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reater Spokane Incorporated’s announcement that it would be submitting a bid to Amazon for its second headquarters has stimulated increased chatter about the effectiveness of our region’s economic development initiatives. There is increasing concern that we are not seizing the opportunity to proactively market the region and attract compelling businesses, particularly hightech and other emerging growth companies. The concerns have elicited discussions regarding what entity should be leading economic development and what the underlying strategy should be. Up until early 2007, economic development in Spokane was spearheaded by the Spokane Area Economic Development Council — the EDC. Subsequently, the EDC and Spokane’s Regional Chamber of Commerce merged to form GSI. The rationale underlying the merger of the Chamber and the EDC included cost savings, leveraging resources and creating synergies. In theory, these were worthy objectives. In practice, however, some believe it was unrealistic to expect the functions of public policy, education and workforce development, along with economic development, to be optimized within the same organization. Now, the effectiveness of the merger and the impact it has had on recruiting new companies is in question. All smart American cities are constantly grappling with the best way to develop their local economies, and the approaches vary — and are worth studying. But for us today, the basic question is whether recruitment can successfully be accomplished within one entity like GSI. At issue are several perceived conflicts.

hief among the conflicts are the interests of GSI’s members and the types of industries targeted for recruitment. For example, members representing legacy industries may not endorse soliciting businesses that may be competitive or disruptive. The profile of GSI’s membership base and the industries it focuses on for economic development is a second conflict. Because GSI’s membership base includes very few of the region’s fastest-growing high-tech and emerging growth companies, GSI lacks comprehensive input on the direction of its recruitment efforts. (etailz, an ecommerce company I co-founded, is not a member.) As a result, I believe that high-tech companies are not a high enough priority for GSI. GSI’s exclusive focus on Spokane is a third conflict. An effective recruiting strategy should be regional and include ongoing and regular collaboration with adjacent municipalities, academic institutions and businesses. Another issue is that the job descriptions, performance-based compensation and entrepreneurial culture required to recruit new companies are often quite different than those

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ne of my favorite new words is “wackadoodle.” It’s not a particularly wellused word, as Google Trends tells me, with the height of its popularity reached in a March 2014 spike of 100 queries. Defined by the Oxford Dictionaries as “an eccentric or fanatical person,” wackadoodle has been in circulation since the 1990s, but was most recently — and to best effect — deployed by Anne Helen Petersen in her Oct. 22 BuzzFeed article on the fractious politics of North Idaho. A senior culture writer for the site and associate professor of film and media studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Petersen’s piece — titled “Welcome to Idaho, Now Go Home: Wackadoodles, Establishment Hacks,

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ing to Lincoln” (10/19/17). The column was well-composed and rational; thank you for clarifying my disordered thoughts! The Cheeto-in-Chief would do well to read this column, but his well-known short attention span prevents that. When he started distracting himself and the country (again), I reflected on the matter of sports figures taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. I reject the premise that service members must sacrifice their time, sanity and lives for a flag and an LETTERS anthem. The flag is just patchwork, Send comments to the anthem is just a song, football editor@inlander.com. is just a game, and its players are just overpaid brawn. If I were asked to rally on behalf of America, I would be inspired by the framework of the Constitution (written centuries ago; times change), the land (which the GOP wants to rape for profit), and my fellow citizens. Recently I read an editorial in the Chicago Tribune which expressed that football players are employees and during working time, the game, they must follow the rules of team owners, their bosses. This makes sense to me, but I like your declaration better, that “quietly kneeling isn’t disrespectful.” What the White House occupant and his far-right core supporters are objecting to isn’t disrespect for the flag, anthem, or veterans, but constantly being reminded that they share the USA with peoples of other races/cultures/faiths. SUSAN SOPER Spokane, Wash.

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JD STEWART: Because, after we die, our souls leave our bodies and we’re either earthbound or going to heaven or hell, or whatever you believe you’re going … I’m pagan, so I believe when my time is up, I’ll be one with the elements/in the spirit world … And yes, I believe in ghosts. I’ve seen and felt them around. I’m also part of a paranormal group and the last three houses I’ve lived in have been haunted. Spirits are a noisy bunch, but they’re lost and confused and most don’t know they’re dead. JEFF CALDWELL: Or not. Or we just die. There are no souls. There is no afterlife. Consider this — what do you think Hindus “see” that have had near-death experiences? Would you be surprised to know that their vision of an afterlife is completely different? Why do you think that is? I’ll fill you in. Because religion is a cultural manifestation. n

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HER TOO SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Spokane City Council candidate Kate Burke speaks out about sexual harassment — and the disappointing reactions from people she admires BY DANIEL WALTERS

n that day in March last year, Kate Burke has no reason to think twice about letting Richard Rush into her home. Rush is a friend, a respected member of the community. At first, they talk about recipes and politics. She has political ambitions, and Rush says he can help her with them. He’s a prominent local Democrat, a former city councilman and Councilwoman Candace Mumm’s legislative aide. Then he asks her if she trusts him. She says she does. That’s when, according to Burke, he tells her he’s lonely because of his recent divorce and suggests they go into her bedroom and “cuddle.” She’s horrified. She’s 27. Rush is older than her father. She refuses. Then he suggests they ask each other a series of questions from a New York Times Modern Love column that made a couple fall in love. She tells him “no” again. He asks if she wants go on a walk by the river. For the third time, she says no. Finally — after a long, excruciating hug — Rush leaves. Burke locks the door and hides behind it so Rush can’t see her through the window as he drives away. It’s her first night in her new house — she hasn’t even unpacked yet — and now she feels she never wants to be alone there again. She tells herself she’ll never talk about what just happened.

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City council candidate Kate Burke says a former city councilman sexually harassed her. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

A year and a half later, during the last few weeks of her city council campaign, Burke is sharing this experience at a table at Geno’s, the Hamilton Street restaurant. She has the details typed out on a paper in front of her. She wrings her hands and takes deep breaths. Rush wasn’t the only man she’s felt sexually harassed by, but he’s the one who’s left the biggest scar. “It shouldn’t be this hard,” she says. Her eyes brim with tears behind her glasses. “I didn’t even get raped. No one touched me.” Ever since the New York Times reported on the sexual assault allegations against Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein, thousands of women have gone public with their own experiences about sexual harassment and assault from actors, politicians, journalists, co-workers and friends. Even before the outpouring of #MeToo stories, Burke told the Inlander she wanted to tell hers. She wanted to talk not only ...continued on next page

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“It stripped me of my dignity, to tell people. It stripped me of my power, my passion, everything.” That’s why Burke was scared to tell her boss what happened. As state Sen. Andy Billig’s legislative aide, she’d worked hard to prove to him how strong she was. And this made her feel weak. When she first told him, Burke says, Billig was uncomfortable hearing her talk about Rush, and he told her he didn’t want to hear about it. “Initially, I don’t think I understood the gravity of it,” Billig says now. But he thought about it more. And after Burke called him and asked him to listen, he reversed course and sought to help her how he could.

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But one conversation was hurtful in particular, Burke says. Several weeks after the news broke that Rush had been fired, she called Stuckart, the council president, to share her story. In an Inlander interview last year, Stuckart said Rush had trouble with boundaries, but stressed what Rush was accused of wasn’t officially considered sexual harassment. Stuckart called it all “unfortunate” for both Rush and the people he made uncomfortable. Burke recalls a similar tone in her conversation with Stuckart: Rush was just an old man and didn’t mean anything by it. “It was a horrible reaction,” Burke says. “It made me feel like less of a person.” Stuckart recalls Burke raising an incident where Rush made her uncomfortable, but doesn’t remember hearing about Rush propositioning her at her house. He says that he immediately went to HR with every concern raised. “When a complaint is brought forward, I act on it immediately,” Stuckart says. To Hansen, Stuckart had acted decisively. But to Burke, who in 2013 wrote an Instagram post calling Stuckart her “local hero,” Stuckart had downplayed her experience. Riccelli recalls seeing her distraught after her phone call with Stuckart. “I still can’t comprehend why those who I thought were my friends chose to stand up for a creepy old predator,” Burke says. “All these strong leaders I thought were in Spokane weren’t here.”

TWISTING THE KNIFE

Burke tried to regain a sense of control. With Billig’s help, she emailed Rush, excoriating him and telling him never to contact her again. She co-wrote an account of her experience — without identifying that it happened to her — for an online periodical based in Portland. She joined the YWCA board to fight against domestic violence. But she faced constant reminders of what had happened to her. The incident with Rush fed her fears that she was just successful because she was

seen as pretty — not because of her intelligence and compassion. And a piece of advice Burke says she got from Stuckart seemed to justify those fears: “You need to learn to use your looks for your advantage.” “If I said ‘use it to your advantage,’ that was among 20 other pieces of advice I gave her,” Stuckart explains. It would have been campaign advice, he says, like telling a tall person to stand a lot. Stuckart says institutional sexism is a serious issue. It’s one reason why he seeks to recruit women for city boards. “More than likely, somebody’s not going to tell a back-room, sexist joke if there’s women in the room,” Stuckart says. But Burke says she argued with Stuckart about sexism and sexual harassment, and felt Stuckart wasn’t hearing her. “It’s like my octave of my voice wasn’t going into his ears,” Burke says. “I felt really defeated.” She’s had other frustrations as well:  After an independent investigation into the handling of sexual harassment allegations against former Spokane police chief Frank Straub was released in July of last year, the city has sought to overhaul its sexual harassment policies, but Burke wants to see more progress. “That should be the mayor’s number one f---ing priority,” Burke says.  In March, City Councilman Mike Fagan threw up a photo on the screen at a Trump rally in Spokane Valley, showing Burke standing beside former President Bill Clinton. “The first thing that came to mind is, ‘Hey, where’s Bill’s hand?’” Fagan told the crowd. Friends had made similar jokes on her Facebook page. “It’s never fun to be the butt-end of a sexual harassment joke,” Burke says. “And it’s happened to me multiple times because of that picture.” And just to twist the knife: Rush was the one who took the picture.  As Burke doorbells for her campaign, she estimates that, about once a block, someone opens the doors and comments on her looks. “I give them my lit, and they say, ‘Oh, you’re pretty,’” Burke says. “And I’m like, ‘No, f---er. I’m smart. I’m passionate.’” She says this doesn’t happen to male candidates. Indeed, her city council opponent, Tim Benn, says he can’t recall ever having to deal with sexual harassment issues. Employers need to take it seriously, he says, but with him running a daycare center with his wife, it hasn’t come up.

IMPACT

Burke has steeled herself for backlash to this article. But she says she wanted to go public anyway — to praise people who do right and call out people who do wrong. “A personal story can really impact someone else’s life,” she says. Last year, Rush responded to the allegations by arguing he hadn’t done anything wrong. But now, he strikes a different tone. He writes that he’s horrified that he hurt friends and allies. “No woman should be made to feel this way,” he tells the Inlander. “I did not have a clue regarding the impact I was creating. The last thing I want is anyone to fear me.” He asks for forgiveness. “I have serious soulLETTERS searching ahead,” Rush says. “If Send comments to anyone, particularly those with editor@inlander.com. experience and wisdom in this area, has constructive engagement to offer, I welcome it.” Burke has offered her own apologies too, to friends she had treated poorly when they experienced sexual harassment. “I really thought that only weak women got attacked and raped and sexually harassed,” Burke says. “I thought I was so strong and invincible. I thought I could control this from happening to me.” Now she knows that she can’t. She can only control what she says about it. n danielw@inlander.com

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ELECTION 2017 A Spokane County public defender is challenging a former Spokane County deputy prosecutor in the race for SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE. Jocelyn Cook (pictured) is calling attention to what she believes is a flawed judicial appointment and election system in Washington state — one that relies too heavily on popularity and political affiliation, rather than qualifications. Tony Hazel, who was appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to the bench earlier this year to replace the late Judge Sam Cozza, says the evaluation process for judges in Washington is more rigorous than Cook describes. He points to the long list of people who’ve endorsed him, including 35 judges, as well as prosecutors and defense attorneys. For Cook, those endorsements, from lawyers who will appear before Hazel, are perfect examples of the conflict of interest the judicial election system can create. (MITCH RYALS)

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REALITY TV We’re better than reality TV. We know how manufactured it is and only watch to make fun of it. That is, until hours have gone by, and we find we’ve fallen deep into the rabbit hole — too deep to claw our way out of the addicting, cheap drama. At the bottom of that dark abyss is the Washington State University student-produced version of The Bachelor: THE FRATCHELOR. This semester, watch as a dozen single sorority girls hope to find a boyfriend in eligible frat guy Jake. There will be painful editing sequences and awkward dates, but also enough jealousy and cheesy, adorable interactions to keep you watching until the next episode. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

HOMELESSNESS Shelters in Spokane are filling up, meaning that sometimes they have to turn people away. For the homeless, it’s even more difficult to find a shelter to sleep in when there are barriers to cross first. In the past year, Union Gospel Mission in Spokane has started DRUG TESTING people if the shelter suspects they’re drunk or high, sending them away if they fail. If they have to test them a second time, UGM charges them $3. The drug test measures the “popular street drugs,” says Dave Wall, UGM community engagement director. That includes marijuana, even though marijuana can linger in someone’s system for weeks. Wall says UGM is trying to provide a “safe environment,” and doesn’t want users to be around those who are trying to get clean. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

CITY FINANCES The audit of the city of Spokane’s 2016 finances, released this year, may be even worse than last year’s audit. The state auditor identified several “material weaknesses” that “adversely affected the City’s ability to produce reliable financial statements.” While the errors were all corrected before they could cause problems, the city says it takes the audit seriously, and Kim Bustos, the city’s director of accounting, was FIRED from her position. Budget Director Tim Dunivant says the city is making sure to add multiple levels of review of its financial information at every level. It’s changing its paperwork, requiring all subcontractors to show they’re federally eligible. He also says he’s implementing an internal audit committee, drawing from the accounting, finance, and grants management departments, as well as city council. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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‘Leading by Example’ Spokane County will no longer ask job applicants about their criminal record; plus, Stuckart proposes major campaign-finance changes for city races BOX: BANNED Center for Justice, which has pushed for ban-the-box legSpokane County, with some exceptions, will no longer ask job applicants about their CRIMINAL RECORD, joining a national push to “ban the box” and give job candidates with convictions a fair chance. Spokane County Commissioners Al French, Josh Kerns and Mary Kuney adopted the policy change last Tuesday. From now on, employment applications for county positions will not ask if a candidate has been convicted by a court of law within the past 10 years. The county will not run a criminal background check on candidates until after it has determined the applicant is otherwise qualified for the position. “We wouldn’t want to disqualify a good candidate because of something that happened back in their past,” Kerns tells the Inlander. “That was our thought on it.” The policy change has been in the works for four or five months, says Tim Hansen, Spokane County human resources director. Hansen says French approached HR then, wanting the department to look into how it could change its policy. Nationwide, 150 cities and counties have adopted ban-the-box policies, according to the National Employment Law Project. The county’s policy, Hansen says, is similar to the city of Spokane’s policy, changed in 2014. Rick Eichstaedt, executive director of Spokane’s

islation in the private sector statewide, says he was happy to hear about the county’s change in policy. He was encouraged that the conservative board of commissioners supported the idea after the mostly liberal Spokane City Council did so years earlier. But so far, efforts to extend ban-the-box legislation to the private sector in Spokane and across the state have failed. And in Spokane County, it’s unlikely that county commissioners would support such legislation, either. “I don’t think it’s our place in county government to do that,” Kerns says. “This is something that we feel is going to be able to work for us, and I think this is more of us leading by example, rather than mandates.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

HELPING VETERANS

While the nation focuses on veterans with a national holiday on Nov. 11, the city of Spokane will spend the entire month honoring and helping veterans, especially those who are homeless, says Mayor David Condon. “Our veterans come from all branches of the military and all eras of conflict,” Condon announced at Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest on Oct. 30. “Some are struggling to maintain a safe roof over their head, put food on their tables, meet the basic necessities that you

and I enjoy, and earn a stable income.” The city and Goodwill hope to help HOMELESS VETERANS transitioning into permanent housing by providing them with the things they need to live on their own, such as towels, toilet paper, personal care items and sheets. That’s where you come in: Donations for those items and more will be accepted from Nov. 8 through Nov. 22 at area Goodwill locations, then passed on to veteran households in need. In addition to that work, Goodwill’s regional veteran housing program is working to find more landlords who are willing to rent through the program. If you’re a landlord, you can call 509-321-3348 for more information. The programs have helped veterans like Walter Martin, who says he came to Spokane on Sept. 5. “I was hurting. I just needed help, and when I got to Spokane, I went to the UGM and they were instrumental in getting me plugged in with all the resources,” Martin says during the city announcement Monday. “But what really helped out was going to the Spokane regional county office, and from there, everything just blossomed.” Martin says he got help with everything from a bus pass to health care, housing and employment, and he hopes that after getting his own life sorted out, he can give back. “Through my belief and the help of my God and these agencies, I believe that someday I want to sit on city council,” Martin says. “I want to help be a solution and not just come here to be an added statistic.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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n February, Ashley Stannard walked into the school counselor’s office at Logan Elementary with tears streaming down her face. She feared her three boys, all 8 or younger, would soon be homeless. “I said, ‘I don’t know what to do with my kids. I don’t know where to go. I need help with my children. I need to make sure my kids have something — food, a house, something,’” she recalls. It’s a situation becoming more common in Spokane County, where the number of students sleeping on couches or on the streets has reached 3,500. And behind each of those students is a parent or guardian, like Stannard, trying to figure it out. Luckily for Stannard, Logan Elementary had a way to help her family. The school referred them to Tami Cunningham, a community health worker placed at Logan under a project to house homeless youth by Priority Spokane, an alliance of community organizations currently focusing on that goal. With Cunningham’s help, Stannard, her longtime boyfriend Brandon Taylor and their three boys found suitable places to sleep until, months later, they found permanent, stable housing in an apartment complex on the South Hill. “The only reason we actually landed this place was because of Tami,” Taylor says. After the first year of the three-year pilot

project, Priority Spokane has found stable homes for 74 out of 100 homeless students split between Logan Elementary and two elementary schools in Deer Park. The results so far prove that having just one social worker dedicated to working with homeless students and their families in school can make a huge difference. It’s a model that’s relatively new both locally and nationally, says Ryan Oelrich, Priority Spokane executive director. And if it keeps working, its impact could spread far and wide. “What’s most important is we meet the needs here and address issues here,” Oelrich says. “But we have more than just local eyes on this.”

he idea Priority Spokane is testing for housing homeless youth is actually fairly simple: Place a community health worker, like Cunningham, inside the school, where students or families can seek her help whenever they need. Priority Spokane got the idea from the Siemer Institute, a national organization focused on stabilizing homeless families that also connected students with community health workers, Oelrich says. But those workers didn’t actually have an office inside the school, so Priority Spokane took it one step further.

Jordan, a third-grader, says he likes having a home where he can play with LEGOs. “We said, why not just work in the school in the first place?” Oelrich says. Homeless students at Logan are referred to Cunningham by counselors, teachers or district staff, or from a student or parent walking into her office. Previously, school counselors could try to help struggling families, but they didn’t have the time nor the same access to resources as someone like Cunningham, an employee of Catholic Charities. Cunningham helps students at the school, which really means helping the family. For example, she was able to find housing for Ashley Stannard and Brandon Taylor because their third-grader, Jordan, attended Logan. Cunningham does anything she can for the family. When Stannard, 29, and Taylor, 31, couldn’t find work, Cunningham would tell them about available jobs. When they were sent to live out on the street this June, Cunningham told them about a family shelter, Open Doors, where the family lived for three months this summer. When they were denied an apartment, Cunningham would write a letter of appeal, or use her connections with landlords looking to offer families a second chance. When something fell through, Cunningham would text them, “keep your head up.” Given Spokane’s low vacancy rate, by late summer, a home still eluded the couple. By then they had learned they had a fourth child on the way. It was important for them to find a home before school, so that their kids could have a place to do their homework, to have friends over, to be a kid. Time was running out. Then they got a call from Cunningham saying a place was available. Still, Stannard and Taylor didn’t get too excited — they had already applied for hundreds of other places. “I never wanted to get my hopes up,” Stannard says. “I waited until I had those keys in my hand.” This time they got it. It was the day before the start of school. They didn’t even have beds yet. “I wanted them to have a home, some place to call home, before they started school,” Stannard says. Now, Jordan has a living room where he can play with LEGOs on the coffee table. He has a

dining room, where he can eat with his family. His favorite part? “That we get our own stuff,” Jordan says.

ogan Elementary principal Brent Perdue had never heard about any program like this pilot project from Priority Spokane. But when he did, he jumped on it. Logan seemed like a logical choice for the pilot. It has the highest percentage of kids on free and reduced lunch in Spokane. And its mobility rate — the percentage of students transferring in and out of the school, often due to family instability — sits at around 40 percent. When students don’t have a stable living situation, their learning suffers. They often miss school, or come to school tired or irritated. And when they’re moving around to different schools, teachers can’t get a sense of how to reach out and get through to them. Perdue can’t say enough about what the simple presence of Cunningham has done. “I don’t know what we’d do if we didn’t have it. It’s been a great resource,” he says. If the results continue to be positive after the three-year pilot program, Oelrich says it will look to expand to other high-need schools. Each community health worker in a school costs $78,000 for salary and benefits, on top of a $10,000 “flex fund” to help find resources for families. It’s possible that school districts can find the money to fund these positions in the future, Oelrich says. To prevent homeless students from switching schools, districts the size of Spokane Public Schools spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year transporting students by taxi. If a community health worker can prevent those students from losing their homes in the first place, the program would pay for itself. Next year, Oelrich says, Priority Spokane hopes to move the project to Stevens County. But its reach could extend further. He says Priority Spokane is sharing its data with local, state and even national organizations that are interested in seeing how the project works. Perdue sees helping students and families in this way as an essential function of a school. It’s the best way to put students on a path to success. “My perfect school,” Perdue says, “is one that’s able to meet all the social, emotional and family needs of students.” n

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he fight over “facts” — over what’s true, what’s not, who’s lying and who’s helping them lie — is being waged on a daily basis. At times, it seems as though the battle is for nothing less than the soul of America. Worse yet, the fight isn’t fair — with the scales tipped in favor of stupidity and ignorance by international hackers, self-imposed social bubbles and algorithms that favor conflict and adorable cats. There is hope, though: Journalists are stepping up to the challenge, and American’s crazy-low confidence in the media is beginning to rebound (albeit slowly). In moments like these, we’re reminded of the value of rigorous, in-depth reporting; it also gives greater resonance to things like Project Censored, the annual effort, headquartered at California’s Sonoma State University, to spotlight critical news stories that were lost, downplayed or outright ignored by the mainstream media. This year’s list of undercovered stories touches on vital issues, like the health of our drinking water and efforts to suppress voting. Read on! — JACOB H. FRIES, Inlander editor

WIDESPREAD LEAD CONTAMINATION THREATENS CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND COULD TRIPLE HOUSEHOLD WATER BILLS

After President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, Michigan, based on lead contamination of the city’s water supply in January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide, with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint. In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened had high blood lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6 — about 500,000 children — have elevated blood lead levels. But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hot spots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pennsylvania ... where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to ... Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” What’s more, “In some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40 to 50 percent.” But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan. ...continued on next page

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The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water.

“BLIND SPOTS,” CONTINUED... In 2012 the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins reported, a January 2017 Michigan State University study found that “while water rates are currently unaffordable for an estimated 11.9 percent of households, the conservative estimates of rising rates used in this study highlight that this number could grow to 35.6 percent in the next five years.” As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

OVER $6 TRILLION IN ARMY SPENDING HAS GONE UNACCOUNTED FOR

In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades. As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or

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auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress — what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added. The report appeared at a time when “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare.... Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending ... even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.” In March 2017, after President Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for the Guardian that “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.”

The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet neither the Pentagon, Congress, nor the media seem to have paid any attention.

PENTAGON PAID P.R. FIRM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR FAKE AL-QAEDA VIDEOS

Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail FieldingSmith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive — and questionable — operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV and — most disturbing — fake al-Qaeda propaganda films. A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the Bureau that he was given precise instructions for

production of fake al-Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former General David Petraeus — the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq — and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’” Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point; its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the United States.

VOTER SUPPRESSION IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “pre-clear” changes. As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance. Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina and English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision. Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities USA, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016, with “a disproportionate impact on AfricanAmerican and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes.

Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. In counties that were more than 40 percent AfricanAmerican, turnout dropped 5 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to 2.2 percent without. In counties that were less than 10 percent African-American, turnout decreased 0.7 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to a 1.9 percent increase without. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.” As Berman noted in an article published by Moyers & Co. in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “[c]able news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

BIG DATA AND DARK MONEY BEHIND THE 2016 ELECTION

When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as proCommunist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up. In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed, but with decades of refinement, technological advances, and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting — based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters — as Carole Cadwalladr reported for the Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica ...continued on next page

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THE MEDIA “BLIND SPOTS,” CONTINUED... CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.” Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. In Trinidad, it paid for the painting of graffiti slogans purporting to be from grassroots youth. In Nigeria, it advised its client party to suppress the vote of their opposition “by organizing anti-poll rallies on the day of the election.” But now they’re able to microtarget their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook. This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject not remotely hinted at during the campaign.

ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT “SUPERBUGS” THREATEN HEALTH AND FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN MEDICINE

The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India — where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured — have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine. “After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’s

news report,” Projected Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries. Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe — thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to Dame Sally Davies, UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer. Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices — organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemo-

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THE MEDIA “BLIND SPOTS,” CONTINUED... “The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” now-former Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting. “Inadequate health care in rural areas and racial disparities are drivers of this maternal health crisis,” Project Censored summarized. “Nationally, African American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, with rates even higher in parts of the U.S. that Gay characterized as ‘pockets of neglect,’ such as Georgia, where the 2011 maternal mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 live births was nearly double the national average.”

the suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment. As Michael Sainato reported for the Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter — which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries — is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” In addition, DNC attorney Bruce Spiva later said it was within the DNC’s rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.”

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2016: A RECORD YEAR FOR GLOBAL INTERNET SHUTDOWNS

A key story about 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media — a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on

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In 2016, governments around the world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service. “In the worst cases internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities.” Olukotun said. Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages” — like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized internet “curfew” — as a single instance. “Many countries intentionally blacked out internet

access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored notes. On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Yet, “understanding what this means for internet users can be difficult,” Azad Essa reported for Al Jazeera in May 2017. Advocates of online rights “need to be constantly pushing for laws that protect this space and demand that governments meet their obligations in digital spaces just as in non-digital spaces,” he was told by David Kaye, the U.N’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. n Paul Rosenberg is a senior editor at Random Lengths News.

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t’s remarkable how early artistic experiences can point a person in the right direction. For Thomas Hampson, one of the world’s most renowned baritone classical vocalists, that experience came at Spokane’s Fox Theater when he was in high school at Upper Columbia Academy, a Spangle boarding school run by the Seventh-Day Adventists. A trip to Spokane meant some time away from the religious school leaders, a chance to hold hands with a girl in the Fox’s balcony — “quite frankly, in Spangle, a big deal” — and the discovery of what would become his life’s work.

“It was the first time I heard a symphony, and I’m sure it was a Mozart symphony,” Hampson says of that day in the early ’70s. “I sat there agog at the various instruments, all at the same time creating a tapestry of harmony and melody that just seemed like such a bouquet of colors and sounds to me. It just immediately and endlessly fascinated me.” While Hampson’s school offered some music and chorale-singing opportunities, his education blossomed at college, when he studied political science at Eastern Washington University while concurrently earning a de-

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11:30-Noon John Elwood and Robin Elwood Mountain dulcimer, squeeze box, ballads 12:15-12:45 Spokane Raging Grannies - Original songs for peace & justice 100-1:30 Dave McRae & Michael Robinson Folkabilly 1:45-2:15 UPOP & Ukestra - Ukulele bands 2:30-3:00 Poor Boys Delight - Folk, bluegrass, oldtime 3:15-3:45 Spokane Community Choir - Songs from many cultures 4:00-4:30 Olivia Awbrey - Nationally acclaimed touring folk-punk songwriter 4:45-5:15 Dick Warwick - Cowboy poetry and more 5:30-6:00 LaVona Reeves - Folklorist and singer 6:15-6:45 Pulehu Boyz - Traditional Hawaiian slack-key 7:00-7:30 Campbell River - Lovely and lively Celtic

11:30-Noon Crab Creek Wranglers - Bluegrass , country, blues 12:15-12:45 Crawdad Run - Old-time and more 1:00-1:30 Kettle Creek Bluegrass Band - Decade of bluegrass 1:45-2:15 Montana Ramblers -1850 to current bluegrass 2:30-3:00 Brad Keeler Trio - Bluegrass, old-time, originals 3:15-3:45 Mighty Dreadful - Bluegrass junkies 4:00-4:30 River City Ramblers -Toe-tapping oldtime 4:45-5:15 Blue Water Strangers - Old-time and Americana 5:30-6:00 Jackie Fox & the Hounds - A “howling” goodtime 6:15-6:45 Mountain Dew Boys - Bluegrass/gospel

CAFETERIA STAGE 11-11:30

Hillyard Belles & the Trainmen - Tap dance 11:45-12:15 Tribe Sahara - Middle Eastern belly dance 12:30-1:30 East Indian Folk Dance - Workshop with Sree Nandagopal 1:45-2:00 Veterans Day Tribute with Pages of Harmony 2:00-2:30 Pages of Harmony - Men’s acapella harmony chorus 2:45-3:45 International Folk Dance Workshop with Karen Wilson–Bell - Learn easy recreational folk dances 3:45-4:15 Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers Multicultural dance 4:30-4:45 Spokane Bulgarian Community Authentic traditional dance

Blue Water Strangers

SMALL GYM (Building 5) 11:30-12:30 Scottish Pipers, Highland and Country Dancers 12:45-1:15 Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimbas - Music from Zimbabwe 1:30-2:00 Northwest Hula Company - Traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian 2:15-2:45 Otis Orchards Malleteers - Youth mallet percussion group

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Two Days of Amazing, Inspiring Performances - for FREE! SATURDAY, NOV. 11TH • 11 AM - 10 PM // SUNDAY, NOV. 12TH • 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

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Spokane Tango - Argentine tango Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori Participatory Japanese folk dance Coeurimba - Marimba music from Zimbabwe Nah’Joom - Middle Eastern belly dance SCC Multicultural Students - Native American drummers and dancers

3:30-4:00 4:15-4:45

Scotia Road - Americana Sharp/BrownHawk - Contemporary Native American

CONFERENCE ROOM 11:45-12:15 Ron Doyen - Folk and blues gems 12:30-1:00 Patrice Webb - Award winning songs from North Idaho 1:15-1:45 Gary Edwards - Original songs with a focus on Idaho 2:00-2:30 Bob Rice - Toe tapping folk 2:45-3:15 Gabriella Rose - 15 year old singersongwriter 3:30-4:00 Lavinia Ross - Americana and blues 4:15-4:45 Frankie Ghee - singer/songwriter

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Brett and Janet Dodd - Duo tight-woven harmonies

SMALL GYM (Building 5) 11:30-Noon King Trouble & the Cherry Pickers Youth string band 12:15-12:45 United Methodist Marimba Band African marimba 1:00-1:30 Cultures’ Dance Arts - Dances from around the world 1:45-2:15 Cimarron Tribal Belly Dance - American Tribal style 2:30-3:30 Family Dance - Learn old fashioned barn dances 3:45-4:15 Grant School Drummers - African drum and dance

THE UNDERGROUND Neema Youth Choir

FAMILY STAGE (Building 5) Noon -1:30 Spokane Storytelling League - Stories for young and old at heart 1:45-2:30 Lucy D. Ford - Original stories 2:45 -3:30 Richard Clarkson - Folk songs for children 3:45- 4:15 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages 4:30-5:00 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 LAIR AUDITORIUM 11:00 -11:30 Neema Youth Choir - African Youth Choir 11:45- 12:30 La Patience Band - Soukusse-Rumba (Congo) 12:30-1:00 STAGE RESET 1:00-2:00 Floating Crowbar and Haran Irish Dancers - Irish step dance with highenergy music 2:00-2:30 STAGE RESET 2:30-3:15 Kosher Red Hots - Jewish music 3:30-4:00 Swing Set Hooligans - High energy swing dance 4:15-5:00 Sesitshaya Marimba - Music from SubSaharan Africa

SASQUATCH ROOM 11-11:30 Level Four - Blues, jazz & originals 11:45-12:15 Koyasuyo - Music from the Andes 12:30-1:00 Michael & Keleren Millham (Sidhe) Fusion folk 1:15-1:45 Alma Brasileira - Brazilian choro 2:00-2:30 Cheryl Branz - Heartfelt songs to hilarious 2:45-3:15 Broken Whistle - Traditional Celtic band

11:30-Noon Todd Milne & Moksha - Instrumental world fusion 12:15-12:45 Browne Salmon Truck - Blues, jazz, Latin 1:00-1:30 “Lonesome” Lyle Morse - Traditional and original blues 1:45-2:15 Dario Re Band - Indie folk 2:30-3:00 Hubbardston Nonesuch - Renaissance madrigals 3:15-3:45 Robinsong - Originals and folk 4:00-4:30 Sock Puppets - Idols of American youth

CAFETERIA STAGE 11:30-Noon Baharat!! Dance Company - Authentic dances of Middle East and North Africa 12:15-1:15 English Country Dance - Learn elegant dances with caller Mitchell Frey to live music by the Prestwold Players 1:30-2 ;00 Mele Polinahe - Music from Hawaii 2:00-2:15 Desi Spokane - dances of world peace from East India 2:15-3:15 Spokane Area Square Dancers with caller Doug Davis Demo and participatory dance 3:15-3:30 SET UP 3:30-3:45 Contra Dance Introduction Workshop with Mitchell Frey 3:45- :00 Contra Dance with Dog Paw with callers, Mitchell Frey and Emily Faulkner

BISTRO STAGE (Americana) 11:30-Noon The Willows - Tribute to Peter, Paul and Mary 12:15-12:45 Carter Junction - Folk, Celtic, cowboy 1:00-1:30 Kevin Brown - Honest, lyrical songwriting 1:45-2:15 Re–Educated Fellers - Western flavor cowboy tunes/poetry 2:30-3:00 Shiloh Rising - Acoustic duo contemporary original 3:15-3:45 Panhandle Cowboys -Western music/ cowboy poetry

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FAMILY STAGE (Building 5- Classroom) Noon -12:30 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages 12:45-1:30 Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages 1:45-2:45 Spokane Storytelling League - Stories for young and old at heart 3:00-3:45 Jenny Edgren - Songs for kids of all ages

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“I’m thrilled that Spokane still claims me as part of their history and musical life,” Hampson says. “I’m proud to be from Spokane, and in any biography I list Spokane as my hometown. I didn’t go to school in Spokane, I didn’t have a lot of friends in Spokane, but this is where I become Tom Hampson. It’s where I found out I actually am talented, I actually am musical. It’s where I first made an attempt at living an artistic life.”

fter Hampson’s first solo recital in New York City in 1986, the New York Times praised his performance for his “commanding stage presence” and “vivid theatricality” as well as his “good looks.” Cruise through Hampson’s Facebook page, and you’ll see those things are still intact more than 30 years later, judging by the swooning comments. Hampson is still an international headliner because he has the vocal chops. They’re showcased on his new album, Serenade, and will be the focus of his “Overtures and Arias” program with the Spokane Symphony this weekend, Hampson’s first appearance here since 2009. “As a singer, I’m not the youngest anymore, and I’m not the oldest,” Hampson says. “As long as you can do what you do, you need to do it. And I have no compunction about moving that dial into some other emphasis, but as long as I can do what I do as a singer, I’m going to do that.” The other “emphasis” for Hampson is education. Between touring nearly 11 months every year — he and his wife have apartments in New York City and Zurich, Switzerland, that he rarely sees — he works with music students, and since 2003 has run the Hampsong Foundation to help teachers of all disciplines use music to promote cultural literacy. He also teaches Master Classes at many tour stops, including Spokane, where he works with local talent to impart some of his hard-earned wisdom.

or Hampson, acting as an ambassador for classical music and education is vital in keeping the music he loves alive, and making it connect with everyone. “There is nothing elitist about classical music,” Hampson says. “That’s completely ridiculous. We would not have the classical music canon we have if not for the unbridled creativity borne of democracy and the right to express!

“That [classical music] is sometimes too caught up in itself about its own excellence that it forgets its purpose for the people for whom it is here? This I will completely agree to. I think in classical music, we have been remiss the last two or three generations to keep up with people’s understanding.” The renovation of the Fox Theater as home base of the Spokane Symphony is one example of keeping communities connected to classical music. Hampson was a big part WEEKEND of the fundraisC O U N T D OW N ing and awareGet the scoop on this ness campaign weekend’s events with for the project our newsletter. Sign up at that resulted Inlander.com/newsletter. in the grand reopening; he played the last show before it went dark for the refurbishing, and was part of the reopening festivities in 2007. Hampson still marvels at the wonderful sound on the Fox’s stage, noting that even though it was originally built as a movie house in 1931, the movies came accompanied with live symphonies “so this thing was built to sound good from the get-go.” “It hearkens to a time in this country when we really placed serious value on the quality of one’s mind and life,” Hampson says of the Fox. “I don’t mean that as a political statement, but the humanities just played a more significant role in one’s perspective. “When you walk into that auditorium … you’re greeted with this process of enlightenment. In other words, you’re invited into an atmosphere that says, ‘Yes, you get to spend some sacred time, for a short amount of time, in this space, reflecting on who you are as a human being.’ I find that fantastically wonderful.” n Spokane Symphony Classics 4: Overtures and Arias with Thomas Hampson • Sat, Nov. 4 at 8 pm; Sun, Nov. 5 at 3 pm • $17-$60 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200 Thomas Hampson Master Class, working with local students; public welcome • Fri, Nov. 3 from 3-5 pm • $10 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

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Arts Buzz

A roundup of the latest happenings in the Inland Northwest’s thriving arts community BY CHEY SCOTT

ur region’s art community is a busy bunch. There’s never a shortage of events (for artists and everyone else) or calls for proposals and other opportunities to get involved in the local scene. Take a look at what’s been happening artistically of late: A fourth and final sculpture denoting the boundaries of Spokane’s Nettleton’s Addition National Historic District was installed in mid-October. Steffan Wachholtz, a local artist and resident of the historic district, part of the West Central neighborhood, fabricated all four of the sculptures from reclaimed steel and aluminum. Each of the signposts are located at primary entrances to the historic district; previous sculptures were installed along Chestnut Street at its intersections with Broadway, Boone and Maxwell avenues. The newest and final piece was installed along the Centennial Trail at West Bridge Avenue, overlooking the Spokane River. The city of Spokane hosted an open house last week to reveal options for public art installations as part of the ongoing Riverfront Park Redevelopment project. Award-winning lead artist Meejin Yoon shared several preliminary designs with attendees, for both a signature, large-scale art piece and overall art plan for the park. If you missed the open house, a video of the presentation can be found on the Riverfront Park

Preliminary art designs for Riverfront Park by lead artist Meejin Yoon. website (spokaneriverfrontpark.com). In related news, a newly designed logo for the park was also unveiled this past Monday. In other public art news, Spokane’s Public Facilities District is seeking proposals for an art installation at the INB Performing Arts Center. Applications are being sought from regional artists (with a preference for Spokane-area residents) for a large-scale artwork to be permanently installed in the center’s lobby, with the potential for that art to extend into the outdoor breezeway between the INB and Spokane Convention Center. The public art project comes with a $150,000 budget. Interested artists can find more details about the project at spokanearts.org. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, Nov. 15. This Saturday marks the annual Spokane Arts Awards, a culminating celebration of October’s monthlong spotlight on the regional arts community, and the presentation of several notable accolades. At the reception, Spokane Arts will announce winners of the arts awards’ four categories, along with the incoming Spokane Poet Laureate and the recipient of the Spokane Arts Grant Award (SAGA) program’s fourth and final round — a $10,000 cash prize. Recipients of Artist Trust’s 2017 Grants for Artist Project (GAP) awards were announced last week, including several Spokane creators. The statewide arts nonprofit’s flagship award program supports projects by artists in all stages of their career who live across Washington state. Of the 61 awardees of this year’s grants, four call Spokane County their home base: media artist and podcast creator Dylan Nelson, photographer Jonathan Adamshaspert, Spokane Tribe ancestral artisan Shawn Brigman, and multiethnic fiber artist May Kytonen. Visit artisttrust.org to find out more about each artist’s background and their planned project. n A more detailed version of this story appears on Inlander.com, in our Arts & Culture section.

VIDEO A growing set of YouTube videos created by now ex-Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein turns the focus from the political insurrection of this year’s protests at Evergreen to the subject matter that Weinstein taught as an evolutionary biology teacher at the college. THE EVOLUTIONIST offers a glimpse into the mind of a divisive figure who proves to be an intelligent — however unconventional — thinker and scientist. Other than deconstructing his regional celebrity, these videos provide an honest, thoughtful evolutionary perspective on topics such as sympathy and empathy, explored in an accessible yet nuanced way. ALBUM King Krule, the spindly, ginger-haired, 23-yearold crooner from South London, continues to make tough jazz and darkwave gems that serve to widen the chasm between him and that other redheaded baritone, Rick Astley, on THE OOZ, released last month. King Krule, aka Archy Ivan Marshall, evokes some drippy, Lynchian vibes on “Dum Surfer,” then establishes further distance in the excessively chill “Czech One.” He goes wandering through familiar themes on this, his third studio album, but trudges through the deeply textured haunting displaying less resistance, more comfortable with it than on his previous two albums. There’s a lot of ground to cover here, with one genre-bending track leading to the next, but it’s warm and solitary, and hard to leave. COMEDY A comedian to watch in 2017, JOEL KIM BOOSTER flippantly relays his experiences growing up, adopted from Korea by evangelical parents in the Midwest. Being culturally isolated in the Midwest is a consistent theme of his, as he quips, “ I literally knew I was gay before I knew I was Asian.” Now based in Brooklyn, he’s been working the comedy circuit and was recently featured on Conan, performing his organic and anecdotal comedy. He seems to be finding his voice and learning how to work an audience; let’s hope his new surroundings provide him with the material to keep the laughter going. n

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November Newness Bundle up in a cozy coat before hitting the streets to check out the newest art shows opening across Spokane

pokane’s monthly arts showcase features events — including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists — across the downtown core and sometimes beyond. Receptions for this month’s event happen on Friday, Nov. 3 from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue. These listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday’s organizer, Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information, visit firstfridayspokane.org. (CHEY SCOTT) AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main The store hosts its first Friday poetry open mic; guests can share up to three minutes’ worth of material. This month’s event is a late edition starting at 8:30 pm. ART SEED SPOKANE, 1115 N. First Attend a closing reception for the show “Pushing the Boundaries.” The gallery also hosts a food and clothing drive for the homeless community. J AVENUE WEST GALLERY, 907 W. Boone “In Remembrance,” a retrospective honoring the life and work of gallery founding member Dian Zahner. BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second An intimate exhibit featuring the work of renowned Spokane watercolor artist Stan Miller. J BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. “Scratching the Surface” features encaustic paintings by local artist Christy Branson. Also includes live music by “Lonesome” Lyle Morse from 6:30-9:30 pm. BELLWETHER BREWING CO., 2019 N. Monroe The brewery displays work by Isaac Denton, a Tennessee-based watercolor artist and active duty member of the U.S. Air Force. BISTANGO, 108 N. Post The martini bar celebrates its 12th anniversary with live music by Kosh, from 4-9:30 pm. BOZZI GALLERY, 221 N. Wall A collection of autumn-themed oil paintings by Charlie Hamm.

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CORE PILATES AND WELLNESS, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy. The studio showcases watercolors by local artist Razzlebari, with music by Rick Andrews and a preview of its December artists. Reception from 4-8 pm. CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy. Local artist E.L. Stewart’s acrylic paintings blend abstract and realistic styles. Reception from 5-9 pm. J DODSON’S JEWELERS, 516 W. Riverside A collection of iconic local scenes by Spokane-born painter William Elston. EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main Oil and watercolor paintings by Steve Wineinger, in a show titled “Rhythms of Life,” which also features custom-made frames by the artist. HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 401 W. Main Live music by the Front Porch Trio, this time consisting of Steve Simmons, Alan Fischer and Steve Sackett, from 6:30-9:30 pm. IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Nature-inspired, mixed-media paintings by Linnea Tobias. LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Self-taught artist Arcell Salunga’s paintings are inspired by pop and expressionist art. Also includes live music by Nick Grow.

Above the Falls by William Elston can be seen at Dodson’s Jewelers. LIBERTY BUILDING, 203 N. Washington A celebration of the release of the newest issue of Art Chowder magazine, with artist Nicholas Sironka and performances by Kenya’s Friends Dance Troupe. Reception from 6-9 pm. LIBERTY CIDERWORKS, 164 S. Washington The cidery continues to show the work of WSU professor and pastel artist David Wang. Reception from 4-9 pm. MARKETPLACE WINERY, 39 W. Pacific Artistic photography by Laree Weaver, with live music by Scott Randall and Kevin Gardner from 5:30-9 pm. J MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy. The gallery features a retrospective exhibition of work by prominent 20th century artist, the late Ruben Trejo. Also see works by Spokane’s Ric Gendron and ongoing guest artist Alfredo Arreguin. Reception from 4:30-8:30 pm. NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS, 120 N. Stevens See new works by Spokane artist Kim Long, with live music by Dan Schmedding. Reception from 5-10 pm. NEW MOON ART GALLERY, 1326 E. Sprague The gallery’s current showcase is a collection of art by Marianna di Lorenzo, alongside work by other New Moon member artists. Reception from 5-9 pm.

PATIT CREEK CELLARS, 822 W. Sprague Live music by the Ken Davis Trio, from 7-9 pm. POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington The gallery’s November guest artist is paper mosaic artist Karla Lautenbach. Reception from 5-9 pm. RIVER CITY BREWING, 121 S. Cedar The brewery displays art by Raeanne Samuelson. ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific A display of nature-themed photography by Spokane’s Mike DeCesare. SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, 117 N. Howard A collection of new paintings by Andrea Bruse, along with live music by Haley Young & The Bossame. Reception from 7-9 pm. SPARK CENTRAL, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. All are welcome to participate in “Virtual Reality First Friday,” a collaborative art-making event with Google’s Tilt Brush program. J SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main A live concert by local Salishspeaking four-piece LaRae Wiley and the Bunchgrass Band, from 6:30-8 pm. STA PLAZA, 701 W. Riverside Hear music performed by local musician Frankie Ghee, and view art in the plaza gallery by Tatiana Siegal and Lark Riley. Reception from 4-6 pm.

STEELHEAD BAR & GRILLE, 218 N. Howard Photography by Mead High School student Nick Nelson, in a show titled “What I See.” TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY, 115 S. Adams See “Passage,” a collection of new sculptures and functional ceramics by member artists Chris Kelsey, Mark Moore and Gina Freuen. J V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott See vivid paintings and kinetic sculptures by Spokane artist Charlie Schmidt, who also performs on drums with his daughter Sydney on guitar for a set of music by Jack White. House band Crushpad also plays; reception from 5:30-9:30 pm.

MORE EVENTS Visit Inlander.com for complete listings of local events.

VINO! A WINE SHOP, 222 S. Washington The shop hosts tastings of its November wine of the month; also see art by Carl Richardson. Reception from 3-8 pm. WEATHERS AND ASSOCIATES, 105 S. Madison Enhanced photographs by Spokane artist Jon Bagby are on display. WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY AND FRAMING, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy. See works by local artist Linda Brisbois. n

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November 3, 2017

hen Seth Meyers took over the chair at Late Night on NBC in 2014, he was entering the bedtime ratings wars that were already glutted with funny folks of varying skill sets. His former Saturday Night Live co-worker Jimmy Fallon had the cutesy karaoke and fluffy interviews down. Stephen Colbert was announced as host in David Letterman’s old CBS Late Show spot shortly after Meyers started, and people assumed he’d bring some of the political bite and audience from his Colbert Report with him. Colbert now has British carpool karaoke king James Corden following him. Jimmy Kimmel has held down the late-night slot on ABC with his everyman appeal since 2003. Where Meyers would fit among this late-night landscape — as well as the one on cable featuring the likes of Conan O’Brien, Samantha Bee Seth Meyers and The Daily Show — was a legitimate question when he left Saturday Night Live, and it took a while for Meyers to find his groove. Specifically, it took the rise of a certain orange-hued politician to help Meyers find his voice — and it’s that of a bewildered but passionate advocate for average Americans. As Donald Trump’s candidacy turned from a scary joke into a scarier actual presidency, Meyers’ rants delivered from behind a desk — à la his years as SNL Weekend Update host — have become must-see TV, mostly because he just speaks common sense. When Meyers recently returned after a week off to the insane war of words between Trump and a new war widow after a phone call gone wrong, Meyers addressed Trump through his camera, “Look, just stop. Stop tweeting. Stop responding. Do what a normal, decent human being would do: Apologize and then be quiet.” In recent weeks, Meyers has teed off on so-called “alternative facts,” the government’s response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico and critics of NFL players protesting at games, while using comedy segments that allow some of the women writers on his show to react (via barbed jokes) to the half-baked apology from film mogul and alleged serial rapist Harvey Weinstein. And while there’s always that risk of exhausting an audience surrounded by political chatter 24/7, Meyers manages to twist his comic knife with a smile; he’s an ingratiating host without feeling hokey like Corden, or out of his depth when addressing anything serious, like Fallon. As a WSU Dad’s Weekend choice for entertainment, expect Meyers’ charm to go a long way in helping his jokes work, even on dads and students who might lean further right than Meyers’ TV audience. n

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Chef Ricky Webster is bringing new food concepts to Hotel RL Spokane at the Park.

How some area hotels are working to stay current as dining destinations for locals and travelers alike BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

ou’ve gathered there for Mother’s Day brunch, celebrated anniversaries, or attended big shindigs like prom, yet many regional hotels have, of late, become more than special occasion destinations unto themselves. It’s about the food, of course, with many of the area’s hotel kitchens working to stay on top or ahead of trends. It’s also about the vibe, including décor and service. We took a look at the unique ways some of the region’s lodging facilities are serving their guests, as well as an increasing segment of the community at-large in restaurant-rich Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. Hotel RL Spokane at the Park has seen a 20 percent increase in foot traffic since completing the rebranding of the 34-year-old Red Lion Hotels (formerly Cavanaugh’s Inn at the Park), says Amanda Marcello, Vice President

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of Brand Development at Red Lion Hotels Corporation, which owns numerous national hospitality brands. Marcello attributes some of that increase to locals, which Hotel RL executives had in mind during the $2 million, year-long remodel completed in 2016. “The space was redesigned as a communal live-workexplore space, a place where locals come to meet and socialize, as well as eat and drink,” she notes. The renovations included seating niches throughout the open-plan lobby and a bar that combines contemporary décor with rustic Northwest features. The lobby’s visual centerpiece is a structure of metal beams, from which hang pod-like hammocks. Massive logs, living trees, beanbag seating and Western-style accents complete the illusion of outdoor camping. This whimsical juxtaposition of mid-century modern and Pacific Northwest elements inspired recently hired corporate executive chef Ricky Webster’s menu overhaul, which will carry through to Hotel RL locations in Salt Lake City, Baltimore, and Olympia, Washington. “I’m very much the theme guy,” says Webster, who describes how he highlights beef, trout, apples, and other local ingredients to create “craveable” food. Webster traded traditional cod for trout in his fish-and-chips dish, for example, and expanded the shareable menu with dishes like the roasted root hummus and deviled egg trio. Webster’s experiences combine the art and science of

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cooking, honed from dual interests in performing arts — he attended New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has had some acting jobs — and baking, which he learned from his grandmother and mother, as well as on the job. Past gigs include an apprenticeship at Soutine, a former upscale French bakery in New York City, along with owning an artisan cookie business, competing on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, working for Ace of Cakes’ Duff Goldman, and expanding from pastry to executive sous-chef at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Now, Webster is happy to call the Inland Northwest home. Although the downtown hotel has 402 rooms, presenting a challenge in sourcing year-round products in sufficient volume and consistently, notes the chef, he continues to develop relationships with regional providers. “I relocated [to Washington from Northern California] for quality of life,” Webster says, adding that he seeks to infuse the Hotel RL menu with a sense of the region’s natural, fresh abundance.

erving the local community as more than a venue for special occasions is also the focus at one of the region’s most historic hospitality brands, the Davenport Hotel Collection. It includes the flagship 103-yearold Historic Davenport, the contemporary Davenport Tower, the boutique-style Hotel Lusso, and the sleek new Davenport Grand. Dining varies from the Palm Court

FOOD | BEER Grill to Table 13, the latter of which represents the first and last Davenport restaurant by acclaimed and recently departed chef Ian Wingate. New executive chef Evan Tewel, who has been with the Davenport since 2011, recently took the helm at Table 13, and plans to uphold Wingate’s legacy of innovation. “I will be keeping current through focusing on the Davenport’s Northwest roots; specifically through engaging the local farming community and making them a large part of what we provide,” says Tewel. Having connected with the local farming cooperative LINC Foods while still at the Historic Davenport, he’s been able to maintain these local agricultural connections at Table 13. In his capacity as executive chef, Tewel also tries to stay current on regional dining trends, which means dining around town as often as he can. “In food, especially, imitation is a sincere sign of flattery, and chefs pick up flavors, concepts, and interesting tweaks everywhere we go,” he says. “I also have an avid love for reading all things food, from high-end cookbooks to the late Lucky Peach [magazine], to various food blogs keeping me apprised of what’s happening in food around the world.”

hen talking about hotels in Spokane, the conversation should include a nod to Gerald “Jerry” Dicker, whose iconic projects include Spokane’s Bing Crosby Theater and Hotel Ruby a block from the theater. In 2013, Dicker purchased the Montvale Hotel, which houses the high-end Scratch restaurant and its companion bar, Rain Lounge, on the first floor. Dicker recently worked with Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, relocating it into the Montvale’s street-corner lobby space. He also connected with award-winning local chef Adam Hegsted, who was keen to custom-fit a restaurant into the historic building’s cozy basement, resulting in the Gilded Unicorn, which opened in late 2015. All three restaurants fulfill Montvale guests’ room service requests, while the nearby Hotel Ruby serves continental breakfast.

“All of our projects, we like to integrate the different concepts with independent people.” Recently, Dicker and Hegsted paired up on a similar project in North Idaho for Hotel Ruby Ponderay, which is served by Hegsted’s new Farmhouse Kitchen & Silo Bar. The restaurant partnership reflects Dicker’s interest in creating win-win business arrangements: Diners get a range of options, while the restaurants benefit from a supportive model that still allows them autonomy. “All of our projects, we like to integrate the different concepts with independent people,” says Dicker. n

Aggravated Murder Imperial Stout is available for online ordering until Saturday.

Small, Yet Big A small-batch brewery in Hayden is making high alcohol-content beers with an unusual release model BY DEREK HARRISON

ombastic Brewing does things differently. Its business model is unlike anything else we’ve seen, so far, in the Inland Northwest’s growing brewing industry. Production is small, beers are big and there’s no taproom for customers to grab a pint. The project started four years ago when Russell Mann, former owner of Post Falls wine and beer shop Enoteca, and Phil Hottenstein, a railroad engineer, formed a bond over their passion for all things beer. When the pair found a head brewer in Matt Skillicorn, a mechanical engineer and seven-year homebrewer, they knew they could make their beer-making dream a reality. Mann works the business side, Skillicorn makes the beer, Hottenstein helps brew and handles marketing. Between the three of them, they’ve sampled all types of beer across the United States and throughout Europe. Bombastic is currently brewing on an incredibly small (relative to most craft breweries) one-and-a-half-barrel system. The brewery usually isn’t open to the public, and its beers aren’t available in stores. Instead, the trio is taking a different approach. When a beer is ready for release, they package it in kegs and bottles. There’s a two-week online order window, offering a limited number of bottles for sale that are then distributed to purchasers on a specified pick-up date at the brewery, where the public can also sample the newest beer on tap. Buyers have to show up — or find a proxy — to the brewery on the specified date or their orders are forfeited. Hottenstein believes this online approach to sales is a better way of doing things. “It’s a more fair opportunity,” he says. Bombastic’s bottles can occasionally be found at Enoteca, with a few kegs tapped at spots around the Coeur d’Alene area.

ombastic also stands out from the pack because it specifically specializes in high percentage alcohol by volume (ABV) beers. “We do big beers. We do very unique, exceptional beers,” notes Hottenstein.

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The Murder Imperial Stout, for example, is the brewery’s standard stout, coming in at 10 percent ABV with vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa nibs, cayenne pepper and ancho chilies. “That’s just our baseline,” says Hottenstein. “Our baseline is a lot of other people’s speciality.” Their most recent release is called Aggravated Murder Imperial Stout, which was conceptualized after a night of drinking. At around 3 am, Hottenstein and Skillicorn began to craft the recipe. Then they slept for five hours, woke up and began brewing. “I wanted to make a really big stout,” Hottenstein recalls. The resulting 13.5 percent ABV imperial stout had maple syrup added to the boil, and cold-pressed DOMA coffee added after primary fermentation. It stays true to Bombastic’s limited release model, with only 84 bottles packaged. Aggravated Murder ($16) is currently available for online ordering, along with the base Murder Stout ($11) and Stubbornness ($16), a 12 percent ABV English-style barleywine. Order pickup is scheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 4, at the brewery.

t’s no surprise that the guys behind Bombastic have some adventurous plans for the future. Their goal since the beginning has been to become a contract brewery — a form of brewing in which small-scale brewing operations rent underutilized space at other breweries to make their product. This business model has been used by breweries across the world, most popularly by Mikkeller (Denmark) and Evil Twin Brewing (New York City). The idea works like this: Bombastic approaches a local brewery that is not at production capacity. A contract is negotiated, allowing them to use the brewery’s space and equipment to brew their own beers under the Bombastic name. A nondisclosure agreement is signed and they get to work. “Say [a brewery is] at 75 percent capacity — that 25 percent is just sitting empty for them and they’re not making any money off of it,” Hottenstein explains. “So it’s a mutual benefit. It helps us because we can pump out larger volumes of beer without taking out a massive loan.” The team also plans to expand distribution into Washington; Hottenstein expects a mid-2018 launch. Though there may not be anything else like it in the area, Hottenstein is a firm believer that Bombastic’s highABV, higher-priced beers are worth every penny. “Our beers are an experience,” says Hottenstein. “I truly feel what we’re doing in this area hasn’t been seen before.” n For more information about Bombastic Brewing’s online bottle ordering and events, visit bombasticbrewing.com.

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Thunderstruck Thor: Ragnarok embraces its comedic side to enhance the comic-book fun BY SETH SOMMERFELD

With Kiwi director Taika Waititi on board, Thor: Ragnarok really brings down the hammer on comedy.

here are a lot of ways to start a standard superhero movie: epic action sequence, character introduction, mysterious foreshadowing. Thor: Ragnarok opens with a caged Thor delivering a metacomedy monologue to a skeleton. “I know what you’re thinking,” proclaims the God of Thunder. “‘Oh, no! Thor’s been captured!’” It’s immediately followed by a bit undercutting established superhero movie conventions, where a chained Thor repeatedly tells a pontificating supervillain to pause his diatribe because the chain keeps spinning him out of view. While the first Thor film was solid and Thor: The Dark World was a forgettable slog, the third installment makes Chris Hemsworth’s titular hero less of an untouchable god and more of a wisecracking protagonist à la SpiderMan or Rocket Raccoon. Really, Thor: Ragnarok takes the Guardians of the Galaxy approach of turning the proceedings into an intergalactic action comedy. The story follows Thor’s attempts to protect his home of Asgard from its prophesied apocalypse known as Ragnarok. The task takes a bleak turn when Thor finds out he has an ultra-powerful, evil older sister, Hela the Goddess of Death (Cate Blanchett), who his father Odin banished years ago. Within minutes of meeting her, she makes her designs on the Asgardian throne clear, effortlessly destroys Thor’s thought-to-be-indestructible hammer, and casts Thor and his trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) onto the planet Sakaar. Thor soon gets captured by a drunkard mercenary named Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), who brings him to

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Sakaar’s ruler, an eccentric oddball named Grandmaster yearn for more time palling around with Hulk or Korg. (Jeff Goldblum). He loves nothing more than placing Despite this hindrance, Hela’s rationale for her strong new captives into his interdimensional gladiator actions leads to one of the deeper, more resonant battle ring, which is where Thor violently runs into his themes explored in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the old pal Hulk (it was clearly supposed to be a big reveal, whitewashing of violent and brutal history. She wants but they ruined it in the first trailer). So Thor must find her place at the throne because she was the right-hand a way to try and convince Hulk (possibly with the aid woman who helped Odin establish Asgard as the head of Valkyrie and/or Loki) to escape Sakaar and return to of the Nine Realms, and she did so through war and Asgard to battle Hela. vicious bloodshed. But when she got out of hand, Odin Despite his ripped musculature and intense stares, banished her and literally covered up the actual history Ragnarok proves that Hemsworth actually works best as with a warm and sunny narrative of peace and prosperity a comedic actor. He excels at being the simultaneously among the Realms. (I wonder if powerful white people overly confident and overly self-correcting beefcake have ever done that in our history? Hmmmmm...) who’s always trying to spin things to put him in a godly The cast has a blast with their over-the-top roles. aura. But the humor stretches well beyond While the MCU takes rightful scorn for the thunderous one: Asgard hosts an absurd removing so many good actors from the THOR: star-cameo-filled play glorifying Loki, Gold- RAGNAROK headier film workforce, it’s delightful to see blum’s Grandmaster offers both quirk and Blanchett voraciously chewing up scenery Rated PG-13 deadpan deliveries, and the simpleton blue as Hela. She revels in every manic moment Directed by Taika Waititi rock creature Korg (one of Thor’s prisoner of flamboyant villainy. Grandmaster allows Starring Chris Hemsworth, peers on Sakaar) bemoans how he failed to Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Goldblum to fully lean into his weird energy start a revolution via pamphlets. and reach amusing new heights as a pseudoIdris Elba, Jeff Goldblum While Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and bad guy. As the kind and dimwitted warrior Christopher Yost put together a lively script, it’s hard Korg, Waititi manages to steal his own movie, serving as to not give a ton of credit to director Taika Waititi, who the highlight of any scene he enters. made his name with the beloved New Zealand comedies Thor: Ragnarok makes the case for letting creative What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. people move outside the standard cookie-cutter mold There’s only one downside to the injection of humor: of blockbuster franchises. Bringing in Waititi to direct The moments of heavy exposition or serious action kind shakes up the formula just enough to make it feel fresh of feel like a drag in comparison. Whenever there’s a again. The movie basks in being silly and larger than life, life-or-death battle or a diatribe from Hela, it makes one and that’s a great thing for a comic book to be. n

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The third film in the Thor franchise is the best of the bunch, with the character’s comic energy getting a muchneeded jolt from director Taika Waititi. This time around, the God of Thunder learns he has a long-lost sister (Cate Blanchett, snacking on scenery), who casts Thor and Loki off to a prison planet and steals the throne of Asgard. (SS) Rated PG-13

Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn are back as cinema’s most foul-mouthed mothers, and this time they’re throwing the middle finger at the most stressful aspects of the yuletide season. The other new addition to the mix: the bad moms’ moms (Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon). (NW) Rated R When A.A. Milne wrote the beloved Winnie the Pooh books in the 1920s, he inserted his own young son, Christopher Robin, into the stories. This historical drama explores both the creation of the Hundred Acre Wood and the media frenzy surrounding the Milne family at the time. (NW) Rated PG

Director Rob Reiner explores the bumpy political career of Lyndon Baines Johnson, specifically the tumultuous period immediately before and after the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. Woody Harrelson plays the 36th president under a whole lotta makeup. (NW) Rated R

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

GEOSTORM

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

HAPPY DEATH DAY

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

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

JIGSAW

Because the first seven (!) entries in the Saw franchise weren’t enough, here’s a reboot, resurrecting the demented killer who ensnares his victims in sadistic — and personalized — traps. It’s not among the worst of the series, but it reaffirms that the premise ran out of gas long ago. (NW) Rated R

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The follow-up to the surprise 2014 hit Kingsman: The Secret Service is even cruder and more absurd than before. This time around, most of the Kingsman organization’s agents, save for superspy Eggsy, are taken out by a sinister rival group, which also threatens to

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release a devastating virus. Over-thetop, comic-book spectacle abounds. Whether or not you enjoy it depends on how much you value style over tact. (SS) Rated R

LET THERE BE LIGHT

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

LOVING VINCENT

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

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US

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

ONLY THE BRAVE

This fact-based drama enmeshes us within the ranks of a group of Arizona firefighters known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, specifically as they attempt to contain the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire in 2013. Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges star. (NW) Rated PG-13

SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME

Based on the best-selling nonfiction book, this inspirational story considers the unexpected friendship between a violent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou) and the troubled married couple (Greg Kinnear and Renée Zellweger) taking on a terminal illness. (NW) Rated PG-13

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screen, and the results are, considering the pedigree of its cast and crew, inexcusably awful and slapdash. Michael Fassbender takes on the role of the perpetually drunk, misanthropic detective, investigating a serial killer who builds snowmen outside the homes of his victims. Yes, it’s a mystery as lame as it sounds. (MJ) Rated R

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Directed by George Clooney and built upon a decades-old Coen brothers script, this pitch-black satire reveals — gasp! — a seediness beneath the polished veneer of 1950s suburbia. Half of the film is a decent crime comedy; the other half is an earnest but misguided social commentary about racism. (ES) Rated R

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

From the screenwriter of American Sniper, this drama examines what many war films tend to omit: what it’s like to come home from combat. Miles Teller stars as a soldier who, after surviving a bombing in Iraq, has trouble reacclimating to normal domestic life. (NW) Rated R

TYLER PERRY’S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN

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

VICTORIA AND ABDUL

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

WALKING OUT

A teenager and his estranged father (Matt Bomer) head out into the wintry Montana wilderness on a moose-hunting trip. Following an encounter with a bear, they’re both injured and must fight to survive in brutal conditions. At Village Center Cinemas Wandermere. (NW) Rated PG-13 n

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Intolerable Cruelty Suburbicon is the product of two disparate screenplays being grafted together, and it shows

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BY ERIC D. SNIDER eorge Clooney, like most powerful, creative types, needs to be told “no” more often. He and regular writing/producing partner Grant Heslov were developing a story about a black family moving into an all-white suburb in the 1950s when Clooney remembered an unproduced script by Joel and Ethan Coen about ordinary idiots pursuing a criminal endeavor and getting in over their heads (a common Coen theme). For reasons that only Clooney can explain, he chose to cram the disparate stories into one screenplay. The resulting film, Suburbicon, is unsurprisingly disjointed, yet surprisingly not bad as a Hitchcockian, Fargo-lite quasi-satire. I credit that to the strength of the Coens’ script, which occupies roughly 75 percent of the story and is too distinctive to be wrecked by a non-Coen’s mishandling. Clooney, who directed five movies before this one and has starred in four of the Coens’ own films, no doubt thought himself up to the task of interpreting their peculiar speech patterns and evocative one-scene characters for the big screen. He wasn’t — he gets the tone all wrong — but darned if it isn’t watchable anyway. The racism angle (a mistake) comes across as a fascinating error rather than a ruinous one. It’s the late ’50s in the squeaky-clean planned community called Suburbicon, and the Mayers family are the first African Americans in the neighborhood. The white people in the neighborhood freak out, saying blatantly racist things about property values and miscegenation. Neighbors on both sides of the Mayerses put up fences to block their view, but their backfence neighbors, the Lodges, withhold judgment. Aunt Maggie (Julianne Moore) encourages young Nicky Lodge Jupe) to play SUBURBICON (Noah with the Mayers kid, Rated R possibly just so she Directed by George Clooney can see what hapStarring Matt Damon, pens. Nicky’s mom, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac Maggie’s twin sister Rose (also Moore), has been confined to a wheelchair since a car accident and has little interest in anything. His father, Gardner (Matt Damon), is also mum on the race issue, for now. Violence does come to Suburbicon, but not because of the black family. There is a home invasion perpetrated by two sinister, Coen-esque goons, and Rose ends up dead. Gardner, Nicky and Aunt Maggie are devastated, Gardner returning to his nondescript office job to a chorus of “So sorry to hear about your loss,” but finding himself unable to work. Uncle Mitch (Gary Basaraba), the twins’ brother, takes a fatherly interest in Nicky, realizing before we do that

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MGFSC FALL BANQUET An annual fundraiser to benefit Spokane’s Master Gardener Program. This year’s keynote speaker is Rich Hatfield from the Xerces Society; the senior conservation biologist and expert on bees and other pollinators shares insights about the dramatic decline of bee populations, and what everyday citizens can do to help. Nov. 2, 6-9 pm. $40. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. mgfsc.org MOBIUS ANNUAL GALA 2017 A formal cocktail gala benefiting the Science Center and Children’s Museum. Includes hors d’oeuvres, libations, live auction, and a paddle raise. Nov. 4, 6:30-9:30 pm. $50/person. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusgala2017.eventbrite.com (321-7137) A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS The EWU Doctor of Physical Therapy Program hosts an evening with hors d’oeuvres, libations, live and silent auctions. All proceeds to fund travel for the Class of 2019 to national American Physical Therapy Assoc. conferences. Nov. 4, 7-9 pm. $20/$30. EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (359-2331) SPOKANE VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM LUNCHEON This year’s program is titled “The 1893 Gold Rush: the Inland Northwest’s Best Kept Secret. ” presented by Tony & Suzanne Bamonte. Also includes the annual Heritage Preservation Award, a silent auction, and a themed meal. Nov. 4, 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $20. Spokane Valley Eagles, 16801 E. Sprague Ave. (922-4570) UNCORK AN OUTPOURING OF SUP-

PORT A fundraiser for those affected by the fires in Sonoma and Napa, California. Enjoy a bowl of butternut squash soup with balsamic glaze and California almonds, and a glass of Kenwood Sauvignon Blanc or Yulupa Cabernet Sauvignon. All funds support North Bay fire relief. Nov. 5, 12-5 pm. $20 min. donation. Fleur de Sel, 4365 E. Inverness Dr. thedinnerpartyshop.com “YOU ARE WELCOME HERE” LUNCHEON Guests will be invited to support Lutheran Community Services Inland Northwest programs with a gift or pledge. This year’s program spotlights the unaccompanied minor refugee program, foster parents and more. Nov. 5, 12:30 pm. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. (343-5020) LADIES NIGHT OUT The 10th annual fundraiser benefiting Spokane Valley Partners features auctions, food, entertainment and more. Nov. 9, 5:30 pm. $60/person. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. (927-1153) WISHES & WINE An evening to support local children battling life-threatening illnesses. Enjoy a cocktail hour, plated dinner, a live auction and more. Proceeds benefit Wishing Star Foundation of Spokane. Nov. 9, 5:30-9 pm. $75/person. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. wishingstar.org (465-3591)

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GREG FITZSIMMONS See this regular guest of Howard Stern, Chelsea Lately, Adam Carolla, and Joe Rogan. Nov. 2-4 at 8 pm, Nov. 4 at 10:30 pm. $14-$27. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague.

spokanecomedyclub.com GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) COMEDY NIGHT AT THE INN “The All Stars of Comedy” return, with host Alvin Williams, Steve “Mudflap” McGrew and B.T. Nov. 3 and 4 at 8 pm. 21+. $15. Coeur d’Alene Inn, 414 W. Appleway Ave. (6241865) NERVE DAMAGE An all-improvised show in which BDT players test their nerves for audience laughs. First Friday of the month, at 10 pm. For mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com NO CLUE The BDT Players put a comedic spin on the macabre guessing game. Fridays at 8 pm, through Nov. 3. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com SETH MEYERS The Emmy-winning comedian comes to Pullman as part of WSU Dad’s Weekend. Nov. 3, 7:30 pm. $59.50. Beasley Coliseum, 925 NE Fairway Rd. beasley.wsu.edu AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) IMPROV! See the in-house, familyfriendly improv troupe. Shows on the first Saturday of the month, at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) DRINK N’ DEBATE The monthly comedy competition created by Nick Cavasier

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and Jeremy Person. Four teams of three comedians from the region hit the stage, get a topic and 5 minutes to prepare their arguments. Nov. 5 at 8 pm. $5-$12. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com DAN CUMMINS Dan’s unusual observations and autobiographical stand-up have earned him numerous television performances. Nov. 9-11 at 8 pm, Nov. 1011 at 10:30 pm. $12-$25. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

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KSPS + EWU FORUM: THE LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR To complement the 18-hour documentary series recently aired, KSPS and EWU host a series of forums. This talk features keynote speaker and author Christian Appy, Ph.D. Nov. 2, 2:30 pm. Free and open to the public. EWU Cheney, Showalter Hall, Rm. 109. ksps.org/vietnam TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION The blockbuster exhibit features more than 120 artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. These objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Through May 20, 2018; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 8 pm). $13-$18. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE The Smithsonian shares an exhibit which features a full-scale model of Titanoboa, casts of the original fossil vertebrae, and clips from the Smithsonian Channel documentary; it delves into the discovery,

reconstruction, and implications of this enormous reptile. Through Nov. 26; open Tue-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm. $8. Mobius Science Center, 331 N. Post. mobiusspokane.org DIA DE LOS MUERTOS FAMILY CELEBRATION The event includes a traditional altar; also includes a performance by traditional Aztec dancers, kids events, a photo booth, games, and a taco bar by De Leon Foods. Nov. 3, 5-8 pm. Free. Hennessey Funeral Home, 1315 N. Pines Rd. hbpaspokane@ gmail.com JUBILEE INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE Spokane’s annual sale of fairlytraded handcrafts from around the world. Nov. 3 from 10 am-7 pm and Nov. 4 from 9 am-4 pm. First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar St. spokanefpc.org LANTERN PARADE SpoLang Foreign Language welcomes all ages to this autumn celebration featuring glowing lanterns and singing of traditional songs. Nov. 3, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. spolang.com A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Enjoy food while you shop for holiday decor, vintage and antique goods. Nov. 3, 5-9 pm. Free. Two Women Vintage Goods, 112 S. Cedar St. twowomenvintagegoods.com DRUM CIRCLE WORKSHOP More than 50 percussion instruments, including some adapted for people with disabilities, are available. Seating limited to 35, with reservations required. Nov. 4, 1-3 pm. By donation. Indie Air Radio, 1514 S. Cedar. indieairradio.com/events

THE STATES

Change is Gonna Come For a hard-liner like Jeff Sessions, it might be “too little, too late” to stop America’s cannabis revolution BY TUCK CLARRY

ith the potential addition of four more recreational states (Arizona, Michigan, Ohio and South Dakota) in 2018, the pathway to federal cannabis legalization is at a point that would have been inconceivable a decade ago. And the past four years of recreational sales have allowed Washington state cannabis users to live in a completely different America. The Washington Post’s Wonkblog found that “more people were arrested last year for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent,” and one in every 20 arrests is a possession charge. And U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already reintroduced mandatory minimums for drug charges, as well as alluding to a crackdown on marijuana laws. “When you talk to the police chiefs, consistently they say much of the addiction starts with marijuana,” Sessions told the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 26. “It’s not a harmless drug.” Sessions insists that the 1980s gateway theory is the correct viewpoint to take moving forward with states that voted for legalized weed, states he views as “lackadaisical.” Sessions’ comments come on the heels of Northeastern states beginning to take a long look at their marijuana policies; next year, Massachusetts begins recreational sales and Maine extends its allowance of legal possession to 2.5 ounces. In June, Rhode Island created a special commission to examine the potential effects of legalization. State Sen. Joshua Miller sponsored legalization legislation, concerned that the Ocean State would miss out on major tax revenue if it’s the last to legalize in the region. The capitalist appeal of marijuana seems to be the most persuasive for many lawmakers and backers. According to the Associated Press, California’s marijuana industry has a projected value of $7 billion, with state and local governments receiving a whopping $1 billion in tax revenue next year. And once residents of the New England area get their hands on cheap, legal pot, it’s going to be hard to maintain the stigma of cannabis in yet another region. So with less cultural hesitance and more incentive for major financial investors to grow consumer bases, it will be hard for regressive policies like Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” to win out. And with the primary appeal of capital will come the benefits of finally performing medical research that has been impossible, due to the plant’s classification as a Schedule I drug. Cannabis legalization has become an interesting outlier to the long-held “states’ rights” beliefs held by many members of the Republican Party for more than three decades. If states are the individual laboratories of the federalist experiment, it’s difficult to see how the growth of recreational weed has proven anything other than monetary success, while offering the possibility of major criminal justice reform. n

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SCANDINAVIAN BAZAAR Items for sale include specialty foods such as lefse and meatballs. Proceeds benefit local charity organizations. Also includes a Norwegian coffee hour from 9-11 am, with desserts served by women in traditional dress. ($6). Nov. 4, 9:30 am-1 pm. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. (624-9233) SHADLE FALL ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR Shop for a variety of handcrafted items by local artists during the annual event. Nov. 4 from 9 am-5 pm and Nov. 5 from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash St. (263-6245) SPOKANE ARTS AWARDS The annual celebration and culmination of Spokane Arts Month includes the presentation of the 2017 Spokane Arts Awards, the announcement of Spokane’s new poet laureate, and presentation of a $10,000 SAGA grant. Proceeds support Spokane Arts Nov. 4, 7 pm. $30-$75. McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. spokanearts.org LIBRARY BOOK SALE Shop for used books, CDs, DVDs and books on tape. Cash and checks accepted. Proceeds support branch programs and services. Nov. 4, 10 am-4 pm. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. scldfriends.org WINTER MARKET The 14th annual market continues the tradition of hosting local vendors of handmade/artisan goods including food, arts, jewelry and more. Open Nov. 4 and 11; Dec. 2 and 9; Feb. 3 and March 3 from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St, Moscow. 1912center.org (208-669-2249)

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Get the scoop on this weekend’s events with our newsletter. Sign up at Inlander.com/newsletter. FACTS ON THE VIETNAM WAR Vietnamese community members share their perspective on the war in light of the new Ken Burns film. Vietnam veterans and families are warmly welcomed. Nov. 5, 2:30-4 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARDS Spokane Preservation Advocates hosts the annual ceremony to celebrate individuals/organizations that have contributed to the preservation of Spokane/Spokane County’s cultural heritage. Nov. 5, 6-8 pm. Free. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. spokanepreservation.org (413-2915) AN EVENING WITH THE TRIBE Enjoy an evening of native storytelling, dance and tribal history as members of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe share the importance of tradition through these cultural expressions. Nov. 8, 6-8 pm. Free. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org (208-667-1865) SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with the band Red Herring and caller Karen Wilson-Bell. Beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Nov. 8, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org (598-9111) A VETERAN’S PATRIOTIC EXTRAVAGANZA A gourmet dinner to honor local veterans, featuring live entertainment, guest speakers and a no-host bar. Veterans eat free; $16 guests/general. Reservations required. Nov. 9, 5:30-9

pm. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org EXPERTS ON TAP The U of Idaho Coeur d’Alene’s fall speaker series features evening talks with local experts on various topics. Upcoming sessions on Nov. 9 and 15, at 5:30 pm. Innovation Den, 415 E. Lakeside Ave. bit.ly/2yLLOmP

WILD & SCENIC FILM FEST The festival’s 10 films relate to environmental water issues and those working to overcome them. Proceeds benefit the Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper organization. Nov. 2, 7-9 pm. $5-$10. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic. edu/events/ SANDPOINT FILM FESTIVAL The festival features a variety of short films all 20 minutes or less. Nov. 3-4. $7-$20. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. sandpointfilmfestival.com BLACK LIVES / BLACK LUNGS A screening and discussion to help community members understand the tobacco industry’s successful infiltration in the black community, the deadly consequences and what we can do about it. Presented by SRHD, Black Lens and Alliance for Media Arts & Culture. Nov. 6, 6 pm. Free. Morning Star Baptist Church, 3909 W. Rowan. (795-1964) SWIM TEAM The award-winning documentary follows young men on the autism spectrum as they compete against other swim teams and transition towards adulthood. Nov. 6, 7-9 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-883-0523) BEING MORTAL Hospice of North Idaho hosts a screening of the critically-acclaimed Frontline documentary exploring death and how we deal with it. Nov. 8, 10:30 am. Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org OLDER THAN AMERICA A contemporary drama on the lasting impact of cultural genocide and loss of identity that’s occurred across the U.S. and Canada. Nov. 8, 6 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org THE MEMORY OF FISH American Rivers presents the award-winning documentary about one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free Washington’s Elwha River. Nov. 9, 6-8 pm. $10. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. americanrivers.org/memoryoffish/

minster, with three donated kegs from Fremont Brewing. All proceeds benefit a nonprofit set up to support his family. Nov. 4, 11 am-11:59 pm. Manito Tap House, 3011 S. Grand Blvd. bit. ly/2z29iFq (509-279-2671) SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. Sessions include appetizers and featured wines at discounted prices. First Saturday of the month, at 3 pm. 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second. beverlyscda.com WINES FOR THE HOLIDAYS Entry includes six tastings; for add’l tickets, bring a donation for Toys for Tots. Start in the Plaza (210 Sherman Ave.) to purchase tickets and get a map of all locations. Nov. 4, 1-5 pm. $7. bit.ly/2h6d1aB BASALT CELLARS WINE DINNER A five-course gourmet dinner featuring pairings from Basalt Cellars of Clarkston, Washington. Reservations required. Nov. 5, 4-7 pm. $45. 315 Martinis & Tapas, 315 Wallace Ave. 315martinisandtapas.com (208-667-9660) RAMEN FEST The 28th annual Japanese fall food festival offers traditional ramen ($12); spam musubi and inari sushi, along with desserts ($5-$6) and vegetarian items. Eat in or take out; see menu and pre-order online. Nov. 5, 11 am-3 pm. Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry. spokanebuddhisttemple.org BAKING WITH WASHINGTON APPLES Learn how to use our state fruit in some traditional desserts, including Brown Betty, apple crisp and strudel. Nov. 7, 5:30-7 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com FALL FAVORITES DESSERT CLASS Join Just American Desserts for a demonstration on how to make five fall recipes for Thanksgiving and holiday parties. Nov. 7, 6-8 pm. $30. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com (558-2100) FRIED CHICKEN & LOCAL BEER The monthly event from Chef Adam Hegsted features fried chicken paired with beers from a local brewery. Second Wednesday of the month, from 6-9 pm. $35. The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. (443-4410) PUMPKIN FLAVORED EVERYTHING Think outside the box this pumpkin season with Jamie Aquino as she shares some unique pumpkin recipes for the holiday season. Nov. 8, 5:30-7 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. thekitchenengine.com

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DECADENCE! CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL This local event celebrates and showcases all things chocolate, with baked goods, drinks, confections and more. Also includes wine for purchase, live music and chocolate art making. Nov. 3, 4-9 pm. $20. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. decadence2017.eventbrite.com/ FARM & FOOD EXPO The annual event hosted by the Spokane Conservation District features more than 75 lectures, classes and activities, along with presentations by authors and guest speakers Jean-Martin Fortier and Curtis Stone. Nov. 3-4. $25-$125. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. farmandfoodexpo.org (533-7000) FREMONT PINTS FOR PAUL An event to support the family of the late Iron Goat Brewing Co. co-founder Paul Ed-

SPOKANE SYMPHONY FEAT. THOMAS HAMPSON The Grammy Awardwinning baritone returns home to sing a selection of arias from popular operas, along with some of his favorites from the American Songbook. Nov. 4 at 8 pm and Nov. 5 at 3 pm. $14-$60. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org SPOKANE RECORD EXPO Browse LPs, singles, cassettes, 8-tracks, and other music memorabilia. All genres, subgenres will be represented. Proceeds benefit KYRS radio. Nov. 4, 10 am-4 pm. $2 admission; $40/vendors. Community Building, 35 W. Main. facebook. com/expospokane (232-1950)

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I’m a newly divorced woman trying some online dating sites. Because I read your column, I understand how men prioritize beauty. I’m an attractive woman, but I often photograph terribly, and I’m thinking of spending some money and having a professional photographer shoot some pix in a studio. Would this be a good investment? I feel like I’d have a better shot if I had really great photos. —Unphotogenic

AMY ALKON

Being somewhat vain, I fear the candid camera. In fact, I not only favor the posed photo but tend to stick (rather aggressively) to a single pose — the one that doesn’t make people wonder whether I eat oats out of a burlap bag. On online dating sites especially, appearance drives whom we choose or lose. Not surprisingly, marketing researcher Jonah Berger reports that “most online contexts,” including dating sites, “are dominated by posed photos,” as opposed to the candid kind — to the point where the main leisure activity in North America appears to be standing in a bathroom making duck lips for the camera. Berger notes that people tend to assume that others will find them more likable and worth getting to know if they present “a curated, polished version of the self.” Yet in his research, it was the candid pix that made people more interested in “being friends with or going on a date” with the person pictured. Those he surveyed also reported feeling “more connected” to those in the candid photos and liking these people more overall. “Candid photos made photo targets seem more genuine,” Berger explains. They “seem to provide a glimpse into what someone is truly like, an unvarnished perspective on how they look and behave when others aren’t looking.” However, there are times when candids are less advisable. For example, Berger found that employers on LinkedIn were more interested in hiring someone who used a posed photo. Sadly, it seems the candid “Here I am at 1 in the morning drinking my sixth glass of chardonnay” does not scream, “Hire MEEEEE!” But getting back to online dating, let’s temper Berger’s findings with what we all know: The hotter you look the more replies you’ll get on a dating site. So, because you’re somebody who often photographs “terribly,” your best bet is getting photos taken that appear to be candid. You do this by having a photographer or friend shoot you “in action” — in other words, appearing not to notice the big honking lens or the iPhone right in your face. Plan to shoot a ton of photos and at least a few will catch you looking babe-alicious. This should help you bridge the photogenic fairness gap — how there are those the candid camera loves and those it loves to make look like ringers for Winston Churchill.

WHO WILL STOP THE WANE?

I’m happily married. My wife is beautiful. She used to put a lot of effort into her appearance, but she now wears sweats and T-shirts everywhere and she never wears makeup or does her hair. I felt really bad about this on our recent date night, when she just put her hair in a ponytail and wore a slouchy army jacket. I want her to keep making an effort to put herself together for me. How can I offer her constructive criticism without making her mad? —Bummed You come up behind a ragged, disheveled person standing on the corner and put a dollar in the Starbucks cup they’re holding — and then you realize your error: “Oops! Hi, honey!” I suspect the term “constructive criticism” was coined by someone who went through life without ever encountering another human being. As I explain in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” here in the real world, “criticizing people doesn’t make them change; it makes them want to clobber you.” That’s because our ancient fight-or-flight system is a little one-note — juicing us to respond to a verbal attack as if it were an attack by some dude running at us with a bloody spear. So, though it isn’t unreasonable to want your wife to make an effort on date night, you should focus on what you do want to see rather than what you don’t. For example: “Honey, you’re so beautiful, and when it’s date night, it would make me so happy if you did your hair and wore a dress. And I’ll wear whatever you want.” And to get her to make more of an effort day to day: “I love you so much, and I want to be sure we keep the romance alive.” Make clear that you aren’t expecting her to do the dishes in an evening dress and a tiara. You’d just be thrilled if, from time to time, the thigh-highs could be fishnets instead of, well, hip waders. n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR WHITWORTH JAZZ CONCERT WITH ELLIS MARSALIS Takes place in Cowles Auditorium. Nov. 4, 8-9:30 pm. $15$20. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu/music FERRIS WIND ENSEMBLE “Always United, Forever Strong” is a program that pays tribute to veterans, featuring student musicians from the Ferris High School music department. Nov. 6, 7 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: QUARTETTO GELATO For 25 years, the ensemble has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide with their exotic blend of musical virtuosity, artistic passion and humor. Nov. 7, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. U of Idaho Admin Bldg., 851 Campus Dr. uidaho.edu/class/acms CARDINAL VOCAL JAZZ & JAZZ BAND A concert by the North Idaho Cardinal Vocal Jazz and The North Idaho College Jazz Ensemble, titled “Getting into the Swing of Things.” Nov. 9, 7:30 pm. Free. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden. (208-769-3424)

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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL: A new musical based on the classic 1983 movie. Nov. 2-12; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand Ave, Pullman. rtoptheatre.org (334-0750) PSYCHO BEACH PARTY A retro romp on Malibu Beach in 1962, and the tale of what happens when Gidget, Frankie & Annette and Alfred Hitchcock get a shotgun marriage. Through Nov. 5, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com TICK, TICK... BOOM! Director Courtney Smith brings to stage the story of a composer and the sacrifices that he made to achieve his big break in theatre. Nov. 2-12; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone Ave. gonzaga.edu/theatrearts (509-313-6553) WAIT UNTIL DARK A staged performance of the drug heist thriller by Frederick Knott. Through Nov. 12, ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook.com/lakecityplayhouse/ BACK OF THE THROAT A young ArabAmerican is confined to his home by two government agents. Questioning of him intensifies as the play progresses, with seemingly every item in his apartment a potential source of suspicion. Oct. 20-Nov. 5, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) CYT SPOKANE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE MUSICAL Broadway heavy hitter Alan Menken breathes new life into Dickens’ classic tale. Nov. 3-12; FriSat at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 3 pm. Nov. 3. $12-$16. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. cytspokane.org CYT NORTH IDAHO: ANNIE The local theater presents the beloved musical as its fall 2017 production. Nov. 3-12; FriSat at 7 pm; Sat-Sun at 3 pm; also Nov. 8-9 at 9:30 am and noon (school day performances). $11-$14. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytni.org GOIN’ FOR THE GOLD, SETTLIN’ FOR THE SILVER A comic, musical montage about the men and women that helped “get the lead out” in the Silver Valley.

Nov. 3-19, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$15. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com MOSCOW COMMUNITY THEATRE: ON THE VERGE Follow the adventures of three Victorian women explorers into what they believe to be a new, unexplored land. Nov. 3-12; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org ROMEO & JULIET: A CONCERT READING A special concert reading of the Shakespearean classic. Nov. 3-4 at 7:30 pm. $30-$32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. (325-2507) SHOPKINS LIVE! A live production packed with performances featuring the children’s characters known as the Shoppies. Nov. 3, 7 pm. $25-$100. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com WALDEN: THE BALLAD OF THOREAU Unknown Locals Productions and the POAC present a two-act play about Thoreau’s last two days at Walden Pond. Nov. 3-4 at 7 pm. $5-$15. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak. artinsandpoint.org/calendar/ (208-263-6139) GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER This year marks the 25th Anniversary Tour of Moscow Ballet’s prodcution. Nov. 8, 7 pm. $30-$177. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (509-279-7000)

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PEACE PAPER PROJECT Telling War and the Gonzaga art dept. host workshops on the ancient tradition of hand papermaking to encourage personal expression and cultural change. Nov. 2 and 9 (10 am-noon and 3:30-5:30 pm); Nov. 3 and 10, (10-4 pm). Special session at Riverside State Park on Nov. 11 from 11 am-3 pm. Free and open to the public. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/tellingwar FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Nov. 3 from 5-8 pm. Additional details at firstfridayspokane.org. KAY O’ROURKE: THE YIN & YANG The Spokane artist uses her canvas as a means to put “two sides” together, telling stories to reveal and to balance. Opens Nov. 3, from 5-8 pm; runs through Nov. 25, open by appt. Free admission. Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. kolva-sullivangallery.com ROBERT CHARLOE A reception for Kalispel Tribe artist. whose paintings are displayed through November as one of many events for SPL’s celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Open daily during library hours through Nov. 30. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MILINDA SMITH The artist’s paintings and mixed-media pieces are intended to help viewers develop a deeper awareness of problems in the world’s oceans. Special sessions with Smith are Nov. 5, 1:30-3 pm; Nov. 12, 1:30-3 pm and Nov. 19, 1:30-3:30 pm. Registration required. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne. scld.org J. CASEY DOYLE: THEY PLAY A showcase of new artworks by the associate professor of art and design at the U of Idaho. Nov. 8-Jan. 11. Opening reception Nov. 8 at noon, in the EWU Gallery of Art,

in the Art Building on the Cheney campus; open Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm. Free. ewu. edu/cale/programs/art/gallery

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JOHN BARTRAM LIVES! WITH KIRK BROWN A one-man show on the life and times of America’s first botanist, John Bartram. Nov. 2, 6:30-9 pm. Free. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. tieg.org PIVOT: PROMISES Seven local storytellers tell true stories from their lives that center on promises. Nov. 2, 7-9 pm. $10. Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. pivotspokane.com ERIC O’GREY & JAKE: FUNDRAISER READING A reading with inspirational speaker Eric O’Grey and Mark Dagostino, a NYT bestselling co-author whose career was built through the sharing of uplifting and inspirational stories. Nov. 3, 7 pm. Donations suppport the Spokane Humane Society. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com SCLD 75TH ANNIVERSARY & ANTHOLOGY RELEASE PARTY Spokane County Library District is celebrating its 75th anniversary with “Spokane Writes: A Poetry & Prose Anthology.” At the launch, hear writers share their work, enjoy live music and refreshments. Nov. 4, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s allages performance poetry competition with a $50 grand prize. First Sunday of the month; sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. $5 to compete or watch. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-703-7223) EVERBODY READS: S.M. HULSE As part of the literacy program, citizens from across the Palouse and Lewiston and Clarkston Valley have been reading “Black River” by Spokane-raised author S.M. Hulse. Free events with the author take place from Nov. 6-9: Nov. 7 at 7 pm (1912 Center, Moscow) and Nov. 7 at noon (Colfax Library). everybodyreads.org (208-669-2249) READING: GORDON S. JACKSON The retired Whitworth journalism professor’s new book “The Church That Used to be St. Elmo’s” is now his 13th book. Nov. 8, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL SHERMER One of the world’s best-known skeptics presents his fascinating theory on how and why we believe what we do as part of The President’s Forum for Critical Thought at Eastern Washington University. Nov. 9, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (359-6901) SPOKANE IS READING FEAT. WILEY CASH This year’s selection, “A Land More Kind Than Home” is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all. (Also includes a midday event at the Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprauge, at 1 pm.) Nov. 9, 7 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokaneisreading.org (444-5336) n

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Robert Vaughn at Beverly’s NOVEMBER 2-4

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Comedy Night at the Inn NOVEMBER 3-4

Back-to-back Comedy Nights at the Inn begin with the high-energy comedy of B.T., known for his sets on BET’s Comic View. The laughs continue Saturday with Steve “Mudflap” McGrew, a Comedy Central darling. Tickets $15; 8 pm; Call 208-7653200 for special room rates.

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Explore downtown Coeur d’Alene, and wines from all over the world, during this annual holiday event. Tasting selections are designed to help you pair the perfect vino with your holiday meals. Buy your tickets in the Plaza Shops, where you’ll receive a map of all the nearby tasting locations. Tickets $7; 1-5 pm.

Second Friday Art Walk NOVEMBER 10

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