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SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2022 | HELPING THE COMMUNITY GROW SINCE 1993 NO CAMPING SPOKANE CITY TAKES AIM AT CAMP HOPE PAGE 10 SHE’S AN ARTIST! FIRST NOVEL BY SPOKANE’S CHELSEA MARTIN PAGE 22 YELLOW BRICK ROAD THE WIZARD OF OZ RETURNS TO THE CIVIC PAGE 25 Digging up history in the Inland Northwest’s camas fields BY KATE LEBO PAGE 16 KNOWINGYOUR ROOTS

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he Inlander brought me to Spokane 14 years ago, and HERE I AM AGAIN. The editor of one of the best weekly newspapers in the nation. The paper and I have both done a lot in the years I’ve been away, but I am beyond thrilled to be back not just at the Inlander, but in the world of urban weeklies, where I started my career. The In lander exemplifies what I love best about journalism.

— NICHOLAS DESHAIS, editor

As editor, I’ll continue its tradition of serving no vested interest and protect ing no sacred cow. We’ll persist in exploring and investigating prominent and influential people, but we’ll also seek out the so-called ordinary people of our cities and towns whose lives thread the fabric of our community. We’ll keep on covering the culture of the Inland Northwest with both a sense of celebration and seriousness, because our growing food, music and art scenes deserve it. What’s more, we’ll have fun while doing it, and the paper will look awesome.

It’s intelligent, entertaining and useful, a paper where integrity, fairness and quality writing are not only important, but key to its very identity and vitality.

This week is no exception. My tenure begins with a beautiful cover story about Salish School of Spokane kindergartners exploring their — and our — history through the eternal camas dig, written by one of the region’s finest essayists and novelists, Kate Lebo (page 16).

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Our past is important. But as those kindergartners, Spokane and the Inland Northwest continue their march into the future, the Inlander will be there right along with them. And so will I. Write me at nickd@inlander.com.

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n Sunday, we buried Jasmine. Jasmine’s ashes, really. They were left to us by next-door neighbors who moved to Texas. “We feel like she belongs here. WithJasmineyou.” is one of a dozen neighborhood dogs I’ve befriended since moving here 11 years ago. Some, like Jasmine, were here from the begin ning. Some came and went with their renting humans; others are successors of dogs who were old when I got here. All of them have come to learn our house: There’s a bowl of water on the deck, we walk in the morning, the fire’s warm in

the winter, treats are on the fridge, and the backdoor is unlatched all day. It started with walks. My two dogs and I would head out the back door and walk through the neighbor hood toward a ridge in the distance that gave their legs a stretch and my heart a rise. Eventually, Jasmine, then Moose — neither left in nor tied up when their humans went to work — joined us, and we

Keeping doors open instead of closed welcomes, harbors, warms and feeds the needs of both humans and pets

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Leave the Latch Open

The land we walked was purchased by Texas billionaire brothers, and a fence was built. And even though city policy forbids gated communities, the gates of the affluent subdivision bordering our modest neighborhood were closed, a sign was posted, and we were no longer allowed. The pack of eight shrunk to six, then four, then just my two. Now I drive them or leash them to our daily walk.

he mountain ash bends and drops orange fall berries on the graves of Jasmine and Katie. This will be the first winter without Jasmine, the ninth without Katie. The Steller’s jays remind me of my feeder promises, so I take a jar of critter food out and fill the water bowl on my way in. There’s no way to know who will buy Jasmine’s old house or what dogs might come with those humans, but we’ve split and stacked eight cord of firewood; we’ll have the woodstove warm and the treat jar full. They’ll find the open door, and hopefully, they’ll continue to show us what that can mean. n

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I’ll be honest; I’m more afraid of latching and locking the door than leaving it wide open. I have watched human visitors delight as the parade of dogs comes in for an afternoon visit. My great-nephew’s face lit up when he woke from a nap to find four other dogs sleeping on the floor near him and exclaimed, “This is a doggy hotel!” He woke early the following day to be first to unlatch the door. I’m afraid of closing the door to those moments. And I am worried I will stop seeing open doors elsewhere — the restaurants in town open only during the week to support locals, the hearts anonymously hung around town to remind us we are loved, advocacy groups working to protect public lands, the souls leaving endowment lands for people to walk, the gates and doors, both metaphorical and literal, open to support neighbors and build community. The cracks and openings that welcome, harbor, warm, and feed whatever need we might have. Closing the door to the dogs would close me off from them as well.

And even as these places are closed off, our door remains unlatched. The treat jar is full. And there are winter days when I walk into the living room to find any number of dogs asleep in front of the wood stove. In summer, they empty the water bowl, nose in for a treat, and join us on a short jaunt down the drive way. Sometimes the older dogs come to escape younger siblings; sometimes, they just seek company and a little attention.

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his isn’t something we thought through, my partner and I. The door was at first cracked for our own beasts. We let our dogs out to pee, give them the time they want outside without vigil or leash, and they come back in when they’re ready. We know how lucky we are to live in a neighbor hood that loves dogs. Whose dog contingent, save for a couple of bullies that moved on or stay to their porches, get along. Tolerate one another. And even as traffic increases and places to walk decrease, we can still leave the door unlatched without fear for our safety. (Well, there was that one morning a bear cub nearly pushed its way in, but I gently closed the door before it got us both in trouble.)

were five. Later, two labs of a Forest Service couple fell in, and then a dog of a construction worker, and we were a pack. We would walk for an hour through Boise Cascade land and return to treats and naps. The neighbors, used to my routine, sent words of thanks attached to their dogs’ collars or through open windows as we passed on the road.

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In summer, they empty the water bowl, nose in for a treat, and join us on a short jaunt down the driveway.

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Technically, all these encampments are illegal. In 2018, the Spokane City Council passed an ordinance that banned unau thorized camping on any public property. But until the Trent Resource and Assistance Center shelter opened last week, that ordinance hadn’t been enforced, not since March 2021. Blame — or credit — the Martin v. Boise decision in 2018, in which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that punishing a homeless person for sleeping outside when they had no other alternative was unconstitutional. In 2019, the Supreme Court denied Boise’s peti tion to review the case, making the ruling binding in nine Western states.In the four years since, cities in West Coast states, from Ed

Instead, Graham and his partner have strung up tarps and set up their tent on the banks of the Spokane River, next to the bridge where Riverside Avenue crosses Latah Creek. The same place where, four decades ago, thousands of hippies camped dur ing Expo They’re’74.not alone. There are encampments all over the banks of the Latah and Spokane.

It’s a move that risks sending hundreds of displaced home less people out into the community. And Spokane City Council President Breean Beggs has doubts that the state even has the legal right to disband Camp Hope.

First, the city began enforcing its camping ordinance and their “sit-lie” laws barring homeless people from sleeping or sitting on the sidewalk downtown during most hours. And second, it labeled Camp Hope a “nuisance property,” threatening to sue the Washington State Department of Transportation if it didn’t begin clearing the hundreds of homeless people from their property.

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monds to Los Angeles, have tried to cobble together laws allowing them to enforce provisions restricting homeless camping in some areas of the city even when there is not enough shelter space, test ing the murky waters of what the courts will allow.

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After the Trent shelter opened last week, the Woodward adminis tration made news. Twice.

“We’ve had about 24 drafts of this,” Spokane City Council member Lori Kinnear says. “We worked through it, worked through it, making sure everybody is happy — and it’s legally defensible.”

And now it’s Spokane’s turn.

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“I can’t do shelters — PTSD,” Graham says, referring to posttraumatic stress disorder, a condition he says he’s endured since he was shot in the chest and “took a bomb to the face” while serving with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq.

Over the last few months, the Spokane City Council and the city administration have been arguing over their own proposed revised camping ordinances, trying to find the balance between what’s practical and what’s legal.

“The letter is really seemingly just a P.R. stunt,” Beggs says. Even with the Trent shelter open, he doubts there’s enough shelter space open.

ver since Army veteran Gabe Graham and his fiancee were kicked out of their Browne’s Addition apartment in April, they’ve been living in a homeless camp in Spokane.

But not the big one — they’re 5 miles west of the 600 people living at the Camp Hope encampment in East Central. And while a brand new homeless shelter just opened up on Trent Avenue with 75 new beds, Graham doesn’t plan to seek refuge there.

“There’s no full, full, full,” he writes. “If I said 200 people showed up today, we would accommodate.”

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In 2006, however, the 9th Circuit offered a far more sprawl ing standard in a case out of Los Angeles. “If there is a greater number of homeless individuals” in the city than “the number of available beds” at homeless shelters, then the city couldn’t enforce their law prohibiting sleeping or sitting on public sidewalks. This ruling was cited in Martin v. Boise

But even if you assume Trent shelter could accommodate up to 350 people — even if you add in the proposed 100 rooms of permanent supportive housing at the Quality Inn, and the 36 spots that were available at the House of Charity and the Cannon shelter on Friday, then you’re still around 150 beds short of being able to shelter the campers just at Camp Hope.

Either way, Crain argues that Spokane or the state wouldn’t be able to shut down an entire homeless encampment of 600 people without having 600 beds available to take them.

Even constitutional rights can typically be legally limited by “time, place and manner.” Your free speech rights, for example, don’t stop cities from banning you from yelling outside someone’s home at 1 am.

That’s why the Downtown Spokane Partnership has been arguing for months that the city already had the power to ban

Scott Crain, a lawyer with the Northwest Justice Project, a legal aid program that assists low-income people, offers one standard.“Ifthere are spaces, then there’s available shelter space,” Crain says. “If there’s not, then there’s not.”

The reasoning of Martin v. Boise sounds simple enough. The ruling finds that punishing a homeless person for sleeping in pub lic is the kind of “cruel and unusual punishment” outlawed by the Eighth Amendment. What’s more, it says that “when no sleeping space is practically available in any shelter,” a city can’t forcibly remove people from sleeping or living in a public area. But what does “practically available” mean?

But there is a legal way to prohibit unauthorized camping, even if there’s not enough shelter space: Narrow the map.

“We say people have the right to live in whatever city they want,” Crain says. “And if that city doesn’t have homeless shelters, they can’t criminalize homelessness.”

Clearly, the question remains open regarding what the law says or if there’s room for the more than 820 unsheltered people identified during this year’s count in Spokane — which itself was almost certainly an undercount.

And Mike Shaw, who helps operate the shelter as CEO of the Guardians Foundation, said in a text message that their contract allows the shelter to ratchet up even higher than that, to more thanThe350.whole point of the shelter is to not have to turn anyone away, Shaw says. And he wouldn’t.

“We’re not qualified to give a legal opinion,” says Beth Bous ley, spokeswoman for the state Transportation Department. “But the bottom line is that there is not enough capacity in the system to accommodate Camp Hope.”

The prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment” pointed to in Martin v. Boise was no exception. The court explicitly stressed that the ruling does not “allow anyone who wishes to sit, lie or sleep on the streets... at any time and at any place.”

Last Friday, Spokane city spokesman Brian Coddington said the standard for enforcement is whether there is “substantial available space.” With the Trent shelter open, space exists. In other words, under Coddington’s description of the standard, the city could presumably enforce laws moving hundreds of homeless people even if there were only 50 beds available at the city’sBeyondshelters.this, even the question of how many homeless people the Trent shelter can accommodate isn’t clear. Beggs says the city administrator, Johnnie Perkins, told him on Monday that the ca pacity was currently 100. An August news release said the initial capacity was going to be 150, but would grow to 250 over time.

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homeless camping within certain areas of the city, even when there wasn’t available shelter space. The group hired the Portlandbased law firm Tonkon Torp to analyze how different cities had handled the legal fallout from Martin v. Boise. In February, the firm released its findings. A few cities, like Grants Pass in Southern Oregon, had sweeping citywide anti-camping legislation struck down by courts.

“If you say that all of downtown is ‘no camping,’ people are going to go to Browne’s Addition. West Central. Lower South Hill. You’re just moving the problem around.”

But the council majority swatted the proposal down for being too “Ifexpansive.yousay that all of downtown is ‘no camping,’ people are going to go to Browne’s Addition,” Kinnear says. “West Central. Lower South Hill. You’re just moving the problem around.” That frustrated Bingle.

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Cathcart wants to amend it. Grudgingly, Bingle plans to support the much narrower ordinance, though he puts Kinnear’s question back to her: “Where would they go?”

In June, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward supported a proposal by the two conservative members of the council — Michael Cathcart and Jonathan Bingle. It would have banned any encampments of more than 25 people, any at City Hall, near parks, within a half-mile of homeless shelters, or anywhere in the Downtown Spokane Business District. It would have also banned camping in the other official business districts in Spokane, between 8 am and midnight.

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But LA has had trouble enforcing its ordinances, too. Nine months after the ordinance passed, the Los Angeles Times reported that a grand total of two citations had been issued for camping in these banned areas. According to the Times, the lack of enforce ment is in part because the city doesn’t have enough shelter space.

Next week, the Spokane City Council plans to vote on a narrower alternative designed by Kinnear and Beggs. Even when there’s not enough shelter space, it would ban camping anywhere within three blocks of any homeless shelter or within 50 feet of any railroad viaduct within the Spokane Police Department’s Downtown Precinct. It gives police a more ambiguous power — if they conclude the camp threatens “public health or safety” or disrupts “vital government services,” they can uproot a camp.

And Graham — the homeless camper along Latah Creek — would vote against the ordinance if he could.

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“But if the city says you can’t sleep right next to a 55-milean-hour freeway,” he says, that’s probably legal. There’s a lot of grayThearea.risk of a lawsuit can come from the other direction, too. Tonkon Torp pointed to a lawsuit against San Francisco for not removing homeless encampments.

“If the city basically zones out every public space for camp ing,” which Spokane’s ordinance did previously, it’s probably unconstitutional if there’s not enough shelter space, Crain says.

But in other situations, like in Washington’s Aberdeen and Hawaii, courts have allowed cities to prohibit homeless camping on specifically identified stretches of land.

And finally, citing environmental reasons, it specifically bars camps along Latah Creek and the Spokane River.

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“This isn’t even as expansive as LA’s, and theirs has not been successfully challenged at court,” Bingle says. Indeed, Los Angeles has 400 different sites specifically designated as zones where camping isn’t allowed.

“I think I should be able to camp anywhere I want,” Graham says. “Took a bullet for this country. Took a bomb for this coun try. Almost died.” n

She often contacted those she thought could take up the fight. From meeting regularly for one-on-one lunches with Pastor Walter Kendricks of Morning Star Baptist Church — “She’d say, ‘Let’s get together for yummies,’” Kendricks says — to mentoring people interested in hold ing police accountable or writing columns for her paper, Williams impressed upon many her ability to hear them.

“We called a community meeting at Morning Star I think on a Saturday after that verdict came back,” Ken dricks recalls. “She came up with that name of S.C.A.R. That church was packed, there must’ve been 150 people.”

As community mourns Sandy Williams, loved ones say carrying on her work is paramount

s much as Sandy Williams wanted not to be in the spotlight, she was moved to improve things for communities historically mistreated and ignored. Williams, who died in a plane crash in Puget Sound last week along with her partner, Patricia Hicks, and eight other people, would likely have been embarrassed by the recent outpouring of community support and attention, says her brother, Rick Williams.

Williams reached out to Kendricks shortly after he became the pastor at Morning Star in late 2013.

They talked about fighting discrimination, but they also spoke of their relationships, church and building community. After Williams learned Kendricks likes to cook, he says they started meeting at his house so she could request things like a custom omelet, or he’d offer to grill

In addition to work ing on police accountability, discrimination in schools and expanding resources, Williams also worked to ensure the Black community wouldn’t be further disenfranchised by construction of the North Spokane Corridor freeway, which could’ve cut off one of the main access points to East Central, Wilkerson says.

Around the same time, Williams had started meet ing with Kendricks and others in the Black community to talk about a bold idea she had to start a community resourceCouncilwomancenter. Wilkerson had known Williams for more than three decades before the two started working closely on Williams’ dream for the Carl Maxey Center, where Wilkerson is now president of the board. Of ten, she says, they connected as the only Black women in rooms full of White people, supporting each other through difficult interactions.

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Kendricks says he truly thought of Williams as a sister. They were that close.

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“[At the Maxey Center] we’re talking about the high school kids, we’re talking about parenting classes, we’re talking about higher ed ucation, criminal justice and other programs that complement the work of the MLK Center,” Wilkerson says.

complaining,” Wilkerson says. “We didn’t have that, so Sandy filled that void.”

“I think as sad as her passing is, it has really been a catalyst and a call for people who were just begging her to do that work,” says Spokane City Council member Betsy Wilkerson. “Sandy’s legacy is secure. I’ve been challenging other people: What will your legacy be?”

“She really believed the backbone of the Black com munity is the Black church,” Kendricks says. “We sup ported her without a doubt. When nobody else was there with her, Morning Star was there with her.”

The two fought not only to get people to understand that investing in the African-American community is an investment in Spokane as a whole, but also to understand that more resources are needed. Wilkerson says some funders were hesitant, saying, “Well, you have the MLK Center, isn’t that enough?” to which she and Williams responded, “We can only have one? Is that what you’re saying?”The MLK Center largely provides resources for early childhood populations and seniors.

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know. I loved her too.’”

Williams started the Black Lens in 2015 after seeing a gap in local media coverage of the Black community. The paper, virtually a one-woman production as Williams wrote, edited, sold ads and distributed all the copies, was a passion

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“For so long, the Black community had been quiet and just accepted what was given to us, unlike other com munities or neighborhoods that would show up en masse

“Isteaks.went to see the family [last week] and her brother Rick, he looked at me and he said, ‘You know Sandy loved you, right?’” Kendricks says. “I said, ‘Yeah man, I

After passing the hat to raise money, they founded the watchdog organization, which focuses on anti-dis crimination and anti-racism efforts.

“She would have hated this, but she earned it,” Rick says, noting that his family is introverted, even though all worked in advocacy. “What’s really touched me is not so much [hearing about] the amazing deeds — those are outstanding — but it’s the way she made people feel. What we are getting most is that Sandy touched them, they felt Fromheard.”working with LGBTQ communities to tackling mistreatment of communities of color, Williams’ quiet leadership had ripple effects throughout the Inland Northwest. Williams worked tirelessly, facing challenges as she started the Black Lens newspaper and founded the Carl Maxey Center.

“Sandy’s legacy is secure. I’ve been challenging other people: What will your legacy be?”

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Kianthaproject.Duncan, president of Spokane’s chapter of the NAACP, says she and Williams became closer as she wrote multiple columns for the paper. But she also got to know Wil liams better as she, Duncan and Duncan’s partner were three of the only openly gay Black women in Spokane when they“Ourmet. initial connec tions were not because of what was happen ing in the city,” Dun can says. “We were two Black lesbians, which in Spokane, we don’t have a big pool. … We tried to be a community for each other.”The two first met when Duncan and her partner, Sylvia Brown, brought The Wil liams Brothers gospel group to town in 2017. The couple hosted a private show at their home, and Duncan recalls that Williams walked in the door with a huge smile on her

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“We’re only 3 years old,” Wilkerson says of the cen ter, which opened its doors to the public in February after working remotely to help Black businesses and renters access pandemic assistance. “It was challenging trying to get people to understand that we were not being racist ’cause we were trying to help the Black community — that made people uncomfortable.”

A celebration of life was held Tuesday, Sept. 13, which would have been Williams’ 61st birthday, and the family hopes to have a more formal funeral or memorial at a later date.

The two helped found Spokane Community Against Racism (S.C.A.R.) days after a White man was found not guilty in 2017 in the death of a Black man he’d shot in the back in East Central after witnessing a fight between the man and a woman.

Williams pitched opening the center in East Central. When they started asking for financial support, the con versations between the “new kid” nonprofit and funders weren’t always easy, Wilkerson says.

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“Sheface. would smile big, but her words were very soft. She was an intro vert. People would find that hard to believe, but she was,” Duncan says. “Towards the end of the night, Sandy said to me, ‘Would you like to write for the Black Lens?’ and I said, ‘That’s a bucket list item.’”

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Williams tried to help other people realize their dreams, Wilkerson says, and the Maxey Center will con tinue that work. People can get legal help, access meeting space and, importantly, work with other people of color, she says.

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“Her focus was on how do we bring light, economic oppor tunity and potential to the Black community?” Rick says. “By working with everybody, uniting communities and asking, ‘How do we be better people to each other?’”

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“The work she did primarily through the Black Lens was to help provide education for people who weren’t Black as well. You don’t try to do that unless you care,” Duncan says. “Sandy was actually doing things for the community at large. If you educate people, that’s how things change.”

“She started checking things off a mental checklist,” he says. “It was all part of this journey she was on.”

“Sandy was a curmudgeon,” Wilkerson says. “But Patricia brought out the side of Sandy that was hidden.” Rick hopes people realize how multidimensional his sister was.“She was an amazing daughter, sister, community activ ist, she was an amazing partner and friend with Patricia, and she was an amazing mother,” Rick says. “How she found time to talk to her daughter every morning, spend time with our mother, and be down at the Carl Maxey Center, it’s phenomenal to me.”He thinks that even people who weren’t always happy to see her walk into a room understood that her passion was speaking on behalf of others who didn’t have anyone looking out for them.

Williams had put production of the paper on a one-year hiatus in February 2022, because she wanted to give the Maxey Center the attention it deserved as it opened. But even as Wil liams and Hicks went on vacation to the San Juan Islands, where they boarded the seaplane that ultimately took their lives, Wil liams had already been thinking ahead to the next issue of the paper scheduled for February.

More than just feeling devastation over the loss, Duncan says she’s been thinking about what she needs to do next.

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Over the last two years, Williams had finally started to do some of the things she’d always wanted to do, her brother says.

After drifting apart, they reconnected before the pandemic, and Hicks moved to Spokane. The retired teacher supported Williams’ work at the Maxey Cen ter, leading Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

“Activism is great, but what I was really proud of in the last couple years was that she also decided that it was time to take care of herself,” her brother, Rick, says. “She started doing some amazingWilliamsthings.”learned how to ride a horse, visited Alaska and even went skydiving on her 60th birthday with her daughter, Renika, Rick says. She did all that between making time to care for her mother, Wilhelmenia Williams, who she lived with and took to countless community events.

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“What is my responsibility in carrying on my friend’s legacy? What is my responsibility in the advocacy work that she did?” Duncan asks. “It’s very important to us that the Black Lens comes alive again.”

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“One of the things she was really meaningful about was making sure that it wasn’t just about her continuing the push, but lighting the fires under others,” Robinson says. “When I think about Sandy, that’s what I hope people remember: not only what she did, but the drive and encouragement for other people to not just stay on the sidelines, but to actually get to work and do something meaningful about these issues.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

Kurtis Robinson, who worked on police reform and other is sues with Williams, says he admired watching her calculate what she said, how she said it, when she said it, and who she said it to.

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Hicks played an important role in that, pushing Williams to be more adventurous and make time for fun, rather than working 24/7. Hicks and Williams had dated previously when they lived in California.

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In a field outside Fishtrap, Salish School of Spokane kindergartners touch their history — the delicious camas root — and carry their cultural connections into the future

The camas we dig on this mid-May day will be cooked slowly in crockpots until the bulbs are soft and caramelized. It will show up at snacktime and have a ceremonial role in school events and root feasts. Sometimes, if the camas has been pit-baked — an ancient process Turner calls “the original slow cooking” — the school will serve it cut in bars and garnish the top with moss from the pit. The camas tastes kind of like sweet potatoes, LaRae says. The moss tastes sort of like licorice. For most Salish School kids, it will be a treat, not a staple.

The root that Emma Noyes grew up digging is not itxʷa, though she still called it camas. It’s also known as white camas or biscuitroot, as c ́xʷlúsa in Interior Salish, as lomatium cous in taxo nomic Latin, or as Indian celery in regional American English. It has a white, umbelliferous flower, like Queen Anne’s lace. Gather ing white camas, like gathering blue camas, is “such a process,”

he 90 minutes I spend digging camas on Bureau of Land Manage ment land with LaRae Wiley and two of her Salish School of Spokane kindergartners — Stnknalqs and Pipqs — is enough time to learn how to dig and peel and replant. It is months shorter than these kids’ ancestors used to spend, when families would camp together, moving with roots and berries as they ripened. It is shorter by millennia than all the seasons camas has been gathered throughout human history, an amount of time we measure today by calling it immemorial. Always was, always has been, always will be

“White camas” is also a name for death camas or anticlea elegans, a member of the trillium family whose white flowers are toxic, as are the bulb, stem, all of it, and must not be confused with biscuitroot or the blue/brown camas that blooms in the same fields. In the Idaho panhandle, the Kalispel can dig blue camas after it has finished blooming because there is no death camas in those fields, LaRae says, but here in the Scablands, she must take her students digging while the blue camas blooms so they can tell the difference between what is food and what is poison.

Digging the camas isn’t just a nice day in the sun. Digging — the practice of it, the watching of fields for the right day to dig, the coming back to dig over time — creates and maintains a relation ship with land, plants, and animals in a cycle of nourishment we might now call permaculture or some other English name, though these practices were here long before English was. This is true across the Pacific Northwest, for all the tribes and all the roots they dug and dig — too many roots and tubers with so many names in so many native languages, I couldn’t hope to accurately recount all of them. For now, I’ll stick to itxʷa. Camas.

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In English, itxʷa is called blue camas or brown camas, or just camas. In scientific taxonomy it is called cammasia quamash and considered a member of the asparagus family. Itxʷa’s leaves are long and thin and emerge from the base of the plant. From those slender camas leaves, a single stalk rises a foot or so from the ground, and on that stalk, clusters of purple flowers bloom. Seen en masse at a distance, the flowers look blue.

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says Emma. “There’s digging. There’s having your lunch out there. There’s cleaning roots for hours and hours and hours. You pull off the dark skins, and it’s just this glistening watery white root underneath. It’s so beautiful. They are in all kinds of differ ent shapes. Some look like little bodies or like silly things with antennae, or have super teeny tiny roots, and bigger ones.”

(A quick note on Interior Salish: when LaRae says itxʷa, it sounds like it-wah, with an airy whoosh where the syllables join. When Stnknalqs and her mom, Emma Noyes, say itxʷa, it sounds like ee-twah. When I say itxʷa, it sounds like it-wa. With itxʷa and other Salish words, we’re all learning here. When I stumble, I imagine LaRae telling me to do my best.)

hen we walk off the road and into the camas field, I feel like I’m trespassing. Or, perhaps more precisely, like I’m entering a place I’ve only seen from car windows and have assumed is a horizon to drive past, not walk into. The blue haze on the hills right now — I’ve seen it before, but never noticed it. The flowers look like water, or like the promise of water, a mirage the eye can’t shake. Early explorers made this same comparison when they first saw camas beds. Meriwether Lewis wrote, “From the co lour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.” In this case, the camas we’re digging really is a promise of water — just over the ridge, there’s a lake. LaRae carries a piča, a digging stick. She gives me one, too. Traditionally, pičas are made with mock orange wood that has been hardened in fire. This piča was made of metal by one of LaRae’s elders. It’s about three feet long, pointed and curved at the end, with a crossbar handle at the top. To start the dig, LaRae gathers her eight students and two teachers into a circle and leads them in a song. Then she positions the tip of her piča about three inches from the base of a camas bloom and angles it in, pressing down and wiggling the stick to loosen earth. She repeats this pro cess in several spots around the camas until clods of dirt pop free and she can lift the camas from the disturbed ground. She squats, snaps it from its stem, and folds the stem and flowers into a palmsized packet. “I was taught,” she says, “that you rebury the tops, and hopefully the seeds regenerate.” Peel the skin from the bulb just like it’s an onion, she says. Then bury the skin and stem in the hole where the it a used to be. Say a prayer of limlmtx. Thank you This practice of prayer and thanks “comes up a lot with food and food-gathering activities, and also when you’re gather ing for medicines,” LaRae later says when I ask if these prayers are Christian, traditional, or something else. “It’s just from your heart,” she says. “It doesn’t have to be to anyone or anything, but it’s that gratefulness.” Back when she worked at the Gonzaga Prep library, she came across a historical document by a priest noting that, “‘These Indians, they pray for every little thing.’” The priest didn’t celebrate that as piety? I ask. “I think they were shocked that our people were so grateful for everything and that they made it a point to give thanks before taking anything,” she says.

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Also: “Sometimes our prayers can be very long.”

Since time immemorial, camas has grown in the bottomlands west of the place we currently call Spokane, and the people of the Spokane, Kalispel, Coeur d’Alene, and Colville Confederated Tribes have dug its roots. They used to be gathered mostly by women and children, but that “wasn’t a steadfast rule,” LaRae says. “It was more like ‘divide and conquer.’” Camas is said to have provided as much protein to indigenous diets as salmon did; in Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, ethnobiologist Nancy Turner writes that roots and berries probably comprised 70 per cent of what Interior Plateau peoples ate.

As we fan out into the camas bed, the children step carefully, lifting their feet, trying not to crush any plants, so I do the same. There is enough distance between these camas to be able to walk slowly, without crushing them, but this may not be the case in camas fields elsewhere. Climate, elevation, precipitation, competing plants, and whether or not the camas has been sustainably harvested will change how lush or sparse each field is. At this point in the season in this particular field, the plants are abun dant and the ground is fairly dry and hard. The camas flowers are withered but still purple enough to let us confi dently identify each bulb. Even so, my first attempts yield nothing but broken leaves. “You have to go deeper than where the bulb is,” LaRae says. “You’ll learn as you go. You come out every year and you get better every year.”

This is a stark shift from historical ideas about ranch ing, where cattle freely compacted, eroded, and polluted the root fields. The roots that survived this disturbance were starved for water and harder to dig. The conse quences were catastrophic to Native diets, and sometimes violent. Turner, the ethnobiologist, writes that in the Wal lowa Valley, the Nez Perce War of 1877 is said to have been sparked, at least in part, when cattle destroyed Nez Perce camas fields.

“Our plants are related to us. They have their own being, their own spirit, and they want to be in relationship with us.”

LaRae stashes the bulb in the flat bag she wears at her hip and stands. “Now everyone say, ‘itxʷa!’” We cheer like a soccer team, ready to charge the field.

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he tribes have the right to dig on BLM land, but that doesn’t mean they dig whenever they want to, or that they can find enough camas for everyone to dig. Camas sia quamash grows at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge, a gathering site since time immemorial, but to dig there, Melodi says, she has to have special permission. “To me, that’s some thing I will eventually pursue, but for right now, I have to figure out how to swallow that insult.” She remembers dig ging at Turnbull with some Coeur d’Alene tribal members who had permission. “It was like magic to be out there,” she says. “I wish we could have easier access to that.”

I try again, breaking dirt and uprooting stems, trying to get the hang of using my upper body so I don’t hurt my back and don’t dig too shallow, hoping a little muscle memory will kick in and help me out, until finally — itxʷa! The bulb is firm, white under a layer of dirt, like garlic. Camas can be selected and bred to divide like garlic, I later read. Some historians think this is how Coast Salish tribes created the ultra-productive camas beds that explor ers and early settlers observed before taking the plots for their own farms. The bulb in my hand hasn’t been selected for that trait, and increasing camas productivity isn’t today’s priority. What we do today we do in the shade of the 1883 Code of Indian Offenses, which outlawed reli gious and cultural practices, including the camas dig. The penalties for practicing traditional medicine, funeral rites, dances, plural marriage, potlatches, and other keystones of native culture ranged from denial of rations to imprison ment. Those basic rights weren’t officially restored until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. “To continue these gathering practices, we had to sneak to go and do them,” Melodi Wynne of the Spokane Tribal Network tells me. “The broader knowledge was held in se cret, and not everyone got to be a part of what was going on. The revival of these practices is where we’re at right now, bringing that out into the wider knowledge base.”

cows, she can make nurturing the camas beds into a serious management objective for the ranch. “We think of livestock as a tool to optimize ecosystem function,” she says. “For example — and I still don’t know all of this for sure, but this is my hunch — I think after camas has set seed and gone into dormancy, it may be pretty safe, in a careful way, to graze an area that has camas for a controlled duration. That allows you to knock back competing grasses, mulch them into the soil, make sure you have nice solid soil cover. Cows are composting machines — they turn grass into manure, which contains nutrients for plants.”

Another possibility, one that doesn’t depend on the vicissitudes of modern land ownership: plant your own camas. The Salish School has experimented with planting on their grounds but hasn’t yet had much luck. “They need a particular balance of water and freezing tempera tures,” LaRae says, “and we’re just amateurs at this.” Nor do they have much land to experiment with. The school sits on Maple Street about four miles north of down town Spokane and the Spokane River, in the middle of an urban residential neighborhood. (In this country, the Salish School is one of only a few immersion Native lan guage schools located in an urban setting.) Their school building is a repurposed house; portables sprout yearly around the original building. But there is open space, and

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LaRae and the kids visit each camas field only once every five years, to give the fields a rest. As hard as it is to find places to dig, it’s even harder to find five years’ worth of places. Today, most camas fields are either privately owned or on government land. Modern digging requires a relationship with landowners. Those relationships are made vulnerable by basic rules of modern landowner ship — as in, if you own the land, you can sell the land to whomever you want when you want to. One of the beds that the school has been digging for years was just sold. Will the new owner welcome the Salish School? Will they plant a lawn or replace the camas with wheat fields? LaRae doesn’t know. The stakes of these questions can be scary: LaRae’s friends recently went digging on land their family had visited for generations and were greeted by a new landowner — and his gun. Once they explained why they were there, “he allowed them to stay and gather, but it’s this whole idea that Native Americans didn’t use the land,” and therefore settlers could claim it for their own. “I want to challenge that idea, that the land wasn’t in use,” LaRae says. “That land was our Landownersranch.”like Beth Robinette of Lazy-R-Ranch have helped. She invited the Salish School to gather camas and tules on her family’s land near Cheney this year, and she’s exploring whether some of her land can support camas beds while also feeding the cows she raises for beef. She’s hopeful that, with the help of those

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“You’re not going to test kitchen them,” Emma says — which isn’t to say that innovative and new prepara tions aren’t being tried wherever there is camas, just that Emma feels that one can have a sense of what’s appropri ate to do with camas. One of her favorite preparations is based on an old recipe. She cooks the camas, smashes it flat, drizzles it with honey, and dries it. “I grew up in the Okanogan Valley, so you could easily dry camas on a windowsill. Imagine a place drier than Spokane,” she says. “It exists!” These camas crisps are sweet and carby — “comfort food,” Emma says. Traditional diets didn’t have many carbs. “Camas were our carbs.”

nowing your roots is literally knowing your tra ditional foods,” says Emma Noyes. Growing up in Omak, she was one of many Native children in her school, but the only kid who had camas in her lunchbox. Her grandaunt/mentor, Jeanette Timentwa, loved to tell a story about how, when Emma was little, she’d jump rope in the camas fields, dig awhile, then jump more rope. Today, camas is an important motif in Emma’s visual art — when she gives me directions to her house, she tells me to look for the camas painted on her front door — and she has enough camas in her pantry to be able to snack on it when she’s stressed. “It’s my Indian nerve pill,” she says, which is what Jeanette used to say about camas, too.

Regardless of who owns the land and who has permission, “Our plants are related to us,” says Melodi. “They have their own being, their own spirit, and they want to be in relationship with us. When we’re not out there getting them, they get lonely and fail to thrive. Just like we fail to thrive when we’re not engaging with them. That engagement is really important. To keep going out there no matter what.”

“We’re taught that if we don’t go out and gather those foods, they will leave. They won’t be there for us,” says Emma. “There is an equal weight of responsibility on the foods and our attentiveness in gathering them.” There’s also an attentiveness that’s key to preparing the foods.

Kate Lebo is the author of the essay collection The Book of Difficult Fruit, the cookbook Pie School, and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers. On behalf of the Center for Wash ington for Cultural Traditions, she is collecting stories about Spokane’s foodways. To find out more about CWCT, visit wacultures.org.

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When Emma’s dad, Stephen, returned home to Omak a few years before Emma was born, Jeanette took him under her wing. He’d gone through a lot — “layers and layers of trauma, including being a Vietnam vet and living pretty disconnected from his homeland, people, and culture,” says Emma. As part of his healing, he had stopped drinking. He wanted to spend time helping his elders and learning their traditions. Jeanette was a leader in the Native American sobriety movement, and she put him to work. “Her main thing was the foods. That’s the core of who we are — the relationships that exist within the land that we belong to,” Emma says. As she grew up, Stephen and Jeanette taught Emma how to dig and host root feasts. Now Emma and her husband, Jake, are teaching Stnknalqs. Narcisse, their youngest, was born last December. Emma hopes they’ll be able to camp as a family someday soon and gather roots over multiple days. Like Emma and Stnknalqs, Narcisse will never not know how to gather traditional foods.

Salish and taxonomic words, in order of appearance Stnknalqs sten-kn-all-kes Pipqs pip-kes itx a it-wah c ́x lúsa tsa-whul-oosa-uh cammasia quamash kuh-ma-see-uh kwa-mash lomatium cous low-mat-ee-um coos anticlea elegans an-ti-klee-a el-e-gons piča pee-tcha limlmtx leem-lumpt palwičya pow-weecha plpalwičya pull-pow-weecha

When I first moved to Spokane, I attended a talk that LaRae and her husband, Chris Parkin, gave about their life stories and how they founded the Salish School. At the end of the program, a person near the front asked a question they hear a lot, something along the lines of, “If native Salish speakers are dying out, how do you know you’re speaking Salish cor rectly?”LaRae and Chris answered in Salish and in English. They said the language is living, that it changes. We aren’t going to get it exactly as our ancestors did. What matters is that we speak it today. To our families. Our community. Our city. The language is us, and it changes with us. It’s OK that it changes.

I first learned about Emma through her book, Baby Speaks Salish, an illustrated primer inspired by her family’s efforts to learn Interior Salish. Clearly, language is impor tant to her — but it isn’t the only thing her community should value, she says. “I’ve met a lot of people who can perfectly pronounce c ́xʷlúsa,” Emma says. “I grew up calling it just ‘camas,’ or ‘chocklosa,’ which is a Euro/bas tardized way of saying a Salish word. But if you haven’t actually dug it and cleaned it and know how to take care of it, it doesn’t matter how well you can pronounce it.”

“We’d have a two-week-long camas camp, and the young people can come out and dig and dig and dig, and the elders can sit there and talk and laugh, and someone would be cooking for the camp, and we’d get a good amount of that root so it can be on people’s plates on a daily basis, and we could be assured that it was healthy for us, and not toxic because of runoff from wheat fields.”

Melodi’s dream sounds, to me, a lot like LaRae’s: “I want people to have an open mind about sharing where things grow and why they grow there,” she says. “To be open to, for example, letting our students come and dig itxʷa on their property, or c ́xʷlúsa, or pick serviceberries. To be open to the idea of — I know it sounds kind of crazy, but — the land being for everyone. Most people of color have been pushed off the land and don’t have access to spaces. So that’s really my hope for the future: that we can create more spaces for people to gather, to be.” As their ancestors were, as their children are: in the camas beds, digging since time immemorial. n

Melodi doesn’t expect people to go back to the old ways, but she does hope that they can look at what their ancestors did for millennia that kept them strong and healthy, then look at what they have today, “pick

ack in the camas field, we rest a little. Stnknalqs and Pipqs try to teach me how to say butterfly. It’s “[Sal ish],” says Pipqs. “No, it’s [slightly different Salish],” says Stnknalqs. “I say it [Salish],” says Pipqs. Repeat it for me? I ask.

“We talk about plants all the time. Like, if we’re on walks, we’ll talk about the different plants that are there and what their names are, what they do, when they flower. It’s all in the language. It’s all tied together,” says LaRae.

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This field trip isn’t a break from class, but an out growth of the class time the kids spend learning tradi tional stories and talking about plants. One could think of this camas digging as a lesson, but it is not separate the way an algebra lesson is separate from a grammar lesson.

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I say it back. “No!” they say, “like this!” I try again. “No!” I try again. “No!” they say.

Kindergartners Stnknalqs and Pipqs dig in the fields. KATE LEBO PHOTO

When I write about camas, I’m writing about history, but I’m also writing about right now, and the future, and how I’ve seen more than I know.

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’ll just tell you a dream of mine,” Melodi says.

he places where I grew up were named after Europe ans, the Native people they displaced, or the plants that grew on the land before settlers plowed it into houses and roads. Vancouver, Clark. Cowlitz, Klickitat. Brush Prairie, Camas. There was a Battleground, too. If I was taught who the battle was between and when it was fought, I can’t remember. The only direct remnant of the conversation I can’t remember is on the back wall of a coffee shop near Battleground High School, where a mural of a Chinookan man and a 19th century federal soldier depicts them clinking diner mugs in friendship. When I tell LaRae about Camas, Washington, the mill town upwind of my Vancouver hometown, she says, “It’s funny in our language because there’s places that are just named ‘It Has Camas’ or ‘It Has Bitterroot.’” Which means it’s possible that Native names for what is now the city of Camas might not be so far off from what settlers named it, too.

“So many people have lost that connection to our land and foods. But our kids are really comfortable on

I’ve never seen camas beds in Camas, but I’ve never looked. The cynical/guilty part of me says all the camas is gone, settlers destroyed everything. Just like board ing schools split families, silenced language, and stilled dances; just like the US government replaced traditional territory with lottery allotments, salmon and chokecher ries with white flour and commodity cheese. All those things happened, and yet — there are still camas beds. People still speak Salish in Spokane. What I mean is when I write about camas, I’m writing about history, but I’m also writing about right now, and the future, and how I’ve seen more than I know — how, if you’re like me, you’ve probably seen more than you know, too. Are there camas beds in Camas? I don’t know. They grow regard less of my knowing.

up what exists, and do the best that we can to be strong and healthy again.” She’d love to have a teaching kitchen with space to store preserved traditional foods. A place where people could prepare the bulbs and other traditional foods for winter storage, and just be together. Like the old days.

the land, and with gathering. The parents might feel kind of nervous — ‘Oh, are we going to get into trouble? What’s going on here?’ — but the children know this is OK, this is safe. They know what to do. The kids will teach the parents.” In this way, traditional foods comple ment the Salish School’s curriculum, where, in addition to offering an immersion environment for K-12 students, they also offer Salish lessons to the community. Parents commit to attending at least 60 hours of these classes per year. When kids come home with new words, they can practice them with their parents and vice versa, and language-learning continues — as it does in all homes — as an exchange across generations.

What would it take to make that happen? I ask.

“Money,” Melodi says. “Partnerships, too. Within the tribe so that the departments are working together, and partnerships outside of the tribe, like with Beth [of the Lazy-R-Ranch], where people are like, ‘Come in the spring and look at the place, I know I have stuff grow ing here.’” She wants “accomplice relationships with non-Native people. Co-conspirators. Let’s work together because it’s important for all of us,” she says. “We have a lot of non-Native people who show up and want to help us. We don’t need help. We need them to realize their liberation is bound up with ours.”

LITERATURE

Chelsea Martin is an artist, and a writer. ERICK DOXEY PHOTO

BY CHEY SCOTT

version of Wes Anderson’s 1998 coming-of-age film Rushmore, even though she’s never seen it.

“That’s a real-life idea I had once, where I was immediately like, ‘Oh, that sucks, that’s a stupid idea,’ but for some reason it kept with me,” Martin says. “So I used it for this. I really like the idea and the experience of having to do shitty projects in art school that are just so pointless.

hat makes someone an artist? Is it simply the act of creating art? A talent recognized by others? Making money off something purely intended to entertain or inspire?InSpokane writer Chelsea Martin’s humorous and candidly truthful new novel, Tell Me I’m An Artist, protagonist Joey seeks an swers to these questions and more. As an art school student in San Francisco, she’s struggling with financial and family instability, and to feel accepted by her seemingly more successful artist friends.

This is on display about halfway through the novel, when Joey scratches out a thought in her sketchbook after dinner with her friend Suz and Suz’s sophisticated parents: “It’s funny that ‘starving artist’ is a common expression when almost every artist I’ve known leaves pieces of uneaten food behind when they go out to sushi.”

For that final class project, Joey decides to make her own

“I definitely always wanted to write something from that setting, because it’s just such a weird place, and I thought class tensions were really heightened in that space,” Martin says from her home’s tree-shaded backyard in the Logan neighborhood.

“I thought it would be an interesting setup for the book to follow this project she doesn’t want to do,” Martin continues. “She has these moments of confidence, and then really low moments where she’s like, ‘No, this doesn’t make any sense.’ And that feels true for any project, even a successful project. You have those same ups and downs as an artist of any kind.”

Spokane author Chelsea Martin’s new novel explores class privilege, coming of age as an artist and feeling like an outsider

Partly inspired by Martin’s own experience studying at Cali fornia College for the Arts, the novel’s plot also revolves around Joey’s proclivity for procrastination, specifically on an assignment for an elective class to film a self-portrait.

Between Joey’s many moments of responsibility avoid ance, she tries to balance the heavy burden of being poor among wealthy friends, a fact she also tries to hide.

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“It definitely came from real anxieties that I have, and stuff that I wanted to think about and work on from my own life, but that I didn’t want to write about literally,” she continues.

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“It’s kind of a mix of my experiences, and a story that I thought would more comprehensively get through these ideas that I wanted to talk about,” she says.

Like the book’s title plainly states, Joey desperately seeks external validation. She’s not getting it from her family, and is too self-conscious to ask friends. She needs to know whether she’s on the right path — creatively, emotionally, financially, socially.

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While Joey’s familial struggles are fictional, Martin did draw from personal experience among former college peers who never worried about money. For readers of her previous book, Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life, the parallels between Martin’s and Joey’s lives and personalities may be easier to spot.

end, Joey is also an unreliable narrator. Because readers only see Joey’s world and personality through her end lessly critical eyes, Martin simultaneously builds empathy for the character, as well as a growing sense that those around Joey may not be judging her as harshly over the artistic talent she imagines she “Ilacks.don’t

“That level of confidence is really, really hard to maintain… I think it’s a universal feeling because it’s hard to keep remind ing yourself why you’re doing it, and maintain that confidence through the lows of feeling like you don’t know what you’re doing or saying or who you are. Which, everyone has that, right?”

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ven while Tell Me I’m An Artist distills some pretty heavy subjects, Martin does so in her signature breezy, humorinfused style. Joey is unapologetically self-deprecating, but completely relatable in her awkward attempts to fit in and discover her artistic purpose.

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“I love the short chapters and feeling like you’re reading a comic or something,” Martin says. “I wanted it to feel chrono logical, and really personal. I thought the different media helped shape the character in a way that wasn’t her speaking about herself to give you a taste of, maybe there’s more to her than she knows.”Tothat

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think she really understands what she wants to do, or knows if art is the thing she’s gonna be good at,” Martin says. “I think she was good at art in high school compared to other people in high school, and now that she’s at art school, it feels like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not special.’”

“I think being an artist takes a ton of confidence, like, you just have to really believe in yourself and think that what you’re doing is good and will work out and people will be interested in it,” Martin says.

Joey’s older sister Jenny, meanwhile, spontaneously takes off with a new boyfriend, leaving her toddler son with their mother. Their mom repeatedly begs Joey via text messages to come back home and help watch the baby, and, later, to send money to bail Jenny out of jail.

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“It’s kind of a mix of my experiences, and a story that I thought would more comprehensively get through these ideas that I wanted to talk about.”

The novel is written in mixed format, ranging from Joey’s diary-esque thoughts interspersed with the occasional page of her sketchbook notes, internet search history, Craigslist job postings she’s viewed and text message conversations. Martin was inspired to get creative with the format by her love of graphic novels. Al though she didn’t write the novel in a typical diary format, read ers still spend most of their time in Joey’s head as she recounts conversations, parties and constantly ruminates on the legitimacy of her artistic journey.

MARCUS MUMFORD, (SELF-TITLED). I like to imagine the song writing troubadour went solo by posting a “NO SONS ALLOWED” sign on his folk-rock band’s clubhouse door. (SETH SOMMERFELD)

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GOOD MORNING, SPOKANE!

McCoy: I grew up in a very musical family. They’re all creative and self-proclaimed comedians. I just always knew that I would do something related to the arts when I grew up. I started as a dancer, but my “aha!” moment was during the 2006 Tony Awards when Sutton Foster performed “Show Off.” I saw my self in her; the rest was history — I wanted to do what she was doing. I just graduated from UCLA with my degree in musical theater, and now I’m ready to start the next chapter of my journey.

Do you have a special connection to Hairspray?

Is there anything you’re particularly excited to do while on tour?

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Little Inez isn’t afraid to voice her concerns and speak her mind. I think that we can all learn about that from the Black community. We’re upfront. Through the power of song and behind all the glitz and glam of this show, the message stays the same: Be accepting of every one no matter their size, race, sexual orientation, etc. n

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How do you relate to your character in the show?

Visual Arts: Mallory Battista and Lisa Soranaka

I’m not usually one to pick up a memoir, but the title of beloved iCarly star Jennette McCurdy’s debut book stopped me dead in my tracks and had me searching every local bookstore for a copy. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED chronicles McCurdy’s childhood as an actress, her struggles with bulimia and anorexia, and her strained relationship with her narcis sistic mother. Her writing style is casual and laid back as she recalls the trauma and abuse she endured as her mother controlled every aspect of her life until her mother’s passing when McCurdy was 21 years old. She searches to answer what children owe to their abusive parents. (Spoiler alert: The answer is absolutely nothing.) Her compelling writing and humorous flair helped break through the tears that constantly welled in my eyes and made I’m Glad My Mom Died one of my favorite books of 2022. (MADISON PEARSON)

INLANDER: How did you get started in the world of musical theater?

toes and staying vigilant. When you’re in the same set ting every day, you don’t have to pay much attention to the smaller details, but now I’m a more attentive actor.

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Cultural: Spokane Chinese Association, Sindhu Surapaneni Stage: Spokane Playwrights Laboratory, Bright Comet Theatre, Spokane Shakespeare Society

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, ASPHALT MEADOWS. The Seattle indie rock champion still excels at offering an outlet for Ben Gibbard’s relatable and empathetic anxieties on its 10th full-length studio album.

Joi D. McCoy hits the stage in Hairspray, sharing themes of love and acceptance

Joi D. McCoy, who’s playing Little Inez in the na tional tour of Hairspray — stopping in Spokane Sept. 2025 — can attest to that statement. Fresh out of college, she’s now jumping on stages across the country and putting all of her hard work to the test. The Inlander talked with McCoy about landing the role, the hype around touring and more.

My first introduction to it was the remake film with Zac Efron. The first half of that film is so special to me because of the message it portrays. “Run and Tell That” is all about self-love and Black love, and it just makes me feel this absolute jubilation. I could feel it through the screen. The show itself is so special and beautiful because of the messages and themes woven throughout.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST

Spokane Arts has announced recipients for the second round of its 2022 SAGA — short for SPOKANE ARTS GRANT AWARDS — pro gram. SAGA funding is distributed three times annually to artists, arts service organizations, and culture and heritage groups based in the Spokane area. Applications for the final round of 2022 grants are due Oct. 1. The following list of organizations received round two SAGA funding; read more about each project, from songwrit ing workshops to murals, at spokanearts.org. (CHEY SCOTT)

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BLACKPINK, BORN PINK. The queens of K-pop return with more chaotically complex melody-driven pop music that touches on everything from hip-hop and hyperpop to EDM and Middle Eastern flairs.

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Has the transition from college productions to a national tour presented any challenges?

The difference between being in college and per forming in those productions versus being on tour is that you’re constantly having to adapt. You’re on a new stage almost every week, so I’m always staying on my

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or many local theater lovers, there’s truly no better feeling than hearing word that Spokane’s Best of Broadway season has been announced. Except, maybe, for the feeling of joy after being told you’ve landed a role in one of the shows.

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Since this is my first tour I’m just starting to dip my toe into that world, but I’m excited about shopping in different cities. I want to pick up something in each city we stop in just for the memories.

Jump for joy with Hairspray! JEREMY DANIEL PHOTO

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THE BUZZ BIN

Music: The Smokes (pictured above)

To better meet her heightened expectations and the elevated theatrical standards, Doyle-Lipe and the cast started rehearsals in mid-July. With the help of scenic de

“A lot of it is similar, but a big chunk of it is different too,” Ostlie says. “This is only my second time working with adults in a show, and so it’s been a huge learning experience.”Fortunately, that learning experience hasn’t needed to include the basics of canine interaction. Ostlie has two pet dogs herself, and she worked with a live dog on the earlier CYT production. Retired trainer Val Hughes, who

signer Denny Pham, they’re upping the ante further with “video elements,” simulated pyrotechnics, an upgraded lighting system and state-of-the-art flying rigs installed by industry pros Flying by Foy.

“The other characters in our cast,” Ostlie says — and here she’s referring to “J. Crew,” the core trio of Jeremy Trigsted, Jameson Elton and Jonah Taylor as the Cow ardly Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman, respectively — “each brings their own different personalities to their role. I think they have a little bit more freedom in terms of interpreting their lines, and they all do a good job of that. It’s really cool to watch.”

Doyle-Lipe says that this staging holds some special incentives for fans of the movie, such as an elaborate jitter bug scene that was cut from the beloved film. But most of all, she wants audiences to see The Wizard of Oz as a reason to commemorate the longevity and the legacy of the Civic.

Although Garland’s on-screen portrayal is one of the reasons why the film version of The Wizard of Oz is so well known, a musical stage version was actually one of the first popular adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel. It predates Victor Fleming’s movie by more than three decades. This particular version of the musical that the Civic is staging was adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987.

“We survived the last couple of years. We’re trying to survive the construction of a new stadium in our back yard,” she says. “So we’re all going to be celebrating our 75th year, and we’re hoping that audiences will come and celebrate with us.” n

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A Diamond Jubilee in the Emerald City

After reflecting on different directions she could take her character, Ostlie decided to channel Judy Garland’s Dorothy in the 1939 film. Part of that has to do with satisfying audience expectations, but there’s also the sense that Garland’s iconic portrayal is a hard one to top.

he Spokane Civic Theatre is kicking off its 75th season with The Wizard of Oz. More than just an enduring audience favorite, the main-stage musi cal is also a tribute to the theater’s long history. The last time it was produced by the Civic was in 1997, which happened to be the theater’s 50th anniversary season.

“I feel like I know this story better than I did last time, but in a way I also feel like that gives me higher expectations for what I want to do and what I want it to look like,” she continues. “And so many things are differ ent. Obviously, the cast is totally different, which brings a whole new take on it. Our production values are way different today than they were 25 years ago.”

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Oz returns to kick off the Civic’s 75th anniversary season. CHIANA McINELLY PHOTO

BY E.J. IANNELLI

“It’s still a lot of the choreography I did 25 years ago,” says Doyle-Lipe. “But she’s giving it some new twists and some younger energy.”

In staging The Wizard of Oz, the Civic is opening its 75th season with a grand tribute to its 50th

helped train the Civic’s last Toto, is also advising on this production in a casual capacity. Ostlie is putting that ad vice into practice, aided by a constant pocketful of treats.

“I personally try really hard to make it as [close to] the movie as possible. I don’t want to say that I want ev erything to be just like her, but I do try to have her style of voice and tone,” she says.

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In addition to working closely with Henry McNulty, who has raised the performance bar during his time as the Civic’s music director, Doyle-Lipe has also been rely ing on assistant choreographer Adeline Kraft to help out with the show’s huge song-and-dance numbers.

Though she’s participated in countless Civic shows over the years, Kathie Doyle-Lipe remembers that earlier production well. After all, she directed and choreo graphed it. And the fact that she’s back in the director’s chair for this new production of The Wizard of Oz also speaks to the devotion of Doyle-Lipe and all the other individuals like her who’ve sustained the Civic’s creative output for decades.

“I think the heart and soul of The Wizard of Oz is time less. It’s such a classic,” she says.

here’s also an infusion of younger energy in the form of the lead, Nicole Ostlie — although, like her director, the 17-year-old actor is no stranger to Oz. Ostlie played Dorothy in a Christian Youth The ater (CYT) Spokane production just this past winter.

Prost!

To that end, the Bier Hall has some distinct qualities from the rest of No-Li’s offerings around the building. The menu is limited compared to that of the brewhouse next door, with giant pretzels and a pub plate of sausage and sides as the only options — though the full menu remains available just down the hall. The beer menu features all of No-Li’s staples, as well as small-batch offerings, seltzers and four rotating guest taps featuring beers from other local breweries.

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When Dry Fly Distilling, No-Li’s longtime neighbor in the Riverwalk Building, moved its operations downtown last year, an opportunity to bring Bavaria into the Inland North west landed right at Bryant’s doorstep. No-Li’s Bier Hall was designed after a traditional European beer hall. Its wide-open interior features neither bar seating nor booths, but is instead dominated by large tables meant for groups of friends to gather around while sipping from a pint or stein.

or the past decade, No-Li Brewhouse’s beers have been earning international accolades. Owner John Bryant’s experiences traveling around the world, raking in those awards, helped inspire the newest feature of his self-described “beer campus.” The Bier Hall at No-Li opened earlier this summer, but its first big event comes as the season transitions into“Weautumn.won an international brewing award in Munich. We traveled over there, and we went to Munich Oktoberfest, and we spent a day in the Hofbräuhaus,” Bryant says.

No-Li brings Bavaria to Spokane with Oktoberfest at its new Bier Hall

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No-Li’s Bier Hall is going big for Oktoberfest 2022.

“You walk into this 4,200-square-foot Bier Hall — you’re three blocks from the Gonzaga campus, sitting on the Spokane River — and you experience Western Europe,” Bryant says.

Participating breweries: Brick West, Common Language, Golden Handle, Iron Goat, River City, The Grain Shed, Whistle Punk; info at westendbeerfest.com

No-Li will also be serving beer from a firkin, which consists of a beer that’s not infused with carbon dioxide, but rather carbonat ed naturally in the keg from which it is brewed and subsequently tapped from.

Fri, Sept. 30 from 3-10 pm and Sat, Oct. 1 from 1-10 pm

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“It commemorates big events in Western Europe,” Bryant says of firkin tappings.

Next up at the Bier Hall is the event it was tailor-made for: Oktoberfest.Fortwostraight Saturdays, Sept. 17 and 24, the Bier Hall is going all in on the event that helped inspire it. Hefty 1-liter steins sourced from Munich will be available to buy ($10) and can be filled ($12) with any of No-Li’s signature beers, as well as a few brews specific to the event. Two beers imported from Germany will be on the tap list for Oktoberfest, along with a first for No-Li.

Adding to the authentic ambiance of the event is a Bavarianstyle oompah band, which will play three one-hour sets each Saturday. Recorded oompah music will also be piped into the Bier Hall while the brass players rest their lungs between sets, leaving no moment quiet or dull.

A modern and regional twist on the European theme can be seen on the walls and ceiling. Light fixtures hang from above, shaped in the outline of the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, in a nod to No-Li’s Northwest roots. On the wall near the back are two large — and one enormous — TVs. They were put to good use earlier this summer when the Bier Hall hosted its first event, an NBA Draft watch party with the entire Gonzaga Bulldogs basketball team in attendance.

Oktoberfest may be the big event of the year, but Bryant intends to keep the space open to the public seven days a week, whether or not something special is taking place. As is custom ary with European beer halls, there are no plans to rent it out for private“Youevents.getthree, four, five of your friends, and you always know you can go there and sit around a table,” Bryant says. n

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“We have our first ever lager,” Bryant says. “We invested into a one-barrel pilot system six months ago, and we’ve been able to practice and test and really make something I believe is a Munich, Germany, world-class house lager.”

Sat, Sept. 17 from noon to close $20 ticket with mug; $4 featured event beers

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RUNNING THE BASES

One of the film’s characters describes the play as being in “purgatory,” and it proves to be an equally apt description of See How They Run itself. For every convention it tears down, it telegraphs several more. This is meant to be comedic, yet it is far more cutesy than it ever is clever. Even the ending is spelled out in nearly exact detail, robbing it of any real suspense or emotional impact. This is made worse by how the various suspects are only sketches of characters, floating in and out with occasional story lines that all soon fade into the background. By the time all the pieces fall into place, it ends up feeling like more of a shrug than a real surprise. While Ronan and Rockwell are always a joy to see on screen, this is a case not worth solving. n

Documentarian Louie Schwartzberg ex plores the nebulous concept of gratitude in this globe-trotting look at existential positivity. Not Rated At the Magic Lantern

SEE HOW THEY RUN Rated DirectedPG-13byTom George Starring Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, David Oyelowo At the Magic Lantern

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quirks here and there — from the scattered use of split screen to some overhead shots. But director Tom George is not as precise in bringing these visuals to life, and the fact that he has mostly worked in television is abundantly clear. There is no grand vision or cinematic panache beyond occasional interjections that lack a broader sense of imagination.

Set in 1918, the prequel to this year’s slasher film X finds Mia Goth’s murderous Pearl yearning to escape her small town life and become a Hollywood star by any means necessary. Rated R

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As for the story, it ventures to have a bit of a go at our expectations for a murder mystery. It sprinkles in some fourth wall breaking that is more hollow than humorous as it never fully commits to jumping into the absurdity. While there are a few gags that work, most don’t, as the rest of the experience plays everything straight. For all the ways screenwriter Mark Chappell gestures at creating a send-up of the murder mystery, the manner in which he approaches the material becomes oddly adversarial. It all makes for an uneven tone as it relies on many common narrative foundations while also trying to chip away at them. There is even one moment that hints at the film going in a more bold direction, but it passes all too quickly.

REVIEW

See How They Run boasts a strong detective duo in Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, but saddles them with a lackluster story

The character who first speaks Christie’s name is the arrogant Leo Köpernick (Adrien Brody), who is planning to write a film adaptation of her play. Brody channels the despicability of his charac ter from Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel as he narrates over the opening all the way up to his own murder. His body is then found on stage, and it appears that the killer tried to pull out his tongue. Enter the intrepid Constable Stalker (played by another Anderson collaborator in Saoirse Ronan) and reserved Inspector Stoppard (embodied by a more somber Sam Rockwell, in a performance that only leaves one reminiscing for his work in 2009’s Moon), who will have to piece together who is behind the crime. Despite both actors being as sharp as ever, the film falls into a dullness that it never escapes. Trapped between silly spoof and shallow imitation, it is a perplexing picture that lacks any punch.

Faith Based Films’ latest offering follows a high school baseball coach who gets in trouble for injecting Christianity into his coaching. Rated PG

A professor (Thandiwe Newton) who recently moved to an extremely remote home in the mountainous West must deal with threatening locals in this slowburning thriller. Rated R

Based on a true story, twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons (Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance) retreat from the harsh world by only talking to themselves.

While they share vivid imagined worlds, their silence leads to harsh real-world consequences. Rated R

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What high school football is to Texas, high school hockey is to Minnesota. So think of this documentary as Fri day Night Lights on ice. Not Rated At the Magic Lantern

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he very first words uttered in the waste of a whodunnit See How They Run are those of a name: Agatha Christie. It is the beginning of many invocations of the writer and her legacy that the story seems sporadically interested in. In fact, Christie exists in the film’s world yet is largely invisible even as her play The Mousetrap serves as its centerpiece. It all begins on the night of the 100th performance of said play in London’s West End in 1953. While this is a supposed moment of celebration, the prologue shows a telegram that reveals Christie “decided not to come to party.” It is soon obvious that she has the right idea. And we ought to follow her example as this film, save for a few fun performances, is painfully aching for any hint of a spark.

Rockwell and Ronan can’t save this undercooked mystery.

From a visual perspective, there is an attempt to inject some flair to the presentation. One might be tempted to compare it to the style of the aforementioned Anderson based on a few

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That dynamic, of the brash young recruit who eventually establishes mutual trust with commanding officers, is a staple of military dra mas, and Stevens relies on plenty of clichés as the story develops. The interpersonal drama among the Agojie is rote and dull, despite the strong performances, and a late-film plot twist about the relationship between Nanisca and Nawi is pain fully contrived and manipulative. The romantic connection between Nawi and Brazilian trader Malik (Jordan Bolger), whose mother was a slave captured from Dahomey, is even more hokey and unnecessary, especially in a movie that empha sizes the rare independence and power of a group of women in this time and place.

eriod epic The Woman King opens with a Star Wars-style text crawl that uses pulpy language to explain the movie’s historical context, and the first scene is an intense, visceral battle, setting up expectations for an actionoriented take on the women warriors of the Dahomey people in 19th-century West Africa. That’s not really what director Gina Prince-By thewood delivers, though, even if there are some equally well-staged action sequences at regular intervals during the rest of the movie.

Prince-Bythewood Starring Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch

BY JOSH BELL

The female warrior action is The Woman King’s saving grace.

THE WOMAN KING

Most of The Woman King is a familiar and somewhat plodding historical drama, albeit one that showcases an aspect of history that doesn’t get much attention in Hollywood movies. Set in 1823, it takes place in the kingdom of Dahomey (located in present-day Benin), which is engaged in a protracted conflict with the Oyo Empire. Both nations are beholden to the European traders who have established a presence in the coastal city of Ouidah, and the colonizers fuel conflicts in Africa via their demand for slaves to export to Europe and the Americas.

Davis, who’s appeared as a superhero-team liaison in various DC projects, makes the most of her belated action showcase, and the Agojie’s fear some reputation is on full display every time they head into battle. The Woman King could have used more of that, and less of the turgid melodrama that clutters up so many other period pieces. n

Prince-Bythewood and screenwriter Dana Stevens downplay Dahomey’s role in contributing to the slave trade, focusing instead on the brutality of the dominant Oyo Empire. Dahomey is positioned as the underdog, and its secret weapon is the all-female fighting force known as the Agojie, led by the fierce General Nanisca (Viola Davis). The Agojie are treated with awe and reverence by everyone in Dahomey, and even King Ghezo (John Boyega) defers to

Nanisca in certain matters. Although she’s a powerful warrior, she advocates for peace, press ing Ghezo to shift to agrarian trade rather than continue to sell captives to the European slavers.

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Davis is a towering presence, both in the movie and in its marketing, but the real main character of The Woman King is Nawi (Thuso Mbedu), a 19-year-old whose father abandons her to the Agojie after she refuses to marry an abusive suitor. She’s quiet at first, but she quickly establishes herself as a dedicated fighter who isn’t afraid to express her opinions. That puts her at odds with Nanisca and with one of Nanisca’s lieutenants, Izogie (Lashana Lynch), although both eventually come to respect and care for her.

All of that falls away when Prince-Bythewood returns to the action, whether in a triumphant surprise attack by the Agojie on an Oyo military camp, or a climactic rescue mission to Ouidah to free Dahomey captives bound for slave ships. Prince-Bythewood most recently directed Netf lix’s superhero action movie The Old Guard, and she approaches the action here with the same immediacy and impact, sporadi cally living up to the promise of the movie’s early moments.

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sense that documentarians would focus their attention on trying to find out more about artists who become ubiqui tous pop culture icons, and films covering folks like Bob Dylan (Don’t Look Back), the Rolling Stones (Gimme Shel ter), Metallica (Some Kind of Monster), Madonna (Madonna: Truth or Dare) and Amy Winehouse (Amy) are often cited as the best the cinematic subgenre has to offer.

But to offer a counter, here are some rock docs about non-superstar musicians that are worth checking out.

Moonage Daydream is the latest in a long line of music documentaries covering sonic superstars. It makes perfect

Since it’s very apropos for this topic, let’s start out with Morgan Neville’s Oscar-winning documentary about backup singers. 20 Feet From Stardom showcases the highs, lows and pure artistry of the performers singing behind the lead singer for iconic pop, rock and R&B songs, specifically the contributions of a handful of phenomenal Black women (Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clay ton, Lisa Fischer, etc.). Neville delves into the talent and passion it takes to play a supporting role in the bigger

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Another Oscar winner for Best Documentary, Malik Bendjelloul’s feature tries to unravel the mystery of Rodri guez — a completely unheralded Detroit folk rocker who became a superstar in South Africa and was rumored to have died long ago. Well before the current true crime boom, this 2012 film unfolds with many of the same tantalizing and thrilling beats of that genre, as the film makers try to piece together exactly how this unknown artist accidentally blew up overseas and became a cultural

f you’re looking for a musician worthy of being pro jected onto a massive IMAX screen, it’s impossible to do any better than David Bowie. From the early days in the limelight as the androgynous alien rock star Ziggy Stardust to the Euro chic of his Thin White Duke character to his distinguished look in later years, Bowie always emitted grand style seemingly tailor-made for our collective cinematic dreams.

musical picture despite these women often being able to vocally blow the stars out of the water. The film explores the immense difficulty when these women try to go solo, and why some of them are content hanging back away from the spotlight. Along the way there are unforgettable moments, like how Clayton came to sing on the Roll ing Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.” 20 Feet also stands out for displaying the subjects’ talents in real-time far more than most music docs. Streaming on Cinemax.

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As the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream hits theaters, we look at some of the best music docs about non-superstars

Moonage Daydream brings Bowie’s grandeur to IMAX.

Bowie’s vibrant life now gets an artistic and colorful tribute in the form of Brett Morgen’s new IMAX docu mentary, Moonage Daydream. Morgen made a mark in the musical documentary sphere with the excellent Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the overwhelming and raw telling of the Nirvana frontman’s life through wild collages of his artistry and music. While Moonage Daydream certainly won’t be as focused on the rock fury as Montage of Heck, it looks to turn the spectacle up to 11 — creating a visual and audio experience to properly convey Bowie’s visionary brilliance.

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SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

I miss the era of rival bands, where certain groups in local or genre scenes would essentially go for each other’s throats. It’s pure silly drama. No movie captures the dy namic as well as the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Dig!, which documents the love-hate battle between West Coast alternative bands the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. As both groups rise to mid dling prominence during the mid-’90s, frontmen Court ney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe wrestle with the quest for fame, artistic integrity, messy self-destructive choices and the scene politics of selling out.

STRANGE NEGOTIATIONS

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touchstone for the anti-apartheid movement, while also attempting to figure out what became of this seemingly ghostly musical presence. Streaming on AMC+.

Outsider lo-fi artist Daniel Johnston is certainly an acquired taste. His songs can be dissonant and off-kilter, and his guitar playing skills are ummm… suspect. But many who “get” his ramshackle childlike D.I.Y. songs (including luminaries like Kurt Cobain) consider him a songwriter on the same level as The Beatles or Dylan.

Streaming for free on YouTube; search “Dig documentary.”

David Bazan has long been one of the most insightful men in rock, and Strange Negotiations distills the influential songwriters’ introspective essence. With his band Pedro the Lion, the son of a pastor gained indie rock fame in the early ’00s as the ultra-rare successful Christian rock crossover artist. But then he had falling out with Christian Evangelicalism. Strange Negotiations finds Bazan confronting the dark sides of modern American Christian Evangelicalism and its politics, the toll his career has put on his family, and the hope found in musical connection with believers and nonbelievers while following Bazan on a house show tour (and employing some gorgeous cin ematography to convey the loneliness of the open road). Streaming for free on Kanopy.

You’ve probably never heard of Suzanna Ciani, but if you were a child of the ’70s and ’80s, you’ve almost definitely heard her work. Back when computers were still not even a mainstream technology, she was a revolutionary pioneer in a new form called electronic music. (I’m sure that genre will never catch on!) A Life in Waves attempts to shine a light on this largely unknown trailblazer who managed to be both a wiz in commercial sound effects and a waaaaaaay ahead-of-her-time artist when making her own lush synth-driven albums. Rent on Apple TV.

He was also a man who struggled with severe mental illness that manifested in ways destructive to himself and others. Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary showcases both how he became an underground legend in the ’80s, and how his unique brain fostered and hindered his musical career.

OTHER NOTABLES

The pioneering black punk band gets a spotlight in A Band Called Death (Pluto TV). The Sparks Brothers (Netflix) finds Edgar Wright bringing his stylish flair to recount the lengthy career of the pop oddball duo Sparks. Bikini Kill singer and riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hannah gets her flowers via The Punk Singer (Plex). And the quirk of art pop rockers They Might Be Giants comes to the fore front in Gigantic: A Story of Two Johns (YouTube). n

Moonage Daydream screens in IMAX at AMC River Park Square starting Sept. 15.

A LIFE IN WAVES

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J J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Nelly

CHAN’S RED DRAGON ON THIRD, Papa D. and Studebaker Road

STEAM PLANT RESTAURANT & BREW PUB, Sam Leyde ZOLA, Desperate8s

TRANCHE, Soul Patch The Duo ZOLA, Blake Braley

WINE COUNTRY AMPHITHEATER, Jackson Browne

J CAVE B ESTATE WINERY, The Songs of John Prine

J KENDALL YARDS, Brad Keeler, Lyle Morse, Bill Compher

BRICK WEST BREWING CO., Kyle Richard CHECKERBOARD TAPROOM, Weathered Shepherds LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, William Clark Green

J THE BIG DIPPER, The Kodama Tour: J. Stokes, Past Life Kenny, Bendi, Scozzari, ELEMENO-P x Synesthete, Pest The Menace CHAN’S RED DRAGON ON THIRD, Bobby Patterson & the Two Tones THE JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL, WhiteNoise

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Tech N9ne, King Iso • Wed, Sept. 21 at 7:30 pm • Sold Out • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague Ave. • sp.knittingfactory.com

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J PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Pamela Benton

J J KNITTING FACTORY, Tech N9ne, King Iso

hile there are innumerable singersongwriters who’ve dug deep into struggles with their mental health, the topic is closer to being a taboo in the hip-hop realm. But that didn’t stop King Iso from going deep examining the subject on his new album, Get Well Soon. The Omaha-bred rapper has lived the battle, being in and out of institutions since his youth and taking his name from prison stints in solitary confinement (aka Isolation). Few rappers can touch the speed and clarity of King Iso’s unflinching flow, allowing the songs like “Zero Dark Thirty Four” — which addresses his struggles with suicidal thoughts — to emotionally resonate and hit with a clear-minded impact. His skill caught the attention of independent rap titan Tech N9ne, who signed King Iso to his Strange Music label and is now taking him along to open sold-out dates on his latest tour.

Wednesday, 9/21

J EICHARDT’S PUB, Monday Blues Jam with John Firshi

Tuesday, 09/20

KNITTING FACTORY, Chaoseum, Part Time Super Heroes, Kolasos

J BRICK WEST BREWING CO., Spilt Milk, The Holy Broke, August To August

LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Shuffle Dawgs

crime, Cold Hearts, Malinois

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, The Moops

Will Wood • Sat, Sept. 17 at 8 pm • $30-$60 • 18+ • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague Ave. • sp.knittingfactory.com

Thursday, 9/15

TRAILS END BREWERY, John Firshi TRANCHE, Coyote Kings & Tiph Dames

COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, Tuxedo Junction Big Band

J PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Bob Beadling

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Friday, 9/16

THE MASON JAR, Sophia

J KNITTING FACTORY, EarthGang LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Vibe Vortex 2.0: DJ Unifest and DJ Moon Wild PANIDA THEATER, Maiah Wynne

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Circles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis

BARRISTER WINERY, Stagecoach West

RED ROOM LOUNGE, The Roomates

POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL, JamShack

Monday, 9/19

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— SETH SOMMERFELD

here’s always a market for eccentricities. Oddballs want to feel musically repre sented with melodic music that’s nowhere near the standard templates of radio pop. It’s why quirky acts like They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton can carve out extremely dedicated fan bases by avoiding cliches and adding a ton of humor that hits nerdy listeners’ sweet spots. Enter Will Wood, who has made a name for himself with humorous songs about everything from undead romanticism to euthenizing your pet rat to neurotypical mania, and can flip genre from piano ballads to doo-wop to screaming chamber pop at any moment. His new album In Case I Make it might be more composed and less gleefully chaotic than his prior LP The Normal Album, but there’s still more than enough atypical observational songwriting to keep fans —happy.SETH SOMMERFELD

J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Justin Moore, Granger Smith, Sean Stemaly

J KNITTING FACTORY, Will Wood LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Carter Hudson, Jerry Lee Raines, Erin Parkes

OSPREY RESTAURANT & BAR, Jonathan Arthur

Saturday, 9/17

J THE BIG DIPPER, Dead Low, War

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Larry Meyer

RAP KING ISO

J SPOKANE ARENA, Trippie Redd

J QQ SUSHI & KITCHEN, Just Plain Darin

Sunday, 9/18

NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CA SINO, Sam Hunt, Travis Denning

J PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Hannah Siglin Trio

AVANT-POP WILL WOOD

ZOLA, Runaway Lemonade

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BOLO’S BAR & GRILL • 116 S. Best Rd., Spokane Valley • 509-891-8995

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MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague Ave. • 509-838-1570

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LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington St. • 509-315-8623

RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874

IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman, Coeur d’Alene • 208-667-7314

BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR • 18219 E. Appleway Ave., Spokane Valley • 509-368-9847

CURLEY’S HAUSER JUNCTION • 26433 W. Hwy. 53, Post Falls • 208-773-5816

FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • 509-624-1200

ZOLA 509-624-2416

THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric St., Four Lakes • 509-838-9717

STEAM PLANT 509-777-3900

MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. • 509-443-3832

BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 509-847-1234

KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 509-244-3279

NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 877-871-6772

CRUISERS BAR & GRILL • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-446-7154

SOUTH PERRY LANTERN 509-473-9098

JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208-883-7662

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw St., Worley • 800-523-2464

IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley • 509-926-8411

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EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005

MILLIE’S • 28441 Hwy 57, Priest Lake • 208-443-0510

THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 509-863-8098

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The Spokane Symphony kicks off its 2022-23 season with a Masterworks program that’s somewhat of an artistic sampler plate to get patrons excited and engaged with the new season. The program’s title — Fantastique! — comes about because the orchestra will tackle Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique, Op.14,” the dreamlike Romantic period touchstone depicting an opium-addled artist being lost in imagination and the throes of rejection over an unrequited love. For those who want to hear work from actual living composers, Jessie Montgomery’s “Starburst” musically evokes the creation of new stars in a brief flurry of swirling kinetic cosmic majesty. Rounding out the program, visiting piano virtuoso Natasha Pa remski (above) will join the orchestra to bring out the beauty and militaristic might inherent in Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 5, Op.73 in E-flat Major (The Emperor).”—SETH SOMMERFELD

First Annual Northwest Pagan Festival • Sat, Sept. 17 from 10 am-4 pm • Free • All ages • Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane • 4340 W. Whistalks Way • spokanepagans.com

FESTIVAL PSYCHIC & PSYCHED

— SETH SOMMERFELD

Spokane Symphony Masterworks 1: Fantastique! • Sat, Sept. 17 at 7:30 pm & Sun, Sept. 18 at 3 pm • $19-$68 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • spokanesymphony.org

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Billy Prine & The Prine Time Band: The Songs of John Prine • Sat, Sept. 17 at 6 pm • $35 • Cave B Winery • 348 Silica Rd NW, Quincy, Wash. • caveb.com

— SAMANTHA HOLM

CLASSICAL OPENING NOTES

MUSIC A FAMILIAL FAREWELL

The COVID pandemic wreaked havoc on the music world in 2020. One of the most devastating moments came when the virus took one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters from us, John Prine, who died at age 73. With a Midwestern everyman’s eye, a wry co medic sensibility and a nearly unparalleled knack for wordsmithery, Prine was an influential legend in the country, folk and Americana realms. While it was great to see stars like Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, Bonnie Raitt and Brandi Carlile gather for the posthumous special A Tribute Celebrating John Prine, the Gorge-adjacent Cave B Winery is bringing in family to honor the legend. John’s younger brother Billy and his band will play a collec tion of beloved Prine favorites while also telling the stories behind the songs and the man who wrote them.

Let’s face it — the stress of the past few years has put a damper on our spirits. What better way to revitalize than attending the First Annual Northwest Pagan Festival? Shed your psychic debris and cleanse your aura with an oracle reading from spiritual medium Karin Olsen. Shop for your embroidery, jewelry and home decor needs from local vendors. Don’t want to empty your wallet too much? No problem. Pay a dollar to be entered in a raffle for a num ber of exciting trinkets. Take in knowledge from speakers, enjoy live music and dance, grab an inexpensive lunch (11 am-1 pm), and bring your kids, too! Practicing pagans, come to this event to con nect with fellow members of the fold. Interested skeptics, get on over and prepare yourself for an immersive, educative experience.

— MADISON PEARSON

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— CHEY SCOTT

Since 2019, Community Cancer Fund has donated over $160,000 to ACCOIN to assist in this mission. These donations have also allowed their staff to expand their presence at Providence Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital and be on site 7 days a week for families. This is crucial because children like Jade can’t fight cancer alone.

COMMUNITY ROCK THE BLOCK

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If you’re a Shakespeare hater, this comedic take on two of Shakespeare’s most iconic tragedies might be for you. Goodnight, Desdemona. (Good Morning, Juliet.) was created on the premise that Othello and Romeo and Juliet were originally penned as comedies. The play’s protagonist, Constance Ledbelly, explores the worlds of the aforementioned tragedies and quickly turns things upside down with her meddling. Timelines become twisted, love stories are flipped around, and Romeo somehow ends up in Juliet’s clothes. Enjoy this comedic spectacle in the Lilac Bowl, under the Riverfront Pavilion or in Manito Park. No matter where you watch from, the actors from the Spokane Shakespeare Society, also known as S3, will be glad you’re there to witness the extravaganza. Check the link below for show times and other details.

THEATER SHAKEN UP

Shakespeare in the Park: Goodnight, Desdemona • Sept. 15-18 (Riverfront Park) and Sept. 20-23, Sept. 25 (Manito Park, Duncan Lawn); times vary • Free • All ages • spokaneshakespearesociety.org

OCTOBER-BREASTNOVEMBER-LUNG

children are diagnosed with cancer on a daily basis Hospitalization costs are 5X higher than any other conditionpediatric Did you know? In the United States…

Teleport Block Party • Sat, Sept. 17 from 11 am-7 pm • Free admission • All ages • 917 W. Broadway Ave. • instagram.com/teleportvintageandco

SEPTEMBER IS CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

This is Jade. She battled Wilms Tumor, the most common type of kidney cancer in children. For over a year now, she has been cancer-free.

When road construction blocks one of the main access points to your busi ness, what do you do? Shut down the rest of the block and throw a party, of course! That’s what the folks at Teleport Vintage + Co. are doing while nearby construction jams up traffic. More than 20+ local vendors of vintage wares will spread into the street outside. No party is complete without some good vibes, so local musicians — Rosie Cerquone, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, Lucas Brookbank Brown, Estuari, and Vika & the Velvets — are taking to the stage, and nearby eatery Chowderhead is serving up tasty bites. Bever ages for the 21-and-up crowd can also be purchased and enjoyed inside the shop: beer, cider and seltzer. (Pro tip: You can sip while you shop at Teleport any time, as the shop has a permanent liquor license!) Get out there for one of the last summer weekends and spruce up your fall wardrobe with some stylish and sustainable duds.

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MARIE... I appreciate the opportunity to be your friend. Thank you for having the capacity to work through the lies to find the truth buried in them and choose to show genuine generosity to someone like me, who only has friendship and a good will to offer in return. You make the difference, so keep your head up. -T

up on me. Come on — it doesn’t take two years to finish the project.

TO WEST HILLS NIMBYERS Shame on the West Hills residents who complain about homelessness and in the same breath protest efforts being made to address this issue impacting our city. Their bizarre and entitled ramblings at City Council meetings are an embarrassment. Maybe instead of using those hands to clutch at their pearls, they should lend a helping hand to those in need by volunteering at Catholic Charities, and seeing first hand the good that organization is doing in our community.

year, I wrote the mayor and suggested erecting greenhouses adjoining them. Each person would be required to work two hours in the greenhouse, or in,the shelter. The Union Gospel Mission has such a program. It works well for them — it would work for us too.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT BRUNO Under a golden sun, in the waning days of summer, you drank Bruno and talked about your day — your kids, your work, your frustrations and your fantasies. I listened. I saw you. I’m not sure you saw me right then, distracted as you were, but I didn’t mind. I was falling in love. Again.

I’ve learned that while change can most certainly induce fear, there’s no real choice but to acknowledge the fear and then move on forward — probably best described as “name it and tame it.”

the county officials? They could at least be making sure these companies they hire to do the work on these roads are working. When I called to complain about the work not being done, the lady hung

LOCKED IN NOM NOM (NW BLVD.) U opened door 4 me as I struggled against locked door leaving. U are blond, smiley, attractive. I was in white In n Out tee, masked. I should’ve waited, talked. U in Audi I think. I’ll open door 4 U next time. Lol This was Saturday Aug 27 at 3pm. U have shoulder length blond hair, gorgeous smile.

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CAN’T GET A DATE? “It’s hilarious that your ex divorces you but can’t get a date.... Then he buys a mail-order bride, because nobody in the U.S. wants his stinky arse!!! And I mean literally... nobody ever taught him how to wash his stinky arse!!!”

JUST GET COZY Getting comfortable with change is something that takes practice. And since we’ve all certainly had a lot of practice in recent years, we should pretty much be experts at this point.

songs? I have a kitten shirt I can wear, too.

MEOW KAPOW! You were in the produce section of the Super 1 ... singing to the ’80s hits and occasionally dancing. You wore a sweatshirt featuring a kitten throwing a grenade. I liked the silver in your hair. I complimented your dancing skill and your shirt. You made me laugh. Want to meet up and dance to ’80s

RE: ROAD PROJECTS Your post from the 9/8 issue made me cackle. You must be new to Spokane. Two years is quick. Looking at your north/south freeway.

Central neighborhood has undergone a transformation. Let’s do the same for the Wolf’s lair. Homelessness will not be solved with temporary shelters. We need to make them accountable. Last

FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED Thank you to whoever turned our phone in to the lost and found at Pig Out in the Park (near the skating ribbon) on Sunday afternoon. It was probably the group of young people who were sitting near us in the shade next to the river. We appreciate your kindness. May the universe shower you with good karma.

STUPID PEOPLE This is for all the people who complain about restaurants taking too long when they’re understaffed. Either apply for a job and help them out or keep your damn mouths shut!!!

ROAD PROJECTS The road project at Dartford Rd in the county was supposed to be done Aug. 15, 2022, which is what the sign said. What a joke. even the detour to Wandmere Rd is not done. What are these people doing? You don’t see anybody out there working. If I didn’t do my job, I would be fired, so why aren’t these people doing the job of finishing the roads? Where are

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HAVE RESPECT If you want to go to a concert, especially in a small venue, have some respect for the performer and those around you. If you’d rather talk loudly with your friends instead of listening to the music, go somewhere far enough away so you’re not disrespectful, especially to the person who’s on stage. It’s also great if you want to bring your kids, but control them. They really aren’t cute to anyone but you. n

FEMALE RESPONSE TO MAN WHO WAVED To the succinct lady making very clear why women recreate outdoors. THANK YOU!!! Most of us worry about unwanted male interactions when we are doing what we’re doing. Women being outside IS NOT AN INVITATION... to anything. I LOVED how you focused on exactly what is going through your mind and body when you (we) work out outside. It’s NOBLE AND HEALTHY AND STRONG and has absolutely nothing to do with passing males. There was something transcendent about your wording. Almost like... women have a whole myriad of reasons for fitness, working out and adventure... just like men. Hmmm! Anyway just wanted to send a huge thanks!!!!

LUBY BAY CAMPGROUND I saw you August 31-September 2 in campsite 2. Actually, I didn’t see hide nor hair of you all day long but I was forced to listen to your tandem generators while you and your friends were away. I moved to another site further up the loop only to camp next to another trailer running tandem generators from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM! If you need your TV, air conditioner, microwave and other luxuries, just stay home and leave nature as is for the rest of us to enjoy! For me, camping in my backyard listening to lawn mowers and barking dogs would have been more enjoyable than camping next to you!

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DEAR PALOUSE ROAD BICYCLIST We have beautiful country roads; I’m happy to see you out for ride. Please follow the rules of the road to keep yourself and others safe. You blew through a stop sign without even looking for oncoming traffic, cutting me off at the bottom of a blind hill where I couldn’t pass you safely. Also please be careful passing cars on the right. Don’t shake your head at me; you know you’re riding like an ***hole and you got called out for it. Be smart and live to go home to your family and ride another day; your Strava time isn’t worth dying or causing an accident for.

TIM AT NORTHSIDE MICHAELS For the past few years I’ve been using the framing service at the northside Michaels. It’s a pleasure to work with Tim in the framing department there. He has an excellent eye for color and design, and I’m always happy with the result. Tim is a true professional, and I hope Michaels knows how much he’s appreciated. He could very easily be working at a more upscale frame shop, but I for one am glad he’s not!

Daniel Walters wrote a very incisive article. I was appalled that such depravity existed in Spokane. Unfortunately, this is only a part of the scrambled eggs others have created in order to sweep the homeless under a giant rug. The East

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SENIOR RESOURCE FAIR This event fea tures local vendors and businesses that provide informational material to seniors. Sep. 19, 10 am-2 pm. Free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. 509-927-1937 (509-688-0300)

COMMUNITY GARDEN TOUR & COOK ING DEMO The tour starts at Shadle Park Presbyterian and ends at Shadle Park Li brary with a cooking demo, refreshments and door prizes. Sep. 17, 9 am-noon. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org (509-444-5300)

PARTY The annual party features food, drinks, a drag show and prizes. Come dressed in red to support those living with HIV/AIDS. Sep. 17, 6-11 pm. $10. nYne, 232 W. Sprague Ave. sannw.org

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ARIES SPEARS The stand-up comedian,

THE MOVING WALL A Vietnam veterans memorial wall with over 58,000 names listed. Sep. 15-19. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. gallantguards.com

PLANTS A celebration of community and ecological restoration along Missouri Flat Creek near downtown Pullman in a land scape transformed by native plants, mu sic and poetry. Sept. 18, 11 am-1 pm. Free. (509-332-9600)

AMERICANS AND THE HOLOCAUST This traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum examines the mo tives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe. Mon-Fri from 3-8 pm and Sat-Sun from 1-5 pm through Oct. 7. Free. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Ave. gonazga.edu (509-328-4220)

LOWER SOUTH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY This 14th annual event features a barbecue, live music from Spare Parts and kid activities. Located on Madison between. 8th and 9th Ave. Sep. 17, 1-5 pm. Free. patricia@pahansen.com

CAMPBELL HOUSE DARK HISTORY TOURS This gossip-filled social call to Campbell House explores historical con nections to misfortune, controversy and persistent rumors. Sep. 15 and Oct. 20, 6-7 pm. $4-$6. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org

The 2022 interstate fair features carnival games, rides, livestock shows, live music and food vendors. Sept. 9-18, times vary. See website for full schedule. $10-$13. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org

INLAND NORTHWEST WALK TO DE FEAT ALS Participants in this year’s 2.5 mile walk can attend an in-person event or a “virtual” Walk in Your Neighbor hood event. Sep. 17, 10 am-12:30 pm. By donation. Mirabeau Point Park, 2426 N. Discovery Place. als.org (425-656-1650)

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am-7 pm. Free. Global Neighborhood Thrift, 919 E. Trent Ave. gnthrift.com

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SPOKANE RIVER CLEAN-UP Join over 600 folks from across the region for the 19th clean-up. This is a self-guided event; join efforts at any time. Place your trash at designated cones for pickup. Sep. 17, 8 am-2 pm. Free. Info at landscouncil.org

TELEPORT BLOCK PARTY Teleport Vin tage + Co. is teaming up with 20+ local vintage clothing, furniture and decor vendors and closing down a block of West Broadway to host a street party and vendor fair with live music, food from Chowderhead and adult beverages inside the shop. Sep. 17, 11 am-7 pm. Free. Teleport Vintage + Co., 917 W. Broadway Ave. instagram.com/p/Ch-e_HMvD3Y/

ODESSA DEUTSCHESFEST This 51st an nual event includes authentic German food, a Biergarten, live music, a parade, street vendors and more. Sept. 15-18, from 7 am-7 pm. Free. Odessa, Hwy 21 and Hwy 28. deutschesfest.net

A LUAU TO DIE FOR The Oceanside Pal ace Hotel of Maui is hosting its nightly luau on Sunset Beach. It’s become ap parent that some guests don’t get along and others are hiding scandalous secrets. Will you make it out alive? Sep. 17, 6-8:30 pm. $57. Coeur d’Alene Fresh, 317 Coeur d’Alene. crimesceneentertainment.com

NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR MURDER VICTIMS The victim/wit ness unit from the Spokane County Pros ecutors Office hosts a vigil to honor the memories of murder victims and recog nize the impact of homicide on surviving family/friends. Sep. 22, 5:30-7 pm. Free. Spokane County Public Works Building, 1100 W. Mallon Ave. (509-477-3640)

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NETWORKING EVENT Connect with other professionals while enjoying views of Spokane from the rooftop of the M building. Enjoy appetizers and adult bev erages. Sep. 15, 5:30-7:30 pm. $15. The M Building, 612 W. Main Ave. spokaneyp.org

COMEDY NIGHT WITH MARTY SIMPSON Marty garnered national recognition after becoming the winner of the 2012 Clean Comedy Challenge. Sep. 17, 5 pm. $20$35. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. merlinscomedyclub.com (208-667-1865)

JESSIMAE PELUSO Peluso is a stand-up comedian and TV personality best known for appearing on MTV’s Girl Code. Sep. 15, 7:30 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509-318-9998)

VINTAGE PRINT + NEON GRAND OPEN ING Chris Bovey’s brick-and-mortar Vintage Print location’s grand opening. Attendees enjoy free ice cream from The Scoop, free burgers from Dick’s and a free t-shirt with $100 purchase (while supplies last). Sep. 16-18, 12-9 pm. Free. Vintage Print + Neon, 914 W. Garland Ave. facebook.com/vintageprint.us

Lutheran Community Servies, YWCA Spokan and MiA Mujeres in Action invite candidates running for office in the legal system to participate in this forum and provide their perspectives and plan to process cases and support sexual assault and domestic violence survivors. Sep. 22, 4:30-6:30 pm. Free. Central Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/candidateforum2022

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NORTHWEST PAGAN FEST The first an nual event includes vendors, dancers, live music, speakers, kids activities, readers and healers. Sep. 17, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Whistalks Way. uuspokane.org

actor and writer from New Jersey was a regular on MADtv. Sep. 16-17, 7:30 & 10:30 pm and Sep. 18, 7:30 pm. $20-$33. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

ALL OF US JOURNEY This mobile ex hibit is traveling across the U.S. to engage communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research. Participants take health surveys and pro vide biosamples to join the program. Sept. 20-23, 10 am-5 pm. Free. WSU Health Sci ences Spokane, 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd. joinallofus.org (844-842-2855)

EYE CONTACT This one-night art event brings together local artists to show case their work while drawing atten tion to the needs of some of Spokane’s most vulnerable residents. Sep. 22, 5 pm. $16.74-$21.99. Historic Washington Cracker Building, 304 W. Pacific Ave. voaspokane.org/eyecontact

LIONEL HAMPTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC FUNDRAISING GALA An evening featur ing a variety of musical performances, from jazz and vocal ensembles to wind and string ensembles, a catered comfort food dinner and a silent auction. Sep. 16, 6-8 pm. $30-$225. Mader Farm, 13506 Hillside Rd. uidaho.edu/lhsomgala

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TRIAL & ERROR An all-improvised par ody of “Trial of the Century.” Sept. 7-28, Wed at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheater.com

GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD THRIFT GRAND RE-OPENING Shop and cele brate Global Neighborhood, which works to create jobs for refugees. The event fea tures discounts, giveaways, raffles, food, a free photo booth and more. Sep. 17, 10

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ong touted by proponents of alternative medicine as a panacea, evidence is starting to mount sup porting the use of cannabidiol (CBD) as a treat ment for specific ailments. The latest condition for which CBD’s effectiveness has been studied is arthritis.

ous alternative therapeutic options available to treat their symptoms of arthritis, especially in light of the increased accessibility to cannabidiol products. The present study, while exploratory in nature, suggests there may be thera peutic benefits to CBD use and highlights the need for research in a field where the science lags behind popular use,” the researchers wrote in the study’s conclusion. “Fu ture research should focus on exploring the benefits of CBD use in this patient population with well-controlled clinicalThattrials.”statement about science lagging behind use is important to note because regulations are lagging behind use as well. Another study also published in the Journal of Cannabis Research earlier this year found that nearly one in two CBD products available nationally claim a CBD content that is more than a 10 percent margin of error from what the product actually contains.

Taken together, the two studies suggest that CBD may be helpful for joint pain, but finding an accurate dos age isn’t as easy as simply reading the label.

CBD may relieve pain, but more study is needed.

Last month, researchers from medical centers in Phoenix and Boston and at Hofstra University in New York published a study in the Journal of Cannabis Research that looked into the perceived impact of CBD on joint pain by people who use it as a treatment. The study found that the majority of those surveyed reported pain relief, increased mobility and improved sleep after use of CBD. A reduction in the use of other treatments, such as over-the-counter medications or prescription opiates, was also reported by a majority of the self-selected partici pants in the online survey.

New study shows perceived effectiveness of CBD for treating joint pain

“Clinicians and patients should be aware of the vari

Fortunately, consumers in Washington who are interested in trying CBD for joint pain have a way to be certain about the content of what they consume. CBD products sold in corner stores and supermarkets are not subject to the same level of regulation as those sold at a licensed cannabis dispensary.

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FILM/TELEVISION INFORMATIONAL SEMINAR An event showcasing oppor tunities in television and film in North east Washington. Reps include acting coaches, talent agencies and unions providing an overview of local film industry and film incentives that have recently targeted rural areas. Sep. 17, 1-4 pm. Free. Chewelah Center for the Arts, 405 N. Third St. chewelahcenter forthearts.com (509-936-9333)

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86TH GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL This annual celebration includes traditional greek food items such as gyros and baklava. Church tours also available. Sep. 22-24, 11 am-8 pm. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Wash ington St. holytrinityspokane.org

ALL ARE WELCOME: NEW WORKS FOR OBOE AND BASSOON Collabora tors, friends and co-hosts of the pod cast “Double Reed Dish” Galit Kaunitz ( University of Southern Mississippi)

NPOV LIONS CLUB RAILRIDERS Enjoy the experience of a four-seated, pedal powered, railroad bicycle along the scenic Pend Oreille River. Rides offered Sept. 17-18, Oct. 1-2 and Oct. 8-9. Times vary, see website for tickets. $12/$24. Ione, Wash. lionsrailriders.com

VOICES, VIBRANCE, VISION Artists Shantell Jackson and Tracy PoindexterCanton have joined creative forces to present new works inspired by Black contemporary novelists and poets. Sept. 8-Oct. 29, daily from 11 am-6 pm. Free. Liberty Building, 402 N. Washing ton. spokanelibertybuilding.com

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HAPPY GIRLS SPOKANE RUN The racecourse weaves through the trails of the Riverside State Park and along the Spokane River. Sep. 17, 8 am. $40-$100. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Ran dolph Rd. happygirlsrun.com/spokane/

FIRST BITE NEW PLAY SERIES A showcase for emerging U of I Master of Fine Arts playwrights, with a free staged reading of new work. Sep. 23, Sep. 24 and Sep. 25. Hartung Theater, 875 Perimeter Dr. uidaho.edu/theatre

FLAT TRACK MOTORCYCLE & QUAD RACING Professionals and amateurs battle it out on the only oval, cushion, dirt flat track in Washington. Sep. 15-17, 6-10 pm. $8-$15. Spokane Speedway @ Spokane County ORV Park, 12402 W. Sprague Avenue. (630-217-9132)

NT LIVE: PRIMA FACE Jodie Comer makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play. Sep. 18, 12-2 pm. $12. The Kenwor thy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

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WEST END OKTOBERFEST An all-day, walk-around Oktoberfest celebration featuring seven local breweries. Ages 21+; however some venues are all ages. Sep. 17 from noon-close. $20. westend beerfest.com (509-279-2982)

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THE WIZARD OF OZ Follow the yel low brick road in the stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved tale. Sept. 16-Oct. 16, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivicthe atre.com (509-325-2507)

ART ACTIVISM! Learn about activism with art throughout history and create your own zines and buttons to promote change you want to see. Sep. 22, 3:305 pm. Free. The Hive, 2904 E. Sprague Ave. spokanelibrary.org

CHELSEA MARTIN: TELL ME I’M AN ARTIST Chelsea Martin and Sharma Shields chat about Martin’s new com ing-of-age novel. Sep. 20, 7 pm. Free. Central Library, 906 W. Main Ave. aun tiesbooks.com (509-838-0206) n

SPOKANE SYMPHONY MASTER WORKS 1: FANTASTIQUE! Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique takes the lis tener on a journey through the mind of a young man chasing unrequited love. Other performances include Beethoven’s “Fifth Piano Concerto” and Jessie Montgomery’s string orchestra work, “Starburst.” Sept. 17-18, Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spokanesymphony.org

GRATITUDE REVEALED A screening of the new Louie Schwartzberg film in honor of World Gratitude Day. Sep. 21, 2:30, 4, 5:30 & 7 pm. $10. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanter nonmain.com (509-209-2383)

HOPE-FULL This second annual fund raising event celebrates and supports Compassionate Addiction Treatment. Includes a photo booth, raffles live music by Matt Mitchell and dinner from Feast World Kitchen. Sep. 18, 5-7 pm. $75. Compassionate Addiction Treat ment, 168 S. Division St. catspokane.org

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THE LOWEDOWN: MASTERWORKS 1: FANTASTIQUE! A free, in-depth look at the music symphony-goers will experi ence during the next Masterworks con cert with Music Director James Lowe. Sep. 15, 12-1 pm. Free. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. spokanesymphony.org

MASKED PRESERVATION: CHAD “LIT TLE COYOTE” YELLOWJOHN Chad “Little Coyote” Yellowjohn comes from Shoshone-Bannock/Spokane ancestral line. Through his art and activism, he shares inspiration and awareness of the issues Indigenous people face today. Mon-Fri from 8:30 am-3:30 pm through Oct. 25. Free. SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, 3410 W. Whistalks Way, Bldg. 6. sfcc. spokane.edu (509-533-3710)

FILM

I48 FILM FESTIVAL A screening of 14 of the best films from the Idaho FortyEight Hour Film Festival and Competi tion. Sep. 17, 7 pm and Sep. 18, 2:30 pm. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191)

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL The 8th festival features screenings of envi ronmental films that celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. Sep. 15, 6 pm. $5-$15. Gonzaga Hem mingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. spokaneriverkeeper.org

LILAC CITY LIVE! Spokane’s version of a late night talk show. This edition fea tures Vern Windham, musical guest The Latrice Experience and author Chelsea Martin. Sep. 15, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Central Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokaneli brary.org (509-444-5300)

MASTERWORKS & MIMOSAS A be hind-the-scenes look at how Master works performances are perfected. Sep. 17, 10 am. $25. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spo kanesymphony.org (509-624-1200)

FOOD

SPOKANE AIDS WALK The Spokane AIDS Network is celebrating National AIDS/HIV and Aging Awareness Day with a walk, water, snacks, swag and more. Sep. 17, 10 am. Free. Spokane Regional Health District, 1101 W. College Ave. sannw.org (509-324-1500)

ADMISSIONS A no-holes-barred look at privilege, power and the perils of hypocrisy. Sept. 16-Oct. 2, Thu-Sat at 7 pm and Sun at 2 pm. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. stagelefttheater.org

MUSIC

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK: GOOD NIGHT DESDEMONA An exuberant comedy and revisioning of Shake speare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet See website for locations. Sept. 15-25, daily at 6:30 pm except for Sat, Sept. 24 at 2 pm. Free. Riverfront Park and Manito Park. spokaneshakespearesociety.org

RELENTLESS WRESTLING 10 Live professional wrestling featuring for mer WWE superstar Carlito, NJPW Star Rocky Romero, Keita, Hometown Hero Chase James, The Devil Himself Drexl, Funnybone and more. Sep. 17, 7 pm. $33.24. Trailbreaker Cider, 2204 N. Madison St. trailbreakercider.com

OKTOBERFEST This two-day bash fea tures live music, 30+ beers and ciders, biergarten locations and kegs scattered throughout downtown businesses. Sep. 16, 4-9 pm and Sep. 17, 12-9 pm. $28$35. Downtown Coeur d’Alene. cdad owntown.com (208-415-0116)

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EAR NEST A classic Oscar Wilde satire about the story of two bachelors who create alter egos to escape their tiresome lives. Sep. 23-24, 7 pm, Sep. 30-Oct. 1, 7 pm. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191)

KATIE CREYTS: TRAPPINGS Creyts’ work features a range of materials, in cluding textiles, graphite on paper and etched glass. Sept. 13-Nov 4, Mon-Thu from 10 am-4pm, Fri from 10 am-2:30 pm. Free. Boswell Corner Gallery at NIC, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu

HAIRSPRAY Broadway’s Tony Awardwinning musical comedy phenomenon Hairspray features 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Sept. 20-25; times vary. $47.50-$95.50. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. broadwayspokane.com

and Jacqueline Wilson (WSU) present a recital of works from their recent com mission consortium. Sep. 16, 7:30-9 pm. Free. Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU), 605 Veterans Way. wsu.edu/music

NO SOUNDTRACK FOR OLD MEN Pumice Pocket, a progressive funk and jazz fusion band from Moscow, per forms a live musical soundtrack to the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men Sep. 15, 7-9 pm. $15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

WORDS

AUTHOR TALKS: CHRIS CRUTCHER: For Banned Books Week, local author Chris Crutcher discusses his experience with having his books banned. Sep. 19, 4-5 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4110 N. Cook St. spokanelibrary.org

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