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fter lying empty for some 25 years, the elegant-turned-seedy Elks Building in downtown Coeur d’Alene is being reborn as a den for aspiring young entrepreneurs. The transformation is led by energetic human change agent Nick Smoot, who manages to juggle several balls in the air with apparent ease. Workers are hauling off the guts of the aging building by the truckload. Their efforts will transform the red brick shell of the old Elks Temple into a work-and-play headquarters for the Innovation Collective, which has been percolating along, literally underground, since 2014. Its website reads: “Innovation Collective is an organization that exists to inspire, connect, and accelerate local entrepreneurs in the Coeur d’Alene region, and help them to build the companies of the 21st century right here in our backyard.” Smoot, masterminding this effort, is a graduate of Coeur d’Alene High School who went east to Philadelphia and New York City about eight years ago to find his future. In these two cities, Smoot was absorbed into and mentored by the high-tech community. He began developing software programs, then made a successful sale and married Kenna. Together, they came back to put down roots in North Idaho. This is his success story, which he and his team want to help members of the Innovation Collective replicate without having to leave the Inland Northwest.
Meyer of Parkwood Business Properties, have said the Coeur d’Alene area is a likely site for expansion into high-tech innovation and production. The University of Idaho, a sponsor of the Innovation Collective, has recently enhanced its Coeur d’Alene campus with a new major in computer science — another advance under the leadership of Dr. Charles Buck. The appeal of the Innovation Collective goes out to the young in spirit as well as the young in age, and it sends a strong message that a young family does not have to move away from their roots in order to make a living. To keep your
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roots about you — to take risks and to ride with change — is a giddy promise, indeed. The Innovation Collective is clever in spirit and in words. It’s always smart to encourage teamwork, and it’s just as smart to encourage individual creativity. But it’s truly sweet when the two paths meet as one.
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While Obama and Trump may believe that American global leadership is over, Hillary Clinton sees things differently BY RYAN CROCKER
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oreign policy issues seldom decide presidential elections. We all should be paying attention this time, however, because the outcome will have a significant impact on America’s place in the world, and the world itself. Out of the wreckage of World War II came a new world order, largely designed and led by the United States. Its elements included the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, and the Bretton Woods Agreement which created a U.S.-led glob-
al financial system and established two institutions that play a major role in the world’s economy today: the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. NATO soon followed. The 70 years since the end of WWII have certainly not been ones of perfect harmony, but after two global conflicts in slightly more than three decades, the second half of the 20th century was immeasurably more peaceful than the first under the leadership of the U.S. In 1947, Harry Truman enunciated what became known as the Truman Doctrine: “It must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures.”
Successive U.S. presidents, Republican and Democratic, followed a doctrine of engagement in international affairs. In the Middle East, my area of focus during a long Foreign Service career, presidents from Truman through George W. Bush proclaimed it an area of vital interest to the United States and vowed to protect those interests and our friends. The doctrine of engagement has produced some spectacularly bad results, but overall the world was a better, safer place because of U.S. leadership. Without much fanfare or notice, the Obama Administration has moved in a direction different from his postWWII predecessors. There will be no Obama Doctrine of global engagement. The Atlantic magazine story with that title describes not a doctrine in the spirit of Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan or Clinton, but a decision to limit American engagement, especially in the Middle East. This is a fundamental departure from the philosophies of past presidents. President Obama has been openly derisive of the foreign policy establishment (of which I am a longstanding member) and its “playbook.” He has referred to Egypt and Saudi Arabia as “so-called allies,” and he has been critical of “free riders” in NATO. In all of this, Obama and Trump echo each other. The two may not agree on much, but they seem to share the view that the era of American global leadership is over. Unfortunately, events in recent years prove that the international bus is unlikely to stay on the road if we are not steering. States are collapsing in the Middle East, and in the open space this leaves, truly terrible non-state actors like the Islamic State and Iranian-backed Shia militias have emerged. As the world witnesses the worst refugee crisis in 70 years, we are on the sidelines, even though the European Union has been weakened, to the delight of Russia. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was my boss when I was ambassador to Afghanistan. She is smart, tough and focused, and she knows how the world works. She believes in U.S. leadership in the world and knows how to manage both allies and adversaries. I am confident that as president, she would re-engage the United States in international affairs in a manner that safeguards our interests and supports the cause of global security and stability. In recent years, the mantra that we can’t fix everything has become an excuse for not trying to fix much of anything. Mrs. Clinton will change that. I don’t know what Donald Trump will do. Based on what he has said so far, I don’t want to find out. n Ryan Crocker, born in Spokane, served as U.S. Ambassador six times: in Afghanistan (2011-12), Iraq (2007-09), Pakistan (2004-07), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-97), and Lebanon (1990-93). In 2009, President George W. Bush awarded Crocker the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Reactions to a blog post reporting the investigation by WSU police into graffiti discovered at the Pullman campus library that included the N-word and “Trump 2016”:
MIKE MCBRIDE: I bet it was done by Mike Leach, he introduced Trump in Spokane after all... ISAAC JACK JR.: Racists or TRUMP trolls? WSU is going to hell this year. Coaches, players, president and law enforcement all out of control. KEITH M. WELLER: This is just embarrassing. I’m an alumni and I’m embarrassed to say I’m a Coug. KEVIN FARRAGE: Oh, no! The “N” word, the world is gonna end! JAZMIN N. ELY: It’s never the word, but the intention that matters. ERIN DAVIS: Same assholes that are ‘building a wall’ in Pullman in support of Trump. Damned school has me shaking my head this year between the football team and these ignorant Trumpets. What is going on down there? ASHLEY EVANS: You mean like how after the Cascade Mall shooter was charged with domestic assault three times and the judge made the call that he could no longer legally possess firearms? Lot of good that did. Anyone with little regard for human life will find a way...
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Rematch Once again, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Joe Pakootas face off for her seat in Congress. Here are some ways they differ BY JAKE THOMAS
Democrat Joe Pakootas (left) is hoping that a second time will be a charm in unseating U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (right).
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n a house in West Central that’s been converted into offices for Joe Pakootas’ campaign for Congress, there’s a wall that shows just how busy the candidate’s summer has been. It’s covered with fliers for community events ranging from the Garland Street Fair to Inchelium Days, along with a sign reading, “Here’s where you can find Joe.” This is the second attempt by Pakootas, a businessman and tribal leader, to unseat Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers, first elected to represent Washington’s 5th Congressional District in 2004. “Boy, I think name recognition is kind of a driver this time,” says Pakootas, a Democrat who has recruited 800 volunteers for his second run. “We are going to concentrate a little bit more in the city of Spokane and Spokane
County,” he says, noting that McMorris Rodgers received only 40 percent of the vote in Spokane County, the district’s most populous county, in August’s top-two primary election. Despite McMorris Rodgers finishing the primary election with 42 percent of the vote for the entire district (Pakootas finished second with about 32 percent), she’s won her past four re-election campaigns with at least 60 percent of the vote. This time around, she’s raised nearly $2.5 million for her campaign to the $166,000 raised by Pakootas. Over the summer, she spent time in the district while raising money for other Republicans. Recently, she’s introduced legislation targeting government spending that hasn’t been authorized by Congress. “On behalf of the people, this is part of our responsi-
bility,” says McMorris Rodgers. Pakootas has expressed concern that the bill is a backhanded way of defunding crucial government programs. With a little more than a month until ballots are due, Pakootas says differences like these are coming into focus. “The issues are more prevalent in the district now,” says Pakootas.
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Pakootas wears a ring depicting “End of the Trail,” a sculpture by James Earle Fraser of an Indian slumping on a horse that’s come to a sudden stop. For 16 years, Pakootas served on the Colville Tribal Council and later helped reinvigorate its business operations as CEO. After finishing a contract to run business ...continued on next page
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operations for the Nez Perce Tribe, Pakootas took over as CEO of the Spokane Tribe earlier this month. Pakootas takes issue with how McMorris Rodgers, whose district encompasses three federally recognized tribes, has dealt with the Spokanes. For two decades, the Spokane Tribe has sought a settlement with the federal government over the impacts the Grand Coulee Dam has had on the tribe. The dam, constructed between 1933 and 1942, flooded the tribe’s land and blocked salmon runs, which were a significant part of the tribe’s diet and culture. Although the Colville Tribe, which was similarly affected, received a $53 million settlement in 1994 and receives an annual payment, the Spokanes still haven’t. Pakootas says that McMorris Rodgers has blocked the settlement with the Spokanes because the tribe has pursued a controversial gaming and retail development that Gov. Jay Inslee gave final approval to in June. McMorris Rodgers says she has opposed the development because of its proximity to Fairchild Air Force Base. “That’s a backwards way of negotiating,” says Pakootas. “She should have helped them with both issues because they have legal standing [for the settlement].” The Spokane Tribal Business Council didn’t respond to a request for a comment, but McMorris Rodgers denies Pakootas’ assertion. “I don’t know where he got his information,” she says. “That’s not true. I have worked very
closely with the Spokane Tribe to find an approach that would work.” On his website, Pakootas claims endorsements from a number of tribes across the Northwest, including the Colvilles and Spokanes, but not the Kalispels. Recently, the Colville Tribe praised McMorris Rodgers for supporting legislation that would give tribes more control over their land. The Kalispel Tribe (which worried that the Spokanes’ casino would compete with its North-
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries. Proponents say it’ll help tradedependent Washington state export its goods. But detractors say it was written in secret, gives corporations too much power and will squeeze labor. “I think it needs to be renegotiated,” says Pakootas, who worries it’ll hurt businesses and workers in the state. “I think it needs to be looked at in a different light.” Although McMorris Rodgers voted to give President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the deal, she’s been noncommittal about supporting it. She expects it’ll be up to the next president. “There have been enough concerns raised over the the TPP that I don’t believe it’s going to move forward,” she says. “They are going to have to go back to the table and negotiate with the new administration.” n jaket@inlander.com
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Eastern Washington University professor Ed Byrnes POLICE The second phase of some LONG-ANTICIPATED RESEARCH into Spokane Police Department contacts with racial minority groups will move forward without one of the two principal researchers. Thanks to $16,000 approved last week by the Spokane City Council, Eastern Washington University professor Ed Byrnes is free to dive into about 2½ years worth of data on police contacts. SPD Capt. Brad Arleth, who initially approached Byrnes in 2012 with the idea, won’t be helping. The shake-up came from Police Chief Craig Meidl, who decided to replace Arleth with Asst. Chief Justin Lundgren. Meidl explains that he needs precinct captains (Arleth runs the downtown precinct) to focus on combating property crime and engaging in community outreach. Lundgren is in a better position to help Byrnes, Meidl says. The decision caught Byrnes by surprise; he said he wasn’t consulted and does not agree with it. (MITCH RYALS)
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EDUCATION Washington State University police are investigating GRAFFITI with the N-word written above “— Trump 2016” in the school library that a student says she discovered last week. This comes weeks after the WSU College Republicans announced they would build a plywood “Trump wall” in support of Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the southern border to halt illegal immigration. Haniyyah Dixon, the student who found the racist graffiti, tweeted a picture of it and wrote on WSU President Kirk Schulz’s Twitter account that if the school lets them build the wall on WSU’s campus, this kind of message is what he’ll be supporting. Schulz said the graffiti was unacceptable, and the president of the WSU College Republicans disavowed the vandalism. The graffiti was removed the next day. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
CRIME The FBI released its national crime statistics data for 2015 last week, showing that there’d been about a 12 percent decrease in Spokane’s PROPERTY CRIME rate. It indicates that after spiking in 2012 to 2013, property crime is finally returning to the baseline of the previous three decades in Spokane. The bad news? That baseline is still awful. Spokane’s property-crime rate remains more than two times higher than the Washington state average, and Washington has the second-worst property crime rate in the nation. Preliminary stats from this year show that property crime is beginning to increase again. It’s something that Police Chief Craig Meidl, Mayor David Condon and the city council have all vowed to work together to solve, including by adding more Neighborhood Conditions Officers in next year’s budget. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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Hail to the Chief (Again) Craig Meidl again gets the nod from Mayor Condon; plus, a WSU football player in Domino’s brawl won’t be charged MEIDL DECISION
It appears that the year without stability atop the Spokane Police Department will come to a close. During a news conference on Monday, Mayor David Condon announced his choice to lead the city’s law enforcement officers: Craig Meidl — again. “I’ve gotten to know [Craig Meidl] for the last four and a half years, and he’s never led me in the wrong direction,” says City Council President Ben Stuckart. “He’s always been open and honest with me.” In September 2015, SPD’s former Chief Frank Straub was forced out after recurring issues regarding his abrasive and manipulative management style. A permanent replacement remained elusive until now. In August, Condon unexpectedly nominated Meidl in a decision that skirted a thorough public vetting and interview process. Meidl did not initially apply for the chief’s job and did not go through the same process as the two final candidates, but Condon nominated him anyway. Several members of the public and the city council criticized Condon for his decision. Eventually, the mayor agreed to restart the process, bringing back two previous finalists and an additional candidate. Ultimately, the application reboot didn’t sway
Condon’s opinion. During the announcement, the mayor noted that three of four interview panels unanimously recommended Meidl as chief. Stuckart, who was highly critical of the mayor’s surprise appointment in August, is optimistic this time around. He says the council will vote on the nomination Oct. 10. “Craig has worked for this department for 22 years, and this is a guy who is well-respected from all ranks,” says Officer Tim Schwering, who worked as a director in SPD under Straub and is now in training to be a patrol officer. “He’s a genuine person. What you see is what you get.” Asked how Meidl compares to Straub, Schwering says: “You’ve met Craig, right? Frank had good ideas, but he could have improved on his execution. They couldn’t be two more different people.” (MITCH RYALS)
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When WSU FOOTBALL player Shalom Luani was arrested for second-degree assault in August, coach Mike Leach quickly questioned the police account of what happened. Police said that Luani broke a man’s nose outside of
a Pullman Domino’s Pizza on Aug. 24. They said Luani was agitated because his pizza order took too long, that he became “disorderly,” and struck a man under the chin who was trying to calm him down. They said a fight ensued outside. Police said that when they arrived, the victim, Kyle Medina, was “bleeding profusely.” Leach disputed that narrative, saying that it sounded like Luani was instead “jumped by three people.” Luani reportedly also told police a similar story. This week, Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy released a letter explaining that Luani would not be charged with assault. In the letter, he says that there is enough evidence to conclude that Luani broke Medina’s nose, but that he would not be able to prove to a reasonable jury that Luani wasn’t acting in self-defense. While there wasn’t video of the fight outside of Domino’s where police say Luani broke Medina’s nose, police did release video to the Moscow-Pullman Daily News showing the moment before the fight was taken outside. In the video, Luani makes his way through a crowd of people pushing him to the door, where Medina opens it and grabs Luani in an attempt to escort him out. Luani can be seen clearly striking Medina in the face. Medina chases him outside, where police say Medina’s nose was broken. Luani suffered injuries to his face and a concussion. Tracy, the prosecutor, said Medina initiated the contact inside Domino’s and called Luani’s blow to Medina at the doorway a “push” in the face. Tracy concluded that there was enough evidence to charge each of them with “minor assaults,” for that encounter, but he said the two men requested that no charges be filed. Luani was suspended for one Cougars game, the season-opening loss to Eastern Washington. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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FROM LEFT: Judge Linda Tompkins, Ward Andrews, Judge Gregory Sypolt and Tim Fennessy.
Judgment Day It isn’t easy to judge a judge, but this might help BY MITCH RYALS
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wo of the 12 Spokane County Superior Court judges have drawn challengers this year, and that’s a rarity in the general election. The remaining 10 uncontested judges are automatically retained for another four years. Since 2000, no more than one Spokane Superior Court judge has been challenged per year. In 2008 and 2012, all 12 judges ran unopposed in the general election and were automatically retained. One challenger in this year’s election — Ward Andrews, a local attorney who specializes in civil law — says he sees room to bring efficiency to Superior Court. He points to statistics indicating the high number of motions, known as affidavits of prejudice, filed against his opponent, Judge Linda Tompkins. Those motions are statements from attorneys saying they can’t get a fair hearing from a particular judge. Each side is allowed to file this motion only once per case, and attorneys don’t have to give a reason. Tompkins says she is aware of the affidavits, and suggests that some are a result of office-wide policies not to appear before her after attorneys disagreed with her rulings. “I understand there are segments of practitioners that have this generalized concern, and they have a right to do that,” she says. “But I have a role to play for the community, and the lawyers who come in front of me, to be totally just. I cannot bend to that pressure.” Tim Fennessy, also a civil attorney, calls for more diversity on the bench in his bid against Judge Greg Sypolt. Notably, not all current Superior Court judges were willing to put their names behind both incumbents. All 11 endorsed Sypolt, but only five sitting Superior Court judges endorsed Tompkins. “Spokane County Superior Court enjoys a collegial, supportive environment,” says Judge Harold Clarke III. “However, the issues with regard to Judge Tompkins and the resulting increase as to the workload for the rest of the bench are readily apparent. As a result, I am not endorsing Judge Tompkins in this election.”
TOMPKINS V. ANDREWS
Linda Tompkins began her legal career as clerk in the State Court of Appeals before moving on to the local firm Lukins & Annis. She was appointed to Spokane’s Superior Court in 1997. In her
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BY THE NUMBERS The Spokane County Bar Association conducted a poll of three of the four candidates; 302 local attorneys rated Tim Fennessy and Superior Court judges Greg Sypolt and Linda Tompkins on a scale of 1 to 4 in five categories. Ward Andrews opted not to participate. Here’s how they scored: LINDA TOMPKINS • Legal ability: 2.48 • Judicial Temperament: 2.91 • Integrity: 3.02 • Relevant Legal Experience: 2.78 • Suitability: 2.54 GREG SYPOLT • Legal ability: 3.42 • Judicial Temperament: 3.38 • Integrity: 3.51 • Relevant Legal Experience: 3.54 • Suitability: 3.47 TIM FENNESSY • Legal ability: 2.78 • Judicial Temperament: 2.87 • Integrity: 2.98 • Relevant Legal Experience: 2.89 • Suitability: 2.79
nearly 20 years on the bench, she has heard every type of case, but holds a fondness for the work in therapeutic courts, such as drug court, where defendants are diverted from jail and into treatment and housing. “I remember her compassion and the energy she had for that docket,” says Superior Court Judge Maryann Moreno. “She made a significant impact.” City councilman and local civil rights attorney Breean Beggs agrees. “I just know that she tends to follow the Constitution and follow the law that benefits everyday people, even if it might be unpopular with certain interests,” Beggs says. Tompkins, 64, also expresses her excitement for the reforms coming out of the Spokane County Regional Law & Justice Council — the new statistical tool that will aid judges in making bail or release decisions, for example. “What we’ve learned is that money bond is not an accurate measure for community safety or even return to court,” she says. “What results is very dangerous offenders are out in the community because they can post bond, and poor defendants are in jail for months before trial, and they’re not dangerous.” Her challenger for Position 10, Ward Andrews, sees some inefficiencies in Superior Court. Andrews currently works exclusively in the civil realm as an in-house attorney for Farmers Insurance. He explains the frustrations of civil attorneys and their clients, who will sometimes wait more than a year before they can get in front of a judge after filing a lawsuit, and he points to the affidavits of prejudice filed in Tompkins’ courtroom as part of the problem. “The stats show that my opponent is removed regularly by attorneys on all sides of the fence,” he says. According to statistics compiled by the Spokane Superior Court Administrator’s Office, Tompkins received about 32 percent of all affidavits filed in Superior Court in 2009, 16 percent in 2010, 18 percent in 2011, 29 percent in 2012, 26 percent in 2013 and 28 percent in 2014. There is, however, some debate over whether these motions are an accurate metric for a judge’s integrity. “Sometimes attorneys may not agree with a judge’s ruling, and they will decide not to appear in front of that judge anymore,” Moreno says. “That becomes problematic when you have entire offices doing that, but I think we’ve all been subject to the ‘sending a message’ affidavit.” Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Spokane County Public Defender’s Office also declined to comment for this article.
SYPOLT V. FENNESSY
Judge Greg Sypolt spent nearly 20 years as a Spokane County public defender before then-governor Mike Lowry appointmented him to the Superior Court bench. For the past three years, Sypolt, 67, has mainly presided over
criminal cases in the pretrial stages, which is virtually unheard of. Typically, judges rotate off that particular assignment after a year. “It’s just such a grueling docket, so when you get near the end of that first year, you’re exhausted,” says Superior Court Judge Annette Plese, who has endorsed Sypolt, but not Tompkins. Talk to someone about Judge Sypolt, and inevitably the word “diversity” will come up. In 2004, he helped establish a diversity section of the Spokane County Bar. During judges’ meetings, he’s always the one to ensure that minority groups are considered in decision-making. But it’s diversity that Tim Fennessy, his opponent for Position 11, says is lacking on the current bench. “We don’t have anybody up there who has the plaintiff’s civil experience that I do, and I think that’s important,” Fennessy says. He adds some frustration over what some would argue is a broken judicial election system. Eight of the 12 current Superior Court judges were initially appointed by the governor. Although some have faced challengers in the past, the incumbent undoubtedly has the advantage. “The practice has been that judges run for a four-year-term and then retire or resign,” Fennessy says. “In the last couple resignation and appointment processes, the resigning judge has taken a stance on who should replace them, and it’s my understanding that the governor seriously considers who the exiting judge thinks ought to get appointed.”
BLURRED LINES
Judicial elections are paradoxical. On the one hand, elections give the public buy-in for the justice system, says David Brody, a WSU criminal justice professor who has studied judicial elections. On the other hand, not much information about judges is readily available, and the majority of judges don’t face challengers and are automatically retained. Superior Court judges in Spokane County, who preside over felony-level criminal cases and civil lawsuits, pride themselves on collegial and productive professional relationships. That’s a good thing, says Ron Miles, the former Superior Court administrator who retired earlier this year. Judges’ willingness to help each other allows cases to flow through the system quickly and promotes the overall administration of justice. But the tight-knit group can present a problem for the public. Fearing they will upset those delicate relationships or undermine the public’s overall confidence in the court, most judges are not willing to say anything to shed negative light on a fellow jurist. The same can be said for most attorneys, who are largely unwilling to publicly utter anything disparaging about a judge who could preside over their cases down the road. That means unlike elections for city councilmembers, state representatives or the President of the United States, the very people who work closely with these judicial candidates, and who are arguably in the best position to accurately inform the public, choose not to do so out of self-preservation. The public can turn to statistics, such as the number of times attorneys file affidavits of prejudice or how many times a judge’s decision has been reversed in appellate courts. But there are flaws with those metrics, and most of that information is not readily available. In a 2008 survey conducted by Brody and a colleague, one of the most prominent frustrations with judicial elections was the frequency with which judges retire midterm and an appointed jurist takes his or her place. “It’s kind of a political game to get appointed,” Brody says. “You generally need to be active in the bar association, and to some extent share common views as the governor.” Among all judicial offices statewide, including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Superior Courts, 84 percent of judicial elections were uncontested in 2008, according to Brody’s research. This year, for Superior Court alone, 86 percent of the open seats statewide are uncontested. “We elect judges to give the people a voice and a say in the government,” Brody says. “Having two-thirds of judges not stand for election doesn’t seem to show that purpose.” n
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Shelly O’Quinn is eager to stay on the commission, saying, “There’s so much opportunity that it’s crazy.”
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Urgency of Change One Spokane County commissioner is facing a challenge from an attorney pushing for quicker criminal justice reform BY WILSON CRISCIONE
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s a brand-new county commissioner four years ago, Shelly O’Quinn carried a book with her about how to make local and state government more efficient. With the book, called Extreme Government Makeover, in hand during a training session for newly elected officials, a man gave her a message. “He said, ‘You’ll never change the culture of county government,’” O’Quinn recalls. “I was so upset with him that I walked up to the [Washington State Association of Counties] leadership at the end of that and said, ‘I’m teaching this class in four years, because I’m going to prove you wrong.’” O’Quinn is, in fact, teaching that class this December. She feels she has helped change the culture in Spokane County and fulfilled the promise she made four years ago of improving internal processes through what she calls “lean management,” which she says has saved taxpayers millions of dollars. She says she’ll continue those efforts, and her effort to reform the criminal justice system, as she seeks a second term on the Spokane County Board of Commissioners. But her opponent, Andrew Biviano — a
former mental health case manager and a current civil rights attorney — contends that he is the one with more experience when it comes to criminal justice reform. And he says since public safety makes up three-quarters of the county budget, criminal justice reform could save the county millions more. “If criminal justice is 75 percent of the budget,” Biviano says, “then somebody on the county commission should have some experience with criminal justice.” He says that sometimes it’s necessary to spend money to save money. For example, he says a mental health case manager with 40 to 50 clients, like he used to be, can save millions of dollars in public resources by helping them live more independently — instead of incarcerating or hospitalizing them. He is advocating for more probation services, electronic monitoring and pretrial services that will keep people out of jail if they’re not a threat to the community. He criticizes how long it takes for reform efforts to happen with O’Quinn as chair of the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council. “The fact that it’s not getting done is the
“I actually think my experience is better than [O’Quinn’s], even with her on the job,” says Andrew Biviano. evidence that change needs to happen,” Biviano says. O’Quinn, however, shares many of the same goals when it comes to criminal justice reform. She says she has actually tried to move faster than the rest of the other elected county officials on criminal justice issues, but says “collaboration takes time.” A $1.75 million MacArthur Foundation grant to reduce overcrowding and racial disparities in the Spokane County Jail will help kick-start the work the county is already doing, she says. “[Biviano] needs to spend more time with us, because he criticizes us on things we’re already doing,” O’Quinn says. While criminal justice has been a focus of this race, wider differences in the two candidates’ philosophies lie elsewhere. O’Quinn, for example, opposes the Spokane Transit Authority sales tax increase that would fund projects such as the Central City Line, a bus route from downtown to Spokane Community College. She says she isn’t anti-transit, but she thinks STA can move forward with the plan without the sales tax increase. Biviano says he’s “completely, diametrically opposed” to O’Quinn on this issue. He says he agrees with County Commissioner Al French that bus services are critical to economic growth and development. Biviano says his land-use philosophy will be different than O’Quinn’s. He says he wants more development, but says the county needs to make sure it isn’t producing profits for developers that may hurt the public. Biviano has questioned O’Quinn’s relationship with developers, accusing her and the county commission of giving them priority. “The government needs to work the same for everybody,” he says. “And you not only need to make sure there are no conflicts of interest, you need to make sure there are no appearances of conflicts of interest.” O’Quinn rolls her eyes when she hears that accusation, saying that “no one buys my vote.” She says she represents everyone in the county, and that it’s more than developers who are donating to her campaign. “When I ran [unsuccessfully for the state House] in 2010, there were two things that I have said the entire time I’m in politics,” she says. “No. 1: I will come out with my integrity. And No. 2: I never want anyone to say I never worked hard enough.” n
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Bridging the Gap
Bridge Avenue stands as the dividing line between Spokane’s swanky Kendall Yards development and the impoverished West Central neighborhood. Is that about to change? By Daniel Walters
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he grass is greener on the south side of Bridge Avenue. A squadron of GreenLeaf Landscaping workers in fluorescent vests are on patrol in Kendall Yards, where the rectangular lofts and sharp-angled townhomes are painted in rich shades of modern gray.
They’re armed with mowers and leaf blowers, ensuring every house has a lawn up to the same exacting standards. Horticulturists, weed sprayers and irrigation specialists descend on the neighborhood, caring for the daffodils, the feather reed grass, and the young trees that are spaced along the sidewalks with mathematical precision. The pristine yards and porches of Kendall Yards seemingly vary only by the brand of high-end barbecue grills and deck furniture preferred by owners. But on the other side of Bridge Avenue, which runs east-west, the carefully coiffed
FACING PAGE: Greenstone Homes founder Jim Frank stands on the south side of Bridge Avenue, where the new Solo Lofts, worth over $200,000, have risen up in the past year. ABOVE: West Central Neighborhood Council Chair Mike Brakel stands on the other side of Bridge, where low-income renters live in century-old homes. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS
Kendall Yards neighborhood becomes the wilder West Central. Some West Central lawns have watered grass and trimmed flowers, sure. But there are also the yards where shin-high weeds grow untamed, and the yards that are nothing but dirt. There are the bare yards strewn with toppled Tonka trucks, plastic bowling pins and naked dolls missing limbs. Fraying Tibetan prayer flags are strung above one porch, as chickens peck at the grass. A rickety wooden chair with “I love Jesus” crudely painted in red on the back is perched on the porch next door. Stray cats lick at the water in a plastic tin in an overgrown yard, next to a house where kids scurry around overturned bikes and Big Wheels. Jim Frank, Kendall Yards’ developer, rides through Bridge Avenue on a golf cart, Kendall Yards on his left, West Central on his right. On the left, the tony, threestory Solo Lofts condos were snatched up for $200,000
— six sold in a single day in April, even before they were built. The new condo owners stare across the street at an abandoned home with peeling paint and boarded-up windows. That, Frank says, is intentional. “We wanted them to face the street, even though often what they were facing often wasn’t very pretty,” Frank says. “We wanted Kendall Yards to be part of West Central.” But the separation remains stark. The houses on the right are often 100 years older and sell for $100,000 less than the houses on the left. West Central is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Spokane — and Bridge Avenue is in one of the poorest parts of West Central. So when the 78 acres of former rail yard to the south began to transform into the high-end Kendall Yards development, the surrounding neighborhood was expected to transform with it.
So far, the north side of Bridge Avenue has largely resisted that transformation. Frank sees sparks of investment, but not the strong, fast change he’d been hoping for. Over the past year, more properties on the West Central side of Bridge have seen their assessed values fall, not increase. As the market heats up and Kendall Yards’ construction marches westward, that could soon change, but for now, Bridge remains a symbolic and literal dividing line, separating the new from the old, the rich from the poor.
SEPARATION ANXIETY
The divide on Bridge Avenue could have been even more stark. Developer Marshall Chesrown’s original vision for Kendall Yards, in the heady days of 2007’s construction boom, featured more density, higher prices, taller build...continued on next page
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Acoustic guitarist Carlton Oakes plays outside Nick and Michele Follger’s West Central home for Porchfest, a music festival aimed at bringing West Central and Kendall Yards together.
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“BRIDGING THE GAP,” CONTINUED... ings and swankier condos. It was planned as $1 billion gated oasis of high-end luxury in a desert of poverty. “The previous potential developer, Chesrown, he was like, ‘Ugh, we’re going to build a fence. And that all the houses will face each other and you don’t have to look at the poor people,’” says West Central resident Bea Lackaff. The economic crash, however, destroyed Chesrown’s plans, leaving Jim Frank’s Greenstone Homes company to swoop in and pick up the pieces. Frank had a different plan. He imitated the existing street grid of West Central instead of turning the whole thing into a network of cul de sacs. He capped building heights on Bridge to create a smoother transition into West Central. “Bridge isn’t anything special. It’s not a barrier. It’s not a boundary. It’s not like the end of our project and the beginning of something else. We’re all one neighborhood,” Frank says. “Bridge is nothing but another street.” At least that’s his long-term vision. To assist that integration, Greenstone has poured much of its own resources into West Central. Neighborhood activists praise Greenstone’s contributions to the neighborhood council, Project Hope, a nonprofit that
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involves kids in community gardening, and West Central’s C.O.P.S. (Community Oriented Policing Services) location. “My fear was the people living in Kendall Yards would want to isolate themselves from West Central,” Frank says. “But that’s the furthest from the truth. They’ve wanted to do what they can to be part of West Central and help West Central.” Frank notes that Kendall Yards neighbors cook a monthly meal for the community at West Central’s Youth for Christ center. Some of them have helped LETTERS their West Central Send comments to neighbors with landeditor@inlander.com. scaping. Kendall Yards resident Kathleen Grier says she volunteers at the Spark Central — a Greenstonesupported nonprofit that focuses on literacy for West Central kids. Three years ago, Marshall Peterson, who lives above the art gallery he runs in Kendall Yards, launched a music festival called Porchfest, precisely as a way to bridge the class divide between West Central. Greenstone
sponsored it. Kendall Yards neighbors speak of friendships forged across the street. And neighbors on both sides say they’ve seen the crime begin to fall in the neighborhood once disparaged as Felony Flats. “When I first moved in, it was a kinda sketchy neighborhood. Like 3 am to 5 am, there’d be some very criminal-looking people roaming up and down the street,” says West Central renter Kevin Doyle. “There’d be some guy with a bicycle with a baby carrier behind him, and all those criminal tools in the baby carrier.” But the neighborhood has changed since then, he says. It feels safer. “The simple answer to crime is people,” Frank says. “You do some investment here, and you put people in the street, and crime goes away.” Police data seem to back that up: According to Spokane Police Department statistics, the amount of crime in the district that includes West Central fell nearly 25 percent between 2012 and 2015, outpacing the drop in crime citywide. Yet crime can also become a flash point between the
two sides of the street. Mike Brakel, chair of the West Central Neighborhood Council, says he’s seen tensions flare up on Nextdoor.com, a social network that puts West Central and Kendall Yards on the same private forum. Kendall Yards residents sometimes blame West Central for burglaries. Brakel scoffs at the new neighbors who feel they can just leave their garage door open and expect nothing to happen. West Central residents bristle at feeling judged, he says, feeling like Kendall Yards residents don’t understand what it’s like to live in generational poverty. “There does seem to be an ‘us vs. them’ mentality,” Brakel says. At times the separation is explicit: As Oak Street turns into the driveway at the back of the Kendall Yards apartments, a red-on-white sign warns “Private Access Residents & Guests Only.” Lisa Lightbody lives with her kids, her sister and her sister’s kids on the West Central side of Bridge, all struggling to get by. Lightbody yells at her niece to stop doing cartwheels across the street in Kendall Yards. She says some Kendall Yards residents are nice — entertaining her kids, even giving them snacks — but not all of them. “The ones that are not nice will just drive by slowly and give you dirty looks, pretty much like you’re not a person,” she says. Lightbody’s 10-yearold daughter gleefully interjects with a theory: “Because these houses are ugly,” she says. “I think we should rebuild this whole street!” Holly Garrabrant, a pastor with a West Central street ministry, says class resentment exists on both sides. Some low-income residents view Kendall Yards as almost a colonization, contemptuously referring to it as the Gaza Strip. “There is a large income discrepancy as well a cultural barrier of fear,” Garrabrant says by email. “The people who grew up in West Central have had several encounters with residents of Kendall Yards that were unpleasant, fear-based, and at times racially motivated.” Garrabrant describes breaking up a confrontation at the new park in Kendall Yards, where a Kendall Yards resident pulled a knife on a West Central resident, telling her to go back to her part of the neighborhood. “[Kendall Yards residents] drive expensive cars through areas of West Central where people live 12-to-15 deep in two-bedroom apartments, scrounging for things like deodorant, borrowed shower and laundry services,” she says. Garrabrant and Brakel both see ways that Kendall Yards neighbors could get more involved. He says Kendall Yards has accountants who could help residents with their taxes, and lawyers who could give them legal aid. Brakel would like to see a big public forum, possibly moderated by the city, that would bring together Kendall Yards and West Central to talk through their issues. Technically, the city considers the two part of the same neighborhood — though only one Kendall Yards resident is on the council.
“The cultures are so complexly different,” Brakel says. “Neither side really understands where the others are coming from.”
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A rusted horseshoe hangs above the numbers — W. 2312 — fading on the concrete porch. The paint on the side that hasn’t sloughed off has faded to the color of old newspaper. The cracked front window has been plugged with caulk, but a jagged hole has been busted in the attic window. That may be how the pigeon got in: The bird bobs and struts through the dust and rubble on the concrete floor, underneath bare wooden beams, then flutters up into the rafters. This vacant Bridge Avenue house is owned by Gavin Cooley, the chief financial officer of the city of Spokane. The struggles he’s had with the property illuminate why despite — or even because of — Kendall Yards, improving the neighborhood has been so slow. Cooley says he bought the house in 1998. He’d look at the bare land across the street, and picture the thriving neighborhood that was sure to someday be built there. But then a once-reliable long-term tenant went downhill. Court records and an interview with the tenant reveal a sad and ugly tale involving emotional health issues, custody battles, property destruction, an abusive ex, a bipolar
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Cooley says he recently filled an entire dumpster with the trash — a mattress, a sofa, a TV — that someone dumped into his yard. “When you have an abandoned home — or a seemingly abandoned home — it has a huge deleterious effect on the surrounding neighborhood,” says Cooley’s colleague Jonathan Mallahan, the city of Spokane’s neighborhood and business services director. Particularly when there’s the presence of garbage, he says, a vacant house can send the home values of neighbors plummeting by as much as 17 percent. The West Central side of Bridge has at least three such vacant homes. Cooley’s house lost nearly $8,000 in assessed value this past year. The Kendall Yards townhomes directly across the street, meanwhile, sold during the same period for more than $200,000. Still, Cooley is wary of spending tens of thousands of dollars to bring the house up to snuff, doubting that he’ll be able to justify a higher rent if the neighborhood doesn’t improve first. Keith Johnstone, who owns a house nearby, says he’s also waiting to invest until the other houses improve. “There’s no bold leader out there,” Johnstone says. It’s a recipe for stalemate: Many of the West Central homeowners don’t want to improve their properties until their neighbors do. But since Kendall Yards represents a promise of significantly higher home prices, a lot of West Central
owners have delayed selling. “Like a lot of people along there, I’m waiting for the best return on investment,” Cooley says. Fewer West Central houses have sold on Bridge Avenue in the seven years since Frank announced his Kendall Yards development than in the previous seven years. Some of that is undoubtedly a consequence of the recession. But it also could be the fact that over the past 25 years, the possibility of developments like Kendall Yards has been dangled time and time again in the area, sparking speculators to snatch up properties and wait. In the meantime, some of those homes have crumbled. At this month’s West Central Neighborhood Council meeting, Arielle Anderson, a West Central resident, tears into the problem of substandard homes there. “Folks should not be living in that. We should be absolutely appalled and embarrassed that people live in the type of housing they live in, in our own community. That we allow that to happen,” she says. “I want the city to step in and start reining this shit in. Because it’s just absolutely appalling what we see.” In fact, the city has made this issue a major priority. Just last week, the Mayor’s Housing Quality Task Force presented its suggestions for how to improve the houses in neighborhoods like West Central. Already, the city has changed the way it responds to troubled properties, using
tax liens and incentives like single-family home rehabilitation loans to spur landlords to either improve their properties or sell. Next month, Spokane’s Neighborhood Services division and the nonprofit Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners will go door to door in West Central, explaining to residents how the city can help them in anticipation of a neighborhood-wide cleanup day on Oct. 21. “I believe the city is moving in the right direction,” says Anderson. “We just need to see action, sooner than later.” But Frank says that city regulations currently restrict West Central from transforming in the same ways as Kendall Yards. “The thing that frustrates me is that what you see constructed there on this side of the street, as you go down, cannot be constructed over here,” Frank says, pointing from the Kendall Yards side to the West Central side. Kendall Yards’ planned unit development
Gavin Cooley says he’ll likely make a decision about his property in 2017. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO agreement lets it divide up lots into small segments and sell townhouses close together. But most West Central property owners would have to wind their way through an expensive and arduous hearings process to do the same. It’s a regulatory system, Frank argues, that favors rentals and creates all kinds of barriers to homeownership. And that’s a huge part of the problem. Right now, he says, about 60 percent of West Central’s houses are rentals, compared with 40 percent in the rest of the city. “It’s totally out of kilter,” Frank says. “You’re concentrating all of the rentals and all of the lowincome living all in one place. It’s not good.” He says the consequences for the neighborhood are awful. For neighborhood schools like Holmes Elementary, he says, it creates chaos: Many of the kids in the classroom in September have moved away by June. “You don’t realize how debilitating it is, losing that social structure in a neighborhood,” Frank says. “From my point of view, nothing can be worse than what is going on right now.”
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Bags of popcorn rest on the bright orange statue of a vintage camera as a Porchfest musician strums his acoustic guitar outside a West Central home. In the past year, the value of this home
shot up nearly $45,000, more than any other single-family home on Bridge. It’s obvious why. The homeowner, photographer Nick Follger, speaks with a German accent, describing how he and his wife wrestled with how to remodel their house while respecting West Central’s centuryold character. “By taking an old home, and trying to make it more modern and energy-efficient, would we be sticking out in the rest of [the] homes — as an intruder, maybe?” Follger says. “We spent many, many months trying to figure out how to go about it.” They decided to aim for a blend of the old and the new. The balcony and modern framing and gray color scheme matches the Kendall Yards homes across the street, but the angles and footprints imitate the West Central houses next door. And as new Kendall Yards condos rise up to the west, others have begun leaping into the fray. Real-estate investor Patrick Kendrick — a West Central resident himself — just purchased two duplexes on Bridge Avenue, the property with the off-white siding and the flamingo stuck in the dead lawn. He plans to repaint it, mimicking the Kendall Yards color scheme right down to the paint codes. “Down the road, I plan on using the same landscaping, the same fencing, all of it,” Kendrick says. That there hasn’t been more improvement in this area, Kendrick says, “boggles the mind.” But he views the whole neighborhood through the lens of optimism, pointing out the spots that have recently been sold or rehabbed. He points to a house that, if you look past the chipped paint, shows proof of a real pride in ownership. “If they painted that thing, it would be gorgeous,” he says. Just as a vacant property can send values plummeting, Kendrick believes that a single improved property like Follger’s can have the opposite effect, setting off a cascade of improvements in other properties. When he looks at Cooley’s property, he doesn’t see a nightmare. He sees possibility. “Wow. That’s a great property,” Kendrick says. “Does he want to sell it?” Cooley says that he and his wife are talking about it. Next year is the time to finally make a decision, Cooley says: Reinvest or sell. And if there’s any time to sell, it’s right about now. Citywide, a real-estate boom has sparked a flurry of home buying and constrained the rental market, driving prices higher. But what’s good for property owners isn’t always good for low-income renters. Brakel, the West Central Neighborhood Council chair, says he’s concerned about gentrification: Improve property values too much, and suddenly it’s not just changing the neighborhood — you’ve changed out the neighbors. “It’s a horrible situation to try to struggle and keep this balance between improving the community for those who reside here, and making it an opportunity where they can still reside here,” Brakel says. “It means displacing the residents of the neighborhood. It means basically making people homeless.” Kendrick says he’s not a big fan of the word “gentrification.” ...continued on next page
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Real-estate investor Patrick Kendrick recently purchased and began rehabbing this property — to the chagrin of the tenants who’d been getting years of incredibly low rents.
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“BRIDGING THE GAP,” CONTINUED... “‘Revitalization’ is probably a better way to put it,” says Kendrick, who sees real-estate investing as an evolution of his community activism. He’s long been active with local arts groups and has worked for the Inlander’s Volume music festival. Still, as in Kendrick’s new property, the side effects of that revitalization can be seen. Back in 1995, Shawn West moved into the small one-bedroom apartment at the top of one of Kendrick’s duplexes. He was 20. “I moved to Spokane in the early ’90s, because you could have one job, no roommate and have your own place,” he says. West was there when the house flippers who previ-
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ously owned the building got over their head during the recession. He was there when the bank foreclosed on it. He was there when the owner’s other property on Bridge burned down, and weeds grew in its place. Today, at 41, he’s leaving the apartment for Spokane Valley. He was only paying $350 for rent — but Kendrick plans to raise it to $500. That’s still cheaper than the median amount for a one-bedroom Spokane apartment in this booming market, but West says it’s impossible for him to afford that price on his salary from a local machine shop. “I don’t know how you can pay out that much in rent
and still have anything left,” West says. “I don’t have a cellphone, I don’t pay for TV.” Joshua Godfrey, a 20-year-old who’d been renting the top unit in Kendrick’s other duplex, piles his snowboards and skateboards on top of his other belongings in a pickup truck. He’s moving to a run-down neighborhood near NorthTown Mall where a Papa John’s delivery boy salary can pay the rent. “It’s not as nice, that’s for sure,” Godfrey says. “It’s life, man. It happens.” The excitement about how Kendall Yards could change West Central is tempered by caution, even nostalgia. Follger says his latest photography project is to try to
capture the old West Central before it’s gone forever. “There is going to inevitably be tremendous change happening in this neighborhood,” Follger says. “West Central will change, some of it for better, or for worse. Right up the street… we saw that whole block being taken down for a car wash. That was for worse.” That, he laments, could have been turned into a new block with new houses. Greenstone’s recent announcement that it would build its own local grocery store came stocked full of Kendall Yards-friendly phrases like “locally sourced” and “sustainable agriculture” and promises of wine clubs and cooking classes. But West Central residents like Anderson hope that the store’s prices would be affordable for low-income West Central residents, who are currently in a food desert without close access to a grocery store. Frank says to expect the prices of some items to be more expensive, but that much of it will be competitive with stores like Fred Meyer. “We hope to be able to serve a lot of West Central,” he says. “It’s a mistake to think that West Central is made up of nothing but very poor people.” Neighbors like Anderson look at Spokane’s Perry District in the similarly impoverished East Central neighborhood. While some celebrate it as a model of the promise of revitalization, Anderson sees it as an example of the peril. She says she’d considered moving to Perry, but was completely priced out. “Gentrification gone completely wrong, right?” Anderson says. “Normal working people can’t afford to live there.” Kendall Yards sales Patrick Kendrick believes the area is on the cusp manager Cat Carrel of a broader revitalization. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO says that gentrification is inevitable. In five years, Greenstone will have built out on all the vacant land in Kendall Yards, and the only way to be a part of the development will be to buy across the street. Frank isn’t concerned. He’s excited about the change. “The world doesn’t stay the same,” he says. “If I don’t create an environment where there’s some investment in my neighborhood, it’s going to get worse. I want West Central to get better.” And someday soon, he hopes, the dividing line between Kendall Yards and West Central will disappear completely. “The perfect world — my ideal — is that 20 years from now, no one knows,” Frank says. “They drive through here and have no idea where Kendall Yards started and ended.” danielw@inlander.com
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The mummy of a teenage girl, known as Annie and who lived approximately 2,300 years ago, is the centerpiece of “Lost Egypt.” YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
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ith history’s help, we can begin to guess what Annie’s life was like. In her home city of Akhmim, Egypt, Annie could have been like any other teen on the cusp of adulthood; worried about her own future and the fate of her culture, perhaps in love, or reluctant to leave her family and marry. Yet the ancient Egyptian gods she believed in had other plans for Annie. The 17-year-old (her estimated age upon death) was instead ushered on into the afterlife. Annie — short for “Anonymous” — has rested peacefully now for more than 2,000 years, her mortal body cradled in handwoven linen wrappings and adorned with an exquisitely detailed mask. Mummified in the ancient Egyptian tradition after her death, sometime between 300 and 200 BCE, and later excavated by archaeologists in the late 1800s, Annie is currently on display as part of
the latest touring exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, “Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science.” The story of Annie’s untimely death and her journey from Egypt to Spokane is as equally astounding as seeing her carefully preserved remains in the flesh. “We don’t know what happened to her personally, but what we learned from CT scans and X-rays, she appears to have drowned,” explains conservator Mimi Leveque. With the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, Leveque spent two weeks back in 2009 working to restore, repair and preserve the mummy before it went on exhibit. Each time Annie is packed into a crate for travel, and when she arrives at the exhibit’s next museum, Leveque travels to closely inspect the specimen for damage from
transport. In the past six years since “Lost Egypt” kicked off, Annie and her coffin — a beautifully hand-carved and -painted artifact — have remained unscathed after 17 stops. Produced by the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus, Ohio, “Lost Egypt” features dozens of ancient Egyptian artifacts from the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive collection. The exhibit’s human mummy centerpiece is on loan from Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences. “Lost Egypt” is designed to educate visitors of all ages not only on the fascinating history and customs of the ancient culture, but also the research processes and technological tools that allow us to still discover new facets of the lost civilization. Interactive features, like a mock excavation site, let young visitors get a hands-on taste of what it’s like to work on an archaeological site. Visitors can also marvel at displays of animal mummies and other funerary artifacts that were entombed with the dead and which the Egyptians believed an individual might need in the afterlife. The blockbuster exhibit, open through Jan. 6, is one of many recent big bookings for the MAC as museum staff continue working to increase admissions numbers. After this glimpse of ancient Egypt, locals can learn about another lost era when “Titans of the Ice Age: Mammoths and Mastodons” stomps through beginning in February. ...continued on next page
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earing blue latex gloves, mummy conservator Leveque leans over the deceased girl’s body atop a cart in the MAC’s main gallery. With a tiny, green-handled paintbrush, Leveque delicately brushes invisible flecks of dust off the discolored linen wrappings. Forensic scientists and Egyptologists believe the unnamed teen drowned in the Nile River. Dying or being found deceased in the Nile was considered sacred, even though the embalmers and priests who prepared the body didn’t know her name or her family history — evident by the lack of name on her coffin. “It should have had an inscription saying who she was and what she did, but we don’t know anything about her,” says Leveque, who has been conserving mummies, animal and human, for 30 years. “The ancient Egyptians felt that it was incredibly important for not just your body to survive, but your name as well, and in every instance where it was possible, mummies are labeled,” she continues. A long panel of papier-mâché-like material (called a cartonnage) down the length of Annie’s body depicts colorful scenes of the gods and goddesses preparing her for the afterlife. The intricate designs were painted with mineralbased pigment, and Leveque says that means the colors are as rich and vivid as the day Annie was entombed. While some may balk at the idea of this young woman’s body — or any other mummified human remains — being displayed across the country, other ancient Egyptian specimens have had worse fates. (In this exhibit, Annie is
respectfully placed inside a sheltered room, with placards outside explaining to visitors what’s inside.) At the time she was excavated from her tomb in Akhmim, Leveque says the Egyptian government was selling artifacts and mummy specimens to wealthy tourists. With the purpose of funding future excavations and a museum in Cairo, some of these mummies were brought back to Europe and the U.S. and unwrapped in morbid exhibitions with paying audiences. Annie, however, came into the Academy of Natural Sciences’ possession in 1903, possibly even donated by her original buyer. Rediscovered in museum storage in the 1970s, Annie was not restored and conserved by Leveque for a few more decades. While Annie’s body was never intended to leave its final resting place, the young woman now serves as an ambassador of her ancient culture, educating and connecting us to a part of human history we’re still trying to piece together. “The most wonderful thing for me to realize is that we haven’t changed as people for such a long period of time,” Leveque muses. “Here was a girl whose family loved her, whose town cherished her and who wanted to make sure that she lived forever… She was a girl with hopes and fears and all the same things we have now. It puts us in touch with this enormous range of our past.” “Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science” • Through Jan. 6, 2017; open Mon-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Wed until 8 pm • $5-$10 (half-price on Tue) • The MAC • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931
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hen Morrissey stepped into the guise of a fame-hungry, incarcerated narrator in “The Last of the Famous International Playboys,” singing, “In our lifetime, those who kill / The news world hands them stardom,” he was directly referencing the Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie, who racketeered and murdered their way to celebrity status in London’s East End during the 1950s and ’60s. There’s a selfdestructive perversity in the idea that society would fête the very sort of behavior that undermines its order, something Morrissey’s misguided persona struggles to make sense of: “I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil / Such things I do / Just to make myself more attractive to you / Have I failed?” The Krays certainly weren’t the first (or indeed the last) manifestation of the celebrity criminal phenomenon. Less than a decade after the brothers were finally jailed for their crimes, Kander and Ebb’s Chicago opened on Broadway to satirize — and to some degree, glamorize — the sensational Jazz Age story of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Hart and Kelly were lightly fictionalized, heavily stylized proxies for Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, two women who’d been suspects in headline-grabbing whodunits in the titular city 50 years earlier. Chicago has since become one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history, which is some indication of how much we enjoy generating unlikely celebrities and then watching that sad, seedy process played back for our reflection and entertainment. And, oh, how entertaining it can be. The current production of Chicago at The Modern Spokane is a sultry, sarcastic, mesmerizingly dynamic romp that feels more like director Abbey Crawford (All Is Calm, Assassins) and her fine cast have not just staged the show but channeled it into this particular space. Ensemble numbers like “Cell Block Tango” and “We Both Reached for the Gun” are perfectly choreographed (in the case of “Razzle Dazzle,” exquisitely so) and energized to make the most of The Modern’s thrust layout. Aside from some simple raised platforms that help showcase the characters at various points, set designer Jeremy Whittington has kept much of the action at floor level, heightening the intimacy between performers and audience. If only space permitted, it would’ve been a welcome visual touch to have the excellent five-person live band integrated into the performance and on display throughout. As Velma, choreographer Angela Pierson (Rock of Ages, The Little Mermaid) high-steps with a commanding presence into a leading role opposite the formidably charismatic Quinn Vaira (Rock of Ages, Wild Party). Her Roxie looks — and sounds — every inch the self-obsessed nightclub vamp. Andy Meyers cuts a sympathetic figure as Amos without sinking into sad-sack pathos; his “Mr. Cellophane” solo is unusually moving for a character we tend to see in anecdotal glimpses. Look hard enough at any of them and we might even catch a glimpse of ourselves, indiscriminately craving or facilitating stardom. — E.J. IANNELLI
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MUSIC HISTORY When someone mentions ska music, you might think of the silly and mostly horrible incarnation of the genre that could be heard blasting from radios and the headphones of confused teenagers during the late 1990s. But if you trace the genre’s origins back to 1960s Jamaica, you’ll find music that’s deeply soulful, upbeat and eminently listenable. In particular, give a listen to PRINCE BUSTER, a Jamaican performer and producer who passed away earlier this month at age 78. During the 1960s, Buster released a string of classics including “Al Capone,” “Madness” and “One Step Beyond.” The genre he helped pioneer incorporated traditional Rastafarian drumming that emphasized the song’s afterbeat rather than downbeat. TV The promotional materials for WESTWORLD, a new TV series that premieres on HBO on Oct. 2, describes the show as a “dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin.” The 10-episode run is a remake of a Michael Crichton movie of the same name that’s about an Old Weststyle theme park inhabited by androids. The park’s androids allow tourists to have shootouts, brawls in saloons and encounters with prostitutes, all without any moral messinesses. The androids inevitably malfunction and turn on the tourists, but the show sidesteps a monster-run-amok storyline by focusing on the perspective of the artificially intelligent machines. PODCAST Malcolm Gladwell is a guy who spends a lot of time having deep, counterintuitive, academically informed thoughts and then communicating them in an accessible way. If you don’t have time to read one of his books or long articles in the New Yorker, try his highly bingeable podcast REVISIONIST HISTORY, which seeks to take a second look at “something overlooked” or “something misunderstood” from history. Gladwell accomplishes this by asking simple questions, such as “Why aren’t good ideas more widely adopted?” Or “Why don’t philanthropists give big money to obscure state schools?”
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ven if you don’t spot the sign where Highway 2 and Highway 231 meet, there’s no missing the new Inland Northwest Rail Museum. After driving across miles of rolling brown fields and through tiny Reardan — pro tip: Stop at the HWY Cafe for a slice of the homemade pie — the sight of an impressive collection of engines, cabooses and passenger cars spanning decades of railroad history surrounding the new museum building is striking. That’s the desired effect for members of the Inland Empire Railway Historical Society, a group of hobbyists and railroad industry veterans that first formed in 1967 and has been working diligently to make the museum a reality since 2002, when the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds asked them to move their collection of nearly 30 rail cars and assorted memorabilia from its home there. The group bought this 30-acre plot of land soon after, and the 200 or so active members started laying tracks to hold their collection as they fundraised to build a museum for railroad geeks and the people who love them. The museum opened Aug. 27 and the response was overwhelming, as nearly 2,000 people descended on this rural outpost to check out displays like Spokane’s last streetcar, still labeled with its Hillyard, Manito and Gonzaga University destinations, and take rides on the miniature railroad loop that offers some stunning views of the building and surrounding hills. Local police were called in to help deal with the traffic. “I expected 300 to 500 people,” says Dale Swant, the museum president. “I bought 300 hot dogs and they were gone in an hour.” The parking lot was still being graded the day before the museum opened, and getting the group’s trains from Spokane to the museum site took an intense organization of a “hospital train” to carry the antique cars to the rural location, negotiating tag-teams of three different railroads — Union Pacific in Spokane to Burlington Northern in Cheney and finally to the Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad short line that runs by the museum location. Organization seems a strong suit of the
group, though, given the impressive display of its collection. And there’s plenty more yet to be unpacked and find its way into the showrooms of old signs, restored benches and model trains inside the museum. While it took years of fundraising to reach the point of opening the museum and gift shop, the group has designs on an even bigger structure down the line. For now, though, there is plenty to see for both railroad historians and the merely curious. In the main showroom alongside that Spokane streetcar is a Union Pacific dining car from 1914 that was in service until 1986; the group is restoring it to its original state, with Tiffany glass windows and a lunch counter complete with menus of the era, which travelers used to collect as souvenirs of their trips. Those trips were highclass; filet mignon, asparagus tips au gratin and Great Northern baked ham were just a few of the options. Outside, more rail cars await refurbishing and display, but you can wander through them and peek in the windows now. That’s where I find Karen Manly, an older woman traveling from Helena, Montana, to the Okanagan Valley with her husband. They saw the museum from the road and pulled over, and now she’s staring at a Vista-Dome passenger car from the old North Coast Limited rail line. “We like trains. We’ve used them all over the world,” Manly says, before peering a little closer to the car. She remembers taking a Vista-Dome back to her childhood hometown of Bozeman from a summer job in Coeur d’Alene when she was a teenager. “The Vista-Dome was really fancy back then.” It looks pretty good now in its new home among the fields of Eastern Washington, too. “It’s beautiful,” Manly says of the museum. “I think it belongs out here. It’s beautiful.” Inland Northwest Rail Museum • Through Oct. 30: Fri-Sun, 10 am-5 pm • $8 adults/$5 children 5-12/Free for children under 5 • 27300 Sprinkle Road N., 2 miles west of Reardan at the intersection of Highways 2 and 231 • inlandnwrailmuseum.com • 796-3377
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Inside the small-scale Magic Lantern Theatre. JENNIFER RAUDEBAUGH PHOTO
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The Magic Lantern Theatre is closed, but its screens might not be dark for long BY MIKE BOOKEY
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f you call the Magic Lantern Theatre, you’ll hear the movies that were playing on Aug. 11. There’s an independent comedy starring Danny DeVito, a buzzed-about film from New Zealand, an esteemed documentary about cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other options you could take in at the boutique theater located on a bustling stretch of Main Avenue on the east side of downtown Spokane. But since that week in August, the projectors haven’t rolled at the Magic Lantern. The owner originally promised that the closure was just a remodel and that they’d open with a new look, new management and maybe even beer and wine. That wouldn’t come to pass, as it came to light that the Magic Lantern’s lease with the Saranac Building had expired. The former manager, Jonathan Abramson, confirmed that he was the theater’s sole employee by the end of its run. “The lease was on a month-to-month, and we decided to go in a different direction with it,” says Pat Coleman, property manager at the Saranac Building. Coleman adds, however, that the building’s owners want to see an operating movie theater in the space, and want to have it available for special events. The current iteration of the Magic Lantern opened in 2007 and has struggled to stay open at times. A previous version of the theater operated above what is now Europa Restaurant and Bakery on Wall Street between 1973 and 1997. Adam Boyd, director of the Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF), which has used the Magic Lantern for several years as a screening venue, says that the loss of the theater leaves a hole for theatergoers, but also represents a national trend. “Little boutique theaters like that bring in a lot of unique programming, so we may lose all the stuff that’s not picked up by the big theaters,” says Boyd, also a lecturer at Eastern Washington University’s film program. “This is a national phenomenon, because the bigger outlets are playing these smaller films. Also, theaters everywhere are competing with Netflix and Hulu and people’s home theaters.” As for SpIFF, Boyd is already in talks with the Saranac to, at the very least, use the theater as a venue for the festival. He’s also entertaining the idea of using it for even more specialty screenings throughout the year. Coleman agrees that the theater, in whatever form it may reopen, is a necessary component of the city’s cultural fabric. “We love having special events and [SpIFF] here. But there’s the greater [idea] that you can see movies there that you can’t see anywhere elsewhere,” says Coleman. n
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Always Experimenting Townshend Cellar is back in business on Green Bluff BY FRANNY WRIGHT
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s Michael Townshend arranges bottles of sparkling wines behind bottles of whites, his father Don announces he’ll begin pulling out the reds. After all 29 bottles are arranged across the bar, both stand back in disbelief at the number of wines in front of them, each with a story behind it. Townshend began his first vintage in 1998 and opened Townshend Cellar in 2001 with a small tasting room at 16112 N. Greenbluff Road. Townshend Cellar’s tasting room has now moved a few miles up Greenbluff Road, and though the tasting room briefly moved out to the Spokane Valley Industrial Park where production has taken place for the past five years, it reopened at the Green Bluff location in June. Don’s interest in winemaking began in the Tri-Cities, when he was selling commercial air conditioning in the ’90s. He began making fruit wines out of any basically any fruit he could find. Quickly realizing how expensive
Michael Townshend has joined the family wine buisness that was founded by his father, Don. TESS FARNSWORTH PHOTO
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each bottle would need to be to pay for the amount of labor put into it, he shifted his focus to red wines. These days, Townshend’s two sons — Brendon and Michael — grew up helping bottle and label the wine. Though both left Spokane for college and received engineering degrees, Michael describes their transition into working with their father as natural and what they had always loved doing. “We were basically the little bottling guys growing up,” says Michael. “We’d sit in the living room helping put on the labels and we’d take trips over to the Tri-Cities with my dad all the time.” With Michael in charge of the tasting room and wine club, Brendon — though currently in Qatar with the Air National Guard — runs marketing and sales. Townshend Cellar gets most of its grapes from Willard Farms in Prosser, though Don says he has always been open to using any kind of grape he can find to make a new varietal he hasn’t tried yet.
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Michael describes his father as a mad scientist, crediting the length of Townshend’s wine list — including vintage reds, red blends, desserts, whites and sparkling — to Don’s eagerness to experiment. Both are proud to still run Townshend as a family, but also excited to work with other people equally passionate about quality wine. “From the beginning really, we’ve wanted to make really excellent wine that anyone could afford to drink,” says Michael. “We want to be accessible with stellar wine at a reasonable price.” Erik Manz is transitioning into the role of head winemaker, with his knowledge of making sparkling wine — a labor-intensive wine when carbonation isn’t forced — in the traditional Champagne method. Currently bottling around 20,000 cases a year, Townshend uses 2,500 225-liter oak barrels to age its wines. Though distribution reaches across Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana, Don plans to continue focusing on keeping a strong presence in Spokane. Michael’s favorite part about the tasting room is that people can try any of Townshend’s 29 wines. Though it may be tempting to taste some of Townshend’s most popular wines — T3, Vortex and Red Table red blends — Michael encourages people to try others because most of the wines in the tasting room aren’t distributed anywhere else. Michael plans to keep the tasting room open year-round, offering six complimentary tastings and the $5 fee beyond those waived with the purchase of any bottle. Townshend Cellar’s Wine Club provides wine enthusiasts a way to try specialty releases without stopping into the tasting room. Costing only the price of the wine, Wine Club membership includes four shipments of three bottles yearly, discounts and access to events such as the recent All Paired Up ice cream and wine event that’s a collaboration with Sweet Annie’s Artisan Creamery. “I don’t want people to feel intimidated by the wine or the experience of the tasting,” says Michael. “It’s fun to pour for people that don’t play a part when they walk in and are just here to experience, enjoy the wine and learn about it.” n Townshend Cellar • 8022 E. Greenbluff Rd., Colbert • Open Fri-Sun, noon-5 pm • townshendcellar.com • 238-1400
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heard about a place that had taken drive-instyle burger and fries and made them in burrito form. After a month of abstaining from such culinary excess, I finally found myself at the new Sweeto Burrito in north Spokane, ordering something called the “All American.” I wasn’t necessarily filled with patriotic pride, but rather ground beef, crispy French fries, bacon, American cheese and something akin to Thousand Island dressing. I was not disappointed, nor was I hungry for the next eight hours… and I only went for the “Middle Weight” size ($6.50), not the “Heavy Weight” ($9.50). The size names match the luchador theme of the emerging chain, which currently has eight loca-
tions in Utah, the Dakotas and Virginia, as well as the north Spokane spot and one in Spokane Valley. Sweeto Burrito founder J.P. Francia graduated from Riverside High School in Chattaroy, north of Spokane, in 1985. After a career in advertising and television, he started Sweeto Burrito about five years ago as a food truck in North Dakota. His underlying principle? “The tortilla is just a container for awesomeness.” This, it seems, has become a rallying cry for those who believe in the burrito-ization of our meals. I’m for this. Wrap up some spaghetti and meatballs in a tortilla and I would eat it. Neato Burrito in downtown Spokane has long been
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The All American: It’s a cheeseburger and fries in burrito form. stretching the limits of the burrito with their Thai and barbecue offerings. At Atilano’s — which has several locations throughout the area — you can find a regionally inspired offering in the Washington burrito, which includes chicken and potatoes. Other spots have experimented with smoked meats and seafood. The Sweeto concept was enough for Scott Isaak to commit to opening four stores. In addition to the two spots currently open, he’ll also open one in north-central Spokane in late October and another in Coeur d’Alene by the end of the year. “I tasted the food and it knocked me on my can,” says Isaak. “We cook everything, every day in the back of the house, other than the soda and the tortillas.” Isaak says Sweeto has spent time and research refining their burritos — they also serve tacos, wraps and salads — and don’t do a mix-and-match Subway approach. That said, they’ll certainly make additions or subtractions. You might not want to mess with the magic of, say, the Buff Chick, stuffed with buffalo chicken, tater tots, cheddar cheese and ranch dressing, or the Breakneck, a breakfast-style burrito with eggs, bacon, tater tots and cilantro ranch dressing. If you want to keep it conventional, there’s the Sweeto Burrito — shredded pork, lime rice, pepper jack, black beans and sauces. n
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Cooler weather brings cravings for warm, comforting desserts in the region BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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f summer is all about cooling off with ice cream, winter is all about warming up with comfort foods. Temperatures drop, nights shorten, and our inner caveman — some researchers link cravings to primal genetics signaling us to prep for winter — wants bready, cakey, sugary. We say have your cake and eat it too, especially after a summer of exercising, both your body and restraint in your diet. And if the following suggestions are too tempting, bring a friend and share. Jason Rex did just that recently, sharing EPIC (at Northern Quest Resort & Casino) sports bar’s skillet cookie with his daughter: two 4-inch cookies baked to order and served with
Cascade Glacier huckleberry ice cream ($6). Back at his own restaurant, Collective Kitchen Public House, Rex’s warm dessert offering is chocolate truffle cake topped with chocolate ganache, Chantilly cream, and housemade ice cream ($6). Many fine-dining restaurants rotate through seasonal desserts, while some locations keep popular ones year-round. Max at Mirabeau does a sundae with crispy, fried bananas ($7.70) and a twist on apple pie with their Washington apple galette, served with caramel sauce and ice cream ($7.50). Try the caramelized Bananas Foster sundae ($8.95) at Clinkerdagger or the warm pear bread pudding with ice cream and bourbon sauce poured tableside ($8.95). The sauce is so rich, says bartender/server Rob Heimbigner, he usually only pours half, leaving the other half for people to pour themselves or just eat by the spoonful. Both the Coeur d’Alene and Spokane locations of Fire Artisan Pizza find room in the wood-fired oven for their dark chocolate chip cookie served with a sprinkling of gray salt ($3, add ice cream $3). Outside the realm of cakes, pies, cookies, etc., Sweet Lou’s in Ponderay (and coming soon to Coeur d’Alene) turns to a campfire classic with tableside s’mores ($6.99). And The Wave Island Sports Grill & Sushi Bar deep-fries cheesecake in a tortilla, slices it, and tops it with chocolate and caramel ($7.95), for dessert that eats like sushi, although fingers might be better for getting all the sweet sauce.
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ITALIAN ARLO’S RISTORANTE 330 N. First Ave. | Sandpoint 208-255-4186 When it comes to eating Italian in Sandpoint, Arlo’s has got you covered. The restaurant, located on Sandpoint’s pedestrian-friendly main drag, has flatbread pizzas, pasta, seafood and more. Kick back with a great meal and a glass of wine and do some tourist-watching out the front windows. EUROPA 125 S. Wall | 455-4051 Nice enough to take a date or Mom, Europa is a good option for dinner or splitting a bottle of wine and ordering one of their appetizers (from calamari to hummus and spinachartichoke dip). If it’s pizza you’re looking for, take a look at Europa’s array of Tuscan-style pies. The wine list is long, varied and features something for every oenophile. FERRANTE’S 4516 S. Regal | 443-6304 This family-owned neighborhood restaurant serves up true Italianstyle pies, hand-tossed and thincrusted. The toppings are simple,
steaks, chicken and seafood. And don’t forget the dark, high-ceilinged, old-wood bar next door.
Ferrante’s Vegeteriano Pizza with fresh local ingredients. SARAH PHILP PHOTO but chosen for their exceptional quality. You won’t find pepperoni like this anywhere else. It’s thicker, with more spice and none of that telltale grease. The linguini pomodoro is light and flavorful, as are several other pasta dishes on the menu. The environment and mood is casual, but the cuisine is classy. ITALIAN KITCHEN 113 N. Bernard | 363-1210 Terra-cotta floor tiles, etched glass, heavy draperies, dark wood and kitschy Italiana set the mood for traditional Italian-American favorites. For lunch, the meatball sandwich is delightful. For dinner, check out gnocchi, lasagna and ravioli, plus
LUIGI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 245 W. Main | 624-5226 Craving Italian? A perennial favorite in the Inlander reader’s poll, Luigi’s serves traditional Italian favorites. Although it’s tempting to fill up on the hot sourdough bread and garlic butter, pace yourself. Minestrone soup is next (why have a salad when their homemade soup is this good), followed by an entrée like veal piccata or chicken cacciatori. Need some gluten-free or carb-free options? No problem. MAMMA MIA’S 420 W. Francis | 467-7786 It’s all home-style southern Italian at this Northside dining room, with sauces, pastas and breads made from old-time family recipes. The menu has plenty of munchable appetizers to keep families happy, alongside traditional pastas (that you can now take home), pizzas and meat entrées (we love the garlic chicken). Mix and match any of their pastas and sauces for a new combination each time. They offer simple, hearty lunch options, too: Italian sub sandwiches, pizzas and calzones. n
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Mark Wahlberg (right) has a sinking feeling in Deepwater Horizon.
Real Disaster Deepwater Horizon feels trapped between tragic facts and genre conventions BY SCOTT RENSHAW
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he disaster movie is a particularly curious beast oil and gas leads to an explosion that threatens the lives in the always-curious history of movie genres. of everyone on board. Like action movies, they’re built around the kind Berg, along with screenwriters Matthew Michael of spectacle that seems to demand a big-screen experiCarnahan and Matthew Sand, demonstrate an impresence. Like horror movies, they express a cathartic need sive willingness to drop viewers into the world of the to confront terrifying scenarios in a safe space. And like Deepwater Horizon without much hand-holding orientation. melodrama of all kinds, they’re about emotions writ The dialogue is heavy with jargon and technical terminollarge — love and hate, life and death — with little space for ogy, addressing matters like the heavy mud used to keep nuance or subtlety. oil from backflowing through the drill But one of the most fundamental DEEPWATER HORIZON pipe, the various safety tests that were requirements doesn’t usually need to (or, tragically, weren’t) run, systems Rated PG-13 be expressed: They’re not about real that were failing, and the individual Directed by Peter Berg people. entities responsible for different roles. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Director Peter Berg smacks face-first While there are occasions when a Kate Hudson into that rule in Deepwater Horizon, which specific line might not be immediately deals with the April 2010 events on the decipherable — or even audible above offshore oil-drilling rig that made national headlines. The the din of activity, whether everyday or catastrophic — focal point of the story is Mike Williams (Mark Wahlthe overall sense of the place becomes instantly apparent: berg), an electronics technician who is just starting a 21This is a remarkably complicated piece of machinery, day stint aboard the rig when trouble begins. The site’s requiring a huge amount of careful inspection and mainsupervisor, “Mr. Jimmy” Harrell (Kurt Russell), questions tenance, some of which it was not receiving. the way that BP executives have taken shortcuts around The problem is that structurally, Deepwater Horizon’s safety tests as the creation of the well runs over budget script doesn’t resemble a harrowing fact-based story and behind schedule. Even after additional tests suggest like Berg and Wahlberg’s previous collaboration, Lone the possibility of unsafe pressure building below the Survivor, as much as it resembles something like The surface, operations continue — until a massive eruption of Towering Inferno in its reliance on disaster-movie tropes.
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Because such tales require a bureaucratic type whose dithering and/or callousness interferes with the people raising legitimate concerns, we get a group of BP executives — represented by John Malkovich, talking about the corporation’s interests in a Cajun purr that adds to the villainy — thwarting Mr. Jimmy’s efforts to do the right thing. To make sure there’s something at stake as the characters fight for their lives, we get a backstory about Williams’ wife back home (Kate Hudson), who can worry and make anguished phone calls as news of the explosion begins to leak out. And there’s plenty of foreshadowing, from the bubbles Berg constantly shows ominously erupting from the ocean floor around the well, to the school presentation by Williams’ daughter about his work that sends cola blasting through a straw. Yet as much as Deepwater Horizon keeps preparing audiences for a Roland Emmerich-style disaster yarn, this is the story of an actual disaster, which cost 11 people their lives. Berg can bring a gritty physicality to his action sequences, as he did in Lone Survivor and The Kingdom, and here he creates several squirm-inducing moments showing the damage bodies took in this tragedy. It just becomes hard to negotiate the collision between realworld facts and genre conventions. Any cheering for the applause-moment heroism is blunted by the nonfiction roots. The weird part is that, on some level, it’s obvious that Berg understands this tension. For most of the final hour, which deals almost entirely with rescue efforts and the crew’s attempts to escape to lifeboats, Deepwater Horizon abandons almost all extraneous details, resulting in a climax that feels like an endurance test not just for the survivors, but for the audience. The denouement makes it clear that those survivors face the kind of traumatic aftermath we rarely see in conventional disaster epics. For all its intensity, Deepwater Horizon seems uncertain when it’s permissible to be entertainment. n
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OPENING FILMS DEEPWATER HORIZON
Director Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon deals with the April 2010 events on the offshore oil-drilling rig that made national headlines. The focal point of the story is Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), an electronics technician who is just starting a 21-day stint aboard the rig when trouble begins. The site’s supervisor, “Mr. Jimmy” Harrell (Kurt Russell), questions the way that BP executives have taken shortcuts around safety tests as the creation of the well runs over budget and behind schedule. Soon, a massive eruption of oil and gas leads to an explosion that threatens the lives of everyone on board. (SR) Rated PG-13
MASTERMINDS
Based on the true story of the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery in North Carolina, this crime and action comedy tells the tale of armored-car driver (Zach Galifianakis). Galifianakis’ character David Ghantt is enticed into a massive heist by his co-worker (Kristen Wiig), who is aided by a criminal (Owen Wilson) in making the plan. Ghantt successfully steals $17 million in cash, hands it over to his co-worker and her criminal friend and is double-crossed. From there, Ghantt must run from authorities and a hit man. (EG) Rated PG-13
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When outcast Florida teen Jacob (Asa Butterfield) goes to check on his beloved grandpa (Terence Stamp) after a
The Queen of Katwe
distressed phone call, he finds the old man dying and sees monsters nearby. Based on his cryptic dying words, Jacob follows the path of his granddad’s fantastical bedtime stories about his time at Miss Peregrine’s (a wonderfully stern Eva Green) orphanage. After events lead Jacob through a time portal, he discovers that the children (known as peculiars) do exist, possessing powers like super strength and the ability to rapidly grow plants. (MJ) Rated PG-13
THE QUEEN OF KATWE
Young Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) and her family live in Katwe, a poor neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda. Phiona wants to do big things despite being from a small place. She gets her chance after a missionary teaches her to play chess and she discovers she has a talent for it. Despite all who tell her she can’t succeed, she becomes a world chess champion. This Disney and ESPN joint film is based on a non-fiction book written by ESPN sportswriter Tim Crothers. (EG) Rated PG
THE DRESSMAKER
Based on the book by Rosalie Ham and set in Australia in the 1950s, this dramatic film follows the story of talented dressmaker Tilly Dunnage as she returns to her small hometown. Exploring relationships with people from the past while helping others through fashion and exacting revenge, Tilly strives to figure out what truly happened in her hometown. (EG) Rated R
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Perhaps due to the overwhelming success of Dirty Grandpa comes this raunchy flick headlined by a smattering of big-name female stars: among them, Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate and Kristen Bell. As the title suggests, it’s one of those “let loose,” party-likewe’re-young-again movies, this one chronicling the shenanigans of a group of moms who set out on a rampage of cathartic indulgence and inappropriate behavior that, at least in theory, makes for hilarious results. (IH) Rated R
BEN-HUR
Hollywood insists that this is not a remake of the classic 1959 film of the
same name, but rather a re-imagining of the original 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The story centers on a Roman prince named Judah Ben-Hur who’s betrayed by his brother and cast out of his homeland. Judah must chariot-race his way back to love and glory, and encounters Jesus himself along the way. (IH) Rated PG-13
BLAIR WITCH
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pened to his sister, Heather… the documentary director from the 1999 movie we know as the Blair Witch Project. (MJ) Rated R
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THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM
Kate Beckingsale plays a young mother who moves into a new, creepy house with her husband. You know where this is going, don’t you? Well, things don’t get better when he discovers a secret room in the basement that isn’t on the home’s floor plans. (MB) Rated R
DON’T BREATHE
The film centers on a trio of naive young adults who believe they’ve found easy thieving prey in the form of a creaky old house inhabited by an elderly blind man. They soon discover that the resident is more capable than they’d originally assumed, and find themselves trapped and systematically hunted by a predator who is content relying on his four remaining senses. (IH) Rated R
GLEASON
This documentary will likely make you cry. Here, we have a film that follows Spokane native turned NFL star and hero of New Orleans, Steve Gleason, as he battles ALS. The linearly constructed film shows the disease ripping away Gleason’s physical abilities one by one, while also demonstrating the strain on his marriage and family. But there’s plenty of inspiration to be found, too. You’ll walk away wanting to be a better person. (MB) Rated R
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Worship group Hillsong United, originally formed as part of an Australian church’s youth ministry, has become an international powerhouse in Christian music. Fans of the group’s music who haven’t had the chance to see one of their arena shows will find the closest approximation of that experience in Hillsong — Let Hope Rise. This hybrid concert doc/biopic chronicles the group’s rise to prominence and captures their signature onstage energy. (IH) Rated PG
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
The newest big-screen incarnation of the legendary jungle-dwelling, apebefriending hero is a new spin on the character. In the film, Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) returns to his home in Africa
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BRIDGET JONES’S BABY
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is still a singleton in London as the story opens, but at the age of 40-something, an unexpected complication enters her life. Bridget is pregnant and since nothing about her personal life could possibly involve simple solutions, the father could either be Jack (Patrick Dempsey), a millionaire online-dating mogul or Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the on-again/ off-again flame who re-entered her life after he separated from his wife. (SR) Rated R
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after years of living in London with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie). (IH) Rated PG-13
SEVEN
THE MAGNIFICENT
In this remake, a town is under siege from a ruthless big shot — in this case, mining boss Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) — and his personal army of enforcers. Widowed Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) tries to hire men willing to accept the likely suicidal job of protecting the town, and one man, bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), agrees to assist. Then, he has to find six more to make the title of this Western work. (SR) Rated PG-13
NINE LIVES
Let’s start by saying that everything about this film — in which a workaholic dad played by Kevin Spacey gets trapped in the body of his daughter’s cat — is oozing with cheese and slapstick comedy (from a CGI cat, nonetheless). Spacey’s character Tom Brand is too busy building his business empire to pay attention to his wife and daughter, so quirky pet store owner (Christopher Walken) casts a spell on him with the requirement that he reconnect with his family, or be trapped in the cat’s body for the rest of his life. Antics ensue. (CS) Rated PG
PETE’S DRAGON
Park ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers Pete (Oakes Fegley) living in the woods where he’s been alone for six years, after an outing with his parents ended in a car wreck that killed them. But then he reveals that he’s had the companionships of a big green dragon named Elliot. (MJ) Rated PG
SAUSAGE PARTY
Sausage Party stars an anthropomorphic hotdog and a bun — and it’s the brainchild of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who graced the world with This Is The End and The Night Before. From that description alone, most filmgoers should have no trouble deciding whether or not this crude animated laugh-fest chronicling the escapades of a bunch of talking food in a supermarket is up their alley. Don’t take the kids to this one. (IH) Rated R
SULLY
Clint Eastwood’s Sully tells the story of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) piloting a commercial
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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS
Created by the team behind the Despicable Me films, The Secret Life of Pets tells the story of a dog named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) suddenly forced to welcome another pet to his apartment in the shaggy, sloppy Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Mayhem naturally ensues, and the two pups get lost in the city and have to find their way home with the help of a pack of Max’s friends. (DN) Rated PG
SNOWDEN
Oliver Stone’s new biopic thriller about the infamous intelligence workerturned-government hacker wants to remind us that what Snowden did still matters. The star-studded film — starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role — doesn’t necessarily break any new ground, but is nevertheless a thrill ride. Rated R. (CS)
STORKS
This animated movie reimagines babydelivering storks that are now tasked with delivering retail packages. Top delivery stork Junior (Andy Samberg) is about to become the next leader of the company when he accidentally activates the baby making machine and creates a baby girl. Junior and his human friend Tulip (Katie Crown) must find the baby a home before the boss finds out. Featuring the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. (EG) Rated PG
SUICIDE SQUAD
The premise of Suicide Squad is kind of a nifty spin on the concept of antiheroes, building a team of incarcerated “meta-humans” who have to be threatened, blackmailed and cajoled by a shadowy government operative (Viola Davis) into forming a team of disposable villain/heroes for particularly dangerous missions. They include Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the Joker (Jared Leto), Killer Croc (Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje) and El Diablo (Jay Hernandez). (MB) Rated PG-13
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im Burton’s been in a rut. While the dihold the key to protecting the children. rector once brilliantly mixed charm with Miss Peregrine’s has a big target audience issue. darkness, recent works like Dark Shadows At its heart, the story is a childhood fantasy have bordered on self-parody. Burton’s latest adventure, but it’s hard to advise any parents to effort, an adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ hit 2011 take preteens to see the PG-13 flick, because its young adult novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar darkest parts offer pure, unadulterated nightChildren, serves as an effective step back from that mare fuel. The hollowgasts are extremely horrific dangerous (Johnny Depp-heavy) ledge, but tonal monsters for a kids’ movie, looking like giant issues prevent it from fully regaining that early Slender Men with no eyes, blades for arms and Burton magic. legs, razor teeth, and tentacles extending from When outcast Florida their mouths. Even on the side teen Jacob (Asa Butterfield) of good, the peculiar Enoch uses MISS PEREGRINE’S goes to check on his beloved HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN reanimation powers to make grandpa (Terence Stamp) disturbing patched-together creaRated PG-13 after a distressed phone call, tures with weapon appendages to Directed by Tim Burton he finds the old man dying fight to the death, solely for his Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, and sees monsters nearby. amusement. Terence Stamp Based on his cryptic dying While the cast succeeds at words, Jacob follows the path of his granddad’s charming, the complexity of the plot doesn’t fantastical bedtime stories about his time at Miss allow much space for the character developPeregrine’s (a wonderfully stern Eva Green) ment needed to fully invest in the plight of the orphanage in Wales for children with fantastic peculiars. The emotional core of the movie relies powers. After events lead Jacob through a time heavily on the viewer buying into the instant portal, he discovers that the children (known as love between Jacob and Emma (Ella Purnell), peculiars) do exist, possessing powers like super the floating girl with air powers. But without strength and the ability to rapidly grow plants. chalking it all up to absurdly aggressive teen horBut they are stuck living the same day (in 1943) mones, there’s no understanding why they’re so on a loop to avoid Barron (a more goofy than smitten so quickly. Miss Peregrine’s ends up being intimidating Samuel L. Jackson) and his legion a creative but ultimately only serviceable entry in of murderous monsters known as hollowgasts. the Burton canon; not a full return to form, but a Jacob soon finds out that he may unknowingly return to watchability.
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Mystery Man What we know about musician/actor/puppeteer/comedian David Liebe Hart, and what we don’t BY LAURA JOHNSON
L
ast week, I had an 11-minute phone conversation with David Liebe Hart. He cut the call short to drop off some of his Christian sheet music at a Baptist church somewhere in Oregon, but before that, he briefly spoke of his faith, travel and how he communicates with aliens. For someone who’s worked on Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, has played outside the Hollywood Bowl on and off for decades and been interviewed by some of the top music publications, there’s still a lot of mystery surrounding the 61-yearold renaissance man. As the artist is playing several shows in the Pacific Northwest this month, it’s time to delve into the strange world of David Liebe Hart.
WHAT WE KNOW
His comedy isn’t for everyone. Like Neil Hamburger (real name Gregg Turkington), a character comedian famous for a terrible combover and yelling at his audience, whom Hart has opened for on occasion, Hart’s off-kilter brand of comedy and music is a lot for some folks to handle. But if you’re into slightly nonsensical lyrics about outer space and technology and lost loves, often strangely voiced through slightly creepy puppets, then this is the stage show for you. Don’t be afraid to get comfortable with the uncomfortable — especially with cheaply made, psychedelic backing videos. He played Spokane last year. Hart, who was at the Bartlett last August, is back this Friday at the Big Dipper
What we know: multi-talented artist Eric Liebe Hart has awesome dad style.
as part of a musical comedy experience also featuring a couple of local improv groups and garage rock band the Smokes. The show will likely bring quite a few laughs and some head-scratching moments. Hart says that he’s performed in Spokane many times, including in the 1990s with his ex-wife, when they performed with a contemporary Christian band. Jonah “Th’Mole” Mociun is his current professional partner. “He’s got me booked up like an Arby’s sandwich,” says a sleepy Hart last week of Mociun, a musician in his own right and Hart’s current producer on several projects, including last year’s Astronaut. Prior to working with Mociun, Hart collaborated with fellow public-access TV personality Adam Papagan for six years. Currently, Mociun is Hart’s current travel companion and backing musician. Expect a couple of his tunes as well during the show, including something from his recent falsetto rap album Chip The Black Boy, the name of one of Hart’s puppet characters. He says he communicates with aliens. He says aliens abducted him at a young age. His grandmother also spoke to this race of humanoids called Corinians, he says, and he still chats with them on the phone. His best-known song, “Salame,” discusses many of these interactions. “Jonah doesn’t believe me,” Hart says. “There are so many doubting Thomases. I once put Jonah on the phone with an alien I was talking to and Jonah just ran them away. He told me he couldn’t hear anything on the other end, but that’s because he wasn’t open enough to the experience.” ...continued on next page
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His past is somewhat murky. He says that he’s been playing music since he was a child growing up in Chicago, writing songs in his bedroom. Always writing songs and thinking about trains. He says on the phone that when he got out of the Navy he became a schoolteacher and then an actor. He grew up in the Church of Christ Scientist (not to be confused with Scientology). While on the road, Hart says he likes to incorporate some religiously themed tunes into his set, but “Jonah is Jewish, I have to fight him for it.” He says he doesn’t drink or smoke and is quite invested in Christian Science teachings; recently, he released the first DVD of Junior Christian Teaching Bible Lesson Program, his L.A. cable access show which ran over a 20-year period and taught kids the
importance of things like staying in school and steering clear of gangs. What’s an act and what isn’t? When he talks on stage, it’s with a straight face. When you speak with him on the phone he sounds quite earnest. The things he says never seem like a joke, but yet he’s billed himself as a comedian. “Nobody will experience anything if they have a closed mind,” Hart says before he abruptly has to leave. “It’s the only way to be free.” n lauraj@inlander.com David Liebe Hart with the Smokes, Midnight Goats (musical improv) and Ditch Kids (improv) • Fri, Sept. 30, at 7:30 pm • $10/$13 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098
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The Chicago-based Twin Peaks band has little in common with David Lynch’s TV show of the same name.
Rolling Stoned The revivalist rock and hijinks of Twin Peaks BY CONNOR DINNISON
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his is Tuna speaking,” says Cadien Lake James, quasi-frontman of Chicago rockers Twin Peaks over the phone earlier this month. The quintet — related to the surreal David Lynch TV series in name only — has just crossed the Florida-Georgia line in their van, called Vandalf the White, on a tour leg that will swing through the South before curling up the West Coast to Spokane and the Bartlett for a reprise of their 2014 gig there. “We just stopped at a Guitar Center,” says James. “I got a little soup at the grocery store. And then I got a smoothie at Smoothie King. And we’re smokin’ some dope.” His laconic, matter-of-fact Midwestern drawl betrays his altered state of mind, which, James later admits, is “um, blank.” But a listen through Down in Heaven, the band’s latest LP, reveals a deeper side of the musicians who, it turns out, actually have a lot on their minds, particularly in regards to women. Here, affairs of the heart loom large. “You can live how you want if you don’t mind living alone,” sings a spiteful Clay Frankel to a cold-hearted femme fatale in the refrain of “Cold Lips.” True to the blues tradition, the record, at its jangly core, is a collection of boozy laments: over loneliness, rejection and regret. “I picked up a guitar when I was pretty young,” says James. “It felt very important to me very quick. I was never no good at sports
or nothin’. [Rock ’n’ roll] just draws you in or it don’t. I do this. This is what I do.” He found like-minded souls in high school pals Frankel, bassist Jack Dolan, drummer Connor Brodner and multi-instrumentalist Colin Croom, who joined in 2014. Down in Heaven borrows from the house-party mayhem of The King Khan & BBQ Show and cops the sneer of Exile on Main Street, but boogies on its own terms with philosophical, tender, witty and scathing intent. Its 13 tracks ride the thin line between cheeky and intensely personal. It’s a modus operandi gleaned (consciously or not) from some infamous Middle American forebears. “We’re no Wilco. We’re no Replacements. We’re just some dudes from Chicago doing it,” James says. “We’re a real grateful band. We fell into this world. We’re winging it.” That anything-could-happen attitude infuses Twin Peaks’ live act. “We get enthused up there. Y’all could be standing still and we’ll still be shaking our butts,” says James. “We don’t know [how to play] any songs right now that we haven’t released, and we still don’t know how to play half of the songs we have released. Usually we’re drinking. Sometimes someone sparks a joint. ” Twin Peaks with White Reaper • Sat, Oct. 1, at 8 pm • $12 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174
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hese are people who never want to be forgotten. That’s why artists like Vanilla Ice, Salt-N-Pepa with Spinderella, Coolio, Color Me Badd, Tone Lōc and Young MC, who all achieved their moment in the spotlight in the late ’80s and early ’90s, are making a tour stop at the Spokane Arena’s more intimate Star Theater on Sunday night. Show up to this one in your best neon gear and parachute pants and get ready to relive songs like “Ice Ice Baby,” “Push It,” “It Takes Two” and of course, “Gangsta’s Paradise” with the real artists performing them. Even if you don’t dress up, the evening is sure to bring back all those adolescent memories, back when life was a little simpler. — LAURA JOHNSON I Love the ’90s Tour • Sun, Oct. 2, at 7:30 pm • $47.50-$87.50 • All-ages • Star Theater at the Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000
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utside of Guns N’ Roses, it’s hard to imagine any band actually needing eight years between albums. But hilarious metal dudes Goblin Cock have a pretty good excuse — band leader Rob Crow (aka “Lord Phallus”) seems to have about a dozen projects going at a time, most notably as one of the two ongoing members of indie rockers Pinback. The man’s been busy since Goblin Cock’s 2008 release Come With Me If You Want To Live, even quitting the music biz altogether briefly, before returning this spring with yet another side project, Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place, and now the third Goblin Cock full-length, Necronomindonkeykongimicon. The first single is a harrowing, excellent slab of riff-rock called “Something Haunted,” and the rest of the disc delivers some killer old-school thrash sure to get a pit going. Be prepared. — DAN NAILEN Goblin Cock with Ampersand • Thu, Oct. 6, at 9 pm • $10 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933
BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, David Liebe Hart (of Time and Eric) (See story on page 47), Midnight Goats, the Smokes, Ditch Kids BOLO’S, Tracer BROWNE’S TAVERN (315-9934), Jip Skippy and the Unprepared J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Heather and the Soulmotions THE CELLAR, Riverboat Dave Duo COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Cris Lucas, Smash Hit Carnival CURLEY’S, Dragonfly FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Echo Elysium FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Karma’s Circle IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY (208-597-
7096), John Firshi IRON HORSE BAR, Uppercut JOHN’S ALLEY, Dan Faller & the Working Poor J KNITTING FACTORY, Brett Dennen, Lily & Madeleline J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Ron Greene NASHVILLE NORTH, The Ryan Larsen Band, DJ Tom NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Mark Norton NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ
Ramsin NYNE, Patrick Stewart, DJ JG PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Old Sap banjo music REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Jeffrey Foucault THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SILVER FOX (208-667-9442), Usual Suspects J THE PIN!, Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Carnifex, Oceano THE ROADHOUSE, Spokane River Band ZOLA, Tell the Boys
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315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Truck Mills J THE BARTLETT, Twin Peaks (See story on page 49), White Reaper BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Free singer/ songwriter Night with the Marco Polo Collective, Andy Rumsey and many more BOLO’S, Tracer J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, October open mic night with Ethan Stevenson THE CELLAR, Riverboat Dave Duo COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Cris Lucas, Smash Hit Carnival CURLEY’S, Dragonfly
DI LUNA’S CAFE, Doug Bond FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Karma’s Circle GARLAND PUB & GRILL (326-7777), Usual Suspects J HARRISON, Harrison Oktoberfest feat. JamShack J HILLYARD, HarvestFest feat. the Kelly Hughes Band, the Hankers, the Ryan Larsen Band, Christy Lee, Jesse Quandt Band, the Ghost Riders IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Hastings IRON HORSE BAR, Uppercut THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Wyatt Wood NASHVILLE NORTH, The Ryan Larsen Band, DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin J THE OBSERVATORY, Tops, Super Sparkle, Mini Murders THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J THE SHOP, Rushing Tide
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STIX (292-0503), My Own Worst Enemy THE PIN!, Zombie Crawl 2016 feat. 12 Gauge Saints J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Oktoberfest feat. Summer in Siberia, Hey! is for Horses, Friends of Mine, DJ Unifest ZOLA, Hot Club
Sunday, 10/02
COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kicho HARVEST HOUSE (238-6970), Stagecoach West KNITTING FACTORY, I Love The 90’s Tour Official AFter Party, DJ Born, DJ Funk, DJ Big Mike LINGER LONGER LOUNGE (208-6232211), Open jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music J THE PALOMINO, Futuristic J SPOKANE ARENA, I Love The 90’s Tour feat. Coolio, Color Me Badd, Salt-N-Pepa with Spinderella, Tone Loc, Vanilla Ice and Young MC (See story on facing page) ZOLA, Blake Braley Band
Monday, 10/03
J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills J KNITTING FACTORY, Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, JL, Illest Uminati, State of Krisis,
RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Kellan Rowe
Tuesday, 10/04
THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J KNITTING FACTORY, Eric Hutchinson, Magic Giant, Haddon Cord LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), DJ Charley THE RESERVE, Deschamp’s Artist Showcase THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, Fus Bol
Wednesday, 10/05 EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES (368-9087), Open Mic with T & T THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RESERVE, EDM Wednesdays with DJs Ayzim, Radikill, Gestut THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame
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J THE OBSERVATORY, Goblin Cock (Rob Crowe of Pinback with Ampersand) (See story on facing page), Oct. 6 CAPONE’S, 25th Anniversary feat. the Rub, the Working Spliffs, Oct. 7 THE PIN!, Fit for a King, Alive in Barcelona, Concrete Grip (CD release), Oct. 7 KNITTING FACTORY, Danny Brown, Maxo Kream, Zelooperz, Oct. 7 KNITTING FACTORY, Nahko & Medicine For the People, HIRIE,, Oct. 8 THE BARTLETT, Mandolin Orange, Leif Vollebekk, Oct. 9 THE OBSERVATORY, Young Creatures, Moody Florals, Empty Eyes, Oct. 9 THE PIN!, Ying Yang Twins, Oct. 9 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, The Head and the Heart, Declan McKenna, Oct. 10 THE BIG DIPPER, Voice Of Addiction, Itchy Kitty, Gorilla, Rabbit & Chicken, Oct. 11 THE BIG DIPPER, Supersuckers, Jesse Dayton, Whiskey Dick Mountain, Oct. 12 CHATEAU RIVE, An Evening With The Quebe Sisters, Oct. 12 IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Folkinception recording fundraiser, Oct. 14 THE PIN!, Mickey Avalon, DJ F3lon, Oct. 15 THE BARTLETT, Erika Wennerstrom (of Heartless Bastards), Oct. 15 THE BIG DIPPER, Boat Race Weekend EP release, Oct. 15
MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley• 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 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 St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S• 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • (208) 930-0381 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 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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FROM LEFT: One Heart festival organizers Jeff Ferguson and Alix Vorhoorees with artist Diane Covington. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
FILM / ART NATIVE CREATIONS
The organizers of the One Heart Native Arts and Film festival told us that the genesis of this two-day event came out of a very real need for our region’s Native Americans to have a space to show their artwork. The festival begins with a screening of the acclaimed film Smoke Signals at the Bing Crosby Theater with much of the cast on hand, as well as the film’s writer, best-selling author Sherman Alexie. There’s also a short film program on Saturday as most of the action moves to the Kauffman & Associates building, where you’ll find an array of visual arts from native artists from throughout the region. — MIKE BOOKEY One Heart Native Arts and Film Festival • Fri, Sept. 30 and Sat, Oct. 1 • $40/full festival pass; $15 Smoke Signals screening only • Bing Crosby Theater and Kauffman & Associates Building • oneheartfestival.org
COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
About a month after hosting a delegation of students (pictured) from Spokane’s newest sister city, Cagli, Italy, we’re making the bond official. In an international relationship more than a decade in the making, students from a Gonzaga University master’s program have traveled to the small Italian town with professor John Caputo each summer to immerse themselves in Italian history and culture. Because of these annual trips, Cagli’s mayor invited Spokane to formalize the connection between the two municipalities as international sister cities. A public ceremony with Spokane Mayor David Condon and Cagli Mayor Alberto Alessandri is followed by a banquet celebrating the occasion, and also marking the 50th anniversary of the American-Italian Club of Spokane. — CHEY SCOTT Spokane-Cagli Sister City Ceremony • Sat, Oct. 1, at 4:30 pm (free and open to the public); banquet at 6:30 pm ($60/person) • Doubletree Hotel • 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. • bit.ly/SpokaneCagli
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SPORTS HIT THE ICE
While the Inland Northwest hasn’t had the same kind of sweetly long-lasting summer as we did last year, you know it’s time to head inside for the many months of cold weather when hockey season starts up. And while the Spokane Chiefs have played some preseason matches over the past several weeks, their 2016-17 WHL season officially kicks off this Saturday, with the opener at home against their rivals, the Tri-City Americans. Notably, this is the Chiefs’ 12th consecutive home opener against the Americans; Spokane has won the past eight. The puck drops just after 7, but come early for a kickoff party starting at 4 pm, with food trucks, a beer garden, live music, kids activities and more. — CHEY SCOTT Spokane Chiefs vs. Tri-City Americans • Sat, Oct. 1, at 7:05 pm; pregame party at 4 pm • $10-$23 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanechiefs.com • 535-PUCK
INDEPENDENT FOOD / DRINK DAWN OF THE DRINK
Zombies are among us, or at least in our pubs for one night in October. The fourth annual Spokane Zombie Crawl kicks off the spookiest month of the year with a zombie-themed, costumed pub crawl and scavenger hunt fit for fans of reanimated corpses and the brave souls who battle them. Follow the map to crawl through town with hundreds of other undead, scavenging for buttons and drinks. Zombie crawlers can enter a costume contest at the starting bar, nYne (7 pm), or at the end point, Tamarack Public House (11 pm). Test your post-apocalypse survival skills! — EMILY GOODELL
While INLANDERS might be the first to lend a hand in times of need, we’ll likely be the last to ask for one. That’s because we’re self-reliant islands of ingenuity. All 700,000 of us.
Spokane Zombie Crawl • Sat, Oct. 1, starting at 5:30 pm • $20 • Downtown Spokane • spokanezombiecrawl.com
We’re entrepreneurs, summit chasers, inventors, chefs, musicians, politicians and drifters—each flying his or her own flag. And we need one paper with the guts to salute them all. Because the more informed we are, the more independent we become.
FESTIVAL YE OLDE FAIRE
Hear ye, hear ye, lasses and lads, there doth be jousters and sword-fighters aplenty arriving to dazzle townsfolk with their might. That’s what you have here at the Spokane Renaissance Faire, which brings historic flair and old-time wonder to life. History comes alive with live plays, renaissance characters and a mystical faerie garden. Medieval merchants abound, selling crafts and food and exhibiting chain mail. The fair is family-friendly and offers activities for all ages. Proceeds from ticket sales at the annual event benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. — EMILY GOODELL Spokane Renaissance Faire • Sat, Oct. 1 and Sun, Oct. 2, from 10 am-5 pm • $12/adults; $7/kids ages 6-12, seniors; $20-$40/weekend passes • Lazy K. Ranch • 5906 E. Woolard Rd., Colbert • spokanerenfaire.com • 995-2114 I N L A N D E R .CO M / I N D E P E N D E N T
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FRIENDS OF FIRST NIGHT: WHITE HATTER EVENT An evening of live music, raffles and wine to benefit First Night Spokane. Sept. 29, 6-9 pm. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. bit. ly/2cA6scs (465-3591) JOHN WAYNE TRAIL FUNDRAISER Festivities at the second annual event supporting the U.S.’s longest rail-totrail include the music of Cary Novotny, casino-style games, door prizes, silent auction, hors d’oeurves and a cash bar. At Tekoa’s historic mansion, 141 S. Howard. Sept. 30. $15-$20. savethejohnwaynetrail.com (284-2313) PEACEFUL VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD SALE Proceeds from the yard sale and the sale of original art sale support the Neighborhood Council’s efforts to pro-
tect the historic neighborhood. Sept. 30, 9 am-noon, Oct. 1, 9 am-2 pm. Also includes live music, 12-2 pm and live poetry. Glover Field, 216 N. Cedar St. BOOKTOBERFEST Shop through 20,000+ new and used books, DVDs, CDs, Videos, LPs, games and puzzles. Most are priced for $1 or less and all proceeds benefits the animals of the Spokane Humane Society. Oct. 1-2, from 8 am-5 pm. Free. Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana St. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-5235) HOEDOWN FOR HOPE Spokane HOPE School invites the community to help local children with hearing loss learn to listen and speak. Enjoy dinner, raffles, auction, live music and dancing. Oct. 1, 5-10 pm. $60. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanehopeschool.org (863-7097)
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I SAW YOU TOO NERVOUS TO ASK At EWU’s card services, we had our photos at the same time. We started talking, but I got nervous when we obviously had a connection, I want to buy coffee for you. Same time and place next week? LOVE OF MY LIFE Husband, There are no words to describe how much I love you and thank you for sticking with me. No matter what. You truly mean for sickness and health, til death do us part. Thank you for loving me, for taking care of me when I can not take care of myself. You and our Day are the only 2 people keeping me going. I love you, so much. As long as I am living, I will love you. Even after that. P.S. I love you more, Wife MY KIDDO DayLynn, I love you so much! I am so glad that I get to be your mom. Thank you for being a great kid. You are beautiful, smart, kind, funny, and most importantly, you are giving. Thank you for the love and the snuggles. I love you Buttnuggett! Xoxo, Mama BROWN EYED GIRL The first time I saw you was way back in elementary school when I started going to your church. I remember not knowing what this feeling was I had for you. You didn’t bother me or annoy me like most people, I remember just wanting to see your face anytime I could. The minute I saw your smile and heard your laugh
Please sit down and put your phones away. You did a good job in ruining my evening.
I was hooked. You brightened up my life no matter what was going on. As we grew up I realized that feeling I had for you was a big o’l crush and wanted nothing more than to be yours and for you to be mine. I’m so proud and happy to say you are my fiancée now as of this last weekend of September. I’ll never let you live down that you ignored me the first time I talked to you in the 3rd grade but that’s okay because I love you to infinity and beyond. And not in some lame pinterest way but in a ToyStory kind of way. MY LITTLE ONE I was recently in a very bad wreck on my bike and you were there for me. I don’t remember the first couple of days but you never left me from what I’m told. We have been together almost a year though I’ve known you most of my life this has been the best time of my life. You care for me like no other you give up things you love so that I have what I want we have so much fun together even we were doing nothing.
CHEERS PAC AVE GOOD SAMARITANS Cheers to the two guys (I think your names are Damon and Steve?) who were willing to intervene outside of Pacific Ave Pizza when a car tried to follow me home on Sept. 20th. Thanks for offering to call the cops and comforting me when I was really scared. You guys are awesome! JOYFUL WHITWORTH STUDENTS I signed up for some apt. cleaning by some Whitworth students, but I never expected to laugh & praise so highly the work that they did at Cathedral Plaza. On 9/21/16 I opened my door to see 3
smiling faces with Windex etc. & cloths in their hands. Oh Morgan, she did such a nice job of vacuuming & Christian & Christy did everything else. I had such a rewarding experience, hope to see all of you again.
JEERS GROTESQUE INLANDER BIAS Jeers to the person who slammed commentators who were voicing their opinions in the part of Inlander that allows political opinions. Maybe they’re not so much anti-white as anti-white males only. I don’t see what you think is so anti-Christian. Your comments about Hillary seemed not very Christian. Their comments are a breath of fresh air after hearing so many racist and bigoted talk I have heard too many times. I would never join a group like yours because, in my opinion, you are a bunch of snobs who think they are better than everyone else and are the only ones who know what’s right - Happy to Vote for Hillary “NURSE” KIM What kind of a person only works at the VA hospital so they can brag about it and make themselves look good? You’re everything wrong with the VA that all the rest of us are trying so hard to fix. We all hear how you talk about your patients behind their backs. You are fake and shallow and not even half the person all your patients are! You’re an embarrassment to nursing and your days at the VA are numbered, but I hope you read this and feel so guilty that you leave so we can replace you with an actual nurse that will give our Veterans the care they deserve! CONCERT ETIQUETTE I received Dolly
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Pardon concert tickets for Mother’s day. I had been looking forward to this concert for approx 5 months. To the couple who sat in front of me with your phone trying to record Dolly, that was so rude. I got to watch Dolly thru your camera. You only had to look at your camera phone to see you could not record Dolly she only appeared as a while spot on your video. This did not keep you from trying, there was another woman in section 7 who was doing the same thing but her phone was even higher. Please sit down and put your phones away. You did a good job in ruining my evening. :( CAR THIEF Jeers to the dirt bags that stole my friend’s 93’ plymouth acclaim Lic# AAZ8161 You not only stole from my friend, but her elderly aunt and her brother who have no car. If this was the wild west you’d be strung up. I’m all for bringin’ that back. My friend just wants her car back. She’s a hard worker and like I said she helps people with her car. VZ JEERS TO ME To the gentleman walking a golden retriever off leash in Comstock Park about 10 days ago: I am sorry that I yelled at you (and worse) because your dog was off leash. You were right: it was not the end of the world Unfortunately, my golden retriever (who is on his leash) gets upset and difficult to control when he sees loose dogs. Many people do not respect the leash laws in this park, which makes it difficult for those who do. You were kind enough to put your dog on the leash when you saw mine was leashed. Again, I am sorry that I was verbally abusive. THANKS TO SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. For attempting to monopolize
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parking at the airport. Your fees finally forced one parking company to close after 25 years, leaving some 18 or so people out of a job. Another company on the bubble not to mention hundreds if not thousands of loyal customers upset over the closure. ... P S ... watch for the parking rates to rise, as well as parking shortages, especially around the holidays. TO THOSE IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY who are nothing but self-righteous, self-centered, attention seekers who play favorites CONSTANTLY to get ahead; who NEVER have time for their supporters. Shame on you!!!! You have supporters yet when you act like this, your supporters are bound to say ‘I’m done with this’. (This isn’t everyone in the LGBT community. But I’ve witnessed a MAJORITY who are this way). One supporter just told me he became unsupportive for these very reasons above. Now you know what doing? Going back to religious freedom; prolife and Republican. That is what will KEEP happening if most of you keep acting this way. Please tell me there are more of you than the VERY FEW I know who really do care that they have supporters and will take and have time for them.
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EVENTS | CALENDAR INTO AFRICA Partnering for Progress’ annual fundraising dinner and auction. Enjoy an African-themed dinner and auction items. All proceeds go toward P4P’s projects that provide access to health care, education, economic development and clean water in southwest Kenya. Oct. 1. $65. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. intoafricaauction.org KEEP THE CHANGE BluBerry is donating all of their tips from now through December to ACCOIN to aid in its mission of serving, education, supporting, and advocating for local families affected by childhood cancer. Blu Berry Frozen Yogurt, 3007 E. 57th. acco.org SPOKANE & NORTH IDAHO APRAXIA WALK Support children living with speech apraxia and enjoy some activities, refreshments, and a raffle before/ after the walk. Oct. 1, 10 am-noon. $10$25. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. (280-6937) SPOKANE PARTY IN PINK 2016 Inland Imaging presents Spokane’s 6th annual Zumbathon fundraising event, kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with two hours of Zumba, with all proceeds benefiting Susan G. Komen. Oct. 2, 10 am-noon. $20-$25. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. carly6.zumba.com (242-7000) 4TH ANNUAL CASA UNCORKED Enjoy food and drinks, raffles, live music, auctions, giveaways and more during the largest fundraiser of the year benefiting North Idaho CASA. Oct. 6, 5:30-9:30 pm. $75-$100. Hagadone Event Center, 900 S. Floating Green Dr. northidahocasa.com (208-667-9165) TRANSITIONS’ PEOPLE WHO CARE EVENT An event to celebrate community members coming together to make a difference in the lives of women and children who are overcoming poverty and homelessness. Speakers include past participants, staff and more. Oct. 6, 7:30-8:30 am & 12-1 pm. Free. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. help4women.org/people-who-care
COMEDY
COMEDY@FIRST The newly reopened Ella’s Theater hosts Friends of the Bing’s new Thursday night comedy series, featuring Tom Meisfjord and Josh Teaford. Sept. 29, 8 pm. $10-$12.50. Ella’s Theater, 1017 W. First. GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. (847-1234) JENNY ZIGRINO Zigrino made her late night debut on Conan O’Brien and was a finalist in Comedy Central’s “Up Next” Comics to Watch of 2013. Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 8 pm, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com DAVID LIEBE HART The comedian best known from Adult Swim’s Tim & Eric (Awesome Show, Great Job!) presents a hilarious multimedia spectacular, complete with music, puppets and videos, with backing musician Jonah “Th’ Mole” Mociun. Support acts: The Smokes, The Midnight Goats, Ditch Kids. Sep. 30, 7:30-11 pm. $10/$13. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. bit. ly/2bha17a (530-470-3299)
THE MUSICAL An all-improvised musical based on audience suggestions. Appropriate for general audiences. Fridays, at 8 pm, in Sept. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com THE LASER COMEDY SHOW At this comedic traveling art/improv show, performing artist Chris Fair sketches amusing scenes and gives them hilarious life with imaginative vocal work and sound effects. Oct. 1, 10 pm. $10. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Recommended for 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm, through Dec. 17. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) MARC YAFFEE The award-winning comedian performs in a show benefiting 5th Congressional District Candidate Joe Pakootas. Oct. 2, 5 pm. $20. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) IMPROV JAM SESSIONS An opportunity to try something new, polish your improv skills and have fun. Each session is led by a BDT Troupe member, and is an informal get together and not considered an improv class. For ages 18+. Meets first and third Mondays of every month through the end of the year, from 7-9 pm. Free. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY A weekly comedy open mic on Mondays, hosted by Nick Cavasier. Sign-up at 7:30, show at 8 pm. Free. The Reserve, 120 N. Wall St. facebook.com/spokomedy SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN A friendly local comedy competition. Comedians get a topic and have four minutes to perform; the crowd then votes for a winner. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933) COMEDY@FIRST This week’s show is EDNA, an improvised comedy show, featuring Emily Butler. Oct. 6, 8 pm. $10-$12.50. Ella’s Theater, 1017 W. First. FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy the first Thursday of every month in Impulse Nightclub at 8 pm (doors open at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region. Ages 21+. $10. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (242-7000)
COMMUNITY
COLVILLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH The 7th year of the local, 12-acre corn maze, with a pumpkin and squash patch. Open through Oct. 31; Sat-Sun from 11 am-7:30 pm and Mon-Fri, from 4-7:30 pm. $5-$7. Colville Corn Maze, 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com LOST EGYPT: ANCIENT SECRETS, MODERN SCIENCE Explore ancient Egypt with hands-on activities, human and animal mummies and real Egyptian artifacts. Through Jan. 6; open Tue-Sat, 10 am-5 pm (until 8 pm on Wed; halfprice admission on Tue). $5-$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR MURDER VICTIMS The Victim/ Witness Unit from the Spokane County Prosecutors Office hosts a vigil to
honor the memories of murder victims and recognize the impact of homicide on surviving family/friends. Sep. 29, 6-7:30 pm. Spokane County Public Works, 1100 W. Mallon. (477-3640) PAJAMA STORY TIME WITH LOCAL AUTHORS Scablands Lit gathers local writers Chris Cook, Jeff Dodd, Kate Peterson and Liz Rognes who read picture books aloud to kids (ages 2-5) who come in their favorite pajamas. Sept. 29, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) SCRAPS TWILIGHT MEMORIAL Due to wildfires this summer, the event was rescheduled. The shelter hosts a free concert by the Lilies of the Valley in our community room. Luminaries available for purchase for $5. Sept. 29, 7 pm. Free admission. SCRAPS Regional Animal Shelter, 6815 E. Trent. (477-2532) WASHINGTON STATE CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL The festival returns for a second year, filling the park with colorful lantern sculptures. All new displays are featured, along with an artisan vendor village, a dinosaur fossil dig, cultural and acrobatic performances, food and more. Through Oct. 30; Sun-Thu, 5-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 5-11 pm. Performances Sun-Thu at 6:30 and 8:30 pm; Fri-Sat at 7 and 9 pm. $10-$15/entry; $40/family pass (2 adults, 2 youth) and $60/all-access pass. Kids three and under are free. Riverfront Park. spokanelanternfestival.com BEATRIX POTTER CELEBRATION Celebrate the discovery and publishing of her long lost book “Tale of Kitty in Boots.” Sept. 30, 4 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. (444-5390) CUSTER’S FALL ANTIQUE SALE The 41st annual event hosts 200+ dealers from all over the West Coast. Sept. 30, 4-9 pm; Oct. 1, 10 am-6 pm; Oct. 2, 10 am-4 pm. $6/weekend admission. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. custershows.com (477-1766) MAD HATTER VINTAGE FLEA MARKET The annual, two-day event offers vintage and handcrafted goods from curated vendors, food, painting demos, a photo booth and more. Sept. 30, 4-9 pm and Oct. 1, 10 am-4 pm. $5 admission. Five Mile Grange, 3024 W. Strong Rd. (990-4558) SCARYWOOD HAUNTED NIGHTS The North Idaho theme park transforms into a place of Halloween-themed nightmares. Open Sept. 30-Oct. 29; Thu, 6:30-11 pm and Fri-Sat, from 7 pm-1 am. $26-$40. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95. scarywoodhaunt.com GLOBAL CARDBOARD CHALLENGE The third annual event, based on a young boy’s dream in LA mixing cardboard and games. Oct. 1, 10 am-1 pm. $5/family. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth St. gizmo-cda.org/ (208-651-6200) BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: The annual event includes free treats for pets and people along with a foster fair offering information on how to help local homeless pets in need of extra care and support. Oct. 1, 1 pm. Free. SCRAPS Regional Animal Shelter, 6815 E. Trent Ave. spokanecounty.org/scraps CREATIVE INVENTIONS In this imaginative workshop, explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with the Makey Makey invention kit that allows you to control your computer with everyday objects. Registration required; space is limited. Oct. 1, 2-4 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350)
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I’m a man who likes to girl-watch. I do this from behind very dark glasses, yet I still elicit scowls from women. Recently, I was at a help desk, and I availed myself of the view down the receptionist’s top. She quickly covered up with a scarf. I’m puzzled, because there’s no way she could’ve seen my eyes. What’s going on here? —Sunglasses
AMY ALKON
We all appreciate a nice view, but your eyes might be lingering a bit long in the wrong places if you hear stuff like “Sir…are you ready for my areolas to take your order?” Hiding your boob recon behind pitch-dark shades doesn’t help matters — but not because we have some magical ability to know when someone is staring at us. Sure, people will swear that they can tell — even if the starer is behind them or is behind dark glasses. However, unless they grew up someplace else — like on Planet 34 — they have no organ that would detect this. (Here on Earth, “eyes in the back of your head” is just a figure of speech — save for any rare genetic accidents.) Why might we think we know when we’re being watched — even by someone we can’t see? Well, we may — subconsciously — be picking up on subtle reactions of people around us who can see the watcher. Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux explains that our amygdala — part of our brain’s threat detection circuitry — reacts beneath conscious awareness, messaging our body to get ready to run or rumble (that “fight or flight” thing). Among our body’s responses, our little hairs stand on end. That’s a creepy feeling — leading us to whirl around to see what gives — and whoa!…there’s some dude angling to cavity-search us with his eyeballs. We have a term for that “hairs standing on end” feeling, and it’s “being creeped out” — which is what women are experiencing when they can’t see what your eyes are up to behind those dark glasses. Evolutionary social psychologist Frank McAndrew published the first study on the nature of “creepiness.” He explains that the feeling that something is “creepy” is a self-protective response to “ambiguity” — our being unsure of whether we’re facing a threat. We err on the side of assuming that we are — and in rushes the palace guard to barricade the cleavage with a scarf. This woman you stared at was at the “help” desk, and no, that isn’t short for “Help yourself to a nice long look down my boobage.” Close-range staring at a captive audience like that is particularly creepy — as in, it’s rude. Again, the sunglasses don’t change that; they make it worse. If you’re going to girl-watch, do it in wide-open spaces, like on the street or in a mall, so you don’t make women feel like sitting ducks in pushup bras. You might also take off those spy glasses and engage with one of these ladies. If you get something going with a woman, gazing admiringly at her will seem like a form of flattery — as opposed to a sign that your mom reset the Net Nanny to block all those “filthy” webcam sites.
EVENTS | CALENDAR LION’S CLUB TRAIN RIDES Hosted for 35 years by the NPOV Lions Club, the 2016 season will be the club’s last offering the scenic train excursions between Ione and Metaline Falls, Wash. First four weekends of October (Sat-Sun). $10$15. lionstrainrides.com SPOKANE RENAISSANCE FAIRE The annual event features live, medieval themed entertainment, vendors and more. Oct. 1-2, 10 am-6 pm. $7-$12. Lazy K Ranch, 5906 E. Woolard Rd. spokanefaire.com (995-2114) SPOKANE-CAGLI SISTER CITY CEREMONY Spokane Mayor Condon and Cagli, Italy’s mayor Alberto Alessandri officially sign the Sister City partnership between the two cities. Ceremony at 4:30 pm, followed by a banquet ($60; reservations to ansanog@msn. com) that also honors the 50th anniversary of the American-Italian Club of Spokane. Oct. 1. Doubletree Hotel, 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. (499-9886) SCULPTING MAMMOTH ANIMALS Meet sculptor Peter Thomas, and help him create sculptures of Ice Age giants for a Pleistocene display to be installed in the MAC’s group entry, to accompany the “Titans of the Ice Age: Mammoths & Mastodons” exhibit in February. Oct. 2, 11 am-3 pm. Free with museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) SPOKANE NEDA WALK The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Walk is an opportunity to raise awareness, funds, advocacy, and support in the Spokane community. Oct. 2, 10 am-noon. $25. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. nedawalk.org/spokane2016
SPOKANE COUNTY COMMISSIONER DEBATE Candidates from Districts 1 and 2 discuss issues including how best to attract and expand businesses, criminal justice and mental health reforms, and what transportation improvements are needed to improve freight mobility. Oct. 5, 4 pm. $15. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. greaterspokane.org VACCINE SAFETY SYMPOSIUM The event hosted by the Panhandle Health District provides an opportunity to learn about and discuss vaccine safety, risks and benefits for school-aged children. Experts in the field present relevant materials and information to the audience. Oct. 6, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free, registration requested. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front. (208-769-2315)
FILM
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FEST The global film festival lets the audience judge entries. Sept. 30, 5:30 pm and Oct. 1-2, 3:30 pm. Also Oct. 1 at 7:30 pm. $10. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org ONE HEART NATIVE FILM FESTIVAL The inaugural event features screenings of feature-length and short Native films, panel discussions, a Native art gallery, music, and more, as it celebrates the innovative, and diverse world of contemporary Native arts. Sept. 30-Oct. 1. $15-$150. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. oneheartfestival.org REPFEST FILM COMPETITION KICK OFF The timed film competition is open to all student filmmakers residing in Eastern Washington. Teams have one week from
kickoff to turn in their completed film. Sep. 30, 8 pm. The Palomino, 6425 N. Lidgerwood. bit.ly/2bZBuyX ANNA KARENINA: A SPOKANE IS READING EVENT The story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. Ages 18+ only. Oct. 1, 2 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org
FOOD & DRINK
VINO WINE TASTING The Friday, Sept. 30 tasting features Storybook Mountain Vineyards, from 3-6:30 pm. On Sat, Oct. 1 sample wines from Smasne Cellars, from 2-4:30 pm. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. (838-1229) SPOKANE ZOMBIE CRAWL The costume pub crawl around downtown Spokane is open to both zombies and zombie hunters during a scavenger hunt-style event at participating bars. Check-in from 5:30-9:30 pm, at nYne Bar. Oct. 1. $20-$30. spokanezombiecrawl.com (534-0878) CENTENNIAL BEER CHASE A 50-mile relay race to celebrate the craft breweries of the Inland Northwest. Open to teams of 1-6 people. Oct. 1, 8 am. $250-$625. Trickster’s Brewing, 3850 N. Schrieber Way. centennialbeerchase.com COMMUNITY PANCAKE BREAKFAST An all-you-can eat breakfast with eggs, sausage, applesauce and drinks. Sundays, October 2, 9, 16 and 23, from 8-11 am. $3.50-$6. Green Bluff Grange,
THE SON ALSO PLAGIARIZES
I met this woman who’d dated my ex. In talking, we realized that he used the same romantic lines on both of us. Granted, these made me feel good at the time, but I feel angry and stupid for falling for them. How do you know when a guy is sincere? —Scammed Understandably, you want a man’s lovey-dovey talk to come from the heart, not from a Word doc he saved on his hard drive. However, a guy whose heartfelt remarks turn out to be a renewable resource isn’t necessarily some sneaky recycler. Consider how personality plays into this. Personality is a pattern over time of thoughts, feelings, and desires that shape how you behave. Research by social psychologist Nathan W. Hudson suggests that you may be able to change aspects of your personality through behavioral change — like by repeatedly acting more conscientiously. Still, Hudson — along with about 10 truckloads of other social psychologists — sees a good deal of evidence that personality is “relatively stable.” In other words, even a sweet, sincere guy is likely to use some of the same romantic wordery with any woman he’s dating. What tells you whether he’s a good guy or he just talks a good game is time — reserving judgment on what you have together until enough time passes for you to hold up the sweet things he says to what he actually does. Wanting to see any discrepancies is really the best way to protect yourself from serial romancers — or worse. (“I bet you say that to all the girls you put in your freezer!”) ©2016, 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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MUSIC
KENWORTHY GALA An extravagant evening of drinks and entertainment, featuring local musician Natalie Greenfield, joined by an array of musicians from WSU and UI Jazz Faculty. Sep. 29, 7-10 pm. $20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) SOUNDS OF THE EAST An Indian classical music concert featuring Pandit Partho Sarothy, Abhijit Bannerjee and Santosh Roy Sept. 29, 7 pm. $10-$20. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. (208-255-7801) COMMUNITY MUSIC DAY The public is invited to come out and try out a new instrument, make music-inspired crafts, create art, sing in a karaoke sing-a-long, listen to live music and more. Oct. 1, 10 am-1 pm. Free. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. (326-9516) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT: HEARTBREAK PASS The Spokane-based bluegrass
band performs in the atrium at River Park Square. Oct. 1, 1 pm. Free. River Park Square, 808 W. Main. (624-3945) SATURDAYS WITH THE SYMPHONY A new program with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, featuring a string quartet performance, instrument “petting zoo” and refreshments. Oct. 1, noon. Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdasymphony.org (208-769-2315) SPOKANE SYMPHONY SUPERPOPS 1: BLOCKBUSTER BROADWAY A program celebrating Broadway’s biggest shows and songs, featuring numbers from Wicked, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera and more. Featuring guest musician Tom Wopat, baritone, along with Kelli Rabke Agresta, Scott Coulter and John Boswell. Oct. 1, 8 pm. $28-$62. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com GAITHER VOCAL BAND Concert by the acclaimed male harmony group. Oct. 2, 3 pm. $22-$72. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (279-7000) MARK & MAGGIE O’CONNOR SPR Presents the musical icons live in concert, performing a collection of works featured in his American Classics teaching series. Wife Maggie also a virtuoso violinist, joins him in duets. Oct. 6, 7:30 pm. $42. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404)
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
PRO-WEST FINALS Cowboys are the world’s finest rodeo athletes. PRO-WEST matches these athletes against some of the best and toughest rodeo livestock in the world. Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Kootenai
County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. prowestrodeo.com WILLIAMS MEMORIAL BIKE RIDE The annual poker ride in memory of the former NIC student is appropriate for all ages, and includes live music, a barbecue, silent auction, prizes and a T-shirt. Oct. 1, 12:30 pm. $25. O’Shays Irish Pub, 313 CdA Lake Dr. (208-676-7169) LILAC BADMINTON TOURNAMENT The two-day event hosts players from the U.S. and Canada. Oct. 1-2, 9 am-5 pm. Free to watch, register online to play. West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt. spokanebadminton.com
THEATER
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything. Through Oct. 2, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24$27. Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org CHICAGO A production of the longestrunning musical in Broadway history. Sept. 23-Oct. 23, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$28. Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST The Civic’s season opener, a musical based on Disney’s classic adaptation. Through Oct. 9; Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com THE CHARITABLE SISTERHOOD OF THE SECOND TRINITY VICTORY CHURCH See the comedy by Bo Wilson, directed by Tom Crick for StageWest Community Theatre. Sept. 30-Oct. 15, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater Oct. 15, 6 pm ($30). $5-$12. Emmanuel Lutheran, 639
Elm St., Cheney. (280-6318) ON SHAKY GROUND Ignite! and Ellen Travolta present a new play written by radio personality Molly Allen. Through Oct. 2, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $12$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org RTOP AFTERDARK: RABBIT HOLE See the gripping drama, a story exploring the road to healing and dealing with the unimaginable. Sept. 30-Oct. 1, at 8 pm. $12. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N Grand. (334-0750)
VISUAL ARTS
DECONSTRUCTED SELF New work by Jeff Huston. Opening reception Sept. 28, at noon. Show runs through Oct. 27, open Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Bldg. (359-2494) TLÁLOC IN ART & CULTURE A photographic exhibition of 35 images of the god Tláloc, considered the god of rain, and creator of clouds, lightning and thunder. Sept. 26-Oct. 31; open Mon-Fri, from 10 am-5 pm. Free. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St. (359-6802) PALOUSE PLEIN AIR An exhibition of works created during the multi-day painting competition (Sept. 19-26). Artist reception Sept. 30, 5-8 pm; art on display through Oct. 8; gallery open Tue-Sat, 10 am-8 pm and Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main. (208-883-7036) AN AUTUM WONDERLAND The gallery unveils its new renovations/improvements, along with a show of new works by Carrie Vielle, “Art, Space & Conversations” and owner Nelson Duran’s new paintings in “Impassive Silence.” Opening reception/luncheon Oct. 1, 11 am-3 pm; through Oct. 22. Oct. 1. Bank Left
Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St. (878-8425) LESLIE BARLOW An exhibition by Whitworth’s fall artist-in-residence, whose work uses the figure and narrative elements to portray issues related to identity. Oct. 3-28, gallery open Tue-Sat. Lied Center for the Visual Arts, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-4471) ORIGINS OF FEAR Curated by Megan Holden, this show features contemporary 2D and 3D art conveying personal interpretation of fearn. Oct. 4-Nov. 1; open Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Little Dog Art Gallery, 903 1/2 W. Garland. (315-7900)
WORDS
READING: DONALD CUTLER The author reads from his new book, “Hang Them All: George Wright and the Plateau Indian War”. Sept. 29, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com EWU VISITING WRITERS: ALEXIS SMITH The Portland writer kicks off the 2016-17 series. Her second novel, “Marrow Island,” is set in the San Juan Islands 20 years after an earthquake causes journalist Lucie Bowen and her mother to flee. Sept. 30, 7:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. getlitprograms.org WHITNEY TERRELL The author of “The Good Lieutenant,” reads and participates in a panel with veterans on their experiences and the limits of literature on war. Oct. 4, 7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org “I AM A TOWN” 2ND EDITION LAUNCH Spokane citizens share poems about experiences around the city as part of the city-wide project of Spokane’s Poet Laureate, Laura Read. Oct. 5, 7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299) n
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“NOT SO FAR OUT,” CONTINUED... ington and 17 other states, and Burge predicts a similar future for at least one psychedelic, MDMA (the criminalization of which in 1985 was the impetus for the founding of MAPS), by 2021, pending approval by the FDA. In an interview at the Psychedelic Science 2013 conference, Burge said his organization found, in a published trial, that 83 percent of subjects no longer exhibited core symptoms of PTSD after just two clinical sessions with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and that those results were sustained nearly four years later. “PTSD is literally an epidemic,” says Burge, particularly among soldiers returning home from America’s conflicts abroad. The Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a study released this past summer, estimates that 20 veterans commit suicide every day. But the VA’s hands are tied: Doctors in the administration can’t prescribe treatments like cannabis therapy (let alone psychedelic therapy) under federal law, even in states with legal medical marijuana programs such as Washington. “We need FDA approval,” says Burge. Shifting public perceptions are helping to manifest a future in which that can happen. The renewed interest in alternative treatments for conditions like PTSD, Burge speculates, is a reaction to the failure of the “war on drugs” and, in part, to the increasing abuse of prescription drugs including Prozac and Zoloft. The culture, what Burge has called the “set and setting of science,” has warmed to the idea of psychedelics as a valid subject of study (after cannabis legalization has helped “pave the way,” he says), and the counterculture hysteria of the past that cast the drugs as salvific gateways to utopia is largely absent. That’s where the movement, he says, “went off the rails.” “They weren’t doing clinical research, they weren’t working with regulatory authorities, and they weren’t talking with policy makers. Now we are,” says Burge. “They key thing we can do now is to not proselytize, and just look at psychedelics as one treatment option among many. A new box of tools, essentially.” n
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The Spokane Naval Trophy; details show Chief Spokane Garry, Theodore Roosevelt and sailors manning a 10-inch gun.
Spokane’s Silver Salute Despite being hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean port, Spokane holds a special place in the Navy’s heart BY TED McGREGOR SR.
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ne of the most beautiful, oldest and most prestigious trophies of the United States Navy is a cup made of sterling silver “so pure and clear it looks as if it might melt if touched.” It is designated as the Spokane Naval Trophy and was established as an official award of the Navy in 1908 by order of President Theodore Roosevelt for excellence in naval gunnery. In 1907, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and the city’s Spanish American War veterans wished to honor Spokane sailors and its homegrown naval hero, John Robert Monaghan. They commissioned Leo M. Dornberg, a local jeweler, to design and create a trophy to be presented to the Navy. His creation contained 400 ounces of sterling silver from the Silver Valley, lined in gold, standing 24 inches high and 16 inches wide. As an icon of American history it’s priceless, but in 2008 it was valued at more than $4 million. Around the top are bas relief images of President Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of the Navy Victor Metcalf, Spokane Falls, Mount Spokane, Chief Spokane Garry, Fort George Wright, the old Spokane Federal Building and Ensign Monaghan. At the base of the trophy are two sailors molded of solid silver manning a 10inch gun, with workmanship so fine that some observers have opined that they might actually be able to be fired if properly loaded.
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The trophy was given to and accepted by the Secretary of the Navy, and in 1908 President Roosevelt established it as an official award of the Navy. Between 1908 and 1941 it was annually awarded to the battleship or battle cruiser that excelled in great gun marksmanship. The USS ARIZONA (BB-39) won the Spokane Trophy in 1935. In 1941, the trophy was taken out of service for fear that it would be damaged or lost as the country prepared for World War II. After four decades in storage, it was returned to active service in 1984 and has been awarded annually to the most combat-ready cruiser or destroyer of the Pacific Fleet, as judged by the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet.
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control the Samoan Island chain. Samoa was important to the United States as a coaling station for its fleet. On April 1, while serving ashore with an American, British and Samoan unit, his force was ambushed by a group of rebel Samoans. In attempting to rescue another officer, he was killed. The official report stated: “The men were not in sufficient numbers to hold out any longer, and they were forced along by a fire which it was impossible to withstand. Ensign Monaghan did stand. He stood steadfast by his wounded superior and friend — one rifle against many, one brave man against a score… He knew he was doomed. He could not yield. He died in heroic performance of his duty”. In 1906 a statue was erected in Monaghan’s honor and still stands in downtown Spokane between the Federal Building and the Spokane Club. He was further honored by having two destroyers named after him, the first USS MONAGHAN (DD-32) served from 1911-30; the second, (DD-354), from 1935-44. In 2008 the trophy came home to visit Spokane on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Since that time the Spokane Council of the Navy League has presented a memorial plaque to the ship receiving the award. Unlike in its earlier days, the trophy does not travel with the winning ship; it remains at the headquarters of the Commander of the Cruisers and Destroyers of the Pacific Fleet at San Diego. In August, the memorial plaque and an Official Salutation from Mayor David Condon was presented to the USS LASSEN (DDG-82) as the most recent recipient of Spokane’s storied award. n Ted McGregor Sr. is a retired Navy Captain and President of the Spokane Council of the Navy League. Two of his sons publish this newspaper.
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