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ounded less than two years ago, Lime has raised $467 million and is already a unicorn to investors, sporting a valuation of $1.1 billion. “Through the equitable distribution of shared scooters, bikes and transit vehicles,” the company “aims to reduce dependence on personal automobiles for short distance transportation and leave future generations with a cleaner, healthier planet,” according to its website. Strategic investors include such disruptive innovators as Uber and Google. Lime currently operates in more than 120 U.S. and European cities and has facilitated some 12 million rides. Lime bikes and scooters arrived in Spokane in early September as part of a two-month pilot. Anyone who has been downtown recently has likely seen, ridden or dodged one of the company’s Lime vehicles. I think they’re terrific — riding a an electric scooter at age 58 makes me feel like a kid again. It can be challenging, however, to steer, brake and hold a briefcase at the same time. I don’t even try to hold a cup of coffee or scoot and text. They’re also extremely convenient. I can hop on a scooter right in front of my office to go to a nearby appointment, meet someone for lunch or run an errand. I would have otherwise walked or driven. Riding a scooter saves me time and is cleaner for the environment. I still walk to the gym, however, as I wouldn’t want to support critics’ concerns that Lime and its competitors are contributing to unhealthy lifestyles.
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ime is also developing a new type of vehicle known internally as a “transit pod.” The concept is in early stages and the design is still in flux. But Lime’s plan is to build an enclosed, electric vehicle that could hold one or two people, resembling a smart car or a deluxe golf cart. The vehicle wouldn’t be a car, exactly; it’s not even clear whether it would have three or four wheels. But it would drive in normal street traffic, and could hit a top speed of about 40 miles an hour. In a possibly related effort, Lime has applied for a car sharing permit in Seattle. The company did not comment specifically on its Seattle plans but did say “you can expect electric vehicles to be an additional micro-mobility option for Lime riders to choose from within the Lime app soon.” I am inspired by the disruptive potential. For the first time, I can imagine not owning a car. Once the kinks are worked out, and the requisite infrastructure is created, I foresee relying upon Lime for first- and last-mile jaunts, Uber for medium-range transportation needs and Zipcar for longer-distance trips. The icing on the cake will be when Jetson-style flying cars become available! Rider safety, interaction with pedestrians and cars and “Lime Litter” are among the kinks. Hospitals have reported a noticeable increase in injuries in cities where Lime scooters are available. Helmets should be attached to each Lime bike or
scooter and required for operation; riders should be obligated to hold a current driver’s license. Scooters should not be allowed on sidewalks — I have already had a few near misses, both as a pedestrian and operator. But I’m not particularly bothered by the site of scooters and bikes randomly parked throughout Spokane; it’s part of the elegance of the business model. I suspect this issue will resolve itself. The infrastructure requirements are anyone’s guess. The unintended uses of Lime, Uber and self-driving cars are unknown. There will be many trial-and-error experiments to identify what works and what does not. What will parking garages of the future look like? Perhaps they become a confluence of various transportation modes. How does public transportation fit? City buses, as they are constructed and operated today, may become money-losing endeavors and become obsolete. I wouldn’t be surprised if another disruptive Uber or Lime-like company emerges to compete with traditional, publicly operated buses. Among the challenges will be providing open access to all. Lime addresses this by providing half-price scooter rates to individuals who participate in any state or federally run assistance program. I’ll also be curious to see whether ridership remains robust during the winter months. According to a Lime spokesperson, “All Lime products (scooters, bikes and electric bikes) are built to withstand the toughest weather conditions, including snow and rain.” Lime, however, has only been in operation for one full winter so it is just speculation at this point.
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ublic feedback, observations and data received during Spokane’s pilot program with Lime will help guide the initiation of a permanent bikeshare program expected to launch in the spring of 2019. Dockless scootersharing companies like Lime have been banned in Seattle, and there’s no timeline for when that might change. Seattle’s mayor wants to conduct a study and consult with other mayors. Much of the hesitancy is safety related. I encourage Spokane to take a different approach than Seattle. Lime is a disruptor with many potential, positive consequences for transportation. As with all revolutionary innovations, there will be issues, problems and chaos. Rather than put the brakes on change, I hope Spokane will be progressive in embracing Lime and continuing to partner with them to resolve the kinks and infrastructure issues. Plus, it will serve as another opportunity to show Seattle that Spokane is “Hacking Washington.” n
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n an eighth-grade Sacajawea Middle School classroom, a student reads out loud from a textbook. His classmates take notes with pencil and paper. Teacher Cindy Schwartzenberger hands out worksheets the kids put in their binder. Notably missing from their desks? Cell phones. “They’re totally engaged,” Schwartzenberger says of her students. That can be rare for a generation of kids who have often had cell phones put in their hands before they turn 10 years old. Kids are increasingly becoming addicted to social media and their phones, and it’s a reality that many schools are just now taking measures to combat. ...continued on next page
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“OUT OF NETWORK,” CONTINUED... For Schwartzenberger, cell phones used to be a constant struggle. Students weren’t allowed to use phones in class, but it was impossible to enforce when phones would buzz in their pockets with a new text or Snapchat notification. So Schwartzenberger got a cell phone holder that hangs from the wall and has 30 pockets. When students walk in, they are to put their phones there until class is over. It was such a success that the entire school adopted the policy. The Sacajawea parentteacher group bought cell phone holders for all the teachers. As a result, teachers are having fewer problems in class, and fewer students are disciplined by administrators for using phones. “I think a lot of schools across the country maybe are afraid to get into a struggle with taking a cell phone, but we’re not really taking it. We’re just saying this is where phones go during class time,” Schwartzenberger says. “I think every school in the country should do it.”
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acajawea, of course, isn’t the first school to ban phones during instructional time. In February, Coeur d’Alene Public Schools banned cell phones districtwide during instructional time. “Psychologists are now telling us that just having it in the pocket is a distraction,” said Board of Trustees member Dave Eubanks, according to the Coeur d’Alene Press. The rule means students’ phones must be turned off and “off the person,” meaning in a backpack or locker. Since then, says district spokesman Scott Maben, principals and teachers have appreciated the uniform policy. “It makes it much easier for the teachers to deal with violations,” Maben says.
In France, the entire country banned cell phones during school. Starting this year, kids ages 3-15 cannot use smartphones on school grounds, with few exceptions. Spokane Public Schools doesn’t ban phones in all schools. Instead, certain classrooms or schools make their own policies regarding cell phones in classrooms. Steve Fisk, North Central High School principal, says the math department has experimented with no cell phones in class. At Lewis & Clark High School, all classrooms are “no phone zones,” says principal Marybeth Smith. But some classrooms have students turn their phones in before class and some let them have it in their pocket. LETTERS If there’s an Send comments to issue, students editor@inlander.com. put the phone in a brown bag and then talk to the teacher after class. “I thought we’d have a ton of pushback, and frankly, the kids went, ‘alright,’” Smith told the school board last month. “I had a kiddo today say, ‘You know what, it’s so nice not to have my phone with me.’” What persuaded principal Jeremy Ochse at Sacajawea to develop its “no phone” policy is the negative effect that they have not just on the classroom, but on kids overall. He says administrators, teachers and staff are thankful for the amount of time that’s been saved dealing with disciplinary issues with phones. “It just made sense for our school,” Ochse says. “It was a good fit.” Roughly four in five teens have a smartphone, according to a market research firm called eMarketer. A 2016 survey from Common Sense Media found that half of teens feel
“addicted” to their phones, with three-quarters feeling the need to immediately respond to texts, social networking messages or other notifications. One study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior found that students who use Facebook while studying had lower grade point averages. Jens Larson, vice president for enrollment management at Eastern Washington University, studies social media and its influence on education. He regularly speaks to kids in Spokane schools on how to smartly use social media. He says, in general, cell phone holders for students to put their phones in during class are smart. That’s especially true if schools can provide the internet with other district-controlled devices like laptops for kids to use during class that filter out social media sites. “It’s wise for schools to clamp down on social media use in schools,” he says.
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rom a purely academic angle, cell phones serve as a distraction that makes it difficult to focus during class. And social media can affect the reading ability of teens. “You see it a lot with the way students read longform texts,” Larson says. “They may not concentrate on long texts, but more perniciously, there’s an inability to connect arguments within long texts.” Some parents want students to keep phones during class, just in case there’s an emergency and they need to contact the child. But as Larson notes, emergencies that require a parent or guardian to text a student during class are extremely rare. Meanwhile, the academic advantages are clear. A study published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that banning phones from school premises improved student test scores by 6.4 percent. And it adds instructional time for teachers — the equivalent of five days to the school year.
A study published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that banning phones from school premises improved student test scores by 6.4 percent. And then there’s the benefit of students not compulsively checking their social media accounts at all hours of the day. A recent study, also in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, linked the use of social media to depression and anxiety among young adults. That can be hard to overcome. When schools ban students from checking their phones, they may push harder to use them at home, creating a challenge for parents. “Social media has become a location,” says Spokane Public Schools Chief Academic Officer Adam Swinyard. “Just like the cafeteria, just like the locker room, just like the hallway.” Not being on social media, for them, is just like not sitting at the lunch table with all their friends. If they miss out on socializing, then they might be the only kid standing there with no idea what anyone’s talking about. “I think that’s some of the challenge,” Swinyard says. Spokane Public Schools is in the process of considering district-wide policies regarding cell phones and social media. Those policies may address how to educate students on related issues such as online bullying, abuse and threats. But if you ask teachers like Schwartzenberger, banning cell phones in class is a leap the district should make. “I got some flack the first year from students,” she says. “But now, it’s part of the routine. It’s what’s expected. So there is no pushback.” n wilsonc@inlander.com
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HACKING WASHINGTON What happened after liberal advocacy organization Fuse Washington sent an audio recording — secretly taken during a Cathy McMorris Rodgers fundraiser — to the Rachel Maddow Show? Somebody repeatedly tried to HACK into Fuse’s administrative site from a Russian IP address. The Rachel Maddow Show episode aired the secret recording of Republican House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes speaking to McMorris Rodgers about the TrumpRussia investigation on the evening of Aug. 8. A few hours later, during the wee hours of the morning in Washington state, Fuse’s website was hit with six different unsuccessful break-in attempts. Despite the St. Petersburg-based IP address, it’s impossible to know whether the hacker was actually Russian. But for Fuse, the attempt was till alarming. (DANIEL WALTERS)
ABUSE OF POWER A working Pullman Police sergeant picked up a Washington State University student near Greek Row, drove her to a park and sexually assaulted her earlier this spring, according to charging documents filed in Whitman County Superior Court. The police sergeant, 49-year-old DAN HARGRAVES, was charged last week with first-degree custodial sexual misconduct, a class C felony. Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins (above) says he “felt betrayed” while reading through the allegations against Hargraves. “To have someone representing us do something that is completely against everything that we believe in is very disheartening. I was very disappointed, and that’s an understatement,” Jenkins said during a press conference. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
A COUNTRY ROAD Country star DIERKS BENTLEY is hitting the road in the first weeks of 2019, and Spokane will be one of the stops on his Burning Man Tour. He’ll take the Arena stage on Jan. 31, joined by Jon Pardi and Tenille Townes. Bentley was last in the Inland Northwest in 2016 for a Northern Quest gig, and he also headlined a night at 2015’s Watershed Festival at the Gorge. The “Am I the Only One” hitmaker has been a regular presence on country radio since the early 2000s, racking up several No. 1 singles, and his most recent album Mountain topped the country charts when it was released in June. Tickets for Bentley’s upcoming Spokane show go on sale at 10 am on Friday, Nov. 9, and they start at $34.75. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)
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COWLES’ CALLS What’s the deal with the Spokesman-Review’s ENDORSEMENTS this year? And why isn’t the editorial board interviewing candidates anymore? The answer: Thanks to cuts, layoffs and buyouts, the editorial board has been winnowed down to only one man: Publisher Stacey Cowles. Cowles has always had the final vote on endorsements, but in previous years he’s had other people to bounce his views off of. The wealthy Cowles family has long been a powerful and, at times, controversial force within the Spokane region. Along with the Spokesman-Review, the Cowles Company owns major real estate holdings, including River Park Square and the Inland Empire Paper Company. And all that influence can create tensions: In his unsigned endorsement of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Cowles cited the impact that environmental regulations have on Inland Empire Paper. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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veryone agrees that lives are on the line: The less time it takes from when “911” is dialed to when emergency services are dispatched, the more likely it is that someone needing help can be saved. The big debate, however, was whether combining the fire dispatchers, police dispatchers and the county’s 911 dispatchers under one roof would improve things — or make things worse. So even as local governments made major moves toward an integrated 911 dispatch system, the Spokane City Council didn’t buy the argument. For months, members said, they’d been asking questions about the efficacy, necessity and logistics of the proposed change. Some answers from city officials, the council argued, were unsatisfying. Other questions weren’t answered at all. “This has not been a transparent process. Not to the public and certainly not to the council,” Councilwoman Karen Stratton said. “It has been irresponsible in the ways that we have been kept in the dark.” On Monday night, the council unanimously passed an ordinance that drew a line in the sand: Spokane firefighters and police officers would only be allowed to work with dispatchers who were also employees of the city of Spokane. “This project is alarmingly close to the point of no return,” City Council President Ben Stuckart said. “We’ve
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seen no financial model. We’ve seen no staffing model. And our city employees are rightfully concerned.” If it doesn’t kill the integration proposal, it slows it down, mandating that the city of Spokane — whose residents are responsible for 60 percent of the 911 calls in the county — would largely control any future process. A slew of firefighters and fire dispatchers testified at the meeting. Fire dispatcher Kelly Masjoan, for example, argued that the dispatchers had been asked about things like the logo design and name for the integrated entity, but rarely about more important issues. Still, Masjoan says that in recent months there have already been important improvements in the current dispatch system — like integrating the fire and police computer systems — that have slashed anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds off of dispatch times. (DANIEL WALTERS)
The last remaining CARIBOU (aka reindeer) that venture into the contiguous United States, spending part of their time living in Northeast Washington and North Idaho, will likely be moved north into Canada as wildlife biologists attempt to save the dwindling endangered species. As of March 2018, there were only three females remaining in the South Selkirk Caribou herd, says Norm Merz, wildlife biologist for the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho. But since then, one was killed by a cougar, and the radio collar stopped working on another, so only the location of one is known. That female and four other caribou in the Purcell herd that are radio collared will likely be captured at some point this winter and moved to a maternal pen up in Canada, after which scientists will help figure out a captive breeding area, Merz says. “The plan at this point is to capture those animals when it’s safe to do so, which would likely be after we get some significant snowfall, and put them in the Revelstoke maternity pen,” Merz says. “In the long term, the plan is to generate animals for reintroduction.” There’s also a new wrinkle, after two caribou were spotted over in Montana, Merz says. Interested wildlife agencies are trying to figure out where they came from and what the plan for those animals should be. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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Five girls in the Washington state FOSTER CARE system were placed in the home of Scott and Drew Ann Hamrick, then adopted by the Eatonville couple between 1998 and 2003. In that time, the Hamricks abused them
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physically, sexually and psychologically. The state Department of Social and Health Services, however, had no idea the abuse occurred. They approved and even encouraged the children to stay in their care. Should the state, then, be held accountable for the abuse suffered by the children? A Washington State Supreme Court ruling last week says “yes.” “DSHS owes a duty of reasonable care to protect foster children from abuse at the hands of their foster parents,” states the majority opinion, written by Justice Debra Stephens. The 5-4 ruling broadens the state’s responsibility for children in foster care. It affirms a decision by the Court of Appeals, which sided with the five children who sued DSHS for not investigating and stopping the abuse. Now, that case is sent back to trial. When the first two children were placed in the care of the Hamricks, DSHS was supposed to conduct safety checks in the home every 90 days. But the state failed to conduct LETTERS those checks. Then in 2000, Send comments to the state recommended the editor@inlander.com. Hamricks adopt the children. But evidence showed later in trial revealed that the Hamricks abused all five girls the entire time. Drew Ann Hamrick was convicted of child abuse and witness tampering. Scott Hamrick killed himself during the criminal investigation. The ruling explicitly rejects the DSHS argument that once a child is placed in foster care the state’s relationship with the child is one of an administrator of services. “DSHS unconvincingly seeks to minimize its role in Washington’s child welfare system,” the ruling states. It argues that the state has a “special relationship” with foster children and is the “custodian and caretaker” of those children. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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hile a dozen nurses trained in sexual assault examinations split into groups for hands-on skills training, three women sit at a small conference room table holding a bowl full of disposable speculums and a plastic pelvic model. “Any experience with pelvic exams? As far as like a speculum exam or OB stuff?” asks their trainer, Kelly Anderson, a nurse practitioner who conducts sexual assault exams for cases involving children in the tri-county area north of Spokane. The three shake their heads no. A couple of them are responsible for training others in their hospitals on how to collect a sexual assault kit from rape victims. But none of them, despite being trained as sexual assault nurse examiners (commonly called SANE nurses), have conducted a pelvic exam; that usually gets left to doctors on duty in their emergency rooms at MultiCare Spokane Valley, MultiCare Deaconess, and Providence Mount Carmel in Colville. “OK, well, we’re going to show you what the normal inside looks like,” Anderson says, launching into a slideshow with pictures of cervixes in women who have and haven’t had children. Then each nurse gets a turn using the speculum to inspect the plastic model, which is much stiffer than a real person would be. Anderson notes how to explain each step of the invasive process to a woman as they’re going, in an effort to minimize uncomfortable surprises that can be upsetting even during a routine examination.
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This type of hands-on training is rare for nurses to receive in Eastern Washington, says Beth Sheeran, a SANE nurse who has worked tirelessly to improve access to training for other nurses in the area. “When we went to Oregon for a training, our nurses were the only ones who didn’t know how to do pelvic exams,” Sheeran says. While many of the nurses in area ERs have received three or five-day trainings in how to collect sexual assault evidence and minimize harm to patients, this type of ongoing and advanced training is key for the nurses to be able to meet national standards and give patients the best care possible, she says. “Our nurses, because they’re working for a good two to three hours one-on-one with a patient, they really do develop that rapport,” Sheeran says. “They’ve been in that room, building that significant trust level. It is nice when the nurse can do the entire kit.” To address the lack of ongoing regional training options, Sheeran worked to offer the 9-to-5 Nov. 1 workshop, which was free to all the nurses who came from Kootenai, Whitman, Spokane and other nearby counties, and was put on in coordination with MultiCare, Kootenai Health, the Washington State Patrol crime lab, Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, Praxis Coworking and other companies involved in health care regionally. In addition to pelvic exams, the nurses learn firsthand how the crime lab hopes to receive evidence, they hear how a specific chemical application can enhance images of injuries, and they practice forensic photography, capturing pictures of mock injuries on nursing student Jarrod Haggard, who lifts his arms and shirt as the nurses document makeup “bruises” and “scratches.” As the state continues to address deficiencies in the medical and criminal justice systems — such as a new program that allows sexual assault victims to track the progress of their rape kit at state crime labs — working to improve disparities in education around the state is just another step toward making things better for everyone, Sheeran says. “It’s scary when you see the layer-on-layer brokenness, but you can chip away at it, and we are chipping away at it,” Sheeran says. “We really believe that we can do something within our community that can be beneficial. Every single little piece matters.” n samanthaw@inlander.com
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
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he free press is under attack — bullied, body-slammed and, in extreme instances, chopped up with a bone saw. It’s not surprising why the press is the primary target of every despot and demagogue: A journalist’s job is to seek the truth, inform the electorate and, in doing so, empower people to fully participate in a democracy. To those who would prefer to operate under the cover of darkness, that’s a scary prospect. None of which is to suggest the press — or “the media,” at large — is above criticism. Too many media outlets are owned by huge conglomerates that prioritize corporate efficiencies over local news. Too many outlets have been seduced by the siren call of social media and produce clickbait stories that drive web traffic but undermine trust. Too many outlets are filling time with disingenuous partisan fights rather than clear-minded, independent journalism. And too many outlets are flailing for answers after watching their business model get strip-mined by Facebook and Google. Project Censored grew out of the very idea that the news media must do better. Founded in 1976 at Sonoma State University, the project tasks academics, students and media experts with researching the most important national stories that were underreported, ignored or censored by the media. Finally, the work of Project Censored is compiled into an annual list, published into a book and shared in articles like the following one written by Paul Rosenberg. In the end, journalism is made better by thoughtful criticism, and a media-literate public may indeed be the best protection against those would do harm to the free press and the American ideals it represents. — JACOB H. FRIES Inlander editor
The news media’s quest for clicks has undermined Americans’ trust in journalism.
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DECLINING RULE OF LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS
According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017-2018, released in January 2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before Trump’s election. Fundamental rights — one of eight categories measured — declined in 71 out of 113 nations surveyed. Overall, 34 percent of countries’ scores declined, while just 29 percent improved. The United States ranked 19th, down one from 2016, with declines in checks on government powers and deepening discrimination. Fundamental rights include absence of discrimination, right to life and security, due process, freedom of expression and religion, right to privacy, freedom of association and labor rights. Constraints on government powers, which measure the extent to which those who govern are bound by law, saw the second greatest declines (64 countries out of 113 dropped). This is where the United States saw the greatest deterioration, the World Justice Project stated in a press release. “While all sub-factors in this dimension declined at least slightly from 2016, the score for lawful transition of power — based on responses to survey questions on confidence in national and local election processes and procedures — declined most markedly,” the press release stated. The United States also scored notably poorly on several measurements of discrimination. “With scores of .50 for equal treatment and absence of discrimination (on a scale of 0 to 1), .48 for discrimination in the civil justice system, and .37 for discrimination in the criminal justice system, the U.S. finds itself ranked 78 out of 113 countries on all three subfactors,” the World Justice Project stated. “The WJP’s 2017-2018 Rule of Law Index received scant attention from U.S. corporate media,” Project Censored noted. The only coverage they found was a Newsweek article drawing on the Guardian’s coverage. This pattern of ignoring international comparisons, across all subject matter, is pervasive in the corporate media. It severely cripples our capacity for objective self-reflection and self-improvement as a nation.
SECRETS SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDERS
In March 2017, WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a trove of 8,761 leaked confidential CIA files about its global hacking programs, which WikiLeaks described as the “largest ever
publication of confidential documents on the agency.” It drew significant media attention. But almost no one noticed what George Eliason of OpEdNews pointed out. “Sure, the CIA has all these tools available,” Eliason pointed out. “Yes, they are used on the public. The important part is [that] it’s not the CIA that’s using them. That’s the part that needs to frighten you.” As Eliason went on to explain, the CIA’s mission prevents it from using the tools, especially on Americans. “All the tools are unclassified, open-source, and can be used by anyone,” Eliason explained. “It makes them not exactly usable for secret agent work. That’s what makes it impossible for them to use Vault 7 tools directly.” Drawing heavily on more than a decade of reporting by Tim Shorrock for Mother Jones and the Nation, Eliason’s OpEdNews series reported on the explosive growth of private contractors in the intelligence community, which allows the CIA and other agencies to gain access to intelligence gathered by methods they’re prohibited from using. In a 2016 report for the Nation, Shorrock estimated that 80 percent of an estimated 58,000 private intelligence contractors worked for the five largest companies. He concluded that “not only has intelligence been privatized to an unimaginable degree, but an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power inside U.S. intelligence has left the country dangerously dependent on a handful of companies for its spying and surveillance needs.” Eliason reported how private contractors pioneered open-source intelligence by circulating or selling the information they gathered before the agency employing them had reviewed and classified it. Therefore, “no one broke any laws.” As a result, according to Eliason’s second article, “People with no security clearances and radical political agendas have state-sized cyber tools at their disposal, [which they can use] for their own political agendas, private business, and personal vendettas.” Corporate media reporting on Vault 7 sometimes noted, but failed to focus on, the dangerous role of private contractors, Project Censored pointed out — with the notable exception of a Washington Post op-ed in which Shorrock reviewed his previous reporting and concluded that overreliance on private intelligence contractors was “a liability built into our system that intelligence officials have long known about and done nothing to correct.” ...continued on next page
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PROJECT CENSORED RICHEST 1 PERCENT GET RICHER
In November 2017, financial services company Credit Suisse released its eighth annual Global Wealth Report, which the Guardian reported on under the headline “Richest 1% own half the world’s wealth, study finds.” The wealth share of the world’s richest people increased “from 42.5% at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1% in 2017, or $140 trillion,” the Guardian reported, adding that “The biggest losers … are young people who should not expect to become as rich as their parents.” “[Despite being more educated than their parents], millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age, especially in relation to income, home ownership and other dimensions of well-being assessed in this report,” Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner said. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’” “No other part of the wealth pyramid has been transformed as much since 2000 as the millionaire and ultra-high net worth individual (known as UHNWI) segments,” the report said. “The number of millionaires has increased by 170%, while the number of UHNWIs (individuals with net worth of USD 50 million or more) has risen five-fold, making them by far the fastest-growing group of wealth holders.” There were 2.3 million new millionaires this year, taking the total to 36 million. “At the other end of the spectrum, the world’s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000,” the Guardian reported. “Collectively these people, who account for 70% of the world’s working-age population, account for just 2.7% of global wealth.”
prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners, and encouraging them to snitch on one another. “A new social-media policy at the Washington Post prohibits conduct on social media that ‘adversely affects the Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners,” Andrew Beaujon reported in the Washingtonian the next month. “In such cases, Post management reserves the right to take disciplinary action ‘up to and including termination of employment.’” Beaujon also cited “A clause that encourages employees to snitch on one another: ‘If you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of the Post’s Social Media Policy … you should contact the Post’s Human Resources Department.’” At the time, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which represents the Post’s employees, was protesting the policy and was seeking removal of the controversial parts in a new labor agreement.
Are health hazards being minimized?
WIRELESS COMPANIES AND CELL PHONE SAFETY
Are cell phones and other wireless devices as safe as we’ve been led to believe? Don’t bet on it, according to decades of buried research reviewed in a March 2018 investigation for the Nation by Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie. “The wireless industry not only made the same moral choices that the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries did, it also borrowed from the same public relations playbook those industries pioneered,” Hertsgaard and Dowie reported. “Like their tobacco and fossil-fuel brethren, wireless executives have chosen not to publicize what their own scientists have said about the risks of their products. … On the contrary, the industry — in America, Europe, and Asia — has spent untold millions of dollars in the past 25 years proclaiming that science is on its side, that the critics are quack, and that consumers have nothing to fear.” Their report comes at the same time as several new developments are bringing the issue to the fore, including a Kaiser Permanente study (published December 2017 in Scientific Reports) finding much higher risks of miscarriage, a study in the October 2017 American Journal of Epidemiology, finding increased risk for glioma (a type of brain tumor), and a disclosure by the National Frequency Agency of France that nine out of 10 cell phones exceed government radiation safety limits when tested in the way they are actually used, next to the human body. As the the Nation reported, George Carlo was a scientist hired by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1993 to research cell phone safety and allay public fears, heading up the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project. But he was fired
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and publicly attacked by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1999, after uncovering disturbing evidence of danger: Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on Oct. 7, 1999, reiterating that the Wireless Technology Research project had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled … in cell phone users”; there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head”; and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive.” The Kaiser Permanente study involved exposure to magnetic field nonionizing radiation associated with wireless devices as well as cell phones and found a 2.72 times higher risk of miscarriage for those with higher versus lower exposure. Lead investigator De-Kun Li warned that the possible effects of this radiation have been controversial because, “from a public health point of view, everybody is exposed. If there is any health effect, the potential impact is huge.”
WASHINGTON POST SUPPRESSES EMPLOYEES’ CRITICISM
On May 1, 2017, the Washington Post introduced a policy
“much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing from Google searches.” A follow-up report by Whitney Webb for MintPress News highlighted the broader possible censorship effects, as prohibiting social media criticism could spill over into reporting as well. “Among the Washington Post’s advertisers are corporate giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America and Koch Industries,” Webb wrote. “With the new policy, social media posts criticizing GlaxoSmithKline’s habit of making false and misleading claims about its products, inflating prices and withholding crucial drug safety information from the government will no longer be made by Post employees.” Beyond that, Webb suggested it could protect the CIA, which has $600 million contract with Amazon Web Services. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased the Post four months after that contract was signed. “While criticism of the CIA is not technically prohibited by the new policy, former Post reporters have suggested that making such criticisms could endanger one’s career,” Webb noted.
RUSSIAGATE: THE TWO-HEADED MONSTER
Is Russiagate a censored story? Well, not exactly. This entry by Project Censored seems to reflect a well-intentioned effort to critically examine fake news-related issues within a “censored story” framework. What Project Censored calls attention to is important: “Corporate media coverage of Russiagate has created a two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship. By saturating news coverage with a sensationalized narrative, Russiagate has superseded other important, newsworthy stories.” As a frustrated journalist with omnivorous interests, I heartily concur — but what’s involved is too complex to simply be labeled “propaganda.” On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic
voices is a classic, well-defined Project Censored story, which suffers from the attempt to fit both together. In April 2017, Aaron Maté reported for the Intercept on a quantitative study of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show from Feb. 20 to March 31, 2017, which found that “Russia-focused segments accounted for 53 percent of these broadcasts.” Maté wrote: “Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage); Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent); the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent), a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took office (5.8 percent), and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).” Well and good. But is this propaganda? At Truthdig, Norman Solomon wrote: “As the cable news network most trusted by Democrats as a liberal beacon, MSNBC plays a special role in fueling rage among progressive-minded viewers toward Russia’s ‘attack on our democracy’ that is somehow deemed more sinister and newsworthy than corporate dominance of American politics (including Democrats), racist voter suppression, gerrymandering and many other U.S. electoral defects all put together.” Also true. But not so much propaganda as Project Censored’s broader category of “news abuse,” which includes propaganda and spin, among other forms of “distraction to direct our attention away from what we really need to know.” To fully grasp what’s involved requires a more complex analysis.
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Aviation Maintenance $17-25/hour Understanding the influence of Russia is important, but Project Censored argues that coverage shouldn’t come at the expense of other important stories. On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is far more clear-cut and straightforward. In a report for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Robin Andersen examined Russiagate-inspired censorship moves by Twitter, Google and others. A key initial target was RT (the television network formerly known as Russia Today). “RT’s reporting bears striking similarities to alternative and independent media content, and that is why letting the charges against RT stand unexamined is so dangerous,” Andersen noted. In fact, the government’s intelligence report on RT included its reporting on the dangers of fracking as part of its suspect activity. Beyond that, the spill-over suppression was dramatic: “Yet in the battle against fake news, much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing from Google searches,” Anderson said. “The World Socialist Web Site (8/2/17) reported that Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to leading independent, left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights websites. The estimated declines in traffic generated by Google searches for news sites are striking.” ...continued on next page
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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
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The world’s agricultural and degraded soils have the capacity to recover 50 percent to 66 percent of the historic carbon loss to the atmosphere, according to a 2004 paper in Science, actually reversing the processes driving global warming. A set of practices known as “regenerative agriculture” could play a major role in accomplishing that, while substantially increasing crop yields as well, according to information compiled and published by Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, in May 2017. “For thousands of years we grew food by depleting soil carbon and, in the last hundred or so, the carbon in fossil fuel as well,” food and farming writer Michael Pollan wrote. “But now we know how to grow even more food while at the same time returning carbon and fertility and water to the soil.” Cummins, who’s also a founding member of Regeneration International, wrote that regenerative agriculture offers a “world-changing paradigm” that can help solve many of today’s environmental and public health problems. As the Guardian explained: “Regenerative agriculture comprises an array of techniques that rebuild soil and, in the process, sequester carbon. Typically, it uses cover crops and perennials so that bare soil is never exposed, and grazes animals in ways that mimic animals in nature. It also offers ecological benefits far beyond carbon storage: it stops soil erosion, remineralizes soil, protects the purity of groundwater and reduces damaging pesticide and fertilizer runoff.” In addition to global warming, there are profound economic and social justice concerns involved. “Out-of-touch and out-of-control governments of the world now take our tax money and spend $500 billion … a year mainly subsidizing 50 million industrial farmers to do the wrong thing,” Cummins wrote. “Meanwhile, 700 million small family farms and herders, comprising the 3 billion people who produce 70% of the world’s food on just 25% of the world’s acreage, struggle to make ends meet.” If you’ve never heard of it before, don’t be surprised. “Regenerative agriculture has received limited attention in the establishment press, highlighted by only two recent, substantive reports in
the New York Times Magazine and Salon,” Project Censored wrote.
CONGRESS PASSES DATA-SHARING LAW
On March 21, House Republicans released a 2,232-page omnibus spending bill. It passed both houses and was signed into law in two days. Attached to the spending provisions that made it urgent “must-pass” legislation was the completely unrelated Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act of 2018, also known as the CLOUD Act. “The CLOUD Act enables the U.S. government to acquire data across international borders regardless of other nations’ data privacy laws and without the need for warrants,” Project Censored summarized. It also significantly weakens protections against foreign government actions. “It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s David Ruiz wrote. “It never received a hearing. … It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this unvetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill.” Congressional leadership failed to listen to citizen concerns, Ruiz wrote, with devastating consequences: “Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information, privacy and human rights,” concluded Robyn Greene, who reported for Just Security. Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil. Greene noted that the CLOUD Act negates protections of two interrelated existing laws. It creates an exception to the Stored Communications Act that allows certified foreign governments to request personal data directly from U.S. companies. “This exception enables those countries to bypass the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which protects human rights by requiring
foreign governments to work with the Department of Justice to obtain warrants from U.S. judges before they can access that data for their criminal investigations,” Greene explained.
LEGAL RIGHTS FOR NATURE
In March 2017, the government of New Zealand ended a 140year dispute with an indigenous Maori tribe by enacting a law that officially recognized the Whanganui River, which the tribe considers its ancestor, as a living entity with rights. The tribe’s perspective was explained to the Guardian by its lead negotiator, Gerrard Albert. “We consider the river an ancestor and always have,” Albert said. “We have fought to find an approximation in law so that all others can understand that from our perspective treating the river as a living entity is the correct way to approach it.” But that could be just the beginning. “It is a critical precedent for acknowledging the Rights of Nature in legal systems around the world,” Kayla DeVault reported for YES! Magazine. Others are advancing this perspective, DeVault wrote: “In response to the Standing Rock Sioux battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the HoChunk Nation of Wisconsin amended its constitution to include the Rights of Nature. This is the first time a North American tribe has used a Western legal framework to adopt such laws. Some American municipalities have protected their watersheds against fracking by invoking Rights of Nature.” “[If the New Zealand Whanganui River settlement] was able to correct the gap in Western and indigenous paradigms in New Zealand, surely a similar effort to protect the Missouri River could be produced for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River nations by the American government,” DeVault wrote.
FBI’S RACIAL PROFILING
At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI Counterterrorism Division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different, though actually nonexistent, threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story. “But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists,” Foreign Policy reported. “The use of terms like ‘black identity extremists’ is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists,” said former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” “It’s classic Hoover-style labeling with a little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together,” said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. “The language — black identity extremist — strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover’s past.” A former homeland security official told Foreign Policy that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for law enforcement to identify real threats. “It’s so convoluted — it’s compromising officer safety,” the former official said. “The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on ‘black identity extremists’ in narrow or misleading ways,” Project Censored noted, citing examples from the New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. “Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives.” n To learn more about Project Censored, visit projectcensored. org. Paul Rosenberg is senior editor at Random Lengths News.
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Miller Cane spent the Fourth of July in Port Townsend, Washington, with 8-year-old Carleen. She got her face painted while Miller was mesmerized by a musician — a dead ringer for the long-dead bluesman Skip James — who was playing in the park. Miller’s been watching over Carleen, whose mother is stuck in jail after shooting her estranged husband. It’s been an adjustment for Miller — a former teacher and writer who’s lately been making his living conning the survivors of mass shootings — but it’s also an opportunity. Miller owes his editor, George, short profiles of historical figures for an 11th-grade history textbook. Each brief biography will begin with a central question, “Hero or Villain?”
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ack at the hotel there was no air conditioning and the room was hot. Miller sat on the deck with a glass of whiskey while Carleen reread the first Little House book in bed. He had his laptop open on the picnic table, but couldn’t get anything started. When he went back in for another drink, Carleen was asleep, her forehead flushed with heat, and the unicorn on her cheek smeared, some of the paint on her pillow as well. Miller walked his whiskey outside and sat with it, watching the water, and eventually, he started to write.
HERO VILLAIN II — SKIP JAMES.
Long ago, in the nineteen hundred and sixties, when it was still possible to go to space and eat nothing but
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meat and sugar and carbohydrates and Tang and save people from horrible belief systems like communism and anarchism and fascism, and everyone was snorting gluten and lactose constantly, a certain group of people was searching for Skip James. Skip wasn’t lost to himself, necessarily, but he was lost to the people who needed to find something authentic and American and tortured and beautiful — and if you’ve heard Skip James, you know that what they were looking for was the sound of his early records, the ones that matter, recorded in 1931, because before we saved the world from fascism, before we could destroy cities with one bomb and then the entire world with a few missiles, before we could blow it up or realized we were melting it down, Skip James was singing in Wisconsin where he’d travelled from Mississippi to record eighteen songs for Paramount Records, and even though we couldn’t blow up the world yet, it was hard, hard, times, with dust blowing and people eating babies and everyone so poor and desperate and worn out and hopeless that even Almanzo Wilder — whose wife Laura was writing her Little House books then, trying to scrape up a buck or two during the Depression — even Almanzo said, “My life has been mostly disappointments.” Laura’s father Pa would never say such a thing, but this wasn’t Pa, this was Laura’s husband, Farmer Boy, though he wasn’t a boy anymore, nor Laura a girl, worshipping her father — poet, fiddle player, fond of cider and music and moving every few years, a gigantic failure when we stop to think about it, depending on how we think about it. Can a happy man be considered a failure?
[George, include a photo of Pa here, preferably with wife Caroline, Ma, under or beside the photo of Skip James, and maybe one of Almanzo, preferably one where we can see how gimped up he is.] Shall we consider Pa’s poverty and constant moving a sign of failure, or does he represent a kind of American optimism? Not a man who couldn’t make it where he was, though he couldn’t seem to, but a man staying on the edge of the frontier looking for more gold, better dirt, Pa himself if not successful then also not an inveterate gambler (except in his moving?) or a child molester (no evidence of this at all), but maybe a drunk in Laura’s portrait (Skip James also liked a drink now and then), certainly more charming and playful and lovable than Ma, God knows, and happy! Pa would never say, as his son in law would, “My life has been mostly disappointments.” But even if one could consider Pa a failure, Laura would become a legend, mining from her life the stories that would mythologize her and her family and America Her/Him/Them/Itself. Plenty of things didn’t work out on the prairie or on the banks of Plum Creek. Still, might we say that Laura was a success because she was rich and her work was well received, while Skip James was a failure because he was poor and almost nobody heard his work in his time? Might we also suggest that Laura was the inspiration for such songs as “Cherry Ball Blues” and “Devil Got My Woman” and “Special Rider Blues,” Skip singing in “I’m So Glad,” “I’m tired of weepin’, tired of moanin’, tired of groanin’ for you… I don’t know what to do, don’t know what to do, I don’t… know… what… to do.” Laura never portrays Pa as moaning and groaning, not knowing what to do, though Pa wasn’t born on a
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THE STORY
A fraudulent historian who makes his living conning the survivors of mass shootings returns home to save the young daughter of the woman he loves, taking her with him on his roadshow across the worn-out heart of America, staying one step ahead of what’s after them.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Miller Cane: A fraudulent historian, who’s been making his living conning and comforting the survivors of mass shootings. Carleen Callahan: The 8-year old daughter of Lizzie James and Connor Callahan. Has no idea she’s
plantation like Skip James was (in 1902 when it seems like plantations would have been gone, but weren’t) and Pa didn’t participate in the Civil War, though it was happening all around him and he was only 25 when it started, Laura’s hateful, perfect sister Mary born just three months before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Still, no one in the family was touched by the war, except Uncle George who ran away when he was 14 to be a drummer boy and was “wild” when he came home, though the only wildness we see is his bugle playing and dancing as Pa fiddles songs like “Arkansas Traveler” and “Buffalo Gals” and “Yankee Doodle.” Pa wouldn’t have known “I’m So Glad,” or “Hard Times Killing Floor Blues,” because he died in 1902, the year Skip James was born. He and Ma never heard Skip wail and moan those beautiful songs recorded not so far from the big woods, though by 1931 the big woods were gone, and then Skip James was gone, at least from recording, until the nineteen hundred and sixties. Did Skip James read Laura’s books? Did he know how she mined her life to come up with riches and fame? Was he waiting in his Mississippi hospital bed to be discovered by folk-music enthusiasts, white boys from the north mostly, hungry for something pure and genuine, something authentic and noncommercial they could make money from (or at least try to make money from — they were American), something beautiful and real and born of suffering? This much we know: Skip James was
recently become an heiress or that her mother has shot her father. Lizzie James: An artisan jewelry maker, and a baker at the Mount Vernon co-op, currently in Skagit County jail for shooting her estranged husband, Connor.
real. And his music was real. He shot people when he was young and bootlegged and sang beautiful, haunting, terrifying songs about cutting a woman in two. Was he waiting to be found by blues miners in 1964? The prospectors wanted to be touched by greatness, affiliated with greatness and what
He shot people when he was young and bootlegged and sang beautiful, haunting, terrifying songs... was real, having rejected the confections of Buddy Holly and Elvis and Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. Only the year before, 1963, John Hurt had been discovered, extracted from the richest blues mine in the world, Mississippi, where Son House was also from, though he would be found in Rochester, New York, the same year Skip was found. Because everything was still possible. It was the year of the Civil Rights Act, which would address some of the race/ slavery issues that had been addressed a hundred years before and would have to be addressed again and again forever. One of the beautiful Kennedy dolls had been assassinated, but we were still in Kennedy doll thrall. We would defeat communism in Vietnam. We would fight wars on poverty and right wrongs! We were terribly optimistic, even though a few years earlier we had been hopeless. We were a little like P.T. Barnum regarding the fat boys he displayed in the 1840s, his Infant Hoosier Giant and Highland Mammoth Boys, proclaiming as his did in a letter to another showman, “I
Connor Callahan: Son and grandson and great grandson of money, which somehow skipped him, going to his daughter instead. George Sampson: Miller’s editor, who works for a textbook publisher in Texas.
must have the fat boy!” All of America wanted the fat boy in 1844. And in 1964, our collective white prehipster Barnum blues miners proclaimed, “We must have the blues man!” And we found him, we found him! We discovered him! Over and over. Maybe Skip James and Lightning Hopkins and Son House were the opposite of Barnum’s fat boys, another side of the coin. Because Barnum’s fat boys only had to be fat. The bigger the better. Barnum had to have them (and so did we!) but they didn’t have to do anything. Skip James made beautiful songs. The folklorists had to have him (and so did we!) but no one could have his songs as much as he could, whether he was found or not. And when he said, “I’m so glad,” and “I’m so tired,” and “I don’t know what to do,” we knew exactly what he meant. And so did Laura Ingalls Wilder, his step grandmother, when she wrote at the end of her first book, “They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago,” Skip and Laura and Pa timeless and immortal. “This is now,” Laura realizes in 1860-something and again in 1930-something and again every time we read those words. This is now! Right now! And again, forever! [George, include a link to the 1931 recording of “I’m So Glad” in the digital edition. Yes, it’s scratchy. But it’s going to save somebody’s life. Probably yours.] n
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Returning starters, key new contributors have Gonzaga ranked higher than ever at season’s start BY WILL MAUPIN
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onditions are perfect for a great season of college basketball in Spokane. Expectations are always high for Gonzaga basketball. This once-upon-a-time Cinderella story has been, for a while now, more Goliath than David. And the national perception has finally caught up to that reality. The Gonzaga Bulldogs enter the season ranked No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25. In 2005, when Adam Morrison and his moustache dominated college basketball, the Zags entered the season ranked eighth, their previous best until now. Two years ago, when Przemek Karnowski, Nigel Williams-Goss and company ran off 29 straight wins and danced all the way to the National Championship game, the Zags began the season ranked 14th.
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So, in a way, despite all the great Gonzaga teams that have come before, expectations for this bunch are higher than ever. But why? The answer is equal parts task at hand and the team that is set to take it on. As usual, Mark Few and his coaching staff have built an absolutely brutal nonconference schedule. This year’s could well be the toughest, and it’s certainly the most star-studded. Over the course of 10 days, the Zags will face off against three teams also ranked in the preseason Top 25. A revitalized Washington Huskies squad, ranked 25th, will visit the Kennel on Dec. 5. Then, it’s down to Phoenix for a game against the sixth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers on Dec. 9. From there, a trip to Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, for a rematch of the 2017 National Championship game against the eighth-ranked Tar Heels. Oh yeah, and before that three-game run the Zags will take part in the Maui Invitational. Long considered the premier early-season tournament in college basketball, this year’s field is as strong as ever. Depending on how the bracket breaks, Gonzaga could face off against either No. 4 Duke or No. 11 Auburn in the days before Thanksgiving.
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nce conference play rolls around, though, things should get a lot easier. Saint Mary’s, Gonzaga’s archrival, is going through a rebuilding year. The Gaels won their game in Spokane last season, but lost that team’s three best players to graduation.
This season it looks to be the BYU Cougars who will pose the greatest threat to the Zags. Junior forward Yoeli Childs has a legitimate shot at being named the league’s most outstanding player. He’s surrounded by an experienced and talented supporting cast which now includes former Gonzaga guard Jesse Wade. NCAA transfer rules require Wade to sit out this season, so he won’t be on the floor when the Zags and Cougars face off. But after a year in Spokane, he surely has some inside information on Gonzaga and its players. And the players are the biggest reason for all the buzz around the Bulldogs. Gonzaga lost two starters from last season’s team, Silas Melson and Johnathan Williams. But that’s about it as far as roster turnover goes, and Gonzaga is ready to replace them with its usual mix of talented transfers and highly touted international recruits. Before getting to the newcomers, though, let’s take a look at the familiar faces. Fifth-year senior point guard Josh Perkins has slowly put together one of the more impressive careers in Gonzaga history. His experience — he’s the lone remaining starter from the 2017 championship game — and veteran leadership will be critical. Joining Perkins in the backcourt are sophomores Zach Norvell Jr., who blew up in the NCAA Tournament last season by hitting big shot after big shot, and Washington native Corey Kispert. Both players stepped in and made (From left) Corey Kispert, immediate impacts as freshmen last Rui Hachimura, Josh Perkins. season with great shooting and aboveYOUNG KWAK PHOTOS average rebounding abilities from the guard spot. The biggest names, however, belong to the big men. Junior forwards Killian Tillie and Rui Hachimura burst onto the scene last season and look poised to make another jump this time around. Tillie, who will miss the first eight weeks of the season with a stress fracture in his ankle, has been the more consistent player over his first two years in Spokane. The 6-foot-10 Frenchman played meaningful minutes as a freshman before becoming a full-time starter as a sophomore. But it’s Hachimura, the reigning Inlander Readers Poll Athlete of the Year, who is garnering the most hype. The 6-foot-8 junior from Japan spent last season coming off the bench, but he provided as much of an impact as any of the starters. When he arrived on campus in 2016, his raw talent had yet to be refined, a process hindered by the fact that he was still learning the English language. Now fluent, Hachimura’s game has blossomed to the point of being a projected first-round pick in next year’s NBA draft.
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s good as the returning players are, they alone don’t account for Gonzaga’s position near the top of the preseason polls. Three new faces have helped elevate Gonzaga to the No. 3 spot in the Top 25. San Jose State transfer Brandon Clarke averaged 17.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in his last season with the Spartans. Clarke looks and plays very much like the Zags’ last power forward, Johnathan Williams, who also put up big numbers at a lesser program before transferring to Gonzaga. Geno Crandall, the newest face on the roster, has made the switch from foe to friend. Last season, his North Dakota Fighting Hawks nearly pulled off an upset of the Zags in the Kennel. Crandall scored 28 points in that game. And then there’s Filip Petrusev, the latest in the long line of talented international big men to make their way to Spokane. The freshman from Serbia wasn’t even alive when Gonzaga shocked the basketball world with a run to the Elite Eight in 1999. This year’s team is far more capable of making a deep run in the NCAA Tournament than that 1999 squad was. But the NCAA Tournament is a total crapshoot, and it’s far too early to talk about March anyway. Right now, it’s time to sit back and watch a really talented team set out on what should be an exciting five-month journey. n Next up: Gonzaga hosts Texas Southern on Saturday at 7 pm.
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SATURDAY, November 10 LAIR AUDITORIUM 11 :00-1 :00 KPBX FM 91.1 Live Radio Show Audience Welcome “Brittany Jean”, Kevin Pace & the Early Edition, Tra le Gael, Wes Weddell, Yang Xu, Heidi Muller & Bob Webb 1:30-2:15 Heidi Muller & Bob Webb - Original songs blending influences from the Pacific Northwest to Appalachia 2:30-3:15 Coeur d’Alene Youth Marimbas Rhythms of Southern Africa 3:30-4:15 Kevin Pace & the Early Edition Traditional bluegrass and gospel 4:30-5:15 Meshugga Daddies - Klezmer band 5:30-6:15 Coeurimba - Marimba music from Zimbabwe 6:30-7:15 Free Whiskey - Celtic folk rock
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SASQUATCH ROOM 11-11:30 11:45-12:15 12:30-1:00 1:15-1:45 2:00-2:30 2:45-3:15 3:30-4:00 4:15-4:45 5:00-5:30 5:45-6:15 6:30-7:30
Alma Brasileira - Brazilian choro Gefilte Trout - Jewish folk music Safar - Egyptian music 1920-1970 Crooked Kilt - Traditional Celtic tunes with as twist Carter Junction - Duo-cowboy, Celtic, folk Tra le Gael - Traditional and contemporary Celtic 2 Bit Jug band - Love, food and hilarity Muckle Roe - Tunes from Scandinavia and the Shetlands Yang Xu - Chinese zither Dan-John-Andrea - Doowop, blues, swing, country Bust It Like a Mule - Musical Northwest folk tale
CONFERENCE ROOM 1:30-2:30 2:45-3:15 3:30-4:00 4:15-4:45 5:00-5:30 5:45-6:15 6:30-7:00 7:15-7:45
Spokane Storytelling League - Folk tales for all ages Frankie Ghee - Strong vocals, clear lyrics Wes Weddell - Pullman nativeAmericana Ron Doyen - Folk and blues gems Don Brumfield - ukulele, guitar, bassoldies and instrumentals Steven King - Fingerstyle guitar champion Bob Rice - Toe tapping folk Island Blend - Gentle Hawaiian flavor
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BISTRO STAGE (Bluegrass and Old-time) 11 :30-Noon Jackie Fox & the Hounds - A “howling” goodtime 12:15-12:45 The Tipich Travelers - Family band, strong vocals 1:00-1:30 Northbound - Hard-driving bluegrass, soulful gospel 1:45-2:15 Montana Ramblers - 1850 to current bluegrass 2:30-3:00 Mighty Dreadful - Bluegrass junkies 3:15-3:45 Sondahl, Hawkins & Thomsen - New life to old-time music 4:00-4:30 Brad Keeler Trio - Bluegrass, old-time, originals 4:45-5:15 Maple Ridge Band - Enjoyment guaranteed 5:30-6:00 Kettle Creek Bluegrass Band - Decade of bluegrass
2: Spokane Folklore Society / FFFc/o Carolyn Wright, Treasurer
11:30-Noon Poor Boys Delight - Bluegrass, old-time, contemporary 12:15-12:45 John Elwood and Robin Elwood Mountain dulcimer, squeeze box, ballads 1:00-1:30 Dick Warwick - American cowboy I Australian bush poetry 1:45-2:15 Sock Puppets - Songs never heard on the radio 2:30-3:00 Hubbardston Nonesuch - Renaissance madrigals 3:15-3:45 LaVona Reeves - Folklorist, writer and singer 4:00-4:30 Brittany Jean - Nashville recording artist 4:45-5:15 Lyle Morse - Traditional and original blue 5:30-6:00 Todd Milne & Moksha - Instrumental world fusion 6:15-6:45 Michael & Keleren Millham - Fusion folk
CAFETERIA STAGE 11:00-11:30 Mele Polinahe - Music from Hawaii 11:30-12:30 South Asia Cultural Association - East Indian folk song and dance 12:45-1:15 Stevens County Stompers - Clogging 1:30-2:00 Pages of Harmony - Men’s acapella harmony chorus 2:15-2:45 Nine-Pint Coggies - Scottish fiddle music 3:00-3:30 Silver Spurs Youth Folk Dancers Multicultural dance 3:30-4:15 Family Dance - Learn old fashioned barn dances 4:30-5:00 Daniel Hall - Folk rock 5:15-5:45 Spokane Irish Dance - Community dance school 5:45-6:30 International Folk Dance - Recreational community folk dance 6:30-7:00 reset
John Elwood & Robin Elwood
SMALL GYM (Building 5) 11:30-12:30 Scottish Pipers, Highland and Country Dancers 12:45-1:15 Sesitshaya Marimba - Music from SubSaharan Africa 1 :30-2:30 Spokane India Community Bharathanatyam dance and song 2:45-3:15 Northwest Hula Company - Traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian 3:30-4:00 Musha Marimba - Music from Zimbabwe and southern Africa 4:15-4:45 Tribe Sahara - Middle Eastern belly dance 5:00-5:30 Otis Orchards Malleteers - Youth mallet percussion group
Schedules Subject to Change - 15 minute break between acts
Two Days of Amazing, Inspiring Performances - for FREE! SATURDAY, NOV. 10TH • 11 AM - 10 PM // SUNDAY, NOV. 11TH • 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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Grant School Drummers - African drum and dance Spokane Bulgarian Traditional Folk Dance - Folk dances
ROCKET BAKERY STAGE (Building 5) Noon-1:00 1:15-2:00 2:15-3:30 3:45-5:00
Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages Frost Jenny Edgren - Songs for kids of all ages West African Drumming Workshop with David Casteal Carter Junction Workshop - Sing a long: Celtic to Cowboy: Music Migration
CONFERENCE ROOM
SMALL GYM (Building 5)
11:30-12:00 Ernie Verdugo - Spanish and flamenco guitar 12:15-12:45 Zach Hval - Blues, ballads, ragtime 1:00-1:30 Henry Schultz - Teen performs songs with guitar and harmonica 1:45-2:45 Spokane Storytelling League - Folk tales for all ages 3:00-3:30 Jonathan Nicholson & Kevin Morgan Guitar instrumentals and vocals 3:45-4:15 Bill Compher and Leslie Rousos Mandolin/guitar duets 4:30-5:00 Bob Riggs - One guy with a guitar
12:30-1:00 1:15-1:30 1:45-2:15 2:30-3:15 3:30-4:30
Cimarron Tribal Belly Dance - American Tribal style Danza Mexica - Ritual Aztec dance Taste of Tango - Traditional to contemporary Spokane Buddhist Temple Bon Odori Participatory Japanese folk dance The Drum House - Participatory drum circle
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 LAIR AUDITORIUM 11 :00-11:45 Neema Youth Choir - African Youth Gospel Choir 11:45-12:15 (set up) 12:15-1:15 Floating Crowbar and Haran Irish Dancers - Irish step dance with highenergy music 1:30-2:00 Baharat! Dance Company - Authentic dances of Middle East and North Africa 2:15-3:00 Dan Maher- Inland Folk 3:15-4:00 Dario Re Band - Orchestral folk and gypsy jazz 4:15-5:00 Spokane Taiko - Community Japanese drumming group
11 :30-Noon Planted by Hands - Contemporary folk trio 12:15-12:45 Global Gumbo - Instrumentals from North and South America 1:00-1:30 Blue Ribbon Tea Company - Americana roots 1:45-2:15 James Funke-Loubigniac - Music on the hurdy-gurdy 2:30-3:00 Spokane Raging Grannies - Original songs for peace & justice 3:15-3:45 Dave McRae & Michael Robinson Folkabilly 4:00-4:30 BlueGlass Spectacles - Guitar duo
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SASQUATCH ROOM 11 :00-11:30 Western Reunion - Cowboy and western swing 11:45-12:15 Peter Ali - Native American flutist 12:30-1:00 Level Four - Blues, jazz & originals 1:15-1 :45 Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots - Lively Celtic 2:00-2:30 Path of Totality - Original tunes by a folk, rock and blues band 2:45-3:15 Cheryl Branz - Heartfelt songs to hilarious 3:30-4:00 Browne Salmon Truck - Blues, jazz, Latin 4:15-4:45 Spokane Community Choir - Songs from many cultures
CAFETERIA STAGE 11:30-Noon Veterans Day Program - Fife & Drum / Prestwold Players historic American tunes Noon-1:15 English Country Dance - Learn elegant dances with caller Mitchell Frey to live music by the Prestwold Players 1:30-2:00 UPOP & Ukestra - Ukulele bands 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 Susan Dankovich 3:45-5:00 Contra Dance with Crooked Kilt and callers, Susan Dankovich and Karen Wilson-Bell
BISTRO STAGE (Americana) 12:15-12:45 Panhandle Cowboys - Western music/ cowboy poetry 1:00-1:30 Beargrass - Duo country and folk 1:45-2:15 Desiree Aguirre - Old time banjo 2:30-3:00 Shiloh Rising - Acoustic duo, contemporary and original 3:15-3:45 Re-educated Fellers - Western flavor cowboy tunes/poetry 4:00-4:30 Lavinia Ross - Americana and blues
Spokane Taiko
ROCKET BAKERY STAGE (Building 5Classroom)
11:30-1:00 1:15-2:00 2:15-3:30 3:45-4:45
Mountain Dulcimer Performance and Workshop with Spokane Dulcimer Guild Lucy D. Ford - Original stories Workshop Native American flute - 4th grade to adults welcome; flutes provided Dick Frost - Magic and comedy for all ages
FREE EVENT!
SPOKANE COMMUNITY
C O L L E G E LAIR STUDENT CENTER 1810 N. Greene St FREE PARKING For More Information, Call (509) 828-3683 www.spokanefolkfestival.org
Schedules Subject to Change - 15 minute break between acts
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Lifetime Membership A new book, We Are G.U., looks at the beginning and growth of Gonzaga’s famed Kennel Club student section BY TUCK CLARRY
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s much as the Gonzaga Bulldogs basketball teams are known for their tournament success and total dominance of the West Coast Conference, their home court advantage has also been a notable part of their multiple decades of excellence. That advantage has come in large part due to the rowdy and loud nature of the Kennel Club, the school’s student section — one of the longest-running student sections in the nation. And as well documented as Gonzaga’s basketball history has been, the background of the Kennel Club had somehow slipped through. That’s no longer the case with We Are G.U., a book written by a couple Kennel Club alums, published by GU alums, designed by Gonzaga professor Jeffrey Dodd and financed with help by Kennel Club sponsor Northern Quest Resort and Casino. During the 2017 tournament run, which saw Gonzaga make its first Final Four and National Championship appearances, Kennel Club alum and former Gonzaga basketball manager Aaron Hill was teaching abroad in Milan. He was working with a South Carolinian, and the two had a friendly back-and-forth before the Final Four matchup between the Zags and the University of South Carolina. “He made a comment, ‘Glad we’re not playing in Spokane in front of the rowdy Kennel Club and all those rugby players,”’ Hill says. “And I knew the backstory that first, there’s no rugby team at Gonzaga, and second, it was founded in part by the baseball team. So I shot a Facebook message to guys that I knew telling them that they should write their story down so there weren’t incorrect facts out there.” Hill was then directed to one of the Kennel Club’s founding members, Mike Shields. Their original idea was a simple pamphlet of important details for incoming Kennel Club members, but gradually their story snowballed. Their research led to discoveries about the club in comparison to other student sections throughout the nation, learning that Gonzaga’s section is older than vaunted sections like Duke’s Cameron Crazies. “The Kennel Club is only second to the Orange Crush of the University of Illinois [in age],” Shields says. “Gonzaga’s student body is roughly 6,000. You look at all the other schools — with the exception of Duke — the rest are 30,000 to 50,000 students.” Gonzaga’s club started in 1984, with Shields’ friends and the baseball team (of which he was a student manager) wreaking havoc during the games and especially timeouts, long before the basketball team received any national attention. The Zags had never played in any postseason tournament and they were a middling squad in their conference year in and year out.
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“It was crazy,” Shields says. “We literally went out on the floor whenever we wanted to. It was almost no holds barred. Interacting with players on the floor. Interacting with referees during timeouts.” In We Are G.U., Shields details stories involving Kennel Clubbers messing with refs while wearing bags over their heads, or even spelling out “toupee” in front of a follicle-challenged coach’s bench during one timeout. An interesting wrinkle to the book is seeing how the club and the university changed as the program progressed. Shields recalls having class with players like John Stockton and Bryce McPhee. During Hill’s time at Gonzaga, most of the presidents of the club lived with guys on the team. That kind of intimacy between team and student body is rare for many top programs and a difficult thing to imagine continuing as Gonzaga’s national profile continues to grow. In the afterword of the book, Hill and Shields detail their hopes for the Kennel Club as Gonzaga remains in the national spotlight year in and year out. “Anything that grows has to evolve,” Hill says. “The challenge for the Kennel Club will be to remain relevant as time goes on. The basketball team winning eventually goes stale, where once you’re good, people take it for granted.” During my own time at Gonzaga, there was some bemoaning of the regimented nature of the club or the expectations brought on by the university. It felt like something intended for underclassmen. It’s the authors’ hopes that the administration may give some leeway and creative opportunities to whomever is club president to freshen up a crucial experience for students. “Roughly half the student body is involved in this club,” Hill says. “And it’s really the only club when freshmen would meet juniors and seniors. Yeah, when you come to campus you meet a few people in your dorm, but some of the acculturation and growing up happens when you meet different people and older people. It’s really the only forum for freshmen to meet seniors and form relationships that transcend the club.” Shields and Hill hadn’t met until well into writing the book together, but the commonality of being members of the club and students of the school bridged much of the gaps, be it age or location, between the two strangers. “Given that so many people are in the Kennel Club, it’s probably the single most common experience among Gonzaga alums over the last 40 years. Mike and I have some things in common just as [alumni] of Gonzaga, but one thing that most [alumni] would share is some experience in the Kennel Club.” n We Are G.U. is available at the Zag Shop both in person and online.
Zykera Rice.
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GONZAGA WOMEN COACH: Lisa Fortier LAST YEAR’S RECORD: 27-6 (17-1 WCC) IMPORTANT RETURNING STARTERS: Zykera Rice, Chandler Smith, Laura Stockton THE LOWDOWN: The Zags are expected to win the WCC again, as Fortier’s team received seven of the 10 preseason coaches’ votes. They’ll no doubt miss Jill Barta’s team-leading 18.8 points per game, but can rely heavily on their three seniors Zykera Rice, Chandler Smith and Laura Stockton, all voted as preseason allconference members. The leadership of Stockton and junior Jessie Loera as lead ball handlers should give Fortier some comfort as they try to repeat their success from last season. IF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE GAME THIS SEASON: Notre Dame, Nov. 22. Parity in women’s college basketball is not nearly as prevalent as it is in men’s. There’s a reason UConn has gone on cartoonish win streaks and consistently blows out other ranked teams. Even so, it’s never bad to see where your team stacks up against blue bloods. The Zags will face the reigning NCAA champs in the Vancouver showcase over Thanksgiving week. (TUCK CLARRY)
Nate Sherwood.
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IDAHO VANDALS COACH: Don Verlin LAST YEAR’S RECORD: 22-9 (14-4 Big Sky) WSU ATHLETICS PHOTO
IMPORTANT RETURNING STARTERS: Nate Sherwood, Trevon Allen
draft. Losing nearly half a roster and recruiting a foreign big man and three-star recruit in CJ Elleby leaves the Cougars destined to fight with the rest of the castoffs at the bottom of the “Conference of Champions.”
THE LOWDOWN: After a successful season in the Big Sky, the University of Idaho is looking to remain in the fight while losing its three leading scorers. Guards Perrion Callandret and Victor Sanders will be missed, and the Vandals will rely heavily on junior Trevon Allen to help lead the backcourt. Look for senior Nate Sherwood to take on more of a scoring role as he helps make up for Brayon Blake’s absence. It will be a season of hopefully reloading rather than retooling.
Ernie Kent (right) and Robert Franks.
WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS COACH: Ernie Kent LAST YEAR’S RECORD: 12-19 (4-14 Pac-12) IMPORTANT RETURNING STARTER: Robert Franks THE LOWDOWN: Kent and the Cougars had their backs against the wall not only during much of the Pac-12 season but during the offseason as well. Four players announced their intent to transfer in the spring, and 6-foot-7 forward Robert Franks would have been the fifth to leave if he kept his name in the 2018 NBA
Jordan Lester.
IF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE GAME THIS SEASON: Oregon, March 6. In a forgettable season, Cougars fans will spend much of the time looking at the talent of the opposing team. Take the opportunity to see potential tournament dark horse Oregon in person, and see Manute Bol’s son Bol Bol showcase his talents on a loaded team. (TUCK CLARRY)
IF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE GAME THIS SEASON: Washington State, Dec. 5. The Vandals took last year’s game in Moscow convincingly (91-64). A big clue to how Idaho’s season will progress is this early December matchup. (TUCK CLARRY)
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WHITWORTH PIRATES COACH: Matt Logie LAST YEAR’S RECORD: 24-4 (14-2 Northwest Conference) IMPORTANT RETURNING STARTERS: Kyle Roach, Ben College, Jordan Lester THE LOWDOWN: The Pirates had a great 2017-18 season and this year should be no different. Senior Kyle Roach has received preseason Division III All-American honors (he was named an All-American last year) and is destined to light it up and be an assists and points monster. He’s joined by an experienced cast of teammates that should make Whitworth favorites in their conference. IF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE GAME THIS SEASON: Whitman, Jan. 8. The Pirates stunned Whitman last year when Roach hit a buzzer-beater to win the conference championship. And that’s after a previous matchup where Roach dropped a career-high 45 against the Blues. The two teams are early favorites in the Northwest Conference. (TUCK CLARRY)
Shantay Legans.
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EASTERN WASHINGTON EAGLES COACH: Shantay Legans LAST YEAR’S RECORD: 20-15 (13-5 Big Sky) IMPORTANT RETURNING STARTERS: Jack Perry, Ty Gibson THE LOWDOWN: Legans’ first year as head coach was a challenging one — but not on accident. The team played anyone, anywhere, early in the season, which helped the team get to the point where they rattled off eight straight
wins the final two months of the season. Legans will copy that approach again as the Eagles play nationally ranked Syracuse, Oregon and Washington to start the season. You won’t be able to say the Eags aren’t battle-tested. IF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE GAME THIS SEASON: Montana, Jan. 10. By the time Eastern hosts its rival, we will know a lot about the Eagles. They could be contending for Big Sky honors or they may just be contending for a big win against a disliked foe. Either way, it’s going to be crazy at Reese Court. (TUCK CLARRY)
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TRIPLE TROUBLE Autobiographies by musicians are dicey things, but it’s safe to say the new Beastie Boys book is unlike anything that’s come before. Fitting, considering the trio of Adam “MCA” Yauch, Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “King Ad-Rock” Horovitz were pioneers in first taking hip-hop into the mainstream, then in showing how a rap group could evolve into something altogether different, but still vital. Leave behind any thoughts of a traditional narrative from Horovitz and Diamond (Yauch died of cancer in 2012) and you’ll find a lot to love in this bizarre 571page amalgam of memoir, comic book, cookbook and so much more. The surviving Beasties’ sections bring the group back to vivid life, and contributions from friends and fans like Amy Poehler and Colson Whitehead make this truly something special. (DAN NAILEN)
War on the Silver Screen BY QUINN WELSCH
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ne of my favorite movies is Deer Hunter, turning 40 this year. It’s a weird movie, and its portrayal of the Vietnam War is a good example of how Hollywood often gets it wrong when it comes to war. But as a veteran myself, the movie is most compelling in its depiction of the ordinary lives of veterans after they return home. Just before Veterans Day, I asked a few local(ish) writers who served overseas about which movies they find relate powerfully to the military or veterans.
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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Nov. 8. To wit: J MASCIS, Elastic Days. The Dinosaur Jr. frontman embraces his poppier side on this one. MUSE, Simulation Theory. Big, bombastic and clearly indebted to Bowie and Queen. RHETT MILLER, The Messenger. The Old 97’s singer is a criminally underappreciated songwriter. CHARLES BRADLEY, Black Velvet. The soul man’s fourth and final (and aptly named) album arrives just a year after his death. JEFF GOLDBLUM, The Capitol Studio Sessions. Yes, you read that correctly — Goldblum sings! (DAN NAILEN)
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TRENT REEDY, author (Spokane) “It is difficult to concisely describe how and why I sometimes become so emotional about my service in the war in Afghanistan … But it is because of this emotional challenge that I have not watched many of the movies set in our modern wars ... I haven’t yet watched The Hurt Locker, Restrepo, Osama, Lone Survivor, 12 Strong, or others because I can never seem to find two hours in my day when I’m willing to be so upset … I did enjoy Iron Man. It’s not, strictly speaking, the most realistic war film … but I would have been happy if they would have stretched out that part where Iron Man fights the Taliban in Afghanistan. An hour and a half of Iron Man destroying the evil Taliban and saving the good Afghan people? Yes please!” MATT YOUNG, author (Olympia) “No joke, James Cameron’s Aliens is my favorite war film. Future space Marines with serious attitude problems use wearable chain guns to fight xenomorphs at a desolate space outpost. What’s not to love? Really though, it’s one of my favorite depictions of soldiers to return to because it complicates the narrative we’re often sold in the Post-9/11 era of the quiet, dutiful, consummate professional, who’s probably damaged by post traumatic stress and growls hard truths while giving a thousand-yard stare.” DAN WEBSTER, film critic (Spokane) “For me, the film that has always touched me the most is William Wyler’s 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives ... The film captures what many, if not most, veterans feel upon their return home, especially those who served in a war zone. They may want to pick up right where they left off, but it’s difficult, and in some cases impossible. The world and their friends and families have changed, as have they, and it takes time and effort to readjust.” n
SHE’S BACK, WITCHES Fans of Riverdale and horror alike can enjoy Netflix’s latest series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. A sharp departure from the ’90s sitcom with Melissa Joan Hart, CAOS focuses more on the dark side of being a teenage witch with social-issue undertones. Sabrina has to balance being half-mortal, half-witch and all the responsibilities that come with each. CAOS features classic horror tropes such as a girl wearing virginal white, but also tries to deal with issues like feminism and gender identity. All 10 episodes are available for bingeing on Netflix. (MICHAELA MULLIGAN)
NURSE WITH A GUN A small vial of heroin and a handgun caught my eye in an exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. But those weren’t items dropped by a history-inclined drug dealer. They belonged to Red Cross nurse Inza Gertrude McKernan, a Spokane woman who went to France in 1918 to lend her hand in WWI. I highly encourage anyone interested in WWI to find some of the other local stories at the MAC exhibit The Inland Northwest and the Great War, on display through Jan. 27. (QUINN WELSCH)
TRUE PATRIOT With a new episode dropping on Netflix every Sunday, comedian Hasan Minhaj is taking on the most pressing political topics of the day with his new show Patriot Act. In the first three episodes, Minhaj has taken a funny look at everything from attacks on Affirmative Action, to Saudi Arabia, to America’s collective addiction to Amazon despite its evils. Taking the best elements from the Daily Show (where he used to work), Minhaj offers truly thoughtful millennial commentary in a digestible way, summing up topics as complicated as the motivations behind the war in Yemen in about the easiest-to-understand sound bites I’ve ever heard. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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What I learned as a student at Chicago’s famed Second City improv theater BY WILL MAUPIN
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here’s gotta be something funny about a dream that doesn’t come true, right? On Wednesday, Nov. 14, the national touring company from Chicago’s famed improv and sketch comedy theater the Second City will take the stage at Spokane’s only slightly less famed Fox Theater. Their performance of The Best of the Second City will surely bring plenty of laughs to those in the audience, myself included, thus fulfilling a longtime dream of mine to laugh with some of Second City’s talented comedians. Albeit, it’s happening for me from the wrong side of the stage. The Second City has been a key stepping stone in the development of countless comedians over the decades. Amy Poehler, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and Chris Farley, to name a few, all passed through the Second City on their way to stardom. The Second City’s track record, along with the classes and programs offered at its in-house training center, lured me to Chicago as a 20 year old in 2011. Yes, and like those famous comedians, I too passed through the Second City on my path to … well, writing this essay. It can’t work out for everybody, OK? But that’s not to say it was anything short of an incredibly rewarding experience. I mean, at the very least I’m getting paid to write about it now. For two years I worked my way through the training center’s writing and improv programs. My friends back home, most of whom went to traditional universities, liked to joke that I was attending clown college. Which is fair, as the Second City does offer clowning classes, though I never actually took one. It wasn’t so much an education in comedy as it was in being fully and overwhelmingly in the moment. My instructors liked to preach that life is unscripted, and improvisation is the perfect skill
to have. It’s far more applicable than chemistry, at the very least. My classmates reflected that. Sure, some were there for the same reasons as I was. And some have gone on to become actual working comedians. Others, maybe even most, were young professionals looking to further their careers. Comedy could help people who worked in advertising find a way to make insurance commercials slightly more tolerable. Improv helped lawyers who needed to speak off the cuff in court. At the end of the training center’s year-long writing program, each class has to write, cast, produce and stage a revue with a month-long run. My largest contribution to my class’s show, even though I went to Chicago to pursue writing, was born from improv class. In a scene, for some reason, I was personifying the month of January. In the next, February. That developed into one of the two musical numbers in our revue, with actors playing December, January and February performing an autobiographical rap about the unglamorous life of the months of winter. I know there is a recording of this out there somewhere. Please don’t Google it. I can guarantee nothing from my production, Aim Low, Sweet Patriot, will defile the stage at the Fox. The Second City was a big part of my life, and one of the main reasons I have spent the past six years writing, but I was just a miniscule part of the Second City. Nearly six decades of great comedic minds have been molded there. Some of their best work will be on display here, in Washington’s second city, and this mediocre comedic mind will be there to take it all in once again. n The Best of the Second City • Wed, Nov. 14 at 7:30 pm • $25-$40 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200
JANUARY 26, 2019 | 8PM A 50 PIECE ORCHESTRA & FULL ROCK BAND PERFORM QUEEN CLASSIC SONGS IN A BRILLIANT COMBINATION OF PASSION AND POWER The mystique of Africa meets the circus with aerial acts, contortionist feats, Egyptian limbo, South African gumboot dances and more…
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Witch Hunt In Ignite’s new production, two sisters are suspected of being witches. Or is the magic in their mysteriousness? BY E.J. IANNELLI
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f the title of Ignite! Community Theatre’s new production leaves you somewhat bewildered and a little intrigued, that’s kind of the point. Two Witches, No Waiting, written by prolific playwright Pat Cook, capitalizes on an air of mischief and mystery that two sisters cultivate when the circumstances require it. “The title is taken from one of the lines near the end of the play,” says Director Troy Heppner. “And it really is apropos. It’s spoken by one of the sisters’ son as people are rushing out of the house, basically stating, ‘This is what you think, [but] this is what you get.’ When you hear the line toward the end of the play, you go, ‘Oh, now I get it.’” Despite — or because of — its Texas setting, Heppner says that Two Witches, No Waiting is often described as a “Southern comedy,” a label that not only suits the play but captures one of its charms. “It’s a Southern comedy without making fun of the Southern culture. We’ve all seen plays where they present Southerners as caricatures and they’re wacky or zany, whereas this play could easily take place in Spokane,” he says. There’s a similar adaptability to the play’s themes, which is why Heppner sees the postHalloween opening as a nonissue. “This could present any time of year. My biggest qualm with the play was its title. We associate witches with Halloween, but truly it’s more about people who are different.” The play’s central premise is that the two “mature” sisters, Arlene (Kris Behr) and Elzbeth (Moira Moore), are suspected by the local townspeople of dabbling in witchcraft. At least, that’s what the outward signs would indicate. The two sisters live together in a large historic home where they practice strange herbal medicine and keep secretive rooms. Then their housekeeper Opal (Kathy Bowers) begins spreading rumors of something
Who you calling a witch? NEESHA SCHROM CROSEN PHOTO sinister afoot — right before she goes missing. But is it the sisters who are sinister? Or is something else going on? “As it turns out, a big conglomerate and entrepreneur wants to buy their land so that he can knock down the house and build a resort. And his daughter is dating one of the sisters’ son. So the father, the entrepreneur who wants the land, is kind of using their relationship to get what he wants,” Heppner explains. The land developer, the archly named Eustace Sternwood, is played by Dan Griffiths. And romantic ties aren’t the only trick up Eustace’s sleeve. He also tries using the negative rumors to turn the town against Arlene and Elzbeth. “It turns out the community likes them. They think of their suspected witchcraft as just an eccentricity, and the things they do, like herbal potions, are beneficial. They help their community and are a part of their community.” This being a community-oriented production, there’s an ensemble cast of both veteran and new actors from the area. The cast of characters also includes the local sheriff (Jerry Uppinghouse), Arlene’s son Marcus (Jacob Carruthers), his fiancée Kit (Kimber Kettler) and the sisters’ new housekeeper Bonnie (Julie Berghammer). “You can tell there’s something going on between Jeremy and Bonnie, even though his girlfriend is the daughter of the businessman,” says Heppner. As director, he has a particular soft spot for the dynamic between the sisters. “Elzbeth, actually the younger of the sisters, is a trickster. She likes to stir the pot. She’ll do things that seem odd or bizarre, but Arlene, the perfect Southern lady, always has a good explanation of what Elzbeth just did. As a matter of fact, there are a couple of lines where she is known as ‘Arlene the explainer.’ To me, that’s a lot of fun,” he says. For Heppner, though, the most fun comes from the way a play like Two Witches, No Waiting embodies what Ignite! and the local grassroots community theater scene is all about. “I am so thankful that there are people willing to put in a time commitment on a strictly volunteer basis. I’ve met people doing theater that I have been friends and acquaintances with for decades,” he says. “The truth is that theater in Spokane is a big family.” n Two Witches, No Waiting • Nov. 9-25; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $15 • Ignite! Community Theatre • 10814 E. Broadway Ave., Spokane Valley • igniteonbroadway.org • 795-0004
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TOMATO TIME Slurp these five favorite tomato soups to ward off winter’s chill and live your best cozy life BY INLANDER STAFF Soulful Soups’ tomato basil is chunky and filling.
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hen this feature was planned and I set out to recruit writers to eat and discuss a few widely recommended, house-made tomato soups at restaurants around the Inland Northwest, I was met with some unexpected resistance. “Tomato soup is not my favorite,” a few writers said. “It’s just so basic,” was another sentiment shared. Who knew tomato soup was so… polarizing. I, on the other hand, love a good, hearty tomato soup and believe it’s one of the best fall and winter meals, whether at home or dining out. Especially when there’s cheese, toasty bread or a combo of both involved. But it wasn’t always like that. Growing up, I absolutely loathed Campbell’s canned tomato soup concentrate, as well as any canned food with tomato sauce, like SpaghettiOs and Chef Boyardee ravioli. That overly sweet, watered down, ketchup-like sauce is seriously nasty. At some point in my adulthood, however, I discovered that fresh-made tomato soup is
actually nothing like these stale, canned counterparts. You can add other stuff, like carrots and red peppers and onions and garlic and basil! A grilled cheese or panini with a side of tomato soup is now one of my favorite cold weather meals. It’s cozy and classic. So to both my fellow tomato soup lovers and the unconvinced haters, please settle in and discover where to warm yourself from the inside out. (CHEY SCOTT)
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117 N. Howard WHAT WE GOT: House tomato basil, topped with parmesan, $8 This cream-based hearty tomato soup is seasoned with basil and a generous amount of an Italian seasoning blend that gives it a homestyle flavor with just the tiniest hint of peppery spice. It’s pureed, but not to the point of being smooth: With parmesan cheese sprinkled on top
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and mixed in, this one’s got a chunkier texture. By the end, you’ll be figuring out new ways to use your spoon to dig into the corners of the stylized bowls to get every last bit. If you belly up to the bar or a table at dinner time, a bowl of the tasty soup comes with a perfectly sweet, dense slice of beer bread, making for a filling meal. Word on the street is you can also mix the house tomato with the house beer cheese soup for another tasty combo. Or, if you don’t want to mix but can’t decide between the tomato basil and some of the other delicious sounding soups of the day, why not get a three-soup sampler, which also comes with bread. Most evenings during the week, as the later hours bring out the “spirits” part of this eatery, you can find lots of fun, from musicians’ open mics and trivia, to Taco Tuesdays and live performances. The cozy restaurant has a little something for everyone. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL) ...continued on next page
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FOOD | SOUP “TOMATO TIME,” CONTINUED... TOMATO STREET
6220 N. Division and 808 W. Main WHAT WE GOT: Tomato basil soup, $3.69/cup, $5/bowl I’ll admit, I’ve never had tomato soup before, or at least had the desire to try it. My first thought of tomato soup is watered down soup from a can. This tomato basil soup from Tomato Street made me a convert. You would expect a place called Tomato Street to at least have a good tomato soup and I was not disappointed. Paired with a basket of bread dripping with garlic and butter, which I had no issue polishing off by myself, a bowl of tomato basil soup is worthy of being a main dish on a cold day. Chunks of celery, carrots and onion peek through the light red, creamy soup without making it too chunky. Upon digging my soup spoon into the bowl and mixing in the grated cheese on top, I could clearly taste hints of basil mixed in the tomato base. This soup is on both Tomato Street’s lunch and dinner menus, with cup and bowl portion options available. You can order it as either a starter to accompany any of Tomato Street’s Italian main dishes or as a main dish on its own. I left feeling full and satisfied, so much so I went home and had to lie down to digest my meal. (MICHAELA MULLIGAN)
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828 W. Main, third level WHAT WE GOT: Roma tomato basil soup, $4.50/cup; $6.50/bowl While normally we wouldn’t feature a chain restaurant here, we’ve heard that the hype around Nordstrom’s tomato basil soup is legit, so we had to see what the fuss was about. On a recent overcast day, several customers in line in front of me ordered this soup, and on a shelf nearby was a display of large jars for purchase R E S TA U R A N T to take home. Further FINDER proof of this soup’s cult Looking for a new place to following is evident eat? Search the region’s with a quick Google most comprehensive bar search, pulling up tons and restaurant guide at of recipes to recreate it Inlander.com/places. at home. Nordstrom itself has even shared the secrets behind the soup’s success on its blog, stating “it’s our most asked-for recipe and our most ordered dish.” A bowl of this vivid orange, pureed soup comes with a small slice of parmesan-garlic crostini for dipping, though it definitely won’t last with the entire bowl. The soup is ultra creamy, as all restaurant-quality tomato soups should be, with a hint of sweetness and a nice
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Meltz in Coeur d’Alene serves its “Xtreme” tomato soup as a meal, side or combo. velvety texture. The added sweetness here is thanks to the addition of a generous amount of carrots, which balance well with the acidic tomatoes and notes of garlic, onion and basil. While one bowl is filling, eating that alone for lunch left me hungry again an hour or so later. Next time, I’ll definitely order something extra, like the cafe’s rustic cheddar chive biscuit or a sandwich. (CHEY SCOTT)
MY FRESH BASKET
1030 W. Summit Pkwy. WHAT WE GOT: Tomato basil soup, $3/12-oz. cup, $4/16-oz. cup The hot bar at My Fresh Basket on the edge of Kendall Yards is a hugely popular lunch spot for good reason — it’s fast, affordable, tasty and full of options. Now that fall’s set in, it’s likely you may be waiting behind a couple other folks ladling one of the store’s three daily soups into a to-go cup. My Fresh Basket’s tomato basil soup is available daily, and is a favorite for its hearty, thick texture. We recommend ordering it with a side from the salad or hot bars. Or, grab a bagel from the bakery to toast and spread with cream cheese to dip into your bowl, serving as a great on-the-go substitute for buttery, toasted baguette slices or a grilled cheese sandwich, which are sometimes available here. This soup is pretty standard fare, and more on the savory, salty, garlicky side versus sweet. Made with just a few basic ingredients — plum tomatoes, cream, basil, garlic and olive oil — the resulting concoction is a creamy
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mix that also hides the occasional tomato chunk. Pro tip: When filling up your bowl, scoop from the bottom of the pot to get as many of those tasty chunks as you can. (CHEY SCOTT)
MELTZ EXTREME GRILLED CHEESE
1735 W. Kathleen Ave., Coeur d’Alene WHAT WE GOT: Xtreme tomato soup, $2.95/cup, $4.25/bowl Cheese and tomato have been best friends since long before cheeseburgers, nachos and pizza, so it makes sense that a place serving grilled cheese sandwiches would also serve tomato soup year-round, and not just as a side. It can be ordered as such, in either a cup or bowl-size portion, or as a combo meal that includes any half sandwich and a drink ($11). The little “dipper” portion is great for those who like to emphasize the sandwich over the soup. And, because this is a place that thinks in terms of extremes, you get two choices of tomato soup: “Xtreme” tomato, which is vegan and nondairy, and tomato basil, with a creamy texture enhanced by the addition of parmesan cheese. Even without the sandwich, Xtreme tomato is a hearty, filling soup with a strong tomato flavor, followed by strong onion and garlic, but not a lot of salt (thank goodness). It’s just thick enough, with occasional bits of tomato and the acidity is just enough to help cut the heaviness of any accompanying sandwiches, such as the Cubano with Swiss, pulled pork, dill pickle, smoked ham, roasted garlic and Dijon mustard mayonnaise ($7.25/$12.25). (CARRIE SCOZZARO) n
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To-Go Box Changes at Common Crumb Bakery, the Observatory’s new menu, and helping feed Spokane’s children CHANGES AT COMMON CRUMB ARTISAN BAKERY The scratch bakery inside downtown Spokane’s Saranac Commons is closing temporarily, but will reopen later this month with a new name and a new menu. Owners Jeremy and Kate Hansen are rebranding the bakery as 509Cooks and plan to use the space as a teaching kitchen for aspiring local cooks and bakers. The name is a direct connection to chef Jeremy Hansen’s 509Cooks nonprofit, which he founded last year after traveling to Puerto Rico to help feed residents displaced by Hurricane Maria. 509Cooks is what he calls a “culinary first responder,” with the mission of sending cooks to support people affected by natural disasters in the Inland Northwest and beyond. Hansen tells us some of the bakery’s offerings will change, but it will continue to bake bread for retail sale and for the Hansens’ other Spokane restaurants, including Santé and Inland Pacific Kitchen. Pastry and desserts at the bakery will gradually change, he says, adding that the bakery is also ending its wholesale offerings of those items. Customers can expect to eventually see more grab-and-go sandwiches, desserts, handmade chocolate, cheese, preserves and dry-aged charcuterie. “We are excited to have 509Cooks take on more of a retail presence,” Hansen says. (CHEY SCOTT)
FEED THE CHILDREN SPOKANE Chef Adam Hegsted and other local chefs are teaming up to fight food insecurity at the
Common Crumb is changing its format and name.
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upcoming Feed the Children Spokane event on Tuesday, Nov. 13. All proceeds will go toward a community feeding event, for which Hegsted and the international nonprofit Feed the Children plan to donate $100,000 worth of food and other nutritional items to support struggling families. Tickets to the event, held at the Montvale Event Center in downtown Spokane, are $125 and can be purchased at feedthechildren.org/ spokane. Table sponsorships are also available. Guest chefs teaming up with Hegsted to prepare a multicourse gourmet dinner include Paul Mason (Vine & Olive), Chad White (Zona Blanca), Travis Dickinson (Cochinito Taqueria) and Emily Crawford (Doughlicious Bakery). (CS)
CHECKING OUT THE OBSERVATORY’S NEW FOOD MENU After its short hiatus this summer, the Observatory is back in full swing featuring new food and drinks, the same rocking music scene and some small upgraded details that add to the bar’s ambiance. Take a seat at one of the window booths, where brightly colored spherical moon lamps now nod to the stellar theme, and try a cocktail from a list of drinks named for local bands. Bourbon drinkers might like the Fat Lady ($11). Made over a whiskey cube with Hudson Baby Bourbon and amaretto, it’s heavy on the lemon juice, giving it a tart start that gets sweeter as you make your way toward amaretto-soaked cherries at the bottom. The new food menu was designed by former Ruins cook Joseph O’Neal, now in charge of the Observatory kitchen. It features new starters, including cheese puffs and sliders, a selection of steamed buns and a variety of rice bowls offering diverse flavors, from yellow curry to tea-brined salmon. We tried the chipotle chicken bowl ($9), which is topped with gorgonzola, toasted pepitas and a nightshade salsa that was made of tomatoes, caraway, onion, bell peppers, salt and pepper. The spicy kick of heat in the chipotle was barely offset by the gorgonzola, so the bright fresh salsa made all the difference in balance. Mix it all in for the best flavor combination. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL) n
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lthough it’s based on two separate memoirs, one by writer David Sheff and one by his son Nic, there’s very little in Beautiful Boy that feels personal or unique. The story of Nic’s yearslong struggle with drug addiction and David’s increasingly futile efforts to help his son, Beautiful Boy plays out like nearly every other story of drug addiction, with a repetitive sobriety-andrelapse structure that ceases to be illuminating after the second time, and winds up in service of a clunky public service announcement. Stars Steve Carell (as David) and Timothée Chalamet (as Nic) give committed, heartfelt performances, but the movie still makes a muted impact. A progressive journalist and author who lives in a gorgeously appointed home in the Bay Area, David is the kind of person who would probably think of himself as a “cool dad” and seems to have a close relationship with Nic, his son from his first marriage to Vicki (Amy Ryan). But Nic has a secret life that David is oblivious to, at
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Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet play father and son David and Nic Sheff in Beautiful Boy.
Addiction drama Beautiful Boy tells a sadly familiar tale BY JOSH BELL
least until Nic disappears for two days and returns home strung out on meth. Thus begins the cycle of David pushing his son into rehab programs that Nic eventually resents, as Nic’s addiction progresses from marijuana to meth to heroin, with pills and alcohol on the side. It’s all handled sensitively by the cast and by Belgian director and co-writer Felix van Groeningen (the Oscarnominated The Broken Circle Breakdown), who resists the most obvious awards-baiting moments, even as both Carell and Chalamet emote heavily. Maura Tierney mostly frets in the background as David’s wife Karen, mother of his two younger children, but she gets one strong moment when she chases after Nic, as the weight of all the time being the strong silent one comes crashing down on her. More often, though, the movie relies on a hip alt-rock soundtrack to make up for its lack of emotional specificity. The music is also sometimes the only way to work out the timeline, which occasionally shifts back and forth
for no productive reason. After a while, it gets tough to tell whether Nic has been an addict for a few months or a few years, and that also makes it hard to gauge how bad things have really gotten for him. Chalamet remains movie-star glamorous no matter how strung out Nic gets, although his anguish still comes across at the most important moments, especially in Nic’s tragic relationship with a fellow addict played by the perpetually underrated Kaitlyn Dever. This is more David’s story than Nic’s, though, and it perhaps lets him off the hook too easily, especially when he’s so consumed with giving Nic unwanted help that he neglects his wife and two younger kids (who barely get a handful of lines). The family’s enormous privilege also goes mostly unmentioned, although the fact that a kid with all of Nic’s advantages still ends up hooked on BEAUTIFUL BOY drugs may be part of the Rated R point. Directed by Felix van Groeningen The flashbacks to Starring Timothée Chalamet, Steve David with a young Nic, Carell, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan including the origin of their shared expression of love (just the word “everything”), are a bit cloying, but they demonstrate the strong bond between father and son that addiction tears apart. It’s a sad story that’s far too common in real life, but its commonality is what makes the movie less compelling. At one point, van Groeningen shows a brief glimpse of the manuscript David is writing, which would eventually become his memoir Beautiful Boy, and that little snippet provides more of a distinctive perspective than the rest of the movie can manage. n
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The study of a young drug addict and how his personal demons erode his relationship with his father. Despite solid performances and good intentions, it’s little more than a clunky PSA. (JB) Rated R
DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH
Claire Foy takes on the title role. (NW) Rated R
OVERLORD
American troops in the midst of WWII uncover a horrifying Nazi experiment to produce monstrous super soldiers. Produced by the ubiquitous J.J. Abrams. (NW) Rated R
The holiday-hating grump gets another animated adaptation, with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing Whoville’s resident Scrooge. Kids might like it; everyone else will quickly forget it. (MJ) Rated PG
PROSPECT
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB
THUGS OF HINDOSTAN
Stieg Larsson’s punk hacker Lisbeth Salander returns to the big screen, hunting down a computer program that can override nuclear codes.
In this indie sci-fi western, a space scavenger and his teenage daughter are pursued by bandits while mining valuable gems on a distant planet. At Northtown Mall. (NW) Rated R Straight from Bollywood, an action epic about 18th-century bandits and military men fighting for control of the East India Company. (NW) Not Rated
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Ryan Gosling is Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s rousing biopic, which meticulously details the sheer risk and courage that went into the moon landing. A tad overlong, but technically dazzling. (ES) Rated PG-13
FREE SOLO
A documentary following climber Alex Honnold’s attempt to successfully ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan rock formation sans rope and safety harness. Not for acrophobes, especially in its stun-
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A biopic of the liberated French author Colette (Keira Knightley), who began as a ghostwriter for her husband in the early 1900s and eventually published acclaimed work under her own name. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R
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The band Queen and late frontman Freddie Mercury (played by Rami Malek) get the biopic treatment, and the results won’t exactly rock you. It takes a disappointingly conventional approach to a wildly unconventional figure. (JB) Rated PG-13
Pointless sequel has R.L. Stine’s kidlit creations again coming to life and terrorizing a small town. About on par with the old Goosebumps TV show. (NW) Rated PG
HALLOWEEN
Masked killer Michael Myers is on the loose and after Laurie Strode again, resulting in a surprisingly solid, if slightly routine, thriller. A direct follow-up to the 1978 horror classic, ignoring a litany of earlier sequels. (NW) Rated R
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From Angie Thomas’ YA bestseller, a teenager becomes an unwitting symbol for injustice after she witnesses a cop shoot her childhood friend. A provocative social-issue drama that tackles race, class and police brutality. (JB) Rated PG-13
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a fantasy about an orphaned boy and his warlock uncle trying to stop an evil sorcerer’s doomsday clock. An odd duck of a children’s film, too goofy in some places and too scary in others. (NW) Rated PG
HUNTER KILLER
Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman shout their way through this Tom Clancy-ish thriller about Navy SEALs on a mission to save the kidnapped Russian president. (NW) Rated R
INDIVISIBLE MATEUSZ WOLSKI CONCERTMASTER Special Guest: Mollie Allen A mix of video, comedy and music explores the world of strings.
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In this Christian drama, an Army chaplain and his wife struggle to hold their marriage together when he returns from Iraq. (NW) Rated PG-13
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
Because everyone was clamoring for it, Rowan Atkinson returns as the bumbling private eye, tasked this time with stopping a hacker from revealing agents’ identities. (NW) Rated PG
MID90S
A latchkey kid finds kinship amongst the L.A. skater scene in this semi-autobiographical period piece written and directed by Jonah Hill. He really nails the look and feel of the era. The narrative? Not as much. (SS) Rated R
ECKART PREU, CONDUCTOR MATEUSZ WOLSKI, VIOLIN SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHORALE EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC CHOIR Spokane Symphony Concertmaster Mateusz Wolski performs Dvorvák’s Violin Concerto. Rachmaninoff’s choral symphony, The Bells, is loosely based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith discuss their decades-long careers and friendships with one another. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated
VENOM
Tom Hardy’s bad-boy journalist is possessed by a wisecracking alien symbiote, and he goes after a billionaire scientist doing dangerous experiments. Plays like a 13-year-old boy’s idea of
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a cool, edgy superhero movie. (NW) Rated PG-13
THE WIFE
After her husband receives a Nobel Prize for literature, a doting housewife (Glenn Close) comes to terms with the significant contributions she has made to his work. An involving character study that unfolds like a mystery. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R n
NOBODY’S FOOL
An ad exec (Tika Sumpter) has her life upended when her wild sister (Tiffany Haddish) gets out of jail and moves into her place. Tyler Perry’s latest is so tonally confused that it’s almost interesting. (NW) Rated R
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS
The classic Christmas tale gets a truly WTF update, which plays out like Narnia meets The Wizard of Oz meets CGI cacophony. Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman star. (NW) Rated PG
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Robert Redford gives his supposed swan song as an escaped con who becomes the world’s most charming bank robber. A throwback to the films of the ’70s, and based on a true story. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
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An animated tale about an outcast yeti who sets out to prove to his village that humans do exist. With an anonymous visual style and forgettable songs, this toon barely clears a very low bar. (JB) Rated PG
A STAR IS BORN
This third remake of the classic ragsto-riches story finds a booze-soaked musician (Bradley Cooper) eclipsed by his protege and lover (Lady Gaga, who can really act). An engaging rock melodrama that offers both the glitter of escapism and the grit of serious issues. (EB) Rated R
TEA WITH THE DAMES
Pretty self-explanatory: A documentary in which actresses Eileen Atkins,
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A hypnotic documentary that chronicles the strange saga of a low-budget movie made by teenagers in 1980s Singapore, and the shadowy svengali who disappears with all the film negatives. From director Sandi Tan, a poignant, sometimes unsettling meditation on the elusive nature of artistic creation. (NW) Not Rated
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batch brings out truly be appropriate to a Grinch who hadn’t been softened? It doesn’t feel as hard won when his heart grows three sizes. Oh, the Grinch still hates Christmas, and still vows to ruin the holiday for the people of Whoville by pulling a reverse Santa on Christmas Eve and stealing all their presents and decorations. But the movie’s heart is less in it than the Grinch’s is. Perhaps it’s inevitable in trying to pad out a short picture book to feature length, but the backstory for the Grinch’s meanness concocted here is pretty halfhearted: The Grinch was turned off to the holiday as a child when he was ignored and left alone in the Whoville orphanage at Christmas... which actually doesn’t make sense, seeing as the Whos, aggressive caroling aside, are genuinely nice and kind. (This backstory also fails to answer the unasked but obvious question: Just what is the Grinch, anyway? An alien? Why is he the only one of his kind?) Even when life isn’t perfect in Whoville, it’s BY MARYANN JOHANSON still pretty darn lacking in conflict. The biggest t becomes increasingly difficult with each expansion to the story is the subplot in which passing autumn not to sympathize more and Cindy Lou Who (the voice of Cameron Seely) more with the Grinch, Dr. Seuss’ green-furred wants to ask Santa to bring her mother, Donna grump who cannot abide Christmas. Lou Who (Rashida Jones), something nice, In this totally uncalled for and entirely superbecause she’s always doing things for other fluous big-screen adaptation of the classic picture people. This will set Cindy Lou on a Christmas book, he is annoyed by nonstop holiday songs on Eve encounter with the Grinch-as-Santa, and her the radio and aggressive carolers who stalk him kindness will help to soften his heart. But Mom on the streets of Whoville. And as for the latter, Who is honestly doing just fine; it’s never menat least, he’s clearly in the right to be cheesed off. tioned what happened to Cindy Lou’s father. But at least the story of The Grinch begins on If it’s all too mild, we can at least give thanks Dec. 20. It’s legitimately Christmastime. Imagine that there was no attempt to push this story if the Grinch lived in a world in the direction that Ron in which aggressive Christmas DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH Howard’s appalling 2000 cheer was foisted upon him in live-action How the Grinch Rated PG early November, with manuStole Christmas took, turning Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier factured corporate entertainthe Whos of Whoville into Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida ment carefully constructed for materialistic monsters, selfish Jones, Kenan Thompson, Angela Lansbury maximum Yuletide blingy-ness and greedy, and turning the and minimal actual impact. Grinch’s childhood into a This new Grinch, you see, appears to have nightmare in which he was subjected to actual been deliberately designed to be instantly forgetcruelty and neglect. Maybe this simply is a story table, with all the disturbing rough edges of Dr. that shouldn’t be attempted at feature length. Seuss’ story and illustrations ironed out. The Some questions are better left unanswered. Christmas curmudgeon here is almost cuddly, Mostly what we get here is candy-colored more Oscar the Grouch than truly grinchy, and slapstick and affable action sequences — see his dog, Max, isn’t the mangy cur of Seuss but a Cindy Lou racing through the snowy streets of happy, well-cared-for canine companion. Whoville to catch the mailman to deliver her letBenedict Cumberbatch’s voice is unrecognizter to Santa! — and gentle, kindergarten-level huable as that of the Grinch, and he may be the mor: Behold the Grinch in his tighty-whiteys! It’s best and only memorable thing about this relentperfectly suitable for small children, and perfectly lessly mediocre endeavor: He’s actually trying bland and inoffensive to the adults accompanyto do something fresh, and succeeding. But then ing them. But somehow, I don’t think Dr. Seuss again, would the submerged sweetness Cumberwould entirely approve. n
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POWERFUL POSSESSION
Caleb and Jenny Anne Mannan of Bust It Like a Mule. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
Bust It Like a Mule is part literature reading, part folk concert, part tent revival and all mesmerizing BY DAN NAILEN
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ust It Like a Mule is definitely a book. Bust It Like a Mule is also — sort of — a band. Bust It Like a Mule is also kind of musical theater. And Bust It Like a Mule is most definitely an experience. How you define this particular book/band/musical probably depends on how you first encounter the world first created by Spokane author and artist Caleb Mannan in 2012, and later fleshed out by songwriters and fellow Busters Jenny Anne Mannan, Kevin Morgan and Jacob Mannan — wife, friend and brother, respectively. Let’s begin at the beginning, when Caleb Mannan wrote Bust It Like a Mule, the novel. It’s a feverish blaze of a story revolving around one Cotton Kingfisher, an Okie drifter who heads to the sprawling West, kicking up a
ruckus in rail towns large and small while seeking a sense of home, “or a rough approximation thereof.” It’s a story full of fisticuffs and romance and philosophy and music, spread across some of the most beautiful spots on God’s green earth, and it’s punctuated largely with “bygods!” and “goddamns!” instead of commas and periods. “It’s sort of based on my grandpa, who was sort of a poor man’s Hank Williams,” Mannan says, describing his extended family as Okies who made their way to Oregon before his wing of the clan landed in Colville. “He wrote his own music, he wrote his own poetry, then he would record it. And he would then play it for all of us in the family until we just about went crazy. He played it on his big boombox.
“So I knew there was some music in there, in the book itself. It’s kind of written in this crazy free form. I thought of it as a poem almost, sort of a big, long free verse. So when I finished, I knew what I was going to do was ask people to write music for it.” That’s where Mannan’s wife Jenny Anne — familiar as the brains behind the monthly Northwest of Nashville concert series at the Bartlett, and for her way with a fiddle and microphone — friend Morgan and brother Jacob enter the picture. While Mannan pitched his Bust It Like a Mule book to literary agents, he also sent copies to his trio of family and friends to see what might inspire them, song-wise. ...continued on next page
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MUSIC | PUNK-FOLK “POWERFUL POSSESSION,” CONTINUED... “They started sending stuff back and it was way more than I thought it would be,” Mannan says. “And it was weird to hear the book back through someone else’s eyes. I didn’t give them any directions. They came back, and some of them were literal interpretations, some were more thematic, some were more the emotion of what was going on. That was really cool, to see it come to life like that.”
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annan found himself with a batch of songs and a book that agents expressed interest in — but not enough interest to actually publish it. And again, that’s where Mannan’s wife Jenny Anne stepped in, self-publishing the tome and pushing Caleb to unleash Bust It Like a Mule on the world. “She’s a huge creative partner, and she’s basically the music producer on the Bust It shows,” Mannan says. “There was always this idea that we’d do a book release, and we called it a hootenanny. We just rented out the Women’s Club and we got up there and we weren’t really sure what was going to happen. It went over really well, and it started this sort of weird word of mouth.” In the ensuing couple years, Mannan and his Bust It musical collaborators only got together to perform a couple times a year, gathering to share songs and stories at places like Auntie’s, the Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival or the downtown Spokane Library. That’s where I saw Bust It Like a Mule for the first time, about six months ago. And it was
The punk-folk quartet Bust It Like a Mule.
a sight. With Morgan, Jacob Mannan and Jenny Anne Mannan sharing vocals on songs, Caleb Mannan essentially became his Cotton Kingfisher character, sharing tales from the book between tunes. The overall experience is something like cowboy poetry meets folk concert meets barnyard hootenanny, and it’s genuinely unlike any other live music or literary performance you’re likely to find in these parts, bygod! n Bust It Like a Mule at the Spokane Fall Folk Festival • Sat, Nov. 10 at 6:30 pm • Free • All ages • Spokane Community College Lair • 1810 N. Greene St. • spokanefolkfestival.org
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MUSIC | ANNIVERSARY
Husband and wife Deon and Terry Borchard (second and third from left) opened the first Long Ear record store in 1973, and they’re celebrating its 45th anniversary on Saturday.
Memories of Music The owners of Coeur d’Alene record store the Long Ear look back at 45 years of tunes BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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n 1973, Terry and Deon Borchard opened a record store, the Long Ear, in the small town of Big Bear Lake, California. That was 45 years ago, which, Deon is quick to point out, is also the revolutions per minute of those old vinyl singles. It wasn’t until 1985 that the Borchards packed up shop and moved to Coeur d’Alene, where they’ve now been for 33 years. Just like the RPM of a standard LP. Music has obviously dictated the Borchards’ lives, and in celebration of their milestone, we strolled down memory lane with them and looked back at the Long Ear’s history, using their various locations and the changes in the music industry as signposts.
1973 THE FIRST LONG EAR LOCATION OPENS
The first major release after the Borchards got into the record business was Elton John’s double LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It was a blockbuster album, the kind everyone just had to own, and in the days before streaming, record stores were a destination point. “You used to have to work to listen to your music a little more,” Terry says. “It was a big deal to run down to your local record store and get an album you’d been salivating for,” Deon says. “You take it home, you light the blue candle, you turn out all the lights in the house, you sit on your water-
The inventory at Coeur d’Alene’s the Long Ear. bed. You put the stylus down on the new record, and you listen. You don’t talk. You listen all the way through.”
1980 THE FIRST CDS HIT THE MARKET
Terry remembers driving to an L.A. supplier every week, buying up all the shiny new format he could. There weren’t all that many CDs at the time: Some of the first titles the Long Ear stocked included Willie Nelson’s Stardust and J.J. Cale’s Grasshopper. “There weren’t a lot available,” Terry says. “Same as with any format, they were looking to see if it’d fly.” What they didn’t do was fly off the shelves. At least not at first. “We carried CDs for about six months before we sold one,” Terry says.
1985 THE LONG EAR MOVES TO COEUR D’ALENE
As the Borchards moved to their first Idaho location, CDs had finally caught on, but it was cassette tapes that really ruled the market. “We had a whole wall of cassettes, and that was the preferred music medium because of portability,” Terry recalls. “You’d give [a customer] the little cassette player and he’d put those earbuds on, and it was an instant smile.”
LATE 2000s VINYL HAS A RESURGENCE
For about a decade, the Long Ear didn’t sell vinyl at all.
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Nobody was pressing it, and demand for used wax was practically nonexistent. But seven or eight years ago, the tides shifted, and though CDs accounted for most of the Long Ear’s sales, more customers were bringing in used vinyl to sell, and new vinyl is en vogue again. “There’s a lot of people that never stopped buying vinyl,” says Joel May, the Long Ear’s resident vinyl expert. “It’s a more physical product. A lot of younger people are getting into it because it’s something to hold onto.” And what are the most common records in those used boxes? “Lately it’s been Souvenirs by Dan Fogelberg,” May says. “I don’t know why. I’ve seen that in every collection I’ve pulled in the last month. Before that it was Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs.”
2016 THE LONG EAR MOVES TO ITS CURRENT LOCATION
After their previous landlord sold the building where they’d been for 15 years, the Borchards moved their shop to a The Long Ear is slightly larger space on Governcelebrating its 45th ment Way. anniversary on “This has been a real good Saturday, Nov. 10, 10 move for us,” Terry says. “We’re am-8 pm. New vinyl really comfortable in this buildwill be 33 percent ing. We’re planning on being off, and new CDs 20 here for awhile.” percent off. All other Most of the regulars from inventory — including the old shop have followed the used records and Borchards to the new one, as CDs, posters, have the employees, includclothing, household ing manager Nic Fritze, who and novelty items — recently celebrated a milestone will be 45 percent off, of his own: He’s been with the and the store will also Long Ear for 20 years. be offering prizes How’s that for longevity? and other giveaways. “I tell everybody that starts working here, ‘This is a great gig,’” Terry says. “‘Nobody’s getting rich here, but it’s a good gig. If you like it, stay with us as long as you possibly can.’” n The Long Ear • 1620 N. Government Way, Coeur d’Alene • longear.com • (208) 765-3472
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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE
BLUEGRASS THE DEVIL MAKES THREE
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lthough they dabble in bluegrass, the members of the Devil Makes Three have punk pumping through their veins, and that comes through in their barnstorming energy. The band has gained a reputation for their killer live shows, many of which they’ve brought to the Inland Northwest, touring either in their traditional trio formation — just banjo, guitar and upright bass — or with a slightly larger backing band. It’s the latter arrangement that defines their most recent album, Chains Are Broken, which is sonically fuller but still sounds like a collection of classics that have been conjured from the dusty standards songbooks of the past. You might be surprised to learn they’re all new. — NATHAN WEINBENDER The Devil Makes Three and Erika Wennerstrom • Sun, Nov. 11 at 8 pm • $22.50 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279
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Thursday, 11/8
J THE BARTLETT, Family and Friends BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRUISERS, Open Jam Night DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Kip Moore w/Jordan Davis & Jillian Jacqueline THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flanary and the Songsmith Series J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), PJ Destiny PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Open Mic RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series SLICE & BISCUIT, Bluegrass Jam SPOKANE TRIBE CASINO, Kori Ailene STEAM PLANT BREWING, Ron Greene ZOLA, Blake Braley
Friday, 11/9
219 LOUNGE, Aaron Golay ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Dan Conrad J THE BARTLETT, Caamp BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Radkey, Fury 500, Ten-Speed Pile-Up BIGFOOT PUB, Into the Drift BOLO’S, NightShift BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Haze CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, The Ronaldos
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FOLK JEFFREY FOUCAULT
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effrey Foucault’s new album Blood Brothers contains musical sketches of rolling landscapes and wheat-colored countrysides and the weathered people dwarfed by them. His songs play out almost like short stories — about the meditative pleasure of doing the evening dishes with the kitchen window open, of hearing “Landslide” on your old truck’s tape deck and remembering a lost love, the therapeutic pull of picking up a vintage Gibson and letting all your feelings flow through it. Like John Prine or Josh Ritter, the Wisconsin-based singer-songwriter has an ear for melody as well as an understanding of human nature, making for a particularly evocative listen. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Jeffrey Foucault with Dusty Heart • Sun, Nov. 11 at 8 pm • $13 advance, $15 day of • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174 CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bob Sletner CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, The Happiness DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave FARMHOUSE KITCHEN, Tom D’Orazi HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio HILLYARD LIBRARY SPORTS BAR, Howard King J J HOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTER, Friends of the Guitar Hour feat. Man Grgic & Adam del Monte IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ron Kieper Jazz Trio J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Tyler Edwards IRON HORSE (CDA), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Alicia and the Loose Change Band
JOHN’S ALLEY, The Jauntee LAGUNA CAFÉ, Smokin’ Wheels LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil MARYHILL WINERY, Kyle Richard MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Ron Greene MOONDOLLARS, Steve Fleming MOOSE LOUNGE, My Own Worst Enemy NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack OMEGA EVENT CENTER, Razakel & The Slice Girls, Zitro, Douuble You, Hard Jawz & more J ONE WORLD CAFE, Concert for Compassion feat. New Couch Party and Lesmorose PATIT CREEK CELLARS, Ken Davis In Transit
PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brown Salmon Truck THE PIN, Carbin RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SPOKANE TRIBE CASINO, Kori Ailene SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West THIRSTY DOG, DJs WesOne & Big Mike ZOLA, Karma’s Circle
Saturday, 11/10
BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, Heart Avail, Dysfunktynal Kaos, Catalyst, Die and Rise, InComing Days BIGFOOT PUB, Into the Drift BOLO’S, NightShift BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Haze
CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, The Ronaldos CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bob Sletner CURLEY’S, The Happiness DAN & JO’S, Usual Suspects HOGFISH, Lust for Glory, My Own Affliction, Idol Hands IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi IRON HORSE (CDA), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Andru Gomez and the Bad Apples J KNITTING FACTORY, Circa Survive, La Dispute, Queen of Jeans LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow J THE LOCAL DELI, Ally Burke MARYHILL WINERY, Kari Marguerite MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MOOSE LOUNGE, My Own Worst Enemy
MULLIGAN’S, Son of Brad NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack J THE OBSERVATORY, Fat Lady, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, Blue Canoe J ONE WORLD CAFE, Them Coulee Boys J THE PIN, Chez, KUTL3SS, John E. Wat & JamRok, Pac Man and more POST FALLS BREWING CO., Jimi Finn RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J J SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Spokane Fall Folk Festival feat. Bust It Like a Mule (see page 47), Free Whiskey, Island Blend and more SPOKANE TRIBE CASINO, Kori Ailene SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke WESTWOOD BREWING, Ron Greene ZOLA, Karma’s Circle
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Sunday, 11/11
J J THE BARTLETT, Jeffrey Foucault (see facing page), Dusty Heart THE BLIND BUCK, Show Tune SingAlong CRAVE, DJ Dave DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Nick Grow J J KNITTING FACTORY, The Devil Makes Three (see facing page), Erika Wennerstrom LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Misty Mountain Pony Club O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J ONE WORLD CAFE, Vanna Oh! PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday feat. Bob Beadling J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin J J SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Spokane Fall Folk Festival STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love
Monday, 11/12
THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Open Mic Night CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J ONE WORLD CAFE, Diane Gillespie and Fiddlin’ Big Al THE PIN, Raven, Extinction A.D., Mobile Death Camp RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess
Tuesday, 11/13
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of New Orleans with Hot Club of Spokane, Jone Bole, Duane Becker, Sarah Berentson J J THE BIG DIPPER, Deep Dark Woods, Kacy & Clayton, Dario Re BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, The ShuffleDawgs Blues Power Happy Hour THE OBSERVATORY, Musician’s Open Mic J ONE WORLD CAFE, Joel Ansett RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Christy Lee THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites
Wednesday, 11/14
219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & John Fershee J THE BARTLETT, The Artisanals, Chris Molitor CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic HILLYARD LIBRARY SPORTS BAR, Steve Livingston HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz & Whiskey Wednesdays IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Open Jam IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Steve Starkey THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Kori Ailene NASHVILLE NORTH, William Clark Green J THE PIN, Jarren Benton with Dead Poet, Knothead, State of Krisis, CCB Krew & Sean Thomas RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Cruxie
MUSIC | VENUES
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219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 381-5489 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Inlander Winter Party features 20 craft breweries, games, live music, shopping galore and much more.
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PARTY HAVING A SNOW BALL
OK, so it hasn’t snowed yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start celebrating ski season early. The Inlander’s annual Winter Party is upon us again, and we’ll be taking over the Spokane Convention Center with dozens of winter vendors selling gear, as well as several regional breweries offering their best beers and ciders. You’re also guaranteed a free 49° North or Mt. Spokane lift ticket if you’re among the first 2,000 guests on either day. Oh, and there’s live music: The Dapper Devils and the Rub hit the stage on Friday, while Saturday features performances by Kyle Richard, Nat Park & the Tunnels of Love, Blake Braley and Dragonfly. DJ Unifest will also be spinning both days. Even if you’re not into the whole winter weather thing, it’s a soiree you won’t want to miss. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Inlander Winter Party • Fri, Nov. 9 from 4-9 pm and Sat, Nov. 10 from 10 am-7 pm • $10/weekend admission; ages 12 and under free • All ages • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • snowlanderexpo.com
ARTS GOLDEN YEAR
Since 1968, the Spokane Art School has been a centerplace for teaching and sharing the arts. No matter what artistic skill or interests you possess, the SAS regularly offers classes in a wide range of subjects, from digital photography to beginning drawing and advanced courses in oil and acrylic painting, charcoal, pen and ink, and more. Kids, teens and adults are able to sign up for new classes hosted each month by the school’s professional artist instructors. To celebrate its momentous golden anniversary, the Spokane Art School is hosting a party (with cake!) and preview of one of its most popular annual showcases, the Ornament and Small Works Show, which runs through December. Supporters have an opportunity to purchase a commemorative, limited-edition ornament by artist Tybre Newcomer at the celebration. — CHEY SCOTT Spokane Arts School 50th Anniversary • Thu, Nov. 8 from 7-9 pm • $10 • Spokane Art School • 811 W. Garland • spokaneartschool. net •
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COMEDY LAUGH TOGETHER
What’s one thing that can bring together LGBTQ and straight audiences? Come Out Laughing hopes that comedy and sharing a drink can bridge any divide. Making a stop on its national tour, Come Out Laughing features lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight comics from across the country who have appeared on Showtime, HBO and Comedy Central. The Spokane stop features Come Out Laughing creators Erin Foley, host of the Sports Without Balls podcast, and Jason Dudley, from NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and will be emceed by Spokane’s own Jared Munson (pictured). This gay-friendly show promises to make you burst out laughing, or at least chuckle a bit. Head downtown to share some laughs and see how life’s funny no matter who you are. — MICHAELA MULLIGAN Come Out Laughing featuring Erin Foley, Jason Dudley and Jared Munson • Fri, Nov. 9 at 8 pm • $20 • nYne Bar & Bistro • 232 W. Sprague • comeout.brownpapertickets.com • 474-1621
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MUSIC JAZZ CAT
Not a lot of folks find themselves in the position of graduating from Harvard and then having to choose between starting Yale Law School or moving to Brooklyn with some friends to just, you know, kick it. The law’s loss was the jazz world’s gain as saxophonist Joshua Redman’s seemingly questionable move to NYC led to a full immersion into the city’s jazz scene. A lifelong musician, that exposure to folks like Charlie Haden and Roy Hargrove led Redman to pursue his passion, first winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, then landing a record deal with Warner Brothers. Redman’s since toured the world several times over, been nominated for six Grammys and performed with all manner of artists. On Friday, he’ll come to Spokane and join the Whitworth University Jazz Ensemble for its 30th annual Guest Artist Concert. — DAN NAILEN Joshua Redman with the Whitworth University Jazz Ensemble • Fri, Nov. 9 at 7:30 pm • $25; $15/students, seniors • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200
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LADIES NIGHT OUT An evening to benefit Spokane Valley Partners, with heavy appetizers, a dessert auction and more. Nov. 8, 4:30 pm. $60/$400. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. svpart.org MILLIANNA JEWELRY HOLIDAY SALE The Spokane-based fine jewelry line hosts its annual holiday open house and sale, offering its handmade jewelry at up to 70% off retail price. Ten percent of proceeds support the Ronald McDonald House Charities. The sale continues online from Nov. 8-11 (30% off with RMHC30). Nov. 8, 3-7 pm. Millianna, 905 W. Riverside, Ste 608. millianna.com WILD NIGHT FOR WILDERNESS Support the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness and Idaho Conservation League with food and brew from Matchwood, live music by Oak Street Connection, a raffle, online art auction and more. Nov. 8, 4:30-8 pm. Free. Matchwood Brewing Co., 513 Oak St. bit.ly/2Ny3c2R (208-265-4236) BIG TOP CDA TALENT SHOW Wellknown local leaders are partnered with talent professionals for an evening of zany fun benefiting the Lake City Play-
house. Nov. 9, 7 pm. $30-$50. Coeur d’Alene Eagles, 209 Sherman Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org (208-676-7529) EPICUREAN DELIGHT The annual benefit gala brings together 30 restaurants and 30 libations purveyors for an evening benefiting the Inland Northwest Blood Center. Nov. 9, 6-11:45 pm. $200. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. epicureandelight.org NATIVE CRAFTS FAIR An event to benefit artist Ric Gendron, who recently lost his home and art in a fire. Nov. 10, 11 am-4 pm. Free admission. American Indian Community Center, 610 E. North Foothills Dr. aiccinc.org SALMON TALES GALA An annual fundraising gala for Salish School of Spokane, featuring a three-course salmon dinner, student performances and family testimonials. Nov. 10, 6-9 pm. $100. Gonzaga Prep, 1224 E. Euclid. salishschoolofspokane.org FEED THE CHILDREN SPOKANE Local chefs prepare a seated benefit dinner to help end local hunger. Guest chefs include Adam Hegsted, Chad White, Pete Tobin, Paul Mason, Travis Dickinson and more. Nov. 13, 6 pm. $125. Montvale Event Center, 1017 W. First. feedthechildren.org/spokane
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I SAW YOU GORGEOUS STUNNING EYES I saw you from the corner of my eye as you were leaving the mall, but those beautiful stunning eyes of yours are what made me turn. You noticed me watching and even gave a me a quick smile, you got in a silver Dodge Durango with a momma bear decal. If you are single and would like to get coffee someday reply to mall_eyes@hotmail.com. BOOO! Boo! To the two young men who on Halloween night at 6:15 near the intersection of Indiana and Ash, body slammed and violently shoved a sweet elderly lady to the pavement. I stopped and helped with another witness we picked her up and gave her a ride. She was so scared. I guess real monsters don’t have time wear a costume. A big cheer to the young man who helped. Not all angels have wings, some wear black hats and piercings. Remember guys, you get what you give. GRAMMA Parking in a handicapped spot when you’re able bodied is bad enough, but when you claim that your “GRAMMA” is inside, and you are in your little car with a no Handicap hanger, you’re an excuse for an entitled, worthless excuse for a human
being. Pretty sure you are here for college, could be wrong, but what a testament on how your parents would be so proud of you when you get $300 or more ticket. LOSER! Cheers however to the person who approached you and asked you to move. YOU HAD ME AT TACOS I saw you at the Tacos El Sol grand opening. You ordered the special with three different types, just like me. You had the most gorgeous curly brown hair and a smile that made me melt. Let’s go again... together?
CHEERS HALLOWEEN HEAVEN Cheers to the dental hygienist, dressed as a tooth fairy, but looking like an angel with her wings. During my cleaning, which was a wonderful and professional experience, I opened my eyes, the sudden bright white light and her white wings and beautiful smile took my breath away, and for a second I was going to heaven. Not yet, for now, I was very content with my white smile after her cleaning. CHEERS TO THE GARLAND THEATRE Cheers to the Garland Theatre for Playing The Walking Dead every Sunday! Thank-You So Much. I’ve been a fan since the beginning and these last couple of years going to the Garland to watch it on the BIG screen with a room full of fans like me has been so much more fun. Thank you, it’s probably not said enough but the fans that are showing up to watch... we really enjoy and appreciate it thank you!!! NO MORE STA BUS TRAUMA Don’t know who or what entity to thank for the changes being made to STA busses being routed back or the city for finally concluding the construction in the First, Sprague, Maple Street area.
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SCHOOL BUS BUSTERS Jeers to the too-many drivers (and one is too many) who drive right past school
ers) who have to navigate these Lime obstacles left in the middle of sidewalks, entrances to their facilities and apartments or houses along their way are most definitely not having fun. Even worse are the ones dropped
I saw you at the Tacos El Sol grand opening. ... You had the most gorgeous curly brown hair and a smile that made me melt. Let’s go again... together?
but Cathedral Plaza tenants will again be able to spend peaceful time in our homes after those 2-1/2 years of trauma. GREEN TIMBS You are my sweetheart, my cutie, my crackerbite, my honk, my stinky, and my love. I just want you to know I love you, and I’m sorry I’m not always the best at expressing that during this difficult phase in my life. Our tradition of reading Inlander together has been something I hold dear to my heart since you adamantly informed me long ago that we “were supposed to read that together!” You’re so adorable, I love you. YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION If you hadn’t been there with me on Saturday, I would have given up and been mortified. You show so much compassion and ease with dilligence and patience. I am constantly in awe of what you are capable of... knowing and perfecting every skill... as well as managing to keep your composure when the going gets rough. You are my inspiration and my whole world. I love you. X
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buses with their lights flashing. Red means stop! Yellow means prepare to stop. An entire family in Indiana was murdered this week by one driver who just couldn’t be bothered. Open your eyes, obey the bus. The children you save could be mine. JEERS TO (SOME) FERRIS PARENTS Jeers to the Ferris parents who pull up to the four-way stop at 37th and Ray and make their kids jump out in the middle of the intersection so that the parents don’t have to wait through the drop off line in the Ferris parking lot. I see this everyday. Not only does traffic back up for blocks to accommodate your “quick drop off,” but then your kids are forced to dart through the intersection on foot while cars are driving through it! Not only is this bad etiquette, it puts your own kids in danger. Cheers to the parents who actually enter the Ferris parking lot and drop off your kids properly. To the 4-waystop-droppers.... who raised you? EVERYONE IS NOT HAVING FUN The blind and elderly in walkers and wheelchairs (and their care/aid work-
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EVENTS | CALENDAR HARRY POTTER TRIVIA NIGHT Get Lit! Programs hosts the second annual Harry Potter-themed trivia night as a program fundraiser. Open to teams of up to four members. Nov. 18 and 25 at 4 pm and 7 pm. $25. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. bit.ly/2NXUXgr (474-0722)
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2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) WHITNEY CUMMINGS Best known for creating and starring in the NBC series Whitney, Cummings is also the co-creator and -writer of Emmy-nominated CBS comedy series “2 Broke Girls.” Nov. 8 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 9-10 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $20-$35. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com COME OUT LAUGHING Created by national headlining comics Erin Foley and Jason Dudey, the show is a gay, gayfriendly, who-cares-who’s-in-your-bed comedy tour that brings together LGBTQ and straight audiences who love to laugh. Nov. 9, 8 pm. $20. nYne, 232 W. Sprague Ave. comeout.brownpapertickets.com MUSICAL An all-improvised musical comedy based on audience suggestions. Fridays in November at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com THE IMPROV CO-OP “Open Relationships” is an adults-only evening of comedy about getting together and getting down. Nov. 10, 7 pm. $10. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook. com/improvcoop (208-673-7529) SAFARI A fast-paced improvised show relying on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com (822-7938) THE BEST OF SECOND CITY Catch the national tour for Chicago’s legendary sketch and improv comedy theater. The show features the best sketches and songs from Second City’s history, as well as its trademark improvisation. Nov. 14, 7:30 pm. $30-$40. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com COMEDY NIGHT A night with feature comedian Jessica Watson and internationally-touring headliner and Dry Bar comedy sensation Cory Michaelis. Nov. 15, 8-9:30 pm. $10. Brothers Bar, 111 W. Shaffer Ave. (258-8875)
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COMMUNITY MOBILE MARKET: FREE FOOD ASSISTANCE Free produce and other groceries are provided to anyone in need of food assistance. This food distribution is open to the public, with no appointment or documentation required. Please bring a box or bags for your food.
Nov. 8, 12-2 pm. Free. St. Peter Lutheran Church, 4620 N. Regal St. 2-harvest.org DEER PARK LIBRARY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION An after-hours party celebrating Deer Park Library’s 20th anniversary, featuring live folk music from Adam Miller, free face painting, a cake, and pictures and stories of the library’s history. Nov. 8, 6-8 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St. scld.org SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Join PJALS and members of the community to continue fighting white supremacy, supporting racial justice organizing led by people of color, and deepening our understanding of race locally. Meets second and fourth Thursday of the month, from 5:30-7 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. pjals.org (232-1950) VETERANS DAY DINNER The annual dinner and recognition ceremony includes an honor guard from Fairchild AFB, musical entertainment, personal stories told by veterans, a keynote address by retired Air Force Col. Brian Newberry, a no-host bar and dinner. Nov. 8, 5:30-8:30 pm. $15-$17/general; free/vets. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (535-0803) DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing, and build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Priority seating for age 17 or younger. Second and fourth Friday of the month, 4-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org REBEL JUNK HOLIDAY MARKET The Coeur d’Alene vintage market features local and traveling vendors with a heart for junk and an eye for aesthetics. Small business vendors in the show are chosen for handcrafting or procuring one-ofa-kind furniture, home decor, clothing, and accessories. Nov. 9 from 6-9 pm and Nov. 10 from 10 am-4 pm. $10/Fri; $5/ Sat. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. bit.ly/2R5xAUa VETERANS DAY CELEBRATION Orchard Crest Retirement Community hosts a tribute to local veterans with musical entertainment, patriotic awards, a color guard, reception and more. Nov. 9, 2:15 pm. Free and open to the public. Orchard Crest Retirement Community, 222 S. Evergreen. orchardcrestretirement.com 1912 CENTER WINTER MARKET Local artists, craftspeople, growers and producers gather at the center throughout the winter to sell their products, including handcrafted art and artisan goods, food products and more. Nov. 10; Dec. 1 and 8; Feb. 2 and March 2, 2019, from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. (208-669-2249) SPOKANE FALL FOLK FESTIVAL The 23rd annual celebration features eight stages of traditional and ethnic dance, music, workshops, special entertainment, crafts for children and jamming. Also featured are sales of traditional crafts. Nov. 10 from 11 am-10 pm and Nov. 11 from 11 am-5 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. spokanefolkfestival.org 5TH ANNUAL ARTISAN’S & CRAFTER’S SHOW Local artisans and handcrafters share their creations with the community this holiday shopping season. The annual event is a fundraiser for Woman’s Club Spokane. Nov. 10 from 10 am-6 pm and Nov. 11 from 10 am-4 pm. $2. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org/artisan-craft-shows
ANDROID STUDIO Learn how to develop apps for the Android operating system. Ages 16+. Meets Saturdays from 9:30 am-noon from Nov. 10-Dec. 8. Free. Gizmo-Cda, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Hedlund Building, Suite 142. gizmo-cda.org 90TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FAIRE & BAZAAR The cathedral’s annual bazaar offers homemade cookies, breads, lemon curd, jams, jellies and other gourmet food, along with home decor, candles, bath items, a community lunch service and more. Nov. 10, 9:30 am-3 pm. Free admission. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org DROP IN & READ Read great books from Spark’s collection to inspire your own stories, crafts and drawings. Participants may read at their own pace and then choose from writing, arts or crafts activities based on what they have read. Grades K-8. Second Saturday of the month, from 2:30-4 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central. org (279-0299) THE FORREST HARVEST BAZAAR The economics class at Forrest Bird Charter School in Sandpoint host a community event with arts, live music, crafts, food, farm vendors and student booths. Nov. 10, 10 am-2 pm. Free. 614 S. Madison, Sandpoint. sandpoint.com GAME DAY Drop in to the SCLD’s Book End with family and friends to play a board game or two, or bring your own game to share and play as we celebrate International Board Game Week. The BookEnd is located in the Spokane Valley Mall on the second floor next to Macy’s. Nov. 10, 10 am-8 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Mall, 14700 E. scld.org (893-8275) INLAND NW TOY SHOW CLASSIC This year’s new and larger location hosts 80 exhibitors buying/selling/trading vintage, new and collectible toys. Nov. 10, 9 am-4 pm. $4-$10; kids under 12 free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. facebook.com/InlandNWToyShowClassic/ (990-4325) MIRACLE MAKER’S HOLIDAY MARKET Local women host a craft and vendor fair offering shopping from brands like LulaRoe, Color Street, Norwex, Scentsy, Thirty-One Gifts and more. Nov. 10, 9 amnoon. Origin Church, 5115 S. Freya St. bit. ly/2NFYUWV (868-9969) PIONEER DAY The annual event honors thousands of German-speaking immigrants who settled in the Pacific Northwest in the last two centuries. Entertainment includes a song festival, German-style dinner, concert, dancing and more. Nov. 10, 6 pm. $15. German American Hall, 25 W. Third Ave. (710-2131) SHARING THE DHARMA DAY The Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Newport invites friends and newcomers to a talk on “Becoming Friends with Ourselves.” All are welcome. Please bring food to share for a potluck lunch, avoiding onions, garlic, and leeks as well as meat, fish or chicken. Nov. 11, 9:45 am-3 pm. By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org (447-5549) RED SKIRT SOCIETY: MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN In response to calls to action from Indigenous families, communities and organizations, Spokane Public Library has brought together a group of concerned individuals from the Indigenous community to have a discussion on the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Nov. 12, 6:30-7:30 pm. South Hill Library,
3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org BUDGETING 101 Take control of your financial life with a budgeting plan that’s simple, reasonable, and effective. Registration required at stcu.org/workshops. Nov. 13, 6-7 pm. Free. Airway Heights Library, 1213 S. Lundstrom St. (893-8250) GROWING FOOD PARTNERSHIPS SUMMIT The Spokane Food Policy Council (SFPC) hosts a summit to connect people involved in our local food system and to gather input for setting the SFPC’s future policy advocacy objectives. Nationally recognized food advocate Mark Winne presents. Nov. 13, 9 am-4 pm. $50. Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. spokanefoodpolicy.org RHETORIC IN THE RING V: ROGERS VS REPORTERS Rogers High School debaters test their wits with Spokane reporters Daniel Walters (the Inlander) and Rebecca White (Spokesman-Review) in the boxing ring at the Howard Street Gym. Retired Superior Court Judge Jim Murphy serves as “Referee of Rhetoric.” Nov. 13, 5:30-6:30 pm. Free; donations accepted. Howard Street Gym, 165 S. Howard. bit. ly/2RrCo6w (206-790-6561) THE URBAN NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Lux Devereaux, Executive Director of the American Indian Community Center, presents a program on the unique challenges of urban Native Americans. This program is one of SPL’s events celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Nov. 13, 6:30-7:30 pm. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. spokanelibrary.org SCC POINSETTIA OPEN HOUSE Poinsettias are started in July and then are assigned to second year students for care. There are 22 varieties to choose from in a variety of sizes. Nov. 15-16 from 10 am-5 pm. Free. SCC Greenhouse, 1810 N. Greene St. scc.spokane.edu (533-8167) THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE! The museum hosts a monthly, rotating mix of programs including music by local artists, happy hour, gallery talks, Art@Work exhibition openings, films, courses, lectures and more. Third Thursday of the month, from 6-9 pm. $5. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (363-5324) STARTUP WEEKEND SPOKANE During the annual 54-hour innovation gathering, attendees form teams, create a prototype business and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, all in one weekend. Nov. 16-18. $10-$40. Spokane Valley Tech, 115 S. University Rd. startupweekendspokane.com
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BZN FILM RODEO Bozeman’s inaugural film festival is hitting the road to share award-winning films with audiences around the Pacific Northwest. Nov. 8, 7-9 pm. $5. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave, Sandpoint. bozemanfilmcelebration. com/film-rodeo (208-255-7801) THE GUILTY A police officer assigned to alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. Danish thriller with English subtitles. Rated R. Nov. 8-11; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) BZN FILM RODEO The screening features award winners for the 2018 film festival from Bozeman, including three short films and the feature documentary “Mankiller.” Popcorn, treats and a no-host wine/beer bar provided. Nov. 9, 6:30 pm. $15. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org
NATIVE HERITAGE FILM SERIES: MANKILLER The official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Mankiller is the story of another Native American woman — a hero and legend, one who stands tall amongst the likes of Robert Kennedy, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King, Jr. — the late Wilma Mankiller. Nov. 10 at 12:30 and 3 pm. Free and open to the public. Sandpoint Library, 1407 Cedar St. (208-265-9565) WARREN MILLER’S FACE OF WINTER Watch the world’s best skiers and riders cover ground in some of the most legendary destinations. Nov. 10, 7-9 pm. $15. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. warrenmiller.com (208-255-7801) DIE HARD: 30TH ANNIVERSARY A special in-theaters screening of the action movie starring Bruce Willis. Nov. 11 and 14 at 2 and 7 pm. $13. Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone. fathomevents.com 350 SPOKANE PRESENTS: THE RELUCTANT RADICAL The film follows activist Ken Ward in his fight against the fossil fuel industry. Ward, driven by concern about climate change and the wellbeing of future generations, decides that direct civil disobedience is the only way to tackle the issue. Nov. 13, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free; $5 suggested donation. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. (209-2211) INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST: THE ETERNAL ROAD In 1930, a trade union activist has just returned to Finland from America. One night he’s forcefully taken to the Russian border, flies and gets over to the Soviet side. In Finnish with English Subtitles Nov. 13, 7 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org KURIOS: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES For one night, Cirque du Soleil in Cinema transports this internationally acclaimed show, to the big screen. Nov. 13, 7 pm. Northtown Mall Stadium 12, 4750 N. Division St. fathomevents.com DIGITAL DISCONNECT: HOW CAPITALISM IS TURNING THE INTERNET AGAINST DEMOCRACY The Northwest Alliance for Responsible Media is hosting a screening of this documentary, which discusses the relationship of the internet to democracy in the age of fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook security breaches. Nov. 14, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Gonzaga University Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone Ave. nwaresponsiblemedia.org UI CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE: CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT Each film screened for the monthly series is preceded by a brief introduction. Nov. 14 and Dec. 19, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) GREASE SING-ALONG A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time back to the big screen as a sing-along. Nov. 15, 7:45 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The 2018/19 World Tour features a collection of films that explore the mountain world, highlighting new landscapes and remote cultures, exciting adventures and adrenaline-packed sports. Nov. 16 at 7 pm, Nov. 18 at 6 pm. $20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com THE TRAIL RUNNING FILM FEST From world-class filmmakers to the best works made by weekend warriors, the festival takes audiences on a virtual run through forests, up mountains, beyond emotional obstacles, and across the finish line. Nov. 16. $20. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. bit.ly/2oMj9Zf (327-1050)
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MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP REMODEL CELEBRATION Tours showcase how member owner equity made updates possible, including new fixtures such as the cheese island, beer cooler, streamlined bulk department and more. Tours at 5, 5:45 and 6:30 pm. Nov. 8, 5 pm. Free. Moscow Food Coop, 121 E. 5th. moscowfoodcoop.com TASTEFUL THURSDAYS The annual series showcases and highlights the sights, sounds and tastes of the holiday season on the Palouse, including beer and winemakers, gourmet food and handmade items and more. Thursdays from Nov. 1-Dec. 20 (not Thanksgiving). Free. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. 5th St. moscowfoodcoop.com THURSDAY WINE SOCIAL The weekly wine tasting event features different themes and samples of the shop’s gourmet goods. Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Gov’t Way. gourmetwayhayden.com HOLIDAY COCKTAILS Join Wine Steward Drew and Event Supervisor Ben for an interactive class on crafting unique drinks for the holidays. Executive Chef Tom is also pairing appetizers with each cocktail. Ages 21+ Nov. 9, 6-8 pm. $45 + ticket fees. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2Sat8EW WINE TASTING Taste the wines of Walla Walla’s Gifford-Hirlinger Winery. Nov. 9, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com NOUVEAU WINE BARREL TASTING Taste and compare the 2018 “nouveau” or “new wine” with older vintages from the oak barrels in the cellar. Nov. 10, 12-5 pm. Free. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way. chinabend. com (509-732-6123) BLACK STALLION WINE DINNER A four-course dinner showcasing wines from the Napa Valley winery in the Oak Knoll District. Nov. 11, 4 pm. $50. 315 Martinis & Tapas, 315 Wallace Ave. 315martinisandtapas.com TEMPUS WINE DINNER A six-course dinner by chef Travis Dickinson, featuring Tempus wines from 2008 to 2015. Nov. 11, 6 pm. $75. Cochinito Taqueria, 10 N. Post. (509-474-9618) COCKTAIL PARTY APPETIZERS Get ready for the holidays and learn how to make appetizers to impress guests that don’t take all day to prepare. Nov. 12, 5:30-7 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS: THANKSGIVING PLANNING A class covering great-tasting and healthy Thanksgiving options; recipes can be used for the holidays as well as yearround gatherings. Nov. 13, 5:30-7 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org COMMUNITY COOKING CLASSES: The Kitchen at Second Harvest provides nutrition information, scratch cooking skills, budgeting, and more. Free hands-on cooking classes in the kitchen teach low-income families how to prepare nutritious meals while making optimal use of their limited resources. See website for dates/times; typically meets Tue and Wed from 5:30-7 pm. Free. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org COMMUNITY COOKING W/ CHEF LAURENT ZIROTTI This special handson cooking class features the James
Beard Award finalist and chef-owner of Fleur de Sel cooking up seasonal dishes for the upcoming holidays. Nov. 14, 5:30-7 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org (534-6678) 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, 6-9 pm. $35. The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. thewanderingtable.com NIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT The Spokane Chapter of the Washington Hospitality Association presents an evening of fun and food to raise funds for ProStart, a high-school program teaching students culinary and restaurant management skills. Nov. 14, 6-9 pm. $50-$65. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd. spokanehospitality.org COOKING CLASS: SWEET POTATO GNOCCHI Learn how to make sweet potato gnocchi in preparation to wow your Thanksgiving guests. Enjoy a glass of wine or beer upon arrival and a meal to finish. Nov. 15 and 16 from 6-9 pm. $65. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini.com DRINKS WITH CLASS Discover fresh twists on 1920s-era cocktails with craft spirits bartender Jocelyn DuPree. Includes three drinks and recipes. Nov. 15, 6:30 pm. $35. The Gilded Unicorn, 110 S. Monroe. gildedunicorn.com GOURMET COMFORT FOODS Join Kristi for a grown-up version of decadent, made-from-scratch mac-ncheese and more. Nov. 15, 5:30-7 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon Ave. thekitchenengine.com FIRST FOODS TRADITIONAL DINNER Rogers High School’s Nk’wu Nation Native Student Organization hosts its third annual feast. Guests enjoy traditional indigenous foods including squash, elderberry, acorn, bison dishes and more. Nov. 15, 6-8 pm. $10 suggested donation. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley. (354-6647)
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FALL JAZZ CONCERT The first jazz concert of the year at NIC features music performances by Cardinal Vocal Jazz directed by Max Mendez and the NIC Jazz Ensemble directed by Bryan Hannaford. Nov. 8, 7:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-7764) CHORALE CDA: MADE IN THE USA A concert celebrating the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth and his own works, as well as those of other American composers. Nov. 9 at 7 pm and Nov. 10 at 2 pm. $10-$20. Trinity Lutheran Church, 812 N. Fifth St. choralecda.com THE NUTCRACKER WITH EUGENE BALLET Joyful magic ensues as local dancers join the company on stage, while the Sugar Plum Fairy transports all through the Snow Kingdom to the Land of Sweets. Nov. 9, 3 pm. Beasley Coliseum, 925 NE Fairway Rd, Pullman. festivaldance.org PALOUSE CHORAL SOCIETY: HOME OF THE FREE & THE BRAVE The choral honors veterans through songs of the American tradition, patriotic favorites, and more. Nov. 9, 7:30-9:30 pm. $8$20; free/veterans, ages 6-12. Simpson United Methodist, 325 NE Maple, Pullman. palousechoralsociety.org
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My husband and I started having problems when I found an email he sent to his ex-girlfriend saying, “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.” He’s never complimented me during our five years together. He revealed that he and his ex used to have sex for hours, while the most we ever spent making love was 45 minutes — only once, when we were first dating. I think AMY ALKON I should leave, but we have a 1-year-old child. We are good together caring for the baby, but it’s terrible to be with a man who lacks love, respect, and desire for you. —Tormented Parents today are in fierce competition for whose kid achieves things first: “Little Euripides graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard while still in the womb!” Best not to be the parents whose child has the dark side nailed, reflected in Instagram brag shots like “Baby’s First Rehab!” A good deal of research suggests that the healthiest home environment for a kid is an “intact family” -- as opposed to the “Uncle” Of The Month Club. Couples wanting what’s best for their children are motivated to de-uglify their relationship and can often work out what I call “process-oriented” problems (counterproductive ways of interacting that lead to nasty fights or just seething resentment). This is essential because even if nobody’s screaming and hurling casserole dishes, the underlying tone of a relationship is reflected in interactions as mundane as “Can ya pass the salt?” (Ideally, your tone suggests some affection for your partner — not that your reluctance to do time is all that’s keeping you from smothering them with a pillow.) You, however, are in a relationship with a man who is deeply passionate about another woman and appears to see sex with you as a household chore. Your resentment from feeling unwanted and equally toxic feelings from him are sure to seep into your daily life. So, staying together under these circumstances would most likely be damaging for your child — but chances are, so would splitting up. To understand why an intact family seems important for kids’ well-being, it helps to understand a few things from an area of evolutionary research called “life history theory.” It explores how the type of environment a person grows up in calibrates their psychology and behavior -- for example, how able they are to delay gratification. This calibration is basically a form of human mental economics — a subconscious calculation of how stable or risky a person’s childhood environment is and whether they’d be better off allocating their energy and efforts toward the now or the future. A stable, predictable environment — like growing up with middle-class parents who remain married, live in a peaceful neighborhood, and always provide enough food to eat — tends to lead to a more future-oriented approach (like being able to save money). Conversely, growing up in a dangerous neighborhood, having divorced parents with unpredictable finances, and getting moved around a lot is likely to lead to a more now-oriented approach (spendorama!). The good news is, you two may be able to break up without it breaking your kid. My friend Wendy Paris and her former husband did this — splitting up as a couple while staying together as parents of their young son. Wendy writes in her book “Splitopia: Dispatches From Today’s Good Divorce and How To Part Well” that they even relocated together from New York to Los Angeles, moving to separate places a few blocks apart. They hang out and do activities as a family. Her ex often comes over to make breakfast for her son and coffee for her. He even takes out the trash! Sure, he did that when they were married, but Wendy was too preoccupied with her issues with him as a husband to appreciate it like she can now. It’s difficult to set up an arrangement like Wendy’s if you’re, oh...say...preoccupied with wishing your husband’s penis would wither and fall off like a skin tag under a dermatologist’s liquid nitro. In a situation like yours, where resentment is high, a mediator could be helpful. (Look for a marital specialist at Mediate.com.) A mediator is not a judge and won’t tell you what to do. He or she is a neutral third party, de-escalating conflict — creating a safe, productive psychological environment. This makes it possible for people with disputes to work out a mutually acceptable agreement for how they’ll go forward. Now, mediation doesn’t work for everyone. However, it’s probably your best bet for “having it all” — acting in your child’s best interest and eventually having a man in your life who sees you as more than ballast to keep the mattress down in case there’s a tornado. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR WHITWORTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA FT. JOSHUA REDMAN The legendary jazz saxophonist is the featured guest artist for the 30th annual Whitworth Guest Artist Jazz Concert. Nov. 9, 8 pm. $15$25. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) SPOKANE SYMPHONY POPS: ABBA THE CONCERT A visually and musically stunning tribute to Sweden’s pop superstars. Nov. 10, 8 pm. $39-$86. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com SPOKANE STRING QUARTET + GONZAGA CHAMBER CHORUS A concert of new music performed by Gonzaga’s 30-singer Chamber Chorus and Spokane’s professional string quartet. Nov. 11, 3 pm. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. spokanestringquartet.com SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY: MYTHS & LEGENDS This year’s concert series’ theme is “Music of Adventure.” Shows feature musicians from all four progressive orchestras: strings, sinfonietta, philharmonic and symphony. Nov. 11. $12-$16. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com (624-1200) AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET Presented as part of the University of Idaho’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series. Nov. 13, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. University of Idaho Administration Building, 851 Campus Dr. (888-884-3246) GATHERING OF THE BANDS Students from local middle schools gather to make music under the direction of Dr. Gary Ciepluch. Nov. 14-15 at 7 pm. Free and open to the public. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-3258) LILAC CITY LIVE! November’s event features Spokane author Samuel Ligon, author of the serial novel Miller Cane, currently being published in the Inlander. Also features music by Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, artist Mary Anne Gebhart and comedian Mara Baldwin. Nov. 15, 8-9 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. (444-5300) MILDRED BAILEY SHOW Singer Mildred Bailey was a member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe. She and her brother, Al Rinker, were friends with Bing Crosby where Bailey started her singing career. Cecilia Curtis, a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, sings the part of Bailey. Nov. 15, 6 pm. $10. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com
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INLANDER WINTER PARTY The annual preseason event hosts local recreational retailers and vendors offering seasonlow prices on clothing, gear and accessories; regional resorts also offer season pass specials. Also includes the PowderKeg beer festival, live music, games and more. Nov. 9 from 4-9 pm and Nov. 10 from 10 am-7 pm. $10/weekend admission; free/kids under 12. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. snowlanderexpo.com CONQUEST OF THE CAGE Friday night MMA fights return, with Joey Pierotti, Shay Johnson, Taz Bebout, Adam Clark, Brady Hiestand and Dan Gadley slated for the card. Nov. 9, 7 pm. $45-$125. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com SARS SKI SWAP The winter recreational equipment and clothing sale benefits
the Schweitzer Alpine Racing School’s programs for athletes ages 5 and up. Nov. 10, 9 am-2 pm. $2-$5. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Rd. sars.net (208-263-8414) FREE STATE PARK DAYS All Washington State Parks are open for use without needing to show a Discover Pass; includes access locally to Riverside, Mt. Spokane and Palouse Falls state parks. Nov. 11 and Nov. 23. parks.state.wa.us PRAY FOR SNOW PRE-SEASON BASH REI Spokane’s 3rd annual winter party includes a retro ski outfit costume contest, food vendors, prizes, live music and more, including a pre-party at Iron Goat Brewing from 3-5 pm, with $1 pints for attendees wearing REI wristbands. Nov. 11, 5-8 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei.com/spokane
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS Rogers Encore Dramas Director Kris Freeland and Assistant Director senior Xuan No have double-casted this murder mystery drama. The first weekend features a different cast than the second. Nov. 8-10 and 15-17 at 7 pm. $5-$7. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley. (354-6551) MERRY MEN A Washington state premiere of a new Robin Hood story like you’ve never seen. Nov. 8-18; Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls. edu/drama MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN Tony Kushner’s award-winning translation of Bertolt Brecht’s epic masterpiece, with original music and innovative stage design. Through Nov. 11; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/theatrearts CONSTELLATIONS This romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne a quantum physicist. Nov. 9-Dec. 2; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $14-$27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com CYT NORTH IDAHO: MY SON PINOCCHIO, JR. This new musical retells the classic story from Geppetto’s perspective. Nov. 9-18; Fri-Sat at 7 pm; Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $11-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org CYT SPOKANE: SHREK THE MUSICAL A show based on the Oscar-winning film. Nov. 9-10 at 7 pm; Nov. 10-11 at 3 pm. $12-$16. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. cytspokane.org DISNEY’S NEWSIES A ragtag group of newsboys form a union to fight powerful newspaper owners. Nov. 8-10 and 15-16 at 7 pm; Nov. 17 at 2 pm. $10-$12. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. spokaneschools.org/ferris (354-6000) MOSCOW COMMUNITY THEATRE: THE FOREIGNER A farce about a shy proofreader on vacation at a small Georgian fishing lodge. Nov. 2-11; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. moscowcommunitytheatre.org GUYS ON ICE An ice fishing musical? A show about two guys in a hut on the ice? The best Wisconsin musical ever? Surprise, both the show and songs are pretty good. Nov. 2-18; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13/$15. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St. sixthstreetmelodrama.com (208-752-8871) TWO WITCHES, NO WAITING Rumors swirl that middle-aged sisters Arlene
and Elizabeth are witches, as they’ve had trouble keeping a housekeeper due to the strange things that happen around their home. Nov. 9-25; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $12-$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (795-0004) WORKING, A MUSICAL Based on Studs Terkel’s bestselling book of interviews with American workers, this musical paints a portrait of school teachers, parking lot attendants, waitresses, truckers and more. Nov. 9-17; Thu at 5 pm; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $10/general. EWU, 526 Fifth. ewu.edu/ cale/programs/theatre
VISUAL ARTS
EAGLE MADE The second annual showcase features original art by EWU student/alumni artists. Nov. 1-30; MonFri 9 am-5 pm. Reception Nov. 14 from 4:30-6 pm. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St. bit.ly/2N1QNsl SPOKANE ART SCHOOL 50TH ANNIVERSARY Commemorate 50 years of art and arts education during an evening with hors d’oeuvres, drinks and an early preview to the school’s popular annual ornament and small works show, featuring 45+ local artists. Nov. 8, 7-9 pm. $10. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net ORNAMENTS & SMALL WORKS SHOW The annual showcase features holiday ornaments and other small works made by more than 40 regional artists. Nov. 9-Dec. 21; Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-4 pm. Free. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net SECOND FRIDAY ARTWALK Coeur d’Alene’s monthly celebration of local art, with artist receptions, live music and more. Nov. 9 from 5-8 pm. Free. artsandculturecda.org/artwalk
WORDS
GONZAGA VISITING WRITERS SERIES: ELENA PASSARELLO An actor, writer and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, Passarello’s essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been widely published. Nov. 8, 7-8 pm. Free. Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. (313-6942) JACK NISBET: THE DREAMER & THE DOCTOR The Spokane-based author, naturalist, historian and teacher discusses his new book about John and Carrie Leiberg, early residents of North Idaho. Nov. 8, 7 pm. Free. CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org EWU VISITING WRITERS SERIES: DENNIS NURSKE A reading with the award-winning author of 11 collections of poetry, who served as poet laureate of Brooklyn from 1996-2001. Nov. 9, 7:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org BOOK LAUNCH: DONNA PELTIER BAIN The local author, illustrator and teacher launches “In the Soft Moonlight,” an illustrated collection of Haiku poetry for children. Nov. 10, 1-3 pm. Free. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com SPOKANE POETRY SHOWCASE Join Veterans for Peace members Rusty Nelson and Hollis Higgins for a reading to Reclaim Armistice Day. Nov. 11, 7-9 pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. uuspokane.org (714-3613) n
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Winter Blessing at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Event Center is scheduled for Nov. 29
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Honor the original settlers during Native American History Month
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n 1990, the United States formally recognized November as National American Indian Heritage Month — aka Native American History Month — capping a 75-year process of formally recognizing the rich culture of Native American tribes. In Coeur d’Alene, we are surrounded by opportunities to honor tribal culture, particularly the Schitsu’umsh, which is what the Coeur d’Alene call themselves. It translates to “the discovered people,” but also “those who are found here.” Walk along the lake frontage road near North Idaho College to discover YapKeehn-um, the Gathering Place. This sacred spot near the mouth of the Spokane River was dedicated to the Coeur d’Alene tribe in 1977 and commemorated with signage and a bronze sculpture of Ats’qhule’khw, Chief Morris Antelope commissioned in 2015. For a historical tour of Coeur d’Alene culture and its impact on North Idaho, check out NORTH IDAHO MUSEUM, which this year celebrates 50 years. By appointment only in winter; call 208-664-3448. The CATALDO MISSION offers a living
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history exhibit entitled “Sacred Encounters,” which tells the 1840s story of when Jesuit missionaries met the Coeur d’Alene people. The oldest building in Idaho, the Mission sits on a larger state park, which is beautiful any time of the year. Guided tours to the mission are just one of many experiences available through the COEUR D’ALENE CASINO’S CULTURAL TOURISM program. The tribe has offered
“We thought it was important to share our stories, traditions and the land we’ve lived amongst for centuries.” cultural experiences, like its Julyamsh pow wow and stickgame tournaments since it opened 25 years ago, but recently expanded its offerings. “We thought it was important to share our stories, traditions and the land we’ve lived amongst for centuries,” explains Laura Stensgar, director of public affairs and cultural tourism for the tribe. Additional events include a shared meal with elders featuring authentic
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food, drumming and storytelling to a trip to a nearby buffalo ranch to experience understand the history and importance of local bison first-hand. The STICKGAME TOURNAMENT, Nov. 9-11, is a free and funfilled weekend, with Native American crafts for sale and plenty of stickgame action to view. WINTER BLESSING is at 6 pm, Nov. 29. This treasured tradition includes storytelling, a canoe blessing and a dance exhibition as the tribe prepares for the coming winter by sharing with the community. Then on Nov. 15, the tribe is presenting the MILDRED BAILEY SHOW. Bailey, a Coeur d’Alene tribal member, was an influential jazz singer in the 1930s. Known as the “Queen of Swing” or “Mrs. Swing,” she performed regularly with Bing Crosby, but her greatest fame came as a member of the group the Rhythm Boys. During this one-night tribute to Bailey, Cecelia Curtis, a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe will be performing Bailey’s beloved hits. “As Coeur d’Alene people, we understand our history,” says Stensgar. “But events and experiences like these allow us to share our culture and identity with others.”
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Coeur d’Alene’s monthly celebration of local art continues this Friday, when galleries and businesses downtown host artist receptions. Most ArtWalk venues offer complimentary wine and an opportunity to meet the artists. Free; 5-8 pm.
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Shabby chic, steampunk to flea market style are artfully on display at the Rebel Junk Holiday Market, which features carefully selected local and traveling vendors with a heart for junk and the imagination to elevate it. Friday, 6-9 pm; Saturday, 10 am-4 pm; Kootenai County Fairgrounds.
My Son Pinocchio Jr. NOVEMBER 9-18
This new musical retells the classic Disney story from Geppetto’s perspective, but features the beloved classic songs, “When You Wish upon a Star” and “I’ve Got No Strings,” alongside a host of new songs by Oscar winner and Grammy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz. Presented by CYT North Idaho. $11-$15; FridaySaturday 7 pm; Saturday-Sunday 3 pm; Kroc Center.
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Channel some Bob Ross chill and create a one-ofa-kind painting while sipping wine at Coeur d’Alene Cellars. Saturday’s Paint Nite in the tank room features a painting that’s all about the seasons. $45; 2-4 pm; Coeur d’Alene Cellars.
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