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very night he was away, trying to summit some frozen mountaintop, Spokane’s JESS ROSKELLEY texted his wife. He told her he loved her. He missed her. He couldn’t wait to return home to her. They both knew he had to be where he was. Climbing wasn’t just a passion or a professional pursuit. It was those things, sure, but also his way of finding balance, of quieting any doubts about who he was or what he was doing with his time on Earth.

In April, after summiting the treacherous Howse Peak in the Canadian Rockies, Jess was killed in an avalanche with two of the world’s best climbers. In the months since, his family has tried to piece together what happened. Photos, voicemails and text messages have provided clues, but have also become cherished mementos of Jess, lost at age 36.

“He always kind of struggled with the nuances of everyday, normal life,” his wife tells staff writer Wilson Criscione. “Escaping to the mountains provided a sort of order to the chaos.”

Criscione’s riveting story starts on page 22.

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Fifty years since Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons on screen, we’re still battling bigotry

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e are living in the age of a Mr. Rogers Renaissance. Wherever you look there is someone waxing poetic about their Neighborhood memories. At Get Lit! this spring, author Roxane Gay read Mr. Rogers fan fiction to an audience at the Bing. There was the successful documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor released in 2018. And this November, Tom Hanks will star in the Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. The generation that was raised by Rogers is now old enough to make movies and write essays about his influence.

Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. And a radical. In 1968, when segregation still divided the American people, Mr. Rogers invited Francois Clemmons to join the neighborhood as Officer Clemmons. Clemmons was the first AfricanAmerican recurring character on a children’s television show. In an episode later that summer,

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Mr. Rogers asked Officer Clemmons to join him in soaking his feet in a small pool in the yard. Officer Clemmons accepted and the resulting image of these two men, relaxing in a pool together, beamed into countless homes across America.

Mr. Rogers knew that if you show a child something, they accept it as fact. No child is born thinking there is anything inherently wrong with a black officer and a white, cardigan-loving man cooling their feet in the summer sun. You have to teach its “wrongness.” Mr. Rogers had the spiritual fortitude to stand against cultural bigotry and possessed a moral obligation to share his teachings with children.

Do we have to cater to the prejudices of people who “may get the wrong idea?”

But not all was open and free in the Neighborhood. Mr. Clemmons was also gay. And when Fred Rogers learned that the actor would spend time at a well-known gay bar in downtown New York, Rogers quietly asked him to stop. The show couldn’t afford to lose sponsors and a gay person on a children’s television show, in the words of Rogers, may give “many of the wrong people the worst idea.” Mr. Rogers’ radical inclusion found a finite limit — in part because of the financial pressure related to the scandal of associating a gay person with children’s programming.

I thought of this story recently when I saw that the Spokane County Library District, which is asking Spokane County voters to approve a $2 million dollar property tax to help fund their system, reiterated via the Spokesman-Review that their libraries were not responsible for the recent Drag Queen story hours. How is it that we are replicating the same tired concerns from 50 years ago for financial backers who have bigoted beliefs about queer people?

I am a huge proponent of libraries. And anytime a public proposal asks us to fund those libraries, I think we should. But does it have to come at the cost of our queer neighbors? Do we have to cater to the prejudices of people who “may get the wrong idea?”

We’ve had to endure many inane and dangerous ideas over the centuries — that is, unfortunately, how human society functions. But we can also evolve. And the way we advance is by taking a public stance, at the risk of financial cost, asking people to reach for kindness even when it is uncomfortable or risky to do so.

Our public institutions, like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, have an opportunity to teach a lesson about equality, fairness and inclusion — and to demonstrate the Rogerian principle of “I like you just the way you are.” Hopefully, in another 50 years, we can look back and be proud of the way we stood up for the inherent humanity of every person in our Spokane neighborhood, a testament to Mr. Rogers’ lasting legacy. n Aileen Keown Vaux is an essayist and poet whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published by Scablands Books in 2018.

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Q&A KRYSTON SKINNER Laboratory Spokane just hired its first full-time director, and she hopes to reintroduce the arts organization to the community

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ryston Skinner recently took the helm of Laboratory Spokane as the local artist residency’s first-ever nonvolunteer director. But prior to that, she’s lived between Texas and Indiana, working in child care development, marketing for nonprofits and, lately, advocating for the arts.

We recently caught up with the 27-year-old to learn a little more about her and to get an idea of the direction she hopes to take Laboratory.

INLANDER: Laboratory’s tagline is “interactive, digital, performance art.” What does that mean to you and how would you describe to someone not in the art world?

SKINNER: It’s a different form of art. You can go to any museum and look at art, but it takes it to another level when you’re able to interact with it. It makes you feel like you’re a part of something. We all want to feel like we’re part of something. We feel more connected. I think that’s important. I think we have a great opportunity with Laboratory, especially in Spokane, to be one of the only interactive artist residency programs there is.

There’s really nothing like our program.

We are focusing more on interactive art. Laboratory started as a digital art outlet, but we are expanding into other forms of art. We have more people doing physical art. When you look at the traditional gallery format it can sound boring, right? But this takes it to another level where it can be fun to interact with this art, or it can be challenging to interact with this art.

What are you most excited for about your new job?

I think the special thing about Laboratory is we kind of kind of bring a fresh scene ... because we bring artists here who aren’t from Spokane. Spokane is a small community. Everyone knows certain artists. You’ve seen them at Terrain or the Wonder Building. But for Laboratory, we bring people from the East Coast, we have someone that’s coming from India next month, we have people coming from Berlin in a few weeks. It’s just art you wouldn’t have access to unless you went to those places, but you can because of Laboratory.

What does it mean to be Laboratory’s first nonvolunteer director?

I think there was just a need. I’ve been given a lot of free rein, and it was presented to me from the very beginning that this is now going to be my vision, with a little bit of direction from the board and the foundation.

I’m very excited about this opportunity. It is definitely a dream come true — and to be part of such an awesome community in Spokane, one that is so excited about the arts — I feel very lucky.

At what point did the arts become part of your career trajectory?

When I moved back to Texas … I went on a backpacking trip to Europe for three-and-a-half months by myself and I experienced a whole other scene than I ever did [at home]. Seeing the art scene in Spain, or in Eastern Europe, like Czech, Hungary and Croatia, it opened up my mind a little bit about how we see art, especially in Texas, and Dallas-Fort Worth. It was a really wonderful culture shock when you grow up around cowboy-themed art and turquoise your entire life.

That’s also what got me passionate about interactive art. It goes beyond just looking at something. Yes you can experience a feeling or something, but being able to touch, feel and interact with the art I think takes it to a whole other level. If I hadn’t done that trip I really don’t know what kind of person I would be.

What are your impressions of Spokane so far?

It’s great. I feel like I already have a group of friends and I fit in very quickly. Meeting people like Tiffany [Patterson], becoming friends with her, being able to connect her through Laboratory — I just love that about Spokane. I feel like it’s so easy to connect with people and make relationships and have friendships. My boyfriend is up here now and he’s felt the same way. n Laboratory Spokane Reintroduction • Fri, Sept. 6 from 6:30-9 pm • Free • Laboratory Spokane • 228.

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WEST SIDE MONEY, EAST SIDE POLITICS pokane’s elected officials don’t have bosses or supervisors. The only

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check on the laws they make and how they spend taxpayers’ dollars are the voters at the ballot box.

This central role of elections in our government is what holds our leaders accountable, and ensures that they represent us fairly and effectively.

As voters, we often don’t have the time to extensively research local issues and, as a result, have limited exposure to the candidates, their values, and the solutions they bring to the table. For that reason, our decisions can easily come down to the names we recognize and the campaign signs and ads we see most often.

The unprecedented amount of spending from Western Washington groups in Spokane politics demonstrates that our local elections matter. Money from these groups is spent on ads and other campaign tactics designed LETTERS to influence the decisions that voters Send comments to make. For example, the Washington editor@inlander.com.

Association of Realtors (WAR) has already spent close to $200,000 in Spokane’s 2019 primary. And public records show that more than 75 percent of the donations to this group come from Western Washington donors.

These groups “invest” money in our elections, expecting a “return on their investment.” For example, the Washington Realtors stated goals align closely with the positions of Spokane mayoral candidate Nadine Woodward and council presidential candidate Cindy Wendle, who they have both endorsed.

The almost $200,000 being spent by west side groups on our election is not designed to educate voters on the issues; rather it is intended to elect candidates who will help advance the goals of these interest groups. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the candidates will be pawns of the organization unable to think on their own, but it is important to recognize that this money is not spent to benefit the voters.

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Mayoral frontrunners Ben Stuckart and Nadine Woodward can point to numerous co-workers who loved working with them — but others say they’ve seen the candidates’ less smiley sides.

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THE BULLY PULPIT Are the frontrunners to become Spokane mayor jerks?

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f you want to paint council president and mayoral candidate Ben Stuckart as brash or aggressive or direct — or even a jerk — there’s a lot you can point to.

You can point to the times he accused the mayor and the city administrator of being liars, the public works director of treating employees “like shit” or the fire chief of “singing out of both sides of his mouth.” You can point to the times he was publicly accused of being a “toxic bully” by a city attorney candidate or when city staffers told an independent investigator that he’d make “belittling” or “dismissive” comments like “that’s stupid.”

And so when former KXLY anchor Nadine Woodward launched her mayoral campaign in April, she pointed to the “bickering and charges of employee bullying” that pervaded City Hall. She’s repeatedly called on the City Council and the Mayor’s Office to “grow up” and move past their conflicts.

“What is the use of a good idea that you’re so caught up in fighting or you’re so abrasive that you can’t build the consensus to make it happen?” Woodward asked.

But Stuckart isn’t the only candidate who’s been accused of toxic behavior. While Woodward’s public image exudes warmth infused with authority, several former colleagues say that working with Woodward was so miserable it made them feel physically ill.

One former KXLY producer, Anna Izenman, described regularly becoming nauseous as all the “stress and anger” that she felt working with Woodward pooled into the bottom of her stomach. Another, Camille Troxel, tweeted earlier this year that the environment Woodward created was so hostile that she “threw up before going to work almost every day.”

And just last month, Woodward’s former campaign manager, Abra Belke, claimed that working for Woodward triggered both “hourly nightmares” and a “churning ulcer.”

Both Woodward and Stuckart, of course, can each point to numerous people who loved working with each of them. But becoming mayor means charging into a battleground of divided departments, entrenched bureaucracies and stubborn council members. It’s a city of 2,000 employ-

ees, far more than any of the five mayoral candidates have ever managed. And it takes mistreating just one to spark a lawsuit that can cost the city millions.

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“Working with Nadine was hands down one of the most stressful things I have ever done,” Izenman says. “It’s been five years and I still feel sick to my stomach.”

In 2013, Izenman was producing the 11 pm newscast on KXLY with Nadine Woodward. As producer, she cut together footage and wrote the teleprompter scripts that Woodward would read on air.

Generally, Izenman says, Woodward wouldn’t raise any concerns before the show. It was only after the show would finish, she claims, that Woodward would unleash a barrage of complaints on her way out the door, berating Izenman for everything she thought went wrong.

“If she didn’t get her way, she would raise hell,” Izenman says. ...continued on next page

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Woodward wasn’t Izenman’s boss, but the power difference was huge. Izenman was a 26-year-old working her first producer job. Woodward had two decades of experience and her face on billboards. And she was more than willing to play hardball when she felt treated unfairly: When contract talks broke down and Woodward was terminated from her former job at KREM, she sued KREM for age and gender descrimination.

Izenman acknowledges that the pace of the news environment could overwhelm her at times — but when she was booted from her role as a producer, she blamed Woodward.

Izenman says Woodward complained to their bosses instead of sitting down with her to work out their issues.

“Maybe I was just incredibly lucky that everyone else I’ve worked with has been miles better,” Izenman says.

Izenman showed the Inlander a Twitter direct message from March in which KXLY Executive News Director Melissa Luck referenced the conflict.

“I remember the issues you two had and I think she treated you unfairly,” Luck wrote. “You weren’t the only one.”

Camille Troxel, who took over producing the 11 pm newscast in 2014, says that, at first, she thought maybe it was Izenman’s fault she didn’t get along with Woodward.

“Then it happened to me,” Troxel says. While scrambling to prepare a report on the Sleepy Hollow wildfire in the summer of 2015, an argument between the two of them escalated.

“At that point, she just stood up and started yelling about how I didn’t care about the show,” Troxel says. “I’d never seen anyone in the newsroom behave that way. It felt so personal. Imagine having your hero yelling and shouting at you in front of all your peers.”

When the show started, Troxel claims, Woodward refused to acknowledge Troxel’s audio cues over her headset and lashed out at one of the other reporters during the show.

“As soon as the show was over, she stormed off the desk and stormed out of the newsroom,” Troxel says. “I knew what had happened was really bad, when [meteorologist] Kris Crocker came back to the booth to apologize to me for what had happened.”

Within a week, Troxel says, she and Woodward were called into a mediation meeting that included two of their bosses and KXLY’s HR director. Troxel says that when she told Woodward that sometimes it didn’t feel like she was a team player, Woodward responded with how-dare-you outrage.

“That’s when she stood up and threatened to leave,” Troxel says.

Troxel says she started taking anti-anxiety medication, increasingly worried her job was in jeopardy. After learning that Woodward had been keeping a list of Troxel’s script mistakes and had brought them to management, Troxel says she went to HR, complained Woodward was subjecting her to

THE OTHER CANDIDATES SHAWN POOLE

Firefighter Shawn Poole may not have the endorsement of the fire union.

But what he does have, he says, is “30 years of executive-level leadership experience” and “experience managing a multimillion-dollar budget.

“As an Army colonel, that’s what I did,” Poole says. Like Woodward, Poole champions an opposition to tax increases and a tough-love approach to addiction. Poole goes even further, however, arguing he’d be able to mandate 5-10 percent cuts across every department, and still pay for more downtown police officers.

JONATHAN BINGLE

It was prayer that convinced Jonathan Bingle to run for mayor, says the trivia company founder and former pastor. On one hand, Bingle wants more government accountability by, say, creating an office of an inspector general who can conduct independent investigations. “The citizens will get to know everything that will go on,” Bingle says.

On the other, he says he’ll fire anybody caught leaking confidential information to the media.

He suggests a 1 percent budget cut citywide to fund addiction services, but also argues some city-funded services shouldn’t be given to those “not interested in contributing to society.”

KELLY CRUZ

As a longtime neighborhood activist in the West Central area and the chair of the nonprofit Spokane COPS, Kelly Cruz has seen the intricacies of government from the sidewalk level. Cruz is worried about things like sex offenders being warehoused in West Central, property crime and drug addiction.

He wants to cut some of the six-figure administrative salaries at City Hall and wants to bring back a youth advisory council.

— DANIEL WALTERS

a “hostile work environment,” and then left KXLY soon after.

Back in June, the Inlander asked Woodward if she’d ever been accused of creating a hostile work environment. Woodward scoffed, accusing the Inlander of going on a fishing expedition. She did not recall conflict with Izenman, but did acknowledge a few challenges with Troxel.

“We had some struggles,” Woodward says. “We didn’t agree on everything.”

As with any employee conflict, it’s hard to apportion blame.

Troxel acknowledges that she’s sometimes rubbed other co-workers the wrong way since leaving KXLY. “I’ve learned that I’m very direct and it doesn’t always sit well with people,” Troxel says.

Woodward encouraged the Inlander to ask KXLY about Troxel and speak to the many people who loved working with Woodward.

KXLY management, including Luck, wouldn’t comment on personnel issues. One former KXLY producer, Joseph Suttner, however, told the Inlander he’s had “nothing but positive things to say about” Woodward. She “has an incredible amount of experience and credibility,” and that “she’s a really good person and cares deeply about her job.”

Woodward, meanwhile, herself has faced challenges since leaving KXLY and launching her mayoral campaign. Her campaign has churned through at least two political consultants and two campaign managers.

Abra Belke had been a veteran of high-pressure situations — she once lobbied for the NRA and competed on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — but lasted less than two months on Woodward’s campaign. Belke declined to talk with the Inlander, but in a blog post, she’d described herself as wrestling with nightmares, ulcers and a moral dilemma as she saw her advice “falling on deaf ears.”

“If your work is costing you your mental health and putting you in a position where you are asked to act contrary to your values, should you keep going?” she asked herself in the post.

“I am leaving the campaign because I no longer fully support the campaign and the candidate’s tactics.”

Eventually, Belke concluded, “I didn’t want my talents backing someone I now felt uncomfortable supporting.”

Belke resigned at 3 pm on June 27, the same day an Inlander article revealed Woodward had expressed openness to banning homeless people from the library.

“In addition to my recent health setbacks, I am leaving the campaign because I no longer fully support the campaign and the candidate’s tactics,” Belke wrote to Woodward and the campaign, according to her resignation email. “She deserves someone who embraces her vision completely, and I am not that person.”

Last week, the Inlander made multiple requests for a phone or in-person followup interview with Woodward. Instead, Woodward emailed a statement stressing that she performed her job to the best of her ability and expected her co-workers to do the same. She stressed that former KREM anchors Charles Rowe and Randy Shaw could vouch for her professionalism and dedication to mentoring younger colleagues.

Shaw tells the Inlander that he “never saw any conflict” between Woodward and her co-workers, that he believes “she’d make a wonderful mayor,” and that “journalistically, it’s a cheap shot” to air “somebody’s sour grapes.”

Woodward, meanwhile, believes that Stuckart’s record of conflict is extremely relevant.

“As mayor, city employees can count on me to collaborate and unify through listening, engagement and treating people with respect,” Woodward writes, “while Ben’s bullying tactics have caused the city to lose exceptionally talented employees and sparked a $25,000 investigation over allegations of harassment by city staff.” ...continued on next page

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BEN THE BULLY?

The independent investigation Woodward refers to was a fact-finding report into whether the behavior from four different council members, including Stuckart, violated the city’s anti-bullying policy. None of the employees, the investigator found, had actually claimed there had been bullying.

While Stuckart wasn’t a part of the inciting incident, the employees raised concerns about “snarky” and disrespectful behavior from the council president. At a 2017 budget meeting, the report found, Stuckart “exploded” in frustration at a department director, slammed his budget binder shut and “stormed” out of ONLINE the meeting. StuckFind previous election coverage art says that he’d at Inlander.com/Election2019. received incorrect information three weeks in a row and fled the meeting to avoid losing his temper.

It wasn’t the first concern that had been raised. One of the other council members scrutinized in the investigation, Kate Burke, had also clashed with Stuckart. After one tense exchange at a council meeting last year, Burke asked HR whether Stuckart’s comments constituted bullying. HR concluded they hadn’t.

And then there was the incident in 2016, when city attorney candidate Laura McAloon was seeking to be appointed as city attorney amid the lengthy fallout from the ouster of former Police Chief Frank Straub. She’d been one of the mayor’s appointees on the joint committee overseeing the investigation into the city’s handling of the Straub situation.

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But when McAloon met with Stuckart, she said, the meeting ended with Stuckart standing up and walking out of the room.

“It was a toxic meeting,” McAloon told the Inlander then. “I don’t do bullies. I don’t work with bullies.”

She said Stuckart believed in “conflict for the sake of conflict.” In a letter explaining her decision to withdraw from the position, she wrote that he’d subjected her to “unbridled hostility and animosity” and suggested that “personal ego and political aspirations” were outweighing Stuckart’s duty to his constituents.

“I’m a very direct person,” Stuckart says. “Some people are uncomfortable with my directness, and they take my assertiveness as aggressiveness. And that rubs some people the wrong way.”

Stuckart says he sometimes raises his voice in committee meetings when he feels powerless to stop something. But as mayor, he argues, he’ll have more direct influence over staff and won’t need to rely on rhetoric. Give him a bigger stick, he argues, and maybe he won’t feel the need to speak quite so loudly.

Like Woodward, Stuckart provides a list of old colleagues who sing his praises. Don Crouch, who worked for Stuckart for eight years at TicketsWest, says he was an incredible boss.

“He always kept his cool,” Crouch says. “He was always the calming voice of reason.”

But no boss is loved by everyone, Stuckart acknowledges. Good managers, Stuckart writes in response to Woodward’s statement, make mistakes and learn from them.

“This process takes time,” he writes. “It’s simply

something you do not learn by reading a teleprompter for 20 years or taking a couple of police ride-alongs during a political campaign.”

APOLOGY TOUR

In the last two years, Stuckart has sought to rebuild some of his burned bridges. A few years ago, McAloon says, Stuckart told her he owed her an apology.

“I said, ‘Yes, you do,’” McAloon recalls.

Based on his apology and conduct since their disagreement, McAloon says she doesn’t have concerns about working with Stuckart going forward.

“We’re all humans,” McAloon says. “We’re all going to be jerks at some point in time. The key is whether you own it and apologize for it.”

“I’m sure I could be a softer person,” Stuckart says.

“We’re all going to be jerks at some point in time. The key is whether you own it and apologize for it.”

“I’ve worked on that. I’ve tried to be a lot more polite in committee meetings.”

All of the employees who complained about council civility, HR Director Chris Cavanaugh says, tell her that their interactions with council members have “improved 110 percent.”

Last year, Stuckart and Burke met with Liz Moore, director of the nonprofit Peace and Justice Action League

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of Spokane, in an attempt to heal their rift.

“It was pretty painful,” Burke says, though neither she nor Stuckart were willing to get more specific. Stuckart believes his tension with Burke has declined significantly over time, noting they’re partnering on housing issues right now.

But political consequences remain. McAloon says that she feels bad for the volunteer with the Stuckart campaign who knocked on her door when her husband answered.

“He opened the door and said, ‘No, no way,’” McAloon says of her husband. “I can move forward. There may be members of my family who are not going to be able to do that.”

Burke, meanwhile, hasn’t endorsed Stuckart for mayor, and Stuckart hasn’t asked for her endorsement. On Friday, Burke declined an Inlander request to elaborate about her experience with Stuckart.

“I don’t want to talk to you about it,” Burke says in a text message. “Thanks.”

As for Woodward’s campaign? Belke planted a yard sign in front of her house for mayoral candidate Jonathan Bingle and donated $250 to his campaign.

“Do you know how weird it is to meet a political candidate with values?” Belke wrote on Facebook.

Initially, Izenman wasn’t planning on talking about her personal experience with Woodward. But she says seeing how Woodward talked about issues like homelessness spurred her to speak out.

“I knew she had conservative leanings, but she’s like Trump in high heels,” Izenman says.

And Troxel says she initially felt powerless seeing Woodward run for mayor. In response, she volunteered doing data entry for Stuckart’s campaign. Troxel knows that Stuckart has a reputation for clashing with people as well.

“The difference is the self-awareness,” Troxel says. “Ben knows he’s a jerk sometimes. Nadine doesn’t know.” n

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Left Untreated For roughly eight months, inmates wanting opioid addiction treatment in the Spokane County Jail couldn’t get it

BY JOSH KELETY

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n early June, an inmate died at the Spokane County Jail — marking the ninth fatality in the facility since 2017. While the death is still under investigation, Mike Sparber, now director of Spokane County Detention Services, pointed to a potential drug overdose as the likely culprit.

Speaking with the Inlander in June, Sparber stressed the prevalence of opioid addiction among inmates in the jail: “Spokane has an opioid issue that is really kind of landing on the jail’s front door.”

When asked about the availability of medicationassisted treatment (MAT) — a medical practice where opioid addicts are given medication to stave off cravings and withdrawal symptoms — Sparber placed the onus on the inmates to enroll in the program: “It’s a personal choice by the offender whether they choose to get on the

MAT program or not.”

What he didn’t mention is that from October 2018 through June, Spokane County Detention Services wasn’t allowing new admissions to the MAT program provided by the Spokane Regional Health District. And this was when they were receiving two to four inmate referrals per day, according to Misty Challinor, treatment services division director at the public health agency.

“A cease and desist — that’s what it felt like,” Challinor tells the Inlander, referring to an October meeting where she was informed that they wouldn’t be receiving any more referrals for new inmates seeking treatment. “It was no more new admissions from the jail.”

The change arose from not having enough correctional guards to escort health district staff inside the facility, health district and corrections staff say.

“It was primarily a staffing issue,” says Lt. Don Hooper with Spokane County Detention Services.

“There’s a demand for more [treatment] than we have capacity for.”

Challinor says that the health district’s MAT program in the jail — which first got off the ground in early 2017 — has the resources to process “upwards of five or 10 new admissions a week” and can handle a much higher volume of patients.

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he problem was that once the health district received a referral for an inmate seeking MAT, they ultimately have to conduct a face-to-face assessment inside the jail’s clinic.

A correctional officer has to escort inmates from their cells to the clinic rooms for their examination, wait with them until it is over and then take them back, Hooper says. Health district staff also have to be escorted while dispensing medication to inmates who have been admit-

The opioid crisis is “landing on the jail’s front door,” says jail director Mike Sparber. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO ted to the MAT program.

“They were running short-handed as it was,” Challinor says. “They were having to have sergeants to accompany us.”

Hooper says that the jail only has one officer who does all medical-related escort of inmates during the weekdays. Additionally, the clinic space used for the intake of inmates is only available for half a day on Fridays, meaning that health district staff can only process so many inmates each week.

Currently, there are 11 vacant correctional guard positions, according to county spokesman Jared Webley.

And Hooper says that they don’t have guards to spare for the MAT program: “We don’t have one that is just sitting around.”

After referrals stopped coming over to the health

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Inmates who were enrolled in the health district’s MAT program prior to October still received their medication, and pregnant inmates were still referred to the health district upon booking to the jail, she adds. But everyone else was cut off.

That meant that inmates suffering from opioid addiction were left to go through withdrawals under the supervision of Naphcare staff, who provide Gatorade and moderate amounts of buprenorphine to ease the process, according to Brad McLane, chief of operations at Naphcare. And opioid withdrawal symptoms — which include vomiting, diaherra and cravings — can be brutal.

“Withdrawals are not a pleasant thing. They are very treacherous, very exhausting. It’s essentially the flu times a hundred or more,” Challinor says. “I know that there were some individuals that wanted [MAT] services but were placed on withdrawal management protocol because we were not doing any admissions.”

She says that their MAT program keeps inmates from going through withdrawals, eliminates cravings, and gets them working with supportive staff. These services continue on even after an inmate is released from jail.

Attempts by stakeholders to revive the health district’s MAT program stalled initially. In February 2019, the former director of Spokane County Detention Services, John McGrath, resigned.

Simultaneously, there was turnover in management at Naphcare, the private contractor that provides medical care inside the jail.

Finally, in late June, a new policy was established: Naphcare staff would resume sending referrals for MAT treatment along to health district staff.

However, resuming the program doesn’t address the underlying staffing issues in Spokane County Detention Services that limit how many inmates can start receiving opioid addiction treatment.

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PUSHING THE LIMIT Climber Jess Roskelley reached his “pinnacle of achievement” before his death. Now his family is left searching for answers

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

J

ess Roskelley had one last mountain to climb before he could go home.

The challenge this time? Howse Peak, a massive vertical rock looming over a frozen alpine lake in the Canadian Rockies. Few even attempt the route to the top that Jess’s group would try the next day, and only one group had actually done it, though it took several days and nearly cost them their lives.

Jess, accompanied by Austrians David Lama and Hansjörg Auer, planned to summit Howse Peak in a day.

Even getting to the base of the mountain required more exertion than the average person could handle.

They skied over the frozen lake for hours before trudging through the snow to set up base camp beneath the towering peak. Jess, the 36-year-old from Spokane, had been climbing with David and Hansjörg on various peaks for weeks. Jess wasn’t used to climbing with people as fast as they were, and he was eager to prove he could keep up. At the same time, he couldn’t shake the sense that something bad was going to happen.

By Monday afternoon, April 15, they squeezed into a tent and prepared for a frigid night before an early start the next day. Jess, thinking of his wife Allison, dug out his GPS device, which could send texts from the most remote locations in the world.

At 2:30 pm, he wrote: “Hi love we are at camp so we have tomorrow and we’re done I love you!”

Jess texted Allison every night when he was on a climb. Whenever he’d be away for several weeks, he’d order flowers to be delivered each week he was gone.

Allison and Jess were set up on a date by Jess’s sister, and the two fell for each other hard. They got married within eight months. Nearly four years after their wedding, everything felt like it was coming together for Jess. He’d accomplished some of his best climbs, gaining enough notoriety that he was sponsored by the North Face — as good as it gets for a climber like him. He climbed to be the best, to push the limits of what he could do. But now he also climbed, in part, for Allison. If he could get through this one climb, he’d be one step closer to quitting his day job and climbing full-time. And if he could make enough money climbing, he could ease up a bit in a few years. He and Allison could have kids, maybe find a new house in Spokane with some property. They could grow old together.

Allison texted him back quickly. “Yay! I love you! I took dogs to get groomed in the new Jeep!” Jess again said he loved her and that after this he’d be done, this time ending the message with a smiley face.

“Ok I will turn this off and not waste any battery. I love you,” Jess wrote, “and I’ll update you tomorrow.”

But Allison never heard from him Tuesday. Unable to sleep that night, she sent text after text after text.

Wednesday morning, Jess’s father John Roskelley, a famed mountaineer, called Parks Canada to report that the climbers failed to check in.

Days later, the bodies of all three men were found buried beneath the snow.

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t’s June, nearly two months since the accident, and John Roskelley is fighting through the avalanche debris on the mountain that killed his son.

John, who summited countless mountains in his day, isn’t here to climb. He’s retracing Jess’s steps, searching for evidence.

Jess Roskelley died at age 36.

The bodies have been recovered, but much of their gear was left behind. John wants to retrieve it before the snow melts and treasure hunters get their hands on it. More than that, John wants his boots on the ground. It’s what he knows how to do.

And he needs to do it alone.

“I don’t think being with people when I’m hunting down stuff for my boy or the other boys would do me any good,” John says.

He’s stoic when talking about Jess. John, 70, has dealt with the dangers of climbing his entire life. Throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, John rose to prominence for pioneering first ascents or new routes on some of the highest and most perilous peaks in the world. He’s keenly aware how things can quickly go wrong, and he’s lost climbing partners over the years. But nothing, John says, compares to the love he has for his kids. Lately, his despair has manifest itself as pragmatism. Since April, John has spent months gathering evidence, analyzing photos and tracking GPS coordinates. He’s made it his mission to find out exactly what happened at the top of Howse Peak.

John never encouraged Jess to become a climber, but inevitably climbing was a big part of the family. By the time Jess was born in 1982, John was doing monthlong expeditions — short for his standards — and coming home with T-shirts and souvenirs for Jess. At 14 months old, Jess shook hands with India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during a visit where John was speaking at a mountaineering conference. Dinners at the Roskelley house

often brought in legends of the climbing community, like Sir Edmund Hillary, who made the first successful summit of Mount Everest.

But as a child, Jess had other interests. Jess dreamed of becoming a Navy SEAL, a dream that died when he was thrown from a raft and nearly drowned, John says. While sometimes school was a challenge for Jess — largely due to his attention deficit disorder — Jess excelled in sports. He was passionate about racing bikes, but he tried out other individual sports like wrestling, track and karate.

Climbing was a bonding experience between John and Jess, as it might be for any Pacific Northwest, outdoorsy family. Except instead of going for a day to hike Mount Spokane, John would take Jess to climb Mount Rainier in a day. When Jess was a teenager, John took him to India and the two of them climbed Stok Kangri, a more than 20,000-foot peak.

“I just needed somebody to go with,” John says wryly. “He was the logical victim.”

At 18, Jess became the youngest-ever guide at Mount Rainier. But going up the same mountain all the time started to feel like a job, and John says Jess found real enjoyment while climbing other peaks with friends. Two years later, Jess asked his dad if he could come along for a climb of Mount Everest. John had attempted to summit Everest four times from 1981-1992 with no oxygen and with no sherpas, but couldn’t quite make it to the top. John, at the time a Spokane County commissioner, told Jess no. That changed when one of the men John planned to go with, Ed Homer, was struck and killed by a rock on Mount Rainier. John called Jess, then a student at the University of Montana, and asked if he still wanted to go.

“You’re going to have to miss the semester,” John warned. “Jess said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’”

This time, they used oxygen and went with sherpas.

And John, finally, made his Everest summit. Jess, at 20, was the youngest ever to do so at the time. Jess, however, wasn’t interested in repeating Everest. He didn’t want to do the expedition-style climbs like his dad. Jess wanted to be an alpine climber, with more technical climbs carving new routes up vertical faces on smaller peaks. Those routes often require even more skill than Everest, without having to endure the altitude of a giant mountain. Howse Peak, with an elevation of 10,810 feet, certainly was a prime candidate.

But in June, his dad is scouring through the snow looking for gear his son left behind.

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OUTDOORS “PUSHING THE LIMIT,” CONTINUED... of the rock wall near where the three climbers began their ascent, John finds some. There are gloves. Sleeping bags. Mats. A tent.

Skis. A cookset.

Some of it is Jess’s. Later, on a glacier near the avalanche that killed them, John finds his GPS device, the one he used to text Allison. John thinks it was with Jess on the climb. Maybe, John thinks, it can provide some answers. He takes what he can, and leaves the rest for the next trip.

He hikes back to the car, and gets back on the road. The drive is difficult for him, he admits. Each mountain emerging around a bend in the road was like a monument to a climb John and Jess did together years ago. He tries to temper his emotions.

“It’s not an easy thing, to just ignore it,” John says.

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t 5:49 am on April 16, one of the climbers takes a photo of the vertical face of Howse Peak. Jess, Hansjörg Auer and David Lama are just leaving their tent and trekking up the steep slope. It’s a clear day, just a few wispy clouds stubbornly hovering over nearby mountain peaks.

If the goal was simply to reach the top, there were certainly easier ways to go. Routes up the north and northeast face of the mountain have been climbed many times. John Roskelley, in fact, made it up one of those routes in 1971. But the east face? That’s a “different animal altogether,” he says. It’s thousands of feet straight up a slippery rock wall or strips of snow and ice. And those long strips of ice form “some of the biggest challenges to the modern ice climber,” says alpinist Barry Blanchard.

Blanchard was part of the first ever successful climb up the east face in 1999 with Steve House and Scott Backes. It took them several days, as they got caught in a two-day storm on their way up. They made it out alive, somehow, though Blanchard Jess and Allison Roskelley did suffer a broken leg when on their wedding day. snow above him collapsed and swung him off and back into the mountain. House, in an Instagram post, wrote that Howse Peak was “the truest testing place of the most powerful men on their very best days.”

They called their route up the mountain M-16, due to always feeling “under the gun.” When Jess, Hansjörg and David began their climb, nobody else had climbed it since 1999. And climbing it in one day, like Jess and his companions planned? That would be an achievement even Blanchard would have a hard time believing.

But if any group of climbers could do it, it was these three.

Calling them the “top climbers in the world” doesn’t fully explain their prowess. Hundreds could make that claim. Those three climbers climbing up Howse Peak in April were in their prime, in a class of their own.

“They would be in the top 20,” Blanchard says.

Jess, Hansjörg and David zoom up the mountain, on track to accomplish their goal in good time. Jess briefly stops to take two more photos, just before 9 am. One shows Hansjörg below, kneedeep in heavy snow, giving a thumbs up. The other shows David to Jess’s left, his waist submerged in bright white powder as he looks toward the camera and smiles. As he does so, a few crumbs of snow gently trickle down the mountain.

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n the years following Jess’s famous summit of Mount Everest, climbing started to really become his passion.

Everyday life, meanwhile, became a real challenge. As a welder in Alaska, he’d work two weeks, then have two weeks off when he’d come back to Spokane or go climbing, building a list of impressive summits. Eventually he became a welding inspector,

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In yellow, John Roskelley’s reconstruction of the route the climbers took up Howse Peak in April. In black is the M-16 route they’d originally planned to take.

letting him quit his job and giving him even more ried that he was living up to his potential,” she time for the mountains. Other climbers started to says. “He was confident in the mountains, but take notice of his talents. he was always worried about if he was doing Scott Coldiron first met Jess around this enough to be the best person he could be.” period of his life, about nine years ago.

In 2017, Jess sent waves across the climbing “He was kind of a cocky kid,” Coldiron says. community when he and his partner Clint Hel“Jess was really humorous and flippant … My ander established a new route along the neverfirst impression was I didn’t really like this guy.” before-climbed South Ridge of Alaska’s Mount Still, they soon became close friends, hanging Huntington. It was a stunning achievement, and around town in Spokane and climbing together. one that helped secure a sponsorship from the If Jess had a distinct climbing style, it was that North Face. Earning that sponsorship, says his he was precise and methodical. It went back to mother Joyce, was “absolutely the pinnacle of something John would achievement in his life.” always tell him: Strive He was at the top of his for longevity, not sport. It put him in a “He’d never be fame in dying young. position where he could Coldiron also says soon quit his job and a guy who sat in when it got a little bit make all his money folan office all day. scary on the mountain, lowing his passion.

Escaping to the Jess remained cool and Being sponsored collected. by the North Face, mountains provided “But he was really though, came with rea sort of order to funny — that was the sponsibilities. It wasn’t the chaos.” main reason why you just having an active climbed with Jess. I Instagram — Jess didn’t would always have a care much about that. It good time climbing with Jess,” Coldiron says. also meant testing new gear. That’s what brought In late 2014, Jess’s sister Jordan set him up him, David and Hansjörg together. They set out on a date with Allison, the woman he’d marry for the Canadian Rockies in April, trying out eight months later. She, too, was drawn to his some lightweight climbing gear and summiting sense of humor. some extremely difficult peaks while they were “He thinks he’s really funny, which is even at it. funnier because he’ll say something and you’re For Jess, it was another chance to prove like, ‘That wasn’t really funny.’ But he just laughs himself. That top 20 list of alpine climbers some his ass off,” Allison says. “And I just love that would consider Jess part of? These guys were at about him.” the top. He couldn’t wait to get out on the mounJess’s motivations to keep climbing, to keep tains with them. But he had to adjust to their challenging himself with more difficult ascents, style. They did more soloing than Jess usually were complicated. What was clear, however, is did, meaning climbing without a rope, and they that climbing seemed to balance out his life. climbed as light as possible. John remembers Jess “He always kind of struggled with the nufeeling a bit uncomfortable with the amount of ances of everyday, normal life,” Allison says. solo work they did on the first climb together.

“He’d never be a guy who sat in an office all “Jess was definitely wondering, ‘Can I keep day. Escaping to the mountains provided a sort up with these guys?’” John says. of order to the chaos. And once he got into it, he On Sunday night, April 14, Jess called wanted to carve out his own path — a path away Coldiron. They talked on the phone for an hour. from the shadow of his father.”

Coldiron says Jess was feeling stressed about the Jess’s younger sister, Jordan, says even climb. They’d been pushing the limits for weeks, though Jess always acted sure of himself, he held and Jess feared it might catch up to them. deep insecurities. Mediocrity, she says, was never “Jess didn’t want to die climbing,” Coldiron an option in the Roskelley household. says. ...continued on next page “The Jess that I knew was very much wor-

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ust before 1 pm, Jess, David and Hansjörg reach the summit of Howse Peak. They did it ridiculously fast. Relieved and slightly exhausted, with the cold wind blowing a faint mist in the air, they huddle together and smile for a summit photo.

In his home office months later, John studies that particular photo. Then John moves to the next one on his computer screen. He’s collected dozens of pictures taken by the three climbers during their climb. Using the GPS coordinates of those photos, he pinpoints exactly where they were when each photo was taken using Google Earth.

This is what he knows: They began going up the M-16 route. But about halfway through, they veered off and traversed over a mixed ice and rock slope, toward a snow basin to the south that was slightly less steep than the vertical rock they’d been climbing. That snow basin is close to where the three of them had their legs submerged in soft snow. But it’s also risky: John says those snow basins are something you typically don’t want to get into.

“I’m just really surprised that the guys went into it,” John says. “They must have thought that the snow conditions were pretty good.”

It worked out, on the way up. They lifted themselves to the summit. They had a bite to eat. They didn’t stay too long, and they started going back down.

The last photo taken, at 1:25 pm, showed them rappel down into the area where they exited the snow basin on the way up. It suggests they planned to go back down the same way.

At some point after that, an avalanche swept them thousands of feet down the mountain, killing them.

Their bodies were found in avalanche debris at the base of the east face, below that snow basin. According to Parks Canada, the LETTERS climbers were not Send comments to roped together, though editor@inlander.com. it likely wouldn’t have mattered given the avalanche’s power. The ropes were configured in a way suggesting they were setting up to rappel down.

Allison was a mess when she didn’t get a text from Jess. The next day, on Wednesday, officials spotted one body amid avalanche debris, but weather conditions pre-

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vented any recovery effort. At that point, John knew his son was gone, but Allison held out hope that, somehow, Jess survived.

The family went up to Canmore, Alberta. They initially stayed in the Airbnb the three guys had stayed in before the climb. The beds were unmade, their gear strewn throughout the house. Allison stayed up sobbing through the night. Reporters were constantly calling them.

“He always said how proud of me he was — and he’s in the middle of one of the hardest climbs in his life.”

Finally, on April 21, their bodies were recovered.

Afterward, Jordan saw her brother’s body. His helmet was crushed, which was a small comfort. It meant he didn’t suffer.

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llison and Jess knew a day like this could come.

They talked about it frequently. Last year, when a climber they knew died, Allison told him, “I don’t know what I would do if this happened to you.

“And I remember Jess looking at me and saying, “Alli, this is always a possibility. I always take calculated risks — my first priority is to come home to you, but you have to accept some of these risks I can’t control.’”

As much as Allison fell in love with Jess’s sense of humor, she also fell in love with his ambition to climb. He inspired her. Taking that away, even though it could have prevented a tragedy, would have made him miserable.

Knowing it could kill him, however, doesn’t make it any easier when it does happen. She says she handles her grief with checkpoints. Getting out of bed is the first checkpoint. Eating breakfast is the second. Getting back home and taking care of the dogs is another. Then it’s

going back to work.

She tries to remember what Jess said about the possibility of him dying: She has to move on. But then reality hits all over again when she has to go through his clothes, or when it’s their anniversary, or when she hears a song he liked. Then another checkpoint: Selling his gear. It fills a shed in their backyard, where they installed a climbing wall for practice.

Walking in the gear room immediately upsets her.

“It’s totally hard,” she says, beginning to tear up as she looks toward the shelves. “Because, I mean, his boots are right there.”

Today, she holds onto the voicemails Jess sent her from his trips, just to remember his voice. She saved them knowing they could someday be the only way to hear him. Her favorite is from when Jess called from Mount Huntington, just to say he loved her and was proud of her.

“He always said how proud of me he was — and he’s in the middle of one of the hardest climbs in his life,” she says.

She replays the silliest videos of him saved on her phone. There’s Jess rocking out to music in the car.

Then, of course, his favorite thing to do: Taking someone’s beer and farting in it.

“He’s just a jokester,” she laughs. “Very inappropriate.”

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f you ask a climber what drives them, why they keep going knowing it could kill them, they usually won’t be able to put their finger on it. It could be the adrenaline. It could be the competition. It could be the feeling of conquering nature.

For John, it’s like doing a giant puzzle. Your fingers, your toes, your tools all have to be in the right place to do one thing: Make it to the top. And once you’re at the top of the mountain, nothing else compares.

It’s why John, Allison and the rest of Jess’s family keep coming back to that summit photo. For everything else, Jess made it to the top.

“Jess is beaming because he kept up with these Austrian flying gods. I could tell right away that this was one of the happiest days of Jess’s life,” John says. “So that’s what I need to focus on.” n

PREVIOUSLY…

While Lizzie has been in jail — charged with assault for shooting her estranged husband, Connor — Miller Cane has done everything to keep 8-year-old Carleen safe. But Lizzie has made a deal with Connor: Drop the charges against her, and the two of them can share in the massive family fortune that Carleen is set to inherit. Miller, though, is not about to give up the girl. He and Carleen are in Missouri helping in the aftermath of a massacre that left 500 dead, and Carleen is spending the day with one of the town’s surviving kids.

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e dropped Lizzie near the square in Springfield, and made plans to meet the following day, but that didn’t mean he’d show up. Back at the motorhome there was kitty litter all over the floor, Waffles pacing and meowing, demanding food. Miller fed him and did the dishes, then walked to the creek with a beer. Halloween was three days away and Carleen hadn’t mentioned a costume. She’d want to stay in Marquette, but that was not going to happen. Miller had friends in Des Moines where they could stay a few days, trick or treat, then head east, where no one would find them. He took off his shoes and walked in the cool creek water, drinking his beer.

Lizzie had been calm on their drive, transactional, hollowed by the screaming, roaring, banging and clanging of jail, not to mention her separation from Carleen.

But she hadn’t thought through the implications of what

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Connor wanted, the blood test he’d mentioned months before. Now it was clear why he wanted it. “She’s not mentioned by name in the will,” Lizzie said. “She’s only referred to as the great granddaughter. And if she’s not the great granddaughter...”

“Connor gets the money?”

“That’s what he seems to think.”

Her hair was short and jagged and she looked every one of her forty-three years — deep lines etched into her forehead, but still beautiful, especially to Miller. Still, something had changed between them. He had obligations now. And her calmness was disturbing, covering her delusion.

“And if she’s not the granddaughter,” Lizzie said, “Connor will still share the wealth.”

Sure he would.

“And I’ll share if it goes the other way.”

Everybody sharing Carleen’s money. Everybody taking a piece of her. Lizzie had to be crazy not to see the threat. And why shouldn’t she be, after all that time in jail.

“Campbell’s looking at the will,” she said. “So are Connor’s attorneys.”

“Plural attorneys?” Miller said.

“I don’t know, Lizzie said. “I don’t even care. I just want my life back with Carleen.”

This was the delusion — that they could return to their lives. If the will was settled in Carleen’s favor and the blood test proved Miller her father, no way would Connor walk away from the money. Whatever Lizzie had agreed to, Carleen would have to agree to as well, and so would Miller, if he was her father. In which case Connor might get nothing, a possibility he must have considered. The fight would go on and on or maybe something would happen to Carleen before the will could be resolved, Connor killing her in a car accident, Carleen swallowing poison or choking

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on a chicken bone, so that Connor could be the sole heir.

Miller didn’t share his worry with Lizzie. After being locked up for months, stuck, her last few days had been a frenzy, calling Connor, overcoming her revulsion — “which wasn’t easy,” she said, “to be in the same room with him, negotiating while he pretended to pity me. But I knew what I was doing. And I was pitiful, but I made the deal and he dropped the charges because it was only about Carleen for me.”

“But why would you give him anything?”

“I just told you why.”

“But what if he is her father?”

“What difference does it make?”

The thought of Connor hovering around Carleen made Miller sick. All Lizzie wanted was her daughter back — Miller understood — but Connor was as dangerous as ever, maybe more so, since Lizzie seemed incapable of seeing the threat in him, even as she remained repulsed — scrambling to SeaTac and across the country with him stuck to her, the way he was going to stay stuck until the blood test was done. But the blood test wouldn’t tell them anything. Or whatever it told them wouldn’t make any difference.

“I did it because you wouldn’t listen to me,” she said.

So it was all Miller’s fault — everything — the shooting, her shitty marriage, Connor coming after Carleen.

“I couldn’t have her here any longer,” Lizzie said, “I told you that,” as if working the massacre made any difference when the shooters were everywhere. Not that they were working the massacre.

They were here to help. And they were helping. Or they were here because there was nowhere else to go, and because they had to be here.

“So you’re just going to hand her over,” Miller said, ...continued on next page

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He finished his beer in the creek and put on his shoes. Lizzie didn’t realize that Carleen had a home — and Lizzie said, “Why do you pretend not to understand? with Miller and Waffles, here or wherever they’d land.

It’s a blood test — that’s all.”

Maybe they could raise her together. He’d get a place “And if she’s his, he’ll keep her as close as he can. Is in Skagit County and she’d stay with him half the time that what you want — Connor weaseland they’d drive to Mesa Verde in the ing into her life, your life, trying to summer and Jamestown. But he had to TOAST TO MILLER CANE control her and her money?” know she was safe first, that Connor The final installment of Miller Cane “I appreciate what you’ve done,” couldn’t hurt her. That’s what Lizzie will appear in the Aug. 15 issue of Lizzie said. “I really do. But this is none couldn’t guarantee, now or in the the Inlander. And on Aug. 22, we’re of your business now.” future, the very fact that she’d made a going to celebrate the occasion with “Of course it’s my business,” Miller deal revealing how poor her judgment a wrap party — with drinks, a short said, and Lizzie said, “It’s not.” had become. Still, Miller wouldn’t keep reading, a conversation between “Carleen is my business,” Miller Carleen from her mother. Unless there Samuel Ligon and Jess Walter and said. was no other way to keep her safe. music by BaLonely. The free event “Listen,” Lizzie said. “Whatever His phone rang, Carleen calling for will be held at the Big Dipper, at 171 happens, Connor and I will share the Miller’s crust recipe.

S. Washington, with doors at 7, conmoney. None of this matters. Everyone “Are you having a good time,” he versation at 8 and music at 9. More will have plenty.” asked, a stupid question. details at Inlander.com/wrapparty.

“It’s not your money to share,” “Yes,” she said.

Miller said.

They should have had Fiona here “It’s not yours either,” Lizzie said. “Nobody even in the motorhome, away from the dead kids. He gave knows whose it is. And I don’t care anymore. I need to Carleen the crust recipe and told her he’d pick her up in see her. I need to hold her and take her home. She needs the morning. that, too.”

“Did my mom call?” she said, and Miller said, “She Lizzie had every right to see her daughter, with did — and she sounds pretty good, too. I’ll tell you about certain conditions. Miller drove them back to Springfield it tomorrow.” and told her they could meet in town the next day, but He had no idea what he’d tell her. He had a lot of that Connor couldn’t come anywhere near them. Lizzie thinking to do. He wanted everyone to be okay. He spent agreed. Miller would be watching, he said, and if Conthe last night of his life trying to imagine a future with nor appeared they were gone. He didn’t tell her he and Carleen.

Carleen might not show up at all if something felt wrong.

That’s what he had to figure out — how to protect CarCARLEEN’S NOTEBOOK leen if Connor came for her in the open, or if someone We made pie and hamburgers and Jell-O and waxed else came for her, with a gun say. beans. You would have hated them Mother. As would

Narcissa. They asked where you were Fiona and Tammy.

Gone I said and they looked down. I didn’t mean it that way but didn’t know what else to say.

I know you don’t want us here. But we have to be.

The dead kids are here and so are the ones who were left.

I told Miller that and he said do you feel dead and I said no and he said do you feel like you owe them something and I said I don’t know.

We all owe them something he said not just you.

You don’t have to do everything he said.

Im not I said.

You can just be a kid he said.

I’ve seen Miss Ellen two times. Its okay to cry she said. Its okay to be mad.

Look for the helpers you always said. You meant police officers and firefighters and teachers if I was in danger. They’re everywhere here and I’m one of them.

I still cry but not like before.

Who did this I said and Miller said we don’t know.

Or we know but the papers wont say.

Its like they want to erase him but can’t.

We went to Mass twice and the New Day church once. I want to go every day but Miller says we have to rest.

Fiona and I made dead dolls and took them apart. It felt wrong to make them and wrong to take them apart. I know it was wrong what I said about you.

I want to tell Father Mike.

He puts his hand on my head to bless me.

First at the animal session then with the dolls today.

I can feel it run all the way through me.

That’s why Mom. n

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or most people, the first time they see Les Misérables is an unforgettable experience.

Suzanne Ostersmith, dance director and assistant professor of theatre and dance at Gonzaga University, had her first interaction with Les Mis as a college student during a musical theater history class.

Her professor was playing music from the show, specifically the song “One Day More,” and Ostersmith had such an intense emotional reaction to simply hearing the recording that she immediately fell in love with the production.

Jake Schaefer, creative director at the Spokane Civic Theatre, says he remembers seeing it as a young teenager and being glued to his seat through the whole show. He then went on to play Jean Valjean, the male lead, at North Central High School in the first high school performance of Les Mis in Spokane.

“Arguably it changed my life,” Schaefer says.

“It may be the reason why I continue to pursue a career in show business.”

This show has made a deep impact locally.

At the Spokane Civic Theatre, Les Mis was part of the 2013-14 season and was later revived as a co-production with the Spokane Symphony at the Fox Theater. To this date, it is one of the top five grossing shows the theater has produced, Schaefer says.

“It’s a standard,” Ostersmith says. “My emotional connection to the production impacts and helps me judge how I’m impacted by other musicals because it has so much power to it.”

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on such a profound level?

Mary Kate Moore plays Fantine in the touring company of Les Mis, coming to Spokane Aug. 6. Her character is the female lead in the production who has a child out of wedlock and becomes a prostitute to support her.

I asked her what makes this show timeless, her answer was simple: The music.

“The music is so iconic and no matter who’s singing it or in what setting it will always move audiences,” Moore says.

“Musically, it is composed in such a way that it builds appropriately and your heart is broken appropriately through the music,” Ostersmith concurs. “There are the stories and characters, and then it’s taken to that whole other level with the music.”

In the current touring production, there are reimagined and modernized orchestrations so audiences will still have the familiarity of the long-running show but also get a fresh twist, Moore says.

Les Mis’s massive success was aided by its songs being performed on mainstream television and in movies. Moore cited Susan Boyle, who famously sang “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent, as well as the movie which had an A-list cast and won several Oscars. ...continued on next page

ow does a musical created in 1985 about the Paris uprising in the 1800s still hold up and move audiences

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“ONE [PERFORMANCE] MORE,” CONTINUED... “[It has spread] musical theater and Broadway to a larger audience than we normally see,” Moore says. “Kind of like what Hamilton has done now in our generation. It’s brought in a wider, more diverse audience that wouldn’t normally go to the theater.”

This show has truly stood the test of time because of the emotions it is able to draw out of its audiences, Ostersmith says. She uses this musical and its depth of emotion in her teaching.

“I think that Les Mis is a gold standard in some ways,” Ostersmith says. “It takes its audience through the beauty and love and adoration and then to the incredible devastation.

So, I think in that way it has impacted me as a director to go all the way and push all the way with performers,  Presidents Bill Clinton and with productions.”

Barack Obama used “One Day More” as a campaign song. t’s not just the emotional rollercoaster experienced  Les Mis has been running in by audiences that keeps London’s West End since 1985, the show fresh. It’s also the making it the longest-running universal themes that the musical in West End history with show portrays that can still be over 13,500 performances. It is applied today. the fifth longest-running musical “I think that the main on Broadway, with its first run theme, especially with beginning in 1987 and closing in Fantine’s character, is that 2003. A revival came in 2014 and so much is assumed about is still open. her based on the societal norms of the time. Her life  In 2009, Susan Boyle sang and all her opportunities are “I Dreamed a Dream” for her completely taken away from Britain’s Got Talent audition. The her and she has to struggle video has since accumulated over against that for the entirety of 278 million views on YouTube. her life,” Moore says.

This theme rings true to  Les Mis has been translated what a lot of people are exinto 21 languages. periencing in America today, Moore says. And Ostersmith  Lots of famous celebrities, like says Les Mis is capable of Nick Jonas, Patti LuPone, Lea drawing emotion out of Michele, Gaten Matarazzo and people who otherwise might Ricky Martin, have been in the hold back. stage production of Les Mis. “I think that today we’re not always encouraged to feel all the feels,” Ostersmith says. “To celebrate, to cry, to hold each other, to empower each other, those big feelings I feel like there’s sometimes a cynicism and apathy we can fall into today and it’s so interesting that this production from way back in 1985 can still rile those feelings within you.” n

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Funny AF is kinda like that — especially now that it’s picked up the “lost” Seeso season of cult hit Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (premiering Aug. 5). Pluto TV’s comedy block (channels 411-445) also includes constant content from the Onion, Fail Army and Internet Gold, as well as a Cats 24/7 channel (meow).

THE BUZZ BIN COMEDY CENTRAL (Channel 411) The real gem in Pluto TV’s comic cluster is the Comedy Central channel, which runs canceled network classics like Another Period, Drawn Together, Ugly Americans and others that stream nowhere else (except, well, at comedycentral.com). Comedy Central Stand-Up (415) is also loaded with rare sets from comics you forgot once stood up, like John Oliver.

DAY OF DOOM I still have so many fond memories of being a sweaty preteen playing Doom 64 in my dungeon of a room. Naturally, I was excited to hear the announcement that the Doom series was being re-released for consoles and mobile devices last Friday in anticipation of the forthcoming Doom Eternal. Even if you’re not a fan of the ultraviolent first-person shooters, 1993’s Doom set the standard for the industry, and the series consistently pushes the envelope for acceptable levels of chaos. Angry moms be damned. (QUINN WELSCH)

WIZARDS EXPLORE? Even though it’s a lot like its predecessor, Niantic’s Pokémon: Go, the recently released Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is actually an improvement on the classic.

Rather than lackadaisically throwing Pokéballs and then hoping to get lucky, you draw different spells on screen. Speed and accuracy are key, so be careful — but fast. You can recover tons of items from all corners of the Potterverse, both obvious and obscure: Gobstones, the Triwizard Cup and even Dumbledore himself. The game is out now free on Android and Apple; in-app purchases sold separately, but not required to win. (CARSON McGREGOR)

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 (Channel 385) I’ve been a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan for 20 years and I still haven’t seen every episode; this 24/7 loop of 1989-99 originals is bliss. Sure, rando MST3K eps are scattered all over YouTube, but… convenience! Also: the MST3K channel runs alongside an offshoot RiffTrax channel (389), so there’s no end to the cinematic snark.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Aug. 2. To wit: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, Live at Woodstock. The band’s complete 11-song set from the festival 50 years ago.

TY SEGALL, First Taste. The insanely prolific garage-rock hero is back with a big fuzzy addition to his massive catalog.

TYLER CHILDERS, Country Squire. Roots-country up-and-comer’s new album is co-produced

by Sturgill Simpson. His October Spokane show is already sold out. (DAN NAILEN)

PLUTO TV MOVIES (Channel 54) It’s not all terrible flicks: The Pluto TV movie channels section (54-98) is like stumbling into the last VHS store on Earth. Dramas, comedies, indies, thrillers, documentaries, and more from the ’40s through the ’00s, with a quality-to-crap ratio that bests Netflix. The ’80s Rewind channel (88) is especially rad, with obscurities like Joysticks leading into bona-fide hits like Heathers.

THC (Channel 591) Not The Homemaker Channel — THC is all about weed, all the time (or maybe it just seems like it… what were we talking about?). This ceaseless stoner stream has the usual suspects (Cheech & Chong movies, cartoons, a lotta Doug Benson) and a few surprises (like Dope State, a hilarious mockumentary about the pot-shop biz), and it’s all like… super-chill. n

A SMALL STICK The Loudest Voice really tried to create the sort of prestige TV so many networks are gunning for. In telling the story of Fox News visionary Roger Ailes, Showtime lined up heavy hitters like Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts and, uh, Seth MacFarlane to showcase Fox’s rise to prominence, its coordination with the Republican Party and the dark underbelly of Ailes’ reign. The results, though, feel distinctly like a made-for-TV movie. Crowe is a fine actor, but I spent more time marveling at his fat-suit makeup job than his take on the man who undeniably had a huge effect on American political culture. (DAN NAILEN)

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rom Kazan, Russia, Newt Scamander, a Siberian cat with eyes the color of a sunny summer sky and a creamy cotton candylike coat, arrived to his new home in Spokane on January 19, 2019.

Months later on a sunny July day, the docile, 15-pound feline sprawls out on the hardwood in all his fluffy glory inside his owner’s northeast Spokane home to try and stay cool. Born from a championship line of Russian-bred cats, Newt is about to turn 1 year old, and just this month became the father of five little snowball-sized offspring. This weekend, his owners hope he’ll carry on his feline forebears’ championship reputation at the second all-breed cat show to come to Spokane in three years.

Newt is one of a handful of locally based cats entered to compete in the Western Washingtonbased Maine Event cat club’s three-day event, held Aug. 2-4 in downtown Spokane, and specially highlighting his breed, the Siberian, as well as other “Cats of the Forest”: Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat, Kurilian Bobtail and Pixiebob.

“The breeds eligible are natural hybrids that developed in certain areas on their own, and we’re showcasing them on Friday,” says show manager Elaine Weitz.

Other registered purebred cats are allowed to compete in judging, as well as non-pedigreed domestic cats in a household pets category.

Weitz says the show is expected to feature 150 cats and kittens, about as many cats as were registered for Spokane’s last cat show in early 2016, and, at the time, the first held here

Newt’s path to world cat-show domination starts Friday.

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in nearly two decades. That event’s success is largely why the Maine Event chose Spokane, Weitz adds.

The show, titled “Hot August... Cool Cats,” is open to the public, who can watch breed judging, meet cats and their owners and see a cat agility course, which Weitz says is similar to a dog version, but “cat-sized.” There’s also a feline reproduction symposium on Friday night ($30) and a cat-related vendor fair open during show hours.

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ifelong cat lover Kristen Cousins and her mother Katherine Johnson attended the 2016 cat show as spectators, and knew right away that showing cats was something they wanted to do. They specifically purchased their purebred Siberian Newt with knowledge of Spokane’s next cat show. After this weekend’s event, they hope to travel to many more cat shows in the Pacific Northwest.

“I signed up for as many rings as we could,” Cousins says of Newt’s first show experience.

“There is a forest cat parade that he can go into, and then he’ll be in the spectator area.”

In the week leading up to the show, Newt’s been practicing his bathing routine so he’s extra clean and fluffy by showtime.

“Having it be our first experience with an actual show, we plan to soak it all up so we know exactly what to look for in a future show, and how to better train him and groom him,” Johnson adds. “We’re very excited it’s here in Spokane and we can participate.”

When the mother-daughter duo purchased Newt from a Siberian cattery in Russia — the large, fluffy breed naturally developed there — they also picked out a female, Bella, from another breeder and recently celebrated their first litter of kittens, born in early July. They’re calling their fledgling cattery Sunder’s Siberians after Cousins’ 3-year-old daughter, Sunder.

“We hope to instill an interest in her at a very young age with the cats, and this will be something that she can participate in as she grows up, and really learn about animals and help out,” Johnson says. n Hot August... Cool Cats All-Breed Cat Show • Fri, Aug. 2 from 4-8 pm; Sat, Aug. 3 and Sun, Aug. 4 from 9 am-5 pm • $5-$10/ day; family and weekend passes available • DoubleTree by Hilton • 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. • maineevent.org

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Co-owner Travis Thosath, brewer Rachel Nalley, co-owner Chad White, general manager Necole Flerchinger and pitmaster Colin Barker. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

So-Val Pit Stop

Beer and barbecue unite at chef Chad White and brewer Travis Thosath’s new TTs Old Iron Brewery & BBQ in south Spokane Valley

BY CHEY SCOTT

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n a warm summer evening with the garage doors rolled up, TTs Old Iron Brewery & Barbecue is bound to be full of guests tipping back cold beers and licking sauce-covered fingers.

The new south Spokane Valley eatery has quickly become a popular neighborhood hangout, and a mecca for local barbecue lovers far and wide. The good news, though, is that even if open tables are hard to come by, the kitchen can easily box up your brisket, ribs, sausage, sides and more to-go.

Chef and co-owner Chad White, who teamed up with friend, brewer and business partner Travis Thosath for the restaurant and brewery, says most of the meat sells out by 9 pm daily, and that he’s ordering close to 3,000 pounds of meat every other day to keep up with demand.

“I don’t need to go to the gym anymore,” he jokes in reference to constantly slinging huge hunks of meat into the restaurant’s walk-in cooler.

To go with the tasty menu of Texas and Kansas Citystyle barbecue staples, the brewery is pouring its beer on up to 16 tap handles.

“It’s a blend of Texas and Kansas City, but at the same time we’re really doing our own thing,” White

says. “We wanted to make it feel a bit more Northwest, because the Northwest doesn’t have a barbecue culture quite yet, and we’re trying to grow that.”

To that end, TTs is using Roast House Coffee’s FBomb coffee, with notes of orange, cherry and chocolate, in the rub for its prime beef brisket. Spices used throughout its menu are from Spokane-based Spiceology, and some of the smoker wood is sourced from local apple, pear and cherry orchards.

For TTs’ three house barbecue sauces, White says they’re using wort, the sugar water left over from the brewing process, which has a sweet and slightly bitter taste, as an ingredient. The wort also goes into his banana bread pudding ($5).

Its three house sauces are a spicy Carolina mustard, classic Kansas City barbecue and an ultra-spicy hot sauce made with chile de árbol, a potent Mexican pepper, that’s blended with garlic, tomatoes, salt and white vinegar.

White says all three sauces are smoked for two hours to impart a smoky flavor.

Ordering at TTs is done at the counter, both to follow tradition of many Southern-style barbecue joints and for efficiency.

“When the doors open, we’ve already cooked all

the food for the day. This allows us to get a large line of people through a lot faster,” White says. “In barbecue culture it’s very casual and there is no service unless it’s high end.”

Combo plates, which come with pickles, pickled red onions and Franz white bread, each include two sides, and options for one ($12) two ($15) or three ($19) meats: brisket, turkey breast, smoked sausage, pulled pork, burnt ends (when available), chicken and pork ribs. Each barbecued meat can also be ordered by the half or full pound, and ribs as a full or half-rack. The “So-Val Picnic for Four” is $66 and includes brisket, a half-rack of ribs, turkey, sausage and several sides.

Sides ($5/each; $7/pint or $11/quart) are potato salad, mac and cheese, smoked pinto beans, coleslaw, corn bread and banana pudding pie. The “Opportunity Wedgie,” the lone green salad ($9) on the menu, can be ordered with (add $5-$7) or without meat.

Finally, White’s So-Val Handhelds section of the menu features four open-faced barbecue-taco hybrids using a slice of white bread to hold it all together. The So-Val Taco ($5) is topped with pulled pork, coleslaw, hot sauce and pickled onions. The West Valley Wallet ($7), ...continued on next page

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“We really wanted to celebrate the Valley and its neighborhoods, so the names on the menu for the food and the handhelds are after Valley high schools,” White explains.

Overseeing the pits at TTs, since White also owns and operates Zona Blanca ceviche bar and High Tide Lobster Bar, is pitmaster Colin Barker.

On the brewery side, TTs founder and co-owner Travis Thosath brought on Rachel Nalley, formerly of Orlison Brewing and Iron Goat Brewing, to manage beer production.

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hosath always planned to grow TTs Old Iron Brewery, which started two years ago in the Steel Barrel Taproom’s downtown Spokane brewery incubator. It was there that Thosath met White, who operates Zona Blanca in an adjacent space.

“Once I was comfortable with the [brewery] concept, I started thinking about the next step, and approached Chad to see if he would at least consult and help me because I wanted food in the brewery,” Thosath recalls. “As we got more serious and talking more, he decided he wanted to partner and we decided to do barbecue.”

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Having its own space has allowed TTs to greatly expand its beer lineup. At the incubator, Thosath was at most making around five different beer styles on a rotating basis, but now the brewery is able to consistently fill more than a dozen tap handles, and can continually introduce new rotating brews, like a recently launched coconut porter and a new hazy IPA. “The goal is to have multiple styles on tap at all times: easy drinking beers — ambers, reds, ales; dark beers and at least three to four IPAs going, too, so that anyone can come in and find a beer they like,” Thosath says.

Since opening in late June, TTs has been warmly received by the surrounding neighborhood of south Spokane Valley — or “SoVal” as they’ve nicknamed it.

“We’ve been getting a lot of ‘thank yous’ for bringing this to the neighborhood,” Thosath says. “I wanted to be part of the community, and that was our whole vision from the get-go; be a hub and a place for people to come hang out.” n TTs Old Iron Brewery & BBQ • 4110 S. Bowdish Rd., Spokane Valley • Open Tue-Sun 10 am-10 pm • ttsbrewerybbq.com • 919-4798

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ANGEL

Wild Rose is an unlikely country music story with a revelatory central performance

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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t has often been said that the backbone of any good country song is three chords and the truth. In fact, it’s been said so often that actual country songs have been written about that very idea. Rose-Lynn, the brash young woman who lends her name to the drama Wild Rose, has that rusty truism tattooed on her forearm, a self-imposed reminder that she’s destined to break free from her blue-collar town of Glasgow and become a country star in Nashville. Few musicians ever make it big there. Even fewer are from Scotland.

The movie opens as Rose-Lynn is let out of prison following a year stint for a minor drug charge, an ankle monitor crammed inside her star-spangled cowboy boot.

As played by Jessie Buckley, her own circumstances could make for the subject of a country song: She’s troubled but promising, lively but quick to anger, ambitious but stuck in a dead-end existence of her own making.

When she went to jail, Rose-Lynn left behind two children, who barely seem to remember who she is now.

Her mother (the terrific Julie Walters) wants her to focus on more realistic pursuits than a spotlight. Rose-Lynn can’t get back her old job singing and waitressing at a honky-tonk bar called Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry, so she lies about her background and becomes a house cleaner in an upscale neighborhood. Then her wealthy employer (Sophie Okonedo), who knows next to nothing about country music, overhears Rose-Lynn singing and encourages her to submit an audition video to BBC Radio. She has a voice; she just needs to find something meaningful to say with it.

We’ve grown so accustomed to the details of risingstar narratives — the self-absorption of show-biz, the dangerous habits lurking around every corner, the inevitable crash-and-burn — that our inclination is to start guessing where Wild Rose is heading. But Nicole Taylor’s script isn’t as simple as we anticipate, because most everyone Rose-Lynn encounters seems honest, well-intentioned and encouraging. It’s rare, we think, to see a film about the struggle of artistic pursuits that’s so overflowing with good feeling.

Of course, things can’t be so easy, and Rose-Lynn finds that emotional support doesn’t exactly translate to fame. Director Tom Harper strikes a tone somewhere between the stark kitchen-sink dramas of director Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold’s nervy portraits of British working-class women, so that darkness creeps in without ever overwhelming its characters. Even though Wild Rose steers clear of this genre’s most fatalistic trappings, it still

eases into the expected tropes: There is a mad rush to the hospital, for instance, but it’s for a minor injury that mostly requires a lot of sitting around and waiting.

Perhaps it’s all worth it to Rose-Lynn because she thinks of herself as an honest-to-god outlaw. Because she’s been through the ringer, and because she has an obvious talent, that justifies a WILD ROSE sacrifice she really can’t afford.

Rated R Johnny Cash might have had Directed by Tom Harper to embellish his past when he Starring Jessie Buckley, Julie sang those jailbird songs, but Walters, Sophie Okonedo Rose-Lynn is, at least on that front, the real deal. What the film captures so well is that thrill of finally getting your foot in the door, only to realize that everyone else with a dream and a guitar has their foot stuck out, too.

It also has an implicit understanding of the prosaic power of the best country music. So much of the genre has become assembly-line twang-pop, but the soundtrack here mixes Buckley’s interpretations of heartfelt country classics (John Prine’s “Angel from Montgomery,” Emmylou Harris’ “Boulder to Birmingham”) with a handful of solid originals, including a closing tune penned by the actress Mary Steenburgen. When the film does finally make its way to the crowded bars and kitschy motels of Nashville, we understand how so many sad songs could come out of such a vibrant city.

Buckley, who has worked mostly in British TV, is revelatory here, and she possesses one of those crystal-clear voices that can convince you of anything.

She’s the reason Wild Rose works as well as it does, and she conveys the warmth and reliability of a weary country standard. Perhaps the movie could have used one more unexpected chord change, and maybe even a little more truth. But whether or not RoseLynn makes it, Buckley sure has. n

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A dark, bizarre satire about violence and masculinity, starring Jesse Eisenberg as a meek accountant who’s mugged and becomes obsessed with martial arts. (NW) Rated R 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.

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As a hurricane barrels down on Florida, a young woman and her father are trapped in a flooding house surrounded by very hungry alligators. A goofy, zippy creature feature. (NW) Rated R

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A charming ode to country music, with a breakthrough performance by Jessie Buckley as a Glasgow woman trying to piece her life together and become a honky-tonk star. At the Magic Lantern.

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original, but this CGI remake of Disney’s 1994 classic is nonetheless an entertaining, visually sumptuous jungle adventure. The stories and songs remain foolproof — hakuna matata, indeed.

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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

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friendly 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 Elementals. A sharp and funny continuation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (SS) Rated PG-13

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A fitfully amusing buddy-action comedy about a rideshare driver Kumail Nanjiani who becomes unwitting chauffeur to vision-impaired cop Dave Bautista, chasing down the gang that killed his partner. (NW) Rated R

PAVAROTTI

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

Quentin Tarantino’s ode to 1969 L.A. finds a washed-up TV star, his longtime stunt double and Sharon Tate crossing paths in unexpected ways. Rambling, elegiac, uneven and occasionally brilliant. (NW) Rated R 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 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-13 n

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ROCK

Hell and Back The Alarm’s Mike Peters has fought through band drama, cancer to get back to headlining tours of inspiring rock ’n’ roll

BY DAN NAILEN

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hree years ago, the Alarm’s Mike Peters found himself in an unusual position.

Peters is most comfortable in the spotlight. In the Alarm, he was leader and primary songwriter of one of the ’80s best rock bands until he quit in 1991, and he remains front and center in a new version of the band he restarted in 1999. And in 2017 he was the focus of The Man in the Camo Jacket, a documentary film about the Welsh musician’s battles with cancer since 1995 and the disease-fighting Love Hope Strength Foundation he co-founded.

Three years ago, though, Peters found himself pushed to the sidelines when his wife of more than 30 years (and bandmate) Jules Peters’ was hit with breast cancer. Suddenly the frontman found himself forced to stand outside the operating room while his life partner underwent eight-hour surgeries, and left outside radiotherapy rooms while she got radiation treatment.

“I felt very emotionally vulnerable at those times,” Peters recalls in a phone interview with the Inlander. “You think about, ‘What am I going to do if I lose my wife?’ To get some perspective on it, I wrote my feelings down in my phone.”

It wasn’t that different than when Peters wrote lyrics as a teenager and young man,

Mike Peters of the Alarm.

turning angst and inspiration into ’80s anthems like “The Stand,” “Spirit of ’76” and “Sixty Eight Guns.” But now the stakes were higher than the pursuit of rock stardom. His phone notes were filled with thoughts of love and death, hope and hopelessness. As Jules recovered, Peters shared his words and she immediately saw what Peters didn’t — that the heartfelt notes he viewed as letters to his sick wife were something more.

“She was reading them all back, and it was Jules who said, ‘You might not know, but this is your new record here,” Peters says. “To me, they were just an opportunity to vent the feelings I was experiencing. But when I printed them all out and laid them on the studio floor, I could see it.”

The resulting songs fill both 2018’s Equals album and the Alarm’s new release, Sigma, and lest you fear they sound maudlin given their origins, both albums shimmer with the energy that had critics and fans calling the Alarm “the Clash meets Bob Dylan” or “the next U2” when they burst on the scene in 1983. Peters has a way of taking deeply personal inspirations and turning them into universal rock anthems.

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he two latest Alarm albums are merely the most recent chapters in what has to be one of the most unusual career arcs in rock.

It started normal enough, with a young quartet writing stirring songs inspired by the punk of the late ’70s. At the same time, they embraced the visual side of the music biz by making some memorable videos in between epic live shows, inspiring U2’s then-agent to ...continued on next page

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“HELL AND BACK,” CONTINUED... become the Alarm’s manager. The band initially broke through in America after opening U2’s 1983 War tour, and at home in England they enjoyed a run of 17 hit songs from albums like 1984’s Declaration, 1985’s Strength and 1987’s Eye of the Hurricane.

Peters dramatically quit the band in 1991 at the end of a show in London, announcing his departure before the show’s last song and without telling his bandmates beforehand. Four years later he’d be diagnosed with lymphoma for the first time as he was struggling to forge a solo career. Four years after that, he reformed the Alarm with a new lineup (the original lineup got together briefly for a VH1 show called Bands Reunited) only to later be diagnosed with a different cancer in 2005, this time an incurable form of leukemia.

After that diagnosis, the Alarm was forced to work in fits and starts, with Peters requiring chemotherapy or other treatments every three weeks or so. A bleak stretch in 2015 turned out to be a blessing, though, when his regular treatments started failing and Peters got into a clinical trial for a new drug. It proved a revelation.

“Now I don’t have to go to the hospital at all,” Peters says, noting that he only needs to check in with his doctors every three months, thanks to pills he takes twice a day. “Otherwise, I can treat life like a normal human being, and that’s why I think this tour is going to be even more euphoric than it’s ever been. Because I feel liberated, and that comes across in the music.”

Indeed, the Alarm’s tour to support Sigma, stopping in Spokane Wednesday, is part of its most ambitious trip since the old days. Jules will be there with Peters, playing keyboards; the band is rounded out by guitarist/bassist James Stevenson and drummer Smiley.

Mulling how the Alarm’s live show in 2019 compares to the old days when they packed theaters and MTV picked the band for its first global satellite concert broadcast, Peters says the tough times in the intervening years make his time on stage all the sweeter now.

“It’s been tough on some of us, and there’s a reflection of that in our music that gives it a depth,” Peters says.

“I’ve been through a lot of experiences that have taught me how fragile life is. I’ve been in positions in life where I might never be able to go on stage again. So every night I walk on stage I play it like it’s my last night on Earth. Life can change in the blink of an eye and tomorrow I could wake up and be a different person because of what life can place at your door when you least expect it. I feel so lucky to be able to go out on tour and play all the shows, and I want to stay alive to do it as often as I can, as many times as possible. I live for it.” n The Alarm with Modern English and Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel • Wed, Aug. 7 at 8 pm • $30-$35 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Rock, folk and funk unite at the Festival at Sandpoint; here’s a rundown of the headliners

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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f you’re an Inland Northwest music fan worth your salt, you’ve got the dates of the Festival at Sandpoint circled on your calendar every year. The annual event is known for bringing big names to War Memorial Field, with a diverse lineup that leans toward bands mixing up genres in unexpected ways.

Here are the headliners we’re looking forward to in the next couple weeks; see festivalatsandpoint.com for information on the annual family concert and the closing night spectacular.

AUG. 1

NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS

Denver music fans have been on the Nathaniel Rateliff bandwagon for years now, but word has gotten out, and now enthusiasts of roots music are wise to the fact that he’s the real deal. The singer-songwriter’s profile was raised considerably when he put together his backing band the Night Sweats in 2013, and they’ve since been perfecting their irresistible blend of old-school R&B, blues-rock and soul. Regardless of how you describe the sound, it’s pretty much a guarantee that you won’t be able to stop dancing. With Lucius. $59.95. 7:30 pm.

AUG. 2

WALK OFF THE EARTH

Walk Off the Earth is one of those acts that translated internet virality into festival headlining slots. The Canadian group first attracted notoriety on its YouTube channel, where its quirky covers of hit songs — particularly a take on the Gotye/Kimbra single “Somebody That I Used to Know,” viewed millions of times — eventually led to a deal with Columbia Records. They’ve also got a wealth of original material, which captures the singalong-ready nature of their covers you already know by heart. With the Shook Twins. $44.95. 7:30 pm.

AUG. 3

JACKSON BROWNE

He’s been a rock luminary for decades, but Jackson Browne got his start as a teenage songwriter, penning classic tracks like the Eagles’ “Take It Easy” and Nico’s “These Days.” It was as a solo artist that he really found his voice, racking up hit singles with “Doctor My Eyes,” “Running on Empty” and “Somebody’s Baby,” and his 1974 album Late for the Sky is one of the most influential singer-songwriter albums of the period. This show is sold out, but perhaps you can snag some tickets through third-party sites. Sold out. 7:30 pm.

Jackson Browne. DANNY CLINCH PHOTO AUG. 8

LAKE STREET DIVE

Like its name suggests, seeing Lake Street Dive is akin to wandering into a nondescript watering hole and encountering an in-house band that knocks your socks off. They’ve developed a cult following in the 15 years they’ve been active, making a name for themselves with their slick musicianship and tireless work ethic. Perhaps that’s not much of a shock, considering its members are all classically trained jazz musicians, but what will surprise you is how lithely they’re able to seamlessly morph from one funky sound to another. With Darlingside. $49.95. 7 pm.

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THE AVETT BROTHERS

What a journey the Avett Brothers have been on, transforming from under-the-radar critical darlings to adored arena-fillers over the last two decades. Buoyed by the folk sensibilities and honey-dripping harmonies of Scott and Seth Avett, their sound merges the old school with the new, contemporary songs that ache with the bleeding-heart pathos of a generations-old traditional. They’re scheduled to drop a new album called Closer Than Together in the fall, so expect to hear some brand new tracks amidst all the old favorites. With Che Apalache. $74.95. 7:30 pm.

AUG. 10

KOOL AND THE GANG

Do these guys really need an introduction?

They’ve been bringing the funk since the mid’60s, but they’re probably best known for their ’70s and ’80s output — “Jungle Boogie,” “Ladies’ Night,” “Get Down on It” and the No. 1 hit “Celebration,” which we can bet you’ve heard at every wedding, birthday party, bar mitzvah and backyard barbecue you’ve ever been to. Their live shows are famous for filling the stage with musicians, and some of its founding members, including Robert and Donald Bell, are still kicking it. With Leroy Bell and His Only Friends. $64.95.

7:30 pm. n The Festival at Sandpoint • Thu-Sun, Aug. 1-4 and Thu-Sun, Aug. 8-11 • Prices vary • All ages • War Memorial Field • 801 Ontario St., Sandpoint • festivalatsandpoint.com

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FOLK ANI DIFRANCO

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hile much attention is given to Ani DiFranco for her righteous political activism, often lost among her work for gender equality, racial justice and environmental sanity is just how crafty a songwriter she is. DiFranco, who released a memoir called No Walls and the Recurring Dream in May, has spent the better part of 30 years delving into sounds ranging from straightforward folk and acoustic pop to songs with shades of funk, soul and R&B — an evolution no doubt aided by her move to New Orleans about 10 years ago.

Expect a career-spanning set and some incredible guitar work when she hits Spokane.

— DAN NAILEN Ani DiFranco with Pieta Brown • Tue, Aug. 6 at 8 pm • $35 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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Thursday, 08/1

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Kosh J THE BARTLETT, Lost Dog Street Band, Matt Heckler 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 J COEUR D’ALENE PARK, Light in Mirrors THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRUISERS, Open Jam Night DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Steve Livingston & Triple Shot J J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Lonestar FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J THE GILDED UNICORN, Katie Fisher J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays JOHN’S ALLEY, Eric Tessmer LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jonathan Tibbetts LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Jimi Finn LION’S LAIR, Karaoke J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid MOOSE LOUNGE, Country Night with Last Chance Band O’SHAYS IRISH PUB, O’Pen Mic PARAGON BREWING, Current Flow POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Christy Lee RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series J SHADLE PARK, The Men of Rhythm SUPERIOR, PJ Destiny TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio J J WAR MEMORIAL FIELD, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats with Lucius ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

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ROCK STEF CHURA

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he way she tells it, Detroit singersongwriter Stef Chura was hardly taking music seriously when the sudden death of a friend inspired her to finally release her material out into the wild. Now she’s on her first headlining tour and second album, titled Midnight, which was made in collaboration with Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo and expands on its predecessor’s themes of romantic and creative insecurity, mental health and the struggle of putting up with shitty dudes. It’s an ideal pairing, really: Both artists explore mood through contrasting styles — rockers, pop sketches, sprawling ballads — and here have found co-conspirators in one another.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Stef Chura • Fri, Aug. 2 at 8 pm • Free • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset Blvd. • luckyyoulounge.com

Friday, 08/2

219 LOUNGE, Zach Cooper Band 1210 TAVERN, The Jukers BARRISTER WINERY, Nick Grow BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Alisha & The Loose Change Band BOLO’S, Tin Pan Alley BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA, Perfect Mess BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Ryan Larsen Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Phoenix Blues Band COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Lee Brice THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Too Slim & The Taildraggers CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Maxie Ray Mills CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle

FORTY-ONE SOUTH, Truck Mills J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Watershed Festival feat. Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown Band, Jason Aldean, Kane Brown & more THE HIVE, Yak Attack HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB, Steve Wyttree IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival JOHN’S ALLEY, Micky and the Motorcars LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Schuyler Dornbirer J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Stef Chura (see above) MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Muffy and the Riff Hangers MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta La Vista MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Haze MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Isaac Walton NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom

J NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE, Art on the Green feat. Good Company, Barefoot Movement & more J PARK BENCH CAFE, Mountains in the Sea PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic RED ROOM LOUNGE, Scott Pemberton Electric Power Trio RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIVER CITY BREWING, Brook Gannon Trio, Tonya Ballman RIVER ROCK TAPHOUSE, Gil Rivas THE ROXIE, Execution of X-Raided SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Son of Brad; Ron Greene (at Noah’s) STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger J J WAR MEMORIAL FIELD, Walk Off the Earth with the Shook Twins ZOLA, Pastiche

Saturday, 08/3

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Shy-Ann 219 LOUNGE, The Joan Zen Band 1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Blues Experience

J THE BARTLETT, Tyler Alai, Lads BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIG SKY’S TAVERN, Roundabout BIGFOOT PUB, Alisha & The Loose Change Band BOLO’S, Tin Pan Alley BRANDYWINE BAR, Katie Fisher J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Saticoy COSMIC COWBOY, Echo Elysium CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Mark Dufresne Band J FARMIN PARK, Truck Mills and Carl Rey GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Wild Card Band J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Watershed Festival THE HIVE, Afrolicious J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Scott Roddan IRON GOAT BREWING, Buffalo Jones IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival

THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Entice the Mice LAUGHING DOG BREWING, John Firshi LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Mary Chavez LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Super Sparkle MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta La Vista MOOSE LOUNGE, Haze NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE, Art on the Green feat. Curtis Salgado, Honey Mustard & more OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Tommy G THE PIN, Wreck Room Takeover POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Hillfolk Noir RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIVER ROCK TAPHOUSE, Nick Grow SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Just Plain Darin (at Noah’s) J SOUTH PERRY PIZZA, Son of Brad SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger J J WAR MEMORIAL FIELD, Jackson Browne [SOLD OUT] ZOLA, Pastiche

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Sunday, 08/4

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Luke Jaxon Band J BIG BARN BREWING, Scotia Road CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Kosh CRUISERS, Michael Boucher CURLEY’S, Into the Drift DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Watershed Festival J HARVEST HOUSE, Nick Grow; Dallas Kay HOGFISH, Open Mic LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MOOSE LOUNGE, Casey Ryan J NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE, Art on the Green feat. John Roberts y Pan Blanco, Truck Mills & more O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music ONE SHOT CHARLIE’S, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Annie Welle J THE PIN, Ted Marengos with The Wow Wows, AA Bottom & more RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Clint & Troy ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 08/5

THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, The Colourflies, Dirty Junk, TenSpeed Pile Up

COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Maxie Ray Mills CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J THE PIN, McCafferty with Carousel Kings, Colder Bones, Valhalla, RORSHK RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 08/6

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Ani DiFranco (see facing page), Pieta Brown BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Dallas Kay J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Toby Keith POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Devon Wade RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing J ROCKET MARKET, Heyer Ground THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Sam Leyde TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 08/7

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills Duo BARRISTER WINERY, Meghan Sullivan BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn

J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Alarm (see page 39), Modern English, Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, The Powell Brothers J KNITTING FACTORY, Nahko and Medicine for the People LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Maxie Ray Mills LION’S LAIR, Storme J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ Exodus MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dylan Hathaway RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Black Lillies RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Bill Bozly ZOLA, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia

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J J WAR MEMORIAL FIELD, Festival at Sandpoint, Aug. 8-11 J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Mumford & Sons, Portugal. The Man, Aug. 9 J THE BARTLETT, Shawn Mullins, Aug. 11 J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Lauren Daigle, Aug. 12 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, O.A.R., American Authors, Aug. 13 J NORTHERN QUEST, Travis Tritt and The Charlie Daniels Band, Aug. 13

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 LINGER BY THE LAKE

For a half-century this annual fine arts showcase in the picturesque lakeside setting of Coeur d’Alene has been bringing together artists, arts patrons, musicians and members of the community for a summer weekend celebration. In its 51st year, Art on the Green has selected 165 artists (61 new to the event) to showcase and sell their work, set to the music and entertainment of many local performers. Attendees can expect a number of styles and media, from leatherworking and glass, to metal and fiber art, as well as traditional paintings and much more. The family-friendly weekend also includes the Children’s Art Garden, food vendors for a midday meal or snack and a beer and wine garden. Free shuttles are also offered between Art on the Green and the concurrent Coeur d’Alene Street Fair.

— CHEY SCOTT Art on the Green • Aug. 2-4: Fri, noon-10 pm; Sat, 10 am-10 pm; Sun 10 am-5 pm • Free • All ages • North Idaho College • 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene • artonthegreencda.com • 208-667-9346

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FESTIVAL COMPETITION IN KILTS

If you’ve been itching to break out that kilt again, your time has finally come. With traditional heavy athletic competitions, haggis tasting, highland dancing, blacksmith demonstrations and Celtic storytelling, there’s no shortage of Scottish authenticity at the annual Spokane Scottish Highland Games. Participants can register to compete in one or more of the many competitions, including shortbread making, piping and drumming or athletics, which includes the stone throw and Scottish hammer. Also included in the daylong event is a cattle exhibit, a variety of Celtic bands, a “Scots vs. Irish” tug-of-war, a beer tent, British car show and most of all, Scottish fun for the whole family.

— MORGAN SCHEERER Spokane Scottish Highland Games • Sat, Aug. 3 from 9 am-5:30 pm • $5-$10 • All ages • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana St. • spokanehighlandgames.net

FESTIVAL HI-JINX IN HILLYARD

Hillyard is hosting its 108th Hi-Jinx Parade and Festival, an event with free nonstop fun for all ages. Over the three-day festival is live entertainment, bingo, a vendor fair, “the Pirate Cove” beer garden, crafts and even WWE-style wrestling for “The Hillyard Cup.” Entertainment rotates every hour and includes local musicians, dancers and acts like Third String, No Reply and Armed & Dangerous. The Hi-Jinx Parade takes place on Saturday at 10 am, and anyone can register to participate, with a chance for top floats to win cash prizes and ribbons. On top of all of this is the third annual Roll ’N’ Hillyard Car Show on Sunday, featuring some of the shiniest cars in the city. The all-encompassing event caters to anyone’s interests, all while showing off the historic Hillyard Neighborhood.

— RILEY UTLEY Hillyard Festival & Hi-Jinx Parade • Fri, Aug. 2 from noon-10 pm; Sat, Aug. 3 from 10 am-10 pm; Sun, Aug. 4 from 10 am-5 pm • Free • Harmon Park • 6018 N. Regal St. • hillyardfestival.com

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Spokane’s monthly arts showcase features gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists across the downtown core and beyond.

Receptions for this month’s events are Friday, Aug. 2, 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) ANDY’S BAR, 1401 W. First Art by Brittany Trambitas.

AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone Art by Lori-Ann Scott, Maya Lin. BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Art by Leslie Cooley with music

by Nick Grow; 5-10 pm.

BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens Oil paintings by Charles Brian Mayfield; 7-11 pm.

BISTANGO, 108 N. Post Music by Haley Young.

BOUTIQUE BLEU, 1184 W. Summit Fiber art by Laurie Ann Greenberg.

J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

Summer Daydreams, featuring art by Amanda Caldwell, Seiko A. Purdue and Kenneth Susynski; 4-7 pm.

J COMMUNITY BUILDING, 25 W. Main What We Carried, a storytelling project by Jim Lommasson and refugees from Iraq and Syria.

CORE PILATES & WELLNESS, 1174 W. Summit Pkwy.

Paintings by Katie Frey.

J CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Artist’s Eye on Spokane by Megan Perkins; 2-9 pm.

GONZAGA LAW SCHOOL, 721 N. Cincinnati St. Paintings by Amalia Fisch.

HELIX TASTING ROOM, 824 W. Sprague Paintings by Randy Budano.

IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Art by Deb Sheldon.

J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. Air Has No Borders, by Nicole Chochrek.

LA RESISTANCE, 1816 E. Sprague Group art show; 5:30-9 pm.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

Sculptures by Rob McKirdie.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington Art by Terri Grove Griffin.

RESURRECTION RECORDS, 1927 W. Northwest Blvd.

The group show Draw: A Western Themed Art Show; 6-9 pm.

J RICHMOND ART COLLECTIVE, 228 W. Sprague The Invisible Project by Ira Gardner and Keith Livers.

J RIVER CITY BREWING CO., 121 S. Cedar St. Garage Party ft. music by Tonya Ballman and the Brook Gannon Trio; 4-10 pm.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific Photography by Suzanne Harris; 2-8 pm.

SPARK CENTRAL, 1214 W. Summit Watercolors by Jessica Wade.

SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, DOWNTOWN, 906 W. Main Art by Amanda Caldwell and music by the Tourist Union.

J TERRAIN, 304 W. Pacific Ave. Worrisome: Short Stories by Bay Area artist James Gouldthorpe.

TRACKSIDE STUDIO, 115 S. Adams “Cleaning Off the Shelves” studio sale.

V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott St. Paintings by Sally Miller.

J WASHINGTON TRUST RIDPATH ANNEX, 501 W. First Interactive installations by Kim Burgas, Jarret Lin, Caleb Foss.

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stressed and in need of some sushi self care. How’d you like your asparagus roll? I know I enjoyed the tempura avocado I got after your suggestion.

Thanks for suggesting a new place!

CHEERS I’M LUCKY Thank you for putting up with my constant whining and pain complaints. I feel guilty that you have to put up with me. Moments are better, happier and less painful with you in them.

I SAW YOU SUPER CUTE BLONDE AT DICK’S You were sitting at one end of the table with a couple of Big Gulps, and headphones in. I walked past to the other end of the table and had a cigarette.

You asked me for one, so I walked back to my car and got one for you, then came back with my lighter for you to use. After a quick “thank you” and “you’re welcome,” that was it. What I wish I would have said was “you’re absolutely stunning and I wish I had more time to chill with you.” Hope you get a chance to see this.

CUTE BIKER GIRL You were riding a gorgeous blue single speed Schwinn with cute pink bull horns. You are GORGEOUS. I see you every day... sometimes we even ride together... I’m in love. Drinks? Movie? New house?

Travel the world together? Rest of our lives together? <3 -toast SUBWAY HAYHAY I saw you at Subway on Saturday. We both were in awe of the new selections. Thank you for the garlic steak and cheese suggestion.

Now I have a new favourite. Maybe I’ll see you there again?

SUSHI AND SMILES I saw you at Kinja on Friday. We both seemed hella busy,

SOUND OFF

SLAINTE MEANS “CHEERS” IN GAELIC Everytime I think of something funny I wish you were with me so I could laugh with you. But you are not with me so I just laugh to myself and sometimes with me mum but she doesn’t always understand my dark sense of humor like you do. I want to laugh with you again about stupid things and stupid people lol. We could just laugh our worries away and make fun of all the stupid people all day long. P.s. you are frickin’ hilarious you make me laugh and I need your sense of humor in my life, I am only half human without laughter and the joy that you bring me.

THANKS FOR HELPING AT THE RED WAGON Thank you and God bless for the two amazing ladies that helped me when my 3 year old old grandson fell from the top of the Red Wagon in Riverfront Park on July 25th around 5 pm. I was in survival mode and I know I didn’t thank you enough for helping me, giving me all of your wet wipes and talking to 911 after I called.

My grandson is just fine - no injuries thank goodness - just a few scratches.

Spokane is blessed to have two angels like you! Thank you again!

SACRED HEART ER STAFF 7/22/19 I wanted to give a quick shout out to the ER staff on duty the night of 7/22/19. I felt that the staff of the Doctors, Nurses, and Technicians did

an outstanding job at care. I know that the chaos of the ER is highly stressful at times but I am truly grateful for everyone I worked with. Particularly I wanted to note are both the nurse and tech I interacted with. Both were

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back again asking the same thing and that’s when I had to say, “Same as last time dude (you can have what’s left) but since you didnt understand me the first time please leave my family alone because you are making

Cleopatra party, since they’ve become the Queens of Denial.

MOM/LIME SCOOTER Friday afternoon on 7/26/19 on bottom South Hill near ray area. This is to that mom who had

I’m in love. Drinks? Movie? New house? Travel the world together?

Rest of our lives together?

positive, polite, and engaged in active listening and conversation. I hope eventually I can meet more people like you and are happy that all of you get up everyday to do what you do. Thank you so much! I hope to see you around and hope you genuinely love what you do (it shows) thank you again. Maybe we will see each other again under more positive circumstances!

THE GOOD SHOEMARITAN Unbeknownst to me, my toddler tossed out his shoes while riding behind my bike in his chariot on the Fish Lake Trail. Three days later, I had a chance to search the trail and found them neatly placed next to each other about 1/2 mile in. Thank you Good Shoemaritan!!!

JEERS CITY PARK Not sure if this is a jeers on me or to the people in a City Park... but what were we supposed to do? So we were having a family BBQ and were approached by two people asking if they could have a plate each of our food. It was very weird but said sorry it’s a private party, but what’s left over you can have (the young kids were scared of these two). Then they came

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us very uncomfortable; we will help you out but not right now!!!” Then I was called an asshole!!! Why should I help somebody out that calls me that!!... then a group of kids showed up asking for cake!! We said yes, but to the parent who allowed your kids to approach strangers and ask for cake... get your own cake or have mom buy you a treat!!! My point being, when I grew up my parents said ‘never talk to strangers and never invite yourself to something that wasn’t intended for you.’ Life isn’t a hand me out.

YOU GIVE ALL COPS A BAD NAME Jeers to the WSP trooper on the motorcycle who ticketed my teenage son over for speeding on EB 1-90 on the morning of June 28. I was in the car with him and he was not speeding.

The GPS tracker installed in the vehicle corroborated this fact. You taught my son, on the verge of becoming an adult citizen of this state, that law enforcement officers lie and cannot be trusted. You have tarnished the reputation of the many fine law enforcement officers who perform their duties with the integrity and professionalism demanded of their positions.

ETHICAL BLACKHOLE The Republican Party should change their name to the

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her baby strapped in a sling on her back flying downhill on a Lime scooter.

The baby appeared to be about 6 months old or little older. I noticed the sling was leaning sideways and his head was hanging out on the side and every time you flew by a sign post, his head almost hit each one.

You barely missed one pole by an inch.

What bothers me is you may not want to wear protective headgear but that baby should have something on its head. As a medical professional I see head injuries and it is life altering. As a mother, you need to put your child’s safety first. Next time you think about hopping that scooter with baby put a helmet on his head. Babies’ heads are not completely developed and fragile.

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BENEFIT

AN EVENING IN TUSCANY A benefit for YWCA Spokane, featuring wine, food, live music, local arts and Tuscanthemed entertainment. Proceeds support women, children, and families impacted by domestic violence, homelessness and unemployment. Aug. 2, 5-10 pm. $100. Beacon Hill Events, 4848 E. Wellesley. ywcaspokane.org PAW-ART For a donation, local artists with Avenue West Gallery help your pet make a paw print with non-toxic washable paint and then, with a few strokes, turn it into a flower. Saturdays from noon-2 pm, Aug. 3-24. By donation, SCRAPS, 6815 E. Trent. spokanecounty.org/scraps INTRO TO 3-D MODELING Learn the fundamental ideas and techniques behind 3D modeling from artist Derrick Freeland using the modeling program SketchUp. Aug. 6, 7-9 pm. $25. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org (509-279-0299)

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 hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) KARLOUS MILLER Karlous has worked with headlining comedians and artists such as Katt Williams, Daniel Tosh, Case, Gucci Mane, Doug Benson, Dem Franchise Boyz, and Jermaine Dupri.

He currently resides in Atlanta, where he continues to perfect his craft in comedy. Aug. 1-2 at 7:30 pm. $10$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) 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. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com THIS JUST IN... With audience suggestions, the BDT players build a oneof-a-kind evening of all-improvised parody news. Fridays at 7:30 pm, Aug. 2-Sept. 6. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com 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) GREG PROOPS “The Proopdog” is best known for his unpredictable appearances on “Whose Line is it Anyway?” Shows at 7:30 and 10 pm. Aug. 3. $14-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists added. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com PROOPSCAST Greg Proops from “Whose Line Is It Anyway” brings his quick witted and improvisational comedy to the stage for a live recording of his podcast “The Smartest Man In The World Proopcast!” Aug. 4, 7:30 pm. $15-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

COLFAX FIRST THURSDAY Happenings include street vendors, restaurant and local merchant sales, arts and crafts, live music and more. Aug. 1, 3 pm. Free. visitcolfax.com (279-1220) GIANTS, DRAGONS & UNICORNS: THE WORLD OF MYTHIC CREATURES This traveling exhibition from the 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. Through Sept.

2. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back in time and experience this unique garden as it looked in 1915.

Learn its re-discovery, carefully planned restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who made it their backyard. Aug. 1, Aug. 8 and Aug. 15 at 2 pm; Aug. 4 and Aug. 11 at 11 am; also Aug. 4 at 6 pm. Free.

Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. 7th Ave. heritagegardens.org SPOKANE JUSTICE TOWN HALL MEETING Reps from the Vera Institute of Justice and the Spokane Regional Criminal Justice Administration share information and listen to concerns regarding the criminal justice system and the Spokane County Jail. July 31 at Madison Elementary (319 W. Nebrask.) and Aug. 1 at Hamblen Elementary (2121 E. Thurston) from 5:30-7:30 pm. spokanecounty.org/srljc HOT AUGUST, COOL CATS: TICA NORTHWEST REGIONAL CAT SHOW Events include a feline reproduction symposium, “Cats of the Forest” judging of Maine Coons, Norwegian Forest Cats, Siberians and more, an all-breed and household pet cat show, vendor fair, agility course and more. Aug. 2-4. $7-$35. Doubletree Hotel, 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. catshow.maineevent.org COFFEE TALK: REFUGEES IN SPOKANE Panelists include Jackson Lino, refugee from Sudan; Ben Shedlock, FāVS Columnist who rode his bike across the state to raise money for refugees; Bushra Alshalah, refugee from Iraq and Arcelia Martin, journalist who writes about refugees. Aug. 3, 10-11:30 am. Free. FāVS Center, 5115 S. Freya St. favscenter.com FAMILY POOL PARTY Hot dogs, chips and drinks provided; RSVP if you plan to attend. Aug. 3, 8 pm. Hamilton-Lowe Aquatics Center, 830 N. Mountain View Rd., Moscow. (208-882-7665) FORD DRIVING SKILLS FOR LIFE EVENT This advanced driver training course features real-life simulations and drills that teach young drivers to make better decisions behind the wheel. Aug. 3-4 from 7:30 am-noon and 1-5:30 pm. Free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. drivingskillsforlife.com (477-1766) HISTORIC WALKING TOURS Walk through the park and learn the history of the Spokane Falls, Expo ’74 U.S. Pavilion, Clocktower, Looff Carrousel, Centennial Trail and more. Tours depart from the Humana booth next to the Rotary Fountain every Saturday at 10 am and noon, through August 31.

Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com

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Obviously a weedy weekend needs weed, and nothing is more on-the-go friendly than a vape pen. Other than edibles, there’s not a more discreet way to consume cannabis. They don’t smell when they’re not being used, and they barely smell when they are. Plus, they’re super sharable and great for dialing in that perfect level of buzz. My little silver one by Bodhi High has three voltage settings for delivering the most precise of puffs.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR STRANGER THINGS TRIVIA Show off your knowledge about the show’s characters and all things paranormal.

Bring snacks (or have food delivered).

Grades 6+ and adults. Aug. 3, 6-7 pm.

Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org QUEST SUNDAY FEST STREET FESTIVAL The new outdoor street festival offers a weekly lineup of local and regional arts and crafts, food, kids activities, performance art, music and more.

Sundays from 11 am-5 pm, July 14-Aug. Free. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford. northernquest.com SHARING THE DHARMA DAY Visit the Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Newport for this monthly event for people of all faiths and backgrounds who’d like to learn more about Buddhist teachings. Aug. 4, 9:45 am-3 pm. By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org BACKPACKS FOR KIDS The Salvation Army distributes 5,000 free backpacks with school supplies for kids grades K-12 during its 10th annual event, which also includes a resource fair, vendors, prizes and more. Aug. 7, 8 am-6 pm. Free. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana Ave. makingspokanebetter.org (325-6810) PULLMAN HILL PARTIES: NATIONAL NIGHT OUT Get to know your neighbors with events at each of Pullman’s four hills, with free ice cream and prizes at each of the following parks: Kruegel McGee, Military and Sunnyside. Aug. 7, 6-8 pm. pullmanchamber.com

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BE AWARE: Marijuana is legal for adults 21 and older under Washington State law (e.g., RCW 69.50, RCW 69.51A, HB0001 Initiative 502 and Senate Bill 5052). State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington state, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal. Marijuana has intoxicating effects; there may be health risks associated with its consumption, and it may be habit-forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. Keep out of reach of children. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

NOTE TO READERS Be aware of the differences in the law between Idaho and Washington. It is illegal to possess, sell or transport cannabis in the State of Idaho. Possessing up to an ounce is a misdemeanor and can get you a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine; more than three ounces is a felony that can carry a five-year sentence and fine of up to $10,000. Transporting marijuana across state lines, like from Washington into Idaho, is a felony under federal law.

ART ON THE GREEN The 51st annual marketplace, performance space and gathering place for friends and families features more than 160 fine artists, a variety of performers and more. Aug. 2 from 12-9 pm, Aug. 3 from 10 am-9 pm and Aug. 4 from 10 am-5 pm. Free.

North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. artonthegreencda.com COEUR D’ALENE STREET FAIR The 28th annual event features more than 250 vendors of arts, crafts, food and more. Aug. 2-3 from 10 am-8 pm; Aug. 4 from 10 am-5 pm. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. cdadowntown.com COLVILLE RENDEZVOUS DAYS Colville, Washington’s summer community festival features live music on two stages, food, craft and commercial vendors, baseball tournament, classic car and bike show, history encampment and more. Aug. 2-4. Free. colvillerendezvous.org HILLYARD FESTIVAL This year’s festival theme is “Picture This...” and includes the 108th Hi-Jinx Parade, fireworks, a beer garden, car show, music, vendors, live entertainment and more.

Aug. 2-4; Fri noon-10 pm, Sat 10 am-10 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. Hillyard neigborhood, Spokane. hillyardfestival.com SPOKANE SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GAMES The 63rd annual festival of Scottish culture and history includes heavy athletics competitions, bagpipe bands, highland dancing, Celtic entertainment, vendors, food and historic exhibits. Aug. 3, 9 am-5:30 pm. $5-$10. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokanehighlandgames.net (509-477-1766) GOODGUYS 18TH GREAT NORTHWEST NATIONALS The annual threeday event features more than 1,500

rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks through 1987, along with vendor and manufacturer exhibits, a dragster exhibition, model and pedal car show, swap meet, kids events, live entertainment and an arts and crafts gallery. Aug. 9-11. $10-$22. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. good-guys.com/gnwn-2019

FILM

SUMMER MATINEE MOVIE SERIES The Kenworthy’s 18th annual Summer Matinee Movie 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 SWIM & A MOVIE: INCREDIBLES 2 Includes a free two-hour swim, concessions and an outdoor movie. At the Northside and Southside Family Aquatics Facilities. Gates open at 6 pm; movies start at dusk. Aug. 3, 6 pm. Spokane County Aquatic Centers. spokanecounty.org HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3 Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Free Summer Movies series.

Doors open at 9 am; movies at 9:30 am. Weekdays only from June 17-Aug. 23. Aug. 5-9. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com PULP FICTION Screening as part of the Garland’s annual Summer Camp summer movie series. Aug. 6, 7:15 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) DR. WHO’S “THE END OF TIME” This year marks the 10th anniversary of David Tennant’s final season with “Doctor Who,” and the heartbreaking two-part special “The End of Time.” Now, audiences have the chance to relive the thrilling story in their local theater. At Regal Northtown and Riverstone. Aug. 7, 7 pm. $12.50. fathomevents.com WSECU OUTDOOR MOVIES: WIZARD OF OZ Moviegoers can pack in their own snack/dinner or purchase from food vendors on site (no alcohol). Aug. 7, 8:30 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com

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2ND BEERTHDAY PARTY The beer bar celebrates two years with a five-day celebration including a special trivia night, National IPA Day and more. July 31-Aug 4. Free. Community Pint, 120 E. Sprague. bit.ly/330OKsK RIDE & DINE SERIES Enjoy a scenic gondola ride, live music and a mountaintop barbecue dinner. Lift ticket and meal included; dessert, beer wine, mixed drinks available for purchase Fridays from 2-8 pm through Aug. 30. $7-$34. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com PRESERVING TOMATOES AND SALSAS Discuss options for preserving plain tomatoes, tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, tomato juice and salsa.

Aug. 3 at 8 pm. $20-$30. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. extension.wsu.edu/spokane KAMAYAN FEAST! Kamayan means “eat with your hands”. This special family-style dinner introduces the flavors of Filipino cuisine. Aug. 4, 6 pm. $30. D’Bali Asian Bistro, 12924 W. Sunset Hwy. dbaliasianbistro.com

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I’m a 27-year-old guy. I’m short, and honestly, I’m not that physically attractive. I am nice, funny, and on the fast track in my career. My friends say bluntly that the more money I make the more women will be interested in me.

I’m sure that’s true, but I’m interested in falling in love, not just finding a gold digger. Advice?

—Ambitious It would be nice if there were an easy way to identify the gold diggers — like if they showed up for dates carrying a giant golden shovel instead of a handbag they got on sale at Marshalls.

The thing is, a man’s earning power has an effect on kind, loving, generous women, too, to the point that Captain America hunko Chris Evans would likely see a major dive in his sex appeal if he were more, um, Captain Coat Hanger — earning just enough to sleep on a futon in his friend’s walk-in closet.

Guys sneer that women are shallow and terrible for caring about how much money men have, while many men would be just fine with dating a starving artist — a seriously hot starving artist, that is.

There’s some history — evolutionary history — that explains the looks versus income difference in the sexes’ mating priorities. Ancestral women could get stuck with some bigtime costs from having sex: possibly going around pregnant for 9 months (with all the fun of digging for edible roots in between hurling from morning sickness) and then having a kid to drag around and feed. Ancestral men, however, could choose to put way less into in the reproducing thing — just dispensing with a teaspoonful of sperm and maybe a parting grunt or two.

Men, in turn, evolved to prioritize hotness when seeking mates — features like youth and an hourglass figure that suggest a particular lady would be a healthy, fertile candidate for passing on their genes. And while partner-seeking ladies of course appreciate a nice view, biologists Guanlin Wang and John Speakman write that women evolved to be more “sensitive to resources that can be invested (in) themselves and their offspring” — as in whether a particular dude could bring home the bison or whatever.

Wang, Speakman, and their colleagues explored the impact of “resources” — that is, a person’s economic status -- on their physical appeal to the opposite sex.

They showed research participants in China, the U.S., the U.K., and Lithuania a stack of cards with images of silhouetted bodies of the opposite sex with varying levels of attractiveness and had them rank the images from most attractive to least attractive.

(The researchers converted the rankings to a scale of 1 to 9.)

Next, the researchers randomly assigned salary numbers to the body pix. They brought participants back — at least a week later — and again had them rate the attractiveness of the figures, but this time given the salary paired with each bod.

Upon tabulating their results, they found a major sex difference in how “responsive” the attractiveness ratings were to an increase in salary. If a man’s salary increases by a factor of 10 — if his salary becomes 10 times greater — he goes up about 2 points (1.92 on average) on their 1-to-9 attractiveness scale. So, for example, a salary of $50,000 x 10 — $500,000 — gets a guy 2 points higher in hotness.

Meanwhile, in bummerific news for female honchos, for a woman to achieve that two-point hottitude bump, her salary would need to be multiplied by 10,000. In other words, a woman making $50K would have to make $500 million to be hotter in a man’s eyes. (No problem...right, ladies? Just get yourself promoted from legal secretary to international drug lord.)

The researchers note that because men are “largely insensitive to cues indicating resources” in women, women have to make themselves “physically more attractive” to improve their mating prospects. Men, however, “can offset poor physical attractiveness, or further enhance existing good looks, by demonstrating their large levels of resources.”

This does draw the gold diggers, but again, a woman doesn’t have to be a gold digger to be attracted to a man with money. To protect yourself from those who only care about the money, look for “inner beauty,” or what everybody’s grandpa calls “character.” Get to know her friends and family. And get to know who she is over time and across situations.

There are clever sociopaths who keep up appearances even when tested, but over time, they tend to reveal their true selves in small ways. By weeding out the rotten apples, you make space for a woman who sincerely cares about you — and can’t help but find you attractive in the right light, such as the recessed spotlights on your Gulfstream jet. n

AMY ALKON

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EVENTS | CALENDAR PEACH & BLUEBERRY PIE FROM SCRATCH Learn how to create a farm to table pie, from picking peaches to the classic, tender and flakey pie crust. Aug. 6, 6:30 pm. $35. Cherry Hill Orchard & Market, 18207 N. Sands Rd. cherryhillorchards.com (509-238-1978) RIVERFRONT EATS FOOD TRUCK SERIES Join members of the Greater Spokane Food Truck Association at the Orange Bridge for food, live music and more. Tuesdays from 11 am-2 pm, through Aug. 20. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com BIRDS & BUBBLES A full fried chicken meal with all the fixings, plus bubbly.

Aug. 8, 6 pm. $35; reservations required. The Yards Bruncheon, 1248 W. Summit Pkwy. theyardsbruncheon.com PARTY ON THE PATIO A summer event series at the Spokane Tribe Casino, with local beer, wine and spirits, food specials, live music, giveaways and more. Aug. 8 from 4-7 pm. Free. Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar, 14300 W. SR Hwy 2. (818-1547) PICKLING 101: MAKING YOUR OWN STAPLES Learn how to pickle and ferment the produce and fresh veggies that abound in the Inland Northwest in a hands-on session that also covers the probiotic and health benefits of pickled foods and more. Aug. 8, 5:30 pm. $40.

Glorious Artisan Bakery, 1516 W. Riverside. howglorious.com (720-7546)

MUSIC

SUMMER YOUTH ORCHESTRA The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s end-of-summer camp orchestra performance. Aug. 2, 2-4 pm. $5/student; $10/adult. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. sandpointconservatory.org CALISTA KAZUKO A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for cinematic genre-bending, Calista studied classical/jazz piano and composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Aug. 3, 7:30 pm. By donation. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. (326-9516) SCENIC 6 FIDDLE SHOW The 25th annual fiddle show. Opening is the Potlatch Jr Jammers, a fiddling youth group led by Idaho and national champion fiddler Mabel Vogt. Approx. 25 area musicians are expected to perform. Aug. 3, 6 pm. $5; kids free. Potlatch, Idaho. (208-875-0947) SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: AN EVENING WITH THE COWBOYS The Panhandle Cowboys are award-winning composers of authentic Western music and cowboy poetry. Aug. 3, 7 pm. $15.

Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) SPOKANE SYMPHONY: SUNSET SYMPHONY AT ARBOR CREST This annual summer tradition features two outdoor performances by the Spokane Symphony at Arbor Crest’s historic Cliff House Estate. Aug. 7 and Aug. 18 at 7 pm. 21+. $20-$30. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. spokanesymphony.org (509-927-9463)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

HOMETOWN TEAMS: HOW SPORTS SHAPE AMERICA The Spokane Public Library celebrates the connection of hometown teams in this free traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Mu-

seum on Main Street program. Through Aug. 3; Mon-Sat during library hours Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org BONNER COUNTY PRCA RODEO The PRCA sanctions about 600 of the most elite multiple-event rodeos on the continent. Aug. 2-3 at 7 pm. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Rd. bonnercountyfair.com CIRCLING RAVEN 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Celebrate with 2004 rates, live music on the back deck and drink/appetizer specials all day. Aug. 2, 9 am-9 pm. $70/round. Circling Raven Golf Course, 27068 S. Highway 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2464) FIX A FLAT CLINIC Includes a demo and instruction of dealing with a flat tire, then participants get hands-on practice. Aug. 2, 7 pm. Wheel Sport South, 3020 S. Grand Bvld. wheelsportbikes.com (509-326-3977) NORTHWEST CUP The fastest downhill mountain bikers in the region battle it out on one of the best courses of the year. Aug. 2-3. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. nwcup.com PRESTIGE WRESTLING: THE RESPECT ISSUE Live professional wrestling featuring Shannon Moore, Su Yung, Thunder Rosa and more. Aug. 2, 7 pm. $20+. The Pin, 412 W. Sprague. thepinspokane.com (509-385-1449) LONG BRIDGE SWIM The 1.76 mileswim across Lake Pend Oreille celebrates its 25th anniversary. Proceeds support the delivery of swim lessons to youth and adults in North Idaho. Aug. 3, 9 am. Sandpoint. longbridgeswim.org MIDNIGHT CENTURY The annual “unorganized” group ride on open roads, starting at 11:59 pm for a 100 mile ride.

Aug. 3, 11:59 pm. Free. The Elk, 1931 W. Pacific Ave. midnightcentury.com SPIKE & DIG The largest co-ed outdoor 6-on-6 volleyball tournaments, with over 325 teams and 2,300 players. Aug. 3-4. $200-$230/team of seven. Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 N. Assembly St. spikeanddig.com YOGA ON THE BRIDGE Local yoga teachers guide this all-levels summer series. Meet at the orange bridge near the Looff Carrousel. No registration required. Aug. 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 9-10 am. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. spokaneriverfrontpark.com HUCKLEBERRY COLOR FUN RUN Run or walk through the forest and get covered with color. Aug. 4, 7:30 am. $37-$40. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) WEDNESDAYS IN THE WOODS Join REI, Riverside State Park and special 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 Parkway.

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THEATER

THE CARPET CAPER An original melodrama written and directed by Cyndi Bentley. July 31-Aug. 25; Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St, Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com (208-752-8871) FIRST DATE When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York

restaurant turns into a hilarious highstakes dinner. Aug. 1-4; includes dinner + show options; see site for options. $35-$55. Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway Ave. lauralittletheatricals.com (208-391-2867) ALICE IN WONDERLAND As the curtain rises, Alice slides into view at the end of her long fall down the rabbithole. Aug. 2-11; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. pullmancivictheatre.org CCT NORTH IDAHO: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN The “Greatest Movie Musical of All Time” is faithfully and lovingly adapted from the original award-winning screenplay. Aug. 2-3 at 7 pm; Aug. 3-4 at 3 pm. $15-$20. Post Falls High School, 2832 E. Poleline Ave. cytnorthidaho.org (208-930-1001) MARK TWAIN’S THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE A pop-up play featuring a cast from the Pullman Civic Theatre. Aug. 3, 7 pm. $7. Tekoa Empire Theatre, 126 S. Crosby St. tekoaempiretheatre.com (509-284-2000) THE TEMPEST A performance staged as the culmination of a youth drama camp hosted by the University of Idaho. Aug. 3, 4 pm. Free, registration requested. East City Park, 900 E. Third St. uidaho.edu/class/theatre LES MISERABLES Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical. Aug. 6-11, times vary. $50-$98. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. wcebroadway.com COEUR D’ALENE SUMMER THEATRE: SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE Featuring the music of Leiber and Stoller and set in an idealized 1950s setting, this scintillating musical revue illuminates a golden age of American culture. Aug. 8-25; WedSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$49.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com

ARTS

FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Aug. 2 from 5-8 pm. Additional details at firstfridayspokane.org WORKING DRAWINGS Featuring works by artist George Wray, University of Idaho College of Art + Architecture professor emeritus. Aug. 8-Sept. 30; gallery open Mon-Fri 8 am-5 pm. Reception Sept. 18 from 5-7 pm. Third Street Gallery, City Hall, 206 E. Third St., Moscow. ci.moscow.id.us/230/ThirdStreet-Gallery (208-883-7036)

WORDS

3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s First Friday open mic series. Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. Aug. 2 and Sep. 6. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) DROP IN & WRITE Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm. Free.

Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm.

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