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homas Jefferson had his own problems with the press, yet he said over and over that the freedom of the press was critical to any democracy. He famously wrote: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Contrast this with President Trump, who plays to his base with: “The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!” Enemy of the people? More than one reporter has received death threats motivated by this sort of irresponsible mudslinging. Frankly, if anything, the media have been overly deferential. Trump owes his nomination to a media that was more concerned with ratings than with serious reporting. During the campaign, there was Trump stalking Hillary Clinton during their second debate — the press moderators said nothing. And let’s not forget that nauseating sexist media performance put on by the now discredited and shamed Matt Lauer: All his questions to Clinton were about the emails, while nothing but softballs came Trump’s way.
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oday, instead of taking what Trump says and does head on, the TV media especially tend to rely on euphemisms that unavoidably take the edge off the subject: Here are just three examples, all falling under the heading “words matter:” Euphemism No. 1: The media continues to call what the Russians did in 2016 “meddling.” Actually, Russia in 2016, and now again in 2018, was and is conspiring (up to and including blackmail and theft) to “sabotage” our elections. This can’t be reduced to “meddling.” According to the FBI and all our other intelligence agencies, the Russians seek to turn our democratic electoral process into a kind of orchestrated shell game. Euphemism No. 2: The press writes that Russia is engaged in “collusion” when in reality Russia is engaged in “conspiracy.” From Black’s Law Dictionary: “You can have collusion without having a criminal conspiracy, but you can’t have a criminal conspiracy without some sort of collusion.” What we have here is criminal conspiracy dependent on collusion. Let’s start calling it what it is. Euphemism No. 3: Today we aren’t just seeing yet one more display of Trump’s dysfunctional management style. He asks the public to support a dictatorial leader of an adversarial nation that has attacked an American election, and he dismisses exposure of this as “fake news.”
In fact, it wasn’t the press that exposed the dark doings of Trump’s favorite dictator — it was our entire intelligence community! Please, media, stop saying he just has a unique management style. Trump regards Putin to be fine fellow, and tells us that getting along with him is a “good thing.” Good thing? Traditionally we refer to aiding and abetting an adversary — and the Putin regime is exactly that — as “treason.” Trump sees getting along with Putin to be good business, and I’d bet that if Congress and the American public ever got to see his tax returns we would all learn just how good business has been. Which brings us to Euphemism No. 4, the most important of all: The media refer to Trump as a populist, which sounds kind of folksy, when in fact he is a textbook demagogue.
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he current edition of The American Scholar features a lengthy article by historian W. Robert Connor, titled “A Vacuum at the Center.” Connor, a senior editor for International Affairs Review, draws distinctions between the terms “populist” and “demagogue.” First he points out that the word populist was seldom used before the time of the Farmer’s Alliance movement in the 1880s. But today, because it sounds less threatening, it’s used broadly, certainly by Trump supporters. Connor then takes us all the way back to the Peloponnesian Wars, when the term demagogue was used almost exclusively. He writes: “Demagogues, unlike populists leaders do not have to stand on a well-crafted platform or espouse any longterm vision. Their strength comes from their skill at expressing and manipulating emotions.” Does that ring a bell? Connor refers to Cleon, the demagogue who came to power after Pericles died. Cleon “shouts, he bawls, his voice cracks. It’s the new show in town, constant entertainment, hard not to watch.” Populists do make policy mistakes, but most can easily be corrected. In contrast, the damage inflicted by demagogues, argues Connor, “can be more long lasting.” Alexander Hamilton, writing in the Federalist Papers, warned future generations against demagogues. He suggested that most come to power as Cleon-like entertainers but end up as tyrants. Donald Trump is our modern day Cleon, a classic demagogue. Republicans, including Cathy McMorris Rodgers, need to find the courage to denounce him. n
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COMMENT | COMMUNITY Within a couple of weeks, Kevin came out to the entire law firm and soon after moved to Seattle to be closer to his family and better medical treatment. But even with some of the best doctors in the country, in those days AIDS was still a death sentence and he didn’t have long. But even from hundreds of miles away, Kevin was startled by the reaction he received after coming out. He thought he would be ostracized by Lebanon’s conservative community — an unfortunately reasonable fear. But, for the most part, he wasn’t. People who had loved him kept on loving him. And, for the first time, he felt that they loved him as he really was.
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grew up in Lebanon, Oregon — a small, rural, logging town. The first time my parents met an openly gay man was in the mid1980s. They’d known Kevin for years. He was a junior partner at the same law firm where my father worked. They were so close that Kevin had just spent the last couple of days tirelessly helping them prepare for a big Greek baptism for my younger brother and cousin planned for that weekend, with family and friends flying in from all over.
After finishing preparations, Kevin pulled my parents aside and said he had to tell them something. He wasn’t going to be able to make the baptism. He was gay and he was dying from AIDS. He has to be in treatment the next day. My mother, a vibrant Greek woman, prone to vocal and physical affection, wanted to hug him, but she paused. AIDS was relatively new and misinformation was rampant. While we know better now, she was worried. She has us three young boys and was uncertain of the risk. And then there was this man, this human being, her friend, standing right in front of her in pain. My mother paused, and then she embraced him.
My father visited Kevin multiple times, spending hours in the hospital rooms — telling jokes, sharing stories and talking about life and death with his friend. During one visit, Kevin told my father that if he could go back — go back to before he had AIDS, go back to before he lay dying in a hospital bed, go back to before he was out — he wouldn’t. The power of being accepted, as his true full self, made it all worth it. Kevin learned something important when he came out, but he taught my small hometown something even more important. Around the time Kevin died, my father was at the Lebanon Elks Lodge. Kevin and he had gone there together often to tell jokes, share stories and play cards. An old timer, a conservative gentleman, approached my father to reminisce about Kevin. His affection for Kevin and his sorrow at losing him were transparent. Near the end of their conversation, he remarked, “You think it’s us and them. And then, you realize, it’s just us.” So much has changed since Kevin lived, came out and died over 30 years ago. Lebanon isn’t a logging town anymore, but is now home to a growing medical school. AIDS is no longer a death sentence. Acceptance of LGBT people has risen dramatically. But perhaps a couple of lessons endure. For one, the embrace of love matters, perhaps more than anything, even life itself. And two, in these conflicted times, where so many consciously seek to divide us along the same tired battle lines of race, gender, sexual orientation or immigration status, in the end, if we really look around at those standing next to us, hopefully we can still realize: It’s just us. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s GOP politics.
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Readers respond to our coverage of the primary congressional election, which showed a close race between Democrat Lisa Brown and Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers:
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Readers respond to an article about a potential plan to replace Joe Albi Stadium in downtown Spokane (“Leaving It on the Field,” 8/8/18):
PAUL SELL: A downtown stadium would be much better than the decrepit, decaying, out-of-date stadium that’s so far away from any of the high schools in the area that no one, including students, teachers and parents, wants to go anywhere near it. It’s hurting local high school football to keep Joe Albi around, but a stadium in the middle of downtown could bring in a whole new audience and revitalize high school sports around our area. TERRY PARKER: Athletics rob from academics, which is what public schools are developed for. The leisure time activities of your children and the costs are the responsibility of parents or other private individuals, not taxpayers. We need to get the jock mentality out of schools too. Most of the “coaches” who are also teachers would have nothing to do with education if it didn’t include coaching as well. We need people who want to be teachers, not a bunch of ex-jocks trying to revive faded glory. n
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o to any weed store in Washington these days, and you’re likely to leave a happy customer. Strains of seemingly all kinds stock the shelves. A gram sells for less than $10. Yet for those in the cannabis industry, the endless selection and continually dropping prices are emblematic of a serious problem. “There’s too much weed,” says Eric Skaar, general manager at Sativa Sisters. In Inlander interviews with farmers, retailers and industry experts, all agree on one thing: The state has grown too much cannabis and there aren’t enough dispensaries to sell it. It’s forced farmers, once eager to open up their own business, to sell their supply for pennies on the dollar. “I hear from so many [farmers] every day who have
a great product, at a great price, and I can’t buy it,” Skaar says. Eventually, he fears, growers will start cutting corners to save costs, using pesticides, for instance, just to compete. State regulators, meanwhile, fear other consequences of oversupply. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) hired a consultant to study what the supply and demand of cannabis looks like, and what might be the driving forces behind overproduction. They’ve also sent a team out to measure how much weed is actually being grown in Washington. Because with an oversupply, there’s a chance farmers, trying to salvage their crop, might turn to the black market. Avoiding that scenario remains critical in the effort to keep the “feds off our back,” said Russ Hauge,
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“OVERGROWN,” CONTINUED... bination. Each license imposes a limit to a farm’s grow area, or its “canopy,” depending on what kind of license was applied for. Meanwhile, there are fewer than 500 retailers operating. Yet, of those producers and processors, the state expected around half to go out of business. That didn’t happen. Instead, just 73 ceased operations to date, according to data provided by the LCB. The rest — nearly 1,400 — are presumably still operating businesses competing to get their product in stores, or they’ve sold their license to another business looking to expand its canopy. But the combined canopy of all the farmers statewide may be too large, leading to oversupply. The state tracks marijuana production and sales, but — unlike Oregon — it doesn’t track the marijuana actually consumed, measured in pounds. Not knowing how LETTERS many pounds Send comments to are consumed editor@inlander.com. compared to the pounds produced makes it harder to tell the extent of overproduction. The LCB is waiting for a consultant’s report before conceding there is an oversupply, Carpenter says. Among farmers, retailers and industry experts, however, there’s little debate. James MacRae, who owns a cannabis research firm called Straight Line Analytics, studied state data last year. He found that sales were not keeping up with the amount of cannabis being
planted. In 2017, there was a 63 percent increase in the number of plants started compared to 2016, continuing an upward trend since legalization. Retail volumes, taking into account price decline, were up less than 20 percent. “Based on those facts, I would say there is an oversupply in Washington,” MacRae says, though he says that’s only because there aren’t enough retail stores. He notes that roughly half the farms licensed by the LCB haven’t reported any sales numbers for the first six months of 2018, according to LCB data. Assuming the farms not making any money are still producing cannabis, that can mean one of three things, MacRae says: The farms are either destroying the plants, sitting on growing inventory or selling it, possibly on the black market. And those options aren’t good for anyone.
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J Productions is a small, indoor marijuana garden in Spokane Valley. Since the day Washington first gave out licenses for growers, owner Denali Mitmoen says his business has been able to get by because he’s cultivated strong relationships with local retailers. But he’s seen other farms his size struggle. They find themselves stuck in a situation where they don’t know how to get rid of all the weed they’ve grown. “They have to sell it for whatever they can get for it,” Mitmoen says. Retail stores, however, are stocked. They
don’t need it. In an effort to salvage costs, farms will then “liquidate” their supply for “pennies on the dollar,” Mitmoen says. Stores are then able to make a higher profit. “And then my orders go down,” Mitmoen says. When the state first legalized marijuana, Mitmoen says the state went out of its way to make sure small businesses like his had a shot. Since then, however, the bigger farms have started to dominate the market. For instance, GrowOp Farms — also located in Spokane Valley — is thriving. It’s steadily grown sales since 2014, and its brand of flower, Phat Panda, is well known across the state. (Owner Rob McKinley declined to comment for this article.) Crystal Oliver, executive board member of the Cannabis Farmers Council, says the state has made it hard on smaller farms. The way the state allowed businesses to have up to three producer licenses, for example, only let the larger operations expand. And it doesn’t help the oversupply issue, which she says turns into a “race to the bottom,” pressuring small farmers to grow poorer quality cannabis. What would help the market and small farmers, she argues, is the ability to sell cannabis directly from the farm, without having to go through a retail store. Being able to sell out of state would help, too, she says. While some farmers, like Mitmoen, are optimistic that dropping weed prices will begin to level out, Oliver doesn’t think the market will take care of itself the way it’s set up now. “When we talk about oversupply,” Oliver says, “it’s the system, the way it was designed, and the retail bottleneck we have in place.” Brooke Davies, director of operations for nonprofit Cannabis Organization of Retail Establishments, says consumers benefit from small farms being able to thrive. When marijuana was legalized, it was modeled after the craft beer industry. “Because the price of a gram is dropping so much, the bigger farms can sustain that, but the small ones can’t,” she says. “We want to protect small business, and protect consumer choice so you don’t only see one or two brands.”
“When we talk about oversupply, it’s the system, the way it was designed, and the retail bottleneck we have in place.”
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aiting for the market to correct itself might have consequences, which is why the LCB feels it has an obligation to monitor the cannabis market. A 2013 report commissioned by the LCB warned of those consequences. If it were an ordinary commodity being overproduced? That wouldn’t be of public concern. But any weed sold out of state could bring unwanted attention from the federal government. (Though, it’s unclear if weed going to the black market from legal grows is actually happening.) “Even if entirely accidental,” the report says, “[it] might make the federal government less tolerant of allowing the state’s experiment to proceed.” That’s why, this year, the LCB sent a team to measure how much farmers are growing compared to what they’re licensed to grow. That may result in increasing or decreasing canopy sizes. But the LCB’s efforts to understand how much weed was being grown is a process that could have been helpful starting day one of legalization, says Skaar, with Sativa Sisters. Still, Skaar understands why there may have been mistakes. “Washington is one of the first places in the whole world to do this, of course there’s going to be a learning curve and mistakes,” he says. “But we’re on a downward trend and I don’t know how to fix it.” n wilsonc@inlander.com
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Banned Substance Federal appeals court pushes back against an EPA order
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RULES FOR RULEBREAKERS
A month ago, a dozen school districts in Eastern Washington, including Spokane Public Schools, signed onto a letter opposing certain language in a new set of student discipline rules proposed by the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). This week, OSPI adopted the rules anyway. In doing so, the state opted against changes requested by local districts. The new rules, according to OSPI, aim to decrease student SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS in school districts. They haven’t been updated since the 1970s. “Our students and schools are vastly different today,” says state Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal in a statement. “The new rules provide more clarity and they allow for student, family, and community input in develop-
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ing local discipline policies.” In a news release, OSPI points out that black and Hispanic students are suspended at disproportionate rates compared to white students. That’s true in Spokane as well, according to statistics released last week by the district. In Spokane, black students made up 3.2 percent of enrollment, but made up 5.6 percent of suspensions or expulsions in 2017-18. White students, by contrast, make up two-thirds of the population but make up 57 percent of suspensions or expulsions. Overall, following a downward trend in the total number of suspensions or expulsions since 2014-15, Spokane saw a slight uptick in exclusionary discipline last school year. The state hopes the new rules will minimize use of suspensions or expulsions. The rules, for instance, prohibit suspensions or expulsions for students who were absent or tardy, and they limit long-term suspensions/expulsions for students in kindergarten through fourth grade. Spokane Public Schools and other districts in Eastern Washington have questioned why fourth grade is the line for long-term suspensions and expulsions. And they’ve questioned another rule that require districts to return students to their “regular educational setting” as soon as possible. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
LOCK ’EM UP OR LET ’EM OUT
Idaho correctional institutions are bursting at the seams. More than 8,000 prisoners are packed into state lockups, with some overflowing into county jails and into a private prison in Texas. Considering a proposed 1,510-bed state facility, with a $500 MILLION PRICE TAG, Idaho lawmakers and judges are re-evaluating the state’s criminal justice policies, including outdated sentencing laws, punishment for drug addicts and inmates’ ability to earn early release. Earlier this week, a panel of lawmakers discussed a 2017 report by the Vera Institute of Justice, which shows that higher rates of incarceration do not lead to less crime. In fact, the report suggests that, at a certain point, more prison time can lead to higher crime rates. And considering violent crime rates, incarceration has little-to-no effect. “I think this information … is probably the core of what we’re trying to look at here,” House Judiciary Chair Lynn Luker (R-Boise) says during the August meeting of the Criminal Justice Reinvestment Oversight Committee. “We certainly want to keep our streets safe, but we want to do it in a cost effective and helpful way.” Part of the panel discussion focused on Idaho’s elimination of early release based on good behavior and its restrictive policies on releasing terminally ill and elderly inmates, known as “compassionate release.” A judicial working group has been rethinking the state’s sentencing laws as well. Fourth District Judge Michael Reardon, who serves on the Supreme Court’s Felony Sentencing Working Group, tells the Idaho Press that the 1977 law giving judges guidance on sentencing fails to consider research on drug addiction and treatment. “Addicts are going to relapse — they are,” Reardon tells the Press. “Applying punishment to that just isn’t effective in deterring the next relapse.” (MITCH RYALS)
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MAKING EYE CONTACT “That one had a lot of thought and aggression in it,” 26-year-old Sierra Duran says as she points to a canvas she painted depicting three scenes. In one, a woman paints the word “beautiful” on a brick meant to complete her body, while ignoring hateful words others are trying to label her with, Duran explains. Another scene says, “When a flower doesn’t bloom you change the environment, not the flower.” The third shows a woman with a spiny back surrounded by red balloons. “This is somebody who doesn’t like anybody getting too close,” she says. Duran is one of many formerly or currently homeless artists whose work will be displayed as part of Eye Contact: A HOMELESS ART EXHIBIT, a Volunteers of America annual fundraiser. The Sept. 13 event will raise money to support VOA’s work across multiple shelters, supportive housing units and programs for vulnerable populations. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
FRENCH DISTRICT INVASION If the election for Al French’s position on the SPOKANE COUNTY COMMISSION counted only voters in his district, the commission’s longest-serving member would be losing big to Robbi Katherine Anthony, a 26-year-old transgender woman and tech business owner. Fortunately for French, the November general election will count votes from the entire county, not just his district, which covers most of downtown Spokane and the southwest part of the county. The countywide vote should be a major advantage for French, since it typically leans Republican. It’s an advantage he happens to be fighting for: He’s loudly opposed a new state law that would make the general election district-only voting starting in 2022. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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Carson would wake up in fits, shaking. He was drenched in sweat, and his skin was very pale. Primeau says he called corrections officers to the cell door at least two times. Each time “the cop came by and he was like ‘Oh he’s just DTing. He’s just DTing. It’s normal,’” Primeau says. Later in the evening, Carson starts hyperventilating — quick breaths in and out — which Primeau demonstrates during an interview at the jail. At the time, he calls the corrections officers BY MITCH RYALS again: “I’m like, ‘This dude’s not doin’ good. Can I get into a different room or something if hane Carson walked into a Spokane Counyou’re not going to come in here and check this ty Jail cell some time after 10:30 am on June dude out and make sure he’s OK?’” 13. Less than 10 hours later, a corrections After about an hour, Primeau estimates, officer was dragging him out of the cell by his Carson’s heavy breathing stops, and Primeau ankles, says Trevor Primeau, Carson’s cellmate. assumes he has fallen asleep. Soon after, a correcHis face was purple and his forehead was tions officer moves Primeau to the cell next door. cut between his eyebrows, says Primeau, who That’s when the officer notices Carson laying watched as corrections officers and medical staff face down on the bottom bunk, motionless. tried and failed to revive Carson, 31, now one of Yvonne Wilson, Carson’s mother, says she’s seven people to die in the facility in the past 14 been given virtually no information about her months. Most recently, on Aug. 9, 56-year-old son’s death. When she viewed his body at the Christopher Luman died following a fist fight funeral home, his face looked like it had been and complaints of difficulty breathing. “shoved into a wall.” She The death is being investigated as a heard Primeau’s story LETTERS homicide. for the first time when Send comments to The Spokane County Sheriff’s Ofcontacted recently by a editor@inlander.com. fice does not oversee the jail but is invesreporter. tigating Carson’s death and has thus far So far, the Sheriff’s released few details. Detective Lyle Johnston says Office has released investigations for four of he is waiting on the results of a toxicology report. the seven deaths inside the Spokane County “There’s been an issue with the state crime Jail since June 2017. Those documents provide lab,” Johnston says. “Years ago, we got results details of the conditions and circumstances of within four to eight weeks, and now it seems like each death. But without a final toxicology report, we’re waiting months.” investigators are left without definite conclusions A news release indicated in June that the and families, including Carson’s, are left in the detective is investigating a potential assault, but dark. Johnston says he has no evidence to support that initial suspicion. he last time Valerie Krienke saw Carson In a recent jailhouse interview, Primeau was in February 2016. The two had been denies that he assaulted Carson and describes a together for the previous five years, but man in the midst of a drug withdrawal. Primeau, soon before she gave birth to their son, she says who acknowledges using drugs in the past, says Carson began using drugs.
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“He really truly loved his kids even though he was making bad decisions,” she says. “We all know that drugs change people and change what is important to them, but when he was sober, he was thinking about his kids.” Carson has two more kids with another woman, ages 11 and 13. On that day in 2016, Krienke met with Carson so he could spend time with their son, Blake, who was about 11 months old at the time. He hadn’t even taken his first steps. When she arrived, Carson told her to set the tyke down and let him walk. Hesitant at first, Krienke agreed. “Come here boo boo,” she recalls Carson saying. “And sure enough Blake walked straight across the living room right to him.” Yvonne Wilson, Carson’s mother, describes a similarly fond memory: an image in her head of three tiny babies sitting on his lap. Carson is beaming. Two of the infants are Wilson’s now-13year-old twins, and the third was Carson’s oldest daughter. Both women describe Carson as a loving dad, who could not escape his poor decisions. Wilson, 51, who now lives in Oregon, is a recovering addict herself — six years clean in October. She’s talked with Carson about getting sober. Stints in rehab didn’t take.
“It’s hard to get away from it. One day you’re doing great, and then it can fall apart instantly.” “It is very difficult, especially if you’re on the streets and around it all the time,” Wilson says. “It’s hard to get away from it. One day you’re doing great, and then it can fall apart instantly.” Records show that Carson pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated assault last September for an attack that sent a man to the hospital with a broken nose. In May of 2017, he was arrested for an assault on a man in a Spokane Valley apartment. A woman told police Carson was trying to protect her, according to court documents. Krienke describes Carson as a goofy guy who was always trying to make her smile. She and Wilson fell out of touch with Carson in recent years due in part to his drug use. Both are still looking for answers around his death.
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n July 2017, Spokane County renewed its contract with NaphCare, Inc. for $6.l million annually to provide medical care for jail inmates. The company provides the same services for 26 local jail facilities across the country, including five others in Washington state. NaphCare has also been the target of several lawsuits over people dying in jails throughout the country. Bradford McLane, chief operating officer for NaphCare, declines to comment on any specific case, but says each person is evaluated by jail medical staff, who have the option to send them to a hospital, rather than a jail cell. After three men hanged themselves with bedsheets in their cells between June 2017 and June 2018, Sgt. Tom Hill, a spokesman for the jail, announced several reforms intended to address suicide attempts and drug withdrawal. He says jail staff recently began replacing sheets with thicker blankets that are more difficult to conceal. Soon, jail medical staff will have the ability to prescribe the drug Buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid withdrawal symptoms. Hill will also consult with experts on in-custody suicide and drug addiction treatment. Lindsay Hayes, an expert in deaths by suicide inside jails, will begin his work in September, Hill says. But administrative reviews of the deaths where drugs are suspected to play a role cannot move forward without toxicology reports. “There is a significant issue with getting toxicology back these days,” Hill says. “Until we have all that information, our ability to review these is limited.” n
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NEWS | ELECTION 2018
The Hare and the Tortoise
coming. Even if it doesn’t wash McMorris Rodgers overboard, as locals Dems hope, Republicans may not be steering the ship after it passes.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Democrats had an amazing primary election night performance — only to watch Republicans run up the scoreboard in the next week Local Democrats (from left) Andrew Biviano, Amy Biviano and Deb Conklin react to early primary election returns. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO
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he Spokane County Democrats needed a win. “You know how crappy I felt on the last election?” Spokane City Councilwoman Kate Burke says. “I pretty much lost my heart.” When Burke uses the phrase “last election,” she’s not even thinking about her own election in 2017. That’s how large 2016 looms in her consciousness. Everyone at the Democrats’ primary night party last week remembers 2016, of course. They were sure they were going to win. But the next thing they know, Trump is president. The results of a primary election not only determine the top two candidates to move on to the general, but they can also serve as either a rally call or a wet blanket. Andrew Biviano, former Spokane County Democrats chair, knows that well. Disappointing primary results can destroy the party’s enthusiasm and momentum, he says. Volunteers stop signing up. Donations dry up. But then last week, the results start to come in. “Lisa Brown — ” Biviano starts saying. He holds his phone out to show the bar graph on the Washington election page. “ — Lisa Brown is up!” his wife Amy yells. Whoops and cheers ring out as the news spreads. As early Spokane County results are made public, Brown, the Democratic candidate, is actually ahead of incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Later, as numbers from elsewhere in the 5th District roll in, McMorris Rodgers moves a few hundred votes ahead. Biviano is happy. Burke is ecstatic. She says it feels like the opposite of 2016. But Biviano also offers a note of caution: There are still lots of votes to be counted in the next few days that will probably benefit Republicans.
“It’s never broken our way after election night,” Biviano says. “The later vote goes Republican.” Indeed, over course of the past week, each new tally of remaining ballots puts Brown further and further in the rearview mirror.
TOSS-UP?
It wasn’t just local observers who were shocked by the strong initial showing from Democrats throughout Washington state. One national observer, Kyle Kondik of Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, moved McMorris Rodgers’ district from a “Lean R” to a “toss-up.” CNN’s Harry Enten also said the race could be a toss-up and was “stunned at how poorly the GOP is doing in Washington’s top-two primary.” Initially, McMorris Rodgers had led Brown by only a couple hundred votes. But by this week, McMorris Rodgers was leading Brown by more than a 6,400 votes across the district. If you added together all the votes for Republican or “Trump Populist” candidate in the primary, Brown was behind her Republican rivals by nearly 9 percentage points. Not exactly a toss-up. Over the next few days, outgoing Republican state Sen. Michael Baumgartner snarks on Twitter at media outlets that trumpeted Democrats’ early leads. Like Biviano, he knows that Republicans in Eastern Washington tend to vote late. “I think Republicans tend to be a bit more discerning before finally voting,” Baumgartner says. Yet, just by getting more than 45 percent of the vote, Brown is doing better in the primary than any Democrat has in the 5th District primary since 1992. That alone suggests that a Democratic wave is
On primary night, Madeline Brown, campaign manager for 6th Legislative District candidate Jessa Lewis, can’t stop laughing. “Holy shi-i-i-t. Oh my god,” Madeline Brown says. She’s still laughing. “Oh my god. I’m just so happy that everyone who I have worked with, everyone who I have doorbelled with, everybody is kicking ass, and I am just so happy and so excited.” The excitement leaves her out of breath. At that moment, Lewis was narrowly beating her opponent, state Rep. Jeff Holy, for the seat Baumgartner left open. Kay Murano, the candidate running against incumbent Washington state Republican Rep. Mike Volz, was winning, too. “Kay Murano knocked on like probably 6,000 doors on her own,” she says. “Jessa probably knocked on 4,000.” As more votes were tallied during the next week, Holy pulled past Lewis. Now, he’s 3 percentage points ahead. But Lewis doesn’t seem to be bothered. “Doesn’t matter if we end up a couple of votes ahead or behind,” she says on Twitter. “We exceeded expectations with a double-digit swing and we look forward to a real race in the general in a district that isn’t known to be competitive.” Consider the contrast: In 2016, Holy defended his House seat in the Legislature against Shar Lichty, who had run for Spokane mayor the year before, and yet Holy walked away with an 18-point lead in the primary. But today? The Democrats vying for Holy’s old seat in the 6th Legislative District still have slightly more votes than the Republicans. Murano clings to her lead over Volz by 64 votes, at last count. Generally, the 6th District leans about 3 percentage points to the right, Baumgartner notes. It’s a mostly suburban district, and recently Democrats have been making a lot of gains in the suburbs. “While I’m very confident that Republicans will hold that seat come November, it is a competitive race,” Baumgartner says. Biviano, meanwhile, says that the recent returns haven’t dampened the initial Democratic enthusiasm at all. “The nice thing about the earlier returns is it makes the election night party all the better,” Biviano says. “That’s where the volunteers sign up and donations start getting made. No one really pays attention to what the final results are a week later.” n danielw@inlander.com
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‘WE DON’T WANT YOU ANYMORE’ After decades behind bars, Randy Mora wanted to start over. Turns out, the first days of freedom can be perilous STORY BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK
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andy Mora smiles and closes his eyes as he points his face toward the warming sun early one Thursday. He drops his backpack on the sidewalk outside Spokane’s bus plaza and looks around. Some people hold quiet conversations as they wait for the bus; others squat on the grimy concrete just killing time. He likes coming here to be reminded of who he doesn’t want to be. “I see a lot of people way worse than me,” he says. “I don’t want to walk around with a shopping cart. That’s not the life I want. I try not to become one of them. I use this as a reminder to keep myself in check.” Hours earlier, staff at the halfway house where he’s been finishing his prison sentence cut off the ankle monitor that had tracked his movements during his months-long transition. This is his first day out, his first real taste of freedom in about a decade. The self-described short, fat 63-year-old has spent most of his adult life cycling in and out of prison for robbing banks and stealing — at first to feed heroin and cocaine addictions, and later because he was desperate. For decades, Mora has been told when to eat, when to sleep, when to bathe, when to pee. He hates being told what to do, but every time he’s gotten out of prison, he’s landed right back behind bars, usually within weeks. But now, as he enters old age, he says he’s ready to finally change. He wants a reporter to be there as he tries to find his place in a society whose rules he never could follow. He leans back against a wall, and tears start to roll down his cheeks. A tattoo of a mean-looking clown with blood dripping from his smiling teeth shows through the salt-and-pepper stubble covering Mora’s head. “It’s kind of an emotional day,” he says, wiping tears from his face. Like the roughly 10 million Americans released from jail or prison every year, Mora plans to start over, to “reintegrate.” But the odds are stacked against him. More than 76 percent of those released from state prisons will wind up back behind bars within 3 to 5 years, according to the Justice Department’s National Reentry Resource Center. What’s more, studies show that former inmates are 12.7 times more likely to die in those first weeks on their own than an average person in Washington state. Of the newly released people who fatally overdose, most will die within the first week of freedom. Mora is one of them.
MAD AT LIFE
Randy Mora soaks in the sights and sounds of downtown on his first day out of federal custody.
“I’m not a nut or a serial killer,” Mora promises when he first calls the Inlander in March. “Way back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I was a heroin addict, and in order to supply my habit I robbed a couple banks and I got an extensive prison sentence.” But he hadn’t hurt anyone, he says. And now he’s about done with his latest sentence and trying to figure out “a society that has left me behind.” Reporters get these types of calls all the time — I have a great story for you! — but most go nowhere. Something about Mora, though, catches my attention. Mainly, it seems, he wants to talk about his struggles with mental health, and maybe air some of his grievances with the prison system. “I’m not a dangerous person, but it turns out that my whole life it seems that I guess I’ve been mentally ill,” he says. “I think society as a whole is responsible, in a way, for how I turned out.” A week later, he shows up an hour early for an interview at the Inlander’s offices. The short man covered in tattoos quickly commandeers the end of a long conference table, spreading out the meticulously organized prison documents he carries everywhere in his backpack. He’s worked hard to manufacture a tough exterior, but a close look at his body art, all done behind bars, reveals vulnerability: Long white lines stretching nearly from elbow to
wrist interrupt the pattern wrapping each arm. “Sometimes I just get mad of having to live my life,” he says. “I’ve cut my wrists. I cut all this. I cut my neck and my throat. All this while I was in the Bureau of Prisons.” For much of his life, as doctors have concluded, he’s struggled with PTSD and major depression. He has borderline personality disorder and shows signs of a slew of other anti-social issues. It wasn’t always easy for him to access mental health care while in custody, he says, and in part due to his mental health problems, he’s particularly struggled with rules that often seemed arbitrary to him. Why did his halfway house send him to a donation center to get free socks but get mad when he also brought back free food? Why can’t he live wherever he wants when he gets out on probation? “Win, lose or draw, I need to get Goliath’s foot off my neck,” he says. “To me it’s been, ever since I was a little kid, a David and Goliath thing, right? And I’m the guy with the little slingshot and the rock.” Over the course of an hour, he admits he robbed, he did drugs, he hurt the people in his life. But this guy who’s totally uncertain about his next steps also manages to elicit sympathy.
“Here I am, a man trying to reconnect with society, trying to find his place, right? Where do I fit in, if I’m not even allowed to go play with a dog?” He weeps as he recounts one time recently when he gave a crying little girl on the bus a flower, making her day. He wants to move forward and do small, good things for people like that. But his status as a felon, he’s learned, means he can’t even volunteer at local animal shelters. “Here I am, a man trying to reconnect with society, trying to find his place, right? Where do I fit in, if I’m not even allowed to go play with a dog?” he asks. “What’s that telling me? ‘Hey because of what you did before, we don’t want you anymore.’” He’s learning that while he wants to do good, some people have a hard time letting go of all the bad. Yes, he admits, he did his share of bad.
‘ROBBERY’
It’s Halloween 1990, and tellers at the U.S. Bank branch on East Sprague are dressed in costume. A sign on the door asks customers to take off their disguises as they come in, but as media reports later say, the man who causes problems isn’t wearing a mask: He’s just a mailman. Wearing an honest-to-goodness U.S. Postal Service uniform he borrowed from an ex, Mora walks up to a teller and hands over a note that reads “robbery.” The teller stuffs $2,234 into his canvas bag, but also drops in exploding red dye, which later covers the bills, the SpokesmanReview reports. Just six weeks before, Mora had been released from prison after receiving a 26-month-long sentence for bank robbery. That sentence had been light considering the circumstances. Mora and another man had held up the Sears at NorthTown Mall on Oct. 30, 1988, and were suspected in at least four bank robberies. But he got a plea deal in March 1989 requiring him to cop to only one of the bank jobs, according to news accounts. The feds had gone easy that time. He wouldn’t be so lucky after the Halloween heist. ...continued on next page
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Randy Mora folds a blanket he wants to buy at the Goodwill Outlet Store.
“WE DON’T WANT YOU ANYMORE,” CONTINUED... “This time,” Mora tells me, “I’m more of a criminal, and they sentence me to 228 months. I did almost 19 years.” Through decades of prison assessments and psychological evaluations during his time at various facilities in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mora gives his history over and over again. Born on Jan. 7, 1955, in Santa Barbara, California, he lived with both parents until they divorced when he was 10. Based on interviews with Mora for forensic psychological reports, medical staff notes show that he reported being sexually abused for about two years starting when he was about 8. In some reports he apparently blamed a priest, and in others a relative. He tells prison staff that he started drinking at 12 or 13, smoked pot by 14 and at 17 tried heroin for the first time. (He later reports being able to use heroin through at least 2003, even while behind bars.) He joins the Army in 1972, but paperwork shows he was honorably discharged after three months due to a heart condition. His only work experience comes in short bursts as a mechanic, a bus driver, a restaurant employee, but he’s frequently fired. In 1973, he attempts suicide for the second time, saying he “didn’t feel like [he] fit in anywhere,” a psychological evaluation states. Through his years in prison, he’ll hurt himself again on several occasions. He repeatedly expresses frustration about what he feels is a lack of access to mental health care. For more than four years, he spends time in a Special Management Unit meant to address behavioral health problems. Newer guidelines recommend an average of only 12 to 18 months there. In February 2007, he cuts his neck and stomach with razors when he’s upset about potential cellmate changes. He’s put on suicide watch, where he’s deemed not to be suicidal, but “willing to engage in significant self-mutilation in order to get his point across.”
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An evaluation from a month earlier states, “This individual is very easily frustrated and often acts out in response to his frustration. He has abused opiates and cocaine on the streets and completed the 500-hour drug education class back in 1994. … He is looking forward to his release but is also apprehensive because he has been locked up since 1988.” In May 2008, he finally finishes his time for the Halloween robbery and settles in New Jersey, where he lives with his sister. But he struggles to adjust and soon finds himself hating his new living situation. “I didn’t know my sister. I hadn’t seen her since the early ’70s. … But it was an offer of shelter, and I took it,” he says. “After about 60 days of that, I couldn’t take it anymore. I took her husband’s truck one night, and I drove for California, or west anyways. I was headed west.” By the time he hits Ohio, he’s low on gas and cash, so he does what’s familiar: He robs a bank. Police surround him as he’s filling up at a nearby gas station, lights flashing, weapons drawn. “I’m thinking, ‘Man, you just did 19 years, do you really want to go back? Not really,’” Mora says. “So I told him, ‘Shoot me. Shoot me.’ He didn’t shoot.” So he hops in the truck and leads police across two states on a chase, until finally he sees a makeshift barricade. This is it, he thinks, speeding toward a police cruiser. “I was thinking, ‘Man, I’m gonna fly through the windshield and kill myself,’” Mora says, pausing before he lets out a sad chuckle. “F---ing airbags they got nowadays, right?” Why, he wonders nearly a decade later, is he still here? “Now, I’m not religious by any stretch of the imagination — in fact I’m anti-religion — but I survived everything up to now,” he says, his throat catching mid-sentence, “so I’m here for a reason.”
A PROCESS, NOT A PROGRAM At least 95 percent of people in state prisons will get out at some point, the National Reentry Resource Center reports, but a three-, four-, five-year outlook shows the majority will be arrested again. Among those who are incarcerated again, more than half will get arrested within the first year, according to the National Institute of Justice. Many of those who get out of prison will spend the last portion of their sentence in a halfway house, like the one at Broadway and Monroe where Mora is living when we first meet. With the exception of one year when they lost the federal contract to a competitor, Pioneer Human Services has run that 35-bed residential reentry center since 2005, explains Hilary Young, a Pioneer spokeswoman. Since 2016, they’ve also operated another 35-bed facility on East Ferry Avenue. “There are a lot of things people don’t think about If you or a loved one are having a when they think crisis, including thoughts of suicide about people comor problems with substance abuse, ing out of prisons,” Frontier Behavioral Health offers the Young says. “They First Call for Help crisis line 24 hours think, ‘Oh, it’ll be a day at 509-838-4428. a happy time.’ But If you are a victim of sexual viofor a lot of people it lence or abuse, you can call Lutheran can be overwhelmCommunity Services’ 24-hour Sexual ing.” Assault Crisis Line at 509-624-7273, The partialor the Washington State Crime custody centers Victim Crisis Line at 888-288-9221. are meant to help people step back into the community in a structured way, Young says. The services and privileges offered vary from person to person. Some might stay for a very short time, some might be able to work or drive their own car, while others may
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Mora steps into his new home in North Spokane. take workforce development classes and learn computer basics. Still, many obstacles remain for those transitioning back into a community, experts say. “You get kicked into the real world with this scarlet ‘F’ on your chest because you have a felony,” says Layne Pavey, who got out of federal prison herself in 2011 after serving two years related to cocaine charges and now works as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker helping others with their reentry process. “You can get really lost out here and feel like you’re the only one going through this.”
“A guy asked me the other day, ‘Well, don’t you have any friends?’ Well, no, I don’t.” In March of this year, as he’s getting ready to leave the halfway house, Mora’s feeling that way. “I’m feeling the crunch of having to do all this by myself. I’ve been gone from this city for 30 years,” he says. “A guy asked me the other day, ‘Well, don’t you have any friends?’ Well, no, I don’t.” Someone who has spent decades behind bars needs specific counseling and coaching before and after they get out, Pavey says, and oftentimes that early guidance is lacking at halfway homes. “Reentry is a process, not a program,” she says. “Everything is going to come with steps. You’re going to be at a halfway house for 3 months, 6 months, but even though there may be a program, that doesn’t hand the person the next steps.” When she was at a halfway house in Coeur d’Alene, Pavey recalls being bused to downtown Spokane every day and dropped off to look for jobs, with no coaching. “The only reason I had support was because one other gal who was my bunkie showed me how to apply and use the services,” she says. In addition, Pavey says the prison system struggles to properly address addiction, with poli-
cies that often don’t allow for medically assisted drug treatment while behind bars or on probation. “Anything that would be a harm-reduction model is something we should be doing on reentry,” she says. “Addiction is a thing that brings people into the system, and all they’re getting is cognitive behavioral therapy, which is not good enough to deal with the way our neurons change with substances. It’s a physical issue.” That physical temptation can strike even after years of relative sobriety, as Mora would find out.
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Mora first stayed at the Broadway halfway house in 2017, but he struggled to stay in line. After a urine test showed he’d smoked marijuana, violating the terms of his partial release, he was sent back to prison. By February 2018, he’d been sent back to the reentry center to again prepare for the end of his sentence. In April it seems like he’s getting things on track. When we meet on April 11, he still doesn’t have a place to live that is acceptable for the terms of his three-year probation, but a week later he’s secured a spot in an Oxford House, one of several sober-living homes in the city where peers hold each other accountable to house rules. So just as the morning sun is starting to paint downtown Spokane pink on Thursday, April 26, I show up outside the reentry center with a photographer to follow Mora on his first day out. He waves from a second floor window, then makes his way down to the sidewalk, arriving slightly out of breath. But he doesn’t have his stuff with him. “My daughter can’t pick me up until she’s off work around 2 or 3,” he says. For about a year, he’s been in touch with his daughter Stephanie, but their relationship is strained. He’s been in prison since about the time she was 6 months old, and though they wrote letters over the years, they’re essentially strangers. So we follow him downtown, where he reflects on his day ahead at the bus plaza, and then make plans to meet up again in the afternoon, leaving him outside the federal courthouse where he’ll have his first probation meeting. Around 3, Mora and his daughter load up his things and head for the Goodwill Outlet store, ...continued on next page
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where he can use a $25 gift certificate he got to help him move into his new home. For nearly an hour he wanders around the store, digging through big blue bins of barely sorted items. It’s his first real chance to make his own decisions in years, but even when he finds what look like nice options, he doesn’t seem happy. Mora lets a store manager know he’s looking for necessities for his new place: a blanket, some plates. And he really wants a flat-screen TV. “I don’t know if we have any, but I can check,” the manager says, heading for the back. He returns with bad news about the TV options, but holding a couple of green ceramic plates and matching mugs. “Here you go!” After the employee steps away, Mora says he doesn’t like the plates. They’re ugly. He puts them back. “You know, beggars can’t be choosers,” Stephanie says, getting annoyed. After he finally buys a few things, Mora and I make plans in the parking lot to catch up again in about a week. That evening Mora and one of his new roommates, Kyle Phillips, carry his things into his new room, pausing at one point to hug for a photo. Afterward, they settle in on some old chairs outside on the porch, a satisfied look on Mora’s face. A week later, Stephanie calls. “I know you were working on that story, so I wanted to let you know … Randy died last night,” she says. He overdosed. Apparently on heroin. Phillips, his roommate, would later recount how he was the one to find Mora. He had heard Mora’s phone ringing inside his room, and after checking to see if anyone else had seen Mora that day, Phillips jimmies the door open. He finds Mora slumped on the floor, one arm crookedly propped up behind him. There’s no needle in his arm, but Phillips sees a cooker on the table, and after the cops come, he finds scissors and needle caps. The authorities say it looks like an accidental overdose. Phillips would later tell me that in the week Mora had been in the house, he seemed to be adjusting. He had no reason to think Mora was
using. “I mean it surprised me,” Phillips says, sitting on a couch in the living room of the Oxford House about a month after Mora’s death. “He seemed like everything was cool.”
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Though Mora’s death came as a shock to those around him, a look at the statistics shows his story isn’t that uncommon. In a study looking at the 76,208 people who got out of Washington state prisons from 1999 through 2009, overdose was the leading cause of death, killing 558 of the 2,462 people who died. The majority of overdose deaths happened in the first week after release, according to the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2013. One explanation is that newly released prisoners don’t realize how being incarcerated had lowered their tolerance levels, says Marc Stern, former head doctor with the state DOC, and an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. “You go drug-free for a period while incarcerated, and then when released, a lot of people go back to their last dosage,” Stern says. “Surprise, that’s more than you can handle.” More research is needed to better understand why exactly former inmates are more susceptible to overdose and death in order to create effective programs, Stern says. But in the meantime, some programs are moving ahead based on some reasonable assumptions. For starters, drug treatment before release seems like it would logically reduce chances that someone would relapse, he says. “We know they die when they get out,” Stern says. “We know they die from overdoses. It’s logical to say treatment has got to reduce mortality.” Rhode Island has slashed inmate overdose deaths by more than half by providing medication-assisted addiction treatment behind bars. Meanwhile, New Mexico is testing whether a monthly shot that cuts cravings and blocks the ability to get high can be just as effective, and New York is training inmates and community members on how to administer the overdosereversing drug Naloxone. Facilities in Chicago and L.A. have even started to give Naloxone to
inmates on their release. But treatment programs depend on people wanting to get help. “I learned a long time ago we can only help people that want to help themselves,” says Jennifer Pace, who founded the Spokane chapter of Community Partners for Transition Solutions (CPTS) and works with state prisoners to create their plans to reenter the community. “But I definitely believe Spokane is working hard. We have community court, drug court, these are all alternatives to keep people out of prison. When they’re in prison, we have one program after another trying to help them learn a skill before they come out so they’re more prepared.” Spokane County’s Therapeutic Drug Court was created in 1996 to help people address their addictions and avoid a drug-related felony conviction if they enter treatment. It may be impossible to know if there would have been a different outcome had Mora had that option back in 1988, or if he would have even been eligible when his crime spree first started; whether he would still be alive, or whether taxpayers could have saved what estimates show was likely more than $1 million to keep him in prison over the next 30 years. In the meantime, many people are working to improve the system, both by pushing for diversion where appropriate, and working to improve reentry for those who still wind up serving time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Samantha Wohlfeil covers social services, the environment, tribes, and other issues for the Inlander. Previously, she worked as a political reporter at the Bellingham Herald in northwest Washington. She can be reached at 325-0634 ext. 234 or at samanthaw@inlander.com.
The CPTS coalition is comprised of volunteers who work in the criminal justice system as probation officers, counselors and outside service providers, and others who provide resources and help create reentry plans for those about to get out, Pace says. Their goal is to strengthen service networks so they more effectively help people. “There needs to be that bridge from incarceration to the community that is a little more stable than before. That’s kind of my job, I’m a transition specialist,” Pace says. “I work with the person while they’re incarcerated and we come up with an individual plan: Where are we going to live, what type of employment can we get, where are we going to get food? Who is your support, do you have family or friends or do we need to find other peer groups?” And while programs to help prisoners plan for their release have been around for decades, last fall the state Department of Corrections made sure all those programs were pulled together under a new Reentry Division that serves as a sort of middleman between the prison and community supervision divisions, Pace says. “All we have been doing is meeting and figuring out what do we do to make a difference?” she
says. Since then, state lawmakers also passed a law to allow for graduated reentry, with a focus on integrating state offenders back into their communities even sooner, with help getting education, employment, and improving social networks. “This is big,” Pace says.
ALL THAT REMAINS
Sitting in the living room of the Spokane home she shares with her husband and younger son in early August, Mora’s daughter Stephanie sifts through a box of folders filled with the many documents he kept throughout his time in prison. “This is pretty much all I have left of him,” she says. In it, there’s a jumble of papers. Printed-out Sudoku puzzles and catalogs for jewelry and a new car are tucked in between manila envelopes filled with his history and complaints he filed against the system he didn’t feel always treated him fairly. In one letter-sized envelope, there are dozens of handwritten letters he got from Stephanie. In another, tucked next to letters from his niece, a few sheets of paper show what appears to be scribbled notes he made. “Better to die of a bullet than to die alone and old and unloved,” he writes on one. “Keep your life small, keep the people in your life few and keep them in front of you. Because life isn’t easy.” Stephanie says she sent his ashes to her half brother in California, so he could spread them on the beach. Last she heard, he hadn’t done it yet. Because they were never really close, she’s been learning things about her dad by looking through these pages. There’s stuff on his criminal history, and the many long lists of his mental health diagnoses. There’s also a handwritten speech he gave to his classmates in a residential drug abuse program in 2016, all about taking responsibility for his actions and the people he hurt. “You should read it,” she tells me. “He put it really well.” On seven pages, written in black pen with yellow highlights for emphasis, Mora tells the audience that during his three decades in prison, he’s been written up more than 70 times, at least 22 of those for drug-related issues. He explains what drove him to go back to drugs again and again. “You see I didn’t like people telling me how to live my life, what to do, and when to do it,” he says. “I wanted to get high when I wanted to and damn the consequences.” Being a drug addict and living a criminal lifestyle left little room for the important things, he writes, like relationships with parents, siblings, children, or significant others. But he wants the younger members of the group to know he’s changing, and they can, too. “In my long career as a drug addict I’ve neglected and alienated everyone I’ve ever loved or cared about. My folks have long since passed. My sisters and brother have written me off as a lost cause. I’ve never been a real father or role model to my children,” he writes. “I thought I was too old to change, too set in my ways. When opportunity comes knocking at your door you’re a fool if you don’t answer it. … It doesn’t happen overnight, change is a gradual thing. You have to work at it.” n
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One of the musical acts playing at Unifest is Blake Braley, a Spokane native whose music is soulful, funky and guaranteed to make people move. Braley has only been on the scene for a few years but has rocketed from posting covers on YouTube to playing shows with Allen Stone. “I’m just stoked that Matt reached out to me and asked me to play. There’s so many awesome artists in Spokane, it’s an honor to be given this opportunity at Unifest,” says Braley, “I love how it promotes the creative side of Spokane. It’s not just a music festival, it’s promoting local creativity.” Braley is planning to play songs from his upcoming EP and is excited to test them out at a festival with diverse musical acts. “There’s so much talent in Spokane. There’s also a lot of different styles, which is something I really love. It’s not like Seattle where it’s a dominant rock scene. It’s more of a melting pot of a ton of different genres,” Braley says. Unifest will also feature sets from DJ Locke, DJ Donuts, Simmentall and Twin Towers along with sets from local bands Nat Park & the Tunnels of Love and Laminates — a band Bogue is a part of. Another attraction for the festival is the live art aspect where local Spokane artists will create their art in real time at the festival. Tiffany Patterson, one of the artists participating at Unifest, enjoys the unique challenge of painting live in front of an audience. “Live painting is a lot different than painting in my studio,” says Patterson. “But you just have to commit. You’re not questioning the things that you’re doing, you’re just painting with a time limit and an end goal. It’s kind of just this rush when you realize that you just have to accept what you’re painting and not overthink it. It’s hard for some people.” The live art is another way to make art and music more accessible to the Spokane commu-
nity. Bogue hopes that the crowds for the live art are just as engaged as the ones for the live music. “You can see a lot of art around town but actually seeing the creation of it with the live art is a really cool experience. It brings new artists to new people which is what I love to see,” says Bogue. Even though Patterson has struggled at times with the challenge of doing her art live, she loves the interaction with people while she paints. She might seem focused on her art, but she encourages people to ask questions or offer comments, or simply just to say hello. “You just feel this great energy when you’re painting with all the music going on and the people around you,” says MORE EVENTS Patterson. “I’m Visit Inlander.com for this very imcomplete listings of pacted person local events. and I can feel everyone’s energy when everyone is happy and excited. I can feel it. It drives me. And that’s what it’s like at Unifest.” The other artists featured on Unifest 2018 will be Jessie Hynes (full disclosure: an Inlander employee) and Derrick Freeland, both based in Spokane. The festival provides constant entertainment and opportunities to discover a new artist or musician, which is exactly what Bogue wants to happen. “We have some big events like Terrain that celebrate the Spokane culture, and I think we can never have enough of those,” Bogue says, “It’s my passion to bring new art and music to people.” n Unifest 2018 • Sat, Aug. 18, 3-11 pm • $5/12 and under free • Kendall Yards • 1335 W. Summit Pkwy. • unifestnorthwest.com
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udging by how people react when old embarrassing tweets are dredged up, it seems casual racism or other offensive attitudes are lurking in all of our Kylepasts. Ryan “I’m shocked! I’m a different person now! I online would never denigrate someone based on their ethnicity/sexual orientation/political opinions!” Recent weeks have seen a spate of professional baseball players forced to apologize for a variety of old cringe-inducing tweets. And James Gunn, director of the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies, was fired from the third after some old tweets joking about, among other things, pedophilia came to light. (One example: “I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.”) Gunn’s (now former) Disney bosses were not amused. All the noise made me visit my old timeline. I knew there would be no “n-word” or homophobic slurs, but I’ve posted 10,000 tweets since April 2009. From my first two years on Twitter, here are my worst posts:
JULY 15, 2009 She died in 2012, this tweet doesn’t age… well.
MARCH 20, 2011 A bad joke about buying alcohol for underage bowlers. Approaching Gunn territory. Don’t tell Disney.
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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Aug. 17. To wit: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Tangerine Reef. The Baltimore band never met a sound it didn’t like without immediately incorporating it into some droney experimental folk-rock. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Thank You For Today. The Bellingham band’s first new album since instrumental wizard Chris Walla quit.
SAVAGING SPORTSBALL One of the pleasures of online life every August is the arrival of deadspin. com’s annual “Why Your Team Sucks” series, in which writer Drew Magary heartily mocks every pro football team (and fanbase. And city). An example: San Francisco, Magary writes, “is what happens when the 10 worst people from every high school moved to the same city.” Funnier, though, than Magary is what actual fans have to say about their own teams, compiled at the bottom of each post. From the Chicago Bears’ post, a fan writes: “The team plays in a stadium that has all the charm of a gas station toilet bowl and looks like one from the outside.” (DAN NAILEN)
DEC. 17, 2010 Not only do I admit taking part in a Santa Con; I take a shot at a dead singer/songwriter and piano bars.
MARCH 26, 2011 Objectifying women? Check. Embarrassed? Check.
MITSKI, Be the Cowboy. Prepare for the follow-up to her Puberty 2 to be one of the best albums of the year. ARIANA GRANDE, Sweetener. Already one of the biggest pop stars on the planet at 25, expect her fourth album to sell what the experts call “a shit-ton.” (DAN NAILEN)
ON FIRE Spokane author Stephanie Oakes’ sophomore novel The Arsonist, published last year, has been named one of five finalists in the young adult readers category for the 2018 Washington State Book Awards. Oakes is the only Eastern Washingtonbased author to be named a finalist this year. Winners in all eight categories will be named at a ceremony on Oct. 13. (CHEY SCOTT)
OCT. 4, 2010 I was clearly excited to see Alice Cooper for the first time at a chilly amphitheater. But any public mention of one’s genitals is probably one too many. n
A BOOK OF WHAT IFS When Pulitzer-winning novelist Philip Roth died in May, I started reading some of the glowing obituaries. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t read any of his work and set out to correct that oversight. Something about the current political climate led me to Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America. It’s an “alternative history” full of real-life characters (Charles Lindbergh, FDR, muckraker Walter Winchell) in which a president with questionable loyalties to America and unusual chumminess with Nazis drives America into an increasingly divided and frightened state of psychological emergency. It’s a read that showcases a brilliant author while still managing to be scary as hell 14 years after Roth wrote it. (DAN NAILEN)
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hether we admit it or not, we’re all a little dorky in our own ways. Perhaps you’ve spent countless hours reading the Harry Potter series. Maybe you can recite half of the lines from Jaws. It’s possible you’ve gotten your buds together for a good ol’ game of Dungeons & Dragons. Regardless of how your nerdiness reveals itself, there’s a place for you at Coeur d’Con, Coeur d’Alene’s home-grown comic convention. The fourth annual event is a geek-tastic celebration of comics, movies, games, manga (Japanese comic art), books and more put on by the Coeur d’Alene Public Library. It features events that are associated with classic conventions, including lectures, contests and workshops. Instead of usual library-goers perusing books, the building will be filled with Coeur d’Con participants, many disguised as characters from their favorite movies or comics, immaculately dressed for the cosplay (costume play) contest. Special guests like Tom Cook, one of the animators behind He-Man and Scooby Doo, will be in attendance
to give a talk on his life as a cartoonist. Cook went from bus driver to animator in 1978. Hanna-Barbera hired him to sketch characters like Fred Flinstone, The Smurfs and many more. Since retiring, he spends much of his free time traveling to different comic cons around the world, where he walks people through the process of creating a cartoon. “[I go] step by step how a cartoon was made back in the good ol’ days, when we used to use this very rare item called a pencil. It’s like this piece of wood with lead in the middle.” Cook says many have no clue cartoons were hand-drawn, and in a show one second involves 12 separate drawings. He wishes there were events like Coeur d’Con when he was a kid so he could have met the artists behind his favorite shows. “The number one thing I hear, is ‘Hey, you drew my entire childhood.’ That’s really nice to hear,” Cook says. “For me, it was a job, but it was a pretty cool job. I certainly never thought that 35 years after He-Man I would be flying all over
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(509) 624-1200 • INLANDNWOPERA.COM Angela Flock, right, says Coeur d’Con is one way the Coeur d’Alene Public Library reaches new audiences. the country and meeting people.” There are several other events and contests going on throughout the day. Young padawans can try their hand at a lightsaber during the Jedi training academy, gamers can battle it out during gaming tournaments and concerned survivalists can learn how to endure a Bigfoot attack.
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he library is continually testing avenues to encourage young people to get involved, and in 2014, library staff decided to try something totally new. The idea for Coeur d’Con spawned from a comic book-themed summer reading event. They knew right away that the con was a hit, says Angela Flock, the young adult coordinator. “It was a unanimous response. It was, ‘You’re gonna do this again next year, and every year pretty much, right? For the rest of your life, right?’” Flock laughs. When the idea was originally conceived, Flock and other staff members expected the participants to consist mostly of young kids, as most library events tend to draw a very young crowd. They were surprised to find that year after year, the audience of Coeur d’Con was overwhelmingly made up of teens and young adults. Last year they had nearly 1,400 participants. Flock says as a teen, she always saw herself as the “geeky reader girl.” She hopes library events like comic con can reach young people who feel similarly and give them a place where they can thrive. “I guess I’m trying to help teens that see themselves like on the outside looking in, wheth-
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er that’s the gamers who are sitting at home all the time, gaming from their house, or reading a book under their covers with a flashlight,” Flock says. “I’m trying to reach those kids that feel like they’re on the outside, that perhaps don’t feel like they have a tribe.” There are a variety of events the library puts during the year to attract young audiences, some are more successful than others. Of course, it offers the classic summer reading program, but there are many more. It hosts a gaming group that plays League of Legends, a popular multiplayerbattle game, which has been running weekly for three years. It also hosts movie nights and even has a teen book club, which Flock says is very low-key. “You didn’t have to read a certain book, you just came and you talked about what you were reading. It ended up almost becoming kinda like, what you were reading, what you were watching, all the stories they wanted to tell, basically,” she says. But the act of reaching teens can be tough. Flock says that word of mouth is the best way to get young people to library events, but she also uses social media and hopes to do more school outreach as fall comes around. “In the fall I’m hoping to get out the schools and just let them know, ‘Hey, there’s a library in town that cares about you.’” n Coeur d’Con • Sat, Aug. 18 from 10am-4pm • Free • All ages • Coeur d’Alene Public Library • 702 E Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene • coeurdcon. weebly.com
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Comic Support Spokane Sequential provides a creative outlet for local artists and comic enthusiasts BY ERIC SCHUCHT
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ome Sherlock Holmes here, a bit of Dracula there and a small dash of Captain America for good measure and you’d have something pretty close to Inspector Von Ghoul, a locally created comic book superhero. Inspired by many of artist Nicholas Malara’s favorite fictional characters, the story of a paranormal investigator is just one of the comics featured in one of the early issues of the area’s newest publication, Spokane Sequential. The free magazine is packed full of various shorts and stories from local comic artists. From superheroes to nonfiction personal narratives, the publication allows people to submit their work and end up in print. Malara’s work appeared in the spring issue, while the summer edition is hitting the streets this month. “It’s fun to have your work next to others who you admire in the community,” Malara says. “It’s really great to work with artists who are both younger and older than yourself so you can learn something from them.”
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Spokane Sequential is published by the Inland Northwest Association of Sequential Art (INWASA). The community group serves as a hub for local comic artists to socialize and collaborate on projects. Derrick Freeland founded the group back in 2016 with the goal of creating a network of local comic artists. Freeland invited all of the comic artists he knew to the group, who in turn did the same. “I liked working in groups, and I liked community,” Freeland says. “So I wanted something that was centered on comics here in Spokane [to] share resources, support each other, and work together.” INWASA meets once a month for a work session. Artists can delve into projects in the company of others and give and receive feedback. The group has grown to around 30 members. Malara and many others appreciate the support network the group provides. Making comics can be quite a time-consuming task,
Tiffany Patterson’s cover for the latest issue.
Malara says, with many artists throwing in the towel before ever getting their projects off the ground. “It’s so daunting of a task that it can get so difficult to get to the end of your story,” Malara says. “That’s why it’s so good to have a community that’s so supportive. If you’re working on a project they kind of spot you and check in with you and help to motivate you.” INWASA published its first issue of Spokane Sequential last fall, stocking them at local coffee shops and bookstores all over Spokane, Pullman and Moscow. Its second issue arrived in March with the hope of being published quarterly. Freeland says his goal for Spokane Sequential and comics in general is to “legitimize the medium and show that you don’t have to be a kid to like comics.” He says he wants to expand the reach of the publication to more and more areas. The first issue had 200 printed copies. The second more than doubled that. Freeland also says he wants to WEEKEND find a way to pay contributors C O U N T D OW N for their work in the future. Get the scoop on this “I’d like it to be a gig you weekend’s events with can get and a chance to be pubour newsletter. Sign up at lished,” Freeland says. “But also Inlander.com/newsletter. a chance to be compensated for your work.” Aside from the the magazine, INWASA also promotes local artists through their bookshelf project. The group seeks out retailers to designate shelf space for locally created graphic novels. Their first success was at Booktraders in the Garland District and features the works of Freeland, Malara and other group members like Manny Trembley. n Visit the Spokane Sequential’s Facebook page to learn more and find out where you can pick up a free copy.
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Lentils are king on the Palouse.
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ale, coconut, teff, blueberries, Brussels sprouts, salmon, lentils. All are so-called superfoods, promoted by the media — and substantiated by science — as pretty darn healthy for their respective abilities to offer more nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants, fiber and potential disease-fighting benefits. Consumers aren’t the only ones to benefit. Lentils, one of these superfoods, and actually all pulses, which includes garbanzo beans and dried peas, are good for the Earth and the economy, including that of Pullman where this weekend 30,000 people are expected to attend the 30th annual National Lentil Festival Food & Brew Fest. The festival is a family-friendly party featuring a
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wide mix of athletic activities — a golf tournament, bike ride, basketball tourney and the Tase T. Lentil Fun Run — along with kids’ activities, live performances, market vendors, craft beer and wine and a parade through downtown. The event is also educational with a hands-on science area for kids, the Garbanzo Garden’s interactive display (which includes a pool filled with garbanzos to play in) and a panel discussion about the history and future of pulse farming. The Lentil Festival dates to 1989, when an estimated 98 percent of the nation’s lentils were grown on the Palouse, mostly in Washington, but also Oregon and Ida-
ho. Since then, North Dakota and Montana have moved into the lead as top pulse producers, reporting significant increases in acreage planted and boosting the U.S. market share of a multibillion-dollar industry that’s long been dominated by India, Turkey and Canada. According to the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council, the greatest increases have been in the chickpea market, which more than doubled from 2015 to 2017.
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ll manner of pulses are featured at the free, twoday festival, including lentils of all shapes and colors, from nutty Lentilles du Puy, otherwise known as French lentils, to the yellow and red lentils typi-
cal of Indian cuisine. Visitors will also run into the small, black lentils sometimes called beluga lentils for their resemblance to caviar (served locally in Central Food’s PNW Lentil Bowl). Festival food events include the Lion’s Club lentil pancake breakfast (Saturday, 8 am; $4-$8) and 350 gallons of lentil chili prepared by WSU staff and students and dished up for hungry spectators (Friday, 5-8 pm; free). In 2014, the festival’s lentil chili broke a world record for serving 500 gallons of the hearty stuff, earning the title of “world’s largest” bowl. Three regional chefs also weigh in with cooking demos featuring pulses. Patty Brehm of Kitchen Counter in Moscow is giving garbanzo beans a Mediterranean spin with her dish combining smaller, Spanish-style garbanzos, also known as chickpeas, with roasted lemon, olive oil, sea salt and roasted seasonal vegetables. “I want to highlight the taste of chickpeas, not hide them,” says Brehm, who formerly managed the Moscow Food Co-op. Another popular event is the lentil cook-off contest (Saturday, 3 pm), which this year showcases five national finalists selected from 100 applicants who will compete with dishes like cinnamon lentil mini-pies, baked lentil empanadas and Seattle-style lentil salmon bowls. “Lentils are an interesting legume,” says festival director Brittnee Packwood. “They really adapt to any flavor you’re cooking with.”
An annual highlight is Lentil Fest’s 350-gallon bowl of lentil chili.
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he popularity of pulse crops with farmers goes beyond their obvious market value as a consumable good; they are also grown as a “cover crop,” planted after the harvest of or in rotation with other crops. Depending on the plant — clover, ryegrass, mustard greens, legumes, lentils — cover crops can help protect bare soil, retain water, deter weed growth and even revitalize the soil. Pulse crops are typically grown in rotation with cereal grains, like wheat, and uniquely trap vital nitrogen for the soil, offering much more than what they need to sustain themselves and leaving plenty for the hungry wheat plant. That in turn reduces the need for conventional fertilizers. Lentils also have the distinction of creating a tiny carbon footprint, which is the amount of greenhouse gasses, specifically carbon dioxide, emitted during the production of something. Animal protein sources such as livestock and poultry, understandably, have a higher carbon footprint than plant-based proteins. When protein matters, pulses are nutritional powerhouses. They offer 9 grams of protein for a half-cup serving, whereas a 1-ounce portion of beef, pork, poultry or fish typically offers 7 grams. When finances or dietary choices matter, pulses are an extremely low-cost source of protein. According to World Resources International’s comparison of average U.S. retail prices in 2013, lentils cost 0.9 cents per gram, while eggs were three times that at 2.7 cents per gram and beef weighed in at 4.4 cents per gram. Even so, some people are surprised that pulses are such an important part of our region, says Brehm, who almost always serves a dish involving lentils or chickpeas at Kitchen Counter. “We ought to be eating what we are growing here.” n National Lentil Festival • Fri, Aug. 17 from 9 am-11 pm and Sat, Aug. 18 from 7:30 am-5 pm • Free • All ages • Downtown Pullman • lentilfest.com • 334-3565
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The Fainting Goat brings high-end dining to Wallace, Idaho.
The Fainting Goat finds small town success serving fine food and wine in Wallace BY BROOKE CARLSON
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estled in the crook of a mountain near the Montana border, Wallace, Idaho, is home to less than 800 people year-round. The mining industry that once drew thousands to the area has experienced dramatic and steady decline over the last century. Oncebustling city streets have since turned quiet, making it tough for some businesses to succeed. The Fainting Goat, a casual fine dining establishment in the heart of Wallace, is one of these local businesses that’s seen its share of ups and downs. Offering an upscale menu that breaks away from the small town’s burger-and-fries feel, diners from all over the U.S. have hopped off Interstate 90 since 2013 to try its unexpected menu and to relish the charming, welcoming atmosphere of the tiny community. Still, the restaurant’s original owners struggled to keep it afloat. Despite stellar reviews, complications led to the business closing its doors just two years later, in 2015. The building stood empty until Randall Julin, from Spokane, bought it in June of 2016. “Really, I’ve got no business being in [the restaurant industry],” Julin chuckles. “I was an aerospace engineer, I lost my way and became a restaurateur. I’m supposed to be retired.” The 67-year-old and his wife, Cheri, fell in love with Wallace years before, as many do. Even for first-time visitors, it’s hard not to feel at home while strolling through the town’s pleasant neighborhoods, lined with elegant old homes fronted by immaculate gardens and adorned with American flags. The entire heart of the historic mining
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espite a long career in the aerospace industry, Julin wasn’t quite ready to give up the working life. The Fainting Goat presented an opportunity for something new. “My wife of 45 years, who’s put up with all my idiosyncrasies for all that time, she fell into retirement almost immediately, and was very happy, so she’s kinda kicking my butt every day for doing this,” Julin says. “She went along with me and she does the accounting.” The couple kept parts of the original restaurant’s vision, with decor that dances the line between modern and old-school, playing with charming rustic details while keeping the space current and stylish. Nods to Wallace’s history can be found throughout the restaurant, including a rustic hotel sign used as a prop for Dante’s Peak, the doomsday film about a giant volcano filmed in Wallace back in 1997. Julin added his own twists along the way, including a taproom with reclaimed wood furniture and an outdoor patio. The Fainting Goat’s menu also retained its former upscale, fine-dining features. The dinner menu, offering appetizers, salads and six entrees, was created by chef Sam Puckett, who traveled from Arizona to work as head chef at the restaurant. Entrees include a bacon-wrapped quail marsala ($29), while an appetizer highlight is a stacked caprese of juicy Roma tomatoes topped with fresh mozzarella and basil, drizzled in a balsamic reduction ($13). The restaurant’s culinary team tries to source fresh,
local, organic products whenever possible, including seasonal vegetables. Yet the true star of the show at the Fainting Goat is its collection of beer and wine. A large wine dispenser imported from Italy is prominently visible to patrons entering the restaurant. The cylindrical contraption holds 16 bottles of red wine; a small nozzle protrudes near the top of each, allowing diners a choose-your-own-adventure-style wine tasting. A similar dispenser holds chilled wines as well. The wine list features many regional choices, from a sweet grenache from Walla Walla to a dark syrah from Colter’s Creek in Idaho, and many more. For wine tasting, diners are given a credit card-like slip to insert into the dispenser which allows them to then choose a wine and pour size ($1-$15.50 each), ranging from a 2-ounce tasting, half or full glass. The Fainting Goat offers more than 30 wines, as well as nearly 40 craft beers ranging from local breweries to domestic favorites, as well as several imported beers.
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ven with its creative menu and decor, pulling in new customers to a small town can be tough. One of the first steps Julin took to draw diners to the Fainting Goat was putting up a billboard along the freeway to catch the eyes of locals and out-of-towners alike. “A lot of people don’t know what Wallace is all about. If they’re from Seattle, Missoula, Boston, Chicago — wherever it might be — that was one of the challenges, just getting those people off I-90,” Julin ENTRÉE says. Get the scoop on local The billboard was food news with our weekly a hit, and since the Entrée newsletter. Sign up Fainting Goat reopened at Inlander.com/newsletter. under the Julin’s ownership two years ago, it’s helped bring diners from all over the U.S. and the world each summer to Wallace for the first time. Julin remarks that one customer recently noted that Wallace is becoming a “foodie’s destination.” He hopes the Fainting Goat has contributed to that sentiment. Even so, and despite a steady stream of diners throughout the summer months, business becomes significantly slower during the colder parts of the year. For this reason, Julin and his wife decided to operate the Fainting Goat seasonally, and so they can enjoy retirement with their family during the off-season. The restaurant is open from May to about midSeptember. n The Fainting Goat, A Wine Bar • 516 Bank St., Wallace • Open Wed-Sun noon-8 pm • thefaintinggoatawinebar.com • 208-556-5655
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omeday there may be a forest of Mango Tree restaurants. Yet for now, Coeur d’Alene is the lucky new home of this smallbut-growing franchise that started in Medicine Hat, Alberta, four years ago. Founder Rakesh Kaushal operates several Mango Tree locations in Canada and also owns a few Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar franchises. As of last month, he counts North Idaho as another area served. Kaushal brought in chef Sanjay Uniyal from another Mango Tree location to develop and deliver the Coeur d’Alene restaurant’s menu, which Kaushal describes as mostly northern Indian. Fans of Indian cuisine, however, will detect the panoply of styles and influences inherent in a cuisine that dates back more than 5,000 years, in a country roughly one-third the area of the United States, and bordered by equally ancient and diverse civilizations. The Mango Tree’s focus is on curry dishes and grilled items, says Kaushal, many of which will sound familiar: curry bowls such as tikka masala ($12), aloo gobi, a vegetarian dish ($11), and vindaloo curry ($12), as well as grilled items like mango-marinated chicken ($14), lamb chops ($16) and beef kabobs ($14). Other familiar items are samosa — pastry stuffed and fried — and naan (or flatbread), which also forms the basis of Mango Tree’s equivalent of pizza, with cheese, pepperoni, spinach and other toppings ($8-$12). Dishes can be ordered from one (mild) to five (volcanic) stars, and customers can request
homemade chili paste if they’re ready for the nuclear option. Remember that dairy balances the effect of heat-bearing spices, so try a glass of yogurt-based lassi ($4) or ask for a side of cooling raita, a yogurt-based sauce. A sense of adventure is well advised at Mango Tree due to its unusually vague menu descriptions of precise spices, ingredients and cooking techniques. Keep in mind that learning about food can often be an important part of its enjoyment. Yet Mango Tree makes up for this detail in its volume and variety of items: R E S TA U R A N T FINDER appetizers, Looking for a new place to grilled entrée, eat? Search the region’s flatbreads and most comprehensive bar wraps, salads, and restaurant guide at a variety of Inlander.com/places. rice dishes, assorted naan, curry bowls and desserts. It also offers an assortment of beer and wine, and both delivery and catering service. Flavors range from sweet, sour and spicy to savory, with more than enough to choose from to make every trip to the Mango Tree an interesting culinary adventure. n food@inlander.com The Mango Tree • 1726 W. Kathleen Ave., Coeur d’Alene • Open daily 11 am-10 pm • facebook.com/mangotreecda • 208-930-1416
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Return of the Rom-Com Crazy Rich Asians makes the case for a struggling genre BY JOSH BELL
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iven how high the expectations have been for the adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s popular 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians, it’s remarkable how limber and lighthearted the movie is. In a time when old-school romantic comedies have been mostly relegated to Netflix original movies, Crazy Rich Asians delivers an unabashedly glamorous love story, with a predictable but mostly satisfying narrative arc and plenty of entertaining, likable characters. Its cultural specificity opens up the story in ways that set it apart from the typical Hollywood rom-com, but the basic structure is as old as cinema itself: poor girl falls in love with rich boy. In this case, it’s more like comfortably upper-middleclass girl falls in love with stratospherically rich boy. NYU economics professor Rachel Chu (Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu) thinks that her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) is just a nice guy from Singapore who doesn’t like to talk much about his family. When he invites her home with him to attend the wedding of his best friend, though, she learns that Nick actually comes from one of Singapore’s wealthiest families, heir to a massive fortune and expected to take over the family business. For the American-born daughter of a Chinese-immigrant single mother, everything about Nick’s life comes as a shock, and Rachel is totally unprepared for dealing with Nick’s ultra-wealthy socialite friends and family, and especially with Nick’s controlling mother Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh), who does not approve of her son dating
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(and potentially marrying) someone from such a comparatively low social class (and whose values are more American than Chinese). Rachel’s culture shock is the source of most of the movie’s comedy, but the filmmakers also take it seriously, especially as the toxic effects of ingrained social expectations become clearer. Wu is warm and funny as the sharp, confident Rachel, and newcomer Golding is charming — if a little vapid — as the less complex (and less compelling) Nick. The movie is full of goofy supporting characters, including Ocean’s 8 scene-stealer Awkwafina as Rachel’s Singaporean-American college buddy Peik Lin, and amusing turns from Ken Jeong and Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang. The large cast can get a little unwieldy, and keeping track of the various relationships is tough at times. Rachel jokes about being positioned as the villain in a soap opera, and there’s more than a little soap-operatic scheming and betrayal going on among the secondary characters. That most strongly manifests itself in a tangential subplot about the marital difficulties of Nick’s beloved cousin Astrid (Gemma Chan), which may have been more fully realized in the novel but here too often seems like it’s been imported from a heavier, more melodramatic movie (despite Chan’s strong performance). The drama be-
tween Rachel and Eleanor is more convincingly handled, and even though the plot runs through multiple rom-com clichés (including a makeover montage and a last-minute rush to the airport), the emotions mostly ring true. Director Jon M. Chu has a background in dance movies (including two Step Up installments and two Justin Bieber documentaries), and he brings a sense of choreographic grace to the movie’s many parties and other social gatherings. The Youngs and their associates live an almost impossibly extravagant lifestyle, and Chu captures all of it in vibrant colors, making Singapore both inviting and intimidating (which is exactly what it is for Rachel). The costumes and set design are lavish and eye-catching, and Chu puts as much care into the details of food preparation as he does into the over-the-top wedding celebration at the movie’s climax. As grandiose as the setting may be, the central relationships are grounded, and Wu in particular keeps the movie rooted in clear, powerful emotions. The mix of luxury and intimacy, familiarity and freshness, gives Crazy Rich Asians just the right balance to put a slightly new spin on a well-worn genre. n
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Based on the bestsellers by Kevin Kwan, an economics professor discovers her boyfriend is actually from one of Singapore’s richest families. It hits all the traditional rom-com beats, but it’s enlivened by a winning cast and a distinct cultural identity. (JB) Rated PG-13
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Marvel’s third feature this year is the least essential of the bunch, but it’s still a breezy, mostly fun adventure. This time out, microscopic superhero Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) ventures into a so-called “quantum zone,” teaming up with scientist Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) to rescue her long-lost mother. (JB) Rated PG-13
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Spike Lee’s latest joint concerns the true tale of black cop Ron Stallworth, who posed as a white supremacist and befriended David Duke in 1979. An endlessly fascinating story is occasionally undone by Lee’s own dramatic heavy-handedness. (JB) Rated R
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Winnie the Pooh tracks down his former owner, now an adult played by Ewan McGregor, to help him search for his missing friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Though it devolves into mayhem, much of it floats along on gentle whimsy. (NW) Rated PG
DEATH OF A NATION
Convicted felon, certified crackpot and occasional documentarian Dinesh D’Souza here asserts that Hitler was a liberal, and interviews Richard Spencer about how Donald Trump is the next Abraham Lincoln. (NW) Rated PG-13
DOG DAYS
This ensemble comedy introduces a group of L.A. residents and shows how they’re all connected through their canine companions. The cast includes Vanessa Hudgens, Nina Dobrev and Finn Wolfhard. (NW) Rated PG
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Not the Little Mermaid you’re thinking of, but a low-budget, live-action reimagining of the Hans Christian Andersen story set in a carnival sideshow. (NW) Rated PG
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The fourth collaboration between star Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg, a thriller about a CIA operative who must protect an asset with topsecret government information. (NW) Rated R
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Denzel Washington returns to the role of a former assassin who just can’t shake his violent instincts, seeking vengeance on the mercenaries who killed his friend. (NW) Rated R
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LEAVE NO TRACE
Set in the woods of Portland, this gentle drama explores how the relationship between a father and daughter living off the grid is tested when they’re forced back into society. The latest from Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik. At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated PG
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN
A new and improved ABBA film musical, both a prequel and a sequel to the 2008 original, linking the past and the present on that idyllic Greek isle. Corny? Most definitely. But it still works. (NW) Rated PG-13
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The remarkable tale of New York triplets who were separated at birth and reunited as adults, and the troubling secrets behind their estrangement. A fascinating, unpredictable and ultimately heartbreaking documentary. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
When a submersible filled with scientists is menaced by a megalodon, former Navy diver Jason Statham goes tooth to tooth with the same beast that cost him his career years ago. Could’ve been worse, but it’s no Jaws, either. (JB) Rated PG-13
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Into the shallows: Jason Statham’s big fish story falls somewhere between Jaws and the Sharknado movies.
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The Meg makes a mediocre addition to the shark-movie canon BY JOSH BELL
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hark movies are big business, especially in mission gone wrong. the world of straight-to-video cinema. LowThat mission went wrong because Jonas budget movies with titles like Sharkansas encountered a megalodon, a prehistoric 75-foot Women’s Prison Massacre and Raiders of the Lost Shark shark presumed to be extinct. No one believes have been showing up regularly on streaming Jonas’ megalodon story until a team of scientists services, on cable channels and in Redboxes in gets stranded deep in the Mariana Trench after recent years, most of them using campy humor, their research submarine is attacked by a giant copious gore and titillating nudity (or semimysterious undersea predator. Could it be the nudity) to make up for what they lack in plot, megalodon? Obviously, yes, and conveniently character development and production values. one of the scientists happens to be Jonas’ ex-wife Some (like the increasingly absurd Sharknado (Jessica McNamee), so he sobers up and comes series) have broken into the mainstream, but to the rescue. most appeal primarily to an audience of B-movie The rest of the research crew includes Rainn aficionados. Wilson as the greedy billionaire funding the operAt times, The Meg comes off like a big-budget ation, Cliff Curtis as Jonas’ former diving buddy, version of one of those movies, and Li Bingbing as the mission’s THE MEG with some winking humor, some supervisor and Jonas’ requisite Rated PG-13 gruesome deaths (although not love interest. Li, a massive star in Directed by Jon Turteltaub so gruesome that they jeopardize China, struggles with her largest Starring Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, English-language role to date, and the PG-13 rating) and a plot that Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose gets more ridiculous as the movie she and Statham have no chemisgoes on. But it’s also a modern try as they plod through their rote action blockbuster, so it has to mostly take itself flirting. Statham is his typically charismatic self, seriously and include a bunch of effects-heavy set and even if Jonas isn’t much different from many pieces that look imposing on a big screen. other Statham action-movie characters, he’s still It’s not quite silly enough to provide the fun to watch as he devises various plans to take campy entertainment value of the most enjoydown “the meg” as it gets dangerously close to ably terrible shark movies, but it also lacks the civilization. intensity of the rarer genuinely scary shark After a slow start that keeps the shark offmovie. Recent shark thrillers The Shallows and 47 screen in favor of a drawn-out submarine rescue, Meters Down have proved surprisingly gripping by director Jon Turteltaub and the three screenminimizing the goofiness and focusing on creepwriters (working from Steve Alten’s bestselling ing dread and more realistic (if still exaggerated) novel) generate some real excitement in the peril. movie’s second half, with creative approaches to The Meg never captures that level of sustained the shark/human battles and mostly impressive suspense, and it definitely isn’t anywhere close special effects that give a sense of how massive to realistic, but for certain stretches it generates the megalodon is meant to be. The pacing lags effective tension and thrills. Star Jason Statham again in the home stretch, with too many fakehas plenty of experience bringing both charm outs as the shark appears to be defeated only to and determination to mediocre (or worse) action come roaring back, but each time it does, there’s movies, and he delivers exactly what’s expected another jolt of excitement. of him here as Jonas Taylor, a rescue diver who’s Uneven and choppy, The Meg is certainly no run off to Thailand to spend his days getting Jaws, but at least it’s no Sharkansas Women’s Prison drunk after losing a couple of teammates on a Massacre, either. n
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TAPES & TAPES Local duo Runaway Octopus revels in the retro with surf-rock sounds and the warmth of analog BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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saac Murcar and Michael Starry’s other bandmate in Runaway Octopus is always on time for practice, doesn’t voice differing opinions and rarely — if ever — makes a mistake. That’s because it’s a reel-to-reel tape machine, one of those bulky vintage ones that you might have seen at a garage sale or two, and though it may be an inanimate object, it’s essentially the third member of the band. Starry and Murcar, both 23, grew up in Spokane, though they didn’t know one another until several years ago when they were recruited to be the rhythm section for Soul Man Black, the solo project of local glam-rock musician Dylan Black. They bonded over a shared obsession with the Pixies, but they didn’t talk much after that gig ended, until Starry received a text from Murcar: Want to start a surf band with me? That was in early 2016. Runaway Octopus began as a
trio with a drummer, but when that arrangement didn’t work out, Murcar got out the old reel-to-reel he purchased from a co-worker, loaded it up with tape he found at thrift shops and recorded some drum tracks onto it so he and Starry could play along to it. “I think it started out as a practicing tool until we found a new drummer,” Starry says of the tape machine. “Which we never did,” Murcar adds. “So we started playing a couple shows with it, and the audiences were really pumped about it,” Starry says. It’s not all that different from, say, electronic artists playing along to pre-recorded backing tracks on a laptop, but it’s a little more cumbersome, and it requires an entire show’s worth of percussion to be recorded on a single reel of tape. ...continued on next page
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“TAPES & TAPES,” CONTINUED... “The only thing that really ties us down is there always has to be something constant on there,” Murcar says. “It’s possible to get off from that, like if there’s a section without drums. … That’s really the only thing we have to think about it.” “It’s like we’re playing to a click track for every show,” Starry says, “but it’s sort of forced us to be really tight for our live shows.” “They don’t play back precisely all the time, so you can get out of tune really easily,” Murcar says. Bassist Starry has a background in jazz, and guitarist Murcar actually started out playing drums, but they’ve both always been drawn to the allure of surf. Runaway Octopus is not only indebted to all the genre’s greats — Dick Dale and the Ventures, of course — but to contemporary artists like Shannon and the Clams, La Luz and Tacocat, all of whom indulge in those reverb-y Fender guitars. They’re also big fans of the musical malapropisms of They Might Be Giants and the Presidents of the United States of America, and they’ve found common ground in embracing the lighthearted tone of those cult bands. “Neither of us is high maintenance about it,” Starry says. “I’ll bring an idea and we’ll work around it, or [Isaac] will bring in an idea. Nobody’s saying it has to be this way all the time. We’re always flexible with each other, and that’s how it’s ended up working so well together.” Though they have a handful of demos available on Bandcamp, Runaway Octopus has yet to release an official album. They have a backlog of material that’s already been recorded, and they say they’ll put that out before starting on a new batch of songs that may take them in a new stylistic direction. Until then, the best way to see them is live, with the reel-to-reel in its full analog glory. “It’s two guys up on stage making fools of themselves half the time,” Starry says. “Yeah, pretty much,” Murcar agrees. Starry continues: “We don’t do much audience interaction. We normally just let the tape play. We want to make it all about the music up there.” “It really feels like if you reach over and stop the tape player, you have to have something really important to say,” Murcar says. “If you stop it, and then you’re like, ‘Thanks for coming out,’ and you start it again, it’s just —” “You know what we should do, we should record it on the tape player,” Starry says. “We’d like to thank ‘insert venue name here.’” And what if the machine were to ever malfunction? Luckily it hasn’t yet — knock on wood. “Though we should probably have a plan for that,” Starry says. n Runaway Octopus with Long Neck and Fern Mayo • Sat, Aug. 18 at 9:30 pm • 21+ • $5 • Baby Bar • 827 W. First • 847-1234
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Relive the early aughts with the Ataris, celebrating the 15th anniversary of their signature album BY NATHAN WEINBENDER
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h, 2003. It might seem strange to reminisce about a year that found the country on the verge of a recession and in the early stages of a war, but as a pop cultureobsessed teenager with a decent dial-up internet connection, it was quite a time. The California pop-punk band the Ataris are also glancing in the rearview mirror on their latest tour. They’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of their album So Long, Astoria, which made them a hot commodity in ’03 and featured their highest-charting single, a cover of Don Henley’s classic “The Boys of Summer.” It was the era of punk going pop (read: emo), of Abercrombie and Fitch, of denim skirts and boy bands. Make of that what you will. So Long, Astoria is very much of its time, an album that produced so many angsty anthems and just as many senior yearbook quotes. “Being grown up isn’t half as fun as growing up.” “Life is only as good as the memories we make.” “All you can ever learn is what you already know.” “Don’t look back. You can never look back.” OK, so maybe that last one should be attributed solely to Don Henley, but the sentiment still stands. Listening to the record for the first time in who knows how long, I’m feeling nostalgic for the era in which it was released, so bear with me while I reflect on some other musical highlights from that year. Before its slide into obsolescence (followed by a failed rebranding effort), American Idol was the hottest thing on TV. In 2003, the show’s second season talent pool was eventually whittled down to Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken. A whopping 24 million votes were tabulated, and Studdard took the victory by one of the slimmest margins in the series’ history. Studdard translated that into a relatively successful R&B and gospel career, while Aiken became an arguably bigger pop star, eventually running unsuccessfully for Congress in his home state of North Carolina. She’s now one of the most acclaimed art-
ists in the world, but in 2003, Beyoncé was the last of the three members of Destiny’s Child to put out a solo album. It was worth the wait. That record, Dangerously in Love, was an out-of-the-gate phenomenon, and it’s still Bey’s biggest-selling LP. And no wonder: It spawned hits like “Baby Boy,” “Me, Myself and I,” “Naughty Girl” and the irresistible “Crazy in Love,” all stone-cold classics. Her reign started there and has continued ever since. Also burning up the charts that year was the rap duo OutKast, who released the Grammywinning, double-disc juggernaut Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below. Their crossover smash “Hey Ya!” defied genre conventions, a straight-up pop track that remains a highlight of the decade. Also in 2003 hip-hop: 50 Cent blew onto the scene with his inescapable single “In Da Club.” Jay-Z’s Black Album dropped, boasting soon-to-be-iconic tracks like “99 Problems” and “Dirt Off Your Shoulder.” The Black Eyed Peas cracked the Top 10 for the first time with the Justin Timberlake-featuring “Where Is the Love?” Although it was hardly a watershed year for cinematic masterpieces, 2003 was a big year for music in the movies. School of Rock harnessed Jack Black’s Tasmanian devil-like energy to universal critical acclaim; it has since become a Tony-nominated Broadway show. The Christopher Guest mockumentary A Mighty Wind, poking fun at the 1960s folk scene, produced a handful of genuinely good fake songs (one of which was nominated for an Oscar). And the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino’s martial arts pastiche Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is still a banger, featuring Isaac Hayes, Quincy Jones and original music by RZA. n The Ataris with Sid Broderius & the Emergency Exit and the Pink Socks • Tue, Aug. 21 at 8 pm • All ages • $15 advance, $18 day of • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8101
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herever you go, whatever you do, Richard Marx will be right there waiting for you… on your local ’80s pop station. Sort of comforting, isn’t it? With his mane of lustrous curls and No. 1 hits like “Hold On to the Nights,” “Satisfied” and, of course, “Right Here Waiting,” Marx became one of the decade’s most reliable balladeers, and those songs remain crystalline time capsules of that era’s penchant for unabashed musical sentiment. He really was a titan of the genre: In fact, Marx’s first seven singles all cracked the top five of the Billboard charts, a feat no other solo artist had accomplished at the time. — NATHAN WEINBENDER An Evening with Richard Marx • Sun, Aug. 19 at 8 pm • All ages • $34.50-$59.50 • Bing Crosby Theater • 919 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater. com • 227-7638
J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW
Thursday, 08/16
219 LOUNGE, Leigh Guest ARBOR CREST, Ron Greene J THE BARTLETT, The Nightowls BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOOMERS, Randy Campbell J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project J BUCER’S, Open Jazz Jam COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Lonestar J COEUR D’ALENE PARK, Sara Brown Duo CORBY’S BAR, Steve Fleming THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Kicho CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, The Eskimo Brothers DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, The Bobby Patterson Band DAN & JO’S, Usual Suspects DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave GILDED UNICORN, Dylan Hathaway THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series JOHN’S ALLEY, Naughty Pine J KNITTING FACTORY, Yelawolf, Waylone & Willie J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open Mic J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), The Hankers J NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE, Summer in Siberia, DJ Funk Affiliated PALOUSE BAR AND GRILL, Pat Coast POST FALLS BREWING, Rusty Jackson RED ROOM LOUNGE, Super Square, Rebel Scum REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Jason Eady, Courtney Patton RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE, Son of Brad J RIVERSTONE PARK, John Welsh Band THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke
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HARD ROCK HALESTORM
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uitarist Lzzy Hale started her namesake band Halestorm when she was still a teenager, and she’s been on the road incessantly for 20 years, opening for countless heavy metal legends. That persistence paid off: Halestorm is now headlining huge venues, including the Arena next week. Although Hale wails with the best of them, the band’s more recent work has veered toward a poppier sound, and their new album Vicious explores themes of empowerment. Hale seems to be channeling Joan Jett on the lead single “Uncomfortable,” a salvo about her own career: “I did it just because I can … I did it because f--- the man.” — NATHAN WEINBENDER Halestorm with In This Moment and New Years Day • Thu, Aug. 16 at 7 pm • All ages • $39.50-$57 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000
THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series SLICE & BISCUIT, Bluegrass Jam J J SPOKANE ARENA, Halestorm (see above), In This Moment, New Years Day ZOLA, Blake Braley
Friday, 08/17
1898 PUBLIC HOUSE, Glenn & Rachael 219 LOUNGE, Marshal McLean and the Holy Rollers BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, The Dapper Devils, Samba Lama, DustFuzzz, The Dead Channels BIGFOOT PUB, Rusty Jackson BOLO’S, Pastiche J CARLIN BAY RESORT, Just Plain Darin J CENTENNIAL HOTEL, Shakewell CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Mike McCafferty CLAYTON, My Own Worst Enemy
COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Bands on Boats feat. Smash Hit Carnival CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, The Eskimo Brothers CURLEY’S, Mojo Box DARCY’S, Karaoke w/DJ Dave FARMHOUSE KITCHEN, Tom D’Orazi J FORZA COFFEE (VALLEY), Renei & Rhys IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Bright Moments Jazz IRON HORSE (CDA), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Steve Livingston and Triple Shot JOHN’S ALLEY, Redwood Son J KLINK’S, One Street Over J KNITTING FACTORY, Bobaflex, Jibe, Backlight District, Fake News LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta la Vista MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind
MULLIGAN’S, Jon Keith Walton NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Karma’s Circle OBJECT SPACE, Avola, Elrond & Ergot Rye J THE OBSERVATORY, Indian Goat, Dead Serious Lovers, Bar Talk, Snakes/Sermons OFF REGAL LOUNGE, StepBrothers J OUTLAW BBQ, Songsmith Series J PARK BENCH CAFE, Wyatt Wood PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Bill Price J THE PIN!, Through n’ Through, Flatlined, Black Mass RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Ron Greene; Son of Brad (at Noah’s) SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, TONYA SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Honky Tonk a’ Go-Go STUDIO 107, Ron Kieper Jazz Duo
THIRSTY DOG, DJs WesOne & Big Mike J TORTILLA UNION, Kori Ailene ZOLA, Dragonfly
Saturday, 08/18
1210 TAVERN, Jan Harrison Blues Experience 219 LOUNGE, The Beat Diggers 3RD WHEEL, Blacklite District, Fell from the Ship J BABY BAR, Runaway Octopus (see page 47), Long Neck, Fern Mayo with BARLOWS, Son of Brad J THE BARTLETT, The Brevet, Flying Mammals BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Heart Avail, Limberlost, What Thou Wilt, Heroes for Ghosts BIGFOOT PUB, Rusty Jackson BOLO’S, Pastiche CARLIN BAY RESORT, Tommy G
J CENTENNIAL HOTEL, Christy Lee CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Mike McCafferty CLAYTON, My Own Worst Enemy COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, Choose Local Fest w/The Kevin Shay Band COLBERT TRADING CO., Will Nover CRUISERS, The Eskimo Brothers CURLEY’S, Mojo Box DAVENPORT GRAND, Kori Ailene ELK, WASH., Sidetrack GARLAND PUB, Usual Suspects J THE GORGE, Rebelution, Stephen Marley & Common Kings J HARRISON CITY PARK, Bill Bozly HOGFISH, Undercard, Helldorado, Incoming Days & more HOUSE OF SOUL, Cary Fly Band IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Brian Stai and Anthony Birkel J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., BG3+ IRON HORSE (CDA), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Smokey Brights, Cave Clove LAUGHING DOG, Michael & Shanna LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chuck Dunlop MAIN ST. TAVERN, Slightly Committed MARYHILL WINERY, Warren Frysinger MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta la Vista
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MOOSE LOUNGE, Rewind MULLIGAN’S, Casey Ryan NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night NORTHERN RAIL PUB, Sock Puppets J THE OBSERVATORY, Summer in Siberia, Digisaurus, Nikita PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Sadie & Desiree J THE PIN!, Bubba Sparxxx, Los Ghost POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Eric Neuhausser RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ROADHOUSE, Theresa Edwards Band SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Ashley Pyle (at Noah’s) J SUNSET PARK, Smash Hit Carnival; Stagecoach West TEMPLIN’S RED LION, The Jukers THE VIKING, SideStep TRINITY AT CITY BEACH, Bright Moments Jazz J WALLACE, My Own Worst Enemy WESTWOOD BREWING, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Dragonfly
Sunday, 08/19
ARBOR CREST, Tuxedo Junction BIG BARN BREWING CO., Scotia Road J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Richard Marx (see facing page) CARLIN BAY RESORT, Daniel Hall J CORBIN PARK, Buffalo Jones CRAFTED TAP HOUSE, Jimi Finn CRAVE, DJ Dave CURLEY’S, Into the Drift GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Steve Livingston
JOHN’S ALLEY, Digisaurus J KNITTING FACTORY, Wheeler Walker Jr., Adam Chaffins LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Lyle Morse O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Annie Welle ZOLA, Lazy Love
Monday, 08/20
J THE BIG DIPPER, David Liebe Hart, Itchy Kitty, Bandit Train THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J KIBBIE CENTER, Rodney Atkins NORTHERN RAIL, Music Challenge RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Perfect Mess
Tuesday, 08/21
219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic J J THE BIG DIPPER, The Ataris (see page 49), Sid Broderius and The Emergency Exit, The Pink Socks CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Common Kings, River City Roots Band LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue. J LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Kicho J THE PIN!, Open Mic POST FALLS BREWING, Devon Wade RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam RIPPLES RIVERSIDE, Land of Voices
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Wednesday, 08/22 CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz & Whiskey IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Maxie Ray Mills THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Igor & The Red Elvises J J KNITTING FACTORY, Lamb of God, Napalm Death, Accused AD J KOOTENAI COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, Randy Houser with the James Barker Band; Son of Brad LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LOST BOYS’ GARAGE, Jazz Weds. LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J J MCEUEN PARK, Stephen Marley, Sol Seed, Bill Bozly THE OBSERVATORY, Armed for Apocalypse, Xingaia, Deathbed Confessions OMEGA EVENT CENTER, Apotheon, Increate, A Day on Earth J THE PIN!, Set It Off, Chapel, De’Wayne Jackson POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic STA PLAZA, Kori Ailene THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Pat Coast ZOLA, Whsk&Keys
MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR • 4720 Ferrel, CdA • 208-274-0486 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 OMEGA EVENT CENTER • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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Celebrate our region’s cultural diversity at Unity in the Community on Aug. 18.
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FESTIVAL CELEBRATING DIFFERENCES
The annual Unity in the Community festival returns for another year, promoting the many different cultures found across the Spokane area. The largest multicultural celebration in the Inland Northwest this year is themed “Collaborate. Connect. Celebrate.” and focuses on educating attendees on various cultures represented here. Unity kicks off with a parade at 9 am and continues throughout the day with plenty of educational booths, delicious food and cultural performances. The festival also hosts health, early learning and career fairs. A free bag of school supplies is distributed to local kids who get their festival passport stamped at all booths in the Cultural Village, with each booth representing a different country. — SEAN PRICE Unity in the Community • Sat, Aug 18 from 9 am-4 pm • Free • All ages • Riverfront Park • 507 N. Howard • nwunity.org
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THEATER THE PARK’S A STAGE
Get your Shakespeare fix during an outdoor performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost. The classic comedy tells the story of three men who swear off love for three years in order to devote themselves to their studies. When three beautiful young ladies come along, everything goes awry. No spoilers, but I’ll bet at least one of ’em breaks their vow. The performance is put on by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, a nonprofit theater organization devoted to bringing free, professional shows to underserved communities. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair to settle down for a night of Shakespearean laughs. The following day (Aug. 19 at 6 pm), the troupe heads up to Sandpoint for a performance of Othello at the Bonner County Fairgrounds. — BROOKE CARLSON Love’s Labour’s Lost • Fri, Aug. 18 at 5 pm • Free • Pavillion Park • 727 N. Molter Rd., Liberty Lake • shakespeareintheparks.org
COMEDY EPPS ON THE WAY
Mainstream audiences first took notice of Mike Epps in the 2000 film Next Friday, the hit sequel to the 1995 cult comedy that found Epps replacing Chris Tucker as Ice Cube’s right-hand man. But fans of the hugely popular Def Comedy Jam series, where Epps is regularly featured, would have already been familiar with his wild comic stylings. Epps still shows up regularly on the big and small screen — he appeared in the Hangover series, had the title role in the recent sitcom adaptation of Uncle Buck, and co-starred with Cube again in the 2002 action comedy All About the Benjamins — but he’s never given up stand-up, and he brings his live act to Spokane this weekend. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Mike Epps • Fri and Sat, Aug. 17-18 at 7 and 10 pm; Aug. 19 at 7 pm • 21+ • $37.50-$55 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998
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Back in January, Ryan Dean Tucker produced a one-man stage version of action-flick classic Die Hard, and watching him bounce around the stage as John McClane, interacting with himself as the movie’s other notable characters via pre-filmed segments, was both hilarious and surreal. Now he’s taking on another ’80s classic in Back To The Future, and while watching Tucker as Marty McFly, his parents George and Lorraine, and bad-guy Biff should be fun, I’m mostly interested in how Tucker is going to make a DeLorean fly in the cozy confines of the Bartlett. — DAN NAILEN Back to the Future: The One Man Show • Fri, Aug. 17 at 7 and 10 pm • All ages • $10 • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174
MUSIC SALAMÉ!
This show is gonna get real weird. David Liebe Hart, one of the ultra-quirky performers from Adult Swim’s Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, calls himself an “outsider musician,” and he’s right. From songs about space, trains (one of his obsessions), alien encounters, unrequited love and plenty of other topics, Liebe Hart frequently sings with the accompaniment of his many creepy puppets. “Every show is as different and unpredictable as David is himself, and can veer from hilarity in one moment to awkward confusion in the next,” promises a press release for Liebe Hart’s current tour. We, too, don’t doubt that his Spokane stop will be one of the strangest and most awkward performances this town has seen in a long time. — CHEY SCOTT David Liebe Hart with Itchy Kitty and Bandit Train • Mon, Aug. 20 at 7:30 pm • Ages 18+ • $8/advance; $10/door • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com
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W I SAW YOU
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I SAW YOU BIG CHANCES AT BIG LOTS I saw you in Big Lots on Monday afternoon. You were shopping with a friend. I came around a corner and caught you off guard and you gave me an awkward smile. We met again at the register and you explain the awkward smile and I offered to buy you a drink we laughed and I left. The offer still stands if you are interested. Meet you at Big Lots next Tuesday afternoon about 4 and we can go from there.
CHEERS NORTHPOINTE FLAT TIRE Big cheers to Josh from R’nR who helped out with a flat tire at Northpointe Plaza this Sunday, the 12th! Your kindness is much appreciated. Hope it comes back your way! DOGGY BOOTIES Cheers to the young woman at the Garland Street Fair who had so thoughtfully put booties on her dog’s feet to protect them from the searingly hot pavement that day. Ah, that the numerous others I saw being pulled along in the hot sun, at the mercy of their preoccupied and clueless owners, might have been so fortunate. WHO YOU GONNA CALL? To the awesome Silverwood employee who found
my phone I left on a bench in a harried hurry: Thank you so much! I was so upset I had left it, thinking someone had stolen it since it was tracked to Aftershock, where I knew I had not been. My father in law passed last year and I have a lot of irreplaceable photos and videos on there of him that made me heartbroken to lose. Thank you so much! You rock! YEA VOTERS Cheers to all the primary voters! Oh no, you’re not ready for the Nov. 6 general election? Get registered pronto, it’s easy. Bring ID or WA Driver’s License to a fire station or public library before Oct 8 or google “Spokane County register to vote” for other easy options. Your vote counts!
While your shirt is also a peaceful protest of athletes who kneel, by wearing it you disrespect those who continue to be victimized by racism, and now by being silenced. UGLIEST TAT IN THE WORLD Thanks to the man who completely ruined my self esteem, who made my worst nightmares come true by giving me the most horrific tattoo. It was so beautiful to begin with and then you went back over your old work and completely ruined it because you lost my original work,
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SUPPORTING RACISM You were kneeling in your “Stand for the Anthem, Kneel for the Cross” T-shirt in the front row of Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral. A catchy phrase, but self-contradicting. Kneeling, by the phrase’s own admission, is respectful. The athletes who kneel for the anthem carefully chose this most respectful pose to highlight the devastating effects of ongoing racism in our country. By wearing that shirt, you fell for a distraction to shift our attention from racism to respect for veterans. Veterans are not disrespected by kneeling during the anthem, but they are by the NFL’s response. Veterans upheld our freedoms to express our views peacefully and the NFL owners’ response shows that they lack the same courage as our veterans.
CINDER PARKING LOT WHEEL CHAIR Jeers to me. I was backing out of the Cinder parking lot downtown only looking over one shoulder, you were in a wheel chair and I backed into you. I am so grateful that I didn’t injure you.
ers. Many seem to enjoy honking and showing the middle finger to those who actually respect the laws provided for safety. Here is one example for those of you who have a driver’s license but are too stupid to understand the laws. When at a red light, it’s legal to turn right. However, this can only be accomplished if one has come to a complete stop behind the white line and ascertained there is nobody driving through the intersection or a pedestrian crossing the street prior to beginning the turn. If the driver deems it unsafe,
I was backing out of the Cinder parking lot downtown only looking over one shoulder, you were in a wheel chair and I backed into you. I am so grateful that I didn’t injure you.
JEERS WASTING DONATIONS? Over the past week, I have received THREE Jenny Graham flyers in my mail. Do Republicans think this is a good use of donations? It is a waste of money! She is never out doorbelling and has called in sick to several meetings to meet with other candidates and constituents. Where are her volunteers? Other candidates doorbell and wave signs — but not Jenny Graham. She just mails out the same flyer three times! Ridiculous! It is a waste of voters’ donations.
more Trump Speak, which, by the way makes it obvious that you side with party over your own countrymen. Be gone sooner rather than later for the good of all of us and book a flight to Moscow. I hear the ice fishing and vodka are pretty OK.
and you appeared intoxicated. You’ve blocked me off all social media and won’t contact me or respond to my messages. You know you messed up and won’t admit to your actions. So unprofessional and it’s honestly sad how much $$ I poured into you, all the business I brought to you and you just destroyed me when I trusted you. I hope karma hits you hard you steamy dog turd. You know who you are... CMR SMEARS OUT AGAIN Isn’t it just a miracle! that out of all the millions needing healthcare, Cathy McMorris Rodgers managed to find one person who would get on camera in time for an election to claim that by some random event she managed to arrange a face-to-face meeting and get an instant OK for life-saving treatments, when before that treatment was being denied by her insurance company... Hmmmm, looks like what we call here in the hood sus-pi-cious. That said, your TV ads calling your more-than-qualified-thanyou opponent “Dangerously Liberal” is
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I pulled the rubber tire back over your wheel and you said that you were fine and that your chair was too, gave you some cash and watched you wheel away and all seemed okay. I feel so terrible and I would like to buy you a new chair if it starts to not work properly. Please, please email me at cinderparkinglot@gmail.com and I will meet with you to take you to buy a new one, or bring you a new one whatever is easiest for you. My deepest condolences. LIBRARY VANDALISM I borrowed a newly published book after waiting on the reserves list. A previous borrower had folded the upper corner of almost every page, rather than use a bookmark. This is vandalism! You can easily make a bookmark from an old envelope, a grocery receipt, a postcard! Don’t abuse the privilege of borrowing free. Other people don’t have the good system we have.
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he/she isn’t required to turn right on red. In fact, doing so and causing injury to another person may be a criminal offense. To the impatient assholes who don’t understand this rule and insist on honking and providing their inferior middle finger to the driver who doesn’t want to get into an accident, please let it be only you that gets into the accident and is arrested for criminal recklessness. Also, your obscene gestures are lame. n
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RULES FOR DUMMIES Spokane seems to have many bad (and dumb) driv-
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ROCK CREEK ALLIANCE ANNUAL PARTY This event includes an update on the organization’s efforts to protect Lake Pend Oreille and the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness from the Rock Creek Mine, and the premier showing of the film “Irreparable Harm” by guest speaker and staff scientist Guy Archibald with Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. Aug. 17, 5-8 pm. Free. Evans Brothers Coffee, 524 Church., Sandpoint. (208-610-4896) BIKER BUILD A community-minded motorcycle enthusiast ride. Riders have the option to ride, build and/or celebrate. Riders meet for breakfast at The Globe, take a scenic ride to the Habitat construction site in Deer Park and then get to work. Motorcyclists and Tito’s Handmade Vodka are volunteering alongside future Habitat homeowners to frame the first floor of two homes. Aug. 18, 9 am. $80-$100. habitat-spokane.org/events/ biker-build-2018/ (443-4014) TAILS AT TWILIGHT This year’s event is themed “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” and offers a fun-filled evening of entertainment, auctions, great food, and of course, furry friends. Aug. 18, 6-10 pm. $65. Kootenai Humane Society, 11650 N. Ramsey Rd. kootenaihumanesociety.com INLAND NORTHWEST OPERA GALA The black-tie (optional) gala includes a dinner and hosted glass of wine, with no-host bar service for all guests Aug. 19, 6 pm. $75. Hayden Lake Country Club, 2362 E. Bozanta Dr. inlandnwopera.com
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE ONE MAN SHOW Ryan Dean Tucker only has a week to get his parents back together and to get back to the future! Enjoy a night of a live on stage parody of this beloved classic where Ryan is Marty McFly live on stage, interacting with all of the other characters on video. Shows at 7 and 10 pm. Aug. 17. $10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. thebartlettspokane.com BLUE RIBBON Improv skits based on county fair-themed prompts and suggestions. For general audiences. Fridays at 8 pm, Aug. 17-Sept. 14. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) HOWL AT THE HARVEST MOON Mark Morris Comedy presents Folger Emerson and headliner and touring comic Andrew Rivers. Aug. 17, 8-9:30 pm. Free; 2-item min. suggested. Harvest Moon Restaurant, 20 S. First St. (291-4313) MIKE EPPS Mike has generated plenty
of buzz among his peers in the entertainment industry for being one of the funniest comic actors toe emerge in the Hollywood scene as of late. Aug. 17-19 at 7 pm, Aug. 17-18 at 10 pm. $37.50-$55. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) A NIGHT OF COMEDY: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE Gabriel has made television appearances on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, Nickelodeon’s Nickmom Night Out, Laughs on FOX, Comedy.TV and Comics Unleashed. Aug. 17, 7:30-9:30 pm. $13. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) HOGWILD! A NIGHT OF COMEDY Mark Morris Comedy is back with featured performer, Folger Emerson and nationallytouring headliner Andrew Rivers. Aug. 18, 10-11:30 pm. Hogfish, 1920 East Sherman Ave. facebook.com/hogfishbarcda A NIGHT OF COMEDY Folger Emerson opens for nationally touring comedian Andrew Rivers. Aug. 19, 7-8:30 pm. $3/$5. Eagle’s Pub, 414 First St., Cheney. (235-6294) COMEDY SHOWCASE The Monday night showcase lets the audience help pick the “Best Set” of the night from among four local comedians. Third Monday of the month, from 8-9:30 pm. No cover; two-item min. purchase. The Buzz Pizzeria, Bar and Lounge, 501 S Thor St. thebuzzspokane.com/ (509-340-3099) DAVID LIEBE HART Best known for his roles on Adult Swim’s “Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!,” David Liebe Hart is an outsider musician, actor and painter. Aug. 20, 7:30-10:30 pm. $8/$10. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. ArtByLiebeHart.com (530-470-3299)
COMMUNITY
CDA 2030 5TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION Celebrate five years of progress toward a community vision for the future. Events include a photo booth, giveaways and prizes, community art project and more. Aug. 16, 5:30-8 pm. Free. Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln. (208-415-0109) PEND OREILLE COUNTY FAIR The community fair hosts traditional ag and livestock exhibits, entertainment, a rodeo, car show, vendors and more. This year’s theme is “Fun for the Whole Herd.” Aug. 16-19. Cusick Fairgrounds, 419152 Hwy 20. pocfair.com (445-1367) STAR WARS SHIP DESIGNER COLIN CANTWELL Meet the designer of the Death Star, Tie Fighters, X-Wings, Y-Wing and The Millennium Falcon. Colin also worked on 2001, A Space Odyssey and
War Games, and is credited with creating the first IMAX theater. Aug. 16, 3-6 pm. Free. The Comic Book Shop, 4750 N. Division St. thecomicbookshop.net THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE! The museum hosts a monthly, rotating mix of programs including music by local artists, happy hour, gallery talks, Art@Work exhibition openings, films, courses, lectures and more. Third Thursday of the month, from 6-9 pm. $5. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org (363-5324) FRIENDS OF THE DEER PARK LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support various library programs, activities, and services. Aug. 17-18 from 9 am-4 pm and Aug. 19 from 11 am-3 pm. Free. Deer Park Auto Freight, 2405 E. Crawford Ave. scldfriends.org/events (893-8300) LANDS COUNCIL OPEN HOUSE Meet staff and board members who make up The Lands Council and learn more about its programs and work protecting and revitalizing the Inland NW forests, water, and wildlife. Drinks and light appetizers provided. Aug. 17, 5-8 pm. Free. Saranac Rooftop, 25 W. Main. landscouncil.org RANDOM FANDOM TRIVIA NIGHT: THE OFFICE Adult trivia nights take on the biggest realms of fandom at the Spokane Valley Library. Bring your knowledge and your own eats (or have food delivered). Cosplayers welcome. Aug. 17, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) COEUR D’CON ,A comic convention celebrating books, movies, games, manga, comics and other avenues of geek culture. Local businesses, artists and experts exhibit and sell their goods throughout the library, offering a plethora of wares and perspectives on pop culture. Aug. 18, 10 am. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. facebook.com/coeurdcon COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE Try simple folk dances at a family dance and potluck hosted by the Palouse Folklore Society. Potluck at 6:30 pm, free lessons at 7:30 pm, dance from 8-10:30 pm. Aug. 18, 5 pm. $8. Old Blaine Schoolhouse, Eid Rd. and Blaine Rd. palousefolk.org GIRLS CODE @ SPARK Learn to create your own story — choose a setting, characters, and action — using core computer coding concepts. No cost; registration required. Grades 4-7. Aug. 18, 10 am-noon. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) GOAT YOGA Sessions include sunrise and sunset yoga with the goats, as well as family sessions. At Sweet Home Farm, 5040 W. Side Rd., Bonners Ferry. Aug. 18
NATIONALS The three-day car show features hot rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks through 1987, along with an indoor car show, vendors, swap meet, car sales and more. Aug. 17-19. $6-$17. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. good-guys.com (477-1766) WALLACE HUCKLEBERRY FESTIVAL The historic town’s annual celebration of all things huckleberry, with live music, dancing in the streets, huckleberry pancake breakfasts, street vendors, kids activities on the Northern Pacific Depot Museum lawn, a dunk tank and a 5K walk/run. Aug. 17-18. Downtown Wallace. wallaceidahochamber.com PICKIN’ SPOKANE VINTAGE SHOW & ARTISAN MARKET Pickin’ Spokane celebrates its 8th year, hosting 150+ booths of vendors offering vintage antiques, artisan handcrafts, signs, handmade furniture, repurposed, upcycled and reclaimed goods; jewelry, soap and more. Aug. 18 from 8 am-6 pm and Aug. 19 from 10 am-4 pm. $7/weekend admission; kids 12 and under free. Joe Albi Stadium, Wellesley and Assembly. bit.ly/2KDyZh8 UNIFEST 2018 The local event celebrates creativity and collaboration, featuring talented local artists, musicians, performers and makers in the community. Activities include the Geodesic Dome Stage, a beer garden, food trucks and games for all ages and more. Aug. 18, 3-11 pm. $5. Kendall Yards, Summit Parkway. unifestnw.com
and Sep. 28. $14-$53. sweethomegoatyoga@gmail.com (312-720-6943) HOW TO DIVIDE PERENNIALS Join the Friends of Manito to learn the correct way to divide perennials with WSU Master Gardener, Steven Nokes. Aug. 18, 10 am. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (509-456-8038) UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY The region’s largest multicultural event offers free school supplies (while supplies last) and bike helmets for children in grades K-8. Activities include the Cultural Village, entertainment, career and education fair, youth area, health fair, senior resources and general vendors. Unity Parade is at 9 am (registration required). Aug. 18, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. nwunity.org (509-625-6600) ZERO WASTE LIVING Learn how to reduce your trash and, as a result, save money, live healthier, have more time for the important things, and live in a way that benefits the environment. Aug. 20, 6:30-7:30 pm. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5300) FAMILY DAY AT THE MUSEUM Join us for a variety of activities and experience first-hand the Museum’s currently showing summer exhibitions: “As Grandma Taught: Women, Tradition and Plateau Art,” “Sayaka Ganz: Reclaimed Creations,” and “Edward S. Curtis: The Grand Idea.” Aug. 21, 10 am-3 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org NORTH IDAHO STATE FAIR Traditional fair events and attractions include the PRCA rodeo, demolition derby, ag and livestock displays, live music, vendors, carnival rides and more. Aug. 22-26; exhibits from 10 am-10 pm. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. northidahostatefair.com SPARK CENTRAL’S 2ND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & MOVIE NIGHT Spark Central is celebrating its second birthday with all-day treats and birthday party activities for all ages. At dusk, join us for a special screening of “Wall-E” following Kendall Yards Night Market. Aug. 22, 11 am-10 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org
FILM
INCREDIBLES 2 Everyone’s favorite family of superheroes is back, but this time Helen is in the spotlight, leaving Bob at home with Violet and Dash to navigate the day-to-day of “normal” life. Showing Aug. 16-19, times vary. $3-$7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) INLANDER SUDS & CINEMA: GREASE 40TH ANNIVERSARY SING-A-LONG RESCHEDULED: An outdoor screening and sing-a-long of the 1978 classic in honor of its 40th anniversary, with free Brain Freeze ice cream and food from the Incrediburger truck for purchase, as well as a 21+ beer garden with $5 pints from Icicle Creek Brewing, benefiting Terrain. Now on Sept. 6, 6:30 pm. Free. Olmsted Brothers Green, N. Nettleton St. and Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2NZAad5 PETER RABBIT Showing as part of the Garland’s annual “Free Summer Movie Series;” doors open at 9 am. Through Aug. 17, 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com
FESTIVAL
AIRWAY HEIGHTS DAYS The annual community celebration includes watermelon races, an outdoor movie, live entertainment, a petting zoo, car show, local vendors, kids’ zone, beer garden, and grand finale fireworks. Aug. 17-18. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St. bit.ly/2kOvfPz GOODGUYS 17TH GREAT NORTHWEST
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Point A to Point B What it’s like in one of the newest parts of the legal cannabis industry: weed transportation BY WILSON CRISCIONE
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Welter rolls down the window. Welter tells the truth: He’s on his way to Pullman from Clarkston. So why, the trooper asks, is he taking the long way that avoids crossing the Idaho border? “Because the back is full of weed,” Welter admits.
Jordan Welter of Go Green Enterprises. WILSON CRISCIONE PHOTO Welter explains that he’s licensed to do so. The officer just laughs, shakes his head and remarks that, back in the day, he would have gotten a promotion for catching someone with that much weed. Those days are gone. Now, Washington’s legal marijuana industry has created a demand for cannabis transporters like Welter, manager of Go Green Enterprises. Go Green, based in Spokane, was the first company in Washington to get a marijuana transportation license in 2016. They move large quantities of cannabis from farms to stores or laboratories, often driving across the state. “We’re drug mules,” Welter says. “We take it from place to place.” And with that comes awkward encounters with law enforcement and plenty of safety risks. ...continued on page 58
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says. “I’ll probably shake it when it’s federally legal.” Though they rarely carry this much, you can fit millions of dollars worth of cannabis product in one of Go Green’s vans. But the vans themselves are pretty nondescript. That’s on purpose, Welter says. Drivers can’t carry guns. They protect themselves from potential robbers largely by going unnoticed. They all have a cover story — which Welter won’t share — in case someone asks what’s in the van. If product needs to be transferred from van to van, they try to meet in vacant lots where nobody will see them. It doesn’t always work. Some people can still figure it out. Welter has never had to physically defend himself. But he’s come close once or twice. In downtown Seattle, for example, a guy approached him while Welter was in a parking lot having a cigarette. He asked Welter how much weed he had in the van and whether he carried a gun. When Welter tried to get him to move along, things got heated. “He looked me dead in the eye and goes, ‘Well, what would you do if I robbed you?’” Welter says. Luckily, another driver who Welter was meeting came, and the situation fizzled. The incident was just another example of
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Advice Goddess TOO MUSH INFORMATION
My friend was dying to tell her new boyfriend she loves him but waited till he said it first. She, in fact, makes that a rule. Now I have a new boyfriend. Should I just shamelessly own my feelings — that is, tell him I love him? Or should I follow my friend’s lead? —Hating Waiting We have this notion that it’s really romantic for a couple to say “I love you” pronto: “The moment he/she sat AMY ALKON down at the bus stop next to me, I just knew!” In reality, “love at first sight” tends to come with some issues, such as the failure to weed out any insta-beloveds who kiss like big-lipped fish. Your desire to go all blurtypants on the guy likewise seems romantic — until you consider the psychological mechanics behind it. Chances are, you’re in a state of psychological tension — all fired up with suspense at how the guy will respond — and only by telling him will you finally get relief. (It’s basically the emotional version of really, really needing to pee.) Research on sex differences in “parental investment” by evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers suggests that it’s probably a bad idea for you, as a woman, to go first with the ILY. Trivers explains that in species like ours, in which females get stuck with the burden of parental care (should sex lead to the creation of toddlers), they evolved to vet males for ability and willingness to invest — more than that initial teaspoonful of sperm, that is. Men coevolved to expect this — to expect to have to prove themselves to women to get sex. In short, men chase; women choose. Sure, there are couples out there in which the woman chased and things ended up just fine. But those evolved differences in male and female psychology are still driving us — even now, in our world of smartphones, facial recognition software, and, before long, family vacations in flying minivans. In other words, you’re taking a risk by tossing out the ILY first — possibly causing the guy to want you less than if you let him take the lead in ILY blurtations. And hi, feminists! I can hear the flicking of your lighters as you ready your pitchforks and hay. But the way I see it, what should be feminist is acknowledging what seems to be the optimal approach for women per research on human psychology. Despite the risks, you may decide to be that rebel gazelle that chases the lion. If so, why not go all the way? Pull out your man’s chair for him in restaurants. Put your jacket over his shoulders on a cold night. And be the one who goes downstairs with the baseball bat when there’s a weird noise at 3 a.m. As he cowers in bed, reassure him: “Baby, you just stay there in your nightie...I got this.”
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My fiancee dumped me three months ago. I was devastated, but I’ve come to realize that we shouldn’t be together. Now she keeps pressing for us to meet, saying there’s stuff she needs to “process.” I was finally starting to get over her, but should I just go? —Torn Getting together with your ex-fiancee after you’ve finally started to move on is like being just out of rehab and reconnecting with a friend: “What could be the harm? A nice pastrami on rye with my old heroin dealer!” Your brain, like an air-conditioned Miami mansion, is “expensive” to run, so it tries to go on autopilot (basically nonthink mode) whenever possible. When you repeatedly take a certain action — like turning to a certain person for love, attention, and comforting — that action becomes more and more automatic. On a neural level, this plays out with a bunch of individual brain cells (neurons) that “wire together,” as neuroscientist Carla Shatz puts it. This happens after individual neurons each fire off a chemical messenger — a neurotransmitter — that another neuron catches and absorbs. The more a person repeats the same action — and the more a group of neurons does the same fire-offand-catch sequence — the faster they get at it. Eventually, these neurons become what I like to describe as a “thinkpack” — conserving mental energy through bypassing the conscious thought department and robotically defaulting to whatever action worked for the person in the past. Right now, the last thing you need is to stall your recovery process — the weakening over time of those entrenched neural pathways — by getting the band (Ramon and The Neurons) back together. If you feel bad about saying no to seeing her, consider how she’s prioritizing her need to “process” over your continued recovery. Aww...how loving! (“It’s not you; it’s me — and how my crappy new insurance no longer covers therapy.”) n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR KUBO & THE TWO STRINGS A screening held as part of the Friends of Pavillion Park’s summer festival series. Aug. 17, 8:30 pm. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. (509-755-6726) SUMMER FUN OUTDOOR MOVIE SERIES The CHAS Health North County Clinic in Deer Park (401 S. Main) hosts monthly, free outdoor movies. Entry and popcorn is free, bring your own blankets and chairs. Aug. 17 features Spiderman: Homecoming. Free. communications@chas.org SUMMER MOONLIGHT MOVIES: BACK TO THE FUTURE Hosted by the City of Airway Heights; movies begin at dusk. Aug. 17. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St. cahw.org MOVIES IN THE PARK: JUMANJI Hosted by the Newport Roxy Theater, with fair food vendors on site and family events starting one hour before the show. Aug. 18. Free. Newport City Park, First and Calispel. newportareachamber.com SCREEN ON THE GREEN: AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Family-friendly screenings hosted by the U of Idaho Dept. of Student Involvement. Aug. 18. Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. facebook.com/UIgetinvolved SOUTH PERRY SUMMER THEATER: THE NEVERENDING STORY Movies begin at dusk, with open seating in the parking lot of the Shop. Aug. 18. Free. The Shop, 924 S. Perry St. (534-1647) SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE Showing as part of the Garland’s annual “Free Summer Movie Series;” doors open at 9 am. Aug. 20-24, 9:30 am. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com/ (509-327-1050) INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: A FANTASTIC WOMAN Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. Rated R. Spanish with subtitles. Aug. 21, 7 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org SUMMER CAMP: THE SANDLOT The Garland’s summer movie series; spend $10 in Bon Bon before to get in free. Aug. 21, 7 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com
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FRIED CHICKEN & CHAMPAGNE A switch-up to Chef Adam Hegsted’s monthly Fried Chicken and Local Beer series. Aug. 16, 6 pm. $35. The Yards Bruncheon, 1248 W. Summit Pkwy. theyardsbruncheon.com (443-4410) NATIONAL LENTIL FESTIVAL The 30th celebration of the Palouse crop offers two days of events, including a parade, fun run, lentil cook-off, cooking demos, beer/wine garden, food vendors, kids’ activities, live music and more. Aug. 1718. Downtown Pullman. lentilfest.com WINE TASTING Taste wines of Bookwalter Winery. Includes cheese and crackers. Aug. 17, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com BARONESSE BARLEY HARVEST DAY Enjoy brews and spirits crafted by brewers and distillers who’ve used Baronesse Barley from Joseph’s Grainery while standing in the field where the barley was grown. Aug. 18, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Colfax, Wash. bit.ly/2kWRzqg BREWSFEST Take a scenic ride up North America’s longest gondola to a
mountaintop venue to enjoy more than 40 regional beers. Aug. 18. Silver Mountain, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com GARLIC FAIRE A celebration of organic wine, food and garlic, featuring vendors, arts and crafts and live music by Bobby Patterson and Randy Knowles. e. Aug. 18-19 from noon-5 pm. $5. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way, Kettle Falls. chinabend.com MUSIC, MICROS & BBQ The monthly summer food, beer and music series, with all-you-can-eat barbecue and live music at 6 pm. August’s event is with Isaac Walton & Current Flow, with beverages from One Tree Cider. Aug. 18, 5-9 pm. $19.50. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com WINE RELEASE WEEKEND Enjoy newly released wines; many of which can only be found at the tasting room. Aug. 18-19 and Nov. 3-4 from noon-8 pm. Maryhill Winery Spokane, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. maryhillwinery.com WINE TASTING Taste a variety of Spanish wines. Includes cheese and crackers. Aug. 18, 2-4:30 pm. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com FOOD & WINE PAIRING CLASS During these classes, discuss the basic taste qualities of both food and wine, as well as how they relate to each other on your palate. Aug. 19 from 2-4 pm. $45. Terra Blanca Winery, 926 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2JkFPZc (509-340-9140) ONE DINNER Chef Travis Dickinson is preparing a multi-course feast with tomatoes as the featured ingredient. Food is paired with regional wine and craft beer from Bellwether Brewing Co. Aug. 19, 6 pm. $75. Cochinito Taqueria, 10 N. Post. inwfoodnetwork.org
MUSIC
BACH TO BRUBECK Pianist and composer Hsia-Jung Chang performs a solo recital which includes the world premiere of “Peace” by Chang’s mother, Taiwanese yodeler Ho Lan. Aug. 18, 4-5:45 pm. $20-$25. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. bit. ly/2LNNEMp (326-6344) SPIRIT LAKE LIBRARY BAND SCRAMBLE Bring your instruments and get combined into a random band. Includes an instrument petting zoo for kids and an open mike for solos. Spirit Lake Library, 32575 N. 5th Ave. Aug. 18, 1-4 pm. Free. communitylibrary.net/spiritlake SPOKANE SYMPHONY SOIREE ON THE EDGE Enjoy the Symphony under the baton of Morihiko Nakahara while taking in views of the city. Bring a picnic or purchase food on site. Aug. 15 and 22 at 7 pm. 21+ . Aug. 22, 7 pm. $30-$75. Arbor Crest, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200)
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT Promos in the three-game series include Taco Tuesday, Future Texas Rangers night and Super Hero Night. Aug. 14-16 at 6:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) SPOKANE TO SANDPOINT RELAY The annual event is open to teams of 7-12 runners, who divide the 200 mile course into 36 legs. Aug. 17. $420$1500/team. spokanetosandpoint.com 8 LAKES LEG ACHES The race cel-
ebrates its 20th anniversary, and includes routes (30, 45 and 75 mile options) around Spokane, the West Plains, Medical Lake and Cheney. Proceeds benefit Lutheran Community Services Northwest. Start/finish at KP Admin Offices, 5615 W. Sunset Hwy. Aug. 18. $50-$200. lcsnw.org 115TH ANNIVERSARY BIKE NIGHT Riders from Seattle arrive at Lone Wolf around 4:30 pm. Join the party with live music, a beer garden, food trucks, vendors, giveaways and more. Aug. 21, 5-8 pm. Free. Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 19011 E. Cataldo Ave. lonewolfh-d. com/--ridehome (927-7433) OUTDOORS ON TAP Join REI at Iron Goat for an evening of stories about outdoor adventure. Aug. 21 at 6 pm. Free. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. (474-0722) WEDNESDAYS IN THE WOODS: CAMP GEAR SHAKEDOWN Join REI to break down your camp kit and talk about necessary items and what to pack for a more comfortable or enjoyable trip. Aug. 22, 6:30 pm. Free. Riverside State Park Bowl & Pitcher, 4427 N. Aubrey L. White Pkwy. rei.com/stores/spokane CAMP DART-LO KIDS’ OFF-ROAD TRIATHLON The 4th annual is a great first triathlon for age, and includes a lap swim in the outdoor pool, a mile bike ride and a 3/4 mile trail run. (Rescheduled from Aug. 9.) Aug. 23, 5:30-8 pm. $25/$30. Camp Dart-Lo, 14000 N. Dartford Dr. campfireinc.org
ARTS
WHIPPING IT UP: A COLLABORATIVE ALCHEMY Artists Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour explore how historical photos suppressed queer culture. Through Oct. 6; Tue-Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-6 pm. Artist lecture Aug. 23 at 5:30 pm; reception Aug. 24 from 5-7 pm. Free. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. prichardart.org (208-885-3586) ART IN THE PARK Stop by free art classes with Spokane Art School. Registration begins at noon the day of in the Sky Ribbon Cafe. Aug. 18 and 25, from 1-3 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. spokaneriverfrontpark.com FAMILY DINNER Richmond Art Collective’s quarterly open studio event, inviting guests to tour the studios and meet members Brian Deemy, CarliAnn Forthun, Grace June, Hannah Koeske, Ira Gardner, Julie Gautier-Downes, and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano. Aug. 19, 6-8 pm. Free. Richmond Gallery, 228 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2OZJezQ I AM A TOWN POETRY READING: Learn about the sidewalk poetry installations all over town, part of a project by former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read to explore the meaning of place through poetry, by encouraging community members to write about our city. Aug. 16, 6-9 pm. Free. The Nest at Kendall Yards, 1335 Summit Pkwy. bit. ly/2KauNVZ (321-9614) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running open mic reading series, open to all. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org POP-UP OPEN MIC Hosted by the Sandpoint Literary Collective, featuring Pend d’Oreille wine, fiction, poetry, storytelling and creative nonfiction. Aug. 23, 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Pend d’Oreille Winery, 301 Cedar St. powine.com (208-255-4410) n
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complimentary delivery to the north shore dock with single and double-seated kayaks and SUPs for a half or full-day rental, as well as classes on safety and basic operations. Visit cdaadventures.com, 208-918-2082. ROW ADVENTURE CENTER has nearly 40 years guiding outdoor adventures throughout Coeur d’Alene and even worldwide. Their COEUR D’ALENE KAYAKING group offers guided trips of up to 10 people, including for accompanied children as young as 5 (tandem paddling with an adult is required). Spend the day enjoying views you just can’t get any other way while you learn about the history of the area and its inhabitants. Remember to ask about their sunset paddling trip and convenient lodging options. Visit rowadventures.com, 208-7702517. And if your idea of a good time on the lake involves horsepower engines over humanpowered paddling, check out JUST ADD WATER SPORTS, who will meet you on the dock and help you choose the best jet boat, water ski and pontoon boat for your needs. Visit cdajaws.com, 208-765-8333.
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Coeur d’Alene Pickleball Classic AUGUST 16-20
Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the nation — and it’s definitely being embraced in Coeur d’Alene. This fourth annual tournament will host some of the best players from America and around the globe. Saturday, 8 am through
Bands on Boats
Silver Mountain Brewsfest
The beloved Bands on Boats summer concert series continues this week with the sounds of Smash Hit Carnival. Cruise the lake with a cold Coors and enjoy!
Enjoy some tasty craft beer and fresh mountain air after enjoying panoramic views from your gondola as it summits Silver Mountain. This mountain top party features 22 breweries, 44 craft beers, eight cideries and three bands. Tickets
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Boarding starts at 7 pm from the Coeur d’Alene Resort; tickets $25; must be 21 or older.
Monday 5 pm; Cherry Hill Park; visitcda.org for more details.
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$34.95 in advance; $40.23 day of; gondola starts loading at 9:30 am; gates open at 1 pm; visitcda.org for more details, including pour packages.
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