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With that in mind, carbon dieters are thinking about a backup plan if Olympia fails to come through. A group called Carbon Washington is planning to file a carbon tax citizen’s initiative. The measure would establish a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels ($25 per metric ton of carbon emitted in the state). That measure would actually cut the state sales tax rate by 1 percent and eliminate the B&O tax for manufacturing. The changes would be phased in over two years. In other words, the carbon tax would be revenue-neutral and businessboosting while shaving a hair off a regressive sales tax. One of the sponsors, economist and stand-up comic Yoram Bauman, sees the ballot measure as a backup to the governor’s cap-and-trade proposal: “We’re not opposing the governor’s legislative push or in competiLETTERS tion with it, but Send comments to it is common editor@inlander.com. knowledge that the governor’s bill faces stiff opposition. So we are positioning our ballot measure as the relief pitcher who’s ready to come into the game if and when the starting pitcher falters.” Bauman thinks public opinion offers some room to work with, as do the plan’s tax reform elements. Those might help get business and bipartisan support along with green voters.

ne problem with any kind of diet is admitting you have a problem in the first place. This year’s Northwest winter isn’t helping on the PR front: It’s warm and sunny, and folks just love an early spring. The bright, mostly snow-free weather we’ve been having is indicative of climate changesteered Northwest winters that may be the norm by the year 2070, according to the University of Washington’s Cliff Mass and other climate researchers. That’s a prediction with major economic and resource implications, including water shortages, an expanding fire season, harm to salmon habitat and higher risks of flooding. The problem is that people like this weather. Many folks would rather put on their swimsuits than admit they’re bloated with too much gas. A low-carbon diet is too easily put off until another day.  Knute Berger writes from Seattle. This column first appeared on Crosscut.com.

COMMENT | PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Rehumanize Yourself BY TED S. McGREGOR JR.

s Iran our enemy? That’s currently a question without a clear answer, highlighting just how difficult it is to negotiate an agreement over nuclear weapons with them. Many in our country — and theirs — see our two nations as enemies. Throughout history, the tried-and-true method of justifying war has been to dehumanize the enemy. Philosopher David Livingstone Smith argues in Less Than Human that we are hard-wired that way: “Dehumanization,” he writes, “[is] a way of thinking — a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us.” Label an entire population as terrorists, and there you have it. The government of Iran does support some nasty things, but is that fair to its people? Other thinkers have wondered how we can overcome these appeals to our animal instincts. The late humanist Richard McKay Rorty concluded in his essay “Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality” that since emotions drive dehumanization, “sentimentality may be the best weapon we have.” His favorite example is the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an emotional hammer that helped to end slavery. In recent times, you could point to Clint Eastwood’s parallel World War II films — Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, the latter told entirely from the Japanese perspective. In those works of art, the dehumanized become rehumanized. All that’s a long way to say that you should check out the new video series on nytimes.com called “Our Man in Tehran.” The seven short films came about after the Times’ Tehran Bureau Chief Thomas Erdbrink spent four years seeking permission to film daily life in Iran’s capital city. New clips are posted every Tuesday. You’ll see how Iranians are not that different from us — they buy Nutella at the corner market, they love Porsches and their government, too, is locked in a debate over progress between religious ultra-conservatives and a more pragmatic, younger bloc. Tehran even has a Startup Weekend. But you are also constantly reminded that Iran is a totalitarian state — women are banned from, of all things, volleyball matches, and Erdbrink’s colleague, Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post, has been jailed for no stated reason since July. As a way to humanize the people of Iran, the films are powerful. Erdbrink, who is Dutch, has been in Iran for 13 years, speaks Persian and even married a local, photographer Newsha Tavakolian. In the great tradition of journalism, Erdbrink’s videos show us what is true. And when one Iranian woman wonders, “We used to be friends, why are we enemies now?” he challenges us to reflect on how we are conditioned to think about Iran. n JEN SORENSON CARTOON

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hree months ago, I played a fun game with Spokane County Commissioner Al

French. Invited to participate in a transit summit with local elected officials, nonprofit and business leaders and other riders, our goal was to design a network for a fictional town named Prairieville. Shades of Spokane were evident: access to hospitals, schools and business districts like Garland and South Perry fell in the “cut or

keep” paradigm. I was electrified to see French, a Republican who can sometimes strain city and county relations, articulate how a mass regional transit system can stitch together a strong community and urge us to “dream big.” He wasn’t alone. The biggest takeaway was a vote among the participants at the end, showing strong support for a ballot initiative to fund existing and new bus services with an additional sales tax of 0.3 percent — three cents on a $10 retail purchase. And that’s exactly what Spokane County voters will weigh in on with Proposition 1. After years of thorough

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planning by Spokane Transit Authority (STA), your ballots will arrive soon, due to be returned by April 28. Hours would be extended, service expanded and better connections built to areas such as the West Plains. “Spokane’s most valuable export is our youth,” French says as we chat now about the dream becoming a reality. “And there isn’t a more valuable asset for young folks than public transportation.” True. Until recently, I never owned a car and used the bus almost daily. I attended Eastern Washington University while living in Spokane, and the bus was so crowded I remember the humiliation of passengers left at stops. That was a decade ago; buses are more packed now and frustrations persist. After 7 pm and on weekends, routes are infrequent. Getting to work on nights and weekends, or for those who just want to ride the bus for something other than commuting, is challenging. In the next 25 years, our region’s population is expected to increase by 165,000 and the demand for public transportation will grow concurrently. Yet despite the population growth, bus service in Spokane hasn’t expanded significantly since 1981. A growing community needs a growing transit network. Organizations from the Downtown Spokane Partnership to Aging and Long Term Care of Eastern Washington have endorsed the proposition. Still, there’s opposition from the Washington Policy Center, a rightwing think tank bankrolled by anti-transit crusader Kemper Freeman, a billionaire Bellevue developer. The WPC detests congestion — ignoring that even if you don’t ride a bus, we all benefit. Also, for an organization hawking fiscal accountability, Proposition 1 contains a sunset clause so the revenue it generates will end after 10 years. Voters then can evaluate how effectively the money was spent and decide if they want to continue spending it. STA now provides 40,000 rides each day, second in the state only to Seattle, and 2014 was the highest ridership year since 1953 at 11.3 million. Proposition 1 provides the additional service the bus system needs, with access for the folks who depend on bus access most: students, working families, seniors. Even a new category: imports to Spokane. “Us boomers are becoming less mobile,” French says. “We need to closely ask ourselves what kind of a community do we want to leave behind for future generations?” Proposition 1 will move Spokane forward to the transit system it needs. n Paul Dillon is the Eastern Washington Program Director for YMCA Youth & Government, teaching democracy to youth through hands-on civic engagement.

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GIVEanyAofHOOT us on a beautiful day in Spokane like to venture to the local

parks found all around to hike, explore and even climb. I see many families and dog owners out and about, but also see broken glass and garbage, which can be harmful to everyone and everything on these paths. Litterers out there — it is called a garbage can. Use one. I asked a local climber his views and he said, “I usually see broken glass and garbage while I am hiking to a climbing spot. People need to start picking up their trash because it can be a hazard to everyone. Especially when I fall from a climb, I don’t want to be stabbed by broken glass.” On a beautiful day we all want to be able to enjoy nature and not have to worry about our children or pets getting hurt or messing with the garbage seen around. We should be able to go to a park and not have to worry. We need locals to help keep the parks clean. Next time you go to a park, please try and pick up a few pieces of garbage. And to those who don’t like to throw things away appropriately, try to stop your urge of throwing garbage or bottles on the ground. It might take a few minutes of your time, but in the long run it will be worth trying to keep the beautiful place we live in clean. ZOE MARIOTTI Cheney, Wash.

Reaction to “Big Boom” (3/19/15), on two competing bills in Olympia that seek to provide communities near oil train routes with more information and resources in case of a derailment.

WILLIAM BRUBEK: Let’s play a game. While you’re driving down I-90, take a look at all the trucks driving by and take note of the placards posted on their sides. Then think about how many other trucks drive right through town, right alongside you during your commute and some of the really nasty stuff they’re carrying. Is there a risk with the oil trains? Sure, just like you’re taking a risk driving alongside some of the hazardous traffic that moves through our town every day. I’d argue the risk you take driving alongside those rigs is far greater than the oil train traffic. JEAN WULTERKENS: Current lack of enforcement ignores growing threats of Bakken oil explosions so extensive and toxic, fire chiefs have testified that “even if we had an infinite amount of foam,” the fires and toxic emissions would continue until all fuel had been exhausted, killing people and destroying wide swaths of land and riverbanks as they burned. Railroads are making secret decisions and hiding documents to such an extent, the federal Department of Transportation says it’s “impossible to know” to what extent railroads have prioritized or ignored safety in choosing routes. Railroads have also lobbied against regulatory efforts aimed at retrofitting tank cars for greater safety. Congress and the White House, Homeland Security and the FRA need to address the danger of Bakken oil explosions before disaster strikes. 

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Breaking the Silence CHRIS BOVEY ILLUSTRATION

The nuns at the Carmel of the Holy Trinity monastery lead a strict life of silence and isolation — but a proposed development next door could make that difficult BY DANIEL WALTERS

he letter, dated March 4, 2015, was written on an electronic typewriter, and hand-delivered by a priest to a Spokane Valley Comprehensive Plan meeting. “We are a community of contemplative, cloistered nuns,” the letter reads. “Our monastic Rule prescribes that we live in desert places in order to be able to work and pray in silence because ‘Silence is the way to foster holiness’... it is an essential part of holy life.” A 10-foot-high wooden fence surrounds the 18 acres at Spokane Valley’s Carmel of the Holy Trinity monastery. Nobody can see in, nobody can see out. That, of course, didn’t stop golf balls — and the occasional golf club — from the nearby Painted Hills Golf Course from soaring over the monastery’s walls. Today, the course has been shuttered. The fairways

and greens are overgrown with weeds. In 2013, developer Dave Black plucked the property from a bankruptcy auction, and now has early plans for a Kendall Yardsstyle development in the nearly 100-acre space, complete with a park, trails, cottages, gated communities and an apartment complex. That last piece, in particular, is what has a group of cloistered nuns sending letters regarding municipal zoning: They worry about the loss of privacy and quiet with “a huge complex plunging the view of its inhabitants over our cloister wall! There would be no more privacy, and one can easily imagine the noise of blaring stereos, etc.” The Painted Hills proposal has drawn the typical neighborhood concerns over the impact of the development on traffic, property values, flooding and the local ecology. But the Carmel of the Holy Trinity represents

a far more unusual case: A development decision with theological import.

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It’s Saturday morning on the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Ávila. The air is sweet with incense in a small chapel at the Carmel of the Holy Trinity, as around two dozen parishioners line up, one by one, and kiss a relic said to be a remnant of the saint’s body. The local Catholic diocese, however, doesn’t recognize this group, calling it “schismatic.” After all, the Carmel of the Holy Trinity doesn’t abide by the changes of the early-1960s Second Vatican Council. Mass is still in Latin, and female parishioners still have their heads covered. ...continued on next page

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NEWS | RELIGION “BREAKING THE SILENCE,” CONTINUED... The men in white robes up front sing their Latin Gregorian chants. Female voices sing responses through the wall. Even during Mass, the nuns here remain cloistered, hidden behind a wall without a view of the congregation. So when I speak with the prioress, I don’t get to see her face, and she doesn’t get to see mine. The faces of strangers are considered distractions. Instead, I hear Mother Marie of Jesus Hostia’s South African-accented voice from a black screen behind a barred grate. She only leaves these walls for medical reasons. “It’s such a relief to get back in when we have to get out, I assure you,” Marie says, noting the immodesty and emptiness of the outside world. “You can see they’re running after so much rubbish.” Yes, isolation and adhering to the rules of a strict regimen is a sacrifice, she says. But she believes that by dedicating her life to constant, isolated prayer, petitioning God for mercy, the whole world benefits. When the nuns moved into this monastery in 1990, the area was still farmland and forest. Within five years, housing developments already had begun to spring up. By now, there’s a subdivision directly to the north, and the nuns are resigned to that. Mostly the neighbors are respectful, the nuns say, though they remember one time that a man yelled obscenities at them after spotting them from his second-story window. They worry that an apartment complex rising above the monastery walls could make being gawked at or jeered at more common. “We are not in a zoo,” Marie says. “It’s a private thing, a private life.” NAI Black development manager Bryan Walker says he hasn’t talked to anyone with the monastery yet,

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A preliminary design for a development in the Painted Hills Golf Course would put an apartment complex directly south of the Carmel of the Holy Trinity monastery — and nuns worry the tenants would get a view over their fence.

though he’s tried. “I really went over to them to ask them if they wanted to relocate and [sell] their property,” Walker says. But he says there was no answer at the door. He argues that the planned residential development, with its sidewalks, retailers and park space, includes input from three neighborhood meetings and is far superior to the generic rows of suburban houses that existing zoning allows. Walker suggests that the apartment complex could be angled to avoid directly looking down on the monastery

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grounds. “I think there are ways of designing that so they have the same amount of privacy, if not more,” Walker says. But Marie says NAI Black would have to go further: In Europe, some buildings don’t have windows at all on the side overlooking monastery grounds. If not, there are alternative remedies. “We can put up quite high screens if we have to,” Marie says. But that has a downside as well, blocking the gorgeous views of the mountains for both the nuns and their neighbors.

HIDDEN FROM SOUND

Blocking views is one thing. Blocking sound is another. The Carmelites draw a lesson from the prophet Elijah, who is said to have heard the “still, small voice” of God, not amid the bombast of fires, earthquakes or mountain-splitting winds, but in silence and solitude. Silence, here, is a strictly followed virtue. With a few brief exceptions each day, the sisters only speak when absolutely necessary, often using a custom sign language to communicate. During the “Grand Silence” in the evenings, the nuns even move slowly, to reduce sound. “It’s in silence that you can have the peace of mind and force of concentration to be able to concentrate on God,” Marie says. The fear is that the noise from surrounding cottages, houses and apartments will intrude into the atmosphere of silent meditation. Some old European monasteries, Marie says, had stone walls 30 feet high that helped keep out the sound. “We are not allowed to do that here,” she says. Other than stopping the development entirely, she doesn’t see a clear solution. Spokane Valley City Councilman Ed Pace says he’s met with constituents concerned about the development, but since all that NAI Black needs is a “planned residential development” overlay — not a zoning change — it’s out of the council’s hands. Eventually, it will be up to the Spokane County hearing examiner to make the decision. “If the monastery is there… that’s part of the character of the existing neighborhood,” Pace says. That’s a factor the hearing examiner is required to consider. The nuns, of course, won’t be able to attend the hearing themselves. But from behind their fences and grates and monastery walls, they’ll be rooting for an outcome. “We hope that the whole thing fails,” Marie says. n danielw@inlander.com

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WAR ON MACHINES | The Idaho House of Representatives voted 49-21 to send a bill to the governor repealing the law that legalized “HISTORICAL HORSE RACE” machines. When legislators approved the machines in 2013, they were told the machines would simulate betting on an old horse race. In reality, the race itself generally appears only as a three-second snippet on a tiny screen below spinning reels of cherries or treasure chests. The Coeur d’Alene Tribe, which had sent a letter to the state opposing the machines, praised the passage of the bill. But during the hearing, Greyhound Park Event Center manager Doug Okuniewicz warned that the loss of the machines may kill horse-race wagering at the Post Falls facility entirely. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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FIRED UP | The Washington Fire Chiefs, an association representing fire-fighting agencies across the state, has sent a sternly worded letter to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. asking that the company fork over more information about OIL TRAINS that traverse the state. The Washington State Legislature is considering a pair of bills that would require varying degrees of disclosure of rail companies moving oil across the state. But the WFC isn’t waiting for the legislation and, in the letter, asks BNSF for worst-case scenarios for a crude oil train emergency in an urban setting, evidence of catastrophic insurance and analysis of routes. (JAKE THOMAS)

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this summer. Snyder says that the city council will also be examining the policies of other cities with sick leave policies, such as Seattle or Tacoma. “But what it comes right down to is getting the right policy for Spokane,” he says. — JAKE THOMAS

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When a supposed ISIS “hit list” went online last week, it featured the names and addresses of 100 service members located in more than 50 cities across 29 states and encouraged “lone wolf” ISIS supporters to kill them. In Washington state the list included addresses from Spokane, Seattle and Cheney. But in Idaho, there was only one city identified: Bonners Ferry, a town of less than 2,500. The FBI warned the Boundary County Sheriff’s Department and the sheriff’s department forwarded it to the city of Bonners Ferry. “All persons and locations that have been identified in the online media ISIS threat have been contacted and the appropriate safety measures have been taken,” Bonners Ferry public information officer Mike Meier says in a press release. A story by the Daily Beast last week quickly revealed that at least two thirds of the names, photos and addresses on the list were culled from public sources, suggesting that the “The Islamic State Hacking Division’s” claims to have “hacked several military servers” was likely nothing more than simple Googling. In the past few days, Meier’s answered a lot of phone calls from law enforcement personnel and concerned citi-

zens. But he says there hasn’t been any more news locally about the threat. “I have heard absolutely nothing,” Meier says. “Nothing is a good thing.” — DANIEL WALTERS

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Representatives from businesses, labor organizations, churches and political advocates gathered at the Common Crumb Bakery on March 31 to unveil their path forward on getting a PAID SICK POLICY put in place in Spokane as soon as this summer. According to the Spokane Alliance, a coalition of faith and labor groups that’s been active on the issue, there are about 40,000 workers in Spokane who lack paid sick leave. If everything goes according to plan, Spokane would join 18 other cities and three states that have some sort of policy mandating that employers provide their employees with paid time off to deal with illness. Jon Snyder and Amber Waldref, two progressive members of city council, plan on introducing a resolution this month that will create a work group gathering input for Spokane’s sick leave ordinance that could be voted on

A strong turnout for a multi-day community forum last weekend in PASCO has Felix Vargas feeling optimistic about the future of the police investigation into the fatal police shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in February. Vargas, chair of the activist group Consejo Latino, sent a letter to the Franklin County prosecutor, Shawn Sant, last month demanding he remove himself from the case. “He has a conflict of interest,” Vargas tells the Inlander. “He should not be on this case because LETTERS he’s too close to the Send comments to investigation.” Vargas editor@inlander.com. also says Sant’s former 21-year career as a police officer compromises his ability to review the Special Investigation Unit’s report objectively and evaluate whether or not to bring charges. Gov. Jay Inslee, in response to the letter, says he will not tell the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to the case, but he will reconsider the matter as the investigation wraps up, which won’t be for another few weeks. “That tells me it’s not completely off the table,” Vargas says. “I’m happy the governor is engaged and retaining interest if things don’t go forward in an impartial and objective manner.” — MITCH RYALS

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t the Members Lounge, located in a strip mall in Spokane Valley, the air is thick with laughter, coughing and a smell long associated with breaking the law. Mike Stoedter, a representative from CO2 Organics, drizzles out complimentary “dabs,” a molasses-like, highly concentrated marijuana extract, into a “rig,” a vaporizer that’s connected to a water pipe that patrons of the lounge eagerly line up in front of for a hit. At the lounge, some people play pool while reggae and hip-hop blare in the background. Others seem to melt into the couches under the gaze of the several pictures of Bob Marley hanging from the walls. Others giggle or chat about making paleo or gluten-free baked goods infused with pot. The entire atmosphere at the Members Lounge has the feeling of a bar or a house party in someone’s basement, except there’s no alcohol in sight, only pot. “It’s the next natural step,” says Eric Buchanan, the lounge’s proprietor, of creating a social space, not unlike cannabis cafés in Amsterdam or Vancouver, B.C., for people to consume legal pot. Even if marijuana lounges are the next natural step for legalized cannabis, it’s a step into a gray area that nobody’s quite comfortable with. Just a handful of similar lounges in Washington state have been able to operate, because nothing in the state’s pot laws explicitly that says they can’t exist, but nothing says they can. As the use of recreational marijuana grows in the state, entrepreneurs, particularly those involved with pot tourism, want clarity on the law. Cities uneasy with legal marijuana, like Spokane Valley, want more authority over them. Lawmakers are currently considering an overhaul of the state’s pot laws; it’s uncertain if they will provide the much sought-after clarity any time soon.

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e live in a free country, and until they say you can’t do it, I’m going to do it,” says Buchanan, 40, who dresses on the more casual side of business casual, with a button-down blue shirt, white sneakers and shiny stud earrings. A construction contractor who grew up on Fairchild Air Force Base and in Spokane Valley, he’s used marijuana medicinally since 2009 and saw a business opportunity to provide a place for people seeking to consume cannabis socially. He opened the Members Lounge in July, and the adjacent

MariJanes Tap House and Grill, with a business partner, in October of last year. Buchanan says that even though Spokane Valley is less pot-friendly than Spokane, he chose the property because its 7,000 square feet provided ample space with a good lease. He also has roots in the community, and with its address at 11420 East Sprague Avenue, it all just made sense. But getting the operation to make sense legally hasn’t been as straightforward. “We don’t want to do anything that’s illegal,” says Buchanan, who uses very specific language to describe the lounge. The statewide initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in 2012 explicitly prohibits public use of the drug, and recreational stores are forbidden to allow people to consume it on the premises. To get around these prohibitions, the lounge is set up as a “private club” where its 134 members (who pay a monthly membership fee ranging from $14.99 to $29.99) can consume pot via a vaporizer or edible. Members also can smoke pot. Although businesses in Washington state aren’t allowed to expose their workers to smoke, Buchanan says the club gets around this by having “volunteers,” not employees. Members can bring their own stash, or if they’re medical users, can purchase it from an in-house medical dispensary. There are no recreational sales of pot, but members can “donate” pot to each other. The adjoining bar is also kept completely separate from the lounge. Erin Stone, 32, says she’s been dreaming about a social place for stoners since she started smoking pot at age 17. In the past, she says, she’s hung out at bars with friends and had to sneak outside to smoke pot. Those days are gone. “I feel like it’s been magic,” she says between dab hits. “And it’s only been open a few months.”

tate officials don’t see magic in private pot lounges. In 2013, Gov. Jay Inslee sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder detailing all that the state would do to responsibly implement marijuana legalization, including a prohibition on consuming pot in private clubs. But efforts by the state to crack down on pot clubs have had limited success. After pot became legal, establishments such as Frankie’s Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia and Stonegate Pizza and Rum Bar in

Tacoma set up private marijuana clubs on their premises. The Washington State Liquor Control Board reacted swiftly, establishing a rule in 2013 that prohibits the consumption of cannabis at bars. The WSLCB can regulate businesses with liquor licenses as well as producers, processors and retailers of recreational marijuana, says board spokesperson Brian Smith. Because the Members Lounge is technically none of these, it falls outside of the agency’s purview. “It’s absolutely, completely gray, Wild West territory,” says Hilary Bricken, an attorney at the Canna Law Group. “As long as they don’t have liquor in the establishment, [private pot clubs] have a fighting chance.” Bricken says that local governments have more authority over private clubs than the WSLCB. For instance, a local prosecutor could try to make case against a lounge, or a city government could revoke its business license. With so much uncertainty, she says, few business owners will take the risk. Buchanan knows this risk and says his biggest concern is how “closed-minded” the city is going to be toward his club. The city of Spokane Valley, with an older, more conservative city council, has had an uneasy relationship with marijuana. In December, citing a public health crisis, it declared a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries, while allowing existing businesses to be grandfathered in. “I would just like the authority to ban it or not,” says Councilman Ed Pace, a Lutheran minister who refers to marijuana stores as “dealers.” Pace is concerned that the lack of regulation over the Members Lounge could result in minors getting access to pot. Mike Jackson, Spokane Valley city manager, says that bars need to undergo licensing and inspections and have rules aimed at preventing overserving of patrons and keeping minors out. Lounges, he says, should be subject to similar requirements or not be allowed at all. Revoking the business registration for the Members Lounge isn’t an option at this point, he says, and Spokane Valley would rather see a change to state laws before it considers that option. Briahna Taylor, Spokane Valley’s lobbyist, has made two unsuccessful attempts to get an amendment that would give local governments more authority over lounges attached to two different pot bills being considered in Olympia. In an email exchange, she says there are still opportunities in this legislative session to get the issue resolved. However, Jackson isn’t so optimistic. “Effectively, I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere,” he says.

ricken says that despite demand for these lounges, businesses are unlikely to invest in them without clear legal footing, which she says is a particular problem for marijuana tourism. Under the state’s pot laws, it’s illegal to consume marijuana on the street and other public places. Hotels generally prohibit smoking of any kind. So where is a marijuana tourist supposed to legally light up? “It’s a massive problem,” says Chase Nobles, co-founder of Kush Tourism, a Seattle-based company that offers tours of pot growing and processing operations and has hosted people from all over the world. He says that there are weed-friendly bed and breakfasts, which his company steers clients toward, but they’re operating under unclear legal circumstances. In 2013, Louie Flores, the owner of the 1899 House, a Spokane bed and breakfast, saw an opening to serve visitors who want to smoke pot. He called up the WSLCB to see what the rules were, but after being on hold for nearly an hour, he received no clear answer. After getting some guidance from the local health district, which Flores says advised him to treat pot like tobacco, the 1899 House announced that guests were welcome to bring pot and smoke it on the side patio (never inside). So far they’ve had four guests who’ve smoked pot during their stay. Flores expects that number to increase. Eventually, he says some clear licensing requirements will emerge, but for now he’ll make due. “That’s where we are at,” he says. “We are an experiment.” n jaket@inlander.com

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NEWS | JUSTICE

Perpetual Payments Legal fines and fees are getting a serious look in the state Supreme Court and the legislature BY MITCH RYALS

armen Pacheco-Jones walked out of a bright yellow, two-story house in the bad part of town with a fresh bag of dope in her pocket. She recalls that this particular day was especially beautiful. The warm sun and tiny baggie clenched in her fist provided an extra pep in her step. She was about to get into a friend’s car when a police officer, who was camped out in front of the known drug house in Yakima that she had just walked out of, called her over. “Hey Carmen, come over here for a second,” she remembers the officer saying. She walked over to him, thinking nothing of it. The 18-year-old had been in and out of foster homes and living on the street for most of her childhood, so she was fairly chummy with the police — even with a new bag of heroin in her pocket. As she approached, the officer’s demeanor changed. He told her to put her hands behind her back. She was under arrest for shoplifting — a misdemeanor crime and the very thing she and a friend were on their way to do again. That’s how they paid for the drugs. When the officer found the heroin in her pocket, she was hit LETTERS with a felony possesSend comments to sion charge as well. editor@inlander.com. That was two weeks after her 18th birthday. Now, 30 years later, she’s still paying for that mistake and six other felony charges she racked up between 1984 and 1999 in the form of court fines, fees and restitution also known as legal financial obligations, or LFOs. Pacheco-Jones, who now lives in Spokane, has been making regular monthly payments of $75 to $100 every month since 2000, and she’s been completely clean for longer than that. But fines and fees for those six felonies and other various misdemeanors (most for driving on a suspended license) piled up to the tune of more than $38,000.

here are two types of LFOs: mandatory and discretionary. Mandatory charges, those that a judge is required to impose by law, include things like restitution to victims, fines for felony convictions, criminal filing fees and fines for DNA sample testing. Discretionary charges, those that a judge has the option to tack on, can include fees for jail time, fees for a public defender, filing fees and costs incurred in preparing and serving a warrant. Currently, Washington state law assigns a 12 percent interest rate to LFOs, one of the highest rates in the country. An investigation by the ACLU of Washington and Columbia Legal Services found that the statutorily mandated 12 percent interest rate makes it nearly impossible for impoverished people to get out from under their debt, tying them to the criminal justice system for decades after the original charge. “LFOs are one of the biggest barriers for convicted felons to successful reentry into society,” says Vanessa Hernandez, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Washington

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Center for Justice attorney Julie Schaffer says the current system of court fines prevents people from putting their lives back together. and head of the Second Chances Project. “There’s a real problem with the way the LFO systems are operated.” Two recent developments, one in the state Supreme Court and one in the form of a bill in the state legislature, aim to fix some of those problems.

recent state Supreme Court decision could have helped Pacheco-Jones. In State of Washington v. Blazina, the court ruled last month that a judge must hold an on-the-record hearing in order to determine a person’s current and future ability to pay LFOs before imposing any discretionary fines. The court decision says that judges must consider future jail time and the defendant’s other debts, including restitution. “The Blazina decision goes a long way toward reminding courts of their constitutional obligation to consider ability to pay before imposing court costs on indigent defendants,” says Hernandez. Current state law says that courts should not tack on discretionary fines if the defendant cannot pay them but establishes no process for making such a determination. Before the state Supreme Court ruling, it was largely the responsibility of defense attorneys to informally ask judges to waive discretionary fines, says Spokane County Superior Court Judge Gregory Sypolt. Now, the mandatory hearing could consist of testimony and evidence of a defendant’s employment and income (or lack thereof).

ust a few months after her release, police arrested Pacheco-Jones again, this time on a warrant for nonpayment of her LFOs. Even though she was unemployed, living on the street, addicted to heroin and had no way of paying, she spent 90 days in jail. She received credit toward her LFOs for that time served, but with the new warrant and arrest came more fines, and her hole grew deeper. A bill in the state legislature would, among other things, make it illegal to incarcerate a person for nonpay-

ment of LFOs as long as that nonpayment isn’t willful, as in Pacheco-Jones’ case. That means if a person is receiving various types of public assistance, such as disability benefits, food stamps or Medicaid, is involuntarily committed to a mental health facility or whose annual income is 125 percent less than the federal poverty line, he or she cannot be thrown in jail for not paying LFOs. Instead, House Bill 1390 gives judges the option to remit some of the original fines or assign community service to pay off the debt. The bill, which passed almost unanimously (94-4) in the House, also would eliminate the 12 percent interest rate on nonrestitution LFOs and prioritize repayment of restitution to the victim rather than discretionary court fines. “Current law allows us to use jail as a sanction for nonpayment,” says Julie Schaffer, an attorney with the Center for Justice who frequently works with clients who owe LFOs. “Our belief is that the current system is ineffective at inducing payment and also keeps people within the system.” County Clerk Tim Fitzgerald says things aren’t so cut-and-dry in Spokane. According to Fitzgerald, a warrant is usually only issued if a person hasn’t paid for several months and is making no effort to update the clerk’s office of their financial situation. “If they’re paying, we try to work with them,” he says. Fitzgerald says there are a few problems with Spokane County’s LFO collection, though, and he has a few suggestions for improvements. First, he wants to reduce or eliminate the 12 percent interest rate. Second, Fitzgerald wants to standardize the collection process. Currently, management and collection of the approximately 29,500 active LFO cases in Spokane County are divided among three collection deputies in the clerk’s office. It’s up to each individual clerk to choose which cases they hit with collection notices and when. The result: some people end up with notices multiple times a year, and some aren’t contacted for a year or more. Schaffer says the organization has been in talks with Fitzgerald about improving the collection system. “[Tim] has been very open to my ideas and genuinely interested in how we can make it better for everyone,” Schaffer writes in an email. “I believe he recognizes the problems and wants to include us in identifying and implementing solutions.”

he year 2000 marked a turning point for PachecoJones. Her most recent conviction was in 1999 and she started paying off her debt regularly every month. As she put her life back together, the felony convictions and fines continued to weigh her down. She struggled to find steady work and had her wages garnished for a time in 2005. “It was almost like a feeling of apathy,” she says. “Knowing that eventually I’m going to have to pay this, but what are the immediate needs?” Many times between 2000 and now, Pacheco-Jones says, she had to choose between paying for her LFOs and rent, food for her five kids and bus fare. Of the $38,000 in LFOs that Pacheco-Jones accumulated, she now has about $9,000 left, and thanks to Schaffer’s help, her monthly payments have been reduced from $100 to $75. In 2008, Pacheco-Jones graduated from Whitworth University. She has started working at a job she loves, as a victims’ advocate for a local nonprofit organization. “[The LFOs] had the potential to stall me if I wasn’t grounded in my recovery, and wasn’t motivated to make a difference and change my life for myself and for my children’s sakes,” she says. “My motivation was mainly centered around my childhood, and not wanting my kids to go through the same thing.” n

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im Peone rolls up his sleeve and thrusts his hand into water that’s red and squirming with new life. “Sac fry,” exclaims Peone, director of the Spokane Tribal Hatchery, opening his hand to reveal freshly hatched Kokanee salmon flopping about confusedly in his palm. In about a year, these small fish will be ready for the wild, and hatchery workers will anesthetize them, clip one of their fins (sometimes 10,000 in a day) and release them into Lake Roosevelt where anglers will catch them, their clipped fins indicating they aren’t the wild varieties of salmon the tribe once fished. In one way, the hatchery is a wonder of modern technology, helping the tribe replenish local waterways with fish and reconnecting them with their river heritage. In another way, though, the hatchery is a bittersweet reminder of the abundance the tribe once enjoyed before the U.S. government dropped slabs of concrete and metal into the Spokane and Columbia rivers, forever changing the diets and culture of local tribes. One of these slabs, the Grand Coulee Dam, helped drag the country out of the Great Depression, and the electricity it produced helped win World War II. At 12 million cubic yards of concrete, it’s the largest source of hydropower in the country, producing billions of kilowatts of energy every year while directing much-needed water to farms. After the dam’s construction, Peone says the tribe had a series of “lost years” after being abruptly cut off from the defining pillar of its culture. Songs, rituals, ceremonies, honored positions in the tribe and its most basic means of sustenance were all taken from the Spokane people. “We’ll never be fully compensated for the loss of the salmon,” Peone says. “There’s just no way.” The $4,700 the U.S government gave the tribe in 1940 for the construction of the dam didn’t even come close. But for the neighboring Colville Tribe, which had a nearly identical relationship with the river and suffered identical damages, the situation is different. The Colvilles are getting ready to distribute about $2,000 to each tribe member as an annual payout for the loss inflicted by the dam. The payout is part of a settlement the Colvilles reached in 1994 that gave them an initial $53 million and an annual check for each member based on revenues from the dam. Meanwhile, the Spokane Tribe, their lobbyists and sympathetic members of Congress are getting ready to mount yet another attempt to right the scales. For nearly two decades, there’s always been some reason, excuse or technicality that’s prevented the Spokanes from getting a similar deal. It’s an accident of history, and no one, at least not openly, questions the unfairness of the situation. The Obama administration supports a settlement with the Spokanes, as do both of the

state’s U.S. senators. Now, the Spokane Tribe and others say the latest barrier is coming from the person who most directly represents them in Congress: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. At the fishery, it’s feeding time. Peone watches as a hatchery worker flings fish food into pools stirring with excited fish. “This area really lost a lot more than people realize,” says Peone.

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or us, since time immemorial, we were a river tribe,” says Warren Seyler, speaking in a tribal conference room in Wellpinit where a cougar hide hangs on the wall behind him. Seyler, a 55-year-old member of the Spokane Tribe, served on the tribe’s council from 1990 through 2007. Done with tribal politics, his day job is the tribe’s Bonneville Power Administration coordinator, serving as the eyes and ears on regulatory issues related to the river. Softspoken with a calm demeanor, he beams while telling you all about his interns (tribal members considering careers in wildlife management) after telling you all about a conflict between the Spokanes and the U.S. military in the mid-1800s. He’s well-versed in the tribe’s history; the shelves in his office are lined with various books on Indian history, the Lewis and Clark expedition, a copy of A People’s History of the United States and a thick tome on the Spokanes’ history, along with hefty white binders labeled with red marker and stuffed with historical documents and statistics on regional fish. With binders and documents spread out on a conference table, he explains that before the dam was built, the Spokanes caught eel, shellfish and salmon from the river. The tribe prayed salmon prayers, sang salmon songs and performed salmon ceremonies on the banks of the river, knowing that the return of the fish meant they could eat another year, Seyler says. Those songs and ceremonies are now lost. “They knew the science, way back when, that you couldn’t take everything,” he says. The harvesting, he says, was overseen by salmon chiefs who said when to start fishing and — because of some medicine, some vision or just the realization that the tribe needed to let some fish go — when to stop. The fish were dried by the ton and shared with everyone. All of that’s gone now, too. “All I can tell you is that at one time [the Spokane and Colville tribes] had a full-employment economy that was based on their fishery,” says Allan Scholz, an Eastern Washington University biology professor. “And that is what is owed those tribes.” Scholz, recently retired, has devoted most of his working life to studying the region’s fish and helping tribes, including the Spokanes, build fisheries. He can tell you a lot more. He can tell you about the Spokane ValleyRathdrum Prairie Aquifer that makes the water cool in the summer and warm in the winter, creating an abundance of prey that fish grew fat on. ...continued on next page

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Little Falls Dam

water world The federal government placed the Colville and Spokane reservations along the Columbia and Spokane rivers in recognition of how these bodies of water have shaped the tribes. All that changed with the arrival of commercial fishing and dams.

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Grand Coulee Dam Completed in 1941, the dam is one of the largest concrete structures in the world and the largest producer of hydropower in the country. It also blocked the Columbia River and flooded tribal lands.

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“THE PRICE OF PROGRESS,” CONTINUED... He can tell you about the species of Chinook and coho salmon and steelhead trout that swam out to the Pacific Ocean and then back up the Columbia River after having grown large, sometimes weighing up to 100 pounds. There also were sturgeon and lampreys, and river tribes harvested them all, giving virtually everyone some form of employment and a belly full of fish. An account from David Douglas, a Scottish botanist who traveled across the Northwest in the early 1800s, describes his visit to an Indian camp along the north side of the Spokane River where the tribe had constructed a barrier of willows that was used to trap the LETTERS fish, which were skewSend comments to ered with bone-pointed editor@inlander.com. spears. According to his account, 1,700 had been taken that day and sometimes up to 2,000 were harvested daily. They were speared or caught in baskets. After being cleaned, they were hung up on racks and dried with smoke to preserve them for the winter. All of the work was done with special care. According to one account, if a salmon fell off a spear, the work stopped for the day. If a spear came into the sight of a dog skull (a bad omen), the fisher carrying it underwent a purification ritual. Settlers tried to pry the tribe away from their way of life almost as soon as they arrived. Protestant missionaries attempted to convince them to abandon their seminomadic life and embrace farming and Christianity, with some success. In 1866, a federal agent tasked with trying to convince the Spokane Tribe to enter into a treaty that would relocate them to the Flathead Reservation in Montana wrote that they “will not consent to the abandoning

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of their fisheries.” Decades later, the Spokanes would end up doing just that because the fish would be gone. n 1790, according to historians Robert H. Ruby and John Arthur Brown, the Spokane prophet Yureerachen foresaw the coming of the white man, who would come with a book and teach the tribe everything they knew. Then the Spokanes’ world would fall to pieces. Yureerachen’s prophecy was borne out. But apparently he left out the parts about the commercial fisheries and the dams. According to Scholz, the EWU professor, commercial fisheries started to spring up on the region’s waterways in the late 1800s, with hundreds of miles of gillnets and fish wheels and no salmon chief to tell them to let some fish go. According to a report from the U.S. Fish Commission, canning operations started up on the Columbia River in 1866 and would harvest 658 million pounds of salmon between then and 1893. The fish wheels, ferris wheel-like contraptions, arrived in 1897. One of them once caught 700,000 pounds of salmon in one day. “They were just taking every fish in sight,” says Scholz. In 1910, Washington Water Power Co., now Avista, completed the Little Falls Dam on the Spokane River, which Scholz says included an ineffective fish ladder that disrupted the flow of aquatic life. The construction in 1915 of Long Lake Dam, a 200-foot-high dam on the Spokane River, further contributed to the declining fish runs. But it was the Grand Coulee Dam that permanently ended the salmon runs. The dam’s construction began in 1933 as a public

works project intended to help pull the country out of the Great Depression, employing 15,000 people during its construction and beginning to generate electricity in 1941, just in time for World War II. Woody Guthrie was even commissioned to write a song about the dam: Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of ’thirty-three, For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me, He said, “Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea, But river, while you’re rambling, you can do some work for me. But the river no longer rambled for the tribes. There were no more salmon songs, salmon ceremonies or salmon chiefs. Other tribes no longer congregated to trade buffalo for salmon with the Spokanes during fish runs. The tribe’s burial grounds, villages and orchards were submerged under the newly created Lake Roosevelt. (Sometimes when the water level is low in the lake, you can see their washed-up remnants, and every year tribal police have to stop people from picking through the artifacts.) With the fish dwindling, the government started issuing pork, beef and mutton to the Indians. The tribe’s fish-based diet was replaced with foods laden with sugar and salt, according to a report from the World Commission on Dams. Diet-related diseases like diabetes started to appear among the tribe. The Spokane Tribe shares a lot with the Colvilles. They both spoke dialects of Salish and the loss of the river affected both in similar ways. “When you have such drastic, quick change in your government, economy, food, what do you do?” asks Mel Tonasket, a 75-year-old member of the Colville Tribe’s

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e don’t really talk about it with our children,” Tonasket says of the dam between

sips of coffee. He pauses, and looks through bifocals out the window. “I don’t know,” he continues. “What can you do about it?” For the Colvilles, there’s not much else to do except keep getting the annual checks as part of the settlement over the dam. Tonasket wears a Navy veteran hat and a blue fleece pullover embroidered with the Colville Tribal Casino logo. It lists the tribe’s three casinos, including one at the Grand Coulee Dam. On his right wrist is a purple wristband embroidered with the word “hope.” He was first elected to Colville tribal council in 1970 — eventually becoming chairman — and is serving another term after taking a nearly 25-year break. When he was first elected, he says the dam was a sore point that was seldom brought up. But that changed when he did a stint as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1970s, which took him to other reservations where water, particularly in the Southwest, was increasingly an issue. All the new talk about water, says Tonasket, prompted the tribe to wonder about their water and what had been done with it. With this realization,

the Colvilles, he says, made the decision to start pressing the federal government for a cash settlement over the Grand Coulee Dam. The tribe’s leverage was an open legal claim against the U.S. government for loss of land that dated back to the 1940s. The Spokanes settled a similar claim in 1967 for $6.7 million, which didn’t include the dam. The Colvilles hadn’t settled their claim. Over the objections of the U.S. government, they amended it in 1976 to include damages from the dam. Bob Anderson, a former Clinton administration lawyer with the U.S. Department of Interior, now the director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington, says the statute of limitations makes it impossible for the Spokanes to reopen a legal claim against the U.S. government over the dam, effectively denying them the same legal leverage that secured the Colvilles’ settlement. He met with the Spokanes during the 1990s and immediately was convinced of the clear justice behind their case. He says that the government has hidden behind “pointyheaded” legal arguments to deny them compensation. A similar point was made by Kevin Washburn, assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, during a 2013 hearing to compensate the Spokanes: “And so in essence, the Colville Tribes got their day in court, but the Spokane Tribe never really did. It is thus largely an accident of history that one tribe was compensated and another tribe was not compensated for the very same loss.” When news broke that the the Colvilles were finally getting a settlement, Tonasket remembers attending a meeting in Nespelem filled with excited people arguing over what to do with the $53 million. According to news accounts, after attorney’s fees, each of the tribe’s 8,000 members received an initial $6,000, with an annual payment from then on. The Colville settlement was one of the last legislative acts passed by Tom Foley, a Democrat who represented both tribes in Congress while serving as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...continued on next page

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council. Tonasket remembers his father telling him of how, as a child, he was put on a wagon with his family and taken on a week-long trip from Omak to Kettle Falls. There, they fished for salmon in a spot reserved for his family. A salmon chief made sure every family had enough to last until the next season. Once the fishing was over, his family started the week-long trip home in a wagon loaded with fish. His father’s generation watched its livelihood vanish, and that sense of loss, says Tonasket, has carried through generations and is palpable today. Alcoholism, domestic violence and so many other problems facing the tribe have their roots in the dam, he says. “When your providers can’t provide anymore, what does it do to you?” he asks.

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Fish culturist T.J. Lebret feeds rainbow trout at the Spokane Tribal Hatchery.

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A sample of the fish the tribe used to sell in Spokane markets.

mittee on Indian Affairs. The Obama administration had thrown its support behind it, with Washburn acknowledging before the committee that the Colvilles receiving compensation and the Spokanes being left out “is difficult to justify morally, frankly.” But the bill never came up for a full vote in the Senate. Funke says it’s hard to question how unfair the situation is, but there are members of Congress who just don’t want a settlement. “Believe you me, there are senators in Congress who really dislike Indian tribes,” he says. “And all it takes is for a senator to anonymously put a hold on a bill. Maybe they want to save the government some money; it doesn’t matter why, but the bill is dead in the water.”

Peone says that there is bipartisan support for the bill, but members of Congress want McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-highest ranking House Republican, to take the lead on it. In the past, she has. In 2005, she took the floor of the House to speak in favor of an unsuccessful compensation bill. “Mr. Speaker,” said McMorris Rodgers, “This bill has bipartisan support and is the result of lengthy discussions for over a decade.” Now, when contacted by the Inlander to ask about the bill, her office responds with emails saying that the legislation contains an earmark, which are not allowed, and wouldn’t comment further. In recent years, there’s been some friction between the Spokanes and McMorris Rodgers over a proposed tribal casino near Fairchild Air Force Base that the congresswoman says encroaches on its space. Peone says that’s a side issue that has nothing to do with the settlement and reiterates that he wants to work with her. “I’m still going to go back to Cathy,” says Peone. “She is my and my tribe’s representative, and I’m going to continue to request that she fight on behalf of her constituency.” Nethercutt isn’t so diplomatic. “To be frank with you, I didn’t buy that argument,” he says of the claim that the settlement is an earmark. “That’s a cop-out. You just don’t want to spend the money.” Peone can only speculate what would happen if they reached a settlement. He’d like to build a cultural center that will help reconnect tribal members with their heritage, particularly their Salish language. Like many members of the tribe, Peone knows a few words in Salish, but is far from fluent. When asked what the word for “salmon” is in Salish, he searches his mind. It’s almost on the tip of his tongue when he turns to Tim for help. “That’s a good one,” his brother says. He doesn’t know the answer either. n jaket@inlander.com

“THE PRICE OF PROGRESS,” CONTINUED... before he was swept away in the Republican wave of 1994. With a changed political climate in the House, the outlook for the Spokanes also changed. eorge Nethercutt was the Republican who unseated Foley. Although more conservative than his predecessor, he was still friendly with the tribes in his district. Nethercutt (also an Inlander commentator) says he developed a relationship with them while working on funding for diabetes research, an issue of interest to the Spokanes, who have struggled with the disease. They gave him Indian blankets as a gift and invited him to give a greeting one year at their powwow in downtown Spokane, which he delivered in mangled Salish. He also became aware of the dam settlement and offered to help. “I think it goes to fairness,” says Nethercutt, who became a lobbyist after leaving Congress in 2004 and whose clients included the Spokanes. In 1999, he introduced legislation that would have given the Spokanes compensation for the dam, but it ended up going nowhere, a process that was repeated twice more. In 2003, Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, managed to get a compensation bill passed through the U.S. Senate, only to see it stall in the House. In 2005, the bill passed the House, but was attacked by Lincoln County officials for how it would transfer some of the jurisdiction along Lake Roosevelt back to the tribe. It ended up stalling in the Senate. In 2009, the Spokesman-Review published an article raising concerns about how the settlement could again create access problems to the lake, prompting the Spokane Tribe to take out a full-page ad attacking the article. Howard Funke, the tribe’s former lawyer, recalls these articles creating a backlash against McMorris Rodgers, who replaced Nethercutt in 2005 and had been working on the legislation. A compensation bill has been introduced in every Congress since then, and it seemed like it would finally pass in 2013. Cantwell had the gavel on the Senate Com-

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t the hatchery hang black-and-white 1980s photos of Tim Peone and his brother Rudy, both with long mullets, working on fish-related projects while studying under Allan Scholz at EWU. There’s also a framed letter from Tom Foley, apologizing that he couldn’t make it in person to its opening in 1990. Rudy Peone, who serves as the tribe’s chairman, drives down the gravel driveway to the hatchery in a big white pickup truck. He prefers to meet here because part of being tribal chairman means people who need help with an electric or phone bill coming in and out of his office all day. “I don’t know,” says Peone, 44, with a salt-and-pepper goatee, of why the tribe can’t get compensation. “It’s beyond me — it’s excuse after excuse.” Nowadays, the most recent excuse, says Peone, is that compensating the tribe is an “earmark.” Earmarks used to be a way for members of Congress to provide companies, projects and organizations direct funding with federal tax money. But House Republicans got rid of them outright in 2011 as part of an overall antispending atmosphere that pervaded the chamber when they took over.

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ASCENDING ARTIST

Frank Knapp A midlife crisis and tragic loss fueled a new passion for photography BY DAN NAILEN

rank Knapp disembarks from his Starcraft van to stroll along the Spokane River not far from his Hillyard home. While Lycra-clad joggers trot by on this sunny spring afternoon, he sports a camouflage jacket and baseball cap to shield his eyes — better for seeing the changes in the river since his last visit. On this day, Knapp spies a beaver swimming among some exposed tree roots toward a dam. There’s colorful graffiti underneath the Mission Street Bridge, abandoned homeless camps, clothes hanging in tree branches, a semi-submerged bench seat from a car. None of it inspires him to pull out his camera. Then, doubling back, Knapp spots three rocks poking out of the water between some trees. The twilight is catching them just right, and a couple of days before, the river was too high to see them. Out comes his camera and tripod as Knapp says, quietly, “We’re attracted to odd-numbered things.” Knapp does photo safaris along the river several times each week with his dog Banjo, the ever-changing river honing his ability to see a familiar scene differently every time. It’s a skill he’s used to create stunning photographs of Spokane’s natural and urban environments — and where the two meet. It’s also an exercise he learned taking classes at Spokane Falls Community College. He calls it “the act of seeing, and seeing differently. Everyone just jogs through here without seeing.” ...continued on next page

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Frank Knapp’s landcape shots put an otherworldly spin on the everyday. FRANK KNAPP PHOTO

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pying the world with a photographer’s eye is relatively new for the 40-year-old, and did not come easily. In 2008, Knapp was a happy newlywed, driving a delivery truck for a living. A year after getting married, he was at a friend’s playing video games when he got the call. His wife was dead. “Her heart just stopped working,” Knapp recalls. Seven years later, he’s flipping through photos in the house he shares with his girlfriend, her daughter and dog Banjo, and he believes the “midlife crisis” that followed his wife’s death is what pushed him to photography, “to help sort that out.” “Without having any background in art, or writing — and you’re not supposed to cry and all that — I think I really needed to find a way to express myself and look at the world in a different way,” Knapp says. “And maybe hide behind the camera some, too.” Having lost everything that was important to him, Knapp quit his job and threw himself into school. He wasn’t planning to get his degree, but was so inspired that he did anyway, in 2012. He learned the basics, but his instructors pushed to “really show meaning and yourself in the work, and go beyond that and write about it.” Growing up on a farm north of Spokane, he reveled in the country life riding snowmobiles and driving hay trucks, but didn’t spend much time contemplating his emotional palette. That changed, Knapp says, as “photography

really connected with expressing myself, and seeing things differently.”

hree years later, Knapp considers himself a bit of a geek, collecting all manner of cameras. He’s worked primarily in digital photography so far, and his shots have been showcased at the Brick Wall Photographic Gallery, Liberty Ciderworks and Terrain. He has plans to create a darkroom in his basement so he can work more with film, but that will likely have to wait, as he’s recently been accepted to both the Art on the Green in Coeur d’Alene and the MAC’s ArtFest this summer. People naturally will be drawn to his blackand-white nature photography or dramatic night shots of Spokane buildings. A few could be struck by what might be considered Knapp’s specialty, showing man’s effects on the natural world. “There’s got to be something more we can say about nature than ‘It’s been untouched,’” Knapp says. His photos sometimes focus on garbage on a trail, or a shopping cart half-covered by a rushing river. Knapp looks at that and sees beauty. Through his eyes and photographs, that beauty comes through. “With most of my pictures, I try to capture the essence of what we’re looking at,” Knapp says. “I don’t photograph people in most of my work, but I photograph enough stuff to get the sense of humanity in there.” 

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On Sunday night, just hours after falling 66-52 to Duke in an Elite Eight matchup, Kevin Pangos and the rest of the Gonzaga men’s basketball team returned to campus from a weekend in Houston. Greeting them was a strong contingent of their fellow students and a horde of other fans, congratulating the Zags on a season that saw the most wins in program history (35) and the school’s first trip to the Elite Eight in 16 years.

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he Lilac City was the “baggage” my didn’t please the bartender on hand, who shut a girlfriend brought to our long-distance door to the small vestibule housing the guitarist relationship, and moving to the Inland and cranked up the Soundgarden on the bar’s Northwest to be with her meant breaking up system. A sound decision, for sure. with my beloved hometown and jumping right On to Mootsy’s, where my order of a Bulleit into bed with Spokane, virtually sight unseen. inspired an older regular with more tattoos on Gone was the comfortable navigating of fahis hands than teeth in his mouth to share his miliar haunts with lifelong friends, replaced with disdain for rye whiskey, but love for rye bread, strange, ridiculously potholed streets leading to especially on a quality Reuben. On a wall by the bars where absolutely nobody knows my name. pool table, an old flyer informs me one of my That anonymity can be exciting — who favorite musicians, Mike Watt, has played there doesn’t love a clean slate? It can also be isolatin the past. This was a bar for a guy like me. ing, though, when everyone you know in town Next stop, LeftBank Wine Bar to glimpse is either a new co-worker or some graffiti pop-art and sip some works with your partner. D I S T I L L E D wine, followed by a stroll south on The first few months Washington for photography at LibA SHOT OF LIFE of my Spokane affair were erty Ciderworks and a sample of the full of fits and starts. Not Newtown Pippin SV; it’s reportedly tumultuous, but not particularly inspiring. Even one of Thomas Jefferson’s favorite ciders, and though my former home was not too different — who am I to argue with a Founding Father? naturally beautiful, culturally and politically on Heading into the unseasonably warm night the conservative side with an amusing strain of and strolling through downtown among the barreligious fanaticism — our union still felt a little… hoppers and art-strollers, the skate rats and suits, forced. There was certainly nothing to indicate I started to feel more at home than I had since the city and I might forge the kind of loving, arriving in Spokane. Even reading a news alert playful relationship I enjoyed in my old town. about a wannabe serial killer stabbing someone That changed on a night when the girlfriend downtown as I passed through the “Drug City”was stuck at work and I was left for a solo stroll tagged underpass couldn’t kill this new buzz. through the First Friday festivities. Art-crawling Not a buzz forged by the booze, but by the is certainly better done with a buzz, and I spent feeling I had about my new home. It’s got grit the evening stopping at new (to me) watering right next to glitz. It’s got amazing natural beauty holes between viewings. within minutes in any direction. It’s got a citiFirst up, Satellite Diner and a Jameson on zenry that takes advantage of what it has to offer, the rocks as an artist painted along to a man even while taking it for granted now and then. strumming an acoustic guitar. His style clearly Now you can include me among them. 

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and more this Friday, April 3rd! Venues open 5 - 8 pm unless otherwise noted. For more information about the artists and an interactive map, visit downtownspokane.org

AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE 7 PM 402 W MAIN

3 Minute Mic! Monthly open-mic poetry night hosted by Chris Cook with special guest Sam Ligon.

AVENUE WEST GALLERY 5-8:30 PM 707 W MAIN, SKYWALK LEVEL

Mary Ann Sinclair: Wall hangings and stoles reflect both the inspiration of nature and spirituality.

BARILI CELLARS 4-9 PM 608 W SECOND

Aaron Theisen: Photographs of the outdoor beauty that surrounds us in the Northwest. Explore the images along with Barili wine.

BARRISTER WINERY 5-10 PM 1213 W RAILROAD AVENUE

Bart DeGraaf: Whimsical watercolor characters.

BOZZI GALLERY & LATAH CREEK WINERY TASTING ROOM

221 N WALL, SUITE 226 (OLD CITY HALL)

Jacqueline Brewer: Texture and movement invites the viewer to explore deeper into the image on the canvas.

BRICKWALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS GALLERY 4-8:30 PM 530 W MAIN

Melissa Rackham and Brian Deemy Alternative process photography.

CALAMITY JANE’S BOUTIQUE 4-7 PM 621 W MALLON, SUITE 303 LOCATED IN THE FLOUR MILL

Lynn Rossman Blackwood: Local fashion designs made from recycled fabrics, clothing and unexpected finds.

CHASE GALLERY, CITY HALL 808 W SPOKANE FALLS BLVD

Landmarks, Get Lit! 2015. Group exhibition celebrating Spokane’s Landmarks and cultural/historical heritage.

CHOCOLATE APOTHECARY 621 W MALLON

Beer+Cheese Flight, Wine and Chocolate pairing, Espresso and Cheese pairing, live music and lots of fun!

EAST SPRAGUE ART GALLERY 5-8 PM 1812 E SPRAGUE

Diane Spano: Baskets For the Bunny.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS 331 W MAIN

Art created by the children at Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Proceeds directly support the nursery.

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Ira Gardnern Artist and Eugene Jablonsky Trio: Release party for print and online Photo Journal

Hannah Camacho, Nikai Birchler, Jake Miller, Angela Marie Project: Upbeat music, pen and ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and mixed media collages will all be featured.

906 W SECOND

HERBAL ESSENCE CAFE 115 N WASHINGTON

Conrad Bagley: Paintings acrylic and oils.

HILLS’ RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 6:30-9:30PM 401 W MAIN

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

KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY 115 S ADAMS, SUITE A

Mischa Jakupcak, Robyn Miller, Carl Richardson and Garric Simonsen Group show featuring drawings, paintings and prints from local artists.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR

108 N WASHINGTON SUITE 105

Lisa Brown: New works in oil and watercolor entitled “B R E A T H E.”

LIBERTY CIDERWORKS 4-9 PM 164 S WASHINGTON, SUITE 300

Enjoy award-winning, hand-crafted cider with artwork by Amelia Fisch. Fisch’s paintings demonstrate an eclectic mix of line, color shape and texture.

MARKETPLACE WINERY BRIDGE PRESS & EMVY CELLARS 5-9 PM 39 W PACIFIC

Brian Gavard: April is National Autism Awareness Month. Come welcome Brian Gavard!

MARMOT ART SPACE

1206 W SUMMIT PKWY (ADAMS ALLEY)

Spokane Fifty: Next Ten: Get to know the “Spokane Fifty” project, celebrating Spokane’s renaissance in art, culture and music. The “Next Ten” are revealed.

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PINOT’S PALETTE 4-7 PM 32 W SECOND

Pinot’s Palette Artists: Ali Blackwood and Audreana Camm. Come check out our house artists’ amazing work. Paint your own masterpiece for $10!

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Kathy Lieggi: OLD OBJECTS-NEW USES--Repourposed vintage silver and glassware into beautiful pieces with new uses.

RIVER CITY BREWING 3-9 PM 121 S CEDAR

Liquid Art Series from the Mind’s of Moose and Todd: One-time beer brewed exclusively for each First Friday.

RIVER PARK SQUARE 808 W MAIN

KRESS GALLERY: Jane Beaven, Margaret Cook, Charlie Emch, Ann Haseman, Kurt Madison, Sarah Malinak, Ratree Shadduck, Keiko Von Holt, Olivia Waterman. “Images in Balance” Shodo (Calligraphy) and art show. FIRST FLOOR - NORDSTROM 5:30-7:30 PM Debbie McCulley, “Home” series featuring glass cutting boards, coasters and cards. Maxie Ray Mills, Hank to Hendrix and everything in between.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS 115 W PACIFIC

Jim Dhillon: “Open to Interpretation,” abstract paintings. Wines by the bottle or glass.

NECTAR TASTING ROOM - TIL 10PM

SAPPHIRE LOUNGE

Linnea Tobias: Mixed media, acrylic and water color. Music from Darin Hilderbrand and wine from 5 Washington wineries.

The Rising Tide: Acoustic guitar.

120 N STEVENS

NW MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE 2316 W FIRST

Dick Ibach, Mike Ross: Enjoy “100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition,” and CafeMAC food specials. No host beer and wine available.

NUMERICA CREDIT UNION 5:30-8 PM 502 W RIVERSIDE

Live painting by Kirsten Stobie, appetizers and beer from River City Brewing, including the brand-new Riverkeeper IPA.

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SARANAC ART PROJECTS 25 W MAIN

Tobe Harvey with “Phi,” new work combining collage and painting. Jenny Hyde shows “The Living Room,” an interactive game/exhibition.

SATELLITE DINER AND LOUNGE 425 W SPRAGUE

Todd Mires, Dave Brady and Ashley Vaughn. Get an art hug, and receive a banana.

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SPOKANE COMMUNITY BUILDING: LOBBY 35 W MAIN

“Words that kill” use of propaganda to justify genocide: Spokane Community observance of the Holocaust, student art exhibition.

STA PLAZA 5-7 PM 701 W RIVERSIDE

Awesome mix of vocals, ukulele and guitar with Joshua Belliardo!

STEAM PLANT 159 S LINCOLN

Ildiko Kalapacs, Debbie Hughbanks, and Candy Thomen display a vibrant mix of sculpture and paintings. A portion of sales will be donated to Susan G. Komen Eastern Washington.

TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE 912 W SPRAGUE

Ken Morrow: CSU Chico artist and professor, Morrow’s work has been displayed primarily in California, Western United States, and Canada.

THE MISSING PIECE TATTOO 410 W SPRAGUE ELENA TCHALAKOV

‘There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion.’ Edgar Allen Poe

TINBENDER CRAFT DISTILLERY 32 W SECOND, SUITE 400

Rodkey Faust: Metal and wood together create one of a kind/custom art pieces.

TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY

115 S ADAMS FRI, APRIL 3, 5-8 PM, SAT APRIL 4, NOON-4 PM

Mat Rude and Aubrey Purdy Rude Large scale sculpture and functional forms. Exhibit continues through April 30.

V DU V WINES 5-9:30 PM 12 S SCOTT REET

Original watercolors by Karen Valandra, music by Crushpad.

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n a chic urban apartment where art hangs with ostentatious regard, two married couples have met to discuss a playground scuffle that left one of their children bloody and missing teeth. Seated on one side are the Raleighs, Annette (Emily Jones) and Alan (Daniel McKeever), parents of the aggressor and the invited guests to this summit. He’s a lawyer conjoined to his cellphone; she’s in wealth management. On the other side are the Novaks, Veronica (Phoebe Oosterhuis) and Michael (Eric Paine), parents of the victim. She’s a writer fascinated by all things African; he’s a bootstrapped wholesaler. When God of Carnage, currently running at Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, begins, the Novaks are politely outlining the terms of the truce, marveling at the group’s ability to transcend the barbarity of the incident that brought

them together, and the Raleighs are largely reciprocating that politeness — even when Alan, in a revealing hint at his boorish arrogance, casually objects to a word in the official statement that Veronica is drafting on her laptop. Oppressive silences fill the room when small talk runs dry. For the viewer, this is about 10 exquisitely uncomfortable minutes of private glances and conversational subtext. Jones packs years of cumulative disgust in the looks she gives her stage husband, who’s too self-involved MORE EVENTS to spot them. Visit Inlander.com for Paine, meanwhile, complete listings of showcases his local events. strength in making the occasionally starchy script — hard to say whether this is down to playwright Yasmina Reza or her French-to-

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English translator, Christopher Hampton — sound like natural conversation. Beneath this apparent civility seethe personal insecurities, biases, grudges, assumptions and vulgarities, all of which will soon be exposed by the tangential arguments erupting from the central issue. Think of it as a Lord of the Flies set among clafouti-nibbling sophisticates. Veronica, for instance, appears to find violence almost incomprehensible, and she might be sincere. But she’s also not above letting verbal push come to physical shove. God of Carnage traces a clear, sometimes heavyhanded retrogression from gentility to childish rage, yet director Heather McHenryKroetch doesn’t allow it to devolve into an hour of people shouting at one another. The characters’ shifting allegiances are mirrored in ballet-like blocking, and there are moments of vulnerability and tenderness, though more gradation is needed between the emotional rises and falls. This production never quite recaptures the flawlessness of its exposition (nor does Reza’s play fully come to grips with the Pandora’s box it opens), but its sardonic, cathartic humor can be awfully fun.  God of Carnage • Through April 12; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $13-$21 • The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene • 1320 E. Garden Ave. • themoderntheater.org • (208) 676PLAY

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Fated Return After nearly four years without a home, David’s Pizza reopens near the Spokane Arena BY CHEY SCOTT

ord travels fast around here. It’s been less than two weeks since local joint David’s Pizza quietly reopened its doors after a nearly four-year hiatus as it transitioned between locations. On a rainy Wednesday evening, jovial chatter in the busy restaurant echoes from the concrete floor up toward the 18-foot, exposed wood ceilings, filling the 100-year-old former warehouse with new life. It seems like ages since the Spokane staple, founded in the mid’90s, was forced in June 2011 to shutter its iconic Logan neighborhood spot at the corner of Hamilton and Boone. But in that time, David’s owner Mark Starr was up against a long list of challenges associated with relocating. “There’s a lot of history there,” Starr notes. “Everyone associates that location with success, but it took a us a long time. You have to earn people’s loyalty, and if you fail to do that, you’re not

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going to do well.” Since being booted from its original home — razed to construct the Clementine Square retail center near Gonzaga University — much of the delay in reopening was related to finessing undisclosed details with the property owner of the former Wonder Bread bakery block just south of the Spokane Arena. During that time, Starr was also running David’s Pizza’s catering arm out of Famous Ed’s restaurant on the South Hill, which he co-owns. There also were numerous financial decisions to manage the cost of completely rehabbing the space. When construction began last fall, Starr began working up to 100 hours a week alongside his contracting crew, gutting the building down to its brick shell and rebuilding from the inside out. Starr is a hands-on business owner who says he hasn’t taken a vacation in years. Each day since opening, he floats around the

bar and family dining sections, asking customers about their meal and greeting tables of people he knows personally. With a red, flour-smudged apron tied around his waist, Starr slips behind the counter, where pizzas are cooked in view of diners, to lend a hand. Over the years, Starr has continually used David’s to give back. Even when the restaurant had no permanent home of its own, Starr was still serving up donated pies at Bloomsday, Hoopfest, SpokeFest and numerous other charitable and community events from the back of David’s Pizza’s iconic, converted fire engine catering unit. “I enjoy seeing people succeed, and that’s the best part of this business — helping others,” Starr says. “I’m going to be able to do a lot more things with the community now that we have this space.”

David’s Pizza owner Mark Starr reopened the restaurant after four years serving his pizza at Famous Ed’s. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO Another element that’s unchanged is David’s Pizza’s (it’s named after Michelangelo’s famous statue) approach to food. As of its reopening, Starr says the menu will focus on David’s classics — pizza, sandwiches, stromboli and calzones — although there are plans to expand with new dishes as the restaurant settles into its rhythm. Starr anticipates that many of these additions will be favorites from Famous Ed’s menu that would be new to David’s. While the new David’s reflects the same eclectic, garage-y vibe that fans recall from its old spot, the new building is more than twice the size. Windows on all four sides fill the open layout with natural light as the sun arcs through the sky. After a few recent, rainy days, it’s nice enough to roll up one of the garagestyle, west-facing windows to let a fresh breeze blow in. When it gets even warmer, Starr plans to open up two outdoor patios — one for bar patrons and the other for families. Two focal points anchor the warehouse space, most notably the massive Brunswick-style bar that Starr salvaged from Cyrus O’Leary’s restaurant, which closed the same year David’s went on hiatus. Across from it, a circa 1940s rowing scull — Starr also saved it before O’Leary’s was torn down — from the University of Washington is suspended from the ceiling. Beyond the bar and above the kitchen, a circular mezzanine hovers over the pizza ovens. At the top of the stairs to this reserved seating area sits a massive, circular table made of salvaged gym floor from Gonzaga. The floating mezzanine was designed to showcase this 500-pound piece, which barely fit through the restaurant’s front door and was a beast to haul up the stairs, Starr says. “Everything here hearkens back to another era,” he says. “The Cyrus bar, people have come in just to see it. I don’t have a favorite piece, but my favorite theme is to bring back all these things.”  David’s Pizza • 803 N. Post • Open daily, 11 am-close • 483-7460 • davidspizza.com

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hen Atania Gilmore began eating vegan two years ago, she noticed that the primary thing people think of when they think of veganism is how restrictive it is. Gilmore discovered the opposite. As someone who has been cooking all her life, she found time in the kitchen became more fun as a vegan. It pushed her to be more creative, learning about seeds, nuts and grains and the plethora of things one can do with them. “When I went vegan, it was a whole new world,” says Gilmore. But something still was lacking.

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“One of the things I really missed was cheese,” she says, adding that vegan cheese doesn’t taste very good. So she played with and perfected her own vegan cheese recipes and decided to make a business out of it. Wanting to take the idea further into starting a restaurant, she chose cheese’s perfect partner: pizza. In a building constructed in 1905, now with restored wood floors and contemporary-meetstropical décor, she opened Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria and Café near NorthTown Mall two weeks ago. The menu consists of the sort of pizzas ($10.25$14.50) she’s been making for herself for months.

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Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria owner Atania Gilmore with her spinach artichoke pizza. MEGHAN KIRK PHOTO Thus far, Gilmore says the Wild Mushroom is the best seller. Crimini, chanterelle and porcini mushrooms are paired with smoked Gouda and scallions atop the New York-style, scratchmade, cold-fermented and hand-tossed crust used for every pizza. The Thai Peanut with crispy tofu, Spinach Artichoke with toasted almonds and Buffalo Chicken pizzas are other early customer favorites, she says. Everything — aside from the meatless pepperoni, Italian sausage and chicken — is made in-house. Gilmore creates the cheeses, cultures her own soy milk for the ranch dressing and makes all the sauces and pestos from scratch. She makes her own almond milk and coffee syrups to add to the Doma espresso, sweetens the lemonade with maple syrup and fresh-squeezes fruit and vegetable juice with her masticating juicer. The cold case — contents changing with the seasons — displays salads, Gilmore’s oil-free classic and buffalo hummus, and cheesecake. Even though Gilmore focuses on serving a healthy menu, she made sure to include dessert, and her cheesecake stays deliciously within healthy territory, with its almond-and-date crust filled with cashew cream and fruit. n Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria and Cafe • 4803 N. Nevada • Open Mon-Thu, 11 am-8 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-9 pm; Sun, 11 am-7 pm • facebook.com/alliesveganpizzeriacafe • 321-7090

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everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask vibe. “Some people think [craft beer fandom] is kind of snobbish, but this show is accessible. Even if you don’t know what an IBU is, we’ll explain it,” says Boyd, a local filmmaker who, like many craft beer fans, got into beer after falling in love with New Belgium’s Fat Tire. Boyd also is an accomplished home brewer with — prepare for some jealousy — six of his own beers on tap at his house. Boyd says that each show will list “new and notable” beers from the region while also providing ample education on beer styles and brewing techniques. “We want to do a lot of introducing styles and exploring them whether they’re familiar or rare,” says Boyd. “Good Brews” airs every Sunday at 5 pm. In other beer news, you may have noticed a new arrival on the shelves of your neighborhood beer aisle. Iron Goat Brewing recently got into the bottling game with 22-ounce bottles of their Head Butt IPA, Impaler Imperial IPA, Goatmeal Stout and Trashy Blonde Ale. Currently, the bottles are on sale at a number of outlets, including, but not limited to, Rosauers, Albertsons, Super 1, Yoke’s and Huckleberry’s. You can celebrate the First Friday art walk with a stop at River City Brewing in downtown Spokane from 5:30 to 8:30 pm to try the 2015 edition of the Riverkeeper IPA. Sales of the hoppy IPA, made in partnership with Numerica Credit Union, benefit the Spokane Riverkeeper, a group that advocates for the well-being of the city’s namesake river and its watershed. Up in Sandpoint, the expansion of MickDuff’s Brewing Company continues with the arrival of their new 20-barrel brewing system (which includes a 700-gallon mash tun that head brewer and co-owner Mickey Mahoney engineered from an old dairy tank), an upgrade from the seven-barrel system the brewery has used since opening in 2006. They plan to have the system up in the coming weeks, which will soon allow for more distribution to Eastern Washington taps. 

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Furious Debate Two critics go head-to-head over their differing perspectives on the Fast & Furious series BY SCOTT RENSHAW AND DANNY BOWES

cott Renshaw: As we approach what may or may not be the finale of this particular incarnation of the Fast & Furious series (review of the new Furious 7 was not available at press time), I wanted to try to wrap my head around why it’s such a big deal to so many people. Because while vroom-vroom and boom-boom is always going to have a certain hard-core fan base, I struggle to understand how people think that this series has done those things particularly well. Danny Bowes: I can’t speak for all properly sophisticated cinephiles, obviously, but for me the appeal begins with the tone, which has the heightened, aggressive and sincere quality of about three shots of tequila. Directors Rob Cohen and John Singleton both instinctively “got” that tone, but Justin Lin embraced its totality and refined it, by essentially swallowing the worm. Also, the cast has fantastic chemistry and, to the last, shares the ability to maintain a hair’s distance from bursting out laughing at all times. SR: The cast-dynamic thing makes sense to me, and there was an inspired quality to pulling all the characters together so relatively late in the series. My problem has been that, as action movies, I think they’ve often been terribly made. Lin in particular had no idea how to edit an action sequence so that it made a lick of sense. As they got more over-thetop — “Hey, let’s drag a safe around Brazil, or chase a tank!” — these movies were all about fun concepts with nobody in charge who could execute them. DB: This is where I struggle to say anything other than “I disagree,” and where in so struggling, I say stuff like “the way Lin constructs action sequences may not make perfect linear or geographic sense, but it makes total emotional sense,” and point back to the sublime sequence in Tokyo Drift where Lucas Black has at long last learned how to drift, and he and the rest of Sung Kang’s gang drift down the mountain. That sequence is the Rosetta Stone for the entire series, in terms of both the previously mentioned tone and the way that the whole of a given action sequence in these movies may be more than the sum of its component parts. SR: I’d need to do some research to see whether this is the first time ever that the word “sublime” has been used with regard to this series. I certainly recognize that it’s filling a gap in contemporary moviemaking — the souped-up action franchise built more on practical effects/stunts than CGI — that only the occasional James Bond film otherwise occupies.

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I’ve just longed to see a more gifted action director actually try to click those pieces into place. DB: Then I guess this is a referendum on Justin Lin, in which case I’m the anti-sabermetrics old person touting his intangibles (“I don’t care what his Wins Above Replacement Director are, all I know is he swings from his ankles and hits those car chases outta the park!”). Also, I’m glad that this is coming into focus. “I don’t get why people like the Fast & Furious movies” is actually answered by “I don’t think Justin Lin directs action well,” because while the action isn’t the whole appeal, it’s inextricably connected to the remainder of the whole. The adrenaline inebriation pervades all aspects of these movies. SR: Forgive me if I’ve suggested this is all about my issues with Lin, since I bow to no one in my disdain for le cinema du Rob Cohen [director of the original Fast and the Furious]. Lacking a connection with the intangibles you see, I’m left with two possible ways into these movies: their effectiveness as old-school action moviemaking (which I contend is minimal), and the unique appeal of this multicultural makeshift family. And maybe the latter would work better for me if they didn’t keep hammering the word “family” (though I have a sneaking suspicion it’s gonna get a little teary in theaters at the end of Furious 7 as a result of real-world events). DB: As someone for whom the word “family” conjures images of lawyers, passive aggression and wordless, decades-long feuds over literally nothing, I actually like how corny and heavy-handed the “family” thing is in the F&F movies. It’s of a piece with every other element. They’re big, loud movies that regard subtlety as a forgotten successor to the Model T. Obviously their appeal isn’t universal (just their studio), and shouldn’t have to be. But as those of us on board the proverbial 12,000-horsepower Dodge Charger driving through the top floor of the figurative office building can attest: It may be an acquired taste, but once acquired, it’s one you’ll never let go. 

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Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) is the raw, young and ultimately naive British Pvt. Gary Hook, who is sent with his squad to Belfast during the Troubles under the command of the very much in-over-his-head Lt. Armitage (Sam Reid). Almost immediately, things go horrifically awry, as a seemingly simple guarding action performed in conjunction with the local police ends up with one young soldier’s brains blown out by an IRA assassin. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated R

FURIOUS 7

The tagline of the latest installment of this vroom-vroom series is: “Vengeance hits home.” Damn, that’s some serious stuff. Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw is out for blood to avenge the death of his brother and he’s bringing the whole gang with him, including Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ludacris, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and, of course, the late Paul Walker, who died in a real-life car accident before the film was finished. (MB) Rated PG-13

WOMAN IN GOLD

History gives Woman in Gold all the drama required of a top-notch thriller in this true story of a woman trying to reclaim the humanity torn from her family by the Nazis. Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew forced to flee during World War II, who is navigating the international legal system in an effort to find her family’s possessions that were stolen by Hitler’s regime — in particular a painting by Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.” Ryan Reynolds co-stars as Altmann’s young lawyer. (DN) Rated PG-13

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In the 1960s, when rock music was coming into the mainstream, a group of hard-working musicians laid down the tracks that made a whole lot of people — other than themselves — very famous. They became known as the Wrecking Crew and could be heard on records by everyone from the Beach Boys and Sonny and Cher, as well as traditional musicians like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG

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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

AMERICAN SNIPER

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

CHAPPIE

Sci-fi specialist Neill Blomkamp (District 9) returns to his native Johannesburg for this sometimes funny, sometimes violent tale of robot cops trying to wipe out crime, a robotics designer trying to infuse one of his creations with human consciousness, local thugs messing with both humans and robots, and scientists turning villainous over budget cuts. (ES) Rated R

CINDERELLA

Director Kenneth Branagh’s version of the Disney animated classic goes heavy on the back story, introducing the beloved mother (Hayley Atwell) of

young Ella (Lily James) before mom’s untimely passing and Ella’s merchant father (Ben Chaplin) remarrying, ultimately leaving poor Ella with a stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and two stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera) who treat her poorly as Cinderella step-family characters are wont to do. (SR) Rated PG

DO YOU BELIEVE?

From the people who brought us the Kevin Sorbo-powered Christian persecution film God’s Not Dead comes another story of faith about a minister trying to be more true to his religion. What really matters is that Brian “The Boz” Bosworth is in this film. Oh, and Lee Majors! And Sean “Rudy” Astin! And Mira Sorvino! (MB) Rated PG-13

FOCUS

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

GET HARD

Will Ferrell plays James, a wealthy, spoiled, selfish fellow who lives in a huge home with a beautiful fiancée but soon finds himself arrested for fraud and facing jail time. To toughen up, he hires the only black guy he knows, a square played by Kevin Hart, to show him how to “get hard” for prison. It’s not Ferrell’s (or Hart’s, for that matter) best work. (ES) Rated R

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Has the world gone mad or is Sean Penn really playing the lead in an action movie? That appears to be the case as Spicoli himself plays a mercenary sniper who kills a prominent mining official in Africa and has to go into hiding. But when he surfaces, he finds that there are still a lot of people out there looking to kill him. Also stars Idris Elba and Javier Bardem. (MB) Rated R

HOME

Oh is an alien who finds himself very out of place on Earth when he’s banished by his race of aliens, bent on making the planet their own by capturing all humans. Soon, he meets Tip (voiced by Rihanna) and the pair try to elude the aliens. (MB) Rated PG

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In the second film of the Divergent series, Shailene Woodley returns as Tris Prior, a young woman living in a dystopian future in which people are segregated into a social caste system by personality. As part of the Divergent class, Tris finds her group heading for annihilation at the hands of the nefarious leader of the Erudite class played by Kate Winslet. (MB) Rated PG-13

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The surprise indie hit of the spring, this inventive horror film gives us Maika Monroe as a teenage girl who loses her virginity, only to learn that in doing so she inherited a demonic follower from her boyfriend. As ghoulish beings follow her every move, she has to sleep with someone else to pass along the curse to another carrier. It’s less sexy and far creepier than it sounds. (MB) Rated R

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Here’s the sequel to the surprise indie hit of 2012, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. This time, the cast, which features Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nighy, finds that their retirement hotel has filled up with tenants. So, their pal Sonny (Dev Patel) decides to open another hotel, which he brings forth with Bollywood flair. (MB) Rated PG

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Ben and Saoirse are left motherless, and as such, big brother Ben is tasked with babysitting his mute, 6-yearold 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

When he discovers his students’ amazing ability to run, Jim White (Kevin Costner) is determined to form a cross-country 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. (CB) Rated PG

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

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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 struggling to accept her mother’s diagnosis. (MB) Rated PG-13.

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

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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. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

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Socially maladroit and painfully single-minded, 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 band. (KJ) Rated R 

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ann Demange’s debut feature is a ferociously kinetic chase movie as well as a white-knuckle piece of profoundly moving (in every sense of the word) filmmaking, but a bit of background may be in order for American audiences. In 1971, Belfast wasn’t on anyone’s dream vacation-destination list, although it’s not hard to imagine World’s Most Dangerous Places author/adventurer/maniac Robert Young Pelton eying the Provisional Irish Republican Army stronghold and booking a flight. Adventure tourism aside, though, the vicious urban warfare — or terrorism, depending on one’s allegiances — that convulsed parts of Northern Ireland beginning in the late 1960s was a bloody, nightmarish affair that lasted for about 30 years and is known as the Troubles. British security forces and army sought to contain the expanding violence between the unionist Protestants and the nationalist, republican Catholics who sought to break away from the United Kingdom. Jack O’Connell, recently seen in Unbroken, is the raw, young, and ultimately naive British Pvt. Gary Hook, who is sent with his squad to Belfast under the command of the very much in-overhis-head Lt. Armitage (Sam Reid). Almost immediately, things go horrifically awry, as a seemingly simple guarding action performed in conjunction with the local police ends up with one young soldier’s brains blown out by an IRA assassin. Instantly, a mob forms, Hook’s gun is grappled away from him by a young boy, Hook gives

chase, and ends up savagely beaten and trapped behind enemy lines. All of this happens in about a five-minute span on screen, but it’s just the start of Hook’s own troubles. With ruthless IRA leader Quinn (Killian Scott) in hot pursuit, Hook attempts to make his way back to his squad, ’71 a nearly impossible Rated R task given the endless Directed by Yann Demange Starring Jack O’Connell, Paul maze of claustrophobic back alleys and potenAnderson, Richard Dormer tial civilian assailants At Magic Lantern who bar his way. Innocence not merely lost but totally obliterated is the looming subtext of ’71. Demange pointedly opens his film with Hook saying goodbye to his little boy and assuring the child that “nothing bad will happen.” Later, Hook is rescued by a scrappy, 10-year-old street urchin who leads him to the relative safety of a unionist pub. But “safety” is an illusion in 1971 Belfast, and Hook is soon on his own again, and wounded as well. There have been other impressive films about the Troubles (1984’s Cal, The Crying Game and Bloody Sunday, among them), but ’71 is just plain relentless and visceral. A perfectly paranoiac score by David Holmes and downright stunning camerawork, courtesy of cinematographer Tat Radcliffe, enhance and embody Hook’s manic flight. Take the politics out and you’d still have a powerhouse action film. But please, don’t take the politics out. 

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FIRE FROM THE DEPTHS It took Soblivios two years to finish an album; now they’re ready to ravage the world with it

FROM LEFT: Ronnie Swindle, Jason Shumaker, Joel Prophet and Aaron Goff. CHAD RAMSEY PHOTO

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he band thinks of him as their very own Animal. Like the famed Muppet, Soblivios drummer Joel Prophet is quick to go off on mumbled, rambling tangents. He often bounces and wiggles around a room, rocking energy barely contained. “We swear he’s not always like this,” says Jason Shumaker, lead singer and bass player for the metal band. “It’s usually much worse.” In this downtown concrete-basement practice space — which smells faintly of sweaty socks and freshly popped Rolling Rock tallboys — the local four-piece sits in a loose circle around the area rug-covered room, mostly wearing the requisite metal-band black. Only Prophet remains standing. “I sit too much the way it is,” he says. But put this spark plug back on the skins, and the act’s heavy music rises to an energetic level that melds well with the boisterous yet melodic sound they’ve worked two years to achieve. Add Aaron Goff’s finger-frenzied guitar solos, Ronnie Swindle’s chunky rhythmic guitar licks and Shumaker’s devastating roar on vocals, and they’ve created music that makes a worthy soundtrack to the apocalypse. The band started in 2002 when Shumaker, the only original member, still lived in Seattle. He’d spent much of the ’90s in Hollywood goofing off in the scene there — “I don’t remember all of my 20s,” he admits. “But I did have this Bon Jovi-like hair that got me laid a lot” — and moved up to the Pacific Northwest to take his musical calling seriously. Shumaker helped form Soblivios, and gave it a definition: “So oblivious to your surroundings that you actually contribute to your own demise.” After much turnover, the current lineup has been going strong in Spokane for two years. This weekend marks the first full-length release in the group’s history. “This is the best lineup Soblivios has ever had,” Shumaker says. “It’s the most natural flow of things and we’re writing the best songs.” Together in this parking garage-like basement, they craft their soaring tunes and stop-and-go rhythms. Shumaker pens most of the lyrics. While you can’t always understand the gravelly vocals from the performance stage (on the new album, Beyond the System, the lyrics are crystal clear), you can feel the rage, frustration and alienation bubbling up through songs like “Tortured Life” and “Rage and Ruin.” The band members say they play this type of metal as a way to get aggression out, to purge some of the darkness welled up inside. “It’s a much better way of doing that than beating people up, which is against the law,” Shumaker says. “Although there are too many laws,” Prophet adds. But it’s not all loud, roaring commotion. Highlighting a softer side (most of the band members are family men, after all), the new album includes a lyrical acoustic guitar song written by Swindle, recorded at Rainbow Trout Studios by producer/owner Bill Nieman. The guys say they’re influenced by everything from reggae to slapbass California funk, and this comes out in their chest-rattling music through the use of memorable melodies and vocal harmonies. “This is the first record I’ve made with a group that I’ve wanted to listen to over and over again,” says Goff, a self-taught guitar aficionado. After working on the album for so long, it’s a collective sigh of relief for the band to kick this thing out into the world. But that means it’s time to start pushing, they say. There are goals for the future: big ones like having one of their songs blasted at a Seattle Seahawks game, and more manageable ones like booking a West Coast tour this summer. But making time for one another is always a priority. Like last year, they plan to take a trip to Lake Coeur d’Alene to hang out at Shumaker’s family cabin and houseboat. They’ll barbecue during the day and dance and play music around a campfire at night, howling at the moon. Prophet has dreams of the band rocking on top of the houseboat. “We’d have to reinforce the roof for that,” Shumaker says, but it’s not out of the question. After a decade of looking for just the right people for his band, this is the lasting lineup Shumaker has longed for — Animal and all. “The individuality of this band, you clearly couldn’t fill any of these spots with anyone else,” Shumaker says with a smile. n Soblivios CD release show with Tattered, Ironwood, Massacre at the Opera and Concrete Grip • Fri, April 3, at 8 pm • $6/$8 day of • All-ages • Pinnacle Northwest • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 368-4077

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nyone dealing with the fallout of One Direction’s Zayn Malik suddenly leaving the group last week might take some solace in the long-running success of another “boy band” that lost a member at the height of its powers. Five albums into a career that took Boyz II Men from high school choir to massive global popularity on the strength of soulful vocal harmonies and a long string of R&B hits, the tight-knit quartet became a trio when bass singer Michael McCary quit. Rather than parting ways for solo careers, Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wanyá Morris forged on. Years later, they still bring their “Motown-Philly” sound to audiences the world over, including Spokane on Wednesday. In an email interview, Stockman attributed Boyz II Men’s staying power to the group’s “brotherhood,” and their dedicated fans. “We have been committed to creating timeless music and working hard to give our fans what they are asking for,” Stockman says. “We all have the same focus, which is what makes Boyz II Men successful and long-lasting.” They don’t sell albums at the same frenzied pace as during their breakthrough years, but you won’t find a group in any genre that does. And while the audiences at the concerts aren’t the same size, either, they’re still full of rabid fans singing every word of “I’ll Make Love to You” or “End of the Road.” “Seeing the way fans react really makes us

come alive on stage, because they have such high energy and we can feel it!” Stockman says. Boyz II Men began in Philadelphia at the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, inspired by their love of New Edition. While they initially dabbled in hip-hop, they eventually settled into a straightforward, balladheavy style. That approach worked and set them apart from the other “new jack swing” crews filling MTV and radio at the time. Boyz II Men still hold records for the longest-running single to sit at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart (“One Sweet Day,” performed with Mariah Carey, 16 weeks in 1995) and became just the third act to replace themselves at the top of that same chart — after Elvis Presley and the Beatles — when “On Bended Knee” replaced “I’ll Make Love to You” at No. 1 in 1994. Those days might be long gone, and their dance routines might not be quite as acrobatic, but you can bet when the people filling Northern Quest’s concert hall close their eyes and hear the old songs, time and missing members won’t matter a bit. One Direction’s fans will be lucky if they can say the same in 2035. n dann@inlander.com Boyz II Men • Wed, April 8, at 7:30 pm • $45/$65/$85 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-6700

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er soulful R&B music is so cool and captivating, it’s easy to miss the empowerment in Goapele’s (pronounced gwa-puh-lay) lyrics. In a feathery, lyric voice, she sings about female equality, political strife, racism, economic disparity and other hot-button issues that musicians attempting to sell records might steer clear of. Raised in a South African exile community in Oakland, California, she learned to speak up for her beliefs at an early age. Even with a more serious edge, her music is always entertaining at its heart. One of her most recent singles, “Hey Boy,” even featured Snoop Dogg. — LAURA JOHNSON Goapele with Echo Elysium • Wed, April 8, at 9 pm • $20/$25 day of • 21+ • The Palomino Club • 6425 N. Lidgerwood • palominoclubspokane.com • 443-5213 J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW

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unday night, Pete Rock (pictured) takes to the Red Room Lounge stage along with golden-era Detroit trio (two of the original members are now deceased) Slum Village, adding a bit of vintage hip-hop flavor to your Easter Sunday. While neither act scored huge hits in their early-’90s heydays, they’re credited with inspiring major players in the rap scene and still hold sway today. Rock, known for his jazzy, soulful beats and remixes, even won a Grammy for his contribution to Kanye West’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. His long-awaited follow-up instrumental album PeteStrumentals 2 is slated for a June release. — LAURA JOHNSON Pete Rock & Slum Village with Flying Spiders, Q Dot, IMperfect Cody and Soundcast • Sun, April 5, at 8 pm • $20 • 21+ • Red Room Lounge • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613

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If you’re tired of scouring the Internet for an original Jawa action figure, or hitting every junk store in your path to track down the one Cabbage Patch Kid missing from your collection, the Inland Northwest Toy Show might make your life easier. The first toy-collectible show in Spokane in nearly a decade, the event promises more than 50 vendor tables full of old tin toys, Star Wars and Star Trek goodies, models and trains, Barbie dolls, sports collectibles and more, all gathered in one place for one day. — DAN NAILEN Inland Northwest Toy Show • Sat, April 4, from 9 am-2 pm • $2; $1/ages 60+ and children under 10; $10/early entry • Mirabeau Park Hotel • 1100 N. Sullivan • 990-4325

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MUSIC JAZZY ANNIVERSARY

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The Bob Curnow Big Band 25th Anniversary Show • Mon, April 6, at 7 pm • $20 • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

OR7 - The Journey • Fri, April 3 and Sat, April 4, at 7 pm • $7.50 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

Each Bob Curnow Big Band performance is one of a kind. Pulling from more than 700 of Curnow’s own charts, his players never know what to expect when they show up for a monthly performance at the Big Dipper. That element of surprise — playing everything from Pat Metheny to Radiohead — is what draws a multigenerational audience to their shows. On Monday, the Spokanebased group turns 25, a huge milestone for a band that pulls the best jazz players and teachers from all over the region. The first 100 people through the door receive a free CD and a drink ticket. — LAURA JOHNSON

The story of OR-7 began when a male grey wolf, collared by biologists in Oregon, left his pack back in 2011 and made the long trek to become the first grey wolf in northern California in nearly a century. Sharing this plight of the wolf and others like him is the goal of filmmaker Clemens Schenk’s documentary on the lone wolf simply known as OR-7. Since the film was made, OR-7 has returned to southwestern Oregon, bringing a mate with him who gave birth to two pups. Schenk will be in attendance for a panel discussion with wildlife conflict experts. — CHEY SCOTT

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The high-flying, elbow-dropping dudes who battle in the Spokane Anarchy Wrestling world return for a free night of mischief and mayhem with an event called “Proving Grounds.” The highlights of the night are two championship matches; the S.A.W. Championship will be settled between current champ Rook “Gladius” Kelly and “Hollywood” Donovan Etzel, and the Inner City Championship between titleholder Harley Heartson and Insanity Demon. Several other matches will turn up the excitement before the title brawls, and there are rumors of some live music, too. — DAN NAILEN

This month’s First Friday openings are full of intriguing displays — find the Inlander’s complete event listings online at the link below, including our “staff picks” highlights — but one of the biggest draws should be the newest rotation at City Hall’s Chase Gallery. The three-month group exhibit was organized in conjunction with the 17th annual Get Lit! festival, happening April 20-26. Landmarks is a meditation on time and place, and our region’s diverse, rich history. Artist and writer teams collaborated to create works examining the significance of local landmarks that have survived the test of time, and those that have not. — CHEY SCOTT

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SINTO CENTER FUNDRAISER SALE Rummage sale fundraiser to benefit programs at the center. April 3 from 9 am-4 pm, April 4, from 9 am-noon. Sinto Activity Center, 1124 W. Sinto Ave. sintocenter.com (327-2861) HERITAGE ROSES Northland Rosarium owner Carol Newcomb presents “Heritage Roses for Your Garden.” Also meet local garden writers Pat Munts and Susan Mulvhil. Benefits Friends of the Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens. April 10, 12-2 pm. $5 min. donation. Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org (998-9869) YWCA SPRING FLING The 10th annual silent auction and champagne brunch benefits the YWCA of Spokane and its programs. April 11, 10 am-12:30 pm.

$50; registration required. Anthony’s at Spokane Falls, 510 N. Lincoln. ywcaspokane.org (326-1190) DACHSHUND RESCUE NW OPEN HOUSE The local rescue celebrates 24 years of rescuing Dachshunds with a potluck open house. Cash donations welcomed. Leave a message to RSVP and organizers will call with directions. April 12, 12-5 pm. facebook.com/ DachshundRescueNW (796-2140) APRIL SHOWERS: LANDS COUNCIL 20TH ANNUAL DINNER & AUCTION The Land Council’s annual fundraiser, offering dinner and live/silent auctions to support the restoration and revitalization of Inland Northwest forests, water and wildlife. April 18, 5-9 pm. $65/person; $450/table. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. tinyurl.com/khaafug (209-2407)

THE SPOKANE AURORA NW ROTARY CLUB INVITES ALL CYCLISTS STARTING AT SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE • First century ride of the season • 15, 25, 50, 66, 100 miles • All levels of riders are welcome • Course is monitored • Rest stops along the course • End of ride baked potato feed with all the fixin’s for all riders to enjoy HURRY! ONLY 3 WEEKS AWAY!

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There is also a tri-athlete secured bike corral for those who want to do a 5K run after the 100-mile ride.

Proceeds support Local and International Rotary Projects. Google Lilac Century Ride for more information.

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I SAW YOU GREEN EYES, LONG BROWN HAIR I first saw you when I stepped out of the men's bathroom at a church. You were attempting to enter said men's bathroom until I kindly told you "I don't think you want to go in that one." We both smiled awkwardly at each other and you said sheepishly "Oh... right." Will you go to prom with me? Email me at: shank45454@gmail.com VALLEY ER 3/22 Thank you to the handsome doctor who made me feel sooo much better. We exchanged not only one, but two big smiles between us with a gravitational pull. Was that a sparkle in your eye? Was there something there? I know I felt it and I would love to see you again. MOON LADY IN NORTH SPOKANE Hey Moon Lady, smile. I saw you again and you melted my heart. Your love shines through like light from a full moon. Happy spring! Hope to see you again. MUST PROVE WORTHY I saw you with khaki shorts and bluish/purple shirt near the Fairways golf course. You were glued to your phone.

CHEERS THANK YOU FOR BEING AMAZING Brandon... words cannot express how much you mean to me. I am so grateful that you are in my life. Thank you for being you and for loving me. I couldn't

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ask for more in a partner, friend or lover and you truly are the best thing that's ever happened to me. I love you. TARGET Cheers to the woman who came back to check on my son & I after he'd fallen off of the bench in the shoe department. I really appreciate your kindness. Shopping trips are normally pretty chaotic with my son, but that night was pretty rough, he hadn't had a nap that day, but did so well at dinner I thought I'd take the chance of going shopping! Again, thank you!! CARUSO'S Cheers to Caruso's on Argonne and Montgomery. This place is awesome — almost as awesome as the people who work there. Mathew, Rachel, Natalie, Jacob, Kade, Jessica, Ashley, Tazja, Richard, Abby, Jordan, JC, Amber, Ruby and Cindy, you guys rock! Thanks for always making me smile and making great food. TO MY PEANUT BUTTER Not much longer and it would be a year from when I first saw you. It has been a struggle for us both, but it seems that we are just growing stronger day by day. You followed me that late night, stalking me,but those sparkling blue eyes took my breath away from the start. My heart still pounds fast with every kiss and every touch. I feel your love when I am in your arms. I want so much for us to finally start our lives. You are my peanut butter and I am your jelly. Believe me when I tell you that I am yours today, tomorrow and forever and a day plus one. I love you with all my heart thank you for loving me. Yours truly, Jelly PRIDE AND PROGRESSION To the greatest man I know... I am blessed to have you in my life and call you my husband and have our children call you dad. Genetics are only a part of the puzzle and our family while patchwork to some is perfection to me. You are correct when you say that you stepped up. Actions always speak louder then words and you have proven time and again that you are the greatest man I know. If the whole world cannot see your heart they don't need to because you have shown it to us. Thank you for being you. Know that you are cherished now and always. I love you ~forever yours... Willis ;) GRAVY ON THE SIDE Just a little shout

out to Mandy at Kelly's Irish Pub on 4th St. CdA. You are the reason we always come back for our evenings out. You

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sponsible pet owners. My father, brother, and sister-in-law where put to rest in the same cemetery. This cemetery like most all I have seen, has a polite sign stating that all dogs must remain on a leash at all times. They also ask that you clean up after your pet, and provide bags right by that polite sign just inside the entrance gates as well VALLEY ER throughout the cemetery. You can spot a garbage receptacle within 50 yards in any direction. What as studded tires a necessity for some of more can they do. I see dogs running us. Snow tires just don’t cut it, and I don’t lose and taking a s--- at any time, any see chains as being an option because of place they like and the owner thinks it their on again, off again applications. I is so cute, and turn their head as if the realize that studded tires take their toll sign did not apply to them. I can assure on our roads, however the biggest culyou that the grounds maintenance team prits are the heavyweight vehicles that has more to do then pick s--- up off the we depend on to distribute our goods. ground from your dog. This last time I Another part of this conundrum is that seen Rover lift his leg and piss on a mauour roads are not constructed of the best soleum. I will hunt you down if I see your materials, but the cheapest! Couple that pet lift its leg and piss or s--- anywhere with the patchwork maintenance, and near my relatives graves. Show some there are gonna be ruts no matter what! respect. This is not a dog park and we all I live in an area that requires either chains know it, why can’t you, or is your head or studded tires to access my home. placed in rectal position. Is your dog too Snow tires just don’t get it. I have an good for a dog park? Or your own yard. all wheel drive vehicle and I don’t wish My tax dollars helped build the dog parks to move from my family’s homestead. so you start using it. Would you like it if I I shouldn’t have to! Perhaps “Studless” had my dog take a big wet dump on your might try to come up with a solution moms bed where she will rest her head to the winter traction dilemma, instead for the night? That would be just as cute of trying to tout useless and baseless as your dog. “facts” to support his/her opinions. between a rock and a hard place. There are enough hills, curves, and rural roads around here to make traction tires such

Thank you to the handsome doctor who made me feel sooo much better.

have the most amazing customer service in town! You always greet all of the customers like they are family. You are also very warm and friendly. Thanks for the great hospitality! P.S. Tell the cook to put the gravy on the side! THANKS AGAIN!!!!

JEERS STUD HATER Dear Mr. Anti-Studs, I pay my taxes, if I feel like I am safer with studs on the 3.7 days of snow, I will put them on for the season. If you are unhappy with the ruts in the road, maybe you should vote to raise our taxes so we can have nicer things like good public schools, parks and roads. POST OFFICE Why are your employees so rude? I go in there often as part of my job and it seems that the employees don’t have a bit of positive customer service skills. Is working for the postal service really that bad!? I suggest you go get jobs where you don’t have to interact with the public. STUDDED IDIOT It’s amazing to me how many people rely on the anonymity of this venue to spout off “facts” regarding issues they’re obviously zealous about, however don’t take the time to research their “facts” out! They figure that whatever they write in their diatribes will be swallowed as the “truth” even though reality says something totally different. It’s just not the reality they live in, so they make up “facts” to support their views. Studded tires are not an ideal solution for driving our winter roads around here. The conditions change rapidly and sometimes you’re caught

1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3. Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

RISKY BUSINESS Jeers to the City of Spokane for not doing something about the dangerous drivers who do not stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. I just moved into a neighborhood that has a large number of older and/or disabled citizens who use the crosswalk just south of Golden Corral. I use it myself and have been almost hit by drivers who don’t stop, even though I am already in the crosswalk. I am disabled myself and not everyone can dance like Fred Astaire and dodge the speeding vehicles. I see the rich GU students get a flashing yellow light for the crosswalk on Hamilton.

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CYCLIST IN BLUE I was the cyclist in blue along Upriver Drive. You and your husband stopped to help on 3/20. Your concern and caring was above and beyond and appreciated by the wife and I. A BIG THANKS. P.S. I am much better now. 

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MOVE OVER ROVER Your dog is going 1 and 2 on my family’s grave. I don’t understand what it is with some irre-

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COMEDY

GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. (847-1234) STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC Local comedians; weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy, 2721 N. Market St. (483-7300) 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. (747-7045) LIVE, LOCAL COMEDIANS Performing every Friday and Saturday, at 8 pm. April 3-4, Andrew Ouelette; April 10-11, Art Krug; April 17-18, Chris Molineux; April 24-25, Don Parkins & Friends. $12. Uncle D’s, 2721 N. Market. (483-7300) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third. (838-6688) 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) STAND UP / SHOW DOWN Live comedy, Mondays at 8 pm. Free. Sapphire Lounge, 901 W. First Ave. (747-1041) OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe St. (835-4177)

COMMUNITY

EASTER BUNNY PHOTOS The Easter Bunny hops into the first-level atrium at River Park Square to celebrate spring.

Visit him daily from through April 4; times vary. River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. (624-3945) BECK’S HARVEST HOUSE EASTER EGG HUNT Hunt for Easter eggs, take pictures with the Easter Bunny and enjoy other family events. April 4-5, from 9 am-3 pm. $7. Harvest House, 9919 E. Greenbluff Rd. greenblufffarms.com (238-6970) 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, through April 25. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. phc.org (533-3500) COMMUNITY EASTER EGG HUNT The family event includes egg hunts for children up to fifth grade, carnival games, prizes, inflatables, concessions and more. April 4, 11 am-1 pm. Free. Valley Real Life Church, 1831 S. Barker Rd. (232-0840) INLAND NORTHWEST TOY SHOW Featuring 20+ vendors of collectible toys, new and old. April 4, 9 am-2 pm. $1-$10/ admission. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. (924-9000) SPECIAL NEEDS EGG HUNT Children with mobility issues, ages 0-12, are invited to participate in a special egg hunt. April 4, 2 pm. Free. Life Center North, 8303 N. Division. (444-8445) CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly Wednesday night dance with the River City Ramblers playing and Emily Faulkner calling. April 8, 9:30 pm. $5-$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. spokanefolklore.org (747-2640)

BOARD GAMES GALORE Bring your competitive spirit and best strategy for an afternoon of tabletop gaming. April 9, 1-4 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400)

gered Tibetan Antelopes by impoverished peasants, intimately engages with a half-Tibetan journalist from Beijing. April 8. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

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PAPER PLANES A young boy from Australia has a passion for flight and ends up competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. April 2-4, show times vary. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) 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 Ave. (327-1050) OR7 - THE JOURNEY A documentary about the incredible journey of a grey wolf collared in Oregon and eventually dispersed from his pack. Followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker and wildlife conflict experts. April 3-4 at 7 pm. $7.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (227-7404) THE LONG NIGHT Lutheran Community Services Northwest hosts a screening of the Seattle-made film weaving together the stories of seven people affected by sex trafficking. Filmmaker Tim Matsui is set to attend. April 6, 6:30 pm. Donations accepted. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. on.fb.me/1OxUcqG (777-1000) CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: MOUNTAIN PATROL KEKEXILI The Tibetan Mountain Patrol, an outcast regimen working to eliminate illegal slaughtering of endan-

ROAST HOUSE TASTING ROOM PARTY The local coffee roaster celebrates the grand opening of its new tasting room with samples from local food purveyors and more. April 2, 5:30-8 pm. Roast House Coffee, 423 E. Cleveland, Ste. C. roasthousecoffee.com (995-6500) SPRING VALUE WINES Sample bubbly, red and white wines all under $10. April 3, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd. (343-2253) VINO WINE TASTING Friday April 3 features selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month Club, from 3-6:30 pm and Sat, April 4 offers Gordon Estate Winery, from 2-4:30. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. (838-1229) BUT I COULD NEVER GO VEGAN! Members of the Inland Northwest Vegans group give an overview of why people choose veganism, plant-based dairy and meat replacements, as well as vegan meal planning and local resources. April 4, 1 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook St. (444-5380) ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDENING Get all the basics on organic vegetable garden in a fast-paced class covering zones, starts, soil prep and composting. Presented by Master Gardener Marilyn Lloyd. April 7, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave. (893-8390)

FRENCH CUISINE 101 Learn French cooking techniques while creating a menu of classics like salmon en papillote, grilled asparagus, spring salad and crème brûlée. April 8, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141)

MUSIC

COMMUNITY DANCES FEAT. VARIETY PAK Dance music from all eras performed by the local group during the community center’s twice-monthly dances; first Thursdays and third Fridays, from 7-10 pm, through June. $6-$10. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (535-0803) BACH MOTET As part of St. John’s Good Friday service, Dr. Timothy Westerhaus and the Cathedral Choir at St John’s will present “Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227,” the earliest and most musically complex of Bach’s six motets. April 3, 12-2 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (838-4277) BROADWAY THROUGH THE AGES The Mountain Harmony Show Choir leads local children in a performance of show tune classics. April 10-11 and 17-18; dinner at 6:30 and show at 7:30. $12-$25. Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2. northwoodsperformingarts.com (208-448-1294) RYAN KEBERLE & CATHARSIS A homecoming performance by the Spokane native, Mead High School graduate, and world-renowned jazz musician, with his band Catharsis. Opening the show is the Brent Edstrom Trio. April 10, 7:30 pm. $15$20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404)

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I’ve been seeing this guy long distance. I haven’t really been feeling it and kind of let it drop off, thinking he’d get the hint. He keeps texting and calling. I keep telling him I’m just really busy. The truth is I’ve met somebody else. Do I have to tell him? —Dreading It Even milk and meat have the courtesy to let you know when they’re expiring. You, on the other hand, reeled in AMY ALKON a guy’s heart, watched it flop around on the carpet, and then misplaced it under a pile of old newspapers. “Life is short!” you hear people say. And it can be — if you’re in the habit of Snapchatting while meandering across bus lanes. But as the Stoic philosopher Seneca said, “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” Unfortunately, other people sometimes waste it for us, like by expecting us to “get the hint” that they’re done with us. By the way, men, especially, tend to be poor at hint taking. So yes, you actually have to tell the guy — rather than continue with your current approach: “I dumped you. You’re smart. You’ll figure it out eventually.” To be human is to procrastinate — to put off till tomorrow (or the second Tuesday in never) what we could do today. Behavioral science research finds that we are biased toward the RIGHT NOW, irrationally overvaluing a small payoff we can have right away over a substantially larger one down the road. We’re especially quick to put off anything that involves duty (and its conjoined twin, discomfort). This is irrational because deferring almost always costs far more — like if we delay going to the doctor until we have not only a tumor but one with 3,651 Facebook friends. Likewise, instead of cleverly escaping the stress of breaking up, you’ve built stressing about it into your daily routine: Coffee…ignore uncomfortable text…feed the cat…duck his call. It seems that ending the daily feel-bads should be motivation enough for you to clue the guy in. The problem is, the human motivational system tends to be in-activated by “avoidance goals” — negative outcomes we’re trying to avoid, such as avoiding feeling guilty for stringing a guy along. (It doesn’t help that the “reward” here — shifting from feeling guilty to feeling relieved — is abstract and intangible.) What we find most motivating are “approach goals,” positive outcomes we strive toward. To recast breaking up in that way, offer yourself an immediate and tangible reward, like treating yourself to a big sloppy dessert right after you do the deed. Telling him in a timely way is something you do not just for him but for you, because what you do becomes who you are: Murder and you’re a murderer. Garden and you’re a gardener. Keep a guy on the hook and…well, okay, that one goes a little off track. But doing the right thing, the kind thing, would take what, five uncomfortable minutes on the phone? The cumulative dread of doing it probably feels way worse than the actual doing. Plus, the momentary awfulness seems a small price to pay to become a different sort of person — one who doesn’t make a guy feel like the kid whose mom was supposed to pick him up after soccer but instead moved to Belize.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR WHITWORTH CHOIR Spring concert by the university’s choir. April 11, 8 pm. $7. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane. com (624-1200) WHO’S NEXT TALENT SHOWCASE Local performers compete in the second annual showcase. $25 entry/per contestant. April 11, 8 pm-2 am. $7/ adv, $10/door. Swaxx, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. on.fb.me/1xVUWLH (823-5755) MICHAEL DULIN & GREG MARONEY Audiences of all ages will enjoy Michael and Greg’s uplifting stories and inspired solo piano music. April 12, 7-9 pm. $5$20. Colbert Presbyterian Church, 4211 E. Colbert Rd. (310-560-8390)

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APRIL FULL MOON RIDE Social bike ride/pub crawl. Meets at 7:30, departs at 8:30 pm. April 3, 7:30 pm. Swamp Tavern, 1904 W. Fifth. on.fb. me/1G3SJWH (509-458-2337) CONQUEST OF THE CAGE Mixed martial arts competition featuring local fighters. Line-up TBA. April 3, 7 pm. $45-$125. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford. northernquest.com (242-7000) SPOKANE CHIEFS Hockey match vs. the Everett Silvertips, April 1 and 3, at 7:05 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com (279-7000) BIRD WATCHING CLASSES Meets in the education classroom at the refuge; also includes a hands-on hike. Sponsored by Friends of Turnbull and Spokane Audubon Society. Ages 8+. Regis-

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25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE This musical comedy is a warm, audience-interactive theatrical celebration of individuality and language. Produced by University of Idaho Theatre Arts. Contains adult language. April 2-11; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15/adults, $10/UI faculty, staff and seniors (55+), $5/ ages 12 and under. University of Idaho Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. uidaho.edu/class/ theatre (208-885-6465) CLUE: THE MUSICAL A fun murder mystery based on the classic game of the same name. [SOLD OUT] Through April 12; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Also April 11 at 2 pm. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) GOD OF CARNAGE Performance of the three-time Tony Award-winning comedy about the tension between civilized behavior and savage instinct. Through April 12; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Thurs.-Sun.. through April 12. The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208-667-1323) EQUUS Performance of the 1974 Tony Award-winning play written by Peter Schaffer. Play contains nudity, adult situations and language. April 3-26; FriSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. (No performance April 5) $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org

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On a first date, a woman should be getting to know you, not getting to know how much you can put on your MasterCard before the waiter comes over with a big pair of scissors. Sure, some women will find you cheap for suggesting a hike — mainly those who resent having to trudge up hills to procure a funding source with a penis. However, even women who are into exercising aren’t always into doing it where they may get close enough to a bear to see that it could use one of those little nose hair trimmers. For these women, you might offer “activity date” alternatives, like bowling or attending a street fair or a gallery opening. These might also work better for first dates with any women you barely know — alluring as it is to hear, “Hi, I’m a total stranger, and I’d like to take you off to a dark, wooded area where there’s no cellphone reception.” (Your shallow grave or mine?)  ©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)

ter online or call. Classes on 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) FREE STATE PARKS DAY In celebration of Washington State Parks’ 102nd birthday, residents are offered access to any state park without needing a Discover Pass. Includes access locally to Riverside and Mount Spokane State Parks. Upcoming free days in 2015: April 4, April 22, May 10, June 6, June 13, Aug. 25, Sept. 26, Nov. 11. Free. Riverside State Park, Spokane. parks.wa.gov SPOKANE ANARCHY WRESTLING Proving Grounds: SAW championship match Rook “Gladius” Kelly (champion) vs Hollywood Donovan Etzel (challenger) *card subject to change. Full bar with ID; doors open at 5 pm. April 4, 6 pm. Free. Swaxx, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. swaxxspokane.com (509-703-7474) SPOKANE SHOCK VS. PHILADELPHIA SOUL Arena football season opener; kicking off the Shock’s 10th season. April 4, 7 pm. $15-$60. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokaneshock.com (242-7462) STREET SCRAMBLE SANDPOINT A navigation race hosted by Eastern Washington Orienteering club. Visit as many of the 30 checkpoints marked on the map of Sandpoint as possible in two hours. April 4, 9:45 am-12:15 pm. $5/ members, $7/non-members. Sandpoint West Athletic Club, 1905 Pine St. ewoc. org (208-263-9894) WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION AT RIVERSIDE STATE PARK WTA continues to build a .75-mile new section of trail to incorporate great viewpoints

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April 10-26; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $18-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507)

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ARTEMISIA GRAND OPENING Located in lower level of Spokane Woman’s Club (enter through the green door on Walnut), featuring artwork by 15+ local women artists including: Shani Marchant, Louise Kodis, Wendy Zupan, Marie Harcus, Gay Waldman, Ingrid Ostellier, Judy Patterson and others. April 3, 5-8 pm. Free. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane. org (720-3601) FIRST FRIDAY Local art galleries and businesses reveal new hosted artwork for the month, with artist receptions from 5-8 pm. April 3, 5-8 pm. Free. Full details at Inlander.com/FirstFriday. PALOUSE WOMEN ARTISTS Twentyeight women display works of art in various mediums with the theme “Power of Three.” Reception April 3, from 5 to 8 pm; continues through April 26. Gallery hours Thu-Sun, from 10 am-6 pm. Free to view. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) SFCC GALLERY SHOW A select student and faculty gallery show; open during regular business hours, (Tue-Sun) April 3-30. South Perry Pizza, 1011 S. Perry St. southperrypizzaspokane.com (509290-6047) ART DEMONSTRATION DAY Each year the artist cooperative chooses a theme and hosts artists and craftspeople to demonstrate what they create — 2015’s theme is books. Learn from an experienced self-publisher, the editor from

the WSU Press, tips on preserving books and more. April 11, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) RIVER BEND ARTIST GUILD SHOWCASE Second annual showcase of local artists’ work, featuring Jerry Yates, Kim Powers, Sharon Yates, Glenda Kochen and Ellen Pfalzgraff. April 11-12, from 10 am-5 pm. Gallery at the Barn, 6095 Dufort Rd, Sagle, Idaho. artatriverbend@ gmail.com MIDWEEK MONET PAINT PARTIES Local artists provides a step-by-step introduction to acrylic painting, with themes ranging from landscapes to still life to abstracts. Glass of wine included in admission; all supplies provided. Classes on April 14; May 6, 20; June 17; from 5:30-8:30 pm. $40/class. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St, Post Falls. thejacklincenter.org (208457-8950) GONZAGA SENIOR ART EXHIBITION The Senior Art Exhibition marks the culmination of Gonzaga’s undergraduate art degree program. Student artists featured: Mariah Chavez, Claire Hart, Brian Joyce, Claire Kane, Max Marlett, Maria Mondloch, Riley Mackey, and Kelly Williams. April 18-May 9; open MonSat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga. edu/jundt (313-6843)

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CIRQUE DU EQUINOX Artists of multiple disciplines collaborate for a performance of visual arts, dance, music and more. April 3, 6 pm-2 am. Free. Crescent Court, 707 W. Main Ave. on.fb. me/19lUAb4 ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL TOURS Guided tours of the cut-stone, English Gothic Revival cathedral designed by Spokanite Harold C. Whitehouse. It features a unique collection of Medieval-style French stained glass by Charles J. Connick and William Willet & Sons, a 4,100+ pipe organ, and a 49bell carillon. Tours offered the 1st, 3rd, 5th Wed; Fri and Sat from 11 am-2 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org (838-4277) E. WASH. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY SEMINAR The day’s program covers how to find ancestors’ stories in public records, photos, and the future of genealogy. April 4, 9 am-4 pm. $10; open to the public. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main Ave. (444-5336) BEHOLD JESUS: HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY Spokane Dream Center, a nondenominational Christian church, presents its 18th annual Easter production portraying the life and teachings of Jesus according to the Gospel accounts. April 4, 1 om and 6:30 pm. Free. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanedreamcenter. org (924-2630) SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFF CITIZEN’S ACADEMY A series of sessions for the public to ask questions about officer-involved shootings, participate in defense training, learn about laws and hear from investigators with the Spokane Investigative Response Team.

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his Berlin Crisis speech, urged Congress to “identify and mark space in existing structures — public and private — that could be used for fallout shelters in case of attack.” Each would be supplied with water, food and first aid kits. The threat to Washington state was quite real on both sides of the Cascades, being so (relatively) close to Russia, but Spokane was more of a target, says O’Connor, who holds a master’s degree in history from Washington State University. The area was home to nine Atlas missile bases, and Fairchild Air Force Base was outfitted with B-52 bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. To write the book, O’Connor visited many decaying bunkers and hideaways and sorted through every yellowing archive he could find. His home was taken over by a

“History is messy. It’s not an ideal story with a conventional narrative.”

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Gimme Shelter The Cold War is long gone, but we can’t get over our obsession with the end of the world BY LAURA JOHNSON

n the concrete bowels of Mount St. Michael, a traditionalist Catholic parish in far North Spokane, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the world above. Only harsh fluorescent bulbs illuminate the winding, narrow path through the basement — past where the nuns wash and dry their blue-and-white habits, past a pockmarked basalt boulder that wouldn’t budge during construction of the five-story, manor-like structure 100 years ago and past where many of the academy’s schoolbooks and supplies are stored — into the remnants of the building’s designated fallout shelter, first created after LETTERS World War II. Send comments to Reverend Father editor@inlander.com. Casimir Puskorius ducks his balding head into the innermost storage facility. He points to the dusty brown cardboard boxes and water drums lining the stone wall’s shelves — Office of Civil Defense-provided water, biscuits and sanitation kits stamp-dated 1963. He

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estimates there are 25 of each. “This is where the Jesuit priests would have come had there been a raid,” explains Puskorius, who’s been at the parish since 1986. “They would have thrown open their doors and invited anyone who was around this area to find shelter here.” His fellow tour guide, Sister Mary Paula, doesn’t have an explanation as to why these containers are still here, or why the yellow-and-black fallout shelter signs (capacity 480) still hang outside of the building. “We just haven’t taken those down,” she says.

pokane never exploded into oblivion during the Cold War, but bits of that conflict remain in dozens of basements and backyards around our city. These leftovers, which Seattle author Lee O’Connor refers to as the ruins of modern society, led the historian to selfpublish last year’s Take Cover, Spokane. In it, he discusses the height of bunker hysteria in 1961, the same year President John F. Kennedy, during

self-made timeline of old newspaper clippings that snaked through multiple rooms. “History is messy. It’s not an ideal story with a conventional narrative,” O’Connor explains. “In history, people go one direction and say, ‘Let’s build shelters,’ only to later say, ‘We’re going to evacuate’ [as Spokane’s emergency plan now dictates].” By the late 1960s, America’s civil defense program lost steam as the threat of nuclear attack dwindled. But our obsession with the possibility of human eradication/ survival remained.

o date, The Hunger Games franchise has grossed more than $1 billion, the Mad Max reboot hits in May, The Walking Dead is the most watched show on cable, and new shows like Last Man on Earth, starring Will Forte, and Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (about a woman rescued from a doomsday cult) are already critical darlings. “I think that’s an interest humans have had since the beginning of time,” O’Connor says. “We’re fascinated with our own existence and the possibility we could have our own extinction, like the dinosaurs did.” At Mount St. Michael, they have their own ideas about why we like death and destruction in film, TV and literature. Sister Mary Paula notes that threats from ISIS and North Korea have put us on edge, but that we’re not too worried about it. Through the onslaught of violence in pop culture and video games, we’re allowed to be complacent about death; we’ve lost our sensitivity for human life, she says. “I know if I had one day left on this earth, I certainly wouldn’t be partying,” she says, walking out into the damp, gray air at the end of our tour. “I’d be talking to God.” n Lee O’Connor comes to Auntie’s Bookstore (402 W. Main) on Saturday, May 30, for a Take Cover, Spokane book signing and author Q&A.

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