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he U.S. Supreme Court justices listened to oral arguments last month in a case that may well determine the fate of wild Pacific Northwest salmon. As the hearing before the justices approached, I joined with other local leaders to urge the High Court to come down on the side of Northwest tribes in their legal fight against the state of Washington. I believe we have a moral obligation to the region’s original residents, and to those of us who occupy their ancestral lands, to restore what has been lost and leave a legacy of healthy salmon runs for all who come after us. Here’s the back story: In United States of America v. State of Washington, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the federal government and 21 tribes, ruling that the culverts and pipes that impede fish passage must be replaced. Unbelievably, the state had argued that it would not violate tribal treaties to block every salmon-bearing stream in Puget Sound. Following the Appeals Court’s ruling, the state petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review, concerned about legal precedent and, understandably, the cost of upgrading hundreds of culverts. But it’s not just the state that faces this responsibility and challenge. County roads and trails have culverts, and many of those culverts impair fish passage. Naturally, local governments like King County, where I am the county executive, are concerned about cost, too.
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We have done this in the past, to dramatic effect. At Ebright Creek in Sammamish, a private landowner replaced an undersized culvert that had blocked fish for decades. Access to the best remaining spawning habitat in the watershed was restored, and the struggling kokanee salmon came home. A public-private-tribal partnership is doing the same thing on nearby Zackuse Creek this summer. The Pacific Northwest is a place of water. From our snowcapped mountains, glacier melt and runoff form streams and rivers that fan out across the plains. These lowland waterways are now crisscrossed by roads and bridges. That is the result of population growth and what our society recognizes as prosperity. A Pacific Northwest of dead rivers and empty bays would be a sad testament to our collective selfishness and shortsightedness.
oss of salmon habitat is not a technical legal problem. It’s a real world problem. Our job in government is to fix problems. To square up to responsibility, not shirk it. Even if the state were to win an absolute victory in court over the tribes and the federal government, our obligation would be no less. We can’t simply stand by and watch as wild salmon dwindle into extinction. We know how to design better waterways, and remove human-made barriers to the salmon’s journey. We can determine what resources are needed, marshal our assets, and get it done. We can make a difference to the future of these iconic species that mean so much to our economy, our culture and our way of life. Problems are rarely intractable when we work with partners, as we have demonstrated through nearly two decades of salmon recovery in King County watersheds. The notion that the government would be liable to fix everything, immediately, no matter what the practicality or obstacles, ignores the strong connections between tribes, environmental scientists, activists and local government, all of whom are focused on common sense solutions.
For Northwest Tribes, the salmon are much more than a source of food or income; they are foundational to identity and way of life. For all that they relinquished to the U.S. government, tribal leaders reserved for their people “the right of taking fish, at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations.” Today, it is clear that the ability to harvest salmon is inextricably linked to the health of the habitat in our watersheds. Even for relative newcomers to this region, the return of salmon to streams and rivers each fall is fundamental to what we treasure about this place.
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believe partnerships are better at solving problems than litigation. Nonetheless, I filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on the side of the tribes because state and local governments should strengthen — not retreat from — decades of collaborative work to restore habitat and ensure the survival of Puget Sound salmon. We need to act as if the last sands of the hourglass were falling on our time with these amazing animals, because unless we do something now, they are. n Dow Constantine is King County Executive. This column first appeared on Crosscut.com.
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It’s was supposed to be the beginning of the end (according to Y2K believers). Yes, the Millennium Bug was to be the death of all computer systems. The change of the date from 1999 to 2000 was theorized to crash all electronics, leading to failure of medical equipment, financial transactions, the launch of all nukes and death to us all. In the July 15 issue, Seattle Weekly Editor Fred Moody goes over the Y2K hysteria in an Inlander cover story. While many in the article claim the apocalypse was soon upon us, software engineer Keith Alexander had a much different take on the situation, writing in an email exchange that “some of these feared problems probably don’t actually exist,” and that “it would be nice if the output was correct, but it is no big deal.” So much for the end of days, huh?
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To commemorate the first Earth Day celebration over 28 years ago, the April 22 issue took a look at just how far the United States has come in improving (or destroying) the environment. Our first Green issue took a look at the nation as a whole — reviewing the state of water, air and forests. In the years since, our GREEN ISSUE takes a look at those in our community who work hard to make our world a better place.
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Common Ground Our country is built on strong communities BY MANDY MANNING
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he first thing I woke to on Friday, May 25, 2018, was live coverage on my Facebook feed about another school shooting. This one at a middle school in Noblesville, Indiana. Only a week prior, I woke to a different shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas. That one resulting in the deaths of 10 students and teachers. As an educator, school shootings are my greatest fear and my biggest heartbreak. Immediately following these tragedies, the debate roars again, with little actual outcome. Should we have more guns? Should we have fewer guns? Should we arm teachers? Did the shooter struggle from mental health problems? These are all valid discussions that need to be had and acted upon, but what this debate ignores is the
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most important factor: our connections with one another. A strong country is built on strong communities. If we want to create a country that is understanding, empathetic and compassionate, we must first begin in our own community — and that begins within our schools and within our homes where we prepare children to succeed in the world. As people, we must prepare our children to be fearless, to be kind, and to connect with one another. Young people should not be afraid to get to know their neighbors or even their peers across the classroom. When we have a personal connection with each other, see each other as human beings, and accept one another as we are, we are less likely to perpetrate acts of violence against one another. Recently, I have personally encountered how easy it is for people to demonize and hate those they do not personally know based on false information. Since my visit to the White House, where I handed President Trump gracious, kind, and hopeful letters from my immigrant and refugee students, some websites spread incorrect information about my interactions with the president. In reality, I believe our interaction was gracious and polite. But based on the false information, I have received hate mail in various forms, including death threats. This personal example shows how easy it is to divide us, especially when we are not connected.
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I am a teacher, a wife, a mother, a friend. I go to work every day and support several of our most vulnerable populations. If those spreading hate about me, really knew me, they would see I live in service of others and lead with my heart. Yet, false assumptions about me and the innate need to “other” those whom we do not know and perceive as different or who reject our personal way of thinking, has instead led some to foster hate toward me and even threaten violence. So, how do we address this? How do we help one another make connections? By providing children with opportunities to experience that which is outside of their understanding. I teach at the Newcomer Center, which is housed within Joel E. Ferris High School, a comprehensive high school here in Spokane. I work to make connections every day among my students and the larger community. My students are immigrants and refugees, and I am their first teacher when they arrive in the United States. Most have experienced extreme trauma or war prior to coming to the United States legally and being designated as refugees. It’s my job to ensure they not only learn the basics of English and math, but also how to succeed in an American high school. To do this, we have to find common ground and build connections. One way I do this is through introducing my immigrant and refugee students to those students born here in the United States. A project-based learning class was studying modern migrations. They didn’t realize that a majority of the cultures they were studying were represented within the English language learner population at our own school. We were able to connect the project-based class with mine, so they could personally meet individuals from the groups they were studying. It was powerful. All of this work to create connections begins in our communities, in our homes, and in our classrooms. From there it spreads into other parts of our lives. Every day I open my doors to parents, community members, school board members, legislators and other community leaders. When we don’t understand something, we must seek experiences which will lead to understanding and common ground. Along with addressing mental health and access to guns, we must focus on building relationships both at school and at home. This is the only way to continue to foster strong, safe communities and schools across our state and our country. As human beings we should be open, empathetic, and compassionate, and model this for our children so they do the same. n Mandy Manning, the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, met with President Trump on May 2.
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COMMENT | FROM READERS
Readers respond to a story about Spokane teacher Mandy Manning, who was named the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, inaccurately portrayed as disrespecting President Donald Trump, prompting death threats (5/25/2018):
KAREN MADSEN BLAINE: Class act again, Mandy. I hope and pray all teachers focus on teaching students how to search for truth… It seems many people missed that lesson. HOPE HOCHHALTER: There are not nearly enough people commenting on this story that are concerned about the fact that there’s a company making money off targeted propaganda. Propaganda that’s sole purpose is to increase the anger and divisiveness that is currently infecting our country. JUDITH DE WITT: I’m a supporter of President Trump and I never looked at her that way and I know many others who were pleased that she was honored as teacher. LORI WILSON: Trump and followers want a war on “fake news.” Trump’s followers create fake news anyway. DANIELLE PETERSEN: Not everyone who voted for Trump thinks that way, and that guy clearly has some issues. Congrats to Mandy, ignore the jackasses. BRANDON PETERSON: There is a whole lot of Trump Derangement Syndrome going on here. Calling half the country deplorable racists is doing nothing but dividing us further. Keep it up, maybe you’ll get him for another four years. n
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Readers respond to a letter to the editor advocating for gun control and criticizing the words of Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (“We Don’t Want Your Guns” 5/24/2018):
TIM MCHENRY: How do any of you know that smart gun control measures and enhanced background checks won’t help? We’ve never tried it. But we have tried to explain it away with any number of other excuses to now include banning doors. How’s that working so far? VICKI FORSLUND BORDIERI: All industrialized countries have video games, movies and mental illness. What they don’t have is mass shootings on a weekly basis. Humans deserve more protection than guns. STEVE DUNN: No one needs military style weapons. Period. n
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andy Williams is angry. The community activist and publisher of Spokane’s African American newspaper, the Black Lens, says she feels duped. In 2016, Spokane County was awarded a $1.75 million grant as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge — an initiative to rethink how communities use local jails facing overcrowding. The challenge includes dozens of other jurisdictions across the country. Spokane’s ultimate goals are to reduce the jail population and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the system as a whole. Before Spokane was awarded the money, Williams says members of the Spokane Regional Law and Justice
Council (SRLJC), a group made up of city and county officials, including judges, lawmakers and law enforcement, asked for the community’s input and support. She and others jumped on board. “They were actively recruiting community members, particularly people of color,” Williams says. “The pitch we heard was they were interested in reducing the jail population, and they were especially interested in reducing jail disparities for people of color. I had not heard people say that before.” After the money was awarded, Williams says, that engagement dropped off, and requests for evidence of progress have been rebuffed.
In March, Williams and others who are frustrated with the lack of information sent a letter to the Law and Justice Council asking for data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender and age. Separately, in April the American Bail Coalition (ABC), a trade association that works to further the interests of the commercial bail bond industry, submitted a records request to Spokane County, as well as the other Safety and Justice Challenge sites. Part of ABC’s request asks for proof that the reforms are working. In other words, is the jail population going down? So far, jail statistics indicate the population has held ...continued on next page
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fforts to reduce the jail population in Spokane have largely focused on people charged with crimes, who are waiting for their cases to be resolved. The county has used the grant money to develop an algorithmic risk assessment tool that uses personal information to calculate a person’s likelihood to skip court or commit a new crime. The Office of Pretrial Services, which monitors people released before their trial, also got a boost. Williams, along with Spokane NAACP President Kurtis Robinson, Morning Star Baptist Church Rev. Walter Kendricks and Carmen PachecoJones, chair of the Law and Justice Council’s subcommittee on racial equity, say that before the letter was sent, not enough effort had gone into addressing racial and ethnic disparities. An analysis of Spokane data from 2014 shows that African American and Native American adults were detained before trial at a rate about six times higher than white adults. The analysis showed disparities in arrests and the average length of stay in the jail as well. But now, there has been some movement. Hundreds of county employees have recently gone through implicit bias training, van Wormer says, from those working in corrections, to the courts, to law enforcement. Separately, members of the Law and Justice Council received an introduction to a racial equity toolkit, a set of questions that forces policymakers to consider whether new laws and policies could impact people of color and minorities in disparate ways. “I have to say, the tone and receptiveness in the room was encouraging,” says Julie Nelson, the director of the Government Alliance on Race
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“I am not thoroughly convinced that institutional racism exists in our criminal justice system,” Fagan said before the vote. “The one thing I can’t help but feel, if we do end up passing this tonight … that it will cast such a gray, ugly cloud over our criminal justice system here in Spokane County.”
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ABC Executive Director Jeff Clayton says they’re just looking for evidence that the initiatives are working. He says the organization is considering publishing a report when the requests from Spokane and the other jurisdictions are filled. Yet, support for bail reform is gaining momentum. Last year, New Jersey became the most recent state to essentially do away with money bail. The state replaced it with a system that allows judges to detain those accused of crimes based on a person’s risk to the community. An analysis released earlier this year says the new law created “a more comprehensive, reasonable and most importantly, a fairer system of pretrial release.” The problem is, it can be expensive. The bail bond industry has challenged the constitutionality of the New Jersey law, and California is considering a similar measure, which Clayton says he’s opposed to. Last year, Washington formed a statewide Pretrial Reform Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations for expanding pretrial release practices in the state. In addition to Spokane’s work through the MacArthur Foundation, Yakima County recently implemented a new system of releasing those accused with minor crimes, usually with some sort of court-ordered monitoring, rather than bail. A study recently found that more people charged in Yakima were released pending trial, and most did not go on to commit other crimes.
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n April, Spokane County requested an extension to complete the reforms called for in its grant application to the MacArthur Foundation, including implementation of the race and equity toolkit. Spokane’s average daily jail population has fluctuated between about 900 and 1,000 inmates since 2015, according to jail statistics. Spokane County endeavored to reduce that by 12 percent, below 800 inmates, by 2018. “I don’t believe we’re LETTERS showing any real true moveSend comments to ment in getting that jail number editor@inlander.com. down, and that’s one of our main concerns,” says Spokane City Prosecutor Justin Bingham, who has been involved with the MacArthur reforms from the beginning. Pacheco-Jones, the race and equity subcommittee chair, is encouraged by the recent trainings and the pledge from City Council to move forward with the racial equity toolkit. Patrick Griffin, MacArthur Foundation’s program officer for Spokane, believes Spokane is making good progress. “This has taken decades to build up, and it’s not going to turn around in a year,” he says. “We expected this to be a long-term struggle, and it is. We’re not surprised or disappointed by that.” After the extension period ends, Griffin says he expects Spokane to apply for a renewal of grant funds. “We assume we’ll be involved in Spokane and the other cities for a few more years,” he says. “We didn’t think this was a problem where you could make one grant and solve it.” n mitchr@inlander.com
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Less Water, More Money With water use more than tripling in the summer, the city of Spokane is incentivizing homeowners with as much as $500 in exchange for replacing all or part of their lawns with drought-resistant plants and landscaping to reduce WATER USAGE. In addition to saving money simply by using less water, people whose applications are approved by the new SpokaneScape rebate program will get a credit on their city utility bill of 50 cents for each square foot converted, up to $500. To qualify, homeowners, or renters who have their owner’s permission, must: apply through the city and get an inspection before and after the project; convert at least 300 square feet of lawn that has been watered consistently for the last three years; make improvements in a place visible from a public street; and make sure at least half of the design includes living plant cover. If you’re thinking of participating, don’t remove or kill grass until the SpokaneScape project is approved by the city. More info is available at waterstewardship.org. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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The long-running community debate on what kids in Spokane should learn about sex has come full circle. After spending nearly two school years considering new sexual ed curriculum for grades six through nine, SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS announced last week that it failed to approve any curriculum. Now, the district is back at square one. “District staff have returned to step number one to identify a new set of proposed materials in alignment with the approval process,” the district said. The Human Growth and Development Citizens Advisory Committee, a district team that included community leaders from local agencies, spent the 2016-17 school year narrowing down sex ed curriculum in an effort to choose one that would align with state standards. They landed on Planned Parenthood’s “Get Real” curriculum. But the School Board last June chose not to consider “Get Real” following community backlash from those upset that Planned Parenthood’s name was attached. That delayed discussion of a new sex ed curriculum until the fall. The Human Growth and Development Committee continued to discuss the best curriculum to adopt during meetings this school year. In September, the committee doubled down on “Get Real,” but the district decided once again not to send the decision to the School
Board for approval. District staff instead crafted curriculum using parts of various sex ed curriculum. In May, the committee did not recommend the curriculum crafted by the district. Because of that, the district is starting over, now looking at a new curriculum called “3Rs”: rights, respect and responsibility. The curriculum would allow the district to adjust lessons to “meet local interests” in contrast to previously considered curriculum materials, according to the district. A district curriculum team will start evaluating lessons for sex ed within the next couple days. Materials recommended by that team will be forwarded to the Human Growth and Development Committee for consideration before that committee can forward its recommendation to district staff and, finally, to the School Board. The curriculum may be available during the 2018-19 school year, the district says. Want more information? Go to one of the district’s information updates on the topic. The first is Thursday, May 31, at Libby Center, 2900 E. First. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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the Riverfront Park Rotary Fountain are a prime target. But right now, there are a number of height restrictions preventing that sort of development. That’s the dilemma that city officials and the Plan Commission have been wrestling with: On the one hand, loosening those restrictions would allow a lot more dense development and prime housing downtown. On the other hand, you don’t want sections of Riverfront Park to be frequently wreathed in shadow. And shadows aren’t the only relevant issues. “Temperature, wind, humidity, vegetation, are just as relevant as shading,” says Todd Beyreuther, vice president of the Plan Commission. After a report of a workgroup tasked to study the issue, the Plan Commission in February approved a proposal to loosen the height restrictions. But at a meeting with City Council last week, the Plan Commission was hesitant to immediately push their recommendation forward. Beyreuther says he wants to reassess, to make sure the City Council has all the information and options available. He says it may be better to make the design standards more flexible — allowing projects to be assessed in detail on a case-bycase basis. While the group will meet on June 13 to discuss how to move forward, ultimately, the zoning decision is in the hands of the City Council. “I’m listening to my constituents who are overwhelmingly saying they don’t want unlimited building height there,” City Councilwoman Lori Kinnear says. “There aren’t too many saying, yes, sky’s the limit, literally.” But City Council President Ben Stuckart says that without a taller building, the cost of construction on the parking lots simply isn’t worth it. “If we’re going to say we should leave it as is, you’re making a value judgment that you’d rather have a vacant lot there instead of a building,” says Stuckart. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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THIRD SUICIDE IN 12 MONTHS A man held in the SPOKANE COUNTY JAIL attempted suicide while alone in his cell Saturday, May 19, according to a news release from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Patrick Flynn, 36, was transferred to the hospital after he was given medical aid in the jail, but later died of his injuries. Flynn’s family says he was a kind and generous person, who struggled with addiction for much of his life. He was held on robbery charges and an outstanding warrant, Sheriff’s Office Deputy Mark Gregory says. Flynn’s death is the third suicide of a person housed in the jail in the past 12 months. A fourth inmate died in March of this year due to a medical issue, which is still under investigation. (MITCH RYALS)
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FAKE NEWS, REAL THREATS When Ferris High School teacher MANDY MANNING (above) received the National Teacher of the Year award earlier this month, she shook President Donald Trump’s hand. Three times. But that’s not how IJR Red, a right-leaning viral content farm, reported it: Their video, titled “Teacher of the Year Meets Trump — But Bashes Him the Entire Time,” accuses Manning of outright refusing to shake hands on “multiple occasions.” Three weeks later, it had racked up over 11 million views. And so while Manning has received a flood of support for her decision to wear pins supportive of LGBT rights and hand Trump letters from her refugee students during her visit to the White House, she also received a whirlwind of angry messages from Trump supporters convinced she had dissed the president by refusing to shake his hand. Those messages included at least a few death threats. Still, she’s choosing to remain positive: Going viral, Manning notes, gave her a national platform to share her students’ stories. (She’s written a guest column on page 8.) (DANIEL WALTERS)
A FESTIVE WEEKEND Everyone has their own unique experience at SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL, but overall this year’s event went relatively smoothly. Aside from some wind and cold nighttime temperatures, the weather was great. Most importantly, everyone made it out alive, and there were fewer police incidents than usual. And the music, as always, was awesome. Headliners Bon Iver, Modest Mouse (pictured) and the National all delivered awesome shows, with others like David Byrne and TV On The Radio also giving noteworthy performances. One way to make the experience better? Let’s maybe not charge $14 for a can of Rainier beer. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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Nancy Fair-Szofran will serve as SFCC president for one year as the college searches for a permanent replacement.
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his isn’t how Nancy Fair-Szofran wanted to become the next Spokane Falls Community College president. In 2012, she was a finalist for the job, eager to lead the college in a time when enrollment was strong and things were looking up. But the job was given to Janet Gullickson, with Fair-Szofran instead landing a role as provost of Community Colleges of Spokane, the governing district in charge of SFCC. Today, the presidency has fallen to Fair-Szofran on accident. She’s taking over after a major sex scandal forced out former acting President Darren Pitcher, who Gullickson recommended for the job last year upon her departure. And in contrast to six years ago, enrollment is dropping,
money is tight and a disastrous and costly rollout of a new software system has put a strain on the college. “In 2012 I would have come in really excited and saying I’m going to change the world and build on all the really good stuff that was happening,” Fair-Szofran tells the Inlander. “When a president takes over after a scandal or a challenging event at a college, you don’t come in with that kind of energy and enthusiasm.” At 72, Fair-Szofran no longer has ambition to become the permanent SFCC president. She feels the next president should be able to commit to the college long term. She’s happy to fill in for the next year, while the college searches for a new permanent leader.
But Fair-Szofran’s leadership over the next year in an interim capacity will prove crucial as she tries to repair the damage caused by previous leaders. Faculty has lost trust in the president’s office, says CCS faculty President Carla NaccaratoSinclair. It wasn’t just the allegations that Pitcher had, for years, sexually harassed and engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates. Naccarato-Sinclair says Gullickson, too, broke their trust. She says they question what part Gullickson played in Pitcher’s actions, and why she recommended Pitcher after years of rumors of his behavior. It’s why Fair-Szofran knows she needs to restore integrity to the office of the president at SFCC. “Every day I have to prove this office is worthy,” she says. “And I understand that. I know that’s what the job is. And that’s why I’m here.”
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s recently as a few months ago, FairSzofran felt content to stay in her role as provost. But then, Pitcher abruptly resigned as president. News reports detailed the allegations: how one woman accused him of groping, sexual harassment, exposing himself and coercing her into sex; and how, as far back as 2015, rumors of affairs with subordinates reached Gullickson.
she stayed in that role. This, she says, is an entirely different challenge. She refrains from discussing how the college will prevent sexual harassment in the future, saying those changes would be made at the college district level. But the culture needs to change, she says. “I have told the college very clearly I am sorry this happened and with everything that is within my power, it is not going to happen again,” she says. “If there is a problem, we will address it, not keep it a secret. I will believe you, as will everybody else at this college.”
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eyond the scandal, there are other massive challenges facing the college. A lack of state funding has put CCS in a budget crisis, which still plagues SFCC and Spokane Community College. The implementation of a new software system has proved costly, with glitches worsening the budgetary challenges and forcing manual workarounds on payroll, student finances and student class scheduling. And student enrollment — crucial for a college struggling with finances — dipped again this school year by 1.9 percent, Fair-Szofran says. There’s only so much that Fair-Szofran can control with those issues. She says, confidently, that nobody at SFCC should be worried about job cuts. She anticipates a flat budget, while still “tightening our belts.” In response to complaints from faculty and staff feeling left out of budget decisions, she plans on creating a resource allocation committee with representatives from all over the college to help make decisions about where SFCC puts its money. To boost enrollment numbers, she sees an opportunity to promote summer courses. The college is starting a new cybersecurity academy in the summer. And she plans on recruiting students coming home from a four-year university who may want to take courses over the summer. “I think we can have a really robust summer. That’s one of our strategies,” she says. These are ideas that have been raised by faculty members for years, Naccarato-Sinclair says. And that’s why Naccarato-Sinclair says she feels comfortable with Fair-Szofran leading this transition period. “I don’t think Nancy is going to come in and make severe changes, and that’s good,” she says. “She has always been a good listener, and I think she cares about the students and cares about the faculty.” That’s how Fair-Szofran plans to change the culture and restore trust at SFCC. She wants everyone at the college to know she’s there to listen — to complaints, suggestions or requests. And if she says she’ll do something, she promises to deliver. “I need to restore trust in the office of the president so that when we get a permanent president the attitude has begun to change,” she says. “How much can I do in a year? I don’t know. I just know that 365 days later, I will have done everything I can to get to that change.” n wilsonc@inlander.com
“Every day I have to prove this office is worthy. And I understand that. I know that’s what the job is. And that’s why I’m here.” Fair-Szofran remembers Community Colleges of Spokane Chancellor Christine Johnson asking for her to step in as president. “The CCS chancellor [Christine Johnson] said, ‘I need you. Can you step in and do this?’” Fair-Szofran tells the Inlander. “I said, “absolutely.’” At the urging of the faculty, NaccaratoSinclair says, CCS announced earlier this month it would wait another year to pick a permanent president. Neither of the two finalists felt right for the job, Naccarato-Sinclair says, and the scandal changed what kind of questions were asked of them. “We were still reeling from all that had happened with the former acting president,” she says. That leaves Fair-Szofran in charge for one more year. Fair-Szofran says she is a “common-sense farm girl from Missouri.” She went to college at Northeast Missouri State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education. She went on to University of Missouri-Columbia for her master’s, before moving up to the Pacific Northwest to earn a doctoral degree in education from University of Idaho. She was working at Mt. Hood Community College when the president’s job at SFCC opened up in 2012. She happily accepted a role as the CCS provost and chief learning officer when Gullickson was chosen, and until earlier this year
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IT’S ONLY MAY — there are still six
months of campaigning to go — and yet Lisa Brown has already accomplished something that eluded previous challengers who tried to unseat Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: actual hope, backed by polling, that she stands a chance of knocking off the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress. Yes, true-blue hope… to say nothing of the money she’s raised or attention she’s already attracted from the national media predicting a “blue wave” of Democrats in November’s midterm elections. Hope is visible on the faces of a handful of Spokane women who’ve come out on a Saturday morning in early May to have coffee with Brown at a downtown market. Two of the women, planning to doorbell for her later that afternoon, are already sporting Lisa Brown T-shirts and blue-and-yellow swag emblazoned with her logo. One of them is Robin Brodt, who shares that she’s the mother of a recovering drug addict who only found effective rehab because of the Affordable Care Act. She knows something more must be done about the opioid epidemic. “It has nothing to do with how much money, or education, or family help you have,” Brodt says, holding back tears, as Brown listens intently.
“There’s no reason not to have prevention and services throughout our district,” Brown replies. “I have a good friend who lost her son to drug addiction. It’s so hard.” Later, Meg Curtin Rey-Bear, a mother with children still in school, asks, “What do we do about what has to be one of the most blatant problems? There’s week after week of deaths. … What about gun violence?” “What I’m hearing throughout the district is that Columbine was almost 20 years ago, and there’s been no real action in the federal government,” Brown says. “It goes beyond what happens in schools, to self-inflicted gun violence and in other public places.” These women are enthusiastic about Brown’s goals to address the costs of higher education, close loopholes in gun background checks, reinstate net neutrality and address immigration policy to provide clarity for people whose futures are up in the air right now. But there’s something else on their minds: These women live in a progressive bubble, and they know it. Most of their friends are Democrats. Their streets are lined with houses that already have Brown’s campaign signs in the yards. Ultimately, they’re not the people Brown needs to be worried about. To flip the 5th, Brown will need more than hope
and an enthusiastic base. She’ll have to appeal to a much broader group of voters — moderates and independents, at least, and probably some conservatives — while at the same time fighting off messages being pushed by the state Republican Party and other conservative groups that she’s an “ultra-liberal career politician” who raised taxes and tuition. Michael Baumgartner, a Republican who served with Brown as a state senator, says Brown is a very competent politician. But he also says that it was her leadership that gave Republicans an opportunity to snatch away the Senate majority in 2012, after she alienated more moderate Democrats by punishing them for straying from the party instead of offering them olive branches. She also championed an income tax — a position too far left for even liberal Washington state. She not only opposed the initiative that required a two-thirds of the Legislature to raise taxes, she also sued to overturn it. “None of this is to say that Lisa is a bad person. But I think Lisa is pretty far left,” Baumgartner says. “Her challenge is that she frankly has to convince the district that she’s more moderate than she truly is in her 20-year record.” But Brown says that her Republican critics distort her ...continued on next page
Lisa Brown addresses supporters before a campaign canvassing event on May 12. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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“BROWN’S BLUE WAVE,” CONTINUED... more nuanced record. “It’s a selective and distorted perspective that they’re putting forward,” Brown says. “The capital and transportation budgets that I worked on were almost always bipartisan. … I also sponsored tax decreases.” For her part, Brown says she’s up to the task of building a coalition and that, ultimately, there are plenty of people across the political spectrum who are united in their distaste for Congress. “We are not going to have as much money as the other side, so we’re basically reaching out to voters who are on board but don’t always vote, and to independents, and moderates,” Brown says. “I think that many Democrats have been motivated by things they consider to be really inappropriate in terms of our president’s actions and behaviors and policies. But also what I’m hearing is a desire for more independence across the board.”
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rown is quick to point to her work crossing the aisle during the 20 years she served in the Washington State Legislature, when she helped secure investments in Eastern Washington for everything from a second medical school to the central YMCA. “It is an aspect of my record of accomplishments that’s appealing, because I got results,” Brown tells the Inlander. “It’s a big contrast with what’s going on in Congress right now, where even the Farm Bill has become partisan, where it’s always been bipartisan before.” Rather than focus on blasting Trump in a district that voted 52 percent in his favor, Brown is also tapping into frustration constituents have directly with McMorris Rodgers on things like health care. While McMorris Rodgers has repeatedly voted to repeal the ACA, Brown supports the act and points to her time serving as state Senate Majority Leader, when she helped expand access to health care for children, provided help with costs of prescription drugs and improved mental health coverage. Brown also helped create the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, which she supported as a legislator and helped to get running while serving as chancellor at Washington State University Spokane. There’s where Baumgartner offers Brown some praise. “She was an important and useful ally in the creation of the medical school,” Baumgartner says. “I enjoyed working with her.” With major name recognition in the district already, and significant campaign contributions, Brown is stirring up enthusiasm: Polls have put her just a few points behind McMorris Rodgers, national Democrats have listed her race as one of more than 40 they hope to flip from red to blue, and the nonpartisan Cook Political Report downgraded McMorris Rodgers’ race from a certain win for Republicans to leaning in their direction. Brown believes she absolutely has a shot at winning. “This race will be close, I will make that prediction,” Brown says. “I feel very hopeful that I will be in Congress next year representing Eastern Washington because of the frustration people feel with my opponent. They want things to change, and they feel after 14 years they’ve kind of given her a chance, let’s give someone else a chance.”
Lisa Brown talks with a potential voter.
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million. They’re nearly equally matched in individual contributions, which total about $1.1 million for each, but McMorris Rodgers also boasts more than $1 million in committee contributions, compared to Brown’s $88,000. “Few things in life are more predictable than the chances of an incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives winning re-election,” the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics concludes, alongside a graph showing nearly all incumbents winning re-election for the past 50 years. Still, multiple polls have put Brown in a better position than any Democratic candidate who’s challenged McMorris Rodgers in over a decade. Brown was within 6 points of McMorris Rodgers in an early April Elway poll, with McMorris Rodgers leading 44 to Brown’s 38. The figure is notable, considering she’s beat her last few opponents by about 20 points or more. In fact, the closest a Democrat has come against McMorris Rodgers since she took office in 2004 was Peter Goldmark, who lost his 2006 challenge to her sophomore run by 13 points. Brown hopes to be different, pointing to her experience in Olympia. “I have this record of 20-plus years of really accomplishing things, like the medical school, like investments in jobs here,” Brown says.
“I have this record of 20 plus years of really accomplishing things, like the medical school.”
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o be certain, Brown faces a huge uphill battle. Ousting an incumbent House member is rare. McMorris Rodgers has raised a war chest of more than $2.7 million, while Brown has more than $1.2
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rown, now 61, first moved to Eastern Washington in her mid-20s and took a job teaching at Eastern Washington University while finishing her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1992, as a single mom with an infant son, she ran to represent Spokane in the state House and won, staying
there until ’96, when she ran for state Senate and secured the seat she’d hold until finishing her last term in 2013. Throughout her time in the Legislature, Brown also taught at EWU and Gonzaga University. In 2005, Brown became the first Democratic woman to be Senate Majority Leader, a position she held until leaving office in 2013. At the time, it was rumored she might run for governor, but instead Brown became chancellor of WSU Spokane. That gave her the chance to return to Spokane for a time and make up her mind about running for higher office. “I don’t think that’s typical, to leave politics and go to a university when you’re Senate leader,” Brown says. “But when you’re in the beltway, you’re not as much in the community. I really enjoyed it. I got rejuvenated.” Brown says she wants to run in part due to a lack of willingness on the part of Republicans, including McMorris Rodgers, to stand up against the president and their own party. “I think our congressional leaders are reluctant to criticize the administration,” Brown says. “That’s part of the underlying issue of why I’m running for Congress, is that idea of speaking out for your district, even if you have to speak out against your political party.” When asked for examples from her time in the Legislature where she stood up against Democrats, Brown points to her work pushing to amend the state constitution to create a rainy-day fund. “I worked with a Republican leader on the budget side, and we introduced a rainy-day fund for the state,” Brown says. “We had to get a two-thirds vote in the Senate and the House, and then a vote of the people, and we successfully created this rainy-day fund that I felt would help stabilize our fiscal situation. And that was not something that my fellow Democrats were initially on board with.” Separately, in 2009, some Democrats pushed a bill that would have limited the anti-union rhetoric companies could force on employees, but leadership, including Brown, killed it after labor groups directly said they expected the legislation in exchange for their financial contributions. She drew fire again from her party in 2011, while working on a reform to the workers’ compensation program. Unions didn’t want to potentially lower payouts for lifelong injuries, but Brown says the changes were necessary to lower costs for employers. Brown says she spent a lot of time in Olympia breaking down stereotypes about Eastern and Western Washington. “One of the things that really bothered me was that people would say Eastern Washington just doesn’t get anything from the state budget, Seattle runs the show,” Brown says. “I worked really hard to build relationships so that we could make investments here. We wouldn’t have the WSU medical school had there not been Democrats and Republicans and legislators from all four corners of the state who ultimately agreed that we needed another medical school.” Her national agenda is ambitious: She’s hitting hard on prescription drug costs, calling for Medicare to be able to negotiate better prices. She believes some gun protections passed in Washington state, such as extreme risk protection orders, could be beneficial on a national scale. A deal to reauthorize Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is necessary, she says, as is a legal path to citizenship for the many others who “are living in the shadows.” “People have a real choice,” Brown says of the race. “We’re both women, we’re both leaders, we both have a record. I think they’ll look at those records and say, ‘Yeah it’s time to give Lisa Brown a chance to do the same thing at the federal level that she did at the state level.’” n samanthaw@inlander.com
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CATHY’S CONUNDRUM How can Cathy McMorris Rodgers portray her party’s compassion for women, immigrants, minorities and the poor when her party is led by Donald Trump? BY DANIEL WALTERS
THE VIDEO MESSAGE from U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers starts, as they often do, with a beaming smile. “I wish I was able to join you for the 2018 Women’s March in Spokane,” McMorris Rodgers begins. Recorded for but ultimately never played at the march, the message is not about protest. It’s about celebration. She calls on women “to be bold, strive and fulfill their dreams, to be positive disruptors” and praises all the recent economic gains generated by women creating businesses. “It was Margaret Thatcher who said, ‘If you want something said, ask a man,’” McMorris Rodgers says in the video. “If you want something done, ask a woman.’” The video sums up McMorris Rodgers’ messaging strategy: It stresses her gender and motherhood. It shows her willingness to engage with her skeptics. And it entirely ignores the reasons for the protesters’ outrage. It plays like an artifact from an alternate universe, one where Donald Trump never became president, where the protesters’ pink hats simply symbolize girl power — instead of Trump’s recorded comments about sexually assaulting women. McMorris Rodgers is fourth in leadership for a party that controls all three branches of government. The economy — in both Washington state and the country — is doing well. Her party just passed a huge tax cut. And yet, for the first time in her 14 years, McMorris Rodgers could lose. Multiple polls have her opponent, Lisa Brown, within striking distance. For years, McMorris Rodgers has been trying to soften the reputation of the Republican Party, promoting it as a party for women, mothers and minorities, instead of sexists, racists or cold-hearted businessmen. But today, that messaging mission has to contend with a president who McMorris Rodgers now acknowledges may have sexually harassed or sexually assaulted women. With Trump’s words and deeds looming in the background, what McMorris Rodgers says and what she does is being scrutinized like never before. ASK A WOMAN
In October of 2016, every Republican politician faced a moral and political challenge: How to respond to the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape. After the Washington Post released the behind-thescenes Access Hollywood video from 2005, capturing Donald Trump bragging about assaulting women, a slew of Republican legislators — including Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo — pulled their endorsements. But while McMorris Rodgers issued a critical statement saying, “It is never appropriate to condone unwanted sexual advances or violence against women,” she never retracted her endorsement. Today, she won’t say if she even considered it.
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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers speaks during an Election Night event in Spokane on Nov. 8, 2016. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO “He was our nominee for president,” McMorris Rodgers says. Then came the succession of more than 10 women with allegations of sexual assault and harassment. But still McMorris Rodgers remained steadfast. If she was morally conflicted when Trump won, she didn’t show it. A few days after the election, she passed out hundreds of red “Make America Great Again” hats to her fellow Republican representatives. Since then, however, the #MeToo movement has dramatically reshaped the way we respond to sexual assault allegations. As part of a #MeToo package of stories published in the Inlander last year, McMorris Rodgers wrote that “all elected officials must be held to a higher standard and should be held personally, financially liable if it’s determined that they engaged in sexual harassment or assault.” During a recent phone interview with the Inlander, McMorris Rodgers is asked whether she believes the accounts of any of the women who have accused Trump. The congresswoman takes a deep breath. Twelve seconds pass before she answers. “Every woman should be heard,” McMorris Rodgers says. “You have to take them at face value.” But does she believe any of their accounts? “I have no reason not to believe it,” she says. “So what’s the next step? What do you do when you believe the leader of your party has either harassed or assaulted women? Another 12 seconds of silence pass. “Donald Trump was elected president,” she begins, using the same five words she spoke at a town hall last August when asked whether she sincerely believed Donald Trump was “mentally stable.” “There were allegations made during the campaign,” she continues. “There have been allegations since. He’s our president. I have spoken out and made it clear that
this kind of behavior is wrong and unacceptable.” Yes, she acknowledges, she endorsed him. “I am proud of our records of results,” says McMorris Rodgers. “I work with a lot of people who I don’t agree with everything they say or do.” Six years ago, when McMorris Rodgers was trying to distance her party from a Missouri Senate candidate’s offensive comments on rape, she urged the candidate to drop out of the race. But you can’t really distance your party from your party’s president. In the age of Trump, McMorris Rodgers says she’s trying to lead by example in combating the division and ugliness in the country. “You’ve seen me bringing people together in Eastern Washington, reaching out to people who have not historically supported me,” McMorris Rodgers says. “Working to build bridges.”
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On an evening in February, McMorris Rodgers sits at a conference table at World Relief, a refugee resettlement agency, and is joined by four local pastors and about a half-dozen immigrant students. Several are recipients of the Deferred Actions on Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to live and work legally in the United States. Last year, Trump announced he’d be shutting down the program, putting these young immigrants in peril. One by one, the DACA students told their stories that evening. One says she didn’t know she wasn’t an American citizen until she applied for college. Another lost his legal status because of a clerical error. As McMorris Rodgers listens, according to several attendees, tears well up in her eyes. She’s been in meetings like this before. After a racial slur was written on Spokane’s Martin Luther King Jr.
PRESENTED BY DOWNTOWN SPOKANE Family Outreach Center the week after Trump’s election, she regularly met with community leaders to talk about fighting racism. After the Parkland school shooting in February, she spoke with high schoolers who pleaded with her to do something about gun violence. Rodney McAuley, a church engagement director for Youth For Christ, attended many of those meetings, including the one with the DACA students. “I have personally observed a journey of compassion and heart-shifting in Cathy,” McAuley says. “I can state that unequivocally.” At the DACA meeting, some of the pastors and DACA students push McMorris Rodgers to take a stronger stance beyond words uttered in private. Sponsor a bill. Let one go to the floor. Give a passionate speech. She doesn’t bite, attendees say. She talks about the political limitations. She says she doesn’t want to push a bill that Trump would veto. “It’s like, ‘I want to do this, but my hands are tied,’” McAuley says. Whitworth graduate Kamau Chege, a left-leaning DACA recipient at the meeting with the congresswoman, believes McMorris Rodgers sincerely cares about the plight of people like him. “But the fact she’s unwilling to translate that personal support into political action is incredible cowardice,” he says. “Guilt and sympathy doesn’t keep anyone from being deported.” McMorris Rodgers tells the Inlander that her biggest disappointment with the recent budget deal was that an immigration compromise wasn’t reached, but she’s still working to make it happen. “Our immigration system is broken,” she says. “And our DACA kids are on the front lines now.” Yet two weeks ago, McMorris Rodgers was at another private meeting about immigration. Twenty Republican moderates — including Washington Rep. Dave Reichert — had signed a discharge petition to force a bipartisan DACA bill to the floor. But McMorris Rodgers was a part of the leadership effort seeking to tamp down that rebellion, urging a more unified party compromise. And when the Democrats, led by Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, tried to use a government shutdown to force a DACA deal, McMorris Rodgers used it as a political cudgel, mocking the attempt with the hashtag #SchumerShutdown. McMorris Rodgers argues that bipartisan closed-door negotiations — not theatrics — will be most effective for reaching an immigration deal that everyone can agree on. She currently opposes a harsh immigration bill being pushed by far-right conservatives, preferring a simpler DACA-for-border-security trade. “Some members, they choose to grandstand. They choose to go public in order to get attention,” McMorris Rodgers says. “I am in leadership. I don’t have to do things that other people do, because I’m in the room. ... I’m one of the decision makers.” Her staff points to a variety of McMorris Rodgers’ bipartisan measures recently signed into law, including measures restoring funding for timber-dependent rural communities, doubling funds for Eastern Washington medical school residencies, improving retirement funds for disabled children and mandating that Medicare cover speaking-assistance devices for the disabled. In January, at McMorris Rodgers’s urging, Spokane’s MannGrandstaff VA Medical Center opened a 24-hour urgent care center. Indeed, it’s sometimes the less flashy work that McMorris Rodgers does behind the scenes, helping her constituents navigate the federal bureaucracy, that earns her unsolicited praise. At a Spokane City Council meeting in April, Henry Valder, a veteran who has struggled with homelessness, testified without prompting that the congresswoman has been fighting for veterans — and helping him personally — for over a decade. “People have the gall to say that she hasn’t done much for our vets,” Valder says. “When I go to her office — I was in there this morning — I get her attention. When I needed care at the VA medical office, she got me a cab and brought me there.” Occasionally, she’ll diverge from the party: As a mother of a ...continued on next page
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“CATHY’S CONUNDRUM,” CONTINUED... child with Down syndrome, she broke with her House Republican colleagues to oppose a bill to make it harder to sue businesses that violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. She’s pushed back, publicly and behind the scenes, against Trump’s recent trade policies, arguing that tariffs could hurt Washington’s businesses and farmers. But mostly, McMorris Rodgers is pure, uncut Republican: Last year, she voted with her party 99 percent of the time, according to CQ, and with Trump 100 percent of the time. Her priorities are the party’s priorities. Strip away regulations. Kill Obamacare. Cut taxes. On everything from abortion to marijuana and gun control, McMorris Rodgers has sought to frame the Republican position through the lens of being a woman or mother. “We are the faces of tax reform,” McMorris Rodgers said at a press conference with other female Republicans. “Tax reform was written with us in mind.” Most new small business owners are women, McMorris Rodgers argued, and the big corporate tax cut helps small business owners. The vast majority of Americans will get a tax cut from the law, at least through 2025. McMorris Rodgers says she fought in leadership negotiations to preserve the Adoption Tax Credit and to double the Child Tax Credit. “My priority was to put more money in the pockets of hard-working men and women,” she says. But groups like the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy suggest that the cut is more targeted toward helping another demographic McMorris Rodgers belongs to: millionaires. In Washington state, the institute calculates, 31 percent of the tax cut’s benefits go to the richest 1 percent. McMorris Rodgers’ solutions to addressing poverty are very much Republican ones: She championed a proposed Farm Bill that would have added both job training programs and strict new work requirements to receive food stamps. To Republicans, the proposal was about breaking the cycle of governmental dependency, giving low-income people the training and motivation to escape poverty. “If we can get more of these people into the workforce, that, too, is going to add to our economy,” McMorris Rodgers says. To Democrats like Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, it was a proposal that would “rip away food assistance from those who need it most,” noting that an estimated 2 million people would see their benefits cut or eliminated. Either way, the gambit backfired. Far-right Repub-
Cathy McMorris Rodger says she has no reason not to believe the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual harrassment. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO licans, angry that their immigration bill hadn’t received a vote, voted against the Farm Bill. And Democrats, angry about the new work requirements, voted against it too. The Farm Bill failed, leaving uncertain the fate of programs that Washington state farmers rely upon. That’s the downside of being in leadership: When it all falls apart, you get blamed. McMorris Rodgers isn’t giving up. Her staff says she’s seeking a compromise on both the Farm Bill and immigration in June.
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When McMorris Rodgers reluctantly endorsed Trump in 2016, she did so with a caveat: She promised that she’d speak out if he said more offensive things about women, minorities and people with disabilities. “I’ve called him out before, and I won’t be shy if he does it again,” she wrote on Facebook in May 2016. Since Trump’s election, McMorris Rodgers has sometimes condemned his statements. When Trump disparaged immigrants from “shithole countries” like those in Africa, McMorris Rodgers lamented the “profanity and divisiveness,” arguing his language was contrary to American values. But other times, McMorris Rodgers has been conspicuously silent. Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff with a long list of civil rights abuses
“Tax reform was written with us in mind.”
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who’d been convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to stop racial profiling. Arizona Sen. John McCain argued the pardon undermined the “rule of law.” But McMorris Rodgers didn’t say anything. Today, she says that she respects Trump’s decision. Her predecessor, former Rep. George Nethercutt (also an Inlander contributor), says that Trump has put McMorris Rodgers in a tricky position. “The main thing is, she wants to win the election,” Nethercutt says about McMorris Rodgers. “If she rejects Trump, she rejects the Trump supporters. She can’t do that.” Still, he says he would like to see McMorris Rodgers speak out against Trump more often. “That’s her obligation,” Nethercutt says. “She’s a leader. She can’t cower in front of other leaders. I think she has to stand up for what she believes.” But McMorris Rodgers has plenty to praise Trump on, too. She notes how few people are unemployed and how many are starting businesses. She says he’s “making progress” on draining the swamp. Asked if Trump is an honest person, McMorris Rodgers remains faithful. “I have to take everyone at their word,” she says. “I take Donald Trump at his word.” But the trouble with defending Trump is the improvisation it requires: You never know which headlines are going to break next. Minutes before an Inlander interview, journalists reported that Trump said that some immigrants being deported “aren’t people. These are animals.” When the Inlander shared the initial reports with McMorris Rodgers, she didn’t hesitate to condemn them. “That’s completely wrong,” McMorris Rodgers said. “That’s an unacceptable way to refer to anybody. I believe everyone should be treated with value and dignity.” (Trump’s defenders later noted his comments had come after a question mentioned MS-13 — and Trump later insisted that he was only referring to members of the violent Mexican gang, bashing the media for taking him out of context.) It’s when the Inlander brings up her lack of explicit condemnation of Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” remarks after the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville that her frustration boils over. “I can’t chase after every one of his tweets, and every one of the rabbit holes you want to go down here!” McMorris Rodgers says. “I have to give an account for myself. I cannot give an account for every statement that President Trump makes or try to defend it or explain it.” Yet, Trump was elected president, and if McMorris Rodgers gets what she wants, she’ll be asked to do just that — defend Trump — for at least the next two years. Six if she’s lucky. n danielw@inlander.com
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ALLI WHITE ILLUSTRATION
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Geek Chic How a North Idaho artist fell in love with nerd culture and found her path to success as an illustrator BY QUINN WELSCH
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erhaps it started with a trip to Hollywood Video in the the ’90s. A young, Disney Princess-loving girl from Coeur d’Alene discovered the consuming and entrancing 16-bit world of Final Fantasy III in the rental store. Inside the game’s case was a guide book filled with mystifying illustrations by Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano. “I remember seeing those and it just blew my mind. I was 8 years old and not ready for that,” says Alli White, now living in the rural space between Post Falls and Rathdrum. “The first time I ever saw anything like it, just that feeling of seeing Amano’s artwork and that feeling of seeing Final Fantasy III’s opening scene — it was like nothing I had ever seen, ever.” Though her influences are many, White, now 29 and an illustrator herself, counts this particular trip to Hollywood Video as a defining moment in her life and career.
From that moment stemmed an obsessive and unabashed relationship with anime throughout her adolescence, an unsuccessful stint in art school and, ultimately, a lucrative career as a freelance artist who goes by the name Skirtzzz. “Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh happened. I didn’t like anything unless it was anime,” she says of her years as a “filthy weeaboo,” a slang term for someone who obsesses over Japanese art and culture. “In school, if we were reading something, I had to turn it into anime to enjoy it.” Things are different now though. She’s grown up a bit, and while nerd culture has gone mainstream (almost exhaustingly so), White has remained enthusiastic about her art, especially when it translates into revenue. She’ll be showcasing her work at this weekend’s Lilac City Comicon. While her peers in “the industry,” as she calls it, have
relied on major gigs, both short term and long term, White has managed to find work almost exclusively as a freelance illustrator, working primarily on individual commissions for average, everyday people. Many of them are portraits, character designs and costume sketches, she says. “Now that [Dungeons & Dragons] is bigger — probably bigger than it’s ever been — I get a lot of D&D characters,” White says. Clients create stories and backgrounds for these characters and ask her to draw them up for a visual representation when they play. A full-body portrait costs about $120, she says. Demand for these things is high, she says, and it only seems like it’s getting higher. Her art style is a sort of cross between her love of Disney and her love of anime. If you can imagine Ariel ...continued on next page
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MAGICAL FUN This year, one of the ultimate hobbies of nerdom is celebrating its big 25th anniversary. That’s right, Magic: The Gathering has already been around for a quarter century! Prospective local mages (ages 12+) interested in mastering the spell-slinging, monster-battling card game are invited to a free learn-to-play event Saturday, June 2, from 10 am-noon, co-hosted by Spark Central and the Lady Planeswalkers Society of Spokane. Since seats are limited, attendees need to pre-register at spark-central.org before showing up to dual on the battlefield. (CHEY SCOTT)
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uns: a staple of dad jokes everywhere. When not being used by adults to annoy teenagers, they’re typically looked down upon. “Puns are often referred to as the lowest form of humor, which I don’t agree with,” Annica Eagle says. “It just takes a degree of playfulness which we have in abundance here in Spokane.” This mentality led Eagle to form the Punderground, the area’s premier punning competition. Since October 2016, the bimonthly event draws a crowd to Boots Bakery & Lounge. Matt Dargen, known for constantly making it to the finals, enjoys the challenge of crafting puns out of thin air. “It really pushes me to this point of wracking my brain to try to make these connections,” Dargen says. “And the longer you try to come up with them, the more you find these really contrived ways of still playing by the rules.” While Dargen’s puns may be good, Eagle’s skills are the best in Spokane.
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ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores June 1. To wit: FATHER JOHN MISTY, God’s Favorite Customer. One of the most creative musical forces around is back with a new collection. MAPS & ATLASES, Lightlessness Is Nothing New. The Chicago-based band is now a trio, and you can see them at Volume when they play June 2 at the Washington Cracker Co. Building. MAZZY STAR, Still. A more aptly named album you shall not find this week. NEKO CASE, Hell-On. When Case gets hilarious and angry, as she does on songs released so far from this one, she’s just the best. (DAN NAILEN)
Growing up, Eagle says she hated the corny puns her dad would make. It wasn’t until adulthood that Eagle started to realize that she actually enjoyed puns. In fact, she was quite good at them. After some encouragement from friends, Eagle decided to look for a pun competition. She found the O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships held annually in Texas. Eagle’s competed the past three years. In 2017 her pun-ridden letter to Congress about the vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act won her the title of third most-punniest person in the world. This May, her speech filled with name-based puns on accused #MeToo sexual predators got a standing ovation. While not making it to the winner’s circle, Eagle was awarded Most Valuable Punster, voted on by all those who compete. “The hallmark of a true pun is that it’s very much in the moment,” Eagle says, “and just really captures what’s happening in that conversation.” Dargen enjoys the creativity of the Punderground competition, and how everyone is there to have fun. “My favorite moments in the show are the ones where everyone in the room knows it was a valid pun, but it was so weird, so out there, that there’s this collective groan,” he says. The Punderground has grown so popular that it has expanded to include an adults-only competition. Punderground: After Dark is held bimonthly at the Observatory. “Every year when I come back from the Pun-Off World Championships, I’m extra inspired about our punning community here in Spokane,” Eagle says, “and how much I want to see it grow.” n The Punderground • Thu, June 7 at 7 pm • Free • All ages • Boots Bakery & Lounge • 24 W. Main • facebook. com/thepunderground
PEOPLE WATCHING Why should you go to Sasquatch! Music Festival? Three days of great music, sure. But just by being at the festival, you never know what you’ll find. This year, there was a man carrying around a pineapple on a leash like it was a dog, another man inexplicably walking around in the hot sun in a hotdog costume, and a cardboard cutout of Danny Devito’s head floating above the crowd. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
WONG’S WAY Ali Wong’s new Netflix standup special Hard Knock Wife is a worthy sequel to her breakout 2016 hour, Baby Cobra. Once again, Wong is extremely pregnant for the filming, which does nothing but add to the laughs generated by her jokes on motherhood, sex and her quest to do, well, as little as possible. She’s self-deprecating at times, slyly political at others and uncomfortably filthy for some audience members. The subject of a recent splashy profile in the New York Times is worth a look; Hard Knock Wife is streaming now. (DAN NAILEN)
A LITTLE TOO LATE Roseanne Barr clearly knew her tweet Tuesday comparing an African-American woman from the Obama administration to what would happen “if the muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby” went over the line. She quickly apologized and said she was quitting Twitter, but ABC showed rare backbone in canceling the reborn (and incredibly successful) Roseanne show within a few hours. One does have to wonder, though, why ABC was willing to ignore several years’ worth of racist Barr tweets before the reboot even got off the ground, and what made this week’s Barr debacle the one that led them to cut ties with the comedian. (DAN NAILEN)
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CULTURE | VISUAL ARTS
Summer Stroll June’s First Friday event includes a pop-up art bazaar, the Volume poster show and a new juried landscape exhibition
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pokane’s monthly arts showcase features events, including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists, across the downtown core and beyond. Receptions for this month’s events happen on Friday, June 1, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue. These listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday’s organizer, Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information visit firstfridayspokane.org. (CHEY SCOTT) ART SEED SPOKANE, 1115 W. First Upward and Art Bound features works by local artists in various media. Reception 5-9 pm. AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main “3 Minute Mic” with guest reader Eric Woodard. Guests can read up to three minutes’ worth of poetry. Starts at 8 pm. J AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone Ave. Paintings in oil and watercolor by Elizabeth Scott in Belle Fleur. BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second Manipulated photography by Jessica Bloom. Reception 4-9 pm. BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Paintings of whimsical creatures by Bart DeGraaf. Reception from 5-10 pm, with music by Nick Grow and a bistro buffet. J THE BARTLETT, 228 W. Sprague The Inlander’s Volume poster show features designs for this year’s bands by more than 30 local designers, with limitededition screen prints for sale by Millwood Print Works. Reception 6-11:30 pm. BISTANGO, 108 N. Post Live music by Ray Vasquez, from 3-10 pm.
J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. The fauna-themed photography show Flourish continues, with a poetry reading of works created by attendees of Spokane Poet Laureate Mark Anderson’s recent ekphrastic poetry workshop. COMMUNITY BUILDING, 25 W. Main The event “Christophe Saint Lawrence Presents… The Artistic Vision of Yvette Neumann” is held on the fourth floor. CORE PILATES AND WELLNESS, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy. Water-themed paintings by Grace Barnes. CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy. Animal-themed paintings by Katrina Brennan, with live music by Cheryl Branz. Reception 2-9 pm. HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 401 W. Main Music by the Back Porch Trio: Maxie Ray Mills, Alan Fisher and Steve Sackett, from 6:30-9:30 pm. IRON GOAT BREWING, 1302 W. Second Impressionist paintings by Frankie Benka.
A piece from Belle Fleur by Elizabeth Scott at Avenue West. J JUNDT ART MUSEUM, 200 E. Desmet Ave. The opening of Close In: Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, featuring works by more than 50 regional artists. Reception 4-9 pm. KENDALL YARDS WELCOME CENTER, 1335 W. Summit Pkwy. A pop-up art show featuring handmade clothing, jewelry, art and crafts from more than a dozen local artisans. June 1 from 4-8 pm and June 2 from 10 am-3 pm. J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. Aftermath by Darrell Sullens and Sami Perry is a visual response to the current social and political landscape. Reception 5-9 pm. LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Photography by Kent Henderson and live music by Matt Mitchell, from 7-10 pm.
THE LIVING ROOM VINTAGE, 1816 E. Sprague Prints by Cassie Byington, along with a vintage clothing trunk show by Red Leaf Vintage and music by Subteal. Reception 6-8 pm. J MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy. The Mighty Columbia, a collection of new works by regional artist Ric Gendron, alongside pieces by other featured gallery artists. MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. Acrylic paintings, sumi-e ink and stacked canvas art by Randy Budano. J OBJECT SPACE, 1818 ½ E. Sprague New work by Richmond Artist Collective residents Brian Deemy (process photography) and Hannah Koeske (oil paintings). Reception 5-9 pm.
POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington June’s guest artists are jewelry artisan Anne Blakemore and photographer Liz Montgomery. Reception 5-9 pm. ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific Art by 12-year-old Lydia Wilson, who works in acrylic, chalk, watercolor and oil pastel. J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Working With ___ by Remelisa Cullitan pays homage to women artists. Louise Kodis and her daughter Chemyn Kodis also showcase their collaborative series Double Dose. SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main Klezmer music by Spokane’s Meshugga Daddies, from 6:30-8 pm. STEELHEAD BAR & GRILLE, 218 N. Howard What I See features photographic art by local high school junior Nick Nelson. J TERRAIN, 304 W. Pacific pink {speak} features art by Mariah Boyle, Meghan Flynn, Meghan Hedley and Lisa Soranaka. Each piece is centered around the color pink and its symbolism and cultural associations. V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott St. Spokane artist John deRoulet showcases his latest oil paintings. Also includes live music by Crushpad. Reception 5:30-9:30 pm. VINO, A WINE SHOP!, 222 S. Washington Laura Carpenter Truitt showcases her collection Shifting Horizons: New Drawings and Paintings. Includes a wine tasting ($10) during a reception from 3-7:30 pm. WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY & FRAMING, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy. Micro-pen portraits by Steven P. Sorensen. n
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Hockey Heaven The Hub Tavern is a Spokane hotspot on NHL game nights, and a North Monroe neighborhood gem all year BY TUCK CLARRY
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atching a hockey game at the Hub Tavern on Monroe feels at one moment like a house party and the next like the rowdiest section at the
arena. Perhaps it’s because bartender and part owner Buddy Richardson knows what all the regulars are having to drink, or the back-and-forth ribbings that they give each other. Maybe it’s the Budweiser Red Light goal siren that Buddy’s set up to go off any time a team scores a goal. Owned by Buddy and his family — his wife Lea, his dad Dave and mom Mona — the Hub has been the Spokane hockey bar since the family bought the business in 2012. “It’s been fairly recent. When we took over we always loved hockey and figured, ‘What the heck?’” Buddy says. “I told my parents, ‘If I’m going to be here a
The Hub Tavern co-owner Buddy Richardson pulls a beer for hockey lover Greg Kvasov. lot, I’m going to buy the [hockey] package.’” Sure enough, at any given time during the National Hockey League season, most, if not all, of the tavern’s TVs are tuned into the night’s games. The hockey-related décor has only grown the longer Buddy’s been at the bar. His collection of programs and pucks was quickly joined by signed hockey sticks that hang from the ceiling, thanks to a former stickboy to the long defunct Spokane Flyers senior ice team. The streetside wall is getting a facelift thanks to a car crashing into the bar last summer, but the expectation is to have even more of the gear that used to frame the tavern’s large windows. While most bars devote themselves to throwing as big a party as possible on New Year’s Eve, the Hub goes all out on New Year’s Day. Not for the calendar change, but for the Winter Classic, an NHL face-off played outdoors instead of in an arena. The bar puts a net on the patio and throws shootouts for prizes. And the Hub doesn’t half-ass the hockey experience, even down to their beer selection. There aren’t many bars in Spokane or even the states that tap Labatt Blue, but you can get it here. And for a while Buddy was able to work out being the only bar in the area to have a reserve of the rare Canadian Molson kegs. The vibe and beer has brought in an ever-growing group of regulars who come in to root for their team, or for hometown hero Tyler Johnson, who plays for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning. “Everybody knows who No. 9 is,” Buddy quips. “And it’s cool to watch the local boy go on and do cool things.” A late-May matchup of Johnson’s Tampa Bay Lightning and the Washington Capitals brought in a couple Caps fans supporting Mount Vernon’s Tyler Oshie and superstar Alexander Ovechkin from Russia. “I grew up watching Detroit and switched allegiance when Ovechkin entered the league,” Greg Kvasov says.
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“We’re Russian, so we picked the superstar Russian to follow,” Tony Sizov adds. Both of them grew up playing hockey at Eagles ice arena and have found their way back to Spokane and at the Hub on hockey nights.“I moved back here recently and it’s now one of my favorite things about Spokane,” Kvasov says. “Out in Seattle there was a hockey bar, but it’s not as close-knit as it is here.” “This is community-based for sure,” Sizov says. “Everybody kind of knows each other here and there’s no hard feelings no matter who wins.” The sentiment is an understatement, as the Hub is as much of a neighborhood bar as you can get in Spokane. Most of the regulars work in the neighborhood or live a few blocks away. Buddy recalls that one of the guys that came to his son’s birthday party was a transplant from Columbus, Ohio, that felt immediately at home when he first showed up to the bar. That tight-knit feel has helped the family as the Monroe Street overhaul continues beyond hockey season. “With the construction going on it’s amazing how many new people come in and say ‘Hey, we’re here to support you guys and see you stay open,’” Buddy says. “It’s really cool to see the neighborhood help out as much as they can.” And as the hockey bar grows, so does the Richardson family. Buddy’s two young kids are already wearing skates and he and his wife are expecting another. He jokes with a couple regulars about the baby’s June 12 due date, guessing it’ll be a couple weeks earlier if he’s learned anything from his last two trips to the maternity ward. “Well, let’s hope for June 12,” chimes a woman in a Pittsburgh windbreaker, “That’s when the Penguins won their last Stanley Cup.” n The Hub Tavern • 2926 N. Monroe • Open seven days a week, 9 am to close • facebook.com/thehubtavern • 326-7447
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EDUCATION
Healthy Habits
School may be out soon, yet year-round efforts to educate kids about food — where it comes from and how to prepare it — could pay lifelong dividends BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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ith barely two weeks before school lets out for summer, it’s the perfect sunny day for a field trip to the Kootenai County Fairgrounds’ annual Farm to Table event. Until the school buses arrive, though, the only kid on site is a young goat bleating for all to hear. Nearby, cows and sheep join the chorus as industry experts from area farms, ranches and related businesses clad in boots and jeans set up learning stations — 18 in all — about bees, pollinators, soil and water systems, apples, corn, livestock crops, sheep, beef and, of course, goats. Soon, more than 1,000 area fifth-graders will descend
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Many local groups are working to educate kids about healthy eating, and where their food comes from. on the fairgrounds for a hands-on day of learning about where their food comes from with volunteers who take time off from producing for and managing the region’s food system to participate in the event. “Either you have it in you [to share your knowledge with kids] or you don’t,” says the Kootenai County Fairgrounds’ board member Linda Rider, who co-founded the program four years ago along with retired educator and longtime horsewoman Joy Crupper. Rider has it in her to work with kids, and has long been a mentor to students from the University of Idaho Extension and Four-H Club. Like many of her family members, she’s involved in ranching and farming. When she joined the fairgrounds, Rider saw an opportunity to develop an interactive, authentic program for regional school-aged kids. In 2016, the Farm to Table event was recognized by the International Association of Fairs and Expos. Students involved with the event this year include classes from three Coeur d’Alene district schools,
including its newest elementary, Northwest Expedition Academy. The students’ year-long focus in the classroom has been on Idaho agriculture and making the world sustainable, says Principal Bill Rutherford, a lifelong educator and former executive chef and food service director at North Idaho College. “Learning about where our food comes from is super important to build schema in kids who have never seen a dairy cow or harvested an egg from a chicken,” says Rutherford.
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arm to Table is just one on a growing list of events educating local kids about food, from environmental health and growing food, to personal health and cooking. The Inland Northwest Food Network, for example, operates its Power of Produce (PoP) club at the Kootenai County Farmers Market’s Saturday market in Hayden. The PoP Club, which is free and last year served 336 kids, teaches children ages 5-12 about growing and
FOOD | OPENING preparing food, and provides tokens for participants to spend on produce and food-bearing plants sold at the market. “Our relationship to food is formed when we are young,” says INW Food Network founder and Executive Director Teri McKenzie. “Engaging kids in growing and cooking their own food provides them with critical skills that will support their well-being for a lifetime.” Owner of the Culinary Stone in Coeur d’Alene and former child therapist Sandra Gunn says parents and kids both express an interest in the store’s cooking classes. This summer, its staff is hosting two-day cooking camps for beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, as well as an invitationonly master class (more info at culinarystone.com). “Our classes inspire the children’s inner creativity and provide organization skills, team-building and lifelong skills,” says Gunn. In Spokane, Modernist Cooks & Catering regularly hosts themed cooking classes, including sessions for Father’s Day, girls’ night out, speed dating and more. The upcoming kids’ “movie and a meal” class on June 5 teaches how to cook Emperor’s New Groove character Kronk’s spinach puffs. Second Harvest food bank in Spokane also hosts cooking and nutrition education sessions for kids in its community teaching kitchen, the Kitchen at Second Harvest, and this summer is hosting two four-day kitchen skills camps for ages 8-12. The first session in late June explores foods from Brazil, Mexico, India and the Middle East. Second Harvest also offers nutrition classes for adults involved with children’s care centers operating outside of regular school hours, such as Head Start, which follows the U.S. Department of Agriculture Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Similar to the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, CACFP outlines government reimbursement for organizations adhering to their guidelines. An ideal meal for children ages 6-12, for example, includes 8 ounces of milk, an additional protein — animal protein, beans, peas, tree nuts, etc. — plus a half cup of vegetables, a quarter cup of fruit and whole grains. CACFP guidelines reflect the “MyPlate” standards, which the USDA rolled out seven years ago to replace the grain-heavy food pyramid. MyPlate calls for increased fruits and vegetables, balanced and complete proteins, whole grains, and reduced salt, sugar and saturated fats.
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chools can only do so much, however. As they grow, children eventually begin making their own choices about what to eat. Moreover, existing adult populations of all ages experience everything from food insecurity to general confusion about what constitutes healthy eating. In other words, “it takes a village” to educate the village about food and nutrition. Promising trends include the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called food stamps, increasing its acceptance at farmers markets, including many across the Inland Northwest. At Kootenai Farmers Markets, SNAP benefits usage is incentivized with “Double Up Bucks,” a collaboration between Kootenai Environmental Alliance and the University of Idaho Extension’s “Eat Smart Idaho” program, another organization that offers kids’ classes throughout the state. The incentive allows SNAP’s electronic benefits transaction users to earn more tokens to redeem towards the purchase of fruits and veggies. Kootenai Environmental Alliance’s involvement in Double Up Bucks strengthens the case that personal health is tied to environmental health, which the INW Food Network’s McKenzie agrees with. “Educating kids about where their food comes is important for a number of reasons, ranging from the personal to the planetary,” she says. “In a day and age where so many kids have little-to-no connection to where their food comes from, helping to connect them to it seems like the best gift we could give them.” n
Spokane’s new Sweet Peaks is the company’s seventh store.
Sweet Treat Time
Montana-based Sweet Peaks Ice Cream opens a new shop in downtown Spokane, serving up locally inspired and seasonal flavors BY ALLA DROKINA
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pon entering the new Sweet Peaks Ice Cream shop in downtown Spokane, a warm and enthusiastic greeting from employees behind the counter should make anyone feel instantly welcome. The shop has a fresh interior with wooden tables and dark blue walls accented with paintings of birch trees. Recently opened across the street from Auntie’s Bookstore, and next door to Durkin’s Liquor Bar, Sweet Peaks is an ideal place to stumble into on a hot day to cool down with a favorite cold treat. For owners and spouses Marissa Keenan and Sam Dauenhauer, the Spokane shop is the seventh location they’ve opened since launching their first in Whitefish, Montana, back in 2010. They’ve always loved visiting downtown Spokane and felt there was a niche to fill for ice cream in the core. Long before the couple opened the first shop, they made ice cream in the comfort of their own kitchen. It helped ENTRÉE that Keenan grew Get the scoop on local up in a restaufood news with our weekly rant family, and Entrée newsletter. Sign up Dauenhauer had at Inlander.com/newsletter. previously owned a coffee shop — they knew what they were getting themselves into with the business idea. Keenan says the company focuses on sourcing ingredients locally, based on what’s regularly and seasonally available. Each flavor Sweet Peaks concocts is tested by her and their kitchen crew before making it onto the menu. That process is always fun, because she and Dauenhauer have different tastes. The menu at the new Spokane shop includes classic flavors like Wustner Brothers’ honey cinnamon or coconut, and specialty flavors like strawberry rhubarb sherbet and pine and chocolate. Order your favorite as a kid scoop ($3), single ($3.50), single split ($4) or double ($5) in a cup, sugar cone, cake cone or waffle cone ($1.50). Add an extra scoop to any order for $2. There’s also an option to build your own sundae for $7 (additional toppings are $1 extra), or choose
one from the menu, like “Honey Bunny” or “Black Bear” ($6/each). Floats, milkshakes and coffee are options, too. There are also pints to go ($9).
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ince I’m an ice cream fiend and usually indecisive, I sampled a handful of flavors before going with a flavor each from the classic and seasonal: cupcake and blackberry and lavender. The cupcake scoop tasted akin to birthday cake ice cream without being obnoxiously saccharine, which I loved. The blackberry and lavender perfectly complement one another, creating a new favorite for me. While testing the generous samples of Sweet Peak’s flavors, I noticed a beautiful painting of a bear on the wall, definitely giving a nod to that Montana vibe, which I later learned that Dauenhauer himself painted. “My husband Sam is the artsy designer for everything. He creates the vision, what needs to happen and picks the different elements. He’s done this quite a few times now, and it’s fun for him, because he gets to do something a little bit different,” says Keenan. Keenan has already received lots of positive feedback since the Spokane shop’s opening in early May. The big thing for Sweet Peaks now is to learn the ins and outs of traffic flow in downtown Spokane, and how to navigate rushes during various events. But Keenan’s main goal is to maintain that welcoming factor that reels everyone in. “The great thing about ice cream is that it’s fun. We’re selling something people enjoy. It’s a treat. They’re not buying a car, they’re buying an ice cream cone, but it’s still a big deal,” she says. “And if you can have happy music, scents like ice cream, scents like waffle cones, and you have someone ask, ‘How is your day? How is it going? What are you up to?’ That’s the difference, I say, between customer service and enlightened hospitality.” n food@inlander.com Sweet Peaks Ice Cream • 415 W. Main • Open Sun-Thu, 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-11 pm • sweetpeaksicecream.com • 474-9096
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Ethan Hawke stars in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, which screened last week at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Cinema City
A rundown of some of the major titles we saw at the ongoing 44th Seattle International Film Festival BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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he Seattle International Film Festival is the largest event of its kind in the country, screening hundreds of movies over the course of 25 days. It’s a cinema lover’s paradise, where you can see all kinds of films about every subject imaginable. I recently spent a week at SIFF, catching some buzzed-about films that haven’t hit Spokane theaters yet. Here’s the most notable of what I saw: They all have distribution deals, so keep an eye open for them to hit theaters or streaming platforms in the coming months.
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BEAST
I seem to be in the minority on this seaside murder mystery-meets-fairy tale, which is atmospheric and well-acted but ultimately unfocused. Set on the European island of Jersey, it details the strange relationship between a shy social outcast named Moll (Jessie Buckley) and Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a brooding outsider who does odd jobs around her parents’ house. We learn that both of them have dark secrets in their pasts, and that Pascal is the primary suspect in a series of homicides plaguing the island.
The pieces for a compelling character study are there, but they’re obfuscated by debuting writer-director Michael Pearce’s need to keep its central romance as enigmatic as possible, and he implements a number of hackneyed horror movie beats that seem totally out of place. Maybe you’ll buy into it. I didn’t.
BLAZE
I walked into Blaze, the fourth feature directed by Ethan Hawke, unaware of its subject, and came away with respect for a craft I hadn’t known existed. It’s about the short life of country songwriter Blaze Foley (played beautifully by debuting actor Ben Dickey), which lends itself perhaps too tidily to the musician biopic format. His career was brief but turbulent. He was consumed by booze and drugs, which destroyed his marriage, and he was killed when he was only 39, leaving behind a body of work that was revered by his contemporaries (Merle Haggard, John Prine and Lyle Lovett have covered him) but remains mostly unknown to mainstream audiences. Hawke, who co-wrote the film with Foley’s widow Sybil Rosen (portrayed by Alia Shawkat), structures the movie almost as a series of anecdotes and memories that are all flooding back at once, producing a film about country music that plays out like a country song itself.
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Paul Schrader has never made an easy film. He’s also never been known for consistency. But First Reformed is perhaps his best movie in two decades, a strange, beguiling riff on Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest (1951) that maintains a creeping sense of dread from its first frames. It’s about a minister (Ethan Hawke again) with a tragic past, who begins consulting a young couple coming apart at the seams because of his unhealthy obsession with ecoterrorism. (The wife, played by Amanda Seyfried, is pregnant and named Mary. Hmm.) Unsurprisingly, things soon take a much darker and more metaphysical turn. Like the director’s 1979 drama Hardcore, in which a suburban father discovers his missing daughter is involved in an underground pornography ring, First Reformed is about a self-confessed moral man peering into a sinister world and finding himself unable to look away. But there are also echoes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which Schrader wrote, because there’s cognitive dissonance between what Hawke says he is doing and what we’re being shown. I look forward to seeing this one again.
LEAVE NO TRACE
Writer-director Debra Granik broke out in 2010 with Winter’s Bone, the gritty Ozarks drama that made everyone take notice of Jennifer Lawrence. Leave No Trace, Granik’s first narrative feature since Winter’s Bone, is another story about people on the fringes and surviving off the land, though this one is far less brutal and emotionally taxing. It even has a rare PG rating. But it’s no less effective, the portrait of a single father (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter (Thomasin McKenzie) living in makeshift encampments in Portland’s public parks. Although they practice evasion techniques, they’re soon caught and must integrate themselves back into society, but dad can’t shake his nomadic instincts. This might sound like the setup for a hackneyed TV movie, but Granik knows when the characters need not say anything, and when it’s better to show rather than tell. It all builds to a final scene that’s as heartbreaking as it is true.
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the most recent Sundance Film Festival, Desiree Akhavan’s teen drama takes place in the early 1990s but could just as easily have been set today. Chloë Grace Moretz plays the title character, a closeted high school senior who’s caught in compromising positions with another girl and sent to a Christian camp that specializes in gay conversion therapy (shades of the 1999 indie But I’m a Cheerleader). They aim to “cure” what they so frequently refer to as “same-sex attraction,” employing strange and often cruel exercises disguised as religious empathy, and Cameron refuses to acquiesce. Based on a young adult novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the narrative trajectory of countless indie movies (particularly those out of Sundance) before it; I wish it had been more adventurous. But its characters are vivid and the performances (many from relative newcomers) are authentic enough that this is worth seeking out, particularly for older kids.
NANCY
Andrea Riseborough has made a career out of disappearing into her characters, and in Nancy, she plays a woman who does the same. When she isn’t caring for her ailing mother (Ann Dowd), Nancy spends much of her time in front of a computer screen, pretending to be an expectant single mother online or photoshopping herself into pictures of North Korea. She sees a local newscast about a couple (J. Smith-Cameron and Steve Buscemi) whose daughter was kidnapped 30 years prior, and the age progression picture of the missing girl looks an awful lot like her. And as she reaches out to the grieving parents, we wonder: Does this explain Nancy’s strange behavior, or is it merely another extension of it? The film deliberately keeps us at arm’s length from Nancy’s true intentions, which will either frustrate or fascinate you, all the way to its (perhaps too) abrupt ending. n
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Jackass meets Adventureland in this raunchy comedy about a 1970s theme park filled with dangerous attractions. Star Johnny Knoxville and company do all their own stunts. (NW) Rated R
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LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Acclaimed French director Claire Denis’ latest stars the great Juliette Binoche as an artist and divorcee struggling through a string of empty relationships. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated
UPGRADE
An uber-violent grindhouse thriller about a dude who’s implanted with technology that gives him superhuman strength, thus allowing him to exact vengeance on the guys who killed his wife. (NW) Rated R
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In this Bollywood comedy, a centenarian decides he’s going to break the record as world’s oldest man, much to the chagrin of his 75-year-old son. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
This epic franchise crossover event assembles just about every character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to stop supervillain Thanos from decimating half the world’s population. There are plenty of solid geek-out moments, but most of the film’s boldest moves will no doubt be undone in the
next installment. (JB) Rated PG-13
BOOK CLUB
A quartet of older women explore the joys of Fifty Shades of Grey, which brings some panache to their boring personal lives. The cast — Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen — is great, but doesn’t this premise seem dated already? (NW) Rated PG-13
BREAKING IN
Gabrielle Union is a mom who fights back when robbers lock her outside her late father’s high-tech home, with her two kids and a hidden fortune in-
side. The reverse Panic Room scenario is a promising one, but the movie almost feels unfinished. (NW) Rated PG-13
DEADPOOL 2
Marvel’s most mischievous (and foulmouthed) crime fighter is back, but with slightly diminished returns, assembling a cadre of antiheroes to save a troubled kid with strange powers. It’s got self-aware, self-effacing jokes to spare, though perhaps we’ve seen all this character has to offer. (JB) Rated R
I FEEL PRETTY
Amy Schumer plays an insecure woman who suffers a head injury in an exercise class, only to wake up with the poise and confidence of a supermodel. She mostly carries this low-key comedy, even as the script follows the most obvious narrative routes. (NW) Rated PG-13
ISLE OF DOGS
Wes Anderson’s second stop-motion feature is set in a world where all canines have been exiled to an island of garbage and centers on a young pilot searching for his own lost dog. Far from a traditional kids’ movie, it’s a treat for both film geeks and animal lovers, and as visually inventive as you’d expect from Anderson. (JS) Rated PG-13
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flick about an FBI canine (voiced by Ludacris) going undercover at a fancy dog show. Sounds like a canine version of Miss Congeniality. (NW) Rated PG
ten with its hero’s swagger and charm, it works best when it’s functioning as a standalone adventure. (JB) Rated PG-13
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
Charlize Theron stars in this deeply, intimately sympathetic dramedy about womanhood in the 21st century, playing a new mother who develops an unexpected bond with the free-spirited young woman she’s hired as a nanny. At the Magic Lantern. (MJ) Rated R n
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LIFE OF THE PARTY
Great comedy demands tension and conflict, but this Melissa McCarthy vehicle has none. It doesn’t have laughs, either. Like Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School, she plays a divorcee who enrolls in the same college as her daughter, becoming the big mom on campus. (MJ) Rated PG-13
OVERBOARD
Strained, unfunny, gender-flipped remake of the 1987 Kurt Russell-Goldie Hawn comedy, about a rich jerk (Eugenio Derbez) who suffers amnesia and is made to believe he’s married to the poor single mother (Anna Faris) he once mistreated. (NW) Rated PG-13
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POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD
Wim Wender’s latest documentary is a feature-length sit-down with the current pope, who discusses his personal worldview and beliefs. (NW) Rated PG
A QUIET PLACE
In this brilliant post-apocalyptic thriller, a mother and father (real-life couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, who also directed) must protect their children from monsters that are attracted only to sound. A smart reinvention of a genre we thought had been exhausted, and a truly audacious major studio horror film. (MJ) Rated PG-13
RBG
This acclaimed documentary chronicles the life and career of longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, detailing her roles as women’s rights advocate and feminist internet meme. (NW) Rated PG
SHOW DOGS
The director of Beverly Hills Chihuahua strikes again with this live-action kids’
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A raucous bio-comedy about figure skater Tonya Harding, who tripleaxelled into infamy in the early ’90s. The film may be predicated on questionable morals — it wants
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us to laugh at its subjects, then condemns us for laughing — but it’s also centered on blistering performances by Margot Robbie as the disgraced Harding and Oscar winner Allison Janney as her monstrous mother. (NW) Rated R
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In addition to lots of local musicians, Volume features dozens of touring acts, including (clockwise, from left) The Helio Sequence, Bad Yoshi, Valen and Ryan Caraveo.
FESTIVAL SEASON
BEST OF THE FESTS A look ahead at summer music festivals, from Upstream to Bumbershoot BY NATHAN WEINBENDER 46 INLANDER MAY 31, 2018
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aybe you’ve heard, but the Inlander’s own Volume Music Festival is happening this weekend, with 80 or so acts performing in nine venues throughout downtown Spokane. If you haven’t purchased your wristband yet — and we really think you should — they’re still available at Volume.inlander.com. Hop to it! (If you buy in advance, weekend passes are $25; at the festival, you can buy the two-day passes for $35 and single-night tickets for $20. Pick up pre-purchased passes at the Washington Cracker Building at 304 W. Pacific Ave., beginning at 4:30 pm on Friday.) While Volume is one of the first festivals of the season, hot on the heels of Sasquatch!, it’s hardly the last: The festival market is at peak saturation, and there’s one for pretty much any predilection. We’ve compiled a list of the Northwest festivals on the horizon that we’re most looking forward to this summer.
UPSTREAM
June 1-3 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s festival, now in its second year, takes over Seattle’s Pioneer Square with live music and symposiums on the music industry. Upstream’s two main stages will
feature the sultry R&B stylings of Miguel, the classic pop-punk of Jawbreaker and the DayGlo psychedelia of the Flaming Lips. Spokane’s own hip-hop artist Jango is also in the mix. upstreammusicfest.com
PARADISO
June 15-16 The Gorge’s second summertime festival after Sasquatch! is a must for fans of EDM and electronica. Deadmau5, the producer best known for always wearing that grinning mouse mascot head, is this year’s biggest get. We have a feeling that certain substances are popular at Paradiso, so remember to stay hydrated, kids. Paradisofestival.com
WENATCHEE RIVER BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL
June 15-17 Cashmere, Wash., is a town of about 3,000 outside Wenatchee, and it’s the place to go for this weekend-long gathering of bluegrass, country and roots artists. Outside the main lineup, which includes Flatt Lonesome and Special Consensus, you can attend instrument workshops, slow jams and a Sunday morning gospel show. cashmerecoffeehouse.com
CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY
July 20-22 Seattle shuts down the Capitol Hill neighborhood every summer for this lively, mostly-outdoor fest, which leans pretty heavily toward indie rock and pop. Amongst this year’s performers: Father John Misty, Bully, Dude York and Ryan Caraveo, who’s also performing at Volume this weekend. capitolhillblockparty.com
SUMMER MELTDOWN
Aug. 2-5 If jam and roots bands are more your vibe, Summer Meltdown is where it’s at. Held in the small town of Darrington, Wash., it’s got Bassnectar, Greensky Bluegrass and Big Gigantic set to perform this year. And for anyone who happens to enjoy live music without the aid of substances, Meltdown even offers sober campgrounds. summermeltdownfest.com
PICKATHON
Aug. 3-5 Broken Social Scene, Shakey Graves and Built to Spill have been tapped to play 2018’s Pickathon, a small festival held in Happy Valley, Oregon, which is about 15 miles outside of Portland. It’s family friendly and environmentally conscious, dedicated to being plastic-free and solar powered. pickathon.com
WATERSHED
Aug. 3-5 For diehard country fans, it doesn’t get much better than Watershed, another Gorge-set festival that specializes solely in honkytonk. They get some of the genre’s biggest names all in one place; Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Big and Rich, Clint Black and Brantley Gilbert are all scheduled to perform this year. watershedfest.com
TRAVELERS REST FEST
Aug. 4-5 Portland’s most hyperliterate rockers, the Decemberists, have a festival of their own at Big Sky Brewing’s amphitheater in Missoula. Not only do the Decemberists perform, but they’ve also enlisted Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples, a member of the iconic R&B ensemble the Staples Singers. travelersrestfest.com
BUMBERSHOOT
Aug. 31-Sept. 2 The granddaddy of Washington music festivals, Seattle’s Bumbershoot has been rocking and rolling since 1971. 2018’s lineup mixes hip hitmakers — rapper J. Cole, pop duo the Chainsmokers, R&B queen SZA — alongside seasoned pros like Fleet Foxes, the Cold War Kids and rock legends Blondie. bumbershoot.com n
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arna Howard is a wayward soul, having grown up in Missouri, lived in Boston for a few years and now settling into the music scene of Portland. That sense of wanderlust defines his old school, folk-country tunes, which recall singer-songwriters of the 1970s with their spare, unadorned production. Howard’s 2015 album Quite a Feelin’ is a collection of evocative character sketches about folks in varying degrees of transition: an old timer doling out advice to a younger man, a woman in an abusive relationship, hardscrabble musicians on a tour that never seems to end. There’s even talk of an old song heard on a honky-tonk jukebox that inspires wistful memories of a long-ago romance, and that seems to be the exact tone Howard is aiming for. — NATHAN WEINBENDER TK and the Holy Know Nothings with Barna Howard and Sydney Nash • Wed, June 6 at 8 pm • $10-$12 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174
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Thursday, 05/31
ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Kari Marguerite Trio J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Kyle Swaffard CRUISERS, J.W. Scattergun DARCY’S, Dance & Karaoke w/DJ Dave THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series JOHN’S ALLEY, Naughty Pine J KNITTING FACTORY, Blacktop Mojo, Joyous Wolf, Locust Grove, Still We Rise J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Daniel Hall MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Ben Olson NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny PALOUSE BAR & GRILL, Mike McCafferty J THE PIN!, Onward, Etc. REPUBLIC BREWING, Claude Bourbon RICO’S, Solid Ghost RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke SLICE & BISCUIT, Bluegrass Jam STEAM PLANT BREWING CO., Wyatt Wood ZOLA, Blake Braley
Friday, 06/1
219 LOUNGE, Baja Boogie Boys BARRISTER WINERY, Nick Grow J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway BOLO’S, Mojo Box
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ust out your eyeliner, flat-iron your bangs and tighten up those studded Hot Topic belts, because it’s about to be 2005 all over again. Hawthorne Heights were one of the go-to bands for emo kids everywhere during the second Bush administration, and believe it or not, they’re still kickin’. In fact, they’ve been consistently releasing albums since scoring their biggest hits with “Ohio Is for Lovers” and “Saying Sorry” more than a decade ago, even dropping an LP called Bad Frequencies just a couple months ago. Has their sound changed at all in the intervening years? Well, let’s just say you wouldn’t know these dudes are in their 40s just by listening to them. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Hawthorne Heights with Listener, Hotel Books, Sienna Skies and Heavy Things • Thu, June 7 at 7 pm • $18 advance, $22 at the door • All ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8101
THE BULL HEAD, Robert Moss CARLIN BAY RESORT, KOSH CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Cris Lucas CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COUGAR CREST ESTATE WINERY, Austin Hagel & Cory Cogley CRUISERS, Catalyst, Twelve Gauge Saints, Nogunaso, Thunder Knife CURLEY’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave DOWNDRAFT BREWING, Wyatt Wood J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, The Messugah Daddies J J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE, Inlander’s Volume Music Fesitval (see page 46)
FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends J HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Back Porch Trio HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR, White Trash Romeo, Jesus Wears Armani, Rising Enemy, Chaotic Shadows IRON HORSE (CDA), The Zach Cooper Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Will West Groove LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Matt Mitchell LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Kären McCormick MARYHILL WINERY, Ron Kieper Jazz Duo MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice
MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, The Happiness J MULLIGAN’S, Just Plain Darin NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NECTAR, Jamison Sampson NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dragonfly NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick O’SHAYS IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots PALOUSE BAR & GRILL, Mike McCafferty PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brian Jacobs PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic
J THE PIN!, Antifreeze, Hippie Flipped, Vampyre & more RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Dangerous Type SLATE CREEK BREWING CO., Trout Pond Sammy and Spawn THIRSTY DOG, DJs WesOne & Big Mike ZOLA, Raggs and the Bush Doktor
Saturday, 06/2
219 LOUNGE, Harold’s IGA 3RD WHEEL, Jesus Wears Armani, Outliers, Death Illuminate BARLOWS, Jimi Finn J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Kevin BOLO’S, Mojo Box
CARLIN BAY RESORT, Kicho CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Cris Lucas J CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, Heart by Heart COEUR D’ALENE EAGLES, Theresa Edwards Band CRUISERS, Quarter Monkey, The Colourflies CURLEY’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve J J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE, Inlander’s Volume Music Fesitval HOGFISH, MUGLY, Skunktopus, Vanity Vanity HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR, Better Daze, The Federales HOPPED UP BREWING CO., Slightly Committed J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Karen Triplett HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway IRON HORSE (CDA), The Zach Cooper Band THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Paula Boggs Band J KNITTING FACTORY, Bhad Bhabie LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Ron Greene
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MARYHILL WINERY, Kevin Gardner & Scott Randall MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice MOOSE LOUNGE, The Happiness MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Kyle Swaffard NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dragonfly NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick OMEGA EVENT CENTER, Kompany, Beauflexx, CJAY, B2B Wheez Differential B2B Stitch Jones, Piram ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, The Sidemen J ONE TREE CIDER HOUSE, Just Plain Darin PALOUSE BAR & GRILL, Mike McCafferty POST FALLS BREWING CO., Son of Brad J REARDAN, Stagecoach West RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos WESTWOOD BREWING, Robby French ZOLA, Raggs and the Bush Doktor
Sunday, 06/3
ARBOR CREST, Cattywomp J BIG BARN BREWING CO., Maxie Ray Mills CARLIN BAY RESORT, KOSH CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Tommy G CRAVE, DJ Dave CURLEY’S, Into the Drift DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam
MARYHILL WINERY, Donnie Emerson NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), The Powers O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J THE PIN!, Twisted Insane ZOLA, Lazy Love
Monday, 06/4
J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown J SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Nick Grow ZOLA, Perfect Mess
Tuesday, 06/5
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Ethereal in E CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND DRINKERY, Joshua Belliardo GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tues. THE OBSERVATORY, High Priestess, Salem’s Bend, Dustfuzz J THE PIN!, Elektro Grave RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam Night RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Kicho THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kori Ailene ZOLA, B.O.A.T.S.
Wednesday, 06/6
219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills, John Forshee J J THE BARTLETT, TK and the Holy Know Nothings, Barna Howard (see page 48), Sydney Nash CHECKERBOARD BAR, Fear & Miss Trust, Quaggadog, DustFuzzz CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding HILLYARD LIBRARY, Just Plain Darin J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Fort Vine HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz & Whiskey IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Echo Elysium THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MILLWOOD BREWING, Nick Grow THE OBSERVATORY, Voice of Addiction, Scatterbox, Wasted Breath, Itchy Kitty POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic SLATE CREEK BREWING CO., KOSH THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Sam Leyde ZOLA, Whsk&Keys
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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRAVO CONCERT HOUSE • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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FESTIVAL ART IN THE PARK
Spend the weekend strolling Browne’s Addition for the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s 33rd annual ArtFest and browse the booths of more than 150 regional artists as you enjoy live music, snacks from food vendors, refreshing drinks from a beer and wine garden and more. Many locals consider ArtFest to be Memorial Day’s sister celebration of the unofficial start to another glorious summer. There’s something to be found by everyone, no matter your budget or tastes, from original prints, leather goods, garden art, fine art and jewelry to wearable fiber art, ceramics and much more. Check out the full artist and music lineup online before you go to get the full scope of what to expect, and what not to miss. — CHEY SCOTT ArtFest • June 1-3; Fri from noon-10 pm, Sat from 10 am-10 pm, Sun from 10 am-5 pm • Free • All ages • Coeur d’Alene Park • 2195 W. Second • artfestspokane.com
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BENEFIT LOVE BOAT
Break out your Hawaiian leis and come join OutSpokane for its 22nd Annual Pride Cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene. The two-hour boat ride around the lake includes two cash bars, feel-good music by DJ Divine Jewels and plenty of dancing. All proceeds help fund this year’s 27th annual Spokane Pride Parade and Rainbow Festival on June 9. Before the cruise ship Mish-an-Nock sets sail, the North Idaho Pride Alliance hosts its annual picnic at Coeur d’Alene Park. While the picnic from 10 am to 1 pm is family friendly, the Pride Cruise is for revelers age 21 or older. OutSpokane and local community partners continue celebrating Pride Month throughout June; find more happenings on its website and Facebook page. — ERIC SCHUCHT 22nd Annual Pride Cruise • Sat, June 2 from 1-4 pm • $20-$25 • 21+ • Coeur d’Alene Resort • 115 S. Second St., Coeur d’Alene • outspokane.org/pride-cruise
WORDS STORY OF SURVIVAL
Nissan Krakinowski and his brother were the sole survivors of the Holocaust’s horrors out of their large family of more than 100 members. Born in 1923 in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania, he was a teen at the start of World War II. Today, at the age of 91, Krakinowski talks about his experiences surviving imprisonment at several concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. After the war, the two brothers emigrated to the U.S., where Krakinowski married and started a successful hat business. He hopes that by telling his story of hope in the face of unimaginable hatred he can help prevent future ethnic genocides, which have plagued human history. Don’t miss the chance to hear in person from one of the Holocaust’s few remaining survivors. — ERIC SCHUCHT Holocaust Survivor Speech • Mon, June 4 at 7 pm • $18-$50; $180/VIP • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • bit.ly/2IJDxXl
COMEDY TOP FORM
Adam Ferrara can’t help but make a joke out of everything. From his wife to his family to all the things that piss him off in life, the Italian-American from Long Island with the fiery temper is funny as hell. If you aren’t fans of the American version of Top Gear, which Ferrara hosts, you might have seen him on one of his three Comedy Central specials. Although he’s been dubbed “hilarious” by Entertainment Weekly, we’re sure the self-described “insecure egomaniac” doesn’t let it all go to his head. Twice nominated for best male stand-up by the American Comedy Awards, the comedian/actor has performed several times on The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman and has co-starred in films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Definitely, Maybe. In the past, Ferrara has opened for his idol George Carlin and performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall and the Apollo Theater. Next up: Spokane. — ERIC SCHUCHT
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Adam Ferrara • Thu, May 31 and Fri, June 1 at 8 pm • $15-$22 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998
or what kind of car you drive. It doesn’t care about the size of your house, the color of your skin, or what you do for a living.
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SHOPPING ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
Seasoned treasure hunters have had Farm Chicks weekend on their calendar since last year. Thankfully, the annual show’s date never changes; it’s always the first weekend of June. Newbies to this insanely popular vintage and antiques fair, however, should take note and see what they’re missing. Each year, hundreds of vendors from across the region and beyond fill the fairgrounds expo halls with carefully curated booths displaying all sorts of magical finds: home decor, clothing, textiles, old salvaged goods like signs and farm tools, and anything else you can dream up. Founded in 2002 by Spokane resident Serena Thompson, Farm Chicks is a highlight for many locals, along with shoppers who travel to it from all corners of the nation and the globe. I’ll definitely see you all there, with my tote bag in tow! — CHEY SCOTT The Farm Chicks Antiques Show • Sat, June 2 from 9 am-6 pm and Sun, June 2 from 9 am-4 pm • $8/day; $10/weekend • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana • thefarmchicks.typepad.com
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I SAW YOU GOODWILL MAN I saw you Goodwill man May 1 as we were waiting for the 28 bus on corner of Wellesley and Nevada. You asked if I had ever been to the Goodwill warehouse? I had! You had not, so I told you about it. When you asked what I was doing I said going to lunch. The bus finally came and we got on but sat separately. I was right at the back door, and as you were exiting the bus, you asked if I wanted to go? Without thinking, I just said no! I don’t know why!!?? Later, as I was eating lunch by myself, I realized my error, and that I hadn’t even asked your name. Hoping you read this, and remember me. Perhaps we can have lunch sometime? hmlndpmz@gmail.com THE LIE THAT JUST KEPT GROWING You rang me up at REI on Friday the 25th. You asked what I was gearing up for. I told you I was going camping this weekend. That was not true. Do I plan to go camping, yes. Do I plan to go this weekend, no. Your good looks got me all flustered and I started saying half truths... and it just kept growing. So, I hope you can forgive a flustered girl for telling a white lie or two. I had the short red hair and the Winnie the Pooh tank top. My friend was the tall blonde who came in halfway through. I gave her the side eye so she would join in my tall tales. You had the short brown hair and the devilish good looks.
SFGW I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I love you so much. I still know we were meant to be. I love the way you look at me. I love the way you hug me. I love the way you love me. Coming up on a year soon baby and I love you more and more each and every day. I cherish every minute we are together. I Love you baby. SFGH NO WAY OF WINNING. We met on random occasions (in jail and the doctor’s office) and I couldn’t find the right words. I thought I could do the right thing, but I failed pathetically. It sickens me how I have hurt you two and many others. I pray time can heal our wounds and make me a man worthy of your friendship. Until we meet again, peace be with you. MEMORIAL DAY MEMORY I saw you, one year ago...walking into the Satellite bar. You were a vision in black and gray. Your curls framed your smile and perfect denim blue eyes and it was over for me. One look and I was flustered the whole evening. I loved your laugh and demeanor but most of all how you made everything seem fun, safe and easy. Maybe I will be lucky enough to buy a drink there again, sometime soon?
CHEERS TO THE GENEROUS PATRON AT BENE’S It was Friday morning, May 18. My daughter usually has speech therapy at this time every Friday, but her therapist cancelled. I had early morning conferences, and my oldest son, I could tell, needed a day off (long story). I had to go to work later, and knowing my son would be home alone for the first time ever, I was reluctant to go to work right away, so I asked my son to have breakfast with me. We decided to try Bene’s, we live in town and had never been. My son ordered and ate a full meal, as did I. This does not happen often, I am a single mother of three, so one-on-one time is rare. As he scarfed down the last bites he could and I asked the waitress for a box, she informed me that an “anonymous” patron sitting somewhere, had purchased our breakfast for us. To YOU, that customer who so GRACIOUSLY and SELFLESSLY purchased our meal, THANK
YOU! From the bottom of my heart, as shocking and surprising as this amazing gesture was, I will never forget the moment you made an amazing memory in not only mine, but my 9 year old son’s life. I WILL pay it forward!
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COFFEE FREEBIE Thank you so much to the young woman in the green truck at the Dutch Bros at Nevada and Francis on Sunday May 27 close to 11 am. It was so kind of you to surprise me with a free coffee! The line there can be crazy at times and I didn’t want to stiff you out of your spot. It was a delightful surprise when I was told you had bought mine for me. Cheers to your kindness!!! :) DARING RESCUE MANY THANKS to the fearless crew at the Airway Heights Fire Department for rescuing Tiff, my elderly Pomeranian, after she decided to explore the crawl space of my house and then got stuck there last Sunday morning. One of the crew crawled under the house without hesitation and pulled her out... what a relief!
JEERS HIT THAT BUTTON, MORE AND MORE... For several years, the Gonzaga-Hamilton corridor’s vehicle traffic has been consistently stalled by that stupid push-button system located at Desmet. Throughout the year, this crosswalk is consistently populated with residents and, mostly, college students needing to transverse one of the busiest streets in Washington state. In the winters, we have witnessed
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rooms on the campus. But the traffic in Spokane has increased so much that we all require more heavily-controlled intersections. My question is: why do we, as a society, allow privileged college kids to halt rush-hour traffic while, a halfmile to the north, the local elementary students have to risk their tiny, short lives attempting to make it across Hamilton just to get to school without being run over? The whole issue at Desmet and Hamilton stinks of corrupted bureaucratic/corporate/private school agreements to further invite enrollment and/or game attendance and parking. PLEASE turn this intersection into a normal, controlled area that is monitored with a threecolored light. Perhaps an elevated walkway could be a solution, with surface allowances for the disabled? I apologize for my Jeer but, really — and think about this — why should privileged private college kids have a far greater right to make it to school on time — safely — than do the youngsters of our local community? PETITIONERS Shame on you for trying to keep me from signing a petition over at the plaza. I am a registered voter and when I wanted to sign the petition you walked away. How dare you deny me my rights. If you want to have the right people sign your petition then stay off the plaza.
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thoughtless on your part. And then on top of that you expect us to tip you when you can’t wait to get rid of us so you can go to another tip. If you’re undermanned, hire some more people. If it is poor management than get new leadership. Bottom line, treat us like we’re people not burdens or get out of the business. PRIEST LAKE HANDICAP PARKING This family decided it was okay to take up the only two handicap spaces with their truck and boat trailer at the public launch so it would be easier to load up. Waiting patiently for you to move. Then the husband decides the wife didn’t pack good enough! SMH. Please go elsewhere you inconsiderate bunch! n
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SO THOUGHTLESS This is for those who work for the wheelchair service at the Spokane Airport. When we arrive at the airport needing wheelchair assistance and you leave us waiting and waiting and waiting to the point where we think we’re going to miss our plane, that is
This family decided it was okay to take up the only two handicap spaces with their truck and boat trailer at the public launch so it would be easier to load up.
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SPOKANE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATES’ UPSCALE SALE The 10th annual event benefiting the Spokane Symphony Associates, offering antiques and small decorative items, costume jewelry, quality furniture, carpets, fine china, designer clothes, crystal, fine art and more. Preview sale May 31 from 5-7 pm ($5); Sale on June 1-2 from 8 am-5 pm and June 3 from 10 am-5 pm. At 2512 E. 29th (former Hastings). (458-8733) SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION FUN RUN A raffle and silent auction is held in conjunction with the non-timed 5K walk and run. Proceeds go toward finding a cure for scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes tightening and thickening of the skin as well as serious damage to internal organs. June 2, 10 am. $20-$25. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. scleroderma.org/steppingoutspokane GUATEMALAN COMMISSION CELEBRATION The annual event hosted by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane’s Guatemalan Commission includes an update on the work supported by the commission. Includes complimentary appetizers, beverages and a no-host bar. June 4, 5:30 pm. Free. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. (465-3591) WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION GOLF BENEFIT The Spokane hospitality community is teeing off to raise funds for Feed Spokane, high school ProStart students and the Inland Northwest Culinary Academy. Features a shotgun start with awards and a dinner catered by Borracho Tacos & Taquileria. June 5, 11 am-8 pm. $125/person; $500/4-person team. Wandermere Golf Course, 13700 N. Wandermere Rd. spokanehospitality.org HELLO DOLLY BENEFITING SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS Spokane Valley Partners hosts its second annual Civic Theatre Fundraiser. Social Hour starts at 6:30 pm, with refreshments and raffle prizes. June 6, 6:30-10 pm. $35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. give.classy.org/hellodolly (927-1153)
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LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests. Events on the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com YOU NEED A HERO Each week audi-
ence suggestions inspire a new superhero who (hopefully) saves the day. Fridays at 8 pm, through June 1. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) AFTER DARK: A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) FIRE BRIGADE IMPROV! A performance by Ignite’s in-house, familyfriendly improv troupe. Shows on the first Saturday of the month, at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR SUMMER COMEDY SERIES Featuring Michael Glatzmaier, Devin Devine, and Joseph Roberts. Hosted by Deece Casillas. June 5, 8-9:30 pm. $5. Tab’z on Broadway, 5908 E. Broadway. bit.ly/2uTbQof THE PUNDERGROUND: JUNE Spokane’s only community punning competition returns from a month-long break. Folks can sign up starting at 7 pm, and will be paired up randomly at registration. June 7, 7-10 pm. Free. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2K9uAUj (509-703-7223)
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FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Elbow swings and arches are part of the easy circle, line, contra, folk and novelty dances taught by Susan Dankovich. No experience or partner necessary. Potluck begins 6:30 pm; dances from 7-8 pm. June 1, 6:30-8 pm. Free-will donation. Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave. (533-9955) FRIENDS OF THE DEER PARK LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds support library programs, activities, and services. For additional sale dates and locations, visit scldfriends.org. June 1, 9 am-4 pm, June 2, 9 am-4 pm and June 3, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Deer Park Auto Freight, 2405 E. Crawford. scldfriends.org MIG-TASTIC EVENING The museum’s newest exhibit is a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ‘Fresco’ Airplane. Come for a reception and fundraiser celebrating the arrival of this new addition. Includes a brief history of the MiG and how the museum acquired it, and Honor Point
Member Don Tuttle’s recount of his experience flying against MiG’s. Appetizers and drinks will be served. June 1, 5:30-7 pm. $10-$20. Honor Point Military & Aerospace Museum, 6095 E. Rutter Ave. HonorPoint.org (244-0244) VIRTUAL REALITY FIRST FRIDAYS Experiment with games and creative tools in a virtual 3D space. Stop by any time between 5-6:45 pm on First Friday to explore worlds or create your own virtual art. Made possible by CenturyLink. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org/drop-in/ DOWNTOWN WALKING GHOST TOUR Enjoy a spooky, 2-hour stroll through downtown Spokane with storyteller and Spokane historian Chet Caskey. Tour includes haunted hotels, the Steam Plant, and paranormal implications of the Great Fire of Spokane. Tour begins/ends outside the Montvale Hotel. June 2, 7:30-9:30 pm. $15. Montvale Hotel, 1005 W. First. spokaneparks.org EXPLORE COHOUSING Members of Spokane’s first cohousing community talk about cohousing and answer questions about what it’s like to live in community. Childcare available. June 2, 10 am-noon. Free. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanecohousing.com FIRE 9 ANNUAL DEMO DAY & WELLNESS FAIR See live fire demos, rescue techniques, learn CPR, participate in kids’ activities and more. Check out fire trucks, Life Flight helicopter, AMR ambulance, bulldozer and other equipment. More than 50 local organizations and businesses participate with free samples and information. June 2, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Fire Station No. 92, 3801 E. Farwell Rd. (466-4602) KANIKSU RANCH OPEN HOUSE The family nudist ranch offers hiking in the mountain air, hot tubs and the change to meet like-minded naturalists. Events include a wine and cheese tasting, progressive dinner and more. June 2, 9 am-5 pm. Free. Kaniksu Ranch, 4295 N. Deer Lake Rd. (233-8202) LEARN TO PLAY MAGIC: THE GATHERING Magic is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and continues to be one of the most popular collectible trading card games in the world. Local Magic players help teach you the rules of the game, and all players will take home a free deck and some extra cards to add to it. Ages 12+. June 2, 10 amnoon. Free, registration required. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org
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Where the Heart Is Thursday, June 28, 2018 8am-4pm CenterPlace Regional Event Center Spokane Valley, WA
Keynote Speaker: Wendy Lustbader, MSW Wendy Lustbader is the author of several books and essays that have earned her a national reputation in the field of aging. Currently, she teaches advanced practice classes in the Master’s in Social Work curriculum at the University of Washington.
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$ 10 unpaid caregivers 45 agency-based community caregivers
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GrowOp Farms’ growing facility is a bit like a hospital. A really chill hospital.
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Growing Like a Weed The top weed producer in the state is in Spokane Valley. They gave us a tour BY MITCH RYALS
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he inside of the top marijuana producer in Washington state feels a little like a hospital. But like, a chill hospital. Bearded dudes shuffle around the cavernous facility in scrubs and beard nets. Some are trimming the smokable flower while ladies with tattooed arms paint pre-rolled joints with a thick greenish brown liquid, pure THC, and then sprinkle kief on top — basically supercharged joints called firecrackers. Some walls are painted with graffiti, others are decorated with trippy tapestries: a chimp smoking a joint and a tie-dye peace sign, for example. Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars play in the background and a dank aroma hovers over all of it. The massive 85,000-square-foot facility in Spokane Valley houses all of GrowOp Farms’ production, which sells its flower weed under the brand Phat Panda. Teams of employees are experimenting with different extraction
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methods while others are testing breeding and genetics different strains. “We look for really outstanding plants, something fruity or gassy,” says Mohave Morelli, head of agriculture. “We want it to be unique. There’s a lot of good weed out there, but you don’t find a lot of great weed.” There are about 75 to 80 different genetic variations growing at any one time, Morelli says. But including experiments with cross breeding, add another 200. Standing outside one of the flowering rooms, where plants grow in 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, Mohave says the operation doesn’t depend very heavily on cutting edge technology or innovative techniques (though there are some proprietary processes in the extraction lab and candy shop that he can’t get into). It’s more about the process. “I mean we use top-of-the-line lighting, but we’re really not doing anything differently than a lot of growers,”
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he says. “There’s no secret. Less is more. We used to feed a lot and push the plants a lot harder from a dietary standpoint. Now we feed a lot less.” If there is one high-tech piece of the process, though, it’s the environmental controls. The whole system for regulating heating, cooling, air flow, humidity and watering was customized for Phat Panda. “I can be on the beach in Hawaii and go in and look in all my rooms, tell my rooms when I want to water, I can shut off lights, change the temperature and shut an entire room down,” Morelli says. “Our digital controls of the rooms are pretty amazing.” It takes about five months, from the time a plant has begun to take root until it’s ready to go to market. That translates to about a ton of usable flower per month, Morelli says. “Phat Panda in one week sells more cannabis than the entire state of Alaska,” he adds. “Typically we have available 350 to 450 pounds of usable flower in a week.” Each week, Phat Panda pumps out 100,000 joints, says Katrina McKinley, who co-owns the operation with her husband Robert. Last month, she says, the company sold about $3 million in product. “Everything that’s being brought in is reinvested into the company so far,” she says. “At this point, $3 million sounds like a lot, but it’s not profit. It’s all being put right back into the company for our expansion and growth.” n A version of this article first appeared in GZQ, the Inlander’s cannabis-focused quarterly magazine.
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EVENTS | CALENDAR SPOKANE WOMEN’S HEALTH & BEAUTY EXPO The 5th event for women of all ages features a variety of product and service vendors in the fashion, beauty, lifestyle and health industries. June 2, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. womenshealthandbeautyexpo.com STACHE DASH A 5K family fun run/ walk to support Elevations, a local nonprofit that awards grants to children ages 0-18 with special needs who require help covering the costs of therapy and or/therapy equipment. June 2, 9-10:30 am. $25. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. elevations.tofinoauctions. com/stachedash (385-2116) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back in time and experience the gardens as they looked in 1915. Learn about the discovery of the gardens, the carefully planned restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who made this their backyard. June 3, 11 am-noon. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org (509-590-6908) SHARING THE DHARMA DAY Sravasti Abbey opens its doors to people of all faiths and backgrounds who would like to know more about Buddhist teachings. June 3, 9:45 am-3 pm. By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org (447-5549) HOMEBUYING 101 Discover factors to consider when you’re deciding whether to buy a home or continue to rent, what it means to be a homeowner, how to find the right home, and what happens after your offer is accepted, before closing. June 5, 6-7 pm. Free. Airway Heights Library, 1213 S. Lundstrom St. scld.org (893-8250) JAUNT IN JUNE A walk and gathering to promote awareness of recovery and to remove the stigma for people living with behavioral health disorders. Sponsored by the Consumer Consultation Panel of Spokane County Regional Behavioral Health Organization. June 5, noon-3 pm. At 107 S. Division. Free. mgarcia@fbhwa.org or rsegner@yahoo.com SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance. The band Dog Paw is playing with caller Emily Faulkner. No experience necessary, beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. June 6, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org (598-9111) FIRST THURSDAY CELEBRATION Voter registration, summer reading program sign-ups and a Friends’ of the Library book sale are all part of the festivities in front of the Colfax Library. These activities join with the bands, food, vendors and fun planned for Colfax’s 1st Thursday celebration. June 7, 3-6 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us PFLAG COMMUNITY DINNER Enjoy a family-style spaghetti dinner with local seniors, and learn about PFLAG’s history of family and stories. June 7, 5:30-7:30 pm. $5-$10 suggested donation. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. facebook.com/SpokanePFLAG/ (593-0191)
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SPOKANE FESTIVAL OF SPEED Events include a wine reception (Thu), the “Test and Tune” event (Fri) at the Spokane County Raceway and a race
car tour through downtown Spokane, followed by races (Sat-Sun). Events May 31-June 3; times and locations vary. See schedule online. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. spokanefestivalofspeed.org ARTFEST Enjoy 150 juried art vendors showing and selling paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry and more. Also includes live music and comedy, food trucks, beer garden, and the “Make it Art Kids Fair.” June 1, 12-10 pm, June 2, 10 am-10 pm and June 3, 10 am-5 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Park, 300 S. Chestnut. artfestspokane.com ROSALIA BATTLE DAYS The 49th annual festival, in commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the Steptoe Battle in 1858, includes the Battle Days talent show at 7 pm Friday. Saturday’s events include the Boy Scout breakfast, a fun run and grand parade (10:30 am) followed by a car show, soap box derby, barbecue lunch, beer garden and more. June 1-2. rosaliachamberofcommerce.com/battle-days LILAC CITY COMICON The 12th annual event is the largest comic book and pop culture event in the Inland Northwest, featuring 200+ exhibitors/ vendors of comics, toys, collectibles, art, gaming, books, crafts and more. June 2, 10 am-6 pm and June 3, 10 am-4 pm. $5-$15. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. lilaccitycomicon.com (262-8923) THE FARM CHICKS SHOW A vintage, antiques and handmade market billed as “the happiest show on earth,” and featuring 100s of spaces filled with curated goods. June 2, 9 am-6 pm and June 3, 9 am-4 pm. $8-$10. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. (477-1766)
FILM
THE DEATH OF STALIN The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci. May 31June 3; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org THE SLAM AT THE MAC The museum hosts daily screenings of top films from this year’s 50 Hour Slam local filmmaking competition. May 22-June 3; daily at 10 am. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. bit.ly/2GFwSaH (509-456-3931) 90’S NOSTALGIA FILM SERIES: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS A gentle man with scissors for hands is brought into a new community after living in isolation. June 5, 7 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org CHASING CORAL To celebrate World Oceans Day, 350 Spokane hosts a special screening of “Chasing Coral,” a wake-up call to protect our coral reef ecosystems and accelerate our transition to clean energy. June 7, 7-9 pm. Free. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. 350spokane.org
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WINE: SUMMER BUBBLES Try a flight of five delicious sparkling wines. June 1, 4-7 pm. $15. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison. petuniasmarket.com COMICRAWL 2018 The annual pub crawl the weekend of Lilac City Comicon includes stops at eight downtown bars, with costume contests. Check in at the Globe. June 2, 5 pm. $13.50. bit. ly/2IXAVVC
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Advice Goddess THE ARF OF READING PEOPLE
I’m a woman who judges potential boyfriends by whether dogs like them. My friends think I’m crazy, but I’m convinced that my dog picks up on who a person really is. Is there any research on whom animals are drawn to? —Muttperson Dogs have proved useful for sniffing out drug stashes, dead bodies, and IEDs. How great would it be if you could dispatch your German shepherd Tinker Bell into a bar or party to sniff out the human minefields? “Naw… AMY ALKON skip this dude. Serious intimacy issues.” People will swear that their dog is a great judge of character — focusing on the, oh, two times he growled at someone they despise but conveniently forgetting all the times he snuggled up to their sociopathic ex. The reality is, research does not support dogs (or even chimps) having what they’d need to assess a person’s character — a sophisticated cognitive ability humans have called “theory of mind.” Theory of mind describes being able to guess the mental states of others — to infer what they’re thinking or intending. For example, when you see a man across the street get down on one knee in front of a woman, theory of mind leads you to figure he’s about to ask her something -- and it probably isn’t, “Could I borrow a pen?” That said, the ballsy little purse Cujo that growls at some Mr. Skeevy probably isn’t doing it out of the blue. Dogs do seem able to read even subtle aspects of human body language — like our tensing up upon approaching somebody we dread talking to — and they may respond in kind. However, dogs’ perception of people and the world is dominated by their exceptionally powerful sense of smell — estimated to be between 10,000 and 100,000 times more powerful than ours, according to anthrozoologist and “Dog Sense” author John W.S. Bradshaw. In other words, though dogs can’t read a person’s mind, they may be able to smell what’s on it — or rather, the chemical messengers released by what’s on it. For example, doggy cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz explains in “Inside of a Dog“ that adrenaline (triggered when a person’s afraid or angry) “is unscented to us, but not to the sensitive sniffer of the dog.” Additionally, Bradshaw points out that the types of people dogs are socialized with — women, men, men with beards, people wearing different kinds of clothes — make a difference in whom dogs snuggle up to and whom they snarl at. So, no, your dog is not a leg-humping background-checker. But she can help you see something important about men — if you look at how a potential boyfriend treats her: with patience or annoyance. And as I often advise, it’s also important to put some time (and a lot of observation) between thinking a guy is really awesome and seeing whether he actually is. It’s tempting to believe you’ve found everlasting love, just as it’s tempting to believe that your dog is some sort of crystal ball for reading character -- and not responding to how some guy just kneaded all the stuff together for homemade liverwurst and then wiped his hands on his pants.
NIGHTLIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
My boyfriend thinks there’s something wrong with me because of how much I sleep. I’ve always needed to sleep a lot (like, nine hours). I’ve been tested for everything, and I’m fine. Do some people just need more sleep? How do I get him off my back? —Duvet-Covered Okay, so you’re the love child of Rip Van Winkle and a log. Studies on identical twins suggest that our “sleep duration” (how long we tend to sleep) is between 31 and 55 percent “heritable” — which is to say factoryinstalled, driven by our genes. Beyond your boyfriend not being tuned in to the genetics, there’s a little-known feature of our immune system — basically the psychological version of that plexiglass partition in liquor stores in bad neighborhoods — that may be causing him to worry about your sleepathons. In addition to warrior cells being sent out by our immune system to attack bodily invaders, such as viruses, psychologist Mark Schaller’s research suggests we have a psychological warning system — the “behavioral immune system” — to help us avoid being exposed to disease in the first place. This warning system gets triggered by, among other things, atypical behavior — for example, sleeping far more than most people. To get your boyfriend off your case, you might tell him that being adequately rested is actually associated with lower risk of heart disease, obesity, and psychiatric problems. In fact, it’s even associated with less risk of early mortality — despite the things your boyfriend probably yells in bed: “Hey! Hey! You still alive? Should I call 911?” n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. IFirst Saturday, at 3 pm. Ages 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second St. beverlyscda.com INL FOOD TRUCK RALLY Join The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. at its 2018 rally supporting jobs, independence and empowerment for people who are blind while enjoying food from five different food trucks, a beer and wine garden, prizes, tours and more. June 7, 4-8 pm. Inland Northwest Lighthouse, 6405 N. Addison. (487-0405) KNIFE SKILLS CLASS In this handson class, hone basic knife skills and practice the fundamental cuts. June 7, 5:30-7 pm. $49. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com COOKING FOR CAMPING Learn a variety of cooking techniques using onepan parchment paper and foil to produce outstanding meals for breakfast, lunch or dinner out in the wilderness. June 8, 6-8 pm. $25. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2IXBnzr IRON GOAT 6TH ANNIVERSARY Iron Goat turns 6 with an all-day event, including live music on the patio, beer and barbecue specials, and a sixth anniversary takeaway glass with the $5 cover charge (proceeds benefit Second Harvest. June 8, 12-11 pm. $5. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. tinyurl. com/we-re6 (474-0722)
MUSIC
CELTIC WOMAN This musical ensemble celebrates Ireland’s rich musical and cultural heritage with a repertoire of Irish classics, contemporary songs and stirring originals. May 30 and 31 at 7:30 pm. $45-$75. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com SCHEHERAJAZZ EWU’s Music Department presents an innovative concert collaboration between its Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band as they perform the U.S. premiere of a lost work known as Scheherajazz, composed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. May 31, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.org CLAUDE BOURBON DINNER CONCERT The recognized guitarist is known for his ability to combine a wide variation of musical traditions from around the globe. June 2, 7:30-9:30 pm. $18/$20. Di Luna’s Cafe, 207 Cedar St. dilunas.com (208-263-0846) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT: SPOKANE STRING QUARTET Enjoy the rich diversity of classical music at the series’ next installment, “A World of Inspiration: String Quartets Inspired By Cultures and Traditions Around the World.” June 2, 1-2 pm. Free. Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside Ave. kpbx.org SPOKANE STRING QUARTET The Spokane String Quartet closes its season with works by Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. June 3, 3 pm. $12-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) MUSIC INNOVATES CONCERT The partnership between the Spokane Symphony and the Spokane Public Schools gives 100+ underserved students hands-on classical music instruction over the course of the school year. This concert is the culmination of this year’s program. June 4, 7:30 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com
TAMBURITZANS’ PASSAGES: THE JOURNEY OF OUR ANCESTORS A two-hour show celebrating international people and their cultures through vibrant song, dance, music, and costumes. June 4, 7:30-10 pm. $28-$31. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com
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CAGED COMBAT CHAMPIONSHIPS Current welterweight champion Alexander Prevost makes his first title defense, while Cergio Chavez makes his return to the cage to fight Mitch Wright for the inaugural Caged Combat Championships Bantamweight title. June 1, 7 pm. $20-$40. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. bit.ly/2s8sRa9 BEGINNING BIRD WATCHING Learn the basics of bird watching and then take a walk at Turnbull to see and identify regional species. June 2, 8:45-11 am. Free, register online. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/activities.html (235-4723) BIRDWATCHING WALK Celebrate National Trails Day with a stroll on the Columbia Plateau Trail while developing your birdwatching skills. Discover Pass waived for parking. Free, registration required. June 2, 10-11:30 am. scld.org FREE STATE PARK DAYS All Washington State Parks are open for use without needing to show a Discover Pass; includes access locally to Riverside, Mt. Spokane and Palouse Falls state parks. June 2, June 9, June 10, Aug. 25, Sept. 22 and Nov. 11. parks.state.wa.us HIKES IN THE SPOKANE AREA A member from the Washington Trails Association shares details and photos of fun, beautiful, local trails and appropriate gear, along with tips for hiking with children and more. June 5, 6:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5331)
THEATER
BIG FISH: THE MUSICAL See the musical billed as “a story that’s richer, funnier and bigger than life itself.” May 31-June 2 at 7:30 pm, June 2-3 at 2 pm. $5-$10. Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls. edu/resources/SpartanTheatre.aspx HELLO, DOLLY! The beloved tale of Dolly Gallagher-Levi, the brassy and charismatic matchmaker who turns heads and hearts in turn-of-the-century New York. Through June. 10; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15-$32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) CYT SPOKANE: THE LITTLE MERMAID Based Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved story and the classic animated Disney film. June 1-2 at 7 pm, June 2-3 at 3 pm. $12-$16. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) GOD’S COUNTRY This highly theatrical docudrama, based on real events in the Northwest, explores the growing white supremacist movement in America. Through June 10; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org 30TH PLAYWRIGHTS’ FESTIVAL FORUM The annual event showcases new, one-act plays by playwrights from across the region. June 7-17; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. Spokane
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ARTS
SMASH A showcase of work by six Visual Communication Design BFA students at EWU; this year’s exhibit is all about “smashing” the norm. May 21-June 14; Mon-Fri from noon-5 pm. Mon.-12-5 pm through June 14. Free. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second. ewu.edu/ downtowngallery (359-6802) SONDER Join SFCC AFA/CFA Graduates for their senior art exhibition. Through June 8; Mon-Fri from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (509-533-3500) THURSDAY NIGHT ART FEATURE Each week, artists set up in front of the shop for demos and to display their wares. Thursdays, from 3:30-6:30 pm, through Sept. 6. Free. Tsuga Arts Northwest, 1114 S. Perry. (768-1268) INLAND NORTHWEST JURIED LANDSCAPE ART EXHIBITION The exhibition focuses on Inland Northwest landscape-based objects created by artists from the region. Through Aug. 11; Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet. gonzaga. edu/jundt (313-6843) FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. June 2, from 5-8 pm. Details at firstfridayspokane.org. ABOVE THE FOLD: NEW EXPRESSIONS IN ORIGAMI Nine international artists push the boundaries of paper to create bold, large-scale origami works. June 2-July 15; Tue-Sat from 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931)
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