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he presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, keeps getting bashed for statements that turn off many voters. While he has slammed the establishment and politicians in general, it’s clear that he could use some of the skills that politicians perfect. Hillary Clinton has recently called Trump “unfit” to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Trump’s appeal largely stems from his frankness; his lack of political correctness has drawn a loyal band of supporters who helped him overcome primary challenges from experienced conservatives who previously held positions in government. In a cycle where political experience has been viewed by many as a curse, American voters now face a dire situation; their choices are either a 30-year experienced crooked politician in Clinton or an inexperienced reality television personality in Trump. Newspaper editorials and many pollsters predict that Trump will lose in a landslide to Clinton; that voters will choose experience over inexperience and policy vagueness. Trump’s rudeness to women in general and Hispanics in particular probably has doomed his candidacy. His lack of specific policy positions exhibiting a basic understanding of government will encourage many independents to vote for certainty and experience (Clinton) over inexperience and uncertainty (Trump). Trump’s comments about banning Muslims show a basic misunderstanding about religious freedom under the Constitution. While such a ban may be attractive to LETTERS some, Trump’s Send comments to call for one editor@inlander.com. scares many voters who revere religious freedom. Many of us raise our children to be respectful of others, to always tell the truth, to be tolerant of others and to be dignified and consistent in our conduct. The presidential choices this year don’t reflect those traits, likely reflecting instead voters’ frustration with politicians’ phoniness and policy lapses. Elected officials’ ineffectiveness has led to massive national debt, and their expediency has increased voter irritation.

ut all that doesn’t mean that such frustration justifies supporting either Clinton or Trump as the best America can produce in presidential candidates. Clinton is fundamentally dishonest and as much of an egomaniac as Trump, and her record of dishonesty is unappealing to most voters. That’s why Trump is polling well against her, at least at this time. Look for his numbers to drop as she uses her political skills to highlight his past policy inconsistencies.

If Trump could only restrain himself and use political skills to persuade others to support him, he’d likely have a chance in November. He may still be able to pull it off, but he’s of an age where changing himself fundamentally will be difficult. His recent criticism of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a leading popular Hispanic leader, illustrates his thin skin, his intolerance for any criticism and his innate vindictiveness when he doesn’t get his way. America shouldn’t want a vindictive president — it would lead to war abroad and unrest at home. Politicians develop ways to understand differing political views without making enemies. It’s an acquired skill, borne of the experience of fundamentally wanting to serve others. Those who serve in public office learn that their way may not always be the best. Few have a corner on public policy wisdom. Public service helps officeholders understand differing points of view. Principled leadership is still possible, even in policy disagreements with others. Having the “people skills” necessary to disagree without being disagreeable comes from experience. Dignity is at its heart. Unselfishness is its soul.

ven though Clinton is as petty, vindictive and selfish as Trump, and would make a terrible president, her dignity and experience may win the day in November’s election. As many leading Republicans flock carefully to Trump’s side, most do so unenthusiastically. While Trump says he “doesn’t care,” he should, since most of Clinton’s support is loyal and liberal, hungry for the Supreme Court nominees she’ll pick that will change American society for at least a generation. If Trump could develop the important trait of humility, he wouldn’t be so rude to others and dismissive of critics. In the process of showing altruism, he’d receive important support for what will likely be a hotly contested election. The United States presidency, under the Constitution, demands cooperation between the coequal branches of government. Trump’s business experience has made him wealthy. His political inexperience has made him vulnerable to “Crooked Hillary” and her liberalism that will be unhealthy for our constitutional democracy. Trump would be wise to listen to experienced political hands. Persuading them to support his conservative alternative to Clinton and the prosperity he hopes for America will be a major challenge for him over the next five months. n

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Last week, HILLARY CLINTON basically suggested that DONALD TRUMP should seek psychiatric help, saying “I’ll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants,” referring to his praise of dictators in Russia, China and North Korea. Clinton’s inference that Trump seek psychiatric evaluation rather than the presidency is interesting, considering what’s known as the Goldwater Rule — an ethical standard among psychiatrists saying that it’s not fair to give opinions about public officials they haven’t personally examined. The rule originated with the presidential run of then-Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in 1964. Now-defunct Fact magazine surveyed more than 12,000 psychiatrists asking if Goldwater, another polarizing figure, was fit for office. Nearly 10,000 didn’t respond, but 1,189 weighed in with characterizations such as “anal character,” “dangerous lunatic,” and as having a “Godlike self-image.” Goldwater sued the magazine and won. However, some psychiatrists and psychologists (who have their own standard) see the Goldwater Rule more as a guideline. Take, for example, the five mental health professionals who told Vanity Fair last November that Trump is a textbook narcissist. Or this month’s cover story in The Atlantic, where Northwestern University psychologist Dan McAdams analyzes Trump’s personality, but is careful not to offer any formal diagnosis. (MITCH RYALS)

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COMMENT | ECONOMY the whole totem will fall. If the top 1 or 2 percent were to be removed from our economic system, our economy would not collapse. But when the base of the economy can’t afford basic necessities, an economic fall is inevitable. I think of people in poverty as the strongest, most resilient members of our community. They are able to navigate systems that intentionally make it hard for them to succeed; they take on jobs that no one else wants;

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he funny thing about our society is that we expect people in poverty to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I’ve always laughed at that saying, because most people in poverty can’t afford a pair of boots. Too many of us villainize people who are poor and blame them for their circumstances, which they most likely have been born to, just as their parents were. Intergenerational poverty is a thing, because the system is rigged for a select few to be successful and the rest to stay status quo. There will be no upward mobility until

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they are humble, but have hope for their future even when they are told they will never be good enough. I have seen all my life the innovation and intelligence it takes to make it in America with no money, no savings, no “earning potential.” I always laugh when some “taxpayers” complain about poor people owning smartphones but having to go to the food bank to make it through the month. Did you know that it’s harder than ever to know where to receive benefits, apply for jobs and communicate with potential employers without email and without access to the internet? It’s a no-brainer that people in poverty need access to the internet that so many of us take for granted. Here’s the thing: people in poverty can’t afford a desktop computer and premium internet service. Instead, they get a smartphone that is usually subsidized through a contract with a phone carrier. Some sneer at them for having a smartphone, but to me it seems the smartest and least expensive way to stay connected and potentially get a job that pays well enough to get off welfare or other services. Maybe we shouldn’t be so judgmental; maybe we should see their determination to make it in a world intent on leaving them behind. It would behoove many to know that poor people know they are as important to society as the top earners in our community. They know that as the bottom of the totem pole, they are essential to the success of those at the top of the totem. They also know that in order to keep lifting up the top of the totem, we have to lift up equally those closest to the Earth. n

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t the Spokane Regional Health District’s needle exchange, there are two 5-gallon orange buckets emblazoned with biohazard symbols. Each day the exchange is open, clients file in, plunk used syringes into the buckets and pick up new ones. During a week in May, vanilla mousse cake was sliced up and served each day, celebrating the exchange’s 25th anniversary. Lynn Everson, the exchange’s longtime coordinator, always knew this occasion would come, though at times that wasn’t obvious. “There used to be a lot of people who didn’t like me,” says Everson. “It’s a big deal to get to 25, because when we started in 1991 we weren’t very popular.” Most of the people who use the exchange inject drugs such as heroin and meth. The idea behind the program is that giving away clean syringes will stop the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis, as well as skin and bacterial infections that can result from dirty needles. Clean ...continued on next page

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“UNDER THE NEEDLE,” CONTINUED... needles, says Everson, will keep clients alive long enough for them to enter recovery. “Dead people don’t recover,” she says. When the exchange opened up in a modest building in downtown Spokane, it was among a handful of places in the country adopting the controversial practice of giving drug users clean needles. At the time, it drew scorn from prosecutors, police and the public, who viewed it as a means of enabling drug use. But since then, it’s become an increasingly mainstream public health practice that research has shown reduces the harmful effects of drugs. Over the past quarter-century, the exchange has operated under the stern yet caring gaze of Everson, who is 67. She’s a pioneering public health worker, she’s a bleeding heart, she’s a nononsense gatekeeper and she’s a fierce advocate for people who much of society would rather lock up and forget. She’s seen the exchange weather lawsuits, among other threats, as it’s grown into a widely accepted institution. “She is definitely an institution in and of herself,” says Spokane police Sgt. Mike McNab. “She is the program, and what’s she’s done in the community is priceless.”

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verson was born in Spokane. She grew up in West Central and graduated from North Central High School. She did two stints at Spokane Falls Community College, but never completed a degree. In 1989, she was working at a law office. She knew she couldn’t sit at a desk all day, and it was the last job where she’d have to do so. Everson says she was friends with a gay man who was among the first people in Spokane to die of AIDS. So when the health district had an opening for someone to do HIV education and outreach, she successfully applied for the job in hopes of preventing others from contracting the disease. She was known as the “condom lady.” At night, she walked around an area of downtown near the Greyhound station where flophouse hotels and bars were located. Whether it was 100 or 10 degrees, she’d walk the streets with bags of condoms, some lubricated, others flavored, that she’d hand out to homeless youths, women engaging in prostitution, gang members and anyone else who wanted them. She would also

hand out lube and Tootsie Rolls, and try to teach people about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. If a man told her he wouldn’t fit into a condom, she would place one over her head and blow it up to prove that he would. Retired police Officer Michael Yates says that Everson was a Pied Piper of sorts, winning over and endearing herself to people on the streets by treating them with dignity and respect. “She did more for people on the streets of Spokane than anyone,” he says. “Nobody paid much attention to what I was doing,” recalls Everson. “I was the first outreach worker. … We didn’t get a whole lot of backlash until we announced we were going to do a needle exchange in 1990.” Beginning in the 1980s, European cities set up programs that gave drug users clean needles, with the aim of slowing the spread of bloodborne illnesses. A handful of U.S. cities, including Tacoma and Seattle, also started exchanges, and the Spokane Board of Health voted in 1990 to set up its own exchange, even though the benefits of the practice hadn’t conclusively been established and segments of the public and law enforcement were hostile to the idea. The early 1990s weren’t a sympathetic time for people battling HIV/AIDS. Everson recalls critics of her work saying, “If people have AIDS, it’s God’s will they should die.” The nation’s drug war was still in its “Just Say No” phase, and Everson says that people threatened to stand outside the exchange and take clients’ pictures (which they never did). “Since when does providing the addicted person with the very substance to which he is addicted or the means of using it engender in him a sense of social responsibility?” wrote then-Spokane County Prosecutor Donald Brockett in a 1991 Spokesman-Review op-ed. Brockett went even further, threatening to prosecute health district workers who gave out needles. “So we put our hands up and said, ‘We’d go to jail,’” recalls Everson. “I was lying,” she adds with a laugh. The health district sued Brockett and the case reached the state Supreme Court, which ruled that the exchange was legal. On May 17, 1991, Spokane’s needle exchange opened for business in a cockroach- and mice-infested building downtown. That day was anticlimactic, says

Everson. Only three men entered, she says, each exchanging a single needle. Torney Smith, administrator of the Spokane Regional Health District, says that Everson has “as good of relations with people on the street as anyone I’ve ever been associated with.” He says that Everson will hand out toiletries and coats to clients who need them, and has even had gang members gladly offer to help her move boxes. “She’s honest and fair and listens and doesn’t judge,” says Erin Williams Hueter, director of victim advocacy and prevention at Lutheran Community Services Northwest, who says that Everson is a wealth of knowledge and has used her rare rapport with prostitutes to develop a “bad trick” list of abusive johns. “She doesn’t let people take advantage of her,” she adds. Everson won’t tolerate clients who try to get more needles than they’re entitled to under the exchange’s 1-to-1 rule. If their count isn’t accurate, she says “she’s mean.” She’ll tell unruly clients to go to the exchange in Yakima if they don’t settle down. She insists that people show up at 4:30 pm, allowing enough time to get their needles before the exchange closes at 5. She gives every client alcohol pads, tourniquets and syringes, as well as a cookie, donated by Rosauers. “We’re a safe place to come,” says Everson. “We’re very structured. There’s a rule for everything, and I’m the enforcer.” Two years after opening, the exchange moved to another downtown location, next door to an adult bookstore. In 2007, it moved to its permanent location in the Spokane Regional Health District’s headquarters off of North Monroe Street. Attitudes about the exchanges have also moved, says Daniel Raymond, policy director for the Harm Reduction Coalition. He says that a 1993 U.S. Government Accountability Office study, finding that exchanges reduce needle sharing and the spread of disease among drug users, while not contributing to an increase in illicit substance use, helped establish the practice’s effectiveness. Since then, other studies have reached similar conclusions, says Raymond, and the number of exchanges has increased to more than 200 nationwide. Earlier this year Congress, responding to an epidemic of heroin and opioid prescription drug use, voted to allow federal funds to be directed to exchanges. “One of the common misperceptions is that drug addicts will not do anything to help themselves, which is curious, because they came through our doors about 10,000 times last year,” says Everson. Last year, the exchange swapped out 1.63 million syringes, according to Everson, who says that they could do even more with greater funding. Law enforcement and other first responders have also come around. Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer says that Everson’s work with the needle exchange has helped lead to sometimes uncomfortable conversations about proactive approaches to public health. Schaeffer says that compared to other places, Spokane doesn’t have the same problem with needles being left in public places, and he says that this year the department hasn’t gotten any calls about needles left lying around. Schaeffer says that if first responders find someone in their home using injection drugs, they’ll try to connect them with the needle exchange. Everson says she’s not sure when her work became more accepted, but she hears fewer complaints. “I don’t think everyone approves of us,” she says. “I don’t think everyone loves us. … We’re focused on our job: reducing disease.”

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HEALTH CARE Seeking to reinforce their demands in an ongoing LABOR NEGOTIATION, more than 200 registered nurses and their supporters made a gesture of solidarity last week outside of the administrative offices at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. The nurses, represented by the Washington State Nurses Association, have been in negotiations with Providence since December over a new contract. Providence wouldn’t comment on the particulars of the negotiations, but union representatives told the Inlander that the sticking points concern proposed cuts to the nurses’ health care plan and staffing levels at the hospital. Last week, both sides met with a federal mediator in hopes of overcoming the impasse. (JAKE THOMAS)

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SPOKANE VALLEY David Wiyrick, a retired Spokane County undersheriff, sent an email to Spokane Valley Mayor Rod Higgins in February suggesting that City Manager Mike Jackson “NEEDED TO BE PUT UNDER CONTROL.” Higgins then forwarded the email to other members of the council, which may have violated the state’s open-meetings laws. This email also came shortly before Jackson (pictured) was fired by the four-person council majority — all of whom received it — in a move that frustrated and eventually led to the resignation of two councilmembers. Now, guess who’s one of six finalists for those two open council seats? None other than David Wiyrick. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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GOP Congressman Raul Labrador was optimistic about BIPARTISAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM during a conference at Concordia University School of Law earlier this week. Labrador, who represents western Idahoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1st District, was the keynote speaker for the conference in Boise, which featured legal scholars, judges, federal public defenders and prosecutors and Idaho Department of Corrections employees. Labrador is a co-sponsor of a sentencing reform bill in Congress aimed at granting judges more discretion in imposing mandatory minimum sentences and retroactively reducing some prison terms for nonviolent and first-time offenders, while ensuring that violent offenders donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out early. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We only have 5 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population in the United States, and the U.S. is home to 25 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prison population,â&#x20AC;? Labrador said, according to the Spokesman-Reviewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coverage of the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should not be proud of that.â&#x20AC;? Labrador told attendees House Speaker Paul Ryan has guaranteed that a criminal justice reform package would come up for a vote this year, though he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer a specific timetable. The House Judiciary Committee has approved bills addressing care for mentally ill offenders, the expansion of the federal criminal code, also known as overcriminalization, and efforts to quell recidivism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see some of the greatest reforms in a generation,â&#x20AC;? Labrador said. (MITCH RYALS)

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With one in three members of the SPOKANE TRIBE battling poverty, and one in four unemployed, the Obama Administration has designated the Spokane Tribe as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Promise Zone,â&#x20AC;? the White House announced Monday. A designated Promise Zone has priority for federal grants or programs that can help high-poverty areas address unemployment, improve educational outcomes, increase affordable housing and reduce crime. The Tribe, says Spokane Tribal Chairwoman Carol Evans, outlined goals for the zone through a three-year community engagement process. The zone includes 180 acres near Chewelah and 145 in Airway Heights, in addition to the Spokane Indian Reservation. Evans says the Promise Zone designation will help the Tribe partner with foundations and nonprofits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very excited to have heard this news, and we are looking forward to really improving things for our community,â&#x20AC;? she says. The Tribe is one of nine designated Promise Zones in the nation announced Monday. An application from the city for neighborhoods in

northeast Spokane was notably left off the list. But Andre Wicks, director of the Zone Project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a collaboration between Spokane Public Schools and the city to address issues in the area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; says those efforts will continue. Though not designated a Promise Zone, LETTERS the application from Send comments to northeast Spokane was editor@inlander.com. a finalist, which means that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will assist with the project. This was the third and final round of designations from the Obama Administration in a program launched in January 2014. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is disappointing, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not gonna lie, because we worked super, super hard,â&#x20AC;? Wicks says of not being designated a Promise Zone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we communicated from the beginning that our intent was to use the process to create a plan to get coordinated and aligned, and even if not designated, then continue to do the work with resources

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The long-running rift between the mayor and the city council president just got worse BY DANIEL WALTERS

here was a time — just last September — that Mayor David Condon and City Council President Ben Stuckart stood side by side. Together, they responded to the volley of reporters’ questions at the press conference announcing the sudden resignation of Police Chief Frank Straub. When it turned out there was much more to that resignation — including a sexual harassment allegation against Straub that the Condon administration declined to investigate — the mayor and the council joined together again in December, forming a joint committee to hire an independent investigator to dig into what happened. Last week, that already-tenuous alliance between the mayor and council president fractured in a dramatic way. “It has gotten worse than it ever has been in the last four-and-a-half years,” Stuckart says of his relationship with the mayor. In one sense, a letter issued by Condon last Tuesday was the rejection of a proposal to hire a new attorney so that investigator Kris Cappel could see confidential city documents. But in another sense, it was a both-barrels-blazing salvo against the city council president. The mayor accused Stuckart of “acting outside the appropriate bounds of his office,” of “exposing the City and its taxpayers, as well as himself, to legal liability,” of asking the mayor to “disregard attorney-client privilege considerations,” and of putting “the citizens at risk.” “I have long been convinced that Mr. Stuckart and others have had a political motivation in their criticism of my handling of the matters surrounding Straub,” Condon wrote. “I will not aid Mr. Stuckart’s political agenda at the expense of the taxpayers.”

with 63.3 percent of the vote. And yet they’ve regularly fought in high-profile ways. Many of the major conflicts centered on perceived communication failures, with the mayor or the council objecting to not being adequately informed about issues like the incentives for the Davenport Grand Hotel or the closure of a police facility near the Spokane Transit Authority. Improving that communication is partly why Condon recently hired his former campaign manager Tyler Whitney as a policy advisor to be a liaison to the council. Former Councilman Mike Allen says that for the final two years of his tenure, he served as an intermediary between Stuckart and Condon. Last year, both the mayor and the city council considered separate investigations into the Straub situation. But Allen worried that an independent investigation pushed forward by the mayor would have been dismissed as biased, while a council-led investigation would “tear the city apart.” Allen and widely respected Utilities Director Rick Romero worked behind the scenes, trying to convince the mayor and the council president to unite behind a single vision for the investigation. Their solution was a single investigation by a joint committee — two members picked by the mayor and two picked by the city council. But now, Stuckart says, he’s come to believe that a joint investigation may have been a mistake. “We probably should have just had a council-led investigation,” he says.

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“I have made every effort to stay silent throughout the process to protect the integrity and independence of the ongoing investigation,” Condon wrote in his letter. By contrast, Stuckart has repeatedly challenged the mayor publicly over the investigation. The first time came in February, shortly after Condon brought on Michael McMahon as outside counsel to defend against the $4 million lawsuit Straub has filed against the city. The city attorney’s office sent out a letter warning city councilmembers that they could face consequences for discussing information about Straub shared in a confidential “executive session,” despite the council waiving that confidentiality in order to speak with Cappel. Stuckart handed out copies of the letter to the press,

“I will not aid Mr. Stuckart’s political agenda at the expense of the taxpayers.”

Until recently, the media-wary mayor has resisted commenting at length about the investigation, citing an agreement to only speak through the joint committee.

angrily condemning it as a blatant threat with a “chilling effect.” The second time came in March, after the Inlander reported that Erin Jacobson — the assistant city attorney who documents suggest had been repeatedly warned about Straub’s behavior — was refusing to participate in the investigation. Stuckart shot off a letter to Condon, arguing that the joint investigation’s “goal of finding out the truth” would be stymied if the mayor didn’t compel city employees to testify. The mayor sent an attorney to reject the idea during a confidential executive session. Finally, at the end of May, an increasingly frustrated Stuckart lamented in a letter that if Cappel doesn’t get to see the documents or conduct the interviews she needs, “the public and Council will never know the truth.” He

threatened to refuse to renew the city’s contract for McMahon — the attorney defending the city against Straub’s lawsuit — unless the mayor went along with a plan to allow Cappel to see the confidential documents. Stuckart asked to meet with the mayor in executive session to discuss it. Instead, the mayor fired off his combative reply last week, accusing Stuckart of “holding ransom” the contract extension. The city council president fired right back, arguing that Condon’s letter contained “blatant lies.” He fervently denied the mayor’s accusation that Stuckart was attempting to “circumvent the public records process.” Stuckart said that the mayor had wildly mischaracterized the proposal, that the plan wasn’t to waive attorney-client privilege entirely, it was to protect Cappel under the same umbrella of privilege as city attorneys. After seeing the confidential documents, Cappel would produce a supplemental report with the new information. Then the city council could choose to waive attorney-client privilege and release that report. City spokesman Brian Coddington says that’s the mayor’s objection: Condon believes giving the city council that power would harm the interests of the city. “That’s silly,” Stuckart says. “We’re trying to get to the truth of the matter.” Stuckart blames the mayor’s reluctance on overcautious attorneys, rather than some potential bombshell. “I don’t think there’s some missing ‘18 minutes of the Watergate tape,’” Stuckart says. “[But] they sure are protecting it like it is.”

BRIDGING THE BREACH

The question of whether Stuckart would follow through on his threat to kill the McMahon contract hung over this week’s city council meeting, but the result was anticlimactic: The council on Monday unanimously voted for a compromise extending the attorney’s contract through July 15. In the meantime, Stuckart has requested an executive session next week with the mayor and other parties involved with the Straub investigation, meeting face-to-face to figure out how to get Cappel the documents and interviews she’s requested. “After this meeting, we can decide if the city would be better served by a different lawyer,” Stuckart says. “And we can hire a firm that agrees with the public’s need for transparency.” For now, however, the question is whether the rift between the mayor and council president will hurt the city in other areas. “One has just got to think, that with all the backbiting and the groin punches going back and forth, that it has probably caused a little bit of tension,” Councilman Mike Fagan says. “I’ve made it a point to not read any of the letters that have been going back and forth. To tell you the truth, man, I’m really not interesting in a pissing contest, period.” Untreated, wounds can fester into grudges: Councilwoman Karen Stratton, for example, says that she hasn’t met with the mayor since he endorsed her opponent, Evan Verduin, last year. The Straub controversy has been far more bitterly fought. “This is a difficult topic, and you’re going to have some moments. There are some emotions and passion involved,” Coddington says. He notes that the mayor and council president have continued working together in other areas. Last month, they stood together again at a press conference to announce funding to assist the House of Charity. “I think there’s more we could be doing together if we weren’t arguing,” Stuckart says. “I think we’re stronger when we’re all rowing in the same direction.” On that goal, at least, the mayor and council president appear to be in agreement. After two pages of throwing punches, the mayor ended his letter with an outstretched hand, calling on the council “to work collaboratively with [him] for the betterment of Spokane.”  danielw@inlander.com

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super Bugs Bedbugs are back, and this time they’re nearly invincible in the face of modern pesticides By Daniel Walters

e thought we’d beaten bedbugs. After World War II, they had been almost eliminated thanks to the powerful pesticide DDT. But in the past three decades, bedbugs have started to return, resistant to the chemicals that reliably killed almost all of them a half-century ago. For the past nine years, Rose Zhu, an entomology professor at WSU, has been trying to figure out exactly which traits allow bedbugs to shrug off what once killed them. Zhu has known the scourge of bedbug bites. A long time ago, in Washington, D.C., she remembers waking up covered in itchy bites. It wasn’t until she started studying bedbugs that she knew what those bites were from. Since then, she’s been immersed in the bedbug’s world. In 2014, Zhu went to a homeless shelter in Seattle, where she saw bedbugs that were so prevalent they were visible, brazen and bold, in the holes of the mattresses, in the cracks of the walls and crawling on the wooden bed frames. For five years, exterminators had tried to rid the shelter of bedbugs. They had, but bedbugs kept returning when new residents stayed at the shelter. “They still can come back,” Zhu says. Zhu dresses in white scrubs, making it easier to see bedbugs and reducing the risk of inadvertently smuggling

out insect stowaways. Using insect forceps — essentially, soft tweezers — she snatches up the bedbugs, placing them in a vial that lets in just enough air for them to breathe, and takes them back to her lab. She keeps them alive, feeds them rabbit blood and studies them. And she’s not the only one. Zhu has joined with 80 other scientists over four years — essentially all the renowned bedbug experts in the world — to figure out why bedbug populations that once curled up and died when sprayed have become immune. That’s meant diving deep into the DNA of the bedbug, mapping their genome, to identify what armors them against pesticides. “We are just beginning to understand how the bedbug [resistance] was built, how the bedbug can adapt to the environment so well,” Zhu says.

hat this consortium discovered highlighted just how vast the problem was: It wasn’t that bedbugs had evolved with a specific genotype that allowed them to resist toxic chemicals. It was that they had a bevy of different genotypes that allowed them to resist toxic chemicals. “They have a whole battery of ways to be resistant to insecticide,” says Laura Lavine, a WSU entomology professor who works with Zhu. In other words, bedbugs don’t have just a single weapon to defend against pesticides, but an arsenal. “They don’t just have a gun, they have a gun and an AK-47 and a bomb and a cannon,” Lavine says. So how did this happen? Lavine says the problem came down to how bedbugs have been battled for decades. When farmers spray their crops, they rotate through a whole range of different types of pesticides to insure that, even if some insects are immune to one or two of the chemicals, they’ll be killed by the others.

pyrethroids — which include the toxic chemical DDT — and neonicotinoids. “Imagine you’re subjected to a chemical that’s killing off 99 percent of the population, and you’re the 1 percent of the population that survives,” Lavine says. “You are now carrying the genetic material that is keeping you alive in the face of the chemical.” These insects reproduce very, very quickly. So throughout the country, isolated populations of bedbugs, with different pesticide-resistant genotypes, have rose Zhu separately developed different pesticide-resistant genotypes. “The spray-and-kill solution is not really available anymore,” Lavine says. There are a few other options — bedbugs are particularly vulnerable to heat — but for now, the best way to conquer the bedbug scourge is to avoid getting it in the first place. “You just have to be vigilant and check when you travel,” Lavine says. “That’s really the only solution. Be vigilant when you travel or [when] you have guests.”

t’s possible that the discoveries from Zhu’s consortium still have more to teach us. There are still threads to pull on: For example, the researchers have discovered that there are 805 genes in bedbugs that have been transferred from bacteria. It appears to be some sort of symbiotic relationship, but Zhu says exactly what impact that discovery has on bedbug resistance will take more research. There’s another challenge. Funding for studying bedbugs is very limited, Lavine says. Bedbugs are considered a “nuisance” but not a vector for disease. But the work researchers like Zhu are doing remains crucial. Bedbugs

“they don’t just have a gun, they have a gun and an aK-47 and a bomb and a cannon.” “They use one chemical, then switch to a totally different chemical during the course of the season,” says Lavine. But spraying in homes is riskier. For years, only two types of chemicals have been used to try to kill bed bugs:

often hit the most vulnerable populations the hardest, impacting homeless shelters, nursing homes and low-income apartments. “It’s a social justice issue a little bit,” Lavine says. n danielw@inlander.com

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connected in combat Why a Gonzaga assistant professor says social media has changed everyday life for soldiers By Wilson CrisCione

s Lisa Silvestri started researching how American troops use social media, it didn’t take long before she realized that like almost everyone else, they enjoyed using Facebook. She talked to one soldier, a driver of armed trucks for the Marine Corps in Afghanistan, who was excited because he thought social media would let him talk to his family and friends and make him feel a little less homesick. But that soldier soon got tired of social media. He wanted to focus on where he was at the moment — a war zone — so he could get back home safely. He started using Facebook less, but that caused his family and friends to wonder why he was ignoring them. His girlfriend of three years broke up with him. In Afghanistan, he had to worry about problems back home. He felt like he had “one foot over there and one foot here.” Silvestri, in her 2015 book Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone, writes that this kind of experience is not unique for modern-day troops. Silvestri, currently an assistant professor in the communication studies department at Gonzaga University, spent years interviewing troops fresh from deployment, starting in 2010. What she found is that soldiers use social media similar to the way it’s used at home, but that can have a different impact in the context of a war zone. Because of social media, she says, the bounds between war and everyday life are blurring, marking “a revolutionary change in how we once imagined combat deployment.” “I thought [soldiers] being connected would be a good thing,” Silvestri says. “But it’s not. It produces

the same headaches that I think a lot of us have here. Only it’s more exacerbated. … Not only are they in physical danger, but ideologically they are removed from our concerns and what we’re interested in.”

ilvestri remembers her father saying that when he left to serve in the Vietnam War, the Beatles were singing “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” When he came home, they were singing “Hey Jude.” He had no idea what was going on at home in between. Since 2006, internet access has become more widely available to U.S. troops. Some outposts have “internet cafes,” or “lounges,” portable units where troops can share a set of computers with satellite feeds to communicate back home, Silvestri says. “Today they know exactly what’s going on back home, and they participate in it,” she says. Silvestri interviewed U.S. troops on deployment in Okinawa, Japan, and Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. Many of those she interviewed she then Lisa Silvestri followed on social media as they served in Iraq or Afghanistan. She points out how soldiers often participated things like the Ice Bucket Challenge, where they dumped a bucket of ice water on someone’s head to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Or how troops in Afghanistan created a “Call Me Maybe” lip sync of the popular Carly Rae Jepsen video. For soldiers, change constitutes more than just being connected to what’s happening at home. Social media, especially YouTube and Facebook, gives them a chance to document their own lives while at war. That could involve a soldier taking a selfie in a mine-resistant, ambushprotected vehicle, one example Silvestri highlights in her book, but it also lets them post combat videos directly to the internet. One sergeant she interviewed explained the desire to capture video as a way to explain his experience to others, because it’s easier to show somebody what he’s been through than explain it. These videos,

“Today they know exactly what’s going on back home, and they participate in it.” Silvestri writes, work as a vehicle for cohesion among troops. Yet those combat videos, Silvestri says, are mostly meant for other troops, not for friends and family. And even though the troops are more connected than ever, often the people they left at home still have trouble understanding why soldiers sometimes can’t respond to them immediately on social media, or answer the phone. One soldier she interviewed talks about how his truck went over an improvised explosive device and got blasted, and he was sent to the hospital. “And he said, ‘When I was finally able to call my wife, she was more upset’ that he hadn’t contacted her in a week than she was that he was injured,” Silvestri says. “Because we can’t imagine what it’s like over there.”

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fter conducting this research, Silvestri was left wanting more answers. She wants to test the relationship between social media and post-traumatic growth. One thing she learned while researching for her book, she says, is that the soldiers’ posts on Facebook were usually positive. She doesn’t know if that’s because social media makes people frame everything through “rose-colored lenses,” or if it helps generate a positive outlook, but that positivity could help them handle post-traumatic stress. The narrative for war is changing, Silvestri writes. The way it is being represented is changing, in large part because troops, while at war, still are connected to life back home. Silvestri has studied how that affects troops in combat. Now she wants to find out how it will impact them afterward. “What’s the homecoming process gonna be like for a generation that never fully left?” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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For the Birds Why a small fish could mean big problems for waterfowl at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge By Jake Thomas

he fish look harmless enough. Their tapered, grayish bodies are no bigger than a pinky finger. No one’s quite sure how the brook stickleback, a fish native to the Midwest, got into the wetlands at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, according to Joanna Joyner-Matos, an associate professor of biology at Eastern Washington University, but she says she has enough evidence that they’re damaging its ecological system. Now, she says, it’s a matter of finding out how bad the damage is and whether it’s reached populations of ducks and other migratory fowl, which rely on the wetlands and have already seen their numbers decline. Last summer, Joyner-Matos, along with two of her biology students and some high school students, conducted research at the refuge seeking to answer a simple question: Are there fewer bugs in lakes that have the stickleback compared to those that don’t? The answer, says Joyner-Matos, is yes, and a paper based on the conclusions will be published in the academic journal Northwest Science. “The water bodies that have stickleback are decreasing in quality,” she says. The stickleback prey on mayfly and dragonfly larvae, as well as worms and aquatic arthropods, small shrimp-like creatures. In some lakes, she says, “They’re just almost gone. … We are talking just complete desecration.” The prickly spines that line the fish’s backs deter snakes and birds from preying on them, she says, adding that diving beetles, a species with large, strong mandibles, are the only thing that will eat the fish. Stickleback are present in two-thirds of the refuge, and are starting to spread downstream, according to Joyner-Matos. “There really seems to be a Joanna Joyner-matos change in habitat quality, and it’s getting worse with the drought,” says Joyner-Matos, referencing last year’s historic water shortage that could be repeated this year. A study published in the academic journal Science in 2015 found that just 9 percent of 1,451 migratory birds have enough protected areas. Turnbull is the last high quality breeding habitat for fowl in Eastern Washington,

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“It’s really hard to prove some of those causations without a long period of time. But it doesn’t meant it’s not happening.” and Joyner-Matos says the fish could change that. Baby ducklings and other birds, says Joyner-Matos, prey on the small insects and could be left with nothing to eat after the fish have eaten them all. The insects, she says, also eat phytoplankton and algae, keeping the water clean enough for plants like coontail and water wheat that birds will feed on or nest in. Now, she says, these plants are absent or struggling, which could affect migratory fowl that use the refuge’s 3,000 acres of wetlands to nest. However, Joyner-Matos, who describes the refuge as “hugely important,” says she doesn’t have data to conclusively say that the stickleback’s presence is having an impact on the birds. “The big problem with the data set is it’s not collected in a way to answer that question,” says Mike Rule, wildlife biologist at Turnbull. He says that refuge staff count breeding pairs of migratory fowl every fourth year for 135 bodies of water in the wetlands, and the remain-

ing 65 are counted every year. He says there needs to be more frequent counts of the birds to produce the data needed to draw correlations to the fish. But the birds are declining, Rule says. He says that the refuge cycles through a dry period followed by a few years where there is more water, which is conducive to birds breeding. Numbers provided by Rule show that there were about 1,000 breeding pairs of ducks in 1994, peaking at about 2,400 in 1999. But by 2014 they had declined to about 800. “In the last 10 years the dry and wet cycles are much more frequent, and they are oscillating at a much more frequent period,” Rule says. “Now it seems like we are only getting a couple years in between, and they are not recovering. In those dry years, birds just don’t produce young.” Joyner-Matos says it’ll take years of data to get the non-native fish labeled as invasive, which will bring federal and state resources to eradicate them. “It’s really hard to prove some of those causations without a long period of time,” says Christi Norman, program director for Audubon Washington, who notes that the refuge is a particularly large one that brings in out-of-town birdwatchers who pump money into the local economy. “But it doesn’t meant it’s not happening.” Rule points to one upside of the drought. Some lakes, which naturally contain fish, have dried up, causing the stickleback to die off. “We are looking at some systems being fishless,” he says. “And that’s good.” n jaket@inlander.com

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The Music of Science Using Arduino technology, a Whitworth University professor has expanded music into a new realm of possibilities By Laura Johnson

rent Edstrom is a jazzman. His mind was never satisfied with the confines of classical piano, his chosen instrument, but within jazz music’s infinite improvisation, there was pure freedom. These days, the Whitworth University jazz studies professor has taken musical interpretation to greater heights, crafting devices that are sensitive to light, breath and touch. Last month, in his cushy North Spokane basement, his eyes brighten while talking about the process of making his own sci-fi-looking microcontrollers. Introduced to Arduino (pronounced “ardweeno”) technology about four years ago, the Whitworth music theory/composition coordinator saw potential to take his music to new heights. He was soon hooked, tinkering away on the palm-sized circuit boards at all hours. He says that his family, friends and colleagues, while supportive, haven’t all exactly understood his new passion. This is a labor of love. The simple hardware materials cost about $20; it was the knowledge to build and work on the opensource prototyping platform that took time — especially applying it to music, a somewhat unexplored frontier. A computer programmer since the 1990s, Edstrom says it was still a complicated medium to learn and understand. Arduino technology, which has existed for about a decade, is often used for mathematical and robotic projects. When Edstrom started with it, there was not one blog or website devoted to the process of applying this to the standard MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) or other

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computer technologies. “A lot of my life right now is a result of my search for better information on this topic,” Edstrom says. So much so that he wrote the book on the subject. At 456 pages, Edstrom’s hefty April release, Arduino for Musicians, could probably crack a few skulls. But the length is necessary. Edstrom understands that many of the terms used in his tome seem foreign to those taking the leap into the technological side of crafting music, and he purposely wrote it as a how-to manual. He gives readers the building blocks, then teaches them how to construct the controllers. So far the 51-year-old has created a custom XY touchscreen controller, MIDI hand drum, and breath/joystick controller, all of which can manipulate sound in ways acoustic instruments can’t to create distinctive pitches, keys and tones. Edstrom says that his work has the possibility to open new doors for those who aren’t considered musicians in the classical sense — like people who can’t read music, or may not have the best ear. Edstrom, who holds a master’s degree from the prestigious Eastman School of Music and has composed and arranged Brent Edstrom for the publishing giant Hal Leonard for decades, would have every right to get snobbish about popular music today. Yet he’s not as concerned about so-called bedroom DJs, who often make beats with just the help of a MacBook Pro, “ruining” music, as many pop culture critics have asserted. “If it’s an authentic expression, I would count it as music,” he says. “A computer can be an instrument. I’ve heard artful music in every genre. I don’t know that I see a huge difference between using a keyboard or another interface. A nontraditional way of creating sound, that can certainly come from music.” Through the use of Arduino technology he sees a new frontier of sound, one that he hopes to soon pass along to his college students and perhaps infuse into the songs of his current jazz

“I don’t know that I see a huge difference between using a keyboard or another interface.” group, the Brent Edstrom Trio. He says the microcontrollers he’s created probably aren’t patentable, but even if they were, that’s not the point. Instead, he wants anyone with a computer and a musical inkling to be able to try their hand at composing. “I’m all for democratizing that process,” he says. “There’s pro and cons. In higher ed we have the standards that we teach to, but it also closes doors to other forms of expression. “I see this product as democratizing the hardware as well,” Edstrom continues. “So now a person can envision a unique controller. I can use my breath or light. You can envision something that’s not even available commercially. And now have a new way of creating that music, and that’s the part I get fired up about.” Edstrom says he doesn’t foresee technology ever completely replacing traditional instruments. A computer can never sound as miraculous as a 100-piece orchestra, or duplicate the raw emotion of a classic rock recording. We’ll still always want that human element, he says, but when it comes to electronic instruments or acoustic ones, it doesn’t have to be either/or. Experimental jazz musician Pat Metheny recently performed at Whitworth, using technology similar to Edstrom’s, along with keys, brass and woodwinds. The show gave Edstrom hope for the future. “I was right in the middle of the book at that point,” Edstrom recalls. “When you’re working on a book, you have so many doubts, and it was affirming to me to see a world-class musician using this technology. It gave me encouragement that I was on the right track, that there are people who are interested in this.” n lauraj@inlander.com

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Lab of the Rings Data from NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn has revealed new details about the gas giant’s most massive ring — it’s not as massive as previously thought By Mitch Ryals

here are disturbances in the rings, and they’re telling us something. During certain times of the year, Saturn is visible from Earth. At about 888 million miles from the surface of the sun, it’s the last planet in the solar system still visible with the naked eye. What you can’t see without a telescope, however, are its mysterious bands — the rings. All of the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — have rings of some kind, but Saturn’s are by far the most distinctive. Information about the rings — why they exist, how long they’ve existed, and what they’re made of — can give us not only a better understanding of the elements at play within the planet, but also provide valuable information about the development of the solar system as a whole. Earlier this year, a report using data from NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn provided new conclusions about one specific section of Saturn’s ring system, known as the B-ring. “It says that somehow this ring is very opaque, but not very massive, so it has to be made out of these very fluffy particles,” says University of Idaho professor Matthew Hedman, the report’s lead author. “And we’re still struggling to understand what that means.” The B-ring is the brightest section of the main band

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around the planet. The A-ring is the outermost part of that band, and the two are 3,000 miles apart. The C-ring is closest to the plant. New data from the Cassini mission allowed Hedman and others to determine the weight of certain sections of the B-ring, using waves within the ring. The results were

reviously, scientists thought the B-ring was much more massive, based in part on the ring’s appearance. It’s the most opaque of the three main rings, meaning it lets the least amount of light through and reflects the most sunlight. In other words, it shines the brightest. In fact, “people had been beginning to think, based on earlier Cassini mission data, that the B-ring had more mass than some of Saturn’s mid-sized moons,” Hedman says. The recent Cassini data says the ring is made up of parMatthew hedman ticles closer to snowballs than ice chunks. Think of it as the difference between looking through water in a swimming pool and a thick fog. The fog has fewer particles, but it’s more difficult to see through. Hedman’s calculations are based on waves spiraling throughout the ring. The waves are the result of particles being tugged by the gravity of Saturn’s moons. By measuring the size of the waves, Hedman and others could calculate the mass of those sections. Because the B-ring is much lighter than previously thought, that means it’s also much younger. Typically, as time goes on, comets and other darker objects will crash into the rings, dimming their brightness. “One of the big questions is, ‘How old are the rings? Are they as old as Saturn? Or are they something that formed recently in geologic times?’” Hedman says. “We don’t know, and that’s one of the things people are constantly looking at.” Hedman explains why scientists are looking at this: The rings are a disc of material in orbit around a central point. (Hedman says they’re the flattest object in the solar system — at about a couple of meters thick, from end to end they’re about the distance from Earth to the moon.) Our solar system was formed from a disc in orbit around

“One of the big questions is, ‘how old are the rings? are they as old as saturn? Or are they something that formed recently in geologic times?’” surprising: It turns out that the B-ring, the most massive of the rings, is lighter than scientists originally thought, and those findings have implications for Saturn and beyond.

ince 2004, when NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn began, the scientists who study the gas giant have been mining the wealth of new images and information. The mission is scheduled to end in September 2017 in spectacular fashion. The Cassini spacecraft

a central point. Although Saturn’s disc is very different from the one that formed our solar system, it can provide insight into that phenomenon. “In general, we think of this as a place to test our ideas about how our solar system was formed,” Hedman says. “And the fact that we keep finding weird, surprising structures tells us that our understanding about how these sorts of solar systems work is incomplete and still needs work.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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Sarah Edwards Nature’s endless bounty is the palette for this Spokane artist’s creative collages BY CHEY SCOTT

ith a masterwort flower as its head and a cluster of tangerine-hued honeysuckle for fins, the tiny seahorse blooms to life. Pieced together on Sarah Edwards’ sunlit dining room table, the intricate collage of plant life is like a painting by Mother Nature herself; a collection of flora depicting one of her many fauna denizens. Narrow fern fronds and strands of succulents play the role of water plants in our seahorse’s reef home. A spiral of yellow flowers from a weed growing in Edwards’ yard form the tropical creature’s curling tail. After rising up from the ground to bloom and brighten our backyards, diverse florals plucked from the gardens of Edwards’ friends and neighbors find a second life as the ultimate renewable art medium, becoming colorful, layered collages depicting animals, human faces,

whimsical scenes and geometric patterns. The previous day, she made a twisting snake of pink, purple and yellow buds. A few days before that, a butterfly; then, a spiral pattern from both wild and cultivated flowers placed atop the etched concrete outside the Spokane Yoga Shala studio. “I love to make stuff outside for the sake of leaving it there, and other people might come along and see it,” she says about her art. “I felt like I was pretty connected to the Earth before doing this, but feel like I’ve deepened my connection very much through this process, and that is something I like sharing with other people.” The artist, mother and paper florist for Spokanebased Anemone Paper Flowers sets aside time daily to make and share her art with followers on social media, a project she calls “A Spiral a Day.” Sometimes, these pieces

are more elaborate, like the seahorse, made for day no. 37, on June 3. Other days, Edwards pieces together a design with whatever she can find — rocks, wildflowers, leaves, sticks — and whenever she has time. A few weeks ago, she and her three children collected flowers and leaves to place around the Sherman Alexie poem that spirals through a small courtyard in downtown Spokane near the Monroe Street Bridge. Each of these nature spirals are posted on Edwards’ Instagram account (@sarah.smiles9) and Facebook page (Sarah Smiles Creations). Not just about charming her 1,500 followers, these daily projects also force Edwards to come up with new, creative methods and ideas. “With this nature art, you know, part of what gets ...continued on next page

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me the recognition is that there aren’t very many people doing it,” she explains. “There are a lot of people who still have never seen anything like it, but it is growing. It’s exciting to be a part of something that’s newer in the art world.” Social media has been a huge boost for Edwards in getting her work into the public eye. Graduating in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Gonzaga University, she’s been creating art, including her now signature, natural object collages, since long before she began posting it online, almost two years ago. “At first it was just for my own smiles and joy... I never had any intention of making a business or selling anything with it,” she says, adding that now she frequently gets “responses from people saying they look forward to seeing what I’ll make every day.” Sharing pictures of her collages, which have a temporary nature that lends itself well to photography, has also led Edwards to show her art locally, and to land some commissions for local and nonlocal brands. Last November, the boutique, natural skincare brand Tata Harper flew her to New York City to create a series of floral scenes for its holiday marketing campaign. This season’s South Perry Thursday Market poster features Edwards’ work in the form of a woman’s face made from raw veggies and flowers. The local Method Juice Cafe chain also commissioned her

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t the beginning of this month, a downtown Spokane business landmark got a new owner. Loyal, local shoppers don’t need to worry. Auntie’s Bookstore’s new head is Spokane-based, has lasting ties to the business and doesn’t plan to make any major changes. The Auntie’s we know and love will continue to be. After being owned and operated by Chris O’Harra for nearly 40 years, Auntie’s is now helmed by Spokane business owner John Waite, who also owns downtown game and comic shop Merlyn’s. O’Harra and business partner Shannon Ahern, who currently owns the Liberty Building where Auntie’s is now located, originally opened the store in 1978 as The Book and Game Company. One of Waite’s first jobs was working there back in 1983 when it was still located inside the Flour Mill. In 1999, Waite bought the increasingly successful sci-fi/fantasy component of the business, Merlyn’s Comics, which he continues to own and operate on West Main Avenue. “We had this ongoing relationship for 40 years of us knowing each other,” Waite explains. “So when it got to the point that Chris was ready to pass on the store and find someone to run it, after much deliberation and discussion it was something I thought I could do, and the synergy between [Auntie’s and Merlyn’s] would be really great.” During the transition, Waite says O’Harra will continue to have a relationship with Auntie’s. Meanwhile, he plans to evenly split his time between the two shops, and won’t make any staffing changes at either store. “People love Auntie’s and the staff,” he says. “I don’t feel like there are any real changes to be made right away,” other than some computer system modernization and space reconfiguration.

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ALBUM After last year’s buzzworthy Teens of Style, Matador Records finally released Car Seat Headrest’s follow-up TEENS OF DENIAL. Earlier this year, it was announced the record would be delayed after permission to sample the Cars’ “Just What I Needed” had not been procured. But thousands of dollars later, the emotionally charged indie-rock album has been re-pressed, free of the song. The three-piece (which started as frontman Will Toledo’s solo act) came through Spokane in January, playing to a sparse crowd. Hopefully, after this record takes the band to even greater heights, that won’t be the case next time.

Auntie’s Bookstore in downtown Spokane was recently sold. In the long term, Waite hopes to increase the number of notable, regional authors coming to the store, and to host more interactive, creative arts events there. “I’ve always been a big fan of stores being centers where people can meet socially and have culture and community things,” Waite says. “Auntie’s is a store that is iconic to Spokane, along with Merlyn’s, and it’s been around for 40 years. My goal is to make it sustainable so it’ll be here for another 40 years as a piece of the community.” — CHEY SCOTT

BOOKS A LOCAL CONNECTION TO SERIAL If you listened to the first season of Serial, the hit podcast hosted by This American Life’s Sarah Koenig, you likely remember the name Asia McClain. The podcast tells the story of Adnan Syed, who is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend while in high school in Baltimore. McClain, as the podcast tells us, says she saw Syed in the school’s library when he was purported to have been committing the crime, thus providing him with a possible alibi, but she was never interviewed in the investigation. Now Asia McClain Chapman and living in Spokane, she’s written a book — Confessions of a Serial Alibi — about her experiences reaching out to Syed’s new defense team, and what it was like to be a source for Serial. She’ll be signing copies of the book at Auntie’s Bookstore in downtown Spokane on Saturday, June 11, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.

FASHION We all put our pants on one leg at a time, but this summer I implore you to branch out in your lower-bodycovering selections. That means ditching (read: burning) your booty shorts, putting your skinny jeans aside and rolling down a new pant avenue. This season, CULOTTES are back. At first, the calf-length/wide-leg cut is a bit off-putting, but these are not to be confused with those terrible jersey fabric gaucho pants of the early aughts. Instead, get your culottes in linen or cotton. Everywhere from Nordstrom to Old Navy has them in stock. Pair with platforms and go forth. TV Hailey Gates is a model, seen in high-fashion ad campaigns, but for her investigative fashion docuseries STATES OF UNDRESS, she goes full journalist. In each episode for Vice’s new TV channel Viceland, Gates bravely travels to countries, often in political turmoil, to speak to people about how fashion and beauty affect their everyday lives. In Venezuela, a country that’s produced the most Miss Universes, she learns about the outrageous pressures woman and men feel to get plastic surgery, often resorting to cheap, toxic fillers. Other countries Gates visits include Pakistan, Russia, China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. n

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eil deGrasse Tyson is not the most revered astrophysicist in the field. Nor is he the most famous. That designation would go to Stephen Hawking. But where the 57-year-old director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City stands apart is that he’s most certainly the most relatable and understandable man in his field. For two decades, Tyson — who comes to Spokane on Tuesday to talk about science in movies — has been communicating the complexities of the universe to us non-astrophysicists in a way that we can easily digest. He’s been called a “science communicator,” which is about as direct as you can get in describing Tyson’s approach to milling hard-to-wrap-your-head-around concepts into something digestible.

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In 2014, Tyson appeared on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a continuation of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the 1980 series hosted by Carl Sagan, widely regarded as one of the most informative television series ever. As the host of the new Cosmos, which Tyson had labored for years along with Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan to revive, Tyson further cemented his status as the voice of popular science. But there was more to Cosmos than just status for Tyson. In a way, it was a tribute to Sagan, whom Tyson met as a high schooler. In 1975, a 17-year-old Tyson, who had already gained notice for giving lectures on astrophysics, met with Sagan, who was then a professor at Cornell. Although Tyson opted to study at Harvard, he came to think of Sagan as a mentor.

HE DESTROYED SOME RAPPER WHO STATED THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT

Earlier this year, a rapper named B.o.B took to Twitter to espouse his unwavering belief that the Earth is flat. Tyson, a known Twitter defender of all things science, took to the platform to destroy the hip-hop artist, but did give him this little backhanded compliment: “Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music.” B.o.B’s response was a dumpy diss track called “Flatline,” the lyrics to which asserted that Tyson was somehow getting paid off to espouse the facts of “the cult called science.” Naturally, Tyson enlisted the rapping talents of his nephew Stephen to deliver a rebuttal track. Here’s a sample: “I think it’s very clear that Bobby didn’t read enough / And he’s believing all this conspiracy theory stuff.” Mic drop.

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HE’S HAD FAILURES IN HIS LIFE, JUST LIKE YOU

Although Tyson earned a Master’s degree from the University of Texas, he did not finish his doctorate there, as he had planned. He says the environment in Austin wasn’t a good fit, and he didn’t put in the lab hours needed. Eventually, his professors told him that maybe astrophysics just wasn’t his thing. They were wrong, and Tyson eventually landed at Columbia, where he finished his doctorate, and then taught at Princeton.

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No Clubs Necessary Eating and drinking our way around Spokane’s city-operated golf courses — without playing any golf BY INLANDER STAFF

he city of Spokane operates four golf courses, some renowned for their natural beauty, which most of us discover after an afternoon on the links. We realized something, though — these courses all have bars and restaurants (and patios), and there’s no reason for the less golf-inclined among us to take advantage of that. With that in mind, we ventured forth to eat and drink, and watch other people shank it into the woods so we didn’t have to.

INDIAN CANYON GOLF COURSE

1000 S. Assembly Rd., 747-5353, golfindiancanyon.org THE VIEW: From the recently refurbished restaurant, or better yet its attached deck, drink in one of the best views of Spokane, perched just above the tee for the 10th hole. To the east, you’ll see a line of mountains; to the north, a ridge marking the upper reaches of the city. BEST DEAL: Drafts are $4 to $5, premium cocktails are $6.50 and the best-selling item on the menu, the Canyon burger, runs you $9. THE VIBE: As one of the area’s most celebrated courses, there are plenty of serious golfers to watch here, but we prefer to sit in judgment as hulking dudes hook their dives off the 10th fairway. There’s also an element of wildness here: We’ve seen coyotes dart out of the woods and scoop up marmots meandering in the rough, only to dine on them at a nearby putting green. (JACOB H. FRIES)

DOWNRIVER GOLF COURSE

3225 N. Columbia Circle, 327-5269, downrivergolf.org THE VIEW: Looking down off the patio, you can watch golfers at the 10th hole or simply enjoy feeling like you’re in the middle of the mountains, with trees towering over you. BEST DEAL: The burger ($6.50) is topped with mayo, lettuce, onions, tomato and pickles and served with fries, or the option to substitute sweet potato fries ($2). For a dollar or less, choose from a list of add-ons, including a fried egg and fresh salsa, piling toppings onto your burger without spending more than $10. THE VIBE: Between a spacious interior and a mostly covered outdoor area, hanging out at Downriver feels like stopping in for a meal at a ski lodge, except the prices are much more reasonable. Rows of twinkly lights under the canopy create a magical atmosphere to enjoy a coffee or beer during the early spring or fall months, when Downriver is open before the sun rises and after it sets. (FRANNY WRIGHT)

FROM LEFT: Judy Van Hersett, Dave Van Hersett, Gary Grainer and Bob Tenold toast on the patio at the Grill at Indian Canyon Golf Course.

THE CREEK AT QUALCHAN GOLF COURSE

301 E. Meadowlane Rd., 448-9317, golfqualchan.org THE VIEW: On the patio, you’re surrounded by evergreen trees with a stellar view of people teeing off at the 1st hole. In the distance, you can faintly hear the cars zooming down Highway 195. BEST DEAL: Buy five bottles of beer and get the sixth free; domestic pitchers are $10, pitchers of premium beer are $12. THE VIBE: Opened in 1993, the golf course is especially hilly, beautifully manicured and the perfect kelly green. Sometimes moose wander through the foliage. The restaurant is the oasis where mostly middle-aged men meet after their round of golf. In this sunlit room with high ceilings and casual restaurant feel, Miller Lite is a favorite. (LAURA JOHNSON)

ESMERALDA GOLF COURSE

3933 E. Courtland Ave., 487-6291, esmeraldagolf.org THE VIEW: Right outside the windows of Ezzy, you can see golfers teeing off at the 10th hole, but the view stretches far beyond them, without many trees to block the sight of golfers at the 18th hole. BEST DEAL: Easy to grab while making the turn or for a quick lunch, daily specials include a hot dog or German sausage and chips ($3.75) or a freshly made ham, turkey, tuna or egg salad deli sandwich and chips ($4.25/$7.25). THE VIBE: If it weren’t for golfers — and bikers riding from Beacon Hill and Boulder Beach — occasionally walking through the door, Ezzy feels so homey you might forget you aren’t actually in your own living room. Two walls of windows bring a lot of light into the cozy corner of the building filled with a few circular tables. If you want to watch a sport other than golf, there’s a TV where the fireplace would normally be. (FW)

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Keep on Truckin’ Coeur d’Alene’s first permanent mobile food truck court celebrates its grand opening BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

he lunch crowd had come and gone on the opening day of Coeur d’Alene’s Best Food Court. By dinnertime, they were dribbling in again, some by foot and others by bicycle or car. Whether driven by curiosity or hunger, the food court would not disappoint, with six of the seven permanent vendors — RawDeadFish sushi truck was at another event — dishing up everything from banh mi sandwiches to barbecue. One out-of-town couple, intrigued by the red-and-white “Grand Opening” sign, sampled Taco Works’ carne asada tacos ($1.50/$6.50 combo plate), pronouncing them excellent. With 11 years in the business — most of them on Best Avenue — Taco Works’ (facebook.com/omar.reynoso) Omar Magdalena is the veteran of the food court, where he recently added a second truck. Next door to Taco Works, a couple with several children debate the menu on the Left Coast Fusion truck: Would the kids eat the lamb burger ($4)? Maybe the Yucatan Griller instead — chicken cooked sous vide, dressed with avocado, crème fraîche and pineapple-mango salsa ($7). For local Kim Gann and her family. Best Sandwich Shack, known for its Philly cheesesteaks, and Taco Works are favorite stops, even in the winter. Taking a break from the midafternoon heat under the newly installed, covered seating pavilion, Gann tried the spicy chicken bacon jalapeño melt ($8.50) from JJ’s Roadside Grill. JJ’s is one of several trucks recently relocated to Best Food Court from another Coeur d’Alene location (it was formerly on Government Way). Triple B Backhills BBQ on Best did a brisk business on Saturdays in the Hayden Albertson’s parking lot, says Troy Gordon, who co-owns the truck with Jason Cronister. Coeur de Breizh French crêperie (facebook.com/cdbcrepes), which recently added a second truck, was also formerly on Government Way. They often attend public events to serve up galettes and crêpes both sweet and savory, such as Le Bretonne, with ham, egg and Swiss cheese ($8.25) Although there are a handful of food truck lots throughout Coeur d’Alene, none are as large or as well-appointed as Best Food Court, which sits in front of Midway Restaurant Supply, where business owner Patrick Kinney has championed the mobile food court industry for several years. In the past year, Kinney has reconfigured the parking layout, built a covered seating area, and added porta-potties. For vendors, whose monthly rent is between $350 and $450, he added electrical and water hookups and created a Facebook page. Most important, perhaps, is Kinney’s active role in drafting city ordinances that are friendly to the mobile food truck industry. “We’re working with the city to figure out food court rules that would fit Coeur d’Alene,” says Kinney, who cites the structure of Portland’s food truck scene as a model. For its part, Coeur d’Alene is still reviewing food truck rules, which will address everything from landscaping and signage to sanitation and parking. Acknowledging that the upgrades to Best Food Court have been done in advance of knowing what those regulations might look like — including the possibility of additional changes to the food court — Kinney is optimistic. “They’ve been great to work with,” says Kinney of his experience with City Hall. This, he says indicating the food court, “is a good thing.” n Best Food Court • 510 Best Ave., Coeur d’Alene • Days and hours vary; consult individual food truck sites • facebook. com/Bestfoodcourt • 208-769-7200

Anthony Weiner’s political career went down in spectacular flames, and this documentary doesn’t hide the fire.

See Anthony Run Weiner brilliantly captures both a specific and general pathology BY SCOTT RENSHAW

t one point during the endlessly fascinating documentary Weiner, co-director Josh Kriegman asks his subject, Anthony Weiner, “Why have you let me film this?” It’s a question that might have had an obvious answer at the outset of the project, as Weiner — the former New York congressman who resigned in 2011 following a highly publicized sexting scandal — tried to revive his political career by running for mayor of New York in 2013. Kriegman had been a congressional staffer for Weiner, so he had the man’s trust. This movie, you

can easily imagine Weiner thinking, would chronicle the restoration of a legacy, a disgraced but principled man fighting his way back into public life. That storybook redemption arc, however, wasn’t remotely in the cards. New and freshly embarrassing photos of Weiner emerged, along with details that he had interacted with several women through a sex website, using the instantly iconic pseudonym “Carlos Danger.” Over the course of three months, Weiner captures the spectacular implosion of a campaign that at one point had

been leading in the polls, and wound up with yet another round of Weiner as national punch line. Like many of the best political documentaries, Weiner exposes in uncomfortable detail the sausage-making unpleasantness of American politics. In particular, this is a portrait of the art of spin, as Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin — longtime friend of and political adviser to Hillary Clinton — attempt to salvage Weiner’s campaign from the wreckage of the latest allegations. Kriegman and co-director Elyse Steinberg capture Weiner’s strategy of trying “to sell this as something that people already know”; as one staffer prepares to leave a grim meeting, Abedin instructs her on how to face reporters with a smile, because it’s “an optics thing.” By the time we see Weiner rehearsing an apology speech in front of empty chairs, it’s hard to avoid the realization that a political operation judges its successes by WEINER how practiced and “on message” it can present itself to the world. Not Rated But there’s also a fundamenDirected by Josh Kriegman tal level on which Weiner attempts and Elyse Steinberg to serve as an answer to the At Magic Lantern blunt question that MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell poses to Weiner during an interview: “What is wrong with you?” Weiner himself suggests that the way politicians are wired is connected to his indiscretions — a world of superficial interactions built on trying to get people to like and respect you, and see you as someone deserving of power. Yet Weiner also showcases its subject’s uniquely pugnacious personality — including a confrontation with a heckler at a bakery that went viral — as both a fundamental element of his populist appeal, and the thing that repeatedly brings him down. It’s almost jaw-dropping to watch Weiner fight back against Abedin’s reluctance to be visible during the last doomed days of his campaign, yet it’s clear that he knows no other way to be than the alpha dog. While Weiner’s salacious subject matter makes for understandable voyeuristic appeal, and the behind-thescenes material is plenty juicy, it would still be easy for a documentary of this kind to fall into a familiar rhythm. Kriegman and Steinberg, however, do a phenomenal job of crafting Weiner into a vital and entertaining film. During a montage showing Weiner marching in a series of parades before cheering throngs, they cut briefly but hilariously to fellow candidate (and eventual winner) Bill de Blasio solemnly plodding along to little crowd enthusiasm. Their editing skills are sharp during a sequence in which Weiner and Abedin make fund-raising calls, and the campaign’s launch is perfectly scored to the pulsing beat of Ace Frehley’s “New York Groove.” If you’re remotely hesitant to watch a documentary about a politician because you’re worried it might be “boring,” banish such thoughts from your mind. As the closing credits roll, we see snippets of TV appearances by Weiner in 2015, doing pundit spots on news shows and even poking fun at himself as a panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher (where his sexts were previously turned into a comedic staged reading). It’s clear that he’s not going away quietly, and equally obvious that he’s all but incapable of going away quietly. If Weiner shows us anything, it’s that the answers to “Why have you let me film this?” and “What is wrong with you?” might very well be the same. n

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Ali returns to the big screen in memory of the late Muhammad Ali.

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In honor of last week’s death of the greatest boxer of all time, AMC theaters in downtown Spokane is bringing the 2001 biopic, starring Will Smith as Muhammad Ali, back to the big screen. (MB) Rated R

THE CONJURING 2

The first installment of this franchise scared the living bejeezus out of a lot of people with its stylistic and campfree approach to the tried-and-true haunted house story. This time, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren, but this now they’re in London where a single mother and her kids are suffering from a house riddled with seriously messed-up monsters and ghosts. (MB) Rated R

MAGGIE’S PLAN

Greta Gerwig stars as this quirky flick’s titular character, a successful young woman who falls in love with a married man (Ethan Hawke), has an affair, then he gets divorced. When she realizes he’s not exactly what she was looking for, she conspires with the man’s ex-wife (Julianne Moore) to get the couple back together again. (MB) Rated R

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Enough people saw the FBI-mystifying magical antics of the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan and Dave Franco) in the first movie to warrant a globe-trotting

sequel, in which the quick-witted illusionists are blackmailed by a nasty tech magnate (Daniel Radcliffe) into stealing an all-powerful chip capable of controlling every computer in the world. Sounds like it was inspired by the Windows 10 rollout. Now You See Me 2 also stars powerhouses Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Mark Ruffalo in the very definition of a summer popcorn flick. (DN) Rated PG-13

WARCRAFT

Fans of Blizzard’s epic fantasy game franchise World of Warcraft can rejoice, as the long-promised film adaptation of the studio’s insanely popular franchise finally arrives, albeit in the form of a mostly CGI world. While critical reception has been less than tepid, anyone who’s a fan of the game is going to see this anyway. Set in worlds established through the game, two opposing species (orcs and humans) must overcome their differences and unite to battle a greater evil, lest they all perish. Rated PG-13 (CS)

WEINER

Documentary directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg craft this endlessly intriguing look at Anthony Weiner — the former New York congressman who resigned in 2011 following a highly publicized sexting scandal — as he tries to revive his political career by running for mayor of New York in 2013. As you probably already know, things didn’t end well. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

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After Alice, now the captain of a British merchant ship, becomes a hero for leading her crew away from a pirate attack, she escapes London for the Underworld. There, she again finds Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the Cheshire Cat (the voice of Stephen Fry), who inform her that Hatter (Johnny Depp) is out of sorts and needs her help to find his family. (MJ) Rated PG

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On a magical island exists a bunch of birds who can’t fly but are totally happy with this and everything else in their life — including their belief that there is no world outside of the island. Any birds who aren’t happy, i.e., “angry,” are outcasts. But when green pigs invade the island, the angry guys come in handy. (MB) Rated PG

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations demands authority over superhero actions. Aside from a lackluster score and unnecessary visual distractions, Civil War makes for a magnificent fireworks display to kick off the first week of summer blockbuster season at the multiplex. (PC) Rated PG-13

THE DARKNESS

Taking your family to the Grand Canyon is a beloved and perfectly wholesome American pastime, right? Well, not if one of your kids becomes possessed by some sort of ancient ghost and mysterious black handprints begin appearing all over your walls once you return home. That’s the premise here in this Kevin Bacon-anchored horror flick. (MB) Rated PG-13

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS

Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a nevermarried 60-something woman whose life for years has consisted of nothing more than taking care of her elderly mother in their Staten Island home and doing data entry in the same Manhattan office. Then Doris’ mother dies, leaving her alone and adrift. At around the same time, her company hires new art director (New Girl’s Max Greenfield), inspiring an infatuation that completely takes over Doris’ thoughts. (SR) Rated R

JUNGLE BOOK

Jon Favreau takes a break from making the Iron Man franchise to craft this live-action adaptation of the Disney classic. There’s some genuine action to be found as Mogwai tries to escape danger, as well as a few laughs with the Bill Murray-voiced Baloo the bear, but

overall it’s Disney forcing a kid-friendly feel on a genuinely engaging film. (MB) Rated PG

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP

Darcy and Elizabeth will forever have our hearts, but there can only be so many Pride and Prejudice adaptations. Instead, Love & Friendship delves into Jane Austen’s unfinished satirical novella “Lady Susan.” Starring Kate Beckinsale in the title role, the zany costume drama follows the new widow as she tries to find a husband for herself and her mousy daughter. When she befriends a married man, oh, how people do talk. (LJ) Rated PG

THE MAN WHO KNEW IFINITY

This biopic primarily focuses on the relationship between the prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) and his Cambridge University mentor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons). Although the young man received some formal schooling, his mathematical abilities were selftaught, or as he later explains to Hardy, they are expressions of God. Hardy puts the young mathematician’s work to test in this numbers game of a film. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG-13

ME BEFORE YOU

Based on a bestselling book of the same name by British romance writer Jojo Moyes, you’re gonna wanna pack in the tissues to this heartwrencher. Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke) gets a job as caretaker for Will Traynor (Sam Clafin), a man who’s all but given up on life after becoming paralyzed in an accident. As they get to know each other, Will begins to shine in Louisa’s optimistic presence. Deep down, though, he still loathes the idea of living the rest of his life wheelchair bound. (CS) Rated PG-13

NEIGHBORS 2

Last time around, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne were new parents who moved into a new house, expecting marital bliss and all that. But then a fraternity moved in next door and were loud as hell and, led by Zac Efron and his abs, tried to kill Rogen with stolen airbags. This time a sorority has moved into the same house! And it’s a really crazy sorority, so Zac Efron has to come back

and show them his abs. (MB) Rated R

THE NICE GUYS

Set in late-’70s Los Angeles, The Nice Guys pairs a gruff hired goon named Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) with an alcoholic, single-dad private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling). It’s a comedy with occasional shocking bursts of sickening violence, and it’s also a serious noir throwback with elements of farce. (PC) Rated R

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The Lonely Island gang of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone take their digital-short-honed knack for pop-culture hilarity to the big screen for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the latest in a storied line of music-biz mockumentaries. Think Spinal Tap satire aimed at Bieber Nation, with Samberg starring as Connor4Real, a rapper/singer whose sophomore album bombs, leaving his fans adrift and Connor trying everything from disastrous publicity stunts to poorly conceived stylistic reinventions to regain cultural relevance. (DN) Rated R

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

The second installment in this rebooted franchise is about an alien who wants to take over Earth for the usual reasons (i.e., no plausible ones) and it all plays like the script was written by an 8-year-old. The creepy anthropomorphized titular come across as a child’s idea of what being a grown-up must be like: all pizza parties and hanging out in your own cool hidden clubhouse. When you’re not fighting aliens with your ninja powers, of course. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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The Expanders, out of Los Angeles, close out the final night of Elkfest with their brand of breezy roots-reggae.

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very Elkfest, the people who live by the Elk Public House have to make a decision: join in the festivities or get out of the neighborhood for the weekend. Elkfest is coming, and it’s going to get loud. The event pulses not only with local and regional bands, but with music fans of all ages. There’s the guy with the snake, the bros with their trucker hats and tank tops, the high school kids enjoying freedom from their parents, and the families checking out the neighborhood and food trucks. For the past 12 years, Elkfest has been one of the staples on the Spokane music festival calendar, and talent agent John Blakesley works tirelessly to bring in new acts. While the headlining bands aren’t as big as some in the past, the bill is full of up-and-coming talent. “We are super pumped for Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires,” Blakesley says. “Also, the Expanders just toured with Tribal Seeds, and offer some very solid roots reggae in the traditions of the Wailers and Toots and the Maytals.” Also, this year, local feel-good rockers the Rub play the part of house band, opening up the music each day. As always, the whole spectacle can be taken in for free. Here’s what you can expect from the weekend:

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BEER GARDEN OPENS AT 3 PM 4 pm: The Rub 5 pm: Duke Evers Fresh off playing Volume, the Seattle trio led by Spokane native Joshua Starkel is back in town to show off their beer-driven hot rock. 6:30 pm: The Rusty Cleavers Their name sounds gruesome, but the Tacoma four-piece is here to party. Playing a brand of music they call Rusty Grass, their scrubby, barn-burnin’, boot-stompin’ tunes squeak and groan along; you’ll have to dance to this sound. 8:30 pm: Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires Signed to Sub Pop Records, this gnarly rock ’n’ roll band hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta. Their sound may be rooted in the Deep South, but don’t confuse that with the Southern rock bands your dad liked in the ’70s; these dudes are raw in lyrics and have fearsome musical ability. Last year, they toured with Alabama Shakes and Black Lips. ...continued on next page

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BEER GARDEN OPENS AT NOON BEER GARDEN OPENS AT NOON 1 pm: The Rub 2 pm: The Rub 2 pm: Quarter Monkey 3:30 pm: Breadbox This local alt-rock act has played their rowdy, original Just one of multitalented local artist Lucas Brookbank tunes for Bloomsday, Pig Out in the Park and now Elkfest. Brown’s bands, Breadbox falls on the rootsy American 4 pm: Friends of Mine end of the spectrum, rather than his more reggae-soundThis music isn’t supposed ing acts. But this sound is still as breezy. to sound completely put 5:30 pm: Anthony Hall S U C C E S S AT E L K F E S T together; the trio’s blend This singer-songwriter currently plays Some helpful tips from the pros: of unpolished pop songs at Zola at least once a week; now he make you think as well as brings his earthy pop tunes to the great • Bring cash — all beer gardens sing along. outdoors. (21+ only) are $2 to get in. 5:30 pm: The Holy Broke 7 pm: Jus Wright Kent Ueland’s acoustic solo This is music to sway to, and when the •Drink and bathroom lines can songs can be pretty damn local act’s rootsy/reggae vibes fill the get long, so be kind. depressing if you listen to stage, people will find themselves movhis sad-sack lyrics for too ing whether they want to or not. Expect •Sunscreen/water? Yes! long. But then he’ll smile accompaniment from members of the in between songs, take a band River City Roots. swig from his beer, and you 8:30 pm: The Expanders know that everything you’re The California-based act sounds like hearing isn’t where he is now. they grew up on the beach; you can almost hear the 7 pm: Folkinception waves roaring, seagulls cawing and perhaps the sounds A Spokane favorite, the six-piece act, complete with of a nearby beach volleyball game. Closing out the fiddle and cello, brings everything from rock to folk music festival, expect the band to make you wish Monday would every time they play, and the crowds go nuts. never come. n 8:30 pm: Down North Over the whole weekend, this is the band you don’t want Elkfest 2016 • Fri, June 10, at 3 pm; Sat-Sun, June 11-12, at noon • Free • All-ages • Outside Elk Public House • to miss. Every time the soul-infused Seattle rock band hits the stage, they slay. Be there. 1931 W. Pacific • elkfestspokane.com • 363-1973

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The Helms Alee Way Digging into the Seattle band’s mishmash approach to metal BY BEN SALMON

elms Alee’s music sounds like a big bag of broken glass and candy bars, bursting at the seams. On the Seattle band’s 2014 album Sleepwalking Sailors, for example, songs zig and zag from sludge-metal howls to soaring pop harmonies to stoner-rock rumblings

to spacey psychedelic drifts. It all works, sonically. But the way Helms Alee makes it work is bewildering. When bands talk about their songwriting process, they tend to speak of developing ideas or jamming on a riff or whatever. To hear guitarist Ben

Verellen tell it, he and his bandmates — drummer Hozoji Matheson-Margullis and bassist Dana James — live inside a mystical blur when composing. “All three of us are coming from such totally different places, as far as how we understand music and how we listen to music and how we write parts. We almost can’t even have a conversation while we’re writing,” Verellen says in a telephone interview. “We don’t understand what we’re doing,” he continues. “Like, I don’t understand what Hoz is doing and why. She doesn’t understand what I’m doing and why. We all just kind of bang at it until it’s finally like, ‘Well, that sounds cool to me.’ It’s so weird. We all see it and understand it, but from a different perspective.” Verellen likes it this way, mind you. He’s been involved in music stretching back through two decades and a handful of dormant Northwest bands, including Harkonen, Roy and These Arms Are Snakes. (His GET LISTED! older brother Dave Submit events online at sang for Tacoma punk Inlander.com/getlisted or heroes Botch.) He email related details to knows there are more getlisted@inlander.com. efficient ways to make music. But quick and efficient just isn’t the Helms Alee way. “I think the reason all of our stuff ends up so weird and bizarre is (because of) that mishmash approach,” he says. “I write a riff and then Hoz puts some drums on it and it’s completely different. And then I have to kind of reunderstand it and it’s like, ‘OK, well, that’s not at all what I had in mind. But it’s f---ing way better and way weirder.’” Helms Alee has been pretty quiet over the past couple of years, working on the follow-up to Sleepwalking Sailors. Due out later this year, it’s called Stillicide and was recorded in February at Kurt Ballou’s GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. Verellen says Stillicide might be a bit more concise than Helms Alee’s previous efforts, but beyond that, it’s the same kind of genre-blind blend we’ve come to expect from a band that doesn’t know how to do it any other way. “Every time we make a new record, somebody will say, ‘Man, all these songs are so mellow.’ And then someone else will be like, ‘Listen to all this crazy heavy shit,’ and we start to worry it’s too much of one or the other,” he says. “But then we sit down to listen to the whole thing and we’re always like, ‘Yeah. It’s just us.’” n Lush in Space feat. Helms Alee, Dark White Light and Lucky Chase • Thu, June 16, at 9 pm • $8/$20 for six nights • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

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month before the Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival gets underway on the west side of the state in Granite Falls, the Big Dipper hosts three of its artists for a pre-party — a light-filled event sure to include a host of dancers and artists and body paint. Put on by the local production company Old Love Music Group, which works to celebrate something they call Intelligent Dance Music, the event is headlined by Michael Manahan, one of Seattle’s hardest-working DJs and electronic music producers. Tickets to next month’s Cascadia festival (July 21-24) will be given away at the show. — LAURA JOHNSON Cascadia Festival Pre-Party feat. Michael Manahan, Rob Noble and Jellyfyst • Sat, June 11, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • 18+ • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents. com • 863-8098

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Thursday, 06/09

ARBoR CReST WiNe CeLLARS, Lyle Morse BARLoWS AT LiBeRTy LAke (9241446), Sunny Nights Duo J The BARTLeTT, Black Mountain J The BiG DiPPeR, 1 Tribe Gemini party with Coral Creek BoLo’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie feat. Spokane Dan and The Blues Blazers J BooMeRS CLASSiC RoCk BAR & GRiLL, Randy Campbell acoustic show BooTS BAkeRy & LouNGe, The Song Project J BuCeR’S CoFFeehouSe PuB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCkhoRN iNN, The Spokane River Band J ChAPS, Spare Parts J ChATeAu Rive, [Cancelled] Wayne “The Train” Hancock CoeuR D’ALeNe CASiNo, Peter Cetera, PJ Destiny CRAFTeD TAP houSe + kiTCheN, Ron Greene CRAve, DJ Freaky Fred Fizzie MuLLiGANS, Kicho LeFTBANk WiNe BAR, Evan Denlinger o’ShAyS iRiSh PuB & eATeRy, Open mic with Adrian and Leo The oBSeRvAToRy, Vinyl Meltdown ReD RooM LouNGe, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 The RiDLeR PiANo BAR, The Bobby Patterson Band J The PiN!, Bryan McPherson, Ricky Deschamp, Kevin and the Spokes, Thunder Knife (acoustic), Sovereign Citizen zoLA, Caprise

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etal fans can get their fix this weekend, too, with Concrete Grip’s album release show. The slam metal act has been hitting the Spokane pavement since 2005, and this year they’re finally putting out their new studio album Architect of Havoc. Bill Hempel’s deafening roar surprises with its range, switching to near-singing every now and then, and you can feel all the anguish when in “Tenfold” he screams “Grip your fist when you’re pissed at the world!” Accompanied by brutal guitars and savage drums, the four-piece understands levels within the loud; in this way, their music never grows monotonous. The group plans to play the album in its entirety at Friday’s show. — LAURA JOHNSON Concrete Grip Album release feat. Soblivios, Seven Cycles and Gentlemen’s War • Fri, June 10, at 7 pm • $5/$8 day of • 21+ • The Palomino • 6425 N. Lidgerwood • spokanepalomino.com • 242-8907

Wind Hotel BeveRLy’S, Robert Vaughn J The BiG DiPPeR, Free the Jester, Vealfire, 37 Street Signs, Nathan Chartrey BiGFooT PuB, Slightly Committed BoLo’S, Dragonfly J BooTS BAkeRy & LouNGe, Reilly Winant The CeLLAR, Roberson and BZ CLoveR, Karrie O’Neill CoeuR D’ALeNe CASiNo, Teh Dueling Cronkites, The Ryan Larsen Band CRAFTSMAN CeLLARS (413-2434), Lyle Morse CRAve, DJ Q CuRLey’S, Gladhammer DALey’S CheAP ShoTS, 80’s Dance Party feat. GS3 J The eLk PuBLiC houSe, ElkFest (See story on page 39) feat. Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, the Rusty Cleaver, Duke Evers

FeDoRA PuB & GRiLLe, Wyatt Wood Fizzie MuLLiGANS, Phoenix iDAho PouR AuThoRiTy (208-5977096), Ben Olson, Cadie Archer J kNiTTiNG FACToRy, Defenders of the Faith, Supervillain, Homewreckr, Knight of Tears MAx AT MiRABeAu, Mojo Box MiCkDuFF’S BeeR hALL (208-2096700), Mobius Riff MooSe LouNGe, The Vibe Raiderzz MuLLiGAN’S BAR & GRiLLe, Bill Bozly NoRTheRN QueST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin J The PALoMiNo, Concrete Grip CD Release Show (See story above), Soblivious, Seven Cycles, Gentleman’s War PATiT CReek CeLLARS, Ken Davis In Transit ReD LioN hoTeL AT The PARk, The Original Dangerous Curves The ReSeRve, Bring the House feat.

Wheres6, Ant Eye The RiDLeR PiANo BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SeASoNS oF CoeuR D’ALeNe, Truck Mills SWAxx, Chris Rieser and the Nerve The RoADhouSe, The Daniel Castro Band The vikiNG BAR & GRiLL, Stepbrothers WoMAN’S CLuB oF SPokANe, Monthly Swing Dance zoLA, Sammy Eubanks

Saturday, 06/11

315 MARTiNiS & TAPAS, Truck Mills J BABy BAR, Von the Baptist, Fat Lady, the Know Nothingz, Wasted Breath BARLoWS AT LiBeRTy LAke, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Pat Barclay J The BARTLeTT, Charlie and the

Rays, Caprice, Ragtag Romantics BeveRLy’S, Robert Vaughn J The BiG DiPPeR, Cascadia Festival Spokane feat.Michael Manahan, Rob Noble, Jellyfist (See story above) BiGFooT PuB, Slightly Committed BoLo’S, Dragonfly The CeLLAR, Roberson and BZ CoeuR D’ALeNe CASiNo, Teh Dueling Cronkites, The Ryan Larsen Band CRAve, DJ D3vin3 CuRLey’S, Gladhammer DAFT BADGeR BReWiNG, Daft Badger Brewing Summer Party feat. Nu Jack City, Les Moore Duo J DoWNToWN SANDPoiNT, Sandpoint Summer Sounds feat. Fiddlin’ Red J The eLk PuBLiC houSe, ElkFest (See story on page 39) feat. Down North, Folkinception, the Holy Broke, Friends of Mine, Quarter

Monkey FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Phoenix FREDNECK’S, Ken Davis In Transit J GARAGELAND, Rewind monthly DJ night IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LARIAT INN, Honky Tonk a Go-Go LOST BOYS’ GARAGE (443-5023), The Powers MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MOOSE LOUNGE, The Vibe Raiderzz MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Frank Moore MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Ron Greene NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin OFF REGAL LOUNGE (473-9401), French Quintet feat. Peterson, Kohler, Orgill RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, The Original Dangerous Curves THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad J THE SHOP, T Mike Miller

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J THE PIN!, A God or an Other, Age of Nefilim, Odyssey, Deformer, East Sherman THE ROADHOUSE, The Hankers THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, The Bight, Zaq Flanary, Gary Cook, Jimmy Nuge ZOLA, Raggs Gustaffe and Bush Doktor ZYTHUM BREWING COMPANY (9986263), Random Generation

Sunday, 06/12

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Ryan Larsen Band CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, The Lark and the Loon COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Nate Ostrander, Echo Elysium CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Dan Conrad CRUISERS, Echo Elysim CURLEY’S, Los Chingadores DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J THE ELK PUBLIC HOUSE, ElkFest (See story on page 39) feat. The Expanders, Jus Wright, Anthony Hall, Breadbox, the Rub J KNITTING FACTORY, Blue October, Danny Malone LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam J THE OBSERVATORY, Lush in Space Summer Series: Yardsss, Wrtch w/ Ben Jennings J THE PIN!, Gentlemen’s War, Dysfunktynal Kaos, Reign of Ashes ZOLA, Anthony Hall

Monday, 06/13

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills KROC CENTER, Kroc Jam Session LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox J THE PIN!, Matthew Azrielli, Ricky Deschamp ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 06/14

J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, B Sharp Music Studio THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open mic night MIK’S, DJ Brentano MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Ivy Ross Ricci & The Special Guest of Moscow J THE OBSERVATORY, Lush in Space Summer Series: The Wild Lips, The Smokes, Jan Fransisco THE RESERVE, Open Mic with Deschamp THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open mic Jam Session SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx J THE PIN!, Prozak with EazzMuzic, Traverse ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 06/15 J THE BARTLETT, Ne-Hi J THE BIG DIPPER, Harriet, Lavoy, Water Monster, Sea Giant CAFE BODEGA (208-263-5911), Five Minutes of Fame open mic J DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After Five feat. Sammy Eubanks EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard EICHARDT’S, John Firshi GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J KNITTING FACTORY, Stephen “Ragga” Marley THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J THE OBSERVATORY, Lush in Space Summer Series: Empty Eyes, Outercourse, Super Villain RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, R&B with Slow Cookin’ SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic J THE PIN!, American Head Charge, Motograter THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes THOMPSON FALLS, Eric Taylor House Concert ZOLA, The Bossame

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Judgement, June 16 THE PIN!, Hymn & Her, Stranded By Choice, Amerstris, June 16 THE BARTLETT, Tristen, Friends of Mine, the Dancing Plague of 1518, June 16 J THE OBSERVATORY, Lush in Space Summer Series: Helms Alee (See story on page 41), Dark White Light, Lucky Chase, June 16 KETTLE FALLS, WASH., Crossroads Blues Festival feat. Bobby ‘Fattone’ Patterson Band, Atomic Jive, Bakin Phat, Sara Brown, Charlie Butts, June 17-18 RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Stepbrothers, June 17-18

THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Show Me Your Tattoo 12 feat. Thunder & Lightning, Thunderhound, North Fork, June 17 THE BARTLETT, Della Mae, June 17 THE OBSERVATORY, Lush in Space Summer Series: The Holy Broke, Tyler Aker, Lucas Brown, June 17 THE BIG DIPPER, Goodnight Venus Album Release, The Bettys, Astronaut and the Trees, June 18 KNITTING FACTORY, Mac Sabbath, Thunder Knife, Children of Atom, June 18 RIVERFRONT PARK, The Heartland Tour: Lecrae & Switchfoot, June 19 THE BARTLETT, The Pack A.D., the Smokes, June 21

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 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 • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley• 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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CELEBRATION 25 YEARS OF PRIDE

It’s been a quarter of a century since a few members of the Spokane LGBTQ community made a simple — but brave — march down the sidewalks of Spokane for the city’s first Pride celebration. The years since have meant monumental progress for these folks and their allies, which is why there’s plenty of reason to celebrate the 25th iteration of the Spokane Pride and Rainbow Festival, which features a variety of events throughout the week culminating on Saturday with the parade through downtown, followed by an all-are-welcome festival in Riverfront Park. Oh, and don’t forget about fireworks come nightfall. — MIKE BOOKEY Spokane Pride Parade • Sat, June 11, at noon; staging begins at 10:30 am; festival also begins at noon in Riverfront Park • Free • Parade begins at North Stevens Street and West Spokane Falls Boulevard • outspokane.org/pride-parade

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BECU Outdoor Movies at Riverfront Park: Guardians of the Galaxy • Wed, June 15; seating at 7 pm; movie starts at dusk • $5 • Riverfront Park • epiceap.com/Spokane-outdoor-movies

28th Playwrights’ Forum Festival • Thu-Sat, June 9-11, at 7:30 pm; Sun, June 12, at 2 pm • $15 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

Even though classic drive-in movie theaters have largely gone the way of the dodo, that’s no reason to deny yourself the pleasure of watching flicks under the stars, a true summertime treat. There’s just something about the freedom that comes outside the confines of the multiplex. The annual BECU Outdoor Movies at Riverfront Park series kicks off Wednesday with Guardians of the Galaxy, and continues every Wednesday with sci-fi hits and kids’ movies through July 20. — DAN NAILEN

For those who like a quick shot of drama, one-act plays could be your scene. This weekend, the 28th Playwrights’ Forum Festival continues at the Spokane Civic Theatre, highlighting eight one-act productions from seven regional playwrights. The titles here are especially creative — The Tragic Tale of a Man Who Fell in Love (with a bookcase) and Zoloft Tango — and they’ll compete for the Festival Adjudicator Award and Audience Choice Award. Four plays are shown each night, switching off. — LAURA JOHNSON

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SPORTS SPLASH OF COLOR

The color fun run trend hit the Inland Northwest pretty heavy a couple of years ago, but you can still go for a jog and finish up doused in colorful, powdered dye if you missed the boat. Or maybe these types of runs are totally your thing — we get that. Running is hard work, and adding a little something extra to the mix helps with the motivation. For this year’s Color Me Rad run, a portion of proceeds benefit the programs of Peak 7 Adventures, which serves marginalized youth. You can still register for the race, though you’ll pay a little extra. Entry also includes a T-shirt and phone case so your tech stays color-free during the run. — CHEY SCOTT

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Color Me Rad • Sat, June 11, at 9 am • $50-$55 • Spokane County Raceway • 750 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • colormerad.com/spokane/

ARTS FRESH AIR FEST

Now that summertime is here, expect arts celebrations galore in the form of festivals, markets, shows and more, many held in the outdoor sunshine. Following up last weekend’s ArtFest is the third annual Art on the Blacktop. Held in the parking lot of the house-turned-gallery across the street from the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, local fine artists — including Karen Mobley, Tom Wakeley, Linnea Tobias and many others — who work in painting, photography, sculpture, drawing and more are setting up tables for the three-day event. Food trucks and live music round out the weekend, bringing a festival feel to this smaller, yet up-and-coming event. — CHEY SCOTT Art on the Blacktop • Fri, June 10-Sun, June 12: Fri, 5-9 pm; Sat, 10 am-6 pm; Sun, 10 am-4 pm • Free to attend • 29th Avenue Artworks • 3128 E. 29th • 29artworks.com

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I SAW YOU BREAKFAST AT DOLLY'S AGAIN IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS? For the first meal in two weeks that was inside a building having you sit next to me was great. Really enjoyed the conversation about family meals, intense interventions and learning to not get drawn into other drama. Sara, or is it Sarah would love to meet and eat again, asking you to touch bases so we can eat and pick up where we left off. Maybe go on a bike ride at some point as per your Uncle. WHERE ARE YOUS? I miss you so much me love! I pray everyday i will randomly bump into you! I miss your smile! You are the life among the dead! So i will wait for you! I could wait 1,000 years for you! SEE'S CANDY DAD Memorial Day... I was melting like chocolate in a hot car. You had tattoos and a beard, and were super sweet with your son. We shared a few words, and I was flustered by how handsome you are. re you taken? If not, come see me at work. I told the cashier where, and I know you heard. I'll be working all day Friday and Sunday. EWU SUTTON HALL We were standing in line sneaking looks at each other. Later you passed me on your bike and said nice to see you again, but then peddled off before I could reply. Maybe we can get coffee sometime? lono2113@ hotmail.com EL SCORCHO! IT'S ME GLOWSTICK GIRL! You are my Isaac, a promise i

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CHEERS GOOD JOB GROCERS Shout out to the Fred Meyer employees on Thor. Every Sunday (terrible grocery day, I know) I venture down the hill for produce. You all keep things running smoothly despite the horrors of the after-church grocery crowd. Know that you're all heroes.

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It’s probably odd that I’m reaching out while pregnant, but hey, I’m single and you’re cute.

WILDFIRE SEASON Thank you to to the people of Spokane, and across the state, for your generous donations during last year's devastating wildfires. We were able to deliver food, clothes and farm supplies directly to fire camps and evacuation centers multiple times. This year looks to be a repeat, unfortunately. We encourage those that would like to help this year to follow us on our Facebook page, Wildfire Donation Roundup. You can ask to join the group to get notifications. Again, thank you so much! SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS I drive through four elementary school zones on the way to work weekdays. I just wanted to give a nod to the teachers, parents and volunteers that make sure the kids get across the streets safely. HELPING OUT FUTURE LEADERS Cheers to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe for making public service internships available for more students. The tribe donated $7,000 to help finance legislative internships for 10 Public Service students at Boise State. Capitol internships are unpaid and students still have to pay tuition to get credit for working for free. Helping them get over the financial hurdle will go a

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you are no longer, but you will always be… because you are constantly in my heart and in my mind. I am so sorry for your loss and your pain, but I promised to be your refuge; I am here when you need anything at all. The moon in the sky is still ours. The future to be is still ours. – El Scorcho CHEERS TO WORK WIVES & HUSBANDS JD to me, Several months ago I told you "I don't want a divorce"; but now, we can see it was inevitable. Our hands were tied. Thank you for letting me in. I cherish our friendship and the time we had. You made my days short, and my work easy. Thank you for the Beers, the Overtures, the Warnings, the Insight, and the Expletives. I'm missing you sorely. I'm missing the daily debriefing and occasional osculating. I hope you can find someone new to bring joy and distraction to your work days. I wish only great things for you. PS: I agree about the excitement, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind. Best, Sunshine

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SCRAPS OFF LEASH ONLINE AUCTION Bid on dozens of items including restaurant certificates, hotel package, and fun things to do, with all proceeds benefiting SCRAPS’ programs to re-home and rehabilitate homeless pets. June 10 and 20, online only. spokanecounty.org/scraps CHILI COOK OFF Sample all the chilis created my North Idaho foodies, chefs and restaurants, with all proceeds benefiting the Idaho Food Bank. No fee to participate in the chili competition, but an RSVP is requested. June 11, 12-2 pm. $5. Garden Plaza of Post Falls, 545 N. Garden Plaza. (208-773-3701) RELAY FOR LIFE SPOKANE VALLEY The American Cancer Society fundraiser in Spokane Valley this year features local singer/songwriters performing original songs. June 11, 6-11:45 pm. Free. University High School, 12320 E. 32nd Ave. relayforlife.org/spokanevalleywa SYSA 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA A formal evening to celebrate 50 years of Spokane Youth Sports Association, with a no-host bar, dinner, raffles, live music and live/silent auction. June 11, 5:30-10:30 pm. $150/person. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. sysa.com/events (536-1800) TRANSITIONS’ 13TH ANNUAL GOLF OUTING Enjoy a day of golf and networking while raising funds to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in the Spokane community. June 16, 1-8 pm. $150. Kalispel Golf and Country Club, 2010 W. Waikiki Rd. help4women. org/golf-outing-2016 (328-6702) BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED A garden party celebrating the growth and wholeness of women who bloom in the Transitions’ programs. Learn about Transitions from staff and hearing from Miryam’s House participants, and enjoy light snacks/refreshments from New Leaf Bakery and refreshments will be served. RSVP to mtracey@help4women.org or call 328-6702. Directions will be provided. June 18, 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. help4women.org PARADE OF PAWS PLEDGE WALK The annual walk raises funds to support the animals of the Spokane Humane Society. Bring your dog, your friend’s dog, your friends and family. Teams of 5 or more are encouraged. June 18, 10 am-noon. Entry by donation. Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-5235) PAW-LOUSE 5K FUN RUN & WALK The annual fun run and walk (dogs welcome!) benefits the work and programs of the Humane Society of the Palouse. Start in the Sweet Ave. parking lot on the U. of Idaho campus. June 18, 9 am. $25. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org 13TH RUN / WALK FOR EPILEPSY: The Epilepsy Foundation Northwest’s upcoming fundraiser benefits many programs for those living with epilepsy, including a free summer camp for kids, Camp Discovery. June 18, 9:30 am. Kendall Yards, Summit Parkway. kendallyards.com

COMEDY

GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) KRISTIN KEY Best known for being a season favorite on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” season 4, Key has also been

featured on Comics Unleashed, The Bob and Tom Show, The Las Vegas Comedy Festival and appears regularly on VH1’s “100 Greatest” series. June 9-11 at 8 pm, also Sat. at 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com 8TH ANNUAL INTOLERISTA WINGDING An event featuring musical commentary and comedy by Roy Zimmerman, Jeanne McHale and the Threat Level Purple Singers. June 10, 6-10 pm. Free, donations accepted. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. bit. ly/1TYrFhy (208-874-3713) CAGE MATCH Teams of improv comedians battle it out, and the audience votes. Fridays in June, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY: Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com LOCAL COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring sample of Spokane’s rich local standup comedy scene as part of a monthly series. Featured in June: Harry J. Riley, Greg Beachler, Sam Vidovich, and Ryan McComb. Ages 18+. June 11, 10 pm. $5. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Recommended for ages 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An opportunity to try something new, polish your improv skills and have fun. Each session is led by a BDT Troupe member, and is an informal get together and not considered an improv class. For ages 18+. Meets Mondays, from 7-9 pm (see website for dates, as the event doesn’t happen weekly). Free. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) HAIL SAGAN! TRIVIA & THE DITCH KIDS The Ditch Kids are an improv troupe consisting of Matt Slater, Mara Baldwin, and Matt Dargen. June 13, 7-11 pm. $5, or free with Lush in Space Pendant. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com BRAD UPTON This ex-grade school teacher is now in his 30th year of comedy and is nearing 6000 lifetime performances. $10-$20. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

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CHANGING AMERICA: THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian examines the relationship between two great people’s movements that resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the March on Washington in 1963. June 3-30; opening reception June 3, at 6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) CORBIN WALKERS GROUP The group meets on Thursday mornings at 8:45 am (through Oct. 27) and takes the van to a different starting point each week, walks about an hour and return to Corbin for a coffee break. Walks are lead by Ardyce Pangerl and Patricia Hewitt. $2/person

per trip. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland Ave. (327-1584) JFS LUNCHEON WITH SEN. BILLIG A catered lunch with Sen. Andy Billig, a father, businessperson, and member of Spokane’s Jewish community. June 9, 121:30 pm. Free; $7 donation appreciated. Jewish Family Services Spokane, 1322 E. 30th Ave. sajfs.org (747-7394) COMMUNITY DANCE FEAT. VARIETY PAK The monthly dance, held on the second Friday from 7-9:30 pm, features live music by the local, 5-piece band, performing songs to fit all dance styles. $8-$10. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. (535-0803) MONTHLY SWING DANCE A dance for all swing dance styles, including Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast, West Coast, Balboa, and Country Swing. Open to all ages. Includes a lesson from 7-8 pm, and dancing until 11 pm. Happening June 10, July 15 and Aug. 19. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. strictlyswingspokane.com PACE HAS GOT TALENT Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in PACE Services get a night to shine and show their talents. Acts to include music, sketches, spoken word poetry, visual arts, dance, and inspirational readings. June 10, 6-8 pm. Free (canned food donations accepted). Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (279-6033) BAND TOGETHER FOR THE ANIMALS A celebration of SCRAPS and the animals it cares for, with cake, give-aways, door prizes, and raffles. June 11, 11 am-3 pm. Free admission; donations accepted. SCRAPS Regional Animal Shelter, 6815 E. Trent Ave. spokanecounty.org/scraps FIDO FETE A community festival celebrating dogs and their people, featuring pet-centric vendors, information, workshops, performances, a parade/costume contest, training demos and more. June 11, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (509-535-0803) FREE STATE PARKS DAY As part of the Discover Pass legislation, residents are offered access to any state park without needing a Discover Pass. Includes access locally to Riverside, Palouse Falls and Mt. Spokane State Parks. Upcoming free days: June 4, June 11, Aug. 25, Sept. 24, Nov. 11. Free. parks.wa.gov FRIENDS OF MANITO SPRING PLANT SALE Find pollinator and hummingbirdattracting plants, a wide assortment of drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, edibles, and a large selection of zone 4 plants. Other events include kids’ activities, live music, food drive, raffle, live demos, informational booths and more. June 11, 8 am-3 pm. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. (456-8038) KINETIC FEST BUILD DAYS Come down to Gizmo and build your own human powered kinetic sculpture vehicle. A trailer of bike parts is provided, access to Gizmo’s tools and workspace and more. Then enter your kinetic sculpture vehicle in the Kinetic Fest Parade on July 10. Open workshop hours on June 11, 18, 25, July 2 and 9, 10 am-6 pm. $36. Gizmocda, 806 N. Fourth St. facebook.com/ cdakineticfest/timeline (208-651-6200) JOURNEY OF HOPE POTLUCK & POOL PARTY The cross-country cycling event covers 32 different states and is solely comprised of members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, spreading a message of acceptance and understanding for people with disabilities. After riding an average of 75 miles a day, riders meet for a friendship visit with Families Together, a local group

that supports people with disabilities, for a potluck and pool party. June 12, 5-8 pm. Free; bring a side dish or dessert to share. Pullman Aquatic & Fitness Center, 500 NW Larry. bit.ly/1VTbQLx BOWL & PITCHER WITH INT The last Bowl & Pitcher event before a break for the summer. Join others who are passionate about entrepreneurship, meet new people and learn more about Inland Northwest Technologists (INT). June 16, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Startup Spokane Central, 610 W. Second. startupspokane. com/coworking CELEBRATE SUMMER READING Celebrate summer reading with family storytime in the park with snacks, crafts and more. June 16, 10-11:30 am. Free. Millwood Park, 9205 E. Frederick Ave. (509-893-8260) SPOKANE COUNTY CONSERVATION FUTURES Attend a public meeting to hear comments on 38 property nominations submitted for the 2016 Conservation Futures open nominations round. June 16, 4:30-7 pm. Free. CenterPlace Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. spokanecounty.org/conservationfutures WVOLC NOCTURNAL ANIMALS OPEN HOUSE Learn about nocturnal animals, meet our education birds, and participate in games and activities. $5 per person suggested donation. June 17, 6-8 pm. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org SPOKANE IN BLOOM GARDEN TOUR Tour stunning private gardens around the Spokane Valley area. Tickets are available the day of the tour or online. June 18, 10 am-5 pm. $10. tieg.org (535-8434) 15TH ANNUAL BIG BACK IN Spirit Lake, Idaho’s annual lawnmower races and community festival. June 19, 8 am-6 pm. Free. Spirit Lake, Idaho. bit.ly/1XUhzje

FESTIVAL

PRIDE PARADE & RAINBOW FESTIVAL The community’s 25th annual Pride Parade and Rainbow Festival features a fireworks show, live entertainment, a beer garden, art show, kids area with a climbing wall and petting zoo, a history wall and business and resource fair. June 11, 12-10 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. outspokane.org (720-7609) TEKOA SLIPPERY GULCH CELEBRATION The annual community celebration features parades, a fun-run, fireworks, a golf tournament and more. Details and full schedule online. June 17-19. Tekoa, Wash. slipperygulch.com (284-3861) BAZAAR The third annual local artisan showcase hosted by Terrain features 75+ vendor booths, of which at least half the items for sale are $100 or less. Also offers live entertainment, music, food trucks, a beer garden, DJs and more. On Post Street between Huntington Park and Riverfront Park. June 18, 11 am-10 pm. Free admission. bit.ly/24lC8oN

FILM

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! On the heels of his success with the groundbreaking drama Boyhood, director Richard Linklater shifts gears to sports for this comedy about a successful college baseball team that plays hard both on and off the diamond. Rated R. Showing June 9-12, times vary. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org SFCC PLANETARIUM SHOWS See “Black Holes” June 9-12 (times vary). Tickets may be purchased by phone or

at the SFCC Cashier’s Office (M-F, 8 am-4 pm). $6/Adults; $3/students, ages 3-18. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. bit. ly/25PHbBB (509-533-3569) SPR GOES TO THE MOVIES: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Spokane Public Radio presents the 1999 movie, preceded by a taping of Movies 101. “Buena Vista Social Club” was an art-house hit that introduced people around the world to Cuba’s special blend of Latin music, and the island’s post-revolution culture. June 9, 6:30 pm. $12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com THE BEST OF EWU FILM A one-night screening event showcasing the best short films from the students of the EWU Film Program. Includes films of all genres, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. All proceeds benefit the David K. Terwische Memorial Scholarship Fund. June 10, 7:30-9:30 pm. $10 suggested donation. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bit.ly/1TQsH1a SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS Weekly cartoons are screened during farmers market hours at the Kenworthy, offered Saturdays, from 9-noon, through Sept. 24 Free Admission. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127) THE CURE IS... Be inspired by stories of people who were told there was nothing left the medical community could do to save their lives, yet they lived to tell their story. June 15, 6:30-8 pm. Donations accepted. Unity Spiritual Center, 2900 S. Bernard St. unityspokane.org (838-6518) OUTDOOR MOVIES AT RIVERFRONT PARK: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY The summer series sponsored by BECU features big screen outdoor movies, live entertainment, trivia and local food vendors. Seating opens at 7 pm; movies start at dusk. All events are dog friendly. $5/ person; ages 5 and under free. June 15, 7 pm. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. epiceap.com/spokane-outdoor-movies/ A SASQUATCH SCREENING The SFCC Photography Program presents a showcase of short films created by the students of the SFCC HDSLR Filmmaking class. June 15, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. bit.ly/1Pg8PNG PLANT THIS MOVIE A one-night only screening of the documentary exploring the urban farming movement across the globe. Doors open at 6 pm for a meet and greet opportunity, a chance to drink local beer and learn about Spokane’s own urban farming movement. Proceeds benefit the Main Market Co-op’s Rooftop Greenhouse. June 16, 7-9 pm. $7. Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. bit.ly/24lAOSO ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S “THE BIRDS” The historic Sixth Street Theater hosts a one-time special screening of the Hitchcock classic. June 17, 7-9 pm. $3. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St., Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com

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EVENTS | CALENDAR MUSIC, MICROS & BBQ The CdA Casino’s summer food and drink series kicks off with brews from northern Idaho’s top breweries, spirits courtesy of New Amsterdam Vodka, live music from Current Flow, and an $18 all-youcan-eat barbecue. June 11, 5-10 pm. Free admission, $18 for all you can eat BBQ. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com PINTS & POURS FOR PRESERVATION Admission/hand stamp offer sfood and drink specials to participants while learning about Spokane’s historic buildings through a dozen venues. Closing event at 7 pm for contests, raffles and prizes. Ages 21+. June 11, 3-8 pm. $20/$25. Hills’ Restaurant & Lounge, 401 W. Main. spokanepreservation.org THE RISE OF AMERICAN WHISKEY Explore the stories behind whiskey cocktails, the ingredients, the mixologist techniques, and of course, the tastings. This is the second event in the monthly series, Spokane Imbibes! Instructors are Renee Cebula and Kristi Gamble. June 12, 4-6:30 pm. $49/single; $80/couple. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. raisingthebarbarware.com EUROPEAN BEERCATION BEER DINNER A 7-course dinner created by Chef Molly Patrick, paired with European beers selected by Jhon Gilroy of Merchant du Vin. $70/person, including tax and gratuity. Call for reservations. June 15, 6 pm. The Blackbird Tavern + Kitchen, 905 N. Washington. bit.ly/20Wozvs (509-392-4000) FOOD TRUCK RALLY Join 3 Ninjas, The Jamaican Jerk Pan, The Bistro Box, Nick’s Shameless Sausages, The Scoop, and Tacos Camargo for a rally at the South Perry Farmer’s Market. Bring your appetite June 16. Thursday Market, 924 S. Perry. greaterspokanefoodtrucks.com (521-0606) SKYLARK WINEMAKER DINNER A five course wine dinner, co-hosted by Skylark Wine Company owner/winemaker John Lancaster. $86/person, reservations required. June 16, 6 pm. Fleur de Sel, 4365 E. Inverness Dr. bit. ly/1Uyzv0i (208-777-7600) TASTE OF CHEWELAH ART WALK & AUCTION The annual event features food by nine restaurants, with works by local artists shown in each. Also hear music by street musicians and by guitarist Thomas Hart at Quartzite Brewery, where the tour ends with a silent auction of art crafts benefiting the work of Chewelah Arts Guild. June 16, 4:30-8 pm. $12; kids 8 and under free. Quartzite Brewing Co., 105 W. Main. chewelahartsguild.org TOUR DE BEER A downtown Spokane pub crawl highlighting the breweries and brewery tasting rooms in the downtown core. June 17, 6 pm. $20/ person. bit.ly/1Uj0J8C CHINOOK PREMIUM PAIRINGS Visitors can enjoy cigar-rolling demonstrations from Juan Lopez, as well as samplings of other premium cigars paired with cognac, brandy or scotch. June 18, 2-7 pm. Free to attend. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2467) #FOODIEDELIGHT FISH ON! A special five-course Father’s Day event with a meal designed and executed by our Chef LJ Klink, with three local beers, live music, and a Keynote by the Spokane Riverkeeper. June

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SPR PRESENTS: GUITAR SUMMIT II:SPR Guitar Hour host Leon Atkinson and Paul Grove join other acoustic guitarists for an evening of music. Details TBA. June 9. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) TOC DIVERSITY RESOURCE FUNDRAISER CONCERT An evening of fun and music featuring the Josh Clauson Trio. Ages 18+. All proceeds benefit the start-up nonprofit, June 10, 7-9:30 pm. $15. Coeur d’Alene Eagles, 209 Sherman Ave. tocdiversity.wix.com/ tocdiversityresource (208-991-2142) DAHMEN BARN SUMMER CONCERTS FEAT. THE PALOUSE JAZZ PROJECT The ensemble plays jazz standards and original arrangements. Doors open at 6:15. Beer and Wawawai Canyon wine and snacks available for purchase. June 11, 7-9 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org FRENCH QUINTET Live music featuring two Seattle musicians, Dave Peterson (guitar) and Ken French (drums), along with Montana’s Rob Kohler (bass), San Francisco Bay area pianist Lee Kohler and Spokane’s own Massachusetts based saxophonist, Edward Orgill. June 11, 7-10 pm. Free. Off Regal Lounge, 3001 S. Mt. Vernon St. (473-9401) KROC JAM SESSION Led by musician Kent Nelson, learn about music theory, how to write your own music and practice together to make your own unique sound. All instruments welcome. Prerequisite is prior music experience required. June 13, July 11 and Aug. 1, from 6-8 pm. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org FIVE MINUTES OF FAME Open mic night open to all writers, musicians, etc. Third Wednesday of the month, at 6:30 pm. Cafe Bodega, 504 Oak St. fosterscrossingantiques.com/cafe. DAHMEN BARN CONCERT SERIES FEAT. THE WES WEDDELL BAND An Americana/folk concert by the acclaimed Seattle-based group. Doors open at 6:15. Wawawai Canyon wine, beer and snacks for sale. June 18, 7-9 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) NORTH IDAHO’S GOT TALENT All proceeds from ticket sales to the competition’s finale performance benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. The grand prize includes paid travel expenses to the America’s Got Talent auditions in the fall. June 18, 5 pm. $5. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. bit. ly/1Oc8WyT (208-777-6300) BEN “PRESLEE” KLEIN: A special “Blue Hawaii Elvis Show” and Father’s Day concert by the award-winning Elvis tribute artist. June 19, 4-7 pm. $13$15. Spokane Eagles Lodge, 6410 N. Lidgerwood St. foe.com (489-3030)

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My girlfriend sleeps with her two medium-sized dogs. They are, to quote her, her “babies.” I see them more as her bodyguards. We don’t live together, but even when I sleep over, which is a few times a week, she refuses to kick them out of the bed. She has a nice bed they could sleep on downstairs in a spare room, but she says she doesn’t trust them down there. —Second Fiddle

AMY ALKON She doesn’t trust them down there in the spare room? What will they do, get on the landline and make prank calls to Taiwan? The truth is, a dog (or dogs) left alone in a room may, in short order, chew a $900 leather chair into a $900 pile of stuffing. People tend to see this as the dog’s scheming attempt to show its owner who’s boss. However, anthrozoologist and doggy behavior researcher John W.S. Bradshaw says the notion that dogs are engaged in this fight for dominance with humans just isn’t supported by modern science. Unfortunately, widespread belief in this myth has led many to see (highly effective) reward-based dog training as coddling and instead opt for Stalinistic confrontation- and punishment-based training, which Bradshaw writes “may initially suppress (some unwanted) behavior but can then cause the dog to become depressed and withdrawn.” Chewing, Bradshaw explains, is actually a form of tension relief for a dog. Tension? Because the dog has a big project due at the office? Well, actually, we bred dogs to bond with us, so they evolved to find human contact very rewarding. And according to Bradshaw’s research, many dogs experience serious “separation distress” when isolated from their owner — which they often express in all sorts of decor-destroying ways. (Welcome to Bed Bath & Look, It’s A Giant Dog Bone With Throw Pillows!) Now, maybe you’re thinking, “The girlfriend’s two dogs have each other!” If only that counted in dog terms. Bradshaw references a study in which mutts in a kennel, separated from their usual canine kennel mates, didn’t act out; however, those separated from their usual human caretakers freaked. As Bradshaw puts it, for a dog, the key pack member is “almost always a human.” As for the human conflict here, relationships researcher John Gottman explains that the answer to gridlock on an issue isn’t solving the problem (which may be impossible) but being able to talk about it with humor, empathy, and affection. What’s essential is that your feelings seem to be important to your girlfriend and that she at least considers possible compromises, like having the doggies in her bedroom but on beds on the floor. (It may take some training to get a bed dog to be a floor dog.) Ultimately, in the bedroom, the Reign of Terrier may not end, but on the upside, paw print place mats have yet to appear on the dining table, and your customary glass of merlot isn’t being set next to a bowl of pasta primavera on the floor.

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I’m a guy in my late 30s. I don’t fear commitment; I fear surprise — the surprise I get when I find I’m with yet another crazy woman. My previous two girlfriends eventually turned out to be total psychos — mean, controlling, and paranoid that I was cheating (which I’ve NEVER done). I’m beginning to think love is a ruse, with women pretending to be cool and balanced until their true crazy colors come out. —Weary There are events in life that are totally unexpected, like getting sucked up by a big vacuum hose into a passing alien spaceship. If you’re the one who ends up under the probe, we don’t get to go all accusey on you, like, “You…went out to the mailbox on a Saturday afternoon?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!!” In relationships, however, though there are a few gifted crazies who can pull the long con, most reveal who they really are in many small ways — long before you wake up strapped to a chair with a bright light shining in your eyes: “Tell me why you had sex with the neighbor!” she bellows. You: “Wait — the 90-year-old?” Identifying which ladies are from Batshitistan involves two things: 1. Taking things really slowly so you can look at a woman’s behavior over time (especially when she doesn’t think you’re looking). 2. Wanting to see more than you want to believe. It also might help you to take an honest approach to the past -- admitting that you treated hope as a creative alternative to critical analysis. This should help keep you from rashly welcoming the wrong people into your life, like that dark stranger ringing your bell in the hooded cloak: “Come on in, mister! There’s a bowl of nuts on the table and there are cocktails on the minibar. May I take your scythe?” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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CONQUEST OF THE CAGE Mixed martial arts event featuring local and international fighters, including Dave Courchaine (Cheney) and karate Black Belt Eric Higaonna of Tokyo. June 10, 7 pm. $45/$65/$125. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com WOMEN’S TRAIL RUNNING/YOGA CLINIC A weekend of guided trail runs, running technique coaching, nutrition for endurance runs, injury prevention and yoga for runners. June 10-12. $200/ weekend, $125/Sat only. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. cascadeendurance.com COLOR ME RAD 5K A fun run during which runners are doused in colorful stations of powdered dyes. A portion of proceeds benefit Peak 7 Adventures. June 11, 9 am. $40-$55 late registration. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. colormerad.com GBO NORTHWESTERN USA BODYBUILDING The inaugural bodybuilding, physique, fitness, beach body, figure championships feature athletes from across Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. June 11. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com NORTH PALOUSE CYCLORAMA An allroad ride, offering 10, 32, 56 or 70-mile bike routes, and an optional 5k “Brick” run. Offers training for triathletes who are doing the Ironman CdA. Includes a pancake breakfast, food stops, music/ parade, beer garden and bike coral. $1 from each registration supports The John Wayne Pioneer Trail. June 11, 5:30 am-4 pm. Fairfield. npcfoodbank.com SPOKANE SHADOW VS. SEATTLE STARS Evergreen Premier League Washington men’s and women’s team soccer games. June 11, 6:30 pm. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu EUREKA INSTITUTE OPEN HOUSE Bring the family (and a side dish to share) for some food and fun at the facility in Sagle, Idaho. Learn more about Eureka’s mission, as well as its programs for kids and adults. June 12, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Eureka Mountain Center, 6162 Eureka Rd. bit.ly/1U7kHTf NITRO CIRCUS LIVE Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live visits Post Falls for the first time in history when it returns to North America for a 40-city tour, featuring choreographed stunt rides, freestyle motocross, BMX, skate and more. June 12. Stateline Speedway, 1349 N. Beck Rd. nitrocircus.com TWO WHEELING IN RIVERSIDE STATE PARK The first of three bicycle rides in Riverside State Park, offering a familyfriendly cycling route open to all levels. Features both road and mountain biking options, as well as the opportunity to view the roaring Spokane River. June 12, 10 am-1 pm. $5. Riverside State Park, Spokane. inlandnwland.org (328-2939) RUN & GUN COMPETITION Players, grouped in teams of five, enter the xMaze Arena and are immersed in a post-apocalyptic scenario, where machines are the enemy. The goal of Call to Arms is to neutralize live enemy combatants, secure the anti-virus, and find and decode clues needed to escape the Maze. June 17-18, 7 am-7 pm. $59/person; $250/group of five. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. gorunandgun.com

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28TH PLAYWRIGHTS’ FORUM FEST The festival features eight, one-act plays by playwrights from around the region. Set A on June 3, 5, 9 and 11; set B on June 2, 4, 10 and 12. Showing ThuSat, 7:30 pm and Sun at 2 pm. $15. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) ANYTHING GOES This Broadway musical is full of madcap antics involving a stowaway in love with an attached heiress, a nightclub singer, Public Enemy #13, and the rest of the ship’s crew and passengers. June 3-26; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$27. The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org GUYS & DOLLS Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, “Guys and Dolls” is a high-energy romantic comedy. Through June 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER The sequel to “The Laramie Project,” the writers return to Laramie, Wyoming, 10 years after Matthew Shepard’s murder and finds the community grappling with its legacy, divided by denial and hope. Through June 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) CLUE: THE MUSICAL Pend Oreille Players present this internationally popular board-game-turned-audience-participation musical murder mystery. June 10-19; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $6-$25. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org MARY POPPINS A musical production based on the book by Julian Fellowes. Through June 12, Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $12/adult, $8/ages 12 and under. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. (328-4886) PETER & THE STARCATCHER The humorous and fantastical backstory of the beloved character Peter Pan and his arch-nemesis Captain Hook. June 16-July 3; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com

VISUAL ARTS

NUUNIMNIX An exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nez Perce National Historical Park, established in 1965 to tell the story of the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) people. Through June 12. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm, (Wed., 10 am-8 pm). $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org PAST & PRESENT A Spokane Art School faculty show, featuring Tom Quinn, Roger DuBois, Liz Bishop, Ken Spiering, Tresia Oosting and many others. June 3-25. Open Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm, Sat, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland. spokaneartschool.net (325-3001) THE SFCC GRAD SHOW: SPECTRUM SFCC’s Graphic Design, Interior Design and Photography programs are coming together for the biggest student portfolio show yet. June 10, 5-8 pm. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. bit.ly/1Ub8Xzm VICTORIA BRACE & ROBERT GRIMES: See the work of Spokane artists Victoria Brace and Robert Grimes, alongside

more than 40 works by Harold Balazs on display in the mezzanine of the gallery. June 10-July 2; gallery open daily from 11 am-6 pm. Opening reception June 10, 5-8 pm with an artist demo/ talk on June 11 at 1 pm. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com (208-765-6006) SECOND SATURDAY ART SHOW See artwork from Broadway Elementary students, EWU students, and the Spokane Valley Arts Council, with light refreshments. June 11, 5-9 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) THE LIGHT WE CAN’T SEE An exhibit showcasing the work of Erv Schleufer, whose research on infrared photography and his skill with photographic software has allowed him to create what could be called truly remarkable artistic documentation of the landscape and the human experience of the pow wow. On display June 11-Sept. 4. Museum open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. (Open until 8 pm on Wed; Tue is halfprice admission day). $5-$10/museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931)

WORDS

A QUEER POETRY SHOWCASE Spokane Poetry Slam celebrates Pride Week with a showcase featuring performance poetry legends from Seattle and Spokane, including Ebo Barton, Tobi Hill Meyer, Elissa Ball and Tara Hardy. June 10, 8-10 pm. $5. Westminster United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington. spokanepoetryslam.org QUIET WRITE: A SILENT WRITING PARTY Writers of all stripes and inclinations, get ready for two hours of nonstop writing and basking in silent togetherness. June 10, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299) READING: JASMIN SINGER Singer’s memoir, “Always Too Much and Never Enough” talks about being overweight in today’s society, about losing weight, being bullied, and about emotional eating. June 10, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) SIGNING: ASIA MCCLAIN Meet the Spokane-based writer who was a key figure in the “Serial” Podcast season one, and have her sign a copy of her new book, “Confessions of a Serial Alibi.” June 11, 1:30-3:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com WORKSHOP/READING: STEPHANIE HAMMER A 3-hour workshop offering games and prompts to get your brain going with a toolbox of literary tricks to take home. Stephanie also reads from her first novel, “The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior.” June 11, 4-8 pm. $30. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) JESS WALTER The celeberated Spokane author is the first to participate in a new series, “Reading for the Library.” For the first event, Walter discusses his book “We Live in Water.” June 12, 6 pm. $30/person. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org READING: JOSEPH HAEGER & LAUREN GILMORE Spokane writers Joseph Edwin Haeger and Lauren Gilmore read from their University of Hell Press titles, “Learn to Swim,” and “Outdancing the Universe,” respectively. June 16, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) n

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Loud and Proud Scenes from Volume, the Inlander’s annual music festival PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK, KRISTEN BLACK AND ERICK DOXEY

fter experiencing last weekend’s wild, loud and sweaty festivities, we wish Volume took place every weekend in Spokane. People speedwalked to music venues throughout downtown, trying to catch as many local and regional acts as they could each night. With 9 venues and more than 100 bands, it was a sight to behold. Here are some of the highlights from last weekend’s Volume, our biggest festival yet. Until next year! — LAURA JOHNSON, Inlander music editor

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7th Annual Pride Brunch 9:00am - Noon $9.00, adults; $5.00, children 8 and under nYne Bar & Bistro, 232 W. Sprague Avenue, Spokane Start out your morning with our family brunch, then head down to the parade at Noon. Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit, salads, sandwiches and pastries are on the menu.

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10:30am, Staging begins 12:00pm, Parade steps off Free for all ages; Everyone is welcome Staging – Intersection of North Stevens and West Spokane Falls Boulevard, Spokane Staging areas will not be available until 10:30am the day of the parade, after the barricades have been placed. Please do NOT arrive before 10:30am, or you may be ticketed for blocking traffic. After the barricades are up, access to staging for motorized vehicles will be in two places. If you are in the parade please get to the staging area before 11:00am to help avoid any confusion Parade – Streets of downtown Spokane Watching – Grab your spot along the parade route to see colorful parade contingents and floats

2016 LGBTQA Rainbow Festival: Pride 25: From Silence to Celebration

12:00pm FREE for all ages; everyone is welcome Gondola Meadows, Riverfront Park, Spokane; Corner of Post Street and Spokane Falls Blvd.

The Rainbow Festival also begins at Noon, with stage entertainment kicking off immediately following the parade. Gondola Meadows (by the Bloomsday runners), in Riverfront Park will be host to the Rainbow Festival and festival highlights include: Live entertainment from headliner Beverly McClellan from NBC’s The Voice, and several familiar local performers as well as, a resource/business fair, family area (with a climbing wall from Wild Walls and petting zoo provided by Second Chance Ranch). Additionally, Odyssey Teen Zone presented by INBA Outreach (for 13 to 18 year-olds), and the nYne Pride Bar featuring Beer, Wine, & Spirits (for the older kids). Bring your entire family for a day of fun. Pride’s Palette, a new feature to the festival, developed by local artist JJ Rocco, brings together about 40 other local artists who have created Pride themed exhibits. We are excited about this announcement, because of all the different possibilities from the artists to future works! 30% of each sale is being donated by the artists to help fund Pride 2017. Pride’s Palette will be in the North West section of festival, under the Gondola rides, directly North of the nYne Pride Bar. Pride Dance Party 6:00pm Free for all, Dance party; nYne Pride Bar - 21+ Gondola Meadows, Riverfront Park, Spokane This year our celebration will be going into the night with an all ages dance party hosted by DJ Devine Jewels. The nYne Pride Bar will stay open late.

Pride Fireworks

10:00pm Free for all Gondola Meadows, Riverfront Park, Spokane For the first time in our history, at approximately 10:00pm, there will be a fireworks display to commemorate Spokane’s 25 years of Pride! Official Pride AfterParty 3:00pm, DJ 8:00pm Beverly McClellan $5.00, Cover nYne Bar & Bistro, 232 W. Sprague Avenue, Spokane With Beverly McClellan and DJ Ricki Leigh! Events are subject to change. Go to OutSpokane.org for event details and the most up-to-date information.

Appearances by:

Matt Danielson Beverly McClellan Angela Marie P roject Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Freedom Rights Justin Case • Matthew Ebo Barton • Fitz The Divine Jewels Special Guests & more... Master of Ceremonies

Show Your Pride!

Saturday, June 11, 2016

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