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his is quickly becoming a writer’s town, and it seems that we’re indeed living in the LITERARY AGE of the Inland Northwest. And we’re not just talking about the New York Timesbestselling Jess Walter. We have Sharma Shields, Shann Ray, Nance Van Winckel, Tod Marshall, Thom Caraway, Gregory Spatz, Jack Nisbet, Kris Dinnison, Bruce Holbert, Kim Barnes, Stephanie Oakes, Rachel Toor, Samuel Ligon, Kate Lebo, Polly Buckingham, Shawn Vestal, Robert Wrigley... The list goes on. Often, when someone cites a point of pride in this community, it can cut two ways. (We have so little traffic… because your young people flee to Seattle and Portland!) Our writing prowess, however, demands no footnotes, and this week the Get Lit! Festival puts it on full display (page 22).

Also in this issue: staff writer Wilson Criscione profiles a local charter school (page 13) and contributor Scott A. Leadingham imagines what gonzo legend Hunter S. Thompson would make of our current slate of presidential candidates (page 62).

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BY GEORGE NETHERCUTT

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hen the Gonzaga men’s 2015-16 basketball season came to a premature end, our pride in the team and its fine coach, Mark Few, sustained us — and will continue to in the months ahead. The coach and players are a refreshing example of good sportsmanship. They are role models for young and old alike.

Unlike the interviews by Carolina Panthers star quarterback Cam Newton following Denver’s Super Bowl victory, the Zags’ postgame comments showed them to be athletes of integrity and high character. Postgame remarks by GU team members and their coach speak highly of the kind of program Gonzaga has run for decades, with 18 straight NCAA Tournament appearances.

The GU basketball program also produces gentlemen and good sports. Recognizing the courage of his players, Coach Few said, “It’s perhaps the best team I’ve ever coached.”

Guard and outstanding defender Kyle Dranginis: “I’m just grateful… I just enjoyed the journey… I’m just proud of these guys.”

Guard Josh Perkins, whose final shot was blocked: “I love these dudes, and they’re my brothers for life.”

No one criticized Syracuse or whined about losing, in spite of the pain the loss caused the Gonzaga team and its fans.

NCAA Tournament at all. Throughout their season, it was all for one and one for all.

Gonzaga’s players were acutely disappointed. But take nothing away from the drive of the Syracuse team. Two days later, they upset top-seeded Virginia to advance to the Final Four. But we heard only a classy postgame speech from Virginia’s coach Tony Bennett, formerly head coach at Washington State University.

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment.”

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n politics, candidates on the losing side of vote-counting routinely telephone the victor to offer congratulations. Even Donald Trump was gracious after his New Hampshire victory, complimenting rivals who disparaged him in the days before the election, but later called to congratulate him. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who threw the unfortunate interception in the final seconds of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victory last year, was gracious in defeat. College basketball players who fiercely battle on the court routinely meet at courtside to shake hands when the contest is over.

Unlike Newton, Gonzaga’s team members were good sports, never pouting over their loss.

The Zags recognized that they rose or fell as a team — and they rose to great heights, as they had to dig deep into every reserve of strength to win the WCC Tournament and get into the

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ennis great Arthur Ashe once instructed: “Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.” Gonzaga’s teammates never betrayed an inward sense of defeat, never proved themselves small by not having their situation under control.

Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts, himself a star college quarterback, once said: “Good character is how you act when no one’s watching.” Tennis star Chris Evert offered similar advice: “If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment.

That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.”

We all watched Gonzaga’s basketball team and their coach show the kind of good character that parents hope for when their children face the toughest competition. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat are always present in any contest. How one handles each is a sign of true character. Gonzaga’s team members and coach demonstrated theirs. It was an outstanding display.

Neither Gonzaga University’s men’s basketball team nor Coach Few failed to make us proud — even in defeat. n

COMMENT | TRAIL MIX

Remaining Neutral TRUMP’S FIGHT FOR WOMEN

DONALD TRUMP has not been doing so well with female voters. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, women view him unfavorably by a margin of three to one. Plus, Trump’s recent stumbles on abortion are unlikely to help. In an interview with MSNBC last week, he said women who receive abortions should be punished, but men who were involved in the circumstances leading to the procedure should not be. Within the next two days, Trump and his campaign clarified his stance on abortion four more times, finally settling on the position that abortion laws should stay the way they are until he is president, when he will help change them.

Trump brought his wife, Melania, onstage for a rally in Wisconsin on Monday night. She said her husband is a great communicator, negotiator and leader.

“As you may know by now, when you attack him, he will punch back 10 times harder,” she said. “He’s a fighter, and if you elect him to be our president, he will fight for you and for our country.”

The next day, Trump insisted that women love him because they know he will protect them from terrorists. “That’s protecting women,” he said, “but it’s also protecting everybody.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Divine Comedy imagines hell like a nine-layer bean dip, but with the damnation and torture instead of, say, pico de gallo and sour cream. But in a comment on KIRO radio’s Jason Rantz Show on Monday, Washington state gubernatorial candidate BILL BRYANT suggested that GOV. JAY INSLEE’S decision that allowed a legislative fix to keep charter schools open to pass into law, without a veto or signature, was worthy of special shame.

“Dante said the hottest circles in hell are reserved for those who maintain neutrality, and I think there is a circle waiting,” Bryant said.

Democrats tut-tutted in response, criticizing Bryant for “outrageously” implying that Inslee was going to hell. They also used Bryant’s statement as an opportunity to lambaste Inslee’s gubernatorial rival for his neutrality — and even acceptance — of Republican frontrunner DONALD TRUMP. (Trump’s well-documented lust, greed and dishonesty theoretically make The Donald a contender for the second, fourth and eighth circles of Dante’s Inferno, respectively.)

Bryant, for his part, refrained from pointing out that mismanagement by Inslee’s Department of Corrections resulted in the improper early release of numerous criminals found guilty of violent crimes — acts punished in Dante’s seventh circle of hell. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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The Price of Government What’s driving the manufactured outrage surrounding city councilmembers’ pay

BY PAUL DILLON

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pokane showed its growing pains the day after a raise was approved from the Salary Review Commission for the city council, a raise which should’ve been a non-issue. The shift from an annual $31,200 to $45,000 in councilmember pay, effective Jan. 1, 2017, seemed fair.

For elected officials who often work 60 hours a week, few would call the amount overly generous.

But in a time of anti-government rhetoric, “outrage” and “massive controversy” were common themes in local news outlets. So, when I called Councilwoman Lori Kinnear about how much feedback her office had received from constituents regarding the increase, her answer confirmed my suspicions about the manufactured controversy: “One email, one phone call,” she told me.

“But media won’t stop.”

The response by audiences was the same childish cynicism that defines so much of our political discourse: It doesn’t matter what you say as long as you say it loudly, facts be damned.

For background, voters last year overwhelmingly (by 80 percent) approved the Salary Review Commission’s scope to include the mayor, council president and the council. The review commission, an independent body appointed by the mayor and the council consisting of five commissioners, researched and conducted interviews to establish a baseline for their ultimate decision. “Transferring authority over the mayor’s salary to the citizen Salary Review Commission will introduce consistency into the process of setting the salaries of City of Spokane elected officials,” said Mayor David Condon. “It removes the politics and will allow the commission to take a good

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look at municipal salaries around the state and determine fair compensation.”

Removing politics is another matter when any public employee compensation is a convenient scapegoat, and a distraction from the real challenges we face. The primary sponsor of “No On 44%,” a campaign against the raise, is Kelly Lotze, a Republican activist. Lotze was then-city councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin’s campaign manager when she ran for state Senate and lost in 2012.

McLaughlin, recently appointed Spokane County Commissioner, now faces a challenger this November: Spokane City Councilwoman Candace Mumm. It doesn’t take long to connect the dots to see why the attacks have been focused on Mumm.

These are the same political forces who want to take us back to when the good old boys’ network ruled City Hall with a pre-approved agenda — creating a long history of problems, including political corruption in siding with developers — and eliminated responsiveness to the public being served.

This is what these attacks are really all about: Stopping the Spokane City Council from doing the work a majority chose them to do. If councilmembers were part-time, what would critics want them to stop doing, exactly? Not show up for work on Tuesday and Wednesday? Not study an $800 million budget before passing it?

Give more power to the Mayor?

These same critics said nothing when the mayor’s goal was to become the highest paid elected official in the state. Nearly 20 years ago, citizens chose a strongmayor form of government that established a separation of powers, including a legislative body, an administrative body and a judicial branch. But it’s the city council who are the eyes and ears for the citizens.

What I love most is to suddenly see concern for a perceived equity from those who have campaigned to widen disparities between rich and poor. If the goal of the “people’s business” is to be represented by somebody like yourself, there’s a perverse irony in wanting to be represented only by those who are lazy and have enough independent wealth. Former councilmembers Steve Salvatori and Mike Allen are prime examples.

The wage change makes public office more accessible, regardless of income, if you are willing to do the work — and that is why a few are scared. Spokane is slowly closing its doors to what Allen and Salvatori represented. Why? We don’t want old Spokane politics.

We want the new and future Spokane.

Now run for office. n Paul Dillon, a Center for Justice board member, manages public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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Full of Women” (4/7/16) published in the Inlander. Last week, the City of Spokane held an employee recognition program event for city employees who were nominated for and received awards for excellence.

The large majority of those nominated and who received awards were hired through the civil service system. ... These recognitions by city administration point to the value of our selection methodologies which result in exceptional employees being hired by the city.

In the article overall, pay equity seems to be confused with diversity in recruitment. The focus of the Gender and Pay Equity report released last month was to compare equity in wages between men and women employees overall and within city government. Both pay equity and diversity of recruitment are important; however, these are two different issues. Pay equity is a means of eliminating sex and race discrimination in the wage-setting system between two equal jobs. ... The items discussed in the Gender and Pay Equity Report that would pertain to civil service is diversity recruitment and job description analysis. Other items such as pay equity, mentoring, retention, training, flexible workplace and workplace climate are not within the purview of civil service.

Secondly, it should be noted that civil service for police and fire is a requirement of state law, and for the rest of city government employment, it is required by the City Charter as voted on by the citizens of Spokane multiple times.

Finally, we need to also remember that testing as a screening device, utilizing a variety of testing measures for a given job to increase the validity and reliability of the tests, is not unique to government — private companies have begun to use them. Pre-employment selection tests have been shown to serve as consistent and objective sources of data to assess minimum qualifications and predict job performance, if done correctly. The consistent accolades received by civil service classified employees through the City’s employee recognition program, serve as a testament to the success of the civil service testing process.

GITA GEORGE-HATCHER Chief Examiner, City of Spokane Civil Service

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THE AVETT BROTHERS WITH GRACE POTTER JUL 19 Reactions to a blog post (4/2/16) about how honest mistakes in public records requests reveals the thin line between mistakes and an intentional disregard of state law:

BRENDA SWADER-DOGGETT CMP: Under the current atmosphere the city and the mayor’s office has created this is just ONE MORE THING to add to the list. It’s okay that it was an honest mistake. However, add that to the long list of mistakes hitting here, and there seems to be an ONGOING issue with the city government. The public is held accountable and the city employees are not?

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And the job is particularly difficult when the transition to digitization hasn’t been made… government offices are usually about 20 years behind the curve technologically.

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After being saved by state lawmakers, charter schools — including Spokane’s PRIDE Prep — can focus on helping students who want an educational alternative

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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t’s the week before spring break at PRIDE Prep, and the classrooms are disappearing. Except you can’t really call them classrooms. Inside a former warehouse, they’re more like class spaces with no walls — the only barrier between them are whiteboards on wheels.

When it comes time for the roughly 150 middle school students to present their end-of-the-term projects, as they will on this Thursday night, those movable whiteboards can come in handy. In a span of less than an hour, all of the class spaces are gone, transformed into one makeshift public exhibition hall. The whiteboards form rows inside the former warehouse so the students can present what they’ve learned.

This is all by design. As a former Garry Middle School principal, Brenda McDonald envisioned a new, more proactive way to help the kind of kids who used to come into her office. Many were bored, skipped school, and were unable to find a classroom environment that would support them. Others simply weren’t being challenged, or only cared about passing state tests.

Teachers, she says, were frustrated that they couldn’t be creative in getting through to these students in the classroom.

PRIDE Prep, which McDonald founded and opened last fall, fulfills her vision. As one of Spokane’s two charter schools, it’s project-based, which means the students apply various subjects with the goal of finishing one product. It’s a model she argues more closely mirrors the working world. She rented out this spot on Sprague Avenue that allows for easy transformation into whatever is needed each school day.

Yet just months after opening, PRIDE Prep, and the other eight charter schools in the state, were already in danger of having to shut down entirely. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that charter schools, under the law that voters statewide passed in 2012, were unconstitutional. The ruling forced PRIDE Prep and Spokane International Academy, the other local charter school, to join the Mary Walker School District in Stevens County and become Alternative Learning Environments — a technicality that allowed them to stay open for the year while state lawmakers figured out if the state’s charters should be saved, and if so, how to save them.

The legislature eventually passed a bill that shifts the funding source for charter schools, after Gov. Jay Inslee announced last week that he would neither veto nor sign the bill.

His inaction means it becomes law, and charter schools are once again legal in Washington — for now. ...continued on next page

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In a state where public schools have been ruled to be criminally underfunded by the state Supreme Court, critics say charter schools only add to the funding problem. Proponents say that charter schools can be part of the solution by providing public education alternatives for kids and parents not being adequately served by the public school system.

Meanwhile, though the school’s status has been in limbo, the politics haven’t fazed the teachers or students at PRIDE Prep as it continues its mission of hands-on, project-based learning.

For students like seventh-grader Mary, this charter in Spokane stands out.

“This school isn’t like all the other charter schools. This one’s unique,” she says. “I went to three different charter schools in Arizona and none of them were like this school. All of them tried to say they were different, but they all just acted like the normal public school system. This one actually tries to break away from that and actually focus on what the kids need.”

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o function the way PRIDE Prep wants to function, the physical structure of the school must be flexible and ready for constant change, says teacher Matt Miller. That flexibility also must translate to the hierarchy of the organization itself, which is why Miller wouldn’t necessarily limit himself to the title of “teacher.”

“We don’t go by titles like that,” he says. “We blur the lines and say: We’re mentors. We’re advisors. We’re co-learners. We’re all of these things.”

But basically, he’s a teacher. He used to teach in the traditional public school system, but

eventually got sick of the constant reform efforts.

He helped come up with the design for PRIDE Prep, building on what he says are some basic assumptions: that people are diverse, that they learn through experience, and that they learn better with a teacher or mentor learning along with them. The traditional school systems, he argues, are limited by their structure.

“We do what we do because we have all these classrooms and we can’t do anything about them. We do what we do because we have this set of books and we’re wedded to them,” Miller says. “[At PRIDE Prep], we’re not.”

The middle-schoolers recently worked on a project about natural disasters. They learned the science behind why they happened, how they damage structures and the social impact. They built model buildings and tested if they would collapse in a mock earthquake. Most did, so they made new ones.

McDonald says the school attracts all ranges of kids, whether they struggled in public schools or weren’t challenged enough before. Each kid has a learning plan developed specifically for them. If the school had to shut down, she says, some kids would simply not be able to return to a traditional setting.

Jada, 12, says she is among that group.

“If it shut down, I don’t really know what I would do, because I don’t really want to go to Chase [Middle School],” the seventh-grader says.

“I would have nothing to do. I wouldn’t enjoy school like I do now. There’s no one that would help me there like they do here.”

When the state Supreme Court ruled charters unconstitutional, shutting down seemed a likely possibility. So charter advocates across the state went to Olympia to urge lawmakers to save

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enny Rose, president of the Spokane Education Association, says it’s about more than that. Lawmakers should be worrying about funding for all kids, not the 1,100 in Washington charter schools, she says. Even if basic education in the state was fully funded, she argues, taxpayers would still have no control over charter schools because they don’t elect their school boards.

Spokane Public Schools was the only district in the state to authorize local charter schools instead of the state Board of Education, though the district board did not directly oversee the charters. When the charters were ruled unconstitutional, the district had to distance itself from the charters. So the schools became Alternative Learning Environments.

The funding for ALEs works a bit differently, says Washington State Charter Schools Association spokeswoman Maggie Meyers, and the state provides less money per student. Donors, including philanthropists, have made contributions to charters to make up the difference statewide, but that would not have been sustainable if lawmakers took away all funding, she says. (PRIDE Prep has not received any money from philanthropists since the Supreme Court ruling, says McDonald.)

Rose argues that schools like PRIDE Prep should and could be a part of Spokane Public Schools anyway, overseen by the board.

“I think Spokane Public Schools could have done the same thing, I truly do,” Rose says.

Says McDonald, “Yeah, but we don’t. For whatever reason, we don’t.”

Steven Gering, Spokane Public Schools’ chief academic officer, says the district has so far decided to be involved with its local charter schools, regardless. The district can now reauthorize the two charter schools, thanks to the bill that passed the last week.

The district’s involvement, he says, has so far helped create more unity with the charter schools, a bond not seen in many other places in the state and nation.

McDonald agrees that it’s a somewhat unique relationship.

“We believe in Spokane that we owe the community great schools and a system of great schools, and we’re a piece of the puzzle,” she says. “So it’s a much different relationship here in Spokane than it is anywhere else in the state and, quite frankly, anywhere else in the country.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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A group of several teachers and about 25 students from PRIDE Prep were supposed to go as well, but their flight was delayed, and by the time they would have arrived, the rally would have been over. Sean Hopf, one of those PRIDE Prep teachers, says he would have shared how well his students were doing after many had failed in the traditional system.

“Change our funding, whatever, call us a different name, I don’t care,” Hopf says. “I want their logical reason, other than people saying ‘Well, the teachers’ unions don’t want to lose their influence, they don’t want their positions threatened.’ Well, OK, but what about the kids?”

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STICKY FINGERS Three weeks ago, Jones Radiator owner Lucas McIntyre posted security footage of three people — at least one of whom had just finished playing a show at his downtown bar — working together to STEAL A PAINTING OFF THE WALL. At first McIntyre and the artist, Shana Smith, tried to get the painting back without involving the police. When that didn’t work, Smith filed a police report, only to be told the painting wasn’t worth enough money to warrant an investigation. (It’s valued at $1,200.) Later, police said they would assign the case to a detective. At press time, neither Smith nor McIntyre have been contacted by police, and the painting is still missing. Smith has offered a reward to whomever brings the painting back: she’ll paint you something! (MITCH RYALS)

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BY ANY OTHER NAME Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic state senator from Seattle running for Congress, is spearheading an effort to change the names of 36 Washington lakes, creeks, canyons and other geographic features with RACIALLY INFLAMMATORY names, including “Negro Creek” and “Squaw Valley.”

Instead of introducing legislation, Jayapal says she’s drumming up support to use state and federal administrative processes to change the outdated names to new ones that reflect what’s “positive and beautiful in our state.”

There are no shortage of offensive names for geographic features east of the Cascades.

However, Eastern Washington elected officials contacted by the Inlander weren’t as enthusiastic about the proposed name changes.

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The Inlander’s recent cover story highlighting the epidemic of PROPERTY CRIME in Washington state and Spokane had a bigger impact than expected: It inspired local Republican legislators to ask for money to do something about it.

“I can honestly tell you that if the Inlander had not written that article, Spokane would not have $300,000,” State Sen. Michael Baumgartner says.

Baumgartner already knew property crime was a problem in Spokane. “[But] it really started bothering me after you guys wrote this Inlander article,” Baumgartner says.

The Inlander’s story lays out a number of factors driving property crime: from drug addiction to the lack of probation or supervision to the low numbers of police officers. Baumgartner noticed that Seattle was seeking legislative funding to address its homelessness crisis.

“If they’re having a homelessness crisis, we’re having a property crime crisis,” Baumgartner says. His familiarity with the budgeting process, he says, led him to believe that using a budget provision would be an effective way of bringing more funding to Spokane.

“I went to [Sen. Mike] Padden and said, ‘Hey Mike, what can we do for property crimes?’” Baumgartner

says. “I had talked to [Mayor David] Condon and asked, ‘What can we do with it?’”

With help from Padden (a former judge) and Sen. Brian Dansel, Baumgartner managed to obtain $300,000 to fight property crime in Spokane County.

Exactly what that $300,000 will be used for hasn’t been determined. The Spokane Police Department has suggested it could be used for more automated licenseplate readers, more cameras or increased public outreach with crime prevention tips.

“When it comes to having folks in prison, I’d like to have more rehabilitation resources,” Baumgartner says.

He also thinks more criminals need to go to prison in the first place, but recognizes the financial limitations.

“Sen. Padden and I are going to do a property crime summit later on this summer,” Baumgartner says. “The situation in Spokane is unacceptable.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

BACK TO THE BEGINNING

Spokane might have start the entire ombudsman hiring process at SQUARE ONE, thanks to an issue with paperwork compiled by the city’s human resources department.

In November, the ombudsman commission picked Raheel Humayun, who is Canadian, for the permanent job. Humayun’s expedited visa application was denied in mid-March, leaving the city with two weeks to gather paperwork for another application, awarded on a lottery basis. But according to ombudsman commission chair Deb Conklin, because problems with city’s HR department in filing additional paperwork for that application, Humayun missed the April 1 deadline.

“We should have been able to get this paperwork done early. It was just a matter of jumping through some hoops,” Conklin says. “HR did not get the job done.”

City Human Resources Director Heather Lowe disagrees, saying her department worked with an attorney to get the correct paperwork filed, but one of the forms was rejected by the Department of Labor.

Now Humayun’s only option is to apply for a visa at the border. If that application is denied, the city will most likely have to start over, Conklin says.

Following the missed deadline, Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart sent a letter to ombudsman commissioners, urging them to support current interim ombudsman Bart Logue for the permanent position.

“Mr. Logue has demonstrated his qualifications, character, and desire to serve in this capacity,” the letter reads.

“He has also provided stability and progress toward implementing the collaborative reform recommendations by the U.S. Department of Justice. We believe that Spokane citizens deserve someone of Mr. Logue’s caliber.”

Although Conklin says she’s not opposed to Logue taking the permanent job, she argues that skirting the process could dampen the confidence of the citizens of Spokane.

“You can’t do an end run around the process for a job to ensure police accountability,” she says. “The irony of that is just palpable.” (MITCH RYALS)

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High Hopes A treatment for those those hooked on heroin or painkillers is gaining traction. But is it the silver bullet for opioid addiction?

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shley Beach’s life is held together by two orange tablets she takes daily. Her story is common: She was prescribed opioid pain medication for a neurological condition that left her with migraines. The medication helped with pain, but she wound up addicted to prescription painkillers.

“I started manipulating family, and I emptied bank accounts,” says Beach, who ended up homeless and lost custody of her children. “I basically just completely went downhill because of my use.”

About a year ago, she enrolled in treatment that includes a prescription for Suboxone, a medication that keeps withdrawal and cravings at bay. Now she’s off the streets and back with her kids.

“When I take Suboxone, I feel like a completely normal, sober person,” she says. The Spokane woman has been in other treatment programs, but this method, she says, recognizes the reality of addiction. “Your brain says you need this, and your body is just not physically strong enough,” she says.

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and Prevention says that the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids quadrupled between 1999 and 2014, leaving nearly half a million Americans dead.

The problem is present in Washington state, where 612 people died in 2014 from either prescription opioids or heroin, up slightly from the year before.

In response to the problem, more addiction treatment programs are turning to buprenorphine, a synthetic opioid often sold under the brand name Suboxone. It’s similar to methadone, another synthetic opioid that’s been in use since the 1960s.

Both keep patients’ withdrawal symptoms and cravings in check. But buprenorphine has advantages. Methadone has to be taken in a supervised setting, meaning patients have to make routine trips to clinics, which can be stigmatizing and an obstacle in rural areas. Buprenorphine can be prescribed and taken at home. It’s also harder to abuse than methadone, which can be taken in large quantities to catch a buzz and potentially cause an overdose.

Proponents say medications like buprenorphine provide the normalcy that recovering addicts need to hold down jobs and wrestle with underlying psychological

issues driving their addiction. This approach has long been resisted in treatment programs that demand abstinence.

“We think that because people behave their way into the condition, they should behave their way back out of it,” says Caleb Banta-Green, a researcher at the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, who argues that too many treatment programs ignore how opioid addiction changes an addict’s biological chemistry.

He’s not alone. In 2012, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University issued a report suggesting that most addiction treatments amount to “medical malpractice” and called for a “significant overhaul.” That could be on the way.

Interest in buprenorphine has risen, with sales of Suboxone topping a billion dollars. In October, the Obama administration announced a series of executive actions intended to overhaul addiction treatment in the U.S. and increase the number of physicians authorized to prescribe buprenorphine from 30,000 to 60,000 over the next three years. Washington has seen a rise in physicians authorized to prescribe the drug, and state officials are seeking to increase the use of the treatment. Locally, the Spokane Regional Health District is poised to become the first local health district in the state to offer it.

Although proponents of buprenorphine say it has the potential to change opioid addiction treatment, barriers to its more widespread use still remain.

Physicians are reluctant to embrace it, and there is an entrenched belief in some treatment programs that using medication will just swap one dependency for another.

“People get judged daily for being on Suboxone,” says Beach.

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anta-Green says it’s hard to nail down how many people are prescribed buprenorphine in Washington because of the way data is kept in the state, but the number is rising.

Dennis Malmer, deputy director of the Washington State Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, says the number of doctors authorized in Washington to prescribe buprenorphine has increased since the drug was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002. Over the past year alone, he says that the number of authorized physicians rose by 100, to the current 950. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, there are 16 authorized doctors in Spokane County (there are 54 for the state of Idaho, which has also struggled with opioid addiction but keeps less data on the problem).

Randall Riggs, a local psychiatrist, received his authorization in 2006 and has prescribed buprenorphine to more than a thousand patients since then. Currently the owner of InKARE, he prescribes Suboxone to more than 50 patients; he has a common goal for all of them.

“People who see me need to want to get off the narcotic,” says Riggs. His clinic, he says, isn’t a “maintenance clinic,” keeping patients indefinitely on Suboxone.

Being treated with Suboxone, says Riggs, doesn’t mean just an occasional trip to the doctor’s office. Instead, patients get close management, coupled with counseling. He says that most of his patients are middle-class people with jobs and are easier to manage than people struggling with poverty.

“The more chaotic [the patient’s] life is, the more they need case management,” Riggs says. That’s why he’s glad that the Spokane Regional Health District will

offer the treatment.

“It goes hand in hand with methadone, and we’ve wanted it for years,” says Julie Albright, the district’s administrator of treatment services. Last year, the district hired Dr. Matt Layton, a psychiatrist authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, as medical director for its opioid treatment program. Layton says the district has been focused on its methadone clinic, but plans to hire mental health providers to accompany buprenorphine treatment, which it aims to start offering by June.

Albright says the district will increase its capacity from 720 patients to more than a thousand after it finalizes a contract with Medicaid. Some patients will have private insurance and others will have veterans benefits, she says.

But there are barriers. Layton can only prescribe buprenorphine to 100 patients at any given time; he hopes to partner with other authorized physicians to meet demand. Medicaid’s reimbursement rate also doesn’t fully cover the $550-a-month cost for the drug, a situation the state is trying to fix.

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ustine Fellows, a former heroin addict, says she tried Suboxone when it first came out but, for her, it just replaced one dependency with another. Now the assistant director of Good Samaritan Rehabilitation, a Coeur d’Alene-based inpatient treatment program, she helps its roughly 40 patients overcome their addictions through therapy, a 12-step class and developing a relationship with Jesus Christ.

“We’ve found that people that come in on Suboxone are kind of numb, and their judgment is still not what it should be,” Fellows says. “It causes them to not be able to deal with the real issues they have.”

Spokane’s Union Gospel Mission similarly won’t accept anyone currently being medicated into its recovery program, says Dave Wall, its spokesman.

The UW’s Banta-Green says that while these programs work for some, research shows they typically don’t work for LETTERS opioid addicts. He says studies Send comments to have shown that patients in editor@inlander.com. medication-assisted therapy are half as likely to die as those in more conventional therapies. Buprenorphine, he says, should be treated like any other needed medicine, especially when pressuring someone off of it could ultimately kill them.

“We don’t try to wean people off their insulin or their Prozac or Zoloft,” he says.

A report issued by the Pew Charitable Trusts, based on research from the American Journal of Public Health, found that nationally, only 49 percent of people with an opioid addiction could potentially receive buprenorphine treatment. Addicts in both Washington and Idaho, according to the report, had even less access.

Getting more doctors to embrace buprenorphine will be a challenge. A 2014 study of Washington physicians’ attitudes to buprenorphine found near-unanimous support for the treatment among doctors interviewed by researchers. The study also found that only 28 percent of physicians prescribed buprenorphine, citing a lack of mental health and institutional support. “[The authorization] is not really difficult to obtain,” says Riggs, who notes that some physicians may be ill-equipped to take on this population. “But many doctors don’t want to get it, because they don’t want to treat drug addicts.”

There also are concerns about the black market for buprenorphine, one that Riggs says is driven by addicts who use it to stay stable in case their dealer is arrested. With a tablet of Suboxone going for as high as $40, he says the temptation is real.

And the treatment, says Riggs, isn’t quick or easy. Some patients may take it for three or four years while they’re in counseling, then need another one to two years to taper off. Some patients relapse, he says, and others quit treatment. He estimates that less than 20 percent of his patients have kicked opioids for good.

“It’s kind of a leash,” Riggs says. But in the meantime, he says, “[Patients] can often go on with their lives.” n

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Places like Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere are experiencing public health crises from lead-contaminated water pipes, bringing the issue to national prominence.

herry Miller has 11 grandchildren and has worked in Head Start programs. So she knew from her young granddaughter’s “anger button” and speech delay that she wasn’t developing normally.

Two years ago, Miller had her then-2-yearold granddaughter (who had come live with her in Kalispell, Montana) screened for lead exposure. The results revealed that the lead in the old house in Spokane where she used to live had poisoned her.

“This is something she’s going to carry for the rest of her life,” says Miller. “I think had they screened her in Washington, they’d have found it and done something about it.”

Under federal law, Washington is supposed to screen children on Medicaid, like Miller’s granddaughter, for exposure to lead, a toxic element that can have lasting effects on kids’ IQ and academic achievement levels. But Washington has long been out of compliance with federal requirements to universally screen children receiving Medicaid at 12 and 24 months of age. According to numbers from the Washington State Health Care Authority, fewer than 5 percent of children age 6 years and younger who are on Medicaid have been screened.

Washington also lags behind the rest of

the country in testing in general. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 3 percent of the state’s children under age 6 had been tested for exposure to lead in 2012. Nationally, 10 percent of kids are tested.

“It’s grossly inadequate,” says Steven Gilbert, affiliate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington. The state, he says, has “one of the country’s worst compliance rates” when it comes to Medicaid screening requirements.

Washington health agencies have argued that research shows lead exposure is becoming less common in the state. They’re focusing on risk reduction while allowing Medicaid health-care providers to use targeted screenings for children living in older housing (more likely to contain lead paint) or who have friends or family who have been exposed.

Proponents of universal screening scored a court victory last year that could change how the state’s most vulnerable children are tested for lead. But now, the state is seeking an exemption from universal testing requirements, and the outcome hinges on a decision from the federal government.

The unfolding public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, has brought national attention to the

dangers of lead poisoning. Here in Washington, proponents of more screening say that the state doesn’t know for sure how big of a problem lead exposure is. If the state does come into compliance, they say it could reveal ongoing problems. “[Washington has] a lot of catching up to do,” says Wayne Turner, a staff attorney at the National Health Law Program, of the state’s lack of screening. “We either do this now or we do this later, because the effects of lead last for a lifetime.”

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nce widely used in paint, gasoline and other applications, lead was recognized decades ago as a toxic element that has lasting health impacts for those exposed to it.

Although it has been removed from many consumer products, lead can still be found in houses built before 1978 (the year it was banned from paint), as well as pipes used to deliver water and soil contaminated by smelters. It’s also in some imported toys, pots and spices.

A report issued last year by the state Department of Health cited numbers showing that although Washington screened fewer kids than the rest of the country, they were less likely to have elevated lead blood levels. The report argues that it makes more sense to screen low-income children who are at greater risk and that preventing exposure “is the only practical approach to preventing elevated blood lead levels in children.”

Nationally, Turner says it’s been a “mixed bag” when it comes to universal screening requirements for children on Medicaid.

“I think that lead is one of these issues where something bad happens and it’s in the headlines, and then it goes off the radar,” he says. “Which is why we want these mandatory testing requirements, so we can get an early warning in place.”

Idaho similarly balked at federal requirements, prompting a class action lawsuit in 2000 that was brought against the state.

The suit resulted in a judgment in 2003 that required Idaho to begin universal testing.

In 2015, environmental lawyer David Bricklin filed a similar suit on behalf of Virla Spencer, a Spokane woman whose five children qualify for Medicaid services, against Gov. Jay Inslee and the Washington State Health Care Authority. Although state officials settled the lawsuit, they’ve applied for a waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would allow Washington to join three other states which use targeted screenings over universal screenings.

“It’s not easy to come up with a scheme that isolates which Medicaid kids are more at risk than others,” says Bricklin. “The lead exposure pathways are diverse.”

Cheryl Moore, spokeswoman for the WSHCA, says that it’s ultimately up to Medicaid health care providers to determine which children they test. However, she noted that the WSHCA anticipates more providers to conduct the screenings in response to a new guide that clarifies they are expected to do so.

Alexander Garrard, clinical managing director of the Washington Poison Center, says that unlike other states, water is unlikely to be a source of exposure in Washington. “Universally, the most common source is going to be from houses,” he says.

A map created by the state Department of Health shows that much of Spokane is at the highest level of risk for lead exposure, based on the age of housing and poverty levels. (A statement from the department notes that the tool doesn’t determine the risk of individual houses.)

Bricklin says that if Washington is required to undergo universal screening, it could take years to get health care providers up to speed. By then, if testing does reveal that low-income families are living in housing contaminated with lead paint, they still might not have the means to fix it or move, he says.

Sherry Miller, for one, says her granddaughter is doing better.

After the diagnosis, she started giving her vitamins and sneaking detoxifying leafy vegetables into smoothies, which seemed to help. But Miller says her granddaughter still has a speech delay and behavioral problems, and is working on her motor skills.

All of this, says Miller, might have been avoided with a simple test.

“To have not found that high of a level of lead in that baby’s blood is unforgivable,” she says. n

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Shawn Vestal used his rural Idaho youth and Evel Knievel obsession to craft a moving and colorful debut novel

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ike a lot of other kids in 1973, Shawn Vestal got an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle for Christmas. He’d attach the 6-inch figure of the bawdy Montanan atop a plastic version of his Harley-Davidson to its “energizer,” turn the crank until it produced an apocalyptically loud whirl and then send the little guy ripping. The television ads claimed it could jump 100 feet. An 8-year-old Vestal tested those claims.

Nine months later, Evel Knievel — the real, non-plastic one — decided to jump Idaho’s Snake River Canyon in a rocket. Vestal had to be there to see this feat of American heroism, and it was taking place only an hour or so away from his home. But Sept. 8, 1974, happened to be a Sunday and Vestal’s family, like most Mormon families, didn’t do anything on Sundays, let alone gather with the sort of rowdy longhairs and bikers who would willingly head to the desert to see a man potentially kill himself.

So Vestal missed seeing one of the more spectacular failures in Knievel’s career, and the kid couldn’t shake the disappointment.

“I’ve sort of jokingly said that was the beginning of the end. In some way that’s a joke, but that desire to be out in the worldly world and see something dirty and scary was what I always wanted,” says Vestal, who’s now 50.

Evel Knievel is integral to Vestal’s debut novel, Daredevils, which is set in the mid-’70s and features a teenager named Jason from Gooding who’s obsessed with Knievel (and actually does make it to the canyon for the jump) and aches to get out of small-town Idaho and away from his Mormon roots. That kid is juxtaposed with Loretta, a teenage girl who’s been married off as the second wife to Jason’s estranged polygamist uncle.

“Freedom is appealing, but it’s frightening when you’re young,” says Vestal of Loretta, who adds a feminist spirit to Daredevils. She also was a vehicle for Vestal to explore religion.

“Her whole life is prescribed by men, even the well-meaning men in her life,” says Vestal, who adds that writing the book saw him reevaluate what it means for men to support feminist causes.

Loretta is essentially imprisoned by the relationship, and readers will struggle not to squirm at the passages of the girl’s initial meeting with the husband who’s been forced upon her. Along the way, we’re treated to interludes of Vestal writing as Knievel, spouting grandiose declarations about America and all the asses he has kicked or plans to kick. The passages are a binding agent for the story, and its characters color the book with some flavor of the American West and display the often awful things that can lurk behind its scenic veneer. To Vestal, Knievel is a perfect embodiment of American arrogance: “I feel like America is all wrapped up in him — all the paradoxes and contradictions. In America, we have great belief in faith in our goodness and our exceptionalism, even if we have evidence that there are things in our history that maybe aren’t so great.”

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person would drink for a number of years,” says Vestal.

The break from the church was hard on his mom, Vestal says, but he remains close with her, as well as his siblings, one of whom is a bishop at a Mormon church. He then headed to the University of Idaho, studying to become an English teacher, but dropped out to work at small newspapers in southern Idaho, which led to gradually bigger writing and editing gigs throughout the West, including stints in Montana and Oregon and at the Coeur d’Alene Press, where he met his wife, Amy. He eventually landed at the Spokesman-Review, where he ran multiple editing roles and now serves as a columnist. When he was away from the newsroom, he was writing fiction.

“A lot of writers have that selfmythologizing story about how hard they worked. For 20 years, to various degrees, I have been sending stories and getting them back and just having no luck,” Vestal says.

He was already in his 40s when he finished his long-abandoned bachelor’s degree, then enrolled in Eastern Washington University’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers master’s program, while still working at the Spokesman.

“He was probably 10 years older than the average student. What was one of the many awesome things about him was that he was open for business and ready to develop and grow as a ...continued on next page

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aredevils, which has already received positive reviews from the BBC and Apple Books, is hardly autobiographical, but the desire that Loretta and Jason share to escape was very real in Vestal’s youth. He wasn’t stepping out on his Mormon upbringing quite yet in the years after missing the Snake River Canyon jump, but by his junior year of high school, Vestal took up drinking as much as a symbol of his break from the Mormon church as for recreation.

“For me, it was this signifier that I was not that. A lot of kids are like, ‘Hey, look at me drinking beer,’ but I was especially that. It was a way of separating myself from the church. As a result, I drank more than a smart

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writer,” says Samuel Ligon, a professor in the program who has since become close with Vestal and read earlier drafts of Daredevils.

Vestal’s debut short-story collection, Godforsaken Idaho, as the title implies, also mined his roots. The book was not only showered with praise, it earned Vestal the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a $25,000 award bestowed upon a debut author.

“The fact that [the book] even existed as an object was enough for me,” he says, reflecting on his trip to New York as a finalist for the prize.

“It was great, but I was sure I wasn’t going to win, and I don’t mean that out of a sense of false modesty. I started reading the judges’ citation, and it became apparent about halfway in that this is my book. I better figure out what I’m going to say ... It’s a great sense of validation to know that the work is taken seriously and respected.”

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It’s not lost on him that he had to go back, at least in his writing, to Idaho to break through as a novelist.

“I think I had the idea that my own life wasn’t interesting, or that there was something cheap or short-cutty about drawing from my own life,” he says.

These days, Vestal and his wife have an 8-year-old boy of their own. Maybe some day that boy will want to see whatever equivalent of Evil Knievel the 21st century has to offer. Maybe he’ll write about that, too.

“I don’t think of [Daredevils] as drawn from my own life,” says Vestal, “because none of the stories are things that happened, yet it’s there in a mishmash way, which I’ve discovered is the only way you can write.” n

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On the Tuesday of Get Lit!, two Spokane authors whose work has been intertwined for years will share a stage to read from their respective books. Shawn Vestal is reading from Daredevils while Samuel Ligon offers a taste of the two books he recently dropped — the novel Among the Dead and Dreaming and the short-story collection Wonderland. Spokane literary heavyweight Jess Walter will moderate the night, which includes drinks and book signings.

Ligon’s novel is years in the making, he says, and features characters he first developed in his short-story writing. One of those characters is Nikki, a woman who killed her violent boyfriend and is now trying to escape the boyfriend’s just-out-of-prison brother.

At the back of both Vestal and Ligon’s books, you’ll find acknowledgements to each other. Each author read early drafts of the other’s work and lent what both say is valuable insight along the way. Walter also helped both writers. The collegiality is something you don’t find in every literary community, says Ligon: “It’s pretty amazing. This is a Spokane thing. I don’t think you see that kind of support everywhere. It’s weird and cool.” (MIKE BOOKEY)

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cursory Internet cruise can lead the sexually curious to information and discussions focused on any predilection one can imagine. For many, the exploration isn’t for explicit pictures or lurid online conversation, but for crafted prose that finds familiar characters in a fictional, steamy situation of the writer’s choosing.

Welcome to the world of erotic fan-fiction, where exploring the what-ifs of famous sex lives makes for sometimes sensual, often hilarious original works shared among lovers of the genre. If you can think of it, chances are you can find a sexualized story about it online. In fact, Fifty Shades of Grey began as sexually charged Twilight fan-fiction.

This year’s Get Lit! festival features writers creating some erotic fan-fic of their own about mythical monsters, like those found in Lord of the Rings and Where the Wild Things Are. “We want as many genres to be represented, as many styles, as possible,” says Festival Director Melissa Huggins. “We always try to mix it up from year to year and try to have something that’s really unusual and different. This was a really fun, lighthearted way of doing that.”

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By Dan Nailen At last fall’s Montana Book Festival, Huggins was one of the featured authors taking an erotic approach to characters from Nancy Drew and The Baby-Sitters Club books. Writing was a challenge in terms of how far to take her story of Nancy Drew’s dad sleeping with the housekeeper, she says, but the event, held at a Missoula dive bar, was a blast. And as part of the broader festival full of readings and panel discussions, erotic fan-fiction served as an addition worth bringing to Get Lit! “We definitely don’t want to be in a mode where everything has to be really serious,” Huggins says.

The Get Lit! panel is a collaboration with the Montana Book Festival, where it will continue this fall with a new batch of groovy ghoulies getting busy. Poet Rachel Mindell, director of the Montana fest and writing for Get Lit!’s session, says the inaugural edition elicited a “combination of really different, weird, sexy stuff” from its sold-out panel loaded with Spokane talent, including Huggins, YA author Kris Dinnison and poet/essayist Aileen Keown Vaux.

“People just laughed the whole time,” Mindell says.

“It’s sort of delicate when you’re dealing with teenage girls and writing sexy stuff without making it inappropriate, so it was a lot of wordplay and innuendo. It was

more playful than anything.”

After writing her Baby-Sitters Club piece for the Montana Book Festival, Keown Vaux thought to herself, “That was the most fun I’ve had writing the last five years,” after deciding, “I’m going to push this to the nth degree and see how ridiculous and absurd I can go with it.” But, she notes, erotic fan-fiction can provide an outlet to explore more serious inner emotions.

“For some people, it’s a really important outlet,” Keown Vaux says. “There are a lot of queer narratives to it as well, which I think is really pivotal for some people who want to see some stories they haven’t had access to.”

And if the stories can serve fans while also entertaining the crowd at a literary festival — as she fully expects it will as she moderates Get Lit!’s panel — all the better.

“Whatever you’re expectations are, they’re going to be disrupted in some way,” Keown Vaux says, “because it’s a high-wire act where people come out and have interesting, hilarious takes on this genre.”  Sexy Beasts: Erotic Fan Fiction featuring Mythical Monsters • Sat, April 16, at 8 pm • 21 + • free • nYne Bar & Bistro • 232 W. Sprague

Words with Melody Cornelius Eady and his band Rough Magic bring music to poetry

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ornelius Eady doesn’t consider what he does work. Yes, he teaches weekly at the University of Missouri discussing poetry, literature and theater, but he says there’s little separation between this and what he loves to do. After three days on the job, he flies back home to Manhattan to continue his various projects, including writing poetry and collaborating with his literary band, Rough Magic.

“We use that term [literary band] because there are so many writers in the band,” Eady says last week over the phone.

The five-piece began in 2013 when Eady’s friend and fellow poet Robin Messing wanted to sing together. Soon, musicians came together for a recording session of Eady’s poetry in a rented-out Brooklyn basement. When asked to give a reading at a Manhattan church, Eady obliged, as long as his “band” could come too.

“We weren’t even official then,” he says. But since then, the group, made up of stand-up bass, violin, drums, guitar and vocals, has collaborated and performed steadi-

ly throughout the East Coast. This weekend, the group’s jazz-tinged instrumentation and bluesy beats come to the Get Lit! festival.

Now in his sixties, the National Book Award finalist can’t remember a time when the two artistic media weren’t a part of his life.

“Poetry and music have been Cornelius Eady porous throughout my career,” says Eady, who even wrote a libretto for an opera.

He does say that putting melody to words has opened up a new way for people to appreciate his and other poets’ works. He explains that songs are often more immediate than poems: “You either get songs, or you don’t.” Simply speaking poetry out loud has a slow-

ing effect, causing listeners to contemplate life.

He makes it clear that songwriting and adding music to poetry are two different entities. When lyrics are written specific to a song, it’s obvious in flow and melody.

But when poems are added to music, the sound can be avant-garde and modern in scope — like the two pieces don’t completely fit.

How he writes is straightforward, Eady says, but it’s often challenging to explain his process in a group setting because there is no big secret.

“I’m reluctant to talk process publicly,” Eady says. “The best thing to say is: You work on it until you get it done. Sometimes it’s easy; sometimes it’s tough. Writing it is the only way to get through it.”

With eight books of poetry published, the most recent 2008’s Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, Eady says he’s focusing on the poetry and musical aspect of his career right now. The band’s album, which features American poet Sterling A. Brown’s text set to music, is expected next year.

Get Lit! is the group’s first West Coast venture and Eady says that the audience should pay attention to the interaction between the instrumentalists.

“I think people are going to be happily surprised about how tight the band is, how well we play and what we do with the poems,” Eady says.  An Evening of Poetry and Music feat. Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic • Fri, April 15, 7 pm • $15 general admission/free for students • Lincoln Ballroom at The Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln

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“I think I prefer to think of myself as an essayist now,” she says over the phone.

What’s the difference?

“I’m not super-interested in what happened,” she says. “I like to think that the way I explore it is what’s interesting about my work. And I think that [distinction] is closer to essay than it is to memoir.”

Rules is a blunderbuss display of inventive writing strength. Every few pages, she tells her story through a different lens: one chapter is a bibliography, another is a list, still another is the kind of sex quiz you’d find in a glossy women’s magazine, and yet another passage is written in the style of a Law & Order script.

You’d think these disparate jaunts into genre and form would be a jarring reading experience, but Rules is absolutely a single coherent narrative. No matter what form her voice takes on the page, it is undeniably her voice, her story.

“One thing I didn’t expect was that nobody told me they’re mad at me,” Washuta says. None of the people she wrote about in the book “got back to me and was like, ‘What the f---.’ I didn’t have any personal fallout.

That was really unexpected.”

Part of that lack of blowback probably comes from her unique approach; like any memoirist, Washuta’s writing is concerned with the self, but you never know which self she’s writing about until you turn the next page.

She documents her eating disorder, her family history, her Cowlitz tribal heritage, her history as a survivor of sexual assault, her struggles with bipolar disorder in a kaleidoscope of narratives that amount to a selfie taken by Whitman’s multitude. She’s at once painstakingly honest and also deeply compassionate.

Though her books document a set of very specific experiences, she’s surprised by how many people have reached out who are not bipolar, or who do not have a history of sexual assault, but still find strength and inspiration from her writing.

“I didn’t realize I was going to hear so much from so many strangers about how the book was helping them,” Washuta says.  Elissa Washuta appears at Pie and Whiskey (Thu, April 14 at 9:30 pm at Spokane Woman’s Club) and Creative Nonfiction: Panel Discussion (Fri, April 15 at 10:30 am at Spokane Community College)

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s the Inland Northwest continues to witness an explosion of literary greatness, it’s become easier than ever to track down the creative output of those on a growing list of local writing talent.

In recent years, several new anthology projects highlighting that talent have been released, including Lilac City Fairy Tales and Spokane Shorties. And back for a second publishing this spring comes volume two of Railtown Almanac, debuting during Saturday’s Get Lit! events.

While the first inception of Railtown, released in October 2014 for Spokane Arts Month, featured a diverse array of local poets’ work, Volume 2 is a prose-focused collection. A project started by Spokane’s first Poet Laureate, Thom Caraway (2013-15), and Gonzaga professor Jeffrey Dodd, the 179page prose edition features new works by both established and rising Spokane writers. Recognizable names on the table of contents include Sharma Shields, Kris Dinnison, Sam Ligon, Shann Ray and Rachel Toor.

Published by Sage Hill Press, for which Caraway serves as publisher, Railtown Almanac also features work by some of the area’s youngest writers, students in college and high school. The forthcoming prose collection was co-edited by Dodd and Kate Reed, also an English professor at Gonzaga.

As with Railtown’s poetry collection, pieces selected for the second anthology needed to meet the criteria of being by a Spokane writer or recognizably set in the area.

“A few of the people [featured] were in both issues, but this gives us a whole new sampling of Spokane writers, while also highlighting the strengths of the whole Spokane writing scene, not just poets or just novelists,” Caraway says.

After the first Railtown edition was released a year and a half ago, Caraway heard from numerous writer friends begging for a prose version. Branching out to other forms of writing had always been his and Dodd’s eventual plan, and during the open submission period last year they reached out to some of those writers, encouraging them to submit work.

“One of the things I like most about all the stuff we’ve done is that there are so many different voices,” Caraway notes. “Even though it’s all coming out of Spokane, you have this great breadth and depth of voices, and that’s fantastic. You don’t want your community to fall into one rut or pigeonhole, and we are amazing in that way because we have so many different kinds of writers.”

Saturday’s Railtown Almanac Vol. 2 debut features readings by the following contributors: Laurie Klein, Chris Cook, Travis Laurence Naught, Jaime Baird, Maya Jewell Zeller, Jennifer Catlin, Mary Kunkel, Aileen Keown Vaux, Annie Kilfoyle, Molly Smith and Melissa Dziedzic.

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Get Lit! 2016 Highlights BEACON HILL READING SERIES The first day of the 18th annual festival kicks off with an evening of poetry, featuring readings by Katherine Whitcomb, Kate Lebo and Jenifer Browne Lawrence. Mon, April 11, at 6:30 pm.

Free. At Spokane Community College.

POETRY SLAM: TEEN AND COLLEGE College students of any age, along with local teens (ages 15-18), take to the mic to perform live poetry in front of an audience and panel of judges.

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THE PERIODIC TABLE OF POETRY A reading by Spokane-area poets who explore personal experiences or memories using an element from the periodic table as inspiration. Tue, April 12, at 6:30 pm. Free. At Spark Center.

RAISING LILY LEDBETTER A celebration of the recent anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace, which commemorates the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that was signed into law in 2009. Featured poets include Carolyne Wright, the collection’s editor, along with Kate Lebo, Brooke Matson, Maya Jewell Zeller and Kathryn Smith.

Wed, April 13, at 7 pm. Free. At Spark Center.

AUTHOR CORINNA NICOLAOU A reading, Q&A and book signing with the author, whose book A None’s Story: Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam examines the growing number of “nones” in America, those without any religious affiliation, like her. Wed, April 13, at 7 pm. Free. At Auntie’s Bookstore.

IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL HARDING & NANCE VAN WINCKEL A dual reading featuring local writer, poet and artist Nance Van Winckel, who reads from her latest book, Ever Yrs. Paul Harding is the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Tinkers and he reads from his latest novel, Enon. Thu, April 14, at 7 pm. $15/public; free/ students. At the Lincoln Center.

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5TH ANNUAL PIE & WHISKEY READING The popular event, hosted by Kate Lebo and Sam Ligon, returns, featuring 13 local writers reading flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry inspired by two selected quotes about pie and whiskey. Thu, April 14, at 9 pm. $5. Ages 21+ only. At the Spokane Woman’s Club.

A READING PUBLIC A community reading hosted by two local writers, who read and then pass the mic to other writers of all ages and experiences who are invited to sign up for the open-mic event.

Readers get 3-5 minutes to read their original works. Sat, April 16, at 11:30 am; sign up at 11. Free. Spokane Convention Center, conference theater.

HEAVY EDIT ZINE READING & ART SHOW A reading and showcase of the locallycreated zine, which prints its contributors’ drafts alongside their finished works to show the meticulousness of the creative process. Established local writers read alongside younger contributors to the zine, for which the third and final issue is released at the reading. Artwork featured in Heavy Edit is also displayed. Fri, April 15, at 8 pm. Free. Ages 21+ only. At The Observatory.

READING: JULIE RIDDLE & MARC BEAUDIN Riddle reads from her memoir The Solace of Stones, which tells of her parents’ decision to move their family to a primitive log home in rural Montana. She’s joined by poet and playwright Beaudin, who reads from his latest collection, Vagabond Song, a travel memoir that blends prose and poetry. Sat, April 16, at 1 pm. Free.

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BUTCHER PAPER BOOK LAUNCH A celebration of the release of local graphic novelist Simeon Mills’ new book, Butcher Paper. He’s joined in conversation by Seattle cartoonist Tom Van Deusen in a session moderated by Shawn Vestal. Sat, April 16, at noon. Free. At the Spokane Convention Center, Room 206A. ALL WE CAN HOLD: POETRY OF MOTHERHOOD A reading by contributors to the collection of poetry on motherhood, published by Sage Hill Press. Featured readers are Laura Read, Connie Wasem Scott, Laurie Klein, Maya Jewell Zeller, Ellen Welcker, Kate Peterson, Beth Cooley and others. Sat, April 16, at noon. Free. Spokane Convention Center, Room 205.

DEBUT AUTHORS TELL ALL Six female authors talk about the process of bringing their books to life in a discussion moderated by the Inlander’s Chey Scott. Featuring: Sharma Shields, Cindy Hval, Stephanie Oakes, S.M. Hulse and Kris Dinnison. Sat, April 16 at 1:45 pm.

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EWU ALUMNI READING An event to showcase writers who have earned an MFA from the Inland Northwest Cen-

ter for Writers at EWU. Featured readers include Liz Rognes, Jonathan Frey, Aileen Keown Vaux, Sarah Hauge and David Alasdair. Sat, April 16, at 4 pm. Free. Spokane Convention Center, conference theater.

READING: SERENA CRAWFORD & RICHARD FIFIELD Both writers read from their debut books. Montana-based Fifield reads from his debut novel The Flood Girls and Crawford reads from her short story collection Here Among Strangers. Sat, April 16, at 2 pm. Spokane Convention Center, conference theater.

DIANE COOK: MAN VS. NATURE The author reads from her award-winning collection of short stories, which explores the boundaries between wilderness and civilization. She’ll also answer audience questions and sign copies of her work. Sat, April 16, at 3 pm. Free. Spokane Convention Center, conference theater.

GET LIT! PRESENTS: GARTH STEIN One of this year’s festival headliners, Stein is the author of the best-selling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain.

His latest novel, A Sudden Light, is a tale set around a Seattle mansion that weaves elements of magical realism as it explores one family’s complex past and future. Sat, April 16, at 7 pm. $15/public; free/students. At the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. LOST HORSE PRESS AND LYNX HOUSE READING An event co-hosted by the two local, independent publishers celebrating local poetry and prose writing. Hosted

by Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, featured readers include Rob Carney, Kathleen Flenniken, Piotr Florcyzk, Peter Sears, Katrina Roberts and Bill Tremblay. Sun, April 17, at noon. Free. At the Davenport Hotel’s Peacock Room Lounge.

REGIONAL MFA READING Graduate students from the University of Idaho, University of Montana, Boise State and EWU share their fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Sun, April 17, at 2 pm. Free. At Barrister Winery.  For a complete schedule of events, visit getlitfestival.org

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Kid Games

Just because you’ve reached adulthood doesn’t mean you can’t have fun

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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hildhood games are no longer just for the young.

Remember steering clear of flying rubber balls during P.E. dodgeball? Sky High Sports brings the hand-eye-coordination-necessary game to greater heights with trampoline dodgeball. Meanwhile, Xtreme Arena lets you target your friends and family with Nerf gun darts in a paintball-like atmosphere, and the newly opened Jedi Alliance offers the area’s largest selection of arcade games.

While many fun centers across the country are catering to adults by adding booze, all three of these out-of the-way locations pride themselves on being alcohol-free, familyfriendly destinations. People can rent out the spaces for 21+ parties, but the intention is for grown-ups and kids to enjoy themselves under one roof.

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2024 E. Boone • Facebook: Jedi Alliance Spokane Here in the cathedral, pinball machines stand atop what was once an in-ground baptismal font. In all, 50-plus blinking and flashing (mostly saved from destruction) arcade games — X-Men, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Tron, Space Invaders, Star Wars and so many more — line the walls of the old Methodist church sanctuary, while a gift shop and action figure/movie theme display flows through the rest of the unassuming yellow building.

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Open since January, approximately 60 to 80 players funnel through the space each Sunday from 5 to 10 pm ($10 gets you unlimited play), to buzz around the room and relive memories.

Many bring their kids, too.

The Arnolds, who work full time in the tattoo industry, call their one-day-a-week business a pop-culture-type church, but not a religion: “We are not tax-exempt here,” Tyler says.

The goal is to create an open clubhouse of sorts, where all people feel welcome.

“But even if no one else showed up, we’d still be here hanging out,” Tim says. “This is my life.”

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1322 E. Front • skyhighsports.com He’d heard of the five D’s — dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge, from the film Dodgeball — but Tyler Gyllenhammer wasn’t prepared for the sweat-inducing, timing-tricky game of trampoline dodgeball. When he and a group of friends showed up to Sky High Sports for their first tournament three years ago, they mostly liked the possibility of winning cash and free jump time, he says. While his team, Ballsagna (pronounced cheekily like lasagna), placed in the top three that day, that’s about all he can recall.

“I just remember the next day, I couldn’t move, I was so sore,” says Gyllenhammer, an athletic 20-year-old Eastern Washington University student who also played spring football last year.

After that, his team played in the monthly tournaments, often placing second, but never first.

“It was so frustrating,” he says.

During regular business hours, anyone can play dodgeball (12 per team), and the court often has the longest line in the cavernous warehouse space, which has been open for nearly six years.

College-age and older players tend to show up on Wednesdays, as well as Friday and Saturday nights for glow-in-the dark cosmic night games ($15, 9 pm-midnight).

Now a court monitor at Sky High Sports, Gyllenhammer can no longer participate in the dodgeball tournaments, which are $60 a team, but that doesn’t stop him from playing on his off

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days.

He says as soon as he left his team, they started placing first.

“It probably was me,” he admits with a smile.

Sky High’s next dodgeball tournament is April 28.

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1521 N. Thierman Road, Spokane Valley • xtremearenausa.com Every group, no matter how mature, has to go through the Xtreme Arena safety spiel in order to get their team jersey, goggles and Nerf blasters.

Today, co-owner James Almond explains to a bunch of birthday party-goers that there’s to be no face shooting, hand-to-hand combat or running over the inflatable bunkers.

“You should aim for each other’s butts,” Almond says, to the laughter of the kids.

But once out on the black turf court, adrenaline kicks in and rules are sometimes forgotten.

About 20 preteens and their parents run and dart behind bunkers, picking up from among the 300-some Nerf darts that are strewn around the ground to shoot at one another. Games like Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, led by the floor arena DJ, keep everyone boisterous for two hours.

“When it’s all adults out there, it’s even more serious,” Almond says.

One guy even ran into part of a wall and dented it.

Almond says that in owning the Nerf gun range facility, a business model that’s grown popular nationally in the past decade, he’s probably now living out his repressed childhood. As a kid, he never had Nerf guns. He recalls shooting BB guns maybe twice, and didn’t use actual guns until he joined the Army. But in September, the 38-year-old, along with his wife Beatrice, opened up Xtreme Arena in a 10,000-square-foot Spokane Valley warehouse.

“Any chance to play out there, I will,” Almond says. “This is a great alternative to paintball. It doesn’t hurt, usually.”

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t was probably frightening at the time, yet woodworker Michael de Forest has found inspiration in a potentially careerending accident. After recovering from a badly cut wrist, he used the healing process to inspire the Suture Series of vessels, which incorporate stitching into the form.

The Frog Bowl, for example, is an exquisitely made, seemingly simple bowl using wood-turning skills de Forest has honed over the past 40 years. After trimming the bowl smooth, he drew a frog atop the palm of an open hand inside of the bowl. Contour lines guides where he cuts the bowl into shapes, onto which he also lightly carves several drawings. Final pieces are drilled, painted with layers of milk paint to give the bowl an aged surface and stitched back together with sinew.

De Forest is one of 11 gallery artists exhibiting at The Art Spirit Gallery’s annual spring show, which this year features four artists — including de Forest — new to exhibiting in Coeur d’Alene.

Lindsey Meyers Carroll also finds inspiration in unusual places. Hailing from Helena, Montana, Carroll combines interests in storytelling and portraiture with animals and the natural world to create dreamlike charcoal and mixed-media drawings characterized as magical realism.

“Tales of a Hare, Issue #1,” for example, is a rabbit wearing flight goggles and an undulating cape shown mid-hop, suggesting the adrenaline rush of freedom. Or is it wishful thinking during a daring escape?

“Each image explores such fantasies as insight into hopes, dreams, regrets, frustrations, etc. operating behind the scenes of everyday life,” writes Meyers Carroll in her statement.

Also from Montana by way of his native Spain, Manel Alvarez is an internationally recognized artist with public commissions throughout Europe and the US, including a sculpture for the 1996

Sheila Evans’ “Twilight Watch” Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Four of his smaller works will be on view, including from a series inspired by travel to Africa.

Additional artists are Chris Bivins, Frank Boyden, Sheila Evans, Yuji Hiratsuka, Shelle Lindholm, Laura Nuchols, Richard Parrish and Valerie Seaberg.

— CARRIE SCOZZARO 11 Gallery Artists • April 8-May 7; opening reception Fri, April 8, from 5-8 pm • The Art Spirit Gallery • 415 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene • theartspiritgallery.com • 208-765-6006

LITERATURE ÅSA MARIA BRADLEY WINS BIG Spokane’s writing community is on a roll, and lately the accolades have been pouring in to honor several local women whose first books all launched in 2015. One of those women, romance author and Spokane Falls Community College physics teacher Åsa Maria Bradley, has been named a finalist for two annual awards presented by the Romance Writers of America. Viking Warrior Rising, the first novel in Bradley’s planned trilogy, is a finalist for the organization’s RITA awards in the categories of Best First Book and Best Paranormal Romance. The RITAs are the most distinguished honors in the romance fiction genre, and winners will be announced this July. (CHEY SCOTT)

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ALBUM Criminally underappreciated in America, Portland-based “alt-country” band Richmond Fontaine thrives in Europe, where dusty tales of Americana like those penned by frontman Willy Vlautin always seem to find an audience. British music mag Uncut got on board early, naming two of the band’s albums “masterpieces,” and the band’s latest (and final) release, YOU CAN’T GO BACK IF THERE’S NOTHING TO GO BACK TO, hit No. 1 on England’s country music charts before being released in America last month. Vlautin specializes in sharply drawn character studies, and the new album is full of them; be sure to spin “Let’s Hit One More Place” and “Tapped Out in Tulsa.” Check out Vlautin’s novels, too.

TV Adapting books for the movies or TV is tricky, and the fact that novelist Joe R. Lansdale blends sci-fi, horror, mystery and Western tropes in his work makes translating it for the screen all the more daunting. In the Sundance Channel’s HAP AND LEONARD, the six-episode arc of its first season captures much of the lunacy of the two best friends — one an ex-con jailed for refusing to fight in Vietnam (James Purefoy as Hap), the other a black, gay Vietnam vet with a hair-trigger temper (Michael Kenneth Williams, aka Omar from The Wire) — who constantly find themselves battling their personal demons and a deliciously odd cast of characters that Lansdale introduces through nine novels featuring the duo.

BOOK A successful reunion between 2013 and 2015 made it seem the Replacements might finally figure out how to be the successful rock machine critics thought they could be back in the ’80s. Naturally, the reunion ended in fighting and dysfunction, two of the Minneapolis quartet’s specialties, along with booze-fueled concerts that veered from brilliant heights to incoherent chaos. Through it all, they wrote amazing songs and influenced much of what we know about so-called “alternative” music. Author Bob Mehr spent 10 years reporting and writing his new biography of the band, TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS, and it’s a compelling and sometimes sad read. Fitting. n

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Bob Nelson (left) and Ron Ford (as Richard Nixon) in Nixon’s Nixon. JEFF FERGUSON PHOTO

Tricky Dick A U.S. president and his top advisor get drunk on the eve of resignation in Stage Left’s Nixon’s Nixon

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n August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon gave a televised address to the American people that announced his intention to resign. It was an act without precedent in American history — an ignominious resolution to the protracted Watergate scandal, which began when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in June 1972. So significant was Watergate to the national political psyche that its suffix would become synonymous with controversy and egregious abuse of power.

Since then, Nixon himself has become an object of fascination not only for biographers, but for filmmakers and playwrights as well: Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995), Peter Morgan’s Frost/ Nixon (2006) or the forthcoming Elvis & Nixon starring Kevin Spacey. For many of the same reasons, he’s also become an object of ridicule: Just watch one of Nixon’s power-mad “guest” appearances in the animated series Futurama as a disembodied head of state.

Russell Lees’ 1996 play Nixon’s Nixon, now starting a two-week run at Stage Left Theater, combines the two strands for a half-serious, half-farcical look at Nixon’s last evening as President of the United States.

“Nixon’s Nixon all takes place a over couple of hours the night before Nixon resigns,” says director Kyle Smock. “It’s late, Nixon’s been drinking. He calls [Henry] Kissinger into the Lincoln sitting room, and the play dramatizes what is thought to have happened that evening.

It’s Nixon not really sure he wants to resign, but at the same time knowing he obviously has to. Then you’ve got Kissinger, wanting to make sure he still has a job the next day.”

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But anyone who assumes that this promises an evening of philosophical agonizing and stuffy, statesman-like chitchat might be surprised.

“It’s a crude play in that there’s a ton of profanity. Nixon was a bigot, and every other word out of his mouth was the F-word in real life. This play has a lot of that in there — but in a really funny way.”

Both Nixon and Kissinger also deviate from the “back-and-forth volley of conversation” by playacting within the play.

“There are several pieces where Nixon talks about how the history books are going to remember them, and they re-enact, for example, the Moscow Summit, where Nixon insists that Kissinger play Nixon, and Nixon plays [Leonid] Brezhnev with a parody of a Russian accent,” says Smock. Another scene re-enacts Nixon’s landmark visit to China in 1972. A tipsy Kissinger plays Chairman Mao. Smock calls these re-enactments “glimpses of history” that speak to an audience beyond political buffs or those who simply lived through Watergate.

Nixon is being played by Ron Ford, who directed Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Stage Left back in December. Bob Nelson (Marx in Soho, A Walk in the Woods) stars opposite him as Henry Kissinger.

“Ron is an uncanny Nixon. And Bob’s done great at emulating Henry Kissinger, so you’re able to really enjoy the story without thinking, ‘Oh, he doesn’t really look like him,’ or ‘He doesn’t sound like him.’ They both do a really great job of pulling off the characters.”

Given that he just finished directing The Hobbit at Theater Arts for Children, this twoactor historical dramedy marks a major shift of gears for Smock, but he says that Lees’ play appealed to him on account of the disconcerting parallels between Watergate and the political “circus” of the Donald Trump campaign.

“I read a quote recently that Trump is in public what Nixon was in private,” he says.

“So I think there’s a bit more renewed interest in Nixon right now because of the correlation to Trump, and Nixon is a guy no one would ever re-elect as president.”  Nixon’s Nixon • April 8–24: Fri and Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $10 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org

Leah Griffith pours a glass of Nodland Cellars’ Avante-Garde Carmenere at the winery’s new tasting room. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

Sweet Notes, Smooth Jazz With a new tasting room, Nodland Cellars puts its hand-crafted wines on display

BY FRANNY WRIGHT

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n the ground floor of the historic Chronicle Building in downtown Spokane, a new winery tasting room combines elegance with modernity.

To the left, bright lights showcase jazz musicians. To the right, chandeliers hang above people sipping wine up at the bar.

Nodland Cellars owner Tim Nodland wanted to create two entirely different atmospheres when opening the downtown tasting room for his winery — both a live music venue and a traditional wine tasting room. And he’s not new to bringing together music and wine in a way that makes sense; he’s been doing it for almost 18 years.

After touring as a rock musician in the ’80s and managing 18 glam bands as a talent agent, Nodland achieved his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer after graduating from Gonzaga Law School. He thought that working to become an A&R rep was the perfect way to bring together law and music in his life, but while he was in school, Seattle grunge changed the music industry and his bands became irrelevant practically overnight.

“After graduating from law school and becoming a personal injury attorney, I felt creatively starved without music. And that’s when I was introduced to wine,” says Nodland.

His love for wine grew with the more wine he tasted and more books he read. He converted his garage into a wine lab, but after a hose pumping wine into barrels in his basement detached and soaked the carpet in 5 gallons

of dark wine, he moved production to its current location in Spokane Valley.

Nodland found success as an amateur winemaker up against commercial wineries, so he decided to go commercial himself by opening Nodland Cellars in 2005.

“I couldn’t find a pre-1870 Bordeaux-style wine with all six grape varieties in it, so I had to make it,” he says.

The sixth grape variety, Carménère, was thought to be extinct for more than a century until improved DNA testing in the 1980s confirmed its existence in Chile.

Nodland gets Carménère grapes from Walla Walla, and uses traditional methods to do almost every aspect of his winemaking by hand.

The new tasting room pours Nodland’s six wines — Bebop Dry Riesling, the red Bad Attitude, Carmenere, a red Private Blend, Reserve Cab and a cabernet-merlot blend, Frassy — with a $5 tasting fee refunded with the purchase of any wine bottle.

The tasting room’s food menu lists cheese and charcuterie, caprese salad, hummus with toasted naan and a sweet plate with a selection of chocolate miracles and miniature biscotti. Nodland plans to create a more detailed food menu soon.

The new tasting room hosts live jazz music Wednesday through Saturday nights, featuring both local and national talent. The Eclectic Electric Fusion Rock Show — Nodland and Riley Gray playing jazzed-up rock tunes together — also occasionally plays.

Nodland’s Wine Club, which is free to join, waives the $5 cover on Friday and Saturday night jazz, helps members gain access to vintages before they sell out and provides discounts.

Other events in the tasting room include classes teaching how to pair wines with chocolates and cheeses, and the option to rent the space for private parties. The Great Table — a large table covered with candles — is also available for large groups to sip wine together.

“The wines are just going to become scarcer and scarcer,” Nodland says, “because I want to continue making the wines by hand with the same high quality, not increase production.”

The tasting room ENTRÉE will soon include Get the scoop on local outdoor seating in the food news with our weekly Chronicle building Entrée newsletter. Sign up courtyard currently at Inlander.com/newsletter. under construction.

“Opening Nodland Cellars has kind of been like starting a band,” says Nodland. “The world doesn’t need another band, really, but then a band comes out and they’re unique and they sound different. Now that’s something the world needs.”  Nodland Cellars Downtown Tasting Room • 926 W. Sprague • Open Wed, noon-7 pm; Thu-Sat, noon-9 pm; Sun, noon-5 pm • nodlandcellars.com • 927-7770

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What’s on Tap? New breweries and taprooms are coming your way

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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f you’re reading this on a patio somewhere, basking in this early dose of sunshine with a cold pint in your hand?

Congratulations! You’re doing things right. April is looking to be a bountiful month for the region’s beer industry, with an abundance of good news from our local craft beer makers. Here’s just a sampling of what’s going on.  Even when it was still called Golden Hills, Orlison Brewing Company set itself apart from the rest of the Inland Northwest by focusing exclusively on lagers. While the brewery has stepped away from that format in favor of experimental releases, Orlison’s new Shin Splints IPA — the name celebrates the upcoming Bloomsday race — marks a change for the company. The first production IPA is already making its way around town after debuting last week. Of course, you can always find it at Orlison’s tasting room downtown on First Avenue, where they serve up $3 pints on Thursdays.

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 At last week’s Chef’s Week PNW, Spokane finally got a taste of two long-awaited breweries — Little Spokane Brewing and Young Buck Brewing — both of which poured their beers to the public for the first time. Soon, beer fans can taste those breweries with ease at Steel Barrel Tap Room, a full bar at 154 S. Madison St. in downtown Spokane that will serve as home base for both operations. “Beer is not all any of us drink,” Little Spokane Brewing’s Joe Potter says of the choice to make the Steel Barrel more than just a brewery taproom.

“We’re all interested in cocktails. Bourbon is big, R E S TA U R A N T FINDER whiskey, Scotch. We like to Looking for a new place to taste those, so a lot of our eat? Search the region’s cocktails will probably end most comprehensive bar up bourbon-centric. But and restaurant guide at we’ll have a lot of the old Inlander.com/places. standbys as well.”  If you head to the shadows of the grain silos in east Spokane, you’ll no longer find Iron Goat Brewing. The awardwinning brewery celebrated their last day on that location as they count down the days to the opening of their spacious brewery and pub at 1302 W. Second Ave. on the west side of downtown Spokane. The owners have told us that they hope to open at some point this week; keep an eye on their Facebook page for a definitive date.

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 All of this Spokane beer news shouldn’t overshadow Idaho, which is about to get another brewery when Post Falls Brewing Company opens its doors in the coming weeks. The brewery, located at 112 N. Spokane St. in Post Falls, hosts a grand opening party on Friday, April 22, beginning at 2 pm.

The 21-and-over festivities continue into Saturday and Sunday with live music. 

FOOD | OPENING

Abi’s Ice Cream owner Maren Scoggins. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO

Fools for Flavor The scoop on Coeur d’Alene’s newest ice cream shop

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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isitors to downtown Coeur d’Alene were smiling on April Fools’ Day, but not because they’d witnessed a prank. It was the opening of Abi’s Ice Cream — that and the surprisingly warm spring weather — which had people grinning.

“It was wonderful,” says owner Maren Scoggins of the opening night for Abi’s, which she named after her daughter, Abigail.

The most popular of the small-batch flavors, says Scoggins, have been malted vanilla and salted caramel.

Scoggins, who relocated to Coeur d’Alene last year from Nashville, makes the ice cream herself using locally sourced, organic ingredients. Flavors range from rich café au lait and bourbon brown sugar to refreshing peppermint and fruity cherry almond. Scoggins also scratch-makes the salted caramel in her caramel swirl, the chocolate chips in her mint chocolate chip and the toffee in her malted vanilla with toffee and chocolate chips.

Try a scoop (or two or three) in a cup ($3.50-$5) or a waffle cone ($4.50-$6) or accompanied by a shot of espresso, called an affogato ($4.75). Not sweet enough? Add toppings like whipped cream, chocolate chips or toffee (50¢-75¢).

Abi’s is an artisan shop, says Scoggins (whose prior career was in the health industry), which she loosely patterned after places like Jeni’s in Nashville and Portland’s Salt & Straw. The emphasis, she says, is on handcrafting and freshness.

In order to showcase local art, Scoggins sought out the Art Spirit Gallery, eventually connecting with Jessica Bryant, who displayed her work and the work of her students at nearby Sorensen Elementary. Scoggins hope to host other artists in the future.

Other future plans include adding gluten-free ice cream — she currently serves a gluten-free tangerine bar ($3) — and sorbet. n Abi’s Ice Cream • 112 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Sun-Thu, noon-8 pm; Fri-Sat, noon-9 pm • abisicecream.com • 208-930-0699

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FINE DINING BEVERLY’S 115 S. 2nd St. | Coeur d’Alene 208-765-4000 Perched on the seventh floor of the Coeur d’Alene Resort, Beverly’s unparalleled panoramic views of the lake, combined with cosmopolitan décor, attentive service and a wine cellar boasting more than 14,000 bottles, make for an elegant dining experience worthy of a special celebration.

@ The Bing Crosby April 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17

By Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey Direction by Jadd Davis and George Green Music Direction by Zack Baker

For tickets visit themoderntheater.org or call 509-455-7529 Presented as a co-production by The Modern Theater and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre

CHURCHILL’S STEAKHOUSE 165 S. Post | 474-9888 Don Draper would fit in beautifully at Churchill’s, with its luxurious, masculine décor, top-shelf cocktails and traditional (in all the best ways) takes on sides and steaks. The star of the show here is the USDA prime Midwestern beef that’s dry-aged, then cooked at 1,800 degrees. The sides are à la carte, and the Cougar Gold mac and cheese is worth every single calorie.

CLOVER 913 E. Sharp | 487-2937 They prepare almost everything from scratch, don’t have a deep-fat fryer,

and desserts — called petite bites — are scaled down in size. From herbs grown in the on-site greenhouse to the sustainably raised Rathdrum wheat used in Clover’s bakery, ingredients are carefully sourced. Chef Travis Dickinson brings with him years of experience in other cities that he’s used to make Clover a gem of the Logan neighborhood.

MAX AT MIRABEAU 1100 N. Sullivan Rd., Spokane Valley | 922-6252 Max at Mirabeau is Spokane Valley’s answer to fine dining. They pride themselves on creating innovative cuisine with the freshest, locally sourced ingredients they can find,

you find the perfect cocktail dress. now time to find the perfect cocktail.

MIZUNA 214 N. Howard | 747-2004 Originally a vegetarian restaurant, Mizuna expanded its menu over the years to meet the needs of ominvores, as well. But rest assured, vegans and vegetarians — your offerings are still prepared on a separate workspace and grill. Mizuna’s menu changes to showcase fresh, locally sourced ingredients. A great wine selection, dim lighting, exposed brick walls and elegant décor make this UPCOMING EVENTS

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The dining room at Wild Sage American Bistro in downtown Spokane. one of Spokane’s most romantic restaurants. Sit in the alley in the summer and pretend you’ve been transported to a quaint European city.

FLEUR DE SEL 4365 E. Inverness Dr. | Post Falls 208-777-7600 Located in the same building as the Highland Day Spa, with views of the neighboring golf course, Fleur de Sel caters to diners who are looking for French cuisine at an affordable price point. The restaurant changes its menus seasonally, but the best time to visit is in summer, when you can dine on their cozy, sun-drenched patio.

Don’t leave too early — you’ll want to stick around and sample from Fleur de Sel’s much-lauded dessert menu.

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Nope-in’ Letter Demolition overflows with moments that never feel authentic

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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here comes a moment in some movies — a that her friendship with Davis must remain chaste moment that any real movie-lover hopes — except that she’s raising a troubled teen (Judah never to have — that I will refer to henceLewis) as a single mother. Hey, sometimes a girl forth as The Moment of Nope. It can be large or just has to pull on a knit cap and follow a stranger small, early or late, part of a performance or part through the streets of Manhattan. of the plot, but it’s hard to miss when it happens.

The bottom line is that pretty much nothing In short, it’s a moment when a story simply loses that any of the characters in Demolition does repreyou, irretrievably, so that you’re never able to sents actual human behavior in a way that might reconnect with what’s happening on that screen. make the story resonate. Gyllenhaal’s performance Authenticity vanishes, and all you’re left with as a feels lost in all the increasingly ridiculous things viewer is a big “Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope.

Davis does as he wanders through his not-exactlyNOPE.” grieving: he impulsively asks the workers at a Any one of a dozen individual culprits could construction site to let him help demolish a house be tabbed as Demolition’s Moment they’re working on; he bounces of Nope; it’s a script so steeped in conspicuously around the city to DEMOLITION writerly contrivance that its cuthe beat of the music on his headRated R mulative emotional honesty could phones; he takes Karen’s son out Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée be contained in a tweet. The most into the woods and lets the kid shoot Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi obvious point would be the one that at him while he wears a Kevlar vest.

Watts, Chris Cooper sets the major portion of the plot “Everything has become a metain motion. It occurs when Davis phor,” Davis writes at one point, but Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) — a New York investit winds up feeling like a screenwriter’s desperate ment banker whose wife has just died in a car attempt to justify a story that is nothing but metaaccident — responds to his bag of M&Ms getting phor, without a single genuine-seeming emotion stuck in a hospital vending machine by writing amid all the “nope.” several letters of complaint to the vending machine The insufferability meter leaps into the red as company, and including in those letters the story of Demolition heads towards its climax, including direchis marriage. tor Jean-Mark Vallée’s (Dallas Buyers Club) operatic Nope. Just a large, economy-size package of staging of a crisis event that feels exploitative and nope. unearned. It’s certainly an artistic challenge to try Demolition is at its core a tale of unprocessed to convey someone not feeling something, but Degrief, one that sends Davis on an increasingly molition responds to that challenge simply by having erratic course that causes his father-in-law/boss its characters do stuff, any stuff — like plowing a (Chris Cooper) great agitation. Some people out backhoe through a living room wall — even if it’s there — screenwriter Bryan Sipe apparently among only tenuously connected to the way you’ve ever them — would find it plausible that someone as seen any person you’ve ever known react to anyemotionally stunted as Davis might take to an thing. The roles are showy, so actors love to play anonymous missive like this as a way to communithem. The audience, meanwhile, is stuck waiting cate to someone that he isn’t feeling what a person around for the inevitable epiphanies, or whatever is supposed to feel when his wife dies. will happen that might get Davis finally to feel.

But the larger problem is that the letters serve Nearly two hours is a long time to wait for some mostly as a plot device to connect Davis with hope, especially after a narrative so full of nope. n Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts), the customer service representative at the vending machine company. She is touched, Sleepless in Seattle style, by the awareness that this wounded guy is out there, and secretly begins stalking him. This easily could serve as another Moment of Nope, especially since Demolition offers next to no information about Karen’s life to explain this behavior — nor her frequent marijuana usage, nor her subsequent insistence

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Rich and queen-like Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is used to asserting her power until she goes to federal prison for insider trading. After she serves her time, things are different: She is broke, homeless and alone. Her old assistant Claire (Kristen Bell) is the only person willing to re-engage and offers her a place to stay. Soon the exmogul creates a business model for a Brownie empire that will return her to former glory, though along the way, former adversaries stand as obstacles.

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HARDCORE HENRY

In this sci-fi action film, Henry is brought back from the dead as a halfhuman, half-robotic hybrid. Shortly after waking up in a hotel room, a group of armed men barge in and kidnap a woman who says she’s his wife. With his new abilities, he rages through the city in this action romp, which is filmed in first person through Henry’s eyes.

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A young boy Alton has been secretly whisked away by his father. Soon, we find that the boy — who wears swimming goggles at all times — is possessed with other-worldly powers and is being sought by both federal agents believing him to be a dangerous weapon and a cult, which thinks he’s a prophet. Director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) experiments with the sci-fi realm while continuing to explore family dynamics. (MB) Rated PG-13

DEMOLITION

Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) — a New York investment banker whose wife has just died in a car accident — responds to his bag of M&Ms getting stuck in a hospital vending machine by writing several letters of complaint to the vending machine company, and including in those letters the story of his marriage. Then he begins hanging out with a customer service person from the company and befriending her son as he tries to put his life back together.

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A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up after a serious accident to find herself being taken care of by a doomsday survivalist type (John Goodman) who tells her the world outside his bunker is an uninhabitable wasteland. This isn’t exactly a sequel to 2008 hit Cloverfield, but expect some of the same mix of humor and horror. (DN) Rated PG-13

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After Superman’s last brawl with his nemesis General Zod, the city of Metropolis is in for another heart-stopping fight between characters — but this time, it’s between two heroes. As Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) begins to conclude that Superman is a threat to humanity, he plots an attack to end the Man of Steel’s time on Earth. Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) also joins in the fight to get his own piece of Superman’s downfall.

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DEADPOOL

In the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we find the redclad assassin Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) seeking out a man named Francis (Ed Skrein) for his role he played in ruining his life. But we also see his former life as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking mercenary. (SR) Rated R

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Our hero, Tris (Shailene Woodley) returns to find herself up against the Factionless leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts), who’s effectively in control of the city and inciting mob hatred against the defeated Erudite Faction, which has pushed Chicago to the brink of total civil war. Now, Tris and company wonder if reaching out to the outsiders they learned of in the previously installment of the series could help them. (MJ) Rated PG-13

EYE IN THE SKY

As British Intelligence forces gain eyes on a group of terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya, Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) and Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) face complications as they command a United States operated drone to launch a missile to assassinate the terrorist group. The allied forces are faced with a decision to strike the group, which would include killing a civilian girl, or face the consequences of continued international terror. (MM) Rated R

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Facing charges and the loss of her teaching job, a middle school teacher finds herself in the midst of a heated court case after she answers a question about Jesus in her classroom. (MM) Rated PG

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Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a nevermarried 60-something woman whose life for years has consisted of nothing more than taking care of her elderly mother in their Staten Island home and doing data entry in the same Manhattan office. Then Doris’ mother dies, leaving her alone and adrift. At around the same time, her company hires new art director (New Girl’s Max Greenfield), inspiring an infatuation that completely takes over Doris’ thoughts. (SR) Rated R

I SAW THE LIGHT

Tom Hiddleston stars as Hank Williams, and he does his damnedest to make something of the movie. The film starts out with Williams getting hitched to his wife Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen) in 1944 while he was still a small-time radio performer in Alabama. By the time the film ends in 1953, he’s risen to become a mega-star, struggled with drugs and women, then perished. (SS) Rated R

LONDON HAS FALLEN

After the British prime minister dies suddenly and mysteriously, world leaders summoned to London for the funeral, allegedly “the most protected event on Earth,” come under terrorist attack. The only survivor among them is U.S. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), thanks to impossibly badass Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler). They then survive on pure idiocy in this banal action flick. (MJ) Rated R

MEET THE BLACKS

After the Black family — which, incidentally, is a black family — leaves Chicago for a sunny Beverly Hills neighborhood, expectations are dashed when they realize they came just in time for the annual purge. They are bullied by home invaders seeking to rid them from the affluent neighborhood in the 12-hour period in which all crime is allowed. It’s a parody of The Purge, in case you hadn’t caught on. (CS) Rated R

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN

After young Anna Beam finds out that she has a fatal digestive disorder, her mother Christy (Jennifer Garner) will stop at nothing to find a cure to save her beloved daughter. But after Anna falls headfirst into a tree in the Beam’s

Eye in the Sky backyard, everything changes when she reveals that she made a visit to heaven after her tumble. Even more miraculously, she begins to recover from her fatal condition in the weeks following her fall. (MM) Rated PG

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ZOOTOPIA

Judy Hopps, the first female rabbit on the big city police force, must work with a con artist fox to solve a disappearance case that no one else will take. The film is Disney’s 55th full-length feature, and it delicately explores the issues of race and discrimination in a way that’s entertaining (for kids and adults alike) and never preachy. Actors lending their voice talents include Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell, Shakira and even Tommy Chong.

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riter/director Jeff Nichols launches congregation (headed by Sam Shepard) repeats onto the national stage with Midnight unintelligible, number-based scriptures and rues Special, his fourth film, which is a the absence of their boy prophet, who delivered studio production. Although it shares much in the text to them in tongues. Maybe the men with common with Nichols’ previous three indepenAlton have rescued the boy from the church’s dently made films (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and designs on him. Yet why do they only travel at Mud), Midnight Special finds the filmmaker worknight, and where are they going? Soon, federal ing here in the familiar American genres of chase agents also are searching for Alton, who they films and thrillers, and maybe even claim poses a threat to national MIDNIGHT SPECIAL security. Is the boy a savior science fiction. Yet as Nichols casts Rated PG-13 a wider net, fans of his previor weapon? Or maybe he’s a Directed by Jeff Nichols ous work will easily recognize in defenseless 8-year-old whose Starring Michael Shannon, Midnight Special many of the same father, Roy, just wants to Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst themes and attention to dramatic protect him. detail that made his earlier films so Weirder stuff begins distinguishable. happening, but that’s best left Not one for tedious exposition, Nichols doles to the movie’s telling rather than mine. Wellout narrative information through more indirect executed special effects play a large role in the means, and Midnight Special is masterful in this ensuing events, and a stop is made along the way regard. We learn from an Amber Alert heard on to pick up Alton’s mother (Kirsten Dunst) and a TV playing in a motel room that an 8-year-old have her accompany them on their nighttime boy is feared to have been abducted in Texas. journey. Steadily, Nichols is also developing a As two men, Roy (Michael Shannon) and Lucas regular group of collaborators — from Shan(Joel Edgerton), pull the blackout material made non, who’s appeared in all four of his films, to of flattened cardboard duct-taped to the room’s producer Sarah Green, who’s worked on the past window, we see the boy, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher, three, as well as music composer David Wingo who was so good playing against Bill Murray in and numerous other returnees — which no St. Vincent) sitting cross-legged under a blanket, doubt helps sharpen his focus. There’s a certain reading a comic book by flashlight with goggles spiritualism that inhabits all of Nichols’ films, and covering his eyes.

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One Night at the Bayou

Moscow doesn’t have many all-ages music venues; now, four roommates offer up their basement

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here comes a point before every concert when they’re convinced no one will show up.

“I’m always nervous, yet people always come,” says David Graybill, who only moved into the 100-yearold Moscow farmhouse known as the Bayou a month ago, but has been helping out since the first basement shows started up late last year.

The four roommates — cramped in their kitchen, as show booker Allyson Amstutz whips up a curry dinner for the visiting bands — know that house show time is different from a regular concert venue, like what you’d find down the road at the 21-plus John’s Alley. When a flier touts a 7 pm start, as tonight’s did, that means 8 pm at the earliest. Last week, the group hosted three concerts, thanks to Boise’s Treefort Music Festival bringing a bunch of bands through the area. They worry that local music fans will be too tired for this Sunday night concert. But it’s just 7:30 pm, so they have to wait and see.

House shows aren’t new. Spokane has them sporadically. Pullman’s college radio station, KZUU 90.7 FM, has recently hosted a couple of fundraisers at homes. In Moscow, where all-age music venues are few and far between, a place like the Bayou (which normally doesn’t charge a cover) consistently fills the void.

“We have shows so we can go to shows,” says housemate Robin Kok, a University

BY LAURA JOHNSON of Idaho student.

The four-bedroom house, situated on a mossy plot right off Troy Road between an auto repair shop and coffee stand, has a grassroots musical history. The Bayou housemates say that some older concertgoers have regaled them with tales of the crazy 1980s, when the three-level space was known as the Farmhouse and couches sat in the surrounding trees. There have been other monikers over the years, but the crew is sticking with Bayou now because it’s tucked next to Paradise Creek.

“Also, the name is fitting. Those trees out there are super creepy,” says Madelyn Wall, the youngest of the bunch at 21.

UPSTAIRS

The living room slowly fills with friends and strangers.

Ostraca, the touring hardcore punk three-piece from Richmond, Virginia, sits in one corner eating the vegan curry that Amstutz made while talking about their emotions.

The band recently played SXSW and has been on tour for a month. They say that playing house shows is always a relief from the grind. Plus, the Bayou even has a couple of couches to crash on, rather than the floor.

The kitchen is getting crowded with concertgoers.

They drink Miller High Life out of the can and talk about the amazingly warm weather.

The roommates say that the Bayou’s patrons are respectful.

“People have even asked me where our recycling is,” says Amstutz. “And they’re all willing to donate money to the bands.”

They’ve only had a couple of issues with the bands.

One time a drummer made racial slurs (he’s never allowed back) and at another show, a group made some misogynistic comments about “f---ing bitches” in between songs.

“We don’t tolerate that type of behavior here,” Amstutz says.

The big thing is there are no drugs or underage drinking allowed. The roommates want the shows to be about the music.

The venue, one that’s also hosted comedy shows and poetry readings, is booked until July. After that, questions arise.

Everyone plans to move. They hope whoever takes over the house next will continue the shows, but there’s no way to tell. ...continued on next page

Bayou tenant Allyson Amstutz (center) turns off the basement light for Spokane band Déformer last weekend. LAURA JOHNSON PHOTO

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MUSIC | LOCAL SCENE “ONE NIGHT AT THE BAYOU,” CONTINUED...

DOWNSTAIRS First, it’s the scream, one of those guttural yells, that brings people stepping lightly down the nearly vertical stairs to the unfinished basement filled with Christmas lights. That was only the mic check, but like a siren call, it whets concertgoers’ appetites for more music. As the second band of the night, Spokane/Coeur d’Alene hardcore three-piece East Sherman packs about 40 listeners into the L-shaped concrete space.

When they finally launch into their speedy, blackened music, it’s like there’s nothing else but this skull-rattling noise. People stare and nod. One girl unties her long blonde hair and whips it into a frenzy.

No matter what genre is playing, punk kids, rednecks, Washington State University students and hippie granola types mesh together in this dark basement. Tonight is the same. The body odor is nearly unbearable.

The rest of the town knows what goes on here because the

music reverberates well outside the confines of the basement.

Sometimes, the gas station down the street gives people directions to the shows. Cops roll by, but never stop in. And the baristas at the coffee stand in the parking lot say they always enjoy meeting the bands that come through the morning after.

Soon, the rambunctious 15-minute set — that’s the time limit Amstutz prefers — ends abruptly. We’re left wanting more.

“This is why we do this,” says the newest roommate, Graybill. “We want people to have the loud, and then take pleasure in the silence. It’s not like a show where you have to listen for two hours straight.

We want people to talk to one another here.” n lauraj@inlander.com The next Bayou show is Sat, April 16, feat. Lucky+Love and Anterroir. Find out more at Facebook: The Bayou Moscow.

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The Sound of Settling Down Marriage and parenthood prove excellent for Pete Yorn’s music

BY DAN NAILEN

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he hook-filled pop-rock and acoustic balladry on Pete Yorn’s first few albums got him pegged as a sensitive singer-songwriter type, albeit one with a tendency to rock out on tunes like his 2001 breakthrough single “Life on a Chain.”

To hear Yorn tell it, though, his life offstage was more Keith Richards than coffee shop crooner.

“Being on the road and that lifestyle, it’s no surprise a lot of artists turn to drugs or become alcoholics,” Yorn says. “When you’re younger doing that, or any age doing that, it’s hard. It’s a weird place to be.

“I lived in that world for a long time, I just lived fullon excess … At some point, I was like, ‘Alright, do you want to live the rest of your life like this, or do you want to do more — have all these other things you might want, too?’”

Pursuing those “other things” is what led to a six-year pause between albums before the March arrival of ArrangingTime, a sonically diverse batch of his strongest songs to date. While that time was spent writing countless tunes and recording 40 before choosing 12 for the album, Yorn also got married and became a father, focusing squarely on his personal life, and “that’s been amazing.”

Touring as a new dad is going to be far different than

the old days of chain-smoking and drinking whiskey all night. Yorn’s only hitting the road a couple of weeks at a time because he doesn’t want to miss his daughter’s first year with months-long excursions. He’s also more interested in putting his energy into the shows now that he’s 41, rather than saving it for the post-gig party.

Translating the lush orchestration of the new songs via a four-piece band will be a challenge, whether it’s the echoing flourishes of the oh-so-catchy “Lost Weekend” or electronic-tinged “Halifax” and “I’m Not The One,” but Yorn says his touring crew has “found a great balance of musicianship and representing the record in a cool, fun way.”

Balance seems key for Yorn circa 2016. While his new album title could be a nod to the challenges of work/ life harmony, or the time-management tricks of fatherhood, he sounds recharged from his sabbatical.

“I almost feel like I did when I put my first record out,” Yorn says. “Untarnished from the road, kind of fresh. I worked really hard to get to that place, and that’s inspiring.

“And the bigger picture, in life, that you can kind of reset and still be creative and get that stoke you did when you were 25 years old? That’s cool. People tend to get

Pete Yorn is back with a slew of his best tunes yet. jaded as they get older, and get discouraged and all that shit, but it doesn’t have to be that way.” n Pete Yorn • Sun, April 10, at 8 pm • Sold out • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane. com • 747-2174

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ROCK THIRD EYE BLIND

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hird Eye Blind began its journey in 1993, though it wasn’t until 1997 that they hit a gold mine with the smash “Semi-Charmed Life” — even if you aren’t a rock fan, you’ve most likely heard it at some point.

Since then, the band has progressively flown under the radar, achieving an almost cult-like status recently. Last year’s Dopamine, their fifth and latest album, features electric guitar solos and sweet piano highlights. Rock ’n’ roll is on full display when its choruses hit the ceiling; at other times, its songs sound like simple pop-alternative.

Its mainstays are dynamic drumming and crescendoing choruses. The band’s success recipe is deceptively simple: creativity and evolution. Though band members come and go, frontman Stephan Jenkins remains a firm presence and themes of nostalgia remain central.

— CLAIRE STANDAERT Third Eye Blind and Bad Bad Hats • Wed, April 13, at 8 pm • $35 • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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Thursday, 04/07

BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE (9241446), Sunny Nights Duo J THE BARTLETT, Ampersand, Bandit Train, Griffey J THE BIG DIPPER, Zodiac party 1 Tribe, Ragtag Romantics, Brotha Nature, MJ the Inhumane BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho JOHN’S ALLEY, Red Elvises J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE (208-265-9382), Open Mic hosted

by Scott Reid NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM (927-7770), Don Goodwin O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo RED ROOM LOUNGE, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 J SPOKANE ARENA, G-Eazy ZOLA, Flying Mammals

Friday, 04/08

1210 TAVERN (208-765-1210), Jimmy’s B-Day Bash feat. Blue Eye BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, KYRS Presents: Rabbit Wilde, Howling Gaels BIGFOOT PUB, YESTERDAYSCAKE BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Major One BOLO’S, FM BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Dragonfly

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PSYCH R&B NIGHT BEATS

J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, The String Ticklers CHATEAU RIVE, An Evening With Tyrone Wells, Tommy Simmons COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Jamshack CRAFTSMAN CELLARS (413-2434), The Brad Keeler Trio CURLEY’S, Tracer FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, AlgoRhythms GREENBRIAR INN (208-667-9660), Cris Lucas IRON HORSE BAR, Chris Rieser and the Nerve THE JACKSON ST., Steve Livingston, Triple Shot JOHN’S ALLEY, Down North J KNITTING FACTORY, Soblivios, Invasive, Children of the Sun, Cold Blooded, Broken Identity J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jay Condiotti MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Kosh NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon feat.

DJ Tom NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Nicole Lewis and Joe Brasch NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin J THE OBSERVATORY, Night Beats (See story above), Mirror Mirror, Von the Baptist PAOLA’S RAINBOW RESORT, Truck Mills PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Powell Brothers RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, The Martini Brothers THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SATAY BISTRO, Daniel Mills STIX (292-0503), Honkey Tonk a Go-Go THE PIN!, Sanitarium

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orn and raised at the intersection of funk and rock in Seattle, Night Beats have found a sound that wouldn’t play well over the loudspeakers at a department store. Instead, Lee Blackwell, James Traeger and Jakob Bowden have crafted songs more befitting of a retro antique shop — a place where people try on paisley patterned shirts and rose-tinted glasses. Funky and eclectic, the trio make use of early R&B beats, mixed with the funky atmosphere of new-age indie. The trio, finishing up their U.S. tour supporting their new album Who Sold My Generation, hits the stage at the Observatory on Friday night. Catch a glimpse before Night Beats head across the pond on their European tour.

— MEG MACLEAN Night Beats with Mirror Mirror and Von the Baptist • Fri, April 8, at 9 pm • $10/$12 day of • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane. com • 598-8933

THE ROADHOUSE, Johnny Qlueless THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Stepbrothers ZOLA, Sammy Eubanks

Saturday, 04/09

BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim J THE BARTLETT, Folkinception, the Holy Broke BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Ayron Jones, Hey! is For Horses BIGFOOT PUB, YESTERDAYSCAKE BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Major One BOLO’S, FM BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Dragonfly J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Jon & Rand COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Speakeasy Style Jazz Concert with CeCe Curtis

Also Jamshack COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Vinyl Instinct CURLEY’S, Tracer J THE GATHERING HOUSE, BE Open Mic Night GREENBRIAR INN, Robby French HOGFISH, Bullets or Balloons, Bird Fight, Deschamp IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY (208-5977096, John Firshi J INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, For King & Country IRON HORSE BAR, Chris Rieser and the Nerve THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave’s 40th birthday roast with Afro Steve JOHN’S ALLEY, Theoretics J KROC CENTER (208-667-1865), Son of Brad, The Marco Polo Collective, Hanna Rebecca LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LARIAT INN, Bobby Bremer Band

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Mary Chavez MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Truck Mills NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon feat.

DJ Tom NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Gary Edighoffer and Brent Edstrom NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin  THE PALOMINO, The Verbal Takeover 2016 feat. Mista Snipe, Cary Hays, Mr. Dalo, Hafi, Herc, Fogey, Young Dom, New York Yao, DJ J.T. Washington RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, The Martini Brothers REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Ian McFeron THE RESERVE, Weary Traveler, Sweet Rebel D THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler  THE SHOP, Cryptids THE PIN!, Castaway, Withered Bones, Heart of an Awl, Fed to the Flames, Late Show: “The Takeover” with DJ X, DYVE, TOV, DJ Pha, Cam Lil Dorrel THE ROADHOUSE, Steve Starkey THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Cattywomp

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Sunday, 04/10

 THE BARTLETT, Pete Yorn (See page 51 for more info) COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Keith Sweat, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE JACKSON ST., Acoustic jam with Zach Flanary LINGER LONGER LOUNGE (208-6232211), Open jam THE ROADHOUSE, Chris Shay Benefit feat. Band of Brothers, Steve Starkey, Sammy Eubanks, Keith & the Hankers, Smash Hit Carnival, Men in the Making ZOLA, Caprise

Monday, 04/11

 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 04/12

 THE BIG DIPPER, Tribal Theory, CRSB, River City Roota FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Truck Mills THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JOHN’S ALLEY, Ryan Chrys & The

Rough Cuts JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL (208-2096700), Second Tuesday Open Mic MIK’S, DJ Brentano  MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Delta G Blues PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Marty Peron & Doug Bond SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 04/13 EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave  KNITTING FACTORY, Third Eye Blind (See story on facing page), Bad Bad Hats THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Thomas Jefferson LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Lane King  THE PALOMINO, Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic SPOKANE COMEDY CLUB, Open Mic

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 THE PIN!, Elektro Grave THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

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FROM LEFT: Caitlin Duffey, Nick Bailey and Cody Bray star in the Modern Theater’s producton of Next to Normal at the Bing Crosby Theater. DAN BAUMER PHOTO

THEATER NOT SO NORMAL

Winner of three Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal is anything but an ordinary play. Held in high esteem by the theater community and audiences nationwide, the production artfully introduces onlookers into the lives of a suburban family struggling with the realities of mental illness. Using a dialogue and narrative exploring the depths of each individual character, Brian Yorkey’s masterpiece has become an emotional powerhouse that manifests grief, love and sympathy on stage. The Bing Crosby Theater presents this contemporary masterpiece in collaboration with the Modern Theater and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater.

— MEG MACLEAN Next to Normal • Thu, April 7 through Sun, April 17, showtimes vary • $23-$27 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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OUTDOORS SYMBOL OF SPRING

SPORTS ZAGS TAKE THE FIELD

Dishman Hills 50th Annual Buttercup Hike • Sat, April 9, at 9 am and 1 pm • Free • Dishman Hills Natural Area; meet at Camp Caro • 625 S. Sargent Rd. • dishmanhills.org

Portland at Gonzaga • Fri, April 8, at 6:05 pm; Sat, April 9, at 6 pm; Sun, April 10, at noon • $5, $4/military, youth, seniors • Patterson Baseball Complex at Gonzaga University • E. Spokane Falls Blvd. • gozags.com

If you’ve looked closely enough, you may already have spotted the first buttercup of the season. The wild, sunshine-colored blooms are found close to the ground, amid rocks and pine needles, and can sometimes be seen as early as late February, then become plentiful by March. For the 50th season, the Dishman Hills Conservancy invites locals to come trek through the ponderosa woods on the ultimate buttercup quest. Led by the nonprofit’s former president Michael Hamilton, you can also learn about the natural area’s history and future plans to continue protecting this important piece of land bordered by Spokane and Spokane Valley — CHEY SCOTT

Thanks to a college baseball season that begins when temperatures in Spokane can still be below freezing and some unlucky scheduling, Gonzaga gets only 10 games this year at their Patterson Baseball Complex. Three of those games come this weekend, as the Zags welcome the University of Portland Pilots. As of press time, Gonzaga had a 16-10 record and was 6-3 in West Coast Conference play, good enough for second in the conference. And if you haven’t heard yet, there’s supposed to be some excellent baseball weather this weekend.

— MIKE BOOKEY

COMMUNITY FORUM

WORDS POETS AT THE LIBRARY

In honor of National Poetry Month and National Library Week, a lineup of Northwest poets — including Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, Spokane’s Maya Zeller (pictured) and Roger Dunsmore from North Idaho — read from their own selections to celebrate both poetry and prose literature.

Audience members can contribute to the festivities with readings of their own, in addition to a tribute to Coeur d’Alene’s “Bard of Sherman Avenue.”

Through collaboration with The Well-Read Moose Bookstore and Cafe, the Coeur d’Alene Public Library opens its doors for a night celebrating poetry, reading and partnerships in the community.

— MEG MACLEAN Crossing the Border: An Interstate Poetry Night • Fri, Apr. 8, at 6 pm • Free • Coeur d’Alene Public Library • 702 E. Front Ave. • cdalibrary.org • 208-215-2265

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WORDS EXPERT PERSPECTIVES

In the spirit of the 30-year TED Talks program mission of sharing “ideas worth spreading,” the University of Idaho is hosting its second-ever independently organized TED event this weekend. Centered around the theme “Cultivating Curiosity,” the student-led event features a diverse lineup of presenters, from a Syrian refugee who relocated to Idaho to several of the university’s own faculty and alumni. Topics on the day’s slate of 3- to 18-minute presentations include antibiotic-resistant superbugs, global hunger, polar bears and global warming, and much more.

— CHEY SCOTT TEDx UIdaho • Sat, April 9, from 8 am-5 pm • $10-$25 • University of Idaho, Administration Building Auditorium, Moscow • tedxuidaho.com • 208-697-2166

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BULLDOG JOG 5K The Gonzaga chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi presents the 13th annual event to benefit Second Harvest. The 5K charity run welcomes community members of all skill levels and abilities. April 9, 9:30 am-12:30 pm. $12-15. McCarthey Athletic Center, 801 N Cincinnati. (509-313-6000) SPRING FORTH SOCIAL A fundraiser for the Kootenai County Democratic Club, with live music by Living Well, a baked potato bar, a live auction, and a no-host wine bar and craft beer by Daft Badger. All proceeds support local Democratic candidates. April 9, 5-8 pm. $25-$30. Lake City Center, 1916 N. Lakewood Dr. kootenaidemocrats.org DACHSHUND RESCUE NW OPEN HOUSE + POTLUCK Please bring a

main or side dish for at least six; desserts, drinks and chips are provided.

RSVP requested for the number of people/dogs. Donations are accepted to help the local rescue place more than 130 homeless wiener dogs each year. April 10, 12-5 pm. $5/dog. Spring Hill Grange, 8717 N. Brooks Rd. spokanewienerdogs.org (796-2140) UNION GOSPEL MISSION ANNUAL GATHERING Join UGM for a look beyond the surface of homelessness.

Meet the real people behind the stereotypes and learn how together we can end homelessness, one person, one family at a time. April 14, 12-1:30 & 6:30-8:30 pm. $35/ticket; $250/table of 8. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. uniongospelmission. org/gathering (535-8510 ext. 2)

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I SAW YOU CUTE GIRL IN NEW SUBARU You: Beautiful brunette driving down division on 3/26 in a new white Subaru sedan.

Me: Brown hair, tan, with brown glasses driving a white Mercedes Benz coupe.

You drove by near Francis and we checked each other out a few times, then moved in and out of traffic together until we parted on the south hill. Let's meet up and race around town.

KiteFlyingSoxiety@gmail.com THAT ADORABLE SMILE Beautiful Thursday afternoon, parked by Safeway on Evergreen; you in your black Mazda park right next to me. You in your grey beanie and your eyes sparkiling in the sunlight. We exchange looks... that cute adorable smile took me away; I didn't mean to stare. I got nervous and drove away. One day maybe I'll see you there again:) NICE TOYOTA!! To the guy I waved through the intersection of Queen and Addison with the really nice Toyota Truck on Thursday 3/31/16. You were good looking and I'd like to meet up for a cup of coffee some time. Hoping you see this and respond quickly, you had a dark goatee and a ball cap on. Didn't get to see much in passing, but you definitely caught my eye.

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY You were standing alone by the edge of the dance floor, I came by and talked to you and

then asked you to join us. I wish I could have spent more time with you and invited you to breakfast but you declined.

I would love to meet you for dancing.

So, if you get a chance to take a break from your job at Zip's, hit me back. The cowboy at Fizzie's.

OMG!!! Handsome guy in a wheelchair at Super One on Friday April 1, 2016 7 pm.

I was tired, cranky, headache, very hungry, etc. etc. then you came around the corner and I felt better!!!! Seriously!!!!

You are... well, what can I say, georgous!!

Better than a drink. :) Wow, wow, wow!!!!

PINK SUNSHINE April 1st, Hawthorne Place, you have pink hair and flashed me the biggest, most beautiful smile as I passed by. I was so taken aback by its brightness I could barely mutter a "hey."

Should have stopped and chatted you up. grimycricket@gmail.com and tell me what I do for a living.

"HEY HAASE" Early evening of April 2, near Lowes on East Sprague. I was standing on the North side of the street waiting for the bus, with red & black hair, wearing a black & white striped skirt, and glasses. You were the gorgeous bearded man driving a white truck that said "Haase Landscape Inc." on the side.

You looked back at me as i was looking at you, but once the light turned green, you drove away. Shortly after that, I boarded the bus and who do i see just outside the bus window? You... So I'm wondering this, did you circle around and come back for me? Or was it just a daydream? If you did, I'd love to meet.

CHEERS RIGHT PLACE AT RIGHT TIME Thanks to the doctor who saved my life, on the night of 3/22. Apparently I dropped while walking up to the PI. Next thing I remember is waking up in the ER at Deaconess. Thanks Mica for the unique fridge art.

TO THE INLANDER Cheers to you for making the top 10 for E&P's "Newspapers that do it right"! You were doing it right many years ago before I left Spokane.

And you're STILL doing it right! Keep up the great work and KUDOS to you!!!!

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You were doing it right many years ago before I left Spokane. And you’re STILL doing it right.

TO THE 18-29 YEAR OLDS OUT THERE...

I BELIEVE IN YOU I know that there are many in older generations who snicker and shudder at the thought that you are our future and will be the ones to lead our country soon. Please do not let their remarks get you down.

Yes, there are some in this age group who are misinformed and ill-mannered.

They're also in my age group and the age groups in-between. I am aware of quite a few in your age group who are already leading; who are going the extra mile; who are doing volunteer work; making a difference; studying and learning to be informed about everything going on in their own city and state and even beyond. You are the young unselfish men and women who are doing what you can to help in your community and help those around you. Because I have witnessed this part of your life and your kind, compassionate acts, I have been prone to open up to what you have to say; hear you out; listen with an open mind and an open heart. So anytime you hear the snickers or see the shaking of a head because you're young, remember you have someone on your side who wholeheartedly believes in you.

MOBIUS VOLUNTEERS Recently spent an afternoon with two toddlers at Mobius. Wow. The energy was high with a packed space and wild busy visitors. I was so impressed by the patience and constant attention of the volunteers.

Amazing. Thank you so much for making the museum possible.

OUTSPOKEN BOYZ...THANK YOU SO MUCH for the wonderful coffee date! We haven't had that much fun with anyone

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

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

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for quite awhile. We enjoyed the laughter, joy, fun, seriousness, smiles and just all over GREAT conversation! You Boyz are a riot! You also rock! — P & S

JEERS DEAR BATGIRL Batman and Batgirl were never romantically involved. Catwoman will always have his heart.

HEY BAT-LOVERS! I've decided it's about time that I deal some justice. Really. It's the dawn of justice, right? Anyway, you are getting really annoying. Say most people who read this paper. And myself.

By the way, do you think that it’s really necessary to submit everything for the paper? This is a real disappointment, but I thought that the Bats were high tech.

Apparently they don’t know how to text, but can operate supercomputers. Also, Batgirl is typically a teen. So, Batgirl dating Batman? Weird. At least upgrade to Batwoman, if anything. Even better, ask Harley about a real love story. Kudos to Green Lantern and Anonymous from a week or two ago. Wait…. What happened to Talya Al Gul? You’re Welcome, Oracle SHAME ON YOU! Shame on you, Hertz, for charging me over $1,300 for "damages" on my rental car. I was signed off at the airport and the agent said nothing about damages. 5 days later I was contacted by a collections company saying I returned the car damaged! When I called to speak with a manager I was told the charges had already been sent to a claims agency so there was nothing that could be done by Hertz. Shame on you

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for targeting unsuspecting customers with bogus charges! Double shame for not contacting me yourself and sending this bill directly to collections! I sincerely hope my complaints to corporate will cause your business in Spokane to suffer penalties.

"HELLO".....I'M ON THE PHONE! You walk into my office and immediately start speaking to me, as if the world revolves around you. The fact that I'm on the phone, speaking to someone else, makes no difference to you. You, and what you have to say, must be the most important thing ever. Which confuses me, since there is no way I can give you: your majesty, my undivided attention. So now not only do I have to ask the one on the phone to repeat themselves due to your rude distraction, whatever you think is so important also will be delayed. You know who you are. You are everywhere, and strike every day. You wear pink, you wear blue; you may be young or old.

The common denominator: you are rude.

Wait your damn turn and learn some etiquette! 

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

COMEDY

SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; sign-up at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+. No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com WEED & WHISKEY: DEREK SHEEN, RYAN MCCOMB Friend of the podcast and comedy scenes across the Northwest, Derek Sheen comes over from Seattle for a special, one-night engagement. Opener is Spokane’s own Ryan McComb. April 13, 8 pm. $10. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. bit.ly/1SNBbC9

ANDY WOODHULL This past summer Andy was the first comedian to make his network television debut on the “Tonight Show: Starring Jimmy Fallon.” He has also recently appeared on “Conan,” “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen,” and “Gotham Comedy Live on AXS.” April 7-9, at 8 pm; also Sat. at 10:30 pm. April 7-9. $10-$20. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy the first Thursday of every month in Impulse Nightclub at 8 pm (doors open at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region. Ages 21+ only. $10.

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000) JEFF DUNHAM: PERFECTLY UNBALANCED The wildly popular, internationally-acclaimed comic/ventriloquist heads to town with his handcrafted cast of character puppets. April 8, 8 pm. $47.50. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. (279-7000) ST. VINNY’S COMEDY SHOW All proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul North Idaho Warming Centers. Along with vari10th ANNUAL ous auctions, prizes and drawings, guests AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE WEEK: are entertained by an eclectic lineup of NIC hosts a variety of events (lectures, local and regional comedians, bolstered silent auctions, craft workshops) in honor

by Susan Rice who was voted Portland’s of American Indian Heritage Week. All best comedian. April 8, 8-11 pm. $25. events in the NIC Edminster Student Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95.

Union. April 4-9. Free and open to the cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) 10th ANNUAL public. North Idaho College, 1000 W. GarSTAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy feaden Ave. nic.edu/events (208-769-3365) turing established and up-and-coming TREASURE! A touring exhibit exploring local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No the history of treasure and treasure huntcover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third ing, the technology used to look for it, Ave. reddragondelivery.com and the people obsessed with finding it.

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Through May 29, museum open Tue-Sun, from 10 am-5 pm. (Half-price on Tuesdays.) $5-$10/museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org MUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO FREE DAY Visit the museum’s current exhibits at no cost, including the 2016 feature exhibit “Ties to the Past: Railroad History in teh Coeur d’Alene Region.” April 9, 11 am-5 pm. Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd. (208-664-3448) PARADE OF NATIONS The WSU/EWU Multicultural club present the 4th annual celebration of cultures from around the world. Featuring performances, a fashion show; Italian, Greek, and Thai cuisine will be served. April 9, 6-8 pm. $5-$10. Riverpoint Campus, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd.

(626-253-3699) SCC SPRING CRAFT FAIR Support local artists by shopping from more than 120 vendors offering unique handmade items. Food trucks on site; free parking.

April 9, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. sites. scc.spokane.edu/ArtCraftFoodFair SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON AREA WORKSHOP With Special Olympics opportunities on the rise, this workshop allows interested community members at the local level to receive insight and education about Special Olympics and how to get involved locally. April 9, 9 am-12:45 pm. Gonzaga Prep, 1224 E. Euclid. specialolympicswashington.org SPOKANE BIKE SWAP & EXPO Sell used bikes/gear, shop for used bikes and from local exhibitors. Donate a bike and get free admission. April 9, 9 am-5 pm. $5 admission (free for kids 12 & younger).

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404

N. Havana St. SpokaneBikeSwap.com KITTEN SHOWER Help the Spokane Humane Society care for the hundreds of kittens that will come through its doors this spring by donating needed supplies, learning how you can become a foster parent and more. The event includes games, food and more. April 9, 6 pm.

Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana St. bit.ly/1RpqaYI (509-467-5235) TEDXUIDAHO The second annual conference is themed “Cultivating Curiosity” and includes a full day of speakers, performances and interaction. April 9, 8 am-5 pm. $10-$25. University of Idaho Administration Building, 851 Campus Dr. tedxuidaho.com (888-884-3246) YOU & ME TIME PAINTING CLASS Bring your child, grandchild, “little,” niece or nephew and spend some one-on-one time creating a piece of art together. An appropriate activity for children ages 3-12; no experience is necessary. April 10, 1-4 pm. $35. Round Table Pizza, 15402 E. Sprague. conta.cc/1pwllSL (990-8011) SENIOR EMPOWERMENT FAIR An event for low-to-moderate income seniors, offering a vendor and resource fair with community partners and agencies on site answering questions and providing information. April 13, 10 am-3 pm. Free. Clare View Seniors, 3202 E. 44th. spokanehousingventures.org UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Shannon Dunn, PhD from the Religious Studies Dept. at Gonzaga, gives a historical background on Islam. She presents the similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also discusses the need for conversations to address the misunderstanding, fear, and anger that many direct at the

Islamic faith and Muslims. April 13 and 20, from 7-8:30 pm. Free. St. Joseph’s Church, 1503 W. Dean. (926-7133) SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH: LISTEN TO ME The community is invited to hear stories of survival and healing as part of UI’s recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Keynote event features a talk by Moscow native Natalie Greenfield, a mother, life partner, business owner, musician and passionate advocate for sexual abuse victims. April 14, 7 pm. Free and open to the public. University of Idaho Commons, 709 Deakin. (208-885-2233) SENIOR RESOURCE & INFO FAIR Local professionals are on site to provide help and assistance connecting with resources and services in the community that cater to the senior population. April 14, 10 am-2 pm. Free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (509-688-0300)

FILM

THE PEANUTS MOVIE The animated feature stars all the beloved characters of the Peanuts Gang. April 7, 6:30 pm and April 9, 3:30 pm. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org REVENANT While exploring the uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his beloved family. Rated R. Showing April 8-9, 7:30 pm $6-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. (208-255-7801)

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Form Frustration Some medical marijuana patients are peeved because of an invasive section on a state form

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he state’s medical marijuana authorization form — more specifically, one section on that form — is reaching into TMI territory for some users.

The section in question, titled “Attestation of Healthcare Practitioner,” states in part, “I am licensed in the state of Washington and have diagnosed the above named patient as having the following terminal or debilitating medical condition...”

Thirteen options, including cancer, HIV, post-traumatic stress disorder and Hepatitis C, are listed.

Some users feel like this section, which wasn’t on the authorization form used prior to July 24, 2015, is an invasion of their privacy.

“I have a problem walking into a 502 store and handing them a piece of paper that tells them what I have,” Kirk Ludden, an HIV-positive medical marijuana patient,

told the Stranger last month. “I have no issue sharing it with people I know and sharing my story. That’s my choice to share or not to share. I should not be made to share it.”

Aly Poor, secretary at the Herbal Connection, a local medical marijuana dispensary, says she hasn’t heard any complaints from users, but understands where those who have complained are coming from: “When I first heard about the new form, I thought, ‘That’s a little bit much.

What if they don’t want everyone to know what their diagnosis is?’”

Poor, who reviews paperwork and registers patients, says she doesn’t look too closely at the qualifying condition section. Once a patient is registered, they go into the bud room.

“They’ll talk to the budtender about their medical problems if they’re comfortable with it, and from there, the budtender will determine what would work best,” Poor says.

To counter complaints, Kristi Weeks, the Department of Health’s legal services director, told the Stranger that the form is optional, though the patient’s benefits will be limited. She also says that patients are only required to show their authorization form once a year, when they sign up for the state’s registry, and again upon renewal.

Once registered, Weeks says that users receive a “patient recognition card,” which does not list their condition, and stores are not allowed to retain a copy of a patient’s authorization form.

Poor says despite complaints that Seattle-area medical marijuana shops are experiencing — and though she thinks the form would be just as effective without it — the Attestation of Healthcare Practitioner section is here to stay: “I think [the Department of Health is] pretty satisfied with what they’ve put together, and aside from the doctors having difficulties filling it out properly, it’s really been no problem.” n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SPOTLIGHT See the 2016 Best Picture winner, which tells the true story of a team of Boston Globe reporters as they work to investigate child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church. April 11, 7-10:30 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: TAI CHI ZERO In the legendary Chen Village, everyone is a martial arts master, using their powerful Chen Style Tai Chi. Lu Chan has arrived to train, but the villagers are forbidden to teach Chen Style to outsiders, and do their best to discourage him by challenging him to a series of fights. Rated: PG-13. April 13, 7-9 pm. Free and open to the public.

The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

FOOD & DRINK

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COOKING CLASS: EGGPLANT & SPAGHETTI ALLA PUTTANESCA Chef Angelo of Angelo’s Ristorante shares how to create a fresh, flavorful meal of tomatoes, cheeses and basil wrapped in parcels made of sliced eggplant and grilled. This, and a spicy spaghetti alla puttanesca, pair for a light and vegetarian friendly meal. April 8, 6-8 pm. $40. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com VINO WINE TASTING Friday, April 8 highlights Anne Amie Vineyards of Oregon from 3-6:30 pm. Sat, April 9 is a tasting with Purple Wine Co, from 2-4:30 pm. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (838-1229) 8TH ANNUAL CHOCOLATE TASTING Experience drinking chocolates and truffles from around the world, paired with lunch or dinner and the current art exhibit. Reservations required. April 9, noon-2 pm or 5-7 pm. $18. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St, Palouse. bankleftgallery.com (878-1800) SESSION HOME BREW COMPETITION Inland Brewers Unite Homebrew Club presents the 3rd annual “A Light in the Dark” challenge. Participants and attendees judge for awards. April 9, 2-6 pm. $10/non-members. The Porch, 1804 W. Broadway. inlandbrewersunite.com JAPANESE SPRING FOOD FESTIVAL The 26th annual “Haru Matsuri” spring food festival serves traditional Japanese recipes: chicken or tofu teriyaki bento boxes, gyoza (pork potstickers), chirashi sushi and Japanese desserts.

Dine in or take-out; pre-order online or call. Also visit the temple for an open house. April 10, 11 am-3 pm. $5$12. Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry St. spokanebuddhisttemple.org BEN & JERRY’S FREE CONE DAY Local media celebrities scoop up cones to benefit Cancer Care Northwest Foundation. April 12, 12-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. River Park Square, 808 W. Main. benjerry.com/riverparksquare COMMUNITY COOKING NIGHTS Follow along with Second Harvest’s head chefs as scratch cooking skills are applied to tasty and healthful meals. All are welcome, new and more experienced chefs alike. Participants are able to take home food prepared in class.

Wednesdays in April, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org

MUSIC AN EVENING WITH TYRONE WELLS & TOMMY SIMMONS This Spokane

favorite returns to Chateau Rive after selling out several past shows. April 8, 7:30-9:30 pm. $20-$25. Chateau Rive, 621 W. Mallon. ticketswest.com NINE PINT COGGIES This Scottish fiddle band plays the ancient to contemporary music of Scotland and beyond with jigs, reels, strathspeys, waltzes, polkas, airs, mazurkas and polskas.

April 8, 7-9 pm. $10. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER Sparky and Rhonda have performed at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as NPR’s On Point, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and Morning Edition.

April 8, 7:30-9 pm. $12. South Hill Music Studios, 1301 W. 14th. (744-9861) COWBOY MUSIC & POETRY An evening of song, poetry and food in the Western cowboy tradition. Also includes a home-cooked, Western-style meal (6 pm). $15/adults; $12/seniors and $5/ kids. April 9. TumTum Community Center, 6424 Highway 291. (276-5916) FOR KING & COUNTRY A concert by the Australian brother duo. April 9, 8 pm. $25-$75. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com THE (NEW) MOUNTAIN DEW BOYS Opening this bluegrass show is Dale and Steve Preedy, preceded by a chili feed (5:30-6:45 pm) at the Green Bluff United Methodist Church, for $5/person. April 9. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com SPEAKEASY STYLE JAZZ CONCERT This throwback event features local favorite Villa Blues n’ Jazz plus rising star, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s own CeCe Curtis. April 9, 8-11 pm. $20. CdA Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. (800-523-2467) WHITWORTH CHOIR The choir present its spring concert program, featuring the music of Great Britain and the U.S. April 9, 8 pm. $5-$7. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com CHILDREN’S CHOIR OF THE PALOUSE CHORAL SOCIETY The recently formed Children’s Choir performs their first solo concert. April 10. By donation.

First Presbyterian Church, 405 S. Van Buren St., Moscow. (509-597-8917) SERENADE FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON Inaugural concert by the Tapestry Baroque Quartet (flute, oboe, cello, harpsichord) and the Celtic Aires vocal ensemble. April 10, 4:30-5:45 pm.

Free. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. (290-6424)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

PROVING GROUNDS MMA FIGHTS Warrior Camp’s event showcases upand-coming amateur fighters from across the Inland Northwest. April 8, 6:30 pm-midnight. $20-$30. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo. warriorcampfitness.com BEGINNING BIRD WATCHING The Friends of Turnbull and Spokane Audubon Society collaborate to offer tools and tips for observing and identifying what you see in a fun walk. April 9 and May 7, 9-11:30 am. Free (refuge entrance is $3/car.) Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/activities.html (448-2291)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess SliGht Of hAnd

My boyfriend mistakenly sent me a text meant for somebody else — a real estate agent with my same first name who’s showing him apartments. This made me feel like I’m unimportant — easily confused with just anybody — and I got really upset. Of course, I know that he was just busy and multitasking. And despite knowing that he really loves me, I blow up like this a lot.

—Overreactor

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Assuming your boyfriend isn’t 11, “do u have any openings?” isn’t a sex question.

Your boyfriend’s mix-up was the sleep-eating version of texted communication. You ultimately know that, but no sooner did you get that text than your feelings started hammering on you. It’s like they were waiting to do it — like those people in folding chairs with umbrellas lined up outside some concert ticket venue. Pound! Pound! Pound! “My watch says 10:31! What the eff?!”

Because fear comes up fast and there’s all this energy behind it, it’s easy to believe it’s telling you something you need to hear — and follow. But it helps to understand what neuroscience has discovered — that emotions are automatic reactions to something in your environment. They rise up (out of a sea of biochemicals) without your doing a thing.

(It’s not like you have to nag, “Hey, life-sucking depression, you never visit anymore.”)

Rational thought, however, takes work. You have to coax it up and give it an assignment, and then (lazy bastard) it right away starts pushing for a nap.

It is possible to pull reason into the mix before your emotions drag your boyfriend off for a beating. This takes preplanning — and the use, in the moment, of a technique called “cognitive reappraisal,” which involves reinterpreting your emotion-driven view of a situation in less emotional terms. Basically, you explore the boring alternatives. Say your boyfriend’s slow in texting you back. So…lack of respect (boohoo!) — or lack of phone, because the dodohead dropped it in the toilet again?

This isn’t to say your alternate explanation is correct. But the immediate goal of cognitive reappraisal is not judging the truth, the whole truth, blah, blah, blah. Through your considering alternate possibilities, cognitive neuroscientist Jason Buhle and his colleagues find that you divert the action in your brain from the stress and anxiety department (Freakout Central) to the thinky parts — like the prefrontal cortex. This allows reason to put on its Coke-bottle glasses and have a closer look at what’s really going on. This, in turn, will keep you from contributing to the notion many men have that we women are operating on one flickering bar of rationality. The way they see it, we have our marching orders -- and we get them from outer space, via our hair accessories.

AmAzinG GrAze

I’ve been married for seven years, and I’m cheating on my husband. I’ve heard that if you’re cheating, it’s because something’s missing in your relationship. But my husband is fantastic. I love him. I just long for something new and different. Help. —Torn Marriage vows are annoyingly comprehensive. Take that “Forsaking all others…” thing. Do they really mean “allll others”? Even that hot guy in board shorts in Spin class?

There are people who are under the impression that life should be COMPLETELY FUN AND EXCITING AT ALL TIMES. We call them 5-year-olds. The grown-up view acknowledges that the typical day includes a good deal of bummer management and that choices in life require making trade-offs. Marriage, for example, gives you intimacy, security, and tax breaks — with the downside that the nookie tends to lack the zing of boning some hot stranger in the self-help section at Barnes & Noble.

To understand how unfair you’re being to your husband, don’t just look at your cheating in sexual terms. You’re doing what neuroeconomists and anthropologists call “free-riding” — sucking up the benefits of a situation while ducking the costs. Meanwhile, if you get cancer and all of your hair falls out and getting to the toilet feels like the third leg of a triathlon, the man carrying you there will for sure be the one you meet for nooners at the motel.

As for what’s missing, you have no motivation to heat up your marriage if you’re getting your heat on the side. But a relatively new area of research — embodied cognition — finds that action drives emotion, meaning that if you keep acting loving and passionate, the feelings are likely to follow. You also jazz things up by being surprising and going a little crazy — in good ways. As the country song goes, “Sing like you don’t need the money … dance like nobody’s watchin’” — but have extramarital sex like there’s a private detective across the street with a lens the size of something NASA puts into space. n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR BUTTERCUP HIKE The 50th year of the Dishman Hills Conservancy’s event.

Learn about the natural history of the Dishman Hills and plans for conserving more of this “Wild Heart of Spokane” as we look for the namesake flowers.

Hikes leave at 9 am and 1 pm. Free, but please register at www.dishmanhills. org. April 9. Free. Camp Caro, 625 S. Sargent Rd. dishmanhills.org HUMMINGBIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE GARDEN WSU Master Gardener Eva Lusk shares how to attract, provide shelter and feed hummingbirds and butterflies in the garden. Registration requested. April 9, 10 am. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. (456-8038) SPOKANE EMPIRE Arena football game vs. the Colorado Crush. April 9, 7 pm. $15-$110. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com (279-7000) VOLUNTEER WITH WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION Register online to help repair trail damage caused by the fires of 2015. Project also includes work on constructing trail to a scenic overlook of the Little Spokane River.

No experience necessary. Sessions on April 6, 9-10, 19 and 27, from 8:30 am3:30 pm. At the Knothead Trail, Little Spokane River Natural Area, Riverside State Park. wta.org (921-8928) NEGATIVE SPLIT The annual, locally organized race is back, offering half marathon, 5K and 10K distances. A portion of proceeds benefit the Spokane HOPE School’s programs and services. Route starts/ends at Kendall Yards. April 10, 9 am. $30-$85. nsplit.com

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COLE PORTER’S ANYTHING GOES The local theater performs the awardwinning Broadway musical. April 7-17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm.

Also Wed, April 13 at 7:30 pm. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N Grand Ave., Pullman. (334-0750) HAPGOOD Dual natures of light — and people — are the theme of Tom Stoppard’s espionage thriller. Through April 10, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com NEXT TO NORMAL The Modern Theater performs the three-time Tony Award and Pulitzer prize winning musical, examining a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness. April 7-17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm.

Co-produced by the CdA Summer Theatre. $23-$27. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE ODD COUPLE A group of the guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. April 7-8 at 7:30 pm. $10-$12. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. (332-8406) AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Jules Vern’s classic adventure tale is told on stage in this whirlwind race to the finish. Join us as Philleas Fogg attempts to do something never done before: travel the globe in 80 days. April 8-24, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY A fastpaced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics, filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors and overthe-top romantic shenanigans. April 8-30, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $18-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com

NIXON’S NIXON The setting is the White House, in one of the most speculated moments in the history of American politics: the final meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the eve of Nixon’s resignation speech. April 8-24; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY OF ERRORS IN SPACE Director Gordon Mellott takes this classic tale into a b-class sci fi setting along with a cast of local actors featuring many actors from Moscow High School. April 8-9, 15-16 at 7:30 pm and April 10 at 2 pm. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. moscowcommunitytheatre.org (208-882-4127) THE DINNER PARTY In this “blizzard of one liners” directed by Mary Trotter, six people are invited to dine at a first-rate restaurant in Paris. April 8-9; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm; also Sat at 2 pm. $5-$10. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, Washington State University Pullman Campus. performingarts.wsu.edu (509-335-8522) THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in a female-roled version of Neil Simon’s contemporary comic classic. April 9, 15-16 at 7:30 pm, also April 10 and 17 at 2 pm. $10-$12. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. pullmancivictheatre.org

VISUAL ARTS

MUSEUM OF ART/WSU 2016 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION The spring exhibit features the work of six MFA candidates, showcasing a wide range of styles. Candidates featured: Dani Brooks, Alx Dockter, Kayleigh Lang, Dylan Steinmetz, Nicole Nee, Kayla White. April 4-May 7, opening reception April 8, 6-8 pm. Gallery open MonSat. Free. Museum of Art/WSU, Wilson Road. bit.ly/1LVgzso (509-335-1910) THIS IS MY HOME NOW Featuring a collection of handmade quilts stitched

by Idaho Newcomers working with Artisans For Hope volunteers. The quilts tell the stories of refugees who have made Idaho home after living through catastrophic times in their native countries.

April 7-May 11, open Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm.

Opening reception April 15, 5-7 pm. Third Street Gallery, City Hall, 206 E. Third, Moscow. ci.moscow.id.us/art ARTIST COLLABORATION SHOW A group art exhibition, featuring work in all media, including music, writing, clothing, graphics, jewelry, performance art, metal working, wood carving and more. April 8-10, 5-9 pm. Hatch: Creative Business Incubator, 9612 E. Sprague. bit.ly/1TfcRLt (509-768-0309) HEATHER WOOLER PHOTOGRAPHY A show featuring the photography from the artist’s recent trip to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. The opening reception includes art, music, drinks and kids activities. April 8, 5-8 pm. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.org (208-818-3342) ILDIKO KALAPACS This Spokane artist has had exhibitions all over the world, most recently, a solo show in Japan. April 8, 6:30-8 pm. Free. Satellite Diner, 425 W. Sprague. ildiart.com (208-305-1780) NEW WORKS BY ELEVEN ARTISTS April’s show features work by the following (some local) artists: Manel Alvarez, Chris Bivins, Frank Boyden, Lindsey Meyers Carroll, Michael de Forest, Sheila

Evans, Yuji Hiratsuka, Shelle Lindholm, Laura Nuchols, Richard Parrish and Valerie Seaberg. Opening reception April 8, 5-8 pm; show runs through May 7.

Gallery open Tue-Sat, 11 am-6 pm. Free.

Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com ANNUAL ART DEMONSTRATION DAY: Fourteen regional artists demonstrate making wearable art during the Dahmen Barn’s 10th annual event. Visitors can watch garments, accessories and jewelry in the making and may purchase directly from the participants.

April 9, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org WHITWORTH SENIOR ART EXHIBITION: “THE SPACE BETWEEN” An eclectic and engaging selection of works from art and graphic design majors.

Opening reception April 12, 5 pm; closing reception on May 21, 11 am. Gallery open Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm.

Free. Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-3258)

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TAPROOT SPEAKER SERIES: CAROLE ALLEN Spokane cultural and community leaders entertain audiences with the story of how they came to do what they do today. April’s speaker is an, educator, neuroscience enthusiast, and professional learner. April 7, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) POETRY NIGHT “Crossing the Border: An Interstate Poetry Night” is presented in partnership with The Well-Read Moose Bookstore and Café. April 8, 6:30 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org POETS QUINTON HALLETT & KATHY HINE Hallett reads from her book of poems “Mrs. Schrodinger’s Breast” and Hines reads from her poetry collection “Passages of Time, Poetry and Prose.”

April 8, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) HUTTON SETTLEMENT: FROM DREAM TO REALITY Discover more about Hutton Settlement’s nearly 100-year history nurturing and educating local youth.

Following the presentation, tour the historic campus to see their work in action. April 9, 2-3 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. (893-8260) BOOK LAUNCH: SHAWN VESTAL & SAM LIGON Get Lit! hosts the book launches for Spokane fiction writers Shawn Vestal (“Daredevils”) and Samuel Ligon (“Among the Dead and Dreaming” and the short fiction collection “Wonderland”). April 12, 8-10 pm.

Free. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. getlitfestival.org CCGRS SPEAKER SERIES: JAY SMOOTH Hear from the hip-hop scholar, cultural commentator, and creator of the award-winning “Ill Doctrine” video series, known for its unique mixture of humor and incisive analysis. April 12, 5:30-7 pm. Free. WSU CUB, 1500 NE Terrell Mall. (509-335-2605) READING: ALISON WEIR Visiting writer Alison Weir reads from her book “Against Our Better Judgement: The Hidden History of How the U.S. was Used to Create Israel.” Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to telling the unreported or misreported stories, primarily focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. April 14, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com n

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Year of Loathing Just imagine what legendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson would make of the current campaign for president

BY SCOTT A. LEADINGHAM If there’s any journalist whose take on politics is worth hearing now, it’s Hunter S. Thompson. The legendary (and profane) author of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 died in 2005, so we can only guess at how he’d cover 2016. Perhaps like this…

SPOKANE, WASH. — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator whose populist message of Democratic socialism twice came to this former railroad town with the roaring river of the same name, is still clinging to hope of an upset. He’s swinging and desperately trying to knock down his Clinton Goliath.

His effort is noble, and we can’t dismiss him outright.

But his supporter base — largely white, largely young, disaffected liberal misanthropes who question the value of a $40,000 liberal arts degree — has an upper limit.

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They can cling to 2008 and claim Obama did the same to the Clinton juggernaut, but Bernie Sanders is not Barack Obama. The former is much more radical than the latter.

The latter is much more affable than the former.

Clinton is already pivoting to the general election, focusing her laser stare on Donald Trump (a stare I once saw cut through solid concrete — it was both chilling and lovely). If that’s the final slate, it’ll be a match made in the boardroom. Hillary and Bill famously love Donnie Boy, or at least know him much better than the rest of us. Bill and Donnie have a lot in common, after all. Their disdain for anyone who opposes them is legendary. In another universe, they’d be perfect running mates.

Make no mistake, though. Bill is no fan of a Trump presidency. Donnie Boy is obscene publicly. Billy Boy is obscene pubically. For all of his personal issues with fidel-

ity, Bill was and is a politician who connects with people on a personally positive level. Bill no doubt echoes what the founders of Spy magazine said of Trump 25 years ago: He’s a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

At rallies campaigning on behalf of (not with) his wife, Bill can outstretch his arms and draw people to the stage for hugs. His appeal is to emotions.

Hillary is a policy wonk who tries but recognizes that she doesn’t have Bill’s personal connectedness. She sees people love Bill (and Bernie). And she sees Trump enrage supporters and detractors alike. Bill and Trump are two sides of the same coin. She must ask: “Where’s the passion for me? I’m exciting, DAMMIT!” Even the other malcontents vying for the GOP nomination get people riled up. Trump has accused Ted Cruz of being a “nasty guy,” which is funny. Cruz must wonder why his nastiness hasn’t siphoned off more of Trump’s Flock of Philistines. The Zodiac Killer has a huge cult following, and there should be a Cult of Cruz.

When he loses the nomination (and he will), he’ll retreat to Texas to finish plans for a Branch Davidian 2.0 Compound where he can live out his days with a massive collection of tinfoil hats and back issues of Infowars. Were he alive, David Koresh would have a position of high power in a Cruz administration.

Trump’s status is far beyond cult leader, edging on sharp-tongued revolutionary. He’s William Jennings Bryan with a gold-plated chastity belt, though I assure you, there’s no problem down there. (All Trump Steaks now come with Trump Chastity Belts!)

Donnie Boy has ignited a phenomenon in American politics not seen even in the time of Richard Nixon’s petty bomb throwing. I covered Nixon in ’72 and haven’t seen anything like it. Much has been made about the “tone” of the campaign and Trump lacking a presidential way of speaking. People say they love him because he speaks his mind, not constrained by political correctness.

(Indeed, what some people call being “PC” others would call simply not being an asshole.) Trump is attractive because he says what others want to but have only felt comfortable doing so behind the veil of anonymity online. Now, the veil is up, and the comments are in the open for anyone to see.

When it’s over, we’ll have a permanent record of nastiness. The Facebook videos will live on forever, showing people sucker-punching protesters for having the audacity to oppose Donnie Boy’s latest diatribe. Trump is fine, though. He’ll go back to being a billionaire and plastering his name on worthless garbage (the American Dream!).

The Trump-ites will be left to look over at their neighbor, who knows all too well there used to be a Donnie Boy sign in the yard.

That’s a legacy that won’t fade. John knows Frank loved Trump, and he always will. Frank will remember why he loved Trump and think that John is a pussy.

It reminds me of the Nixon era. Kennedy was the pretty-boy idealist. Nixon was the shrewd dealmaker.

And Nixon never got over Kennedy kicking his ass in 1960. But Nixon did get to the White House eight years later, playing on the disdain for President Johnson’s Vietnam War. As imagined in the 1995 movie about him, Nixon looks at a portrait of Kennedy and reflects: “When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are.”

In that way, Trump’s chance of being president is only as big as the amount of themselves Americans see in him. n

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