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e entrust teachers with our children, and on those rare occasions when a teacher violates that sacred confidence, we’re left to ask a most basic question: How could it happen?

Staff writer Wilson Criscione explores that question and many others in this week’s special report, POWER AND THE PUPIL (page 20). In the end, lots of people keep an eye out for trouble — from local districts to state regulators and even law enforcement agencies — but our reporting reveals significant gaps in the system created to protect children.

Red flags are ignored, complaints of misconduct aren’t investigated and, in at least one instance, a teacher accused of rape isn’t questioned by detectives.

As Richard Lewis, a Spokane attorney who has represented victims of abuse in schools, tells us: “You can have the best laws in place to protect the children, but if the people in the building don’t take the complaints seriously, then the children are all still at risk.”

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onzaga’s Mother’s Day celebration ushered in our season of college commencements — those memorable shows for students and family. Still, we know they can be tedious, even jolting affairs. Cotton Mather, on the day of Harvard’s celebration in 1717, wrote in his diary: “This day, being our insipid, ill contrived anniversary solemnity which we call Commencement I chose to spend it alone.”

Mather anticipated the student-selected “frat bro” who, without laying a glove on coherence, yammered on for more than 15 minutes at our son’s University of Washington graduation.

Or how about honoring the highest GPA in the graduating class — the bright-eyed student who majored in sports management?

Or any job-training program posing as an academic major, which brings us to the subject of liberal arts education in the time of college as merely preparing you for a job. We refer to this as neoliberalism.

Let’s be clear: Such a student should be proud of his accomplishments. He took all the rigorous core courses, which included philosophy, religious studies, mathematics and more.

Still, I have a problem honoring any student at a liberal arts school who didn’t major in the liberal arts — philosophy, religious studies, English literature, history, foreign language study, physics, geography, the natural sciences and mathematics.

Or the performing arts and the social sciences like psychology, anthropology, economics, sociology and political science.

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uch is at stake. “Education,” argues Henry Giroux, in his book Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, “has been removed from its utopian possibilities of educating young people to be reflective, critical and socially engaged agents.”

And civics? Defined as the study of the theoretical and practical aspects of citizenship, the duties of citizens to each other as members of a political body and to the government — well, civics has disappeared altogether. Instead of producing citizens, corporate America wants what Giroux refers to as “robots, technocrats and trained workers.”

Moreover, job training, especially if packaged in credentialing (licensing is both different and necessary), serves as a closed shop. It shuts down access and fails to recognize knowledge.

Consider: You are well-read, know your way around libraries and have computer skills. Yet if you don’t have a library science degree — the credential — you aren’t qualified to work as a librarian. (Years back, librarians at EWU actually expressed shocked dismay when they discovered that the Librarian of Congress didn’t have a library science degree.)

Say you are great with kids, love books, communicate well and have demonstrated classroom talent. Without that “Ed” credential? No job.

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Thus we’d never get a Theodore Sizer, who was an English major, later an education dean and author of the Horace trilogy on school reform.

Or if you are well-informed and well-read on urban life and problems, but don’t have a planning degree and thus aren’t “qualified” for a job in any city planning department. Too bad for Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford — neither of whom were credentialed planners.

No criminal justice credential? Then you won’t qualify to work in criminal justice. Meaning that, these days, the James Q. Wilsons of the world need not apply.

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t wasn’t always this way. We used to have a kind of apprentice system. (The trades still do — from apprentice to journeyman to master.) In my early 20s, I worked as a copy boy for The Washington Post. After a few months of running copy, I was sent off to cover a church service and write a short column on the sermon for the Post’s Sunday church supplement. A Post writer? Hardly. I was just an apprentice learning the craft. Up by the ranks, they called it. Had I stayed at the paper I would have moved on to the “ghoul beat” — manning the police radio late at night. I had not taken a single class in journalism, but no matter, I was being given a chance to learn on the job.

I left the Post for a job with the Navy as a budget analyst. I told my interviewers that I had majored in political science and minored in history — that I knew nothing about budget analysis. “That’s OK,” said the tall man at the end of the table, “you will learn how we do things over the next few months. And besides, you couldn’t learn this in college anyway.”

He made it clear that they were looking for critical thinking, good writing and communication skills. To boil it down, they valued a liberal arts education and I would start out as an apprentice. That’s the kind of opportunity neoliberalism has removed from the equation.

As Giroux observes, with universities becoming ever more closely associated with corporate America (held hostage, even), they face more difficult challenges as they attempt to maintain their claim to being places of distinction, essential to the very idea of democracy — havens for thought, creativity and inquiry.

If at commencement we don’t draw the distinction between this and job training, what is the purpose of the ceremony? Yes, it’s a show and a celebration, but is that all? Somewhere in there we need to recall the purpose and ideals of a classic American liberal arts education. n

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Facebook is huge: 222 million users in North America huge, with 40 percent of online news traffic originating from the social media site. That’s why an internal company poll asking CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG whether or not employees should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017,” along with comments from former employees that they “routinely suppressed” conservative news from the site’s “Trending” topics section, drew concern from the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, among others.

SEN. JOHN THUNE (R-South Dakota) sent a letter to Facebook asking for transparency in explaining how the alleged manipulation occurred. Facebook has denied manipulating content, but unlike Twitter, whose content is an unfiltered look at overall internet content, Facebook’s “News Feed” and “Trending” sidebar are inorganic representations of what users are viewing on the site, which raises speculation into how Facebook could wield its theoretical power. Indeed, a 2012 study determined that Facebook’s “get out the vote” message in 2010 generated 340,000 more votes nationwide.

According to legal analysts, Facebook is no more beholden to Sen. Thune or the federal government than a news organization — First Amendment and all. (MITCH RYALS)

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In the same district, SHAR LICHTY, an organizer for the Peace and Justice League of Spokane who ran unsuccessfully for Spokane mayor last year, has filed to challenge Republican Rep. JEFF HOLY. She’s running on a platform of increased education funding, a higher minimum wage, mandated paid sick leave for workers and single-payer health care.

The race for Washington’s 5th Congressional District is looking a lot like 2014 so far. CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS has filed to keep her seat representing most of Eastern Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives. JOE PAKOOTAS, a businessman and member of the Colville Tribe who challenged the high-ranking congresswoman two years ago, has again filed to run against her as a Democrat. Independent candidate DAVE WILSON, who ran in 2014 for the seat, is also making another go of it. (JAKE THOMAS)

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COMMENT | MEDIA when they believe others are not voting. Consequently, rants about how nobody votes anymore actually increase the problem and lead to even more people not voting. I worry that even this very column could be adding to the problem.

The second problem with the media’s obsession with telling stories about how people don’t vote and chastising the electorate for not caring is that too often the reality

Research has shown that people are more likely to vote when they believe other people they know are also voting.

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dahoans voted in their primaries earlier this week. I’m writing this before the final vote is known, but here’s a prediction: While a lot of people will have voted, too many people will have skipped an election that often ends up determining the winner.

Here’s another prediction in which I’m confident: There will be a series of editorials and talking heads on local TV decrying low voter turnout and how it damages our democracy. I find these commentaries troubling.

Because here’s the thing: Editorials criticizing the lack of participation in the voting booths actually normalize not

voting.

Research has shown that people are more likely to vote when they believe other people they know are also voting. This fact has led to some underhanded campaign tactics, like those used by Ted Cruz in his presidential run.

Cruz’s campaign sent voters an official-looking “F” scorecard on their voting record and told them how everyone around them was voting more — which often wasn’t the case. The tactic of telling people that their neighbors voted more than they did worked, and Cruz won the Iowa caucus in part based on using the mailing to turn out his base.

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After the 2012 election, there were a series of articles about how many pollsters had gotten the results wrong, some predicting an easy win by Mitt Romney. What was too often buried in these reports was what the pundits missed: A unexpectedly turnout by young, black, and Latino Americans.

Voting is incredibly common. Millions of Americans vote every year, and the way modern elections are won is by getting your supporters out to vote. It’s true that there has been a recent surge in attempting to block voters from the polls through various voter suppression and disenfranchisement laws, but these laws only underline the desire to block a rising electorate, not the lack of one.

The media (including this columnist) need to start talking more about voting, and start to reinforce the basic obligation we all have, emphasizing that millions of us are fulfilling our obligation each year to show up and participate in determining who represents us and our interests.

We talk a lot these days about our nation’s growing distrust of our government. The solution is participation — to transform government back into a force that we control and have ownership of, rather than something beyond our understanding or influence.

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THINfterSKIN? I finished reading Tara Dowd’s latest column, “Wearing Yellow-

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face” (5/12/16), my eyes began rolling and I shook my head. Are you kidding me? Halloween for Pete’s sake! Get over it! My opinion of people like her these days, their skin is too thin. So let us just take this matter of what she was saying, just one step further: only the Japanese should eat at sushi bars? Mexicans should only serve Mexicans at places such as Taco Bell? That would be a guarantee in itself to produce a segregated society, just because we are supposed to be so easily “offended” by everything around us.

LETTERS I am of a mixed race heritage, Send comments to and went through enough hard editor@inlander.com. times when I was a kid growing up.

So I can very easily get actual cases of racism. Northern Idaho was only host to actual racists such as the Aryan Nations for decades. Thus, I can get what it is that actual racists do. What Ms. Dowd does not get, if the “dominant culture” truly had no use for the “protected classes,” they would never bother putting on kimonos, or any other clothing recognized as belonging to another culture. Why should they? As a religious minority (Pagan), am I offended at the use of “witches’ hats” sold in stores during Halloween? Given the bloody history associated with “witchcraft,” and the witch’s hat as a stereotypical accessory of a broom flying old crone, I truly should be. But I am not. How about if Ms. Dowd demonstrates some maturity and just gets over the idea of Heather Lowe dressing for the occasion at a Halloween party.

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BENJAMEN PATRICK SHEPPARD: If you’re stoned or drunk you shouldn’t drive. I’m a stoner and when I hear about this it makes me upset, because weed isn’t as dangerous as alcohol, and for people to drive under the influence of marijuana or booze, we didn’t come this far so that a couple dumbasses would get us in trouble for legalizing it.

BRANDON BRALEY: Numbers tend to go up when you start to look for something you never really looked for previously. Simply having tested positive for it doesn’t mean it was the cause or even a contributing factor.

SAM WEBER: DUI is an acronym for driving under the influence. It’s not drunk driving. Whether it’s alcohol, marijuana or prescription drugs, if you’re impaired, you don’t drive.

Why can’t the pro-MJ people accept this? I hear all kinds of excuses as to “how marijuana isn’t as dangerous as alcohol.” It is what it is. Your mind is altered and you shouldn’t drive because your chances of getting into an accident increase exponentially. If you argue that fact, you need to really examine your train of thought.

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roposals in the city of Spokane don’t always die with a city council vote or a defeat at the ballot box. Instead, they sometimes quietly wither away unattended, like a plant someone keeps forgetting to water. Earlier this year, however, it looked like the city was going to resurrect one of those proposals that had been left to wither.

In March, the council unanimously voted to allocate $15,000 for a study of Main Avenue, with Kendall Yards developer Jim Frank chipping in for an additional $15,000. This, Council President Ben Stuckart suggested, could be a way to visualize what changing Main Avenue to a two-way street could mean for downtown.

“If we talk to urban planners around the country, retail areas actually work better with two-way streets, not one-ways. One-way streets are designed to take people as fast as possible from point A to point B,” Stuckart said.

“When your main retail street is a one-way street, you are inviting people to speed through your downtown and not stop and shop.”

Stuckart lamented that he’s “seen for the last four years a lack of impetus and momentum” on transforming Main Avenue back to a two-way street. The study was an opportunity to change that.

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Theoretically, the votes are there. A majority of councilmembers love the idea of switching Main to two-way, and the rest — including conservative councilmember Mike Fagan — are interested in considering it. And yet, with major downtown businesses skeptical, the proposal to change Main to a two-way street has withered in recent years more than it’s grown.

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Three years ago, it looked like the conversation about converting Main back to a two-way street was finally moving forward.

“For our main commercial boulevard to be a oneway is almost unheard of,” Stuckart said back then. It wasn’t just a matter of business owners frustrated by cars speeding past their businesses on a road too wide for traffic patterns. It was a frustration for tourists trying to navigate through the grid of one-way streets.

Stuckart was lobbying the legislature for funding.

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“I’m going back to talk to most of [the skeptics] to show them real data that suggests that their concerns may not be warranted,” Scott Chesney, then the city’s planning director, told the Inlander in 2013.

But Chesney’s efforts were in vain. “He couldn’t seem to move it forward,” Stuckart says.

In 2014, Chesney said he became frustrated with the apparent lack of support for the idea from his division director, Jan Quintrall.

“We both knew that was going to be an uphill battle,” Quintrall told the Inlander in 2014.

“What we didn’t want to do was create a war with one end of Main with the other.”

The section of Main just west of Division — including small businesses like Revival Lighting and Merlyn’s comic book shop — have been enthusiastic supporters of the change. But bigger businesses further west weren’t on board.

The Cowles Company, which owns the Spokesman-Review and the River Park Square shopping center, was opposed to the idea. So was Dru Hieber, owner of the Parkade parking garage and the Bennett Block. Both, Downtown Spokane Partnership President Mark Richard says, were worried about how such a change to traffic design could impact their parking garages.

With the downtown core thriving, Richard is cautious about messing with a winning formula, especially with discussions over River Park Square’s Nordstrom’s lease looming.

“We make a mistake, the costs are astronomical,” Richard says. “I wouldn’t want that on my name if I was in office, let’s put it that way.”

Quintrall said the city has moved away from the two-way Main discussion as its focus turned to how the street would be affected by developer Walt Worthy’s new Grand Hotel.

Advocates hoping the hotel would provide a boost to the two-way Main efforts were disap-

pointed. Not only does the Grand currently lack retail spaces facing Main, visitors to the Grand can’t even enter from Main Avenue without an access card.

By January of 2015, Chesney had been ousted by Quintrall, Quintrall had resigned, and efforts to change Main had all but been abandoned.

“This was always a casual conversation.

There was no public process that ever happened,” says Julie Happy, spokeswoman for the city of Spokane’s Neighborhood and Business Services division. “There’s no funding that’s ever been allocated.”

It’s a heavy lift. The changes to stoplight signaling alone, Happy says, would cost an estimated $3 million. The Washington State Department of Transportation would have to weigh in on the impact of the change to Division Street.

“There are huge amounts of unknowns,” Happy says.

PRIORITIES

A year ago, Stuckart started talking with Greenstone Homes developer Jim Frank about the possibility of pooling resources to fund a study about how to improve Main. Back then, Stuckart says, it looked like it would be a way to scrutinize the one-way/two-way question.

But the group of city and community stakeholders tasked to design the study, including DSP and River Park Square, quickly concluded Friday that they weren’t going to be able to agree on whether the change to the direction of Main should be part of the study.

Stuckart — typically hard-charging when he has the upper hand, willing to negotiate when he doesn’t — compromised. “We don’t want to end up with a study that just sits up on a shelf,” he says.

Instead, he said the group is focused on three goals it can agree on: Make Main more pedestrian-friendly, build more residential

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“You walk downtown to the east side of Main, there are whole areas that are a barren wasteland,” Stuckart says. But he suggests a lot can be done to fix that — widening sidewalks, adding street trees, creating better lighting — without wading into the two-way debate.

“Maybe you can get to the same endpoint while leaving [Main] one-way for now,‘ Stuckart says.

City Councilwoman Amber Waldref faced the same dilemma as a member of the steering committee tasked with recommending a route for the Central City Line, Spokane Transit Authority’s high-frequency electric bus line.

“Personally, I think two-way Main would be a real boost for the businesses and the vitality downtown,” Waldref says.

Two-way Main advocates hoped the committee would seize on the chance to force the two-way issue — recommending that the Central City Line go down Main in both directions — and get federal grant dollars to help pay for the street’s conversion. But Waldref didn’t want to risk potentially sabotaging the Central City Line’s momentum. In the end, the group settled on a route of Main one way and Riverside on the other.

“We didn’t want to end up it being delayed or controversial, because it was tied into the two-way Main conversation,” Waldref says.

Among the two-way Main supporters, there’s still hope.

Though it may not be anything tangible, Merlyn’s owner John Waite says he senses that opposition to a two-way Main has softened.

While recent projects to add center parking and bump-outs — little sidewalk peninsulas that jut out into the street, making crossing easier and safer for pedestrians — to Main Avenue were designed for a one-way street, they allow for a reconfiguration if Main shifts to a two-way.

In two years, Waldref says, the plan for downtown Spokane — the one that has recommended converting some east-west streets to two-ways since 1999 — will once again come before the council.

Then, perhaps, the two-way Main conversation will once again be resurrected.

“This is our opportunity to nail that down, one way or the other,” Waldref says. “I don’t think it’s over. The conversation is not over.” n

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DRUGS Macklemore joined PRESIDENT OBAMA during his weekly address last Friday to raise awareness about opioid addiction. The Grammy-winning artist, as Obama felt obligated to point out for those who don’t share the president’s affinity for hip-hop, talked about his personal struggle with addiction, rehab and losing one of his best friends to an overdose of painkillers. Obama applauded members of Congress who recently passed bills highlighting the national prescription opioid and heroin epidemics, but said that without funding for treatment and research, it wasn’t enough.

Nationwide, opioid-related overdose deaths have tripled since 2000, and according to the Centers for Disease Control, opioids contributed to 28,000 American deaths in 2014, more than any other year on record. (MITCH RYALS)

VALLEY Ever since Spokane Valley City Manager Mike Jackson was fired in February, then-Councilman DEAN GRAFOS tried to get the city council to consider an outside investigation of the decision, suspecting it was the result of a violation of open-meetings laws by members of the four-person majority.

Last week, with the seats of Grafos and former Councilman Chuck Hafner vacated following their resignations, the matter was placed on the council agenda. But when Councilman Bill Gothmann moved for an investigation of the process, none of the other four councilmembers seconded the motion. Gothmann says he was not surprised that the motion died, “because basically I’m asking them to investigate themselves and if they violated the law. And they chose not to.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Five months after independent investigator Kris Cappel was hired to assess the city’s decisions surrounding former police Chief Frank Straub, she still hasn’t received all the documents she requested from the city of Spokane.

City legal staff have asked for approval to spend an additional $136,000 on outside legal counsel Michael McMahon in its defense against Straub’s civil lawsuit, bringing the total to $185,000. On Monday, City Council President Ben Stuckart drew a line in the sand.

“I’m very concerned the documents have not been released to our independent investigator,” Stuckart told Assistant City Attorney Sam Faggiano. “I cannot vote to spend more money on legal fees to defend the city when the citizens and council’s needs are not being met in the independent investigation.”

There are so many lawyers surrounding the Straub situation — even the lawyers have lawyers. By the Inlander’s count, at least 24 DIFFERENT ATTORNEYS have weighed in on one aspect or another of the Straub controversy. And now, because of Cappel’s difficulty obtaining documents, City Councilman Breean Beggs has proposed adding yet another attorney.

A briefing paper from Beggs last week recommended

that the city council ask the mayor to hire Michael Harrington as a new attorney; Harrington would then retain Cappel. Under that circumstance, the thinking is that Cappel would be able to read city documents without risking waiving attorney-client privilege at a time when the city is embroiled in Straub’s lawsuit.

Councilwoman Karen Stratton, who previously served on the joint committee guiding the direction of the investigation, echoed Stuckart’s intention to stop approving new payments to lawyers until Cappel receives unredacted records.

“I’m fed up. I’m really fed up,” Stratton says. “It’s bordering on ridiculous we can’t make this happen faster and give the investigator what she needs.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

RULES ROLL IN

Coeur d’Alene city staff have unveiled a new set of proposed rules for the city’s largely unregulated FOOD TRUCKS, which have proliferated in the Lake City in recent years.

The new rules are two years in the making and were crafted in response to complaints about the location,

signage, length of stay and waste produced by mobile eateries, says Renata McLeod, the city’s municipal services director and clerk, who estimates that there are 43 food trucks in Coeur d’Alene.

The drafted seven pages of rules, which could be revised by the city council, would require food truck operators to have a seller’s permit, meet fire and electrical codes, operate in commercial zones, provide trash containers and have an approved method of disposing of wastewater and grease, among other requirements. The rules also give the city council the right to revoke a food truck permit if someone closely involved with it has been convicted of a crime involving a minor or LETTERS controlled substances Send comments to within the previous five editor@inlander.com. years.

McLeod says that the level of regulation a food truck will be subjected to under the proposed rules depends on how long they’re parked in a given location. Those that stay more than 180 consecutive days at one location need to be reviewed by city staff and could be subject to building, parking, landscaping and other requirements. McLeod says she’s heard feedback from affected food truck owners, some of whom she says have balked at the proposed rules. But she says that city staff have tried to strike a balance.

“We just really don’t have the staffing for something intense,” she says. “We think this iteration is a pretty simplistic format for everyone to follow and for us to enforce.” (JAKE THOMAS)

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The five-member citizen commission recently renewed Logue’s contract for another four months as applications for the permanent job roll in.

Since then, Logue has worked to create the mold for police oversight and accountability in Spokane — recently visiting three other cities to get a sense of how the job is done elsewhere and developing a set of policies and procedures, which, he says, does not yet exist.

As far as casework, Logue says he has split his time between participating in the fresh internal affairs cases and chipping away at the backlog left from 2015 after former ombudsman Tim Burns left. As of this week, he’s cleared about 25 percent of the backlogged cases that were within the 180day time limit for officers to face discipline. Of the 109 backlogged cases, 82 of them were beyond that deadline. So far, he’s certified nearly 35, and has sent back 20 to the police with more questions. In one of the cases he’s declined to certify, the accused officers weren’t initially interviewed.

In a special meeting of the ombudsman commission last month, city leaders and activists weighed in on potential revisions to the ordinance that gives the ombudsman authority. Much of the criticism was focused on the definition of independence, and whether or not the ombudsman’s office can conduct truly independent investigations, as called for in the city charter. When Logue stepped to the mic, he asked the community to come up with goals, and let those inform an ordinance rewrite.

“We can say independent all day long, but what is the end product that we’re looking for?” he asked a group of about 15 people gathered in council chambers that evening. “That’s what I need, and

that’s what I want, and that’s what I’ll give you as soon as we can define it.”

Since then, Logue agreed to sit down with the Inlander for a more in-depth look at his work. He talked about his visits to police oversight offices in Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, his thoughts on the investigation into Capt. Brad Arleth’s insubordination and how he’s potentially pushing the boundaries of his authority.

“I’m not an advocate for the complainant and I’m not an advocate for the police department,” Logue says. “I’m an advocate for knowing the story and making sure we’ve answered the questions, whatever those answers may be.”

THE ARLETH CASE

The first case Logue reviewed was the investigation into Capt. Brad Arleth, which found that the 24year veteran of the department was insubordinate when he moved furniture from the previous downtown precinct to the new location at the Intermodal Center.

Logue did not sit in on the interviews as he typically does, but rather reviewed the investigatory file before making a decision to certify it as timely, thorough and objective.

“I think for us, being outside of the police department, and really functioning on the premise that we do not affect officer discipline, limits what you can say, for sure,” he says.

That doesn’t mean Logue doesn’t have thoughts on the case.

“The guy is a police captain. I come from an environment where I’m very rank-conscious in the Marines, and we expect people in leadership positions to perform leadership functions,” he says, adding, “I think Captain Arleth was well within his rights to push for appropriate furniture for appropriate facilities. The washrooms not being sufficient for the employees, all those things are minutia, but they’re important for morale. And I think I would

be concerned if he wasn’t thinking about those things, and if he was just accepting whatever task carte blanche.”

Under the ordinance, Logue is allowed to make policy and training recommendations, but is explicitly disallowed from making any disciplinary recommendations.

In other cases, Logue has given informal recommendations to police leadership, either in passing or in a letter, for more training and review. In one of those cases, his review of body camera footage caused him to pause.

Following the investigation, he spoke with Asst. Chief Craig Meidl, Maj. Justin Lundgren, who oversees the internal affairs department, and Sgt. John Griffin, president of the Spokane Police Guild, and suggested that the officer would benefit from watching the body camera footage with a supervisor and talking about what could have been done differently.

“Although the ordinance constrains me to certifying as timely, thorough and objective, I felt I was morally responsible to talk about this case with leadership,” Logue says. “I think this police officer would be professional enough to want to [review the video] and recognize and change behavior — a learning experience. Not a disciplinary thing, not a counsel.”

Currently, Logue says, there is no “neat” mechanism for him to make such suggestions. Even informally, he’s pushing it a little.

He says he plans to make recommendations to define what he can say, and how he can say it, following an investigation.

“Right now I’m just tossing stuff in the wind, and hoping people are paying attention,” he says. “It’s a busy environment over there.”

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

From the beginning, ombudsman commission members have criticized the hiring process, which they say is plagued by feetdragging and weighed down in bureaucracy. It took the selection committee, tasked with producing a pool of three applicants, about six months following Burns’ departure to come up with those three names.

One of the candidates was immediately eliminated from consideration for controversial comments he made on a news website, and the commission decided to hire private investigators to vet the remaining two. Those investigations whittled the pool down to one — Raheel Humayun, who lives in Canada.

By November 2015, Humayun accepted the permanent job on the condition that he could secure a visa within a certain amount of time. The city contracted with a law firm in Bellingham to help prepare that application. The contract was submitted to the city in late November, but went unsigned for more than a month, delaying the application, which eventually was denied.

The next option was to apply for another visa that would have allowed Humayun to start work in Spokane in October.

However, the city’s human resources department delayed filing some paperwork and then ended up sending the wrong document. By the time they realized the mistake, the April 1 deadline had passed.

“They could have filed those documents months earlier when they knew we could end up applying for the [second visa],” says ombudsman commission chairwoman Deb Conklin. “And they didn’t do anything until [Humayun] was turned down. Had they filed the paperwork sooner, there would have been time to fix it, but because they refused to do so until it was too late, there was no room for mistake.”

All totaled — the background investigations and the visa applications and fees — the city spent just over $10,000 on a process that has now started all over, according to city records.

Although he wants to make clear that he respects the integrity of the selection process and does not want to influence the commission’s decision, Logue has applied for the permanent position.

The only potential disqualifier is his address. He lives about four miles into Spokane Valley, and the job description asks for someone within city limits.

“I’m not applying for this job because I love it,” he says. “I’m applying because it’s hard and I can do it. I think we can make a difference here, and it’s a rare opportunity. It’s as challenging a position as I can imagine.” 

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Power and the Pupil How area school districts fail to protect kids from sexually abusive teachers

By Wilson Criscione

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mily Keenan didn’t tell anyone why she was really crying that day in the counselor’s office. The 11-year-old revealed nothing about those occasions when, she says, her sixthgrade social studies and language arts teacher

Emily was in the school counselor’s office because other kids who saw him touch her encouraged her to report it. They joined her in the office because they, too, wanted Mr. Cucinotti to stop teaching for good.

Finally, it worked.

For a period over 16 years, administrators in the Central Valley School District heard a series of complaints from other teachers, students and parents about Cucinotti’s behavior in the classroom, including numerous allegations of him losing his temper, treating girls differently than boys, making sexual comments, touching girls inappropriately and having girls sit on his lap.

A pattern seemed to emerge: School personnel conducted an internal investigation, interviewing Cucinotti and the students involved before finding little evidence of wrongdoing. For what couldn’t be dismissed, Cucinotti was issued warnings and letters of reprimand.

That didn’t stop the inappropriate behavior, which continued until that day in 2009 when a teary-eyed Emily went to the counselor. Cucinotti was put on paid administrative leave soon after and then resigned.

“If there was ever a definition of ‘deliberate indifference,’ I think this case defined it, or reinforced what it can be,” says Emily’s attorney, Dick Eymann.

While Central Valley’s handling of Cucinotti may be an extreme example of a district failing to protect a student from abuse by not fully investigating misconduct allegations, there are others. And when an investigation does find that a teacher committed misconduct, it often results in minimal discipline, as districts are wary of troubled teachers filing lawsuits backed by their powerful union. The state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction also fails to investigate some complaints of misconduct. And teachers, like Cucinotti, are frequently allowed to resign in the midst of an investigation, making it easier for them to find another teaching job.

“Their starting point is that the teacher is probably innocent. And it’s easier to believe an adult,” says Richard Lewis, a Spokane attorney who has represented victims of abuse in schools. “It’s easier just to sweep it

raped her after school. Nor did she report to the counselor that when her teacher, Anthony Cucinotti, snapped her bra minutes before the final bell, he also had whispered in her ear, “I’m gonna do it again.”

under the rug and attribute it to an exaggeration.”

Emily filed a lawsuit in federal court against the school district in 2013 after asserting that Cucinotti raped her five times during the 2008-09 school year. After more than 60 depositions and more than 100 interviews with students who had classes with Cucinotti, the district agreed to pay Emily $2.5 million in a settlement earlier this year. All the money came from the district’s insurance.

“Even now, not a day has passed without something I saw or heard taking me back to those horrible times in the back of his classroom,” Emily says. “I have been validated, but I have a lifelong journey of healing.”

Central Valley released a statement that it settled “to allow the former student to obtain whatever help and counseling she may need to heal and move forward as the result of these claimed actions of Mr. Cucinotti, and to avoid the burden, time, and cost to everyone of a lengthy trial.” The district admitted no liability.

Cucinotti has never been arrested or charged with raping Emily. Spokane County deputies never interviewed him after taking Emily’s statement in 2012, three years after the alleged incidents. Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Gregory says deputies were unable to contact Cucinotti, who had moved to California, before the case was declared inactive in 2013. Cucinotti was found by attorneys in Emily’s lawsuit and deposed in 2014, during which he denied any sexual misconduct.

Cases like Emily’s are not representative of the way all local districts handle complaints of teacher misconduct. Even Central Valley, for that matter, has procedures in place to prevent something like that from happening again. But that still hasn’t changed a system that makes it easier for schools to assume a teacher is innocent — despite complaint after complaint indicating that children may be in danger.

A TROUBLED PAST

By the time Emily was born in 1997, Cucinotti had already been warned about his conduct at Greenacres

Elementary School at least three times.

Cucinotti started teaching at Greenacres in 1992. His first anger outburst documented by the principal was in June 1993, and the principal recommended that Cucinotti consult administrators if he ever felt he was losing control.

Later that year, a student was “visibly shaken” and reported that Cucinotti hit him, records show. Cucinotti was given a documented verbal warning. A year after, he was issued a written warning by the school for screaming at a child so loud that other teachers were alarmed.

During the 1994-95 school year, a parent reported that she was concerned about Cucinotti’s conduct with her daughter after the student stayed home for three consecutive school days and seemed troubled. When her mom asked why, the response led the mother to think “something was terribly wrong with going to school,” according to a declaration from the mother filed in court.

The mother went to the school and told the principal that Cucinotti wrote her daughter poems, called her “sexy,” gave her notes, and once talked to her on the phone for more than an hour.

The district investigated, and for most allegations found that the evidence was inconclusive. The investigators determined that the student “misunderstood” Cucinotti’s motive when he hugged her once, and that they were “convinced that his motive was not sexual.”

They finally recommended that Cucinotti see a counselor regarding boundary violations because of the long phone call.

In 2000 and 2001, Cucinotti was issued two more verbal warnings for anger outbursts at Greenacres before he transferred to Bowdish Middle School in 2002.

At the time, Emily was just entering kindergarten, and she’d recently started playing soccer. She loved animals — her childhood dream was to become a veterinarian. As she grew up, she learned piano and started dance lessons. In the summer, her family would go out to their cabin at the lake. ...continued on next page

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In December of 2003, a teacher at Bowdish went to Principal Bob Johnson with concerns that he saw Cucinotti reclining in his chair with his feet up, as a giggling girl sat on his left thigh whispering something in his ear. The concerned teacher said this was not an isolated incident, it had happened before, and that he had talked to Cucinotti about his behavior.

A district investigation ensued, and several other teachers reported similar concerns, according to court documents. The teachers pointed out that Cucinotti called a group of girls his “muffins,” and that they all ate lunch together. At first they ate with the door open. As the school year progressed, according to witness depositions, he and the girls ate lunch with the door closed, toward the back of the classroom.

He was issued a written warning by the district and urged again to keep student-teacher relationships professional.

In 2006, Cucinotti was briefly put on paid administrative leave for reading a sexually suggestive time-travel story to his eighth-grade class. Students interviewed as part of the district investigation said that Cucinotti made girls feel uncomfortable by staring down their shirts.

They said Cucinotti had a troll doll in class and would lift its skirt up. They said he called a male student “scarfboy.” Parents made similar allegations.

The district issued Cucinotti a letter of reprimand within a week, urging him to maintain a professional relationship with students and watch an instructional video.

For the first time, the district notified the state Office of Professional Practices that reliable information existed suggesting Cucinotti engaged in “acts of unprofessional

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conduct.” But Michael Pearson, then the CV superintendent, wrote a letter two years later, in 2008, to the OPP requesting that they suspend their investigation of Cucinotti because Cucinotti had complied with the district’s directives. The OPP issued its own letter of reprimand to Cucinotti in spring of 2008.

Meanwhile, Emily still was enjoying elementary school. She looked up to her teachers. “They were always very kind and warm,” she says. Her grades were good up until sixth grade. When she started at Bowdish Middle School as a sixth grader in fall 2008, she remembers she had a good group of friends. Cucinotti taught her fifthand sixth-period block class.

“I actually liked him at first,” she says. “We all thought he was really funny.”

But she started noticing strange things. She says he would pass papers out to the boys, but he would have the girls come up to the front of the classroom and drop the papers so they would have to bend over and pick them up. When girls raised their hands, he would come over and rub their shoulders.

Emily feels tears fall gently down her cheek as she recounts being first raped in December 2008. Her voice remains soft, her eyes fixed to the left of the camera, where a lawyer sits during her videotaped deposition.

She remembers that Cucinotti told her to stay after school — something about one of her assignments. When the final bell rang, other students shuffled out of class.

She called her mom and told her she was staying.

When she hung up the phone, Cucinotti told her to go to the back of the classroom by her desk. Then, according to her deposition, this is how the alleged rape unfolded: He told her to take off her clothes. Then he told her to lay down.

She obeyed.

She shut her eyes and held back tears as Cucinotti lay on top of her. For what seemed like 20 minutes, she kept herself from screaming.

When he got up and put his clothes on, he told Emily to call her mom for a ride home. He stood over her shoulder as she dialed.

This same thing, Emily says, happened four more times in the ensuing weeks.

“Schools need to remember that it can happen anywhere. And they need to constantly be vigilant.”

By March 2009, weeks had passed since the most recent time Cucinotti told Emily to stay after school. Then came that day when he snapped her bra.

Years later, a lawyer would ask Emily if Cucinotti ever threatened to hurt her if she told anyone what he did.

“Yes,” she would say.

“Do you recall anything else, Emily, that he said at that time?” the lawyer would ask.

“No,” Emily would say, waiting for another tear to fall. “I just knew that he meant it.”

sional Practices, inside the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, has opened seven sexual misconduct investigations in the Spokane area — four in Spokane Public Schools, one in Teachers sexually abusing students is not a new East Valley and one in Central Valley. problem. Twenty years ago, Eymann represented Idaho’s Professional Standards Commission, a woman who claimed to have been repeatedly which could not provide data by district, reports raped and lured into making pornographic vidthat it has investigated 30 cases of alleged teacher eos by her counselor at Davenport High School, sexual misconduct with students in the past a school roughly 35 miles west of Spokane. decade.

Eymann, arguing that Davenport school adminThose numbers do not take into account istrators failed to protect his client by repeatedly rapes or sexual assaults that go unreported by failing to investigate the claims, won the case, and victims. They also don’t account for sexual misthe jury awarded $3.5 million to the victim. conduct complaints that schools don’t report to Recognizing a decade ago that teacher authorities, or the investigations that don’t meet misconduct was an issue that needed to be the definition of sexual misconduct provided by addressed, Washington lawmakers passed a the Office of Professional Practices, which has the series of laws aimed at enhancing protections for authority to revoke teaching certificates. students. One law passed in 2004 required that For example, the incidents that the Central a school employee who witnesses or suspects Valley School District did report to the Office of that a student has suffered Professional Practices regarding abuse notify an administraCucinotti — that in 2006, he enEDITOR’S NOTE tor, and that an administraEmily Keenan repeated her rape allega- gaged in inappropriate behavtor report the information tions against teacher Anthony Cucinotti ior with students, and in 2009, to law enforcement. It also in depositions with lawyers as well as in that he inappropriately touched stipulated that employees Emily’s shoulder — never were an interview with the Inlander. Cucinotti, receive training on reporting presented to the OPP as sexual who was never questioned by police, has obligations when hired and misconduct, but as “acts of not been charged with any crimes and every three years thereafter. unprofessional conduct.” The denies wrongdoing. In settling a lawsuit Another law defined sexual OPP investigated the cases as with Emily, the Central Valley School Dismisconduct with a minor; antrict agreed to pay her $2.5 million while such before issuing the letter of other established provisions admitting no liability. Because the rapes reprimand two years later. for school districts disclosing Catherine Slagle, the were reported after Cucinotti’s teaching misconduct by applicants.

OPP director, says her office certificate lapsed, state school officials The laws still didn’t comwill always investigate sexual never investigated the rape allegations pletely solve the issue. misconduct complaints, but inagainst him. (JACOB H. FRIES) In a case resolved last vestigations into complaints of summer, the Lake Chelan other kinds of misconduct are School District in central sometimes not investigated by Washington settled a $500,000 lawsuit after the state. In the past decade, the OPP has opened the district was accused of failing to protect a a total of 44 investigations of teacher misconduct fourth-grade boy who claimed he was raped by in Spokane Public Schools, 13 in Central Valley his teacher repeatedly from 2009 to 2011. The schools. But the state never investigated 11 comdistrict had received several previous complaints plaints in Spokane, and five in Central Valley. about the teacher, K.C. Craven, including that he Slagle says that sometimes misconduct cominappropriately texted male students two years plaints are not investigated by the state because earlier. The district again investigated similar the office doesn’t want to get in the way of law complaints of inappropriate conduct in 2010 enforcement, and sometimes the office simply before issuing Craven a letter of reprimand, acdoes not have the resources. Slagle, who has cording to court documents. been OPP director for six years, says the average When the 10-year-old’s parents reported in time the office takes to investigate a complaint of 2011 that Craven had abused their son, he was misconduct is about 13 months. put on leave. He was fired a year later after a Tim Nootenboom, Central Valley’s assistant months-long district investigation that the Lake superintendent of human resources since last Chelan Mirror reported cost the district $119,000.

July, says that his own certificate would be in For the boy in the Lake Chelan case, Spojeopardy if he didn’t report alleged conduct violakane attorney Douglas Spruance was guardian tions to the OPP, and he wishes the state would ad litem, meaning a person who represents the investigate all of them. best interests of the victim. Spruance says he has The outcomes for cases the state does take represented roughly 30 victims of sexual abuse on, he says, are often dismissed. The OPP in the region since 1993, almost all involving reports that seven out of 13 misconduct investischools. Of those, 20 involved Catholic schools, gations sent to the state by Central Valley were 10 public schools. dismissed in the past 10 years.

He points out that the actual percentage of “We’re sitting here scratching our heads, predatory teachers is small. saying, ‘This is a clear violation,’” he says. “And “But I think schools need to remember that it we’re not talking about lower-level violations can happen anywhere,” he says. “And they need of the code of conduct. We’re talking about to constantly be vigilant. And I think all the great egregious ones that have to do with abuse of — or teachers need to be reminded that there are some mistreatment of — children, whether it be inside among them that can go bad.” or outside of the school.”

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“If you had a professional investigation much earlier in this man’s career, I think it never would have got to the point where he would have raped this girl, because he would have been long gone,” Billings says.

Richard Lewis, the Spokane attorney who has represented victims of abuse in schools, says the issue really comes down to the administrators who receive complaints. He says you can have “all the laws in the world,” but people can still turn a blind eye.

“The difficulty is somewhat self-inflicted in that their default position is to defend the teachers, instead of fully investigate,” he says. “You can have the best laws in place to protect the children, but if the people in the building don’t take the complaints seriously, then the children are all still at risk.”

Cucinotti’s teaching certificate was never revoked. He was allowed to resign from Central Valley months after he was accused of snapping Emily’s bra. Dave Bouge, former Bowdish Middle School principal, wrote a “To Whom it May Concern” letter stating that Cucinotti resigned for “personal reasons” and that his attendance was satisfactory.

That, according to Billings, left open the possibility that Cucinotti could get another teaching job.

‘PASSING THE TRASH’

Spokane attorney Dick Eymann says sexual abuse in schools “happens a lot more than we even know about.”

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“POWER AND THE PUPIL,” CONTINUED... tificate, is different than a district’s investigation into that teacher’s employment. And Slagle says her office has no control as to how districts investigate complaints.

It depends on the severity of a complaint, but for some cases, districts hire outside investigators who the districts have to pay themselves.

Larger districts like Spokane Public Schools don’t rely on outside investigators because they typically have the resources to investigate internally, says Tennille JeffriesSimmons, the district’s chief human resources officer.

Nootenboom says if Central Valley feels the investigation might be more complex, it will hire an investigator. He gave three examples of investigators: an attorney on the west side of the state named Richard Kaiser, who ignored several calls seeking comment; a retired assistant super-

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intendent of human resources in Spokane Public Schools named Barbara Wright, who declined to comment; and a risk management provider.

Judith Billings, former Washington state Superintendent of Public Instruction, says there is no investigative procedure in place for all districts, leading to mixed results.

“You will have some districts who brush things off, and some who will try to do thorough investigations,” she says.

She adds that educators are not trained investigators.

If district officials suspect any kind of abuse, they are required to report it to police or Child Protective Services.

Billings, who served as an expert for the plaintiffs in Emily’s case against Central Valley, says CPS should have

Terri Miller, president of a national advocacy organization called Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation, or S.E.S.A.M.E., says that teachers too often are allowed to resign from a district before a full investigation is conducted.

Cucinotti is not the only local example of that. Todd Bender, a Ferris High School assistant principal, resigned in 2014 after he was charged with two felony counts of child molestation. (He pleaded guilty in the criminal case last month.)

If teachers are allowed to resign, Miller argues, and the criminal investigation fails in court, then districts lose the opportunity to conduct their own investigation, which carries a lower standard of proof than criminal charges.

That teacher may then find a job elsewhere, with little to no documentation of misconduct. Miller calls it “passing the trash.”

“Even though [districts] believe that sexual misconduct occurred, and the criminal case failed,” Miller says, “that person is going to go on their merry way and find employment elsewhere.”

Washington is one of several states in the nation that requires school districts to provide known information regarding a former teacher’s sexual misconduct when that teacher attempts to transfer districts — a law preventing

“passing the trash.” The law was enacted in 2004.

Idaho has no such law, although teaching applicants must self-disclose information about criminal history.

Yet even with the laws in place, teachers who have been investigated for misconduct can fall through the cracks. A USA Today/KING 5 investigation earlier this year found that one teacher who resigned in Colorado lied on applications about not being investigated for past discipline or misconduct when applying in Washington. He taught in Washington for two years before the lies were discovered.

Cucinotti, however, never wanted to find another teaching job. He allowed his certificate to lapse after his resignation. He tells the Inlander that he doesn’t trust that kids won’t wrongfully accuse him of something.

Cucinotti denies all of Emily’s claims. He admits that he would “lose his cool” every now and then as a teacher, but denies that he ever had an inappropriate relationship with a girl. He believes someday that the truth will come out.

“I have zero desire to ever teach kids ever again,” he tells the Inlander. “I’m sure there’s good kids around.

I’m sure there’s trustworthy kids. And I trusted a whole lot of kids when I taught, and rightfully so: they were trustworthy. But it’s unsafe for me — not for them, but for me — to be around them now. I never want to be around kids.”

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DUE PROCESS

There’s a reason school districts are wary about firing teachers. Wrongful termination lawsuits, says Kevin Morrison, spokesman for Spokane Public Schools, “are constantly on our mind.”

“Those can be lengthy, expensive, and they rarely have a winner in any wrongful termination claim,” he says.

When an investigation into a teacher’s conduct is opened by a district or the state, teachers union representatives get involved. Their purpose is to make sure districts are following the letter of the law. But unions also can add to the district’s difficulty in disciplining a teacher appropriately for accused misconduct.

“Of course the safety of students is a top priority,” says Rich Wood, spokesman for the Washington Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. “We take that very seriously. But every American has a right to due process, and a right to be treated fairly when it comes to issues like this.”

In 2009, a University High School teacher named Michael Cronin was placed on paid administrative leave while the district investigated allegations that he inappropriately touched a female student and female staff member while drunk at school, as the Spokesman-Review reported in 2011. The Central Valley School District issued him a reprimand for his actions. The state OSPI, unable to interview a key witness, dismissed the case.

Cronin told OSPI investigators that the student who made the accusations was “not completely trustworthy,” according to a 2011 article.

Cronin had multiple arrests for driving under the influence on his record, and in 2010 was sentenced to jail on a charge of physical control of a vehicle while intoxicated. The district fired him for a pattern of misconduct in January 2012, when Cronin was in jail.

Cronin, represented by the Central Valley Education Association, filed a lawsuit in 2012 claiming the district fired him improperly. Twice since then, the Washington Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court judge’s ruling dismissing the lawsuit. Now Cronin may be eligible for four years of LETTERS back pay.

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Valley case, school counselor James Reinland was put on paid leave last year when he was arrested after allegedly exposing himself to a person under the age of 14. The district notified the state OSPI, asking for assistance because the district could not complete an investigation, as “Mr. Reinland refused to answer any questions of the district investigator and only submitted a verbal statement,” the letter reads.

The OSPI completed its investigation of Reinland on May 3 of this year and dismissed the case, finding no pattern of misconduct. Central Valley’s own investigation is ongoing, according to spokeswoman Marla Nunberg.

“What you’re asking [the OSPI] to do is question the certificate of a teacher. They just don’t want to take that away. Because it’s permanent. And it has longstanding financial impact on the individual,” says CV’s Nooten-

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Emily moved away from Spokane. She won’t say where, because she doesn’t want Cucinotti to find her. Now 19 years old, she is starting a foundation to help victims of sexual abuse. She wants to offer hands-on help for people who went through what she did.

She isn’t going to school. She says there are too many reminders of what once happened in the classroom.

“Every time I would go to school and be in a classroom — especially if it was a male teacher — I would just always go back to that moment,” she says. “And you’re supposed to be able to trust teachers. And I didn’t.”

Sometimes she has nightmares. They started soon after the first time she says she was raped. They continued every night for two years.

It’s always the same one. She’s in her home, but Cucinotti is there too. He grabs her and pulls her into the attic. She’s helpless. She wants to scream.

Then she wakes up, fearing that Mr. Cucinotti will show up to her house, and that there’s nothing she can do to stop him.  wilsonc@inlander.com

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f you ask Samuel Ligon if he’s been busy, he’ll just laugh and tell you that of course, he’s busy. He rolls up the sleeves of his rumpled, white dress shirt, adjusts a toothpick in his mouth and, in his typical caffeinated staccato, rattles off everything he’s got going.

The press deadline for the next issue of Willow Springs, Eastern Washington University’s literary journal for which he’s served as editor for 12 years, is just days

away. He’s just returned from a reading the night before in Moscow, and he has to be in Missoula next week to do the same, promoting his gripping new novel Among the Dead and Dreaming. Right now, we’re keeping an eye on the clock because he’s got to meet with a student; after all, he’s a professor in EWU’s creative writing program.

Soon, he’ll need to start thinking more about the Port Townsend Writers Conference; he’s the artistic director.

He remembers the last day during which he didn’t work at all. It was in January.

“I did nothing and it was amazing. Well, I read. I was able to read,” he recalls.

The Spokane literary boom has often seen Ligon as an editor, mentor and confidant to the region’s other poets and novelists. He’s OK with that role, and is known to be sort of the hard-driving coach behind many of the region’s literary successes. With the release of Among the Dead and Dreaming, as well as Wonderland, a collection of short stories illustrated by his former EWU student Stephen Knezovich, there’s been more focus on Ligon as a writer.

“He’s a passionate and committed teacher whose students go out and publish great work, and he’s one of the best editors I’ve ever worked with,” says Jess Walter, the Spokane-based best-selling author and Ligon’s close friend. “This vibrant, thriving writing community we have in Spokane is a rare thing, and Sam might be as ...continued on next page

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Among the Dead and Dreaming allows Ligon, whose essays and fiction has appeared in the Inlander, to showcase his penchant for spinning a tight, weird and gripping story as he tells of a woman, Nikki, looking for peace in her life in the years after she killed an ex-boyfriend in self-defense. Now, that ex’s brother is out of prison and trying to track her down as she navigates another tragedy. Told through multiple first-person accounts — think William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying — the book is a brisk, thrilling and almost cinematic read. For Ligon, the near-decade spent crafting the novel was an experiment in genre.

“The romance novel shape is that against impossible odds, the lovers come together. I wanted to write a romance novel in that sense, but the other genre I was playing with was the thriller. And that’s why I wanted a villain,” says Ligon.

In creating his protagonist, Nikki, Ligon realized a common thread in all of his writing — something likely influenced by his own life.

“I’ve noticed that this comes up in everything I write. The theme is that people say that you can’t outrun your problems.

Why not? Yeah, you can. That’s what Nikki does, and that’s all that anyone does anyway,” he says.

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o matter what happens from here on out, Spokane filmmaker Kendra Ann Sherrill can say her first post-college movie got into the Sundance Film Festival and was screened in America’s theaters.

Granted, it wasn’t exactly her movie — she was simply a production assistant on Captain Fantastic, the drama starring Viggo Mortensen coming out this July. But she got to spend two months on location in the summer of 2014 in some of Washington’s most beautiful landscapes, doing everything from paperwork to running the film’s base camp to herding six child actors into position.

The job gave invaluable experience to Sherrill, who’s dreamed of a film career since childhood and through her years at Central Valley High School and then at Eastern Washington University’s film program. It also inspired her to surprise her film-buff father with a trip to Utah to see the movie’s January Sundance premiere this year.

“We were only there for four days,” Sherrill says. “It’s intense, and it was amazing, and there are celebrities just walking down the street and you can’t freak out, but inside you want to freak out. It was once in a lifetime, and it was so cute; my dad, on the plane home, was already planning how to go back next year.”

That might be a little soon, but given the experience the soon-to-be-23-year-old has already gained in the film industry, there’s good reason to believe the young auteur will make it back to Sundance with a movie of her own. Sherrill’s short films have received numerous awards from other festivals.

2014’s Serenade was an official selection of the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, or NFFTY, in Seattle and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Film Program, won the prize for Best Northwest Short at the Spokane International Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at the Seattle Shorts Film Festival. More recently, her period piece Michelle was selected to screen last month at NFFTY’s 10th anniversary edition.

“It’s a film festival that’s all filmmakers 24 and under, so it’s all these amazing, talented people in one place,” Sherrill says.

“You watch these films from a 16-year-old, and you’re like, ‘This is something that’s better than anything I’ll ever achieve!’ It’s insane. It’s super-inspiring.”

Not that Sherrill has ever lacked inspira-

Kendra Ann Sherill, a filmmaker with a purpose. tion. It started when she was a child, acting in theater productions, before she realized she could be creating her own stories. That fed into her regular requests of teachers to take every big project assignment and turn it into a homemade movie — about, for example, the Lewis and Clark expedition or World War II — with herself writing, directing and starring in the productions.

“I was always that weird kid,” she says with a laugh. “When DVDs were a big thing, I’d beg my parents for the special editions with all the extra stuff on them. My friends would come over and I’d be like, ‘You want to watch the behindthe-scenes commentary with me?’”

Acting has faded into the background, but writing and directing remains her passion. After earning accolades at EWU for Best Director and Best Feature-Length Screenplay before her 2014 graduation, she hit the workforce like every other college grad, cobbling together a living from various freelance projects and gaining experience in the film industry.

In addition to the stint on Captain Fantastic, she’s toiled on Spokane-area TV productions like Z Nation and Washington Grown, worked on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Downtown” video, assistant-directed a Microsoft commercial, done graphic design for her high school’s theater program and taught classes at Spokane Falls Community College. In between, she volunteers for the Spokane International Film Festival, a commitment to the local scene that she’s found incredibly supportive as she starts her career.

“Spokane is such a cool film community because everyone is just so willing to help everyone, with everything, and all the time,” Sherrill says.

She’s currently working on a couple of student films, and might again work on a feature film this summer in Portland. In between all the hustling, she’s mulling a move to Seattle, where there’s more commercial work available. And she’s trying to figure out a way to film a couple of her own ideas.

“I haven’t really made anything of my own since I graduated. This summer I want to do a couple of passion projects,” Sherrill says.

“I just want to be making films. You forget sometimes when you’re working on other people’s projects, then you go home and you’re like, ‘I want to make a movie!’”  See some of Sherrill’s work at kendrannsherrill.com.

The Saranac Public House is one of the many places in the Inland Northwest that serves a pub pretzel.

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Twisted Glory We went looking for the best pub pretzels the region has to offer

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he pretzel is everywhere. It’s become a staple of the appetizer menu at places that know how to serve up beer, wine or cocktails. You cannot escape the pretzel; not that you’d want to. So you might as well do what we did and devour them without reservation, and enjoy the fact that the term “pretzel” can mean anything from a hard piece of twisted bread that fits between your fingers to a piece of bread big enough for a meal.

It’s worth noting that the phenomenon is not limited to the Inland Northwest. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of pretzels (in whatever form) on our nation’s food menus just about doubled, according to data research firm Datassential. And there’s no sign of things slowing.

Go ahead. Embrace the pretzel.

SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE

Baked pretzel ($6) Comes with: cheese sauce and housemade beer mustard; smoky vegan cheese sauce is available upon request Be sure to call ahead, or it may be too late. I learned the hard way one night when I showed up at Saranac around 8 pm, thinking I could snag a pretzel for dinner. I’d been

fantasizing about the mouthwatering cheese sauce and super-soft buttery pretzel all day long. But the server crushed my dreams, saying they were out. Never again!

Other places in town have pretzels too, but only one has my whole heart. Now I make sure to phone ahead, asking what they have in stock. Many times, they’re out. Baked fresh every morning, the appetizer comes with a pair of supple pretzels (two doesn’t equal sharing, though), a cup of white melted cheese and a beer mustard capable of clearing even the most clogged of sinuses.

Once the pretzels are eaten, don’t be ashamed to spoon the rest of the glorious cheese into your mouth. It is from heaven. This item is also on the happy hour menu for $5.

(LAURA JOHNSON)

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Brick-fired pretzel ($10) Comes with: Gouda fondue and beer mustard The funky space with rock walls and eclectic décor has a bit of a Bavarian vibe; the Gilded Unicorn pretzel’s appearance atop the menu makes perfect sense. When you start pulling pieces off the large, crusty, perfectly toasted appetizer, dabbing them in the accompanying, oh-socreamy Gouda and deeply flavorful mustard, you’re all

the more certain the brick-fired pretzel deserves such a prominent spot. This is anything but a factory-produced pretzel. These are handmade, the nicely browned exterior giving way to a soft, fluffy inner core of steaming dough.

When it arrives — covering most of a dinner plate — along with a whiskey or beer, you might think it’s too much for one person, or as a precursor to a proper dinner. You’d be mistaken, though, as bite after bite goes down easier than the last, the bowl of cheese and mustard completely emptied and the pretzel just a fond memory. (DAN NAILEN)

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Pub pretzels and beer cheese ($6/single; $8/double) If it were considered a balanced diet, I would eat carbs and cheese every day, all day. As most of us would.

So it was a no-brainer that I’d be trying this delightful combo during a recent Friday evening stop at Perry Street Brewing, as an appetizer for a shared sandwich that also contained bread and cheese. With two ordering options, a single or a double, you always go for the double, because that’s twice the amount of pretzel for a mere $2 more.

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“TWISTED GLORY,” CONTINUED... budget by a great deal. And sharing (if your cravings can allow for it) is nice. Made by the women at Transitions’ New Leaf Bakery job training program, these buttery soft — crispy on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside — twists of bread are even better when generously coated with the brewery’s housemade beer cheese; offering layered hints of spice, nuts and malty richness. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Recently, I did both of those things on a breezy Friday afternoon, while adding a third “must” to the Crafted experience — the pretzel. True to the description on the menu, it is massive and meant, I can only assume, to be shared. It has a firm crust, but once you tear in, the inside is soft and steaming hot. It’s coated in sea salt and has a buttery flavor on its own, but you’re going to want to dip it in the accompanying fontina cheese that gets a kick from the addition of Anaheim peppers. I ate it with a big imperial IPA (and then another one), but it probably pairs with anything on the hoppy side of Crafted’s 50-plus beers to choose from. (MIKE BOOKEY) 

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here’s nothing typical about cooking on Food Network Star, and that might actually be an advantage for Spokane’s Aaron Crumbaugh when he competes on the upcoming season. So far, Crumbaugh’s career has been anything but typical.

Start with the fact that the 37-year-old is a former model and actor, and a veteran of other reality shows like The Amazing Race and Cutthroat Kitchen. Throw in a background of culinary school, running a Chicago food truck and an inhome catering business. And add a dash of working on a Montana Wagyu beef ranch before joining up with Santé’s Jeremy Hansen to launch an event company and new restaurant in Spokane.

A lot of different things that together should have prepared him for the craziness selling himself to the show’s high-profile judges, Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis, right?

Apparently not.

“There’s nothing you can do to prepare,” Crumbaugh says. “It’s really a skill — and one I haven’t mastered by any means — being able to cook and explain what you’re doing. A lot of times you get in the mentality of head down, chopping away, cooking away, and you don’t have to worry about anything else. With this show, you have to explain every detail.”

Food Network Star is designed to not necessarily find the best cook, but to find the best TV personality for a food-related show. There’s cooking, but being good on camera is as important as the culinary chops.

Crumbaugh’s show idea involves the farm-totable journey of the food that lands on our plates, “connecting those dots” as a way to educate people about all the work and resources that go into raising produce or livestock.

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“And then, as a chef, maybe doing a cool dinner, incorporating other chefs, to where we’re taking [the farmer’s] product and saying, ‘Look at all you can do with it.’”

To get the opportunity to do that show, Crumbaugh will have to take down his fellow contestants and impress the judges and a series of mentors. And it won’t be easy.

“You have a camera in your face,” Crumbaugh says. “You might have producers come up and ask you a question while you’re cooking, which are skills you need to have as a TV chef or someone with their own cooking show. … This is like a boot camp for would-be TV chefs. If you can’t do this, then you’re not cut out for it.”  Food Network Star’s new season premieres Sun, May 22, at 9 pm, on the Food Network.

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Mad Turns Bad It turned out that making Angry Birds into a movie wasn’t a great idea

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ure, Angry Birds is based on a popular mobile-app game, but the game is pure nonsense: It doesn’t have anything approaching an actual story or genuine characters. So it’s downright audacious to see that the story a rare all-male creative team chose to hang on that framework is one that has been virtually taboo on the big screen: male anger.

Yes, sometimes male anger is the butt of a movie’s joke — “Oh, look at that poor guy, his hormones are going crazy!” — and sometimes movies will (correctly) condemn out-of-control male rage. But that’s not what’s going on in Angry Birds: this movie supposes it is a vindication of male anger. Can you think of the last movie you saw — or even heard about — that was about men who are angry... and this is a positive thing?

There is a sense of desperate male fury about Angry Birds, as if the filmmakers recognize the futility of what they’re attempting but are determined to plow on nevertheless. Forcing a logical narrative onto an absurdist, nonlinear interactive experience was probably never going to work in a satisfying way, and they’ve only highlighted how phony it is with their unlikely male hero,

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Red (the voice of Jason Sudeikis), who is an outcast in his community because of his outbursts; we are apparently meant to feel sorry for him because of this! In the opening sequence, he is violently rude to people he has wronged when they are understandably THE ANGRY upset about beBIRDS MOVIE ing wronged, after Rated PG which he is sent to Directed by Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly an “anger manageStarring the voices of Peter Dinklage, ment” course, where Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn he meets other angry birds: Terence (the voice of Sean Penn), Chuck (the voice of Josh Gad), and Bomb (the voice of Danny McBride).

It’s cute that the male filmmakers opted to buck the natural inclination to make their main characters female; their matching birds in the game are not gendered, and so most players simply assume they’re female. Nice blow for male equality! But any gentle underscoring of the plight of men... er, I mean, of male birds, is absent.

This is a fantasy world in which birds are flightless, for

instance, and yet, where is the hint of tragic irony in this?

For us humans, birds are a symbol of freedom precisely because of their ability to fly: You might imagine that any meninist tale of how males are denigrated because of their emotions might look to flightlessness as a sad metaphor for the curtailing of their freedom to be themselves.

Instead, Angry Birds is all about the anger. The birds here have believed that their island is the whole world, and that there are no other creatures, but when a shipload of pigs arrive, Red is instantly suspicious. He’s furious, in fact, that everyone else is being so welcoming.

In the real world, of course, Red would be seen as delusional. But here, Red is right! The pigs are up to no good.

There is some quite nasty stuff that comes next: A scene in which the pigs do a song-and-dance number dressed in assless chaps — which causes all the lady birds to swoon — is followed by Red sneaking onto the pigs’ ship to learn their secrets, during which we glimpse a copy of Fifty Shades of Green (the pigs are green) given prominent display. We are clearly meant to infer that the pigs are dangerous seducers. And this is a trap that Red must save his fellow birds from.

Red finds himself astonished that the “fate of the world” is now left up to “idiots like me.” It is, and this is perhaps the most implausible thing about Angry Birds.

A self-professed idiot male, clouded by hormonal rage, is going to save the world? I don’t think so. There’s a reason why no one else has tried to float such a notion before in movies. Let’s hope we never see it again. n

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Any birds who aren’t happy, i.e., “angry,” are outcasts. But when green pigs invade the island, the angry guys come in handy. (MB) Rated PG

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Rose Byrne plays a 30-something single professional whose widowed mother (Susan Sarandon) has been hanging around a lot and is proving a bit overbearing. It’s a coming-ofage story for someone who’s already aged, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World). Rated PG-13 (MB)

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Last time around, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne were new parents who moved into a new house, expecting marital bliss and all that. But then a fraternity moved in next door and were loud as hell and, led by Zac Efron and his abs,

tried to kill Rogen with stolen airbags.

This time a sorority has moved into the same house! And it’s a really crazy sorority, so Zac Efron has to come back and show them his abs. (MB) Rated R

Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations

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THE NICE GUYS

Set in late-’70s Los Angeles, The Nice Guys pairs a gruff hired goon named Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) with an alcoholic, single-dad private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling).

It’s a comedy with occasional shocking bursts of sickening violence, and it’s also a serious noir throwback with elements of farce. (PC) Rated R

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Taking your family to the Grand Canyon is a beloved and perfectly wholesome American pastime, right? Well, not if one of your kids becomes possessed by some sort of ancient ghost and mysterious black handprints begin appearing all over your walls once you return home. That’s the premise here in this Kevin Bacon-anchored horror flick.

(MB) Rated PG-13

DOUGH

Kosher baker Nat Dayan, a widower, is struggling to keep his family business afloat as a chain grocery store moves into the neighborhood. He hires Ayyash, a refugee from Darfur who takes an apprenticeship with Nat as a cover for his real job — dealing marijuana for a dangerous small-time criminal as a way to help his mother pay the rent. Avyash is Muslim, and that causes some sideways looks in the neighborhood, but when Avyash begins putting weed in the baked goods, nobody cares enough to stop buying.

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The iconic meeting of President Nixon and Elvis Presley is now manifested in a comedic fashion on the silver screen.

During the winter of 1970, the White House received a handwritten request from Elvis (Michael Shannon) to meet with President Nixon (Kevin Spacey), resulting in a photo of the two which is now one of the most requested prints in the National Archives. (MM) Rated R

EYE IN THE SKY

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

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Rell (Jordan Peele) adopts a stray kitten named Keanu to help get over a breakup, and when a thief steals the little furball, Rell recruits his nerdy cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key) to help take down the gangster (Method Man) holding Keanu hostage. Stunts, gunplay and laughs ensue in this throwback to action-based buddy-flick comedies like 48 Hrs. as Key and Peele try to recapture the comic magic of their TV shows.

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

Jon Favreau takes a break from making the Iron Man franchise to craft this live-action adaptation of the Disney classic. There’s some genuine action to be found as Mogwai tries to escape danger, as well as a few laughs with the Bill Murray-voiced Baloo the bear, but overall it’s Disney forcing a kid-friendly feel on a genuinely engaging film. (MB) Rated PG

In a film starring Don Cheadle and directed by Don Cheadle, infamous professional trumpeter Miles Davis and Rolling Stone journalist Dave Braden (Ewan McGregor) search through every nook and cranny of Manhattan to recover Davis’ new session tapes from music producers. At Magic Lantern (MM) Rated R Director Garry Marshall is at it again, intertwining the stories of multiple characters just in time for the annual day dedicated to the women who raise us. Television show host Miranda (Julia Roberts), love-seeking divorcee Sandy (Jennifer Aniston) and Jesse (Kate Hudson), a woman rekindling her longlost relationship with her mother, come together for three generations of emotion and celebration in the days leading up to Mother’s Day. (MM) Rated PG-13

SING STREET

Based on the true story of eccentric Miss Shepherd (played by beloved British actress Maggie Smith) in Alan Bennett’s story, a temporary visit turns into 15 years when she first parks her van in Bennett’s London driveway. At first he hesitantly allows this as a favor, but soon a relationship is cultivated that permeates and changes both of their lives. At Magic Lantern (CS) Rated PG13

Conor, a 15-year-old boy in Dublin, is taken out of his private Jesuit school and sent to a lesser one where he’s subjected to the indignities of bullies and petty-minded priests. After Conor tells an attractive, much-cooler girl that he needs a model for his band’s music video, he actually has to go form a band, which is the driving force behind this coming-of-age film. (MB) Rated PG-13

THE MEDDLER

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

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Rose Byrne plays a 30-something single professional whose widowed mother (Susan Sarandon) has been hanging around a lot and is proving a bit overbearing. It’s a coming-of-age story for someone who’s already aged, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World). Rated PG-13 (MB)

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hane Black knows his own strengths. The writer/director’s movies (from Lethal Weapon to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang to Iron Man 3) all tend to investigate similar themes: they often take place around Christmastime, they feature mismatched buddies who band together to stop a corrupt plot, at least one of the buddies is a lovable loser, a wiseass kid steals a few scenes, and the dialogue is a wildly entertaining and selfaware riff on tough-guy banter from 1940s noir films. Black’s newest feature, The Nice Guys, plays with all these themes, but it doesn’t feel anything like a retread. Instead, it’s maybe Black’s best film yet.

Set in late-’70s Los Angeles, The Nice Guys pairs a gruff hired goon named Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) with an alcoholic, single-dad private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling).

They bumble into a mystery that may or may not involve a porn star, killer bees, a missing woman, a ghost, the automotive industry and a brutally efficient hit man named Jon Boy. It’s a comedy with occasional shocking bursts of sickening violence, and it’s also a serious noir throwback with elements of farce. And if a scene gives you the sense that you know what’s going to happen next, you are almost certain to be immediately proven wrong.

Like most of Black’s best films, The Nice Guys thrives thanks in large part because of its casting.

Over the past decade or so, Crowe has grown more and more unlikable even as Gosling has charmed the internet with his ridiculous good looks and his absolute unwillingness to choose easy paycheck parts. And so naturally Black flips the two public personas, making Healy a decent man at his core and tearing Gosling’s meme-

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in the Nice Guys. ready adorableness to shreds by making March an idiot, and a coward and an ugly drunk.

Both men clearly are having fun with their parts, turning in the kind of performances that could change the arcs of their careers. And they both get upstaged at several points by Angourie Rice, a teenage actor from Australia who plays March’s daughter. When Rice is on-screen, The Nice Guys practically becomes an R-rated Nancy Drew movie saddled with two dimwitted grownups who keep wandering into her shot.

Those who go into The Nice Guys looking for a solvable whodunit THE NICE GUYS will likely Rated R leave disDirected by Shane Black satisfied.

Starring Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe The mystery unravels in part due to unbelievable amounts of luck and coincidence, and some twists are (I believe intentionally) telegraphed way in advance. But that’s part of the appeal: the real mystery of the movie is what kind of a movie you’re watching. At times, even as all the tried and tested movie cues (the soundtrack, a light touch to the dialogue) tell you that you’re watching a happy scene, something very dark is unfolding in plain sight on-screen. What is Black trying to say with all of this? You’re the detective; you figure it out. 

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Donald Trump, like other politicians, uses music to pump up his crowds at campaign rallies. DAVID KELLEY PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

What Trump Hears The songs that presidential candidates use at campaign rallies aren’t always approved by the musicians who wrote them

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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f the entire pack of candidates once running for president, only one man is left standing on the Republican side — Donald J. Trump. Throughout the past year, Trump has used quite the assortment of songs to flavor his raucous campaign events. With Washington’s Republican primary swiftly approaching next Tuesday, we thought it would be fun to take a look at the music the presumptive GOP nominee uses to pump up his fans.

At the start of this month, about 4,000 people crowded into the Spokane Convention Center to hear Trump speak. During the hours that folks had to await his arrival, quite a few tunes were played over the event center’s loudspeakers — one being the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” a song the iconic rockers had asked the candidate to stop using earlier that week. They’re not the first artists to have trouble

with Trump.

Last September in Washington, D.C., he walked onstage to R.E.M.’s 1987 hit “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

The now-defunct band was not amused and later posted on their Facebook page: “While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here.”

Kicking off his campaign in New York last June, Trump used “Rockin’ In The Free World,” much to the chagrin of songwriter Neil Young, who asked him to stop.

Whatever Trump’s name means to you (the tell-itlike-it-is savior of America, or the orange bigot with small hands), the truth is that most Democratic campaigns

don’t have the same issues that Republicans do. Even if artists didn’t give Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders direct permission to use their songs, they often don’t mind and don’t complain.

So how much of a case do these artists have against Trump?

Some musicians have successfully gotten politicians they didn’t agree with to stop using their work — Bruce Springsteen with Ronald Reagan, as well as Sting with George W. Bush — but A FEW TUNES some politicians FROM TRUMP’S have carried on, S P O K A N E R A L LY claiming they • The Rolling Stones, “Let’s have obtained Spend the Night Together” permission • Creedence Clearwater Revival, through royalty “Born on the Bayou” payments.

• Elton John, “Tiny Dancer” According to • The Rolling Stones, “You Can’t copyright laws, Always Get What You Want” politicians are protected from most complaints by purchasing a blanket license from the two largest public-performance societies, ASCAP and BMI, which pay royalties to artists they represent. Where candidates (again, mostly Republicans as of late) get into trouble is if in using that song, it appears the musician supports the candidate in question. Then artists can sue under the federal trademark law for false advertising. ...continued on next page

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However, it’s up to the artist to press the issue.

Again, on the other side of the aisle, no one has taken issue with Sanders or Clinton using their work. Sanders has even gotten local indie acts — Tacocat and the Thermals, respectively — to play at his Seattle and Portland rallies. Katy Perry’s “Roar” is a mainstay on the Clinton campaign trail, and the artist is a diehard proponent of the former Secretary of State. Other relatively safe songs on Clinton’s playlist include Kelly Clarkson’s “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger” and Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” none of which have drawn complaints. It’s worth noting that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama was asked to stop using the song “Hold On, I’m Comin’” by soul music legends Sam Moore and Dave Prater.

There’s a reason that so many Republican candidates use pop country music in their campaigns — that’s their wheelhouse.

Many of the musicians in the American flag-waving genre vote Republican (except, of course, the Dixie Chicks), but there are other artists who Trump should probably fully embrace for his rallies and even ad campaigns.

First off, Trump should check out the small-time New York City singer-songwriter Toots Sweet, who wrote “Make America Great Again” just for him. Outspoken artists like Ted Nugent, Meatloaf and Lynyrd Skynyrd would also make great fits for the Trump campaign. Kid Rock supported Mitt Romney’s candidacy four years ago, and Nicki Minaj supposedly has conservative leanings. Trump also has the blessing of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who made an appearance on Trump’s own Celebrity Apprentice, to use “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” These are the types of artists who approve of Trump; he should stick with them.  lauraj@inlander.com

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Silence Is Golden James McCartney, son of Paul, lets his music do the talking

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n interviews and onstage, James McCartney keeps mostly to himself. Questions are answered in a succinct few sentences, and when performing, McCartney focuses on the task at hand and keeps his chatting with the crowd to a minimum.

He’s been in the public eye since birth (his parents are former Beatle Paul and late photographer Linda) so a desire for privacy is understandable. But what may come off as uninterested or unappreciative is just McCartney letting his music, not his last name, do the talking.

His most recent declaration, The Blackberry Train, picks up where his 2013 debut full-length Me left off, mixing poppy hooks and psychedelic riffs. Train, however, takes a

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detour into grittier, grungier territory, no doubt the result of both McCartney’s ’90s alt-rock influences and the steady hand of engineer Steve Albini, who has worked with Nirvana, the Pixies and PJ Harvey.

Opening track “Too Hard,” which features Dhani Harrison (son of former Beatle George) on guitar, kicks things off on a country-rock note before the distortionheavy “Unicorn” begins.

“Waterfall,” which tells of the rough patch McCartney went through following his mother’s death from breast cancer in 1998 (“Taking ecstasy by the fireplace… / Then I said ‘Maybe, I need to do therapy,’” he sings.), lightens things up a bit before the one-two punch of “Paralysis” and “Ballerina,” when McCartney’s affinity for ’90s rock really starts to take over.

As a lyricist, McCartney, who will perform solo at his upcoming Bartlett show, is just as varied.

“Alice,” a song as trippy as its literary influence, tells the story of Alice In Wonderland, and “Prayer” finds McCartney professing his love for a special woman. “Peyote Coyote” is a nod to native Indians and indigenous peoples. “[I’m] trying to look out for them and encourage their culture,” McCartney told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

With two albums and two EPs under his belt, McCartney has proven that he’s more than his last name.

And, in his own way, he’s shared a lot of himself on each release.

But make no mistake; the reserved singer has plenty left to say.

“I just want to keep on going, keep working and improving as a songwriter,” McCartney said in a press release. “I’d love to feel that I realized my full potential both as a person, and as a songwriter.”  James McCartney with Jan Francisco • Fri, May 20, at 8 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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inger/guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner have rocked together — really loudly — since they were Toronto teenagers, forming Anvil in 1978. Early on, they looked set to join the ranks of metal gods like Metallica, Slayer and AC/DC, but instead questionable business deals and bad luck sunk Anvil into obscurity. But Kudlow and Reiner never stopped playing or dreaming of rock stardom. Their passionate pursuit was captured in the brilliant 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, and the movie propelled them back into the public eye and on the road in support of new music like this year’s Anvil is Anvil. If you like it loud, get into tunes like “Metal on Metal” and “Jackhammer” and go see these legends.

— DAN NAILEN Anvil with Unleash the Archers, Graveshadow, Reign of Ashes • Thu, May 26, at 7:30 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Pin! • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 368-4077

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Kendl Winter, who previously made three solo records with K Records, and Palmer T. Lee comprise The Lowest Pair and hail from Olympia and Minneapolis, respectively. Together they make harmonies laced with a backdrop of banjo and acoustic guitar. This year, they’ve released two new albums, Fern Girl & Ice Man (a moody record with higher production values) along with Uncertain as it is Uneven (sporting a more stripped-down sound), both of which take the folk duo to a new level of Americana.

— LAURA JOHNSON The Lowest Pair with Dry and Dusty, Prairie War • Wed, May 25, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane. com • 747-2174

BABY BAR, Birthday weekend with Dept. of Martyrs, Dead See Squirrels, Oil Can, DJ CA$E J THE BARTLETT, James McCartney (See story on page 43), Jan Francisco J BELLWETHER BREWING CO. (3280428), Marco Polo Collective BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Anarchy in the Music Scene feat. Elephant Gun Riot, Punks in Drublic, Unconfined, 37 Street Signs, Deschamp, Jon Glover BIGFOOT PUB, YESTERDAYSCAKE BOLO’S, The Vibe Raiderzz BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Crush BULL HEAD TAVERN, Bobby Patterson and Friends J CLOVER, Pat Coast COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia

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Wednesday, 05/25 J THE BARTLETT, The Lowest Pair album release (See story on facing page), Prairie War, Dry & Dusty EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic SPOKANE COMEDY CLUB, Open Mic J THE PIN!, Bibster

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The Spokane Civic Theatre is ready to put its 2015-16 season in the books, and it’s planning on going out with a big bang.

The Broadway classic Guys and Dolls comes to the Civic main stage with plenty of history to its name, as well as a cult following. Set in Prohibition-era New York, the beloved musical tells of life and love in the outlaw underworld of the city back then. The Civic’s cast looks to bring spirited versions of classic tunes from the production, including “Luck Be a Lady” and “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.”

— MIKE BOOKEY Guys and Dolls • Fri, May 20 through Sun, June 19: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $22-$30 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

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COMMUNITY LILACS AT DUSK

For decades, families and spectators of all ages have flocked to downtown with their lawn chairs and blankets to line the streets for Spokane’s biggest parade, held every year on the third Saturday in May. Though its namesake lilac blooms are already fading thanks to the unseasonably warm start to spring, their sweet aroma is still heavy and heavenly right at dusk, also the start time of the parade.

One can only imagine how the scent would have filled the streets during the parade’s earliest years, back when its floats were loaded with fresh flowers. This year’s parade theme “Lilacs in Wonderland” borrows a whimsical oddness from the world of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, so expect to see some fanciful, fun floats.

— CHEY SCOTT Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade • Sat, May 21, at 7:45 pm • Free • Downtown Spokane • Find a parade route map at spokanelilacfestival.org

COMEDY NO EXCUSES

Iliza Shlesinger has turned a comedic eye toward dating and the battle of the sexes for years, mining her life for jokes that helped her become the youngest winner of Last Comic Standing back in 2008 — and the first female champ on the show. In the years since, she hosted the dating show Excused for a couple of years, and in March started another gig hosting a new game show, Separation Anxiety. Between the television jobs, she continues to hone her stand-up craft for specials like 2015’s Freezing Hot with tour dates across the country.

— DAN NAILEN Iliza Shlesinger • Thu, May 19, at 7:30 pm; Fri-Sat, May 20-21, at 7:30 and 10:30 pm • $26.50-$37.50 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

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Over the course of a pair of two-hour workshops (though the first session, on May 17, will have already passed by the time you’re reading this), anyone who considers Spokane their home is invited to pen a line or two for a citywide collaborative poetry project. Led by Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read, “I Am a Town” asks participants to create poems based on specific places in Spokane that are tied to a personal memory. After workshopping the poems and getting feedback from area writers, poems are presented during a community reading, with selections gathered and published in the “I Am a Town” poetry anthology.

— CHEY SCOTT I Am a Town: Spokane Poetry Project • Workshop on Tue, May 24, from 6-8 pm; Reading/release on May 31, at 7 pm • Free, register online • Spark Center • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • sparkwestcentral.org

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SAVE MT. SPOKANE A benefit for the Save Mt. Spokane Coalition on the Saranac Rooftop. Appetizers and refreshments are provided, with live music

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May 19, 5 pm. Saranac Rooftop, 21 W. Main. landscouncil.org 2BU RANCH SPAGHETTI FEED A dinner to benefit the programs of the ranch, including live/silent auctions, wine tasting, dessert auction and more. $15/adults (two for $25); $5/ ages 10 and under. May 21, 5-9 pm.

2BU Youth Ranch, 17412 E. Foothills Rd. 2buyouthranch.com CAKE CAFE SWEET BUFFET A special buffet featuring desserts to benefit the SCRAPS Foster and Animal Medical programs. May 21, 1-3 pm. $15/person;

two for $25. SCRAPS Regional Animal Shelter, 6815 E. Trent. (477-2532) FRIENDS OF EASTERN STATE Volunteers of the facility host an event from which all donations/auction proceeds benefit the patients of Eastern State Hospital. May 21, 3-5:30 pm. $15-$25.

Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague. spokanevalleyeventcenter.com MOORE-TURNER HERITAGE GARDENS TEA Step back in time to experience the splendor of English manor gardening and a traditional English tea during an event with featured speaker Kurt Madison, historian and Master Gardener who presents ”The History & Fundamentals of English Gardening and how to bring that to your Garden” May 21. $5-$25. Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org

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I SAW YOU MINI-CHOCOLATE CHIPS & GUMMI BEARS @ WINCO I noticed my cart was in your way and told you to move it if it was in your... then I saw you, and just left the sentence as though it were complete.

I said i'd let you know if I saw the minichips, hoped to bump in to you before I left. Reply if you see this, freckles =) -the hat SWEET TALKER AT HOLIDAY GAS STATION To the gutsy man in a white truck May 11th at the Holiday gas station on Argonne... I was having a really bad day, until you so brazenly pulled up next to me and gushed about me. You may never know how perfect your timing was, or how very much I needed to hear that, so I must thank you... and no... the one I was with does not admire my butt as much as you!

BEERBAARON I saw you last night in a dream of mine. I enjoy you being there.

You were bartending at a bar that I frequent. Perhaps we should hold an experiment to test its validity? Miss you, old friend.

COTTAGE CAFE CHICKEN FRIED STEAK WEDNESDAY I saw you, you came in with 2 older women and an older man.

You sat in the next booth, directly behind my daughter and son where I could see you. I thought you were wearing a wedding ring but it was actually a class ring on your left hand and it wasn't on your ring finger. I was just finishing my chicken fried steak breakfast when I heard you

YOU SAW ME I THOUGHT IT WAS THE LITTLE THINGS You saw me, bringing you hugs. You saw me, making an attempt. You saw me, spontaneously stopping by to say hello, texting you to ask about your day or asking of you'd like to have dinner. I saw you, holding on to the past. I saw you, being unforgiving. I saw you, pretending to care purely out of kindness. I suppose its time to stop trying to see you.

YOU SAW ME? I am not sure if the message was meant for me and my blue eyes. However, when I see you, everything is good. When you stop by, it makes my entire day!! When I stop by, you aren't at your desk...so I am especially glad when you make the effort to take time to say hello. Thanks for lighting up my day with a brief hello greeting.

How do I know if this is you?

CHEERS GLOWSTICK GIRL: TODAY IS HERE You once wrote to me: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift — that's why it's called the present."

Every single morning, I want to be part of your today. I'd love to see you; let's leave behind all of the yesterdays. — El Scorcho CG, YOUR MAM PHOTO SHOOT WAS HOT! I'm so glad we connected. You are one of a kind! Thanks for a first great date! I look forward to many more!

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HELLO BATMAN Wish you could have traveled with this Batgirl. Could have been memorable and fun. If you were worried about articles of clothing in a tree, a chainsaw or trip to Costco would have solved that issue. Always on my mind.

obviously found her cell phone — as she waited for you to come out and she asked if you found it. You replied 'sucks to lose a cell phone doesn't it?' as you carried hers away. You are disappointing as a human and shameful. If it was me you'd be on the ground until I got it back and the police arrived to take your butt to jail. Count yourself lucky except for the karma that's headed your way. The picture and video memories you stole from her & her 4 children are priceless.

SHE is a hard working woman and does not deserve the scent of jerks like you.

Maybe you'll have a trace of decency and turn it in... but alas — I'm sure your selfishness is consuming you and destroying others left and right. Sad, really. Stealing is NEVER okay. I really hope you get caught someday soon.

HONDA GUY ON 29TH WITH NO-LI STICKER Dear gentleman I was racing with down 29th on Sunday, May 15th: Cheers buddy. We started talking at the light on 29th and Grand after ripping down the road, but as it turned green, I floored it because of the car behind us.

I honestly felt terrible about driving off mid-conversation. So this is an apology, as well as a written high-five to you, Sir. Xoxo, the Black and White Mitsubishi Eclipse

POLKA DOT POTTERY, NOT KARAOKE To the two girls singing in polka dot pottery, this is not a karaoke bar. It is 5 pm on a Sunday and you are not only playing your own music on your phone when the radio is playing in the store, but singing loudly and off key while attempting to harmonize. While I should clearly love nothing more than to be serenaded by you whilst painting my dad a mug for Father's Day, please shut up and let me paint in peace.

day I can pass the favor along.

COFFEE WARMS THE SOUL CONVERSATION WARMS THE SPIRIT. Cheers to all my TRUE, AUTHENTIC friends who make time for me and give me that perfect blend of conversation with a cuppa Joe! You are one in a zillion!! I love each and every one of you very, very, very much! (Many thanks to my one friend who flew in from a photoshoot just to have coffee and conversation with me!)

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COUNTRY HOMES ROOSTER You've had the rooster for about a year and he's grown from struggling crower to full on cock-a-doodle-doer. I am able to hear him ALL DAY LONG from the privacy of my back yard. Cannot imagine what the neighbors on either side of you think. Having a rooster in our mostly quiet neighborhood is illegal but more importantly — extremely inconsiderate.

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May 21, 6 pm-midnight. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. rmhcspokane.org TITAN DEBATE VS. MATT SHEA & BOB MCCASLIN JR. University High’s Speech and Debate Team debates in a non-political, non-partisan event to raise funds to attend the national tournament this June. May 23, 6:30-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. Spokane Valley Partners, 10814 E. Broadway. bit. ly/1UtQbYC (818-5380)

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2.0PEN MIC Locals try their best, new material at this weekly open mic, Thursdays from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. (244-3279) ILIZA SHLESINGER She’s the only female and youngest comedian to hold the title of NBC’S Last Comic Standing. May 19-21, at 7:30 pm, also Fri-Sat at 10:30 pm. $26.50-$37.50. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THE IMPROV CO-OP A night of improvisational comedy with Liberty Lake’s own comedy troupe, The Improv Coop. May 21 and June 18, at 7 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. libertylaketheatre.com TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com WEED + WHISKEY Featuring live comedy from Matt Dargen, Sam Vidovich and Mila Lahman. May 24, 8-10 pm. $5.

The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. observatoryspokane.com (598-8933) THE ADDICTS COMEDY TOUR Enjoy deep laughs emanating from surviving life’s darkest moments in this, poignant stand-up comedy show about the journey back to sanity. May 25, 7:30-9:30 pm. $22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

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ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT Put your knowledge of Spokane architecture to the test with the Spokane City/County Historic Preservation Office’s scavenger hunt. This year’s route winds its way through the historic Browne’s Addition neighborhood. Details at historicspokane.org; event continues through the month of May. DOWNTOWN SPOKANE BIKE TOUR Join city officials and others on a tour of downtown bike facilities, new Centennial Trail signage, Kendall Yards and the upcoming University District Bridge. For riders of all abilities. May 19, noon. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. bit.ly/231WFhw SPOKANE SILENT READING PARTY Bring a book or an eReader and prepare to zip your lips (we’re serious) as you delve into the magic of words. May 19, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org TREASURE! A touring exhibit explor-

ing the history of treasure and treasure hunting, the technology used to look for it, and the people obsessed with finding it. Through May 29. Museum open Tue-Sun, from 10 am-5 pm. $5$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) BIKE TO WORK WEEK WRAP-UP PARTY Community cyclists are invited to celebrate another successful Bike to Work Week with free pizza and beer, live music, door prizes and more. May 20, 5:30-7 pm. Free. River City Brewing, 121 S. Cedar. spokanebikes.org CODE IN THE DARK A nighttime frontend development competition with a party-like atmosphere, including a live DJ. Local coders battle it out in a series of 15-minute, blind coding challenges. while attendees choose the winner of each heat until a champion is named.

Refreshments provided. May 20, 7 pmmidnight. Free and open to all. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. hackspokane.com (934-1130) RESEARCHING YOUR HOUSE HISTORY Archivists from the Northwest Room of SPL and the MAC join Spokane’s historic preservation officer to share how to research your old house and apply for historic designation status. May 20, 10 am. Free, registration requested. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. (444-5336) ARMED FORCES DAY FESTIVAL Featuring live music, military vehicles, a blow up obstacle course, food, drink and more. May 21, 12-8 pm. Free. Fedora Pub & Grille, 1726 W. Kathleen Ave. fedorapubandgrille.com ART FOR THE PARK A celebration of the 125th anniversary of Coeur d’Alene Park in Browne’s Addition. Teams of artists paint large-scale art on four intersections surrounding the park, which hosts local artists, activities and more. May 21, 9 am-5 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Park, 300 S. Chestnut. friendsofcdspark.org ASTRONOMY DAY 2016 The Spokane Astronomical Society has telescopes on display with some viewing our closest star, the sun! Also see displays with info about the club, astronomy and the science. May 21, 12-6 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. (444-5390) CUP OF COOL WATER BRIDGE WALK Th 3rd annual 7K walk/run weaves through downtown, crossing 17 bridges. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit supporting local homeless youth. May 21, 9-11 am. $25. Cup of Cool Water, 1106 W. Second. cupofcoolwater.org KIDICAL MASS Kids and their families are invited to this fun, safe, 3-mile bike ride through the Chief Garry neighborhood on anything that rolls. Donated helmets (75) are also being given away and 20 refurbished bikes will be available for use. May 21, 1-2:30 pm. Free.

Chief Garry Park, 2701 E. Sinto. summerparkways.com MORAN PRAIRIE LIBRARY’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY Events include live music by Buffalo Jones, readings by local authors, crafts/activities for families.

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My boyfriend “loves women.” When we’re out, he’ll check out and comment on every hot girl. I get that he’s just “appreciating their beauty,” but it makes me feel really bad — angry and insecure. How can I get him to stop? Why does he need to do this? I sure don’t.

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You might take your boyfriend’s babe-ernecking less personally if you recognize that male sexual attraction is visually driven in a way female attraction is not — which is why strip clubs catering to men are big business while those for women are largely a bachelorette party novelty. Sure, women like a nice view if they can get it, but if they have to make a trade-off, they’re likely to go for the weak-chinned self-made gazillionaire.

This is reflected in research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend. He showed men and women photos of hotties and homelies of the opposite sex, dressed in either a Burger King uniform or biz exec-wear and a Rolex. When he asked which they’d go for, men were indifferent to how the woman was dressed — picking the hottie no matter what she was wearing. Women, on the other hand, went for the homely business dude, and tended to nix even a hookup with the hot hamburger helper.

There are also some indications that, just by looking at those on the babe squad, parts of the male brain’s reward circuitry get activated in ways women’s do not. In brain imaging research on both male and female subjects, cognitive scientist Jasmin Cloutier found that only men looking at photographs of hotties got the lights turned on in the orbitofrontal cortex — part of the brain that’s thought to suss out potentially rewarding stuff on our horizon and give us a “Yoo-hoo! Over here!”

Reward circuitry aside, there’s “window shopping” and then there’s “window announcing.” Though — sorry, ladies — all men look, the kind, loving ones don’t get caught (and especially don’t marvel aloud). In other words, what’s worrisome about your boyfriend’s behavior is what it says about the kind of partner he is to you. When somebody loves you, they want to make you feel good — not like you’re comparing poorly to half the female pedestrians jiggling down the sidewalk.

The way to approach this is to explain how much this behavior hurts your feelings. As the father of behavioral economics, Adam Smith, noted, evoking somebody’s empathy tends to motivate them to try to make things better. Telling them what to do, however, tends to backfire, leading to cries of “Vive la revolution!”

As for how you’d like things to change, let your boyfriend know that you just don’t want to see him gaping or hear about it. Okay, he appreciates women as these moving pieces of art. Museums are quiet. Men aren’t yelling at the Mona Lisa, “Hey, girl, I’ll give you something to smile about!” Likewise, in a relationship, there are legit cries for help, but one of them is not “Help, I’ve fallen down her cleavage, and I can’t get up!”

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I know my boyfriend’s into me, and he’s generally very loving, but I get far more compliments about how I look from guys I’m not dating. How do I get my boyfriend to let me know that he likes the view?

—Uncomplimented There’s a reason that the Miss World pageant lacks a mathematics category, in which contestants come out smiling and waving and then do one of the world’s great unsolved math problems in their head: “And now, ladies and gentlemen, we’ll watch as Miss Uruguay proves that the 196-algorithm does not terminate when applied to the number 196.”

Obviously, beauty isn’t everything. In fact, according to research by economist Jeremy Greenwood, a smarty-pants, highly educated guy is more likely than ever (compared with, say, 1960) to require his bride-to-be to be similarly smarty-pants and highly educated. What hasn’t changed is male sexual desire. Because it’s intensely visual, it’s reassuring for a woman to hear that the way she looks is driving a guy wild — as opposed to driving him to pluck his eyes out with barbecue tongs.

Men like to know they’re making a woman happy — or at least how they might have some hope of that. So, put it in those terms: “Baby, you know what I’d love…?” rather than “Buddy, you know how you’re failing me…?” (Gently remind him until he gets in the habit.) A positive approach like this tends to be the most effective, tempting as it may be to hint that noncompliance will lead to severe sanctions: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, if you ever want a blow job again, you’d better say something nice about my outfit.” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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A CINEMATIC TRIBUTE TO VETERANS This presentation celebrates the close ties between the movies and servicemen and women, and the many ways in which Hollywood has helped us commemorate their sacrifices. After the presentation, see the film “The Best Years of our Lives.” May 21, 1-4:30 pm.

Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5331)

FOOD & DRINK

SPOKANE CRAFT BEER WEEK A sixday celebration of the region’s craft beer industry, with events including tastings, brewery collaborations, beer dinners, tap takeovers, tasting competitions and more. Events from May 16-22, see complete schedule at spokanecraftbeerweek.com RED, WHITE & NO-LI SMALL BATCH FESTIVAL Tickets include tastings of 8+ specialty brews, a commemorative pint glass, T-shirt and 5 drink tickets. May 21, 11 am-3 pm. $15/person. No-Li Brewhouse, 1003 E. Trent. bit.ly/27bfXGf CHATTAROY CHEESE OPEN HOUSE A family-friendly event offering tours of the facility, cheese tasting, live music, and a chance to meet the goats, baby goats included. May 22, 12-3 pm. Free.

Chattaroy Cheese Company, 23720 N. Crescent Rd. chattaroycheese.com FOUNDRY VINEYARDS WINE DINNER A six-course dinner featuring wine pairings selected by Foundry Vineyards’ head winemaker Justin Basel. May 24, 6:30 pm. $80/person. Clover, 913 E. Sharp. cloverspokane.com (487-2937) HIGHER GROUND ANIMAL SANCTUARY PINT NIGHT $1 from every pint sold is donated to the local nonprofit.

May 26, 3-9 pm. Bellwether Brewing, 2019 N. Monroe. (280-8345)

MUSIC

THE PIANO GUYS Hailing from Utah, these four dads became an Internet sensation through their series of strikingly original, self-made music videos May 21, 8 pm. $30-$180. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. (279-7000) SPOKANE BRITISH BRASS BAND A season finale concert, “Masters of Brass XVII,” featuring works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet, Delibes and Gliere. May 22, 3-4:30 pm. $10 (students free). North Central HS, 1600 N. Howard. sbbb.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHORALE The

program includes a range of music from around the world, and features the “Mass of the Children” by John Rutter.

May 22, 4-6 pm. $15/person; $35/family of up to five. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. spokanesyphonyassoc.org THE LARSEN GROUP A night of West Coast Jazz featuring the SFCC Jazz Ensemble and The Larsen Group, playing originals and arrangements. May 25, 7:30-9 pm. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu SPOKANE SYMPHONY + TERRAIN: UNCHARTED Local musicians, performance artists, authors and more partner with the orchestra. May 27, 8 pm. $15-$50. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com

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KING OF THE CAGE: BATTLE ZONE A mixed martial arts event featuring four fighters from Coeur d’Alene and Spokane. May 19, 7-11:45 pm. $25+. CdA Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com SPOKANE EMPIRE Arena football game vs. the Tri-Cities Fever. May 20, 7 pm. $15-$110. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com (279-7000) DADS & DUDES NIGHT A night to offer an opportunity for fathers (and father figures) to spend quality time with their boys in a fun, positive environment.

May 21. $10-$15/adult + kid duo. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. hubsportscenter.org (927-0602) FISHING DERBY The 13th annual event at Washington’s top-rated trout lakbenefits the Spokane Shriner’s Hospital. May 22, 5 am-1 pm. $10. Klink’s on the Lake, 18617 Williams Lake Rd. klinksresort.com (235-2391)

THEATER

FICTION A successful married couple thrive on their candid relationship, but trust begins to break down when they decide to share their diaries with each other. Through May 22, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. (325-2507) THE GREAT GATSBY The Inland Northwest’s premiere of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary triumph. May 13-14 and 17-20, at 7:30 pm. $8-$12. Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan Rd. (795-1823) THE LADIES FOURSOME A comedy set during an outrageous round of golf.

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VISUAL ARTS

WEEKSPOT: TED APEL Continuing its yearlong celebration of contemporary artists in Idaho, the gallery features work from Boise artist Ted Apel. May 20-June 4. Opening reception May 20, from 5-7 pm. Gallery open Tue-Fri, 1-7 pm and Sat, 9 am-3 pm. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. prichardart.org (208-885-3586) ARTIST TRADING CARD WORKSHOP: During this workshop, learn the history of the ATC movement and create your own. May 21, 2-4 pm. $15. Madelia Mercantile, 817 N. Madelia. bit.ly/1OxWZy2 RIC GENDRON The local artist’s soulful portraits of Native Americans show a profound insight into what it means to be indigenous. May 21-June 15; open Tue-Sat, 11 am-5 pm. Free. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague, Ste. B. manicmoonandmore.com (413-9101)

WORDS

READING: CRAIG JOHNSON The award-winning writer is known for his Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration behind the popular show Longmire. May 20, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) YA AUTHORS TOUR Meet authors of young adult novels with a panel discussion, Q&A, and a meet-and-greet. May 22, 12-1 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s weekly open mic series, open to all.

Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. (847-1234) READING: RUSSELL ROWLAND & SHANN RAY Montana native Rowland reads from his book, “Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey.” He’s joined

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Karelian bear dog Jax meets the public with his handler, Officer Keith Kirsch. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Bear Aware

The six dogs of Washington’s Karelian Bear Dog Program mitigate conflicts between humans and wildlife in a state where the wild is our backyard

BY CHEY SCOTT

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efore they’re even on site, the dogs know. The barking is nonstop. Savu, a 7-year-old, 90-pound Karelian bear dog, is up on his hind legs, sniffing at the black bear sow through the metal grate of a mobile trailer trap. He bares his teeth and barks ferociously at her. This is his job.

Overwhelmed by the barrage of noisy dogs, the bear is silent. She’s about to be released back into the hills to rejoin her three young cubs, who’ve all recently visited a rural Western Washington property to snack on an abundance of garbage littering the place.

Savu and three other dogs, with their Washington State Fish and Wildlife officer handlers, are in place on either side of the trap. The moment of freedom for the bear has arrived, not without consequence.

The dogs’ barking roars to a fever pitch. She shoots out of the trap.

“OK, Go! Go, go, go!” officer Rich Beausoleil yells to the dogs. “Go get that bear! Get that bear!”

Released from their leads once she’s passed, the dogs charge after the sow into a lush thicket of green.

An officer on the left aims a volley of nonlethal beanbag shells at the black bear’s rear. Another fires a series of cracker shells skyward. The noise, the dogs, the pangs of pain on her backside make for a truly terrifying combination to this mama bear. After all, she’d just wandered through looking to feed herself and her three babies. The food to survive another day was there and free for the taking.

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Yet if not for Fish and Wildlife’s Karelian Bear Dog Program, the outcome for this wild family could have been much worse, perhaps even lethal. The combination of the dogs, loud noises and rubber bullets on her rear — called a “hard release” — is a purposefully negative experience intended to teach the bear to fear returning to the place she was released. In this particular situation (captured on Animal Planet’s Rugged Justice show), preventing that return also relies on the homeowner not leaving trash and other attractants outside, easily accessible. Officers tell him to clean up and issue a warning.

Beausoleil lists the top reasons bears come in close contact with us, in both urban and rural locales: garbage, birdseed and fruit trees. Take those out of the equation, and the bears have no reason to come near, he says.

Thanks to the tenacious work done by Savu and his Karelian brethren, along with the team of wildlife officers, the mama bear and her cubs are unharmed and back where they need to be, with a good dose of fear associated with snacking near humans again.

For the past 13 years, Washington state’s Karelian Bear Dog Program — the first of its kind in the U.S., and funded entirely by private donations — has helped save the lives of thousands of bears and cougars who’ve wandered too close to human populations. Meanwhile, these working dogs are helping protect us from negative encounters with our wild neighbors. It’s estimated that 80 percent of animals trapped and hard-released back into the wild with the dogs’ help never come close again.

n a breezy Saturday morning in early May, the state’s six Karelian bear dogs are soaking up the sun and the attention.

In the hour before a 5K fun run to raise money for the program, the dogs hang out on the grass outside Fish and Wildlife’s Eastern Washington region offices in Spokane Valley. They meet families with young children gleeful at the sight of the dogs’ plush, black-and-white coats and happy, panting faces. The KBDs, as they’re called for short, are calm as can be around the kids, a stark contrast to their indomitable behavior during a bear release.

Karelian bear dogs are an ancient breed from the Karelia region of Finland and northwestern Russia. Bred for centuries to hunt bear and moose, they’re fairly uncommon in the U.S. Because of that working nature, KBDs can be incredibly destructive pets unless you have a job for them, or lots of time to exercise them daily.

Yet they’re incredibly gentle and protective of humans, which makes events like the fun run and school visits ideal opportunities for them to serve as wildlife conflict ambassadors.

The newest dog to join Washington’s program is Jax, a year-old KBD who’s also the first to be based in Eastern Washington, working alongside Officer Keith Kirsch.

The other five adult dogs — all based in Western Washington, except for Beausoleil’s dogs, Cash and Indy, who work out of Wenatchee — are here to join Jax and Kirsch for the fun run. Then they’ll spend several days training together, which includes the release back into the wild of some rehabilitated, orphaned black bear cubs.

Jax can learn important cues from the more experienced dogs (Cash, for example, has worked with more than 500 bears and 140 cougars so far in his 10-year tenure).

Still, the instinct to chase and corner a bear is very much ingrained in his bloodline.

“It’s really amazing, when I had him on the first few bears I didn’t have to do a whole lot, but he’s learned a lot from the adult dogs, and seeing what they’re doing,” Kirsch says.

Jax flew over from a kennel in Denmark to work in the state’s KBD program, but his counterparts are all the product of a Montana-based breeder and bear conflict specialist with the Wind River Bear Institute outside of Missoula.

When MORE ON THE KBDs they’re not See a photo slideshow of Washington chasing bears state’s Karelian bear dogs at Inlander. up trees to com. You can also see them in action on be tranquilAnimal Planet’s Rugged Justice series. ized and transported to safer locations, or spreading awareness about how to avoid conflicts between bears and humans, the KBDs do lots more. They help their human partners catch wildlife poachers, aid in search and rescue missions and locate baby animals when, tragically, their mother has been killed. When not on the trail of a bear or poacher, the dogs live with their handlers as members of the family.

Kirsch prepped to become a KBD team officer for years before Jax’s arrival last fall. He’ll work in the field with him until Jax retires at around 12 years old.

“Having a nonlethal tool on the ground is so big,” Kirsch says. “It’s really tough when you have to euthanize the animal. You know it’s not their fault, it’s a people/education aspect. And now that we have [Jax], a lot of animals can live and survive. We can have that coexisting.” n cheys@inlander.com

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