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Also this week: staff writer Wilson Criscione explores proposals to arm resource officers in our local schools (page 22).

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rails” — the word taps childhood memories of hiking in the woods over a soft pine-needle-strewn path.

Or a dim recollection of cowboy actor Roy Rogers on top of a giant horse singing “Happy Trails.” Or “Hi-ho Silver,” the Lone Ranger rides again on the lone prairie — in a cloud of dust.

But trails have grown up in the modern era and left the cloud of dust behind. With the conversion of hundreds of miles of railroad rails into asphalt trails, North Idaho has become a bicycler’s trail heaven. This transformation has happened in the last 40 years, under the leadership of several far-sighted leaders.

The granddaddy trail of them all has been the Washington-Idaho Centennial Trail, designed to recognize the century mark of the state of Washington in 1989 and that of Idaho in 1990.

As early as 1908, the fabled Olmsted Brothers, designers of New York’s Central Park, recommended Spokane build a parkway to Idaho. Years later in 1963, while creating Expo, Spokane’s World’s Fair, urban planner King Cole initiated a movement to build the Spokane Centennial Trail to the Idaho border.

When shown the route of the proposed Centennial Trail connecting Idaho and Washington, Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus was quoted as saying, “50 years from now, people will look at this trail route and think; what vision you people had when you put this trail in.”

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till, the Idaho side of the Centennial Trail almost didn’t happen. It survived a tortured run of last-chance lucky breaks grabbed up by persistent trail supporters who never gave up on the dream goal — to connect Idaho and Washington with a well-built and maintained trail for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Retired Coeur d’Alene City Parks Director Doug Eastwood played a pivotal role in delivering the Centennial Trail on the Idaho side. Doug remembers all the hurdles trail advocates faced along the way.

A key trail opportunity presented itself in 1974 when Burlington Northern Railway ceased using the railroad bridge crossing the Spokane River. The bridge was almost sold to another buyer when a clever lawyer cast doubts about the legitimacy of the sale. He cited a requirement in the Idaho code that public bodies have the right of first refusal when railways are abandoned.

Strangely, no one has been able to locate that item in the code, but the bait-and-switch worked.

For help acquiring the bridge, Eastwood and his cohorts turned to Sandy Patano, then aide to then-Congressman Larry Craig, who intervened, and Burlington Northern agreed to sell the bridge to the Trail Foundation for $180,000. Trail advocates scrounged to find the money. State Parks Director Yvonne Ferrell squeezed it into the parks

budget. The deal was done.

Former County Commissioner Evalyn Adams helped with fundraising for the trail along the way. She says that support came also from Sen. James McClure and Speaker of the House Tom Foley.

I remember attending a hearing on the proposed trail in Post Falls where some local residents violently opposed the trail going past the schools. Opponents maintained children would be attacked by thugs, transients and pedophiles, and that property values would plummet. Sounder heads predicted correctly that the trail would be an asset passing through the city and that property values would climb because of the values the trail represented — healthy exercise, connectivity with neighborhoods and introduction of a strip of attractive parkway.

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orse trails, goat trails, retired railroad rails — each of these represents a form of transportation. We need to think beyond trails as just providing healthy recreation. As we become more urbanized, trails will provide a chosen avenue for kids of all ages to get where they want to go. Trails provide freedom from traffic and parking headaches and assure safety for bicycle riders.

Currently, the city of Coeur d’Alene is considering a proposal that would reroute the Centennial Trail as it runs through the recently developed Riverstone neighborhood. The proposal before the city would give a developer space to build a row of 17 two-story houses along the river, cutting off the view of the river from the trail and narrowing the trail from 15 to 12-feet wide. The plans suggest a retaining wall may be necessary, which would create a “shy” distance of three additional feet for a bicyclist.

That would reduce the usable trail width to 9 feet wide, an unacceptable, unsafe distance. Besides, it doesn’t make sense to reduce trail access in an expanding neighborhood.

In addition, many of the people now living in Riverstone are older, some dealing with walkers and wheelchairs. Anything over a 2 percent grade is a challenge. The trail is their neighborhood walkway, which they should be able to use comfortably.

The Centennial Trail was the reward for a hard fought, well-played crusade. The public shouldn’t sit back and take the trail for granted.

The battle isn’t over yet. The proposal before the city to reroute and diminish a portion of the trail should be rejected. n

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Eminem gave us the gem now commonly known as “MOM’S SPAGHETTI” (aka “Lose Yourself”) in 2002. And does anything top that? Well, there was the whole Afghanistan thing… the longest conflict in American history (not to mention, U.S. troops are still there). Tobey Maguire made his debut as Peter Parker in the SPIDER-MAN trilogy. Plus, STAR WARS and LORD OF THE RINGS pumped out sequels.

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Valley voters had a tough decision to make in 2002. Do they incorporate? Our May 9 story that year, “VALLEY INC.,” weighed the pros and cons of incorporation. “It’s another layer of government, but it’s a different layer,” state Sen. Bob McCaslin said at the time. “That government that’s closest to you is the best and it’s the one you’re most involved with.” After voters said “yes,” the first Spokane Valley City Council candidates also made their appearance in the Inlander that year.

KILLING FOR FUN

Who could forget Grand Theft Auto III? The video game that baffled, infuriated and excited America to an extent never before seen. Did parents know that their kids were playing a game that seemed to encouraged mass murder, violence against women and car theft? The Inlander was determined to find out in our Feb. 28 cover piece “VICARIOUS KILLS.” “The prostitute seemed only too grateful to get into my car.” (That’s a description of the game, of course. Who says our ledes were sensational in 2002?) We reported that the gaming industry reached $9 BILLION in sales in 2001. That number has only increased, and the Grand Theft Auto series has continued to pump out new material. It only got worse.

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THE PEOPLE WE MET

As military operations continued in Afghanistan, our cover story on Oct. 17 provided first-person accounts of life in Iraq from NATHAN MAUGER, a peace activist from Spokane, months before the U.S. invasion. “There was a sense that maybe there was some way around this,” Mauger reported after talking to Iraqis. On June 13, we also met the TERROR BUSTERS, a group of scientists with local company GenPrime who created a product that could determine if a suspicious white powder was anthrax or not. (QUINN WELSCH)

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Or he could completely fund bringing clean and safe water to every person in the world and still be the richest person to have ever lived.

Imagine holding the kind of power that could truly, unequivocally change the world for the better, at no

practical discomfort to yourself, and choosing, instead, just… not to do that. Imagine the kind of sociopath you’d have to be to know that you could single-handedly help millions of people stay alive, who probably wouldn’t otherwise, and instead of doing that, not doing it.

Pretty sexy, right?

The bad boy trope has been around a long time. The dark, brooding, slightly mean dude is irresistible to many women. There is, admittedly, a mysterious lure to a man without any trace of empathy. His total lack of redeemable qualities comes off as intelligent, in a way. His lack of emotional engagement somehow makes him seem

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At first it might seem like he’s opening up. Maybe he tells you how fascinated he was by space as a kid, or you perceive what appears to be sadness in his eyes after telling him about hungry children in the very city he lives in, or he orders you some particular drink you mentioned one time in passing. And you think, See? I knew there was a sweet and sensitive guy hiding under that thick, unpleasant shell.

The next thing you know, you’re two years into a relationship and still hearing those same long anecdotes about his childhood interest in space, over what was supposed to be a romantic dinner, with no indication that he remembers it’s your birthday.

“What kid wasn’t interested in space?” you say, which is a mistake. He sulks for a few days and then gives his half-a-million-plus employees slightly poorer working conditions because he knows it hurts you.

“I was wrong. Not every kid was interested in space,” you tell him. “You’re a very unique and interesting man.”

“One day we’ll live out there, you know,” he says.

“Because of me.”

“Of course,” you say.

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You thought you’d be the one to change him. You thought you could find the little nugget of compassion you just knew was in his heart somewhere. You thought you could make him see that he could pay off all private debt in America for the change in his pocket. Easy! Or fix the Flint, Michigan, thing for a dollar amount so small to him that spending it would probably benefit him when it came to tax time.

“What makes you think you know anything about taxes?” he says. And of course you have to admit you know nothing about taxes, even though, in all fairness, you personally paid more federal taxes last year than his entire mega corporation, so.

At some point, it will begin to dawn on you that his selfish arrogance wasn’t a sign of a mysterious, brooding sociopath who could someday learn to love and share and care about others, but a sign, rather, of an everyday little bitch. Just a sad, greedy coward who knows the only thing that makes him interesting is money, and who will do anything to keep the benefits of that money all to himself.

It hurts to admit you were wrong. But it must hurt more to know, as Jeff Bezos surely must know, that you’re a sad waste of human potential. You’re better off without him! n

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And when decisions are made that seem more focused on increased civic tax revenue than any “lifestyle” considerations, I think we all lose; and trust in government and in our elected officials drops. Proposed developments that, in my mind, have major negative impacts on traffic, congestion and lifestyles must be aggressively opposed by citizens.

I would like to address the preposterous claim by Greenstone Homes that “the addition of 230 residential units and commercial space” to the South Hill area will have little or no impact on traffic and congestion.

LETTERS My rebuttal to that claim is easily Send comments to summed up in two short sentences. editor@inlander.com.

At 3:30 pm yesterday afternoon, I turned east onto 29th Avenue from S. Bernard Street, heading for Miller’s Hardware in Lincoln Heights. I pulled into their parking lot off 29th, east of Regal Street at 4 pm!

It doesn’t take a professional urban planner to conclude that adding “230 residential units and commercial space” might have a negative impact on an already frustrating situation. I’m not suggesting that a trip to Miller’s today should take the same time it did in 1975. But one of the reasons we left California was to avoid the frustration that is generated while waiting in a bumper-to-bumper line of cars for three signal cycles to get through an intersection!

It has been suggested that more meetings are planned before the city would consider approving this proposed development. We have recently seen where citizen action has stopped a proposed development on S. Regal Street by Ferris High School. Hopefully the city will keep the citizens apprised of further meetings on this development.

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veryone hates Mimosa. The stained stucco building sits at the eastern gateway to downtown Pullman, occupying a prominent lot between Main Street and the Palouse River. Its harsh turquoise paint peels from the awnings. Grime streaks the cracked and splintered cinder-block facade. One light fixture dangles from its wiring near the entrance.

A jogger slows as she passes the building on a recent morning.

“Pretty, isn’t it?” she mutters before moving on.

While this rural college town has seen rapid housing development and record-setting building permit applications in recent years, the Mimosa building has been decaying for two decades.

Now, one of the largest projects in the history of downtown — a $20.2 million mixed-use student housing complex called Evolve on Main — nears completion

Mimosa building owner Nancy Swanger: “I think generally we’ve been pretty good citizens in all the places that we’ve built and opened businesses.” JACOB JONES PHOTO directly across the street from Mimosa, casting a starker shadow each day.

Community members say the building keeps getting harder to ignore. Rumor becomes mystery becomes outrage. Why don’t the owners fix it up? Why doesn’t the city condemn it? Why won’t somebody do something? Frustration has spilled into City Council meetings, local Chamber of Commerce discussions and newspaper columns.

“No building rots the heart of downtown Pullman quite like it,” the Moscow-Pullman Daily News editorial board writes of the property in April, later adding, “Mimosa’s story is largely unclear to us.”

As it happens, the story involves a devastating flood, a broken-down bus, seven unidentified public agencies, an arson, a heavy metal band, “ninja landscaping” and the fastest Subway sandwich maker in the world.

“These stories have become very tangled as of late,” Mimosa owner Nancy Swanger says. “People are looking for everything to make us look like the bad guys, and we’re not. We’re not.”

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he Mimosa building has not really been the tropics-themed Mimosa restaurant since 1996 when the South Fork of the Palouse River breached its

banks and swamped much of downtown in several feet of water. News reports state 20 Pullman businesses closed as floodwaters triggered mudslides and washed out bridges.

Mayor Glenn Johnson says he volunteered with the cleanup efforts at the time and saw firsthand the extensive damage inside the Mimosa building. He expects it has only gotten worse, only half joking that he would not go in without a hazmat suit.

“We have had our people look at it,” he says of the current structure. “The building’s solid. The doors are there. The windows are intact.”

As long as the building appears structurally sound, Johnson says the city cannot really force the property owners to do anything. It is their choice to fix it, sell it or let it rot. City officials still hear the complaints, though.

City Councilman C. Brandon Chapman says the question came up more than maybe any other issue during his run for office last year: Can you do something about that Mimosa building? Some critics have called for boycotts of the owners’ other businesses or heavy new fines to encourage action.

“Some of the comments go so much further than that,” he says.

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“There is absolute public outrage on this,” Shannon says. “People have been harping about it for years. … I wouldn’t want to necessarily condone trespassing, but that’s how bad it got.”

While Johnson and Chapman have spoken with the owners, few others appeared to have reached out. Pullman 2040 has not talked to the owners. Marie Dymkoski, president of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, says they have not taken an “active role” in the property.

“We know who owns the building,” she says via email, “we know the price and we know that community members share in the frustration of the building sitting empty, dilapidated and overpriced.”

you a little nervous,” she says now. “Over time … other opportunities probably came up that sort of took precedence, and it’s just sort of sat there.”

The Swangers never clarified the warning or submitted any plans to the city. Nancy Swanger went on to work at Washington State University, where she now serves as associate dean and director of the School of Hospitality Business Management. They have sold off their Subway

“People have been harping about it for years. … I wouldn’t want to necessarily condone trespassing, but that’s how bad it got.”

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he Varsity Diner, a retro-styled restaurant with a mirrored chrome exterior, opened last year along Highway 95 in downtown Moscow, just a block off of Main Street. The Swangers bought the property at the high-profile intersection in 2004. At the time, it was a former gas station and auto repair shop. The Daily News reported Larry Swanger expected “something will be done within the year.”

The old Chevron station still sat vacant nine years later when a rundown bus appeared on the lot. City officials reported several public complaints, but concluded it didn’t technically violate any junk vehicle or nuisance ordinances. They couldn’t really do anything.

“They had to look at [that bus] for a long time,” Pullman Mayor Johnson notes.

The Swangers also bought Gambino’s Italian restaurant in Moscow with plans for a quick remodel and reopening. They eventually rebuilt the place to twice its size and reopened three years later.

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ancy Swanger says she and her husband, Larry, have lived on the Palouse for 41 years. They got their start opening up early Subway sandwich franchises in the late ’80s, eventually buying a location alongside Mimosa’s parking lot. They initially rented rights to allow customer parking. After the flood, they took an offer to purchase the lot as long as they also took Mimosa.

“We joked for many years that we bought this parking lot with this crummy building attached,” she says. “But we wanted to protect it. … Parking downtown is at a premium.”

Swanger says Mimosa was “disgusting” when they bought it. They know it still is. Her husband gutted the structure, pulling out kitchen equipment and booths. They never had a real vision for the property, she says, and they have gotten expensive estimates for renovating the property and flood-proofing the building.

And one day while her husband trimmed weeds, a random chat with an unidentified city official also put them on edge. Swanger says the official warned them seven agencies have authority over permitting on Mimosa and the Palouse River shoreline.

“That plants a seed in your head that makes

franchises as Larry has launched new restaurants in nearby Moscow, Idaho.

“I think generally we’ve been pretty good citizens in all the places that we’ve built and opened businesses,” Nancy Swanger says, noting they have given thousands of dollars to local causes.

But some of those projects have also drawn public ire over delays and lack of communication.

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While the Swangers sold off their Subway franchises, they still own the overall building next to Mimosa, which also housed a barbershop and a Baskin Robbins. That building has seen a tumultuous two years as the barbershop closed, an arson fire heavily damaged the Subway restaurant and the owner of Baskin Robbins went to prison on child molestation charges.

(Sara Tiegs, a manager at the Subway shop, also won a company competition in 2017 by making a footlong turkey sandwich in 44.1 seconds, becoming the “fastest sandwich artist in the world.”)

Nancy Swanger says the roller coaster of recent years has made it difficult to make progress on Mimosa and the community anger has left them feeling demonized. When the mayor takes those complaints to the WSU president, she says it feels very personal.

“People have been really cruel,” she says. “Frankly quite mean. … Could you look me in the eye and say those same things? That’s terrible. I would never talk or treat another human like that. And it’s hard. It’s very hard.”

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f you want an idea of what the inside of the Mimosa building looks like now, Nancy Swanger says look up the music video for the song “Fragile Minds” by Silent Theory. Three of Swanger’s sons play in the Moscow-based heavy metal band, and they filmed the video inside the gutted structure.

In the video, band members carve messages of anguish into walls, smash bottles and head bang beneath exposed rafter beams.

“Sell me,” the singer pleads, “down the river.”

Swanger says she would love to sell off Mimosa and the Subway building lots to some bright-eyed developer — for $2 LETTERS million. City officials say that Send comments to price is far, far above market editor@inlander.com. value. The county has assessed those properties at about $330,000, including just $60,000 for Mimosa and its parking lot.

“They could make a counter offer,” Swanger says, “[But] I’m not going to give it away.”

Shannon, with Pullman 2040, says it will take some privatemarket incentive to bring change to Mimosa. Or a generous donor, like the anonymous individual who recently gave the Whitman County Historical Society $300,000 to buy a rundown train depot nearby.

Councilman Chapman says he has worked to put the Swangers in touch with a financial adviser to brainstorm options for offloading the property. Pullman City Supervisor Adam Lincoln says he would welcome a “what if” conversation with the Swangers to identify obstacles to development or discuss marketing options.

“The owners have a history of making positive changes to the sites they own,” he says. “It’s unfair to paint them as anti-growth, anti-development, anti-city, if people aren’t willing to talk to them. … But again, both sides have to make that effort.” n

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Taking Sex Ed to Court

Planned Parenthood has filed lawsuits in Spokane and New York City challenging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ shift to an ABSTINENCE-ONLY curriculum for its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington cites two “funding opportunity announcements” that indicate the department’s efforts to defund “evidence-based” programs, which have been shown to reduce teen pregnancies, in favor of abstinence-only programs. The lawsuit claims that the shift runs contrary to Congress’ rules for how the grant funds can be used.

According to the lawsuit, since 2010, when Congress allotted $110 million to start the program, the teen birth rate has dropped by 41 percent, as of 2016. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has served over 1 million people.

“The Trump-Pence administration is trying to impose their abstinence-only agenda on young people’s health,” Dawn Laguens, vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, says in a news release.

An HHS spokesman says he cannot comment on pending litigation, though the department has argued previously that it has the discretion to shift funding priorities.

In 2017, the Trump administration announced it was terminating 81 of the pregnancy prevention program’s grants two years early, in June 2018. Trump had just appointed abstinence education advocate Valerie Huber as chief of staff for the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health.

Four separate U.S. district courts, including the one in Spokane, blocked efforts to prematurely yank the grant funding. Huber and HHS Secretary Alex Azar are named as defendants in the suits brought by Planned Parenthood affiliates in Hawaii, Alaska, Nebraska, Iowa, Idaho and Washington. (MITCH RYALS)

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When Washington State University quarterback TYLER HILINSKI took his own life earlier this year, he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease often found in football players.

Hilinski’s parents revealed the news this week on the Today show and in an article and documentary from Sports Tyler Hilinski Illustrated.

“It was a shock to get those results and to find out he had it and to realize that the sport he loved may have contributed to that diagnosis,” his mom, Kym Hilinksi, said on Today.

Hilinski (above) was 21 when he died of a

self-inflicted gunshot wound in January. When the Mayo Clinic contacted his family, they agreed to give the hospital his brain for research. The Mayo Clinic’s report came back positive for CTE, which is caused by repeated head trauma.

The disease can only be diagnosed after death and studies have linked it to athletes.

While it’s rare for someone as young as Hilinski to show signs of CTE, it has been found in football players as young as 17.

“Did football kill Tyler? I don’t think so,” Kym Hilinksi said in the Sports Illustrated documentary. “Did he get CTE from football? Probably. Was that the only thing that attributed to his death? I don’t know.”

Hilinski’s family was told his brain resembled that of a 65-year-old. The family says they want to raise awareness for mental health, and they want to raise money for their nonprofit Hilinski’s Hope Foundation. “What we’re trying to do for student-athletes is we’re trying to fund programs that support them and their mental health,” Kym Hilinski told Today.

Phil Weiler, spokesperson for Washington State University, says mental health and suicide prevention has been a “priority at Washington State University for a number of years.” Since Hilinksi’s death, he says WSU launched new initiatives on campus to address suicide and mental health, including mental health screening for all members of the football team and adding a full-time clinical psychologist to the athletic department. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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The city of Spokane will significantly increase the number of HOMELESS OUTREACH staff it pays for this year, after approving $160,000 from unappropriated reserves to fund four full-time positions through the end of the year.

Currently, the city pays for the equivalent of just more than one full-time outreach position, split between two part-time jobs currently contracted through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Frontier Behavioral Health, says Tija Danzig, who manages the city’s homeless services program.

Outreach workers make connections with people experiencing homelessness, often talking to people who aren’t staying at shelters, and sometimes making contact while someone’s encampment is being cleared after a code enforcement or police complaint.

The success of those on-the-street outreach workers getting people housed is significant: Between 57 and 65 percent of the people that the outreach workers speak to and work with on the street go directly into a housing placement, says Dawn Kinder, director of Spokane’s Neighborhood and Business Services.

“Our outreach teams do sort of case management on the street,” Kinder says. “That’s why we’re trying to invest in solutions we know are effective.”

The funding was approved by the City Council Monday, June 18, after a few public commenters asked the council not to spend the money on the effort. In response to the public testimony, Council President Ben Stuckart and council members Karen Stratton and Mike Fagan said the money would be well spent, as outreach has proven effective at getting people into housing. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to answer the critical question of whether businesses open to the public can ignore anti-discrimination laws based on religious views. (MITCH RYALS) THE CHILDREN AREN’T HERE Last week, USA Today published a graphic that set local activists abuzz: A map compiled claiming to show that Spokane was one of the communities housing children who’d been separated from their immigrant parents by the the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy.” But the agency that USA Today claimed ran the facility in Spokane for separated children, PIONEER HEALTH SERVICES, said that the publication got it wrong: While Pioneer does have a facility in the Tacoma suburbs for unaccompanied migrant minors, it doesn’t have any programs for youth in Spokane at all. Local activists also wondered whether the Martin Hall Juvenile Facility or the former Pine Lodge Corrections Center in Medical Lake were being used to hold migrant children — and the Inlander got unequivocal denials about both facilities.

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NEWS | RACISM conflict and attention without giving them exactly what they crave?

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At a recent “Creating a Hate-Free Community” event, Spokane County Democrats Vice Chair Jac Archer shares views on battling racists.

Fighting the Alt-Right

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Left-wing Spokane groups are trying to figure out how to combat alt-right groups — without inadvertently making them stronger

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t an evening meeting at the Veradale United Church of Christ, a small church in Spokane Valley, Lindsay Schubiner — an activist from Berkeley, California — stands in front of a grid outlining the nuances of white nationalism. She’s speaking at a “Creating a Hate-Free Community” event co-sponsored by the recently formed Families Against Bigotry group.

Some white nationalist groups, Schubiner says, try to change society through political or legal tactics, while others are violent. Some are explicit about their racism.

Others try to hide their goals strategically behind coded language.

But there are plenty of similarities.

“We know that white nationalists are making a push for mainstream status,” Schubiner says. And when she refers to one of the groups in the violent, overtly racist quadrant — Identity Evropa — she knows that her Spokane audience probably know who she’s talking about.

Identity Evropa had coined the white identity politics slogan “You will not replace us,” a slogan that had been chanted at the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. And lately, they’ve been active in Spokane: Since February of 2017, the Anti-Defamation League has tallied seven different incidents of Identity Evropa pasting white nationalist propaganda posters or stickers in the Spokane region.

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Since Trump’s election, Spokane has been shaken by a variety of racist incidents.

A teenager holds signs proclaiming alt-right sentiments at a local high-school rally. A racial slur is spraypainted on a civil rights center. Two men — one with a white power tattoo on his leg — allegedly punch a black man in the head and, according to the Spokesman-Review, pressed a gun up against his nose and said “I feel like shooting a (n-word) today.”

It makes national news when alt-right figure James Allsup, a former WSU College Republicans president, snags a low-level GOP precinct committee officer seat in Whitman County.

In Spokane, a variety of groups on the left have been sounding the alarm.

The local Women’s March page shares a plea: “Spokane friends, we have been here before. Many of us grew up in the shadow of the Order and the Aryan Nations.

DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!” But as experts will tell you, pushing back against the alt-right isn’t always simple proposition. Do you identify alt-right members and call them out by name? Do you confront them? How do you fight a group that feeds on

One approach to opposing the alt-right is simple: Identify white nationalists by name and expose them. That was the strategy employed by Twitter users like “Yes, You’re Racist” last year, who tried to crowdsource the identities and then shame white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville — including Allsup. But while some alt-right marchers lost their jobs because of it, there are serious risks to that approach. Not only were some individuals falsely accused, but the approach can also backfire in other ways.

Tony McAleer, a former Aryan Nations member, co-founded Life After Hate, an organization that seeks to extract people from white nationalism. He says that calling out individual white supremacists can harden their ideology, making the task of saving people from white supremacy more difficult.

“By doing that, you entrench people and you can make people more extreme,” McAleer says. “If I’ve lost my job and I’ve lost everything, I have nothing left to lose.”

In April, a Central Valley High School student wearing a homemade Identity Evropa T-shirt counter-protested a student walkout by waving alt-right signs. The Inlander and KXLY interviewed him and other students, identifying them by name.

Some local activists were horrified to discover that, shortly afterward, a white nationalist Twitter account had publicly attempted to reach out to the student, asking him to send in an “application to Identity Europa.”

“By putting his name out there, it made him a target of Identity Evropa,” says Genavieve Heywood, pastor of Veradale United Church of Christ.

Three days after the walkout, a group of parents and community leaders began meeting, trying to figure out how to address the issue.

“How do we respond?” Heywood says the group asked. “How do we address the schools? How do we address the community?”

Later, the group became official, organizing under the name “Families Against Bigotry.”

“We respond by saying ‘no’ early in the process,” Heywood says, “We need to stop the kids on the margin from being recruited. We’ve got to come from all different angles.”

They teamed up with other local organizations for a summer lecture series titled, “Fascism, Hate and Building Alternatives.”

“We need to stop the kids on the margin from being recruited. We’ve got to come from all different angles.”

They brought in McAleer to be their first speaker.

McAleer says they drove him to a meeting to talk to local school district administrators. McAleer argues that helping young people on the edge of being recruited into extremist groups requires a team effort from community members, law enforcement, mental health professionals and school officials. It’s more about addressing emotional issues than intellectual ones.

Crucially, McAleer says, it’s also about supporting the victims of extreme groups as well.

On Monday, Spokane Community Against Racism (SCAR) hosted a speech on “Countering the Alt-Right

Threat to Spokane” by Joan Braune, a lecturer with Gonzaga University. But Braune, who’s been critical of the Inlander’s past coverage of the alt-right, declined to be interviewed about the issue. Audio or video recording were banned at the event.

It highlights the fear that many activists have about even publicly discussing the alt-right. They’re cautious about making vulnerable members of the community targets for alt-right violence. They’re worried about giving oxygen to groups that thrive on publicity.

Activists have heaped criticism upon media outlets nationwide, charging that some of their stories portray alt-right figures as dapper, swaggering anti-heroes or impish pranksters rather than as racists with a genocidal ideology.

McAleer goes further. He knows from personal experience that it’s not the white supremacist group’s fliers that makes the impact — it’s when the media writes about it. He recognizes the tricky situation that journalists are in.

“If every time they do a flyering, you write an article about it, the flyering is not going to stop,” McAleer says. “You have to make people aware of what’s going on, but you can’t reward them for flyering. It’s a Catch 22.”

Even the Anti-Defamation League senior investigative researcher Carla Hill finds it difficult to strike the right balance.

You don’t want to elevate the rank-and-file members of extremist groups by giving them a platform. But she also says it’s important to call out groups like Identity Evropa and leaders like Allsup, to inform people that their seemingly benign propaganda represents a Trojan horse for their push for a white ethnostate.

“The danger is letting a group like that masquerade as mainstream,” Hill says.

Identity Evropa propaganda posters were swiftly torn down after they were posted in downtown Spokane in March.

THE PERILS OF PROTEST

So far, from the point of view of Jac Archer, vice-chair of the Spokane County Democrats, organized action against the alt-right in the Spokane area has been relatively limited. There are groups who, when alerted that white supremacist posters have been pasted up on college campuses or around town, head out to tear them down.

But Archer, without getting into details, says to expect stronger opposition going forward.

“You’re going to see increased demonstrations, about issues of racism in particular,” Archer says. “I think you’ll see that things are more confrontational coming up.”

In her speech Monday, attended by an Inlander reporter, Braune argued that effective protests were well-organized, wellattended and persistent. In particular, she praised the recent demonstrations in Portland that temporarily shut down the Portland Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office. ...continued on next page

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At times, nationally, alt-right groups and antifascist groups have outright brawled at protests.

Last year, the punching of white supremacist Richard Spencer spawned rejoicing — and plenty of Captain America jokes — from some sectors of left-wing politics.

But McAleer — who says one of his Life after Hate coworkers was cold-cocked at a protest at Boston — argues that violence simply plays into the hands of the white supremacists: Punch a neo-Nazi, make a neo-Nazi martyr. Activism is good, he says, but activists should ask themselves a question when protesting extremist groups: “Knowing that they thrive on conflict, attention, fear and intimidation — is what I’m about to do going to empower them or weaken them?”

McAleer asks.

He offers a suggestion.

“Have a rally on the different side of town,” he says. “That sends a strong message to the community that doesn’t take the bait.”

That’s exactly what two local Democratic Socialist groups did when far-right provocateur Joey Gibson came to town. While Gibson himself disavows the alt-right, his rallies have often attracted them and have sparked violence. So the Spokane Democratic Socialists of America and Socialist Alternative Spokane held a rally 11 miles away from the Gibson event.

Archer is clear that the actions being discussed aren’t going to be violent. But they won’t necessarily be quiet either. Expect, Archer says, “nonviolent but visually powerful — and some-

times loud — tactics.”

For some activists, nonviolence isn’t just a pragmatic consideration: It’s a moral one.

“It sounds cliche. It’s Dr. King, it’s the Dalai Lama,” says Walter Kendricks, SCAR co-founder and pastor at Morning Star Baptist Church.

“When you’re attacked, don’t attack… Turn the other cheek.”

But Kendricks also says that fighting against racism has to go far beyond protests or lectures.

It has to dig into the root causes.

“Marching in the street does wonders. But it brings attention only for a passing amount of time,” Kendricks says. “What is causing this?

Why are so many people so angry?”

SCAR, after all, was founded not because of Donald Trump’s election or alt-right posters, but because of a Spokane jury verdict that acquitted a white man who, after a fight, shot a black man twice in the back.

“We have to look at our educational system,” Kendricks says. “We have to look at our economic system. We have to look at our criminal justice system.”

And for Archer, the fights against the alt-right and the fight against subtler forms of discrimination are connected. Structural inequality makes racists bolder, Archer argues. It gives them data points for their propaganda.

“If you disadvantage people, and you hobble them, then the argument that they’re inferior is made much easier,” Archer says. n danielw@inlander.com

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Good Guys With Guns With Spokane schools looking to prevent shootings, arming school resource officers remains a contentious issue

cally the last two years — there were 96 arrests this school year, compared with 806 two years ago — students of color are still disproportionately disciplined.

Imani Warden, who works in Spokane schools as an Americorps site coordinator and is a member of the Spokane NAACP, says guns in the hands of resource officers will only heighten tensions for students of color.

“When you’re having guns in school that actually brings more fear,” Warden says.

Sterk, a former Spokane County sheriff, isn’t so sure.

While he’s firmly against putting guns in the hands of teachers, he argues resource officers are trained to deescalate situations. Arming them with the proper training, he says, won’t change that. He says that based on his own background with a firearm.

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laine Gaskill, a school resource officer in Maryland, confronts a 17-year-old gunman who had just shot and killed a girl at a high school in March.

The teen, with Gaskill armed and ready to use his weapon, turns the handgun on himself and fires.

Mark Dallas, a school resource officer in Illinois, chases a 19-year-old gunman out of the school before anybody is harmed last month. In an exchange of gunfire, Dallas shoots the gunman, who is hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries.

Both incidents made national headlines, proof to many that the presence of armed officers can save lives in a school shooting.

Now, some of the resource officers in Spokane Public Schools are asking to be armed, rekindling a years-long debate about whether to arm the 15 resource officers under the control of Mark Sterk, director of campus safety for the district.

“Their concern is they can’t protect their kids if we do have an armed threat in the building,” Sterk says.

With school out for the summer, Spokane Public Schools is looking to improve safety and security heading into next year. In 2018, that means putting an eye on preventing school shootings. The district has created a campus security and safety task force and hired an organization called Safe Havens International to study all of the district’s safety and security programs. (Safe Havens was also hired by a school board in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in a February school shooting.)

The moves prompted several to urge Spokane Public Schools to arm resource officers during a school board meeting weeks ago. But just as many spoke against it, arguing that more guns in schools — even in the hands of trained officers — won’t solve the problem of school shootings, and may even further traumatize kids.

As the district waits for the Safe Haven study, school board President Sue Chapin says she has heard and understands both sides of the debate over having armed officers in schools.

“Citizens are not speaking with one voice as far as arming or not arming,” Chapin says. “There are two very distinct viewpoints.”

A SECOND ATTEMPT?

The last time Spokane Public Schools took a serious look at its safety and security programs was five years ago, in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Then, an internal audit recommended arming school resource officers, which most school districts in Washington do.

“There was that interest and we were looking into it,” says Mark Anderson, Spokane Public Schools associate superintendent.

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Resource officers in Spokane have asked to be armed.

But the idea ran into some roadblocks. The resource officers in the district are issued a limited commission authority through the Spokane Police Department, and the idea had to go through SPD and Spokane City Council.

The police department, under then-Chief Frank Straub, wanted the school district to pay for a police sergeant to supervise the armed officers. And with City Council President Ben Stuckart against the proposal, it never was brought forward.

Last year, resource officers requested to be trained and armed with guns, in preparation for the district’s 2019 bargaining session with the Spokane Education Association.

There are multiple instances of armed officers ending school shootings and preventing further tragedy. But unarmed teachers or staff members in schools have also stopped shootings. An Indianapolis teacher, for example, disarmed a student last month. At Freeman High School, a janitor helped stop the gunman.

In Spokane, Sterk says none of his resource officers have been in a situation where they’ve needed a gun in recent years.

“We’ve been very, very fortunate,” Sterk says.

So far, research has not clearly shown that the presence of an armed guard acts as a deterrent for would-be shooters. Meanwhile, plenty of parents and student advocacy groups argue the presence of an armed officer would have a detrimental effect on the school environment.

Tara Lee, a parent of a 15-year-old high school student at Lewis and Clark, says an armed officer would only make a school feel “more like a prison,” noting that schools now have only a single point of entry, “They’re already feeling like it’s more and more prison-like,” Lee says. “An armed officer makes it more so.”

Lyric, a 15-year-old sophomore at North Central, says she trusts the resource officer at the school currently.

But as someone who witnessed gun violence as a child growing up in San Francisco, she says an officer with a gun would make her uneasy.

“I feel like not every student would feel safer,” Lyric says. “A lot of students come from places with gun violence, so then having to come to school [seeing] a gun doesn’t make people feel safer.”

Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have pushed for schools to decrease the presence of resource officers overall, arguing they can criminalize student behavior, especially for students of color. And while student arrests in Spokane Public Schools have dipped dramati-

Sterk thinks the conversation around arming resource officers is different than it was five years ago. There are more school shootings now than there were five years ago, he says.

But there are plenty of hurdles in the way of arming resource officers. Even if the Safe Haven study recommends it, it would likely have to wait until the 2019 bargaining session. The City Council would have to agree to changes, and the contract between the school district and the police department would need to change, Anderson says.

Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl, for his part, told the district he would support efforts to arm resource officers, as long as they go through firearm training through SPD including annual training on use of force, and that they go through background screenLETTERS ing similar to full-time Send comments to commissioned officers. editor@inlander.com.

While he’d prefer an SPD sergeant to be “more involved” in overseeing resource officers, it’s not a dealbreaker for him.

Overall, he says he’s “comfortable” arming resource officers with Sterk leading them.

“If there is anyone who would be skilled at ensuring an appropriate and smooth transition, Director Sterk would be that person,” Meidl says.

Stuckart remains skeptical that arming resource officers is the right solution.

“I’d sure love to see some evidence that says arming officers works,” he says.

But he’d support armed officers in schools under the right conditions: They’d have to have as much training as a commissioned SPD officer, they’d have to have body cameras and they’d have to have independent oversight like an ombudsman.

And he says there is a relatively easy way to do that: Put commissioned SPD officers in schools. It’s what Central Valley School District does with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

That might be more expensive, however. And the school board may instead turn to other more preventative measures. The district continues to increase the amount of mental health counselors who can help students in crisis, for example.

“I’m a registered nurse, and I’m always more in favor of prevention. I’d rather see those safeguards in advance than deal with calamities afterward,” Chapin says.

Still, Chapin says the board is open to recommendations from the Safe Haven study and the task force.

“We just want to do the safest thing for our schools,” Chapin says. “There isn’t one perfect answer.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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Finding Your Bliss Whatever you're looking for, the great outdoors of the Inland Northwest has a place for you

Maybe it's when you're standing at the top of a mountain,

feeling exhausted but accomplished as you survey the peaks and valleys of the landscape.

Maybe it’s when you finally feel the tug of a catch while you’re standing knee-deep in a flowing river.

Maybe it’s the thrill of paddling through whitewater rapids. Or, for the less daring, maybe it’s lounging on the beach with a beer in hand as the sun settles in behind the mountains.

Finding your bliss in the outdoors can mean something different to everyone. But whatever it means to you, you probably can find it in the Inland Northwest, if you know where to look.

Here we’ve compiled a list of the best spots in the area to enjoy the great outdoors. Some of them are our personal favorites, and some were recommended by outdoors enthusiasts. There should be something for everyone, whether you’re looking for adventure, for wildlife or just a place to relax.

— WILSON CRISCIONE, section editor

VIEWING WILDLIFE

Even in the most urban parts of Spokane, you’ll find wildlife. Bald eagles soar over Latah Creek near the highway. Moose wander into suburban backyards.

But in the city, it almost feels too easy.

It’s somehow more fulfilling to see wildlife outside the city: to spot a moose drinking water from a forest creek, to glimpse an eagle diving to catch a fish in a secluded river. You’re in their territory now. Nature has the control.

It’s the kind of experience you can find any time of year at the LITTLE PEND OREILLE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE , says Alice Hanley, project leader for the Inland Northwest National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

“At Little Pend Oreille, it’s more of an experience of what it used to be like before we had cell phones and roads everywhere,” she says.

The 40,198-acre refuge, about 70 miles north of Spokane, is much larger than Turnbull and Kootenai national wildlife refuges.

You’re bound to see wildlife like birds or deer just about anytime of the year, but spring or fall are when there’s more abundance of animals. Golden eagles, goshawks and waterfowl can be seen in the fall. Elk, moose, coyote, bobcats may be spotted in winter. All kinds of migratory birds turn up in the spring. In the summer, you may spot elk and moose calves.

You’ll see much of the same at other refuges like TURNBULL and KOOTENAI. But if it’s seclusion you want, Little Pend Oreille might be the place to go.

“It’s so big, you can really get away from people,” Hanley says. (WILSON CRISCIONE) ...continued on next page

The Kettle Crest Trail runs 44 miles through the Colville National Forest.

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MOUNTAIN BIKING

Spreading throughout the Colville National Forest, about a two-hour drive from Spokane, are more than 110 miles of rugged, mountainous singletrack trails known as the KETTLE CREST TRAIL SYSTEM. “That’s my weekend day ride,” says Will Stone, former president of the Evergreen East Mountain Bike Alliance. “I’m probably shooting myself in the foot, but in reality the main thing it needs is more traffic.

You hardly see anybody out there. It’s so remote. World-class.”

The entire Kettle Crest system is open to mountain bikers, with options for 4 to 14-mile loops. The vast, rolling trail system with big views is perfect for bikepacking and cross country mountain biking.

Stone specifically mentions the Jungle Hill loop, with a 4,131-foot climb spanning about 14 miles.

But one of the best things about the Kettle Crest, he says, is riders can just as easily find a nice 5-mile loop as they can explore for 40 miles in a single day.

“If you can, go camp for a night and ride for a couple days,” he says. “It’s low key. Car camp for a night, bring some leftover pizza, and you’re pretty well set.”

Other local mountain bikers also mentioned Mount Spokane’s trail NO. 290 , aka “The Goode’s,” named for David Goode, who helped design it.

“It’s so different than anything else we have in this area,” says Harley Dobson, who has been riding mountain bikes his entire life. “It’s probably the closest thing to a westside trail that we have over here.” (MITCH RYALS)

The region offers plenty of distractions for bikers of all skills.

SCENIC HIKES

As summer gets into full swing, there’s no better time to lace up some hiking boots and hit the trails for one of the many hikes in Eastern Washington and North Idaho that offer stunning views, meadows of wildflowers and vistas of blue lakes and mountain peaks.

When it comes to truly scenic hikes, Holly Weiler, Eastern Washington regional coordinator with the

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nonprofit Washington Trails Association, recommends hitting up at least a portion of the 44-mile KETTLE CREST TRAIL in the Colville National Forest.

“It has several different trailheads to access it, but the easiest is right off of Highway 20 at Sherman Pass,” Weiler says. “The views up there are 360 degrees, and on a clear day you can just make out the Cascades.”

Another popular scenic hike that’s definitely on the

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more challenging side, with almost 4,000 feet of elevation gain over the roughly 4-mile hike up, is the SCOTCHMAN PEAK TRAIL east of Lake Pend Oreille, Weiler says.

“I hear they’ve done some rerouting of the trail to make it a little less steep,” Weiler says. “If you’re at the top, on a clear day you can look down right on Lake Pend Oreille and it’s very beautiful.”

The hike is also known for its bloom of bear grass, a tall plant with balls of spikey white flowers that looks like it was pulled straight out of a Dr. Seuss book, Weiler says.

Other scenic hikes to consider: QUARTZ MOUNTAIN in Mount Spokane State Park, ANTOINE PEAK CONSERVATION AREA or CHILCO MOUNTAIN TRAIL. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

FLY FISHING

There’s no X marks the spot when it comes to fly fishing. There’s no secret cove. Every day is different. You have to think on your toes.

“Fish don’t think. They react. Our job as fishermen is to make them react,” says Allen Peterson, the owner of Swede’s Fly Shop.

With 63 years of experience fly fishing and having owned Swede’s for 34 years, it’s hard to ignore his advice.

If you don’t know where to get started, Peterson says the Spokane River is great:

“Anything on down[stream] from Monroe Street fishes quite well.” Still lost? There are more than 75 lakes, within 100 miles of Spokane that are also great spots for fly fishing, he says. M C DOWELL LAKE and BROWNS LAKE are solid fly-fishing spots, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The north fork of the COEUR D'ALENE RIVER is also well-known for fly fishing, as is the St. Joe River .

For those beginners out there, Peterson says to “use patterns that imitate nymphs and small fish” and to avoid dry flies. “The Spokane River is not a dry-fly river, traditionally.”

If you’re itching for some more river wisdom, Peterson offers classes on the first Saturday of every month at his shop, located at 825 W. Garland. (QUINN WELSCH)

RELAXING ON THE BEACH

I loved growing up in Colorado, a beautiful state full of towering mountains, breathtaking valleys and endless opportunities to explore the outdoors.

But living in the Inland Northwest has opened my eyes to a part of the outdoors that my home state almost entirely lacked, and a part I didn’t even know I was missing: beaches.

The beaches and lakes in this part of the country are almost always spectacular

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— and almost always crowded. But when I went to HONEYSUCKLE BEACH off of Hayden Lake on a Sunday afternoon, my friends and I found ourselves as one of only two groups on the shore. According to the lifeguards on duty, the beach is one of the most popular in the area, but often early mornings and partly cloudy days cause the beach to remain quiet.

It’s pretty clear why the beach is so popular as its dock, concession stand, picnic areas and volleyball courts can serve anyone from parents searching for a beach day with their families to fishermen looking to try their luck. Breathing in the fresh air, feeling your feet sink in the sand, wading into the brisk water only up to your knees can provide any beach novice (like me) or city dwellers with a wonderful experience at the beach, whether it’s a busy day or not.

Other beaches in the area you should check out include, BEAR LAKE REGIONAL PARK north of Spokane and Q'EMLIN PARK in Post Falls. (SEAN PRICE)

PADDLING

With lakes and rivers scattered all across the Inland Northwest, ideal locations to put in your canoe, kayak, paddleboard or inflatable raft for a day on the water abound. So where to go? It usually depends on what ...continued on next page

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raft, kayak, jet boat, jet ski, waterski, whitewater, slack water, fish or play! bring an extra towel because you’ll have a hard time staying dry.

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If you’re looking to join other paddlers, Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club (SCKC) President Barbara Kowalski suggests searching for locally organized outings on meetup.com, including excursions hosted by the club’s members.

“If someone is interested in trying paddling and is very much a beginner or trying a new boat, small, small lakes like FISH AND SAND LAKES have good access and are nice and quiet to be trying new things,” Kowalski says.

She says it’s also easy to park, put in and paddle along flatwater sections of the Spokane River.

For more experienced paddlers, SCKC member Blake Sommers, who’s been hitting the water for 12 years, suggests what’s called "TRAILER PARK WAVE" just downstream from the Post Falls dam on the Spokane River.

“It’s a single wave in the middle of the rapids, and the way it’s shaped you can surf it in a [whitewater] kayak,” Sommers explains. “The front of your boat faces upstream, and there are all different tricks you can do while surfing that: cartwheels, front flips and backflips.”

When the river’s flow is lower, this area can also be a good spot for stand-up paddleboarding, he says.

Kowalski and Sommers also both suggest the COEUR D'ALENE RIVER and the ST. JOE RIVER, where each flow into Lake Coeur d’Alene. One of Sommers’ favorite places a little further away for whitewater kayaking is on the KOOTENAI RIVER outside of Troy, Montana. For

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Fish and Sand Lakes are good places for beginners to try their hand at paddling. more insight on where locally to float, paddle or hit some rapids, the club members also suggest checking out the Spokane River Forum, at spokaneriver.net. (CHEY SCOTT)

CAMPING

Living in the Inland Northwest, there’s no shortage of camping spots within a short drive. Whether you’re into backpacking, car camping or even glamping, the options are endless.

For me, when I want a quick weekend getaway from the city, I turn to designated campsites accessible by car. I also prefer a place with trees for cover and a nearby lake. That’s why I end up spending a lot of summer weekends at SULLIVAN LAKE in the Colville National Forest.

The campgrounds just 30 minutes south of the Canadian border have become a favorite of mine for many

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reasons. The area is great for anyone seeking day hikes or water recreation.

There are many trails nearby, but you don’t need to look further than the Lakeshore Trail. It’s an 8.2-mile hike that starts at the north end of the lake and takes you through the mossy forest and lower slopes of Hall Mountain.

There’s also an abundance of wildlife. You’ll be greeted by signs warning of bears in the area; you should always be bear-aware while camping in a forest. But from personal experience, you’ll more than likely just end up with the occasional moose sighting.

Camping preferences are different for everyone. If Sullivan Lake doesn’t sound like your speed, some other popular sites include STEAMBOAT ROCK STATE PARK on Banks Lake and LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL STATE PARK on the Touchet River. (DEREK HARRISON) n

Natural Light PHOTOGRAPHY

Inland Northwest photographers share the stories behind some of their favorite images BY JACOB JONES

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Out amid the sagebrush and steel horses, adventure photographer BEN HERNDON spent four days waiting on the wind. He awoke at dawn each day in hopes of photographing a sunrise silhouette of a mountain biker hurdling over the Wild Horses Monument near Vantage.

Herndon, 32, of Moscow, says he spent about a year dreaming about snapping that photo at the public art piece, formally titled “Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies.” Once Utah-based mountain biker Jeremy Hottinger came on board, Herndon knew he could make it work.

“That’s what you want to chase,” he says, “that little bit of satisfaction when you feel like you’ve captured something different.”

Herndon got his start as a print journalist, taking photos as part of his work at the Port Townsend Leader on the Olympic Peninsula. The more he hiked, camped and climbed, the more photos he took. When he moved to Moscow, he started building relationships with clients and outdoor athletes that has grown into a full-time gig.

While shooting rock climbers, skiers and paragliders, Herndon says he enjoys capturing their interactions with the land. He loves the geology of the Inland Northwest and is working on a series of photos to showcase the unique terrain that shapes regional recreation. Like the high desert near Vantage, where once the wind died down Herndon got his shot.

“If it’s a fun idea, in a beautiful place, with good people,” he says, “that’s what I live for.”

View more of his work at benherndon.com or on Instagram: @donofhern

TOP LEFT: Ben Herndon's photo of a biker; BOTTOM LEFT: Michael Visintrainer's photo of a Bolivian river; ABOVE: Kyndall Elliott's photo of Steptoe Butte.

MAKING MAGIC

Usually she would scout the location ahead of time. But her clients — a couple who met at Idaho Fish and Game — had never visited the top of Steptoe Butte. Despite living on the Palouse for several years, wedding photographer KYNDALL ELLIOTT hadn’t either. And she hoped to catch some of that raw wonder in their photos.

They picked a day in May when the fields would be at their greenest. Then the couple stepped out against the rolling horizon, forgot about Elliott’s camera and lost themselves in the landscape.

“It just made it really special to me,” she says.

Elliott, 29, grew up in Houston, Texas (“Not a very pretty place”). And watched her parents go through a messy divorce. Now she dedicates her photography to capturing candid moments of affection in some of the most beautiful places on Earth.

“I tend to draw people who really love the outdoors,” she says, “people who want to highlight not just the love they have for each other, but the love they have for where they live.”

Elliott says the key to shooting outdoors is adaptability. She recently shot a whole wedding with an umbrella in one hand. She has shot photos in national parks, Costa Rica, Italy and elsewhere.

Trust in your preparation and experience, she says.

Keep the focus on love.

“You can make your own magic,” she says. “At the end of the day, it’s just really beautiful and worth it to me.”

Check out Elliott’s work at shutterkey.com and on Instagram: @shutterkey

A GOLDEN MOMENT

Deep in the jungle of Bolivia, on the Itirizama River, their canoe came to a short stretch of shallow rapids. Spokane fly-fishing photographer MICHAEL VISINTAINER stepped out of the craft so his indigenous guides could navigate the narrow passage.

Visintainer and his six clients all hauled fly rods and fishing gear, so he had made room for just a small digital camera. He watched the two men work the churning waters like experts — and raised his lens.

“This photo was a spur of the moment shot,” he says.

Visintainer, 37, works as a manager at Silver Bow Fly Shop in Spokane Valley. He typically turns his camera on the rich color and detail of native redbands or Montana brown trout, elevating the old “grip and grin” of trophy photos to an art form.

In addition to the mountain streams and rivers of the Northwest, Visintainer has swung flies in Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas. On this trip, he had come to fish for golden dorado — massive, brilliant yellow fish — in Isiboro Secure National Park.

“Golden dorado are very large, predatory freshwater fish with sharp teeth,” he says. “The dorado attacks a fly like a bass, leverages like a steelhead and jumps like a tarpon.”

When he looks back at the photo of his two guides working the rapids, he says he remembers their skill, but also their humor as they splashed each other playfully.

His takeaway?

“Have fun,” he says, “while working hard.” n See more of Visintainer’s work on Instagram: @michaelvisintainer.

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An osprey lands at the top of its nest at the Riverfront Park Pavilion (top); a deer munches foliage in the backyard of a Latah Valley neighborhood (bottom).

Animal Invasion CREATURE FEATURE

Beavers, marmots, turkeys and deer are gnawing at our urban core BY DANIEL WALTERS

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any of the trees on the river banks — the ones across the Spokane River from the U.S. Pavilion in Riverfront Park — have an hourglass figure. Most of the way down they’re your typical Spokane tree — strong, thick, tall and coniferous. But toward the bottom, at about, say, the height of a very large rodent, the trunk is bare and winnowed down to a precariously narrow width. At times it seems as if a strong breeze could topple them.

And if you wait long enough, staring into the river’s current, you understand why: A sleek creature — like the world’s largest marmot — glides through the water effortlessly. And then the beaver waddles up slowly onto the shore, its red-orange, bark-slicing incisors gleaming in the sunlight. Water drips from its fur. It munches at some foliage floating on the bank. And then, like that, it’s gone, its flat paddle of a tail the last glimpse of the beaver before it surfaces deep beneath the river water.

But that’s not all: A nearby marmot behind the fence at Riverfront Park gnaws at some weeds and then dashes

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across the park’s storage facility.

An hour earlier, a white osprey, perched on a branch just a few yards away, and a few yards above from where the beaver surfaced, unfurls its wings and glides across the river, toward the osprey nest at the top of the U.S. Pavilion.

The day before, a raccoon and her babies cross the street in Browne’s Addition, the mother skulking across front lawns and manicured hedges.

A few months earlier, at dusk, a family of mule deer bound on the Centennial Trail under the Monroe Street Bridge by the My Fresh Basket grocery store.

This, mind you, is not the far-reaching edges of Spokane County. This is mere blocks away from City Hall in downtown Spokane. Despite all the challenges posed by development, life finds a way.

And sometimes, life finds a way to irritate and frustrate humans.

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No-Li Brewhouse. When beavers are about 2 years old, they’ll leave their parents’ den and go out to make a living on their own.

Fortunately, there’s a relatively simple solution, one that doesn’t require killing beavers — or even evicting them from their downtown dens: You give the trees armor.

SAVING THE TREES

One tree has already fallen victim to Spokane’s relentless beaver population. You can see it if you walk near Hotel RL — the tree lying splayed down the river bank, the trunk shaved into a point like a pencil.

When you’ve got beaver trouble, you call Joe Cannon.

“A big issue this winter has been the beaver activity down there,” says Cannon, a restoration biologist with the Lands Council, an environmental advocacy organization.

This particular colony, he speculates, spun off from another beaver colony upstream, by the banks near the

A Spokane beaver glides gracefully through the water.

“What I’ll do is take a 3- or 4-foot-tall strip of field fence — chicken wire,” Cannon says. “We’ll take enough to wrap it around the tree to leave an inch or two gap so that it’s not restricting the tree. We’ll clamp it to the ground with the cloth staples.”

Beavers won’t gnaw through that.

Cannon isn’t surprised to see so many beavers near civilization.

“In general I’m finding that they like being around

people,” Cannon says. “When you have human places developed, you don’t have their key predators — cougars, wolves.”

By contrast, beavers don’t look at humans with the same sort of life-or-death fear.

“We’re not part of their DNA,” Cannon says.

Yet humans often are a great danger to beavers.

“If killing is a tool in a toolbox, people will use it when animals are impacting their lives,” Cannon says. “I have to beg people to let me do something for free, like the tree wrapping down there.”

Fortunately, considering the value of the beaver pelt isn’t quite where it was in, say, 1880, the beavers in the Inland Northwest are doing just fine.

“They’re rodents,” Cannon says. “Rodents have a way of staying around. They can really reproduce.”

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CRITTER ARMY

Of course, beavers aren’t the only the adorable rodents that local communities have been irritated by. In 2008, Greenstone Homes brought out an animal-control company to handle the army of marmots invading a Liberty Lake suburb. (Full disclosure: When my father was a track coach at North Central High School, he was locked in a Caddyshackian battle of wills with the marmots who insisted on living inside his pole-vault pits.)

Then there are the marauding hordes of turkeys that have rampaged across the South Hill.

“Oh, god,” Madonna Luers, spokeswoman with the local office of the Washington Department Fish and Wildlife. “They’re everywhere. They’re on the South Hill. They’re in the deep woods.”

Turkeys — which cameo as deadly wildlife in the latest Montana-set Far Cry game — are non-native species to the Northwest.

But they’ve flourished in the Spokane area.

“For a while, they were a curiosity. People didn’t want to harm them. It’s really cool, ‘Look what I saw in the backyard!’”

Luers says. “Then, two years later, ‘Could you help me get rid of these damn things?!’ Everybody loves wildlife until it becomes a problem for them.”

Leurs says Fish and Wildlife has struggled to control turkeys in neighborhoods. You’re not allowed to discharge firearms in urban areas, and the presence of dogs and cats means that animal traps are likely to catch the wrong creature. Instead, Leurs says, staffers search for the nests and paint the turkey eggs with oil so they don’t hatch.

Animals invade for a variety of reasons. The raccoons come to find hiding spots in our crawlspaces and to eat our garbage.

Coyotes, Leurs says, are adaptable and opportunistic, happy to turn little Fido or Fluffy into a midnight snack. Whitetail deer come to leap our fences and munch on the roses in our gardens.

“We humans create some things in our own landscape that are appealing to animals,” Leurs says. “There’s always something.

Nature abhors a vacuum. The critters are going to make a living wherever there is the food, cover and water they need.” n

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Trail Blazers hey’re starting from the top.

In the past couple weeks, volunteers with the Washington Trails Association began carving what will become the Mica Peak Conservation Area’s newest mile-and-a-half singletrack trail. That means using handheld, human-powered tools to dig and move rocks that are sometimes two and three times the size of a single person.

There’s more than 900 acres of land about 30 miles below Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake where loggers, hunters and not-completelylegal dirt bikers used to roam. In 2013, Spokane County purchased what is known as the Mica Peak Conservation Area for $1.7 million through its Conservation Futures Program with the intention of developing a four-season, multi-use, non-motorized trail system.

They’re talking about purchasing about 900 more acres adjacent to the Inland Empire Paper Co., which would connect the area to the Liberty Lake Regional Park, says Paul Knowles, Spokane County park planner.

It’s somewhat similar to Mount Spokane recreational area, Knowles says, in terms of “expansiveness, elevation and wilderness.”

The Mica Peak area rises more than 2,000 feet in elevation and includes an impressive diversity of habitats and ecosystems: open ponderosa forests, aspen and birch trees and subalpine forest with some huckleberry understory near the peak.

(The county doesn’t own the peak, though; some Federal Aviation Administration radar facilities are up there.)

“The cool thing about this project is it’s close to town,” Knowles says. “The idea of bringing a 14-mile, four-seasons trail system online is a huge addition to the trail community.”

In the winter, Knowles says, the area gets a significant amount of snow cover, making it perfect for cross-country and backcountry skiing.

When the snow is gone, the more than 14 miles of trails will be open for non-motorized riding and hiking.

Since 2013, the county has engaged multiple groups, including representatives for mountain bikers, hikers and horseback riders, among others, to elicit input on trail construction.

Crews with Washington Trails Association and Evergreen East Mountain Bike Alliance (organizations that advocate for and help maintain trails throughout the state) have just started breaking ground on the new network of trails.

But first, they had to map the routes.

MAPPING

In 2016, two dozen volunteers traipsed through the Mica Peak property with their smartphones —

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snapping photos and uploading them to a county database. They attached notes along with the images about beautiful views, treacherous locations and damage that needed repair.

The county used the crowd-sourced info to map the future trails. Knowles says this is the first time they’ve taken a crowd-sourced approach to building new trails.

“It was really effective,” Knowles says. “At the end, we had a great inventory map that showed most of the trails on the property and the highlights of the property and issues we needed to address down the road.”

"We're trying to build it in a way that you're essentially surfing down the hillside."

Some of the highlights include the multiple creeks along the trails and the impressive views.

“Especially a little bit higher up, you’ve got this 280-degree view looking from the south Palouse, Tower Mountain, Iller Creek area, Dishman Hills Conservancy and all the way to Mount Spokane,” Knowles says.

Using that data and a plan laid out by a design firm, Knowles and volunteer trail bosses could begin flagging out the general corridors.

FLAGGING

This past spring, after the snow melted, Holly Weiler accompanied Knowles and another volunteer into the Mica Peak area and hung

orange and pink flags from tree branches. Using a compass-like device called a clinometer they measured the grade of the freshly marked trail to ensure it’s not too steep.

“If we keep it at a more moderate grade, it keeps the hikers happier,” says Weiler, the Eastern Washington regional coordinator for the Washington Trails Association. “It also makes the trails last longer. It’s harder to maintain a steep trail. They’re prone to erosion problems in a sudden rain event or during snow melt off after the winter.”

Over the next two years, volunteers with the Washington Trails Association will help carve about a mile and a half of new singletrack trails that will wind through, around and past the area’s existing logging roads, Weiler says. There will be loop options, with a switchback climb to a “phenomenal viewpoint” that’s unrivaled by any other county conservation area, she adds.

A separate, 3-mile “flow trail” designed for downhill mountain biking has also been marked with flags, says Harley Dobson, a member of Evergreen East, who has worked with the county to design the route.

“We’re trying to build it in a way that you’re essentially surfing down the hillside,” Dobson says. “So you’re not riding your brakes the whole time. There will be berm turns, and it’s designed so any level of rider can ride it.”

In addition to input from user groups, Spokane County is working with a biologist to ensure the new trails won’t interfere with wildlife, Dobson and Weiler say.

“We’ve noticed a lot of elk tracks on the new trail we built,” Weiler says. “And I’ve seen bear scat on the mountain. Our map had to be checked by a biologist to make sure it wasn’t going into a sensitive habitat.”

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The hikers have a head start on the mountain bikers.

For the past couple weeks, Washington Trails Association teams of about 15-20 have taken to the rugged landscape with firefighting tools such as grub hoes (for digging), rock bars (for moving rocks), McCleods (for more digging) and rock nets (for moving really big rocks).

“We’ve discovered that up top, it’s very rocky with a layer of bedrock underneath,” Weiler says.

“So we’ve been moving a lot of rocks.”

So far, teams have spent about five days working with varying degrees of progress.

Some days they’ll finish about 1,000 feet. Rocky sections take longer. The Washington Trails Association has promised to work 2,000 volunteer hours, and Weiler estimates it could take about two years to complete.

Evergreen East began its first work day this past weekend on the bottom half mile of the flow trail, which mostly involved clearing vegetation, Dobson says. His group has also pledged a certain number of volunteer hours. After the vegetation is clear, and the human-powered digging complete, a mini excavator will come through for the finishing touches.

Both groups regularly post work-day schedules on their websites and Facebook pages, and anyone is welcome to help.

“If in the future, there’s required maintenance, we’ll be coming back to spruce things up,” Weiler says. n

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CLIMBING

Climbing is hot right now, and the sport is easier than ever for newbies to join BY QUINN WELSCH

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limbing has gone mainstream. It’s no longer just a sport for adrenaline-addicted athletes. You, too, can be a climber.

There are now more than 400 new rock-climbing and bouldering gyms (and counting) in the U.S., a trend that began in the late ’80s, according to a 2017 New York Times article, “A Boom in Rock Climbing, Minus the Rocks.”

The sport is making its Olympic debut in 2020 in Tokyo, thus solidifying its place in mainstream society, which is actually pretty cool, considering that the threshold for beginning climbers is a low bar (or maybe it’s a pink plastic rock bolted into a wall).

It’s fun, and while there are “serious” athletes, casual climbers are also welcome, says Brice Niemond, a climbing instructor at Bloc Yard, one of two climbing gyms in Spokane.

“People of all shapes and sizes come into our gym and try it,” he says. “I think that climbing is one of the sports that is often seemed as something that is super difficult, and when people come into try it for the first time, they are surprised by what at they are able to do.”

Not only that, climbers belong to a supportive — though somewhat niche — group of borderline-hipster athletes.

“In the Spokane community most people know each other’s names. It’s not something you can do alone,” says Niemond. “You need people to help you and teach you.”

Lucky for us, the climbing community is alive and well in our region. There are four climbing gyms in the Inland Northwest, including in Moscow and Sandpoint.

There are also about 15 great places to go climbing, all within about a 90-minute drive from Spokane, says Todd Mires, a manager at Spokane’s Wild Walls.

Minnehaha Park is considered one of the best places to go climbing outside, with a rock face that boasts more than 70 “routes” to traverse. Farther east of Minnehaha is Q’emlin State Park in Post Falls, also a good place for rock climbing, as are the Deep Creek Canyon in Riverside State Park and the Dishman Hills climbing area.

We asked both Niemond and Mires for their advice

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INLANDER: What would a beginning climber need to get started in the sport?

BRICE NIEMOND: Climbing is one of those things that if you’re just climbing indoors, you really don’t need anything. If you’re going for the first time, just show up in gym stuff. You can rent climbing shoes. Pretty much any gym will have those to rent.

TODD MIRES: Part of it depends on [if you’re] looking to boulder, you just need some climbing shoes and a chalk bag. If you’re going outside, you might need a crash pad. The best option is to do an intro class. …

It’s super easy for beginners to get started that way. It’s pretty non-intimidating. It’s definitely not too expensive to get started and not too time consuming.

How can people train to climb?

NIEMOND: There’s a famous saying: The best

There are more than 400 climbing gyms in the U.S. Four of them are located right here in the Inland Northwest.

WILD WALLS, 202 W. Second Ave., Spokane (rope climbing and bouldering) BLOC YARD, 233 E. Lyons Ave., Spokane (bouldering) UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO CLIMBING CENTER, 1000 Paradise Creek St., Moscow (rope climbing and bouldering) SANDPOINT ROCK GYM, 522 Church St., Sandpoint (bouldering) Find more climbing gyms on climbingbusinessjournal.com.

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Climbers near Minnehaha Park. exercise for climbing is climbing. It’s really not an exercise that you can simulate well outside of actually climbing. Eventually you hit a wall and you’re not improving any more. Then it’s time for some calisthenic workouts. … Come in the gym and see what your strengths and weaknesses are.

We find people who are dancers are really good at climbing because the movements are similar. Rock climbing has a lot to do with your feet. Which isn’t something you wouldn’t immediately notice.

MIRES: The muscle groups you use in rock climbing, you don’t use in any other activity. People ask me this all the time. You just have to do it a lot. There’s no magic trick.

Unfortunately, for some people, you have to put in the work and the time.

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NIEMOND: It’s probably not accurate to say climbing is the safest thing you can do.

Sprained ankles. Banged shins. Maybe a rock falling off from above might strike you.

Anytime you’re climbing higher than 5 or 10 feet you are usually attached to a rope.

When you climb more than 10 feet up, when you fall, you’re looking at injured legs. You might hurt your spine… even death. That’s the risk.

MIRES: Obviously, death is a very real risk. I just think, if you’re going to try out climbing, go with someone you trust that they know what they are doing. … We also do training for people to climb outside of the gym. n

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Cuddly Character Ron Funches’ “open-hearted, optimistic” comedy helps him stand out in stand-up

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ost stand-up comedians are driven to take the stage for the first time by a passion for generating laughs, a need for attention, maybe even to slay some inner demons.

Ron Funches probably falls in that first category, a love of laughter, but he also moved to Los Angeles from his Oregon home turf and pursued comedy for an unlikely reason: career security.

Seriously.

“My son was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, and that kind of led me to think, ‘I need to find a career, I need to find something to focus on,’” Funches says in an interview from a tour stop in New York City. “Comedy was kind of the only thing I was interested in starting at the bottom of, starting at the ground floor. I knew I had to bust my ass to make money because ...continued on next page

Ron Funches: “I realized very quickly I prefer stand-up and acting and writing for myself.”

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I have to feed this kid, and I didn’t know how it was going to work out — it doesn’t seem like it should — but it did!”

Indeed it has worked out. In the 12 years since Funches first tried stand-up — in which his autistic son, his love of marijuana and addiction to video games all generate jokes — Funches has become a force in American comedy. He’s a talk-show favorite thanks to his giggly teddy-bear demeanor that belies some razor-sharp observations about society, and his skills as a writer earned him gigs penning gags for The Eric Andre Show and Kroll Show. He also landed major roles on network sitcoms like Undateable and Powerless, and next year he’ll film his first starring role in a feature film alongside Luke Wilson in The Shitheads.

Looking at a resume like Funches’, there’s no denying the hustle involved. But the 35-year-old still considers standup comedy his favorite thing, even though he’s been taking acting classes for a good five years. In stand-up, he’s able to fuel the comedic voice he’s developed for more than a decade, a voice that is unlike any of his peers.

“I try to shy away from writing for other people,” Funches says. “I was able to do it for a couple of really special things, the Nick Kroll show and The Eric Andre Show, because those were fun people and my WEEKEND friends. But I C O U N T D OW N also had a hard Get the scoop on this time. The way weekend’s events with I write and our newsletter. Sign up at voice in which Inlander.com/newsletter.

I write is very unique, so it always sort of sounds like me. I had a hard time changing that. I realized very quickly I prefer stand-up and acting and writing for myself.”

being roadside Statue of Liberty for Liberty Tax Services) in his early 20s in Salem when he started thinking of trying stand-up. He wrote down jokes while he was at work, even though the self-described shy guy was “scared and terrified about doing it.” Eventually, Funches looked up an open-mic spot in Portland and forced himself to drive up and give stand-up a shot.

“I’m pretty sure I didn’t do that well, but I did good enough,” Funches says. “People laughed, and that gave me that buzz that I’d never felt before. I remember I’d parked my car around the block and I couldn’t find it for a half-hour. I was just walking around in a daze. ‘I don’t care if I ever find my car! I found out what I’m going to do with my life!’ It was an awesome feeling. I’ve been chasing it ever since.”

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“People laughed, and that gave me that buzz that I’d never felt before.”

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this weekend for four shows, it will be hot on the heels of his taping a new Comedy Central special and album in Seattle. It’s an hour of material he’s been honing for a long time, and he’s looking at the Seattle show as a “way to celebrate it, and hopefully perform it the best I have, then move on and start working on new things. That will be going on in Spokane.”

The Lilac City actually evokes some fond memories for Funches — although they’re probably only fond in retrospect now that he’s made it.

“I did some bar shows there when I first started out, and I’ll try not to hold what happened to me against [Spokane],” says Funches, who considers his newer jokes “more openhearted and optimistic” than many expect from a comedian in 2018. “[I was] bombing! But it was my fault. It wasn’t just Spokane, a lot of cities were in agreement at that time.”

Thankfully for Funches and his fans, those days are gone. n Ron Funches • Thu-Fri, June 28-29 at 8 pm; Sat, June 30 at 7 and 9:30 pm • $20-$35 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • 509-318-9998

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MAYOR CONDOR, AHEM, CONDON ON LILAC CITY LIVE As lightning painted the floorto-ceiling view behind the thirdfloor stage, Lilac City Live hosted its last taping before a summer recess.

If you missed it, be sure to keep an eye on the Spokane Public Library YouTube page for the episode, in which Mayor David Condon talks about how he was expected to ward off Christmas tree thieves as a 9-year-old, and meet three awkward fictional candidates for the seat he’ll vacate in 2020 — a hipster-mayor wannabe, another with the swagger of a professional wrestler, and a third who answers questions between sips from a flask of “Pepto Bismol and tequila.” You’ll also see other local talent — be sure to stick around for comedian Harry J. Riley’s hardhitting questions for the mayor, who he suspects might be more than 100 years old, and a serious but hilarious assessment of his experience getting a medical bill for more than $60,000. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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hoa! Is that really what it’s called?!” is the most common response I hear from friends after I recommend Cameron Esposito’s new stand-up special, Rape Jokes. Yup, it’s really called Rape Jokes. And it’s really funny — not harrowing or triggering. On June 11, Esposito released her hour-long comedy special for free on her website, with an optional button that lets viewers donate directly to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incenst National Network, the country’s largest anti-sexual assault organization).

Esposito describes Rape Jokes as “a stand-up special about sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective.”

But it’s not only about sexual assault. Esposito skillfully stirs in jokes about Yellow Tail wine, knee injuries and ringworm — something for everyone! Even when she’s wading through the heavy topic of sexual violence, Esposito moves with purpose, heart and graceful vulnerability. It’s the opposite approach of desperate-to-seemedgy male comics who tell callous rape jokes onstage just to shock an audience or ridicule survivors. These comics, Esposito explains, quickly cry “censorship!” if

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anyone critiques the cruelty of their material. (Remember that Daniel Tosh incident of 2012? Ugh.) Esposito’s comedy special feels like a direct-yet-gentle takedown of all that nonsense. In one hour, she proves that it is possible to pull humor from the putrid dumpster of sexual violence without retraumatizing survivors or making an audience squirm.

The beauty of Rape Jokes is that it’s easy to watch.

You don’t have to wait until you’re in a brave mood to view it. It’s enjoyable. Yes, Esposito speaks about the pain of rape culture and the shame of having to remain closeted as a young lesbian at her Catholic college. Yet she also praises the joys of queer sex, which requires good communication (something she thinks straight couples could learn from). Esposito pushes us, as a culture, to improve our approach to pleasure and desire.

“We talk about consent,” she says, “like it’s a very slippery boulder that we’re rolling up an equally slippery mountain while we’re covered in butter. But I think at a very baseline level, consent can just look like: ‘Do you like this?’

‘Oh yes. Do you like THIS?’ ‘I do!’”

While the #MeToo movement has helped survivors be heard and believed — and has made abusers face more consequences for their harmful actions — this comedy special asks a deeper question: Where do we go from here? Esposito suggests we should focus on healing the dangerous beliefs and social conditions that created this mess in the first place. Rape Jokes is the result of a skilled comedian offering up free laughs, education and practical advice for those who want to know how they can “get in the way” and disrupt rape culture. n Cameron Esposito’s Rape Jokes stand-up comedy special is available at cameronesposito.com

STILL CLIMBING A couple weeks ago I wrote a story about Hannah Tolson, a Gonzaga student and competitive climber who was on her way to Bratislava, Slovakia, for the international collegiate championships. Tolson competed in all three styles of climbing — bouldering, speed and sport (aka “lead”) — in a daring trifecta few competitors attempt. The results are in: Tolson finished eighth in the world in bouldering and 13th in sport-climbing, but a false start relegated her to 37th place in the speed-climb. In the women’s combined scores, Tolson landed at No. 12. Next up for Tolson? Senior year and a push for the 2020 Olympics. (DAN NAILEN)

#REALNEWS Journalists work for readers — not awards — but it’s sure nice to be recognized. The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN), of which the Inlander is a member, just released its list of finalists for the 2018 AAN Awards, and lo and behold, we landed more than any paper in the country, with nine, including shout-outs for Mitch Ryals, Samantha Wohlfeil, Chey Scott, Dan Nailen, Wilson Criscione and Young Kwak.

And to be clear, your favorite local newspaper is competing with big-league publications like the Chicago Reader, the L.A. Weekly and Washington City Paper. (JACOB H. FRIES)

FATED FICTION I just wrapped up my book club’s latest pick, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, released in January. The 29-year-old author’s sophomore novel follows a quartet of siblings who, as young children, ask a fortune teller to reveal the day on which they’ll each die. Told in four parts from the perspectives of each sibling — Simon, Klara, Daniel and Varya Gold — The Immortalists explores the idea that each sibling consciously or subconsciously made major life decisions in response to the fortune teller’s haunting words. As a reader, The Immortalists had me rapidly page-turning to discover the fate of each Gold sibling. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Keep a laser focus, whether on the hoop or the beer garden.

Be Your Best Baller

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How to do Hoopfest right, whether you’re a player or spectator

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s happy hoopsters descend on Spokane for another Hoopfest weekend, expect downtown to light up with a whole different kind of energy that we only feel a couple of days each year.

Whether you’re competing yourself, or are merely a potential spectator to the 3-on-3 tourney action, there are a few activities at Hoopfest, and surrounding the official games, you need to know about to get the most out of your weekend, June 30 and July 1.

Here’s a handy guide to doing Hoopfest right:

THROW IT DOWN!

OK, most of us can only dream of soaring through the air and dunking a ball, let alone doing it with enough hang time to look cool. There are, however, plenty of gravity-defying gamers among the Hoopfest teams, and the best of the best will compete in a Slam Dunk Competition. The qualifying round is at 2 pm Saturday and the finals are at 3 pm Sunday on the Nike Center Court. If you have the hops, you can even take part; it’s $10 to participate.

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These players likely won’t be in the dunk contest — yet. added a 3-Point Hot Shot Contest, and if you fancy yourself a Larry Bird or Steph Curry, you can throw down $5 and take part in a preliminary round Saturday between 9 am and 6 pm. Or just show up at noon Sunday and head toward the featured courts on Spokane Falls Boulevard to watch the finals.

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED

Last year, the Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant dropped by Hoopfest shortly after winning the Most Valuable Player trophy at the NBA Finals. You’ve probably seen Durant’s image adorning this year’s Hoopfest poster. Durant just repeated as finals MVP, so is a repeat visit in the works? If not, perhaps another player aligned with Nike will come by — after all, there’s a new Nike store downtown, and the shoe company is host to the official Hoopfest store. I’m just saying, if Lebron James or Michael Jordan show up, it wouldn’t be the craziest thing in the world (but it would be close).

TOURNEY WITHIN THE TOURNEY

Consider this some serious “added value” to your Hoopfest experience. Besides the epic 3-on-3 showdown across downtown, Spokane is hosting the West Region competition of the aptly named The Basketball Tournament (TBT, for short) at Lewis & Clark High School. This relatively new contest features hoops-playing alumni from colleges across the country vying for an ultimate $2 million prize, and players from Gonzaga (playing as Few Good Men), Saint Mary’s, Air Force and Utah will be battling Spokane Hoopfest • Sat, June Friday (two games, starting 30, and Sun, July 1 • Downtown at 5 pm) and Saturday (7:30 Spokane • spokanehoopfest.net pm) to pursue that cash. If you don’t want to spend the $20-$25 to watch inside the LC gym, you can join the street party on Fourth between Stevens and Washington to watch on the big screen while sipping brews, listening to tunes and hanging with fellow hoops lovers. The block party is $5 and starts at 3 pm on Friday and at 5 pm on Saturday.

PRE AND POST-GAME PARTIES

Life is not made of basketball alone. Whether you’re competing or watching, there are several celebrations happening in the area where you can throw a few back with friends and foes alike:  The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague, is hosting an epic Hoopfest Weekend Kick-off Party featuring T.S. the Solution, La Fonda, the Naturalystics and Marshall Law Band on Friday at 7:30 pm. And on Saturday, they host folk rockers Faun Fables at 7:30 pm.  The Observatory, 15 S. Howard, has a show full of grooves, surf-rock and garage-blues on Saturday night at 9:30 pm thanks to Quaggadog, Marina Obscura and the Dead Channels.  If you’re done early on Saturday, the House of Soul (120 N. Wall) is hosting a party from 4-8 pm, with live performances from Max Daniels and Nu-Jack City Band, plus DJs spinning Motown, R&B and Top 40.  The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington, has some tasty soul and funk Friday at 8 pm with Lanford Black, Ragtag Romantics and the Monties. Saturday, it’s hard rock and metal with Portland’s Crimson Guardian, joined by Lions Beside Us, Project X and Tufnel at 7:30 pm. n

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BAKING

From her North Idaho kitchen, Electric Sugar Cookie owner Amber Fenton bakes and paints delightfully bright and whimsical sugar cookies

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mber Fenton is a cookie artist. Amongst others in the world of royal icing masters, however, Fenton considers herself a “cookier,” a title adopted by fellow bakers whose canvases of choice are the infinite shapes that can be formed into a sugar cookie.

Using a backdrop of white royal icing to showcase her signature neon “watercolors” made from food dye, Fenton’s vivid palette translates to electric green cacti streaked with edible gold glitter. Half-moon shapes with scalloped inner edges become slices of hot pink watermelon with toothy bite marks. Chartreuse mermaid tails shimmer with golden scales, and five-pointed stars sport a patriotic ombré of red, white and blue.

This rainbow spectrum Fenton brushes onto each cookie using her trademark soft watercolor technique almost seems too colorful to eat.

“The draw is definitely the artistic side of it,” she says, adding that since childhood, cookies have always

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been a favorite treat to bake.

The self-taught baker and lifelong creative type began elaborately decorating sugar cookies more than five years ago as a hobby. Though she still considers herself a hobbyist baker, Fenton turned the creative outlet into her part-time business, Electric Sugar Cookie, last December when she first sold cookies at a local makers market in Coeur d’Alene.

“I bought all of the packaging and really wanted to make it presentable, so once I got all that perfected and got a lot more confident — and I think that social media gives me a lot of confidence, too — I started posting and getting all these likes.”

Now, Fenton bakes and decorates custom cookie orders several times a week from her home kitchen in Coeur d’Alene (Idaho has a cottage food law, which allows for certain consumable products to be made and sold from a person’s home), both for local and faraway

customers. She continues to share samplings of her cookie art on Instagram at @electricsugarcookie.

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s with many other creative outlets, cookiers like Fenton have found eager fan bases on Instagram, Pinterest and other platforms, where photos of their beautifully decorated desserts have inspired others to take up a piping bag and try their hand at artistic icing techniques.

“It’s just eye candy — people are like ‘Oh my gosh, I can do that from home,’ and so there’s that accessibility, too,” she says. “In the cookier community, a lot of these women — 99.9 percent are women — they are really helpful. It’s a community, and I think since I’m an introvert there is that place I can go to and I can feel like, ‘OK, I can do my thing,’ and they get it.”

It’s largely thanks to the inspiration and support she found in the online cookier community that Fenton de-

cided to take the leap and launch Electric Sugar Cookie. She says many of the bakers she follows online have taken their success as far as opening physical bakeries and offering teaching programs for aspiring cookiers.

Fenton, meanwhile, doesn’t have plans to take Electric Sugar Cookie that far, preferring the freedom of running the business at home and only taking as many orders as she can manage each week. She’s also leery of getting burned out from the repetitive process of baking huge batches to then individually frost and paint each cookie by hand.

“A few times I’ve stayed up all night doing these because I’m a perfectionist when it comes to my own art stuff, and I don’t let anybody help me,” she says, laughing.

Most customers buy one or two dozen cookies at a time, which Fenton sells for $3 each, regardless of order size. She admits that she could probably raise her prices to better compensate herself, but is worried she’d price herself out of the regional market.

“It’s a labor of love,” she says. “If I were to break it down, I’d be getting paid like a dollar an hour or something ridiculous.

But it’s pure enjoyment, and when it’s not I scale back and don’t search for more orders.”

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rom mixing the dough to the last brush stroke, Fenton’s process for each Electric Sugar Cookie batch is considerably time intensive. After putting cookie sheets into the oven, she mixes up some royal icing, typically made from egg whites (or meringue powder), powdered sugar and water. Royal icing is favored by pastry chefs and cookiers both because it dries in a smooth, hard coat that allows for other decorations to be placed on top. Fenton usually makes her royal icing without added color since she paints over it with diluted food dyes.

Once the layer of royal icing has completely set — Fenton usually applies this layer in the evening so it can set overnight — she mixes up her paint colors by diluting food coloring into high-proof alcohol. When applied, the alcohol evaporates, leaving the color behind. (She uses alcohol for this step because water can crack or melt the royal icing base.) Then, she paints.

Fenton also favors using a die cutter to make little shapes out of gumpaste paper that she can also paint and add to each cookie as accents with a dot of frosting as glue. Sometimes she uses icing pens to apply hand-drawn designs on the frosting that would be difficult with a paintbrush. Stencils and a mini light projector are other tools in Fenton’s cookier box, both of which she turns to when applying repeat patterns, custom logos or hand lettering.

“A lot of my ideas come from my paper crafting background and trends, and then adding my spin to it,” she explains. “There are always trends — like the unicorn or the llama or cactuses and watermelon and stuff like that; I see those everywhere — but my goal is for someone to see what I make and say ‘Oh, that’s Amber’s.’ I feel like that is important. I don’t want to be a cookie cutter image. I want there to be a difference.” n cheys@inlander.com Find Electric Sugar Cookie on Instagram, @electricsugarcookie, and Facebook: Electric Sugar Cookie.

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Lon McRae, one of Berserk’s four owners, behind the bar of the new downtown venue.

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With its bright blue walls and open floor plan, Berserk bar brings art, rock, pinball and booze to downtown Spokane

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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he first night Berserk bar was open for customers was also the first night of the Inlander’s 2018 Volume Music Festival; the place was set to be one of nine downtown venues hosting live bands.

There was a mad dash to get the space in order, and owners were still sweeping debris off the floor mere hours before the doors finally opened. Despite the scramble, though, that weekend actually gave the bar’s four owners

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a sense of relief: They aimed for a seemingly unrealistic deadline, and it went smoothly.

“I wouldn’t do it differently if I had the choice,” says co-owner James Hunt.

“And if Volume had been a different weekend, we might still not be open,” co-owner Beth McRae adds with a laugh.

It was a bit of chaos four years in the making. In

2014, Hunt, a longtime Spokane musician who’s tended bar at the Observatory and the shuttered Jones Radiator, first floated the idea of opening a bar to his friend McRae, who previously managed the Flying Goat and Downriver Grill.

“I was fully expecting her to say no — and I think she was fully expecting to say no,” Hunt recalls, “but somehow we both had the same ideas in mind.”

“We wanted something that’s kind of eclectic, that’s different than anything Spokane has seen,” McRae says.

“We’ve all been in the Spokane music and bar scene for years, and we wanted to create the kind of place we’d want to hang out in all the time.”

McRae brought in her husband Lon and their friend Josh Davis, both of whom were in the liquor distribution business, and the quartet signed a lease for a large space in a previously vacant building on Stevens Street last November.

True to its name, Berserk has a lot of quirks. The walls are painted a bold electric blue. An old vault has been converted into a walk-in cooler. There’s a pool table in one corner and several pinball machines in another. A pair of armchairs, a sofa and a vintage coffee table are arranged near the center of the space. A painting of eccentric German singer Klaus Nomi watches over everything.

Berserk currently offers eight beers on tap and a simple cocktail menu, including the Tiki old fashioned ($9) with rum and pineapple juice and the Blinker ($9), which mixes whiskey, chambord and grapefruit juice.

Happy hour, which goes from 4-6 pm every day and all day Sunday, knocks $1 off wells and drafts. A Bloody Mary bar, featuring McRae’s Asian-inspired tomato mix, is available every Sunday at noon. Berserk doesn’t serve food.

But Hunt says he mostly envisioned Berserk as an “art bar,” and it will showcase a different local artist every month starting on First Fridays. Susan Webber (who also designed Berserk’s David Lynch and Stanley Kubrickthemed logos) is currently the bar’s featured artist; Jon Swanstrom’s work will hang in July.

The owners say they also wanted to pay tribute to the other Spokane bars they’ve long frequented. In fact, one of Berserk’s nooks has been designed to resemble the Baby Bar — they call it the “baby Baby Bar” — and comes adorned with a mural depicting that beloved watering hole’s owner, Patty Tully, as the Lady Guadalupe. It’s the best kind of shrine: one you can drink to.

“We wanted to focus on reciprocity with our community, and a lot of that came into the design here,” Hunt says. “We wanted to take all the things we loved about Spokane and put it all in one space.” n Berserk • 125 S. Stevens • Open daily 3 pm-2 am • facebook.com/berserkbarspokane

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Viva la Vita Newly opened Next Door Deli & Coffee Lounge introduces Seattle roaster Caffe Vita to Spokane’s University District

BY ALLA DROKINA

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ew kid on the block Next Door Deli & Coffee Lounge, in Spokane’s Logan Neighborhood, is changing up the coffee game with its original flavors, house-made syrups and an exclusive partnership with Seattle roaster Caffe Vita.

Owner Lindsey Blair, former chef at Iron Goat Brewing Co.’s downtown taproom, saw the space that used to be the Lucky Puppy bar and manifested her vision to branch out on her own. The Cuban-themed coffee shop is laden with plenty of outlets for computer campers, comfortable couches and a bathroom arrayed with kitschy “bad art” arranged with no particular order. The name says it all: it’s definitely a lounge, and lounging is more than welcome.

Drinks are made with Caffe Vita’s Del Sol espresso blends of coffees from Indonesia, Africa and South America. With a moderate acidity, aromas of dark chocolate, butterscotch, blueberry and praline are imbedded with notes of caramel and amber crema. Next Door

Next Door chef/owner Lindsey Blair’s banh mi sandwich.

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Deli & Coffee Lounge is the first in the Spokane market to serve the longtime Seattle roaster’s dark and medium Italian-style blends.

“I think the coffee speaks for itself,” Blair says.

Blair uses her culinary expertise and creativity to make unique drinks that surprise. Ingredients like caramel and rosemary are infused together in a latte for a warm and bright pairing. Or, take the Laura Palmer ($3.40-$5.30), an iced coffee brew blended with Blair’s lemon syrup that’s refreshing and tangy.

Clear syrup bottles lining a shelf behind the counter

visibly showcase each syrup’s main flavoring ingredients: vanilla sticks, lemon shavings, cardamom, lavender, cinnamon and turmeric. Akin to alchemy, Blair whips up these sauces and syrups in the cafe’s kitchen. Working her magic, she wields spices and herbs to enhance each espresso drink.

Churro doughnuts, pastries and croissants, among other goods, from Chaps Diner and Bakery are served at Next Door. The menu soon will add savory options like a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich ($8) with pork, chicken or tofu, and a mixture of veggies: radish, pickled carrot, onion, jalapenos and cilantro drizzled with Blair’s special sauce. The deli is also serving Blair’s housemade granola, avocado toast with egg ($6), açaí bowls ($6), yogurt parfaits ($5) and salads, along with small plates like hummus and cheese ($6.50).

The pace since the opening on June 1 hasn’t been frantic, but Blair is glad for the summer lull at nearby Gonzaga University that will allow the shop to find its rhythm and cadence before students return in the fall.

When asked about other coffee purveyors in the area, Blair says there are several she supports and admires, like Indaba, and proclaims a sentiment of community versus competition.

“Spokane is a small community, and we’re all in this together. We need to come together and support each other,” says Blair. “It’s nice to know if I’m downtown or in Kendall Yards, I can still find good coffee and people who have the same passion for putting out a great product.” n food@inlander.com Next Door Deli & Coffee Lounge • 1307 N. Hamilton • Open Mon-Fri 8 am-5 pm and Sat 9 am-4 pm • Facebook: Next Door Deli & Coffee Lounge

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STRANGER THAN FICTION American Animals grapples with an outlandish true story

Evan Peters in American Animals.

BY JOSH BELL

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he lines between fact and fiction don’t so much blur as entirely cease to exist in Bart Layton’s equally entertaining and confounding documentary-narrative hybrid American Animals. Layton’s first feature, 2012’s The Imposter, similarly explored the slippery space between truth and lies, but it was more clearly a documentary, despite its ethereal, haunting cinematic style and frequent use of re-enactments. The dramatic scenes in Animals are far too extensive to qualify as mere re-enactments, but at the same time they still exist to bolster the accounts of the movie’s real-life subjects.

Like The Imposter, Animals takes on an absurd truecrime story that just gets more outrageous as it goes along. In 2004, four college students conspired to steal a number of highly valuable rare books from the library at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, spending months devising an elaborate heist plan that fell apart almost immediately as it was put into motion. Layton interviews all four real-life thieves, along with some of their family members and teachers, and he also dramatizes the events surrounding the heist in the same style as the slick crime movies that the perpetrators themselves idolized.

The plan originates with a casual conversation between childhood friends Spencer Reinhard (played by Barry Keoghan) and Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), both of whom are feeling disillusioned with the college experience during their respective freshman years. Spencer is

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studying art at Transylvania, where he comes across the off a heist, and Layton manages to generate considerable rare books during an introductory library tour. Warren tension as events spiral out of control, even for viewers is nearby at the University of Kentucky on an athletic who know how the story is going to turn out. scholarship that he’s in the process of squandering, and There are fake-outs and contradictions within the both seem more interested in smoking pot and pondering narrative, too, especially during a stereotypical heist-movthe emptiness of their lives than in studying or attending ie sequence that shows the robbery playing out in perfect class. clockwork precision as Warren describes the detailed As the real Reinhard and Lipka recount the events plan in voiceover — only for the other characters to shoot that led them to embark on such an illdown his ideas as completely infeasible. fated criminal enterprise, Layton plays of the impressive cinematic flourAMERICAN ANIMALS None with the notion of truth and memory, ishes quite get to the heart of why these Rated R dramatizing scenes in slightly different privileged, comfortable middle-class colDirected by Bart Layton ways depending on how each subject lege students decided to risk their entire Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, remembers them. It’s a clever way to futures on a far-fetched plan right out Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson keep the audience on its toes, to quesof the movies, though, despite some of tion who exactly is responsible for the the interview segments addressing that actions that landed the two men and their eventual two question head-on. additional accomplices in prison. Layton even has ReinMaybe without having to constantly return to the hard and Lipka interact with Keoghan and Peters during dramatic narrative, Layton could have dug deeper in his a handful of crucial turning points in the story. interviews or painted a fuller picture of his subjects’ real That cleverness can be as distracting as it is illumilives. And maybe without the contrasting exposition of nating, though, and once Spencer and Warren recruit the documentary segments, he could have created a more fellow U.K. students Eric Borsuk (Jared Abrahamson) immersive narrative with more fully realized characters. and Chas Allen (Blake Jenner) to help with the plan, the The combination of the two approaches is ambitious narrative becomes a bit more streamlined, even as Layton and daring and often exciting to watch, but like the bold continues inserting documentary interview material. The and foolhardy crime it depicts, the end result is a bit of a nature of truth takes a backseat to the suspense of pulling mess. n

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Sequel to the acclaimed 2015 drug cartel thriller, with Josh Brolin’s federal agent reteaming with Benicio del

Toro’s lone wolf mercenary to thwart a string of suicide bombings on the U.S.Mexico border. (NW) Rated R

UNCLE DREW

Inspired by a popular series of Pepsi ads, a bunch of current and former NBA stars — including Kyrie Irving, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller and Shaq — play 70-something street ball phenoms who come out of retirement for a tournament. (NW) Rated PG-13

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This synthesis of documentary and narrative studies the hard-to-believe true story of college kids who planned a heist to steal their campus’ rare books collection. Ambitious, but a bit of a mess. (JB) Rated R

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

This epic franchise crossover event assembles just about every character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to stop supervillain Thanos from decimating half the world’s population.

There are plenty of solid geek-out moments, but most of the film’s boldest moves will no doubt be undone in the next installment. (JB) Rated PG-13

BOOK CLUB

A quartet of older women explore the joys of Fifty Shades of Grey, which

brings some panache to their boring personal lives. The cast — Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen — is great, but doesn’t this premise seem dated already?

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DEADPOOL 2

Marvel’s most mischievous (and foulmouthed) crime fighter is back, but with slightly diminished returns, assembling a cadre of antiheroes to save a troubled kid with strange powers. It’s got self-aware, self-effacing jokes to spare, though perhaps we’ve seen all this character has to offer. (JB) Rated R

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HEREDITARY

Family secrets can be deadly in this disturbing horror yarn, starring Toni Collette as a woman whose children begin acting strangely following the death of her estranged mother. Although it’s visually assured and sometimes unnerving, it builds to a conclusion that’s both excessive and unsatisfying. (JB) Rated R

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Explosive action ensues as the superhero family is called out of retirement, fighting a mind-bending supervillain who’s targeting their colleagues. (JB) Rated PG

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM

The Jurassic juggernaut lumbers on, with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard returning to the prehistoric island as a volcano threatens to wipe out the dinos. It’s slightly better than its immediate predecessor, but it still doesn’t deliver on the potential of its premise.

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whose operation is threatened by a new cartel. Sporadically stylish, though it never reconciles whether it wants to be a dumb action film or a gritty crime thriller. (NW) Rated R

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Pleasant but forgettable comedy about a quintet of adult friends who pick up the epic game of tag they started as teenagers. No surprise, they take things way too seriously. Not as entertaining

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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister and groundbreaking children’s TV show host, gets the biographical documentary treatment. Yes, it’s as heartwarming as you might expect, but it’s also a much-needed ode to gratitude and compassion. (JB) Rated PG-13 n

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An engaging spin-off of the ClooneyPitt bank robbery larks, with a new group of con artists (led by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett) setting their sights on the annual Met Gala. Like its characters, it keeps you entertained while taking your money. (JB) Rated PG-13

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THE SEAGULL

A big-screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s famous 1896 play about the romantic entanglements of several artistic types on a country vacation. The cast includes Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan and Elisabeth Moss. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

The Star Wars spin-offs continue unabated with an origin story about everyone’s favorite outer space scoundrel, detailing how he met the likes of Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian. Written with its hero’s swagger and charm, it works best when it’s functioning as a standalone adventure. (JB) Rated PG-13

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ranslating a stage play to the big screen already has its built-in complications, but adapting the work of a figure as towering as Anton Chekhov is a whole other minefield to navigate. Chekhov’s work can seem talky and dense in the wrong hands, and so many of his narrative innovations have since become overworked conventions.

The Seagull is the latest attempt at turning one of Chekhov’s most famous plays into a feature, and the results are admirable, though hardly earth-shattering. It’s not nearly as didactic and challenging as you might expect; it’s downright approachable, in fact. But it’s also curiously emotionless, despite its actors’ best efforts.

The story is set in the early 20th century, at a country estate overlooking a lake outside Moscow. The house is overseen by Irina, a 50-something theater star (Annette Bening), and her ailing older brother (Brian Dennehy). Irina’s current lover is the revered writer Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), who’s a good decade younger than her and is making waves in the literary world.

Also cooped up in the house is Irina’s mopey son Konstantin (Billy Howle), who sees himself as the savior of theater, even as his own mother expresses bafflement at his work. Konstantin’s girlfriend is the dewy-eyed Nina (Saoirse Ronan), who has lived on the lake her whole life but now longs for the allure of the spotlight. Masha (Elisabeth Moss), the daughter of the house’s groundskeepers, swills vodka and always wears black because she’s never not in mourning.

There are romantic entanglements, naturally.

Nina pines for Boris, who validates her theatrical aspirations. Masha aches for Konstantin, but he’s too wrapped up in his own troubles to notice.

The meek schoolteacher (Michael Zegen) chases after Masha, likely because he’s a glutton for punishment, and knowing that she’ll probably settle for him only sends Masha further into depression.

And yes, there is a gun introduced in the first act. And yes, it is used in the third (and also in

the second, come to think of it).

The Seagull is, at its core, a story of performative competition, as these larger-than-life people use their inherent theatricality as a means of tearing one another down. They become consumed with drama because they have nothing better to do, and they are cruel to each other because they seemingly don’t know any better.

Much of Chekhov’s work has a cheeky metatextual streak running through it, and The Seagull is no different. Characters comment on the very function of storytelling as if they’re aware they’re in a THE SEAGULL story, going so far as to question the Rated PG-13 significance of the Directed by Michael Mayer Starring Annette Bening, Saoirse obvious symbols Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss being dropped around them (Boris, Nina and Konstantin each apply their own meaning to the titular bird). And surely Chekhov saw himself in poor Konstantin, particularly after The Seagull’s disastrous 1896 premiere.

Louis Malle’s 1994 film Vanya on 42nd Street channeled that playfulness perhaps better than any other big-screen version of Chekhov: It’s simultaneously a stripped-down adaptation of Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya and an examination of the contemporary actors performing that play.

This version of The Seagull is, by comparison, not unlike a handsome production you might see late at night on BBC. We know that none of these characters will turn out truly fulfilled — that’s just the nature of the form — but when tragedy inevitably strikes, the movie is at an emotional remove. Oddly enough, my feelings about the film are somewhere in between Konstantin’s and Irina’s own feelings about art: He wants to reinvent an entire artform, while she scoffs at the need for experimentation and abstraction. This movie isn’t bad by any means, but perhaps an author as familiar as Chekhov requires a more daring, 21st-century approach. n

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The Posies, formed in Bellingham in the late 1980s, produce the kind of effortless ear candy you’ll be humming for a long time.

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DREAM ALL DAY With irresistible pop hooks and sugar-sweet melodies, the Posies are one of the great Pacific Northwest bands of the ’90s

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ave you ever heard a pop song that seems so perfectly calibrated, its harmonies so lush and its melody so catchy, that you find yourself listening to it over and over again because you can’t get enough of it? The Posies have written a lot of songs like that.

The band specializes in the kind of sugary power-pop pioneered in the 1970s by Big Star and Todd Rundgren, and was later boosted in the ’90s by the likes of Matthew Sweet, Redd Kross, Jellyfish and Teenage Fanclub. The Posies were in that second camp, forming in Bellingham in the late ’80s when its primary songwriters, childhood friends Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, were still teenagers.

“All those bands you know, the Pearl Jams and

Nirvanas and Mudhoneys, all those guys are older than I am,” Stringfellow says. “Jon and I were younger, so we missed out on being friends with them early on because we couldn’t hang out in the bars. We were kids, and they were adults. We were from Bellingham and we were young and desperately looking in at a music world that we could still hardly access.”

By the time the runaway success of Nirvana’s Nevermind and Soundgarden’s Superunknown put Seattle and its deliberately scraggly rock on the map, the Posies had two studio albums and a cult following to their name. Auer and Stringfellow looked the part of the standard-issue Seattle musician — they were young, long-haired dudes in vintage duds brandishing guitars — but they were melodic and heartfelt, tipping their hat to the Hollies and

the Raspberries while their most popular contemporaries were thrashing and screaming.

Of course, the burgeoning Seattle scene was less monochromatic than history books like to remember — Stringfellow points to the Young Fresh Fellows and Beat Happening as acclaimed Pacific Northwest bands that happily played outside the box — but the Posies, despite their accessible hooks, found themselves the musical outsiders all over again.

“It is true that we were a little bit odd in a certain way,” Stringfellow says. “We were certainly bookish at a time when the fashion was to howl, and the fashion to be bookish came along later. One could say we were ahead of our time. As much as I love them both — and ...continued on next page

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I do think we’re an influence on both — I would say the people in the Head and the Heart and the guys in Death Cab have much bigger houses than we do.

“If we’d come out in 1998, it’d probably be a very different story.”

Those early Posies albums (particularly 1990’s Dear 23 and 1993’s Frosting on the Beater) were met with critical adoration and received significant airplay on college radio stations, and they’re now frequently listed among the greatest power-pop records of all time. The band also contributed to the soundtrack of the 1994 cult classic Reality Bites, which cemented their Gen X bona fides.

And while mainstream popularity mostly eluded them, the Posies are one of those bands that were beloved and championed by other prominent acts. One was R.E.M., who asked Stringfellow to appear on several late-period albums and numerous tours. He and Auer were also part of a reformed version of Big Star, the most influential of all power-pop groups, performing with them regularly until frontman Alex Chilton’s unexpected death in 2010.

“The people on my bedroom wall in 1986 would be the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. — I didn’t know about Big Star yet — but I’ve played with ’em all,” Stringfellow says. “I’ve played with Ringo, I’ve played with John Paul Jones. I joined R.E.M. It really defies all logic. … I’m just a dweeb from Bellingham, Washington.

I know this sounds very Disney, but my feeling is, if that can happen to me, then the universe is a place of infinite possibilities for everyone.”

The one constant in Stringfellow’s career has been Jon Auer; they’ve now been performing together for more than 30 years. Stringfellow, who will turn 50 by the

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Jon Auer (left) and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies. time this current tour wraps up, recognizes that kind of chemistry is rare, to find someone whose musical sensibility and voice meshes so effortlessly with yours.

“You could probably put us on opposite sides of the moon for a year, and come back and we’d probably be working toward a similar goal even if we had no way to communicate in the meantime,” Stringfellow says. “We kind of programmed ourselves to have similar musical DNA. … I’ve had a couple of good singing partners

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where it really clicked, but it’s at a different level growing up with somebody. We started playing together when we were 14 and 13, so our voices actually formed singing together, and that only happens once in a lifetime.” n nathanw@inlander.com The Posies with the Colourflies • Tue, July 3 at 8 pm • All ages • $25 • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Soul and inspiration: Bill Medley (right) and his duet partner Bucky Heard breathe new life into the Righteous Brothers’ classic hits.

Unchained Melodies Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers reflects on his rock ’n’ roll legacy and talks about his current and former singing partners

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few years ago, Bill Medley confronted the nearimpossible task of replacing his longtime singing partner Bobby Hatfield.

Previously, he didn’t think he’d ever reform the legendary blue-eyed soul duo the Righteous Brothers. But that was before he heard former Broadway singer Bucky Heard perform at the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri, eight years after Hatfield’s death in 2003.

“He invited me to see his show, said he was doing a couple of Journey songs,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Journey? Jesus Christ. Steve Perry is one of the greatest singers.’ And he just crushed these songs. When I heard Bucky, I said, ‘Wow. If I’m ever going to do this, he would be the guy.’

He’s a great singer and, almost as important, he became a good friend — somebody I really liked and cared about.”

Medley recruited Heard and reformed the Righteous Brothers in 2016, and speaking with the Inlander from Nashville, he reflects on the special connection he shared with Hatfield.

“I’ll tell you, man, Bobby had a phenomenal voice,” he says. “The cool thing Bobby and I had going was that we weren’t in competition with each other. He sang so different from me, and I sang so different from him, we just had a ball singing together.”

One notable exception is Hatfield’s hair-raisingly powerful solo performance on the duo’s version of “Unchained Melody,” which was originally the theme for a 1955 prison film called Unchained.

“There were only so many duets we could come up with,” Medley recalls of the recording session. “So, usually Bobby would do a song by himself, and so would I. ‘Unchained Melody’ happened to be the song Bobby picked. It was a song we had both loved from the ’50s, but there was no discussion of me singing it with him. I wanted to stay out of his way.”

The song was released as a B-side to the single “Hung on You,” but basically every disc jockey in the nation turned the record over and played “Unchained Melody” instead. It had a second life in 1990 when it was famously used in soundtrack for Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

“By the end of that year, we were probably hotter than ever,” Medley says. “Thank God for the movies.

Bobby and I started getting these huge offers to go out and do concerts, so we decided to really put it back together and take it really seriously.”

The Righteous Brothers continued performing right up until the duo’s road manager found Hatfield’s body in a hotel room just an hour before they were set to play

a show in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Medley recalls his final interaction with his old friend the night before: “I remember coming down the escalator to the bar,” he says. “The band was going to have a couple of drinks before we went to bed. As I was going down, Bobby was coming up. I said, ‘Where are you going?’ He said he was going to turn in because he wasn’t feeling great. For Bobby to miss a drink, that was pretty amazing. That was the last time I saw him.”

A toxicology report later concluded that Hatfield had overdosed on cocaine and suffered a fatal heart attack.

As talented as Heard is, Medley acknowledges there is no replacing Hatfield’s friendship — or voice. Medley’s bass baritone voice blended with Hatfield’s tenor in a special way, and legions of listeners agreed. After all, the duo’s 1964 single “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” is the most-played song in the history of AmeriMORE EVENTS can radio.

Visit Inlander.com for “That’s pretty cool, complete listings of isn’t it?” Medley says, local events. chuckling. “That’s something you can’t wrap your head around. Being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is amazing enough, but there’s 300 or 400 people in there. From what I understand, it’s about a million airplays ahead of everyone. Someone explained to me that, because of the way radio is today, ‘Lovin’ Feeling’ will probably stay the biggest and most-played record ever.

“I must say, looking back on it, it looks like a Bmovie,” he continues. “It’s like, ‘My God, how did all of that happen?’ It was fairly magical.” n The Righteous Brothers featuring Bill Medley and Bucky Heard • Thu, July 5 at 7 pm • $25-$40 • All ages • Coeur d’Alene Casino • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • cdacasino.com • (800) 523-2464

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nyone who’s well-versed in retro record labels like Stax, Chess and Motown should find plenty to groove to in the slick soul sounds of Seattle’s Lanford Black.

They call what they do “electric sweat,” so consider that a challenge to stand still while they play. The quartet transports you back to a funkier time, when a Hammond organ was the coolest instrument and the most important thing in a song was a bopping bassline, and their single “In the Beginning” is built upon a refrain that’s more like a call to arms: “F--- it — let’s burn it down.” Lanford Black performed at last year’s Elkfest, and if you missed them that time, don’t pass ’em up now.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Lanford Black with Ragtag Romantics and the Monties • Fri, June 29 at 8 pm • All ages • $7 advance, $9 at the door • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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— NATHAN WEINBENDER Boytoy with the Entire Universe and Catastrophe • Sun, July 1 at 8 pm • All ages • $7 • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK BAR • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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COMMUNITY CRACK! BOOM! POW!

Break out your sparklers and sunscreen and head to Coeur d’Alene’s annual Fourth of July celebration for a patriotic, activity-packed day. The party kicks off with the annual Independence Day parade down Sherman Avenue at 10 am and wraps up with an extravagant firework display over the lake that screams “America!” Chill lakeside at Coeur d’Alene City Park where you can grab lunch from vendors and listen to local musicians throughout the day. Nu Jack City, a Spokanebased band specializing in Motown, soul and disco, plays at 7 pm. Patrons can watch fireworks light up the sky from the city beach, or for a more grandiose experience, book a seat on a lake cruise or for dinner on one of the terraces at the Coeur d’Alene Resort (tickets for both are required).

— BROOKE CARLSON Coeur d’Alene Fourth of July Celebration • Wed, July 4 from 10 am to dusk • Free • Downtown Coeur d’Alene • cdaresort. com and cdachamber.com

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COMEDY ARE WE GREAT YET?

BEER BREWS CRUISE

David Cross • Mon, July 2 at 8 pm • $48-$54 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

Second Annual Bicycle Brewery Crawl • Sat, June 30 at 5 pm • Free to participate • Starts at Badass Backyard Brewing • 1415 N. Argonne Rd., Spokane Valley • bit.ly/2KdXd5l

Comedy all-star David Cross (Arrested Development, Mr. Show) came through Spokane a couple years back on his “Making America Great Again!” tour. It was his first stand-up roadtrip in six years, and Cross had a lot to get off his chest, especially when it came to then-candidate Donald Trump. One can only imagine he has plenty of new fodder to fuel his funny outrage nearly two years after Trump’s election, and Cross will deliver it during his new “Oh, Come On” tour stopping in Spokane on Monday. While Cross is certainly progressive, politically speaking, he’s a smart and savvy comedian sure to have plenty of jokes to go around for fans of all stripes.

— DAN NAILEN

Take a leisurely tour on two wheels of Spokane Valley’s thriving craft beer scene this weekend for the second annual bike-based pub crawl co-hosted by local biz Mojo Cyclery and the crawl’s five featured breweries. With Hoopfest taking over downtown Spokane, this event is perfectly timed for folks looking to avoid big crowds and extra traffic. The ride starts at Badass Backyard Brewing and moves on to hit up Hopped Up, 12 String, Millwood and V Twin breweries before looping back to the starting point to load up bikes and keep the party rolling. Don’t forget your helmet and make sure to stay well hydrated between brewery stops!

— CHEY SCOTT

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— Your neverending story — Cinema under the stars.

Engines under the hood.

Everything under the sun.

FOOD MIX & MATCH

Spend an evening playing winemaker at a special event hosted by Latah Creek Winery to help create the second iteration of owner Mike Conway’s “Mike’s Reserve Red No. 2.” Each guest will receive samples of several Latah wines, along with pipettes and numerous glasses to experiment with and modify combinations of different varietals. After the final blend is decided, each guest who attended the blend-off will get a signed bottle of the collaborative wine. Food prepared by co-owner Ellena Conway is included in the ticket price, but don’t wait to reserve your spot since only 40 seats are available. Family-owned Latah Creek Winery was founded back in 1982 and produces about 17,000 cases per year.

— CHEY SCOTT Reserve Red Blending Experience • Fri, June 29 from 5-7:30 pm • $60$75 • Ages 21+ • Latah Creek Winery • 13030 E. Indiana, Spokane Valley • latahcreek.com • 926-0164

— UPCOMING EVENTS — Free Movies in the Park, Wednesdays in July

OUTDOORS RIVER TRIP

Don’t stress about coordinating who’s leaving their car where when you plan a paddle down the Little Spokane River this summer. Starting this weekend and running through Labor Day, Spokane Parks and Recreation is operating a daytime shuttle service for kayakers, canoers and stand-up paddleboarders who make the popular trek from the put-in near St. George’s School to the take-out at Nine Mile. The shuttle takes you and your gear back to where you parked; pre-register online or pay on site with check or card (no cash). Things to know before you go: No tubes, rafts, dogs or alcohol are allowed on the shuttle (all of these things are actually restricted in the Little Spokane natural area). Youth age 17 and under must be with an adult, and don’t forget your life jacket. Discover Passes are required for parking at the put-in site, since it’s part of Riverside State Park.

— CHEY SCOTT Little Spokane River Shuttle • Sat, June 30, and Sun, July 1, from 10 am-4 pm (continues weekends through Sept. 2) • $8/person • Nine Mile take-out back to St. George’s put-in • bit.ly/296pjtW or spokaneparks.org

Numerica Summer Workout Series at The Tribal Gathering Place, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in July Free Horse & Carriage Rides presented by Wheatland Bank, Fridays in July

Inland Northwest Car Club Council Annual Scholarship Car Show, Downtown Spokane, 7/19 Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Bing, 7/28 Spokane Brewers Festival, The Spokane Arena, 8/4

Don’t miss the next First Friday: July 6th, 2018

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I SAW YOU RE: VENDING MACHINE DREAMBOAT AT ENGIE Thanks to this anonymous coworker of mine, everyone thinks I wrote last week’s I Saw You because of my pickle obsession. You can have the stocker, but save a pickle for me, kindred spirit.

AWKARD SKEE BALL GIRL Wait, you thought I was the “hottest chick at the bar?” Lets fact check to make sure it was me at the Rail in Hillyard last Friday? You were in a T-shirt, i think North Face, and you were just starting a game of pool? I figured you had a girlfriend, or thought i was an ogre, so I wasn’t insulted, just a little disappointed. I thought you were “the hottest guy in the bar,” by the way. I love the “I Saw Yous,” I read them every week. It’s cool you used that as a vehicle for your apology!! It’s accepted and the offer still stands. You’d win — I’m a waaaay better singer than skee-baller... chickinarockband47@yahoo.com GORGEOUS REDHEAD AT ROSAUERS I’ve seen you at the Rosauers on Third a couple of times. You are very tall with long, curly red hair and dark eyes

and were wearing a green and white baseball shirt. Today I was in black leggings, a white T-shirt, curly brunette hair and wearing a look on my face that I can only imagine was a slack jawed, stunned look. Not my best, but you caught me off guard. I wanted to say something but I panicked and pretended to be looking very intently at dog food. I don’t even own a dog.

This has been my reaction every time I have seen you. Maybe next time I will have the courage to say something.

CHEERS SUPER 1 SOUTH HILL SUPERB SMILEY CLERK Cheers to the sweetest, cheeriest, friendliest clerk there! While I appreciate and think highly of the whole staff at the South Hill Super 1, I especially love when I get to be checked out by my favorite short, friendly, long-haired, blonde gal. We all know that when dealing with the public, you have your typical jerk-offs and your jerk-wads. But even when there is some “off” or “wad” in line in front of me, you somehow maintain your positive, happy energy. Keep on being awesome, it makes the end to my day feel more positive and happy as well!

TO THE GUY I USED TO WORK WITH I’m so sorry things turned out the way they did & I truly hope you’ve found your safe & happy.

FOUND CELL PHONE I lost my cell phone on Tuesday, 6/19, while hiking at Saltese Uplands Conservation Area.

I want to thank the very considerate person who found it and placed it where I could find it back at the trailhead. You really saved me a lot of trouble. I think it was the trail runner who was starting down from the top

of the summit loop as I came up and I stepped off the trail to let you pass. I would really like to thank you directly, so please email me at 68cuda340@ gmail.com and tell me something unique about the phone so I’ll know it’s really you.

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JEERS DOGS IN CARS Just so you all know, it is a felony to leave your dog in a hot car. It is also acceptable for me to break your window after attempts to find you. Rest assured, I will break your window.

You can have the stocker, but save a pickle for me, kindred spirit.

forms.. Today my angel came to me in a silver 4Runner... My 11-year-old beagle got out of our fence... I looked for 2.5 hours up and down every road in Airway Heights... I asked every child, adult, bicyclist, restaurant employee and Wal-Mart cart pusher I saw. I whistled, I yelled, I cried and I prayed. In 2014 I lost my 19-year-old son in a horrific car wreck... Last month I lost my 10 month old granddaughter to SIDS and three weeks ago we had to put our other baby (our black lab-chow) down, who we loved for 13 years...

I just am not ready to lose another one of my boys. I went driving looking again and I saw a 4Runner going very slow... For some reason it caught my eye... Just when I pulled in the driveway to call animal control, a silver 4Runner pulled up... He had my boy...

He found him walking and loaded him up and searched the streets in Airway Heights for his owner... Sir you have no idea what your kindness did to me. You are my true angel. Thank you so so very much... I will forever pay it forward!!!!

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

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

JEERS TO ME Heading up the hill, late to the airport, when I went to change lanes to get around slow traffic in front of me. I thought I was clear but your honk let me know I should have been more careful. I am sorry for making my inability to get places on time your problem. Sorry for the bad driving red car I cut off.

HAMILTON RANT In response to the person pissed off about the variable interval pedestrian light on Hamilton

by Gonzaga, suggesting the reason to install it in that particular location was a political favor for the rich kids: I will offer some differing observations.

I’ve worked in the area and know for a fact there are many students who are not from wealthy families. The most interesting thing is that a major arterial with heavy traffic doesn’t have a single left turn signal on any of the intersections with traffic lights.

Amazingly short sighted! I agree with the suggestion that each elementary school may benefit from a pedestrian light, in conjunction with the street

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2 TICKETS TO Tariffs or no tariffs we’ll always make everything in the USA.

crossing guards. Another interesting observation is how quickly Hamilton has deteriorated to a pot-hole ridden, rutted piece of crap. How long ago was it repaved? How long was traffic f---ed up, and how many millions of dollars were spent on a road which is already a total piece of shit? That’s something to be pissed about!!

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

STEAK & BAKE FUNDRAISER The monthly fundraiser includes live music from Diminishing faculties and a dinner menu of steak, salad, baked potato and garlic bread. Monthly on the last Friday from 5-7 pm. $10. VFW Post 1435, 212 S. David St. (535-9315) WHY HUNGER FOR SUMMER 2 An event to benefit Second Harvest Inland Northwest. Every $1 donated translates to 5 MEALS for those that are hungry. July 7, 9 pm-2 am. Free w/ food or fund donation.

Tab’z on Broadway, 5908 E. Broadway. bit.ly/2LXtcEU

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ AN EVENING WITH RODNEY CARRINGTON The comedian, actor, singer and writer has released eight major record label comedy albums. June 28, 8 pm. $29.50-$69.50. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) RON FUNCHES You may know Ron from NBC’s Powerless. Ron’s other television appearances include, starring in NBC’s Undateable, recurring roles on Comedy Central’s @Midnight, The Kroll Show, Drunk History and more. June 28-29

at 8 pm, June 30 at 7:30 and 9:30 pm. $20-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com EXPEDITION Improv nights for the whole family. Fridays in June at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests. Events on the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com 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 AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com CAGE MATCH Comedians battle it out on the stage for the title of Spokane’s Improv Champion. For mature audiences.

Saturdays in June, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE: ANDREW RIVERS Aside from his television appearances on NBC & FOX, Andrew was featured in the popular “Truth or Drink” web series from Watch-

Cut, and is a regular guest on Seattle’s #1 morning show “BJ & MIGS.” Also featuring Ryan McComb, and hosted by Brian Hood. June 30, 8-9:30 pm. $5/$7. House of Cards Bar & Grill, 830 N. Spokane St. bit.ly/2J5f3Ik THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free.

The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (822-7938) DAVID CROSS: “OH, COME ON” Emmy winner and Grammy nominee David Cross is an inventive performer, writer, and producer on stage and screens big and small. July 2, 8 pm. $48-$54. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An informal, open-format improv session led by a BDT troupe member. No cost, participation is required. Mondays from 7-9 pm through Aug. 27. 18+. Free. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.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 GABRIEL RUTLEDGE A past winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition, Gabriel has made appearances on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham and more. July 5-6 at 7 pm, July 7 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $8-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back

in time and experience the gardens as they looked in 1915. Learn about the discovery of the gardens, the carefully planned restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who made this their backyard. June 21 and June 28 at 2 pm; June 24 and July 1 at 11 am. Free.

Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org MAIL CALL This Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit explores the history of America’s military postal system and examines how, even in today’s era of instant communication, troops overseas continue to treasure mail delivered from home. May 9-July 15; Wed-Sat 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6.

Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague. valleyheritagecenter.org MEGAWATT SOLABRATION & SOLAR ROOTS SPOKANE PREMIERE Join The Eco Depot of Spokane for food, drink and take a tour of the Saranac’s solar array starting at 5 pm. The film “Solar Roots” screens at 6:30 pm. Filmmaker Jeff Spies and local solar pioneers featured in the film are available to answer questions.

June 28, 5-9 pm. Free. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. bit.ly/2xQOgtO SCG URBAN GARDEN TOUR: RIVER CITY YOUTH OPS Visit River City Youth Ops’ various urban farm sites popping up around West Central. River City Youth Ops uses these urban gardens to cultivate employment skills in West Central youth. June 28, 6-7 pm. Free. West Central Episcopal Mission, 1832 W. Dean. spokanegardens.org (326-6741) SUMMER MEALS & STORIES We’re reading a selection of books for all ages in Spokane Valley Parks, while kids 18 years and under enjoy a free meal provided by

East Valley School District. In partnership with Spokane Valley Parks Free Summer Park Program. June 28, 12-12:30 pm. Free.

Terrace View Park, 13525 E. 24th. scld.org TIME’S UP TOWN HALL: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL AND WORK The evening’s agenda includes introductions of policy work being done at the federal, state and local level, and features representatives from the area’s legal, social services and legislative communities.

June 28, 4-6:30 pm. Free. North Central High School, 1600 N. Howard. bit. ly/2lhE848 (509-354-6300) FISTFUL OF SILVER APPALOOSA SHOW The Fistful of Silver Appaloosa & Open Show is put on annually by the Palouse Empire Appaloosa Club. June 29-July 1.

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. peaclub.com/wp/ (477-1766) FRIENDS OF THE DEER PARK LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support various library programs, activities, and services. June 29, 9 am-4 pm, June 30, 9 am-4 pm and July 1, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Deer Park Auto Freight, 2405 E. Crawford Ave. scldfriends.org/events/ GOAT YOGA Sessions include sunrise and sunset yoga with the goats, as well as family sessions. June 29, Aug. 18 and Sep. 28. $14-$53. Sweet Home Farm, 5040 W. Side Rd., Bonners Ferry. sweethomegoatyoga@gmail.com HORSE & CARRIAGE RIDES Enjoy a free carriage ride through the heart of the city presented by the Downtown Spokane Business Improvement District and Wheatland Bank. Fridays from 5-9 pm through July 27. Free. downtownspokane.org (456-0580)

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EDIBLES

How Sweet It Is! PB & MJ: chocolate peanut butter cup edibles

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

W

e could pretend like this recipe is only the result of clumsy stumbling around – hey, you got weed in my chocolate and my peanut butter! – but it’s better just to state the obvious: Peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven. It seems like a logical step to add a little something special to the time-tested combination.

If you use full-size muffin tin liners, this recipe will net you about a dozen candies that should probably be cut into smaller doses. To go for something bite sized (and less tempting to overindulge in), your best bet is to go straight for the mini-muffin size to yield 24 freezable treats.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

12 full size or 24 mini-muffin paper liners

FOR THE CHOCOLATE:

1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips, divided ¼ cup marijuana-infused coconut oil, divided (make your own in advance by heating ground-up bud with

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coconut oil in a slow cooker for five-plus hours on low; strain, then save in the fridge or freezer for this and other recipes)

FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER:

½ cup peanut butter 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp maple syrup (knockoff is totally fine, we’re not rich here) 2 tbsp marijuana-infused coconut oil

DIRECTIONS

Put paper liners in the muffin tin of your choosing (mini or full-sized).

Warm 3/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips with 2 tbsp of weed-infused coconut oil in a double boiler, stirring until just melted and shiny. Divide evenly between the liners, making sure to spread the chocolate all the way to the edges. Freeze for 10-15 minutes.

Mix the peanut butter, honey, maple syrup and 2 tbsp of weed-infused coconut oil in a different heatproof bowl

and microwave for 15 seconds until it’s easier to pour.

Pull the tin from the freezer and evenly divide the peanut butter, again making sure to quickly spread the mix to the edge of each liner. Freeze for another five minutes.

Warm the remaining 3/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips with the remaining 2 tbsp of infused coconut oil over the double boiler again until just melted and shiny.

Divide evenly to top off each peanut butter cup, then freeze them for at least an hour.

Pop them out of the liners and they’re ready to enjoy!

Store in an airtight container for up to a few days in the fridge or even longer in the freezer.

As with any edible, until you’re sure how strong your infused oil is, and how well it was mixed into this batch, test a little bit of the recipe before eating an entire cup, and remember that sometimes it takes an hour or more for edibles to kick in. n A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander’s cannabis-focused quarterly magazine, GZQ.

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Those looking for relief for chronic pain or post-traumatic stress disorder might now turn to cannabis when they’d perhaps abstain otherwise. But for those who may not want to feel overly inebriated or sedated, the incredibly high levels of THC the market demands may scare them away from dispensaries.

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FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER SPOKANE Spokane’s protest/rally is being co-hosted with other national, state and local organizations actively working towards a safer community, and will include public speakers including immigrants, Dreamers, refugees, faith leaders, doctors, psychologists, educational professionals, and others.

See Facebook event for updates and details. June 30, 1-2 pm. Free. Grant Park, 1015 S. Arthur. bit.ly/2MmomAA PALOUSE TABLES PROJECT An open round table discussion about where the future of Colfax’s food is going.

The Palouse Tables Projects invites community members to share their dreams and ideas while networking with others. Free food is provided, including a scavenger hunt around town with prizes. June 30, 1-4:30 pm. Free.

Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. (334-9147) RIVER FLOW YOGA Meet at the Howard Street South Channel Bridge Saturday mornings this summer to destress, release tension, breathe deeply, relax, and rejuvenate. Class sponsored

by Athleta and taught by YogaJoy Spokane. Saturdays from 9-10 am through Aug. 18. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. (625-6600) WALKING TOURS OF THE HAUNTED CEMETERIES Join Spokane historian and cemetery preservationist Chet Caskey for a Sunday afternoon stroll through Greenwood and Riverside cemeteries as you learn about the colorful, funny and sometimes haunting history of Spokane. July 1 and Aug. 5 from 1:30-3:30 pm. $15. Greenwood Cemetery, 211 N. Government Way. spokaneparks.org (509-838-1405) MAGICAL MONDAYS Cecil the Magician performs interactive, all-ages shows on select Mondays throughout the summer: July 2, 9, 16 and Aug. 13 and 20. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com COMMUNITY POTLUCK A fundraiser for the Grange, includes the “Henny Penny Chicken ‘poop’ Bingo,” and a community potluck picnic with games for all ages. July 3, 5 pm. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com (979-2607) IDAHO STATEHOOD DAY PARADE Celebrate Idaho’s 128th Birthday in style, with a parade through downtown Wallace streets. July 3. Free. wallaceidahochamber.com CDA FOURTH OF JULY PARADE & FIREWORKS The annual community parade takes place along Sherman Avenue at 10 am, followed by music, entertainment and food vendors in the park, from 10 am-8 pm. A fireworks show over the lake starts at dusk.

July 4, 10 am. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene, Sherman Ave. facebook.com/ coeurdalenefireworks/ (208-415-0116) FOURTH OF JULY AT RIVERFRONT PARK Festivities include live music and comedy, food vendors, a No-Li beer garden, family entertainment, a kids’ area and more, capped off by the fireworks show at 10 pm. July 4, 11 am10 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. bit.ly/2tEoV11 (625-6600) FOURTH OF JULY AT THE CDA RESORT Activities throughout the day at the resort include the Steak & Sparklers dinner, a VIP grand dinner and fireworks viewing lake cruises. See website for details and reservations.

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FOURTH OF JULY IN PULLMAN Before the fireworks show at dusk, come to the park for kids’ activities, live music, a barbecue and more. July 4, 5 pm.

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SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: EARLY MAN In this stop-motion animated comedy set in prehistoric times, a tribe of primitive hunters are displaced from their homes by a distant empire that has mastered bronze-making. June 27-28 at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org TULLY Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny, Tully. June 28-July 1; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org MOVIES IN THE PARK: BEAUTY & THE BEAST Hosted by Spokane Valley Parks & Rec, with pre-screening activities in the park one hour before showtime at dusk. June 29. Free. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. spokanevalley.org (688-0300) SOLAR ROOTS: THE PIONEERS OF PV A documentary film about how a small group of backwoods engineers and business hippies brought solar photovoltaic technology down from space into homes around the world. June 29, 5-7 pm. Free. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. solar-roots.com (208-255-7801) SUMMER MOONLIGHT MOVIES: THE GREAT OUTDOORS Hosted by the City of Airway Heights; movies begin at dusk. June 29. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St. cahw.org SATURDAY MARKET CARTOONS JCartoons are screened every Saturday through September from 9 am to noon. 9 am-noon through Sep. 29.

Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org MY LITTLE PONY MOVIE Showing as part of the Garland’s annual “Free Summer Movie Series;” doors open at 9 am. July 2-6, 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) FERDINAND A screening as part of the Friends of Pavillion Park’s summer series. July 3, 8:30 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. (755-6726)

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Advice Goddess THE LAST STARE FIGHTER

AMY ALKON

I’m a 28-year-old woman who has been single for over five years. I’m steering clear of dating sites right now because of how so many guys portray themselves in ways that are very different from how they are in person. But then, in day-to-day life, when I smile at a guy I like, he’ll usually smile back but he still won’t come over and talk to me. Call me traditional, but I want a guy who has the courage to approach me. Guys are meant to do the pursuing.

—Unapproached

“Guys are meant to do the pursuing.” Well, okay, but forgive the poor dears if they’d like some sign from you about what’s likely to be in store for them if they hit on you — a hot time in bed or years of painful skin grafts from a 300-degree pumpkin latte you throw in their face.

Oh, right — you say you smile at the guys you like. Consider that from a guy’s perspective: Maybe you were smiling at him — or maybe at some CrossFit Adonis standing right behind him.

A single ambiguous signal isn’t a reliable message — that is, a reliably actionable message — especially when there’s risk involved in taking action. (In hitting on you, there’s the possibility of public humiliation — maybe even of the “Whoa, the YouTube video is going viral!” kind.) It also doesn’t help that a smile requires very little investment from you — in effort or risk.

Amotz Zahavi, an Israeli zoologist who studies signaling — behavioral communication between individuals or critters — points out that signals that are more “costly” to the sender are read as more trustworthy (and usually are). Your talking to a guy would be an example of a stronger indication of interest from you (than a mere smile) — particularly if you initiate the conversation.

You send an even stronger message that you’re interested by giving several signals at once. For example, you could touch a guy’s arm while you’re talking and make and hold eye contact (though just for a few seconds, not as if you’re a serial killer trying to hypnotize him into climbing into your trunk).

You should also consider that men, more than ever, want to err on the side of seeing that their advances are wanted — which is to say they’re all terrified that they’ll wake up one day and find their name tweeted with #MeToo. This surely affects their willingness to even ask women out.

I have written previously about how overt pursuit by a woman — direct, explicit expressions of interest, like asking a guy out — is a risky strategy, as it tends to lead men to subconsciously devalue her. (If she’s chasing them instead of snubbing them like so many other women do, she must be desperate and/or have her sanity up on blocks in the front yard.)

However, it turns out that you can probably go really, really big in being flirtatious — like way over what you’re seriously sure is the top. This comes out of the fascinating psychological effect of “indirect speech” — speech that implies what the speaker means rather than explicitly stating it.

The indirectness allows us an essential “out,” according to psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker. Basically, as long as we can’t be 100 percent certain of what a person really means — as long as there’s even 1 percent of uncertainty — there’s “plausible deniability.” This allows us to just ignore something that would have been offensive if it had been said in a flat-out way.

So, for example, if something is said euphemistically — a la the ol’ “Wanna come up and see my etchings?” — both parties can act as if it didn’t mean what it pretty obviously does mean: something along the lines of “It’s getting a little loud in here in Cafe Pretentious. Wanna go somewhere quiet and have sex?”

However — realistically — flirting big, on its own, may not be enough. There are men who will realize — after you walk out of the drugstore or cafe and out of their lives forever — that they should have asked you out. Put them in a position to have a second chance by going to the same place over and over -- like by showing up at the same coffeehouse every Saturday.

In doing this, you’ll also get the benefit of observing men in a naturalistic habitat, allowing you to see potentially disturbing things about them that aren’t evident online. This can end up being a lifesaving measure — perhaps literally (in rare cases) and at least figuratively, when you discover that five minutes talking with a guy flies right by...like seven hours spent gagged and zip-tied to a chair. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SUMMER CAMP: DIRTY DANCING The Garland’s summer movie series returns on Tuesday nights; spend $10 in Bon Bon before the show to get in free. July 3, 7 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com SUMMER MATINEE SERIES: THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE The battle for NINJAGO City calls to action young Master Builder Lloyd and his friends, all secret ninja warriors. July 4-5 at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org SCREEN ON THE GREEN: INDEPENDENCE DAY Family-friendly screenings hosted by the U of Idaho Dept. of Student Involvement. All movies begin at dusk (approx. 8:45 pm) on the Theophilus Tower lawn at the north edge of campus. July 5. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin. facebook.com/ UIgetinvolved (208-885-6111)

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BARBECUE, BEERS & BANDS Each Thursday features a local brewery and musician, with a barbecue meal and sides. June 21-Aug. 30, Thursdays from 4-7 pm. The Culinary Stone, 2129 N. Main St. culinarystone.com HONEY SOCIAL CLUB PREVIEW DINNER Get a sneak preview of Adam Hegsted’s newest eatery with a tapas night benefiting the Inland Northwest Food Network. June 28, 6-9:30 pm. $20. Honey Eatery and Social Club, 317 Sherman. facebook.com/honeyeateryandsocialclub (208-930-1514) SUMMER SAMPLER The 13th annual food event offers small bites and drinks from Sandpoint food purveyors in the park. Food items range from $3-$7 each. June 28, 5-8 pm. Free admission. Farmin Park, Third and Main. bit. ly/2sxvAdq FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY Downtown Spokane is shutting down Wall Street between Main and Spokane Falls every Friday this summer to host food trucks and entertainment. Fridays from 11:30 am-1:30 pm through Sept. 28. 11:30 am1:30 pm through Sep. 28. Downtown Spokane, n/a. bit.ly/2LHESM2 WINE! LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS Come and meet Sarah and try Liberty Lake Wine Cellars’ locally crafted wines, including new releases and some winery exclusives. June 29, 4-7 pm. $15.

Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257) 208 SUMMER SLAM An event to showcase North Idaho’s food, beverage and crafts makers, with live music, free parking, family activities and more.

June 30, 2-9 pm. North Idaho Cider, 11100 N. Airport Rd. bit.ly/2Khzly1 2ND ANNUAL BICYCLE BREWERY CRAWL Meet at Badass Backyard for a tour of Spokane Valley craft brewers, including Hopped Up, 12 String, Millwood and V Twin before heading back to the starting location for an after party. June 30, 5 pm. Free to attend.

Badass Backyard Brewing, 3115 N. Butler Rd. bit.ly/2KdXd5l (208-659-6946) SUMMER FLAVORS Items on the class menu include cedar-planked salmon, warm potato salad, Mexican corn crema, cherry-planked brie and more.

June 30, 11 am. $40. The Culinary Stone, 2129 N. Main St. culinarystone.com RIVERFRONT EATS Food trucks, live music, and a few surprises are in store for this new series hosted on the south bank of the Spokane River in the park.

Tuesdays from 11 am-2 pm through August. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. spokaneriverfrontpark.com CHEF TALKS Store chefs speak about particular cooking topics during a complimentary, Q&A-style event. First Wednesdays of the month, from 5-6 pm. Free. The Culinary Stone, 2129 N. Main St. culinarystone.com

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KICKSTART THE BARTLETT 2.0 Help support the opening of a second music venue by the folks behind the Bartlett at this special event featuring a cocktail hour and the sale of exclusive products in a one-night-only Kickstarter-style event. June 28, 7:30 pm. $20. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2liyvmo POP SUMMER CONCERT The 13th annual community concert series kicks off with a “Shostakovich to Sousa” concert by the Lilac City Community Band. July 1, 6 pm. Free. Prince of Peace, 8441 N. Indian Trail Rd. (465-0779)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

BEER HIKING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Washington-based authors Brandon Fralic and Rachel Wood share their new guidebook “Beer Hiking Pacific Northwest.” June 28, 6 pm. Free.

REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/spokane GLACIER NATIONAL PARK: ADVENTURING WITH KIDS Join Spokane’s Harley and Abby McAllister for an event celebrating the launch of the latest in their Adventuring with Kids series. June 28, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Mountain Gear, 2002 N. Division. (340-1151) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT Promos during the three-game series include giveaways, Taco Tuesday specials, and $1 family feast night. June 2628 at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) HOOPFEST Taking place each summer since 1990, Hoopfest is one of Spokane’s most iconic annual sporting events, brining in 250,000+ visitors to play throughout the weekend in the 3-on-3 basketball tournament. June 30 and July 1. $120-$180/team. Downtown Spokane. spokanehoopfest.net MOUNTAIN MAGIC 10K/25K TRAIL RUN The 10k loop has mild elevations for most portions, making it a great option for new trail racers. If you’re feeling up for the challenge, add the additional 15k loop, for a total 25k course. June 30, 8 am. $25-$45. mountainmagicrun.com NORTH AMERICAN ENDURO CUP This event brings racers from across the continent to Silver Mountain for a national level two-day enduro event. June 30-July 1. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker. silvermt.com (208-783-1111) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. TRI-CITY Promo events during the three-game series include 4th of July fireworks night and Harry Potter night (July 6).

July 4-6 at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) HANDS-ON BIKE MAINTENANCE: BASICS An REI mechanic teaches how to clean and lube a chain, fix a flat tire in record time, and make other minor adjustments to your bike. No experience necessary. July 5, 5:30 pm. $30-$50.

REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane

THEATER

FOREVER PLAID When four young singers are killed in a car crash on their way to their first big gig, they posthumously take the stage for one final concert in this goofy, 1950s trip. Through July 1; Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com NIGHTMARE AT DREAM GULCH -ORWAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER Will Will and Molly be able to steal all of the gold from Rev. Davis and make his dream claim a nightmare? July 5-29; Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St., Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com (208-752-8871)

ARTS

EDWARD S. CURTIS: THE GRAND IDEA On the 150th anniversary of his birth, explore the life’s work of one of America’s most important and controversial photographers, chronicler of the West and the North American Indian peoples. June 16-Sept. 23; TueSun from 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org THURSDAY NIGHT ART FEATURE Each week, local artists set up in front of the shop for demos and to display their wares. Thursdays from 3:30-6:30 pm, through Sept. 6. Free. Tsuga Arts Northwest, 1114 S. Perry. (768-1268) 41ST SANDPOINT ARTWALK An annual summer-time tradition during which local businesses and galleries join with POAC to provide art exhibits in Sandpoint’s downtown core. Each participating location hosts a juried exhibit from June 29-Sept. 6. Opening reception June 29 from 5:30-8 pm. artinsandpoint.org/artwalk-2 INNER LANDSCAPES For this show, artist Jim Trivelpiece snapped photos in unlikely places all around the Palouse and then explored, “what occurs when the lens is pointed back at the photographer.” July 2-Aug. 31; open daily during library hours. Reception July 11, 5-8 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us (509-397-4366)

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BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s allages performance poetry competition with a $50 grand prize. First Sunday of the month; sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. Also includes the generative “new sh&t” writing workshop from 5:306:30. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org DROP IN & WRITE Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of Spark’s supportive local writing community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Tuesdays from 5-6:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org DIVERSE VOICES WRITING GROUP When you come to this writing group, whoever you might be outside of this circle, you are now a storyteller, a maker of visions, and a story-listener, too. First Thursday, 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org n

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COEUR D ’ ALENE

Fireworks will light up the sky over Lake Coeur d’Alene starting at dusk on July 4

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

Explosive Fun

Coeur d’Alene offers a whole day of Fourth of July celebrations

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ireworks are fun: They’re loud, colorful against the night sky, and — let’s face it — kind of thrilling to light up and watch. But they’re also a lot of work and even avid pyrotechnics can hardly match the firepower of organizations like the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce, whose annual FIREWORKS OVER LAKE COEUR D’ALENE unites local families and businesses for a stunning fireworks show. Sponsored by the Coeur d’Alene Casino and Numerica Credit Union — and supported by donations from local businesses — the theme for this year’s fireworks and parade is “America the Beautiful.”

the COEUR D’ALENE RESORT (adults $80, ages 3-12 $35, ages 2-and-under free; add an overnight stay package for two starting at $449). Do the same thing at a little bit higher level with the VIP Grand Dinner Celebration on the Resort’s Lakeview Terrace (adults $99, ages 3-12 $45, ages 2-and-under free).

Visit cdaresort.com/discover/activities/ independence_day or call 855-7034648.

Fireworks start at dusk (around 9:45 pm) and can be viewed from throughout downtown Coeur d’Alene, although you can secure the best views from the comfort of your seat aboard a lake cruise or at any number of specialty venues.

Another option is a LAKE CRUISE, getting you out on the water for an unparalleled view of the fireworks, the lake and the lights from town. Both the standard Fireworks Cruise (adults $35.25, ages 3-12 $31.25, ages 2-and-under free) and VIP Cruise, which includes appetizers and two beverages (adults 21-and-older-only, $61.25), depart from Independence Point and last about two hours. Visit cdaresort.com/discover/ cruises/tickets.

Enjoy Steaks and Sparklers, a buffet dinner starting at 6 pm, featuring live entertainment by Smash Hit Carnival under the big tent on the front lawn of

Fun-seekers needn’t wait until nightfall to enjoy Independence Day in Coeur d’Alene, however. The annual FOURTH OF JULY PARADE is a traditional

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celebration of community for folks going back many generations, beginning at 10 am and running nearly the full length of Sherman Avenue.

Here are some tips from insiders: Park in midtown and walk downtown or get there extra early, drop off your chairs and go enjoy a bite to eat or cup of coffee first.

As the crowd disperses, grab a bite of lunch or walk over to City Park, which this year will host a familyfriendly day of free music and entertainment from 10 am-7 pm, culminating in a performance by the very danceable group, Nu Jack City.

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Upcoming Events Independence Day at Triple Play JULY 4

For unforgettable family fun on the Fourth, take advantage of Independence Day specials at Triple Play. A late night pass (6-10 pm) is only $17.76 (see what they did with that?!) and includes all Triple Play attractions and the waterpark, plus a $5 game card and a Fourth of July prize.

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When four young singers are killed in a car crash, they posthumously take the stage for one final concert in this goofy, 1950’s nostalgia trip. Tickets are $49 for adults; $42 seniors (ages 62+); Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm; Kroc Center.

Longest Day of Golf JULY 1

If you have the stamina, love golf and can’t resist a good deal, then book yourself the longest day of golf package at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course, which features 36-holes of play and a barbecue between rounds. Break it down by rate per hole and it’s the best value of the summer. Starting at $299 with resort accomodations.

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30 Beers & Ciders Food . Live Music BREWERIES:

2 Towns Cider, Boise Brewing, Georgetown, Payette, Sockeye, Waddell’s, Schilling Cider, North Idaho Cider, and more!

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