pley in a terrific motionand its brilliant designer capture performance), Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) comes up with the comes alive as a kind of robotic child, amazed robot scouts who, alongside human police, and confused and a little scared of the new patrol and clean up those streets. world around him. Of course, things go wrong. The titanium Chappie keeps up with the human scouts are effective, but not indestructible. A characters by clearly expressing himself via properly aimed missile or perfectly exploded short bursts of words, very expressive ears bomb will send the remains of a scout back and a mechanical unibrow. He’s a friendly, for reprocessing. gentle fellow that Ninja wants to turn into a There are also human things going South African gangsta (some good comedy wrong. A trio of would-be thugs, Ninja and leading to darkness results), while Deon just Yolandi (the South African rap-rave duo Ninja wants him to be able to think. Vincent, going and Yo-Landi Visser, aka Die Antwoord) the villain route, wants him destroyed so his and Amerika (Jose Pablo Cantillo), get on Moose can go online. the wrong side of some nastier thugs over Complications ensue as Yo-Landi starts a money dispute. Meanwhile, over at Tetra developing motherly instincts toward him. Vaal, CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Chappie wants to live, but in going for that Weaver) is funding Deon’s scout program dream, things turn even darker. Good news: by taking from the failed Moose program, Blomkamp somehow pulls off an out-of-leftheaded up by former military man Vincent field upbeat ending. Yes, there’s a lot going on Moore (Hugh Jackman, sporting a mullet, here, but it never lags. n

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Mommy is set in a fictional Canada of the near future, where a law has been passed allowing parents to commit incorrigible children to the institutional care of the state. When teenage Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) starts a cafeteria fire, his mother Diane (Anne Dorval) comes to collect him from the group home, which is kicking Steve out for his behavior. Then, she has to fight

to keep him from ending up institutionalized. (MB) Rated R

Based on E.L. James’ mega-selling novel, the sex-drenched film tracks the relationship between a rich businessman named Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and naïve college student Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) as they explore bondage and other masochistic proclivities in his special sex room, on his helicopter, in an elevator – you get the idea. Every generation needs its mainstreaming of “kinky” via a feature film, and Millennials, this is your Last Tango in Paris or 9 ½ Weeks. (DN) Rated R

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American Sniper opens with Bradley Cooper’s Chris Kyle on his first tour in Fallujah, perched on a rooftop protecting the Marines clearing buildings door to door. From the moment of his first life-or-death decision, the story flashes back — to his Texas childhood, his career as a rodeo cowboy, his eventual enlistment and his courtship and marriage to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller) — before returning to his experiences serving in Iraq. (SR) Rated R

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After good work in lots of small supporting roles over the past couple of decades, Michael Keaton gets back to work as a former franchise movie star now trying to make a comeback on the Broadway stage, but finding obstacles everywhere, many of them in his own head. (ES) Rated R

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Vince Vaughn plays a small business owner who heads to Europe with his two employees, Oldy McSnoreson (Tom Wilkinson) and Youngy Muscleton (Dave Franco, brother of James) to try to secure a deal. Along the way, things go awry and they find themselves at sex shows, a political summit and in lots of sexy and gross situations. (MB) Rated R

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As Focus’ professional con-man “hero” Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) informs his new would-be protégé, Jess (Margot Robbie), a successful con is all about diverting the attention of the “mark.” As they head to something very similar to the Super Bowl, the duo starts letting their feelings for each other get in the way, which turns out to be a big problem in this caper film. (SR) Rated R

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More hot-tubbing and more time travel are in store for the gang from the 2010 ’80s-obsessed original (minus John Cusack) as they first fast-forward 10 years only to see loudmouth Lou (Rob Corddry) get shot, launching an era-bouncing trip through the decades to try and change his fate. Will they save Lou? Will Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) prove a worthy substitute for Cusack, in the role of his son? Will the future be as kind to this franchise as the past? Only time will tell. (DN) Rated R

THE IMITATION GAME

During World War II, the Germans used a machine called an Enigma that created what were thought to be unbreakable codes for top-secret military communications. British mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was hired by Allied forces to decipher the machine’s codes and help win the war. (MB) Rated PG-13 ...continued on next page

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The Wachowskis are back after the fabulous but monetarily disastrous Cloud Atlas, but this time just sticking with science fiction elements, and they go at it full throttle. Mila Kunis is an unhappy drudge on Earth, who is brought to a distant planet where members of royalty there believe she is the Queen of the Universe. But she’s more a damsel in distress, regularly saved by super tracker and former soldier Channing Tatum, who wears and uses a cool pair of anti-gravity boots. (ES) Rated PG-13

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE

Harry (Colin Firth), code name Galahad, recruits Eggsy (Taron Egerton), a kid from the wrong side of the London tracks, to be a member of the Kingsmen, an ostensibly classy set of British spies. The whole film touts how the Kingsmen follow rules to keep them gentlemanly, but it eventually veers far off course into something that fully contradicts itself. (MJ) Rated R

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When it comes to messing with Mother Nature, it doesn’t get much bolder than bringing the dead back to life. That’s the launching point for this supernatural thriller from the producers of horror hits like Insidious and The Purge. Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde star as university researchers who manage to re-animate their recently deceased dog in an underground experiment, only to have their project shut down by scared (but smart) officials. Of course, that doesn’t stop the scientists from continuing their work — or their alive-again friends from wreaking havoc. (DN) Rated PG-13

McFARLAND USA

When he discovers his students’ amazing ability to run, Jim White (Kevin Costner) is determined to form a crosscountry team that would one day be state champions. Inspired by the legacy of the McFarland High School runners of 1987, McFarland USA follows White and his team from a small farming town in California on their journey against the odds. Determination, sweat and strong family bonds provide a road for the team to sprint to victory. (CB) Rated PG

PADDINGTON

Paddington the bear winds up in London in search of an old friend after a family tragedy in his native Peru. He soon finds a loving family to take him in, but is quick to cause a series of calamities in the home of the friendly Londoners, who name him Paddington. (MB) Rated PG

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When David (Johnny Weston) finds blueprints for a time machine in his garage, he and his friends are determined to make the most of it. As their manipulation of the past results in plane

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Selma could have been just an inspirational drama about a pivotal historical moment, and it could have been just a portrait of King’s efforts at promoting civil rights. But director Ava DuVernay and her team are interested in doing something much less common, something that echoes the similar success of 2012’s Lincoln. (SR) Rated PG-13

SEVENTH SON

This epic fantasy tale from centuries ago stars Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory, the last in a long line of supernatural warriors tasked with keeping humanity safe against evil forces led by a mean witch (Julianne Moore). For help, the master recruits a country boy born “the seventh son of a seventh son” to teach him how to battle dark magic threatening the land — and potentially score an attractive young good witch in the process. (DN) Rated PG-13

SONG OF THE SEA

Ben and Saoirse are left motherless, and as such, big brother Ben is tasked with babysitting his mute, 6-year-old sister while their father, Conor, shrouds his grief in his work manning the family’s lighthouse. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Song of the Sea follows the children as they try to get back to their father. At Magic Lantern (CS) Rated PG

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER

When the sacred Crabby Patty recipe is stolen by a villainous pirate (Antonio Banderas), Spongebob Squarepants leaves behind the only world he has ever known. With the help of his friends Patrick, Mr. Krabbs, Sandy and Squidward, Spongebob journeys through our world and becomes the hero of Bikini Bottom. (CB) Rated PG

STILL ALICE

Julianne Moore earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as Alice Howland, an accomplished college professor who realizes that she’s suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. A post-Twilight Kristen Stewart also shines as Alice’s daughter, who’s also

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Inspired by Jane Wilde Hawking’s memoir about her life with former husband Stephen Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist (A Brief History of Time) diagnosed with motor neuron disease at age 21, the film’s heart beats with a romantic optimism, even when each of them finds new soulmates and their union ends. (SD) Rated PG-13

TIMBUKTU

The brilliant Timbuktu comes along at a perfect moment to elucidate the diversity of Islam, and the cultural battles happening within the religion. Director and co-screenwriter Abderrahmane Sissako does a remarkable job bringing the viewer into an utterly foreign world of sparse, sandy landscapes dotted with mud huts and tents and making us empathize with the local fisherman, cattle herders and children who suddenly have a cast of gun-toting foreigners imposing sharia law on the small village. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated PG-13

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

Jemaine Clement, best known as half of Flight of the Conchords, co-wrote and co-directed this hilarious mockumentary about a group of vampires living in a mansion together. It’s like The Real World for the undead. The vampires kill people like it’s no big deal (it’s best to put down newspaper first, though), but when it comes to discussions about who’s going to do the dishes, things get serious and scary. And when a new, younger, sexier vampire joins the group and tells everyone at nightclubs that he’s the guy Twilight is based on, their troubles only multiply. What We Do in the Shadows is rich with the subtle and quirky humor Clement has been giving us for years, and this might see him at his best. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

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Socially maladroit and painfully singleminded, Andrew (Miles Teller), a freshman at a competitive conservatory, lives only to drum. Early on, he’s tapped by an instructor named Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) to join his elite competition band. (KJ) Rated R 

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Envision a world where timeout is permanent in Mommy BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

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ommy bursts with so much frenzied, of their neighbor Kyla (Clément), a stammerturbulent energy that it really only ing schoolteacher on sabbatical, who lives with makes sense when looked at as the her humdrum family across the street. Just as fifth feature film by a 25-year-old moviemaker. her calm demeanor provides a counterbalance Québécois Xavier Dolan is one of those enfants to the fireworks of Steve and Die, her difficulty terribles of the cinema, making and sometimes communicating contrasts with the uncontrolled acting in films that court attention. In a rare tie volubility of the mother and son. at Cannes this past year, the wildly careening There’s not much more to Mommy than these Mommy was selected to share the Jury Prize with anguished character studies. They go round and Goodbye to Language, the contemplative 3-D essay round, yet a narrative never coalesces. This will by the prickly old man of the French New Wave, seem like an endurance test to some viewers Jean-Luc Godard. (place me in that camp), but others will find it Mommy opens in a cauldron of unchecked involving. The other essential thing going on emotions as teenage Steve (Pilon) starts a cafin Mommy is Dolan’s manipulation of the screen eteria fire and his unconstrained mother Diane dimensions. The screen ratio is 1:1, which is a (Dorval), who calls herself Die (an unusual spellperfect square, although it gives the illusion of ing that’s not happenstance with this the image looking longer than it MOMMY character, who intersperses her French is wide. (Unless you know this with American slang) comes to collect Rated R going in, it’s likely you’ll miss Directed by Xavier Dolan him from the group home, which is a few minutes of the opening Starring Anne Dorval, Antoinekicking Steve out for his behavior. reels while you exit the theatre The film is set in a fictional Canada of Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément to advise the management to the near future, where a law has been adjust the lens.) passed allowing parents to commit At a couple of points when incorrigible children to the institutional care of the characters experience happiness, the screen the state. ratio suddenly pops out into widescreen. The Die, however, is determined to keep Steve at more optically friendly image is elating, although home and at least get him through the Canadian the screen quickly returns to its claustrophobic equivalent of high school. Theirs is a volatile restate. Dolan also manipulates image and sound lationship, sometimes bordering on the romantic in various other ways that are reflective of the but always undone by Steve’s erratic, hyperactive characters’ emotionalism. Undeniably, living with outbursts, which are characterized by their vioa teenager can be a hard row to hoe; living with a lence and attention-seeking. A quieter and gentler violently hyperactive teen, however, may require presence soon enters their household in the form a seat in a temporary exit row. n

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NEW MOVES The Dodos push themselves to greater heights through dance, ever-changing rhythms and getting back to basics BY LAURA JOHNSON

e isn’t a dancer. Not even with a few drinks warming his belly would singer-guitarist Meric Long feel the urge to bust a move in front of people. Yet in the Dodos’ recently released “Competition” music video, he’s there on a spotlit stage, flailing his arms and legs to the moderatetempo beat. Drummer Logan Kroeber eventually joins in the routine, barely able to keep a grin at bay. The video isn’t some joke or the product of a lost bet. It was an idea the San Francisco-based duo had floated once, but not seriously. But one early morning meeting with their label, Polyvinyl Records, convinced a very hungover Long that he would be the dancing star of his next music video.

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Long practiced the moves with a choreographer for two months before getting in front of a camera. “It’s not a song you listen to and immediately want to dance,” Long explains. “But I just knew it was a dance song, deep down.” The video is just one of the ways the indie rockers are pushing themselves. Through their recently released album Individ, recorded on the heels of 2013’s Carrier, they get back to their roots, playing as a two-piece both on the recording and tour. “I think we were both pretty scared about it,” Long says, calling from the tour minivan rolling down the New Jersey

Turnpike last week. “Since we’ve been on tour these last three weeks, we almost get more forgiveness from the audience for not nailing it, because it seems so challenging to pull off what’s on the record.” Next Tuesday, their tour arrives in Spokane at the Bartlett. They were last in the area for 2014’s Sasquatch! performing on a side stage, early in the afternoon. The band’s upbeat disposition was present, but the sound was somewhat off and Long admits there were technical problems. “Those kinds of circumstances seem more common in a festival setting,” Long says. “There’s so much that could go wrong. It’s maybe good we’ve never really transitioned to that big stage. We do better in those intimate venues.” There was a time back in 2008 when they imagined their band could be the next big sensation. That wasn’t just in their minds; their primalsounding album Visiter received rave reviews. Larger stages and tours seemed imminent. But the following year’s Time to Die wasn’t nearly as successful, and the next two more electronic-based records achieved just middling exposure. Their career priorities changed. “We still care about reaching more people with our music,” Long admits. “Now it’s about making music we’re both really proud of.” The Dodos’ strength lies in their use of polyrhythms — each song plugging forward in a flurry of guitar strums and ultra-technical technique. Over the fray floats Long’s haunting but apathetic-sounding vocals. “There are so many times when I’m asking myself, “Why is it so hard?’” Long asks. “The feeling of barely hanging on, it informs our songs and shows. There are times it does collapse, and then we laugh.” As the group’s lyricist, Long admits that’s where he struggles most. He didn’t write lyrics for the new album until it was almost time to record a song, letting his gloomy words pour out of him on the fly. The past few years have offered much to write about. In 2012, the Dodos lost their touring guitar player Chris Reimer (formerly of Women) when he passed away in his sleep. Last year, Long’s father died. But Long doesn’t want to look for meaning in his songs. “There’s stuff about death that of course is in those songs, but I’ve never stopped to think about what those are,” he says. After lasting nearly a decade in the business, Long says it helped that he and Kroeber weren’t BFFs from the get-go, originally meeting through mutual friends. They always took the music more seriously, like a job. Now, of course, they like each other. When not touring, they celebrate holidays together and often wax poetic about the future. As they age, they plan to reverse the trend of band complacency. “I want to be a gnarlier musician. I want to take jazz lessons,” Long says. “I want to learn how to noodle more.” As for the recently learned dance number, those moves aren’t a part of this tour’s stage show. “There have been requests from the audience,” Long says with a laugh. “But then who would play the music?”  lauraj@inlander.com The Dodos with Springtime Carnivore • Tue, March 10, at 8 pm • $13/$15 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174 ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | HIP-HOP Rapper Warren G is still in the game thanks to the longevity of his monster hit “Regulate.”

NEVER FORGET Warren G is still regulating 20 years later BY DAN NAILEN

ip-hop isn’t a genre where artists typically age gracefully. For every Eminem continuing to create the occasional hit, P. Diddy making successful forays into acting or Dr. Dre expanding his empire into headphone-selling world domination, there are hundreds of formerly famous rappers who seemingly disappeared into the ether. Warren G could be one of the missing in action if it weren’t for the undeniable lasting appeal of “Regulate,” his monster-sized Michael McDonald-sampling collaboration with Nate Dogg. Instead, Warren G is, as they say, having a moment in 2015 as he celebrates the 20th anniversary of his signature song with the recent re-release of his Regulate… G Funk Era album — complete with three EDM remixes of “Regulate” — with appearances on late-night TV (seriously, YouTube his Kenny G duet on Jimmy Kimmel Live!), stories in national magazines and a tour stopping in Spokane on Monday.

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“Just to be able to be in the game for 20 years and people still know who you are and you’re relevant, that’s a big thing,” he told XXL magazine. “’Cause there’s a lot of artists that are in and out, one minute you could hear their record a few months, then you don’t hear from them no more. So I’m just blessed to be one of the ones that’s able to have longevity.” That longevity is inextricably tied to “Regulate,” a song that helped define the so-called “G Funk” era in the early-to-mid-’90s, along with Dr. Dre’s pioneering The Chronic album in 1992 and Snoop’s 1993 debut Doggystyle. The center of the hip-hop universe had decidedly shifted to Long Beach and Compton and Dr. Dre’s extended family, who expounded SoCal gangsta philosophy and odes to weed set to deep bass beats, classic soul grooves and squealing organ parts lifted from P-Funk. Warren G was part of that family both figuratively and literally; he and Dr. Dre are stepbrothers, and in the

early ’90s he had a group with Snoop and crooning hook master Nate Dogg called 213. All of them worked on The Chronic before getting individual record deals — Snoop and Nate Dogg with L.A.’s Death Row Records, and Warren G with New York’s legendary Def Jam. The split didn’t stop Warren G and Nate Dogg from creating a classic with “Regulate,” sampling McDonald’s yacht-rock fave “I Keep Forgettin’” and dialogue from the movie Young Guns, then trading verses on a riveting story of an attempted carjacking on Long Beach’s streets. The song led to Warren G’s album eventually selling more than 3 million copies in America. And while he enjoyed a few other hits, including “Indo Smoke” and “This D.J.,” he remains best known for the track created in his Long Beach apartment with his now-deceased buddy. n Warren G • Mon, March 9, at 9 pm • $20 • 21+ • Red Room Lounge • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613

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METAL MACHINE HEAD

he Oakland, California-based titans of metal might be down to just one original member (founding bassist Adam Duce left the band in 2013, resulting in a lawsuit), but the Machine Head flag still flies high. Last year’s Bloodstone & Diamonds, the band’s first album with new bassist Jared MacEachern, was released through Nuclear Blast, marking the end of their relationship with the iconic Roadrunner Records. Recorded at Green Day’s JingleTown studio in Oakland, Bloodstone & Diamonds — featuring a Manson family-inspired track entitled “Night of Long Knives” — earned the band its highest charting album ever, entering at No. 21 on the Billboard 200. — TRACE WILLIAM COWEN Machine Head with Mercy Brown, Seven Cycles • Sun, March 8, at 7 pm • $16 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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PUNK SINGLE MOTHERS

fter infamously ditching his bandmates for the unlikely life of gold prospecting in Swastika, Ontario, for three years, Single Mothers’ brainchild Andrew Thomson returned with stories of cocaine-addled miners, a sharpened disgust for the perils of organized religion, any and all local music scenes and even at times, himself. This general dissatisfaction permeates Negative Qualities, the Canadian punk band’s full-length debut, but not without a postmodern sense of humor and a heavy dose of self-awareness. — TRACE WILLIAM COWEN Single Mothers and the Dirty Nil • Fri, March 6, at 8 pm • $10 • All-ages • The Hop! • 706 N. Monroe • thehopevents. com • 368-4077

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BlACK DiAMoND, Fogey BOLO’S, Brixton BoWl’Z BiTeZ & SpiriTZ, Likes Girls J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, WSU vocal jazz THe CellAr, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia J CHApS, Just Plain Darin with Tyler Coulston CHeCKerBoArD BAr, Jacob Cummings Duo, Ron Greene Coeur D’AleNe CASiNo, Cris Lucas, JamShack Curley’S, Uppercut FiZZie MulliGANS, Karma’s Circle GrANDe roNDe CellArS, Ron Criscione J THe Hop!, Venture Crew J iNDABA (443-3566), Celeste Flock iroN HorSe BAr, Tell the Boys JoHN’S Alley, Funky 2 Death THe lAriAT iNN, Widow’s Creek liNNie’S THAi CuiSiNe (535-2112),

Karaoke and Dancing with DJ Dave MAx AT MirABeAu, Ticking Time Bomb NASHVille NorTH, Luke Jaxon NorTHerN QueST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin NorTHerN QueST CASiNo, [SoldOut] The Very Best of Celtic Thunder Tour peND D’oreille WiNery, Mike & Shanna J piNNACle NorTHWeST, Jedediah the Pilot, The Revision Scheme, Velafire roADHouSe CouNTry roCK BAr, Last Chance Band SCHWeiTZer MouNTAiN reSorT (208-263-9555), Flying Mammals THe SHop, EWU Songwriter Night J SpoKANe VAlley eAGleS (922-3433), Blues Cats for Kids feat. Blues Edition, the Sidemen, Rampage, Polly O’Keary& Rhythm

Method, Bryan Warhall & Triple Trouble  UNDERGROUND 15, Jordan Collins CD Release with Nate Greenburg, Evan Egerer THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Voodoo Church ZOLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

Sunday, 03/08

THE CELLAR, Pat Coast CHECKERBOARD BAR, Little Ozzy, Motley Crue, Poison’d tribute bands COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Kicho DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church  KNITTING FACTORY, Machine Head (See story on facing page), Mercy Brown, Seven Cycles  O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE (747-0322), Irish Celebration feat. Broken Whistle and the Singing Sisters of the Holy Names ZOLA, Ron Greene, Jacob Cummings

LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell LITZ’S BAR & GRILL (327-7092), Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, Open mic ZOLA, The Bossame

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THE PALOMINO CLUB, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, March 12 THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Marco Polo Collective, March 12 JOHN’S ALLEY, Gypsy Lumberjacks, March 12 THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Pine

PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Elektro Kilts [Grave], March 14 THE BIG DIPPER, Soul Proprietor’s St. Pat’s Funk, March 14 THE BARTLETT, St. Patty’s Party with Polecat, Folkinception, March 14 THE PALOMINO CLUB, BloodLust X, March 14 SWAXX, Spokane Shock Season Kickoff Party feat. DJ JT Washington, March 14 BABY BAR, Drgn King, Loomer, March 14 THE BIG DIPPER, December in Red CD release feat. Project Kings, Free the Jester, the Broken Thumbs, March 21

League, Tumble Down Badger, March 13 KNITTING FACTORY, Coal Chamber, Filter, Combichrist, American Head Charge, March 13 THE BARTLETT, The Cave Singers, March 13 NYNE, The Camaros, Silver Treason, March 13 JOHN’S ALLEY, Mbrascatu, March 13-14 RED ROOM LOUNGE, B Radicals, the Attic Ends, March 14 THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Pitch-ATent party feat. the Nixon Rodeo, Beyond Today, Death By Pirates, the Vine That Ate the South, Drop Off, March 14

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315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub  THE BARTLETT, The Dodos, Springtime Carnivore (See story on page 46) FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness RED ROOM LOUNGE, Unplugged with Jimmy Nudge ZOLA, The Bucket List

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The tragedy of the “Radium Girls” is at once mesmerizing and infuriating. Under the direction of Susan Hardie, Whitworth drama students are staging an adaptation based on true events in the 1920s that led to the deaths of four women (in actuality there were many more victims) who hand-painted watch dials with a radium-based, glow-in-the-dark paint. It paid well, but the women were unknowingly exposed to lethal levels of the highly radioactive element. When their teeth started falling out, their skin permanently glowed and severe bone infections developed, their employer and the manufacturer of the radium paint tried to cover up what both knew was radium poisoning. A legal battle ensued, but not before it was too late for nearly all the workers. — CHEY SCOTT These Shining Lives • March 6-14; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $8-$10 • Whitworth University Cowles Auditorium • 300 W. Hawthorne • whitworth.edu • 777-4374

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Spokane Symphony: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling feat. Cathie Ryan • Sat, March 7, at 8 pm • $28-$62 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

The Best Brothers • March 6-22; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $19-25 • The Modern Theater Spokane • 174 S. Howard • themoderntheater.org • 455-7529

It’s the time of year when everyone wants to get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit (but mostly just wants an excuse to drink) — including the Spokane Symphony. For its next SuperPops concert (no. 5 in the series), the orchestra accompanies Irish singer Cathie Ryan and her band. Don’t be fooled by the vocalist’s Detroit roots; her lilting lines are as classically Irish as it gets. Show up to the concert early for some classic Irish eats like shepherd’s pie and perhaps a spot of whiskey, even if you don’t have a drop of Irish in you at all. Morihiko Nakahara conducts. — LAURA JOHNSON

In Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s newest play, tragedy strikes Kyle and Hamilton Best when their mother, Bunny, is smothered beneath the girth of a drunken drag queen during a gay pride parade. Left to settle Bunny’s affairs, the two find themselves battling over what to say in her obituary, who should read the eulogy and, most importantly, who gets the family dog. Directed by Brooke Kiener, The Best Brothers looks to be a hilariously dark comedy, in which Bunny’s boys prove that though they may never be the best of brothers, they will eternally remain the Bests. — COURTNEY BREWER

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With her fourth novel The End of the Point, Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winning author Elizabeth Graver landed on the New York Times notable books list in 2013. Though she teaches English and creative writing at Boston College, Graver consistently carves out time for her writing, which has yielded four novels and several anthologized short stories. The End of the Point paints a moving portrait of a family’s journey through the treacherous second half of the 20th century, exploring the complex choices any generation must face when presented with the reality of legacies both personal and collective. Presented by the Inland Northwest Center for Writers MFA Program at EWU and Get Lit!, Graver’s visit will include a reading from The End of the Point, a brief Q&A session, and book signings. — TRACE WILLIAM COWEN EWU Visiting Writers Series: Elizabeth Graver • Fri, March 6, at 8 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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Held every year since 1941, it’s safe to say that Spokane’s Temple Beth Shalom has truly perfected its annual kosher dinner. A tradition for Spokane’s Jewish community, the dinner was first held as a gathering during a less hospitable period of war, and followed the cultural use of meals to celebrate making it through difficult times. Open to citizens of any and all backgrounds, religions and cultures, past dinners have brought immense amounts of food, joy and laughter to more than 2,000 people throughout the course of the daylong event. No matter if it’s the brisket and tzimmes (a dish of warm, honey-sweetened carrots) or the overwhelming sense of community that draws you in, this experience only happens once a year. — KAITLYN ANSON 74th Annual Kosher Dinner • Sun, March 8, from 11 am-6 pm • $7-$14 • Temple Beth Shalom • 1322 E. 30th • spokanetbs.org • 747-3304

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EVENTS | TRIVIA

MONDAY BON BON, 926 W. Garland, 7 pm JONES RADIATOR, 120 E. Sprague, 7 pm PRESS, 909 S. Grand Blvd., 8 pm THE VIKING, 1221 N. Stevens, 7 pm TUESDAY THE BACKYARD, 1811 W. Broadway, 8 pm THE BLACK DIAMOND, 9614 E. Sprague, 7 pm CHAIRS PUBLIC HOUSE, 1305 N. Hamilton, 7 pm CORKHOUSE, 1400 N. Meadowwood Ln., Liberty Lake, 7 pm FIELDHOUSE PIZZA & PUB, 4423 W. Wellesley, 7 pm IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, 11105 E. Sprague, 8:30 pm JJ’S GRILL & BREWHOUSE, 8801 N. Indian Trail, 7 pm MCCLAIN’S PIZZERIA, 10208 N. Division, 7 pm MICKDUFF’S BREWING CO., 312 N. First, Sandpoint, 7 pm RICO’S PUB, 200 E. Main, Pullman, 7 pm

WEDNESDAY BIRDY’S SPORTS BAR, 12908 N. Division, 7:30 pm BOILER ROOM, 6501 N. Cedar, 8:30 pm THE BAR AT PIZZA PIPELINE, 1403 N. Division, 7 pm EPIC AT NORTHERN QUEST, 100 N. Hayford Rd., 9:30 pm FLAMIN’ JOE’S, several locations, 8 pm MONTEREY CAFÉ, 9 N. Washington, 6:30 pm MOOSE LOUNGE, 401 E. Sherman, CdA, 7 pm MORTY’S TAP & GRILLE, 5517 S. Regal, 8 pm THE SWINGING DOORS, 1018 W. Francis, 7 pm THURSDAY ENOTECA, 112 E. Seltice Way, Post Falls, 7 pm IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 2204 E. Mallon, 6:30 pm GARLAND DRINKERY, 828 W. Garland, 8 pm NYNE BAR, 232 W. Sprague, 6 pm SOULFUL SOUPS, 117 N. Howard, 7:30 pm FRIDAY ADELO’S PIZZA, 8801 N. Indian Trail Rd., 8 pm CHAIRS PUBLIC HOUSE, 1305 N. Hamilton, 7 pm UNDERGROUND 15, 15 S. Howard, 6 pm SATURDAY BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE, 122 S. Monroe, 8 pm (Geeks Who Drink) 

BENEFIT

JAZZED ABOUT EDUCATION A Mardi Gras-themed fundraiser for North Idaho STEM Charter Academy. Proceeds from a dinner and live/silent auctions to be used to build a science lab. March 6, 6:30-8:30 pm. $50/person. North Idaho STEM Charter Academy, 15633 N. Meyer Rd. northidahostemcharteracademy.org (208-687-8002) TASTE SPOKANE 2015 Wishing Star Foundation’s 9th annual benefit event, showcasing local food, beer, wine and desserts, with live music and more. March 6, 6-10 pm. $35-$40, $100 VIP. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. tastespokane.com CINDERELLA TEA The 11th annual event benefits the local nonprofit Because There is Hope, which provides temporary housing for cancer patients traveling here for treatment. Event includes food, tea, silent/ live auctions and a fashion show. March 7, 10:30 am-1 pm. $35/person. Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. becausethereishope.org (939-9627) NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS Boost Collaborative supports people with diverse abilities throughout the Palouse, and hosts its 8th annual dinner and silent auction with featured speaker James May, founder of the Father’s Network. March 7, 5:30-8:30 pm. $60. SEL Event Center, Pullman. (332-6561) WINE, STEIN & DINE Sample wine, microbrew, hard ciders and food from 85+ area wineries, microbreweries and restaurants. Also includes a silent auction, raffle, live entertainment and complimentary glass or stein. Benefits the Post

Falls Education Foundation, providing teaching grants for innovative classroom education for all grades in the Post Falls School District. March 7, 7-10 pm. $45/ advance; $60/door. Greyhound Park & Event Center, 5100 Riverbend Ave. pfefwsd.org (208-661-1880) AN EVENING FOR THE SKATE PARK Plans for the new Tony Kettel Skate Gardens are unveiled, which includes an outdoor amphitheater and skating area. Event includes live music, appetizers and silent auction to benefit the project. March 11, 6:30-8:30 pm. Palouse Community Center, 220 E. Main St. palouseskatepark.com (595-1179) TURNBULL REFUGE DINNER & AUCTION Fundraiser dinner and auction benefiting Friends of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. March 14, 5:30-9 pm. $35/person. Wren Pierson Community Center, 615 Fourth, Cheney. fotnwr.org (498-9250)

COMEDY

STAND-UP COMEDY 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) UP IN SMOKE Featuring Cheech & Chong and the band WAR. March 5, 7 pm. $45$55. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (775-784-9400) CRIME SHOW Improv comedy show inspired by the plots/characters of crime detective TV series. Fridays in March, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) IMPROV LAB The Blue Door players try

out new material on stage, monthly on the first Friday, at 10 pm. Not rated. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) LIVE, LOCAL COMEDIANS Performing every Friday and Saturday, at 8 pm. March 6-7, Mike Wally Walter and Jason Komm; March 12-13, Sharron Lacy and Michael Glatzmaier; March 20-21, Davey Wester and Casey Strain; March 27-28, Jay Wendel Walker and Jim Green. $12. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. (483-7300) SPOKANE LAUGH OFF Friends Of the Bing showcases five local comedians (Michael Evans, Nick Cavasier, Ryan McComb and more) who won the Bing’s Homegrown Comedy series over the past months. March 6, 8 pm. $20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SCHOOL OF IMPROVISED COMEDY Teen classes ($25) are offered the first Saturday of the month, from 11:30 am-2 pm. Ages 11-18. Adult classes available throughout the year; see site for more info. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) CHRISTOPHER TITUS WITH RACHEL BRADLEY Fresh off of his sixth comedy special release, Titus presents his dark style of comedy. Ages 18+. March 12, 8 pm. $25-$35. Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague. sp.knittingfactory.com

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2014 CHASE YOUTH AWARDS Each year, the Chase Youth Commission honors the community’s outstanding youth, teens and adults making a difference and positive choices. March 5, 6:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (822-7905) FREE TAX PREPARATION IRS-certified volunteers are available to assist those who earn less than $52,427 in preparing and e-filing their taxes at locations throughout Spokane County. Open through April 15; times and locations vary. unitedwayspokane.org (353-4851) IDENTITY THEFT AWARENESS WEEK Learn more about different types of identity theft, victims’ stories, and tips to protect yourself, from a certified identity theft risk management specialist. March 2-6, daily from 6:30-9 pm. Free. Northeast Community Center, 4001 N. Cook St. ow.ly/Iznk8 (435-2120) TOASTMASTERS The local club is one of the oldest in Washington state, celebrating 70 years in 2015. Meets Mondays at 6:45 am. Free. Spokane Valley City Hall, 11707 E. Sprague. toastmasters.org (9273989) FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Learn easy circle, line, contra and folk dances to live music. Also includes a potluck, followed by dancing from 7-8 pm. March 6, 6:30 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (533-9955) GSI STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS Spokane Mayor David Condon talks about significant progress made in the past several years around the city, and what’s being done to ensure the work continues.

March 6, 7:30 am. $25-$55. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. events.greaterspokane.org MARCH FOR MEALS A national campaign sponsored by the Meals On Wheels Association of America to raise awareness of senior hunger and to encourage action on the part of local communities. March 6, from 8-10 am, at Spokane Valley Mall; March 7, at 8 am, at Northtown Mall and March 7, at 10 am, River Park Square. marchformeals.com (924-6976) EVERGREEN RAILROAD MODELERS OPEN HOUSE Community open house to show off the club’s HO train layout, ahead of the Spokane Train Show on Sunday, March 8 at the Fairgrounds. March 7, 5-9 pm. Free. Evergreen Model Railroad Club, 18213 E. Appleway. (939-5845) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY A symposium featuring keynote address by Dr. Bipasha Biswas, of EWU’s School of Social Work. Also features guest speakers, dance performance, workshops, panel roundtables and an feminine hygiene product drive for Transitions. March 7, 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Free and open to the public. WSU Spokane, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. bit.ly/SpokaneIWD2015 (358-7500) SKATING WITH SCOUTS Skate with Spokane-area Girl Scouts at an event open to all. The scouts are collecting new art supplies for a service project; please bring crayons, markers, coloring books, etc. March 7, 5-7 pm. $6.50-$8.50. Pattison’s, 11309 N. Mayfair St. pattisonsnorth. com (607-2490) SPOKANE TRAIN SHOW More than 100 vendors showcasing railroad art, artifacts, layouts, photos, videos and more,

with all scales of model trains for sale. March 8, 9:30 am-3:30 pm. $6/adults; free/ages 12 & under. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. (991-2317) SPOKANE FOLKLORE CONTRA DANCE Weekly Wednesday night community dance, with the River City Ramblers playing and Penn Fix calling. No partner needed; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. March 11, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5-$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. spokanefolklore.org (838-5667) BLOOMSDAY TRAINING CLINICS Sessions begin with a presentation on race training, followed by warm-up and a supported run. Week one is 1-mile route, increasing by a mile each week to prep for the full length of the Bloomsday course. Saturdays at 8:30 am, March 14-April 25. Free. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. phc.org (533-3500) ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Spokane host the annual community parade through downtown. March 14, noon. Free. Downtown Spokane. tinyurl.com/lcdlgap

FILM

SPOKANE FILM SOCIETY The local group screens a film to get audiences thinking, with each month focusing on a new theme. Beer/wine and food for purchase during the show. Thursdays at 9 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) FOXCATCHER The Oscar-nominated film tells the story of Olympic Gold Medalwinning wrestler Mark Schultz. Rated

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R. March 7-8; show times vary. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) BIKE SHORTS The Latah Trail Foundation hosts a screening of jury-selected bike clips celebrating the urban cycling life. Local film footage from the Palouse kicks off the evening. Funds benefit surface improvements in Bear Creek Canyon. March 9, 7 pm. $5-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-8824127) CONNECTED LEARNING: VIDEO PRODUCTION 101 Shoot video and edit with free editing software. Also learn how to film an interview, incorporate B-Roll, edit and upload. Call 444-5380 to register. March 10, 1:30 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook. (444-5380) DRYLAND Recently featured at SpIFF, the film offers an intimate portrait of rural America in transition through the eyes of a young man pursuing his dream and a town fighting to survive. Directors Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm answer questions after the screening. March 10, 6-8 pm. Free. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. infarmu.com (503-3074505) LUNAFEST 2015 The University of Idaho hosts the national short film fest, featuring selections by and about women. Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and the U of I Women’s Center. March 10, 6:30 pm. $3-$12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. tinyurl.com/m4u7wz5 (208885-2777) CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: AFTERSHOCK The U of Idaho Confucius Institute hosts a screening of the 2010 drama depicting the aftermath of the Tangshan earth-

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quake and a family it separates. March 11, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127) DIFFERENT DRUMMERS A one-night only screening benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Brayden Tucker, an actor in the movie, makes a special appearance and signs autographs after the show. March 12, 6:30-8:15 pm. $11.65. AMC River Park Square, 808 W. Main. tugg.com/ events/12954 (435-1235)

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STROMBOLI: AN ITALIAN FAVORITE Lean how to create the dough, fill, shape and bake this Italian classic. March 6, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) VINO WINE TASTING Friday, March 6 highlights selections from Vino’s “Wine of the Month Club,” from 3-6:30 pm. Saturday, March 7 is a tasting of J. Bookwalter Winery, from 2-4:30 pm. Vino!, 222 S. Washington. (838-1229) WINES OF ARGENTINA & URUGUAY A tasting of wines from Argentina and newly-imported wines from neighboring Uruguay. March 6, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (343-2253) 74TH ANNUAL KOSHER DINNER The local Jewish congregation continues its 74-year tradition of serving an authentic kosher meal to the community, with live entertainment and more. March 8, 11 am-6 pm. $14/adults; $7/kids. Temple Beth Shalom, 1322 E. 30th. spokanetbs. org (747-3304)

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I met this man a few years ago, and it was like a thunderbolt struck us — the stuff movies are made of. He told me that his female roommate was just a friend. We went on a few dates before I realized she was actually his girlfriend. He promised that they were going to break up, so I hung around for a bit, but of course it never happened. Last year, I ran into him, and he said he was no longer with that woman and wanted to date me. I turned him down AMY ALKON flat because I figured that if he was going to lie and cheat on her, then he would do the same to me. I’m kicking myself now because I have never met anyone like him. Is it really “once a cheater, always a cheater,” or could it be different for us? I have to put this to bed in my mind because I can’t stop thinking I missed out on “the one.” —Opportunity Lost Sure, your encounter with this man was “the stuff movies are made of” — the ones in which Godzilla comes clomping through town and puts his big clawed foot through the roof of some poor villager’s house. What you should be doing is tiring your arm out by patting yourself on the back. You showed presence of mind in drop-kicking “the one” — the one who, before long, would have been in a bar telling some woman that you’re just his “roommate.” But now your loneliness is telling your logic to put a sock in it, luring you into a common error in evaluating risk that behavioral economists call “optimism bias.” This is best explained as the “I’m special!” bias and involves the unrealistic thinking that the bad things that befall other people will see us and go, “Nuh-uh…no way…not her!” Though we know — usually from painful experience — that character change is hard (and rare), optimism bias leads us to flirt with bright ideas like “Maybe he’s done with the cheating!” It’s probably easier to think that now, not having seen him for a while. And the reality is, even serial killers sometimes go dormant. This shouldn’t be taken as a sign that they’ve grown weary of cutting up the neighbors and storing them in Ziploc bags in their freezer. Real change, when it happens, comes with signs there’s been a transformation — like expressions of deep remorse about being unethical and a sea change in a person’s moral standards. And these are just the preliminaries. Character change is revealed through action — over time. Sure, you could keep this guy at arm’s length for a year while you observe his behavior. Or, instead of hoping against hope for character change, you could opt for a change of characters, as in getting out there and meeting new men. Should you fall back into feeling wistful about this guy, remind yourself of German psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm’s thinking that love isn’t just “a feeling”; it’s something you do (in this guy’s case, to more than one woman at a time). Or as one of my other favorite 20th-century philosophers, a Dr. E. Fudd, put it, “Good widdance to bad wubbish.”

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I often come off needy and desperate, so I’m trying to play it cool with this great new guy I’m dating — a new and difficult tactic for me. There are two other guys who are into me. I’m not into them, but I’m tempted to keep them on the back burner — you know, throw them a few crumbs now and then to keep them hooked so they can be a distraction from the new guy. I know this is user-y, so I haven’t decided to do it, but I also haven’t come clean about where I’m really at. And I have to admit I don’t mind the validation they give me. Ugh. —Torn If you’re going to turn men into emotional support knickknacks, why not go all the way? Cut their hearts out and stick them in jars with cute labels written in glitter pen. What you’re considering is romantic fraud. Sure, stacking up irrelevant men like firewood so you can climb into the arms of the man you want is easier than exploring why you “often come off needy and desperate.” A wild guess: Because you are? Typically, this comes out of trying to use a guy for jobs he can never fill, like making you feel okay about you. If that’s the problem, get to work on fixing it. In the meantime, avoid coming off needy and desperate by acting like a woman who might end up wanting a man but doesn’t need him. That woman doesn’t barrage him with calls, texts, and surprise visi ts — or text back with an immediacy that suggests she’s been hovering over her phone like a starving hawk circling the den of the last prairie dog on earth. Get your restraint where you can, like by responding to a text from him by giving your phone to somebody to lock in a drawer for an hour. Waiting to text back will help you come off like the woman you should try to be, one who embodies the understanding that emotional security comes from within — and no, not from within a bunch of other people. n ©2015, 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 PRESERVING & HOME CANNING Learn about safe food preservation methods, tips and tools for basic canning, dehydrating and freezing your summer bounty. March 9, 6-8 pm. $10. University of Idaho Kootenai County Extension, 1808 N. Third. (208-446-1680) NEW BREWS & SPECIAL RELEASES A tasting line-up featuring beers new to the Rocket, as well as new brews from tried and true breweries and some rare and limited production beers. March 13, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd. (343-2253)

MUSIC

NORTHWEST BACH FESTIVAL The 37th annual Northwest Bach Festival features classical music events throughout Spokane, including guest musicians in concert, outreach programs, film screenings and more. Through March 8. See full schedule of events online. $18-$45/ event. nwbachfest.com HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PALOUSE BENEFIT A concert by Daniel Mark Faller and the Working Poor, benefiting the local animal shelter. March 6, 8 pm. $15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org BASE MUSIC WORKSHOPS A series of creative workshops for musicians, focusing on songwriting, music business and more. Upcoming sessions March 7 and 21 (10 am-2 pm), from 10 am-3 pm. Ages 15+, register online. Varies. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlett.com BLUES CATS FOR KIDS The Inland Empire Blues Society hosts its 20th benefit, featuring Blues Edition, The Sidemen, Rampage, Polly O’Keary & The Rhythm Method and Bryan Warhall & Triple Trouble. Free admission with 2 cans of food, or $5 per person. March 7, noon. Spokane Valley Eagles, 16801 E. Sprague. tinyurl. com/ke2tmo7 (922-3433) KIDZ BOP Family-friendly versions of today’s top pop hits in an energetic and interactive live show. March 7, 7:30 pm. $20-$25. Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. (244-3279) SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA: HOLLYWOOD JAZZ A program of jazz hits originating from film scores, featuring local singer Kristina Ploeger and members of the SJO’s Young Giants of Jazz vocalists. March 7, 7:30 pm. $24-$26. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. spokanejazz. org (227-7404) SPOKANE SYMPHONY SuperPops Series No. 5: “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” features guest singer Cathie Ryan. March 7, 8 pm. $28-$62. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY The symphony’s fifth concert, “A Russian Portrait,” features Julian Schwarz on cello, and a program of pieces by Russian composers. March 7, 7:30 pm. $10$25; WSU and U of I students free with ID. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. washingtonidahosymphony. org (332-34089) IN THE MOOD: 1940S BIG BAND REVUE A fully-staged tribute to Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrews Sisters and big band greats of the ‘40s, complete with period costumes and choreography. March 8, shows at 3 pm and 7:30 pm. March 8. $28-$59. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) IRISH CELEBRATION Performances by

Broken Whistle and the Singing Sisters of the Holy Names, to benefit the Holy Names Music Center. Also includes a raffle and silent auction. March 8, 4 pm. No cover. O’Doherty’s Irish Grille, 525 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (747-0322) NORTHWEST BACH FESTIVAL FINALE Concert featuring the Bach Festival Orchestra with Maestro Piotr Gajewski; featuring Soovin Kim, violin; Zuill Bailey, cello; Awadagin Pratt, piano, performing the Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major, (Triple Concerto). March 8, 3 pm. $23$45. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. nwbachfest.com (838-4277) AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: ANTON NEL The renowned pianist has won two international piano competitions and has performed with many of the world’s major orchestras. Program includes works by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy. March 10, 7:30 pm. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin. auditoriumseries.org (208-885-6111) NIC CHORALE: GLORIA A concert featuring the North Idaho College Cardinal Chorale and Chamber Singers, benefiting Family Promise of North Idaho. March 10, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-3276) EWU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Concert program includes music of Beethoven and Stravinsky, and features piano soloist Janet Phang. In the Music Bldg. Recital Hall. March 11, 7:30 pm. $3$5. Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu (359-2241) SOLAS FOR ALL: A SISTER CITY CELEBRATION The Spokane Area Youth Choirs and guests present a concert of Irish music. Doors open at 6 pm for viewing and bidding on silent auction and raffle items. March 12, 7-8:30 pm. $5-$8. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. SAYChoirs.org (624-7992) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY Seven young musicians, winners of the Coeur d’Alene Symphony’s National Young Artist Competition, perform with the orchestra. $16-$27. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasymphony.org (208-660-2958) SPOKANE SYMPHONY + TERRAIN: UNCHARTED TERRITORY An innovative performance featuring local artists, with musical collaborations between Symphony musicians and band members of the Flying Spiders, Water Monster and Hannah Reader. Staged vignettes also include live theater for the one-night event benefiting Terrain and the Symphony. March 13, 8 pm. $32-$75. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. terrainspokane.com (624-1200)

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FULL MOON RIDE Monthly community cycling meet-up and social ride; meets at 7 pm, departs at 8 pm. March 5, 7 pm. Free. Swamp Tavern, 1904 W. Fifth. tinyurl.com/p5a4el7 (458-2337) WIAA HARDWOOD CLASSIC Washington state championships for 1B and 2B boys and girls high school basketball teams. March 5-7; times vary. TBA. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) BHA NATIONAL RENDEZVOUS & BREWFEST The Backcountry Hunters & Angler’s fourth annual event features

a presentation by keynote speaker Randy Newberg, along with seminars on backcountry skills, stories and habitat conservation. March 6-8. $130/ weekend pass. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. tinyurl. com/pacln56 (326-8000) BEGINNING BIRD WATCHING Meets in the education classroom at the refuge; also includes a hands-on hike. Ages 8+. Register online or call. Classes held March 7, April 4, May 9 and June 6, from 9-11 am. $3/family entrance fee. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/ activities.html (448-2291) SPOKANE ANARCHY WRESTLING “New Beginnings,” featuring five matches including two championships. Doors open at 5:30 pm. March 7, 6 pm. Free. Swaxx, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. (7037474) SPOKANE OUTDOOR RECREATION EXPO First annual expo highlighting outdoor activities around the Inland Northwest, with vendors and more. March 7, 11 am-5 pm. Free. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Dr. spokanerecreationexpo.weebly.com (340-1028) WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION AT ILLER CREEK Contribute to trail improvements and maintenance within Spokane’s Iller Creek Conservation Area. March 11, 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Iller Creek Conservation Area, East Holman Rd. and Rockcrest Ln. wta.org/ volunteer/east (921-8928)

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AMERICAN IDLE: MURDERING THE MUSIC A murder-mystery play parodying American Idol. Through March 15, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm; also Sat, Feb. 28, at 2 pm. $8-$12. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway (342-2055) THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Mead theater students present a stageadapted performance of Holocaust victim’s autobiography/diary. Also includes a mobile exhibit from the Anne Frank Center. March 5-7, at 7 pm. $5-$10. Mead HS, 302 W. Hastings. (465-7046) INTO THE WOODS LC Tiger Drama presents a stage version of the recent film, reimagining several classic faity tales. Through March 7; Thu-Sat at 7 pm. $10. Lewis & Clark HS, 521 W. Fourth. (354-7000) THE NERD Comedy by Larry Shue. Through March 8; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$21. The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org NUNSENSE A-MEN! Musical-comedy directed by Troy Nickerson, starring male actors as the Sisters of Hoboken. Through March 22; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) THE BEST BROTHERS The U.S. premier of a comedy drama about two brothers facing the aftermath of their mother’s death. March 6-22; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm $19-$25. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org (455-7529) EXIT LAUGHING A comedy play about a 30-year friendship between four women and all the fun that comes with it. Through March 14; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater March 14 at 6 pm. $5-$12. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm St, Cheney. (235-2441)

THE LEGEND OF POCAHONTAS CYT North Idaho performs a new adaptation, featuring new music and Native American sounds and rhythms to complement the original score. March 6-8; Fri-Sat at 7 pm and Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $11-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytnorthidaho.org (208-667-1865) THESE SHINING LIVES Whitworth Theatre’s spring production is based on the tragic story of the ill-fated “Radium Girls” in 1920s Illinois. March 6-14, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $8-$10. Whitworth Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne Ave. (777-3707) THE SPOON RIVER EXPERIENCE An original performance bringing poems from the classic work “Spoon River Anthology.” by Edgar Lee Masters. to life on stage. March 7 at 7:30 pm, March 8 at 2 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (533-7387) HAM ON REGAL More than 250 Ferris HS parents use their hidden talents to be a “ham” as they sing, dance, jump and jive for the annual fundraising event, now in its 52nd year. March 8 at 2 pm, March 1114 at 7:30 pm and March 14 at 1:30 pm. $7. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. hamonregal.org (953-8116) THE KITE RUNNER Young Audiences New York’s Literature to Life stage presentation, adapted from the bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini. March 11, 7:30-9 pm. $7-$14 (free/WSU staff, students). Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu (335-8522) DEAR LIAR The contentious, platonic love affair between playwright George Bernard Shaw and the actress known as Mrs. Patrick Campbell is dramatized through a reading of their correspondence by members of Moscow Art Theatre (Too). March 12-15, Thur-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127)

note speaker, presenting on the ethics of intimate, narrative storytelling. March 5, 4:30 pm. Free and open to the public. University of Idaho, Menard Law Building, 711 S. Rayburn St. (208-885-6111) 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s monthly poetry open mic, featuring “Remember the Word” reader Alison Collins, owner of Boots Bakery. Open mic participants have up to 3 minutes to read their poetry. March 6, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) EWU VISITING WRITERS SERIES: ELIZABETH GRAVER Reading, Q&A and book signing with the author, whose fourth novel, “The End of the Point,” was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and was a New York Times notable book of the year.

Presented by the Inland Northwest Center for Writers MFA Program at EWU and Get Lit! Programs. March 6, 8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) SATURDAY SIGNING & READINGS Local photographers Vicky Spring and Tom Kirkendall sign their book “Washington: A Photographic Journey,” from 12-3 pm. Jennifer Murphy also reads from and signs copies of her new book, “I Love You More,” at 7 pm. March 7. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST CHRIS HEDGES Hedges gives a talk titled “Wages of Rebellion: What does it take to be a rebel today?” Also offering a special reception and dinner, from 4-6 pm; $65 including ticket to show; must be purchased by March 8. March 10, 7 pm. $10-$20. Bing

Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. pjals.org/ hedges (838-7870) AUTHOR CINDY HVAL The Spokane author talks about her book “War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation” and signs copies. March 11, 7 pm. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) AUTHOR JULIE NEUFFER The author of “Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement,” explores how womanhood affects the common housewife, an appropriately timed talk since March is Women’s History Month. March 12, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) BLURT & BLATHER An all-ages open mic series, on the second and fourth Thursday

of the month. Open to poetry, stories and other spoken word performances. Free. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. facebook.com/blurtnblather (703-7223) HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Lutheran Community Services NW Anti-human Trafficking Coordinator Mabel Elsom speaks on the topic of modern human trafficking. March 12, 7:30-9 pm. Free and open to the public. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-3834) MILLENNIAL MEETUP WRITING WORKSHOP The library’s annual Writers Competition is coming up, so come write and enjoy coffee, snacks and writing with friends. Bring laptops/pen/paper. For adults in their 20s and 30s. March 12, 7-8 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. tinyurl.com/pbavokt 

VISUAL ARTS

FIRST FRIDAY Galleries and businesses throughout downtown Spokane showcase new art displays for the month of March. Receptions from 5-8 pm, March 6. Details at Inlander.com/FirstFriday MARMOT ART SPACE GRAND OPENING The new local art gallery in the Kendall Yards neighborhood hosts its grand opening during First Friday events. March 6, from 5-8 pm. Free. Marmot Art Space, 1206 W. Summit Pkwy. (270-5804) FARMERS MARKET REFLECTIONS An exhibit featuring photographs of the Moscow Farmers Market taken by local artist and Moscow resident Linda Pall. Through May 15; reception March 5, from 5-7 pm. Gallery open Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Free and open to the public. Third Street Gallery, City Hall, 206 E. Third St. ci.moscow.id.us/art (208-883-7036)

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HEMINGWAY FESTIVAL The annual literary festival features presentations and workshops with authors on writing and the contributions of Hemingway, as well as a keynote reading by the most recent Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, NoViolet Bulawayo. March 3-5; event times/locations vary. See schedule online. Through March 5. University of Idaho, Moscow. uidaho.edu/class/hemingway/ festival-events (208-885-6111) JACQUI BANASZYNSKI The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and internationallyrecognized writing coach is the 2015 Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium key-

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Azars restaurant 03/02/2015 Azars restaurant Monday 03/02/15 around 2 pm. Late lunch, you: attractive brunette woman dining by yourself. Me: tall guy eating with friend with crutches. I asked you if you liked the Chinese food? Wanted to talk more. Lunch sometime? keesha610@yahoo.com Woman of my dreams T r i s h , For 4 great years you were the woman of my dreams and still very much are. I love you with all my heart and soul. I will continue to keep hope for us through this time. Fate brought us love from a hopeless place and it will bring us back together forever. Love your Tidbit Handsome pharmacy man T— that works for ReliantRX. Our paths have met a few times through work related incidents. You’re incredibly handsome. I would love to take you out some day. I hope our paths meet again, non-work related. Baby you’re a firework You, casually sitting in an pub when you saw me walk into for a drink. I was flushed from working in hot sun that 4th and you said Hello. At first, I did not recognize you, but I knew I knew you. Thank you for reminding me patiently. You had a copy of a reading of Greek mythology. While my sirens blared inside my head, know that you are still know you hold in your

Cheers I finally paid it forward Cheers to the lady who bought my ticket to the quilt show last fall and asked me to pay it forward. I finally did! Hope the car behind me at the Cheney Taco Bell on Friday afternoon will also pay it forward! Paying it forward Thank you to the lady in the white SVU at Starbucks 2-24-15 7:45am. I was on my way to work ... which has already been very stressful thus far. I pulled up to the window and they said your drink has been paid for. I ordered a Grande and the gave me a Venti. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. I wish I could return the favor. Sexy The past three years has been great to get to know you. Our ups and downs together have been rough at times but I hope to make this relationship last a lot longer. The past two weekend shave been great! You know I love you and I am so glad we got together.

Jeers Cheers to Jeers Went to a favorite bar & restaurant in Browne’s Addition to eat Friday night. As we left we decided to go in another establishment across the street to check it out... Should have known as we entered & it smelled of bleach/cleaner but what the heck, went to the bar, had 1 drink each, spoke with the bartender about their menu & outside seating when the weather

Needing a bathroomr A BIG BOOHISS to coffee shop downtown for not allowing my elderly aunt to use the restroom!!! OK, so some jerk teenagers tore up the PUBLIC restroom; and that sucks. What sucks worse however, is being in your upper sixties and trying to find another restroom before you have an accident.

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smaller local businesses, now we have to watch out for their fraudulent ways also...shame on you & me, next time someone says they can’t print a receipt I’ll have them write me one out! Speedy As of 4:15 AM on 2/25, you in a white delivery truck decided to head down 4th street onto Pines, without stopping. You didn’t slow down, you kept trucking on. Now, I was at a good distance- reason being because I slowed down after I saw you pull out faster than a jock on prom night. Unless You are Sandra Bullock, your passenger is Keanu Reeves, and Dennis Hopper is threatening your life, because he is a bombing lunatic with a passion for speed limits over 55, slow the hell down and actually “STOP.” Just because it’s 4 AM, doesn’t mean you are the only maniac on the road.

PAYING customers should be able to use the PUBLIC restroom! If that means getting off your lazy butt to unlock the restroom for paying customers then that’s what you do! Next Christmas I will buy my aunt a card from your direct competitor. Left Lane Loser First of all you’re driving too slow in the passing lane on I-90 heading west at 4:30 pm. Then when I get behind you, you don’t even move over. THEN you slam on your brakes; and I wasn’t even that close to you. Seems like you’re just looking for trouble. You never know whose out there; someone might give it to you. Dishman Hills Bike Turds Dear Bike Turd with the GoPro: Yes, you and your two bike buddies thinking you are all that and a bag of chips out on my hike

Parents without helmet Jeers to parents who have their kids wearing bike helmets but don’t wear one themselves. You can be hit or crash and suffer brain damage just as easily as your kiddo, leaving them with a parent who can’t fully be there. And what sort of message are you sending? Helmets are a safety measure for everyone, not just kids! Doggie poo left behind Fellow dog owners! Pick up after your pups at Merkle Sports Center. No one wants to step in your doggie’s doo. They furnish baggies you just need to bend over and scoop it up. The sports teams don’t need to wallow in your lazy leavings. Loose Dog Pack South of CheneySpokane Road on Paradise Prairie. Early in the morning, and other times I’m sure, you are letting one to two dogs out to rumble all over our rural neighborhood. Just because you live out in acreage American “does not” mean your dogs should go out anywhere they want. It is illegal. I am sick of it. Keep track of your dogs, like kids, at all times! Most of us have dogs, but when you don’t give a rip about your dogs safety, or what kind of havoc they have on wildlife and people including their kids! and domestic animals; dogs, cats, chickens, horses, cattle, ducks, etc., then I will give a RIP! Your damn dogs are not only at risk for being food for our local coyote pack, they are at risk of Stray Rural Dog Rancher Rules!

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A real ring and indoor venue added a new level of professionalism to Spokane Anarchy Wrestling — and more ways to inflict damage. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

From Backyard to Center Stage The backyard brawlers of Spokane Anarchy Wrestling take their show indoors BY DAN NAILEN

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e sure to hold your kids back, because there will be grown men flying over the ropes.” What could be heard as a safety warning comes across more like a simple statement of fact from the announcer. And while some strollers and toddlers are briefly corralled back from the wrestling ring, once the Battle Royale headlining the night’s festivities starts, parents and kids alike move closer to better view the brutal, high-flying action. About 150 fans are crowding the booths and tables of Swaxx’s dance floor surrounding the elevated “squared circle” where Spokane Anarchy Wrestling — aka S.A.W. — is hosting its first-ever indoor showcase after eight years of delivering chokeholds, leg drops and pile-drivers on the hard ground of various Spokane backyards. The nearby stage that typically features rappers and DJs tonight is a curtained entryway where characters like Madd Man Manson, the Masked Juggalo and Insanity Demon can make a properly theatrical entrance. They’re greeted by cheers from those who recognize them from S.A.W.’s YouTube channel, or howls from people who recognize some past act of competitive nefariousness. The Inner City Champion, Harley Heartson, manages to evenly divide the fans, half yelling “Let’s go

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Harley!” and half responding “Harley sucks!” For a casual newcomer to S.A.W.’s fight night, the scene might not look exactly like a slick, professional undertaking. More careful observation, though, reveals a remarkable amount of work being put into the “Battle of Washington” — so called because some of the competitors traveled from the North West Pro wrestling group on the west side of the state. There are suited commentators announcing and videographers filming the action for future home viewers from as far away as Japan and Australia. There are ring announcers guiding the live audience through the action, and referees “controlling” the chaos. There are even ridiculous “managers” for some of the wrestlers, on hand simply to rile the crowd and pull some shady shenanigans to help their clients. Basically, everything you might see on a telecast of big-time pro wrestling is here, being done by volunteers purely out of love for putting on a show. The ringleaders are S.A.W. founder Jesse Lawson, 25, and his cousin, Jason Lawson, 26, who together do much of the behind-the-scenes work, from booking matches to writing storylines for the wrestlers to buying the ring about a year ago and learning how to put it together.

For Jesse, the first indoor S.A.W. show is in many ways the culmination of a dream he talked about in a 2010 Inlander story — a dream of having a real ring, chairs for the fans and touring wrestlers battling S.A.W. characters. Looking back a couple of days after the Swaxx show, he called the night “probably the best performance we’ve ever done.” The excitement of moving from the backyard to a real, indoor ring was not lost on his team of about 25 wrestlers and production assistants who helped make the show happen. “They were hot about it,” Jesse says. “They were stoked. It was the first time I’ve had a lot of our boys say, ‘Hey, I’ll be on the show, sure, but I’m just happy this show is happening.’” One dream achieved, the cousins — who wrestle tagteam matches as the First Family, including at the next Swaxx S.A.W. event on March 7 — have bigger aspirations. Jason wants to reach the point when they can charge for tickets and even sell merchandise. Jesse’s hopes are simpler. “I just hope to see it getting bigger,” Jesse says. “Maybe not arena-bigger, but just bigger in the city’s eyes. I wouldn’t mind getting on Wikipedia and seeing under local sports teams: Shock, Indians, Chiefs and Spokane Anarchy Wrestling.” n

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