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With that in mind, we dug into our archives for this week’s cover story (page 16) about ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN and the harrowing month of November 1909 when the eyes of America were fixed on Spokane as labor and capital went to war. This particular moment in time has been given new life as the backdrop of Jess Walter’s latest novel, The Cold Millions, which is no doubt wrapped and placed under countless Christmas trees across the Inland Northwest and beyond. Happy holidays!

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ecently the Spokane City Council had an interesting night. They passed an increase to sales taxes to pay for more affordable housing yet voted down a market-rate apartment

complex within the city limits. Confused? Affordable housing is a nonpartisan issue, yet through agendas, complex policy and the inability of our elected officials to take corrective action, we will

be facing this issue for the foreseeable future.

It all starts with the adoption of the Growth Management Act (GMA) in 1990. The goal is admirable: Stop urban sprawl, promote density, protect the environment, and more costeffectively deliver utilities and public transportation. To be fair, the GMA has provided improvement in most of these areas, but after 30 years, it needs to be significantly updated. Luckily, the Washington Legislature will be reviewing this policy in the upcoming session.

One of the most important aspects for the Spokane area in this review will be changing the calculation of the act’s boundary lines, which is a major contributor to our housing issue. We are experiencing population growth like our area has not seen in decades, if not longer. This growth creates demand and drives prices up. With little room to build within our boundary, most of the new housing development is going in right across the border in Idaho. Thus, without a policy change, we are going to end up with much of the infrastructure impacts of population growth and little of the revenue to offset it.

For the city of Spokane, which takes up a significant amount of the GMA’s density calculation, our policies have fallen behind even though our investment has not. Our city uses a strategy called “centers and corridors” as the main tool to promote density, mixed-use centers and walkable neighborhoods. You can see the investment in the Perry District, North Monroe, East Sprague and Hillyard. What is missing around these investments is zoning changes to allow density to happen. Around most of these centers, zoning is largely limited to single-family residential. You will never get density without that change, and to get that zoning change, leaders will have to take on the neighborhoods.

One of the truths during my time on the Spokane City Council was that as soon as someone buys a home, they do not want the area to change. They want to keep the neighborhood they bought into. I get this mentality. I am no different in many ways, but as part of our housing solution, zoning will have to change to free up more space such as in unused industrial areas and to allow density to occur around our centers and corridors.

Affordable homeownership for a community is a critical backbone to its success, livability and quality of life.

How does our City Council address these challenging housing policy issues? Raise your taxes, of course.

Rather than do the heavy lifting of advocating for GMA policy and boundary reform or even zoning, which is within their control, and let market forces do their work, they chose to raise taxes. The challenge with this action is that it does not get to the heart of the issue. In fact, you spend more and get less. With the regulations tied to accepting state and local funding for housing, it drives the cost up about 60 percent. You get less housing inventory at a significant cost increase.

Affordable homeownership for a community is a critical backbone to its success, livability and quality of life. It is also one of the most important tools to create generational wealth and move people out of poverty. Increasing affordable housing will take real leadership from our state and local elected officials, who will at times have to challenge their own political alliances to get to the best outcome for the people who need that affordable housing. n Michael Allen, a business and entrepreneurship professor at Spokane Community College, is a former associate athletic director at Eastern Washington University. A longtime Republican, he previously served six years on the Spokane City Council.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS SETH PETERSON: Is it too much to ask for the stoppage of cancel culture? Just because something makes you uncomfortable or has a few skeletons (news flash: we all are fallen humans) doesn’t mean you have to get rid of said thing or person entirely. Keep at it, and we’ll have a completely sterile culture, void of any meaning or sustenance.

LOGAN LONG: My dawg, to play a little devil’s advocate, or not, would it be wrong to tear down swastikas after WWII? I dislike cancel culture as much as you, but we should distinguish victory from cancel culture. Native Americans are beginning to claim victory over being the target of years of genocide.

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LANDON JOHNSTON: Speaking of “culture,” I’m guessing the Native Americans whose descendants were murdered by Mr. Wright are excited to see more of their culture represented instead of his. And if you’re worried about his deeds being forgotten, luckily they make these things called history books.

JEFF DAHL: Anybody that uses the term “cancel culture” needs to be canceled!

TOM SAHLBERG: After reading some of the comments and years of foot-dragging by supposed “leaders” (aka, conquerors), you’d wonder how this ever would have been done. Whistalk deserves being remembered.

Wright’s name and legacy should be left in a museum dedicated to genocide. Excellent detailed article, Inlander.

BRENDAN FLYNN: Cancel culture strikes again.

MILES HORN: This guy was a racist and mass murderer. Why does it offend you that the great-grandchildren of the people he executed are offended that he is being glorified? Believe it or not, the descendants of the people he murdered and executed still live around here. Sorry to break it to you, he didn’t get them all.

RYAN WEAVER: Canceling racism and genocide? Yeah, I’m good with that. You’re not?

MIKE SPENCER: More useless woke symbolic acts. Which ethical system was used to arrive at the position that naming this street after a fort that was named after a U.S. military officer was an intrinsically racist act?

KATE ALLISON: An act doesn’t have to be intentionally racist to have racist effects.

DESIREE SAMUELS-GILBERT: Educate yourself on the true history of Wright’s actions against the Native Americans of this land. Attempted genocide of a people is not culture! We are a strong people and will continue to fight against the inequalities of our people. n

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Claire Miller and 13-year-old Labrador Dewey were both zapped by an electrified metal vault cover in downtown Spokane. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

The continuing quest to stop downtown Spokane’s sidewalks from electrocuting dogs

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t the creaky old age of 13, Dewey isn’t very agile anymore. He’s got bad hips. So the black Labrador retriever — a former dog-treat-box model — couldn’t leap away. Instead, he froze there, on a metal vault cover on the Riverfront Park sidewalk across from Spokane City Hall.

“He just started howling in pain,” says Claire Miller, girlfriend of Dewey’s owner. “He was looking at us, like, help me, do something.”

She could see his front paws scramble like he was try-

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ing to move forward, but his back legs had collapsed.

But as soon as she grabbed the dog, she felt exactly why he was in distress: He was being electrocuted. And she briefly was, too. Miller had been shocked a few times in her life, but this was different.

“It was like a deep, hard, hard, consistent current,” she says.

Even when she got the dog off the metal cover, when her hand was three or four inches away from the cover, she says she felt a jolt of electricity.

“When we got him off, he collapsed on the sidewalk, and we just, you know, waited until his heart calmed down,” Miller says. “He just stood there and was really dazed, probably for a minute, before we started walking.”

Dewey survived.

“He’s fine,” Miller says. “He’s like a lazy old dog anyway, so he’s sleeping just as much as he would have before.” ...continued on page 12

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She alerted the city and was contacted by the streets director and a city councilmember. This sort of thing could be seen as merely a freak accident. Yet in the last two years, three different dogs have been electrocuted — one of them fatally — in downtown Spokane, sparking council legislation and streets department investigations.

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Zach Harper’s experience seemed a lot like Miller’s. Last year, he told media outlets that he’d been walking his collie mix, Hank, downtown when his dog completely froze. The dog didn’t yelp or scream yet died within minutes, he’d said.

The culprit, the city determined, was an aging electric deicing system that Washington Trust Bank had embedded in the sidewalk four decades earlier. When combined with deicer chemicals and melting snow, broken electric snowmelting equipment could become an invisible safety hazard.

It was a liability that the National Electrical Code mandated be fixed in the devices manufactured after 1993. But the older devices were still lurking in sidewalks underground — and the city didn’t have any record of where.

In response, then-City Councilman Breean Beggs passed “Hank’s Law” mandating that all outdoor snow-melting equipment and deicers be registered with the city and — if necessary — upgraded with new properly grounded safety measures.

But the electrical problem that shocked Dewey and Miller was completely different.

“Totally different,” Miller says. “Which blows my mind.”

After Miller reported the issue, the streets department had sent out a technician to investigate the metal cover.

“The technician, when he went out to investigate, determined there was electricity at the lid,” Spokane Streets Director Clint Harris says. “He used a tool to open the lid and verified where the current was coming from.”

The culprit? A mysterious stray wire.

It had been connected to the underground junction boxes used to power the street signals, and the conductive end was crudely taped off with electrical tape. Somehow, the energized wire got pinched between the side of the vault and the

“This just shows that wherever you have electricity, there’s a danger.” vault cover, sending a dangerous electric current pulsing through the lid.

The city technician removed the wire, eliminating the hazard. The trouble is, the city has no idea where the wire came from.

“It wasn’t part of our infrastructure for our signal and lights,” Harris says. “The wiring wasn’t hooked up in a way that would be considered to be ‘legal.’”

He doesn’t believe anyone from the streets department installed it. Streets department employees, he says, would have ensured that the wire had been disconnected from the electricity or, at minimum, capped the conductive end safely.

“It could have been remnant of a downtown event at some point and somebody tapped into

the power,” city spokeswoman Marlene Feist says. But there’s no way of knowing which one. It’s not like the city is giving a thumbs-up to event organizers to splice into the park’s underground junction boxes.

“They wouldn’t have asked permission for that,” she says.

The remodeled Riverfront Park has dedicated — and much safer — outlets and equipment setups for local events.

Still, she says it’s possible that some event organizer broke the protocol — and ended up electrocuting a dog.

“We have talked to the parks department and said, ‘Hey, you need to watch what your event organizers are doing in parks,’” Feist says.

UNSOLVED MYSTERY

But in October, there had been yet another victim: His name was Teddy, a tiny Yorkipoo owned by Tod Marshall, a Gonzaga University English professor and former state poet laureate. He and his wife were walking Teddy on a slushy day through the recently opened plaza, just west of City Hall.

“Teddy stepped onto one of the covering plates and urinated on one of the lamp poles,” Marshall says. “And when he did that, it was obvious something was really terribly, terribly wrong. He started yelling. ... He was in pretty dreadful pain and making awful sounds.”

When his wife pulled Teddy off, the little dog bit her hand, Marshall says.

He carried Teddy home in his arms, and the dog slept the rest of the day.

“Our vet said that if it pretty much didn’t kill him right then, he’d be fine,” Marshall says. He, too, reached out to the city to warn them.

“We pulled him off quickly, or I’m sure that it would have killed him,” he wrote in an email to the city. “The city needs to look at the metal plate, the lamppost, and the possibility of arcing between them.”

But when the city sent out a team to investigate the issue, they couldn’t find anything amiss.

“We did check the [junction box] in the ground and the lightpost, both with the power on and off yesterday and found no sign of errant power,” city engineer Mark Serbousek reported in an email thread provided to Marshall. “We also checked both the box and the light at the same LETTERS time and again nothing was Send comments to found.” editor@inlander.com.

To this day, the city doesn’t know what happened.

“I suppose that either they really think that it was just a weird freak accident or they think that I’m just some weirdo that was trying to give them a pain in the neck,” Marshall says.

Feist suggests that these do seem to be rare and isolated incidents — she’s been with the city for decades and doesn’t know if she’ll ever see anything like this again.

“This just shows that wherever you have electricity, there’s a danger,” says Beggs, who’s previously sued the city in his role as a personal injury attorney. “I think it’s just straight up ‘reasonable care,’ as we say in the legal field. ... If you’ve got a hot electric box with a metal top on the sidewalk, you need to check it to make sure it’s not conducting electricity.”

Harris says streets department employees have been given new instructions: Actively keep watch for any stray wires or faulty electric work as they’re going about their jobs, and if they see problems, fix them immediately.

But Miller thinks the city could go further to ensure the safety of its electrical system.

“I think locks on the vaults would be a great first follow-up action item,” Miller says. She also thinks the city should immediately inspect all the vaults and junction boxes downtown to check for any similar concerns.

“There are all these events that are like drawing people downtown right now, which I think is great. Downtown looks awesome,” Miller says. “But I mean, damn, you got to let people know, ‘OK, this is gonna be a threat.’” n danielw@inlander.com

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‘Cracks in Our System’ Washington lawmakers face a tall order, including balancing the budget mid-pandemic

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s state lawmakers head back to Olympia virtually for the 2021 legislative session, making sure that everyone’s webcam is working properly will be just one of the many concerns to deal with.

The good news is that revenue hasn’t dropped anywhere near as dramatically as predicted this June after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on jobs during a spring shutdown. While it was originally thought there could be up to a $9 billion shortfall through 2023, current projections are far less dire, says state Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane, the senate majority leader.

In fact, Washington is one of 13 states not to see less revenue from March to October this year compared to revenue during the same time period last year, the New York Times reports. That was partly due to better-thanexpected real estate sales and property taxes, as well as help from significant federal assistance.

There’s still a significant expected shortfall — $3.3 billion through 2023 as of November projections — but lawmakers don’t expect the same types of sweeping cuts to state programs that were seen during the Great Recession.

At the start of the pandemic, Gov. Jay Inslee halted state hiring, froze pay raises, put some state employees on furloughs and vetoed more than $440 million in spending in the current budget, which should save some money as lawmakers look to shore up the books for 2021-23.

Inslee has also proposed a capital gains tax on the sale of stocks, bonds and other assets that wouldn’t apply to income from salaries and wages, sole proprietor businesses, retirement accounts, homes, farms or forestry. It could raise $3.5 billion over the next four years, significantly helping to balance the expected shortfalls.

Here’s a look at other proposals and priorities from Inslee and Spokane area lawmakers.

HEALTH CARE

Among the many items in Inslee’s 2021-23 biennial budget proposal is a per member/per month tax on health insurance companies.

Legislators largely will be working virtually this session. kind of targeted Washington-only companies, so a tax on lives served is to make sure every company has skin in the game,” Riccelli says. “They’re profitable and making a lot of money in the health care system.”

The revenue from that tax would help fund public health, which has not been adequately funded, Riccelli says.

“It, I think, is a win-win because public health deals with a lot of our upstream issues, which hopefully will address health inequities and costs down the line for people needing care,” he says.

Speaking of public health, Riccelli also plans to introduce multiple bills to change the way public health works statewide. In one effort, he hopes to change the makeup of public health boards to include more people in the medical profession and members of the public, following the controversial firing of Spokane’s Health Officer Dr. Bob Lutz in November. In another effort, he’ll push to regionalize public health districts across the state.

FIFTY-FIRST STATE AND MANAGEABLE PROPERTY TAX FEES

State Rep.-elect Rob Chase, R-Spokane Valley, will follow in the footsteps of predecessor Matt Shea when he joins Rep. Bob McCaslin Jr., R-Spokane Valley, in again introducing a bill to split Washington at the Cascade mountains and make Eastern Washington into the 51st state. Previous efforts have proposed the new state be called Liberty.

Chase says if other counties west of the Cascades wanted to join, he thinks the boundary is somewhat moldable as the effort is actually meant to offer increased representation to conservative communities who feel overpowered by the larger, more progressive Puget Sound population when in Olympia.

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“The short-term challenge is to get a smooth transition out of the eviction moratorium with a safety net so we don’t create hardship.”

The move follows previous attempts by lawmakers like Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, who has tried unsuccessfully to tax insurance companies’ excess surplus reserves, he says.

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ferent than in the Puget Sound corridor,” Chase says. “It is true I believe that the west side shoulders more of the burden per county than the east side does, but I think we spend our money wiser.”

One opportunity to help people out of an already dire situation could be reducing the fees on overdue property taxes, Chase says, noting similar efforts from regional lawmakers in previous sessions. During his time as Spokane County treasurer, he saw how people who couldn’t pay their property taxes on time not only faced 12 percent interest, but also additional percentages that get tacked on after months pass by.

“You’re paying 21 percent over your first year: That’s usury,” Chase says. “The thing is, the county never loses money, because the minimum bid if someone comes in [on a foreclosure] is they have to pay all the past due property taxes and the title search fees and all that.”

Stick with the simple 12 percent interest, he says, and maybe more people would have a chance at getting their payments back under control.

ECONOMIC RECOVERY, EARLY EDUCATION

The biggest goals of the session will be health and the economic recovery, Billig says.

“We want to help businesses and families to not just get back to how things were, but hopefully to rebuild things even better than before,” Billig says. “There are a lot of cracks in our system that got exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic.”

Some areas that need renewed focus include child care, health care, housing and racial justice, he says.

With housing, lawmakers need to find solutions for landlords and tenants as the pandemic continues, Billig says.

“The short-term challenge is to get a smooth transition out of the eviction moratorium with a safety net so we don’t create hardship and send a bunch of people into homelessness,” Billig says. “Then, longer term, we need more affordable housing supply.”

High-quality early education needs investment both in provider reimbursement rates and increased eligibil-

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ity levels so more families can qualify for state help to send their children to those programs, he says.

“The best prison and crime reduction intervention is highquality early learning. The best high school graduation intervention is high-quality early learning,” Billig says. “The best way to increase long-term positive outcomes in health care is through high-quality early learning. It just makes sense.”

CLIMATE AND TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE

One potential area to send money into the economy and create jobs is through the capital budget that pays for infrastructure projects throughout the state. Another would be through the transportation budget, which could be combined or partly combined with climate change proposals, as transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, Billig says.

Inslee’s proposed budget would invest in electric vehicles, electrifying the state’s ferry system, retrofitting public buildings, weatherization for low-income residents’ homes, clean energy grants, grid modernization and more.

Environmental groups’ priorities also include passing a clean fuel standard, protecting essential environmental programs from cuts, working toward a transportation system that is accessible and equitable while reducing emissions, and multiple other equity-focused measures.

Washington requires a balanced budget, which limits the ability to do a direct stimulus at the state level, Billig State Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane says. But the capital budget, which can invest in sewer systems, college campuses and all sorts of physical infrastructure may provide opportunities, he says.

“There’ll be a big emphasis on passing a robust capital budget that helps create jobs now and builds the infrastructure for our society and economy for the future,” Billig says. “The same goes for transportation infrastructure.”

DIGITAL DIVIDE

Most of the session will take place virtually using Zoom and broadcasting on TVW. Floor votes may include a hybrid system at least in the Senate, where a handful of people who need to be in the chamber will be present in person while most will vote remotely, Billig says.

Riccelli notes that House votes will also take place remotely, with very limited in-person voting including the very first day when lawmakers need to approve the new rules that would enable working remotely for most of the session.

Chase, who is heading into his first session as a state lawmaker, questions the need for the remote session — he believes COVID-19 is being taken too seriously and the dangers are overblown — and laments the difficulty he’ll have trying to work with lawmakers who may live more than 300 miles across the state.

However, Riccelli points out that for constituents who live east of the Cascades, the remote committees will increase access compared with past years when people often had to drive hours across the snowy mountain pass just to testify about a single proposed bill.

“The ability for Eastern Washingtonians and for my constituents in Spokane to actively engage in the democratic process will be improved,” Riccelli says, “and that’s something I think will stick post-COVID, which is one of the sunny spots in this.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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The Battle for Spokane

View of downtown Spokane circa 1911.

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For one pivotal month, the eyes of the nation were fixed on the upstart city on Spokane Falls, where labor and capital went to war

BY RONALD A. MYERS

T

hough it may be hard to imagine today, Spokane was once a hotbed of labor radicalism. And for a month — November of 1909 — all eyes of the nation were trained on the city for outlawing speaking in public.

Hundreds of men and women who came to the city to challenge the seemingly un-American policy were thrown in jail.

Well before 1909, the West had ceased being the land of opportunity advertised in railroad circulars; the fertile farmland and hillsides filled with gold had long since been locked up by big business. The thousands of immigrants, then, were left to working whatever wages were available. Thus the tension between labor and capital — a tension as old as the idea of private ownership — came out West.

In the early 1890s, there were individual unions representing specialized industries. But it became more and more clear to union leaders that the workers willing to work for the lowest wages not only had a natural, common bond but were also in need of a union more than any profession.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was hatched in Chicago at a 1905 founding convention. Later, the members became universally known as Wobblies. The chairman of that convention was William D. Haywood, known as Big Bill; he was also a key figure in the Western Federation of Miners. Two years after the formation of the Wobblies, Haywood was accused of hiring an assassin to kill former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg, who had been murdered at his Caldwell, Idaho, home in late 1905.

Haywood was defended by Clarence Darrow and acquitted in a widely publicized Boise trial. The whole episode — from the labor unrest in the Coeur d’Alene mining district that started it all to socialist radicals on the streets of New York City — was retold in the book Big Trouble by Anthony Lukas.

The first sentence of the Wobblies’ constitution gives a glimpse into the union’s attitude: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” And by 1912, the Wobblies had created such an impression that the New York Times stated that: “Since Camille Desmoulins climbed on that table in Palais Royal in 1789 and unloosed the French Revolution there has been no movement about which it behooved conservative citizens to be more thoughtful.” This statement came despite the fact that the Wobblies advocated nonviolent means to achieve their goals. They also stood out from other unions for allowing Blacks and Asians into their ranks.

It’s hard today to transport yourself back, to understand how radical labor advocacy could have such an appeal. But consider: It was still before the bloody Communist revolution in Russia; the United States had just come through the Gilded Age, in which the rich had gotten much richer and the poor had struggled to keep their heads above water. Socialist ideas were accepted by hundreds of thousands of Americans as the antidote to such a state of capitalism run amok. *** By 1908, Spokane was especially suited to become the site of the Wobblies coming-out party. Its location, central

This story was first published in the Inlander on Sept. 9, 1998. You can find it, along with 14 other tales of local history, in the collection Inlander Histories, Vol. 2, available at Auntie’s and Atticus. Also check out Inlander Histories, Vol. 1. For details, visit inlander.com/books.

to many labor-intensive operations, made it a gathering place for wage-workers. In Spokane, you could find work in the mines of North Idaho, the orchards of Wenatchee or the pine forests of northeastern Washington. But, as you can imagine with a population of rootless workers, the chance for fraud was high — and workers were taken advantage of by “job sharks,” as they were called.

The Wobblies managed to gain a foothold in Spokane, with its first large membership of nearly 3,000. And their first act was to go after those employment agencies, who they accused of exploiting workers by charging them for finding jobs that either weren’t there or didn’t pay what was advertised. It’s even possible these agencies were working in collusion with the employers.

On Dec. 22, 1908, the Spokane City Council voted to make it against the law “for any person … to do any act which shall tend to draw a crowd.”

Joe Hill’s 1915 ballad “The Rebel Girl” was inspired

by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

While the Wobblies went about attracting new members on the streets of Spokane, the job sharks weren’t going to give up the fight for their livelihood — corrupt or not.

On Dec. 22, 1908, the owners of the employment agencies pressured the Spokane City Council to make it against the law “for any person … to do any act which shall tend to draw a crowd.” Though clearly unconstitutional under the First Amendment free speech provision, the law was not without local precedence. From as far back as 1891, Spokane’s municipal code claimed it was unlawful to “do anything … upon the sidewalks which shall have a tendency to frighten horses, or which shall collect any crowd so as to interfere…”

But with the older ordinance, enforcement was lax; the new law was written to be enforced. This point was driven home in March 1909, when the City Council amended the December ordinance to exempt religious organizations. In short, Wobblies were being singled out to be banned from the street corners they had been speaking from to find recruits and warn workers against the sharks. *** Two people also came into the orbit of the Wobblies by 1908 — people who would add to the spectacle that was about to be created by the two forces colliding. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a black-haired, 19-year-old Irish firebrand of a public speaker from New York City. She began her labor advocacy at age 15, preaching socialism to crowds on the sidewalks of Brooklyn. For her precocious talents, she was tagged by the author/journalist Theodore Dreiser as the “East Side Joan of Arc.” By 1909, she was working full time for the Wobblies as a speaker and agitator. In the summer of that year, she became the resident speaker at Spokane’s IWW Hall; in the fall, she and her husband were sent to Missoula to recruit for the IWW. It was in Missoula where free speech tactics were first used in any major way by the Wobblies. The union had recalled Flynn to Spokane in November, where she put those tactics into well-publicized motion. ...continued on next page

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HISTORY

Looking southwest along Riverside Avenue from the corner of Stevens and Riverside in the early 1900s.

“THE BATTLE FOR SPOKANE,” CONTINUED...

After her first Spokane conviction, she stated her motivation for being a labor radical: “All my life I have seen my family and my class suffering under the inequalities of the system that makes multimillionaires at one extreme and toiling slaves at the other. I am in it because I want to see those who produce the world’s wealth get better wages and shorter hours.” She continued: “This is my first trip to the ‘Wild and Wooly’ West, but I have failed to see the much-wanted independence and democracy.”

Another occasional socialist speaker was Fred H. Moore, a Spokane attorney. He had lived in Spokane since 1901 and was admitted to the bar in 1906 at the age of 23. The IWW retained him in 1908 as their chief legal representative in Spokane.

In the weeks leading up to November, Wobblies were called into Spokane from throughout the West and Midwest to challenge the city’s policy. The Spokane Police Department prepared, and the citizens of Spokane were left to follow the unfolding story through their three newspapers: The Spokane Press being the most sympathetic to the cause of labor; the Spokane Daily Chronicle being the mainstream afternoon journal; and the SpokesmanReview as the voice-of-the-establishment morning paper, whose owner William H. Cowles often railed against the vice that characterized early Spokane.

To re-create that month here, we have scoured those three newspapers for firsthand accounts of what happened. Readers should then keep in mind that these are reports of the day. Accounts given from either side may well be tainted by their desire to win the battle for good publicity along with the free speech issue. We have tried to follow events that were reported in all three, using actual headlines to illustrate the news of the day.

MONDAY, NOV. 1, 1909

“7,000 IWW MEN HERE FOR BATTLE,” proclaims the Spokane Press banner headline. … Acting Chief of

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Police John T. Sullivan issues the following order to all officers: “In anticipation of trouble because of threats made by the Industrial Workers of the World to speak on the streets in defiance of the authorities, I will ask all members of the police department to report at this office tomorrow, November 2, 1909, at 12:30 pm, fully equipped and in readiness for duty if the occasion requires it.” The chief also promises reporters that the Wobblies will be treated humanely, but “we will not kill them with kindness.” … A special rock pile is reserved for the Wobblies at Monroe and Broadway.

TUESDAY, NOV. 2

“Police keep down riot mobs; station 2 to 6 police on about every corner.” … The IWW fulfills its promise and takes to the streets to violate whatever ordinance might be in effect. … The presiding judge quickly agrees with Fred H. Moore’s argument that Spokane’s latest ordinance against free speech on street corners is unconstitutional.

But he’s just as quick to suggest to the police that speakers could just as easily be charged under the city’s broad disorderly conduct ordinance. The street speaking ordinance remains on the books, but Wobblies are now arrested for other crimes. … Much of the action takes place in the vicinity of Stevens and Front (now Spokane Falls Boulevard). ... Socialist leaders in Everett, Yakima, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago are telegraphed: “Big free speech on in Spokane. Come yourself and if possible bring the boys with you.” … Local Socialists and club women come to the support of the Wobblies in announcing a “Free Speech” mass meeting at the Masonic Temple for the next night. … IWW leaders and the editor of The Industrial Worker are arrested at their headquarters. … A total of 103 street speakers are taken into custody.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3

“More than l50 prisoners, mostly enthusiasts, confirmed

in jail on charge of disorderly conduct and street speaking.” … Each prisoner, according to plan, demands a separate trial. … Attorney Moore receives the following wire from IWW headquarters in Chicago: “Use habeus corpus with all arrests. Call governor’s attention to state of Colorado’s paying $10,000 damages in like actions.

We are in this fight to the finish. Instruct any deported persons to return to Spokane at all hazards. Immense defense fund being raised, publicity being given.” … Moore announces that Judge C.E.S. Wood, Portland anarchist and legendary Indian fighter, has been engaged as counsel to assist him in defense of the prisoners. … Prisoners refuse to go on rock pile and are placed on a diet of bread and water.

THURSDAY, NOV. 4

IWW officials threaten to sue the city over conditions in the city jail, where as many as 24 prisoners are crammed into a 6-foot-by-8-foot cell. Many become sick and faint, but an open window is denied them. … A bulletin is posted at IWW headquarters stating that last night, Teamsters’ Local 202 of the AF of L adopted this resolution: “We will stick by the IWW in its fight for free speech until hell freezes over.” … Fire hoses are turned on street speakers and some listeners.

FRIDAY, NOV. 5

Wobblies tell the press that, “We do not ask for the privilege of holding meetings on Riverside. We are sure we cannot get recruits to our ranks from the Silver Grill nor Davenport’s. We want to work down here among the employment offices where there are wage-earners.” … The IWW posts the following bulletin: “The IWW and the police have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as the police use clubs and hose, and the IWW uses the pen and tongue.” ...continued on page 20

THE COLD MILLIONS

The history of Spokane in the era around 1909 is just too rich not to be brought to life in a novel. And in focusing on the epic drama of the free speech fight led here by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, you can wonder why nobody had done it before. Thank God Jess Walter got to it first. If this taste of Flynn’s story, published here, has you thinking, “Wait, that all happened… in Spokane?” then you have to read The Cold Millions.

For anybody, anywhere, this is a ripper of a read. But for those of us who live here — some of us for many years — it’s more like magic. Walter has brought this mostly forgotten era to life in a way no “official” city history ever could — or would. I always knew crazy, unprecedented wealth flowed through these streets at that time, but I never heard much about the other side of the Spokane Story in school.

Dropping characters of his own creation — Rye and Gig Dolan, to name two — in the middle of actual events and real people, Walter gives himself the license to roll through a vivid panorama of the way it was around here.

And his research is impeccable. Yes, this is a work of fiction, but he nails the details.

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Official Spokane, circa 1909, was proudly on the wrong side of history.

Brave, peaceful, relentless protest was needed to bring change, and under the glare of national disdain, Spokane changed its unAmerican ways. And even more change would come. After 1910, when reforms swept local government, then later as Prohibition dawned, Spokane cleaned up its act and settled down. You could say that, like most frontier towns, we grew up and became a lot less of a wild child, and more great-place-to-raise-a-family-ish.

You could call it boring, even — more of the kind of place you moved away from, like both Bing Crosby and Kirtland Cutter did. Still, seeds were planted in that tumultuous year.

The Cold Millions offers a beautiful coda for those — like Jess Walter — who stayed through all the years to build this place into something with its own cultural texture, a place to feel connected to and proud of. Even the seemingly a-political, just-keep-working types, if they open their minds to a variety of perspectives and mix with different kinds of people — the way Rye Dolan did — they, too, can carry the fire of justice in their hearts. The echoes of the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter ring powerfully through Walter’s final pages.

Perhaps only a novel can deliver the kind of history that makes you feel a connection to the past. For me, that’s part of what makes The Cold Millions The Great Inland Northwestern Novel.

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HISTORY “THE BATTLE FOR SPOKANE,” CONTINUED...

SATURDAY, NOV. 6

“The IWW cases moved along easily and smoothly.

‘William Lofholm,’ shouted the bailiff. Lofholm took the stand. ‘Making a speech?’ inquired the magistrate. ‘Yes. sir,’ came the reply. ‘Thirty days,’ said the justice.” …

Prisoners go on hunger strike. … Edith Frenett gives the Spokane Press an account of her ordeal in jail: “Arrested on Tuesday at 2 o’clock, in two hours we were covered with vermin, denied the use of soap and towels, prevented from seeing counsel, jeered by the officers as though we were monkeys in a cage. During the first night, the steam heat was first turned up to a suffocating degree and then turned completely off causing the cell to turn ice cold.”

She had been released on Friday afternoon. … The editor of The Industrial Worker gives a statement from his cell to the Spokane Press, which sympathized with the Wobblies’ cause: “I asked to see the warrant for my arrest, but

“Arrested on Tuesday at 2 o’clock, in two hours we were covered with vermin, denied the use of soap and towels, prevented from seeing counsel, jeered by the officers as though we were monkeys in a cage.”

— Edith Frenett, relating her ordeal in jail to the Spokane Press they refused to show me one. One of the men present said that I would see ‘the rope’ before I saw a warrant.”

As for conditions in the jail, Wilson said: “Most of the time there were from 20 to 28 men in the cell. The floor was slippery with vomit. One man who had an ague chill from a malaria attack, and who vomited all afternoon, asked the doctor for medicine. This man was from a malarial district of California, and the doctor simply told him there was no malaria in Spokane, and added, ‘If you were not all anarchists, you would not be here, and I will see you in hell before I give you any medicine.’” … More jail scandal: Agnes Thecla Fair is arrested for speaking.

She is questioned by police in a darkened cell. She refuses to answer questions and she alleges that one of the men makes a sexual threat, then another officer begins to unbutton her blouse, sending her into convulsions. She is not able to sleep or eat after this.

SUNDAY, NOV. 7

Socialists hold a free speech fundraising lecture event in Oliver’s Hall at 334 W. Riverside; $100 is raised. The meeting closes with the audience singing “Keep the Red Flag Flying, Comrades.” … The night is capped off with a packed house at the IWW Hall where Louis Catewood, “who admitted with evident pride that he had been a member of the Western Federation of Miners during the trouble in the Coeur d’Alene district, harangued the audience for two hours, uttering fiery, profane tirades against the police, press and pulpit.”

MONDAY, NOV. 8

Agnes Thecla Fair is ordered released by the prison doctor. “After being released by the judge on her own recognizance, Agnes Fair is paraded by her comrades through the streets to her rooms on a stretcher. She had appeared rather faint as she left the courtroom.” …

“There are three demonstrations, bringing 30 arrestees to court. Police turn over records of those arrested who are not citizens to federal authorities.”

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Downtown Spokane in the early 1900s.

TUESDAY, NOV. 9

“War Department grants police of Spokane use of guardhouse at Fort George Wright for incarceration of IWW members arrested for street speaking.” … Sometime around this time, city officials decide to use the newly constructed Franklin Elementary School, located on East 17th Avenue, as a makeshift jail.

the use of a city courtroom for a public meeting. Flynn speaks: “It is not often that the IWW is permitted to speak in this temple of injustice. If the police and city government refuse the Constitutional right of free speech, the working man should refuse to work, and if the working man refused to work there would not be a single fat capitalist eating turtle soup in Davenport’s tonight.”

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10

MONDAY, NOV. 15

A pregnant Elizabeth Gurley Flynn arrives in Spokane from Missoula to “take charge of local forces and edit weekly journal.” … City Council hears arguments against the speaking ordinance. Moore presents a compromise statute based on the ones in Seattle, New York and Chicago. Flynn gives an impassioned plea for the idea, which is supported by the Central Labor Council. The council rejects the proposal.

THURSDAY, NOV. 11

The Spokane Press writes: “The big press associations have taken hold of the agitation, and Spokane is now daily held up to the gaze of the entire country.”

FRIDAY, NOV. 12

“STARVATION STRIKE IS OVER; BEG FOR FOOD AND EAT LIKE WILD CREATURES; Prisoners at Fort Wright, Franklin School and Jail Give In.” … A Superior Court judge turns down further writs of habeus corpus on the grounds that they are only wanted to “raise Cain.”

SATURDAY, NOV. 13

Streets are quiet … IWW prisoners bathed by “being put through streams of water as fast as jailers can put them there.”

SUNDAY, NOV. 14

Denied the use of a private hall, the Wobblies are given

At a meeting of about 500, held under the auspices of the Socialist Party, a resolution was passed to boycott the National Apple Show, now about to open in Spokane. … Rumors fly that Clarence Darrow may join Moore in defending the Wobblies. One of Darrow’s associates is already bound for Spokane from Chicago.

TUESDAY, NOV. 16

Fred H. Moore proclaims the Goddess of Justice to be dead in Spokane. … Wobblies announce they will flood the city with lawsuits for false arrest and imprisonment.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17

An employment shark at 31 S. Stevens loses his license for illegally selling a job. … Wobbly John Poss demands that he be allowed to return to jail and suffer with “the boys.”

THURSDAY, NOV. 18

Flynn leaves Spokane for a few days to address the Butte Miners Union. … Wobbly George Smith announces an intention to sue the city over a beating the police gave him at the station. … Judge Mann declares in passing on one of his street speaking cases: “I may not be right. I may be wrong, but until the higher court decides otherwise, I will continue to rule in these cases as I have been doing.” ...continued on page 22

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The old Interurban Terminal Building at Main and Lincoln.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 19

More Wobblies from Montana and California are on the way. …

The editors of The Industrial Worker, after spending two weeks in jail, finally get their day in court.

SATURDAY, NOV. 20

“At a conservative estimate, the IWW agitation has cost the city $100 a day,” said Chief of Police Sullivan. “In this estimate I include the expense of extra officers, food and fuel. There will be no letup as far as we are concerned,” continued the chief. “We have not only plenty of room but plenty of bread and water.”

SUNDAY, NOV. 21

Edith Frenette is arrested for the third time, this time for singing “Red Flag” from the porch of a residence near the Franklin School, then on the outskirts of town. After hearing her recite the lyrics in court, the judge sentences Frenette to 30 days. … Flynn addresses the meeting in Butte, charging that Spokane policemen look and act like “a herd of gorillas,” and may even be what “Darwin could not find.” She claims that Spokane judges have no minds to make up and says she fears some prisoners may not get out of jail alive.

MONDAY, NOV. 22

Wobblies point to the death of a union member trying to get to Spokane as the first casualty of the free speech fight. The 23-yearold was killed in Wisconsin, under a train he was hitching a ride to Spokane on.

TUESDAY, NOV. 23

Fred H. Moore puts out the word that the great socialist Eugene Debs has been ordered to abandon his trip to California to come to Spokane. … Wobbly S. Sorenson is arrested. When he gets to jail, a policeman informs him that he is to be thrown in the Spokane River. He is put in a sweatbox, the size of which was 6-by-8 feet. Then, in his words, “They left me and six fellow workers in there for 17 hours with the steam turned on, then they took us out and put us in an ice-cold cell… We were tried in bunches of eight and 10 before Judge Mann who was so drunk that he was almost unable to keep his seat.” (Sorenson made this report to the U.S. Industrial Relations Commission in 1912, when the commission was collecting reports on free speech fights like Spokane’s.)

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24

Chief Sullivan threatens to arrest Eugene Debs if the famous socialist tries to speak on the street. Sullivan brags, “I am no respecter of persons in this case. I wish the newspapers would call these people by their right name. They are anarchists, pure and simple, and their song of the Red Flag is one of the most inflammatory things I have ever heard.”

THURSDAY, NOV. 25

Chief Sullivan announces that IWW prisoners will get only bread

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and water this Thanksgiving Day. Those Wobblies out of jail vow to also go on a starvation diet of bread and water in sympathy with their comrades.

FRIDAY, NOV. 26

“Refusing to cut or carry in wood for fires to keep themselves warm, members of the Industrial Workers of the World confined at Franklin Schoolhouse last night at eleven o’clock became desperate from the cold and began tearing away the woodwork in the rooms in which they are held prisoner to make a warming blaze.”

SATURDAY, NOV. 27

“The chain gang goes out this morning with a membership of 15, all of whom are former street speakers. The chilly weather is bringing the prisoners into submission.”

SUNDAY, NOV. 28

“Members of the Industrial Workers of the World confined at the city jail did their best to break up the religious services of the Salvation Army in the jail corridors. All the time the services were going on, the jail rang and echoed with the shouts and noises made by the IWWs in their efforts to drown out the hymns and prayers.”

MONDAY, NOV. 29

All remaining criminal conspiracy cases receive a change of venue from Judge Mann at municipal court to Judge Hyde at the courthouse. The grounds are that Judge Mann stated the week before in open court that if he were a practicing attorney he would not defend such cases as those of the IWW. … More than a score of new Wobblies arrive from Chicago. … Flynn speaks at the IWW hall, alleging that, “If the gentle carpenter of Nazareth was on earth today he would be fighting for free speech in this city, unless Chief Sullivan had him in jail.”

TUESDAY, NOV. 30

Flynn is finally arrested. In her own words: “At about eight o’clock [in the evening] I was walking toward the IWW Hall. As I reached the corner of Stevens and Front I was accosted by officer Bill Shannon with the demand, ‘Are you Miss Flynn?’ I replied yes. When he grunted, ‘Well, we want you.’ I asked, ‘Have you a warrant?’

‘Naw, we haven’t,’ he rejoined, when the other plainclothes man stepped up and remarked, ‘There is one in the station.’ I accompanied them to the police station where I was booked and the warrant read for criminal conspiracy. I was then taken to the chief’s office, where Prosecuting Attorney Pugh put me through the third degree.” During the interrogation, Flynn said: “He asked, ‘Did you say so and so in your speeches?’ To which I replied, ‘I talk so much I don’t know what I say.’ They all gave him the laugh, and he asked if that statement wouldn’t probably, if published, ruin my reputation as a speaker. Anxious he was for me to maintain my status as an agitator, indeed!” ...continued on page 24

If this story has you Googling Wobblies and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to learn more, you may want to jump right into the deep end and go ahead and read Big Trouble. Published in 1997, it flew under the radar at first.

But for lovers of local history, especially the era around the time of the Battle for Spokane, it quickly became an influential piece of local history.

Jess Walter kept it handy throughout the writing of The Cold Millions.

Author and journalist Anthony Lukas devoted his career to the class divide in America. His book Common Ground, about desegregation and busing in Boston, is one of the great works of long-form journalism.

Then he set his sights on one of those trials of the century, when a founder of the Wobblies, Big Bill Haywood, was accused of the shocking assasination of former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg.

It all played out in a Boise courtroom in 1907 and kicked off nearly two decades of unrest, including the free speech protests in Spokane in 1909.

Along the way, Lukas takes so many side detours into the forgotten alleys of Western history, you’ll be hooked through all 750 pages. Of particular interest to local readers is the detailing of the labor troubles in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District in 1899, when disgruntled workers blew up the mill at the Bunker Hill Mine.

Gov. Steunenberg’s subsequent brutal crackdown, most believed, was the reason he was murdered outside his Caldwell, Idaho, home in 1905 by a bomb rigged to his front gate.

Sadly, Lukas took his own life just before Big Trouble came out, so he never got to see how beloved his book would become in these parts.

In an essay he wrote for the Idaho State Historical Society, he answered a question he was asked quite frequently by his East Coast friends: What attracted him to spend so much time on a mostly forgotten trial in a far-off city?

“Part of it,” he wrote, “was precisely that these events of the century’s first decade lurked just beyond the memory of living Americans.”

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— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in a Nov. 29 speech in Spokane The Spokane experience gave great hope to the Wobblies, but by 1920, when the Communist Revolution in Russia had painted radical unions as dangerous, it was smashed by federal prosecutions of its leaders. Federal regulations improving working conditions also marginalized the need for such a union. But in the meantime, Wobblies continued free speech fighting, descending on towns where a point was to be made — and they continued to be harassed and even murdered, as happened in Everett in 1916. Later, in 1936, a small group of still active Wobblies was even shot at by hired guns for timber companies in St. Maries, Idaho.

Fred H. Moore moved in 1910 to Los Angeles, where he continued to defend labor activists, including those involved in the Los Angeles Times bombing of 1911 (with Clarence Darrow as co-counsel) and the Everett Massacre case. He also defended the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case from 1920-

24, in which many historians believe the anarchists were wrongfully executed for a bombing. Moore died of cancer in Los Angeles in 1933.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was tried and convicted of criminal conspiracy in Spokane on Dec. 6, 1909. Her appeal in February 1910 was more successful, and she was acquitted, perhaps in no small part due to her advanced pregnancy. Flynn left Spokane, had her baby in New York state and went on to become one of America’s most notable Communists. She was arrested, along with 12 others, in 1951, and was convicted under the obscure Smith Alien Registration Act of 1940. As a result, she spent more than two years at the federal women’s reformatory in West Virginia. Flynn later became chairperson of the American Communist Party; she died in the Soviet Union in 1964, was given a state funeral and is buried in Red Square. n

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Despite Chief Sullivan’s words to the contrary, with expenses mounting, national publicity casting a shadow over the city and jail space running low, the city lost its nerve.

In the weeks after Flynn’s arrest, the city quietly slowed, then stopped pursuing the street speakers, as if they had made their point after arresting the Wobblies’ leader.

But in the aftermath of the month of November 1909, all sides could claim victory in some way. Despite perhaps being judged by history as more a fascist regime than an example of democracy, Spokane ultimately regained control of its street corners and had the peace of mind of knowing it had stood up to an outside threat and survived. And despite having hundreds of its members spend weeks in jail under bogus arrest, the Wobblies not only cemented their national reputation as in-your-face worker advocates, but also saw reforms hit Spokane. In the year following the free speech fight, Spokane wages were raised, matrons were hired to supervise the jails, the city’s government structure was scrapped and replaced, the street-speaking policies were moderated and Chief Sullivan and four of his officers were fired. (In 1911, Sullivan was found murdered in his home; no one was ever charged with the crime.) Most importantly, however, the city outlawed the “job shark” agencies that the Wobblies started their protest over.

“If the gentle carpenter of Nazareth was on earth today he would be fighting for free speech in this city, unless Chief Sullivan had him in jail.”

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Just The Beginning It's hard to imagine celebrating the end of a year quite so joyously as we’ll celebrate the end of 2020. For so many of us, it’s been the most challenging year of our lives. Between home-schooling our kids, navigating the state’s unemployment system for the first time, conducting business over the internet instead of in person and just being stuck in neutral emotionally, unable to spend time with friends and family, it’s been a rough one.

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From hands-on learning to virtual classes, home cooks have lots of choices to help expand their skills in Spokane For many people, one of the earliest, most comforting places to pick up a shutdown hobby was the kitchen, whether baking bread, cooking new recipes or making use of that Instapot for the first time.

Once that kitchen creativity gets flowing, it’s easy to want a new challenge, and thankfully, many people in the area offer lessons for creating next-level recipes from scratch.

After the first shutdown this spring, the KITCHEN ENGINE not only saw a huge uptick in shoppers looking for bakeware, but when restrictions loosened they were able to again offer their popular cooking classes.

With some restrictions still in place, the format was tweaked, explains Eric Frickle, who’s owned the store in the Flour Mill with his parents since 2006. Rather than have large groups around big tables, they started teaching in front of two-person table stations distanced from other students.

For two people, the price usually ranges from about $110 to $130 per class, he says, which includes hands-on instruction for about two hours, eating the meal you make (and sometimes taking home leftovers), and a discount on any kitchenware you might need.

“Some of our more popular classes are sushi, pasta making, and we do artisan pizza,” Frickle says. “In the past we’ve had baking classes that include pastries and bread — it depends on what chefs and local enthusiasts I’m able to find to do the classes.”

Classes are again temporarily halted during the current shutdown, but there’s a bright future, as the store plans to open an even larger adjacent space sometime next year that will be solely dedicated to cooking classes, Frickle says.

“Keep an eye on our website, and we do send out a newsletter, so we’ll try and keep people up to date on what’s happening with classes,” Frickle says. “As soon as we’re able to offer them again, we will.” (Find more at TheKitchenEngine.com.)

Meanwhile, over at WANDERLUST DELICATO, owner Amber Park made a similar shift to two-person class registrations for her popular classes, with 10 people total allowed under the rules this fall.

In a year when few people got to travel anywhere, Park says she tried to offer some fun culinary adventures for the taste buds, with tastes of Greece, Italy and France. Classes usually start at $45 per person,

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and for the destination classes, which included wine pairings to go with the meals students prepared, it was $160 per couple.

“Thankfully we have a huge beautiful kitchen that’s big and open,” Park says. “We really focused on destination classes as a way to satisfy the wanderlust we all have right now.”

During those classes, music from the region of focus might even help set the mood.

Under current restrictions, those classes are on hold, but Park says she still offers gift certificates for the classes that can be redeemed later. Plus, she’s been able to work with some companies to offer corporate team building where employees get gift baskets with some needed things (say, a ravioli stamp) and each person shops for their own ingredients in advance of a short virtual class.

Until classes can open again, Park plans to keep the kitchen in use by continuing to prepare meals for Hope House at least once a week. (Find more about future classes at WanderlustDelicato.com.)

Luckily, there is at least one local business that’s been successful this year at offering online cooking classes. Registered dietitian nutritionist Monika Jacobson (who coincidentally has taught at Wanderlust Delicato before) says her business EAT MOVE THRIVE SPOKANE has seen a wonderful response from people interested in her cooking classes taught over Zoom.

“I did the first cooking classes back in May, and I kind of threw it out there as, ‘Well, I’ll see how this goes,’” Jacobson says. “Honestly, I hadn’t heard of anybody doing them yet.”

The response was great, with many people signing up.

“I think timing-wise it was really good. Everybody was really tired of being inside and super bored, and the weather wasn’t amazing yet,” she says. “People missed seeing family and friends, so a lot of times people will gather a group of family or friends together for one of my classes.”

Adult classes run between $12 and $15 per person, and participants get a recipe and shopping list the week before so they can have everything ready when they sign on.

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“I think it’s really important that kids build a healthy foundation with their relationship with food and cooking at a young age,” she says, noting that parents have told her their children seem more willing to try new foods when it’s something they’ve cooked themselves.

Some of her adult classes have been held on Sunday afternoons, to help prep or meal plan multiple things for the week ahead, with nutrition and health in mind.

“We’ll often cook stuff that can hold up well in the fridge for a few days, like a big pot of soup or refrigerator salads where you make this on Sunday and have lunch for the next few days,” Jacobson says. “I think my classes stand out as something unique because they’re run by a registered dietitian, so I’m adding a lot of nutrition tips and facts as I go.”

Find more about her schedule of classes at EatMoveThriveSpokane.com. ◆

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The past nine months have simultaneously been a rocky road of economic struggle and creative solutions from members of the Spokane area’s food and hospitality industry. Lowlights include a second ban on indoor dining during the heart of winter, forcing restaurants to scramble to erect heated tents on patios and in parking lots. Highlights, meanwhile, have offered hope we’ll overcome this trial, too, as the community continues rallying to support locally owned restaurants through grassroots fundraisers and individual commitments to regularly order takeout from favorite places. Food has even moved into the virtual sphere, with cooking classes, wine tastings and other events heading online (the food and drink itself is still very tangible).

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Creature Comforts Channel your inner animal by visiting cuddly critters in the county At a time when so many of us are feeling isolated and starved for company, it’s not a bad idea to turn to our pals in the animal kingdom for a little companionship. Heck, they’re probably more forgiving of our idiosyncrasies and personal foibles than some of our friends or family. And some of them could really do with a little kindness.

Fortunately, even under COVID-19 restrictions, there are plenty of spots around Spokane County where you can observe wild animals at one remove, hang out with potential pets in need of a forever home or even help care for critters who’ve had a rough life.

KITTY CANTINA

Billing itself as “half café, half cat sanctuary,” the Kitty Cantina is out to pair homeless cats from SpokAnimal with loving owners. On account of COVID-19 precautions, appointments are by reservation only. The $6 cover charge nets you just shy of an hour of snuggle time and a $2 credit toward drinks (or $1 toward an adult beverage), which include Doma coffee from the full-service espresso bar or craft beers from YaYa Brewing Co. and Lumberbeard Brewing. Once you’ve had time to fall in love with your kitty and sleep on your decision to adopt, the staff will walk you through the next steps to make it official. All cats have been sterilized, microchipped and vaccinated; adoption fees start at $25.

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Similar to Kitty Cantina, Bark is a partnership with the Spokane Humane Society that aims to introduce caring humans to their future four-legged housemates.

There are up to 16 dogs and cats on-site at any time awaiting adoption. Although indoor dining is off-limits for the time being, you can still get takeout and delivery meals (think elevated pub fare like burgers, wraps and flatbreads) as well as make appointments to meet with the animals in the adjacent playroom. Up to five people from the same household can be in one visiting party. If you’re already a pet owner, you can even arrange a meet-and-greet between your current pet(s) and your prospective adoptee to make sure they get along. 905 N. Washington St., barkrescuepub.com, 418-2551

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TERRA, A FARM SANCTUARY

Located in northwest Spokane County on the edge of Indian Prairie, Terra provides a place for retired, unwanted and abused animals to live out their lives with respect and free from harm. The vegan-minded sanctuary has experienced some tough times of late, with at least one animal suffering from illness and its co-founder and director bed-bound following a serious accident. To get your own animal fix while also providing much-needed support, you can volunteer directly on the farm or donate via the website. 6014 N. Rambo Rd., terrafarmsanctuary.org, 368-0670

RIVER'S WISH ANIMAL SANCTUARY A kindred spirit to Terra, River’s Wish is a nonprofit, allvolunteer refuge for maltreated animals. It’s a safe haven for rabbits, horses, burros, cows, turkeys, pigs and more. Though the facility isn’t open to visitors during COVID-19, they do offer a short virtual tour in the form of a slideshow and videos, and you can feed the animals from home by donating a bale of hay, grain and other feed. Animal sponsorships, wall art and branded accessories can all be purchased from the sanctuary’s online shop and help sustain it during these difficult times. riverswishanimalsanctuary.org, 951-3650 ◆

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Get Back in the Swing Keep your golf game going year-round at Spokane County’s swing suites The Spokane region is blessed with an incredible array

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The downside of a golf offseason, though, is having your swing fall apart when you spend months away from your clubs.

Thankfully, Spokane County is home to a number of golf simulators and swing suites that can keep you in swinging shape year-round. Some are designed for more experienced players, while others allow for an hour or two of fun when beginners and experts can play together.

How local climbing gyms have been adjusting to COVID-19 There's nothing quite as rewarding as reaching for the next hold on the climbing wall and surpassing your personal best. Whether you’re a professional looking for places to practice in between climbs or just looking to expand your exercise routine and get some cross-training, indoor rock-climbing walls are great for strength building, balance and confidence.

The pandemic has shaken up most of our lives, including our exercise routines. If the current global affairs have you feeling helpless or disempowered, this might be the perfect time to take up indoor climbing and remind yourself of your own strength. Or, if that doesn’t work, you’ll at least have fun taxing a different muscle group than usual.

Located in Downtown Spokane,WILD WALLS CLIMBING GYM offers yoga classes, youth activities and, during non-pandemic times, space for group events and parties. Wild Walls has adapted a set of protocols to keep workers and customers safe during the pandemic, including a reduced capacity, regular sanitation and temperature checks. Once the state of Washington or Spokane County has made it to Phase 3, the gym will resume its Acro Yoga classes. These use the same balancing techniques perfected on the wall in a unique, partnered yoga practice that lets you take your

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Up north, BLOC YARD BOULDERING GYM offers an unparalleled bouldering experience.

Bloc Yard Bouldering is also following health and safety guidelines from Gov. Jay Inslee, including mask-wearing, restricting water fountain use to the refilling of bottles, and urging climbers to stay home and get well if they have symptoms. The gym offers fun weekly specials including a Ladies’ Night on Wednesday evenings and discounted entry for everyone on Fridays.

If you’re out in the Valley, you’re probably aware of the excellent indoor climbing wall at the SPOKANE VALLEY YMCA. This wall has certified staff and equipment on hand as resources for members ages 4 and older. You also can rent the entire wall for a special event. And if you’re serious about climbing, you can earn your Belay Certification through the Spokane Valley Y, which will allow you to check out equipment yourself, and belay other climbers.

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GOLFTEC GOLFTEC Spokane is definitely designed for the more serious golfers looking to up their game. Personal coaches are at the ready to help players improve, although now those coaches have a daily wellness check before they start lessons.

Among the COVID-related updates GOLFTEC has undertaken are masks required for all players and coaches, private bays for practicing your swing, heavy cleaning and sanitizing between lessons, and an online system of booking your lessons or practice in advance, just like booking a tee time. You can pretty much get in and out of there touchless, unless you want to sample some (sanitized for your protection) new clubs.

For the more laid-back golfers and folks who just like to have a drink and maybe hit a few balls, the Spokane region has a couple of TOPGOLF SWING SUITES that cater to having fun with all levels of player. At NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, up to eight people can play at a time, and their Topgolf outlet has all the equipment you’ll need. While you’re there, you can order food and drinks delivered to your suite, and you’re the DJ, too.

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TIM DUNN AT THE BIKE HUB

The Big Bike Boom Since the pandemic stripped bike stores bare last spring, this winter may be your best chance to shop and get lucky This year, bicycles were the toilet paper of transportation.

When the pandemic hit, so many people wanted so many bicycles that the shelves at local bike shops were practically empty. After all, during the shutdown, cycling was one of few clearly safe activities available. In Washington state, bike shops were considered exceptions to the governor’s stay-home order.

“People who were home from school wanted to ride bikes,” says Kyle Mensing, sales associate at The BIKE HUB. “People who couldn’t go to the gym wanted to bike. And people who had more time on their hands wanted to bike.”

And that meant that even as some industries were nearly completely shuttered, bike sales were skyrocketing.

“Initially it was fantastic because everybody was getting outside and riding their bike,” says Morgan Johnson, owner of MOJO CYCLERY. At BICYCLE BUTLER in North Spokane, owner Kathy Arnold witnessed the same sort of exuberance.

“The best part of it was seeing new faces — seeing people that we have seen for 27 years, and then seeing people that were new to the sport,” she says.

“Kids were going outside and riding rather than staying inside with video games. A lot of people were pleasure-riding rather than commuting.”

They weren’t just shelling out for new bikes, either.

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their janky old bicycles out of their garages and tried to get repaired. They either asked the bike shops to fix them up, or they decided to take a crack at tinkering at home.

“Maybe it’s a parent-child relationship they can build by working on bikes together,” Johnson says.

But, quickly, local bike shops ran into a problem.

They ran out of bikes. In fact, everyone ran out of bikes.

Manufacturers couldn’t keep up with demand.

“From about May to about September, I wasn’t able to get any bikes, really,” says Paul Edwards, owner of ARGONNE CYCLE. Parts became sparse, too. Sometimes, stores have had to innovate.

“With parts, we’re playing a game,” Mensign says.

“We can’t get everything we want all the time. We’re making things happen, and we’re finding ways to get people taken care of.”

It’s only now, in the depths of winter, that bikes are starting to roll back into stores, Mensing says, though it will still take months before their inventory is fully recovered. With the possibility of another big boom in bike purchases this spring, now might be your best hope for a bike or bike equipment. Get your bike prepared for the warmer months — or even better, get outfitted for the colder ones.

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Those roads can get icy, too.

“We have studded tires that are pretty fantastic with the black ice,” says Johnson.

And if things get really snowy, Arnold notes that they sell “fat tire” bikes. These are the snowshoes of cycling. The wheels’ big surface area allows the rider to ride on top of the snow and navigate the bumpier terrain.

And if all else fails, you can turn your outdoor bike into a makeshift Peloton. Bike trainers lift your back wheels off the ground and provide resistance, allowing you to peddle indoors without riding through your bay window.

Better yet, instead of deciding between video games and exercise, choose both. Apps like Zwift turn your indoor bike experience into a game of sorts, connecting directly to your trainer. When the screen in front of you changes, it gets harder or easier to pedal.

“If you’re going uphill, the trainer can change your resistance — a virtual reality experience,” Mensing says.

Some products, particularly mountain bikes and kids bikes, are still difficult to find, however. With the vaccine on the horizon but distribution still uncertain, bike shop owners say they’re not quite sure what to expect from the spring.

“Going into next year, we’re hanging on and still going for the ride, so to speak,” Arnold says. ◆

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GAMES

JEDI ALLIANCE OWNER TYLER ARNOLD

Calling Timeout Local game shops and arcades anxiously await a return to in-person tournaments and carefree fun It's been a roller coaster of a year for game shops and venues.

First, there was a complete shutdown in March, lasting about a month. Then came a return to in-person shopping, but no store-hosted tournaments or events.

Early this fall, many of the area’s independent game shops were able to slowly phase back into in-person play for popular games like Pokemon or Magic: The Gathering after installing plexiglass barriers on tables, greatly limiting the number of participants, and spacing out play spaces.

Now, shops like the COMIC BOOK SHOP, with three Spokane-area locations, are back to just limited shopping capacity.

“We only had a few weeks of gaming. People had just started coming back out,” says Comic Book Shop owner Craig Barnett. “Everyone was really excited, and then we had to pull the plug again.”

Even so, Barnett has an optimistic outlook for his three stores, one inside NorthTown Mall, a second in Spokane Valley and a third on north Division Street.

The Division store moved this summer from its former spot on the hill closer to downtown; now at 1402 N. Division.

“Overall, we are doing pretty well,” he says.

“We’re right about or a little above where we were last year” in terms of sales.

That’s compared with about an 18 percent drop Comic Book Shop was experiencing in mid-June.

Barnett partly cites a recent resurgence of interest in the Pokemon collectible card game as helping drive sales.

Plus, steady support from loyal, local customers.

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how much they enjoyed [Pokemon] as kids, and it started hitting the internet and boosted sales dramatically,” Barnett says. “We’ve always been really into it ourselves, and now we’re seeing a lot more customers.”

Holiday shopping has also been a welcome boon.

With all retailers in Washington still capped at 25 percent capacity, however, there’s often a line stretching out the door, especially at the NorthTown store.

Besides Pokemon cards, Comic Book Shop has seen a steady, pandemic-spurred interest in board games. After launching an online storefront this spring to help supplement in-person sales, Barnett says Comic Book Shop staff have been shipping out orders “all over the place.” The bulk of the store’s vintage comic book sales have also moved mostly online via eBay. Regular customers are just as eager as Barnett and his staff for the return of regularly scheduled in-store tournaments, although there are many unknown factors dictating that timeline.

“The first day we can run tournaments, we’ll run tournaments,” he says. “We get emails constantly about if we have things scheduled. Everybody really, really misses it.”

A return to in-person gaming is likely to take even longer for another Spokane entertainment venue, the retro arcade JEDI ALLIANCE. The pandemic’s shutdown has, however, offered at least one unexpected opportunity for the nonprofit arcade’s owner and avid pop culture collector, Tyler Arnold.

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Arnold. “After about two months in just sitting around, I thought if we ever thought about moving, now would be the time.”

While he’s not ready to announce the address of the arcade and pop culture museum’s new location in Spokane Valley, he says it’s about three miles from Jedi Alliance’s current home in east central Spokane.

At more than 7,000 square feet, the arcade’s new location is also nearly double the size of the old, allowing for better social distancing, if that’s still a need when arcade venues are finally allowed to reopen (currently not until Phase 4 of Washington’s reopening plan), and for the housing of even more retro game cabinets.

On the positive side, Arnold says that since the Alliance’s entire collection is privately owned by him and his son, Ashton, there’s no risk of Jedi Alliance permanently closing because of the pandemic. The venue charges a flat cover for the public to play any of its games as many times as they want during each visit.

Other income comes from private events and donations.

“I would have this stuff whether I shared it with the public or not, but I open to the public because it’s more fun to have people come in and play games and stuff,” he says. “So when we closed down there wasn’t a whole lot of overhead, so that has really been our secret to surviving.”

Arnold hopes to have the new location for Jedi Alliance ready to open in late January, depending on the virus and the state’s reopening protocols, and says those interested in updates on that progress should follow along on social media. ◆

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Until We Gather Again Here are the local spots streaming live concert performances Live entertainment is undoubtedly one of the most missed elements of daily life, with music venues, theaters, symphonies and stages sitting quiet this year, with no end in sight. Thankfully, vaccines are on the way and provide a glimmer of hope that some entertainment could return next summer. Until then, local groups and venues have gotten creative with live online streaming of band performances, symphony music, drag shows, variety shows and workshops. It’s easy and affordable to support local entertainers while getting a taste of that which has been missing from our lives for so long now.

NEATO BURRITO

With such a small space at the beloved Neato Burrito and Baby Bar, COVID has basically halted all in-person service for this entire year. But those feeling withdrawals for their favorite little spot in downtown are in luck when it comes to chances to livestream shows that are now happening there. Throughout December and into January, you’ll find local shows from about $5 to $10 per ticket, with a special chance to get New Year’s Eve tickets and donate to charities at the same time for $20. BabyBarNeatoBurrito.veeps.com, 847-1234

GLOBE BAR & KITCHEN

Every Friday you can check out a live drag show performance streamed from the Globe’s in-house basement studio setup. This summer, the isolated area lovingly called “the bunker” allowed the venue to offer livestreamed shows to guests inside the bar. While things are limited to just the patio and takeout currently, you can still get some fun Friday night vibes by ordering takeout (even drinks can be ordered with food delivery!) and streaming the show. globespokane.com/live, 443-4014

NORTHWEST BACHFEST

Promising “better than front row” seats for their Across the Miles series, Northwest BachFest is offering a variety of performances between now and April that you can stream on YouTube at any point within a four-day window. Tickets are $20 per performance for an access code, and of course your whole household can watch for that one price. Nwbachfest.com, 326-4942

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While the latest shutdown has Lucky You Lounge going back into hibernation again with its restaurant offerings, live shows that have been broadcast from the newly enclosed stage at the venue will be available to stream through the end of December. Tickets are $10 per show. LuckyYouLounge.veeps.com, 474-0511

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Theaters did something similar, staging plays that patrons could beam right into their living rooms.

Movie theaters, meanwhile, made up for a dearth of new Hollywood releases by hosting digital rentals of indie and foreign films so folks could host a movie night and support a cinema. Once audiences are allowed back into enclosed spaces, we’ll all be appreciating the shared experience of art more than we ever have.

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THE BIG DIPPER IN 2019

Pressing Pause The Big Dipper and other local music venues are still waiting to stage live shows again The banner that's covering the entire facade of THE BIG DIPPER is designed to make you stop and read it. The all-ages music venue, which has sat on the corner of Washington and Second for decades, is normally pretty noticeable on its own, with its blue brick exterior and the astrological mural on one of its walls.

But this banner has a decidedly more capitalistic feel to it, and it might stop you short. In fact, it looks like the sort of thing a high-end real estate company might drape over a building they’ve just acquired to either knock down or fill with expensive condos. And that’s the idea.

“The hope is that people will see that that’s not actually what it is,” explains Dawson Hoerner, coowner of the Big Dipper. “But it’s what it could be if we weren’t able to get any help.”

The banner comes courtesy of Keep Music Live, a nationwide initiative started by indie music venues and designed to raise awareness about the plight of concert venues everywhere. (You can donate to the Washington state campaign at keepmusiclivewa.com.) The organization has even lobbied Congress for financial assistance. After all, they were some of the first businesses to close their doors when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and they’ll be among the last to reopen when the virus has finally been contained.

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it has been sitting silent since March, much like SPOKANE ARENA, BERSERK, BING CROSBY THEATER and other music-focused venues. There have been some attempts to host livestreaming concerts or other fundraisers, Hoerner says, but none of them have quite taken off. For now, they’re playing the waiting game.

“It feels lonely when you go down there,” Hoerner says “We don’t know when we’ll be open again.

People contact us, asking me about [booking] dates in spring and summer, and I don’t really know what to say. We’re definitely in a limbo.”

That purgatorial waiting period has affected everybody. THE PIN, an all-ages club that amassed a following for its blend of hard-rock concerts and drag shows, shut its doors earlier this year, citing the pandemic as a contributing factor.

Livestreams have been an alternative source of income both for venues and artists while in-person performances are a no-go. LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, the Browne’s Addition restaurant and venue, has hosted several prerecorded, slickly produced concerts in the final months of 2020. The downtown staple BABY BAR, which has long been a go-to spot for touring indie bands, has also been hosting livestreams, with a roster of virtual concerts and comedy shows booked well into 2021.

There does seem to be light at the end of the tunnel, however. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, one of the co-authors of SPONSORED CONTENT

a bipartisan COVID-19 relief package, told Variety that she was confident the Senate would pass the bill this month. If that happens, it could mean that billions of dollars in relief funds, spearheaded by the National Independent Venue Association and their Save Our Stages Act, could be headed down to small arts venues.

That would likely be a life preserver for a lot of venues like the Dipper, whose business models rely on full-capacity crowds.

In the meantime, Hoerner says she and her husband and co-owner, Dan, are focused on boosting the voices and virtual events of other local musicians and businesses, including the aforementioned venues, through social media. It’s important, she says, that cities everywhere maintain and foster their arts scenes, not only because it contributes to the economy, but because it hopefully inspires people to expand their horizons.

The thrill of seeing live music is still second to none, and after such a long drought of concerts, the eventual resurrection of live music will no doubt be as vital as ever.

“It makes downtown interesting, and makes the culture interesting. It brings new ideas to people … and gives them an opportunity to experience or feel something they might not think about,” Hoerner says. “It’s a personal experience, where you really feel like you’re part of what’s happening.” ◆

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Saving Spokane's Soul The arts and culture sector has been beaten down by the pandemic, and it will take all of us to keep it alive in 2021 and beyond

By Melissa Huggins The cultural community in Spokane is resilient, tough, and accustomed to making magic with few resources. Artists have been innovating, pivoting and getting creative for decades before those were buzzwords. My faith in the arts community’s determination and pluck never wavers. But let me say plainly: Arts and culture in the Spokane region took a series of punches this year, and we’re still only a few rounds into the bout. While we are hopeful, and working hard behind the scenes to be ready to reopen fully, arts and culture face many unknowns in 2021 and 2022.

While the vaccine news is thrilling — and we should celebrate good news whenever we can — the reality HUGGINS is that for arts and culture, an initial vaccine rollout does not necessarily mean back to business as usual. It appears critical mass may not be reached until fall, which means large gatherings (the heart of performing arts) may not be possible until late 2021. Most venues will face a phased reopening, with safeguards in place, and similar to restaurants, it remains to be seen whether it pencils out to open at limited capacity. Creatives in Spokane will still have to fight for their livelihoods, careers, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and the heart and soul of this community. A few of the best ways to support arts and culture in the near future are through buying local, hiring creatives and donating.

Buying local: Create a challenge for yourself in the new year by seeing how much of your usual spending you can shift to local restaurants, local cafés, local small businesses. Giant box stores, corporate fast food and online retailers are raking in money hand over fist, and that money doesn’t stay in our community; it flows to corporate headquarters and CEO bonuses. They don’t need you, and right now, the beauty is that you don’t

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need them either. The best sandwiches in Spokane are not found at a drive-thru with a history of discrimination; they’re found at a dozen local restaurants who’ve made ordering to-go and curbside pickup easier than ever. Looking for books to read this winter? Local independents can ship any book you could want to your door. Instead of increasing Jeff Bezos’ stock options, your purchase will ensure real people, friends and neighbors, can pay their staff and keep the lights on.

Hire Local Creatives: This region has thousands of talented, brilliant creatives who can provide every service under the sun. Photography, music lessons, website design, videography, florals. Custom jewelry and leather goods, furniture or signage. Graphic designers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects: They can help you make progress on those projects that (if you’re anything like me) have been lingering on the list for years now. Many local creatives have expertise and training in multiple areas rather than a single specialty: the welder who’s also an electrician, the graphic designers who also paint murals, the florist certified in sustainable landscape design, the chorale singer who is also an auto body expert: The list goes on. Building a relationship with one artist by hiring them on a small project can open up a whole world of possibilities that you’d never have discovered otherwise, and they can tailor each project to your budget size.

Donate: Sometimes it’s hard to remember that small donations make a difference. If I can only give $10 this month, is that worth it? How far will $35 go?

Remember that every single dollar gets combined with someone else’s dollar and adds up to something bigger, and that is worth contributing to.

One example: At the beginning of the pandemic, Spokane Arts launched a crowdfunding campaign to offer small grants to artists who’d had months of scheduled work canceled overnight. People gave $5, and $10, and $25, and I got to see those donations combine into blocks of $500 grants that we distributed directly to artists. All the small donations, with the help of a few larger ones, added up to over $30,000 directly donated by community members, plus another $25,000 thrown into the pot from a private donor.

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process gave us data on what artists were facing, which we took to city and state leaders to demonstrate the pandemic’s impacts. That, in turn, led to federal aid being allocated to the sector, which meant we were able to award another $50,000 in direct support to individual creatives whose gigs were canceled by COVID-19. None of that would have been possible without the initial generosity of the people who tossed $5 into the pot and encouraged their friends to do so, too. Every little bit does matter.

2021 holds a new set of challenges and uncertainty, beyond what’s been faced this year.

Federal and state legislators will need encouragement to follow the lead of other states and countries, from Ohio and Oregon to Germany and Ireland, who are passing massive stimulus packages recognizing both the economic impact and human value of arts and culture. We hope county and city leaders will treat the creative sector as the economic linchpin it is: a crucial driver of tourism, tax revenue, and key to recruiting students and businesses, not to mention the educational and entertainment opportunities provided to the community at large. Ideally the foundations, families and individual donors in a position to do so will give to the arts, allowing nonprofits to keep offering their services.

It will take a village to rally around arts and culture through 18-plus months of near-total shutdowns and cancellations, but I know Spokane can do it.

For Spokane to be the complicated place that I love — flawed yet full of possibility, beautiful, frustrating, charming, gritty, and poised on the brink of significant change — for that Spokane to evolve, we must make sure our cultural and culinary gems still exist by the end of next year, and the next. Because without festivals and street fairs, local breweries, wineries and food trucks; without theater, live music, comedy and dance; without museums and galleries and bookstores; without record stores and music shops and printmaking and creative reuse spaces, Spokane would not be Spokane. It simply would not be the place we know and love.

Losing our artistic community would be like missing our soul, with no guarantee we could find it again.

But make no mistake: The energy and excitement to create art and bring people together is strong as ever.

The creative community has plenty of fight. All we need is you in our corner. ◆ Melissa Huggins is the executive director of Spokane Arts.

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SPOKANE COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT'S GWENDOLYN HALEY AND PATRICK ROEWE

Evolving Mission Spokane County’s libraries are proving flexible in order to serve the community through the pandemic Local libraries aren't what they used to be.

Gone is the stereotypical stuffy repository of books, replaced by a hub of activity for all ages occurring both inside the building and beyond the stacks. What can you do at your local library? Research the job market, print documents, listen to a story, take an art class, discover the ever-expanding world of digital books, videos, and other material. These are just a few of the many things you can do at any of Spokane’s vast county and citywide systems.

So when COVID forced their temporary closure, SPOKANE COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT looked to both the past and the future in order to pivot for the public.

The last time they’d experienced any closures was during the windstorm in 2015, says Communications & Development Director Jane Baker.

“Power outages were the issue then, so our libraries that were open provided extra charging stations and a warm place to gather, use the internet and enjoy our collection,” says Baker.

This year, Baker says, they had a different challenge.

“In anticipating an increased demand for downloadable eBooks and audiobooks, the district shifted budget to immediately increase our digital offerings to meet demand,” Baker says.

“With the increased use of the internet, especially for distance-learning, the district applied for and was granted hot spots that were made available for checkout,” something they’re continuing to expand to meet demand.

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The district moved some programs and events online, such as their civic labs and artist-in-residence programs, experimenting with both social media and Zoom to find the best results.

When they were allowed to reopen — albeit briefly in early November — social-distancing guidelines varied according to the size of each of their 11 locations: Airway Heights, Argonne, Cheney, Deer Park, Fairfield, Medical Lake, Moran Prairie, North Spokane, Otis Orchards, Spokane Valley, and The BookEnd in Spokane Valley Mall.

They’ve learned a few things along the way, Baker says.

“Probably the biggest ‘aha’ for us is the popularity of curbside pickup,” including the mobile print service they added and will continue to offer as part of their standard list of services.

“Not only are customers picking up books, DVDs and CDs, but we also offer activity kits that go along with our virtual programs. Parents sign up their kids for the activities and pick up the kits curbside, then log into the program and follow along with the activity or the craft. Families are loving this program.”

Their virtual programs are also a big win. “November’s Disney Trivia had over 100 players,” Baker says.

“The Instant Pot programs are just as popular online as they were in the library, and our own virtual version of Nailed It! had 49 contestants attempting to decorate a turkey-shaped cake.”

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in June, says Amanda Donovan, director of marketing and communications. They figure they’ve responded to 31,000 curbside requests.

Like the county, SPL has gone back to the drawing board to retool programs. They developed programming on their YouTube channel, redistributed spending to their digital offerings and extended due dates until they could ascertain the best way to handle returns, Donovan says.

Something new is their “book bundles” to replace the browsing experience, says Donovan. “Customers can use our curbside scheduling form to pick a book bundle in their favorite genre, and then a staff member will hand select four or five suggested titles.” Call it your own personal librarian service!

Their online programming has gotten a significant boost. “We’ve made videos on finding your house history online, art breaks — instructional videos on art projects you can do at home — kids book reviews, online story time, and more,” says Donovan, who adds that they’ve racked up more than 32,000 page views. Additional programs include walking tours, a video with a bestselling author, virtual book clubs and preschool Zoom show-n-tell.

The next chapter on life during the pandemic remains to be written, not only for the region’s libraries, but also for the public, yet Donovan and Baker are optimistic.

“We’ve really enjoyed expanding our video and virtual programming and can see a definite opportunity to continue to offer those programs,” Donovan says. ◆

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t’s not time to flush 2020 just yet: Entertainment critics (aka inessential workers, or last responders) must weigh in with their picks for the “best” of the year. You’ve suffered through slightly worse over the 68 months of 2020; the least you can do is indulge us.

Me, I’m focusing on TV series that debuted — and in some cases, ended — in 2020. We’re all aware that AMC’s Better Call Saul continued to be damned fantastic, and I won’t bore you with the details of how Showtime’s Shameless is currently killing in its 11th and final season (or maybe I will, next time). This is all about the firstseasoners.

Here are 10 new series that made splashes in 2020, some larger than others.

TED LASSO (APPLE TV+)

American college football coach Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is recruited to train a dysfunctional British soccer team. Besides being a subtle symbol of American unexceptionalism, Sudeikis’ Ted is also a big-hearted optimist who transforms a one-joke show into the absurdist 10,000-watt beacon of “It’s gonna be OK” 2020 needed.

You don’t even have to care about sports to be sucked into Ted Lasso: It’s about people, not points (there’s your pull-quote, Apple TV+).

Ted Lasso was a feel-good hit in a feel-bad year.

HIGH FIDELITY (HULU)

DAVE (FXX, HULU)

WOKE (HULU)

THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL (NETFLIX)

This smart-but-breezy update of the 1995 book and 2000 movie premiered in February and was canceled sometime later in the ’20 Co-void—it all blends together. Brooklyn record store owner Rob (Zoe Kravitz) is a music-and-popculture-devoted “cool chick” with several complicated twists, and her friends/employees are just as messy and three-dimensional. Besides a great soundtrack, High Fidelity delivered an authentic take on Millennial blues. WTF, Hulu?

Sadly, comedies about racism may always be timely. Woke is based on the life of cartoonist Keith Knight (The K Chronicles), starring Lamorne Morris (New Girl) as Keef, a Black artist who sidesteps politics and social issues in his work. That is, until he’s beaten up by cops for EWB (Existing While Black), and his cartoons come to life and hilariously force him to finally take a stand. Unlike High Fidelity, Hulu made the right call here and gave Woke a second season.

A white, Jewish rapper pushing 30 believes himself to be the future of hip-hop, straight outta the suburbs. Minor YouTube star Lil Dicky (Dave Burd) plays Dave like Curb Your Enthusiasm in the shallow end of the music biz, taking a seemingly thin premise deeper with each episode while hinting at legit mic skills. (Spoiler: He has legit mic skills.)

Burd is simultaneously arrogant and sympathetic, and Dave’s hilarious first season will easily lead into more.

Watch out, Kanye.

The Midnight Gospel is uniquely enlightening, meshing the deep-brain interviews of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast with psychedelic animation (by Pendleton Ward of Adventure Time). Trussell voices Clancy, a “spacecaster” who visits nigh-apocalypse worlds through the multiverse for enlightenment, kicks and content. The mashup of intellectual dialogue and acid-trip visuals should be overwhelming, but The Midnight Gospel is surprisingly soothing. ...continued on next page

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CULTURE | TV “EYES GLUED TO THE TUBE,” CONTINUED...

STAR TREK: PICARD (CBS ALL ACCESS)

Where recent Star Trek movies are stuck on cosplaying the Trek of the past, shows like Star Trek: Discovery and Picard (and even cartoon Lower Decks) are reinventing the franchise. Star Trek: Picard is particularly subversive in playing former Star Fleet commander Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) as a disillusioned rogue with nothing left to lose on a mission (but still charming, of course).

Star Trek: Picard is the most “adult” of the Trek series, and all the better for it

MYTHIC QUEST: RAVEN’S BANQUET (APPLE TV+)

THE AMBER RUFFIN SHOW (PEACOCK)

Like Veep set at a videogame company, Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (co-created by and starring Rob McElhenney of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) exposes the chaos behind the slick public image. McElhenney leads, or attempts to lead, a volatile team of creatives (Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, David Hornsby, and F. Murray Abraham) through the launch of a new multiplayer game expansion, which is a war in itself. MQ:RB is smart, sarcastic and even sweet.

Amber Ruffin is a writer and performer on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers; The Amber Ruffin Show is made up of jokes, sketches, songs and anti-racist monologues too weird and pointed to ever fly on a white guy’s network talker. In the unchecked universe of Peacock, Ruffin and sidekick Tarik Davis do whatever the hell they want in a late-night talk show studio with no audience, whether it works or not (it usually does). Bonus: Every episode ends with margaritas.

BRIARPATCH (USA)

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (HBO MAX)

THE BEST OF THE REST

Private detective Allegra Dill (Rosario Dawson) returns to her small Texas hometown to investigate the murder of her sister, who was apparently dealing with some shady locals. Since the entire town is populated with shady locals straight out of Twin Peaks/Tarantino/Fargo central casting, the hunt gets weird. Dawson is cooler than the other side of 10 pillows here, but it’s Jay R. Ferguson (Mad Men) who almost steals Briarpatch as a coked-up cowboy from hell.

Kaley Cuoco blows away her Big Bang Theory sitcom image as Cassie, a hard-partying flight attendant who wakes up from a one-night stand next to a bloody corpse — and no idea what happened. The Flight Attendant (pictured above) is part murder mystery, part dark comedy and all terrible decisions, as Cassie goes through ill-advised clue chases like vodka sodas (half the show’s budget must be mini-bottles). It’s funnier and more tense than your last family holiday gathering.

A.P. Bio (Peacock), Avenue 5 (HBO), Awkwafina is Nora From Queens (Comedy Central, HBO Max), Breeders (FX, Hulu), Devs (Hulu), The Dress Up Gang (TBS), The Great (Hulu), Hunters (Prime Video), I May Destroy You (HBO), I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (HBO), Lovecraft Country (HBO), Mrs. America (Hulu), Never Have I Ever (Netflix), Perry Mason (HBO), The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix), Stargirl (The CW), Three Busy Debras (Adult Swim), Upload (Prime Video) n

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CULTURE | TV

Dropping Like Flower Petals My first time… watching The Bachelorette (and it’s super queer, and Tayshia deserves an entire rose garden)

BY LAUREN GILMORE

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his year, I started watching The Bachelorette for the first time. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t avoid it intentionally, and I don’t consider myself above dating reality shows. As a bi kid growing up and trying to make sense of my identity, I used to sneak out of bed and watch episodes of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. As a grown-up bi person still confused about many things, my partner and I have watched Love is Blind, Too Hot to Handle and The Circle, which isn’t a dating show but is fascinating for its dramatization of digital relationships of all kinds.

For some reason, both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette just slipped past my awareness. We haven’t had cable in ages, and I get fairly distracted with all our streaming options.

Full disclaimer: As far as I can tell, all of my impressions about The Bachelorette based on this season may or may not carry over onto other seasons, or onto the show as a whole. Like everything else this year, this season of The Bachelorette is weird. After Clare fell head over heels for Dale and called off her search to marry him, Tayshia

Make no mistake, Tayshia definitely was in the driver’s seat on this season’s Bachelorette. took over and all of the male suitors who hadn’t been eliminated yet just… switched their focus. After spending the first part of the season expressing their undying affection for Clare, they suddenly had to swap their dialogue for an entirely different woman, like they were robot actors in their own lives and the person cast as “LOVE INTEREST” changed and nothing else did.

As a newcomer to the show, I did not expect the whole structure to fall apart so quickly and dramatically. Watching the men struggle — or in some cases, rejoice — with the switch of the leading lady highlighted some of the strangest aspects of the show. Some of the most unassailable critiques of monogamy come from its dehumanizing tendencies and the insistence of a one-sizefits-all model into which to force romantic and/or sexual relationships. This is heightened in a show like The Bachelorette, which, unlike A Shot at Love, is based around strictly heterosexual relationships.

Or is it?

Admittedly, I’m inclined to think every story and every character are closet-queer. But for a show that is built around the prize of a heterosexual, monogamous marriage, The Bachelorette is REALLY, REALLY QUEER. I mean, look. A bunch of dudes live in a house together trying to compete for time with the one woman they collectively desire. In doing so, some of the realest conversations, most heated arguments and most strangely intimate moments happen between men. They yell at each other, resolve conflicts, comfort one another and spend a lot of time in pairs sitting around a pool in the dark talking about their feelings. I have seen them wrestle each other in oil, play strip dodgeball, and last week, as part of an elaborate game of Truth or Dare, Tayshia made the men moan into a loudspeaker for a minute straight, mimicking and describing sex. These performances of masculinity are overtly for Tayshia, but the largest audience for them is the other men.

What’s interesting to me is that for the duration of

the show, queer and polyamorous behavior are accepted as part of the process of Tayshia finding the one man she will take home and never again ask to compete with other men. But why?

I keep thinking this show would be more interesting if she were just… allowed to have as many lovers as she wanted. What if there was a dating reality show where no one had to be eliminated? Sure, in one version of this, the men are all her servants, and she spends the rest of her life at a resort receiving gifts, praise and excellent meals.

But in another, they form a community based on mutual respect and trust. What bums me out the most about this show is when a contestant stretches themselves to open up in the name of forging connections and then, whenever she chooses, the floor is completely ripped out from under them. It’s an all-or-nothing model that assumes that while Tayshia is building genuine, fulfilling connections with all of these men for now, at a certain point some must be dumped and all of her energy must be directed to only one of them.

Again: Why? What if Tayshia wants to go horseback riding with Brendan during the day, share an absurdly large sundae with Ivan in the evening, and then accept champagne from Ben at 2:30 in the morning? What if she only asks the people she just doesn’t want around anymore to leave?

Personally, I would watch a hundred seasons of Tayshia growing old with people who love her. Of course, in this version, Bennett and Ed must leave because they are annoying. In this version, Tayshia never apologizes for crying, and no one starts rumors that don’t make any sense, and men don’t become so hostile to one another that they literally draw blood during playful wrestling matches. Tayshia stays forever in the alternate universe where the pandemic doesn’t exist. She plants herself an entire rose garden, and it never stops blooming outside her bedroom window. n

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INTRIGUE IN THE CASTLE The Borgias, which ran on Showtime from 2011 to 2013, is one of the best new-to-me shows I’ve watched all year. With all the murder, sex and intrigue of premium cable (but now streaming on Netflix), the show also has beautiful costumes and intricate set work that alone make the historical fiction worth watching. The story centers on the rise and fall of Pope Alexander VI, who has children he marries off to form alliances like a king. There are plagues and castles and poison and shockingly immoral behavior. When you get to the cliffhanger ending, you can get rare closure. For free, online, writer Neil Jordan released The Borgia Apocalypse screenplay that ties up the story arc of the tragic, violent family. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Quarantine Confessions, Part 2

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BY CHEY SCOTT

’m sad. I’m frustrated. I’m exhausted.

It shouldn’t surprise me, or anyone else who feels the same. The experts tirelessly warned us we’d get here: a dark and deadly winter that was preventable in many ways.

The latest round of hopelessness and anxiety I’m feeling as 2020 comes to a close starkly contrasts with what seems like a fairly benign list of “confessions” I penned in mid-September. Then, I lamented my reliance on retail therapy as a beacon of better days ahead, subsisting on takeout to support local restaurants, taking lots of naps, and finding emotional comfort and purpose by caring for my cat.

The last few weeks have been exponentially more exhausting than I could have imagined just three short months ago. I’m now circling on an eternal carousel of

THE BUZZ BIN

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Here are the top 10 songs of the year according to Billboard: 1. “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd 2. “Circles,” Post Malone 3. “The Box,” Roddy Ricch 4. “Don’t Start Now,” Dua Lipa 5. “Rockstar,” DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch 6. “Adore You,” Harry Styles 7. “Life is Good,” Future feat. Drake 8. “Memories,” Maroon 5 9. “The Bones,” Maren Morris 10. “Someone You Loved,” Lewis Capaldi

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desperate emotions, spiraling from anger to depression to forced oblivion and around again. My personal outlets of shopping, snuggling and sleeping help, but can’t completely erase the struggle.

I’m distraught about so much death. Remember in March when public health experts said COVID-19 could kill up to 200,000 people in the U.S. if left unchecked, their worst-case prediction? We passed that unfathomable mark two months ago, topped a quarter-million a month ago, and still have months to go before the vaccine does its job.

I’m beyond shocked at how so many inside my social circles are still acting like the coronavirus isn’t a big deal. Just last week I found myself in the position of having to decline an invite to a (supposedly outdoor) holiday party.

I’m bitter I haven’t seen my little sister in almost a year and a half, yet people continue to travel for leisure like it’s “whatever.”

I’m heartbroken so many favorite venues and restaurants, like the Garland Theater, could close forever.

What I’d do to rewind back to the last night we went there, knowing it would be the last for far too long. Every time I drive by and see the “Stay Safe Spokane, We Miss You” on the marquee it’s a needle in my heart.

I’m frustrated at the lack of empathy all around.

Everyone’s hurting, some more than others. As much as I feel these painful, frustrating emotions, I’m incredibly fortunate to be in a very safe and stable place.

We’ve been at this for the better part of a year now, though, and the cold, wet, gray of winter in the Inland Northwest doesn’t make it any easier. Please take care of each other, and remember to allow yourself some grace, too. n

BROADWAY GOES HOLLYWOOD The Netflix film of Broadway musical The Prom brings serious star power to the screen. Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Kerry Washington are all on board for Ryan Murphy’s take on the story of Broadway has-beens and never-weres rushing to support a young lesbian woman banned from her Indiana school’s prom. It has some decent digs at stardom, Broadway liberals and right-wing religious zealots, and like most musicals it’s a good half-hour too long. But watching Streep camp it up as aging star Dee Dee Allen might make it worth a watch for musical lovers. (DAN NAILEN)

KITTY KINDNESS You’ve no doubt seen various vestiges of the “Spread Kindness, Not COVID” campaign, a Spokane County effort supporting business and public health during the pandemic. But perhaps you haven’t seen the highlight of the campaign, a nifty little video shot at the Big Dipper and featuring punk crew Itchy Kitty talking about the dire state of the touring and music industry, as well as the importance of, you know, being cool to each other. Hit Greater Spokane Incorporated’s YouTube channel for a peek. (DAN NAILEN)

TRUE BLUES John Belushi had only been a superstar for a few years before he died in 1982 at 33, but his influence on American comedy is incalculable. A new biographical documentary, simply titled Belushi, tracks his career from Second City to National Lampoon to the inaugural cast of Saturday Night Live, and details how he became an anti-establishment icon in massive hits like Animal House and The Blues Brothers. But R.J. Cutler’s film isn’t mere hagiography: It also shows us the pain and turbulence of Belushi’s post-fame life, and details the drug addiction that derailed him completely. It’s a tough but enlightening watch, and it’s currently streaming on Showtime. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

keep washing your hands. (it's icky not to!)

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A cheese and charcuterie board at Wanderlust Delicato.

DIY

Edible Board Games Fun to put together, even better to eat: The rise of the snack board

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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t’s hard to overstate the absolutely meteoric rise in popularity of charcuterie and snack boards this year.

Google trends show that searches for “charcuterie” spiked over the last 12 months, reaching the most popular point ever around Thanksgiving.

Millennials joke that growing up eating Lunchables led to a love of what my family referred to as a “snack out” meal. Or maybe it’s just that during this weird year when many people are moving from their bedroom to the makeshift living room office, then to the couch at the end of their work-from-home routine, it’s convenient to snack away. Who needs regular meals anymore?

Regardless of the roots of charcuterie’s rising celebrity, as people get ready to ring in 2021, or rather ring out 2020, there’s no denying that when it comes to sharing food with loved ones, this is the way. Here’s how to get started.

THAT’S NOT MY NAME

First thing’s first: Foodies and shop owners will point out that “charcuterie” really only refers to cured and salted meats and the stores that sell them. But we’ll allow that term to represent the overall rising popularity of boards or tables filled with all kinds of

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meats, cheeses, fruits, jams, crackers, olives, pickles and more. A more accurate name for your platter might be a snack or “graze” board for polite company, or a pig-out platter, snack station or smorgasbord if you wanna get funky with it.

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER: CHEESE

The best platters feature a variety of cheeses based on animal — sheep, goat, cow — and type: soft, semisoft, semihard and hard, says Amber Park, owner of Wanderlust Delicato.

At her shop in downtown Spokane, Park often makes snack plates to order but she’s also happy to help customers create their own, with a selection of jams, mustards, chocolates, olives, decorative boards and more, on top of the large selection of meat and cheese.

Don’t know how a certain cheese tastes? Sample it.

“Everything in the case is available to sample, so you can come in and see what flavors you like,” Park says. “It’s all cut to order, so if you’re trying to make a board for two people, I can guide you on how much you’d need, or if you’re making for up to 100 people — not during COVID — we can do that, too.”

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WHERE TO GET CREATIVE

In addition to Wanderlust Delicato and Rind and Wheat, here are some other places to find items for your board: EGGER’S MEATS NORTH 902 W. Rosewood Ave., 328-7701 THE CULINARY STONE 2129 N. Main St., Coeur d’Alene, 208-446-9330 GANDER AND RYEGRASS 404 W. Main Ave., 315-4613 MY FRESH BASKET 1030 W. Summit Pkwy, 558-2100 SONNENBERG’S MARKET AND DELI 1528 E. Sprague Ave., 535-4932 ALPINE DELI 417 E. Third Ave., 455-5148 THE GRAIN SHED 1026 E. Newark Ave., 241-3853 HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET 926 S. Monroe St., 624-1349 LINC FOODS (buy from local farms via their online market) Lincfoods.com, 505-0446

PROTEIN POWER

Of course, if snack boards get their name from cured meats, you probably want to have a good variety on there.

Park recommends using something made from a whole muscle like prosciutto, alongside options like a salami or soppressata, and for the adventurous, maybe even a pâté.

Ricky Webster, owner of the recently opened Rind and Wheat on downtown Spokane’s west end, says his shop even offers something called nduja, which he describes as kind of a spreadable meat butter.

“They take the scraps of the prosciutto leg and fortify it with a ton of spices and really finely mince it, and we sell it in a little log,” Webster says. “You can spread it on bread or crackers.”

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While leaving cheese and meat to be the star is advised, offering crackers and/or bread to go with your spread can help deliver the tasty cheese, meat and extras to your mouth hole.

Webster says he’s offering sourdough crackers and even seasonal savory shortbread and gingerbread.

“We’re doing one here in the shop that’s a dijon mustard gingerbread; it goes great with any cured and salted meat like a prosciutto or a salami,” Webster says.

Amber Park, owner of Wanderlust Delicato.

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THE SETUP

Park says bread and crackers are great to complement the platter, but she’ll often leave them off to the side because there’s no room on the board itself. If your family is large, laying out butcher paper on a table and setting out a larger spread works really well. With that method, you can even write labels for the types of cheese right on the table. Or, she says, customers have taken the labels she puts on their order and turned them into toothpick flags to help identify what everything is.

THE EXTRAS

While rosemary, eucalyptus leaves, and even lots of vegetables and fruit can make a platter more decorative, Park says she hates when there are inedible things to fill out a plate or things that won’t be eaten.

Know your audience and avoid too many vegetables that might add color but simply go to waste. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for plenty of other items to balance out all the salty with some sweet, sour and even heat.

Try complementing with jam, olives, pickled vegetables, dried fruits, or even a condiment people may have never tried before.

For instance, Webster says his shop currently has a spiced pear mostarda.

“Mostarda is this really unique condiment,” he says. “It’s sweet, spicy, salty, sour. It’s any seasonal fruit cooked with vinegar, chili flakes and a little sugar, and it enhances all the senses and tends to cleanse your palette and refreshes you for the next bite.” n

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DRY FLY DISTILLING'S DON POFFENROTH IN HIS NEW HOME

Distilling the Moment If Don Poffenroth had his druthers, he probably wouldn’t be relocating Dry Fly Distilling at the height of a global pandemic. But you can’t always choose exactly how events will unfold, and this particular $4.5 million move to a larger building has been in the works for at least four years.

“We have completely outgrown our current facility,” Poffenroth says. “We daily move 20 palettes outside of our building to store them in the parking lot and then move them back in at night because we just don’t have enough room.

And we have maximized the throughput of our current equipment. All those things together led us to where we’re at.”

The motivation for the move didn’t just come from the limitations of their present digs. Finding the right future location was crucial. The former Spokesman-Review press building on Monroe Street in downtown Spokane proved perfect.

“It is a unicorn. Not only is it in the core of downtown, it’s a building that was built for manufacturing. The structure is amazing. It’s beautiful,” he says. Unlike a previous candidate site north of downtown, it also passed the distillery’s rigorous engineering tests.

“There is little or no negative part of this story.”

Even with the challenges presented by COVID-19, the obstacles have thankfully been few. Because all of the stills and equipment in the new location are new as well, it’s helped to overcome some of the logistical hurdles that Dry Fly might have faced if its existing machinery needed to be moved.

The new equipment is “significantly bigger” than the current equipment, too. The fermentation tanks, for example, are 12 times larger. And the new building itself is close to 16,000 square feet — far larger than the 3,800 square feet of the distillery’s current space on Trent Avenue, where it’s been headquartered since 2007.

“Right now, we work very hard and very long to achieve what we have to do. And this new facility, because everything’s bigger, it’s actually less work and it’s more efficient.

This is Dry Fly growing up. It’s a change in our world,” Poffenroth says.

He believes that the increased capacity will open up much more promising opportunities in the future, such as of-

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fering rental spaces for events, hiring more staff and expanding into additional markets.

During the early days of the pandemic, Dry Fly briefly switched to manufacturing hand sanitizer (aka “Spokanitizer”) for the community as well as for Spokane County and Spokane Public Schools. They were joined in that switch by other local distilleries like Warrior Liquor, which has earned a reputation for creating connoisseur-quality whiskeys and vodkas.

Although Warrior’s premium spirits have remained on supermarket shelves throughout Spokane, co-founder Rich Clemson says the pandemic revealed the interlinkages his business has with local bars and restaurants.

“They’re getting slammed more than we are, and what happens to them directly affects us,” he says. “On-premise consumption is down by about 50 percent, and off-premise, which for us is grocery stores, is what’s keeping us afloat.”

Despite the ups and downs of business and the evolving public health mandates, Warrior has continued to expand its line of spirits with distinctive flavors. Vodkas flavored with pineapple, huckleberry, coconut, grapefruit and vanilla have been popular favorites. And whiskey fans can treat themselves with peanut butter cup, espresso and cherry flavors.

“I’m excited because we’re about to come out with some cream liqueurs that were really well received prior to the most recent shutdown,” Clemson says. “So we’ve tried to still be innovative and come out with new products. Every week we’re putting new product in barrels and letting it age for better days.” u Dry Fly Distilling’s new facility is at 1 N. Monroe St. Until the move is complete, it will continue to operate its production facility and tasting room at 1003 E. Trent Ave. Check out dryflydistilling.com for updates and online shopping. Visit Warrior Liquor and its onsite shop at 714 N. Lee St. You can also shop online at warriorliquor.com or call 413-1885 for orders and curbside pickup.

REVIVAL TEA COMPANY

SKIDMORE ALCHEMY BITTERS BOTTLE BAY BREWING CO. BEER | SOUTH HILL The South Hill’s original brewery and taproom! Offering clean and clear, wellbalanced craft beers that are satisfying to the experienced and novice beer lovers alike. Educated at the UC Davis Master Brewers Program, brewmaster and owner Marco Plastino employs science and engineering to create original, pleasing and accessible beers. While the indoor taproom is temporarily closed for seating, we have a beautiful, sprawling outdoor patio. Dry Fly Distillery’s Spokanitizer is at every table.

Looking for something to enjoy at home? We have half- and full-size growlers to-go (used growlers welcome, sanitized to order). Now offering 16oz tall-boy cans, too! 960-8049, 503 1/2 E. 30th Ave., bottlebaybrewing. com

HIEROPHANT MEADERY MEAD | GREEN BLUFF Hierophant Meadery is a winery specializing in botanically infused meads. Hierophant has locations in Green Bluff, as well as South Whidbey Island. All of Hierophant’s products are made with honey that is sourced locally in the PNW, and a majority of varietals we use are wildflower honeys. What better way to tout regional terroir than with regionally sourced honeys? All of our philanthropy is focused on environmental and pollinator conservation efforts. Meads that we make are on the drier side, ranging from off-dry wine styles that mimic a sauvignon blanc to lower ABV sparkling “sessionable” styles that mimic a cider or sparkling rose. 294-

0134, 16602 N. Day Mount Spokane Rd., hierophantmeadery.com

LIBERTY CIDERWORKS CIDER | DOWNTOWN At Liberty, we’re passionate about making world-class fine ciders, showcasing our region and the delicious versatility of cider made with cider-specific apples. We employ “natural wine” methods in all of our ferments, never filtering, and allowing each orchard’s native yeast to work its magic.

Our approach is inspired by global styles and traditions, but reflects Inland Northwest tastes and culture. It’s a philosophy expressed in everything we produce – and it’s one we think you’ll really enjoy!

Rigorous sanitation procedures, touch-free pay options, curbside delivery and online purchasing. 720-7374, 164 S. Washington St., libertycider.com

NATURAL 20 BREWERY BEER | SPOKANE VALLEY Natural 20 Brewery specializes in UK style brews and all natural ingredients. All beers are made with as close to 100% natural ingredients and processes as possible. Try the amazing variety of pop-culture and nerdy beers on tap, including several nitro specialites, along with monthly special beer releases. Curbside ordering, call-in ordering and to-go accommodations; patio area available outside; hand sanitizer, free masks and complimentary growler cleaning for outside growlers under all circumstances.

413-3663, 15310 E. Marietta Ave., natural20brewing.com

TEA | DOWNTOWN Come visit us in the heart of downtown Spokane located in a former speakeasy at our Spokane Tea House. Browse our entire selection of teas, and even watch our teamakers hard at work making our next blend. We ask everyone to please use the provided hand sanitizer in our downstairs lobby before entering our space. Complimentary masks as well as gloves are also provided at this station.

All surfaces including our point of sale, trays, countertops, tables and chairs are disinfected between every use. We are confident that with your help we can create a safe environment for you and our staff and can continue to stay open through these crazy times. 315-8099, 415 W. Main Ave., revivalteacompany.com

SKIDMORE ALCHEMY SPIRITS | BROWNE’S ADDITION Skidmore Alchemy’s Small Batch Tonics were born from the idea that, by returning to traditional methods and ingredients, cocktails could be transformed. Behind the bar, we learn how the flavor palate can expand to find new tastes by adding the tiniest of ingredients. At Skidmore Alchemy, we have created our bitters recipes to specifically tantalize the taste buds whether behind the bar or in your own kitchen.

We’ve used all organic herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables to pack our bottles with zest. Add a few dashes — all that bitters is gold. 413-2379, 1925 W. Fourth Ave., skidmorealchemy.com

THOMAS HAMMER COFFEE ROASTERS COFFEE | DOWNTOWN Thomas Hammer Coffee Roasters (THCR) brewed our first cups back in 1993. After seven years brewing coffee with Nordstrom and a local coffee company, the vision to grow a retail and wholesale coffee company where quality could be controlled start to finish was realized. Born and raised in Spokane, Thomas Hammer and the team have been delivering coffee to the city in one way or another for 34 years. We are proud to headquarter and be a part of downtown Spokane, strive to brew and sell the freshest coffee in the city, and above all are thankful for the support from all of our customers. We like to say… we were local before local was cool. Brew on. 535-4806, 210 W. Pacific Ave., hammercoffee.com

ABOUT Back to business • These weekly pages are part of a local marketing effort in support of the hospitality

sector brought to you by leading institutions and businesses to help promote the Spokane County economy, supported in part by Cares Act funding. With the goal of balancing commerce and public safety, you can follow along here in the Inlander, and via the links below, as local restaurants, shops and more share their stories and invite your support.

Fresh sheet deals • specials • updates OVER THE MOON RELICS LLC SPOKANE [ NORTH ] Bring in a new unwrapped toy for children at the West Central Community Center and receive 10% off an item.

(Limit 4 discounts per day.)

604 W Garland Ave

SPOKANE GOLF AND TRAVEL SHOW SPOKANE [ DOWNTOWN ] Amazing deals on travel, golf rounds and equipment. Free golf for every paid admission, give-a-ways and prizes.

You’ll find something to enjoy! facebook.com/spokanegolfandtravelshow

TIME BOMB COLLECTIBLES SPOKANE [ NORTH ] We are a little collectible shop that concentrates on vintage toys, old bicycles, rock and roll music, hot rod art prints, and vintage clothing!

600 West Garland Avenue

HOUDINI INTERACTIVE SPOKANE [ DOWNTOWN ] Houdini specializes in Experiential Marketing. Whether it be creating unique digital experiences mixed with physical installations or creating an all inclusive web experience.

108 North Washington Street

HOFFMAN MUSIC SPOKANE [ NORTH ] We carry everything you need to make music. We are a full line music store that specializes in acoustic and electric guitars, brasswind instruments!

1430 North Monroe Street

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Fresh sheet deals • specials • updates COMMELLINI ESTATE SPOKANE [ NORTH ] Holiday meal packages for your festive feast! Family Style Dinner To Go for 4, for $95 14715 N. Dartford Drive

SHAWN O'DONNELL'S IRISH PUB SPOKANE [ DOWNTOWN ] Our 12 Days of Christmas special is happening now! Stop in everyday for a great new deal! Delivery and take out available too!

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GIFTED HANDS SALON & SUPPLY SPOKANE VALLEY Gifted Hands has great services for the community of all types of hair. Providing braids, color, cut, dreads, extensions, relaxers, and much more.

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THE BLISSFUL WHISK SPOKANE VALLEY Neighborhood bakery serving scratch made pastries, croissant

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KING'S RESTAURANT SPOKANE VALLEY Specializing in Chinese cuisine, we have been proudly serving the Inland Northwest for the past 37 years! Check out take-out on our website.

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FEEL THE WINTER GLOW IN LIBERTY LAKE Since 2014, the Winter Glow holiday display has been making spirits bright as it’s hopped from venue to venue before ending up in its current home in Liberty Lake. For 2020, Winter Glow has returned to Orchard Park, offering a social distancing-friendly way for families to escape for a little extra holiday magic. Thanks to dozens of dedicated volunteers who spent weeks setting up the massive display of twinkling trees, trains, snowmen, animals and other festive forms, as well as local business sponsors, the display is open daily through New Year’s Day and remains free to enjoy. Donations are also gladly accepted online. For details, visit winterglowspectacular.com And while you’re in the neighborhood, make a pit stop at one of Liberty Lake’s great Brothers Office Pizzeria Ding How Eat Good Cafe Hay J’s Bistro

restaurants for some takeout to bring home after the light show. For a city its size, there really are a ton of great options out in the land between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. One of the mainstays is Hay J’s Bistro, owned by the mother-son duo of Rhonda Entner and Patrick Fechser.

His food is inspired by Italian cuisine, but he often includes Asian influences, too — “simple, traditional-style dishes, maybe with minor twists.”

Over the years, they’ve added the Butcher Block deli and Piccolo’s Artisan Pizza Kitchen right next door. Currently, Hay J’s is offering a 10 percent discount on all takeout orders — and they have heated outdoor seating, too.

Here’s a partial list of Liberty Lake food options; check in on hours and status for current takeout options:

Mexico Lindo The Pentagon Bistro True Legends Grill Palenque Mexican Restaurant

Fujiyama Pho Liberty Fieldhouse Pizza

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THE INCREDIBLES

With Pixar’s latest feature Soul hitting Disney+, a look back at the animation studio’s best

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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wenty-five years ago on Thanksgiving, Pixar’s Toy Story became the first feature-length computer animated film to land in theaters, and audiences showed up in droves. It topped the box office through the end of the year, was a critical smash, became the first animated film to be nominated for a best screenplay Oscar, and inspired video games, merchandise and three equally beloved sequels.

Twenty-two films later and Pixar is still going strong.

The studio’s latest, Soul, debuts on Disney+ on Christmas Day, and early buzz is stellar. In anticipation of Soul and in celebration of Toy Story’s

anniversary, we’re picking the 10 best Pixar features since 1995. This turned out to be unbelievably difficult — their success rate is remarkably high — so odds are one of your favorites didn’t make the cut. Sorry, Cars fans.

10 MONSTERS, INC.

(2001)

Sometimes the right casting choice makes all the difference, and rarely have actors’ voices so perfectly matched their animated counterparts than Billy Crystal as the neurotic Max and John Goodman as gentle giant Sulley. Their vocal camaraderie lends Monsters, Inc. a genuine sweetness, and the exciting roller coaster

ride through a warehouse of the bedroom doors is one of Pixar’s best set pieces.

9 RATATOUILLE

(2007)

It might take a minute to get over the potentially gut-churning premise of a rat running its disease-ridden paws all over a Parisian kitchen, but this particular rodent, Remy, is so cute that you tend to overlook any potential health code violations. Like the French cuisine at its center, Ratatouille has quite a sophisticated palate, and ends with a surprisingly high-minded treatise on the art of criticism. ...continued on next page

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8 WALL-E

(2008)

I know plenty of people who consider Andrew Stanton’s tale of a lonely, heartsick robot to be the best Pixar has to offer. For me, it sags in its more conventional, manic second half, and it’s always felt wanting, even with its truly surreal live-action cameo from the late, great Fred Willard. But it’s impossible to deny that the movie’s first 45 minutes or so are animated bliss, a nearly silent (and nearly flawless) symphony of movement, music and gentle slapstick.

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4 INSIDE OUT

(2015)

So much kids’ entertainment is aggressively upbeat, all bright colors and bouncy music and messages of empowerment. That sort of thing is important, sure, and Inside Out sure looks like it’s going to be that kind of movie. But its central message is a remarkably complex one, placing equal weight and importance on the full spectrum of emotion — not just happiness, but also sadness, anger, confusion and everything else. It’s fitting, then, that the movie is funny and bouncy and sad, and driven by the sort of clever but literal conceit that both kids and grown-ups relate to.

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The one that started it all, and it still holds up despite the leaps and bounds made in CGI since it broke new ground. It’s sort of impossible to look at the original Toy Story with fresh eyes, because its framework has become so familiar in the ensuing years and its characters have evolved into toy box staples themselves. But it’s worth revisiting if you haven’t in a while, and don’t be surprised if you binge the rest of the series immediately afterward.

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Here we have the first genuine inclusion of a Pixar staple: the scene that comes out of nowhere and positively pummels your tear ducts. In this case, it’s the “When She Loved Me” musical sequence, where we see the heartbreaking progression of Jessie the cowgirl going from cherished toy to garbage left on the side of the road. It predates similar musical moments in Up and Coco, and the film surrounding it is a repudiation of the rule that sequels are always pale imitations.

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FINDING NEMO (2003)

One of the things that has always set Pixar films apart from their kiddie contemporaries is their preternatural sense of structure. Finding Nemo is one of the studio’s most ingeniously constructed films, one that doesn’t have a wasted moment, and that merges the loose comedy of a road comedy with the breathless pacing of a ticking-clock thriller. It also boasts one of Pixar’s best supporting casts — the surfer dude turtles, the vegetarian sharks, the solipsistic seagulls, and all the denizens of that dentist’s office aquarium.

3 THE INCREDIBLES

(2004)

When The Incredibles opened, we were still a few years removed from the release of Iron Man and the start of the Marvelled multiplex takeover. Sure, the X-Men and Spider-Man movies had been blockbusters, but we hadn’t yet been inundated, and this sharp, genuinely thrilling piece of animation is still better than most live action superhero movies we’ve gotten since. The premise of caped crusaders leading humdrum suburban lives is funny enough, but director Brad Bird gives us some of the finest action sequences ever rendered in a computer, and it’s no surprise he’d go on to make one of the best Mission: Impossible movies.

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The crown jewel of the Toy Story franchise, and arguably one of the greatest animated films ever made.

For viewers who were kids when the series began (myself included), Toy Story 3 sort of represented the end of an era: It’s a film about growing up and moving on, about leaving childhood behind without truly letting go of it entirely, and the roller coaster ride that is its final 15 minutes — instant waterworks. I’ve heard some people argue that this one is almost too dark (the incinerator sequence is a bit intense for a G-rated cartoon), but the series logically builds to this moment, and it ends up being the rare third series entry that matches, and arguably surpasses, its predecessors.

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This gem is now most famous (or, perhaps, infamous) for a montage in its opening 10 minutes, told mostly without dialogue, which shows two characters’ lives unfolding: love, disappointment, heartbreak and, ultimately, death. It’s an iconic sequence; it even has its own Wikipedia page. But it’s easy to forget how truly weird and wonderfully inventive the rest of the movie is, a high-flying adventure involving an irascible old man, his reluctant Boy Scout sidekick, a reclusive aeronaut, talking dogs and a dopey bird. Up is full of invention and visual wit — the house floating away on balloons is such an evocative image in its own right — and every time I watch it, I’m reminded all over again how deftly it mixes genuine emotion with some truly absurd and exciting action set pieces. n

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Marshall McLean returned in 2020 with new attitude, and a Christmas song.

LOOK BACK

Rearview Mirror

Cami Bradley, Marshall McLean and more local musicians look back at the trials and tribulations of 2020

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER 38 INLANDER DECEMBER 23, 2020

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ow’s the time of year when we look backward as well as forward, taking stock of the past and projecting into the future. As for 2020, not everyone wants to think back too far, but we asked some folks from the Spokane music scene to reflect on the last 12 months, as well as the new projects they’re releasing in the waning moments of the year.

“THE WORLD WENT ON PAUSE”

It was back in March that Cami Bradley was about to unleash a new project called Carmen Jane, introducing a darker, more synth-driven pop sound and starting plans for a tour.

Then lockdowns started happening. And then Brad-

ley’s father died after a long illness, and everything came to a halt.

“I was not only grieving, but we were scrambling to try and figure out what we were going to do,” Bradley says. “The whole world went on pause, including me, and I would say it took me probably a month or two to kind of climb out of the sadness of it all.”

She decided to push the Carmen Jane release date to September, knowing that the prospect of hitting the road was out of the question, anyway. She also reworked several of the songs, which became even heavier to reflect the pangs of loss that came with a turbulent year. It was nice to retreat into the writing process, Bradley says, even without the kind of spontaneity that comes from being in a studio.

“I think that there was like a facade for a lot of people looking at musicians — like, ‘You have all this time; you get to write all this music,’” Bradley says. “But we didn’t have all of the resources that we normally do, which in some ways was good, because I had to morph my music.”

Three Carmen Jane singles — “FUN,” “Your Madness” and “Numb” — have dropped this year, and more will follow. It’s been a rough year, admittedly, but Bradley says she’s encouraged by the local support she’s seen, and not just within the music scene.

“Look at our community banding around local music and restaurants and businesses, and just being awesome.

Spokane seems to be that, especially in times of crisis,” Bradley says.

“LIKE A TIME CAPSULE”

As he chats with the Inlander, Spokane hip-hop artist Jango is heading over the pass to Seattle, where he’ll be appearing in a music video with Seattle-based artist Macntaj. Of course, video sets don’t quite look like they used to.

“Typically, the more people, the merrier,” he says.

“But we’re having to re-strategize and rethink our shoots and our treatments for these videos, because we can’t have that many people [on set].”

In the first months of 2020, Jango had planned to put out new music in the summer. That project was pushed back, and what dropped instead was October’s Espresso & Soul, recorded during the pandemic. As he describes it, it’s about “the experiences, the emotions and the trials and tribulations I was going through during this pandemic, condensed into a three-song tape.” It tackles the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests and the mental stresses of living in a world that’s gone into lockdown, but it’s also designed as a testament to Black excellence.

“WHAT WE’RE MADE OF UNDERNEATH”

It’s been a long time since the Spokane scene has heard from Marshall McLean. One of the most popular singersongwriters in town, McLean had taken a break from making music well before venue closures and restrictions of in-person gatherings.

But it wasn’t until the reality of the pandemic set in that the overwhelming sense of confinement and loneliness soon followed, McLean says. It was around that same time that a switch flipped: He needed to lighten up a bit.

“In the past, I felt like all the songs had to be this crazy manifesto about my deep longings and pain, and I’ve mined and explored and ripped up all the diamonds out of it,” McLean says. “I think [the pandemic] has really caused a lot of artists to really dismantle themselves and build themselves back up again, kind of figure out what we’re made of underneath.”

That blithe spirit comes through loud and clear in McLean’s newest release, the cheeky holiday song “For Christmas, Just Get Me a Beer,” which he performed during Lucky You Lounge’s livestream Christmas special.

It was born of a jokey jingle he’d sing around the house, but its attitude reflects the general malaise a lot of us are feeling around this time of year.

And now that he’s back in writing and recording mode, McLean says his next focus is on his once-defunct Americana band Horse Thieves, which he has reformed in recent months.

“When everything started unfolding and tearing apart, the isolation for me was really tough. And I just found myself reaching out to old friends that I hadn’t talked to in a while, calling people on the phone and talking like we used to,” McLean says. “The music in my life is really only as good as the friendships in my life.”

focus throughout this pandemic has been on the business side of things, and also on the artists themselves.

“We may lose a few restaurants, and we may lose a few venues. But I don’t think people realize we’re going to lose artists,” Ryker says. “There’s going to be bands and artists that do not survive this lack of shows, lack of revenue, lack of ability to move.”

Back in March, when it became clear that most of the artists she represents would lose a part of their livelihood, Ryker says she went into hyperdrive — major projects went on the back burner, while side hustles became main focuses.

“I thrive on the idea that there’s a next step after this step,” she says. “But I’ve had to really focus on how to keep these artists motivated … and keep a watchful eye over their mental health. There’s a therapy to live performance for them. There’s a therapy to being connected to fans. Some of these guys are in it just for that. That’s their drive.”

That has been exhausting, she admits, but it’s sort of standard operating procedure. And it’s not enough for her to already be looking ahead to 2021: “I’m looking at 2025,” she says.

By then, she hopes that local scenes have built themselves back up again, and have strengthened ties with the artists that keep those scenes moving.

“There’s so much more to this than making music and doing a few concerts. And I think 2020 really brought that to light,” Ryker says. “These artists have a chance to be great, and for the community to support that greatness.”

“I SWEPT AWAY THE COBWEBS”

Spokane rapper Jango.

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“Each body of work is like a time capsule,” Jango says. “I’m taking the time to be like, ‘OK, I’m gonna expose this part about myself. I’m gonna get this out.’

There are definitely some topics where I might question if I’m being a little too personal, but at the end of the day, I always feel a sense of relief, getting things out.”

It’s the live performances he really misses, he says, and you need look no further than his energetic appearance on a November Lucky You livestream to know that the guy was made to be on a stage.

“I really want to be able to give my fans that experience again,” he says. “I really want to be able to connect to them in a face-to-face way.”

“I’M LOOKING AT 2025”

One of the busiest figures in the Spokane scene, Ryker is a true multi-hyphenate — a manager-mentor-entrepreneur, if you will. It’s not much of a surprise, then, that her

The first six months of the pandemic hit Dylan Black pretty hard. The musician, who performs gothic and glittery dance-pop under the moniker Soul Man Black, had lost his server job because of restaurant shutdowns, and he spent most of his time sitting around the apartment, not seeing anyone or doing anything.

But then summer arrived, and a fog lifted. Black decided to go back to school, studying audio engineering at Spokane Falls Community College.

“I swept away the cobwebs and was like, ‘I’m going to try and make the most out of this that I can,’” Black says. “When this is over, I want to have a little something to show for it.”

He also started making music again. The first new Soul Man Black project was a music video for the song “Better (Than You),” released in September. Now there’s a new album in the works, the second installment in a planned trilogy that began with last year’s Free Soul. It’ll keep the same dreamy, synthy sound, Black says, but it’ll be thematically richer and more mature.

And now he’s planning for a virtual Soul Man Black show, his first live performance in months. It will livestream through the Globe on Jan. 1, a day before his 26th birthday. He’s used to doing things as a one-man band, but in the last few months, Black says he’s found that he’s been more collaborative than ever — without the spotlight leaving him, of course.

“There’s [more] camaraderie, people willing to collaborate and find creative ways to get the same job done in more affordable ways. Everybody’s in a pinch,” Black says. “The last three months or so have been finding new ways to do the things I love to do. I’m the busiest I’ve ever been, really.” n

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WELLNESS PARTY UP!

You mention rapper DMX, and I’m automatically interested.

Not only does he have some seriously fierce tunes in his catalog, but he’s a fascinating character with a history of addiction, prison, Christian fellowship and serious virility (15 kids!). So when something called “DMX-Mas-Eve” popped up in the ol’ Facebook feed, I was ready to sign up no matter what it was.

Turns out, it’s for what sounds like a most excellent hip-hop yoga class hosted online on Christmas Eve by Spokane’s Abide Yoga Collective. If I can perfect a downward dog while simultaneously replicating DMX’s legendary bark, I’ll be a happy guy for the holidays! Once you sign up (do it by Dec. 23) and pay, you’ll get a link for the class and to its accompanying Spotify playlist full of DMX and other rappers.

— DAN NAILEN DMX-Mas-Eve Yoga Class • Thu, Dec. 24 at 8 am • $10 • Online; details at Facebook: Abide Yoga Collective

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THEATER ALL IS CALM

COMEDY LEVEL UP THE LAUGHS

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 • Sat, Dec. 26 at 8 pm • KSPS Channel 7 • Details at ksps.org

Virtual Comedy Classes • Starts Mon, Dec. 28; dates/times vary • $150/session • Online; details at spokanecomedyclub.com

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a remarkable piece of theater that won a 2019 Drama Desk Award for “Unique Theatrical Experience” for its retelling of a true tale from World War I when German and Allied forces put down their guns and celebrated the season together for one night. It all starts with a German soldier stepping into the “no man’s land” between the opposing forces and breaking into “Stille Nacht” — the production takes it from there, weaving songs and real letters and stories from 30 WWI characters played by 10 actors into a mesmerizing show. The production has been on stage in the region in the past and has local ties via executive producer Laura Little and W.J. Lazarus, who directed this version for television that’s hitting KSPS this weekend.

— DAN NAILEN

If you’re the funniest person in your family or friend group, consider using some excess downtime this pandemic winter to boost your game by signing up for comedy classes with Spokane Comedy Club. A series of Zoom-based workshops are starting soon, with the option to sign up for Monday or Tuesday night classes that meet for a total of four weeks and are capped off by a live, online “graduation” show for friends and family. Sessions can also be a great last-minute gift idea. Pro standup comedian Cory Michaelis leads the course; he’s based in Everett and has opened for several big-name comedy stars, as well as topping comedy charts with his own comedy specials and regularly performing at clubs across the Pacific Northwest.

— CHEY SCOTT

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It’s a proud fact we locals love to share, and often: Famous crooner Bing Crosby was Spokane born and bred, and a Gonzaga alum to boot. But how much do you know about Crosby’s most famous song, “White Christmas?”

Find out with a new online exhibit by Gonzaga history students and their professor Ray Rast. The iconic track, first performed in 1941 amid the turmoil of World War II, was penned by Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant, and helped redefine Americans’ view of Christmas, both making it more commercialized but also inclusive, the exhibit argues. “Berlin was not trying to change the Christmas tradition in America, but this song was different than most of the carols that came before it. It did not mention the birth of Jesus, angels or wise men — and it was a song that all Americans, including Jewish immigrants, could embrace.”

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MUSIC HARD ROCK HOLIDAY

The average lifespan of a local band isn’t typically all that long. It’s just the natural order of things. But the hard rock band Belt of Vapor has been on the Spokane scene for more than a decade and a half, and while that time has included some pauses in productivity here and there, the trio of Aaron Powell, Bob Homburg and Justin Walter never really called it quits. The band released a couple new (and wildly different) singles this year — the introspective, fingerpicked “It Turned Into Today” and the overpowering, guttural “Ulysses” — and you can check them out, alongside some BoV favorites, as part of Neato Burrito’s ongoing virtual concert series this weekend. No doubt you’ll be sitting around in a stupor the night after Christmas, so you might as well tune in and crank it up loud.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Belt of Vapor • Sat, Dec. 26 at 8 pm • $5 • Streaming at babybarneatoburrito.veeps.com

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I typically avoid conflict to keep from having ugly conversations. I’m in an unhappy relationship, and it’s clearly not fixable. I always rely on the other person to end a relationship, even when it’s making me really miserable.

Why do I do this, and how do I change? —Stuck Girl Note that fighter planes have an “ejection seat” and not a “go down in a flaming wreck” seat.

Fighter plane seat design is a helpful model for AMY ALKON relationships that have run their course. Facts don’t change because you refuse to acknowledge their existence. Your approach -- which I’ll call “nonfrontational” — is particularly counterproductive. Clinical psychologist Randy Paterson calls this a “passive” style of responding to conflict, driven by a goal of avoiding conflict “at all costs.” In fact, what you end up avoiding is not conflict but temporary emotional turbulence — the queasyfraidyanxiousness v that would come with taking steps to resolve it. So, by avoiding conflict, you end up having much more conflict for a much longer stretch of time!

But say you braved up this afternoon and told your boyfriend it’s over. It would feel miserable in the moment, and that misery would have plenty of company as you did all those fun breakup things like sawing the couch in half.

But then you’d be out v instead of neck-deep in still miserable for another three months, or as long as it takes for your boyfriend to notice he’s had enough.

Healthy assertiveness starts with telling yourself that you have a right to try to get your needs met. Feeling worthy might take some emotional renovation. If so, do get on that, either on your own or with a therapist. However, there’s a secret to asserting yourself, even as a person who’s long avoided it. You don’t have to feel worthy or even comfortable in order to do it. Admit that it’ll feel scary, totally foreign, and generally like a big pile of suck to assert yourself — and then do it anyway.

You might also apply this to other areas of your life, from friendships to work.

When a situation you’re in becomes irreparably toxic and awful, there’s a reasonable thing to do, and it isn’t staying in it and having the cat join you once a week in a small private funeral for your enthusiasm.

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SUPPORT NEEDED - CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Children’s Home Society (CHSW), the oldest and largest family services organization in Washington, has remained nimble in its efforts to continue serving children and families through the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there is still more that needs to be done. Now through Dec. 31, your donation to its Holiday Giving Campaign will make a positive impact on the lives of children and families we serve in the Spokane community, and across the state. You can support CHSW by purchasing a Red Stocking from a Horizon Credit Union branch in Spokane or donating through the website. Our families are facing extreme hardships and challenges, and together we will help pull them through. childrenshomesociety.org/holidaygivingcampaign

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I’m a woman in my early 30s. I grew up on a steady diet of romance novels, and I keep longing for the true “soul mate” love from my fictional world. No guy ever seems right, so I never feel that yearning, intense desire, and connectivity I’ve been searching for. I feel more of those emotions reading romance novels than I ever did with any boyfriend. Do you believe each person has a “true love”? Am I too much of a romantic? —Lonely Dreamer So, going by the romance novel standard, you’re just looking for that handsome, rapey, billionaire sociopath who follows you around like a puppy.

Unfortunately, a belief in “soul mates” is about as realistic. Each of us supposedly has our one and only perfect romantic match. Naturally, this person is conveniently located and culturally in lockstep and is never, say, a nomadic desert goatherd who thinks his life will finally be perfect if only he turns you into wife number eight.

A person who believes in soul mates has a “destiny theory” of love, explains social psychologist C. Raymond Knee. They think two people are either fated to be together or they’re not; whether a relationship is good or bad is beyond their control.

They can be quick to give the boot to “less-than-perfect candidates” and to see any conflict as a sign a relationship should be abandoned as “just another distraction in the search for perfection.” (I think he left out the word “endless.”)

Back here in reality, all humans are fallible, and being two different people (who are not dead) often means wanting conflicting things. People who understand this have a “growth” or “work-it-out” theory of love. They believe a happy, satisfying relationship doesn’t just happen. It takes work. It’s something two people create through what Knee describes as a paired process of “conquering obstacles and growing closer.”

Probably the best anyone can do in seeking a partner is figure out their personal must-haves (physically, emotionally, ethically, and any other essential “ly”s) and then find somebody with enough of them to make it worth working to build something together. Realistically, maybe your soulmate is that Mr. Wonderful who finds you beautiful while you’re drooling into your pillow — who you can sometimes hear from the next room chewing like something that eats hay out of a bucket. (All you need is not love but a pillow to smother him with and the wisdom to instead use it to stifle your screams.) n ©2020, 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)

CHEERS KARMA FINALLY SHOWED UP Mr. Bacon, you made 2020 end on a high.

Thank you for bringing Karma in with the snow! Hell has frozen over and it feels so good!

I SAW YOU WOMAN! The person “loving” you is grasping and clinging to any shred of hope that you won’t come to know that argumentative PASSION(?) and CHEMISTRY(?) is “their” persuasive manipulation that has kept you offering multiple chances. Accusations and breaches of trust are the least of your problems. Be careful of that controlling theme. Abuse might be the shadow clouding your view. Look into the definitions, available at Domestic Abuse Services sites. Consider reading: “How To Be An Adult in Relationships” (Richo). “Safe People” (Cloud..?)

“Proper Care and Feeding of Relationships” (Schlessinger). Abuse, addiction, and affairs are huge, high mountains to climb, but there is a clear view on the other side. Don’t look back, at least not now. Consider this glaring reality: Is there a good reason the person loving you can’t write and mail a thoughtful letter of apology and intent and send it to you in the mail? Why such a public forum for the regret? Stick to your decision if you are on a healthy path. Stay the course. There is love that is real and honest in life. Don’t settle for bad habits. Let’s hope the person “loving” you is plea-ing from a healthier place on their own journey. Stay well.

Stay happy. Stay hope-filled for your best life.

ROCKET BAKERY PASTRY DONATION To the generous donor of the Rocket Bakery pastries to the Respiratory Therapy Department at Sacred Heart Medical Center, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Our morale has been in need of a little boost. We are so grateful to you and to all the other generous donors of food and other miscellaneous items/treats. Thank you for supporting us and thank you for supporting our local businesses!

ENCOURAGING WORDS “Christina, Patient Advocates’ Office and staff of Appeals-CITC of our Spokane VA

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HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY To the greatest best friend a girl could ask for. I hope that your day is filled with murder mysteries and boardgames. Made with Love pop tarts and key lime pie. Corn dogs and a Sonic slushy. Overall I hope it is filled with you knowing how much I appreciate you. No matter what has happened, you’ve always been standing beside me. I can’t tell you what it means to know that you’ll always be here. We survived our 20s together, now it’s time to take on the 30s. Happy birthday Leah :) SMILE WITH YOUR EYES Cheers to the elderly couple I saw at the grocery store.

Even though you were wearing masks, I could tell you were smiling at people.

Way to spread positivity.

MEANINGFUL MERLYN’S Thank you to the man and child who asked me to take their picture at Merlyn’s with the dragon. It was so lovely to see you both

luck, support and a strong sense of community. We may not be as close and things have changed, but there is good in the world. It’s OK not to feel good though, and sometimes the best thing a human can do is just sit with another in the dark. So when you read this, please know someone is thinking about you. I wish you the best of luck.

JEERS DISCRIMINATION OF A NEW KIND To all those terrible restaurants & businesses out there that won’t take your order over the phone, shame on you.

Not everyone has or trusts the internet.

My Grandma does not have the net or a smart phone. I don’t trust the net enough to shop & pay for things on it.

I know lots of people who have been scammed. Money is money; take the money that’s offered and be grateful!!

There’s debit options for curbside pick

Having such a normal interaction in these abnormal times made my whole day!

Medical Center. I had a dispute with the Veterans Administration and its overwhelmingly intimidating and impersonal bureaucracy, and was about to give up dealing with it. Christina, on her own initiative, spoke with the local VA Appeals person/people and then called to tell me they had a way for me to continue my appeal, ultimately resulting in my success and the VA reimbursing — saving me over $1,000. Christina’s and the Appeals staff’s encouraging words, care for this veteran, initiative, and advocacy made all the difference. Thank you, Christina and the Appeals staff.

Thank you, Charles D. and Shane B., staff members of US Rep. C.M. Rodgers’ office, Their help in resolving my dispute with the Veterans Administration was crucial in its successful resolution.”

having such fun while being masked up and socially distant. Having such a normal interaction in these abnormal times made my whole day!

IN A HARSH WORLD To the person reading this, I feel like it’s important for you to hear this. You a beautiful person, someone worth happiness and love.

We make mistakes in our lives but that doesn’t mean we are our mistakes, we just need to learn from them. There are so many people on this planet, but not a single one of them are like you. You are important, you are worthy of love and support. You reading this, please remember that even through this hardship, you aren’t alone. I truly hope, reader, that the rest of this year and the rest of your life brings you happiness,

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up or ask for numbers over the phone for delivery. How about accepting your eatery’s gift card over the phone? Think about it next time you’re crying that there aren’t many customers.

TRANSPHOBIA IN ‘RACISM AT MUSIC STORE’ JEER Being angry that your partner was treated badly by racist people is understandable. Racism is not acceptable. But “genderly confused”?

That is transphobia, and also unacceptable. Shame on you, asking for more respect while simultaneously disrespecting people.

MALDEN-PINE CITY “Dear Cathy Must Retire, I noticed you have been tapped for a very influential position. What a sick joke. Malden and Pine City burned

over a 105 days ago and FEMA has yet to respond. Your support for the current administration policies have turned our farmers into welfare queens. Our ranchers are at the mercy of huge corporate ranchers and imported beef from thousands of miles away. The head of the VA should have been fired months ago.

Over 100,000 Veterans work at the Post Office, but your vote was against these men and women who have to deal with worn out machinery and an impossible funding of their retirement 75 years in the future. Influential what a joke.”

SAIL ON, STATING THE OBVIOUS I was walking my dog on W Summit this past Sunday close to 4 pm. You, sailing by on your bike, felt the need to state the obvious, “do you know you’re walking in the middle of the road?” I could only think to answer, “yes,” but what I want to have said was so much more. Yes, I’m leaving space for the girl walking towards me on the sidewalk?

Yes, did you know there’s a pandemic on? Yes, did you know that’s none of your business? Yes, and what’s it to you? It’s a small thing, inserting yourself briefly into my life with such a comment, but it’s also so much more — an unwelcome intrusion, and questioning of my judgment when all I wanted was to be considerate. Something that you, zipping by on your bike, apparently know little of. To ameliorate my wounded pride, I just wished you negative karma... slipping a chain or hitting a pothole unexpectedly, something small like that. From one biker to another, sail on in your douche canoe, and here’s to you finding some common decency. n

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Maybe the cannabis lover on your nice list this year has four legs and a furry body. Or maybe you just want to share the benefits of CBD with your favorite critter. In that case, we suggest checking out Honest Paws’ Wellness Bites. These treats are said to promote calmness and a healthier immune system in dogs. $25, Apex Cannabis

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