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f one thing comes to mind when you think of drag, forget it. Drag is not one thing. It’s art and theater, therapy and empowerment, comfort and controversy. “Everything is drag if you think about it,” one local queen tells our writer Nathan Weinbender. “You’re constantly putting on a face for the world.”

Drag — what it means, how it’s evolved and why it still ruffles feathers — is the center of this week’s cover section, just in time for local PRIDE celebrations and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Our coverage begins on page 22.

Also this week, we have breaking news on an unusual policy by Spokane mayoral candidate Nadine Woodward: She says she won’t talk with the Inlander. We have more details on this and explain how we will continue to cover the coming election on page 20.

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But when Spokane Public School students return to their classrooms in the fall, someone will be missing. Last April, facing a $31 million budget deficit, Spokane Public School administrators decided to eliminate all librarian positions from the district.

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— a catastrophic life change for people who invested their time, money and energy into guiding students through an ever-changing informational landscape.

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tion of balancing a budget with a significant deficit; however, the impact school librarians have on our students, especially during a time where information literacy is at a premium, is immense.

Getting rid of librarians in the schools sends a simple message to parents, students, educators and the community: A librarian’s job is nonessential and someone else can pick up the slack. A school without a librarian is going to impact our students in ways that we can’t possibly yet predict. We know now, though, the ways in which librarians positively affect our students in the present day.

A school without a librarian is going to impact our students in ways that we can’t possibly yet predict.

According to “Why School Librarians Matter: What Years of Research Tell Us,” published in the March 2018 edition of Phi Delta Kappan: The Professional Journal for Educators, data from more than 34 statewide studies shows that students who have a strong library program tend to earn better standardized test scores. If test metrics are not that impressive to you, consider that schools with supported librarians also see a correlation in higher graduation rates. Also, for our most vulnerable school populations, students who have been historically and institutionally underserved — students of color, low-income students and those with disabilities — the benefits associated with good library programs are even stronger.

Researchers also discovered that many school leaders seldom understand the true function of a librarian, advancing the stereotypical belief that librarians are simply the “keeper of books,” rather than an integral component of the school ecosystem.

Librarians are trained in education technology, and by virtue of being in contact with all the students and teachers in a school, have a “big picture view” on the building and how curriculum, technology and programming impact the entire school population.

Librarians are essential keepers of institutional knowledge and perspective, and last spring they were informed that those skills were not essential.

System collapse doesn’t happen all at once. Consider the scientific reports warning of mass species extinction, bleaching coral reefs and unstable weather patterns as the planet warms. We can read these reports in our newspapers and still walk out of our homes to a blue sky and drive to work removed from the reality that these reports deliver. But for how long can we feel buffered?

The system never fails all in one go. It dies by tiny steps of attrition. School may be in session next year, but the system will be weaker because of its missing librarians. n Aileen Keown Vaux is an essayist and poet whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published by Scablands Books in 2018.

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Q&A HANK SEIPP Western Wildlife Council director Hank Seipp wants to put Washington wolves on candid camera

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or years, northeast Washington has been tussling over the local gray wolf packs, with environmentalists celebrating their resurgence and ranchers furious about instances where wolves attacked their cattle. The debate isn’t just over biology facts and economic impact figures — it’s over the public image of the wolf itself.

So Spokane resident Hank Seipp, director of the wolf-friendly Western Wildlife Council, is launching a program called Into the Woods in an attempt to showcase the fight from another angle. He and a team of volunteers are putting out dozens of wildlife cameras into local forests in an attempt to capture footage of wolves and, occasionally, cattle.

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INLANDER: How many cameras and volunteers are we talking about?

SEIPP: We have over 40 high-definition cameras. We have great range from 80 to 100 feet at night, so we can get good night videos and pictures.

Currently, there’s six people [placing cameras.]

But they’re all volunteers. I don’t know their names.

Nor do I want them identified and possibly losing their positions and their jobs. These gentlemen who are placing the cameras are also going to be responsible for checking them at least once every 30 days What’s the plan for the footage?

Well, we’re hoping to put together a 60-minute feature film that discusses wolves. We have some guest commentators who will be speaking during this feature presentation to be able to be passed around to K-12 [schools] and beyond and probably to a lot of the community colleges. And they’re going to be able to get the basics on wildlife biology, with what’s going on with different imperiled and endangered species, such as lynx, wolverines, wolves, grizzly bears, etc. And we are looking for signs of those critters up there. We’ll put cameras up and see what we can find.

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One of the things that I believe that is missing is showing [people] the real animals. You know, that live around our area and telling them the truth: Not to be afraid but to learn more about them and understand them.

If your cameras catch a wolf attacking cattle, will you share it with the public?

It will go to [the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife]. There’s no ifs, ands or buts.

They will make the determination of how to proceed from there.

If a wolf is caught in the act killing a cow on video, the information has to be passed along to the proper authorities. My job is not to make enemies of anybody but to show what’s going on. If you see that kind of footage, am I going to keep it away from the public? No! What do you tell a rancher who’s lost a calf to a wolf?

I sympathize with them. It’s never easy losing an animal. I grew up on a farm. Losing one of your critters is not something that we enjoy. And if it’s on private land — that even makes it more difficult.

Here’s the issue: Not enough education is put out to avoid the predation from happening in the first place, “I see you have a carcass laying down there at the end of your field that hasn’t been disposed of properly?” Let’s start by removing those carcasses.

Wildlife, whether it’s cougars, bears, wolves or other critters — they’re opportunistic. If you put fresh meat in front of them — and they’re drawn in by the smell of meat — you risk predation. Get rid of the carcass pits. Put up some nonlethal deterrents.

The reality is, wolves are back on the landscape.

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Pride Fireworks Saturday, June 8 LGBTQAQI+ Pride 28: To Thrive, Not Just Survive Grab a seat in Lilac Meadow to watch the fireworks Official Pride Brunch display to commemorate Spokane’s 28 fabulous Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, years of Pride! fresh fruit, salads, sandwiches and pastries are on the Time: 10:00pm menu with fresh coffee and juices to wash it all down.

Cost: Free Time: 9:00am - Noon Lilac Meadows, Riverfront Park, 507 N Howard St, Cost: adults - $12; 12 and under - $8; 6 and under Free Where: Nyne Bar & Bistro, 232 W. Sprague Ave, Spokane Spokane SPOKANE PRIDE 2019 – Celebrating 28 Years of Pride!

28th Annual LGBTQAI+ Pride Parade – To Thrive, Not Just Survive Grab your spot along the parade route to see colorful parade contingents and floats! Staging areas will not be available until 11:00am the day of the parade, after the barricades have been placed. Please do NOT arrive before 11:00am, or you may be ticketed for blocking traffic. If you are in the parade please get to the staging area before 11:15am to help avoid any confusion.

Parade Route – Streets of downtown Spokane (find a map on OutSpokane.org) Time: 11:00am, staging begins; Noon, parade step off Cost: FREE for all ages; everyone is welcome Where: Staging – Intersection of North Stevens and West Spokane Falls Boulevard

E N A K O SP PRIDE 2019 Celebrating Celebrating 28 28 Years Years of of Spokane Spokane Pride Pride and and the the 50th 50th Anniversary Anniversary of of the the Stonewall Stonewall Riots Riots Noon to 10:15pm Riverfront Park • Lilac & Clock Tower Meadows Sign language interpretation provided.

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28th Annual LGBTQAI+ Rainbow Festival – To Thrive, Not Just Survive The Rainbow Festival will once again be at Riverfront Park, Lilac and Clock Tower Meadows (despite the construction). Join along with 20,000+ of our closest friends in celebrating Spokane’s 28th Pride Celebration.

We will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which has become a national movement and which eventually led to marches and parades around the country like ours. Expect lots of fun, face painting entertainment, surprises, a resource and business fair, the Kid’s Zone (including the Wild Walls climbing wall and the Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary, WSU Raptors, bouncies), Teen Zone hosted by Odyssey Youth Movement, and the Nyne/Tito’s Handmade Vodka Pride Bar featuring beer, mead, wine, & spirits await you, as well as loads of tasty food truck munchies, entertainment and music at the Clock Tower! Bring your entire family for a day of fun. Matt Danielson, Abbey Crawford and Steven Herevia are our emcees.

Time: Noon - 6:00pm Cost: FREE for all ages; Everyone is welcome Where: Lilac and Clock Tower Meadows, Riverfront Park, 507 N Howard St, Spokane Official After-Pride Dance Party DJ Divine Jewels will be spinning the tunes... In the Park... After Dark!

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Thrive Dance Party The Blind Buck with help from its big brother The Globe Bar and Kitchen bring you THRIVE! Spokane’s largest pride dance party! Continuing with the theme of Spokane’s Pride To Thrive, Not Just Survive we are proudly giving this party back to the community that has treated us so well. This event is completely FREE of charge #NOBUCKINGCOVER and fully staffed with Spokane’s hottest bartenders and security taking care of all of your Pride needs: 7 bar wells, Jevo the automated Jell-O shot machine, Go-go dancers, gender illusionists, three separate dance floors and a line up of Spokane and our neighboring cities’ best DJs and producers. Want more??

The Runway, Spokane’s premier drag experience will have a 10:00pm gay Pride addition of The Runway featuring top local talent and some special guest performances!

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Time: 11:00am Cost: $10; Just brunch $15; Just mimosas $20; All inclusive $30 Where: Globe Bar & Kitchen, 204 N Division St, Spokane

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impeachment of President Trump (“Do Not Impeach,” 5/23/19). The one thing Trump fears is humiliation and anything that may destroy his “brand” will hurt him. This country needs to see, at the least, an attempt to let him know Congress is an equal branch of government. Even if the attempt will fail in the Senate, it would air all his dirty laundry before the voters. If we let him get away with his coup, what is to stop future presidents from the same path?

All the ideas you checked off with red check marks have already been tried and failed. Just to name a few examples 1. Call attention to how he is ruining the U.S. reputation with our allies (done and failed). 2. Call attention to his racism and bigotry (done and failed). 3. Remind the country of how well Republicans conducted themselves during Watergate (done and failed).

The Democrats and the mainstream media have pounded away at all your points for two and a half years and he is still in our White House.

LETTERS The master of the con is pulling Send comments to a fast one on the electorate and editor@inlander.com. the media. No, he does not want to be impeached because it will be in the history books as long as our democracy does last, and if he gets away with all the crimes against our Constitution he has already committed, our democracy is over.

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Reactions to the article, “One-Way Tickets Go Both Ways” (5/30/19) about other cities allegedly sending their homeless to Spokane:

BLAISE BARSHAW: Since recently moving to Spokane, I’ve heard this from a lot of long-time residents: “I never go downtown.” When I ask why, it’s always some response like, “There are weird or scary people there!” Whenever I ask what has ever happened to them there, they usually have some 20-year-old story about some vague thing that happened to them “or a friend.” It’s weird.

JUSTINE MCKENZIE: I don’t understand the whole “I can’t take my kids downtown” thing. I take my kids downtown all the time. Guess what happens every single time?

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Unchecked How a Spokane special ed teacher had accusations of abuse at two different schools before “tragically” placing a Shadle student in isolation

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hen police and firefighters entered the “isolation room” at Shadle Park High School in November 2018, they saw scratches and dents on the inside of the door — evidence someone had desperately been trying to get out.

Katie Pope, a severely autistic 15-year-old, was in the isolation room for more than an hour, according to school records provided to the Inlander by her father, Richard Pope. Inside the dark room, Katie repeatedly banged her head against the door window. When paramedics arrived, they rushed her to the hospital and checked for a concussion.

Her teacher, Michael Henry, wrote in a report of the incident that “Katie broke an iPad with her face and slammed into the quiet room door repeatedly.”

This wasn’t the first time Henry, a special education teacher in Shadle’s ABLE (Autism Behavior Learning Environment) classroom, would put Katie in the isolation room, where she showed a pattern of harming herself. ...continued on next page

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And it wouldn’t be the last. Between May and December 2018, Katie went into isolation more than a dozen times.

In several instances, police were called. Three times, she had to go to the hospital.

In response to a complaint from her father, the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction found on May 10 that the district was “in violation” of isolation guidelines for not considering other de-escalation techniques and for making the isolations last too long.

“Here, tragically, there were several isolation incidents where [Katie] was injured while in isolation…” the report says. “If restraint or some other form of behavior intervention had been used [Katie] may not have been injured or needed to go to the hospital multiple times.”

Not mentioned in the report, however, are allegations that Henry abused students before he was hired by Spokane Public Schools in 2016. At Mead School District, where Henry was a football coach at Mt. Spokane High School and a special education teacher, Henry was investigated for using excessive force and inappropriate language with students in 2015. He resigned before that investigation was able to be finished, records indicate, and was then hired at Riverside School District. But there, he was given a written reprimand for calling a student a derogatory name.

Michael Henry is the husband of Katy Henry, the president of the Spokane Education Association, the teachers union. Neither responded to multiple phone calls and messages seeking comment.

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n January 2015, when Michael Henry was a teacher at Mead’s Mt. Spokane High School, a paraeducator who worked for Henry filed a formal complaint alleging Henry sexually harassed her. The woman said Henry would not stop texting her and that he made inappropriate comments.

Shortly after she filed the complaint, she filed a restraining order, saying she was worried Henry would harm himself and she was “worried about LETTERS my safety.” Eventually, Send comments to the woman took a job editor@inlander.com. at a different school as a result of his behavior, records show. Reached by the Inlander, the woman declined to comment and asked that her name not be included in this article.

The investigation, conducted by principal Darren Nelson, found that Henry violated district policy and that “it created an intimidating or threatening work environment,” records show. Superintendent Tom Rockefeller, in a letter to Henry on April 23, 2015, wrote that “appropri-

Richard Pope (right) pulled his daughter Katie (left) out of Shadle because of how she was treated. ate corrective measures will be implemented” to prevent these behaviors in the future.

But already, another investigation was underway involving Henry. Henry had been put on administrative

“Mike excessively shoved him into a padded room. Mike slammed him into a wall and called him an idiot.” leave a week before that April 23 letter. Another paraeducator who worked in his classroom claimed Henry created a hostile work environment. And that included mistreatment of students.

“Mike manhandled a student inappropriately,” the employee wrote. “I took the Right Response training and knew that restraints on a certain student [were] abusive.

Mike excessively shoved him into a padded room. Mike slammed him into a wall and called him an idiot.”

Several employees were interviewed as part of this investigation while Henry was on paid administrative leave.

But the investigation, records indicate, was not concluded before Henry took another job at Riverside School District. And despite the finding of sexual harassment and

investigation of physical and verbal abuse of a student, Nelson gave Henry a favorable letter of recommendation, not mentioning any of the investigations at all. Nelson wrote that Henry used paraeducators as “true resources” and praised his “strong instructional skills and a sincere commitment to students and their learning.”

“I recommend Mike Henry for strong consideration specific to your open position in Special Education,” Nelson wrote.

Mead School District directed Inlander questions to the director of human resources, Keri Hutchins, who would not offer any specifics on investigations involving Henry.

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hen a school district believes a code of conduct violation has occurred, it is required to send a complaint to the state Office of Professional Practices, says OPP director Catherine Slagle.

Other school districts are then able to check if a teacher is being investigated.

But the first complaint OPP received from Mead regarding Henry was in February of this year, even though Henry hasn’t worked there since 2015. Slagle says she’s not sure how often districts fail to report potential conduct violations. As a result, school districts may not know of alleged abuse by a teacher when hiring them.

“We don’t know what we don’t know,” Slagle says.

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Following the February complaint, the state Office of Professional Practices opened an investigation of Henry’s alleged abuse of Mt. Spokane students in 2015.

After his employment with Mead, Henry was hired by Riverside School District as a special education teacher before the start of the 2015-16 school year. Ken Russell, the Riverside superintendent who joined after Henry had already left, says the district did not know of any investigations involving Henry from his days at Mead.

“There was no information like that. No records or anything that followed Mike Henry into his hiring at Riverside,” Russell says.

Other than OPP investigations, Russell says the hiring process can weed out teachers who have some kind of misconduct on their record. Questions on applications can catch many issues, for example.

Henry’s application to Riverside didn’t include a question about whether he had been placed on administrative leave, Russell says. And in fact, the state Legislature just passed a bill that bars school district applications from asking that question.

In February 2016, Henry was given a written reprimand by Riverside High School principal John McCoy for calling a student a derogatory name, even after Henry noticed it bothered that student when others called him that, records show. (The records redacted specifics about the name used.)

Henry resigned a month later, effective at the end of the year.

In August 2016, just days before the start of the school year, Spokane Public Schools offered him a job as a special ed teacher, where he would teach in the ABLE classroom at Shadle.

Spokane Public Schools wasn’t aware of any allegations from either of the previous two districts, says district spokesman Brian Coddington. Spokane Public Schools placed Henry on leave after the incidents at Shadle, and Coddington says that Henry has resigned effective June 13. The district will not continue its investigation of Henry in light of his resignation, Coddington adds, but “information gathered has been shared” with the state.

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hen Richard Pope requested and viewed the body-cam video showing teachers discussing his daughter Katie being locked in the isolation room, he became determined to find out everything he could about the teachers who let that happen.

“That mortified me,” Pope says. “Just the idea that she would have been kept in there after she was injuring herself. [Henry] said she was hitting her head against the door hard enough to break bones in her face.”

Pope has now enrolled his daughter at Interlake High School, in Bellevue, closer to where he lives. He acknowledges there can be challenges with Katie’s behavior, but so far in Bellevue, she’s been doing better than she was in Henry’s classroom.

“It’s nothing like she had in this situation,” Pope says. “We don’t have her banging her head against stuff with tremendous force.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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The city’s new policy regarding homeless camps took effect May 1.

Camp T Cleanup Spokane announces new approach to illegal camps

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he city of Spokane has launched a pilot program that aims to more quickly clean up illegal camps and refer individuals experiencing HOMELESSNESS to community resources.

The new approach, which the city has been using since May 1, has Spokane Police Department and City Code Enforcement officers teaming up to address illegal camps. Previously, things like enforcement and cleanup were often done separately, says city spokeswoman Marlene Feist.

“Now we’re able to deal with all the issues at the same time,” Feist says.

Before last month, it typically took about 13 days to resolve a camping complaint, according to the city. In

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May, that was reduced to four days.

When a complaint is reported through the city’s 311 customer service line, a team responds to the camp and immediately begins “cleanup,” if there is shelter space available, the city says. If the camp is vacant, then the team posts a notice that it will clean up the site within 48 hours. If it’s on private property, the team may trespass campers and clean up the site if the property owner gives approval.

Since May 1, the city says it responded to 169 camps, and 60 people were cited for illegal camping and referred to Community Court and connected with services.

City Councilwoman Kate Burke, however, has concerns with the approach. For one, she says it could lead to those at the campsites having nowhere to go if shelters fill up in the 48 hours they are given to leave. Secondly, she worries about what happens with the belongings of those at the campsites; what officers may see as trash could be important to people there, she says.

“Everything they own is at that campsite,” Burke says.

Feist says the city is “still looking for solutions” to make sure there are secure places for people to put their belongings.

Mayor David Condon, meanwhile, supports the new approach.

“We want to make a positive difference for our community and for the individuals who are camping illegally,” Condon says in a statement. “This approach helps us do both.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

WHO’S DEFYING THE LAW ANYWAY?

Fresh off his appearance celebrating Live PD on This American Life, Sheriff OZZIE KNEZOVICH went on another national broadcaster — Fox News — and blasted

Gov. Jay Inslee, accusing him of committing a crime and calling on Inslee to resign.

“He took the same oath that I did: To uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws thereof,” Knezovich says.

Congress or be arrested for obstruction — but do not impede and badmouth your ICE agents for doing their job,” Knezovich says of Inslee and Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

But Inslee aide Alejandro Sanchez says the law Inslee signed was carefully crafted to ensure it did not conflict with federal law.

“As a general matter, the state of Washington can’t obstruct the federal government from doing their jobs,” Sanchez says. “We’re not restricting them in any way.”

The law prohibits agencies from asking about immigration status unless it’s relevant to a criminal investigation. It also limits those running Washington state jails from holding unauthorized immigrants Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich gets national attention on Fox. until ICE can pick them up on The Fox News segment had been sparked by noncriminal charges. Yet, the law also specifically a KREM interview last week where Knezovich clarifies that it doesn’t limit the ability of state or suggested that he would defy a new state law, local agencies from sharing citizenship or immisigned by Inslee, constraining state and local gration statuses with ICE or Border Patrol. agencies’ cooperation with immigration enforceSanchez notes that a preliminary Ninth ment agencies.

Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on California’s “I have news for the governor and the AG,” similar immigration law this year found that their Knezovich said on KREM. “We are not going to law was complying with federal law. stop helping our federal partners enforce the law.”

“Our hope would be that people who are On Fox, in a segment where he discusses enforcing laws would follow state law,” says how he’s going to defy Washington state’s new Washington state Democratic Rep. Marcus Riclaw, Knezovich accused Inslee of defying federal celli. “I get concerned when people begin picking law. and choosing how to enforce laws based on “If you don’t want to enforce your own laws, potentially political motivation.” then either step down or be held in contempt of (DANIEL WALTERS)

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NEWS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Coveted Evidence The Spokane City Council wants to see a video from a controversial arrest, but the police department has so far kept it under wraps

BY JOSH KELETY

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he Spokane City Council is demanding to see a video purportedly depicting a violent arrest made by Spokane Police officers. But so far, city officials and the police guild have only agreed to let them view it if they collectively sign nondisclosure agreements — a demand that the council refused in a meeting with city officials last week.

The footage depicts an arrest from last February where several officers apprehended a suspect inside of a stopped car by using “extremely aggressive” tactics, according to a person who has reviewed the video. (The person requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the contents of the footage.)

The officers purportedly used profanity and made numerous threats to kill the suspect while outside of the vehicle, including making a statement along the lines of “I’m going to put a bullet in your head,” according to the source’s recollection. They also smashed the windows of the car with a baton and lifted a police dog into the vehicle where the canine attacked the suspect. The suspect had his hands up and said that he was coming out moments before the dog was deployed, the source recalls. (A second person has confirmed the contents of the footage to the Inlander.)

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Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl says the video sought by the City Council will be released after an internal investigation is completed.

In an affidavit narrating the incident that was authored by one of the involved officers, Scott Lesser, there’s no mention of any threatening statements. (Lesser asserts in the report that he feared that the suspect, Lucas Ellerman, was reaching for a firearm before the dog was lifted into the car.) However, an addition to Lesser’s report filed by another officer states that a witness said that they heard officers shouting “I’m gonna kill you” at Ellerman. And the original report doesn’t state that a gun was recovered from the scene.

Reached by phone at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Ellerman recounted the arrest to the Inlander. (He’s currently serving a prison sentence after pleading to drug possession and eluding an officer.) He says he got into a car chase with Spokane Police officers and was eventually pinned. It was after that that the verbal threats and the dog attack ensued.

“He threw the canine in there and the dog just ate me,” he says. “It was just me and the dog fighting. I was fighting for my life with that dog.”

Ellerman adds that he made statements like “I give up” and “I’m coming out” before Lesser put the canine through the car window.

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o far, the Police Department has declined to release the footage or comment on its contents, citing an active Internal Affairs investigation into the incident.

Members of the City Council requested access to the footage — after getting notified of its existence last week — only to be told by City Attorney Mike Ormsby that they would have to sign nondisclosure agreements before viewing it, Council President Ben Stuckart says.

Marlene Feist, a city spokeswoman, says that the nondisclosure agreements were a requirement of a special agreement recently negotiated with the Spokane Police Guild, SPD and the city to allow the council to view this particular footage.

And, so far, none of the seven council members are willing to sign nondisclosure agreements. “I talked to every member of council today and nobody is in favor of signing an NDA,” Stuckart told the Inlander last week. “I’d like to just see it and be able to discuss it freely, whether that’s with the public or the press, and I’ve never heard of the council ever having to sign an NDA.

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“I don’t understand why the police union is dictating what the City Council can see or not,” he adds. “That’s fairly crazy to me. This is about police oversight.”

Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl, who declined to comment on the specifics of the footage, says that the offer to allow the council to view the footage if they signed NDAs was a compromise since department policy limits who can access video that is evidence in an ongoing investigation.

“In my mind this was a win-win,” he says. “I provided what I felt like was an avenue to give them an opportunity to see and hear everything and [for us] to hear their concerns.

“We do not want this thing being tried in the court of public opinion until the investigation is done and all of the facts have come out,” Meidl adds.

Ellerman’s sister, 34-year-old Lindsae Nelson, a Spokane Valley resident, tells the Inlander that the dog attack on her brother during the February arrest has led to a serious infection in his leg that he is currently receiving treatment for while in prison.

“His infection from the dog bite got worse and worse,” she says. “He may lose his leg.”

She adds that Ellerman has struggled with heroin addiction since 2012 and has been in and out of jail. (His past criminal record includes convictions for domestic violence, theft and drug possession.) He was most recently wanted on numerous warrants.

“He would do better and then he would get high,” she says. “It kept going like that.”

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n the months following the actual arrest, knowledge of the incident stayed within the department. While a standard chain-of-command review of the use-of-force tactics employed during the arrest was conducted, no Internal Affairs investigation into potential misconduct was initiated, and Police Ombudsman Bart Logue — SPD’s official watchdog — wasn’t notified.

Police Department spokesman John O’Brien says the use-of-force review process is already complete, but declined to give specifics on any findings. Chief Meidl declined to comment on the specifics of the department’s use-of-force review of the incident.

Logue first watched the footage on May 22 after get-

ting tipped off about it by Brian Breen, a local blogger, who heard about it from his sources inside SPD. After reviewing the footage, Logue fired off an evening email to Meidl and Jacqui MacConnell, SPD’s director of strategic initiatives, calling on the department to conduct an Internal Affairs investigation into misconduct and notifying them that he would be filing a formal complaint for excessive force.

“I watched this video today, I’m curious as to exactly why there isn’t an IA potential misconduct case on this,” Logue writes in his May 22 email. “It appears there could/should have been a formal IA Internal Investigation initiated in this matter.”

He also raises the issue of why he, as the police ombudsman, was not notified of the incident directly by SPD staff and, instead, became aware of it through a third-party blogger: “I should have been apprised of this issue much earlier than I was, and certainly should have been apprised by SPD, and not Mr. Breen.”

Logue goes on to claim that, in his interactions with SPD staff regarding the incident, the significance of the officers’ behavior during the February arrest was downplayed.

“Each person I talked to seemed to downplay the potential significance of this event (that includes you all the way through Chief Meidl),” he writes. “This gives me pause to consider whether or not SPD may have deliberately chose to circumvent the normal complaint process, and therefore, undermine oversight of this matter.”

Meidl denied that he waved off the severity of the arrest or had knowledge of the contents of the body camera footage when he spoke with Logue about it.

“That is an inaccurate representation of that conversation,” he says. “I hadn’t even seen the body camera footage.”

Meidl adds that the department brass was working to address the officers’ conduct prior to Logue filing a formal complaint: “It was being investigated through the normal process that we use for use-of-force investigations,” he says.

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embers of the City Council quickly got involved as well. After Councilwoman Karen Stratton was contacted independently by Breen, and after she and Stuckart communicated with Logue regarding the video, they sent a letter to Meidl last week requesting to view the footage. “[Logue] said he had just viewed the footage the night before, was disturbed by it, and that he hoped we were able to see it because we needed to, as elected officials,” Stuckart tells the Inlander.

He adds that what he heard of the video made him “sick to his stomach.”

SPD spokesman O’Brien says an Internal Affairs investigation was opened after Logue filed his complaint. He also cited the active probe as reason to keep the footage confidential for now.

“Once the OPO filed a formal excessive force complaint, all processes were stopped,” he writes. “After any concern of tainting the Internal Affairs investigation has concluded, SPD will work to release the body camera footage.”

Stuckart criticized the fact that the ombudsman and, subsequently, the council didn’t get notified of the incident prior to Breen, a private citizen, contacting Logue and Stratton.

“That they didn’t open an IA investigation, that’s outrageous,” Stuckart says. “It shouldn’t take, in our system, a citizen calling in who has heard something from the Police Department for council members or the ombudsman to hear something like this.”

Councilman Breean Beggs says that the fact that Logue wasn’t notified of the incident stems from the fact that the ordinance governing the ombudsman’s office only requires that the ombudsman be contacted if SPD opens an Internal Affairs investigation. In this case, an Internal Affairs investigation was not opened into the incident, so Logue wasn’t contacted about it until Breen reached out to him.

“From what I’ve heard about the video, it sounds like it’s serious enough that the ombudsman should’ve been informed about it,” he says.

“The good news is that our ombudsman is doing his job,” he adds. “If we didn’t have an ombudsman, we would not be here and there would be no investigation.” n

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NEWS | ELECTION 2019

Woodward’s Inlander Ban Mayoral candidate Nadine Woodward’s latest policy announcement: No talking with the Inlander

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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hree women stood on stage at Spokane’s Fox Theater in October. Two were politicians — U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her challenger, former state Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown.

The third, KXLY anchor Nadine Woodward, served as a moderator, asking the candidates a series of challenging policy questions.

A few months later, Woodward retired from TV and then launched her campaign for Spokane mayor in April.

But Woodward is shaping up to be a different kind of politician than the other two on stage. Brown and McMorris Rodgers were willing to spend hours speaking with the Inlander, both in person and over the phone, as part of their duty in seeking public office, and subjected themselves to any question we could think of.

By contrast, Woodward, in a brief phone conversation last Friday, explained that she had decided not to grant the Inlander any phone or in-person interviews and instead would only respond to questions via email.

Her refusal to directly answer questions from an established newspaper is drawing fire from both media experts and her political rivals who say it’s especially ironic — and troubling — that a former journalist would hide from the press.

“I don’t know what the candidate’s reason is, but it strikes me as unfair to the other candidates in the race,” says Seattle Times political reporter Jim Brunner. “There’s a perceived advantage in being able to not have the giveand-take in the verbal interview, to be able to write up something that’s a talking point.”

A BACKGROUND IN MEDIA

If anyone should be prepared for the challenges of a media interview, it would be Woodward. She had worked as a news anchor since 1985 — eight years before the Inlander started printing. Indeed, in an interview last week with KHQ’s Stephanie Vigil, Woodward repeatedly cited her journalism training as proof of her ability to be a great mayor. When Vigil asked about whether she’d be transparent, Woodward touted their shared experience as anchors.

“Gosh, as news anchors, we were accessible to people,” she told Vigil several days before telling the Inlander she would not be granting the Inlander the same access she offered Vigil. “We’re more accessible than we’ve been in our entire career.”

Even before Woodward officially announced her campaign, Inlander reporters had requested a sit-down interview. For the past month we’ve repeatedly asked that she meet with us to talk about homelessness — one of the pillars of her campaign. On multiple occasions we had an interview scheduled with her campaign, only to have it canceled.

Finally, late last month, her campaign director called to say that Woodward was worried about how her interview answers might be used, claiming she had heard something “that concerned her about a question from an interview, done several months before with a candidate, being recycled for future stories without followup.”

In a brief conversation on Friday, Woodward alluded to the complaint without providing other details.

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“I don’t like the idea of being recorded and then the conversation being used throughout the campaign out of context,” Woodward said. “I think that’s manipulative and I don’t need to be a part of that.”

Woodward never checked with the Inlander to see if the allegations were true and refused to say which candidate she was referring to.

“I’m not going to tell you who that is,” she said.

Woodward is free to record her interviews with us — something we encouraged in our conversation — and if she ever felt misrepresented, she could point to the audio to correct the record.

She argued that would be too much of a hassle and attacked the Inlander itself.

“You have an agenda,” Woodward said. “You work for a publication that definitely puts a slant on things. I don’t feel the way that you cover certain candidates is objective, impartial or fair.”

The conversation lasted less than six minutes before Woodward ended it to go to a meeting.

She didn’t elaborate on why she thought the Inlander’s coverage was slanted and offered no evidence to support that claim.

A QUESTION OF TRANSPARENCY

If nothing else, the Inlander’s unsuccessful attempt to get a one-on-one interview with Woodward provides a key contrast between her and her competitors.

Mayoral candidate Shawn Poole’s been talking to the Inlander for months; he’s met with the Inlander in person and spoken to us by phone, text messages and via Facebook. While Poole didn’t get back to us for this story, his campaign manager called to set up a one-on-one interview. Meanwhile, Woodward’s other three competitors returned our call within a few hours.

“I was at an event this morning where [Woodward] was campaigning about transparency or openness, but I guess it’s only openness to whoever is giving money,” mayoral candidate Kelly Cruz says.

Cruz says that he’ll not only return phone calls from the press, he’ll hold “Mondays with the Mayor” for two hours every week, where he’d talk with any citizen who swings by City Hall.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Regarding the charge that the Inlander has an “agenda” in covering this 2019 Spokane mayoral race: The Inlander’s only agenda is to cover political campaigns and the workings of our government as a public service to our readers. We attend public meetings, put probing questions to public officials and watchdog the government’s purse strings because that’s what journalism is meant to do. It’s precisely the role the Founding Fathers envisioned.

As Thomas Jefferson, who despised much of the press, argued: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a govern-

Mayoral candidate Jonathan Bingle was not only willing to have a one-on-one interview with the Inlander, he reached out and pestered us to make it happen.

Meanwhile, for all the controversies City Council President Ben Stuckart has been a part of, he’s remained accessible to even irritating reporters. Sure, he’s sometimes frustrated with the media — including the Inlander — but that’s part of the job, says Stuckart.

“How you run for office reflects how you govern,” Stuckart says. “If you’re going to run a campaign without being transparent and talking to the press, you’re probably not going… to be transparent as mayor.”

THE TROUBLE WITH EMAIL

Woodward’s argument that answering questions from the Inlander only over email is sufficient is a surprising stance for a former journalist. Most journalists frown upon email interviews, arguing they should only be used as a

The Inlander has repeatedly requested an interview with Nadine Woodward, including in person after her May 8 campaign fundraiser. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO last resort (which is generally the policy of the Inlander).

Some college journalism programs ban email interviews altogether. Former Whitworth University journalism professor Jim McPherson says he can’t recall ever giving a student permission to conduct an email interview.

“In-person is almost always the best. You can judge people’s reactions. It’s easier to ask follow-up questions,” McPherson says. “It usually makes the interview more productive on both sides.”

If you do an email interview, McPherson adds, you can’t know whether the person you sent the questions to is the same one answering them.

As a former TV anchor, Woodward is in a position where people feel like they know her, while rarely ever having heard her own thoughts or beliefs. She’s both the woman everyone knows and mostly a blank slate.

“It’s especially sad that Nadine Woodward, who is a quote-unquote ‘former journalist,’ wouldn’t understand the process,” McPherson says. “Or maybe she does, and that’s why she’s doing what she’s doing.” n

ment without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

We aren’t in the business of doing PR for any candidate or political party; our owners do not have any financial interests dependent on city policy; and we don’t have a rooting interest in the news, except in the principled belief that the public has a right to know about its government and the people who would seek to lead it.

We’re not perfect: If we get something wrong, we’ll fix it. If any political candidate feels that he or she has been

misrepresented, please let me know (email jacobf@inlander.com or call 3250634, ext. 261). However, we have no way to respond to unsubstantiated, vague claims of bias.

Here at the Inlander, we plan to cover this coming mayoral election the same way we have for more than 25 years — by being fair and transparent, and by directly asking questions, in person and by phone, of those seeking public office. And our door will remain open to anybody who seeks to lead Spokane into the future.

— JACOB H. FRIES, Inlander editor

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FIFTY YEARS AGO

, on an early Saturday morning in late June, the New York City police raided a Greenwich Village gay bar called the Stonewall Inn. Most states, including New York, still upheld so-called sodomy laws, and the Stonewall, a Mafia-fronted pub that had become a safe haven for queer people, was a frequent target of law enforcement.

When the patrons refused to comply with officers’ demands to check IDs and confirm their corresponding genders, and when those officers eventually turned hostile, the crowd that had gathered outside the bar erupted. Fires were started. Bricks were hurled. Punches were thrown. The event sparked both outrage and a newfound sense of activism within the LGBTQ community, and the Stonewall riots are now generally considered the birth of modern Pride. A symbolic uprising. A rebellion.

Stonewall is now a national landmark, and June is still Pride month in honor of the riots. To celebrate that milestone, this Pride Week issue will be highlighting the voices and perspectives of some of the activists, performers, artists, designers and organizers working to make Spokane a more welcoming, accepting place for LGBTQ people.

One of them is Jason Johnson, who has been performing in Spokane as the drag queen Nova Kaine for 17 years. Johnson is the sixth Nova Kaine, having inherited the title in 1988; the first Nova, he says, was at the Stonewall riots back in 1969. Johnson’s story — and the story of other local queens — starts on the next page.

“Pride is celebrating the diversity of each and every individual in our community — gay, straight, bisexual, queer, questioning, non-binary gender fluid,” he explains. “It’s an opportunity for people to publicly display and celebrate who they are, without explanation, with full acceptance. And without persecution.”

— NATHAN WEINBENDER, section editor

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Jason Johnson, left, and his drag persona Nova Kaine

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t only takes an hour for Jason Johnson, a soft-spoken 50-year-old man, to completely transform into Nova Kaine, a female torch singer who can lip sync the hell out of a Judy Garland song and is always equipped with a killer zinger.

“Nova is Jason with three more cocktails, saying things Jason wishes he could,” Johnson explains. He describes his drag queen persona as existing somewhere between the wicked Alexis Carrington from the ’80s soap Dynasty and the bumbling Aunt Clara on Bewitched.

In the three decades he has been performing in drag, Johnson has honed his makeup regimen down to a science. The process starts with a lot of beigecolored foundation on his face and chest. He contours his cheeks and jaw with a slightly darker liquid foundation, creating a narrower, more conventionally feminine look. Then there’s the lip liner, eyeliner, elaborate eye makeup (he uses the edge of his credit card to keep the lines straight), painted-on eyebrows (about an inch higher than his own) and false eyelashes. A whole lot of powder keeps everything from smudging. And the finishing touches: a wig, topped by a three-pound crystal-studded crown.

If you’ve been to a Spokane drag show in the last 15 years, it’s highly likely that you’ve seen Johnson-as-Nova in the role of emcee. He got his first regular drag gig at Dempsey’s, the Spokane gay bar that closed its doors in 2011, and later performed at the Spokane Valley bar Holly Rock and the downtown nightclubs Spotlight Lounge and Irv’s (all of which have also gone out of business). Nova now emcees weekly drag shows and karaoke at the Blind Buck, one of four Spokane bars that regularly host drag events — the others being nYne, JR’s Bar-NGrill and the all-ages music venue the Pin. You’d never know it, but Johnson actually considers himself somewhat agoraphobic when he removes the lashes and mascara, despite his decades working in broadcast radio.

“But when I’m in drag and have that microphone, I’m in control,” Johnson says. “It’s my security blanket. The character kind of takes over at that point.”

That’s typical of so many practitioners of drag: It’s a proudly flashy form of entertainment that allows its performers to disappear into outlandish costumes and over-the-top antics, and it has fluorished within the LGBTQ community for generations.

“Drag is theater unto itself,” Johnson says, “and that’s what I really enjoy about it.”

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Jason Johnson applies fake eyelashes, one of the final steps in his transformation to Nova Kaine.

A Brief Herstory

That carefree commitment to the theatrical is the driving force behind so many performers within the local drag scene, and it’s a chance for people to disappear into female alter egos that are essentially heightened, more confident versions of themselves.

But what is drag, exactly?

It’s probably safe to say that our culture’s collective notion of a drag queen is an old-fashioned — though not entirely inaccurate — one: A gay man dressed as a woman, traditionally lip-synching to the work of well-known female vocalists, complete with choreography, costumes and extravagant makeup.

At its core, the art of drag involves screwing around with conventional gender norms — as illusion, as camp, as pageantry — and as mainstream perceptions of gender and sexuality become more fluid, so, too, do the prescribed definitions of drag. Each drag performer has their own persona, style and bag of tricks, and an average drag night isn’t unlike an old-fashioned variety show with music, comedy and dance.

Drag is still something of an underground artform, but it has occasionally bubbled up into the contemporary mainstream. In the 1970s, films like Pink Flamingos, starring the late drag queen Divine, and the gender-bending The Rocky Horror Picture Show became cult phenomena.

The documentary Paris Is Burning, a snapshot of the predominantly black and Latinx queens of 1980s New York, cemented a lot of drag lingo and traditions, and its subjects’ hand movementheavy style of dancing known as voguing was infamously co-opted by Madonna.

Crowd-pleasing movies like To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert have featured drag queens as lovable, relatable protagonists.

And then there’s the enterprising RuPaul, host of the hugely popular, Emmy-winning reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race, in which up-and-coming drag queens compete in fashion, comedy and choreography challenges.

But there are still misconceptions about the function of drag, and about the fun-

damental difference between gender identity and the art of female impersonation. Paul Martens, whose drag persona Marry A’Botumn is a member of the “cast” at nYne, says he was just explaining this to his father just a couple weeks ago.

“He’s an old-school, Irish-Italian Catholic, and he has a hard time differentiating between what’s trans versus what’s drag,” Martens says.

“I’m a drag queen. It’s strictly for entertainment.

I’m not a woman, I don’t pretend to be a woman [when I’m not performing]. I don’t identify as a woman or anything like that.”

But drag performers do cover the spectrum.

They’re not just cisgender gay men: There are plenty of transgender and non-binary drag queens, as well as AFAB (or “assigned female at birth”) performers, and drag kings, who tend to be women achieving a male illusion. There are even some straight men who do drag.

Johnson was one of them, at least for a while. He was raised on a ranch in Wyoming in a conservative Episcopalian family, and was the captain of his high school’s rodeo team. He first got into drag in 1987 when, as a theater student at the University of Wyoming, he entered into an Aerosmith-themed “Dude Looks Like a Lady” drag contest at a cowboy bar in Laramie.

He came out as gay to his family around that same time, but upon being threatened and intimidated by his father, he instead married a woman and had three kids, doing drag all the while.

“I’ve since come out of the closet again,” Johnson says, “and I never looked back.”

Beyonce Black St. James is a local trans woman who started performing in female drag before she was even of legal drinking age. Her fascination with drag began when she was a teenager and saw the film To Wong Foo, which features a cameo appearance by RuPaul in a sequined bodysuit emblazoned with the Confederate flag.

Now in her early 30s, St. James lives openly as a trans woman, and has even appeared as a spokesmodel on billboards for the HIV prevention drug PrEP. She says her fellow cisgender queens have mostly been supportive, and that drag was the final stepping stone that led her to accept who she really was.

“I felt suicidal. I felt like I wasn’t worthy,” she says. “I asked God, ‘Why me? Why am I like this? Please take this away.’ Drag helped me embrace who I am today as a person. And I’m living my trans truth because of drag.” ...continued on page 28

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Walking Tall Spokane will host Washington’s first citywide Queer Art Walk to kick off Pride Month

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owntown is set to come alive with color, art and celebration thanks to the Spokane Queer Art Walk, which is the first of its kind in the state. Nine downtown venues — including the Chase Gallery, the Kolva-Sullivan Gallery and Saranac Art Projects — will host exhibits consisting solely of LGBTQ artists.

Around 40 artists are being showcased across multiple venues, featuring paintings, spoken word, textiles, dance, drag, ceramics and a DJ. The Queer Art Walk happens alongside Spokane’s regularly scheduled First Friday festivities.

“It’s a wide variety of art that will be there — kind of the rainbow spectrum,” says Andrew Whitver, who spearheaded the walk’s creation.

Whitver moved to Spokane from Seattle a year and a half ago. He was surprised when, last June, he couldn’t find any venues showing LGBTQ art in celebration of Pride Month, and he immediately got the arts group Terrain on board to show queer art for the following June.

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“I started thinking about it and I thought, ‘Why stop there?’” he says.

Whitver, who created the Capitol Hill Queer Art Walk in Seattle, said that Spokane’s will be “bigger, better and have a greater impact.”

This is due to one important detail: The Spokane Queer Art Walk is citywide, which means several major art venues will be participating, rather than only venues in a certain neighborhood.

“What’s interesting about Spokane is that there isn’t a ‘gay neighborhood’ — we’re everywhere,” he says. “So it does make sense that it’s the whole city.”

The Queer Art Walk as a whole has no overarching theme, and there’s no specific order in which the venues have to be observed.

While some venues are curated, others are not: The Spokane Public Library, for instance, accepted and will be displaying any and all art that was sent to them by queer artists, around 30 in total.

Margaret Mount is a local textile artist who will be showing pieces in three venues, including the library, and she notes the importance of using the word “queer” in the title of the event.

“It’s a word that didn’t always have a positive connotation,” she says. “So I love that we are reclaiming it.”

The Spokane Queer Art Walk is important to Mount and, she says, to the Spokane queer community at large, because it gives her the opportunity to celebrate her identity through art.

“Being queer has never been an advantage before,” she says.

“But in this sense it is, which is really cool. Celebrating a historically marginalized group through art is exciting.”

Whitver says the Art Walk is really for the younger generations of LGBTQ people. Although he says he no longer cares what others think, he does remember being young and the fear that being queer can sometimes instill, and he hopes the Art Walk will combat it.

“I want to get the young people out there so they can see that [queer people] are everywhere, and they’re super diverse,” he says.

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A Pride Parade organizer reflects on the event’s origins and where it’s going after two decades in the Spokane spotlight

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pokane Pride started as a grassroots act utilizing Pride.” of resistance. In June 1992, roughly 150 More institutional support and commupeople gathered to march on the sidewalks nity backing for an event that used to be a of downtown while holding fringe demonstration poses an signs. It was intended to be a unusual problem to organizIf You Go demonstration in spirit with the ers: How to maintain Pride’s Spokane’s 2019 Pride Parade famous 1969 Stonewall riots in activist resistance roots while commences at noon on Sat, New York City, where violence also working collaboratively June 8, with a route that starts broke out after police raided a with stakeholders and makon N. Stevens, just north of W. gay-friendly bar in Greenwich ing the event welcoming for Spokane Falls Blvd., and ends in Village. everyone — including straight the Riverfront Park Lilac Bowl.

“It started off as a small and cisgender people. (This can The Rainbow Festival that folprotest march on the sidewalks also pose issues, Herevia says, lows will feature live music, food of downtown Spokane,” says because some people show up trucks and vendors, as well as an Steven Herevia, a 28-year-old just because they think it’s a big all-ages dance party and a fireorganizer with OutSpokane, party.) works display at the end of the the organization behind Pride.

“One of the interesting culnight. The theme of this year’s “It would definitely be in your tural things that we’re having to Pride festivities is “To Thrive, face.” think through as a community, Not Just Survive,” encouraging Now, the march has turned what are the motivations for LGBTQ people to embrace their into a full-fledged parade with Pride?” Herevia says. “How do identities and celebrating the municipal government backing we also maintain the integrity of 50th anniversary of the Stoneand widespread community the original motivation? How wall riots. For more information, support. There are thousands do we continue to push towards visit outspokane.org. of attendees, a variety of private equality and equity?” sector sponsors and a litany of The event’s activist roots programming during Pride Month aside from still manifest themselves in certain ways. One the parade, such as an interfaith Pride worship is in the centering of trans rights in programservice. ing. Another is a series of volunteers who will Herevia points to the 2015 U.S. Supreme serve as “peace angels,” wearing massive wings Court ruling that legalized gay marriage nationthat will stand in front of protesters to separate wide and the 2010 repeal of the “Don’t Ask, marchers from any bigotry.

Don’t Tell” policy that barred gays, lesbians and “We’re in a climate and a time and an era bisexuals from serving in the military as some where the hate is real,” Herevia says, referring to substantial turning points in expanding Spokane the Trump presidency. “And people are emboldPride. ened to talk about the hate and to display it and “We’ve seen a shift in the total acceptance show it.” and understanding of the community over the “We understand that there’s a lot to fight for,” last five years,” he says. “That has definitely he adds. “Let this one day be an expression of impacted the number of people attending and that fight.” n

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“A Mini Vegas”

On an otherwise sleepy Thursday night, the stage of the Pin, a venue that typically hosts hard rock and metal concerts, is lousy with drag queens.

It’s a show hosted by local drag collective Haus of Voodoo, which prides itself on fostering performers with deliberately transgressive and sometimes shocking drag styles. It wouldn’t be unusual to see a queen in full-on horror movie makeup, or fakebelting to screamo rock.

“Nobody’s turned away at the door here,” says Nik Bransen, who performs at the Pin as self-described “Halloween queen” Nikita Romanoff. “You do not get told that you’re not good enough. You don’t get told that you don’t belong here. You don’t get told that your music won’t belong or fit in here.

Everybody has a chance. … This stage is as much anybody else’s as it is ours.”

This evening’s show follows the format of your garden-variety drag night: Each performer gets a solo bit, working the stage and then weaving their way through the crowd to collect their tips in the form of dollar bills.

First up is Rita Fine, who lip syncs to the David Guetta/Estelle collaboration “One Love,” and returns later for a rendition of “This Is Me” from the soundtrack of The Greatest Showman, dressed as that film’s bearded woman Lettie. Aurora, a regular at JR’s Bar-N-Grill, comes out on stage in a highlighteryellow wig and a hip-hugging, cow-print dress.

“That’s our best friend!” someone erupts from the back, right before Aurora triumphantly throws the dollars she’s collected into the air. More applause.

Down in the front row, some of the performing queens’ mothers are proudly taking video they’ll later post to Facebook as Nikita Romanoff emerges from backstage in a black floor-length fur coat. She’s holding a skull like a gender-swapped Hamlet, and as a song by the metal band In This Moment pummels the audience, she dramatically throws off the fur to reveal a leather bodice covered in even more skulls.

“I like hearing people gasp,” Nikita tells me before the show. “That’s the best response you can get.”

With a buzzed head and a face painted like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Luna Tik Hex saunters out. “LaCroix Boi,” a song by queer rapper Big Dipper, bumps through the speakers, and Luna lays down on the stage and begins pouring a can of the sparkling water over her head, like a mutant version of Jennifer Beals in Flashdance.

Kevin Nygaard is the man behind Luna Tik Hex, and along with Bransen (who performs as Nikita) co-founded the Haus of Voodoo, which has taken up residency at the Pin for the past couple years. Nygaard was raised in a conservative Mormon family, and he is another queen who started doing drag before coming out as gay. He works as a restaurant manager and goes to school full-time, but when he’s Luna, he fully commits to being what he calls “a drag monster.”

“She’s everything I am that I can’t be in my daily life,” Nygaard says. “She’s a mess.”

It’s also a form of escape for Paul Martens. He already stands at 6-foot-2 in his nurse’s shoes, but

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Marry A’Botumn towers at nearly 7 feet in her size 17 heels. Martens, who’s originally from New Jersey, works in assisted living facilities, and Marry is the boisterous and magnanimous alter ego he can’t be in his daily life: She’ll talk shit to a heckler and then turn it out to a Meghan Trainor song.

Lyle Foehringer, another regular nYne performer, was a choir and theater nerd in high school, so of course his drag persona Cindy Sinclair mostly sticks to showtunes. He grew up in North Spokane and has been doing drag for 12 years, and he says the bullying he experienced being a young, queer kid made him reticent to come out. Finding drag changed all that.

“It gives you a level of confidence that’s sometimes not easy to find in a community like this,” he says. “Whenever you’re in drag, everybody wants to say ‘hi’ to you. … Drag has been an alleyway to all kinds of different things I never thought I could have done.”

And if you go out to a drag show, he says, expect the unexpected.

“I’ve told people to think of it as a mini Vegas,” he says. “Maybe not Cirque du Soleil — some of us bitches can’t hang from a vaulted ceiling — but keep an open mind and just enjoy what happens.”

Ruffling Feathers

From top to bottom: Aurora, Rita Fine and Katrina Del Waters perform at the Pin.

Drag helped me embrace who I am today as a person.

And I’m living my trans truth because of drag.

There are, of course, inherent challenges to being openly queer in a stillheteronormative society, and the sheer visibility of being a drag performer only amplifies them.

Consider the posters that showed up in Coeur d’Alene City Park last week, supposedly warning the community that upcoming Pride festivites were “known to cater to perverts and sex criminals.” Hundreds of people showed up for Pride in the Park a few days later with no incident. Or the recent brouhaha surrounding the upcoming Drag Queen Story Hour, which is exactly what it sounds like: local drag queens reading storybooks to children at the South Hill Public Library. While most major cities have hosted these kinds of events, this is the first of its kind in Spokane, spearheaded by drag performer Tirrany Hex. The Story Hour sparked some outraged online comments, including from the Spokane County Republican Party, and inspired a protest Facebook page called 500 Mom Strong that has posted articles and comments comparing drag to blackface minstrelry, connecting it to pedophilia and deriding it as a form of misogyny.

“Drag is a tool of the patriarchy used to oppress and subjugate women,” one post reads. “This has nothing to do with LGBT issues. This is an issue of misogyny and sexism. It debases women and treats our femininity like a joke.”

A response page called 500 Drag Queen Strong popped up shortly thereafter, as did a counter-protest Facebook event that has received more than 250 RSVPs. In a press release, the library defended the Story Hour event, saying it “teaches children to embrace gender diversity in themselves and in others, and helps to curb bullying of LGBTQ children and kids who may be perceived as different in all kinds of ways.” The library has also responded to the outcry with a Q&A panel inviting both sides of the debate

for a discussion at the downtown branch at 2:30 pm June 8, immediately following the Pride parade.

Critics of drag have often deemed it misogynistic, and it’s not as if those claims aren’t rooted in some kind of truth. A 2018 article by Thor Benson on the queer news and culture site Into detailed incidents of sexism and harrassment experienced by female and non-binary queens in the L.A. drag scene, and even RuPaul’s Drag Race has been under fire for using questionable terms like “fishy” to describe male queens who can convincingly pass as women.

But when I bring up the 500 Mom Strong Facebook page and its accusations of misogyny and racism to Beyonce Black St. James, who is of African-American and Puerto Rican descent, she is perplexed. There might be misogynists within certain sects of the larger queer community, but that doesn’t mean drag itself is inherently misogynistic.

“It’s paying homage to women,” St. James says. “It’s empowering women. It’s not making fun of women.”

Divinia Sensacion, one of St. James’ proteges (or “drag daughters,” if you follow the proper parlance), agrees that the protesters are making bad-faith arguments. She says her drag was inspired by and pays tribute to the Latinx women in her family, and the larger-than-life actresses she saw growing up in Mexican telenovelas.

“A lot of these homophobes and people who call us misogynistic — we’re not trying to offend anybody,” Divinia says. “If you look at it that way, that’s your problem. Even with my mother, I have to tell her I’m not trying to be anybody else.

It’s just a character to me.”

“Claims of misogyny and gender appropriation are simply ludicrous,” Johnson writes me in response. “Children love playing ‘dress up.’ It’s a healthy expression of creativity. I am an adult who still plays dress up. I create a character. I perform for audiences of all ages. I am not mocking anyone. I am expressing my creativity through my chosen performance art.

“In the immortal words of Bette Davis, ‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity.’”

Drag has also had a long, tumultuous relationship with the transgender community, and the old school of thought that only biological men can be drag queens still persists in some corners. In an interview with the Guardian last year, RuPaul said he didn’t think it was fair for fully transitioned trans women to compete on Drag Race.

“You can identify as a woman and say you’re transitioning,” RuPaul told the Guardian, “but it changes once you start changing your body. It takes on a different thing. It changes the whole concept of what we’re doing.”

RuPaul later doubled down on these claims on social media, likening trans drag queens to athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Only after backlash — including outcry from past contestants on his own show, some of whom are trans — did he apologize.

This isn’t new: Trans activists have been vocal about being shunned by more traditional drag communities, which cling to the idea that an art form built on female illusion should only be for those who identify as men in their daily lives. But as so much of what we understand about gender

evolves, there has been a slow shift in perspective within the community, one that’s arguably still taking place.

“When I first came to Spokane, Dempsey’s was not a safe place for the transgender population,” Johnson says. “I had seen more than one transgender individual come in and be refused service. And that was just 17 years ago.”

When St. James realized she was a trans woman at 17, she kept it to herself because “being a trans woman in drag wasn’t accepted then.

They felt like, ‘if you’re a trans woman, why are you doing drag, because you live your life as a woman?’”

But she does say the tides seem to be shifting, and she’s completely accepted as a bona fide drag queen by her fellow performers.

“I hope RuPaul will change her ways,” St. James says. “We are part of LGBT. The ‘T’ is ‘trans.’ It doesn’t make sense for you to cut out the trans and still want to have that for your TV show.”

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The Makeup Comes Off

For many, though, drag has provided the comfort of a surrogate family, particularly for those who have been ostracized by their own flesh and blood. Drag queens have traditionally divided themselves into “houses,” with drag mothers passing on their last names and dispensing wisdom to their self-appointed drag daughters.

And as with any family, it’s not always pretty.

Depending on who you ask, the scene is either tight-knight or too clique-y. That it never recovered from Dempsey’s closure, or it’s flourishing more than ever. That it’s been bolstered by the popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race, or ruined by it. I hear stories of personal betrayal, of broken friendships and broken promises, but just as many stories of queens helping each other out in dire straits. Because when the makeup comes off, drag queens are just regular people with day jobs and bills to pay, and for many of them, drag is as much a form of therapy as it is entertainment.

“Growing up, instead of crying or showing any signs of weakness, I would just put on headphones and go to the park and dance,” says Freedom Rights, an emcee at nYne. “Am I going to cry during the performance to where you feel that pain? Do you feel how I feel? I’m going through something. I’m feeling hurt. I’m feeling pain. And to me, that is how I allowed out a lot of my emotions.”

“We’re all trying to get through this crazy f---ing world,” says Jhonas Amulacion, who performs alongside Freedom as Dha-Ling. “Drag is the personality. Even if you’re not a drag queen, everything is drag if you think about it. You’re constantly putting on a face for the world.”

And the world at large, it seems, is beginning to listen. Since he first stepped into a dress in the late ’80s, Johnson has noticed that the audiences who come out to see him as Nova Kaine have changed significantly: He says that the vast majority of his audiences are straight folks, the polar opposite of what it was 30 years ago.

“Drag is not defined by gender. It’s not defined by sexual identity, sexual preference.

Drag is an art form that allows people to express themselves,” Johnson says. “And as far as drag is concerned, there’s room for everybody.” n

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Spokane software developer Robbi Katherine Anthony is building an app called Solace to help trans people through transition.

Comfort in Hard Times Spokane developers aim to help trans community through transition with new app Solace

By Samantha Wohlfeil

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hen Robbi Katherine Anthony and Patrick McHugh headed to HackOut, an LGBTQ startup weekend in Austin in April, they knew they wanted to create something to help that community.

“We were kind of sitting at the bar and we’re just like, ‘What could technology do to make something suck less?’” Anthony says. “I made this kind of casual remark, ‘If there was an app that could actually tell me how to go through transition, that would be life-changing, because being stuck in transition is a living, breathing nightmare.’”

They came up with Solace, an app that walks transgender users through the personalized steps they want to take to transition. Don’t know how to change your gender on your driver’s license? The app will tell you how. Unsure of how to buy your first bra? You can learn about sizing and how to safely find a store.

The first-of-its-kind app was a hit, winning first place with both the judges and audience at HackOut, says Anthony, herself a trans woman who owns her own software development business and ran for Spokane County commissioner last November.

Now, the Spokane-based team (Anthony is the developer, McHugh the designer) is trying to get the app into its beta stage so it can go out to users in the next few months. Their goal is to raise about $80,000, which will enable the team to work on collecting medically and

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legally accurate content for the app and making it as comprehensive as possible over the next year.

“We’re very cautious about making something that is anything less than empirically proven,” Anthony says. “And we don’t want to just disappear as soon as we launch this thing. It’s going to require maintenance, because laws are going to change, medical procedures are going to change, society will change.”

When users open Solace, they select their preferred pronouns using a slider, Anthony explains, moving the bar to her preference of “she/her” as the color shifts to a light pink.

Next, there’s a list of potential goals to choose from, including medical as well as lifestyle changes. Whenever a user completes a goal, their progress bar moves one step closer to being full.

“I find that really significant just because when you are stuck in transition, it feels like you’re not making any progress forward,” Anthony says.

“So we’re informing the users, ‘No, no, no, you’re getting closer! It may seem like an impossible journey, but you’ll get there.’”

Solace came out of both a desire to help the community and to ensure there’s access to accurate information.

For now, many people in the trans

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community rely on Facebook groups where people share their own very specific anecdotes and tips, which could be inaccurate for someone else’s journey, she says.

“This isn’t just, ‘Oh, I had a cousin who was trans once and this worked for them,’ because that’s pretty much the caliber of information that’s out there at this point, and it’s just woefully inaccurate,” Anthony says.

There’s also a common misconception that there’s one path to transition — get on hormones, change your voice, go through surgery — but Solace is designed with the understanding that each experience is different, Anthony says.

“What Solace is doing is presenting all the things you may want to do,” she says. “Maybe you don’t want to change your voice, maybe you’re fine rocking a baritone.

But if you do want to change it, here’s instructions for that.”

Much of the information will be about safety, too.

Oftentimes, advice from trans people who aesthetically blend in or “pass” is about just being confident, Anthony says, but that can be dangerous for others who aren’t as privileged. While those who “pass” might be able to choose when to openly talk about who they are and run into fewer problems with discrimination, that’s not always a choice for others.

“The rest of us are just trying not to get stabbed on our way to work, not yelled at, not chased out of the store,” Anthony says.

Many in the trans community are financially disadvantaged after losing jobs, support systems, and paying for the steps of their transition, Anthony says. The app will be free, and the goal isn’t to make money.

That’s why at this point, Anthony wants to alert everyone who has asked over the years how they can help the trans community: donating to the app at solace.lgbt is one way to finally do that.

“This isn’t ‘some kids are building a cool app and maybe we’ll toss them a few bucks,’” Anthony says. “This is your time to make it right.” n

PREVIOUSLY…

Today, Miller Cane and 8-year-old Carleen plan to visit Laura Ingalls Wilder’s house in Missouri (of “Little House on the Prairie” fame). The two of them need a distraction after months on the run. Miller’s been taking care of Carleen while her mother, Lizzie, is stuck in jail for shooting (and wounding) Carleen’s deadbeat dad, Connor, who came back after learning that she will inherit a family fortune. Along the road, Miller’s returned to a longignored writing gig: He’s been crafting brief biographies of American figures for a history textbook, each beginning with the same question, “Hero or Villain”? So far, Miller’s editor, George, hasn’t appreciated the literary license he’s taken.

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e got up early and left Carleen a note to call from the phone in the room when she woke. Maybe he’d get her a phone of her own soon, so she could always reach him. Her friends would have them and she’d have to have one too. But first they’d have to settle somewhere, so she could make friends. He’d teach her at home, where she’d be safe from massacres, and she’d find friends at soccer and piano, ballet and the mall, where they’d get shot, but not everyone and not everyday. He felt lightened by their talk of the previous evening, relieved that she knew about her mom and the money, even if she didn’t know about her mom shooting her dad or her dad trying to steal her money. At least she knew something — why they couldn’t go home. At least

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he hoped she knew.

He found a coffee shop and sat with his notebook and a bag of doughnuts. His plan was to write a Hero Villain before Carleen awoke, but when he checked his mail, there was something from George — a meandering, mealy mouthed message, the purpose of which was to fire Miller. “A Cleveland Steamer?” he wrote. “Even you must know that wouldn’t fly.”

Even he must know? What was that supposed to mean? And why couldn’t George just cut the steamer if it was such a problem, though the steamer would bring history to life for the kids, something George claimed he wanted. “It’s clear your heart’s not in it,” he wrote, “and never has been. I don’t know why you felt the need to waste our time like this. If you didn’t want to do it, you could have just said so.” All George wanted was the same old nothing — one glorious lie after another, the bodies and ploughboys buried. Maybe Miller would write his own book, a collection of Hero Villains followed by a series of Hero Villain comics, the critics applauding his triumph and bravery, showing America to him/her/them/it self.

Why would he even consider contributing to a textbook?

George could go fist himself.

He drove back to the hotel, where Carleen was still sleeping. He wondered for a horrible moment if she was dead. He shook her and she rolled over. He showered.

He wrote a snotty email to George, then deleted it. He went to the lobby for more coffee. When he came back to the room, Carleen was eating a doughnut in bed.

“Do you think my mom’s okay?” she said, and Miller said, “Yes I do. And we’re going to keep doing what we’re doing while we wait for her.” He didn’t know how long that would take. He’d have to talk to Lizzie before

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they told Carleen how long her mom might be in prison.

He read while Carleen brushed her teeth. The problem with George was his meekness. Maybe some of the Hero Villains were a little racy — but so what? That didn’t make them untrue. The untrue parts didn’t make them untrue either — everything served a larger truth. If George couldn’t see that, Miller didn’t need him.

They drove to Mansfield and Laura’s house, past an abortion graveyard with pretend tombstones for pretend fetuses under a sign that read Field of the Fallen Unborn, reminding Miller of Sitting Bull’s vision, but with fetuses falling into camp instead of soldiers. It was another beautiful day. At Laura’s house, a school bus was pulled into the parking lot, disgorging children.

“Maybe we can go with them,” Carleen said, opening her door and bolting.

Miller followed, standing by the motorhome with its crazy bumper stickers, not wanting to share the day. Carleen was thrilled. “My dad and me,” he heard her say to a girl in a bonnet, and they both looked at Miller, who felt uncomfortable and exposed, a kidnapper.

But also proud. He hung back as Carleen melted into the swirl of children. An older woman approached from across the street, Laura herself possibly.

“Cedar Creek kids,” she called, “follow me,” and Miller and Carleen followed as the woman corralled people, pointing them toward the lawn. “Are you with the school?” she asked Miller, and when he said no, that he and his daughter were visiting from out of state, she told him they’d have to come back that afternoon.

“We can’t go now?” Carleen said.

“We can go later,” Miller said.

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“Eight” Carleen said.

“Third grade,” Miller said, before Carleen could say she wasn’t in school.

“Us too,” the teacher said, introducing herself as Miss Judy or Julie.

Carleen said her name.

Miller said, “I teach high school history. We’re in Missouri for a family thing.”

“Wonderful,” Judy Julie said, and to Carleen: “Would you like to join us?”

“Yes,” Carleen said, and the tour boss said, “They’ll have to pay,” and Miller pulled out his wallet. The boss pointed to a building down the hill. “You’ll have to see Joanie,” she said.

“Can I stay here?” Carleen asked, and Miller looked at Judy Julie, who nodded.

In the gift shop/museum, there were postcards and cookbooks and bonnets for sale. Joanie didn’t want to sell Miller tickets for the tour with the Cedar Creek kids until he offered a hundred dollar donation, which she accepted. Back on Laura’s lawn, Carleen said, “Keira wants to meet Waffles — can I get him out of the moho?”

“Not now,” Miller said. “The tour’s about to start.”

“You should talk to the moms,” Carleen said, running back to the other kids.

Miller approached the moms, introducing himself and learning their names — Tammy and Jeanine. “Your daughter’s adorable,” Jeanine said, and Tammy said, “First time at Laura’s?” Miller nodded. The moms smiled. He’d been wrong to wait so long to settle down.

He’d tell Lizzie what was what and she’d be relieved.

Carleen ran in circles with a group of girls, shrieking.

She’d go to school here, Cedar Creek itself maybe. He wouldn’t hold her back by trying to teach her at home.

She ran over again. “There’s a camp here in the summer,” she said, her face flushed.

“Fantastic,” Miller said, and she tore off again.

“My daughter went last year,” Tammy said. “It’s wonderful.”

Eva the tour boss lined everyone up, explaining that no one could take pictures or touch anything except what she said they could touch. Miller couldn’t think of when he’d felt quite so something — not happy, exactly — but full maybe, complete, here on a perfect day with these kids and moms. Connor would never find them here. No one would. They’d become who they were going to be together, his anxiety regarding what to do and where to go melting away.

Laura’s house was exactly like it had always been, everything she and Almanzo had made still everywhere — rugs and furniture and couch cushions and everything. Laura’s books were there and her desk and her bed, and they saw it all, then boarded the bus — Miller and Carleen following in the moho — and drove to the other side of the property where the Rock House was.

Laura’s daughter had built it for her parents, with all the modern conveniences, a house they endured for a few years before moving back to the farmhouse they loved, something always a little weird and off about Rose, which Eva confirmed when Miller cornered her — a free spirit, Eva whispered. A collaborator on the books, Miller suggested, and Eva agreed — the books were what they were because of both women’s contributions, a symbiotic relationship that could become poisonous — swollen egos, Eva whispered. Miller wanted to know much more about that, but it was time to go back to the farmhouse.

They ate bagged lunches on the lawn, Miller making

Carleen’s in the motorhome. She had friends already.

They were landing. Miller sat with the grownups, trying to make appropriate conversation. They ate sugar cookies from Laura’s recipe, then walked to the museum, where Pa’s fiddle was displayed. Ma’s Laudanum bottles were scattered around and Mary’s glass eye, though Miller was careful not to share these inappropriate thoughts. In the gift shop, he chose three calico bonnets for Carleen, and as he was paying, he became aware of what he’d been hearing for a few seconds now, maybe longer, the sound of sirens, not just one, but several — three? four? — coming closer and closer, still faint, but moving toward them.

He looked for Carleen, who was safe on the museum side. He scanned the adults, none of whom seemed concerned. He walked back to the gift shop, checking his phone, but there was no connectivity. He stepped outside, where there was no doubt now — the cops were coming from every direction, zeroing in on Laura’s house.

He heard a scream from inside the house, one of the moms or Judy Julie.

Oh, Jesus.

The sirens were louder, the cops coming closer.

Another scream.

He ran toward the door, knowing what he should have known all along. One cop car then another pulled onto the lawn as Miller moved toward Carleen. After all these months, they were finally here for him. Would they shoot him down like they’d shot his brother? More sirens. The door burst open as Miller reached for it. His only chance now was to get her out the back way. n

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Eleven memorable modern music documentaries to fill your lazy summer nights

BY DAN NAILEN

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here are a few ways for filmmakers to approach a rock ’n’ roll documentary.

Some just film a concert. Others lean into an artist’s private life to reveal the person behind the on-stage performer. Many of the best rock docs are some combination of both.

Local show Spokane Public Radio Goes to the Movies, co-hosted by the Inlander’s film editor Nathan Weinbender, is presenting a screening June 12 of 1968’s Monterey Pop, one of the all-time great concert flicks thanks to performances by Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane and Otis Redding, among others. The ’60s, not surprisingly, were fertile for great rock documentaries, ranging from the revealing (or is it?) Bob Dylan flick Don’t Look Back to the epic Woodstock movie to Gimme Shelter, a 1970 release that captured the Rolling Stones’ violence-cursed 1969 concert at Altamont.

While those are classics, there have been plenty of great rock documentaries produced more recently that are worth tracking down and watching on a lazy summer night.

Just be sure to crank the volume UP on these movies:

HYPE! Director Doug Pray’s 1996 deep dive into Seattle’s socalled “grunge” movement and its effects on the city and its music scene is packed with clips that will quickly make any Northwest resident

either wistful with nostalgia, or cringe at the memories of the early ’90s. It holds up, though, and is increasingly poignant given the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mia Zapata, Chris Cornell and other leading lights of that era.

SHUT UP AND SING This might be a “Dixie Chicks documentary,” but it’s so much more. Shut Up and Sing explores the aftermath of singer Natalie Maines criticizing President George W. Bush and the Iraq War on stage in 2003. Suddenly one of the biggest bands in the world found themselves virtually banished from the mainstream country radio stations that made them famous. As a window into the music industry, politics and celebrity, this movie is excellent — and remarkably still relevant 13 years after its 2006 release.

ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL At face value, this 2009 flick is the story of an almost-forgotten crew of hair-farming hard-rock Canadians struggling to keep their music dreams alive. And while there’s plenty of Spinal Tap moments, it’s a surprisingly poignant movie, truly a story about lifelong friendship and two men dedicated to each other and their shared love of rawk.

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androgynous glam-rock style they passed down to the likes of Aerosmith, KISS and Mötley Crüe. Arthur “Killer” Kane was the Dolls’ bassist, and this 2005 movie catches up with him living a quiet life as a devout Mormon after years of drugs and alcohol abuse. Inspired by an opportunity to reunite with his old band for a festival concert, Kane has to balance his personal beliefs with his entertainingly sordid history. The resulting movie is brilliant.

to violence at shows by featured bands like the Germs, Black Flag and X. Spheeris manages to capture the energy of a mosh pit like few have since. Her splashy 1988 sequel, Part II: The Metal Years, lands on the Sunset Strip during the hairmetal era, and while acts like Poison, Megadeth and Ozzy Osbourne all chime in, the real “stars” are the fans, groupies and aspiring headbangers Spheeris captured in hilarious and thoughtful interviews.

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20 FEET FROM STARDOM This 2013 doc won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, so it isn’t exactly a secret. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you need to fix that right now. Director Morgan Neville explores the world of pop music backup singers, the vital role they’ve played on the definitive songs in rock ’n’ roll history, and the struggles those singers like Merry Clayton and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love had to overcome to be both seen and heard.

The Sex Pistols pioneered punk music in the United Kingdom, and director Julien Temple nabs interviews with all the surviving members (RIP, Sid Vicious) in this 2000 doc that tells the story of the rambunctious quartet. More than that, though, it puts the band’s meteoric rise into context, explaining just what was happening among the disenfranchised working class of England in the ’70s that led to the sneering success of singer Johnny Rotten and Co., and legendary tunes like “Anarchy in the U.K.”

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OK, so Madonna pretty much controlled the proceedings of this “revealing” 1991 documentary about her Blonde Ambition tour.

But it was still eye-opening to see her mother-like relationship with her dancers, and her romantic relationship with then-beau Warren Beatty, not to mention the impressive set pieces from her concerts. Lady Gaga and Katy Perry took a page from Madonna’s book when they produced their own self-glossing docs a couple decades later.

Director Penelope Spheeris has a knack for capturing the youth of Los Angeles. Her 1981 feature The Decline of Civilization captures the L.A. punk scene as its idealism is giving way

When LCD Soundsystem announced they were breaking up and scheduled a farewell for Madison Square Garden in New York, it marked an auspicious end for the dance-rock crew led

by James Murphy. Of course, they didn’t stay broken up, reforming just a few years later to tour again, but this 2012 movie remains a worthy part of the rock-doc canon as Murphy grapples with the question of when to shut a successful band down. n Monterey Pop with Spokane Public Radio Goes to the Movies • Wed, June 12 at 7 pm • $15 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • spokanepublicradio.org • 325-7328

CULTURE | DIGEST

Five ’90s Action TV Streamers

TRIP TO BOUNTY-FULL With Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, the long-running blockbuster game series reinvented itself by cribbing some of the best features of better games like The Witcher III and the Far Cry series. Maybe the coolest addition to Odyssey is the bounty system, which merges the beloved nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor with the heat indicator from the Grand Theft Auto series. Commit enough crime and find yourself targeted by powerful mercenaries who attack you at the most inconvenient times.

Handle them by hiding like a coward, killing the dude who put the bounty on you or taking the mercenary head on. Kill them, and you’re showered in some pretty powerful loot.

More risk and more reward. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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here was a time when nothing was available “on-demand” unless you dragged your JNCO-ed ass to Blockbuster. I’m talking about the ’90s, the glorious age of grunge, G-funk, and godawful TV action series.

“New content” rolled out over rabbit-ears TV in the summer. Local stations were flooded with low-budget syndicated action series, and few of them pass the smell test in 2019. Here are five ’90s action series worth a stream and a laugh — but good luck making it past the first episode of most without a Zima.

V.I.P. (Season 1 on Sony Crackle) Pamela Anderson’s V.I.P. satirized the inherent misogyny and T&A exploitation of previous action series — while also amping and camping up the T&A, because Pamela Anderson. Valerie Irons Protection (V.I.P.) provides celebrity security and solid one-liners, and the pilot features future Breaking Bad award magnets Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris. Seriously.

THE BUZZ BIN ACAPULCO H.E.A.T. (Season 1-2 on Amazon Prime) Acapulco H.E.A.T. (Hemisphere Emergency Action Team) could be the dumbest series ever created — and they made 48 episodes! The H.E.A.T. fights international terrorism while undercover as fashion models at an Acapulco resort hotel owned by… Fabio. How do you carry a gun in a banana hammock? Please stop thinking so hard.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores June 7. To wit: PERRY FARRELL, Kind Heaven. The Jane’s Addiction vocalist’s first solo album in nearly two decades features members of Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, the Cars and… Mötley Crüe?

FROTH, Duress. Hot on the heels of their appearance at the Inlander’s Volume music fest!

SILVERSUN PICKUPS, Widow’s Weeds. The L.A. rockers’ first album in four years will hopefully lure them back to Spokane.

NEIL YOUNG & STRAY GATORS, Tuscaloosa. A legendary 1973 performance by ol’ Neil gets a proper release. (DAN NAILEN)

MORAL QUALMS Robbie Mullen first joined a neo-Nazi crew the British government labeled a terrorist group to explore his own nativist views and find camaraderie. But once the group began enthusiastically developing plans to murder a member of British Parliment, Mullen reached out to a local anti-facist organization and became their mole. Ultimately, he went on to provide crucial testimony against his former racist associates. In a riveting May 27 New Yorker piece, Ed Caesar dives deep into the world of misogynistic and violence-obsessed British white supremacists — grimly illustrating the similarities between neo-Nazis and ISIS. Find it at newyorker.com.

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SCREEN MAGIC As the golden age of nerdy pop culture franchises continues to shine bright, another longtime franchise is finally getting its due on screen.

Earlier this week, it was announced that 25-year-old collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering is getting an animated series on Netflix, and is being helmed by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, who just wrapped up their work on Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame. A release date and casting details are still unknown. (CHEY SCOTT)

RENEGADE (Seasons 1-5 on Prime and Hulu) Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, ex-Army Ranger Reno Raines (Lorenzo Lamas) and his lush mullet hit the road on a Harley. He then skids into a gig as a bounty hunter in the “badlands” (as pronounced in the dadrockin’ theme song) and five seasons of this shit. At least Renegade inspired Mac’s sweet leather duster on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

LA FEMME NIKITA (Seasons 1-5 on YouTube) La Femme Nikita is a mostly action-free “action” series about assassins who operate out of an IKEA-furnished shadow government HQ. Nikita (Peta Wilson) stares through blonde bangs and emotes icily about “moral conflict,” and LFN eventually earns its hype through slow-slow-slow-burn arcs.

SHEENA (Seasons 1-2 on Crackle) Former Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin was looking for smarter roles in the late ’90s — she wound up starring in Sheena, instead. Sheena (Nolin) was orphaned in the jungle as a child, but now protects the African wilderness with salon-perfect hair and a hand towel passing as a battle dress. Oh, and she can turn invisible, or into an animal. Spoiler: Everyone is white. n

WHOAAAA Come for traditional rom-com tropes in Always Be My Maybe — courtesy of writers/co-stars Ali Wong and Randall Park (pictured) — and stay to see Keanu Reeves in a role unlike anything you’ve seen him in. The Netflix original is getting lots of hype due to the Asian-American backgrounds of its leads, and the hype proves well-deserved thanks to the subtle jokes throughout reflecting the cultures of main characters rarely seen on screens large or small. And while the rom-com plot is utterly predictable, what isn’t is Reeves’ unhinged, satirical version of himself. He does more than hold his own alongside comedy pros Wong and Park. (DAN NAILEN)

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Every Time a Bell Rings A farce like Bottoms Up! might be light entertainment, but it places heavy demands on comedic timing

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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t was 2010 when Nanette Guerry heard a radio ad soliciting volunteers for Riverfront Fright, a spooky haunted-house-style attraction that appeared each Halloween in downtown Spokane’s Riverfront Park.

“It sounded like so much fun that I volunteered,” she says. “And then I just got hooked.”

Up to the time it closed in 2012, when that area of the park was deemed unsuitable, Riverfront Fright was organized and staffed by Ignite! Community Theatre.

The event served as the cornerstone to the Spokane Valley-based theater group’s annual fundraising efforts.

After the haunted house was shuttered, Guerry transitioned to volunteering for Ignite!’s core programming, helping with props, set design and other backstage work on productions like The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and As Bees in Honey Drown. She soon moved into other areas of responsibility, such as stage management, which is a vital but often unsung component in any theatrical performance because it bridges the interaction between cast and crew.

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Highly choreographed farce is on tap at Ignite! Community Theatre.

“I enjoy Ignite! because it lets me be creative,” she says. “I love the set work and handling the props, and when I learned about stage management, I was more than happy to jump in there and just learn. It’s been very rewarding for me to be able to corral the actors and get everything going in a way that the director likes and the shows are a hit.”

With several years of stage-management experience now under her belt, Guerry finds herself in that position once again for the theater’s production of Bottoms Up!, a 1989 farce by Gregg Kreutz. She’s working alongside director Jerry Uppinghouse, with whom she was last paired on another farce, Mark Twain’s Is He Dead?, exactly one year ago.

“Jerry’s a very hands-on director. He’ll come in and help us build the set on the weekends, so we have a lot of communication going on between us. He’ll bring up and idea and I’ll bring up an idea and we’ll bounce it off each other. It’s a very good relationship,” Guerry says.

Although farces like Is He Dead? and Bottoms Up! might fall under the category of light entertainment, the logistical feats that are required to do them well places heavy demands on everyone involved.

“There are slamming doors, people hiding, running.

It’s quite active, very fast-paced. On this [set], we have a lobby, an elevator up to the second floor, and then we have a couple of rooms on the second floor and a hallway. And then within one of the rooms is a bathroom.

So you’ve got three doors people are coming in and out of, and then the bell has to ding when the elevator door opens and closes.”

That kind of timing involves a lot of moving parts while leaving little room for error. In the run-down Caribbean hotel where Bottoms Up! is set, phones have to ring at the right time, the elevator has to ding on cue and characters need to enter precisely when others exit, else the comedy might fizzle. Much of that coordination falls on Guerry’s shoulders as stage manager, given that

she’s responsible for recording the actors’ movements and position at every point in the show, a process known as blocking.

“Every time someone opens or closes a door, I’ve written down who it is. You don’t want to forget anything, because then you feel like you’ve let everybody down,” she says.

In this show, Guerry is supervising a cast of nine.

There’s June (played by Tricia Petrinovich), an aerobics instructor whose suitcase gets swapped with an identical cash-filled one that belongs to Scopec (Scott Finlayson), a ruthless mobster who’s abetted by the greedy but unlucky Smith (Steve Petrinovich). Lauralynn Stafford appears as Señora Valdez, owner of the Hotel Grande; Joe Smeader plays the porter. Troy Heppner is playing Rushmore, a sleazy filmmaker, and Anthony Cossette is Keith, his nonchalant assistant.

Adding to the color and commotion are Victoria (Phedre Burney-Peters), Rushmore’s malcontent former star, and Pumphrey (Michael Hynes), a neurotic chemistry professor who’s not staying at the Hotel Grande by choice. Like a shell game, part of the appeal for the audience lies in identifying who among this motley crew has the all-important suitcase.

Keeping the madcap interactions between these characters swift but comprehensible might be no easy task, but Guerry admits that she gets a thrill from channeling the chaos.

“Just trying to remember where everybody is at any given time, that’s what makes it so fun. I just kind of feed off of it,” she says. And though she’s speaking as the stage manager, a show like Bottoms Up! will have succeeded if the audience says the same. n Bottoms Up! • June 7-23; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $15 • Ignite! Community Theatre • 10814 E. Broadway Ave., Spokane Valley • igniteonbroadway.org • 795-0004

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Spring Polenta W A flavorful and healthy meal featuring vibrant spring produce in under 30 minutes

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Wild morel mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns are both in season and perfect for this dish.

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andering through the farmers market this week (my favorite thing to do), I picked up some beautiful spring veggies and put together a simple vegan meal. Soft creamy polenta cradles tender fiddlehead ferns, morel and porcini mushrooms and asparagus. A flavorful zesty herb sauce called gremolata is spooned over the top, and there you have it. Spring in a bowl. So simple, so easy; so elegant and flavorful. I could eat this every day.

I love this recipe because it’s easily adaptable and could be made in any season, using any seasonal veggies you choose. For those requiring more protein, serve with grilled chicken or fish, or crumbled goat cheese. For today, I’ve kept it clean and lean, letting the veggies shine.

The creamy polenta is made “creamy” with olive oil, but make sure to see recipe notes for other options.

Some of you know that I used to own a vegetarian restaurant in my previous life. One of the things that I like to do is pretend that what I share here (simplified, of course) would be the “special” of the week at the restaurant. (Please don’t misunderstand, I absolutely do not want to have another restaurant — I loved it and, at the same time, am so happy to have moved on.) But this creamy polenta with spring veggies is one of those recipes I would love to serve up to you in the “make-believe” restaurant in my imagination. Of course it would be adorned in beautiful edible flowers.

For those of you unfamiliar with fiddlehead ferns or how to cook them, treat them like asparagus. They are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested in the wild for use as a vegetable. Fiddlehead ferns can be sautéed, steamed, roasted, grilled or even pickled. They have a springy green flavor and are only around for a few short months, so if you see them, grab some!

For this recipe you’ll start off with the creamy polenta. I used a coarse cornmeal, and a little goes a long way.

A half cup makes two very hearty servings. It takes about 20 minutes on the stove to make this creamy polenta, and while it’s cooking you can prepare the other components.

After the polenta is started on the stove, make the flavorful gremolata: chopped parsley, lemon and garlic, mixed with olive oil. So simple, but oh-so tasty. You can make the gremolata in a food processor or in a bowl.

You’ll find a million uses for this tasty, zesty sauce: spooned over eggs, swirled into soups, layered into sandwiches or wraps, added to salads or over roasted veggies or grilled meats or fish.

Next you’ll sauté your veggies. Start with the mushrooms, then add the shallot, asparagus and fiddleheads.

Of course, you can substitute other more accessible veggies (see recipe notes). Cook the spring veggies until vibrant and tender.

Divide the creamy polenta between two bowls, or spoon it onto a big platter. Then pile the spring veggies on top. If the creamy polenta gets stiff while you finish cooking the spring veggies, simply reheat, whisking in a little more water until it’s loose again.

If you like, add some sautéed pea shoots for garnish.

Then drizzle with the flavorful gremolata. Place any leftover sauce into a sealed jar in the fridge; it will keep up to a week. ...continued on next page

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CREAMY POLENTA WITH SPRING VEGGIES AND GREMOLATA Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Serves 2, approximately 370 calories per serving

INGREDIENTS Polenta 2-1/2 cups water 1/2 cup dry polenta or cornmeal 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon granulated onion powder (or garlic powder) 1/4 teaspoon pepper (white pepper is nice) 2-3 tablespoons olive oil (or butter, or 1/4 cup goat cheese) Spring veggies 1 cup morel mushrooms (brush clean, don’t wet) 1 cup porcini mushrooms (brush clean, don’t wet) 2 cups asparagus, tough ends removed and cut into 1-2 inch slices 1 cup fiddlehead ferns 1 handful pea shoots (optional) Other veggie options (4-5 cups total): cremini mushrooms, spring peas, snow peas, english peas, edamame, green beans 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 shallot, chopped 2 tablespoons sherry wine, white wine or water Salt and pepper to taste 1 teaspoon fresh thyme (or tarragon) 2 tablespoons gremolata

1-2 garlic cloves Zest of one small lemon, plus 1-2 teaspoons lemon juice 1/2 cup olive oil 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt and pepper, more to taste Pinch of chile flakes (optional) 1. Place parsley, garlic and zest in a food processor and pulse until chopped.

2. Add oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Pulse again, until uniformly combined but not too smooth.

3. Add chile flakes for a touch of heat, if you like.

Gremolata 1 cup packed Italian parsley (small stems are OK)

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Bring water to boil in a medium pot. Season with

Substitute other veggies for availability and preference.

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salt, pepper and spices. Once it’s boiling, gradually whisk in the cornmeal, bring to a simmer, cover and turn heat to low. Mix again in 10 minutes. Then cook for another 10 minutes (20-25 minutes total). Stir in the olive oil, butter or goat cheese. Turn heat off.

2. While the polenta is cooking make the gremolata (instructions above). Set aside.

3. Cook the veggies. Cut veggies into bite sized pieces. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add mushrooms first, and sauté until just tender, about 4-5 minutes. Add shallot and other veggies. Season with salt and pepper and stir often. Lower heat and take your time; cook about 5 minutes until al dente, or just fork tender. Give a splash of wine or water, turn heat up to medium to help cook off the wine. Taste and adjust salt, remembering the gremolata will add a lot of flavor, so keep the veggies simple. If you have very thick asparagus, or larger pieces of veggies, you could cover the pan for a few minutes to lightly steam them, being careful not to overcook or you may lose their lovely color. If using pea shoots as the garnish, make a well in the center of the pan and lightly sauté them (keeping them separate).

4. Assemble two bowls or make one large, beautiful platter or bowl and serve from there.

5. If polenta has thickened too much, reheat it, whisking in a little splash of water, until loose and creamy again. Retaste for salt. Pour polenta into bowls, top with a mound of the veggies, then with optional pea shoots.

Spoon the flavorful gremolata around the veggies, over the polenta. n Find this recipe and other seasonal dishes from Spokane chef, caterer and former Mizuna restaurant owner Sylvia Fountaine at feastingathome.com.

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to come in and enjoy it, but we feel like we can service [less experienced diners] as well.”

For diners more familiar with Indian food, Garland suggests the veggie kofta ($15), with traditional Indian cheese sauce and vegetable rolls in a creamy tomato sauce. For those wanting to try something other than a traditional curry with meat, he recommends the daal makhani, a stewlike curry with black lentils in a buttery sauce.

When it comes to heat, the Mango Tree lets customers dictate how spicy they want a dish, starting with no spice (level 0) and going up to the spiciest (level 5). If that’s not enough, guests can request a side of chile paste to customize at the table.

“Rakesh wanted to scale things back a bit because [many] people aren’t used to that style of cooking, and he didn’t want to make it so hot that it’s turning people off to it,” Garland says.

“Most of the curries, the tweaks we’ve done are on the spice level, and not just heat, but how much of certain Indian spices. For an inexperienced palate it can become overwhelming,” he adds.

ext time you’re craving a bowl of flavorful, spicy and creamy curry, a new restaurant in downtown Spokane has you covered.

The Mango Tree Kitchen + Tap House, which opened in the former Hills’ Restaurant location in mid-May, serves a diverse offering of traditional Indian food, along with some American-Indian fusion dishes.

For those familiar with the Alberta-based chain’s Coeur d’Alene location, opened last year, the food menu in downtown Spokane is identical, says regional operations manager Casey Garland.

The five-year-old The Mango Tree opened last month in the former Hills’ Restaurant space. HECTOR AIZON PHOTO regional chain, started in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by India native Rakesh The Mango Tree also serves several rice Kaushal, mostly serves northern Indian cuisine, dishes, including biryani rice with veggies ($14) such as curries, samosas (savory stuffed and fried or protein ($15-$17). Naan bread is also made pastries) and naan bread. with additional flavors (garlic, butter, vegetable, Curry bowls, served with a side of basmati chicken, cheese and coconut; $2-$5); and there’s rice and plain naan bread, make up the bulk of whole-wheat roti bread ($2). A handful of salads the Mango Tree’s entree section with 18 options and traditional Indian drinks (lassi, Indian coffee, ($15 each), ranging from familiar butter chicken, masala tea) round out the menu. coconut chicken and tikka masala to vegetarian The taphouse element of the Mango Tree options like aloo ghobi (potato and cauliflower in is showcased with a selection of mostly regional onion sauce), bhindi masala (okra and onions in craft beer and wine. While the Coeur d’Alene tomato sauce) and channa masala (chickpeas in location doesn’t serve liquor, the new downtomato sauce). town spot did maintain a license to serve spirits, There’s also a portion of the menu devoted although a house cocktail menu is still forthcomto grilled entrees ($15-$17), such as bone-in ing. chicken marinated for three days, along with fish, Perhaps one of the best times to sample the steak, prawns, lamb chop and beef kebab. Each Mango Tree’s Indian fare is during lunch, from of those dishes come with rice, a small house 11 am to 3 pm Monday through Saturday, when salad and butter sauce. the restaurant offers a $13 lunch special that’s Western and Indian ingredients collide in quite a bargain. Dishes included in the special Mango Tree’s take on the classic hamburger; vary by day, but there’s always one vegetarian the Indian Kitchen Burger ($12) is topped with option, Garland says. Customers can choose two lettuce, tomato, fried onions, mint and tamarind of the three featured daily curries, which are each chutney. In the appetizer section, there’s also served as half-size portions of the regular menu, wings ($12), butter chicken poutine ($13) and with a side of rice, naan and a small salad. n “naanchos” ($14). cheys@inlander.com Flatbreads made on naan also fuse American and Indian traditions. There’s one with cheese The Mango Tree Indian Kitchen + Tap ($10) and another with pepperoni ($11), which House • 401 W. Main • Open Sun-Thu Garland says are great options for kids.

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The uneven X-Men film franchise comes to a bumpy close with the merely passable Dark Phoenix.

The X-Men series (reportedly) concludes with the underwhelming Dark Phoenix

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t’s a shame that modern blockbuster movie franchises can never really end.

2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past would have been a perfect send-off for the series based on the Marvel superhero comic books, bringing together the casts of two different X-Men movie eras for a time-spanning saga that tied together series continuity and provided a satisfying, hopeful resolution. But Days of Future Past was followed just two years later by the dreary, misguided X-Men: Apocalypse, and now comes Dark Phoenix, which is the de facto end of the X-Men series, thanks only to the intricacies of corporate mergers.

That’s more than the relatively modest Dark Phoenix can take on, and writer-director Simon Kinberg, making his directorial debut after working as a writer and producer on the series since 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, falters when it comes to the grand gestures. But he captures a lot of the nuances of character interaction, delving into some of the thorny moral issues raised by the best X-Men stories. The biggest problem with Dark Phoenix is its reliance on a character just introduced in Apocalypse, Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey, who hasn’t had enough screen time for her transformation in this film to deliver the kind of impact and meaning it deserves.

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artist John Byrne, is one of the most famous stories in the history of X-Men comics, but part of what makes it work is that it’s the fall of a beloved character with more than a decade of history in comics stories. This version of Jean has barely established herself before she’s taken over by the intergalactic entity known as the Phoenix, which augments her telepathic and telekinetic powers and also taps into her anger and resentment.

The movie opens with a flashback to an 8-year-old Jean’s discovery of her powers in a car-crash scene that serves as a clumsy introduction to the guilt and rage that will consume her later in the movie. The first big ensemble set piece is much better, as the superpowered mutant X-Men rescue a team of astronauts stranded in space. Kinberg has pared down the often unwieldy team to a core of characters with clearly defined powers, and he showcases all of their strengths during the exciting action sequence, which culminates in Jean’s encounter with the Phoenix.

From there, though, the movie slows down for a good hour and never quite recovers, as the characters mostly argue among themselves about what is happening to Jean, passing around blame for her erratic, dangerous behavior. Still, the arguments among telepathic X-Men founder Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his

longtime lieutenants Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult) and Raven Darkholme (Jennifer Lawrence) draw on the big ideas of the X-Men series, including whether mutants will ever truly be able to coexist with humans.

Those arguments kind of fall away in the face of the threat from the Phoenix and from the leader (Jessica Chastain) of a malevolent DARK PHOENIX shape-shifting alien race.

Chastain’s villain is Rated PG-13 much creepier and more Directed by Simon Kinberg menacing than the title Starring James McAvoy, Michael character of Apocalypse, Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, but her mission is a little Nicholas Hoult muddled, and the final confrontation between her and Jean is a meaningless swirl of CGI. Turner, who slowly built a fully realized character over eight seasons as Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, seems a little overwhelmed as Jean, and her version of the character is never as compelling as Famke Janssen’s in the early X-Men movies. Kinberg himself was partly responsible for the bungled version of the Dark Phoenix Saga adapted with Janssen in The Last Stand, and his attempt at redemption only highlights how far he still falls short. n

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The Secret Life of Pets 2 might keep your little ones occupied. You, on the other hand, will be checking your watch.

Kids will probably like The Secret Life of Pets 2, but it’s missing most of the charm of the original

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his is where we are with movies in 2019: Flicks that should be getting — and in the not-so-distant past would have gotten — theatrical releases are being shuffled straight off to video on demand with little fanfare. And movies that once would have been straightto-DVD sequels are pushed via big-budget marketing campaigns on their way to getting splashed all over your local multiplex.

To wit: The Secret Life of Pets 2. The first movie was charming and inventive, a wistful devotion to home, family and friendship. This one? Well, it’s not quite — ahem — a number two, but it is certainly underwhelming.

Episodic and almost random, it’s a collection of unconnected vignettes rather than one cohesive story. It could be three episodes of a cable Secret Life of Pets TV series lazily slapped together into just-about feature length.

Actually, our nominal hero, neurotic terrier mutt

Max, gets two episodes here. In the first, he and his canine brother, goofy sheepdog Duke (the voice of Eric Stonestreet), have to deal with accepting a new human baby into the household they had previously shared only with their beloved person, Katie (Ellie Kemper). (Her new husband Chuck barely caused a blip. He’s basically a human Duke.) In their second, almost completely unrelated story, the whole human-and-dog family takes a vacation to the country, where Max encounters gruff, no-nonsense farm dog Rooster (Harrison Ford, the best thing about this sequel), who has canine life lessons to teach Max, or something.

Second best thing here: Patton Oswalt is now the voice of Max, replacing Louis C.K. He’s just better in the role, with a more intense doggy sweetness that better leavens Max’s anxiety.

Meanwhile, purse pooch Gidget (Jenny Slate, still

a hoot) loses Max’s favorite squeak toy, which she has been “babysitting” while he’s away, and has to infiltrate the feline-full flat of a crazy cat lady in order to retrieve it. This is a rather ungenerous depiction, considering the first movie’s affectionate take on the relationship between humans and companion animals. And “Captain” Snowball (Kevin Hart), a bunny with delusions of caped-crusader-dom, attempts to rescue a tiger cub from an awful, abusive circus. It’s a THE SECRET truly dated operation, and it seems impossible that such a LIFE OF PETS 2 show would be tolerated in the Rated PG movie’s present-day New York Directed by Chris Renaud, City setting.

Jonathan del Val Still, it’s all completely Starring Patton Oswalt, inoffensive fluff, fine for the Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, kids, but sorely lacking that Jenny Slate certain transporting je ne sais quoi that adult animation fans look for. Pets 2 is missing the real sense of place that its progenitor had, and its larger-than-life personality, that fantastical animals’ perspective on the human world in which everything far away and unknown loomed jagged and slightly ominous, but home was always close and cozy and welcoming.

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he Tacocat you hear on Spotify today isn’t the same group that formed in guitarist Eric Randall’s mom’s garage in 2007.

Loving a band that has stayed together for over a decade means witnessing the group’s style evolve.

While the last two records by Seattle’s Tacocat railed against cat-callers and tech bro jerks with surfy poppunk, their new album This Mess is a Place shifts focus from outside actors to an inner emotional landscape, reassuring us “it’s OK to feel everything at the same time.”

It’s an existential record made by grown-up musicians — adults juggling side projects and jobs but still down for goofing around. “Being out of my 20s is a true relief,” says bassist Bree McKenna, who calls her 30s “a blessing.” This Mess delivers splashes of poppunk and familiar Tacocat-itude, but mostly spotlights synth sounds perfect for spacing out and pondering the cosmic “Joke of Life.” Today’s Tacocat is slightly jaded but also holding tightly to a light beyond the Willy Wonka horror tunnel that is the daily news: This world is a mess, and Tacocat is still creating their place in it.

Tacocat took time from their tour to email responses to the following questions; this interview with Randall, singer Emily Nokes and drummer Lelah Maupin has been edited for length.

INLANDER: Eric, you’re a longtime fan of Carly Rae Jepsen. I trust you’ve been listening to her new record. To me, your album sounds less poppunk and more synth-pop. What pop or dance artists influence you, specifically while making this album.

RANDALL: I have been listening to the new CRJ album, and I’m absolutely in love with the song “Everything He Needs.” I love how weird and different it is compared to the rest of the album.

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Tacocat has always embraced bold style and fun fashion choices. Your current look seems more glam. Any major style icons or inspirations?

NOKES: I do feel much more drawn to glam fashion. That probably comes from the fact that we’ve always been attracted to “more is more” when it comes to fashion, so “more colors!” sort of naturally evolved into “more rhinestones!” At this rate I’ll look like Liberace by the time I’m in my early 40s. Other inspiration in the glam vein has to be David Bowie. And of course the punk couture of Vivienne Westwood, and the whole wardrobe of Blade Runner as well as the Fifth Element.

Lelah, you’re a dog mom now. That must make touring different. How has being a dog parent changed you?

MAUPIN: As far as tour goes, being Sara Banana’s mommy does make it harder. I’ve missed friends and whomever I may have been dating on previous tours, but missing your doggy is different. In general, being a doggy mommy has changed me for the better. It has given me some responsibility I didn’t know I needed, and an endless well of cuteness and love and fun.

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worked on the Shout Your Abortion book and have been involved in the #SYA movement since its start. What’s your hope for the future of reproductive freedom in the U.S.?

NOKES: Working on the Shout Your Abortion book was a really powerful and profound experience. My hope is that people stop telling womxn (and everyone) what to do with their bodies. And that people realize this isn’t a partisan issue — all people, no matter their political standing, need access to abortions.

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MUSIC | PSYCHOBILLY

Take Me to Church Psychobilly believers, rejoice — the Reverend Horton Heat is back

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f you need a crash course in rockabilly, psychobilly or greaser tunes, there is no better professor than Jim Heath, aka Reverend Horton Heat.

Since the mid 1980s, Heath, longtime bassist Jimbo Wallace and four different drummers have been baking essentially the same pie with varying levels of the essential, sinister ingredients — the Cramps with triple grease (hold the leather), peppered devilish humor akin to Supersuckers, and chunks of the earliest forms of rock ’n’ roll.

Rev’s latest album, 2018’s Whole New Life — his 12th in 30-plus years — is the closest Heath and his combo have ever come to sound like a fresh slab of singles from the height of Sun Records’ heyday. It boogies, it hops, but it also understandably shows age. After all, the Rev turns 60 in November.

The jovial title track is a snappy, Jerry Lee Lewis-like homage to feeling good — a stark contrast to the band’s heavy-hitting psychobilly stables like 2002’s “Galaxy 500” or 1990’s “Baby You Know Who.” Heath says he’s continuing to explore the engineering side of making records in addition to providing the material. While recording Whole Rev. Horton Heat hits Spokane next Thursday. THOM JACKSON PHOTO New Life, Heath wanted to experiment more with techniques used by legendary producer Sam Phillips.

“LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO EAT” “It really sent me to this whole other head(Rev, 2014) space,” says Heath in a press release. “I worked If you are more than a novice with the Rev’s with a lot of vintage gear on this album.” He material, you probably recognize this isn’t the adds that he also built several tube microphones first time he has used food (and/or animals) to and pre-amps himself for express lascivious intentions. “Eat MORE EVENTS the session.

Steak,” “Nurture My Pig!,” “Octopus Visit Inlander.com for Don’t be fooled by the Mode,” “Please Don’t Take the Baby to complete listings of band’s seemingly cleanest the Liquor Store” and “Rockin’ Dog” local events. album yet. Heath made paint some solid pictures, too. the right choice in playing to his strengths instead of rehashing weathered “JIMBO SONG” ideas with an outdated approach.

(Space Heater, 1998) “[It’s] the most positive material I have ever The Reverend Horton Heat band would not written,” he says. “[Whole New Life] focuses heavexist without slap-bassist Jimbo Wallace. His ily on rock ’n’ roll but there is a human interest unique style of playing and physical abilities with parallel — songs about growing up poor, vices, a standup bass include throwing it in the air and marriage, having children and walking the rapcatching it, laying it down and standing on it turous streets of America.” while playing, etc. This tribute song likely gets Interested? See how the cuts off Whole New mistaken at shows for a Motörhead or Ramones Life compare to these five essential Reverend cover.

Horton Heat songs: “I CAN’T SURF” “PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT” (Liquor in the Front, 1994) (Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, 1991) Another RHH song to appear in a video game!

You may have heard this song already when your “I Can’t Surf” was in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. A kid was playing Guitar Hero II in the other room. less-is-more scorcher, the song’s only lyrics are The song appears in the seventh tier of the game, shouts to remind you that you cannot, in fact, entitled “Furious Fretwork.” surf. n “400 BUCKS” (The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat, 1993) Guess what word rhymes with “buck” that Heath mentions a handful of times during this song?

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Reverend Horton Heat’s Rockabilly Invasion with Bloodshot Bill, the Delta Bombers and the Hooten Hallers • Thu, June 13 at 8 pm • $20 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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MUSIC | VOLUME

Electric Feel PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK, ERICK DOXEY AND ALICIA HAUFF

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nother Volume Music Festival is in the books, and if we’re being honest, we’re still recovering nearly a week later. If you’re not a bit hard of hearing and a little sore from all that dancing, then you probably didn’t do Volume right.

Regardless, it’s always encouraging to see so many people turn out to celebrate the communal electricity of live music, and to support our artists both touring and local. We went through our trove of photos from the weekend and are printing some of our favorite snapshots here. Enjoy!

— NATHAN WEINBENDER, music editor

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

ROCK L7

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t’s always a bummer when a great band gets back together after a long time apart and just joylessly crank out lethargic versions of their early material. Not so with L7. The four-piece reformed a few years ago with the lineup that bolstered their most successful run of LPs in the early ’90s, an era when grunge was picking up steam and the pop-punk renaissance was right around the corner. L7 has always straddled those complementary genres, a style that re-emerges on Scatter the Rats, their first full-length album in 20 years, and it proves they’re back and just as fierce as they ever were.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER L7 with Le Butcherettes • Mon, June 10 at 8 pm • $22.50 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW

Thursday, 06/6

219 LOUNGE, The Reverend Hylton A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic ARBOR CREST, Son of Brad J THE BARTLETT, The Lowest Pair, Haley & The HitchHikers BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOBBI’S BAR & GRILL, Power House with Steve Starkey J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Jr. Adams and Big John CRUISERS, Dangerous Type FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays HUMBLE BURGER, Tommy Alexander, Long Gone John J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LIBERTY LAKE WINE, Jimi Finn J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid O’SHAYS, O’Pen Mic Thursdays PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brain Jacobs J THE PIN, Spilt Milk, Gabriella Rose, 3113, Late for the Parade POST FALLS BREWING CO., Dallas Kay RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Jason Perry RED ROOM LOUNGE, Red Room Goes Boom REPUBLIC BREWING, Travelin’ McCourys w/Scratchdog String Band RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series SOUTH FORK PUBLIC HOUSE, Andru Gomez SPIKE’S PHILLYS, Mythic Valley J STELLA’S ON THE HILL, Buck Storm THE STEAM PLANT, Ron Greene ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

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ROCK TRAIN & GOO GOO DOLLS

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he careers of Train (pictured) and Goo Goo Dolls have followed relatively similar trajectories. They each got their starts in cutthroat music scenes — San Francisco for the former, New York the latter. Both began playing sharper-edged rock before softening significantly and finding mainstream success.

And both bands toured exhaustively for years before finally cementing their legacies with some of the biggest adult contemporary radio hits of the late ’90s. Now they’ve launched a co-headlining tour and you’ll finally be able to hear “Drops of Jupiter” and “Iris” in the same place.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Train with Goo Goo Dolls • Sun, June 9 at 7:30 pm • $79-$119 • All ages • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford, Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 877-871-6772

Friday, 06/7

219 LOUNGE, The Working Spliffs 1898 PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish BEEROCRACY, Brian Stai BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Atari Ferrari, TGTG, The Monties THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOLO’S, Tin Pan Alley BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Sammy Eubanks J BUCER’S, Phoenix Blues Band THE BUOY, Dallas Kay CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Isaac Walton J J COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Wynonna and the Big Noise with Paulette Carlson and Highway 101 CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Pat Coast CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary

CURLEY’S, Haze J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, Tin Foil Top Hat DRY FLY DISTILLERY, Mark Holt J FORZA COFFEE CO., Katie Fisher J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, John Ford Coley & Friends with Starlite Motel FREDNECK’S, Just Plain Darin J J THE GORGE, Dead & Company THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike THE HIVE, B Radicals IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mike and Shanna Thompson IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Vanna Oh! IRON HORSE (CDA), JamShack KOOTENAI RIVER INN & CASINO, Truck Mills & Carl Rey MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind MULLIGAN’S, Wyatt Wood

NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), The Ryan Larsen Band NYNE, DJ Patrick OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Cary Fly Band J PARK BENCH CAFE, The Tourist Union PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Justin Lantrip PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SEASONS OF CDA, Son of Brad SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, The Pickering Simmons Project ZOLA, Pastiche

Saturday, 06/8

1210 TAVERN, Black Jack Band 219 LOUNGE, The Down South Band 2231 CONCERTS, Nathan Kalish 3RD WHEEL, Dimestore Cowboys, Bearing Heavy Crowns

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus BARLOWS, Into the Drift Duo BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, World’s Finest, Tyler Alai, Bradford Little J J BING CROSBY THEATER, An Evening with Cowboy Junkies BOLO’S, Tin Pan Alley BRANDYWINE BAR, Katie Fisher BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Daniel Hall J J BROWNE’S ADDITION, Cannonball w/The Rub, Indian Goat, Kung Fu Vinyl, Buffalo Jones & more J THE BUZZ, Nick Canger CHECKERBOARD BAR, Rex Vox, Free Love, The Sow CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Isaac Walton J COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kip Winger Unplugged COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Kevin Dorin CURLEY’S, Haze GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Blue Canoe CD Release with Starlite Motel

GEEKSNGLORY, Pride EDM Afterparty J J THE GORGE, Dead & Company THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike THE HIVE, Pixie & the Partygrass Boys HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, The Reverend Hylton HOUSE OF SOUL, Kalimba, The Spirit of Earth Wind & Fire J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Brook Gannon J HUMBLE ABODE BREWING, Just Plain Darin IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mobius Riff J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 7th Anniversary Party w/Fat Lady, Dapper Devils, Heat Speak & more IRON HORSE (CDA), JamShack THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JR’S BAR-N-GRILL, Tin Foil Top Hat J KNITTING FACTORY, Floater, Dawn of Life, In Flux LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Chris O’Murchu J THE LOCAL DELI, Ally Burke LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Old School Night with DJ WesOne MARYHILL WINERY, The Ronaldos MATCHWOOD BREWING, Devon Wade

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MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Truck Mills & Carl Rey MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NORTHERN RAIL PUB, Bret Allen NYNE, Atari Ferrari; DJs Patrick, Storme, C-Mad & Ricki Leigh OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Tommy G ONE TREE CIDER HOUSE, Vanna Oh! OUTLAW BBQ, Hillyardbillies J J PANIDA THEATER, Roger Fisher of Heart PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner Trio POST FALLS BREWING, Guy Caillouet RAIN LOUNGE, Jamison Sampson RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J ROCKET MARKET, Michael & Keleren Millham THE ROXIE, EDM Takeover STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, The Ryan Larsen Band WESTWOOD BREWING, Son of Brad ZOLA, Pastiche

Sunday, 06/9

1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison ARBOR CREST, SideStep J BIG BARN BREWING, Carey Brazil CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kosh CRUISERS, Fancee That CURLEY’S, Mad Love DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke

HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), JamShack IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Mike McCafferty LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, JoLynn J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Train and Goo Goo Dolls (see facing page) O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Kaylee Cole THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 06/10

THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Michael Fenris COSMIC COWBOY, Echo Elysium CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J J KNITTING FACTORY, L7 (see facing page), Le Butcherettes J THE PIN, Seth Anderson with Ashley Pyle and more RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 06/11

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Zonky Night feat.

Sarah Berentson BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Hoi Ann, Willow Tree CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke

JR’S BAR-N-GRILL, DJ WesOne LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue. LITZ’S, Blues Happy Hour RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Jam RIVERFRONT PARK, Nick Grow J ROCKET MARKET, Ron Greene THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Son of Brad THE VIKING, Aaron Birdsall ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 06/12

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & John Firshi J J THE BARTLETT, Tacocat (see pg.

45), The Paranoyds & BaLonely BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Meghan Sullivan CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night J FARMIN PARK, The DIGaddie GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Carter Hudson LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LION’S LAIR, Storme J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Maxie Ray Mills LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Son of Brad ZOLA, Cruxie

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Pacific • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 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 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 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 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • 279-7000 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 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 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 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Pacific • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 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 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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MUSIC BACK IN BROWNE’S

Local music fans uttered a collective sigh of disappointment at the demise of Elkfest, the free music festival that rocked Browne’s Addition for 13 years. Elkfest ended last summer following issues with city permits and complaints from nearby businesses. During its run, the weekendlong block party showcased countless Spokane acts and brought bands like Minus the Bear, Pickwick and the Grizzled Mighty to the historic neighborhood. Enter Cannonball, a new music event that you could classify as a mini Elkfest. It’ll be family friendly (with a beer garden for those looking to imbibe) and features live, local bands — the Rub (above), Indian Goat, Kung Fu Vinyl, Buffalo Jones and more — throughout the day. Oh, and it’s also free. Stick around for the after party at 10 pm at Pacific Pizza and boogie with DJs Unifest and Moon Wild.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Cannonball • Sat, June 8 at 3 pm • Free • All ages • Second and Cannon St., Browne’s Addition • facebook.com/cannonballbrownesaddition

WORDS DOGGONE GOOD

Willow Springs Books is the literary press housed at EWU’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers, a place responsible for getting some incredible works out into the world. But doing God’s work supporting writers — like you do by picking up the Inlander every week, of course — isn’t easy, or cheap. This Friday night, Willow Springs is hosting a book launch and fundraising party for the new poetry anthology Hair of the Dog. Besides drinks, music and conversation with engaging folks of all stripes, you can enjoy readings from the likes of Rachel Toor, Polly Buckingham, Laura Read, Tony Flinn, Derek Annis and Kathryn Smith.

— DAN NAILEN Hair of the Dog Book Release • Fri, June 7 at 7 pm • Free • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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ARTS SHOW UP TO THE POP-UP

Emerge’s sixth annual, one-night-only pop-up art show is the place to be this weekend, offering a chance for arts supporters and creative types to mingle with several dozen artists whilst viewing art in all media, performances, installations and other works. This year’s festivities take over the historic former Masonic Temple building in downtown Coeur d’Alene, featuring installations throughout the space, along with music, film and poetry. There’s a beer garden and food trucks, too, and onsite screen printing. Those wanting to beat the crowds and get a sneak peak before the big night can purchase tickets ($15) to a preview night on Thursday, June 6, from 6-9 pm.

— CHEY SCOTT Emerge Sixth Annual Pop-Up Show • Fri, June 7 from 5 pmmidnight • Free • All ages • 524 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene • emergecda.com

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Proud Arts June’s First Friday showcase includes the first annual Spokane Queer Art Walk in honor of Pride Month

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WORDS WALK & TALK

It doesn’t take much arm-twisting to get me to go on a North Monroe pub crawl, but the idea of a Lilac City Lit Crawl on that venerable (and newly spruced!) stretch of Spokane makes it all the more inviting. Sparked by city poet laureate Mark Anderson, the crawls feature some excellent poets and authors sharing some of their favorite words, and roving groups of literature lovers meeting new friends and enjoying a pop or two along the way. The lineup for June is particularly stellar; Spokane Arts tells us it includes Jess Walter, Aileen Keown Vaux, Ben Cartwright, Alexis Smith (pictured), Dena Ogden and members of the Spokane Poetry Slam team. It kicks off at the Hub and ends at Bellwether Brewing, with a couple stops in between. Here’s hoping someone busts out a hockey poem at the Hub. — DAN NAILEN Lilac City Lit Crawl • Sun, June 9 at 4 pm • Free • The Hub Tavern • 2926 N. Monroe • spokanearts.org/lilac-city-lit-crawls

COMEDY LAUGH ABOUT IT

Many of us know wine-loving complainer Matt Bellassai from his BuzzFeed days on the series Whine About It, in which the disgruntled millennial got drunk off wine by himself and rambled about everything wrong in this world, from annoying co-workers to babies; online dating to clothes shopping and so much more, all while we sat there laughing and simultaneously nodding our heads in justified agreement. After gaining a massive following there — his videos got 3.5 million weekly views — Bellassai went on to launch the web series To Be Honest (go watch the newest, “Reasons People with Babies are the Worst”) and the Unhappy Hour podcast. Now he’s coming to Spokane and we’re all ready to toss back a glass of red or two with him.

— CHEY SCOTT Matt Bellassai • Thu, June 6-Sat, June 8 at 7:30 pm; also June 8 at 10:30 pm • $16-$35 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

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. In June, in recognition of Pride Month, many venues are also participating in Spokane’s first annual Queer Art Walk, highlighting LGBTQ artists. Receptions for most events are Friday, June 7, 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) AVENUE WEST GALLERY, 907 W. Boone Art by co-op members for small things II, plus oil paintings by guest artist Aaron Smith.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second Color & Whimsy features art by Linda Malcom and Vicky Cavin.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Art by Bart DeGraaf with music

by Grand Avenue.

J THE BARTLETT, 228 W. Sprague Willow Springs Books launches the poetry anthology Hair of the Dog, from 7-9 pm.

BEN JOYCE STUDIOS, 806 W. Third Art by the local “painter of place.”

BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens Prints by Willow Rosales.

BISTANGO, 108 N. Post Music by Chris Lucas; 4-10 pm.

J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

A third and final reception for the SATURATE group show. Includes live poetry by Aileen Keown Vaux and Bethany Montgomery for the Spokane Queer Art Walk, 4-7 pm.

CMTV14 STUDIO, 104 W. Third Tour the newly remodeled studio and meet local videographers, programmers and producers; includes live music by the Emilys, from 5:30-8 pm.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Carol Schmauder’s Shattered Reality painting series; 2-9 pm.

DEAN DAVIS STUDIOS, 216 W. Pacific, Suite 102 Oil paintings by Matt Schwenk.

Reception 5-9 pm.

DECORUM, 126 N. Washington Art by Gonzaga Prep students.

Reception 5:30-8 pm.

THE DISTRICT BAR, 916 W. Sprague Looking Up by Shawn Gray, with live music at 9 pm; 5-10 pm.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main The John R. Rogers High School student gallery show; 5:30-8 pm J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, 906 W. Main Queer Space, a show featuring art by more than 20 members of the local LGBTQ community.

FIRST AVENUE COFFEE, 1011 W. First Art by Tiffany Patterson and Margaret Mount, with music by Stephen Shoemaker.

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, 721 N. Cincinnati Kinda Legal Lookin’ features photography by Robert Charloe.

IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Oil paintings by Travis Chapman.

J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams Julieann - Julie - Jule - Jules Jewels features art, mixed media and performance by Jewels Dietrich.

KRESS GALLERY, 808 W. Main Digital photography by Jimmy Evans.

LUCKY LEAF CO., 1111 W. First Art by Nathan Gall; 6-8 pm.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

Paintings by Alfredo Arreguin and others.

MARYHILL WINERY, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Art by Carol Herrmann.

OBJECT SPACE, 1818 E. Sprague Photographic prints by Alan Nelson. Reception 5-9 pm.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington Hiding and Seeking features

woodworking by Joe Simonsen.

Reception 5-9 pm.

J RICHMOND ART COLLECTIVE, 228 W. Sprague Organic Matter features art by Amanda Caldwell, Brian Deemy, Grace June and others.

RIVER CITY BREWING, 121 S. Cedar The First Friday garage party (4-9 pm) with music by Perfect Mess.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific Oil landscapes by Jenny Werner.

Reception 5:30-8 pm.

J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Invisible Sight by Roin Morigeau and Mana Mehrabian, alongside Dan McCann’s Mechanic Of...

SMOKE & MIRRORS SALOON, 402 W. Main Major Arcana by Shades of Me Artists; music by Samuel Gentry.

J TERRAIN GALLERY, 304 W. Pacific Take Pride commemorates the inaugural Queer Art Walk and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising with art by Casey Doyle, June T. Sanders, Makayla Miracle, Tiffany Patterson and others.

J TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY, 115 S. Adams Ceramics and mixed media by Ivan Carmona (Portland) and Jeffry Mitchell (L.A.).

V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott St. Paintings by Catherine “Cat” Gregorak with music by Crushpad. Reception 5:30-9:30 pm.

VINO! A WINE SHOP, 222 S. Washington Art by Rob McKirdie; 3-6:30 pm.

WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY & FRAMING, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy.

The First Seventy Years by Vicki West.

J WONDER SPOKANE, 821 W. Mallon The Threads of Wonder pop-up celebrates the Queer Art Walk with textile art by Shawn Parks and Margaret Mount, and a dance performance by Seattle’s Vincent Michael Lopez. Event 5-9 pm.

A ceramic sculpture

by Ivan Carmona.

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CHEERS

I SAW YOU

DONUT MISS THIS PLACE, SUGAR! M y partner and I will always have a special place in our hearts for Hello Sugar.

They are an amazing local business that thrives on creativity and kindness. We have enjoyed their themed doughnuts and sending each other dozens at work as well as sharing the treats with our kids and my family. They have been part of many of our joys this past year.

Every visit is fantastic, every employee is effortlessly kind. I love seeing they are celebrating their birthday and may have a new location. I love seeing local businesses thrive and even more so when it’s amazing people like these!

NO ONE PUTS BABY IN THE DRIVE THRU I saw you tying a tie and dancing to ‘I Had the Time of My Life’ in the Carl’s Jr. drive thru. I wish I had your zest for life.

That attitude and your smile were/was contagious

YOU RESCUED ME Thank you ever so much to the kind and strong woman who scraped me off the sidewalk on Grand Blvd. just south of 33rd Ave. on Saturday morning, June 1. I did not fully articulate my gratitude to you. I hope to be able to ‘pay it forward’ in the near future.

ICEBREAKERS IN MY PLACE Hey, you used two of the worst (best) pick up lines I’ve ever heard on my friend and I last Friday after work while having drinks with a friend of yours at My Place in the Valley. It’s Tuesday morning, and I’m still thinking about how funny and cute it was! I’m an “I Saw You” junkie, I wonder if you read them too?

APOLOGIES IN ORANGE To the gracious guy in the big black truck I accidentallyon-purpose cut off to steal a sweet parking spot at Northtown Mall on Saturday, I really am sorry. No excuses, just apologies. If you see my jerkface around town come say hi and I’ll buy you a burger (or coffee, whatever) to show my sincerity.

Jeers to me!

LOCK BRIDGE BABE I saw you the People’s Park, walking down the center of the lock bridge on Tuesday. You helped me overcome my fear of the moving bridge and you didn’t mock me for being nervous at all. The sunlight made your blue eyes sparkle.

NICE TREE THINNING JOB To the property owners along Highway 291 who thinned their stand of trees while leaving plenty of tall pines. Great job! Your property looks great and has a better chance of dealing with a wildfire. And those many old trees you left there will grow healthy and strong for generations.

Nothing can replace our big Ponderosas, but as you seem to realize, they need a bit of space, too.

GREEN WITH HAPPINESS ( AND DEALS!) I saw you at Green’s Fresh Market on Thursday. You were picking up some avocados and corn. Isn’t that place fantastic? Amazing deals. Your smile was contagious, as was your laugh. Thank you for brightening my day.

FRECKLES I still think about you every day... Never stopped... Sometimes I wonder if you think of me? Seems like girls always move on faster while men take way longer to finally find someone

else... wish this wasn’t true but it is. I still feel like you’re the one and I shouldn’t have let you go so easy... maybe I’m wrong... All I know is no one else makes me feel what I felt when i was with you. Nothing makes sense... I hope your happy though.

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HACKING WASHINGTON I have heard about it and even been reading about it, so there are a few things that mayhaps need to be clarified on this. So I imagine that if businesses would be transplanting from the Westside to the Inland Empire, particularly Spokane area, and of those businesses what do you think the per-

can judge me. So I guess we will see If this makes the cut... I dare ya!

EBT FOR REDBULL Twice now I’ve watched the same woman buy Redbull and use her EBT card to pay for it.

Seriously? I’m not sure Redbull is a “necessary item” to live life. I also noticed the

I saw you tying a tie and dancing to ‘I Had the Time of My Life’ in the Carl’s Jr. drive thru.

I wish I had your zest for life.

THANK YOU Cheers to the amazing staff at Clover and the patron who bought us champagne on our anniversary. You made our night so so special. The meal was so amazing and Nico, our bartender provided us with a surprise dessert, a mean cocktail and endless charisma.

Such an amazing restaurant and such wonderful staff!

THANK YOU To the hard working man who helped out a down-and-out lady buy some makeup and bread. You helped a complete stranger at the dollar store Friday. I needed a few things and had lost my money. I thought I was going to have to walk out empty handed and you came to my rescue. I am grateful that there are still wonderful people like you in the world.

JEERS HOLY FAMILY CEMETERY THIEF To the person or persons that decided that my parents gravesite was less important than yours. Why did you have to steal my flower arrangement to make your loved ones look they were special? Perhaps you had a lapse of memory why we were both there to pay respects of loved ones.

Yes, I know who you are, and hopefully you can pay your respects to your loved ones in an honorable way next year.

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

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

centage of employees would also move over here? One of the things brought up was the commute time being roughly 10 minutes apart 20 minutes here vs. 30 min there, has anyone noticed the traffic in Spokane lately during Peak hours?

Every main arterial is swollen at capacity or greater, that is not mentioning I- 90 depending on the time of day or how fast everyone seems to be driving these days. Yeah let’s bring more people to Spokane as we are “beautifying our streets from 4 lanes to 2 lanes and wonder where all the traffic is going because of that. Let’s work on maybe getting homegrown businesses started with the quality of the workforce we have here (as the City of Spokane is pitching) let’s do more to help who is here. And in the meantime let’s work on easing our traffic congestion that is also growing, as is the population.

FROM CHEERS TO JEERS So twice now I’ve gotten my hopes up thinking I was gonna read a lover’s shout out. Nope!

They were “not chosen” REALLY?!? What the heck is your problem? For years now I’ve literally read the Inlander every week just for the I Saw You. Somewhere along the line it went down hill. It lost the real, heartfelt, funny and politically incorrect.

If nobody submits them that’s one thing.

If you guys are playing God, picking and choosing, then shame on you! Only God

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large cell phone in your back pocket. If you can afford to pay a cell phone bill you can afford to buy a can of Redbull.

Same with lunch programs for students... if you can afford that cell phone you can afford to feed your own kids RE: ABUSE OF POWER Cop didn’t need to be rude but was the cop treated rudely by your son first? I’m guessing yes. I’ve always thought a “yellow” light meant slow down not speed up because the light was about to go red!!!

Seems like the parent might be the stupid driver which may explain why your son was called stupid, if he actually was called that... what about the people using crosswalk when the “yellow light” running speeds up over the speed limit to make a yellow light? On further note you and your son are both dumbass drivers. n

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CDA ArtWalk update!

June 15 JUST FOR JUNE, WE’VE CHANGED THE DATE.

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• 5pm Chili Competition Cash prize. Dinner $5 with contest entry, $10 without entry.

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BENEFIT

GREAT SPOKANE CAR SHOW & VALVE COVER RACES Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels is revving up for its annual car show at Zip’s at Fancher and Trent. Vote for your favorite classic car and cheer on the racers.

Free admission; $15/classic cars; $5/ valve cover races. June 6, 4-8 pm. spokaneroadrally.com (924-6976) PFLAG DESSERT FUNDRAISER The dessert buffet offers cookies, brownies, cupcakes and other desserts, including some gluten-free and vegan options.

Includes performances by Emcee Katie Rockswell, Naomi D-Lish and Nakita Romanoff. June 6, 7-9 pm. $8. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland Ave. bit.ly/2WVERt1 (593-0191) CHILL OUT 4 CHARITY YOGA CLASS A mellow flow class for adults with proceeds benefiting the Spokane Humane Society. Pre-registration required.

June 7, 6-7 pm. $12. Browne’s Addition Wellness Center, 2013 W. Fourth Ave. brownesadditionwellnesscenter.com 3K WARRIOR WALK Stubborn Girl Fund 4 Arts & Education makes films about social justice awareness topics such as domestic violence and sexual assault trauma and the recovery process. The proceeds from this walk support the production of these films and helping the people in the community go from victim to survivor. June 8, 8 am. $15. CenterPlace Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (688-0300) A NIGHT AT THE STEAM PLANT + SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER A fundraising event to benefit the Rambunctious Astrobots, a local First Lego League team. Proceeds support efforts in finalizing and producing their invention to be showcased at the Global Innovation Awards in San Jose June 30-July 2. June 8, 5-8 pm. $25. Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery, 159 S. Lincoln. bit.ly/2Wh9L2J JOSHUA 1:NINE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER Learn more about how this group is using baseball to serve underprivileged kids in the Dominican Republic. Breakfast included; donations requested. June 11, 7:30 am. SYSA Bingo, 1221 N. Howard. sysabingo.com RUFF AROUND THE EDGES CAR & BIKE SHOW Support the North Eastern Washington Humane Society and the Heaven With a D Rescue. Includes a silent auction and live music. June 13, 4 pm. $20. Wagon Wheel Bar & Grill, 5978 Highway 291. (466-9991)

COMEDY

MATT BELLASSAI In 2012, Matt joined BuzzFeed as a comedy writer. In 2015, he co-created, wrote and produced the web series “Whine About It,” a weekly video series where he got drunk alone and violated numerous Human Resources bylaws. June 6-8 at 7:30 pm, June 8 at 10:30 pm. $16-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) NEARLY FAMOUS COMEDY TOUR Featuring comedians Deece Casillas and Michael Glatzmaier. June 6, 7-9 pm. $15. Wagon Wheel Bar & Grill, 5978 Highway 291. (466-9991) THE REAL ___S OF ___VILLE Join the BDT for an all-improvised parody of reality show life, luxury and self-indulgence. Rated for general audiences.

Fridays at 7:30 pm, May 10-June 14. $8.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Rated for mature audiences. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) JESSE WEYRICK Born and raised in the PNW, Jesse has been performing standup for the past seven years, and has opened for Doug Stanhope and more. June 9, 7:30 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm.

Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com NEARLY FAMOUS COMEDY Michael Glatzmaier and Deece Casillas bring their show to the Steel Barrel. Tickets includes appetizers, ceviche from Zona Blanca and one beer. 21+. June 13, 8-9:30 pm. $27. The Steel Barrel Taproom, 154 S. Madison. bit.ly/2JLxalJ TRAVIS NELSON Travis has performed at the Moontower Comedy Festival, Seattle International Comedy Competition, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, Westside Comedy Showdown and more.

June 13, 7:30 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998)

COMMUNITY

DELOREAN EXPO An event to show-

case these unique automobiles and unite DeLorean owners and enthusiasts. June 6-9. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. deloreanexpo.deloreanowners.org/about-us DROUGHT-ADAPTED LANDSCAPES Botanist and nursery owner Diane Stutzman provides insights on the benefits of drought tolerant gardening and landscaping around your home. June 6, 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. Cheney Library, 610 First St. scld.org (893-8280) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Experience the gardens as they looked in 1915 and learn about their rediscovery, the carefully planned restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who entertained national figures as well as Spokane notables in their glorious backyard. June 16 from 11 amnoon; June 13 and 20 from 2-3 pm. Free.

Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org NORTHWEST LEGENDS Explore the world of Northwest Legends including Sasquatch and Coyote. This family-oriented MAC-curated exhibition provides interactive opportunities including designing mythical creatures, a fairy wing selfie, stepping into Sasquatch tracks and more. Through Sept. 2. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org FREE MUSEUM DAY Enjoy three new exhibits this season and learn about the history of the Coeur d’Alene region.

June 7, 11 am-8 pm. Free. Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd. museumni.org (208-664-3448) IDAHO STATE BUTTON SHOW See thousands of antique and collectible buttons from the 18th century to present day, including clothing and military buttons. June 7, 10 am-4:30 pm and 7-9 pm; June 8, 10 am-4 pm. $3/adults; kids free. Templin’s Red Lion, 414 E. First Ave, Post Falls. facebook.com/IdahoStateButtonSociety (208-755-6585) YMCA HEALTHY KIDS DAY Enjoy a variety of activities designed to inspire kids to keep their minds and bodies active. June 7, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. YMCA Spokane Valley, 2421 N. Discovery Pl. ymcaspokane.org (777-9622) 12 TOUR AT SILVERWOOD Join Seahawks players, Blitz, Blue Thunder, Seahawks Dancers, and Taima the Hawk for an afternoon of meet-and-greets, photo ops, giveaways and more. Wear Seahawks gear and get 12% off admission. June 8, 11 am-1:45 pm. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95. (208-6833400)

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Advice Goddess SOTALLY TOBER

AMY ALKON

I spent years on and off drugs and alcohol, but I’ve been sober for six years. I’m just not the same self-centered immature brat I was. Last week, I reached out to my best friend’s brother to apologize for things I did about seven years ago. He still hasn’t responded to my text (requesting time to talk to make amends). He told my friend he was having a hard time believing I’m any different. But I am, and I want to prove to him I have changed. How can I do that?

–Sincere

He’s seen you swear off drugs and alcohol before – typically for several hours on a Tuesday.

This view he has of you is likely to have some serious staying power. That’s because our brain is big on automatic processes – forming and storing what I call “thinkpacks” so we don’t have to put cognitive energy into things we’ve already figured out. For example, say you do something for the first time, like opening a weird latch on a cupboard. Each time you do it again, the more automatic – that is, the more unthinking – opening it becomes.

Believing works similarly. Once we form a belief, we tend to just go with it – automatically. Questioning a belief, on the other hand, takes mental effort: yanking out our reasoning ability and forcing it to do a bunch of cognitive chores.

Not surprisingly, research by social psychologist Lee Ross, among others, finds that we’re prone to taking the mentally easy way out, succumbing to “confirmation bias”: clinging to what we already believe and ignoring info that says, “Hey, there just might be a new and improved truth in town.”

There’s another problem: Our ego is bound up in our clinging to our beliefs – that is, believing that we were right all along. And though it sounds like you’ve changed your value system – which probably bodes well for your staying sober – if he goes with the idea that you’re on the wagon for good, he risks being proved wrong.

The error that you, like many people, make is in thinking, “I’ll just change somebody’s mind!” and it’ll happen pronto. However, consider your goal: apologizing. You can do that by writing a letter. A letter of apology takes an investment of effort that a phoned or texted apology does not – which makes it more likely to be seen as sincere.

And frankly, if you follow through with the steps for a meaningful apology – detailing how you wronged him, expressing remorse, and explaining the new values you are now living by – you lay the best foundation for him to...possibly... someday...believe that you truly have changed.

Sure, it’s possible you’ll black out again, but maybe just if somebody clocks you for going overboard with the sobervangelizing. It won’t be like that time when you were drunk and handcuffed and yelling, “Occifers, I’ll have you know that my nickname in middle school was Houdini!”

A BODY AT RUST

I’ve been married to a wonderful woman for two years. We have a 2-year-old child. Unfortunately, we stopped having sex when she got pregnant and haven’t started again since.

She loves me, but she just doesn’t want sex like she used to. (And no, I’m not some sexist dude leaving all the baby care to her.) How can we jump-start our sex life? –Famished “Being and Nothingness” is 722 pages of stylishly depressing existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre; ideally, it does not also describe what goes on in bed between you and your wife.

Chances are your wife’s libido didn’t get broken in the delivery room or carried off by a raccoon. In women, desire seems to work differently than how it does in men, according to sex researcher Rosemary Basson, M.D. Once women are comfortably ensconced in a relationship, Basson finds that they no longer have the “spontaneous sexual hunger” they did in the early days of dating. Instead, their desire is “responsive,” meaning it is “triggerable” – simply by starting to fool around.

Yes, miraculously, revving up your sex life will probably just take some makeout sessions. Tell your wife about Basson’s research and start scheduling regular romantic evenings. Make them early enough that nobody’s too tired and keep your expectations on medium. (You might not have full-blown sex on night one, but try to see whatever mwah-mwah makeout that goes on as an encouraging start.) When possible, drop the baby off at Grandma’s and have a sex weekend at a hotel. This may sound like a lot of effort and expense, but it sure beats the alternative – setting your penis out on the blanket next to the VHS player at your spring garage sale. 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 DRAG QUEENS COMMUNITY DISCUSSION & PANEL To acknowledge recent controversy around the upcoming Drag Queen Story Hour at Spokane Public Library, a community panel discussion surrounding the topic of Drag Queens consists of experts and community members representing multiple perspectives on the topic. June 8, 2:30 pm.

Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org HISTORIC WALKING TOURS Walk through the park and learn the rich history of the Spokane Falls, Expo ’74 U.S. Pavilion, 1902 Clocktower, 1909 Looff Carrousel, Centennial Trail and more.

Tours depart from the Humana booth next to the Rotary Fountain every Saturday at 10 am and noon, through August 31. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. spokaneriverfrontpark.com SPOKANE ITALIAN CAR CLUB SHINE & SHOW Open to all Italian cars and sports cars; people’s choice for each category. At Division and Francis; 108 W. Francis. June 8, 10 am-3 pm. Free.

(509-328-9523) SPOKANE PRIDE PARADE + RAINBOW FESTIVAL The 28th annual Pride Parade starts downtown at noon, and is immediately followed by the Rainbow Festival at Riverfront Park’s Lilac Meadows with live entertainment, a resource and business fair, family area, the Odyssey Teen Zone, and the nYne Pride Bar. June 8, 12-1 pm. Free. outspokane.org SPOKANE STEPPING OUT TO CURE SCLERODERMA The fifth annual auction, raffle, walk and picnic to fight scleroderma, an autoimmune disease for which this is no cure. Walks are 1 or 5 kilometers. June 8, 9:30 am-noon. $25$30/adults; $10/ages 6-12. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy.

Scleroderma.org/SteppingOutSpokane FILIPINO AMERICAN CULTURAL FEST A City of Spokane-sponsored event featuring performances including Filipino folk dances, costumes, visual and table presentations of Philippine American history and culture, as well as family-friendly games and more. June 9, 1-5 pm. Free. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org SHARING THE DHARMA DAY The Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Newport opens its doors for a guided meditation, vegetarian potluck lunch, and facilitated discussion on the day’s topic. June 9, 9:45 am-3 pm. By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org (447-5549) ARTIST MEET UP: PRICING & VALUING YOUR WORK A new Spokane Arts series of professional development events for artists and creatives. Meet the people who run the Terrain Gallery, Bazaar, and the flagship event Terrain.

June 11, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific Ave. bit.ly/2JFm8PA ASTRONOMY AT THE LIBRARY Learn how to use binoculars for stargazing and navigating the night sky. Bring a pair of binoculars for a spin and a viewing, conditions permitting. June 11, 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St. scld.org (893-8300) DROUGHT-ADAPTED LANDSCAPES Botanist and nursery owner Diane Stutzman provides insights on the benefits of drought tolerant gardening and landscaping around your home. June 11, 6-7 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley. scld.org (893-8390) SHADLE AREA PLAN STUDIO & COMMUNITY MEETINGS Participate in a

collaboration between the AudubonDownriver and Northwest Neighborhood Councils and the City of Spokane to engage the community in creating a vision for the Shadle area, which includes the shopping center, library, park, schools and nearby amenities. June 11-13 from 10 am-5 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. my.spokanecity.org FROM HERE GRAND OPENING Terrain’s Pop Up Shop is moving to River Park Square, rebranding to From Here and expanding with new artists and makers. Grand opening includes a live DJ, drinks and more. On the second floor, next to Urban Outfitters. June 12, 4:30-8 pm. Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main. bit.ly/2JGnNnY RETIRED & SENIOR VOLUNTEER FAIR The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) of Spokane County, sponsored by the YMCA of the Inland Northwest, hosts a volunteer recruitment fair to connect adults 55 and over with volunteering opportunities throughout the community. June 12, 10 am-1 pm. Free.

Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. rsvpspokane.org (344-7787)

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RIFFTRAX LIVE: STAR RAIDERS Join Mike, Kevin and Bill for an unforgettable Sword-And-Laser Swashbuckling-ly fun time, beamed to theaters nationwide. June 6 and 11 at 7:30 pm. $13. Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone. fathomevents.com FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN An early screening of the film about money, power, politics, drugs, scandal and fast cars. June 7, 8 pm. $9. Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. magiclanternonmain.com STAND-UP + MOVIE NIGHT Featuring stand-up comedy from Tony Russell and Rob Wentz; hosted by Chris Armi.

Following is a screening of the movie “Half Baked.” June 7, 9 pm. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) CLASSIC CARTOONS Free Saturday morning classic cartoons return to the Kenworthy, every Saturday from 9 amnoon through Sep. 28. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG A white author is sucked into a road trip through the heart of Native American Country by a Lakota elder and his best friend forcing the author into a deep understanding of contemporary native life.

June 8 at 7 pm and June 9 at 2 pm. $10.

Tekoa Empire Theatre, 126 S. Crosby St. tekoaempiretheatre.com (284-2000) TO BE OUT HERE A film detailing the rich lives of rural transgender folks in Canada’s far north. The 46 min. documentary was produced by local filmmaker Emily McCarty. June 9, 3 pm. $10.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. bit. ly/311o1f0 (509-209-2383) KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE Go behind the scenes as four determined women, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, challenge big-money politicians in the 2018 race for Congress. June 10, 7 pm.

Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org SUPERBAD Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Summer Camp summer movie series. Every Tuesday at 7:15 pm, June 4-Aug. 27. See complete schedule online. June 11, 7:15 pm. $2.50.

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by D. A. Pennebaker documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Featured performers include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, and more. Screened as part of the taping of SPR’s Movie review program, Movies 101. June 12, 7-9 pm. $15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (328-5729)

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FOOD TRUCK RALLY The 4th Annual Lighthouse Food Truck Rally celebrates jobs, independence and empowerment of people who are blind or visually impaired in the greater Spokane area. Includes a beer/wine garden, raffle, music, facility tours and more. June 6, 4-8 pm. Free. Inland Northwest Lighthouse, 6405 N. Addison. LHBlind.org JUST DESSERTS! WINE-INFUSED BAKING Students create cabernet cream cheese brownies, wine biscotti and a sweet wine glaze. Desserts are paired with wine. June 6, 6-8 pm. $59.

Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. (279-6030) SUMMER DESSERTS CLASS A demonstration style cooking class with Eva from Just American Desserts. She’ll share how to make homemade graham crackers and marshmallows to make smores. June 6, 5:30-8 pm. $25. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org (252-6249) J.T. GREY WINE NIGHT A chance to taste two of Terra Blanca’s limited release wines, the J.T Grey Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Includes food from Two Cooks with Love. June 7, 5-8 pm. Terra Blanca Winery, 926 W. Sprague. (340-9140) IRON GOAT BREWING 7TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY Iron Goat turns 7 and hosts a party and fundraiser for Second Harvest. A $5 donation gets you in the door, and a commemorative glass to take home. Live music lineup includes Haley Young and the Bossame (2 pm), Heat Speak (4 pm), Dapper Devils (6 pm), Fat Lady (8 pm ), DJ Orange (9:30 pm). June 8, 11 am. $5. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. bit.ly/IGB-7 BLIND BOOK & BREW Each wrapped book is tagged with a genre and the first sentence of the book. Step outside of your comfort zone and let the mystery of the book be a part of this story.

All books ($8) are served with choice of local brew. June 10, 5:30 pm. $8. Heritage Bar & Kitchen, 122 S. Monroe St. heritagebarandkitchen.com LATTA WINES DINNER A five-course dinner paired with Latta Wines, and featuring guest winemaker and winery owner, Andrew Latta. Reservations required. June 10, 6 pm. $95. Lodgepole, 106 N. Main St., Moscow. lodgepolerestaurant.com (208-882-2268) HERITAGE BURGER NIGHT MENU REVEAL After a year making a different burger every Tuesday, Heritage is releasing its first ever “Burger Night” menu, featuring five specialty burgers not available on the regular menu. For $15, enjoy a burger with choice of side and a beer on tap. For $12, enjoy just a burger and side. The Burger Night Menu is served every Tuesday and changes monthly. June 11, 5-9 pm. $12-$15. Heritage Bar & Kitchen, 122 S. Monroe St. heritagebarandkitchen.com RIVERFRONT EATS FOOD TRUCK SERIES Join members of the Greater

Spokane Food Truck Association at the Orange Bridge this summer for food trucks, live music and more. Tuesdays from 11 am-2 pm, through Aug. 20 (except June 25, July 2). Riverfront Park. spokaneriverfrontpark.com PARTY ON THE PATIO A summer series at the Spokane Tribe Casino, with local beer, wine and spirits and food specials, live music, giveaways and more. June 13, July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12 from 4-7 pm. Free. Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar, 14300 W. SR Highway 2. (818-1547)

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THE BRENT EDSTROM TRIO WITH HEATHER VILLA Fresh arrangements of tunes by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Cole Porter and more. June 7, 7:30-9:30 pm. $10. Emmaus Church, 1317 E. 12th Ave. (434-6985) CANNONBALL A local mini music fest in the heart of Browne’s Addition (Cannon and Second) with an aim to celebrate live music, summer, beers and friends. Includes live bands from 3-10 pm, food vendors, beer garden and large scale games. June 8, 2-10 pm.

Free. bit.ly/2Hn0gox ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE Hosted by the Spokane Folklore Society, with the band Prestwold Players and caller Mitchell Frey. June 8, 7-10 pm. $7/$10.

East Spokane Grange, 1621 N. Park Rd. myspokanefolklore@gmail.com PLAID CAT Fan favorite at Spokanearea festivals, Plaid Cat plays an original mix of vocally rich swing, country blues, doo-wop, jug band, and rock oldies.

June 8, 1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Fairfield Library, 305 E. Main St. scld.org SPOKANE RECORD EXPO The annual record sale features vendors from around the Northwest and is open to the public to buy, sell and trade records, CDs, tapes, posters and music memorabilia. Proceeds benefit KYRS. June 8, 10 am-3 pm. $2 admission; $10/early admission. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. kyrs.org (206-310-5853) SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: THE SENDERS The Dahmen Barn kicks off its summer series with Senders, who specialize in 50s and 60s music. June 8, 7-9 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) THE VAUDE VILLAINS PRESENT: SPECTRUM Celebrate Pride with the most colorful burlesque cabaret, featuring performers in every hue. 21+.

June 8, 9-11 pm. $15. Berserk, 125 S. Stevens St. bit.ly/2VITKSQ SONGS FROM THE VIETNAM WAR ERA Brad Keeler and Linda Parman perform music of the Vietnam War era and explore the culture and politics surrounding the songs. June 10, 6-7 pm.

Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb St. scld.org (509-893-8330) STREET MUSIC WEEK The 17th annual event takes place in downtown Spokane, Coeur d’Alene and the Garland District, June 10-14 at noon. Local musicians perform to raise money for Second Harvest. streetmusicweek.com COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY: MAGICAL MOVIE MUSIC Selections from chart-topping Hollywood composer and SayRoar Studios collaborator Thomas Bergersen. Proceeds benefit the local nonprofit SayRoar Academy.

June 12, 6:30-9 pm. $25. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. sayroarmovie-concert.eventbrite.com SELWAY TRIO A violin, cello and piano trio performing the music of Clara Schulman, Mendelssohn and Piazzolla.

This is a benefit for The Festival at Sandpoint Music Camp. June 13, 7:309:30 pm. $10-$15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801)

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SPOKANE FESTIVAL OF SPEED The annual, historic grand prix is dedicated to sharing a love of vintage road racing to support the Inland Northwest’s Parkinson’s community. June 6-9.

Complete schedule at spokanefestivalofspeed.org LIND COMBINE DEMOLITION DERBY The annual event includes the combine demo derby, grain truck races, pickup and car races and more. June 7, 6 pm. $5-$25. Lind Lions Club Arena, Highway 21, Lind, Wash. lindwa.com COEUR D’ALENE ROLLER DERBY VS. ATOMIC CITY The Coeur d’Alene Roller Derby skaters take on the Atomic City Roller Girls from Richland. Kids 10 and under free. June 8, 6 pm. $5/$8. Skate Line Sports, 708 S. Clearwater Loop. facebook.com/inlandnorthwestbouts/ FUR TRADE ENCAMPMENT & SYMPOSIUM The annual weekend of living history features demonstrations of frontier life, historical reenactors, guided tours, a symposium and more. June 8, 10 am-5 pm; June 9, 10 am-4 pm. Spokane House Interpretive Center, 13501 N. Nine Mile Rd. Free; Discover Pass required. friendsofspokanehouse.com YOGA ON THE BRIDGE Yoga teachers from across the area guide this all-levels free yoga class throughout the summer. Meet at the orange bridge near the Looff Carrousel. June 8, 15 and 22 (w/ Harmony Yoga); July 13, 20 and 27 (w/ Yoga Shala); Aug. 3, 10, 17 and 24 (w/ Athleta). All classes from 9-10 am. Free.

Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. spokaneriverfrontpark.com (625-6600) BAY TRAIL FUN RUN The 7th annual family-friendly, timed 5K and 10K walk or run along scenic waterfront trails in Sandpoint. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail. June 9, 9-11 am. $25. Trinity at City Beach, 58 Bridge St. pobtrail.org (208-946-7586) WEDNESDAYS IN THE WOODS Explore trails of Inland Northwest and learn about the botany and geology that might be seen while on a hike. June 12, 6:30-8 pm. Free. Riverside State Park Bowl & Pitcher, 4427 N. Aubrey L. White Parkway. rei.com (328-9900)

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12 DANCING PRINCESSES A fairytale performance about 12 dancing princesses who mysteriously disappear each night, wearing out their dance slippers by morning. June 6-9. $8-$10.

Theater Arts for Children, 2114 N. Pines Rd., 2114 North Pines. (995-3718) BARE Stage Left ends its season with this contemporary rock opera following a group of students at a Catholic boarding school. Through June 16; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. (838-9727) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick Frankenstein finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors.

Through June 16; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $32-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) BONNIE & CLYDE: THE MUSICAL A

thrilling and sexy musical with a nontraditional score, combining blues, gospel and rockabilly music. June 7-8 at 7:30 pm. $15. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. sfcc.spokane.edu BOTTOMS UP! Storylines converge as a mobster, a filmmaker, an exercise instructor, and vacationers all find themselves in the same resort. June 7-23; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Free$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org

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EMERGE POP-UP SHOW Emerge’s 6th annual one-night art party featuring 60+ local artists along with live performances from 15 local acts. This year’s show in downtown Coeur d’Alene is at 524 Sherman Ave. June 7, 5 pm-midnight. Free. facebook.com/emergecda FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host receptions to showcase new displays of art. June 7, 5-8 pm.

Free. Details at firstfridayspokane.org COEUR D’ALENE ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR The 7th annual tour features 16 studios and a chance to meet 36 professional artists working in a variety of media and styles. June 8-9 from 10 am-5 pm. Free. artsandculturecda.org

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3 MINUTE MIC Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. This is a free speech event, so content is not censored, though it’s hosted with the intent of being sensitive to young or impressionable attendees. June 7, 8-9 pm.

Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) HAIR OF THE DOG BOOK RELEASE Willow Springs Books’ annual fundraiser and launch of the second book in its Zodiac Poetry Series, “Hair of the Dog.” June 7, 7-9 pm. $5-$10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. bit.ly/2WX88DP DANA HAYNES: ST. NICHOLAS SALVAGE & WRECKING Haynes is the author of eight mystery/thriller novels.

He graduated from Lewis & Clark High School and is managing editor of the Portland Tribune newspape. June 8, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) MEET THE AUTHOR: CLAUDIA ROWE Meet Washington State Book Award winner for “The Spider and the Fly” in the Biography/Memoir category. Rowe, who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, discusses her book, the writing and publishing process, and leads a Q&A on writing. June 8, 10:30 am-noon.

Free. Liberty Lake Library, 23123 E. Mission Ave. (232-2510) LILAC CITY LIT CRAWL Join Spokane Poet Laureate Mark Anderson and a lively group of writers for a pub crawl featuring poetry and prose readings at several stops along North Monroe in the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood. June 9, 4-7 pm. Free. spokanearts.org DAHR JAMAIL: THE END OF ICE After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he once climbed are irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, he embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. June 12, 7 pm. Free.

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The Gladwell Effect No, marijuana didn’t give Washington state a “violent crime problem”

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ew Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, a best-selling writer and podcast host, loves the counterintuitive take. And so it says something about the cultural shift on marijuana that Gladwell’s take in a January issue of the New Yorker — where he argued that marijuana was dangerous — qualified as counterintuitive.

And for evidence that marijauana was making us more unsafe? Sure, there has been some research that suggested that marijuana use can activate existing psychosis in some people. But, citing journalist Alex Berenson’s book Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, Gladwell (right) suggests that violence in Washington may be linked to the state’s vote to legalize marijuana in 2012.

“Between 2013 and 2017, the state’s murder and aggravated assault rates rose 40 percent — twice the national homicide increase and four times the national aggravated assault increase,” Gladwell wrote.

And, for Gladwell, that’s reason enough to begin speculating.

“We don’t know that an increase in cannabis use was responsible for that surge in violence,” Gladwell acknowledged, before suggesting that when Washington legalized marijuana “its citizens began turning on one another with increased aggression.”

But Gladwell completely botched the stat: When Spokesman-Review columnist Shawn Vestal ran the stats, he found that the state’s murder rate rose 35 percent from 2013 to 2017 — not 40 percent — and that while our

aggravated assaults appeared to rise faster than the national average, it wasn’t anything close to what Gladwell claimed.

Today, Gladwell’s New Yorker piece has a correction acknowledging he’d misstated the percentages. Yet Gladwell has continued to insist that “it is a little odd that they have a violent crime problem in the state of Washington.”

But the premise is completely wrong: The state actually doesn’t have a violent crime problem. Washington’s violent crime rate in 2017 remained lower than its violent crime rate for every single year for three-decades between 1974 and 2010.

Even today, the nation’s violent crime rate is 77 percent higher than the state’s.

According to FBI data, there were about 369 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 people in the United States in 2013, while there were only about 290 in Washington.

Yes, by 2017, the state’s violent crime rate had increased to 304.5. But the national violent crime rate had climbed to over 382 per 100,000.

The number of violent crimes, murders and aggravated assaults per person in Washington increased by about the same margin as they had in the rest of the country. But because the state started with a much lower crime rate, the percentage increase looks high.

Let’s put it in elementary school terms: Yesterday, Johnny ate one apple. Today, he ate two apples. Yesterday, Suzie ate 40 apples.

Today, she ate 50 apples. ...continued on page 60

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Now, if you were Malcolm Gladwell, you could write a New Yorker story with that information saying, “Holy cow, Johnny saw a 100 percent increase in apples, while Suzie only saw a 25 percent increase in apples. Is the fact that Johnny’s classroom legalized chewing gum to blame?”

What Washington does have is a property crime problem — one of the worst in the nation. But, Gladwell can’t use the property crime figures as evidence for the “marijuana-is-dangerous argument,” because state’s sky-high property crime rate has been falling ever since marijuana was legalized.

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21. Drop by, say 22. ____-billed woodpecker 26. Fairy tale “lump” 27. Vietnam War protest grp.

29. Little horse on the prairie?

30. Capitol insiders 32. What a koala really isn’t 33. Trump portrayer Baldwin 34. Pam of “Jackie Brown” 35. Make gradual inroads

36. Quetzalcoatl, e.g.

37. Singer whose name sounds like a cry of dismay 38. Gets ready to hit the road 40. “In my opinion ...”

41. Subject of the mnemonic “My very eager mother just served us nachos” 42. Bullfighters 44. Nicks on albums 45. Come through slowly 47. Response to a pledge drive request 48. The sun, for one 50. Nonsense word repeated before “oxen free” 51. Uma’s role in “The Producers” 52. Path 53. Jungle chest-beater

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visitcda.org for more events, things to do & places to stay.

3rd Annual

Brewfest Sat, July 6 . 2-8pm McEuen Park Free Admission For Designated Drivers

30 Beers & Ciders Food Live Music cdadowntown.com

Saving at Silverwood

Follow these handy tips to make the most out of your day at North Idaho’s favorite theme park

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ummer and Silverwood go hand in hand. To make sure you can go back as often as you’d like without breaking the bank, here are some ways to save without sacrificing fun.

BOULDER BEACH

OPENS JUNE 8

Special admission days offer a range of buy one-get-one ticket programs, starting with Father’s Day weekend, June 15-16, when dads get in free.

In September, it’s grandpa’s and grandma’s turn on Grandparents Day weekend, Sept. 7-8.

More is better at Silverwood. Purchasing a multiday admission pass knocks some dollars off and you don’t have to use the passes all at once; you can spread out your visits over the summer! Same goes for adults ages 65-and-up and children ages 3-to-7. And of course, children 2-and-under are always free.

Just North of Coeur d’Alene, ID With over 70 rides, slides, shows & attractions on over 200 acres!

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Consider getting each loved one a Silverwood VIP card. It’s essentially a reloadable, secure debit card for any inpark purchases. You can set the budget in advance, and then there’s no waiting or having to find mom or dad to make a purchase and less risk of kids losing cash in the park.

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Evening discounts begin June 8, the same day Boulder Beach opens (yay!).

After 4 pm, entry is just $30. Even better, in the summer, when the park stays open later, you get to experience the park all lit up!

Bring some friends and make a day of it. Groups of 15 or more qualify for a group discount (call 208-216-4300 in advance).

Make your food dollars count. Purchase bottled water, a soda or slushie from the park and refill it throughout the day (nominal charge for soda or slushies).

You can also bring your own drinks, but they must be sealed (unopened) and non-alcoholic. You can also bring small snacks into the park or pack a lunch (you’ll pass several grocery stores and sandwich shops heading up Highway 95 when driving to Silverwood). You’ll need to leave the park to eat lunch, but there are picnic tables where you can relax in the shade while you plan your next move.

Plan ahead for next year to get a jump on savings, including early admission ticket sales. Silverwood’s website

(silverwoodthemepark.com) has more easy-aspie ways to save money. Under “Contests & Fun,” click “Enter-to-Win” four general admission passes for 2020. Pay it forward by nominating another deserving family in the Family-A-Day drawing.

Under Tickets & AddOns, save on season passes, which this year went for $150 (single) and $502 (gold for you and two guests). Benefits of a season pass? Unlimited admission, of course, but also free parking; discounted food, beverages (excluding alcohol), and RV park entry; and a discount for the opening weekend of Silverwood’s spooky alter-ego, Scarywood.

And to stay up-to-date on all things Silverwood, remember to “like” them on social media or subscribe to their handy Silverwood Express newsletter.

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Upcoming Events Inside or out, the views are as good as the new menu.

ArtWalk JUNE 7

ArtWalk is a week early this month, due to Car d’Lane festivities next week. Stroll through beautiful downtownCoeur d’Alene and enjoy the many galleries, shops and restaurants showcasing locally and nationally acclaimed artists.

River Grill Restaurant

Emerge’s Pop Up Show

Live Music Thursday at 6pm June 20th - Sept 26th

JUNE 7

Emerge’s dynamic annual pop up show features 50+ artists, three stages of live poetry and music, plus awesome food and drinks. Get a sneak peek of the show Thursday, June 6, 6-9 pm for $15. Friday, 5 pm, 525 Sherman Ave.

Wynonna & the Big Noise JUNE 7

Wynonna’s rich and commanding voice has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

This summer she brings her undeniable talent to the Coeur d’Alene Casino’s Coeur Jams Concert Series. $30-$60, Friday, 8 pm, Coeur d’Alene Casino.

BREAKFAST: Mon-Sun 7am-11am LUNCH & DINNER:

For more events, things to do & places to stay, go to VisitCDA.org

COEUR D’ALENE

Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm

Fri & Sat 11am-10pm HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Fri 4pm-6pm

414 E 1st Ave | Post Falls, Id (208) 773-1611 SPONSORED BY THE COEUR D’ALENE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

Sat & Sun 2pm-6pm

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CULTURAL EVENTS Book Your Authentic Coeur d’Alene Tribal Event Today at CDAcasino.com June 17th

June 26th

BISON RANCH TOUR

LAST BATTLE TOUR

Coeur d’Alene tribal member guided tour of a working bison ranch. Deluxe bison burger with all the fixin’s included. 3 hours | $40

A full-day tour of the Steptoe Battle site OLDhistorians withSlocal and tribal member guides.

T! OUcontinental Includes breakfast and lunch. $50

June 19th

June 28th

TRIBAL HOMELANDS GUIDED HIKE

LIFEWAYS WORKSHOP – "MAKE YOUR OWN" BEADED POUCH

Explore Heyburn State Park, including breathtaking LD of Lake Coeur d’Alene and lush forest.

SOviews UT! included. 3 hours | $25 OLunch

June 21st KAYAKING & CANOEING TOURS

A tribal member helps you craft an authentic beaded pouch, and adds traditional storytelling.

Includes dinner. 3 hours | $80

June 29th

A co-guided, ranger-led tour filled with wildlife,

PLATEAU PAINTING CLASS WITH DIANE COVINGTON, SPOKANE TRIBAL ARTIST

June 23rd & 30th

Work on your own canvas with renowned artist Diane Covington. All art materials provided.

Refreshments available. 2 hours | $45

LD and history. Vessels, life jackets and lunch SOnature UT! Oincluded.

4 hours | $30

LIFEWAYS WORKSHOP – "MAKE YOUR OWN" PARFLECHE BAG WITH LEANNE CAMPBELL, COEUR D'ALENE TRIBAL ARTIST Craft a parfleche, known as an "Indian Suitcase,” with the help of a tribal artist. 25 participants; all materials provided. 5 hours | $40

RESERVE YOUR SPOT AT: CDACASINO.COM/CULTURAL-TOURISM For group bookings, contact: Dee Dee McGowan Cultural Tourism Manager wmcgowan@cdacasino.com 208 769-2663 or 1 800 523-2464 X7415

1 800 523-2464 | CDACASINO.COM |    Worley, Idaho | 25 miles south of Coeur d’Alene

International C U LT U R A L E X C H A N G E

June 22nd Celebrate the beauty of Indigenous Cultures coming together with cultural booths, craft demonstrations & international cultural dance performances. See cdacasino.com/cultural-tourism for more details!