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to dress up in the Pocahottie costume she purchased on Amazon. “Dressing up and playing Indian is not a harmless activity,” I said, reminding her and the other students what we had discussed after reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich. I recited again the statistics of sexual assault on Native women, one in three, and reminded the class that they are more than twice the national average. “A costume based on race or ethnicity extracts the human.” “And if those aren’t enough reasons,” I
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continued, “how about because it is unkind?” “Unkind to who? All those Indians are dead.” “Mama,” I say. I am six, we are at Kmart. The costumes in 1978 came in boxes with windows that looked in on a plastic mask to cover the face which lay upon a neatly folded polyester garment to cover the body. “I want to be Tinker Bell.” “But you didn’t even like Peter Pan,” my mom replied, her hand holding mine, pulling me toward a dog costume, my passion second only to unicorns. I pulled back. “Please?” I imagined showing up to class wearing the fair skin, the yellow hair. My mom could tie my dark braids behind my head, and I would wear a white turtleneck beneath the yellow and green dress. Then, when Mrs. Sena led our kindergarten class around the lunchroom for our annual Halloween Parade, I would be indiscernible from the other kids. For a day, none of my classmates would call me Cindian. “Cindyjawea.” My brother and his partner laugh and shake their heads. I have just told them the name I was given on a five-night canoe trip down the Smith River in Montana. We are having dinner at their apartment in D.C. where I have traveled to attend an Indian Education training. We are talking about Halloween, pejoratives, and an encounter I’d had months earlier with a local sheriff who insisted he knew every Indian that’s in Idaho County. “But you don’t look like an Indian.” The three of us turn our attention to the man seated across the table from me. “What does an Indian look like,” I ask. “You know,” he said. And begins to describe an outfit, a darkness of skin, two braids. “You know how I know you’re Indian?” I am seated across from a Picuris elder named Kelly. It is festival time in Nambe Pueblo. We are dipping fry bread in green chili. “It’s not your long braids,” he continues, and I smile. “It’s not your skin or some turquoise or beads you might wear.” I shift my weight on the bench sensing the gravity of what he is about to say. “I know you’re Indian because you fight for Indians.” “Snow White” I say when my co-worker asks, “Well, who will you dress up as?” “Snow White?” She repeats and looks at me, brows furrowed, as if trying to see the costume already on my body, “But you aren’t…” n CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals as well as several anthologies. She resides in the mountains of west-central Idaho.
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Vote No on I-976 Something this Democrat and Republican can agree on BY SENATOR ANDY BILLIG AND COMMISSIONER AL FRENCH
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s a Republican and a Democrat, we don’t always agree, but we are united on this: I-976 is a serious threat to the Spokane regional transportation system. Spokane needs a transportation system with improved mobility, safety and efficiency to move our community forward. Initiative 976 will be a huge step backward, undermining just about every aspect of transportation in our city, county and state. I-976 is a misleading initiative on this November’s ballot. It sounds good, but like all offers of a free lunch, it’s not free: It de-funds state and local transportation budgets so that Andy Billig our most needed projects and programs become at-risk for delay or cancellation. This includes Spokane’s North-South Corridor, the Barker Road project, road maintenance and pothole repair as well as numerous transit projects. That’s not in the ballot language, and it’s not overstating the case. Many have been confused by thinking that the North Spokane Al French Corridor and other projects are “fully funded.” But that “full funding” is based on a revenue projection that will be cut by $4 billion if I-976 passes. So, everything considered “funded” will have to pause as the state’s transportation budget is re-written. And the re-written budget will look significantly different after that $4 billion is cut. Some projects will be cut entirely while others are reduced or delayed.
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The North-South Corridor could be in jeopardy if voters approve I-976, the authors argue. As a region we have worked hard to ensure that Spokane’s roads and transit system gets as much support as projects on the west side of the Cascades. Following the 2015 bipartisan Connecting Washington transportation funding plan, Spokane is finally getting its fair share of state transportation dollars. If I-976 passes, all of those funding wins for Spokane will be in jeopardy. That’s reason enough to vote against I-976, but there is actually more. The initiative also eliminates the ability of Transportation Benefit Districts (TBD) to collect car tab funds. TBDs are typically employed by cities who use those local dollars to solve local problems. If passed, I-976 would take $2.5 million away from Spokane’s TBD — most of which is used to repair residential streets. It would reduce the street maintenance budget by almost 60 percent and also hurt our ability to provide pedestrian improvements such as ADA ramps and sidewalk repairs. Cities, faced with big cuts to local road repair budgets, would be forced to either neglect the work, thereby letting the streets to get worse, cut services in some other areas, or raise other revenue. None of these are good options. I-976 also forces cuts to our transit systems, which
are essential for reducing congestion and increasing mobility. State mobility grants, which would be undercut significantly by I-976, support regional bus service and transit for people with disabilities, veterans, youth, senior citizens and low-income riders. An effective transportation system not only improves the quality of our lives, but it is also the foundation upon which we build a thriving economy and grow or bring new jobs to the area. Whether it is building new capacity to support job growth or building bridges to improve safety and mobility, adequate transportation funding is critical to a healthy and thriving community. That’s exactly why now would be a terrible time to see cuts and lose ground on our transportation system. For these reasons and more, community leaders, business leaders, labor and environmental leaders from across our region and our state have all come together to oppose I-976. It threatens our quality of life, our economy and our environment. It’s just too big a risk. Vote no on I-976. n Andy Billig, D-Spokane, is a state senator representing District 3. Al French, a Republican, is a Spokane County commissioner.
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ALEX SHAFFER: Wasn’t that long ago that Trump supporters were so concerned with impoverished immigrants breaking the law, but not that a rich Republican president and his party are breaking the rule of law over and over.
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JESSE HYDE: Yeah, they blocked members of the committees holding these proceedings. Can’t do that plain and simple. Oh and impeachment won’t work because guess who votes on the impeachment recommendations? The Senate does and the Senate is Republican controlled. If you wanted to piss people off and unify the Republican Party, you got it. GAIL CORY-BETZ: They broke the law and should be arrested. DOLLY EPPERSON: Oh OK, that’s what I will do if I ever get jury duty or subpoenaed by the law! Lol, I’ll just protest and make it go away! SHERI CHIN: Yes, and 45 was party to the conspiracy to do so, according to reporting on Bloomberg. Not only did they disrupt the deposition in the Intelligence Committee, but they compromised national security in a secured room with cell phones which is against security protocols. CHRIS MARK: Ironic, coming from those “law and order” folks. CATHY MATRESSE: Without consequences, this behavior will be repeated. Ask the parent of any 2-year-old. LORNA HARTMAN: Couldn’t be a plainer statement of desperation to stop the proceedings than being willing to break the law en masse to bring the inquiry to a halt. MELISSA OWENS: If any other civilian had tried to rush a secure room, they would have been tackled to the ground and hauled off to jail. Why are lawmakers governed by a different set of rules than the rest of us? No more lifetime politicians. Public service is just that, not a free pass. n
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Benjamin, 35, has called this room at Sacred Heart Medical Center his home for over seven months.
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he dice rattle on the table again, and Benjamin remains stuck. He needs to roll a five in order to exit the starting point of his favorite board game, Parcheesi, but it’s been about 10 minutes and his game piece hasn’t budged. He shakes his head in disbelief. “You want to change dice?” laughs his father, John. “Maybe it’s bad dice.” Each roll breaks the muffled silence in the hospital cafeteria. A nurse on break glances over from a few tables away. Benjamin’s parents, John and Sherry, eat dinner from Tupperware containers — something they’ve gotten used to recently. Since Benjamin was hospitalized with self-sustained cuts to his abdomen in February, they’ve come from their home in northwest Spokane to see him every night. They celebrated Easter at a big table in the corner of the cafeteria. They brought in a cake for his birthday. They’ll bring in a turkey for Thanksgiving, if they must. “We kind of consider this our living room,” John
says. “We’re here every day.” Benjamin has been effectively trapped in Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane for nearly eight months. He’s a 35-year-old who battles severe depression and anxiety due to a missing chromosome, and while his medical problems were solved within days at the hospital, his former supported-living provider was unable to take him back. John and Sherry, who asked to be identified only by first names to protect their son’s privacy, aren’t able to care for him alone, and with the area losing services, there are no other supported-living programs in the area for Benjamin to go to. So he languishes in a hospital bed watching TV, unable to leave hospital grounds and waiting for his parents to show up with dinner and a board game. “I really want to find a new place,” Benjamin says. Benjamin’s situation isn’t unique. Hospital systems in the Inland Northwest report that hundreds of patients are lingering in hospital beds, sometimes for months or years, despite having no medical need to be there.
With a lack of services for people with disabilities, behavioral health issues and the elderly, many patients cannot be safely discharged from the hospital. Not only can it be traumatic for patients like Benjamin, but it means sometimes hospitals turn away those who need immediate care. “There are times when we don’t have a bed to admit an acute medical patient due to the occupancy of nonmedical patients who continue here,” says Peg Currie, chief operating officer for Providence. Currie says that on any given day around 100 of the 700 patients between Sacred Heart and Holy Family hospitals in Spokane are simply waiting for a long-term placement. It’s an issue that she says has been “accelerating upwards” in recent years with more behavioral health diagnoses and lacking resources. And patients with developmental disabilities, in particular, have lost options for placements outside of the hospital, spurring a lawsuit against the state. ...continued on next page
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Kootenai Health says it’s experiencing the same problems with patients being stuck there for long periods of time.
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“STRANDED,” CONTINUED... “This is definitely a community, statewide and even national issue before us,” Currie says.
STATE RESPONSIBILITY
Benjamin’s hospital room is dark when his parents arrive for their daily visit on a recent Monday evening. It has a TV, its own bathroom and a view of a parking garage. The nurses outside playfully tease him about him always winning at Parcheesi. Still, he’s unable to do the things he wants to do, like play basketball and soccer and the Special Olympics. His mom notes that he needs a haircut and his teeth cleaned. Being stranded here makes his anxiety and depression worse. Most of the other patients on his floor are in a similar situation, the family says, waiting for a place to go outside of the hospital. In the last year, there have been dozens of other clients of the state’s Developmental Disabilities Administration who have been stranded in hospitals. Betty Schwieterman, the Office of Developmental Disabilities Ombuds, says the responsibility falls on DDA to provide the services that these patients are missing. “I think they have the responsibility,” Schwieterman says. “I mean, the Developmental Disabilities Administration exists to provide these services.” To meet that responsibility, the state has its own program for more intensive needs, but many of DDA’s clients receive services from private companies that contract with the state. And it’s those providers that are in high demand. Without enough of them, people with disabilities are forced to stay hospitalized. In December, the state’s Office of Developmental Disabilities Ombuds released a report called “Stuck in the Hospital” that said the office started getting complaints in spring of 2018. Some of the people had been receiving residential services, went to the hospital but had their residential provider drop them from their care while they were there. In other cases, the providers simply dropped off a person with a disability at the hospital. Schwieterman says the problem hasn’t gotten any better since that report was released. At any given time, her office is working with 10-20 people unable to be discharged from the hospital, many of whom have been there for months. And those long hospital stays have
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contributed to declining mental health of DDA clients, she says. “We still receive referrals from people stuck in the hospital every week,” she says. “It’s not a problem that has improved, that we can see.” That’s despite a lawsuit filed this year against the state Department of Social and Health Services and the Health Care Authority aimed at reducing long hospital stays for DDA clients. The lawsuit claims the state failed to ensure services were available when a man was stuck at Harborview Medical Center for eight months, violating federal law. Disability Rights Washington joined onto the lawsuit on behalf of other people with developmental and intellectual disabilities with similar stories. The state can’t comment on the pending litigation. But Lisa Copeland, a spokeswoman for DDA, acknowledges that this is a major issue generally. “It’s our belief that if one person is in the hospital ready to be discharged, then that’s one person too many,” Copeland says. But the state’s relationship with contracted providers isn’t always reliable. A year ago, the state revoked the license of one such provider called SL Start due to issues with abuse, neglect and mismanagement. Many of those clients ended up with a sister company, Aacres. Then, earlier this year, the state terminated its contract with Aacres Spokane due to a litany of problems, including the death of a 64-year-old disabled woman who was killed when she drank a jug of cleaning vinegar mistakenly given to her by Aacres staff. The state’s decision to cut ties meant, again, roughly 120 clients had to find a new provider. Some of them, Schwieterman says, ended up stuck at the hospital. That is the state’s dilemma. It can’t keep a contract with a provider abusing clients. But when it cuts ties with the company, then a system already lacking in resources only gets worse. Copeland points out that there’s a 50 percent turnover rate among providers, causing instability for clients who constantly have different caregivers. She notes that beginning in January, the state’s new budget will fund
a 13.5 percent rate increase for community residential service providers, which could provide some stability. That should help, Schwieterman says, as would more diversion beds. Still, Andrew Biviano, the attorney representing Benjamin’s family, says the state needs to recognize its duty. “They can’t rely on providers who can pick and choose who they want to serve. If they can’t find a private provider, they should provide those services directly,” Biviano says. “They can’t claim that they’re powerless.”
A COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
While there’s been a significant increase lately in patients with developmental disabilities staying at the hospital for long periods, DDA clients make up a relatively small portion of people stranded at the hospital. Local hospitals, including Providence Sacred Heart,
“It’s our belief that if one person is in the hospital ready to be discharged, then that’s one person too many.” MultiCare Deaconess and Kootenai Health, say a majority of their long-term patients are older adults with dementia or Alzheimers. Others are people with behavioral health conditions requiring in-home support. Yet no matter what barriers they face in getting out, the underlying issues remain the same: A lack of community resources able, or willing, to help them. “It’s not the right thing for patients, it’s not the way the system should work, and it’s a burden for our members,” says Zosia Stanley, associate general counsel for the Washington State Hospital Association. Hospitals, Stanley notes, are the “most expensive health care settings we have.” And if a patient is stuck there, there is often no payment to the hospital. One patient in a hospital bed can cost $1,000 per day. Last
year, the Hospital Association surveyed 11 hospitals in the Puget Sound region and found that 1,441 patients stayed at the hospital longer than needed, accounting for more than 97,000 “avoidable days.” Currie, with Providence, says long length-of-stay patients accounted for 11,000 days in 2018 at its Spokane hospitals, costing about $12 million in uncompensated care. Those costs then drive up the cost of health care for everyone. Kootenai Health, meanwhile, couldn’t provide exact numbers, but Chief Physician Executive Dr. Karen Cabell says they’re experiencing the same challenges, especially as the community grows. She says some patients have been stuck at the hospital for over a year. Local hospitals say their staff have plans in place to appropriately care for those battling behavioral health issues. Still, Cabell admits it can be difficult for some in the hospital who work there to care for patients with acute needs. “It’s very difficult on the caregivers to basically be providing custodial care for these patients for long periods of time,” Cabell says. Whether it’s people with a developmental disability or adults with dementia — the vast majority of long-term patients at Kootenai — it’s not just a lack of resources preventing them from transitioning from the hospital. It’s providers who don’t want to risk taking on a patient exhibiting difficult behaviors. Dr. Michael Meza, a family practice physician in North Idaho who supports older adults needing long-term care, says nursing homes may worry about accepting someone with dementia. Depending on the person, it could put the facility at higher risk of being dinged by state regulators and hurt their star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These facilities, Meza says, don’t have to take a patient. And often, they won’t. Meza says more constructive state regulation, the kind that educates more than it sanctions, could help. Other solutions LETTERS aren’t too difficult to identify: Send comments to Hospital leaders say there needs editor@inlander.com. to be more facilities, more behavioral health beds, more outpatient services. And the hospital systems do what they can to address it by adding behavioral health beds and other inpatient or outpatient programs. But that only begins to address the issue. “It’s a bigger problem than just a hospital problem,” says Laureen Driscoll, president of Multicare Deaconess Hospital. “It really is a community challenge.”
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At the table in the cafeteria, Benjamin has finally rolled a five. He’s moving around the board, strategically knocking his parents’ game pieces back with each roll. The game is good for him, Sherry says. It gets his mind going. It’s a sort of mental escape. There’s some hope that he’ll soon be able to get out of the hospital, eight months since he got here. And there’s some hope that other patients like him will find a place to go to as well. Schwieterman, the DD ombuds, says there are multiple agencies coming to Spokane soon that are certified for supported-living services by DDA: Alpha Supported Living Services, Hope Human Services and ResCare. Still, changes may be coming to the state level. Rep. Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane) recently visited Sacred Heart and visited patients who’d been unable to leave. The solutions, he says, come down to investing in infrastructure and the workforce, including higher pay rates for providers. “We shouldn’t be housing folks in hospitals for long periods of time. I think everybody can agree we have to come up with better solutions,” Riccelli says. “The long-term savings would be huge, and it’s clear that there’s too many people spending too long in hospitals.” For Benjamin and his family, however, the changes couldn’t come soon enough. Any day needlessly spent in the hospital is a day too long. Sherry hopes people who have a say are listening. “If they spent time in a hospital room, even a week having to live like Benjamin does, I think changes would be made,” Sherry says. “They would find a way.” n
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WILL THEY TALK TO US? For years, Spokane Public Schools has had a simple policy when it comes to talking to the media: Only the school board president can do it. But this kind of policy is virtually unheard of in other institutions. Members of Spokane City Council, Spokane Valley City Council, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners and the state Legislature all individually speak to the media, as is standard for most elected officials. So the Inlander asked six candidates up for three spots on the school board: If elected, would you support letting each board member speak to the media? Of all six candidates, only one, JENNY SLAGLE, was firmly against the current policy limiting who can speak to reporters: “I wouldn’t agree with that and I would expect that we would change that.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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‘SLAP ON THE WRIST’ In an emotional sentencing hearing for RYAN LEE — the former Lewis and Clark High School student who’d been accused of threatening to rape and murder a classmate and shoot up the school — the girl targeted by the threats spoke directly to Lee. “You’ve threatened to kill me, you’ve threatened to rape me,” said the teenager, Emily Bendickson. “You took a certain innocence away from me that I can never get back.” Lee pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of harassment, part of a so-called Alford plea in which Lee maintains his innocence. He won’t have to serve more jail time unless he violates release conditions. But Emily and her family didn’t agree with the plea deal. “A potential school shooter and a potential rapist walks away with a slap on the wrist,” said Emily’s father, Ryan Bendickson. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
POLICING THE GUILD Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart didn’t get the POLICE GUILD’S endorsement and says he doesn’t want it. Among other issues, Stuckart argues the guild has opposed transparency. “They don’t want a mayor who wants to hold their feet to the fire, and I don’t want their endorsement,” Stuckart says. He argues that the police ombudsman needs to have more power, despite opposition from the guild. On the other hand, his opponent, Nadine Woodward, celebrates the guild’s endorsement as proof she’s the better candidate on public safety. She says the ombudsman’s power should remain limited — and has even called for term limits on the ombudsman. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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NEWS | CITY HALL services and 152 positions. In those days, Cooley says, he’d use cliches like a “perfect storm” and jargon like “structural budget gap” to explain why those cuts were necessary. “We use those terms almost with a victim mentality,” Cooley says. “Almost as if it were a weather event.” But those were excuses, he says, a way to dodge accountability. For years the city had negotiated irresponsible labor contracts that gave employees raises that far outpaced the city’s growth. “It was bad management and bad leadership,” Cooley says. “I count myself as a part of that.” The unions didn’t trust the administration, accusing the city of hiding accounts and hiding reserves, Cooley says. Fixing that, he says, meant opening up the books to the labor groups, and building enough trust with them to convince them to agree to grow salaries and benefits only as fast as the city’s long-term projections. With time, Cooley says negotiations went from feeling like a “poker game” to partners sitting down together to work toward a common long-term goal. “Nobody’s trying to overspend what we have,” Cooley says.
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Gavin Cooley is retiring and says the next mayor will have the opportunity to remake the city according to his or her vision.
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The Money Man’s Warning Departing Chief Financial Officer Gavin Cooley on the soaring Spokane economy, the influence of the fire union and why we don’t need a bigger jail BY DANIEL WALTERS
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pokane’s Chief Financial Officer Gavin Cooley doesn’t usually do this. He didn’t survive five mayoral administrations — John Powers, Jim West, Dennis Hession, Mary Verner and David Condon — by sitting down with reporters and dishing about some of the most controversial issues to hit the city. But these aren’t normal circumstances. “We haven’t had a lame duck in 50 years,” Cooley says. Condon is the first mayor to hit the city’s two-term limit since Expo ’74. The next mayor will be filling more than 40 key positions currently open, Cooley says, plus one soon to be vacated: his. Cooley’s retiring in January. But while Cooley beams with an energetic optimism about what the city has accomplished in the last few years, that’s tempered by his belief that, with a couple wrong moves, that could all come crashing down. With 17 years at City Hall, Cooley has seen the choices that set the city back and the choices that propelled it forward. And he wants the next administration — whoever leads it — to continue with the approach he believes works: skepticism of big tax hikes or unsustainable union contracts, but idealism about the power of collaboration and innovation. “Intelligent and careful leadership,” Cooley says, “can bend the arc toward prosperity.”
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NO EXCUSES
Like many in Spokane, Cooley sees Expo ’74 — the World’s Fair that turned a slew of ugly railroad and industrial land into Spokane’s beloved Riverfront Park — as a turning point. But to Cooley, the story’s a little different: Expo was followed by decades of economic stagnation. “Everybody was worn out post-Expo,” Cooley says. “The leadership had dried up.” As the rest of the national economy soared, Spokane lagged further and further behind. The real economic renaissance? We’re in the middle of it, he argues. “We just had the biggest run on median household income in the city of Spokane in recorded history,” Cooley says. So when Cooley hears political candidates suggest the city isn’t in a better place than it was three years ago, he scoffs. From the end of 2013 to the end of 2018, he says, Spokane’s median household income grew by more than 37 percent. “Which is double the rate of Spokane Valley,” Cooley says. “Double the rate of the United States.” Contrast that with 2004, when the city of Spokane, despite a decent national economy, took a slash-andburn approach to budgeting, eliminating key city
That doesn’t mean Cooley thinks the city hasn’t made financial mistakes more recently. In 2016, the city got a nearly $9 million federal grant that, for two years, paid for 48 new firefighter positions. At the time, it was publicly celebrated as a clear win for the city. But Cooley argues that it was a violation of good budget practices. There was no plan in place to continue paying for the firefighters’ salaries after the grant expired. “You don’t pay for a long-term expense with a two-year revenue source,” Cooley says. “It’s one of the few times I’ve seen the organization break its budget principles in the last eight years.” But the funding was just too enticing for the city to turn down, he says. Not only that, Cooley says, the city’s fire union clearly has a “disproportionate influence” in the city. More than the Police Guild, which has been locked in a contract dispute with the city for three years? “Far and away,” Cooley says. In the end, the council, over the objection of the Mayor’s Office, put a levy to the voters this spring that saved most of the firefighter jobs and added 20 more police officer jobs. It was the sort of choice Cooley wanted to avoid. “We set ourselves up for layoffs,” Cooley says. “We had to go to taxpayers saying, ‘Please bail us out.’” The fire union influenced other major decisions as well. Over the past two years, the Condon administration tried to merge the region’s police and fire dispatch systems into one combined entity. Cooley was one of the officials tasked with negotiating with the City Council, hoping to convince them to leap on board. But the City Council didn’t buy it — unanimously voting to oppose the integration at every turn, arguing the city hadn’t provide answers to key questions. “We were learning on the fly,” Cooley says. “We didn’t have the answers. We should have all been working together to get clear answers.” Instead, trust quickly broke down between the parties. Cooley believes that, no matter what answers they provided, the City Council and the fire union were going to be resistant to change. Council members like Breean Beggs, meanwhile, started accusing the Mayor’s Office of intentionally sabotaging the existing fire dispatch system.
Cooley considered it his “biggest failure.” “We fragmented into factions,” Cooley says. “It will cost us more and more with each passing year.”
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However, Cooley is glad the city missed other opportunities. The night of Condon’s election in 2011, Cooley was sitting in a restaurant in Benton County, after taking a tour of that county’s jail. At the time Spokane County was flirting with floating a bond measure for a new, larger jail. But Cooley brought back stark figures: A new jail would cost the city around $150 a night per inmate. By contrast, busing inmates to Benton County would have only cost $56 a night — including the transportation cost. “I think I killed the new jail initiative,” Cooley says. He’s proud of that. “Benton did the dumb thing we should avoid doing, overbuilding their jail capacity. When you build a big new jail, your other costs go up,” Cooley says. “You have to feed the jail. A new jail is your worst nightmare.” Today, as the jail debate has resurfaced, Cooley is still against building a bigger facility. Instead, Cooley says, there are ways for Spokane County to rehab its old jail, to make it safer and more efficient with interior redesigns and new monitoring technology. Most of all, he says, the city needs to use its Community Court, diversion units and a new mental health stabilization center to reduce the jail population and treat some of the root causes of crime. “You need to offer these folks a path out,” Cooley says. “I would argue very strongly that the current jail is plenty big enough to offer those folks a path out.” It’s the same strategy, he says, that’s necessary to combat the homelessness crisis. He says Spokane has a “prosperity gap” — low-income folks haven’t experienced the same rise in income as the rest of the city. New shelters are crucial, Cooley says, but they’re Band-Aids. The city needs to go bigger, he argues, to team up with all the other local governments, merging existing resources and simplifying the labyrinth of social services to make it easier to escape homelessness. “It can’t be about throwing anyone in jail,” Cooley says.
A ‘PROGRESSIVE’ MAYOR
Yet there’s one thing Cooley doesn’t think is necessary to fight the homelessness problem: big tax hikes. “Cities with a lot more resources than us have thrown a lot more money at the issue than we have” but they’re worse off than Spokane is, Cooley says. He believes there’s another way, pointing to history: In 2009, voters rejected a bond to buy a new police evidence room — but the next year the city found a way to rehab an unused building without a tax hike. When an animal control levy didn’t pass in 2011, the city and county found a partnership to get it done without additional taxes. And when Condon told his staff to figure out a way to satisfy steep environmental water-quality requirements without sending utility bills skyrocketing, Cooley helped figure out a way to shift the financial and organizational structures in the city to make that possible. When you’re forced to be creative, Cooley believes, that’s when magic happens. So when Cooley, who’s donated to Council President Ben Stuckart’s mayoral campaign, calls for the next mayor to be “progressive,” he’s not using that as a euphemism for “Democrat.” Hell, he sees Republican Condon as an extremely progressive mayor. To Cooley, progressivism is all about agility and flexibility, about veering from tradition to meet a rapidly shifting future. Doing that without making a huge mistakes, of course, isn’t easy. “Running a billion-dollar company is tough enough,” he says. Running a billion-dollar city, while navigating the tangle of unruly departments, boards, unions and council members? “I would never in my wildest dreams consider that job,” Cooley says. n danielw@inlander.com
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United Front Nurses and hospital workers at Sacred Heart and other hospitals across the state are poised to go on strike BY JOSH KELETY
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utside of the Carpenters Local 59 Union Hall in Spokane, there’s a flurry of activity. The building is adorned with large banners featuring statements like “Keep Sacred Heart nurses and patients safe” and people are streaming in and out of it. Some stop to enthusiastically greet friends. There’s a palpable energy. It’s a union strike vote. Last week, after over a year of contract negotiations between hospital staff and Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane and Providence Health and Services — a large Renton-based nonprofit that runs hospitals across the West Coast — unionized employees voted to authorize a strike. One of the unions’ bigger beefs? They say Providence wants nurses to give up their earned paid time off and sick leave. Instead, workers would have to rely on the state’s new taxpayer-funded paid family leave program that kicks off in 2020, a short-term disability plan and their own paid time off. And union representatives say that Providence isn’t budging on this sticking point. “Everybody is mad,” Yvonne Buzby, a 62-year-old Sacred Heart nurse, tells the Inlander after casting her vote. “They need to provide us our sick time because we work hard, we’re breathing on the patients, we shouldn’t be going to work sick, we should be able to take care of our sick children or our sick husbands … It’s just wrong.” “We don’t want to strike. But we will if that’s what it takes to get a fair contract,” says Darryl Johnson, a negotiator with the Washington State Nurses Association who has been at the bargaining table with Providence for the last year or so. (He works in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Sacred Heart where he’s been employed for the past 11 years.) “It’s just difficult to try and get your concerns over to the other table and for them to actually hear you. Sometimes you just got to kind of shout it out.” In the event that either the Washington State Nurses
Sacred Heart nurses and members of the negotiation team outside the union hall where employees approved a strike. there were to be a strike,” the statement reads. “Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital are both open and here to care for our community. We are actively bargaining in good faith with WSNA and a federal mediator and we are hopeful that we can come to an agreement with both unions so we can avoid a strike.”
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oth the Washington State Nurses Association and UFCW also filed unfair labor practice complaints with the National Labor Relations Commission in early October. They allege that Providence has engaged in inappropriate anti-union organizing tactics, such as threats and surveillance. “They’ve been threatening our co-workers saying that if we were to go on strike, they would lock us out,” says Austen Louden, a 23-yearold food service worker at Sacred Heart and one of UFCW 21’s contract negotiators. “You can tell that they’re scared,” he adds. Louden says the negotiations so far have been “pretty intense.” Over the course of two days last week, the unions held strike-authorization votes among their respective memberships. By Saturday, both unions announced that a majority of their members had approved a strike — though they wouldn’t release exact figures. While neither union has determined whether to strike just yet, contract negotiators will head to their respective bargaining sessions wielding potential strikes as added leverage. The nurses union had another negotiating session planned for Tuesday, after the Inlander went to press, while UFCW 21’s next meeting isn’t until November. Similar union strike votes are also being held at other Providence hospitals across the state. “We’re using the power we have now because all of these contracts are up at the same time,” Louden says.
“We are hopeful that we can come to an agreement with both unions so we can avoid a strike.” Association — they represent an estimated 1,900 nurses at Sacred Heart — or UFCW 21, which covers roughly 1,200 hospital support staff like food service workers and nursing assistants, moved forward with a strike, they would have to submit a 10-day notice to Providence, which would allow management to find temporary contract medical staff to keep the hospital running, union representatives say. When asked for comment, Jennifer Semenza, a spokeswoman for Providence, only issued a written statement. “We are aware that UFCW and WSNA have voted for a strike authorization. At this time, the hospital has not received a 10-day strike notice, which is required if
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“We’re using that power to push against corporate Providence.” Providence has characterized their offer to the unions as a step-up for workers. In a statement on their website, the company says that a proposed time-off package would provide “greater financial security and more flexibility when unexpected needs arise” by providing “vacations, holidays, personal and sick days” and replacing the “antiquated and inequitable extended illness time program with a new employer-paid short-term disability benefit.” But union representatives are quick to push back on Providence’s framing. “What they say is that they are offering nurses a generous benefits package, and that is simply not true,” says Anne Piazza, senior director of strategic initiatives for the Washington State Nurses Association. “What Province is proposing is for nurses to give up their earned benefits, including earned illness time and reducing their paid time off.”
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rovidence is a major player in the medical industry. It owns hospitals in Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, Montana and Alaska. It also logged roughly $22 billion in operating revenue at the end of 2016, according to Providence financial statement documents. In 2012, the organization’s CEO earned over $4 million, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. “They certainly can afford to take care of the nurses and this community and the patients,” Piazza adds. “They very much are pushing a corporate strategy to line their pockets on the backs of our nurses.” Buzby, meanwhile, says that Providence’s ownership of Sacred Heart has changed the culture of the hospital and how staff are treated. “It’s all about money now and it didn’t used to be,” she says outside of the Carpenters union hall. “I remember that we used to have a nun on every floor. They lived their values. Now it’s all about the dollar.” n joshk@inlander.com
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A museum and national park, Hanford’s 75-year-old B Reactor is a vital reminder of the nuclear age’s extraordinary potential and devastating power BY CHEY SCOTT
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anford is a place of profound contrast. Along the bank of the Columbia River in south-central Washington, an expanse of windswept desert plateau teems with wildlife, despite being designated as the “most contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere.” Where Native Americans fished and lived off the land for eons, the U.S. government created the most powerful, dangerous materials humankind has ever known, and the largest environmental disaster the country has ever confronted. As the birthplace of the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, Hanford witnessed unprecedented human achievements in science, technology and engineering. That first unit, the B Reactor, was swiftly constructed in just 11 months by a workforce of 51,000. The reactor started up for the first time 75 years ago, in September 1944. Later, feverish production of weapons-grade plutonium that peaked during the Cold War created an excess of radioactive waste that officials have been trying to clean up for the past 30 years. Many experts believe this process will continue for the next century or longer. Even safely stored, some of the radioactive materials will outlast us for millions of years. Despite this legacy of waste (see page 28), Hanford is proudly remembered by many for the role it played in ending World War II, following the devastating bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. The atomic weapon was loaded with plutonium made inside Hanford’s B Reactor and killed an estimated 80,000 people, mostly Japanese civilians. While some may argue that the bomb saved thousands of American and Allied troops’ lives by preventing the planned invasion of Japan, Hanford still took a domestic toll. Several thousand people who lived and worked within the site’s nuclear shadow — collectively known as the Hanford downwinders — were sickened from the regular release of radioactive material into the surrounding air and water. Many have since died from diseases caused by these emissions, with no reparations or acknowledgement of their suffering after a decadeslong legal battle. All that’s taken place at Hanford has indisputably changed the course of humanity.
“There is a world before atomic weapons and a world after atomic weapons, and we live in that world, and the B Reactor is the point where that shift happened,” says Robert Franklin, a history professor at Washington State University’s Tri-Cities campus. Franklin is also the assistant director of the Hanford History Project and president of the nonprofit B Reactor Museum Association. By reflecting upon the entirety of Hanford’s history, Franklin hopes current and future generations can learn from its far-reaching impacts. To start, those interested can visit Hanford itself, where tours of the decommissioned B Reactor offer an up-close look at how the Atomic Age was born. Also, a new exhibit by the Spokane County Library District — on display next month, alongside a series of local events — will explore the complex history and legacy of Hanford. “However [people] think they might feel about it, come and see the place and give yourself time to reflect both on the achievement it was to build that on such a short time, and to understand the nature of the country in 1942, ’43,” Franklin says. “And to reflect on the scale of loss that it created and to reflect on a world that was forever changed. “It’s really up there, to me, with Independence Hall, Gettysburg and other places that really share history,” he continues. “There is just so much around Hanford. It’s a real Pandora’s box, the good and the bad that are unleashed.”
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fter a 45-minute drive across the flat, brown shrub-steppe landscape of the Columbia Basin, a bus pulls up outside the boxy, gray concrete structure accentuated by a single towering exhaust stack. The tour group shuffles off the bus, shading their eyes to peer up at the looming nuclear reactor. A docent in a blue polo shirt instructs everyone to enter and head down the hall for a short presentation. Two neon-colored plaques at the right of the door proclaim “caution” above the universal hazard symbol for ionizing radiation, the fan-like trefoil. “Internally contaminated systems located within. Contact radiological control prior to working on systems.” ...continued on next page
Hanford’s decommissioned B Reactor became part of the three-site Manhattan Project National Historical Park in November 2015. COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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Residents of the Inland Northwest can further explore Hanford’s regionwide legacy at a new exhibit curated by the Spokane County Library District and open through November at the library’s North Spokane branch. The exhibit commemorates B Reactor’s 75th anniversary and explores what life at Hanford was like for those who answered recruitment calls to work on the top-secret project. “Exhibits like this are so important because our local history seldom just goes away. The echoes of that continue on,” says exhibit curator and librarian Corinne Wilson. “I think it’s important when you’re looking at an exhibit [about] Hanford to consider what sorts of things the workers there — the scientists and the families who were engaged in the war effort — thought were at stake and what they thought they were defending and working for. And then what sort of consequences came out of that they never would have imagined or intended.” As part of the exhibit, the library is also hosting a series of special programs with various experts on Hanford’s impacts. Featured speakers include Trisha Pritikin, a downwinder advocate, and former Spokesman-Review reporter Karen Dorn Steele, who first reported the radioactive emissions at Hanford and the downwinders’ plight. Spokane author Sharma Shields, whose 2019 novel The Cassandra was inspired by Hanford history, also presents, along with former Washington state poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken, whose poetry collection Plume was inspired by the nuclear reservation. “I hope that people think about Hanford from at least one more perspective than they did before,” Wilson notes. “We’ve really tried to strike a balance between being fair to what people knew at the time and what their fears were, but also not glossing over some of the really negative and long-lasting impacts of those decisions.” — CHEY SCOTT Exhibit: The Hanford Site • Nov. 1-30; open Mon-Thu 10 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 1-5 pm • North Spokane Library • 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. • scld.org • 893-8350
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An undated aerial view of the trailer park at Hanford during construction. Many workers lived there with their families.
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“THE CORE ELEMENTS,” CONTINUED... Inside, the familiar, musty aroma of old places permeates the space that’s painted in a retro shade of seafoam green. Most of the tourists don’t expect the sight that awaits them at the end of the hallway. Several are stunned into silence when they first see it. Towering three stories high, the “front face” of B Reactor is a massive and intricate assembly of tubes and pipes. Beneath its looming presence, white folding chairs are set up in neat rows for a concert happening later that night titled “Nuclear Dreams.” In the words of Hanford historian Franklin, the cavernous space is “a strange cathedral to nuclear science.” Hanford’s B Reactor was rapidly constructed in the heat of World War II as part of the then-top secret Manhattan Project, the U.S. government’s mission to create a nuclear weapon before the Nazis could. The newborn science of nuclear fission had only recently been proven (on a much smaller scale) when the massive reactor was designed and construction began in 1943. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chose Hanford as the project’s home for its relative remoteness, access to plentiful water to cool the reactor, and proximity to a reliable power grid thanks to the newly completed Grand Coulee Dam. With only weeks of notice, about 1,500 farmers, Native Americans, immigrants and other existing residents of the 586-square-mile site were evicted from their homes to clear the way. “From a science and engineering standpoint, the Manhattan Project was a very high risk, and a very costly venture,” notes John Fox, a 92-year-old retired Hanford engineer, former mayor of Richland and longtime B Reactor Museum Association member. “Everything worked when the chances were against it,” Fox continues. “They had a lot of faith in the theoretical physics compared with today’s skepticism about climate change and that sort of thing. The practical application was unprecedented.” Now, more than 10,000 visitors each year tour the preserved reactor, a national historic landmark jointly managed by the National Park Service and U.S. Department of Energy. The free tours are offered from April through mid-November. After marveling at the B Reactor’s towering front face and learning how the reactor worked, tour visitors are able to independently wander through most of the facility. They can reflect inside the reactor control room — another seafoam-hued space covered with retro knobs, buttons, dials, wires, charts and
meters — along with scientists’ offices, worker changing rooms and the cavernous valve pit where water from the Columbia was pumped in to cool the reactor core. A few areas throughout the building, however, are roped off and caution of radiological hazards beyond. Hand-painted vintage signage warning of radiation dangers, encouraging worker safety and stressing the importance of secrecy are everywhere. The midcentury ephemera paired with B’s unaltered interior makes it easy for visitors to imagine the bustling efficiency inside the facility at the peak of wartime operations.
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ot unlike the Hanford site’s past and present, efforts to preserve B Reactor were fraught with challenges from the get-go. Decades after the site’s nine total plutonium production reactors were decommissioned, beginning in the mid1960s, the cleanup plan was to “cocoon” each beneath protective structures. This method prevents radioactive contamination from escaping as the reactor cores inside decay to a state safe enough (a 75-year process) to be dismantled and disposed.
“Everything worked when the chances were against it. The practical application was unprecedented.” When this plan was announced, a group of former Hanford engineers rallied to save the landmark reactor, founding the B Reactor Museum Association in 1990. “The objective was always to make it into a museum,” recalls Del Ballard, an 89-year-old founding member of the association who first landed a job at Hanford in 1951 as a civil engineer. “So during our first 10 years, and maybe into the second decade, the primary effort was keeping it from being cocooned like all the other reactors,” Ballard continues. “B was put on the end of the list and ultimately preserved. The [Department of Energy] insisted they weren’t in the museum business and couldn’t convert it, but with 10 to 15 years of effort and public pressure to preserve it, they came around and said if we could find someone else to operate it, we could confirm preservation.” ...continued on page 26
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ECOLOGY OF HANFORD Washington State University professor Richard Zack talks about his ecological work studying insects at the Hanford site. Sun, Nov. 3 at 2 pm (North Spokane Library); Tue, Nov. 12 at 6:30 pm (Moran Prairie Library) HANFORD-INSPIRED LITERATURE & JOURNALISM Spokane author Sharma Shields reads from her Hanford-inspired novel The Cassandra. Journalist Karen Dorn Steele discusses her coverage for the SpokesmanReview of widespread Hanford radiation emissions and other investigations on pollution and spending at Hanford. Tue, Nov. 5 at 6 pm (Moran Prairie Library); Thu, Nov. 14 at 6:30 pm (Spokane Valley Library) READING HANFORD: POETRY & PROSE Author Sharma Shields and investigative journalist Karen Dorn Steele read from their published work. Poet Kathleen Flenniken shares poems inspired by Hanford and her hometown of Richland, and downwinder activist Trisha Pritikin discusses her family connection to Hanford and her upcoming book with Steele. Sat, Nov. 9 at 2 pm (North Spokane Library)
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For information and to register for public tours of the B Reactor, offered April through mid-November, visit manhattanprojectbreactor. hanford.gov.
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From left: The four-story-high front face of B Reactor, the valve pit where cooling water was pumped, B Reactor’s main control room panel.
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“THE CORE ELEMENTS,” CONTINUED... B initially opened for public tours in 2009, which at the time were restricted to adult U.S. citizens, and run by volunteers with the museum association. “In historic preservation, you lose more battles to save buildings than you win, and to me, the successful saving of a nuclear reactor is a really amazing preservation story,” Franklin says. “It’s situated within the largest Superfund site in the U.S.; it’s a real David and Goliath story, and I was struck by the passion of the people in [B Reactor Museum Association] and how they did that.” In November 2015, President Barack Obama signed legislation making the reactor part of the newly formed Manhattan Project National Historical Park along with related facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Tours at all three are now open to all ages, and citizenship is not required. Beyond sharing the favorable stories of Hanford’s lasting contributions to nuclear science and its support of the war effort, the National Park Service is continuously working to interpret the site’s more destructive impacts on human health, the environment and global peace politics. “The overarching purpose of the park is to interpret the site and legacy of the Manhattan Project, and we do a great job sharing the science and the triumphant narrative,” notes Becky Burghart, Hanford site manager for the Park Service. “There are also many other stories that the building represents. We used the materials produced in B Reactor in the Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear detonation, as well as in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, so that piece of history is really important.” During its break from tours this winter, Burghart says the park is installing two new exhibits at the reactor. One highlights the contributions of pioneering health physicist Herbert Parker, who developed the radiological monitoring and safety protocols implemented at Hanford. “We tried to really bring it down for average visitors who don’t know much about the nuclear industry as a way to introduce the story and connect with people,” Burghart says. “We have some of the original [radiation] monitoring equipment and Geiger counters, and there are some panels that talk about things like even doing laundry.” The second piece, she says, is tentatively called the “Reflection Room” and is an area set to feature a broad timeline of events beginning with early milestones in nuclear science up through the present.
“We have a couple of interactive panels where we ask visitors to answer questions, so we’re not only providing information, but we’re also encouraging visitors to create some of their own context, like, ‘How does the history matter to them and why? Why create a Manhattan Project National Historical Park?’” Burghart explains.
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anford downwinders hope their stories, too, will eventually be shared at the park. Longtime downwinder advocate Trisha Pritikin has struggled with several of her own health issues relating to childhood exposure to radioactive iodine and other harmful emissions released at Hanford, which spread across parts of Eastern Washington, North Idaho, Western Montana and Northern Oregon. Hanford downwinders, Pritikin says, still haven’t been appropriately recognized for their suffering at the expense of the government-owned nuclear site. Pritikin was born in Richland and lived there for 10 years in the 1950s while both of her parents worked at Hanford. Both parents later died of cancer, and Pritikin’s brother died as an infant. In the early 1990s, she joined a class-action lawsuit with more than 2,000 other downwinder plaintiffs seeking damages, mostly for thyroid diseases or cancer caused by radioactive iodine that Hanford facilities released directly into the air and water, reports of which weren’t declassified until 1986. Spokesman-Review reporter Karen Dorn Steele notably was the first to uncover the releases. The downwinders’ legal battle went on for 24 years, until 2015, and ultimately only a handful of plaintiffs received settlements (most were confidential), while many others died of their illnesses during the drawn-out process. “So basically the downwinders ended up with not much,” Pritikin says. “We’ve lost health, people have died and we’re not recognized under the injury compensation laws, not like the workers. We got the short end of the stick: 24 years fighting against these private firms hired by former Hanford contractors to defend them under an indemnity agreement. The government spent $80 million on that.” As she’s done for the past 30 years, Pritikin continues to advocate for those harmed by Hanford. She’s recently collected the stories of two dozen downwinders into a book releasing in March titled The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice. Pritikin also currently serves as board president for the
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Cities residents. Hanford’s role in local and international history remains a point of pride for many. Others argue the school’s imagery is in poor taste to those who lost their lives as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki or in connection to the site’s environmental contamination. “It’s very problematic, to put it frankly,” Franklin, the historian, says. “But to people here, it tells the story of themselves that they want to be told. They are proud of this connection to ending the war.” anford’s legacy begins at B Reactor Elsewhere in Richland, the Atomic Ale and resonates across the region. The Brewpub & Eatery has gone all in with its Tri-Cities — Richland, nuclear-inspired Pasco and Kennewick — branding. Opened in ABOUT THE AUTHOR neighboring Hanford owe 1997, the brewpub’s Chey Scott has decades of population and offerings include the been on staff at the economic growth to the site. Plutonium Porter, Inlander since 2012. With generations of workers Oppenheimer Oatmeal Some of her recent raising their families there, it’s Stout and Half-Life and varied arts and also created something of a Hefeweizen. culture coverage regional nuclear culture. Earlier this year, includes a look This atomic influence is in recognition of the into the revival perhaps most visible on the 75th anniversary of B of Dungeons & campus of Richland High Reactor going online, the Dragons, the real cost of wasted food, School, where students continue city of Richland hosted edible flowers, vintage fashion and to embrace the “Bomber” as a revival of Atomic women in the culinary industry. She can their mascot, and a logo of a Frontier Days, an annual be reached at cheys@inlander.com. green “R” beneath a mushroom community festival that cloud. “Proud of the cloud” ran from 1948 to 1960. is a phrase often declared by Activities included a students. parade, historical exhibits, performances and Serving as the backdrop of a large campus a community dinner recreating a traditional courtyard is a massive mural of the B-17 Flying Hanford mess hall meal. Fortress named “Day’s Pay,” as its 1944 purchase “We brought it back to get the community was funded by Hanford employees who rallied to together, not to celebrate atomic weapons but to donate a day’s wages to support the war effort. celebrate the history of the place,” Franklin notes. The mascot and mushroom cloud emblem “Next year is an opportunity to do something have long been a contentious topic between different with the 75th anniversary of the end Richland students, faculty, alumni — both of of World War II, and that will be much more the school and the Hanford site — and Tricontemplative.” n
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LEGACY OF WASTE Workers during a waste removal project at Hanford in 2010.
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n sheer size alone, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is a hard thing to comprehend. A 40-odd-mile bus ride separates federal offices at the south end of the site in Richland from the nine nuclear reactors spread throughout the north end of the 586-square-mile reservation. For decades, those reactors were each filled repeatedly with uranium fuel rods to produce two-thirds of the nation’s weapons-grade plutonium stockpile, created from World War II through the Cold War. Harder to comprehend and harder still to address are the many toxic, radioactive byproducts that came with the creation of that man-made element, some of which won’t decay for thousands to millions of years. The radioactive material is stored in a mix of 100 or so elements in various tanks and underwater pools throughout the middle of the site. In 177 storage tanks, 56 million gallons of toxic sludge is waiting for treatment, and some of it has already leaked into the soil. To the south lies much of the work to create cleanup facilities that are designed to convert the sludge into glass bricks, in preparation for storage deep in the ground in a yet-tobe-determined site. One underwater pool storing some of the most dangerous radioactive materials — strontium and cesium — contains capsules with 53 million curies of radiation, by some measures more than the active radiation that was spread during the Chernobyl explosion and meltdown in 1986.
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BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL In part, it was that frightening event that spurred the end of production at Hanford, where the last reactor was closed in 1987. By 1989, the Department of Energy, the state of Washington and the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Tri-Party Agreement to guide the cleanup effort. Thirty years and billions of dollars later, most of the reactors have been entombed in concrete to wait out some of the worst radiation, but progress on treating the toxic sludge has moved frustratingly slow. From contractor fraud and flawed cleanup designs delaying construction of a Waste Treatment Plant for decades, to shifting administrative priorities and congressional will to dump money into the site, Hanford’s cleanup problem is far from solved. The main priority is the cleanup of the toxic tank waste. But of the millions of gallons to treat, the total that’s actually been disposed of off-site so far? Three gallons in a pilot project. Three. “Thirty years it was supposed to take to clean up under the Tri-Party Agreement. That’s this year,” says Tom Carpenter, founder of Hanford Challenge, a Seattlebased organization that works for worker safety at the site. “We’re almost there! Another 300 years or so and we should get there.”
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On any given day, Hanford presents a complicated
matrix of decisions for contractors and regulators balancing environmental cleanup, human health, intergovernmental relationships and cost. With court-ordered deadlines looming over the government and its contractors, groups like Hanford Challenge have seen corners get cut, sometimes to the detriment of some of the more than 9,000 workers at the site. It’s part of what sparked the creation of Hanford Challenge in 2007, Carpenter says. He’d worked with the D.C.-based Government Accountability Project for decades on nuclear whistleblowing throughout the country. But Hanford was a special beast and deserved full-time attention. “Over time, it just became apparent that Hanford was the biggest problem in the complex,” Carpenter says. “It was the most environmentally contaminated and had one of the worst cultures in terms of treatment of its employees.” The cleanup has seen many issues related to worker safety — from not giving workers proper access to workers’ compensation or safety (an issue that was settled in court last year) to not covering the Plutonium Finishing Plant during its demolition. That 2017 incident resulted in plutonium dust going into the air and exposing 42 workers to radiation. “That contractor still works out there, which I don’t get,” Carpenter says. “There’s actually no consequence to poisoning their own workers. They get to keep their
contract and work.” Tri-Cities and communities that surround the Complicating things, Hanford is just one part nuclear reservation, whose economies largely of Energy’s portfolio of 16 nuclear cleanup sites, rely on the cleanup work and who are most at which also includes a nuclear waste treatment risk if anything goes wrong on site. site at the Idaho National Laboratory and the “Playing games or litigating games puts my Savannah River site in South Carolina. The community at risk. We’re the ones who would Government Accountability Office earlier this suffer if things go bad,” Thompson says. “I think year estimated that Energy will have to pay the state’s concern that it’s not as safe as glass at least about $500 billion for environmental may not be as valid. Even if we get it out of the cleanup across the remaining nuclear sites, but tanks, the state’s concern is where are they going another government report released this year to put it? There isn’t a place in the nation to put found that Hanford alone could cost upwards of it right now. So why don’t we make our people $600 billion over the next century, in a worst-case safer, cheaper, faster?” scenario for cleanup. Old infrastructure on the site makes any Compared with other sites, the delay in work delay in the cleanup a problem, he says. For at Hanford becomes more stark, as a footnote instance, when one of the Plutonium Uranium in the Government Accountability Office report Extraction Facility (PUREX) tunnels containing from May noted: “As of the end of 2017, the rail cars filled with radioactive materials partially Savannah River site had treated about 7 million collapsed two years ago, things could have gone gallons of tank waste, and the Hanford site had way worse. treated 3 gallons under a demonstration project.” “Had the wind been blowing it would’ve The pressure to catch up may be part of why been a pretty negative situation for us,” the federal government proposed changing the Thompson says. “This stuff is getting old. definition of “high-level radioactive waste” earlier There’s a lot of infrastructure that was created in this year. the ’40s and ’50s. We’re at risk.” Under the new definition, some of the waste Significantly, he sees the state’s efforts to at Hanford would be considered less dangerous. ensure the best possible cleanup is used — even Rather than put it through the Waste Treatment if it takes more time — as shortsighted. The Plant — which has been under construction for best laid plans still require funding. Congress going on 20 years and could lose the political where the material would will to fund the cleanup, HANFORD LIVE: be sorted and turned into which is already falling LET’S TALK ABOUT glass or “vitrified” — some short of the $4 billion HANFORD CLEANUP of the low-level waste might required per year to be on State and federal agencies host a live be treated similarly to tanks track for mandatory goals, streamed conversation about past, current at the Savannah River site. Thompson says. Current and future goals for site cleanup and Those have simply been funding is about $2.5 billion management, along with a facilitated Q&A filled with grout. per year. session. The goal of the event is to open Washington state and “So we’ve got this train communication between Hanford leadership others around the country coming down the track. I and the public regarding the environmental have voiced their concerns see it. I think we only have cleanup. Thu, Nov. 7 from 7-9 pm. Register about the move, which a certain amount of time to online at hanfordlive2019.eventbrite.com. some view as a way for ensure our safety,” he says. the federal government to “Apparently they’re ready to cover its problems in concrete and walk away. wait for the perfect solution. Maybe that works, Current plans for the waste at Hanford require maybe it doesn’t. I think it’s a bad bet. If it’s my an underground geologic repository for the glass family, I think it’s a bad bet.” bricks to be stored at, but after communities in Thompson says he worries about a lack of Nevada objected to the potential use of Yucca willingness to compromise on a path forward. Mountain, there is no dump site identified. “To get this back to pristine condition, I don’t Still, those who want to protect the Columbia think it’s possible and I don’t think we should River from getting contaminated if more material try to mislead people that it is,” Thompson says. leaches into the groundwater say the waste needs “If you look at the goal, to get material offto be glassified and moved off-site if the cleanup reservation, and we’re three gallons and maybe is truly going to mean anything. $20 billion later, maybe we didn’t do so good.” “This is a thing that’s setting up a huge ‘AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, confrontation and conflict down the road with the state, with public interest groups, and with UNDER BUDGET’ tribes that all want to see the cleanup be as Earlier this month, soon-to-resign Energy effective as possible to protect future generations Secretary Rick Perry visited the Hanford site to even after this civilization is gone,” Carpenter celebrate one of the most recent cleanup projects says. “Because who knows what’s going to be being lauded as a success. there in 10,000 years or a million years?” Flanked by U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse and Greg Walden, Perry congratulated dozens of LOW LEVEL, HIGH RISK workers for their role in completing removal of The decades of slow progress on the cleanup is toxic sludge from the K Reactor area to another part of why Richland Mayor Bob Thompson portion of the site that’s farther away from the says he’s on board with the federal government’s Columbia River. Many workers sat among move to reclassify high-level waste, and politicians and community representatives in potentially mix some of the low-level waste with folding chairs set up next to the old reactor, grout and leave it in place. while some stood sipping coffee in the cool Thompson is also chair of the Hanford October air. Communities board, which represents the ...continued on next page
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry visits the K Reactor area on the Hanford Reservation, where some cleanup of toxic sludge was recently completed.
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“A LEGACY OF WASTE,” CONTINUED... Perry first recognized tribal representatives from the large negative cost variance of $17.9 million,” the audit Umatilla Reservation, Nez Perce, Wanapum and Yakama states. “We are concerned that [CH2M Hill Plateau Nation, whose relatives and ancestors lived off the land, Remediation Company’s] performance on this project and who know the importance of the history of that will be overstated.” place. It’s just one of many examples of projects that have “We just stepped away from touring that B Reactor. cost more than expected, with attempts to disguise Seventy-five years ago, the idea that this relatively young mistakes along the way. country, this really untested country, could do the work that it would do, to start that facility and 11 months later CASH COW have it operating as the first reactor, I mean is a stunning The Energy Department celebrates the amount of moment in time for this country. It’s a great reflection work that has been completed on the site. Six of the of who we are as a people to be able to do that type reactors have been entombed in concrete (plus B Reactor of incredibly difficult, technologically advanced work, was preserved as a museum), hundreds of buildings and change the world as we know have been demolished, and it,” Perry told the crowd. “But we’re more than 18 million tons ABOUT THE AUTHOR here to celebrate an achievement of a of contaminated soil have Samantha Wohlfeil different kind today.” been moved away from covers the environment, He and the other speakers the Columbia River to an rural communities and repeated over and over how great engineered landfill on site. cultural issues for the it was that the work came in ahead One facility was built as an Inlander. Since joining of schedule and under budget — exact replica of one of the most the paper in 2017, she’s work started in June 2018 and was contaminated buildings, so written about how scheduled to end in December this workers can practice at scale getting out of prison year, but was finished in September the work they’ll do remotely can be deadly, how instead, costing about $19 million with robots at that location. child marriage is still legal in many parts of instead of $23 million. Those super radioactive the United States, and how climate activists However, a closer look at the strontium and cesium capsules avoid a narrative of total despair. She can K Reactor area history shows the that are currently stored be reached at samanthaw@inlander.com or cleanup has taken years and sparked underwater? Energy plans 325-0634 ext. 234. questions about its accounting. by 2025 to move them into A 2017 audit by the Energy concrete casks that will be Department’s inspector general office noted concerns cooled with passive airflow, reducing concerns that an that, at one point before the sludge removal started, the earthquake could take out the current water-cooling project costs were artificially reset to zero, which could system and put not just Central Washington, but the make the project appear as though it didn’t go over entire Northwest (including Spokane and North Idaho) budget. at risk. “The new performance measurement baseline But with no major federal push for accountability established for the Sludge Removal Project erased a and oversight of major contractors on the site in the past
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18 years or so, Washington state Rep. Gerry Pollet says it sometimes feels like accountability has gotten less strict. Pollet, who is also the founder of Hanford cleanup activism group Heart of America Northwest, says there are many examples of where contractors not only bungled projects, but put workers in harm’s way and walked away with the ability to still make millions from the projects on site. “My favorite example of all time, because of the health implications of it, is when the Department of Energy first proposed that it was going to adopt its own rules to protect workers from deadly exposure to beryllium,” Pollet says. In an investigation, Pollet and others found that Fluor Hanford, a contractor that was hired to test buildings on the site for the presence of beryllium, used a method that only detected the element in amounts that were more than two times higher than the safety limit. Based on non-detection at that higher level, many buildings were marked free of the contaminant, and workers were allowed to go there without protective gear. “This wasn’t just a case of abuse and fraud, it was a case that had severe health consequences. As occupational medical experts said at the time, sending a [beryllium] sensitized worker back into a building where they may be exposed again to beryllium is a death sentence,” Pollet says. “My belief is they should’ve been prosecuted for it, in addition to losing all their fees and having to repay the government as fraudulent activity. But instead, the Energy Department not only let them keep their payments, but paid them to do it again.” Similarly, Hanford Challenge’s Carpenter says workers and whistleblowers from the site paint a picture of intentional problems with projects, intended to keep paychecks from the federal government flowing. In particular, delays on the Waste Treatment Plant stand out. The plant was supposed to be ready to
pretreat tank waste and convert both high and low-level waste into glass before 2010, but the project saw delay after delay. Some of that happened because construction on the plant started before the cleanup process design was even done being conceptualized and found safe. Other portions were delayed when a contractor didn’t use materials that were known to meet nuclear safety standards. Now, the only project at the plant near completion is a process to treat a fraction of the low-level waste and turn it into glass. That’s slated to open by 2023, but the rest of the plant isn’t set to become operational until 2033, and the recent move to reclassify high-level waste nationally makes the final plans for the high-level waste treatment portion of the plant somewhat less certain. “The problem wasn’t the science or engineering. It was incompetence and corruption, and mismanagement,” Carpenter says. “This has been used as a giant corporate ATM. You get the contract, you pop in your card, and money pops out. It doesn’t matter how much you screw up, how much you steal, how much you misuse. The money keeps coming year after year after year. There’s no consequences.” An internal audit from the Energy Department’s inspector general in November 2018 confirms that contractor problems have been rampant. “The Hanford site has been plagued with mismanagement, poor internal controls, and fraudulent activities, resulting in monetary impacts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars by the various contractors involved at the site,” the report states. “As many of the weaknesses continue, without more aggressive oversight of contractors and subcontractors, millions of dollars will continue to be at risk for inappropriate charges and potential fraudulent activities.” n
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Spokane Folklore Society Presents SARY R E IV N N A th
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FALL 2019 • NOV 9-10 Celebrating Spokane’s Cultural Diversity
SATURDAY, November 9
7:00 - 7:30
Heat Speak - Orchestral folk
CONFERENCE ROOM
LAIR AUDITORIUM 11:00 - 1:00 KPBX FM 91.1 Live Radio Show Audience welcome to attend. Program features Gefilte Trout, Caridwen and Greg Spatz, Bigger Boat, Extraordinary Renditions, Tracy Spring, and Kevin Brown. 1:30 - 2:15 Bigger Boat - Traditional sea shanties and maritime songs
1:30 - 2:30
2:45 - 3:30 3:45 - 4:15 4:30 - 5:00 5:15 - 5:45 6:00 - 6:30 6:45 - 7:15
Workshop: Spokane Dulcimer Guild - Performance followed by Mountain Dulcimer Workshop Spokane Storytelling League - Folk tales for all ages Ernie Verdugo - Spanish and flamenco guitar Patrice Webb - Award winning original songwriting Bob Riggs - One guy with a guitar Jonathan Nicholson - Soothing guitar instrumentals Allen Surdez - Vocals, harmonica, guitar
6:00 - 6:45 7:15 - 7:45 7:45 - 9:45
Sidetrack - Participatory dance party. Come dance. Workshop: Contra Dance Introduction with Nora Scott Contra Dance with Crooked Kilt and callers, Nora Scott and Ray Polhemus
BISTRO STAGE (Bluegrass & Old-time) 11:30 - Noon Blue Water Strangers - Americana and bluegrass 12:15 - 12:45 King Trouble and the Cherry Pickers Lively old-time 1:00 - 1:30 Sondahl & Hawkins - New life to oldtime music 1:45 - 2:15 Acousticals - Fine picking all original ensemble
THE UNDERGROUND
Caridwen and Greg Spatz 2:30 - 3:15 3:30 - 4:15 4:30 - 5:15 5:30 - 6:15
6:30 - 7:15
Musha Marimba - Music from Zimbabwe and southern Africa Mele Polinahe - Music and dance from Hawaii Swingset Hooligans - Vintage dances from the swing era Gefilte Trout and Riabinouchka (Rowan Tree) - Klezmer, Romani (Gypsy), Russian and Ukrainian songs Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots - Lively Celtic
SASQUATCH ROOM 11:00 - 11:30 Lokomaikai - Contemporary and traditional Hawaiian music 11:45 - 12:15 Plaid Cat - Swing, country, blues 12:30 - 1:00 Peter Ali - Native American flutist 1:15 - 1:45 Crooked Kilt - Traditional Celtic tunes with as twist 2:00 - 2:30 Caridwen and Greg Spatz - Acoustic multi-instrumental duo 3:00 - 3:30 Free Whiskey - Celtic folk rock 3:45 - 4:15 Dante and Eros Faulk - Folk with a creative twist 4:30 - 5:00 2 Bit Jug band - Love, food and hilarity 5:15 - 5:45 Celtic Aires - Folk songs from Celtic lands 6:00 - 6:30 Western Reunion - Cowboy and western swing
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11:30 - Noon Spokane Raging Grannies - Original songs for peace & justice 12:15 - 12:45 BlueGlass Spectacles - Guitar duo 1:00 - 1:30 Larry Lotz - Americana country folk 1:45 - 2:15 Brett and Janet Dodd - Original and contemporary folk/American 2:30 - 3:00 Talena Bricker - Songs inspired by the Pacific Northwest 3:15 - 3:45 Extraordinary Renditions - Ride through twentieth century music 4:00 - 4:30 Blue Ribbon Tea Company - Americana roots 4:45 - 5:15 Dave McRae & Michael Robinson Folkabilly 5:30 - 6:00 Planted by Hands - Contemporary folk trio 6:15 - 6:45 Spokane Community Choir - A cappella songs from around the world
CAFETERIA STAGE 11:00 - Noon South Asia Cultural Association - East Indian folk song and dance 12:15 - 12:45 Stevens County Stompers - Clogging 1:00 - 2:00 English Country Dance - Learn elegant dances with caller, Mitchell Frey, to live music by the Prestwold Players 2:15 - 2:45 Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers Multicultural dance 2:45 - 3:15 Family Dance - Learn old fashioned barn dances 3:30 - 4:00 Spokane Irish Dance - Community dance school 4:15 - 4:45 UPOP & Ukestra - Ukulele bands 5:00 - 5:30 Bulgarian Dance Group - Traditional dances from Bulgaria
Bigger Boat 2:30 - 3:00 3:15 - 3:45 4:00 - 4:30 4:45 - 5:15 5:30 - 6:00
Maple Ridge Band - Enjoyment guaranteed Poor Boy’s Delight - Bluegrass, old-time, contemporary Beargrass - Folk and country duo Kevin Pace & the Early Edition Traditional bluegrass and gospel The Tipich Travelers - Family band, strong vocals
SMALL GYM (Building 5) 11:30 - 12:30 Scottish Pipers, Highland and Country Dancers 12:45 - 1:15 Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimbas Rhythms of Southern Africa 1:30 - 2:00 Northwest Hula Company - Traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian influence 2:15 - 2:45 Baharat - Authentic dance from the Middle East and North Africa with live music 3:00 - 3:30 Grant School Drummers - African drum and dance 3:45 - 4:15 Otis Orchards Malleteers - Youth mallet percussion group 4:30 - 5:00 Nah’Joom - American belly dance with
Schedules Subject to Change - 15 minute break between acts
Two Days of Amazing, Inspiring Performances - for FREE! SATURDAY, NOV. 9TH • 11 AM - 10 PM // SUNDAY, NOV. 10TH • 11 AM - 5 PM
8 Stages • Over 100 Performance Groups • Activities & Crafts for kids Food • Ethnic Arts & Crafts for sale • Two Contra Dances Live 91.1FM KPBX Radio Show 11am - 1pm Saturday 5:15 - 5:45
Middle Eastern influence Coeurimba - Marimba music from Zimbabwe
ROCKET BAKERY STAGE (Building 5) Noon - 1:00 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages 1:15 - 2:00 Lucy D. Ford - Original stories for all ages 2:15 - 3:15 Workshop: Native American flute with Peter Ali. Fourth grade to adults welcome. Flutes provided 3:30 - 4:30 Workshop: Songwriting Ideas with Larry Lotz 4:45 - 5:45 Workshop: Singing sea shanties with Hank Cramer
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 LAIR AUDITORIUM 11:30 - 12:30 Floating Crowbar and Haran Irish Dancers - Irish step dance with highenergy music (Stage doors open at 11 am. Seating is limited) 1:00 - 1:45 Spokane Taiko - Community Japanese drumming group 2:00 - 2:45 Kosher Red Hots - Eastern European & Jewish music 3:00 - 3:45 Howling Gaels - Celtic diaspora music 4:00 - 4:45 Sesitshaya Marimba - Music from SubSaharan Africa
SASQUATCH ROOM 11:00 - 11:30 Meshugga Daddies - Klezmer band 11:45 - 12:15 Hank Cramer - Cowboy and more 12:30 - 1:00 Muckle Roe - Tunes from Scandinavia and the Shetlands
CONFERENCE ROOM
SMALL GYM
11:30 - 12:30 Spokane Storytelling League - Folk tales for all ages 12:45 - 1:15 Bob Rice - Toe tapping folk 1:30 - 2:00 Ron Doyen - Folk and blues gems 2:15 - 2:45 Hunter Koss - Solo harpist, Celtic and traditional folk 3:00 - 3:30 Truck Mills & Carl Rey - Blues, jug band, vocals 3:45 - 4:15 Frankie Ghee - Strong vocals, clear lyrics
12:45 - 1:15 Taste of Tango - Traditional to contemporary 1:30 - 2:00 Cimarron Tribal Belly Dance - American Tribal style 2:15 - 3:00 Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori Participatory Japanese dance 3:15 - 4:30 Children of the Sun - Community drumming group
THE UNDERGROUND
(Hint: It’s downstairs in the Lair.) 11:30 - Noon Trillium-239 - Award winning songwriting 12:15 - 12:45 Michael & Keleren Millham - Fusion folk 1:00 - 1:30 Tracy Spring - Folk and blues on guitar and mandola 1:45 - 2:15 Robinsong - Celtic and more 2:30 - 3:00 Sock Puppets - Songs never heard on the radio 3:15 - 3:45 Daniel Hall - Folk rock 4:00 - 4:30
CAFETERIA 11:00 - 11:45 Pages of Harmony - Men’s acapella harmony chorus 12:00 - 1:00 Spokane Area Square Dancers with caller, Doug Davis, demo and participatory dance 1:15 - 2:15 International Folk Dance - Recreational community folk dance with Karen Wilson-Bell 2:30 - 3:00 Nine-Pint Coggies - Scottish fiddle music 3:00 - 3:30 BREAK 3:30 - 3:45 Workshop: Contra Dance Introduction with Karen Wilson-Bell 3:45 - 5:00 Contra Dance with the Hounds of Prestwold and caller, Karen WilsonBell
BISTRO STAGE (Americana) Getfilte Trout and Riabinouchka 1:15 - 1:45 2:00 - 2:30 2:45 - 3:15 3:30 - 4:45
Dan Maher - Inland Folk “Brittany Jean” - Nashville recording artist Hubbardston Nonesuch - Madrigals, 500 year old pop tunes Music with a Message: Songs of Social Change with Trillium-239 - Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau Program
(Building 5) (Times may vary.)
11:30 - Noon Kevin Brown - Original songs from new album 12:15 - 12:45 Eyer Family Band - Kids tune folk songs and more 1:00 - 1:30 Damn Near Departed - Originals from this husband and wife duo 1:45 - 2:15 Carter Junction - A duo playing cowboy, Celtic folk or bistro 2:30 - 3:00 Fancee That - Songs rooted in tradition & inspiration 3:15 - 3:45 Shiloh Rising - An acoustic duo playing contemporary original 4:00 - 4:30 Willows - Peter, Paul & Mary tribute band
Trillium
ROCKET BAKERY STAGE (Building 5 Classroom) Noon - 1:00 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages 1:15 - 2:00 Jenny Edgren - Songs for kids of all ages 2:15 - 3:15 Workshop: Irish guitar accompaniment in DADGAG tuning - Rick Rubin and James Hunter 3:30 - 4:30 Workshop: How to Build and play the Washtub Bass with Michael Gifford - Build it like a Guarneri, Play it like Paganini
FREE EVENT!
SPOKANE COMMUNITY
C O L L E G E LAIR STUDENT CENTER 1810 N. Greene St FREE PARKING For More Information, Call (509) 828-3683 www.spokanefolkfestival.org
Schedules Subject to Change - 15 minute break between acts
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Same As It Ever Was Gonzaga’s men have earned national respect and a high preseason ranking despite an overwhelmingly new cast of players BY WILL MAUPIN
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ast season was one for the ages for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. It was a season that saw the team open at No. 3 in the AP Top 25, the highest preseason ranking in the program’s history. The second highest is No. 8, which is where the Zags sit in that poll entering this season. That high praise comes despite the team needing to replace four of the five starters, plus two critical rotation players, from last year’s squad that made the Elite Eight. The ranking isn’t quite as high as last year, but the level of respect for the program might be even higher. That’s because Mark Few, who is entering his 21st season as head coach, has a proven track record of success. Moreover, the players he’s brought into the fold this season to replace those he lost from last year are really good.
COACH: Mark Few LAST SEASON: 33-4/ 16-0 in WCC PRESEASON PREDICTION: 1st in WCC coaches’ poll FIRST GAME: Exhibition vs. Lewis-Clark State, Fri, Nov. 1, 6 pm at The Kennel
“It was a slow start but now that we kind of have the groundwork laid out they’re taking huge leaps every single day,” junior forward Corey Kispert says. “They’re smart kids, man. They know exactly what to do now.” Two short seasons after arriving in Spokane, Kispert is thrust into a leadership role. The only player with more experience than Kispert in a Gonzaga uniform is senior forward Killian Tillie. On Oct. 3, Tillie underwent a preventative knee surgery, which makes Kispert, until Tillie returns (possibly as soon as opening night), the most experienced player on the floor. “[Tillie’s] been doing a lot of coaching from the side
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and having to be vocal from the side,” Kispert says. “That’s going to be really good for him and for us as a team moving forward. Him developing his voice; learning how to coach up guys who are younger and need the coaching more than he does.” Those younger guys will be critical for Gonzaga’s success this season. Many of them, like the Frenchman Tillie and returning Filip Petrusev, came to Spokane from other parts of the world. Of the six-man freshman class, three came from overseas. Center Oumar Ballo is from Mali, forward Pavel Zakharov is from Russia and guard Martynas Arlauskas is from Lithuania. Those three are the latest in a long line of international players who came to Gonzaga, like Rui Hachimura and Domantas Sabonis, with hopes of elevating their game to the NBA level. Domestic freshmen like guard Brock Ravet (Kittitas) and forward Anton Watson (Spokane’s Gonzaga Prep) are in-state products. They and Texan forward Drew Timme look to be immediate impact players. There are some relatively old newcomers, too. Graduate transfers Admon Gilder and Ryan Woolridge will be tasked with taking the reins in the backcourt. “Last year we made our mark on defense blocking shots above the rim,” Kipsert says. “This year I think our guards in Admon and Ryan are going to be really special on defense. Those guys are uber athletic and super good with their hands. They’re going to make things really difficult for opposing guards. We haven’t seen that before with a one-two combo of really elite defensive guards.”
Jill Townsend’s scrappy leadership should be valuable this season.
Next Woman Up Gonzaga’s women’s team has depth, high expectations for the coming season, despite significant departures from last year’s squad BY CONNOR GILBERT
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FACING PAGE: Corey Kispert skies. ABOVE: Freshmen Brock Ravet (left) and Anton Watson There is more than enough talent to justify another season of sky-high expectations here in Spokane. The thing is, it’s going to need to come together really quickly. As always, the Zags have a brutal nonconference schedule to navigate in November and December. “My stance on it is the tougher the schedule, the better it is,” Kispert says. “Coach Few and coach Tommy [Lloyd] have done a really good job of giving us tough competition at the very beginning to see exactly what we’re made of. And credit to those other big-time schools for agreeing to play us. That wouldn’t be the case five or six years ago. A lot of those teams wouldn’t agree to play us.” That tough competition includes the North Carolina Tar Heels, one of the all-time elite programs in college basketball and the team that defeated Gonzaga in the 2017 national championship game. The Tar Heels will visit Spokane on Dec. 18. Before that happens, though, the Zags hit the road to face Washington and Arizona. After that, in-league rivals Saint Mary’s — the Gaels open at No. 20 in the AP Poll — and BYU will be looking, as always, to play spoiler. Another year with a loaded team looking down the barrel of a monster schedule, just a little more talented and a little bit tougher than we’ve seen before. Sure, the faces aren’t all familiar, but it’s the same as it ever was in Spokane. n
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ith their first game only days away, Gonzaga women’s basketball head coach Lisa Fortier and her players wax optimistic — reflecting on a roller coaster of a season last spring and what they can bring to the court this year with shifting roles and new faces in the mix. In August, the Zags traveled throughout Spain and Italy playing local teams. As part of that process, they were allowed 10 extra practices preceding their excursion that helped solidify chemistry amongst both the old guard and the new. “We’ll have to see in March, really, how much that helped,” Fortier says. “But right now … you grow so much on road trips and you grow so much as the season goes on and you get to know each other. And chemistry is such a big part of everything.” Even as the implications of the graduations of Laura Stockton, Zykera Rice and Chandler Smith continue to work themselves out, Fortier believes they can retain the same level of depth as last year, just with different faces. “We have different pieces but we still have a lot of depth and that was the biggest strength of our team last year,” Fortier says. “So if people do what we think they can do and what they’re planning to do and what their goals are, then I think we’re gonna really benefit from just the amount of players who can make contributions like we did last year.” Perhaps the void left by last year’s seniors is felt most in terms of leadership. Much of that pressure is on a senior backcourt of Jessie Loera and Katie Campbell, but also on juniors like forwards LeeAnne and Jenn Wirth and guard Jill Townsend, who are expected to make big strides this season and take much of that mantle. “We always look to our seniors and they play a huge part in [leadership],” Fortier says. “But it’s not always that it only comes from them. I think our junior class is big. ... They have a certain personality type.”
Townsend is who Fortier has pointed to the most as a potential leader, a player who she says is “the best one to kinda get into you a little bit.” A fiery defensive stopper who supplied shooting, rebounds and hustle off the bench last year, “Townie” was sidelined for much of the summer following surgery on her left ankle. She’s working back into the swing of things now.
COACH: Lisa Fortier LAST SEASON: 29-5 overall/16-2 in WCC PRESEASON PREDICTION: 1st in WCC FIRST GAME: Exhibition vs. Warner Pacific, Sat, Nov. 2, 2 pm at The Kennel
“Sometimes, I find myself doing something or holding myself back or maybe my ankle lands in a certain way,” Townsend says. “It just scares me more than anything, it doesn’t really hurt. That’s been the biggest challenge and I’m still working on it.” The end of last season was a rapid succession of highs and lows, from being ranked No. 12 in the country to losing two key players to injuries in Stockton and Townsend late in the season, to almost pulling the upset over Oregon State in Corvallis in the second round. Fortier can only hope that her team will continue to build off of the positive momentum — she believes they’re perfectly capable. “Most of us don’t end on a win, one team does,” she says. “I always hope that in the right way, we’ll use that as fuel for this season and just to remember the feeling. “If we take care of each other and give our best and continue to work every day and share the basketball, we can be just as good or better as we were last year.” n
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IDAHO VANDALS
EASTERN WASHINGTON EAGLES
WHITWORTH PIRATES
LAST SEASON: 5-27 overall/2-18 in Big Sky Conference
LAST SEASON: 16-18 overall/12-8 in Big Sky Conference
LAST SEASON: 21-6 overall/12-4 in Northwest Conference
THE BIG STORY: Turmoil. Idaho fired head coach Don Verlin in June after the team went 5-27 and the school self-reported potential NCAA rules violations, and the Vandals lost the majority of their contributors from last season due to either graduation or transfer. To add insult to injury, the Vandals already lost to D-II Central Washington in an exhibition. Zac Claus was promoted to the interim head coach position until next spring, when the school will go on a coaching search, but starting point guard Trevon Allen (14 ppg last season) returns to bring leadership to a team that looks to begin a program-shifting rebuild.
THE BIG STORY: Being the most experienced team in the Big Sky. The Eagles return almost all of their main rotation players, including all-conference players in forward Mason Peatling and guard Jacob Davison. Davison particularly looks to bounce back after a season-ending injury halted a dominant conference scoring run. Though Eastern was chosen by coaches to finish first in the conference, their rivals aren’t too far behind. It won’t be easy to get by their recent archenemy in Montana, who have kept them out of the tournament the last two seasons and were chosen to win the Big Sky in the media poll.
BEST HOME GAME ON THE SCHEDULE: Dec. 2 vs. Washington State. The Vandals’ next-door neighbor has a brand new coach in Kyle Smith and a host of new players. It’ll be interesting to see how legit the revamped Cougars are. (CONNOR GILBERT)
BEST HOME GAME ON THE SCHEDULE: Jan. 9 vs. Montana. It seems in recent years the Big Sky championship goes through either Missoula or Cheney, and it’s crucial for the Eagles to keep momentum by winning their first matchup with their rivals to the east. (CONNOR GILBERT)
THE BIG STORY: When Matt Logie jettisoned for a gig at Point Loma Nazarene in the offseason after winning six conference titles in eight years, Whitworth offered the head coaching job to his top assistant, Damion Jablonski. He already has quite a task on his hands: replacing four seniors who accounted for almost half of the team’s scoring and rebounding, and finding a way to boost the Pirates’ tournament resume after missing out on the postseason last year. Ben College, the NWC’s fourth leading scorer last year, looks to lead Whitworth in his senior year, but the Pirates will need the supporting cast to step up as well if they want to compete against a considerably more difficult nonconference schedule than last year.
COACH: Zac Claus
COACH: Shantay Legans
COACH: Damion Jablonski
BEST HOME GAME ON THE SCHEDULE: Jan. 21 vs. Whitman. Beyond sharing the first four letters in each other’s names, the two have combined to win the last 13 NWC tournament titles. This rivalry always has huge conference implications. (CONNOR GILBERT)
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ptimism abounds during preseason. It’s a time when every team in college basketball, no matter how realistic, harbors hope for the future. For the Washington State Cougars, largely an afterthought (if not worse) for more than a decade, there’s good reason for this influx of optimism. The Cougars have a young, malleable roster and are led by a new head coach who takes a modern-day approach to the game of basketball. And he seems to be feeling right at home on the Palouse. “I’m really excited for my family and the community,” new WSU head coach Kyle Smith says. “It’s been wonderful. I’ve dubbed it the friendliest place on Earth. It’s a great place and I pinch myself when I’m walking around campus thinking I’m getting this opportunity to coach in the Pac 12.” For Smith, who has nearly a decade of head coaching experience to his name, the jump to Washington State is both an opportunity and a challenge. Smith cut his teeth at Columbia before moving up to San Francisco, where he led the Dons to a 63-40 record over the past three seasons. But now he’s coaching in the Pac-12, a league whose motto is “the Conference of Champions.” “It’s all a little new to me, to be honest, even though I’ve followed it since I’ve been out West,” Smith says. “There’s a jump in athleticism, for starters.” Fortunately, Smith’s approach isn’t reliant on athleticism. He’s an analytics man. In this postMoneyball era of sports, where advanced metrics are becoming more and more mainstream by the day, Smith is still on the cutting edge. “I don’t know how many staffs will literally watch every possession of every practice and stat everything,” Smith says. “It’s not like anything anyone does at this level, but it’s still basketball.” Smith referred to his and his staff’s embrace of analytics as their marketing piece. The key word being their. Smith might be entering his first season at WSU, but there is a good bit of continuity around him. Assistant coach Derrick Phelps, who won a national championship as a point guard for North Carolina in 1993, has been alongside Smith since his days at Columbia. Analytics director John Andrzejek worked under Smith at San Francisco and Columbia, where Andrzejek was a graduate student. Unfortunately, the roster isn’t nearly as experienced. Seven of the Cougars 17 players are freshmen. And the guy expected to lead the team, CJ Elleby, is just a sophomore.
New Cougs hoops coach Kyle Smith.
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But that’s not all bad, because young guys aren’t set in their ways. They’re eager to learn. “I think we’re ahead of where we were compared to San Francisco in the embracing of [analytics],” Smith said. “We have more guys who are blank slates. Everyone’s opted into doing it.” Moreover, Elleby is really good. The 6-foot-6 Seattle native was one of 20 players named to the Julius Erving Award preseason watch list, which is given to the nation’s best small forward. Elleby set the WSU freshman scoring record last season and averaged 14.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.
COACH: Kyle Smith LAST SEASON: 11-21/ 4-14 in Pac-12 PRESEASON PREDICTION: 11th in Pac-12 media poll FIRST GAME: Cougs vs. Seattle University, Thu, Nov. 7, 6 pm at Beasley Coliseum, Pullman
“We’re young and inexperienced, more inexperienced than young,” Smith said of his roster. “I feel like our talent, one through 10, is better than we had at San Francisco [last season].” WSU hasn’t made an NCAA Tournament since 2008, so there is plenty of reason to doubt. But also, the Cougars have a young roster and a new coaching staff that is happily building for a brighter future. “I’m usually really pessimistic,” Smith says. “I don’t know if it’s the honeymoon, or the fact my family has settled in here well, or that I like the community, but I do really like these guys. I feel good about it.” n
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CULTURE | DIGEST
ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY? The best part of Ken Burns’ eight-episode, 16-hour crash course doc, Country Music, is how the genre’s performers and their songs reflected American society throughout the 20th century. While you might not care for a little twang in your music, Burns shows how the country community has been in the midst of America’s debates on race, economic equality, women’s rights and more. All the episodes are now streaming on PBS and Kanopy, and if you have to pick just one as an entry point, consider episode five for its focus on Dolly Parton and sexism in Nashville, Merle Haggard and his poor roots, and Charley Pride breaking the country color barrier. (DAN NAILEN)
Class-Conscious Space Cowboy
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BY QUINN WELSCH
apitalist, or anti-capitalist? We’re forgoing the typical questions of morality and “good versus evil” in our action roleplaying video games and giving you a shot of economic injustice with a shooter of class consciousness. Welcome to The Outer Worlds, a newly released space Western released for console and PC last week. (Fans of Firefly will appreciate.) Here’s the gist: You wake up aboard a spacefaring vessel loaded with human popsicles, completely dethawed. You were supposed to arrive on a colony in a distant solar system, but you’re 70 years too late. That sucks for you, but the real problem is that the colony is run amok with greed. The rule of law is almost entirely determined by the colony’s corporate overlords, simply dubbed “the Board.” Spoken words come equipped
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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stories Nov. 1. To wit: GANG STARR, One Of The Best Yet. DJ Premier and Guru are back with their first album in 16 years — and first since Guru died in 2010. Technology is amazing. JEFF LYNNE’S ELO, From Out of Nowhere. Lynne plays and sings nearly every part on his first album in four years, and that’s a good thing. MIRANDA LAMBERT, Wildcard. The underrated country star has a show booked for Spokane in April. HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH, Imperfect Circle. Yup, Hootie’s still blowing. (DAN NAILEN)
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with mandated slogans. Employment is “guaranteed.” Cutting costs and maximizing profits are all that matter in the future. This is Jeff Bezos in space. Are you going to stop him? Or do you climb the corporate ladder for these sweet BezosBucks™️? This all takes place in a futuristic frontier world that has the same visual style of railroad towns of the early 20th century. Think Fallout: New Vegas (same developer!) but in a vibrantly colored alien environment filled with strange creatures and desperate people. Like most RPGs, you can still choose between being a good Samaritan or a wiseass looking out for themself. But The Outer Worlds goes a layer deeper, asking you questions about equality and social justice that are all too familiar in our current reality. The community of Edgewater is in shambles. People are sick, dying and overworked. The town, known as an “employment community,” is completely consumed by a phony veneer of corporate worker-bee culture. Given the chance to fight the powers that be, do you destroy Edgewater’s power source? What about the hardworking people of Edgewater who rely on that power? Who have you helped? Was it worth it? Without being overtly political or incendiary, The Outer Worlds makes for a thought-provoking “revolution sim.” Budding Marxists and capitalists might think they know the answers to the world’s problems, but they’ll find this game challenges those ideas with layers of nuance. It’s fun because it’s an open-world space exploration game with goofy laser guns and wacky characters. However, it’s interesting because it shows us that sometimes we aren’t as smart as we think we are. n
HANDS OF FATE Seis Manos opens with a drug cartel and a ritual sacrifice and it ends with lots of dead people. Netflix’s new animated cartoon series is about a group of martial artists in 1970s Mexico, so it definitely gets points for originality. The artwork reminds me of something between Captain Planet and Cowboy Bebop. It’s a little dorky, but the cool fight scenes will at least hold me over until Netflix releases its recently confirmed season three of Castlevania. (QUINN WELSCH)
SERIOUS SUPERGROUP If you haven’t had occasion to roll up North Monroe lately, you might not be privy to the incredible new mural painted on the exterior of Hoffman Music by brothers Cain and Todd Benson. Depending on which side of the building you’re on, you’ll spot vibrant illustrations of Miles Davis, Cher, Tom Petty, Aretha Franklin, blink-182’s drummer for some reason, and many more. It’s called “An Ode To Music,” and it’s an awesome addition to the block. (DAN NAILEN)
CRIMINAL MINDS True crime books are a dime a dozen — here’s one that investigates why that is. Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites zeroes in on why women in particular are drawn to real stories of murder and mayhem, especially in cases with female victims. She focuses less on gory details than basic pathology. Monroe’s subjects include Frances Glessner Lee, the 1940s heiress who pioneered forensic science; the film worker who cultivated an uneasy relationship with Sharon Tate’s family; and the architect whose fascination with the infamous West Memphis Three case led to a romance with one of the accused killers. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)
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Protect your essentials. Decide what you require to live and wor k . Housing payment s, basic utilities ( like electr icit y and water), food, tr anspor tation, and child care would f all under this categor y. Contact the providers to ask for help: Your energ y company might r un an assistance prog r am, or your mor t g age lender might have prog r ams to help avoid foreclosures. Cancel the nonessentials. Drop subscr iptions, streaming ser vices, giant data plans, and club memberships you don’t need. View bankruptcy as a last resor t. Bankr uptc y doesn’t eliminate all t ypes of debt, and the consequences last for years. A Chapter 7 f iling will stick to your credit repor t for a decade, making it dif f icult to get a home, a car, or insur ance. You also risk losing your personal proper t y through bankruptcy. “ T hese should be the worst situations,” Jack son says, such as when a t wo -adult f amily has ir revocably lost both sources of income.
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CULTURE | THEATER
Play of Choice Gonzaga’s new production of Romeo ∞ Juliet shuffles the play’s chronology and puts control in Juliet’s hands BY E.J. IANNELLI
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o embedded in our common culture is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that you might feel like you’ve seen it even if you’ve never witnessed a full production. It’s one of those rare works that folks can often quote—”O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”— despite knowing little more than a basic plot outline. Gonzaga’s new production of Romeo ∞ Juliet intends to challenge some of those assumptions. Right down to the stylized infinity symbol in its title (still read as “and”), it’s designed to have audiences reassess what they think they already know about this tragic romance. “I want to make people Charlie Pepiton stop a moment and have that question,” says director Charlie Pepiton, Gonzaga’s Theatre and Dance Department chair. To do so, he’s adapted Shakespeare’s original text in a way that shuffles the chronology and shifts the customary emphasis of the play. “It’s a structural deviation,” he says. “Everything the audience hears is straight from the original ... but the significant change is that it’s about a hundred minutes, starting with the tombs and then triangulating through the play to try to find the moment where Juliet makes her choice that changes everything.” The specific choice he’s talking about is Juliet’s decision to marry Romeo during the play’s famous balcony scene when Romeo, a Montague, comes to woo Juliet, a rival Capulet, after seeing her at a ball earlier that night. Thur 10/31, Inlander
Juliet is no wilting flower in Gonzaga’s new production of the Shakespeare classic. “This play is almost always done with this idea of love at first sight, and I think there’s more than that going on. Love at first sight removes choice from the picture. What I’m trying to do with this recutting, this restructuring, is to highlight that the power of that moment really sits with Juliet. She chooses to propose marriage to him. And the choice that I’m really interested in is the choice that she makes to devote herself to Romeo.” Much like the late literary critic Harold Bloom, Pepiton roots this pivotal point in just a few key lines: “And yet I wish but for the thing I have./ My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/ My love as deep. The more I give to thee,/ The more I have, for both are infinite.” Anna Kay, a sophomore at Gonzaga, is playing Juliet opposite Brett Bean as Romeo. “The way Charlie and I have been working to interpret this character together makes her a much stronger, more decisive character and much more in control of this relationship that she has with Romeo,” Kay says. That self-assurance is something that Kay felt was missing from Juliet’s character. And she suspects the common perception of Juliet as a delicate flower could also be a sticking point for contemporary audiences. “When I read Romeo and Juliet for the first time in high school, one of the things that put me off was the fact that she seems kind of helpless or just drawn along in this storyline. Our interpretation is all about her decision to love Romeo ... and how that choice to love inevitably kills both of them but also heals this fighting between their families.”
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All this focus on choice might seem like it’s diminishing some of the romance. Both Pepiton and Kay say that passion still features heavily in this restructured version, which actually opens with the lovers’ tragic, emotionally charged end in the Capulet tombs. “It’s not quite as clinical, and I think that Juliet doesn’t choose initially to love Romeo,” she says. “You still do see some of that love-at-first-sight, very instant connection, that chemistry. But what she chooses is to continue to love him, to choose his love above all other things.” And while the play will also retain some of its historical grounding in 16th century Verona through Leslie Stamoolis’ costuming, there are deliberate modern flourishes. The set by Courtney Smith is designed to resemble a Möbius strip, mirroring Juliet’s declaration of infinite love. Local artist Darrien Mack, appearing as DJ Rosethrow, will be mixing diegetic and inter-scene music in real time by incorporating the soundtracks to popular era-defining Romeo and Juliet revivals like Franco Zeffirelli’s (1968) and Baz Luhrmann’s (1996). “One of the questions that started this was, how can we unpack the play from what we know of it? We’re playing with that purposeful anachronism,” Pepiton says. “Audiences can expect an opportunity to see the play with new eyes. Romeo and Juliet is for good reason the greatest love story that we have. This production is about trying to give us a new way to encounter that story.” n Romeo ∞ Juliet • Nov. 1-10; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $20 • Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center • 211 E. Desmet Ave • gonzaga.edu/mwpac • 313-2787
Maple Street Bistro’s cinnamon roll doesn’t skimp on the frosting. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
ROUND-UP
Roll With It Cinnamon rolls are a cozy fall treat; here’s seven baked in the Inland Northwest to try
topped cinnamon roll. While nothing beats a fresh, warm roll, those looking for a deal can occasionally find a few on the bistro’s day-old pastry rack for just a buck. If a full-size pastry feels like too much, the bistro also makes a special cinnamon roll latte. (CHEY SCOTT)
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415 W. MAIN AVE. madeleinsspokane.com, 624-2253 Open Mon-Fri 7:45 am-4 pm, Sat 8:30 am-4 pm, Sun 8:30 am-2 pm Specializing in traditional, scratch-made French pastries, Madeleine’s cinnamon roll is no casually baked creation. Featuring a perfectly gooey spiral of thin pastry layers coated with cinnamon and other warm spices, this comforting treat is rich, decadent and perfectly executed. Topped with a very generous portion of buttery cream cheese frosting, it’s definitely best enjoyed warm, with a cup of house-made espresso, or a cold glass of milk if that’s more your style. If you’ve never had this local favorite cinnamon roll, it won’t take more than one bite for you to also become part of its fervent following. Don’t wait until too late in the day to stop by and get one, though, as the day’s fresh batch tends to go fast. (CHEY SCOTT)
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t may be the heart of pumpkin spice season, but there are plenty of other cozy, sweet treats to enjoy as temperatures drop and the leaves fall. Perhaps there’s none so classic as the traditional cinnamon roll, a pastry that can, and should, be enjoyed with a steaming cup of coffee, chai tea or other hot beverage, and at any time of the day. Here are seven cinnamon roll creations from bakeries and cafes around the Inland Northwest that were recommended to us, and which we now encourage you to try, too.
MAPLE STREET BISTRO
5520 N. MAPLE ST. maplestreetbistro.com, 328-0473 Open Mon-Fri 6 am-3 pm, Sat-Sun 7 am-3 pm After reopening under new ownership this summer, Maple Street Bistro debuted a new spruced up look and vibe, though many customer favorites remain on the menu of the neighborhood cafe near Spokane’s Five Mile area. That includes its lineup of pastries, baked fresh daily, like the house cinnamon roll ($4), a hand-sized, perfectly spiraled treat with a creamy, buttery frosting and warm nutmeg and cinnamon coating the inside layers. Maple Street Bistro also makes a popular pecan-
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CHOMPER CAFE
2345 W. PRAIRIE AVE., HAYDEN chompercafe.com, 208-719-0441 Open daily 6:30 am-2:30 pm Whoever said size doesn’t matter has never had one of Chomper Café’s cinnamon rolls. They’re about the size of a bread plate, says owner Sarah Baker, who teamed up with former Seattle-area baker Dana Bellefeuille to make what they consider soft “non-perfect looking” rolls. Not
too sweet and with a variety of topping options, they nonetheless satisfy well past the breakfast hour. Served at both Chomper and Baker’s new restaurant, Belle’s Brunch House, the rolls vary with the seasons, like pumpkin pie and gooey apple cider caramel in the fall. The huckleberry ($6) means bright, tart berries spilling over the top of the roll, while the classic ($4) features from-scratch cream cheese frosting gobbed on top. Can’t decide? Try a trio for $10. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)
THE MASON JAR
101 F. ST., CHENEY themasonjar101.com, 359-8052 Open Mon-Wed, Fri 8 am-5 pm; Thu 8 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 9 am-3 pm Prepare to share this gigantic cinnamon roll ($3.50) with a friend or two — it’s seriously as big as a saucer, though that’s a good thing, especially when splitting. The massive pastry is best enjoyed warmed up, our barista notes, who also recommends using the oven (or toaster oven) to do so if you order one to enjoy later. A generous amount of rich cream cheese frosting on top leaves plenty of icing to spread on each bite of warm, chewy dough. (CHEY SCOTT)
JIMMY’S DOWN THE STREET
1613 E. SHERMAN AVE., COEUR D’ALENE jimmysdownthestreet.com, 208-765-3868 Open daily 6 am-2 pm It’s down-home cooking at this longtime Coeur d’Alene institution, which Gretchen Surber and her husband Mike Surber took over in 2012, updating décor, adding a handful of dishes, but otherwise keeping the focus ...continued on next page
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FOOD | ROUND-UP “ROLL WITH IT,” CONTINUED... on classic comfort foods. They serve breakfast all day, but if it’s sweet and crunchy you’re after, then nothing but their Southern pecan cinnamon rolls ($6) will do. Fluffy and light, swimming in caramel syrup and bursting with sugary cinnamon filling, these rolls earned top marks from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ host Guy Fieri when he visited on behalf of the Food Network in 2011. What really makes the pastry, though, besides the fact that it spills over the edge of the plate, are the pecans. They add a distinct Southern nuttiness that pairs perfectly with the caramel and gives you the right amount of crunch. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)
CHAPS DINER & BAKERY
4237 CHENEY SPOKANE RD. chapsgirl.com, 624-4182 Open for breakfast Tue-Sat 8 am-3 pm, Sun 8 am-2 pm; dinner Wed-Sat 4 pm-close The only problem with the cinnamon roll you’ll find at Chaps is in your head (or maybe stomach) — can you resist the temptations elsewhere on the menu enough to enjoy one of the large pastries? A no-brainer tip: Plan on sharing and go ahead and order the blueberry French toast or chicken-fried steak knowing you have a sweet treat waiting for dessert. I’m an unabashed believer that ENTRÉE one can’t have enough icing Get the scoop on local on a cinnamon roll, and Chaps food news with our weekly doesn’t disappoint on that Entrée newsletter. Sign up point, while the roll’s innards at Inlander.com/newsletter. have a hint of citrus. A nice bonus, also find Chaps’ cinnamon rolls at its Kendall Yards coffee spot Paper & Cup on Saturdays and Sundays. Be sure to get there early at either spot, though, because the cinnamon rolls are as popular as they are tasty. (DAN NAILEN)
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1325 W. FIRST AVE. (AND OTHER LOCATIONS) rocketspokane.com, 328-0473 Open Sun-Thu 6 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat 6 am-8 pm With a variety of fresh bagels, quiches, cakes, cookies and brownies to choose from, Rocket Bakery’s cinnamon rolls might stand to get lost in the shuffle. But for those looking for classic warm, cream cheese frosting-covered cinnamon roll bliss, their rolls ($3.25 or 50 percent off after 4 pm) are sure to hit the spot. Bring a big appetite or share with a friend, because this roll is a decent size, especially for the price. Pair with a drip coffee or Americano to offset this sugary breakfast treat. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL) n
MORE AMAZING CINNAMON ROLLS TO TRY EASTERN WASHINGTON Bruncheonette Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop Clark’s Fork Rockwood Bakery The Shop Frankie Doodle’s Great Harvest Bread Co. Marketplace Bakery, Cheney Bushels, Newport Lefevre Bakery, Medical Lake (temporarily closed for renovations) Outlaw Barbecue (check the pastry counter) NORTH IDAHO Terre Coffee & Bakery, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls Miller’s Country Store, Sandpoint Bishop’s Baking Co., Pinehurst The Pie Safe, Deary
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The Montana brewery opened its new pub in September.
‘Where Montana Meets Midtown’ Great Falls-based Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Co. opens new pub in Coeur d’Alene’s Midtown District BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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s a real estate developer-turned-brewery owner, Jeremiah Johnson knows that location is everything. So when he was looking to expand the reach of his eponymous Great Falls, Montana, brewery, Idaho seemed like a natural fit. Not only has his Idaho distributor been selling the heck out of his beer, Johnson’s cousin lives in North Idaho, and his family enjoys the area. Then something serendipitous happened, nudging Johnson further into the brewpub business: He met someone with a Coeur d’Alene-area pub for sale. “It kinda came out of the blue,” says Johnson, who lives in Great Falls, where he took over the Front Brewing Company in 2017, eventually transforming it to the one that now bears his name. On a recent trip to North Idaho, Johnson connected with local restaurateur and craft brewing pioneer Tom “TW” Fisher, who was looking to sell his Midtown Pub (it closed in mid-August after two years in business). Then Johnson noticed the street sign outside said Montana Avenue. That was the tipping point for Johnson, whose first satellite brewpub with his name on the door also has a clever slogan: “Where Montana Meets Midtown.” The new Coeur d’Alene pub opened in mid-September. “We want to do things in communities that we want to spend time in,” says Johnson, who hired his cousin, a former high school teacher in Spirit Lake, to run the pub. On tap is the brewer’s full standard lineup, including his signature Mountain Man Scotch Ale (6.5 percent alcohol by volume), the hop-forward Imperial IPA (7.5 percent ABV) and the rich vanilla porter (6.4 percent ABV). The pub is making the most of its modest kitchen and incorporating its beer into the menu, Johnson says. Mountain Man is featured in the beer cheese soup ($5), for example, while their Citra IPA is used in the roasted pork for the Cuban sandwich ($12). “I think we’re going to fill a niche in Midtown, just a little neighborhood beer spot,” Johnson says. n Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Co. Midtown Pub • 826 N. Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Mon-Tue 11:30-10 pm, Wed-Thu 11 am-10 pm, Fri 11 am-11 pm, Sat 10 am-11 pm, Sun 9:30 am10 pm • Facebook: jeremiahjohnsonbrew • 208-966-4145
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Italia Trattoria Lands on Best Pasta List
be the first two retail eateries to open in the mixed-use building at 835 N. Post St., on the north bank of the Spokane River. The coffee roaster’s projected opening is Nov. 4 with High Tide to follow on Nov. 11. Meanwhile, Liberty Lake-based Mangia Catering was selected as the building’s exclusive catering service. The Wonder Market, the entity managing food and drink operations for the building, is now the third location for Evans Brothers Coffee, adding to cafes in Coeur d’Alene and its Sandpoint headquarters. White launched his flagship location for High Tide Lobster Bar, specializing in New England-style lobster rolls, earlier this year in the heart of downtown Spokane near River Park Square. The Wonder is now his second spot for the eatery. Both High Tide and Evans Brothers are situated on the building’s western end. (CHEY SCOTT)
Plus, what food and drink spots are coming to the Wonder Building
FLAME & CORK FIRED UP ABOUT NEW LOCATION
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hile locals have long known this fact, it’s now been nationally recognized that Spokane’s Italia Trattoria serves some of the best pasta in the country. On a list recently published by the Food Network, Italia Trattoria was included with 98 other restaurants making the “Best Pastas in the Country.” Specifically, the list mentioned Italia’s pappardelle lamb ragu, a house specialty of handmade pappardelle pasta topped with a garlic and rosemary-infused sauce and winebraised lamb ragu, finished with freshly grated pecorino cheese and fresh mint. The restaurant, which chef Anna Vogel and Bethe Bowman opened in 2010, was in good company on the list that mentioned plenty of restaurants in cities of much bigger size — New York, Portland, Austin, Miami, Washington D.C. — than the Spokane metro area. This isn’t the first time the traditional and regionally inspired
Italia Trattoria’s pappardelle lamb ragu.
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Italian fine-dining restaurant has received a major nod, as chef Vogel was named a James Beard Award semifinalist in 2018. (CHEY SCOTT)
COFFEE & LOBSTER AT THE WONDER
Three food and drink ventures coming to the recently remodeled, historic Wonder Building in downtown Spokane have been officially announced: Evans Brothers Coffee, High Tide Lobster Bar and Mangia Catering. Sandpoint-based Evans Brothers Coffee and the lobster bar concept by Spokane chef Chad White will
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More room, outdoor seating and the satisfaction that only comes with designing your own space is what owners of Flame & Cork are looking forward to as they watch construction of their new location just down the street from their current location in Hayden. “We plan on moving to the new location by the end of this year or first part of next year,” says Connie Young, who started the restaurant in 2016 with her husband John and his son Nick. One of a small but growing set of beyond-fast-casual restaurant options for Hayden-area diners, Flame & Cork has gained a following for its wood-fired pizza, fromscratch charcuterie and gluten-free, wood-fired mac and cheese. Its owners are also considering adding weekly specials and gelato at the new location, which will be at 8592 Government Way in Hayden. (CARRIE SCOZZARO) n
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It’s great to see Sarah Connor return to the franchise she launched, but Terminator: Dark Fate is a lot of what we’ve seen before BY MARYANN JOHANSON
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istory doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Or so they say. And if it wasn’t already abundantly clear what the Terminator franchise’s position on the future is, Dark Fate — a non sequitur of a subtitle if ever there was one — makes it clear: The future may not repeat itself, but it rhymes in even cheesier ways than history’s poetry does. (Think: If history is a beautiful sonnet, the future is a naughty limerick.) The constantly rewritten threads of futures past, futures averted and futures yet to be that warp and weave their way throughout this big ball of wibbly-wobbly stuff are well beyond the tediously familiar at this point. To wit: In the wholly redundant Dark Fate, set in 2020, a soldier is sent back from the future — 2042, to be precise — to protect a young woman who is so important to the human resistance against genocidal AI-guided machines that a superadvanced cyborg killer has also been sent back in time to take her out. Which is why she needs protection. We have literally seen this all before, only slightly off-key from this. The soldier is Grace (Mackenzie Davis), and she is an admittedly cool augmented super-warrior — not quite cyborg, but also not as physically vulnerable as Kyle Reese, the aw-shucks future grunt of 1984’s The Terminator. So that’s a little different. The young woman needing protection is Dani (Natalia Reyes), and she needs protecting because... Well, as you sit there watching this movie and thinking, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if a woman wasn’t primarily defined as mother to a man,” Dark Fate has the gall to think it’s pulling one over on you by withholding the truth of Dani’s future importance, and then begs for feminist brownie points when it tells you the thing they should have told you from the start, but kept from you so that you would later marvel at how woke it was.
Anyway, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) shows up to help kick future-robot ass, and she’s still rocking at 63 years old. Honestly, the greatest pleasure of this movie is seeing a gray-haired woman with an honestly lived-in face smacking down unemotional, sociopathic, male-coded ass with high-powered weapons, but even that lacks a certain oomph that Sarah Connor had previously given us. (This is not Hamilton’s fault.) The alt-future “Rev-9” (Gabriel Luna) is liquid metal but not a “Terminator.” He’s from an alt-future where Skynet is no more — except it basically is, and it’s called “Legion” — so he’s essentially Robert Patrick’s T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day with some minor upgrades. I had nightmares about the unstoppable ferocity of Patrick’s Terminator, and I was nowhere near a child when Terminator 2 was released. There’s nothing like the kind of menace that T2 and Patrick wielded at work here. Director Tim Miller (Deadpool) is no James Cameron, who created the series and returns here as producer. He’s perfunctory at best, imagining, it seems, that the franchise’s tropes will carry the day. Mostly, nostalgia is not enough here. A subplot in the action takes TERMINATOR: DARK FATE our heroines on a Rated R dangerous illegal Directed by Tim Miller crossing of the border Starring Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, from Mexico into the Natalia Reyes, Arnold Schwarzenegger United States, and yet the movie has no idea on how to capitalize on the difference between Cold War fears of nuclear war that fueled the original Terminator and the terrors of incipient fascism that today’s fractured geopolitics give rise to. This is a franchise that is, ironically, stuck in the past. n
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Arctic Dogs
OPENING FILMS ARCTIC DOGS
A cartoon fox voiced by Jeremy Renner dreams of becoming a mail courier, but first he must stop an evil scientist from melting the ice caps. Yes, this is a real movie. (NW) Rated PG
HARRIET
The humanitarian and abolitionist Harriet Tubman finally gets a biopic
deserving of her legacy, anchored by an electric performance by Cynthia Erivo. Old-fashioned filmmaking of the highest order. (MJ) Rated PG-13
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
Edward Norton directs and stars in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s bestseller, a ’50s-set noir following a
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A reclusive girl befriends an escaped yeti and gets suckered into taking him across China to Mount Everest. Scenic animation, righteous violin solos and unexpected voice acting by Eddie Izzard make it worthwhile. (QW)
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In this heady sci-fi parable, Brad Pitt travels across the solar system to find his long-lost astronaut father. Part silly space adventure, part heavy meditation on existence and masculinity, it’s intriguing on multiple levels. (NW) Rated PG-13
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
America’s creepiest and kookiest clan gets the toon treatment in an episodic story that finds them moving to the decidedly un-spooky suburbs of New Jersey. Forgettable animated fare. (NW) Rated PG
BLACK AND BLUE
Issues of race and police brutality are explored in this gritty thriller, starring Naomie Harris as a rookie cop who uncovers evidence of corruption in her force. (NW) Rated R
COUNTDOWN
The teen horror film of the Halloween season, about a popular app that purports to pinpoint the exact date and time you’ll die. Turns out it’s real — spooky! (NW) Rated PG-13
THE CURRENT WAR
In the late 19th century, Edison and Westinghouse race to popularize their dueling electrical systems. This 2018 film was lost in the Weinstein scandal and is now being released in a director’s cut. (NW) Rated PG-13
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DOWNTON ABBEY
The beloved British series gets a big screen sequel, fast-forwarding to 1927 to catch us up on all the goings-on of the titular estate and its stiff-upperlipped inhabitants. (NW) Rated PG
GEMINI MAN
Two Will Smiths for the price of one? If only it were worth the admission. Here’s an anemic sci-fi thriller about an assassin whose greatest nemesis is a younger version of himself. (MJ) Rated PG-13
THE GREAT ALASKAN RACE
Set in the mid-1920s, a band of dog sled racers travel hundreds of miles in subzero temperatures to deliver diphtheria medicine to a remote village. (NW) Rated PG
IT: CHAPTER TWO
The follow-up to 2017’s horror smash is a leaden, overlong slog, with those precious kids, now jaded adults, returning to Derry to finally kill the evil force that is Pennywise the clown. Nothing floats here. (MJ) Rated R
JOKER
The Clown Prince gets his own origin story, with Joaquin Phoenix as a failed stand-up who violently lashes out at society. A Scorsese pastiche that’s not nearly as edgy as it thinks it is. (MJ) Rated R
JUDY
Renée Zellweger disappears into the role of legendary torch singer Judy Garland, whose career is falling apart in the final year of her life. The central performance is revelatory; the film itself is not. (ES) Rated PG-13
private dick with Tourette’s and his search for his mentor’s murderer. (NW) Rated R
this franchise remains stuck in the past. (MJ) Rated R
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE
A documentary portrait of Roy Cohn, the controversial lawyer and political figure who held more behind-thescenes clout than anyone could have imagined. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
The sixth Terminator installment finally brings Sarah Connor back into the fray. Too bad it’s another rehash of what we’ve seen before, more evidence that
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THE CURRENT WAR
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ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP
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THE LIGHTHOUSE
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch is another slow-burn period piece, with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as isolated lighthouse keepers going stir crazy. But unlike The Witch, this unnerving sea chantey is more bemusing than terrifying. (ES) Rated R
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THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON
A young man with Down syndrome and pro wrestling aspirations runs away from his care facility, teaming up with a down-and-out fisherman (Shia LaBeouf) in this heartwarming road-trip fable. (SR) Rated R
LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP
The towering rock vocalist receives the affectionate career retrospective treatment, looking back at her groundbreaking legacy and talents that were silenced by Parkinson’s. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
The Sleeping Beauty villain returns, again played by Angelina Jolie and here going cheekbone to cheekbone with wicked queen Michelle Pfeiffer. The few good ideas of the original are traded in for endless spectacle resembling a video game cut-scene. (NW) Rated PG
A documentary portrait of irascible, outspoken political pundit Molly Ivins, who made a career of dencouning corruption and calling out B.S. As garrulous and entertaining as its subject. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated
A decade after the horror-comedy hit, our ragtag quartet of apocalypse survivors is back for more bloody adventures. It’s hardly painful to sit through, but it’s not particularly funny and most of the jokes are retreads. (NW) Rated R n
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Broadway star Cynthia Erivo is an immense screen presence in Harriet.
Historical Hero Harriet Tubman finally gets an entertaining and inspiring cinematic origin story with Harriet BY MARYANN JOHANSON
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e’re so used to our historical figures, our Great Men, requiring a bit of grading-on-a-curve: “Oh, we must forgive so-and-so for that aspect of his life and work. Times were different then.” And yet we still continue to celebrate them and insist upon their importance and mythologize their words and deeds. Meanwhile, one of the great true heroes of American history — someone who needs no justifying or qualifying — has been all but ignored by pop culture, and hence all but left out of the collective American imagination. Perhaps because what she fought for is a grand cause (the physical and existential battle for autonomy, agency and basic humanity of African-Americans) that is not yet fully won. Perhaps the fact that everything Harriet Tubman stood for — and continues to symbolize — still resonates on so many levels is too harsh a reminder that the ugly past is not yet past. (All the more reason to honor her and remember her, you’d think.) Or perhaps it’s because she was a woman. And black. Perhaps that’s enough, for some, to pretend her story and her legacy don’t really matter. For if we were to acknowledge her as a Great Woman, where would it stop? What if there were other Great Women who also must be acknowledged? Anyway, you’d have thought that Hollywood, at least, mightn’t have taken so damn long to see that Tubman’s undeniable, irrefutable heroics are, if nothing else, excellent fodder for big-screen entertainment. Tubman was badass by any measure, but certainly by the action-adventure one: She rescued herself from slavery in 1850s Maryland with a treacherous journey north! She risked her liberty and her very life sneaking back into the South to bring others to freedom! She worked as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War! This is the stuff of bold, visual storytelling. And it’s all here because now director and
co-writer (with Gregory Allen Howard) Kasi Lemmons has blessed us with the Tubman origin story. “Origin story” is just the right sort of cinematic introduction Tubman needs to slide her into the epic American narrative. Harriet is solid, conventional filmmaking with a broad sweep, a big-picture overview that finds a deeply satisfying balance among the contradictory currents of Tubman’s life. The film does not deny the horrific facts of slavery, but this is primarily an entertaining experience, one that succeeds in acknowledging Tubman as a vulnerable, flawed human woman while also embracing her towering legend and the profound power of what she symbolizes. As Tubman, Cynthia Erivo is an immense presence, deeply engaging and incredibly empathetic; the Broadway musical star even gets to do a bit of singing on screen. Lemmons and Erivo handle Tubman’s “superpower” — she thought God spoke to her in a very practical way, literally guiding her in her dangerous HARRIET work to avoid capture Rated PG-13 — with a smart plausible Directed by Kasi Lemmons deniability that Starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie allows for whatever Odom Jr., Clarke Peters interpretation feels best to you. If you want to accept the supernatural, that works, but if, like me, it feels more right to see her seeming precognition as sharp instinct and insight, well, that works too. Harriet is a movie of an undeniable mainstream appeal: This is no stodgy costume drama or dry history lesson. As is the way of origin stories, we can hope that Harriet is just the beginning of the stories we tell about her, to begin to rectify our pop-cultural ignorance. My one complaint about the film: not enough spy stuff. There could be a whole movie just about her career as a spy in the Civil War. Movie lovers and Americans alike absolutely need that sequel. n
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POP
Don’t Worry, Be Jason Mraz The San Diego folk-pop star brings his positive musical vibes to Spokane BY BEN SALMON
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ason Mraz is a world-famous musical artist for a lot of reasons. He writes catchy folk-pop songs built around memorable melodies. His lyrics radiate relentlessly positive messages about life and love and how to embrace both to the fullest.
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Live, he’s a charismatic performer, and he seems like a genuinely good dude. He even has his own charitable foundation, which is focused on supporting inclusive arts education and the advancement of equality. “Our purpose,” the Jason Mraz Foundation website says, “is to cause peace in the world.”
But perhaps the biggest reason Mraz has sold millions of albums and scored several big hits — most notably “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)” and “I’m Yours” and “I Won’t Give Up” — and toured all over the world is because he understands the symbiotic relationship between artist and audience, and he
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knows how to nurture that relationship. “The most valuable thing on this planet is someone’s time and attention,” he says in a recent phone interview with the Inlander. “I try to create the kinds of songs that people would want to hear on their wedding day or their birthday or on car trips. That’s always a goal for me as a writer,” he continues. “And then as a performer, make the shows interesting and humorous and real and vulnerable and as authentic as you can, so you are respecting the time and attention that people give you when they buy a ticket.” Mraz will bring his most recent tour, backed by the long-running band Raining Jane, to Spokane on Saturday. Here’s our conversation with him, edited for clarity. INLANDER: Have you always held such an appreciation for people’s time and attention, even going back to your coffee shop days? At that age, a lot of artists are still taking their audience for granted. MRAZ: I was 21 when I started in the coffee shop, and if I go back to high school, I was a performing arts kid. I was always on stages, so I knew the privilege it was to perform for people. I learned how to gauge the audience and feed them the things they needed to keep them laughing or clapping or singing along. And then when I would see singer-songwriters, I would think in my mind, “This is kind of boring. What’s happening here?” So I knew that I could have an edge if I just made sure I wasn’t boring. I didn’t have a lot of experience and I didn’t have a lot of songs, but I did everything in my power to keep it interesting. With the recent political climate and the general turbulence throughout American society, do you find that more people are coming up to you and thanking you for the positivity that pours out of your music? I do. I get that a lot. And because I get that a lot, it actually encourages me — if not inspires me — to be a better writer. To be a better person. To be totally prepared when I show up to provide that kind of service, because people do thank me for the messaging I’ve stuck to or the vibration I put into the song. So I want to continue to honor that. This goes back to people’s time and attention. If they’re choosing to put on music, that’s because they want to, in a way, change the story (of) whatever’s going on in their life back to music, back to love, back to harmony, back to rhyming and rap and whatever it is they like about the music. It’s the same with a concert. They’re choosing to not stay home and watch the news. They’re choosing to not brood about everything going on right now and to put themselves in a soft theater seat and trust in the arts to give them some entertainment and some comfort and some joy, and possibly some transformation. How about you personally? Do you find it difficult to maintain a positive vibe in your songs given all that’s going on in the world? You’re only human, of course. Attitude gets you a long way. Even if someone bullies me, it’s going to be my own attitude that has to pick myself back up and keep going. So I do try to work on that attitude constantly. My most recent album had at least one song (“Love Is Still the Answer”) that was a direct result of the 2016 presidential election, and that was kind of about attitude. Like, “OK, what’s going to happen to this world now? I have to still choose love. I can’t just go out there and start blaming and pointing fingers and being afraid. I have to just choose love.” n Jason Mraz and Raining Jane • Sat, Nov. 2 at 8 pm • $39.50-$99.50 • All ages • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000
Road Trippin’ Brent Cobb’s Georgia roots come through songs that resonate from coast to coast — and then some BY DAN NAILEN
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he road and the cities and venues along its path can be a blur for touring musicians, but despite the fact that Brent Cobb hails from south-central Georgia — far from the Inland Northwest — Spokane will hold a place in his memory forever. “I’ve been there a couple of times, and both times nearly changed my life,” Cobb says over the phone as he drives across south Alabama toward his Georgia home. “Spokane is beautiful. It’s a beautiful place.” Pressed for why the Lilac City had such a big effect on him, Cobb chuckles over the phone before launching into a story in the syrupy-sweet Southern drawl familiar from his songs, which blend folk, rock and country to great effect on his two major-label albums. “Well, I don’t know if I should, but I’m going to tell you anyway,” Cobb says. “Both times, somehow I came across some psilocybin mushrooms. The two best trips I’ve ever had, I was in Spokane both times. The second time, what really spawned such a beautiful, wonderful trip was the sunset in Spokane. It was really magnificent.” The next morning, when Cobb’s merchandise guy informed him that the name Spokane means “children of the sun” in Salish, well: “it blew my mind,” he says. Lest you think Cobb’s expanded consciousness and willingness to dabble in psychedelics on past tours means his music hails from country music’s “cosmic cowboy” realm, a listen to either his 2017 release Shine On Rainy Day (nominated for a Best Americana Album Grammy) or last year’s Providence Canyon will disabuse you of that notion. Cobb’s songs are rooted in the Georgia soil of his small-town upbringing, sketching vivid characters and scenes relatable to listeners coast to coast. There’s a reason the likes of Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town have all recorded songs penned by Cobb. His skills come through best on his own albums, and he’s visiting Spokane again Saturday on the tail end of his support for Providence Canyon, an album released nearly 18 months ago and one that brought him to Spokane Arena last summer opening for Chris Stapleton. “With both records, it’s sort of been a slow growth in kind of a cool way,” Cobb says about why he’s still touring so long after the album came out. “A lot of people seem to still be discovering both albums, which I appreciate, and it keeps us busy and out for the long term.”
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obb already has most of the songs written for his next release, and he’ll start recording in December. He doesn’t expect to spend
Brent Cobb.
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as much of 2020 on the road; he has a 5-year-old daughter and 6-month-old son, who he moved home to Georgia after he spent a decade in Nashville. Being a regular part of his kids’ lives is next on the agenda, as is reconnecting with the people he so often wrote about while living in Tennessee. When he moved to Nashville in 2008, he populated his songs with places and people from his home state as a way to fend off being homesick. “I would take myself to Georgia by writing these songs about Georgia. It almost made the memories more vivid for me,” Cobb says, noting that now that he lives there again, the new songs aren’t as much about Georgia. But the people he hangs out with there day to day still make their way into the new tunes. “I’ll stop at the little gas station and have a Styrofoam cup of coffee with the locals, you know, and I can just listen to people talk. Maybe the dialect is seeping into the songs more. The last two [records] I would say were more about people and places, and this record so far has sort of lent itself more to thoughts and feelings.” At this point in his still-young career, the 33-yearold Cobb knows his roots in small-town Georgia are part of what fans like about him. He recalls playing clubs in England where 200 British people sang along to lines like “take me south of Atlanta.” Seeing his music appeal overseas, or across the country in the Inland Northwest, means that what he’s trying to do is working, Cobb says. “I’ve said this before, but I always like to hear Willie Nelson sing about Texas,” Cobb says. “I like reading Mark Twain write about Mississippi and Missouri. It always took me to those places without actually having to go there, and it seems like that’s what I always wanted to do with my own songs. Take people where I’m from and kind of create that scene.” No mushrooms necessary for that trip. Just give Brent Cobb a listen. n Brent Cobb and Them • Sat, Nov. 2 at 8 pm • $15 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174
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COUNTRY KIP MOORE
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ithin the modern country music machine, it’s tough to bridge the gap between popularity and critical cache, to secure mainstream radio play while also getting the seal of approval from the cognoscenti. But Moore seems to be straddling that line pretty well, earning praise from outlets like NPR and Entertainment Weekly while bubbling right up underneath the barrier of superstardom. Moore’s latest acoustic album proves that he’s also capable of a vintage country sound, which the bro-pop sensibilities of early hits like “Beer Money” and “Somethin’ ‘bout a Truck” barely hinted at. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Kip Moore with Kylie Morgan • Thu, Nov. 7 at 8 pm • $33.50-$62.50 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200
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A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic THE BARTLETT, DBUK BEEROCRACY, Wyatt Beaulieu BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOBBI’S BAR & GRILL, The Cary Fly Band J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance THE GILDED UNICORN, Katie Fisher J HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Thursdays IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Royale J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jonathan Tibbitts LION’S LAIR, Karaoke with Donny Duck J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Lisa Prank (basement); Hallowonky EDM Party with Bngrz, Freaky Fred, Radikill and Friends MOOSE LOUNGE, Country Night with Last Chance Band MY PLACE, DJ Dave NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, Halloween Party and Costume Contest RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. Brian Hoffpauer THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RUBY CHOW’S, Dreamtime Band feat. Devadasi Dancers TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Far Out West ZOLA, Blake Braley Band
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emo Drive takes influence from the emorock of yore, with their insistent, ringing guitar riffs and Erik Paulson’s fullthroated vocals recalling everyone from Sunny Day Real Estate to Pinkerton-era Weezer. The Minnesota band dropped their sophomore LP Natural, Everyday Degradation earlier this year, and despite its name, it’s a step in a new direction from their 2017 debut, the ironically titled Greatest Hits. That record had a lean, garage-y simplicity, but here they lean into Killers-esque synths and a more theatrical style that should fill bigger and bigger venues. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Remo Drive with Summer Cannibals and the Emilys • Sun, Nov. 3 at 8 pm • $14 advance, $17 day of • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174
Friday, 11/1
219 LOUNGE, Elephant Gun Riot ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Sara Brown BARRISTER WINERY, The Cronkites J THE BARTLETT, Kuinka, Lavoy BERSERK, Factss, BattleSex BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Uppercut BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Christy Lee & Luke Yates BOLO’S, Nightshift BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Ben Rice Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Spring Tonic Bluegrass CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Jason Perry CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Katie Fisher CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Pastiche THE FISCHIN’ HOLE, Usual Suspects
HAPPY TRAILS TO BREWS, Kylan Kelley J THE HIVE, Marshall Charloff and The Purple Xperience IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Royale JOHN’S ALLEY, Far Out West J KNITTING FACTORY, Madeon, Flamingosis LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Ghoul Bash MARYHILL WINERY, Nick Grow MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle MULLIGAN’S, The Cole Show MY PLACE, DJ Dave NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dragonfly THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Dalec Baylor
PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic PONDEROSA SPRINGS GOLF COURSE, Melefluent THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIVER CITY BREWING, Heat Speak THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom J SARANAC COMMONS, Kevin Partridge SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Siegfried EP Release J SPOKANE ARENA, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Jameson Rodgers J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Just Plain Darin SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Theresa Edwards Band SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger TTS OLD IRON BREWERY & BBQ, Justin James ZOLA, Chris Rieser and the Nerve
Saturday, 11/2
3RD WHEEL, Silent Theory, Everyone Loves a Villain, Undercard 219 LOUNGE, Letter B THE AGING BARREL, Barbi j Blues ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Dan Conrad J J THE BARTLETT, Brent Cobb and Them (see page 49) BERSERK, Bad Shadows, Russell and the Motherf---ers, Headless// Heartless BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Uppercut BOLO’S, Nightshift BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Ben Rice Band J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Jazz Palouse Band THE BULL HEAD, One Trick Pony: A Paul Simon Tribute CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Gemini Dei CURLEY’S, Pastiche
J J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Jason Mraz & Raining Jane (see page 48) GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Slow Cookin’ HOGFISH, Head Change, Jacob Vanknowe, Cigarette Machine, The Dead Channels HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB, John Firshi IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Justin Lantrip THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Berner LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, The Weeks; Starburst ’90s Party with DJ True Justice (basement) MAX AT MIRABEAU, 3D Band MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Steven Wyttree J J MUSIC CITY, An Evening with Ken Stringfellow NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dragonfly THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ONE WORLD CAFE, Ash Fershee PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brian Jacobs THE PIN, Slimez
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POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RUBY CHOW’S, Dreamtime Band feat. Devadasi Dancers J SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR & EXPO CENTER, Just Plain Darin STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, DJ Danger ZOLA, Chris Rieser and the Nerve
Sunday, 11/3
J J THE BARTLETT, Remo Drive (see facing page), Summer Cannibals, The Emilys CRAVE, DJ Dave DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke HOGFISH, Open Mic IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Nick Grow LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Daniel Mark Faller THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Annie Welle RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jason Perry Trio THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Glass Honey
Monday, 11/4
THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Pat Coast CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills
LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Charley Crockett THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess
Tuesday, 11/5
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, KOLARS, Dear Boy BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Liver Down the River GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J THE PIN, Merkules with Cordell Drake and Treezy RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Kyle Swaffard TAPP’D OFF, Karaoke on the Patio THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s
Wednesday, 11/6
219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Drew Browne J BABY BAR, Peelander-Z, BaLonely THE BARTLETT, Pile, Slow Code, PIT BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Patrick Sweany, Bad Motivator CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam
IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Ron Greene THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, State of Krisis LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MAD BOMBER BREWING COMPANY, Open Mic THE NYC PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RED DRAGON CHINESE, Tommy G RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Nate Ostrander ZOLA, Desperate 8s
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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 A&P’S BAR & GRILL • 222 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-263-2313 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS • 39 W. Pacific • 838-7815 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 THE BULL HEAD • 10211 S. Electric • 838-9717 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 COSMIC COWBOY GRILL • 412 W. Haycraft, CdA • 208-277-0000 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • 279-7000 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-930-1514 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON GOAT BREWING • 1302 W. 2nd • 474-0722 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside • 456-5678 LUCKY YOU LOUNGE • 1801 W. Sunset LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PACIFIC PIZZA • 2001 W. Pacific • 443-5467 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN • 412 W. Sprague • 385-1449 POST FALLS BREWING CO. • 112 N. Spokane, Post Falls • 208-773-7301 RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL • 10325 N. Government Way, Hayden • 208-635-5874 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON • 12303 E. Trent • 862-4852 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Canadian comedian DeAnne Smith (above) finds a lot of material in her life as a vegan lesbian from the Great White North, including mocking herself for her choice of pet — a chihuahua. Instead, as a lesbian, she says she should have “three pit bulls, named Tegan, Sara and Flaxseed.” A Canadian Comedy Award winner, Smith has found success around the world, performing showcases at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival and more, and her Netflix special Gentleman Elf debuted as part of Netflix’s “Comedians of the World” series earlier this year. She’s even gone viral, getting 46 million views for her “Straight men, step your game up” video — definitely worth a Google. — DAN NAILEN DeAnne Smith • Sat, Nov. 2 at 8 pm • $25 • 21+ • The District Bar at the Knitting Factory • 916 W. First • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279
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First Friday • Fri, Nov. 1 from 5-8 pm • Free • Locations vary; details at firstfridayspokane.org
An Evening with Abigail Rockwell • Thu, Nov. 7 from 5:30-8:30 pm • $25 • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931
We’re already on to the second-to-last First Friday arts showcase of 2019. Brave the fall chill before the weather turns even colder and head out to explore the sights and sounds of the region’s flourishing creative community. Highlights this month include Avenue West Gallery’s Bring the Park Indoors, a collection by member artists celebrating the scenery of Manito Park, with a portion of sales proceeds supporting the nonprofit Friends of Manito. Across town at Trackside Studio, another series for a good cause is launching. The gallery invited local artists and community members to create colorful, original works of art on coasters, which are being sold for $10 each to benefit Meals on Wheels Spokane. See the link below for a complete list of participating events and art receptions. — CHEY SCOTT
Norman Rockwell’s images of small town America may still garner mixed reactions from critics and the everyday observer, but his granddaughter, recognized by the National Museum of American Illustration as a Rockwell scholar herself, seeks to change that. Abigail Rockwell is coming to Spokane to discuss the newly re-released Rockwell autobiography My Adventures as an Illustrator: The Definitive Edition, of which she is an editor. “I wanted to find out about the man behind the hype. It was all about the truth for me,” she says. Rockwell’s visit is part of several programs for the MAC’s ongoing Norman Rockwell’s America exhibit, open though Jan. 12. Rockwell also leads a tour of the exhibit as part of the event. — CONNOR GILBERT
EVENTS | THEATER
Character Development Out of the Shadows Theater brings awareness and transforms lives
NOVEMBER 2019
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heater is inherently transformative, as setting, narrative, and the actors transport us to other places, times and realities. But for the people involved with Coeur d’Alene’s Out of the Shadows Theater, the transformation is less about costumes and stage makeup and more about building up people whom society continues to overlook. In Out of the Shadows’ current production of The Music Man, 32 actors span the panoply of so-called special needs, from limited mobility in wheelchairs to autism to Down syndrome. And yet, watching rehearsals, it’s difficult to tell many of the actors from their “shadows,” volunteers who attend rehearsals and will appear on stage — dressed in black to minimize their presence — to support “their” actor. For Tim Neary, shadowing daughter Megan is more than just redirecting her if she misses a cue. “We’re doing it together,” says Neary, who acted in high school and appreciates the guts it takes to get on stage. He’s Megan’s full-time caregiver, and they spend roughly six hours weekly at rehearsals, which began in late summer, and even more time listening to show tunes in the car. “Thank God it’s good music,” he laughs. Theater has impacted his family in numerous heartfelt ways, says Neary, whose wife Actors from last year’s was also active in theater and got production of Mary Poppins the couple’s three girls involved in Out of the Shadows four years ago. “Theater gave [daughter] Emma confidence and purpose,” says Neary, so much so she is now an online student at University of Idaho considering occupational therapy and theater. She’s also a vital member of Theater Arts Center at the Lake (formerly Liberty Lake Community Theater). Neary’s youngest daughter, Michaela, stole the show with her cuteness and just a single line of dialogue when she first appeared on stage, says her father. Since then, she literally found her voice to sing in last year’s production of Mary Poppins. The credit, says Neary, goes to Out of the Shadows founder Wendy Carroll, and the supportive crew, all volunteers, many with a long history in regional theater. Neary and Caroll met through Special Olympics, as well as through her son, Toby, for whom Neary was a caregiver. Toby inspired her to create Out of the Shadows in 2016, says Carroll, who tapped her experience of four decades working in film and theater. Carroll, who serves on the board of Special Needs Recreation, would like to see more opportunities for adults with special needs in the arts and other areas. “They’re going to be adults a lot longer than they’re going to be kids,” she says. The Music Man, running the next two weekends, features all ages, from preteen to senior citizen, says Carroll, with lots of possibilities for roles: singing, dancing, being out in front, but also being out of the spotlight. Just not in the shadows anymore. “We see miracles that aren’t that big to others,” she says, “but they’re big to us.” n Music Man • Nov. 1-10: Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $12$15 • Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd., Coeur d’Alene • outoftheshadowstheater.com
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and appreciate our region’s native tribes, people and culture.
November 1 st LIFEWAYS WORKSHOP “MAKE YOUR OWN” BONE, BEAD & SHELL NECKLACE 6 – 8 pm | $25
November 2nd TRIBAL CULTURE PERSPECTIVES A panel presentation about respective tribes, cultures and traditions. Panelists from: Spokane Tribe, Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Kalispel Tribe, Nez Perce Tribe and Colville Tribe. 1 – 2:30 pm | Free
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRESENTATION 3 – 3:45 pm | Free
ELK PIT BAKE PRESENTATION 3:45 – 4 pm | Free
DINNER BREAK Enjoy an Indian taco. 4 – 5:30 pm | $5
November 3rd
NATIVE AMERICAN SIP AND PAINT 1 – 3 pm | $45
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I SAW YOU SCHFIFTY FIVE KVH - it’s been 4 years since I first laid eyes on you at the Rocket. Many ups and a couple of downs, and here we are still loving each other. You are and always will be my one and only guacamole. I love you more than you will ever know. Foredder Babe. ALWAYS AND FOREVER We met so unexpectedly and it happened all so quickly. I didn’t have a chance to think about what we had or what I would be losing if I lost you. I didn’t think about losing you and I didn’t think about how you would feel with my actions. All I know is we had such great potential and I didn’t let us fully flourish. Now I am left feeling empty and can’t help to think what we would have been if I would have taken us seriously from day one rather than 6 months in. I love you and I am in love with you, and always will be. I truly believe that if we’re meant to be we will cross paths again like we did at the wave. I hope that day comes again... THAI BAMBOO BABE I saw you at Thai Bamboo this Saturday. I can’t get over your contagious laugh. I am sorry your order was incorrect at first. Next time it’s on me! TREASURES WHILE THRIFTING Hey there. Saw you scanning the aisles at Value Village while I was looking for my
WHY IT DIDN’T WORK WITH ANYONE ELSE We have known each other all our lives. 41 years it took us to realize why it did not work with anyone else. We have been through so much in 9 months. Exes that thought they owned us. We both have fought so hard to give each other a clean and sober life. We went from having only each other to finding great jobs, a warm place to sleep, a good vehicle, a crazy dog that drives us crazy but fits perfectly in OUR family. I am so in love with you now and forever. You are my sir lancelot. My rock. My safe place. THIS LIFE DOESN’T SUCK.
or worse... is proof that the divisions are happening. You’re all allowed your opinions and to be offended. Not to lash out BECAUSE you are offended!!! Robert gave a lackluster performance because of the reactions and disrespect showed before he stepped out... CHEERS GUYS!
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ing like you don’t care about your own lives and the lives of others, and 2) quit using your f’ing phones in transit! Yeah, you might be “20 years old” but, by international standards, you’re still open to ridicule. Your previous Jeers message only proves that you are a stupid, whiny, self-important moron. And that you hate
taxpayers money. CALM DOWN We are all trying to get somewhere safely. Please do not disrespect your elders. They (and we) are allowed to go the speed limit. You who are driving aggressively and flipping them off, cutting them off, getting in
Is it really that much of an inconvenience to wait 10 seconds while a homeless gentleman crosses the street on his way to get his one warm meal for the day?
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CHEERS HELP AT THE AIRPORT 10/17 Thank you for posting that really positive encounter. We really need that right now and I’m glad you’re alright. ABOUT TIME, RESPONSE Chief, After six long years, we finally got together. Within one year, we were married. In 9 more months, we’ll have another family member. Cheers to you, Chief, I am pregnant. - Roo BACK IN TOWN Hi Tom & Kathy, we see you have moved back to Spokane. We do not have your phone # so we are trying to reach you this way. Since we do have your address, several of us are planning to visit you. We will make it a surprise. We guess you heard about the office. It is sad to think that one person could destroy a business and ruin so many lives. Well, we will see you soon. ROBERT PLANT SHOW We all paid good money to see this guy perform. He shared a speech that he obviously wanted us to hear. Wether we agreed with it or not, we should have been respectful and allowed it to play uninterrupted. Propaganda is meant to divide us and cause turmoil. Calling those who disagree with the propaganda Neanderthals
JEERS JERK On Oct. 19th, you hit my elderly mother’s car in the Rosauers parking lot on 14th. At 1:50 pm. You stopped and took her name but did not leave your information. You’re a young white male with a big dark rig. You did about $2,000 worth of damage. You might want to step up before karma gets you. RE: ROAD RAGE GRANDPAS Dear Idiotic Post-Millennial Whiner: Your recent submission was the (yes, you’ve won two SMK awards at the same time!) Most Humorous *and* the Most Whiniest post ever published in this great paper! Please, pat yourself on your sore, overstressed shoulders!!! The mere mention of “grandpas” only suggests two things: 1) you are an ignorant ageist, and 2) you whine far too much for your age. Now, youngling, you already mentioned in your OP that your parents were the original “negligent” objects of your spoiled youth. Red flag... Then you continued to flame the fire toward older adults. Hmmm.... Sounds like you are a spoiled brat. Maybe you, and all of your little idiotic minions, should: 1) quit driv-
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people who are more mature than you, or that more mature people finally called you out on your childish bullshit!!! 10/25, DIVISION WOMAN IN SUBARU The stickers on the back of your nice, warm subaru suggest that you’re a laid back Montana native who enjoys the outdoors. However, you seem to lack all compassion for those who are unfortunate enough to have to live in the outdoors. You nearly slammed into the back of my vehicle because you weren’t paying attention as you sped to change lanes in a well-trafficked intersection. Is it really that much of an inconvenience to wait 10 seconds while a homeless gentleman crosses the street on his way to get his one warm meal for the day? I hope that your day is as pleasant as you are. BALLOT WASTE Sitting here filling out my ballot with my trusty “tablet” to guide me with info on each “issue,” I found that whether or not I vote nea or yea on the the advisory vote section, the Legislature is not committed to enact what the voters “approve,” “reject,” etc.. I don’t get why the expense of publishing and all that goes along with that, is even put on the ballot. Again wasting the
front of them and hitting the brakes, Shame on YOU. Grow Up! Yes, you too in the black Subaru on HWY 2, calling people names and telling us to get out of the fast lane AS WE ARE ALREADY SPEEDING PAST PEOPLE... apparently not fast enough for you. It’s not a freeway, there is no “fast lane” on a divided highway with constant left-hand turns!!! Calm down, slow Down. The ICY roads are coming!!! Q6 GOES SLAVE I saw the Q6 anchor for Northwest give a big list on how to appease your workaholic boss, and I thought to myself that job really sucks. n
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EAGLE FOOTBALL NETWORK SOCIAL + FUNDRAISER The third annual social before the EWU home game vs. Northern Arizona University. Connect with members of the Eagle family and help raise money for EWU Football. Includes a live auction, drinks, appetizers with an appearance by Coach Best and his team. Nov. 1, 7 pm. $43.75-$50. McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. (321-1859) MOBIUS ANNUAL GALA Let your inner scientist out during this evening of fundraising, libations, hors d’oeuvres, a live auction, paddle raise, and science demos. Come dressed as your favorite scientist or cocktail attire. Nov. 1, 6:30 pm. $50. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org (321-7137) INTO AFRICA AUCTION + DINNER Partnering for Progress’ annual fundraiser features an auction and African dishes served along with western food. The local nonprofit works in rural Kenya on health care, sanitation, education and economic development. Nov. 2, 5:30 pm. $75. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. partneringforprogress.org CHAMPIONS AMONG US Spokane Nordic Association’s fundraiser dinner and auction includes the presentation of this year’s Gary Silver lifetime contribution award. Proceeds support the nonprofit’s instructor training, trail signs, maps, trail maintenance and more. Nov. 3, 5 pm. $30/$50. McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. spokanenordic.org THE ROAD HOME Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s 36th annual fundraising luncheon includes a presentation from a human trafficking victim’s sister, who shares her story. Nov. 3, 12:30 pm. Free; donations requested. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. lcsnw.org/spokane-event
COMEDY
JOSH FIRESTINE The up-and-coming comedian from Tacoma draws on experiences as a husband, father and veteran for a light-hearted take on life. Oct. 31, 7:30 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) JEREMY PIVEN Among his many notable roles, Piven is best known as movie agent Ari Gold in the hit HBO series Entourage, which aired for eight seasons and won him three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Nov. 1-2 at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. $30-$60. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER Pick a genre, subject matter, time period and the world wide web will help find the book. Fridays at 7:30 pm through Nov. 29. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com DEANNE SMITH The Canadian comedian’s video “Straight Men, Step Your Game Up” has over 46 million views, and her Netflix special, “Gentleman Elf,” debuted in January 2019. Nov. 2, 8 pm. $25. The District Bar, 916 W. First. knittingfactory.com/the-district-bar SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show with a few twists. Fridays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com MARK NORMAND Mark is a New York based stand-up who recently released his first hour special “Don’t Be Yourself” for Comedy Central, EP’ed by Amy
Schumer. Nov. 3, 7:30 pm. $15-$23. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998)
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CAMPBELL HOUSE HALLOWEEN Wear your costume, complete a scavenger hunt and create a Halloween craft. Oct. 31, 5-8 pm. $5; ages 3 and under free. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) HALLOWSWING Dance lessons, treats, games and dancing. Family-friendly costumes encouraged. Oct. 31, 7-10 pm. $5-$15. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. strictlyswingspokane.com NEON JUNGLE An immersive glow fun house for all ages. Proceeds benefit local students with learning disabilities through the Wired2Learn Foundation. Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 6-9 pm. 1800 N. Hwy. 41, Post Falls. w2lfoundation.com SCARYWOOD HAUNTED NIGHTS Silverwood boasts an array of haunts and endless scares. Thu from 7-11 pm, FriSat from 7 pm-midnight through Nov. 2. $27-$41. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95. scarywoodhaunt.com SPOOKWALK Meet ghosts of Browne’s Addition on a walking tour of the neighborhood and hear stories about spirits of the past. Proceeds support Friends of Coeur d’Alene Park. Oct. 31, 6:30-8:30 pm. $20. Browne’s Bistro, 1924 W. Pacific. tinyurl.com/BrownesTours TRICK OR TREAT DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE A safe, family friendly event at participating businesses throughout downtown Coeur d’Alene. Oct. 31, 4-6 pm. Free. (208-415-0116) TRICK OR TREAT SO ALL CAN EAT WSU College of Nursing students hosts this event for kids with dietary restrictions or other special needs, with games, crafts and prizes, plus carb counts on all treats, gluten-free options and a peanut-free environment. Oct. 31, 5:30-7:30 pm. Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and N. Idaho, 1404 N. Ash St. bit.ly/2B2iA3w (324-7340) EXHIBIT: THE HANFORD SITE Hanford in Richland, Washington, is home to the development of the atomic bomb during WWII. The site still houses more high-level nuclear waste than any other state in the U.S. This exhibit shares what it was like to live in a town centered around a top secret project and what’s done at the decommissioned site today. Nov. 1-30; open daily during library hours. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne. scld.org (893-8350) HOME IDEA & NORTHWEST TASTE SHOW Top off this year’s home improvement season with a consumer home show focusing on building, renovation, landscaping, design and decor. Plus, the new Northwest Taste Show showcases regional food and beverage products and services. Nov. 1-3; Fri 12-8 pm, Sat 10 am-7 pm, Sun 10 am-5 pm. $8-$10; 12 and under free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. homeideashow.com FRIENDS OF THE MORAN PRAIRIE LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds support library programs, activities and services. Nov. 3 from 9 am-4 pm; Nov. 3 from 10 am-noon. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. scldfriends.org/events LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ACTION WORKSHOP State Senators Andy Billig and Shelly Short preview current and emerging issues for state legislation in 2020. Nov. 2, 9 am-3 pm. $10-$40.
WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. lwvwa.org (202-6851) PIONEER DAY The German American Society of Spokane honors Germanspeaking immigrants who settled in the Pacific Northwest during the last two centuries. The Concordia and Liedertafel choirs perform traditional songs. Includes dancing and a German dinner. Nov. 2, 6 pm. $18. German American Hall, 25 W. Third. (954-6964) SCANDINAVIAN BAZAAR The annual event offers specialties such as lefse and cookies, meatballs and crafts. Includes a Kaffe Stua (9-11 am, $6); the Norwegian coffee hour features homemade Scandinavian desserts served by women in traditional dress. Nov. 2, 9 am-1 pm. Free. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. (624-9233) SHADLE PARK HIGH SCHOOL FALL CRAFT SHOW Shadle’s annual holiday show offers local shopping for gifts and other items from area vendors and craftspeople, including arts, crafts, food and more. Proceeds support student programs. Nov. 2, 9 am-5 pm; Nov. 3, 10 am-4pm. Free. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash. spokaneschools.org HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARDS Spokane Preservation Advocates’ (SPA) 6th annual ceremony celebrates individuals and organizations who’ve contributed to the preservation of Spokane County’s cultural heritage. RSVP to preservationspokane@gmail.com. Nov. 3, 6 pm. Free. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. (413-2915) KSPS EVERY CHILD READS STORYTIME An hour dedicated to reading, PBS Kids books, interactive stories, songs, crafts and more. Nov. 4, 10:3011:30 am. Free; registration required. KSPS Public TV, 3911 S. Regal St. ksps. org/storytime (443-7700) OPERATION IMMUNIZATION The WSU School of Pharmacy offers immunizations and diabetes and blood pressure screenings on the first floor in the foyer. Nov. 4, 12-2 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. (444-5300)
FILM
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW A viewing and performance party. 18+ Nov. 1, 9 pm. $5-$10. The NYC Piano Bar, 313 Sherman Ave. (208-930-1504) WARREN MILLER’S TIMELESS Kickoff winter with Warren Miller Entertainment’s 70th film. Nov. 2, 6 and 9 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com 39TH ROGER WILLIAMS SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOP A screening of Robin Meyers’ “American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” followed by a workshop. Meyers is an author, columnist and NPR commentator. Nov. 3, 2-4 pm. Free. St. James Episcopal Church, 1410 Stadium Way, Pullman. interfaith-house.com CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: UNDER THE DOME China Central Television reporter Chai Jing takes a close look at the effects of air pollution on China’s large cities. Nov. 6, 7-9 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org
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GREEN ZONE | CONSUMERS “AMONG FRIENDS,” CONTINUED... The West Hollywood restaurant is licensed as both a dispensary and cannabis consumption lounge, which means it can legally sell recreational marijuana that patrons can consume on site. It’s the first such establishment in the nation. According to USA Today, Lowell Farms Cafe was one of eight businesses to receive a license for on-site consumption in the city of West Hollywood. It is so far the only one to be open to the public. For now, the license is provisional. After one year, the City Council has to reapprove it. Like everything else surrounding the decriminalization of cannabis, it’s an experiment for now. The first of likely quite a few similar experiments. Alaska actually beat California to the punch in April when it became the first state in the country to sign into law regulations concerning on-site consumption of cannabis. Colorado followed suit in May with its Marijuana Hospitality Establishment Bill. That legislation allows for “marijuana hospitality spaces in which medical and retail marijuana may be consumed on site and retail marijuana hospitality and sales establishments in which retail marijuana, retail marijuana concentrate, and retail marijuana products may be sold and consumed on site.”
You can have beers at a bar, sip espresso at a coffee shop or catch a nicotine buzz at a hookah lounge. Why not give marijuana users a place where everybody knows their name? This isn’t just a push towards the establishment of weed bars in nightlife districts across the country, though. It’s a leveling of the playing field that will elevate marijuana consumers out of the shadows.
You can have beers at a bar, sip espresso at a coffee shop or catch a nicotine buzz at a hookah lounge. Why not give marijuana users a place where everybody knows their name? In jurisdictions with legal marijuana across the nation, the regulations are largely the same: Marijuana can be sold, and it can be possessed, but it can’t be consumed in public. Unlike alcohol, which can be consumed at innumerable establishments around the nation, marijuana has been essentially restricted to private residences. This puts weed tourists in a tough spot. But not anymore, in California at least, where you can sip pinot at a winery in Napa Valley before heading south to Hollywood to puff a joint at Lowell Farms Cafe. Soon, you can say the same about Alaska and Colorado. Someday, maybe, here in Washington, too. n
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Advice Goddess INGRATE EXPECTATIONS
My husband and I attended his niece’s wedding two years ago. Our gift was money earmarked to pay for their honeymoon. We were miffed that we never got either a thank-you note or any word that they’d actually used the money for a honeymoon. We recently got a note that they’re expecting their first child. We sent a nice card but no gift, as we never got any response for our wedding gift. Yesterday, a custom card came in the mail, belatedly AMY ALKON thanking us for our generous gift and telling us about their honeymoon. We suspect that they’re realizing that wedding guests who didn’t get thank-you notes are holding back on gift-giving for the baby. Should we buy them a baby gift, or should this be a time for tough love? —Resentful Sounds like you’ve discovered the gift-seeking couple version of the dude who abruptly stops returning a woman’s texts, only to resurface weeks later at booty o’clock — texting the 12:31 a.m. “Hey, whatchu doin’?” Understandably, you and your husband weren’t hot to seize the opportunity to go unthanked for another extravagant gift. Your reticence to fork over again to the unappreciative duo has a centuries and centuries-long history, coming out of the evolutionary need to distinguish cooperators from cheaters and freeloaders. Ancestral humans who let themselves get ripped off constantly would’ve had less access to vital resources like food and shelter, making them more likely to starve to death or become brunch for some wild animal and wind up genetic dead ends. We humans evolved to have a built-in accounting team — our drive for reciprocity, for fairness in what we give and get in return. Our emotions are reciprocity’s worker bees, putting out feelbad (in the form of anger, resentment, humiliation, or sadness) when we get scammed. We’re motivated to rid ourselves of those rotten feelings, which we do by trying to right the balance or at least avoid getting scammed again. That said, in close relationships, we aren’t looking for 50/50 reciprocity like in business. In this case, for example, a 55-cent first-class stamp on a thank you card would’ve done the job. In other words, you’re ultimately reacting to a lack of gratitude — an emotion more vital to human connection than it gets credit for. Gratitude (in response to somebody’s generosity) is an important display of what evolutionary psychologist Julian Lim and his colleagues call “social valuation”: how much another person values our well-being. Their showing high valuation of our interests is ultimately a form of social insurance — a sign that when the chips are down, they’re more likely to be there for us. When people don’t seem to value our well-being highly enough, we get angry — as you two did. I wrote in a recent column, referencing the work of evolutionary psychologist Aaron Sell, that anger is a “recalibrational emotion”: an emotion that evolved to influence our own behavior as well as someone else’s. Anger does its work through imposing costs — like scaring people at the prospect of you going all crazypants on them — and/or withdrawing benefits (in this case, future giftiepoos.) Complicating matters, parents of some or many millennials haven’t hammered them on the importance of thank-you notes the way parents (and grandparents) did with previous generations. Also, many millennials view writing messages in ink on paper and putting them in the mail as an exotic ancient practice, like paying cash or having a CD collection. Granted, in this instance, you don’t say you required a thank-you on monogrammed card stock. You were just looking for a little acknowledgment, a little connection with the newlyweds, like a texted picture or two from their honeymoon, maybe with a “Thanks for this awesome love-cation.” That’s not exactly unreasonable. But to view these two more charitably, you might want to consider the effects of millennial culture. Culture is, simply put, what lots of people in a group do. Cultural attitudes are contagious, meaning they spread from person to person. In other words, the millennial cultural environment may contribute to good and kind nieces and their new husbands shrugging off rituals important to human psychology and coming off as rotten little ingrates. Consider that they did ultimately end up thanking you — albeit belatedly. Taking the cynical view, maybe they just wanted baby loot. But if you believe they may have learned their lesson, you might be inspired to take a chance — splurge on that crib with the attached day spa, the Tesla of baby strollers, or robo-siblings to tide the kid over until Mommy and Daddy make human ones for him to blame and terrorize. n ©2019, 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 NAVAJO BLUE CORN MUSH A demonstration on how to prepare this traditional dish along with a Navajo creation story. Nov. 4, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org ELLA’S SUPPER CLUB A three-course dinner by chef Adam Hegsted with live jazz inside the historic venue. Nov. 6, 6 pm. $20-$45. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. montvalespokane.com INTERNATIONAL FEAST NIGHT A night of food from around the world demonstrated by members of Spokane Women Together, a spirited multi-cultural group. Nov. 6, 5:30-7:30 pm. $25. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front. secondharvest.org LONG SHADOWS TASTING EXPERIENCE Walla Walla’s Long Shadows winery is among the top tier of wine producers in Washington state. Nov. 6, 4:30 pm. $20. Nectar Wine & Beer, 1331 W. Summit Parkway. (290-5239)
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AAUW COFFEEHOUSE An evening of musical talent with savory snacks and a variety of beverages. Proceeds benefit AAUW Educational Fund. Nov. 1, 7-10 pm. $8-$15. The Hub (Colville), 321 Elep Ave. colvilleseniorhub.org JAZZ AT THE JACC An evening of “Straight Ahead Jazz,” songs from the Great American Songbook with Michael Jaramillo & Friends. Nov. 1, 7 pm. $10. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William, Post Falls. thejacklincenter.org AN EVENING WITH KEN STRINGFELLOW The founding member of The Posies brings the full scope of his 30+ year career as a musician, songwriter, producer, raconteur and boils it down to the simplest presentation: his voice, the guitar and piano. Nov. 2, 6 pm. $20-$75. Music City, 1322 N. Monroe. (625-6200) WHITWORTH GUEST ARTIST JAZZ CONCERT FT. RYAN KEBERLE & CATHARSIS The award-winning Whitworth Jazz Ensemble performs with critically acclaimed, world-renowned jazz group Ryan Keberle and Catharsis for the 31st annual concert. Nov. 2, 8-10 pm. $15-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) FLAMENCO PACIFICO Traditional pieces invite audiences to journey through a musical landscape with lively interpretations by two skilled flamenco dancers. Nov. 3, 7 pm. $15 Adults, $10 18 & Under. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St., Sandpoint. artinsandpoint.org GRANT US PEACE: HONORING OUR VETERANS Spokane Kantorei & Festival Singers perform music honoring veterans. Conducted by Timothy Westerhaus. Nov. 3, 3-5 pm. $5-$20. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. (838-4277) SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY: 70 YEARS OF INSPIRATION A concert featuring performances by all four Spokane Youth Symphony orchestras: Strings, Sinfonietta, Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra. Nov. 3, 4-6 pm. $14-$18. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (448-4446) AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: ATOS TRIO Formed in Berlin in 2003, the award-winning ATOS Trio has established itself as one of the finest piano trios performing today. Nov. 5, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. U of Idaho Admin Building, 851 Campus Dr. (888-884-3246) WSU JAZZ FESTIVAL The 27th annual
festival includes the Gala Concert featuring guests and WSU’s newest Jazz Studies faculty members. Also featured is the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band. Nov. 6, 12-5:30 pm. Free. Bryan Hall Theatre (WSU), 605 Veterans Way. events.wsu.edu/event/wsu-jazz-festival-livestream (335-7696)
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THE FOREIGNER In a show where not everything is what it seems, the audience can examine the reality that looks can be deceiving. Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at 7 pm, Nov. 2 at 2 and 7 pm. $5-$10. Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, 4904 N. Duncan Dr. (208-676-1667) THE ODD COUPLE: FEMALE VERSION A female version of Neil Simon’s contemporary comic classic. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Nov. 3. $20-$23. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org A PLACE TO CALL HOME When May Hutton died in 1915, her husband Levi overcame his great sadness and set out on a journey to fulfill a lifetime dream. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Nov. 3. $13-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. (325-2507) THE THREEPENNY OPERA A political and social satire. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through Nov. 3. $20-$25. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org THE BIG BE-BOP BANDSTAND AMATEUR NIGHT TALENT SHOW An original melodrama written and directed by Terri Robinson. Nov. 1-17; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$15. Sixth Street Theater and Melodrama, 212 Sixth St., Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com GONZAGA THEATRE: ROMEO & JULIET This new adaptation using Shakespeare’s original text explores contradictory yet simultaneous moments. Nov. 1-10; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$20. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet. (313-2787) I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY There were no butterflies at the concentration camp Terezin, but for the children there, they became a symbol of defiance. Nov. 1-10; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) MEMORIES WITH MARK TWAIN Actor Patrick Treadway presents a humorous one-man show crafted from Twain’s memories and musings. Nov. 3, 2-3:30 pm. By donation. Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St. (253-4719) MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER Celebrate the holidays with this year’s new over-the-top production featuring Russian artists, handcrafted costumes and more. Nov. 3, 3 pm. $31-$81. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (509-279-7000) NICK NORTON PRESENTS: PHANTASM, AN EVENING OF MAGIC MFor the past 20 years, Nick has mesmerized audiences at Silverwood Theme Park. Now, he and his wife bring their show to the Fox. Nov. 6, 7:30-9:30 pm. $25+. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200)
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ARTS & LETTERS BROADSIDE SHOWCASE An exhibit of print broadsides featuring writing and artwork created
as part of the Arts & Letters series, a collaboration between Spark Central and Spokane Print & Publishing Center. Nov. 1, 5-9 pm. Free. Spokane Print & Publishing Center, 1925 N. Ash St. spark-central.org (279-0299) FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host receptions to showcase new displays of art. Fri, Nov. 1 from 5-8 pm. Details at firstfridayspokane.org. PALOUSE WATERCOLOR SOCIUS SHOW The PWS has flourished as an art group since its inception in 1974 with a regional membership extending from the Lewis and Clark Valley to Spokane. Nov. 3-Dec. 1; Thu-Sat 10 am-6 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way., Uniontown. artisanbarn.org (229-3414) 5X5 ART EVENT The inaugural event offers 5x5 canvases by local artists for $55 each. Proceeds support artists and initiatives of the Hayden Arts Commission. Nov. 5, 5:55 pm. Free admission. Sargents Restaurant & Lounge, 9021 W. Government Way. (208-772-4411) AN EVENING WITH ABIGAIL ROCKWELL A special conversation and personal insight into the life and art of famous American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell. Nov. 7, 5:30-8:30 pm. $25. The MAC 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931)
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Discover your new favorite wines just in time for holidays The holidays will soon be upon us and with it, a social season of visiting, gift-giving and sharing good food. Whether you’re hosting at your home or have a hostess gift in mind, the Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association’s WINE FOR THE HOLIDAYS on Nov. 2 from 1-5 pm has you discovering the perfect wine to pair with any meal, no matter who makes it.
Gourmet goodies are available at CDA FRESH and MIGLIORE GOURMET, which stocks premium olive oil, vinegar and seasonings.
Your experience is entirely self-guided and a terrific opportunity to do a little shopping while you’re downtown. Look for artwork at BLACKWELL GALLERY or THE ART SPIRIT GALLERY or home décor and more at MIX IT UP and INTO THE WOODS, all of which will be pouring for Wines for the Holiday ticket-holders.
Of course you don’t have to limit your travels to participants in the Wine for Holidays event. Downtown Coeur d’Alene is home to more than 125 businesses from retail clothing to jewelry to gourmet foods to bars, bakeries, coffee shops and restaurants.
Find something to wear for yourself or your bestie at KANDY’S BOUTIQUE, MARMALADE, and T BLUE.
For men or women, the best-smelling Getting your tickets is easy; purchase them soaps and related personal products are at online or call to find out about getting them MOUNTAIN MADNESS SOAP COMPANY. Look the day of the event. For $15, you get six for outdoor wear at FINAN MCDONALD. 1-ounce tastings and a commemorative wine glass, which you’ll pick up at the Resort All that shopping is bound to make you Plaza Shops (201 E. Sherman Ave.). Bring an hungry, so save some time to sample unwrapped, unused toy the wines at HONEY Wine for the Holidays in support of the Marine EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB Nov. 2, 1-5 pm Corps’ long-standing Toys restaurant or go straight for For tickets visit cdadowntown.com/ for Tots program and get dessert at ABI’S ICE CREAM wine-for-the-holidays an extra tasting ticket. or WOOPS! bakeshop. or call 208-415-0116
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Trick or Treating has never been so much fun! Enjoy safe, family fun from 4-6 pm in Downtown Coeur d’Alene, throughout participating businesses. Plus, stop by Sixth and Sherman for “Trunk or Treat” put on by First Presbyterian Church!
Comedy Nights at the Inn NOVEMBER 1-2
Get ready to laugh at back-to-back comedy nights at the Coeur d’Alene Inn. This weekend’s shows feature comics you’ve seen on Comedy Central (Steve “Mudflap” McGrew) and Last Comic Standing (Kristin Key).
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This weekend is your last chance to be scared at Scarywood this year. Enjoy all the haunted attractions and rides through Saturday night. Friday-Saturday, 7 pm-12 am.
Tickets $17.50; doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 8 pm; 208-765-3200.
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