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I help out panhandlers when I think they need it and when I have the spare change. I think everybody deserves a chance. What are some alternatives to help? Just open up your heart and love a little more. If people got together and put as much effort into building places for the homeless as they do tearing our roads apart and fixing them, we might actually be able to do something.
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I do when I can, yeah. Why? Because they wouldn’t need it if they didn’t ask for it, you know. There’s some panhandlers, I don’t know if they would make it a habit, but regardless of the fact, if you need it, you need it. If I got something extra, whatever it could be, I know it’s going to be appreciated.
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Occasionally. I haven’t recently. I feel like it’s not necessarily my obligation ... but I feel when we have such a materialistic mindset, we want to go out and obtain the material things, we don’t realize the necessities that we have can easily be taken from us. We take them for granted ... And a lot of these individuals were put in that position not on their own will.
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No, because in my class last year we worked at House of Charity and learned that every single panhandler uses the money for bad purposes, because if someone really wanted help they would go somewhere to stay and get food and help instead of being on the street. So do you contribute to an alternative? Yeah, I would volunteer at or donate to a shelter because I know where the money is going.
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hen I observe the latest trends in men’s dress — no ties, unshaven faces — I get the sense that America and the world have gotten lazy and uncaring: about appearances, conventions and what others may think. Some might argue that this is only a fashion trend, perhaps even a good thing, with fewer of us hung up on appearances, conventionality and how others may judge us. But I believe it’s one of many small signs of something different, more significant — a statement of where our culture finds itself and where it’s heading. That something different is also a cultural lethargy — an obliviousness to the world around us, a self-centeredness that equals apathy, which can lead to the deterioration of culture and social interaction.
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he dictionary defines apathy as “the feeling of not having much emotion or interest; a lack of interest or concern.” Americans are generally apathetic about voting, about knowing American history, and about each other. Walk through an airport these days — most commuters are focused on their iPhones, text messages or other electronics that exclude talking or interacting with other human beings. I laughed at a past episode of Larry David’s television show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which Larry found himself seated in a restaurant by himself next to a young man, also by himself, having a loud cellphone conversation. As Larry became more annoyed at the caller’s insensitivity, he started loudly talking to himself, intending to annoy the caller. The caller paused, and said to Larry, “Would you please not talk so loud, you’re interrupting my phone conversation.” To which Larry replied, “Excuse me, but you’re interrupting my conversation with myself!” Perhaps we’ve all been tempted to copy that response as we’ve observed callers, insensitive to those nearby, loudly carrying on a conversation with someone else, amounting to an invasion of our privacy. To me, it illustrates citizen apathy, an indifference to what others may think. To those who say, “Lighten up,” I say, “Where’s your respect for others or yourself?” Dressing for work signals a respect for the work one does and a respect for those nearby. A prominent trial lawyer friend always wears a coat and tie to work, usually a sharply tied bow tie. Why? When he dresses for the office, he feels like he’s going to work. When he dresses down, he doesn’t.
Old newsreels of World Series baseball games from the last century show that society is changing. Back then, men wore suits and ties — and hats — to major league baseball games. Today, anything goes, as far as dress is concerned. The same is true of airplane travel, where one can observe all forms of dress, from tank tops to jeans to even pajamas. The sad part is that dressing down can be a sign of disrespect for others that often signals personal apathy and irresponsibility. As cultural apathy increases, so does cultural deterioration. Standards for personal conduct reflect cultural standards, and when they deteriorate, society does, too. A recent debate.org poll revealed that 86 percent of Americans believe cultural deterioration is caused by selfishness and instant gratification. Just 14 percent disagreed,
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arguing that societal standards merely evolve. Granted, standards do evolve, but societies also remain responsible for upholding standards that are valuable.
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onathan Alger, the president of James Madison University in Virginia, has made it a campaign for JMU students to develop the habit of holding a door for others. He declared recently that he spends part of his busy life handwriting thank-you notes (also a lost art) to others and stressing the importance of common courtesy to all. Next time you pass through a doorway in a public place, see how many people hold the door for you. And, inversely, hold the door open for others. Hopefully, many will acknowledge your act of politeness. Signs of cultural deterioration are all around us. But that doesn’t mean we should accept such apathy and self-centeredness. Each of us can be an example by how we present ourselves. Don’t want to clean up and dress for work? Others will follow your lead. A careless culture leads to a deteriorating society. n
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hen it comes to the reality of racism, ignorance is only bliss for those who hold the power of majority. As our kids get back into the swing of their scholastics, perhaps a refresher course on where history has brought us — and how it affects our lives in the here and now — would be helpful. To get started, let’s establish the ABCs of the situation. A) Spokane is majority white (with an approximately 2 percent black population), and there is a vast majority of the Caucasian persuasion in the student,
staff, administrative and teaching population of the schools. B) Acknowledge it or not, white privilege exists here. It plays at recess, meanders down the sidewalk and is printed in the pages of textbooks. C) White privilege is an undercurrent pulling at our children’s psychological development, and ignoring it won’t help any of our kids be prepared for the globalized, intercultural, multilingual world they will live and work in. Here is a 10-step guide to literacy in white privilege as it plays out in Spokane schools: 1. By default, white students here are around people who look like them all of the time. When seeing someone of a darker hue or with an ethnic hairstyle, let’s face it: many
white kids in Spokane stare. 2. In the classroom, when learning about the United States, human history, or even “civilization” in general, white students are shown that people of their appearance are intelligent and capable leaders. 3. On the way home from school, white kids can count on their neighbors being amiable to them and not staring or harassing them in any way. Likewise, when they walk into the neighborhood convenience store or go shopping at the mall, they will not be followed, searched or hassled. 4. Whether it’s time for prom or just a routine haircut, white teens can easily find a salon that can cut/style their hair. 5. White adolescents in Spokane can freely use poor grammar, swear, have body piercings or tattoos, skip school, dress in any style, and even consume illegal substances without having people attribute these choices to their race. 6. White students are never asked to speak for all people of their racial group and are not put on the spot to talk to the class about their group’s culture. 7. White pupils in Spokane can be pretty sure that if they need to talk to “the person in charge,” they will be facing someone of their own race. 8. White children can feel welcomed and “normal” in school, and when they do well academically, they will be personally credited rather than being called a credit to their race. 9. White kids can go to school feeling included, rather than isolated, out of place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, watched, patronized or feared. 10. The school bandages, stickers, construction paper and color crayons in “skin” color will more or less match a white kid’s skin. n This piece recalls the lecture that activist Peggy McIntosh gave at Whitworth earlier this year, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Rachel Dolezal, formerly of the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene, teaches courses in art, Africana history and culture at area universities.
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o the left of the stop sign at Freeway Avenue, just before the on-ramp onto I-90 West, Jeffery Mitchell Reid throws a peace sign and sips a Bud Ice tallboy between cars. One side of his rumpled sheet of cardboard reads, “HARD TIMES ANYTHING HELPS! PEACE LOVE” in black marker. The other side is a bit more brazen: “WEED MOTA BEER.” (Mota is Spanish slang for marijuana.) At this highly trafficked arterial, the rule is 30 minutes on, 30 minutes off. But today, no one’s waiting for his or her turn at the bench by the lot across the street, so Reid has been out here with his sign for an hour now. Yesterday, he made $87. He’s $15 up now, until a woman in a sedan waves a dollar bill out her window. “Thank you. God bless you,” he says, shoving the money in his pocket. “16,” he counts. He introduces himself as Lieutenant Reid, 101st Airborne Division, Special Forces. He’s 57 years old with leathery skin and a white beard. He claims he was drafted when he was 17 — “only 17” — and did two tours in Vietnam or “six years in the middle of Hell,” as he puts it. For almost half his life, he’s been on the streets, sleeping under a pine tree, and displaying his cardboard sign to drivers. If you help “this old dog” out with a buck or two, he’ll thank you. If you can’t, well, that’s OK, too. “I ain’t telling no lies. I ain’t begging,” he says in a low, gravelly murmur. “I’m just telling it like it is. I been on these streets 24 years. I’m trying to survive. You don’t want to give it to me? OK. I’ll ...continued on next page
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smile and wave goodbye.” Last month, the city of Spokane and the Downtown Spokane Partnership launched “Give Real Change,” a campaign to discourage passersby from giving to panhandlers and instead redirect their money to charities. Aggressive panhandling was banned in the downtown area two years ago. Still, many of the men and women living on the streets here head to Spokane’s busiest intersections, lugging their backpacks and sleeping bags behind them, wearing their brightest smiles or most sullen faces. They take out their sheets of folded cardboard, and they “fly the sign,” which is legal as long as they are not reaching into the street or knocking on windows. “Most people in Spokane have no idea what the charities are doing, how they’re in the trenches daily helping. Most people are unaware in Spokane that homeless people can get a free meal every day of the week,” says Pastor Rob Bryceson, chair of the Spokane Homeless Coalition and a supporter of the Give Real Change campaign. “If you’re really interested in the nutritional needs of the homeless, give to Shalom; give to House of Charity; give to City Gate. “The vast majority of guys I know panhandling are getting drunk off what they raised.” Some, like Reid, do, and unabashedly so. Others, like Steve Adams, don’t. Adams crouches on the sidewalk at Walnut and Fifth, in a sweatshirt and bifocals, holding a sheet of white paper and staring off into the distance. His sign is blank, but people know what he wants. He says he hits the streets every two or three days, whenever he’s hungry.
“I only get what I need and then I’m out of here,” he says. Just enough for a burger and fries at McDonald’s or Jack in the Box. He pulls $4 from the pocket of his jeans. “I’m gonna try for one more dollar.”
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t Lincoln and Third, “Pepper,” as she’s called on the streets, smiles and waves. Her sign has a simple message: “GOD BLESS.” She’s 61 years old and petite, with a long, white ponytail, pale blue eyes and a pheasant pin on her denim vest. Pepper isn’t homeless. She lives in the Carlyle Care Center on Post and she’s been flying the sign here for the past three years. After her rent is paid, she says she only has $62 left over each month from Social Security. She uses the extra bit of cash she makes to pay the rest of her bills and buy small luxuries, like shampoo. “It [also] gives me something to do,” she says. “I get a lot of people that wave to me. It just makes my day. And that’s what’s it’s all about, the blessings that you get.” A couple of years ago, across the street by the Taco Bell, Pepper was behind on her rent. She was flying a sign that said “IN NEED OF A MIRACLE” when a man pulled up to the curb. She showed him her bill and the next day, he opened his wallet and handed her a check for $720, exactly what she needed to pay for her apartment. Folks’ generosity — that’s what surprises Pepper the the most. Back by the on-ramp, a bearded man in a Honda CR-V rolls down his window and reaches out to Reid with a dollar bill. “It’s not much,” the man says. Reid unfolds the money. He’s up $17, plus some change and an unopened bottle of Gatorade. “Anything helps!” he shouts as the driver rolls past. “I’m in the dirt,” he mutters. “I’m in the dirt.” n deannap@inlander.com
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The Washington Supreme Court has given the state until Dec. 26 to comply with its ruling banning the practice of “psychiatric boarding,” in which mentally ill patients who’ve been involuntarily committed are housed in emergency rooms without treatment.
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An ethics investigation into Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ campaign for a House leadership seat now includes allegations that she retaliated against a former aide for cooperating with the House Ethics Committee, according to the former aide.
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Legendary comedian Joan Rivers died Thursday at 81. Rivers had been in a New York hospital after going into cardiac arrest and losing consciousness.
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About 2,200 cyclists participated in the seventh-annual SpokeFest last Sunday, riding loops of nine, 21 or 50 miles through downtown and around the Spokane River. Beginning riders had the options of biking one mile through Riverfront Park. According to the League of American Bicyclists, Spokane is among the most bike-friendly communities in the country.
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After nearly two months of public demand for answers, the City of Coeur d’Alene finally revealed Friday that Coeur d’Alene Police Officer David Kelley was the one who shot Arfee, Craig Jones’ 2-year-old black Lab, through a van window in the parking lot of Java on Sherman. In his report, Kelley says the dog barked and growled, lunging his head out inches from his face as they investigated the van. “I was scared, and in my immediate defense of great bodily injury I fired one round from my handgun,” Kelley wrote. In doing so, Kelley violated departmental policy, concluded an internal use-of-force report from the department’s Deadly Force Review Board, as well as an independent review by the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. The reviews found multiple problems with Kelley’s actions: Kelley and his partner, Officer Jason Wiedebush, for example, did not announce their presence when approaching the van. Kelley fired in a populated residential area without signaling his partner. Neither review could find a reasonable explanation for why Kelley didn’t just move out of the way to avoid the dog. “It is agreed the animal’s head and neck protruded from the partially open window, however there is no evidence the animal was going to escape the confines of
the vehicle,” the review board wrote. The released documents also illuminated why the city initially identified Arfee, incorrectly, as a pit bull. An animal control officer responding to the shooting guessed the animal was “possibly a Pit Bull or Pit Bull mix dog” without even having seen the dog’s head. In a press conference Friday, new Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said the department will have to rebuild trust with the community. He did not, however, reveal any consequences for Kelley, saying state law prohibits the release of personnel information. — DANIEL WALTERS
NORTHWEST CARBON CAPACITY
A new calculation of the potential combined shipping capacity of new coal, oil and gas facilities proposed for the Pacific Northwest claims they would carry five times as much carbon as the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to a new Seattle-based think tank’s report. The SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE released a report Tuesday adding up the estimated capacity of four coal terminals, three terminal expansions, two pipelines, 11 oil-by-rail facilities and six natural gas pipelines proposed for sites in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. The report concluded that such expansions would move the equivalent of 882 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
“We’re only talking about new capacity,” says Sightline Policy Director Eric de Place in a news release. “The Northwest is ground zero in the climate fight.” Energy companies have sought to expand shipping capacity along the coast to transport products to highdemand markets in Asia. Significant expansions to shipping capacity would likely increase rail shipments of coal and oil, which have stirred safety concerns in Spokane and many other communities nationwide. — JACOB JONES
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A federal judge in Idaho denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s “AG GAG” LAW last week. The plaintiffs, a coalition of animal rights, civil rights and public interest groups, argue that the law violates freedom of speech and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. The controversial measure, which bans unauthorized audio and video recordings of agricultural operations, went into effect earlier this year. Backed by Idaho’s $2.5 billion dairy industry, the law was intended to stop animal rights activists from spying on industrial farming. The legislation stemmed from an incident two years ago in which a Los Angeles-based advocacy group, Mercy for Animals, filmed a video of workers abusing cows at Bettencourt Dairies in Hansen, Idaho. Under the new law, anyone who enters an agricultural production facility and secretly records operations faces up to a year of imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. The coalition filed the federal lawsuit in March to overturn the statute. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said the suit should proceed, calling the plaintiffs’ claims “ripe for review.” Six other states — North Dakota, Montana, Kansas, Utah, Iowa and Missouri — have similar “ag gag” laws on the books. — DEANNA PAN
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he box in front of Richie Shaw, pastor at Real Ministries’ North Spokane location, overflows with plenty of things a little girl would love: There’s a big, purple Twilight Sparkle My Little Pony plushie, a Hello Kitty toothbrush and a Hello Kitty coloring book. There are notebooks and a pink hairbrush. There are animal crackers and a can of pudding. And there is a note, a personal message from someone the recipient has never met, telling her that the Spokane community hasn’t forgotten her in this difficult time. Eventually, a young girl will receive the package on one of the hardest days of her life at the Spokane Department of Social and Health Services office, as a social worker searches for a foster home for her. “It won’t have any religious language,” Shaw says. “We just want them to know people care about them. We have a heart for no-stringsattached generosity.” After a series of sermons about the Christian responsibility to care for the “widows and orphans” last month, Real Ministries’ congregation has gathered about 250 of these “welcome boxes.” “We’re going to start to nurture a heart for the foster family,” Shaw says. “There have been people emailing, calling constantly, asking, ‘How can we help?’ One family gave close to $2,000.” Other Spokane congregations, like the Life Center megachurch in west Spokane and Summit Church on the South Hill, are doing the same thing. They’re part of the alliance working with a relatively new group called Embrace Washington. (First Presbyterian in Downtown Spokane, New Creation Fellowship in the Mead area, and a small home church called River of Hope are in the beginning stages of joining.) Founded by state Rep. Kevin Parker, Embrace Washington aims to help both kids in the child welfare system and beleaguered social workers. Eventually, the goal is far more ambitious than simply gift boxes for foster kids: They want to begin the slow, hard task of turning parishioners into foster parents.
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lowly, almost imperceptibly, the national economy is improving, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped the rise in kids in foster care. “Our overall need to be able to serve children has increased,” says Connie Lambert-Eckel, regional administrator for DSHS’ Children’s Administration in Eastern Washington. Despite
One of 250 “welcome baskets,” prepared by a member of Real Life Ministries’ congregation, will go to a girl age 5 to 9 entering the foster care system. efforts to work with families to avoid out-of-home placement, the average number of children in foster care in Spokane has climbed from 713 per month to 873 over the course of the past four years. The Eastern Washington region needs at least 50 more foster parents, Lambert-Eckel says, especially those willing to take in special needs children, large sibling groups and adolescents. It’s a need felt at places like the Salvation Army’s Sally’s House, often the first stop for children while they’re waiting for foster home placements. The past two years, says Sheila Geraghty, business administrator with the Salvation Army, the average length of stay at Sally’s House has doubled. In 2013, many children had to wait more than two months before they were placed in a foster home. “I think the need is great for people to step forward,” Lambert-Eckel says.
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arker launched Embrace Washington last fall, but his story starts two decades ago, when he was a Young Life leader at Whitworth College, mentoring a fresh-faced, blond-haired Northwood Middle School student
named Ben Sand. Sand grew up, moved to Portland, and eventually became CEO of the Portland Leadership Foundation. In May of 2013, that group launched Embrace Oregon, focusing on corralling area churches to lead the charge to bolster the child welfare system. Sand has met with pastors, telling them they should be outraged that there are kids living in unhealthy situations, encouraging them to mobilize their congregations. “The church and the faith community has done a really good job of addressing cosmetic stuff,” Sand says. “But it hasn’t done a good job at doing systemic work, to work toward solving complex social issues.” In Portland, 75 churches joined the coalition. They’ve put together 2,500 Welcome Boxes for children entering the foster care system and have raised $300,000, paying for the renovation of all nine of the Portland Department of Human Services offices. But the big figure, prominent on their website and bandied about at board meetings, is “884.” That’s the number of foster families Sand needs to recruit to meet Portland’s demand. So when Embrace Oregon holds Foster Parent Night Out events, the purpose isn’t just to give foster parents a break and show foster kids a fun time, it’s also to give church volunteers a chance to meet the sort of kids they’d help if they became foster parents.
“Our goal is to raise up about 10 foster parents a year. That’s a pretty aggressive goal.” – Washington Rep. Kevin Parker Recruitment has been slow. “It oftentimes will take up to two years for a family to make a decision to become foster parents,” Sand says. But 53 new foster families have already been certified, and an additional 27 are on their way. Parker, inspired by Sand’s work and his own conversations with former foster youth, loosely launched Embrace Washington last fall. It started modestly, throwing a Christmas party for local social workers, but eventually Parker wants to recruit up to 45 area churches. So far, not a single one has said no. “Our goal is to raise up about 10 foster parents a year. That’s a pretty aggressive goal,” Parker says. “Not everyone’s going to feel a desire to become a foster parent, because it will turn their life upside down.” But there are other ways to get involved with Embrace Washington: An interested person could, for example, become an “office mom or dad,” someone to hang out with the kids during long wait times at the DSHS office.
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mbrace is designed for people so they can get their toe in the water,” Parker says. Since 2012, the state has contracted with a national agency called Olive Crest to help with recruitment through its Fostering Together program. It has a goal of meeting with one church a month to discuss foster parent recruitment, and Embrace Washington has helped. Embrace Washington stokes interest, and Fostering Together answers detailed questions from potential foster parents. “We call them community partners,” says Amber Sherman, the Fostering Together coordinator for the Eastern Washington region. “The key is to partner together, rather than everybody doing their own thing.” As a partnership of church and state, there are, of course, limitations: The state doesn’t contribute any money to Embrace Washington. And while local social workers are involved with Embrace Washington, they volunteer on their own time. But, the signs are encouraging: 17 more families in the region have become foster parents since April. And the more foster parents there are, the easier attracting others becomes: “Our foster parents are our best recruiters,” Lambert-Eckel says. n danielw@inlander.com
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The latest conflict between ranchers and wolves shows the difficult balance between recovery and control BY JACOB JONES
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s dozens of sheep shuffle along a mountain trail in southern Stevens County, a hidden sentry stands watch. A white Maremma-mix guard dog crouches almost imperceptibly amid the huddled flock, rising suddenly to bark out a warning at the approach of any intruder. Swift and cagey predators stalk these hills. For at least two years, the young Huckleberry wolf pack has hunted these steep, timber-lined slopes without incident, but last month that changed. Rancher Dave Dashiell, of nearby Hunters, moved his 1,800 sheep onto the private timber company property earlier this summer, just like he did last year. In mid-August, a series of attacks left more than 24 sheep dead. He called in state Department of Fish & Wildlife officials for help. “This experience has taught us two things,” Dashiell writes in a recent statement. “Once wolves start killing livestock, no amount of effort can discourage them and don’t put too much trust in words.” While 10 confirmed packs reside in Northeast Washington, the Huckleberry pack’s territory extends the farthest south, putting it closer to Spokane and other established communities. As wolves continue to multiply and migrate across the state, wildlife advocates and ranchers brace for new conflicts. Dashiell has now called for the “removal,” or killing, of the entire pack of up to 12 wolves, but advocates argue that nonlethal deterrents can successfully prevent wolf depredation on livestock — if given a chance. Steve Pozzanghera, eastern regional director with Fish & Wildlife, says his staff provided “range riders” to patrol the area, closely monitored a pack member with a radio collar and posted floodlights around the flock. Killings continued. On Aug. 22, officials approved lethal force
Steve Pozzanghera, regional director for the state’s Department of Fish & Wildlife, watches a passing flock of sheep in Southern Stevens County that has suffered wolf attacks as one of several guard dogs sits nearby. JACOB JONES PHOTO against the pack. “Obviously it’s extremely controversial,” he says. “It’s certainly, for us, a very difficult and unique situation.”
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ildlife officials estimate Washington has approximately 50 to 100 wolves, primarily concentrated in the northeast corner of the state. Pozzanghera says state policies consider the animals a protected species as they build up to sustainable recovery numbers. The department has to balance those protections against conflicts with humans and livestock. “As we have seen an increasing number of wolves,” he says, “the amount of time that it takes to respond to wolf issues has increased significantly.” Pozzanghera says he was surprised by Dashiell’s criticism of the process, explaining wildlife officials have followed guidelines from the Wolf Advisory Group and have now extended support efforts to other neighboring ranchers. As the recent conflict winds down, Gunnell argues that placating impatient ranchers will only set back statewide repopulation efforts. Resorting to lethal force in this case cost a breeding female, an important factor in wolf recovery goals. Livestock owners who have embraced proactive wolf deterrents, he says, suffer far fewer losses to wolves and other predators. Ranchers need to buy into that process. As wolf numbers continue to grow and spread throughout the Northwest, he argues it becomes more essential to coexist peacefully. “It’s critically important that they understand that this isn’t something that’s just going to go away,” Gunnell says of ranchers. “This is an unfortunate situation, but it probably won’t be the last.” jacobj@inlander.com
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Lori Halbig with a scrapbook she collected about the inquest into the death of Al O’Connor, who was once her boyfriend. young kwak photo
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Al O’Connor — Spokane’s handsome fire chief — had TWO WOMEN in his life. A PILL-POPPING WIFE he wanted to divorce, and a KIND-HEARTED GIRLFRIEND he planned to marry. But before he could do any of that, the city’s celebrated lifesaver suddenly DROPPED DEAD BY NATHAN BRAND LORI HALBIG IS WAITING FOR HIS CALL. The man she loves is divorcing his wife, and tonight he plans to tell his soon-to-be ex about his intention to marry her instead. The whole thing is messy, but the 43-year-old Halbig can chalk it up to the whims of the heart. Halbig, at the time a dispatcher at Washington Water Power in Spokane, is at work around 8 pm when Al O’Connor finally calls. O’Connor, the city’s well-liked fire chief, says his talk with the wife went well, but his voice sounds unusually slow and weak. Halbig presses the phone up against her ear, trying to hear above the noise in the dispatch room, when she hears a click — like someone is listening in on the other line. It is March 2, 1981. More than 30 years later, Halbig can still recount in vivid detail that fateful phone call — and the final words she’d ever hear from O’Connor. “Honey, I can’t wait until we’re together all the time.” A few hours later, O’Connor will be dead, coffeecolored vomit staining the rug near his body. F
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ALFRED L. O’CONNOR JOINED THE SPOKANE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN 1949 AND CLIMBED THE LADDER FAST. On Jan. 1, 1972, at age 44, he became the youngest fire chief in Spokane history. He was known as a talented administrator who could repair anything in the fire station. O’Connor loved people and would weep openly at the loss of one of his men. He talked of running for mayor one day.
In April of 1977, Josephine, O’Connor’s wife of 28 years and the mother of his children, died of cancer. A few months later, in the midst of grieving, O’Connor started seeing Linda Lipp, herself a recent widow. They married on Christmas Eve that same year — after dating less than three months — and O’Connor moved into Lipp’s $425,000 house on 27th Avenue. In some ways, the two were opposites. O’Connor preferred the company of people, while his new wife liked spending extravagant amounts of money on designer jewelry, clothing and high-end furniture. Their differences soon became clear to friends and coworkers. “His wife was mentally cruel to him, ridiculed his profession and his association with the fire department,” Janie Shoemaker, a close friend of O’Connor’s, would later say. “He was a very, very unhappy and depressed man.” In January of 1981, O’Connor’s outlook changed after Shoemaker introduced him to Lori Halbig, a softspoken policeman’s widow. “They were like a couple of teenagers. He didn’t try to hide. He was all over the city with her,” Shoemaker would recall. Once the divorce to Linda was finalized, O’Connor and Halbig planned to get married that summer and buy a house on Spokane’s South Hill. “He was like the Al O’Connor I met the first time with his wife Jo,” Shoemaker would say, according to a Spokesman-Review article at the time. “He told me that ‘I love you. I love you very much. Because you introduced me to Lori and I love her. Al O’Connor’s going to live ...continued on next page again.’”
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: In addition to primary documents — including search warrants, witness statements, police records, autopsy reports and official correspondence — the 1981 archives of the Spokane Chronicle and Spokesman-Review were consulted in preparation of this article. So were local historian Tony Bamonte and journalist Bill Morlin, who covered the O’Connor case for the Chronicle.
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ON MARCH 3, 1981, AT 4:05 AM, LINDA O’CONNOR CALLS THE SPOKANE FIRE DEPARTMENT ALARM BOARD. In a low-key voice, she tells the firemen: “Oh, it’s ... it’s ... uh ... uh ... Mr. O’Connor ... I don’t know ... he ... he ... he ... he drinks so much and just ... just ... out.” Minutes later, a fire truck and then an ambulance arrive on scene in a “tiered response” that O’Connor himself helped to pioneer. Firefighters find the chief on the floor of the den. He appears to have been dead for some time. There is dried, black vomit on the rug, walls and couch. His bladder had been emptied. Half a bottle of crème de cacao, a glass of water and two empty prescription bottles are found nearby. Mrs. O’Connor is hysterical, wringing her hands, covering her face, tugging at her hair. “Is he OK? Is he OK?” she asks over and over, telling paramedics he’d been drinking all night. Paramedics try to revive O’Connor and eventually load the 53-year-old in an ambulance and take him to Sacred Heart Hospital, arriving at 4:45 am. Half an hour later, O’Connor is officially pronounced dead. Not long after, around 6 am, her husband just dead, Mrs. O’Connor begins to worry about the den where O’Connor fell over and vomited. According to police, a
neighbor overhears her telling someone she needs to hire commercial cleaners. After hearing the news, a distraught Halbig calls the city’s police chief later that day and tells him of her suspicions — that O’Connor had been poisoned. She reports that a few days earlier, O’Connor had told her how he got violently ill, vomiting and falling over, after his wife served him grape juice in bed. It doesn’t take long before rumors of a “black widow” reach Spokane County Coroner Lois Shanks, who orders an autopsy on March 5. Unfortunately, by that point, O’Connor had already been embalmed — drained of blood that might have provided clues — but organ samples are recovered and sent to Seattle to be analyzed. The death of O’Connor, adored throughout the community, is of particular interest to Patrick Lipp. His own father, Robert Lipp, had married Linda in 1971 and died suddenly in 1977. Like O’Connor, Robert Lipp had been contemplating a divorce from Linda at the time, and he too vomited before dying. Before he died, Lipp’s father also had rewritten his will, naming Linda as his sole beneficiary. Oddly, his signature on the new will didn’t match his handwriting on other documents. Now, because of how O’Connor died, the Lipp family considers exhuming Robert Lipp’s body.
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Meanwhile, two police detectives are assigned to the O’Connor case and begin digging into Linda’s past. They will soon learn that she was born Irmgard Boeker and that besides Lipp and O’Connor, she had two other husbands, whose whereabouts were unknown. From the start, though, the detectives are instructed to tread lightly in the O’Connor case and would later recount that department brass, perhaps suspecting suicide, had told them to keep their investigation “simple.” F
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POLICE DETECTIVE BRIAN BREEN DRESSES UP LIKE A GARBAGEMAN, RIDING A CITY TRUCK ALONG 27TH AVENUE. It is 10 days since the fire chief died, and Breen has a target in mind: the trash from the house the O’Connors shared. In the garbage, Breen finds 17 empty Tranxene pill capsules, a prescription bottle filled with a watery mixture of Tranxene and Ativan and an empty half-gallon of MacNaughton’s whiskey. (The state crime lab will later refuse to mix the two medications and whiskey for a test “because it was too dangerous.” But a couple of police officers will sample the concoction on their own and report that they couldn’t detect the drugs.) Breen also discovers in the trash several
handwritten notes, one of which he suspects was intended for Lori Halbig. The note reads: “A number of people have knowledge of your involvement with a married city official. Career-wise, this could hold severe ramifications for you and I am deeply concerned ... Please do not expose yourself to any unnecessary trauma which could be ruinous.” It is signed: “A Good Friend.” Police return to the house about two weeks later with a search warrant and retrieve various documents, including notebooks, receipts and death certificates. During the search, they advise Mrs. O’Connor of her rights, and she tells them “I think I know what killed him.” Then, without prompting, she repeats over and over “I didn’t kill him,” as many as 10 times, according to one officer’s count. On four occasions the detectives try to get a warrant to arrest Mrs. O’Connor, and each time Spokane County Prosecutor Donald Brockett turns them down. He tells the detectives he is waiting until the official cause of death is determined before making a decision. When he died, O’Connor had seven different prescription drugs in his system — four of which had been
prescribed to Mrs. O’Connor herself. Early on, Brockett had sought analysis from a toxicology expert in Utah who concluded there wasn’t enough “medical certainty” that drugs caused O’Connor to die. But not everyone agreed. Two of the Northwest’s leading pathologists concluded that the drugs indeed had contributed to his death. Finally, after seven months of back and forth, Shanks, the first female coroner in state history, takes matters into her own hands. She calls for a coroner’s inquest — a rarely used fact-finding proceeding that allows for hearsay. A date is set for December. By the end of it all, Shanks’ inquest will be called both a “circus” and a “travesty.”
FIFTY-SIX PEOPLE ARE SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY. The controversy behind the fire chief’s death had become one of the year’s biggest local news stories, only eclipsed by the arrest of the “South Hill rapist.” (Coincidentally, rapist Kevin Coe claimed he had visited the O’Connor residence as a realtor on ...continued on next page
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The coronor’s inquest into the death of Al O’Connor was the cause of intense media coverage at the time from local newspapers. The inquest, which began in December of 1981, nine months after O’Connor’s death, was called a “circus” and a “travesty” by some critics.
“UNNATURAL CAUSES,” CONTINUED... March 1, two days before O’Connor’s death. He said he had heard a “raving woman” screaming at the fire chief and wrote a letter to Brockett, the prosecutor, offering to testify.) The weeklong inquest begins on Dec. 7, 1981, and from morning to night, one person after another is called to the stand — halted only occasionally when Lori Halbig or Linda O’Connor start sobbing and have to be led out of the packed courtroom. Janie Shoemaker — the friend of
O’Connor who introduced him to Halbig — testifies that Linda O’Connor threatened revenge if they divorced. “When he came to talk to me that day [in late December of 1980], he said his wife had said, ‘If you divorce me, I will get your pension and I will ruin you in this city,’” according to a Spokesman-Review account. Lori Halbig testifies that on March 1, two days before he died, O’Connor had told her he vomited, fell down and lost his vision after drinking grape juice from his
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wife. “I said, ‘My God, Al, she’s giving you something.’” The fire chief didn’t believe it, telling Halbig: “No, she wouldn’t do that. You know, I’ve painted a real bad picture of Linda. But she’s trying hard.” Detective Brian Breen testifies that Linda O’Connor acquired 97 pills of Ativan tranquilizers over the course of March 1 and 2. She had two prescriptions that she “fraudulently” filled twice at two different pharmacies. He also says Mrs. O’Connor had waited before calling for paramedics, having first
called her son for help an hour beforehand. (Toward the end of the inquest, the detective also files a written objection, accusing Brockett of acting more like a defense attorney for Mrs. O’Connor than a prosecutor seeking justice.) Lots of doctors testify about the official cause of death. Having been unable to test O’Connor’s blood, there is little agreement between them. Some pathologists conclude O’Connor died from the combination of drugs in his system. Others say blood clots ultimately did him in. And yet others say he may have suffocated on his vomit. One person doesn’t testify: Linda O’Connor, who had been subpoenaed by the jury but refused to take the stand. In the end, the six-person jury deliberates for 15 hours. Their verdict creates only more confusion and suspicion. Four out of six jurors rule that the death was caused by both “natural and unnatural causes.” Two jurors say that O’Connor died only of “natural causes.” Three believe that Mrs. O’Connor had “occasioned the death by criminal means.” Because of the divided result, Brockett says he will not file any charges in the case. (A juror will later complain that they had not been told to reach a unanimous decision and they would have tried to do so if they had known.) Halbig and O’Connor’s family write to Governor
John Spellman asking him to take up the case, but the governor declines. The following spring, however, at the urging of Detective Breen, prosecutors charge Mrs. O’Connor with two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. She pleads guilty and receives a year of probation and a $400 fine.
LINDA O’CONNOR HAS NEVER TECHNICALLY REMARRIED. In the fall of 1981 — even before the inquest began — she met a younger man named Fran Austin. He eventually moves into the house on 27th Avenue, and O’Connor begins going by “Linda Austin.” In June of 1990, the Austins buy a $211,000 condominium on Quail Ridge Circle near Manito Golf Course. They buy a homeowner’s policy with Unigard Insurance Group that takes effect on Aug. 1, 1990. Less than three weeks later, before the Austins had even fully moved in, the house is vandalized, and the couple files a claim for $260,101.50 in damages and loss of use. After a thorough investigation, Patrick Lowe, executive adjuster for Unigard, begins to doubt the validity of the claim. Lowe makes some calls and discovers that Mrs. O’Connor has filed an unusually high number of insurance claims between
1986 and 1990: 15 total. On April 29, 1987, she filed three claims with three different insurance companies for the same incident at a Paris airport. Mrs. O’Connor and her daughters had taken many shopping trips and were seemingly targeted by
Detective Brian Breen testifies that Linda O’Connor acquired 97 pills of Ativan tranquilizers over the course of March 1 and 2. She had two prescriptions that she “fraudulently” filled twice at two different pharmacies. thieves a great deal. The “frequency of loss” and the fact that Mrs. O’Connor’s “extravagant lifestyle” appeared to exceed her income ability are the first of many red flags in Lowe’s findings. Police Officer James Johnson, who is assigned to the case, also notices a number of irregularities. The vandal appears to have keys to both the front gate and the ...continued on next page
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COVER STORY | AL O’CONNOR “UNNATURAL CAUSES,” CONTINUED... home. There are no signs of forced entry. Certain items are ignored, such as a painting of Mrs. O’Connor’s daughter. The person who “broke in” apparently had brought their dog with them — similarly sized to Mrs. O’Connor’s dog Higgins. Unigard hires former FBI agent Robert Kessler to profile the person responsible for the destruction. He concludes that the vandal is a white female between 40 and 50 years old. She would be “extremely narcissistic,” “self-centered,” “have problems with interpersonal relationships” and “would probably have had experienced several divorces in her life.” When a lawyer for Unigard interviews Mrs. O’Connor about her former marriages in a deposition, she becomes upset and irritable, saying, “Let’s just say I was married, numerous, several times” and that she was “not going to put up with the Spanish Inquisition.” Unigard refuses to pay, goes to trial in 1991 and wins the case.
investors out of $96,000 and had been banned from selling securities. The article also mentioned that the Austins had filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and 2006 for having “more than $1 million in debt, including $94,000 in credit card charges.” Mrs. O’Connor, now 77, currently receives $5,288.97 a month from Al O’Connor’s pension. According to the state Department of Retirement Systems, she has received more than $1.4 million over the past 33 years. The Austins now live in Western Washington, inside a large gated community at the Canterwood Golf & Country Club in Gig Harbor, in a gorgeous, two-story brick mini-mansion that retailed for $619,000 in 2011. A knock on their door last month is answered by a stocky grayhaired man, who cracks the door open. “Hello. What can I do for you?” he says in a friendly tone. I ask if Linda is there and if he is Fran. “Uh. What do you want?” he says. “I’m doing an article on the coroner’s inquest of 1981.” “Ohhh,” he groans. “Not interested.” And he shuts the door. For his part, Donald Brockett, the former prosecutor, still believes there’s not enough evidence to support criminal charges. “I am not interested in rehashing the case at this late date after 33 years has passed,” he tells the Inlander by email. “There is no statute of limitations on murder. So if anyone feels the case should be brought, why hasn’t the case been presented to prosecuting authorities with the new information?” Lois Shanks, the coroner who publicly battled Brockett before calling for the inquest, died suddenly two years later, in 1983. A Chronicle editorial about her legacy cited the O’Connor case as well as her drive for truth. “Lois Shanks was a fearsome adversary of the suspected perpetrators; she would not rest until she felt police were conducting a satisfactory investigation; she wanted justice.” Detective Brian Breen, who has since retired from the department, considers the case solved, even though no one has been
“There is no statute of limitations on murder. So if anyone feels the case should be brought, why hasn’t the case been presented to prosecuting authorities with the new information?”
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he words “Let’s Dance” are printed boldly on Whitney Jones’ lime-green top. She flips her short blonde hair with a flirtatious glance as she moves confidently across the stage at a downtown bar where the media has assembled, hoping to learn a thing or two about burlesque shows in advance of the upcoming Burleskival event. Jones is a freestyle go-go dancer, whose 18 years of broad dance experience have prepared her for the disciplined practice schedule necessary for this type of performance. “I am a very versatile dancer,” she says. “I can dance to anything you throw at me. It’s the beats; it’s the feeling of a song.” Themes of self-appreciation and positive sexuality run through the prepared acts featured in Burleskival, a first-annual burlesque variety show at the Bing Crosby Theater. Along with go-go dancing and burlesque performers, Burleskival is set to feature live music from Seattle band Dionvox and local opera singer Madeline McNeill. Also, six local models will showcase the sultry fashion designs of Desirae Start. “There’s a misperception about go-go dancing,” says Dale Strom, the event’s ...continued on next page
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he global perspective was quite different when Lee Blessing’s A Walk in the Woods premiered in 1987. Foreign affairs were largely couched in the dichotomous terms of democracy versus communism, at least in terms of their embodiment by the U.S. and the USSR. Conventional wisdom held that coexistence was impossible. For one superpower — and indeed, the world as a whole — to endure, the other perforce had to crumble. This was, after all, the same year that Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate and challenged Mikhail Gorbachev, his Soviet counterpart and an unconventional proponent of glasnost, to tear down the Berlin Wall. The physical act was not nearly as important as the symbolic one. As a result, Blessing’s two-man play, which takes its inspiration from an off-the-record talk between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators Paul H. Nitze and Yuli A. Kvitsinsky at a Geneva summit in 1982, reflects that antithesis right down to its characterization. Kvitsinsky’s imagined proxy is the veteran negotiator Andrey Botvinnik (played in Stage Left’s staging by Bob Nelson), blithe and jaded, fond of tangential anecdotes and “frivolous” talk. He first takes the stage mid-sentence, amusedly relating a joke of his that tanked the career of a gullible political reporter. Nitze, loosely portrayed by the solemnly idealistic John Honeyman (Billy Holtquist), is new to his position, recently summoned to replace his unseen predecessor on the back of some diplomatic success — “at a lower level,” as Botvinnik repeatedly reminds him. In his neophytic eagerness, Honeyman has no interest in joining Botvinnik in his quiet enjoyment of the Swiss mountain air while seated
on the stage’s sole prop, an ashen-colored park bench. He wants to get down to the business of arms reduction. Botvinnik, however, would rather they take this time to become friends, to talk of country music, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mouse. Honeyman will have none of it. In pursuit of an agreement to spare the world from nothing less than mutually assured destruction, he prefers formality to friendship. “Formality,” retorts Botvinnik, “is simply anger with its hair combed.” With one-liners like that — not to mention the Russian’s tidy distillations of the ironies of diplomacy (“We should put the [bargaining] table at the bottom of a missile silo.”) or their countries’ respective mentalities — it’s easy to picture Blessing circa 1986 amid the furious thwack of typewriter keys, giddily drafting these exchanges with Honeyman as the straight-faced setup man to Botvinnik’s cynically comedic foil. Still, Blessing’s script has a flow that is natural enough, and under the direction of Janelle Frisque, Nelson (despite some slippery lines at the start of the second act) and Hultquist assume these roles so fully that a plausible — and plausibly transformative — relationship develops between them. It should come as no great surprise that this walk in the woods is headed in a dispiriting, disaffecting direction, but, particularly in light of the ongoing conflagrations in Ukraine, Israel, Syria and Iraq, the journey is remarkably resonant and timely. n A Walk in the Woods • Through Sept. 21: Fri-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $10 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727
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Rolling Dinner The Spokane Party Trolley lets you pedal your appetite around downtown BY FRANNY WRIGHT
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itting atop stools, two rows of people pedal down Main Street. As they begin to pick up speed, the giggles start to flow freely and out come the party horns. You’ve probably seen the Spokane Party Trolley. Since its inception, it’s not only helped tourists and locals alike see Spokane in a different way, but also take them to places they might not encounter otherwise. For the first few years of the trolley, it was all about bar-hopping and maybe even imbibing along the way. But now, owner Nina Kindem has envisioned the possibilities of the eight-person-powered vehicle as a way to check out the city’s cuisine.
When Kindem purchased her first trolley, she had no intention of making drinking while aboard the focus. “It was equipped for drinking, but my original plan was to support local businesses and collaborate with them,” Kindem says. Now, the Party Trolley is doing just that. When the Washington State Liquor Control Board stopped allowing drinking aboard, Kindem was encouraged to work with local bars, wineries and restaurants. When passengers aren’t sure where they want to go, Kindem suggests her VIP stops, where they can enjoy discounted food and drinks while bringing more traffic to downtown businesses.
Jason Sallas, the kitchen manager at Borracho Tacos & Tequileria, one of the stops located on the Spokane Party Trolley’s new “Tasty Pedaler” tour. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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“People say ‘I haven’t been here before’ at about a third of the stops I take them, but after, they tell me that they’ll be going back,” Kindem says. She’s excited that they are actually returning. She frequently sees past passengers at VIP stops when she brings in new groups. But again, Kindem says, it’s not just about bar-hopping. The sightseeing route allows riders to pick a few stops from a map highlighting worthwhile views, buildings, parks and historic sites that the trolley can get to easily. Groups may also try one of the three recently launched routes. Kindem described the “Power Lunch” route as a way to get employees “off their monitors and out for a little exercise.” Preordered Brooklyn Deli sandwiches or New Leaf Bakery platters will await the pedalers when they are picked up at their downtown office, and after biking to Riverfront Park to enjoy their picnic, they head back to the office within the hour. This route is designed for groups of 10 to 15. The “Tasty Pedaler” is a progressive dinner-style route where “local restaurants have a chance to show off,” Kindem says. Currently, six downtown eateries on the route will offer passengers a few bites, but Kindem says that like her VIP pub crawl stops, she is always eager to work with new businesses. Passengers can sample local Mexican food on this route, with street tacos at Borracho Tacos & Tequileria and mini sopes at Mi Casa. Bacon macaroni and cheese at Zola, mini cheeseburger sliders at nYne Bar & Bistro and a baked meatball with sauce at Luigi’s Italian Restaurant will be followed by a surprise dessert at Main Market Co-op. The “Tasty Pedaler” currently takes place from 6 to 8:30 pm on Tuesdays.
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Party Trolley riders out on the town in search of food and drink. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO For those who would rather sample sips than bites, there is also a new “Winey Pedaler” route stopping at Vintage Hill Cellars, Emvy Cellars, Bridge Press Cellars and Whitestone Winery on Saturdays from 12:30 to 2:30 pm and 3 to 5 pm. Beyond all of the Party Trolley’s route ideas, Kindem says that she cannot stress enough how flexible the entire experience is. The trolley is always willing to let groups get creative with their ideas. Passengers can customize their experience down to choosing the music in-between stops, with a radio, CD player and iPod jack available. Even though it will start to get colder in the next few months, the trolley will keep on rolling as long as the roads are clear. Winter rates run from November through the end of March. “It’s about being together and getting exercise,” Kindem explained. “It’s ridiculous, and honestly it’s fun.” For more information on the Spokane Party Trolley’s new programs, visit spokanepartytrolley.com.
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f you order pizza at downtown’s newest bar, Whisk, your mouth might recognize it. The spongy-crust, juicy slices are the same as the pies served at Pacific Avenue Pizza in Browne’s Addition, whose owner, Darin Talotti, opened Whisk last month. “I wanted to do a more laid-back downtown bar because a lot of them are really loud,” says Talotti. Which explains the black walls with minimal décor, one television, petite patio facing Main Avenue and tiny indoor space. The fact that the bar used to be Merlyn’s storage room explains the size. Talotti says he’s a comic-book guy who spends a lot of time at Merlyn’s, so it made sense to open there. The bar’s second entrance, a screen door, leads into Merlyn’s, so those like Talotti are just a step away from legions of comic books and all things nerdy. The former-storage-closet situation makes one wonder: where are the pizzas made? Answer: At Red Lion, across the street on the corner of Division and Main. Talotti’s brother Tony owns the pub and barbecue restaurant, so Talotti cooks up his pies in the kitchen and walks them over to
Whisk. The full pizza menu features more than a dozen varieties, some also found at Pacific Avenue, like margherita and barbecue chicken, and some not, like spinach artichoke pizza, taco pizza, and sweet chili pizza topped with chicken, chili sauce, red peppers and pineapple (slice, $3; personal pizza, $6-$8; full, $12-$15). The name of the bar comes from Talotti’s fondness for whiskey. He and his friend Zack Muller, his partner in opening the bar, always refer to whiskey in shortened lingo, so you’ll find the back bar stacked with about 35 different kinds of “whisk.” On the drink menu, a few traditional whiskey drinks, like a Sazerac and Gentleman’s Manhattan, get cozy with a vodka Spiked Palmer, a Classic Mojito and the New Fashioned. And if you’re wondering why there’s a chalkboard on the wall, it’s Whisk’s “buddy system” board. You can pre-buy a drink for a friend, so when they come in, their drink is on you. n Whisk • 17 W. Main • Open Tues-Sat, 4 pm-2 am • facebook.com/WHISKincorparated
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Catch the Game Open just in time for football season, 24 Taps serves sports and beer for the real fans BY MIKE BOOKEY
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he Cougars are gradually watching their lead over Rutgers evaporate in their first game of the season on seven television screens. On seven other TVs, the Seahawks’ third- or fourth-stringers are winding down the final meaningless quarter of the preseason. Still, nearly every set of eyes inside 24 Taps is on one of these screens. It’s only been open for a couple of weeks at this point, but the establishment — which already had a history as Heroes and Legends, then Sergio’s — has nevertheless solidified itself as a sports fan’s sports bar. Where the game comes first, even if their full-size shuffleboard might come in a close second. “We wanted to create a place where we want to come, and a place where people can enjoy a sporting event,” says managing partner Josh Blair, along with owner Tom Griffiths. In a way, 24 Taps is a rebirth of Heroes and Legends, which Griffiths owned before it became Sergio’s. For regulars of Sergio’s, which closed down in April, the space is going to look similar, down to the ice-covered beer taps. The difference is that those taps on the bar top feature a dozen local beers. Another dozen behind the bar feature other craft brews and domestics, totaling 24, hence the name. The place has been spruced up, though, especially in the audiovisual department, including those 14 new 75-inch Samsung TVs that all but circle the spacious location, offering an easy view of several games no matter where you’re sitting. And for those with under-21 sports fans in tow — fear not, 24 Taps is always all-ages. The menu is intended to replicate the sort of options available to you were you actually at the game. Nothing tops the $10 mark and there’s an array of “tappetizers” including wings, jalapeñostuffed tater tots, breaded mushrooms and more to share at your table. “When you take your family to a stadium, you pay a premium price for your ticket, your beer, and then they really get you on the food, and we wanted to create some of that stadium-style food, but make it affordable,” says Blair. “When you’re at a restaurant for two to four hours to watch a game, it’s hard to get just one big meal, so we have a lot of things that won’t break the bank. That was our thought process going into this.” n 24 Taps Sports Bar • 825 W. Riverside • Open Mon-Fri, 3:3010:30 pm; Sat, 11:30 am-10:30 pm; Sun, 9:30 am-10:30 pm • facebook.com/24tapsspokane • 868-5657
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Luigi’s pasta has made them a downtown staple for more than a decade. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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s a 10-time Inlander Best Of winner, with recipes published in Gourmet and Bon Appétit, it would seem Luigi’s food speaks for this downtown Italian
staple. Opened in its current location in 2000, Luigi’s is a pillar of consistency. Dishes like the spicy chicken Calabria are customer favorites, complemented by a rotating week-to-week lineup of appetizer and entrée specials. At the time of this writing, Luigi’s is offering breaded scallops with lemon garlic aioli, as well as shrimp and sausage
ravioli ($19). Fridays and Saturdays are prime rib nights, and if you want to keep the weekend going, stroll down for happy hour every Sunday from 4 till close. Luigi’s shows their commitment to Spokane’s working folk with half-off bottles of wine on Tuesdays; just the thing to get you over that hump in your workweek. Luigi’s serves lunch from 11 am to 4 pm on weekdays. Dinner is from 4 to 10 pm (11 on Fridays), and they close at 9 on Sundays and Mondays. — CHRISTIAN VOSLER
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SANDWICHES BROOKLYN DELI 122 S. Monroe | 835-4177 This cozy, East Coast-style joint is nestled between train tracks and a bedrock foundation, just below street level. By day the popular (extremely busy) deli serves giant pickles, fresh salads, and artisan soups and sandwiches. By night, the lounge offers a small selection of craft beers on tap, and a full yet simple bar. LINDAMAN’S 1235 S. GRAND BLVD. | 838-3000 It’s tough keeping up on the next big food trend, but Lindaman’s has managed to balance new flavors with classic favorites for almost 30 years, to the delight of foodie regulars, some of whom, Merrilee Lindaman insists, “come in every day.” Low-key lunch favorites include Merrilee’s wildly popular romaine salad, chicken pot pie, nanaimo bars, and a gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookie.
SMACKY’S ON BROADWAY 6415 E. Broadway | 535-4230 “You could eat here twice a week for a year and never have the same thing twice,” says owner Mike Ackermann, who named Smacky’s after the pet monkey he owned when he was growing up in the Philippines. The shop has earned a passionate following for its array of deli sandwiches, French dips, panini, wraps, and a few Smack Attack sandwiches, including the massive Napoleon — and each sandwich always comes with pretzels and a pickle.
STELLA’S CAFÉ 917 W. Broadway | 326-6475 Stella’s offers vegetarians, vegans and carnivores alike a variety of yummy lunch options. The tofu banh mi is the cafe’s most popular dish so far, consisting of soy and ginger marinated tofu topped with pickled daikan radish, pickled cucumber, pickled carrots, pickled red pepper, cilantro and sriracha aioli. THE SHOP 924 S. Perry | 534-1647 Shop owner Yvonne Archer zeros in on serving healthy and largely allergen-free food. Most of the desserts are gluten-free and vegan. There are homemade breakfast cookies, quiches, quinoa salads, sandwiches, veggie burgers and locally made ice cream. Of course there’s coffee, but there’s also beer (some gluten-free), wine (with organic and sulfite-free options), mimosas and honeysweetened lemonade. Don’t forget the Shop’s beloved outdoor patio, a quintessential South Hill meeting place.
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Whether you like it or not, as underwhelming as it may be, The Drop is James Gandolfini’s last film BY MARC SAVLOV
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ames Gandolfini’s wintery silences and bitter outbursts are enough on their own to merit seeing this otherwise frustratingly vague slice of low-end Crooklyn crime life, but just barely. Love it or leave it, this is Tony Soprano’s swan song and, fittingly, Gandolfini’s role as Cousin Marv, a beaten-down dive bar owner who owes his neighborhood Chechen mafia a lot more than a fistful of dollars, is memorable in its weary grace notes. The Drop, adapted by Dennis Lehane from his own short story “Animal Rescue,” feels like a short story in ways both good and bad. It’s tightly wound, concise, and compact like Tom Hardy’s taciturn bartender Bob, but motivations and allegiances — between the churchgoing barkeep and the righteously Catholic detective (John
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Ortiz) who comes into play after Marv’s bar is robbed at gunpoint at night, for instance — feel merely shaded in. That robbery sets off a chain of events that never fully reveal themselves until the film’s staccato ending, by which time you’re either fed up with the miniscule crumbs of information Lehane has chosen to dole out, or you’ve sussed out the characters’ shadowy backstories on your own. The real reason to catch The Drop is Hardy’s mesmerizing turn as Bob, one of life’s strays who, in a titanic clash of metaphors, discovers a savagely beaten pit bull pup in a trash can and adopts him as his own. (It’s no coincidence that Bob carries himself like a whipped cur half the time.) It’s difficult to reconcile Hardy’s role here
Goodbye, Tony Soprano. alongside the bombastic Bane of The Dark Knight Rises or the forthcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, but it’s good to know his command of the screen doesn’t necessarily require blood and thunder and monstrous spectacle. Although, this being a Dennis Lehane script, there are a handful of vengeful gunshots to be fired off before it’s all over. It seems everybody is somebody’s woeful, misbegotten dog here, even Noomi Rapace’s Nadia, the wary neighbor into whose garbage can the aforementioned pup was deposited. By whom? Local crazy Eric Deeds, rumored murderer, sociopath and — THE DROP surprise! — Nadia’s Rated R ex. Rapace does well Directed by Michaël R. Roskam in a role that, frankly, Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, doesn’t consist of James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts all that much, and as Deeds, Matthias Schoenaerts muzzles some of the madness he displayed in Drafthouse Films’ Dutch import Bullhead (also directed by Michaël R. Roskam) to grim and grimy effect. For all its scabby-edged brio and canine existentialism — everyone’s in a cage of their own design at some point — The Drop falls just shy of genuine neo-noir nastiness. It barks, it even bites, but fails to draw much blood from the viewer.
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Love it or leave it, James Gandolfini’s role as Cousin Marv — a beaten-down dive bar owner who owes his neighborhood Chechen mafia a lot more than a fistful of dollars — was his last. And it’s memorable in its weary grace notes. Adapted by Dennis Lehane from his own short story “Animal Rescue,” this movie is like a short story in ways both good and bad. It’s tightly wound, concise, and compact, but some characters feel merely shaded in. (MS) Rated R.
Novelist Elmore Leonard’s trademark blend of comedy and action has made for some winning films (Get Shorty, Jackie Brown) and some not-so-memorable efforts (the less said about The Big Bounce, the better). They always attract a cast eager to tear into his dazzling dialogue, and for Life of Crime, an adaptation of his novel The Switch, the likes of Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) are on board for the tale of bumbling criminals who kidnap a corrupt real-estate developer’s wife, only to realize he’s not interested in paying any ransom to get her back. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R
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Re-assembling the cast from the original Dolphin Tale — Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr. and that big, flapping pelican, Rufus — the second installment continues a few years after the last tale ended. After her elderly pool mate and surrogate mother passes, Winter (the dolphin with the prosthetic tail) becomes depressed. As dolphins are very social creatures, her caregivers must quickly find a replacement pool mate or their beloved sea friend may be taken away to another aquarium. (LJ) Rated PG
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This gentle, contemplative work moves elegantly and slowly, offering no melodramatic explanations as it looks at her life and her limited relationships. At Magic Lantern (LB) Not Rated
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Given that Ayn Rand took 1,200 pages to complete her fourth and final book, it’s no surprise it’s taken Hollywood three movies to get through her antigovernment treatise. The trilogy’s finale follows Dagny Taggart (Laura Regan) and her relationship with the mysterious John Galt (Kristoffer Polaha) — individualism personified in Rand’s eyes — as he takes on what he sees as a corrupt, collectivist economic structure. The only bigger question than how the filmmakers will handle Galt’s infamous 60-page monologue in the book might be why anyone made a Part III when the first two Atlas Shrugged chapters utterly bombed. (DN) Rated PG-13
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It’s been a few years since James Franco’s ape Caesar took smart pills and then led every other ape in the greater Bay Area on a rampage of epic proportions. Those smart pills ended up causing a worldwide epidemic, killing off much of the human race. War took care of many others. Now, the surviving humans are bristling up against the apes, led by Caesar and the two species are on the brink of war. (MB) Rated PG-13
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Best friends Ryan (Jake Johnson from New Girl) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) dress up as cops for a costume party, only to realize they like the attention the uniform gains them. Things quickly escalate however, when they get involved with some real mobsters. Soon their pretend badges aren’t nearly as fun as they used to be. Meanwhile, many ridiculous gags keep the audience laughing (many involving comedians Rob Riggle and Keegan-Michael Key) until the plot has to kick in at the end. (LJ) Rated R
The girl has cancer, the boy is in remission from cancer; this story can only end badly. As far as teenage cancer love stories go, John Green’s recent young adult novel of the same name isn’t half bad — not nearly as sappy as A Walk to Remember. Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent) plays the lead. (LJ) Rated PG-13 Based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, The Giver is set in a utopian society with almost no struggle or pain. When a young man (Brenton Thwaites) is selected to learn the history of his surroundings, the truth of how things came to be so perfect comes into view. Starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver and Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder. (MB) Rated PG-13
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Stanley (Colin Firth) is a touring stage illusionist who also delights in acting as a debunker of fraudulent mediums and diviners of all kinds. So when he’s informed by an old friend that a young woman named Sophie (Emma Stone) is enjoying the patronage of a wealthy family in France while claiming to make contact with the dead husband of the matriarch (Jacki Weaver), Stanley is more than happy to take on the job of exposing her. (SR) Rated PG-13
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and younger brother (Jakob Davies) that turns tragic. Mia awakens from the wreckage of an accident on an icy road to find that she hasn’t actually awakened: Her body is in critical condition, and her out-of-body experience allows her to see the life to which she could return. (SR) Rated PG-13
The titular Guardians are a ragtag, fivepronged crew of interstellar outcasts tasked with stopping Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), a rogue zealot bent on planetary destruction. The Guardians are led by Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), a cocky, wisecracking treasure hunter from Earth who likes to go by Star-Lord. (SS) Rated PG-13
IDA
Taking place in Poland in 1962, Ida is the story of an aspiring nun, Anna. The graceful 18-year-old hopes to take her vows in the same convent she has lived in since being orphaned. But before her vows are complete, she is required to meet with an unknown family member. Family secrets from the dark Nazi occupation are revealed and this sends Anna on a journey in hope of finding clarity. At Magic Lantern (MAB) Rated PG-13
IF I STAY
Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a cello prodigy awaiting news of whether she’s been accepted to Juilliard. But then she’s on a family car trip with her parents (Mireille Enos and Joshua Leonard)
It’s tough to see these posthumously released Phillip Seymour Hoffman films and realize the talent that was lost, but here we go again with A Most Wanted Man. Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer who is trying to ferret out terrorists in Hamburg, the city where the Sept. 11 attacks were planned and where paranoia runs high. (MB) Rated R
THE NOVEMBER MAN
Pierce Brosnan stars as a fierce exCIA member who winds up back in the game and chasing after a killer he trained himself. He’s formerly known as November Man because “after he’s through, nothing lives.” Even in the age of retirement, the November Man is equally matched with the young man he now calls enemy, but may not be
prepared for the involvement of highprofile CIA and Russian government members. (MS) Rated R
THE ONE I LOVE
Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elizabeth Moss) are a couple whose marriage is hanging by a thread, so they head out together for a let’s-make-it-work weekend away. They’re patching things up at first and then what might have looked like a romantic drama gets doused in science fiction as a supremely weird phenomenon occurs in the house. We won’t give away the big twist, because that’s the whole reason for watching this inventive film. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R
SNOWPIERCER
It’s the future and everything is super screwed up thanks to a weather control experiment gone wrong, leaving the world completely frozen. The only remaining humans live on a train that circles the globe, never stopping. On that train, there’s a strict divide between the haves and have-nots, overseen by a fierce administrator played by Tilda Swinton. When a rebellion rises, things go way, way off the tracks. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Your favorite post-pubescent crimefighting amphibians are back on the big screen after a couple decades away and they have a bit of a different look, but still love to kick butt and eat pizza. This doesn’t stray far from the established TMNT storyline as the four ninjas go after a crime lord who is trying to destroy New York. Megan Fox stars as television reporter April O’Neil. (MB) Rated PG-13
WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL
It remains one of the most incredible winning streaks of all time. Between 1992 and 2003, De La Salle High school in Concord, California, won 151 consecutive games. This film is based on a 2003 book about the team and details the sometimes turbulent experiences of the players and coaches who played for the school during and after the record streak. Stars Jim “dude who played Jesus” Caviezel as legendary head coach Bob Ladouceur. (MB) Rated PG
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rene (Margherita Buy) would seem to have nor forced rupture: The narrative swirls in this the dream job as a secret inspector of five-star journey are all mimetic and organic. hotels. She lives not the good life but the very Many will find this film an absolute pleasure; good life, going around to gorgeous hotels that it so deliciously shows Irene’s life in (and out of) are set against stunning vistas. Staying in the very hotels. It offers a fine detailing of the lifestyles best rooms, by profession she also has to wine of the rich and pampered, strained through an and dine in the hotels’ spectacular restaurants almost bureaucratic judgment of how well prewhile enjoying the finest services they have to sented and executed is this excessive leisure. Buy offer. Holding a somewhat ordinary is a charismatic screen presence white-collar job, she lives the most whom we enjoy watching as she A FIVE STAR LIFE magnificent life. goes through her daily journey, be Not Rated But how much of it rings true, it business or her personal life. Directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi and what is hollow? She has all the The slow-moving narrative Starring Margherita Buy, Stefano affectations of the well-lived life takes forever to gain momentum, Accorsi, Henry Arnold with little of the content or meanand when it finally does, it delibAt Magic Lantern ing. Independent and living alone, erately undercuts it. This either the 40-ish Irene either has it all (the is the most contemplative and free life and perfect job) or has nothing (lacking sensual kind of pleasure or a well-meaning, finely spouse and family). executed misfire that ultimately drags instead of This gentle, contemplative work moves soars. I lean toward the latter take, but not with elegantly and slowly, offering no melodramatic the vehemence required to urge viewers who explanations as it looks at her life and her limited think they might find the film pleasurable from relationships. There is no artificial denouement experiencing it.
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ast Saturday, at a sold-out show in Los Angeles, the hip-hop duo Atmosphere proudly celebrated their back-to-back birthdays, one before midnight, one after. The indie group’s rapper, Sean “Slug” Daley, has just turned 42, but he never expected to get this far. “I didn’t know I would make it to this age,” he explains, after just waking up on his tour bus. “Back at 25, I just never thought about it. Now thinking about 60 is crazy.” After touring for more than 15 years, he says he can officially call music his career, one that he shares with DJ/producer Anthony “Ant” Davis. But Daley says he’s glad to be older and wiser now. He’s married with kids. “In your 20s you can eat and drink whatever you want, but you’re so damn dramatic about ev-
erything,” he says. “I think of how many arguments I had in bars, or screaming after someone down the street because they won’t hug you.” This wisdom trickles into his lyrics. He talks a lot about family, relationships and the future. When Atmosphere hit the Minneapolis underground hiphop scene in the mid-’90s, they were different than the hard-hitting gangster rap popular on the radio at the time. “When I started rapping at 11, I wanted to be LL Cool J, but I’m glad that didn’t work out,” Daley says. Part of the indie label Rhymesayers, which Daley helped form in the mid-’90s, Atmosphere is one of the most well-known hip-hop groups to come out of the Minneapolis scene, sharing their inten...continued on next page
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MUSIC | HIP-HOP “ABOVE GROUND,” CONTINUED... tionally slower-paced, meticulous music through years of intense touring. But as Daley explains, they were by no means the first hip-hop group there. He looked up to groups like the I.R.M. Crew and the Micranots. “I would never say we started anything; it was a timing thing,” he says. “Minneapolis is a big music town and people don’t always think of it that way.” This weekend, Atmosphere will come through Spokane promoting their new album Southsiders, named after the pair’s Minneapolis neighborhood, where Daley still lives. Davis has since moved to Berkeley, California, turning writing for their most recent effort into a longdistance affair, but Daley isn’t leaving Minnesota. “I’ve looked for a place that’s better. I’ve toured for 15 years and I still haven’t found it,” he says. The follow-up to 2011’s The Family Sign, Southsiders is the group’s most mature work, only furthering their habit of attracting fans of all ages. Daley says he’s proud to see parents, joined by their teenage kids, coming out to their shows. “I wish there was a concert I could go to with my parents when I was a teen,” Daley says. He and Davis didn’t meet until after high school, when they were invited to collaborate. “He had a ponytail like me when I first met him, so I knew we would be friends,” Daley says. The group has seen personnel changes, but the pair remained together thanks to similarities in work habits — writing music all the time.
“When we first started we wrote probably 20 songs a week,” Daley says. “They all sucked, but we eventually found what worked.” Things have changed over the years, musically (using live backing music rather than samples) and personally (families). The one constant is their love of talking about music. “We’re cynical, asshole critics,” explains Daley, who owns an excessive record collection. He still tries to steer away from radio hiphop, but he’s far less judgmental of musicians who make a more danceable sort of hip-hop. Or at least he tries to be. “People labeled me an underdog. I never called myself that or sought that out,” says Daley, referencing performers like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. “But there was a time I realized I had to get off of my high horse. I just couldn’t hold all that contempt anymore.” Their indie-released new album went to No. 8 on the Billboard charts. Daley says he was hoping for No. 7, but he’ll take it. “It really doesn’t mean anything, though,” he says. “Other than that it was a slow week in the business. Mariah Carey didn’t release anything that week.” lauraj@inlander.com Atmosphere with Prof, Dem Atlas and DJ Fundo • Sun, Sept. 14, at 7 pm • $25 • Allages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 866-468-7623
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neeling in the grass between Michael “Tambourine Man” Ransford’s tight-white-jeaned legs, Tyler Aker rips on a guitar. Even with an awful cold, the Pine League frontman wouldn’t miss playing Pig Out in the Park and wouldn’t miss making a spectacle. “Tambourine Man smells really good,”
Aker says later in the beer garden, between sips of his Bud Light Straw-Ber-Rita. And that’s where this four-piece party rock band succeeds; they’re just here to have a damn good time at their shows. They’ve been playing up a storm this summer, with gigs all over town. They especially love the small venues where fans
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are in their faces and Aker has the chance to “roll on the ground.” The group is so new that when they played Volume in May, they had just barely decided on a band name. But the veteran Spokane musicians have jelled cohesively, together settling into an entertaining mix of pop rock, punk and even Americana. To say they get along is an understatement. Aker and guitarist Scottie Feider are roommates, as are bassist Andy Bart and drummer Sam Stoner, who have played together in bands since 1999. Currently, this is their main band. Bart and Stoner are still part of The Lion Oh My, but since their lead singer left, that project has been in kind of a lull. With Pine League, they all say, there is no drama. Instead, they talk a lot about professional wrestling and make fun of each other. Sometimes they make music, too. “Spokane and its music scene is a great place to be based out of right now,” says Aker, who moved back to Spokane from Seattle two years ago. When Aker first came home, everyone he knew was already in a band, so he just played solo. But last year, at a Mootsy’s Thanksgiving show, the other guys Visit Inlander.com for complete all realized listings of local events. Aker needed a rock band behind his wailing, soulful vocals. Months later, they finally took action. At first it was just fleshing out Aker’s originals, but soon songwriting morphed into a group effort. They even do a slowed-down version of the Pitbull/Ke$ha song “Timber.” “My dad told us that was our best song,” Feider says with a laugh. “Too bad it isn’t ours.” As for being introduced as the greatest rock band in the world on the Pig Out stage: “Obviously, we’re not,” Aker says. “Haven’t you heard of Blink-182?”
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he Perry Street Shakedown is yet another local music festival, but it’s important to take advantage of the outdoor opportunity while you still can, before winter hits. This festival is essentially the South Perry District’s answer to Elkfest: It’s free, all-ages and includes local and West Coast talent. Friday, the first-time festival lineup includes local acts Lavoy, Real Life Rockaz and Folkinception, and ends with blues-rock act Scott Pemberton Trio out of Portland. Saturday, expect local bands Big Red Barn and Flying Spiders (pictured), and also Blind Willies, out of San Francisco, and Five Alarm Funk from Vancouver, B.C. The event will naturally include fine selections from Perry Street Brewing Co. — LAURA JOHNSON Perry Street Shakedown • Sept. 13-14, 2-10 pm • Free • All-ages • Outside of South Perry Pizza • 1011 S. Perry • 290-6047
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t 67, Elton John has still got it going on. He may not sing all of the high notes he once did, but he’s as amazing to see live as ever. Next week, he heads back to the Spokane Arena as part of a 10-city “All the Hits” tour. Which means you can expect everything from “Your Song” to “Crocodile Rock” — not that you didn’t before. Just as a refresher, over a five-decadelong career, The Lion King co-songwriter has become one of the best-selling solo artists of all time, racking up Grammys, an Academy Award, a Tony and an induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a living legend. — LAURA JOHNSON Elton John and His Band • Wed, Sept. 17, at 8 pm • $29-$139 • All-ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • TicketsWest.com • 747-3012
BIG SKY’S TAVERN (489-2073), PJ Destiny BOLO’S, Krashbox BOWL’Z BITEZ AND SPIRITZ, Likes Girls J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Gillette Zenner BUCKHORN INN, Six-Strings n’ Pearls CHECKERBOARD BAR, Band of Lovers COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Bill Bozly CURLEY’S, Off Limits THE DAM BAR & GRILL, Dan Conrad FEDORA PUB, Kicho THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike GRANDE RONDE CELLARS, Laddie Ray Melvin J THE HOP!, Manwithnoname IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY (208-2902280), Charley Packard IRON HORSE BAR, The Rub JOHN’S ALLEY, Jelly Bread J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Robinsong THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Schauer
with Friends MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jesse Westin THE MEMBERS LOUNGE (703-7115), Fabulous Fridays ft. DJ Wesone J MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR, Nick Grow MOOSE LOUNGE (208-664-7901), Bad Monkey NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred J NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE, Begin Again! feat. Pine League (See story on page 49), the Camaros NYNE, DJ C-Mad PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, One Street Over RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, Chris Rieser & Snap the Nerve RICK SINGER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO, Rio Con Brio THE ROCK BAR AND LOUNGE, Spokane River Band
ROCKER ROOM, Johnny Qlueless SILVER FOX (208-667-9442), The Usual Suspects J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Seether TWELVE STRING BREWING COMPANY (241-3697), Maxie Ray Mills THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Stepbrothers ZOLA, Bakin’ Phat
Saturday, 09/13
J THE BARTLETT, Mother Falcon BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Kevin Incroyable of the Peculiar Pretzelmen BOLO’S, Krashbox BOWL’Z BITEZ AND SPIRITZ, Likes Girls J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Jon & Rand BUCKHORN INN, Six-Strings n’ Pearls J CHAPS, Just Plain Darin, Tyler
Coulston CHINA BEND WINERY, Salsa Fiesta COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Bill Bozly COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Steve Simisky CURLEY’S, Off Limits FERRIS HIGH SCHOOL, The Soul Rebels J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Linkin Park with Thirty Seconds to Mars, AFI THE HOP!, BloodLust “Unbound” IRON HORSE BAR, The Rub JOHN’S ALLEY, Asher Fulero Band JONES RADIATOR, The Working Spliffs J THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Hoot Hoots, JesusRehab THE LARIAT, Spokane River Band MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jesse Westin MOOSE LOUNGE, Bad Monkey NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred, DJ Patrick
NYNE, DJ the Devine Jewels PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Rob Drabkin RED LION HOTEL RIVER INN, Chris Rieser & Snap the Nerve REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Jacob Navarro of Spoonshine album release ROCKER ROOM, Johnny Qlueless ROCKET MARKET, Dave Hannon J THE SHOP, The Cryptos J SOUTH PERRY PIZZA (290-6047), Perry Street Shakedown (See story on facing page) feat. Lavoy, Big Red Barn, Folkinception, Scott Pemberton Trio, Poncho P J WEST CENTRAL SPOKANE , PorchFest feat. Madeline McNeill, Dry and Dusty, Abe Kenney, Naomi Harris, Kevin Watkins, Mele Polinahe
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UNDERGROUND 15, Ripchain, Fault Paradox, Invasive, Boneye THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Stepbrothers WILLOW SPRINGS (235-4420), The Usual Suspects ZOLA, Bakin’ Phat
Sunday, 09/14
ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Concerts on the Cliff feat. Atomic Jive BIG BARN BREWING CO. (238-2489), Dirk Swartz THE CELLAR, Pat Coast COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh CURLEY’S, Torino Drive DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church J THE HOP!, Stitched Up Heart, To Paint the Sky, We Ended Eden, Jetpack Renegades, Children of Atom J KELLY’S IRISH PUB (208-6671717), Songwriter Sundays with the Flying Mammals J KNITTING FACTORY, Atmosphere (See story on page 47), Prof, Dem Atlas, DJ Fundo J SOUTH PERRY PIZZA, Perry Street Shakedown feat. Five Alarm Funk, Flying Spiders, Blind WIllies, Real Life Rockaz, Breezy Brown ZOLA, Son of Brad
Monday, 09/15
J CALYPSOS, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills J RICO’S (332-6566), Open Mic ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio
Tuesday, 09/16
315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, The Rub J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn CHECKERBOARD BAR, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, Lust for Glory CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN (208-292-4813), Kosh FEDORA PUB, Tuesday Night Jam
with Truck Mills GIBLIANO BROTHERS, Tuesday Night Mix feat. DJ Major One JOHN’S ALLEY, Open Mic Night JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Jordan Collins ZOLA, The Bucket List
Wednesday, 09/17 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills J THE BARTLETT, The Sweeplings BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOWL’Z BITEZ AND SPIRITZ, Likes Girls EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho GENO’S (368-9087), Open Mic with T&T J THE HOP!, Elektro Grave JJ’S GRILL AND BREWHOUSE (4674267), Nate Ostrander JOHN’S ALLEY, Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats JONES RADIATOR, Sally Bop Jazz LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR, Evan Denlinger PATIT CREEK CELLARS (868-4045), In Transit SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, Open mic J SPOKANE ARENA, Elton John and His Band (See story facing page)
An Unforgettable Date Night or Girl’s Night Out! Crimson Wood | 9/20
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THE HOP!, Rat Path, Drag Me Under, Losing Skin, Chemical Restraint., Sep. 18 MCCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER, Gloriana, Cathedral Pearls, Sep. 18 SPOKANE ARENA, Blake Shelton with The Band Perry, Neal McCoy and Dan+Shay, Sep. 18 THE HOP!, Fallen Kings, Massacre at the Opera, Sanction VIII, Thirion X, The Project Kings, Sep. 19 IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Liz Rogness, Sep. 19 KNITTING FACTORY, Lacuna Coil, Devil You Know, Sep. 19 JOHN’S ALLEY, Klozd Sirkut, Sep. 19 KNITTING FACTORY, Spokane Battle of the Bands Final feat. Broken Whistle, Unconfined, Lions Beside Us, Final Uprising and more, Sep. 20 THE BARTLETT, Lily Kershaw, Bobby Bazini, Sep. 20 THE HIVE EVENT CENTER, The Nth Power, Sep. 20 RIVERSIDE PLACE, Gov’t Mule, Sep. 20 THE BIG DIPPER, Orenda Fink, the Holy Broke and Matthew Winters, Sep. 21 THE BARTLETT, Andrew Belle, Sugar & the Hi Lows, Sep. 21 THE HOP!, Il Sogno Del Marinaio featuring Mike Watt, Bullets or Balloons, Sep. 21
THE HOP!, You Me At Six, Young Guns, Stars In Stereo, Sep. 22 THE BIG DIPPER, The CRY!, the Blowouts, Sep. 22 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Toby Keith with Joe Nichols, Sep. 22 BING CROSBY THEATER, Dave Rawlings Machine, Sep. 23 KNITTING FACTORY, Waka Flocka Flame, Joey Fatts, Sep. 23 KNITTING FACTORY, Taking Back Sunday, Frnkiero and the Celebration, Sep. 24 THE BIG DIPPER, Tanzer4 Rock Off Battle of the Bands with the Backups, 37 Street Signs, Lust for Glory, Progenitus, Sep. 26 DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, CdA Oktoberfest feat. Native Sun, the Coeur d’Alene Big Band, Shiner, Sep. 26-27 KNITTING FACTORY, Trapt, Darling Parade, First Decree, Sep. 26 THE BARTLETT, Said the Whale, Tera Melos, Sep. 26 GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Zac Brown Band, Sep. 27 THE BIG DIPPER, Tonsofun, Jaeda, Rick Rollin, Deadly D, Wax808, Abomb, Sep. 27 KNITTING FACTORY, Sammy Eubanks, Silver Treason, Sep. 27 KNITTING FACTORY, Conor Oberst, Sep. 28 THE BARTLETT, Chuck Ragen, Sep. 29 SPOKANE ARENA, Casting Crowns, Mandisa, Sidewalk Prophets, Sep. 30
MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEVERLY’S • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 THE BLIND BUCK • 204 N. Division • 290-6229 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BOWL’Z BITEZ & SPIRITZ• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CARLIN BAY RESORT • 14691 Idaho 97, Harrison, • 208-689-3295 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COLDWATER CREEK WINE BAR • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley • 208-263-6971 CONKLING MARINA • 20 W. Jerry Ln, Worley • 208-686-1151 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRV’S BAR • 415 W. Sprague Ave. • 624-4450 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LATAH BISTRO • 4241 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 838-8338 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LIBRARY LOUNGE • 110 E. 4th Ave. •747-3371 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside Ave. • 456-5678 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 LUXE COFFEEHOUSE • 1017 W. First Ave. • 642-5514 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR • 2718 E. 57th • 863-9313 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP • 121 E. Fifth St. • 208882-8537 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PHAT HOUSE • 417 S. Browne • 443-4103 PJ’S BAR & GRILL • 1717 N. Monroe St. • 328-2153 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 THE ROCK BAR • 13921 E. Trent Ave. • 43-3796 ROCKER ROOM • 216 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave. • 208-676-2582 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SPLASH • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE SWAMP • 1904 W. Fifth Ave. • 458-2337 UNDERGROUND 15 • 15 S. Howard St. • 290-2122 THE VAULT • 120 N. Wall St. • 863-9597 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 WEBSTER’S RANCH HOUSE SALOON • 1914 N. Monroe St. • 474-9040 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Oakland Raider cheerleader turned comedian Anjelah Johnson
COMEDY RAH-HA-HA
Comedy stages are filled with tortured souls aiming to ease their pain by connecting with audiences. Given Anjelah Johnson’s background as a pro cheerleader, it makes sense she skips the dark humor in favor of cultural observations and reflections on her upbringing as a half-Mexican/half-Native American woman with a large extended family. Post-pom poms, she moved to L.A, launched a comedy career largely thanks to a vid of her “Nail Salon” bit going viral, landed a gig on MADtv and found herself in movies, most recently appearing in Mom’s Night Out and Enough Said. — DAN NAILEN Anjelah Johnson • Sat, Sept. 13, at 7:30 pm • $25-$35 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.com • 624-1200
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CLASSICAL STEINWAY EVENING
Steinway Piano Gallery of Spokane doesn’t just sell high-end pianos. The store also plays host to many talented musicians, including this Friday with cellist Daniel Gaisford. On a Pacific Northwest tour, Gaisford stops at the venue to perform Suites No. 2 and 4 from the unaccompanied Bach Cello Suites. The world-renowned artist attended the Juilliard School of Music and has soloed with the Seattle Symphony, among many others. — LAURA JOHNSON Cello concert feat. Daniel Gaisford • Fri, Sept. 12, at 7 pm • Free, but RSVP requested • Steinway Piano Gallery of Spokane • 13418 E. Nora • steinwayspokane.com • 327-4266
THEATER NEVER FORGET
The moment each of us learned of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, is forever seared into memory. Though it’s been 13 years now, these memories haven’t faded much, if at all. In memory and honorarium of the victims and survivors of that fateful day, Ignite is reprising its reader’s theater production of an all-original play by Reed McColm, also Interplayers’ Artistic Director, that captures actual moments in time experienced by people trapped in the Towers. The emotional and historic production should move any audience, and is only showing for three nights. — CHEY SCOTT Hole in the Sky • Sept. 11-13, nightly at 7:30 pm • Free with donations accepted • Ignite Community Theatre • 10814 E. Broadway • igniteonbroadway.org • 795-0004
One Weekend Only! BOWI Band at
THE MOST FUN you will have saving a life! don’t miss out!
The Spokane Renaissance Faire
October 4th & 5th
OPERA ARIA OF THE WEST
in Greenbluff
October 10, 2014
The major themes of this performance don’t quite seem to fit — a Giacomo Puccini-composed opera about the wild, rowdy American West. But that’s exactly why Opera Coeur d’Alene’s next performance, La Fanciulla del West, or Girl of the Golden West, should be a hit. For those unaware, this is the famed Italian opera composer’s only piece with an American theme, set in a California Gold Rush mining camp. And yes, all the songs are sung in Italian. The performance made its international premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, becoming the first opera ever to do so. Now that you’re ready to attend armed with this historical background, there’s no excuse that opera is unaccessible. — CHEY SCOTT
Spokane Convention Center DOORS 5PM // SHOW 7PM
LIVE & SILENT AUCTION Exclusive VIP After Party For Everyone Who Makes A Donation
Girl of the Golden West • Fri, Sept. 12, at 7:30 pm; Sun, Sept. 14, at 2 pm • $29-$59 • Boswell Hall at North Idaho College • 1000 W. Garden Ave. • operacda.org • 800-418-1485
Tickets available at BeyondPink.net
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BEER SOMETHING SOUR
5th Annual
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Free Wine til 6:30! A non-profit “Fun”-raiser with proceeds to go to women who can’t afford Thermography
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Fads come and go within the craft beer world, but it looks like this whole “sour beer” thing is going to stick around. If you need an introduction to this phenomena, head to the Lantern Tap House this weekend, where you’ll find more than 20 different sours over the course of three days. A sour beer is, as the name suggests, a little sour, thanks to citrus flavors, barrel-aging and other techniques that give these mostly Belgian brews a bit of a kick. The first-ever Sours ’N September coincides with the Perry Street Shakedown (see the Music section), so you can pop into the Lantern and get your taste buds educated with these hard-to-find beers while enjoying the rest of the festivities. — MIKE BOOKEY Sours ’N September • Thu-Sat, Sept. 11-13 • $1/taste, $10/five tastes and a glass • Lantern Tap House • 1004 S. Perry • 315-9531
MUSIC BE MY NEIGHBOR
Katie Schmarr
It’s kind of depressing to think too much about how modern homes are built, with big, private decks in the back rather than open, wrap-around porches in the front. Spokane’s historic West Central neighborhood is fortunately filled with creaky big porches that invite neighbors right to the front door. To celebrate that sense of community, 10 West Central/Kendall Yards homeowners are inviting the whole ’hood to come over and enjoy live music and poetry by more than 20 local performers, including guitarist Abe Kenney and poet Katie Schmarr (pictured). Get on out there and make Mr. Rogers proud. — CHEY SCOTT PorchFest • Sat, Sept. 13, 3-7 pm • Free • All-ages • West Central neighborhood • For locations, bands and schedules, visit porchfestwestcentral.com
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Advice Goddess WHOA IS ME
AMY ALKON
Last year, after I split up with my girlfriend, the law firm I worked for went belly up. I haven’t been on a date all year. Friends try to set me up, and I keep giving excuses for why I can’t go, but the truth is, I’ve totally lost my nerve. I’d like to change that. Money isn’t the issue. I work here and there and still have severance pay left. But despite interviewing heavily, I have yet to land a full-time gig and feel kind of like a failure, and I don’t want to discuss that on dates. —Romantic Stage Fright
You lost your girlfriend and were thinking, “At least I have my job.” Then you lost your job and were thinking, “At least I have my confidence.” Whatever happens, don’t say, “At least I have my penis.” After a series of big setbacks, it’s understandable that you’d feel most comfortable hiding under the bed. Unfortunately, you won’t get a whole lot of dates there unless you have a tiny tea set and are sexually attracted to mice. You likewise are unlikely to find your lost nerve under there, perhaps hiding out from creditors. But, like many people, where you go wrong is in thinking that you need to find your nerve to take action. You don’t. You just need to decide that being afraid to do something isn’t a good enough reason to avoid doing it. Of course, you’ll do better on dates if you don’t arrive feeling like a cow patty in nice shoes. The good news is, you can give yourself a boost pretty easily — without standing in an open field during a storm and hoping to get struck by a bolt of confidence. A growing body of research finds that “walking the walk” (in your case, just making the body movements of the large and in charge) is actually transformative. For example, social psychologist Dana Carney had both men and women pose for just two minutes like fat-cat executives — feet on desk, hands behind head. These simple acts raised their testosterone (the dominance hormone) and made them more willing to take risks (a sign of confidence), and they reported feeling more, well, “Wolf of Wall Street” than “Chihuahua of Skid Row.” In other words, when you have a date, you need to get to the place early and do a little bathroom-stall yoga. Ridiculous as it seems, a little powerbroker-cise should help you feel and act like your peer group is great white sharks instead of small brown smudges. And though your inclination is probably to shove all your negative thoughts about your job loss in some mental drawer, research by clinical psychologist James J. Gross finds that this tends to backfire, making you feel worse. Instead, try “cognitive reappraisal” — reframing your job loss so it works better for your mojo. This would just take emphasizing to yourself what you already know — that you’re jobless because of others’ bad business decisions and a tough economy, not because your lawyering skills rival those of a plastic fern. When you’re on the date, don’t worry about selling yourself. We tend to believe we can talk people into liking us, but we’re actually more likely to listen them into it. And by listen, I mean listening from the gut, not just nodding your head while trying to remember whether you left a load of underwear in your apartment building’s washing machine. Obviously, the easiest way for you to feel better is to start working again, which would give you a sense of purpose. The thing is, you don’t have to wait for somebody to hire you. Consider donating at least a few hours a week to provide free legal counsel to people in need. I explain in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck” that we can happy ourselves up for, oh, a few weeks or a month by chasing happiness — buying a new car or a new set of boobs — but happiness with staying power comes from pursuing meaning, like by making the world a better place because you’re in it. Making the world a better place has the side benefit of making it a better place for you to go on dates. Women look for men to show signs of generosity, and pro bono lawyering stories are way better than hoping she notices that you left a 24.6 percent tip. And ultimately, dates and job interviewers alike should find the natural excitement that comes out of “I’m helping an elderly widow save her home!” far sexier than your current conversation starter: “I like wearing a paper bag over my head and crying myself to sleep; what are your hobbies?” n ©2014, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR
BENEFIT
Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045)
activities, live music and food. Sept. 14, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown. artisanbarn.org
DIRTY MARTINIS FOR CLEAN WATER Annual fundraiser for the Spokane Riverkeeper, featuring heavy appetizers, drinks from Dry Fly and River City Brewing, live music by the Milonga Trio and a silent auction. Sept. 12, 6-11 pm. $45/advance, $50/door. Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside Ave. (835-5211) BIKE MS A two-day, 55-150 mile ride through the Silver Valley to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Sept 13-14. $65/registration with a $200 fundraising min. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, Kellogg. bikems.org (482-2022) FALL NATIVE FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER First annual fall fundraiser, featuring drumming, singing, stick game lessons, face painting, games and story telling. Raffle tickets and Indian tacos available for purchase. Sep. 13, 10 am-3:30 pm. Free. American Indian Community Center, 801 E. Second. aiccinc.org (638-3029) LONG LIVE TO RIDE & DRIVE POKER RUN Proceeds to benefit Cancer Care Northwest. Registration begins at 9 am, breakfast available for purchase. Ride begins at 11 am. Open to bikes, trikes, or any rig that rides or drives. Also includes door prizes, silent auction, cash prizes for best high hand and best low hand. Sep. 13. $30. Bolo’s, 116 South Best Rd. (891-8995) SAVE THE ONE MEMORIAL SUICIDE PREVENTION WALK The annual suicide awareness and prevention walk (3.8 miles) raises funds to benefit local programs in North Idaho to prevent suicide and assist those affected by it. Walk starts at O’Shay’s and runs along the Centennial Trail. Sep. 13, 9 am. $15. (208-290-6161) BOCCE BALL FUNDRAISER The 6th annual event features a raffle, silent auction, and dinner to benefit local underprivileged youth. Sep. 14, 12:307 pm. $75. Bozarth Mansion, 12415 N. Fairwood. peak7.org/bocce (467-5550) PARTNERS IN HOPE An evening of entertainment, food/drink and an auction to benefit the St. Joseph Family Center, providing counseling, healing arts and spirituality to our community. Sept. 14, 3-6 pm. $60. St. Joseph’s Family Center, 1016 N. Superior. sjfconline.org (483-6495)
COMMUNITY FILM KIDICAL MASS BIKE RIDE Kids and
COMEDY
FESTIVAL
JEFF FOXWORTHY The Blue Collar Comedy Tour member performs live on the outdoor stage. Sep. 12. $59-$79. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (481-6700) YEARBOOK An improvised comedy show using yearbook messages for inspiration. Fridays through Sept. at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) ANJELAH JOHNSON The actress and former Oakland Raiders cheerleader performs a live, family-friendly, stand-up comedy show. Sept. 13, 7:30 pm. $25-$35. The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW Featuring Michael Glatzmaier, Phillip Kopczynski, Nick Theisen and Harry J. Riley, for the debut of Glatzmaier’s album, “Mostly Improvised.” Ages 21+. Sep. 13, 8-9:45 pm. $12. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market. tinyurl.com/ q5a7s8m (483-7300) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue
their families are invited to attend a safe, 3-mile community bike ride through the South Perry neighborhood, riding anything that rolls. Sept. 11, 5:306:30 pm. Free. Two Wheel Transit, 817 S. Perry St. summerparkways.com FIRST DOWN FRIDAY PEP RALLY Activities for students, alumni and fans of all ages as WSU prepares to kick off the 2014-15 home football season on Sept. 13 against Portland State University. Event includes kids’ inflatables, beer garden, food and coach interviews. Sept. 12, 5 pm. Free to attend. Downtown Pullman. pullmanchamber.com INVENT IDAHO Activities for families and kids include reverse engineering old appliances, controlling robots, science demos, program information and more. Sept. 13, 12-3 pm. Free. Silver Lake Mall, 200 W. Hanley Ave. inventidaho.com (208-762-2113) MARCH FOR THE FALLEN A 9.2 mile run/walk/march to honor all of Washington’s fallen military members. At the Seven Mile Airstrip in Riverside State Park. Sep. 13, 8 am-4 pm. marchforthefallen.com (370-0597) MUDGY & MILLIE’S BDAY CELEBRATION The library celebrates the birthday of children’s book characters created by local author Susan Nipp, who reads from the book. The main characters also make an appearance. Sept. 13, 11 am. Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) GATHERING OF THE 92ND VETERANS: An annual get-together for former and current Air Force members (including civilians) from the 92nd Wing at Fairchild. Food and drinks provided. Sep. 14, 1-4 pm. Free. Waterfront Park, 1386 S. Lefevre St, Medical Lake. (939-6539) CATHOLIC CHARITIES VOLUNTEER INFO SESSION Learn about the many volunteer opportunities available with the local social services nonprofit. RSVP requested. Sept. 16, 10-11:15 am. Catholic Charities Family Service, 12 E. Fifth. catholiccharitiesspokane.org (358-4270)
SPOKANE COUNTY INTERSTATE FAIR The fair is open daily through Sept. 13. Events include live music, demolition derby (Sept. 13-14), ag displays, livestock, carnival rides and games and food vendors. $7-$10. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org/fair (477-1766) PALOUSE DAYS Featured events include the parade, pancake breakfast, car show, book sale, live music, kids activities, duck race and more. Sept. 13. Free. Palouse, Wash. visitpalouse.com (878-1991) PORCHFEST West Central neighborhood community members open their porches to host local musicians for public concerts, open to all ages. Line-up and participating homes online. Sept. 13, 3-7 pm. Free. marshallinspokane. com/PorchFest DAHMEN BARN FALL FESTIVAL The 8th annual arts festival showcases antique farm equipment, local artisan demos, a “junk in your trunk” swap meet and sale, pie-baking contest, kids
Z-NATION PREMIERE The Spokane Film Project, SpIFF, and Washington Film Pac host a screening of SyFy’s new series, filmed in Spokane. Donations benefit SpIFF and the Pac. Doors open at 9 pm. Sep. 12, 10 pm. Suggested $10 donation. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. (327-1050) THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT A 15-year-old amateur detective appears to have Asperger’s Syndrome, although his condition is never explicitly stated in the play. The titular incident is the mystery surrounding the death of a neighbor’s dog. Sept. 14, 3-5 pm. $15/adults; $5/kids under 12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (227-7638) FED UP The documentary unearths a dirty secret of the American food industry; far more of us get sick from what we eat than anyone has previously realized. Sept. 17, 7 pm. $4-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main, Moscow. (208-882-4127) THE RAISING OF AMERICA The Spokane Regional Health District hosts a screening of the 6-part PBS documentary exploring the importance of early childhood health and development. Sept. 17, 7-9 pm. Free, tickets required. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. (443-7700)
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BEGIN AGAIN! Concert in the MAC’s outdoor amphitheater featuring local bands the Camaros and Pine League. Galleries are also open Sept. 12, 6-8:30 pm. $5. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) CELLIST DANIEL GAISFORD A free concert by the world-renowned American cellist who’s performed around the U.S. and abroad. Sept. 12, 7 pm. Steinway Piano Gallery, 13418 E. Nora Ave. (327-4266) COWBOY SUPPER SHOW Commemorative cowboy supper performances with a chuck wagon-style dinner, in celebration of the ranch’s 20th anniversary. Sept. 1213 and Oct. 10-11, at 6:15 pm. $16.50/kids; $45.95/adults. Rockin’ B Ranch, 3912 N. Idaho Rd. rockinbranch.com (891-9016) GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST Opera CdA presents Puccini’s tale about a rough and tumble Gold Rush. Sept. 12 at 7:30 pm and Sept. 14 at 2 pm. $29-$59. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. operacda.com (800-418-1485) MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND Shows are inspired by gypsy camps, American funk, rock, and jazz and include stilt-acrobatics, dancers and more. Sep. 13, 8 pm. $25. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (227-7404) THE SOUL REBELS Concert by the New Orleans 8-piece as part of grand reopening of the newly renovated Ferris High School. Sept. 13, 7 pm. $15/students; $20/adults.
Ferris HS, 3020 E. 37th. (354-6000) WILD WEST WINDS QUARTET Concert by the clarinet quartet from the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West. Sept. 14, 4 pm. Free, reservations requested. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. (838-4277)
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MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2 A live broadcast of the second bout between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana. At Regal Cinemas Riverstone and Northtown. Sept. 13, 5 pm. $25. fathomevents.com SPOKANE HEART & STROKE WALK A walk/run benefiting the local chapter of the American Heart Association. Sept. 13, 9 am. $25-$30. Riverfront Park. spokaneheartwalk.org (536-1500) RIM RIDE The Liberty Lake Rotary Club hosts a bike ride with 5, 15, 25, 50 and 100 mile courses that start and finish at the Meadowwood Technology Campus. Sept. 14, 6:30 am-2 pm. $15-$55. rotaryinmotion.com (869-9624)
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BROADWAY BOUND Neil Simon penned this heart-warming follow up to “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” a long-running Broadway comedy. Through Sept. 20; Wed-Sun; show times vary. $12-$28. Interplayers Theatre, 174 S. Howard. (455-7529) HOLE IN THE SKY A Booklight Reader’s Theatre production of the original play by Reed McColm based on actual accounts in the lives of people trapped in the Twin
Towers on 9/11. Sept. 11-13 at 7:30 pm. Ignite Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. (795-0004) LES MISERABLES Performance of the classic musical. Sept. 12-Oct. 12, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $17-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org (208-667-1323) MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSONS Performance of a suspense comedy written and directed by local playwright Ron Ford. Through Sept. 14, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15-$20. The JACC, 405 N. William St. (208-457-8950) ON THE SUBWAY The 2014 production is written and directed by Spokane-local Justin M. Schlabach. Sept. 12-28; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. oldorchardtheatre.com (793-5176) TWO OLD BROADS A dinner theater variety-style show of song, music and dance, featuring Diane Copeland and Heidi Gnos Kuban. Sept. 12-13, dinner at 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm. $20, or $12 show only. Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2, Newport. (208-448-1294) A WALK IN THE WOODS Set in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing’s powerful and startling play dramatizes a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators. Through Sept. 21, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. (838-9727) WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Performance of the classic American play by the Pend Oreille Players. Sept. 12-21, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $5-$12. Create Arts Center, 900 W. 4th, Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-0706)
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COEUR D’ALENE ARTWALK Monthly art showcase throughout downtown galleries and businesses. Second Friday of the month from 5-8 pm. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. artsincda.org PAINTING AT TWILIGHT A guided painting class with appetizers and cider from the local cidery served during instruction. All supplies included, no experience necessary. Sept. 12, 6-8:30 pm. $40/person. Twilight Cider Works, 18102 N. Day Mt. Spokane Rd. tinyurl.com/mzgzuv3 SPOKANE STUDIO ART TOUR The 11th annual, self-guided studio tour features 39 artists at six host studios, live music and appetizers. All studios located in the North Spokane area; map and list of artists online. Sept. 13-14, Sat from 10 am-5 pm, Sun from 11 am-5 pm. Free. studioarttour.com
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PADDLING THE COLUMBIA John Roskelley presents from his book, including a slideshow and discussion. Sept. 11, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) THE WORDWRIGHT’S WORKSHOP This month’s meeting focuses on the performance aspect of poetry in a session led by Liz Marlin. Workshop open to all, no experience necessary; attendees aren’t required to bring prepared work. Sept. 13, 4:30-6 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org (838-0206) BEE-KEEPING EXPERT MALCOLM SANFORD Presentation by the University of Florida Professor Emeritus and co-author
of “Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees.” Sept. 14, 1 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Competitive performance poetry, in which poets are judged by 5 audience judges, chosen at random; winner gets a $50 prize. Held the third Monday of the month at 8 pm; doors open at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. spokanepoetryslam.org (747-2174) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org
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RINGLING BROS. & BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS Presenting the “Circus Heroes” touring show. Sept. 11-14; Thur-Sat at 7 pm; also Sat at 11:30 am and 3:30 pm and Sun at 1 pm and 5 pm. $15-$45. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. (279-7000) KIRTAN AT SOUTH PERRY YOGA Gina Sala and Daniel Paul offer an evening of kirtan — a community gathering where participants sing along with the performers in a call and response format. Sept. 12, 7 pm. $15-$20. South Perry Yoga, 915 S. Perry St. southperryoga.com (443-6241) BURLESKIVAL A 4-hour variety show and competition between 16 local go-go/ burlesque dancers, with a fashion show, live music by Dionvox and Madeline McNeill, audience voting and more. Sept. 12, 7 pm. $22/advance, $30-$45. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. tinyurl. com/n92c9c7 n
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Pig Out In The Park I saw you with your daughter/grand daughter at the table next to us eating corn, Monday, September 1st at noon. Me: white t-shirt with Gonzaga College kids, you smiled at us, meet again?
stopped just to look at the scenery through the glass. The sunlight on your face and in your hair, and how it outlined your beautiful body, was breathtaking. My heart stopped and the world stood still just for you. In that five seconds I knew I was looking at the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, and it was in that five seconds I knew I loved you, and that I always would. I saw beauty, grace, confidence, respect, intelligence, mass sex appeal, ambition, tenderness, innocence, knowledge, stability, and my best friend was now the woman I wanted to be with forever and still is. I saw a person that was as guilty of making mistakes as I was, but had a desire and goal to better herself and become a better mom, friend, lover, and a person that made this world a better place because you were in
efforts to help a stranger! Thank you from the Blue Forester.
I See You KP KP, many people see you. You are wonderful. Never forget, we are all lucky to know one another, and everyday is an adventure. It’s like we are all Whisks, stirring up one another’s lives. You know what I mean?? Best, —J
Daily Grind Downtown You: Tan skin, muscular build, shaved head. You were balancing your flip flop with your other flip flop. You definitely have some skills. I’d love to find out what other skills you have. Want to meet for coffee?
Elevator Girl Elevator girl. On Saturday, September 6th, we met in an elevator at The Couer D’Alene Casino. You said you lived nearby at Black Rock. You told me to have fun and might run into each other later. I liked your attitude and it could be fun. gr8wa3@hotmail.com Maybe golf or rafting, but open to suggestions. Get ahold of me and we will chat. later, Elevator girl. Put a non-identifying email
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Silver Lake I saw you on the evening of the 4th of July, we were at Silver “petals327@yahoo.com” — not Lake Wa. setting off fireworks on “j.smith@comcast.net.” the dock and l looked over and saw you, you were standing on the dock and you were wearing white, it. What you think you have now l came over and talked to you and to call happiness, and what you introduced myself, you said your put yourself through to help justify name was Linda. We talked about your cause, is hopeless now. As how awesome the fireworks were the most important thing in my and you said you used to live in life, it kills me to see you hurting Hayden and and they were never and struggling and going without that cool, then my grandson’s little so you can maintain what others friend, like another grandkid to me, would call dignity. You tried. You told you his name was Hunter, and tried hard, but because you didn’t told you this is my grumpy his get your fairy tale doesn’t mean name is Glenn then ran off. You you failed. If you would stop and told me you came out with a group turn around you will see everything off friends for the 4th, l would really you will ever need is right there, like to talk to you more, l was stupid waiting to catch you when you fall, and only got your first name, l am and still seeing you as the most hoping you or maybe one of your beautiful thing on the planet, and group will see this and contact me, still seeing you as I saw you that really hope you do morning by the window. Please turn around and look back at me Bistango I met you at Bistango. too. I love you. Bury the harvester Your pretty smile, pretty deep of sorrow and make a life with me. brown eyes, blue and green top Its because of you, and for you, I’m and your rockin cowgirl boots had still here. me stunned. I think you are an amazing lady and I really hope I Graphic Design Girl I saw you see you again. Maybe meet at the graphic designing from across the sapphire sometime. Get well soon! room, You: intently focused, cute, interested in rearing children. Me: My Beautiful One I saw you the first Black shirt, jeans, drinking black time at a mutual friends house. coffee. I smiled and you couldn’t Almost nine years ago now. After look away. Would love to hear a while we became friends. Best about your work and your desires. friends. I thought you were great, Cheers and soon thoughts of you were in my head and then in my heart. You helped me get through some Thank You! Cheers to the crew at bad times and I looked for your the Oil Can Henry’s off of Thor! I reassurance and compassion in my pulled into their parking lot with a darkest hour. But then I saw you. I very flat tire and they volunteered really saw you. In the morning after to help, on their own time with their breakfast when you stood up to own tools they had in their cars. I walk in the kitchen. The sun was ended up calling road service as my pouring in the windows, and you wheel was stuck on tight, but I appreciate their kindness and
Thank You Spontaneous Crimefigher When a thug smashed our car window out in the middle of the night to snatch a purse, a neighbor named Izaak didn’t think “sucks for the car owner”, or “ I’ll wait for the police”, like many would’ve. He yelled “HeyMother*fornicator*” and bravely launched after him like a lion after a crackhead gazelle. The goon was so shocked he dropped both the purse and his weird crusty backpack to frantically flee the imminent beatdown. We learned our lesson about leaving valuables in the car, but I think the wouldbe thief learned an even bigger lesson. Thanks Izaak, you’re a pretty awesome guy. Friends of Paul Heidenreich The Spokane Firefighters Memorial Project will be dedicating a plaque in honor of Paul Heidenreich, class of ‘71, Rogers High School, on September 12th @ 6:00 pm~ corner of 1st and Sherman, Spokane. This is the place where Paul lost his life in the TriState fire on 9/12/82. If you knew Paul or his family, please join us for a short ceremony and celebration after.
Good To Go Thank you to the person who took away the killed squirrel on Mission a week ago. Semper Fi. Pig Out In The Park To another awesome Pig Out in the Park this past Labor Day Weekend. The people and the volunteers that put the six day party on are the best. And it seems like the vibe I get troubadouring around beautiful Riverfront Park is one of love for our unique and special city of Spokane. I especially want to thank Jim Boyd and his gracious band for letting me come up on the River Stage and play for most of his set. You rock Jim and band!! But most of all it’s just fun to get to see Too Slim, Working Spliffs, Willie Nile, Camorra, Silver Treason; B-Radicals, Yellow Dog, Big Hair Revolution; Monarch Mountain Band; Peter Rivera, Soul Proprietor and many other bands for free for over 35 years. Not to mention the food and the many bands around the park and various other kazoo soloists, face painters, and balloon helmet makers! You know who you are. And one last shout out to the Riverfront Park maintenance crew who keep it green and clean. Hey Pig Out - Great Party! P.S. You try and see every band for six days it’s impossible!
The Quilt Show The quilt show isn’t really a place or an event to me, it’s just a moment in time. It’s a memory of a summer since past full of life changing turmoil, sparks between two people and tummies full of butterflies. It was the end of a fantastic summer, my favorite to this day. Those three days at the end of that summer, where we got to be different people and escape the lives that we were living... where we walked around holding hands, laughing and just being normal people having fun. We sat together on a park bench and shared a BBQ sandwich on that last day before you left to go back. I knew in my heart that it would be the last time, the last opportunity to spend time together like that... Behind you was a sign that read “Quilt Show” in white hand painted letters on a weathered piece of red plywood. I just Submit your Cheers at didn’t want that day to ever end, and I would inlander.com/sweet and be entered to win:1 of walked around that show for hours just to Dozen “Cheers” Cupcake s Courtesy of keep holding your hand. Every year that’s passed Celebrations Bakery since that summer, I go to that bench on that Winners drawn bi-weekly at random. last day and eat half Must be 18 or older to enter. of a BBQ sandwich and just look at that sign.... a sign that reads “Quilt Show”. I miss you.
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Stealing From A Cancer Survivor’s Garden This is beyond low. Last week you crept into my friend’s garden on 9th Ave. and stole all of the produce she had lovingly planted and nurtured. She is being treated for cancer and this garden is a healing part of her life, a source of joy in a time of hardship for her and her family. Shame on you for adding to their misery. If you have any soul at all, you would come to her with food in your hands and an apology on your lips.
RE: Drunk Drivers Beware Wow, so what you are saying is that it’s ok to break the law using your cell phone while driving to call in a driver who leaves a bar? Cell phone use while driving kills more people now than DUIs. What are you gonna do now force everyone with a cell phone to go to a loser 12 step program? Maybe you should go to Stalkers Anonymous since you are stalking bar patrons. So-called alcoholism isn’t even a disease, it’s a sick behavior, like stalking bar patrons. MADD doesn’t even have statistics showing they have cut down on DUIs. You are a menace to society and your stalking is illegal. Get a life!!
business, then you won’t even have a job. The businesses will have to raise prices of their food and then nobody will go there and they will be out business.
Spokane Drivers It is a sunny summer day, the roads are great, not a cloud in the sky. There you are driving oblivious to the line of cars behind you on a one way road. If this is you, move over and let them pass. When the speed limit is 55 and you are driving below that, you are a nuisance to others. Be courteous, get off your phone or surrender your licence. If you do not feel safe driving proper speeds, then it may be time to call it quits behind the wheel. If this is you, and there are lots of them, pay attention! Missing My Baby I am sorry baby girl. Love you please forgive me I never meant to hurt you.
You Saw Me You almost hit me. Look out for me. I’m on a bike and I have the right of way. You saw me coming and you tried to gun it and if I hadn’t moved my left leg I’d be in the hospital. Get some sense. Your kid saw me, why didn’t you. Never try to “gun” it again. Minimum Wage If you want 15 dollars an hour, go to school and get an education. My wife has a masters degree and can’t get a job paying more than $11 an hour as a professional. You will put these businesses out of
Big Rig Drivers Ever notice how larger vehicles happen to have a large amount of room in front of the vehicle on the roadway. This is not because they want to allow all people to cut them off, it is because they need that room in order to break and stop the vehicle. People need to stop cutting off commercial size vehicles. If I’m driving a vehicle that weighs 250,000 pounds, I need at least four seconds ahead of me for stopping distance. Know if you decide to cut me off and slam on your brakes I’m more than likely will not stop in time. It’s not a matter of breaking power, driver error, or driver experience. It is a matter of physics. Ever hear of inertia? So the next time you decide to cut off a large vehicle keep in mind if you break and they don’t have a decent amount of room to stop you’re putting your life in danger. Now for a lot of the big rig drivers out there, you should know not to get a tailgate. I have watched and been tailgated by multiple big rigs, shame on you you guys know better and you guys of been driving like shit. Be safe out there, drive safe.
Yard Sale Mentality Why do people come to a yard sale, pick out an item that cost 1/25 of its original cost and then try to negotiate ’S it down? Or how about the THIS WEEK! ones who come and shoplift? Really? At a freaking yard ANSWERS sale? I’m trying to figure out the mental angle here. A gently used pair of $60, asking $3 for it. And the offers range from $1.50 to $2.50. Is our economy that bad? Or do you get some sense of satisfaction getting a bargain? Is it somehow empowering to negotiate a price down? The more human contact we have the less we like people.
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Never Forget One man’s upward mission to honor the 343 firefighters who died on 9/11 BY LAURA JOHNSON
H
e walks up and up, steady and sure, sweaty but not out of breath. With each step, the lanyard around his neck — depicting one of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11 — bounces on his chest. Starting from the second floor of the Bank of America Financial Center in downtown Spokane, Captain Roger Libby arrives at the rooftop level 19 floors later. He’ll take the elevator down, then repeat the five-minute process six or more times to at least match the 110 stories of the World Trade Center Towers. The air in the stairwell is stagnant, and in the summer months the fire-engine-red handrails become hot to the touch the closer to the top Libby gets. It’s a perfect place to get lost in thought and remember each individual he’s walking for, Libby says. After the walk, he’ll take the dated picture back to the memorial he’s created in the glass display case at the Spokane Fire Department Training Center. Most of us remember where we were that day when two airplanes, filled with passengers and crew, were flown into the Twin Towers. The feelings of fear, the unknown. Libby was off-duty at home at the time. “I sat glued to my TV for six hours straight,” the 63-year-old says last week at the Bank of America Financial Center. “I knew life would never be the same again.” But still, we move on. In some ways we don’t want to remember, even if as a nation we promised to “never forget.”
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It all began in 2011, when the Spokane Fire Department held a commemorative 9/11 climb in the Bank of America stairwell. Libby trained for months to get in shape, and once it was over, he continued to climb just to stay healthy. But he wanted to honor the 343 lives lost, and do something to show them respect on a higher level. He’ll walk before and after a 24-hour shift at Spokane Fire Station No. 8. He’s walked for fathers and sons and brothers. “I am convinced they knew they would die that day, and I’m inspired by their patriotism,” he says, emotion filling his eyes. “I can’t say this job makes sense. We’re the people walking into the burning buildings everyone else is running out of.” Next Memorial Day, Libby will walk for the final firefighter on his list. He hopes to have plaques created to commemorate the occasion. He says when it’s done, he’ll have walked approximately 50,000 stories, a million vertical steps. “At first I did this all anonymously,” he says. “But then I realized that by sharing my mission, I could could serve as a reminder to people.” For this week of September 11, he’ll be in New York City, visiting the 9/11 Memorial Museum. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think about what happened on 9/11,” Libby says. “I refuse to allow that to change.” n lauraj@inlander.com For more information about the cause: facebook. com/NeverForget343
Spokane Fire Department Captain Roger Libby’s intricate commemorative 9/11 tattoo on his right calf (above) took three sessions and 20 hours to complete. Libby has less than 90 stair climbs left before he has walked for all of the 343 firefighters lost on that fateful day. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS
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