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he public has a right — an undeniable right — to know what the government is up to. It’s not the private sector. Government is the public’s business; we pay for it, we own it, we get to scrutinize how it’s being run. That’s America. For those on the public’s payroll, this means that journalists get to look over their shoulder, ask questions, get honest answers and review all public records in a timely fashion. Those who don’t like the attention, uncomfortable as it is at times, shouldn’t take taxpayer money.

Consider recent revelations about Spokane Mayor DAVID CONDON, whose hand-picked police chief was accused of sexually harassing a female subordinate in April. Now these facts: Condon’s administration purposefully tried to keep it quiet, transferring the woman to a new job (along with a healthy raise) and keeping the chief on as the city’s highest-paid employee.

This wasn’t an omission: Condon and his top advisors actively misled reporters seeking the truth.

They tell us now — after Condon’s re-election last month — that they had the best of intentions. Read our full report on page 13.

— JACOB H. FRIES, editor

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We’re all grateful for the Avista crews who worked night and day, as we are to the teams who came from all over the country to help us through our latest weather calamity. I ran into a team down from Canada, and another from Wisconsin. Stories of people helping people came with the morning paper.

Many parts of the nation, we know, expect even tougher challenges. The Southeast faces a hurricane season every year. New England has its “Nor’easters.” The Midwest and South have their tornado seasons. We all know about West Coast earthquakes. Notably, however, most of these areas of the country have moved disaster planning and mitigation front and center, asking some basic questions: How to prepare? What to expect? Where to go?

Here, we seem to have no clue. Why? Because we rely on reactive policies, which call for response-based priorities entirely dependent on reported storm damage. In effect, we do what passes for disaster preparedness and mitigation in a decidedly bass-ackwards way.

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n most civil preparedness programs, we always begin with the perception of threat and work from there to frame what we in the Navy termed the “operational requirement,” or objective. Then came the policies necessary to respond to those requirements. Lastly came the priorities — and the cost.

Threat perception requires the framing of a hypothetical scenario. In Florida, FEMA and the National Weather Service likely explore several possible storm scenarios — a Category 1 hurricane, Category 2 hurricane and so on. That’s the threat. Next comes the question: What is the objective informing the response? Then policies and priorities start to reveal themselves.

In the past 20 years, we’ve been shut down by an ice storm, a windstorm and several serious winter snowstorms. But neither the city nor Avista seems to have learned anything from these previous storms.

And then there’s climate change. Should we not expect to see the time intervals between such storms shortened? Science seems to think so. Which emphasizes even more the immediate need to do some serious disaster mitigation work.

So regarding our hypothetical threats here in the Inland Northwest? Why not another ice storm or windstorm? Perhaps even both on the same day. That’s what they call a Worst Case Scenario. Specific objectives? Perhaps getting the power back on throughout the city in, say (pick a goal), not more than three days? Or clearing the streets in, say, 48 hours? The policies designed to meet these goals should clearly speak to work-

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force needs, scheduling, equipment and effort.

Nor have we done the necessary disaster mitigation research upon which all of the above should be based. Consider: Why did the power stay on downtown? Well, we suppose it was because the power lines are all underground in the downtown area. This realization should raise some questions. Yes, putting power lines underground is more costly, both to lay and to repair. But what are the trade-offs?

Moreover, we obviously have some higher risk areas, which invite consideration of specific underground lines. What does our experience over the past two weeks tell us?

I’m quite certain the city has done no informative studies, and if Avista has, they haven’t influenced the city’s decision-making.

A related question: Assuming that the chief cause of power failures was LETTERS trees falling Send comments to into abovegeditor@inlander.com. round power lines, which species fared the worst? My quick visual tells me that pines took the worst beating, often breaking off, while spruce didn’t do so well either, often uprooted completely. Douglas Firs generally weathered the storm best, as did deciduous trees.

Like I say, that’s just a visual run-through, but some post-storm research could inform our threat perception, which could influence our objectives, and then our policies and priorities. Such knowledge would certainly help inform future plans regarding our urban forest.

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o let’s see how disaster mitigation planning might work: First, we postulate the worst snowstorms of the past two decades. Now we know the threat. Next, we set the operational requirement — the time frames noted above.

Combine the two, and we can see the challenges: For one, we will need to get cars off the streets quickly. That can become a policy. So our priorities, driven by that policy, will have to adapt. For example, we quickly discover the first thing we need to do is clear off school and supermarket parking lots. But none of this shows up on our current priority list, because of the many disconnects created by our lack of civil preparedness.

Analysis, planning and research: we’ve been AWOL on doing any of this. Over the past two weeks, it showed once again. n

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Hooked on History

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found it years ago on a back shelf in an antique shop in beautiful downtown Wallace, Idaho.

With “$19.95” written in pencil on the inside page, I could tell that Steamboats in the Timber (1952) was read and reread many times. There were other charms, too: The uncredited cover art is retro-cool. (That’s a facsimile of it on this week’s cover.) And I was already familiar with author Ruby El Hult, who also wrote the classic Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest.

But there was mystery, too, hidden in that musty stack of books. I was not aware of Steamboats, but I knew snippets of old steamboat lore surrounding Lake Coeur d’Alene. I wanted to learn more. And I didn’t know that El Hult was a local, having grown up on the shores of the lake, on a farm near Harrison. Then I flipped to the dedication page: “To my sister, Emerald Hult, age 5, who was taken away on a steamer to Coeur d’Alene. Had she returned, my whole life would have been different.”

Wow! Where do you start? Was poor little Emerald taken to town to see a doctor, never to recover? Did she leave with a better-off Aunt and Uncle for a new life in San Francisco? Did she just vanish? Ruby doesn’t say another word, and neither does the Internet. History can be very personal, indeed, as every passing steamer must have reopened El Hult’s emotional wound.

Of course I bought it, and we used El Hult’s book as inspiration for this week’s cover story, which is also featured in our new Inlander Histories, Volume 2 — on sale now at some of your favorite shops. In our new collection, which follows up last year’s Volume 1, we’re republishing Inlander stories from as far back as 1994.

Did you know that one of the biggest fights between labor and capital was waged here on the streets of Spokane? Or that the Northwest microbrewery craze can be traced to the Lewis and Clark expedition, when a clever private conjured suds from a cache of semi-moldy camas bread?

(William Clark declared it “excellent beer.”) Or that the most existential passage in American fiction has to do with a man named Flitcraft who was hiding out in Spokane?

Some history sits right in front of our eyes, in that giant steamboat propeller at the Museum of North Idaho, for example, or in the carved beasts of the Looff Carrousel. Just like fading chapters of our collective story, the best books keep a little mystery between their covers. I hope readers come across either or both volumes of Inlander Histories and get hooked. n

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COMMENT | POLITICS

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America’s Largest Hate Group Republicans are lying to people so they can capitalize on fear and hatred

BY PAUL DILLON

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efore Thanksgiving, the annual Committee Days in Olympia is like a pregame warm-up for the legislative session.

For effective legislators, it’s a hectic schedule full of hearings and meetings; a strategic and productive time to connect regarding what the next year will look like.

But Rep. Matt Shea from Spokane Valley isn’t known for effectiveness in terms of getting bills passed — which might be a good thing. Instead, he’s ready to give the people what they want: Standing outside the Capitol rotunda steps, he’s calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to be

impeached. “We love refugees but not terrorists!” he yells to cheers amid a crowd of people openly carrying guns with signs that say “Deport Inslee.” He’s mad as hell after the governor announced that our state would not close its doors to refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks. Given that states have no authority — and that most Washingtonians support Inslee’s actions — he’s wasting time, though his followers wouldn’t know that.

That doesn’t stop Rep. Jay Rodne from doubling down on Facebook without a fact (or spell) checker: “Obama wants to import 1.5 million muslims into the U.S. This is absolute madness! Islam is incompatible with western civilization! How anyone people need to die? In the interim, Amicans, arm yourselves!!!!!”

The Republican legislator from Snoqualmie fails to understand that believing Islam is incompatible with the West puts him in agreement with ISIS; moreover, his numbers are made up. He’s not simply a fringe member, either: He’s the ranking GOP member of the House Judiciary Committee. Rodne tried to justify his comments on a Freedom Foundation podcast by claiming that one or two of the Paris attackers were “newly arrived Syrian refugees” before mocking the Lebanese surname of the Washington State Democrats’ communications director, who has called for his removal from leadership. Another false statement, plus a racist attack, as the incendiary rhetoric went unchecked by the interviewer. Thanks to Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, this language fits a national pattern that has become the new normal: Republicans are lying to people. They are making a conscious effort to scare voters about everything so they can benefit, capitalizing on fear and hatred.

After a week that brought the killings of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and five Black Lives Matter protesters shot in Minneapolis, the politicians who use inflammatory rhetoric need to be called out for what they’re actually doing: being enablers.

It’s not enough to dismiss what’s happening as “crazy” or “nonsense” anymore. If we do, we’re going to see more violence. The party of fiscal conservatism is on its way to becoming America’s largest hate group.

Lacking substance, they’ve built a coalition by embracing the worst aspects of our society; only desperate bullies would react with so much anger and vitriol.

After last month’s election, the Eighth Man, a local right-wing “City Council watchdog” group, shared a meme of Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart reconfigured as Adolf Hitler, courtesy of former Republican candidate Tim Benn, who ran twice for a 3rd District House seat. The constitutional martyrs will kick and scream “First Amendment rights!” but they do not understand the gravity of such violent and ugly comparisons — and that words have consequences.

We could learn from Antoine Leiris. He lost his wife at Paris’ Bataclan Theatre, and in a post shared around the world, he told the killers that his young son will rise above ISIS his whole life by “being happy and free” rather than full of hatred: “You’re asking for it, but responding to hatred with anger is falling victim to the same ignorance that has made you what you are,” he wrote.

“You want me to be afraid, to view my countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You lost.”

The message is more powerful than the cowardice we see today. In the end, love always wins. n Paul Dillon manages public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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ruling and think of the students first. As a student at PRIDE Prep School, I have tons of reasons why I want charter schools to stay open. Here are the top three reasons why I love my school: First, is the way our teachers treat us like adults. What I mean by this is they actually get to know us and they take the time to listen to what we have to say. They have high expectations for us. For example: doing chores, following the few rules and having a “heart of a lion.”

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Spokane Mayor David Condon kept sexual harassment allegations quiet until after his election: Now everything is beginning to unravel

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efore it all became public — the ass-grabbing accusations, the $4 million claim and the re-election — it was just David Condon and police spokeswoman Monique Cotton sitting in a small, austere conference room by themselves. No windows, no lawyers, no tape recorders. Just the two of them talking about Cotton’s issues with her boss, the city’s police chief, according to Bob Dunn, Cotton’s high-powered attorney who offered up one of his conference rooms for the conversation.

The one-on-one meeting occurred during the lunch hour just days after an explosive confrontation on March 31 between Police Chief Frank Straub, Cotton and other

department leaders. Cotton claimed that Straub had sexually harassed her, but she refused to file a formal sexual harassment complaint, fearing it would trigger a messy public process that would thrust her into the spotlight.

After about an hour, Dunn says, Condon struck a deal: Cotton would get a new job and a raise. Her attorney would get paid. The matter would be kept quiet.

“The mayor, to his credit, agreed to take care of it,” Dunn says.

Last week, that backroom deal began to fall apart, as the city finally released public records requested by the media in late summer that reveal for the first time the

scope of the complaints against Straub.

The records also stand in stark contrast to public statements by Condon’s administration, revealing an active effort by the mayor and his top advisers to mislead the public about the true nature of problems inside the police department.

The documents revealed: Cotton told the mayor and City Administrator Theresa Sanders in April that Straub had “grabbed her ass, tried to kiss her.”

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police department, writing to Sanders that “My transfer into a new position has to be viewed as advancement; without any hint that it is for any reason other than as a promotion for my past performance.”

Dunn wrote to City Attorney Nancy Isserlis attempting to collect $13,000 to cover his client’s expenses through a reimbursement agreement, in an attempt to keep it out of the public’s view.

For his part, Condon says he was caught in a classic case of “whaddayado?” as he tried to keep his promise to Cotton to keep the matter out of the public eye. The result, however, involved the mayor and his top administrators obscuring the truth for months.

“If I gave very specific answers that the public feels were misleading, that was not my intention,” said Condon at a press conference on Monday afternoon. “It was my intention to provide the ultimate confidence that the employee had asked for.”

Condon also has drawn scrutiny for allowing Straub to remain on the payroll as the city’s highest-paid employee, and for possibly violating city policy by not conducting an investigation into Cotton’s claims. On Monday, the Spokane City Council sent a letter demanding answers, while the mayor announced that he had appointed a retired judge to investigate.

Meanwhile, a Facebook group approaching 600 members is seeking a recall of Condon, and ethics complaints are being filed against the mayor.

“Going forward, I don’t know how I trust a single thing anybody says,” Council President Ben Stuckart tells the Inlander. “How do I as an elected official in the city of Spokane trust a single thing anybody says? I just don’t know. ...

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t the time of his one-on-one meeting with Cotton, the mayor had a lot to lose. In 2011, he beat Mayor Mary Verner after calling for a revamp of the police department, its public image having been tarnished as a result of high-profile scandals. Condon then hand-picked Straub as his police chief over the objections of a law enforcement advisory panel — while also sidestepping concerns surrounding his previous performance in Indianapolis.

Before Straub resigned as Indianapolis’ public safety director in April 2012, he had promoted Amber Myers, who is now his wife, to the top position in the city’s animal control department.

Both have said their relationship didn’t start until after Straub’s resignation. They were engaged by the time they arrived in Spokane that October.

Condon shrugged off the controversy when asked about it in 2012. “To me, it’s a personal matter,” he told the Spokesman-Review.

It was barely into April — with the May deadline for opponents to file to run against him looming large — when Condon got a call from Dunn.

“I have a client that you want to talk to,” Dunn recalls saying. “You’ve got a serious problem with one of your senior staff members.”

Soon, Condon would sit down with Cotton and learn how the man he had hired to bring

change to the police department was a potential liability. Condon had been aggressively raising money in hopes of becoming the first Spokane mayor to win a second term in 42 years.

Although the media requested relevant documents in August and again in September, they weren’t released until after the November election. Condon says the city saw a spike in records requests in the last quarter of 2015, accounting for the delay. Others don’t see it that way.

“This is awfully convenient timing for the release of these documents,” says Rick Eichstaedt, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Justice. “It’s obviously politically motivated.”

Stuckart is more blunt about the timing: “That’s bullshit.”

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aced with questions about Cotton’s move to the parks department and nearly $10,000 raise, the administration stuck with the agreed-upon script. First, Sanders, the city’s top administrator, told the Spokesman-Review in August that the bump was an “enticement.”

In September, Condon told the Inlander that, no, it wasn’t an “enticement,” but the raise was to compensate Cotton for additional responsibilities.

Sanders later told the Spokesman that the transfer took place because of friction between Straub and Cotton; her conflicting accounts led to an ethics complaint and a $75 fine.

Nevertheless, rumors concerning Straub’s relationship with Cotton continued to circulate at City Hall. In mid-Septmber, a citizen emailed the media, alleging an inappropriate relationship between the two. Cotton responded on Sept. 18 with an email to media outlets, saying the rumors were “completely inappropriate, libelous, slanderous, unethical and untrue.”

That same day, Condon received two letters — one from the executive board of the Spokane Police Lieutenants and Captains Association, the other from leaders within the police department.

Both accused Straub of being a foul-mouthed tyrant who yelled at subordinates.

Condon says that when he first heard about the chief’s abrasive style, he had a talk with Straub that seemed to solve the problem for the summer. But when it re-emerged and his command staff effectively told Condon that they had no confidence in Straub, the mayor says he decided that the chief had to go. Condon denies that the timing was political, saying, “I could have received those letters anyway and just driven on.”

Straub’s forced resignation came four days later, on Sept. 22. During a hastily arranged press conference to make the announcement, the Inlander asked if any sexual harassment complaints had been “lodged” against Straub. Condon replied with a terse “No.” Condon now says that he didn’t intend to mislead with his answer, and spokesman Brian Coddington says that Condon’s answer was truthful because the mayor was referring to formal complaints.

In the days following Straub’s ouster, Coddington actively sought to deter the Inlander from looking into the rumored issues, calling a reporter a “gossip columnist” for asking to speak with Cotton about them.

“Monique’s move to parks was strictly managerial,” he said then. “End of story.”

Frank Straub denies any wrongdoing and has filed a $4 million claim against the city.

Condon’s top administrator, Theresa Sanders, paid a $75 fine after acknowledging she violated the city’s ethics code.

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Coddington also took the unusual step of calling the responded that this wasn’t about his daughter, this was Inlander’s publisher to complain about reporters’ quesabout a grown woman. tions.

“Do I no longer take a professional woman’s opinion, “I’m not going to comment on this,” said Coddington and I pretend that I know better than she does as a prolast week when asked if he still considered the issues fessional woman?” Condon said. between Straub and Cotton to be “gossip.”

The city didn’t conduct a formal investigation into Straub followed up his resignation with a $4 million the matter, he said, because Cotton wouldn’t take the first legal claim alleging that his due process rights were violatstep of filing a formal complaint and refused to cooperate ed. Mary Schultz, Straub’s attorney, denies the allegations with an inquiry. Condon also wondered if it was a good facing Straub and says the city never bothered to find out idea for the city to investigate every complaint, formal or if any of the complaints were true. otherwise, because doing so could have “The reality is that Frank Straub a chilling effect on public employees who LETTERS requested investigations, and those were might instead choose silence over a potenSend comments to refused,” Schultz says. “When anyone is tially public investigation. editor@inlander.com. accused of anything, and particularly in But Mike Love, a local attorney who this case, there should be an investigaspecializes in employment law, says that tion.”

Condon can’t fall back on Cotton’s request for secrecy.

“Regardless of whether Ms. Cotton wanted to file n Monday, Condon defended his decisions to a formal complaint or not, city policy and the law still reporters who had gathered on the top floor obligated them to launch a prompt and remedial invesat City Hall. He also announced that the city tigation,” Love says by email. “Because of the pressure would hire retired federal Judge Michael Hogan to review internal investigators face and the serious nature of these policies surrounding employee complaints and how well allegations, the city should have hired an experienced, the administration followed them. outside investigator to perform a thorough factual invesCondon explained that he had a difficult balanctigation. I am also troubled by what appears to be the ing act to perform. A reporter later asked him what he former chief being involved in the reassignment of Ms. would do if his daughter was sexually harassed. Condon Cotton. That should have never happened.”

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Councilwoman Karen Stratton, a Condon foe who worked for the city for 10 years, says that the city’s Human Resources department should have been brought in to deal with the situation, and is troubled that Straub was left in his position for months without those accusations ever being resolved.

“The minute they knew about those allegations it needed to be investigated, whether [Cotton] wanted it or not,” she says. “The fact that they left him in that position with females under him is a disgrace.”

More than half a year after Cotton made allegations of sexual assault, she remains employed at the city, managing communications for the revitalization of Riverfront Park.

“My goal has never been to profit from this terrible situation and to date I have not filed a claim for damages,” she says in a statement to the Inlander. “Rather, I am trying to survive these awful circumstances, maintain my employment and continue to productively contribute to the City of Spokane.”

Although Cotton is now paid more, her attorney says all this attention is exactly what she didn’t want to happen. When asked if it could be avoided, Dunn says, “If you hire somebody into a key position who has a history of misconduct, it’s pretty simple: you don’t hire the person.” n Reporter Daniel Walters contributed to this story.

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POLICY MATTERS Body cameras are good, but their implementation needs work.

That’s the general take-away from research into the Spokane Police Department’s BODY CAMERA PILOT PROGRAM. The Office of Professional Accountability released a report last month detailing officers’ and civilians’ experience with the new technology from Sept. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2014. The officers’ biggest gripe, according to SPD Sgt. David Staben, who conducted the research, was a flimsy “draft policy” that provides little direction for how to use the cameras and no consequences for violating it. The draft policy is still in place, as the department continues to equip officers with cameras. By the beginning of next year, 200 of Spokane’s officers will be wearing body cameras. Read what else the report said on our blog. (MITCH RYALS)

INVISIBLE DROPOUTS Officially, the on-time graduation rate for the Class of 2014 in the West Valley School District is an incredible 96.9 percent. But it turns out that there are dozens of West Valley students, among the most likely to drop out, NOT INCLUDED within the West Valley district graduation rate calculation. If a student drops out at Spokane Valley Transition or Dishman Hills, it doesn’t hurt the district’s near-perfect score. Because those West Valley alternative schools enroll more than half of their students from outside district boundaries, the district doesn’t include them in its overall calculation. Those students aren’t included in the graduation rates of any district.

While they’re included in state-level data, at the district level, they effectively don’t exist.

It’s an issue that faces districts with alternative schools throughout the region, and underplays the severity of the region’s dropout problem.

(DANIEL WALTERS)

NEWS | BRIEFS

A Place Holder The Spokane City Council wants an interim police ombudsman; plus, Idaho drops testing requirements for 2017 grads IN THE INTERIM

The Spokane City Council passed an ordinance on Monday aimed at fixing what’s widely acknowledged as a flaw of the city’s police oversight system: It’s been without a police OMBUDSMAN for nearly a year after Tim Burns’ resignation, and there is no clear mechanism to install an interim ombudsman.

The new ordinance, which would create a process to appoint an interim ombudsman should the position become vacant, passed unanimously, but it first needs to be negotiated with the Spokane Police Guild before it can be fully implemented. Negotiations with the Guild aren’t expected to begin until next year.

“So we’ve been without a police ombudsman, and it laid bare a pretty big flaw in our ordinance, which is that we don’t have a good way to ensure there’s an interim police ombudsman should there be a sudden vacancy in the position,” said Councilman Jon Snyder, the sponsor of the ordinance, at the council meeting.

In May, the city council passed a resolution calling on the Ombudsman Selection Committee to send the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, which oversees the office, a list of three candidates that could be used to build a pool of interim candidates. However, the resolution went largely ignored.

Under the ordinance, the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, within 45 days of receiving notice of vacancy, would be required to form a five-member selection committee. The committee — comprised of representatives from the police unions, the city council, the mayor and the commission — would then find three to five individuals who could fill in as ombudsman for up to six months. (JAKE THOMAS)

FREE PASS

In Idaho, unlike in Washington state, the only way to opt out of the state’s Smarter Balanced tests is to disenroll entirely from the public school system.

Yet Idaho has been much quicker to waive the tests from its graduation requirements. At an Idaho State School Board meeting on Monday, the board unanimously voted to waive all SMARTER BALANCED test requirements for the Class of 2017 — this year’s juniors.

State Board President Don Soltman says one issue was that the Smarter Balanced tests assumed that students were 11th graders. But Idaho offers its state tests in ninth and 10th grades. As a result, the state has had to offer a customized Smarter Balanced test or risk testing their students on material they’ve never been taught.

“We didn’t think it was fair,” Soltman says.

The waiver follows decisions in October to waive the Smarter Balanced graduation requirement for sophomores, and to not require freshmen to take the test at all this year. Still, the discussion over testing isn’t over yet.

“We’re going to devote most of next Wednesday’s board workshop to the topic of testing,” Soltman says.

With a growing opposition to standardized testing, the discussions at the Idaho board have lit upon more radical ideas, like replacing the Smarter Balanced test entirely. “There’s a field of expertise out there that says we could do just as well with, let’s say, the SAT,” Soltman says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

ABDUCTED AND FOUND

A woman was found walking along Highway 53 on Nov. 25 in KOOTENAI COUNTY bound in duct tape.

The 25-year-old from Washington was abducted from Broadway Foods in Spokane, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department. She was taken to near Rathdrum and was physically assaulted by three people, authorities say.

Three suspects, all from Coeur d’Alene, were identified as Travis Anderson, 27, Angela Frisby, 37, and Lilly Johnson, 19. Anderson had previously been charged with attempted strangulation and Frisby with battery. Johnson did not have a criminal record.

The abducted woman escaped the same day she was taken after the three suspects left. Several people stopped to help when she was seen on the highway near Hidden Valley Road.

Frisby was found in Post Falls that same day. The other two were arrested the following day in Coeur d’Alene. All three have been charged with first degree kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to officials.

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Arona, 12, smiles giddily as Vashon, in her Bulgarian accent, recounts how Arona rescued their family dog during the windstorm, barely dodging the neighbor’s trampoline before it smashed into the side of their shed.

She’s an instructional aide at Browne Elementary.

Like nutrition services workers, she doesn’t make very much money.

For families like these, school being closed is a hardship itself, no matter the weather or power situation. They often rely on the social services that schools provide, like free or reduced lunches and weekend food packages provided by Second Harvest’s Bite 2 Go program.

“I cannot budget for everything,” says Vashon. “I do depend on those reduced meals. It’s kind of embarrassing, but that’s what it is.”

The school system didn’t forget about their family, Vashon says.

Vashon says the principal of Browne Elementary knocked on the door a week after the storm to make sure she was OK and bring them some food. “She sent me a text and said, ‘I’m outside of the house, and I’m bringing you the Bites 2 Go,’” Vashon says. “You get little snacks — pretzels, nuts, individual packets of cereal.”

Powerless

On Nov. 25, Alisa Vashon and her children, Arona and Arlis, eat a meal at the Salk Middle School warming center, regaling each other with stories about the windstorm. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

When Spokane went dark, the boundaries between wealth and poverty were sharpened in some ways — and blurred in others

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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n 3:45 am on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Avista finally declared victory. It had taken 10 days and unceasing work by around 100 crews, but finally the lights came back on for all 230,000 Spokane and Kootenai County residents who had lost their power in the near-hurricane-force Nov. 17 windstorm.

That morning, a sign on the doors to Ferris High School still greets any weary travelers with a message of hope: “Food, Power, Coffee, Movies. Enter here.”

Crayons and coloring sheets are laid out for the kids, and games like Jenga and Battleship are provided for the families.

“Need Some?” reads a cardboard sign with a heart, above cardboard boxes filled with red and yellow apples from the Second Harvest food bank. “Please, take some.”

Nutrition services worker Deborah Johnson says that about 27 adults and children celebrated Thanksgiving in the Ferris cafeteria, complete with a classic Thanksgiving hot lunch special — cafeteria turkey and gravy, as well as green beans, dinner rolls, Jell-O and apple wedges.

“Even though people got their power back, they didn’t have any food,” Johnson says.

Food quickly spoils when fridges lose power. If you’re living on the narrow edge of poverty, losing an entire fridge full of food in one fell swoop can cut into your budget in a way that’s difficult to recover from.

Johnson knows this well. Like so many in Spokane, she had to throw out most of the food in her fridge. Nutrition services workers aren’t paid much money — one reason their plight became a rallying cry for the Spokane Education Association’s salary negotiations this fall.

“Right now I’m pretty limited,” Johnson says. She lets

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out a thin, weary chuckle. “I’m doing laundry here. So… yeah. It’s hard. Hard.”

Johnson was among the last few thousand to have her power restored. But it wasn’t a damaged power line that was the problem. “I come out to find it was just a fuse,” Johnson says. “I thought, ‘wow’” The powerless days were miserable. She’d go home in the late afternoon, check to make sure her two kitties were OK, and immediately try to get to sleep. She’d wear gloves and a hat, but she’d wake up in the cold in the middle of the night. “I just crawl in my bed,” she says. “It got down to 42 degrees.”

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uring the first few days after the windstorm, Spokane Public Schools opened five warming shelters, at Ferris and Rogers high schools, Salk and Glover middle schools, and Grant Elementary. With school still shut down Thanksgiving week and power still out in parts of the community, a donation from Avista allowed the school district to keep Ferris and Salk open until last Friday.

Some came for the warmth and the power. Julian Gonzalez, a Shadle Park student in a bright green sweatshirt and a Seahawks hat, sits in the Salk cafeteria the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and says the power to his house nearby has been out for over a week. He talks about trying to sleep in the cold with a fire going in the fireplace.

“My throat, like — smoke builds up in the room, so it hurts your throat,” Gonzalez says.

Not everyone who came to the warming centers lost power. Alisa Vashon and her children, Arona and Arlis, lunch on Raisin Bran, muffins, cinnamon rolls and choco-

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fter the storm, many who never had to rely on services like shelters and food banks found themselves asking for help.

“We had 90 families come through on the Friday [Nov. 20]” says Sheila Geraghty, business administrator of the local Salvation Army. “And 20 of them were clients who have never come to our food bank before.”

The Salvation Army managed to save all their food.

They kept the freezer closed and put the milk on ice.

All the food in danger of spoiling was cooked up on gas burners, feeding families a feast with turkey and bread and cranberry sauce.

Dean Whisler, social services manager for the men’s shelter at the Union Gospel Mission, says that normally, only about 200 people come to get meals from UGM each day. After the storm, 300 to 325 were flooding in daily.

“We saw quite a spike of non-homeless people,” Whisler says. “People of all economic statuses who were without power who were coming in here and eating. A couple of nights we came close to not preparing enough food. We got overwhelmed.”

Avista mailed $150 Rosauers gift cards to approximately 3,000 customers who were the last to get their power restored, and donated about $75,000 to groups including the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, and St. Vincent de Paul.

Several pairs of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered in the Salk cafeteria warming shelter. Elder Chase Peterson, dressed in a Superman T-shirt, says he and other Mormon missionaries walked across the community after the storm, offering to aid anyone in the cleanup efforts, cutting downed trees and stacking wood.

“We were walking down Country Homes [Boulevard],” Peterson says. “I was just in tears, seeing how people would — their houses were broken in, with trees that fell down. It was just so sad.”

After a crisis, a community feels compelled to come together. It’s why Johnson doesn’t understand why people ask her why she gave up her Thanksgiving to serve cafeteria food at Ferris. To her, the answer is obvious.

“I didn’t give it up. I met family and friends that I will probably hold in my heart forever. That’s the reason why I did it,” Johnson says. “That’s the meaning of Thanksgiving Day.” n danielw@inlander.com

NEWS | CRIME

Four Weeks and Counting The search for a missing Spokane woman has gone on since early November

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ike Tibbetts and his family had an empty seat at their Thanksgiving table. Three weeks earlier, his fiancée, Deanne Hastings, had gone to the store and didn’t return home.

Tibbetts says he has spent every night since searching until 5 am.

Especially near Sonnenberg’s Market & Deli, where Hastings’ identification Deanne Hastings was found.

Hastings, 35, previously went missing this past summer, says Teresa Fuller, a public information officer for the Spokane Police Department. Her family and friends say this has happened several times. But Tibbetts says she’s never left without her phone or car.

Summer Lowry, a self-proclaimed tracker who is writing a book about missing persons cases in the Inland Northwest, sometimes joins Tibbetts on his late-night searches.

“Well, I do not think she left. Maybe initially on her own free will, but I don’t think that’s the case at this point. I don’t think she’s OK,” Lowry says.

Some fear that Hastings relapsed and returned to the bottle.

A few hope that she checked herself into rehab. Tibbetts believes that maybe this was caused by her state health insurance changing her bipolar disorder medications. Then there are the darkest thoughts in the back of everyone’s minds: Hastings, a Ferris High School graduate, could be in serious peril.

According to Tibbetts, Lowry and the “Missing Deanne Hastings” Facebook page, here is a compilation of events surrounding her disappearance.

On Nov. 3: Hastings completed her first day at the Glen Dow Academy. She met her teenage son and his girlfriend at her apartment on the South Hill. She later left a note for Tibbetts: “Ran to store, finished girl’s nails, had a great day.” Tibbetts got home from work around 10:30 pm, and knew after an hour that something was wrong. He checked there, and then GPSed Hastings’ phone, leading him to her car in a parking lot across from the Knitting Factory. She had left behind her phone and purse, but took her wallet with her.

On Nov. 4: Tibbetts waited at the car until 3 pm, then filed a missing-person report. He later saw from Latah Creek Trading Co.’s surveillance footage that Hastings bought four energy drinks, cigarettes, string cheese and birthday cake candles. He has no idea why. According to Lowry, Hastings also bought vodka.

On Nov. 7/8: After seeing the flyers around town, a man called Tibbetts. He told him that he gave Hastings a ride to the store and she left her keys in his car. He later confessed that he met her at a bar, she spent the night and he gave her a ride to the store the next day.

On Nov. 12: A different man was caught on video using her card at a gas station in Spokane Valley. The next day he was seen on tape again with two others using her EBT card at WinCo. They have since been identified by police, but no other information has been released.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Check at 456-2233. 

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This story is excerpted from the Inlander’s latest collection of historical articles.

Copies of the new book, as well as Volume 1, can be found in local stores, including Atticus, Auntie’s, Boo Radley’s, the EWU Bookstore, Hastings, Huckleberry’s, the MAC gift shop, the Sacred Heart Hospital gift shop, the Well-Read Moose, the Zag Shop and at Inlander HQ in Kendall Yards.

The Georgie Oakes, loaded with passengers, circa 1900.

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t’s Independence Day, 1927 — six weeks after aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh has completed the world’s first transatlantic solo flight, and three months before the premiere of The Jazz Singer, Hollywood’s first feature-length “talking” film. Revelers have gathered along the beaches and docks in the town of Coeur d’Alene, having made the pilgrimage to its Fourth of July celebration, an annual highlight throughout the Inland Northwest. At some point during the festivities, a huge stern-wheel steamboat is towed out onto the water and set alight. She is the Georgie Oakes, erstwhile queen of Lake Coeur d’Alene.

The flames rise up, burning brighter and more intensely than any fireworks display. They quickly consume the wooden decks that once held freight, soldiers, miners, loggers, homesteaders and sightseers at various stages throughout her 35-year career spent plying this nexus of lakes and rivers. But it isn’t the glorious Viking funeral that guides will recount through nostalgia’s haze some 90 years hence.

The blazing vessel soon drifts too close to valuable storage docks, and the fire is extinguished before it’s able to complete this act of nautical cremation. For weeks afterward, the charred wreck of the Georgie Oakes will struggle to remain afloat until at last she yields to her injuries and slips beneath the lake’s surface.

Nearly 50 years of steamboating history on Lake Coeur d’Alene were brought to a close as the remnants of Georgie Oakes sank. Although it would be more than a decade before the prestigious Flyer, a sleek excursion steamer, met the same pyrotechnic end, by the early 1920s the steamboat’s primacy in regional transportation was already in irreversible decline.

The automobile would deal the finishing blow to any rugged vestige that survived the Great Depression.

During that tumultuous half-century, however, steamboating shaped expansion in the region. Steamboats were present almost from the moment Coeur d’Alene mustered enough bravado to declare itself a town. Traversing the second-largest lake in Idaho and its network of navigable waterways along three rivers — the St. Joe, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane — steamers opened transportation routes that were all but unreachable by rail or without considerable difficulty by foot. They determined areas of settlement, making now-forgotten Idaho villages like Stinson, Black Rock, Omega Landing, St. Joe City and Ferrell into colorful centers of recreation and commerce, albeit fleetingly.

And they allowed our fortune hunters to relieve the region of its natural resources — chief among them timber, lead and silver — while delivering ever more farmers and homesteaders further into its forested interior.

Although steamboats were powered by the area’s vast supply of cordwood, their existence was always at the mercy of the prevailing socioeconomic winds. On Lake ...continued on next page

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The Idaho could ferry 1,000 passengers; (inset) Capt. Peter Sorensen. MUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO PHOTOS

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Coeur d’Alene, they morphed from supply transports when the town was little more than a glorified garrison, into ore haulers during the mining boom, into shuttles for laborers and goods during the timber harvests, and finally into pleasure boats for throngs of day-trippers. At the height of all this activity, Lake Coeur d’Alene was home to more than 50 steamboats and the site of more steamboat traffic than any lake west of the Great Lakes.

The Military Period

(1880-83) Steamboating on Lake Coeur d’Alene had its origins in the construction of the Mullan Road. Starting in the spring of 1859, Lt. John Mullan and his team of more than 200 U.S. Army troops, engineers, workmen and surveyors began work on the 611-mile overland route designed to connect Fort Benton, Montana (Dakota Territory at the time), which lay at the head of the Missouri

River and linked to important ports eastward, to Fort Walla Walla, located in Washington Territory not far from the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers.

Nearly two decades earlier, Jesuit missionary Father Pierre Jean DeSmet followed a similar path and described the difficulties it presented to would-be travelers: Imagine thick, untrodden forests, strewn with thousands of trees thrown down by age and storms in every direction; where the path is scarcely visible, and is obstructed by barricades, which the horses are constantly compelled to leap, and which always endanger the riders.

Completed in 1862, the Mullan Road primarily conveyed wagons and pioneers, but its occasional military traffic would have a lasting impact. In 1877, General William Tecumseh Sherman — he of controversial Civil War scorched-earth tactics — camped with a detail near Lake Coeur d’Alene and was inspired by the site’s natural splendor to suggest it for a fort. Within a year, the Army

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had established Camp Coeur d’Alene at the point of land where the Spokane River flows from the lake. The military presence was intended not only to quiet growing unrest among Native Americans whose tribal land was gradually being usurped, but also to protect crews who were busy laying communication and transportation infrastructure so essential to Manifest Destiny. The camp officially became a fort (renamed Fort Sherman several years later) in April of 1879.

It was in that same year that the post commander, Lt. Colonel Henry Clay Merriam, commissioned the construction of the very first steamboat on Lake Coeur d’Alene in the event that the Mullan Road’s unreliable supply lines were ever disrupted. The stern-wheeler was to be 85 feet long with a 14-foot beam, capable not only of regularly transporting supplies but also, in emergencies, soldiers. Its cost was $5,000. Captain Peter C. Sorensen, a 46-year-old Norwegian immigrant then based

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in Portland, Oregon, was summoned to oversee construction, which, according to contemporary accounts, went as smoothly as one might expect of any untried major project undertaken in frontier wilderness.

“Sorensen actually disassembled an engine and brought it by boat and by wagon to be used in the first steamboat,” says Robert Singletary, an authority on Coeur d’Alene history who frequently gives talks and walking tours in Sorensen-inspired costume and character. “He had problems getting that engine to fit the structure, so that was a bit of a struggle.”

When the vessel was finally given its delayed launch late in 1880, Sorensen christened her the Amelia Wheaton after the daughter of the new post commander, Colonel Frank Wheaton. Sorensen never went back to Portland, instead putting down roots not far from what was little more than a tent city at the time, and became the ship’s captain.

Over the next three years he steamed across the lake in the Amelia Wheaton, mostly ferrying hay and grain for the fort’s cavalry mules.

As a civic leader and master shipbuilder, Sorensen’s presence would loom large over Idaho steamboating until his death on Jan. 16, 1918. On those sleepy trips piloting the Amelia Wheaton or his own Lottie back and forth on the lake, he found ample time to bestow names, still in use today, upon natural features, among them Cougar Bay, Black Rock Bay, Echo Bay, Beauty Bay and Powderhorn Bay. Sorensen built his home on the bluff above Kidd Island (he named the spot North Cape) and acquired a reputation as a tinkerer and inventor. He built an automated contraption to tend his chickens ...continued on next page

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Sorensen’s great-grandson said that he was the one responsible for building an eight-foot musical cube out of glass bottles on Kidd Island along with other “scientific displays,” as well as a not-so-scientific painted wooden monster that floated on the lake. Singletary cautions against accepting tales of Sorensen’s wilder experiments too readily: “You have to take that with a grain of salt. I haven’t been able to verify any of that outside of his expertise in shipbuilding.”

That expertise is well documented.

Sorensen, along with his gifted shipbuilding partner Peter Johnson, was behind more than half of the boats on the lake, including the General Sherman, Volunteer, Schley and Torpedo. He constructed his last boat, North Star, in 1907, by which time he was well into his 70s.

The Ore Period

(1883-95) A. J. Prichard’s discovery of gold in the Coeur d’Alene district in 1881 and the mercenary scramble that followed in 1883 had an effect that would be repeated as long as steamboats plied the lake.

The Amelia Wheaton, which had hauled fodder until that point, soon became a shuttle for starry-eyed prospectors who dreamt of striking the next motherlode.

Steaming roughly 20 miles across Lake Coeur d’Alene and then 30 miles up the Coeur d’Alene River, the Amelia Wheaton deposited passengers at the Old Mission, where, depending on their wherewithal, they could travel by foot or by horse to Prichard Creek Valley, now known as Murray, Idaho. This water route had the advantage of bypassing a good portion of the overland journey via the Mullan Road. Tens of thousands of miners, settlers, speculators, claim-jumpers and other assorted fortune hunters flooded into the area. More frenzy ensued when abundant silver veins were discovered in 1884, giving the valley the name that stands today.

Regional historian Ruby El Hult, who grew up near Harrison watching steamers chug by, explains in her book Steamboats in the Timber (1952) how railroads and steamboats indirectly began to work in tandem at the start of the gold rush: The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was partly responsible for the magnitude this first wild stampede attained.

The railroad had been built through this undeveloped country in 1881-83 at colossal expense, and the railroad officials eagerly seized upon the news of the mining strike as a means of stimulating travel over the line. They put out glowing, exaggerated pamphlets which lured people from all over the country to come to Idaho.

The Northern Pacific’s consecutive rail stops of Rathdrum and Spokane benefited from this massive and spontaneous influx, and so did the steamboat landing at Coeur d’Alene. To accommo-

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The Georgie Oakes and Miss Spokane, with a floating dock of cordwood, in a photo from around 1917. date the crowds arriving by stagecoach in the still-unincorporated settlement, hotels, restaurants, saloons, warehouses, wharves and, yes, more steamboats were quickly built. One was the stern-wheeler Coeur d’Alene, with a length of 120 feet and a 14-foot beam. The other was Sorensen’s smaller, propeller-driven General Sherman. Launched in 1884, the two vessels established another defining trait of the steamboat era, namely, fierce competition in which monopolistic control was seen as the only desirable outcome. They engaged in fare wars so cutthroat as to be comical until the General Sherman’s owners struck a deal that allowed their ship — and only their ship — to be resupplied from the piles of cordwood chopped, stacked and sold by Native Americans along the waterways. Without fuel to stoke its boilers, the Coeur d’Alene had to concede defeat.

Daniel Chase (D.C.) Corbin arrived in Rathdrum around this time. No sooner had he alighted from the train than he began to envision an interlinked regional feeder network that would help the mining interests part more easily with their precious metals. He proposed a standardgauge spur that would branch off the Northern Pacific at Hauser Junction and lead to Lake Coeur d’Alene, where steamboats would bridge the watery expanse between that line and a narrow-gauge railroad into the mountains starting at the Old Mission.

Similar ideas had already occurred to other entrepreneurs, but Corbin, who compensated for a legendary lack of magnanimity with an excess of opportunism, was the first to put the necessary pieces in place. His lines were completed in 1886.

For the nautical leg, Corbin purchased the General Sherman as well as the Coeur d’Alene, making allies of the two former competitors. In 1887, he added the broad-shouldered Kootenai. Accord-

ing to Steamboats in the Timber, this was “a big, powerful boat” that “could break ten inches of ice and still make good time, and could plow through ice as thick as twenty-two inches.”

Yet Corbin’s calculating gaze soon drifted northward, and with customary prescience he sold the Coeur d’Alene Railway just two years later. He then concentrated on a series of lines to connect the mines of southeastern British Columbia to Spokane.

Between 1887-91, technological advances (and the installation of industrial mining machinery) led to exponentially more ore being extracted from the area’s lead and silver mines. Combined yields rose from $800,000 in 1887, to $1.2 million in 1888, to $4 million in 1890 and up to $9 million in 1891. The ever-growing output taxed the small fleet of steamboats that hadn’t been designed for hauling ore.

The Coeur d’Alene, for example, was only able to haul 50 tons of ore, so its cabins and superstructure were removed and installed onto an impressive new hull built in 1891. This new ship measured 150 feet in length and 28 feet in beam. She could haul double the capacity and would immediately be put to work on the mining run. She was the famed Georgie Oakes, named for the daughter of the president of the Northern Pacific, which had purchased the line from Corbin in 1888.

The Timber Period

(1895-1910) Once the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company had finished constructing a direct route to the Coeur d’Alene mining region in 1890, it was no longer necessary or cost-effective to transport the ore downstream, and the role of steamboats was diminished — for that purpose, at least. In the waning years of the 19th century, the water routes once

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essential to the mining industry became the new thoroughfare for timber.

The expansive forests along the banks of the St. Joe, the St. Maries and the Coeur d’Alene rivers were rich with white and yellow pine, tamarack and fir.

The St. Maries Valley alone boasted the largest stand of white pine in the world.

This made the area especially attractive to timber barons, who had been clear-cutting the forests around the Great Lakes region and were now beginning to eye the virgin bounty that lay westward. El Hult notes that the fawning pleas of the local paper might have helped to draw their attention: In 1893 the Coeur d’Alene Press said wistfully, “Mill men, why don’t you come and take a look over this country? You are letting a good opportunity slip through your fingers.

There are millions and millions of feet of timber in close proximity to this place, and this is a most advantageous location for a good mill.”

The logging companies obliged, giddy over the prospect of 15 billion feet of densely packed timber that could be used to sustain the explosive growth occurring all over the country, particularly in the Inland Northwest and along the West Coast. Two years before the turn of the century, Idaho mills cut 65 million feet of lumber. A decade later, that number had increased almost eightfold. By 1910, Idaho was producing and distributing 745 million board feet each year, and new residents had swarmed into Coeur d’Alene, which saw its population climb to more than 7,000 that year.

William “Bill” Dollar was one of the first timbermen to arrive. He and his improbable name swaggered into town in 1899. In 1901 he was joined by Frederick A. Blackwell. Their respective corporations would go on to log 200 million and 1.25 billion of the nearly seven billion feet of timber cut from the region’s precipitously steep hills by 1905. To achieve

known as the Route of the Hiawatha, opened along the south end of the lake, with trains running from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound through St. Maries and Plummer. And the gasoline-powered automobile, the pinnacle of individual convenience, was becoming more widespread.

Not even the Spokane-to-Coeur d’Alene electric line had been able to hold out against it. In 1922, the Red Collar Line went into receivership after a few desperate and costly attempts to retain its former glory. A handful of steamboats would linger on the lake for a few more years.

Epilogue

The final voyage of the Flyer on Feb. 4, 1938. such staggering output, they relied on the backbreaking labor of loggers and millhands, who in turn relied on the steamboats to ferry them and their kit from Coeur d’Alene to points along the timber route — isolated outposts like Ramsdell, Silvertip Landing and Cosmo’s Landing, or remote towns like Harrison, St. Maries, Ferrell and St. Joe City. Steamboats were these towns’ only connection to the wider world. A Wild West atmosphere developed along the riverbanks, replete with gambling, drinking, prostitution, scam artists and shootouts. As the timber boom was largely responsible for conjuring these waterfront whistle-stops into existence, its eventual bust would cause many of them to shrink or disappear completely.

In 1902, the aptly named Boom Company began sorting the thousands of logs that were chuted down the steep hillsides into the St. Joe. Each was identified by a log mark, similar to a ranch’s cattle brand, that identified which company had felled and claimed it. Steam-powered tugs would then tow the vast rafts of bound logs, or brails, to the appropriate mills near Coeur d’Alene. The painstaking journey could take two days or more. When the logs were destined for mills farther west in Post Falls, they would be released into Cougar Bay, where they would eddy like pools of giant matchsticks before being carefully fed into the mouth of the Spokane River.

If the logs filled the waterways too snugly, lumberjacks had to walk out over the floating terrain, plant dynamite into the logjam and blast the passage back open again. The job carried the constant risk of death.

Logging would continue at a brisk pace until the Great Fire of 1910, when the flint of an unusually hot, dry summer struck the steel of human carelessness and natural mishaps. Over two days in late

August, the firestorm destroyed three million acres of timberland — equal to 7.5 billion board feet of timber — across Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Western Montana. A contemporary observer reported flames several hundred feet high, “fanned by a tornadic wind so violent that the flames flattened out ahead, swooping to earth in great darting curves, truly a veritable red demon from hell.”

Lumber production in the 10 counties of North Idaho would slowly resume after the Big Blowup, reaching a zenith of 950 million board feet in 1926, the year before the Georgie Oakes was consigned to the lakebed. By 1932, output had fallen to 200 million board feet.

The Excursion Period

(1900-1920) A civil engineer and bon vivant named Joseph Clarence (J.C.) White had been summoned to Coeur d’Alene

by D.C. Corbin back during the mining boom to help construct his narrow-gauge railroad. Once that was completed, for several years White lived and worked out of Spokane before returning to Idaho in 1892. There, much like every other businessman in the area, he became connected with the timber and transportation industries. And, much like every other businessman in the area, he watched with keen interest and no want of envy as boats steamed virtually unchallenged over the lake and rivers, making money hand over fist.

The 38-year-old White later secured $30,000 in backing from Bill Dollar and co-founded the Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe Transportation Company on Oct. 8, 1903. He contracted an outsider to build a 147-foot side-wheeler at a cost of $45,000. The new Idaho’s size and 1,000-passenger capacity would give the noble Georgie Oakes a run for her money.

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For the benefit of turn-of-the-century commuters and weekend excursionists, the Idaho’s dockside arrivals and departures were scheduled to coincide with the new electric railroad running from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene. The Transportation Company’s machine was so well-oiled that competitors couldn’t keep pace and subsequently sold out to White and his partners in 1905. To humiliate the former owners even further, red bands proclaiming Transportation Company ownership were placed around the boats’ smokestacks. The victor became known as the Red Collar Line and would officially change its name accordingly some years later.

With improved, modern service, the public developed a passion for excursions. Every Sunday, crowds of people — families, couples, bachelors, travelers, sightseers — would ride in to Coeur d’Alene on the electric line and catch a round-trip steamboat to idyllic St. Joe or rustic St. Maries. They would eat, sing, converse, carouse, court and dance as the boats glided close to 30 miles across Lake Coeur d’Alene and then up the St. Joe River, famed for its shadowy waters lined by pine and cottonwood. On the return journey, passengers could enjoy hearty suppers in the dining room, and the merrymakers who weren’t already in their cups from a day spent picnicking or saloon-hopping could visit the onboard bar (that is, until the Volstead Act took effect in 1920) and hope to avoid staggering overboard before reaching the depot that evening.

The Red Collar Line enjoyed a heyday until the mid-1910s, when it came up against outside forces that were beyond even a monopoly’s control. The rail lines had slowly expanded their reach, offering passengers more direct overland alternatives; in 1909, the Milwaukee Road, later

Peppered with anecdotes about desperate rescue missions to save stranded passengers and full-throttle races between rival captains, the history of steamboating on Lake Coeur d’Alene and its tributaries is as deep as the lake itself. Some time should be taken in closing to recount the fates of several steamers, each of which took on a character all her own and became the centerpiece for stories that were passed along over the decades by passengers, captains and crew.

In 1888, the Amelia Wheaton was sold by the government to a private party. She steamed up and down the St. Joe until 1893, when part of her was transferred to a new hull and she was renamed the St. Joseph. Her old hull became a freight barge. The General Sherman was abandoned around 1891 and sank in shallow water before being raised and repaired in 1894. It too steamed the St. Joe for several years until its mechanicals were salvaged and installed into the new Schley in 1899.

Its hull was towed out onto the lake and sunk. The Coeur d’Alene, having been partially refashioned into the Georgie Oakes, became a barge on which floating dances were held. In 1914, the pillaged hull of the Spokane was burned as part of the town’s Fourth of July celebrations. After just 10 years of service, the palatial Idaho was retired and used as a massive floating shed for storing apples before it caught fire and sank in 1915.

There are a few steamboating relics still scattered around the Lake City. Just off the Kidd Island shore, below Captain Sorensen’s old perch, is the rusting boiler of the St. Maries, salvaged by divers as scrap metal. A singed and weatherbeaten fragment of the Idaho’s paddlewheel remains in front of the Museum of North Idaho, where you can see many more artifacts of the era. Next to it sits a huge propeller, which divers recovered from the Flyer years after the swift steamer was set alight — just like the old Georgie Oakes.

The Flyer’s retirement was the last major event in the Coeur d’Alene steamboating era that Sorensen had helped to launch. On Feb. 4, 1938, in front of a crowd that had gathered on City Beach to bid her a final farewell, she was burned down to the waterline and slowly foundered, joining her illustrious predecessors in steamboating history. n

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With chapters on the estate’s picturesque grounds, cutting gardens, greenhouses, statuary, water features, topiary, annual and perennial gardens, At Home in the Garden definitely reflects a higher social strata than most of us belong to (the author frequently invokes the French monarchy and jokes that the estate’s initial landscaping plans exhibited the kind of excess that would get one “guillotined in 18th century France”). But the tone is also approachable, even witty. In addition to describing how the grounds were once little more than cornfields and grapevines, Roehm admits she isn’t above the occasional fiberglass deer (“Versailles on a budget”). (SB)

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE! I’m not going to suggest that listening to this document of the Drive-By Truckers’ 2014 three-night stand at San Francisco rock palace the Fillmore is anything close to seeing the hard-rocking master storytellers in person. The Truckers are one of the best live bands on the planet, and every show seems to offer multiple transcendent moments that convert new disciples and further draw the hardcore fans into fevered reverence of the band’s “Southern thing.” This set, though, offers arguably the closest thing possible, thanks to the epic length (35 songs in the triple-album version; the set is also available as a single album called This Weekend’s The Night) and plenty of frontman Patterson Hood’s classic between-song spiels. With songs stretching back to Hood and co-founder Dave Cooley’s pre-Truckers band, and several from last year’s brilliant English Oceans, It’s Great to be Alive! is a great reason to pop open a beer, crank up the home stereo and pretend you were there. (DN)

CYMBAL PLEASURES Artist Josh Stadlen intimately knows the medium in which he paints — he’s a drummer as well as an artist, so he knows his way around a cymbal. His paintings of famous musicians, done in acrylic directly onto cymbals, are distinct and a great gift for music fans who like to decorate the house in a way that shows off their fandom. Stadlen specializes in jazz greats, but has also done paintings of rock, hip-hop and pop musicians, and he takes commissions through his cymbalpleasures.com website, so you can order up anyone from Sid Vicious to Miley Cyrus. Or just keep it classy with one of Stadlen’s jazz cats. (DN)

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THE STAPLE SINGERS, FAITH & GRACE: A FAMILY JOURNEY 1953-1976 In the realm of gospel, soul and R&B music, you can consider the Staples — “Pops” and daughters Cleotha, Mavis and Yvonne — American royalty. The family band (who somewhat inexplicably dropped the last “s” in their family name for the group’s moniker) recorded and performed before, during and after the civil rights movement of the ’60s, and while they’re best known for hits like “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There,” the Staples consistently worked with some of the best writers and producers in American pop history, like Stax Records’ Steve Cropper, and easily moved from soaring gospel to gut-wrenching soul to some seriously funky stuff in the ’70s. This set includes all the hits, live recordings and rarities like the first two known recordings of the group, previously unheard since 1953. Add a book including liner notes from academics, producers and the still-performing Mavis Staples, and you have a great set of a legendary band. (DN) MASON JAR AMPLIFIER AND SPEAKER We’ve all done the trick of putting our phones in a cup to amplify the sound of the tiny speakers, but that’s no proper way to rock a party. Enter this handy gadget, which turns a 5-inch Mason jar into a 1.4-watt amp capable of blasting tunes from a phone, iPod or even your electric guitar, using just three AAA batteries and a little ingenuity. It’s

perfect for when you want to take your tunes with you, and looks cool compared to the wide array of garish Bluetooth speakers on the market. Available through UncommonGoods.com. (DN) BILL HICKS, ARIZONA BAY EXTENDED VERSION It’s a tragedy that Bill Hicks didn’t live to see that the social issues he turned into comedy gold before his death in 1994 — religious zealotry, media lies and rampant consumerism among them — are still going strong more than 20 years after pancreatic cancer claimed him at 32. He was a hero to fellow comics, underground comedy fans and bands like Tool, who dedicated their Ænima album to the hilarious Texan, and lifted lines from Hicks for its title track. Hicks left behind a set of trenchant albums, including Arizona Bay. The original version included musical interludes written by Hicks and designed to enhance the dark mood of the album (the title alludes to Hicks’ hope that Los Angeles would fall into the Pacific after a strong earthquake, making Arizona beachfront property). This new extended version strips out the music (no huge loss, honestly), and adds portions of the set recorded for the album that weren’t included in the original. Bits on racist cops, abortion and politics still kill — the mark of a comic powerhouse who too few people got to experience before he was gone. (DN) 

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Mad Men: The Complete Series The advertising men and women of Madison Avenue shaped culture in the 1960s – and were shaped by it. That’s what we learned in seven seasons of this period drama on AMC. The style, the sexism, the alcohol — Mad Men weaves a compelling story of deep characters in a shallow industry, referencing the turmoil and trends of American culture over the course of a decade. And it all came to a close in May. Mad Men raised the star power of Jon Hamm, who won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama this year for his role as Don Draper. The show was nominated for and received numerous awards during its run. It was popular for so many reasons, none of which you have to be a film critic to enjoy. It would make a great gift for the collector or TV-binger without a Netflix subscription.

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Back to the Future: 30th Anniversary Edition References to this sci-fi trilogy have the feel of cult-classic obsession, but Back to the Future was a mainstream success in 1985, when the first movie was the highest grossing film of the year. We may not wear colanders on our heads or fly around on hoverboards like Back to the Future II suggested when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) traveled to Oct. 21, 2015, but the entertainment value of his adventures with Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) isn’t diminished by these falsehoods. Think of how mind-blowing it is that now we’re really going back to the future… since Marty’s travels to the future in time all exist in our past. The new edition includes

the trilogy and hours of bonus features on DVD or Blu-ray.

Aladdin: Diamond Edition The boy who just wanted to impress a girl. The girl who just wanted to do her own thing. The genie who stole the show. I know Pixar movies are new and flashy, but nothing beats this classic animated musical. Disney re-released Aladdin this year on Blu-ray and HD DVD, making it the perfect gift for the nostalgic adult or uninitiated youngster on your gift list. The new edition includes a brighter, more vibrant picture, but the songs are the same. From “Friend Like Me” to “A Whole New World,” it’s time to reintroduce the greatest songs in Disney history — the ones I used to annoy my parents and siblings long before “Let it Go” drove us all nuts.

Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series The end of Parks and Recreation (pictured above) this year hit me on a personal level; in my opinion, it’s much better than its much-beloved sibling The Office. The series follows the efforts of a low-level bureaucrat, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), who starts in the Parks and Rec department in Pawnee, Indiana, wanting to make a difference in the lives of her neighbors who just… don’t get her. She’s passionate, capable, and she doesn’t steal all the attention. The cast — including Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt and Adam Scott — is amazing. The story is endearing, funny and, sadly, too brief. I can’t think of a single person who wouldn’t love it.

Still Alice For a woman whose life is words, losing thoughts and language to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease is the nightmare. That’s the reality for Dr. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a linguistics professor who is diagnosed after she starts forgetting words and gets lost while jogging her usual route.

As the disease progresses in Alice, her children watch helplessly and wonder about their own futures. This movie is enlightening to anyone who hasn’t witnessed the effect of this disease on a loved one. Moore’s performance was affecting — and she was rewarded for it. She won the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role, beating Reese Witherspoon (Wild) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). I loved all three of these movies for different reasons. What they have in common is a strong female lead in a not-so-stereotypical role, so consider any of them for your movie-loving friend.

Jurassic World In case you needed convincing, opening a theme park to let people see real dinosaurs in their natural habitat is still not a good idea.

The dinosaur expert/trainer, Owen (Chris Pratt), gets that, and the businesspeople looking at the profit potential don’t. Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) is one of the latter, who thinks that the park needs a bigger and better attraction. She and others are enlightened to the dangers of creating a new breed of dinosaur when the giant hybrid escapes. The newest Jurassic movie lives up to expectations for people who loved the original. Giving a monster movie to that special someone in your life never fails to please. 

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An adorable adventure game rated “E for everyone.”

For one, Lego velociraptors are just dang adorable. Second, Legos can’t bleed. With the removal of the “scary” and the gore, this game serves as a solid recommendation for kids (and is conveniently available on nearly every console).

Star Wars: Battlefront In a brilliant and cunning marketing collaboration by Disney and EA, the release of the new Star Wars movie was heralded by the release of a Star Wars video game, Star Wars: Battlefront. Bask in the glory that is Star Wars season and immerse your giftee in everything that is the Force. Battlefront is available on PS4, PC, and Xbox One, so it’s a safe bet that your gamer has (at least) one console capable of supporting the magnitude that is yet another Star Wars game. ’Tis the season for midichlorians and yuletide, after all.

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Network switch Approach this gift warily, as only the most hardened of LAN gamers will appreciate the raw power and electrifying intensity of their very own network switch.

Don’t know what a network switch does? Look upon this device as a magical box that brings neckbeards together.

Just as ancestral man once huddled around warm fires to share epic tales, turbo-nerds huddle around such switches, using the hand-wavey magic of the Internet to game together in one place (usually a mother’s basement). As a casual side note, a network switch has many useful home application for those who look to turn their homes into overpowered tech control centers. Bonus gift idea: Wrap your switch up with some Doritos, Mountain Dew and weed.

Nerdy tabletop game accessories Statistically, people who huddle in basements around video games also enjoy huddling in basements around nerdy tabletop games. Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Force of Will, Warhammer — if any of the aforementioned get your attention, I suggest heading down to a nearby game shop and asking the service people their recommendations for fun, game-related accessories. Most of these games involve some sort of fancy dice. Some of them involve neat figurines. All of them tout many creative and unique ways to spend money. Keep in mind the following pro tips for maximum money expenditure. If your game of choice involves cards, you can’t go wrong with booster packs. If your game involves dice, dice bags made of chain mail always elevate your nerd to coolest nerd on the block.

Fallout 4 Everyone and their chinchilla wants Fallout 4, so just get it for your giftee already. No surprises here — Fallout is a great game series and every respectable gamer will want to add the experience to their impressive repertoire of playtime. And we’ve all been waiting several hundred years for its release into the cosmos. Set in a postapocalyptic wasteland, Fallout is all about survival, radiation, the rusty ruins of humanity and people with dirt-smeared faces who obviously haven’t bathed in centuries. If your giftee hasn’t already come clamoring to you about Fallout, it’s safe to say they will enjoy the game if they liked the Elder Scroll series. Or if they play video games at all and have a pulse.

RAM, SSD, and other expensive acronyms Whether they’re using their computers for crazy competitive online gaming, bitcoin mining, or intensive TurboTax calculations, computer components are an underrated gift for those who have built their own rig.

Best talk to your nerd before grabbing a random graphics card, though. Although this may remove the element of surprise, it is almost a guarantee that some part of their “baby” needs to be upgraded or replaced. As time goes forward in an impenetrable march towards computational sentience, processors get better, graphics get sharper, monitors get crisper, and computers get more and more outdated by the second. The following questions are sure to produce a desirable answer. “Do you need more RAM?” “Would you like another hard drive?”

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By Quinn Western PORTAL: THE UNCOOPERATIVE CAKE ACQUISITION GAME For those who have played the video game, you know that this game won’t be a piece of cake. Or will it? Nearly a decade after the release of the popularly frustrating single-player video game comes a tabletop version to bring your non-gaming friends and family in on the fun and disappointment (depending which way you look at it).

The same developers, the Valve Corporation based in Bellevue, put together similar puzzles in this fast-paced game. Your team of test subjects travel through portals into different chambers of the Lab and defeat these puzzles in order to be rewarded with cake at the end. But when one of these chambers falls through into oblivion, so can some of your test subjects and precious cake. The person with the most cake when someone loses their last test subject wins.

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PIE FACE! Cake not your thing? Maybe you’re more of a pie person. The popular European game just became available in the U.S. this year because of high demand after a video of a father and son playing the game went viral.

There’s a mechanical arm with a sponge or whipped cream on the end; you place your face into the target area and crank the handle the number of times the spinner tells and, like a jack-in-thebox, you never know when a pie in the face is going to happen.

Whipped cream is not included, because that would be gross. Although a sponge is included. Ages 5 and up; $25

CODENAMES Think Minesweeper crossed with charades, but without the pantomiming.

This game is for your pal who loves puzzles and riddles. There are 25 cards laid out with a word on each one; the team leader has an access card, which tells them what is underneath the cards (blue team spy, red team spy, beige innocent bystander, or the game-ending assassin card). The team leader says a word and a number — for example, “BEACH 3” — which means there are three cards on the board that have the correct spy underneath, and they all have to do with the beach.

Be careful who you give this to, because this game has the ability to build the best alliances and tear families apart. Ages 14 and up; $20

THE MARCY CASE For your pal who raved about T.I.M.E Stories, in which he traveled through time to solve crimes. Now there can be an abundant of new references and phrases you don’t understand (or be sucked into). The time travel series brings you The Marcy Case, an expansion with the mission of solving the disappearance of a young girl in a small town. The players (or Temporal Agents) travel back to 1992. Add some laughter to the game by dressing up for the era and find your throwback ’90s attire buried deep in your closet.

Ages 12 and up; $30 YETI IN MY SPAGHETTI This is basically Pick-Up Sticks or KerPlunk. The rules are simple: if you touch a noodle, you have to take it. You can only remove one noodle at a time, but you may use both hands. The last person to pull a noodle successfully without the Yeti falling into the bowl wins! It’s easy to learn without much direction at all, and is great for children. It could really be gifted to anyone who likes competitive board games that revolve around skill and finesse.

Ages 4 and up; $18 SUPERFIGHT Remember those times your fantastic pairing in Cards Against Humanity didn’t get picked? Your “Next from J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of ______” “dead parents” combination was guaranteed to get you a win. Anyone who has felt this would love to receive Superfight this season. It’s Cards Against Humanity, with a debate-team element. Throw down your aces, state your case calmly and professionally (yeah, right), then it’s put to a group vote. There are also expansion decks for purchase to revolve the game around topics from anime to The Walking Dead. (Pssst: the yellow deck expansion includes fighting over who wins Quidditch or the Iron Throne.) Ages 8 and up (depending on the deck); $40 MYSTERIUM One week. Seven dreams. One player is a ghost and the rest are clairvoyants. Don’t worry; the game isn’t actually a week long.

It’s another game that tortures the one (the ghost) with all of the answers (like earlier mentioned Codenames) to give clues (in the form of dream cards) that will hopefully connect the clairvoyants to the suspect, location and weapon. Online reviewers recommend pairing this game with drinks (it probably makes interrupting dreams much easier). So gift this game to a pal who will bring it to the next party. Ages 10 and up; $50 STAR WARS: X-WING MINIATURES GAME Of course there had to be a Star Wars game included. The new movie is coming out, and when your buddy who’s a Star Wars fanatic returns home after the cinematic adventure, they won’t want it to end. Enter Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures. It’s strategic ship-to-ship combat, complete with detailed miniature ships to reenact the epic cinematic battles. It’s played similarly to Battleship (no offense, Battleship Galaxies). Whether they’re a part of the Rebel or Imperial armies, this gift is sure to be force-full. Ages 14 and up; $26.50 LOOPIN’ CHEWIE OK, maybe an extra Star Wars pick because, I mean, come on, it’s Star Wars, and you’re bound to have a lot of friends enthusiastic about the long-awaited movie, coming out right before Christmas. What are you going to do? Give them all the same Star Wars-themed board game? No. When the miniatures have been exhausted, the mood can be lightened up with Loopin’ Chewie. A spin-off of the popular Loopin’ Louie, this game is about timing. As Chewie spins in a circle riding the Millennium Falcon, hit your lever to knock Chewie off-track, take out your opponents’ Stormtroopers and keep him from knocking down your own. This take on a classic game crossed with a classic film series will have your gift recipient exclaiming, “The force is strong with this one!” Ages 4 and up; $33 

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ver the four decades before her death from breast cancer in 2007, Molly Ivins became one of the most salient figures in American political journalism. As an unflagging reporter and acerbic columnist, she earned a reputation — even among her opponents — for forthright news and

analysis on the nation’s political issues.

The force of her writing was matched only by her charisma. On the strength of her byline, she was frequently invited to be a guest speaker and talkshow pundit, where she could be relied upon not only to speak fluidly and authoritatively on politics,

but also to deliver colorful anecdotes in a Texas drawl that only seemed to enhance her charm. And her prestige.

“They do polls every year to find out who’s the best liked and most hated columnist in the [central Texas] area,” she once explained to David Letterman ...continued on next page

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CULTURE | THEATER “KICKING ASS AND TAKING NAMES,” CONTINUED... during a Late Show interview. “I’m always both.” line with my way of thinking, so that’s made it In 2010, twin sisters Margaret and Allison all the more interesting and fascinating to me. So Engel paid tribute to Ivins by dramatizing her much of what she talks about was applicable then legacy as a one-actor stage play titled Red Hot and is even more applicable now.”

Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. The touring Some of that prescience (“prophetic,” in show starring Kathleen Turner was still making Ford’s words) has to do with the venomous the rounds as recently as this year. political climate that she foresaw and lamented.

A new local production directed by actor Carroll says that Ivins harks back to — perhaps and filmmaker Ron Ford is now opening at Stage even symbolized — a time when the personal Left, with Wendy Carroll as its star. Ford says he was drawn to the show “because MOLLY IVINS IN HER OWN WORDS it is unapologetic about its liberalism,” a quality it On Bill Clinton: “If left to my own devices, I’d spend shares with its subject, who self-identified as a popuall my time pointing out that he’s weaker than buslist and liberal/libertarian station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to throughout her career.

“Molly was an extraorsuch hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing dinary person and writer.

There was no sentimentality up for him on the general principle that some fairness in her writing. She was flatout honest and said what should be applied.” she thought, and generally that fell on the left. But she still had criticism for the left, On Texas politics: “As they say around the Texas too,” he says.

Under the conceit that Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw she’s tasked with writing her their women, take their money, and vote against ‘em father’s obituary, Red Hot Patriot employs Ivins’ quips and columns to recount her anyway, you don’t belong in office.” career landmarks and political insights. Ivins’ father is significant because her politics could be loosely trumped the political. interpreted as a response to the overbearing “I remember when you could disagree with authoritarianism that earned him the nickname someone politically and it never impacted a relaGeneral Jim. tionship,” she says. “You could agree to disagree “He was a corporate lawyer for the oil comand move on. When did we turn into such angry panies,” Ford says. “He was an arch-conservative, people?” and they clashed on everything.”

Much like Ivins herself, questions like those For Carroll, playing a biographical figure transcend political pigeonholes. That, says Ford, presents certain challenges. is why Red Hot Patriot has cross-party appeal — the “You don’t have the liberty to make adaptaother being that audiences will see “one of the tions or adjustments or interpretations that aren’t best local actresses in top form playing one of authentic,” she says. “And she’s a challenging the most magnetic figures in journalism in recent character in her own way, because she’s one step history.” n ahead of everybody all the time.”

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here are few individuals on this planet who should ever be allowed to host a “Christmas special.”

Such programs are essentially filler. They exist for networks to score easy ratings because people really love celebrity duets. And isn’t Christmas special enough without this stuff?

Among the exceptions is Bill Murray, who has his very own special debuting this week on Netflix called A Very Murray Christmas, and is someone who should be allowed whatever television special he wants, even if it’s just an hour of him making a sandwich. The special, debuting on Dec. 4, is directed

by Sofia Coppola, who gave us the Murray vehicle Lost in Translation, and is marked with her quirky feel, but with a dose of charm.

The gist is that Murray is set to host a holiday show at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, but a snowstorm has kept the audience and most of his guests away. Still, Murray decides to go on with the help of friends like Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Miley Cyrus and Jason Schwartzman. But wait, there’s also

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George friggin’ Clooney, who appears to be the star of this show within a show.

There’s a line in the trailer when he gets a terrible singing audition from a hotel staff member that seems to illustrate the tone of this weird short film: “You’re not a singer and we don’t have time to find out if you’re a dancer,” Murray says briskly.

Murray doesn’t have to do something like this. In fact, he doesn’t have to do anything, but he does a lot of weird things that have made him perhaps more folk hero than entertainer. He shows up at random weddings, tags along with strangers for a night on the town. He supposedly has no agent or manager and can only be reached by way of a mysterious answering service.

His face is on the back of cars and on T-shirts.

It’s this Santa Claus-like mystique that’s made Bill Murray the sort of person who should be able to sing about Christmas on our televisions.

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VIDEO A trio of teenage girls from the Los Angeles area have taken to spoken word to express a message about what they learn and don’t learn in school. The girls build powerful poetry with anecdotes about books being banned in schools, and controversial topics from guns to sexual assaults that aren’t talked about because they make people uncomfortable. They’re a part of a program called GET LIT (getlit.org; not associated with the local literary festival) which teaches literacy to students through poetry. A similar program with the same goals in the Inland Northwest is Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit. Learn more about the local program at getlitfestival.org.

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Locally grown Swiss chard grown in an indoor gardening system at the Community Action Center in Pullman.

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Outside the Can

Whitman County food pantries ramp up efforts to fill shelves with fresh produce

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reens grow in specially built containers lining the hallway and tucked in unused corners of the Community Action Center in Pullman. The CAC keeps 250 plants — kale, green and red lettuce, bok choy, Swiss chard, parsley and cilantro — in a new indoor gardening system that puts fresh food on the shelves with bread and canned goods at the weekly food pantry.

It’s a low-maintenance system put together by Sue Guyett, a volunteer who started a gardening program three years ago.

She expanded this fall to grow greens hydroponically — meaning they grow year-round in fertilized water without soil — because people loved the option of taking home fresh produce.

“I make sure that I connect with my customers,” says Guyett. “I hang out at food bank days and I just watch. Or I’ll be weeding outside. I have people coming up to me, giving me hugs. They say, ‘Thank you so much for this. I just can’t afford it. I love it. My kids love it.’”

Food pantry workers want to make more fresh produce accessible to low-income families in communities across the country, because people with lower incomes have higher rates of diet-related illnesses, including obesity and diabetes. That’s because the cheapest food has a lot of calories and little nutritional value.

Guyett uses the example of a family faced with the choice of refilling a child’s prescription or buying fresh food at the grocery store. Many low-income families encounter such decisions every month: Whether to buy food or fill their car with gas — or heat their home in winter.

“Usually food’s the last thing they allocate funds for,” she says.

With the money left over, they buy food that’s cheap and filling. Since fresh food can be some of the most expensive in a grocery store, making it available at a food pantry helps supplement a family’s diet and budget. A visit to the food pantry can save $30 to $40, says Paige Collins, executive director of the Council on Aging & Human Services in Colfax.

Whitman County food pantry workers are exploring as many avenues as possible to make more fresh food available to their communities. Besides growing it themselves, pantries rely on donations, asking grocery stores and farmers to give or sell food that would otherwise go

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Collins recently bought 500 pounds of winter squash from WSU’s Organic Farm for 50 cents a pound and distributed it to 200 families. Last spring, a farmer called because all his peaches ripened at the same time.

“He didn’t even sell them to us. He just gave them to us,” says Collins.

She’s spending the fall and winter connecting with more farmers to draw more donations or discounted sales for the 11 food pantries she oversees.

Food pantries here face challenges while serving thousands of people in small, rural areas. Factors like transportation, timing and storage overwhelm every food pantry, but they’re amplified when dealing with fresh food.

Ryan Lazo and Ashley Hope of the WSU Center for Civic Engagement work with county food pantries to improve access to and availability of fresh food. They put together a list to point people toward the Whitman County pantries that want fresh food donations. Lazo says that people need to know more about the need for higher quality food, especially in rural areas.

Hope says people don’t realize that Whitman County’s agriculture industry doesn’t automatically lead to an abundance of fresh food at low cost. Collins, who joined the Council on Aging after working for Northwest Harvest in Seattle, says that urban areas attract more donations because they’re near big food companies, like Costco, and more grocery stores with excess food.

“It’s easy to forget this corner of the state,” Collins says.

Lazo also hopes that the list will improve coordination between pantries, to mitigate some of the challenges as people donate more food.

“Last fall, I was visiting a food pantry and I noticed they had five cases of apples, but half those apples were rotting in the box,” he says. “People were getting fresh food to those folks, but it wasn’t getting distributed evenly. It was going to waste. So how can we curb waste while getting more food to people who need it in Whitman County?” n

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Palouse Spirits Cougar Red Distillery brings craft gin and vodka to Pullman

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he 20 acres of wheat surrounding Cougar Red Distillery will go to good use eventually, but so far Allen Paton relies on Washington’s apples to make vodka and gin at Pullman’s first distillery.

“I wanted to get into whiskey, but it takes so long,” he says. “First you want to know if you’re good at distillation.”

Paton owns a refrigeration company in Pullman. Before coming here, he helped at wineries in Arizona and Washington.

When he decided to enter the industry for himself, he followed his love for bourbon and Canadian blends. He started with apples because he likes the flavor from a sugar base; it helps that he lives down the road from

local cider producers.

The distillery and tasting room are tucked into the hills opposite the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. They sell bottles of gin ($50) and vodka ($35) adorned with a modern version of a pin-up girl wearing a red dress slung low in the back.

Get it? She’s a cougar. Their vodka and gin are available across Pullman, including at Zeppoz, South Fork, Dissmore’s, Sunset Mart and Birch & Barley, among others.

To make vodka, Paton starts with apples pressed by Pullman’s Whiskey Barrel Cider Company. He orders about 1,000 gallons of juice each month, says the cider company’s owner Trent Maier.

Cougar Red Distillery uses local products to produce craft spirits on the Palouse.

“I think that was a good fit for them in terms of a good base product,” Maier says. “It helps us, too. It keeps us busy making more juice than we usually do.”

At the distillery, the juice ferments for five days before enjoying two runs through Paton’s 100-gallon still. The resulting drink is smooth with an apple aftertaste.

The gin soaks for about a week in juniper berries and other botanicals, including lavender, cinnamon, orange peels and cloves. The classic taste is overpowered by the other flavors, but Paton says mixing it with Cougar Red vodka draws it out again.

After only five weeks, he’s heard good reviews from the

crowds visiting the tasting room.

“More than 80 percent are raving about a product they usually don’t care about because they’re mixing it,” Paton says.  Cougar Red Distillery • 1252 Orville Boyd Rd., Pullman • Open Wed-Thu, 4-7 pm; FriSat, 11 am-7 pm • cougarreddistillery.com • 332-2635

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DOWNTOWN SPOKANE BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE 122 S. Monroe | 835-4177 This cozy, East Coast-style joint is nestled between train tracks and a bedrock foundation, just below street level. By day the popular (extremely busy) deli serves giant pickles, fresh salads, and artisan soups and sandwiches. By night, the lounge offers a small selection of craft beers on tap, and a full yet simple bar.

CHIKN-N-MO 414½ W. Sprague | 838-5071 Tucked into a narrow space amid a string of bars on Sprague Avenue, Chicken-N-More is easy to miss. Once you’ve eaten Bob Hemphill’s fried chicken or brisket, that might change.

Hemphill brought his Texas-style barbecue approach to Spokane and has created an atmosphere in the downtown eatery to match the comfort his food aims to create.

CHURCHILL’S STEAKHOUSE 165 S. Post | 474-9888 Don Draper would fit in beautifully at Churchill’s, with its luxurious, masculine décor, top-shelf cocktails and traditional (in all the best ways) takes on

sides and steaks. The star of the show here is the USDA prime Midwestern beef that’s dry-aged, then cooked at 1,800 degrees. The sides are à la carte, and the Cougar Gold mac and cheese is worth every single calorie.

MIZUNA 214 N. Howard | 747-2004 Originally a vegetarian restaurant, Mizuna expanded its menu over the years to meet the needs of omnivores as well. But rest assured, vegans and vegetarians — your offerings are still prepared on a separate workspace and grill. Mizuna’s menu changes to showcase fresh, locally sourced ingredients. A great wine selection, dim lighting, exposed brick walls and elegant décor make this one of Spokane’s most romantic restaurants.

TABLE 13 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. | 598-4300 Located inside the Davenport Grand Hotel, Table 13 has a distinct design that sets it apart from the rest of the new downtown hotel, giving it the feel of a stand-alone restaurant. The menu, designed by executive chef Ian Wingate, a veteran of Spokane fine

dining, features small plates, some of which feature the Asian-influenced dishes that have become Wingate’s calling card over the years. Nothing on the menu is more than $13, hence the name. Don’t forget to check out the whiskey bar in the rear of the restaurant.

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SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE 21 W. Main | 473-9455 This is the type of restaurant that does it all, and does it well. Need to place for a quiet lunch? Done. Excellent happy hour? They’ve got it. A place to start a raucous night of partying?

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o r t i c s i F h u e n r P Pixar uses a what-if to solidify The Good Dinosaur

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

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ith its latest film, Pixar Animation continues to reign supreme in the realm of family-focused animated features. The Good Dinosaur is sweet and charming, packed with danger, deaths and emotional tugs. It may not be Pixar’s most original or most heartwarming film, but it gets the job done in fine fashion. The studio only has itself to blame for deflating expectations by making The Good Dinosaur follow on the heels of their only other 2015 release: the brilliant, groundbreaking Inside Out. Almost anything will pale by comparison.

The movie’s conceit is that dinosaurs were not obliterated 65 million years ago by a presumed asteroid. That space boulder missed Earth entirely (making for an amusing opening fake-out), and the creatures go on to build lives and societies, much along the lines that humans eventually did. Our hero Arlo (voiced

by Raymond Ochoa, and Jack McGraw as an infant) is an Apatosaurus who was the runt of his parents’ litter. He’s frail and timid, although Poppa (Jeffrey Wright) tries to teach his son to work through his fears. (Think The Lion King.)

One day, Arlo gets lost in a storm and then must spend the rest of the movie finding his way home to his family’s farm. Lessons will be learned, courage will be found, and wisdom gained. As I said before, original this is not.

What is distinctive about The Good Dinosaur is the way in which it unfolds. The dangers Arlo faces seem very real: He’s knocked unconscious at least a couple of times, and endures numerous assaults to his body by unstable terrain, falling rocks and unfriendly varmints. Most unusual is that Arlo is accompanied on his journey by a human boy who grunts and THE GOOD scrambles about DINOSAUR on all fours, Rated PG whom he names Directed by Peter Sohn Spot.

Voices by Jeffrey Wright, FranWary at first, ces McDormand, Steve Zahn, these two ostenAnna Paquin, Sam Elliott sible orphans develop a relationship and mode of understanding. A sequence during which the two figure out a way to communicate the similarity of their situations is poignant beyond measure. Most of all, Arlo and Spot learn about friendship and emotional ties. Plus, it’s no small thing to witness a world in which human beings are not the top dogs in the animal kingdom.

The plot bogs down a bit during these adventures; some episodes are more entertaining and meaningful than others. The animation of the animals is fairly basic, but the re-creation of the Pacific Northwest scenery is stunning to behold. Mountains, rivers, rocky expanses, woolly mammoth herds, a field of fireflies — there’s always something sumptuous to look at. Additionally, much creative thought has been devoted to figuring out how the dinosaurs might till the land or solve other problems, using their bodies as tools or weapons.

The Good Dinosaur may not be as revolutionary as 1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur, but as Jurassic World already demonstrated this year, we never tire of these prehistoric critters. The feature is preceded by a delightful, seven-minute-long animated short, Sanjay’s Super Team. n

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OPENING FILMS KRAMPUS

Each Christmas, good children everywhere get the gift of their dreams in triumph. But what do the bad children get? No, not coal — Krampus. When the family Christmas party goes sour, Tom (Adam Scott) and his family must fend for their lives after Max (Emjay Anthony) destroys his letter to Santa Claus in anger, summoning the ancient evil spirit of Krampus. Though David Koechner supports Scott in maintaining the laughs, you’ll definitely want to leave the Santa-believers at home for this one, as Krampus relentlessly shocks with terrifying images of your most beloved Christmas characters.

(MC) Rated PG-13

THE LETTERS

Writer and director William Riead takes on a bold endeavor in documenting the life and times of Mother Teresa, who spread prodigious amounts of love and compassion during her time on earth. The Letters attempts to capture the intense emotions and loneliness experienced by Mother Teresa as understood through her nearly 50 years of letters to her mentor Father Celeste van Exem. If nothing else, the stunningly gorgeous cinematography in this film is a beautiful tribute to Mother Teresa, as the plot itself

precariously trods the line between Hollywood and priceless history. (MC) Rated PG

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT

This gorgeous profile of the legendary art collector paints the eccentric Peggy Guggenheim as the trailblazer that she was in American culture after some of her story had been lost to history. The documentary by Lisa Immordino Vreeland tells how Guggenheim amassed one of the world’s most prestigious art collections before opening her namesake museum in Venice. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

ROOM

Jack lives with his mom (Brie Larson) in Room (no “the”), the only place on earth the 5-year-old has ever known.

Room is a dingy toolshed supplied with nothing more than life’s essentials (a single bed where they both sleep, a toilet, dilapidated fridge, ancient TV and unreachable skylight) where Jack and Ma go through their daily regimen of washing, exercising, reading, eating, etc. On Jack’s fifth birthday, his mom decides to tell her son about the outside world… and hope for a life outside of Room. (MB) Rated R

NOW PLAYING BRIDGE OF SPIES

Set in 1957, it’s the fact-based story of how Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) came to be assigned as the public defender for Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Russian spy facing possible execution for espionage. The prosecution and judge want the appearance of a fair trial that holds up America’s ideals during the peak of the Cold War, but they don’t really care about whether it’s actually fair. (SR) Rated PG-13

CREED

Donny is an angry orphaned teen, rescued from the foster-care system by the widow (Phylicia Rashad) of boxing legend Apollo Creed from the Rocky series. She has learned that Donny is the illegitimate son of her late husband and has decided to take responsibility for him — and that unique backstory of a tough kid brought into a life of privilege gives Michael B. Jordan the opportunity for a terrific performance.

Donny then heads into the ring for a boxing career with help from his trainer, none other than Rocky himself (Sylvester Stallone, of course). (SR) Rated PG-13

FINDERS KEEPERS

This documentary’s premise is probably going to bring you into its curious grasp: a man finds an amputated leg inside of a grill bought at an auction, and then the man to whom that legs belongs becomes an odd sort of ce-

lebrity. But as the guy tries to get his leg back through a lawsuit, things get even weirder. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

THE GOOD DINOSAUR

The latest offering from Pixar is this computer-animated story that gives us an Earth that was never hit by the asteroid that knocked off the dinosaurs, and thus people and the mega lizards live together on the planet. When an Apatosaurus named Arlo is orphaned after his dad dies in an accident, he tries to make his way home and along the way befriends a boy named Spot.

(MB) Rated PG

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — PART 2

In the last installment of the franchise, Katniss Everdeen (the amazing Jennifer Lawrence), doesn’t lead the rebels of District 13 in what everyone hopes will be a definitive assault on the Capitol. Instead, she’s bringing up the rear with the propaganda filmmaking team, making videos that will hopefully sway the hearts and minds of the Capitol citizens, who naturally aren’t on the rebels’ side. She’s going to take down President Snow, no matter what it takes. (MJ) PG-13

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THE MARTIAN

From the director of epics like Alien, Gladiator and most recently Prometheus comes this chilling, definitive film about survival and the ongoing mission of life on Mars. When a devastating storm forces a NASA crew on Mars to head home, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is lost in the chaos and presumed dead. But when Watney wakes up, alone and 140 million miles from home, he is faced with a decision; live or die. (MC) Rated PG-13

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Actor Ravi Patel was nearing 30 and still single when he decided to let his family help find him a wife in the traditional Indian fashion. So, he took a camera along and documented the process in this comedic documentary about love, culture and family. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG

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My All American chronicles the journey of Freddie Steinmark, an undersized defensive back who played his way onto the University of Texas football team in 1969. Already considered an underdog, Freddie was diagnosed with bone cancer above his knee following his legendary effort against the University of Arkansas in what was known the “Game of the Century.” Steinmark’s fight with cancer spurred the passing of the National Cancer Act of 1971, contributing greatly to the beginning of the modern fight against cancer. (MC) Rated PG

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Facing the last Christmas Eve before the birth of his first child, Isaac (Seth Rogen) and his buddies Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) take off on a quest to find the best Christmas party in New York City.

In a massively surprising twist, The Night Before comes complete with a stoned Rogen, as well as the remnants of a bad-boy JGL from Don Jon. Featuring the mandatory appearance by James Franco, the absurdity bar seems to have been raised a little higher when it comes to holiday laughers. (MC) Rated R

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The Little Red-Haired Girl has just moved into town, and Charlie Brown is simultaneously desperate to impress her, and terrified of actually interacting with her. So he embarks on a series of likely doomed endeavors to prove his worth: entering the school talent show; learning to dance so he can dazzle at a school event; binge-reading War and Peace so he can write the most erudite book report in third-grade history. (SR) Rated G

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Julia Roberts reminds us why she is one of the most badass women in Hollywood as Jess, an FBI investigator who finds her daughter’s dead body while answering a call. Thirteen years after the murder, with the help of her old partner Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and their DA supervisor Claire (Nicole Kidman), the three sleuths find a lead that may finally solve the case. Suspense abounds throughout The Secret in Their Eyes, as Jess will go to any lengths to find the man who killed her daughter — and serve up the justice that her daughter deserves. (MC) Rated PG-13

SPECTRE

In the immediate aftermath of the events of Skyfall, Bond (Daniel Craig) has gone rogue, chasing hints of a big bad guy around the globe, while back in London, the new M (Ralph Fiennes) is battling with C (Andrew Scott), who is about to launch a new blanket electronic surveillance scheme that will replace the 00 program: something about drone warfare being more efficient than spies with a license to kill.

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SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, the Boston Globe editor-inchief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) asked the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team — Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children. And as they begin digging — at first reluctantly — into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a mas-

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STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, touches on all these aspects of Jobs’ legacy. Framed as three distinct scenes, it follows Jobs in the minutes before three major product launches: the Macintosh announcement in 1984 that led to his firing from Apple; the introduction of Jobs’s first and only post-Apple project, the NeXT Computer, in 1988; and his triumphant return to Apple with the announcement of the first iMac. (PC) Rated R

SUFFRAGETTE

Carey Mulligan stars as Maud Watts, a Londoner who was born and raised in a laundry, in 1912 London as the fight for women’s right began to take hold. As a group of women campaign for voting privileges in a movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), a detective tries to undermine and dismantle their efforts. (PC) Rated PG-13

THE 33

It’s based on the real-life incident in which 33 workers at a gold-and-copper mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert were trapped after a massive rock fell and blocked the only exit, inspiring rescue efforts that drew international attention. The improbable circumstances behind their (historical spoiler alert) survival is a natural for cinematic treatment, one that could be inspirational both as an example of resilient faith and as a case study in institutional determination. (SR) Rated PG-13

TRUMBO

A celebrated screenwriter (Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo) and novelist (Johnny Got His Gun) when the Red Scare machine revved up, Dalton Trumbo was one of the more prominent Hollywood players to be called to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 to discuss his perfectly legal involvement in the Communist Party. Here, he’s played brilliantly by Bryan Cranston in a story that can be overly theatrical at times.

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ne of the most absorbing, thrilling, and keypad that keeps Room shuttered tight, and he emotionally anguishing yet restorative proceeds to make loud and strange noises with movies I’ve seen, Room should be Ma on the creaky bed. entered by all means. Nevertheless, it’s a difficult As the film opens, Ma and Jack are celebratfilm to discuss with viewers who aren’t familiar ing his fifth birthday, and Ma decides that he’s with the plot of Emma Donoghue’s best-selling now old enough to learn about the world outside book on which it is based. This is a film that of Room. She tells him she was “stolen” by Old should be approached with as few preconceptions Nick when she was 17, and then Jack entered her as possible. life two years later. Viewers can Donoghue wrote the screen adunderstand what Jack cannot: the ROOM aptation of her in-demand novel, and horrible truth of her abduction Rated R Lenny Abrahamson (Frank) directs and captivity, and that there are Directed by Lenny Abrahamson with great sensitivity and ingenuother human beings and animals Starring Brie Larson, Jacob ity, though what ultimately sells the in a world that is real and not Tremblay, Joan Allen movie are the two central performancsome imaginary images they see es by Brie Larson and young Jacob on TV. Tremblay, one of the most unforgettable child The second half of the movie introduces actors you will ever see. Jack (Tremblay) lives more characters and a whole new set of psychowith Ma (Larson) in Room (no “the”), the only logical dimensions. I won’t go into it here, since it place on earth the 5-year-old has ever known. should be experienced cold if possible. The latter Room is a spare and dingy toolshed supplied half isn’t quite as strong as the first, and feels a with nothing more than life’s essentials (a single bit more contrived and schematic. Joan Allen bed where they both sleep, a toilet, dilapidated and Tom McCamus are terrific, although the fridge, ancient TV and unreachable skylight) dependable William H. Macy is sadly underused. where Jack and Ma go through their daily regiRoom is ultimately not something you’d readily men of washing, exercising, reading, eating, etc. call enjoyable, but it is a cathartic and provocaAt night, Jack is sent to the closet when a man tive reminder that life is full of possibilities and they call Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) unlocks the outcomes. n

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Power of Two

Electro-poppers Phantogram show off what creative minds can do together

BY DAN NAILEN

T Phantogram’s Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel

hanks to modern technology, there’s an increasingly fine line between bedroom rock star and genuine international phenomenon.

Post a tune on Bandcamp or throw a video on YouTube, and it might turn you into a viral sensation. At the very least, it might get your music heard in places it never had a chance to find 10 years ago, or by one powerful person who can catapult you to stardom before you know what hit you.

New Yorkers Phantogram are pioneers of this sort of Internet-driven phenomenon, considering that some song demos they posted to MySpace — ah, remember MySpace?

— caught the attention of labels and resulted in their landing a deal and releasing a stellar debut, 2009’s Eyelid Movies, before the duo had played much live.

For many Internet-fueled success stories, the narrative ends there as they struggle to find lasting success, or even write another batch of worthy songs. But Phantogram had something more going for them than a buzzy sound that blends electronic beats with — depending on the song — elements of hip-hop, soul, R&B and straightforward rock.

They had the longtime friendship between Phantogram’s two members, Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, that stretched back to junior high in a bucolic upstate New York town.

And while that friendship didn’t turn into a musical partnership until the two had explored the world a bit and ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | INDIE “POWER OF TWO,” CONTINUED... returned home when they were in their 20s, their shared interest in music and visual art has allowed Phantogram to grow into genre-defying stars who deliver mesmerizing live shows and collaborate with the diverse likes of hip-hop badass Big Boi (you definitely want to check out their new EP with the Outkast rapper, delivered under the name Big Grams) and art-rock freaks the Flaming Lips between working on their own tunes.

Phantogram’s 2014 album, Voices, is both a natural extension of what the band was just hinting at five years previous with Eyelid Movies, and a huge artistic leap forward, thanks to having a big budget to work with and five years of live shows under their collective belt.

“On Eyelid Movies, we wrote and recorded an album without really playing any live shows and actually not really having a fan base, but in the process of touring and playing those songs live, they became something a little more, and started taking on a heavier energy,” Carter told the website Nothing But Hope and Passion. “As a result, the production on the new album is a bit heavier.”

That heavier vibe includes what Barthel described in the same interview as songs with a “loud-heavy-screaming-but-nobody-canhear-me kind of feel.” That feel comes through loud and clear on songs like “Celebrating Nothing” and “Black Out Days.” It’s part of a made-up genre she jokingly refers to as “darkadelic” thanks to the swirling bits of instrumental psychedelia that run through most of Phantogram’s meticulously layered songs.

As the band grew both musically and in popularity, Carter and Barthel continued to explore and push Phantogram in big, bold directions. Sometimes that just means practical considerations, like adding more musicians to take their studio creations to the live stage and expand the original versions into dynamic new takes on songs old and new; guitarist/synthesizer player Nicholas Shelestak and drummer Chris Carhart have been touring with the band for a couple of years now, helping the twosome get the sound in their heads out to their fans.

Going big also means an increasingly ornate stage show they’ve created with an assist from lighting designer Jason Carroll, making a Phantogram show as mind-blowing in the visual sense as possible. That will come in handy for the series of arena shows the band is doing in December opening for epic rockers Muse, in between their own headlining gigs like the one in Spokane.

This go-round likely marks the end of Phantogram’s touring cycle for Voices, meaning Carter and Barthel will soon be able to create a whole new batch of aural treats. It’s a process Carter looks forward to.

“What’s exciting for us as a band is that we have this well of so many untapped ideas,” he told PopMatters.com. “We know that we have no boundaries on what we do.” n Phantogram with HIBOU • Wed., Dec. 9, at 8 pm • $23 • Allages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279

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MUSIC | ROCK

Raw Fabrics bring their arty rock up from Los Angeles this week.

Beauty and the Beast Up-and-comers Raw Fabrics are in control on their latest EP

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old Handcuffs, the debut EP from Los Angeles trio Raw Fabrics, is a short but solid collection of actual rock tunes. While it makes for an exciting introduction to the band, it doesn’t give listeners a true taste of Raw Fabrics’ genreblending abilities.

The trio — singer/guitarist Jack Franco, drummer Jon Fredrik and bassist/synth

player Justus Dixon — recorded Gold Handcuffs with producer Stephen Street (the Smiths, Blur).

Franco, who praised Street’s rock-oriented style in an email, decided to take the lead as producer on Plastic Joy, the band’s second EP, which was released in August.

“It really gave me creative freedom to do what I wanted, and play with sounds

and inspirations from different genres,” Franco says.

With Franco at the helm, plus a little help from Joe Chiccarelli (Manchester Orchestra, Morrissey), with whom the band recorded for one day, Plastic Joy is a raucous mix of rock, hip-hop, pop and electronic influences.

The EP opens with “Beast,” an anthemic song about facing and overcoming the negative voice inside.

Over a stark chant of “Beast, beast, beast,” Franco sings, “There’s a beast inside that never dies / Until the day you decide / To try and try to win the fight / You just can’t leave the past behind.”

“I really put my feelings into the lyrics in hopes that other people can relate to the feeling,” he explains. “There are all sorts of internal struggles that happen with everyone.”

On the title track, Franco chastises those looking for temporary happiness.

“The way our culture is today is that there [are] a lot of people searching for instant gratification,” he says. “Nowadays you can get most things delivered to you with a push of a button on your phone. That’s nice, but I think that happiness doesn’t come from having stuff or success.

“You can have happiness anywhere you are, as long as you look for it in yourself.”

For Raw Fabrics, that happiness comes from a primarily DIY attitude toward just about every aspect of the band. They plan and execute pop art-inspired visuals, and as evidenced on Plastic Joy, have begun to take more control over their sound. It’s all about pushing boundaries as far as they can.

“The hardest thing for bands today is to stand out and stay relevant in an industry that is constantly changing,” Franco says. “I would like to see people push their creative boundaries and not feel stuck doing the same thing they did five, 10, or even one year ago. I know personally, I am always pushing myself and trying to be more open.”  Raw Fabrics with the Bight and Boat Race Weekend • Fri, Dec. 4, at 7:30 pm • $7 • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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eggae music naturally evokes beaches and sun-dappled, scantily clad fans grooving along to languid beats and getting all “Irie” and whatnot. When you live in frosty, colder climes, a live reggae show during the winter months can offer sustenance, a reminder that even though it might be 20 degrees in the Inland Northwest, it’s sunny somewhere. Consider Collie Buddz your aural ambassador to that place, taking you to a mellow, marijuana-scented zone via the smooth sounds filling his new Blue Dreamz EP and live shows that have earned him a huge audience since arriving on the scene on the 2007 Shaggy track “Mad Mad World.”

— DAN NAILEN Collie Buddz with Hirie, King Skellee, Demon Assassin, EpiK • Sun, Dec. 6, at 7 pm • $20 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 911 W. Sprague • 244-3279

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hen Dave Wakeling last brought his English Beat charges to Spokane in the spring, he was in the midst of recording a new album, Here We Go Love, and getting ready to take the band to his native England for the first time in years. Fast-forward six months and after that British tour received rave reviews, the new album still hasn’t seen the light of day. Even so, new songs are making their way into sets full of the socially conscious dance-party Beat favorites like “Save It For Later,” “Best Friend” and “Stand Down Margaret.” In May, the new “The Love You Give (Lasts Forever)” made its way into the sold-out show at The Bartlett, and you can expect more this time around.

— DAN NAILEN English Beat • Thu, Dec. 10, at 8 pm • $40 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Saturday, 12/05

BArloWS AT liBErTy lAKE, Jan Harrison BEvErly’S, Robert Vaughn J ThE BiG DiPPEr, Sessionz Smooth Jazz feat. Heather Simmons Bolo’S, FM J BuCEr’S CoFFEEhouSE PuB, Michael Thomas J CAlyPSoS CoFFEE & CrEAmEry, Ren E and the Rhythm Section Playing J ChAPS, Just Plain Darin CoEur D’AlEnE CASino, Christy Lee

Comrie Duo CurlEy’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE FizziE mulliGAnS, Chris Rieser and The Nerve ThE FlAmE, DJ Big Mike & DJ Sassy GArlAnD PuB & Grill, Tracer GooDTymES BAr & Grill, DJ WesOne hAnDlEBArS, Nightshift iron horSE BAr, Slow Burn ThE JACKSon ST., DJ Dave John’S AllEy, Klozd Sirkut JonES rADiATor, The Electric NoNo (formerly The Jesus Rehab), The Smokes lA roSA CluB, Open Jam ThE lAriAT inn, Widow’s Creek nAShvillE norTh, Jeremy McComb Christmas Extravaganza feat. Rick Huckaby and guests norThErn QuEST, DJ Ramsin oFF rEGAl lounGE, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia

ThE PAlomino, DJ Funk PEnD D’orEillE WinEry, Bridges Home rED lion hoTEl rivEr inn, Classic Martini ThE riDlEr PiAno BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler J ThE ShoP, Truck Mills ThE roADhouSE, Steve Starkey zolA, Sammy Eubanks

Sunday, 12/06

CoEur D’AlEnE CASino, Kosh DAlEy’S ChEAP ShoTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church hoGFiSh, Open Jam J J KniTTinG FACTory, Collie Buddz (see story above), Hirie, King Skellee, EpiK ThE PAlomino, Pink Tango J PinnAClE norThWEST, Hangman’s Joke, All But Lost

Monday, 12/07

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fusbol

Tuesday, 12/08

315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub J BABY BAR, Guides, The Dancing Plague of of 1518, Crystalline BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE, Open Mic FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 12/09 EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JONES RADIATOR, Nate Stratte with Joe Cajon J J KNITTING FACTORY, Phantogram (see story on page 55), HIBOU THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Nick Grow

LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, DJ Freaky Fred THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic ZOLA, The Bossame

Thursday, 12/10

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Fireside Music Series: Bill Bozly J J THE BARTLETT, The English Beat (see story on facing page) J THE BIG DIPPER, Black Sabbitch BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny THE FLAME, DJ WesOne THE PALOMINO, DJ Funk RED ROOM LOUNGE, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 ZOLA, Island Soul

Coming Up ...

THE PALOMINO, White Wonderland EDM Show feat. DJ Funk, Dec. 11.

KNITTING FACTORY, The Winter Meltdown feat. Level Ground, Montana

Montana Montana, Lou Era, Young West, Dyve, Sdot, Young Neves, Kosh and more, Dec. 11, 7 pm.

J J THE BARTLETT, Bartlett Christmas Special feat. Cathedral Pearls, Friends of Mine, Loomer, Perenne and more, Dec. 11, 8 pm.

J J THE BIG DIPPER, Ugly Sweater holiday party feat. Down North, Blackwater Prophet, Bullets or Balloons, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm.

J THE BARTLETT, Beat Connection, Dec. 12, 8 pm.

J J KNITTING FACTORY, Della Mae, Mipso, Dec. 12, 8 pm.

THE BIG DIPPER, Winter Fresh Out West Tour feat. I.L.A.M., J.Lately, Broke The MC, Heavy Dudey, J.Lately, and others, Dec. 13.

NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Celebrate the Holidays with John Tesh, Dec. 13, 7:30 pm.

J J INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, [DATE CHANGE] Death Cab for Cutie, Dec. 15, 7:30 pm.

J J KNITTING FACTORY, Lil Dicky feat. C.H., Bezzel, Neves, Artistic, Dec. 17, 8 pm.

THE PALOMINO, Project X, Morbid Inc, Blame Shifter, Children of Atom., Dec. 19, 7:30 pm J KNITTING FACTORY, Blue Christmas feat. Sammy Eubanks, Dec. 19, 8 pm.

J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Children of Atom, 37 Street Signs, Project X, Joshua James Belliardo, Des-

champ, Dec. 26, 7-11 pm.

CRUISERS, New Year’s Eve feat. Thunder Knife, Children of Atom, Pipers Rush, Dec. 31, 7:30 pm-2 am.

J THE BARTLETT, New Year’s Eve with Pickwick, Dec. 31, 9 pm.

KNITTING FACTORY, NYE Party feat.

Invasive, Over Sea Under Stone, Broken Identity, Zaq Flanery, Dec. 31, 9 pm.

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For more information, please contact the Whitworth Music Office at 509.777.3280 or music@whitworth.edu.

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BIG BARN BREWING • 16004 N. Applewood Ln, Mead • 238-2489 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 THE FOXHOLE• 829 E. Boone • 315-5327 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent, Spokane Valley • 309-3715 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN RAIL PUB • 5209 N. Market • 487-4269 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 443-5213 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 PINNACLE NORTHWEST • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SULLIVAN SCOREBOARD • 205 N Sullivan Rd • 891-0880 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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THEATER LIGHT THE LAMP

Just as Hollywood execs can’t keep themselves from making sequels to any halfway successful flick, Broadway producers can’t keep themselves from mining the movies for material to take to the stage. Hence, we get A Christmas Story: The Musical, which takes the beloved ’80s movie about Ralphie’s quest to get a BB gun for Christmas and intersperses a bunch of new song-and-dance numbers between family scenes of pink bunny pajamas, visiting Santa, licking flagpoles and, yes, one possibly French secret prize.

— DAN NAILEN A Christmas Story: The Musical • Dec. 3-6: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2, Sun at 1 and 6:30 pm • $32.50-$72.50 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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BENEFIT TEA TIME

In the basement of the historic Spokane Woman’s Club on the corner of Ninth and Walnut, a trove of history accumulates: undergarments, headwear, accessories, formal gowns and adorable children’s frocks make up the club’s vast “Shirley J. Phipps Vintage Fashion Collection.” Members dust off the delicate fabrics dating as far back as the 1880s, with local women modeling pieces during the annual tea service fundraiser this weekend. While the club recently received a $300,000 historic preservation grant to spruce up the aging building, proceeds from this event support the maintenance of the vintage clothing collection.

— CHEY SCOTT Vintage Fashion Tea Party • Sat, Dec. 5, from 11:30 am-1:30 pm • $25/person • Spokane Woman’s Club • 1428 W. Ninth • womansclubspokane.org • 838-5667

COMEDY YULETIDE LAUGHS

There’s no shortage of holiday theater to take in this season throughout the region, but if you want to stray a bit from the Christmas stalwarts, try Second City’s Holidazed & Confused Revue.

Second City, the Chicago-based comedy troupe that counts among its alumni Tina Fey, John Belushi, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, among others, rolls out holiday-themed sketches, songs and other shenanigans to ease some of that stress that’s known to come along with this allegedly most joyous of all seasons.

— MIKE BOOKEY The Second City’s Holidazed & Confused Revue • Fri, Dec. 4, at 7:30 pm • $16/adults, $13/seniors (60+), $8/students and youth • Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, Washington State University, Pullman • ticketswest.com

Meet the People Who Shaped the Inland Northwest MUSIC OTHER PEOPLE’S HOMES

After a temporary hiatus, a long-running local event returns this holiday season: the 24th annual Music in Historic Homes concert series. The first of the three-program series running through next spring is a holiday concert in the Matthews-Woldson House, built in 1916 on Spokane’s South Hill. The Tudor revival home was owned by the Martin and Edwidge Woldson family, then most recently by their daughter, civic benefactor Myrtle Woldson. At the intimate concerts, guests are able to tour each immaculately preserved home and enjoy seasonal refreshments. The December concert appropriately features a holiday theme.

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Music in Historic Homes: Matthews-Woldson House • Wed-Thu, Dec. 9-10; performances at 3, 5 and 7 pm • $25/person or $60/three-concert series • 526 W. Sumner • spokanehistoricconcerts.org

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OUTDOORS WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Get out of the house this weekend for some exercise and to fill your lungs with that crisp, icy air during the Friends of Turnbull’s annual winter celebration. Though the massive refuge southwest of Spokane is open for visits during winter months at no fee, this special event offers a day of wildlife tours, educational activities and a tasty potluck chili contest to warm up. Guided van tours of the refuge offer an expert’s insight into Turnbull’s diverse animal residents. The morning tour (9 am) has already filled up, but there’s also an afternoon (1 pm) option, free with a suggested donation. If you miss the guided tour, there still are opportunities to learn about the wildlife residents inside Turnbull’s classroom.

— QUINN WESTERN Turnbull Winter Fest • Sat, Dec. 5, from 9 am-noon • Free • Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge • 26010 S. Smith Rd., Cheney • fotnwr.org

• Atticus

• Inlander Offices

• Auntie’s

• Hastings (all four locations)

• Boo Radley’s • EWU Bookstore, Cheney

• Huckleberry’s

• Sacred Heart Hospital Gift Shop • The Well-Read Moose • The Zag Shop

• The MAC Gift Shop

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W I SAW U YOU

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I SAW YOU BEAUTIFUL BRUNETTE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE I just want to say to the beautiful brunette wearing the black rimmed glasses that works in the County Clerk's office. We didn't talk but there was a couple smiles exchanged :) I'm sure you're just a friendly person with a beautiful smile. Not sure if you're single or with someone... if you're single I would love to chat with you more.

LATE NIGHT SHOPPING 11/14 Airway Heights Walmart 9pm-ish. Me, ridiculously cute girl shopping last minute (REALLY didn't want to) You, tall guy, were working in grocery section, had the most amazing smile. Thank you, it made my night ;) YOU SAW ME CRYING & TRIED TO HELP To the blonde woman at the Davenport Hotel Thanksgiving buffet last night, around 1600-1700 hours... I was in the corner, by myself, crying. You came over and asked if I was alright, and if I needed someone to talk to. I snapped at you, and I'm sorry. I know, logically, that you were just trying to help and do a good thing. I have PTSD and social anxiety.

I was having a major panic attack, one of the worst I have ever had in my life. I was trying to be invisible, and I guess it didn't work. I didn't want anyone to see me, I was trying to work through it. I was failing horribly, but by God, I was trying.

I know you were trying to help, I know you weren't trying to make it worse. I'm sorry if you saw me literally to my car. I

am sorry if I ruined your Thanksgiving, a time when you're supposed to happily be spending time with your family. I didn't mean to, I really didn't. I was having a very bad panic attack, and as much as I was trying to mitigate it, it wasn't working. I appreciate your kindness, kind stranger. I really do. I'm sorry if I snapped at you. When the PTSD takes over, logic goes out the window, and it's like being caught in a maelstrom in the middle of the darkest night. You're thrashed around, you cannot see, and even though you want out, you know it'll eventually end, in the meantime...You just wait for it to end. again....thank you and I'm sorry KELLOGG CUTIE I was the girl stuck in Kellogg, ID, at a bar, and down on my luck. You were at the same bar with me and decided to "help a girl out". Thank you for your generosity and kindness. I am sure you remember the rest of the story and I hope I made some kind of impact on you. You sure made one on me. I would love for you to see me in a different mind sate, other than how I was that night (like a wounded deer-lol).

Thank you. xo CUTE GIRL @ ZIPS ON 29TH I mentioned that you had a really kind face Saturday evening, the 28th, while you were just getting off work. You seemed taken aback from the compliment. I meant it, you have the nicest eyes. If you remember me and feel like getting in touch, email me at milkshaker7@ gmail.com.

TRUCK HIT BICYCLIST I saw you, a large black truck representing Lexar homes with green decal, driving sunday night heading downtown on Division. As you pulled out of a parking lot you didnt check to the right to make sure it was clear and you drove straight into a bicyclist. You literally hit the whole front of his bike, and just kept right on driving!! As if it was no big deal, as casual as if it were a speed bump or pothole. How horrible.

YOU SAW ME RE: CHILAWACK6PAK I'm pretty sure this was meant for me. You should know by now you did. I wish I had your forgiveness but you should also know I'm not looking to sign up again either. I'd just like to thank you. For everything.

Most importantly though thank you for

the most brutal lesson in always being honest. Your honesty in everything was inspirational. Only you will know, once you said something along the lines of never going to see a show in Spokane.

Thenyou asked if that sounded douchey and pretentious. I said no. I lied. It was douchey and pretentious. I know how good you are at keeping promises to

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Terminator, finally making a good movie with a decent plot and doing justice to the greatest action movies of all time! I'll forget the last three now.

THANKFUL FOR VENDING MACHINES!!!

My mother and I were thankful to be staying at a hotel on a dark Thanksgiving while Spokane was devastated by storm

when the order was late we called the store and received no answer. Unlike Pizza Hut, there was not even a message machine stating the closure. We can't imagine that we were the only hungry customers who were led to believe we would be fed on what was already a dismal holiday. What possible excuse could a national chain have for such

I appreciate your kindness, kind stranger.

I really do. I’m sorry if I snapped at you.

— YOU SAW ME CRYING & TRIED TO HELP

yourself. But look at you now! You're rockin it. Have a good one and enjoy the ride!

CHEERS THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOME Cheers to Spokane and "Downtown."

"Words cannot express how perfectly you depicted Spokane... all those places were my world. Unknown of the production... we had left last year exactly when the video was released..and ironically we are planning on returning to home.

Then, recently someone showed us.your video... I couldnt believe... It's the real Spokane... with real beautiful people... the parade is what got me... I cant think of a better bunch of people that that every-time l get a little discouraged about patience..i watch the video makes me SMILE HUGE. Spot on SPOKANE...

Spot on!

CHEERS: YOU SAVED MY BOOTS Cheers to the driver in the black sporty coupe on Thor who saved my snow boots. I had set them on the roof of my car and like an idiot drove off like that. The cheery driver pulled up next to me on Thor and with hand gestures indicated that my boots were still (barely) on the roof. I pulled off immediately and YAY there were two of them, just inches from the edge! Another block or two and one or both of them would have been gone for ever. Thank you!!

TERMINATOR Here's to the new

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

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

and power-outage. There were few choices for supper, so we placed an online order with Dominos and happily received confirmation. However, when the order was late we called the store and received no answer. Unlike Pizza Hut, there was not even a message machine stating the closure. We can't imagine that we were the only hungry customers who were led to believe we would be fed on what was already a dismal holiday.

What possible excuse could a national chain have for such irresponsibility, leaving their customers to be thankful for vending machines?

HELLO BATMAN Hoping for all the right answers to my online questions. I wish for you to be free of your uncomfortable life and embark on one you are deserving. You have so much love to give. It is a shame it has to be kept hidden and not revealed. Will let you know the answers good or bad. Wishing with all my heart they are all positive in your favor and hopefully mine. Loving you every minute and missing you. Batgirl

”

irresponsibility, leaving their customers to be thankful for vending machines?

Shame on them.

BIBLE PUSHERS IN FRONT OF THE AMC You were yelling about original sin or something and it came off as aggressive and desperate. Also it is annoying. You interrupt the calmness in the air with your babble. Disrupting the peace is what they call it. Great Job! VANDALISM A-HOLES To the shitbags(s) who threw a rock through the back window of my truck & several other cars in the Edgecliff Park neighborhood on Nov. 29; If I could buy a tag and hunt you down, I would, but since that's not possible I'll promise you this instead; If I ever find you, I'm going to superglue your face to your ass! May everything you ever own be stolen or destroyed. 

THIS WEEK'S ANSWERS

JEERS DOMINOS LEAVES SPOKANE HUNGRY ON THANKSGIVING My mother and I were thankful to be staying at a hotel on a dark Thanksgiving while Spokane was devastated by storm and power-outage.

There were few choices for supper, so we placed an online order with Dominos and happily received confirmation. However,

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It’s good to be seen.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

HOLIDAY LUNCHEON WITH ECKART & FRIENDS Have lunch with Spokane Symphony Music Director Eckart Preu and 10 members of the orchestra, who perform a program of popular favorites. Prizes and activities included. Dec. 9, 11 am. $50/person. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. (458-8733) TREE OF SHARING The 33rd annual program collects and distributes requested items to regional nonprofits and social service agencies serving low-income, disabled and elderly members of the community. Pick up a tag and drop off items by Sunday, Dec. 13. Tags available at NorthTown, River Park Square and Spokane Valley malls. treeofsharing.org THE PAN ASIAN EXPERIENCE The JACC’s annual fundraiser is themed around Asian culture and cuisine, with a dinner, drinks, live entertainment and silent/live auctions. Dec. 10, 6 pm. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org FESTIVAL OF TREES The Fry Healthcare Foundation hosts the 20th annual event, benefiting the Boundary Community Hospital. Dec. 12, 5-10 pm. $35/person.

Bonners Ferry, Idaho, North Idaho. fryhealthcarefoundation.org CHRISTMAS SING-A-LONG All sales during the event are donated to the Kiwanis Christmas dinner baskets and People’s Pantry. Bring a non-perishable food item to be entered in a drawing.

Also includes an old fashioned Christmas singalong. Dec. 13, 12-7 pm. Republic Brewing, 26 N. Clark Ave. (775-2700)

COMEDY

GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm.

Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com BEAT CITY USA VARIETY SHOW A variety show featuring comedian Tom Meisfjord, artist Kiefer Jones, improv troupe The Ditch Kids, and musical guests. Hosted by Ryan Dean and the Beat City Downtowners. Dec. 11, 7:30 pm. $5. Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. on.fb.me/1Nf2p5e 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. reddragondelivery.com (838-6688) COMEDY FOR A CAUSE Come watch local comedians and support the efforts of Second Harvest Food Bank by donating nonperishable food for a chance to win prizes. Dec. 12, 8-10 pm. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague. (535-4007) NUTHOUSE IMPROV COMEDY WSU’s student comedy improv group. Dec. 12, 11 pm. $5. Wadleigh Theatre at Daggy Hall, College Ave, Pullman campus. performingarts.wsu.edu SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; sign-up at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+. No

cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane (315-5327) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com

COMMUNITY

CHRISTMAS TREE ELEGANCE Spokane Symphony Associates’ annual holidaythemed fundraiser benefits the Symphony, and features 18 decorated trees on display to be raffled off (tickets are $1 each). See 12 trees at the Davenport Hotel mezzanine and six trees on the second floor of River Park Square, Dec. 1-13. Free to view trees. spokanesymphony.org HOMEWORK HELP WITH THE ZAGS Need help with your writing homework, or homework in general? Stop by Spark Center from 3:30-5:30 pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays to get guidance from Gonzaga students. Program runs through Dec. 17. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Parkway. sparkwestcentral.org JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE Daily, 40-minute evening cruises on Lake Coeur d’Alene offer views of the CdA Resort’s annual Holiday Lights Show, and includes a visit to Santa’s Workshop. Through Jan. 3, departing nightly at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 pm. $6/ages 6-12; free/ages 5 and under; $19.75/seniors (55+); $20.75/ adults. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdacruises.com (208-765-4000) THE LANDS COUNCIL HOLIDAY PARTY Toast to this year’s successes and learn about the Lands Council’s plans for the

New Year. Includes music by the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble, decorating a tree, and tasty treats. Dec. 9, 6 pm. Hamilton Studio, 1427 W. Dean Ave. (327-9501) PET-FRIENDLY SANTA PHOTOS Santa takes a break from his pre-Christmas stress overload to show off his elfin-built sleigh and pose for photos with pets and kids. Dec. 7-9, 14, 16-17 and 21-22 (times vary). $5-$10. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org SANTA & HIS REINDEER Live reindeer are on site daily through Dec. 23, and Santa visits on Saturday Dec. 5, 12 and 19, from 10 am-4 pm. Ritter’s Garden & Gift, 10120 N. Division St. (467-5258) SANTA EXPRESS The 22nd annual holiday store offers items at allowance-friendly prices (50 cents to $8) for area children (ages 4 to 12) to purchase for their friends and family, with proceeds supporting the mission of the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. Through Dec. 23. Mon-Fri, from 11 am-8 pm; Sat, from 10 am-8 pm; Sun, from 11 am-6 pm. At 707 W. Main (skywalk level). vanessabehan.org STORYTIME & ART AT SPARK Join us for story time for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Parents and guardians are invited to sit with their little ones for an interactive story time that incorporates song, movement, and puppets. Wednesdays, from 9:30-10:15 am, through Dec. 16. Free.

Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Parkway. sparkwestcentral.org GSI LEGISLATIVE FORUM & RECEPTION Meet with local legislators and hear about issues including funding K-12 education, business climate issues, and what we can expect from this spring’s regular

session. Forum from 3-5 pm, reception 5:15-7 pm. Dec. 10. $50-$80. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. (321-3630) CENTER FOR JUSTICE WINTER PARTY The CFJ invites all to a celebration of community, supporters and the work done in 2015. Includes food, wine and entertainment. Dec. 11, 4-7 pm. Free and open to the public. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. on.fb.me/1MXUdQC GAISER CONSERVATORY HOLIDAY LIGHTS The annual display features the greenhouse plants decked out in strings of holiday lights, hosted by the Friends of Manito. Dec. 11-20, open daily from 12-7:30 pm. Best viewing after 4 pm.

Donations accepted. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org KIDS DAY DOWNTOWN: FROZEN FEST Afternoon events kick off by singing along with Frozen, followed by postmovie activities including crafts and an opportunity to take your picture with Elsa and Olaf. Come dressed as your favorite Frozen character. Dec. 12, 1:30-4 pm.

Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org (444-5336) TEDDY BEAR TEA The library branches across Spokane host their annual Teddy Bear Tea, a storytime celebration of the American childhood icon. For other branch events, visit spokanelibrary.org.

Dec. 12, 10:30 am. Free. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes Rd. (444-5331)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess DuSt In the LuSt

I’m a man who has been married three times. Upon reflection, it seems to me that most women are ultimately not that interested in sex as a recreational activity. I try to be a selfless and devoted lover, but I always see a steep drop in a woman’s sexual interest after we’re together for a while.

Can I do something to avoid this? —Wondering Admittedly, women aren’t going to psychics and asking, “Tell me, Madam Sasha…will he have recreational sex with me? I NEED TO KNOWWW!” Still, there are plenty of lusty women who are just looking to bed and shed a guy.

And I do get email from women desperate to get their man to put down “Call of Duty” and put out. But anthropologist Peter B. Gray and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia write in “Evolution & Human Sexual Behavior” that a survey of the scientific literature finds what many of us probably recognize — that men, on average, have stronger and more consistent sex drives. As social psychologist Roy Baumeister put it in one of these studies: “Men want sex more than women at the start of a relationship, in the middle of it, and after many years of it.”

Gray and Garcia explain that “within an evolutionary lens, this (difference) makes sense.” They’re referring to how it was in an ancestral man’s (gene-spreading) best interest to have sex with any woman who’d have him. Women, however, benefited from being choosier — holding off from going into the bushes with just any “hit ‘em and quit ‘em” Mr. Neanderbrow, which could leave them as the sole caretaker for one or more little Neanderbrows.

But there’s choosiness and there’s choosing to replace hot sex with hot scrapbooking. When sexologist Rosemary Basson read a 1999 study with over a third of women reporting “low sexual desire,” she began to wonder whether the problem is in the women or in the expectation that desire in women will play out the way it does in men.

Basson found that in the early stages of a relationship, or if women are away from their partner for days or weeks, they will have that from-out-of-nowhere lust to get it on that men do. But once a woman settles into a relationship, sex often becomes a “responsive event.” This doesn’t mean her sex drive is permanently up on blocks on the front lawn. It’s what Basson calls “triggerable,” meaning that a woman first needs to start fooling around, which will lead to her getting aroused. She’ll then feel desire and be up for sexcapades. But because many couples don’t know this, their sex lives (and often their relationships) go to pot while they wait around for the woman’s desire like a bus that never comes.

This should tell you that it’s wise, when in a relationship, to schedule not just date night but sex date night. Sure having this as an event alert on your iPhone — just below “City Council meeting” — probably sounds pretty unsexy. However, it’s ultimately a whole lot sexier than getting to the point where your penis starts rogue-answering your phone with charming little greetings like “Death Row, how may I direct your call?”

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My friends are shocked at how honest my boyfriend and I are with each other. He’ll tell me I need to brush my teeth…again. I’ll ask him if he’s heard of deodorant. We tease each other a lot, but it’s not mean-spirited. We love each other. Also, he says he’s grateful that he doesn’t have to constantly censor himself with me as he did with his previous girlfriends. But are we being too honest? —Worried Sometimes the naked truth needs a back wax before it gets presented to anyone. But it really depends on the audience. You two, for example, seem to have a mutual admiration society with moments of “Umm…perhaps you hadn’t noticed…” The message? “Be yourself! But with one fewer green thing between your teeth.”

Marriage researcher John Gottman finds that what matters is the overall climate of the relationship — whether it’s a warm and loving friendship or the kind of “ship” where one longs to shove the other overboard when the cruise director rounds the corner.

Gottman also emphasizes the importance of raising issues gently and sooner rather than later. Your way may not seem gentle to your friends, but providing that you don’t start seasoning your humor with contempt (which Gottman finds is a real relationshipkiller), you probably have a good chance of growing old (and smelly) together. Picture yourselves in the old fogies home, reciting romantic poetry to each other — like this one (which I think is from Tennyson): “Roses are red, violets are blue, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one, too.” n ©2015, 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 VERY MERRY PERRY The South Perry Neighborhood and Business Association hosts the second annual celebration for families and friends to gather and experience the businesses on South Perry. Each participating business hosts a holiday-inspired event throughout the afternoon or evening. Dec. 12. Free. on.fb.me/1PoYALp WINTER MARKET The annual market features 30+ local artisans and vendors; hosted by Heart of the Arts, Inc. Dec. 5 and. 12, from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third, Moscow. (208-669-2249) GRAND CHANUKAH MENORAH LIGHTING The annual Menorah lighting includes a special fire show, hot coffee and live music by the Spokane Klezmer band. All are welcome. Dec. 13, 4:30-5:30 pm. Free, donations accepted. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. jewishspokane.com

FILM

DIFFERENT DRUMMERS A screening of the film based on a true story of the unlikely friendship between two fourthgrade boys growing up in Spokane during the 1960s. In the John J. Hemmingson Center Auditorium. Dec. 9, 5:30 pm.

Free and open to the public. Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone Ave. (328-4220) ELF The Inlander teams up with Catholic Charities Spokane for a screening of this modern holiday classic, with raffles, a photo booth and more. Proceeds support the work of CCS. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Dec. 10, 7 pm. $5. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) HE NAMED ME MALALA An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded by the Taliban for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education in her region. Rated PG 13. Dec. 10-13, show times vary. $3-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) BING CROSBY HOLIDAY FILM FESTIVAL The 10th annual event includes screenings of the best-loved films starring Spokane’s own Bing Crosby, along with a gallery of photos of the famous entertainer and a special live musical performance by Howard Crosby, son of Bing Crosby’s brother Ted. See poster/ website for schedule and details. Dec. 12, 11 am. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbyadvocates.org (227-7404) DOWNTON ABBEY FINAL SEASON PREMEIRE Join the celebration of the last season of PBS’s “Downton Abbey,” and get a sneak-peek at the first hour, two weeks before it airs in the U.S. Suggested $15 donation; tickets required.

Also includes a costume contest and trivia. Dec. 13, 2 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. ksps.org RIFFTRAX LIVE: SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY The former stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike Nelson, Bill “Crow” Corbett and Kevin “Tom Servo” Murphy, aim their trademark funny commentary at this longlost holiday film. Dec. 3 and Dec. 14-15, at Regal Cinemas Riverstone (CdA) and Dec. 3 and Dec. 15 Regal Cinemas Northtown. fathomevents.com INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: WILD TALES “Relatos Salvajes” or Wild Tales is a black comedy film divided in six segments. Rated: R. Dec. 15, 7-10 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) TOTALLY TUBULAR TUESDAY HOLIDAY EDITION In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Garland hosts screenings of holiday classics during the “Totally Tubular Tuesday” special.

Dec. 8, A Christmas Story; Dec. 15, The Polar Express; Dec. 22, Elf. All shows at 7 pm; $2.50 tickets. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com

FOOD & DRINK

TASTEFUL THURSDAYS Weekly events feature live music and seasonal product samples from local and regional producers. Thursdays, from 5-7 pm, through Dec. 18. Free. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. 5th St. (208-882-8537) LANTERN TAP HOUSE UGLY SWEATER WEEKEND The Lantern’s third annual ugly holiday sweater party, with beer specials, live music and food. Details TBA. Dec. 11-12. Lantern Tap House, 1004 S. Perry St. on.fb.me/1Oi3SVJ (315-9531) NO-LI BREWHOUSE TOURS See what goes on behind the scenes and how NoLi’s beer is made. Fridays at 4:30 pm.

Free. No-Li Brewhouse, 1003 E. Trent Ave. nolibrewhouse.com (242-2739) SPOKANE SANTACON The 4th annual worldwide pub crawl is locally raising money for the Tamarack Residential Treatment Center, which supports youth with mental health treatment, substance abuse, PTSD, abusive disorders and more. Event starts at the Checkerboard at 3 pm and moves to nYne at 4 pm, continuing to downtown bars through the night. Dec. 12, 3-10 pm. Free, donations accepted. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. on.fb. me/1LiUbSg (509-535-4007) GINGERBREAD BUILD-OFF Christ Kitchen’s annual holiday fundraiser, with teams of bakers and architects competing to build a massive gingerbread house that takes the top prize, as voted on by the public. Decorate your own house for $7. Free to watch the competition and to vote for your favorite. Also includes photos with the Gingerbread man and a raffle. Dec. 13, 10 am-4 pm. Davenport Grand, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. ccckministry.org THE HISTORY OF YUM Food historian and educator Monica Stenzel teaches a class about chocolate, coffee and gingerbread. Limited to 30 seats. Dec. 13, from 2-3:30 pm. $31.50-$35. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org

MUSIC

MUSIC IN HISTORIC HOMES The 24th annual concert series features a holiday program, tours of the home and refreshments. Dec. 9-10, at 3, 5 and 7 pm, in the Matthews-Woldson House, at 526 W. Sumner. $25/person. spokanehistoricconcerts.org COLOR THE SEASON BRIGHT An evening of colorful music sung by the youthful voices of Spokane’s Crescendo Community Chorus. Dec. 11, 7 pm. $5/ person or $20/family. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 5720 S. Perry. crescendocommunitychorus.org PAGES OF HARMONY CHRISTMAS CABARET An evening of holidaythemed entertainment with dinner and a raffle. Dec. 12, 6 pm. $10-$18. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS Start the holidays and join the NIC music groups in their annual Christmas celebration. Dec. 12 at 7:30 pm and Dec. 13 at 2 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden. nic.edu TUBACHRISTMAS A performance featuring traditional Christmas carols es-

pecially arranged for tuba-euphonium choir. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages are welcome; registration and rehearsal at 9:30 am with a free concert at 1:30 pm. TubaChristmas happens in 280+ cities throughout the US. Dec. 12, 1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Spokane Transit Plaza, 701 W. Riverside Ave. facebook. com/TubaChristmas1 (928-8561) WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY The “Family Christmas with the MidColumbia Singers” concert program includes Franz Joseph Haydn’s, Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London;” Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 191, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo;” Gerald Finzi’s, “In Terra Pax” and Gustav Holst’s, “Christmas Day.” Also includes a family carol singalong. Dec. 12, 7:30 pm. $15$25. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu WHITWORTH CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL CONCERT Presented by 120+ student performers, including members of the Whitworth Choir, the Women’s Choir, the Men’s Chorus and the Chamber Singers, as well as student instrumentalists and student narrators. The popular concert is concluded by candlelight.

Dec. 12 at 8 pm, Dec. 13 at 3 pm. $15$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com (624-1200) CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH JOHN TESH The Emmy award-winning pianist/composer puts a “big band” twist on Christmas favorites. Dec. 13, 7:30 pm. $45-$65. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford. northernquest.com HOLIDAY ON PIPES The Spokane Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society presents its 15th annual Christmas concert, featuring organist Ken Fuller. Dec. 13, 6 pm. Free, donations accepted. First Church of Nazarene, 9004 N. Country Homes Blvd. (467-8986) CLARION BRASS: THIS IS WHAT CHRISTMAS SOUNDS LIKE The annual holiday concert featuring the local brass ensemble’s original arrangements of favorite holiday songs. Dec. 15, 7:30 pm. $15-$20. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (838-4277) THE OAKS CHRISTMAS CONCERT The Oaks Classical Christian Academy presents a traditional Christmas celebration. Dec. 15. Free and open to the public. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS Contemporary jazz and holiday favorites, also featuring Rick Braun and Mindi Abair.

Dec. 15, 7:30 pm. $45-$57. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (509-227-7404)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

SPOKANE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Sun, from 4:30-7 pm and Wed, from 7-10 pm. Also meets for beginnerfriendly nights at the HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo, Liberty Lake, on Tue, from 7-9 pm. ($5) $8/visit. West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St. (869-9229) SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. SEATTLE THUNDERBIRDS Regular season hockey match. Dec. 9, 7:05 pm. $10-$22.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS Ping-pong club meets Mon and Wed, from 6-9 pm.

$3/visit. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo. spokanetabletennis.com SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Pingpong club meets Wed from 6:30-9 pm and Sun from 1:30-4:30 pm. $2/visit.

Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. (535-0803) SCHWEITZER COMMUNITY DAY A special fundraising event offering $10 lift tickets to the community, to support the efforts of the Community Cancer Services and the Bonner Partners in Care Clinic. All revenue from the ticket sales supports these organizations. Dec. 10, lifts open from 9 am3:30 pm. Dec. 10. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com SPOKANE ANARCHY WRESTLING: SEASONS BLEEDINGS SAW’s last show of 2015. Doors open at 6:30 pm, bell at 7. Also includes a clothing/coat/ blanket drive for those less fortunate.

All donations welcome. Dec. 11, 6:30 pm. Free. Swaxx, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. on.fb.me/1lemBHL (509-703-7474) WINTER WONDERLAND The Riverside State Park Foundation hosts its annual holiday walk through the park, with light displays in the forest, lights on the swinging bridge and fire pits.

Dec. 11-13, from 5-8:30 pm each night.

At the Bowl and Pitcher area. riversidestatepark.org COLLEGE DEAL DAYS Area college students who show their ID can get super-discounted lift tickets during winter break, Dec. 12-13. $19 ticket with valid ID. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com FAMILY CROSS-COUNTRY WEEKEND Test out the cross-country trails at 49°, with kids (under age 18) getting a free trail pass and equipment rental when accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Dec. 12-13. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd. ski49n.com REINDEER RUN 5K A Christmasthemed 5K run through downtown CdA, with special holiday ornaments given to all pre-registered runners.

Dec. 12, 8 am. $22. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St, CdA. on.fb.me/1Mqlmyn SNOWSHOEING FOR FUN & FITNESS Learn about this fun winter activity including different types of snowshoes and appropriate clothing. Dec. 12, 2-3:30 pm. Free. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes Rd. (444-5331) SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. TRI-CITY AMERICANS Regular season hockey match. Dec. 12, 7:05 pm. $10-$22.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com

THEATER

WHITE CHRISTMAS BENEFIT PERFORMANCE All proceeds from the evening support the Northeast Community Center, allowing access to essential services for families to become and remain self-sufficient. A silent auction with refreshments precedes the performance. Dec. 9, 6:30 pm. $35.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (487-1603) RTOP AFTER DARK: THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA An apocalyptic holiday tale as part of RTOP’s new play series featuring contemporary, adultthemed theatre. Show may contain adult language and themes. Dec. 9-12, at 8:30 pm. $10. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand, Pullman.

(334-0750) A CHRISTMAS CAROL Idaho Repertory Theatre and UI Theatre Arts present the Charles Dickens story, adapted by Ann Hoste and directed by David Lee-Painter. Dec. 3-13, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (no show on Fri, Dec. 11). $5-$15; free/UI students. Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. bit.ly/1NeLYWL A CHRISTMAS CAROL An edgy, Steampunk-themed adaptation of the classic holiday story. Dec. 4-6 and Dec. 10-13, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm.

Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. (332-8406) CHRISTMAS WITH FRIENDS Ellen Travolta’s annual holiday show, featuring Jack Bannon, Mark Cotter and Laura Sable and directed by Roger Welch.

Through Dec. 20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 5 pm. $27.50. CdA Resort, 115 S. Second. cdachristmas.com EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME) Instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told, plus other holiday traditions from around the world. Dec. 10-12 and Dec. 18-19, at 7 pm. $12. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. libertylaketheatre.com (342-2055) THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS MUSICAL A musical comedy set in the Armadillo Acres trailer park. But when a freak bout of amnesia strikes the trailer park Scrooge, neighborly love is put to the test. Nov. 27-Dec. 20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$27. Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208-667-1323) NORTHWOODS’ CHRISTMAS CHORALE Title TBA; includes a dinner-theater option. Dec. 4-5 and Dec. 10-12; also Dec. 8. Dinner at 6:30 pm, show at 7:30 pm. Dec. 4 is the annual theater gala ($35). $10-$25. Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2, Newport.

(208-448-1294) TRADITIONS OF CHRISTMAS A musical journey of all the greatest Christmas songs and traditions from around the world, from a Rockettestyle kickline to a live nativity. Shows on Dec. 10-12, 17-19 and Dec. 22 at 7 pm; also Dec. 12-13, 19-20 and 23 at 3 pm. $20/$26/$33. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. traditionsofchristmasnw.com (208-391-2867) WHITE CHRISTMAS Based on the timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation tells the story of veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. Through Dec. 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE An old man who has lost his senses reading too many chivalric romances imagines himself a knight by the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha. With his horse, Rocinante, and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, he leaves his village to seek adventure.

Dec. 3, 5 and 10-11 at 7:30 pm, also Dec. 5 and 12 at 2 pm. $5-$10. Wadleigh Theatre at Daggy Hall, College Ave., Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu

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Though there are plenty of strains with mouthwatering names (Blueberry Cheesecake, Orange Creamsicle, Girl Scout Cookies, etc.), there are more than a few that seem like a hard pass at first glance. But despite their terrible names, these strains still get the job done.

Purple Dog Shit: It’s hard to ignore a strain that smells like its name, but Purple Dog Shit, the hybrid of Dog Shit and Purple Urkle, also captivates smokers with a flavor that’s earthy, with just a hint of grape. Depending on the environment in which the strain was grown, it can have a high level of CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid that helps ease pain, inflammation and anxiety.

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Sharksbreath: This indica-dominant hybrid of Great White Shark and Lamb’s Bread/Lamb’s Breath trades its nautical moniker for an aroma that’s more reminiscent of sweet-and-sour candy.

Users swear by this strain’s ability to produce an alert, driven high that allows them to take on the day, with no signs of depression or anxiety in sight.

Purple Monkey Balls: This indica-dominant hybrid lives up to the first part of its name with a purple hue throughout the bud that hints at the grape aroma. Tastewise, users say this sweet strain has hints of pine and berry. Purple Monkey

Balls, believed to be a mix of a Northern California purple strain and an indica from Afghanistan, is great for deep, end-of-the-day relaxation and can also help relieve chronic pain.

Alien Asshat: Grown by Seattle’s Sky High Gardens, this hybrid boasts an out-of-this-world THC content, which results in a powerful bout of euphoria. As if the high it produces wasn’t enough, users are also fans of the strain’s earthy, citrus flavor. The folks at Leafly.com recommend that cannabis newbies start small with this cosmic strain.

Manitoba Poison: This strain definitely doesn’t have the worst name on the list, but it’s still a little unnerving to think of consuming something with “poison” in the title. This 50/50 hybrid is more indica than sativa, with a quick dose of deep relaxation, accompanied by a fresh, woody aroma. n

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL A holiday season performance of the Dickens’ classic. Dec. 11-20, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $6-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave., Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org CHRISTMAS ON THE CONCOURSE An original musical focusing on a local airport and the passengers who end up stranded there on Christmas Eve. Dec. 11-20, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE RADIO PLAY The beloved American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Dec. 11 at 7 pm, Dec. 12-13 at 2 pm. $15. Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St, Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET StageWest Community Theatre’s readers theater production based on the radio play from 1948. Dec. 4-13; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater ($30) only on Dec. 12, at 6 pm. $5-$12. Emmanuel Lutheran, 639 Elm St., Cheney.

(235-2441) THE WIZARD OF OZ Join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as they travel the universe of Dorothy’s imagination.

Through Dec. 20, Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $12/adult; $8/age 12 and under. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrentheatre. org (328-4886)

Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation.” Local jazz group, Hot Club of Spokane, also sets the mood with 1940s love songs. Dec. 9, 7-8 pm.

Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free.

Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org VET LIT: HOW WE REMEMBER WAR A reading from the anthology by members of Spokane Veterans for Peace.

This anthology is dedicated to peacemakers from WWI onward, with veterans’ memories of; and responses to experiencing war. Dec. 11, 7-8 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks. com (838-0206) LANDSCAPES ACROSS AMERICA Public historian and writer/producer of historical documentaries, Laurence Cotton, screens the PBS documentary film “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America,” in which he served as principal researcher and consulting producer. The film will be followed by an informative talk on the life, career and legacy of Olmsted, as well as the legacy of the Olmsted brothers across America and the Pacific Northwest.

Dec. 12, 2 pm. $10 suggested donation.

The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931)

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HOUR OF CODE Join Gizmo in the worldwide event that encourages people to come together to code for an hour. No experience is needed, and mentors will be on hand to help and answer questions. No math or technical prerequisites, and all ages are welcome. Dec. 9, 4-6 pm. Free. Gizmocda, 806 N. Fourth St. gizmo-cda.org (208-651-6200) MILLIANNA JEWELRY FRIENDS & FAMILY HOLIDAY SALE The locallybased, handmade jewelry company opens its Spokane office and showroom to the public for a friends and family shopping event, offering its locally-crafted pieces at wholesale prices. Thursdays, from 3-6 pm, through Dec. 17. 905 W. Riverside, Ste. 608. millianna.com BUSINESS AFTERSCHOOL: COMPUTER SCIENCE WEEK Part of a series of industry week events for students, educators, parents and community organizations that provides on-site awareness of Spokane’s high-demand industries highlighting new technology, research, development and innovation. Dec. 7, 3-5 pm. Free. Greater Spokane Inc., 801 W. Riverside. greaterspokane.org (321-3611) MYTHBUSTERS LIVE! An all-new, live stage show starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series MythBusters. Dec. 11, 7:30 pm. $52-$127.50.

INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com n

15TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY MINIATURE SHOW Small format original artworks by regional artists Linda Besse, Debbie Hughbanks, Marilyn Anderson, Loretta Jenkins, Viki West, Lee Kromschroeder, Judy Henkel, Gay Waldman and others. Show runs through Dec. 31. Meet the artist Dec. 5, 2-5 pm. Gallery hours Tue-Fri, 10 am-5 pm and Sat, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Pacific Flyway Gallery, 409 S. Dishman Mica. pacificflywaygallery. blogspot.com SMALL ARTWORKS INVITATIONAL The Art Spirit hosts its 17th annual invitational, featuring works by 37 regional artists and more than 225 new works. Show runs Dec. 4-Jan. 2; open daily (except. Dec. 25) from 11 am-6 pm. Opening reception Dec. 4, 5-8 pm.

Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com HANDMADE ORNAMENT & SMALL WORKS SHOW The SAS’ annual handmade ornament and small artworks show and sale. through Dec. 15, open Tue-Fri from 10 am-5 pm. Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland. spokaneartschool.net NATURE CONNECTS: LEGO BRICK SCULPTURES The MAC displays 27 giant sculptures created from nearly 500,000 LEGO bricks, created by nationally-renowned, award-winning artist Sean Kenney. Through Feb. 7, 2016. Gallery hours Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Museum admission applies. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931)

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The undefeated Bullpups, led by Evan Weaver (No. 89) and Coach Dave McKenna (above right).

Protecting a Legacy A new generation of Gonzaga Prep football players are building on the school’s long tradition

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t Gonzaga Prep, the shadows of football legends can be hard to escape. Since the 1930s, the Jesuit high school has produced a long line of championship teams and eventual NFL players, including recent stars like Bishop Sankey and Steve Gleason.

This year’s undefeated Bullpups, who head to the WIAA 4A state championship game against Skyline of Sammamish in the Tacoma Dome on Saturday night (7:30 pm, Root Sports), don’t have to look past their own sideline, or perhaps their own dads, to see the legacy of Prep football. Head coach Dave McKenna was a member of the last Bullpup team to win the state championship back in 1986. Nearly 20 players on the team, including Jack Machtolf, Shane Eugenio, Josh Condon, Jim Orchard, Jake Tucker and Mason Plese, as well as McKenna’s two sons, standout senior linebacker Conor and sophomore Hunter, have parents who graduated from Prep.

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ning back Evan Weaver, whose dad, Todd, is a Prep grad, class of 1983. “You just walk into the gym and you see all the titles that we’ve won — the state championships and GSL championships. And hopefully we can create our own legacy as a team.

“It’s not just huge for the team. It’s really big for the alumni and everybody in Spokane,” says Weaver, as punishing a defensive player as Spokane has produced in the past decade. (He also has 15 TDs as a running back.)

In the 1980s, the state championship games were played inside the cavernous yet beloved Kingdome, and G-Prep played in five of them between 1977 and ’87. Still, coach McKenna says that heading indoors for another title matchup 28 years later isn’t exactly taking him down nostalgia lane.

“It brings back some of those memories,” he says, “but that’s just talking about glory days, and those are long over. This is about these kids, and I’m along for the ride.”

That said, McKenna’s program is conscious of pre-

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serving its legacy; the coach brings in a class of alumni to the team’s summer training camp for a dinner, during which the former players share insights on the game and much more.

“They tell these kids that they need to leave their own legacy, and ask them what do they want to leave behind,” says McKenna. “It’s not just the wins.”

This 2015 team will leave behind no shortage of wins during a season marked by blowouts throughout the GSL schedule and a bruising, hard-won run through the state playoffs that culminated with a 31-17 win over Richland on a frigid afternoon in the Tri-Cities last Saturday.

A lot of the players, however, point to the game at Bellarmine Prep, their second of the year. Just 10 minutes in, the Pups were down 21-0; they wound up winning 34-28 in overtime and have been on a roll ever since.

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While some of the players’ parents will tell you they started to notice something special about this class as far back as fifth grade, when they were all pounding each other in the parochial football league, McKenna says he knew on the first day of practice last summer that this would be a special group. It’s not just that they win, but the way they go about it.

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Venues open 5 - 8 pm unless otherwise noted.

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AVENUE WEST GALLERY 907 W BOONE

Members of Avenue West celebrating their first holiday season in a new location.

BARILI CELLARS 4 TO 9PM 608 W SECOND

Spokane artist Debbie McCulley brings her bright and whimsical work to Barili in December. Debbie’s work displays a lighthearted perspective of life, deriving pleasure and happiness with her powerful palette of color.

BARRISTER WINERY 5 TO 10PM 1213 W RAILROAD AVENUE

The artistic team of Patty and Marge Murphy will present an eclectic show of watercolor and acrylic pieces including a whimsical Santa collection.

COEUR COFFEEHOUSE 701 N MONROE

Devon Plopper Original mixed media creations by Spokane’s own, Devon Plopper. Meet the artist, and enjoy music and beverages.

COEUR COFFEEHOUSE DOWNTOWN 228A W SPRAGUE

Don Barrington Photography The traveling piano. Eight locations. Eight photographs. Eight moments.

CORE PILATES AND WELLNESS 1230 W SUMMIT PARKWAY

Ellen Blaschke is a “Colorist Artist”. She uses Monochromatic paints that make images of Angles. The shapes are simple in design and filled with peaceful auras.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS 331 W MAIN

Sam White Fun, bright, colorful, abstract portraits of Spokane people. Look closely - you may find yourself in one of the portraits! Think Picasso. On steriods.

HERBAL ESSENCE CAFE 115 N WASHINGTON

Kevin R Kirk Large canvas, mixed media, abstract.

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401 W MAIN

Steve Schennum on the Accoustic Guitar playing songs you never hear on the radio, but maybe you should.

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AT STEAMPLANT SQUARE 5 TO 8PM 159 S LINCOLN

Holiday Open House. Special event parking in Steamplant lot, $5.

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Both Ellen Picken and Erin Mielcarek are graduates of the art program at Eastern Washington University. Erin currently has work in the window of the Music City Building as an invited “Window Dressing Exhibitor,” and Ellen recently completed a major mural project in Seattle.

Stephanie Kay. Together we are powerful!

Together we are unstoppable co-creators.

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KRESS GALLERY AT RIVER PARK SQUARE 808 W MAIN AVE, THIRD FLOOR

First Annual Juried Art Show hosted by First Night Spokane - Wonderful art by 20 plus artists from around the region.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR 4 TO 11PM 108 N WASHINGTON, SUITE 105

Nathan O’Neill’s expression in art is rich and vibrant. While using heavy layers of eye popping colors, his art finishes extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

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NECTAR TASTING ROOM 5 TO 10PM

RIVER CITY BREWING 3 TO 9PM

New show from one of Spokane’s favorite artists, Christina Deubel. Joining Christina is musician KOSH and a winery visit from Coyote Canyon. Wine, music, art and food. What could be better?

Liquid Art Series From the Mind’s of Moose, Todd and Chris!

Liquid Art is a one-time beer madefor each First Friday. Using a special style of keg, a Firkin, cask-conditioned and fermented for that day only.

120 N STEVENS

THE NEW MOON ART GALLERY 1326 E SPRAGUE

This will be our First Friday Grand Opening event at our new location just minutes from downtown Spokane.

Featuring Melissa Cole & Kim Long and glass artists Contois Reynolds and more.

LIBERTY GALLERY 203 N WASHINGTON

Shana Smith, Daniel Lopez, Andrea Bruse, Brian Jager, Shellie Ochs, Nathan O’Brien and Kristie Gow 3 Stories of artwork! Paintings, Sketches, Photography, Jewelry & Live Music by Starlite Motel.

MCCARTHY ART COMPANY 5 TO 7PM, SATURDAYS FROM 10AM TO 5PM OR BY APPOINTMENT

601 W MAIN, SUITE 203 - SKYWALK AT THE CHASE BUILDING

Tobe Harvey, Janice Painter, and Michael McCarthy. Early 19th century “Hudson River School” naturalist landscape oils and 16th to 19th century miniatur portraits, paintings, sculptures.

808 W MAIN AVE, THIRD FLOOR

Chase Middle School and Ferris Jazz Groups Get your toes tapping with some jazz music from talented musicians at Chase Middle School and Ferris High School.

Chewelah watercolor artist, Gail Johannes.

Enjoy her richly colorful, freestyle approach to painting while tasting the 2013 Malbec.

Enjoy award-winning cider and the debut of renowned local artist Ben Joyce’s Limited Edition series. These canvas and acrylic versions of his famous “Abstract Topophilia†works are colorful, topographic renditions of Northwest cities, waterways and destination sites, individually numbered and hand-signed by the artist.

Group show starring Ric Gendron, Melissa Cole, and Sam White! You may have seen Ric on the cover of the Inlander or during his 25 year retrospective show at Gonzaga’s Jundt Art Museum. This will be all new work. Melissa’s massive mural is up at the Spokane Convention Center. Sam’s huge abstract portraits can be seen all over Kendall Yards.

RIVER PARK SQUARE FOOD COURT

115 W PACIFIC

164 S WASHINGTON, SUITE 300

1206 W SUMMIT PARKWAY

121 S CEDAR

ROBERT KARL CELLARS

LIBERTY CIDERWORKS 5 TO 9PM

MARMOT ART SPACE

kind jewelry, just in time for Christmas shopping. Guild members will be showcasing their vast variety of jewelry making styles, from numerous elements.

SALON SAPPHIRE 6 TO 9PM 309 W SECOND, SUITE 101

Nate O’Neill Live Painting, Art, Food, Beverages

SATELLITE DINER ALL MONTH LONG 425 W SPRAGUE

NUMERICA CREDIT UNION 5:30 TO 8PM 502 W RIVERSIDE

Showcasing emerging artist, Sam White’s unique and fun abstract portraits. A percentage of sales will benefit Leadership Spokane. Beer from River City Brewing and food from Saranac Public House.

PATIT CREEK CELLARS 4 TO 9PM 822 W SPRAGUE

“Layers of Life” by Jimmy Magnuson. A multitude of colors and mixed mediums, layered and deconstructed over time.

Inspired by the natural world, organic movements and cellular structures. Happy Hour with the Artist 4-7 p.m. Live Music with Nicole Lewis 7-9 p.m. Savory Bites and Artisan Cheeses all night.

LauraLee White (featured artist) + many more All pieces $100 or less, priced with the broke art collector in mind.

THE NORTHWEST GALLERY S 10 POST STREET

Variety of American and European artists American Impressionism and other important art movements, esp. of the early 20th century. Located in the Davenport Hotel facing First Avenue.

TINBENDER CRAFT DISTILLERY 32 W SECOND, SUITE 400

Daniel Lopez spent most of his life creating art to make people happy, with pleasing images. He realized he had the ability to say something louder than words 2 years ago, when art was all he had left.

That’s when studies of himself, life and beauty became his fascination.

PINOT’S PALETTE 4 TO 7PM

V DU V WINES 5 TO 9PM

A variety of artwork from our resident artists: Ali Blackwood, Ashley Moss, Audreana Camm, & Kyle Genther. Come check out the artists’ amazing work, and paint your own masterpiece for $10!

Original works by Spokane artist, Karen Mobley. Music by Crushpad.

32 W SECOND, SUITE 100

POTTERY PLACE PLUS 5 TO 10PM 203 N WASHINGTON

Spokane Jewelers Guild The Guild brings original, one of a

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WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY AND FRAMING 1188 W SUMMIT PARKWAY

Watcolor artist, Jeannine Marx Fruci, paintings are vibrant depictions, evoking great emotion of our region and its diversity.

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