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will never learn to pen my S like hers. That 1940s scribe. The upright spine of the stem line, the top loop leaning back ever so casually, making the whole letter seem as if it’s falling, though it definitely is not. The bottom loop is a long skirt caught mid-swirl and the flare at the
end is her leg kicking finally free or her gesturing palm saying here, it’s yours. My mother’s is a Gone with the Wind S. My mother’s S is her at the stove canning peaches, tomatoes, green beans. The back of her hand to her forehead where thoughts like, what
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I do for this family, pass before a timer reminds her to lift the jars from the steaming water. Her S’s final swash was the pop of lids as jars cooled. A check off the list of things to do. A list never written down. And see the way her S stands apart? Alone at the beginning. Space, almost, for another letter. Though her S is indelibly important to the whole, the others are connected: w to e, e to d, and so on. Her S is leaning back as if trying to see the h, or maybe all the way to the P. Her S is a mother duck following her ducklings. Then again, maybe this is an S I never knew. She’s looking back, away from the smaller letters and the pregnant second loop. But what do I make of that slash? Does my mother’s S regret? Is there a word she wished to plural? The line doubles back on itself, cuts through its middle, makes an interdictory mark, the symbol for NO. Only here does the character seem rushed, as if dashed off. No. This is not right. I can see how pen was tenderly lifted from the paper, just as she raised each thin cake from the griddle and placed them on our wide breakfast plates, withdrawing the spatula cautiously so as not to tear. My mother’s S would never say no. My mother’s S always asked, Seconds?
“How quick my S tangos but with none of her flair. The last of my letter simply coils into itself, like a surreptitious snake or a timidly wound crepe.” This S is my mother sitting on the red line of a recipe card, her arms bracing her curves as she looks down at her instructions, watching if I will get the recipe right. There are only five ingredients, I hear her say. Then sift, stir, pour. Etcetera. But look at how my S’s have turned out. The first stroke leans forward, headlong. Eager, it seems, to catch the other letters (or drive them away). Not one loop. No circle closing. How quick my S tangos but with none of her flair. The last of my letter simply coils into itself, like a surreptitious snake or a timidly wound crepe. And yet, something of her S remains in mine. That lithe spine. Steadfast and flexible. Surely this, I learned from her. n CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals as well as several anthologies. She resides in the mountains of west-central Idaho.
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he days are getting shorter. The air a little brisker. Students are back in class. As university professors roll up their sleeves for a new school year, Gonzaga environmental professor Brian Henning is preparing once again to fight for a sustainable future. Henning is a professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Gonzaga and is the faculty leader of Fossil Free Gonzaga, which is a campaign to divest Gonzaga from the fossil fuel industry. With class back in session, we caught up with Henning to discuss his plans for the new school year, divestment and more. The responses below have been lightly edited for length and clarity. INLANDER: Last year, it seemed like you made progress in the divestment movement, but ultimately the university declined. What happened and what comes next? HENNING: Last year, Gonzaga’s Board of Trustees agreed to take a more deliberate approach to considering the social and environmental practices of the companies it supports through its endowment. However, despite the unified support from students, faculty and staff, the Gonzaga Board of Trustees voted against fossil fuel divestment. The student leaders of Fossil Free Gonzaga will continue their campaign until Gonzaga’s board pledges meaningful fossil fuel divestment with a responsible mode and tempo. To the layperson, what is “divestment” and what does it mean? Like most universities, Gonzaga has an endowment. These are usually funds that have been gifted to the institution by those who believe in and support our mission. Institutions do not draw directly from the endowment, but instead invest those funds and use a portion of the profits to fund student scholarships and other university expenses. In the context of Gonzaga’s endowment, it is the decision to end or no longer invest in companies or sectors that are “inimical to the values the university espouses.” The Fossil Free Gonzaga campaign has requested that “Gonzaga University’s Board of Trustees commit by 2020 to divest Gonzaga’s
endowment from the current 200 most carbon-intensive companies. Doing so will formally recognize the reality and urgency of the climate crisis and show fidelity to our Jesuit, Catholic, humanistic mission and to our endowment Investment Policy and Guidelines.” Fossil Free Gonzaga wants the university to align its endowment with its values. As a professor of environmental studies, what are you most excited for about the new school year? What are you most challenged by? I have the honor of teaching environmental ethics, which invites students to consider what their most deeply held value commits are, whether they are living up to them, and what they might do now and in the future to embody them more fully. This work is as rewarding as it is challenging. I find the passion and courage of our students to be an ongoing source of inspiration and motivation. Big picture question: Climate change seems like its at the forefront of our national discourse, and yet it often feels overlooked. Where do you think we are in terms of addressing it? As the climate changes and we experience ever-larger storms, floods, droughts and wildfires, Americans are coming to realize that we ignore the climate crisis at our own peril. The effects of this are starting to show up in our political discussions. For the first time in our nation’s history, polling has climate change among the top issues defining our national presidential election. Locally, people in Spokane are increasingly concerned about climate change and this is starting to affect local elections as well. The local climate action group 350 Spokane, of which I am a founding member, has worked hard this election cycle to help collect information on local candidates’ views on climate change and share them with voters. We are co-hosting the first ever Spokane Candidates Climate Change Forum (the C3 Forum, Oct. 2), which will bring together candidates for Spokane mayor, City Council president and City Council to talk about their views on global warming and what they would do about it if elected to represent us. Contrary to how it is commonly presented, climate change is not primarily a partisan issue. n
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Spokane Valley Republican Rep. Matt Shea faces a growing chorus of people calling for his resignation. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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young child cries out between action items as families and local business leaders pack into the Whitman County commission chambers in late February. At least two dozen residents had come to speak on a pending permit for a new 3.5acre marijuana processing facility south of Pullman. Neighbors argue they don’t want the area to become a “Mecca” for marijuana. They tell the county commissioners that cannabis grows can come with noxious odors, increased water usage, higher traffic, potential crime, lower property values and unknown medical risks. “We have no idea what the health impacts may be for my children, for your children, for the entire county,” a local physician says. “Marijuana is not safe. … I don’t want to be part of a randomized control trial of how marijuana’s going to impact my family’s health.” Several of the county’s largest employers — Washington State University, Pullman Regional Hospital and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories — send representatives to oppose the permit and call for tighter regulations on cannabis producers. A biological chemistry professor warns commissioners that aerosolized marijuana particles could drift over to the nearby university dairy operation and contaminate its milk supply. “We’re very concerned at WSU,” he says, “that that will lead to a significant negative impact both on Ferdinand’s ice cream as well as Cougar Gold cheese, which for us is a big deal.” ...continued on next page
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Dewey Scientific’s permit application had sparked a local reckoning with weed. Commissioners later pass a six-month moratorium on new or expanded marijuana permitting that blocks the start-up from going forward. Another longtime producer also gets shut down while moving to a new location. Sitting through the public comments, Paul Mihalyov, a cofounder of Dewey Scientific and a WSU Ph.D. graduate, appears discouraged. He shakes his head. “It was absolutely the last of our intentions to step on the toes of anybody,” he tells the crowd. “We absolutely did not want this to turn into what it has and we hope to be able to be respectful members of the community.”
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even years after Washington voters legalized marijuana and five years after shops started selling it recreationally, cannabis continues to split rural communities that rely on agriculture, but consider weed an affront to family values. The three Whitman County commissioners, all farmers, say they voted against Initiative 502 to legalize cannabis. While some cities and counties enacted strict zoning or outright bans, Whitman County has treated marijuana the same as other horticulture crops such as hops or fruit trees. Opponents say marijuana license holders have come to see the county as an easier place to operate. The state Liquor and Cannabis Board now lists 12 active producer licenses in Whitman County, which includes Pullman, the county’s largest city. Commissioner Michael Largent says the sudden backlash to Dewey Scientific’s zoning permit caught many local officials by surprise. As he scrolls through the dozens of emails he has received on the marijuana debate, Largent says he appreciates citizens sharing their concerns. Officials say they have learned a lot in the six months since they issued the moratorium and they hope to put together fair regulations on future cannabis zoning. LETTERS “There are a lot of misSend comments to conceptions and things thrown editor@inlander.com. around with marijuana,” he says. “[But] this is a land-use issue, not an opinion poll on whether smoking marijuana is good for you.” Largent calls the moratorium a pause on new or expanded activity so officials can consider their options for limiting cannabis odors, setting buffer zones or mitigating other potential impacts. On Sept. 3, commissioners will likely renew the moratorium for another six months. But the “pause” shut down one local producer, Moonlight Growers, when it was forced to move shortly after the moratorium went into effect. Even though Moonlight sought to consolidate with another local grower and reduce its overall crop footprint, officials reportedly blocked the permitting as a potential expansion. Moonlight Growers posted in April they had already destroyed their marijuana inventory and purchased construction materials for the move, but were denied. “[We] are left without a home,” the company posted, “and no time to find a new one. … This has left a bitter taste in our mouths regarding Washington state and the recreational cannabis regulatory framework.” County officials say the grow eventually received approval to move, but the operation has remained in flux under different management.
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large, red binder dominates the center of County Planner Alan Thomson’s desk. It contains copies of all the city and county ordinances on marijuana zoning across the state. Thomson says he’s working with the county planning commission to draft new local regulations. “We had no idea that this was going to happen,” he says of the recent debate. “Things looked like it was moving smoothly and we had a number of businesses operating in the county. Then all of a sudden the floor fell out from under us.”
Whitman County zones all land as agricultural use by default. Since the county classified marijuana as an agricultural product, it meant producers could operate anywhere as long as they met state guidelines on distances from schools, parks or other specific locations. Thomson says his office is now looking to clarify where such grows can operate without creating problems with neighbors. Some draft rules would require a minimum parcel of two acres for indoor grows and 10 acres for outdoors grows. Potential rules might require air filtration systems, light dampening and 1,000-foot setbacks from any property lines.
“This is a land-use issue, not an opinion poll on whether smoking marijuana is good for you.” The planning commission has debated in recent months what constitutes an “excessive” smell and who would respond to complaints. With other agricultural complaints, county officials often refer homeowners to a Code of the West-style document on their deed called the Certificate of Adjacent Agricultural Use. The contract basically signs away a homeowner’s right to complain about farming when they build a house out in farmland. “Residents of property within the vicinity of agricultural lands should be prepared to accept such inconvenience or discomfort from normal, necessary farm and ranch operations,” the certificate states. “In the event of conflict, the residential property owner recognizes the preference to resolve it in favor of farm and ranch practices.” Thomson notes the certificate refers to activities allowed under state as well as federal law, so it does not seem to apply to marijuana cultivation. Commissioner Largent says county officials can drop the moratorium any time once they finalize workable regulations. Or they could still decide to completely ban it. They do not want to rush the decision, knowing it’s unlikely they can please everyone. “As with anything in zoning,” he says, “somebody’s ox is going to get gored.”
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ewey Scientific markets itself as a research facility dedicated to breeding consistent and reliable clones for selling to other growers. They emphasize their experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. They would operate under a license transferring from Chelan County after officials there enacted strict limits on zoning and operations. The Dewey partners previously received a building permit to put in the state-mandated fencing around their grow. Since they wanted to both grow and process marijuana, they also sought a zone change to convert part of the property from agricultural to light industrial. The planning commission unanimously recommended the change. Then the letters and public comments started. Dewey Scientific recently declined an interview, citing scheduling conflicts. CEO Jordan Zager wrote in an email the company looks forward to supporting farmers, creating jobs and contributing to local tax revenue. As it turns out, they can still grow marijuana at their location. The angry comments and the moratorium stopped the zone change for the processing operations, not the growing. Since the company had already applied and received its fencing permit, state law considers them “vested” under the old rules for agricultural zoning. County officials sent Dewey Scientific a letter on Aug. 14 confirming they had the right to grow marijuana. The rest of the debate will go on. “We … ask that you continue to follow the development of local regulations for growing, processing, and retail of marijuana,” the letter states. “We would be grateful if you would strive to meet the intent of the new regulations in any of your endeavors.” n
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POVERTY AND OBESITY A Washington State University study of children in Spokane elementary schools found that schools with poorer students had more than double the OBESITY rate than more affluent schools. “That’s a shocking gap and it’s really discouraging,” says Pablo Monsivais (above), an associate professor at the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the study. On the positive side, in the 28 elementary schools in the study, the rate of obesity was 15.5 percent. That’s 3 percent lower than the national childhood obesity rate of 18.5 percent. Still, the study adds to existing research that says socioeconomic factors are linked with obesity both in children and adults. “Our study is basically like a first step in revealing not only the big health inequities within elementary schools, but also revealing the environmental inequities within elementary schools,” Monsivais says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
TAKE IT TO THE SUPREME COURT A local Superior Court judge recently ruled against a lawsuit filed by the Washington State Association of Counties and the Spokane County Board of Commissioners against a new state law that would increase the SIZE OF THE COMMISSION and change how commissioners run for office. The law would add two members to Spokane County’s Board of Commissioners, initiate a bipartisan redistricting process, and require that all five members run in their districts in both primary and general elections. Currently, Spokane County commissioners run countywide in general elections after running in their individual districts in primary elections, a system that critics argue stifles ideological diversity on the commission since the county’s voter base skews conservative and that the commissioners’ opposition to it stems from personal political preservation. The commissioners are eager to appeal the ruling and intend to get the lawsuit before the Washington state Supreme Court. (JOSH KELETY)
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SHEA’S ASSISTANTS In May, Rene’ Holaday, REP. MATT SHEA’S outspoken legislative assistant, gave a speech at a rally to turn Eastern Washington into its own state, dubbed Liberty. She made headlines when she said that a number of state Republican representatives, after a session dominated by Democratic legislation, believed it was “either going to be bloodshed or “Liberty state.” The House fired her shortly after, she says, claiming that her participation in the event was an “ethics violation.” And last week, Shea’s newest legislative assistant, Shea Layton, showed up to a meeting of Spokane County’s local Complete Count Committee, a community effort led by the Innovia Foundation to make sure undercounted groups were included by the census. But Innovia CEO Shelly O’Quinn suggested to Layton and Shea (above) that due to concerns about recent media reports about Shea’s ties to extremist groups, they might want to not attend the meeting at all. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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State officials have cut ties with Aacres Spokane, impacting 117 clients. Embassy Management, above, is Aacres’ parent company.
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disabled Spokane woman arrived at the Professional gave a woman a jug of vinegar hospital in February with her insides instead of laxative solution, but also how Aacres burning. staff failed to report what happened to the state She was wheeled in around 8 am by two despite being mandatory reporters of potential employees of Aacres Spokane, which provides abuse or neglect. As a result, DSHS cancelled its supported living services. They carried a half-full contract with Aacres for in-home services two jug of laxative solution, as she was supposed to weeks ago, and last week cancelled two more be there for a colonoscopy appointment. But contracts with Aacres — impacting 117 clients — something was wrong. The jug should have been due to what the state says is noncompliance with empty. And worse, the 64-year-old woman was laws and regulations. wheezing, slurring her words and bleeding from Still, the state refuses to answer basic quesher rectum, according to medical records dated tions about her death. DSHS denied an Inlander Feb. 27, 2019. records request for names of The Aacres employees thought any employees involved. And LETTERS they knew the problem, records it won’t say if there was any Send comments to indicate. When they picked the state-sanctioned discipline of editor@inlander.com. woman up that morning to go to the the employee who gave the doctor, they saw that the laxative vulnerable woman vinegar that solution wasn’t empty, even though the overnight ended up killing her. shift reported giving it to the woman. Then they Kristina Hammond, who leads the Lutheran found an empty bottle of Heinz cleaning vinegar Community Services Elder Justice Project, says on top of the recycling bin, according to state Deagencies may be tight-lipped about the situation partment of Social and Health Services (DSHS) as they conduct investigations. But she says the records. public should know when something like this But by the time Aacres staff told the hospital happens. that the woman may have drank the vinegar, it “I definitely think people should know what’s was too late. The woman was sent to the emergoing on,” Hammond says. “The more the public gency room. She was turning blue, and her pulse knows, the more they can help their loved ones.” was fading. Within minutes, she was dead. An But six months since the death of the woman, autopsy later confirmed she died of an “irreversit remains a mystery who is being held accountible death of tissue” and “inflammation” of her able. esophagus, stomach and small bowel, due to the accidental ingestion of vinegar. hen Betty Schwieterman, head of the The woman’s death prompted an investiOffice of Developmental Disabilities gation by DSHS that not only describes the Ombuds that oversees services to account above of how an Aacres Direct Support people with developmental disabilities, first read
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the DSHS report explaining how a woman died by ingesting vinegar, she was shocked. “I can’t even imagine how that happens,” she thought. Neither could other Aacres employees. While nobody thought any harm was done intentionally, an employee identified in the DSHS report as the house manager claims they showed the night shift employee the correct container for the laxative solution. A separate employee said the two jugs looked “nothing alike.” The vinegar was clearly labeled: “Heinz All Natural Cleaning Vinegar, Special Cleaning Strength,” with 6 percent acidity. The staffer who administered the fatal dose of vinegar, and who is unnamed in the DSHS report, admitted they did not read directions left on the white board on how to administer the client’s medications and did not read the label, the report says. There don’t appear to be any criminal charges. DSHS says the Spokane Police Department was notified of the death but wouldn’t offer any further information. The Spokane Police Department, however, has not been able to confirm if they received any information on a case like this. And the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office tells the Inlander they have had no cases fitting the description of the incident in the last six months. The employee who gave the woman vinegar was fired due to “violation of the medication administration policy.” Three other staffers were given warnings for not properly administering medications. But Robert Efford, CEO of Aacres parent company, Embassy Management, doesn’t know of any criminal proceedings. “Medication errors do not require a police report,” Efford says in an email. “We collaborate with law enforcement as requested on any matters they request our cooperation, but at this time we don’t believe there is a criminal complaint against this former staff.” Hammond, who assists vulnerable adults through the legal process for Lutheran Community Services, says it generally shouldn’t matter if it’s in the medical field or not. A crime is a crime. “It’s supposed to go along the lines of any crime,” Hammond says. “If it meets the definition of an assault — whether it’s an elderly or disabled person — it shouldn’t be any different.” Meanwhile, Adult Protective Services, which investigates reports of abuse, abandonment and neglect of vulnerable adults, says it can’t confirm or deny the existence of any investigation. And the Department of Health, which conducts medical investigations, wouldn’t confirm if there’s any investigation without a name of an employee, which DSHS won’t offer. Efford says of Aacres that “we are all personally distressed” by the death of the client “and the allegations made.” “We don’t believe that the errors made by one staff trained in proper procedures represents the excellent work of hundreds of excellent staff members who provide caring support each and every day to those we serve,” Efford days.
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t’s not just this tragic incident that’s responsible for DSHS cutting its contracts with Aacres. Embassy Management used to run S.L. Start & Associates, another supported living provider, until DSHS revoked its license last year. Many of those clients were then placed under the care of Aacres Washington. But in addition to the woman’s death earlier this year, DSHS found incidents of “isolation and mental abuse” of clients that were not reported, in addition to other issues with medication administration. When asked about this, Efford points to a high turnover rate facing human services across the nation, which he calls a crisis. “It’s very difficult to drive high quality, consistent outcomes when providers may turnover their entire direct care workforce every 18 months,” he says. Schwieterman, head of the Office of Developmental Disabilities Ombuds, says her focus now is on ensuring clients affected by the terminated contracts can find a different provider. “We’re concerned, and we want to push to make sure that every person knows they’re going to have a provider,” she says. “It’s very uncertain times.” n wilsonc@inlander.com
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‘Consolation Prize’? After his failed presidential bid, Gov. Jay Inslee plans to stay in office, but Republicans see vulnerability BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL
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or a while, 2020 was looking like it could be a big shakeup year for Washington state politics. With Gov. Jay Inslee eyeing the White House, the state’s highest office was looking like it might be up for grabs. As Inslee toured the country and took the national stage for early debates, current state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz, and King County Executive Dow Constantine were all waiting for the go-ahead to duke it out against Republican contenders for governor. In turn, eyeing their state and local offices were folks like progressive Seattle City Councilwoman Lorena González, who wanted to continue Ferguson’s legacy of high-profile lawsuits against the Trump administration, and state Sen. Christine Rolfes, a Democrat from Bainbridge Island, who this summer announced she was exploring running for lands commissioner. But then last week, Inslee announced that, actually, he’d be ending his presidential bid. He’d hit a benchmark of more than 130,000 individual donors but failed to get 2 percent support in national polls, a requirement to make it into the next round of debates. The next day, he confirmed he’d run for a third term as governor. “The state of Washington has provided the nation a roadmap for climate action, innovation, and economic growth. And we’re not done yet,” Inslee said on Twitter Aug. 22. “I want to continue to stand with you in opposing Donald Trump and rejecting his hurtful and divisive agenda, while strengthening and enhancing Washington state’s role as a progressive beacon for the nation.” The ripple effect was swift: Ferguson announced he’d stay put, as did Franz and Constantine. González, who’d officially announced her candidacy for AG just two weeks before, took her name out of the running. Similarly, in announcing her interest in the lands commissioner gig, Rolfes had stipulated she would only run if Franz wasn’t running. For Republicans who’d been monitoring the potential openings in the highest state offices, all of those dominoes falling into place meant one thing: Go for the governor. “Gov. Inslee is the most vulnerable of the potential Democratic candidates,” says Caleb Heimlich, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. “He’s sent the message he doesn’t want this office. Governor of Washington state is not a consolation prize.”
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hile the Republican Party always eyes offices like state attorney general with the goal of putting forward strong conservative candidates, the 2020 gubernatorial election will be their main focus, Heimlich says. “I certainly think this scenario gives us the best chance of winning the governor’s mansion,” Heimlich says.
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As Gov. Jay Inslee returns his focus to this Washington, some see his bid for a third term as an opportunity for a new direction. He points to issues during Inslee’s two-term tenure, including increased traffic congestion and a crisis in mental health treatment, with the federal government no longer certifying Western State Hospital as meeting acceptable treatment levels, resulting in a loss of tens of millions in funding. A computer glitch had the Department of Corrections release prisoners too early, and Heimlich says there’s been a lack of leadership in helping communities tackle growing levels of homelessness. “We’ve had a governor who hasn’t been focused on what’s happening under his watch,” Heimlich says. “If you compare it to a corporation, and you’re having these problems while the CEO is looking for a different job, you’re probably going to change CEOs.” For similar reasons, the Seattle Times Editorial Board called for Inslee to step down and let other progressives join the race. “Based on his comments last week, when Inslee vowed to continue crusading against President Donald Trump from Olympia, it’s unclear whether Inslee is ready to step off the national stage and fully commit to clearing the backlog on the governor’s desk,” the Times op-ed states. “If Inslee relinquished the scepter, it would have a cascading effect on the political organization chart. … That would spur healthy competition, new policy debates and a system refresh at multiple levels of government.” But many others supported Inslee’s announcement to seek a third term. In addition to positive statements from Ferguson, Franz and Constantine, Inslee received support from environmental and progressive groups. Washington Conservation Voters, which hasn’t started its official 2020 campaign endorsement process yet, issued a statement lauding Inslee’s work on the environment. “WCV was proud to have been the first organization to endorse Jay Inslee for Governor in 2012,” CEO Joan Crooks said in a written statement. “Over the last six years, his tireless work has helped make Washington a leader in the fight against climate change and has built healthier communities across our state.”
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ndeed, Inslee positioned himself as the presidential contender most focused on addressing climate change, pointing in part to his work in Washington
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and in Congress. During this year’s legislative session, he helped push the most progressive climate policies the state has seen in a decade, including successful passage of a law requiring the state get 100 percent of its electricity from carbon neutral sources by 2045. Interestingly, the last three-term governor in Washington was Republican Dan Evans, who served from 1965 to 1977 and also focused on progressive environmental policy. Evans created the state Department of Ecology in early 1970, before the national Environmental Protection Agency was even created. Inslee also helped push for a carbon tax or fee aimed at reducing pollution from transportation fuels, but both carbon measures that gathered enough signatures to make it on the ballot were soundly rejected by voters. That’s not surprising to Heimlich, who says the carbon measures’ failure signals that voters are LETTERS feeling pinched. While Send comments to state Republicans supeditor@inlander.com. port addressing climate change, he says there’s also a counter priority of “making sure the government’s not using that as a guise to take more of your money.” “There’s a balanced approach. We certainly want to incentivize good stewardship,” Heimlich says. “But we don’t want to burden families struggling to get by with higher and higher taxes next year.” Among the Republican candidates who’ve announced so far are state Sen. Phil Fortunato, who represents parts of King and Pierce counties, and Republic police chief Loren Culp, who made national headlines for saying he’d refuse to enforce new state gun laws that included raising the legal age to buy a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21. The state Republican Party doesn’t endorse candidates for governor, Heimlich says, instead trusting voters to make the right choice via the top-two primary. That said, they’ll offer candidates their support to make sure that a strong conservative can run against Inslee. “We’re very optimistic that on the Republican side we’ll have a chance to provide a new direction for our state after 2020,” Heimlich says. n samanthaw@inlander.com
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blame the Catholic Church for my obsession with college football. I was a wee lad when it started, living in a town called Knob Noster, Missouri, back when my family hadn’t yet splurged on a color TV, let alone cable that would get us more than three channels to watch. One of those channels inexplicably ran reruns of Notre Dame football games every Sunday morning, and as an Irish-Catholic schoolboy, I was required to watch under penalty of excommunication. An early move to Nebraska meant indoctrination into a new religion, that of Cornhusker football. I was still an altar boy on Sundays, but cheering for Notre Dame was history now that I’d found a team that everyone in the state — no matter what religion, ethnicity or social status — could root for together. Related: There’s not a lot to do in Nebraska. Later came a high school move west, and I eventually attended the University of Utah and my fandom reached a new level. Unlike Nebraska, tickets to watch games in person were readily available. I started attending as a student, and when I returned to Salt Lake City later for a job, I bought season tickets. For more than a decade, I spent several Saturdays each fall cooking large animals and drinking cheap beer until kickoff. Those were good times I still try to revisit at least once a year, with a little less meat and better beer. The community one finds around football fandom is something even non-football folks can understand. Nerding out with friends over anything — music, anime, politics, your sportsball of choice — generally beats nerding out alone (all due respect to introverts and socially anxious Inlander readers). Football fandom has gotten a lot more complicated as I’ve aged thanks to the knowledge we now have about the damage players are doing to their brains. And big-time football is clearly a financial boon to institutions allegedly designed for higher education, with profits built on the backs of unpaid athletes with professional dreams only a miniscule few will ever achieve. And yet… and yet… I can’t resist planting myself in front of the TV as soon as college football season starts. It’s an addiction I’ll readily cop to, and in the next few pages you’ll meet some of the Inland Northwest’s superfans who share an obsession with the game. Some found football through their families, others through attending a new school or meeting a significant other. But they all find themselves spending their autumns enthralled by the action on the fields in Cheney, Moscow, Pullman and Spokane. After reading their stories, you just might want to join them at their next tailgate party. n
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ROAD ROMANCE
BEFORE & AFTER THE GAMES
LINFIELD GRAD KRISTINE JOHNSON FELL IN LOVE WITH A COACH AND FOUND HERSELF A WHITWORTH FAN BY DAN NAILEN
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first road trip early in a relationship can be a real test of whether a couple is meant to last, and it’s hard to imagine a roadie more fraught with potential emotional peril than one undertaken by Kristine Johnson and her now-husband Matt in the fall of 2012. He was the running backs coach for Whitworth College’s football team, she was an exercise specialist working in physical therapy in Spokane. The road trip was to Linfield College in Oregon, where Matt would help lead the Pirates against the Northwest Conference powerhouse Wildcats. Linfield also happens to be Kristine’s alma mater, so no matter how that game seven years ago turned out, one of them was going to be disappointed. How they reacted to that disappointment would determine just how long the road trip back to Spokane would feel. Given that they’re now married, you know this story has a happy ending. Not only have they been hitched for three years now, but Whitworth has found itself a new fan in an alum from their biggest rival. “I support them 100 percent, I love it when they win,” Kristine Johnson says of her husband’s team, while admitting she hasn’t totally turned her back on the school where she played soccer. “It’s like a win-win for me when they play Linfield. Win or lose that game, it’s totally a win-win for me. It’s basically just a happy game when Linfield plays Whitworth because I cheer for both sides.”
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rowing up in Port Orchard, Washington, Kristine says her family was pretty sporty in general, and she learned a bit about football thanks to her grandma’s Seahawks
season tickets. Of course, her knowledge of the game ramped up considerably after she and Matt connected online. “I learned a heck of a lot more about football after I met my husband,” Kristine says. She also learned a lot about the tailgating culture around football because her own athletic career at Linfield kept her from seeing many games despite that school’s vibrant fan base. At Whitworth, the scene is growing as the team has enjoyed remarkable success the last decade or so, including beating Linfield for the first time in 11 years in 2018. She hits every Whitworth home game, and her in-laws will often join her and groups of players’ parents in a parking lot they’ve dubbed “the forest” for pregame festivities. A bottle of wine, salmon, cheese and crackers might be on the menu when she’s joined by friends and family; when she hits a game solo, it’s more like a breakfast sandwich to-go and a “nice little coffee” to brave the November temperatures at Whitworth’s Pine Bowl. Last year the Pirates won the conference and went to the second round of the Division III playoffs, and Kristine is excited to see how the energy carries over to this year’s team as they try to defend their NWC title. She knows how her husband will react either way, something she learned on that long-ago first road trip — he’s a level-headed guy who keeps the games in perspective. “He gets excited and he gets disappointed, but it lasts for about 10 minutes.” This year is likely to have more good excitement than bad for the Pirates, and the Johnsons. No matter who wins the WhitworthLinfield game. n
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FOR THIRD-GENERATION EAG KELSEY HATCH-BRECEK, EWU FOOTBALL MIGHT BE HER “FAVORITE THING ON THE PLANET” BY DAN NAILEN
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ang around Cheney and the Eastern Washington football program for a while and you’ll inevitably hear Coach Aaron Best refer to one of his players as an EKG — an Eastern Kind of Guy. Kelsey Hatch-Brecek is the type of dedicated fan who requires an expansion of the EKG definition, because the 37-year-old event planner and Eag-fan-for-life is definitely an Eastern Kind of Gal. A third-generation Eagle, Hatch-Brecek and most of her extended family live within a mile of Roos Field, attend every home game and several road games each year, and collect all manner of Eag-related paraphernalia, from framed game photos to jerseys memorializing favorite players past and present. “It’s a family affair,” Hatch-Brecek says of her fall football seasons. “We all have season tickets, we all sit together. That’s what I think makes it so cool. Yeah, we love Eastern. We love everything about Eastern. But we get to do it together, and that’s what makes it super special.” She even waited for the family to go on a road trip to Cal Poly to tell her mom (and her aunt and her grandma) that she was pregnant with her now-5-year-old son. While that was probably the most memorable road trip the family’s undertaken for a ball game, there have been plenty of others, from national championship games in Frisco, Texas, to season openers like this year’s game against UW in Seattle. When we talked, Hatch-Brecek was trying to convince someone in the family to make the cross-country trip to Florida for the Eags’ game against Jacksonville State; apparently, that sort of distance is the only thing that will keep most of her family from joining her. “I hate flying by myself, but it just feels wrong not to go,” Hatch-Brecek says.
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atch-Brecek starts every home game day in Cheney pretty much the same way, and typically after a pretty crappy night’s sleep. It’s not necessarily nerves that keep her up, she says, but excitement to get going with the game-day fun because “this is my favorite thing on the planet.” “I’m up really early, and I always post ‘It’s Game Day!’ on social media, typically hours before everyone’s
up. And two years ago I started getting these donuts made that are Eastern, so it says ‘Go Eags!’ or ‘beat whoever it is we’re playing.’ ‘Stay Salty,’ all the hashtags the team’s had. That’s something a lot of people look forward to.” While tailgate parties are great for socializing with her fellow Eags, Hatch-Brecek says she’s too wound up to eat much beyond a trusty bag of Sour Patch Kids; she leaves the chili and Scotch eggs to her relatives. Watching the pre-game party scene evolve and grow as the team’s established itself as an annual national and Big Sky Conference power has been rewarding, although she admits to brief worries that it might get too big and she hopes it doesn’t get overcrowded. Then she checks herself: “It’s such a great atmosphere that I want everyone to experience it. “There’s just this negative connotation a little bit about Eastern,” she explains. “It’s like, ‘Eh, it’s not Pac12.’ ‘Eh, it’s not Gonzaga basketball.’ Like, geez guys, we’re really good. Really good.” That’s not just the opinion of an Eag fanatic — HatchBrecek knows her football. She’s one of five administrators nationally — and the only woman — of FCSFansNation.com and its affiliated social media sites, all dedicated to dissecting everything about the Football Championship Subdivision (what us old timers still call 1-AA). Over the course of our conversation, she recalls names and yearsold game scores like a living, breathing EWU football database. Looking forward this fall, Hatch-Brecek is hopeful of the kind of year the Eags hatched last season, when they made an unlikely run to the national championship game, overcoming myriad injuries along the way. The team is picked to win the conference and starts the season No. 4 in the nation, so expectations are high as always, and Hatch-Brecek acknowledges feeling a little entitled to success after the run the team’s put together the last 10 years or so. “We’re the second-most successful FCS team there is this decade … we’re right after North Dakota State,” Hatch-Brecek says of the Eags’ success and the Bison’s seven national titles since 2011. “As a fan that’s been there a long time, it’s really cool to see. It’s so much more fun now. Hey, winning is fun!” n
EWU EAGLES
THE BIG STORY: After missing the playoffs two
years ago, the Eagles emphatically corrected the ship last season despite losing their superstar quarterback Gage Gubrud (now a WSU Coug) to injury. Eric Barriere stepped onto the field and helped lead coach Aaron Best’s troops all the way to a national champi-
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onship game appearance against North Dakota State. Expectations are naturally sky-high for this season even as the Eags have to replace 25 departed seniors, but given the team’s run of success over the past decade, meeting and exceeding expectations is as much a part of the program as that red turf in Cheney.
THE BIG GAME: It’s a non-conference game
against a national power that will go a long way in determining the Eagles seed if they make the FCS playoffs. Nope, not the opener against Pac-12 heavyweight UW, but the trip to Florida against FCS preseason No. 6 Jacksonville State.
2019 SCHEDULE
Aug. 31 at Washington Sept. 7 vs. Lindenwood Sept. 14 at Jacksonville St. Sept. 21 at Idaho Sept. 28 vs. North Dakota Oct. 5 at Sacramento St. Oct. 12 vs. Northern Colorado Oct. 26 at Montana Nov. 2 vs. Northern Arizona Nov. 9 at Idaho St. Nov. 16 at Cal Poly Nov. 23 vs. Portland St.
2019 PREVIEW
WSU COUGARS THE BIG STORY: By any measure,
2018 was a success. The Cougs found a genuine folk hero in their battle for the quarterback position in Gardner Minshew, won a school record 11 games and the Alamo Bowl and finished ranked No. 10 in the nation. Even so, another Apple Cup loss stung, and now coach Mike Leach must find a new signal-caller to lead his loaded offense and strong defense. If the Cougs can find a new version of Minshew’s magic — with Anthony Gordon, who’s been named the Week 1 starter or perhaps in former EWU quarterback Gage Gubrud — it could be another memorable season.
THE BIG GAME: That would be the
2019 SCHEDULE
Aug. 31 vs. New Mexico St. Sept. 7 vs. Northern Colorado Sept. 13 at Houston Sept. 21 vs. UCLA Sept. 28 at Utah Oct. 12 at Arizona St. Oct. 19 vs. Colorado Oct. 26 at Oregon Nov. 9 at Cal Nov. 16 vs. Stanford Nov. 23 vs. Oregon St. Nov. 29 at Washington
Apple Cup against UW in Seattle, and not just because of the natural rivalry. Once again, that game could decide the Pac-12 North division, and winning a meaningful Apple Cup remains a must-do on Leach’s resume.
THE SPORTING LIFE SPOKANE SINGER/SONGWRITER MATT MITCHELL HAS BEEN A COUG FAN SINCE HE WAS A LITTLE KID BY DAN NAILEN
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s Matt Mitchell was growing up, his grandpa tried to indoctrinate him in two things. One was being a Republican, and one was being a WSU Cougar football fan. Only one of them took, and you can probably figure out which one by Mitchell’s shirt in the photo accompanying this story. You might know the 35-year-old Mitchell through his life as a singer/songwriter, playing throughout the Inland Northwest with his bands Trego and the Matt Mitchell Music Co. On fall Saturdays when his gig schedule doesn’t conflict with kickoff, you’ll find him either visiting Martin Stadium in Pullman or in his Spokane backyard, an extension cord connecting his TV for Coug viewing in the great outdoors. “If I’m not at the game, that’s my preferred method,” Mitchell says. Besides his grandpa, many members of Mitchell’s family went to school at WSU, including his great-grandpa, grandma and brother, Rob. He and Rob spent countless Saturdays with their grandpa cheering on the Cougs. If they weren’t in Pullman meeting grandpa’s friends at the Coug, they were at his house being inundated with all things Cougar football. “It really became this manifestation of our relationship to grandpa,” Mitchell says. “I didn’t go to WSU ...
but I’d argue that my connection to my grandpa has a stronger emotional connection than, you know, being a frat boy and having a bunch of foggy nights.” As Mitchell grew into adulthood, his Cougar fandom grew with him. WSU football days always start off with a quick memorial to the man who got him into football. “I start by texting my brother a quote from my grandpa on every game day,” Mitchell says. “He would say, ‘It’s a great, big, Cougar football afternoon!’”
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side from a few noteworthy years here and there when the Cougs made the Rose Bowl, much of Mitchell’s life before Mike Leach became WSU’s coach was spent rooting for a team that struggled. But that didn’t discourage him in the least. “I’d much rather root for the underdog,” Mitchell says. “When you’re expected to win, it’s mostly disappointment, right? For a lot of those years, it was, ‘Can we get a bowl game?’ Maybe a lot of three-win seasons. That was really rough. But you build a lot of character and learn a lot of life lessons being disappointed in life.” There hasn’t been much disappointment since Leach took over the Cougs in 2012, save for the team’s seemingly annual drubbing in the Apple Cup against UW. Mitchell certainly appreciates the winning, acknowledg-
ing that “Mike Leach is a genius in his own way,” but the pirate-obsessed coach’s allegiance to the current president is troubling for Mitchell as both a political progressive and Coug fan. “My grandpa made me a Cougar fan, but the Republican indoctrination didn’t take,” Mitchell says. “My biggest conflict with Cougar football is Leach’s Trump support.” That said, Mitchell’s Coug love precedes Leach and will remain whenever the coach moves on down the line. And Mitchell has a life full of fond Cougar memories that politics can’t spoil, from sneaking into the team’s locker room with his brother to a “National Lampoon’s horrible vacation type thing” at the 2002 Rose Bowl. Just last year, transfer quarterback Gardner Minshew gave Mitchell and his Coug fans a historic high in wins (11) and more memories that will last a lifetime. And Mitchell is confident he might be in store for more good things in 2019. “I feel way more confident of the foundation [than in the past],” Mitchell says. “The defense is going to be good. I think the offense is going to be good. Mike Leach has improved every year, essentially. It’s impressive what he does.” Mitchell’s grandpa would no doubt agree. n
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2019 PREVIEW
RENEWED RIVALRIES
IDAHO FAN MARTEN HIEMSTRA IS ANXIOUS TO SEE HOW THE VANDALS REACT TO A ROUGH FIRST YEAR BACK IN THE BIG SKY BY DAN NAILEN
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or most musicians, having your instrument literally freeze to the point where you can’t play it would be a disaster. But for Marten Hiemstra, a sub-freezing night in Boise and a frozen trombone make for one of his fondest college memories. It was the 2016 Famous Potato Bowl, and Hiemstra was there as part of the University of Idaho’s marching band. A season-ending hot streak propelled the Vandals into a bowl game for the first time in seven years, and while some of Hiemstra’s bandmates weren’t particularly excited about a December game in Boise instead of Orlando or Tempe, he was pumped. “I was like, ‘Come on, guys! It’s a bowl game! You should be happy about this!” Hiemstra says, recalling that when the Dec. 22 kickoff actually rolled around, it was about 10 or 15 degrees. “The trombone slides were freezing, so we couldn’t play them anymore. Even though it was that cold, I’d definitely do it again — in a heartbeat.” Joining the marching band as a freshman was a key point in becoming an Idaho fan for the mildmannered, now-25-year-old Hiemstra. His family has ties to the Moscow school — his mother and grandparents all worked there years ago — but as a high school kid in Newcastle, Washington, Hiemstra didn’t really have college on his agenda as graduation approached. His mom, though, had different ideas, and he found himself heading to UI seven years ago. Even though the team was struggling when he first got to town and joined the band, Hiemstra took it upon himself to become well-versed in the minutiae of Vandal football. “I kind of forced myself to become the superfan who knew everything about the team, so if somebody in the band had a question, I could answer it,” Hiemstra says. “I could answer when they asked ‘Hey, why was this flag thrown?’ or ‘Why would they do this play on this down?’”
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iemtra’s fandom remained even as he graduated in sociology in 2017 and took a job at Safeway in Pullman, and as the Idaho football program made its dramatic return to the Big Sky Conference after years playing in the “higher” Football Bowl Subdivision. Idaho was the first school to ever voluntarily drop from the FBS to the Football Championship Subdivision (what some of us still call Division 1-AA), and Hiemstra was one of many Idaho fans not happy about it when it was announced in 2016. “I watched the press conference, and I was angry,” Hiemstra recalls, adding that he soon came to accept the move and decided to make the best of it. “I got into learning about the other (Big Sky) schools, learning about the old rivalries that I might not have known about.” Playing schools from the same region of the country is better than playing a bunch of schools in Louisiana, he ultimately found, and having friends who are fans of Montana and Eastern Washington means “we can actually trash talk outside of basketball” season. Hiemstra had high expectations for the team’s first year back in the Big Sky, but the 2018 season didn’t go as planned for anyone cheering for the Vandals. As Hiemstra puts it, the team “got punched in the mouth” by teams like Idaho State and EWU. It was a humbling experience that has him excited to see how coach Paul Petrino’s team reacts this year. Besides being surprisingly competitive, the Big Sky Conference move also improved the tailgate scene at Vandals games, thanks to both visiting fans and the home team’s fans catching up with old rivals. And after four years of “working” on game days in the marching band, Hiemstra gets to truly enjoy some of the tailgating benefits of being a fan. “It’s nice because I don’t have to be ready to play four hours before the game,” Hiemstra says. “I can roll in an hour or two before the game with a few beers, have food and relax, talk with friends. And watching the band play and not having to be the one playing is nice.” n
IDAHO VANDALS THE BIG STORY: Talk about a rocky re-entry.
A 4-7 overall record — 3-5 and ninth place in the conference — is not exactly what coach Paul Petrino’s team expected when the Vandals rejoined the Big Sky conference last year. If they are going to rebound and compete for the con-
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ference title, the Vandals will need quarterbacks Mason Petrino and Colton Richardson to light it up and the Vandals defense to make just enough plays to slow down the opposition a bit; last year Idaho had games when they gave up 44, 46, 62, 63 and 79 points. Dramatic improvement on
defense is a must.
THE BIG GAME: EWU represents not only a
renewed rivalry now that Idaho is back in the Big Sky, but a Top 5 team visiting Moscow and giving the Vandals the opportunity for a signature win.
2019 SCHEDULE
Aug. 31 at Penn St. Sept. 7 vs. Central Washington Sept. 14 at Wyoming Sept. 21. vs. EWU Sept. 28 at Northern Colorado Oct. 5 vs. Weber St. Oct. 12 at Portland St. Oct. 19 vs. Idaho St. Nov. 2 vs. Cal Poly Nov. 9 at Montana Nov. 16 at Sacramento St. Nov. 23 at Northern Arizona
DANCING DANCE
THROUGH LIFE
A Spokane teen’s journey into one of the country’s best ballet schools BY RILEY UTLEY
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arris Kahler was reluctantly put into his first ballet class at age 11. By the time he was 12, he knew he wanted to make a career out of it. Now 17, he’s off to Michigan to attend Interlochen Art Academy to further his ballet career and learn from some of the finest teachers in the country. Finding the right dance partner made all the difference. At first, Harris hated ballet. It wasn’t until he was paired with his now long-time partner Ryan Ham that he really began to love it. “We had our first recital piece, and it was just walking around and bowing, but it was really fun because she was super nice to me and I totally loved it,” Harris says. After that first recital Harris was approached by his partner’s mom, Jill Ham, asking if he wanted to start dancing competitively. Sure, he responded, as long as he could still find time to ski. They found a way for Harris ...continued on next page
Spokane dancer Harris Kahler leaps into a bright future this fall. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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to juggle both his old and new passions. He’s been dancing ever since, putting in about 30 to 35 hours of practice weekly. On top of being a dancer, Harris also goes to the Community School, where he juggles classes and a job in addition to his after-school ballet training. His day begins at 5:30 am when he catches a city bus to school, where he works in the cafeteria. After a typical school day he goes to Spokane Ballet Studio until 5 or 6 pm. His mom then picks him up and takes him over to his other studio, Artistry in Motion, around 7 or 8 pm to train another hour or two. For anyone, let alone a teenager, the schedule is intense, and Harris takes it all on with enthusiasm every day. “He goes to the Community School, it’s all project-based and they have been incredibly supportive and easy to work with,” says Erika Kahler, Harris’ mom. “Last year he had to leave school an hour early a couple days a week to make it to extra ballet classes and they were amazing to him and working with his schedule to make it happen.” “It’s not just textbooks, I would hate that. School has taught us to find personal relevance in everything, so that’s what keeps me in school,” Harris says. “Knowing that the money I earn and getting up early and working will help me later on for dance. I love doing it and I want to make a career out of it.”
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hen school isn’t in session, Harris spends his summers traveling around the United States for summer intensives, which are a time to focus solely on dance and spend more hours practicing. They also serve as a chance for dancers to be with other people who have the same drive and passion for ballet. Intensives give dancers the chance to perform in front of different ballet companies and experience different ballet methods over the span of a few weeks. He has worked at the International Ballet Academy, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Ballet Arizona, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Through all of these different experiences, Harris has developed friendships and created memories that will last a lifetime. He tells a story about leading the dancers in his dorm out to a grassy hill after a rainstorm.
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They ended up playing in the mud and sliding down the hill. “It’s really fun to have all this crazy training, which is intense and hours of work, but we also get to have tons of fun going crazy and just being kids,” Harris says. “It’s such a great experience all around.” These intensives also allow Harris to have more experience with other male dancers, because in Spokane finding a male dancer as a mentor or peer is incredibly difficult. “It’s a totally different energy in the room when it’s all guys because with dance there’s a lot less tension between the guys than there is with the girls,” Harris says. “There is a lot less competition for guys just ’cause there’s not a lot of us. So, when we all get in a room, we have a great time and jump around and it’s craziness.” This was one of the leading factors in deciding to pursue dance full time and transfer into a year-long program like Interlochen’s. “I realized pretty quick that I’d probably have to send him away for training,” Erika says. “Most young dancers have to do that unless they live in New York City or Seattle or something like that.”
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he Kahlers saved money for a year for Harris to attend Interlochen. While he’s there he’ll be able to keep up with typical high school academics and dance all afternoon. Harris and his mom hope Interlochen will be a good next step to reaching his ultimate goal of being a professional dancer. He wants to be able to take his passion and share it with everyone, especially boys in Spokane who want to dance. “I think when I’m done dancing, I want to come back to Spokane and work on the programs here to make them better and more equipped, especially for guys,” Harris says. “So, say someone like me is stuck and they don’t have what they need here, this way, they wouldn’t have to leave.” Harris already has a strong passion and deep understanding of ballet, but he hopes that at Interlochen he can further develop both as a dancer and a person. “I love evoking emotions and making people feel something just by moving to music,” Harris says. “It’s so simple in principle because it’s just beats and sounds. But somehow that mixed with moving and jumping brings out strong emotions in people.” n
CULTURE | DIGEST
BOYS CLUB Amazon’s new series The Boys takes the typical superhero stories we’re so used to seeing and does a complete 180. The show is centered around a group of superheroes, reminiscent of The Justice League, called the Seven — the twist being that “heroes” are actually awful and corrupt people. This show begs the question: What happens when you capitalize on your hero-ness? It examines the ideas of celebrity, corruption and the truth in a unique and compelling way, turning modern superhero entertainment on its head and creating something more edgy, vulgar, thought-provoking and entertaining in the process. (RILEY UTLEY)
Cornhole: America’s Sport
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BY WILSON CRISCIONE
f you haven’t noticed, cornhole is taking over America. It’s at the local bar. It’s in your friend’s backyard. It’s at the office work party and at any wedding that’s worth going to. I was waiting for a flight at the Denver airport last month, and I looked outside to find the signature square-shaped bean bags leaping and spinning over a crowd of mildly entertained onlookers. During the flight, I turned on the headrest TV and it was showing professional cornhole. What the hell is happening? How has this friendly yard game turned into a phenomenon? Trey Ryder, a former competitive cornhole player who is now the media director for the American Cornole League, says cornhole has really blown up in the last two
THE BUZZ BIN
THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Aug. 30. To wit: LANA DEL REY, Norman F---ing Rockwell. Lana Del F---ing Ray starting releasing singles from this a year ago, including her utterly unnecessary Sublime cover. BON IVER, I,I. Justin Vernon’s latest has been streaming for a few weeks now, but you know you want a physical copy. SHERYL CROW, Threads. Crow claims this set featuring guests like Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson and Keith Richards is her last. Don’t bet on it. TOOL, Fear Inoculum. TOOL took 13 years to make their latest, and it’s only seven songs. You can really tell when a band has no bosses around.
years. The American Cornhole League was founded in 2015, but it wasn’t until 2017 that ESPN2 started broadcasting cornhole tournaments. And it was a big hit. “After that,” he says, “we thought it could take off.” Watching cornhole on TV is unlike watching other sports on TV. Ryder uses this comparison: When you see Drew Brees throw a 60-yard touchdown pass, it’s aweinspiring, sure — but you don’t think, “I could do that.” You do think that when you see some dude throw a bean bag into a hole. “It immediately draws the viewer into a realm of wanting to prove to themselves that they can do it,” Ryder says. From there, it’s super easy to get started. All you need is a cornhole set and some bags. You don’t have to be in shape, you can hold a beer while you play, and it’s not hard to learn the rules. It’s also not hard to fool yourself into thinking you’re really good. I, for instance, thought I was hot shit because I finished second in my office cornhole tournament. Yet when I played against a pro in Sandpoint’s cornhole tournament last year, I was quickly put to shame. I have since learned there’s a vast difference between the pros and any random guy or gal with decent hand-eye coordination. There’s technique. Strategy. Fundamentals, even. Ryder says it takes a year or two of consistent playing to get really good. And there are enough local tournaments — with good prize money — to do that. As far as yard games go, cornhole is kind of like a Marvel superhero movie. If you don’t think too much, you’ll have a great time. And if you want to be a huge nerd about it, you’ll have an even better time. I, for one, choose the latter. n
DOES CONAN NEED MORE FRIENDS? The truth is Conan O’Brien seems to have an infinite number of friends, friends he interviews on his Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. This podcast proves that using a celebrity like Conan to interview other celebrities allows for more genuine back and forth about their life — and his. Conan perfectly strikes the balance between comedy and longform interview throughout. Meanwhile, his assistant Sona and producer Matt help balance his comedic ego with reality. Season 2 arrives this fall. (CARSON McGREGOR)
MAC PASS A new partnership between the Spokane Public Library and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture now allows local families to check out passes to the museum, offering admission to two adults and up to four kids. Library card holders can reserve the passes online up to 30 days in advance, saving themselves $40 on their next visit to the museum’s exhibits. The library has two of these already-popular passes available; find details and reservations at bit.ly/ MuseumPassesSPL. (CHEY SCOTT)
EEK! A RAT! A Plague Tale: Innocence is one of the coolest games based around real historical events I’ve seen in a while. You play as a young girl armed with a sling who must flee from the Inquisition and swarms of plague rats with her sickly brother in tow. Use torches to scare away the nipping rats before they chew your flesh to the bone. The game takes some more fantastical twists with alchemy and “ratnados,” but it’s all in good fun. On Xbox One, PS4 and PC. (QUINN WELSCH)
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CULTURE | THEATER
Sid Al-Thumani is taking live theater into unexpected places.
The World’s a Stage
mother and her college-aged son as they’re analyzed by their respective therapists. It weaves the past and present together as the characters meditate on their fractured home life — his troubled adolescence, her turbulent marriage — and how they’ve drifted apart over the years. Whereas most conventional narratives climax with confrontations or outbursts, Reflexion instead ends with a shared moment of silence, which should resonate more completely in a smaller space. and he moved back to America in 2013 “I hope the person seeing this play to attend Gonzaga. He says he originally hears what they need to,” playwright Díaz wanted to explore a major in journalism said in a press release, “that it speaks to or literature, but it was an acting class that them and are willing to listen and is encourredirected his focus toward theater. aged to take a movement in their life.” Reflexion will be the first performance “It’s like a Chinese finger trap,” Sid from the Traveling Theater Company and explains. “The further you strain away, likely the first performance of its kind in the the tighter the pull. But when you come 25-person-capacity Baby Bar, and Sid says together, it releases the hold he became enamored with on you. If they don’t face the bar when it hosted a WEEKEND their greatest fear, which photo shoot for another play C O U N T D OW N is forgiveness, it’s over. he directed. He explains that Get the scoop on this There’s no relationship.” the layout and design of the weekend’s events with And considering the Baby Bar actually echoes our newsletter. Sign up at weighty subject matter of themes within Reflexion — not Inlander.com/newsletter. the play, is he concerned just in the close quarters of about the Friday night bar the space, but in the wall of crowd not understanding the project, or mirrors on the back wall, which will reflect about the possibility of drunken interrupthe audience back at themselves. tions? That’s really all part of the thrill. “What drew me to the Baby Bar is “That’s the beauty of found-space the intimacy of it,” Sid says. “It will draw theater,” Sid says. “I told my design team to the audience closer to what’s happening expect anything to happen. Don’t be upset onstage. It makes the actors hyper-aware of if things don’t go the way they should. the audience.” Anticipate everything.” n Written by fellow Gonzaga alum Art Por Díaz, Reflexion is a domestic drama in Reflexion • Fri, Aug. 30 at 8, 8:40 and 9:20 microcosm, the short but probing study pm • $5 • 21+ • Baby Bar • 827 W. First of the deteriorating relationship between a
Forget traditional theater: A local troupe looks to perform in unorthodox locations, starting with the Baby Bar BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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t has long been the standard routine when you go to see a play: You walk into the theater, you find your seat, you stay there for a couple hours and you keep quiet. But what about wandering into your favorite watering hole one weekend and happening upon a performance of an original theater piece? Well, order a drink and take in the show. This Friday night you can do just that: A 10-minute, one-act play called Reflexion will be staged in the tiny Baby Bar, and performed three times over the course of the evening. It’s being directed by Sid Al-Thumali, who is staging the play under the auspices of a new troupe he’s calling the Traveling Theater Company for Wayward Artist, which is looking to do thoughtprovoking performance art in unorthodox spaces. “I’m really interested in taking this to places where theater normally wouldn’t happen,” says Sid (he prefers to go by that mononym). “And I really want to highlight works of people of color and LGBT people, because I fit in both those camps.” Sid, 26, was born in Seattle and raised in Saudi Arabia, his father’s native country,
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FARMING
Sixty-eight rare and heirloom apple varieties grow at the University of Idaho’s Sandpoint research orchard. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO
Sharing the Bounty The University of Idaho’s Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center offers educational opportunities as diverse as the fruits in its research orchard BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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ocal media outlets typically share news of celebrity visits to the region, but only the University of Idaho noted the recent arrival of royalty on its Facebook page. The Duchess of Oldenberg has been spotted, not along the beach or at area events, but at two Sandpoint grocery stores, Winter Ridge and Yoke’s Fresh Market. One of the earliest ripening apples grown at the Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center (SOAC), the Russian cultivar from the 1700s represents an enterprise that benefits the community in numerous ways. Comprising 66 acres of old growth forest, an open meadow and a meandering creek, the center’s property is dedicated to promoting organic and sustainable food production through a variety of programs. The agricultural center consists of meeting facilities, dormitories for visiting faculty and students, a cider shop and a certified organic fruit orchard that’s home to 68 varieties of apples,
as well as rows of raspberries, cherries, pears and plums, the excess harvest of which, like the Duchess apple, is sold in two Sandpoint grocery stores. The university also recently added a native plant garden and demonstration space for its continuing outreach and educational efforts. “We have held Master Gardener, Master Forester, and Master Naturalist courses at SOAC, as well as pressure-canning and cooking classes,” says Kyle Nagy, who oversees the center. Staff also work with a range of entities to offer educational programs, including the University Extension, 4-H clubs, homeschool communities and local schools. “We also want to continue to offer more internship opportunities to students from UI, NIC and other Idaho colleges,” says Nagy. “With the facilities and infrastructure at SOAC, it would be great to develop a ‘farm school’ where interns could come to receive some handson training that could be applicable to their future goals.”
Right now, for example, the agricultural center is hosting a graduate student from the university’s Moscow campus who’s evaluating soil tests and the applicability of the results for growers, says Nagy. “Faculty members have been using SOAC for events, retreats and field trips, but many are also involved in research that would be welcomed at SOAC,” says Nagy, noting that it’s the only organic facility of its kind in UI’s holdings.
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hile similar educational organic facilities exist worldwide, including nearby at Washington State University, and in Hawaii, Canada and Switzerland, the Sandpoint center represents a significant expansion in capabilities for the University of Idaho. Previously, the only hands-on education in fruit growing existed in Parma, Idaho, where the university runs its ...continued on next page
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“SHARING THE BOUNTY,” CONTINUED... pomology and viticulture program. Established in 2018, the Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center combined two smaller properties and an existing orchard. In 2007, Sandpoint businessman and philanthropist Dennis Pence (former CEO of Coldwater Creek lifestyle and clothing company) began planting apples on property adjacent to his home, creating the Sandpoint Orchard as a retreat center. He gifted 18 acres of land adjacent to what would become the Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center to the University of Idaho that same year. In 2011, Pence brought on Nagy, whose background includes a degree in horticulture and a keen interest in apples. By 2016, plans were in place for additional acreage; the university purchased some, while Pence donated the rest. Nagy came with the package as the Sandpoint Orchard became the Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center, eventually adding his dog, a heeler named Selle Pippin for Sandpoint’s Selle Valley, where Nagy lives, and Pippin for the apple variety. The dog’s main job is “vole patrol,” says Nagy, explaining that as an organic orchard, they do not use any chemicals. As the facility’s sole paid employee, Kyle Nagy oversees the Sandpoint Nagy does a little agriculture center. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO bit of everything, from coordinating tours to overseeing pruning of the orchard’s 640 trees, mostly heirloom varieties. As Nagy walks among the orchard, he pauses to point out some of his favorites. He’s sweet on the Niedzwetzkyana (pronounced need-VETZ-kee-ahna), for example, an unusual apple with a distinctly sour taste that’s native to northwest China and Kazakhstan. Its burgundy exterior is strange enough, but then Nagy cuts open the apple to reveal an even more surprising vermillion flesh. Likewise is the Pink Sparkle, with a rosy flesh but sweeter taste, like Sweet Tart candy, says Nagy. “Grimes Golden is another great, fresh eating variety that has an excellent balance of sugar and acid,” he says. Freedom, a newish variety developed in 1983, he notes, “is an excellent choice for backyard gardeners because it is relatively ‘free’ of disease and very easy to maintain for homeowners.” This spring, Nagy helped facilitate the first annual Heritage Orchard Conference at the center, which included heritage tree fruit researchers, orchard professionals and independent heritage apple enthusiasts. “We ended up with around 65 participants from all over the Northwest,” says Nagy, who’s already working with the University of Idaho on plans for next year’s conference, likely in the fall to coincide with apple harvest. “We are also trying to balance the information so that it would interest both apple researchers from academic institutes as well as heritage apple enthusiasts who are interested in identifying and growing heritage apples of their own.” n For more about the Sandpoint Organic Agricultural Center, visit uidaho.edu/cals/soac
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For the Love of Baking Local baker Callie Johnson finds a home for Made With Love Bakery in Spokane’s West Central Neighborhood BY MORGAN SCHEERER
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t’s right there in the name — Callie Johnson bakes everything with an extra dose of love. Johnson’s Made With Love Bakery has been a dream since sixth grade. On June 29, that dream became a reality when the bakery opened its doors after selling at farmers markets and taking special orders for four years. “The name is called Made With Love because I just want everybody to know that they have intrinsic worth and value and that when they come in, they’re seen and known,” she says. Johnson has been baking for as long as she can remember. She grew up baking with her grandmother and mother, for her grandfather and other residents in his nursing home, for the movers who packed up their home when her family moved to Spokane many years ago, and for her high school classmates. Baking for others is what Made With Love is all about, Johnson says, and making people feel at home when they walk in the bakery’s door. “That’s part of wanting to have the space, too, is a physical place for people to come in and experience that along with eating something delicious that has been made for them with care and intention,” she says. Pies are Johnson’s specialty. Customers can order any flavor of whole pie ($20-$28) from peach to pecan, apple to cherry. With a crisscrossed lattice crust on top sprinkled with sugar, Johnson says she sometimes feels like an artist when she pulls them out of the oven. Pie by the slice in the flavor-of-the-week ($5) is also available. When picking the weekly flavor, Johnson focuses on using the freshest ingredients she can, while creating something fun and new. Part of putting love into her goods comes from the ingredients she uses. Everything at Made With Love is
Made With Love Bakery owner Callie Johnson has been baking since childhood. made from scratch — no mixes or fillings allowed. The flour used is from a farm in Davenport, and all of the fruit is from orchards in the Spokane area, including Sunset Orchard and Piper Farms. Besides her pies, Johnson’s Pop-Tart-inspired hand pies ($4) are a popular item. Flavors are apple pie, triple berry and brown sugar cinnamon, all topped with icing. Made With Love also offers cookies of all kinds ($1.50-$3), cupcakes in traditional and specialty flavors like German chocolate and strawberry champagne ($2-$3.50), uniquely decorated whole cakes ($25-$45), pecan and apple pie bars ($2.50-$3), and decadent scones including white chocolate cranberry and cinnamon ($2.50-$3.50).
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he opening of Made With Love has been a long time coming, Johnson says. After graduating from Gonzaga University in 2015, she started the business and began selling at the EmersonGarfield Farmers Market and Perry Street Thursday Market. She was also filling special orders, all baked out of her home kitchen. At that point, Johnson knew she needed to get into a commercial kitchen so she could begin selling wholesale. Instead, she took over the lease for the West Central Spokane space previously used by Batch Bakeshop, which closed earlier this year. “I was like, ‘Well, I want a shop eventually, why not just jump and do it,’” she recalls. Johnson immediately began building up wholesale accounts with local coffee shops, including Indaba, Tom Sawyer, Pathfinder Cafe and Vessel. She told herself she’d open the doors for retail sales by the end of June, and did. Currently Johnson is juggling those wholesale accounts with special orders, farmers market inventory and open shop hours, all reasons why Made With Love is currently open only three days a week. In the future, though, Johnson hopes to move away from selling at farmers markets and instead open the shop on those days. Since the debut of Made With Love Bakery, Johnson’s been really happy with its success. She sees customers returning regularly, and rarely has many goods left by closing time. “I just want [people who] come in to feel like they’re at home and feel well taken care of,” Johnson says. “I want them to know that I put a lot of care and love into what I make.” n Made With Love Bakery • 2023 W. Dean Ave. • Open Tue, Wed, Sat 7:30 am-2 pm • mwlbakery.com • 590-7623
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Re-Enter The Matrix As The Matrix returns to theaters this week, we look back at the Wachowskis’ mind-melting sci-fi masterpiece BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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here’s been a lot of talk recently about how many great movies came out in 1999. Sure, it might have given us The Phantom Menace, but it also produced future cult classics like Fight Club, Office Space, Being John Malkovich and Magnolia, as well as some of the most influential box-office hits of the last couple decades — The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, American Pie and, right at the top of that heap, The Matrix. Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s visionary sci-fi/action hybrid struck a chord with ’90s audiences, the deceptively complex story of a benign computer programmer who discovers his version of reality might very well be a simulation. The groundbreaking film returns to IMAX screens for a weeklong engagement starting Thursday, and it’s right on the heels of an announcement that a fourth Matrix installment will reunite original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss with writer-director Lana Wachowski. We’re taking a look back at The Matrix and its sequels, the films it lifted from and the films it inspired, and whether or not it’s still as immersive as it was in ’99.
FIRST THINGS FIRST — DOES IT STILL HOLD UP?
Short answer: yes. Despite the fact that it launched some subpar imitators, the Wachowskis’ original vision remains pretty miraculous, and the way it gradually introduces us to the inner workings of the Matrix, making us more and more complicit in their sleight-of-hand, is still brilliant. Its characters — Reeves as the prospective messiah Neo, Moss and Laurence Fishburne as resolute hackers Trinity and Morpheus — are drawn with the sharp-edged simplicity of the best mythical figures, and
those action scenes are still as thrilling and baffling as ever.
ABOUT THOSE SEQUELS…
Contemporaneous reviews were mostly positive, with plaudits coming from Time, the Washington Post, the A.V. Club and Roger Ebert, who praised the movie’s look but found its storytelling shallow. There were detractors, too: The Boston Globe called it “klutzy” and Entertainment Weekly knocked its “soullessness,” while the San Francisco Chronicle sniped, “It’s astonishing that so much money, talent, technical expertise and visual imagination can be put in the service of something so stupid.” All three of those publications would write positive reviews of The Matrix Reloaded four years later.
The Wachowskis have claimed they always intended to stretch the story into a trilogy, and parts two and three — Reloaded and Revolutions — were released just six months apart in 2003. I still remember bounding into the theater with my buddies for the opening weekend of Reloaded, only to leave two hours later scratching our heads. By the final act of Revolutions, it was pretty clear the Wachowskis had lost the plot. The sequels certainly have their defenders — and Reloaded has a couple terrific sequences, namely an extended freeway chase that one-ups every action set piece from the first film — but few would claim they’re better than the original. The world was further fleshed out in various spin-offs, from the animated anthology The Animatrix to video games and comic books.
ITS CINEMATIC IMITATORS
WHITHER THE WACHOWSKIS?
WHAT CRITICS THOUGHT AT THE TIME
Of course, none of them could have predicted the tremendous success of The Matrix, an original cultural property from relatively unknown directors that became the fifth highest-grossing film of the year and won four Oscars. And, of course, the idea of alternate digital dimensions wasn’t exclusive to The Matrix: It was earlier explored in another Keanu movie, Johnny Mnemonic, and in Kathryn Bigelow’s underrated Strange Days (1995), and the Wachowskis were also heavily indebted to the anime Ghost in the Shell. But it was the film’s “bullet time” action sequences, which seemed to meld stop-motion and real time, that wowed audiences. Those scenes were spoofed in everything from Charlie’s Angels to Shrek, and the film’s slick, straight-faced style was duplicated in films like 2002’s Equilibrium.
The runaway success of The Matrix pretty much guaranteed that the Wachowskis would have carte blanche on every subsequent project, which has resulted in some of the strangest big-budget films ever produced. Their Cloud Atlas is a daring, wildly uneven three-hour sci-fi epic that stretches across multiple centuries and continents, and the truly batshit fairy tale Jupiter Ascending is worth a look. Their 2008 bauble Speed Racer, a live-action take on the Japanese cartoon show, has also developed a fervent cult in the wake of its initial critical drubbing. But all their pet themes are established in The Matrix — vast interconnected worlds, morally pure heroes fighting unjust systems, and the shapeshifting nature of human identity. It’s really the Rosetta Stone for unlocking the rest of their work. n
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FILM | SHORTS they share. Remake of an Oscar-nominated Danish drama. (NW) Rated PG-13
BENNETT’S WAR
After sustaining injuries in combat, a soldier in the Army’s motorcycle unit is discharged and transitions into the world of motocross racing. (NW) Rated PG-13
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A quartet of teenage girls explore an underwater Mayan city and become lost in the maze-like structure. Oh, and there are sharks circling. Exactly what you’d expect from a late-summer sequel. (NW) Rated PG-13
ANGEL HAS FALLEN
Gerard Butler returns as President Morgan Freeman’s most reliable Secret Service agent, and this time he’s framed as an assassin. (NW) Rated R
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2
Another animated film inspired by the popular mobile game, with those colorful, flingable birds and pigs taking their antics up a notch. (NW) Rated PG
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
The loves and losses of a Formula 1 driver are examined from the POV of his wise old golden retriever. Emotionally manipulative claptrap that’s so sappy it’ll give you a stomach ache. (NW) Rated PG
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Bolstered by the music of Bruce Springsteen, this is the audience-pleasing (if egregiously corny) true story of a Pakistani teenager who discovers the gospel of the Boss in 1987 Britain. (SS) Rated PG-13
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD
Dora the Explorer finally gets her own live-action movie, a youngster-friendly Indiana Jones swashbuckler that’s unfortunately undone by clunky writing and juvenile humor. (MJ) Rated PG
ECHO IN THE CANYON
Part documentary and part concert film, this is an entertaining tribute to the innovations and continuing influence of the L.A. rock scene of the mid-’60s. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
THE FAREWELL
A Chinese family follows tradition and
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Devastated by the murder of his brother’s family, a cop (David Oyelowo) receives a call from his dead niece and realizes he can prevent the crimes from happening in an alternate timeline. (NW) Rated PG-13
hides their matriarch’s terminal cancer diagnosis from her, arranging a fake wedding banquet to say their goodbyes. Lulu Wang’s autobiographical film beautifully walks the line between humor and melancholy. (NW) Rated PG
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Former foes Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson go the mismatched buddy-comedy route, begrudgingly teaming up to fight super-soldier Idris Elba. A mostly forgettable Fast & Furious franchise spinoff. (NW) Rated PG-13
GOOD BOYS
A trio of 11-year-olds encounter obstacles on their way to a big-kid party in what’s best described as Superbad about the middle school set. Raunchy, funny and unexpectedly sly. (MJ) Rated R
THE LION KING
Sure, it’s nowhere near as good as the 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. (SS) Rated PG
MAIDEN
A documentary about a group of young women who entered the 1989 Whitbread yacht race, the first entirely female crew to do so. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG
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. At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated R
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD
Quentin Tarantino’s ode to 1969 L.A. finds a washed-up TV star, his longtime stunt double and Sharon Tate crossing
Would you believe Liam Hemsworth as a New York drug dealer? Then you’ll buy right into this stylish thriller, in which the Australian heartthrob plays an amnesiac criminal. (NW) Rated R
THE MATRIX
The Wachowskis’ landmark 1999 sci-fi film returns to IMAX screens, the fable of an average guy who realizes his reality is a simulation and he could be a new messiah. It remains as singular and thrilling as it was 20 years ago. (NW) Rated R
THE NIGHTINGALE
With the help of an Aboriginal guide, an Irish convict in 1820s Tasmania seeks the British soldiers who massacred her family. A brutal exploration of vengeance and colonialism from the director of The Babadook. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R
TEL AVIV ON FIRE
Behind-the-scenes drama on a soap opera set stands in for Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this satirical comedy about a production gofer who fakes his way into a series writing position. At the Magic Lantern. (NW)
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paths in unexpected ways. Rambling, elegiac, uneven and occasionally brilliant. (NW) Rated R
OVERCOMER
A Christian drama about a small town facing an unemployment crisis, and how a high school sports coach and his cross-country star lift everyone’s spirits. (NW) Rated PG
THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON
A young man with Down syndrome and pro wrestling aspirations runs away from his care facility, teaming up with a down-and-out fisherman (Shia LaBeouf) in this heartwarming roadtrip fable. (SR) Rated R
READY OR NOT
On her wedding day, a young bride is forced into a deadly game of hide and seek with her wealthy in-laws. This bloody horror-comedy is mostly amusing, though you might wish it had a more satirical edge. (NW) Rated R
SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
Inventive special effects and stylish direction anchor this entertaining ad-
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aptation of Alvin Schwartz’s childhoodscarring horror anthologies, as a group of 1960s teenagers are menaced by monsters that come out of a haunted book. (NW) Rated PG-13
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME
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
TOY STORY 4
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 funfilled adventures while also ruminating about the existential angst of being a toy. (MJ) Rated G
WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
In the midst of a mental break, an eccentric architect (Cate Blanchett) abandons her husband and daughter and goes off to find herself. Its engrossing domestic drama is betrayed by a phony ending. (NW) Rated PG-13 n
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Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is a harrowing, bludgeoning revenge story set against the ravages of colonialism BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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t needs to be said up front: Jennifer Kent’s And though the film’s brutality is the point, it The Nightingale is a tough movie, a story of the threatens to become a tad excessive, especially at heartless violence and merciless cruelty that nearly 140 minutes. defines so much of history. You may flinch. The But it’s those two central performances that movie does not. help keep the film grounded. Franciosi and Some critics have called it needlessly sadistic. first-time actor Ganambarr do so much of their Others have called it courageous. Kent herself acting with their eyes, their respective gazes has said it’s a movie about love. You may or may boring straight through you. Claflin, who has not buy that interpretation of her own art, but never made an impression on me, is surprisingly what’s undeniable is its blunt impact. It’s a deeffective here: He plays one of the most despiliberately grueling experience, and many people cable villains I’ve ever seen in a movie, and yet won’t want to go through it at all. his performance is driven by his It’s a film about the ugliness of hucharacter’s diseased pathology, THE NIGHTINGALE not mustache-twirling theatriman history, and about the evil that Rated R men — particularly white men — are cality. Directed by Jennifer Kent capable of. This is Kent’s second Starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam It’s set in 1825, in an isolated feature, following her ingenious Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr military outpost in the Australian 2014 breakout The Babadook, in At the Magic Lantern territory now known as Tasmania. which a woman’s trauma and An Irish convict named Clare unresolved guilt manifest them(Aisling Franciosi, Game of Thrones) is an indenselves as a storybook monster. The Nightingale is tured servant there, working for the British also a horror movie, though its demons aren’t Army alongside her husband and caring for their supernatural, and they’re much more recognizinfant daughter. Clare has been relegated to the able. She sets her punishing tone early on, and performative role of “nightingale” because of her then challenges us to go along with the rest of it, enchanting singing voice, and one of the officers, forcing us to reconcile our feelings as we go. a malevolent lieutenant named Hawkins (Sam When I saw the movie at this year’s Seattle Claflin), has decided she is his personal property. International Film Festival, a moment when One night, Clare defies Hawkins’ advances, Clare finally confronts one of her attackers and in retaliation, he orders his men to attack elicited a smattering of celebratory applause. Clare and her family. She is raped and left for But it felt hollow, half-hearted. Surely it was a dead. Both her husband and baby are killed. Pavlovian response, because we’ve become so Clare survives, but just barely, and she sets out conditioned to revenge narratives offering some across the unforgiving wilderness, convincing an kind of violent catharsis. aboriginal tracker named Billy (Baykali GanamKent doesn’t take that easy route. She follows barr) to help her locate Hawkins in the forests of the basic framework of a violent exploitation the Outback. movie in which a victim finally turns the tables This is, of course, a classic Western premise, on her attacker, and yet she offers none of the and Kent’s moral equivocations are sometimes gratification you expect when a bad guy gets his as old-fashioned as the films she’s referencing. comeuppance. Because, in reality, vengeance can Her attempts to equate Clare’s position in life be just as hollow a gesture as clapping in a movie with Billy’s — they’ve both been dehumanized theater, and perhaps Kent is suggesting that and enslaved by those in power — ultimately merely ridding the world of a few bad men won’t feel disingenuous, especially since it’s clear that stop it from producing many more. The roots of Clare’s whiteness still gives her the upper hand. evil burrow much deeper than that. n
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DEAR JOHN
Essential listening: Six songs to know before seeing the Mountain Goats BY ELISSA BALL
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incere, specific and smart as hell, John Darnielle is the prolific singer-songwriter who’s been releasing music as the Mountain Goats since 1991 — first solo, then with other musicians like long-time bassist Peter Hughes. The Mountain Goats tend to stir impassioned reactions in people. Folks either despise them (“That guy’s voice annoys me!”) or revere them as the G.O.A.T. (“John Darnielle is a genius and that band is a national treasure!”). I’ve been a loyal Mountain Goats fan since the night in college when a biology major musician — after hearing me perform poems — slipped me two burned CDs filled with rare and live tracks by the band. That’s how it worked before the Mountain Goats got radio play or soundtrack spots: You had to be introduced, inducted, perhaps by a radical librarian, a goth dad or a former theater kid. The Mountain Goats’ richly descriptive storytelling and emotional honesty can reach hurt hearts intimately, the way poetry does. We longtime fans feel like we owe the band for helping us through so much tough stuff.
While the group’s latest release, In League with Dragons, doesn’t really connect with me, I trust they’ll soon make a record that does. They’ve earned that trust. Though the Mountain Goats are practically always on tour, this Sunday marks their first-ever stop in Spokane. Some of us are buzzing. New to the Mountain Goats? Here’s a list of six essential songs you just might hear:
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“NO CHILDREN” (2002)
If you don’t know where to dive into the band’s 18-record-deep discography, start with Tallahassee. The angry piano and full-band sound of “No Children” has the leveled-up studio production that made Tallahassee a technical turning point for the Mountain Goats: No more bedroom boombox recordings! A darkly humorous concept album, Tallahassee follows a horrid imaginary pair known as “the Alpha Couple” as they buy a fixer-upper and drink themselves mean. The mutually spiteful Alpha Couple appear on previous Goats songs. However, after wrapping Tallahassee, the band officially retired the Alpha
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Couple as subject matter. “No Children” is their fiery swan song, loaded with caustic burns like “I hope I lie and tell everyone you were a good wife / And I hope you die! / I hope we both die!” Yeouch.
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“THIS YEAR” (2005)
“I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” isn’t a logical mantra, yet it makes perfect sense to the young protagonist of “This Year,” a song driven powerfully forward by hymn-like piano chords and a ticky-tick drum beat. Like the other tracks on The Sunset Tree, it’s autobiographical, based on Darnielle’s teen years living with an abusive stepfather. The record’s liner notes read: “Dedicated to any young men and women anywhere who live with people who abuse them, with the following good news: you are going to make it out of there alive you will live to tell your story never lose hope” ...continued on next page
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Young John did make it out. “This Year” is his story, one that too many can relate to.
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“GOING TO GEORGIA”
(1994) “Going to [Geographic Location]” is a recurring song title format for the Goats, but “Going to Georgia” shines as a perennial fan favorite and live show staple. It’s a short love song that utilizes the thrashy, folk-punk acoustic guitar strumming that defined the band for a wide span of time. Precise, descriptive lines like “a 1967 Colt .45 / With a busted safety catch” make it easy to believe Darnielle is an author as well as a musician. (Having penned two novels and a 33 1/3 book about Black Sabbath, he’s definitely an author.)
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“CUBS IN FIVE” (1995)
Released in ’95, way before the Chicago Cubs finally broke their notorious World Series dry spell in 2016, “Cubs in Five” is a lo-fi song about how love can make us delusional — convinced of impossible things and fueled by fantasy. The unreliable narrator is just as sure that “I will love you like I used to” as he is that “the stars are gonna spell out the answers to tomorrow’s crossword.” Sure, buddy.
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“THE BEST EVER DEATH METAL BAND IN DENTON” (2002)
“Uh, they’re not actually Satanists” is something
you may have to whisper to concerned parents or loved ones once this classic Goats song reaches the “Hail Satan!” part. Inspired by John’s former place of employment at a locked treatment facility for teen boys, “Best Ever…” tells the story of two misunderstood Texan teens who get locked up for daring to form a metal band. Like many Mountain Goats songs, it could be described as a revenge fantasy with a heart of gold. True to the band’s values, it roots for the underdog and lifts up outcast dreamers.
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“PALMCORDER YAJNA”
(2004) A recurring theme in the Mountain Goats’ universe is destruction, especially selfdestruction and the breakdown of untenable relationships. “Palmcorder Yajna” includes both. Found on We Shall All Be Healed — a record that reflects on John’s days as a hard drug user — “Palmcorder Yajna” sounds as snarling and desperate as the song’s strung-out “friends” on a crank bender in a Travelodge. Like many Mountain Goats songs, it glistens with macabre flourishes of horror: “I dreamt of a house / Haunted by all you tweakers with your hands out / And the headstones climbed up the hills.” It’s appropriately bleak and fun to shout along to. n The Mountain Goats with Lydia Loveless • Sun, Sept. 1 at 8 pm • $28.50-$36.50 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638
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OR PEOPLE YOU KNOW WILL LIKE Rapper Coolio (left) and power-pop duo the Posies are amongst this year’s stellar Pig Out headliners.
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We dig in to Pig Out in the Park’s musical headliners, dishing on the best tunes to go along with your feast
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BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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he 40th annual Pig Out in the Park is already underway, and if you’re smart, you’ll have already gorged on all kinds of deep-fried confections and listened to some great live music. But some of the festival’s biggest headliners are taking the stage this week, so we’re taking a look at the names you shouldn’t miss in the next few days. All of the following shows will take place at the Lilac Bowl stage.
track became the year’s biggest single, winning a Grammy, selling millions of copies and inspiring one of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s most beloved parodies. But Coolio is more than just his signature song: His other ’90s singles like “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” and “Fantastic Voyage” weren’t too shabby and he has released six post-“Paradise” studio albums. He’s also an actor, reality-show contestant and celebrity chef, so he’s kept plenty busy.
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Thursday, 7 pm At its peak, the rock band Creed was one of the biggest in the world, with songs like “Higher” and “With Arms Wide Open” scoring big on mainstream radio. But following a hiatus, three of its members formed Alterbridge, with (coincidentally enough) Spokane native Myles Kennedy taking Stapp’s place. Stapp began a somewhat rocky solo career and publicly wrestled with demons, but he appears to be back on the straight and narrow, having cleaned up his act and releasing his third LP, The Space Between the Shadows, earlier this year. You’re sure to hear several of those old Creed songs during his Pig Out set, and don’t pretend like you don’t know every word.
COOLIO
Friday, 8:30 pm It was late summer 1995 when Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” seemed to play on an hourly rotation on every Top 40 station in the country. Built on a sample of the Stevie Wonder classic “Pastime Paradise,” the
Saturday, 8:30 pm Talk about old pros. Black Oak Arkansas has been around, in one form or another, since the 1970s, though the band dates back another decade when they were known as the Knowbody Else. With their blend of blues, roots and straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll, BOA has developed a cult following, and despite its revolving door of members, current frontman Jim “Dandy” Mangrum and guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds have been rocking with various incarnations of the band since its early days. They’ve become known for their high-energy concerts — in fact, they seem to have released as many live recordings as studio albums — so don’t miss them in this setting.
THE POSIES
Sunday, 8 pm The Posies formed in Bellingham around the birth of grunge, when the duo of Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow were merely college kids. But whereas their fellow Pacific Northwest groups trafficked in hard-rock
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riffs and sandpaper vocal stylings, the Posies, perhaps unfashionably, spun sugary sweet melodies that recalled the Raspberries and Big Star. They’re responsible for such power-pop gems as “Dream All Day,” “Flavor of the Month” and “Golden Blunders,” all of which are as catchy as they are lovely. Auer and Stringfellow have made several Spokane stops in the last few years, and if you’ve seen any of those shows, you’ll know that they’re still at the top of their game. n Pig Out in the Park • Continuing through Mon, Sept. 2 • Free • All ages • Riverfront Park • 507 N. Howard • spokanepigout.com
DON’T FORGET... There are far too many acts to list here, but here’s a handful of other artists to keep an eye out for. THURSDAY: Sunflower Dead (5 pm) and Messer (6 pm) at the Lilac Bowl stage; Too Slim and the Taildraggers (7:30 pm) at the Clocktower stage. FRIDAY: Cordell Drake (7 pm) at the Lilac Bowl; Teresa James and the Rhythm Traps (8 pm) at the Clocktower stage. SATURDAY: Limberlost (6:30 pm) at the Lilac Bowl; Super Sparkle (8:15 pm) at the Clocktower. SUNDAY: Sammy Eubanks and the Workin’ Class (8 pm) at the Clocktower Stage. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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ALT-COUNTRY JENNY DON’T & THE SPURS
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orge on turkey legs and fried Twinkies to your heart’s content at Pig Out, but save up some energy for the delectable buffet of sounds coming together at Berserk on Sunday. Consider Portland’s Jenny Don’t and the Spurs the main course: Their outlaw country-meets-garage rock sound will break your honky-tonkin’ heart one minute and have you boot-scootin’ with a smile the next. As if that hot dish isn’t enough, round out your sonic plate with the local support, including intoxicating rockers Whiskey Dick Mountain, the sweet flavors of Eliza Catastrophe’s sound and the protein-packed Gorilla, Rabbit & Chicken. — DAN NAILEN Jenny Don’t and the Spurs with Whiskey Dick Mountain, Eliza Catastrophe and Gorilla, Rabbit & Chicken • Sun, Sept. 1 at 8 pm • $10 • 21+ • Berserk • 125 S. Stevens • facebook.com/berserkbarspokane
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Thursday, 08/29
219 LOUNGE, Casey Ryan A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic ARBOR CREST, Christy Lee BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Daikaiju, Itchy Kitty, Casket Key THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen COEUR D’ALENE EAGLES, Son of Brad CRUISERS, Open Jam Night DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Steve Starkey Band FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE, Jonathan Tibbitts LIBERTY LAKE WINE, Jimi Finn LION’S LAIR, Karaoke LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Organism MOOSE LOUNGE, Last Chance Band MOUNTAIN LAKES BREWING CO., Steven King O’SHAYS IRISH PUB, O’Pen Mic PACIFIC PIZZA, Brotha Nature THE PIN, Kirko Bangz POST FALLS BREWING, Gemeni Dei J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Too Slim and the Taildraggers & more J RIVERSTONE PARK, Nate Botsford THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series STEAM PLANT, Nick Grow TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio UTARA BREWING CO., The Last Revel ZOLA, Blake Braley Band
Friday, 08/30
219 LOUNGE, The Working Spliffs 1210 TAVERN, Usual Suspects A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish
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hilly noise-pop band Empath buzz and flutter and bonk around like a bumblebee, if a bumblebee knew how to tuck pretty melodies inside a warm cocoon of fuzz-punk chaos and sparkling synths, and also the bumblebee knew another bumblebee who drummed like a bullet train teetering down the tracks, seemingly always on the verge of derailing and somehow also keeping perfect time. This band of bumblebees are not bumblebees at all but actually humans, and the songs on their excellent 2019 album Active Listening: Night on Earth are vibrant and beautiful and strange. — BEN SALMON Empath • Thu, Sept. 5 at 8 pm • Free • 21+ • Lucky You Lounge • 1801 W. Sunset • luckyyoulounge.com AGING BARREL, Dodgy Mountain Men J THE BARTLETT, The Last Revel BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BOLO’S, Pastiche BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BORRACHO TACOS, Cary Fly Band BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Polly O’Keary and The Rhythm Method J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Palouse Forro Experience THE BUOY, Echo Elysium CHECKERBOARD BAR, 3 Way Street CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kosh THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Bands on Boats: Ryan Larsen Band J J COLVILLE, FarmJam CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Into the Volcano EICHARDT’S, Ron Kieper Jazz
FORTY-ONE SOUTH, Truck Mills J FORZA COFFEE CO. (SOUTH), Miller’s Sun J FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Pat & Scott Jazz J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dave Matthews Band HOGFISH, Echo Elysium IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Turn Spit Dogs IRON GOAT BREWING, Bandit Train IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival J KLINK’S LAKESIDE, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Indian Goat, Wayward West, Casket Key MARYHILL WINERY, Larry Hirshberg MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jan Harrison Blues Experience MICKDUFF’S, Baker Thomas MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night
NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole O’SHAYS, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots OLD MILL BAR, Motley and McClure PACIFIC PIZZA, Kung Fu Vinyl PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Erisy Watt Trio REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Robert Sarazin Blake and the Put-It-AllDown-in-a-Letters RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVERBANK TAPHOUSE, Nick Grow J J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Coolio & more THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom J SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN, Fall Fest w/Far Out West & Santa Poco SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Robbie French; Mike Oregano (Noah’s) STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger STUDIO 107, Pamela Benton THE VIKING, Far Out West ZOLA, Rewind
Saturday, 08/31
219 LOUNGE, Bright Moments Jazz 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Truck Mills 1210 TAVERN, Roundabout A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus J THE BARTLETT, Aaron Cohen BERSERK, Buffet, Bandit Train, S4LT BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S, Pastiche J BUCER’S, Jon & Rand Band CHECKERBOARD BAR, Durb, Miller’s Sun CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Kosh J J COLVILLE, FarmJam with Chase Rice COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CURLEY’S, Into the Volcano DAVENPORT GRAND, Nick Grow EICHARDT’S, John Firshi J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dave Matthews Band THE HIVE, Diggin Dirt
HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City J HUCKLEBERRY’S, Matt O’Reilly IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, David Walsh IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival THE JACKSON ST., Summer Fest feat. White Trash Romeo, Children of Atom, Falling Kings and more JOHN’S ALLEY, The Last Revel J KNITTING FACTORY, SOB x RBE, KiingRod, Peacoat Gang LAUGHING DOG, Johnny Guitar LEFTBANK WINE, Joshua Belliardo THE LOFT, My Own Worst Enemy LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Desperate 8’s; Storme MARYHILL WINERY, Katie Fisher MATCHWOOD BREWING, Shakewell MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jan Harrison Blues Experience MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Red Blend MOOSE LOUNGE, NightShift NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Whack A Mole OFF REGAL LOUNGE, Tommy G PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner & Sadie Sicilia POST FALLS BREWING, Mike Oregano
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RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Zero Theorem, Undercard, MOA & more RESURRECTION RECORDS, Buffet, Bandit Train, S4LT RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Black Oak Arkansas & more J SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN, Fall Fest with World’s Finest, Nate Botsford Band & Miah Kohal Band J SHADLE LIBRARY, Floating Crowbar SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Echo Elysium (at Noah’s) STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger THE VIKING, Balance Trick, Side Hustle Syrups J WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Rewind
Sunday, 09/1
ARBOR CREST, Atomic Jive J BERSERK, Jenny Don’t & The Spurs (see facing page), Whiskey Dick Mountain, Gorilla Rabbit Chicken, Eliza Catastrophe J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Mountain Goats (see page 39), Lydia Loveless J J COLVILLE, FarmJam DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke GEM STATE CLUB, JamShack J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dave Matthews Band J HARVEST HOUSE, Daniel Hall; Ryan Larsen Trio
HOGFISH, Open Mic LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Ira Scott Strongin MOOSE LOUNGE, Casey Ryan O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Annie Welle J THE PIN, Gutter Demons, The Dead Channels RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio J J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. The Posies & more THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN, Fall Fest with Ron Artis, Josh Farmer Band & Balance Trick J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Lazy Love
GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke RAZZLE’S BAR, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing J ROCKET MARKET, Cheryl Branz THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Kicho TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s
Wednesday, 09/4
J J THE BARTLETT, Junior Brown THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY, Echo Elysium CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic J J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Kosta la Vista & more J SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN RESORT, Fall Fest with Sol Seed & Trego J THE SHOP, Dorian Michael ZOLA, Perfect Mess
J J THE BARTLETT, T-Rextasy, Fun Ladies BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Devon Wade THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Katie Fisher LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LION’S LAIR, Storme J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ Exodus MARYHILL WINERY, The Ronaldos MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dylan Hathaway RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Nate Ostrander ZOLA, Donnie Emerson, Nancy Sophia
Tuesday, 09/3
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Monday, 09/2
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Echo Elysium BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave
J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Empath (see facing page), Sep. 5 J NORTHERN QUEST, Pitbull, Sep. 6
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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Pacific • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • 279-7000 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Pacific • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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The kids might be back in school and football season underway, but some of us hold on to summer with a kung-fu grip for as long as possible. Fall Fest at Schweitzer Mountain Resort is here to help with four days of live music, tasty beverages and an array of grub options. The festival features more than 80 beers, ciders, hard seltzers and wines, and kids can mix their own flavors at the soda station. You can peruse various arts and crafts vendors, too, and take advantage of all the mountain biking and hiking you can cram into one long weekend. Santa Poco, Trego and Sol Seed are among the bands playing; be sure to visit the Schweitzer website for a complete schedule of all the fun starting at 4 pm Friday. — DAN NAILEN Schweitzer Fall Fest • Fri-Mon, Aug. 30-Sept. 2 • Free admission; tasting packages start at $15 • Schweitzer Mountain Resort • 1000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint • schweitzer.com • 208-254-4521
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FarmJam • Fri-Sat, Aug. 30-Sept. 1 • $79/day pass, $160/ weekend pass • 73 Oakshott Rd., Colville • farmjamfestival.com
Nick Swardson • Thu-Sat, Aug. 29-31; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat at 10:30 pm • $35 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998
For one last gasp of summer music bliss, head to Colville for FarmJam, a two-night outdoor experience of camping, food and pure country. It’s a must for the genre’s fans, boasting a lineup that mixes rising stars with members of the old guard in an appropriately rural setting. The big headliner is Chase Rice, who translated reality TV notoriety (he was on a season of Survivor) into a music career, and whose biggest singles have included “Ready Set Roll” and “Eyes on You.” Also in the mix are celebrated roots songwriter Hayes Carll and Nashville bands the Wild Feathers and Blackfoot Gypsies. And because of the intimate atmosphere, you might even be able to hobnob with some of your favorite artists. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
Nick Swardson has had the kind of career trajectory all comedians dream of: After a few popular stand-up specials and developing a reputation as a reliable comic ringer on shows like Reno 911!, he became a member of Adam Sandler’s troupe of actors and starred in his own Comedy Central sketch show Pretend Time. Swardson is returning to the Spokane Comedy Club on his stand-up tour, and he’ll win you over with his goofball delivery and amiable demeanor. Hearing him do comedy is like hanging out with your former fraternity brother whose finest talent is regaling you with stories of his drunken shenanigans. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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While the Inland Northwest has been, for the most part, incredibly lucky this season that wildfire smoke hasn’t stuck around for too long, we’re not out of the woods yet. Take a moment to reflect on the wide-reaching impact air quality has on communities at the closing reception of a month-long installation at the renowned Kolva-Sullivan Gallery in downtown Spokane. Created by Laboratory guest artist Nicole Chochrek, Air Has No Borders uses lights to indicate daily air quality in Spokane. The artist also invited members of the community to share stories to help develop a “collective construction of ideas around air quality and the impact fire season continues to have.” Learn what’s been gathered for the exhibit in the past month, meet the artist and share your experiences at the installation’s closing reception. — CHEY SCOTT Closing Reception: Air Has No Borders • Sat, Aug. 31 from 8-10:30 pm • Free • Kolva-Sullivan Gallery • 115 S. Adams St. • facebook.com/LaboratorySpokane
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MOM’S NIGHT OUT: COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE An evening of cocktails and shopping to benefit Communities In Schools of Spokane County. The event is hosted by locally based jewelry brand, Natalie Wood Designs. Aug. 29, 6 pm. $20. The McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. themcginnityroom.com (321-1859) BASKETS FOR BABIES BENEFIT DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT & RAFFLE Baskets for Babies provides basic baby supplies and clothing to new parents who cannot afford to do so, due to the loss of a job, illness, or other life struggle, living in the Spokane area. This annual tourney is open to players of all levels; includes a lunch break, awards ceremony, raffle and more. Aug. 31, 8:30 am-4 pm. Varies. High Bridge Park, Riverside Ave. and A St. basketsforbabies.org (214-2634) BOOK SALE Proceeds support library events and programs. Aug. 31, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8340) HAPPY TAILS AT HAPPY TRAILS An event to support A Path Of Hope Rescue on the patio. Several puppies currently available for adoption through the rescue are on site for cuddles. A portion of sales are being donated to the rescue. Aug. 31, 4-8 pm. Happy Trails to Brews, 9025 N. Indian Trail Rd. happytrailstobrews.com BREWFTOP Catch up on what The Lands Council does for our regional environment, why it is important, and how you can get involved. Sep. 6, 5-9 pm. The Steam Plant, 159 S. Lincoln St. landscouncil.org/events/brewftop (209-2407) WILDLIFE TRIVIA NIGHT Join American Heritage Wildlife Foundation for a night of fun and test your knowledge of Sandpoint’s wild species and spaces. Appetizers provided for those who wish to play with trophies for the winning tables. Also includes a raffle. Sept. 6, 4-7 pm. By donation. Matchwood Brewing Co., 513 Oak St. (801-347-1526) HOWLING AT HAMILTON The Humane Society of the Palouse hosts this 12th annual event, including a dog jumping contest at 5 pm. Dogs only in the pool, and please, one dog per person. Sep. 8, 1-6 pm. $10/dog. Hamilton-Lowe Aquatics Center, 830 N. Mountain View Rod. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org/howlingat-hamilton (208-883-1166)
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It’s a Labor Day weekend tradition for many of us: We lug our lawn chairs, picnic baskets and blankets to one of two outdoor venues — Pavillion Park if you’re in Liberty Lake, and Comstock Park if you’re closer to the South Hill — and listen to the Spokane Symphony as the sun goes down. Conducted by Morihiko Nakahara, the orchestra works through a roster of compositions that is (as is the case every year) bookended by “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. In between, you’ll hear well-known pieces by John Phillip Sousa and Aaron Copland, as well as selections from the Back to the Future and Harry Potter films. It’s the perfect way to wave goodbye to summer. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Spokane Symphony • Sat, Aug. 31 at 6 pm • Pavillion Park • 727 N. Molter Rd., Liberty Lake • Mon, Sept. 2 at 6 pm • Comstock Park • Lincoln & Post • Free • spokanesymphony.org
2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) JAK KNIGHT & ZACK FOX Originally from Seattle, Jak Knight is an LA-based comedian, writer, and actor whose stand-up special is currently streaming on Netflix. Zack Fox is an Atlanta-raised comedy firebrand with an ever-expanding Twitter following and footprint on the culture. Aug. 29, 8 pm. $15-$16. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more. First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045)
STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com THIS JUST IN... With audience suggestions, the BDT players build a one-of-akind evening of all-improvised parody news. Fridays at 7:30 pm, Aug. 2-Sept. 6. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) AFTER DARK Catch a late-night mature audience version of the BDT’s long-form improv show. First/last Saturday of the month at 9:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.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. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside. socialhourpod.com (509-822-7938) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com FIRE BRIGADE IMPROV The theater’s in-house, family-friendly comedy troupe performs the first Saturday of each month at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) JEFF DUNHAM Instrumental in reviving the art of ventriloquism, comedian Jeff Dunham’s politically incorrect brand of humor is shared through the likes of Walter, Bubba J, Achmed, Seamus and other characters. Sept. 7, 7:30 pm. $59-$99. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com TIG NOTARO Tig Notaro is a groundbreaking stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer and director hailed for her effortless storytelling and fearless stage presence. Her subject matter ranges from the delightfully absurd to the monumentally serious. Sep. 7, 8 pm. $35-$55. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (509-227-7404)
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DOGGIE DIP The last splash at Spokane City pools is for the dogs. Proceeds benefit upkeep of the High Bridge Dog Park. Dogs must have proof of updated rabies vaccine. Through Aug. 29, dates/ locations as follows: Aug. 28 at A.M. Cannon (5:30-7 pm); Aug. 29 at Liberty (5:30-7 pm). $10/event. bit.ly/DoggieDip2019 GIANTS, DRAGONS & UNICORNS: THE WORLD OF MYTHIC CREATURES This traveling exhibition from New York’s American Museum of Natural History combines unique cultural objects, dramatic models, multimedia and interactive games to tell the origin stories behind the legends of mythical creatures from around the world. Through Sept. 2. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) GRAND OPENING: HGTV HOME DESIGN STUDIO Spokane furniture showroom the Tin Roof hosts a grand opening of its new HGTV HOME Design Studio by Bassett Gallery, attended by Tiffany Brooks, HGTV Smart Home Designer and winner of HGTV Design Star season 8. Aug. 29, 4-7 pm. Tin Roof, 1727 E. Sprague. tinrooffurniture.com (535-4121)
HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS Step back in time and experience this unique garden as it looked in 1915. Learn about the discovery, the carefully planned restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who made this their backyard. Upcoming tours: Aug. 29, 2-3 pm. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh. heritagegardens.org NORTHWEST LEGENDS The creatures in this exhibition are thought to be myths or legends by some, while others say they are real. Visitors explore the world of Northwest Legends including the Sasquatch and Coyote to make their own decision. This engaging family-oriented MAC-curated exhibition provides interactive opportunities including designing mythical creatures, a fairy wing selfie, stepping into Sasquatch tracks and more. Through Sept. 2; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931) 14TH ANNUAL COASTER CLASSIC CAR SHOW Classic cars from across the Northwest converge on Silverwood over Labor Day Weekend. Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95, Athol, Idaho. (208-683-3400) FUNKY JUNK The 13th annual antique and vintage show is back, offering a fair of salvaged and retro goods and more, including a special tribute to Smokey Bear’s 75th anniversary. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 from 10 am-4 pm. $5/weekend admission. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Rd. funkyjunkantiqueshow.com (208-263-8414) HISTORIC WALKING TOURS Walk through the park and learn the history of the Spokane Falls, Expo ’74 U.S. Pavilion, 1902 Clocktower, 1909 Looff Carrousel, Centennial Trail and more. Tours depart from the Humana booth next to the Rotary Fountain every Saturday at 10 am and noon, through August 31. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokaneriverfrontpark.com UNDER THE FREEWAY FLEA MARKET Hundreds of vendors ply their wares in the protected open air space beneath I-90 and the Northern Pacific Depot Museum grounds. Includes live music, kids’ games, street food and drinks and more. Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Wallace, Idaho. wallaceidahochamber.com DROP IN & READ Read great books from Spark’s collection and play games based on what you’ve read. Repeat participants can earn prizes and have their picture displayed at Spark Central with their favorite books. Grades 1-8. First and third Tuesday of the month from 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) HOMEBUYING 101 Discover the factors to consider when you’re deciding whether to buy a home or continue to rent: what it means to be a homeowner, how to find the right home, and what happens after your offer is accepted, before closing. Registration required at stcu.org/workshops. Sep. 5, 6-7 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) VANDAL TOWN BLOCK PARTY Open to residents and students alike, join the University of Idaho to herald in the start of the fall semester and new school year with lawn games, food trucks and live entertainment on Main Street in downtown Moscow. The Vandal Town Block Party is presented by the City of Moscow, Moscow Chamber of Commerce, and University of Idaho. Sep. 5, 5-9 pm. Free. Friendship Square, Fourth and Main. (208-883-7132)
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heaven and back. Thank you Deputy Vaughn. I MISSED MY CHANCE Francis & Crestline 8/16/19: You were on your bike, I was in my white GMC. I looked over and said “nice,” not realizing you were looking and you then pointed to your empty seat. I wish I would have gotten your number. Do you still have that open space for a ride?
I SAW YOU HUCKLEBERRY PRINCESS A season that some may never see or hear like truth. The most desired of all the berries. A style and beauty that can be intoxifying. The Huckleberry Princess is the most beautiful girl in the world. If I had to pick any berry there is only one I’d choose. Flowers created by God, they’re good, and the rose is the prettiest even with the thorns. PROTECT & SERVE Any behavior parallel to the gospel always shines a great perspective. Deputy Vaughn demonstrated a perfect act of kindness parallel with the gospel helping one in need. Thank you. You’re appreciated and our community is very fortunate to have you serving our public. Hopefully others follow suit. I imagine your kindness and good character is witnessed by many. May God bless you, and your family abundantly. Indeed, peace be with you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. This thank you is long overdue by months, stuck on an on ramp at Maverick on Argonne where the speed limit must increase as a driver enters the gas station heading south. It is a dangerous spot to be stalled. Miracles and life saving acts can be very simple the monumental affects caused by these small acts reach all the way to
YOU ARE MY CANDY GIRL When I wake in the morning, next to me there you lie - I’m reminded of last night, my heart says “My Oh My! - I’d better get to work, I hate to say goodbye - Can’t wait to get back home, ‘cause you’re my girl and I’m your guy. MAKING GOO GOO EYES AT THE MAC I saw you at the MAC this Sunday. Your smile and appreciation for the arts peaked my interest. Perhaps we can check out some other local landmarks together? YOU’RE KIND OF A BIG DILL I saw you outside of the Garland Sandwich Shoppe last Tuesday. We both got the pickle sandwich. You had such gorgeous eyes and a contagious laugh. Meet up for lunch sometime soon??
CHEERS NICEST BUS DRIVER Cheers to that guy who drove the 25 bus leaving the plaza at 1:10 pm on Tuesday. No matter what my mornings are like, seeing you smile to all the passengers reminds me that there’s a lot to be happy about. I’ve been riding the bus for 3 years and it makes a huge difference to have a driver say “thank you,” as I board. I didn’t do anything, but it’s nice to be acknowledged and appreciated. MAKAYLA 8 MONTHS... SAY WHAAAAAT? Makayla it’s been 8 months and you make me the happiest man in the world. You are so incredibly beautiful inside and out. You are the
cheese to my macaroni. How did I get so damn lucky? I know I love you, you know I love you, and now anyone who reads this in the Inlander knows I love you! I love you Makayla.
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A TRUE LIFESAVER AND HERO On Wednesday, Aug. 14 at about 11:00 am I was in the cell parking lot at the airport sitting in the shade with my 18 lb. Maltese mix. Suddenly a very large
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car that Mommy and Daddy bought for you will suddenly break down, and you are whining for assistance. WEDGE Neighbor of mine, so sweet of you to leave that note scotch-taped to the inside of the front door of our building telling one and all to leave the wooden wedge in the door at night to keep it propped open. This after twice this month someone has
pitbull attacked my dog. He grabbed her by the neck and began shaking her. I thought he was going to kill my dog, and could not get the pit to release her from his mouth. From out of nowhere, a heroic, kind, compassionate and intelligent gentleman grabbed the dog by the ears, lifted it’s two front feet off the ground and said in a low voice, “Let Go.” The dog immediately dropped mine. The man stated, “You need to get your dog to a vet right now!” I scooped her up and ran to my car. The gentleman was calm, reassuring and collected enough to ask for my contact information. I did not think to ask for his info or to get any info from the owner of the pitbull. I just drove as fast as I could to the vet’s office. Since then, my dog has endured two major surgeries and unmeasurable pain. We weren’t sure if she was going to survive. But with competent medical care from the people at Latah Creek Vet Hospital combined with a mountain of love, we believe she will survive this difficult period. This man’s wife was also present and very helpful. I hope that the wonderful man who saved my dog’s life will see this and know how deeply grateful and appreciative I am for his warm spirit, heroic actions, and willingness to step up to
education, let’s cover a few points to make your tenures worthwhile — and without stressing out us locals in the process: 1) When you shop in the local supermarkets, please do *not* extend your impatient snottiness to people in the checkout lines ahead of you. 2) If you came here because you *really* love basketball, football, law, etc., then play or support your peers! BUT, also perform, and support school and the locals’ programs professionally. Do *not* drunkenly speed up and down our arterials (and especially side streets) when my kids are trying to cross. 3) Keep your phones in your pockets when you are driving; your texts can wait until you safely pull over. 3) If you came to further enhance your “collegiate” religious experiences and your fictional “biblical education,” then kindly keep those ideals and actions within your private church(es) or classrooms. Do *not* volunteer to protest outside Planned Parenthood (my children don’t need to be traumatized by your violent fetus posters), and do *not* come to my door trying to convert my family to your fantasies of perverse divinity. Finally, keep yourselves positive and friendly with us locals, at all costs, because you never know when the high school graduation
tried to get in the building or lurked outside, strangers have been sleeping on the porch, break-ins in the neighborhood are up and Spokane already has more property crime and assault per capita by far than any other city in the state. You want me to help your complicity in that? Are you so much more important than me and mine that your convenience outweighs our safety? You have a key. Use it. If this gets in the paper I’ll frame it and hang it the front hall for irony’s sake with this caption contained within: Taping passive aggressive dicta to doors is a sign of impending implosion. Watch your blood sugar. Peace. n
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EVENTS | CALENDAR FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Celebrate fall with food, friends and dancing, including easy circle, line, folk, and contra dances. No experience or partner needed; all dances taught by Susan Dankovich with live music by Whirl’d Peas. Sep. 6, 6:30-8 pm. Free; donations accepted. Bethany Presbyterian Church, 2607 S. Ray St. (533-9955) JAPAN CULTURE DAY AT THE FAIR Enjoy Japanese art, dance and music for Japan Culture Day at the 2019 Spokane County Interstate Fair, in the Main Exhibition Hall, Bay 4. Featured events include Taiko drummers, Japanese dancers, flower arranging, ink brush painting, origami, embroidery, a tea ceremony setting and more. Sept. 6, 11 am-3 pm. Fair entrance ($8-$11) apply. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org RIVERFRONT PARK PAVILION GRAND OPENING The grand opening of the newly renovated Expo ‘74 Pavilion features live music from the Spokane Symphony and The Cronkites, and national act The Dip, fresh from Bumbershoot Music Festival. Attendees can also enjoy light shows, fitness programming, a kids zone with mobile recreation, a native cultural presentation, food vendors, beer garden and more. Sept. 6 from 4-9 pm and Sept. 7 from 9 am-9 pm. See event schedule at link. Sep. 6, 4-9 pm and Sep. 7, 9 am-9 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. bit. ly/2Zg6YbN (509-625-6600) 9/11 MEMORIAL MOVING TRIBUTE This year’s tribute involves a procession of the American flag and a Flag of Honor bearing the names of victims of the 9/11 attacks along the Latah Trail to the University of Idaho Campus eventually ending with a ceremony and family barbecue in downtown Moscow. Sept. 7, 8:46 am. Moscow, Idaho. moscow.id.us BULGARIA THE BEAUTIFUL: LAND OF CONTRASTS & CONTROVERSY Travel through ancient and modern times to learn about Bulgaria’s rich history, culture, traditions and people. Sep. 7, 3:30-4:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org FALL OPEN HOUSE An opportunity to visit the studio, sample classes and meet staff. Sep. 7, 9 am-5 pm. Free. Harmony Yoga, 1717 W. Sixth Ave. harmonyoga.com (747-4430) FRIENDS OF MANITO FALL PLANT SALE The annual plant sale offers new cultivars, “plant of the year” prize winners and other Northwest favorites, including grasses, shrubs, pollinatorfriendly, deer and drought resistant and
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more. Sept. 7, 8 am-3 pm. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (509-456-8038) FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support library programs, activities, and services. For additional book sale dates and locations, visit scldfriends. org. Sept. 7, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Fairfield Library, 305 E. Main St. scldfriends.org
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THE RETREAT An end-of-summer festival with two stages of entertainment, along with vendors, camping and arts. Aug. 29, noon. $21.99-$27.24. Happy Meadows Venue, 5470 Hwy. 231, Ford, Wash. facebook.com/makingmemoriesinford/ SCHWEITZER FALL FEST The end-ofsummer celebration includes four days of music, regional wine and beer, a kids soda tent and access to the chairlift for hiking, mountain biking and sightseeing. Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino’s take on 1969 Hollywood features a fading television actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) working in the film industry. Meanwhile, they have a famous neighbor, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). Rated R. Aug. 29-Sept. 2; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. PG-13. Aug. 29-Sept. 2; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org BLACK PANTHER All movies start at dusk. Outside food and drink (no alcohol) welcome, and blankets and low-backed chairs. Snacks for sale from the Liberty Lake Kiwanis Snack Wagon. Aug. 30, 8:30 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. pavillionpark.org FREE MOVIE IN THE PARK Every Friday evening through the end of August, The Salvation Army hosts a free movie for families at its campus. Snacks and drinks sold benefit The Salvation Army’s local youth programs. 8:45 pm through Aug. 30. Free. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana Ave. sal-
vationarmyspokane.org (325-6810) CLASSIC CARTOONS Free classic cartoons return to the Kenworthy from June to September, every Saturday from 9 am-noon. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org THE KITCHEN The wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they’re locked up in prison. Rated R. Sept. 5-8; times vary. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org ODE TO JOY Charlie (Martin Freeman) has a neurological disorder where strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. His work as a librarian provides a quiet environment until Francesca (Morena Baccarin) enters his library and life. Sept. 5-8; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org
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COEUR D’ALENE SUNSET DINNER CRUISE Dine at sunset on this 2-hour cruise featuring a full dinner buffet. Prepaid reservations required. Daily at 7:30 pm through Aug. 31; Sept. 1-9 at 6:30 pm. $33.25-$57. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. tickets.cdacruises.com (208-765-4000) EAT MORE RAINBOWS: VEGAN COOKING SERIES Lean basic and intermediate vegan cooking techniques to increase awareness of healthy food choices and preparations. Sessions on Aug. 29, Sept. 11 and Sept. 26 from 6-7:30 pm. $22/class. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. (558-2100) PIG OUT IN THE PARK The 40th annual Labor Day food festival in the park features 50+ food booths and more than 225 menu items, with free concerts on three stages, three beverage gardens, a public market and more. Aug. 28-Sept. 2, daily 11 am-10 pm. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokanepigout.com SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) GRADUATE GOLDEN ALE RELEASE PARTY Sales of the collaboratively brewed beer, from Ten Pin Brewing, help fund scholarships for WSU students studying wine and beverage business management. Aug. 30, 7-9 pm. River Rock Taphouse, 926 W. Sprague. (473-9301)
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If a guy is trying to amp up his attractiveness by working out, what areas of the body should he focus on? What do women notice and want? And how much of that can I get without any kind of surgery or dangerous potions? —Office Bod If a woman says to you, “You’re like family to me,” it shouldn’t be because you have arms like her sister. AMY ALKON Women seem to go for the body shape that evolutionary psychologists Rebecca Burch and Laura Johnsen refer to as “Captain Dorito.” This describes the golden triangle seen in cartoonishly masculinized male superhero bodies: broad shoulders leading down into a small tight waist and butt. As for why women might have evolved to prefer this body type, evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains in “Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind” that ancestral women were obviously better off with a “physically formidable” partner, able to protect them and their children. The inner biochemical landscape of physical formidability is high testosterone. Accordingly, Buss notes that, in men, high testosterone is associated with a very masculine body and facial features (like a square jaw and more pronounced cheekbones). Noting that high levels of testosterone compromise the immune system, Buss cites psychologist Victor S. Johnston’s observation that only males who are very healthy can “afford” to produce high levels of testosterone during their development. The bodies of less healthy males need to suppress T production so they can hang on to the limited immune resources they have. “If Johnston’s argument is correct,” Buss adds, women’s preference for masculine features is “a preference for a healthy male.” And interestingly, in nations where overall health is poor, women show an especially strong preference for more masculine faces. The same goes for women who are more easily yucked out by cues to pathogen-causing diseases — substances and things that could contain infectious microorganisms, like poo, sexual fluids, and dead bodies. As for you, when you hit the gym, your areas of focus should be your shoulders, arms, and butt. However, you should do whole-body workouts, too, lest you end up pairing superhero pecs with broomstick thighs and calves. Even if you’re built like a paper cut and can’t bulk up a lot, just looking strong, especially in the essential areas, is a step in the right direction. And unfortunately, yes...the formidability thing has to result from physical workouts — tempted as you might be to skip the gym and, like somebody toting an umbrella on a cloudy day, go into the grocery store whistling and swinging a machete.
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My girlfriends and I have had this experience numerous times: A guy who’s interested in one of us will suddenly stop texting us but then reappear a few months later liking our social media posts. This just happened to me. It’s about three months since he vanished, and he’s suddenly all up in my Instagram. Why do guys do this? —Annoyed You almost wish the guy would greet you honestly: “‘Sup, Plan B?!” This guy might’ve initially been interested in you. However, chances are you eventually became what evolutionary psychologists like Joshua Duntley call a “backup mate” (basically the dating-and-mating version of a spare tire or the vice president). Duntley’s work suggests humans evolved to identify and cultivate backup mates so we wouldn’t be left high and dry for long if our main boo died or ran off with the hot neighbor. I know...so romantic. That said, it isn’t wrong to have backup mates. Research by Duntley and his colleagues points to many or most of us having them, though we’re often not aware of it. The thing is, this guy’s disappearing and then sliding back into your life with likes on some of your Instagram posts, is a big red flag — a big red sequined flag with cop flashers on top. Character is revealed in how people behave when they feel they have nothing to gain from someone. Maybe this guy got the hots for some other woman and the lukewarms for you. Or maybe he just got busy. Whatever the reason, it takes minimal effort to make a kind exit — even saying, “I’ve got a lot going on right now, and I need to take a break from talking.” When someone shows themselves to be a jerk, you may want to broom them out of even the edges of your life. This is clickably easy on Instagram, thanks to the block function. Blocking a guy like this should be a wise preemptive measure, considering his idea of good manners is probably prefacing the 2 a.m. “I’m horny!” text with a few likes on photos of your kitten in a tinfoil conspiracy hat. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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s marijuana and associated products continue their push into the legal mainstream of American life, conflicts between what is and what is not acceptable are popping up in some unexpected places. This week, with college football kicking off a new season, we can turn to the gridiron to watch how past and present views on marijuana are still butting heads. Our big, local college football team, the Washington State Cougars, play in the Pac-12 Conference. Of the 12 teams in that league, nine are located in states with legal recreational marijuana. At a press conference during last month’s Pac-12 media day, conference commissioner
Larry Scott was asked about marijuana policy. “We do not have a unified position across the board given the diversity of state laws on that topic and our own campuses’ approaches to those things,” Scott said. “So it’s really left campus-by-campus, state-by-state basis. There’s not a conference policy around that.” While there may not be a conference-wide policy, there is a national one which completely undercuts the sentiment in Scott’s quote. The NCAA, which regulates college athletics nationally, lists cannabinoids as one of the nine substances student athletes are prohibited from using, legal or not. ...continued on page 52
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EVENTS | CALENDAR RIDE & DINE SERIES Enjoy a scenic gondola ride, live music, and a savory mountaintop barbecue dinner. Lift ticket and meal included. Mountain bike options also available ($43-$51). Fridays from 2-8 pm through Aug. 30. $7-$34. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com GRAND OPENING: TEACH KITCHEN EVENT An all-day celebration offering tapas plates and champagne, with live music and a ribbon cutting. Aug. 31, 11 am-9 pm. $30-$60. Wanderlust Delicato, 421 W. Main. facebook.com/pg/ WanderlustDelicato (822-7087) MAKING BONE BROTH If you aren’t already making bone broth regularly, learn how in this class. Aug. 28 at 8 pm and Aug. 31 at 10 am. $20-$30. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. extension.wsu.edu/spokane SIP & SAMPLE The market’s weekly afternoon tasting, featuring 1-2 wines and something to munch on. Saturdays from noon-4 pm. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257) SUNDAY BRUNCH CRUISE A 90-minute cruise featuring a full breakfast buffet. Prepaid reservations required. Sundays at 11 am, June 9-Sept. 1. $30.75-$50.75. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdaresort.com TAPAS TUESDAYS A showcase of tapas plates featuring charcuterie and cheese, tiny baguettes and topped flatbreads. Tuesdays from 4-6 pm. $10. Wanderlust Delicato, 421 W. Main Ave. wanderlustdelicato.com (822-7087) WINE WEDNESDAY Stop in for wine tastings and light appetizers every Wednesday from 4:30-6 pm. 4:30-6 pm. Culinary Stone, 2129 N. Main St. culinarystone.com (208-277-4166) TERRAIN TABLE A benefit dinner for Terrain, featuring cocktails, live music, an epicurean dinner by chef Chad White, art and a surprise performance. Held at the farm of Celeste ShawCoulston and Dan Coulston (address provided to ticketholders). Sept. 5, 5-10 pm. $125. terraintable.org CRAFTS, DRAFTS & FACTS: OH CRAP, I’M LOST! Latah Search and Rescue team member Gail Collins shares how NOT to get lost, what to do if you do find yourself lost, and how to stay safe on your next woodland adventure. Includes a craft making paracord bracelets and a burger. Sept. 5, 5:30 pm. $25. Rants & Raves Brewery, 308 N. Jackson St. rantsravesbrewery.com
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BACHFEST: THE TEENAGE CHOPIN Frederic Chopin, born in 1810, created masterpieces as a teen and achieved celebrity status in his home country of Poland before debuting in the musical Europe. Following two sold-out concerts at BachFest in May, Richard Dowling returns for a tour of Chopin’s early years. Aug. 29, 7:30 pm. $45; $15/students. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. nwbachfest.com (326-4942) COLOMBIAN NIGHT Inland Curry’s International Dinner Series continues with a celebration of Colombian cuisine and culture. Aug. 30, 6:30 pm. $6.24-$27.24. Big Barn Brewing Co., 16004 N. Applewood Ln. (238-2489) FACULTY ARTIST SERIES: MADE IN AMERICA Martin D. King, Clinical Assistant Professor of Horn at WSU, ex-
plores the exciting repertoire of U.S. composers. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the School of Music Scholarship Fund. $10 general, $5 senior citizens (55+) and non-WSU students; free/ WSU students w/ ID. Aug. 30, 7:309:30 pm. Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU), 605 Veterans Way. music.wsu.edu SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: DELTAZ The Deltaz have worked over a decade to master a wide spectrum of sounds, from heavy blues and roots rock to classic country and folk. Aug. 30, 7 pm. $15. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown. artisanbarn.org LUD KRAMER MEMORIAL SPOKANE SYMPHONY CONCERT Pack a picnic, bring a blanket, family and friends to enjoy the Spokane Symphony in this outdoor venue. Aug. 31, 6 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. spokanesymphony.org (755-6726) PIN-UPS ON TOUR A morale-boosting classic pin-up show to raise funds for hospitalized veterans and deployed troops. Aug. 31, 7 pm. Free-$53.49. Hogfish, 1920 E. Sherman. facebook. com/hogfishbarcda (208-667-1896) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY LABOR DAY CONCERT Maestro Jan Pellant leads the orchestra in the 18th free Labor Day concert. This year’s concert features selections from Handel’s “Water Music,” Sibelius’ “Finlandia,” Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances,” and Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” along with the Symphony’s tradition of patriotic songs and medleys. Mezzo-soprano Heather Parker and baritone Brandon Michael join the Symphony with arias from Puccini and Rossini along with favorite duets from Broadway. Sept. 2, 1 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. cdasymphony.org WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society presents its first contra dance of the new season with the Redwood City Band and caller Nora Scott. This is a community event, all are welcome. Sept. 4, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. myspokanefolklore@gmail.com JAZZ AT THE JACC An evening of “Straight Ahead Jazz” from the Great American Songbook with Michael Jaramillo and a new group of musician friends, with a special guest performance by the CDA Charter Academy Jazz Band. Doors at 6:30 for beer, wine and light refreshments. Sept. 6, 7-9 pm. $10. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org MICHAEL CAVANAUGH: THE MUSIC OF ELTON JOHN WITH THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY Cavanaugh wowed Spokane audiences last winter, performing the music of Billy Joel with the Spokane Symphony. The charismatic performer returns to lend his musical brilliance to hits such as “Benny and the Jets,” “Your Song,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Rocket Man,” “Candle in the Wind” and more. Sep. 6, 8-10 pm. $43+. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200)
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SPORTS “GRASS OR TURF?,” CONTINUED... So, if you’re a college football player of legal age, in a state with legal recreational marijuana, you aren’t allowed to relax with a joint during your down time. You’re also not allowed to use CBD balm to treat the aches and pains associated with playing football. We still don’t have much scientific data to back up CBD’s effectiveness as a method of pain relief, but the anecdotal evidence supporting it is overwhelming. Where there is medically sound research supporting cannabinoids, specifically in treating epilepsy, the NCAA is turning a blind eye as well. In the spring of 2018, C.J. Harris was preparing to graduate from high school in Georgia
and had an offer to join the Auburn Tigers, a powerhouse college program. Harris has epilepsy, but his condition is under control thanks to cannabis oil. It’s the only treatment that has proven effective for him, but it’s also the reason why he’s spending this season playing for Highland Community College instead of at the highest level of college athletics. The Washington Post covered Harris’ story last summer. It’s been over a year, but the NCAA hasn’t changed its outdated policy. Cannabinoids remained banned, Harris remains on the outside looking in, and those who are able to play are unable to turn to a group of products that grow more and more accepted with each passing day. n
SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT Promo nights during the three-game home series include Family Feast Night, Halloween Night and season finale fireworks (Aug. 30). Aug. 28-30 at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindians.com NPOV LIONS CLUB RAIL RIDERS Enjoy the unique experience of a four seated, pedal powered, railroad bicycle along the beautiful, scenic Pend Oreille River. Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Ione, Washington. lionsrailriders.com WSU GOLF NINE & DINE Join the Cougar Men’s & Women’s Golf Teams for this annual chance to play on one of the nation’s top collegiate courses, followed by dinner. Sep. 4, 5 pm. $30$50. Palouse Ridge Golf Club, 1260 Palouse Ridge Dr. palouseridge.com FIX A FLAT CLINIC Includes a demonstration and instruction on dealing with a flat tire, then participants do hands-on practice. Sept. 6, 7 pm. Free. Wheel Sport South, 3020 S. Grand Bvld. wheelsportbikes.com (326-3977)
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ILLUMINATE Hannah Myers Choreography presents a series of performances featuring live theater, dance, music, film, poetry and visual art by local and national artists. Aug. 29, 5:30 pm. $10. Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main, Pullman. etsibravo.com SPARK CENTRAL RADIO THEATRE: TREASURE ISLAND Teens and adults can join Spark for a revival of radio theatre, forming a cast, creating sound effects, and ultimately performing a version of the classic Treasure Island. Please only register if you can attend all rehearsal dates (Aug. 29, Sept. 5, 12 and 26; Oct. 3 from 7-9 pm) and performance (Oct. 10 at 7:30 pm). $10$20. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) QUEEN B DRAG SHOW Presented by Dig Beats Productions Aug. 30, 8:30 pm. $5-$15. The Hive, 207 N. First St.. Sandpoint. livefromthehive.com REFLEXION: A ONE ACT PLAY A oneact play by Art Por Díaz, directed by Sid Al-Thumali. Aug. 30 at 8, 8:40 and 9:20 pm. $5 suggested donation. Baby Bar, 827 W. First Ave. (496-3950) 24-HR THEATRE PROJECT The Gonzaga Dept of Theatre & Dance presents the second annual 24-HR Theatre Project, a series of short plays written, rehearsed and performed in 24-hours. Aug. 31, 7:30 pm. Free. Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT Following the Persian Gulf War, Gabriela, a beautiful young woman, awaits the return of her husband, Benito; who has been forever changed by the war and its aftermath. Imagined through the mating rituals of a cat and a coyote, Gabriela delivers Benito an ultimatum. Sept. 6-22; ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$25. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org
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AIR HAS NO BORDERS An installation by Nicole Chochrek using light to indicate the daily air quality from a local air monitoring system in Spokane. Aug. 2-31; Mon/Wed/Fri 4-6 pm; Thu/ Thu 9-11 am. Closing Reception Aug. 31 from 8-10:30 pm. Free. Kolva-Sullivan
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Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. bit.ly/2PejdRs ART ON THE STREET: LISA SORANAKA Art on the Street engages the community in free art making. Soranaka gives lessons on watercolors and washes. Aug. 31, 11 am-2:30 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net DROP IN & DRAW For adults and teens. Beginning or experienced drawers, painters, crafters and artists can explore mediums, develop skill and cultivate imaginative thinking. Supplies and projects provided. Hosted by children’s book illustrator Pierr Morgan and local artist Remelisa Cullitan. Wednesdays from 5:30-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (509-279-0299)
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SIGNING: JACK CASTLE’S STRANGER ORIGINS First came radio, then movies and television. Virtual reality only lasted until hologram-rooms became a household name. Still, the suspension of disbelief was never enough. Aug. 31, 1-3 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s all-ages performance poetry competition with a $50 grand prize. First Sunday of the month; sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-703-7223) SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Spoken word warriors battle for Inland Empire supremacy, and a $50 grand prize. Each poem is judged by five audience members, and after two rounds of poetry, the poet with the highest cumulative score is declared winner. Doors open at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org DROP IN & WRITE For teens and adults. Aspiring writers are invited to be a part of Spark’s supportive local writing community. Bring works in progress to share, get inspired with creative prompts and spend some focused time writing. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org SUNSET STORY SLAM: HOW EMBARRASSING! A live storytelling event where anyone can sign up to tell a story. Signups at 7:30, show at 8 pm. Sep. 4, 8 pm. Free. Lucky You Lounge, 1801 W. Sunset Blvd. luckyyoulounge.com BOOK LAUNCH: ALEXANDRA TEAGUE The Moscow-based author reads from her newest poetry collection “Or What We’ll Call Desire,” that mixes high art and popular culture. Sept. 5, 7 pm. Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main. (208-882-2669) KIA ORA! GARDEN TOURING IN NEW ZEALAND Bruce Wakefield of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon gives a talk on the concept of Kia ora, a warm and welcoming greeting you’ll hear throughout New Zealand which comes from indigenous language. Sept. 5, 6:30-9 pm. Free. CenterPlace Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. tieg.org (535-8434) SPOKANE AUTHORS & SELF-PUBLISHERS Open to authors of all ages and levels of accomplishment. September’s speaker is M.J. Hudon, who discusses the use of social media for marketing. Sept. 5, 2:30-4 pm. Golden Corral Buffet, 7117 N. Division. spokaneauthors.org (325-9465) n
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Di n i n g e w with a Vi Inside or out, the views are as good as the new menu.
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visitcda.org for more events, things to do & places to stay.
See You in September Celebrate the end of summer and the glorious start to fall in Coeur d’Alene
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eptember means back to school, sweaters at night and scrambling to enjoy every last moment outdoors. Mark your calendar for these September must-do events.
River Grill Restaurant Live Music Thursday at 6pm June 20th - Sept 26th
BREAKFAST: Mon-Sun 7am-11am LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm
Fri & Sat 11am-10pm
HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Fri 4pm-6pm Sat & Sun 2pm-6pm
414 E 1st Ave | Post Falls, Id (208) 773-1611 54 INLANDER AUGUST 29, 2019
Ride the waterslide one last time at SILVERWOOD THEME PARK’S BOULDER BEACH, which closes Sept. 2. The main park, however, remains open on weekends until the end of September. Starting Oct. 3 things get scary… as in the chilling, thrilling SCARYWOOD! Work Hard and Play Harder is the name of the game at CIRCLING RAVEN GOLF COURSE on Sept. 2 when the usual pin and tee positions have been moved to make a magnificent course even more challenging to play. Enjoy this Golf Digest Top 100 course on a perfect early fall day, then pop into their Twisted Earth Grill for a special $15/person dinner. Can’t make it? That’s OK. Aim instead for Sept. 20 when Twisted Earth Grill is home to a $20 Scotland-inspired Whiskey and Cigar Tasting for players. Back by popular demand, The Rub returns to LIVE AFTER FIVE for a Sept. 5 performance ($5). It’s classic rock and roll and more from this favorite local band in a family-friendly concert at McEuen Park against the backdrop
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of the lake. Bonus: Visit the KOOTENAI FARMER’S WEDNESDAY MARKET on Sherman and Fifth before they conclude for the summer (Sept. 25) and enjoy live music, fresh produce, scratch-made goods and plenty of socializing. With five levels of participation, the annual COEUR D’FONDO on Sept. 21 showcases beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene by bicycle. Families might enjoy the 15mile leisurely fun ride from downtown out along Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive and back ($35). For competitors, your paid admission includes entrance to OKTOBERFEST downtown Coeur d’Alene at the conclusion of the race and offers four distance levels. The Piccolo is 40 miles departing from Harrison, while the Centro is 50 miles departing from downtown and arriving in Harrison ($90, including boat ride one way). The Medio is 90 miles roundtrip while the Gran Fondo is 117 miles ($90). Register before Aug. 31 to receive a $5 discount. Not interested in riding but want to support the riders? Join them on the boat ride down and back to Harrison ($30, exclusions apply). You can also experience Oktoberfest without two wheels. The two day bash, Sept. 20-21, features eight live bands,
30+ beers and ciders, and three biergartens. Dress up in lederhosen or a dirndl and you’ll earn a free meal ticket! Speaking of tickets, don’t wait to purchase yours. They’re on sale now for $25-$35 and include a commemorative glass or stein and eight 4 oz. tastings. Another way to experience the lake is like a bird… with CDA PARASAIL, which is accepting reservations up until Sept. 15 (weather permitting). Do a solo ride ($79) or tandem ($109) over the lake at an astonishing elevation of 600 feet or for $20 more, go 200 feet higher and get a digital image to commemorate your aerial adventure.
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Upcoming Events Hosted by:
Bands on Boats AUG. 30
The Ryan Larson Band offers the season finale of the Bands on Boats summer concert series aboard the Mish-an-Nock. Enjoy country tunes, good views and good times. $26.50; ages 21+;
boarding begins at 6:30 at Independence Point.
Coaster Classic Car Show AUG. 31-SEPT. 1
Classic cars converge on Silverwood for the 14th Annual Coaster Classic Car Show — one of the biggest events of its kind in the Inland Northwest. If you like cars that go fast, look good, or just remind you of the good ol’ days, then head to Silverwood. Participants pay only
$20 for one-day admission or $35 for two-days. With entry, each driver and one passenger will get FREE admission into the theme park.
AUG. 31ST & SEPT. 1 ST 2019
Labor Day Weekend REGISTER YOUR CLASSIC CAR ONLINE TODAY ADMISSION TO SILVERWOOD INCLUDES ENTRY TO THE CAR SHOW BOULDER BEACH LAST DAY SEPT. 2ND
Fall Fest
AUG. 30-SEPT. 2
Head to the hills, Schweitzer, that is, for four days of live music and a bevy of regional wines, microbrews and hard ciders. Kids can create their own concoctions at the soda tent. This is also the final weekend of summer operations and the chairlift will be open for sightseeing, hiking and biking. Go to visitcda.org for the
schedule of events.
For more events, things to do & places to stay, go to VisitCDA.org JUST NORTH OF COEUR D’ALENE, ID WITH OVER 70 RIDES, SLIDES, SHOWS & ATTRACTIONS ON OVER 200 ACRES!
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