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hosts occupy a fascinating place in our world — transcending time and place, East and West, culture and religion — and the drive to prove they exist has occupied some of history’s greatest thinkers. Even Thomas Edison, of telephone-inventing fame, dangled the idea of creating a “spirit phone” to talk with the dead. Today, the hunt for ghosts is alive and well in the Inland Northwest, led largely by self-appointed paranormal investigators stalking local haunts with spirit-tracking technology. Staff writer Samantha Wohlfeil tagged along with these local sleuths and, truth be told, had one experience she’s unable to explain.

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ard as it is to believe, one-quarter of the people living in Kootenai County are struggling to escape the grim quagmire of poverty.

This eye-opening fact came to light on a recent bright October day, when the Kootenai County League of Women Voters hosted an outdoor public gathering addressing “Poverty and the Minimum Wage” in downtown Coeur d’Alene’s McEuen Park Pavilion.

With the sun warming their backs, those in attendance heard Luke Mayville, of Sandpoint and New York City, present his research on the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage in Idaho.

Mayville, who earned his Ph.D. at Yale University, said that despite some legitimate concerns that raising the minimum wage elicits, the majority of evidence suggests that it is the right thing to do. He stated that research has shown a living wage can provide economic security for low-wage workers, with generally zero adverse effects on the overall employment scenario.

Then Mayville dropped the conversationstopper: He reminded the group that the chances for any city or county in the state of Idaho to enact a minimum wage rate raise have been basically and irrevocably scuttled. Republicans, who dominate the Idaho Legislature, passed a bill in the 2016 session specifically prohibiting political subdivisions — that is, cities or counties — “from establishing minimum wages higher than the minimum wages provided by law.” That means only state legislators can change minimum wage laws; city councils and county commissions should just keep their interfering hands out of the game.

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his freezing action is called “preemption,” a means by which a legislature asserts its authority over cities and counties.

In 2016, preemption of minimum wage legislation was a high priority of the American Legislative Exchange Council, usually referred to as ALEC, which is funded by the far-right team of the Koch Brothers, the Scaife and Coors families and an assortment of corporations. They covered the country with their efforts. As a consequence, Idaho is now one of 24 states that have passed preemptive bills discouraging minimum wage initiatives.

ALEC invites state legislators from across the country to come to their workshops, where they are given pre-packaged legislation to take back to their states. Although ALEC claims to be nonpartisan, Democrats are not encouraged to attend, nor comfortable if they attempt to.

It is significant that not one Democrat in either the Idaho House or Senate voted for the preemption bill.

Some folks still believe the market will take care of wages, as wages will rise and fall depend-

ing on the availability of work and workers.

But it’s not that simple.

Unfortunately, wages have not kept up with inflation. Low unemployment rates have not triggered an equivalent rise in wages. And unions have lost much of their clout. Workers who are paid by the hour are slipping further and further down the economic ladder.

Every politician will claim loudly that he or she is in favor of local control, because local governments are closest to the people they represent and can respond most quickly. But apparently when it comes to the Koch Brothers, legislators find it hard to hand over control to local city councils and county commissions.

Without the preemption by the legislature, a sound case can be made for flexible, local-option wage minimums, so that border communities could adapt appropriate wage standards. Post Falls, for example, could adjust in response to minimum wage increases in Spokane. Border cities should be able to respond to economic challenges and opportunities without begging for authority from the legislature.

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n Coeur d’Alene, as in Spokane and all the communities within the Inlander’s readership area, efforts are in place to help families and individuals who are struggling to survive. Hospitals treat patients in their emergency rooms; school districts and teachers are aware of student needs; parents and teachers are concerned about bullying, parental neglect and parental stress. St. Vincent de Paul and other church organization help find housing and offer homeless shelters.

The grassroots level is where the human connection lies — where the heart is. Neighbors and social services attempt to help at a very basic, very local level.

It makes good sense and smart cents for cities to be granted much more authority in regard to minimum wage standards as well as liquor laws, urban renewal and local-option taxes.

Legislators should listen to city mayors, rather than lobbyists. Our cities are where innovation begins, and they deserve to have all the tools they need to create vital, healthy, productive communities.

Raising the minimum wage an employer can pay is only one arrow in the quiver of poverty prevention. Polls show that a vast majority of Americans support raising the minimum wage, though there is little agreement on just where that minimum wage should be.

Perhaps that’s why a minimum wage should be determined at the local level. n

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 Open your eyes. Be more conscious of what you’re flavoring and scenting with cinnamon, and ask yourself if it’s necessary. The answer is, almost always, “no.”  Make “pumpkin spice” have something to do with pumpkins again. Don’t say “pumpkin spice” unless pumpkins are somehow involved. This one is easy.

BY CHELSEA MARTIN hhh, autumn. What a season! The leaves are falling, the temperature is dropping, people are wearing scarves and layers, and there is a familiar, pungent odor uniformly spreading through the entire nation for no good reason. I think we all know what odor I’m talking about: cinnamon.

As some of you already know, cinnamon is gross and bad, and doesn’t technically have to be used in everything. But other people disagree. There seems to be a commonly held (false) belief that cinnamon is great and

well, year-round. Technically “pumpkin spice” includes smaller amounts of cloves and nutmeg, but cinnamon takes center stage, and pumpkin itself is almost never an ingredient. A lot of people credit/blame Starbucks, which introduced the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2003, for the rise in interest of this insufferable spice blend. But you could also blame your own basic-ass granny for making so many pumpkin pies (from which the pumpkin spice blend takes its name). Shakin’ my damn head, Grams.

But if you think cinnamon is relegated to the fall season or desserts in general, you are blind. There is a never-ending barrage of new and terrible LETTERS cinnamon-spiced items Send comments to available year-round, editor@inlander.com. including beer, juice, soda, pizza, popcorn, meat dishes, dairy products, soaps, detergents, granola, chips, vape pens, liquor, bread, bath products and pretty much every granola and cereal. One time I bought a bottle of “100% Carrot Juice,” took one sip, and realized there was cinnamon in it. Since when is cinnamon considered juice??? This is nuts!!! Pretty soon I’m going to have to start checking the ingredient labels on bags of apples.

How did we get here? How was cinnamon elevated into the glorified spice of unlimited fascination? And what can we do to change things? I don’t know how we got here, honestly, so I don’t know why I phrased it as if I could answer that. But here are a few ideas for how to get ourselves out of the seemingly ever-expanding, cinnamon-scented black hole we’ve found ourselves in:

good, and should be put in every food, beverage, home product and retail space for at least three solid months of the year with no exceptions, and everyone should be excited about it, and rally around cinnamon as if the spice itself is responsible for the existence of the holidays, and if you don’t like it, you can have some herbal tea.

No, wait, there’s cinnamon in that, too.

In fall and around the holidays, people refer to cinnamon as “pumpkin spice,” which I find objectionable, because there’s no reason to drag the innocent and beloved pumpkin into this, and also because it’s a cheap way to sell cinnamon as an autumnal icon, which it is not. It is a pungent bark that is available, as you all know perfectly

 Be vocal about your disgust when walking into someone’s cinnamon-scented home or business. This sounds rude, but it is actually extremely polite, and people really appreciate it.  Get a grip. Cinnamon does not need to be in every dessert, or even every baked good. Just… use something else? Cardamom? Lavender? There are literally hundreds of other spices. n Chelsea Martin is the Spokane-based author of five books, including Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life. Her website is jerkethics.com.

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Readers respond to our Green Zone story about the state of Washington’s need to come up with an accurate DUI test for driving while stoned (“Driving Too High,” 10/19/17):

DENNIS LUNSTROTH: Why not just have a test that tests for impairment? That way it doesn’t matter what the level of THC in the blood is. And besides, THC remains in the blood for over a month in some cases. It’s not really fair to judge a heavy pot smoker who hasn’t fired up a bowl in several days but yet will test over the legal limit, yet had no impairment.

SALYNN WILLIAMS: Or how about stopping testing at all in the first place unless there’s reasonable cause, like evidence of an actual infraction while driving? I’m never gonna be okay with blanket roadside testing, so-called “safety checks.”

JACKSON LYLE ROSMAN: Just offer them a donut, if they’re high they’ll take and eat it immediately.

Readers respond to our New York Times story about President Trump’s botched phone call to the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in an ambush earlier this month. (“Soldier’s widow says Trump struggled to remember Johnson’s name,” 10/23/17):

RON SCHOONOVER: If you believe he didn’t have a written statement sitting in front of him with this soldier’s name clearly written on it (probably in bold print) I have a bridge to sell you.

PATTIE SEESE: Mrs. Johnson was composed, succinct and articulate, if not a little nervous during this interview. She’s been placed in the national spotlight over the death of her husband. She has no reason to lie over the content of the phone call that was witnessed by others in the car, all of whom agree on what #45 said. Mrs. Johnson and her family deserve our love and support for their sacrifice and loss.

BILL TERRY: Sad that this brave soldier’s sacrifice is getting lost in the political bickering.

JAMIE KIRKLAND: LOL ... there is no way he should be accountable to remember names. He talks to many people everyday. You liberals are something else. n

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Collision Course How the lives of three homeless strangers collided on the streets of Spokane, before tragedy struck

BY WILSON CRISCIONE Donna Fagan, pictured in front of her husband, City Councilman Mike Fagan, organized a candlelight vigil on Sunday to pray for those who are lost to their circumstances.

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cotty Keller barely knew the two people killed before his eyes the morning of Oct. 8.

That morning, at dawn, Keller snuck away from the couch he was crashing on in search of a cigarette.

In the Safeway parking lot in Hillyard, he found Sheera Cunningham, 41, who he’d met on the streets briefly once or twice before. She had a small dog, a Maltese named Annabelle. It was cold outside, so Cunningham offered Keller, 27, her blanket, and they huddled up together against a corner of the building. After a couple of minutes, Keller says, a man called “Doughboy” joined them under the blanket with meth and a pipe to smoke it — Keller would later learn Doughboy’s real name was Julius Bradley Cooper. He was 38.

Then, everything seemed to happen at once. They heard the roar of a car engine, and a screeching sound as it scraped the building. The next thing he knew, Keller was looking at Cooper and Cunningham lying unconscious a few feet in front of him. Annabelle barked and nipped at Keller’s ankles as he stumbled into Safeway looking for help, trying not to pay attention to his cracked hip and broken hand. Through blurry eyes, Keller realized someone was asking if him if he was OK. It happened to be an off-duty firefighter, who called 911 and rushed to provide emergency aid until paramedics arrived. Someone brought Keller a chair as he faded in and out of consciousness.

“It seemed like I was gonna die,” Keller tells the Inlander.

A tear falls down his cheek as he remembers the two who did. Cooper, by all accounts a quiet, kindhearted man hardened by the streets and the death of his younger brother, was pronounced dead the day of the crash. Cunningham, an eccentric artist and mother of three, died in the hospital several days later.

Spokane police are still investigating what led to the crash. Brittney Moen, the 24-year-old driver of the silver Toyota Celica that allegedly ran into them, went to jail on charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault.

Drug paraphernalia was found inside her car, though police found no immediate signs that she was impaired, according to court documents.

For the victims, the days, months and years leading up to the crash reveal the tragic circumstances that brought the three victims together on the streets for one fateful moment. It provides a glimpse into the way homelessness and drug addiction intersect, stripping people of their identity and sometimes putting them in danger.

It’s why, two weeks after the crash, family members of the victims gathered at a candlelight vigil at the crash site to remember Cunningham and Cooper for who they were as people — not for their circumstances.

“Homelessness and addiction is what drew these people here,” says Tammy Scholz, Cunningham’s mother-

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in-law, to more than a dozen people. “And I know we have to find a way to stop it.”

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amian Cunningham never said goodbye to his wife, Sheera, in person.

He was in jail when he heard she was in a crash. He spoke on the phone to Sheera while she was in the hospital, before she was no longer able to speak.

“She said she missed me and she loved me,” he says, clutching Annabelle in his arms days after Sheera died.

Damian’s best friend introduced him to Sheera 13 years ago. Within two years, they were married. Cara Cunningham, Damian’s sister, remembers his excitement when they started dating.

“Damian gave me a call just to say, ‘Cara, I met this woman and I am so in love,’” she says. “I’ll never forget his phone call, the joy in his voice.”

Born in Hillsboro, Oregon, Sheera had a creative, artistic, bubbly personality to go along with a contagious laugh, Cara says. She wrote poetry, and she made jewelry, hemp necklaces and purses to sell in local stores around town. In 2008, the Spokesman-Review featured Sheera and her friend Rebecca LaBelle for making art out of discarded items. The article described her as an artist and stay-at-home mom. She loved animals and had multiple cats along with Annabelle. ...continued on next page

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Due to medical issues and disability, she couldn’t work. A few years ago, Damian was put out of work after he was hit by a drunk driver and broke both his wrists. They ran into financial distress and couldn’t pay rent on their house on the South Hill.

They lost it in July 2016, Damian says. The kids stayed with friends or relatives. The cats found other owners. Damian and Sheera tried to get back on their feet. But Damian, without a home, couldn’t find a job.

They both lost their IDs LETTERS when Sheera’s purse was stolen.

Send comments to That made it difficult to find a editor@inlander.com. shelter that didn’t require identification and wasn’t at capacity, Damian says. So this summer, they stayed out on the streets.

Even then, Damian says, she was intent on helping others. If she saw that someone else needed fruit more than her, she wouldn’t hesitate to give them hers. If someone was cold, she offered her blanket.

Damian was in jail on theft and other charges, but he and Sheera had just agreed to get clean. Sheera had an appointment at a rehab clinic scheduled Monday, Oct. 9.

“We talked about how we wanted our old lives back and to get off the drugs and streets,” Damian says.

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inda Person set up a collage for her son on the coffee table in her apartment in northeast Spokane. His name was Julius, but friends called him Brad. On the street, he was Doughboy. But for Person, the pictures of him taking a bath as a baby, or smiling with various members of his family, represent who he really was.

“He cared about people, irregardless of what he was doing,” Person says.

Cooper was born in 1979 in Alaska. He like ninja turtles, the Transformers movies, the Washington Redskins and listening to music on his headphones — the headphones were always on. As a kid, he moved to Maryland, where he spent most of his life.

He moved to Spokane eight years ago, where his mother and his family lived.

In the early morning hours of May 1, 2014, his youngest brother, Trevor Hallman-Person, was killed in a car accident on I-90, east of Ritzville. He was just 19. Cooper was devastated.

“I’m so numb full of hurt and rage in my heart,” Cooper wrote on Facebook that day.

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Sheera Cunningham succumbed to injuries on Oct. 12.

complex as Cooper, came across Cooper, down on his luck, a few times in the weeks before the crash that took his life. He’d see him walking, slowly, along the road. He’d offer a ride, and Cooper would struggle to get his legs in and out of the car — Cooper suffered from gout. Still, Joy says Cooper was always smiling.

“Even when he was getting out of the car, he still cracked a joke,” Joy says. “He doesn’t let you get in a bad mood.”

The last time Joy saw Cooper was Friday, Oct. 6, two days before he died. Later that Friday night, Joy went over to his friend’s house. Coincidentally, he says, a woman was there whom Joy had never met before: Brittney Moen, the driver who would be charged in the fatal crash.

Joy doesn’t think the two knew each other at all. It was the first time she’d been there visiting his friend in years. But whatever was going on, Joy can imagine what Cooper was doing in the moments before Moen’s car crashed into him.

“I guarantee he had his headphones on,” Joy says, “and he was making people laugh.”

“Not everybody is willing to walk up to a place and say, ‘I need help, I have an addiction, I have a problem and I can’t stop.’”

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itting in her wheelchair, Jeannie Keller watches her grandson, Scotty Keller, writhe in pain from his Providence Sacred Heart Hospital bed. Nine days after the crash, a physical therapist discusses Scotty’s next step: He’ll move to respite care at Catholic Charities’ shelter, House of Charity.

In February 2016, the family was kicked out of their house when the landlord couldn’t make the mortgage payments. Everyone — Scotty’s mom, Carey Farnworth, and Scotty’s uncle and sister — all went their own way without a permanent place to sleep.

Jeannie slept in cars. Scotty couch-surfed or slept on the streets.

In August of this year, Scotty’s mom, Carey Farnworth, died at 45 from a blood clot. She was found in Cannon Park. Scotty is convinced that if she hadn’t been homeless, she’d still be alive. It’s eaten at him ever since. And like so many others on the streets, he used drugs to help cope.

“It’s me trying not to think about my mom,” he says. “Because that’s pretty much all I do.”

It’s why he was there the morning of Oct. 8. Now, every day, he thinks of the two others he met on that day, and of the people he hardly knew.

He tells his grandma he doesn’t want to go back to the streets.

“Well,” she says, “we found out what it’s like to be homeless.

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IDAHO The KOOTENAI COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE made national headlines in July when it condemned Idaho’s U.S. senators — both Republicans — for voting for sanctions against Russia. But this week, KCRCC precinct officer Bjorn Handeen (pictured), the former Coeur d’Alene school board candidate who introduced the Russia-sanctions resolution, had a new proposal for the group: Call on Idaho’s senators to end the U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. “It’s a really spectacular humanitarian disaster,” Handeen says. More than 10,000 people are estimated to have died in the war in Yemen, including more than 5,000 civilians. Not everyone thinks the Kootenai County GOP should be focused on international issues. “When will they focus on education, jobs, roads, [or] debt?” tweeted Christa Hazel, a more moderate North Idaho Republican who has often clashed with the county party. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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ook out the window of the Bridge Press Cellars winery and you can see Spokane’s House of Charity. Winery owner Melody Padrta moved into the space back in 2012, knowing full well that her business was directly across from the biggest homeless shelter in the city.

But last year, House of Charity became the central stage for the city of Spokane’s move to provide 24/7 shelter to anyone who needed it.

Suddenly, it wasn’t 100 or so men sleeping at the shelter every night, but more like 300 men and women, there at all hours of the day. Like before, many suffered from mental illness or drug addiction.

For Padrta and other nearby business owners, the increased numbers have been a major blow. The majority of House of Charity’s patrons are kind and respectful, Padrta says, but the exceptions have created massive challenges.

“They don’t have enough staff to control what’s going on. There’s ambulances. There’s police cars,” Padrta says. “There’s fights breaking out in the street.”

Her lights were broken. Her door was repeatedly kicked by an angry man apparently on drugs — until nearby House of Charity patrons chased him down. She laments loiterers sleeping on her steps, urinating on her front door and defecating behind her fence or in her flowerpots.

“They have no problem with leaning against your building and shooting up heroin,” Padrta says.

She’s part of the Gateway Business District, a coalition of about 10 local business and property owners, including Urbanna and the Froyo Earth frozen yogurt shop. Over the past year, the neighboring businesses’ frustrations have sparked several meetings — sometimes heated — between downtown businesses, social services and the city.

While Catholic Charities has spent more than $200,000 to try to respond to the businesses’ concerns, the tension has underscored the tricky balancing act between creating an urban core filled with thriving local businesses and one filled with social services helping the neediest.

Catholic Charities’ Rob McCann, the organization which runs House of Charity, declined to be interviewed for this story, worried it would only serve to further vilify the homeless. Instead, he sent over a statement he provided to the Catholic Charities board of directors and the Bishop of Spokane’s Roman Catholic diocese.

McCann points out several reasons the homeless have been driven to the area. Riverfront Park has been closed for construction. The city has been breaking up homeless encampments along the Spokane River and putting up “No Camping” signs in their place. When the city of Spokane placed $150,000 worth of basalt boulders underneath I-90 near Bernard Street — partly in order to push out a homeless encampment — it drove those campers toward the House of Charity.

Catholic Charities’ Rob McCann

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As a result, McCann writes, “the activity at House of Charity and on our block has certainly grown exponentially.”

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Cassel Promotions & Signs was on the corner of Division and Pacific even before House of Charity opened. So the brothers who own the business, Sam and Tracy Cassel, have been in downtown for decades — and suggest it’s never been this challenging.

“The graffiti. The human waste,” says Tracy Cassel. “The amount of garbage on a daily basis is unbelievable.”

He estimates his business spends at least an hour or two a day cleaning garbage or handling other issues related to loiterers or troublemakers. Then there was the guy who’d been kicked out of the House of Charity and was swinging a baseball bat and screaming at customers.

“Some of them wave to you and you wave back,” Tracy Cassel says about the people who hang out near his business. “And some of them yell and scream at you, and they threaten you.”

While the vast majority of the people loitering near Cassel Promotions or Bridge Press Cellars are harmless, even the perception of danger can turn away customers. Padrta says her customers worry about parking on Pacific.

The Cassels say their foot traffic has dwindled to almost nothing. “We have been told by many of our customers that they won’t come down here any more,” Sam Cassel says.

He recalls one customer who refused to send his wife down to pick up an order because he was worried about the loiterers nearby.

Shawna Sampson, homeless services operations coordinator for Spokane Neighborhood

Action Partners, says that SNAP has seen more incidents crop up near its offices as well. But she also believes Spokane needs to change the way it sees the homeless.

“I wish that people were more tolerant of poverty and of homelessness and mental health issues and all of those things,” Sampson says. “Some people need to realize that Spokane is not going to be Pleasantville.”

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In addition to the shelter, 150 units of housing for the formerly homeless have been constructed by Catholic Charities and Volunteers of America in the surrounding area, and an additional 50 units are opening soon. In a January interview, McCann acknowledged that he probably wouldn’t like to live next to one of these units.

“I do get phone calls at 2 in the morning because something happens in one of these apartments,” McCann told the Inlander at the time. “We do have 50 people who are suffering from mental illness and substance abuse issues… If you’re a neighbor, that’s a hard one.”

But long-term, he says, the goal is to provide housing to reduce the effects of homelessness on the community.

Indeed, the Cassels have some praise for those staying in apartments for the formerly homeless. Tracy Cassel notes he often spots them picking up trash and putting it in garbage cans.

“A lot of the people that live around here, they’re our neighbors now,” he says. “They even complain about the litter and things like that.”

McCann notes that the Catholic Charities has, time and time again, tried to respond to business concerns by providing more and better cameras, and more staff to constantly clean the block.

They’ve hired security officers trained to help people suffering from drug addiction and mental illness. They’ve provided businesses with a phone number to report problems and have staff responding within 90 seconds. But it’s tough.

“We can clean the entire block spotless and move all the loitering folks and sleeping folks out, and 10 minutes later it can be completely filled and trashed again,” McCann writes. “It’s the reality of the suffering our homeless brothers and sisters face every day.”

Dawn Kinder, Spokane’s director of housing and human services, says that the city has upgraded lighting and added more trash cans in the area. The police have also been doing more foot patrols around the shelter.

“It’s the reality of the suffering our homeless brothers and sisters face.”

Long-term, Kinder says, Spokane is looking to add another 24/7 homeless shelter elsewhere in the city to reduce the burden on House of Charity. One one hand, Sampson says, there can be an advantage to a concentration of services.

“It’s very difficult to get your needs met, if where you’re staying is so far way from other resources,” she says.

But Mark Richard, president of the business alliance Downtown Spokane Partnership, says that downtown can’t shoulder the entire burden of helping the homeless — the rest of the community needs to help, too.

“The concentration of individuals that are most vulnerable has not only proven to be a bad idea for businesses and for a neighborhood, but it’s a horrible idea for the person in need,” says Richard.

Padrta says she appreciates all the efforts of Catholic Charities to respond to her concerns, but she’s still hoping for additional changes. She says Catholic Charities has discussed enclosing the House of Charity parking lot to provide a separate waiting area for its clients, or moving the entrance to the east side. She cares about the homeless, she stresses. “[But] we’re going to be right there with them if we can’t stay in business,” Padrta says. n danielw@inlander.com

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? e r e h T e n o e m Is So WHY THE IDEA THAT WE LIVE ON AS GHOSTS HAS HAUNTED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE AGES

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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t’s almost too perfect. On a rainy October evening — Friday the 13th, no less — a big, wooden door squeals with the theatrical flair of a stage actor, overdramatically creaking as it opens to a space where Spokane families came to view their dead a century ago.

The room is dark during our visit, except for the green and blue light from gadgets and infrared cameras illuminating the faces of three ghost hunters with the Spokane Paranormal Society.

You’d never know it now, but for decades, this room in the Buchanan Building on Third Avenue was used in one of the city’s only funeral homes.

Bottles of embalming fluid and caskets have since been replaced with computers, Nerf guns and the modern furnishings of the 21st-century tech

company that operates here.

It was in this very office two years ago when the ghost-hunting team captured its first “conversation” with some… thing. Video footage from that night shows a flashlight with the cap just barely unscrewed hesitantly turning on and off over the course of a few minutes, seemingly in response to questions spoken aloud in the room. They hope to repeat those findings tonight.

“What can you do, to let us know you’re here?” asks Mark Porter, who co-founded the supernatural team with his friend Ray Lusk.

All of us silently wait and watch, keeping our eyes and ears peeled for an answer. It’s getting late now, and most of us are starting to yawn.

“The very first time I was in here, over two

years ago, I heard faint pipe organ music,” Porter says to no one in particular. “Can you do that again?”

Seconds later, a loud crash sounds behind us.

We jump in our seats and gasp. What was that?!

No one, not even a skeptical reporter, has a good explanation, and eventually the team packs up to leave — not with evidence of anything, but yet another moment they can’t explain.

These paranormal investigators aren’t alone, though. Indeed, ghost stories transcend religions, cultures and countries, dating back to early civilization. Modern technology has changed the nature of the search, but the fundamental questions remain the same. What happens when the lights ...continued on next page

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GHOSTS “IS SOMEONE THERE?,” CONTINUED... go out? When our loved ones die? When we hear knocking and no one is there?

For people like Charles Johnson, who investigates the paranormal with the Spokane Ghost Crew and identifies as Christian, the search has an undeniable draw.

“I guess, [it’s] hope that there is life after death, that death is not the end,” Johnson says.

“I have full faith there is. But, I mean, the human part wants scientific proof. I don’t know if that’s possible. But I guess I’m here trying.”

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or millennia, people have believed in and wanted to prove that there is an afterlife — that the essence of who we are might just survive the separation from our earthly bodies.

The belief goes back even as far as Neanderthals, who buried objects along with bodies, says Justin McDaniel, a professor who teaches religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. McDaniel helped found the Penn Ghost Project, an interdisciplinary group that studies why people believe in ghosts and what impacts those beliefs have on day-to-day life.

“Why would you bury something valuable with somebody if they can’t use it after death?”

McDaniel asks.

Spirits show up in texts throughout history, from the ghost of Hamlet’s father, who appears again and again in Shakespeare’s play, written around 1600 AD, all the way back to

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the ancient Mesopotamian ghost of Enkidu, searched for in the underworld by his friend, the namesake king in the Epic of Gilgamesh, written around 2100 BC. Both bad and good ghosts are referenced across cultures, and in America and Western society, we particularly tend to separate the term “ghost” from spirits or angels, McDaniel says. That’s even been reflected in changes to how the Catholic Church references the Holy Trinity.

“When I was growing up, it was ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,’ but now it’s ‘Holy Spirit,’” says McDaniel, who attends Catholic church. “In pop culture it’s coming to mean something malevolent — unless it’s Casper the friendly ghost — while spirits are beneficial.”

According to the group Catholic Answers, it also has a lot to do with translation to English, with “ghost” coming from German, and “spirit” coming from Latin.

Every major religion references spirits of the dead and an afterlife or spirit world.

Some even describe what sounds a lot like the modern-day conception of ghosts. Islamic texts reference the “jinn” (a single jinn can also be called a “genie”), supernatural beings that live on Earth and can both be invisible to people and physically interact with the world we live in. The term can refer to angels or more malevolent beings.

There’s no single answer to where the

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CULTURAL CONTROL Through history, superstition has both been adopted as mainstream and seen as threatening religious beliefs or societal control. In a way, belief in the supernatural simultaneously conflicts and conforms with religious dogma.

“Because we live in an age of science, there’s a need we have for evidence,” says Michael Shermer, creator of Skeptic magazine and the author of several books on how our brains want to believe in things like ghosts. “In the Middle Ages, there was pushback against scientists skeptical of witches, because if there’s no witches maybe there’s no demons, and if there’s no demons, maybe there’s no God.” In 1930s China, on the other hand, it was hard to sell the idea of socialism and the plight of the working man to rural people who already had their own ceremonies, ghosts and superstitions to look to, explains Laikwan Pang in her article, “The state against ghosts: a genealogy of China’s film censorship policy.” Some traditional folklore and ghost stories were allowed as the state gained rural support, but

the concepts were also seen as a threat to communism and became censored over time.

Though censorship policies have fluctuated, and ghosts have mostly been allowed in theater, TV and books, Pang explains, to this day, Chinese censors won’t allow most ghost stories in movies, unless they are explained at the end in a logical way, often by attributing the gore and horror to the delusions or thoughts inside the mind of a psychotic person.

“Culture in general, and film in particular, has always been broadly understood as a powerful tool for reflecting and manipulating people’s thoughts and values, and the state has always assumed the role of cinema’s guardian,” Pang writes. “In the tugof-war between politics and culture, the Chinese government has never been totally able to control its popular culture. Contemporary Chinese cinema does not present ghosts, but people’s fascination with them can easily be fulfilled by imports.”

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people grow up surrounded by particular religious beliefs and practices that may be as much about the social and economic benefit as they are about belief. And belief makes for better storytelling.

“Life is relatively predictable. For most people, you go through a series of waking up, going to sleep, eating and going to the bathroom,” McDaniel says. “We have arbitrary markers along the way: 50th birthdays and 16th birthdays, anniversaries and celebrations. Maybe having a story of God or Buddha is just a better story — it makes life more interesting.”

Aside from one’s personal faith, McDaniel says, belief in an afterlife may even serve our species well from an evolutionary standpoint, driving us to build things that outlast our lifespan.

I Jacob Lusk uses a FLIR thermal camera attachment during a recent paranormal investigation. belief in ghosts, spirits or the afterlife originates, says McDaniel, who has extensively studied and written about the importance of ghosts in Thai Buddhism, where it is believed that ghosts may help people heal and overcome obstacles.

While many people believe in an afterlife as part of

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their faith, it may be that some people need to believe: One theory suggests it’s a psychological coping mechanism, McDaniel says.

“It’s hard to say I’ll only live for 70 to 90 years and that’s it,” he says.

Cultural pressures play a role too, McDaniel says, as

n some ways, modern American ghost hunting’s roots can be traced back to the Victorian era of the 1800s, when spiritualism came into vogue during the years surrounding the Civil War. Many hoping for one more contact with the dead, taken too soon by the violence, held séances, heeding the advice of mediums, many of whom later admitted they lied or were exposed as frauds.

But that didn’t stop the fad from catching on with prominent figures. Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly held numerous séances with mediums in the White House in hopes of speaking with her son Willie, who died as a child.

With the advent of the camera that same century, people obsessed over photos that seemed to show spirits.

Much of this “evidence” of spirits was later disproved: ...continued on next page

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When shutters were open for long periods of time, a partial exposure of someone could appear ghost-like. The famous showman P.T. Barnum helped disprove the claims of “spirit photographer” William Mumler, who traveled the country supposedly capturing pictures of people with their dead loved ones. Barnum showed that these could easily be faked with double exposure and an older picture of the relative, or a living stand-in.

Later, after the invention of the telephone, even Thomas Edison was interested in finding a way to contact the spirit world and record it.

Linking the new technology with spirits is not that far-fetched if you think about how spooky the very first recorded voices must have sounded to people. How magical it must have seemed that a physical material could capture someone and replay their words forever?

Just like their Victorian predecessors, many modern ghost hunters turn to the latest technology to help them in their search.

“I

got a spike over here. It just went into the yellow as I walked over here,” Brian McCraw tells Checkerboard Bar owner Ian Maye, holding up an electromagnetic field or EMF detector in a corner of the empty Sprague Avenue bar, closed for the night.

“Red!” Maye says, holding a cellphone broadcasting this investigation live on the Spokane Ghost Crew Facebook page. “It’s just gone to solid red.”

“I think I got your problem here,” McCraw says after a moment, holding the detector up to a device on the wall. “It’s a haunted jukebox.”

This is fairly common in modern ghost hunting. While it’s believed by many investigators that ghosts or spirits can manifest in or manipulate electricity, a lot of other things can also set off their detection equipment.

On this mid-August night, as the crew searches for evidence of a ghost that reportedly has a thing for blonde bar patrons, they use equipment common among investigation groups.

There are infrared and night vision cameras, and an additional infrared light to help illuminate the space for that footage.

Recorders run in the hopes of catching electronic voice phenomena, where phrases not heard in the moment are sometimes captured via audio. Later they’ll pull out a “spirit box” that rapidly scans radio frequencies, occasionally offering the snippet of a word or phrase.

McCraw asks the ghost to make himself known by tapping on something, or turning on pieces of equipment. He asks if the ghost can finish his knock, rapping the ba-duhduh-duh-da of “shave and a haircut” on the bar with his knuckles, waiting for the two knocks of “two bits” that never come.

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and technician Trevor Gouge sets up a motion detector that makes a shrill beep at the slightest movement, and we clear out to the back patio of the bar, waiting to see if the equipment might catch anything while we’re outside.

Just as McCraw, the last one to leave, is a few steps from the door, something crashes inside.

“What was that?” Gouge asks. “I could see all of you and I know that wasn’t you.”

“What the hell?” McCraw says.

Inside, the culprit is found: a metal flashlight had fallen from the bar to the ground. This is another common tool that ghost hunters believe can help with communication. Turn the flashlight on, unscrew the cap until the light is just off, then leave it sitting out as you ask questions and direct a spirit to turn it on or off.

After debating whether the flashlight rolled off due to gravity or was pushed, the team resumes asking questions. Investiga-

tions often involve hours of this, which is most often met with silence.

“Sometimes it seems like there’s absolutely nothing,” Gouge says, after McCraw asks yet another question that remains unanswered. “Then we’ll go over the recorders and find we’ve got responses and answers.”

McCraw says he started the Spokane Ghost Crew in 2014 mostly because he wants to help people. He’s brought on several members to the team, most of whom are relatives or close friends.

“I want to help people explain the paranormal,” he says. “I want to be able to show them what they have, whether it be a loved one, a spirit of somebody that died tragically in their house, or whatever it is, and try to help them to the best of my abilities.”

Neither the Spokane Ghost Crew nor the Spokane Paranormal Society ever charge people for their investigations — usually led by six or seven people at most

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— and they all say to be wary of anyone who would.

Both teams say they have helped people whose homes have been haunted by demons or bad spirits that entered the home through “portals” that, they say, are most commonly left open by someone playing with a Ouija board and not properly saying goodbye.

At some level, they all want their recordings to pass muster when they put them out in the world, so they try to debunk them themselves throughout their process before others do it for them.

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on their life,” he says. “Your favorite character in a TV show can die and your life will be exactly the same the next day. But you’ll be emotionally wrecked by it. How is that different from believing in ghosts? It feels true to you.”

Tales and experiences of spirits are extremely common. Among U.S. adults, 41 percent believe in ghosts, and 64 percent believe the soul survives after death, according to a 2016 Harris Poll.

The feeling that we get — that something else is in the room with us — has a lot to do with our biology, and the way our brains work, explains Michael Shermer, creator of Skeptic magazine and the author of several books on how our brains hether anyone can prove ghosts exist want to believe in things like ghosts. It’s benefior not, the widely held belief in spirits cial for our brains to make patterns out of the has a noticeable things we see and hear, not impact on daily only for communication life, says McDaniel, the with other people, but for religion studies professor. survival.

SPOOK Y Think about how hard it “The problem is this: can be to sell a home where that the mind is designed someone was murdered: to find patterns whether Awakened in the night by a friend, one Whether someone will they’re there or not,” Inlander reader says they were shown admit they think it could Shermer says. “I call that through their friend’s eyes how his car be haunted afterward or patternicity: the need to went out of control and slammed into not, they’ll likely choose a find patterns in random a tree. The next day they received a similar house without that noise.” call: The friend had been killed in a car history if they can, he says.

An example might accident the night before. Read more In particular, the desire be looking at a cloud and about this and other chilling tales from to spend hours probing seeing a dragon, or seeing local readers online at Inlander.com. something that likely isn’t a human-like face in an inanswerable is part of what animate object, such as an intrigues the Penn Ghost electrical outlet. The theory Project team, he says. is that this type of thinking “That’s what’s fascinating to us,” McDaniel — giving human traits or agency to even inanisays. “Just as somebody would take up a sport, mate objects — helped us survive. Imagine you’re or painting, or music, that they would take up out in the wilderness and you hear something pursuing something we can’t prove.” nearby in the grass, Shermer says. It could be the In fact, many of the ghost hunters his team wind, or it could be something out to get you. has spoken with admit that they act even in the “It’s less costly to make a false positive, absence of proof and knowingly do so, yet many where you thought it was a predator but it was still believe. the wind. If you make the other type of error, But it’s hardly different from a lot of other you’re lunch,” Shermer says. “It’s more likely to choices we make, McDaniel says. leave us a legacy of brains that are constructively “People can pour emotions into things that, in paranoid.” a sense, they know have no real rational impact ...continued on next page

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Along those lines, people who want to believe aren’t stupid, uneducated or uncultured, he says.

“When you have an anomaly that you can’t explain, we also have something of a propensity to fill in the gap,” Shermer says. “Explanations of any kind feel better than no explanation. … Most people are uncomfortable with uncertainty.”

Even skeptics like Shermer have things happen that can make them question everything they believe. When Shermer’s then soon-to-be wife moved in with him, she had an old radio that belonged to her grandfather, who was the closest she had to a father figure and died when she was a teenager. Shermer tried to fix the radio, but nothing seemed to work.

Then, on the day of their wedding, performed in a small ceremony at the home, they heard music coming from somewhere, and after searching all over, pulled the radio out of a drawer, where it was playing romantic music.

“It came on and played this romantic music all day and night, and then went dead again,” Shermer says. “What do you make of that? Maybe it was an emotionally meaningful connection and that’s enough. That’s OK. An anomalous experience happened. We take from it what we wish, but that doesn’t prove anything.”

trigued,” Quinn says. “I like the nervous feeling it gives me in my stomach. … When something does happen, you just get that excitement, the thrill of the chase.”

Both Quinn and Porter say they do it because they want to help people. Neither is able to work due to injury or disability, so the roughly monthly trips give them the chance to socialize and get out of the house.

“This is a passion for us, it’s not an obsession,” Porter says.

But Porter does feel that the search gives him some answers to the universal question of what happens after you die.

“I think it’s kind of soothing,” he says. “We’ve proved you don’t just become worm food.”

In his mind, the afterlife is what you make it.

“If you want to make it a nice happy place, you certainly can,” he says. “If you want to make it a place to dwell on your past failures, you certainly can. I think some of the people who are stuck are still dwelling on those failures and ‘I was wronged,’ and ‘I messed this up,’ and ‘How do I get it back and redo it?’ I think they’re people who dwell with guilt instead of just get past it.”

That’s changed the way he lives.

“I think I’m more calm, I think I’m more mellow. I don’t think I let things get to me nearly as much,” Porter says. “I think I’m more level-headed from doing this, which is absolutely backwards of what you’d think of someone doing this. You think, ‘Oh no, you’re a nutjob. You’re going to go off the deep end.’ I think it’s actually made me more levelheaded and willing to look at things from more of a logical standpoint.” n

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or the Spokane Paranormal Society’s Natalie Quinn, who mostly gets dragged along to explore possible ghost sites around Eastern Washington and Canada with her longtime friend Mark Porter, the search is not so much about finding proof.

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Titanic Insights

A touring exhibit on the ill-fated ocean liner balances fascination with its story alongside human tragedy

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rs. Margaret Rice and her young sons were on their way home to America.

On April 11, 1912, Rice and her five boys, ranging from age 2 to 10, boarded the brand-new ocean liner RMS Titanic in Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York City and then their final destination, Spokane. The 39-year-old Irish immigrant and widow, whose husband had been killed in a rail yard accident here two years prior, purchased third-class tickets for herself and the boys.

We know now that, as third-class travelers aboard the doomed ship, the odds of the Rice family getting home to Spokane were against them — just over a third of the 2,228 passengers and crew made it onto lifeboats — along with more than 1,500 victims of the catastrophe on the night of April 14, 1912, when the “unsinkable” ship struck an iceberg. In the early hours of April 15, it slipped beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.

The sad story of the Titanic is well known, thanks to popular culture’s ongoing fascination and romanticization of its unimaginable fate: the largest ocean liner of its time, made possible by the latest advancements in engineering and technology, lost on its maiden voyage.

Now, visitors to the newly arrived touring exhibit Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which opened last weekend at Spokane’s Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, can take an interactive journey that explores why the Titanic’s story has remained so relevant, while also reminding us of its many victims and survivors — all of their hopes and dreams, dashed by tragedy.

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urated by Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, owner of the subsidiary RMS Titanic, Inc., which holds exclusive rights to the preservation and recovery of items at Titanic’s wreck site, the exhibit fills four museum galleries and features dozens of items salvaged from the ocean floor, including personal effects — clothing, jewelry, keepsake trinkets, documents, toiletries — items outfitted on the ship for passengers’ comfort, and pieces of the vessel itself. Guests can also see re-created cabin accommodations for the Titanic’s first- and third-class passengers, the latter of whom enjoyed higher quality lodgings than what was typical for the period.

“What’s interesting is that, in most cases, the quality was higher than in most ships,” explains MAC senior history curator Marsha Rooney as she walks through the exhibit.

“Even third class had perks like electric heat and light, and second class was a lot like first class in some other ships. … So in a way, the idea of steerage and of people packed into the hold doesn’t fit with the Titanic,” she continues. “You hear the first-class stories, but you’re not thinking about the fact that it was also moving mail and helping immigrants make their way across the ocean.”

Though the main exhibit opened last weekend, Rooney and other museum staff are now working on a forthcoming gallery showcase on life in Spokane, circa 1912. Set to open Nov. 4, this special local tie-in will feature pieces from the museum’s local history collection, including high-end fashions of the period and ...continued on next page

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Rooney says visitors will also be able to learn more about Titanic passengers who had Spokane connections, like the little Rice boys and their mother, along with newlywed childhood sweethearts John and Sarah Chapman, returning to his home in Spokane after being wed in their native England.

Historical records indicate that as many as nine passengers aboard the Titanic, all traveling in second or third class, had declared a final destination of Spokane.

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s visitors to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition arrive at the museum’s ticket desk, they receive a “boarding pass” slip bearing the name and a short biography of an actual passenger who traveled aboard the ship. In the exhibit’s final gallery, as solemn, haunting music plays in the background, guests are met by a large memorial wall listing the names of each person on board, sorted by whether they survived the disaster or were lost to the icy sea.

More so than anywhere else in the exhibit, this final visual element profoundly illustrates the slim chance people had of making it onto one of the ship’s limited number of lifeboats. Feeling hopeful, visitors are likely to scan the alphabetical survivor list for their passenger’s corresponding ticket class, only to find that person’s name absent. Just maybe, they’re one of the lucky ones.

“I love the way [Premiere] personalized it with so many human stories,” Rooney says. “The goal is to get people to really imagine being there, which is a really wonderful and neat technique for visitors to a museum. It can feel like things are in a case, and sort of separate from ourselves. I think this exhibit does a good job of getting you to really imagine yourself right there.”

Beneath all the excitement surrounding the Titanic — a sentiment shared as it first set sail more than a century ago, that lasts even now as researchers rediscover its fragmented fate scattered across the seafloor — this carefully curated exhibit of artifacts and stories seamlessly unites the contrasting sides of Titanic’s legend, of marvel and of sorrow.

One of these countless reflections of sorrow is found at the end of a long list of third-class passengers who perished that icy April night: the names of the five Rice boys; Albert, George, Arthur, Eric and Eugene, and their mother, Margaret.

“There is so much to observe about the Titanic,” notes Rooney, in a nod to the lasting wonder of the magnificent liner.

“There is a story of finding it, saving it and all the biography.

It comes to life where other [ships] did not… Plus, the hype with this ship was phenomenal. It was the biggest, the best — they did their marketing very well — so the drama was enhanced by that.” n Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition • Through May 20, 2018; open Tue, Thu-Sun, 10 am-5 pm; Wed, 10 am-8 pm (hours to change in January) • $18/adults, $16/seniors, $13/college students with ID, $10/ages 6-17 (MAC members free) • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

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he writers involved in this year’s Bedtime Stories fundraiser for Humanities Washington all sing the praises of the organization dedicated to using conversation, art and literature to connect every corner of the Evergreen State. And they all discovered the group in different ways.

Kate Lebo started attending Humanities Washington’s Think & Drink events when she moved to Spokane a couple of years back as a means to connect with her new community.

Chances are Shann Ray was on stage moderating the talk that night. Sharma Shields was invited by the organization to read when her first shortstory collection was published and has worked with them ever since. And former Spokane poet laureate Thom Caraway discovered the group when he attended a lecture sponsored by its Speakers Bureau.

“The idea that someone is paying, even a little, for scholars and artists to travel around the state and talk to people about the things they are passionate about is very encouraging,” Caraway says. “And the talks are not all just academic; they represent a broad spectrum of the humanities and really demonstrate how important the humanities are.”

The Bedtime Stories fundraisers help raise money for Humanities Washington’s Prime Time Family Reading, an elementary school education program that Executive Director Julie Ziegler says “creates these connections with children in our communities and improves their reading, analysis and communication skills.” This year’s event, the sixth in the Lilac City, will feature Lebo, Ray, Shields and Caraway, all reading original stories inspired by the concept of “beacon in the night” while attendees dine and drink.

A special highlight of this year’s Bedtime Stories is Spokane author Jess Walter being presented the Humanities Washington Award.

We asked each of this year’s authors to share some thoughts on Walter and his role in Spokane literary life. Their responses were lightly edited for length: KATE LEBO: “It took me a year or so to really feel at home in Spokane when I first moved here, and part of what helped me was how Jess reached out early on to get me involved with INK Artspace (now Spark Central). He not only was like, ‘We need your help,’ he was like, ‘You’re good at this’ — which made me feel welcomed and empowered within my new city, and gave me

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something I really needed, a way to contribute to this place I was learning to call home … Jess seems to me to be one of those people who know the heart and history of Spokane. Or actually is that heart and history.”

THOM CARAWAY: “For a long time, it felt like Jess was the literary community in Spokane.

We’ve got the academic side, and in the last several years, things like Broken Mic and the Spokane Poetry Slam, but before all that we just had this unassuming guy in West Central cranking out these amazing books. I think it’s really important, and even notable, that Jess stuck around. As he talks about it, he wanted to leave, but he didn’t, and his commitment to Spokane I think encouraged other writers to stay, and now to come here, because it has developed into such a rich, robust community. I think Jess has modeled unpretentious success in a really great way.”

Jess Walter: Local boy makes good.

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SHARMA SHIELDS: “I was in college when Jess left journalism and took up writing fiction.

I watched his dedication and drive with much interest; it was really inspiring to me … I was working at the University Book Store in Seattle when he published his first book and won the Edgar Award, and I gloated to everyone there how I knew him. I still gloat about it to everyone.

“Most impressive about Jess is, of course, his compassionate nature, the way he loves our town and the way he tries to make this town better.

His work with Spark Central and The NATIVE Project is a perfect example, but he also supports the town in a thousand little ways: Eating in local restaurants, shopping at our local bookstore, writing his next opus at the local coffee shop …

His advice and support have been instrumental to my writing career, and this kindness and generosity, so palpable in his work, is also what has made Spokane’s literary scene such a healthy, encouraging environment.”

SHANN RAY: “From the moment I first met Jess, I’ve been touched by his care for me, and for so many writers here in Spokane and throughout the nation. He’s one of the most wise, thoughtful and artistically talented people I’ve ever known … He is worthy of being honored because he is a good man, a profound artist, and a beautiful friend.” n Bedtime Stories Spokane • Fri, Oct. 27 at 5:30 pm • $100 • The Spokane Club • 1002 W. Riverside • humanities.org • 206-682-1770

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Fuel Your Day A new food truck on the lower South Hill serves up hearty breakfast staples and a dose of enthusiastic encouragement

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ead up the hill before the snow flies, or you might miss the newest local food truck to arrive onto the scene after it closes for a winter break.

The Compass Breakfast Wagon opened for business earlier this month, serving up morning mealtime staples at its lower South Hill parking spot just off of the Maple Street hill, near a Cenex Zip Trip gas station at the corner of 10th Avenue. From Wednesday through Saturday mornings, hungry folks can find owner Ross Carper inside the mobile kitchen — a converted 1970s camping trailer — baking biscuits, frying eggs and toasting bread for the truck’s menu, featuring ingredients sourced almost exclusively from local producers.

“For quite a while I wanted to own a breakfast place,” Carper says. “I love cooking breakfast, and worked in the food industry when I was in college and in my 20s.

I’m kind of entrepreneurially inclined, and a couple years ago I started thinking more seriously about opening some

Owner Ross Carper hopes to also utilize his new Compass Breakfast Wagon to give back to the community. sort of breakfast place.”

To stand out from other local breakfast spots, Carper chose a signature item for the Compass menu: one-eyed jacks ($5-$6), that homestyle country classic consisting of a piece of buttered toast with a fried soft egg in the middle and a layer of melted cheese on top (many variations exist).

“The idea of using really good country loaf bread and adding cheese and toppings is an idea that I had several years ago,” he explains. “It’s a novelty item that everyone is familiar with, it has dozens of names — treasure island, bird in the nest, toad in the hole.”

The one-eyed jacks showcase sourdough bread from Spokane’s Common Crumb bakery, and eggs from a local farm that Carper sources through LINC Foods cooperative, which also provides the sausage for his spicy, peppery biscuits and gravy ($4.50). The truck’s coffee is also roasted here, by Indaba and DOMA. Other items on the menu include avocado toast ($6.50), a biscuit sandwich ($5) and breakfast burrito ($4-$5).

Carper, a contributor for Spokane’s version of Field & Compass magazine and the service engagement coordinator for his church, and his wife Autumn spent the better part of the past year retrofitting the camper into a mobile commercial kitchen. The project presented numerous challenges, partly why the business debuted so late in the season. Unforeseen costs to build out the trailer also prompted the couple to launch a modest Kickstarter campaign to try and recoup some of their time and money spent to launch the business. A little more than $3,300 had been pledged by the campaign’s end on Oct. 21.

Another hope for the crowdsourcing campaign, Carper says, is to simply spread the word about the

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venture. To boost interest and get people talking, he and his friends created a parody 1980s rock music video for an original song, “U Got This,” that’s still featured on the truck’s Kickstarter and Facebook pages.

“I take very seriously that you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously, so that video was a way to bring some fun into it,” he adds.

Beyond helping his customers get their days off to a satisfying start, Carper plans to use the business to give back to the community through what he calls the Breakfast Benevolence program.

“It’s a traditional profit-motivated business, but also motivated by trying to make the neighborhood better,” he explains. “Starting this has seemed a bit random to some of my friends, but the mission of it has lots of overlap with the other things I’m involved with: local nonprofits, service work through my church, and supporting and promoting local businesses through Field & Compass.”

Each week, Carper picks a local nonprofit working to address food insecurity or other issues on a neighborhood level to receive a portion of the truck’s proceeds.

Though he plans to keep the truck open as long as he can through the rest of the year, it’s not suited for travel on snowy or icy roads. Carper expects he’ll have to close up shop for the winter sometime later this month, but plans to reopen in spring after the snow melts. As a member of the Greater Spokane Food Truck Association, he also hopes to eventually bring the Compass Breakfast Wagon to community events. n The Compass Breakfast Wagon • 1600 W. 10th • Open Wed-Fri, 7-11 am; Sat, 8 am-noon • facebook.com/thecompassbreakfastwagon

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ast summer, rumors swirled about an unusual new Sandpoint food truck — actually a converted school bus that owners Jessica Vouk and Jeremy Holzapfel named “Charlotte” — serving global street food like Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches and Indian samosa burgers. But food trucks don’t always last the winter in Sandpoint, so when Beet and Basil transitioned from a mobile to a permanent eatery inside the 110-year-old former Inn at Sand Creek building, it was time to check it out.

The menu is indeed global: Moroccan roasted root salad ($12), Japanese togarashi-spiced salmon ($20), Mexican masa cakes with vegan poblano crema ($9), and North African shakshuka ($11), which consists of baked eggs nestled in a spicy mixture of thick tomato and other vegetables.

“Jessica finds inspiration in the discovery of new spices and learning about different dishes with different ethnic origins,” says Holzapfel, Vouk’s husband and Beet and Basil general manager.

Chef Vouk serves her shakshuka with harissa, (chili pepper paste), local goat cheese and crusty bread, yet she didn’t travel around the world for inspiration — she brought it with her from Seattle, where she spent nearly two decades cooking.

Jessica’s recipes are not necessarily authentic, but rather her spin on global cuisine, adds Holzapfel, whose own background includes 14 years at Starbucks and a side business in graphic design.

The ground meat in Vouk’s South American empanadas ($9), for example, is lamb, not beef, and currants replace traditional raisins. She pairs Indian tandoori-oven fired naan bread ($11) with a turmeric hummus — puréed chickpeas commonly served with Middle Eastern meals — and a garlic scape pesto.

Attention to detail goes beyond the food menu with Beet and Basil’s service and ambiance.

Global flavors have arrived in Sandpoint.

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While the menu features local and organic offerings wherever possible, and numerous gluten-free and vegan options, the drink menu is similarly thoughtful.

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GENIUS The work of Dutch master Vincent van Gogh comes to vivid life in the animated Loving Vincent

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

A different kind of self-portrait: Loving Vincent explores van Gogh’s final years through the artist’s own influential style.

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ou’ve no doubt heard a film’s visual style being described as painterly, but Loving Vincent takes that idea to new levels.

The movie is being advertised as the first handpainted feature, a feat accomplished by a team of approximately 115 artists painting over each individual frame of live-action footage, shot mostly on green screens.

Similar rotoscoping techniques have been used before by filmmakers like Richard Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly) and Ralph Bakshi (American Pop), but never this evocatively. A portrait of the final years of Vincent van Gogh’s life, it practically pulls us headfirst into the world of his iconic paintings.

By all accounts, van Gogh was a man of contradictions and wildly shifting temperaments, no doubt the symptoms of a mental illness that has been posthumously diagnosed many times over. Unknown during his lifetime, he is now considered one of the godfathers of post-impressionism, a movement that is itself somewhat contradictory, usually depicting natural settings through a lens of colorful abstraction.

Loving Vincent is set in the late 1890s, about a year after van Gogh’s agonizing suicide by gunshot and long before anyone had anointed him a master. Douglas Booth plays Armand Roulin, the son of a bushy-bearded

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postmaster (himself the subject of an actual van Gogh exactly were Vincent and Theo estranged? Did Vincent portrait) who’s sent to deliver a long-lost letter Vincent really intend to kill himself, and if so, why? And is the had written to his brother Theo. quirky local doctor to be believed when he suggests VinArmand travels to Auvers-sur-Oise, the sleepy village cent was shot by someone else? outside Paris where van Gogh died, unaware that Theo Even though it’s borrowing from a couple of waterhas also passed away. He hangs around to talk to those shed movies (and it’s probably unfair to even mention who knew Vincent — the proprietor of the inn, the doctor them in relation to this film), the narrative here grows a who treated him, the young woman who may have pined bit repetitive, and even at 90 minutes, it wears itself thin for him — and finds himself becoming obsessed with piecbefore it’s over. For a film about such an unconventional, ing together the events of the artist’s final days. impressionistic mind, it’s not too adventurous in its draThe real people and places van Gogh painted during matic structure. his short but prolific career weave their way in and out Still, the film presents the unusual opportunity to treat of the plot, and anyone with a passing the movie theater as an art gallery. Even familiarity with his oeuvre will no if Loving Vincent doesn’t quite connect on LOVING VINCENT doubt recognize some of the characters the emotional level it intends, it’s a marvel Rated PG-13 and the scenery — the café terraces, the to look at, and a remarkable showcase Directed by Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchwheat fields, the gardens and, yes, the for years of painstaking work. You can man; Starring Douglas Booth, Saoirse starry nights. see each individual brush stroke up there Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O’Dowd Loving Vincent essentially borrows on the screen, and even the backgrounds At the Magic Lantern the same framework as Citizen Kane: seem to bristle with activity, giving us the It’s all about uncovering the secrets of same sensations that particularly tactile a dead man’s life, told via flashback by his acquaintances stop-motion animation does. who came to love, fear and pity him. But it also owes a The story may not be as engaging as the visuals, but debt to Akira Kurosawa’s great Rashomon, as each new the film is worth seeing simply to gaze in awe at its impiece of information brings with it another mystery. Why ages, to let it wash over you in warm, sun-dappled waves. n

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LOCAL PREMIERE: WALKING OUT

A teenager and his estranged father (Matt Bomer) head out into the wintry Montana wilderness on a moose-hunting trip. Following an encounter with a bear, they’re both injured and must fight to survive in brutal conditions. A Sundance Film Festival 2017 selection, Walking Out has just had its national premiere and is coming back to where it all started for executive producer Katherine Ann McGregor, who is an Eastern Washington native; she’ll be hosting an audience Q&A following the 7pm screening on Friday night at Village Center Cinemas Wandermere. (NW) Rated PG-13

OPENING FILMS AMERICAN SATAN

A heavy-metal take on Faust, with a mysterious stranger (played by Malcolm McDowell, so you know he’s up to no good) striking a morbid deal with a fame-hungry rock band on the Sunset Strip. (NW) Rated R

a thing to behold. Set in the 1890s, a postmaster’s son is sent to deliver a long-lost letter written by the late Vincent van Gogh, only to find himself questioning the circumstances of the influential artist’s suicide. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

JIGSAW

SUBURBICON

Because the first seven (!) entries in the Saw franchise apparently weren’t enough, we’ve now got an eighth film resurrecting the demented Jigsaw killer, who continues to ensnare his victims in sadistic traps. Happy Halloween, I guess. (NW) Rated R

LET THERE BE LIGHT

Kevin Sorbo, aka TV’s Hercules, directs and stars as (per the film’s IMDb page) “the world’s most famous atheist,” who’s in a car accident and miraculously finds faith. Co-produced by Fox News’ Sean Hannity; make of that what you will. (NW) Rated PG-13

LOVING VINCENT

Advertised as the first entirely handpainted feature, the look of this impressionistic animated drama is

Directed by George Clooney and cowritten by the Coen brothers, this pitch-black comedy reveals — gasp!

— the latent seediness of 1950s suburbia. An idyllic neighborhood is shaken when its first black residents move in, distracting from a murderous scheme cooking up between clean-cut Matt Damon and his sister-in-law Julianne Moore. (NW) Rated R

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

From the screenwriter of American Sniper, this drama examines what many war films tend to omit: what it’s like to come home from combat.

Miles Teller stars as a soldier who returns from Iraq and has trouble reacclimating to normal domestic life.

(NW) Rated R

NOW PLAYING AMERICAN MADE

Director Doug Liman’s true-life espionage thriller is inspired by the antics of Barry Seal, a TWA pilot who rubbed elbows with the likes of Manuel Noriega and Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Sure, it’s no GoodFellas, but Tom Cruise is undoubtedly entertaining in toothy slickster mode. (MJ) Rated R

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

A dramatization of the 1973 match between tennis vet Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) and No. 1-ranked female

player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), ostentatiously labeled the Battle of the Sexes. Wildly entertaining as a spots drama and trenchant as a history lesson about the fight against sexism.

(MJ) Rated PG-13

BLADE RUNNER 2049

The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece expands upon the earlier film’s already rich futuristic universe, a meditative, leisurely paced art film disguised as ...continued on next page

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a franchise cash-in. Picking up the story 30 years later, L.A. cop K (Ryan Gosling) uncovers a dark replicant conspiracy, taking him on a mission that leads to Harrison Ford’s elusive detective Deckard. (NW) Rated R

BREATHE

The directorial debut of actor Andy Serkis, this is a disarmingly upbeat biopic about Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a polio-afflicted Brit who helped design breakthrough medical devices in the mid-20th century. Its sense of derring-do is charming and genuinely inspiring. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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A documentary about the life of civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, best known for founding California labor unions in the 1950s and ’60s alongside César Chávez. Huerta, who is still active at 87, discusses the adversity and gender inequality she has encountered throughout her career.

Other interviewees include Hillary Clinton and Angela Davis. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

THE FOREIGNER

Jackie Chan returns to the big screen, and this time cinema’s premiere stunt star is challenged to do something he hasn’t often done: really act. He plays an immigrant restaurateur living in London whose daughter is killed in an IRA-sponsored terrorist bombing. In the vein of Liam Neeson’s Taken films, Chan seeks revenge on the people responsible for the attack. There’s a decent supply of thrills here, but it’s hampered by inconsistencies in tone and a wonky moral compass. (SS) Rated R

GEOSTORM

Like an asteroid colliding with Earth, this disaster of a disaster movie wipes out everything in its path with its sheer stupidity. Gerard Butler is a rogue American scientist (uh-huh) who jets into space to repair the malfunctioning satellites protecting us from certain annihilation.. .or something. First, though, he has to make amends with his estranged brother. You’ll be rooting for the geostorms. (NW) Rated PG-13

HAPPY DEATH DAY

Groundhog Day reimagined as a teen slasher movie, with a conceited sorority sister getting stuck in a time loop where she’s repeatedly killed by a masked psycho. More comedy than horror, it’s got a few nifty genre-busting tricks up its sleeve, but it’s hard not to wish it had pushed its premise into nastier, gutsier territory. (NW) Rated PG-13

IT

Set in the late ’80s in the fictional small town of Derry, Maine, seven adolescent outcasts team up to battle an evil force that takes on numerous terrifying forms, most notably the razor-toothed clown Pennywise. While it significantly streamlines Stephen King’s cerebral horror tome, the film still captures the spirit of his writing. (NW) Rated R

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE

The follow-up to the surprise 2014 hit Kingsman: The Secret Service is even

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cruder and more absurd than before.

This time around, most of the Kingsman organization’s agents, save for superspy Eggsy, are taken out by a sinister rival group, which also threatens to release a devastating virus. Over-the-top, comicbook spectacle abounds. Whether or not you enjoy it depends on how much you value style over tact. (SS) Rated R

LUCKY

The final star vehicle for the late, great Harry Dean Stanton is a gentle, modest, subtly quirky study of the daily routines of a 90-something Navy veteran facing down his twilight years in a small desert town. Funny and touching, and with a stacked supporting cast that includes Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Beth Grant, Tom Skerritt and David Lynch. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE

A stodgy bio-drama telling us the ABC’s of Watergate, focusing on the FBI agent and infamous whistleblower (played with a brow-furrowing earnestness by Liam Neeson) better known as Deep Throat. It feels like a Wikipedia page that’s been adapted for the screen.

(NW) Rated PG-13

MARSHALL

In 1941, years before he was the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice, attorney Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) is called to defend a black chauffeur accused of raping a white woman. Though it hardly reinvents the biopic wheel, the film is a slickly-produced courtroom drama anchored by pertinent messages about racial and social injustice. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US

An impending winter storm strands Idris Elba and Kate Winslet in an airport, so they charter a private biplane that promptly crashes in the mountains. The strangers must band together (and inevitably fall in love) to stay alive. As a survival saga, it’s got a few thrills; as a romance, though, it’s totally unconvincing. (NW) Rated PG-13

ONLY THE BRAVE

This fact-based drama enmeshes us within the ranks of a group of Arizona firefighters known as the Granite

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Mountain Hotshots, specifically as they attempt to contain the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire in 2013. Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges star. (NW) Rated PG-13

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

An engaging documentary that looks to embolden the Native American musicians whose influence on rock has either been diminished or completely forgotten. Among the legends discussed: blues pioneer Charley Patton, jazz luminary (and one-time Spokane resident) Mildred Bailey, Jimi Hendrix and guitarist Link Wray. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME

Based on the best-selling nonfiction book, this inspirational story considers the unexpected friendship between a violent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou) and the troubled married couple (Greg Kinnear and Renée Zellweger) taking on a terminal illness.

(NW) Rated PG-13

THE SNOWMAN

Novelist Jo Nesbø’s popular Scandinavian gumshoe Harry Hole hits the big screen, and the results are, considering the pedigree of its cast and crew, inexcusably awful and slapdash.

Michael Fassbender takes on the role of the perpetually drunk, misanthropic detective, investigating a serial killer who builds snowmen outside the homes of his victims. Yes, it’s a mystery as lame as it sounds. (MJ) Rated R

TYLER PERRY’S BOO 2!

A MADEA HALLOWEEN

Everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed grandma (played by writer-directorproducer Perry) is back for another horror-comedy, and this time she’s after a masked killer filleting nubile teens. But who’s the real threat — the slasher or Madea? (NW) Rated PG-13

VICTORIA AND ABDUL

The heartwarming true story of the unlikely friendship that developed in the late 19th century between the widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench, who previously played the monarch in 1997’s Mrs. Brown) and her Indian secretary Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). From director Stephen Frears (Philomena) and the screenwriter of the crowd pleaser Billy Elliot. (NW) Rated PG-13 n

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ou’ll be dead in two weeks,” growls an unsympathetic doctor to Robin Cavendish, stricken with polio and unable to breathe on his own, as his wife, Diana, springs him from a British hospital. Apparently this was the way things were: Someone like Robin, paralyzed from the neck down and utterly dependent on a respirator, was expected to simply lie in a hospital bed for the rest of his life, presumed to be no more than a few months anyway.

No one in Robin’s condition had ever survived outside a hospital before. But no one had ever even tried.

Breathe, then, is an adventure story. It’s shaped as a romance, as determined Diana (Claire Foy) dedicates herself to making an actual life for her, her husband and their newborn son, rather than abandoning Robin (Andrew Garfield) to a short, clinically warehoused life. It’s also a true story, based on the real lives of the parents of producer Jonathan Cavendish, filmmaking partner of Andy Serkis, who makes his feature directing debut here.

There’s a whole bunch of triumph-of-thehuman-spirit drama going on here as well. But mostly, Breathe is a tale full of life-and-death peril — and an unexpected amount of cheerful good humor — about what it took to create the sort of accessible world that’s really necessary to a human spirit looking to triumph after it takes a beating.

There’s an almost timeless feeling to the opening sequences of Breathe, as we’re introduced to Robin and Diana during their courtship and newlywed life. It’s all lawn parties and cricket in England and then on to dreamy, exotic Kenya, where Robin’s work as a tea broker forces them to endure spectacular sunsets, cocktails on the veranda, and biplane expeditions through verdant mountains.

We could almost have time-traveled back to the 1920s or ’30s, but it’s 1958 when 28-year-old Robin is laid low by polio, and 1960 when they return to England to face the demoralizing reality

of disabled life. So recent a time when a previously robust and athletic chap like Robin was told to just forget about having a meaningful quality of life, or any life at all; it seems unfathomable.

“But never mind!” the remarkably exuberant Breathe seems to say. Diana and Robin — with lots of help from Diana’s twin brothers (both played by Tom Hollander) — enlist the assistance of their wacky inventor pal Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), who marvels that no one has previously tried to cobble together a wheelchair with a portable, battery-operated respirator, so he’ll have to do it himself. Soon, they were going into production with the wheelchairs, as there were lots of other people in the UK alone who could use them.

It’s all a bit madcap. Every step along the way of forcing the world open for Robin — such as jury-rigging a van BREATHE to accommodate his wheelchair, so he is no Rated PG-13 more stuck at home than Directed by Andy Serkis Starring Andrew Garfield, he would be in a hospital Claire Foy, Tom Hollander — throws up stumbling blocks to his comfort and dignity. And Robin and his gang just barrel right over them.

Breathe doesn’t pretend that any of the merry paradigm-shifting it depicts was easy — and it was likely quite a bit more harrowing and rife with more setbacks than we see. But its optimism and sense of derring-do is charming and, much more important, genuinely inspiring. The real Robin was a pioneer for the rights and humanity of disabled people, but there’s nothing portentous here, and nothing grim about disability, except the cultural approach to it that Robin and Diana challenged.

Breathe is almost (and yet in no way inappropriately) fun. Thanks to Robin’s activism, the British press coined a new word — “responaut” — for people reliant on respirators but not letting that stop them from living. The resolute, cheeky intrepidness of that wonderful word is all over this movie. n

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ROCK

DUALITY OF MEN On their new albums, Deer Tick shows that going quiet doesn’t mean going soft

BY DAN NAILEN

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eer Tick has always been a tricky band to pin down, genre-wise.

The Rhode Island-bred quartet started off rooted in folk and country-blues, but lead singer John McCauley never had any twang to his cigaretteand-whiskeyed rasp. Soon after forming, the band was dropping Nirvana covers next to its Hank Williams takes, Replacements tunes next to John Prine interpretations.

And their originals on early albums like their 2007 debut War Elephant were similarly — and joyfully — bouncing between heartfelt acoustic balladry and rambunctious electrified rockers.

That dichotomy made for some thrilling moments through the years, but guitarist Ian O’Neil says the band’s diverse sonic dalliances made creating cohesive records a particular challenge. That’s partly what inspired Deer Tick to deliver two new albums in September, the all-acoustic Deer Tick Vol. 1 and the electricity-infused barnburner Deer Tick Vol. 2.

“We want whatever we do to be really consistent,” O’Neil says. “Not that it’s necessarily a fault, but something we were sort of getting tired of doing was trying to piece together albums with a lot of songs that sound really different from each other.”

The decision to make two new albums, Deer Tick’s first recordings since 2013’s Negativity, was partly inspired by an acoustic tour they undertook following their first extended break as a band. After a triumphant series of 10th-anniversary shows at the end of 2014 — they performed full albums by some of their influences, including Lou Reed, NRBQ, Devo, Elvis Costello and the Beatles — McCauley, O’Neil, drummer Dennis Ryan and bassist Christopher Ryan went off separately to work on side projects (O’Neil’s band Happiness played at the Bartlett a couple of years back). ...continued on next page

Deer Tick hits Spokane for the first time next week.

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And when Deer Tick got back together, they returned with new marriages and children in tow, a dramatic change for the hard-partying crew.

Their 2016 acoustic tour thrilled longtime fans who missed the band’s folky roots, and gave the foursome the idea to write new songs with two distinct albums in mind — collections where they could focus on the band’s different skill sets. Of course, they had to sell the idea to their record label and management before the two-album idea became a reality.

“You have people working for you, they’re loaning you a bunch of money and they’re going to have to sell two albums,” O’Neil says. “We had to justify it with the quality of the songs, and pull it off correctly.”

They did just that, creating two fine additions to a catalog that’s turned Deer Tick’s fans into some of the most obsessive in modern rock; their Spokane show sold out weeks in advance, despite their never having played here before.

Deer Tick Vol. 1 delivers songs that evoke their early acoustic excursions, with some of McCauley’s best lyrics on songs like “Sea of Clouds,” “Card House” and “Only Love,” a beautiful tune in which he tries to capture a seemingly incongruous mood with his lyrics — that of the last 24 hours in a relationship before it falls apart. Deer Tick Vol. 2 brings insistent riff-rock like the urgent “Jumpstarting,” and O’Neil wrote and sings “Look How Clean I Am,” an indictment of celebrities who use sobriety as a marketing ploy.

The guitarist said the band made some changes to their typically laid-back approach when they headed to Memphis’ legendary Ardent Studios to record.

“We had some rules, like, ‘John and Ian only play acoustic instruments on the acoustic record,’ and ‘You can’t sub in a reverbed-out guitar to try and smooth something out,’” O’Neil MORE EVENTS says. “Also, ‘Only Deer Tick Visit Inlander.com for members play on these records.’ complete listings of There’s no guests, no horn local events. sections that come in. We’ve always had some friends or guests come in, because we’re pretty loose people. I think having those rules in place made everything very simple for us.”

The vibe at Ardent Studios helped, too. Managed by Big Star drummer Jody Stephens, it has hosted sessions by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, R.E.M., Cheap Trick and the White Stripes during its storied history, but there’s not a lot to do there, says O’Neil.

“You feel like you’re making a ZZ Top album in the ’70s,” he says with a laugh. “A lot less cigarette smoke, but there are still ashtrays built into the wall. It’s got an incredible vibe, and it’s very focused … You feel lucky to be there.”

Deer Tick is doubling down on its acoustic/electric approach on this tour. The first half of the show will be all-acoustic, the second half will be electric, and the band is going to tweak older songs into one of those formats to play alongside the new material. In lieu of an opening band, they’re bringing along stand-up comedian and former Daily Show producer Jena Friedman as opener and emcee.

It was natural to divide up the show, at least for this tour, O’Neil says, since “old fans want to hear our older music, or new music that’s pretty quiet, but it didn’t always work out to slip that in between a bunch of loud punk songs.

“It’s good for us, too, because right when you get off stage, a lot of the time you’re really excited and you have a lot of adrenaline and want to get back out there,” O’Neil says.

“Now when we get off stage, we go to the bathroom or have a cigarette, and then get back on stage and play even more technically revved-up, exciting live rock and roll. It’s kind of an exciting trajectory for us.” n Deer Tick with comedian Jena Friedman • Thu, Nov. 2 at 8 pm • Sold out • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

MUSIC | ROCK

It’s All Cyclical Silversun Pickups keep rockin’ steady as the genre’s popularity rises and falls

BY HOWARD HARDEE

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t’s a popular narrative that “rock is dead,” or at least, guitar-based music isn’t as relevant as it was even just 10 years ago. Joe Lester says that’s true to some extent: Now, electronic dance music producers have greater influence on the Top 40 than guitar-pickers. But as the keyboard player for long-running modern rock band Silversun Pickups, Lester knows that trends in popular music go through surprisingly short cycles.

“You can see it by playing festivals every third or fourth year,” he says. “Like, there’s a whole bunch of bands on the bill one year, and then two-thirds of them aren’t around anymore.”

Flavors of the month come and go and sometimes guitar bands are relatively dormant, “but people still like rock music,” he says.

Indeed, if rock was dead, Silversun Pickups wouldn’t still be around. The L.A.-based four-piece formed in 2000 and became indierock darlings after releasing their debut album, 2006’s Carnavas, which featured the singles “Well Thought Out Twinkles” and “Lazy Eye.” The latter went into heavy rotation on college and alt-rock radio stations, which was remarkable because it clocks in at just under six minutes and doesn’t have a chorus to speak of.

“It’s a pretty weird song,” Lester says.

He spoke with the Inlander during a break before the band embarks on a lengthy North American tour, including a date at the Knitting Factory on Halloween night.

Lester was born in Seattle, but moved to Indio, California, when he was 11 years old.

There wasn’t much of anything to do out there in the desert while he was a teenager, but the town has since become the site of the Coachella Music Festival.

“It still f---s with my head every time we play that festival,” he says, “because it’s literally, like, 15 blocks from my mom’s house.”

Lester learned to play guitar as a teenager, but, in his own estimation, not well. He was, however, still super into music. After moving to L.A. for college, he became a regular at underground and indie-rock shows and started playing bass because it “had fewer strings and was less confusing.” He joined the indie-rock trio Pine Marten, which regularly split bills with the Silversun Pickups’ original lineup.

“We were all really good friends, played together all the time,” Lester says. So in 2002, when his band fell apart and Silversun reshuffled its roster, he was an obvious pick-up — but they didn’t want him to play bass: “They were like,

‘Do you want to play keys?’ And I was like, ‘Sure?’ I didn’t really know how to play keyboard, so it was really learn-as-you-go.”

Without any sort of classical training, Lester mostly relied on making crazy synthesizer noises that melded into the sound of frontman Brian Aubert’s overdriven guitar.

“You couldn’t necessarily tell where the guitars started or the keyboards ended; they would sort of wash together,” he says. “But as I’ve gotten more accomplished as a programmer and with playing, we’ve sort of drifted away from that. I’ve taught myself a lot and my playing is more distinct now.”

As the band’s catalog of songs has grown — they’ve recorded more than 60 — it could be tempting to leave old hits like “Lazy Eye” out of the set, but “that would be kind of a dick move,” Lester says. “Just because we’ve played it 4,000 times doesn’t mean people at the show have heard it that much.”

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He says that all four members of the band are grateful that their songs have connected with such a wide audience, allowing them to continue the cycle of touring and recording.

“When you tour, it’s 11 or 12 people all living on a bus, and we have this joke that there’s no f---ing way grown adults who aren’t married should spend that much time together,” Lester says. “It takes a certain kind of person to want to do that in the first place, and it helps that we were all friends beforehand, and we all still like each other now.

“That’s the biggest part — making music together is still exciting.” n Silversun Pickups with Minus the Bear • Tue, Oct. 31 at 8 pm • $29.50 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

ROCK HALLOWEEN COVER SHOW

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here can you see Talking Heads, the Ramones and the Kinks all on the same bill? Other than a fantasy Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, nowhere. The closest you’ll get to that dream scenario is at the Baby Bar this weekend, where a roster of local musicians will dress up and perform cover sets as the legendary artists who have influenced them. You’ll see the Norman Robbins-led trio BaLonely performing as the Cure, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love (pictured) conjuring up Little Richard, and, in what should be a particularly bittersweet performance, pop-rock quartet Atari Ferrari as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Your own costumes are encouraged, too.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Halloween Cover Show feat. Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, Atari Ferrari, BaLonely & more • Sat, Oct. 28 at 8:30 pm • Free • 21+ • Baby Bar • 827 W. First • 847-1234

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Thursday, 10/26

219 LOUNGE, Party Mountain J J BING CROSBY THEATER, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cold Cave BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BRAVO CLUB EVENT CENTER, Dada Life and Hekler J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred CRUISERS, Open Jam Night THE JACKSON ST., Dave McRae J KNITTING FACTORY, Jerrod Niemann, Tucker Beathard, Adam Craig, Ryan Sims, Brandon Lay, Fiona Culley NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J THE PIN!, Man Made God, Retrouvaille, Corde, Logan POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Wyatt Wood RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 10/27

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Radio 80 219 LOUNGE, DJ Josh 3RD WHEEL, Free the Jester ARLO’S RISTORANTE, The Cole Show J J THE BARTLETT, Chris Molitor, Mama Doll BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, NightShift BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, Yesterdayscake BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Mojo Box and Friends J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Dave Hagelganz

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ROCK THEE COMMONS

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he East L.A. trio Thee Commons, the project of brothers David and Rene Pacheco, recently released their third full-length album Paleta Sonora, and it’s a collection of mostly Spanish-language retro-rock tunes driven by an irreverent streak — song titles include “Selena’s Butt,” “Leonard Cohen in the Sky” and “Mac de Cheese.” They’re clearly culling from several striking influences, including Chicano rock legends like Los Lobos and (their namesake) Thee Midnighters, guitar-worshipping garage and surf bands from the late ’60s and, perhaps most important, the sounds of the Latin dance-punk genre known as cumbia. If our recommendation isn’t enough to get you to the Big Dipper on Halloween, consider that the L.A. Weekly recently called Thee Commons one of the city’s best live bands.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Thee Commons with Isaac Rother & the Phantoms and Itchy Kitty • Tue, Oct. 31 at 7:30 pm • $8/$10 at the door • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bob Sletner CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Bad Monkey FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kicho IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bare Grass IMPULSE, Monster Mash Halloween Party with DJ Ramsin IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Missed Fits IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale THE JACKSON ST., Mark Cornet and Steve Livingston JJ’S TAP & SMOKEHOUSE, Fall Fest feat. The Blake Braley Band, Bread Box and more J KNITTING FACTORY, Needtobreathe, The Brummies

MAXWELL HOUSE, 3D Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Harold’s IGA MOOSE LOUNGE, Dragonfly MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Bill Bozly NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Smash Hit Carnival J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Vince Neil O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots J THE OBSERVATORY, Thigh Gap, Double Bird, Peru Resh, Whiskey Dick Mountain PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Ron Kieper Trio

J THE PIN!, Halloween Cover Show feat. Age of Nefilim, Cold Blooded, Foxtrot Epidemic and more PRIME TYME, The David Project J RESURRECTION RECORDS, Maidenhair, Marina Obscura RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Halloween Bash feat. Hair Nation & The Caretakers THE STATION HOUSE, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, UpperCut

Saturday, 10/28

219 LOUNGE, Harold’s IGA J BABY BAR, Halloween Cover Show (see above) feat. Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, Atari Ferrari, Balonely, Mala Vida, Runaway

Octopus, Matt Lakin BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, NightShift BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, Yesterdayscake BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Mojo Box and Friends J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Jon and Rand CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bob Sletner J COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Just Plain Darin CORBY’S BAR, Zach Cooper Band THE COUNTRY PLACE BAR & GRILL, Armed and Dangerous Band

CURLEY’S, Bad Monkey DAHMEN BARN, Charlie Butts and The Filter Tips FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Keanu & Joey FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Cattywomp, Donna Donna FLAME & CORK, Son of Brad FREDNECK’S, Halloween Bash feat.

Deez Nutz, Chris Kidd GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects GREYHOUND PARK & EVENT CENTER, Masquerade Charity Ball feat. Soul Proprietor THE HIVE, Halloween Bash with Sir Mix-a-Lot and Mr. B HOUSE OF SOUL, Halloween Party & Grand Opening feat. Nu Jack City, DJ P-Funk IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mostly Harmless IRON HORSE (CDA), Royale THE JACKSON ST., Sovereign Citizen and the Non-Profits JJ’S TAP & SMOKEHOUSE, Fall Fest feat. The Blake Braley Band, Bread Box and more KING’S BAR & GRILL, Bodie Canyon J KNITTING FACTORY, In This Moment, Of Mice and Men, Avatar

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LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Mobius Riff MOOSE LOUNGE, Dragonfly J MOOTSY’S, Dept. of Martyrs, Redvolt, Gorilla Rabbit Chicken, Van Dels MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Truck Mills NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Loose Gazoonz J NO-LI BREWHOUSE, Dylan Hathaway NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick THE OBSERVATORY, Halloween Bash! feat Dead See Squirrels, North by North, Summer in Siberia J THE PIN!, Vale of Pnath, First Fragment, Virvum, Aethereus POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Andy Rumsey PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Kori Ailene RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Ryan Larsen Band J SPIKE’S PHILLYS, Halloween Party feat. Malicious Mischief, High on Hellwater, Dirtbag STIX BAR AND GRILL, My Own Worst Enemy THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave VESSEL COFFEE ROASTERS, Jacob Maxwell, The Blü, Willie B. the MC WAGON WHEEL BAR & GRILL, William Nover WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Bill Bozly ZOLA, UpperCut

Sunday, 10/29

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOTEL RL, Collapsing Stars IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Steve Livingston LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music RIDLER PIANO BAR, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 10/30

J BABY BAR, Omni, Balonely J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville feat. Jenny Anne Mannan, Lucas Brookbank Brown, Dani Jo Meeks, Ashley Dreyer, Brett and Janet Dodd J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam J THE PIN!, 13 Nails, Chaotic Shadows, Corde Comedenti RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Halloween, 10/31

J J THE BARTLETT, David Ramirez, Molly Parden J J THE BIG DIPPER, Thee Commons (see facing page), Itchy Kitty, Isaac Rother and the Phantoms THE BULL HEAD, Rusty Jackson CHECKERBOARD BAR, One Louder GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke

HOGFISH, Echo Elysium J J KNITTING FACTORY, Silversun Pickups (see page 41), Minus the Bear LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tues.

RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic Jam THE ROADHOUSE, DJ LG J SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kori Ailene ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 11/1

J J THE BARTLETT, Brother Ali, SaRoc, Last Word, Sol Messiah BLACK DIAMOND, Darren Eldridge GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding J GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, Ronhaar LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MOOTSY’S, Abstract Rude, Myka 9 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Ronaldos THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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MUSIC CASTING A SPELL

One of the reasons the Harry Potter series became such an enduring and worldwide phenomenon is the fact that its worlds were so vivid, they felt like you could step right into them. And if you’ve ever fantasized about walking around in J.K. Rowling’s universe, the Spokane Symphony’s Halloween at Hogwarts concert does its best to bring the sights (and of course, the sounds) of literature’s most famous wizarding school to life. Like last year, audience members get to sort themselves into their own Hogwarts house — are you daring like a Gryffindor, or is the cunning of Slytherin more your speed? — dress up in cloaks and brandish magic wands. The symphony itself will be part of the magic, performing, among other pieces, John Williams’ and James Newton Howard’s compositions from the Harry Potter films.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Spokane Symphony: Halloween at Hogwarts • Sat, Oct. 28 at 2 and 8 pm • $24-$34/children, $29-$45/adults (SOLD OUT) • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

WORDS PINKY SWEAR

We all make and sometimes — often, even — break promises, big and small. Explore the many ways we fail to keep our word, deliver on it or try and make good on past slip-ups at the next installment of the local storytelling mic series Pivot. This third mainstage version of the live event features seven local people telling basedin-truth stories from their own lives revolving around promises’ many forms, from casual, verbal declarations to serious, recorded commitments. Come hear these local storytellers bare all, including Inlander staff writer Daniel Walters, who’s joined by Skyler Oberst, Annica Eagle, Maura Ruiz, Jennifer Hawkins, Leonard Oakland and Megan Ferney.

— CHEY SCOTT Pivot Mainstage: Promise • Thu, Nov. 2 at 7 pm • $10 suggested donation • Washington Cracker Co. Building • 304 W. Pacific • facebook.com/pivotspokane or pivotspokane.com

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COMEDY LAUGH & CRINGE

Anthony Jeselnik is undeniably one of the funniest comedians around, and it’s just as undeniable that his style of humor isn’t for the easily offended. Jeselnik works where most comics fear to tread, capable of finding humor in seemingly impossible subjects, from babies locked in hot cars to the falling death of Eric Clapton’s son. Remarkably, he brings an audience along with him, to laugh at things they never thought possible. His amoral stage character is a role he equates to being a “heel” in pro wrestling — a bad guy the fans root for. It’s a style that’s worked on his Comedy Central specials, as host of his own talk show The Jeselnik Offensive and as host of Last Comic Standing. But it’s best seen when he’s alone on stage.

— DAN NAILEN Anthony Jeselnik • Thu, Oct. 26 at 8 pm; Fri, Oct. 27 at 7:30 & 10:30 pm; Sat, Oct. 28 at 10:30 pm • $30-$40 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

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FESTIVAL PAULANER PARADE

It’s going to get authentic with all the beer, brats and Bavarian bands at Spokane’s Oktoberfest, taking place this weekend. Imported Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr beer straight from Germany will be flowing, along with accordion music, as attendees revel in this annual celebration. Designated drivers can register and receive complimentary root beer and bottled water for their selflessness, but it’s not all about the brews at this family-friendly festival (the doors close, however, for those under age 21 at 9 each night).

There’s something for everyone at Oktoberfest, including games and wiener dog racing. The opening ceremony follows long-held tradition, with Spokane Valley Mayor Rod Higgins tapping the keg on Friday night. Dust off your beer steins and check out the website for tickets and general information. O’zapft is!

— JASON STILL

Sat u rday, O ct. 28 at 6: 00pm & 9: 00pm

Spokane Oktoberfest • Oct 27-29: Fri, 4-11:30 pm; Sat, noon-11:30 pm; Sun, 11 am-5 pm • $10/day, $15/weekend admission; kids under 12 free • CenterPlace Regional Event Center • 2426 N. Discovery Pl., Spokane Valley • spokaneoktoberfest.com

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ARTS ARTISTRY OF CULTURE

News flash: Culturally appropriated Halloween costumes are out — including Day of the Dead sugar skull makeup and mariachi-style hats — but this doesn’t mean non-Latinx or -Hispanic people can’t celebrate these groups’ artistic and cultural contributions in other ways. It’s partly this mindset that has led Coeur d’Alene arts nonprofit and gallery Emerge to host its annual Day of the Dead Fiesta as both a fundraiser to benefit its arts education programs, and the culmination of the gallery’s annual fall October show.

Titled “Vecinos/Neighbors,” the showcase features the work of regional Latino and Hispanic artists Veiko Valencia, Christina Lucky and Mary Martin.

The evening celebration of arts and culture also includes a menu of Latin American, Mexican and Southwest American food prepared by local chefs, along with live entertainment, including Latin fusion music, and plenty of art to see and purchase.

— CHEY SCOTT Day of the Dead Fiesta • Thu, Nov. 2 from 6-11 pm • $55/person; $100/couple • Human Rights Education Institute • 414 Mullan Rd., CdA • dotd2017. brownpapertickets.com/

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POET: You should say how you really feel.

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I SAW YOU

THANKS FOR BEING FABULOUS L e t me start off with a confession. I don’t read much anymore. So when I say I read a book, it is a huge deal. When I say this same book has started a fire in my heart to ravenously consume all written media. That is a ringing endorsement.

Alysun Sanders wrote a book. That book changed my perspective on reading. I am quickly burning through the pages of The Damned Goddess at a rate I thought was impossible. May this girl tinder a flame in your soul as well. Perhaps enough to turn off the television, and turn on your imagination. — your dashing rogue

EDGE OF THE RED LINE While I don’t believe I know you, I do know one thing.

If you have a truth (and clearly you have a beautiful one), you must share it. We aren’t guaranteed anything in telling our truths, but once spoken, no matter how it all turns out — you will have done what you were put here to do. “That’s the nature of personhood — to extract truth.”

ROSES AT MANITO Cheers to the kind gardeners who were pruning the rose bushes on 10/19 and gave me and my friends each a beautiful rose as we walked through Manito Park. Your hard work and loving care for those roses brings joy to our city, and this sweet extra gesture brightened our morning! Thank you so much!

NO LI BEAUTY IN ORANGE DRESS You... leaving the No Li Brewery on Monday afternoon, Oct 16. Believe you might have been at the Salon competition?

Held the door for you on the way out and was mesmerized by your great smile and sense of style with the boots and great orange/yellow dress. Would love a chance to chat and maybe meet over a cocktail or coffee? Reply here...make plans from there...

HONEST SOUL A big thank you to the honest soul shopping at Rosauers at Five Mile on Tuesday, October 17th.

Unbeknownst to me a gust of wind blew away $200 in Visa gift cards I had just purchased. Eek! I’m so grateful to the wonderful person who found them in the parking lot and turned them in to Customer Service. You made my week!

God bless you!

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5 MILE NUMERICA Monday the 23rd, Numerica CU 5-Mile. You — Red/black plaid yoga pants. You know who you are.

Me — Appreciating your eyes and smile. naissanceman@gmail.com

YOU SAW ME TO THE “EDGE OF THE RED LINE”

2 OF THE BEST STA DRIVERS Sitting here w/painful gout in my ankles but I must take a minute to expound on the services of 2 STA drivers, Pete & Sheri who gave their passengers thoughtfulness, kindness & more patience than they are getting paid for, today Sat. 10/21, Pete showed thoughtfulness in taking a passenger w/breathing problems to her stop first. This afternoon when I thought I had missed my p/up from Wal-Mart Airway heights the STA van pulled up w/

Sheri driving. She had no problem taking me up on the ? (can’t think what it is called lol) then she safely secured my walker with all the grocery bags hanging from it. Both were safe drivers & showed

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so much intelligence. Thank you STA for your wisdom when hiring good people such as Pete & Sheri.

JEERS HOW RUDE! It makes me absolutely sick, seeing the way people treat employees in fast food or anywhere now a days!

Seriously what’s the hurry you have to be so rude????? Like I work in fast food for example in Mead. And we try our hardest to make every order as best as we can and you rude people think you have the right to treat us like were nothing?

News flash! We make mistakes just like you! And we working young folks would really appreciate some respect! We don’t spend 5-8 hrs a day just going to work to dred it ! Its ridiculous the things people complain about and then some customers go over the top to make us feel bad . Like the other day a customer rudely came up to the counter and slammed a cup down and said “This isn’t coffee! This is battery acid!” while his wife just laughed. You people make me sick!

You’re rude! We’re not starbucks! And they’re plenty of coffee shops around!

But seriously people you need to respect the people who serve you! — Sincerely a citizen like YOU! PIPE DOWN MR. PREZ It’s past time for Trump to quit runnin’ his mouth and start runnin’ the country!

ANSWERS Jeers to Inlander! I enjoy

RE: LOCAL GROCERY STORE You are upset you were asked to leave the store.

Were you the one playing for money 5 feet from the no loitering sign? The one that pretended to not know what loitering was? The one who walked off the property with your guitar, left it in the grass and then went and got in your car?

So that the people you were trying to hustle for money wouldn’t see that you had a car? Good riddance.

MENTAL ILLNESS STIGMA People, you have no right to call a person who is suffering from mental illness: psycho, insane, crazy, stupid, retarded, dumb, nuts etc. These are curses and lies and they hurt. They make the problem of mental illness worse. Just because you do not understand the behavior of someone with a mental disorder does not mean you need to judge and condemn them or even be afraid of them.

Statistically people with mental illness are more likely to be victims of crime than to commit any violent crime. You judge what you do not understand, and what you do not understand you are afraid of. A person who guns down 58 people and a person who suffers from schizophrenia are not to be labeled in the same category as “psycho.” Your words bring death. Speak life instead. Shalom.

HEY, SPOKANE CITY COUNCIL... You asked for citizen input for the 2018 budget. How about completely defunding the Traffic Engineering Department so they won’t be able to implement their

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stantly tied up in traffic behind buses, etc. should help make your decision.

RESPECT THE STREET PERFORMER A huge jeers to the A-holes who have some crazy notion in their empty heads that it’s somehow OK to assault, berate, steal from, and spit at street musicians or street performers, etc... or any human being for that matter. Most of us simply are trying to spread a little joy and laughter to the world on a sidewalk that is NOT private property. I liken it to everyone re-learning what we learned in Kindergarten. 1) Keep your hands to yourself 2) Respect your neighbor 3) Get a nappy time 4) Say something nice to random people and foremost 5) STAY COOL!! You would be amazed what you can learn by chattin’ with these creative street artists. It takes guts to put yourself out there. So I end this rant and welcome anyone who has ever wanted to play your song to jump right in and get out there and give it a go. n

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GOIN’ FOR THE GOLD, SETTLIN’ FOR THE SILVER Nov. 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 at 7pm Nov. 5, 12, 20 at 2pm

plan to convert all arterial streets in Spokane to single lane traffic. The certainty of half mile long traffic jams, fatal delays of emergency vehicles, and rash of people being fired for being con-

Your hard work and loving care for those roses brings joy to our city.

SOUND OFF 1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3.

Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

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doing the crosswords, and when I get stuck go to the answers for a nudge. In the October 19 issue, the answers key on the I Saw You page is TOTALLY BLANK. How dare you?

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BENEFIT

COEUR D’OWEEN BASH Join CdA Summer Theatre and the CdA Sunrise Rotary Club for a costume gala with live/silent auctions, music, raffles, dinner, drinks and more. Oct. 28, 5:30 pm. $75. Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway. cdasummertheatre.com EWU LIBRARIES OKTOBERFEST Enjoy a themed, buffet-style meal, tastings from regional brewers and vintners, and live/silent auctions. All proceeds are directed into the EWU Libraries’ Collection Endowment Fund. Oct. 28, 5-10:30 pm. $40/adult; $15/student; tables available. sites.ewu.edu/oktoberfest (359-2264) GHOST BALL: A HALLOWEEN CHARITY EVENT The 6th annual costume party benefits Elevations Children Therapy and includes music and dancing, live/silent auctions, heavy appetizers, photography, and a full cash bar. Ages 21+. Oct. 28, 7 pm-midnight. $50-$60.

Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside Ave. ghostball.org (385-2116) GLOBAL-GOAT PINT NIGHT Iron Goat is donating $1 to Global for every pint sold. Also includes music by Justin Landis & Friends. Oct. 28, 5-11 pm. Free.

Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. global-neighborhood.org/events IMPACT NWC An inspirational dessert banquet with a guest speaker; proceeds support Northwest Christian School’s mission to provide a Gospelcentered education. Oct. 28, 7-9 pm.

Free. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. nwcs.org/impact (509-238-4005) IGNITE! FALL FUNDRAISER The 6th annual event benefits programs and services of the nonprofit Generation Alive, which exists to encourage young people to better their communities.

Nov. 2, 6-8:30 pm. $75. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. generationalive.org MGFSC FALL BANQUET An annual fundraiser to benefit Spokane’s Master Gardener Program, featuring keynote speaker Rich Hatfield, a conservation biologist and expert on bees and other pollinators. Nov. 2, 6-9 pm. $40. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. mgfsc.org

COMEDY

ANTHONY JESELNIK The stand-up comedian starred in and created “The Jeselnik Offensive;” he’s also written for and appeared on several roasts for Comedy Central, including of Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen. Oct. 26 at 8 pm, Oct. 27-28 at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. $30-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com DUOS BDT players are paired up and given free rein for 15 minutes to do whatever style of improv they want.

Last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com NO CLUE Join the BDT Players as they put a comedic spin on everyone’s favorite macabre guessing game. Fridays at 8 pm, through Nov. 3. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com THE DOPE SHOW Presented by Tyler Smith, featuring nationally touring comedians with various tolerances to marijuana. Oct. 29 at 8 pm. $10-$16.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague.

spokanecomedyclub.com GREG FITZSIMMONS A regular guest on The Howard Stern Show, Chelsea Lately, The Adam Carolla Show, and The Joe Rogan Experience. Nov. 2-4 at 8 pm, Nov. 4 at 10:30 pm. $14-$27.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

COLVILLE CORN MAZE Come explore the 12-acre corn maze and a 3-acre pumpkin patch. Open Mon-Fri from 3-7 pm, Sat-Sun from 11 am-7 pm, through Oct. 31. $5-$7. Colville Corn Maze, 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE The fall book sale offers all items priced at $1 or less; proceeds benefit the Spokane Public Library. Oct. 26-27 from 10 am-5 pm and Oct. 28 from 10 amnoon. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org SCARYWOOD The theme park’s annual haunted house attraction. Through Oct. 28, Thu from 7-11 pm, Fri-Sat from 7 pm-midnight. $26-$45. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 US 95, Athol. scarywoodhaunt.com TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit features more than 120 real artifacts all recovered from the ocean floor. These objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Through May 20, 2018; open Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 8 pm). $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/ages 6-17, $13/college students w/ID. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org SPOOKWALK Meet the ghosts of Browne’s Addition on a walking tour of the neighborhood. Proceeds benefit the Friends of Coeur d’Alene Park. Oct. 27-28 and 31 at 7 pm. $20. Browne’s Tavern, 1924 W. Pacific. (850-0056) BOO @ THE ZOO Halloween events at the zoo include pumpkin carving (Sat) for the cats, and watching them destroy them (Sun) as they eat their dinner.

Kids under 12 enter free both days; includes a costume contest and scavenger hunt. Oct. 28 and 29 from 10 am-4 pm. Cat Tales Zoological Park, 17020 N. Newport Hwy. bit.ly/2xmfSCj BOO BASH COSTUME BALL Includes a cha-cha lesson from 7-8 pm, followed by general dancing until 10 pm, with refreshments, drawings and more. Oct. 28, 7-10 pm. $6-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. usadancesandpoint.org (208-263-3317) FALL COMPOST FAIR & LEAF FESTIVAL Enjoy the fall leaves and learn about home composting. Residents who live in a participating jurisdiction of the Spokane County Regional Solid Waste System and complete all composting activities may take home a free compost bin. Oct. 28, 11 am-2 pm. Free.

Finch Arboretum, 3404 W. Woodlawn Blvd. bit.ly/2zzSG4u GREAT PUMPKIN RACE Enjoy the Cannon Hill neighborhood in full fall colors as Madison St. is transformed into a side-by-side pumpkin race, benefiting Meals on Wheels Spokane. Corner of Madison and 18th Ave. Oct. 28, 11 am-1 pm. $5/pumpkin. mowspokane.org HANGMAN CREEK OPEN HOUSE Plans for a potential nature path and planting project from the mouth of the Hang-

man Creek to Hatch Road and Hwy. 195 will be available for public comment. Oct. 28, 1-3 pm. Free. St. John’s Lutheran Church, 5810 S. Meadowland Rd. sjlspokane.org (443-1319) LIGHT UP THE PARK A celebration of light, music, arts and community with live entertainment, pumpkin carving and the line-up of 100s of carved, lighted pumpkins. In Chewelah City Park.

Oct. 28, 3-8 pm. Free. facebook.com/ lightuptheparkchewelah (675-5212) SPOKANE’S ANNUAL WITCHES BALL Wear a costume that would fit in with the beings of the afterlife. Icludes dancing, dance lesson, costume contest, prizes, games, and food. Ages 17+. Oct. 28, 6-10 pm. $25-$40. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. spokanewitchesball.weebly.com RIVERFRONT PARK ANNOUNCEMENT EVENT Be the first to hear when the new ice ribbon opens during a special announcement event. Oct. 30, 11:30 am. Free and open to the public. River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave. bit. ly/2z47DPQ (509-624-3945) A CAMPBELL HOUSE HALLOWEEN A unique opportunity to visit the historic house after the sun goes down, with a family-friendly scavenger hunt, crafts, and candy. Oct. 31, 4-8 pm. $5. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) KSPS + EWU FORUM: THE LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR To complement the new documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, KSPS and EWU host a series of forums. This talk features keynote speaker and author Christian Appy, Ph.D. Nov. 2, 2:30 pm.

Free and open to the public. EWU Cheney campus, Showalter Hall Rm. 109. ksps.org/vietnam

FILM

UNITED BY WATER The Upper Columbia United Tribes hosts a premier of the film showing the first tribal canoe journey and gathering at Kettle Falls since the Ceremony of Tears in 1943. Oct. 26, 6:45-9 pm. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. facebook.com/uppercolumbiaunitedtribes (838-1057) WALKING OUT Attend a Q&A with executive producer Katherine Ann McGregor following the showing of the acclaimed independent film based on the American short story by David Quammen. Oct. 27, 7-9 pm. $8-$11. Village Center Cinemas, 12622 N Division St. (232-7727) ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW A screening of the cult classic with prop bags, shadow casts and more. Oct. 2728. $7. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com WARREN MILLER’S LINE OF DESCENT This year’s installment of the winter adventure film features skiing icons who’ve made the mountains their home. Oct. 28, shows at 6 and 9 pm. $16-$20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) STUDIO GHIBLI FEST: SPIRITED AWAY Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, 10-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a spirit world where she is put to work. Oct. 29 (dubbed) at 12:55 pm and Oct. 30 (subtitles) at 7 pm. At Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone (CdA). $13. fathomevents.com

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I used to suffer from severe migraines that were triggered by aerosol. I realized that, weirdly, every time I would smoke weed, when I would normally get a migraine when someone would use aerosol, I wouldn’t get one. As I started getting more into it, I realized, “Oh, this is great for many medical uses.” Glaucoma, cancer, chemo, losing your appetite. Working here has allowed me to dive in deep on the medical side of it.

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CONNER: Since [Mary Jane’s] opened. [Owner Tom Lloyd ]brought me on as one of the first hires since we opened in December.

Have you always had a passion for cannabis?

Oh, yeah. I’ve always understood the appeal of the recreational side of it, but I’ve always been more passionate about the medical side. I use it more medically than recreationally.

How has your knowledge of cannabis changed or expanded since being a budtender?

Learning the difference between THC, CBD, CBN, CBG. I was so frustrated when I was living in Seattle, I would frequent rec shops over there, and I asked one of the budtenders, “What’s up with all of this THCA stuff?”

And he goes, “Oh, that’s the THC active, that’s the one you want to look at.” And I believed that, and I told everybody. And when I found out how wrong that was, I was furious. As a budtender, I’m honest to a fault. I’ll tell people the whole truth, so they know what to expect when they get home.

What is the biggest misnomer customers usually have when they come in?

The THCA potency, really. Different strains will have different burn-off rates. The people looking for the highest numbers are interested in those higher THCA numbers, but I’ve personally been mostly disappointed with those high-THCA strains.

What are your favorite type of customers who come in?

The inexperienced, saying, “This is what I’m hoping to get out of it. What do you think?” So I can show them different choices. I love it when they work with me, and give me something to bounce off of.

What is something that intermediate or beginner cannabis consumers should consider?

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Advice Goddess WIPE THAT GREEN OFF YOUR FACE

I’m a very envious person, though I don’t act on it (meaning I don’t try to mess things up for people who are doing well). Where does envy stem from? How can I get rid of it? —Begrudging Woman You see a friend achieving some success and you say, “So happy for you. Well-deserved!” — which is a more polite way of saying, “I hope you are stricken with a rare AMY ALKON deadly form of full-body adult acne.”

We think of envy as an ugly, counterproductive emotion, but it’s really just a tool, like a jackhammer or a blender. To understand this, it helps to understand that even emotions that make us feel crappy have a job to do — motivating us to act in ways that will help us survive and make a bunch of little buggers who’ll totter off through the generations, passing on our genes.

In other words, envy is adaptive. Envy is a form of social comparison that probably evolved to help us keep tabs on how well we’re doing relative to our rivals. As evolutionary social psychologist Abraham (“Bram”) Buunk and his colleagues explain, envy pushes us to dial up our game so we can “narrow the gap” between ourselves and “the superior other” (aka that annoying co-worker who likes to start sentences with “Well, when I was at Harvard…”). So envy is basically a social alarm clock: “Yoohoo…get cracking, girl! That witch is about to get that promotion, and you’ll be lucky to end up executive vice-scullery maid.”

Buunk and his team explain that there are actually two kinds of envy, malicious envy and benign envy. Each kind motivates people to try to shrink that “status gap” between themselves and others. The difference is in how. Benign envy pushes people to work harder in hopes of matching or beating the competition. Malicious envy is the nasty kind -- the kind that motivates a person to loosen the ladder rungs, hoping to cause their golden-girl co-worker to topple to her (professional) death.

The upshot? Envy isn’t something to be ashamed of. You should just see that you use it in a positive way — as a tool for self-motivation instead of co-worker sabotage.

However, getting ahead isn’t just a solo act; it’s often a cooperative endeavor. To decide when to cooperate and when to compete, consider the level of “scarcity.”

When resources are scarce — like when there’s just one job available — go after it with everything you’ve got (within ethical boundaries, of course). But when the rewards aren’t limited, it’s good to be the sort of person who brings along other people. This tends to make others more likely to do nice things for you in return -- even helping you get ahead…and without your hiring a hacker to reprogram Miss Fabulous’ computer so her screen saver is a pic of the boss with a Hitler mustache.

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My girlfriend’s wonderful. Unfortunately, whenever we have a disagreement, she shares it on social media. She feels she has a right to do that because it’s part of her life. Am I not entitled to a private life while I’m with her? —News Object Some favor the social media approach to the “examined life,” Instagramming their medical records and crowdsourcing their flatulence problem. Others take a more guarded tack — encrypting everything…including their cat videos.

The longing for privacy — keeping certain info about yourself from public consumption — is a very human thing, a desire that probably evolved out of our need to protect our reputation. In ancestral times, having a bad reputation could lead to a person being booted from their band and made to go it alone — back when “fast food” would’ve been all the zippy small animals they couldn’t catch while they were starving to death.

Contrary to your girlfriend’s notion that “relationship” is just another way of saying “two-person surveillance state,” you have a right to privacy. This is a fundamental human right, explained Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, and it comes out of our right to be left alone. So, yes, you are entitled to pick the “privacy settings” on your own life, because the information about your thoughts, emotions, and romantic interactions belongs to you. Nobody gets to dispense that info publicly without your permission — even if this means they have to keep part of their life (the part with you) under wraps.

To stop your girlfriend from turning your relationship into a giant data breach, trigger her sympathy — explaining how awful it feels to become infotainment for a bunch of strangers (and, worse, people you know). Better yet, help her feel it: “Honey…just imagine going on Twitter and finding your therapist’s new account: ‘Heard In Session.’” n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR MONDAY NIGHT MOVIES: WAITING ROOM A human story of a day in the life in an inner-city hospital. Screening held as part of a new series, featuring 8 award-winning films, hosted by the Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, the Black Lens and the Lantern. Oct. 30, 7 pm. $8. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. magiclanternonmain.com

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SPOKANE OKTOBERFEST A community celebration of all things Bavarian, with food, entertainment, beer and more. Oct. 27-29. $10-$15/adults; kidsunder 12 free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. spokaneoktoberfest.com WINE & DINE: HOLIDAY EDITION Join Chef Brian Hutchins and Wine Steward Drew Smith for a six-course dinner paired with holiday libations. Oct. 27, 6-8 pm. $50. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com HEALTHY COOKING ON A BUDGET Learn how to get the most bang for your buck when buying and cooking with produce. Oct. 28, 4-5 pm. $3-$5.

Latah County Fairgrounds, 1021 Harold St., Moscow. latah.id.us/fair SCOTTISH WAKE FOR PAUL EDMINSTER Gather with his friends and family to raise a pint together. All who knew and loved Paul are welcome. Oct. 29, 5 pm. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. bit.ly/2yHe8rw TANTALIZING TERROIR Chef Klink prepares a multi-course menu highlighting local harvests from late summer and early fall. Oct. 29, 4:307:30 pm. $55/adults; $25/children.

Mont Lamm Events, 7501 Enoch Rd. montlammfarmtotable.com PUMPKIN CULINARY CLASS Learn how to make pumpkin purée, curried pumpkin bisque, pumpkin vinaigrette and more. Oct. 30, 5:30-7:15 pm. $39.

Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com (328-3335)

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WATOTO CHILDREN’S CHOIR The Choirs tour the world to support a program that provides shelter, medical care and education to vulnerable women and children in Uganda. Oct. 27, 7 pm. Donations accepted. Prince of Peace, 8441 N. Indian Trail. (465-0779) HALLOWEEN AT HOGWARTS Harry Potter’s iconic wizarding school comes to the Fox with two concerts and preshow activities. Oct. 28 at 2 and 8 pm.

[SOLD OUT] Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org UNSTRUNG: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION Cellist Karen Hawkins and violinist Lori DeGuire play a variety of songs from pop orchestra to classics and show tunes. Oct. 28, 4 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne. scld.org WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY The second concert of the season includes works by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, featuring Ferenc Cseszko on violin. Oct. 28, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. WSU, 2000 NE Stadium Way, Pullman. (509-335-3564) IVANA COJBASIC IN CONCERT The pianist performs works of Bach, Busoni, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin. Oct. 29, 3-4:30 pm. Donations welcome.

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Blvd. (747-5790) SPOKANE STRING QUARTET Featuring guest pianist Martin Labazevitch for an afternoon of Polish music. Oct. 29, 3 pm. $12-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanestringquartet.org LAS MIGAS The musical group blends flamenco and Mediterranean styles.

Nov. 1, 7:30-9:30 pm. $9-$18. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu (335-8522)

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DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID The Saint George’s School drama department presents a musical performance of Disney’s animated film. Oct. 26 and 28 at 7 pm $7/adults, $4/students, seniors. Saint George’s School, 2929 W. Waikiki Rd. sgs.org (466-1636) FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS Five reluctant bridesmaids hide out in a bedroom and discover what bonds them together. Through Oct. 28, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden.

(208-769-3220) PSYCHO BEACH PARTY An fun romp on Malibu Beach in 1962. Through Nov. 5, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com WAR OF THE WORLDS RADIO STAGE PLAY The Panida Playhouse Players take audiences back in time to a place where Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater broadcast the first true on-air thriller. Oct. 26-28 at 7:30 pm. $9-$11.

Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN A show adapted from Mel Brooks’ legendary comedy. Oct. 25-28 at 7:30 pm, Oct. 28 at 2 pm. $13-$17. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. aspirecda.com BACK OF THE THROAT A young ArabAmerican is confined to his home by two government agents. Questioning of him intensifies as the play progresses, with seemingly every item in his apartment a potential source of suspicion.

Through Nov. 5, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm. $20.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) BALLET IDAHO A performance showcasing classical pieces and three contemporary ballets. Oct. 27, 7:30 pm. $17-$25. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. balletidaho.org THE BAT A suspenseful mystery about a spinster who rents a summer cottage surrounded by mystery. Oct. 27-29, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Ignite!

Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY A reader’s theatre presentation of Celeste Raspanti’s one act play, to benefit the Civic. Oct. 27, 7:30 pm. $15. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series comes to life on stage. Through Oct. 29; Fri at 7 pm, SatSun at 2 pm. $10-$14. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org (328-4886) WAIT UNTIL DARK A staged performance of the drug heist thriller by Frederick Knott. Oct. 27-Nov. 12, ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$25.

Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook.com/lakecityplayhouse/ MURDER MYSTERY DINNER A dinner theater performance tasking the audience to also help figure out “who dun it.” Oct. 28, 6-8 pm. $35. Bank Left Gallery, 100 S. Bridge St., Palouse. bankleftgallery.com (509-878-8425)

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DAY OF THE DEAD FIESTA Emerge’s third annual benefit event celebrating ancestry and artistry. Includes a chef cook-off of traditional Southwestern and Latin food, live performances and auctions. Nov. 2, 6-10 pm. $55/person.

Human Rights Institute, 414 1/2 Mullan Ave. emergecda.com (208-818-3342) TRIBUTE TO CHRIS SUBLETT A showcase of work by the longtime art professor at EWU, who passed away on April 3. The exhibition feature works in sculpture, photography and mixed media from his art career spanning more than 50 years. Oct. 26-Nov. 30; gallery open Mon-Fri from 8:30 am-3:30 pm.

Free. SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3710) LEO E. AMES: A RETROSPECTIVE A retrospective of plein air paintings by the former U of I Creative Services Director, presented alongside the College of Art and Architecture’s (CAA) annual faculty exhibit.Oct. 27-Dec. 23; Tue-Sat 10 am-8 pm and Sun 10 am-6 pm. Free admission. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. prichardart.org ART A LA CARTE An open-house event offering art mediums for the public to create a little art of their own. Oct. 28, 11 am-3 pm. Free, donations welcome.

Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org HALLOWEEN ART PARTY ON PERRY The new gallery in South Perry opens its doors for the first time and hosts a celebration of the fall season. Oct. 28, 11 am-4:30 pm. Tsuga Arts Northwest, 1114 S. Perry. bit.ly/2ypft6c (768-1268)

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PIE & WHISKEY BOOK RELEASE PARTY A celebration of and reading from the new anthology “Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze,” which features essays by local writers based on the writing prompt of pie and whiskey. Oct. 26, 8 pm. Free admission. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific. pieandwhiskey.com/the-book/ BEDTIME STORIES SPOKANE The 6th annual event supports programs of Humanities Washington, and features debut readings based on the theme, “Beacon in the Night.” Also includes a presentation of the Humanities Washington Award to Spokane author Jess Walter. Oct. 27, 5:30 pm. Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside Ave. humanities.org EWU VISITING WRITERS SERIES: JUDY BLUNT The author’s best-selling memoir, “Breaking Clean,” was published in 2002 to critical acclaim. Oct. 27, 7:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. getlitfestival. org/judy-blunt/ (828-1498) READING: KAY DIXON + CINDY HVAL Kay Dixon reads from her second book “Tales of Family Travel.” Local author Cindy Hval also gives a sneak peak of her forthcoming book “Tiaras & Testosterone.” Oct. 27, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com n

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Arachni-Dermic Arts Spokane artist CarLy Haney creates gothic-inspired centerpieces from one of nature’s most misunderstood creatures

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alfway up CarLy Haney’s cozy living room wall, “Nikkoli” perches in a frozen pose. Stretching out from a 2-inch-long abdomen, his spindly legs delicately rest atop an eggshell-white crocheted doily inside a deep mahogany frame.

The large Nephila spider has been dead for who knows how long, but now it rests in peace as a prized specimen, joined in a display here by two of its macabre brethren, a pair of equally massive and magnificent haircovered tarantulae.

While certainly not everyone’s first choice of home décor, the statement-making specimens are not without a niche following, from both faraway and local collectors. Haney estimates she’s made and sold nearly 60 of the taxidermied mounts since she began back in 2014.

Even modest arachnophobes, who may shudder as they compliment Haney on her lack of fear and eye for detail, often appreciate seeing these natural wonders of the animal kingdom up close.

“Part of the reason I do this is to meet like-minded people,” Haney reflects. “You grow up thinking you’re really weird, and then you have a booth at Bazaar [an annual Spokane arts fair] and all these people are like, ‘I love this,’ and you make new friends immediately. It’s fun to hear people who don’t like it as much say, ‘You know, I hate spiders, but this is really beautiful.’ I want to take something you wouldn’t necessarily think that about and put them in that light.”

Still, a fair number of people who encounter her art,

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which has been displayed at various bars, retailers and arts events locally over the years, can’t force themselves to look.

“I don’t think there is really any other art that has that kind of impact on people,” Haney notes. “It’s very in-your-face with what it’s about. I like it.”

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he 26-year-old artist firmly believes that the giant spiders of the world she works with, mostly native to warmer climates in Asia and South America, and which are nearly harmless to humankind, are widely misunderstood.

“When I think of spiders, I think of them crawling around and being scary. But seeing them in a frame and getting up close — and not putting them behind glass like scary prisoners — you can touch them, and they’re tiny animals,” she says. “I don’t really do this for a statement, but if I had a statement, it would be that; for people to try to see something normally perceived as ugly, [as] regal and pretty.”

Despite this sincere admiration of her art’s subjects, Haney admits she’s not a fan of the Inland Northwest’s comparably small arachnids that often creep indoors, hiding in piles of laundry or scuttling up the wall.

“There’s a tiny one living in my bathroom that doesn’t scare me, but if I see them outside, I don’t touch them,” she confesses. “I am afraid of spiders still. They scare me, and I think that’s part of why I do this.”

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sourced from online distributors who ship the specimens nearly ready to mount, meaning they’ve been gutted and stuffed with cotton. The spiders’ hard exoskeletons make taxidermy fairly easy; after Haney receives a specimen in the mail, she has to gradually rehydrate the corpse by wrapping it in a damp paper towel before she can re-pose the legs into a natural-looking state. Most of the spiders she works with are species of Nephila (her favorite), a giant orb-weaving genus, much like a common garden spider, or hair-covered tarantula.

Once a specimen has been ever-so-carefully posed and pinned onto a bed of Styrofoam, Haney selects a frame that complements the creature’s shape, size and coloring. The artist constantly collects frames, vintage doilies and craft paper to use in the assemblages, which all tend to evoke a gothic Victorian or elegant baroque theme.

One feature that perhaps sets them most apart from other small-animal taxidermy displays is that Haney’s spiders are exposed to the air, not set behind glass or in shadow boxes. This makes the pieces incredibly delicate (she always brings a glue gun to events), and also allows the viewer to see the spiders at all angles. For this reason, Haney won’t ship most of her spider pieces; the chances of them arriving smashed in pieces are too high.

Interested local buyers can find her latest named specimens, including Nikkoli, for sale online in her Etsy shop, and occasionally at venues around town. (Currently, she has some hanging downtown at Boo Radley’s and Giant Nerd Books, and the new Sticks and Dreams: Gallery & Emporium on Garland.) Haney frequently posts photos of her new creations on social media using the hashtag #carlysspiders. Most of the ready-made mounts are priced between $60 and $100.

“I’ve always been unique and into weird things, and I have taken art since as long as I can remember,” the artist says. “Nothing really jumped out to me quite like this does.” n Find CarLy Haney’s taxidermied spiders on Etsy and Facebook under the shop/page name ArachnidsByCarLy

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