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nce a Democratic stronghold, in recent decades North Idaho has swung dramatically to the right. But this year feels very, very different. Stuck for years, the pendulum may be swinging in the Democrats’ direction again. Strong and energetic Democratic candidates have stepped forward. In Kootenai County, where I live, Ruben Miranda decided to run for Kootenai County commissioner because the current commissioners voted out the building codes that protect the environment as well as the neighborhood — and therefore the neighbors’ financial investment. A Vietnam veteran, Miranda spent more than three years in the Army Special Forces as a paratrooper, ranger and special training officer. After leaving the service, Miranda enrolled in college on the GI Bill, and, in due course, graduated from Chapman University in Orange, California. Miranda spent 40 years as a software developer, which indicates he’s very sharp, with 30 of those years as chief information officer of a manufacturing company. His record shows that he’s a leader and experienced in working with people. Miranda believes the county should follow environmental codes and management practices that protect our natural resources. As we know, Kootenai County is loaded with natural lakes and open space. There’s lots to protect, and the recent history of county commissioners’ inaction is dismal. Miranda would add brains and commitment to a brighter future for Kootenai County.
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daho is at the bottom of the states in a number of things we all care about — money for schools, colleges and mental health services, to name a couple — but it does have a tip-top bipartisan reapportionment commission that doesn’t dally in gerrymandering. So Idaho’s legislative District 4 is a compact district that includes all of the city of Coeur d’Alene and a couple of adjacent neighborhoods. Rebecca Schroeder is the Democratic candidate for the open race to represent District 4, Seat A, in the Idaho House of Representatives. Schroeder is the strongest candidate for the Legislature that I have observed in years; she excels in persuasive speaking, reasoning, has charm and a very positive attitude. Schroeder’s father worked for the Forest Service, and she grew up in the small town of Kooskia, Idaho, south of Lewiston. She claims she had the best of all worlds — a childhood filled with the great Idaho outdoors and a small town where you had to behave because everyone followed your every move. Schroeder was senior class president in her local high school, as well as valedictorian. She graduated from the University of Idaho with a double major in chemistry and Spanish.
Schroeder’s story hits home. As she describes it, she and her husband Brock were thrown a curve ball when their young son, Brady, was diagnosed at birth with cystic fibrosis, a potentially fatal disease. Schroeder was immediately drawn into volunteering with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. There, she learned advocacy skills in speaking, appealing to Congress and organizing. Fortunately, a breakthrough drug, Ivacaftor, has been very effective in controlling Brady’s symptoms. Schroeder wants to continue working for medical care for everyone who needs it, adding that she wants the Idaho Legislature to correct its lack of willingness to invest in the future — for children, for workers, for everyone.
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ory English, physical therapist and wife of former Kootenai County Clerk, Dan English, has until now been content to sit back and let her husband run for office. No more. English has jumped in with energy and enthusiasm to run for District 4’s State Senate seat. She says she felt compelled to run out of her frustration over the failure of the Idaho Legislature to address the educational, medical and social needs of the people of the state. English maintains that Idahoans are supportive of giving their children and grandchildren a better education, a stronger set of tools, as the young people plunge into the competitive world they face. “Idaho chooses to do nothing, when other states at least do something,” she says. “The state has a chance to leap forward by endorsing the Medicaid expansion Proposition 2.” Shem Hanks is the third in the trio of worthy Democratic candidates in Legislative District 4 races — he’s running for Seat B. Hanks grew up in a modest double-wide trailer in Hayden with parents who valued faith, hard work, honesty, social justice and equal opportunity. A great launch. Hanks worked his way through college waiting tables. He graduated from Eastern Washington University with two degrees in history. Hanks would bring the perspective of waitservers who survive on $3.15 an hour plus tips. He’s very concerned about an economy that seems to be working against young people who are starting out in life. “[I’m] running because we do not have a broken education system,” Hanks writes, “we have a broken Legislature that refuses to fund and value education properly.” Each of these four Democrats is eager to serve the constituents of Kootenai County and the state of Idaho. I encourage you to take a closer look. n
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STEVE FAUST: This affected me personally when it happened, and I certainly did not appreciate it, but Lisa Brown did not create the economic conditions that caused the 2008 recession, and she did not have the option of blowing up the deficit like her federal colleagues. It is ridiculous to blame her for responding to a huge national problem with the limited tools available to her at the state level. If she had proposed to raise taxes, Cathy McMorris Rodgers would be criticizing her for that. And it would have been the wrong thing to do at that time (recession). What was needed was federal spending to stimulate the economy, and CMR and her colleagues fought against that every step of the way. So welcome to the real world. It’s complicated, but you’ll get used to it. KEVIN DUKELOW: Time for tuition free state college and trade schools! Lisa is better than Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who is supporting Trump 100 percent, but it is clear that we need to push her to support progressive policies. If Lisa does not govern as a progressive after she is elected, a progressive like myself may have to challenge her for the seat. n
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lyssa Bodeau’s phone won’t stop buzzing. It’s Tuesday, a day after coming forward to say that former Washington State University quarterback Jason Gesser groped her and tried to kiss her against her will. She leaves her last TV interview and scrolls through her Facebook messages — hundreds of them. “There’s more,” she whispers to her husband. “Oh my gosh, there’s more — there’s another one.” Another woman with her own experience as a victim of sexual assault or harassment. Another woman frustrated that institutions won’t hold her abuser accountable. Another woman wanting to be heard, but searching for her voice. Bodeau, 27, reads each one out loud, feeling the weight of each woman’s experience. All told, out of the hundreds of messages of support she received, around 30 are women who themselves were victims of sexual misconduct, many at WSU. (None were related to Gesser, she says.) “It’s started showing me there’s a bigger picture to this,” she says. Gesser, who was assistant athletic director at WSU, resigned last week in light of the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. For Bodeau, however, it doesn’t end there. She expected a media firestorm. She expected internet commenters to attack her character, for friends and family to defend it. She may have even expected Gesser to resign due to pressure created by her allegations and others. ...continued on next page
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But she didn’t expect the wave of women trusting her with their own stories. “There were just so many girls with their own stories across the nation, and I just felt it, and it was so heavy,” she says. “They’re coming to me with this, and most of them haven’t told anyone yet. And I’m a stranger, and they’re coming to me. “I want to do something, but I don’t know how. I don’t know what.”
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Besides those closest to her, Alyssa Bodeau, née Wold, says she never thought she’d tell anyone about the night she says Gesser groped her and forcibly kissed her. “I thought I’d take this to my grave,” she says. “This was something that was my personal hurt that I would bury deep and take with me.” Bodeau grew up a volleyball star at West Valley High School in Spokane Valley. She went on to play at WSU, where she met Gesser’s wife, a former volleyball player herself. Bodeau took care of Gesser’s children. After Bodeau graduated, Gesser, now 39, asked her to attend a fundraiser in Tumwater. It was after that fundraiser when Gesser allegedly tried to force himself on her. It was similar to other allegations against Gesser that WSU investigated earlier this year. When she read those allegations in the newspaper two weeks ago, she realized she was not alone. Bodeau shared her story on Monday, Sept. 17. A day later, another woman named Lindsey Streets detailed to the Spokesman-Review how, in 2015, she called police after a sexual encounter with Gesser while she worked as a masseuse. Gesser resigned. In his resignation letter, Gesser apologized to WSU President Kirk Schulz, Bill Moos, former athletic director, and Pat Chun, the current athletic director, for his private life creating a distraction for WSU. He then addressed “the young woman that I made feel uncomfortable,” saying, “I truly never meant to cause you harm,” though he did not admit to any allegations.
Bodeau quickly issued a statement saying she was happy Gesser resigned from his position of power at WSU. And having already received messages from dozens of women, she also issued a call to action: “If my story resonates with you, come forward. Bring it to the light so that we all — as a community — can begin the healing process.” That healing process is just beginning for herself, Bodeau says. It would have been easier to be quiet, she says. Making the decision to speak out, she can’t overemphasize, was “not the easy route.” But the overwhelming support of those close to her has helped heal properly, she says. Seeing how many other women this happens to has hit her the hardest. It’s Jason Gesser COURTESY OF WSU one thing to read about something like this in the news, or see it on TV. It’s another thing entirely when women are sharing and trusting you with their story. It was devastating. She thought turning off her phone and unplugging for an entire day would make things feel back to normal, but that only made it harder, she says. It wasn’t even her own pain she was feeling. It was the other women’s pain. Her husband, Stephen Bodeau, has tried to support her. “She’s sad that this is going on and has been going on for so long,” he says. “And these girls are just afraid to come forward.” So far, she’s messaged the women back, thanking them for sharing. She knows if she had to do it all over, she would definitely share her story publicly again. But what about them? What if they don’t have the same kind of support system? “I’m trying to think of how I can help support these girls to find their voice,” she says. And then there’s the bigger picture. What
about the institutions, the power structures that let this go on for so long in the first place? “Institutions have a responsibility to protect their employees, to protect those who are under them from these things happening to these girls,” she says. “From men.”
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For Bodeau, Gesser resigning isn’t enough. Bodeau won’t be satisfied until the dozens of women who messaged her are comfortable sharing their experiences with institutions like WSU. Bodeau says she’s received messages from women who are afraid of filing a complaint at WSU because of the way the university handled the Gesser allegations.
“Seeing how previous allegations were handled sparked fear in them to stay quiet.” Since Bodeau called for other women to come forward, WSU spokesman Phil Weiler says he is not aware of any new complaints of sexual misconduct against any other WSU employee. “Seeing how previous allegations were handled sparked fear in them to stay quiet,” Bodeau says. “Because they may not have felt like they had the support to speak their story.” Bodeau, who says she was never called as part of WSU’s original Gesser investigation, questions whether WSU truly wanted to find out the truth, or if investigators instead were going through the motions in an effort to clear Gesser. She’s troubled by reports that WSU football legend Jack Thompson told WSU employees to “fall in line,” chiding WSU employees who reported rumors about Gesser that made it to President Schulz. And the fallout of that investigation doesn’t sit well with Bodeau. Of those who reported rumors to investigators, many have since left the university for reasons that are unclear. That includes Uri Farkas, director of the Cougar Athletic Fund, and Gil Picciotto, executive associate vice RESOURCES president for the WSU Foundation. Mike Marlow, WSU deputy National Sexual Assault athletic director, accepted another Hotline: 1-800-656-4673. job days after President Schulz was notified of the Gesser allegations. A Lutheran Community Services WSU employee, who the Inlander is 24-hour sexual assault crisis not naming and who reported that line: 509-624-7273. Gesser tried to kiss her, has also since left WSU. Frontier Behavioral Health's And Matt Almond — who 24-hour First Call for Help explicitly told WSU investigators line: 509-838-4428 or toll that he was told to “stay in my line” free at 1-877-678-4428. by Thompson — no longer works at WSU IMG, which contracts with WSU to broadcast games, his wife confirms to the Inlander. Almond’s name was taken off the IMG website a week ago. (None of those named above have responded to messages from the Inlander seeking comment.) When asked for her thoughts about this, Bodeau struggles to find the words. She holds a mug filled with tea. It’s something to do with her hands so they don’t shake during interviews. “So many thoughts,” she says. Her hand clenches the mug handle. She gazes toward her feet, shaking her head, quietly processing her answer. She thinks of the college she loves. She thinks of the messages on her phone. Twenty seconds pass. So many thoughts. So many questions. “How seriously are these allegations really being taken?” she asks. “How many does it take for it to become an issue?” n wilsonc@inlander.com
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COMBATING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT The community is invited to weigh in on how police and other organizations should address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking during a meeting with local agencies on Monday, Oct. 1. As required under grant rules, this specific COMMUNITY PLANNING MEETING only happens once every other year, and allows the community to discuss how to “prioritize the needs and safety of the victim while holding the offenders accountable for their crimes,” according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. It’ll be held from 5:45-7 pm at the Spokane Regional Health District Auditorium, Room 140, 1101 W. College Ave., in Spokane. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Spokane Valley residents no longer have to feel like they’re screaming into the void when it comes to potholes. Now, when they see a pothole, they can take out their phones, open up an app and send a message directly to the city. Spokane Valley launched an app this week called SVEXPRESS. It allows residents to report a street problem — a pothole, a downed road sign, flooding or anything else — on their phones. It automatically is directed to the correct city department, which will see the request and respond appropriately. “This service allows us to partner with our community to keep our city safe and clear,” says City Manager Mark Calhoun in a statement. SVexpress is available on IOS or Android devices or online at spokanevalley.org/311. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
“RISING TUITION” AT BROWN U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ latest attack ad against LISA BROWN accuses her of voting to hike tuition by 80 percent. Brown (above) calls those attacks “ludicrous.” The ad relies on a Tri-City Herald editorial noting that between 2007 and 2013, tuition at Washington State University went up 81 percent. But it’s not like she voted for a single bill that explicitly mandated that. Still, Brown’s claim that she “did not vote to increase tuition” obscures her role during difficult budget fights during the recession. Washington tuition went up faster than most states, as the Washington State Legislature, including Brown, dramatically slashed state funding and then handed universities much more leeway to raise tuition to compensate. We dig into the nitty-gritty details on Inlander.com. (DANIEL WALTERS)
THE HORSE STILL ISN’T A HORSE Back in 2015, we tested out the slew of Idaho’s “historical horse race” machines at the Greyhound Park and Event Center in Post Falls. Despite how they were sold to the Idaho Legislature, the SLOT-STYLE machines had only tenuous connections with betting on historical horse races, relying on a few blurry seconds of horses passing a finish line, played on a screen barely taller than a business card, to meet legal muster. Feeling they’d been duped, the Idaho Legislature banned the machines. But now, voters are being asked to not only legalize the machines again, but to codify in state law that they’re not considered slot machines. Already, the Committee to Save Idaho Horse Racing is running deceptive ads, including one that actually alters the audio of an Idaho newscast. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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READERS BURNED Sandpoint Reader targeted by anonymous right-wing propaganda
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ast Thursday, Ben Olson noticed that every copy of his weekly newspaper, the Sandpoint Reader, was gone from the grocery stores in town. That same day, an anonymous robocall went out to Sandpoint residents calling Olson a “cancer” and accusing him of blackmail and of using the paper to “push his destructive LEFTIST AGENDA on our people.” By Saturday, a video posted to YouTube, and sent to the Reader’s advertisers, showed what Olson assumes are the missing papers set on fire with a similar anonymous message playing. “This is yet another attack on the free press, and it’s an attempt to intimidate and silence our voice,” Olson says. “It’s not working. We’re not afraid of these people who operate in the shadows.” Olson says he cannot definitively say who is behind these messages, but for the past year, the Reader has been following the story of a man named Scott Rhodes, who police have linked to racist propaganda peppered around Sandpoint, including on cars in a high school parking lot. Rhodes has also been linked to about 10,000 robocalls throughout five states, the Spokesman-Review reports, including those targeting U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is referred to as a “traitorous Jew.” Rhodes hosts a video podcast where he advocates for white supremacist takeover of the U.S. An emailed re-
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sponse from an address associated with Rhodes’ podcast does not deny involvement in the robocalls and video targeting Olson and the Reader. “I believe these stories are related,” Olson says. Most recently, the robocalls accuse Olson of blackmailing a local business owner with threats of an unflattering story if the person did not evict Rhodes. Olson assumes that accusation stems from his off-therecord conversation with the person who rents space to Rhodes. “For some reason that somehow equates in this robocaller’s mind to me blackmailing somebody. To say a reporter asking questions is blackmail is ridiculous,” he says. Bonner County Sheriff’s Capt. Tim Hemphill says his office is investigating, although they have no suspect. Since the video was released, Olson says the paper has received about $15,000 in donations and half a dozen new advertising contracts worth about $6,000, Olson says. (MITCH RYALS)
SEEK THEN SPEAK
Survivors of sexual violence in the Spokane area can now easily see all their options, including how to access VICTIM ADVOCATES and, if they choose, how to report what happened to police, through Seek Then Speak, a service offered online at seekthenspeak.org, by phone at 888-865-9863, or via phone app. The site explains common terminology surrounding rape and sexual assault, what the process of reporting and going to the hospital for a rape kit looks like. Then, if victims choose, they can start the process of filing a report with law enforcement. They can also ask for services from a victim advocacy agency like Lutheran Communi-
Spokane has a new tool for victims of sexual assault. ty Services Northwest, which announced the new service in partnership with the Spokane Police Department. “We know these types of crimes are underreported for various reasons,” says Sgt. Glenn Bartlett with SPD’s Special Victims Unit. “If we can make it easier to report earlier, that’s really what we’re looking for.” It will also help victims get access to services such as those offered by Lutheran, Bartlett says, so they can start the healing process and reduce negative impacts from the trauma they experienced. The hope is to make the process of reporting easier for those who are hesitant. “A lot of times people feel isolated, like they’re the only ones and there’s nobody they can talk to,” Bartlett says. “If we can get them past that barrier of at least being able to report it and seek services, that’s good for the community and good for everybody.” While reports that people choose to file through Seek
Then Speak will be reviewed by a detective the next business day, there may be a wait of a day or two before being contacted, Bartlett notes. For immediate assistance with a crime that just happened, 911 is still the best option. Lutheran also operates a 24-hour sexual assault hotline at 624-7273. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
EVERY DOG PARK HAS ITS DAY
The idea to build a new middle school on Spokane’s South Hill to alleviate school overcrowding might seem like a reasonable plan to most. But when the idea was presented to some residents, they reacted with horror. That’s because new middle school right next to Mullan Road Elementary would eliminate the unofficial SOUTH HILL DOG PARK, residents were told this summer. Was nobody thinking of the dogs? But now, the city of Spokane, Spokane Public Schools and an informal “board” for the South Hill dog park have come up with a plan to keep a dog park at the same location. And the school district would still build their new middle school where it wants. “We worked with them to come up with a creative way to have a dog park on the west end of the city’s property,” says Mark Anderson, Spokane Public Schools associate superintendent. In fact, the new dog park would be larger than the current unofficial park, which is maintained by residents. It would include a 0.7-mile walking path. And the plan wouldn’t affect the size of the middle school at all. Of course, this is all contingent on whether or not voters approve a school bond this November. The bond request is for $495 million. It would pay for three new middle schools (including what we’ll call the South Hill Dog Park Middle School for now), modernization or replacements of other schools, and the modernization or replacement of Joe Albi Stadium, wherever voters want the stadium to be. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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NEWS | HOUSING
Falling on Hard Times When people learn they might lose their home, SNAP is ready to try to prevent foreclosure BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL
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ooming foreclosure fell on the Nixdorf family as it does for many: First, William Nixdorf was injured at work, then after a few months out of commission on workers compensation pay, he was fired. So, they pulled money out of his retirement to get a month ahead on their mortgage, and set up twice-monthly payments that would make it easier to pay the bills throughout the month, Autumn Nixdorf says. But later, someone at their mortgage company determined they shouldn’t be allowed to make twice-monthly payments, and to top it off, they wound up a payment behind. Then one time when the couple sent in a check, it was returned in the mail. It wasn’t for the full amount due. Multiple checks afterward were returned uncashed. The mortgage company seemed unwilling to speak to them at all anymore. They received notice that they might lose their home. “I was pregnant at the time,” Autumn Nixdorf says. “I thought we were gonna be homeless with a brand new baby.” But then someone told them SNAP (Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners) doesn’t just offer help with utilities and services for the homeless, the organization also offers financial services, including housing counselors who can help fight foreclosures. After getting paired with housing counselor Dale Raugust, and paying a $300 fee for a mediator, the couple was able to strike a deal with their mortgage company that both lowered their monthly payment and allowed them to start paying again. After a three-month trial period where they had to make each payment on time, the deal was sealed, and the couple has been able to remain in their home, south of Hillyard in northeast Spokane. “We were ready to give up and just walk away, but I’m so glad that we didn’t,” Autumn Nixdorf says. Every month, several Spokane County homeowners are given notices of default letting them know if they don’t pay up soon, their home will be foreclosed on, and dozens of others are told their homes are going to be auctioned off, essentially their final warning in the foreclosure process. While 31 Spokane County homes so far this year have received notices of default, 265 have been given notices of sale, according to data compiled by ATTOM Data Solutions, which maintains a database of property information nationwide. The sooner a property can get into mediation during the process, the better, but even after a homeowner is told their house will be auctioned, there is still a short window of time in which a housing counselor or lawyer can request mediation for them. That’s where the team of housing counselors at SNAP can help. And while there are fees for the mediator, SNAP’s services come free.
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FROM RIGHT: William and Autumn Nixdorf, with daughters Avalynn (1) and Haley (17) in front of the home they saved from foreclosure. The organization helped with 94 foreclosure mediations in 2017, and nearly 300 between 2015 and 2017, the only years that complete tracking data is available. That’s translated to hundreds of people whose lives were not upended and who didn’t wind up homeless. “We genuinely care about people and our clients,” housing counselor Raugust says. “We want to see them succeed.”
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august has been with SNAP since 2011, and in that time, he’s seen many stories “of survival, betrayal, redemption and renewal.” At any given time, he’s carrying about 100 cases, closing out about 15 a month and getting about 15 new ones. The year he started at SNAP, the Washington State Legislature had passed the Foreclosure Fairness Act, ensuring everyone the opportunity to try to avoid foreclosure whenever possible by funding housing counselors like Raugust with fees the financial institutions have to pay whenever they record a notice of trustee sale. While there were more counselors after the act first started, when those fees were collected with the earlier step of the notice of default, Raugust says HELP he and his fellow Anyone facing foreclosure in counselors at SNAP Washington state can contact a are now four of only free housing counselor any time 24 such counselors via the home hotline: 1-877throughout the state, 894-HOME(4663). To contact and the only ones a SNAP housing counselor, call in Eastern Washing456-SNAP(7627). ton who work on mediations. That means Raugust sees clients from Yakima, the Tri-Cities, Wenatchee, Colville and more. “I’m just as busy as I was in 2011 or 2012, and I think maybe we’re just getting the word out better,” he says, because “if you look at the statistics statewide, the number of foreclosures is way down.” Most of the people Raugust sees are facing foreclosure after losing their job, having unexpected medical costs or health issues, or having another unexpected life change. For Roger Casselberry, it was losing his job as a surgical technician, then going through a separation and subsequent depression that led him to fall behind. After Child Protective Services placed his kids with him, he knew he needed to get things figured out.
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“First, when you go through the pressure, it’s like, ‘I don’t care,’” Casselberry says. “Then you start coming to your senses and realize: I’ve gotta start fighting. That was a huge thing when the kids were dropped off here.” He heard about SNAP and got financial counseling, with help figuring out his budget. Through mediation, he was able to restart payments on his mortgage and stay in his Hillyard home. Everything hit about three-and-a-half years ago, Casselberry says, and now, it’s all looking much better. He’s got a new job he loves, and his payment plan, while slightly more expensive, is manageable. “I’m enjoying life right now, it’s kinda fun,” he says. “I’m glad the program’s out there, because once in a while you do need some help to help you stay on your feet.” Not every story is a success, though, Raugust says. Some people have gambling issues. Others won’t get a deal worked out with their bank for various reasons. One woman he tried to help was a registered nurse who’d been making $60,000 a year, and had raised three children. Then she was attacked one night on her way home from a party when a man beat and raped her. By the time Raugust met her, she was several months behind on her mortgage and collecting aluminum cans for money. “She was mentally impaired by her attack and despite my efforts to get her help in the form of counseling and medical/psychiatric treatment she never responded and never followed through with appointments,” Raugust writes in an email. “Eventually her house was repossessed and she ended up on the streets. It has been three years since all of this happened and I think about her often and wonder whatever became of her.” Even though he sometimes faces great sadness, Raugust says working at SNAP has been one of the greatest blessings of his life. And his clients feel the same way. Jon Hook says when he and his wife were facing foreclosure on their Airway Heights home after he had emergency gallbladder surgery and lost several days of work at his commission-based job — “no work, no money” — SNAP was not only available to help, but actually felt welcoming. “When you go into the SNAP office, it’s not, ‘Oh God, here’s another one,’” Hook says. “It’s like, ‘Hey! Happy to see ya! We’re here to help.’” n samanthaw@inlander.com
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IT'S JULIA! ative n e n a k o p S , t h g li t o p s the After a decade out of eeney returns to Hollywood and SNL alum Julia Sw
BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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ulia Sweeney has cracked nearly a dozen eggs before she’s satisfied with the scene. They’ve become props in an audition she’s filming in the kitchenette of her mother’s Spokane apartment. It’s the first role in a major production that she’s tried out for in… well, she’s not really sure. Ten years? Maybe longer. A day earlier, Sweeney had been hesitant to even mention the audition to me, let alone invite me to watch. She’s nervous, which is surprising when you consider she was once on Saturday Night Live, which has one of the most famously cutthroat audition processes in all of show biz. She brought it up in passing but quickly changed the subject, because there was just no way she’d ever land such a great role on a show as high-profile as this, and what if she blabs about it to every journalist in town and then doesn’t even get the gig? But now I’m sitting at her mom Jeri’s dining room table on a Friday afternoon in early July, as she runs through a short scene — some of which she’s written herself — in front of a camera, and it Julia Sweeney at the Fox seems pretty damn effortless. Theater, where she’ll perform In the scene, Sweeney is her show Older & Wider. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO playing your standard sitcom mother — well-meaning but overbearing, protective but suffocating. Observations tumble out of her mouth that are no doubt meant to salve emotional insecurities, but land instead with all the delicacy of a knife in the gut. The character is concerned about her 30-something daughter’s weight. She offers dubious dieting tips (“almonds are the cheeseburgers of nuts”) as she prepares dinner, while her husband, sick with cancer, vomits in the next room. It’s a dark, lacerating playlet. It’s also really funny. The show Sweeney’s trying out for is called Shrill, and one of its producers is Lorne Michaels, who gave Sweeney her big break on SNL back in 1990. The Hulu series, premiering in March, is inspired by former Stranger writer Lindy West’s memoir and will star SNL cast mem-
ber Aidy Bryant as an alt-weekly journalist living in the Pacific Northwest dealing with her Dan Savage-like editor (to be played by Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell) and, of course, her eccentric mother. This is Sweeney’s second callback for the show. During her last audition, the producers told her she was a bit too nice. Could she play it meaner? But she doesn’t want to be too mean, either. It’s a delicate balance. Sweeney goes through the scene three times, and each go-around is slightly different from the last. She modulates the intensity of certain lines. She puts emphasis on different words. Even when she trips over a piece of dialogue, she charges through with the determination of someone who’s fought in the trenches of improv. And now watching the footage back, that earlier trepidation has melted away. “I feel a lot better about this,” Sweeney says. “I think I might have a shot.” She then looks down at a bowl full of yolks and deadpans to her mother, who has emerged from the bedroom: “I guess we’re having eggs for dinner.” weeney says the thread running through her entire career has been her own lack of self-awareness. “I’m just f---in’ oblivious,” Sweeney tells me. “Some people have conspiracy theories or they’re paranoid about stuff. I’m the opposite. I should be more paranoid. I assume everyone has the best intentions.” As an example, she says she didn’t realize comedy was a viable career option “until way too late.” Born and raised in Spokane, Sweeney remembers being exposed to comedy of the ’50s and ’60s — Bob and Ray’s radio routines, the cartoons of James Thurber, the monologues of Brendan Behan — by her father. “But no one ever said, ‘You should go into show business as a funny person,’” she says. After graduating from the University of Washington, where she double majored in economics and European history, Sweeney moved to L.A. and started work as an accountant. It was a job she excelled at. She also hated it. “It was weird to be good at something I didn’t enjoy,” Sweeney says. “I sort of had a midlife crisis at 25. I was
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always crying on my way to work.” And then she spotted an ad for the Groundlings, the legendary improv and sketch comedy troupe that has a litany of famous performers amongst its alumni — Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Paul Reubens, Maya Rudolph, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Kudrow, Phil Hartman (who was one of Sweeney’s improv teachers) and Craig T. Nelson (also a Spokane native). “They were teaching acting to nonprofessionals, and that was the important part of it,” Sweeney recalls. “If they had said, ‘actors learn improv,’ I never would have responded to it. In college, I took one acting class, and we all had to pretend to be an orange that day. And I left the class, like, ‘That’s not for me.’ “Then I took a class at the Groundlings, and it changed my entire life.” As she worked her way up to the main company of the Groundlings, Sweeney eventually quit her suffocating office job, going on and off unemployment as she scraped by as a performer. That’s where she was spotted by an SNL talent scout, and would eventually join the cast in ’90 alongside Hartman (“He was like an older brother,” Sweeney says), Mike Myers, Chris Farley (“[He] was so crazy, but I loved him”), Chris Rock, Dana Carvey and David Spade (“He once wrote a sketch for me, and it was so lovely of him”). “In some ways, now I’m more amazed I was on SNL than when I was on SNL,” Sweeney says. “You got the feeling you were at the center of the universe, of the media and the zeitgeist. I’m amazed now how much I was part of popular culture.” On just her third episode, Sweeney debuted what would become (for better or worse) her best-known creation, a broad-shouldered, curly-haired and decidedly androgynous office drone named Pat. It was a bit from her Groundlings days, and it birthed what every SNL performer hopes for but doesn’t often get: a hugely popular recurring character. Pat was an amalgam of several people, both men and women, that Sweeney knew, but was primarily modeled after an annoying male co-worker in her office. She says ...continued on next page
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Spokane Preservation Advocate’s 19th Annual
STAGE
Corbin Park Historic District 2 blks north of Washington & Buckeye
4 Homes facing Corbin Park
Sun, Sept. 30
Noon to 4:00pm Tickets $20 available at the tour cash, check, or online www.SpokanePreservation.org
More info: (509)456-3828 No spiked heels, photos, backpacks, strollers, food/drink or pets allowed in homes.
Music Director FINALIST
MORIHIKO NAKAHARA CONDUCTOR Elizabeth Pitcairn, owner of the legendary 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius from the film The Red Violin.
Oct 6 8 PM Oct 7 3 PM Tan Dun - Symphonic Poem of 3 Notes (2011) John Corigliano - Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra (1997) from the film, The Red Violin. Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
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Julia Sweeney as Pat alongside Harvey Keitel in a 1993 Saturday Night Live sketch.
“IT’S JULIA,” CONTINUED... she first tried to play Pat as a man, but because she came across as androgynous in drag, that became the character’s defining attribute. The formula for the Pat sketches is pretty simple: Pat’s acquaintances desperately try to determine Pat’s gender, asking questions that should ostensibly clear up the mystery but only further muddy the waters. (Example: “If you were a baby, what color would your Pampers be — pink or blue?” “Diapers were all white back then!”) Like the Blues Brothers and Wayne and Garth before, there was eventually a Pat feature film in 1994, the same year Sweeney left SNL. To call It’s Pat: The Movie a failure would be granting it a kindness: It was pulled from theaters after a single week, it still holds a 0 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for multiple Golden Raspberry Awards (it lost them all to Showgirls). It was the final nail in Pat’s coffin. Sweeney left SNL before her five-year contract had expired. She deliberately didn’t have any other projects lined up, an act of silent protest that she now realizes was foolish, like breaking up with someone and, in defiance, leaving all your stuff at their place. “I remember thinking, ‘I would rather scrub toilets with a toothbrush than be on this show one more week,’” she says. “And I wanted people to know that’s how I felt. And I made it so that the only job I could get was scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush.” That era of SNL is known to have been a rowdy boy’s club, as cast members like Adam Sandler, Spade, Farley and Rob Schneider pushed their way to the front of the pack. If Sweeney and her female co-stars — including Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell and Sarah Silverman — ever got a role in their sketches, it was as a girlfriend or an irritating sister or a bitchy co-worker. “There wasn’t any place for me in that comedic universe,” Sweeney says. “They weren’t writ-
ing anything for women, and if they were, they were playing it themselves in ways I found sort of ghastly. Looking back — again, the obliviousness factor — knowing what kind of careers and opportunities they got versus what the women got … there’s really no way I could have been good enough to break through that. I remember having a very dark time, of listening nonstop to the Pogues, smoking like crazy, a lot of crying, and then just deciding I wanted to leave. “I always felt like I could just move to a small town and forget I was ever on SNL. And then I did do that.” ollowing SNL, Sweeney mostly stuck to smaller roles, making one-off appearances on shows like Frasier, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Sex and the City. Ten years ago, she left Hollywood entirely, moving her family to Wilmette, a suburb north of Chicago. Save for the occasional voiceover gig, she’s mostly stayed out of the limelight.
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Now she’s in the process of moving to Los Angeles, and taking on acting as a full-time gig again. But in the interim, Sweeney found her way back to the stage, performing a series of wellreceived comic monologues that exist somewhere between traditional stand-up and one-woman show. Her first, God Said Ha!, detailed her own cancer diagnosis in the wake of her movie’s failure and her late brother Michael’s battle with lymphoma. It had a stint on Broadway, and a filmed version of the show was produced by Sweeney’s friend Quentin Tarantino (she had a small role in
Pulp Fiction). Then came In the Family Way, about the dissolution of her first marriage and adopting her daughter Mulan from China, followed by Letting Go of God, in which she discussed her decision to abandon Catholicism. Sweeney’s latest show is titled Older & Wider, which she’s bringing to her hometown this weekend. It deals with the challenges of aging, yes, but also with raising a teenager and coming to terms with the fact that maybe she isn’t famous anymore. And she dredges up the spirit of Pat, the character she can’t escape, and grapples with the cultural implications of her own creation. “The truth is I’ll probably never do something that would wipe out Pat,” Sweeney says. “I mean, who knows? But it’s unlikely. It doesn’t bother me, though.” ainstream culture’s attitudes toward gender identity still have a long way to go, but surely they’ve progressed beyond those of the Stone Age that was 1991. I go back and watch some of those original Pat sketches online, just to see how tone-deaf they seem by 2018 standards. In one of them, Pat visits a drug store. The woman behind the counter, played by host Catherine O’Hara, is flummoxed by her androgynous customer’s requests for razors — Pat goes for the blue ones, because they’re cheaper — and condoms. “Contraception is the responsibility of both partners!” Pat explains enthusiastically. In another, a barber (host George Wendt) cuts Pat’s hair then asks if he should charge for the $15 men’s cut or the $17.50 women’s cut. Pat simply hands him a $20 and tells him to keep the change. Those are mostly innocuNathan Weinbender is the ous, although one in which Pat Inlander’s Music & Film applies for a gym membership editor. He is also a film critic and is manhandled by the trainers for Spokane Public Radio, inspires not comedy but sadness where he has co-hosted the and discomfort. weekly film review show When seen through a contemMovies 101 since 2011. porary lens, Pat is hardly the most sensitive portrayal of androgyny that’s ever been. Sweeney acknowledges that. The character has faced plenty of criticism; just recently, Jill Soloway, creator of the series Transparent, called Pat “an awful piece of anti-trans propaganda.” Sweeney told the Wrap website that she never thought of Pat as trans, but that she didn’t exactly disagree with Soloway’s criticisms. But here’s the thing: Pat isn’t the butt of the joke. Pat is happy and content. Pat has a healthy sex life. The sketches acknowledge that Pat doesn’t owe anybody an explanation of their gender. (Whether or not the SNL audience picked up on that is another story.) They’re also ahead of their time in skewering the ridiculous and unnecessary gendering of everything from disposable razors to public bathrooms. “Pat is a threat to the patriarchy,” Sweeney says. “You can’t immediately put this person in a category where they fit into the patriarchy. … The moment Pat’s not funny at all is the moment we’ve evolved as a culture. The goal of Pat is to not be funny. Pat’s just a person, and it’s not a big deal to anybody if you don’t know [Pat’s gender].” Sweeney says she’s met transgender and intersex people over the years who have told her that seeing Pat on TV actually made them realize they didn’t fit into a binary box. But that’s not to suggest that Pat is some kind of unimpeachable pop culture icon. “It’s not like I want to say, ‘Don’t disparage Pat.’ No, disparage Pat!” Sweeney says. “Disparage that whole idea, because that’s what I thought Pat was doing. … Because I did Pat, I met a lot of intersex people, I’ve read books and I’ve kept up on it, and now I have fairly radical views about things. Pat taught me to pay attention to things I wouldn’t normally pay attention to.” ...continued on next page
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STAGE “IT’S JULIA,” CONTINUED... wo weeks after my first meeting with Sweeney, a breathless, punctuation-heavy email shows up in my inbox. It’s about her audition. “My manager called and said that the Scheduling Department had called and wanted me to know I was expected to be at a read-through of the script with the whole cast,” she writes. “AGH! So I said, ‘So I have the part?????????’ And they said, ‘Well..... kinda sorta. Probably. I mean, I wouldn’t make an announcement.’ AGH!!!!!!” And then it was official a couple weeks later: Sweeney had the role. She’d be returning to live-action television for the first time in more than a decade. Carol, her character on Shrill, is a homemaker and caretaker for her ailing Julia Sweeney: Older husband. (As of press time, & Wider • Fri, Sept. the actor playing Sweeney’s 28 at 8 pm • $33-$45 TV husband hasn’t been • Martin Woldson announced, but he’s another Theater at the Fox • well-known Hollywood vet1001 W. Sprague • eran you might not have seen foxtheaterspokane.org in awhile.) She makes every• 624-1200 one’s business about herself, sure, but she’s not cynical about it, and she’s certainly not foolish. “I’ll defend my character,” Sweeney says a couple weeks after filming has wrapped. “I think she reasonably tries to insert herself into people’s lives, but not everyone appreciates that. When I was auditioning, I was much crazier and meaner than I am in the actual show. It’s still
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Julia Sweeney discusses her career at Rocket Bakery in July. annoying, but it’s definitely in the realm of what I would do myself, or what any of my friends would do, for their daughter if they were worried about her weight or her health.” Sweeney has been flying back and forth from L.A. to Portland, where the show is being filmed. In the middle of all this, she and her husband Michael are trying to sell their house in Chicago, where Michael still lives. A few weeks ago, they drove Mulan to Ohio State University, where she’s a student. And just like that, after all those years of quiet suburban existence, Sweeney is suddenly back in the thick
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of it. She says she had forgotten what it was like to be on a bustling Hollywood set, what the electricity of being in front of a camera felt like, how a cast can develop an instant and indelible camaraderie. “It reminded me of all these wonderful things about acting, having these intense experiences with people and then moving on,” Sweeney says. “I forgot the thrill of this big, concentrated effort with so many people. It’s completely all-consuming. … And I love it. I’m sure if I work a lot, I’ll get sick of it, but for right now, it’s a dream. “I’m so ready to take Hollywood by storm as the nosy mother.” n
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Miller Cane, who’s been making his living conning the survivors of mass shootings, is driving toward Washington state when he receives a garbled call from the Skagit County Jail. It’s Lizzie. She’s in trouble for shooting her estranged husband, Connor, who apparently escaped with minimal injuries. Lizzie asks Miller to pick up Carleen, her 8-year-old daughter, and keep her safe while Lizzie sorts out her legal mess. Miller plans to call Campbell, Lizzie’s lawyer, for more details.
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iller called the lawyer, sketched out what little he knew of Lizzie’s story. Campbell told him there’d be multiple factors in determining how long she’d be locked up. So much would depend on what the witness across the street saw. Campbell said he’d see Lizzie in the morning, and if she had a message for Miller, he’d call. He knew how bad the jail’s phones were — part of the punishment, he said, before conviction. Miller transferred Campbell his fee, thirty-five thousand, all of which he’d keep whether the job took a week or seventy-five years. It would certainly be more than a week, Campbell said, and hopefully less than a year. The timing was vague, which was fine, except that Miller wasn’t about to take an eight-year-old out on the massacre circuit, which meant money might become an issue. Which meant bail would have to wait, at least for a while. Carleen had means of her own now, true, but Miller wasn’t sure how that worked exactly. And it’s
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not like he was close to broke. He had plenty, enough to carry his mom and him and Carleen for at least six months. Would Lizzie be out by then? Probably. Maybe. She was a nice lady. And Connor was an idiot. Everyone — even the pinch-faced prosecutor — would realize soon enough that he’d deserved to be shot. Miller wondered where Connor was, where Carleen was right this second. No one was better suited than he was to care for her while her mom was away, to teach her and take care of her and hide her. Not that he’d ever raised a child, or wanted to particularly. But he did love her. That was the thing. And she loved him. Lizzie had told him the idiot wasn’t hurt bad, but did that mean he was on the loose, looking for Carleen? Or was he in the hospital or jail or dead of a heart attack or a car accident or from forgetting how to feed himself? Miller had never met him, but he knew the story — how Connor had left when Carleen was one, sending postcards and presents occasionally, but only showing his face once, when he was back in the Bay Area to visit his grandfather. Lizzie had been blindsided by his leaving. He was supposed to be going to Morocco for a week with his buddy Dominick — that’s what he told her — to embark on some ridiculous Paul Bowles hash pilgrimage, but he called from Athens six days in, extending the trip, and then from Rome a week after that. “What are you doing?” Lizzie asked when he called from Malaga, almost a month later. They had a kid, for Christ’s sake. “I’ll send money,” he said. “Money?” “I’m figuring some stuff out,” he said. “What kind of stuff?” “No,” he said. “It’s good.” “What about your job?” she said. The company he worked for was dying, she knew,
a dot com pet grooming service she wasn’t entirely clear on. But still. People needed to show up to their jobs. Even if they didn’t need jobs. “It doesn’t matter,” Connor said. “This time apart will be good for us — I promise. Just another week or so.” She believed him. That’s what made her feel stupid later. They had problems, sure — everyone did — but on the whole, they’d been more happy than not. For weeks and weeks, then months and months, she tried to give him space to grow, even though he was thirty-six and already grown. He couldn’t be tied down anymore, he wrote from Istanbul, to one idea or belief system, to one person or place. He’d be back, he said, once he figured himself out. But he didn’t come back, and Lizzie’s longing turned to hurt and anger and resentment, and after several years, she buried him. What else was she supposed to do? She had Carleen to raise and she wasn’t going to be miserable and she wasn’t going to be a victim, even though Connor was an idiot. They had no custody agreement because they’d never divorced, something she regretted now. Miller had encouraged her over the years to nail down custody, but Lizzie didn’t think Connor would ever come home. He was too careless, too immature, too committed to his own pleasure. When she moved from the Bay Area back to Washington, to Mount Vernon, he didn’t even notice. Not that she bothered telling him. If he wasn’t in Aspen, he was in Provincetown. If he wasn’t on Kauai, he was on Grand Cayman. If he wasn’t in Vietnam, he was in India — backpacking, mountain climbing, snorkeling, experiencing the world, writing, painting, sculpting, living, sending postcards, and it wasn’t his fault if Lizzie wouldn’t join him out in the world, which he finally asked her to do years after he left, when it was too late. ...continued on next page
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MILLER CANE: A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY Chapter 1, Part 4 continued... He couldn’t be bothered with Carleen until he got cut off by his grandfather a few weeks before the Rosedale massacre, the old man more or less saying he’d be sending Connor’s allowance to Carleen from now on, money Connor viewed as rightfully his, since he’d been living off it for twenty-five years. But it was much worse than losing his allowance. He’d also be cut off from the big pile of money that had been feeding the little piles all these years. It probably never occurred to him that Carleen would jump her spot in line to take his place as the legal heir to the family fortune. It certainly never occurred to Lizzie. Connor’s grandfather died on Memorial Day, triggering Carleen’s first allowance installment, which would come once the will was out of probate — five thousand a month — as explained to Lizzie in a phone call from the old man’s attorney. “Of course he wanted to tell you himself,” the attorney said. “Who did?” Lizzie said on the phone. This was the first she’d heard anything about money or an inheritance or anything coming from Connor’s family. “Mister Callahan,” the attorney said. She hardly even knew the man, hadn’t seen him since they’d left California, though she sent a Christmas card every year with pictures of Carleen. “Five thousand a month?” Lizzie said. This was before Connor knocked on her door, before she understood that he considered the money his and stolen. “That’s right,” the lawyer said. But that wasn’t the half of it. Because when Carleen turned twenty-six, the five
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THE STORY
A fraudulent historian who makes his living conning the survivors of mass shootings returns home to save the young daughter of the woman he loves, taking her with him on his roadshow across the worn-out heart of America, staying one step ahead of what’s after them.
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Miller Cane: A fraudulent historian, who’s been making his living conning and comforting the survivors of mass shootings.
Lizzie James: An artisan jewelry maker, and a baker at the Mount Vernon co-op, currently in Skagit County jail for shooting her estranged husband, Connor.
Carleen Callahan: The 8-year old daughter of Lizzie James and Connor Callahan. Has no idea she’s recently become an heiress or that her mother has shot her father.
Connor Callahan: Son and grandson and great grandson of money, which somehow skipped him, going to his daughter instead, who he hasn’t seen since she was a baby.
thousand a month would become fifty thousand a month. That wasn’t possible. Was it? And that wasn’t all either. Because when Carleen turned thirty-five there’d be more money to manage, a lot more, more than they could ever imagine, all of it hers. Carleen’s. “How much more?” Lizzie said. She felt this tingling in her chest, in her fingers and toes. They hadn’t been poor before, exactly. Lizzie worked as a baker at the co-op in Mount Vernon and made clothes and jewelry she sold to boutiques in Edison, Friday Harbor, and Bellingham, with more shops expressing interest all the time. But they sure as hell weren’t rich. And now, at eight years old, Carleen was an heiress? That was the word, right? A female heir to a fortune? An heiress. Her. Carleen. And Lizzie would be the mother to an heiress, which made her some kind of duchess or something. A baroness. A baronet. Whichever. Somehow, they’d become American royalty. It was hilarious, right? Yes it was, Miller said when she called him in Cumberland to tell him about it. It was hilarious, she said, and ridiculous, fantastic.
Money could actually fill you with joy — Lizzie would never have believed that — but it could actually make you giddy, only momentarily maybe, but still. And it was horrible. All that money, more than anyone could ever deserve, all of it stolen in one way or another, tied to all kinds of 19th century exploitation, timber and mining and railroads and god knew what else. Slavery for all she knew. No, not that. If it was that, she couldn’t — But it was so amazing, these gobs of money coming at her, well not her, Carleen, not that Carleen knew anything about it, and Lizzie planned on keeping it that way. No little girl should know she’s an heiress. That could only hurt a child. “So walk away,” Miller said. “What?” Lizzie said. “Don’t take the money,” Miller said, and Lizzie said, “Really?” “No!” Miller said, “How else are you supposed to become a duchess?” “A countess,” Lizzie said, “but for her, mainly,” and Miller said, “Exactly.” n
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Total Eclipse of the Arts? As Terrain has gone from a scrappy arts collective to a “cultural juggernaut,” what does that mean for the broader arts community? BY DANIEL WALTERS
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hen Spokane invested nearly a half million dollars to sell the city to the west side of Washington, it touted one local arts group in
particular. “As Terrain has grown from a one-off art party to a cultural juggernaut with a permanent art gallery, performing art space, and year-round programming, the organization has focused on responding to community needs by building connections,” the article on the city’s #HackingWashington website explains. Indeed, the article itself is evidence of the deep connections Terrain has built over the past decade. The marketing firm behind it, Treatment, is owned by Luke Baumgarten, one of Terrain’s co-founders. He edited the particular article that relies heavily on quotes from himself and his wife, Ginger Ewing, Terrain’s executive director, and it features a photo of them.
Terrain’s biggest event draws thousands to check out local art every fall. It’s no small thing that Terrain — once a tiny group of 20-somethings putting on giant parties in vacant warehouses — now has a hand in shaping the city’s own story. And while Terrain doesn’t necessarily have the largest staff or the biggest budget of local arts groups, it may have become the most influential. As when anything gets big, people don’t always appreciate the shadows it casts. “When we grow to the size we are, there’s always going to be criticism,” Ewing says, adding that she encourages people with complaints about Terrain’s role to meet with her personally. The vast majority of the artists and organizers the Inlander spoke with had effusive praise for what Terrain has accomplished — believing that Terrain’s rising tide has lifted all the other boats in the arts community — but others expressed wariness about talking fully, concerned there would be backlash if they criticized such a popular and powerful local nonprofit. At times, the criticism has come from inside the organization. Former board members like Brian Estes and Diego Sanchez both critique Terrain for what they see as missed opportunities to shine the spotlight on other artists. In particular, Sanchez argues, the organization should be faceless, focused not on Baumgarten or Ewing,
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but on the artists. Where are the young artists, he asks, chomping at the bit to get involved with Terrain? “If Luke or Ginger leaves, what is Terrain?” Sanchez says. “That’s how it’s set up now. It’s their organization, not an organization of artists.” To be sure, as Terrain moves into its second decade, it faces a particular challenge: How do you increase the size of your footprint without stepping on toes? When your mantra is “We All Build This,” how do you build up the whole arts community while growing yourself?
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From early on, Terrain was helped out through its city connections. When the group failed to get its special occasion permit in on time, Mayor Mary Verner’s office wrote a “letter of no objection” to speed up the process. Mayor David Condon’s administration created new policies to allow Terrain to have an outdoor beer garden for its “Bazaar” arts marketplace in 2014. And when fire marshals cracked down on the capacity of the big Terrain event at the Music City Building one year, Council President Ben Stuckart and Washington state Sen. Andy Billig volunteered to stand outside ...continued on next page
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limited funds to go around.” In one case, Howard says, she declined a request for assistance from another similar arts organization because she was simultaneously working on a similar grant proposal for Terrain. “I encouraged the two organizations to explore collaboration,” Howard says. In fact, one major victory for the arts community came when Stuckart, Terrain and Becker teamed up to push for a single goal: The creation of the city-funded
“I think some of the arts community relies too much on Terrain to provide it all for them.”
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Spokane Arts Grant Awards in 2016, to be distributed by Spokane Arts. Yes, Terrain walked away with one of Spokane Arts’ first funding grants last year. But dozens of other arts projects, across wide disciplines, have also been funded since. It’s alleviated some of the tension: Everyone’s still competing for slices of the pie — but the pie is now bigger.
REJECTIONS
Local painter Audreana Camm didn’t get accepted into this year’s Terrain event on Oct. 4-5. Well, at least her art didn’t. And there were plenty of insults added to the injury: A photographer took some pictures of her — and those are getting into Terrain. Not only that, but Camm and several other rejected artists said they received multiple rounds of rejection emails. All these years, she says, and she’s only been in Terrain once. And that piece — “a weird piece about bread clips” — wasn’t even her art style. She even considered a bit of a guerilla protest with some of her artist friends. They’d bring their art to Terrain anyway — wear it, strap it to their bodies, and simply walk around the show like they’re supposed to be there. For some artists, like former Gonzaga lecturer Austin Stiegemeier, getting a slate of pieces into Terrain represented their big break. But for those denied, it’s more like heartbreak. There are common complaints shared by those rejected from Terrain. It’s biased. It’s elitist. It’s all about who you know. It’s a “cool kids club.” It’s a clique. Some of those frustrations may be based on misconceptions of how the jury works. Early on, Terrain co-founder Patrick Kendrick says, Terrain handed off its art selection process to an independent jury, realizing they were too embedded in the community to decide on it themselves. “We know too many artists,” Kendrick says. So Terrain handed off its art selection process to an independent jury. That
jury changes over every year, with an eye toward diversity of all sorts, including age, artistic mediums and cultural backgrounds. “We don’t want to have an ‘aesthetic,’” Baumgarten says. Still, as Terrain has gone from 70 submissions to over 2,000, a lot of pieces are going to get rejected. Even with the changes to the jurying process, Kendrick says he continued to hear the complaints about “elitist-ass Terrain” not appreciating the work of some local artists. “Part of me was like: ‘Do your own thing,’” Kendrick says. Some artists have. Local artist LauraLee White says she and a buddy started their own art and music collective, “La Resistance,” when they kept getting denied from Terrain. “We felt it was local politics or something,” White says. “It’s not like we were egotistical, but our art isn’t crap.” Other entities, like the grassroots curating group Art Seed, have risen up as a kind of alternative to Terrain as well. But to Kendrick, that’s a victory. His vision for Terrain wasn’t about a single organization growing massive — he had originally hoped it would “just be this cool underground anonymous entity” — but about inspiring a wave of similar events across the community. One repeated refrain by members of the local arts scene isn’t that they want Terrain to do more or do less, it’s that they want to see other arts organizations rise up, too. “I think some of the arts community relies too much on Terrain to provide it all for them,” says Hyde, the Eastern Washington University professor. It’s why Terrain focuses so much on partnerships with organizations like the interactive-art residency program Laboratory, which excels in areas Terrain isn’t currently in. That’s some of the thinking behind Terrain’s Creative Enterprise program: Essentially, it’s an artistic LETTERS bootcamp, Send comments to training editor@inlander.com. creative types in developing business plans and marketing strategies. It’s a way of giving artists tools to create future Terrains. Even as Terrain looks to expand further, the risk of burnout remains real, say supporters. Terrain still only has two full-time paid staff members (Ewing and operations director Jackie Caro), and Terrain’s scope keeps increasing. As she sits for an interview with the Inlander — grappling with criticism, preparing for the Terrain’s 11th signature event next week — Ewing’s eyes well up and tears begin to stream down her cheeks. “I don’t want to sound like a martyr, but I have literally had the thought, ‘Am I going to die at age 45?’” Ewing says. “We work our f---ing asses off, you know.” n danielw@inlander.com
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and count attendees. Stuckart, in fact, was on the city committee championing Treatment’s bid to receive $84,000 in public funds for the #HackingWashington marketing efforts. Simultaneously, he was serving on the Terrain board with Baumgarten. The assistance went both ways: Baumgarten and several other artists hosted a Terrain preview night that doubled as an “Arts Month Celebration of Ben Stuckart” fundraiser during Stuckart’s 2015 run for city council president. Just this April, Condon awarded Terrain $10,000 to support a youth arts program as part of the Mayor’s Youth Initiative. Terrain has media expertise as well: Baumgarten used to be the culture editor of the Inlander. And Terrain’s annual arts showcase is precisely the sort of big extravaganza that grabs newspaper headlines, sometimes at the expense of other events. “I think many art venues, artists and other organizations get overlooked by the media,” says Jenny Hyde, who teaches digital arts at Eastern Washington University. To the public, she says, it can seem like Terrain is the only visual art event in this town. “‘Terrain sucks all the air out of the room’ is one criticism we’ve heard,” Baumgarten says. A few years ago, he says, Spokane Arts, the nonprofit behind the Fall Visual Arts Tour, asked whether Terrain should change weekends, because it was drowning out everyone else. Terrain ultimately declined. By the time Laura Becker beat out Baumgarten to be the director of Spokane Arts in 2014, Terrain had become a force to be reckoned with. “There were moments where I felt intimidated, because they knew everyone in town… They had personal relationships with people. They were on a first-name basis with fundraisers on boards,” Becker says. “I didn’t necessarily have that social capital. I had to build it.” By the time Becker left Spokane Arts in 2016, she says she figured out that Terrain and Spokane Arts had two distinct roles. They weren’t in competition with each other. Still, Becker worries that the success of Terrain may scare away artists from taking chances: Why compete for grants or sponsorships, she says people may think, when you’re trying to compete with Terrain? “It’s really hard for individual artists or nascent organizations to get support,” Becker says. After all, there’s a finite pool of funding in the community. It’s not that Terrain is flush with revenue — far from it. But Terrain has expertise. “Every grant is a competition,” says grant consultant Katie Howard, a former Terrain board member. “There’s always
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Len Hiatt (left) and James Mize. FEMINISTS FIGHT BACK Sarai Walker’s novel Dietland, recently adapted into an AMC TV series, touches on women’s rights themes that seem more relevant than ever. Plum Kettle ghostwrites advice to girls’ magazine readers who ask about cutting, or spending graduation money on breast implants. Meanwhile, a severely overweight Plum starves herself by dieting. A series of odd events leads her to a feminist collective that challenges her ideas about what it will take to live her best life. In the background, national hysteria sets in as a mysterious group known as “Jennifer” starts murdering rapists and threatening individuals and establishments that objectify women, sparking a national discourse that begs the question: Have women just finally had enough? (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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thin layer of construction dust floats around their ankles. Their feet are still, positioned exactly right. Their movements are steady, measured and precise. One at a time, these two men swing their arms back, and then forward, sending bean bags rotating through the air toward their target: a hole six inches in diameter — a cornhole, to be exact. These men — Ryan Huffey and Len Hiatt — have mesmerized more than 200 people gathered for the first-ever Sandpoint Cornhole Classic. They’re facing off in the singles championship. Hiatt and his team of bag-tossin’ gents, who call themselves the C3 Baggers, hail from Cowlitz County, where they started a league. The team has traveled throughout the country for tournaments, and Hiatt is on the verge of going pro.
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Hiatt stands about 5-foot-10, and he’s covered head to toe in C3 gear: a hat, sweats and a jersey that covers a slight paunch. He wears headphones with classical music blasting in his ears while he tosses — to drown out the haters. And there are plenty of them. Huffey, the local underdog, is taller, thin with a scruffy beard. He’s wearing a faded cut-off T-shirt, basketball shorts and white socks crumpled around his ankles. Watching the two men is basically the cornhole equivalent of Rocky v. Apollo or the Mighty Ducks v. the Hawks — the classic Caddyshack dynamic. Huffey has already beat Hiatt once today. That means the Westsider has to win two in a row to steal the $1,000 championship prize from Sandpoint’s cornhole darling. If Huffey wins, he’ll take home a total of $2,000 thanks to a donor who promised to pay an extra thousand bucks if a local wins. Hiatt pulls out the first game to force a second and deciding finale. Clearly upset with himself, Huffey resets and takes a smoke break. In the final showdown, Hiatt takes a 17-10 lead before Huffey scores 10 unanswered points to make it 20 to 17 in his favor (first to 21 wins). In the final round, Hiatt scores four for a final of 21 to 20. As Inlander staff writer Wilson Criscione and I watched this whole thing unfold, we confided in each other a wish that neither Hiatt nor Huffey would play in the doubles tournament, which we had entered. In our first game, we got demolished by Hiatt and his partner. The four points we managed to score, though, were victory enough. n
THE KING CAN’T STOP LAUGHING During a live performance of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” Elvis Presley cannot suppress his guttural, almost maniacal laughter. Many attributed it to drugs or memory loss, but this is a song he’s repeatedly struggled to perform. Psychological study reveals more tragic roots. Malcolm Gladwell explores those roots in the third season of his podcast, Revisionist History. Gladwell makes the case, as have scholars, that Elvis’ uncontrollable laughter is a Freudian slip, a manifestation of his deep-seeded fear of loneliness and abandonment. Both were major themes in Elvis’ life and in this song. (MITCH RYALS)
NOW FEAR THIS I jumped on Bob Woodward’s Fear for insight into the chaos in Trump’s Washington, D.C. Woodward has long displayed a knack for getting sources of all stripes, and there’s no shortage of shocking scenes and frightening exchanges. What’s frustrating, though, for anyone who keeps up on the dayto-day presidential mayhem is that we already know there’s been so much more democracy-rattling insanity since Woodward’s book ends, roughly six months ago. Fear II: The Frightening can’t come fast enough. (DAN NAILEN)
DON’T DROP THIS DEUCE Last fall when HBO launched its ’70s-set exploration of the sex and drug-saturated Times Square, I passed. While The Deuce was created by The Wire’s David Simon and author George Pelecanos, it also boasted not one but two James Francos, and that’s two more than I typically want. The latesummer TV doldrums, though, led to a binge of season one in time for the recently launched second, and I’m so glad. The sprawling cast of pimps, cops, sex workers and wiseguys is put to great use in stories tackling the evolution of American taste and culture at the time — particularly Maggie Gyllenhaal as a prostitute-turned-porn producer. (DAN NAILEN)
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Bug is a tense psychological thriller that portrays a couple’s joint spiral into insanity — or the frightening truth BY E.J. IANNELLI
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overs and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends,” says Theseus in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The madman, he claims, “sees more devils than vast hell can hold,” whereas the lover sees beauty where none is evident. And what about when lovers also happen to be madmen? Does that make for delusions with twice the intensity? Judging from Bug, that would certainly seem to be the case. Tracy Letts’ 1996 play, now in a four-week run at the Spokane Civic Theatre under the direction of Marianne McLaughlin, portrays a downward spiral into psychosis that’s accelerated by the seething brains and shaping fantasies of a vulnerable, down-and-out couple, Agnes (Josephine Keefe) and Peter (Danny Anderson). The setting is a run-down motel room in Oklahoma, signified in part by the liquor bottles, blackened crack pipes and ashtrays that sit atop the dated furniture of David Baker’s set. Just
over the strains of country music and beyond the cheap, wood-paneled walls is the sound of cars whooshing past on some anonymous highway. Our introduction to Agnes is wordless. She quietly drifts around the room until her quiet drifting is interrupted by the sudden ringing of the bedside telephone. When Agnes repeatedly encounters an ominous silence on the other end of the line, we’re immediately knee-deep in foreshadowing. Later we meet Agnes’ friend R.C. (Emily Jones), a biker whose lesbianism is a superfluous detail masquerading as a vital character trait. It’s R.C. who introduces Agnes to Peter, an aloof, benignly odd stranger who nevertheless appears to be sensitive, respectful and comfortingly uncomfortable in his own skin — the polar opposite of Goss (Billy Hultquist), Agnes’ volatile ex, recently granted early parole and the most likely perpetrator of the creepy phone calls. The relationship between Agnes and Peter begins ordinarily enough. Initially they’re each a little wary of one another, reluctant to reveal the personal secrets they’re harboring. Those secrets
slowly, then quickly become the basis for their intimacy, binding them to one another ever more tightly. After Peter awakens one night to phantom — or maybe not — bug bites, it develops into a bloody, paranoid narrative that follows what the philosopher Michel Foucault described as “the marvelous logic of the mad,” culminating in the “hidden perfection of a language” that, crucially and fatally, only Agnes and Peter can understand. No wonder that William Friedkin (of Exorcist fame) would find himself drawn to directing the play’s film adaptation.
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Get the scoop on this weekend’s events with our newsletter. Sign up at Inlander.com/newsletter. This excellent production of Bug, a long overdue regional premiere, stands out for being so well cast. Even when the pacing jolts forward in the second act, Keefe and Anderson maintain the palpable, isolating emotional bond that’s so central to the play’s conceit. Jones might have been more, well, biker-like, grizzled and rough, but that still doesn’t stop her from going toe-totoe with Hultquist’s seething menace. As Dr. Sweet, Matt Ridge brings the right amount of ambiguity to his brief time on stage. There’s really no deeper, ruminative meaning to be found here aside from the incredible power of the mind to interpret, distort and rationalize reality in ways that align with a particular narrative. Or, conversely, that you’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you. But as an intense, compact psychological thriller that harnesses the twin delusions of lovers and madmen to great effect, Bug is as enticing a reason as any to experience live theater. n Bug • Through Oct. 14; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $27 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507
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Waste Not Restaurants produce a lot of waste; here’s how some in Spokane are working to curb their impacts BY CHEY SCOTT
Many Spokane restaurants are now using disposable products that can be composted or recycled.
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ow much waste does the average restaurant in Spokane produce each day, week or even year? While the numbers are incredibly hard to pin down due to the practices of each individual restaurant, its format (fast food vs. dine in), location, customer volume and a multitude of other factors, the answer is: a lot. But it doesn’t have to be that way. At Cochinito Taqueria in downtown Spokane, for example, there’s just one receptacle for waste. It’s a compost bin. “Visiting Cochinito is a great way to think about designing a system so it doesn’t become more cumbersome,” says Erik Makinson, founder and CEO of Resource Synergy. The Spokane-based company works with businesses of varying scale, and not just restaurants, to help them reduce money spent on water, energy and waste disposal, thus becoming more environmentally sustainable in the process. “They’ve designed out trash from the front of their house — they just don’t have trash generated in the dining area,” he continues. “There is still some packaging in the kitchen, but that is a great example of starting with the end in mind.” The fast-casual taco eatery serves its food on metal trays lined with paper, and traditional stainless steel utensils and other reusable items are collected in a dish bin at a self-bus station. Most of its beer selection is in recyclable cans. Other drinks are served in glasses with compostable straws. Cochinito chef and co-owner Travis Dickinson says there were a few reasons to compost nearly all his restaurant’s waste. First and foremost, the building in which it’s located was at capacity for its trash collection when he moved in, meaning Cochinito would have to pay significantly more for garbage service, or figure out another solution. Dickinson personally believes in operating the restaurant as sustainably as possible and saw composting as a practical means to do so. “Rather than filling up a dumpster, we have a 90-gallon compost bin that we dump three times a week,” Dickinson says. “We’ve been able to keep it to 80 percent going into compost and recycling with just a small amount of garbage.” As an industry, restaurants are one of the biggest consumers of
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water and energy, and one of the largest commercial waste producers, Makinson says. “The challenge with restaurants is that it has less to do with the size, but how much traffic and business they have coming through,” he explains. “Likewise, the mix of the waste would change dramatically based on the type, but in full-service [restaurants] we look at food and cardboard… if they are a fast food/quick serve, there are packaging opportunities in preventing waste from happening.” It may be hard from a consumer perspective to envision all the behind-the-scenes practices that contribute to this overall wastestream picture — there’s food scraps, packaging, used cooking oil and grease, items used for sanitation (latex gloves, paper towels, etc.) and lots more that factors in. A couple ways of looking at it, however, can be seen in what types of single-use consumer items — napkins, utensils, straws, to-go containers, cups, packaging, etc. — are being used, like at Cochinito, and how waste is collected in the front of house; whether or not in separate bins for compostable and recyclable materials, or neither.
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omposting food waste and other single-use items made with biodegradable materials, like paper napkins and corn starch-based utensils, requires more effort on behalf of both business owners and consumers, making it a practice that not all locally owned restaurants find feasible. Compostable containers on average can cost twice as much as those made with traditional plastics or plastic foam (what most of us call Styrofoam), the latter of which cannot be recycled. Compost that’s been contaminated with plastic and other nonbiodegradable materials is also a major issue that arises, due both to ignorance and accident. In the city of Spokane, compostable items can be disposed of in residential green yard waste carts, even soiled cardboard like pizza boxes. City-provided green carts, however, are only picked up nine months of the year, from March through November, and are offered for an additional fee to regular waste/recycling pickup. Though these residential green bins can also be used by businesses, the city of Spokane technically doesn’t offer year-round, commercial compost pickup, a detail that can be frustrating for
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small businesses already paying for city solid waste services that would like to compost some of that waste. Roast House Coffee owner Deborah Di Bernardo, who recently opened First Avenue Coffee downtown, is one of the business owners frustrated over the lack of city-provided commercial composting. She and a few of her staff currently take the store’s coffee grounds and other compostable waste home to dispose of in their own green bins. They also hand-sort their in-store compost and recycle bins to pick out contaminants incorrectly tossed there by customers. “It sounds kind of disgusting, but nonetheless we go through them anyway to some degree because people don’t pay attention,” Di Bernardo says. “I think a lot of customers appreciate it and are careful, but there are always one or two who [don’t].” First Avenue Coffee recently received Green Restaurant Certification, a designation overseen by the Green Restaurant Association, and hopes to become a zero-waste producing business in the near future. All of its to-go containers are compostable or recyclable, and customers who bring their own mug get a 25 cent discount. As demand from residential customers for green cart service has anecdotally increased in recent years, there’s also been talk at the city about adding commercial compost routes, says Kris Major, education coordinator for the City of Spokane’s Solid Waste Services Department. She adds that a timeline for such services is unknown. “We’re getting more and more calls all the time, even ‘Can you come in and help train our staff and tell them what is recyclable and what’s not so we don’t make mistakes?’” Major notes. In the meantime, restaurants producing large amounts of compostable waste like Cochinito can work with a private disposal company to pick up their compost. There are two main options locally: Sunshine Disposal and Waste Management. Compostable waste is then processed by Barr-Tech, which sells its soil products through local landscape companies and directly to regional farmers.
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he buzz around disposable, single-use food service items has slowed down some since the announcement earlier this year that Seattle was banning plastic straws, utensils and other nonrecyclable and noncompostable packaging. But the question of how to reduce waste from single-use products remains constant in cities around the world. Will we see Spokane follow in Seattle’s steps? Maybe, but not for awhile. It is a topic on the mind of some City Council members, including Councilman Breean Beggs, who’s been approached by constituents concerned about curbing single-use waste in our local ecosystem. “We have discussed it a bit in regards to the waste-to-energy plant, and how to minimize the diversion of plastics into the burning waste stream, so my sense is that there is some discussion on it, but no concrete proposals,” Beggs says. He adds that issues connected to food-related waste are most likely be taken up by the city’s newly created Sustainability Action Committee. “I think the answer is to reduce those items in the waste stream, but the question is always how best to do it, and how to be most effective and how to get buy-in from the community,” he says. Even while official actions by the city of Spokane on commercial composting and banning single-use items are uncertain, many food service businesses across the region have been outspoken about taking matters into their own hands. Announcements on social media that plastic straws would only be available upon request at many local restaurants and bars were plentiful following Seattle’s controversial straw ban. Consumers can take a stance, too, says Resource Synergy’s Makinson, by voting with their dollar. “Choose the restaurants that are conscious of sustainability, and taking actions to reduce their own environmental impact,” he says. “The more restaurants recognize that, and the more successful are the ones addressing their environmental impacts and stewarding sustainability initiatives, the more [other] restaurants will follow that lead.” n
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Keeping with the Flow A longtime Sandpoint winery balances tradition with modest changes to its customer experience BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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hough they both grew up in Bonner County, neither of Pend d’Oreille Winery’s new owners ever planned on running the longtime Sandpoint
winery. Yet, after both working there in various positions for several years, Jim Bopp and business partner Kylie Presta are finding their rhythm at the winery, first opened back in 1995 by Steve and Julie Meyers. “I feel a sense of anticipation,” says Presta, who transitioned out of a career in renewable resources and firefighting in 2013 to conduct chemical analysis for the winery. She’s since immersed herself in all aspects of the business. Bopp’s enthusiasm is understated, a reflection of his trademark calm demeanor: “I don’t think it’s terribly difficult,” says Bopp of the winemaking process.
Jim Bopp and business partner Kylie Presta recently bought the longtime Sandpoint winery. “You just have to be present” physically and mentally, he notes, adding that winemaking is both time-consuming and time-sensitive and requires a commitment to detail as well. Sourcing grapes, for example, can be challenging, especially when you’re more than 200 miles away from the vineyards you use, like the Benton City, Prosser and Yakima Valley American Viticultural Areas. “Every year is a new game,” says Bopp, a thirdgeneration Sandpoint native who worked at the winery in the ’90s before heading to college to pursue a secondary teaching degree. He realized upon returning to Sandpoint, however, that winemaking appealed to him more than teaching social studies and health. Bopp rejoined the winery in 2007, as the business was expanding; production facilities moved near the regional airport, while the tasting room and retail space relocated across the street from the winery’s original location to a historic building that its founders, the Meyers, had lovingly refurbished.
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By 2013, Bopp was making wine for the winery’s regular labels, plus his own Cottage Island Wine label. His petit verdot, the Deadhead Red (the name is inspired by his grandfather’s Deadhead Logging Company), won double gold at the 2015 Tri-Cities Wine Festival. The pair have continued some of the winery’s longstanding traditions, including wine flights of three 3-ounce pours ($10) or five 1-ounce pours ($5). The winery’s “Think Green, Drink Red” campaign for refillable bottles also continues, offering refills of two varieties: Bistro Rouge and Bistro Blanc. Modest changes to the customer experience involve the tasting room. Bopp brought in his family’s stately 1875 Decker baby grand, which is popular with regularly scheduled musicians. They’ve also downsized the gift shop area and added events such as paint n’ sip and trivia nights. Although Pend d’Oreille Winery’s former owners housed a restaurant within its footprint, that remains a separate business; the Fat Pig opened in December
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2017 and is run by separate owners. Bopp and Presta have, however, re-instituted a small plates menu that doesn’t require a commercial kitchen, with wine-friendly, house-made spreads like Gorgonzola, date and pecan ($10) or marinated manchego cheese and salami ($12) on warmed sourdough or crackers. Although the fruits of their labors won’t be released very soon — the duo’s sangiovese and grenache, for example, should be ready in a year-and-a-half — they’re looking forward to their first “vintage party” on Oct. 20, from 3-6 pm, at the winery’s production facility in Sandpoint. The occasion marks the first label under their purveyance. “We are keeping it simple as we will be busy with crush and winemaking,” Presta says. n food@inlander.com Pend d’Oreille Winery • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • Open daily 11 am-8 pm • powine.com• 208-265-8545
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up and running, albeit under new ownership and with a new name. Pacific Avenue Pizza — or Pac Ave, as it was colloquially known — is now called Pacific Pizza, and is owned by a duo with connections to another local pizza spot. South Perry Pizza owner John Siok and general manager Jon Coyne partnered to buy the restaurant in August, reopening it earlier this month as Pacific Pizza. The change in ownership comes with a contemporary new look for the space (the signature black-and-white tile floor remains), and a completely new menu, Coyne says. “Some of the pizzas on the menu will be familiar, but the dough is completely different — we use the same dough as at South Perry, but it cooks completely differently in the new oven at Pacific, so the flavor is different.” In addition to pizza, Coyne says the new menu includes hot sandwiches ($11), salads ($8-$10) and wings ($9/$16), with all items from the kitchen condensed to one page. In addition to a lineup of signature pizzas ($12-$20/each), Pacific Pizza offers a build-your-own option. The restaurant is open Sunday-Thursday from 11 am-11 pm and Friday-Saturday from 11 am-12:30 am. (CHEY SCOTT)
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This month’s version of the Wandering Table and Yards Bruncheon’s Fried Chicken and Beer Dinner Series is ditching its American roots for a full Bavarian-themed dinner on Oct. 11. Hosted at the Yards, the dinner featuring German-inspired food and beer starts at 6 pm, with service at 6:30. Tickets are $35 each and can be reserved by calling 443-4410 or emailing kendupree33@ gmail.com. In other news, the Wandering Table also rolled out some new fall menu items, including a watermelon tomato salad, duck carnitas, grilled short rib, spice-crusted lamb rack and Szechuan tofu wontons, the latter feature a tofumushroom filling, hot and sour vinegar and red chile sauce. (CS)
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METHOD JUICE CAFE’S NEW BETTER-FOR-YOU COOKIE TREAT Cookie dough that tastes good without the guilt of eating raw eggs and a ton of sugar: Method Juice Cafe’s new plant-based, gluten-free, flour-free and dairy-free cookie dough answers health-conscious cookie dough lovers’ prayers. Scooped into small cups ($3.50), customers are encouraged to eat this treat by the spoonful. The idea for the new treat came while revamp-
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ing Method’s already health-conscious menu. The recipe consists of cannellini beans, oatmeal, peanut butter, agave, baking soda, salt, vanilla, chocolate chips and raw cacao. “We started testing out things and cookie dough was one of the first things we tested out, and everyone who works here tried it and said ‘this is so good, we should sell it.’” says Lysa Cole, who works at Method’s North Side location. “We did a poll on Instagram to see if the customers would like that. Everyone wanted cookie dough.” Currently, Method is testing out new fall flavors for the plant-based dough, including a raw sugar version. Current flavors of the sweet treat include chocolate-chocolate chip and chocolate chip cookie dough, both available at Method’s two Spokane locations, on the north side (7704 N. Division) and downtown (718 W. Riverside Ave.). (MICHAELA MULLIGAN)
WASHINGTON-GROWN SWEETANGO APPLES HIT LOCAL SHELVES Nothing says fall like apple harvest, and helping ferry in the season is a regionally grown apple cultivar called SweeTango, a newer arrival to Spokane-area stores’ apple displays in recent years. Developed at the University of Minnesota in the early aughts and first sold in 2009, the SweeTango is considered a successor to Honeycrisp apples due to its sweet and tangy flavor profile with hints of honey, spice and citrus, and a crisp, snappy bite. The medium-sized fruit displays a deep blush red over a yellow background, and was created by crossing Honeycrisp and Zestar apples. In Washington, it’s grown by Wenatchee’s Stemilt Growers, who say SweeTango is now available at several Inland Northwest grocers, including select Rosauers, Yokes, Trader Joe’s and Walmart stores. SweeTango won’t be around for long, though, as distribution of this season’s inventory begins to taper off in late October. (CS)
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SMALL AMBITIONS The animated adventure Smallfoot aims low and barely hits its target BY JOSH BELL
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roduced by Warner Animation Group, whose best films have been the snarky, self-aware Lego movies, and animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, who worked on WAG’s mediocre 2016 effort Storks, Smallfoot has a slick, anonymous style that seems designed to smooth out anything potentially distinctive or memorable. It features cute, inoffensive animal characters, a handful of bland, pop-style musical numbers and an easily digestible message about tolerance. The story briefly detours into some surprisingly dark territory, but it’s mostly positive and uplifting, perfect for parents who want something tolerable and not particularly demanding to distract their kids for 90 minutes. That’s a pretty low bar to hit, though, and Smallfoot doesn’t always clear it, especially during its irritating, insipid musical numbers, most of which sound like off-brand versions of recent Disney songs. When yeti Meechee (voiced by Zendaya) sings about discovering the wonders beyond her sheltered mountain village, she might as well be Moana singing about discovering the wonders beyond her sheltered island village. (There’s a decent chance that viewers will leave Smallfoot humming Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go” rather than any of the original songs here.) Meechee is one of the yetis who inhabit a remote frozen mountain peak in an unnamed country, where the large, furry creatures have cut themselves off from human civilization
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below. The yetis’ leader, the Stonekeeper (Common), perpetuates the myth that there’s no such thing as a “smallfoot” (the yetis’ word for humans), along with other stories designed to keep the village’s inhabitants obedient and happy (“ignorance is bliss” is literally one of their commandments). But when idealistic young yeti Migo (Channing Tatum) discovers an errant downed pilot, he’s determined to prove to the rest of the yetis that smallfoot is real. That takes Migo on a journey to a town of humans, where he meets obnoxious TV nature-show host Percy Patterson (James Corden, putting his extensive experience as an obnoxious TV host to use), who is as dedicated to exposing the existence of yetis as Migo is to exposing the existence of humans. Percy’s journey from fame-hungry narcissist to slightly less fame-hungry peacemaker isn’t endearing or compelling, and the yeti characters (including fellow smallfoot believers voiced by Gina Rodriguez, LeBron James and Ely Henry) barely exhibit any personality. American Vandal’s Jimmy Tatro gets the funniest lines as the Stonekeeper’s
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dense but belligerent son, but the laughs are still fairly sparse. When the Stonekeeper shows Migo the true history of yeti/human relations, the movie turns remarkably bleak for a few minutes, but it quickly steps back from exploring the consequences of war and genocide (and perhaps inadvertently endorsing beliefs in conspiracy theories) into its generic, upbeat messages about respect and friendship. Upbeat messages about respect and friendship are perfectly fine for animated movies aimed at kids, but plenty of movies have conveyed those messages with more creativity and personality than Smallfoot, and with fewer annoying side characters. Director Karey Kirkpatrick (a veteran animation screenwriter and director) and co-writer Clare Sera spend a lot of time laying out the various rules and tasks of the yeti village, but the movie’s world feels insular and limited, with little sense of how the yetis have lived or spent their time in all their years away from humans. Easily amused kids probably won’t care about that, and the yetis are cuddly enough for maximum merchandising potential and the songs catchy enough for minor radio airplay (although they don’t show up often enough to qualify the movie as a full-on musical). That’s all a movie like this really needs, and the creators of Smallfoot seem content to provide nothing more than the bare minimum. n
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Marvel’s third feature this year is the least essential of the bunch, but it’s still a breezy, mostly fun adventure. This time out, microscopic superhero Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) ventures into a so-called “quantum zone,” teaming up with scientist Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) to rescue her long-lost mother. (JB) Rated PG-13
ASSASSINATION NATION
In this dark satire, a rebellious teen and her friends find themselves the targets of hysterical, vengeance-seeking townspeople in a once-sleepy hamlet called Salem. Get it? (NW) Rated R
THE BOOKSHOP
Emily Mortimer is a widow who opens a bookstore in a 1950s British town, much to the dismay of the conservative populace. No one’s motivation seems to make much sense in this quaint but toothless period drama. At the Magic Lantern. (IH) Rated PG
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Based on the bestsellers by Kevin Kwan, an economics professor discovers her boyfriend is actually from one of Singapore’s richest families. It hits all the traditional rom-com beats, but it’s enlivened by a winning cast and a distinct cultural identity. (JB) Rated PG-13
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The directorial debut of comedian Bo Burnham is an empathetic comingof-age story about a teenage social outcast and how she navigates adolescence in a hyper-connected world. A pure slice of life, featuring a knockout central performance by Elsie Fisher. At the Magic Lantern. (SS) Rated R
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LIFE ITSELF
From the creator of This Is Us, a smug, tone-deaf fable about boring people connected by fate over several generations. If aliens made a movie about human behavior, it’d look like this. (NW) Rated R
THE MEG
When a submersible filled with scientists is menaced by a megalodon, former Navy diver Jason Statham goes tooth to tooth with the same beast that cost him his career years ago. Could’ve been worse, but it’s no Jaws, either. (JB) Rated PG-13
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Who would have thought a ’90s film inspired by a ’60s TV show would still be cranking out solid sequels? As convoluted as the plot of this sixth installment may be, the action sequences are as jawdropping as ever. (JB) Rated PG-13
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A mystery told entirely through FaceTime calls and text conversations, as a concerned father (John Cho) tries to track down his missing teenage daughter using her laptop and social media accounts. More than just a clever conceit. (MJ) Rated PG-13
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The continuing saga of Louis Zamperini, the real-life Olympic runner who survived a 1940s POW camp to become a celebrated Christian evangelist. (NW) Rated PG-13
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The worst of the Conjuring films, an origin story about that pallid-faced mother superior that likes to pop out of dark corners. Lots of cheap boos that don’t add up to much. (NW) Rated R
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Jennifer Garner goes full-on avenging angel after her husband and young daughter are gunned down by a Mexican drug cartel. Derivative, ugly, vile, improbable and stupid. (NW) Rated R
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Life or Nothing Like It From the creator of This Is Us, Life Itself is like a movie from Mars BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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Abby’s college thesis is about unreliable ear reader, the following is a list of things that happen in the melodrama Life Itself, narration, because the movie isn’t already smug from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman. and meta enough about its own unreliable narYou’re not going to believe most, if any, of this, ration. Can you guess what she argues is the but I solemnly swear — cross my heart and hope ultimate unreliable narrator? Go ahead, take a to be struck and killed by a bus — that all of this wild stab at it. That’s right — life itself! Will tells his therapist (Annette Bening, as is true. The film opens with voice-over narration a woman so uptight she doesn’t even know who by “Samuel L. Jackson.” I put that in quotes Natalie Portman is) that he and Abby always because we’re in Dave Chappelle-as-Sam Jackson dreamed of being a screenwriting duo, like “a territory here: He says the F-word a lot, he tells husband-and-wife Tarantino.” They’re dressed us one character is “gay, but cool gay,” and he like John Travolta and Uma Thurman from Pulp keeps angrily demanding the camera operator Fiction when he proposes to her in another flashpush in on closeups. A few minutes later, Jackson back. I think I hate Pulp Fiction now. There’s a little girl who sees her father pops up as an extra in a crowd scene, Kangol hat and all, right after someone is run over by a bus. decapitated in a car accident, and later shoots This will not be the last time a character is hit her child molester uncle in the kneecap. Another by a bus. It is, however, the last time you’ll hear little girl tells her grandfather (Mandy Patinkin) from Samuel L. Jackson. that she craves emotional stability like “fat people In the first of oh-so-many narrative fakecrave chocolate.” Someone else gets hit by a bus, but for outs — a Fogelman specialty — it turns out this is all happening in a very bad screenplay being real this time, and it’s the event that changes written by a very drunk man named Will (Oscar everything. Like in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, Isaac), whose wife has apparently just left him. but stupid. He’s wasted in a Starbucks and starts yelling lyrThen I stopped taking notes. And this is ics from Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind album. just the first hour of the movie — I haven’t even There’s a dog named F---face. They say its gotten to Will and Abby’s punk-rock daughter name a lot. (Olivia Cooke), or the Spanish family Olivia Wilde is Abby, Will’s living on an olive orchard whose LIFE ITSELF lives are also affected by these annoywife, and wow, she’s perfect. We Rated R know this because the second naring, Dylan-quoting white people. Directed by Dan Fogelman rator (not Sam Jackson) tells us she Because I realized, as this weird, Starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia “eats every piece of sushi the waiter weird film unspooled, that life is just serves her.” Can you tell a man wrote Wilde, Antonio Banderas too short. Death is barreling toward this movie? all of us, like a New York City bus Oh, Abby also loves Bob Dylan. Will with an inattentive driver, and so why even bothdoesn’t. He actually asks if he can switch on er? Life Itself manages to be cutesy and sadistic at Hoobastank (!) at one point and Smash Mouth the same time, maudlin one moment and almost (!!) at another. (This is a flashback, so I guess he horrifying the next, and then it sticks its finger in changes his mind about Bob Dylan in the future.) your face and demands you cry. RIGHT NOW, Anyway, Abby’s like, “Time Out of Mind won YA BIG BABY. three Grammys, including Album of the Year!” Why, it’s almost like the film takes the same Another reason she’s perfect: She’s a human unpredictable twists and turns as … life itself! I Wikipedia. I think I hate Bob Dylan now. think I hate movies now. n
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he recorded catalog of Japanese psych band Kikagaku Moyo is equal parts mesmerizing and maddening. The self-titled debut, from 2013, shows boundless potential, but sounds like a band finding its footing. Forest of Lost Children — 2014’s sophomore effort — builds on that promise, but sometimes feels stuck in a subdued trance. Kikagaku Moyo’s international breakthrough came with 2016’s House in the Tall Grass, a lovely record that found the band exploring its quieter psych-folk side and mostly leaving the heady high-wire jams in the sheath. Last year’s Stone Garden EP eschewed songcraft in favor of improvisation. Add it all up and you’ve got a very good catalog from one of Earth’s very best psych acts, and a bunch of incredible moments scattered across several releases, but never concentrated in one place. It’s like the world has known what Kikagaku Moyo is capable of for five years now — and we’re still waiting for them to put it all together. With the Oct. 5 release of the band’s new album Masana Temples, that wait is over. Kikagaku Moyo’s fourth
full-length is confident and beautifully nuanced, but punchy in all the right places. The rock songs swagger, the band’s psychedelic palette is juiced with pop sensibility and the jams don’t overstay their welcome. Finally, we have an example of Kikagaku Moyo at its sustained best. There is a reason pure satisfaction is elusive with Kikagaku Moyo: Its members are committed explorers, content to follow their muse wherever it leads rather than sit still. The Inlander was able, however, to pin them down long enough to answer a few questions via email. Here is that interview with drummer/vocalist Go Kurosawa, edited for length and clarity. INLANDER: Earlier in the band’s existence, you all lived close to each other. But before making Masana Temples, you scattered throughout the world. How did that affect your process and the songs? GO KUROSAWA: We had less time to just jam for hours, like when we all lived in Tokyo, but we spend more time together on the road. We wrote some of the songs on the album a long time ago and they changed over time by performing them night after night at shows.
For other songs, we decided to put our inspiration on a shared Dropbox, gather those ideas and compose them into songs. You traveled to Portugal specifically to record Masana Temples with jazz adventurer Bruno Pernadas. Why him? When we discovered his albums, we really liked how he mixed his different influences of music like experimental music, jazz, electronica, rock, soundtrack and spoken word. We share his different influences and felt that Bruno would be someone we could connect and collaborate with, so we just asked him if he can produce for us. Given Kikagaku Moyo’s growing profile, I assume you all had more time and money to spend on making Masana Temples. True or no? If so, how do you think that impacted the final product? Well, we didn’t have much time or money (this time), either. It costs a lot to go to a foreign country and book studios. We had four days to do the recording. Of course, ...continued on next page
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When you all talk about music, you talk less about melodies or rhythms and more about things like space, energy, vision, turning experiences into sounds and capturing feelings through song. Where do you think Kikagaku Moyo’s unique methods and philosophies come from? I have no idea, but maybe it’s because we all listen to different music, and something we share is the time we spend together on the road. It’s easier for us to talk about “remember how gorgeous the view was in Indonesia?” than “you know that song from this album…”
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Does that way of working come naturally to the band, or is it something you have to work at to ensure everyone is communicating and creating from the same page? We enjoy the differences in one another. We sometimes say for the first song of the set, “Let’s jam!” and that sets the theme. The theme could be something like the four seasons, the last American tour, or pick an old story and try to jam. It’s so interesting how we have different impressions of each theme and how we express it differently.
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hroughout the history of pop music, such artists as Little Richard and Prince have expressed masculinity in ways outside societal norms. That’s nothing new. But when it comes to the male-dominated and often gay-bashing world of hip-hop and R&B, conversations about gender stereotypes are occurring more openly than ever, according to Portland-based R&B artist Chanticleer Trü, known onstage as Chanti Darling. He believes it’s up to queer artists like himself to keep the conversation moving forward. “We’re challenging people in different ways, and I think that work never really stops,” he says. “It’s evolve or die. Either you’re going to fall by the wayside or change with the times. There are amazing artists challenging stereotypes about gender roles, challenging masculinity, challenging femininity, in major ways in hip-hop and R&B. And, you know, it’s well noted within the industry that we’ve always been here.” Trü is inspired by Portland’s general spirit of experimentation. “People here feel a lot less boundaries, a lot less red tape around the art you’re creating and getting that art out there,” he says. “You can definitely see that in the music I’ve been making.” In turn, Trü is helping Portland expand beyond indie-rock, the city’s main musical export for many years. He says, “I’ve just been doing what feels good to me. I think other artists who maybe thought they didn’t have a place in the music scene here started to see that, and more people have been coming out and doing their own thing. … “There’s always been a lot of other music here in Portland that just wasn’t being recognized. I think I kind of opened the door.” His music, at least, hasn’t gone unnoticed. In 2016, he won a Willamette Week poll for the best new band in Portland. Speaking with the Inlander ahead of his upcoming Spokane show, Trü says he grew up in a musical household where he was encouraged to express himself by playing piano and singing. At 10 years old, he was already leading vocal groups through a black church in Missouri, which proved to be a critical formative experience. “When you’re thrown into that environment with adult musicians, you’re really, really challenged and held to a specific standard, a certain degree of developing your craft,” he says. “They expect a lot out of you. You’re expected to practice, you’re expected to be the very best you can be, and I think that speaks to the black experience in general. You’re expected to be better,
Chanticleer Trü, better known as Chanti Darling.
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because somebody who’s not as good is going to have more opportunities.” The perfectionist mindset has stuck with Trü ever since. His debut album, RNB Vol. 1, earned immediate praise for its crystalline production style. He recalls “religiously” hitting the studio multiple times a week for months on end, toiling over the smallest details for hours. Producer Damon Boucher helped nail the album’s retrofuturistic sound, which references classic soul and R&B songwriting but is rendered in the superhigh fidelity of modern pop. “I wanted to push it through a futuristic lens,” he says. “I didn’t want to make a throwback record. I wanted it to have those influences very clearly represented, but I didn’t want to make a complete throwback. … The goal wasn’t to mimic, per se, it was to take those influences and make something new.” The album’s emotional tone is set by Trü’s lyrical focus on unrequited love and the release of tension (see: sex) — classic subjects of R&B. But his overarching goal was balancing the melancholy moments with a general sense of levity. On “Pillow Talk,” for example, a bouncy synthesizer groove juxtaposes lyrics about “saying something you didn’t mean to say during a sexy moment.” “It kind of takes an absurdist direction with how I lay out the story,” he says. Trü isn’t afraid to go there — or anywhere else — with Chanti Darling: “That’s something I thought about a lot on the record, taking these lyrical elements and trying to go in the opposite direction with the music and the melody.” n
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here’s old school, and then there’s really old school. Descendents got their start in the late ’70s L.A. South Bay punk scene alongside long-gone peers like Black Flag and Minutemen. While there have been pauses through the years — most notably when singer Milo Aukerman went off to university, inspiring the band’s aptly named 1982 classic Milo Goes to College — Descendents have remained a relatively steady presence, delivering songs full of humor, angst and alienation while perfecting the pop-punk hybrid that bands like Green Day and blink-182 rode to far greater fame and fortune. That’s a damn shame. — DAN NAILEN Descendents with A Wilhelm Scream and Audio Karate • Thu, Oct. 4 at 8 pm • $26 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279
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Thursday, 09/27
ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Harvey Stanley J THE BARTLETT, The National Parks, Tom Butler BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen J J COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, War CORBY’S BAR, Steve Starkey THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRUISERS, Open Jam Night DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave HEARTWOOD CENTER, Harold’s IGA, The Paranormal Daves, Folk Remedy, Doug Bond THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series JOHN’S ALLEY, Polly O’Keary and Rhythm Method J J KNITTING FACTORY, Lecrae and Andy Mineo, Wordsplayed, Nobigdyl., Whatuprg J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin J THE PIN!, As the Crow Flies, Goners UK, Incoming Days THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, The Rock Jam Series THE ROXIE, Debrah Stark SLICE & BISCUIT, Bluegrass Jam ZOLA, Blake Braley
Friday, 09/28
219 LOUNGE, Joseph Hein Band BABY BAR, Lloyd and Saviour, Itchy Kitty, Less Thans J J THE BARTLETT, Chanti Darling (see page 49), Soul Man Black BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Light in Mirrors, Ten-Speed Pile-Up, The Emilys
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ince opening a brick-and-mortar shop in 2015, Moscow’s Humble Burger has carved itself a niche for cool indie concerts in North Idaho. Last year, the restaurant launched Modest Music Fest, an event that’s in keeping with its non-ostentatious name, and it returns this weekend with a diverse lineup of live music taking over downtown Moscow. This year’s big headliners include rapper Lil B (pictured) and Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch, and amongst its stacked collection of mostly Pacific Northwest artists, there are a handful of Spokane acts — Itchy Kitty, Odyssey, Jango, Lavoy and Mama Doll. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Modest Music Fest feat. Lil B, Cosmos, Doug Martsch, Briana Marela and more • Sat & Sun, Sept. 29 & 30 • $45 • All ages • Downtown Moscow • humbleburger.com BIGFOOT PUB, The Wild Card Band BOLO’S, Kosta la Vista BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Skinners THE BULL HEAD, Maddy and the Ravinz, All Cashed Up CEDAR STREET BISTRO, Bob Beadling CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, The Double Downs CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DAN & JO’S, Craig McQuain DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends J FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Hannah Jo Lally IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., The Merry Makers IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale
JOHN’S ALLEY, 20 Grand LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Matt Mitchell MARYHILL WINERY, Dave McRae MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Right Front Burner MOOSE LOUNGE, Conscious Sedation MULLIGAN’S, Truck Mills NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Todd O’Neill THE OBSERVATORY, The Emergency Exit, Johnny McCuaig Band (Canada), Dustfuzz J J OLMSTED BROTHERS GREEN, Raven River Gorge Festival ft. Milonga, Atari Ferrari, Trego & more J OUTLAW BBQ, Bret Allen PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Riff Hangers J THE PIN!, Chris Webby
THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Christy Lee SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Scott Nordahl J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike ZOLA, The Happiness
Saturday, 09/29
219 LOUNGE, Mudslide Charley THE AGING BARREL, Robert Gould BABY BAR, Terror Pigeon, Bad Motivator J THE BARTLETT, Atari Ferrari, Marina Obscura BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, The Wild Card Band CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Double Downs CHECKERBOARD BAR, Free Love J CHENEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Left Over Soul
COLBERT TRADING CO., Gil Rivas CORBY’S BAR, Ryan Larsen Band CRUISERS, Toy Called God, My Own Affliction, Sciandra’s Game, Thunder Knife CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle FREDNECK’S, Just Plain Darin J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Journey, Def Leppard THE GRAIN SHED, Feed the Soul Songwriter Series HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City & DJ P-Funk IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Brian Jacobs J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., The Thomsen Trio IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Innasci J KNITTING FACTORY, Dogtown, Invasive, Still We Rise, TWELVEgaugeSAINTS LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Dan Conrad
MARYHILL WINERY, Scott Linklater & Pete Cowger MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster and the Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Harold’s IGA, The Other White Meat MOOSE LOUNGE, Conscious Sedation J MOSCOW, Modest Music Fest feat. Lil B, Doug Martsch, Bart Budwig, Wimps, Roselit Bone & more (see facing page) MULLIGAN’S, Robby French NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Todd O’Neill THE OBSERVATORY, Six State Bender, Double Bird, Atomic Rust J J OLMSTED BROTHERS GREEN, Raven River Gorge Festival ft. Milonga, Atari Ferrari, Trego and more OMEGA EVENT CENTER, TOMBZ, Fabio, Radikill, CJAY, Raskl b2b Fysh J THE PIN!, D-Easy, Raya Improper & Friends POST FALLS BREWING, Devon Wade RED ROOM LOUNGE, 20 Grand REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Reverend Justin Hylton
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THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, The Hankers THE ROXIE, William Nover J THE SHOP, Blue Motel J J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Oktoberfest Celebration feat. Trego, The Holy Broke, Meat Sweats, Deer, Dario Re and DJ Unifest WESTWOOD BREWING, Echo Elysium ZOLA, The Cronkites
Sunday, 09/30
ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Common Ground J BIG BARN BREWING, Scotia Road THE BLIND BUCK, Show Tune SingAlong CRAVE, DJ Dave CURLEY’S, Karma’s Circle DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church Jam J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, George Winston GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J HARVEST HOUSE, Just Plain Darin IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Gil Rivas LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam LION’S LAIR, KTB Hip-Hop Showcase MARYHILL WINERY, Debrah Stark J MOSCOW, Modest Music Fest NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Todd O’Neill O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J J OLMSTED BROTHERS GREEN, Raven River Gorge Fest J ONE WORLD CAFE, Renee Dion PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Peter Lucht
J THE PIN!, T.C.’s Last Call w/DJ Royal T ZOLA, The Donnie Emerson Band
Monday, 10/1
J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Steve Earle & The Dukes THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Open Mic CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J ONE WORLD CAFE, Sky Crystal RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess
Tuesday, 10/2
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J THE BARTLETT, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Cumulus BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam J RICK SINGER STUDIO, Pearl Django RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke SWEET LOU’S, Rusty Jackson THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites
Wednesday, 10/3 J BABY BAR, Mini Blinds, Balonely, Fun Ladies J J THE BARTLETT, Guerilla Toss, Black Belt Eagle Scout
BLACK DIAMOND, Luke Stuivenga CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz & Whiskey THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Jazz Weds. LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dawna Stafford J THE OBSERVATORY, Indian Goat, Wayward West, Fat Lady J ONE WORLD CAFE, My Dog Junior J THE PIN!, Firebug, Bar Talk, Perfect Destruction RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SLATE CREEK BREWING CO., KOSH THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Cruxie
Coming Up ...
J J THE BARTLETT, Kikagaku Moyo (see page 47), Oct. 4 J J KNITTING FACTORY, Descendents (see facing page), A Wilhelm Scream, Audio Karate, Oct. 4 J KNITTING FACTORY, Clutch, Sevendust, Oct. 6 J SPOKANE ARENA, Shinedown, Godsmack, Asking Alexandria, Oct. 7 J THE PIN!, Hottman Sisters, Oct. 8 J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Aaron Lewis, Oct. 9 J THE BIG DIPPER, Michale Graves, Oct. 10
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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 381-5489 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Steve Earle returns to Spokane on Monday. TED BARRON PHOTO
MUSIC HE’S A REBEL
A few years back as I watched Steve Earle and his stellar band deliver an excellent show, I promised myself I’d never miss another one of his concerts if I could help it. I’ve seen him several times since, and it’s never been less than killer, with Earle blending rock, country and folk in songs addressing everything from lost love to class warfare. Earle’s show with Shawn Colvin at the Bing a couple years back was a treat, and this one should be, too. His latest album is called So You Wannabe an Outlaw, and if there’s any songwriter who could explain just what an outlaw is in 2018, Earle is the guy. — DAN NAILEN Steve Earle & the Dukes • Mon, Oct. 1 at 8 pm • $48-$60 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638
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WORDS WELCOME PARTY
Consider Elliot Reed an adoptee of the Spokane literary community. Even though he got his MFA at the University of Florida, Reed moved to the Lilac City in time to celebrate the release of his debut novel A Key to Treehouse Living. Released earlier this month, the story focuses on one William Tyce, a parentless child who creates a glossary of his hard-earned lessons partly learned on a Huck Finnlike river trip taken by raft. Author Alexis Smith (Marrow Island) will join Reed to introduce this vibrant new book to Auntie’s visitors and this newly minted Spokane author to his new neighbors. — DAN NAILEN Elliot Reed: A Key to Treehouse Living • Thu, Oct. 4 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206
FESTIVAL FIESTA!
Lace up your dancing shoes and head downtown for a huge celebration of Latino culture for Hispanic Heritage Month, which happens annually between Sept. 15 and Oct 15. The Latino Hope Foundation’s annual Fiesta Spokane Hispanic Heritage Festival promises to light up the street with vibrant colors and music you can’t resist dancing to. Immerse yourself in hispanic culture with food trucks, vendors, kids activities, live music, dancing and a beer garden. This year’s lineup includes performances from EWU Ballet Folklórico De Aztlán, Mariachi Huenachi, Los Vigiles and Milonga. If you have two left feet, free dance lessons at 5 pm can help you fiesta all night long. — MICHAELA MULLIGAN Fiesta Spokane • Sat, Sept. 29 from 11 am-8 pm • Free • All ages • Downtown Spokane, Post Street next to City Hall • latinohopefoundation.org
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Fall. Go for a Crawl. ARTS PARTY FOR ART
Just in time to kick off the beginning of another jam-packed season of wonderful artistic activities in and around the Spokane area this fall is the 2018 Spokane Arts Awards. The annual event celebrates our region’s ever-blossoming creative community with plenty of tasty food and drink, along with music by DJ Twin Towers and local group BaLonely. Renowned local artists, including Melissa Cole, Louise Kodis, Ken Spiering and many others, display their work in a pop-up gallery, while live performances from Spokane Poet Laureate Mark Anderson (pictured, right) and local group Power 2 the Poetry entertain guests. The evening’s program includes the presentation of the 2018 Spokane Arts Awards, honoring outstanding members and supporters of our arts community in the categories of leadership, collaboration, inclusion and imagination. To see the full list of nominees, head to the link below. — CHEY SCOTT
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— UPCOMING EVENTS —
MUSIC SAXOPHONE SUMMIT
The Spokane Jazz Orchestra kicks off its latest season with an appearance from acclaimed saxophonist Jeff Coffin, formerly a member of the jazz fusion group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and the current woodwinds maestro for the Dave Matthews Band. But Coffin is no mere utility player: He’s also released several solo albums with his Jeff Coffin Ensemble, and the SJO will join Coffin on a program that will include not only his own compositions, but a roster of beloved big band classics. The SJO’s 2018-19 season, dubbed “The Sound of Joy,” continues with a night of Michael Bublé Christmas tunes (Dec. 15), a jazzy tribute to the Grateful Dead (March 23) and a celebration of the legacies of Duke Ellington and Count Basie (May 11). — NATHAN WEINBENDER Spokane Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Coffin • Sat, Sept. 29 at 7:30 pm • $23$28; $15/students • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • spokanejazz. org • 227-7638
Zombie Crawl, Downtown, 10/6
Fall Fest, Downtown on Wall Street, 10/13
Walk To End Alzheimer’s, Riverfront Park, 10/6
Disney on Ice Dare to Dream, Spokane Arena, 10/18–10/21
Spokane Chiefs Hockey, Spokane Arena in October
The Ghost Ball, Riverside Place, 10/27
Don’t miss the next First Friday: November 2nd, 2018
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I SAW YOU GOOD THING I DID I saw you blow through the intersection at Third and Cannon... just like I do every day. Living in Brownes, I am aware that the people who venture into our eateries and bars are not aware of the two huge “Yield” signs staring at them in the face on Cannon. Seeing as they’ve been there for years yet still seem to be invisible. I wait for the day the city of Spokane does something to improve this intersection. RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT You, blue hoodie. Me, on your right, in Gray sweatshirt. I kept bumping into you, said “sorry” a couple of times, what I am most sorry about is that I didn’t get your name. Would like to know you! LOOKIN PRETTY AT PETE’S I saw you at Pete’s on Thursday the 20th... you ordered a pesto and garlic and had an Inlander in hand. You looked amazing in sage green and you were so kind to the servers. I’d love to buy you a meal sometime. WORTH THE CANDLEWAX I saw you
at the North Walmart on the 23rd. You were getting Moscato and ingredients for Alfredo. We both were lost and couldn’t find the fresh packaged pastas. We made small talk about the broken coolers and seasonal items. You seemed pretty excited about Vanilla Coke making a return to shelves. I would love to grab one with you sometime, even if they do taste like candle wax. Your company would be worth the sacrifice.
CHEERS THANK YOU CITY OF SPOKANE, Thank you city of Spokane, Park Operations, for saving the signage with information on the history of Peaceful Valley, the Basalt benches and the city benches in Peaceful Valley “Redband” Riverwalk. It is coming together and looks good. Thank you, from a resident in Peaceful Valley. SO MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS! Alicebamboosly, you have accomplished so much in such a short time. Its so crazy to think you will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in May. I am oh-so proud of you, as well as many others who love you. I know your daddy is looking down from heaven with such a big smile on his face. You are so amazing my love. Words can’t express just how proud I am of you for all you’ve conquered in the past three years! I love you so much boobear! <3 Kris
JEERS FREEWAY MERGING To the person who complained last week about the way people merge onto the freeway
at the Division onramp (before the Hamilton off ramp): The most efficient way to merge is to “zipper” into moving traffic. Please do some research and you will find that the people doing
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they jeopardize the safety of others. Another jeers to the fools who plan roads in this town. The traffic lights at Ermina & Greene on the west side of Spokane Community College was a
You ordered a pesto and garlic and had an Inlander in hand. You looked amazing in sage green and you were so kind to the servers.
what you are complaining about are the ones doing it right. This method results in less traffic jams and lastminute lane changes. PEOPLE WHO DON’T STOP AT STOP SIGNS To the people that almost hit me and my dog by Lewis and Clark on 9/20. Stop signs means STOP. You need to look before you drive through the intersection. Saying sorry will not absolve you if you hit someone or kill someone because you could’t be bothered to follow the law. As a pedestrian I always stop at intersections because it’s the law and too many drivers aren’t paying attention. Please, as drivers, do the same. SPOKANE FOOLS To the unsafe total idiot motorcyclists who pass others while speeding. Please be the only one who is hurt when an accident occurs. You need to learn to obey the Spokane speed limit you stupid fools. Please, law enforcement, arrest them when
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stupid idea. Traffic backs up far north on Greene. Stupid people try to weave in and out of traffic in an attempt to move faster. Students turning left onto campus back up traffic. This is just a huge accident waiting to happen. Hopefully when it does, the families of those killed will sue. What amazingly stupid planning. OBLIVIOUS BICYCLISTS In response to last week’s cheers for drivers who see bicyclists post. I have to say... it can be really hard for drivers to see bicyclists. Particularly in the early morning or early evening, when the sun is in our eyes. This week I’ve had to slam on my brakes two different times, narrowly avoiding bicyclists that assumed I saw them. One even rode off while cussing and flicking me a rude gesture as I sat shocked and nearly crying in my car. News flash dude... I couldn’t see you! What happened to wearing helmets and reflective gear, using available bike lanes, crossing at the light and
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MAKING THE DISABLED CITIZENS WAIT Jeers to Spokane public transit or whoever decided that the Paratransit service is not allowed to wait a few minutes for their patrons. I work downtown and I have multiple elderly and disabled customers that have to wait hours for another Paratransit van to pick them up after they complete their business. If the drivers could wait just a couple minutes these wonderful customers could efficiently live their lives like the rest of us. (This is absolutely not directed at the drivers, but rather the system itself.) n
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KENWORTHY GALA The Kenworthy’s biggest fundraiser of the year to support the venue’s general operating fund. Doors open at 7 pm, with entertainment at 8. Social hour includes a no-host bar and beer and wine raffle; followed by a show starring Portland Cello Project. Sep. 27, 7-10 pm. $25. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar/gala NO WATER NO BEER An evening of food, beer, silent/live auctions and more to support training scholarships for water operators and to contribute to the global efforts of Water for People. Sep. 27, 6-9 pm. $35-$45. Overbluff Cellars, 304 W. Pacific. bit.ly/2nNv7RE (847-9415) EMPTY BOWLS An evening of conversation, dinner and desserts from some of Spokane’s best bakeries. This year’s event features a conversation on partnership with a panel of special guests including Bishop Gretchen Rehberg and Dena Carr, Executive Director of River City Youth Ops. Sep. 28, 6-9 pm. $25. westcentralmission.org (309-6168) SIGNATURE CHEFS AUCTION Ten local chefs prepare gourmet dishes; guests also have the opportunity to bid on items and experiences in the live auction. The event raises funds to benefit the March of Dimes’ mission to lead the fight to improve the health of all moms and babies. Sep. 28, 6 pm. $150/person; $1,200/table. Centennial Hotel, 303 W. North River Dr. signaturechefs.org/spokane SPOKEN RIVER A celebration benefiting the Spokane Riverkeeper, featuring drinks, food, and readings from contributing writers to “The Spokane River,” a new book edited by Paul Lindholt on the river’s history and local impact. Sep. 28, 6 pm. $50/person; $350/table of 8. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. mwfi.edu (509-328-2971) STEAK & BAKE FUNDRAISER The monthly fundraiser includes live music from Diminishing Faculties and a dinner menu of steak, salad, baked potato and garlic bread. Monthly on the last Friday from 5-7 pm. $10. VFW Post 1435, 212 S. David St. (535-9315) BENEFIT YARD SALE: A multi-family sale hosted by Spokane Co-housing and Sravasti Abbey, with proceeds going in part to the monastic health fund. Sep. 29, 9 am-4 pm. At 907 E. 8th Ave., Spokane’s South Perry District. bit.ly/2IcWrSJ SUGAR RUSH SPOKANE The 5K run/ walk supports local nonprofit Inland NW Baby and includes post-race treats. Sep. 29, 9 am. $15-$35. The Warehouse, 800 N. Hamilton. classy.org/event/sugarrush/e183305 TAKE ACTION WITH ROBBI KATHERINE ANTHONY A Saturday afternoon gathering of supporters to support Robbi Katherine Anthony’s campaign for Spokane County Commissioner for District 3. Sep. 29, 4-6 pm. Free. nYne, 232 W. Sprague Ave. bit.ly/2xKJ9Jt (509-474-1621) TURKEYS & MORE: A SHOWCASE OF TALENT A benefit show for the Community Action Partnership (CAP) Food Bank. The goal is to raise money for the distribution of 1,700 turkeys and food to families for Thanksgiving. Sep. 29, 7 pm. $35. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org (208-667-1865) WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S (CDA) Be part of the world’s largest event to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease. Participants honor their loved ones and those in the community impacted
by Alzheimer’s during a Promise Garden Ceremony, followed by a 3-mile walk. Sep. 29, 8:30-11 am. Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln. bit.ly/2xCLF4e WIENER DOG RACES Join NW Dachshund Rescue at Oktoberfest for its annual fundraiser race. Dachshund Rescue NW has been volunteer-run since 1991. Sep. 30, 1:45-5:45 pm. $5/dog. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. spokaneoktoberfest.com SCOTT REED CONSERVATION LECTURE & DINNER The Idaho Conservation League sponsors the 3rd annual lecture and dinner in honor of the late Scott Reed, one of its founders. Guests hear from Rod Gramer, executive director Rick Johnson and others. Gramer is president of Idaho Business for Education, a group of business leaders working to transform the Idaho education system into one of the best in the country. Oct. 4, 6-9 pm. $60. Hayden Lake Country Club, 2362 E. Bozanta Dr. (208-265-9565) STARRY NIGHT A benefit for the Holy Names Music Center, with food and drink, live music, auctions and a sip-and-paint session with Spokane artist Stan Miller. Oct. 4, 6:30 pm. $50. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. hnmc.org
COMEDY
2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) JOHN ROY After honing his act in clubs around the Midwest, John was crowned the first champion of CBS’ Star Search in 2003. Sept. 27-28 at 8 pm, Sept. 29 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $8-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) JULIA SWEENEY: OLDER AND WIDER COMEDY TOUR Spokane native Julia Sweeney is a writer, comedian, director and monologuist who’s famous for being a “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1990-94. Sweeney’s Older and Wider tour is her first foray into stand-up comedy. Sep. 28, 8-10 pm. $33-$45. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests. Events on the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) NO CLUE! Audience suggestions start a night of mayhem for a group of quirky characters trapped at an inn with someone who has a grudge to settle. Fridays at 8 pm from Sept. 21-Oct. 26. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com MARY MACK, TIM HARMSTON AND SAMMY EUBANKS An evening featuring three award-winning comedians preceded by music by Sammy Eubanks. Sep. 29, 6-10 pm. $25. Bridge Press Cellars, 39 W. Pacific. bridgepresscellars.com SAFARI A fast-paced improvised show relying on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue
Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW! A comedy showcase where comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more! Presented by Tyler Smith, featuring nationally touring comedians with various tolerances to marijuana. Last Sunday of the month at 8 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (509-822-7938) JEFF DYE Jeff stars in NBC’s new eclectic comedy adventure series “Better Late Than Never,” which follows the travel of Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman. Oct. 4-6 at 7:30 pm, Oct. 6 at 10 pm. $16-$26. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com THE PUNDERGROUND: 2ND ANNIVERSARY! Come celebrate with plenty of puns, new swag and prizes. Oct. 4, 7-9:30 pm. Free. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2ORSvJB (703-7223)
COMMUNITY
MONSANTO, PCBS AND THE SPOKANE RIVER A community workshop with Peter Von Stackelburg, a writer and storyteller involved in the “Poison Papers” project. Von Stackelburg will discuss how the chemical manufacturer, Monsanto continued to produce and sell toxic industrial chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for eight years after learning that they posed hazards to public health and the environment. The event also features Lee First, the Spokane Riverkeeper’s River Toxics Outreach Coordinator, to discuss what PCBs are, their effects on human health, and the extent of contamination in the Spokane River. Sep. 27, 6-8 pm. Free and open to the public. Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St. (251-1424) THURSDAY EVENING SWING: FALL EDITION Weekly swing dance classes and dances; including progressive lessons, beginning Lindy Hop, collegiate shag and more. See site for details. Sep. 27, 6:45-10 pm. $35/$40. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (279-9041) GOAT YOGA Sessions include sunrise and sunset yoga with the goats, as well as family sessions. Sep. 28. $14-$53. Sweet Home Farm, 5040 W. Side Rd., Bonners Ferry. sweethomegoatyoga@gmail.com HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH: BILINGUAL STORYTIME A student from EWU’s Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity reads Spanish-English language storybooks during this special preschool storytime celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month. Sep. 28, 10:30-11 am. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (509-444-5300) INCG FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL Join the Inland Northwest Community gardeners for a Fall Harvest Festival at the WSU extension offering games, raffles, food, speakers and educational activities for kids. Sep. 28, 6-8 pm. Free. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. facebook.com/incommunitygardens.org RANDOM FANDOM TRIVIA NIGHTS: THE ’80S Trivia nights take on the biggest realms of fandom at the Spokane Valley Library. Bring your knowledge and your own eats (or have food delivered). Costumes and cosplayers are welcome.
Sep. 28, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org FRIENDS OF THE ARGONNE LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from the sale of used books support various library programs and services. Get early bird access from 9-10 am for $5. Sept. 29, 9 am-3 pm. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. scld.org (509-893-8260) HANDS ACROSS THE FALLS The secnd annual event gathers on the Monroe Street Bridge over the Spokane Falls in a show of public support celebrating recovery. Sep. 29, noon. Free. communityminded.org/event/hands-across-thefalls-2018 (960-8529) LET’S LEARN JAVASCRIPT! A fun, beginner-friendly intro to programming. Bring your laptop and start writing JavaScript from scratch. Sep. 29, 4:30-6:30 pm. Free. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2QMfs2j (842-6142) REGISTER TO VOTE AT THE MOVIES Come register to vote and get free admission to a major motion picture. The movie is a political suspense thriller with Academy Award winning stars. Admission is free to all who register or bring guests to register. Sept. 29, 12-3:30 pm. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanternonmain.com (979-9238) SPOKANE AIDS WALK The AIDS Walk and Strength for the Journey Reunion BBQ is presented by SAN, in cooperation with the Spokane Regional Health District. The walk raises awareness and funds for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Spokane and is followed by a barbecue lunch provided in part by Longhorn BBQ. Sept. 29, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Spokane Regional Health District, 1101 W. College Ave. spokaneaids.wixsite.com/sannw/ copy-of-events (324-1500) SPOKANE ARTS AWARDS The 2018 awards feature live music, a DJ, performances by local artists, and more, including appetizers, beverages and a temporary gallery of artwork by renowned local artists and past Arts Award winners. Sep. 29. $30. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. spokanearts.org VETERAN RESOURCE & JOB FAIR Representatives from local veteran and community organizations are on site to provide resources and employment opportunities to veterans. (Cold weather gear is also available for homeless veterans.) Sep. 29, 10 am-1 pm. Free. Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive NE. grantcountyfair.com (766-4111) FALL TOUR OF HISTORIC HOMES Spokane Preservation Advocates presents six of Spokane’s most beautiful, turn-of-thecentury historic homes built in the early 1900’s around Corbin Park. Tour each home and learn about its history and the surrounding neighborhood. Sep. 30, 12-4 pm. $20. spokanepreservation.org HERITAGE GARDENS TOUR The gardens have been restored to look as they did when the Turners entertained their guests there more than a century ago. Tours held on Sundays from 11 am-noon through Sept. 30. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org GAMES + FAMILY = FUN Playing games with family members builds relationships and also teaches important math and critical thinking skills needed for school success. Ages 4–8 with an adult. Oct. 2, 6-7 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. scld.org (509-893-8340) 6TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT CANDIDATE FORUM EWU’s College of Social
Sciences and the School of Social Work are hosting a candidate forum for the 6th Legislative District. Get to know the candidates: Jeff Holy, Jessa Lewis, Dave Wilson, Jenny Graham, Mike Voltz and Kay Murrano. In Hargreaves Reading Room, 201 Hargreaves Hall. Oct. 3, 12-1 pm. Free. EWU, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu (359-6081)
FESTIVAL
GREEK DINNER FESTIVAL The 83rd annual event features a variety of traditional Greek dishes and pastries, along with music, dancing and imported Greek gifts and other items in the gift shop. Sept. 27-29 from 11 am-8 pm daily. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Washington St. holytrinityspokane.org RAVEN A fall foods, campout and music festival in Spokane’s River Gorge, Olmstead Park (music festival) and Kendall Yards (regional fall foods festival). The event is dedicated to Native American musician Jim Boyd, and proceeds fund public art projects in Spokane. Sept. 28Oct. 1; times vary. Music is free; camping is $100/3 nights. Kendall Yards, Summit Parkway. ravenfest.org ART ON THE AVE The 8th annual event showcases more than 40 artists working in a variety of media, with live music until 9 pm, kid zones from Mobius, interactive art and more. Located in the Sprague Union District on East Sprague between Napa and Madelia. Sep. 29, 12-6 pm. Free. artontheavespokane.com BECK’S HARVEST HOUSE FALL FESTIVAL Enjoy fall activities with the family, including pumpkin donuts, apples, a farm “funland,” live music, pumpkin patch, crafts, apple cider and more. Sept. 22Oct. 28, Sat-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. Free admission. Harvest House, 9919 E. Greenbluff Rd. greenblufffarms.com LUCKY FALL FESTIVAL The local shop’s fourth annual fall celebration with music, food, children’s activities and shopping from 40+ vendors. Sept. 29, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Lucky Vintage & Pretty Things, 1930 S. Inland Empire Way. bit.ly/2MT0o3U
FILM
ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA’S JOURNEY TO TOMORROW As NASA celebrates its 60th anniversary, Discovery shines a spotlight on the historic institution taking us to the moon, to the surface of Mars, to the outer edge of our solar system and beyond. Sept. 29 and Oct. 3 at 12:55 pm. At Regal Northtown and Riverstone. $13. fathomevents.com FARMER OF THE YEAR After selling his Minnesota family farm, 83-year-old Hap Anderson tries to recapture his youth by road tripping with his unemployed granddaughter in a dilapidated Winnebago to his WWII reunion while trying to find a date. Filmmakers on-hand after screening. Sep. 29, 7-9:30 pm. $10. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St. bit.ly/2p70E1G MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Cinema-goers across the U.S. and beyond become instant film critics as they’re handed a ballot upon entry that allows them to vote for the Best Film and Best Actor. Sept. 29-30 at 7 pm. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com/ (509-327-1050) STUDIO GHIBLI FEST: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. Sept. 30-Oct. 1 and Oct. 3 (dubbed) at 12:55 pm. $13. Regal Cinemas NorthTown and Riverstone. fathomevents.com
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My girlfriend, who’d been traveling, lost track of what day it was and was surprised when I showed up on the usual night I come cook her dinner. She was happy to see me but said she needed to finish this one “urgent work email.” How nice. Dinner would get cold while she took forever. Instead of getting started in the kitchen, I sat down angrily on the couch. “What’s wrong?” she asked. I said, “I’ll just sit here till you’re ready!” She got AMY ALKON angry, saying that I should have just asked her how long she’d be or told her I felt bad. She then went on about how I have a “toxic” habit of this sort of “passive-aggressive” behavior, and I need to stop “acting out” before it ruins our relationship. I love her and don’t want to lose her. Help! —Doghouse There will sometimes be reasons you are unable to communicate using the spoken word: Your jaw is wired shut. You are gagged with duct tape. A wizard has turned you into a cocker spaniel. Otherwise, when you’d like another person to do something, it’s best not to express this to them in code: “I want you to meet my needs — right after you guess what they are!” Passive-aggressiveness is a kind of coded communication — a form of “indirect speech,” which is a way of saying something without flat-out saying it. The term “passive-aggressive” was coined by a military psychologist, Colonel William Menninger, during World War II. He used it to describe soldiers who — instead of saying no to a direct order (hello, ugly consequences!) — wiggled out through “passive measures” including “procrastination, inefficiency, and passive obstructionism.” Menninger’s term was useful in military memos because, as historian Christopher Lane puts it, the army couldn’t exactly issue a directive against “pouting.” However, there was no research to support it as anything more than a tactic in a certain situation — as opposed to a “personality disorder” a chronic, genetically driven pattern of maladaptive thinking and behavior. Yet, in the 1950s, a group of psychiatrists writing the mental disorders bible, the DSM (edition I), took a big, unscientific leap. They willy-nilly added passive-aggressiveness to the list of personality disorders in the book — perhaps because without an official “disorder” label (and diagnostic codes that go with), health insurance companies wouldn’t pay therapists to treat it. But consider the weaselly, “passive-aggressive” tack those soldiers took. Though their indirect approach to getting their way was militarily unhelpful, it was anything but “maladaptive” for them personally. It allowed them to avoid both court-martial and getting shot at — or to stay in bed “sick” instead of going all “10-4!” on scrubbing the grout in the latrines with their toothbrush. In other words, indirect communication like theirs is often adaptive, meaning highly useful — a form of diplomacy. As I pointed out in a recent column, per psychologist Steven Pinker, it’s a crafty way to communicate a potentially inflammatory message without causing offense the way baldly stating one’s feelings would. For example, there’s the social relationship-preserving hint about table manners, “Wow, Jason, you’re really ENJOYING that risotto!” instead of the more honest “GROSS! You eat like a feral hog on roadkill!” The thing is, avoiding causing offense can go too far, like when it’s driven by a long-held and unexamined belief that you’re offensive simply by existing and having needs. Understanding that, explore the root of your own passive-aggressive behavior. My guess? It’s fear of conflict, or rather, of the results of conflict. Granted, at some point, it was probably protective for you to avoid conflict — and the direct engagement that could lead to it — like if you had a volatile and abusive parent. However, as an adult, indirect communication should be a tool you use when it suits the situation, not a behavior you robotically default to. Consider that conflict, when expressed in healthy, noninflammatory ways, can be a positive thing — a source for personal and collective growth and deeper relationships. But to take advantage of this after years of auto-burying your feelings, you’ll need to start by articulating to yourself what you want in a particular situation. Next, while ignoring the protests of your fears, express your needs and/or feelings to the other person with healthy directness: “Hey, can you guesstimate how many minutes till you’re done with your work?” and maybe add “I have a special dinner planned, and I don’t want it to get cold.” Admittedly, some conflicts end up in gridlock, which means you won’t always get what you want. However, you’re far more likely to get your needs met if you don’t just fester with resentment or turn every relationship interaction into an intricate game of charades: “Sorry, honey. Still don’t get it. Are you angry or doing a rain dance?” n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR HAPPENING: A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION Filmmaker James Redford embarks on a personal journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. Oct. 1, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org
FOOD
FRIDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS Family-friendly trivia from Bent Trivia with local food trucks and beer flights from a local brewery. Fridays from 5-8 pm through Sept. 28. At the Sky Ribbon Cafe. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. bit. ly/2PRalxi (625-6600) SKYLITE CELLARS WINE MAKER DINNER Nectar welcomes back Skylite Cellars for a special multi-course wine dinner. Skyline was a Nectar partner winery from 2011-17 and the first winery to jump on board with our Nectar Tasting Room co-op concept. Sep. 28, 7-9 pm. $70. Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens. nectartastingroom.com SPOKANE OKTOBERFEST The annual celebration of German cheer, dancing, eating and singing features two entertainment stages, more bands, outdoor and indoor beer gardens, games and more during a family-friendly event. Sept. 28 from 4-11:30 pm, Sept. 29 from noon-11:30 pm and Sept. 30 from 11 am-5 pm. $5-$15. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. spokaneoktoberfest.com (621-0125) WINE TASTING Taste an international selection of organic/biodynamic wines. Includes cheese and crackers. Sep. 28, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com WINE TASTING Taste the wines of Thurston Wolfe Winery. Includes cheese and crackers. Sep. 29, 2-4:30 pm. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) CHEF TALKS Store chefs speak about particular cooking topics during a complimentary, Q&A-style event. First Wednesdays of the month, from 5-6 pm. Free. The Culinary Stone, 2129 N. Main St. culinarystone.com TOFU TRANSFORMATION Instructor Jamie teaches how to make classic Mexican recipes made with tofu, an ancient Chinese ingredient. Oct. 3, 5:30-7:15 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com
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GUEST ARTIST CONCERT: JEFF COFFIN, SAXOPHONE Jeff Coffin is a globally-recognized saxophonist, composer and educator. He is a member of the legendary Dave Matthews Band, as well as his own group Jeff Coffin & the Mu’Tet. In the Music Bldg. Recital Hall. Sep. 28, noon. Free. Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu MOSCOW SYNTH FEST The first annual Moscow Synth Fest is festival put on by Synthrotek and Mattson Mini Modular to celebrate all things synth, and includes a synth “petting zoo,” a forum with synthesizer artists and live modular synthesizer performances. Sep. 28, 5-8 pm. Free. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. bit.ly/2xacR9E FOX FAMILY SERIES: RECYCLED PERCUSSION Recycled Percussion has been touring the world and performing regularly in Las Vegas for more than 20 years with their high energy “junk rock”
music made with pots, pans, power tools and more. Sep. 29, 7-9 pm. $25$60. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA FEAT. JEFF COFFIN The three-time Grammy winning saxophonist of the Dave Matthews Band and Bela Fleck performs with the SJO, a traditional big band. Sep. 29, 7:30-9:30 pm. $29.14-$35.04. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY The show uses projection photos and original film footage, featuring a full live band performing all the hits. Sep. 30, 7:30-9:30 pm. $38.76-$59.64. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) TOO FAR NORTH PRESENTS: GEORGE WINSTON Pianist George Winston invented his own style of melodic instrumental music on solo piano in the early 1970s that he calls “folk piano.” Sep. 30, 3-5 pm. $30-$45. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com (624-1200) VIRTUOSO BAROQUE: VIVALDI & BACH CONCERTOS A performance by the Collegium Orchestra, Spokane’s professional chamber orchestra, featuring multiple soloists. Sep. 30, 3 pm. $5-$15. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org LOGAN RICHARDSON QUARTET Logan Richardson’s latest release, “Blues People,” fuses blues, rock, EDM, jazz and samples in a unique combination of “Stretch Music” that defies all boundaries. Oct. 3, 6:30-9:30 pm. $20. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific Ave. imaginejazz.org WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, featuring the band Uncle Farmer and Emily Faulkner. Includes an intermission/snack time. Oct. 3, 7:30-10 pm. $8/$10. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. womansclubspokane.org
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BUG Set in a seedy motel room, Bug centers on the meeting between a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter. Sept. 21-Oct. 14; ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $14-$27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) MARY POPPINS A staged musical of one of the most popular Disney movies of all time. Through Oct. 14; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $32-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) GOOD NEIGHBORS This new, fulllength comedy with heart takes a close look at relationships: family, friends, and neighbors. Sept. 28-29 at 7 pm, Sept. 30 at 3 pm. $7-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave, Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-0706) LOVE LETTERS A.R. Gurney’s touching romance comes alive through pen and paper and the lives of its characters. Sept. 28-Oct. 13; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater show Oct. 13 at 6 pm ($30). $5-$12. StageWest Community Theatre, 639 Elm St. (951-5818)
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RYAN! FEDDERSEN: PHANTOM LANDS Through interactivity, scale, and intimacy, Feddersen forms connections
between U.S. history, her Okanogan heritage, and current events to ignite conversations on place, use of space, and our relationship to the environment. Through Jan. 20, 2019; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm; until 8 pm third Thu. $5$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER ARTIST STUDIO TOUR The 11th annual artist tour hosts 41 artists across five studios. Original works for sale include painting, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, photography, wood, fiber, leather, origami and mixed media. Sept. 29, 10 am-5 pm. Free. See website for directions, map and details: littlespokanestudios.com MINI ALTARS Learn about traditions and practice surrounding this important part of the Day of the Dead celebrations. Using a shoebox, participants create a tabletop memorial alter to commemorate and celebrate the lives of their ancestors. Ages 12+. Sept. 29Oct. 20, Sat from 12-3 pm. $35. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. emergecda.org
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SPOKANE IS READING: AMY STEWART The bestselling author of “Girl With a Gun” talks about the Kopp sisters and the investigative skills that go into her writing. Spokane is Reading is a collaborative effort of the SCLD, SPL and Auntie’s. Free. Sept. 27, 1-2:30 pm (Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague Ave) and 7 pm (Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main). spokaneisreading.org (893-8209) GU STORY SLAM: TOUCH & GO Community members can come listen to storytellers share their stories on a given theme. Oct. 1, 8 pm. Free. GU Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone. bit.ly/2QyuE38 SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Spoken word warriors battle for Inland Empire supremacy, and a $50 prize. Each poem is judged by five audience members. Doors at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. spokanepoetryslam.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-847-1234) ELLIOT REED: A KEY TO TREEHOUSE LIVING The Spokane-based author is introduced and in conversation with writer Alexis Smith, talking about his new book “A Key to Treehouse Living.” Oct. 4, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com AN EVENING WITH MARLON BLACKWELL Blackwell is one of the nation’s most respected regional modernist architects. His practice, Marlon Blackwell Architects (MBA), takes place primarily in Arkansas and combines vernacular traditions with rigorous formalism to create architecture that responds to the physical and cultural eccentricities of a place. Oct. 4, 6-7:30 pm. $10. Chronicle Courtyard, 926 W. Sprague. aiaspokane.org (747-5498) LIFE & DEATH AT ANCIENT ELEON: ONGOING RESEARCH Learn more about the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project (EBAP), which has been excavating at the site of ancient Eleon in the village of Arma (Greece) since 2011. Oct. 4, 6:30 pm. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (313-6691) n
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