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Harris’ ancestry also reveals a common experience of sexual violence perpetrated by White men against Black women. She is a descendent of a Jamaican slave owner because he raped one of her female ancestors. Violence was an essential part of plantation slavery and rape was a frequent tool used by White slaveowners to demonstrate their power over the people they had enslaved. From his extensive diaries, we know that the 18th century Jamaican planter Thomas Thistlewood
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Sen. Kamala Harris of California is the first woman of color to be part of a major U.S. political party’s national ticket. GAGE SKIDMORE PHOTO committed 3,852 acts of sexual violence against 138 different women over the course of 37 years. The diaries of American slaveholders give no reason to believe that Thistlewood was unusual. And slaveholders throughout the Americans knew that the children born of enslaved women would inherit their mother’s status. The shared experience of racial oppression among AfroCaribbeans and African-Americans did not end with slavery. The emergence of new “scientific” theories of race, which cast people of African descent as biologically inferior to White people, helped to shape new forms of racial inequality in the United States and Jamaica (which remained part of the British Empire until its independence in 1962). In the United States, Jim Crow and segregation denied political power and economic opportunity to people of African descent. In Jamaica, new racialized labor systems emerged, which looked like slavery in all but name. The common challenges faced by people of the African diaspora encouraged Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, to found a branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League in New York City in 1917. Kamala Harris is a woman of color, and the daughter of immigrants. We are told that there was a time in this country’s history when we used to celebrate the success of people like Harris, as a self-proclaimed “nation of immigrants.” Though the despicable race-baiting of Trump, D’Souza, and other GOP lackeys makes it increasingly difficult to believe that the American Dream was anything other than hypocrisy, it would be a great shame to let these bullies overshadow the fact that a woman whose ancestors lived through the nightmare of slavery is running for one of the most powerful offices in the land. n Lawrence B.A. Hatter is an award-winning author and associate professor of early American history at Washington State University. These views are his own and do not reflect those of WSU.
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andra Carr was getting her oil changed a few weeks ago when she ran into an interesting side effect of the fight against COVID-19: difficulty communicating because everyone’s wearing face masks. Carr was born with the sense of hearing but slowly became deaf after many childhood illnesses. She now uses a cochlear implant to hear some of the world around her, and she speaks English when communicating with those who aren’t deaf. Still, it’s very difficult for her to understand people who are speaking without reading their lips or facial expressions, and she often uses other types of translation services even when someone’s voice isn’t muffled by a cloth covering. Explaining this, Carr says she kept her own mask on, stepped back from the cashier who was trying to speak with her, and asked the woman to please lower her mask. The woman, who Carr was struggling to understand, refused. “I said, ‘I’m a deaf person, I read lips. If you could drop your mask temporarily, we can talk and you can put it back on,’” Carr says. “I explained it clearly, and she wouldn’t do it.” So Carr instead pulled out her phone to use an app that translates voice to text in real time, but when she held her phone up, she says, the woman backed away and seemed startled at first.
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“I said, ‘This is a speech-to-text program, go ahead and talk to me and I will read what you’re saying,’” Carr says. Finally, the woman understood and they were able to complete the transaction. But Carr notes that the experience represents just one of many similar interactions born out of mask mandates around the country that have taken effect to reduce the spread of COVID-19. “It is a challenge in many ways for the deaf community,” says Carr, who has worked as a community advocate for 30 years. She is currently an advocate with the Spokane Valley office of the nonprofit Washington Advocates of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, or WADHH. It’s estimated there are about half a million people who are deaf or hard of hearing in Washington and Idaho. Short of everyone wearing face masks with clear windows, or using clear face shields, it can be difficult for them to communicate, even with each other. “It became a real challenge for the deaf community, because one thing that’s really important to remember is that even though a person is signing, the facial expressions are everything,” Carr says. “If I were to turn my back on you and start talking in different tones, you would know if I was sad or mad or unhappy without looking at my face. For the deaf community, signing and
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facial expressions go together.” While pandemic guidance differs as to the safety of some recommended communication workarounds, such as wearing face shields or lowering a mask to speak, there are multiple ways that the greater community can help, starting with being aware of the issue, Carr says.
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With more than 300 people who are deaf or hard of hearing in Spokane/Spokane Valley alone, and hundreds more across the nine Eastern Washington counties her office serves, Carr hopes business owners in particular will become aware of the communication gap, promote the use of masks with windows, and better understand the exemptions in place. What’s perhaps most significant to Carr and others like Isaiah Hoog, an 18-year-old deaf senior at Rogers who has also done advocacy work for the deaf community, is that people understand that they won’t be breaking the law if they lower their masks to communicate. Not everyone with hearing loss reads lips, Carr notes, but for those who do ask for that accommodation, the law allows for it. Of course, everyone is allowed to assume the amount of risk of getting COVID they feel comfortable with, but Carr says she is in a higher risk category due to her age, and she still tries to maintain
distance that would make it safer for the other person and herself if one of them were to lower their mask. Washington state’s health order specifically sets out when it is appropriate to remove face coverings in public settings, including “when any party to a communication is deaf or hard of hearing and not wearing a face covering is essential to communication.” Likewise, the Spokane Regional Health District and Panhandle Health District list similar exemptions to their mask mandates. Ideally, some mix of safety measures could be found. The National Association of the Deaf notes that for short conversations of just a question or two, masks with clear windows may help accommodate that need best; while they provide the clearest facial expressions, clear face shields may also help though they may not fully protect the wearer from the spread of the virus and may still muffle sound like a cloth mask does. Lastly, standing at a distance and lowering a mask while speaking may also be helpful. However, even as they seem to be one of the better options, homemade masks with clear vinyl or acetate sewn into them don’t always perform as intended. Hoog and Carr speak with the Inlander with the help of an American Sign Language interpreter, and although the interpreter had spread dish soap on the plastic and then wiped it off to prevent fogging, by the end of an hourlong conversation, the small window starts fogging up when she translates. Hoog, who got his first cochlear implant at 3 years old, didn’t regularly use the device that translates sound through the skull until about two years ago, during his sophomore year. He also got a second implant around that time, and says that while he is proudly deaf, he uses the implants to chat with friends, and listen to things like soothing music sometimes. But he also relies on sign language and lip-reading to communicate. “To lower your mask is great, because it helps me understand clearly if there is something wrong,” Hoog says through an interpreter. “I have worries about, you know, being confronted by an officer and they’re wearing a mask, and I can’t communicate clearly what’s going on. So I hope they understand out there in the community how important it is to lower the mask and you can put it back on. Access is important.” The pandemic measures also presented some challenges for distance learning, but Hoog says that at least in the spring, the use of Zoom and an interpreter actually worked quite well together. However, he’s now worried that the video program being used this fall is likely to change, and he’s not as sure how that will work. Similar to Carr, he’s run into some challenges communicating. He was working for a business doing home repairs this summer when the mask mandate in Washington took effect. “I had a great deal of discussion with my supervisor about removing the mask so we could communicate, but he was fearful,” Hoog says. “Fortunately I had a cell phone and I could utilize it for [translation] technology.” Hoog says it’s not that hard to distance 6 feet apart and take turns lowering a mask in those situations where people need it. “I know that others have the right to be safe, as I do, too, but I also have the right to communicate,” Hoog says. “We have options.” A tutorial for how to make a mask with a clear window can be found at hsdc.org/accessible-deaf-friendly-face-mask and more information on navigating the pandemic regulations LETTERS and things like doctor’s office Send comments to visits are available from the editor@inlander.com. Washington Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at dshs. wa.gov/altsa/odhh/covid-19-resources. “I’m just hoping [this story] will expose people to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. We have our communication needs and it’s very important for them to cooperate with us,” Carr says. “We are voters, we go to their restaurants, we go to their store, we go to their whatever it is. If they want our business, it would be nice if they try to cooperate, dropping that mask down to communicate with us.” n samanthaw@inlander.com
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What happens when you keep testing positive for COVID, long after you’ve stopped being contagious? BY DANIEL WALTERS
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t was July 24, Alli Talmage was at work at a Starbucks in Richland and her symptoms first hit. She felt thirsty, but it felt difficult to swallow water. She started finding it more difficult to breathe. She had a headache. And then — on her drive home — she started coughing and couldn’t stop. A cheap rapid test confirmed it: Talmage had contracted the coronavirus. She did the right thing. She took 14 days off of work — paid for by Starbucks. And at the end of it, she decided, just for her own piece of mind, to get another coronavirus virus test. The results came back at the end of her first shift back to work. Another positive test. Another quarantine session. “I sat there and cried, and I called my manager. This second quarantine has been so depressing,” Talmage says. “Every day I just dread waking up.” After a COVID positive test, the federal Centers for Disease Control has officially outlined two recommended ways for you to escape quarantine and return to work or normal interactions: One focuses on time and symptoms: If 10 days have passed, you’re fever-free without meds for more than a day, and your symptoms are growing less severe, then you’re generally free to return. But another method requires passing two negative COVID tests, 24 hours apart. It’s a method that the Spokane Regional Health District opposes. “It’s not necessary. It’s not been proven to be effective,” says the district’s health officer, Bob Lutz. “It’s a
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waste of resources.” Long after COVID patients stop being contagious, their body continues to slough off fragments of dead virus cells, sometimes triggering a “positive” reading from COVID tests. “We have examples of people shedding virus six weeks out, two months out,” Lutz says. For some COVID survivors that means getting trapped in a cycle of tests and quarantines, cutting into their paychecks and even restricting their access to health care.
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Sometimes, the cost paid by the COVID patients who keep testing positive is literal. “I started to get worried about the middle of the month,” Talmage says. “I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to pay my bills.” While Starbucks paid her for the first two weeks of quarantine, she says it hasn’t paid for the next two. A call by the Inlander to the Starbucks corporate office suggests they’ll correct the mistake; Starbucks current policy is to compensate employees for at least two stints of quarantine. But Talmage isn’t alone in that financial distress. When local auto parts store worker Lucas LaPierre tested positive from COVID, it meant staying home, even though he hadn’t worked there long enough to accrue much sick leave.
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“They wouldn’t allow me to return back to work until I got the second test to confirm I was negative,” says LaPierre. He had to wait an additional six days — entirely free of symptoms, without pay — until he managed to finally get a negative COVID test. He estimates the lost salary alone cost him $1,000 — a big blow when you’re in the middle of moving apartments. He says the CARES Act can help him to get some of that lost income back, but all the paperwork is its own arduous process. And sometimes extended quarantine doesn’t mean you’re stuck in home: It means you’re stuck in a hospital bed. Jay Wendell Walker, a Don Rickles-style local comedian, has suffered a rash of bad luck. He fell and broke his femur a few months ago, sending him to the operating table, and then to the “sheer hell” of a nursing home. That’s where he contracted COVID-19, earning him an ambulance ride to Holy Family Hospital. Compared to the nursing home, he says, the hospital was wonderful. On the other hand, he hadn’t been home in over two months. “He was so anxious to get out of there,” says his wife, Elizabeth Thielen. “He’s a very social person. It’s tough to be social when you’re quarantined.” But Holy Family wouldn’t release him, she says, until they could make sure he had enough home health aides to assist him with basic tasks at his house. So for six extra days, Thielen says, her husband was stuck at the hospital, as the Department of Health and Human Services searched for people willing to help out a recovering COVID patient. “They told him after 20 days, don’t take the test anymore: You’re going to test positive anyway, but you’re not contagious,” says Thielen. “But trying to find home health aides to come into your house [when you’re still testing positive] is just about impossible to find.” Cathy McInroe, director of social work for Providence Health Care, confirms it’s been a huge challenge to find unskilled home health aides — the sort who can help
with cleaning, cooking and bathing — willing to treat even the noncontagious COVID patients. “They’re people out in the community who don’t have a lot of medical knowledge, they don’t have a lot of PPE,” McInroe says. “A lot of them are really afraid because they don’t want to get exposed and bring it home to the families.” They’ve run into a similar problem convincing skilled nursing facilities — nursing homes that provide 24-hour medical care — to welcome back patients and employees who are still testing positive. “Most of the nursing facilities want a second test showing that they’re negative,” says David Chen, chief medical director for Deaconess and Valley. “And if they’re positive, then they push back and do not want to accept people back.” The strict quarantine and testing requirements for nursing home employees, Chen says, means that just a few staff illnesses at a nursing home “totally decimates their ability to take on new people and care for them.” McInroe says that both Multicare and Providence have been holding meetings with the skilled nursing facilities to try to help them work through any regulatory reasons they haven’t ditched the two-negative-test requirement for employees to return to work. Because right now, it’s hard to find spots to discharge some patients. “We’re keeping people longer than we should just because we need to,” McInroe says. “There’s just nothing out there in the community.”
FOR THE LONG HAUL
Last week, after over a month in back-to-back quarantines, Talmage finally made her second return back to work. But she didn’t feel so good. She didn’t have a fever — the surest sign of being COVID-contagious — but she felt like she was going to pass out during her shift. She still couldn’t smell or taste consistently. Her manager ran her through Starbucks’ checklist of COVID questions, and by the end of it concluded that she’d be on a third round of quarantine. “It’s almost funny,” she says.“I feel like I’m in purgatory. And I’m just sitting here. It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel like I’m living at all.” Talmage, she’s discovered, is one of the rare “long hauler” COVID patients for whom symptoms have lingered for months. She sought out a virtual doctor visit for advice. “And they were like, ‘Oh, you’re definitely not contagious by any means,’” Talmage says. “You’re just going to have these longhaul symptoms.” Yet because of how rare long haulers are, and how new the research around COVID is, many experts are still cautious about making sweeping statements that symptomatic patients are no longer contagious, even after months of COVID. Lutz says most labs can use COVID tests to calculate the “cycle threshold” — roughly, how long it takes the lab to detect a certain level of virus — to give an idea of how infectious a person still is. But in many cases, labs aren’t reporting that information. But they should, Harvard epidemiology professor Michael Mina argues on Twitter. Using the cycle threshold to calculate a patient’s viral loads instead, he says, “will prevent unnecessary quarantining of millions after their infectious period and will help save huge resources in hospital settings.” In fact, in the Atlantic, he makes the case for relying much more on another kind of test entirely. These “antigen” tests, which could be developed to be as simple as spitting onto a strip of paper and waiting for it to change color, are cheaper and faster than the traditional shove-a-swab-deep-into-your-nose COVID test, but not nearly as accurate. But the lower sensitivity may ultimately be a virtue, Mina says: It’s only strong enough to detect the virus in people who are still contagious. After all, Talmage doesn’t need a test to tell her if she’s had COVID. She already knows that. Instead, she needs a test to tell her that it’s safe to finally leave purgatory and get back to work. n danielw@inlander.com
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HOMEBOUND Domestic violence advocates have grown increasingly worried as more abusers are released from jail and placed in home detention to await trial or serve their sentence, in part due to the COVID pandemic. Of particular concern is the release of INMATES WITH VIOLENT HISTORIES, especially domestic violence and child abuse. Those in home detention are not monitored outside of business hours or on weekends. And survivors aren’t always immediately notified even when violations occur during business hours, although there is a new Washington law that should make that easier. (CROSSCUT)
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Lessons learned from empty college football fields, plus some options for your Saturday afternoons ANALYSIS BY DAN NAILEN
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f college football was simple, the NCAA would have the power during a deadly pandemic to tell all the conferences across the country to shut down their seasons. If college football was simple, student-athletes would feel like their schools were looking out for their health, their educations and their futures. If college football was simple, its fans and the TV stations that serve them would recognize that putting 18-to22-year-old kids in harm’s way just so we have something to watch and generate ad revenue is insane, callous and obviously unnecessary. But college football is anything but simple. That was clear before COVID-19 arrived, and it’s being emphati-
cally emphasized through the way football people are addressing the pandemic across the country. There’s too much money, too much history, too much pandering to alumni, fans and TV viewers for any one-size-fits-all COVID plan to happen. We’ve learned the NCAA doesn’t actually have any control over the so-called “Power 5” football conferences, so we have the Pac-12 and Big Ten postponing their seasons until winter 2021(at the earliest), and the SEC, ACC and Big 12 proceeding with their seasons despite many of their schools being in some of the hottest coronavirus spots in the country: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas. Five of the top six teams in this year’s preseason college football rankings ...continued on next page
EWU’s Roos Field has new turf but will have to wait to see fans again. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
CHAOS OFF CAMPUS
The COVID-related craziness isn’t just affecting college football. If you’ve watched any pro sports lately, you’ve probably noticed they are far from normal. The NBA and NHL returned for their playoffs after their respective seasons were interrupted in March, playing in so-called “bubbles” where all the teams can be monitored and quarantined. Of course, the social justice movement reached inside the NBA’s bubble last week and inspired players to strike and postpone some games. Major League PROS Baseball’s 60game season came with rule changes (seveninning doubleheaders, designated hitters in both leagues) that are a travesty (at least to some of us fans), and the schedule has been decimated by several coronavirus outbreaks within teams. Watching golf tournaments on TV is pretty similar to the non-pandemic experience except for the lack of fans lining the fairways and yelling “You da man!” at every drive. Major League Soccer in the U.S. took a pause before resuming games in mid-August, and the British Premier League completed its 2019-20 season after a short pause and starts its new season Sept. 12. Of course, back in America, the NFL could give desperate college football fans the fix they need. Some teams will have empty stadiums while others have plans for socially distanced limited attendance, but the games will go on. At least, that’s the plan. The first game of the season is Sept. 10 (Kansas City vs. Houston), while the Seahawks kick off their season at Atlanta at 10 am Sunday, Sept. 13. (DN)
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“FUMBLING THROUGH FALL,” CONTINUED... come from those states. What could go wrong? We’ve learned that when players try to exert a little agency over their lives, the “adults” in college football don’t really want to hear it. A group of Pac-12 players formed a group called #WeAreUnited to fight for proper COVID testing, transparent safety measures, revenue sharing for their work that generates millions for schools from TV contracts, and against racial injustice in college sports, among other things. New WSU head coach Nick Rolovich was recorded telling sophomore Kassidy Woods, who’d decided to opt out of playing the upcoming season, that “there’s one way we’ll handle it if [Woods opting out] is COVIDrelated. And then there’s one way we’re going to handle it if it’s joining this group.” Of course, the coach later said he didn’t mean for it to sound like a threat. Sure. I don’t know what college football is going to look like after the coronavirus, but it seems like we’re at a major crossroads thanks to players speaking up in ways they never have before. That’s undoubtedly a good thing, but there might be some growing pains.
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ike most things affected by coronavirus, it’s hard to see this college football season playing out in any way that’s satisfying for fans, and I count myself among them. I’ll miss waking up on Saturday morning with a full slate of football ahead on TV, almost testing myself to see how much I could watch before a Pac-12 late-night game inevitably ended after midnight with some 52-49 type of score. I’ll miss going out to Cheney to watch the Eags take on Montana, where I went to grad school, and going down to Pullman to watch the Cougs battle the University of Utah, where I did my undergrad work. I had several friends flying into town for that one, but like most things this year, those plans are off. I’ll miss the Heisman Trophy hype, the arguments over which teams get in the playoffs, the teams showing off new uniforms weekly, and complaining about BYU players somehow being freshmen when they’re approaching retirement age. (Actually, BYU is still playing this fall, so at least I can root against them with my usual fervor.) I was looking forward to this season, and now I’m left with, what, watching overrated SEC teams play each other? Watching a big Duke-Wake
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Forest matchup in the ACC? I don’t think so. No, I’ll keep my powder dry till spring when, if we’re lucky, the country has masked up enough to get the virus under control, and the scientists have worked fast enough to get a vaccine allowing some sense of normalcy to creep back into our lives. I wouldn’t bet on that, though, just like I would never bet on a Mike Leach team in the Apple Cup or against Eastern Washington at home. Did I mention I’ll miss betting on college football this fall, too? n
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WSU fans were already facing a season with a new coach after the successful-if-controversial tenure of media-sensitive Mike Leach. New boss Nick Rolovich seemed to make all the right moves early on, endearing himself with the Coug faithful before hitting a glitch when he seemed to threaten some Cougs’ futures on the team if they joined the Pac-12 players’ #WeAreUnited movement. It will take a while to see what kind of fallout there is from that, or to see Rolovich’s team on the field, so Coug fans might want to fire up YouTube and find games from the last four years when Rolovich coached at Hawaii to see what to expect from the new man in charge.
GET CREATIVE WITH YOUR GAMBLING New WSU football coach Nick Rolovich is having the weirdest first year ever. WSU ATHLETICS PHOTO
Every fall about 100 friends and acquaintances play a game we call the “College Football Gambling League,” a low-stakes competition that encourages us to pay attention to teams across the country. That’s on hold this year, but a subset of regulars has created a fantasy league of sorts around professional golf. I know, exciting! Suddenly, I’m paying attention to hackers I’ve never heard of and tournaments with names like the Barracuda Championship. Adding some skin in the game makes most activities more interesting, so find some creative gambling options for yourself.
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Let’s be blunt: The University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome is terrible for college football. Domes are barely acceptable in pro football, but on a college campus, it makes it impossible to capture the magical vibes many outdoor stadiums enjoy. Besides, playing in the elements should be an advantage for the Vandals when those California teams in the Big Sky Conference come calling. Maybe they’ve noticed EWU pounding opponents in Cheney the last decade or so? Consider spending your Saturdays drawing up plans for a better way, Idaho fans, and then pressure the school to correct the mistake they made in 1975 when they put a roof on.
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It’s easy to waste hours on end watching random games when you’re a college football fan. Twitter offers the same opportunity to see your life slip away in a blur of screen-viewing. I resisted following any sports-related feeds on Twitter for a good decade, but now I’m in, and just following my favorite NFL team and its assorted supporters has given me hours of mindless entertainment and conversation.
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Your Saturday afternoons are now wide open. Consider it a perfect time to get into something fresh. One of my buddies is suddenly watching a lot of Australian Rules Football. I, on the other hand, recommend firing up your Amazon Prime account and watching The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, a documentary series about the Australian national cricket team that manages to teach you about the sport while telling its story about the team recovering from a cheating scandal. I can now tell you what “bowling a maiden over” means in cricket and even have a favorite player. I see you Virat Kohli! — DAN NAILEN
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Washington state pushed back fall high school sports due to coronavirus concerns, while Idaho largely proceeds as planned BY WILSON CRISCIONE
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n the spring, when schools shut down, so did after-school sports. Tennis courts, track fields and baseball diamonds went empty. High school seniors who devoted their time to a sport suddenly had their last season cut short. But will high school sports be back this year? In Washington, probably not for a while, says Mick Hoffman, executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. In July, the WIAA announced it would push back football, soccer and volleyball seasons to early spring. Hoffman says the WIAA recommended that cross country, slowpitch softball, golf and tennis be offered as alternative seasons in the fall, before Gov. Jay Inslee and the state Department of Health then strongly recommended canceling or postponing all in-person extracurricular activities for schools unless they’re in a low-risk county. Few counties in Washington would qualify. “So that pretty much ended that option,” Hoffman says.
That means most schools in Washington hope to start sports in the winter with basketball, swimming, gymnastics and wrestling. Schools will try to fit the rest of the sports into spring, though Hoffman says that will create logistical issues — there may be a lack of available officials and venues for sporting events. Idaho has approached the issue differently. The state declined to move sports to the spring, like neighboring Washington, leaving the decision to local schools and leagues. Coeur d’Alene Public Schools has started its fall sports but asks that students and adults wear face coverings when watching. Hoffman understands the reasons for the push back, but he says it was still a difficult decision. He pointed to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin that found depression is increasing among student-athletes. “To know kids are out there going through that, and not being able to change that right now, is really frustrating for everybody,” Hoffman says. “That’s the hardest part.” n
The fields at North Central are quiet. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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Spokane Chiefs hockey before 2021 seems unlikely.
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Spokane Shock and Chiefs ready and waiting for a comeback to Spokane Arena BY JEREMEY RANDRUP
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n 2021, the Spokane Shock will be answering all the what-ifs of the canceled 2020 Indoor Football League season. By the time Washington state shut down in March, the Shock were just a few practices in as a team, preparing to make their comeback to the Spokane Arena three years after the franchise had folded. The Spokane Chiefs, who play hockey in the arena, had the last games of their 2019-20 Western Hockey League season in March canceled as well. Many players were raring to go back then, and they still are, according to Spokane Shock accounts manager Andrew O’Connor. But the Shock won’t hit the field until March 2021 at the earliest, largely with the team they had ready to roll. The Shock have re-signed most of their roster, with a few additions. “We’ve got a crazy squad,” O’Connor says. “We were just a week away from game one before we realized we couldn’t play. 2020 was going to be our comeback season. I’m confident that if we were able to play, we’d have that trophy in our case.”
The IFL is planning its return next spring, while the WHL looks to start a new season Dec. 4, according to the Chiefs’ latest COVID update. Whether or not the Shock and Chiefs play in front of fans will depend on Spokane reaching Phase 4 in its coronavirus recovery. “If COVID is still an issue, we’re making sure that everyone is in a safe environment and having a good time,” O’Connor says. “Everyone is concerned about that, rightfully. We’re taking all the necessary precautions.” As for the Shock players, they’re eager to return to the field. “Our guys are athletes vying for the next level,” O’Connor says. “They’re keeping their bodies sharp, COVID or no COVID. Our team’s looking good.” The Shock plans on holding events for the public moving forward while gearing up for 2021. They’ve already unveiled their new jersey colors and plan on revealing more as the new season gets closer. n For the latest updates on their upcoming seasons, visit spokanechiefs.com and thespokaneshock.com
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MISSING OUT Local college football fanatics on what they’ll do this fall instead of watching their favorite teams BY DAN NAILEN
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hat a difference a year makes. A year ago we profiled a “superfan” for each of our local college football teams: Washington State, Idaho, Eastern Washington and Whitworth. We talked to them about their gameday traditions, their thoughts on the upcoming season, their families and their tailgate party cuisine. For each of them, fall was a months-long celebration built around football. This year, they all suddenly have a lot of time on their hands on Saturday afternoons, after the conferences for all four teams decided to postpone their respective seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a smart and safe move by the Pac-12, Big Sky and Northwest Conferences, and not one that every conference in the country is making — yet. If things go according to plan, the Cougars, Vandals, Eagles and Pirates will play football in the spring of 2021. Of course, planning is folly at this point of the pandemic, but we can always hope. We checked in with our superfans to get their reactions to this unusual fall and the lack of college football. Find their responses below:
KELSEY HATCH-BRECEK EWU FAN
Despite knowing for a while that the season proceeding this fall was highly unlikely, I was still holding onto hope and am incredibly distraught, now. It was obviously the right call to make, but still feel so bummed out, very numb about it. It especially feels different right now. This time of year is typically spent by attending the in-person scrimmages, standing in line at the “Meet the Eags” signing day opportunity, spending wayyyy too much money on new EWU gear at the Eagle Store (sorry it will always be the Bookstore to me) and finalizing travel plans wherever the Eags were opening the season. My fall is typically consumed by EWU football and everything else just simply... follows. This will be a fall like no other, so I am not sure what I will do with the time. Probably should send some positive vibes to my husband, son, close friends and family... I can’t imagine I’ll be a blast to be around. I think it would be fun to organize some type of social-distancing tailgate on the suppose-to-be game days, maybe show some old games, eat some great food and get to socialize with our tailgate families. I’m not sure that is the best idea with our current county restrictions, however. I am hopeful the spring season will go on, and fans will be allowed in the stands to some capacity. I know it won’t be the same, but it would be better than nothing, and by that time, it will be something we will all be looking forward to, too. The last time I saw anything in person regarding EWU was basketball. We even had flown into Boise the morning the Big Sky basketball tournament was canceled, so I am REALLY missing EWU athletics right now.
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MATT MITCHELL WSU FAN
After the first half of 2020, I was sort of numb to any emotional reaction surrounding fall college sports. As much of a fan as I am, I do think there are more important things in life... like keeping people alive. My wife and I moved into a bus in January and have been traveling from Baja to the PNW and everywhere in between ever since. We mostly just visit gas stations and grocery stores and keep to the woods. It’s been interesting to see how different communities are handling (or not handling) COVID-19. We’ve been shamed for wearing masks and we’ve also been accused of recklessly traveling during a pandemic. I think we would all be better off admitting none of us have the answers and we should just exercise some humility and caution. Football is a distraction that we could use this fall, but football is also just a game. A global pandemic is not.
MARTEN HIEMSTRA IDAHO FAN
When I heard that the Big Sky Conference was delaying football until the spring I took the news like I did when the NCAA Basketball Tournament was delayed. I was sad in having the season delayed, not being able to watch and cheer on Idaho football and the marching band with my friends, but I understood that it was done for a good reason: The safety and well-being of the players. What do I plan to do this fall? Rewatch some old Vandal football games if they’re on TV or YouTube. Also watch old Idaho Vandal marching band shows, too. I’m also trying to be more consistent in working out. I also have been playing video games with friends to keep in touch with them… and trying to help out more with the Tubs At the Club [Vandals] podcast with interviews for listeners during this fall season.
KRISTINE JOHNSON WHITWORTH FAN
This fall is definitely different for us this year. I would consider this COVID year without fall sports a blessing in disguise. My husband and I welcomed our first child on Aug. 11! At first, when we found out that we were pregnant and when our due date was, I was thinking, “Oh man. Right in the middle of pre-season camp. Looks like it will be a VERY busy fall for us!” [Johnson’s husband is running backs coach for Whitworth.] I was excited to bring her around the team and take her to games for sure. Then COVID hit. It is such a weird time to be pregnant and have a newborn. But I can’t say that I am at all upset that there is no football. My husband is not only home in the evenings now, but he is also working from home for his “day job” and is home all the time.
I am able to take a few months off from work as well, and it has been such a blessing to be able to be home together with our daughter. It definitely has made this life transition easier for the two of us. So, in a nutshell, I am sad for the players, especially those seniors, that they do not get to have their typical fall season. But, slightly selfishly, it could not have come at a better time for our family.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Kristine Johnson, Kelsey Hatch-Brecek, Matt Mitchell, Marten Hiemstra. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS Come spring, I am hoping that we will be able to enjoy a football season to some degree. By then our daughter will be older and even more fun to take to games and cheer on the Pirates! n
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CREED (2015)
The reboot of the Rocky series starring Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed (son of Apollo Creed from the Rocky movies) is way better than it had any right to be, and much of that is due to the stirring final fight scene between Creed and light heavyweight champ Ricky Conlan. The fight recalls the original Rocky finale, right down to Creed’s shorts, and it’s impossible not to get caught up in the slugfest. Of course, you’ll want to watch the first four Rocky movies as an appetizer.
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hile some sports have returned to action, watching them on TV is nothing like prepandemic times. I’m sure some of you are ecstatic just to have live sports to follow, even with the bastardized rules (baseball’s seven-inning double headers), out-of-season playoffs (NBA and NHL in August) and lack of fans on hand (pretty much every sport going). As an avowed sports junkie, I just can’t get the same emotional rush watching right now. Thankfully, there are plenty of movies that do deliver that satisfying drama sports normally do, no matter how often I watch them. Here are a few favorites for your consideration:
Nine movies that deliver the drama that pandemic TV KARATE KID (1984) sports coverage can’t THE Even in 1984, the idea that one youth karate student BY DAN NAILEN
could kick an opponent in the head to win the “Under 18 All-Valley Karate Tournament” was shocking. It was also incredibly satisfying, as Ralph Macchio’s Daniel character had been bullied throughout the movie, and the head in question belonged to Billy Zabka, an excellent villain as “Johnny” here and in myriad other ’80s teen flicks (Just One of the Guys, Back to School, National Lampoon’s European Vacation). Those of us of a certain age practiced that “crane kick” a lot in our backyards.
UNCUT GEMS (2019)
Uncut Gems is not a traditional sports movie by any means, but the tension in this Adam Sandler flick ratchets up throughout as his character, the aptly named Howard Ratner, makes a series of bad decisions driven by his gambling addiction. And yet, a bold bet on the NBA playoffs (and his jewelry store customer Kevin Garnett) gives him a chance to squirm out of his self-created pickle. Watching Howard watch the game is far more exciting than it sounds. And while I won’t spoil the ending, let’s just say Howard experiences both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in short order.
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ALL THE RIGHT MOVES (1983)
You can have Friday Night Lights (the movie, not the TV version) or Varsity Blues (c’mon, get real) — for my money this Tom Cruise vehicle is the best high school football movie. Cruise plays an undersized tough guy on a powerhouse team from poor industrial Pennsylvania. He has dreams of using football and his brains to get out of his dead-end town, where most of his friends are destined to work the mines, but a personality clash with his coach (Spokane’s own Craig T. Nelson) threatens his future, and the team’s success.
BREAKING AWAY (1979)
CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)
Yes, I’m recommending a British historical drama about track and field, because it turns out thrilling racing scenes can make any number of scenes at opera houses or discussions between stuffy English royalty bearable. Eric Liddell’s faith wouldn’t allow him to run on Sundays, forcing him to give up his spot racing in the 1924 Olympics 100-meter sprint. A teammate drops out of the 400-meter race a different day so Liddell could run, and the movie’s finale is a beautifully shot lap that helped earn this movie a Best Picture Oscar.
Four working-class townies, including one cyclingobsessed leader, team up to race in the “Little 500” bike race at Indiana University against a bunch of fancy-pants college teams. Breaking Away is an incisive look at smalltown life, and the final race scenes will have you cheering on the “Cutters” crew as they vanquish their rich foes.
FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (2019)
Professional wrestling isn’t exactly “sports,” but it can sure be exciting if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief for a while. This movie is loosely based on the life of female pro wrestler Paige as she makes her way from small-town England to America’s WWE, and it has some quality laughs courtesy of writer-director Stephen Merchant. Florence Pugh is excellent as Paige, and you’ll get caught up in her finally reaching the ring and “winning” her first match.
BRING IT ON (2000)
CADDYSHACK (1980)
Can a teen-geared comedy about cheerleading qualify as a sports movie? For our purposes, sure, because while the actual cheerleading competition that serves as the movie’s finale isn’t that dramatic, the journey to get there through teen romance, racial tensions and inter-squad rivalries sure is.
DOGTOWN TAPHOUSE
Is this movie utterly juvenile? Yes. Is it also hilarious? Again, yes. We’ll ignore what that says about me, and focus on Danny Noonan’s match-winning putt, aided by Bill Murray’s groundskeeper Carl blowing up the golf course in pursuit of a dancing gopher. Watching Ted Knight’s Judge Smails character huff and puff at the turn of events is worth every minute of watching this flick. n
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lighted some shortcomings of the old ones. In Sorger’s experience, the cafeteria-style serving approach has cut down substantially on food waste. “Normally, with a self-service buffet of, let’s say, a hundred people, I have to bring 75 servings of each dish because people will take bowls or a large portion. I don’t have to do that now. I can bring half of everything.” Furthermore, the savings on food has more than offset the wages for a new additional employee. “So there’s two
TONY EPEFANIO
Keep on Truckin’ From the first green shoots of spring until the last
leaf falls in autumn, Spokane area food trucks are typically firing on all available cylinders. Even if they’re not attending an event or parked at a familiar roadside spot, their staff will be busy with operational chores like prepping food or scheduling. This year has been — to put it mildly — very different. Large-scale gatherings like Pig Out have been canceled. Weddings and receptions have been scaled back, postponed or moved across state borders. With so many companies still working remotely, the downtown crowds have thinned. There have been shortages of staple ingredients like rice and meat. “In general, our season has been shot,” says Tony Epefanio, owner of Mixed Plate food truck and president of the Greater Spokane Food Truck Association (GSFTA). “Not even half of our members are operating.” He estimates that the actual number of trucks who’ve persevered through COVID-19 is closer to one-quarter of the community’s usual
number. Those who have continued to operate are doing so under comparable guidelines to brick-and-mortar restaurants. Their staffs are wearing masks. Individually packaged seasonings, sauces and silverware have replaced “community condiments.” Contactless payment options are increasingly common. And sanitization routines have been beefed up. Some food truck vendors have even chosen to drive in a different direction. Sabrina Sorger, who runs the Jamaican Jerk Pan food truck and Greenbluff Fresh Catering, in addition to serving as vice president of the GSFTA, has temporarily moved entirely to catering. That, too, is subject to a new set of COVID-era regulations. “We have to follow the rules of dine-in restaurants,” she says. “Instead of having to use sneeze guards with selfservice buffets, we’ve been serving guests cafeteria-style, so they don’t touch anything until we hand them their plate at the end of the buffet line.” The new methods, though not always ideal, have high-
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benefits there,” Sorger says. In the meantime, both she and Epefanio have been working equally hard to channel all food-truck-related info through the GSFTA and its social media accounts or website. The aim is to create a one-stop resource for anyone who’s hankering after their fresh-made food and international dishes but isn’t sure how to track them down. “On Facebook and Instagram, we share the posts of any of our association members who are out. If they’re at an event or serving somewhere or at a location for pickup, you’ll see it,” says Epefanio. “And if anybody’s looking for [multiple] food trucks, you can go to our website. You can book a truck there or go to our event page and see what’s going on.” You can help amplify the GSFTA’s reach by following the association’s social media accounts and sharing the posts with your own friends and family. And then, of course, sharing the food trucks’ delicious meals with your household as well. ◆ The website greaterspokanefoodtrucks.com is a great place to learn more, even as most food trucks share their locations on Facebook and Instagram. Mixed Plate, for example, has been at the Kendall Yards Night Market on Wednesdays, and at the Spokane Valley Farmers Market on Fridays, along with other stops. Jamaican Jerk Pan is available for private catering.
FRESH THIS WEEK BIG ROD’S TEXAS BBQ
BARBECUE Born and raised in East Texas, Big Rod later brought his state’s famous slow-smoked barbecue to Spokane. Although he’s still making the rounds this year (with individually wrapped condiments and one-touch plates, of course), it’s been super helpful when customers preorder on days that the truck isn’t roadside. An online app lets you order and pay for Big Rod’s slow-smoked (25+ hours) brisket, ribs, chicken or pork in advance — or get one of the crowd-sized meat plates and sides. His homemade mac ‘n’ cheese and pulled pork and beans are customer favorites. 218-7087 • bigrodstexasbbq.com
CRÊPE CAFÉ SISTERS CRÊPES Family-owned and all-women-operated, Crêpe Cafe Sisters can be found preparing their sweet and savory specialties in their mobile crêperie or under a shade canopy at several local farmers markets. All of their recipes are homemade, and they cook everything onsite to order. In addition to rigorously following all employee health screening and sanitization guidelines, they’ve recently adopted an online ordering service through the Toast Takeout mobile app to provide contactless pickup from their trailer. That way, you can conveniently schedule a large lunch order or a mid-day treat in advance, then swing by and pick it up. 991-7532 • crepecafesisters. com
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AMERICAN COMFORT FOOD If you’re looking to score one of the Farmer’s Daughter’s incredible breakfast burritos — made, like the rest of their menu, using ingredients sourced from local farms — you don’t necessarily have to travel far. They’re now delivering them to Jacob’s Java’s six locations around Spokane. But it might be worth seeking out the truck, where you can get a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit sandwich made with Ramstead Ranch’s pasture-raised pork. One sure spot is the Liberty Lake Farmers Market on Saturdays. Adding a little extra to the tip jar is a huge help for the busy staff. farmersdaughterfood.com
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HAVE BEANS... WILL TRAVEL ESPRESSO One of Spokane’s longest-running food trucks, Have Beans... Will Travel has been around since 1998. Yet almost all of their scheduled business was cancelled this year on account of COVID-19. They chose to persevere and continue serving the full-bodied “Bazza” blend from Craven’s Coffee that has won them coffee fans wherever they set up. In addition to americanos, mochas, lattés and Italian sodas, they offer a wide assortment of teas plus alternative dairy products like soy, almond, coconut, oat and hemp milk. They’re also taking health mandates seriously by adding social-distancing cones, face coverings and enhanced sanitization practices. 3700670 • havebeansespresso.com
ROASTED NUTS After the initial round of COVID-19 mandates and event cancellations back in March, the Nutty Bavarian chose to temporarily suspend roasting in person and take an online-only route. Orders can be placed on the website. For just $19, you’ll get a four-cone variety pack that includes generous servings of glazed almonds, glazed cashews, glazed pecans and salted cashews. Sprinkle them on salads or ice cream, snack right out of the cone or put them in the oven under low heat to recreate that fresh-roasted aroma at home. 926-1724 • nuttybavariannw.com
SKEWERS MIDDLE EASTERN Skewers might be the only place in Spokane that’s currently dishing up authentic Middle Eastern shawarma (think thin-sliced rotisserie meat à la Turkish doner kebab or Greek gyros). They marinate the regionally sourced meat in-house and make all their sauces as well as pakhlava from scratch. Throughout the summer, and despite their own operating challenges, they’ve been donating up to 25 percent of sales to organizations in Armenia and Lebanon to offset the crises in those countries. At the truck, you’ll find social distancing signs, hand sanitizer, sterile utensil packages and even disposable gloves for credit-card transactions. 282-8501 • skewerstruck.com
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INCREDIBURGER & EGGS AMERICAN COMFORT FOOD With several rotating burger specials that often mirror its downtown brick-and-mortar location, the Incrediburger & Eggs “Increditruck” is constantly giving burger lovers new reasons to visit. But what you might not know is that the truck has an ever-growing secret menu of its own — like the culinary beast named after Washington’s newest hockey team, the Kraken. When you order one, why not share it on social media to help the secret get out? To encourage social distancing and avoid large groups from forming, the Increditruck is running food out to its customers once the order is up. 4434215 • incrediburgerandeggs.com
MIXED PLATE ASIAN/ISLAND Mixed Plate is a veteran-owned food truck that serves award-winning Asian and Island food with a slight fusion twist. That can include anything from pork satay rice bowls (marinated and dressed in a Thai peanut sauce) to beef bulgogi tacos (Korean-marinated steak with an Asian dressing). They’re good about sharing their current locations and specials on their social media pages, and they ask folks to do the same to get the word out. They’re following all the public health mandates and have one person dedicated to handling payments to minimize food contact as it’s freshly prepped. 280-6115 • mixedplatefoodtruck.com
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MUSEUMS ARE BACK! Washington state just adjusted its reopening guidelines to allow museums to reopen to visitors with restrictions. The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Browne’s Addition is taking advantage of the change to welcome guests back — just in time for the last couple weeks of its Pompeii: The Immortal City exhibit (it closes Sept. 13). POP Power from Warhol to Koons opens Oct. 3. Buy tickets online ahead of time at northwestmuseum.org and you’ll get a time slot to join a limited number of guests; masks required.
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THE DOGS OF ON-DEMAND The 10 worst movies of summer 2020 came straight to your TV screen BY BILL FROST
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ovie theaters are over. Sure, you might for a minute feel nostalgic for the privilege of driving to the Gigantaplex, buying pricey tickets, forking over another lump sum for an XXXL BladderBuster Diet Coke and MegaButter popcorn, and then being marched to your Assigned Corporate Seat amongst the other chumps, but you’ll get over it. You probably already have. Video-on-demand releases during These Uncertain Times™ have proven that good content is venue-fluid. Hamilton on Disney+? Fantastic. Palm Springs on Hulu? Amazing. Extraction on Netflix? Didn’t see it, but it’s there and ready to kick my eyes in the balls with a single click. VOD isn’t without its downsides; plenty of garbage also slips through the cracks. Here are 10 of the absolute worst movies to premiere over video-on-demand streaming in the past few months — if you haven’t been suckered into watching any of these yet, beware.
MONEY PLANE
A pro thief (Adam Copeland, aka WWE ’rassler Edge) and his luxurious man bun are forced to pull One Last Job: robbing a flying casino of its… bitcoin?… for crime kingpin “The Rumble” (Kelsey Grammer). Instead of ass-kicking combat (it’s Edge!) and aerial action (it’s a Money Plane!), all you get is interior shots of goons ambling around what appears to be a Reno Days Inn and Frasier chomping a cigar on Zoom. Also starring piranhas(!) and Thomas Jane(?).
IRRESISTIBLE
You’d think an election-year satire starring Steve Carell and Rose Byrne as dueling political consultants would be impossible to screw up. But director Jon Stewart, of all people, somehow instilled Irresistible with fewer laughs and less insight than an NPR segment on the ethics of soy hotdogs. Instead of playing up Red v. Blue, Irresistible is as dull and passive-aggressively preachy as your Libertarian friend on Facebook who won’t stop posting Joe Rogan clips.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The High Note, We Summon The Darkenss, Force of Nature, Infamous. FACING PAGE: Trolls World Tour
THE RENTAL
Two couples spend the weekend in a seaside AirBnB… and that’s about it. The Rental shifts from a boring relationship quadrangle into a boring horror film after what seems like five hours (it’s only 90 minutes long), wasting a killer cast (including Alison Brie, Dan Stevens and Toby Huss) and enough fog machine juice for an entire summer of EDM festivals. First-time director Dave Franco almost nails a creepy vibe in the homestretch; good luck making it that far.
THE HIGH NOTE
R&B superstar Grace (Tracee Ellis Ross channeling her mother, Diana Ross) clashes with her record label over coasting on live albums rather than recording new material, because it’s 1978. No, wait, it’s now, when no one cares about record labels and live albums. The High Note is a cloying Boomer fantasy about a music industry that no longer exists, and further proof that Dakota Johnson (as Grace’s assistant-turned-producer) should stick to Fifty Shades flicks.
WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS In 1988, three girlfriends (led by Alexandra Daddario) rock at a death-metal concert and drag a trio of knucklehead musicians to their remote house to party. Surprise! The girls are part of a Satanic cult (Daughters of the Dawn — eh, not bad) and the dudes are dead meat. We
Summon the Darkness could have been a rock ’n’ roll classic, but never fully commits to the requisite gore and sex — not even Johnny Knoxville as a TV preacher can liven things up. Fail Satan.
TROLLS WORLD TOUR
A unity-propaganda cartoon about six tribes of Trolls, each represented by a guitar string, coming together in alleged “harmony”? Puh-leez. In positing that there are only six types of music (pop, funk, country, classical, techno and rock), Trolls World Tour completely denies the existence of the seven-string guitar — there’s no room for Korn in your precious world, Trolls? There couldn’t be a seventh, nu-metal tribe? Korn already looks like Trolls, forhellsake.
INFAMOUS
Ex-Disney kid Bella Thorne and apparent ’90s Stephen Dorff cosplayer Jake Manley star as an Instagram Bonnie & Clyde, racking up likes and heists on a cross-country crime spree. We all know how Infamous ends, but at least Thorne seems to be trying to make the most of an otherwise phoned-in movie. Come to think of it, her wild-child energy is exactly what We Summon the Darkness needed — if only for this, we’re going to need a do-over, 2020.
BATTLEFIELD 2025
A random group of campers, escaped convicts, cops and whoever else was available over the weekend this was
filmed band together to fight off an alien invasion in Arizona. If you’ve ever spent a minute in Arizona, you know it’s a parched hellhole that should just be nuked, paved and converted into overflow parking for California — not worth saving. So who to root for in Battlefield 2025? Probably the aliens. After this, they should pay a visit to Dave Franco’s Rental.
FORCE OF NATURE
A retired cop (Mel Gibson) takes on a gang of thieves pulling a heist during a hurricane… hold on… wasn’t this already a movie? Literally called The Hurricane Heist? Needless to say, the suckfest of Force of Nature pales in comparison to 1999’s Forces of Nature, wherein a psychotic woman (Sandra Bullock) kidnaps a traveler (Ben Affleck) and dumps him in a pit, from which he emerges as Batman. At least that’s how I remember it — ’99 was a weird year.
BECKY
Thirteen-year-old Becky (Lulu Wilson) takes on a gang of escaped convicts (it’s an epidemic) led by “Paul Blart: Neo-Nazi” (Kevin James) to save her dad (Joel McHale). Becky is sufficiently bloody and brutal, but James isn’t up to playing the Big Bad, which is especially disheartening when you consider that we could have had Simon Pegg (who dropped out before filming) in the role. Hell, maybe Mel Gibson would have made a great Nazi… too on-thenose? n
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WHAT’S IN A NAME? The building we’ve known until now as the Spokane Sportsplex has a new name, one that’s “world-class” according to the CEO of the Spokane Public Facilities District, Stephanie Curran. That name? The Podium. It’s a reference to the elevated platforms where athletes climb to get their medals, of course, and apparently a reference to the building’s own physically elevated status where it’s being built next door to the Spokane Arena. “The Podium” is pretty generic and doesn’t really scream “Spokane!” to me, but it’s better than something like Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center or Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, so it has that going for it. Which is nice. (DAN NAILEN)
Hoopfest during less socially distanced times.
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Summer Misses BY JEREMEY RANDRUP
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020 is a year of many lessons, and I think one of the most important is the idea that you should appreciate the things that you probably took for granted before. Just in the summer alone, I’ve longed to be able to go to the theater to experience movies there again. Watching cinema in the theater has always been different from my living room because of the theater’s impressive visuals and sound system, but also because of the other people you get to have a cinematic experience with. I missed being able to meet with friends face to face. We see each other on our screens quite often
THE BUZZ BIN
THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music hits online and in stores Sept. 4. To wit: BILL CALLAHAN, Gold Record. If there was any justice, this title would become incredibly apt, because Callahan is a gem of a songwriter. THROWING MUSES, Sun Racket. Kristen Hersh is indie-rock royalty in my book, and every Throwing Muses album is cause for celebration. ANGELHEADED HIPSTER: THE SONGS OF MARC BOLAN & T. REX. U2, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Father John Misty and more tackle Bolan’s glam-rock classics. (DAN NAILEN)
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through scheduled calls, but it just isn’t the same. Many of us were really close, literally and figuratively, as fellow transplants to Spokane for school — until COVID forced a divergence in our paths. Inevitably, this was going to happen as friends exiting college, but COVID put us on the fast track and split everyone apart early without any closure. I missed out on experiencing a lot that Spokane has to offer in the summertime. This is my first summer I’ve ever spent here. Pig Out in the Park and Hoopfest were things I was particularly looking forward to, but they will have to continue to be things that I’ve only heard about for now. Bloomsday was something I trained for in the months leading up to the original date in May, but I lost motivation when I couldn’t be out there running with my friends or anyone else. Of all the things I took for granted, the ability to connect with others was the biggest. I missed seeing people’s faces and being able to shake their hands. As we settle into the normalcy of quarantined times, it seems odd to me now that just a few months ago I could go to the grocery store and not be leery of the distance between me and others. While I’ve missed a lot, I’ve gained a lesson in appreciating what I have. When everything cools down, I’ll be more intentional when interacting with people or doing simple things like going to a movie with friends. COVID stripped away those things, but also reminded me that they are important, not just mundane. Hopefully, eventually, we can all look back on this year and not focus on the negatives, but rather on what we learned. The things I missed this summer made me learn that I should be fortunate and grateful for my regular life. n
SURROUNDED IN GROUNDED In Grounded, which is in early access, you are a miniaturized teen stuck in the wilderness of your backyard. Much in the same vein as Minecraft, you have to collect and craft items from your surroundings to defend yourself from the various critters that want to eat you (think spears made from grass fibers). I was initially uninterested in Grounded’s cutesy animation style, but this game has some pretty terrifying moments. There’s an option for an “arachnophobia safe mode,” but I’d say being scared is part of the fun. (QUINN WELSCH) DRESS IT UP For the second straight year, a crew of Spokane-area photographers has undertaken a collaborative art project in which they each take the same dress for a week, and then go wild with their imaginations. This year’s dress is a red Calvin Klein thrift store find, and on Sept. 3 the photographers will be revealing their images all at once to the world, and each other. You can see it by searching for the hashtag #samedressspokane. And this year, they’re auctioning off the dress via eBay (search “Same Dress Spokane”) to raise money for the Spokane Humane Society. The auction winner will get the dress, plus a print from each of the photographers as well. (DAN NAILEN)
POLITICAL GAMES Every summer, hundreds of high school juniors descend on Texas’ state capitol to participate in a political experiment where they’re separated into two nebulous parties and made to elect their own representatives. It’s one of many American Legion-sponsored events that occur annually around the country, and the new documentary Boys State, streaming on Apple TV+, immerses us in a week of teenage political gamesmanship. Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine follow a diverse group of young men with wildly different ideologies, but what’s most remarkable is how adept they are at political spin, which will either give you hope for the future or fill you with cynicism. Or maybe a bit of both. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)
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Industrial City Eats Wooden City Spokane becomes the second Northwest location for trio who started the restaurant in Tacoma BY CHEY SCOTT
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ne of the newest arrivals to the region’s burgeoning culinary scene was bustling and busy on a recent Wednesday evening, even with dine-in seating at half capacity as employees wearing face masks ferried food out from the open kitchen. Since opening its doors in mid-August, Wooden City Spokane has been a welcome bright spot for many diners seeking a new and exciting experience, not to mention a reason to leave the house. The restaurant was founded by a trio of owners who opened the first Wooden City in Tacoma two years ago. Its menu features mostly casual American eats like burgers, wood-fired pizza and housemade pasta, with a high attention to detail and technique, and some French and Italian influences, says co-owner and chef Jon Green. “So far, I think people want to come in and experience us for the first time in person, which totally makes sense,” Green says of the fact that Wooden City has seen significantly more customers opting to eat in than order carryout since its debut. Opening at half capacity while statewide
COVID-19 restrictions remain in place has also come with unexpected benefits. It’s allowed Wooden City’s staff to slowly ease into the ebbs and flows of service, and to adapt its business model appropriately, Green says. “Had we opened at full capacity in the space it might have actually been too crazy right out of the gate,” he says. “It almost has this built-in soft opening effect for us. The last thing you want to do is open and be slammed and have bad first impressions.” Green says starting out with a smaller staff and reduced sales projections, versus having to scale everything back from peak service levels, has also helped. Wooden City is located in the historic Genesee building on Riverside Avenue, taking up the full first floor of the 1892-built brick storefront that’s listed on Spokane County’s historic register. The restaurant boasts an expansive dining room with mezzanine seating around one half, and an open-layout kitchen beyond the bar on the other half. Green says the Spokane restaurant’s menu is very similar to what’s
served at Wooden City in Tacoma, which he opened in 2018 with business partners Abe Fox and Eddie Gulberg. Since deciding to expand to Spokane last year, Green and Gulberg have both permanently relocated to the area to focus on the new eatery. For the menu, Green brings experience from cooking at restaurant kitchens in larger metropolitan areas across the U.S. and internationally. His resume includes stints at Michelin-starred spots like the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Gramercy Tavern in New York City. ...continued on next page
A pepperoni pizza and a country-style pork chop. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS
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“INDUSTRIAL CITY EATS,” CONTINUED... “The menu has a lot of things you’re familiar with, like housemade pasta and pizza and burgers and steak frites, but it’s done with a high attention to detail,” Green says. “So we make a Caesar salad, but we fry the croutons to order.” An early standout dish — and a Wooden City specialty — is Green’s blistered Hungarian wax peppers ($14). A pair of the medium-heat peppers are stuffed with sweet sausage, aged cheddar and served with chive oil and toasted ciabatta. The recipe from Green’s family is often part of their holiday celebrations. “As soon as we had a wood-fired oven and started trying it in the oven, it took it over the top and we knew we had to serve it at the restaurant,” he says. “It’s become a classic and favorite for us, for sure.” Another uncommon yet popular menu item is a colorful beet ravioli ($22) with goat cheese, basil and pistachio butter. “I couldn’t even tell you how many times I heard someone say ‘I don’t even like beets, and this is one of the best things I’ve ever had,’” Green says. “I think it’s one of our best dishes for sure.” Wooden City’s menu is rounded out with several shareable appetizers and small plates, including house-smoked salmon toast ($15), chicken wings ($13), a couple salads and more. For larger portions, Wooden City offers two burgers ($15) — the standard Tavern burger and the Fancy burger with mushrooms and Swiss — and a fried chicken sandwich ($15). There are six wood-fired pizzas ($14-$18), including a vegan option. Traditional entrees include steak frites ($30), a wood-fired half chicken ($21), seared scallops and lamb bolognese ($23). “I worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in my 20s, and have worked with some of the most expensive ingredients in the world, but here we’re applying all those attention-to-detail standards to a concept that is a little more casual and approachable and fun,” Green says. “I’m trying to create a restaurant that I would want to go to.” The full bar offers cocktails, bottled and
canned beer, wine by the glass and several housemade mocktails ($7 each), a lavender lemonade and strawberry shrub soda included. Happy hour specials for food and drink are offered from 4-5:30 pm each day. For now, the restaurant only offers dinner service.
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ooden City’s name is an homage to its founding city, Tacoma. Green says he and co-owner Fox came across a historical account of the western Washington port city referring to it as the “wooden city” for serving as a central shipping hub for the Northwest’s plentiful timber industry. “We just really liked it. The name itself tied to Tacoma, but it also felt like a callout to where we all started from when we came up with the concept,” Green explains. By coincidence, the name Wooden City could arguably tie into Spokane’s history, too, through the building it’s located in. The Genesee building is one of few still-standing brick structures constructed in the aftermath of the Great Spokane Fire of 1889, when most of the then timber-built city burnt to the ground. Green says the partners chose Tacoma and Spokane as homes for their restaurants for similar reasons. Both are mid-sized cities seeing significant revitalization and growth, and offer less expensive commercial real estate than larger cities like Seattle and Portland. That fact partly results in less saturation and competition for the restaurant industry. “We felt like it was a really awesome opportunity to do the type of restaurant we dreamed of doing, and open where there weren’t a dozen similar concepts on the same block, and we could actually afford the rent,” Green says. “It allowed us to do a restaurant where the main focus was about having a good time and providing a good experience for people.” n Wooden City Spokane • 821 W. Riverside Ave. • Open Wed-Sun from 4-9 pm • woodencityspokane.com • 822-7194
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From Comedy to Milkshakes Spokane Comedy Club pivots while waiting out restrictions, and Riverfront Park ups its food game BY CHEY SCOTT
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hen show after show on this summer’s calendar were forced to cancel and it became clear this pandemic wasn’t abating anytime soon, the owners of Spokane Comedy Club knew they had to get creative. The club’s last live show was back on March 15, says co-owner Adam Norwest. “Now we’ve been closed for five months with no end in sight and, you know, bills to pay and staff with families to feed, and we realized we needed to do something for the club to survive and thrive long-term,” Norwest says. Enter Spokane Shake Company, the club’s new name and focus as a restaurant for the foreseeable future. “We wanted to focus on something fun and unique, so we’ve put together a menu with 39 milkshake flavors,” he says. All shakes ($5.49-$6.49) are made using Tillamook ice cream, with various other ingredients mixed in like sugary cereal, candy bar chunks, fruit and more to create specialty flavors. There’s also boozy shakes ($9) for the 21-and-up crowd. The “Backstreet’s Back” shake is vanilla with brown sugar bourbon; “Almost Famous” has cookies and cream ice cream with Bailey’s Irish Cream and vanilla vodka.
the club streams stand-up comedy on its projector. Trivia night is on Wednesday. To patrons eager for the return of live comedy, Norwest says he’s just as anxious. He says all shows that have been canceled so far have new dates into next year, or that a full refund is being offered. “As soon as something happens that legally allows us to have comedy, we’ll have it again,” he says. Follow the club on Facebook at Spokane Shake Company - Comedy Club for updates on the return of live events. To check out the new food and milkshake menu, head to spokaneshake.com.
EAT GOOD GROUP TAKES OVER FOOD SERVICE AT SKY RIBBON CAFE
Large-scale events could be off for the rest of the year, but at least we have our beautiful parks. At Riverfront Park, we also have tasty eats, which can be enjoyed at the Sky Ribbon Cafe, or taken elsewhere in the park for an urban picnic. In mid-August, the cafe’s food service contract was handed off to local chef Adam Hegsted’s Eat Good Group. Hegsted says the Eat Good team will be there cooking up scratchmade favorites — burgers, tacos, pizza and more — from its regional restaurants including Incrediburger, Taco Suave and Doughlicious bakery through March, and hopefully longer if the contract is extended. The cafe is open daily from 11 am to 6 pm. “We love being part of the park and are hopeful that visitors see value in having someone local run the cafe there at the SkyRide,” Hegsted says. “We’ve got some really cool ideas that we’ve teamed up with the park The Spokane Comedy Club-turned-Spokane Shake Company boasts 39 milkshake flavors. for that are coming out Rounding out the menu are 12-inch pizzas soon, like a fried chicken dinner in the park with ($10-$15), a handful of salads, shareable appetizchampagne on the SkyRide gondolas, or a multiers and a collection of gourmet hotdogs ($7.49) course dinner with dessert over the river.” that were previously served during comedy In addition to favorites from Eat Good shows. Group’s concepts, the cafe serves a handful of The full menu, including boozy shakes, is classic concessions, as well as beer and wine. For available for dine-in and to-go orders, and the updates on specials, upcoming events and more, venue is also open to all ages all week except on follow on Facebook at facebook.com/skyribbonMondays after 6 pm, when it changes to 18+ as cafe or head to skyribboncafe.com. n
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ne of the more unlikely franchises of the ’80s and ’90s involved two lovable, heavy metalobsessed losers who fell backwards into being saviors of the universe. Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and “Ted” Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) first hopped into their time-traveling phone booth in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and again in 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. It was as if the Jeff Spicoli character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High cloned himself, and then got stuck in Back to the Future. And now Reeves and Winter have returned for the new feature Bill & Ted Face the Music, and there’s something comforting about checking back in on these guys and discovering they’re still the same. It’s been nearly 30 years since we’ve seen them last, and since then, Bill and Ted’s band Wyld Stallyns has burned out. Now they live next door to each other at the end of a cul-de-sac, married to the medieval princesses they met in the first
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film, raising teenage daughters that are just like them, and trying to revitalize their musical career with a more experimental sound. Into their suburban malaise comes Kelly (Kristen Schaal), the daughter of George Carlin’s time travel guru Rufus, who issues a warning: Bill and Ted had been prophesied to write a song that would unite the world, but they’ve yet to produce it. They only have a matter of hours to finish the song, or the fabric of space and time will be ripped apart completely. So Bill and Ted try to track down themselves in the future, hoping to find a finished version of this fabled song, and they stumble upon different permutations of themselves — as failed open-mic performers, as foppish rock stars with fake British accents, as roided-up prison inmates, as old men in neighboring nursing home beds. They also reunite with Death (the always welcome William Sadler), who played with Wyld Stallyns for years but
left on rocky terms. Meanwhile, Bill and Ted’s daughters (well played by Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving) take on the roles of their dads from the first film, hopping about in time to recruit long-dead musicians — Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Mozart — to form the most bodacious band in history. It’s sort of surprising that we’re still enamored of Bill and Ted. Excellent Adventure was made on the cheap, and its release was BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC delayed for nearly two Rated PG-13 years due Directed by Dean Parisot to a studio Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, bankruptcy. Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine But it was an unexpected hit with audiences, and it spawned not only its big-screen sequels but a Nintendo game, a comic book and two TV spin-offs.
Perhaps one of the great things about the Bill & Ted franchise is that each of the three films has built on the lore of previous ones while also working as standalone entities. Sure, they all follow the same basic formula — the lovable lunkheads are unstuck in time, zipping around between different historical eras and universes — but the overarching themes and styles differ from film to film. Excellent Adventure is the modest introduction, a low-budget teen comedy that plays around with history, while Bogus Journey is a more ambitious supernatural romp that even drops our heroes into the underworld (the original title, Bill & Ted Go to Hell, wasn’t considered marketable enough). Face the Music, then, is the series’ midlife crisis movie: Bill and Ted wonder if they’re too old and washed up to keep coasting on the surfer-dude rock-star persona, and in between their interdimensional adventures they grapple with problems in their marriages and worry about their kids having comfortable futures. The variety of the Bill & Ted series goes to show you that more movie sequels should break free from the prescribed rules of their predecessors, rather than regurgitating the same surefire formula. Look at 1979’s Alien, a stark thriller with artsy design, and compare it to its follow-up Aliens (1986), which is a frenetic bloodand-guts shoot-’em-up. Or the Mad Max series: Despite existing in the same universe, each film embraces its own unique style. And although they’ve been rebooted over the years by different creative bodies, the James Bond and Planet of the Apes movies have the same appeal — you don’t necessarily know what you’re going to get each time.
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Using a song from another soundtrack is part of the delightful weirdness of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
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s long as movies have had sound, music has been inextricably linked to the art form. It wasn’t until the mid-’50s, though, that popular music took over cinema, when “Rock Around the Clock” blasted over the opening credits of the inner-city school drama Blackboard Jungle and changed everything. Since then, picking the perfect pre-recorded track for a specific scene is a skill unto itself: From the thunderbolt of Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” in Easy Rider to John Bender pumping his fist to Simple Minds in The Breakfast Club, to Dustin Hoffman’s post-college malaise reflected in the songs of Simon and Garfunkel in The Graduate, we tend to associate those songs with the images they soundtrack. This summer, two beloved music-centric films — 1990’s Pump Up the Volume and 1995’s Empire Records — are celebrating big anniversaries, and both are remembered as much for their youth-oriented themes as their zeitgeist-y soundtracks. Inspired by those films, I’ve decided to run down some of my favorite needle drops in film history, those moments when pre-recorded pop songs have forever cemented themselves in cinematic history.
“WISE UP,” MAGNOLIA (1999)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s delirious opus Magnolia is about people clinging to the ends of their emotional ropes, its action swirling around a mosaic of characters tenuously connected by chance and circumstance. It’s near the final stretch of the film’s three-hour runtime that Anderson makes his wildest stylistic gambit: Everyone breaks into song in a spontaneous performance of “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann, whose lyrics communicate the characters’ collective loneliness better than any dialogue could. It’s one of the most electric and straight-up gutsy feats of filmmaking I’ve ever seen, and it will either wow you or turn you off completely.
“FIGHT THE POWER,” DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
Public Enemy’s anti-authority, anti-capitalist anthem was perfect for Spike Lee’s equally impassioned breakout film, which featured the track in an opening credits sequence that has Rosie Perez dancing along as if her life depends on it. It’s energetic and vital, a visual defibrillator that raises your heart rate and sets the tone for the movie to follow. Fun fact: Lee has said he modeled that credits sequence on Ann-Margaret’s opening
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“CAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE),” INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
Quentin Tarantino is the master of the needle drop, and so many of his films have indelibly connected songs to images — Steeler’s Wheel in Reservoir Dogs, Urge Overkill in Pulp Fiction, Nancy Sinatra in Kill Bill. But one of his best and least conventional uses of pop music comes near the climax of his Nazi-killing thriller Inglourious Basterds: As the vengeance-seeking Shoshanna kicks off her plan to lock Hitler in a movie theater and set it ablaze, Tarantino cues up David Bowie’s “Cat People,” the title song of a 1982 Paul Schrader film. It’s an unexpected and delightfully anachronistic song choice that fits the mood and energy of the scene.
“LAYLA,” GOODFELLAS (1990)
There’s an argument to be made that Martin Scorsese helped popularize the rock-centric soundtrack, and everyone has their idea of the iconic Scorsese musical cue. My favorite occurs near the end of his 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas, as the film’s central criminal enterprise comes crashing down in a montage of violence set to the soaring, melancholy piano-and-guitar coda of Derek and the Dominos’ epic “Layla.” It’s such a perfect melding of image and sound that it’s no surprise to learn that Scorsese orchestrated the scene specifically to the song, playing it on the set so he could synchronize the action to the music.
“TINY DANCER,” ALMOST FAMOUS (2000)
Another filmmaker who knows his way around a musical cue is Cameron Crowe, and arguably his best film is an autobiographical drama about his own time as a teenage Rolling Stone reporter in the 1970s. The film’s finest musical moment occurs following an emotional blow-up within the fictional rock band Stillwater, and as everyone sits on the tour bus stewing in anger, Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” comes on the radio. One person starts singing along, then another and another, and soon the entire bus is belting along, all of the ill will evaporated. It’s one of the most exuberant, joyful illustrations of the healing power of music in any movie.
“THESE DAYS,” THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
Any film soundtrack aficionado has at least one from Wes Anderson in their collection, and it’s because his penchant for ’60s pop curios and Kinks deep cuts perfectly suits his exacting visual style. Of all his films, I’m most fond of The Royal Tenenbaums, and his use of this 1967 gem sung by former Velvet Underground vocalist Nico (and written by a teenaged Jackson Browne) is a quintessential Anderson moment. It kicks in as the mentally disturbed Richie Tenenbaum is reunited with his estranged stepsister Margot, and as she exits a bus and comes back into his life, the movie stops dead so the music can overwhelm us for a few seconds.
“HIP TO BE SQUARE,” AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)
Throughout Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial 1991 novel American Psycho, Wall Street murderer Patrick Bateman interrupts graphic descriptions of his crimes with long-winded personal essays about some of his favorite artists — Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis and the News. It’s that latter band that features most prominently in Mary Harron’s brilliant film adaptation, specifically in a sequence where Patrick (Christian Bale, never better) dons a plastic poncho and buries an ax into one of his rivals’ heads, all while dancing to the new wave sounds of the News. It’s that cognitive dissonance between upbeat pop and bloody violence that makes the movie such a maniacal satire.
“JUST IN TIME,” BEFORE SUNSET (2004)
Over the course of three films, director Richard Linklater has followed the ever-shifting relationship of Celine and Jesse (Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), beginning with a one-day fling in their 20s and picking up at random times over the years. In this second installment, the characters meet up again after a decade apart, wandering around Paris and wondering what might have happened had they stayed together. In the film’s final scene, Celine puts on a Nina Simone album and starts dancing, and through movement and music, we know exactly where these characters will end up. The story continued with 2013’s equally great Before Midnight, but it could have ended right here on a perfect note. n
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In a pandemic-free year, SpokeFest is an upbeat gathering of local cycling enthusiasts who embark on pre-mapped, community bike rides followed by festivities in the Kendall Yards area. Like so many other large recreational gatherings in 2020, however, this year’s cycle celebration is different, and instead encourages riders to head out on their own during a weeklong period for a “virtual” ride. Those who register to participate for the free biking event (it’s all honor-system based) will be entered to win a brand new bike donated by event sponsor Wheel Sport. Riders who participate on their own may complete any route of their choosing, or can head to the SpokeFest website to find the usually offered event routes, ranging from a 21-mile loop down through Riverside State Park, a shorter, 9-mile loop, or the more grueling 50-mile ride out to the Seven Mile area and back. — CHEY SCOTT Virtual SpokeFest 2020 • Sept. 6-13 • Free • Event held virtually; details at spokefest.org
FILM FIELD & STREAM ON SCREEN
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival has long showcased documentaries shining a light on the natural world, with an annual event that shows more than 100 films focused on nature, activism and conservation. Every year, the greatest hits of the festival are shown around the country, and while 2020’s touring festival is a bit different, you can still experience this celebration of the great outdoors from your living room. A virtual version of the festival is available this coming Thursday, with a series of shorts that run from about five minutes to a half hour in length and concern everything from salmon spawning to wheat farming to Indigenous culture. You’ll need to buy a virtual ticket in advance to watch the live stream, and proceeds benefit the Spokane Riverkeeper. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Sixth Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival • Thu, Sept. 10 at 7 pm • $12 • spokaneriverkeeper.org
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First Friday is far from normal these days, but there are still a few spots letting folks stroll and catch some cool visuals — as long as they’re socially distanced and masked up. This week, Giant Nerd Books is one such place, opening its Pick Your Poison: HorrorVote Art Show. The group show features paintings, prints and zines themed around the democratic process (such as it is). Guests are limited to five at a time for browsing, masks are required, and you can pick up some free prints and zines while supplies last. — DAN NAILEN Pick Your Poison: HorrorVote Art Show • Fri, Sept. 4 from 3-8 pm • Free • Giant Nerd Books • 709 N. Monroe St. • giantnerdbooks.com • 868-0420
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The 19th annual Coaster Classic Car Show at North Idaho’s Silverwood Theme Park is still on this Labor Day weekend, offering thrilling rides of two types. Car enthusiasts are encouraged to enter their shiny wheels through 1985 with awards going out to the top three vehicles in more than a dozen categories each day. Those who head out to show off their most prized rides are treated with free park admission for one or both days of the show for a driver and up to one passenger. For those who simply want to head out and enjoy the sights, sounds and spins on the park’s many roller coasters and other rides, admission ranges from $30-$101 depending on age, discounts or time you enter. Before you do head out, though, make sure to check the latest safety measures and guidelines in place at Silverwood this season due to COVID-19 on the park’s website. — CHEY SCOTT
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I SAW YOU GUY W GERMAN SHEP PUPPY On Sunday Aug 16th @ 9 am, my husband and I along with another lady and our two dogs were sitting outside at the Rocket Bakery and engaged in a conversation with you. You seemed like such a nice man and had such a sweet puppy. I kick myself for not getting your number for my daughter. If this is you, and you are single and interested, email me the name of your puppy and I’ll know it’s you! I hope you contact me, ya just never know! matchmakermom509@gmail.com TEEJUMS I love you, so much. You are the only person I want forever, my other half, I want to fix what’s broken. AFTERNOON DELIGHT I saw you this Saturday afternoon at Jackson Hole with a very nice lady I’m assuming is your mother. I was with my best friend celebrating his B-day with friends and family. I locked eyes with you once, just once. You have beautiful eyes and with everything going on in the world right now I thought the gorgeous guy at the bar should know he has tremendously beautiful eyes. Nice seeing you.
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JEERS LOUD, PROUD AND UTTERLY STUPID... ...Trumpsters at Division and Mission this afternoon. While we certainly admire your dedication in supporting your POTUS (regardless of how wrong you are), there are a few things we observed while driving by twice: First, all of you adults are tall, fat, white and very loud, with screechy voices and trollish demeanors. 2) You
had very young children with you, with the one preteen boy shouting back at passersby in an even louder, hateful voice. (Nice job, stupid, idiot parents.) 3) None of you were wearing masks, and there were far too many in your Nuremberg rally quorum to be
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Natural Area rules. Even just strolling the East Spokane neighborhood in the evening I’m constantly keeping an ear out, not for the dogs, but for the panicked commands of the owners who know their dog is dangerous but still let it wander freely anyways. Even
Even if your dog isn’t dangerous, how do you know my dog isn’t? Or if your dog ‘just chases bikes for fun’ — what if it causes an accident?
safely distanced. 4) You also displayed “Christian” symbology along with the overbearing Trump banners. We send the jeers not only to you for polluting the environment and brainwashing your kids, but also to the Biden supporters for not getting out there and hosing you down with blue paint. LOOK TWICE To the girl in the silver car traveling west on Trent on 8/27: Your driving privileges should be permanently revoked! Fiddling with your phone or whatever you were doing when you pulled out in front of my motorcycle, forcing me to lock up my brakes, you compounded your error by being unable to decide on a course of action which left me with nowhere to go. YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME, yet you had the audacity (you’ll probably have to look that word up) to behave as if I were the one in the wrong! Just WOW. Flipping ME off for YOUR mistake? Your parents should slap you and then go hide under a rock, embarrassed for raising such an ignorant, disrespectful, self absorbed, and thoughtless human. You shouldn’t be allowed on the road. Actually, you
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shouldn’t be allowed to go out in public since you don’t even have the grace to acknowledge when you make a mistake that could very easily take someone’s life. PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN and PAY ATTENTION little girl or next time you may end up in prison
for vehicular homicide! You’re halfway already got “reckless disregard” down. LOOSE DOG PROBLEM To the couple whose dog I almost ran over when it bolted in front of my bike while chasing a cat across the Appleway Trail, I apologise for blowing up at you like that (aside: I think that cat knew what it was doing...). This was weeks ago, but I still feel pretty bad about it. Totally out of character for me, I didn’t need to call you an idiot. At the same time, East Spokane and Spokane Valley’s loose and unleashed dog problem is becoming tiresome. There are so many irresponsible and just plain bad dog owners in this part of town. Me nearly killing your puppy by 3 inches and almost going over the handlebars in the process, jamming my pedals against my shins, was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Every week riding the Appleway Trail to the Ben Burr Trail via East Spokane I encounter at least one loose dog which gives chase. And hiking the Dishman Hills I regularly encounter unleashed dogs, often not even within earshot of the owner, explicitly against
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if your dog isn’t dangerous, how do you know my dog isn’t? Or if your dog “just chases bikes for fun” - what if it causes an accident? Medical bills are expensive... What if it was a little kid? Whatever your excuse or rationalization, if your dog is off leash in a public space which requires leashes, you’re a bad dog owner. You’re also violating the law. n
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“MORE THAN JUST A BILL,” CONTINUED... Majority Whip Jim Clyburn sent an email, first reported by Politico, on Friday, Aug. 28, to members of the House indicating that the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would be on the September docket. The MORE Act would deschedule cannabis federally, effectively legalizing the drug at the national level — though individual states could still choose to prohibit it within their own borders. Initially introduced in July of 2019 by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the MORE Act has since worked its way through the corridors of Congress in a historic way. When the MORE Act received approval from the House Judiciary Committee last November, it marked the first time that a bill to legalize cannabis had ever moved forward through a congressional committee. This month should bring another congressional first, with the House set to become the first chamber to ever take up a vote on federal legalization. “A House floor vote will put our federal lawmakers on record,” Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), says in a statement. “We will know who stands with the majority of Americans in supporting an end to the failed federal policy of marijuana prohibition, and equally importantly, we will know [who] in Congress wishes to continue to threaten the freedom and liberty of the millions of Americans who reside in states that have enacted common-sense alternatives to cannabis criminalization.” That’s likely where the history making will come to an end though, as the MORE Act is expected to stall out in the Republicanled Senate along with numerous other pieces of cannabis-reform legislation. Unlike most of those smaller bills, the MORE Act will outright end federal prohibition. Rep. Jerrold Nadler Moreover, its lead sponsor in the upper chamber is none other than Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president. In the end, the MORE Act isn’t likely to legalize cannabis nationwide. But it has, more than any legislation that has come before it, forced Congress to truly wrestle with the proposition. n
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was dismayed at how off-base you were when I read your response to a woman wanting to give her female friend advice to stop her from dating and hooking up so much after her breakup. It’s common knowledge that it’s men who go off on women for being promiscuous and tell them to not dress sexy. It’s one more form of patriarchal control. Why blame women for this? —Angry Woman Living In The Real World
When men at construction sites catcall women, it generally isn’t with remarks like, “If you had more self-respect, you’d wear a nice, classy long skirt.” There is a widely held belief that it’s mainly men who try to curtail women’s sexual expression — particularly that of single women — raging at them for engaging in hookup-athons or wearing skirts the size of an airmail stamp. There are men who do this, especially in repressive cultures, and even in our own. But if you give this notion some thought, with an eye to our evolved psychology, it really doesn’t make sense. Men and women evolved to have different mating strategies based on their physical differences, like how women can get pregnant from sex and left with a howling child to feed and care for. This probably worked out better — meaning an ancestral woman was more likely to leave surviving descendants to pass on her genes — if she didn’t end up a single mom digging for grubs on the African savanna. There’s a good deal of evidence that female emotions evolved to push women to seek commitment and feel bad when it doesn’t seem to be there, even when they hook up with a guy they know they want nothing more to do with. Though many men want (or eventually want) long-term relationships, a man can choose to dad up for a baby that results from sex...or choose to be all “‘bye forever!” and still have a good shot at passing on his genes. (Thanks, single lady grub-digging on the savanna!) This means that casual sex is a mating strategy that tends to be optimal for men in a way it isn’t for women. Or, as evolutionary psychologist David Schmitt puts it, “Men tend to desire easy sexual access” to “large numbers of sex partners”; in other words, they tend to be up for casual sex with a slew of hot women (or a slew of women with a pulse). Getting back to your notion that it’s men who tamp down women’s sexual expressiveness, sure, if a man’s married to a woman, he might ask her to close up a few buttons on her blouse before they go to some pervy neighbor’s party. But say the woman in the cleavage-a-boo blouse is not the man’s wife. Even if the man is married and faithful, his mind — his evolved psychology — probably leads him to read her as a potential sex partner and consciously or subconsciously store her in memory as a “backup mate,” a sort of sexual fold-up pocket umbrella (just in case!). In other words, when a man isn’t in a relationship with a particular woman, why would it possibly be in his self-interest to pressure her to dress a little more, um, Amish casual, and to keep her legs crossed until she’s Mrs. Somebody? Research supports this view. Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Jean Twenge reviewed research on the “cultural” (meaning “societal”) suppression of female sexuality, which they define as “a pattern of cultural influence by which girls and women are induced to avoid feeling sexual desire and to refrain from sexual behavior.” They report that “the view that men suppress female sexuality” (like, for example, by punishing women who make sex too available to men) “received hardly any support and is flatly contradicted by some findings. Instead, the evidence favors the view that women have worked to stifle each other’s sexuality because sex is a limited resource that women use to negotiate with men, and scarcity gives women an advantage.” (Women doing this are typically unaware of this underlying motive.) Especially recently, people get outraged when scientific findings don’t conform with the ideology they hold dear. This is unfortunate because only by finding out the sometimes counterintuitive, counterproductive, and surprising ways we actually think and behave can we choose to act more productively. Personally, knowing how pernicious, sneaky, and underhanded female intrasexual competition (women competing with other women) can be makes me careful to be assertive in healthy ways and, in social situations, make sure other women feel included and not left out. And really, if you look logically at who benefits from getting hot women to de-hotify, well, lemme know when you find a strip club with dozens of men clamoring for the women there to cover up their enormous breasts and, for God’s sake, put on a pair of pants. n ©2020, 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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People’s choice? See for yourself and vote for your favorite. The annual Coaster Classic is a big undertaking for the Late Great Chevy Club, which was founded in 1991 and numbers around 50 members. Four of the original members will be on hand to get all those four-wheeled beauties in their proper place and for car enthusiasts, the opportunity to visit with club members and visiting car owners is a real treat. “We really thank Silverwood and their crew for their hard work putting this together,” says Dohler. The event is free with admission to the park, so after you’re done ogling all the amazing rides, time to do a little riding of your own. Stay in classic car character at Country Carnival, where you can ride Silverwood’s Classic Car ride. Or rev up the fun with super-fast action on rides like the Corkscrew, Ricochet Rapids or Panic Plunge.
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Show off your knowledge of all things Coeur d’Alene, while exploring downtown at the same time. This interactive trivia trek will have you decoding clues while exploring downtown’s shops and restaurants. Your hard work pays off with a $25 gift card if you answer all the questions correctly. More details on the event calendar at cda4.fun.com.
Oktoberfest SEPTEMBER 18-20
Oktoberfest is back this fall in Coeur d’Alene — with safety protocols in place to keep everyone safe. Travel through Downtown Coeur d’Alene and sample crisp, seasonal beers and hard cider. There are more than 20 different options to try, and all the würstl, schweinebraten and brezen to go with it.
Coeur d’Fondo SEPTEMBER 19
Coeur d’Alene Lake Fondo will showcase beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene and the forest, roads and scenery along Idaho’s Scenic Byway; Highway 97, passing through many lakeside communities; before ending back in Coeur d’Alene at the fall Oktoberfest in downtown Coeur d’Alene. $95; 7 am-4 pm.
Silveroxx Moon Snuggle Night Ride SEPTEMBER 26
Most of the Silveroxx events were canceled this year, but the Moon Snuggle Night Ride is still on. Catch the last ride up the gondola BEFORE 6:15 pm and hang out at the mountain top until it gets dark enough to ride. Riders will break into smaller groups based on the difficulty level of trails and head down the mountain with knowledgeable local trail guides. Coeur d’Alene Bike Co. will provide a limited number of demo lights, but they must be reserved ahead of time by calling their shop at 208-966-4022. Lights are required. Season passes and tickets purchased earlier in the day will get you up the mountain, or single-ride tickets can be purchased for $15 starting at 5:30 pm. Please make sure to bring a face covering, as well as extra tubes and tools just in case. For additional information, call 208-783-1111.
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