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LACEY SHERMAN It can’t be avocado toast, because we can’t even grow those here. It would have to have cheese, I don’t know. Raspberry jam and homemade ricotta cheese. Why those two? Because we have raspberries in our backyards and we can make it, and I like ricotta and jam.

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ow that Attorney General William Barr has testified before the U.S. Senate about independent counsel Robert Mueller’s report and other matters, the House Judiciary Committee Democrats are beside themselves because Barr failed to show up to testify about the same subject matter. The committee chairman insisted that staff counsel be able to question Barr, something he didn’t want to undertake, though he was willing to subject himself to members’ questions. Barr said properly that he’d subject himself to the House Judiciary Committee members’ questions, but there was no reason for him to subject himself to staff attorneys’ questions.

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offering House members an opportunity to read the clean report if only they’d come to the Department of Justice to do so. How one political party’s members can turn so quickly on someone they previously praised is puzzling, though that probably signals Congress’ toxicity. Even though the redacted Mueller report has reportedly been posted online, few Americans have actually read it, even after two-year’s time and some $30 million in tax dollars spent by the independent counsel and his staff of 19 quality lawyers. Democrats anticipated that the Mueller report would amount to an impeachable offense by President Trump. When the report didn’t do what some Democratic elected officials expected, many turned their disappointment on Barr, who tried to respond quickly to members. Barr had seen the report ahead of House members since Mueller worked for Barr. Many Democrats remain frustrated that the Mueller report wasn’t more critical of Trump, so their attention and criticism are being directed toward Barr. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several 2020 presidential candidates are now calling for Barr’s impeachment. They’re calling Barr “Trump’s lawyer” instead of the U.S. attorney general, perhaps forgetting that Trump nominated Barr as part of his Cabinet and “his” attorney general and that the attorney general is in line to be president under Amendment 25 to the Constitution.

Many Democrats remain frustrated that the Mueller report wasn’t more critical. But Barr, by all accounts, is a consummate professional, not political in any sense, as most on Capitol Hill are. He didn’t need the job and he appears to be highly professional in his outlook, likely unwilling to jeopardize his fine reputation for any American president, no matter how forceful the president’s personality or how persuasive the president may be. Perhaps Congress’ harsh political nature is the world in which Barr finds himself, and he’ll be forced to be in turn understandably political if he’s to combat today’s political weaponry. Barr was educated in law at the George Washington University Law School and has held numerous positions at the Department of Justice, even serving President George H.W. Bush for two years as attorney general starting in 1991. He was confirmed as Trump’s AG by the Senate 54-45 on a largely party line vote in February, even though three Democratic senators voted for him. When Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, now House Intelligence Committee chairman, declared publicly that he had evidence of Trump’s collusion with the Russian government, but has yet to produce such evidence, Barr should have known the toxic congressional atmosphere to which he subjected himself. Barr will survive this messy situation, however, and America is fortunate to have him. n George Nethercutt represented the 5th District of Washington in Congress from 1995-2005.

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ome of the youngest memories Victor Rivas Rivers has are of his father being abusive to his mother, his siblings and himself. Born in Cuba and raised near Los Angeles, Rivers eventually overcame the odds to become a Hollywood actor. One of his most recognizable roles was as Antonio Banderas’ brother in The Mask of Zorro. But growing up and getting there was extremely difficult. He detailed his abusive upbringing in his book, A Private Family Matter: A Memoir, and now speaks around the country to groups fighting to end domestic violence. Rivers will speak to his experience at the May 21 Women Helping Women Fund luncheon. (Tickets are $125 and need to be purchased by May 12).

be the abuser or perpetrating the violence. It’s really our issue. When I first started speaking, there were men who would ask me, “Isn’t that really a women’s issue?” That’s a misconception, because it will impact all of us at some point. … When I say I was tortured as a child, I’m not exaggerating. I was beaten, I was burned, I was locked in a closet, I was hammered. I was a child that endured a lot of abuse, and witnessed a lot of it towards my mother. It’s unfortunate because my story is one of reclamation and going the other direction, becoming a nonabuser. But most boys don’t get that message. When they witness their fathers or male figures they look up to treating women in that fashion, they sort of repeat that cycle.

INLANDER: Where did the title of your book come from? At 12 years old, I walked into my city police department and took my clothes off, because everything he was doing to me was under my clothes, you couldn’t see it at school. I was covered in bruises, welts and burns. They were horrified at what they saw, and I was pleading with them. They said, “We can only arrest him if we catch him in the act.” I said, “Look at my body! Go arrest him!” They said I could sign a formal complaint, and they could drive me back and talk to my dad. I said, “If you don’t arrest him, and you just leave, he’ll kill me.” One officer said, “There’s nothing we can do. It’s a private family matter.”

What encouraged you to open up about your own experiences with domestic violence? When they handed me my son in my arms and had me cut his cord, it was in that moment I knew that I could never hurt my son the way my father hurt me. That’s when I truly knew the cycle of violence was broken in my life. … I can assure you I wouldn’t be standing here today without the investment and love and guidance of those in my community who took me in and gave me a new path in life. So it’s my way of, in essence, paying it forward to those who invested in me when most would’ve thrown the key away; I was 15, over 200 pounds, and I was a gang member. I was this kid who only knew violence, and my high school took me in. There was no paperwork, but I was the unofficial foster child. I went from gang member to president of the school in two-and-a-half years. That’s what community investment looks like. n

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Readers respond to a story on Inlander. com about a prowolf activist who received a legal threat when he shared a recorded speech from Rep. Matt Shea and Steve McLaughlin (5/3/19):

JERRY PATTERSON: What part of “open government” is so hard to understand? These whack jobs most certainly do not practice what they preach. BRIAN BREEN: Anyone could have legally recorded that meeting in the state of Washington as long as the conversations were public and not private. It would be pretty hard to convince a judge or a jury that the communications taking place at an event like that were in any way private communications. CLYDE HERRINGTON: As far as the wolf/cattle conflict, I’ll be the first to bring up the point that this planet needs fewer cattle. MICHAEL MENTZER: This leftleaning Spokane resident says bring it on you phony Christian closeted fascists! n

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piano plays softly, and the video cuts to a busy downtown street on a gloomy, rainy day. A bright blue Catholic Charities apartment building looms over passing cars. There’s a close-up of a half-eaten sandwich, then a person sleeping outside on a park bench. “What can we do?” says a woman narrating the Union Gospel Mission video, called “Homelessness in Spokane.” “Isn’t that the question we’re all asking?” The blue apartment building featured prominently is the Donna Hanson Haven building on Second Avenue, a complex built as part of a “housing first” approach that aims to provide a permanent place to live for individuals experiencing homelessness. The UGM video was released one month after KOMO’s “Seattle is Dying” video, and it hits some similar notes that resonated with many people: Homelessness is out of control, and what we’re doing isn’t working. “All too often, ‘housing first’ becomes housing only,” the narrator says, suggesting underlying issues like drug addiction aren’t being addressed. It’s a clear shot at the “housing first” approach pursued by Catholic Charities. And it signals a deepening divide between the approaches of the two organizations, as the discussion over homelessness in Spokane grows

more contentious. From UGM’s perspective, the Catholic Charities strategy of providing low-barrier permanent housing to homeless individuals even if they aren’t sober is a way of enabling those battling drug addiction. Phil Altmeyer, UGM’s executive director, has been increasingly vocal in recent months criticizing what he sees as a failed model of housing first that is supported by the federal government. “If you want to solve homelessness, you have to deal with addiction,” Altmeyer tells the Inlander. “And that is where the model breaks down: We’re not dealing with causes, we’re dealing with it by saying we put a roof over their head.” Catholic Charities, however, argues giving homeless people permanent housing has directly contributed to the recent drop in Spokane chronic homelessness, defined as someone experiencing homelessness for at least a year or repeatedly. Jonathan Mallahan, vice president of housing for Catholic Charities, defends the work the organization has done to house people. And he points out UGM is an alternative that puts barriers to getting help. “They meet a really important need in our community,” Mallahan says. “We meet a different need.” ...continued on next page

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arry Thompson, 46, likes to keep his apartment clean and simple. There’s a picture of his daughter by the kitchen, a TV on the ground and an electric guitar by the window. Thompson’s been living in this apartment in Donna Hanson Haven for a year. It’s a big step up from the tent in the woods he used to call his home. “I believe if I still lived out in my tent, I probably wouldn’t be here,” Thompson says. Thompson says he struggles with schizoaffective disorder and used alcohol to dull the symptoms. Here, he has easy access to Frontier Behavioral Health nearby and a downtown apartment of his own. Residents also have access to mental health or drug treatment counseling on site. The cluster of buildings around Second Avenue downtown is filled with similar stories. Between the four — Donna Hanson Haven, Father Bach Haven, Buder Haven and Marilee (run by Volunteers of America) — there are 200 units of permanent housing for the chronically homeless built since 2013. Another building with 50 more units next to Donna Hanson is on the way. The buildings are funded through a national Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program allowing each state to allocate tax breaks to nonprofits for the purpose of developing affordable housing. The idea is that a place to live can serve as a launching point, providing a basic need and allowing people to get behavioral health treatment, look for work or pursue other goals. Catholic Charities is positive it’s working: While the city’s annual Point-in-Time count found a slight increase in overall homelessness this year, it also found chronic homelessness has decreased by 21 percent since 2017. “These buildings,” Mallahan says, “are the solution to chronic homelessness.” According to Catholic Charities, 85 percent of residents in these buildings have maintained stable housing for at least two years. “People move in, and most of them stay,” says Nadine Van Stone, vice president of crisis response and shelters for Catholic Charities. But these complexes have been a target of

criticism. And Altmeyer, with UGM, hasn’t been afraid to speak out. While he says his criticism is directed at government policies supporting it — not so much Catholic Charities itself — he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to put all of these affordable housing complexes in one three-block area surrounding House of Charity, the low-barrier shelter operated by Catholic Charities. “No other city that I know in America has done that,” Altmeyer says. “That is almost unheard of.”

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Altmeyer’s philosophy is that housing isn’t the problem, and providing housing isn’t the solution. He’s dismissive of Point-in-Time count numbers showing a dip in chronic homelessness, and suggests that a simple drive through the city can show you that homelessness is getting worse. In his view, low or no-barrier housing and shelter creates a culture that “literally feeds addiction.” He says he’s gotten calls from people grieving over loved ones who left UGM, qualified for low-barrier housing and died of an overdose. “I’m not saying everyone’s an addict,” Altmeyer says. “But you have 50 people in a building, and the majority are struggling with addiction. What do you expect to happen? And how do you expect to manage that?” He also says he’s concerned for “the business community, that supports us, and that’s been destroyed downtown.” That’s partly why he’s speaking out now. He suggests business leaders may avoid donating to local nonprofits if they continue to be impacted. For its part, Catholic Charities absorbs the criticism. Mallahan says those in housing typically aren’t the ones impacting local businesses. If one of their residents gets arrested, Catholic Charities gets a record from the police depart-

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ment. If it involves a crime against another person or a “drug dealing activity,” then “that is an automatic conversation about eviction,” Mallahan says. About one in five residents actively access mental health and substance-use counseling provided in the complexes, Mallahan says. But all of them engage with peer support staff in the building. And either way, he says, it’s better for anyone struggling to be in housing rather than on the street or in an emergency shelter. “[Our] mission is to bring dignity to people who are vulnerable across Eastern Washington,” Mallahan says. “And we do that by giving them a home.”

ltmeyer, meanwhile, has also grown used to criticism for UGM’s approach. UGM won’t let anyone high or drunk into its shelter, and it tests those they suspect aren’t sober. It doesn’t hire anyone who identifies as LGBT. It’s taken criticism for refusing to welcome transgender people into its shelter, though Altmeyer claims UGM doesn’t exclude all trans people and makes the decision on a case-by-case basis. Still, its practices alone were enough to draw a swift backlash from activists when the city of Spokane was considering a land deal with UGM last month. (City Council passed the deal this week.) As long as they’re sober, Altmeyer says UGM will give anyone the basic needs they need to move them in a positive direction. To him, that’s accountability. To him, that’s compassion. And he would like to see government support for models with more accountability. “We have to go back to basic principles: Consequences to wrong choices and behaviors,” Altmeyer says. What kind of consequences does he mean, exactly? There, he’s a bit vague. He speaks of “lawlessness” pervading society, and he says he hears all the time from people who say going LETTERS to prison was the best thing Send comments to for them. But he stops short editor@inlander.com. of suggesting everyone using drugs should be sent to jail, and he says he doesn’t have a simple answer for what to do about those who wouldn’t be ready for a place like UGM. It’s a system problem, he says. Yet, that’s why Catholic Charities argues both approaches are necessary. There are always going to be people who are not ready to stop using drugs. “So where are they going to go? And who is going to be able to provide a living environment for them and support for them to move forward?” Van Stone says. The models used by UGM and Catholic Charities have always differed. That isn’t new, Van Stone says. But lately, she says the rhetoric has become stronger than it’s ever been before. “It’s an important conversation, and unfortunately we’re not having it in a topical way,” she says. “We’re having it in a reactionary way right now.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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LEAVING DOWNTOWN With the help of $1 million dollars from the Washington state Legislature, plans are coming together to move the CROSSWALK teen shelter out of downtown Spokane. Crosswalk, established in 1985, provides emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth. It’s currently located on Second Avenue downtown, a couple blocks away from Lewis and Clark High School. But the plan is to move it out of the downtown core by 2021, says Fawn Schott, president and CEO of Volunteers of America of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, which operates the shelter. “It’s just a safety issue for our young people,” Schott says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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CRYING WOLF In April, local pro-wolf activist Hank Seipp uploaded a recording of former public lands commissioner candidate STEVE McLAUGHLIN warning a Stevens County audience that wolves were being used as a tool of the U.N. “Agenda 21” and “Agenda 2030” conspiracy “to hijack the West and depopulate” rural areas and concentrate people in the big cities so a few elites could “seize the major land holdings in the West for their own private gain.” But Seipp took down the recording after McLaughlin threatened criminal charges for uploading it. Seipp says he didn’t make the recording himself, and that his lawyer told him McLaughlin’s legal threats were groundless. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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JAILHOUSE OVERDOSE Three female inmates in the Spokane County Jail were HOSPITALIZED in the course of one night last week after ingesting an “unknown powdery substance” that was smuggled into the facility, according to county officials. After the inmates were found unconscious in their cells, staff applied Narcan nasal spray — a medication designed to reverse opioid overdoses — and the women regained consciousness. (They were then transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center for further treatment.) An internal investigation into the incident has been launched. Jeffry Finer, a local defense attorney, says that smuggling is an “ancient and ongoing” issue at the facility. “There are times [when] this jail seems to be a sieve,” he says. (JOSH KELETY)

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Holding Pattern An environmental study for the proposed PacWest silicon smelter is on hold, but company leaders say it’s not due to market woes BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

t hasn’t exactly been a good year for some U.S. facilities producing silicon materials that get used in everything from solar panels to computer tech. In July 2018, REC Silicon in Moses Lake, which produces polysilicon for solar panel manufacturing, laid off about 40 percent of its workforce, citing ongoing issues stemming from large tariffs China put on their product in 2014. Since last summer, the facility has been running at only 25 percent of capacity. In the months since, the company has offered a roller coaster of announcements, declaring in February it would shut the site by March 1, then announcing it would actually stay open while trade talks with China continued. In April, REC again announced that it would start shutdown work in Moses Lake by May 15, with a complete

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REC Silicon in Moses Lake warns trade disputes with China could force it to shutter, but another project in Newport is still in the works. mothballing of the facility possible by the end of June if nothing changes. “There will be a very large impact to the community. REC has a very large jobs multiplier,” says Emily Smith, business recruitment manager for the Grant County Economic Development Council. “For every [REC] job, over five jobs are created in the area. So the total amount of jobs that would be lost is about 974.” Across the country in New York, a silicon smelter in Niagara Falls abruptly closed at the end of December. Each year, that two-furnace facility can make up to 27,000 tons of silicon metal, a material necessary for processes like the one at REC. Ferroglobe PLC announced it would close that smelter due to unfair competition from subsidized companies that have been dumping silicon into North America’s market, according to the Niagara Falls Reporter. “Australia, Brazil, and Norway were dumping by selling below cost,” Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster told the Niagara Reporter, which noted there is also subsidized competition from Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the environmental study for a proposed silicon metal smelter in northeast Washington has been put into a holding pattern. Project backer PacWest (owned by HiTest Sand Inc. of Alberta) and the state Department of Ecology both felt that the one qualified bid submitted for the environmental consulting work for a required study was too high. The state agreed to put the work back out to bid, but is currently waiting for a go-ahead from PacWest before doing so, says Brook Beeler, director of Ecology’s eastern regional office. That means the timeline, which originally called for a draft environmental impact study to be done by summer and finalized by the end of 2019, will be delayed. But all of that seemingly bad news doesn’t mean the

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PacWest smelter proposed to go in near Newport is in danger yet. In fact, the demand for silicon metal in the North American market is as strong as ever, says Jayson Tymko, president of U.S. operations for HiTest. While things haven’t worked out well for REC, that isn’t the case across the board, he says. “Demand is increasing in North America significantly,” Tymko says. “It’s actually getting better for us.”

he majority of the woes for REC Silicon stem from a trade war that started years ago. In September 2018, bipartisan members of Congress from both Washington and Montana — where REC has another facility that produces silane gas — wrote a letter to the Trump administration, urging action in ongoing trade disputes with China. Back in 2012, the letter notes, the Obama administration tried to strengthen U.S. solar manufacturing by implementing tariffs on imported Chinese solar panels. But that backfired when China retaliated with a 50 percent tariff on American polysilicon, which is used to make semiconductors and solar panels. “The impact of this Chinese retaliation has been devastating to the U.S. polysilicon industry, which has shed thousands of jobs since China announced tariffs in 2014,” states the letter, signed by Sens. Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Jon Tester and Steve Daines, as well as members of the House of Representatives from both states. “It is imperative the United States obtain a permanent and positive resolution for U.S. polysilicon companies like REC Silicon.” In February, it looked like REC Silicon would shutter the Moses Lake facility, but in early March the company decided to keep the doors open because U.S. negotiators had made American polysilicon a priority in trade talks

with China, REC Silicon Vice President for Business Development Francine Sullivan told the Columbia Basin Herald. “It’s very good news,” Sullivan told the Herald. “It’s good that President (Donald) Trump has prioritized us.” But by April, the company again warned it would close, with shutdown work scheduled to start in mid-May, and the facility potentially left dormant by the end of June. “The majority of companies that use polysilicon to make solar panels are located in China,” explains Smith with Grant County Economic Development Council. “This whole time they’ve been searching for other avenues, but it’s hard when the basis for that industry is located in China.” Part of the sell that HiTest/PacWest has made for its smelter near Newport is that the silicon metal it produces could be used by facilities like REC to ultimately go into solar panels. But while it’s disappointing to see what’s happening with REC, Tymko says, the Moses Lake facility would ultimately represent a very small portion of the PacWest smelter’s customers. “They represented less than 5 percent of our consumption, and we had more than 100 percent of our output spoken for,” Tymko says. “They’re the only company in North America that has slowed consumption.” Others have invested millions in their facilities, he says. That, coupled with demand in North America being thousands of times more than current supply, leaves PacWest feeling good about future demands for its product. If REC stays closed, it could mean more of PacWest’s silicon metal would go toward computer applications than for solar panels, Tymko says. But if things are looking up, why delay the environmental study? “The bid was more than double what even Ecology was expecting,” Tymko says. “We thought, ‘That’s ridiculous.’” While working with the state on its options, the company has also been coordinating with Pend Oreille County, as the site purchased for the smelter is currently zoned as public land. That needs to change before the other work can move forward, Tymko says. Community groups that oppose the smelter, including Citizens Against Newport Silicon Smelter (CANSS) and Renewable Growth Northeast Washington, have pushed back on the county level. Most recently, the residents who make up those groups have been lobbying decision makers not to rezone the county’s public lands, citing environmental concerns from the smelter, which would be one of the largest polluters in the state.

“The impact of this Chinese retaliation has been devastating to the U.S. polysilicon industry.” In mid-April, the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission recommended the county reject a comprehensive plan amendment that would eliminate the public lands designation altogether. The county, which proposed the amendment, has said the zoning change would end a problem where public land that is sold to private owners can’t be built on. All amendments for the comprehensive plan go through the planning commission before a vote is taken by the county commissioners, who could still vote in favor of the public lands amendment, despite the recommendation not to. The Pend Oreille board of commissioners plans to hold a public meeting on the zoning changes on May 22 at Newport High School. Until the county makes its decision, PacWest plans to hold off restarting the environmental study. “The county has missed several proposed deadlines. They laid out a strategy and a timeline and they keep pushing it back,” Tymko says. “We’ve kind of taken the stance, ‘Well, let’s not even look at these [revised timelines], let’s wait till you’ve accomplished the end goal. Then we will start everything else.’” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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Far-Right Friends An alt-right figure who pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory finds allies among Kootenai County Republicans BY JOSH KELETY

ntil recently, Brittany Pettibone was best known as one of the “leading authorities” on Pizzagate — the debunked conspiracy theory that went viral in 2016 claiming that high-profile Democrats were running a satantic child sex trafficking ring out of — yes — a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. “I’ve become known for [being] one of the many people investigating Pizzagate,” Pettibone, then 24, told an alt-right podcast host in late 2016. “Many people have a reason to believe that [the pizza shop] is potentially a front for a child trafficking pedophile ring.” The conspiracy that she helped peddle eventually resulted in violence: A Pizzagate believer fired a rifle inside the pizzeria while investigating the nonexistent racket. Pettibone, meanwhile, would go on to generate a sizeable following as an alt-right figure on YouTube. Three years later, Pettibone, who now lives in Post Falls, appeared before the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee on April 25 to make her case that her Austrian fiance, Martin Sellner, is being unfairly persecuted by federal officials when they blocked him from travelling to the U.S., where he intends to marry Pettibone. Sellner, 30, a former neo-Nazi and current right-wing anti-immgration activist in Europe, is being investigated by Austrian authorities for ties to the mass murderer who recently shot up two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Sellner reportedly received a roughly $1,700 donation from the shooter and communicated with him via email prior to the massacre, per the Associated Press.) “It’s just a case of political persecution,” Pettibone said at the meeting. The Republican committee — which includes prominent local officials such as Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh — rallied behind her cause and approved a resolution calling on the federal government to allow Sellner into the U.S. But the action quickly garnered local and national media coverage and prompted criticism from regional Democrats and some Republicans who argue that the vote serves as an endorsement of bigoted and fringe right-wing thinking. “As a political organization, if you come forward in support of an individual, by default, you are claiming to support what that individual stands for,” says Laura Tenneson, a precinct chair with the Kootenai County Democrats. “It’s racism in disguise.” “I know a lot of Republicans who are upset about it,” says Deborah Rose, a member of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee who abstained from the vote on the resolution. “Martin Sellner is a self-proclaimed ex-neo-Nazi and I’m not so sure that that mentality isn’t still influencing his decisions today.”

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ritics point to the political views and activities of Sellner and Pettibone as cause for outrage. Sellner is a key figure in Generation Identity, an aggressive pan-European activist group of millennials that advocates for ethnic homogeneity in European nations, severely limiting immigration — with an emphasis on Muslims — and stopping the supposed “Islamization of Europe.” He calls himself an “identitarian” in videos and rejects labels such as white supremacist. He also helped orchestrate the controversial “Defend Europe” action where right-wing activists chartered a boat in the Mediterranean to stalk humanitarian vessels aiding migrants at sea. Similarly, Pettibone, who described herself as a “Catholic American nationalist” before the Kootenai County Republican Committee, wants a “full stop on mass immigration” because it jeopardizes the “security and identity of a country” and that “it’s impossible for immigrants entering in massive numbers to assimilate,” per a recent video she posted. Both individuals were refused entry to the United Kingdom last year for their right-wing activism. While Sellner and Pettibone profess to be nonviolent and not racist, they also endorse the Great Replacement theory, a conspiracy trafficked in right-wing circles that white people face an existential threat due to immigration and white women not producing enough children. (The Christchurch shooter was a believer in the theory, authoring a manifesto titled “The Great Replacement” prior to the massacre.) Marilyn Mayo, a senior research fellow at the AntiDefamation League’s Center on Extremism, says that Pettibone and Sellner traffic in white nationalist ideas without explicitly coming out and saying so: “They want to stop all nonwhite immigration. They’re usually Islamaphobic,” she tells the Inlander. “They’re very careful about how they voice those ideas.” “‘Identitarianism’ is another way of promoting white nationalism,” she adds. “They’re not explicitly white supremacists but they share [many of] the same views.” Chris Fillios, a Republican member of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners, says that concern with Sellner is warranted. “If you look at Sellner’s activities and a lot of the things he has said and proclaimed, there is reason to be concerned,” he says. “The whole white nationalist movement is something that is somewhat on the march globally and also within the U.S.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment regarding the status of Sellner’s admission to the U.S. Brent Regan, chair of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, writes in a statement to the Inlander that the group was “approached” with a lastminute request to let Pettibone address the committee as a constituent and that the group was concerned with free speech issues: “What we knew at the time was that she was a constituent, a Republican and had an issue with the U.S. government,” Regan writes. “The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee firmly believes all citizens have the right to petition their government for redress.” He adds that the committee “condemns all forms of racism and bigotry.” A staffer for Congressman Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) was also present at the meeting where the committee approved the resolution and offered to provide assistance to Pettibone. In an emailed statement, Alexah Rogge, a

spokeswoman for Fulcher, argues that his staff’s “natural inclination” is to help constituents in his district. “It is not the policy of our office to investigate the religious, political, or social views of our constituents when they come to us asking for help with a federal agency,” she writes. “Congressman Fulcher does not follow the political activities of Ms. Pettibone and does not condone hate of any kind.”

Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone.

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arry McHugh, the Kootenai County prosecutor and a member of the committee who voted for the resolution, writes in an email to the Inlander that the group did not have enough information about Pettibone and Sellner when they cast their votes. “We also were not made aware of information subsequently reported, and if the committee had been fully informed I believe a different discussion, and perhaps a different vote, would have occurred,” he writes. “Because of the incomplete information provided, support for the resolution should not be considered to be tacit approval of their political views.” Tenneson, with Kootenai County Democrats, says that the vote is indicative of the current heavy conservative tilt of county Republicans under Regan’s leadership: “We’re no longer seeing the voices of the moderate Republicans. We’re seeing more extremist views.” Rose, the committee member who abstained from the resolution vote, says that “key members in the committee” share the views of Pettibone and Sellner: “I would say they definitely endorse Pettibone’s and Sellner’s perspective or objective.” When contacted for comment, Pettibone provided a video responding to the controversy in which she criticized the media for misrepresenting the positions of Sellner, herself and the Kootenai County Republicans: “These deceit peddlers are going to lie about me either way because they have zero concern for the truth.” In his own rebuttal, Regan doubled down. In a May 1 op-ed penned in the Coeur d’Alene Press, he slammed the media for its “rabidly intolerant practice of guilt by proximity” and framed the backlash as a trampling of free speech. Rose says the tactic is a deflection: “He’s trying to divert what the real issue is and attempting to make it a freedom of speech issue but that’s not what this is about.” Shawn Keenan, head of the Kootenai County Democrats Club, points to the white supremacist group Aryan Nations history in North Idaho as cause to be alarmed by local Republicans associating with Pettibone and Sellner. “I don’t want any tiki torch parade here,” he says. n joshk@inlander.com Daniel Walters contributed reporting to this story.

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uying local is always a good idea, and this time of year when we do our annual Drink Local issue, it’s also a delicious one. Inland Northwesterners are lucky to live among an amazing bounty of products that go into our beer, wine and spirits. And we’re even luckier to live among imaginative people who are creating world-class quaffs from those products. This year, we explore Spokane Craft Beer Week’s must-trys, update our tantalizing map of the city’s Cork District, discover the latest cocktail trends on both sides of the Washington-Idaho border and much more. Go ahead and pour yourself something local and tasty while you read. — DAN NAILEN

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Organizer Matt Hanson believes Spokane Craft Beer Week is a chance for industry folks to come together and celebrate local beer. DEREK HARRISON PHOTO

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Meet Matt Hanson, organizer of Spokane Craft Beer Week

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t started in 2015 when Matt Hanson wanted an official week celebrating local craft beer. Hanson, with the help of his brother Clete, brought the Brewers Association’s American Craft Beer Week to Spokane. Hanson now runs his own commercial brewery, Whistle Punk Brewing, but is still the sole organizer of Spokane Craft Beer Week. The Inlander met with Hanson to talk about the upcoming week of events and local craft beer. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. INLANDER: What made you want to bring Craft Beer Week to Spokane? HANSON: My brother and I would go to Seattle’s event every year. There were people doing a couple things for American Craft Beer Week in Spokane, but there was no cohesive brand or anyone bringing it together. The brewing community was growing, the craft beer scene was growing, so it was the perfect time to bring it all together and do it right. What’s the goal of Spokane Craft Beer Week? It gives breweries a platform to host a whole week of events and do something where they can, one time of year, blow it out and give people a reason to travel to their taproom. Also, it gives restaurants and breweries a platform to work together and do different things like tap takeovers and beer pairings. It gives the local industry a chance to work together, and celebrate local beer as a whole. What have been some highlight events through the years? It was a logistical nightmare, but we did an IPA competition [in 2015] at both the Onion and Area 51 Taphouse locations. We had eight breweries make IPAs that were totally blind judged. [Patrons] got a flight of eight IPAs, and ranked them one through eight. We had over 500 flights sold between

both locations during the week. It was hard on service, but it was definitely a really cool event. The collaboration event has been a highlight every year. Breweries get to come together and work with other breweries. You just don’t have a lot of excuses to go collaborate because everybody’s so busy. So this is a way to force it and get people to work together. Everyone has a good time, and there’s some really great beers that have come out of it. There’s been a lot of really cool events — I’d have to go through a list to name them all — that brought a lot of people together. What’s the importance of local craft beer? There’s the importance of just local business in general, in terms of keeping money in the city and supporting your neighbors and supporting the people of Spokane. Also, the more you support local beer, the better it’s going to get — making Spokane a region where, instead of just having a lot of brewers that make beer, having it be where a lot of breweries make great beer. The whole goal is to bring all of Spokane up together. So that we’re looked at as a city sort of like Bend or Portland where there aren’t bad breweries. Do you think Spokane has the potential to be a beer destination like Bend or Portland? I do, yeah. We already have the numbers. We have a lot of great minds in our industry. I think there’s some really cool breweries in the process of opening up. Our Inland Northwest Craft Brewers Association has put a pretty high importance on education. I’m on that board as well, and we just tripled the budget for education going forward. Spokane is a place that’s growing, just culinary-wise, beer-wise, population-wise, everything. I think that bringing overall quality up is important, and there’s a lot of measures happening right now to make that happen. n

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The whole goal is to bring all of Spokane up together.

CRAFT BEER WEEK EVENTS (MAY 13-19) MAY 13

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LINC Malt Showcase Whistle Punk Brewing, through Saturday Whistle Punk will be featuring flights of six local breweries using 100 percent LINC Malt in various styles of beers. LINC is a local malting house and this is a way to experience hyper-local beer made with local grains.

Mario Kart Tourney Black Label Brewing Company, 6-8 pm A Mario Kart tournament on the big screen. Black Label will also release its Maibock collaboration beer with Masters BrewHouse (Deer Park) — happy hour pricing all day for this beer.

Beer Choir Bellwether Brewing, 6:30-8 pm Join the Inland Northwest Beer Choir Chapter to kick off Craft Beer Week. It’s a chance to sing, or listen, while drinking Bellwether beer.

IPA Day Twelve String Brewing, 2-9 pm Discounts on all IPA pints and growler fills, and Farmer’s Daughter food truck will be on site.

MAY 14

Isaac Foundation Ales for Autism Pint Night Black Label Brewing Company, 1-10 pm Black Label will donate $2 of every drink sold to the Isaac Foundation, which supports local families affected by autism.

Night of the Living Pils Perry Street Brewing, 5-10 pm Just like in Pilsen, it’s a night to celebrate the pilsner — a lot of pilsner — with 12-oz. pours for $2 and $3 pints.

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Brewers Showdown Kickoff Bellwether Brewing, through Sunday Bellwether invited five homebrewers to brew a small batch at the brewery. Brewery patrons can order a flight of five-oz. tasters and vote for their favorites. The winner gets to make a large batch of the beer and $1 from every pour goes to a charity of their choice. Voting ends at 4 pm on Sunday.

MAY 18 Firk-Off with Fremont Brewing Perry Street Brewing, 11:30 am-11 pm The fourth annual Firk-Off with Fremont Brewing. It’s winner-take-all-quaff-off for ultimate firkin supremacy. Four experimental firkins — two from each brewery — will be available as flights or pints. The last person to blow each firkin wins a prize from the breweries. You can also expect a mystery small batch release from Fremont on regular draft.

MAY 19

Brew Sesh — A Homebrew Education Event Community Pint, 12-3 pm Join the Inland Brewers Unite homebrew club while they brew up a batch of tasty beer. Learn about the brewing process and the hobby of homebrewing. You’ll also have a chance to try the recipe being brewed on tap — a collaboration beer from IBU and Iron Goat Brewing. Music and Food Truck on the Lawn Big Barn Brewing, 12-6 pm Enjoy a relaxing afternoon on the lawn at Big Barn to end craft beer week. CRATE food truck will be on site and live music with Just Plain Darin from 2-5 pm. — DEREK HARRISON For a complete list of Spokane Craft Beer Week happenings, visit spokanecraftbeerweek.com.

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It Takes Two Five beers we’re excited to try during CollabFest Humble Abode and Black Label Brewing Company teamed up to create a Northeast-style IPA.

BY DEREK HARRISON

pokane Craft Beer Week’s CollabFest pairs regional brewers together, requiring them to each create a beer showcasing their unique brewing methods. The annual festival — this year hosted at the Steam Plant Event Center — will feature 15 collaboration beers from 26 different breweries. To help you navigate through the many offerings, we’ve highlighted five beers we’re most looking forward to.

Belgian Strong Blonde Whistle Punk Brewing and Steam Plant Brewing Co. The two downtown breweries decided to brew a classic style with an emphasis on a traditional brewing method. The beer started as a traditional German pilsner, then the brewers added acidulated malt and Belgian candy sugar. To give the 8.5 percent ABV ale classic Belgian notes, it was fermented with the Duvel yeast strain. Orange peel was then added to boost the citrus notes — the result is a refreshing, highly carbonated Belgian-style beer. “We both love Belgian ales and our tap lists were lacking in the area,” says Whistle Punk’s Matt Hanson.

Experimental Juicy IPA Perry Street Brewing and Bale Breaker Brewing CompanY With Bale Breaker located in the heart of hop country, it makes sense for Perry Street to collaborate with the Yakima brewery to create an IPA highlighting both brewer-

ies’ strengths. Starting with a base of pilsner malt, flaked oats and Munich malt were added to give the 7 percent ABV beer a big body and pillowy mouthfeel. Cashmere Cryo and Experimental 344 hops create a fruit juice and lemon flavor, then dry-hopping with large amounts of Citra boosts the juiciness of the final IPA.

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brewery. Humble Abode is known for its hazy IPAs, and Black Label has produced its fair share of lager beer. While not a hazy, this lager was brewed like a standard Northeast-style IPA with pilsner and maris otter malts, and a large amount of flaked wheat and oats. The 6 percent ABV beer is hopped with Simcoe, Comet, Hallertau Blanc and Belma.

Bellwether Brewing and For the Love of God Brewing For the Love of God is the newest brewery participating in this year’s festival. The brewery that’s expected to open midsummer in the Audubon neighborhood is owned by Steve Moss who specializes in fruited beers and uses unique adjuncts such as milk sugar, vanilla and various herbs. The freshman brewery is collaborating with Bellwether Brewing, which has made a name for itself with its unique approach to ancient styles of beer. The tag-team brewers used cashup white wheat from local LINC Malt and Washington-grown pale two-row malt to create a base highlighting regional flavors. They then added yogurt cultures, raspberries, cranberries, vanilla, rosemary and basil. The result is a herbal, fruity sour ale that will pair well with the warmer days ahead.

Norwegian Farmhouse Ale

Northeast-style India Pale Lager

CollabFest • Thu, May 16 from 4-9 pm • Steam Plant Event Center • 159 S. Lincoln • spokanecraftbeerweek.com

Black Label Brewing Company and Humble Abode Brewing This collaboration shows off the strengths of each

Iron Goat Brewing and The Hidden Mother Brewery This farmhouse ale is fermented with a Kveik yeast strain that has been used by Norwegian brewers for centuries, but was only recently propagated and distributed by American yeast labs. This Scandinavian yeast differs from other commonly used strains in the fact that it has a high heat and alcohol tolerance, and it ferments very quickly. The brewers added a blend of apricots, tangerines and Szechuan peppercorns to create an even more distinct flavor profile for this 6.5 percent ABV beer. It’s the only collaboration beer at the festival to be brewed at each brewery — one version brewed at Iron Goat using their production methods, and another at the Hidden Mother’s facility. n

COLLABORATION BREWERIES • Whistle Punk and Steam Plant • Bellwether and Humble Abode • No-Li and Badass Backyard • Perry Street and Bale Breaker

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• Black Label and Masters • Iron Goat and The Hidden Mother • Northern Ales, Quartzite and Republic • River City and Mountain Lakes

• Black Label and Humble Abode • Humble Abode and Bombastic • Laughing Dog, Matchwood, MickDuff’s and Utara

• Grain Shed and Iron Horse • Bellwether and For the Love of God • Black Label, Grain Shed, and Bellwether

• Black Label and V-Twin Collaboration beers will be on tap at participating breweries as well as CollabFest.

EVENTS May 13th-19th For a complete list of events visit

spokanecraftbeerweek.com MAY 13 Collaboration Beer Release

BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 1PM - 8PM BLBC will be releasing a Collaboration Shandy beer with V-Twin Brewing Co. Happy Hour Pricing all day for this beer!

Dark Beer Day & Wing Ding Thang Potluck

12 STRING BREWING 11616 E Montgomery Dr #26, Spokane Valley | 2PM - 9PM Enjoy an array of dark beers & Wing Ding Thang Potluck

LINC Malt Showcase

WHISTLE PUNK BREWING | 122 S Monroe St Spokane Mon, May 13 4PM - Sat, May 18 11PM Whistle Punk Brewing will be featuring flights of 6 local breweries using 100% LINC Malt in various styles of beers.

MAY 14 Creative Fix & Co. Craft Beer Art Drop-In Class & Beer Release

BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 1PM - 8PM Featuring a Creative Fix and Co. Craft Beer Art Drop-In Class and also releasing a NE IPL collaboration with Humble Abode Brewing! Happy Hour pricing all day for this beer.

Collaboration Beer Release

BELLWETHER BREWING 2019 N Monroe St, Spokane | 3PM - 9PM Bellwether & For The Love Of God Brewing will be releasing a Kettle Sour using yogurt cultures, cashup white wheat from LINC Malt and Washington grown pale 2-row.

Night of the Living Pils

PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S Perry St #2, Spokane | 5PM - 10PM Join us at 5pm for Night of the Living Pils. $2 12oz pours, $3 pints. Tacos 2 for $6 all night

MAY 15 Trivia, Food Trucks & Beer/Wine Specials

12 STRING BREWING 11616 E Montgomery Dr #26, Spokane Valley | 2PM - 9PM Trivia and 1/2 price bottles of wine and beer specials all night! Open Range Food Truck will be on sight.

Charcuterie, Cheese & Beer Pairings PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S Perry St #2, Spokane | 2PM - 10PM PSB will be serving $10 Charcuterie and accoutrements to highlight the unique flavors in beer!

Bellwether & Humble Abode Collaboration Beer Release

BELLWETHER BREWING 2019 N Monroe St, Spokane | 3PM - 9PM We teamed up to make an NEIPA braggot. This beer is a Hazy IPA using wildflower honey & Loki yeast. Hopped with Loral & Comet hops. The Farmer’s daughter food truck serving up tasty food.

Mario Cart Tourney & Beer Release

BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 6PM - 8PM Mario Kart Tourney on the Big Screen (6pm) & releasing a Maibach collaboration with Masters BrewHouse. Happy Hour pricing all day for this beer!

Street Fighter Tourney & Beer Release

Brewery Tours & Tank Samples

BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 6PM - 8PM BLBC will be having a Street Fighter Tourney on the Big Screen (6:00pm) and releasing a Hoppy Wheat collaboration with Bellwether Brewing, Grain Shed and Kith Fermentations! Happy Hour pricing all day for this beer.

MAY 17 No-Li Dance Night

NO-LI BREWHOUSE Lucky You Lounge 1801 W. Sunset Blvd, Spokane | 10pm-2am (21+free) Emo 2000 with DJ Unifest: DJ Unifest will be spinning the Emo and Screamo hits from the early 2000’s! Free for all.

New Beer Release & Firkin Night

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12 STRING BREWING 11616 E Montgomery Dr #26, Spokane Valley | 12PM - 10PM 12 String will be releasing a new beer as well as a special firkin with a secret guest brewer! 3 Ninjas food truck on hand.

Hugo’s Cosmic Bowling Tap Takeover

Isaac Foundation Ales for Autism Pint Night

NO-LI BREWHOUSE Hugo’s On the Hill | Starts at 6:30PM (21 and over) 3023 E 28th Ave, Spokane Buy a pitcher of No-Li beer and get your lane at happy hour prices.

Perry Street Farmers Market & Happy Hour

PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S Perry St #2, Spokane | 2PM - 5PM Happy Hour food menu, Drink Specials $1.50 off pints, $6 house wine, $6 cider; It’s also the South Perry Farmer’s Market from 3-7pm!

Bellwether, Grain Shed & Black Label Collaboration Beer Release

BELLWETHER BREWING 2019 N Monroe St, Spokane | 3PM - 9PM We teamed up with Black Label and Grain Shed for a Hoppy wheat collab. A wheat beer using 100% LINC malt, hopped with Mandarina Bavaria and Sorachi Ace hops.

CollabFest

STEAM PLANT EVENT CENTER 159 S Lincoln St, Spokane | 4PM - 9PM Experience over 20 different collaboration beers at the Steam Plant Event Center!

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BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 1PM - 10PM BLBC will be hosting a Isaac Foundation Ales for Autism Pint Night. $2 of every drink will go to the Isaac Foundation which supports local families touched by Autism.

Perry Street & Bale Breaker Collaboration Release

PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S Perry St #2, Spokane | 2PM - 11PM Perry Street & Bale Breaker Collaboration Release! This beer is an experimental juicy IPA featuring #344, Cashmere Cryo & Citra hops. Festivities begin at 5pm. Special Pricing & other special beers on tap from BB/PSB!

Brewers Showdown Kickoff

BELLWETHER BREWING 2019 N Monroe St, Spokane | 3PM - 9PM 4th annual homebrewers competition. We invited 5 homebrewers to brew up a batch at the brewery to show off and let you vote! Winner makes a big batch & $1 from every pour goes to a charity of their choice.

BIG BARN BREWING 16004 N Applewood Ln, Mead | 3PM - 5PM Free tours of the brew house with a few free samples of beer from the tanks included!

MAY 18 Firk-Off with Fremont Brewing

PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S Perry St #2, Spokane | 11:30 AM - 11PM 4th Annual Firk-Off with Fremont Brewing at Perry Street Brewing, All day Saturday. 4 experimental firkins (2 from each brewery) in a winner-take-all-quaff-off for ultimate firkin supremacy! MYSTERY small batch release from Fremont on regular draft.

Sour Ass Saturday

12 STRING BREWING 11616 E Montgomery Dr #26, Spokane Valley | 12PM - 9M 12 String will be offering an array of sour beers!

Spokane Brewers Festival

SPOKANE ARENA 720 W Mallon Ave, Spokane, WA 99201 | 12PM - 7PM Enjoy local beers & ciders at the Spokane Brewers Festival! For more info & ticket sales visit www.spokanebrewfest.com

MAY 19 Brew Sesh - A Homebrew Education Event

COMMUNITY PINT 120 E Sprague Ave, Spokane | 12PM - 3PM Learn about the brewing process and the hobby of homebrewing. Have a chance to taste the recipe being brewed - a collaboration beer from IBU and Iron Goat Brewing will be on tap for you to enjoy!

Music & Food Truck on the Lawn

BIG BARN BREWING 16004 N Applewood Ln, Mead | 12PM - 6PM Enjoy a relaxing evening on the lawn at Big Barn Brewing from 12-6 to end craft beer week. CRATE food truck will be on hand and music with Just Plain Darin.

All Day Happy Hour

BLACK LABEL BREWING COMPANY 19 W Main Ave, Spokane | 1PM - 6PM Happy Hour all day long at BLBC!

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WHAT’S A CROWLER? t’s a growing trend. You may not

be familiar with the term crowler, but odds are you’ve encountered bartenders filling what looks like an oversized beer can. The single-use aluminum can is a convenient alternative to the common glass growler, and it’s becoming widely popular. Here’s why:  Crowlers are more cost effective. Growlers typically cost about $10 for just the glass. Once purchased, you need to remember to pack it with you for the next brewery visit. With crowlers provided by the brewery, you don’t have to worry about an additional cost or forgetting that clunky glassware at home.

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Bevy of BrewS The Spokane Brewers Festival has made some changes to its model, but the beer is still what’s important

Last year, the Spokane Brewers Festival brought the party indoors.

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

ver the last three years, the Spokane Brewers Festival has been slinging suds from the Spokane Arena, with dozens of local and regional breweries and cideries participating. The day-long event, which this year takes place on the same night as the nearby Torchlight Parade, is basically a one-stop shop for beer aficionados. Matt Gibson, the arena’s general manager, and Becca Watters, the assistant GM, spearheaded the event, modeling it on the Oregon Brewers Festival, a downtown Portland institution. Now, as it heads into its fourth go-around, the festival has worked out some kinks. It started in August 2016 in the parking lot, and while it was a success right out of the gate, there were a few obvious issues to be ironed out: The sweltering late summer heat was a major factor, not to mention the imminent threat of seasonally smoky air. “We learned an awful lot about what to do, but really what not to do,” Gibson says. Last year, the organizers moved the Brewers Festival inside, and this year they’ve shifted it to spring to coincide with Spokane Craft Beer Week. “When we brought it inside, the entire vibe changed,” Gibson says. “I was proud to see the positive response on social media. The brewers themselves really appreciated being inside, and it’s easier on everyone.”

Thirty-four breweries have signed up for this year’s festival — four more than last year — and several are providing hard ciders and seltzers. A trio of food trucks — the Farmer’s Daughter, One Night Stand BBQ and Tacos Tumbras — will be on hand, and there will be live music throughout the day, including the Lamb Band, LazyLove and Mountains in the Sea. You can find a complete list of participating breweries and entertainment and buy tickets at spokanebrewfest.com. And if you’re only there to ferry about your imbibing friends, you’re in luck: Designated drivers only have to pay $5 to get in, and they will be provided free water and soda. Gibson says turnout for the festival has been increasing every year: 2,300 people attended in 2018, and this year’s ticket sales are already outpacing last year’s. “Whatever we’re doing, it seems to be right,” he says. “The response we’ve received online is more enthusiastic than it’s been in the past few years,” Watters says. “I think there’s a lot of great traction going into year four.” n Spokane Brewers Festival • Sat, May 18 at noon • $25 advance, $30 day of • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon Ave. • spokanebrewfest.com • 279-7000

 Cans are better for beer than glass. Crowlers closely resemble a keg. Unlike glass, they don’t let light through, which can hinder carbonation and affect the flavor.  Crowlers are better for the environment. Aluminum production has a significantly smaller environmental impact than glass. Though growlers are reusable, it would take many refills to even the footprint of a one-timeuse crowler.

In the last year, many Inland Northwest bars and breweries have added the option of crowlers. At this point, it’s likely you can find them at your favorite watering hole. — DEREK HARRISON

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hile all breweries in Washington state are — legally and technically speaking — family-friendly, that doesn’t mean all of them are ideal for a family night out that is enjoyable for both the adults and the kids in tow. For your convenience, here are a few regional breweries that go the extra mile for the sake of familial fun.

BIG BARN BREWING 16004 N. Applewood Ln., Mead, bigbarnbrewing.com What could be more family-friendly than a brewery literally located on a farm — especially in the summer. Located northwest of Spokane off of state Route 206, the Big Barn Brewing tap house is located on a 250-acre plot that features a “brew deck,” an idyllic grassy yard with shady trees that’s perfect for outdoor games, as well as a field of various crops. (Families are encouraged to come and pick berries.) Co-owners Craig and Jane Deitz keep Frisbees and fun yard games such as bocce ball and cornhole on hand, and on Sundays food trucks and live music are hosted on site. They also build a “big hay slide” in the fall for the kiddos.

HUMBLE ABODE 1620 E. Houston Ave. #800, Spokane, facebook.com/humbleabodebrewing North Spokane doesn’t have a lot of craft-beer options — period. So the fact that the owners of Humble Abode, Courtney Gilbreath and Matt, her husband, have made this place extra-family-friendly makes it all the more great. They have a ton of tabletop games, on-site food trucks and picnic tables. They also make their own root beer (Courtney says people are welcome to bring in their own vanilla ice cream to make root beer floats), offer free popcorn and pretzels and put on family-friendly trivia every third Thursday of the month. Oh, and there are food trucks, too. “We really encourage people to come in and be a family,” Gilbreath says.

ENGLISH SETTER 15310 E. Marietta Ave. #4, Spokane Valley, englishsetterbrewing.com

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Giant Jenga, Nintendo Switch games projected onto the wall, Bingo, United Kingdom-style beers and lip-smacking pub food: English Setter has it all. Tucked off of Marietta Avenue in Spokane Valley and close to Interstate 90, this modest yet spirited brewery is fantastically creative with their programming. (Their fries and variety of dipping sauces are also exceptional.) For example, every May 4 the brewery hosts a “May the 4th Be With You” event — otherwise known as Star Wars Day — featuring activities like a costume contest, themed trivia and role-playing. They also host live music, and hold all-day happy hours on Sundays. “We pretty much have stuff going on every single day of the week,” says Jackie Carlson, a co-owner.

POST FALLS BREWING 112 N. Spokane St., Post Falls, postfallsbrewing.com This spot is basically a brewery and beautiful lake-front park all in one. The watering hole overlooks the Spokane River and is just across from Q’emiln Park. And that’s before you get to the free popcorn, board games — kid-friendly games such as Apples to Apples, Jenga and Connect Four are available — open patio, live music during the summer and food trucks offering goodies including pizza and macaroni and cheese. “We’re kind of off the beaten path, we have unobstructed views,” says owner Bethany Stokes. Plus, she says, the layout of the brewery’s interior is very open so it’s easy to spot your kids if they wander off.

PERRY STREET BREWING 1025 S. Perry St. #2, perrystreetbrewing.com The Perry District is a trendy nook in Spokane, and this brewery embodies that. Plus, it’s got what you need for kids to have a blast alongside the beer-slurping adults. With a street-side patio, a warm and open interior layout with an industrial aesthetic, tabletop board games and an impressively varied menu including everything from kid-friendly grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas to Korean barbecue pork sandwiches and rotating tacos, this place will make you feel right at home. n

21 BARS FOR THOSE 21 AND OVER These 21 bars and restaurants are just a few on a long list of local drinking spots. On Inlander. com, find happy hour times and specials for more than 200 bars and restaurants across the Inland Northwest. We’re happy to list them for you. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find online:

24 TAPS BURGERS & BREWS 825 W. Riverside Ave., Downtown Spokane Mon-Fri from 3:30-5:30 pm $1 off all beer, wine and liquor

DURKIN’S LIQUOR BAR 415 W. Main Ave., Downtown Spokane Mon-Fri from 3:30-5:30 pm $6 old fashioneds, $4 drafts, $6 red and white wine

LITZ’S BAR AND GRILL 204 E. Ermina Ave., North Spokane Happy hour: Tue-Sat from 4-7 pm, Sun-Mon all day; Power hour: Mon-Thu from 5-6 pm and 9-10 pm Happy hour: $8.75 beer pitchers, $3.25 wells; Sun-Mon also includes $8.75 beer pitchers, $3.25 wells. Power hour: $2.50 wells. ...continued on page 33

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POPPING CORKS This Mother’s Day weekend, the wineries within Spokane’s self-christened Cork District will be celebrating the occasion by uncorking a bevy of new wine releases, and you can travel from one winery to another to get your fill of pinots and cabernets. What a way to ring in spring and celebrate Mom at the same time. And it’s not just tastings, either: There will be food pairings, local artist showcases and live entertainment, including a weekend-long music festival at

Bridge Press Cellars. It’s a good excuse to explore beyond the downtown core, including outlying wineries in Liberty Lake, Green Bluff and Spokane Valley. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Spring Release Weekend • Fri, May 10 through Sun, May 12, noon to 5 pm • Details at facebook.com/corkdistrict

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rends in the cocktail world can be fickle and fleeting, simultaneously driven by simplicity and a reverence for the classics. In 2019, the bar trends to watch range from Instagram-worthy hues and presentation to using unexpected herbs and spices to add elements of exoticism. Another trend gaining steam is the art of the nonalcoholic cocktail, driven by the craft of mixology and a growing empathy that not everyone can or wants to sip something with liquor in the mix. Here are five creative, unusual and otherwise noteworthy experimentations found in a handful of bar programs across the Inland Northwest, which we definitely recommend trying.

COLORFUL COMBOS Cherry Blossom ($7) Kaiju Sushi & Spirits, 424 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene A sure sign of spring in Coeur d’Alene and elsewhere is the cherry tree’s blossoms. Right now, they’re morphing from burgundy branches and tiny buds to white and pink flowers wafting an intoxicating scent. How appropriate, then, is Kaiju’s Cherry Blossom cocktail, intoxicating in a different way. Cranberry provides the saturated cherry red base, to which is added cherry vodka and coconut rum, while a layer of thick coconut milk simulates the evolving bloom. Drink this colorful creation from inside Kaiju’s subterranean Japanese monster-themed restaurant or ask to be seated on the patio nearby to the trees that inspired the drink. Both are picture perfect. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

THICK SIPS Fat-Washed Old Fashioned ($12) Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe When we first heard of fat washing, we were a little confused. Is it a rinse on the glass? No. A way to clean a greasy frying pan? Also no. Instead,

this technique essentially involves infusing spirits with a type of fat (butter, bacon, duck, etc.) and is quite succinctly explained with science (Serious Eats has a good overview). It’s even easier to tip back. At Prohibition, chef-owner John Leonetti starts by straining off liquefied fat (usually from bacon), heating it up and pouring it into a bottle or mini barrel of whiskey. Next, he gives the mixture a good shake and lets the concoction cool overnight before straining out the solidified fat that rises to the top. The result, which Leonetti is currently barrel-aging for about a month, is whiskey without the bite; a smoothness that slides over the tongue, leaving a salty, savory and bacon-y note on the back end. Try a nibble of this drink’s candied bacon garnish before a sip for the ultimate bourbon-meets-bacon experience. (CHEY SCOTT)

SANS SPIRITS The Roxane; Grapefruit Old Fashion ($6/each) First Avenue Coffee, 1011 W. First While we’ve yet to stumble across any dedicated craft cocktail bars with nonalcoholic drinks listed on a printed menu (versus by request), the “slow bar” at this downtown cafe is giving this trend some seriously needed attention. It helps that it’s a coffee bar and doesn’t hold a liquor license, although neither of those details really matter once you try one of First Ave’s featured slow bar beverages, sans spirits. Not all contain coffee, either, says general manager Kristen Scott-Silver, a conscious choice made with respect toward customers who don’t always want a hit of caffeine. The Roxane, for example, is an effervescent concoction created for April’s Get Lit! Festival, so popular it’s since landed on the cafe’s new summer menu. Made with Q Tonic Water, housemade juniper berry syrup, grenadine and a twist of lime, this pretty pink drink is summer in a glass, but without any regret if you

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down one too many. First Ave also consistently features its own take on the Old Fashioned, which they’ve dubbed the Old Fashion, using Roast House’s F-Bomb cold brew nitro coffee instead of whiskey. Summer’s version is citrusy and bright, with nonalcoholic angostura and grapefruit bitters and a housemade grapefruit-rosemary syrup. (CHEY SCOTT)

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The Golden RUt ($12) Rüt Bar & Kitchen, 901 W. 14th Ave. Thanks to its much-touted health benefits (antioxidants and immunity-boosting properties) turmeric as both a tasty spice and superfood has stretched its reach into the cocktail world. Even if drinking it mixed with alcohol may not be the most healthy intake, this vibrant spice adds a beautiful yellow-orange color to drinks that feature it, as well as notes of tannic bitterness that can be easily balanced or highlighted with other spices and ingredients. At Spokane’s newly opened all-plant restaurant Rüt, this particular drink — inspired by “golden milk,” another turmeric-based but nonalcoholic beverage — is served chilled but has a warm and nutty flavor profile that evokes the palate of a chai tea, with hints of cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. With a coconut milk and rum base, it also goes down nice and smooth. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Ruby Red Sipper ($12) Smoke & Mirrors Saloon, 404 W. Main If you’re not looking carefully, it’s easy to miss the subtle final ingredient in each of Smoke & Mirrors Saloon’s house cocktails, five in total listed under its lengthy selection of classics. Beer is bar manager Simon Moorby’s trick for creating a collection of effervescent yet familiar drinks, inspired by shandys, or beer plus lemon-lime or lemonade. Each is based around a central spirit (here, vodka) and is topped off with a different style of beer; for this drink about 2 ounces of pFriem’s pilsner. The result is a bubbly mouth feel on the front that doesn’t overpower the refreshing, sweet-meets-bitter concoction built with vodka, a house-made strawberry syrup, campari, maraschino and rhubarb bitters. “I enjoy effervescence and I find beer to be a wonderful modifier that changes the flavor profile without overpowering it like a ginger beer would,” Moorby explains. Smoke & Mirrors’ other house specialties by Moorby pair, among other ingredients, gin and an IPA, scotch and stout, bourbon and Rainier and gold rum with a sour. (CHEY SCOTT) n

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PREVIOUSLY…

Connor’s sudden appearance at the Pendleton Roundup, handing out flyers offering a reward for an “abducted child,” startled Miller Cane. With no time to say goodbye to their new friends Monica and little Bella, Miller and 8-year-old Carleen managed to slip away in Miller’s motorhome. Connor, Carleen’s deadbeat father, is the reason they’re on the road in the first place; he suddenly came back into the picture when he learned that Carleen will inherit a massive fortune he believes is rightfully his. Lizzie, Carleen’s mom, is still stuck in jail after shooting and wounding Connor. Meanwhile, the fires that raged across the West all summer have mostly burned out, but the toll of being fugitives is wearing on the unlikely duo.

CHAPTER 7, PART 1

arleen had never been to Yellowstone, and Miller thought it might be a good distraction on their way to wherever they were going — the Little Bighorn first, then deeper into the country and away. He’d only slept for a few hours since leaving Walla Walla, and he tossed and turned now, in his bed at the back of the motorhome. Carleen hadn’t slept much either, but she wasn’t having trouble sleeping in her loft now. Miller was too wired, too disturbed by Connor’s appearance in Pendleton. How had he found them? Dena hadn’t seen him since that day at their mother’s nursing home. Showing up like he did last night seemed like proof he could track them anywhere. Carleen slept, dreaming away her anger and disap-

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pointment, Miller hoped, at being pulled away from Bella. He needed something for her when she woke, but when he tried to book a reservation at Yellowstone, the hotels and RV sites were all full, even with school back in session. Still, they could spend a few days at the park, sleeping in Cody or somewhere nearby. Miller got out of bed and made coffee. Carleen didn’t stir, even with him banging around the kitchen. He knew they couldn’t drive forever. They’d only been on the road three months, but Carleen needed stability. Miller would have to find a place with other kids and good food and good coffee and good people and schools — where no one would find them until Lizzie got out, which might be after Carleen was grown. Connor’s flyer had referred to her as missing or abducted, but she wasn’t missing — she was safe in her loft in the motorhome — and she hadn’t been abducted. Miller was her caretaker, protecting her from her shitty father, as her mother had asked him to do, maybe not her legal guardian, but so what? Miller checked her again — still sleeping, still breathing — then went outside with his coffee and Larry McMurtry’s Crazy Horse, which stressed how little any biographer, including McMurtry, knew about the man. Miller’s phone buzzed with a call from the Skagit County Jail. He answered, bracing himself for the roar of the bad line, but there was just a low rumble, like an underground train coming toward him. “Hello,” Miller said several times to the echo of his own voice. He was about to hang up when the line cleared enough for him to hear Lizzie say his name, followed by a blast of static and the full roar. “Are you there?” she said. “I’m here,” he said. It was like screaming inside a hurricane. “How is she,” Lizzie said, and Miller said, “We’re in California, on our way to Nevada.” It seemed important to lie as much as possible now, to keep the authorities off balance. “I can’t,” click, roar. “California?” “How are you?” Miller screamed. There was almost nobody at the rest stop — an

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elderly couple walking a miniature dog, a man smoking a cigarette at a picnic table. No sign of Connor. “I can’t,” she said, “rebel rap.” “I know,” Miller said. He hadn’t slept in who knew how long and the roar was affecting his vision, making him nauseous. Miller held the phone away from his ear, the interstate humming under the roar, a few of Lizzie’s words crackling over it. The air itself seemed filled with sound, but at least there was no smoke now. Maybe the fires were finally out. “Can you hear me?” Lizzie said, and Miller said, “Kind of,” and Lizzie made other sounds, then said, “Anything — I can’t.” “I know,” Miller said. The smoking man across the parking lot lit another one. “The crinkle,” Lizzie said, “the wrinkle round.” Another blast of static. The noise had never been this overwhelming — maybe because they were so far from each other. The line roared, cleared, roared. “I can’t,” Lizzie said. “Please,” she said, her voice slipping. “Can you hear me?” Another blast of static. “You have to get me out of here,” she said. And then the line went dead. Out of there? They were going the other direction, and were going to keep going that way. Besides, there wasn’t enough money for bail, not if he was going to keep supporting Carleen. The world came back to him as the ringing faded, birds whistling and chirping and cawing and the old couple’s pocket dog barking. The man who’d been smoking was gone, then appeared from the bathroom and walked toward his car, an El Camino in good condition. But he didn’t get in his car. He didn’t even slow down. He kept walking toward Miller. The motorhome’s door swung open. Miller turned and Carleen was there. ...continued on next page

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MILLER CANE: A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY  Chapter 7, Part 1 continued... “Go back inside,” he said. “Why?” Carleen said. “We’re headed out,” Miller said, and when he turned back around, the man was still approaching, early forties, Miller’s age, Connor’s age. There was no reason for him to keep coming like that. “I have to pee,” Carleen said. “Pee in the moho,” Miller said. “I thought — ” “Just do it,” Miller said, pushing her inside and closing the door. “Geez,” he heard her say. The dude was twenty feet away. Miller needed something heavy to bash his brains in with. He’d probably been in Pendleton last night, or maybe the flyers were all over the West now, all over the country. “Hey, man,” the dude said, and Miller said, “Hey,” trying to appear nonchalant, just a guy outside a motorhome managing his tremor. “If you need help with that flat,” the man said, “I can give you a hand.” If Miller turned to look for the flat, he’d get clubbed in the head with a tire iron, his blood running all over the parking lot as the dude snatched Carleen for the flyer’s reward. But the dude didn’t have a tire iron. Miller probably looked insane, an abductor who hadn’t slept in days, his tremor about to escalate to full blown convulsions. He had to look away, to hide, to look at the tire that wasn’t flat — but it was flat. “You’ve done this before?” Miller said, turning back around, and the man said, “Walt,” holding out his hand. Miller took it, shook it, said his own name. “Had a rig like this when my kids were young,” Walt said. “That your little girl?” Of course it was his little girl. “I don’t know if my spare’s any good,” Miller said, and then, “My daughter and I are headed for Yellowstone.” How stupid he was. He should have said Utah or Oregon or Mexico. He should have told Carleen they would pose as a family from now on. Walt pulled the cover off the spare, Miller watching, as if Walt were his father and Miller a nine year old boy. “Looks okay,” Walt said. “You know where the jack’s at?” Miller shook his head. Walt was pretending to be a good Samaritan, though he was really a killer or a cop. Whatever he was, Miller hated him for helping. “I’ve got one,” Walt said, walking back toward the El Camino. Carleen peeked out the side door and said, “What’s happening?” “We got a flat,” Miller said. “And we’re going to Yellowstone.” “Who’s that?” Carleen said, and Miller said, “Walt.” “I’ve never been to Yellowstone,” Carleen said. She seemed better than last night, happy again — herself. Walt walked back with the jack. Miller didn’t want to see everyone as a cop or killer. Everything was going to be fine. Then the cat bolted out the motorhome’s side door. “Waffles,” Carleen cried, the cat tearing across the parking lot toward the expanse of grass where the old couple stood with their piddling pocket dog. Walt dropped his jack to chase the cat, Miller following, Carleen following Miller. It seemed possible that Waffles would kill the little dog. But the dog fought back. “Waffles!” Carleen cried. “Cookie!” the old woman cried. The dog had Waffles pinned, teeth bared, was going for his throat. But before the dog could kill the cat, the old man lifted him into the air by his leash, where he hung, spinning and panting, smiling the way dogs sometimes do. Waffles scrambled toward the bathroom building, Carleen right behind. n

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A SUNNY SENDOFF T he 43rd running of Bloomsday also marked the last for Don Kardong as race director. And thanks to friends, family, the Bloomsday organization and Mother Nature, it was a proper postscript to a marathon that started with Kardong founding the race back in 1977. “All year, I’ve been worried it would be a rainy, nasty day for my last,” Kardong said after the race, “but fortunately it was beautiful.” Along with the perfect 57-degree starting temperature, the entire Kardong family was celebrated at the race start, with his wife Bridgid and daughters Kaitlin and Catherine, and their husbands, along with four grandchildren — “the grandkids were pretty impressed to hear their names get announced,” Kardong says. He also had old high school friends from his days at Seattle Prep on hand. “They hadn’t been up at the starting line before, so they were pretty blown away by the scene.” Still, Kardong is quick to remind everyone that while he’s not the race director, he’s not going anywhere — “I’m going to keep showing up every year to run it and keep volunteering,” says Kardong, who

was also one of 80 Bloomsday Perennials to finish in 2019. The race itself was marked by three blowouts and one thrilling finish. Gabriel Geay of Tanzania pulled a remarkable feat and beat Benard Ngeno by a second. Kardong says he can’t remember many runners giving up a big lead after Doomsday Hill, but that’s just what Geay overcame, chasing down the leader and winning the men’s elite title for the second time in three years with a 34:50 time. Kenyan Rosemary Wanjiru didn’t seem bothered that it was her first Bloomsday, taking command early and coasting to the women’s elite victory over Vicoty Chepngeno with a 39:06 time. “The course was a bit tough,” she did admit, “up and down.” Aaron Pike broke through as the men’s wheelchair winner, alone on the course for most of his race. “It felt tough, when you don’t have somebody you’re chasing after,” he said. “I’ve gotten second a lot [at Bloomsday], so it feels good.” But the big news was Susannah Scaroni’s race and a place in the Bloomsday record book with a course-record 29:58 — her fifth Bloomsday win.

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MEN’S WHEELCHAIR CHAMP Aaron Pike (Urbana, IL) 27:34 WOMEN’S WHEELCHAIR CHAMP Susannah Scaroni (Urbana, IL) 29:58 CORPORATE CUP CHAMPS EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RED TEAM TOTAL BLOOMSDAY 2019 FINISHERS 35,233 For comprehensive results, go to BloomsdayRun.org

“She was out to set a record,” says Kardong, “and she did just that.” “This is my hometown course,” said Scaroni, who grew up in Tekoa, “so I’ve always wanted to conquer it.”  These official results pages are a partnership between Bloomsday and the Inlander.

TOP FINISHERS BY AGE WOMEN 13-15

1 Gallus, Dorothy J . . . . . . . . 2 Brownell, Ava. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Rajotte, Reaghan E. . . . . . . 4 Thielman, Masyn. . . . . . . . . 5 McGinnis, Erin. . . . . . . . . . 6 West, Lauren. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Bryntesen, Ruby A. . . . . . . . 8 Clark, Ara. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Johnson, Mandi . . . . . . . . . 10 Burns, Bridget. . . . . . . . . .

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1 Yim, Anessa . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Eilmes, Rissa. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Decremer, Ashley M. . . . . . . 4 Olson, Kyle. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Goedde, Samantha R . . . . . . 6 Mellgren, Kaylee D . . . . . . . 7 Richardson, Anna . . . . . . . . 8 Gallus, Erika C. . . . . . . . . . 9 Richardson, Lauren . . . . . . . 10 Stearns, Dylan F. . . . . . . . .

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1 Nichols, Liisa. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Ferro, Susanne. . . . . . . . . . 3 Barlow, Lori. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grandgeorge, Marcy. . . . . . . 5 McKenzie, Jodi. . . . . . . . . . 6 Brist, Sara. . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Anthony, Sandra. . . . . . . . . 8 Greer, Catherine. . . . . . . . . 9 Allen, Heather. . . . . . . . . . 10 Brown, Traci. . . . . . . . . . .

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1 Tower, Alyssa. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Thane, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Janke, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bingham, Sharon. . . . . . . . . 5 McWilliam, Lori . . . . . . . . . 6 Scott, Sandy. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Murphy-Butte, Maureen A . . . 8 Austin, Sharla . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ricketts, Leann . . . . . . . . . 10 Hess, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . .

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1 Wanjiru, Rosemary. . . . . . . . 0:39:07 2 Chepngeno, Vicoty. . . . . . . . 0:39:36 3 Ngige, Monicah. . . . . . . . . .0:39:55 4 Diriba, Buze . . . . . . . . . . . 0:41:19 5 Montoya, Maggie . . . . . . . . 0:41:20 6 Grabill, Molly J. . . . . . . . . . 0:42:03 7 Middleton, Kinsey M . . . . . . 0:42:26 8 Donegan, Laura rose (rosie). . . 0:42:27 9 Zeis, Lexi. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0:42:54 10 Galloway, Carissa . . . . . . . . 0:43:18

1 Cole, Marie. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bradley, Lisa. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Jones, Kim A. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Mueller, Cheryl. . . . . . . . . . 5 Lalonde, Chris. . . . . . . . . . 6 Goltz, Julia. . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lavin, Sally. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Wolfe, Cheryl. . . . . . . . . . . 9 Winther, Kristen. . . . . . . . . 10 Micheau, Nancy . . . . . . . . .

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WOMEN 65-69

1 Kibii, Jane J. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Karindi, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Scherf, Lindsey E . . . . . . . . 4 Gebre, Belainesh Z . . . . . . . 5 Vail, Eva. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Post, Sallie F. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fallon, Fionna A. . . . . . . . . 8 Cooper, Courtney. . . . . . . . . 9 Geissler-Chantlos, Jamie . . . . 10 Chepkurui, Lineth. . . . . . . .

WOMEN 35-39

1 Kirkpatrick, Ann M . . . . . . . 2 McConnaughey, Mariah. . . . . 3 Smith, Marla. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Birth-Davis, Carrie. . . . . . . . 5 Roth, Jamie. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Quinn, Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Cooper-Scott, Haley. . . . . . . 8 Mandi, Alison T . . . . . . . . . 9 Schreiner, Emily. . . . . . . . . 10 Sharbono, Kai . . . . . . . . . .

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1 Bawcom, Janet. . . . . . . . . . 2 Jaten, Rachel A . . . . . . . . . 3 Hamilton, Amber A . . . . . . . 4 Cail, Stacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sydor, Oksana . . . . . . . . . . 6 Larue, Sarah N. . . . . . . . . . 7 Hogan, Jill . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Neil, Stephanie. . . . . . . . . . 9 Collyer, Misha . . . . . . . . . . 10 Forrey, Sarah E . . . . . . . . .

0:41:15 0:42:24 0:43:19 0:43:39 0:44:26 0:45:22 0:47:19 0:48:42 0:49:18 0:49:23 0:45:21 0:45:39 0:47:09 0:47:45 0:48:20 0:48:37 0:49:05 0:49:29 0:50:41 0:50:48 0:42:01 0:48:57 0:49:22 0:50:06 0:54:15 0:54:50 0:55:19 0:55:20 0:56:08 0:56:54

0:47:56 0:51:37 0:52:11 0:53:15 0:55:11 0:55:31 0:56:22 0:57:10 0:57:35 0:58:06 0:54:14 0:54:59 0:55:14 0:57:36 0:57:42 0:58:43 0:59:14 0:59:31 0:59:32 1:00:03 0:55:36 0:56:54 0:57:55 0:58:58 1:00:13 1:00:39 1:00:41 1:00:56 1:01:08 1:01:16 0:59:49 1:00:06 1:01:19 1:02:32 1:03:49 1:04:07 1:05:25 1:05:58 1:06:50 1:07:26

WOMEN 80-84

1 Quinn, Sylvia C. . . . . . . . . . 2 Arneson, Arlene . . . . . . . . . 3 Hahn, Lois . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Dempewolf, Teresa. . . . . . . . 5 Halverson, Irene. . . . . . . . . 6 Greene, Jean. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pangerl, Ardyce A. . . . . . . . 8 Hinzman, Barbara. . . . . . . . 9 Danielson, Rochelle. . . . . . . 10 Driscoll, Karen. . . . . . . . . .

WOMEN 85-89

1 2 3 4 5 6

Jydstrup, Lucy. . . . . . . . . . Jarvis, Gail. . . . . . . . . . . . Moos, Betty J. . . . . . . . . . Gavin, Norma. . . . . . . . . . . Dijulio, Mary lou. . . . . . . . . Yasuhara, Thelma Y. . . . . . .

1 Shaw, Beth M. . . . . . . . . . 3:42:49

MEN 13-15

1 Hernandez, Isaiah. . . . . . . . 2 Davis, Logan. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Anderson, Lance. . . . . . . . . 4 Orton, Benjamin. . . . . . . . . 5 Souza, Kellen R. . . . . . . . . 6 Stout, Ethan. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sheffler, Ethan. . . . . . . . . . 8 Ahlquist, Grady. . . . . . . . . . 9 Krueger, Elijah. . . . . . . . . . 10 Lebret, Kenzer. . . . . . . . . .

MEN 16-18

1 Kuplack, Christian. . . . . . . . 2 Chol, Issak. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Brantley, Emanuel. . . . . . . . 4 Lin, Steven. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Collins, Quintin. . . . . . . . . . 6 Heath, Josiah. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Morlan, Devon. . . . . . . . . . 8 Hemmerling, Ketrin . . . . . . . 9 Deforest, John. . . . . . . . . . 10 Shepard, Nicholas. . . . . . . .

MEN 19-22

1 Geay, Gabriel. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Ngeno, Bernard . . . . . . . . . 3 Kindl, Zak. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rehm, Domenic A. . . . . . . . 5 Wenman, Cameron. . . . . . . . 6 Miller, Benjamin. . . . . . . . . 7 Lane, Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . 8 Villagomez, Carlos. . . . . . . . 9 Mott, Joel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Christianson, Matthew . . . . .

WOMEN 70-74

MEN 23-29

WOMEN 75-79

1 Carroll, Sharon L . . . . . . . . 2 Wright, Carol. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Messenger, Donna L. . . . . . . 4 Holzman, Eileen . . . . . . . . . 5 Brocke, Leanne F. . . . . . . . 6 Sims, Donna D. . . . . . . . . . 7 Robertson, Sharen L . . . . . . 8 Gillespie, Susan K. . . . . . . . 9 Bosky, Mary ann. . . . . . . . . 10 Miller, Christie. . . . . . . . . .

1:12:08 1:13:36 1:15:34 1:15:57 1:17:06 1:18:16 1:19:11 1:21:32 1:22:26 1:22:54 1:17:49 1:19:15 1:25:06 1:28:52 1:29:38 1:30:13 1:32:24 1:33:18 1:34:20 1:41:44

1:48:37 2:09:57 2:18:42 2:34:16 3:12:57 3:33:24

WOMEN 90+

1 McGrane, Sharon. . . . . . . . .0:59:27 2 Gregory, Laurie. . . . . . . . . . 1:04:10 3 Pritchard, Sally. . . . . . . . . . 1:05:26 4 Colton, Penny . . . . . . . . . . 1:05:33 5 Sutherlin, Paula. . . . . . . . . 1:05:43 6 Langseth, Gail. . . . . . . . . . 1:07:21 7 Zander, Elin. . . . . . . . . . . . 1:08:19 8 Montgomery, Deborah A . . . . 1:10:44 9 Blake, Cindee L. . . . . . . . . 1:11:33 10 Macphee, Deborah. . . . . . . . 1:12:21 1 Mundt, Willie. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prenger, Sallye. . . . . . . . . . 3 Swanson, Gunhild. . . . . . . . 4 Dix, Kathleen R. . . . . . . . . 5 Hensley, Sue. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lawson, Barbara. . . . . . . . . 7 Parmentier, Madora J. . . . . . 8 Miller, Janis R. . . . . . . . . . 9 Carlson, Nancy. . . . . . . . . . 10 Shaw, Barb. . . . . . . . . . . .

1:14:07 1:27:15 1:38:00 1:39:51 1:51:37 1:56:54 1:57:26 1:57:48 2:00:44 2:04:13

1 Mokua, Edwin . . . . . . . . . . 2 Kibichiy, Edwin. . . . . . . . . . 3 Korir, Dominic. . . . . . . . . . 4 Bennie, Colin. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chesire, Hillary . . . . . . . . . 6 Ngandu, James. . . . . . . . . . 7 Monroe, Alexander alex. . . . . 8 Welch, Matt T. . . . . . . . . . 9 Epperson, Andrew. . . . . . . . 10 Tirfea babeker, Taye. . . . . . .

MEN 30-34

1 Sambu, Stephen K. . . . . . . . 2 Vail, Ryan P . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Kipruto, Silas. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Wacker , Andy . . . . . . . . . . 5 Olberding, Scott J. . . . . . . . 6 Thistle, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Nzibarega, Come. . . . . . . . . 8 Garcia, Derek M. . . . . . . . . 9 Vaughan, Tim. . . . . . . . . . . 10 Harrison, Albert A. . . . . . . .

0:46:01 0:46:02 0:46:02 0:47:19 0:50:04 0:51:11 0:52:30 0:52:43 0:52:43 0:52:57 0:41:40 0:43:43 0:44:47 0:45:52 0:46:45 0:46:54 0:47:24 0:47:42 0:48:02 0:48:31 0:34:50 0:34:52 0:39:46 0:40:25 0:41:34 0:42:29 0:42:33 0:42:59 0:43:33 0:44:04 0:35:00 0:35:04 0:35:09 0:35:37 0:35:57 0:36:01 0:36:01 0:36:40 0:36:41 0:36:43 0:35:23 0:36:14 0:36:15 0:36:20 0:40:00 0:40:30 0:41:42 0:42:59 0:43:11 0:43:21

MEN 35-39

1 Kosgei, Kenneth K. . . . . . . . 2 Okabe, Masanori. . . . . . . . . 3 Lefriec, Andy. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Doyon, Tahoma. . . . . . . . . . 5 Benefield, Brandon P. . . . . . 6 Collins, John. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fayant, Jesse. . . . . . . . . . . 8 Neeway, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Handwerk, Matthew. . . . . . . 10 Toth, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . .

MEN 40-44

1 Johnson, Destry C. . . . . . . . 2 Oswalt, Jeff. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Beall, Rusty. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Zuchetto, Matthew J . . . . . . 5 Patterson, Timothy. . . . . . . . 6 Wiltse, Heath. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pincock, Trevor. . . . . . . . . . 8 Hastings, Andrew . . . . . . . . 9 Warnock, Rob . . . . . . . . . . 10 Morse, Billy. . . . . . . . . . . .

MEN 45-49

1 Mitchell, Gregory J. . . . . . . 2 Steidl, Uli. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Crockett, Shawn D. . . . . . . 4 Anderson, Dean . . . . . . . . . 5 Wyman, Andrew . . . . . . . . . 6 Hall, Christopher. . . . . . . . . 7 Kirschke, Steve. . . . . . . . . . 8 Horn, Shannon. . . . . . . . . . 9 Lehto, David . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Meissner, Sean. . . . . . . . . .

MEN 50-54

1 Combs, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hogan, Emmet. . . . . . . . . . 3 Weissman, Glen . . . . . . . . . 4 Burton, John w ii. . . . . . . . . 5 Somers, Steve J. . . . . . . . . 6 Nelson, Troy . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Gildehaus, Jerred . . . . . . . . 8 Fitzner, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Martinez, Scott E. . . . . . . . 10 Swaim, Kevin. . . . . . . . . . .

BLOOMSDAY 2019 OFFICIAL RESULTS

0:37:42 0:42:46 0:42:58 0:43:15 0:44:01 0:44:02 0:44:48 0:45:05 0:45:14 0:45:14 0:43:18 0:43:26 0:45:13 0:45:30 0:45:35 0:45:38 0:46:09 0:46:17 0:46:23 0:46:50 0:40:32 0:41:12 0:42:06 0:44:37 0:45:02 0:45:02 0:45:08 0:47:01 0:47:16 0:47:52 0:42:57 0:44:11 0:45:53 0:46:42 0:48:25 0:48:34 0:48:38 0:49:16 0:49:58 0:50:24

MEN 55-59

1 Hogue, Royce S . . . . . . . . . 2 Middleton, Scott. . . . . . . . . 3 Brist, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Millet, David. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Latourette, Dave. . . . . . . . . 6 Midili, Russell. . . . . . . . . . 7 Hawkins, Tracy. . . . . . . . . . 8 Mueller, Walter. . . . . . . . . . 9 George, Douglas. . . . . . . . . 10 Finley, Steven. . . . . . . . . . .

0:45:19 0:48:11 0:48:12 0:49:04 0:49:33 0:49:50 0:50:35 0:51:14 0:51:41 0:51:47

MEN 60-64

MEN 75-79

1 Corkill, Jeff. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Eddy, Dawes . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Carroll, Larry R . . . . . . . . . 4 Danzer, Terry. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Fox, Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Margraf, Ken. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Druffel, Steve. . . . . . . . . . . 8 Temple, Robert. . . . . . . . . . 9 Lyngholm, David A. . . . . . . . 10 Irvine, Edward. . . . . . . . . .

MEN 80-84

1 Clark, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . 0:50:41 2 Bickley, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . 0:51:18 3 Murray, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . 0:51:58 4 Malerk, Don . . . . . . . . . . . 0:53:09 5 Schafer, Monty. . . . . . . . . . 0:54:21 6 Al-Hafian, Mahmud. . . . . . . . 0:55:32 7 Sherman, David. . . . . . . . . .0:57:04 8 Petek, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . 0:57:10 9 Schatz, Jared W. . . . . . . . . 0:57:55 10 Hindman, Doug. . . . . . . . . . 0:57:59

1 Smith, Grant. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cutting, Charles. . . . . . . . . 3 Hasebe, Tadahiko. . . . . . . . . 4 McKinley, Bryant. . . . . . . . . 5 Wolff, Cyril T. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Haggin, Bart. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lauderbaugh, Stanley. . . . . . 8 Eichin, Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Bosky, Roger K . . . . . . . . . 10 Rumley, Gary. . . . . . . . . . .

MEN 65-69

MEN 85-89

1 Kingsbury, Brian H . . . . . . . 2 Hamilton, Stephen. . . . . . . . 3 Durden, Benji. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gibson, Greg. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Kingsbury, Dwight L. . . . . . . 6 Foord, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Wood, George . . . . . . . . . . 8 Tonkyn, Michael. . . . . . . . . 9 Smith, Ronald M. . . . . . . . . 10 Thurston, Richard K. . . . . . .

MEN 70-74

1 Cocchiarella, Ron . . . . . . . . 2 John, Jerry. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hoppe, James C. . . . . . . . . 4 Van order, David. . . . . . . . . 5 Roth, Michael D. . . . . . . . . 6 Senner, Wayne. . . . . . . . . . 7 Coulson, Ted. . . . . . . . . . . 8 Kardong, Don. . . . . . . . . . . 9 Johnson, Donald. . . . . . . . . 10 Sasser, Mitchell. . . . . . . . .

0:55:14 0:55:43 0:55:46 0:56:29 0:57:54 0:58:39 1:00:11 1:00:19 1:00:27 1:01:24

1 Hart, Ron H . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Campbell, Kenneth P. . . . . . 3 Dorsey, James L. . . . . . . . . 4 Tipke, Donald. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Milliman, Charles . . . . . . . . 6 Riddick, Ralph. . . . . . . . . . 7 Harbert, Bill B. . . . . . . . . . 8 Morris, Jim. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Robbins, Loring . . . . . . . . . 10 Parrott, John. . . . . . . . . . .

MEN 90+

0:57:47 1:05:48 1:08:25 1:11:50 1:14:46 1:15:43 1:16:15 1:16:57 1:18:32 1:20:36 1:13:44 1:15:48 1:23:24 1:27:44 1:38:02 1:41:45 1:43:32 1:44:07 1:48:12 1:55:29 1:34:15 1:39:26 1:47:37 1:50:00 1:50:52 2:05:53 2:12:19 2:17:29 2:20:36 2:33:26

1:00:24 1 Graf, Wilbert W. . . . . . . . . 2:15:47 1:03:42 2 Neuder, Richard. . . . . . . . . 2:28:23 1:04:52 3 Howard, Charles R. . . . . . . 2:43:10 1:06:07 1:06:26 1:07:25 1:07:42 1:08:36 For all other Top Finishers by Age, 1:08:57 1:09:01 visit BloomsdayRun.org.

WHEELCHAIR WINNERS OPEN WOMEN 1 Susannah Scaroni

29:58 $2,000

Urbana, IL

JUNIOR WOMEN 1 Hannah Dederick* 2 Elizabeth Floch*

40:23 42:50

600 Spokane Valley, WA 300 Spokane Valley, WA

MEN’S MASTERS 1 2 3 4 5 6

Ulysses Elijah Luis Betts Jim Hudec Edwin Figueroa Dan Molitor Ramiro Bermudez

39:29 $400 40:12 300 44:59 200 45:56 100 46:44 46:47

Decatur, GA Medical Lake, WA Canada Commerce, CA Ephrata, WA Houston, TX

OPEN MEN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Aaron Pike Krige Schabort Alphonso Zaragoza Hermin Garic Christian Clemmons Fidel Aguilar Jose Pulido

27:34 $2,000 Urbana, IL 29:36 1,500 Rome, GA 30:34 1,000 Nezahualcoyoti, WA 30:36 700 Utica, NY 31:28 500 Champaign, IL 31:28 400 Apache Junction, AZ 33:02 250 Clarkesville, GA

8 Raphael Botsyo 9 Bob Hunt 10 Tyler Byers 11 Maclean Dzidzienyo 12 Kipp Wesslen

33:52 35:22 35:52 42:16 50:54

Ghana Spokane, WA Liberty Lake, WA Ghana Milwaukie, OR

JUNIOR MEN 1 2 3 4 5

Jackson Atwood* Levi Jackson* David Lucas* Darren Ugolini* Aiden Youngblood

34:00 Spokane Valley, WA 39:58 Spokane, WA 44:24 Spokane, WA 1:17:20 Spokane, WA 1:25:14 Spokane, WA

T-1 QUAD 1 Ernesto Fonseca

1:21:43 $1,000

Murrieta, CA

34:49 $2,000 39:01 1,300 1:11:58 700 1:17:32 300

Murrieta, CA Cheney, WA Portland, OR Spokane, WA

T-2 QUAD 1 2 3 4

Cristian Torres Isaiah Rigo John David Duran Jordan Clyburn

Susannah Scaroni set a course record with a 29:58 time. PAULA SIOK PHOTO

*Indicates Junior (Prize paid reflects place overall)

TOP FINISHERS OVERALL TOP WOMEN

Gabriel Geay wins his second Bloomsday in three years. PAULA SIOK PHOTO

WOMEN’S MASTERS 1. 9 2. 30

Janet Bawcom Flagstaff,Az 42:01 Nicole Murray Whitehall,Mt 47:59

Home

Time

1. Rosemary Wanjiru 2. Vicoty Chepngeno 3. Monicah Ngige 4. Iveen Chpkemoi 5. Jane Kibii 6. Buze Diriba 7. Maggie Montoya 8. Esther Wanjiru 9. Janet Bawcom 10. Molly Grabill 11. Ann Karindi 12. Kinsey Middleton 13. Laura Rose Donegan 14. Lexi Zeis 15. Carissa Galloway 16. Lindsey Scherf 17. Shalaya Kipp 18. Tara Welling 19. Belainesh Gebre 20. Sarah Reiter 21. Kari Hamilton 22. Molly Callahan 23. Eva Vail 24. Christine Babcock 25. Ann Kirkpatrick

Kenya 39:06 Kenya 39:36 Kenya 39:56 Kenya 40:26 Kenya 41:16 Ethiopia 41:19 Boulder, CO 41:20 Kenya 41:32 Flagstaff, AZ 42:01 Boulder, CO 42:03 Kenya 42:27 Boise, ID 42:28 Australia 42:30 Boulder, CO 42:57 Portland, OR 43:21 Sleepy Hollow, NY 43:22 Canada 43:24 Portland, OR 43:25 Flagstaff, AZ 43:42 Portland, OR 44:24 Spokane, WA 44:25 Superior, CO 44:29 Portland, OR 44:29 Seattle, WA 44:48 Fort Collins, CO 45:24

Award 12,000** 4,500 3,000 2,500 1,800 1,350 6,000* 900 3,200* 1,850* 500 1,150* 300 750* 200 -----1,000-w --750-w --

Name

Home

1. Gabriel Geay 2. Benard Ngeno 3. Edwin Mokua 4. Edwin Kibichiy 5. Dominic Korir 6. Stephen Sambu 7. Colin Bennie 8. Hillary Chesire 9. James Ngandu 10. Alex Monroe 11. Ryan Vail 12. Silas Kipruto 13. Andy Wacker 14. Matt Welch 15. Andrew Epperson 16. Taye Tirfea Babeker 17. Trent Lusignan 18. Eduardo Garcia 19. Jonathan Lafler 20. Casey Campbell 21. Kenneth Kosgei 22. Ian La Mere 23. Brad Bickley 24. Vincent Hamilton 25. Kevin Kochei

Tanzania 34:50 Kenya 34:51 Kenya 34:59 Kenya 35:04 Kenya 35:09 Kenya 35:23 Charlottesville, NC 35:37 Kenya 35:57 Kenya 36:01 Longmont, CO 36:01 Portland, OR 36:16 Kenya 36:17 Boulder, CO 36:22 Portland, OR 36:42 Ft. Collins, CO 36:44 Ethiopia 36:45 Rochester Hills, MI 37:03 Greenville, SC 37:08 Seattle, WA 37:19 Bend, OR 37:32 Salem, OR 37:43 Rochester Hills, MI 37:46 Canada 38:05 Spokane, WA 38:06 Kenya 38:06

Time

Award 12,000** 4,500 3,000 2,500 1,800 1,350 6,000* 900 700 3,100* 1,750* 400 1,050* 750* 200 ---1,000-w ----750-w

MEN’S MASTERS 3200 * 1500 M

*Includes U.S. citizen prize money w-Washington state resident | m-Masters runner **Includes PRRO Championship Super Bonus prize money ($10,000 split with Gabriel Geay)

TOP MEN

Name

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

38 Gregory J Mitchell Mcminnville,Or 40:34 43 Uli Steidl Seattle,Wa 41:14 49 Shawn D Crockett Addy,Wa 42:12 56 Carl Combs Cheney,Wa 43:02 61 Destry C Johnson Puyallup,Wa 43:21 62 Jeff Oswalt Spokane,Wa 43:29

1500 m 1000 m 500 m

7. 76 8. 82 9. 94 10. 96 11. 98 12. 100

Emmet Hogan Dean Anderson Christopher Hall Steve Kirschke Rusty Beall Royce S Hogue

BLOOMSDAY 2019 OFFICIAL RESULTS

Issaquah,Wa 44:14 West Linn,Or 44:43 Walla Walla,Wa 45:12 Spokane,Wa 45:14 Sandy,Ut 45:19 Spokane,Wa 45:27

13. 104 Matthew J Zuchetto 14. 106 Heath Wiltse 15. 107 Timothy Patterson 16. 112 Glen Weissman

Spokane,Wa 45:35 Coeur D Alene,Id 45:44 Bozeman,Mt 45:44 Bellevue,Wa 46:00

CORPORATE CUP RESULTS

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2019 CORPORATE CUP WINNERS

2019 BEST TEAM NAMES

1. EWU RED

1. IT MEGAHERTZ, BUT WE CONDUIT

2. EWU WOMEN

2. RUN YOUR RACHMANINOFF

3. LAW & ORDER

3. RUTHLESS B. GIMPSBURG

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

H2E, INC.

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

SPOKANE SYMPHONY

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY

2-24 EMPLOYEES

1 DR. PSOMAS, WARNICA, HENNESSEY NOTHING BUT THE TOOTH 2 CONTRACT DESIGN ASSOCIATES CONTRACT DESIGN 3 MISCHKE DRYWALL 3 SHEETS TO THE WIN 4 PREMERA BLUE CROSS WORST GAME OF TAG EVER 5 ANESTHESIA ASSOCIATES KEEP CALM OR YOU WILL BE INTUBATED 6 VARELA & ASSOCIATES VARELA & ASSOCIATES 7 TRI-CITIES ENGINEERING TCE-QUICK 8 ORANGETHEORY FITNESS OTF RUN 9 WOLFF HISLOP & CROCKETT MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME 10 PAUKERT & TROPPMANN, PLLC WITH LIBERTY AND SHINS SPLINTS FOR ALL

150-249 EMPLOYEES

50-89 EMPLOYEES

2449 2386 2383 2370 2302 2261 2245 2236 2207 2167

25-49 EMPLOYEES

1 DCI ENGINEERS, INC. RUNNING ON MT 2 U-DISTRICT PT RAPID THIGH MOVEMENT 3 PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATES PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATES 4 PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATES PTA PERFORMANCE 5 DCI ENGINEERS ABOUT TO STEEL THE LEAD 6 SBMC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW TEAM SBMC 7 MERRIMAN MERRIMAN 8 PINKERTON RETIREMENT SPECIALISTS PINKERTON 9 BUDINGER AND ASSOCIATES, INC. TEAM BUDINGER 10 SALISH SCHOOL OF SPOKANE SALISH SCHOOL OF SPOKANE

EYMANN, ALLISON, HUNTER, JONES

2771 2731 2621 2464 2439 2434 2430 2405 2333 2289

400-599 EMPLOYEES

1 FLEET FEET FLEET FEET 2859 2 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SPODAWGS 2667 3 KINDRED AT HOME KINDRED AT HOME 2579 4 PMG HOSPITALISTS ATTN DR NICOLLE BENZ PMG HOSPITALISTS RUN A DAY KEEPS US AWAY 2400 5 SPOKANE SEED COMPANY SPOKANE SEED COMPANY 2306 6 LUKINS & ANNIS P.S. TESTIFYING TO THE PAIN 2249 7 MW CONSULTING ENGINEERS RUNNING DUCTS 2229 8 SPOKANE SYMPHONY RUN YOUR RACHMANINOFF 2178 9 INLAND GROUP INLAND GROUP I 2163 10 WOOD PLC WOOD PLC - HARD ON SNEAKERS 2142

1 VITALANT (formerly Inland Northwest Blood Center) VITALANT AWEFULL RUNNERS 2673 2 FIRST CHOICE HEALTH NO SCRUBS 2653 3 2ND WATCH RUNNING ON A CLOUD 2645 4 F5 NETWORKS F5 - REFRESH YOUR PACE 2624 5 COLUMBIA SURGICAL SPECIALISTS AHEAD BY A NOSE-HAIR 2480 6 STAY ALFRED YOUR PACE IN THE CITY 2407 7 IDAHO FOREST GROUP IFG GOLD 2406 8 CERIUM NETWORKS VIRTUAL RUNNING 2369 9 KIEMLE HAGOOD 40 GRIT 2368 10 RAYCAP INC AGONY OF DE FEET 2355

1 WEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT WE MISSED THE BUS 2 WSU SPOKANE COUGAR STRIDE 3 MACHINIST UNION IAM LOCAL 86 UNITY WINS 4 SPOKANE TRANSIT AUTHORITY PLEASE HAVE FARE READY 5 WAGSTAFF, INC. CASTING CREW 6 FRANZ BAKERY CROUTONS 7 MOUNTAIN WEST BANK BANKERS ON THE RUN 8 NUMERICA CREDIT UNION NUMERICA BUSINESS SERVICES 9 ITRON, INC. STREET LIGHT KNIGHTS 10 URM STORES INC VELOCITORS

90-149 EMPLOYEES

250-399 EMPLOYEES

600 - 1299 EMPLOYEES

1 KNIGHT CONST. & SUPPLY, INC. KNIGHTS OF THE BUFFET TABLE 2 ALLIANT INSURANCE SERVICES COMMISSION POSSIBLE 3 LEE & HAYES LEE & HAYES 4 COFFMAN ENGINEERS, INC. 24X36 RELAY 5 WITHERSPOON KELLEY WKDT 6 SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT GEG 7 PONDERAY NEWSPRINT COMPANY PONDERAY NEWSPRINTERS 8 DCI ENGINEERS DCI ENGINEERS SEATTLE 9 INLAND EMPIRE PAPER COMPANY RUN OF THE MILL 10 ALLIANT INSURANCE SERVICES RUNNIN’ A RISKY BUSINESS

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Spokane author Simeon Mills’ debut novel is just the basketball-obsessed robot love story you’ve been waiting for BY DAN NAILEN

he road between when Spokane author Simeon Mills started what became his debut novel The Obsoletes and its publication May 14 was a long, circuitous one. Many novelists have similar tales of edits, updates, restarts and rethinks between when they started a project and its final form, but Mills’ seems particularly twisty. The first iteration of The Obsoletes hit the page in 2000 as a short, coming-of-age novella about a lovelorn high school basketball player. Mills was working as an architect in New York City, having recently graduated from Columbia, writing as a way to stay sane from a day job that was,

he says, “kind of a toxic environment.” When his novella was finished, he went back to writing short stories in his spare time and, he says, “being king of miserable living in Brooklyn.” Mills eventually abandoned architecture and the East Coast and moved home to Michigan before heading west and pursuing his literary muse at the University of Montana’s creative writing program. In Missoula, he learned the ropes of a “traditional writing school” and fell in love with fellow writer (and now-wife) Sharma Shields. The couple were part of a group that started dabbling in more “supernatural stuff” in their writing, he says, “push-

ing the boundaries of what we had all been doing before, writing this very traditional, spare, sort of understated, emotional stuff about interior turmoil.” Those supernatural predilections would come to serve both of them well later. Mills and Shields eventually moved to Spokane and started a family, and Mills worked as a graphic artist and got gigs teaching English at Garry Middle School and graphic design at EWU while both he and Shields pursued their writing. (Shields’ latest novel, The Cassandra, was published earlier this year.) ...continued on next page

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CULTURE | WORDS “MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN,” CONTINUED... Over the years, Mills would return to his old novella, believing he had the beginnings of something special. “I was thinking, ‘I like the seeds of it, but it needs more conflict,’” Mills says. “So then I added a brother character. This was probably like 10 years ago. “But they weren’t robots yet.”

he robot brothers Darryl and Kanga are what really bring The Obsoletes to life for the reader, and they did the same for Mills when he came up with the idea. “I was working at Garry and it just occurred to me, ‘What if these guys are robots?’” Mills says. “And the whole story just changed all at once. I rewrote it all, and the characters just came to life. It’s hard for me to think about them as two boys going through this teenage thing now. They’re just robots.” In the world Mills creates in The Obsoletes, being “just robots” is enough to get Darryl and Kanga … well, killed isn’t the right word. Suffice to say, when the humans in the small Michigan town where the story takes place in the early ’90s — a town much like the one where Mills grew up — find out there’s a robot “living” among them, they dismantle the robot with haste and bad intentions. As readers meet the two brothers, they’re living together in an apartment trying to hide the fact that their “parents” had disappeared. For the most part, they’re leading typical adolescent lives in their town, going to school and obsessing over Michigan State’s college basketball team. Soon enough, though, the trials of being a teenager — a serious crush on a girl for Darryl, a rise to high school basketball stardom for Kanga — threaten to expose the brothers for what they really are. The result-

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ing book is a riveting and breezy read in which the robots often act more humanely than their human counterparts. In adding the sci-fi twist of the brothers’ background, Mills found his way to creating a novel that could be potentially marketed as a YA title, or sci-fi perhaps. Basketball fans will find plenty to love, too. But while making his brothers robots gave The Obsoletes the kick it needed to eventually land a publishing deal, it did throw some challenges in Mills’ path. “It presented problems that were fun to solve,” Mills says. “That’s kind of the way I think writing and art in general is so exhausting and exhilarating. It’s about problem solving. I have this story, I need to find a way to make them real characters, to be able to identify with them but also make them different enough that it’s compelling … [but] I never wanted them to feel emotionally or think things that were totally off base with the way a human would. Their bodies are totally different, but I wanted us as readers to identify with them.” No question that Mills succeeded on that front.

hroughout the process of writing The Obsoletes and landing a deal to publish it a mere 19 years after he started writing, Mills was able to tap old friends from school to read drafts, and of course his wife

for both editing help and guidance in dealing with what happens after the book was picked up. Mills’ novel is one of the first published by Simon & Schuster’s Skybound Books imprint, a name best known for producing The Walking Dead comics. That means in addition to doing traditional readings like one at Auntie’s May 22, Mills has visited Emerald City Comic Con to promote the book, too. It’s strange to have the book finished after all these years, he says, and to be talking about it instead of working on it. After working The Obsoletes’ promotion circuit, Mills is anxious to get to what’s next. “I’m really excited to get into another project, especially because working on this for so long, there was always this mindset of, ‘Well, I can always just fix that little part that I’m not totally satisfied with.’ Now, it just is the book. And I can’t change it. I think that was initially hard to realize a couple of months ago. “Once I’m able to settle down and get some consistent mornings with a new project, I think that’ll feel good.” n Simeon Mills reading with guest poet Rob Schlegel • Wed, May 22 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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HOUSE PARTY New York freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a massive national presence as either a hero to progressives or boogie-woman to conservatives, so it’s hard to remember when she was a no-name bartender running against one of the most powerful members of Congress just a year ago. New Netflix documentary Knock Down the House rewinds us to when Ocasio-Cortez and three other featured women (in Nevada, West Virginia and Missouri) were all running against powerful Democratic incumbents. Not surprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez gets the most screen time, and the film is a worthy watch for getting to know her background and her family, as well as the passionate women who weren’t as successful. (DAN NAILEN)

Meet Pete

BY KRIS DINNISON

n 1992, my husband, Andy, was managing Auntie’s when authors David Cates and Pete Fromm came through for a reading. They were on a no-budget tour, as writers most often are, and had nowhere to stay. We let them crash with us, and the combination of beers and food and late-night sarcastic BS forged a friendship between us and Pete (above) that has lasted to this day. At that point I had never read Pete’s work, but I became a fan very quickly. His short stories are glorious gut-punches with unforgettable characters and powerful imagery. His nonfiction puts readers in the sometimes hilarious center of his outdoor escapades. And his novels are deep dives into painful moments and family dynamics that leave me crying, laughing, thinking and recommending Pete’s work to everyone I know.

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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores May 10. To wit: CHARLY BLISS, Young Enough. This Brooklyn power-pop crew evokes the best of ’90s bands like the Breeders. MAVIS STAPLES, We Get By. This soul queen is on a hot streak of great albums; this one’s produced by Ben Harper. SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE, The Space Between. The Red Rocker just booked a gig at Northern Quest in August. THE GET UP KIDS, Problems. Kansas emo “kids” first album in eight years. Middle-age problems, no doubt. (DAN NAILEN)

Pete’s newest novel, A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do, is the story of Taz and Marnie, who are fixing up their fixer-upper when they find out they’re going to be parents. Fast-forward to the day after Marnie gives birth: Taz sits with his newborn daughter in the empty, half-finished house alone, an unimaginable future of grief and single fatherhood stretched out in front of him. Taz has no idea how to take the first step. You could be forgiven for assuming this book is a cryfest. And yeah, full disclosure, this story probably will break your heart, but it will also make you laugh, and give you hope, and make you want to hang out with the people who inhabit it. Writer Steve Almond says, “The comic impulse arises directly from feelings that are inherently tragic: sorrow, shame, disappointment, moral outrage, and so on. Humor is how we contend with the bad data…” As a writer, Pete Fromm understands this, moving readers back and forth between the tragic and the comic not in whiplash fashion, but seamlessly and to immensely satisfying effect. It’s not everyone who can create a story that tells difficult truths about death or illness or family struggles while also weaving in the humor that humans seem to find their way to in even the worst moments. I am lucky to live and read in a place where I actually know a lot of the people who are writing the books I love. But whenever I praise a book written by a friend, Andy asks me, “Is it good because you’re friends, or is it just good?” In the case of Pete Fromm’s work I can definitely say “It’s just good.” n Pete Fromm reading A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do • Tue, May 14 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

LUCKY US “It’s the first night — we gotta set it off!” So proclaimed Tom Eddy, frontman of the Dip, Saturday night when the Seattle soul outfit became the first headliners to take the stage at the Lucky You Lounge. Along with opener Moorea Masa, it was an evening of smooth R&B and plenty of dancing at the new 320-capacity Browne’s Addition venue, owned and operated by the same folks behind the Bartlett. Lucky You’s grand opening celebration is set to take place June 13 through 15, and will feature the Cave Singers, Deep Sea Diver and more. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

FROM HERE TO THERE Big news from the Pop Up Shop, times two. First off, the Terrainaffiliated shop full of killer local artists and craftspeople’s work is moving to River Park Square later this month, and there will be even more artists’ work available. And they’re also changing their name to From Here to reflect just where all those cool goodies come from. Keep an eye out for news of a grand reopening party on instagram.com/ popupspokane. (DAN NAILEN)

BONDING MOMENT A dominatrix and her gay best friend kidnap a man, tickle another endlessly, and casually get catered to by a masked and ball-gagged oaf who pays for the privilege of being Mistress May’s in-home slave. Netflix’s new series Bonding follows a grad student moonlighting in BDSM and her high school best friend/bodyguard. The short episodes (15 to 20 minutes) largely focus on his perspective as he gets uncomfortably pushed into hilarious and absurd situations. It’s easy to binge, but it’s worth noting that while the show tries to be sex-positive and funny, Rolling Stone reports some sex workers say it doesn’t accurately portray how consent and vetting work in the BDSM community. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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olin Hay is not the first musician to enjoy a late-career renaissance, but his is one of the most unlikely. The Scotland-born, Australia-raised Hay led quirky pop-rockers Men at Work to international stardom in the early ’80s. After forming in 1979, the band hit huge just as MTV launched thanks to songs like “Down Under” and “Who Can It Be Now?,” eventually selling more than 15 million copies of their 1981 debut album Business As Usual, and another 5 million of their 1983 follow-up, Cargo. As quickly as it began, though, the band splintered and was all but over by the end of 1983, just a year after winning a Grammy for Best New Artist. Singer/guitarist Hay found himself with no band to lead. “It was a little bit like a storm, you know?” Hay says of those years, via telephone with the Inlander. “You kind of go through it and then go, ‘F---, what was that?’ “I think men have an inherent problem with communication in their 20s, or even longer. There’s communication breakdowns and we don’t know how to solve it. We don’t know how to negotiate with people and how to make things better. Instead, we just retreat to our respective corners … I really loved being in Men at Work, but by the time it ended, I was ready for it to end. I think I really wanted to be on my own.” The singer quickly found, though, that while Men at Work was capable of drawing tens of thousands of people to their concerts, Hay was pretty much only capable of drawing tens of people. And that was in his hometown of Mel-

bourne. Ouch. In time, though, Hay worked through his ’80s hangovers — one from instant fame, one from drinking for a decade or so — and used the intimate gigs after his band’s breakup to create a new life as a joke-telling troubadour with a knack for writing emotionally stirring songs and delivering mesmerizing performances. “I went from playing to 150,000 people to playing to about eight, which was very weird,” Hay says. “When you have an audience of 10 people, you can just talk to everybody because they’re all just sitting there in front of you. Then more people come, and you talk to them and sing to them and just build gradually so that there might be 1,000 people in a room, but you can still talk to those 1,000 people in a relatively conspiratorial way and make it just like you’re at home.”

efore Hay worked his way back to audiences of 1,000 or more, he had to move away from Melbourne and his old temptations. He landed in Topanga in 1989, a “pretty low-key” area of Los Angeles where Hay says he leads “an almost hermit-like existence.” Soon Hay was playing small shows in the area and doing coffeehouse tours in the U.S. “You play for nobody for years, and your audience starts growing,” Hay says. “They grow almost imperceptibly, but they do grow, and you pick up fans along the way.” One of those fans helped lead to Hay’s reemergence into the public eye. Then-unknown actor Zach Braff started watching Hay perform in

Delivering hilarious stories and great songs is business as usual.

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Los Angeles and after Braff got a role on Scrubs, he helped Hay’s music get included in a few episodes, followed by Hay himself acting on the show. Later, Braff included Hay’s “I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You” on the hit soundtrack to his directorial debut, Garden State. “That really helped a lot to expose my music to a large audience,” Hay says. “But the live stuff you do before that, you have to do that in order for the other things to happen. You gotta be out there already doing it for anything to happen. You can’t be sitting around waiting for something to happen.” Hay’s never been one to sit around; besides the relentless touring for nearly 40 years, the 65-year-old has produced 13 solo albums since the Men at WEEKEND Work days. It’s a catalog full of C O U N T D OW N humor and romance and wry Get the scoop on this observations on life and love. weekend’s events with All of that comes through on our newsletter. Sign up at his latest release, Fierce Mercy. Inlander.com/newsletter. The 13 songs were recorded mostly in his home studio, but Compass Records’ boss Garry West convinced him to add some flourishes in Nashville, so touches of banjo and pedal-steel pop up on tunes like “Come Tumblin’ Down” and the epic “A Thousand Million Reasons.” Most noteworthy from the Nashville sessions, though, is orchestral strings that turn songs like “Secret Love” into some of the best of his career. “The real reason I went to Nashville was to record real strings, which was a real joy,” Hay says. “It was a beautiful experience. There’s nothing like when you’re recording a record live in the studio and you’re in the control room and they do a take and the orchestra comes in. There’s no feeling like it. It’s magical.” n Colin Hay • Sat, May 11 at 7:30 pm • $39/$49/$69 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford, Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2100

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Reinaldo Gil Zambrano working at the new Spokane Print & Publishing Center.

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Inaugural artist studio tour highlights a thriving creative scene in West Central BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

ardis Nenno has lived in her home on Crossing Street just north of the Spokane River for 23 years, and even though Bethany Taylor has only lived in Spokane since 2015 — south of the river on West Sinto — these two artists have a similar vision of their West Central Neighborhood: potential. “Often West Central is looked at as a place that needs help, but we’re thriving,” Taylor says. She worked with Nenno to organize the first (and what they hope becomes annual) West Central Artist Studio Tour. The boundaries of the oneday, self-guided tour align with the West Central Neighborhood Council: rimmed by the river to the south and west, Indiana Avenue to the north, and Monroe Street to the east. “What we aim to do is highlight [West Central’s] assets and use those assets to work on our deficits,” Taylor says. Those assets, the artists say, include lots of creatives: visual artists, but also writers, performers, arts businesses and others they hope to

incorporate as the tour evolves. For its first year, the tour features the home studios of five artists, including Nenno, who works in ceramics, and Taylor, a printmaker, as well as Thom Caraway (writing, collage, printmaking), Wendy Franklund Miller (encaustics, mixed media), and Steffan Wacholtz (sculpture). Spark Central, and three arts businesses that share an address on Ash Street are also participating. Art Salvage is celebrating its first year in business, while next door are two printing venues. Ammonite Ink specializes in screenprinting custom apparel, while a new artist collaborative called Spokane Print & Publishing Center encompasses several artist-led ventures, including Millwood Print Works, which Taylor formed with Caraway and fellow printmaker Derek Landers in 2017. (Visit westcentralartistsstudiotour.com for addresses of locations.) “We are so pleased to have new arts organizations moving into our neighborhood and want to help make them more visible to the rest of

the city,” says Nenno, who was approached by a newly formed nonprofit called REACH West Central to help direct their arts and culture committee. “I tried to think of an event that would draw on the resources of the existing neighborhood and its residents and that would bring people to West Central for a positive experience.” REACH, explains Brian McClatchey, president of the nonprofit organization, consists of a couple dozen people trying to improve West Central, many of whom are former members of the West Central Neighborhood Council. “We’re also working on sustainable housing, environment and quality of life, and — as we’re discovering closely aligned with arts and culture — economic development.” Printing, for example, has experienced a surge in popularity recently, says Taylor, whose Interpunct Press highlights the art of letterpress: a technique dating to 10th century China, perfected by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, replaced by digital printing in commercial applications, and yet still favored by artists. In letterpress, cast metal letters known as “moveable type,” as well as spaces, punctuation and other elements, are arranged to create a block of text that is then inked and printed. Letterpress is just one of a range of printmaking techniques featured at SP&PC, which showcases screenprinting, relief, intaglio and digital printing, as well as bookbinding, publishing, illustration and board game prototyping. In addition to Taylor, Landers and Caraway, the collaborative includes Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Derek Freeland and Dorian Karahalios. “West Central is home to many creative makers,” Nenno says. “In creating the WC Artists’ Studio Tour, we want to celebrate that presence and forge a stronger and more vibrant identity for our neighborhood.” n

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TOAST

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If millennials are to blame for the artisan toast trend, we should thank them for these five toast combinations on local menus BY INLANDER STAFF

rtisan toast. It’s proving to be more than a passing millennial-motivated trend, or a glorified marketing pitch for selling open-faced sandwiches. Depending on where you go and what you order, a slice of rustic bread laden with nut butters, fruit, cheese or the ubiquitous avocado can be an easy light snack or a filling meal on its own. We set out to sample a few artisan toast offerings on coffee shop and cafe menus around the region; here’s what we found, and what we thought:

PATHFINDER CAFE, 3026 S. GRAND BLVD.

What we got: Old School Toast, $7.50 Forgive me foodies, for I have sinned: I have never had avocado toast. The very toast that’s been the butt of millennial jokes for years and the genesis of the artisan toast fad we’re now enjoying has never crossed my palate. It’s not my fault though! I love the taste of avocado, it just doesn’t love me back. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been able to enjoy some of the delicious toast creations that have been popping around the region the past year or so. At Pathfinder Cafe on the South Hill, I went for the Old School Toast, which features slices of turkey and melted havarti cheese on Glorious Artisan Bakery bread. The whole thing is topped with crushed kettle chips and arugula, with a drizzle of house-made chipotle mayo. One of our more skeptical Inlander writers would say this is “just an open-faced sandwich.” I say it’s a piece of tasty and filling toast, best enjoyed with a fork and a smile. Of course, if you’re an avocado lover, they’ve also got an avocado toast on the menu, or you can add avocado to any selection for $2. Go gluten free for $1 extra. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

INDABA COFFEE ROASTERS, 518 W. RIVERSIDE AVE. What we got: Bacon Avocado Toast, $8.75 I love carbs, and could eat them all day, every day, no problem, if I allowed myself. And when it comes to toast, I’m perfectly happy with a simple smear of butter and nothing else.

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Indaba on Riverside’s kimchi avocado toast. HECTOR AIZON PHOTO

THE GRAIN SHED, 1026 E. NEWARK AVE.

What we got: Brie and Radish Toast, $4 It’s possible I willed the Grain Shed’s toast options into my life. I had a drink with a vegetarian friend recently, and we got to talking about how salad doesn’t really ever sound good for breakfast. In general, veggies need the right treatment to sound appetizing early in the day. So it was fitting that the next morning I found myself at the Grain Shed in Spokane’s Perry District, staring up at the selection of veggie-centric toasts on their menu. But I was far from disappointed. I went with the brie and radish, which hit a surprising and delicious combination of flavorful notes. Cutting through the buttery richness of melted brie was a sweet and spicy duo of habanero jam and thinly sliced radishes. The whole thing was topped with fresh lettuce and cool cucumber and served on crusty house-made bread. Plus, it was only $4! Seems like a pretty good, carby compromise for getting more veggies into your breakfast. Other options range from $3 to $5. (SW)

THE WELLNESS BAR, 312 N. FOURTH ST., COEUR D’ALENE

What we got: A Bit Nutty, $3 For people who looooove bread but try to limit it, good toast is a decadent way of delivering yummy stuff into one’s mouth; something creamy, cheesy, or a savory bit of meat and mustard. In the case of Wellness Bar’s five toast options, yumminess is delivered on Ezekiel bread, a thin yet firm bread from sprouted grains (gluten-free bread is also available, although Ezekiel is flourless). Toasting brings out its nuttiness and gives a nice layer of crisp on top. That makes Wellness Bar’s “A Bit Nutty” toast with almond butter, strawberries, almond slivers and a drizzle of maple syrup a bit more nutty, yet still the right balance of sweetness and a little tang from early season strawberries. It’s a tidy protein package that offers just enough food to bridge the gap between larger meals or get you going in the morning without feeling overly full. Add a smoothie like the Green Goddess ($6/16-ounce; $8/24-ounce) with kale, spinach, avocado, pear, chia seeds, honey and coconut water for a very doable breakfast or light lunch. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

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What we got: Avocado Toast, $9.50 This version of avocado toast (which, in my short and recent artisan toast journey, I’ve come to accept as the only way to eat fancy toast) is equally as hearty, flavorful and filling as you’d expect. Made with a base of the adjacent Glorious Artisan Bakery’s rustic country loaf, the toast itself holds up well to a hefty spread of avocado, topped with sriracha aioli for a little kick, some sweet cherry tomatoes, red pepper, cilantro and toasted sesame seeds. Gluten-free bread is available, or make it even more proteinpacked by adding a fried egg for a buck. This avo toast hits all the notes, and I really enjoyed the spicy sriracha aioli and the sesame seeds for more depth in flavor and texture. Other options at Ladder are jam with ricotta cheese ($5), a take on Nutella ($5) with honey chipotle peanut butter and chopped walnuts, or a simple slice ($4) drizzled with lemon-infused olive oil and salt and pepper. Settle into this hip and cozy coffee shop in a recently revitalized historic building on the edge of Browne’s Addition and plan to stay a while. (CHEY SCOTT) n

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I blame Indaba’s decadently topped toast menu for tainting this perspective, though it’s a contradiction I’m happy to accept. The coffee roaster’s Riverside location toast menu is filling, diverse and satisfying — one slice really is enough for a meal (open-faced sandwich pessimists be darned) and I enjoyed this savory, salty, garlicky creation for a recent lunch. Fork and knife are definitely required to make the least mess of this thick slice of Alpine Bakery bread laden with a generous portion of avocado, bacon, radish and drizzles of garlic mayo and cilantro puree, garnished with scallions. Not only do you get your carb craving fix, but some healthy fats and protein, too. It’s a win-win! Other toast combos on the menu currently include house lentil hummus, kimchi avocado, strawberry caprese avocado and peanut butter banana. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Cats + Coffee Spokane is getting a cat cafe; plus, chef Ricky Webster lands top spot in national pizza competition BY CHEY SCOTT

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es, the rumors are true: Spokane is finally getting a cat cafe. The globally trending business model pairing cups of coffee with cuddly, adoptable cats is being locally spearheaded by Spokane couple Justyn and Tori Cozza. Word about their plans recently went viral on social media after a local design firm they’re working with unveiled a logo for the venture, called the Kitty Cantina. “We are definitely crazy cat people,” Tori Cozza says. “Spokane definitely has a lot of up-and-coming things and we feel like [a cat cafe] is something that could be successful here. We’re super excited.” The couple is thankful for the massive outpouring of interest and support since word about the cafe got out. They caution local cat lovers, however, that the timeline for Kitty Cantina’s opening is a major unknown. It could open as early as late summer or fall of this year, or, at the latest, a full year from now, in spring 2020. The couple is currently in the initial permitting phase, but have a location picked out in the Wandermere area, on Hastings Road in a newly

constructed commercial building. Kitty Cantina plans to partner with SpokAnimal to “stock” the cafe with friendly, home-seeking cats that visitors can interact with and adopt. The partnership will open up space at the shelter and help cats in SpokAnimal’s care find adopters that might not otherwise visit its facility in East Central Spokane. As far as food and drink goes, the Cozzas are working with the Spokane Regional Health District to make sure the business will be able to safely serve food in an area separate from the lounge housing the cats. They plan for the cafe to serve espresso, beer and wine, and some food, though those plans won’t be settled for a while. Customers will likely have the option to bring food or drink into the cat room, but staff won’t be able to move back and forth from a food prep or serving area and the cat room. The Cozzas were inspired to bring a cat cafe to Spokane after visiting two similar businesses in Seattle. Cat cafes first started in Japan and Taiwan as a place for urban residents to find companionship and relaxation. “Besides being cat and coffee lovers, I’ve always wanted to start my own business that I enjoy working at,” Justyn Cozza says. “It all clicked and landed in our lap at once — we could totally do this in Spokane.” Follow the Kitty Cantina on Instagram for updates: @spokane_kitty_cantina

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during a bake-off finale and judging panel on May 9 in Napa, California. Winners in three categories — all cheese, Mexican-style and “the REAL California” — each take home $5,000 and an overall winner gets $10,000. Webster, who currently works as corporate chef and business resource manager for Sysco Spokane, was initially concerned that because he’s not a chef in a traditional kitchen that his recipe wouldn’t qualify. As it turns out, the judges loved the story behind his pizza — it was inspired by Webster’s childhood in the Golden State and his first culinary job in NYC — which features white ricotta cheese, caramelized shallots, garlic, porcini mushrooms, raw white cheddar and pickled chard stems. “It speaks to my cooking style of utilizing the best ingredients with no waste; combining rich flavors and balancing them out with heat and acid and always a touch of sweetness,” Webster writes. n

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Awwwww. Even if you’re not a certified Pokémaniac, you’ve gotta admit that Pikachu’s pretty cute.

For fans of the Pokéverse, Detective Pikachu might be the best video game movie ever BY SETH SOMMERFELD

okémon Detective Pikachu is the best video-gamebased movie of all time by orders of magnitude. Granted, the films it’s competing against for that title comprise possibly the worst niche sub-genre in cinematic history. It’s like saying you’re the best surfer in Wyoming: The bar couldn’t be lower. That said, the Pokémon-stuffed world crafted by director Rob Letterman and his team of computer animators is a marvel that even nonfans of the wildly popular Nintendo series can get lost in. The viewer’s entry point into the Pokéverse is Tim Goodman (Justice Smith), a 20-something insurance agent who rejects having a companion Pokémon despite it being the societal norm. His world is shaken when news breaks that his father, a detective living in the distant Ryme City, died in a suspicious car crash. While Tim wasn’t close to his father, he heads out to close that chapter of his life. Things take a turn when a Pikachu shows up at his dad’s apartment, and instead of just talking by saying its name (like all other Pokémon), Tim can actually understand what it’s saying. It turns out that this Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) was the companion Pokémon of Tim’s father, and the furry yellow fellow believes that

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Tim’s dad is still alive. Thus begins a madcap journey tary muffled squeals of adorableness they will undoubtfilled with comedy and conspiracy. edly invoke. But, to be honest, the story is almost an afterthought For the most part, Detective Pikachu’s storyline feels to the vibrant world of Pokémon. It’s amazing how the like a pretty standard pulp crime tale (complete with CGI Pokémon are rendered so perfectly. There’s not a investigative reporter/love interest Kathryn Newton) that single creature among the hundreds depicted that look off occasionally gets a bit sci-fi loopy. The script’s strongest or gross; each remains true to the designs of their 8-bit attribute is its comedic sensibility. It’s amusing throughGame Boy origins. Transposed into a world like our own, out, with Reynolds providing snappy observations and there’s a simple delight in the birds flying overhead being repartee with Tim, a few snuck-in blue jokes, some Pidgeys, or a Cubone hiding in a grass field. Ryme City referential humor for the hardcore Pokéfans, a musical is set up as a rarity in the Pokéverse, a place where moment akin to the sad Team America Pokémon and humans live harmoniously — no battles, POKÉMON theme, and the inherent comedy of no trainers, no Pokéballs. In many ways, this makes DETECTIVE PIKACHU Pokémon just walking around mindDetective Pikachu to video games what Who Framed Roger Rated PG ing their own business. Rabbit was to cartoons: It’s set in a metropolis where More than anything, you can Directed by Rob Letterman the water-spitting Squirtles assist firemen and a mastell how much love and care Detective Starring Ryan Reynolds, sive Snorlax might just fall asleep on a city street. Pickachu’s filmmaking team put into Justice Smith Ryme City bustles with furry and feathered not screwing up their one chance creatures and a futuristic sleekness that makes things to bring live action Pokémon to the feel like a fuzzy, PG-rated Blade Runner. Above all else, big screen. Unlike so many video game adaptations, it’s cuteness abounds in Detective Pikachu, but never cloyingly clear they understood what the masses love about these so. Have you ever seen a Pikachu strapped into a baby’s adorable little pocket monsters (a core sweetness), and seat, or a compassionate herd of Bulbasaurs? Well, you’re how much fans would love to live in a world inhabited by about to, and I can’t be held responsible for any involunthem. And now they cinematically can. n

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Director Penny Lane’s comic documentary explores the anti-authoritarian, politcally active “religous” movement that is the Satanic Temple. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)

THE HUSTLE

Another take on the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels story, starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as grifters competing to bilk the fortune from a tech billionaire. (NW) Rated PG-13

POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU

The world of Japanese pocket monsters comes to vivid life in this cheeky, smartly realized feature surrounding a mystery-solving Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) hunting for his young trainer’s missing father. (SS) Rated PG

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TOLKIEN

The life of Lord of the Rings scribe J.R.R. Tolkien is dramatized to routine effect, with thuddingly obvious allusions to his fantastical worlds being ascribed to his real-life war trauma. (SS) Rated PG-13

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Shot in 1972 and only recently finished, this concert film captures Aretha Franklin recording her titular gospel album in a packed Baptist church. A remarkable time capsule, and one of the great filmed musical performances. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated G

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This charming documentary is a primer to the life and career of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the TV psychologist who made frank sex talk less of a taboo. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

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The remaining Avengers assemble to undo Thanos’ devastating snap in Marvel’s biggest-ever feature, a dramatically and emotionally satisfying final chapter in a decade-long, 22-film saga. It made a couple bucks, too, so it’s safe to say this’ll be around for a while. (NW) Rated PG-13

BREAKTHROUGH

When a teenager nearly dies after falling through a frozen lake, his small town unites in prayer in this religious drama based on a true story. (NW)

CAPTAIN MARVEL

The 21st Marvel feature goes back to the ’90s, introducing a superhuman fighter pilot (Brie Larson) who’s torn between warring factions of Earth and space. Hardly revolutionary, but fun, nostalgic and empowering. (SS) Rated PG-13

THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA

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NOW PLAYING DUMBO

Tim Burton’s live-action reimagining of the animated Disney classic is pretty pointless and lifeless, a fable about a sweet flying elephant that never takes off. (SS) Rated PG

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In the scariest episode of House Hunters ever, a couple moves into an idyllic country estate, and deranged former owner Dennis Quaid just won’t leave. It sucks. (NW) Rated PG-13

LONG SHOT

A surprisingly smart and warm political comedy in which an unsuspecting romance blossoms between a schlubby journo (Seth Rogen) and his childhood crush (Charlize Theron), a secretary of state who’s now a presidential hopeful. (JB) Rated R

MISSING LINK

The latest from the usually dependable Laika animation studio is a letdown, the

well-trodden tale of an explorer who discovers a gentle bigfoot-like creature and wants to bring it to the public. (SS) Rated PG

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DC’s latest attempt at levity finds a scrawny kid inhabiting the body of a muscular superhero. It’s torn between the studio’s dour and goofier sensibilities, making it a curious thing, indeed. (JB) Rated PG-13

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The latest Disney nature documentary anthropomorphizes two Antarctic penguin friends — one called Steve, the other Wuzzo. Narrated by Ed Helms. (NW) Rated G

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A violent convict is placed into a program where prisoners rehab horses, and he bonds with a wild, unbroken stallion. Surprisingly involving and tenderly acted. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

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The popular plush toy line gets its own movie, which your kids might settle for if Avengers is sold out. Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monáe and other Alist musicians lend voices. (NW) Rated PG

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A family is menaced by violent duplicates of themselves in Jordan Peele’s much-anticipated follow-up to Get Out, and it’s another deeply unnerving and brilliantly realized thriller. (MJ) Rated Rn

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One of director Joe Berlinger’s few forays into narrative filmmaking tells the horrifying story of Liz Kendall (Lily Collins), a single mother who fell in love with yet-to-becaught serial killer Ted Bundy (a well-cast Zac Efron). It never settles on a compelling point-of-view or dramatic purpose, a wannabe empathetic film that instead reads as exploitative. (NW) Rated R

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A very expected journey: J.R.R. Tolkien had a lot more imagination than the film of his life.

Use Your Allusion

Tolkien, the biopic of the famed fantasy author, necessitates a familiarity with his hobbit and wizard realms BY SETH SOMMERFELD

t’s nerdy thought experiment time. Which story). Under the custody of a Catholic priest, movie would be easier to follow for a tabula the boys are placed into a boarding house, and rasa individual with no knowledge of Marvel Tolkien gets sent to the fancy King Edward’s or Middle Earth: The world-eating blockbuster School. Despite being the poor child at the aristothat is Avengers: Endgame, or Tolkien, the new cratic institution, he soon falls in with three other biopic about the young life of The Hobbit and Lord boys — Geoffrey, Rob and Christopher — and of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien? their shared aspiration to create art leads them to While on the surface it may seem like a silly form a secret tea society. A fellowship, if you will. question — what with the Marvel Cinematic It’s also in the boarding house where Tolkien Universe’s 11-year, 22-film cast of dozens of charmeets fellow orphan and soon-to-be love of his acters — Tolkien is essentially a series of “do you life, the enchanting Edith Bratt (Lily Collins). see how something you know from Lord of the Finnish director Dome Karukoski handles Rings is actually a direct allegory to an event that Tolkien as a relatively straightforward biographic really happened to J.R.R.?” moments. period piece. Apart from the Middle If a viewer isn’t familiar with the Earth-hinting hallucinations on the TOLKIEN books that the protagonist will go on French battlefield — which make to write, then Tolkien would seem like Rated PG-13 for striking visuals, with fatal bullet a tale of an arty World War I vet who Directed by Dome Karukoski wounds being orcs’ blades and poiStarring Nicholas Hoult, suffered from hallucinations. The son gas billowing into the form of the film’s structure and performances are Lily Collins, Patrick Gibson Witch-king of Angmar — there’s not sturdy enough, but the background much flash to the cinematography, knowledge is essential. but everything goes down with smooth believThe story begins in French trenches during ability. WWI, as Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) embarks on a The continually excellent Hoult gets the most journey to find his old friend Geoffrey, who hasn’t out of a man who mostly lived on the level, inbeen heard from in weeks. He’s accompanied, jecting moments of pathos like when his jealousy much to his own reluctance, by one of his soldier spikes watching Edith engage in stirring converpals, Sam (Craig Roberts), who cares for an ailing sation with Rob about Wagner’s Ring cycle. It’s a Tolkien on their prolonged quest. If you’re familiar Golem-esque moment of Tolkien treating Edith with Lord of the Rings, it’s incredibly on-the-nose, like his precious possession, which unfortunately nudge-nudge, do-you-get-it parallel storytellis a bit like how the film treats her. While Collins ing, and the film continually cuts back to this plays Edith as a near intellectual equal to Tolkien, flash-forward thread while exploring Tolkien’s the narrative essentially turns her into an almost younger days. mythical creature — an elven princess — that only The main thread follows Tolkien’s challengexists to love (or not love) him. ing upbringing, which began with moving from The overall execution of Tolkien is solid and the Shire-like English countryside to the Mordorhits on the emotional notes you’d expect from esque industrial darkness of Birmingham after wartime brutality, but its appeal is pretty limited his father died, only for his mother to die young beyond the author’s legions of devotees. Cinema as well, leaving he and his brother orphaned whose primary existence is “let’s spell out the (though, oddly her death is blown past without allegories of more popular movies/books” can’t explanation, and the brother plays no role in the help but feel a bit hollow in the end. n

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A Tale of Two Singers Mudhoney’s Mark Arm and the Derelicts’ Duane Bodenheimer are bringing the ’90s to the 21st century BY C.A. COYLE

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’ve been a fan of the Derelicts since the first time around,” says Mark Arm, frontman of mainstay Seattle punk outfit Mudhoney. Fellow Seattle combo the Derelicts will share the bill with Mudhoney at the new Lucky You Lounge on May 11, as well as the Dacres Winery in Walla Walla the night before. “I imagine people [will be] sipping their merlot and chardonnay while the Derelicts [are going] ‘WAAAAHHHHHH,’” Arm chuckles. Both bands started roughly within six months of each other in Seattle, in the era known as the calm before the grunge storm. Duane Bodenheimer, voice of the Derelicts, recalls getting into what turned out to be a

playful rumble with Arm at a house party in 1987. “I think I called him a hippie,” says Bodenheimer. “Or, ‘Get a haircut,’ or something like that. He made a snide remark back at me, we kinda wrestled on the ground for a while, and then just ended up laughing. We became friends after that.” Arm has had the privilege of having one foot in the dingy, urine-scented punk-club circuit and the other in the household-name rock star crowd for the better part of 35 years. A CliffsNotes summary of Mudhoney would deem the band as the runt of the grunge litter, and the last living authentic grunge band for those who consume and embrace ’90s flannel culture. But for most

others, Mudhoney is a snarky, freakishly talented group of punk record geeks who were in the right place at the right time. Always channeling (and championing) influences, the Mudhoney you’ve heard on record since 1988 has been relatively consistent. Thrown into a blender is Black Flag, the Stooges, Leigh Stephens-sounding fuzz and the grit of ’70s and ’80s Australian punk. Sometimes primitive garage ruckus like the Troggs makes its way into the mix, as do surges of ’80s hardcore like Negative Approach or Government Issue. One element in the makeup of Mudhoney that has ceased to regress is the dark satire and brilliantly ...continued on next page

Mark Arm (left) and Mudhoney. EMILY RIEMAN PHOTO

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MUSIC | ROCK “A TALE OF TWO SINGERS,” CONTINUED... uncomfortable humor that coats the lyrics. Arm has had fun mocking plenty of sensitive topics over the years: grunge fandom in 1992’s “Suck You Dry,” pro-life rhetoric in 1995’s “F.D.K. (Fearless Doctor Killers)” and the reality of what social media has become in last year’s “Kill Yourself Live.” Though Arm laughs off the possibility of satire going extinct, he does acknowledge more people are rejecting any form of expression outside of their comfort zones. “The way that things are going with ‘fake news’ — and I’m talking about the real fake news, like conspiracy shit that gets thrown around on social media — people are predisposed to want to believe a certain thing,” Arm says. “And no matter how outrageous [it is], it sort of reinforces their view system to just go with it.” If Arm’s lyrical content mostly focuses on ever-growing societal absurdities, the man who’ll be howling before him this weekend tends to exorcise demons from within. Bodenheimer and the Derelicts let this be known on the band’s upcoming LP Life of Strife, due out on Digital Warfare Records next month. The title track is the epitome of the Derelicts’ attack: Dwarves-like octane, Poison Idea-like filth, and all the walloping that comes with genuine street punk.

The Derelicts’ Duane Bodenheimer.

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Life of Strife will mark the first full-length from the Derelicts since 1989’s Love Machine. A handful of singles, EPs and appearances on compilations peppered the years following their debut, but any momentum the band had in the early ’90s was derailed by excessive partying and the heroin bug that has plagued countless musicians. The band’s implosion occurred right around the time Seattle was the epicenter of pop culture (and right around the time Mudhoney landed a major label deal). Thus, the Derelicts folded. “I went head-on into drug addiction,” Bodenheimer admits. “I lost everything, I was homeless. I almost lost an arm and a leg… literally.” After relocating to Denver, Bodenheimer got clean and was inspired to start making music again after seeing his old friends in Seattle hardcore band Zeke come through Mile High City. A friend would later suggest to Bodenheimer that his former band should reunite, and in 2014 — more than 20 years after the breakup — the Derelicts returned to the stage together at Capitol Hill’s metal club the Highline. Retooled with a new rhythm section, the Derelicts have recaptured the menacing live show that escaped their grip a quarter-century earlier. When asked what the biggest difference is between the two incarnations of the Derelicts (aside from age or health), Bodenheimer says with a laugh, “We don’t physically hit each other anymore.” n Mudhoney and the Derelicts • Sat, May 11 at 9 pm • Sold out • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset • luckyyoulounge.com

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Don’t Call It a Comeback

Spokane psych-rock faves Blackwater Prophet.

Several years after falling apart, local psych-rock trio Blackwater Prophet get their groove back BY CHERRI COVILLO

lackwater Prophet is a Spokane symbol. You can still find their stickers on laptops, guitar cases and car bumpers driving around town, even though the group has been broken up for ages. In recent years, the members have gone on to form other musical projects around the Pacific Northwest, and they left a trail of influence on numerous other local bands. Blackwater Prophet started as a two piece in 2011 with Garrett Zanol on guitar and Bryan Coats on drums. Zanol and Coats have been playing music together since they were 13 years old, and if you were to do the math, that’s 15 years total now. Shortly after, they added Nicholas Parker (known more commonly — and henceforth — as “Beav”) on bass, and their sound became a psychedelic rock ’n’ roll trip, heavy distortion coupled with moving melodies. “When we first started, it wasn’t a goal to make the band great,” Beav says. “All three of us played music and we liked to drink together, and we get along really well.” “Yeah, we didn’t play a show for the first two years of being a band. We would play in my attic,” Zanol adds. “The band formed on being shit-faced drunk all the time.” In their lifetime, Blackwater Prophet released three recorded projects — a short demo compilation, a self-titled album and a third LP titled Ghost — which they recorded, produced and released themselves. Shortly after their last independent release, they were contacted by record companies that were starting to get wise to the Prophet. “We were going to sign with Small Stone Records out of Detroit,” Zanol recalls. “They were super pumped on it and were going to give us this rad package. We had never really taken Blackwater super seriously. They were going to re-record the Ghost album and release it on every

platform. It was going to be a cool experience to be a part of a label. Then life just took a fat shit.” “We hit a peak,” Beav says. “Labels were interested in us, and all of a sudden it fell apart.” Zanol, now half of the local rock duo Indian Goat, attributes the band’s demise to his drinking his ass off and getting in trouble, and to drummer Bryan Coats not being “stoked to live in Spokane anymore” and moving to Seattle. “I wanted to make it a career,” Zanol admits, “but I totally just lost a grip on why we were even playing music.” Zanol says that they’ve been trying to get a reunion show together for a long time. Finding a venue, getting local support and revisiting the material would be easy. The challenge was simply getting all three band members together in the same place at the same time. When that finally did happen, the groove came back right away and the feeling in the room was electric. “It was f---ing awesome,” Beav recalls. “It felt like when I was 19. It felt great. After the first set, Garrett was like, ‘Look! I have goosebumps!’ … Blackwater ended because all three of us were kind of not in the right place. There was a lot of tension. But the reason we’re playing this (show) is because it really clicked again.” They’ll be bringing that same fresh, reborn energy to the Big Dipper this weekend, with some new songs and all the old hits for the longtime fans. “When we practiced a couple weeks ago, it was the first time we’d practiced in over a year,” Zanol says, “and we played [the songs] better than we had when we were still practicing.” n Blackwater Prophet Reunion Show with Tiny Plastic Stars and Fat Lady • Sat, May 11 at 8 pm • All ages • $8 advance, $10 at the door • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8101

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In 2018 100% of TCS students graduated “I love that my child is emotionally and on time and were accepted to the post high physically safe and they come home happy!” – Joy, TCS parent school program of their choice. “I actually like going to school now! I had new friends on the first day.” – Tylar, TCS Junior

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A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Jan Harrison Jazz BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Boogie J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Downtown Jam J BUCER’S, Open Jazz Jam CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Grateful Dead Jam Night J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LIBERTY LAKE CELLARS, Jimi Finn MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Jake Robin O’SHAYS, O’Pen Mic Thursdays ONE WORLD CAFE, Dustin Sipes & Natalie Greenfield J THE PIN, Lord Dying, Year of the Cobra, Carved in Bone POST FALLS BREWING, Rusty Jackson RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. William Nover RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR, Jam Series THE ROXIE, Chuuwee, Bendi, Project Kid, Jordan Taylor and more SPOKANE TRIBE CASINO, Party on the Patio with Perfect Mess THE STEAM PLANT, Ron Greene ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Friday, 05/10

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Groove Nation 3RD WHEEL, Dead Thrall, Ancient Burials, Death Illuminate A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Shanner

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rt Garfunkel became famous as one-half of an iconic duo, the soaring tenor to Paul Simon’s more measured vocals. And while Simon and Garfunkel’s work is still some of the best of the ’60s, let’s not forget that he has produced several solo albums, he’s had a career as an actor in challenging (and really good) ’70s arthouse films like Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge and Bad Timing, and he’s a published writer — his stream-of-consciousness, poetry-filled memoir What Is It All But Luminous was released in 2017. Garfunkel’s upcoming “In Close-Up” tour showcases his interpretations of traditionals and all those Simon and Garfunkel classics. And, of course, that stunning voice. — NATHAN WEINBENDER

ROCK SPENCER KRUG

Art Garfunkel: In Close-Up • Thu, May 16 at 7:30 pm • $40-$75 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

here are certain artists who simply can’t sit still for long, who always seem to be reinventing themselves and putting new irons in the fire. Spencer Krug is a musician like that. He’s probably best known as one-half of Wolf Parade, but he’s also fronted interesting side projects like Sunset Rubdown, which released a series of adventurous and underrated albums in the late 2000s, and the ongoing Moonface, which has run the gamut from stately piano balladry to experimental electronica. Regardless of style, it’s all buoyed by Krug’s sonorous baritone, one of indierock’s most distinctive, and his ear for unusual but captivating melodies. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Spencer Krug • Sat, May 11 at 8 pm • $15 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Wylie and the Wild West THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOBBI’S BAR & GRILL, Redneck Robb BOLO’S, Dangerous Type BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Wine and Music Festival with Sammy Eubanks & Zach Cooper Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Phoenix Blues THE BULL HEAD, Jesse Quandt J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Guitar Students of Son of Brad CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Tod Hornby CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Theresa Edwards & Vern Vogel CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Dave McRae CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle EICHARDT’S, Ron Kieper Jazz Trio

J FORZA COFFEE CO. (SOUTH), Katie Fisher J FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Starlite Motel HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, Krista Hojem J HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Just Plain Darin IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Muffy and the Riff Hangers IRON GOAT BREWING, Jon ‘n’ Jason IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale JOHN’S ALLEY, The Maple Bars J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Heart Strings feat. Craig Campbell, Brandon Lay, Lauren Alaina & Bryan White MARYHILL WINERY, Scott Linklater & Pete Cowger MATCHWOOD BREWING, Red Blend MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Dodgy Mountain Men

MOONDOLLARS BISTRO, Dallas Kay MOOSE LOUNGE, The Cronkites MULLIGAN’S, Truck Mills NASHVILLE NORTH, Tyler Rich [SOLD OUT] O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots OLD MILL BAR & GRILL, Steve Starkey ONE WORLD CAFE, Heat Speak PACIFIC PIZZA, Salt PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Scott Taylor J THE PIN, The Faded & Underrated Tour ft. Kuttl3ss, MajorGang, Diz Dean RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR, DJ Steve Baker THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West ZOLA, Whisk&Keys

Saturday, 05/11

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Fred Bauer Band 3RD WHEEL, Stoned Evergreen Travelers, Dog Bite Harris, Faith & Fable, James Hunnicutt 219 LOUNGE, Dash Duo A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJs Exodus and Skwish J BABY BAR, The Emilys, The Howls (6pm, all ages); Andy Human and the Reptoids, Big Raffle, Ex-Pets (9pm, 21+) J J THE BARTLETT, Spencer Krug (see facing page) BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Blackwater Prophet Reunion Show (see page 55) with Tiny Plastic Stars and Fat Lady BOLO’S, Dangerous Type BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA, SideStep

BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Bobby Patterson Band & more J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Palouse Forro Experience THE BUZZ, Pamela Jean COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Pat Coast CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle FREDNECK’S, Just Plain Darin GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Slow Cookin’ J THE GRAIN SHED, The Tourist Union HAPPY TRAILS TO BREWS, Lake Classic Rock THE HIVE, Zach Cooper Band J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Jody Piper IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Brad Keeler IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Mountains in the Sea IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Sol Seed LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Brian Jacobs J THE LOCAL DELI, Ally Burke J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Mudhoney, The Derelicts (see page 53) MARYHILL WINERY, Kari Marguerite MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MOOSE LOUNGE, The Cronkites

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MOSCOW BREWING COMPANY, The Range Benders MULLIGAN’S, Krista Hojem NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Colin Hay (see page 40) ONE TREE CIDER HOUSE, Son of Brad PACIFIC PIZZA, DJ Lydell PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Jake Robin POST FALLS BREWING, Tod Hornby RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR, Karaoke with Tom STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Karaoke J TOTAL TRASH RECORDS, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter WESTWOOD BREWING, Kyle Swaffard ZOLA, Whisk&Keys

Sunday, 05/12

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, One Street Over BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, SideStep THE BUOY, Kosh CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Land of Voices LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brittany Jean THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin

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Monday, 05/13

J BING CROSBY THEATER, Michael Jackson Tribute Concert THE BULL HEAD, Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts, Pamela Jean J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Crawl, Corpse Shadow CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Tommy G COSMIC COWBOY, Echo Elysium CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Savoy Brown RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 05/14

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Dirty Heads, The Hip Abduction LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue. LITZ’S, ShuffleDawgs Blues Hour MOOTSY’S, Hemwick, Pound, Thrpii J THE PIN, Carnifex, Oceano, Prison RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Tod Hornby THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 05/15 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Denis Zwang J THE BARTLETT, Bea Troxel, Gabriella Rose BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Joey Anderson CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Just Plain Darin THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Dave McRae THE PIN, Lil Debbie / DEV RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ZOLA, Cruxie

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Vytal Movement Dance is Spokane’s only professional modern dance company.

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PERFORMANCE TIMELY TRIBUTE

Spokane’s only professional modern dance company, Vytal Movement Dance Co., has been choreographing, rehearsing and perfecting its latest performance since last fall. Tribute is now ready to be unveiled to the public. The concert, which includes two evening performances, honors the life and legacy of Washington state-born, modern dance pioneer Merce Cunningham, 100 years after his birth. Vytal Movement artistic director and founder Vincas Greene conceptualized and choreographed two works premiering for Tribute, set to new music by local composer Sy Hovik. The Spokane company’s dancers are being joined for the show by guests from Bellingham Repertory Dance for their first Inland Northwest performance, featuring three dances. — CHEY SCOTT Vytal Movement Dance & Friends: Tribute • Thu, May 9 and Fri, May 10 at 7:30 pm • $15-$24 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • vytalmovement.org • 227-7638

MUSIC PRINCE OF STRINGS

It’s been five years since Prince batdanced off to the big Paisley Park in the sky, and the tribute shows have — no surprise — been coming out of the woodwork. But 4U: The Music of Prince isn’t your standard Prince revue fronted by a lookalike: It features both a live rock band and a symphonic orchestra putting a genre-bending twist on Prince’s catalog, from radio hits to lesser-known B-sides to a few previously unreleased tracks. The Roots’ Questlove was one of the guiding forces behind the project, and it was also approved by Prince’s estate, so you know it’s legit. — NATHAN WEINBENDER 4U: The Music of Prince • Thu, May 16 at 7:30 pm • $32.50-$67.50 • All ages • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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FOOD TRUCKIN’

It’s well known to food geeks that some of the best grub in the region is found not in brick-and-mortar restaurants, but in soupedup food trucks that deliver everything from high-end bites to delectable street food. The trick, of course, is tracking your favorite trucks day to day to where they’re serving up the goods. Consider that problem solved with the Fifth Annual Grubbin’ Food Truck Festival, where 18 trucks will set up shop near Mac Daddy’s in North Spokane. One $30 ticket gets you food from all of them, and there’s a beer garden on site as well. My advice: Eat light Friday night and pace yourself through a long afternoon of tacos, and barbecue, and ice cream, and grilled cheese, and… — DAN NAILEN Grubbin’ Food Truck Festival • Sat, May 11, noon-5 pm • $30 • Mac Daddy’s Gourmet Grub parking lot • 415 W. Hastings Rd. • grubbinspokane.com

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Central Basin Community Concert Association 2019-2020 Concert Series - 65th Season

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Burlap to Cashmere

Pop, Jazz, Country, Spiritual, Cabaret Styles

Greenwich Village Music Scene (Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel)

Monday, October 21, 2019 • 7:00 pm

COMMUNITY CATS IN THE STACKS

It’s raining kittens! No, really, it sort of is. Spring brings with it “kitten season,” when countless little balls of fluff are born to unspayed, roaming cat moms, many entering the world only to be carted off to a shelter, foster home or… the library. For its celebration of National Pet Week, the Spokane Public Library and Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service (SCRAPS) are bringing some of these home-seeking cuties for a special pop-up cat cafe! Come meet, play with, snuggle and help socialize the sweet little tinies — all are adoptable, too — and learn more about volunteering and fostering for SCRAPS. The library is serving free coffee to those who stop by at this event open to all ages, though young kids need to come with a grownup. Through May 12, the library also is offering fine forgiveness for patrons who donate pet food at any of its six Spokane branches. — CHEY SCOTT

The Maxwell Quartet from Scotland Classical & Scottish Folk Music Favorites

Thursday, January 30, 2020 • 7:00 pm

Thursday, November 14, 2019 • 7:00 pm

Sons of Serendip Pop, Inspirational, Story Telling (America’s Got Talent #9)

Thursday, March 26, 2020 • 7:00 pm

Concerts held at Wallenstien Theatre Big Bend Community College, 6989 College Parkway NE, Moses Lake WA For more information call (509)771-1353 or (509)760-6908 or visit communityconcertsml.com

Pop-Up Cat Cafe • Sat, May 10 from 3-6 pm • Free; donations accepted • Downtown Spokane Library • 906 W. Main • spokanelibrary.org • 444-5300

MUSIC BEST OF THE FEST

Since the mid-1940s, MusicFest Northwest has been doing more than just encouraging young musicians — it’s making them better. It begins as a weeklong workshop for student performers to have their work evaluated and critiqued by professionals in their respective concentrations, from dance to piano to singing to several brass and woodwind instruments. (Registration, it should be noted, is closed.) Following that, the general public has two chances to see the fruits of their labor at the Fox Theater — a May 15 concert in which young musicians get the chance to perform with the Spokane Symphony, and a final recital on May 17 that will feature some of the festival adjudicator’s picks for best performers. — NATHAN WEINBENDER MusicFest Northwest Young Artist Concert • Wed, May 15 at 7:30 pm • Festival Highlights Concert • Fri, May 17 at 7:30 pm • Free • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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I SAW YOU BEAUTIFUL VALLEY ROSS ATTENDANT You’ll have no idea who I am; but I will never forget meeting you. As I needed a few simple things, our conversation and chit-chat was sadly brief. But oh, how you left an amazingly long-lasting impression on me. Neither simple nor solely beautiful, you are simply beautiful. I wonder, in another place and time would the situation have ended the same? The universe often gives a beautiful soul it’s share of eternal happiness. The daydream spun in my own mind tells it’s own selfish story. With the level of captivation a five minute interaction has stirred in me, time will only tell what amazing things you will unleash on the world. MANITO FLY FISHING INSTRUCTRESS I was with a friend and saw you teaching fly casting from afar. I spoke to you about fly fishing for bonefish and cutthroats. You’re lovely and an artist of the fly cast. Should we talk? Or just share a half lit canyon with river and trout? Somewhere that nobody goes, except the deer? You are the keeper in these waters. Hope to see you again. HANDSOME AT THE RAMEN HOUSE I saw you at King of Ramen on Friday the 3rd. You were wearing maroon and I was wearing yellow and blue.

We caught eyes from across the room and you coyly winked. I had to rush through dinner but you seemed to be enjoying every single bite. I hope to live life with the amount of joy you got from that bowl of noodles. Maybe we can grab a bowl together, soon? SPRINGTIME SMILES I saw you sitting across the table, that smile on your face was lit by the afternoon sun. 70 degrees or hotter, Sunday was one of our warmest days yet - this spring. Your smile was warmer. I was filled with gratitude when I saw how kind you were to no only our shared guests but also the wildlife making themselves present during our lunch hour. The creek sounds, child giggles and your scientific ramblings made up a perfect soundtrack to the weekend. I hope you saw me too — or at least, saw the happiness and appreciation in my eyes.

CHEERS FRIENDLY SPOKANE BLOOMIES! Cheers to the awesome encouragers along the Bloomsday route that pass out free Otter Pops and ice! Cheers to Spokane for such a positive community event! Events like this restore my faith in humanity! Go bloomies! YOU’RE AMAZING! Cheers to the person who found my emerald bracelet at the entrance to the Spokane Club and turned it into the receptionist. Your honesty is greatly appreciated. It was the first gift my husband gave me so many years ago and means so much to me. Thank you. TO ALL THE MOMS Cheers to all the Mom’s, especially those who brave the South Hill trader joe’s, while juggling children and extremely rude and impatient shoppers. Just wanted to remind you, you’re doing a GREAT JOB. A BIG OLD CHEERS TO SPOKANE Huge shout out and cheers to the Spokane

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BOOK BY ITS COVER To the arrogant, judgmental bank teller. If you only knew my long haired, bearded friend

PIZZA JOINT ON FRANCIS To the nice people who covered my tab at the pizza place, thank you so bad. I was having the worst night and not holding together very well. You guys were a refreshing burst of human kindness. Thank you again, I promise to pay it forward. SAVED ME FROM DOOMSDAY Thank you to the kind woman who gave $2 to a forgetful dad on Bloomsday so that his exhausted 6 year old daughter could get a cold treat after Doomsday Hill. You were our hilltop hero and kept us going in high spirits!

JEERS I SAID NO I work at 5 am and get coffee at the Zip Trip on NW Blvd every day. On Monday 4/29 I was approached by a women asking for money. I replied sorry I can’t help. Then as I’m leaving the store your boyfriend or friend stood by my car calling me a piece of s$%t and to f$%k off since I had a nice car and that I should be able to afford a dollar with what I drive... Seriously!!!

as I do, maybe you wouldn’t have been so quick to push your way in front of your more professional coworker to refuse to cash his SSI check. This amazing talented man made more money as a musician than you will ever see in your shallow, petty life if that is what means the most to you. He was also very generous to others. Unfortunately health problems make it impossible for him to work now. I hate to wish evil on anyone, but I hope someday you have an accident, illness, injury that prevents you from making a living and requires you to depend on the government and the kindness of other people. May you never have to deal with one like you. And yes I did report you to your manager. 20 MPH AND MANITO PARK ON GRAND I am blown away how many of the early morning commuters, 5:30 am-6:00 am M-F, who travel past Manito Park going anywhere from 30 to 50 MPH. WHAT. It’s posted 20 MPH and there is a speed sign flashing at you. Perhaps a sting is long past due, just think of all the funds in speed fines could go to fixing our streets.

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BENEFIT CATHOLIC CHARITIES GALA The 11th annual fundraising event benefits the services and programs of Catholic Charities Eastern Washington. The gala celebrates the work of our programs and honors individuals who have made significant contributions to Catholic Charities Eastern Washington. May 10, 5:30 pm. $80-$125. Davenport Grand, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. cceasternwa.org/gala PJALS BENEFIT W/ MANDY MANNING Join the Peace & Justice Action League for appetizers and dessert with Spokane’s National Teacher of the Year, Mandy Manning. May 10, 7-8:30 pm. $50. Community Building, 35 W. Main. pjals.org KITTEN SHOWER The annual event to raise funds and collect donated supplies to help care for kittens taken in by the Spokane Humane Society. Traditional baby shower refreshments are served; bring a cash donation or see link for donation request list. May 11, 2-4 pm. Free. Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana. spokanehumanesociety.org SPOKANE WOMEN’S GARDENS BENEFIT Fruit Hill Farm, a new nursery and garden in Spokane Valley (4013 N. Argonne) hosts its grand opening with games and activities for kids and shopping from local vendors/artisans. A raffle also benefits Spokane Women’s Gardens, a nonprofit for victims of domestic violence. May 12, 10:30 am-4:30 pm. Free. fruithillfarm.net MOWTOWN DOWNTOWN Meals on Wheels Spokane’s annual event with live music, wine and beverages, dessert

and appetizers, and live/silent auctions. All proceeds help provide meals to local homebound seniors. May 16, 6:30-10 pm. $100. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. mowspokane.org (509-465-3591)

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) THE REAL ___S OF ___VILLE Join the BDT for an all-improvised parody of reality show life, luxury and self-indulgence. Rated for general audiences. Fridays at 7:30 pm, May 10-June 14. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Rated for mature audiences. May 4 and 11 at 7:30 pm; continues Fridays at 7:30 pm May 25-Dec. 28. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (822-7938)

COMEDY NIGHT Mark Morris Comedy returns to Rockford for one night, featuring 2018 Seattle International Comedy Competition runner-up Phillip Kopczynski and 2014 SICC winner Nathan Brannon. May 17, 9-10:30 pm. No cover; 2 item min. Harvest Moon Restaurant, 20 S. First St, Rockford. (530-363-8585)

COMMUNITY NERDCRAFT NIGHT SCHOOL: BOARD GAME PROTOTYPING Learn the fundamentals of board game design and create a working prototype for your own tabletop gaming experience. You’ll get a chance to create the board, cards, pawnsand everything else needed for an immersive, fun game. May 7 and 9 from 6:30-9:30 pm. $50. Spokane Print & Publishing Center, 1925 N. Ash. facebook. com/spokaneprint/ DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing, and build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Second/fourth Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org POP-UP CAT CAFE Drop in to visit some kitten friends, courtesy of SCRAPS. Includes cat toys and treats for feline visitors, with free coffee for human visitors and adoption and volunteer information for those interested. May 10, 3-6 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org A WALK THROUGH POVERTY A 30-minute documentary and accompanying art

exhibit by artist Cameron Day exploring the plight and complexity of poverty in the Inland Northwest. Art exhibit: May 10-24 (open daily), film screening May 23 at 7 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org (893-8350) CHINESE INCLUSION IN TELLING WESTERN STORIES This presentation by Dr. Liping Zhu gives a brief overview of the contributions made by Chinese immigrants to the development of the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. May 11, 3:304:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) DROP IN & READ Read great books from Spark’s collection to inspire your own stories, crafts and drawings. Participants may read at their own pace and then choose from writing, arts or crafts activities based on what they have read. Grades K-8. Second Saturday from 2:304 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org FAMCON A one-day family friendly comicon embracing all things pop culture. This event is especially for younger fans (not just Girl Scouts), but all ages are welcome for a day celebrating their geeky side and fandoms including science fiction, super heroes, fantasy and everything in between. Includes a costume contest for ages 16 and under. May 11, 10 am-4 pm. $7/adults; $4/ages 6-17; $20/family of four. Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and N. Idaho, 1404 N. Ash St. (998-9596) FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support library programs, activities, and

services. May 11, 9 am-2 pm. Free. Cheney Library, 610 First St. scldfriends.org KIDICAL MASS (CHIEF GARRY) Kids and their families are invited to this fun, safe, family friendly afternoon bike ride of about 3 miles cycling on anything that rolls. All types of bikes, trailers, Xtracycles, bakfiets, tandems, folding bikes, trikes are welcome. May 11, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Chief Garry Park, 2701 E. Sinto. summerparkways.com NORTH IDAHO VETERANS STAND DOWN An event for veterans and their families to engage with veteran community resources, including healthcare and benefits representatives, organizations providing medical, dental, counseling; assistance with wills, housing, clothing, food assistance and more. Military/VA ID or DD214 required to attend. May 11, 8 am-2 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. stvincentdepaulcda.org SPOKANE GARDEN EXPO The annual event hosts more than 250 garden-related vendors, with free parking, door prizes, seminars, demos, kids activities, a flower show, live music and food trucks. Vendors include plant nurseries, garden stores, suppliers and manufacturers and more. May 11, 9 am-5 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. tieg. org (535-8434) THOROUGH FAIR A day of shopping, food and in-store specials at participating businesses in the North Monroe Business District. Get a punch card to enter to win gift cards. See shop line-up at event link. May 11, 10 am-6 pm. Free. North Monroe Business District, Spokane. bit. ly/2LqZPyU

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Lawn & Garden setting your tomato plants to be healthy all season, ollow these tips for and with a little luck you bigger healthier tomato won’t see any blossom-end plants this year! When you rot at all! When you go to are choosing a spot for your plant your tomato starts tomatoes, pick a nice sunny make sure to cover the first spot, fill it with a welllayer of leaves with soil. draining soil and make This will help with stability sure to pick a fertilizer with and will prevent a lot of high calcium content. This “early season flop”. Be sure will help prevent one of to water your plant in the a tomato growers biggest morning and before the pains, blossom-end rot! By heat of the day to prevent providing enough calcium the plants from being too from the beginning you are wet at night.

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his spring we are celebrating our 50th year selling plants! It all started in 1969 when Scott Creach decided to grow a crop of tomato plants in his backyard on 4th Avenue. The tomato crop did amazing and Mr. Creach found himself with over 9,000 extra plants. Not wanting to let the crop go to waste, Mr. Creach sent his wife Imogene out to try and sell some of the tomato plants to the garden centers along Sprague Avenue. After loading the plants into the trunk of their 1962 Chevy Bel Air, Imogene hit the road and started making deals. Store owners were so impressed with the quality of the tomato plants they bought them by the thousands. There was just one problem, the stores wanted to buy more plants for future years. That was when Jim Fox of Fox Milling suggested that Scott and Imogene should start growing bedding plants for wholesale in the Spokane area. Scott and Imogene replied saying they didn’t know how to raise bedding plants, that’s when

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EVENTS | CALENDAR HEALTH & RESOURCES FAIR More than 20 federal, state and local agencies are available offering support in, domestic matters, nutrition, health care, veterans/elderly services and more. May 12, 12-2 pm. Free. Caritas, 1612 W. Dalke. (326-2249) FAIRVOTE SPOKANE MONTHLY MEETING A meeting on Ranked Choice Voting, a simple, proven upgrade to the way we vote that increases civility between campaigns, gives voters more freedom to choose, and eliminates the issue of spoiler candidates. May 15, 7-8 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. bit.ly/2J5ue2O IDAHO’S CHANGING CLIMATE: A CONVERSATION A dialogue on concerns in Idaho about climate change takes the form of a book discussion based on Barbara Kingsolver’s fictional book, “Flight Behavior.” May 15, 5:30 pm. Free and open to the public. The Innovation Den, 415 E. Lakeside Ave. facebook.com/InnovationDen

FILM DAMMED TO EXTINCTION This film tells the story of Puget Sound’s starving orcas and why four lower Snake River dams must be removed if they are to survive. Filmmaker/EWU grad Michael Peterson and writer Steve Hawley answer questions after the screening. May 16, 7-9 pm. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. dammmedtoextinction.com WILLIAM SHATNER LIVE! Enjoy a screening of the classic “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” on the big screen presented by Lilac City Comicon. Following the film, Shatner shares behind-the-scenes stories. May 17, 7:30 pm. $52-$102. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com

FOOD PARTY ON THE PATIO A summer series at the new Spokane Tribe Casino, with drink (local beer, wine and spirits) and food specials, live music, giveaways and more. Events on May 9, June 13, July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12 from 4-7 pm. Shuttles from area hotels available. Free. Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar, 14300 W. SR Highway 2. inlander. com/spokane/PartyonthePatio/Page SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) THAI-ONE-ON Learn to make authentic red and green curry pastes used in two classic dishes: Thai red curry with shrimp and Thai green curry with chicken. May 9, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030) DINNER WITH CHEF DAVID ADLARD This 10-course meal includes the award-winning chef’s signature dishes as well as some new treats. Full menu at registration link. May 10, 6:30 pm. $150. Washington Cracker Co., 304 W. Pacific. bit.ly/2vm7uU9 FRIDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS Featuring family-friendly trivia from Bent Trivia and beer flights from local breweries. Fridays, 5-8 pm through May. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. bit. ly/2HKsdsS

MOM & SON PIZZA MAKING A handson cooking class with many styles and toppings available. May 10, 5:30-7:30 pm. $40. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd. modernistcooks.com SPRING RELEASE / MOM’S WEEKEND Celebrate moms with special tastings and selections all weekend. May 10, 12-5 pm. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. (927-9463) GRUBBIN FOOD TRUCK FEST Enjoy samples from a selection of 15 Greater Spokane Food Truck Association trucks. All proceeds from beer garden sales supports GSFTA Gives Back. May 11, 12-5 pm. $25/$40. Mac Daddy’s Pub & Grill, 415 W. Hastings. greaterspokanefoodtrucks.com MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH Reserve your spot for brunch, mimosas and time in the orchard’s event barn. May 11-12 from 9 am-3 pm. $25/adult; $12.50/child. High Country Orchard, 8518 E. Green Bluff Rd. highcountryorchard.com (238-9545) RADIO ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY A second anniversary celebration with live music, craft beer from several local breweries, wine, spirits and more. $25/ all-you-can-drink and $3 pints. May 11, 1 pm. Radio Brewing Company, 319 Main, Kellogg. facebook.com/radiobrewingcompany (208-786-6633) TEXTILES & TEA Bank Left celebrates mothers with a Victoria and Albert tea and an exhibit featuring Pullman artist and author, Loraine Manwaring, a nationally recognized textile artist. May 11, 12-3 pm. $18/tea; exhibit free. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St, Palouse. bankleftgallery.com (509-878-8425) MIMOSA SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES A buffet brunch paired with a mimosa bar. Sundays at 9 am and 10:30 am, through May 26. $20. Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens St. nectarcateringandevents.com (290-5182) MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH The 16th annual champagne brunch offers an all-you-can-eat buffet with carving stations, omelettes, a dessert table and a special gift for mom. May 12, 9 am-2 pm. $35/adults, $15/ages 6-12. Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, 6910 S. Ben Burr Rd. ihrc.net (448-1224) MOTHER’S DAY BALLROOM BRUNCH BUFFET Options include a Belgian waffle station, French omelettes, entrees and carving stations, salads, breakfast items, chilled seafood, desserts, pastries and more. May 12, 9 am-1:30 pm. $22-$40. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. (922-6252) MOTHER’S DAY DINNER Chef LJ Klink is back from globe trotting with new flavors for old favorites. Includes spirits from 2 Loons Distillery and local wines. May 12, 4:30 pm. $35-$70. Mont Lamm Events, 7501 Enoch Rd. montlammevents.com (509-276-7636) SPOKANE CRAFT BEER WEEK The annual showcase of craft beer in the Inland Northwest includes 50+ events around the city, including brewery collaborations, beer dinners, tap takeovers, new beer releases and more. See website for complete schedule. May 13-19. spokanecraftbeerweek.com GOURMET GRILLING: STEAK & VEGGIES Students learn fine art of roasting garden veggies, plus dry rubs and marinades for chicken and beef. May 16, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030)

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My boyfriend dumped me and moved out of our place. I’m on the lease and can’t afford to break it, but it still feels like “our place,” and that’s making it hard to move on. My hippie friend said I should burn sage or light a candle and do a “letting go” meditation. Umm, okay. Can you please explain how rituals like this are bogus and unscientific so I can get her off my back? –Annoyed

AMY ALKON As I see it, lingering emotional distress like yours requires serious intervention – like sacrificing a goat on the coffee table. (Possibly two, if one doesn’t get ‘er done.) Just kidding about the goats – but only because you’d have to hire crime scene cleaners afterward, which could get seriously pricey. Research by Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton, among others, actually finds that rituals – symbolic activities we do with some goal in mind – seem to help us feel better: less negative, less anxious, and more in control. Amazingly, this is even true for ritual-doers who don’t believe in the rituals – who think they’re idiotic, embarrassing, and pointless. Annoyingly, researchers aren’t quite sure why rituals have this effect on us. My guess is that we confuse the real with the symbolic. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests our mind is a master spin doctor, creating stories about our behavior that make us look consistent, rational, and smart. And no sooner does it come up with those stories than it turns right around and believes them. In short, our mind is under the impression that we’re not stupid – that if we do something, we must have a good reason. In other words, your friend is on to something – and you might use this to get her onto another thing: a ladder in your living room. I suggest a painting ritual – painting over your old life (in stylin’ new hues, of course) to transform the house you shared with your ex into a colorful new home of your own. Per the research on ritual, ceremony would be an essential part of this – including explicitly calling what you’re doing a “ritual” and saying a few words, the way you would at a funeral. Incorporate a ceremonial tearing-up of a photo of the two of you together, and have your friends chant, “Out, out, Steve! You are no longer welcome here!” Then have everybody accompany you to toss the pieces into the dumpster. Admittedly, this ritual will probably seem seriously silly while you’re doing it, but you can just choose to buy into it and have a good time. While you’re at it, give your friend some props. She was on the right track in helping you rid your home of the Ghost of Boyfriend Past – despite suggesting burning a small bunch of cooking herbs when it probably seemed nothing short of arson would do the job.

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I read in Bon Appetit about this woman who takes all her dates to Olive Garden to see whether they judge her when she pockets all the leftover breadsticks. Okay, whatever. But what I wanna see is whether somebody’s a good person. What kind of dates do you suggest for determining a potential boyfriend’s character and values? –Concerned Woman People often say you can discover a person’s true character from how they treat the waiter. And sure, rudeness to a waiter is a red flag, but it isn’t like we easily identify the sociopaths among us because they summon the server refereestyle, by blowing a whistle. It helps to consider the roots of good behavior – moral behavior, that is: why people are good to other people. Evolutionary cognitive scientists Dan Sperber and Nicolas Baumard explain that “People may behave morally because they intrinsically value doing so – a genuine moral reason – or in order to gain the approval of others.” But there’s a complication: We all care about our reputation and doing things that put us in the best light, which is to say both the worst people and the best people behave better when they know they’re being watched. A person’s true character will come out over time. But there’s a way to speed up the dirtbag detection process: observe a person’s behavior under harsh conditions. In other words, consider getting kidnapped and held hostage together by the Albanian mob – or, if that’s a little impractical for you, go camping or even just hike some challenging trail. When the chips are down (like if you get injured), that’s when you see: Is he there for you, or is he the type to leave you to die in the wilderness? “I’d totally make a tourniquet for you, but this is a $400 Burberry shirt. Good luck!” n ©2018, 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 ANEJO: A TEQUILA & FOOD AFFAIR Explore the mystery of tequila and mezcal in this interactive food pairing event. May 17, 7 pm. $49.99. Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens St. nectartastingroom.com (869-1572)

MUSIC CLAUDE BOURBON: MEDIEVAL & SPANISH BLUES Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and Middle Eastern stylings into uncharted territories. May 10, 7-9 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) HEART STRINGS GUITAR PULL A county music concert in the style of a guitar pull, a tradition in which a group of musicians take turns telling stories and playing songs. May 10, 8 pm. $25$50. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com (624-1200) HERITAGE ARTS ACADEMY: A BROADWAY REVIEW Enjoy favorite songs from some of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time. May 11-12 and 17-18 at 7 pm. $8-$10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. haamoscow.com MOBETTA BROWN & SOUL’D U OUT An evening of energetic jazz, rock, fusion and hip hop with Grammy Awardwinning artist Mobetta Brown. May 10, 7:30 pm. $20. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. bit.ly/2H67kWn CELTIC WOMAN: ANCIENT LAND The group’s new album celebrates the centuries-old Irish tradition of telling stories through song. May 11, 7 pm. $42$153. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA Former SJO Director and local jazz educator/ performer/composer Dr. Dan Keberle returns to the stage to mark the end of the 2018-19 with a show celebrating some true jazz classics. May 11, 7:30 pm. $25-$30. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. spokanejazz.org MOTHER’S DAY CONCERT IN THE PARK An eclectic mix of musical works performed by the NIC Wind Symphony and NIC Chamber Singers. May 12, 2 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. (208-769-3424) ORGAN RECITAL: DR. S. ANDREW LLOYD The Spokane Chapter of the American Guild of Organists hosts this year’s Musicfest Northwest Organ Division Adjudicator, Dr. S. Andrew Lloyd, in recital. Lloyd is a Spokane native, organist and composer. May 12, 4 pm. Free. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org (624-5627) WHITWORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A concert of new and old favorites, including the overture to Johann Strauss’ comic operetta, Die Fledermaus. May 12, 3 pm. $5-$7. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com WINE & SONG A tasting event with wines from Shannon Faye Winery with music by Mike Moudy and Chuck Morel. May 12, 3-5 pm. $25. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave, Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org (509-447-9900) VOICES UNITED Chorale Coeur d’Alene presents a free concert celebrating spring. May 14, 7-8:30 pm. Donations accepted. Peace Lutheran Church, 8134 N. Meyer Rd., Post Falls. ChoraleCdA. com (208-446-2333)

EMMA HILL & BRYAN DASTE This folk/ Americana duo based in Anchorage has a signature sound filled with haunting harmonies and sweeping pedal steel. May 15, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Northern Pacific Depot Railroad Museum, 219 Sixth St., Wallace. (208-752-0111) MUSICFEST NORTHWEST YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT This year’s Young Artist winners perform with the Spokane Symphony. Musicfest Northwest runs May 12-17 with adjudications daily at Gonzaga, all free/open to the public. May 15, 7:30-9:30 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. musicfestnorthwest.org 4U: THE MUSIC OF PRINCE Hear the music of Prince with a full symphony orchestra. May 16, 7:30 pm. $33-$68. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com

SPORTS & OUTDOORS PROVING GROUNDS FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS Local mixed martial arts event presented by Warrior Camp. May 10, 7 pm. $20-$30. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo. provinggroundsmma.com USA GYMNASTICS WOMEN’S LEVEL 9 WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIPS This elite event brings nearly 1,000 athletes and coaches to Spokane. Spectators welcome. May 10-12. $5-$45. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanesports.org LILAC CITY ROLLER DERBY: TRIPLE HEADER A home triple header featuring the Cherry Bomb Brawlers vs. Marysville (Juniors) at 2 pm, Quadforsaken vs Queer Squad (open gender) at 4 pm and the Yetis vs. Rampage at 6 pm. May 11, 1:30 pm. $11.49. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokanecounty.org (477-1766) GRAY WOLVES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Presenter Kile Westerman, Wildlife Conflict Specialist from Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, addresses a variety of topics including wolf identification, management and wolf/livestock interactions. May 13, 6 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us

THEATER VYTAL MOVEMENT DANCE: TRIBUTE An end-of-season dance concert honoring Merce Cunningham with guest company Bellingham Repertory Dance. May 9 and 10 at 7:30 pm. $18-$28. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bit. ly/2XmgQep (227-7404) COMPANY On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. Through May 19; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook.com/lakecityplayhouse/ DIARY OF ANNE FRANK A reader’s theater show directed by Dave Rideout. May 9-11 at 7 pm, May 11 at 2 pm. $10. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway. Libertylaketheatre.com THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES Lead character of this black comedy Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Through May 26; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) SCHOOL OF ROCK Based on the hit

film, this new musical follows a wannabe rock star turned substitute teacher. May 8-11 at 7:30 pm, May 11 at 2 pm, May 12 at 1 and 6:30 pm. $50-$98. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY A delightful comedy about four Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, Through May 11; Fri-Sat at 7 pm; Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater May 11 ($30) at 6 pm. $5-$10. StageWest Community Theatre, 639 Elm, Cheney. (309-9929) PAW PATROL LIVE! It’s Pirate Day and Ryder needs all paws on deck as he and the PAW Patrol discover a secret treasure map. May 14-15, times vary. $22$117. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com

ARTS SANDBOX SILENCE: MEMORIES OF SAND IN PLATINUM Ohr Sofer Studio presents selected prints from the body of work: “Sandbox Silence: Memories of Sand in Platinum, a Platinum & Palladium Photographic Exhibition. Includes an artist lecture at the Sn-W’ey’mn (Bldg. 24, Room 110) at 12:30 pm, followed by a reception at the SFCC Photographic Gallery (Bldg. 11. Exhibit runs May 9-June 14. May 9, 12:30-2 pm. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (509-533-3500) FIGURA VERSATIL An art collaboration featuring work by Allen and Mary Dee Dodge, Rinaldo Gil Zambrano and Ashley Vaughn. Reception includes live music by Rhys Gerwin. May 10, 5-8 pm. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth. emergecda.org THE ART OF GEORGE CATLIN A selftaught artist, Catlin is known for his extensive travels across the American west, recording the lives of Native Americans in a collection of images. May 11, 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) WEST CENTRAL ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR Nine local resident artists and arts enterprises invite the public to their working spaces and studios to share what they make and do. Venue list at link. Free. May 11 from 10 am-6 pm. westcentralartistsstudiotour.com

WORDS LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER A live storytelling event that celebrates the beauty, heartbreak, trials and triumphs of motherhood. May 12, 7 pm. $20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com AUTHOR NICOLE CHUNG Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and others, Chung’s “All You Can Ever Know” is a memoir of family secrets and finding your roots. May 14, 7 pm. $7. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) PETE FROMM: A JOB YOU MOSTLY WON’T KNOW HOW TO DO The awardwinning author’s new book beautifully captures people who, isolated by land and by their actions, end up building a life that is both unexpected and brave. May 14, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) POETRY NIGHT AT AUNTIE’S A night of poetry and reading with Francesca Bell, Tiffany Midge, Martha Silano and local favorite Maya Jewell Zeller. May 15, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. bit.ly/2Ya6nDq n

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