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hen the ice freezes 5 inches thick on Fernan Lake, the large, friendly pond on the edge of Coeur d’Alene, you know winter in North Idaho has settled in for a long winter’s stay.

Many years ago, Fernan Lake froze solid enough every year for teenage boys or their crazy elders to drive Model T Fords for exhilarating spins out over the ice. A whole industry existed to cut and deliver large chunks of ice to cool the food-filled iceboxes of the townfolk.

Today’s cars are way too heavy for Fernan Lake to hold, and the ice on Fernan in recent years has been far too thin. Recently, younger and older skaters have been sighted playing hockey on Fernan when it’s been cold enough.

I remember ice skating on Cougar Bay on a New Year’s Day, with the sun shining down on a glistening surface so glassy one could watch the fish swim underneath the ice while skating. An eagle or two could be glimpsed soaring in the sky above. Winter seemed the best possible time to be alive.

But now, like most folks in the region, we’re viewing winter from a window of a warm room or car.

Windows are a major feature of our winter world. Deer wandering through the yards of our homes are seen through windows. So are chickadees, nuthatches and juncos that we attract to our seed-loaded, hanging bird feeders.

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rom windows in our cozy houses and cars, we observe the wild creatures that have to work around the clock to find food — through windblown snow or rain, dropping temperatures, short cold days and long freezing nights.

We wonder whether the critters will make it through the winter, remembering the bones our dogs brought home after those memorable winters when the snow covered the ground from Christmas through March.

Most of the wildlife species avoid the city. But some, such as the ubiquitous deer, find urban living more attractive than life in the woods where the scary things linger, eager to eat them.

Word has it the Dalton Gardens City Council is at work formulating an ordinance to prohibit its residents from feeding deer. Sounds like a hard-to-enforce but very good idea. Since deer are quick to help themselves to seeds put out to feed the aforementioned chickadees, nuthatches and juncos, will the innocent bird lover be cited for feeding the deer?

Deerskin coats are mostly seen on cowboys in the movies. The real furbearers have been growing extra-thick coats to make life in the outdoors more bearable. Most every wild creature

in Idaho is considered fair game, either for shooting during hunting season for food or for trapping for hides.

Idaho regulates trapping of eight furbearing species. Trappers buy licenses from agency headquarters or sporting goods stores. All trapped game animals “harvested” must be reported. In the 2014-15 trapping season, trappers in the Idaho Panhandle can target badgers year-round, beavers from Nov. 1 through March, bobcats for three months starting Dec. 14, marten, mink, muskrat and otters from Nov. 1 through March 31. Foxes can be trapped for an additional two weeks in October.

The Panhandle region quota for killing river otters is 40 in 2015. Already, 37 have been reported as “harvested.” Three species of furbearing animals — the lynx, the wolverine and the fisher — are state-protected LETTERS species.

Send comments to If caught, editor@inlander.com. trappers are required to release any of these gently and alive.

Last year two dogs were caught in bodygripping traps, which resulted in their deaths. As it turned out, in both instances the same inexperienced young trapper was to blame for placing the traps too close to a trail. His traps were heavy steel grippers, designed to be set underwater to catch beavers.

After a cry for changing the rules went up, we were told that the inexperienced young trapper’s missteps were the only dog-killing incidents in the state. A requirement that an applicant for a trapping permit will be required to take a training course may be added to the trapping regulations.

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n my youth, I spent a little time bird hunting with my good-shot husband and my .410 gauge shotgun. I can condone shooting deer and elk to put food on the table and in the freezer. But trapping wild animals in the woods of Idaho to be made into fur coats in Russia and China is beyond my understanding. Trapping seems very yesterday — a hangover from the hunter-gatherer past of our modern human family tree.

I expect it will take another 50 years before trapping wild animals to make money is no longer permitted in Idaho. Let’s hope that lots of playful river otters are still around to enjoy the freedom when it comes. n

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here’s that moment, when you open the door and step out of the cold and into the bustle.

It’s steamy warm, plates of food whiz by, every tableful rapt with companionship. On a cold winter’s night, it can pack an emotional punch, too — unlocking a memory of grandma’s cookie-filled house, or a line from an old favorite song. “Home, is where I want to be,” you might hear the Talking Heads sing, “but I guess I’m already there.”

On New Year’s Eve, my wife and I entered that glow with friends to start the last night of the year. Ever since it was a ramshackle little post office, South Hillers knew something special could sprout from that spot on 57th and Perry. Thanks to the Bonds, William and Marcia, it did just that 22 years ago.

I saw the Bonds in a booth that night with friends. They were in high spirits, knowing it would be their last New Year’s Eve as restaurant owners; earlier this week, they announced the sale of Luna to local restaurateurs Aaron DeLis and Hannah Heber. (The Bonds passed on an offer a year ago to keep Luna locally owned.)

The Bonds are an amazing couple. William went to the Naval Academy, flew bombers in Vietnam, where he served with John McCain, and then became a neurologist. Plus, he knows his wine, and if you hang around him long enough — as we have at many a Connoisseur Concerts event — you get to try some of the good stuff. The elegant style and gracious vibe that drips off the walls inside Luna is all Marcia, whose background is in interior design.

(Her custom “Luna Gold” paint color remains a best-seller at Spokane’s Wahl Paint Center.)

It’s worth stopping at moments like this to recognize not just our institutions, but the people who create them. There are many who deserve our thanks. This week, the KPBX team is celebrating its 35th year serving the region. The team behind the Spokane Arena has it going stronger than ever at 20 this year. People make these things succeed.

Watching William Bond work the room as the last minutes of 2014 ticked away, his grin told the story.

“It started with a love of food and wine,” recalls William, who turns 75 this year and is ready to spend more time with his grandkids. “But along the way there have been so many great people. More than the food, even, it’s been about joy.”

We could have toasted anyone, but on that special night we toasted the Bonds and their crazy little dream. 

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COMMENT | IMMIGRATION enforcement. If you are approached to lend your name to this shortsighted initiative, decline to sign and say “no” to fear.

The National Immigration Forum confirms that most police departments steer clear of entanglement in immigration enforcement because they know it would reduce reporting of violence and property crimes, thus harming the safety of the public overall. Immigration status is a complicated legal issue, and it should not be put upon busy officers to try and ascertain, exposing the city to liability for false imprisonment and racial profiling.

Some exclaim that they’re only against those without documents. But how can anyone defend a fixation on such a technicality when our federal immigration system is so broken and hypocritical? Why would we want to tear families apart and marginalize hardworking people on a daily basis?

Our history is dishonored and our future jeopardized when narrow-minded people drum up false fears about immigrants.

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Why Spokane ought to embrace its roots as an immigrant-friendly place

BY MARIAH McKAY

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y family loves to tell a story about how my Scotch-Irish greatgrandfather was abducted by the English navy and shipped off to Canada. After besting the captain in a sword fight, he was ordered into the brig for execution the next morning. His captors were so impressed with his bravura that they allowed him to jump ship and swim across the St. Lawrence River into the United States of America, where he hitched a train Thurs 1/22, Inlander

out west and homesteaded in Montana. With the notable exception of Native peoples, we are all immigrants here.

The American Dream of working hard to provide a better life for the next generation is the engine that keeps this country moving. Immigrant labor and ingenuity is at the heart of what makes America great. Our history is dishonored and our future jeopardized when narrow-minded people drum up false fears about immigrants in our city.

This spring, a small group of alarmists will attempt to gather signatures for an “anti-sanctuary” initiative that would add immigration status inquiries into local law

With the national immigration rate slowing in response to the Wall Street collapse of 2008, many American cities are now competing to attract immigrants and the economic benefits that come with them. Not only are immigrants 30 percent more likely to start businesses of their own, according to the Brookings Institution, but they have been shown to have a positive impact on wages, increasing American’s purchasing power in key sectors and helping to revitalize blighted neighborhoods.

Racist hysteria has spread the assumption that immigrants are a drain on tax dollars, when in fact the opposite is true. A Congressional Budget Office estimate shows a $25 billion gain in federal revenues if a pathway to citizenship were available to the 11 million undocumented people who live in our communities today. It is time for everyone in Spokane to embrace a more cosmopolitan worldview and refuse the last, gasping efforts of a dated minority who would force hostility over hope.  Mariah McKay is a fourth-generation daughter of Spokane and a community organizer campaigning for racial, social and economic justice. She has worked in biotech and government and currently serves as a public health advocate.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Reaction to Inlander commentator Rachel Dolezal’s explanation (1/16/15) of why one Spokane restaurant’s posting of “Shorty can’t breathe either” on its reader board is problematic.

LUISSA LARGENT: It was terrible what happened to him, but his killers are going to prison. There has been no justice for Eric Garner.

Reaction to “Fairweather fans are worth cheering for” (1/19/15), an essay on how it’s totally acceptable — and rational — to root for a sports team only when it’s doing well.

RONN COMPESTINE: I disagree with this article. Fair-weather fans hurt the sport and that’s why I can’t stand the Seahawks and a lot of their fans. I have been a San Francisco Giants fan since I was 8, and honestly I think it means more when you have followed a team for years and are loyal to a team, but I may just be in the minority.

JOHN PHILLIP: This is in poor taste and does nothing but exacerbate things. It also shows just how bigoted a lot of people in Spokane really are.

CRYSTAL WINDISHAR: The two situations have nothing to do with each other and have nothing in common, aside from everyone calling everyone else racist.

LYNN BALLARD: Was Mr. Belton a beloved patron? Yes. Did the restaurant owner have a right to honor and remember him? Yes. Is the saying “I can’t breathe” associated with a movement to draw attention to the fact that too many unarmed black citizens are being killed by police [with] impunity? Yes. Was it possible to honor Mr. Belton without using that slogan and stirring up racial tension? Yes. Did Ms. Dolezal have a right to object to the use of that slogan? Yes. When all is said and done, ‘yes’ is the only truthful answer to all of these questions. The search for truth isn’t always easy but it’s worth the effort to live in peace. Happy MLK Day.

JENNIFER FANTO: I think it is very unfair for you to hate a team and their fans because they have fair-weather and bandwagon fans.

Every team in every sport gets those type of fans when they win. If people were to hate your Giants and you as a fan simply because they won the World Series, that would be very uncool. ... It isn’t our fault that our team finally won a Super Bowl and there are hundreds of people who want to feel good in uniting behind them.

LUCAS POLELLO: This is the most ridiculous article I’ve read this season about Seahawks fans. The only thing they provide is more money when they should be happy to be there. I laugh at bandwagoners.

Find something else to jump into half-heartedly. We don’t need or want you. 

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The editor and publisher of the Black Lens, Sandy Williams, left, speaks with Charlotte Lewis and her daughter after the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day rally on Monday. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

A New Voice

Spokane’s newest community newspaper, the Black Lens, continues the city’s long tradition of African-American publications

BY DEANNA PAN

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ometime in the early ’90s, Sandy Williams was invited to sit on a community advisory committee for the Spokesman-Review. A social justice advocate for people of color and the LGBT community, she and the two other black people on the committee took the opportunity there to voice their concerns about the representation of African-Americans in the newspaper. It seemed, she remembers, that “you never saw folks, unless it was negative.”

Committee members agreed they would commission a formal study on that matter, but Williams didn’t see the point.

Irritated, she went home and for the next month, clipped out every single article in the paper featuring a black person. At the next meeting, she dumped her findings in plastic baggies on the table.

“There were only three options,” she says. “You either had your criminals, sports — there were a lot of those, a lot of sports stuff — or entertainers.”

She writes about that experience in her inaugural editor’s column in the Black Lens, a newspaper she founded a month ago for Spokane’s black community. Williams, who later resigned from the committee, was frustrated, she writes, by what seemed like “not a lot of interest from the powers that be in addressing their portrayal of Blacks in a substantive way. And to be honest, decades later, it seems to me that very little has changed.”

“I think I naively at the time believed that was going to incite some action, and it didn’t,” Williams says in her office at Eastern Washington University, where she runs the LGBT Pride Center. “We didn’t feel like there was motivation to do anything about that. That was an eye-opener for me.”

As protesters marched throughout the country in demonstrations against the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the timing for a new black newspaper “just felt right,” Williams says. The mainstream media’s depiction of African-American people, particularly boys and young men, has long been criticized as one-dimensional and potentially dangerous. Williams, the one-woman show behind the Black Lens, sees the paper as an opportunity to take that power back, create a platform for the black community to express themselves and tell stories from their perspective.

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illiams is the first to admit the idea to start a black paper in the city isn’t hers alone. Spokane has a century-long history of black community newspapers. At the turn of the 20th century, there was the Citizen, a five-cent broadsheet paper, and the Voice of the West, an illustrated magazine. In the ’40s, the Spokane Star billed itself as the “Northwest’s Leading Negro Weekly.” In the late ’60s, the Black Shoppers Guide was published by a group of citizens, “disturbed,” the paper noted, “by the complacency and indifference of many residents in Spokane.”

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NEWS | MEDIA “A NEW VOICE,” CONTINUED... and it showed us places of entertainment to go,” says local historian Jerrelene Williamson, 82, who grew up in Spokane at the height of racial segregation across the country. “There were stories in there that let them know we were here. There weren’t a whole bunch of us back at that time, but we were here.”

In 1995, photographer Robert Lloyd and his wife, Diane, printed the first edition of the Spokane and Pullman African-American Voice. Staffed by about 20 volunteers — including founding editor Alfred Mutua, a journalism student at Whitworth College who went on to become the first official spokesman of the Kenyan government and later a Kenyan governor — the Voice operated on an “if you believe it, write it” mantra. Writers would gather in the Lloyds’ living room at their South Hill home and debate the news. They wrote about Sandpoint folk guitarist Leon Atkinson, the radical “other side of Martin Luther King,” the movie The Green Mile and the death of local civil rights pioneer Alfonse Hill.

“The beautiful thing about our paper was… it was nobodies,” Robert says. “The little people, who were sitting around this room here, talking about those problems.”

Robert built a database of 5,000 people whom he mailed his free paper to every month. He passed the Voice out at every black church on Sunday and distributed it at gas stations, restaurants, barbershops and beauty parlors around the East Central and West Central neighborhoods.

In 2000, the Lloyds stopped printing the Voice. They had lost their biggest advertiser, Nate Greene’s Empire Ford, and their volunteer staff had graduated from college, left town or moved on. Although a version of

Robert Lloyd published the African-American Voice, left, from 1995 to 2000. Sandy Williams released the first issue of Black Lens earlier this month. the Voice still lives online at 4comculture.com — Robert’s sporadically updated blog — people felt its absence. So about a year ago, Williams started seriously thinking about starting her own black paper. She met with Robert for coffee and received his blessing.

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presumes to speak for them. Who am I to do that? she wondered.

“We’re not a homogenous community. We’re a diverse community with a lot of diverse thoughts and beliefs and ways of being,” she says. “To try to capture that is challenging.”

Putting together the paper was harder than she imagined, too. Williams, a self-trained journalist, wrote nearly every story in the 12-page paper, including a lengthy feature on management concerns at the East Central Community Center and an above-the-fold article on the Justice Department’s report on Spokane police. (“African Americans make up 2.3% of the population of Spokane,” she notes, “but 10% of Use of Force Incidents.”)

She signed up for a black newswire service, bought a web address (theblacklensnews.com), learned how to mock up a paper and spent every night for two weeks writing, editing and tweaking until she finally emailed her publication to Garland Printing on Dec. 31. The Sunday after New Year’s, she dropped copies off at every black church before services started. She took them downtown, to Chicken-N-More, the Martin Luther King, Jr. march and the NAACP meeting. She estimates she spent at least $1,000 out of pocket to publish and distribute her 500 copies. She didn’t want any advertising in the first issue.

“It’s sort of my gift to the community,” she says.

In future papers, Williams hopes to explore issues like disproportionate African-American dropout and incarceration rates. She’s currently getting to work on the February edition, collecting submissions from people who’ve offered to write articles and take photos.

“I really want to make sure that this community has a voice,” Williams says. “I care about this community. I’ve known a lot of these people since I was a kid. And as I have grown up and have had different positions of authority, I have watched folks be sort of marginalized and not understand what to do about that. My hope is that I can give some voice to that.” n deannap@inlander.com

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Native Horseman at the Spokane River, c. 1910. / Photo by Edward Curtis

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MIELKE’S JOB HUNT

Spokane County Commissioner TODD MIELKE has long been the subject of rumors that he was gunning for the job of Marshall Farnell, CEO of Spokane County. Now, that Farnell is planning on retiring this summer, those rumors have bloomed into something closer to reality: Mielke confirms he’s eyeing the job. He says he has several factors to consider before making his decision final, including his mother’s health. If he applies, he says he wants to compete on his own merits, not on his role as commissioner. He’ll have until the end of February to decide. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Six-year-old Cedriana, left, and her 5-year-old sister Aalyiah march down Spokane Falls Boulevard during Monday’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day rally.

BIRTH CONTROL

“Some think — excuse me if I use the word — that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like ‘rabbits,’ but no.”

Pope Francis explaining why Catholics don’t need to breed like rabbits because, while the church may prohibit contraception, it still supports “natural” family planning methods.

Inspired by the death of World War II veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton, the HILLSIDE INN RESTAURANT posted the following sign outside its doors: “Shorty can’t breathe either.” Now controversy is swirling around the sign and NAACP president Rachel Dolezal’s decision to question the restaurant’s owner about it. Last July, Eric Garner, a black man, was killed in Staten Island from a police officer’s chokehold. His last words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry in protests against unprosecuted police killings of unarmed black men. In 2013, Belton was beaten to death by two black teenagers. One pleaded guilty earlier this month and the other is scheduled to go to trial in March. “If there’s an analogy being made, I think it’s a bit bizarre,” Dolezal says, “to draw that parallel with a movement that’s about people being murdered and those murders not being brought to justice at all.” (DEANNA PAN)

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Untouchable New claims of Spokane sidestepping civil service rules; plus, Mobius finds a temporary home HIRING AND FIRING

The Spokane Civil Service Commission voted on Tuesday to investigate whether the city of Spokane violated the civil service system by improperly hiring a temporary worker.

On Jan. 6, Joe Cavanaugh, president of AFSCME Local 270, complained to the commission that Jacqueline Luenow, who was hired as a temporary worker, was performing work that should go to an employee that had gone through the city’s civil service system. City employees hired through the merit-based civil service system must pass an exam and are given union protection.

Cavanaugh told the commission that he understood that there is a place for seasonal or temporary workers in city government, such as Parks and Recreation, which sees its staffing needs change depending on the season.

However, he says he’s concerned that the position held

by Luenow, who supervises clerical employees, doesn’t qualify for such an exemption.

“Temporary-seasonal [workers], as I’ve stated earlier and I’ll state it again, are to supplement the [civil service] workforce, not supplant it,” he says.

JAN QUINTRALL — division director of business

and development services who has been at the center of hiring-and-firing controversies in the past — told the commission that she had originally asked city council to make the position exempt from civil service requirements but was turned down. She says she then approached the commission to begin the civil service testing and hiring process for the position in November and is still waiting.

In the meantime, she says, the work needed to be done and she hired a temp.

“It’s a stopgap just to make sure we have supervision of these clerks,” she says.

— JAKE THOMAS

PARENTAL SUPERVISION

State Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, introduced new legislation on Monday that would require parents or guardians of underage women to receive notification before they may have an ABORTION. Under Senate Bill 5289, doctors performing abortions on minors must give a 48-hour notice of the procedure to at least one of parent or legal guardian, unless there is a time-sensitive medical emergency. A pregnant minor may also petition the court in order to sidestep the notification requirement. The bill, Padden says, “would simply give her parent or guardian the chance to talk with her ahead of time, or get ready to care for her afterward.”

Although the bill does not prohibit underage women from having abortions, Rachel Berkson, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, argues Padden’s legislation further restricts access to abortion “for the most vulnerable among us.”

“You can’t legislate healthy parent-teen relationships.

Parental notice laws like SB5289 actually endanger teens already dealing with violence in the home,” Berkson says

in a statement to the Inlander. “These laws can also cause teens to delay accessing the abortion care they need, resulting in more complicated and expensive later abortions.”

— DEANNA PAN

LIBRARY TO THE RESCUE

When Phil Lindsey took over the MOBIUS SCIENCE CENTER last April, he knew the center needed to move — and fast. Ever since it launched in 2012, Mobius struggled to afford the steep lease of its Cowles Co.owned building, in the middle of an in-demand retail sector downtown.

Last year, Avista Utilities stepped forward, offering to lease its old brick building next to Riverfront Park to Mobius for only a dollar a year. The problem was that the Cowles Co. had informed Mobius it needed to leave before April, long before the Avista location would be ready.

“We are getting the space back at the end of March and we have plans for the building,” says Bryn West, general manager for River Park Square and Cowles Co. landlord for Mobius.

In the meantime, Mobius needed to find a place to stay, and last week the Spokane Public Library signed an agreement to put Mobius on the third floor of its downtown branch. That gives the science center a little less than half the space it had previously.

The library — funded by levy dollars and the City of Spokane — won’t charge Mobius for using the space. It’s all part of an experiment, says Andrew Chanse, Spokane Public Library district director, to figure out if that space could continually be used interactively after Mobius leaves.

— DANIEL WALTERS

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NEWS | PARKS

Friends with Benefits Is a special deal with a private club helping the city’s public golf courses?

BY JAKE THOMAS

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t was a perfect storm: A cold, wet spring and hot summer kept golfers off Spokane’s city courses last year. Add to that a weak economy and Americans’ changing leisure interests, and it becomes undeniable: Golf is in trouble around here.

With fewer golfers, the city’s four public courses need help. Enter the Spokane Club — the private, wellconnected club from which Mayor David Condon has filled several key positions in his administration. In April, the city’s parks department agreed to offer club members a 20 percent discount on green fees, buckets of balls, cart rentals and pre-arranged golf lessons. In exchange, the club would give the city $3,000 worth of advertising in its in-house magazine.

“My interest was trying to tap into their membership and get their membership to use Spokane golf courses,” says Leroy Eadie, director of Spokane Parks and Recreation, of the pilot program with the Spokane Club.

Eadie is not sure how well it’s worked, because the golf courses didn’t keep track of how many Spokane

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Club members used the discount. Members simply had to show their club card at any city golf course after 1 pm, Sunday through Wednesday.

Chris Wright, a local attorney and member of the Spokane Park Board, is skeptical about giving a discount to members of a relatively well-heeled group.

“I think as a pilot program it needs to be revamped or abandoned, because we are not getting the value out of it that we want,” he says.

Wright says he could be convinced the partnership is a good idea if similar arrangements are available to other groups, and if it ultimately boosts the courses’ bottom line.

Councilwoman Candace Mumm agrees, saying that other organizations should be able to get a similar deal.

“We don’t want to be exclusive in any way,” she says.

The arrangement with the Spokane Club was first proposed in 2011 when Theresa Sanders, then the club’s interim athletic director, contacted the city. Sanders is now the city administrator for Condon.

Eadie says the partnership is now being reworked while the golf courses are closed for the season, and the new agreement will track how many more golfers it’s attracting. The only other group that has received a discount, he says, is personnel at Fairchild Air Force Base.

He’s open to other partnerships, but he says that the golf courses are supposed to be self-financing, and any other deal would need to be designed to get more tee times at city golf courses.

Despite the club partnership, the courses still fell $300,000 short of their $3.2 million year-end revenue goal for 2014, forcing the parks department to dip into dwindling reserve funds.

“We are all competing for a limited pool of golfers,” Eadie says. That pool is getting smaller.

According to numbers from the National Golf Foundation, an estimated 500 million rounds of golf were played across the country in 2005. By 2013, that number dropped to 466.5 million. The number of golf courses in the U.S. has also been decreasing. In 2013 alone, more

Clint Preston practicing on the driving range at Indian Canyon Golf Course, which is getting a facelift this spring. STEPHEN SCHLANGE PHOTO than 150 golf courses were closed. Economic activity associated with the sport also has dropped. A study from GOLF 20/20, an industry group, found that golf generated $68.8 billion in goods and services in 2011, down by 9.4 percent from 2005.

There were 181,323 individual rounds of golf played at Spokane’s city-run golf courses in 2004. Fast-forward 10 years and that number had dropped to 131,243 rounds played at the city’s golf courses, a 28 percent drop.

Although the decline was present before the Great Recession, Eadie says the country’s economic situation hasn’t helped.

“Golf is not a really expensive sport, but it’s not an inexpensive sport,” he says, noting the requisite equipment purchases and fees to get on the links have hurt many blue-collar golfers. “The other part of it is time. It’s a sport that takes four to five hours to play.”

The golf course, he adds, is a place where business is conducted and that space is being crowded out by technology.

Randy Cameron, Spokane Park Board president, says that despite the “misfire” with the Spokane Club partnership, he’s optimistic about the future of the city’s golf courses, and says that closing or selling any of them isn’t on the table. He says that as the economy improves, more people will play the game and the city parks department will ramp up its advertising efforts.

Eadie also remains optimistic. He says that the city is revamping its long-neglected Indian Canyon Golf Course, which he expects will bring out golfers when it opens this spring.

“2015,” he says, “will be a good year.” n jaket@inlander.com

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Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has proposed another crisis center aimed at treating mental health issues.

Round Two

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Last year, lukewarm legislators scuttled the possibility of a mental health crisis center for North Idaho. Will this round be any different?

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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n Idaho Falls, the doors of the Behavioral Health Community Crisis Center of East Idaho have only been open for a little over a month. But already, it’s having an impact.

“We have family members bring in people, [asking us] ‘Can you help them? Because we really love them,’” says Brenda Price, the crisis center’s coordinator. “We had a father bring in his grown daughter, [telling her] ‘I’m going to take care of your kids, because you’ve just been depressed too long.’”

Stays at the Crisis Center are voluntary and limited to 24 hours. Yet in that time, the center’s experts help them weather the roughest moments, develop a recovery plan and connect with the right community support systems. Similar centers, like one in Billings, Montana, show that done right, such facilities can alleviate overburdened emergency rooms, free up law enforcement, save money, and most importantly, set mentally ill residents on the road to recovery.

As of last week, 86 people have walked through the crisis center’s doors in Idaho Falls; 34 of them had both mental health and drug addiction issues. Some were brought by police officers or sheriff’s deputies. Others came with family members and of their own accord.

It’s the type of facility North Idaho has long wanted, and narrowly missed getting last year.

This year, it may get another chance.

I

f not for politics, Coeur d’Alene would already have a crisis center. But last year, North Idaho Reps. Ron Mendive, Kathy Sims and Vito Barbieri and Sen. Bob Nonini all voted against the legislation authorizing up to three different centers.

“There was a misconception that this was going to create a local bureaucracy,” Rep. Luke Malek says.

Sims had doubted whether the benefit would be worth the cost. Mendive says he had questions about whether the voluntary 24-hour stays would be able to do enough for, say, suicidal patients.

Their “no” votes wouldn’t have mattered — the bill passed anyway — but the legislature ultimately voted to fund only one of the three centers. Coeur d’Alene had to compete with Idaho Falls and Boise to receive it.

Coeur d’Alene actually topped the state’s own scoring metric, assessing need, preparedness, community support and other factors. The city’s proposal scored 257, narrowly beating Idaho Falls’ 254.5 and Boise’s 247.5. In particular, Coeur d’Alene’s proposal excelled in its tight, convincing timeline — one evaluator said the city could have a crisis center up and running in as soon as 90 days.

In May of last year, Malek wrote a letter to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, pleading for the state to set the previous vote

In one month, the crisis center in Idaho Falls has already treated more than 80 patients. aside and look at the considerable local support: “Despite any rumors that may exist regarding political naysayers, those who carry influence in this community are fully invested, and willing to put forth whatever resources and time that are needed to ensure success.”

It didn’t work. The legislator opposition to the proposal in North Idaho led Gov. Butch Otter and the Health and Welfare department to pick Idaho Falls instead.

Now the process starts over. In his Jan. 12 State of the State speech, Otter called for another crisis center.

“We know that best practices across the country show that such local facilities reduce law enforcement and hospital-related costs while providing more sustainable support and better access for vulnerable citizens,” he said.

Funding another center would need to be approved as part of the Health and Welfare budget being debated this week by the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. Malek and Sen. Shawn Keough, two of North Idaho’s strongest crisis-center supporters, sit on that committee. They worry that opposition from North Idaho legislators will again hurt Coeur d’Alene’s chances.

“My hope is that folks in Kootenai County, and in law enforcement and the judicial community, have been meeting with those legislators and explaining how critically important [a crisis center would be],” Keough says. “I will deliver that message, but it is more impactful when it comes from direct constituents.”

This is, after all, a skeptical legislature — one that, for example, just nixed an eighth-grader’s proposal to make the giant salamander the state amphibian because of concerns about “federal overreach.”

Complicating matters, several of the North Idaho legislators who did vote to authorize crisis centers were defeated in the Republican primary. In Hayden, Eric Redman defeated Rep. Ed Morse; in Coeur d’Alene, Mary Souza defeated Sen. John Goedde.

After winning the Republican primary, Souza says she talked with several of the crisis center’s local supporters to understand why they pushed for it. “I’m all in favor of these centers in their concept,” she says.

But Souza and Redman both say they want to see how the current crisis center in Idaho Falls performs before committing to funding another. “From what I know, I think there’s some areas of [the plan] that need to be refined,” Redman says.

Mendive, too, is waiting to see the results in Idaho Falls. But since his “no” vote, he’s been reconsidering. He’s met with county commissioners, law enforcement and local health professionals, all of whom have underscored the importance of a crisis center. He respects their expertise.

“They assured me there’s a cost savings on this,” Mendive says. “A lot of people who know more about it than I do seem to think it will pay at the end.”

Mendive says he hadn’t heard any of that before the vote.

“I couldn’t tell you how I’d vote if it came up today,” Mendive says.  danielw@inlander.com

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harma Shields is in a bakery on Spokane’s South Hill, bobbing a tea bag in her mug, looking to kill some time before her kids get done with preschool.

Behind oval-shaped glasses, her eyes can burn hot, but the heat is offset by a recurring smile and stories that all seem to end in selfeffacement and a sharp laugh.

Shields pulls a paperback book out of her bag and places it on the table with little fanfare.

It’s fresh out of the box from the publisher, she says, rubbing a hand over the small likeness of an ape-like creature on the cover that Northwesterners know well. In a matter of weeks, the title will be in bookstores.

The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac is going to further change Shields’ life, which has been full of more peaks and valleys over the past few years than her book’s mountainous terrain. This sort of

sudden literary fame, by way of national magazines and interviews before her debut novel hit shelves, would rattle most 36-year-olds.

Shields feels like she should be rattled. But things are OK, at least for now.

Shields, though quick with a hug and possessing a warm demeanor, is a pessimist, a skeptic, a believer that the world is a tough, vicious place. She loves fairy tales, but mostly the ones

where something awful happens.

A lot of awful things happen in her writing, because she’s waded through some awful things — addiction, disease, guilt and humiliation, to name a few. Now a very good thing is about to happen to her, but she’s not sold, even if big magazines like Entertainment Weekly have gushed about her book and a major production company already has secured the television ...continued on next page rights.

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Shields with her husband, Simeon Mills, on Lake Pend Oreille.

Shields at 3 years old.

Shields at 17 with her father, Dr. John Paul Shields.

Shields on the far left.

Shields, age 10, with her grandma, Itha Anderson, in Okanogan, Wash.

“SHARMA SHIELDS,” CONTINUED...

She’s written a monster of a book about monsters, some real and some metaphoric, that could only come from the mind of a woman who spent years trying to forget her youth and her hometown and just find a way to tell stories. In the end, she may have delivered a story that’s more about herself than she ever intended.

“I’m thrilled that it’s getting the attention that it is. I keep waiting for someone to stand up and say, ‘She’s a fake!’ Maybe everybody feels that way a little bit. I’m always really skeptical about success.

I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

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he Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac spans more than 60 years and four generations over the course of 383 pages of storytelling that warps reality and rewards those willing to believe in its magic.

We meet Eli Roebuck as a child, serving cookies to a massive creature in an ill-fitting suit that his mother has brought to their cabin on the Washington-Idaho border. The thing’s name is Mr. Krantz and he has wooed Eli’s mother away from the family home and into the woods, leaving Eli to deduce that his mother left him for a Sasquatch. So he becomes a podiatrist (feet, get it?), starts a family in the city and then transitions into one of the region’s leading authorities on the mythic beast, all the while not merely hunting for a Sasquatch, but Mr. Krantz himself.

You’re allowed to believe in Sas-

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quatch, if you’d like, but you don’t have to because you’re never sure what to make of Mr. Krantz. You also don’t have to believe in lake monsters or witches or magic hats or unicorns in Shields’ book, because you’re prepared for whatever might come your way by the time any of those creatures appear. Which they do.

We see Dr. Roebuck age and become a father, then divorce and have another daughter, and soon the novel is occupied as much by stories of childhood pain and wonder as it is tales of apelike creatures.

You’ll set out seeing Dr. Roebuck as a hero in search of the beast so many Northwest kids grow up wondering about, but he’s harder to admire by the page. It’s the women in the book who carry the story.

“There’s a lot about family love and forgiveness, and how we move on and how we think about others and our family,” says Shields.

There’s a lot of Sharma Shields here.

She experienced some of the weirdness you’ll read in the book. She’s never gone after a Sasquatch, but a gypsy woman stopped her in Spain when she was studying abroad and gave her an unsolicited palm reading, informing Shields that the boyfriend she’d been obsessing over back home wasn’t the one for her. The gypsy didn’t curse her entire family, though, unlike in the book. Shields also didn’t leave her baby outside to be swooped up by an eagle, but she did struggle with postpartum depression. She didn’t ever

tell a counselor that she’d hit a unicorn with her car, but she’s seen a therapist for years.

The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac takes place throughout the region. You’ll recognize places like Rathdrum and Grand Coulee, but you’ll never see the word “Spokane.” She calls it the Lilac City, but it’s clearly Spokane. The name change allowed her to make her hometown an island of fantasy in a sea of reality.

“I think that was me playing with reality a little bit. I love ‘Lilac City’ because it sounds like a place in a fairy tale,” she says. “I love the image it provides and the smell, but I wanted people to know that this was an Inland Northwest book.”

It’s a loving ode in many ways, but Shields hasn’t always been on the best terms with the Lilac City. At least not the real one.

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he was sitting on the floor of her parents’ kitchen, 17 years old and sobbing. It was 1996 and the man on the other end of the line was from the Spokesman-Review, the same reporter who had waited outside her house and appeared at her high school track practice.

She says he told her that because of her lies, she was going to go up in flames in the newspaper the next day.

She sobbed and said she didn’t lie about anything.

Yes, she had confessed that she’d been cited for a DUI coming home from a party, but there were a lot of lies and

half-truths folded in there, too. She’d told the paper — and the Lilac Festival committee that had just seen her elected a Lilac Princess for Ferris High School — that she had one beer, her first beer ever. She’d had beers before, and more than one that night. She’d said she’d been pulled over for a broken headlight. In reality, the arresting officer said she’d almost hit the patrol car.

Inside the Spokesman’s newsroom, there was debate over how to cover the arrest of a girl whose DUI arrest would have been irrelevant had she not won the honor of wearing a purple dress.

Anne Walter was the editor of the Our Generation section of the paper, which featured high school writers from around the region. She recalls fighting like hell to keep the story off the front page.

Making things more complicated, Shields was the student editor for Walter, the wife of another Spokane literary celebrity, Jess Walter. For Shields, working at the Spokesman was the pinnacle of a high school career that also saw her become homecoming queen, student body president and soccer captain. But now the paper had Shields and her misdeeds on its front page.

Lilac Festival committee members fought among themselves about what to do with Shields. It was the sort of smalltown dramatics you’d think Spokane would be above, but that didn’t keep a couple of committee members from quitting in protest. Radio talk shows took up

the issue and the Spokesman wrote about the committee’s decision.

Apparently people were reading, because when Shields opened her hometown paper on her 18th birthday, the entire Opinion section was devoted to letters to the editor, either in support of her or calling for her head.

“Protecting the Lilac reputation was far more important than forgiving this kid’s mistake,” says Walter, now a school counselor after 16 years at the Spokesman. “And it was tough to see a kid that age vilified in the newspaper where she worked.”

Shields lost her Lilac Princess crown and finished up high school as quietly as she could. The sort of people who write letters to the editor continued to do so for weeks to come.

She enrolled in the University of Washington’s honors programs and thrived on her newfound anonymity in Seattle, with Spokane and the mistake of that one stupid night a state’s length away. With the novel coming out, Shields wondered if people would remember the ordeal. She still doesn’t exactly know why it ever became such a circus, but she can make a guess.

“People love an Ophelia story. They want to see the young girl drown,” she says. Part of her doesn’t really blame them. She knows she screwed up.

But she learned to love Spokane again, and she’s trying to learn to forgive the 17-year-old brat who drank and drove and lied, and then lied a little more.

“There will never be a time when I won’t regret it. I’m not even sure I know what forgiving myself entails,” she says.

It’s been tougher than she thought, but there had to be some pleasure in dumping a Lilac Princess into Dr. Roebuck’s Lilac City, complete with the overinvolved parents and crowded parade route. Her husband had suggested she include it one afternoon during a walk through the lilac gardens at Manito Park. It seemed like most people wouldn’t care about a silly tradition in Spokane, Washington, but she did it anyway. And wouldn’t you know it: that Lilac Princess ends up going up in flames — literally — about halfway through the book.

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harma Shields never doubted that she would be a writer, but adulthood had a way of making her dream a little harder than she expected.

She spent a few years working in bookstores after graduating from the University of Washington. She’d been a devotee of the classics prior to that gig — “dead white guys” and the like, she recalls — but was now able to keep an eye on new writers.

Shields was accepted to the MFA program at the University of Montana, where she met Simeon “Sam” Mills, a graphic novelist and short fiction writer whom she would eventually marry.

Shields wrote one novel during graduate school, another the year after graduation while slinging coffee. The second was a horrible detective novel inspired by film noir, one she never thought seriously about publishing.

She then found a job in Missoula selling tour packages to foreign countries, and was unexpectedly competitive in the position.

“I don’t know why I was that way, but what’s the saying, ‘Always be closing?’ I was all about that,” she says.

While the gig enabled her to take a couple of trips abroad, the work was the sort of cubicle-and-headset drudgery that left her emotionally and physically exhausted at the end of the day, meaning she wasn’t about to sit down in front of a different computer and begin writing. It was depressing, and she started drinking more and more as a result.

Mills had been teaching at the university as an adjunct and finding other odd jobs when there wasn’t a spot for him, so after a visit to Shields’ family cabin on a remote part of Lake Pend Oreille, they made a decision on the drive back to Missoula.

They’d quit their jobs and be at the lake by Feb. 1, 2008, intending to rededicate themselves to writing. “Go lake, 2/1/08” became their mantra.

They actually did it, putting their life in Missoula into a storage unit and heading for the wilds of North Idaho in the dead of winter. But that winter was the one that all but shut down the Inland Northwest and they couldn’t even get to the cabin, which meant spending a month living in Spokane with her parents.

Panic began to seep into Shields’ world.

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in a grocery store and say, ‘There’s that lying, sack-of-shit princess’ or something,” she says, acknowledging the narcissism required to believe that such a thing might actually happen.

The panic attacks became so intense during that month that she tore muscles in her chest and developed a sense of agoraphobia. A lot of it was processing the guilt of her past, but there was more to it.

She wondered if she and Sam had bitten off more of their literary dream than they could follow through with.

“It was a perfect storm of quitting a job and leaving my home in Missoula, which we loved, and uprooting in a day,” she says. “Rededicating yourself to fiction when you don’t know if you have any real talent is terrifying.”

The snow receded some and the couple were ferried out to the simple twobedroom cabin — accessible only by boat — by a loving old man named Lou who lived on their bay. Their days were spent writing and reading and taking long hikes into the woods. They’d watch movies and spend ample time reading. About once a week, Lou would take them across the lake, often in numbing weather, to shop in Sandpoint and peruse the public library.

Shields eventually pulled out her work from grad school and managed to land a number of her short stories in prominent literary journals. Her new writing took on the magic of the lake and the new stories were her weirdest yet, all of them cemented firmly in the Inland Northwest landscape she grew up with.

Winter seeped into spring and the

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Shields reading from her short fiction at a Humanities Washington event in Spokane. KIRK HIROTA/HUMANITIES WASHINGTON PHOTO clock expired on their retreat. They always figured they’d return to Missoula, which in their minds would always be their home, but they didn’t go home.

They went to Spokane.

Somewhat improbably, Shields was heading back to the hometown she still feared. But she found a job selling books at Auntie’s, and another as an information specialist at the Spokane libraries. She managed her way into a literary community that welcomed her and her talents.

No one yet has come up to her and told her she’s a lying piece of shit. Instead, she’s become a community leader, albeit a reluctant one at times; a mainstay at literary events and a champion for the city’s booming writing scene. She even organized and hosted a woman-centered short story collection and reading event called Lilac City Fairy Tales, making her a mentor of sorts for many of the city’s female writers. Along the way, she published Favorite Monsters, a collection of short stories that feature the spooky and weird seeds of the fantastical that would bloom in her novel.

“I think she’s incredibly generous as a writer and a member of this community,” says poet and Eastern Washington University instructor Ellen Welcker. “She is constantly promoting the arts and promoting the great things in Spokane outside of the arts, too.”

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ou won’t find the house Sharma Shields grew up in. Well, you won’t find it in Spokane, at least. If you go to her childhood address at the top of the

South Hill, you’ll find a Target and an apartment complex. The house was lifted off its foundation and moved to another town. She’d like to go see the house in its new spot, and maybe bring her kids along for the weirdness alone.

But in her youth, her backyard went out into the woods. The daughter of a cardiologist, Paul, and a cardiac surgeon also named Sharma, Shields grew up with a brother, John Paul (“JP” to her), one year her senior, and three older half sisters. Sharma and John Paul roared through the woods, the brother indulging his sister’s fascination with Greek and Roman mythology, an interest that continues to make it into her writing.

“I was always Artemis,” says Shields.

She always knew she wanted to write.

By elementary school, she was whipping together a newsletter via the magic of a DOS program and circulating it to classmates. A story she wrote around that time predicted that she would become a famous detective during the day and write novels in her free time.

“There was never a time when she wasn’t writing. If you want to buy into that concept of a calling, she found her calling very early in life and always wrote,” says John Paul, a classically trained guitarist and instructor who performs throughout the region.

Both siblings say their parents were endlessly supportive of whatever the kids wanted to do. If they showed an interest in a subject, their mom came home from the library with an armload of books for them to study. Creativity was encouraged

and storytelling was always part of the family.

There’s always been a sort of darkness to Shields that began in her youth and extends to the pages of The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, a book whose characters never get off the hook and are all chased by demons. Shields remembers her first bad dream, and thinks maybe that was the start of her life of thinking darkly.

It began with a schoolhouse perched on a hill, the bell ringing in the belfry, the wind gently brushing past her. Then the everything broke into puzzle pieces.

“I don’t know where that comes from.

I’ve always had dreams like that,” says Shields. “I’m never being chased, but it’s always something unsettling.”

In her early teen years, her brother remembers her night terrors. She’d sleepwalk around her room and unleash the occasional scream. One night she stormed to John Paul’s bedside, yelling that her parents were being murdered in the next room. She awoke the next day not having remembered any of it. To this day, she’s unapologetic about her view that the world is a dark place.

“I really love people and I am a loving and affectionate person, which is good, but I do believe the world is a cruel place and it’s unfair. Some of us are born luckier than others,” Shields says, adding that she’s one of the lucky ones, one of the “spoiled ones.”

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t’s a couple of weeks before Christmas and Shields’ 2-year-old daughter romps around the living room,

sucking on a Popsicle, nursing a runny nose that’s keeping her home from preschool with her 5-year-old brother. She sits on her mom’s lap on a couch vandalized at some point by Magic Marker as Shields relays some good news: The novel’s television rights have already been optioned by a production company.

This isn’t a life-changer right off the bat, but it will make the approaching holiday a little more fun around the house, she says. And if it actually makes it through the mucky Hollywood path, it could be huge. A few weeks later, Entertainment Weekly would name her book one of the top releases to expect in 2015 and listed her as a star to watch. Accolades from O magazine and Marie Claire soon followed. All of this weeks before the book was even available.

Things have been good, but sometimes that’s when Shields starts to worry. The good seems to always come with the bad. She sees it like a wicked seesaw that balances, or maybe unbalances, her highs and lows.

The bad tossed its heavy load on the other end of the seesaw one night in 2013. It could have been a scene from one of her stories — a woman stumbling through the dark forest, reaching for the light in the distance. But this was reality, and Shields was the woman in the woods.

It was a writers’ conference in the Methow Val-

The Sasquatch Hunte r’s Almanac Release Party Tue, Jan. 27 at 7 pm Auntie’s Bookstore 402 W. Main Ave. ley, and she was trying to make her way through a seemingly inconsequential patch of trees to a party for the festival’s featured writers, a designation which included her. She wanted her brain to put her feet in front of each other, the way they’d dutifully been doing for more than 30 years, but there was a disconnect somewhere. Her feet were numb and she could hardly move. She stumbled her way toward the light and made it out, but in the coming weeks, the numbness she’d already been feeling in her arms would lead to an MRI revealing that she had multiple sclerosis.

“On one hand, there was the up that my book was possibly selling, and the down being that I now had this really awful disease,” she says.

Those first few days, Shields was pissed.

She’d see a television commercial with an old couple strolling happily together (“They were always for cruise ships or something,” she recalls) and she’d figure that such a scenario would never happen for her. It made her think a lot about the future and her kids and all the novels she still hadn’t written yet.

As if MS wasn’t enough of a battle, the diagnosis was coming on the heels of Shields conquering another demon that had been chasing her around for a couple of decades.

Tears build under her glasses as she tells it, gripping her daughter tight to her chest.

“It makes me want to weep just thinking about it,” she says, then blurts out an ugly truth: “I went to a play date and drove home drunk with my kids in the car.”

She drank wine and beer and had a blast with the other parents. She had a lot — she’s not sure how much — but her friends said she didn’t seem out of control. They offered her to get her a ride home, but she drove. She remembers none of this.

Shields hasn’t had a drink since. She’s an alcoholic, she admits. Maybe not the whiskeyin-the-coffee sort of alcoholic, but drinking, and drinking to the point of blacking out, had become routine since her 20s. People, including her husband, worried about her, so there were times when she’d stop drinking. She also was sober for both of her pregnancies. Still, alcohol made its way back into Shields’ routine, and after the night she drove with the kids, she figured her drinking was eventually going to kill someone.

After a day spent puking into the toilet, she went to an AA meeting and made it through the brutal first 90 days of sobriety.

The drinking was wrestled to the ground, but MS was a new sort of monster.

“I had just gotten sober and felt that the rest of my life could begin, and then a couple months later I get this diagnosis,” she says.

Each night, she gives herself a shot in the arm, and it hurts like a son of a bitch a few minutes after she punctures the skin. Still, she’s never missed a day of shots. Her most recent MRI showed that some of the lesions on her brain are healing, and her doctors tell her that’s progress.

She’s changed her diet and made a habit of getting out and walking most days. MS sucks the energy out of its host, so she’s sure to lay down and rest every day.

For an admitted pessimist, Shields has an oddly positive perspective on her disease.

“I actually think the MS diagnosis keeps me grounded. Sometimes I get so happy about how my literary career has taken off that I feel like I could just float away or explode. I just get so elated about it; it’s really cool to feel that sort of happiness,” she says.

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hields has no shortage of reasons to be happy, and it’s perfectly logical and sane that someone who wrote as good a book as she has would allow themselves that happiness. The loving mother doesn’t always believe everything is going to be great, because a lot of times, she’s found, it isn’t. And she doesn’t always trust the world.

“I’m a skeptic about everything by nature, including Sasquatch,” she says.

She can’t cure her MS or her anxiety or her guilt by writing a book, no matter how big an impact it makes on the literary landscape, and she can live with that. The real world, like the Lilac City in The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, can be a dark place. She’s found a way to relate to that world through her writing, and there’s some comfort in that.

“I think everyone struggles with something.

Maybe that’s really naïve of me to think. Maybe there are some people who are really buoyant and can do it, but what’s really interesting about life is that we can love and let ourselves be loved, even if we have issues with ourselves,” she says.

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Hot Hand Meet Tyler Harvey, one of the nation’s leading scorers

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astern Washington basketball star Tyler Harvey is challenging for the national scoring title, carries a 3.75 grade point average and seems to impress everyone with his genial personality and humble nature. Eagles coach Jim Hayford can’t think of anything negative to say about Harvey.

Well, maybe one negative.

“Tyler and I have worked really hard the past three-and-a-half years,” Hayford says dryly. “He’s put on 20 pounds of muscle, and I’ve put on 20 pounds of burritos.”

Harvey, who received exactly zero basketball scholarship offers out of high school, ranks among NCAA Division I leaders with 23.2 points and 4.5 three-pointers per game. The Eagles (13-5, 4-1 Big Sky Conference), who won at Indiana and lost by four at then-No. 17 Washington, are making a strong bid for a conference championship and NCAA tournament berth. Harvey is the catalyst.

“He’s just a very special player,” says backcourt partner, roommate, close friend and Spokane native Parker Kelly. “He’s the best shooter I’ve ever probably seen.”

Harvey qualifies as one of the feel-good stories of the college basketball season. He’s now a solid 6-foot-4 and 185 pounds, but the redshirt junior says he stood just 5-foot-5 as a high school freshman.

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ooze ain’t what it used to be, or maybe it’s more what it used to be than ever. And it’s everywhere — bottles set out in a Seattle boutique, for example, where you’re invited to mix yourself a little something while trying to figure out what this store actually sells. Plant cuttings, buck knives, $500 skirts.

Carefully curated vinyl by bands you love, bands you might now have to hate, their albums so desperately and so effectively branding this dress shop/haberdashery/greenhouse as cool. There’s poetry, too (isn’t this place itself a kind of poem?), Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” stacked with the cocktail hardware. You read a few lines and wonder if you’re looking for “the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,” or if you simply want a vintage martini shaker.

Another clerk approaches, inviting you to fix yourself a drink at the table in back. This is a good trend, you think, D I S T I L L E D shopping and A SHOT OF LIFE drinking. It should be expanded immediately, kegs tapped at tire stores, for example, so you can have a beer while you wait for an alignment.

On the booze table is a recipe on distressed paper for a cocktail called a Grandfather’s Boil, written by Dexter Fontaine, Seattle’s preeminent artisanal craft cocktail mixologist. But the list of ingredients has you wondering if Dexter Fontaine cares about booze at all.

First there’s .3 ounces of green chartreuse. You figure maybe you can skip that ingredient, but next it’s two spritzes of velvet falernum, which sounds kind of sexy, kind of filthy, and then nine drops of rosewater and a jigger of Lillet. A dude in a Civil War beard sighs behind you, waiting to mix his Grandfather’s Boil. You scan the recipe for something you can just pour into

a glass. The three stalks of pre-measured powdered Palouse wheat can’t possibly be real. Same for the freshly raked leaf garnish. Looks like everything’s going to have to be left out of this cocktail. But then you find it. Actual booze! Only it’s cinnamon and apple-infused.

Don’t ask why. Just pour a few fingers over a boulder of ice, the mold for which you can purchase up front for $125.

Take your “whiskey” and walk the boutique, wondering why they couldn’t just have a bottle of Kentucky or Washington bourbon back there and some good vermouth, French or Italian, some good bitters, from Trinidad, Seattle, Spokane, because excellent bitters are made all over now. Maybe a bottle of gin, some tequila.

Some simple syrup and an orange in case somebody wants an Old Fashioned. Maybe some eastern Oregon dung powder. No. Not that. Just the booze.

You only came here because your daughter wanted to look at $400 T-shirts. You leave the contaminated bourbon on a vinyl copy of the Velvet Underground & Nico, something you’ll never listen to again, proving that you’re just as pretentious as the people who run this place, just as desperate to possess and protect the markers of your cool, which can’t be protected or possessed. How horrific that this store has so easily figured you out, this market for cool that destroys cool, showing how uncool cool becomes the second it becomes commodified.

Booze doesn’t need to be complicated to be cool.

All you need is a dark bar stocked with good liquor, bitters, vermouth, and a skilled bartender mixing those ingredients into the best Manhattan you’ve ever tasted, as good as your grandfather’s — no, better, because the ingredients today are better — perfectly cooled, then gone. 

weighed only 150 pounds.

“My dream was to play Division I,” Harvey says, but college coaches had other ideas. Harvey says recruiting interest in him consisted merely of “a couple junior colleges” without scholarships before fate intervened.

Twice.

Hayford and Harvey’s father, a college basketball official, are longtime acquaintances who wound up sharing a plane ride during Tyler’s senior year at Bishop Montgomery High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, California.

Frank Harvey chatted up Hayford about his son, and soon Tyler was headed to Spokane’s tiny Whitworth University on an academic scholarship (Division III schools like Whitworth do not offer athletic scholarships) to play for Hayford.

All that changed when Hayford landed the Eastern Washington job in 2011. Harvey was quick to put in a phone call to the coach, asking for a chance to follow him to Eastern.

Hayford agreed to bring Harvey aboard, Harvey’s parents agreed to foot the bill for the first year, and Harvey agreed to camp out in the weight room while redshirting.

“He was scrawny,” Hayford says, making certain Harvey is within earshot.

“I wanted to redshirt,”

Harvey points out. “I wanted to get bigger and just improve my game.”

Harvey finished strong as a redshirt freshman, then led the Big Sky in scoring last season with 21.8 points per game. He already holds the school record of 213 career three-pointers, and he’s on pace to break his record of 109 treys in a season. He was named national player of the week after scoring a career-high 39 points against perennial Big Sky powerhouse Weber State on Jan. 1.

“It’s just truly a blessing from God to be in this position,” Harvey says. “I never even thought about being a national scoring leader or anything like that.”

Hayford and assistant coach Shantay Legans praise Harvey at length for his team-first attitude and his hard work on and off the court. Both coaches credit Kelly for helping push Harvey.

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Over the course of a decade, the San Franciscobased comedian has built a career hilariously discussing topics that other comedians (and polite dinner parties) tend to pass on, such as racism, politics and religion.

Friday night, Bell brings his “Oh, Everything!” stand-up tour to Spokane, and given current events over the past year, he’ll certainly have much to skewer.

Championed by Chris Rock back in 2010, Bell had a Daily Show-esque comedy called Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell that ran for two seasons on FX and FXX. It featured segments on all sorts of crazy subjects like why we celebrate Columbus Day, a debate on the existence of God and an all-important piece on how to tell the difference between “Sikh, sheik and geek.”

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Here’s a quick glance at some of Bell’s best comedy bits.

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FASHION | For years now, the Oregon Ducks have not only blasted opponents on the field, but they’ve looked way better doing it.

Pre-Oregon, uniforms were too stodgy. Now teams all over the nation have a variety of looks, with reflecting helmets, space-age fabrics and secret little messages hidden in the neck seams. Thanks for spicing things up, Nike! So what happened last week at the National Championship game? Most people thought the Mighty Ducks didn’t look like themselves. Exactly! Sure, they sucked on the field, but in a kind of twist on the ugly-sweater craze, they wore awful BLACKAND-WHITE UNIFORMS — not a sliver of green or gold to be found anywhere. Huh?! The football gods are well-known to punish coaches who don’t go for it on easy fourth downs; apparently they’ll punish your lack of team pride, too. Epic Fail, Phil Knight!

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TV | Morning television is a battleground, with the networks locked in a power struggle over ratings. Heck, even our local stations are into the act, with full-on morning shows from KREM (on the CW) and KHQ (on FOX). Good Morning America, with no cooking segment deemed too contrived, or pseudo-celebrity too marginal, is winning. The Today Show has fallen from grace, and now sits in second; how can Today retake the top spot? Invest in more news?

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few weeks into the new year, and the Inland Northwest’s literary minds are already making it one to remember.

This week — and just seven days before fellow Spokane author Sharma Shields’ (see page 22) debut novel comes out — 30-year-old Sarah Hulse is releasing her highly praised debut novel, Black River.

Black River tells the heart-wrenching story of 60-year-old Montana native Wes Carver as he deals with the fresh grief of his wife’s death from cancer, and the long-lingering anger of being held hostage during a riot at the state prison where he worked as a corrections officer. The latter event, two decades prior to the book’s setting, left irreversible trauma on Carver’s mind and body.

Hulse’s poignant, crisp prose and a knack for seamlessly empathizing with her characters’ struggles has earned her comparisons to Western literary icons Annie Proulx, Wallace Stegner and contemporaries. The weeks leading up to the book’s release (Jan. 20) have been a whirlwind of surprises for Hulse. Bubbly and talkative, she smiles as she reflects over a mug of coffee about the writing and publishing process.

The daughter of Spokesman-Review sportswriter Gil Hulse and an English teacher mother, Hulse grew up in northwest Spokane, attending St. George’s School.

“My goal was to write a book I was proud of, and I did, and I was able to get it published,” she says. “Everything since then has been an icing-on-the-cake sort of thing. You want it to resonate with people, and once it gets the attention, it’s easier and it builds on that.”

Hulse began writing the first draft of Black River in 2009 as her grad school thesis project while enrolled in the University of Oregon’s MFA program. Five years later, the contemporary Western novel is noted as a top recommendation by the American Booksellers Association, IndieBound and Amazon. Meanwhile, Black River has received starred reviews from the “big four” trade publications — Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist and Publishers Weekly.

Much of Black River’s thematic details — horsemanship, fiddle playing and the rural Montana landscape — are tied to Hulse’s personal experiences. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Montana, where she also was part of the school’s equestrian team. While working on the book in grad school, Hulse took fiddle lessons to better write about the subject — a passionate, almost religious pastime of Carver’s that’s ripped from his hands after the prison riot.

Yet Black River’s flawed, intensely human characters and their gritty experiences are entirely unrelated to the writer’s own.

“What I love about writing is to learn about things that interest me,” Hulse explains. “I enjoy the research element, and with this novel I’m very interested in how big events in people’s lives resonate over time and affect them.”

As Carver’s story unfolds, readers learn about a troubled relationship with his stepson, Dennis. This is only exacerbated as Carver suppresses his emotions following the prison riot, during which he was gruesomely tortured.

Twenty years later, Carver is still caught in an endless struggle to outwardly hide how his memories of the riot affect nearly every aspect of his life.

While Hulse has been back and living in Spokane full-time for the past year and a half, she admits she’s been surprised to observe the rapidly growing support here for local writers, both from the reading community and her peers.

Currently working on her second novel, she’s also glad to be back in a region of the western U.S. so influential to her writing.

“I think there is a desire on the part of people writing — it’s a very generous writing community — to promote each other, and it’s not competitive in a nasty way,” she notes. “It’s more like, ‘I have a book and you have a book, and who do we know we can tell about it?’” n S.M. Hulse book launch & reading • Fri, Jan. 23, at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

New Life

A historic downtown building comes back to life as Tamarack Public House

BY JO MILLER

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pon entering, your eyes are swept up the red brick walls to the 18-foot fir ceiling mirrored by glistening walnut floors. There’s a staircase leading to a lofted dining room sprinkled with chic details like rope trim, old-world lighting and art glass framed with hardwood.

But the Settlemier Building didn’t always look like this.

Built in 1891 by George W. Settlemier, the downtown building on Sprague Avenue first operated as a grocery store, with the Settlemier family living in a loft that once extended out as a full second floor. Over the years, the building changed hands and uses — furniture shop, saloon, bakery, restaurant, café, music store, hotel, tattoo parlor — but now, it’s the home of Spokane’s newest gastropub.

Teresa and Leo Gonder acquired the building and began renovations about a year ago, leading to this month’s opening of the Tamarack Public House. For the design of the building, the couple wanted to recreate some of the finishes it would have had in the late 1800s, so crumbling sections of walls were replaced with hand-troweled artisan plasters, and Leo designed and crafted true-to-the-period art glass doors and windows.

“From researching the history of it, it deserves to be brought back to some semblance of what it was,” says Teresa, who’s worked as a chef for years and recently managed a trio of restaurants at Stevens Pass Resort.

Leo, an artist turned designer/general contractor, and his construction company, Gonder Custom Construction, did the work, including soda-blasting the brick, installing the tongueand-groove fir ceiling, custom designing the two bars, constructing a kitchen and bringing the building up to code.

When it came to upgrading the utility infrastructure, the Gonders got help from the city of Spokane. They were the first to benefit from an initiative approved by the city council in September that created a pilot utility installation project providing up to $40,000 ...continued on next page

Tamarack Public House’s double bone-in prime pork chop. JOE KONEK PHOTO

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to businesses to improve the water and sewer lines of older buildings in the city center.

It’s wonderful to see so many old buildings downtown that reflect Spokane’s history, says Teresa, but businesses often don’t have deep enough pockets to withstand the cost of renovation.

“Even with being able to have Leo do so much of the work, it would not have penciled out for us to cover the cost of upgrading the city’s utilities into the building,” she says. “Tamarack would not have happened without the initiative.”

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n the same way the Gonders used craftsmanship to reinvigorate the Settlemier Building, they chose to source their menu from craft breweries and distilleries and family-run operations.

The loft bar is stocked The new look of a 118-year-old building. entirely with craft liquors, labels like J.P. Trodden, Woodinville and Oola among them. And while the downstairs main bar (currently still under construction, but Teresa says they’re aiming to have it open by their Feb. 14 grand opening event) is set to have a handful of more common spirits, the 24 beer taps and the other eight upstairs will shy away from big names and stick exclusively to craft brews, with a few handles reserved for kombucha from Bare Culture.

Chef Danielle Briceno, who Teresa brought over from the Davenport Hotel, created the farm-to-table-focused menu, which lists roughly 17 items.

“We’re not going to have a huge menu,” says Teresa. “We’re going to keep it small so we can guarantee the quality that way.”

The meats from Angus Meats and breads from Alpine Bakery show up in dishes like the steak Bianca focaccia pizza, Tamarack Burger and Claw Hammer Pub Steak sandwich, designed around Claw Hammer Ale Washed Jack cheese from Cascade Cheese Co. in Leavenworth. Vegetable-heavy items, like the drunken kale salad with rainbow carrots and golden beets and raisins, feature ingredients from Charlie’s Produce and, when in season, the farmers market.

“The other cool thing about the menu is that it goes all the way from a good selection for the vegan all the way up to the carnivore,” she says.

Instead of designating certain dishes vegan or gluten-free, they’re willing to make any item on the menu to those specifications when asked.

Teresa says it’s about offering a well-rounded experience, meaning it’s not just about the environment, just the food or just the spirits, but the combination. And it’s about letting other creative businesses share what they’re passionate about. On First Fridays, Tamarack plans to host a brewer or distiller (12 String Brewing on Feb. 6) and there are plans to install courtyard seating on the west side of the building to share with Nodland Cellars and the public.

“Being part of the urban experience is awesome. It’s wonderful,” Teresa says. “It creates its own life.” n Tamarack Public House • 912 W. Sprague • Open for dinner Mon-Thu, 4-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 4 pm-close; Closed Sundays to book private events; open for lunch (starting Feb.) Mon-Sat, 11 am-2 pm • facebook.com/tamarackpublichouse • 315-4846

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ith her background in Romance languages, Noelle Otersen knows how to say “gelato” correctly. But she also knows how to make gelato. And sorbet. And ice cream. And she’s turned that passion into Euphoria Frozen Desserts, a modest startup that’s gaining traction with several Coeur d’Alene-area restaurants.

“Being good at something requires you to like it,” says Otersen. “Being excellent at something requires you to love it.”

Otersen got started at Pilgrim’s Market, where she learned to make ice cream. She especially liked putting her own spin on classics and constantly queried friends, family and customers.

That caught the attention of a former manager, who taught Otersen how to make gelato, a denser version of ice cream that employs more milk than cream and fewer eggs by comparison.

A conversation with a chef friend led to her first customer (and her departure from Pilgrim’s).

At 315 Martinis and Tapas, Otersen shares kitchen space in exchange for making the restaurant custom flavors like the four we taste-tested: chocolate banana and a lemon bar gelato, as well

as strawberry champagne sorbet. Her avocado coconut lime — made with vegan-friendly coconut milk — is typical of her innovative approach to flavor.

“I like to be able to say the recipe is mine,” she says, noting that ingredients are locally purchased and organic and everything is made from scratch, including her own base, syrups and flavorings. She typically uses less sugar than what you might find in commercial gelato.

“If you use less sugar, the actual flavor stands out more,” says Otersen.

Her clients include The Fork at Lakeside, for which she makes spumoni and mocha almond fudge gelato, as well as both peach champagne and basil lime sorbet ($3.50). Syringa Japanese Café & Sushi Bar and nearby Garnet Cafe have Otersen create custom flavors for special events Otersen hopes to soon have her own shop.

“Gelato lets me have fun and give people something tasty that they won’t find somewhere else,” she says. n Euphoria Frozen Desserts • facebook.com/euphoriafrozendesserts • 954-8465

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he trick was to make things slightly whimsical for kids, but not so much that the college crowd who flocks in for sugary study breaks would find it childish.

So when Sweet Mutiny — a frozen yogurt and cupcake shop — opened in Pullman nearly three years ago, the owners settled on an eye-patched cupcake wearing a pirate hat to plaster on the wall and a colorful pirate ship built in surrounding the froyo handles.

“We wanted to give the community another outlet for something fun to do with the kids,” says Jim Harbour, a professor in the college of business at nearby Washington State University, co-owner of South Fork Public House and owner of Porch Light Pizza in Pullman. Harbour opened Sweet Mutiny in Crimson Village with his wife, Jenny, along with Cindy and Chud Wendle, the district director for Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ local office.

In typical self-serve froyo shop fashion, eight frozen yogurt ($0.43 per ounce) flavors line the wall, ranging from Cable Car chocolate to peach mango tart. For toppings, a wide assortment of candy pieces, fruits and syrups stretch down the counter.

When Harbour and his co-owners decided to open a froyo shop, they wanted to differentiate themselves from other froyo places. Instead of the plastic seating options typical of froyo shops, they created a more cozy area, with couches and benches surrounding a central fireplace. Then they added gourmet cupcakes and cake

Sweet Mutiny adds a little 12th Man flair to a recent batch of cupcakes. pops to the menu.

The cupcakes ($2.75) made daily in-house from scratch, come in more than 50 different flavors. The constant, red velvet, gets about five other flavors rotated around it each day, including Lemon Scurvy, tiramisu and gluten-free coconut pineapple. The cake pops ($1.50) come in similar flavors, and cupcakes, pops and custom cakes can all be special ordered for birthdays, weddings and other occasions.

You can also throw parties in the shop’s private party room. In one option, Sweet Mutiny does decorating parties, where one of the bakers comes in and shows your guests several techniques for piping and decorating their own cupcakes. n Sweet Mutiny • 1195 SE Bishop Blvd., Suite 1, Pullman • Open Mon-Sun, 11 am-10 pm • sweetmutiny.net • 332-2877

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The University of Washington School of Medicine brought this world-class medical school to Spokane in 2008. We realized a goal of building a world-class health sciences hub to educate future generations of physicians and to fuel Spokane’s economic development.

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SEAFOOD ANTHONY’S BEACH CAFÉ 2912 E. Palouse Hwy. | 448-0668 In a corner of the South Hill Regal Plaza where the new Target went up, Anthony’s Beach Café opened its doors at the end of October. It’s part of a family of Anthony’s restaurants that originated in Bellevue in 1969 and now have locations throughout the Pacific Northwest, each falling into one of three categories: dinner houses, casual dining and to-go fishand-chip bars. Anthony’s at the Falls lands in the fine dining group; Anthony’s Beach Café is in the middle as a casual, sit-down restaurant.

CEDARS FLOATING RESTAURANT 1514 Marina Dr., Blackwell Island | Coeur d’Alene 208-664-2922 This isn’t lakeside dining — when you eat at Cedars’ floating restaurant, you’re dining on the water at the confluence between the Spokane River and Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Seafood is the specialty here and the smoky, cedar-planked, wild-caught salmon is consistently good. The patio is the place to be. You can even arrive by boat and tie up at one of Cedars’ docks.

CLINKERDAGGER 621 W. Mallon | 328-5965 With excellent food, service and view of the river, Clinkerdagger sets the standard for reliable fine dining in Spokane. The restaurant’s pea salad and rock salt prime rib have become beloved favorites since the restaurant opened during Expo ’74. Want to try something new? Order off the seasonal menu, featuring fresh and locally grown ingredients.

HAY J’S BISTRO 21706 E. Mission Ave. | Liberty Lake 926-2310 The blocky strip-mall exterior — and book-cover first impressions — are immediately overturned the second you open the door. Inside, Hay J’s Bistro is pure class, with candle flames flickering atop wine bottles at the tables, and metallic vine sculptures wrapping around wine bottles on the walls. With a wine list boasting 100 choices, and a wine bar next door, the selection manages to live up to the hype set by the décor.

The relatively pricey menu boasts steaks, tapas, burgers, pastas and risottos — but seafood remains the most popular genre.

MILFORD’S FISH HOUSE 719 N. Monroe 326-7251 This iconic restaurant and bar has led a luxurious life. The original tavern opened in 1911 and was turned into a cigar store, market and barbershop.

Original cigar cases, an antique mahogany bar, pin-up girls and stamped-tin ceilings exude a dim, masculine atmosphere. The finedining menu features modern fish and seafood dishes for a hefty price.

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Un-Friend

Jennifer Aniston shows her range in Cake.

Anna Kendrick as Nina, who keeps making “ghostly” appearances; and the fact that although this is a sad, sad movie, it also contains bright lights of dark humor.

There’s no straightforward story here. It’s more of a series of peeks at Claire’s circumstances and condition. Moaning and sighing more than she speaks, Claire sometimes has to put up a positive front when dealing with others. She can be herself and relax just a little when Silvana is around, because Silvana is so caring. She can completely relax, and even be pretty much free from pain, when she soothingly floats around in a swimming with a grimace. She’s addicted to painkillers, which only pool. work for a little while. Her marriage has fallen apart. She A glimmer of a story takes shape when curiosity gets has scars on her legs and face. She’s stopped caring about the best of her, and she sets out on a search to figure out the way she looks. why Nina went the suicide route. This involves Her nasty attitude, complete with Silvana driving her around, while she lies down CAKE salty language, is so bad she gets kicked Rated R in the back of the car. A couple of the stops she out of the support group, by phone. makes are at the overpass where Nina jumped, and Written by Patrick Tobin Her relationship with her husband has the home where Nina lived with her husband Roy Directed by Daniel Barnz gone so far south, he, too, uses the (Sam Worthington), who appears calm and quiet, Starring Jennifer Aniston, phone to leave a message for her: He but reveals himself to be bitter and to hate Nina Adriana Barraza, Anna wants to come by the house to pick up for what she did to him/them. Claire wears pain all Kendrick, Sam Worthington his stuff when she’s not home. over her body; Roy wears it just on his face.

Why would anyone want to see The film gets odder as Nina’s “visits” with what sounds like such a bleak movie? For many reasons, Claire, usually at inopportune moments, become more among them Aniston’s measured and sure portrayal of frequent and more bizarre. More and more layers of a woman going through such a rough time but never Claire’s poignant story are slowly and subtly revealed, giving up; a terrific supporting role by Mexican actress and there’s not much doubt that before it’s over, before Adriana Barraza (Amores Perros) as her hardworking, endher droll sense of humor gets to bloom, before the title of lessly patient housekeeper Silvana; a series of cameos by the film is explained, you’ll get to like her. n

Jennifer Aniston is excellently depressing in Cake

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sometimes wonder why people want to see movies about someone who is suffering. Like The Elephant Man, My Left Foot, The Theory of Everything. Does it make them feel better about their own lives? Maybe, in the case of those three films, it was the remarkable performance by the lead actor.

That’s sure the case with Cake, in which Jennifer Aniston plays Claire Bennett, a woman who is dealing with chronic pain due to an accident that’s never discussed in detail. When we meet Claire, she’s had pins in her legs for more than a year, and there’s been no improvement in her pain level for six months.

She’s frustrated, angry, antagonistic. She has no patience for others, even those in her chronic pain support group — which has been caught off guard by the suicide of one of its members, Nina. But Claire can’t get caught up in Nina’s decision to end her pain by jumping off a freeway overpass. She’s too busy dealing with her own problems. She can walk around, but only slowly, and

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OPENING FILMS BOY NEXT DOOR

There’s really only one word to describe this film: creepy. It is a psychological thriller, though, and one that takes obsession with another person to a really messed up level. High school teacher Claire (Jennifer Lopez) is recently divorced and lonely, but things start really getting out of hand for her after an impulsive (and regretted) one-night-stand with her hunky young neighbor (Ryan Guzman). (CS) Rated R

CAKE

Jennifer Aniston gives a performance that probably no one but Aniston knew she was capable of. She plays an accident survivor, riddled with crippling chronic pain, who has given up caring what she looks likes, alienates practically everyone — including her support group — with an antagonistic attitude, and has watched her marriage fall apart. Sounds bleak, but the crackling script, in telling its sad story, is also filled with shards of dark humor. (ES) Rated R

LITTLE ACCIDENTS

Little Accidents is set in a small West Virginia mining town struggling to get back on its feet after 10 miners were killed. In her feature debut, writer-director Sara Colangelo tells of the lone survivor from the mine accident struggling over whether or not to blow the whistle on the mining company while a boy who lost his father witnesses another scandalous death. Elizabeth Banks stars as a grieving mother in her best dramatic role yet. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

MORTDECAI

Is there any role Johnny Depp can’t (or won’t) play? The actor’s latest gig playing Charlie Mortdecai — the same character from the 1970s English novel series that’s more recently garnered “cult” status — places Depp in the role of a cheeky and debonair British art dealer tasked with recovering a stolen painting. Joined by his man-servant Jock (Paul Bettany), Mortdecai seduces and charms his way through just about any predicament in this comedic romp. (CS) Rated R

THE PRINCIPLE

For a long, long while, people on Earth just assumed that their planet was located at the center of the universe.

We gave up that idea long ago, but a documentary team is wondering aloud “What if we are at the center of it all?”

They interviewed leading scientists, which became controversial because the filmmakers didn’t disclose the hypothesis at the center of the film. So basically, a conspiracy theorist conned a bunch of very smart people into promoting his idea. (MB) Rated PG

STRANGE MAGIC

Shakespeare will never cease to infiltrate our popular culture, as evidenced

by George Lucas’ new animated project, Strange Magic. The film, inspired

by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, features trolls, elves, goblins and other mythical creatures battling, with hilarious consequences, over a magic potion. Features voices of Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Evan Rachel Wood and more. (MB) Rated PG

NOW PLAYING AMERICAN SNIPER

American Sniper opens with Bradley Cooper’s Chris Kyle on his first tour in Fallujah, perched on a rooftop protecting the Marines clearing buildings door to door. From the moment of his first life-or-death decision, the story flashes back — to his Texas childhood, his career as a rodeo cowboy, his eventual enlistment and his courtship and marriage to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller) — before returning to his experiences serving in Iraq. (SR) Rated R

ANTARTICA: A YEAR ON ICE

After a decade of filming, Anthony Powell has completed his awardwinning international documentary, Antarctica: A Year on Ice. The visual phenomenon offers viewers an immersion into a full year in the life of people who choose to live in one of Earth’s most isolated regions. At Magic Lantern (KG) Rated PG

THE BABADOOK

Jennifer Kent makes a stunningly assured feature filmmaking debut with this unnerving thriller about a single mom, Amelia, who’s exhausted due to the sleeplessness of near-7-year-old Samuel, who fears monsters that he believes to be hiding in closets and under the bed. Things escalate when Mis-

ter Babadook, an ominous children’s pop-up book, mysteriously appears in Samuel’s bedroom. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

BIG HERO 6

Boy genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) spends his time illegally hustling in robot fights until his brother shows him his college science lab where his buddies are making astounding inventions under the tutelage of professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell). But after tragedy strikes, Hiro accidentally activates Tadashi’s project — a marshmallow-puffy medical robot named Baymax (Scott Adsit). (SS) Rated PG

BIRDMAN

After good work in lots of small supporting roles over the past couple of decades, Michael Keaton gets back to work as a former franchise movie star now trying to make a comeback on the Broadway stage, but finding obstacles everywhere, many of them in his own head. (ES) Rated R

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Richard Linklater’s film, shot over the course of 12 years, is a true masterwork and eschews the big-bang theory of dramatics in favor of the million-andone little things that accumulate daily and help shape who we are, and who we will become. (MB) Rated R

CITIZENFOUR

An intimate look at Edward Snowden’s life in the days just before his spooky treasure trove of NSA secrets went public thanks to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the latter of whom directed this film. Citizenfour takes place almost exclusively in Snowden’s Hong Kong hotel room. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated R

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FOXCATCHER

In this real-life story Steve Carell plays wacko John E. du Pont, the wealthy heir to a family fortune who coaches — in the loosest sense of the term — the Foxcatcher wrestling team he believes will somehow elevate America’s standing in the world. Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo play Olympic wrestlers caught up in du Pont’s world, with deadly results. (SD) Rated R

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by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the script) and comes up with one of the twisting-est, turning-est and most unsettling movies of the year. Ben Affleck is the once-happy husband whose once-happy wife, Rosamund Pike, up and vanishes on the morning of their fifth anniversary. (ES) Rated R

THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep star in this film that offers a glimpse into the challenges faced in the early American West. When three women become mentally unstable due to their trying pioneer lifestyles, the hardened Mary Bee Cuddy — played

by Swank— sets out to deliver them to safety in Iowa. (KG) Rated R

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During World War II, the Germans used a machine called an Enigma that created what were thought to be unbreakable codes for top-secret military communications. British mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was hired by Allied forces to decipher the machine’s codes and help win the war. (MB) Rated PG-13

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The song-filled new telling of familiar Grimm fairy tales is a terrific piece of work, with wonderful performances, outstanding production design and snappy writing. But this film, based on the Broadway musical, is also extremely dark, featuring themes of deception, greed, infertility, and even a taste of lasciviousness. (ES) Rated PG

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Clark Terry made his mark on the jazz world as one of the genre’s most skilled trumpeters and later went into teaching music. When he began to lose his sight from illness, he became closer with one of his students, Justin Kauflin, a blind piano prodigy. This documentary follows the two over the course of four years. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

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Paddington the bear winds up in London in search of an old friend after a family tragedy in his native Peru. He soon finds a loving family to take him in, but is quick to cause a series of calamities in the home of the friendly Londoners, who name him Paddington.

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Selma could have been just an inspirational drama about a pivotal historical moment, and it could have been just a portrait of King’s efforts at promoting civil rights. But director Ava DuVernay and her team are interested in doing something much less common, something that echoes the similar success of 2012’s Lincoln. (SR) Rated PG-13

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Inspired by Jane Wilde Hawking’s memoir about her life with former husband Stephen Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist (A Brief History of Time) diagnosed with motor neuron disease at age 21, the film’s heart beats with a romantic optimism, even when each of them finds new soulmates and their union ends. (SD) Rated PG-13

UNBROKEN

The story of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), a bombardier during World War II who, as a young man, was a medal-winning athlete at the 1936 Olympics, but was stranded for more than a month on a raft after his plane goes down only to be captured by the Japanese. (SR) Rated PG-13

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Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed, the woman who walked the length of the Pacific Crest Trail and lived to write a hit book (upon which this film is based) about it. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club), Wild follows Strayed as she deals with her mother’s death and her crippling addiction issues by heading into the wilderness alone. (MB) Rated R 

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BROKEN YET HOPEFUL Kent Ueland has moved on from Terrible Buttons with a solo effort

BY LAURA JOHNSON

K

ent Ueland has been drinking since noon. The shrill doorbell jarred him awake at his Peaceful Valley house this morning. At the door, a postman served him a wage-garnishment order, due to outstanding collection agency debts. But Ueland recently quit his various jobs, so there are no wages to garnish. Hungover from a celebration the night prior, all he can do is smile, take a swig of a leftover beer and get back at it.

At 5 pm he strolls into Mootsy’s, his favorite bar in town, wearing a black wide-brim hat, looking every bit the indie singer-songwriter that he is. He settles into a booth’s springy cushions and orders a PBR can and whiskey. In this dim light, he unabashedly says everything he probably shouldn’t.

“Me and money don’t get along,” the 23-year-old admits. “I’m bad at making a

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dollar, and making music is the best way I know how.”

His current solo project the Holy Broke (pun intended) is now his full-time gig. This month, he’s on a Northwest tour promoting his new album, Do It Yourself.

But playing music alone was never supposed to be it for him; that came out of necessity.

As a student at Whitworth University, which his singer-songwriter brother Dane also attended, Ueland formed the seven-piece horror-folk group Terrible Buttons. Over five years the band’s star rose steadily in the Spokane music scene; they were voted Best Local Band in the Inlander’s Best Of poll multiple times. But last May, the group canceled an upcoming tour and played their packed-out final show at Volume.

The final tumultuous year the Buttons

were together, Ueland says he needed an outlet for everything he was feeling. He’d write a song and then challenge himself to record it in same-day spurts.

“Those first solo demos I did were just emotional vomit,” he says. “They would expel all of this shit from me. I was trying to be in this band with a girl I loved and who didn’t love me anymore.

The songs weren’t supposed to be heard by anybody.”

Needing money, he reluctantly played his first show under the Holy Broke moniker a year and a half ago. After Terrible Buttons ended, he figured the next step was pouring himself into making a solo album.

To write, he’d get up before his roommates and put on a pot of coffee, grab his beat-up $25 classical guitar and head out to the porch, letting cigarette smoke and

cold morning air fill his lungs.

Those tracks were recorded at Plastic Horse Records in Northfield, Minnesota, over the course of about six weeks.

Ueland describes the experience as one of the best and most frightening of his career. Working with studio musicians like James Buckley of the Pines and the Replacements’ Peter Anderson, Ueland says he couldn’t stop sweating.

“I’m the worst guitar player I know who’s trying to make a living playing it,” he says. “I barely know names of chords, so being in a room with such talented players who got things right on the first take, that was nerve-wracking.”

But even without world-class guitar skills — which is why Ueland says he plays the instrument riding so high on his chest, for the most control possible — or the most original of distressed-sounding

voices, he manages to stand out in an oversaturated folk market, mostly thanks to his lyrics. His idols, Leonard Cohen and brother Dane, also excel at writing brutally honest (and depressing) lyrics, and that’s where Ueland says most singer-songwriters stumble.

“I’m just singing about what I was going through at one point,” he says. “It’s not a statement one way or another. I think a lot of musicians worry about what people will think of them, but I just try to be real, even if it makes me look bad.”

Still, with songs featuring lyrics like “Pretty girls weren’t made for talking,” he admits that some women have walked out of his shows, while other women have thanked him for having such a feminist approach to his songs. Either way, he’s just that glad people are listening.

Tonight, sitting and drinking in the bar he frequents three to four times a week, Ueland says he’s happy. He’s found love again and has an upcoming electronic project with former Buttons members, which he won’t talk much about. But happiness brings a new set of problems.

“It’s hard to sing these sad-sack tunes when I’m feeling good,” he says. “It was a weird situation before and now, all of a sudden, there’s a light.” n lauraj@inlander.com The Holy Broke album release show with Planes on Paper and Matt Arthur • Sat, Jan. 24, at 8 pm • $10/$12 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane. com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | FOLK

On Friday, Feral Anthem plays their first show since releasing their debut album.

Making it Work

For husband-and-wife duo Feral Anthem, crafting music is an obligation

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anuary 16, the day we meet at Wild Bill’s Long Bar in Cheney for an interview, is Jeremy Rouse and Caitlin Garpestad Rouse’s five-month wedding anniversary, a realization the pair celebrates with a high five.

The laid-back couple, who perform as rootspunk duo Feral Anthem, met in Spanish class at Eastern Washington University and were together for five years before tying the knot in August.

Jeremy performed in punk and reggae bands before releasing music under the name Citizen Arms, while Caitlin has always sung — but usually in private. It wasn’t until the pair recorded a cover of the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” that they realized they had something.

Over time, Caitlin’s increasingly more frequent contributions necessitated a name change, and Feral Anthem was born.

According to Caitlin, her husband doesn’t think she’s a good bandmate. But Jeremy insists it’s because of his years spent writing music as a solo artist.

“I’ve had to relearn how to ... work with other people, trying to get a song put together,” he says.

“And we have different styles of putting them together,” Caitlin adds. “He’s very much ‘Let’s just try this now!’ and I would rather listen to it and figure out my own part on my own.”

Even so, both husband and wife are quick to joke that if it weren’t for their marriage, the band might not be together.

“Being married helps because we have a lot of fights when we’re playing music,” Jeremy says.

“If we weren’t shackled to each other, then we might just quit the band altogether.”

“I was going to say ‘If we didn’t like each other,’ but same thing,” Caitlin adds.

On paper, Jeremy’s rousing, raspy voice and Caitlin’s more soulful vocals seem discordant, but the couple uses their differences for their benefit.

And whether out of obligation or not, there’s no denying the pair’s musical chemistry.

The band’s latest release, Ballast & Bone, is a collection of tunes that offer MORE EVENTS a gritty look at Visit Inlander.com for daily life. Some, complete listings of like “Banks of local events. the Rio Masacre” and “Mackandal’s Body,” are inspired by trips to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua.

And “Low as Lions,” which Jeremy jokingly wrote for his wife, is a breakup song.

Admittedly, the duo doesn’t have arena-sized ambitions for Feral Anthem; they’re content maintaining the DIY style that has worked so far.

“The focus is continually getting better, continually trying to write songs and record on our own terms,” Jeremy says. “ … and try not to kill each other.”

“Five months down,” Caitlin assures him.

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METAL POWERMAN 5000

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hen you’re Rob Zombie’s little brother, you have to find your own way in the metal world. And that’s what Michael Cummings (aka Spider One) has tried to do with Powerman 5000. His band creates industrial, sci-fi-influenced metal featuring lyrics about things like mythical creatures and robot violence.

Founded in 1991 in Boston, the five-piece finally made the Top 40 twice with their hits “When Worlds Collide” and “Nobody’s Real” in the late ’90s. Through many member departures and multiple studio albums, Cummings is the lone original member. The band’s newest disc Builder of the Future proves they’re as loud and crazy as ever.

— LAURA JOHNSON Powerman 5000, (hed) PE and Knee High Fox • Sun. Jan. 25, at 7 pm • $22/$25 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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os Angeles’ Haunted Summer has successfully capitalized on the current popularity of dream pop but still has something new to offer to the genre. Husband and wife duo Bridgette Eliza Moody and John Seasons are the group’s mainstays, but they have smartly added other musicians to the mix, taking their music to a bolder, higher level.

The use of clarinet especially enhances and grounds their sound as Moody’s augmented vocals and Seasons’ languid guitar licks add ethereal layers.

— LAURA JOHNSON Haunted Summer, Sea Giant, Crystalline • Fri, Jan. 23, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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Jan. 29 THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Casey Rogers & One Man Trainwreck, Jan. 29 THE HOP!, Ghost Parade, The Body Rampant, the Drag, Jan. 29 SPOKANE ARENA, Eric Church with Halestorm, Jan. 29 KNITTING FACTORY, Trigger Hippy, Jan. 29, 8 pm.

JOHN’S ALLEY, DJ DarkBlood, Jan. 29 SWAXX, Party Favor, Meaux Green, DJ Fresh Direct, Jan. 30 THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Stepbrothers, Jan. 30 DI LUNA’S CAFE, Beth Pederson & Bruce Bishop, Jan. 30 THE HOP!, Skull Fist, Knight of Tears, Mercy Brown, Over Sea Under Stone, Jan. 30 THE BARTLETT, The FInns, Dem Empire, Jan. 30 DARCY’S RESTAURANT & SPIRITS, The Smok’n Wheels, Jan. 30 JOHN’S ALLEY, The Working Poor, Jan. 30 THE HOP!, The Hop’s final show feat. Framework, Blame Shifter, Soblivios, Ironwood, Children of Atom, 37 Street Signs, Jan. 31 THE BARTLETT, Mimicking Birds, Jan. 31 KNITTING FACTORY, G Love & Special Sauce with Matt Costa, Jan. 31 JONES RADIATOR, So Pitted, Loomer, 66Beat, Phlegm Fatale, Jan. 31 SWAXX, Crooked I, Wildcard, Illest Uminati, Demon Assassin, Serious MAK, DJ JT Washington, Jan. 31

CHECKERBOARD BAR, Lost Dogma, Feb. 2 THE BARTLETT, Happiness (feat. memebers of Deer Tick), Von the Baptist, Fun Ladies, Feb. 4 JOHN’S ALLEY, Turkuaz, Feb. 4 THE BIG DIPPER, Turkuaz, Feb. 5 THE BIG DIPPER, KYRS Benefit feat.

Wild Rabbit, Brown’s Mountain Boys, Feb. 6 HEARTWOOD CENTER, Bridges Home CD Release Show, Feb. 6 CHATEAU RIVE, Adrian Legg, Feb. 6 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Foghat, Feb. 6 THE BIG DIPPER, Bullets or Balloons CD release party, Blackwater Prophet, Feb. 7 THE BARTLETT, Kris Orlowski, Hollow Wood, Feb. 7 CHATEAU RIVE, Peter Rivera album release party, Feb. 7 THE BIG DIPPER, Matt Bacnis, Sarah Cameron Band, Feb. 8 KNITTING FACTORY, Sleater-Kinney, Lizzo, Feb. 8 THE BIG DIPPER, The Bob Curnow Big Band, Feb. 9 THE BIG DIPPER, Otep, Feb. 10 THE BARTLETT, Wild Child, Desert Noises, Feb. 10 KNITTING FACTORY, Hellyeah, Devour the Day, Like a Storm, Feb. 10 THE BARTLETT, Elliot Brood, Feb. 11 CHATEAU RIVE, Wylie & the Wild West, Feb. 12 SPOKANE ARENA, Miranda Lambert with Justin Moore, Raelynn, Jukebox Mafia, Feb. 12

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Defending featherweight U.S. champ Tiara Brown, right

SPORTS DUKES UP

Amateur boxing rarely gets to enjoy the spotlight until the Olympics roll around every four years, but in between there are thousands of athletes training and competing just for a shot to represent their country. This weekend in Spokane, 16 of them will earn a trip to the U.S. Olympic Team Trials as they fight at the USA Boxing National Championships. Ten men and six women will culminate a week of preliminary battles in the semifinal and final rounds, with tickets to the Olympic trials and the opportunity to take one more step toward fulfilling their dreams. You might even have a chance to root for a local, as Spokane’s Jillian Erstad is competing on the women’s side; the 25-year-old, a trainer at BoxFit, is coached by local heavyweight slugger Chauncy Welliver.

— DAN NAILEN USA Boxing National Championships (Finals) • Fri, Jan. 23 and Sat, Jan 24; times vary • $15-$40 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com

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VISUAL ARTS A HOMECOMING

CLASSICAL MOVIE MUSIC

Ric Gendron: Rattlebone • Fri, Jan. 23-April 2; reception Fri, Jan. 23, from 5-7 pm, gallery walk-through Fri, Jan. 30, at 10:30 am • Free admission • Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet • gonzaga. edu/jundt

Coeur d’Alene Symphony: Family Fun at the Symphony • Fri, Jan. 23, at 7:30 pm; Sat, Jan. 24, at 2 pm • $16-$27 • Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. • cdasymphony.org • 208-660-2958

Ric Gendron’s vibrant paintings have been on the road for more than two years now, but his 30-year career’s work is coming home.

Gonzaga’s Jundt Art Museum hosts the work of the Spokane artist, a dual member of the Colville and Umatilla tribes, through this spring. Gendron’s expressionist paintings and prints tell the story of his people’s rich heritage in a contemporary style, with common palettes of fiery oranges and cool, cerulean skies splashed with ruby reds and emerald greens.

— CHEY SCOTT

Children can enjoy classical music even more when they’re hearing songs they recognize, whether from a favorite movie, show or even a video game. The Coeur d’Alene Symphony’s next concert is all about film score favorites, including songs from the ubiquitous Disney hit Frozen, to the more time-tested classics of The Hobbit, Mamma Mia! and James Bond. Local youth musicians from the Coeur d’Alene Orchestra join in for a few songs, along with the St. George’s School Chorus. Even better — kids under 18 get in free with each paying adult thanks to a sponsorship of the concert.

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Though the infamously wicked story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde appeared on a Spokane stage just months ago with the Spokane Civic Theatre’s rendition of the script, it’s back for one night, this time in musical format. Adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, the details surrounding the creepy transformation of Dr. Jekyll, a doctor trying to cure his mentally ill father, are easy to forget with time even if you think you remember the story. When things go awry, Jekyll transforms into Hyde, who tromps around Victorian London, leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake. A musical version is sure to play up the emotions of these troubled characters through song, and also the dark allure of one man’s two distinct personalities.

— CHEY SCOTT Jekyll & Hyde • Mon, Jan. 26, at 7:30 pm • $32.50-$45.50 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • ticketswest.com • 279-7000

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BENEFIT

CHEF’S CULINARY CLASSIC 22nd annual black-tie gala benefitting local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, with a dinner prepared by 30 of the region’s top chefs. Also includes a social hour and silent auction. Jan. 24, 6 pm. $175/person. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. cmnspokane.org ROBERT BURNS DINNER & DANCE The St. Andrews Society of the Inland NW celebrates Robert Burns, with a reading of his poetry, traditional haggis ceremony, buffet dinner and more.

Proceeds support the group’s scholarship fund. Jan. 24, 6-10 pm. $45/person.

Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. spokanescots.org (487-1080) “JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR” FUNDRAISER PREVIEW Preview night

performance by the Gonzaga Theatre Arts Department, benefiting Our Place Community Ministries. Jan. 29, 6 pm. $25. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. ourplacespokane.org (326-7267) LIFE SERVICES’ PEACOCK MASQUERADE A semi-formal event, benefiting the programs of Life Services. Inlucdes dining, dancing, a silent auction and more. Ages 18+. Jan. 31, 7 pm. $20. Red Lion at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. (755-0776) PUBLIC INTEREST LAW PROJECT AUCTION 1920s-themed fundraiser gala, including a silent/live auction.

Proceeds support Gonzaga Law students who work at unpaid summer internships serving clients with historically unmet legal needs. Feb. 6, 6-11 pm. $25-$30. Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. law.gonzaga.edu (328-4220)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess UrninG CUrve

My boyfriend of eight months was with his ex for almost five years. Unfortunately, she passed two years ago. I have sympathy for him, but occasionally he’ll call me by her name, and it’s really upsetting. I feel like she’s haunting his brain, and I don’t know how to do an exorcism. How do I take my rightful place in his life?

—Can’t Compete

AMY ALKON

If you’re putting on some skimpy somethings to get your boyfriend in the right mindset in bed, ideally, they aren’t three strategically located “Hello, My Name Is…” stickers.

It’s understandable that you’re feeling bad, but his detours into Wrongnameville probably don’t mean what you suspect they do. Using the wrong name is what memory researchers call a “retrieval error,” describing how an attempt to get some specific item from memory can cause multiple items in the same category to pop up. Basically, your brain sends an elf back into the stacks to get the name to call someone, and he just grabs the first name he spots that’s associated with “girlfriend” and girlfriend-type situations. (Lazy little twerp.) This sort of cognitive error — following a well-worn path (five years of grabbing the late ex’s name) — is more likely when a person is tired or preoccupied. In other words, your boyfriend’s name-swapping may be a sign that he needs to stop multitasking; it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s been taping a cutout of her face over yours in his mind.

There is a solution, and no, it doesn’t involve inventing a time machine so he can go back 20 years and get in the habit of calling all women “babe.” It turns out that a person can get better at retrieving the right name with practice. Cognitive psychologist Gordon Bower explained in Scientific American that the one making the error needs to consistently correct themselves or be corrected and then repeat the right name a few times. It would be best if you correct him teasingly, and perhaps incorporate visual aids like homemade flashcards — ideally of you in various states of undress with your name on them.

Assuming he isn’t trudging around in all black like a Fellini film widow or putting the ex’s urn between you two in bed, it might help to consider how he is when he’s with you: Engaged? Loving? Present? If so, do your best to focus on this — lest you be tempted to go low-blow and tit for tat and start screaming out dead men’s names in bed: “Ooh, Copernicus…Oh, my God, Cicero…I mean, take me, Archimedes!”

Demotion SiCkneSS

My boyfriend just broke up with me but wants to “stay friends” and keep hanging out on those terms. (He says, “My life is much better with you in it.”) I’d like to be friends eventually, but I told him that it’s just too painful and confusing to see him now. He says I’m being dramatic and unreasonable and keeps calling. —Broken This guy’s notion of how a breakup should work is like telling an employee, “Hey, you’re fired, but please feel free to come in a few times a week and do some light janitorial work.”

A breakup is supposed to be an ending, not a “let’s continue as if very little has changed, and I’ll pretend not to notice those big wet mascara stripes down your cheeks.” Research by clinical psychologist David Sbarra confirmed what most of us already know about getting dumped — that contact with your former partner while you’re trying to recover jacks up feelings of love and sadness, setting back your healing. You need time and distance to process and accept the change in your relationship; you can’t just send a memo to your emotions, ordering them to recategorize the guy: “Cut the love. From now on, respond to him like he’s a brick or maybe a lamp.”

It’s wonderful to have a man who insists on standing by you, but not because it’s better for him than respecting your need to go away and lick your wounds. This is not friend behavior. If, despite that, you want him in your life down the road, inform him that for now, you’ve made a “no contact” rule — lasting until you feel ready to see him on different terms. When he (inevitably) tries to break it, politely reiterate it and end the conversation. The sooner he’s out of your daily life the sooner you’ll be open to a new man — dreamy as it would be to spend lazy afternoons at your ex’s place writing him letters of recommendation for prospective girlfriends and Photoshopping your arm out of pictures so he can post them on Tinder. n ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

COMEDY

STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online.

Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com (483-7300) CHOOSE TO LOSE A live comedyimprov show, using audience suggestions. Fridays in January, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. (747-7045) JIM JEFFRIES Live comedy show featuring the Australian comedian. Jan. 23, 8 pm. $39.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com W. KAMAU BELL Live show featuring socio-political comedian, recently named an Ambassador of Racial Justice by the ACLU. Jan. 23, 8 pm. $15. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com HOMEGROWN COMEDY Friends of the Bing present a local comedy open mic series, with the best comedians from the series are to be featured in a “March Madness Comedy Showcase.”

Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at 10:30 pm. Free.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) LIVE COMEDY Live stand-up comedy shows. Sundays at 9 pm. Goodtymes, 9214 E. Mission Ave. (928-1070) OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe St. (835-4177)

COMMUNITY

THE DREAM BEHIND BARS: MLK COMMUNITY CELEBRATION WSU hosts its 28th annual MLK Community Celebration, featuring a keynote presentation by Angela Y. Davis. Doors open at 7 pm. Jan. 22, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public. WSU Compton Union Building, 1500 NE Terrell Mall., Pullman. mlk.wsu.edu #WECANTGOBACK Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho recognizes the anniversary of Roe vs.

Wade and celebrates past, present and future generations of those who work to protect women’s rights. Jan. 22, 5:30-7:30 pm. $10 suggested donation; registration required. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. uuspokane.org (325-6283) SPOKANE VALLEY LIBRARY BOOK SALE Hosted by the Friends of the Library. Pre-sale Fri, Jan. 23, from 3-5 pm ($10 fee). $3 bag sale on Sat, Jan. 24, from 9 am-3 pm. Offering used books, CDs and DVDs. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) USA DANCE SANDPOINT 14TH ANNIVERSARY Community dance, with a salsa lesson from 7-8 pm, with general dancing to follow, from 8-10 pm. Includes refreshments, door prizes, drawings, and mixers. Jan. 24, 7-10 pm. $5-$9.

Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First. usadancesandpoint.org (208-699-0421) SPOKANE FRIENDS OF WOLVES A meeting hosted by the group seeking to raise public awareness of the plight of wolves in Eastern Washington. Jan. 25, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. uuspokane.org (325-6283)

SPOKANE LILAC FESTIVAL CORONATION Coronation ceremony for the 2015 Lilac Festival princesses and queen who will represent the festival for the year. Jan. 25, 3:30 pm. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. spokanelilacfestival.org HOMELESS CONNECT 2015 A community wide, one-stop-shop effort to provide services to those experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless on one day, in one place. Services available include healthcare, housing, clothing, a free meal, pet care, and more. Jan. 27, 10 am-3 pm. Free. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana. salvationarmyspokane.org (325-6810) SPOKANE FOLKLORE CONTRA DANCE Community dance, with River City Ramblers playing, Penn Fix calling.

No partner needed, beginner workshop at 7:15 pm. Jan. 28, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/ members, students; $7/non-members.

Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th Ave. spokanefolklore.org (747-2640) SPOKANE VALLEY COMMUNITY VISIONING MEETING A community meeting to help guide future growth and development in Spokane Valley as part of the update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan. Jan. 28 at 6 pm and Jan. 29 at 7:30 am. Free admission.

CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. lbarlow@ spokanevalley.org (720-5335) KNOW YOUR FARMER, KNOW YOUR FOOD The city of Moscow and University of Idaho Extension host a panel discussion on the social and economic reach farmers have in their communities. Meet farmers from the Moscow Farmers Market and hear their stories. Jan. 29, 6-8 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) 15TH ANNUAL MID WINTER DANCE A Girl Scout-hosted event open to the community, with a country/ cowboy theme. Includes a photo booth, DJ, refreshments, door prizes and giveaways. Jan. 30, 6-9 pm. $12$20/couple. Mead High School, 302 W. Hastings Rd. tinyurl.com/lu9b6be (939-2281) GEM OF THE VALLEY AWARDS An event honoring the Harry E. Nelson Citizen of the Year, chosen by a committee of past recipients. Member businesses, individuals and organizations that serve the community with excellence are also recognized Jan. 31, 5:30-9:30 pm. $55/ person. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. tinyurl.com/lm2jxrb (924-4994) PUPPY BOWL 2015 A pet adoption event featuring adoptable puppies from the Spokane Humane Society, in a Super Bowl-themed event.

Jan. 31, 10 am. Free admission. The Yuppy Puppy, 9511 N. Newport Hwy. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-8221) SUPER BIRD OPEN HOUSE Meet live birds of prey, learn about the Great Backyard Bird Count and how to participate, make a bird feeder, and play bird-themed games. Jan. 31, 10 am-2 pm. $5 suggested donation. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org (340-1028)

FILM

REEL ROCK 9: VALLEY UPRISING A second screening of the outdoor adventure film is hosted. In the Wolff Auditorium (Jepson 114). Jan. 22, 6-8 pm. $10. Gonzaga University, 502

E. Boone. commerce.cashnet.com/ guoutdoors (313-4189) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Jan. 22-25, times vary. $3$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) GHOSTBUSTERS Afternoon screening of the 1984 classic, starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis. (Rated PG) Jan. 24, 2 pm. Free. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main Ave. (444-5336) TOTALLY TUBULAR TUESDAYS The Garland’s classic old-school movie series, every Tuesday at 7 pm. See website for schedule of upcoming films. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL The 10th annual Winter Wildlands Alliance film fest screens nine films; proceeds benefit the Inland Northwest Backcountry Alliance. Jan. 29, 7 pm. $12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE FLY FISHING FILM TOUR A preeminent exhibition of fly fishing cinema, featuring 11 films from around the world. Discount tickets ($13) available at Silverbow Fly Shop, Swede’s Fly Shop, Castaway Fly fishing and Northwest Outfitters. Feb. 3, 7-9:30 pm. $15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. flyfilmtour.com (227-7638) SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SPIFF) SpIFF kicks off on Feb. 5 with the showing of “Living is Easy (with Eyes Closed),” at AMC River Park Square, followed by the SpIFF Opening Reception. Festival events continue through Feb. 15. Prices vary. spokanefilmfestival.org (720-7743)

FOOD & DRINK

SERIOUS SOUPS Learn Chef Curtis Smith’s six secrets to making soup.

Recipes include: secret ingredient chicken noodle, chicken tortilla, Thai chicken and coconut milk. Jan. 22, 6-8 pm. $59. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) VINO WINE TASTING Fri, Jan. 23 event showcases wines from Casanova di Neri of Montalcino, Italy, from 3-7:30 pm ($15). Sat, Jan. 24 is a tasting featuring Cor Cellars, of Washington. Tastings include cheese and crackers. vinowine. com (509-838-1229) Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. (838-1229) WINTER BREWFEST Taste some of this season’s best brews, including exclusive and rare brewery releases. Jan. 23, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd. rocketmarket.com (343-2253) “EAT WHAT YOU DRINK” COCKTAIL DINNER Sante hosts a 7-course cocktail dinner; each course showcases the same flavors and ingredients, both in food and cocktail form. Price includes cocktail pairings. Cocktails to feature OOLA micro-distillery from Seattle, who will be on site to discuss their philosophy.

Reservations required. Jan. 26, 5:30-9 pm. $100/person. Santé, 404 W. Main. santespokane.com (315-4613) THE ART OF ARTISAN BREAD BAKING Create your own artisan breads. Jan. 29, 6-8 pm. $49. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141)

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AFTERNOON RECITAL Friday Musical, 99-year-old champion of music in Spokane, presents a free concert featuring four local artists. Jan. 23, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Rockwood South Hill, 2903 E. 25th Ave. (714-0555) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY Concert themed “Family Fun at the Symphony,” featuring songs from popular movies like “Frozen,” James Bond, Video Games Live, “The Hobbit” and more. The symphony is also joined by members of the CdA Youth Orchestra. Kids under 18 are free with a paid adult. Jan 23 at 7:30 pm, Jan. 24 at 2 pm. $16-$27. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasymphony.org (208-765-4957) DAN FALLER & THE WORKING POOR Americana and country music concert featuring the longtime cover band. Jan. 24, 7:30 pm. $10. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash. (229-3414) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS NO. 5 “Debussy and Mahler” features Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” showcasing Principal Flute Bruce Bodden.

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WSU and U of I students free with ID. Jan. 24, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU, Pullman. washingtonidahosymphony.org AUDITORIUM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: THE JUPITER QUARTET The awardwining Jupiter Quartet is in residence on the Palouse in late January, teaching children and youth from local schools and performing classic works for string quartet by Beethoven, Haydn, and arrangements of works of J.S. Bach

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University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu (208-885-6111) ERIC CHURCH WITH HALESTORM One of the Spokane Arena’s 20th Anniversary “Bucket List” shows. Jan. 29, 7:30 pm. $27/$47/$67. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. (279-7000) BROKEN WHISTLE FEAT. KELLY IRISH DANCERS Album release concert for the local, traditional Celtic music band, featuring a performance by the Kelly Irish Dancers. Jan. 31, 7 pm. $17. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (509-227-7404) MET LIVE: OFFENBACH’S LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production. Live simulcast approx. 3 hrs. 45 min. Jan. 31, 9:55 am. $15-$20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/Met (208-882-4127) SPOKANE SYMPHONY SUPERPOPS NO. 4 “Movie Music Spectacular,” featuring classic film music from “Gone With the Wind,” “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter” and many more. Jan. 31, 8 pm. Prices vary.

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) CLOVER’S JAZZ BRUNCH Clover hosts jazz brunch on the first Sunday of the

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SNOWSHOEING BASICS FOR WOMEN REI share tips on the appropriate selection of gear, and where to go to get started in a class specifically geared toward women interested in trying out the popular winter sport. Jan. 22, 7-8:30 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/ spokane (328-9900) STINKY SNEAKER: UNIVERSITY VS. CENTRAL VALLEY GSL basketball rivalry games; girls at 5:30 and boys at 7:30 pm. Jan. 22. $6. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. (279-7000) USA BOXING NAT’L CHAMPIONSHIPS (PRELIMS) Preliminary bouts for the national championships are at the HUB, with winning athletes in the finals (Northern Quest) representing Team USA in the 2015 Pan American Games. Jan. 19-22. $10. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo. hubsportscenter.org (927-0602) USA BOXING NAT’L CHAMPIONSHIPS (FINALS) Top male and female boxers in the elite division (19-40 years old) battle for a highly coveted national championship. Preliminary rounds at the HUB Sports Complex. Finals Jan. 23-24. Sat.. through Jan. 24. $15-$100.

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (242-7000) SMOKING ACES TOUR Featuring the Ante Up Slopestyle, with men’s and women’s divisions competing to win cash, swag and other prizes. Jan. 24, 8:30 am-5:30 pm. $35-$40. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. facebook.com/ smokngacesfreestyle (208-263-9555) SPOKANE BRAVES HOCKEY Hockey matches; kids are free with each paid adult. $5/adults; $4/seniors and students with ID. Includes a beer garden, chucka-puck and music. Games on Jan. 24-25 and Feb. 1 and 6. Eagles Ice-A-Rena, 6321 N. Addison. spokanebraves.com SPOKANE CHIEFS Hockey match vs. the Tri-City Americans. Jan. 24, 7:05 pm. $10$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Sun from 4:30-7 pm and Wed from 7-10 pm. $6/visit. West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St. (448-5694) SPOKANE CHIEFS Hockey match vs. the Seattle Thunderbirds. Jan. 25, 5:05 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Pingpong club meets Wed from 6:30-9 pm and Sun from 1:30-4:30 pm. $2/visit.

Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. (535-0803) MARSHALL ISLANDS CORAL REEFS Dr. Dean Jacobson, coral ecologist, presents the threats to reef ecosystems in the Marshall Islands from coral mining and rising sea levels. Presented by the Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club. Jan. 26, 7-8 pm. Free. Mountain Gear Corporate Offices, 6021 E. Mansfield. (487-7085) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS Ping-pong club meets Mon and Wed, from 6-9 pm. $3/visit. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. (768-1780) REFRESH YOUR RUN Whether you’re just starting or are getting ‘back on track,’ this class provides training and technique

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THE LAST FIVE YEARS The points of view of a relationship between a writer and an actress played out in this contemporary song-cycle musical. Through Jan. 25, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $17$25. The Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208667-1323) THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS Comedy farce, directed by Patrick Treadway. Through Feb. 8; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $18-$25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) STUDENT DIRECTED ONE ACTS Ferris Theatre Arts presents an evening of oneact plays, directed by senior students.

Jan. 22-23 at 8 pm. $5. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. spokaneschools.org/ ferris (354-60736) THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS Performance of the Pulitzer Prizewinning drama by Paul Zindel. Through Feb. 1; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$14. Ignite Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (795-0004) JEKYLL & HYDE A musical adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.

Jan. 26, 7:30 pm. $32.50-$45.50. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (279-7000) FAST & FURIOUS Stage Left’s second annual staged reading of super-short plays, featuring 40-50 new, one-minute comedies and dramas written by local and national playwrights. Jan. 30-31, at 7:30 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR A musical dramatizing the final days in the life of Jesus, presented with a fresh take using hip-hop style dance. Rated PG13. Jan. 30-Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-7. Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15. Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/theatrearts/ ourproductions (313-6553) A MIDWINTER NIGHT’S GALA Benefiting WSU Performing Arts, the gala begins with a social hour, silent auction and hearty hors d’oeuvres.

Following is a 7:30 pm performance of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” presented by Moscow Art Theatre (Too). Jan. 30, 6:30 pm. $30. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu (335-7447) ORPHANS A psychological story of two orphaned brothers surviving in their rundown North Philadelphia row house.

Jan. 30-Feb. 22; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. In the Firth J. Chew Studio Theatre. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre. com (325-2507) REASONS TO BE PRETTY Performance of the Neil LaBute drama questioning the American obsession with beauty. Jan. 30Feb. 15; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm.

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COUCH POTATO A viewer-participant art installation featuring art videos and films beginning from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, to contemporary artists working today.

Through Feb. 6, open Mon-Fri, from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Some films may not be suitable for all audiences. Free and open to the public. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. sfccfinearts.org/gallery (533-3710) EXPLORATIONS XIV: STUDENT INVITATIONAL A group exhibition featuring the work of art department students, nominated by faculty at area colleges including: Whitworth, Gonzaga, EWU, SFCC and NIC. Artwork on display ranges in media from painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, mixed media, sculpture, installation and video. Artist reception Feb. 6, from 5-8 pm; show runs Jan. 6-March 31. Free admission. Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org/chase (625-6081) HAROLD BALAZS: OLD & NEW A collection of the longtime, renowned Northwest artist’s work, including twodozen newly created works alongside past favorites. Through Feb. 7; gallery open Tues-Sat, from 11 am-6 pm.

Free admission. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave, CdA. theartspiritgallery. com (208-765-6006) THROUGH THE LENS: AN AMERICAN CENTURY — CORBIS & VIVIAN MAIER An exhibit exploring the personal and public uses of photography, featuring some of the most famous images in history, the Corbis Collection, and the most private, the work of Vivian Maier. Through April 3. Gallery open Mon-Sat, hours vary.

Receptions Jan. 22 at 6 pm, featuring a talk by photography professor Dennis DeHart, and Feb. 12, at 6 pm, featuring a screening of the film “Finding Vivian Maier” in the CUB, at 7 pm. Free admission. Museum of Art/WSU, Wilson Rd. museum.wsu.edu (509-335-1910) RIC GENDRON: RATTLEBONE An exhibition surveying the contemporary paintings by the Colville and Umatilla tribes member. The largest exhibition ever assembled of the artist’s work, Rattlebone is supplemented with cultural and contemporary objects from the artist’s family. Jan. 23-April 2. Gallery open Mon-Sat, from 10 am-4 pm. Free.

Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt (313-6843) TWO BY TWO A small-scale ceramic sculpture biennial exhibition, featuring the work of 12 artists from across the U.S. and Canada. Opening reception on Jan. 28, at noon. Exhibit runs through March 13; gallery open Mon-Fri, from 9 am-5 pm. In the EWU Gallery of Art, Bldg. 140, Cheney campus. Free. (359-2494)

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BLURT & BLATHER An all-ages open mic series, on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Open to poetry, stories and other spoken word performances. Free.

Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. facebook.com/blurtnblather (703-7223) NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLING Students and teachers from Salish School of Spokane present traditional Native American stories in Salish and English.

Jan. 22, 3:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley St. (444-5390)

POETRY OPEN MIC No sign-up sheets, censors, or microphones. New poets are especially encouraged to attend. Held on the fourth Thursday of every month.

Free. Monarch Mountain Coffee, 208 N. Fourth Ave, Sandpoint. (208-265-9382) POETS KIM BURWICK & KEVIN GOODAN A reading and discussion by the couple, both professors who reside in Idaho. Jan. 22, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) S.M. HULSE BOOK LAUNCH The Spokane author’s acclaimed debut novel follows former prison guard Wes Carver as he returns to his Montana hometown in the wake of his wife’s death from cancer. Hulse reads from the novel and answers audience questions. Jan. 23, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) AUTHORS TIM & BECKY HATTENBURG Meet the authors of the new true crime story, “Death Ride.” Jan. 24, 1-4 pm.

Hastings, 15312 E. Sprague. (924-0667) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm.

Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-847-1234) CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FEMINIST RESEARCH Associate professor Pete Porter discusses Blackfish (2013), and how filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite exposes the indifference of SeaWorld toward the suffering of captive animals and how this led to preventable harms toward humans. Jan. 29, noon. Free and open to the public. EWU Monroe Hall, 526 Fifth St. (359-6200) I DID THE TIME Hear the real-life experiences of “I Did The Time” leaders and other supporters of Smart Justice Spokane, from addiction, mental illness, and the collateral consequences of conviction records to glimmers of hope for reforming the system. Jan. 29, 3:30 pm. Free and open to the public. EWU Monroe Hall, 526 Fifth. (359-6200) POET TERRY MARTIN The former Spokane poet reads from her highlyanticipated new collection of poetry, “The Light You Find.” Jan. 29, 7 pm. Free.

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Jan. 22-25, times vary. $8 admission.

Spokane County Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokanervshow.com (466-4256) DISNEY JUNIOR LIVE! The “Pirates & Princesses” show features characters from Disney Junior’s series, “Sofia the First” and “Jake and the Never Land Pirates.” Jan. 23, at 4 pm and 7 pm. $20$50. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. (279-7000) LARKIN BARNETT & DR. GREGORY LOEWEN A presentation and discussion with the nationally-known pulmonologist, and Pilates instructor/movement teacher, discussing their work and wellness techniques. Jan. 24, 7 pm. Free.

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I Saw You

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Valley Winco I saw you at the valley Winco on January 8th.

You were loading your car out front, you had long hair and a beautiful smile. You said hi to me and I said hi back. I was just wondering if you would like to have a coffee sometime.

If so you can contact me at heylilworm@gmail.com I hope to hear from you soon.

It seems that you love junk and picking and so do I. Maybe we will run into each other again at the Outlet or you can e-mail me at thriftstorecutie27@ yahoo.com. Tell me what kind of dress I was wearing (one of the week’s it was pretty loud and hard to miss), so I know it’s you.-The Girl In The Pattern Dresses

building at EWU and turned it in! These are the kind of people we need more of! If it is not yours, whether you found it or not, it is not yours! Thank you, again! And the staff at EWU for keeping it safe until I could retrieve it! Thank you!

Yellow Rainboots at River Park Square It’s rare that men catch my eye the way you did. I saw you at the theatre before catching a matinee. You wore a black jacket and were with 2 other guys. Are you single?

Hope so.

More Than Once A Day Yesterday (January 16), I first saw you at Dutch Bros on Nevada and Francis. You ordered a white chocolate mocha, extra sweet. I knew it was actually for you because how sweet you are! Then I had the pleasure of seeing you again at the gas station on Division and Augusta. You

quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of our house. After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there, right where I had left it. It hadn’t moved itself outside. It certainly hadn’t killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had been presented to do so. In fact, it hadn’t even loaded itself. Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the media hype about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people. Either the media is wrong or I’m in possession of the laziest gun in the world.

The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the World. But if you take out only four cities (Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans) the United States is 4th from the bottom for murders. These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the United States. All 4 are controlled by Democrats. It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data right? Well, I’m off to check on my spoons... I hear they are making people fat!

World Market Christmas Eve. We talked at the store about TEA”s for my daughter-in-law, You had on a dark blue jacket, I think its called a Pete/ old style. You had your reading glasses in your hair, 5/6”ish tall, and your hair lte brn shoulder length and I told you I lived up north, Your smile and charm was to me over the top, You are very pretty, I have never been so rattled, thank you for the feeling. You where with a gal wearing a red top and she was driving a silver SUV. Hope We find each other, Contact me.

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Goodwill Hunting I saw you twice at the Goodwill Outlet at the end of December. Once was on a Saturday and once was a Friday the following week (the day after Christmas, in fact). I thought you were cute and we kind of looked at each other both times, but we both never said anything.

I kept wanting to, but then never did. The second time, I think you recognized me, but I wasn’t for sure; I was with some relatives and never got around to saying “hey.” I wish I did now though! You: dark hair, beard, tan skin, green winter coat. Me: brown haired girl with various pattern dresses.

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Put a non-identifying email address in your message, like “petals327@yahoo. com” — not “j.smith@ comcast.net.” were sitting in the car, palmrolling your dreadlocks. Such beauty! I hope you see this and remember who you saw in both places, for I am sure that fate will put us together again soon. I hope you are as interested as I am. I know we would be great together!

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Hello Batman Long week of waiting for a call. You are always on my mind. Put on your cape and come into the Batcave. Such a busy man taking care of the rest of the world. You are very unselfish and those around you are fortunate to have you making sacrifices to ensure their security. I love you. Your Batgirl.

Just Good People Cheers to the random citizen who picked up my wallet in the math

Batman To Batgirl I think that’s what hero’s do. Is to put yourself before others. Sorry the bat cave must be lonely.

May God bless you and your’s one and all now and for ever.

Amen...

Thank You! I would just love to give a big shout out to the mother of my beautiful daughter. It hasn’t always been easy for you, I know, but you have always taken great care of our sweet girl. Through all the good and bad times, you have been there for her.

You drive her over all the time, never asking for gas. I love the way we can get along through all the b.s. that has happen, and show our daughter how parents can, and should get along, even though it didn’t work out between us. The way we are able to still be friends.

D.j. you rock! And thank you so much for all you do, have done, and of course for our wonderful little girl. You’re one hell of a good woman! Thank you again. You’re the best. S.S. Amina You are a beautiful caring mother, and we are all proud of how well you’ve been doing. You are more special than you realize. JAG

Jeers Dangerous Guns Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30.06 right in my doorway. I left 6 shells beside it, then left it alone and went about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street shoveled snow, a girl walked her dog down the street, and

Loneliness I have difficulties with women. It is not just that I am nervous when I try to talk to one for the first time, I just have developed an aversion to most “”types”” of women.

Simply put, I hate people, but I desire someone to spend my time with, to focus my attention and affection upon, and to have someone be able to help me keep my head above water. Tonight has just hit me in the worst way... Stumbled upon my ex’s InstaGram with her new happy life, and then found that a friend I dated a few months back has blocked and ignored me since telling her I was not ready for what she wanted at that point. I will move forward from all of that, with time. I really could use someone to talk to this evening. Not looking for anything beyond

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that. Email would be optimal... rude, and downright stupid (and the staff seemed to be We Want It All As a society unable to convince you to we seem to want it all but shut up...we should’ve called few are willing to pay for it. the police!) Next time, party From the gimmee crowd that hearty at someone’s house, wants the government to pay not a public place where for them from the womb to people go to REST, party the tomb to the rest of us who animals. want it cheaper and cheaper.

Beware of what you ask for, Aaron Rodgers I heard you say because as with the gimmee in the post-game interview crowd that will suffer greatly that the Packers “were the when they run out of other better team”. Really? Didn’t people’s money, the rest of us anyone ever tell you that a will suffer greatly when we run football game has TWO halves out of people and companies and you have to actually play willing to produce quality art, BOTH of them? literature, music and general goods for next to nothing. We Seahawk Haters Seahawks all need to return to the world were lucky?! Didn’t deserve where value is appreciated and to win?! Get real. Seahawks gained more running yards. willingly paid for.

Seahawks gained more Party Animals This is for the passing yards. Seahawks large group of young people had more first downs and who decided they could take had a greater third down over the entire third floor efficiency, greater red zone of the Quality Inn Oakwood efficiency, and greater goalon Sunday night, 1/18, just to-go efficiency. Seahawks because it was an important scored 4 touchdowns versus holiday and they had a big- 1 for the Packers. Packers had ass party going on across the ball twice inside a couple the street at some club (so yards and couldn’t score a they continued it at the hotel touchdown. Seahawks gave when the party was over, the Packers every opportunity apparently). Thanks so much to man up and play some for ruining our sleep that football. It takes skill to pull evening. We really didn’t off a fake field goal. Skill to appreciate it, especially after execute an onsides kick. Skill having been with family at a to score 14 points in the last 5 memorial service all afternoon, minutes of a game. And skill to and while we’re glad you were cover 70 yards in 2 passes for having fun, it was thoughtless, the victory. The Packers were

lucky. Lucky the Seahawks started so slow. Lucky the Seahawks caught some bad breaks regarding turnovers.

Lucky they were spotted 16 points in the first half so that they could go into their, ahem, “victory formation”. Did they forget about the second half Ooopsie. Maybe the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl; maybe they won’t. But for sure, the Seahawks will NEVER quit and there are 30 other teams that’ll be crying in their beer while the Seahawks are on TV on Super Bowl Sunday.

GO SEAHAWKS! Radio Show A major huge jeers to the brain dead unnamed radio station that canceled the Jim Rome show.

What the heck are you people doing over there ? The people who have no one to listen to in the morning now know what I’m talking about. I don’t want to listen to worthless lame Seattle radio in the mornings I want Jim Rome. You said it last month his show would not be removed, and now it is. You worthless liars. How many years was that guy on your station? at least 11. That’s how long I’ve lived in Spokane.

Useless radio station. Spokane do yourself a favor, and something better to listen to.

That radio station makes me sick!

Beware! I saw you December 31st, Central and Washington, Spokane, about 4:00 p.m., still daylight. You, older woman in a SUV; me, an older Native on a bike. You ’S K E E THIS W ! forced me off the road ANSWERS onto sheer ice. Unable to control my bike I went down hard. I appreciate my bike helmet for protecting me from permanent injury. I don’t appreciate your lack of attention and inability to pay attention to all users of our roads. You didn’t stop or even notice what you had done.

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The King’s Speech Rev. Percy “Happy” Watkins: “Free at last!” YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Happy Watkins has delivered King’s “I Have a Dream” speech hundreds of times. But at 73, he’s finally slowing down

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o great applause, Pastor Percy “Happy” Watkins approaches the stage at the Spokane Convention Center in a crisp tan suit. He’s “back by popular demand,” says Freda Gandy, executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center, standing at the podium to greet him.

He walks slower than he used to, clutching a cane in his right hand. He can feel weather in his bones.

On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Pastor Watkins has memorized 599 words of it.

There was a time, not too long ago, when Watkins would recite the speech up to 40 times in a three-week period in January. Since the first time he did it at a luncheon with Gov. Booth Gardner in 1987 — without any notes, as the the audience wept — schools, churches, hospitals and news stations from as far as Los Angeles and Boise have called him every year, requesting his famous rendition.

But at 73, with an aching knee, Watkins has had to start turning requests down. Still, he’s already given

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BY DEANNA PAN the speech nine times since last Wednesday. He’ll do it three times on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, starting at the Convention Center. He’ll do it twice on Tuesday, once on Wednesday and once again on Friday.

“Then I’ll get more calls,” he says. “People call at the last minute.” That’s always been the pastor’s biggest problem, he says: “Not knowing how to say ‘No.’” At the Convention Center, Watkins hands his cane to an attendant. He grips the podium on both sides and leans his weight against it. Before every speech, the pastor whispers a silent prayer. He appeals to the Angels of Memorization that he remember all of the words. He asks God to help him speak clearly and full of passion.

Give me the words, he prays, so they understand.

He’s been preparing for this moment since summer.

He needs to take his mind back to 1954. At his office at New Hope Baptist Church in East Central, he reads his worn, paperback copy of King Remembered by Flip Schulke and Penelope McPhee. He pages through his expansive collection of history books on the civil rights movement.

He reads about the lynchings and the murders in the South; the black World War II soldiers who returned home and couldn’t eat in the same restaurants as the German POWs; Emmett Till, who whistled at a white woman and died for it; the children in Selma who were accosted by police with high-pressure fire hoses that could rip the bark off trees. The stories enrage him. It’s hard not to be bitter.

But King said something that resonated with Watkins: If a man didn’t have a cause for which to die, he wasn’t fit to live.

“I’m standing on the shoulders of the Kings and the other people who dared to dream and dared to take the licks, so people could have a better life,” Watkins says, “and that’s what I want to do.”

On stage, he raises one fist to the sky. His voice trembles and roars while the audience stands and cheers.

Watkins bellows into the mic the final words of Dr. King’s speech: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” 

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