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It’s not easy to “give up the ghost” BY INGA LAURENT
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ome of my quarantime has been spent relearning lessons on letting go. The words of others — in parables, prayer and music — has given new shape to my knowledge. I suppose a certain life-altering virus has also contributed to the introspection. When plans, expectations and illusions of control give way, we are left with an opportunity to make sense of ourselves. There is an art to releasing that I’ve yet to master. My current skill level is “needs improvement,” more akin to a paint-by-numbers type talent, but I am refining. I have an ability to fixate on past hurts and the people associated with them tenaciously. At times, I even trick myself into believing I’ve transcended. But phrases like “I need more informa-
tion” and “it’s the principle of the matter” turn out to be justifications dressed-up as rationale for continued clinging, binding me to situations that I’m not really willing to abandon. Beware the conviction that proclaims conditional freedom. I’ve learned a marked difference between the melodramatic “I’m done with this” and true, effective emancipation exists. Shutting down, shutting people out or slamming doors is hardly as healing as setting someone free with genuine
vulnerability, good intention and the gentle closing of “enough now.” While logically the healthier version of this sounds as if it would be more desirable, we are rarely rational beings. Feelings pretty much fail at adhering to coherence. So, I frequently find myself riding around the carousel of yuck, running down the litany of remarks I’d let fly, imagining the scene that unfolds when we meet again, torturing myself in deliberation over the said and unsaid, replaying conversations and interactions, instead of simply rising above. Sometimes, a jagged connection seems better than one completely severed. Until it doesn’t. A parable explains that holding onto anger is like grabbing hot coals and expecting someone else to get burned. This analogy translates to past hurts and people, too. Holding onto things we ought to let go of is exhausting. In the end, we risk injuring ourselves and others in the process. I know that setting aside the flames we’ve carried can feel impossible. When I get locked in, seized up by thoughts of the unattainable, I turn to the wisdom of others. Mpho and Desmond Tutu give some guidance here: “I want to be willing to let go, to forgive / But dare not ask for the will to forgive / In case you give it to me / And I am not yet ready / I am not yet ready for my heart to soften… / I’m at the prayer before the prayer of forgiveness.”
A parable explains that holding onto anger is like grabbing hot coals and expecting someone else to get burned. Liberation ain’t easy, it’s a process. And we are all responsible for choosing our paths. Every road to freedom will look a little different. There’s a Dixie Chicks song that showcases one set of directions: “Ain’t no talking to this man / He’s been trying to tell me so / It took a while to understand / The beauty of just letting go / Cause it would take an acrobat / And I’ve already tried all that / I’m gonna let him fly.” My way has been more meandering, a bit messy but meaningful. Rather than disassociate, I deal with my emotions. For me, frustration masks feelings of powerlessness, and anger is a bait-and-switch for temporarily staving off grief. I confront what I could have done better, investigating when my actions were out of alignment with my principles. Then, I reassemble my priorities into a crystalline, rock-solid personal hierarchy of needs and values. Rinse, wash and repeat — several times because living is hard. We humans are limited, with a finite capacity of demarcated energy for devotion. In choosing our focus, we create our world. Freeing the mind from what no longer serves us well provides the space for investing in what actually does. Activities can settle the soul, like being in nature, making art or reading. People can satisfy it too. May you find someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on YouTube figuring out the sorcery behind folding fitted sheets on your behalf. Dogs can also soothe. Definitely, get a dog (shoutout to Fernie and Walter, Zill and the Pug Palace trio). It’s taken me a good long while to comprehend how precious we are and that our attention should be solely and firmly fixed on reflections of that reality. Yet, I still need reminders, so I breathe and let the winsome and wise words of Rosi Golan wash over and reverberate within: “Can we just give up the ghost / Remember what we love the most / Untangle our hands / Unravel ourselves and let go / Can we just give up the ghost?” n Inga N. Laurent is a local legal educator and a Fulbright scholar. She is deeply curious about the world and its constructs and delights in uncovering common points of connection that unite our shared but unique human experiences.
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TORI BAILEY: I used to like Ozzie but not so much now. He is a sheriff. His job is to enforce the laws. It is not his job to decide what is constitutional and what is not. Leave that to the judges. All these police and sheriffs need to stay in their lane. If the governors say it is so, then you carry out the orders and let the courts deal with the fallout. DIANA BOLCH: I suspect the sheriff is running for a future political office. I know he has said no political office for him… but that was a while ago and now he may be having a change of heart politically… that this is a good time to run… The question is… which office is he considering? TYSON LR: The fact that he refuses to enforce any consequences for refusing to use social distancing is exactly why we aren’t allowed to reopen. That people are standing shoulder to shoulder at protests and grocery stores and he said he won’t do anything about it is why we’re locked down. Inslee was asking people to socially distance for weeks before he issued any orders. We wouldn’t. Enforce the distancing and people will be able to get on with our lives. Do your job, Ozzie. JD LEIGHTY: “I thought what he did was fairly foolish,” Knezovich says of [Bonner County Sheriff Daryl] Wheeler. Knezovich sees Wheeler for what Wheeler truly is, a fool. Wheeler is a clown that the citizens of Bonner County love to worship as their John Wayne. Hell, half of them moved to Bonner County just so they could play cowboy. DIOSDADIZ OLMO: Playing both sides. Yep, he will be a politician after he retires.
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TREVOR BRADLEY: Honestly every time I read Ozzie’s statements I think about how metered and reasonable his positions are relative to neighboring counties’ sheriffs. I may disagree with him about the necessity of certain measures of the stay-at-home order, but he is out there defending its constitutionality, educating the public, and fighting against the spread of divisive conspiracy theories. Even where we disagree, his concern is for the economic impact on the working poor — which I will admit our government seems unequipped to handle adequately. All this coupled with his outspoken opposition to white supremacists in the region, I am legitimately sad to see him not seek reelection. I’m afraid to see who might replace him. n
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hort of a vaccine or treatment, there’s still one weapon that epidemiologists like Anna Halloran have against the coronavirus: contact tracing. It involves identifying those who may have been exposed to the disease and urging them to isolate and prevent further spread. And now, as the region prepares to slowly reopen, Halloran will have an army of contact tracers behind her to help in the fight. The Spokane Regional Health District this month says it’s already upped the number of contact tracers to more than a dozen. And through a partnership with Eastern Washington University, they hope to add 20 more student volunteers to help with contract tracing by June, and up to 50 by July. The state of Washington, too, announced last week that it’s ready to deploy more than 1,300 contact tracers. “Case investigation and contact tracing have been a core part of public health work for years and years and years and years,” Halloran says. “We’re trying to ramp
up our staffing and help for doing this kind of work.” It’s a weapon the health district feels comfortable wielding against other diseases like hepatitis A, measles or for STDs. For COVID-19, contact tracers will call you if you’ve spent more than 10 minutes in close proximity — less than 6 feet away — from someone who tests positive. “We want to identify individuals [who have the virus], identify the contacts, treat it and prevent it from spreading,” says Spokane Regional Health Officer Bob Lutz. “That’s what we call boxing in the virus.” Only with coronavirus, it didn’t take long for health officials to realize they needed a bigger box.
CATCHING UP
In early March, Lutz knew the coronavirus had already invaded Spokane. The problem was that he didn’t know where it was. “Early on, we sort of joked sardonically that we need-
ed a case,” Lutz says. “Until we actually had confirmed cases, nobody believed that COVID-19 was actually in Spokane.” Not only that, but it stripped public health officials of the ability to conduct case investigations. If you don’t know where the virus is, it’s impossible to track down where it’s going to go. Part of that had to do with the lack of testing resources available, he says. “Had we the resources, the ability to test more broadly, which we weren’t able to do, then we could have jumped on this a bit more aggressively,” Lutz says. That meant Halloran and a team of several other Spokane Regional Health District epidemiologists were playing catch-up in their contact tracing. They typically have five epidemiologists on staff, with three working full time. In March, that small team started off doing all those contact investigations themselves. It was manageable in mid-March, after the first case ...continued on next page
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NEWS | HEALTH “BOXED IN,” CONTINUED... was confirmed on the 14th of the month. But 10 days later, when there were 20 cases a day coming in, they were overwhelmed, Halloran says. Tracking down the contacts of a single case, and calling each one and urging them to quarantine, can take several hours. “It started to become too much for us to handle,” Halloran says. Around that time, the Washington State Department of Health offered to help local jurisdictions across the state. Spokane took advantage of that, but it wasn’t enough. Instead of calling each contact of a person with a confirmed case, case investigators had to simply tell a person who tested positive to call people they may have exposed and provide advice to quarantine, Halloran says. Without enough contact tracers, sick people would be the one advising each contact instead, using recommendations from the health district. Halloran says those contacts often lacked access to testing, because they may not have met the criteria at the time due to lacking resources. Those exposed to a confirmed case were instead treated as a “probable case.” That’s why the confirmed cases, she says, don’t give a full picture of community spread. What gets reported to the health district are confirmed cases, or the “tip of the triangle,” Halloran says. Under that tip are people who sought medical attention but didn’t have a test ordered even if they may have had COVID-19. Under that are other people who were sick and didn’t get medical attention, and then still more people who may have been asymptomatic. The health district knew they needed more people to do contact tracing work. They pulled disease investigators within the STD program and other staff. But it took
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a while to get everyone trained on what they were asking for with COVID-19, Halloran says. Still, Spokane never quite saw the surge in cases many were expecting. By May, case counts were on a downward trend. And the health district put together a contact-tracing team consisting of more than a dozen disease-investigation specialists. Testing capacity began to improve simultaneously, and on May 12, health officials revised the testing criteria to reflect that. Now, all people with symptoms are to be tested, and close contacts of confirmed positive cases should get tested, too, whether they have symptoms are not. The health district sought extra assistance from its partners in Eastern Washington University’s public health program. Dr. Pam Kohlmeier, a public health lecturer at EWU, says they’re prepared to train 10 volunteers per week on contact tracing starting on June 1. Students in public health and nursing programs from EWU, Washington State University, University of Washington and Whitworth can volunteer. With all those contact tracers, even though new cases are sure to emerge as Spokane reopens slowly, Lutz feels more confident about containing the virus. “Having that team available definitely is going to be an essential piece moving forward,” Lutz says.
“We can prevent all the contacts and the could-be cases from spreading the disease, and therefore we just put a cap on it.”
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hit with questions about privacy. Halloran stressed that contact tracers are bound by the same privacy laws as a health-care provider. “I completely understand the sensitivities people have around confidentiality, but this is a confidential service we’re offering to try to help mitigate this disease,” Halloran says.
David Line, program director for EWU’s public health program, says having students involved was an initial concern for that very reason. But that’s why students will go through the training. The students need to understand first how health systems work and how to use medical terminology. And secondly, they must understand confidentiality by the end of the training. “That’s something we drive home and practice and work on,” Line says. The epidemiologists will create the list of contacts that a person with COVID-19 may have exposed, and the student volunteers may be the ones to call those contacts and advise them to quarantine for two weeks while providing information on how to get tested. “It’s going to be very scripted going forward,” Lutz says. Line estimates that student volunteers could call up
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to 500 people who have COVID-19 per week. So far, Spokane hasn’t reached 500 confirmed cases in two months. “We can prevent all the contacts and the could-be cases from spreading the disease, and therefore we just put a cap on it,” Line says. And that is how to prevent further community shutdown orders. Before, without testing and contact tracing, public health officials had to assume everyone in the community might have had the coronavirus. If they know where the virus is, then the whole community doesn’t have to shut down. Line likens the stayhome orders to a snowstorm. We just went through a two-month storm, where everything got shut down because of something we’d never seen before. Now? “What I expect is going to be small snow squalls — isolated patches that are going to continue to occur,” he says. n
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Quarantine of Rivals How Gov. Inslee’s stay-home order has inflamed tensions between competing and feuding businesses BY DANIEL WALTERS
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ndre Miesch has long been aggravated by the Cottages at Havana housing development next door to him in south Spokane. The construction, he alleges, has been plagued by garbage, splattered concrete and loud drilling into the evening. And so when Gov. Jay Inslee issued his stay-home order, Miesch breathed a momentary sigh of relief: Sure, his painting company, Smart Finishes, had to halt its work, but at least construction on the South Hill development would stop as well. Except it didn’t. For weeks, he says, construction on the Cottages continued unabated, even as Miesch watched painting jobs get poached by competitors willing to quietly defy the governor’s orders. “We lost projects during the shutdown to people who were willing to do the work,” he says. “Sometimes you get screwed for doing what’s right.”
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Kim Arrotta, co-owner of Northtown Auto Sales, is frustrated that a next-door business, a sex shop, has remained open throughout the shutdown. On April 2, Miesch filed a complaint with the state against Paint Pros USA, saying it was violating Inslee’s stay-home order by continuing work on the Cottages. “This Idaho-based company is performing nonessential work at this location!” he wrote. “My painting company is shut down and complying 100 percent.” Paint Pros USA co-owner Will Berrier counters that the Cottages’ developer had cleared their work with the state. He says they were allowed to continue painting in order to protect the project from falling into disrepair. “People are at home with the stay-at-home order and looking to point the finger,” says Berrier. “There’s a lot of smoke in the air right now. People are confused, and a lot of people are scared.” As of last week, the state had received more than 28,000 reports about potential violations of the stay-home order. Some come from concerned citizens or employees who say their bosses have illegally put them in danger. But many come from fellow business owners. In Spokane and across the state, Inslee’s stay-home order has given fuel to existing feuds and rivalries between competitors. Businesses selling furniture, blinds and Creamsicles, those washing cars, building decks, painting buildings and trimming hedges have all complained that they’re doing the right thing by shutting down, only to watch the competition get ahead by staying open. “I was told by the state that residential house cleaning is nonessential,” the owner of a local cleaning business wrote. “Now I’m doing the right thing and competitors are stealing our clients. Not playing fair.” Staffers at the governor’s office say they can sympathize. “I imagine it is incredibly frustrating to be compliant, and do what’s necessary to help members of the community, and then to see down the street that your competitor
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is not,” says Sonja Hallum, the state’s policy advisor in charge of compliance. But the sheer quantity of complaints, along with unclear regulations and cautious enforcers, means that few of those competitors are likely to pay a price.
THE FOG OF SHUTDOWN
There’s plenty of precedent for businesses reporting their competitors for allegedly violating the law. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, for example, says that complaints about illegal levels of pesticide on marijuana plants often come from rival growers. But in this environment, where many local businesses are taking radical measures to survive, the tension is particularly heated. “My competitor continued to stay open,” Paul Davis, with Davis Office Furniture, says about Continuum Office Environments. “He even has ads on TV right now. He’s got flags out, he’s got his ‘Open’ sign on.” But Israel Guerrero, owner of Continuum, says that there’s a good reason why they’ve stayed open: He’s supplying essential businesses like Kaiser Aluminum and Providence Health. He shares a photograph of a March 24 letter saying that Kaiser needed to continue receiving supplies to “support the critical infrastructure sectors” exempted from stay-home orders across the country. Even with that, he says, that his business is struggling. “I’m down 85 percent. I’m trying to survive without having to close the doors,” Guerrero says. “If things don’t turn around quickly, we’re going to have to close.” Anybody unsure if they’re considered essential can get a definitive answer by filling out a form on the state’s website. But at times, the answers have fomented more conflict. “I specifically asked you if this was essential and you
NEWS | DIGEST told me ‘NO,’ I could not take my two ice cream trucks out,” reads a mid-April complaint by a local ice cream truck operator about Steve West Ice Cream. “You need to either tell him to stop or tell me that I can do this.” But Steve West tells the Inlander that, until last week, he firmly believed he was allowed to drive around and sell ice cream. After all, what is an ice-cream truck but a mobile food delivery business? He was stopped by police officers twice, he says, but both times they gave him the OK to continue. Most people celebrate his presence, he says. “Ninety-nine percent are thanking us for being out there for our kids,” West says. Last week, West’s competitor got his wish, in a way: Inslee’s office announced that when they’re operating as mobile food vendors instead of stationary food trucks, ice cream trucks weren’t allowed to officially operate until stage 2 of the reopening — though on Tuesday Inslee announced that Spokane County was eligible to apply to move to stage 2 early. In other cases, COVID-related disputes are just the latest front in yearslong battles. Kim Arrotta, owner of Northtown Auto Liquidators on North Division, has complained about a sex shop ever since she moved her business next door in 2010. Last year, she sent photos to the city to show that Zone d’Erotica was breaking the city’s zoning codes. The resulting code enforcement inspection last year revealed that “the volume of adult items” put the business in violation. At the request of the city, the sex shop recently changed the sign outside to “Zone d’Lemon” and began stocking more nonadult products, like clothing and gag gifts. But when the stay-home order was issued, Arrotta says she complied by largely shutting down her auto business for the first few weeks, only to watch Zone d’Erotica stay open the whole time. She, along with several others, reported it to the state. Not only has the shop stayed open — actually making more money than usual — it has pointed to its adult inventory as justification. Vibrators, condoms and penis pumps, the store’s argument goes, all count as essential medical products. Alejandro Sanchez, special assistant to Inslee, says that, in general, it’s unlikely that the state would consider sex shops inherently essential businesses. But he also says he could, theoretically, see a case where a “family planning store” focusing on condoms and contraceptives would be exempted from the order. And Arrotta? Her own business, Northtown Auto Liquidators, was subjected to an anonymous complaint that she was violating the order. She says she immediately contacted their attorney to clarify to the state that the groups of people spotted in the office actually were employees helping to remodel their showroom.
that many rebellious businesses will pay a price. Spokane Police and the county’s sheriff have declined to enforce the rules with anything more than warnings. Theoretically, some of the businesses who violate the stay-home order could lose state-issued licenses or be fined. But Hallum, Inslee’s policy advisor, isn’t aware of any case where that’s happened in Eastern Washington. It’s about people keeping people safe, she stresses, not punishing businesses. Yet, those who were willing to do what Inslee asked them to do, and report noncompliant business, have faced a backlash. Public records requests swiftly revealed the names not only of the businesses facing allegations, but many of those who reported them, exposing them to anger and harassment. Right-wing groups circulated the document, dubbing it the “snitch list.” “I got an email that was just laden with just horrible language,” says Miesch, the painting business owner, reciting some choice selections from the email that included the phrase “whistleblowing motherf---ers.” That wasn’t the only threatening message he received. “I got a letter from the attorney of the developer, threatening to sue me for harassment,” Miesch says. He doesn’t know for sure if the letter was connected to the complaint, but like a number of the complaining businesses the Inlander contacted, he just wants to move on.
“The way they’ve set up these rules, they’re really helping big box [stores], and they’re really helping the internet and Amazon.”
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While businesses that break the governor’s order might face greater legal liability if they’re sued by a customer who contracts COVID, it’s unlikely
For others, the real injustice isn’t the businesses allegedly breaking the rules — it’s the design of the rules themselves. Walmart and Target, several point out, have been allowed to continue operating because they sell food and essentials. “The way they’ve set up these rules, they’re really helping big box [stores], and they’re really helping the internet and Amazon, and they’re really hurting small business,” says John Waite, owner of Auntie’s Bookstore. “It’s not fair, and it’s not smart.” And as Idaho has begun to reopen its economy on a faster schedule than Washington, Eastern Washington businesses have to contend with an additional inequity. “Businesses are watching their customers begin to develop consumer-buying habits across the state line,” says Mark Richard, CEO of the Downtown Spokane Partnership, an advocacy group for downtown businesses. “This tension is not going to end well.” He says that he’s hearing from some beleaguered businesses that they’re considering opening up, whether the governor allows it or not. Indeed, by Friday, the Black Diamond bar in Spokane Valley opened in explicit defiance of Inslee. Two other Spokane Valley businesses followed. “Nobody’s complying anymore,” says Davis, one of the furniture store owners. “I know people right and left that are just opening up. Our governor’s got to relax this.” n
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A MOVEABLE FEAST? If the CLIMATE continues warming at an alarming rate over the next 50 years, how many people might be forced to move due to uncomfortable changes in the temperature of where they live? When a group of researchers set out to answer that question, the results were so shocking they spent another year analyzing the numbers to make sure they were on the right track before publishing the results this month. A Washington State University professor worked on the study that ultimately found as many as 3.5 billion people could be pushed to migrate away from their homes, because the places where they live will have become uncomfortably hot. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
DRINK IT IN Environmental groups lauded Washington state for issuing conditions under the CLEAN WATER ACT for the first time this month that will ensure pollution is reduced from eight dams along the lower Snake and Columbia rivers. Previously, the federally owned and operated dams were not subject to oversight by state leaders, and faced no fines or penalties for breaking federal clean water regulations, explains Lauren Goldberg, legal and program director for Columbia Riverkeeper. “For decades the federal dam operators have violated federal laws designed to protect clean water and salmon, and now that’s changing, that era is over,” Goldberg says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
POP-UP MOVIES Moscow’s Kenworthy Theater and the University of Idaho are using the parking lot of the school’s activity center as a TEMPORARY DRIVE-IN THEATER and are hosting free film screenings. Gates open at 7 pm, and the movies start an hour later. Up next: The beloved high school comedy Mean Girls (May 23), 1992’s period sports film A League of Their Own (May 30) and the action spectacle Mission: Impossible — Fallout (June 6). The makeshift drive-in will be running on a first-come, first-serve basis. The lot allows for just 140 vehicles, so folks are encouraged to arrive early. (NATHAN WEINBENDER) GOOGLE IT In other news, the Inlander learned this week that we’ve won a grant from Google News Initiative’s JOURNALISM EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND. Google says it received more than 12,000 applications from more than 100 eligible countries and that as part of its first wave of awards, the Inlander would receive a $7,000 grant to support our local journalism. Readers, by the way, can also support our mission by becoming Inlander Insiders. Find details at Inlander.com/insiders. (JACOB H. FRIES)
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Spokane artist Travis Chapman blends internet humor and pop culture in his offbeat paintings
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lways clean the countertops. Once his family is off to bed and the house is quiet, local artist Travis Chapman cleans the countertops in his Spokane home. It marks a new night and a clean slate. It’s a ritual he began years ago that is, admittedly, “some kind of OCD,” he says. A roofer by day, Chapman trades his hammer for a paintbrush and sets to work on the nearby dining table with his acrylics. A junky B movie might play in the background. He’s seen them all before, so now he can just focus on the paintings while the film’s audio plays the scenes in his mind’s eye. His teenage daughters, both home during quarantine, usually get lectured about cleaning up after themselves, when in reality he’s the one leaving his art stuff everywhere, he says. You’d recognize his paintings if you saw them. They contain familiar characters and scenes, but now transmogrified into meme-worthy internet humor. There’s Marvel’s Thor smashing through the Berlin Wall, circa 1989. Quint from Jaws sharing a beer with the shark. Star Wars’s Kylo Ren alongside N.W.A. There are more pointed illustrations, too. Like the sea turtle painted by Chapman that went viral, a plastic straw stuck in its nose, snorting lines of cocaine off another turtle’s shell. More recently, there’s Pooh Bear, styled after a Banksy stencil, releasing a red balloon shaped like a virus into the air. That last one is “pretty political if you know the history” of Winnie the Pooh and China’s President Xi Jinping, Chapman says. The country banned the animated show after memes began to circulate comparing Travis Chapman is a Xi’s likeness to the anthropomorphic teddy bear. There is roofer by day, and astute also speculation that the Chiand often hilarious chronicler nese government intentionally of modern times by night eased restrictions on travel durvia paintbrush and a vivid ing the COVID-19 outbreak. imagination. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO Chapman isn’t trying to pick a side of that argument, necessarily, he says. Instead, he’s trying to confuse the current political dichotomy. “People are so divided and on one side or the other. I don’t want to be that obvious,” he says. “I’d rather be clever.” There are other coronavirus-related paintings, too, like nurses storming the beaches of Normandy armed
BY QUINN WELSCH with cotton swabs, or the grocery clerk angel. And then there’s the bat burger painting. Sesame seed buns, lettuce, cheese and five bats, presumably of Chinese origin, poking their heads out from the ingredients. (The coronavirus is believed to have originated from bats in one of China’s so-called “wet markets,” where all manner of animals are sold for food.) One of his more recent successes was a painting of the “jet ski scene” from Netflix’s Tiger King documentary, which depicted James Garretson speeding across the water to “Eye of the Tiger.” “A fat guy on a jet ski is just funny,” he says. “That went to the top of Reddit.”
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hapman’s art does especially well online, racking up thousands of likes on Instagram (his preferred social platform, where he’s attracted a following of about 70,000), and occasionally landing on the front page of Reddit. Fans share it. New fans find it. Meme makers steal it. Banksy himself has shared Chapman’s work online once. So has Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe. All of that translates directly to sales in his online Etsy shop. Chapman’s already had close to 200 orders this year (that’s about a 100 percent increase from the previous year, he says). His art began on social media and that’s where it’s been most successful. He’s painting memes — or “shitposting” as he calls it — via acrylics. While some major art events like Seattle’s Art Fair have canceled, or rescheduled, during the COVID-19 quarantine, others are increasingly going digital. Spokane’s First Friday art walk has gone virtual for the past two months. Coeur d’Alene’s annual Art on the Green Festival this summer is going virtual for the first time. Translating a large scale piece of artwork meant for a gallery to a smartphone or a computer screen isn’t exactly easy or effective. Chapman himself prefers the gallery experience, rather than staring into a device. “If you’re scrolling, you have to make your point pretty fast and pretty easy to understand,” he says. “If someone is walking by in a museum, they are going pretty slow.” The trick is to hit your online audience hard and fast at first to draw them in, and then you can get them with some of the more subtle nuances. “It has to be standing in your face enough, which is kinda weird for art, but that’s the way people see my art,” Chapman says. ...continued on next page
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Smooth Moves Blaise Barshaw shines a spotlight on local breweries though his weekly illustrations BY DAN NAILEN
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eer folks often talk about how crafting delicious beverages is as much about building community as it is about creating a new brew. If you need any evidence that’s true, just talk to Blaise Barshaw. The 58-year-old artist and lifelong Portlander moved to Spokane two and a half years ago. In exploring his transition from the Rose City to the Lilac City, he noticed the cultural life of Spokane seemed to be growing, something of interest after years of running a Portland print shop. And a big part of the appeal for him was Spokane’s burgeoning craft beer scene. After being priced out of Portland, he found he could buy a place in Spokane, so he headed east. “When I moved here, one of the first places I went was Mountain Lakes [Brewing],” Barshaw says. “When we got here, there were, like, three breweries. Now there’s like 30. Hopefully this coronavirus doesn’t set everything back a couple of years.” Barshaw explored the local beer scene and started doing art in Spokane, including taking part in shows at Resurrection Records and showing work at Boutique Bleu and Terrain. It wasn’t all smooth sailing. When Barshaw moved to Spokane, he was just six months into his recovery from an emergency heart surgery for a congenital condition discovered, he says, when “a totally random check for something else caught it.” And six months after arriving here, he was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer. As he was going through treatments, his new friends at Mountain Lakes invited him to join a brew, a welcome diversion. He’s now clear of the cancer. With the arrival of coronavirus and forced changes to their businesses, craft breweries are relying on to-go orders, and some have simply shut down to wait out the crisis. Barshaw knows a lot of folks in the local brewing scene now, and he thought to himself, “what can I do to help?”
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Artist Blaise Barshaw is creating weekly brewery shout-outs on Instagram. BLAISE BARSHAWME PHOTO
The answer is an Instagram illustration project he’s calling the #bbamugclub. Each week, Barshaw creates a piece dedicated to the owners of a brewery. He started with his buddies at Mountain Lakes, then had them choose the next brewery in the weekly series. Each featured brewery chooses the next in line. So far, Barshaw’s done illustrations for Mountain Lakes, Humble Abode, Bellweather Brewing, Black Label Brewing and the Grain Shed. “It’s just a little bit of time for me. It’s my giving back. I don’t have a lot of money to lavish on everyone,” Barshaw says with a laugh. If it can shine a spotlight on some breweries that might encourage people to get out and support their local craft beer spots, all the better. Barshaw knows what a tough business that craft brewing can be, even in the best of times. At local breweries “almost everybody is a couple-person operation,” Barshaw says. “Everybody thinks it’s like printing money, but it’s really an expensive deal.” n See Barshaw’s work on Instagram @blaisebarshawart
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For example, in one painting Chapman depicts Vincent Van Gogh working a day job as a Footlocker employee, holding a box of Vans. It takes a darker turn when viewers notice he’s daydreaming about his Wheat Field With Crows, which is believed to be the last painting the artist made before he died in 1890. That was one of his most successful paintings online. “There’s no gatekeepers with the internet, which is cool,” Chapman says. “For artists, it’s great. You can get exposure. You don’t have to be accepted into someone’s gallery. The old way of distributing your art is so hard.”
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hapman, 46, says art wasn’t something he imagined earning money from. He’s always been a creative person. A doodler as a kid. He dabbled in paintings as a teenager. He went to school at the University of Washington in the early ’90s but failed to find a major. “I still don’t know what I want to be,” he
quips. He liked art. It just never seemed viable as a career choice. He dropped out of college and moved back to Spokane, where he took up roofing. It wasn’t until about 15 years ago that he decided to take a crack at watercolors with his young daughter’s paint set. “I think I realized I could do it,” he says. “That made it more fun.”
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As he got better, he started to move away from typical art subjects, to characters from his favorite movies and TV shows, to more abstract ideas. Chapman will spend days working on a painting that mirrors a classical Renaissance
Creating in Quarantine Artist Tiffany Patterson on the challenges of making art amid a pandemic, and how galleries going online increases art access BY CHEY SCOTT
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n April 16, Tiffany Patterson shared a simple painting with some friendly advice to fellow artists and friends: “Be kind to yourself, this shit is hard.” In a post on her artist Facebook page introducing the image, painted in a rainbow of vivid watercolors, Patterson shared thoughts familiar to many creatives feeling pressure to use “extra” time at home during quarantine to prolifically make art.
Travis Chapman never formally trained as an artist, but he’s always been creative. Playing with his daughter’s watercolors 15 years ago, he found a talent for painting that’s evolved into pieces that mine pop culture and classic art to make meme-worthy new pieces that have caught the attention of Inland Northwesterners and celebrities like Banksy and Tommy Lee.
Tiffany Patterson has found inspiration in the pandemic, but not every day. painting like The Milkmaid, but replace the subject of the piece with The Dude from The Big Lebowski pouring himself a White Russian instead. “I like to ruin it a little bit,” he says. “A lot of artists are weird, and he’s not,” says Treasure Dragseth, another local artist. “He’s just a typical dad. He owns a roofing company. He just seems normal.” Dragseth helped Chapman when he needed to frame some of his artwork. Her favorite is his painting of Seinfeld’s George Costanza posed over a leather couch in boxer shorts. She was also instrumental in getting some of his art put up in the restaurant Gander & Ryegrass in downtown Spokane where she works as a manager. “It’s a high-end, pricey establishment and you look up and there’s Spock as a DJ. It does start conversations,” she says. “It’s not what you’d expect.” “It feels like real art, but it also has a sense of humor about it,” Gander & Ryegrass chef and owner Peter Froese says. “I think if I’m being really honest, at the end of the day it gives me a giggle.” There’s nothing wrong with more traditional art, Chapman says. He says he’s a big fan of Spokane artists Daniel Lopez and Kay O’Rourke. He just likes to paint more “lowbrow” subjects. “He has such a unique sense of humor and … most people don’t get it. That’s the best part,” says Spokane Gallery owner Holly Swanson, who highlighted Chapman as an emerging artist back in 2011. “It’s like he has a way of painting a
perspective most people don’t think about.”
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t’s another Wednesday during quarantine, though it’s getting harder to tell what day it is at this point. Things have slowed down a bit for Chapman’s roofing business, but he still finds people need repairs done. Working by himself on rooftops is socially distanced enough, he says. Speaking to the Inlander from his parked car after driving home from work, Chapman is somewhat reticent to discuss all the details of his art. It’s clear from the phone conversation that he didn’t set out to make it big. Painting is just his way of relaxing after work. Given the chance to make it a career, he says he’d take it. The lockdown has given many people an opportunity to chase a passion project or build a new skill. Chapman, however, says he’s actually found less time for painting. With his family spending most of their time at home, it’s become harder to escape distractions and focus on his art. He doesn’t know what he’d do without it at this point, though. He isn’t proud of everything he’s painted. Not every joke sticks its landing, and the coronavirus pandemic is an especially sensitive topic. “People are dying, and people know those people,” he says. “Humor can get through that if it’s done well, but it can also be a grenade if you don’t do it right. It’s a tool I have that others don’t have.” n
“Some days I can’t seem to bring myself to do anything at all,” Patterson writes. “Other days I start giant projects and make work in a frenzy, just to keep my hands busy. We are all experiencing grief, and there’s no right way to feel.” The Spokane artist, known for her whimsical style and pastel-hued palette, has found some solace, however, by focusing on smaller projects, including simple collages and poetry. Both are media she’s begun to dabble in more since the pandemic set in. Online art-making prompts, like those from a locally run Facebook group called Art Isolation Experiment spearheaded by artist Melanie Lieb Taylor, have also been a source of inspiration and motivation for Patterson and others. “Hashtags and group projects and themes or prompts are helping to give me something to do,” Patterson says. “For me it’s like this built-up energy that I need to get out, and that is sort of the reason behind making art. So it’s not like [my motivation] is gone, it’s just changed.” That said, the artist, who also works full-time as a designer for a local ad agency, says she’s struggled to plan projects further into the future, hopefully in a post-pandemic world. “Someone asked me if I wanted to schedule a gallery show, and I almost had a panic attack,” she says. “The idea of scheduling something at this point; everything feels so unsure. The world I was making in before doesn’t feel relevant right now. And my work has changed from being about crafting these fictional stories more toward me expressing what I am feeling in the moment.” While experiencing art in person at galleries and other public spaces is on hold, Patterson says she’s enjoying the many new opportunities to view art outside the Spokane area that she might not otherwise get to see, pandemic or not. “There have been a few Portland galleries that I like to go to when I’m there, but it’s nice to see the shows and see the artist without traveling,” she says. “I think that is the future of art shows, and I think that has really given access to a lot of people who wouldn’t be able to see those shows and go to galleries and museums. I hope that continues after all this is over, because it really is very inclusive and an amazing way for people to experience art.” n
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Christina Villagomez’s sci-fi vibes fit the current moment well.
COVID CREATIONS North Idaho artists have their own novel response to the virus BY CARRIE SCOZZARO 18 INLANDER MAY 21, 2020
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OVID-19 hasn’t affected everyone equally, nor have stay-home orders, which came to Idaho on March 25. Yet, it’s not so much geography as other factors that have impacted people’s behavior. For artists who need a regular job — or jobs — to sustain them, or whose ability to exhibit their work and interact with potential art supporters has been quashed, the coronavirus has been a catalyst for change. “I’m pretty used to producing every day, so it’s been really nice to have the time to really sit back and just work on things I enjoy,” says Christina Villagomez, who exhibits under the name StarshipInk and co-owns Electric Age Tattoo. Unable to tattoo until recently — many Idaho shops reopened May 16 — Villagomez went into the shutdown with a long list of ideas. Stress-related artist’s block, however, was a real thing early on. “At that point I realized that this [shutdown] is such a great
opportunity to focus less on getting through a list and more on making things for fun, or at least stuff that’s more instinctual.” A North Idaho native who originally pursued journalism before turning to art, Villagomez has been a regular at Emerge, La Resistance, Lilac City Comicon, Terrain’s Bazaar — her candles are available at From Here, Terrain’s shop in River Park Square — and the All Hallows Tattoo Expo. Her mostly figurative illustrations combine art deco, art nouveau, surrealism and high contrast graphics with sparse-yet-strong color. Since March, Villagomez has completed around 20 new pieces, some pandemic-related like The Hermit, a faceless figure in a bright orange-yellow bodysuit and matching respirator in front of stacks of toilet paper. She also joined 100 or so other tattoo artists in contributing to The COVID Collaboration Book (available through facebook.com/COVIDCOLLAB2020) Villagomez, aka StarshipInk Like Villagomez, Jake Casey is a North Idaho tattoo artist whose creative process has taken a turn since COVID became a household word. “My ability to make a living is dependent on me being in close proximity with another person, often for hours at a time, and I’m charging an hourly rate,” says Casey, a staple at Call of the Wild Tattoo. “The consultation process would involve time face to face with a client, sometimes with some sketches done on paper, or on the person with marker.” Like many artists, he has numerous side jobs, including designing images for local clients like Bulldog Pipe & Cigar Shop + Smoking Lounge, Bee Kind Coffee Co. and Dirty Roots Farm. He also runs Intent Fitness Systems which, like tattooing, he’s had to adapt during the shutdown. “Trying to take advantage of the new paradigm, I’ve created some COVID-inspired art by putting a mask on a Japanese hannya mask, and putting the design on a tee,” Casey says. “Masks on masks might’ve been strange a couple of months ago, but not now.” Both Villagomez and Casey have, like many artists, utilized social media to stay connected and build community. For example, the Art Isolation Experiment Facebook page connects Washington and Idaho artists through weekly prompts like heritage, lethargy, still life and dreamscapes. The Coeur d’Alene Art Association has done a daily word challenge. At North Idaho Artists Facebook page, Blake Coker took a break from his commercial design and comic-inspired illustrations to post a landscape painting of a park in Post Falls. “Being confined in body and mind can put your creativity in a chokehold,” says Coker, who also works at Paint Buzz. “Oftentimes when I cannot go out and obtain new experiences, I feel like I am not actively creating new ideas based on my experiences.” Getting out in nature helped, Coker says. “What I think is important to do as a creator is to be kind to yourself,” Coker says. “You can’t change what’s happening so don’t creatively fight against it.” Villagomez is equally philosophical. “It’s really interesting to me that this virus is something that everyone all over the world is experiencing at the same time,” she says. “I feel like creating art related to the pandemic is just another way of documenting that.” She compares the impact of COVID on art to other time periods and global situations like the shift in science fiction art during the advent of the atomic bomb. It’s the art-mirrors-society argument, which for Villagomez requires a delicate balance. “I’ve sort of been trying to space out my pandemic-themed pieces and using my other work as kind of a palate cleanser,” she says. “It’s kind of nice to ‘escape’ everything going on for a little bit, and then see what feels right when I’m ready to dive back into heavier subjects.” n
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Impact Washington-born poet Rob Carney on life in the pandemic, finding inspiration in places and his new book BY DAN NAILEN
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ob Carney sounds a little skeptical about the concept of “inspiration” over the phone as he talks about his new book, Facts + Figures. He allows that it does happen sometimes. But “inspiration” usually arrives out of frustration from sweating over a piece that just isn’t working, Carney says, “and then a better idea just floats on in.” Just that scenario occurred in creating one of my favorite works in Facts + Figures. “I was trying to write a poem about crows, and it wasn’t working and I didn’t like it,” Carney says. “I went outside onto the porch, and a line just seemed to pop in from nowhere. It’s, ‘When I went to work as a snowglobe designer, I didn’t do it for the usual reasons.’ And I actually liked that. I thought, ‘I don’t know what that is, but that’s cool.’ And what would the usual reasons be?” Carney’s unexpected journey from crows to snow globes is akin to his own circuitous journey from wannabe linebacker to celebrated poet. As a high school kid in Puyallup, poetry didn’t really factor into his interests until an AP English class when he was given what he considered “a dumb homework assignment” of writing an original poem. By the time he turned it in, Carney says, he liked doing it, “and then I just kept doing it, even though it wasn’t homework anymore.” He got some positive feedback, too, and not just from his teacher, but “from somebody who was beautiful enough she wound up being a famous TV person. So that didn’t hurt.” Carney went to college at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, where he was a football player who was not quite big enough or fast enough to make a big impact even at a small school. Besides, Carney wanted to be an English major, and most of those courses conflicted with football practice, “so it was an easy pick. I picked books.”
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arney eventually made his way to Spokane in 1990 to get an MFA at Eastern Washington University, where he was classmates with future Washington state Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, and where he found the possibilities of poetry went far beyond what he’d learned so far. “It wasn’t until Spokane and specifically classes with Nance Van Winckel that I knew there was so much more, in particular Eastern European poets in translation,” Carney says. “I just thought, ‘Wow, I had no idea we were allowed to do that kind of thing. It was because of Nance’s class and her syllabus, it was a complete and total change for me.” That change manifests itself still in Carney’s work, full of vibrant imagery, and evocations of place and Poet Rob Carney myths. And in his next book, co-written by Scott Poole, he’ll turn his pen to poems tied to current events in a work called The Last Tiger Is Somewhere, coming out in August. Van Winckel still teaches poetry at EWU, and she remembers Carney making an impression 30 years ago. “I vividly recall Rob reading aloud some of his work back in the fall of 1990,” Van Winckel says via email. “It was at a class party at my house, and he stood on a stair so we could all see him, and then he blew everyone away. He has an amazing reading style: rather like jazz improvisation — quite musical — and he puts his whole body into it. I knew then that he would go far as a poet, and he certainly has.” “Rob’s poems are full of surprising leaps and odd juxtapositions of images. But what most make his work stand out is the lush language full of rich cadences. It’s a kind of poetry you want to read aloud. He has such a great ‘ear,’ as we say in the biz. I also admire his focus on landscape, small details and large peripheries.”
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hen I Went To Work As A Snow-Globe Designer” is one of the highlights of Facts + Figures, Carney’s sixth book that was published in April, and the poem’s images of a house at the bottom of the ocean with a coral reef for a yard and sharks cruising by seems to tie the book to his last collection, 2018’s The Book of Sharks. Another highlight is a 13-part poem that opens the book, a section that alludes to a massive fire north of Spokane when he lived here, while also taking readers to Crater Lake in Oregon, Detroit, Denver, Tacoma, Flathead Lake in Montana, and Utah, where Carney now lives and teaches at Utah Valley University. Packaging
those prose pieces in the section he calls “Thirteen Facts” was a new way to work for Carney. “I had originally tried to do these things as lines, but it just wasn’t working,” Carney says. “So I took it all apart and put it back together in a new way. That’s not rare. All writers do that. But the result of a 13-part, interconnected prose poetic collage, I’d never done.” The fact Carney pulled off that prose challenge, and that the rest of Facts + Figures touches on some of Carney’s recurring fascination with myths and place, won’t surprise his old classmate Marshall. “Carney has a great ear; whether crafting a sonnet or giving us a punchy free-verse monologue, Carney is always attentive to sound texture, rhythm, the play between consonants and vowels, syntax and rhythm,” Marshall says in an email. “So many of his poems are a delight to hear, to chew on as we say them aloud.”
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Carney would love to be out reading them aloud himself, but the coronavirus had other plans for his now-delayed book tour. Instead, he’s locked down in Salt Lake City, actually missing his commute when time in the car would be a perfect excuse to listen to music or NPR. “It seems strange to be stuck in your house all the time,” Carney says. “I’ve been making my boys throw the football with me a little in the street. We used to talk in the car. We don’t have the same conversations anymore. But if you’re out there throwing the football, maybe that fills that gap.” And maybe inspiration will strike with the next spiral, if you believe in that sort of thing. n
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Mary Lou Reed’s served Idaho in elected office and in the Inlander.
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ary Lou Reed, a former Democratic Idaho state legislator known for her dedication to public service in the region, is a fixture of the Inland Northwest. She co-founded the Kootenai Environmental Alliance, served on the board of the Human Rights Education Institute, and for years wrote monthly columns for the Inlander on current affairs in North Idaho, with a focus on environmental issues. Now, she’s published a book. Printed by Spokane’s own Gray Dog Press, In Her Words is a compilation of her Inlander columns from the past decade or so. Complete with eye-catching illustrations from Coeur d’Alene artist Allen Dodge, the book includes columns taking aim at Idaho’s lagging funding for public education and its low minimum wage, among other issues. Reed, for her part, describes it modestly: “It’s a picture book with words,” she says. “It is a page-turner that has pictures and words and just a sampling of the columns. It’s kind of colorful. I really like it.” And while the columns might be dated, the issues are generally still current. As the author says: “In Idaho, change doesn’t happen very rapidly.” “The continuing concern about education, the continuing concern about the environment goes on,” she says. “They aren’t timeless, but they also aren’t dead history. They’re still issues that we live with.” But as anyone familiar with Reed’s writing
knows, the book isn’t a North Idaho putdown. Far from it. While Reed says that she’s “not very subtle” in her columns, it all comes from a place of loving North Idaho. “I’m a Democrat, I tend to be fairly critical of Idaho in general even though I love my community and I actually love Idaho,” she says. “In my book, I am gently critical of Idaho and very loving of our community.” The impetus for the book actually came from several associates of Reed who pushed her roughly a year ago to memorialize some of her columns in a book. “They said, ‘You know, we think we ought to put a book together. We think we ought to keep these columns fresh.’ And so, and this is in the book. I said, ‘Heavens, why would anybody want to buy yesterday’s news?’” Despite her initial skepticism, Reed and her friends spent roughly a year poring over Reed’s clips and compiling them for In Her Words. “These guys not only talked me into it, they came around once a week all the way through until the very end,” she says. “I would not have done it without the help and the coordination with these guys.” While the pandemic has thrown a wrench in any reading events, the work has been published and is available for purchase online at the Kootenai Environmental Alliance’s website, kealliance. org, for $20. All proceeds will go to the alliance. “At some point, we’ll probably have a reading when people can gather again,” she says. n
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LIKE ADVENTURE TIME, BUT WITH MORE DRUGS It’s an animated podcast. I realized this about 5 minutes into the first episode of Netflix’s new series The Midnight Gospel. Set in a psychedelic multiverse, the show follows comedian, podcaster and flowerchild Duncan Trussell as Clancy, a “simulation farmer” who travels to different planets in various dimensions to interview people for his vodcast — er, “spacecast.” Author Anne Lamotte appears in episode two as an alien deer/dog hybrid on the Clown Planet to discuss things like prayer and love as the two characters get mashed up into ground meat and passed through a system of tubes. It’s bizarre, yet thoughtful and all under 20 minutes. (QUINN WELSCH)
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ince it’s constantly refreshing and reloading, social media is an ideal platform for fleeting trends. They come and go like the tides. Remember those “shit [insert demographic] says” videos, or the stick-figure “be like so-and-so” memes, or the app that made you look super old while also selling your information to Russian data farms? Last month, it seemed like everyone from your high school chemistry teacher to your second cousin was posting dumb Tiger King memes. The month before, it was those lists of “things I don’t like that everyone else does.” And then these last few weeks, the big trend has been the 10-day album challenge.
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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music hits online and in stores May 22. To wit: STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, Ghosts of West Virginia. An album built around a coalmine disaster could only work in Earle’s hands. INDIGO GIRLS, Long Look. They’ve been active online throughout the pandemic, and now deliver a new batch of folk-rock. THE 1975, Notes on a Conditional Form. Matt Healy and Co. deliver more synth-y pop-rock for the masses, and the masses seem to really like it. Good for them. (DAN NAILEN) Release dates based on latest information available at press time.
In case you missed it, the game works like this: You’re tagged into it by a friend, and if you choose to accept the challenge, you have to post the cover of an album that’s foundational to your own musical taste every day for 10 days. Tag more of your friends as you go, and the chain continues. A few weeks back, a friend tagged me in. At first, it seemed like a daunting proposition: How can I be expected to pick just 10 albums, and then be expected to remember to post one every day? But I decided to just go along with it. It’s not like I had anything better to do, or anywhere to go. Almost instantly, I fell into the true paradox of making a good list: You have way more options than available slots, so how do you winnow them down? It was, true to its name, a challenge, and the exercise had me waxing nostalgic: I was remembering just how revelatory OutKast’s eccentric double LP Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below seemed to 14-year-old me, and was transported back to the first time I heard Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde and had my mind blown wide open. Any time a fad takes hold of the internet, it’s bound to inspire some snark, and I’ve seen some related to the 10-album challenge: Who really cares what kind of music you like, nerd? I have to admit that I was in that same boat at first, but it turns out that there’s something instructive about distilling all of your artistic experiences into the handful of titles that made the deepest impressions. Seeing everybody else’s choices has been fun, and it has even inspired some late-night conversations via Messenger or Zoom about the music we love. It’s not quite as good as hanging out in a bar and shooting the shit, but it’s the next best thing. n
SLOW YOUR ROLL I started Normal People on Hulu aware of the hype around the series based on a hit novel by Sally Rooney about two Irish teens from different social classes falling in love through fits and starts. Each half-hour covers a lot of ground — makes sense considering the book covers four years of their lives. And it wouldn’t work if it weren’t for the leads, Daisy Edgar-Jones as brilliant and outspoken Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell, a working-class athlete whose shyness hides his brains. Both bring real soul to their roles. Normal People follows the couple from high school to college, and you won’t regret following them. And while you could easily binge its 12 episodes, I’ve enjoyed parsing them out. I’m halfway through, and I’ll definitely finish. (DAN NAILEN)
NOT TRUE, BUT SO GREAT If you’re a stickler for historical facts, Hulu’s new The Great, detailing the start of Catherine the Great’s journey to become empress of Russia, might bother you. But the “occasionally” true satirical take is truly great at poking fun at historical tropes, with modern jabs at everything from vaccine skepticism to the treatment of women as side characters in their own lives, despite their intelligence and wit. It’s a great mashup of sometimes intentionally over-the-top period costumes, female and lower class empowerment, and crass sexual humor that’s entertaining across 10 bingeworthy episodes. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
QUITE A PICTURE SHOW Before he was 35, Peter Bogdanovich had established himself as one of the great renaissance men of the 1970s, directing Oscar-winning features (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) and writing definitive texts about some of the world’s greatest filmmakers. But a string of flops and personal tragedies, including the murder of his girlfriend Dorothy Stratten, soon derailed his ascent. The Plot Thickens, a new podcast from Turner Classic Movies, details Bogdanovich’s rollercoaster of a life, and the director himself regales TCM host Ben Mankiewicz with one unbelievable anecdote after another. It’s both a memoir of sorts and a travelogue through one of Hollywood’s most vibrant, revolutionary eras. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)
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FARM TO TRUNK Regional farmers markets tweak operations to keep shoppers and vendors safe while providing access to fresh, local food BY CHEY SCOTT
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ike most activities in the social distancing era, shopping at the local farmers market this summer is going to look and feel quite different. In an effort to keep vendors, staff, volunteers and customers safe, farmers markets across the Inland Northwest are implementing safety measures like well-spaced layouts, capacity caps and bans on product sampling and handling. There won’t be any live music or picnic tables, either, at least for many weeks. Some markets are asking customers to wear masks, while others encourage people to order online for a drive-through pickup. Pets also need to stay home, and only one person per household should visit at a time. In Spokane’s South Perry District, the neighborhood’s Thursday Market began its 14th season May 7 with about 10 fewer vendors than last year’s market opening, says Executive Director Karyna Goldsmith. The vendor reduction is largely due to the greater distance
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required between stalls. “Purely in terms of physical layout, there is more space between vendors, and one single entrance and one single exit, and there is a sanitizing station for people to use,” Goldsmith explains. The Thursday Market also moved from its usual home in the parking lot of the Shop cafe to a parking lot off Tenth Avenue, adjacent to Grant Park. “We have chalk marks on the sidewalk to indicate [safe] distance and signs all over to give shoppers the rundown of the etiquette, which is consistent with what is happening everywhere at grocery stores, so people get it,” Goldsmith says. Considered an essential business under both Washington and Idaho guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic, farmers markets are allowed to operate because of the fresh produce and other regionally sourced food products vendors offer.
In both states, these guidelines restrict farmers market vendors to those that sell food or personal hygiene-related items. Cut flowers and vegetable starts are allowed. Any entertainment or educational activities, as well as public seating, however, are prohibited to discourage shoppers from gathering and lingering. Even with these restrictions in place, paired with the need for markets to space vendors at least six feet (Washington) to 10 feet (Idaho) apart across their footprint, demand from local businesses to become vendors remains high. “We have had a lot of small businesses reach out to us in the last couple weeks because they are struggling so much to find that support because of the shutdown and different stages of phasing; they just want that exposure at the market,” Goldsmith says. “And shoppers want the open-air environment.” ...continued on page 26
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“FARM TO TRUNK,” CONTINUED... Despite these many new challenges, though, the South Perry market’s first day saw a solid turnout. “There were less shoppers, but they definitely spent more,” she says. “By the end of the market most people were sold out.” The Thursday Market has plans to increase its vendor list as the season continues, a trend that’s already common for area markets since many crops aren’t harvested until mid to late summer. “We really do expect to grow a lot, and how that looks and when is sort of completely unknown, but it absolutely is the plan,” Goldsmith notes.
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armers markets in the Inland Northwest got a helpful preview of what to expect during pandemic-restricted operations before the region’s season even kicked off, thanks to Seattle. Though considered essential statewide, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan temporarily banned farmers markets from operating for a month, starting March 13, in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 at public gatherings. Rob Allen, board president of the Inland Northwest Farmers MarTHE ROAD BACK ket Association and founder of The Inlander is checking in on local businesses and how they’re evolving the Fairwood Farmers Marin a world with coronavirus. Follow ket in North along at Inlander.com/recovery. Spokane, says the association’s members followed in Seattle’s markets’ footsteps by sending a letter to the Spokane Regional Health District outlining similar safety plans they intended to follow. “We wholeheartedly endorsed and are all operating under four pages of guidelines handed down by the health district,” Allen says. The association also received a $7,500 grant from Northwest Farm Credit Services that allowed it to purchase handwashing stations, sanitation supplies, signage, face masks and other supplies to distribute to its 10 members.
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arkets across the state line in Idaho don’t look or feel much different from those in Eastern Washington this
season. In Moscow, home to a city-organized market now in its 43rd year, organizers opted to start the season off with a few weeks of pickup-only shopping before opening its in-person market on June 6. The new “Motor-in Moscow Farmers Market” format is set to continue through this year’s season, allowing shoppers to pre-order online for contactless pickup on market day. The popular Kootenai County Farmers Market in Coeur d’Alene is also offering a pre-order and pickup option, says its manager Natalie Selbe. In Washington, local startup Share Farm (online at share.farm) is accepting online ordering for pickup at the Kendall Yards Night Market and the Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake and Fairwood farmers markets. Starting off with pickup-only shopping gave Moscow’s market more time to prepare itself and the community for modified operations, says the city’s community events manager Amanda Argona. Moscow’s market will allow a maximum of 50 customers inside its shopping area, and plans to set up hand sanitizer and hand-washing stations, along with plenty of signage about social distancing. “Normally [the market] is this lovely weekend event that folks can come down to, but we’re trying to promote efficient shopping and seeing one household member at a time,” Argona says. “Hopefully we can get back to the market we know and love, but it’s modified for the time being.” Area farmers and food producers are also grateful they can continue to reach customers via markets, despite current challenges and changes. “The one thing I’d want to emphasize is how appreciative our vendors are of the customers coming even though it’s a weird year,” Selbe says. “Supporting and shopping local is making a big difference to the vendors, and they are willing to adjust to whatever is necessary.” n
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orty years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was released into a handful of theaters and was met with a blizzard of chilly reviews. Most critics in 1980 agreed: Like the director’s previous film, 1975’s period epic Barry Lyndon, it was all flash and no substance. Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker that Kubrick’s devotion to technique distanced the audience from the domestic horrors of his story. The Washington Post called it “elaborately ineffective.” Gene Siskel said it was “boring” and occasionally “downright embarrassing.” Toronto’s Globe & Mail: an “overreaching, multi-levelled botch.” In its first year of existence, the bad movie-centric Razzie Awards nominated The Shining for worst director and worst actress. Janet Maslin’s write-up in the New York Times was one of the only positive contemporaneous reviews, but even she had reservations: “Most of the small details seem meticulously chosen,” she wrote, “but there’s no evidence that corresponding care has been taken with the film’s central concerns.” Fewer films have made more of a startling critical one-eighty: A movie that was once deemed a forgettable entry in the catalog of a legendary filmmaker is now widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films of its genre, and certainly the most famous of Kurbick’s entire oeuvre. (Barry Lyndon, it should be noted, has experienced a similar reappraisal.) The Shining is one of the most frequently spoofed and referenced movies ever made, and one of the most exhaustively dissected. So what’s to account for the movie’s turn in appraisal? You probably don’t need a plot summary, but I’ll provide one anyway. The movie begins with a family — Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and their troubled young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) — getting a job as off-season caretakers at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated Colorado ski lodge built on an Indian burial ground. The Torrances are looking forward to peace and quiet, and Jack hopes to finish his long-in-gestation novel. But the spirits knocking about the place, themselves victims of the hotel’s bloody past, begin to torment the family. Oh, and little Danny has a telepathic power, known as “the shining,” through which he communicates with the hotel’s head chef Hallorran (Scatman Crothers). This all comes straight from Stephen King’s 1977 bestseller, though the similarities mostly end there. Kubrick’s film makes significant departures from the source material, still to King’s chagrin: Character motivations and behaviors aren’t the same, major set pieces have been changed and the ending is drastically different. Part of King’s distaste stems from the themes of the story itself: It’s a deeply personal allegory about his own drinking habits (the novel’s 2013 sequel Doctor Sleep pushes these themes even further), and a slow descent into madness, violence and, ultimately, forgiveness. Kubrick’s
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interpretation, meanwhile, is far more coldblooded and cerebral, and if the ghosts in the novel are literal representations of Jack’s own demons, they’re merely his drinking buddies in the movie. As with so many of his earlier films, Kubrick is less concerned with delivering a coherent plot than a mood, an environment and striking, almost dissociative images, and The Shining has so many of them. The ghosts of twin girls in blue gingham dresses, lurking hand-in-hand at the end of a hallway. The elevator doors unleashing a tidal wave of blood. Shelley Duvall’s bulging eyes as she swings a baseball bat in front of her. The reams of typing paper covered in the same phrase — “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” — over and over again. And in the film’s most famous moment, Nicholson’s face leering and sweating as he taunts his wife through a door he’s just splintered with an axe. It’s those individual moments that have cemented themselves within pop culture, and which have been the subject of endless parody and tribute. The plot, which is riddled with logical inconsistencies and continuity errors (some accidental, some deliberate), ends up not really mattering in the long run. So perhaps The Shining is still freaking out modern-day audiences, many of whom have scoffed at the supposedly dated shocks of older horror classics like Night of the Living Dead or The Exorcist, not because it’s relatable or emotionally harrowing but because it slowly and purposefully insinuates itself onto you. It creeps into your subconscious and takes up residency there. You need look no further than the documentary Room 237 to know this is true. It features filmmakers and historians expounding on their analytical theories about the subtext of The Shining, some of them plausible, some of them outlandish. It’s secretly about the genocide of Native Americans, or maybe the Holocaust, or it’s actually a manifestation of Kubrick’s own guilt about faking the footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Regardless of the truth, they’ve been sucked into Kubrick’s puzzle-box, much the way the characters in the film are swallowed up by that cursed hotel. n
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From Hayley Williams to Lucinda Williams, here are some of the new albums we’re enjoying right now BY DAN NAILEN AND NATHAN WEINBENDER HAYLEY WILLIAMS, PETALS FOR ARMOR Lead singers breaking free from the confines of a band with a big statement album is a storied tradition, and Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams’ debut comes five albums deep into that group’s long and successful career. Though the band hasn’t called it quits by any means — her bandmates all appear on this record, too — Petals for Armor is such a stylistic departure that it inevitably sounds like it’s ushering in a new musical era, working through dark pop and lithe disco while still flirting with the emo-rock that made Paramore into the idols of so many mid-2000s adolescents. There’s as much newfound confidence in these 14 tracks (which were originally released as dual EPs earlier this year) as creative trepidation: One song will emphasize isolation and loneliness (making the album accidentally timely), while the next is covered in blooming flowers. Williams recorded Petals for Armor in the wake of a divorce and what she has described as an emotional reawakening, and that it opens with the word “rage” and closes an hour later with the promise that she “won’t give into fear” tells you all you need to know. (NATHAN WEINBENDER) X, ALPHABETLAND While the original lineup of punk legends X has been touring for nearly 20 years after reuniting, Alphabetland marks the first new album to include John Doe, Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebrake and Billy Zoom since 1985. Just
a few years ago they were swearing up and down they weren’t interested in making a new album. Something changed their minds, though, and the result is a scintillating reminder of everything that made them standardbearers of West Coast punk rock way back when: Doe and Cervenka’s vocal interplay, poetic lyrics, Zoom’s slashing rockabilly guitar riffs, Bonebrake’s creative and driving percussion. “Delta 88” is a hyperspeed rager, “Water & Wine” touches on class issues, like some of X’s best songs, and “Free” sounds like it would have fit right in on the band’s 1980 album Los Angeles. The only clunker is the spoken-word closer, “All The Time in the World,” with Cervenka waxing poetic over guitar tones from the Doors’ Robby Krieger. Other than that, Alphabetland is a great addition to the X catalog, and the musical landscape of 2020. (DAN NAILEN) KEHLANI, IT WAS GOOD UNTIL IT WASN’T The tenor of the world right now imbues a title like It Was Good Until It Wasn’t with a context that couldn’t have ever been intended. But rising R&B star Kehlani’s second full-length release is, indeed, about emotional uncertainty and, perhaps most relatably, the frustration of falling for someone who won’t give you any personal space. This is a collection of slow jams filled with serial lovers and latenight text arguments, and with narrators who finally, inevitably acquiesce to all of it: “I would rather argue than me sleep alone,” she admits at one point. Kehlani exudes
the kind of smooth, laid-back vibe that only the supremely confident can pull off without coming across as sleepy, announcing herself as a ’90s R&B acolyte in the same vein as SZA and Jhene Aiko. And yet she also has a rapper’s sense of wordplay and sexual gamesmanship, especially in a moment where she reconciles with an argumentative lover because she knows they’ll just “make up like it’s Maybelline” anyway. (NATHAN WEINBENDER) LUCINDA WILLIAMS, GOOD SOULS BETTER ANGELS Lucinda Williams is never one to hold back, but I’ve possibly never heard her quite as direct as she is on “Man without a Soul” on her bluesy new collection. “You’re a man without truth,” she intones on the languidly paced track, “a man of greed, a man of hate / a man of envy and doubt.” You might be able to guess the president this song is about, and the seething song is a highlight on an album that has a lot of them. “You Can’t Rule Me” is a classic Lucinda “I’m pissed and you’re going to hear about it” song, too, while the ballad “Big Black Train” and gentle swing of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” both make exquisite use of her distinct, vulnerable-when-shewants-to-be drawl. Recorded with her touring band, Good Souls Better Angels suffers some from the 12 songs largely landing around the same tempo. But if you’re a sucker for Williams’ brilliant way with words, you’ll find a lot to love here. (DAN NAILEN) n
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The Hempest We examine the divide between hemp and CBD products sold at pot shops and at regular retailers BY WILL MAUPIN
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annabidiol, or CBD as it is commonly known, is a chemical from cannabis that can be found in products at state-licensed dispensaries as well as grocery stores and gas stations around the nation. Unlike products containing THC, the chemical in cannabis that gets you high, you can buy CBD just about anywhere. But there can be some big differences in what you’re buying based on where you choose to make your purchase. The most noticeable difference you’ll see is that products from traditional retailers make prominent use of the word “hemp” while products from dispensaries don’t. That’s because of the 2018 Farm Bill which effectively legalized hemp at the federal level, simply by defining what it is. In the eyes of the federal government, cannabis plants containing less than 0.3 percent THC, by weight, are known as hemp. They can be grown legally under the proper circumstances. Meanwhile, cannabis plants containing more than 0.3 percent THC are treated like marijuana, the federally illegal drug. Head into your neighborhood Rosauers, for example, and pick up a pack of Wyld CBD Gummies. On the supplement facts section of the packaging, you’ll see
a line at the bottom that says, “Caution: This product contains CBD extracted from industrial hemp.” That line is why you’re able to find that product in a grocery store. It’s also why that product can’t get you high. That line doesn’t need to show up at the dispensary down the road. Washington state-licensed dispensaries can sell cannabis. As a result, they can sell CBD products derived from it; they’re not forced to source their CBD from hemp. CBD products sold at dispensaries can also contain THC, meaning they can also get you high, though not all do. On that hand, the dispensaries are less regulated than other stores, but on the other they’re much more regulated. State law treats CBD like it does all other cannabis products, and that involves a level of regulation far higher than the federal government has yet to find for hemp. The federal government has yet to clearly enunciate its policy in the wake of the 2018 Farm Bill, sending mixed messages to CBD producers about what is and is not acceptable. It’s led to an explosion of CBD in both availability and diversity of product. n
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n ancient times, there existed this very bizarre delicacy. These hard, almost stale chunks of chocolatey, cake-like bar that tasted pretty bad no matter how fresh they were. People called them pot brownies, and thankfully they’re now a distant memory. We’re living in the golden age of cannabis-infused edibles. Dispensaries carry everything from the traditional brownie to off-the-wall products like infused fruit syrups and bath bombs. Home chefs can throw together tasty cannabis treats like gummies, muffins or popsicles with ease (by the way those recipes, and more, are available on Inlander.com). Infused products aren’t just a way to make food a little more fun; they provide a completely different experience than one would find through smoking cannabis. “For THC to get you high, it needs to pass through something called the blood-brain barrier,” Brandon St Germain, district leader at Cannabis & Glass explains. “With smoking cannabis, THC
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I’m meeting my girlfriend’s parents for the first time (for dinner at their house), and I’m absolutely terrified. Is there a way to win them over? Should I just compliment the hell out of their daughter? She’s the first woman I’ve seriously thought about marrying, so I really want her parents to like me. —The Boyfriend
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Your “blowing smoke” in, um, a sun-free direction — like by “complimenting the hell out of” your girlfriend to her parents – is likely to be about as well-received as trying to shove a whole hookah lounge up there. Luckily, there’s a guide for how to win over the girlfriend’s parents, and it’s an anthropology textbook: specifically, the section on what biological anthropologist Robert Trivers terms “parent-offspring conflict.” Parents want the best for their kids, but their definition of “best” and their kids’ definition tend to part company — along the lines of parents’ genetic self-interest. Any investment by a parent in one of their kids (increasing that kid’s chances to survive and mate) diminishes the parent’s ability to invest in their other kids or in their own mating efforts to have future offspring to pass on their genes. Accordingly, if a woman’s looking for a man for herself, research by evolutionary social psychologist Shelli L. Dubbs suggests she’s likely to favor “traits that suggest genetic quality,” like being physically attractive. However, if the woman’s assessing a man for her daughter, she (along with her husband) will likely prioritize “characteristics that suggest high parental investment.” In short, parents are wondering about the guy dating their daughter: “Hey, buster, you gonna stick around and pay the mortgage, or will we have to cover it because your paycheck keeps getting tangled up in strippers’ G-strings?” Even if you don’t have the greatest job now, potential matters. If you’re hardworking and have solid plans for the future, and if there’s a natural point in conversation to reflect that, go for it. In general, let the things you say tell them you’re a stable dude who cares about their daughter and values the person she is. That said, avoid laying it on too thick, because talk is cheap and the harder you seem to be working to be liked, the less likable you’ll be. Ultimately, go with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim, “Action is character.” Be kind, be considerate, be loving, and don’t light your farts on fire.
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My boyfriend broke up with me recently. He wants to be friends, and I don’t want to reject his friendship, but it’s really painful when we hang out. How do I deal with the attraction I still have for him and the frustration and pain that he doesn’t want more? —Brokenhearted Gay Boy
It’s hard to accept that it’s over when your partner’s breakup M.O. is essentially, “All good things must come to a middle.” Unfortunately, the emotional bond you have with this guy won’t conveniently disintegrate into a small pile of ash. Psychiatrist John Bowlby explains that when somebody dies (or your relationship with them does), you need to “reorganize” your “inner life accordingly” so when you require comfort, attention, or support, you no longer automatically turn toward your former partner to get it. That’s why one of the healthier models for recovering from a painful breakup comes out of Oxford. No, not their psych department — the dictionary, under the definition for “dumping”: to “put down or abandon (something) hurriedly in order to make an escape.” In contrast, contact with one’s former partner after a breakup tends to slow a person’s emotional recovery, reactivating or amplifying the “sadness, anger, or pining that had slowly dissipated since the initial separation,” according to research by clinical psychologists David Sbarra and Robert Emery. In fact, though when we miss a person, we long to be around them, Sbarra and Emery find that seeing or even just talking with the ex you’re trying to get over is likely to lead to “significantly more love and sadness, not less.” Your ex is doing what’s good for him alone, perhaps because he’s a horrible person or perhaps because you haven’t told him how much you’re hurting or how painful it is to be around him. Tell him what you need, whether it’s no contact for a period of time (like three months or six months) or whether the no-contact period that works for you is “forever.” Don’t hold back on doing what’s best for your day-to-day healing and in the longterm. That’s your job as a person — not hanging out at your ex’s place and letting him use you for everything but sex: “Bro, do me a favor and get on all fours, but keep your back straight so the drinks won’t spill. It’s just for a few days, until my new coffee table comes.” n ©2020, 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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BLOOMING DAYS! Cheers to the folks who are not letting FEAR guide them. Who are not falling in line with the PANIC encited by the media. There Is NO reason to be wearing a mask while OUTSIDE excerising in the sunshine, or driving in your vehicle. You are all suffocating slowly... this is getting out of hand... and you know it’s not good to breathe recycled air! I was happy to see folks out for Bloomsday who were keeping their distance from eachother, but not afraid to live. Also grateful for the news reporting it, and the wonderful city we live in!!! All that disinfecting and germ killing will only create worse germs as we were ALREADY warned about decades ago! Wake up, wake up, wake up, my fellow humans... Wake UP and think for yourselves! PRO PLUS Valley Auto Glass - You ROCK!... in a heart-shaped kinda way! Many thanks, Jeff and Kara Wilcox, for ALWAYS being there when we need you! SOLID and strong. You are a blessing. We are grateful.
I SAW YOU SELF QUARANTINE DUDE Hey there. Why don’t you stop by and say hi? Take care.The Dancing Kitty.
THANK YOU BIG BROTHER I would like to thank the federal government for the stimulus check. We the people thank you. God bless.
SPARKY It sure was a surprise to see you stop by in the ‘65! It had been a minute. Your Soul Still Screams My Name.
THANKS FOR CALLING THE COPS ON ME On Memorial Day 2010 I was arrested for a DUI after you dialed 911 due to my erratic driving through the construction zone on Hwy 2 north of the Y. Weeks earlier I began making major changes in my life including taking my drinking from a daily drunk to drinking once a week. I drove down to Spokane to visit friends and patted myself on the back for my positive changes. I met up lastly with someone who didn’t have my best interests in mind, he fed me cocktails and I continued to drink myself into oblivion until I decided to head home to Newport. I don’t remember most of the evening or the arrest. Calling the police on me not only saved the lives of anyone I could have collided with that night, but your actions positively changed my life as well. In the midst of a very long, expensive, and embarrassing court/legal proceeding, I threw myself into backpacking, unleashed my suppressed creativity which was held back by years of drinking, and spent six months in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada. In other words, I was able to turn my life in a better direction by positively dealing with the terrible situation I put myself in, but it’s all directly connected to your actions. So...
YOU SAW ME PUNDEMIC PALS You approached me at the N. Foothills Yokes parking lot on Thursday the 14th. You really liked my pun bumper sticker. I really liked your mask/Discover Pass/science-and-the-environment-areimportant-to-me vibe. I pun-der if this is the beginning of a great friendship? NataliePortmanteau2020@gmail.com
CHEERS TREES Cheers for standing up for the trees. We all need to do more of this. So sad that progress takes precedence over 200+ year old forests. They did this to Mt. Spokane too and displaced much wildlife... where are they all going to go now? Yep, our back yards, and then fish and game will come euthanize the poor things. A little forethought and compassion and we could live along with nature rather than tearing it all down... Idiots are making these decisions...
Thank you. You did the right thing, and I’m very appreciative of your decision to do so. THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Don’t need no splainin’ in this household. Jason Isbell is a wordsmith that you need to introduce yourself to if you haven’t already. Caught him the other night on Trevor Noah’s Daily Social Distancing show. Jason and Amanda
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NODDING OFF FATHER... You got out of jail after 6 months and jumped head first into the world of heroin. You got your stimulus check but forgot to pay your child support. You are still homeless, jobless and now you are breaking my heart again, nodding out on my kitchen table after coming over uninvited. Your daughter defends you, “he is just tired mom� as your eyes roll back in
getting the wallet in the chaos (my fault). Didn’t realize until I was home (30 minutes away) that I didn’t have my wallet upon calling no wallet was recovered, re drove to the route, nothing (it would have fallen onto the road and been obvious). I am losing faith in humanity in this town, it was not turned in and would have been simple with my ID, which links to my professional work
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your head and your sunken eyes look so hollow, so slate. No glimmer no shine just dull emptiness. Now I am going to be the bad guy again. This is so unfair! Quit killing yourself. It’s killing us too.
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JUST... ‌.because you deny it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
JEERS SNITCHES There was a time when being a tattle tale was a sign of shame. The recent revelation that many citizens of our state had their private information made public who had turned in our neighbors, family and friends for illegally opening their business violating Governor Inslee’s order to close. I have zero sympathy for these people. I imagine they see themselves as heroes. These are probably the same people who sit in their underwear in the middle of the night hacking websites. You have no idea who you harmed by “Doing what our governor asked us to.� The Brownshirts of Nazi Germany said the same thing when they turned in Jews. These are people trying to feed their families and keep their businesses alive. My parents would say “Mind your own business.� Hopefully you’ve learned your lesson and please don’t do it again.
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YOUR NOSE SMELLS I used to tell my students that opinions are like noses; we all have one and they all smell. To all you ranting and raving loonies out there, quit thinking your opinions even begin to represent “the truth.� SPRING WALKERS The “must have� accessory for all Spokane dog walkers this year must be a hot, steaming bag of dog waste tied to your wrist. Nothing like having your morning cup of coffee, looking out your window and watching the local dog worshipper wrestling with scruffy’s morning bowel movement... yuk. THEFT I have moved to Spokane from Colorado and have been super disheartened by the rate of theft. My wallet was stolen from my professional office, my car window was bashed in by the climbing gym and my tax prep ready to mail was stolen along with my dogs medicines, and continuing education that took hours to complete and isn’t cheap. Now in the chaos of covid I set my wallet on my car at the veterinarian’s office while trying to reload my doggies who are anxious and drove off for-
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number with a quick google search of my name. So disappointed in this town, know there has to be honest people here... but geese... theft gets old. Please be kind, be honest, be extra nice with everyone who is hurting and stressed with the current times, if you find something lost try to return it!!! TRUMP 2020 Couldn’t beat him at the polls. Couldn’t impeach him. But the Red States can continue to be closed which creates many issues which then makes Trump look like the worst President in American history. Sorry but Coronavirus is God’s way of controlling the world population. CLEMENTIA I am sincerely sorry. I am on my healing path now and I am learning as much as I can from my mistakes. I wish you and your family the very best. n
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Make Memories in North Idaho this Summer Celebrate family time in Coeur d’Alene with these fun excursions
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ike many families lately, you’ve probably spent a lot of time together. For summertime, however, it’s time to switch it up and play outdoors. Make plans now to check out all that North Idaho has to offer for safe, affordable, invigorating family fun.
The grass is always greener at COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARKS, just steps from the lake, easy walking areas, both open and shaded areas, restroom and picnic facilities and, maybe most importantly, wide-open spaces for kids to be as boisterous as they want. MCEUEN PARK is one of the many jewels of Coeur d’Alene’s Parks systems (cdaid.org/751/ departments) and features ADAcompliant play areas, a dog park — can’t forget about Fido! — splashpad, and courts for basketball, tennis and pickleball. Across town near North Idaho College, check out CITY PARK, with its stately trees, an elaborate fort-like playground, and the pavilion where outdoor movies in the park are scheduled to resume in July and August. While you’re there, check out the beautifully restored COEUR D’ALENE CAROUSEL (cdacarousel.com) or a local favorite, the MUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO (museumni.org), for a trip back in time.
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Rev up the fun factor at TRIPLE PLAY (3play.com) with both indoor and outdoor activities for all ages, including bumper cars, laser tag, miniature golf and outdoor go-karts. We dare you not to laugh your heads off! Have the times of your lives at COEUR D’ALENE ADVENTURES (cdaadventures. com), where you can rent any number of boats, from ones that go fast to those that cruise to kayaks you power yourself. Book a horse riding trip, a guided raft excursion, try their e-bikes, get on a stand-up paddleboard, or learn to fish under their expert guidance. A full day kayak rental at KAYAK COEUR D’ALENE (kayakcda.com) is only $65 and they even have tandem boats available, stand-ups, and even float tubes. Run by lifelong local outdoor enthusiasts, this is the place to go for advice on making your day on the lake spectacular. TIMBERLINE ADVENTURES (ziptimberline. com) wants to get you up above the treeline for an exhilarating zipline experience the whole family can enjoy (ages 7 and up). Ask about the s’mores treehouse adventure for the sweetest summer memory ever.
Restaurants were also allowed to reopen for dine-in service, adhering to new safety protocols. The governor did relax some of the language regarding travel into Idaho during this phase. A two-week self-quarantine is now strongly encouraged, but not required and nonessential travel is to be minimized. The Coeur d’Alene Carousel, the historic original from the Playland Pier amusement park, re-opened for rides in 2017.
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daho has developed a comprehensive plan to bounce back from suspended business operations during the stay-at-home order. Called Idaho Rebounds, it outlines four phases of reopening with an extensive, cooperative effort to keep Idaho’s citizens — and its visitors — safe and healthy.
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Idaho moved into phase two of its reopening plan this week. Gyms, hair salons, and recreation facilities were cleared to reopen.
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Starting May 30, Idaho’s nonessential travel guidelines relax and out-of-state visitors will no longer be asked to quarantine after entering the state. Bars will be able to re-open along with smaller gatherings of 10-50 people. Larger events and sporting venues will remain closed. By June 13, if all goes as planned, many restrictions will have been lifted. Of course, the plan is just that; dates and protocols might
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As the governor’s four-phase rebound plan has moved into the next phase, several key attractions in North Idaho have recently announced their opening dates. Triple Play opened May 16. The Route of the Hiawatha is scheduled to open May 22. Silver Mountain’s opening weekend is set for May 23, offering scenic gondola rides, and opening the bike park and Silver Rapids waterpark. Silverwood Theme Park plans to open with modified operations starting May 30. For an updateto-date list of what restaurants, attractions, hotels, and businesses are open, visit coeurdalene.org/we-are-open.
For more events, things to do & places to stay, go to cda4.fun Triple Play opened its doors May 16, utilizing a comprehensive safety plan developed with the State of Idaho and Centers for Disease Control.
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