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his week, on our nation’s birthday, Americans will ardently wave the Stars and Stripes to show their patriotism and pride. Indeed, FLAGS can send simple, primordial messages (white, we all know, means surrender), but they can also signal something very big — the aspiration and identity of a place worth fighting for. A movement is now afoot to create a new flag for Spokane, and while some might dismiss the effort as silly or inconsequential, we asked a group of local artists to take a whack at a new design (beginning on page 22). The results are beautiful (and, in one case, funny), and we hope they might spark inspiration in others. How would you capture Spokane on a flag? Send your ideas and sketches to editor@inlander.com. Happy Fourth of July! — JACOB H. FRIES, Editor

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here are more trucks in Sandpoint than I remember. And I mean big trucks. Glistening full-size behemoths that grumble and whine through town like a herd of annoyed buffalo straining in a slow-motion, single-file migration to nowhere. Sandpoint has always been full of trucks, but in prior decades they were utilitarian vehicles — dented and dusty, cracks in the windshields and rips in the seats. They had manual transmissions with a “granny gear” to labor up mountain roads in search of firewood. The trucks that ride my ass today carry no firewood, look like they just rolled off the showroom floor and cost the equivalent of a Recession-era down payment

on a nice three-bedroom home. Now, according to Coldwell Banker, the median house price in Sandpoint is $469,830. Next to that, a lifted Chevy Silverado 1500 doesn’t seem unreasonable; but, of course, it is. No need to belabor the bizarre political economy of North Idaho — plenty has and will be written here and elsewhere about that by me and others. No time or space for that anyway. At the risk of burying the lede, I won’t be writing this column anymore. They

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say you can’t go home, but I have. The free weekly newspaper, Sandpoint Reader, that I founded with two college friends in 2004 is still chugging along, and I’m (re)joining it as editor in chief. At 38 years old, with a wife and two school-age kids, closing in on 20 years of journalism work in North and South Idaho, and a freshly minted master’s in history from Washington State University, I feel a bit like a salmon going home to die. But it was my history studies in Pullman, rather than a death drive, that drew me back not only to journalism but Sandpoint. Though I went into Washington State intending to research the 20th century history of political extremism in the Northwest, I came out with a thesis on how print culture influenced migration and identity creation in the early 18th century British Atlantic World.

Communities only exist with a story about who, what and why they are, and local newspapers ... are the engines of those stories. My research took me to some unexpected places; among them, the fundamental role of newspapers in creating the imaginary social structure we call “community.” Too often a buzzword of politicians, planners, realtors and chambers of commerce, “community” — from nation states to neighborhoods — loses its vital heft when sloganized for easy boosterism. It’s hard work to build and maintain community, as Spokane well knows. Communities only exist with a story about who, what and why they are, and local newspapers, rather than monstrous trucks, are the engines of those stories. The Inlander is one of the best engines of community in the nation — no joke. It does everything a truly great newspaper should do and does it closer to perfection than you’re likely to see anywhere in the country. I’m bummed that I won’t have a byline in this paper anymore. My first association with the Inlander came in 1998 or 1999, when I rode along with some Sandpoint High School yearbook staffers and helped deliver it around town. Since then, I’ve circled this publication like a skittish bird; perching here and there, but never nesting. I suppose my problem has been that as much as I love Spokane, it’s never been my town. Boise, where I was editor in chief of Boise Weekly, wasn’t my town and neither was Pullman. My town is Sandpoint, with its big-ass trucks, insane imbalances between quality and cost of living, nutty politics, human ugliness and natural beauty. Call it a calling; I’m called to call it out. Those big trucks keep on truckin’ and so will I. For all our sakes, so will truly local papers like the Inlander and the Reader — reminding us that everything is always in motion, yet giving some meaning to the movement. n

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Q&A JAMES LOWE The Spokane Symphony’s new music director might live in Scotland, but he’s excited to embrace the “unabashed enthusiasm” of an American audience BY DAN NAILEN

n James Lowe’s visit to guest conduct the Spokane Symphony and interview to be its next music director, a snowstorm nearly killed the trip. Rather than deter the Edinburgh, Scotland, resident from the job an ocean and full length of America from his home, the snow actually proved to be a bonus. Lowe learned to ski a few years ago in Switzerland, and he’s hooked. And hiking the rolling hills of a region called the Borders where Scotland meets his native England isn’t unlike hiking the trails of the Inland Northwest. When the Spokane Symphony announced Lowe as its eighth music director in late June, they got a 43-year-old maestro with an easy laugh, community-minded approach and love of the outdoors. He’ll live in Spokane roughly one-third of the year, Edinburgh another third and travel for conducting jobs in Finland and elsewhere the remainder of the year. We talked to Lowe about what lies ahead; this interview has been edited for length and clarity. INLANDER: As a music director and conductor in a smallish city like Spokane, what do you see as top priority for the job? LOWE: The priorities should be the same for all orchestras, which is that it’s about engagement with the people. An orchestra is nothing without an audience. The function of music is not just as an entertainment, not just playing music at people. I think it’s, “What are we doing in the community? What impact are we having on people’s lives? How can we improve and enrich someone?” And that community connection is actually much better and easier in a town like Spokane. In a place like New York City, how can you possibly engage meaningfully with people on a long-term basis? It’s almost impossible. Here, what I love, because this is what I think music is about, is that there is an almost direct connection from the orchestra to the community, and vice versa. Was the Fox Theater part of the job’s appeal? Are you kidding me? It’s just an amazing building by any metric. Not only does it look stunning, but it has fantastic acoustics. Pretty buildings don’t generally sound so good. There’s a huge advantage to the fact that the orchestra rehearses and performs in the same space. It means that, as an orchestra, the level at which you perform is much higher. In the U.K. we have great, fantastic orchestras, but they’re often

rehearsing in a sports hall. I have to say, London does not have a single concert hall as good as the Fox. And not only do you have this amazing space that we can use, but we have this amazing space that we can invite guest artists into. I love the fact it’s a space that’s used for so many different things. I’m not a snob when it comes to genre. I don’t think classical music and symphonic music is superior. It’s different, and you get different things out of different genres of music. I love the fact we have these fantastic acts coming through the Fox, because what I want to see is people feeling that the theater and orchestra belongs to them, they feel at home there. They don’t feel it’s an intimidating space, or like going to some weird church and you don’t know how to behave. How do you appeal to people who don’t know classical music to come see a show? Classical music has, in my view, an entirely false image that it’s kind of for yacht-owning One Percenters with liberal arts Ph.D.s in musicology. I don’t think that’s true at all. Classical music can speak to everyone. If you have life experience, there’s a piece of music that will connect with that. If you’ve got a pair of ears and beating heart, you’ve got all the equipment you need to enjoy classical music. So part of it is de-mythologizing this music as a ritual for a certain kind of person. It’s not. It’s just music, and it’s some of the greatest music ever written. And there’s something magical about having an audience, a communal experience. That feeling you get, you can’t recreate that. No stereo system will do that. You’ve worked all over the world. Are American audiences different? What I love is, American audiences are unabashedly enthusiastic. If they like something, you get a standing ovation. In all my years [conducting] in Finland, I think we’ve had one standing ovation. People have been loving it, it’s just different. Go to the U.K., a standing ovation is a rarity. I have a theory that particularly Northern Europeans mistake cynicism for sophistication. That’s a terrible mistake because enthusiasm is not unsophisticated. That’s why I love being in the states, there is an unapologetic enthusiasm for things that people like that is wonderful. Because I’m like that. n

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Readers respond to an opinion article by Robert Herold on separating migrant children from their parents (“Humanity Detained,” 6/27/19): ANDY RUMSEY: When did so many of us become so casually cruel? It is amazing to watch the mental contortions that justify the treatment of these children. There is no rationale that will wash our hands of this. We are beyond who started it, though we know this policy is a shift under the current administration. We are in this present moment and it’s up to us to stop it. TOM ROBINSON: When constituents call Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ office, they are told the Democrats are withholding funding for proper housing. The federal government is already paying $750 a day per kid to house these children. She is flat out lying. GARY BUCK: Wouldn’t it be amazing if Democrats and Republicans could put politics aside and really deal with the problems facing our country. I think we need term limits. Our political class is always more worried about re-election, not doing the job we sent them to Washington to do. JESS PONIKVAR: It’s scary that this needs to be explained to other Americans who find it fashionable to be mean-spirited and selfish. EMILY STÜBER: What is striking is the arrogance; this administration’s delusional mindset that these children will never grow up to be adults who will tell their story. Stunning. RON VAN TASSEL: It’s not considered a “gulag,” prison or a concentration camp when all you have to do to avoid it is simply walk the other direction. At what point do you blame the child’s parent for putting their kid into that position. It’s common knowledge what will happen to you if you cross the border. DONALD MORGAN: “They are running gulags, without having the decency to call them what they are.” Hyperbolic nonsense. Gulags are what the NKVD and KGB used for political dissidents, jailed and tortured without any rights. That is so not what is going on!

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ome next spring, the most sustainable building in North America won’t be opening its doors in Seattle, Portland or Silicon Valley, but in a new bustling eco-district on the edge of downtown Spokane. In a unique partnership between a utility and a developer, Avista’s development arm and the engineering/development group McKinstry have teamed up to design the extremely efficient Catalyst Building, along with a partner building to help manage clean-technology projects and house a central power plant, known as the Hub. Together, the structures will mark the beginning of an innovating eco-district where the University District Gateway Bridge meets East Sprague. Catalyst, which is designed to produce its own clean energy and not use fossil fuels for power, will be the main anchor to the South Landing development site, named for its location at the south end of the pedestrian bridge from downtown Spokane’s University District. Coming in at more than 150,000 square feet and five stories tall, it’ll be the first office building in the state constructed with cross-laminated timber (CLT). The CLT is being made by producer Katerra, which is still working to get its local plant in Spokane Valley up and running, but already uses local forests to source some of its products.

Once open, Catalyst will house Eastern Washington University’s electrical engineering, computer science, and visual design programs, making it home to classes for 1,000 students. The site will also host various pilot projects for the utility and developer as they test out new clean-energy technologies over time and foster collaboration between the students, Avista engineers and the other tenants that will rent space there, explains Heather Rosentrater, Avista’s vice president of energy delivery. “It will be just a great test bed, a living laboratory for us to be able to be opportunistic as technology changes, for us to test that out on a pilot, smaller-scale basis,” Rosentrater says. “Then we can decide if we want to make those changes for our other customers.” While helping make a meaningful connection to the University District to the north is one of the main goals for the site, the real innovation excitement for Avista and McKinstry is that both the Catalyst and Hub have been designed from the ground up to interact with each other and share heating, cooling and energy generation, all in a way that’s optimal for Avista’s grid. For a normal development, Avista would figure out what additional infrastructure might be needed — say

a new substation to handle the new demand — and essentially just tell the builder how much that would cost. But in working with McKinstry to specifically design battery and thermal storage and other technologies into the site, Avista should be able to avoid those new costs and construction, while making the site hyperefficient, Rosentrater says. It’s that part of the partnership, the connection between the utility and developer, that truly makes the development as a whole so unique, says Ash Awad, chief market officer for McKinstry. “I will be bold and tell you that there’s no possible way in all the research we’ve done that anybody else is putting together Avista’s equipment and building like we are doing now,” Awad says. “We absolutely think of it as the first of its kind, and we hope that it’s the first of its kind for like a month.” That’s because the ultimate goal is to make the innovations scalable and repeatable, Awad says. “There’s about 88 billion square feet in the United States of nonresidential commercial industrial space. That 88 billion square feet consumes about 75 percent of the electricity and produces about 50 percent of the harmful ...continued on next page

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NEWS | DEVELOPMENT “SMARTEST BLOCKS IN AMERICA,” CONTINUED... gases that go into the atmosphere. It’s a big problem,” Awad says. “If we do not solve for that 88 billion square feet that’s completely out of whack with the natural environment, like us and Avista have done at South Landing, we will not solve the biggest problems facing us today with climate change.” Importantly, what they’re already showing with the Catalyst and Hub projects, Awad says, is this transformation is not only possible, it’s already just as affordable as traditional building methods.

hortly before the Washington State Legislature passed a law this year requiring utilities in the state to meet 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Avista announced it would set itself on that path.

tion,” says Morris, who has been key to bringing the Catalyst vision into reality. “Once we knew the bridge was going to be there, we knew we could change the South Landing vision if we did it right.” That’s when Avista really looked at not just building a structure that would fit in with the University District, but one that could anchor “the five smartest blocks in the world,” Morris says. “We asked, ‘What if we built the most sustainable building not just in the Northwest, but in North America?’” he says. Most buildings go up one at a time, each with their own unique heating and cooling systems and their own grid connection, but this time, with Avista involved in the development, McKinstry was able to specially design the grid tie-ins that will enable experimentation with new clean technologies, and generally break down the metaphorical walls between builders and the utility. “We have this unique partnership with McKinstry to be able to break down that wall for the benefit of the building owners and occupants of the building, as well as the general Avista population,” Rosentrater says. “That’s what’s driving what we’re doing here.” At the site, the four-story, 40,000-square-foot Hub will house a restaurant and common space. But most importantly, it will serve as the heating, cooling and electricity brain of sorts, housing a central energy plant and testing of new technology such as thermal-energy storage,

“We asked, ‘What if we built the most sustainable building not just in the Northwest, but in North America?’” It wasn’t the first major sustainable vision for the future that Avista got behind. After all, it was several years ago that the utility took a look at its development-arm-owned property south of the University District, across the railroad tracks, and wondered if it could be used for something better than utility infrastructure, explains outgoing Avista CEO Scott Morris. “Originally, that land was supposed to be a substa-

The Hub will house the site’s power plant.

which will enable the site to heat water or other fluid in tanks during Avista’s off hours and use that energy later as needed. “As an industry, we talk about battery storage as this holy grail of enabling a clean-energy future,” Rosentrater says, “but we’re seeing there’s actually a huge amount of energy storage that can help on the customer side. We just need to figure out how to integrate that.” McKinstry and Avista also hope to test things like solar-panel optimization. So, instead of inverting the direct current (DC) power that’s generated by solar panels to alternating current (AC) — as is typically done now since most appliances use AC power — they might try out lighting that runs on DC to prevent losing energy in the conversion process at Catalyst, Rosentrater says. One of the main areas that McKinstry sees for breaking down barriers that exist in development is the inclusion of a shared energy system, also sometimes referred to as a shared energy economy, Awad says. “Sometimes you’ll look at a building and say, ‘Why is all that steam coming off the building?’ Well, they’re

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just rejecting all the energy they don’t need,” he says. “The utility meter right now is the line in the sand … If you need energy, and another is wasting it, you don’t really have the opportunity to say, ‘What you’re wasting is what I need.’” But the buildings at the South Landing site will be able to show what sharing that energy can look like, even with different tenants involved. “Avista’s grid is meant to support energy supply on a standard regular basis. When you have a zero-energy building, the building sometimes needs a lot, and sometimes it’s sending energy back, it’s quite a mess,” Awad says. “So we spent two years thinking it through with Avista and designing both the buildings and the system — we call it an eco-district — to really accommodate both the ways the buildings need energy and the ways the buildings share energy back and forth.” That, he says, is the future. “We’ve created a model here that demonstrates the current boundary between buildings and utilities needs to change,” Awad says. “We are out telling everybody we can tell, not just because we want to do this as McKinstry, but we want folks to understand those hurdles they put before themselves are just artificial.” They’ll also work with tenants in the space for the life of the building to make sure all the pieces that have been designed for efficiency are used the way they’re meant to be, without compromising comfort or usability in the space, Awad says. It’s part of the larger vision for a shift to a cleaner future, Morris says. As more and more states set 100 percent cleanenergy goals in coming years, utilities will of course have to look at more wind, solar and other clean-power generation, but it will also take innovative solutions like the ones being tested at South Landing to truly meet those goals, he says. “These are technologies and ideas that are really designed to help change the planet, and it’s happening first in Spokane,” Morris says. n samanthaw@inlander.com

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former Spokane County Sheriff’s sergeant who was fired last month for alleged sexual harassment and racist statements has filed a $12.5 million claim against the county, denying the allegations while claiming that Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich defamed him during a press conference. Jeff Thurman, an 18-year veteran of the department, allegedly threatened to kill black people during a phone conversation with another deputy in 2016 — remarks that another deputy also heard due to the fact that the call was conducted using a Bluetooth speaker. “You ready to kill some [n-word] tonight or what?” Thurman purportedly said. Initially, Thurman’s supervisors didn’t initiate an internal investigation into the remarks after one of the deputies brought them to their attention, Knezovich said at a June 13 press conference. It wasn’t until Kevin Richey, president of the deputies union, heard about the incident and informed Knezovich, who initiated an internal investigation. (Thurman was placed on administrative leave back in May 2019 pending the investigation.) The inquiry also reportedly found that Thurman sexually harassed a female deputy by telling her that he would impregnate her while they were rooming together at an out-of-town training.

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Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich

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“Thurman was fired for conduct unbecoming a deputy: For sexual harassment, for use of a racial slur,” Knezovich said at the June 13 press conference. “You never use the words ‘let’s go out and kill anybody.’ That’s why he was terminated.” But in Thurman’s claim — a procedural step before a formal lawsuit is filed — he both denies the accusations and asserts that the internal investigation produced no evidence to support them. “As to the alleged statement about hunting and killing black suspects, Sheriff Knezovich knew or reasonably should have known that no competent evidence supported Jeffrey Thurman having ever made such a statement,” the claim reads. “There is no evidence of a call from Jeffrey Thurman to that car or that deputy’s phone in the call records or elsewhere.” Additionally, Thurman broadly asserts in the claim that Knezovich mischaracterized the findings of the internal investigation into his conduct: “Showing Jeffrey Thurman to be a lying, racist law enforcement officer who hunted black suspects and sexually harassed females is defamation per se because it is a blatantly false char-

acterization of that report and of Jeffrey Thurman,” the claim reads. Sheriff Knezovich did not return the Inlander’s requests for comment on the claim filing. The county has two months to respond to the claim, after which Thurman can formally file a lawsuit. The claim was filed by Mary Schultz, a prominent local attorney who notably represented former Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub when he sued the city after he was terminated for sexual assault. Their case was ultimately shot down by a federal appellate court who upheld its dismissal. (JOSH KELETY)

TWO VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

It isn’t unusual for neighbors to get upset when they learn a new HOMELESS SHELTER is being constructed next door. And that’s what happened when the Spokane City Council unanimously voted to purchase the old Grocery Outlet store on East Sprague for $1.8 million. But, in this case, it was a nonprofit who works with a different sort of vulnerable population that was raising concern. Project ID is an organization dedicated to giving intellectually and developmentally disabled adults community and camaraderie through a variety of activities, including fielding the largest Special Olympics team in the state. “We’ve seen some tremendous growth,” executive director Bob Hutchinson says. “We’ve seen folks who are nonverbal their whole lives become verbal.” But Hutchinson says the population of people they work with are at risk of being taken advantage of. “This is a trusting and loving and caring population,” Hutchinson says. “If you walk up to one of our members and say, ‘I need five bucks,’ they’ll give you five bucks.”

He says he’s less worried about the homeless people who will be staying in the shelter, and more worried about the people who aren’t allowed to stay at the shelter who linger outside. Hutchinson says Project ID has already struggled with existing levels of prostitution, drug abuse, and homelessness around the building. “We have volunteers saying, ‘We’re afraid,’” Hutchinson says. “My concern is, how do we overcome those fears and make this a safe place.” City Council President Ben Stuckart says he understands their worries, but believes it’s important to move forward. “A lot of the homeless population is developmentally disabled, too. And they fall through the cracks and end up homeless,” Stuckart says. “I think there’s actually ways our shelter and their organization have an opportunity to work together to help people.” On that overall goal, at least, Hutchinson agrees. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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GO WITH THE FLOW The Washington State Court of Appeals held that a rule setting the minimum in-stream flow rate for the SPOKANE RIVER was arbitrary and capricious, and that the state Department of Ecology didn’t take all uses of the river into consideration when making that rule. The June 26 ruling by the Court of Appeals, Division II, was cheered by environmental and recreation groups, who fought to appeal the minimum summer flow of 850 cubic feet per second. Ecology found that to be the minimum level to be protective of fish, but didn’t take into account recreation or other uses. The court found Ecology needed to at least consider those other uses that deserve protection, whether or not the agency could ultimately meet all needs under the rule. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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ISAIAH THOMAS AT HOOPFEST As NBA free agency was just about to begin on Sunday, two-time NBA All-Star and free agent Isaiah Thomas decided to spend the day at the largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament on Earth. He played a game of H-O-R-S-E against Philip Croft, a wheelchair basketball and track athlete. Croft gave him a bit of a scare, but Thomas, ever the competitor, came away with the win even as he took all of his shots sitting in a chair. The event was put together by Hoopfest sponsor Guardian Life Insurance to show that “Disability is Not Inability.” We caught up with Thomas before the game and talked to him about STREET BALL and who he would pick for his 3-on-3 team. As for free agency? On Monday, Thomas reportedly signed on to play for the Washington Wizards next season. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

EXCLUDING THE WATCHDOG The Spokane Police Guild is demanding that Police Ombudsman Bart Logue — the Police Department’s official watchdog — be excluded from an internal investigation into an allegedly VIOLENT ARREST where officers reportedly sicced a canine on a submissive suspect. In a letter authored by guild president Kris Honaker, the union argues that Logue (above) is not impartial in this case and that he has allegedly violated city policy by acting as the complainant in the case and leaking information about the case to the media. (There were several quotes that were inaccurately attributed to Logue in the letter.) In a rebuttal email, Logue objected to the “defamatory and false allegations” and called for a third-party investigation. Reached by text, Chief Craig Meidl said that he has no plans to remove Logue from the internal investigation process. (JOSH KELETY)

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Logan Elementary teacher Roni Gross (right) and principal Brent Perdue say it’s not uncommon for students to hurt staff.

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‘Hit, Kicked and Punched’ As they face pressure not to isolate or restrain students, local teachers encounter violent behaviors BY WILSON CRISCIONE

s someone who teaches the youngest children in Gross, who was not involved in any investigations Spokane Public Schools, Roni Gross has become the Inlander referenced in previous stories, says she will used to violence. isolate a student on occasion, but only as a last resort. “I’ve been hit and kicked and punched and broken “That is the last — the very last thing — that you do,” and hurt,” says Gross, a Logan Elementary K-3 special she says. education teacher. erdue has been an administrator in four different For teachers like Gross, student violence can be part schools. But in recent years, he says he’s noticed a of the job. And it’s a part of the job that teachers and difference in the kinds of behaviors he’s seen from school principals say can often be missed when discussing students. the use of isolation or restraint of students. “I don’t know that the behaviors are worse, but they In the 2017-18 school year, there were 85 staff injuries present like they’re worse because I do believe the volwhile administering isolation or restraint of students in ume is greater,” he says. “I think there are more kids with Spokane Public Schools. That number, however, is likely those levels of needs.” far lower than the actual number of injuries to staff, as Perdue doesn’t want to come off like he’s blammany injuries go unreported. Gross, for instance, very ing kids. There are a variety of factors rarely reports any injuries to the office LETTERS contributing to why a student may have — not even when a student punched her Send comments to behavioral issues at a young age, like in the face and broke her glasses. editor@inlander.com. family poverty, a lack of mental health Brent Perdue, principal at Logan care and childhood trauma. At Logan Elementary, says that’s not uncommon. Elementary, 90 percent of students are “In the time I’ve been at Logan — I considered low-income, according to state data. As Gross just finished my fifth year — we’ve had staff members puts it, students in her behavioral intervention class are who’ve had their noses broken, bites that break the skin, “tiny people with big things happening in their lives and punches, kicks,” Perdue says. “Sometimes [students have] ... there are things they don’t have control over.” climbed out of windows.” Teachers in Spokane have spent the last decade Simultaneously, there’s pressure on teachers not to getting trained to handle kids who may be dealing with isolate students unless there’s an imminent likelihood of challenges at home. Spokane Public Schools has also serious harm. Yet that line can get blurry when a student emphasized so-called “restorative practices” in the last is out of control. Last month, the Inlander reported that several years, which focuses on alternative ways to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instrucchange a student’s behavior before suspension and expultion says Spokane Public Schools is “overusing” isolation, sion. But elementary schools in Spokane have seen less which involves locking students in what is often a padded progress than secondary schools in reducing exclusionary room.

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discipline since 2014-15. Elementary suspensions or expulsions are about even overall when comparing 2018-19 to 2014-15, according to Spokane Public Schools data. Secondary grade levels, meanwhile, have seen decreases in exclusionary discipline in the same time. There was an adjustment period for teachers with restorative practices. But Stephanie Lundberg, principal at Holmes Elementary, says the school has seen “a fair amount of success” in exclusionary discipline. “The district is not saying exclusionary measures can never be used,” she says. “They’re saying there’s not a lot of research to support that suspending a child is going to change behavior.” State officials say that isolation and restraint, similarly, should never be used as a punishment. Holmes Elementary put students into isolation more than 500 times in the 2017-18 school year, among the highest of any school in Spokane, according to state data. Part of that has to do with the fact that Holmes is one of the schools in Spokane with a behavioral intervention program. Still, Lundberg says it’s “absolutely” a goal for Holmes to reduce that number. “It’s always about safety,” she says. “We don’t want staff getting hurt and we don’t want kids getting hurt.” Lundberg views the student behaviors in recent years differently than Perdue: The volume of incidents is the same, but the incidents have become more extreme. “This year alone I had two separate teachers punched in the face,” she says. “It wasn’t unintentional … this was a targeted punch to the face. That was a new thing we haven’t seen.”

his past school year, Holmes tried a pilot program to support students in behavioral intervention. The goal, Lundberg says, was to “try something different” with students. It was one of two elementary schools in Spokane to jump on the pilot. “We wanted to create an environment for our kids that would be more therapeutic in nature,” Lundberg says. Some students had heart rate monitors to track when they’re becoming upset. The class also varied instructional strategies, with some students taking online courses through Spokane Virtual Learning. A specialist was on site to support kids when they needed it. Lundberg calls it a “step in the right direction.” Students could also use more mental health support in school, Perdue says. Logan, for instance, has one mental health counselor. But he argues that’s not enough. “The challenge there is we have over 400 kids who attend the school,” he says. “And there are way more than 24 kids who could benefit from that.” Gross, the teacher at Logan, emphasizes early intervention as a way to change student behaviors and ultimately keep themselves — and teachers — safe. She thinks about behavior as a skill, just like math or reading, and students need to be afforded the opportunity to fail before they learn new ways to respond to stressful situations. She says she sees more success with students she’s able to work with at a younger age. “A big part of my job is to help them see that school can be fun and safe and silly,” Gross says. For Gross, safety is her No. 1 concern when a student becomes violent. Yet it’s not necessarily her own safety she’s worried about. It’s the safety of the student and others in the class. If she does decide the isolation room would be useful, she monitors to make sure the kid is OK. And minutes later, things are usually different. Sometimes, children don’t remember what happened. “Often,” she says, “they don’t even remember that they hurt you.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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FLAGGING INTEREST Is it time to update Spokane’s official flag?

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BY DANIEL WALTERS

s 20-year-old Max Nesbitt stands before the Spokane City Council this spring, he acknowledges that he’s not there because of any pressing or dangerous issue. But it’s still something he cares about. He’s been in Spokane all his life, he says, but he’s never felt a “sense of united Spokane pride. Getting a sense of what Spokane means to a lot of people is difficult.” With that, Nesbitt holds up a sheet of paper displaying part of the problem: the Spokane Spokane has had three municipal flag. Nesbitt official municipal flags, stumbled across it when including the current one he looked up Spokane on (on the facing page) that Wikipedia. It’s a hodgehas been in use since podge of design elements: 1975. The first flag (inset, A crude sun is imposed top) was introduced in on a circle containing a 1912. The second (below) quartet of stick figures flew from 1958-75. holding hands and the caption “CHILDREN OF THE SUN.” That’s slapped on a green and blue stripe beside the plain text “CITY OF SPOKANE.” The white background of the flag disappears into the white border of the piece of paper. “You cannot identify where it starts or ends,” he says, prompting laughs in the crowd. Back in 2012, after Mayor David Condon’s first 100 days of office, the mayor brought the old city flag — designed in 1975 — out of storage, announcing it would once again return to a place of prominence. But as seven years passed, the flag was once again forgotten. The flag wasn’t flying at the council meeting, Nesbitt pointed out. “I don’t like it,” Nesbitt says of the flag’s design. “I’ve talked to a number of people and I’ve not spoken to somebody who does like it.” Instead, Nesbitt holds up a new flag, the first draft that was designed by his friend at Evergreen State College in a matter of two hours. It’s lilac, lavender and yellow, with a swoop through the middle and a lilac flower in the upper left corner. He offers it to the city, free of charge. It was about aesthetics, he says, but also about “how we may see ourselves in the future.”

City Councilwoman Kate Burke knew exactly what he was talking about. She grew up in Spokane, she’s a city leader in Spokane, but she has a flag of another city — Chicago — tattooed on her skin. To Burke, a great city flag is “a puzzle piece” — one part of connecting the city with its own conception. Sure, Spokane’s current flag could be worse. A 2004 ranking of city flags singled out Pocatello, Idaho — which included a copyright and TM symbol — as the worst in America. But Pocatello fixed their flag. Why not Spokane? That’s the plan. Last month, Burke sponsored a council resolution calling for the city to “select a simple, bold, new design for our city flag.” The design will be chosen by a work group composed of council members, community members, as well as representatives from the Mayor’s Office, Spokane Tribe and the arts commission. And after that group establishes a few design principles, Burke says, they’ll open the gates to the public to submit their designs. We’re one step ahead. We tasked a team of Spokane designers and artists — like Tiffany Patterson and Matt Bogue — to take their best crack at a redesigned city flag. Because if you do the flag right, it appears not only at City Hall, but it also ends up on coffee mugs and calendars and T-shirts and, yes, tattoos. It becomes as much a part of Spokane iconography as the Clocktower, the Pavilion, and old dudes riding tiny BMX bikes. It gets sewn into who we are as a city. Politicians will wrap themselves in it. Merchandisers will try to make a buck off it. Protesters will light it on fire. But do it wrong? It will make a few headlines and spark some Facebook debate. Oh, the politicians and business leaders will all make a show of loving it at first, like when your aunt gets you an itchy sweater for your birthday. But then gradually, as time goes on, the new flags will get packed up, gathering dust in storage behind the Christmas lights and the old bowling trophies, and the public will, once again, forget that Spokane has a flag. And then, a few decades later, we’ll do it all over again. n

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A FLAG FOR SPOKANE

JOSHUA THOMAS

Spokane has always been a city dedicated to natural beauty, innovation and cohesion. For my flag design I wanted to capture some of those factors and create a flag that represented not only the natural beauty we’re known for, but also the sheer creative energy we’ve begun to exude. Blue represents the Spokane River, green represents Spokane’s abounding natural assets, purple represents the lilac and the sun represents Spokane’s Salish interpretation of “Children of the Sun.”

TIFFANY PATTERSON

This flag features an asymmetrical lilac, representing our individuality and a city in bloom. The symbol in the middle is a sun illustrating our name and the brutality of our past. The blue and green reference Expo ’74, but also how far we are past it. They are a reminder to not exist in the shadows of bigger cities, and symbolize our river, near nature, parks and our love and dedication to these.

CALEB WALSH

When I first saw Spokane’s flag years ago, I immediately wanted to redesign it. I love Spokane and we deserve a flag that represents the beauty of this city. My design is a single lilac perched gently above the smooth, rolling Spokane River. I wanted to create a simple iconic shape that is unique to Spokane, the lilac became an obvious choice. I chose three harmonious colors with symbolic meaning. Dark forest green invokes Washington’s state flag, and light-green and blue are a nod to the diagonal stripes on our current city flag.

JON MERRELL

In my personal opinion, Spokane’s most prolific animal, other than people, is the squirrel. Sure, squirrels aren’t exclusive to Spokane. Some might argue that they’re not the most majestic or noble of mascots. They’re not as iconic to the area as the turkey (vetoed by the Founding Fathers from what I hear), and some people go so far as to call them rodents (which maybe, technically, they are). But there is something about the ambitious character of a squirrel that I think perfectly represents the fighting spirit of Spokane. They’re scrappy. They’re all or nothing. They don’t always look before they leap and occasionally they get fried and cause power outages, but they keep on keeping on, despite what others might think of them. On the Spokane flag, there are two wearing trucker hats fighting over a shower shoe beneath a banner with an unremembered rendition of the city’s slogan written on it.

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Paying homage to the original Spokane flag, this new design includes a blue, white and orange/gold color palette. The blue vertical stripes represent the Spokane Falls which have defined our city for over a century. The sun represents the meaning behind the name Spokane, the “Children of the Sun.” The white half field represents the vasts skies of the region, as well as our token winter months.

MATT BOGUE

HUGH RUSSELL In the upper right of the flag, a slice of yellow to represent the sun and honoring the “Children of the Sun” — the Spokane Tribe. Two separate pieces of blue represent the sky and our powerful Spokane River. A small patch of lilac sits in the bottom right, representing, well, our beautiful lilacs. Finally, surrounding and incorporated into the center of the design is a Washington green representing the forests and nature that envelops our city.

What says Spokane more than lilacs and the Pavilion? But we’re much more than that. This flag represents the tight knit community we have. In the arts, music, culinary, innovation and much, much more. We are a small town and big town that is all woven together into one beautiful abstract pavilion made of lilacs.

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We’re blessed to have a beautiful river running through our city. As the river flows, it cleanses. That’s the Spokane I love — a city of change and acceptance that washes away the old ways and makes way for new ones. The sun represents the Salish meaning of Spokane — “Children of the Sun.” It’s important to continue honoring those who were here before us. The blue lines represent the river and the falls, always bringing beauty and change to our city. The green represents the trees and lands that make up our area. As Children of the Sun we are the land and the land is us. We must protect it.

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This flag represents the diverse nature of the people of Spokane, while paying homage to the original people of Spokane. While giving a nod to the popular 1912 design of the city’s flag, I wanted to reference the original inhabitants for the area. The graphic is an abstract representation of a sun — more notably, “Children of the Sun,” the Native meaning of Spokane. The rays of light radiating from the central “S” are in the shape and depiction of hands that represent the many cultures and current inheritance of the area while still embracing the culture and symbolism of the Native American culture. The striped lines are referencing the river and its central importance of bringing life to the community of diverse individuals (sun hands).

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PREVIOUSLY…

Miller Cane is now back to his old routine, working the aftermath of a massacre, this one bigger and more terrible than he’d ever experienced before. But he hadn’t sought it out. It found him. Miller and 8-year-old Carleen were traveling through Missouri when it happened, and now everyone Miller’s met along the massacre circuit has descended upon Marquette — including Heffner, who has a score to settle with Miller. Over the years, Miller has comforted (and conned) survivors through a variety of means, with animal therapy, with spiritual profiles and later with “mediums” who could conjure the dead by digging into their personal data. But now, with Carleen, Miller has tapped into something else.

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hey were a week into the Cedar Creek massacre when Heffner came out of the Liberty Diner, wiry and lantern jawed, his big, buzzed head jerking this way and that as he scanned the street and sidewalk. Miller was parking the rental, Carleen perched on her seat beside him, prepared to jump out the second he killed the engine. Heffner looked up and down the street, walking right toward Miller and Carleen. If he pulled a gun or reached for Carleen’s door, Miller would punch the Hyundai up over the curb, either killing the man or buying enough space to back out of their spot and away. Everyone who’d ever been to a massacre was in Marquette, where Cedar Creek had been located before the shooting and bombing reduced it to rubble. Miller craned

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his neck as he inched the car back, and when he faced forward again, Heffner was looking right at him, still coming. Miller jammed the gear shift into drive, ready to blast out. But there must have been glare coming off the windshield, because Heffner kept walking — right past them, not three feet from Carleen’s window. Miller exhaled, settled into his seat. “We’re going to be late,” Carleen said. “We’re not going to be late,” Miller said, watching Heffner recede in his rearview mirror. He realized he hadn’t been breathing. “We have to set up,” Carleen said. Heffner stopped on the sidewalk in Miller’s mirror, his big head bobbing as he looked this way and that. “Hold your horses,” Miller said. Heffner resumed walking away. “I don’t have any horses,” Carleen said. He’d appeared in Rosedale four months ago, wanting a refund for the Cumberland massacre. Miller couldn’t remember what for — a donation to an advocacy group maybe, or an online action fund. Definitely not for the Echo program, which Miller never would have let him enroll in, Heffner the type who’d demand his money back after a thousand tweets and posts and comments had been invested in animating his lost son — not to mention the dough Miller would have had to lay out for the data. But he’d been everywhere in Cumberland, furious, rabid, popping up at the Marriott, collaring Miller at a vigil, ambushing him in the hotel lobby on what would become his last night in town. “What,” he said, “my money’s no good?” and Miller said, “It’s not about the money, man,” and Heffner said, “What’s it about — man?” People had a right to be unhinged, especially if they’d lost a kid. “Doing what we can for each other,” Miller said. He heard how ridiculous he sounded.

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“So do something for me,” Heffner said. “Mrs. Aeillo told me you bring kids back to life, like Houdini or something — not that I believe in that crap.” He looked at Miller, half pleading, half sneering. “But my wife will take whatever she can get,” he said, “even if it’s not real.” “I don’t bring people back to life,” Miller said. “Of course you don’t,” Heffner said, wheezing. “But you can help my wife pretend.” He pulled out an inhaler and hit it, his eyes never leaving Miller’s. “Even if pretending hurts her.” “I don’t think the program would hurt her,” Miller said. “But it’s not for everyone.” “Who’s it for?” Heffner said. “Everyone but me?” “That’s not what I said.” “I don’t want your goddamn program,” Heffner said, hitting the inhaler again. “I told you — it’s for her.” “Okay,” Miller said. “Okay,” Heffner said, clenching his jaw. Miller took a step back. Heffner balled his hands into fists and worked them back open. “All right then,” Miller said. “All right then?” Heffner said, hatred coming up hot in his eyes. He twitched and Miller flinched. “You make me sick,” Heffner said. Heffner made Miller sick, too. “You think I wanna need you?” Heffner said. Survivors often had the power of repulsion, their grief becoming unbearable, but Heffner was the most repulsive survivor Miller had ever encountered, maybe because what was coming off him didn’t feel like grief so much as hate and hurt and a hunger to hurt. They made an appointment for the following week, when Miller would be gone, and for several months Miller forgot about Heffner, until he showed up in Rosedale looking for a refund, looking for revenge, looking for who knew

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what, a stench rising off him like rot. Thank God ing, covering her mouth. Wade had been there to lay him out. But Wade “A beautiful idea,” Father Mike said, moving wasn’t in Marquette. toward Carleen. “Are we ever going to get out of this car?” “I’m sorry,” the blinking woman said, her Carleen said. hands fluttering away from her face. Miller had been so lost in thought he hadn’t “It’s okay,” Carleen said. seen Heffner disappear. He looked up and down Father Mike touched Michelle, who looked the sidewalk, killed the engine. Carleen opened like she might cry. her door as Father Mike arrived to help them “You could also make Narcissa Whitman,” unload doll supplies into the church basement, Carleen said, handing Michelle the stern-faced where two moms and a dad were waiting to doll. “I have some of her hair here — which is help set up. They’d spent days and hundreds of almost two hundred years old.” She held up the dollars assembling the sewing kits, Carleen’s idea plastic bag that had gone missing from Whitman following the last animal session. She’d seen lots College. “My dad can tell you about her.” She of Cedar Creek kids in the past week, especially looked at Miller, who nodded, the case of the Fiona, and now as they arrived, she greeted them missing Narcissa hair solved. by name. Parents sat in folding “Come on everyone,” she said, chairs around the sewing tables “up here — grab a pattern, search Spokane Public Radio, which in the middle of the room. the boxes.” The children rose has been broadcasting weekly Miller kept his eye on the and ransacked, gathering buttons installments of Miller Cane, is door, waiting for Heffner. and yarn and fabric. There were now releasing longer, chapterCarleen welcomed her eighteen in all, maybe twenty-five length podcasts of the book via students, her friends. “You can parents, some of whom seemed to Apple Podcasts, Google Play make lots of things,” she told be survivors, a woman crying, but and NPR One. Chapter 1 will be them, “anything really.” She held silently, holding hands with a man released on July 4; new chapters up a mermaid doll as she talked, to one side of her and a woman will be released each week until then a cowboy with stuffing to the other, who were perhaps the book wraps up in August. sticking through his stitches. She lucky enough to still have living held up other dolls, passed them children. Miller watched the door around, a man in a top hat, a stern-faced woman for Heffner. Over and over he’d seen the pain with blonde hair, a peapod mom with peapod of losing a child, first his nephew, then children babies in a pouch on her belly. She held up patall over the country, parents destroyed by their terns of people and cats and horses and ducks, children’s deaths. But he’d never felt it as deeply and showed her students how to make their own as now, as he watched Carleen move from one patterns. “Just starting points,” she said. child to the next, these few survivors, so many “Can we make a rocket,” one kid asked, and hundreds dead. He had an appointment to look Carleen said, “Sure you can, Cody.” at houses in Columbia at the end of the week, “Can we make cryptids,” another kid asked. but maybe they would stay around Springfield. “I don’t know what that is,” Carleen said. Heffner would leave once the massacre faded, “It’s like monsters,” someone else said. “But and then they could settle into their lives. There real. Like Bigfoot. Or a Kraken.” wasn’t any reason to leave now, especially since “You can definitely make those,” Carleen Lizzie had gone silent, though she’d come around said. “Or you can make Laura Ingalls Wilder or soon enough. Spiderman.” The door swung open — another kid. Every“Can we make people we know,” another kid thing was fine. The door swung open again, a asked, and Carleen said, “You can, Michelle,” parent this time. Heffner had no way of knowing and Michelle said, “I’m gonna make Steffi,” and where they were. Miller was so proud of Carleen, a woman against the back wall made a sharp such a sweet, good girl, helping these kids, even sound like a gasp or a sigh or a moan. if she had stolen Narcissa’s hair. The parents “Oh,” she seemed to say. came out of their chairs to watch the kids stitch Everyone looked at her. and cut and stuff and sew, the basement a hive of She put her hand to her mouth, trying to activity, Carleen the center of it all. n hide or pretend nothing had happened. Parents on either side reached for her. She nodded, blinkMILLER CANE CONTINUES IN NEXT WEEK’S INLANDER

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STRIDES ON SKATES Spokane skater lands a spot on the country’s first all-Jewish roller derby team BY EMILY McCARTY

ippi Headstomping cruises down the Centennial with ease, gracefully kicking pinecones to clear off the trail as she passes. That’s no easy feat on roller skates, where you’re always one slippery pine needle away from kissing the pavement. Four wheels come naturally to Pippi, though: she’s gone through hundreds of them over her roller derby career. She co-founded the Coeur d’Alene team nine years ago, transferring to Lilac City Roller Derby a few years back. The 38-year-old preschool teacher is a Pacific Northwesterner at heart, hailing from Portland, eventually moving to Idaho, then settling in Spokane about eight years ago. The newest iteration of the game will be her biggest.

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Pippi, whose real name is Jada Bellrose, made the roster for Jewish Roller Derby, the first-ever team of its kind. They debut at this year’s RollerCon, the largest derby convention in the world, taking place mid-July in Las Vegas. Skaters from around the United States submitted applications, including audition videos, and Pippi made the final roster of 18, a special number in Judaism that represents good luck. While this is her seventh time at RollerCon, this year marks a special moment in her derby career. She says because it’s hard to tell if someone is Jewish — “unless they have a huge Star of David necklace or a funny shirt that says ‘Challah!’ [holla!] with a loaf of

challah bread,” she jokes — she had never connected with another Jewish skater before. The team has opened doors in roller derby that Pippi never thought possible. While she’s part of a tight-knit derby community in Spokane, she doesn’t know many Jewish people. “I instantly got invited to come over for Shabbat dinner in Portland. It might seem small, but I don’t have that here in my local community,” she says. “I’m finding this community where I’m accepted and where they’re all these different types of Jewishness all coming together. It’s empowering and exciting.” While she hasn’t experienced any anti-Semitism in the sport, Pippi has definitely felt the sting in her life. She

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er experiences of anti-Semitism have continued well past childhood. She says although it can be scary, the team has provided a haven for that part of her identity. “There are many times in my life where I have been afraid to be Jewish in a situation,” she says. “I would not wear a Star of David, or if I had, I would cover it. With what appears to be bigotry on the rise, or at least getting louder, it feels so amazing to be part of a group where you feel completely safe.” Her mother was raised in Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh neighborhood where the 2018 synagogue shooting took place, the deadliest in American Jewish history. Her maternal grandmother had converted to Judaism as a war bride, which led Pippi’s mother to grapple with a sense of being “Jewish enough”.

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PUNK ROCK HISTORY, PART II John Doe of legendary L.A. band X and musicbiz vet Tom DeSavia co-authored/curated a brilliant collection of essays tracking the early years of the L.A. punk scene in Under The Big Black Sun a couple years ago. They’re back with a sequel, More Fun In The New World, that traces the citywide hangover of success and a scene that splintered into factions based on neighborhoods, musical styles, even fashion. Among the contributors are folks like Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks), Louie Perez (Los Lobos) and Charlotte Caffey (the Go-Gos) along with several non-musicians who were there as fans, including director/actor Tim Robbins, skater Tony Hawk and artist Shepard Fairey. It’s remarkable how well the disparate pieces congeal into a striking view of a time and place vital to America’s underground music history. (DAN NAILEN)

Best Streaming of 2019 (So Far)

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urprise: 2019 is halfway over. Another six months of your life have slipped by, and you were doing… what? Spending time with loved ones? Participating in humanitarian efforts? Pursuing higher education and enlightenment? Hey, no judgment here… hippies. I know what you weren’t doing: watching enough TV. All that content isn’t going to consume itself — here are five of the best streaming series you’ve missed so far in 2019. DOOM PATROL (Season 1 on DC Universe) You’ll never subscribe to the DC Universe streaming service, I get it — I’m urging you to sign up for the seven-day free trial, binge Doom Patrol, and bail. This twisted tale of misfit “superheroes” is more talk than fight, more emotion than logic, and Robotman (Brendan Fraser) regularly asking “what the f---?!” for all of us. It’s welcome anarchy in the age of corporate comics.

THE BUZZ BIN FLEABAG (Seasons 1-2 on Prime Video) As “Fleabag,” show creator/star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a horny, angsty and directionless Londoner who narrates her hilariously tragic mess of a life directly to the camera, almost daring you to look away. Which is impossible — she’s as magnetic as she is luckless. Fleabag’s 12 brief episodes careen like an all-night bender, finally wrapping up perfectly (and hangover-free).

ANIME ICON Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of the most influential and beloved anime series of all time, is finally streaming (after a long license battle) on Netflix, and it’s a deep dive that non-fans or even casual anime watchers should take. Released in 1995 and totalling 26 20-minute episodes, the Japanese sci-fi series follows a group of teens tasked with protecting humanity against invading monsters called Angels by piloting giant battle mechs known as Evas (think Pacific Rim-style brain-to-robot synchronization). Underneath its colorful animated imagery, however, Evangelion is dark and philosophical, exploring themes of religion, identity, existential dread and humanity’s struggle to prevent a looming apocalypse. (CHEY SCOTT) AUDIBLE CRIMES If you read Michelle McNamara’s gripping I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, you already know the long, strange case of the Golden State Killer, who was finally apprehended last year, decades after his crime spree ended. The new L.A. Times podcast Man in the Window, hosted by Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Paige St. John, is covering much of the same ground as McNamara’s terrific book, but it’s more of a supplement than a copy. Being able to actually hear the voices of the people who crossed paths with one of California’s most horrifying predators provides even more insight into a case that still holds a number of mysteries. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

RUSSIAN DOLL (Season 1 on Netflix) On the night of her 36th birthday, brassy New Yorker Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) dies, reappears at her party, dies again (differently), reappears, dies (differently again), reappears, etc. Despite the perpetual story reset, Russian Doll surprises at every turn, propelled by Lyonne’s dizzied-to-dogged performance and the story’s subtle time-loop clues. It’s Happier Death Day. THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores July 5. To wit: MACHINE GUN KELLY, Hotel Diablo. Honestly, I’m only interested in this guy when he’s playing the Crüe’s Tommy Lee in bad movies. JESCA HOOP, Stonechild. This stark follow-up to Hoop’s 2017 set Memories Are Now features Lucius on a haunting first single “Shoulder Charge.” VARIOUS ARTISTS, Stranger Things Season 3 soundtrack. Yes, there will be ’80s tunes, but also reportedly “an original cast recording.” Stranger Sings!?! (DAN NAILEN)

GOOD OMENS (Season 1 on Prime Video) The unlikely bromance between angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (David Tennant) is interrupted by the coming of the Antichrist and Armageddon — rude. Good Omens is clever, breezy fun in the face of impending doom, not to mention Tennant’s most triumphantly ridiculous performance ever (sorry, Doctor Who). Bonus: Christian groups were appalled. PEN15 (Season 1 on Hulu) Thirty-something actresses Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play their early-2000s selves alongside actual 13-year-olds so that we may all relive middle school… thanks? PEN15 — yes, the title is the joke you think it is — is at first silly AF, then Erskine and Konkle blend into the characters and the pain becomes as pronounced as the laughs. Anybody remember AOL Instant Messenger? n Visit billfrost.tv for more trenchant TV commentary.

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WELCOME TO SPACE JAIL What is Void Bastards? First-person shooter? Sci-fi strategy? Criticism of the American prison-industrial complex? All of the above? The game, recently released on Steam and Xbox, combines goofy action with a morbid premise: You command an endless queue of prisoners aboard a spaceship forced to fight their way through a dangerous system filled with space pirates. The story is a little confusing, but the fun comic book art style and fast-paced action make it a blast. Kind of like Adult Swim’s Super Jail, minus the psychosis. Build weapons, board enemy vessels, plan your attack and, inevitably, die. Next prisoner in line, please. (QUINN WELSCH)

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Objects from the American Museum of Natural History fill a new MAC show.

Otherworldly Origins A new traveling exhibit at the MAC explores inspirations behind dragons, unicorns, mermaids and other mythic creatures BY CHEY SCOTT

magine living one, two or even three centuries ago, and stumbling upon the enormous, preserved bones of a wooly mammoth, a winged dinosaur fossil or the remains of another strange prehistoric animal. Without an educated explanation, wouldn’t it make sense, then, to believe you’d come across something otherworldly? A massive mammoth rib standing in for part of a fallen giant? A fossilized dinosaur perhaps inspiring the lore of fire-breathing dragons, and elusive creatures of the deep sea spurring fear-inducing tales of krakens, mermaids and other monsters? A new traveling exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture uses paleontological and anthropological evidence to explore how the stories of such legendary creatures likely originated and endured in cultures around the world. “It’s just the way that people tried to make sense of the world when they looked at something like this,” says Freya Liggett, curator of history for the MAC. From the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Giants, Dragons & Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures features scale models, fossil casts, interactive displays, artwork and other objects to explain the fascinating historical origins of these storied beasts. The exhibit features four main sections: sea monsters, mermaids, dragons and one combining giants, griffins and unicorns. Highlights include a recreation of the “feegee mermaid,” a hoax created by joining the remains of a monkey with a fish that was widely exhibited as a P.T. Barnum sideshow, along with a real narwhal tusk, believed to have inspired the existence of rare and powerful unicorns. To coincide with Giants, Dragons & Unicorns, the MAC curated its own exhibit on famous legends and fairytale creatures significant to the Inland Northwest. Northwest Legends highlights the stories of American

Indian trickster Coyote, along with another beloved Northwest beast: Sasquatch. Trolls and fairies, stories of which came to the area with Scandinavian immigrants, explains Liggett, are also explored in Northwest Legends, a highly interactive, kid-friendly exhibit. Both exhibits are on display through Sept. 2. Liggett, who says her favorite mythical creature is, hands-down, Sasquatch, hopes visitors appreciate the significance of getting to see objects from the Museum of Natural History here in Spokane. “Both for visitors and museum professionals, it’s one of those places we all know of, and a pretty special place to visit, so to have [an exhibit] from them, I’m very excited to see it come here.” Considering the continued cultural presence of mythical creatures — particularly dragons and their ilk — in television, literature and film, the exhibit’s explanations of their origins dating back thousands of years should also feel relevant to visitors. Even though we’ve debunked their existence in the time since, many continue to be fascinated by their magical potential. Museum programs held in conjunction with the exhibit include a special July 18 presentation ($10) with Dr. Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, on his Sasquatch research. Meldrum has a collection of more than 300 footprint casts attributed to the storied cryptid. “I’ve seen him present before, and it’s a presentation that is really, if you are on the fence, it can take your view of Sasquatch as fringe science and present it in a way that has really solid history and work in the field of anthropology,” Liggett says. n Giants, Dragons & Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures • July 5-Sept. 2; Tue-Sun from 11 am-5 pm • $5-$10 admission • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

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Spokane’s monthly arts showcase features events, including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists, across the downtown core and beyond. Receptions for most of this month’s events are Friday, July 5, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue. These listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday’s organizer, Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information visit firstfridayspokane.org. (CHEY SCOTT) AVENUE WEST GALLERY, 907 W. Boone The gallery hosts the River Ridge Association of Fine Arts juried membership show, and guest artist Katie Frey. Gallery is open July 5 from 11 am-4 pm; artist reception scheduled for July 12 from 5-8 pm. J BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Art by award-winning watercolorist Stan Miller. BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens St. Recent works by local artist Elizabeth Reichenberger. CORE PILATES & WELLNESS, 1174 W. Summit Pkwy. Photography by Maya Kelly. CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy. Mixed media art by Judy Minter; 2-9 pm. INDABA COFFEE ROASTERS, 518 W. Riverside Ave. Art by Marco Sauceda and Austin Florendo; 7-9 pm IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Ave. Oil and watercolors by Lisa Marie Brown. J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. Cryptids: A Print Portfolio Exchange, featuring 10 Spokane-area print artists: Thom Caraway, Ethan Coy, Brian Deemy, Derrick Freeland, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Dustin Hall, Tiffany Patterson, Kameron Simpson, Bethany Taylor and Ashley Rae Vaughn. LA RESISTANCE, 1816 E. Sprague Ave. A group show to celebrate the gallery’s grand opening. LUCKY LEAF CO., 1111 W. First Ave. Art by Christina Villagomez. MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy. Acrylics by Hopi artist Jacob Johns. MARYHILL WINERY, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. Mixed media art by Nancy Loomis. J RICHMOND ART COLLECTIVE, 228 W. Sprague Ave. Fear of Fear features recent works by Dan McCann and Hannah Koeske. J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Ave. Thinking About Stephen Hawking featuring mixed media art by guest artist Vida Vida. SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, downtown, 906 W. Main Ave. Heavy progressive instrumental music by Odyssey, joined by instrumental math/jazz/rock band Flannel Math Animal, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Includes tours of current art on exhibition. TERRAIN GALLERY, 304 W. Pacific Ave. Signs of Feelings by Katharine Spilker features sculptures made from natural and found materials. J WONDER BUILDING, 835 N. Post St. Wonderground features works by Ernest Lothar, organized by Coeur d’Alene’s Art Spirit Gallery. n

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Dining choices in downtown Moscow are plentiful and varied.

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Palouse of Plenty Make the most of Moscow’s flourishing food scene with this guide to where and what to eat BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

oscow is considered to be one of the best Idaho cities to live, based on factors like employment and housing, but also quality of life. For us, that includes food. Moscow is home to more than three dozen independently owned places to grab a bite — not fast food or chains, in other words — and that doesn’t even include all the coffee shops, wine bars and food trucks. It’s a lot for a college town with an estimated population of 25,000 across less than seven square miles. Most of Moscow’s dining establishments are

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downtown, a narrow pocket of businesses from where Highway 95 splits into Jackson and Washington streets. This makes for a pleasant, walkable region, roughly three blocks wide and 10 blocks long, that feels like a plaza, especially with all the outdoor dining. Indeed, this is where many events are held, including the city-run farmers market and art walks. Here is where you’ll find breakfast in the form of several coffee houses, like CAFÉ ARTISTA (218 S. Main St.) with its funky artwork and locally roasted Kamiak Coffee.

For a hearty first meal like potato pancakes, “stuffed” biscuits and gravy, or its signature huckleberry zucchini bread French toast, try THE BREAKFAST CLUB (501 S. Main St.). In warmer weather, sit outside at BLOOM CAFÉ (403 S. Main St.) and enjoy options like an eggs Benedict for breakfast or a Reuben sandwich for lunch, the latter featuring house-made rye bread and locally made Hog Heaven pastrami. For lunch, KITCHEN COUNTER (214 S. Main St.) features locally sourced bakery, charcuterie and other items, and all scratch-made, seasonal soups, salads

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By this time next year, there should be one more fine dining option in downtown Moscow as SANGRIA GRILLE (2124 W. Pullman Rd.) relocates from the Palouse Mall area into the historic Moscow Hotel building, where it’ll be much closer to sister restaurant Maialina Pizzeria. “Our downtown is amazing,” asserts George Skandalos, who opened Peruvian-inspired Sangria with business partner and Moscow native Carly Lilly in 2004. It was her idea to open a place in Moscow, says Skandalos, who also credits Lilly with pushing for local, organic and fair trade ingredients in dishes like sweet corn masa cakes topped with tomatillo purée of pico de gallo, avocado, crème fraîche and house-made Peruvian chili mayo. The duo met in Southern California, where Lilly worked in Skandalos’ mother’s restaurant and convinced him Moscow was exactly the place to open a new kind of restaurant. Fifteen years later, their food remains a solid hit. “I think what makes Moscow so nice is that typically everyone is from somewhere else,” says Skandalos, who adds that that makes for a very open and friendly community, and a rich mix of people. “You really have to make a choice to live here.” (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

and sandwiches. On Fridays during the fall season, it also serves aperitivo, an Italian tradition of early evening wine and food meant to be enjoyed with friends and family. Another lunch option is HUMBLE BURGER (102 N. Main St.), which grew into a brick-and-mortar spot from a farmers market stand, becoming a local favorite for its spin on fast food-like burgers and scratchmade milkshakes. Lunch-to-dinner venues account for the bulk of Moscow’s dining options, which also cover a wide geographic range of cuisines, including Italian (Maialina Pizzeria Napoletana), Mexican (Patty’s Mexican Kitchen; La Casa Lopez), Japanese (Red Bento), Mediterranean (Mad Greek) and Hawaiian (LocoGrinz). Moscow is also home to three breweries, two of which offer food. Easy to spot in its Quonset hut shell, HUNGA DUNGA BREWING (333 N. Jackson St.) is a fun little brewpub with a thriving side gig as an eatery; try a lamb burger paired with the Hopnipotent Hazy IPA or banana pudding and the cold brew coffee stout. Nearby RANTS & RAVES BREWERY (308 N. Jackson St.) is a beloved gastropub with a strong reputation for food — serving dishes like honey-glazed pork belly, chipotle mac and cheese and more — and beer alike. The town’s beer veteran, especially if you count their claimed spiritual kinship with Moscow’s original brewery in the early 1900s, is MOSCOW BREWING CO. (630 N. Almon St.), which opened in 2013 and has a modest on-site tasting room. MOSCOW ALEHOUSE (226 W. Sixth St.) is another long-standing local establishment, dating back to 1999 when it was Coeur d’Alene Brewing (which later morphed into Spokane’s River City Brewing Co.), that now serves wings, burgers and the like in a busy location en route to the University of Idaho campus. TAPPED TAPHOUSE & KITCHEN (210 S. Main St.) is a more recent addition to the downtown scene, offering two dozen rotating taps and a gastropub menu with items like gumbo, bacon-wrapped dates, dulce de leche and pretzel cheesecake. For dinner and fine dining, downtown Moscow offers numerous choices. NECTAR (105 W. Sixth St.), the sister restaurant to Bloom, is an ideal place for craft cocktails and shareable plates like filet skewers, and its patio is a garden oasis. LODGEPOLE (106 N. Main St.) is a spacious place with an equally large outdoor dining area, and seasonal dinner and lunch menus that don’t disappoint, with highlights like charcuterie, house-made pasta and pan-roasted duck. More Moscow dining spots to try: Slice and Biscuit (125 E. Second St.), Gambino’s Pizza (308 W. Sixth St.), Garlic Garden Bistro (630 N. Almon St.), Moscow Food Co-Op (121 E. Fifth St.), Hoof and Trotter (115 E. Second St.), Karma Indian (1420 S. Blaine St.). n

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New Spokane Valley bakery the Blissful Whisk aims to build community through a love of baked goods BY RILEY UTLEY

iffany Cable has an affinity for baking and a love for her community. When she put the two together, the Blissful Whisk was created. Located in Spokane Valley, the bakery is a place for locals to come enjoy a pastry and each other’s company. “I want this place to feel like home,” Cable says. “I want people to go back in time and take a minute to breathe, enjoy the pastries and think about home.” The bakery is filled with antique teacups, vintage appliances, a kids’ play kitchen and homey decor to help customers feel as though they’ve been transported elsewhere. Cable’s love for homemaking, community and baking was sparked when her kids went off to college. “I started sending them and all their friends care packages every month,” she says. “I had just sold a business before that, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next so, [my kids] inspired me to go to pastry school, and I told myself that if I got through pastry school and I still loved it, I would open a bakery, and I did.” Cable is in the shop at 2:30 am every morning to begin preparing the day’s goods, which change daily on a rotating basis. As of this writing, the bakery was serving Danishes and turnovers in a variety of flavors (cherry, apple, lemon, raspberry and strawberry), scones, cinnamon rolls, croissants, eclairs and muffins, just to name some. The bakery also serves hot options such as avocado toast and croissant sandwiches. The Blissful Whisk’s bestselling items are its huckleberry-blueberry white chocolate chip scone ($3.50) and themed sugar cookies ($4). “I started making sugar cookies for my kids when they were little and in school for every possible thing. My daughter was a cheerleader at [Central Valley] and she had to make baskets for

the football and baseball teams and wrestlers. So, we did themed ones for that… In the area I’m known for my sugar cookies,” Cable says. She and her staff make many specialty pastries with unique flavors as well as traditional, old-fashioned baked goods. Cable’s “brookies,” ($2.50) a brownie with a chocolate chip or peanut butter chocolate chip cookie baked on top, are another bestseller. The bakery also makes a few cakes ($15-$52) daily, some for the case, and a limited amount made to order. I went into the shop around lunchtime and got a carrot cake muffin ($3), a sea salt chocolate chip cookie ($3) and a 12-ounce vanilla latte ($3.80). It was apparent in all the pastries that Cable puts a personal twist on her baked goods, and boy is it delicious. The muffins are the perfect size for a meal, and are light and fluffy with a delicious crumble brown sugar topping. The cookies are perfectly soft and gooey on the inside with a dash of sea salt sprinkled on top. Cable tries to locally source as many ingredients as she can. The bakery’s house coffee is roasted by a newly launched, local mobile company, Ionic Coffee. In the future, Cable hopes to expand her business by introducing an after school program for kids to learn how to bake, as well as monthly high tea service and a subscription service for care packages. Her mission for the Blissful Whisk remains simple: Grow the community and share her love of baking. She’s off to a great start. n food@inlander.com The Blissful Whisk • 1612 N. Barker Rd., Spokane Valley • Open Mon-Fri 6 am-4 pm, Sat 6 am-1 pm • facebook.com/ TheBlissfulWhiskSpokane • 242-3189

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The maniacal, methodical Midsommar does for Scandinavian tourism what Jaws did for the beach.

adding to the movie’s immersive, otherworldly qualities. Part of the reason that Dani and Christian don’t immediately run away from their hosts is that they’re still consumed with their interpersonal drama, a passiveaggressive tug-of-war between two people who obviously don’t want to be together but can’t bring themselves to let go of their relationship. Pugh gives a much more subdued performance than Toni Collette’s acclaimed turn in Hereditary, but she’s equally fantastic in her own way, especially during the movie’s opening stretch, when Dani has to deal with the unthinkable at home before she even nitely not going to fix their clearly doomed relationship. gets to the pastel Swedish murder cult. The movie opens with Dani in crisis as she experiences a The dudes get less of a chance to shine, but Will family tragedy, and Christian, who was on the verge of Poulter delivers another in his fine-tuned portraits of breaking up with her, instead ends up inviting her on his entitled douchebags as the group’s frattiest member, and bro trip to Sweden, an invitation he hopes and expects all three of the American men are prime she’ll decline. examples of toxic masculinity. Although But Dani tags along anyway, and MIDSOMMAR it’s not always clear what the cult’s ultithere’s plenty of tension in the group even Rated R mate goal is, they seem to be on Dani’s before they arrive in Halsingland, where Directed by Ari Aster the residents welcome them with far too Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, side more often than not, and there’s a much enthusiasm and immediately encour- Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper perverse pleasure in seeing these clueless man-boys get what’s coming to them. age them to participate in the commune’s Perverse pleasure could be the mission statement odd, off-putting rituals. Christian and Josh (William Jackof this movie, which is slow and methodical but also son Harper) are both anthropology students, so instead often morbidly funny and gleefully sadistic. The climax of being weirded out, they’re fascinated, and that helps unfolds like the director is personally torturing his lull the other characters into a false sense of security, characters, picking them apart bit by bit, and the movie even after they witness some pretty messed-up stuff. The owes as much to the cine-masochism of Lars von Trier as plot proceeds on a relatively straightforward and even it does to pastoral horror movies like The Wicker Man. It’s predictable path, but Aster takes his time establishing the a sort of cathartic ritual, in which the characters and the intricate details of life at Halsingland, and the gorgeous audience are equally unwitting participants. n costumes and sets are impeccably designed and crafted,

Ari Aster’s Midsommar is a sustained horror freak-out BY JOSH BELL

ri Aster’s 2018 horror sensation Hereditary sometimes felt like the work of a filmmaker who wasn’t sure he’d ever get the chance to make another feature film, and was throwing in every possible idea he had just in case this was his only shot. The result was a collection of creepy, unsettling moments that never quite came together. Aster is an expert at freaking the audience out, but Hereditary showed that he was more adept at atmosphere than plot construction. With his second feature, Midsommar, Aster delivers a much more streamlined story, along with the same disturbing atmosphere and intense, dedicated performances. It’s less jarring and unpredictable, but ultimately more satisfying. As soon as Swedish grad student Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) invites a group of his American friends to a festival at the remote commune in Sweden where he grew up, it’s fairly obvious what’s going to happen to the main characters. They are definitely not going to have a fun, educational trip to Europe, and strained couple Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are defi-

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco

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Part documentary and part concert film, this is an entertaining tribute to the innovations and continuing influence of the L.A. rock scene of the mid-’60s. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

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looks at masculinity and gentrification through the eyes of two lifelong friends, who no longer recognize the city where they grew up. (NW) Rated R

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Director Ron Howard’s latest music documentary focuses on legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who helped bring opera to the mainstream. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

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A bland, stiffly staged live-action retelling of the animated Disney classic about a petty thief who woos a princess with the help of a wisecracking genie. A whole new world this is not. (MJ) Rated PG

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I guess we’re not tired of Conjuring spinoffs yet, so here comes that dumb possessed doll again, this time menacing the Warrens’ teenage babysitter. (NW) Rated R

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Documentarian John Chester films himself and his wife Molly as they trade in their urban L.A. life for a full-service, 200-acre farm. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

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Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut is a scrappy, intelligent teen comedy about two overachievers hunting down a wild party on the last night of high school. Hilarious, emotionally authentic and brilliantly cast. (NW) Rated R

CHILD’S PLAY

That evil doll Chucky is back on big screens, and his resurrection is a notawful slasher with a nasty streak of humor. In this case, he’s a smart device that goes berserk, and heads start to roll. (NW) Rated R

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The X-Men saga limps to a close with this tale of Jean Grey’s transformation into the dastardly Dark Phoenix. Hardly cataclysmic, but not exactly memorable, either. (JB) Rated PG-13

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Keanu Reeves’ stoic assassin is back for more ultraviolence, and this time he has a bounty on his head. It’s frustratingly frontloaded and way too long, but it works as a showcase for lithe action choreography. (NW) Rated R

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place as king of the monsters, but Ghidora and Mothra and Rodan are also vying for the crown. A colossal disappointment, with thin human characters, a murky visual style and too few creature fights. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Animated sequels don’t get more blah than this, a disjointed, only occasionally engaging follow-up to the familyfriendly hit about what our pets do when we’re not home. (MJ) Rated PG

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Even on a trip to Europe, Peter Parker can’t dodge his superhero duties, donning his Spidey suit to fight off evil humanoids known as the Elementals. A sharp and funny continuation of the MCU mythos. (SS) Rated PG-13

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Pixar’s most beloved franchise returns to assault your tear ducts. Having been given to a new owner, Woody and Buzz Lightyear have some familiar fun-filled adventures while also ruminating about the existential angst of being a toy. (MJ) Rated G

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A promising concept — a struggling musician discovers he’s the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles, and cashes in — can’t overcome sluggish execution. Don’t overthink this one. (MJ) Rated PG-13n

Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are the next generation of extra-terrestrial bounty hunters, but even their combined charisma can’t enliven this joyless, ultimately pointless franchise reboot. (NW) Rated PG-13

MIDSOMMAR

Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary is another horror freak-out, this time about a fracturing American couple swallowed up by a Swedish cult. As perverse, unsettling and brutal as you’d expect. (JB) Rated R

THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN 2: FIRE OF FAITH

A follow-up to a 2001 drama starring a pre-fame Anne Hathaway (she does not return), in which a Christian missionary’s son falls ill while in Tonga. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Elton John’s songs come to glittery life in this unconventional musical fantasia, starring Taron Egerton as the flamboyant pop star battling addiction and his own sexuality. It’s energetic, imaginative and full of exhilarating images. (ES) Rated R

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David Robert Mitchell’s divisive neo-noir whatsit stars Andrew Garfield as a hangdog loser who thinks he’s on the trail of a mystery, decoding a string of hidden messages that may uncover a dark Hollywood conspiracy. A selfreflexive puzzle-box movie that is itself a parody of self-reflexive puzzle box movies; you’ll need multiple viewings to crack this one. (NW) Rated R

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trust in the friendly neighborhood web slinger, including Stark’s A.I. global defense system EDITH, is palpable via Holland’s performance. And the film’s thematic wrestling with who we should trust and what we should believe resonates in 2019. The film’s comedic voice might actually surpass that of its predecessor, Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is quite the accomplishment. Holland’s knack for awkward teen humor brings out Peter’s nerdy quirks, and Jacob Batalon is once again a beacon of glee as Peter’s bestie Ned (his romantic storyline is a delight). Credit to the returning team of director Jon Watts and screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers for having a deft enough touch to make scenes like melodramatic in-memoriam packages or a potential drone strike on a bus of high schoolers into comedic set BY SETH SOMMERFELD pieces. Adding the clearly mutual crush between MJ and Peter provides an additional energy that eing a teenager is tough enough already, manages to be both believable and funny due to what with the hormones, crushes, school the nervous chemistry both actors create. drama and societal pressures. Throwing Based solely on what is presented on screen, in a spell of nonexistence, the death of a mentor Mysterio is a great character thanks to a fantastic and the power to defend Earth? Well, safe to say performance by Gyllenhaal, who just oozes chait might drive one to crave a vacation from it all. risma as he buddies up to Peter Parker. UnfortuEnter Spider-Man: Far from Home. nately, the character’s flaw is one of personal hisSet shortly after the seismic events of Avengtory for Marvel fans. I envy filmgoers who have ers: Endgame, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) must no knowledge of Mysterio from other Spider-Man adjust to a world where he’s no longer literally properties: They’re in for a treat that’s simply not dust in the wind. He (and, conveniently, all the possible for an informed viewer. important people in his life) reappeared five And while Gyllenhaal is magnetic, the real years after Thanos wiped out half the universe’s star of Far from Home is the digital effects team. It’s population — an event referred to as “the Blip.” an achievement to stand out from other Marvel Stressed out by the intergalactic battling and movies in terms of special effects, but this whole pressure for Spider-Man to step into movie feels like a flex for those an Iron Man-esque superhero role, SPIDER-MAN: computer wizards. The action scenes Peter is really looking forward to dazzle in a way that belies some FAR FROM HOME putting the hero business aside on other Marvel features where the Rated PG-13 a class vacation to Europe, where battles are actually the least thrilling Directed by Jon Watts he’ll hopefully have the chance to parts. And while Peter swinging Starring Tom Holland, Jake spend some time with his crush, MJ Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, around Venice sans Spidey suit is an (Zendaya). underrated visual treat, Mysterio’s Zendaya That all gets torn asunder when illusion-based battles provide the elemental monsters start attacking real showoff sequences, especially a major cities, continually thwarted by a new Dr. jaw-dropping, mind-bending one in the latter part Strange-like character named Mysterio (Jake Gylof the film. lenhaal). Soon, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) Far from Home can’t quite match the near recruits Spider-Man to help fight these creatures perfection of Homecoming, but it still successfully alongside Mysterio by rerouting his school trip to checks all the action and comedy boxes you’d important destinations. want from a summer blockbuster. It’s a strong Far from Home makes the struggle of Peter’s first step for the post-Endgame Marvel Cinematic internal life more the focus than the worldUniverse, and the post-credits scenes — perhaps destroying baddies, which works in its favor after the most shocking and storyline-important ones Marvel’s decades-spanning parade of worldin any Marvel movie to date — set up a truly wild destroying baddies. The burden of Tony Stark’s future for the MCU. n

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Good Vibrations The documentary Echo in the Canyon examines the influence of the 1960s California sound BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

he Laurel Canyon Neighborhood is only a short drive from Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip, and yet it’s deep enough in the Hollywood Hills that it feels isolated from the big city. It’s also where a coterie of musicians, all living and working within a couple miles of one another in the mid-1960s, created a specific brand of sun-dappled rock ’n’ roll that we’d forever associate with California. Echo in the Canyon, a new documentary that opens at the Magic Lantern Theater Thursday, takes us back to that turbulent time of literal and figurative harmony, when California bands like the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Mamas and the Papas were merging folk, country and psychedelia in new ways. Like the music at its center, the film is seamlessly pieced together from disparate elements, and Wallflowers frontman and co-producer Jakob Dylan is the uniting factor. He not only conducts the sit-down interviews with various Laurel Canyon luminaries, but also performs a bevy of their iconic hits — both in the very L.A. recording studios where they were initially put to tape, and alongside his contemporaries in live concert footage that weaves in and out of the film. “In crafting what I wanted to do, I thought maybe if I could film a song being recorded, a song played live, then have the author of the song in the room and piece that together, I could make something interesting that hadn’t been done before,” explains the documentary’s director, Andrew Slater, in an interview with the Inlander.

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The project really got its start when Slater saw Jacques Demy’s 1969 drama Model Shop. It’s a languorous snapshot of a now-unrecognizable Los Angeles, and it follows an architecture student as he wanders adrift around the city in the days before he’ll no doubt be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. “It showed me an L.A. at a time of complete innocence,” Slater says of Model Shop. “It inspired a journey back to the records that I loved from that mid-’60s period. In looking at those records, I said to Jakob, ‘We should make an album of these lesser-known songs,’ and it led us to the stories behind the songs and the people that made them. “We thought, ‘There’s too much here not to make something more expansive.’” That’s how they ended up in L.A.’s Western Studios with a camera crew, recording a collection of songs that they felt were not only emblematic of the then-burgeoning Laurel Canyon scene, but integral to the respective bands’ careers. Consider “Go Where You Wanna Go,” an accidental document of the splintering personal relationships at the center of the Mamas and the Papas. Or Buffalo Springfield’s “Expecting to Fly,” which represents guitarist Neil Young’s desire to leave the group and take off in his own musical direction. “They’re the songs that are pivotal to the demise of these bands, in some cases,” Slater says. “And behind those songs, you have the authors of those songs.” Many of those authors appear in the film, a who’s-

who of musicians that helped define that California pop sound — Jackson Browne, Michelle Phillips, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash. Dylan also chats with the likes of Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, who later found their way into the Laurel Canyon scene, and the late Tom Petty, who relocated to Southern California as a teenager and recalls admiring his idols from afar. But of all the rock legends interviewed, Slater says it was Beach Boys svengali Brian Wilson who proved to be an almost monolithic presence. “The immense contribution that Brian Wilson has given to the world makes his presence in the film exciting for everyone — for the musicians, for Jakob, and for me,” Slater says. “Here’s this guy with all these melodies in his head. The Beatles had George Martin and an arranger [at their disposal]. Brian was just Brian. … That WEEKEND to me is really powerC O U N T D OW N ful. His presence was a Get the scoop on this little daunting.” weekend’s events with That titular “echo” our newsletter. Sign up at comes through most Inlander.com/newsletter. clearly in the film’s concert sequences, which feature Dylan running through a setlist of Laurel Canyon classics alongside Fiona Apple, Beck, Regina Spektor and Cat Power. Filmed over two nights in 2015 at L.A.’s Orpheum Theater, the performances illustrate that ’60s influence on a whole new generation of

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California artists. It’s this unusual structure that separates Echo in the Canyon from typical rock-doc fare; it’s closer in spirit to Dave Grohl’s Sound City than something like The Last Waltz. Slater has had a long career in the music industry — as a rock critic, as a band manager, as a record producer — but this is his first crack at directing a movie, and he wanted to be sure it stood out. “It’s inspired by a French New Wave filmmaker [Demy],” Slater says, “so while it has a narrative, it may not be defined as ‘act one, act two, act three.’ I was trying to make something that wasn’t a historical document in the traditional sense.” n Echo in the Canyon opens at the Magic Lantern on Thursday, July 4.

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219 LOUNGE, Harold’s IGA A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Into the Drift BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Smash Hit Carnival CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J THE HIVE, Turkuaz J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), JamShack LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Jimi Finn LION’S LAIR, Karaoke MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Jennifer Stoehner J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Rewind O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, O’Pen Mic Thursdays ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Gil Rivas and The Rhythmic Collective THE PIN!, Mastadon POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Echo Elysium THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, The Rock Jam Series TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio

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ou need a big venue to house High Pulp. They typically perform as a 10-piece, so an expansive stage is a must. And their self-described “future funk fusion” is sure to get your limbs a-moving, which necessitates a spacious dance floor. Lucky You Lounge, then, should be the right fit for the Seattle collective, which has transplanted its bustling house parties to more traditional stages. Last year saw the release of High Pulp’s debut album Bad Juice, and their strutting instrumentals take you right back to the ’70s — those swaggering basslines, swanky horn sections, Innervisionsera organs and wah-wah pedals for days. — NATHAN WEINBENDER High Pulp with Funky Unkle • Sat, July 6 at 8 pm • $5 • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset Blvd. • luckyyoulounge.com

Friday, 07/5

219 LOUNGE, Far Out West J 1898 PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, The Miah Kohal Band BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Into the Drift BOLO’S, The Happiness BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Joey Anderson and StrangeBrew J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Rubber Band CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia J J CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, Montgomery Gentry THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Bands on Boats: Kelly Hughes Band CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Echo Elysium CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle

DAN & JO’S BAR & GRILL, Spectra DI LUNA’S CAFE, Wes Urbaniak and The Mountain Folk FORTY-ONE SOUTH, Truck Mills IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mike & Shanna Thompson IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Vanna Oh! IRON HORSE (CDA), Pastiche J KLINK’S LAKESIDE, Kevin Shay Band LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Rob Bryceson MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift MULLIGAN’S BAR, Daniel Hall NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Gil Rivas and The Rhythmic Collective PACIFIC PIZZA, The Monties, Mama Llama, Lads J PARK BENCH CAFE, Paul Grove PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Red Blend

PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic RED ROOM LOUNGE, Storme THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Tod Hornby; Son of Brad (at Noah’s) SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Katie Fisher SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Stagecoach West ZOLA, Rewind

Saturday, 07/6

219 LOUNGE, Aaron Golay 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Ethereal in E 1210 TAVERN, 3 Way Street A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus J THE BARTLETT, Spilt Milk, Gabriella Rose, Ryan Bishop BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Into the Drift J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Robert Cray Band BOLO’S, The Happiness

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia J COLBERT TRADING CO., Cassandra Wheeler COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Robby French CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Jill Cohn CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects J HARVEST HOUSE, Dallas Kay THE HIVE, Zach Nugent’s Disco Dead HOGFISH, Wes Urbaniak and The Mountain Folk HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, Miller’s Sun J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Nick Grow J HUMBLE ABODE BREWING, Just Plain Darin IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Samantha Carston IRON GOAT BREWING, Buffalo Jones IRON HORSE (CDA), Pastiche

THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke KLINK’S LAKESIDE, One Street Over J KOOTENAI COUNTY FARMERS MARKET, Bill Bozly LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Oak Street Connection J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, High Pulp (see facing page), Funky Unkle MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Truck Mills & Carl Rey MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Jan Harrison Duo NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole NORTHERN RAIL, Patrick Lagrimanta OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Tommy G ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Gil Rivas and The Rhythmic Collective PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Steve Neff and Jesse Ahmann J THE PIN, Midsummer Bash with Kuttl3ss & C-Major POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos

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J ROCKET MARKET, Katie Fisher SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, Electric Cole Show; Kevin Dorin (at Noah’s) SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Sharky and the Fins TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Bright Moments Jazz ZOLA, Rewind

Monday, 07/8

Sunday, 07/7

Tuesday, 07/9

1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Blues Experience ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Soul Proprietor CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Echo Elysium CRUISERS, Bret Allen CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J HARVEST HOUSE, Just Plain Darin; 7th Street Band THE HIVE, Fire on the Mountain HOGFISH, Open Mic LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Jill Cohn MOOSE LOUNGE, Casey Ryan O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, The Real Sarahs J THE PIN, No Home, A Day on Earth, Smiles THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys SLICE & BISCUIT, Wes Urbaniak and The Mountain Folk ZOLA, Lazy Love

THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Colin Burgeson COSMIC COWBOY, Echo Elysium CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Perfect Mess 219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Zonky Night BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, The ShuffleDawgs Blues Power Happy Hour OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Cary Fly Band RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing RIVERFRONT PARK, Heat Speak THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam J SHERMAN SQUARE PARK, Stagecoach West J J SPOKANE ARENA, Khalid (see facing page) SWEET LOU’S, Pat Coast TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Jeff Hubbard ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 07/10 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Drew Browne J THE BARTLETT, Honeysuckle, Jenny Anne Mannan

J BERSERK, Kim Gray, BaLonely, Marina Obscura BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Ashley Pyle CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Katie Fisher LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LION’S LAIR, Funk You Up w/Storme J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Kicho LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, Funk Soul & HipHop w/ DJ Exodus MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dylan Hathaway J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Just Plain Darin RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic J SOUTH PERRY PIZZA, Busch Brothers Band STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Gil Rivas UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Pat Coast ZOLA, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia

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J THE BARTLETT, Tyler Ramsey, Carl Broemel, July 12 J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Beck, Cage the Elephant, Spoon, July 13 J KNITTING FACTORY, Band of Horses, Nikki Lane, July 14

MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Paciﬁc • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • 279-7000 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Paciﬁc • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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ARTS DRAWING GARLAND

Get out and about in the Garland District with Spokane artist Megan Perkins (above), who’s widely known for her delightful watercolors of local landmarks, all drawn on site, en plein air. Over the past few years, Perkins has painted hundreds of local scenes — historic buildings, festivals and events and other iconic sights of the Inland Northwest. The artist also occasionally shares her tips, tricks and artistic know-how with locals of all skills through public art classes. In July, Perkins is leading a two-session urban sketch crawl through the historic Garland District. Participants ages 14 and up will learn to sketch on location and add color with watercolors, colored pencils or markers. Register and find a class supply list on the Spokane Art School’s website. — CHEY SCOTT Garland Sketch Crawl • Wed, July 10 and 17 from 10 am-noon • $40 • Ages 14+ • Meets at Spokane Art School • 811 W. Garland • spokaneartschool.net • 325-1500

FESTIVAL BREWS & BITES

Drinking in the sunshine is a summertime staple, and the third annual Downtown Coeur d’Alene Brew Fest offers the chance to do just that. With over 30 local beers and ciders to choose from, participants can sample brews while overlooking the beautiful lake. Tickets include six 5-ounce samples and a pint glass to take home. Additional samples can be purchased for $2 each. Non-beer lovers fear not, there’s also wine from Castaway Cellars, coffee from Calypsos Coffee Roasters and a variety of food vendors. Admission is free for designated drivers and children, as long as they’re accompanied by a ticket holder of legal age. Live music by Laketown Sound and the Ryan Larsen Band, along with yard games, round out the experience. — MORGAN SCHEERER Downtown Coeur d’Alene Brew Fest • Sat, July 6 from 1-7 pm • $20 • All ages • McEuen Park • 420 E. Front Ave. • cdadowntown.com/brewfest

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FESTIVAL SEEING PURPLE

Evening Light Lavender’s annual Lavender Festival shares with the community what lavender farming is all about. The festival features live music from Daniel Hall and Cover2Cover, as well as vendors and, of course, lots of lavender. This year’s event also supports Blessings Under the Bridge, and the farm is asking attendees to bring bottled water or snack packs for the nonprofit to distribute to the homeless community. Attendees can expect to find lavenderflavored iced tea, lemonade and ice cream, as well as other food products and shopping opportunities. Varying ticket packages let visitors pay before they go, for $25 or $55, and come with options like food samples, T-shirts, lavender products and more. — RILEY UTLEY U-Pick Lavender Festival • Sat-Sun, July 6-7 from 9 am-5 pm • $5 • Evening Light Lavender Farm • 5552 S. Wallbridge Rd., Deer Park • eveninglightlavender.com • 939-0313

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MUSIC BLUES

Robert Cray grew up right here in the Northwest, so it makes sense that he came to his brand of the blues through melding the sounds he grew up listening to, from Bobby Bland’s soul to Jimi Hendrix’s rock. Add in a love of the Beatles’ songcraft, and it starts to come clear how Cray went on to create decades’ worth of blues-based songs full of insistent hooks. Back in the ’80s, that knack for finding a poppy approach to the blues led to mainstream stardom, but he’s always stayed rooted in sounds forged by blues legends like Buddy Guy and Albert King. Given his slew of Grammys and W.C. Handy blues awards, Cray will be a guy future blues kids namecheck as a huge influence. But he has plenty of years left to headline shows like his gig at the Bing this weekend. — DAN NAILEN Robert Cray Band • Sat, July 6 at 8 pm • $48-$78 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

PERFORMANCE NOW YOU SEE HIM

Harry Houdini might have shuffled off this mortal coil more than 90 years ago, but the master magician has a kindred spirit in Jay Owenhouse. The Montana-based illusionist has made a name for himself with a Vegas-style touring show, which has frequently featured his pair of performing tigers and has been a true family affair, with Owenhouse’s four children traveling with him as his on-stage assistants. But it’s the recreations of Houdini’s most famous — and, in some cases, infamous — stunts that make Owenhouse a star attraction. Perhaps he’ll get into his Water Torture Cell, in which he escapes from shackles while submerged underwater, or maybe he’ll indulge audiences in the straitjacket escape, which he once accomplished while dangling over the main entrance of River Park Square. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Jay Owenhouse: The Authentic Illusionist • Thu, July 11 at 7:30 pm • $29$89 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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kiddos and had to leave the store in a rush. You gave my sister your number to give me, but it never made it to me. MARGARITAS & SMILES I saw you at Rincon Tapatio on Hamilton last Tuesday. I made fun of your drink upsizing and we learned all about a new Caribbean country after watching soccer playing in the background. You had the best smile. Margaritas on me next time?

I SAW YOU SMILE IN THE CROSSWALK AT SPOKANE AIRPORT To the beautiful tall man in the suit who flashed me his pearly whites... your smile was easily the best part of my day! STONERIDGE RESORT LAUNDRY CENTER CUTIE I was headed downstairs with my parents and 3 daughters when you jumped in the elevator at the last second. We only had a brief conversation in the laundry room while getting fresh towels but I thought about it and your beautiful smile the rest of the weekend. I really hated having to rush away due to time restraints to get to Silverwood, I hope you had terrific weekend and I hope to see you again some day! THE HOTTEST SUBCONTINENT India, your smile and dance moves cause me involuntary physiological reactions. I’m sorry about the holes in the fabric getting stretched out on my account, my bad. Let me make it up to you, I’ll buy you coffee sometime. I’m off work every day after 3 P.M., you name the time and place. JEFF AT VALUE VILLAGE. June 20th at value village on Boone, you tried to make convo but I was distracted by my

WIZARDING WALK I saw you walking down Garland on Sunday night, backlit by the glowing signs. You saved my character on Wizards Unite multiple times. I was wearing the No Doubt T-shirt and attempting unsuccessfully to level up. That’s such a great area to play. Maybe I will see you there again, soon? SECOND HAND HOTTIE Dear downtown Value Village cashier: I see you from time to time and want to invite you to coffee but I’m too shy and you’re too cute. We smiled at each other in the aisle last weekend but once again I lost my nerve. I’ll say it from the safe distance of this paper: Let’s get together!

CHEERS DEAR FELLOW BURGER FLIPPERS Specifically the ones at Jack in the Box, downtown. I rolled in on Thursday night immediately after you put out an enormous UberEats order, and man oh man. You guys looked like you got your asses kicked. I know, because I too brave huge tickets, followed by a trickle of “Oh god, please stop, already!” orders. (As a restaurant cook, but still up to my elbows in grease and growing impatience.) But you guys were still pleasant, and joked with each other while the food cooked. It was nice to see. And I want you to know that I also see you. I can see you guys do your best in a job that could be worlds better. And everyone wants to be an elitist punk about “burger flippers,” but damn if they don’t want burger flavored grease sludge at 2 am.

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I see you from time to time and want to invite you to coffee, but I’m too shy and you’re too cute.

Don’t let the monstrosity that is delivery fast food get you down. And just know you’re appreciated. See you in the trenches. I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE Thank you Denny’s of Coeur d’Alene for the best hamburger of my life. I’ve never seen such perfection: from the patty, to the lettuce, from the mustard to the catsup: I felt like a V.I.P. in every sense of that word. This isn’t important, but I will tell you anyway... I served my country, and with a man as powerful, perfect and as elegant as President Donald Trump, quite frankly... the world served me. Lord knows what goes on to make bottles, food, plates, napkins... perfect carpet, just love upon love which all translated, and will translate for you, into the perfect tasting, mind-shattering level 10 hamburger. You may think, “should I put such a feast before my eyes?” Should I bring in some Fats Domino to find that thrill, on I-90 hill... the moon stands still, your dreams, the fresh melodies... the perfect service [thanks Maddox] and eat and eat. Love, dreams, modeling, CT, Yale, love, Denny’s, sex, drama... laughter, the times, the freedom... and all with the purchase of one cheeseburger w/ Hellmann’s mayo. The thing is: don’t wait until a person of faith makes you feel guilty about global warming, or what-not. I’ll just say, before this turns into a ramble: for generations Coeur d’Alene Denny’s has been making perfect people smile... at family gatherings, backyard BBQ’s (carry-out = SUPER fast) or, at the ballpark... and so, in conclusion, where there’s happy it has to be Denny’s. P.S. Get out of my way every-

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one, that’s why I want another one for. HOOPFEST INCLUSION I love Hoopfest in Spokane almost as much as watching the Zag’s play, and Sunday, watching Latino, Native and other ethnic teenagers play “3 man” basketball gave me an uplifting high. So that is another element of Hoopfest that should be applauded!

JEERS RANDOM (MIS)ACTS OF KINDNESS To the driver who stopped in the middle of the road during evening rush hour at the convoluted Francis/Driscoll/ Assembly/9 Mile interchange: Cheers for your kind heart, attempting to let me and my spouse, cycling with our children in bike trailers, cross in front of you. But Jeers for your all-too-common mistake of treating cyclists on the road as pedestrians. It puts people at risk and creates difficulty for everyone involved. The moment you violate traffic law, the whole situation becomes inherently unpredictable. Will you also suddenly keep going? Will other cars zoom around you? Rear-end you? The cyclist can’t know how anyone will react, so it’s still not safe to go. I’m relieved you weren’t hit by the car behind you that never expected you to stop for no reason in the middle of a four-lane with no crosswalk. Which reminds me: I yelled to you, “There’s no crosswalk!” but that’s not the point. We weren’t even trying to “cross the road.” We were *using* the road. It’s not like we were standing by the curb, waiting to walk.

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We were in the middle of traffic, cars behind us, waiting our turn. You know, like a vehicle. Treat us like one. It’s state law for a reason. SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT “Thanks.” For the help and justice being served with the arson of my vehicle. I’m sooo glad I left it on the street for further investigation, so you can tow it because it was an unidentified, unmoved, nuisance car on the street. Even though I was told not to pick up any glass, not to clean up the street and further investigation would occur. Not until the very same time the fire marshall comes out do you have it towed because of the same reasons. How coincidental. Thank you for not looking into the people that did it. Thank you for doing me any justice at all and covering up what should have been a very violent crime. Thank you for not doing your job and being a typical street gang only happy helping violence, but what happens when I retaliate myself? I bet I end up in jail. Money talks doesn’t it? This isn’t over. n

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BENEFIT

GREAT SPOKANE ROAD RALLY This year’s course features eight pit stops, along with challenges, valve cover racing, a silent auction, barbeque dinner and prizes. You don’t need a classic car to join; sign up for a “passport,” get your clues and find out what awaits you around the next corner. Hosted by and benefiting Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels. July 13, 8 am-5 pm. $100/team. spokaneroadrally.com

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. (244-3279) GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more. First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) PETE LEE Lee has appeared on Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central, MSN.com, FUSE TV, VH1 and more. July 5-7 at 7:30 pm; July 5-6 at 10:30 pm. July 5-7. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) 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 YOU NEED A HERO! The BDT Players create an all-new superhero show based on audience suggestions. Rated for general audiences. Fridays at 7:30 pm through July 26. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) AFTER DARK Catch a late-night mature audience version of the BDT’s long-form improv show. First/last Saturday of the month at 9:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Rated for mature audiences. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com 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 IMPROV JAM SESSIONS Each session is led by a Blue Door Theatre Troupe member. This is an informal Improv meetup and is not considered a class. No cost, but all attendees must participate. Ages 18+. Mondays from 7-9 pm through Aug. 26. Free. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com/improv-jam-sessions 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 (509-318-9998) BRYAN CALLEN The American actor, comedian and podcaster is most known for his recurring role as “Coach Mellor” on ABC’s Schooled and The Goldbergs. July 11-13 at 7:30 pm, July 13 at 10 pm. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

4TH OF JULY FAMILY FIREWORKS CRUISE This two-hour cruise boasts front row seating for one of the biggest fireworks shows in the Northwest. July 4, 8:30 pm. $31.25-$35.25.(VIP ruise tickets, 21+, also available.) The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com (208-765-4000) COEUR D’ALENE 4TH OF JULY PARADE The annual community parade begins at 10 am and is open to local groups. July 4, 10 am. $75-$175. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. (208-415-0116) FOURTH FAMILY FEST Pack a picnic and listen to music by Twenty Dollar Bill, the Rub and Tuxedo Junction in the park before the grand fireworks at 10 pm. July 4, 12-11 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark. org (509-755-6726) FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS CELEBRATION Includes an afternoon family festival with a kids zone, music, concessions, a beer garden and more. The fireworks, the first after almost two decades, show starts at 10 pm. July 4, 4:30-10 pm. Free. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (242-7000) HARRISON 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION Activities throughout the day include live music by JamShack, vendors, food, activities and more, with a fireworks show at dusk. July 4. Harrison City Park. harrisonidaho.org

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“ONLY A WHIFF,” CONTINUED... Since those two states legalized use of the drug in 2012, the national perception of marijuana has steadily moved towards a more positive place. National law, however, has not. Marijuana remains a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substance Act. The Drug Enforcement Agency defines Schedule I drugs as those “with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” It then gives examples of such drugs, listing marijuana third, after heroin and LSD. That’s what the federal government thinks about marijuana. Yikes. Meanwhile, progressive states on both coasts, from Oregon to Vermont, have legalized the drug. Rust belt states like Illinois and Michigan, the latter of which went for Donald Trump in 2016, have done so as well. It’s even been legalized in the District of Columbia, the home of a big, white house those 20 Democratic candidates, largely silent on the issue last week, are vying to occupy. On Thursday, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper mentioned during his closing remarks that marijuana was legalized while he was in office. In Wednesday’s debate, Sen. Cory Booker and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke both mentioned marijuana in passing while discussing drug and prison policy. And that was it. Every election season is full of head scratching moments. Normally they come after candidates make wildly inaccurate claims or put their foot in their mouth. For those of us who care about marijuana policy, this election season has been head scratching for what hasn’t been said at all. As states actively move towards legalization on an individual basis, those who hope to lead the nation as a whole, a group overwhelmingly in support of legalization, gave a prime-time moment to a future of continued federal inaction. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR NORTHWEST LEGENDS Visitors explore the world of Northwest Legends including the Sasquatch and Coyote to make their own decision. This engaging family-oriented MAC-curated exhibition provides interactive opportunities including designing mythical creatures, a fairy wing selfie, stepping into Sasquatch tracks and more. Through Sept. 2; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org PULLMAN’S FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Evening activities include music by the Community Band of the Palouse, Dan Maher and the Fabulous Kingpins, along with inflatables for kids, a barbecue and other concessions, followed by the fireworks show at dusk. July 4, 5 pm. Sunnyside Park, 147 SW Cedar. pullmanchamber.com SANDPOINT FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION The Sandpoint Lions Club sponsors parades through downtown in the morning; stage performances and a raffle follow at City Beach in the afternoon, and fireworks at dusk. July 4. Free. sandpointchamber.org SILVER VALLEY 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION Head to Kellogg City Park for an afternoon of fun with live music by John Kelley and Hawthorne Roots, a farmers’ market and craft fair, and brews from Silver Valley breweries. July 4, 2-8 pm. Free. Kellogg, Idaho. silvervalleychamber.com GIANTS, DRAGONS & UNICORNS: THE WORLD OF MYTHIC CREATURES This traveling exhibition from New York’s American Museum of Natural History combines unique cultural objects, dramatic models, multimedia and interactive games to tell the origin stories behind the legends of mythical creatures from around the world. July 5-Sept. 2. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org HISTORIC WALKING TOURS Walk through the park and learn the rich history of the Spokane Falls, Expo ’74 U.S. Pavilion, Clocktower, Looff Carrousel, Centennial Trail and more. Tours depart from the Humana booth at the Rotary Fountain; Saturdays at 10 am and noon, through August 31. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com HERITAGE GARDEN TOURS Step back in time and experience this unique garden as it looked in 1915. July 7 at 11 am and 6 pm; July 11 at 2 pm, July 14 at 11 am. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. 7th. heritagegardens.org TELESCOPE VIEWING OF JUPITER, SATURN & THE MOON Come view the two largest planets in our solar system at their biggest and brightest. Weather permitting, telescopes are set up on the lawn in front of the SFCC Planetarium (Bldg. 28) starting at 10 pm. *Event will be canceled if there are clouds. July 8, 10-11 pm. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3500) SCIENCE ON THE PALOUSE: BLACK HOLES Learn about black holes with WSU astronomy professor, Matthew Duez, presented as part of the “Science on the Palouse” series. July 8, 6 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us (509-397-4366) ASTRONOMY AT THE LIBRARY Learn how to use binoculars for stargazing and navigating the night sky. July 9, 6-7 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N.

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FESTIVAL

FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION + WEEKEND CARNIVAL Celebrate the Fourth all weekend in Riverfront Park with carnival rides, a beer garden, games, food and more. The July 4 fireworks show is at 10 pm; carnival open noon-10 pm July 4-7. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com GLOW FEST NORTHWEST Rage Rabbit Productions presents a three-day celebration of music, art and trade, July 5-7. See link for details. $30. Happy Meadows Venue, 5470 Hwy. 231, Ford. bit.ly/2KXFLUv U-PICK LAVENDER FESTIVAL The annual event features food, including lavender-infused items, along with live music, family activities, a charity benefit. July 6 from 9 am-5 pm; July 7 from 10 am-5 pm. $5. Evening Light Lavender Farm, 5552 S. Wallbridge Rd., Deer Park. eveninglightlavender.com EARLY FORD V8 SHOW & SWAP MEET The 15th annual show is open to all years and makes (1932-1953) with an expected 300 cars entered. Includes a live DJ, food vendors, raffles and more. July 12, 11 am-8 pm; July 13, 9 am-6 pm; July 14, 8 am-2 pm. $5; free Sunday. Spokane Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. earlyfordv8ie.org

FILM

KUNG FU PANDA Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Free Summer Movies series. Doors at 9 am; movies at 9:30 am. Weekdays only from June 17-Aug. 23. See complete schedule online. Through July 5, 9:30 am. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) SUMMER MATINEE MOVIE SERIES The Kenworthy’s 18th annual series offers young fans and their families a summer filled with 10 of their favorite films (Rated G or PG). Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1 pm, June 12-Aug. 15. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF The Panida presents the classic 80s comedy. June 30 at 3:30 pm; July 5 at 5:30 and July 6 at 3:30. $5. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET All movies start at dusk. Outside food/ drink (no alcohol) welcome. Snacks for sale from the Liberty Lake Kiwanis Snack Wagon. July 6, 8:30 pm. Free. Half Moon Park, Holl Blvd. & Indiana Ave. pavillionpark.org

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AMY ALKON

I’m a married lesbian working on having another baby with my fab wife. My new best friend is an attractive straight girl who lives in another state. We talk and text every day. It isn’t sexual or romantic at all, but my friend gets me in a way that, I’m sorry to say, my wife does not. My wife seems jealous. I’ve noticed her moping around when I’m on the phone and sometimes rolling her eyes when I’m laughing with my friend. How can I reassure her without giving up my new friend? —Concerned

Spouses can’t meet each other’s every need — and shouldn’t be expected to. Like, if you’re doubled over in pain, you don’t just hand your wife some dishwashing gloves and a knife and be all, “Kitchen-floor appendectomy, babe?” Still, it makes sense that your wife is getting all green monster-y. Human emotions, including jealousy, are a tool chest for solving the mating and survival problems that have kept popping up throughout human history. Jealousy is a guard-dog emotion, rising up automatically when we sense that our partnership might be threatened — like by an attractive rival moving in on our boo. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that our jealousy, in turn, triggers mate-retention behaviors, such as going around all hangdog mopeypants to try to guilt our partner into spending less time with their sparkly new friend. Now, it seems like you could just reason with your wife: “Come on...my friend’s fiercely hetero, she lives in another state, and I’m having another baby with you.” However, though we each have the ability to reason, reasoning takes effort, while emotion comes up automatically, without mental elbow grease. So it turns out that emotion does a lot of our decision-making, and then we dress it up as reason after the fact (maybe like a little Socrates action figure). Your best bet is be extra loving to your wife — basically to lovey-dovey her off the ledge. Psychologist Brooke C. Feeney’s research on the “dependency paradox” finds that the more an insecure partner feels they can count on their partner for love and comforting the less fearful and clingy they tend to be. In other words, you should consistently go a little overboard in showing affection, like by sending your wife frequent random texts (“in supermarket & thinking about how much i love u”), caressing her face, doing little sweet things. Basically, stop just short of boring her to death with how much you love her. This, in turn, should make her more likely to yawn about your friendship than go all junior prosecutor: “Did you just shave your legs for that phone call?!”

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My male neighbor was married to a wonderful woman for 15 years. She died, and he was grieving heavily for several months, telling my husband and me she was the love of his life and he didn’t “know how to do life” without her, etc. Well, six months later, he was dating, and in less than a year, he’s engaged to somebody new! I’m beginning to wonder if all his “I’m so grief-stricken” was just for show. —Irate The way you see it, he went through some Stages of Grief: 1) Wow, this is terrible and life-shattering. 2) Boobs! However, it isn’t surprising that you’re “irate” at what you perceive to be a suspiciously speedy recovery. Evolutionary psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues believe grief evolved to be, among other things, a form of advertising. “Prolonged and costly” grief signals a person’s “propensity” to develop deep emotional attachments to others. This, in turn, suggests they can be trusted as a friend, colleague, or romantic partner. The reality is, there are individual differences in how people respond to loss that don’t always square with widely held beliefs about how grief is “supposed” to work. These beliefs, explains grief researcher George Bonanno, “tend to create rigid parameters for ‘proper’ behavior that do not match what most people go through.” They end up fostering doubt and suspicion about what’s actually successful coping. “When we cast suspicion on a bereaved person just because we think she coped with death too well or got on with her life too quickly, we only make her loss more difficult to bear.” Understanding this, maybe you can try to be happy for the guy and support him in his new relationship. Don’t assume that his finding new love means he’s forgotten his late wife or no longer misses her. Consider, as Bonanno observes, that if somebody had a wonderful relationship, they may feel an acute void and long to have the wonderfulness back. And to be fair, there was some passage of time here. It’s not like the guy was all up in his phone at the funeral, drying his tears in between swiping right on Tinder. 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 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Free Summer Movies series. July 8-12 at 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Summer Camp summer movie series. Every Tuesday through Aug. 27. July 9, 7:15 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com FULL DRAW FILM TOUR See some of the best outdoor and bow hunting films in one place. July 10, 7-9 pm. $8-$17. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. fulldrawfilmtour.com (208-255-7801) RED JOAN The story of Joan Stanley (Judi Dench), who was exposed as one of the most influential KGB spies in living history. Rated R. July 11, 7:30 pm, July 13-14, 3:30 pm. $6-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. (208-255-7801) SCREEN ON THE GREEN: SHAZAM! U of I’s Dept. of Student Involvement hosts free outdoor movies, starting at approx. 8:45 pm, on the Theophilus Tower Lawn. July 11. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-6111)

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STEAKS N’ SPARKLERS A dinner served picnic-style on the Coeur d’Alene Resort’s front lawn with frontrow seats to the fireworks. Dinner buffet from 7-9 pm; no-host bar and live music 8-10 pm. July 4, 6 pm. $35/ages 3-12; $85/adults. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com RED, WHITE & WINE Test your palate with one white and one red to challenge your wine knowledge and enter to win prizes. July 5, 5-8 pm. Terra Blanca Winery, 926 W. Sprague. (340-9140) RIDE & DINE SERIES Enjoy a scenic gondola ride, live music, and a savory mountaintop barbecue dinner. Lift ticket and meal included. Fridays from 2-8 pm, June 28-Aug. 30. $7-$34. Silver Mountain, 610 Bunker. silvermt.com SPOKANE BREWERY TOUR Visit three downtown Spokane breweries on foot for samples and a behind-the-scenes look at each. July 5 at 1 pm; July 13 at 5 pm. $45. Downtown Spokane. brewerytourspokane.com COEUR D’ALENE BREW FEST The third annual festival features more than 30 craft beer and cider varieties, with food, games, live music and more. July 6, 1 pm. $20. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front Ave. cdadowntown.com SUMMER PARTY The 32nd annual party includes live music and entertainment including reggae music and belly dancers. Food/wine for purchase. Family friendly. July 6, 12:01-5 pm. $10. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way. chinabend.com EAT MORE RAINBOWS: VEGAN COOKING Chef Charmaine walks participants through basic and intermediate vegan cooking techniques to increase awareness of healthy food choices and preparations. July 10, Aug. 15, Aug. 29, Sept. 11 and Sept. 26 from 6-7:30 pm. $22/ class. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com (558-2100) PRESSURE CANNING MEATS Learn how to prepare and pressure can strips, cubes or chunks of meat, including bear, beef, lamb, pork, veal and venison. July 10 and 13 at 8 pm. $20-$30. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N.

Havana St. extension.wsu.edu/spokane WINE WEDNESDAY SUMMER DINNER SERIES Each 3-course dinner is regionally themed with wine pairings. Schedule: July 10, Drive Through Cape Cod; July 17, Streets of New Orleans; July 24, Deep in Chicago; July 31, Heart of Memphis; Aug. 7, Rio Grande & Great; Aug. 14, California Dreamin’. $25-$140. Nectar Catering & Events, 120 N. Stevens. nectartastingroom.com CRAVE NORTHWEST: FOOD & DRINK CELEBRATION The third annual celebration of the region’s best chefs, wineries, distillers and craft breweries over three days and four ticketed events, featuring samples from area tastemakers and live music. July 11-13. $35-$530. CenterPlace Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place. cravenw.com (621-0125) FRIED CHICKEN & LOCAL BEER DINNER Food by chef Adam Hegsted; July’s partner is River City Brewing. Reservations required. July 11, 6:30 pm. $35. Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. thewanderingtable.com

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SINGING NUNS COURTYARD CARNIVAL & CONCERT The Singing Nuns combine their annual Independence Day concert with a courtyard carnival as a fundraiser for their Portico Restoration Project. Includes food booths, bouncy house, games and more. July 4, 4-11 pm. $5. Mt. St. Michael’s, 8500 N. Saint Michaels Rd. SingingNuns.com ARBORETUM ASSOCIATES SUMMER CONCERT “Summer Breezes and Sweet Sounds,” the annual outdoor concert featuring Palouse-area musicians and composers, returns to the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden. July 8, 7 pm. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu JAPANESE BON ODORI DANCING The ensemble demonstrates and teaches traditional Japanese festival folk dances. July 8 from 5-7 pm. Free. Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry. spokanebuddhisttemple.org RUSTY JACKSON TRIO The Coeur d’Alene Library continues its summer musical offerings. July 8, 6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org POP SUMMER CONCERT SERIES FT. BROWN SUGAR & CREAM Pop rock from the 70s and 80s. July 10, 7 pm. Free. Prince of Peace, 8441 N. Indian Trail Rd. (465-0779)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

IDAHO STATE DRAFT HORSE & MULE INTERNATIONAL SHOW The 42nd annual show lets the public see these gentle giants at work, visit them in their stalls and chat with teamsters. July 5-7. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Gov’t Way. idahodrafthorseshow.com NPOV LIONS CLUB RAIL RIDERS Enjoy the unique experience of a four seated, pedal powered, railroad bicycle along the beautiful, scenic Pend Oreille River in Ione, Washington. July 6-7, July 2728, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. lionsrailriders.com RACE THE WOLF A new ultra-running event with three distances: 8k, 25k and 52k. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. racethewolf.com SPOKANE INDIANS VS. TRI-CITY

Promo nights during the three-game home series include Kids Day, OTTO’s Birthday, Christmas in July. July 7-9. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana. spokaneindians.com (535-2922) AN ATHLETES JOURNEY: SPORTS & TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY A panel of experts discuss the components of concussion/TBI, reintegration post-injury and the relative impact on athletes and their families. July 9, 5 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. nwbis.org (1-800-470-8090) WEDNESDAYS IN THE WOODS Join REI, Riverside State Park and guests for this weekly session learning and doing outdoor activities. Wednesdays from 6:30-8 pm through Aug. 14. Free. Riverside State Park Bowl & Pitcher, 4427 N. Aubrey L. White Pkwy. rei.com/spokane KIDS TRIATHLON Kids can swim, bike and run while raising money for Active4Youth and Soles4Youth. July 12, 6-7 pm. $30. Comstock Park, 29th Ave. and Howard St. ptassociates.net/kidstri

THEATER

SAM SHOVEL, PRIVATE EYE & THE CASE OF THE MALTESE PIGEON An original melodrama written and directed by Brady and Eli Bourgard. July 3-28; Wed-Sat at 7 pm. Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St., Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com COEUR D’ALENE SUMMER THEATRE: OKLAHOMA! Set in western Indian territory just after the turn of the 20th century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and the cowboys sets the stage for romance. July 11-28; WedSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com JAY OWENHOUSE: THE AUTHENTIC ILLUSIONIST The legendary escape artist and esteemed illusionist returns to Spokane. July 11, 7:30 pm. $29-$89. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com

ARTS

FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host receptions to showcase new displays of art. July 5, 5-8 pm. Details at firstfridayspokane.org. GARLAND SKETCH CRAWL Come sketch the landmarks of the Garland neighborhood with local artist Megan Perkins. July 10, 10 am-noon. $40. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net (325-1500.)

WORDS

3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s First Friday open mic series. Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. July 5, 8-9 pm. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) MAKE YOUR CHAPBOOKJoin Spokane Poet Laureate Mark Anderson for a chance to bring your collected poetry, art, or prose from a pile of notes to a fully realized publication. July 8, 6:30 pm. $25. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-847-1234) n

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Not a beer or cider fan? Purchase a glass of wine from local vendor, Castaway Cellars. Try their refreshing rosé! What’s a festival without food and live entertainment? Munch on kettle corn from O’Houlis. Have a slice of wood-fired pizza from Malvagio’s. Or see what’s cooking on the ever-popular IncrediTruck, the mobile kitchen for Incrediburger & Eggs. Enjoy live entertainment from two local favorites. LakeTown Sound plays classic rock from the ’70s on up, while the Ryan Larsen Band is a contemporary country act playing together for more than 10 years now. And as if all the different beverages, food and entertainment weren’t enough, there’s the setting. McEuen Park is a charming expanse of greenspace at the foot of Tubbs Hill with a fabulous view of the nearby lake. Parking is a snap — better yet, ride your bike or walk over — and there’s no reason not to make a day of it. Bring the blanket, some chairs, and plan on a memorable day downtown.

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