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Spokane’s Steve Gleason is a huge Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam fan; he got to pull the strings at their first Spokane show in two decades.

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Live Nation’s Jeff Trisler Jeff Trisler’s ties to local concert promotion date all the way back to the Spokane Coliseum. Today he’s president of Live Nation Northwest, the largest concert promoter in the region.

“I remember that big, old armory-type building,” Trisler says. “I was really happy when the new Arena opened 20 years ago.

We’ve done some pretty amazing shows there over the years.”

To illustrate his point, Trisler rattles off a number of artists that Live Nation was instrumental in bringing to the Arena: Elton John (multiple times), Tool, Fleetwood Mac, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean.

“It’s because of partners like Jeff that we have the opportunity to be as successful as we can be,” says Arena General Manager Matt Gibson. “He lives this business and gets this market in a big way. The relationships that we’ve created and built on in New York, Seattle, L.A. and Nashville have been instrumental over the last 20 years.”

Trisler remembers the shows well: “The first time we did Elton John there solo acoustic, that one really stands out in my mind. For an artist to sit there by himself at a piano and keep 10,000 people riveted for the three-hour performance — it was an extraordinary evening.

“The Arena is a great building to do shows in,” Trisler adds. “It’s perfectly sized and very well managed.”

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Jamming with Gleason It all began in January of 2013 with the Inlander’s list of New Year’s resolutions for the local music scene. Resolution number two was lofty for Spokane’s mid-sized market, but unequivocal: Bring Pearl Jam to town. The band hadn’t played the city for more than two decades, and their performance was proposed as the start of an ongoing “massive concert experience” each year.

That sparked the ambition of Becca Watters, marketing manager for the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. With a venue like the Arena and Spokane’s proven ability to rally for big-name events, why shouldn’t it be possible? She urged General Manager Matt Gibson to give it a shot.

So Gibson sent an email to the band’s agent, hoping for the best. And the best is just what happened. Their agent thought it was a great idea, too, and it wasn’t long before Pearl Jam was booked for a Nov. 30 concert.

The show turned out to be even bigger than initially planned. Steve Gleason, the Gonzaga Prep, Washington State University and New Orleans Saints star who suffers from and advocates for a cure for ALS, returned to his hometown to join the band onstage. A massive Pearl Jam fan, Gleason even curated the set list, challenging the band by requesting many early and obscure favorites they didn’t normally play.

Another fan came onstage and had his knee-length dreadlocks shaved in return for the band playing “Brain of J.” “Something about that show was magic,” recalls Watters, who was right in the heart of the audience during the show. “It was lightning in a bottle.

The second Eddie Vedder said, ‘We’re finally back in the 509,’ the crowd just exploded.”

Just as that list of New Year’s resolutions had proposed, the concert had a lasting effect.

“That whole experience spawned our Bucket List promotion,” says Watters.

Following the Pearl Jam concert, the Arena has published an annual “wish list” of top-tier acts — a way to tap into fans’ desires that has since brought the Eagles, Tim McGraw, Luke Bryan, Mötley Crüe and Slipknot to Spokane.

NEXT TIME: September is the Arena’s actual birthday month, with lots of events and an open house at the Arena set for September 25th.

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High school hoopers have converged on Spokane for end-of-season tournaments since way before the Spokane Arena was built. In 2007, State B was split into two tiers, and in 2011 the Arena started hosting both the 1B and 2B tournaments. Teams representing Toutle Lake, Friday Harbor, the Lummi Nation and Colfax converge on the Arena every first weekend in March to play for the title.

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aving already assessed the political fortunes of eight Republican presidential hopefuls (“First Four Out,” 7/9/15, and “Corralling the Candidates,” 7/16/15), here is my assessment of four more declared candidates.

Though I don’t pick them to win in 2016, they bring talent, experience and articulation to the race.

CHRIS CHRISTIE was first elected governor of New Jersey in 2009 and was easily reelected in 2013. Controversial and outspoken, Christie pledges to “tell it like it is.” This approach can be refreshing and bold, but the American presidency is nuanced, not subject to brashness in today’s media-mad world. Forcefulness bordering on rudeness may be attractive when a governor expresses it before boisterous town-hall meetings, but it becomes boorish and offensive when a president does so to constituents or the press — even though they might deserve it. The “Bridgegate” fiasco in New Jersey will haunt Christie, even though so far he seems legally untainted by it. He interviews well and makes common-sense policy declarations, but it’s difficult for a blue-state Republican to be attractive nationally. Christie hasn’t glistened in those electoral states necessary for a general election victory.

CARLY FIORINA is the only female Republican candidate. She comes to the presidential race as a former successful Hewlett-Packard CEO and a defeated U.S. Senate candidate in California. But she’s extremely well-spoken, articulating policy positions easily and answering complex questions substantively. Talented, tech-savvy and very wealthy, she offers a contrast to the other male candidates and is especially equipped to challenge the likely Democratic Party nominee, also a female.

Despite her qualifications, Fiorina hasn’t gained broad traction with voters and may not qualify by public support to compete in upcoming national debates — a death blow to her candidacy.

Perhaps she sees herself as a Cabinet-level official to a Republican victor. She’d be a powerful and effective Secretary of Commerce, considering her business background, technological capability and common-sense campaign comportment. In spite of her recent strong debate performance, she may be setting herself up for such an offer.

LINDSEY GRAHAM is a pro-military, pro-America U.S. senator from South Carolina.

One of the cleverest, funniest and most outspoken candidates available, he supports a strong U.S. bolstered by a robust military and is a close colleague of former presidential candidate and Arizona senator John McCain. He’s perceived by some as running to blunt the military and international relations positions of another senator, Rand Paul. Many South Carolinians believe he’s too bipartisan and willing to compromise, though he’s easily been reelected there. The speculation is that Graham is running to secure a

Department of Defense or similar Cabinet post, which he might be offered if a Republican wins in 2016, making his candidacy its own stalking horse for a Cabinet spot. Though perceived as a regional candidate, Graham will remain a popular interviewee, where his humor, intelligence, solution-oriented conservatism and quick wit are attractive.

TED CRUZ is an ambitious U.S. senator from Texas, elected in 2012. Previously a law clerk for former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and a Constitutional law scholar, Cruz, a Hispanic of Cuban descent who has argued cases repeatedly before the U.S. Supreme Court, has been openly and forcefully critical of the court in the aftermath of recent decisions. Cruz is bright, articulate and young (at 44, he’s the same age as Louisiana Governor

“The American presidency requires an amalgam of qualities and traits.”

Bobby Jindal), but he seems to thrive on oneupmanship against congressional leaders and other authority figures. While he may attract conservative voters who are justifiably upset with government in general, he will repel the rest of the electorate, and remain nothing more than an intelligent, outspoken critic. Though he’s raised substantial campaign funds, he will struggle to raise all that’s necessary from a relatively narrow constituency. A populist, but without staying power, he reaches that narrow constituency by being antagonistic, yet not necessarily solutionoriented. American voters now desire a president who can demonstrate competence, honesty, a coherent worldview and effectiveness working with Congress.

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ne would expect that of the 12 candidates profiled so far, one would emerge as a common choice, without obvious detriments. But the American presidency requires an amalgam of qualities and traits — sensitivity, honesty, experience, judgment, demonstrated competence and intelligence.

To win the White House in 2016, the candidate at the top of the Republican ticket must have a philosophy of governing that will attract those swing voters who voted for the incumbent president in 2008 and 2012. Watch for my column Sept. 10 for my take on the five remaining candidates — Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker. n

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The Sanders Surge

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s the Republican Party seems bent on alienating the final key electoral demographic outside of white men by pledging to cut federal women’s health funding and by rewarding the misogynist Donald Trump with surging poll numbers, Hillary Clinton is content to keep quiet.

The election is more than a year away, after all, and the GOP is making a great case for her.

But wait, there’s an annoying little fly buzzing around — so small, Clinton doesn’t want to even swat at it. But there it is again, and something’s funny about that fly — it has wild, white hair… Wait, is that… Bernie Sanders?

Yes, as Clinton has kept a low profile, the Vermont senator has been attracting huge crowds. This past weekend, he drew 19,000 to Portland’s Rose Garden and 15,000 at UW’s Hec Ed in Seattle. Of course, with the Megyn Kelly/Donald Trump drama, mainstream media didn’t say much about it.

What can be made of the Sanders Surge? Perhaps it’s Clinton fatigue: Doesn’t it seem like Hillary Clinton has been running for president, like, forever? America likes the shiny and new, for sure, but even that can’t explain Sanders — after all, he looks more like a Founding Father than a polished, prototypical modern candidate.

And maybe that’s it — he’s a grandfather figure. Like Ron Paul in 2012, young people in particular are flocking to Sanders. Paul was 75 when he ran for president in 2012; Sanders is 73. That comforting, wise vibe can be quite powerful. Ronald Reagan rode that same kind of charm to victory, and he was nearly 70 when he first moved into the White House — the oldest president in American history.

Perhaps it’s what Sanders is preaching against — income inequality, the very thing that skewered Mitt Romney in 2012. Most Americans have watched the gulf between the rich and the middle class only grow during Obama’s second term. Sanders also means business on climate change. So it could be that the oldest candidate speaks to the youngest voters because they watch the embarrassment that is our presidential election and see no future in it.

With the GOP doubling down on the same mistakes it made in 2012, Clinton might find that her toughest challenge will be Bernie Sanders. Also keep in mind that Sanders is not even a Democrat: He’s an independent who only caucuses with the Democrats. Today, 42 percent of Americans identify as independent — the highest ever, and higher than either political party.

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COMMENT | COMMUNITY my mother was able to maintain her composure and sweet nature.

I experienced my own racism for the first time in third grade, in a school where I had just started because I moved to another foster home. There was a girl who was a bully to many people, but especially to me. She called me a stupid Indian, dirty Indian and greasy Eskimo, and she called my mom a “loser.” She told me that I couldn’t do cursive, and that I was never going to be good at math, and that I was never going to go home again. This defined me and helped me to deeply understand hate based on race.

I learned to walk this earth with a fierce determination to be proud of my mother and our heritage. Deeply understanding who I was helped me figure out the chaos

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y mother is the strongest person I know. She has been able to live a life fraught with pain, abuse and mental health issues, all while maintaining a sweet smile on her face.

She is also the most compassionate and understanding human I have ever met. And the way she has dealt with the racism in Spokane is a credit to both her strength of character and the compassion she so freely shares.

For as long as I can remember, my beautiful Inupiaq mother was invisible to the world, sometimes despised,

many times pitied. People would run over her with their grocery carts, cashiers would throw money on the counter so they didn’t have to touch her, and other times I would hear people tell her that she was a stupid Indian.

Of course, my mother was never that, and through quiet dignity she kept right on smiling and reaching her hand out in friendship to those who are rich, those who are non-native, those who look completely different than her and even those who despised her. But as her daughter, those harsh words and actions have become a part of my makeup as a human being. I learned we are to be ignored, hushed, unseen. I also learned that we Inupiaqs are strong and unaffected by the fear and hate, because

and uncertainty of my childhood. It helped me to be adaptive and resilient. I learned to be true to me, at the same time helping me appreciate how other people walk this earth. I love people’s differences, the quirks, the cultural norms that are drastically different than mine.

I honor the differences in worldviews and perspectives, the similarity of spiritual connectivity, the parallel of our paths, and that can lead to a deeper and stronger connection with each other.

Celebrating and embracing diversity of others means we celebrate our authentic selves. I’m not saying we have to be “Kumbaya” and hold each other’s hands, or that we have to always agree with each other, but I am saying that we must start to deeply understand our own unique cultural experience to appreciate the cultural experiences of others.

Sounds so easy, doesn’t it? It requires work and honesty. It requires research and an open mind. If we spent time understanding each other’s differences, respecting them, embracing them, we will spend a lot less time fighting over things that don’t matter as much as we thought. And just maybe, we could be like my mom, with the strength and compassion to offer true friendship to anyone who crosses her path, from whatever direction they come. n Tara Dowd, an enrolled Inupiaq Eskimo, was born into poverty and is a survivor of the child welfare system. She now owns a diversity consulting business and is an advocate for systemic equity and a believer in justice as a force that makes communities better.

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Reactions to “Gnarly Nostalgia,” (8/6/15) on the city of Spokane’s recent demolition of the skate park under I-90.

RITA GIBSON: So now instead of skaters and homeless people, this underpass will just have homeless people. Improvement… yeah.

JEREMY THORNTON: There are basketball courts, baseball diamonds, football and soccer fields all over the city. Yet skateboarders and disc golfers get a couple spots; that means you have to ride the bus or drive a car to play your sport. It’s time that the city parks started building more for these fast-growing sports!

MAHALA COLLINS: Anything under a bridge usually brings criminal activity... just like an alley. Bad place to make a skatepark.

KYLE RICHARDSON: My nephew stopped skating there because he didn’t feel safe. Its new location will hopefully be more open and less isolated so everyone feels safe to use it.

MANDY FROST: Uh, there’s lots of places to skate. Besides that was a dangerous place. I hope the city follows through with the rebuild of a new one.

KIM MILLER: They got rid of the skatepark because the tweakers had taken over. Now that it’s gone so are the skaters... and the tweakers are still there. I just seriously don’t understand who thought that getting rid of the ramps and rails would make that place safer, because it’s the exact opposite. There may be other places to skate, but that’s not the whole point. The point is that another (what should be) positive place was taken away with false pretenses. If you expect kids to be active, healthy, social, creative, etc., then don’t tear down a place that encourages that. PROTECT IT. DAVID UHLENKOTT: People are bummed it’s gone, I understand that. But honestly, worst skate park ever made! Most was unrideable.

The amazing thing about it is what people actually figured out what to do on such a terribly built park! I’m glad it’s gone, it was an embarrassment, to be honest.

CAROL SONTAG: I work across the street from there and the police are there every night so whoever said the police aren’t there is incorrect.

PAULA KELLER: They could get jobs, take some classes, or ride their skateboards on the way to help an elderly neighbor pull weeds. There’s lots to do if you go look. 

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n the Spokane Tribe’s administration building in Wellpinit, portraits of past tribal councilmembers hang from the wall. Almost all have one thing in common: They are men.

But one prominently displayed portrait at the end of the hallway stands out. This portrait is of Carol Evans, a soft-spoken 59-year-old, who in July was elected by her other councilmembers. Her ascendance is so novel that tribal members still refer to her as “chairman.”

“All the attention is a little bit scary,” says Evans, who long worked in the background as the tribe’s financial officer.

Evans’ election as chair is a milestone for the tribe, but part of her job concerns rectifying the past, when the tribe looked to uranium beneath the ground for eco-

nomic stability.

Now Evans and others are hoping that a long soughtafter cleanup of the Midnite Mine is within reach. But even if cleanup begins soon, the mine will continue to haunt the land and its people.

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andy Connolly, the Spokane Tribe’s Superfund coordinator, wheels his Jeep onto a side road outside of Wellpinit. Underneath the layer of gravel and pavement, he says, is a layer of toxic uranium ore that was originally used to line the road. Further up the road is a fence topped with barbed wire, designed to keep out animals as well as people who would wander in and unwittingly steal radioactive rocks.

Beyond the fence is a 350-acre scar consisting of

33 million tons of waste rock and ore, along with pits that run as deep as 500 feet, filled with blue and green wastewater.

“It’s always been hazardous,” drawls Connolly, gazing at the sight resignedly.

The atomic age came to the Spokane Tribe in the spring of 1954, when brothers John and James LeBret discovered fluorescent uranium minerals in the mountains outside of Wellpinit using an ultraviolet light and a Geiger counter. The discovery led to a partnership between the LaBrets and other members of the Carol Evans, the first-ever tribe, with the Dawn Minfemale chair of the Spokane ing Company acquiring Tribal Council. JAKE THOMAS PHOTO control of the property.

The mine opened up shortly afterward, providing uranium for the government and energy industry.

Lois Stratton, a former Spokane city councilwoman and state legislator who grew up on the reservation, remembers the mine being a source of jobs in the economi...continued on next page

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“GROUND BREAKING,” CONTINUED... cally depressed area. She recalls people fixing up their houses and buying cars, sometimes their first. Someone even bought a Cadillac.

After the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania partially melted down in 1979, the nation’s appetite for uranium withered. The mine closed in 1981, but its effects lingered.

“Every time you pick up the paper and see that someone has died on the reservation, it’s always cancer,” says Stratton.

The site drains into nearby Blue Creek. Tribal members are advised not to drink from it, eat fish caught from it or gather plants nearby. The creek runs into the Spokane River, a tributary of the Columbia River.

“It may appear to be a remote issue in northeastern Washington,” says Mary Verner, a former Spokane mayor who served as the tribe’s director of natural resources. “But it’s a regional issue.”

Warren Seyler, a former tribal councilmember, worked at the mine to help pay for college.

He remembers wearing a button that would change colors, indicating that its wearer had been exposed to too much radiation and needed to stop working.

But most ignored the warning and kept working, hoping to take home a bigger check.

Many also took dust-covered clothing home to their families. “[They thought] this is my job, and I’m putting food on the table,” he says.

Verner says that it wasn’t until about a decade after its closing that the tribe realized how bad the mine was. After years of incremental regulations, mandates, negotiations and litigation, the federal government reached a settlement with Dawn Mining Company, LLC, and its corporate parent Newmont USA Ltd. (which didn’t respond to a request for comment) under which both companies agreed to pay up to $193 million for the cleanup.

“The legacy of this mine has been an open, gaping wound on the landscape and series of

broken promises for the Spokane Tribe,” says Verner.

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arol Evans says her father didn’t talk much about his day in the mine when he came home. She played with her siblings.

He went out to tend cattle, and no one thought much about it. But he later fell ill, says Evans.

She doesn’t remember the name of the illness, but it was from the mine, and he qualified for compensation under a federal program.

“I think back to the employees working,” says Evans. “They didn’t know then what they know now, so you definitely have fathers and grandfathers that had diseases that were most likely caused by working in those places.”

Evans was the second oldest of seven children. She grew up gathering camas, bitterroot and huckleberries. She ate venison and other wild game. She attended powwows, wakes and gatherings. She learned Salish songs and how to make beaded buckskin dresses and moccasins.

She visited tribal elders and was taught to always shake their hands and listen to them.

When she was 14, she was crowned Miss Spokane and went with Alex Sherwood, a tribal councilmember she looked up to, to Seattle where she christened the MV Spokane ferry.

While attending a tribal gathering, she recalls hearing the tribe’s financial officer speak and came to a realization.

“I just decided then that I was going to have that gentleman’s job someday,” she says.

But her plans were derailed. She dropped out of Eastern Washington University, then moved to Tacoma and developed a drinking problem.

In 1977, she married artist Terry Evans and moved back to Wellpinit the next year. When she became became pregnant with the first of her four children, she gave up drinking for good.

She completed her degree and became the chief financial officer for the tribe.

In 1983, her mother, Pauline Stearns, became

An aerial view of the now closed Midnite Mine on the Spokane Reservation. The EPA designed the mine a Superfund site. The companies that owned and operated it have been ordered to clean it up.

the first woman elected to the council. Evans says she brought the perspective of a traditional Spokane woman – the caretaker, the lifegiver – to the council. Thirty years later, Evans followed in her footsteps.

Those who’ve worked with her described her as industrious, committed to her tribe and diplomatic enough to overcome schisms on the council.

“I think it’s just fate that aligned to give her this opportunity,” says Seyler.

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hile serving as vice-chair of the council, Evans helped negotiate some of the final details of the cleanup plan, which was submitted July 16 and awaits final approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The cleanup, which could take a decade to complete, could begin next year.

Regardless, the reservation will never be the same.

Twa-le Swan, a tribal member and activist with the Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, and Land Society, a grassroots advocacy group long active on mine-related issues, is concerned about the cleanup plan. She says the open pits will be partially filled with topsoil to prevent radon from escaping, which will require clearcutting surrounding trees and will make the footprint of the mine larger.

“They’ve done enough damage,” she says. “It’s just a big, huge scar, and it’s getting bigger.”

The agreement also requires the companies to build a new water treatment facility to clean any nearby water to the tribe’s stringent water quality standards before it is discharged into the Spokane River. Meeting the standards will be hard enough, but this facility will need to operate in perpetuity, a prospect that concerns Verner and others. She says that questions of who’s responsible for funding and maintaining the facility will inevitably arise.

“The commitment to a perpetual solution is committing to do something and then walking away,” says Verner.

The cleanup could be further stalled, according to Verner, who notes that every major development required a trip to Washington, D.C., to convince the federal government to move forward.

Getting the cleanup finished, says Evans, will require diligence.

“The cleanup needs to happen,” says Evans. “We need to stop the leakage and the contamination.” n

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FIRE ON THE TRAIL | An adult male wearing a black hoodie lit a small FIRE ON THE CENTENNIAL TRAIL near the Inlander’s offices last week. No one was hurt and no buildings burned down, but the Inlander snapped some photos of the fire that spread to trees and came perilously close to a picnic table. The fire department had to drive its trucks out on the trail and a firefighter extinguished the blaze.

According to Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer, the department suspects the blaze was intentionally set. (JAKE THOMAS)

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JAILHOUSE DEATHS | A report released by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that SUICIDE accounts for 34 percent of all deaths in local jails. That’s a rate of 46 suicides per 100,000 inmates, which represents a 12 percent increase since 2009. Suicide has been the leading cause of death in jails since 2000, the report says. Comparatively, state prison suicides accounted for only 9 percent of total prison deaths. Why the huge difference between local jails and state prisons? Part of the reason is that when a person arrives at a jail, they often have just come off the street — possibly with drugs or alcohol still in their systems or with untreated mental health issues. Individuals sent to prison, however, are generally more stable, acclimated, diagnosed and medicated. (MITCH RYALS)

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sovereignty and authority over issues that affect” Idaho and its citizens.

The problem is that with recent losses, the Constitutional Defense Fund has now been whittled down to under $300,000.

“We need to get the legislature to approve an additional appropriation to replenish that fund,” says Gov. Butch Otter’s spokesman Jon Hanian. “That won’t happen until January.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

Results from Spokane’s primary election; plus, Idaho’s mounting legal costs COUNTED UP

It’s official. CITY COUNCILMAN MIKE FAGAN will face RANDY RAMOS in November. An earlier count of votes cast in last week’s Aug. 4 primary had left the race for the District 1 city council seat in limbo, with Ben Krauss, a city crime analyst, one vote ahead of Ramos, a recruiter with the Spokane Tribal College.

But a later count put Ramos ahead of Krauss by 26 votes. Fagan finished with 49 percent of the 2,931 votes counted.

The results are surprising given that Krauss raised no money for his bid and had effectively quit campaigning. Ramos had the endorsements of Spokane County Democrats, Fuse Washington and other left-leaning organizations. His fundraising totals also rivaled those of Fagan, the most conservative and controversial member of Spokane City Council who caused a backlash with his views on vaccines and immigrants.

But in recent weeks, revelations emerged that Ramos had been charged with drunk driving in 2009 and he didn’t vote until April of this year. (JAKE THOMAS)

LOSING STREAK

Sometimes, fighting for a losing cause is heroic, even noble. But in the court of law, that gets very expensive very fast. Idaho’s LOSS IN THREE MAJOR

COURT CASES has cost the state $900,000 in costs and attorney fees, nearly bleeding their Constitutional Defense Fund dry.

In one case, Idaho prosecuted a woman for obtaining abortive drugs over the Internet, and she successfully challenged several of Idaho’s anti-abortion laws. In one case, four couples sued to overturn Idaho’s ban on gay marriage. And in the final case, the ACLU sued over the eviction of Occupy Boise protesters across from the state capitol. Their eviction, it turned out, was unconstitutional.

And that doesn’t even include the recent case overturning, on First Amendment grounds, a law punishing undercover animal rights activists.

“In each of these lawsuits… the attorney general is obligated to defend those laws,” says Idaho attorney general’s office spokesman Todd Dvorak.

In other words, if the laws were indeed unconstitutional, it’s the legislature’s fault for writing them and the governor’s fault for signing them.

The state’s Constitutional Defense Fund had been set up back in 1995, when the Idaho state government was clashing with the federal government on issues like the reintroduction of wolves. It was a way to fund cases that dealt with “restoring, maintaining and advancing the

IN THE LINE

Spokane police officers shot and KILLED A MAN suspected of stealing a car after he fired at officers in north Spokane last weekend.

The man, who has not yet been identified pending an autopsy, was suspected of a recent auto theft, police say.

Officers spotted him the morning of Aug. 8, and tailed him to 616 E. Sanson Ave. The man fired at officers from inside the home, according to police, shortly before walking out the front door, still firing. Officers returned fire, hitting the man. Paramedics performed CPR until an ambulance took him to a hospital. He later died there of his injuries.

The previous person killed by Spokane police was Jeremy Arnold in April of 2014, according to news reports. Arnold drove into a crime scene as officers investigated the death of a woman he was suspected of stabbing. Officers shot and killed Arnold as he got out of his truck with what police said was a gun in his hand.

The man killed Aug. 8 was a 20-time convict who had a federal warrant for his arrest, Chief Frank Straub said after the hourlong standoff.

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NOTABLE NAMES: John Kitzhaber, Oregon’s governor from 1995-2003, and again from 2011-15, recently in the news for resigning amid a corruption scandal.

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This town strives to get past a reputation as Pullman’s little brother

BY MATTHEW SALZANO

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ou’ve probably heard of this place by its alternate name: “that speed trap on the way down to Washington State.” That’s Colfax, known for its Main Street that bears a 25 mph speed limit. Its residents, however, want it to be known as a helpful, caring and tight-knit community that is proud of its slower pace — and think everyone should slow down all the way to a stop and check it out.

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olfax High School isn’t the flashiest of community cornerstones — if you blink while descending Highway 195 into town, you’ll miss it — but this school of roughly 300 students is what many residents describe as the town center.

“Everything that we are about, aside from farming, is school functions,” says special education teacher Jennifer Cooper, also a CHS alum.

For the greater community, CHS provides events to attend — namely, its high-level sports.

The volleyball team, led by coach Sue Doering, has won

seven state championships in the past 10 years. Rarely is a home basketball game not filled to capacity with fans of all ages.

“The community supports the school and the kids,” says Ross Swan, who is beginning his 18th year teaching social studies at CHS. It’s not just about sports, however; the community comes together for every activity. “We have parents who care about stuff, too, and even when their kids graduate, they’ll come back and support the sports, or the musical, or the band concerts.”

Swan once purchased a pair of shoes that didn’t fit him.

When Cooper happened to tell him about a student whose foot was coming through the sole in his shoe, Swan asked, “Well, what size does he wear?”

That student left with a brand-new pair of shoes.

“A lot of teachers would do things like that,” Swan says humbly. “Some kid will need a pair of shoes, and some teacher will provide it for them. Some kid will need a coat, we’ll find

Steve Warwick, owner of Fonks Coffeehouse a coat for ’em. We’ve got a lot of teachers who are very empathetic and see themselves as servants for students.”

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ayor Gary “Todd” Vanek is trying to make Colfax a more fiscally manageable place where travelers want to stop and inhabitants want to stay.

His goal: improving the city’s tax base by gradually growing the town and encouraging more tourism in order to balance the perception of less opportunity for money from the state, paired with growing costs of operation. In his first term, he’s begun initial steps, like reworking the Colfax Chamber of Commerce, to make these dreams reality.

The first opportunity is a block from city hall. Between 5,000 and 10,000 cars drive through Colfax on Highway 195 every day. Many drivers are shocked when their 60-mph cruise control gets turned off due to slow traffic, a stoplight or law enforcement.

The mayor plans to embrace this speed trap in a way he says he didn’t see in previous administrations. “Instead of getting pulled over, stop and get a cup of coffee, stop and get your gas,” he says. “Why not play off that idea?”

As for transplants, Vanek explains it’s a matter of having businesses appealing enough to keep money in a town which was long considered a bedroom community for

nearby Pullman.

“That’s how people acted: ‘Go to work, shop in Pullman, get everything we need, then we’ll come home, watch TV and go to bed.’ We want to change that a little bit to get people to hang out here,” Vanek says.

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onks Coffeehouse is a classic, family-owned shop. Patriarch and owner Steve Warwick spreads his time across several Inland Northwest small businesses.

His wife, Deb, enjoys updating the décor. Their daughter-inlaw Amy is the manager.

The coffeehouse hides a secret that isn’t perceptible at first glance. The café side of Fonks once was a 5-and10-cent store, while the back serves as a warehouse for TeamStores.com, the Warwicks’ college sports apparel business.

Steve says Fonks is an example of how small-town communities make choices to keep the town from being a collection of decaying buildings.

“The fathers in town just didn’t want the front of the buildings boarded up, looking like an Internet warehouse. So we said, ‘Let’s put a coffeehouse in,’” Steve says. “The more we read about it online, it’s a place for people to meet and talk, and do community things and meet people. That’s why we did it, and it worked out well.” 

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KELLOGG POPULATION: 2,120 in the 2010 census ON THE MAP: 37 miles east of Coeur d’Alene ANNUAL EVENT: Silverhoops 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, July 25-26 (in 2015). Just completing its 22nd season, the event hosted 121 teams this year, its largest ever participation.

NOTABLE NAME: Noah Kellogg, prospector who founded the town in 1885

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The town motto: “Founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants.”

OF MOUNTAINS AND MINES The Silver Valley town is a place of refuge and beauty for many of its residents

BY LAURA JOHNSON

t was Noah Kellogg’s donkey that alerted the prospector to a mountain outcropping of galena, a lead ore often containing silver. This miraculous moment would attract a rough-andtumble-type crowd to dig up and refine the resources below. What this visually stunning Silver Valley town is today — through mining ups and downs, population decline and industry changes — is just as the town motto cheekily states: “Founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants.”

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he kid can’t handle it. He’s on the moving chair for mere seconds before charging down the platform as fast as his preschool-aged legs will carry him. Running away from this ski lift, away from his already seated father and slightly older brother. The Silver Mountain Resort chairlift must continue its trip to the bottom of the dusty run without him.

“I’ll keep an eye on him,” lift operator John Jupin calls out, reassuring the leftbehind riders.

In the summers, the resort, renamed in 1990, makes way for dirt-bike enthusiasts and tourists intrigued by taking one of the world’s longest single-cabin gondola rides to the top of Kellogg Peak.

Last winter, the resort limped through the lackluster season, snow machines making what Mother Nature could not.

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air. The 24-year-old says he works nearly every day without respite so that when winter finally comes, he can justify his many snowboarding runs among the pine trees.

When he first arrived in Kellogg five years ago from South Carolina, he didn’t know how to snowboard or ski at all, but he kept that quiet, fearing he’d lose the job he’d somehow nabbed. His boss soon forced him onto a board. Now, Jupin says he lives to snowboard.

“I’m not no bigwig up here,” Jupin says. “I just enjoy the perks of what I do.”

Jupin slows the chairs down slightly as the father and child come into view.

They run off the lift down to the patch of grass where the youngest has taken refuge. The dad kneels down in front of his boy and wraps his arms around him.

“You’re here,” he says.

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omorrow is her birthday. So tonight at the moderately busy Longshot Saloon, one of Kellogg’s oldest buildings, June “Shawnee” Christmann is eating an entire plate of red enchiladas in preparation for a day of drinking ahead.

“They tell me I’m too skinny,” says Christmann, who, at nearly 63, confesses she barely clears the 100-pound mark.

This is Christmann’s bar. She doesn’t own the joint. She’s just been a loyal patron and dart player for 40 years. She says that more people in town need to care about its history, as her husband did.

“Bruce used to drive us around and show us what places used to be,” says Christmann of her miner husband, who

passed away from cancer in 1996. When he died, she says his co-workers, the men who were gruff because they had to be, cried. They took care of her and her three kids.

“Hey Justin, did you know this place used to be a whorehouse?” she asks the young-looking barman. He nods in recognition.

“I’m damn proud of my town,” Christmann says. “I love to come down here to the people I love.”

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eople still do rent DVDs,” says Box Office Entertainment owner Eric Howell. Especially in Kellogg during the “eight months of winter” or if the heat is too oppressive, as it has been in recent weeks. It’s $3 for one-day new movies, $1 for three-day rentals.

Those entering Howell’s somewhat cluttered store are in for a whole lot more than a fascinating selection of DVDs and Blu-rays to rent (he sorts the Girls Gone Wild films in the comedy section). You’ll find the self-proclaimed biggest movie geek in Idaho, a folklorist and one-time movie extra (Dante’s Peak) in the 39-yearold Howell.

“I tried staying away from the Internet as long as I could and stay with the way things were before,” he says, showing off a new tablet. “I suppose that’s what I’m still doing with this store.”

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entury-old mining photos line the rose-wallpapered walls, depicting dirty young men whose beards,

suspenders and wide-brim hats wouldn’t look out of place in a craft cocktail bar. Today, volunteer Colleen Braun is holding down the fort at the Shoshone County Mining & Smelting Museum, aka the Staff House Museum, home to historical photos, gemstones and a need to preserve mining artifacts.

The last Kellogg mine closed in 2001, but there are rumblings that Bunker Hill Mine, closed in the 1980s, is opening once more. It’s a work in progress.

“It would be great to start the mines again because the minerals are there,” says Braun, whose late husband was a geologist for Bunker Hill. That’s not to say feelings aren’t conflicted.

She’s lived in the same house for 45 years and says she’s glad she never had to leave the area. But she remembers the dark air, gray river water and dead grass.

“It was just something you lived with,” she recalls. “You had to be smart; you just didn’t let your kids outside at certain times.”

At his post for nearly 20 years, Mayor Mac Pooler says it’s a lot more complicated than someone coming in and reopening the mine.

Once it was shut down and the government designated the polluted valley a Superfund site, the earth has had time to heal.

“It’s a lot prettier and it’s a better place to live, but is that that better than having all of those jobs? I can’t exactly answer that,” Pooler says. “But the way it was going before certainly wasn’t the answer.” 

ODESSA POPULATION: 910 in the 2010 census ON THE MAP: 30 miles northwest of Ritzville ANNUAL EVENT: Deutschesfest, an annual three-day celebration of the town’s German heritage, held this year Sept. 18-20.

The Great Northern Railway brought some of the town’s first settlers.

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NOTABLE NAME: George W. Finney, early homesteader and founder of Odessa

Talking coffee, German heritage and civic pride among golden fields

BY JAKE THOMAS

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dessa is not quite a square mile full of 900 people, resting like an island in the sea of golden grains carpeting Lincoln County.

It’s a farming town with no stoplights, where people wave to each other while passing in their dust-covered pickups. It’s a town where men wear short, tidy haircuts and give firm handshakes. It’s a town of forearms tanned from the harvest sun.

It’s a town whose roots span continents, where people spend their free time volunteering on boards and civic groups, all attempting to pull Odessa from a fate that’s befallen small towns everywhere.

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dessa is a town that begins, for some, with a cup of coffee and sausage sandwich at Chiefs Bar and Grill.

This morning at Chiefs, there are eight coffee drinkers at one table, mostly retired or near retired. In the center of the table is a trimming of purslane, an edible weed that grows locally.

“They had a recipe on how to eat the weeds,” says one coffee drinker. “It was in the paper.”

“He said it’s not much flavor,” says another coffee drinker of someone she knows who tried it.

“Maybe he should cook it with bacon,” chimes in another coffee drinker.

“Everything is better with bacon.”

Another coffee drinker changes the topic to a recent fishing trip, where something, a trout or maybe a salmon, snagged his line.

“I had no idea what it was,” he says.

Whatever it was, it was big.

“It could have been a rubber boot,” someone says.

The waitress is busy, so Doug Plinski, who’s winding down an eight-year stint as mayor, grabs the pot of coffee and pours refills.

“Doug never pours coffee,” says one of the guys.

“Maybe it’s re-election time,” teases another.

Coffee poured, he sits down with the others to roll dice to determine who will pay the bill (Plinski ends up paying).

“I still question why I came,” says Plinski, an upbeat 63-year-old who moved here in 1983 when Avista relocated him from Colville. “But what I lost in mountains and aesthetics, I gained in community.”

Odessa’s downtown is peppered with closed businesses, like the Rolling Thunder Saloon or the Odessa Inn Family Restaurant. But Odessa, says Plinski, is doing relatively well, pointing to assets other small towns lack. There’s a pool and a hospital, which residents support with levies even though it runs in the red, caring primarily for older residents. There’s also a K-12 school district, which residents also support with levies. Its most recent class of 15 graduating seniors landed $354,000 in college scholarships.

Plinski says that the town stays together through people volunteering, serving on multiple boards and organizations. The Lions Club built and maintains a bathroom in the park, among other projects. A group called Friends of the

Pool holds fundraisers and helps maintain the town-owned pool, allowing it to stay open.

“You’d go crazy if you weren’t involved,” he says of life in Odessa.

As agriculture consolidates, the town’s youth are squeezed out of farming, unable or uninterested in paying $250,000 for a combine. To stay viable economically, the town hopes to get a little bit bigger (but not too big), seeking to attract biofuel companies or even Internet-based businesses.

Plinski predicts that Odessa will become a bedroom community for Moses Lake, drawing workers to Odessa’s brand that’s been developed by town leaders: Kids can ride bikes to the pool and get a quality education. Quiet. Safe. No hustle.

No bustle. The backdrop of a 1950s TV show.

“Ghost town USA is all over the country,” says Plinski. That fate is what Odessa hopes to avoid.

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dessa has its origins in the late 1800s, when the Great Northern Railway was completed. Ethnic Germans living in Russia, seeking free land and an escape from the repressive czarist government, started settling in the area.

When people die in Odessa, many donate some of their defining possessions to the Odessa Historisches Museum.

The museum is full of objects dating back to the town’s founding: an ancient scythe, reapers, early tractors, a 100-yearold German Bible, smoking pipes, cars

with “horseless wagon” plates, tools from a decades-old dentist’s office, black powder firearms, a lithograph press left by a former owner of the Odessa Record and many other relics.

The town has celebrated its history each September for the past 44 years with Deutschesfest, a three-day event that sometimes attracts tens of thousands of people who gorge on locally made sausage, strudel and kraut ranza, and drink kegs and kegs of beer. It’s a unifying event. Nearly every resident pitches in. Some are even motivated to mow their lawns.

“It’s all part of the German heritage,” says local farmer Clark Kagele of the town’s ethos. “You just all get together and do it.”

Since 1976, Kagele has played trumpet or drums in the Oom Pa’s and Ma’s, a band of lederhosen-clad locals who have played the festival every year. The band’s motto: “If it’s sounding out of tune, have another beer!”

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agele says the town’s younger generation is showing a new interest in Odessa, drawn to its low taxes and low cost of living.

This generation includes Marcus Horak, a soft-spoken 29-year-old who co-owns an auto parts store, serves as president of the local chamber of commerce and sits on the school board. Born and raised in Odessa, Horak says he’s considered living in a city, but this is what he knows.

“You don’t want to see it die,” he says.

“People should be flocking here.” 

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ANNUAL EVENT: Paul Bunyan Days takes place Labor Day weekend, and the town celebration includes a fireworks show and parade.

NOTABLE NAMES: Vernon Baker (1919-2010), the only African American World War II veteran, among seven honorees, who was still alive when he belatedly received the Medal of Honor in 1997. Clyde Edward Pangborn (1895-1958), the first person to fly nonstop across the Pacific Ocean, and the second person in the U.S. to “wing-walk” on a plane.

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normous trucks packing loads of timber zoom past, one after the other, whipping around tight corners and navigating the narrow two lanes of Highway 5 with familiarity.

On weekdays, residents of St. Maries, Idaho, are accustomed to the roar of the trucks their main industry sends out to distribute their most precious export.

The timber industry was the lifeblood of St. Maries back when it was founded in 1913 and still is today, despite a disaster in 1961.

“I do remember the night that the old sawmill burned down,” resident Kay Sather says. “That was a really big thing.”

At the time, the St. Maries Lumber Company was the largest employer and biggest mill in the area.

Its demise left people unsure of the future.

“A lot of people moved away, but luckily we didn’t,” Sather says. Her husband had been working at the mill but was fortunate enough to find a job the very next day. For Sather, that means 75 (76 this month) years of living in the rural town surrounded by conifer trees and the St. Maries and St. Joe rivers. She graduated from St. Maries High School in 1957, married her high school sweetheart, raised seven children and watched her eight grandchildren

graduate from the exact same school.

“I just like the closeness of people. You know your neighbors, you know who your children [are friends with], you know the teachers, we know our elected officials personally,” she says.

As the clerk auditor, Sather became quite familiar with elected officials, including State Senator Cy Chase.

She recalls the time a person unable to pay overdue taxes came in while Chase was in the office.

“He just took some money out of his pocket and gave it to that person. I bet people don’t know that,” Sather says.

According to Sather, generosity is a town attribute. She volunteers her time helping with the Hughes House Museum and the Senior Meals Site program. Sather says that Paul Bunyan Days, the town’s biggest event and a sight to see, couldn’t happen without people donating their time.

“We have the biggest and best fireworks. They’re better than Coeur d’Alene,” she says, laughing. “There’s a group in town that keeps it going. Just volunteers, like everything.”

Go up one street from Main to College Avenue and you’ll find St. Maries City Hall, a small building easily overlooked in comparison to

the stately Benewah County Courthouse across the street.

Inside, City Hall is quaintly simple, with two desks in the main room and four other rooms. City treasurer Celia Sibert occupies the desk nearest the door.

Sibert, a third-generation resident of St. Maries, knows the town as well as anyone.

She recommends an old favorite for lunch — Bud’s Big Burgers.

“They’ve remodeled it a little bit from the old Bud’s, but their hamburgers are still the same way as Bud used to make them,” Sibert says.

She frequented the joint as a kid and used to sit up at the soda fountain counter.

“They always throw their hamburger in a sack to go, and you pick it up and the hamburger isn’t on the bun.

That’s kind of like their signature hamburger.”

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“What did I tell you?”

Schumacker asks. “Five?”

“Four or five,” she replies.

“OK, we’ll make it four!” Schumacker hands her change for a $20. During his 45 years in St. Maries, Schumacker has participated in multitudes of fundraisers.

“People here help each other, and it’s way beyond anything that I’ve ever witnessed anywhere.

I got this thing this week,” Schumacker turns to grab a flyer. On it, there’s a photo of a mom with an incurable, life-threatening disease. The flyer publicizes a fundraiser for her.

“It is not uncommon for many of the fundraisers to raise anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 in one night, and it happens sometimes when the economy is not so good, but people find it in their hearts to do it.”

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pokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich paces on a stage at Central Valley High School.

He’s stone-faced and sobertoned, a gun in his holster, a sheriff’s star on his chest. He reminds the crowd that had a certain bomb gone off, he might be dead.

Kevin Harpham, a Stevens County man drawn to 9/11 conspiracy theories and white supremacist message boards, built a directional bomb. He filled it with lead weights and, in a particular nasty twist, seasoned it with rat poison — an anticoagulant intended to stop bloody wounds from clotting. If it hadn’t been for three temp workers reporting a suspicious backpack on a park bench in downtown Spokane, the device could have blown up hundreds at 2011’s Martin Luther King Jr. parade.

“If it would have went off, I might not be here tonight. I was in this parade,” Knezovich tells the crowd gathered at Central Valley in late June.

He pauses, letting it sink in. “With 500 or so kids. Children.”

Knezovich will go on to talk about how Islamic extremism, including ISIS, is a threat. But he spends much more time in his presentation discussing another type of terrorism. He clicks through slide after slide showing the Inland Northwest’s own history of antigovernment, right-wing violence.

He cites examples like The Order, the white supremacist group out of Metaline Falls, Washington, responsible in the ’80s for counterfeiting, robbing banks, attacking armored cars and murdering a Jewish talk show host.

The Colville-based Kehoe brothers, who blew up a pipe bomb outside of Spokane City Hall in 1996. The anti-government racists who bombed a Spokesman-Review office, a US Bank branch and a Planned Parenthood clinic that same year. The man who used a Glock sold at a Spokane gun show to kill a letter carrier, after shooting up a Los Angeles Jewish community center in 1999. The Idaho survivalist militia leader who built homemade bombs and explosive booby traps and was arrested for planning to kill a federal judge in 2002. The Spokane resident who firebombed a synagogue in Oklahoma City in 2004. And Harpham’s thwarted bomb in 2011.

Knezovich isn’t giving his talk, titled

“The Threats We Face,” simply to highlight extremism or justify the department’s use of heavy-duty, military-grade equipment. His criticism goes further.

“The thing is — some of you are tacitly supporting their ideologies,” Knezovich tells the audience of nearly 350.

Knezovich is one of the region’s most popular Republicans. Since 2006, he’s won three elections with at least 70 percent of the vote. But now, on theater stages, in interviews, in emails and private Facebook messages, Knezovich is waging a campaign against a section of his own party. He’s hanging moral culpability for future violent acts on the shoulders of local Tea Party leaders, libertarians and, in particular, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea.

Knezovich blames Shea and his ilk for spreading fear, perpetuating outlandish conspiracy theories and bashing law enforcement. He blames them, partly, for the swarm of death threats that have recently rained down upon himself and one of his deputies.

“If anything happens to my deputies, I hope you all hold them accountable,” Knezovich tells the crowd.

“You have a sector that is preaching hate and falsehood, then you have a responsibility to shut that down,” Knezovich says in an interview with the Inlander. “Matt Shea has a responsibility to shut that down. He feeds the fire.”

Knezovich’s targets fire back, however, accusing the sheriff of being a bully driven by his own paranoia and fear, of dangerously lumping their groups in with the worst kind of domestic terrorists. Indeed, while the sheriff is inside giving his talk, protesters are outside declaring that it’s Knezovich everyone should be worried about.

Scott Maclay, of the Rattlesnake Motorcycle Club, had summoned demonstrators to protest the sheriff’s speech in a Craigslist post titled “The manufactured enemies of Ozzie Knezovich.” It called Knezovich a “Terrorist Sheriff” and accused him of covering up deputy misdeeds and “Mormonizing” the Sheriff’s Office.

At its most basic, the conflict puts two competing impulses: On one side, fear of government. On the other, fear of extremists.

“Fear is a big part of this,” says University of Hartford militia movement scholar Robert Churchill. “But

it all strikes me, when things get really dangerous is when the federal government gets afraid of these groups and the groups get afraid of the federal government. And the groups begin to dance with each other.”

‘A LOT OF CONSTITUTIONALISTS’

The Holiday and Heroes event last December at Walmart was supposed to be all about the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office helping kids. It resulted in death threats.

These events have been taking place in Spokane County for more than a decade. Each time, sheriff’s deputies pick up kids from more than 30 underprivileged families, bring them to the Spokane Valley Walmart and shop with them for presents for their siblings and parents. They go home with gifts — bicycles, dolls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures — and a big box of food.

BY DANIEL WALTERS In his presentation, Knezovich calls “police militarization” a myth. When bad guys wield heavy weapons, he argues, the good guys need heavy armor and heavy weapons to respond. He points to the riots in Baltimore: Here’s what happens when police don’t use their heavy-duty equipment when they should — the National Guard, a true military force, has to come in.

John Charleston and Cecily Wright, Washington state coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots, say a woman contacted them through the Tea Party Facebook page with a cellphone video she had taken at the Holidays and Heroes event.

“She was adamant she wanted to be anonymous,” Charleston says. “She has a fear of law enforcement.”

The woman worries the MRAP is a ploy to desensitize the kids to military equipment, to make them want to grow up and be a part of a militarized police

“If anything happens to my deputies, I hope you all hold them accountable.”

The children also get a chance to meet law enforcement and check out their cool equipment. One photo from the event shows a kid smiling and sitting in an MRAP — the hulking black armored Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected assault vehicle meant to withstand armor-piercing bombs.

This was back in December, just a few months after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and subsequent protests had thrust the issue of “police militarization” into the mainstream. Video streams, tweets and live telecasts let Americans see it all happen in real time: cops in riot helmets, Kevlar body armor, gas masks, camouflage pants with pouches for extra ammo clips, and sheaths with KA-BAR-style knives. The imagery of heavily armed officers sparked national debate, Senate hearings and an executive order from President Obama to review the sort of equipment that local police forces are getting from the military.

force. On video, she asks deputies whether vehicles like the MRAP would be turned on innocent citizens.

“Constitutionally, they can’t,” a sheriff’s deputy begins to answer. But the woman interrupts him, saying that Obama is stepping all over the Constitution. As the conversation progresses, the deputies repeatedly explain that the MRAP is crucial to protect them from heavy weapons fire.

But then Deputy Jerry Moffett utters the fateful phrase, a quick sound bite that turned into months of outrage fodder for protesters and politicians like Shea: “I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons,” Moffett says on camera. “A lot of ammunition.”

It was, says Amy Cooter, a Vanderbilt University lecturer who studies the militia movement, “maybe the worst thing you could possibly say. … I don’t think there’s any coming back from ...continued on next page

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The video of the deputy’s comment went viral, sparking protests, anger and articles on right-wing websites like The Blaze and Infowars.

Knezovich pushed back, noting the deputy’s military service and awards. He said he regretted that the deputy chose his “words poorly” and used broad brushstrokes. He argued that the clip had been taken out of context. It did little to dam the oncoming flood.

“Do you realize how many death threats the kid got?” Knezovich says.

“I hope your MRAP and your SWAT team takes you down,” a voicemail message to the Sheriff’s Office said. “Sheriff Ozzie, just crawl up in a corner and die.”

The comments about the video on Infowars and on YouTube included statements like: “Cops who think that should be shot on the spot,” and “This sheriff is already dead, and he doesn’t even know it yet. How sad.”

Other commenters wished for death by fire or heart attack, or for him to be hanged for treason. “How about, ambush him and black-van his ass, and show him what happens when Pats catch communists,” one YouTube comment reads. “We will put an end to you in a harsh manner.”

A few laid out, in terrifying detail, how they would kill officers in an MRAP

with various weapons or improvised bombs. Several wanted to “light the bitch on fire.”

“With the stormtroopers inside,” one InfoWars commenter fantasized. “Listen to the screams, music to my ears, the terrorist frying.”

Knezovich says he takes these threats seriously, but that the Sheriff’s Office has not actively investigated any of them.

Tracking down anonymous Internet comments isn’t easy. Still, the sheriff has used those threats, both privately and publicly, to condemn those who have attacked his deputy’s comment. A few days before his presentation, Knezovich sent a Facebook message to Charleston and Wright, blaming them for uploading a copy of the video, and citing a threatening message he’d recently received.

“This is what your hate is doing, John,” Knezovich wrote. “I hope this community holds you responsible for spreading this fear if one of our deputies gets hurt.”

Wright and Charleston note that their copy of the MRAP interview actually went up after Infowars’ post, and that months had passed before Knezovich told them the video had led to death threats.

“I did not know that that particular video is apparently just a raw nerve with Knezovich,” Wright says. “If he had ever communicated with us, we could certainly

At December’s Holidays and Heroes event, a boy sits in an MRAP vehicle some local critics see as police militarization. have worked on that situation.” (Knezovich says he contacted them as soon after he learned of their involvement with the video.)

Though Knezovich has made it a mission to counter the “garbage” of Charleston and Wright, they say they don’t want a war with the sheriff. Still, they question where the deputy heard the word “Constitutionalist” in a way that applied to violent groups, and bristle at feeling lumped in with the racists in Knezovich’s presentation.

“Those are the sovereign citizens.

Those are white supremacists. Those are Nazis. Those are nutjobs,” Wright says.

“The line has totally been blurred.”

GOD AND COUNTRY

It’s the Fourth of July, and Matt Shea, once again, is on stage at the Marble Country’s 21st Annual God and Country Celebration at the very tip of Stevens County, a gigantic American flag to his back and the words “Marble Country: Building our Children’s Inheritance”

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A chalkboard at the entrance of Marble Country proclaims: “‘The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution’ — Thomas Jefferson.” Jefferson never said that — its first known use was apparently online in December of 2004 — but here the sentiment stands. Love of the Constitution, love of country, love of freedom, love of religion — it’s everywhere here, and so are warnings about a government infringing upon every one of these.

But I’m not allowed in.

I’ve pre-registered for the event, drove two hours and paid the $20 fee. But when they find out I’m with the Inlander, the woman at the registration booth radios Shea and another leader to see if I can stay. I can’t. Kindly, but firmly, the group returns my $20 and tells me I need to leave. I’m media. Anyone once associated with the Upper Columbia Human Rights Coalition also has been banned.

Shea’s relationship with the local media — which reported on his messy divorce and the time he flashed an unlicensed gun at a motorist — has long been strained. Asked for a one-on-one interview for this story, Shea declined, complaining that his words had been twisted in the past.

Shea, an Iraq veteran, speaks with the structure and fervor of a fiery preacher,

his volume rising, calling for those here to be like the German Christians who opposed Adolf Hitler, and fight “intentional, deliberate evil,” according to audio of his speech.

He says government is illegally seizing private property, trying to control every facet of their lives, creating a financial crisis, indoctrinating their children, demonizing Christians and ignoring state sovereignty. But do not be afraid. God is in control, he says, so patriots should be posting lists of grievances on government doors throughout the country.

“We should tell them enough is enough! The people have had enough!

We’re not going to take it anymore!” Shea yells. “And if you don’t change, we the people — the government of this country — will change it for you!”

And the crowd goes wild.

“He’s found his echo chamber, and he’s a hero there,” Knezovich says.

At this event, you can find all the connection and contradiction between patriotism, religion and racism that the sheriff fears.

Marble Community Fellowship’s founder and leader, Barry Byrd, helped pen a 1988 manifesto called the Remnant Resolves. The document included passages stating that it’s blasphemous to call “antichrists” like Jews “the Chosen People” or to allow them to hold public office. It says

that “Inter-racial marriage pollutes the integrity of marriage.”

Since then, the Byrds have fervently condemned racism and distanced themselves from their former controversial church, The Ark in Colville. Marble Community Fellowship counts an AfricanAmerican, Doug Taft, among its leadership. (More than once, Shea has pointed to his close friendship with Taft to counter accusations of racism.)

“If God had desired that we intermarry and amalgamate and become one, why would he have begun the other races to begin with?” Weaver asked in one sermon in his gentle drawl.

Drawing upon years of Council of Conservative Citizens’ newsletters, the hate-watch nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center says Weaver was a “leading member” of the group. Before murdering nine black people at a Charleston, South

“We’re not going to take it anymore!

And if you don’t change, we the people — the government of this country — will change it for you!”

Yet Marble’s break with racist ideology hasn’t been a clean one. Along with Shea, one of the key speakers at this year’s God and Country rally was Pastor John Weaver, who has a history: He’s praised the Confederacy in sermon after sermon. He’s put out a tract arguing that slavery is not inherently against Scripture and that some slaves “blessed the Lord” for saving them from Africa with their enslavement. He has called interracial marriage “a form of adultery.”

Carolina, church prayer meeting in June, Dylann Roof wrote a manifesto about coming across “pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders” on the Council of Conservative Citizens website after Trayvon Martin’s controversial death, sending him down a racist rabbit hole.

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That’s why former state Sen. John Smith gets worried. He’s warned Knezovich specifically of his concerns about the violent rhetoric he’s heard up in Stevens County.

After all, growing up in the milieu of hatred and white supremacy, he saw firsthand how words can grow violent ideas into violent actions.

He remembers seeing his grandfather in Boise, after a house fire and losing his job managing a bowling alley, find solace in all the wrong ideas and all the wrong people.

“These other people came into his life and hijacked his life,” Smith says. They gave him people to blame — told him he lost his job because, say, the Jews had it out for him. His grandfather turned into a bitter, angry person — and took it out on those around him.

Smith was about the age of 14, he remembers, walking down from his bedroom while at his grandfather’s house.

There, at the breakfast table covered with maps and booklets, with his grandfather and a half-dozen others, was Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler, sweaty, overweight, scowling. As Smith made a sandwich, he listened to them spit slurs and profanity about all those who were to blame for the problems of the world while they dreamed up violent fantasies of revolution. Occasionally, they’d quote Scripture.

“As if this was some sort of righteous holy thing,” Smith says. “It literally turned my stomach.”

These days, Smith thinks a lot about the actual violence and bombs inspired by Butler and the Order. Violence like that of David Tate, arrested in 1985 for killing a Missouri state trooper at a traffic stop.

“I think that David Tate’s dad was one of the guys at the table,” Smith says.

Even now, he worries about talking about this kind of stuff, that it paints a bull’s-eye on his back and his family’s.

But he believes he needs to talk about it. Because when he remembers hearing someone say something like, “If all of you knew half of what goes on in Olympia, you’d all blow the place up” at a Marble God and Country rally two years ago, he doesn’t dismiss it as harmless hyperbole.

He’s seen “what ‘harmless hyperbole’ can lead people to do.”

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Alex Jones is the force behind Infowars, the Austin, Texas-based right-wing website that was among the first to seize upon the Spokane County deputy’s MRAP comments.

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In the conspiracy corkboard of Jones’ mind, hidden strings are everywhere, connecting everything, pulling the world inexorably toward further domination by the New World Order. Sept. 11 and the Sandy Hook shootings — even tornadoes — are likely government plots. So he screams, he yells until his face turns red, he mocks those who disagree.

“Thaaaat Alex Jones and that Infowars,” Jones says in one broadcast, adopting a quavering bumpkin accent to try to imitate Knezovich. “All we’re doing is gettin’ MRAPs and preparin’ to fight the Constitution, and they don’t like it!”

Shea rarely grants interviews to local reporters, but happily talks to Infowars.

“I think that anytime we have somebody that is saying innocent citizens — that have done nothing else other than love the Constitution — are somehow the enemy, we don’t live in a free country anymore,“ Shea told Infowars in December. “When that is allowed to stand, then tyranny gets a foothold.”

Knezovich, for his part, has long been fighting, maybe in vain, against local conspiracy theories. He’s says he’s lost who-knows-how-many Saturday mornings spent at his computer — to his wife’s frustration — arguing with conspiracy theorists fretting about, say, whether FEMA camps would be used as concentration camps.

He doesn’t see Jones as deluded as much as he considers him a charlatan, a scam artist getting rich by hocking snake oil. (The Infowars website sells everything from fluoride-filtration systems to pills to

remove radioactivity from water.)

“Alex Jones makes a ton of money selling fear,” Knezovich says. “Matt Shea is an elected official who gets elected selling fear.”

Jesse Walker, author of United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, says conspiracy theories have always been common in the U.S., on both sides of the political spectrum. In 2003, he notes, 70 percent of Americans believed that JFK’s assassination was a conspiracy and in 2006, one poll showed that more than a third of the country believed it was very or somewhat likely that the United States government had carried out or intentionally allowed the 9/11 attacks. Heck, last week’s Republican frontLETTERS runner, Send comments to Donald editor@inlander.com.

Trump, famously pushed elaborate conspiracies about Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

Knezovich tries to correct the facts.

No, the police or military isn’t going to come and take away your guns, Knezovich says. No, five Walmarts did not shut down to give the government space to shuffle around military equipment.

No, an exasperated Knezovich says, this summer’s “Jade Helm” — an eight-week Pentagon training exercise in asymmetric warfare across multiple states — isn’t a cover for a military takeover.

In a conversation in his office last Friday, Knezovich holds up his smartphone, and brings up a Washington Post story:

“How federal agents foiled a murderous Jade Helm 15 retaliation plot.” In response to fears over Jade Helm, the feds allege, three North Carolina men allegedly plotted to draw U.S. forces onto a property full of booby traps in order to kill them.

“This right here is all because of a bunch of words from Alex Jones,” Knezovich says. “Alex Jones started the Jade Helm fire. Words become reality.”

Lately, Knezovich has been fighting conspiracy theories about himself. At the July 9 meeting of the Spokane County Constitutional Republicans, several attendees, upon spotting two Spokane Valley police vehicles outside the window, began fretting that the deputies were surveilling them. Knezovich was offended by even the suggestion of it.

“To claim that the deputies were there for 45 minutes and that they were taking photos of vehicle license plates and the occupants of the room rises to a level of paranoia that should be shocking but sadly isn’t,” Knezovich responded by email.

Knezovich hasn’t always called out far-right constituents. Like other local Republicans, he’s tended to make nice with various conservatives and went so far as to endorse Shea in 2008 and 2010. (“Biggest mistake I ever made,” Knezovich says.)

To some, the sheriff’s fallout with Shea can be traced to August of 2010, when Deputy Brian Hirzel, while investigating a prowling report in an unmarked car, shot and killed 74-year-old pastor Wayne Scott Creach.

“I think the animosity comes from Shea asking Knezovich to do the right thing, and Knezovich’s continual refusal to do what’s right,” says the pastor’s son, Alan Creach.

Creach praises Shea for listening to his concerns, and for introducing a bill restricting the use of unmarked vehicles.

Knezovich, however, felt ambushed by Shea’s bill.

To Knezovich, the feud with Shea started a year later, when Knezovich invited the Southern Poverty Law Center to train his deputies in response to the foiled Kevin Harpham bomb. A few months earlier, the SPLC had listed Shea as one of the group’s “Dirty Dozen” legislators, noting paranoid comments he made about FEMA on the Alex Jones show. Shea castigated Knezovich for inviting them, while Knezovich blamed Shea for not warning him that Shea was on SPLC’s list.

It got so bad that before the 2012 election, Spokane County Republican Chairman Matthew Pederson called a diplomatic summit. And so, at a food court table near Yakisoba Noodles in the Spokane Valley Mall, they all met for nearly an hour — hashing out their frustrations.

“They were both really trying to put all those things behind them,” Pederson says.

The détente didn’t last. At the MRAP protest last December, Shea slammed Knezovich: “I’m going to submit today, that the Southern Poverty Law Center — and the sheriff that backs them — is the most dangerous organization in this country.”

Knezovich repeatedly calls Shea a liar.

Shea suggests the sheriff lacks integrity.

“I’m more than happy to debate him anytime,” Knezovich says. “And I’ll stand in front of him anytime and answer his questions about integrity.”

STANDOFFS

The Inland Northwest has a special role in the origin story of the modern anti-government movement. Twenty-three years ago, a standoff with the feds at a place called Ruby Ridge at the tip of North Idaho forever changed the way that many right-wing groups view the government.

Randy Weaver (no relation to John Weaver) was not a violent man, says Jess Walter, local author of Ruby Ridge. Weaver was a racist, isolationist, paranoid, apocalyptic Christian up in the Idaho mountains, but not violent. But after Weaver sold a sawed-off shotgun to an ATF informant, the ATF tried to turn Weaver into another informant. It turned into a disaster.

On the one side, Walter says today, there were the Weavers, “driven by a paranoid fear of the end of the world.”

On the law enforcement side, you had an “almost institutional fear of groups like The Order. These groups were bombing people and committing murder and robbing banks… You had these two fears

coming down and crashing together.”

Ultimately, it ended in a firefight, an 11-day standoff, and the deaths of a federal marshal, Weaver’s dog, wife and 14-year-old son.

From then on, the showdown at Ruby Ridge, and the disastrous 1993 siege of a Waco, Texas, Branch Davidian compound, became a rallying cry for some right-wing groups and a catalyst for the rise of the militia movement.

“It both feeds a sense of paranoia and anti-government feeling, but it also proves those feelings. For every group that says your government is out to frame you and kill you, they can point to Ruby Ridge,” Walter says. “The worst thing you can do if you have people who have a paranoid fear is to prove it.”

The memory of Ruby Ridge was one reason that Shea, the Byrd family and hundreds of others flooded Nevada in April 2014 to support rancher Cliven Bundy as the Bureau of Land Management attempted to round up his cattle due to unpaid grazing fees. Bundy supporters pointed guns at federal officers and federal officers pointed their guns at Bundy supporters.

“We won and those tyrants tucked tail and they ran!” Shea yelled at a gathering in Idaho upon returning from the ranch.

“And that’s the way it’s supposed to be in America! They’re supposed to be afraid of us and not the other way around!”

Knezovich, for his part, was disgusted with Shea. “There are people out there looking for that trigger,” Knezovich says.

“They were praying that trigger would be at Bundy Ranch.”

On Facebook, Kit Lange, an Everettbased writer for the Patrick Henry Society website, says she’d been studying up on Ruby Ridge. And she finds frightening parallels with the case of Anthony Bosworth, who’d walked onto the steps of Spokane’s federal courthouse this February armed with an AK-47 rifle and a 9mm pistol. When he refused to leave, a federal marshal arrested him for failing to comply.

If it came down to a serious confrontation, Lange promised to be by Bosworth’s side.

“We pledge this with our blood and our lives,” Lange wrote on Facebook.

“If the Federal government attempts to create Ruby Ridge and Waco, they will find themselves up against people who are incredibly well-trained, and incredibly armed.”

She wanted to be clear, however, that she wasn’t going to start any violence.

“We will not fire the first shot, we will not target innocents. But we will not allow the constant erosion of our rights,” she writes. “We will not start this violent phase of this Civil War. But by God, if they bring it, we sure will finish it.”

When Lange condemns “first strikes,” she means it. She’s willing to turn in more reckless members to the cops to stop one.

In 2011, the local GOP nominated Iraq War veteran Roy Murry as one possible replacement for the late state Sen. Bob McCaslin.

But this January, Murry was the name Lange brought to the Washington State Patrol. “He’s obviously interested in starting something and we want no part of it,” she wrote in an email to WSP, requesting that he be barred from attending their February gun-rights protest in Olympia.

“I don’t want ANYONE thinking this guy is connected to us in any way.”

Lange attached a series of a screenshots of Facebook chats with someone she believes is Murry — a “Roy H. Murray” — who gleefully suggests bringing Black Bloc anarchists and motorcycle gangs to stir up chaos.

where guns have actually been seized because of this provision.

But the underlying premise — that this is just the beginning of the government’s gun roundup — is central to the dark future laid out by Shea in speech after speech.

At a July meeting of the Spokane County Constitutional Republicans, Shea speaks from a PowerPoint packed with charts, diving into granular detail about economic indicators like the “Baltic Dry Index” and the “velocity of money.”

This time, delivering his “The Real Threat We Face: Hint it is Not Constitutionalists” lecture, Shea is more professor than preacher, relatively calm as he warns of governmental tyranny and predicts economic collapse.

“For every group that says your government is out to frame you and kill you, they can point to Ruby Ridge.”

“The entire argument of ‘never shoot first’ is flawed,” he wrote to Lange. “Gotta stop thinking Lexington and start thinking [Grand Theft Auto V].” Lange also says she believed that Murry posed a threat to Shea.

Four months later, Murry was arrested on charges of murdering his mother-inlaw, father-in-law and brother-in-law, and setting their Colbert, Washington, house on fire.

Such self-policing is not unusual, Cooter, the militia researcher, says. When the feds raided the Hutaree militia in Michigan in 2010, the local constitutionalist militia members tipped the government off to the danger they allegedly posed.

“In some cases, I recommend that local law enforcement treat them like allies,” Cooter says. “A vast majority of militia members are law-abiding. They care a lot about the country and the laws, and the last thing they want to do is to hurt people.”

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Last Wednesday, Shea is in Priest River, Idaho, chanting, “This vet is not a threat!

This vet is not a threat!”

A Vietnam veteran had received a letter indicating that, because the Department of Veterans Affairs had determined he wasn’t capable of handling his own finances, he would lose his right to purchase or possess firearms.

“People said this would never happen in America. Never,” Shea said. “Yet we have this veteran who may have their firearms confiscated from the federal government.”

Nobody came to take the veteran’s gun. An NRA media liaison tells the Inlander he doesn’t know of any examples

In such an event, he and his allies are prepared. They’ve stocked up enough food and water to share — and he and his fellow constitutionalists have plenty of weapons and ammunition stored to defend their neighbors from looters in the crisis — an extension of love, he says.

“Don’t let the people out there say, ‘Oh, 5,000 rounds is too much ammunition!’” Shea says.

Shea lumps Knezovich in with “willfully ignorant Loyalists,” and slams him for his handling of the Creach shooting.

He says he still spots the SPLC’s influence in Knezovich’s ideology.

“One of the little techniques that’s used in the media is they’ll say, ‘Oh, these are Constitutionalists.’ Then in the next breath they’ll say, ‘These are white supremacists in northeast Washington,’” Shea says. “It’s a technique that was actually used by the KGB.” Knezovich sees a dark future too, one where lies, rhetoric and fear divide us, pulling us away from what made our country great. Law enforcement and the government is so disrespected and feared that no one wants to sign up for either.

“You will not have a next generation to defend this country,” Knezovich says on the stage at Central Valley. “You will have all taught them to hate and distrust this nation.”

And then, he says, you’ll have more Charleston-type shootings.

“There are some of those folks that want to overthrow the government, period. They want to hit a reset button,” Knezovich says. “If they’re willing to lie to get that reset button — this is how ISIS starts.” n danielw@inlander.com

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Brooke Matson (left) and Valerie Nafé hold photos of each other at the Spark facility, which is home to INK Artspace. MEGHAN KIRK PHOTO

A Space for All The new Spark Center offers a place for residents of West Central and beyond to access technology, art and creative learning

BY CHEY SCOTT

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t’s the only place in town you’ll find rock band practice, a library, computer coding workshops, poetry writing classes and a 3-D printing lab all under one roof.

Over the past month, the bookshelves have been stocked, a calendar of workshops has steadily filled up and a volunteer staff was prepped to warmly welcome the greater Spokane community to Spark Center in the Kendall Yards development. This weekend, the nonprofit hybrid — a literacy center plus a library plus a creative community learning center — hosts its grand opening to the public.

Spark’s intent is hard to pin down. It’s sort of a public library, because it offers a collection of books that members can check out, yet it’s also unlike one because its collection is a fraction of the size of most public libraries. In the most basic definition, Spark is an ultramodern community center, offering a place where people can simply drop in for access to books, the Internet, classes and other resources. Its educational programs are centered around the arts, technology, music, writing, health and personal development, but nothing is locked in. Programming can essentially be anything Spark’s volunteers want to share or teach, but also anything the neighborhood it serves — mainly the low-income West Central area — may be in need of, and that residents aren’t getting elsewhere.

“It’s a bit of an experiment, which is interesting,” says Spark’s Executive Director Valerie Nafé. “The original conversation [about Spark] started because of a lack of ...continued on page 34

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Serene and dreamlike, the Mission of the Sacred Heart sits on a grassy bluff in Cataldo. Jesuit Catholic priests and members of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe worked side by side building the mission without a single nail between 1850 and 1853. You can tour the church, the restored parish house, cemetery, and the visitor center.

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Even though silver was king in the Silver Valley, prospectors found some gold here, too. The Crystal Gold Mine near Kellogg was one of the first hard rock mines and was worked during the 1880s. Your guide will describe how miners toiled by candlelight in those early years. You’ll see a quartz vein, eerie stalactite crystals, and learn how to pan for gold. Wear a jacket or sweater — it’s chilly down there. The tour is open year round and kids love it.

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resort with hiking and biking in the warm months and skiing all winter. Silver Rapids, Idaho’s largest indoor waterpark, is the big attraction for kids (but adults love it, too).

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One of the most spectacular trails in the West winds across the Idaho Panhandle for 73 miles between Plummer and Mullan. The Coeur d’Alene Trail was once a railroad line and has been widened and paved, creating a smooth, nearly flat trail for cyclists, inline skaters, and walkers. Twenty trailheads provide access, including one within walking distance of the Morning Star Lodge.

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No visit to the Silver Valley is complete without a meal at the Snake Pit in Kingston. Terrifying name, but a great restaurant. The log building has been serving prospectors since 1880, and the walls are plastered with miner helmets, tin plates painted with faces of lovely ladies, animal heads, and antique signs.

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CULTURE | ARTS

Greenstone funded the build-out of the space it’s loaning Spark for 10 years. MEGHAN KIRK PHOTO

“A SPACE FOR ALL,” CONTINUED... library resources in West Central. For some reason, people don’t cross the [Monroe Street] bridge, and even though it’s a bit on the outskirts of West Central, the programming will have a different feel from the library — innovative and edgy.”

In the weeks leading up to its official debut, Spark has hosted a handful of creative sessions, including the Low-Tech Time Travel “playshop,” a kids’ workshop late last month that tasked students with creating a time travel machine using large appliance boxes, then writing stories about their adventures. Matthew, age 10, built a bright-blue Doctor Who TARDIS, and chronicled his journey back to three minutes before the Big Bang. The kids were also recorded reading their original adventures to share via Spark’s SoundCloud page.

“The whole goal of playshops is that they’re fun and the kids are learning,” explains Spark’s Program Director Brooke Matson, a published poet with a master’s in educational leadership.

“It’s gift-wrapped, I like to say, and the skills are packaged so it’s not ‘Here’s what you’re going to learn today’ to really activate their imaginations and give them a lot of choice in how they do something,” While playshops are designed for youth, Spark’s teen and adult sessions are called skillshops, and embody the same whimsical, freely creative approach to learning. Upcoming skillshops on the schedule for later this month include a Spokane River-themed poetry session with local poet Nance Van Winckel, and a C# computer coding workshop led by members of Spokane CREATE! makerspace. There’s also a session for seniors, taught by high schoolers, on using social media.

“We’re bringing together areas or subjects that aren’t always brought together, or groups of people that don’t always mix,” Matson says.

Less formal and ongoing community programming to come as Spark establishes its niche could include morning storytime sessions and social reading events. The center is also the new home of the fledgling arts education nonprofit INK Artspace, which hosts its own workshops and classes there. Most workshops are free, but some adult-oriented skillshops in the future could have a small fee associated to pay for materials, or to help fund Spark’s classes for kids so those remain free.

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fortuitous series of events beginning about a year ago quickly led to the inception of Spark Center. At the time, Jim Frank, CEO of Greenstone Homes, the developer of the Kendall Yards’ neighborhood, was in talks with City Council President Ben

Stuckart and Spokane Public Library Director Andrew Chanse about the need for better access to library services in West Central.

“It would be fantastic in my view if every neighborhood had a library within walking distance and you didn’t have to go, say, five miles, and that is a little of what happened to West Central,” Frank says. “So that was very intriguing to us as a company. At the same time, we felt like there was an opportunity to provide some resources to the neighborhood that weren’t easily available, especially in a neighborhood like West Central.”

A stakeholder group was created, and Greenstone donated two street-level retail spaces on Summit Parkway to house Spark for the next 10 years. The Greenstone Foundation funded the build-out and the purchase of Spark’s technology equipment, Mac computers and furniture. It’s also providing the salaries of Spark’s two full-time directors, Nafé and Matson, for the nonprofit’s first year and a half.

“As we’ve developed communities we’ve tried to understand the needs in the community, and to help build the social fabric within a community. I think this is just an extension of that same philosophy of trying to build strong communities,” Frank says.

Spark’s small collection of books were mostly donated from the personal collection of Spokane author Jess Walter (he’s been a key leader of INK Artspace since it launched in 2014), and by Marina Drake, former owner of now-shuttered Monkeyboy Books.

Aside from its two full-time directors, Spark is run entirely by volunteers — about 45 staff the center each week in three-hour shifts. In keeping with its nontraditional approach as a community hub and learning center, Spark’s volunteers are a collection of resources called the “Human Library.” The intent of the quirky name is to encourage volunteers to showcase what they’re passionate about, whether it be a personal passion, like gardening, or an element of their professional career. On Spark’s website, the public can see when a volunteer with a particular expertise is staffing the center, and can come in to seek advice or support.

“My goal is that we have a reputation as the most fun place to volunteer,” Matson remarks.

“People know when something is good,” Nafé adds. “This is a different way of thinking and a different way of volunteering, but I think intrinsically, people know we’ll equalize and give people equal opportunities.” n Spark Center Grand Opening • Sat, Aug. 15, from noon-6 pm • Free • Spark Center • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • sparkwestcentral.org

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BOOK THE FLICKER MEN F

or the first 75 or so pages of Ted Kosmatka’s The Flicker Men, you might need to have Google open next to the book. Well, unless you remember a few things from AP physics.

But don’t let that scare you off, because the reward beyond the intimidating talk of quantum mechanics is an engaging and intellectually satisfying thriller that succeeds by dancing in the forbidden gap between real science and science fiction. A former scientist who spent years in research labs, Kosmatka delivers a story that begins utterly believable and escalates into the fantastic as it progresses. Somehow, though, the Tacoma-based author does this with a literary flair that elevates The Flicker Men above a pulp sci-fi yarn.

Kosmatka’s narrator is Eric Argus, a 32-year-old physicist who was once prominent in his field; now he has to hold a gun to his head in the morning as incentive not to take a drink. He lands a job at a research firm thanks to a favor from an old friend and gets to work replicating the Feynman paradox, an experiment that shows that the state of an electron is altered once it is observed. This is a real-life thing, people. But where the story veers from reality is when Eric discovers that the electron’s state is only altered when viewed by human eyes and not those of any of the myriad animals that view the light.

Once the groundbreaking results are published, Eric is approached by an evangelical preacher who wants to use the experiment to prove the existence of the human soul. Nefarious businessmen come lurking around. Threats are called into the lab. This is a lot for a guy like Eric, whose state of mind and sobriety are as fragile as the philosophical, religious and scientific norms his work has all but shattered.

When one of Eric’s associates goes missing, The Flicker Men shifts gears into a page-turning thriller, which you probably didn’t expect. But Kosmatka, who has worked as a video game writer, knows how to pace a story, just as he did with his two prior novels, Prophet of Bones and The Games. Here, things turn outright frenetic at points, a nice juxtaposition to the cumbersome physics we’re treated to at the story’s outset.

In all, it’s a deft piece of science fiction — with an emphasis, of course, on the science.

— MIKE BOOKEY

SPORTS ZAGS AND HUSKIES, FINALLY Over the past nine years, it’s been a shame that Gonzaga and the University of Washington men’s hoops teams haven’t faced off, because for many of those seasons, both squads have been damn good. While plans were already in place for the I-90 rivalry to resume beginning in 2016, fans got some good news last week when it was announced that the schools would face off in the opening game of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas on Nov. 25.

That’s a nice little Thanksgiving Eve treat, in case you don’t have a calendar handy and a chance to get a good look at a new-look Zags, which will include Josh Perkins (pictured at left), who sat out most of last season with a broken jaw.

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DRINK | I kept hearing about this mythical root beer, a bottled root beer that has alcohol in it.

Two weeks ago, I finally had my first taste of NOT YOUR FATHER’S ROOT BEER at Morty’s Tap & Grille on the South Hill. They’re sold out now. So is the Park Inn. Every place in Spokane that recently announced they had the beverage seems to have already exhausted their stash.

The root beer, produced by the Chicago-area Small Town Brewery, has become so popular that it’s the fastest-selling new craft beer this year, Business Wire reports. The root beer’s flavor mix of wintergreen, sassafras bark, oak, vanilla and anise hide the taste of alcohol too well — you’ll never guess it’s in there. Hopefully, Spokane will have more in stock soon. n

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nce upon a time in 2009, Shrek The Musical was nominated for eight Tony Awards. Adapted from the immensely popular Dreamworks series, Shrek offers its patented family-friendly, anti-fairytale, fart humor without apology, live and for the stage.

Getting past its tired source material (it has been 14 years, after all), Shrek The Musical — a production of the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre playing Aug. 6-23 at the Kroc Center — is loud and robust and impossibly fun, as equally vibrant as it is bombastic.

As in the original film, Shrek (Erik Gratton), an outcast ogre, finds his quiet swamp overrun by a horde of rowdy refugees. Pinocchio, the Big Bad Wolf, the Three Pigs and a host of other fairytale characters claim that the villainous Lord Farquaad (played here by CST’s artistic

director, Jadd Davis) persecuted them off their land. Shrek is forced to confront Farquaad; on his way he meets the spastic, friendless Donkey (John Devereaux). Striking a deal with Farquaad, Shrek and Donkey must rescue Princess Fiona (Liz Shivener) from a dragon-protected tower, from which she is held captive, and return her promptly for marriage.

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princess on the national tour) absolutely lives in her role as Fiona.

It is Davis as Lord Farquaad, however, who often steals the show, earning the biggest and most memorable laughs.

On its surface, Shrek The Musical is nothing more than a cheap attempt to wring the last laughs out of a worn franchise. But deeper themes are at work here — self-acceptance, parental failure, diversity — even if they’re not always prevalent or well defined.

They are there for the taking, but never enforced, given to those in the audience hungry for a bit more substance.

Certainly, this musical engages audiences of every age with the easy entertainment that comes from big, colorful (familiar) productions, but that’s fine. Leaving Shrek The Musical behind, you realize that, like the green ogre himself, this production is entirely comfortable in its own skin. n

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ONLINE CRAFTING

Distilling University co-owners Daniel Siegel, left, and Rockwell Rutter. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Two Spokane entrepreneurs tap into the craft-distilling boom with a new educational website

BY DAN NAILEN

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ockwell Rutter calls himself “more of a spirits guy than a beer guy,” and a couple of years ago the serial entrepreneur was ready to put his money where his taste buds were leading: straight into Washington’s booming craft distillery scene.

The 27-year-old Spokane native — founder of Se7en Marketing and co-owner of board game development company Zoydan Games — had talked to a local restau-

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rateur about distilling in the eatery’s basement, and tried to secure funding to help with the considerable costs that come with building a still and getting the production running. The money ultimately fell through, but not before Rutter got a serious education.

“During the course of that venture, I was doing as much learning and as much reading as I could about how to distill,” Rutter says at Durkin’s Liquor Bar over a

bourbon from Seattle’s Oola Distillery. “How do I open this thing? How do I run this thing? And I found out, it’s really, really hard.”

The liquor laws force craft distillers to have a workspace that’s up to fire code, all the distilling equipment and all the licenses and permits required before a wannabe can make a drop of booze. Only then, Rutter says, can you “turn the thing on and see if you actually like

doing it.”

Where many would look at the regulatory hurdles as a reason to bail on the craft scene, Rutter saw an opportunity. He partnered with longtime friend Dan Siegel, also 27, to create an online school, Distilling University, that teaches aspiring distillers all the lessons he learned in trying to open his own.

The duo spent years gathering content before launching the site, DistilleryUniversity.com, in April. While some existing craft distilleries and community colleges offer courses, those workshops can cost thousands of dollars. The goal of their site, Siegel says, is to offer “a good, honest education that’s not crazy expensive.”

For $49 a month or $499 for a lifetime enrollment, students can access 22 hours (to date) of online workshops and lessons from established craft distillers from throughout the state. Rockwell and Siegel say that’s just the start.

They’ve been able to tap into the friendly network of Washington’s craft distillers — the largest in the country — including Oola, Hardware Distillery in Hoodsport, 2 Loons Distillery in Loon Lake and 2bar Spirits in Seattle, for advice and interviews for the site, despite the potential for Distillery University to create a slew of new competitors for the existing businesses.

“What’s really great about the craft distilling industry is that everyone is still passionate about growing the industry by any means necessary,” Rutter says. “Maybe in 10 or 15 years, it will be a little more cutthroat out there.”

“How do I open this thing? How do I run this thing? And I found out, it’s really, really hard.”

Greg Schwartz and his wife Trisha started 2 Loons Distillery after taking a traditional class, but that cost them $2,000 and a week’s worth of vacation. Schwartz thinks that an online craft school could be helpful for people just starting out. Rutter and Siegel recently filmed an interview for Distillery U at their Loon Lake business.

“I definitely would have done that first back when we started,” Schwartz says. “And then maybe go take a class with more hands-on experience.”

An early Facebook ad campaign helped Distillery University enroll about 50 students in its online halls. Siegel, in the process of completing his marketing degree at Eastern Washington University, and Rutter (also an EWU marketing grad) spend about 30 hours each in a given week working with students, gathering new content and maintaining the website. They share an office space and juggle other school and business commitments. Their friendship began when the pair worked together at Sears 10 years ago, and that bond goes a long way in helping fuel their passion for the grunt work of a startup.

They reached 50 students quicker than they anticipated, and are pleasantly surprised by the early reach of the website.

“We’re seeing a lot of traffic from places I wouldn’t expect,” Siegel says.” We’ve been getting a lot of hits from California. A lot from the South, the East Coast. I thought it might be better to target specific areas in the country [with ads], but they’re coming from all over.”

Both see vast potential for Distilling University as the craft booze field continues growing, and they expect it to follow the seemingly limitless growth of craft brewing. And if all goes well, they envision it growing into something far bigger.

“Over time, what I see happening is the evolution of the Distilling University into the Artisan University, where in addition to teaching people how to do spirits and open a distillery, we teach people how to make beer and open a craft brewery, or their own winery,” Rutter says. “Maybe people are into cheesemaking, or chocolate-making. Something that’s a passion for people, that they can put themselves into. I want us to be the umbrella for that.” n

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Starting Small, Dreaming Big Small House Winery finds a welcoming home in Sandpoint

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ow small is Small House Winery? For starters, it’s so small that it’s escaped the radar of many of our region’s wine lovers until recently, but the Sandpoint outfit is dreaming big and already accomplishing some notable feats.

Shortly after setting up housekeeping in November of 2013, Small House Winery took a silver medal at the 2014 San Francisco Chronicle wine competition for their signature Red Blend of 70 percent Grenache, 30 percent Syrah. They did it again this year.

In addition to a Sauvignon Blanc ($14), Riesling ($11) and Chardonnay ($12), they recently added a Rosé ($14). They’ve also been tapped to bottle Vino Di Tavola, a red table wine, for Ivano’s Ristorante in Sandpoint.

It’s been a good two years for novice winemaker and co-owner Patrick Werry, who started making wine about seven years ago as a creative outlet to his day job as a real estate agent. Werry launched the winery in a Sandpoint industrial park with fellow ski enthusiast Jon Harding, who works at Schweitzer Mountain Resort.

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Werry’s wife Lisa Gerber, Small House Winery does everything by hand. They haul grapes sourced from Walla Walla, Prosser and Yakima and de-stem them using an old hand press they found on Craigslist.

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A Local Experiment Top Chef’s Hugh Acheson comes to Idaho to immerse himself and his audience in eating close to home

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ugh Acheson, the Canadian chef famous for his Southern food and acerbic judging style on Top Chef, cares about culinary culture, eating local and using food as a way to connect with others.

This weekend, local fans have a chance to connect with Acheson on a more personal level over slow-roasted wild salmon, wheat berries with dill, and buttermilk-huckle-

berry panna cotta — made by the chef himself.

Acheson is set to give a live demonstration as a part of the Farm To Fork event on Sunday at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel. The event aims to “emphasize the bounty” of the “broad variety of foods growing naturally” and locally, says Steven Walk, the resort’s executive chef.

The event’s proceeds benefit radio host Ken Hopkins of KZZU’s “Ken, Dave & Molly,” paralyzed from midchest down a month ago in a bicycle accident.

Acheson says he’s passionate about “cooking from scratch, cooking with the seasons,” and “caring for the history of the food.”

Loyal fans of the show may expect Acheson’s live demonstration to be like his judging — witty, quick, sarcastic — but his in-person self may be softer than imagined.

“I’ve got a pretty warm, compassionate, empathetic side that is just trying to get people to cook from scratch again,” he says. “I think it’s a big community skill that the next generation needs to take again, or we’re going to lose something that I don’t think we really want to lose.”

Acheson says he loves —and thinks all food lovers should also love — immersing himself in the culinary cultures of his home (Athens, Georgia) and the places he visits. He does this by visiting local libraries for community cookbooks, and more importantly attending farmers markets and asking them about the culinary culture of the land. This might not be easy, but Acheson says taking the inconvenient path is the most important lesson he has to pass on.

“The convenient path has given us crappy food, obesity and type II diabetes. The inconvenient way puts you in the kitchen,” Acheson says. “I don’t think anybody complains about having spent too much time with their family in the kitchen at the end of their life.” n Farm to Fork • Sun, Aug. 16, farmers market at 10 am, demonstration at 3 pm • Coeur d’Alene Casino’s Chinook Meadow • 37914 S. Nukwalqw, Worley, Idaho • $10, proceeds benefit Ken Hopkins’ recovery fund; to contribute: gofundme.com/3b8zccyrc • cdacasino.com • 800-523-2464

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Spy vs. Spy

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. carves out a unique space in a crowded espionage marketplace

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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t’s understandable if your first reaction to a movie version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is, “Do we really need another movie version of an old television show?” This is a reaction one should have on a regular basis, and it only means that you are an emotionally healthy adult. But there’s another, equally valid first reaction: “Do we really need another spy movie?”

It’s true, of course, that the same sentiment could apply to many genres and subgenres: comic-book movies, Nicholas Sparks adaptations, comic-book movies, childhood-toys-as-cinema, comic-book… you get the picture. But finding a distinctive tone can go a long way toward shaking that sense of overkill. With a James Bond movie still on the way this year, we’ve already had the broad comedy of Spy and the slick action of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. What could Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) bring to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that would make it seem anything but superfluous?

The answer, fortunately, is a frisky refusal to take anything all that seriously — most of the time, anyway.

Ritchie also wisely opts to stick with the series’ Cold War-era setting, opening the story in 1963 as CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) attempts to extract Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) from East Berlin, with KGB operative Ilya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) in pursuit, trying to stop him. Gaby’s father (Christian Berkel)

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is a nuclear scientist who has disappeared, and she may be the key to finding him before neo-Nazis manage to obtain their own nuclear weapon. When it becomes clear to both the American and Soviet governments that this third-party threat is more of a threat than one another, they team up THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. the already anRated PG-13 tagonistic Solo Directed by Guy Ritchie and Kuryakin Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia to recover the Vikander dangerous technology.

Thus commences plenty of bro-ish sparring between the two agents, and the two leads get at least a reasonable amount of mileage out of their “Solo calls Ilya ‘(Red) Peril’/Ilya calls Solo ‘Cowboy’” dynamic. Cavill bites down hard on an affectless American accent that seems to have been learned from TV anchormen; Hammer has about the same luck with his Boris Badenov-esque Russian. Yet they’re still both entertaining, as Solo’s cat-burglar

cool collides with Ilya’s barely contained rage, and they metaphorically swing their junk at one another in the form of which country offers the superior espionage technology (or even who has the better fashion sense).

The real energy, though, comes from Ritchie’s willingness to get playful with the way he frames some of his scenes. He uses depth of field to place goofy moments in the background out of his characters’ eyeline, or split-screen to pick up the pace during a pair of set pieces.

He drops out the sound when Ilya and Solo are bugging a conversation in a car between Gaby and her slightly sinister uncle (Sylvester Groth). And in one of the most effective sequences, he places Solo in a truck — listening to Italian pop music and munching on a sandwich, while Ilya tries to evade bad guys in a high-speed motorboat chase — to give him time to ponder whether he’s willing to risk himself to help his new partner.

There’s no weight to any of this stuff, but it has enough fizz that The Man from U.N.C.L.E. doesn’t feel derivative — at least until Ritchie tries to stage conventional action. His two Sherlock Holmes films were already evidence of how terrible he is at it, and U.N.C.L.E. offers up an extended, humorless bit near the conclusion where Solo is chasing bad guys in an all-terrain vehicle, Ilya is following in a motorcycle, and the editing renders the whole thing nearly interminable. It’s the kind of headache-inducing excuse for contemporary “action” that can make a movie feel like just the latest blur of bodies and vehicles in motion.

Perhaps it says something that even Ritchie realizes the aforementioned sequence doesn’t deserve to be the climax, even as it stops the movie dead in its tracks to resolve the fate of one of the key villains. Indeed, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a spy movie in which the hero ultimately saves the day in quite the way that it happens here. And maybe that’s a decent result for another TV show adaptation, and another spy movie: that it leaves us with a grin, rather than the feeling that we’ve been here a hundred times before. n

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Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg play, respectively, the acclaimed, late novelist David Foster Wallace and Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in this film adaptation of Lipsy’s Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.

The book and the film cover the five days the two spent together in 1996 in a traveling interview while Wallace toured for his novel Infinite Jest. During this time, they become close and explore what it means to be human.

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KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK

In this HBO documentary that originally appeared at Sundance, documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen uses a collection of animations, interviews and home video to paint an intimate portrait of the Nirvana frontman. It shows everything from a young Cobain strumming a kid-sized guitar, to his rise to fame, his fatherhood and his troubled end of life. Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt’s daughter, is the executive producer, and his widow, mother, sister and bandmate are all in the film. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated TV-MA

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

The story begins in 1963 as CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) attempts to extract Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) from East Berlin, with KGB operative Ilya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) in pursuit. Gaby’s father (Christian Berkel) is a nuclear scientist who has disappeared, and she may be the key to finding him before neo-Nazis manage to obtain their own nuclear weapon. When it becomes clear to both the Americans and Soviets that this third-party threat is the true menace, they team up to recover the dangerous technology. (SR) Rated PG-13

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Pioneering gangsta-rap crew N.W.A. gets the movie treatment their story has long deserved in this docu-drama tracing the ’80s rise of the group led by now-icons Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and EazyE. Arriving from the dangerous streets overrun by L.A.’s gang culture, the group sold millions of albums thanks to songs full of violent and misogynist fantasies, inspiring a generation of West Coast rappers to follow suit — and the F.B.I. and President George H.W. Bush to label them domestic terrorists.

Straight Outta Compton shows N.W.A.’s revolutionary career trajectory until the band exploded in a blast of professional jealousy and rage. (DN) Rated R

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Amy Winehouse only made two albums, and her chaotic personal life drew far more attention than her Grammy wins, monster hits and stunning voice. The documentary Amy puts the focus back on the singer’s artistry, at least for 90 minutes, as it tells the story of how a girl focused on the joy of music rose to fame — only to have that fame push her toward a dramatic and tragic demise at just 27. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R

ANT-MAN

Scott (Paul Rudd) was just released from prison and a return to a life of crime seems like the only option — until Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) shows up with a high-tech suit and a unique offer. He wants Scott to combine the suit’s abilities — communicating with and controlling ants, in addition to becoming the same size and strength as one — with his own breaking-andentering talents to shut down a sinister operation. Rated PG-13 (SR)

FANTASTIC FOUR

It’s been about a decade since the last version of the Fantastic Four came out (2005), but apparently since Marvel movies are all the rage these days, it’s already time for a reboot. This time, the new kids on the block are Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Miles Teller as Reed Richards, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Jamie Bell as The Thing. The film starts from the beginning of the F4 canon, showing us how the four brainiacs got their super-

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powers, and immediately enters them into conflict to save the world from the despicable Dr. Victor Von Doom. (CS) Rated PG-13

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Bathsheba Everdeen (Carey Mulligan) — an ambitious heiress who enjoys her independence — has drawn three admirers, and must navigate between her desires for love and her autonomy. “It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings,” she says, “in a language chiefly made by men to express theirs.” The story illuminates the nature of relationships, love and the value of strength through hardships.

At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated PG-13

THE GIFT

Robyn and Simon have just moved back to Los Angeles when they run into Gordo in a shop. Simon doesn’t remember the guy at all, except that he was a bit of an oddball, which seems proven when Gordo shows up at the house without invitation several times, bearing increasingly and inappropriately extravagant gifts, and only when Robyn is home alone. Then things get even weirder. (MJ) Rated R

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Pixar’s newest film (following 2013’s Monsters University) is a major “emotion” picture — it’s about how choices between conflicting emotions drive the life of a Minnesota family. Young Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) struggle with joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust — that’s Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling, respectively — and the personified emotions create their own problems inside Riley’s head. (MS) Rated PG

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise in full Tom Cruise mode) is disavowed by the U.S. government yet again, even as he chases down a criminal organization that just needs one more MacGuffin to take over the world. Hunt and his familiar crew (Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames) have to travel to Havana or Morocco or Minsk for reasons you won’t remember within 30 minutes of leaving the theater but will enjoy nevertheless. (PC) Rated PG-13

PAPER TOWNS

The story features Quentin “Q” Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) and his neighborfriend-turned-crush Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevingne). After being dragged on a night of revenge by Margo, Q goes to school the next day to find her missing. After some detective work, he discovers she has left clues for Q — as he tries to find her, he learns about himself, his neighbor and love.

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RICKI AND THE FLASH

Meryl Streep plays Ricki Rendazzo, a mother of three who abandoned her family to become a rockstar. Ricki returns home to her remarried ex-husband, Pete, after their daughter Julie (Streep’s real-life daughter Mamie Gummer) suffers a great heartbreak.

As Ricki confronts what has become her past — children she didn’t raise, meeting the woman who became their mother and finding the responsibilities of motherhood — she seeks forgiveness and reconciliation. (MS) Rated PG-13

SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

This is a film without words. There’s plenty of grunts, burps, squeaks, bahs and other noises, just no one talks — not even the humans, who express themselves in garbled tones. But the story, brought to life with claymation, is still well communicated. Our sheep hero Shaun must lead his flock on a rescue mission to the big city after an accident causes their farmer to leave

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Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), a kid raised in the foster care system, is already the undisputed, undefeated light heavyweight champion of the world when the film begins. He’s got a wife (Rachel McAdams) and a kid and things are well, at least until he finds himself responsible for an awful tragedy. He decides to get back in the ring and fight himself out of a hole. (SR)

TANGERINE

Shot entirely on iPhones, Tangerine gives us Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and placid Alexandra (Mya Taylor), best friends who meet up for a donut on Christmas Eve right after Sin-Dee gets out of a 28-day stint in jail. Alexandra lets slip that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester cheated on her when she was locked up. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R

TED 2

When Ted (a talking stuffed bear voiced by director, writer and producer Seth McFarlane) tries to have a baby with his new wife, he asks his best friend, John (Mark Wahlberg), to provide the sperm.

But his help doesn’t stop there. When Ted and his wife are denied custody unless Ted can prove he is human, the two best bros team up with lawyer Samantha L. Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) and take to the courts to defend Ted’s civil rights. (MS) Rated R

TRAINWRECK

In addition to starring, Amy Schumer wrote the script for Trainwreck, casting herself as a monogamy-averse magazine writer who doesn’t know quite how to handle herself when she gets involved in a real relationship with an interview subject, a nice-guy sports orthopedic surgeon (Bill Hader). . Rated R (SR)

VACATION

Ed Helms and Christina Applegate star as Rusty and Debbie Griswold, the parents of two boys. Rusty worries about bonding with his sons and keeping his marriage alive, so he decided to break out of the monotony of normal suburban life and do what his father (Chevy Chase) did: take the whole family on a cross country road trip. The final destination? America’s favorite theme park: Walley World. (MS) Rated R 

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Paternity Leave Has Wilco finally moved away from the ‘dad rock’ label?

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f you look up the term “dad rock” on Google Trends, you’ll find a steady flurry of worldwide search activity from late 2010 through present day, a lonely spike of searches in the first half of 2009, and before that… nothing.

Not a peep, all the way back to 2004 — ancient times in the Internet age.

Before “dad rock” found favor as a pejorative employed by young folks and cynical GenXers to poke fun at the graying, decaying genre of rock ‘n’ roll, there was no such thing as dad rock.

There were dads. And there was rock. But dads liked classic rock, and classic rock came with outdated cool and no outsider pretense. Rock meant the Eagles and the Doors, Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Dads wore dark socks with shorts and watered the lawn.

But dads have changed. During last February’s Super Bowl (Why didn’t they run the ball?

Ah!), Toyota, Dove and Nissan all filled high-priced airtime with “dadvertising,” celebrating sensitive, sharply dressed 21st-century fathers. Since 2012, the Dad 2.0 ...continued on next page

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Summit has been held annually, connecting “daddy bloggers” with marketers “to discuss the changing voice and perception of modern fatherhood.”

Dads are hip now, and so dad rock has changed.

Dads these days listen to Tame Impala and Grimes and Chance the Rapper. The lamest band a cool dad might listen to is, like, Foo Fighters or something. And Foo Fighters aren’t so bad.

Lost in the evolution of dad rock is the term’s original (and still, probably) flagship band, Wilco, which plays the Festival at Sandpoint Saturday. In a 2007 review of the veteran Chicago group’s middling sixth album, Sky Blue Sky, Pitchfork’s Rob Mitchum described the music within as “soft-rock-plus-solos” and derided its “lackluster spirit.” The clincher, however, was this line: “Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise.”

Make no mistake: Mitchum was right. After a decade of consistently great country-rock, dark folk and experimental pop from Wilco, Sky Blue Sky marked the beginning of the group’s slow, feathery descent into peak dad rock. Backed by his most talented bandmates ever — including world-class guitarist Nels Cline and world-class drummer Glenn Kotche — founder and creative core Jeff Tweedy spent that album, as well as 2009’s self-titled effort and 2011’s The Whole Love, sloshing around in somnambulant singer-songwriter mode. Live, the band was a beast. Recorded, it was blah.

Those records weren’t terrible, mind you. They just weren’t exciting. They were quiet and cozy, a favorite pair of sweatpants you’d wear on quick run to the store.

They were the ideal soundtrack for a mellow evening at home: a cool band with a good-sized following (but not big enough that all your friends have heard of them), and

Wilco’s latest record, Star Wars, may have pulled away from the “dad rock” genre. never loud enough to wake the kids.

That lonely 2009 spike on Google Trends? It lines up nicely with the release of Wilco (The Album). Another in October of 2011 coincides with the release of The Whole Love. Yet another in 2014 follows the unveiling of Tweedy, a band Jeff Tweedy formed with his own son Spencer. (They’re just messing with us now, right?)

But as you move right on the graph, the peaks stop lining up with Wilco-related news. There’s a USA Today podcast “for a generation of fans who proudly rock out while shuttling the kids to soccer practice” and a Billboard thinkpiece arguing that dad rock has “outlived its usefulness.”

Somewhere in the past year or two, dad rock went mainstream.

The beauty of this is that Wilco seems to be going in the opposite direction. Last month, the band surprisereleased Star Wars, its ninth studio album and best since at least 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, and maybe even 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Star Wars doesn’t crackle with the same restless energy and experimentalism as that classic, but it buzzes and pulses and hisses and squirms in a way we’ve not heard from Wilco in a long time. It feels loose

and tossed together, not endlessly fussed over. It’s like the sextet took several of its best sounds — the dissonant guitars of “Random Name Generator,” the Summerteeth-style paisley pop of “Taste the Ceiling,” the warped roots-rock of “King of You” — seasoned ’em with another decade of skill and soul and let ’em show again.

Meanwhile, Wilco’s live juggernaut rolls on, stopping not only in big cities but also smaller places like Bend, Oregon, Missoula, Montana, and Sandpoint, Idaho. (The band has performed in 49 of the 50 states, with only Hawaii left to go.) It does so with an unassuming confidence that befits one of the finest bands of the past two decades, and with a new record in tow that proves Wilco is still a reliable and important creative force.

Joke about dad rock all you want; Star Wars will wriggle out from under that tired old term. But reliable?

Important? Quiet confidence? Those are timeless, fatherly qualities that any band would be proud to have. n Festival at Sandpoint feat. Wilco with Vetiver and Owen & McCoy • Sat, Aug. 15, at 6 pm • $60 • Allages • War Memorial Field • 855 Ontario St., Sandpoint • festivalatsandpoint.com • 208-265-4554

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Dawes takes an open-minded approach to what is yet to come

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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t’s hit or miss. Free outdoor shows can either prompt a widespread rager or elicit polite claps from attendees more interested in their picnic baskets than music. That’s why folk-rock act Dawes often takes a pessimistic approach to these events, like when they play Liberty Lake’s Pavillion Park on Saturday.

“We’ve done a bunch of these kinds of shows,” says bassist Wylie Gelber. “We can’t expect it to be a crazy, freak-out kind of audience, but sometimes it is that. People come out to free shows not knowing what to expect either, which can be good.”

Dawes is a California band influenced by California landscapes and sounds. The quartet is often compared to ’70s folk-rock Laurel Canyon outfits, even though they claim to have never hung out in the famed area. Their nostalgic songs breeze by in three-part harmony and can often run well over the six-minute mark when played live (and some on the recordings, too). “For us, we love really long and meandering songs,” says Gelber, the only band member who doesn’t sing.

This summer, they’ve been meandering along the interstate highway system, opening for acts like Hozier, playing festivals and headlining their own shows. Gelber says their tour bus feels crowded, even though it’s a step up from the van from past tours.

“It’s luxurious, but it does smell like feet and everyone spills their cereal everywhere,” Gelber

says.

But the Americana group, together now since 2009, knows each other so intimately there isn’t infighting. There simply isn’t the space to fight.

Dawes is made up of brothers Taylor Goldsmith, in the singer-songwriter role, and drummer Griffin Goldsmith, along with Tay Strathairn on keyboards and Gelber. They’re out promoting their new record All Your Favorite Bands, which leans more toward straight, heart-on-the-sleeve rock than previous efforts. Lyrics pull from fragments of failed relationships but also include hope for the future.

For the recording, the goal was to capture the inspired nature of their shows.

“We’d hear from people that we sounded different in the studio, but in our minds it wasn’t like that,” Gelber says.

They played intimate shows up and down the California coast, workshopping the new material so that when they finally hit the studio, the instrumentations were the exact same.

“To enjoy music, it needs to be played real,” Gelber says. “Because everything was road-tested with this record, we knew it was going to be different.” n lauraj@inlander.com An Evening with Dawes • Sat, Aug. 15, at 6 pm • Free • All-ages • Pavillion Park • 727 N. Molter Rd., Liberty Lake • pavillionpark.org

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ince releasing their stormy and spaced-out album Something Supernatural last October, Pennsylvania hard rockers Crobot have been in constant motion. There are plans to set sail on Motörhead’s Motörboat cruise next month and they’re about to launch a brand-new beer, Something SupernaturAle from North Carolina’s Double Barley Brewery, which pairs well with their recent Drunk as Shit tour. This weekend, the wild four-piece plays the free, 29th-ever GA’s Too Broke to Rock series. Expect Brandon Yeagley’s high-powered vocals to hit your chest cavity hard with songs like “Legend of the Spaceborne Killer,” along with new material.

— LAURA JOHNSON GA’s Too Broke to Rock feat. Crobot, Shaman’s Harvest, ACIDIC, Moretta and Ambrose • Fri, Aug. 14, at 7 pm • Free • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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ArBor CreST WIne CellArS, Nicole Lewis and Friends J The BArTleTT, Patrick Sweany, the Hollers J The BIg DIPPer, Sin Circus, Heart Avail, Project X BooMerS ClASSIC roCK BAr & grIll, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BuCer’S CoFFeehouSe PuB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BuCKhorn Inn, Spokane River Band feat. Alisha K CheCKerBoArD BAr, Pistachio Coeur D’Alene CASIno, PJ Destiny J Coeur D’Alene PArK, Browne’s Addition Summer Concert Series feat. Angela Marie Project J FeSTIvAl AT SAnDPoInT AT WAr MeMorIAl FIelD, Lake Street Dive with The Ballroom Thieves FIzzIe MullIgAnS, Kicho The FlAMe, DJ WesOne hAnDleBArS (924-3720), Muddy Frog Water The JACKSon ST., Howard from Usual Suspects John’S Alley, Brothers Gow The lAnTern TAP houSe, DJ Lydell J norThern QueST CASIno, Rascal Flatts with Dean Alexander J PInnACle norThWeST, The Exchange, the New Tribe, the Backups, the Incandescent J rIverSTone PArK, Global Summer Concert Series feat. Fawcett, Symons & Fogg J SunSeT PArK, Floating Crowbar The vIKIng BAr & grIll, Jordan Collins zolA, Boomshack

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hrow whatever you thought you knew about Blackwater Prophet out the window. The local rockers, buzzing for a couple of years now, started to take their three-piece gig seriously before they were named a 2014 Inlander Band to Watch. With a new album titled Ghost, the crew has left their dirty, sludgy quality behind in favor of clear-asnight, bluesy rock ‘n’ roll. “Dig My Hole in the Ground,” the last track on the eight-song disc, pulls even further away from their usual image — mostly acoustic guitars pair perfectly with Garrett Zanol’s heart-wrenching vocals.

— LAURA JOHNSON Blackwater Prophet album release show with Below Blackstar and the Spirit Animals • Fri, Aug. 14, at 8 pm • $5 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

above), Spirit Animals, Bullets & Balloons Beverly’S, Robert Vaughn J The BIg DIPPer, Working Spliffs, Dimestore Prophets BIg SKy’S TAvern, FM Bolo’S, Nova BrooKlyn DelI & lounge, Kori Ailene J BuCer’S CoFFeehouSe PuB, Blue Funk Jailbreak CArlIn BAy reSorT (208-6893295), YESTERDAYSCAKE The CellAr, Robersono & BZ Coeur D’Alene CASIno, Bob & Pat Cronkites Duo, Strictly Business ConKlIng MArInA & reSorT, The Ryan Larsen Band CrAve, Stoney Hawk Curley’S, Uppercut J DoWnToWn WAllACe, Huckleberry Festival feat. The DBC Band FeDorA PuB & grIlle, Mike Morris

J FeSTIvAl AT SAnDPoInT AT WAr MeMorIAl FIelD, The Devil Makes Three, Trampled by Turtles FIzzIe MullIgAnS, Dragonfly The FlAMe, DJ WesOne Ladies Night gATeWAy MArInA AnD reSorT, Shiner hAnDleBArS, The Sidemen The hIve, Aftival feat. Melvin Seals and JGB Iron horSe BAr, Aftermath The JACKSon ST., Usual Suspects John’S Alley, The Clumsy Lovers J KnITTIng FACTory, GA’s Too Broke to Rock Series feat. Crobot (See story above), Shaman’s Harvest, Acidic, Moretta, Ambrose MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box nyne, DJ Patrick PAolA’S rAInBoW reSorT (208262-9001), Bill Bozly J PArK BenCh CAFe, Just Plain Darin

PenD D’oreIlle WInery, One Street Over J PInnACle norThWeST, Club Night J rAThDruM CITy PArK, Carl Rey & The Blues Gators J reD lIon hoTel AT The PArK, The Dodgy Mountain Men, Folkinception The rIDler PIAno BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SeASonS oF Coeur D’Alene, GRE3NE/Ron Greene J The ShoP, Buzz Vineyard SWAxx, Webbie, DJ J.T. Washington, Young West and more TAMArACK PuBlIC houSe, Marco Polo Collective The vIKIng BAr & grIll, Plane Champagne zolA, Milonga

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Ryan Larsen Band CRAVE, Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Rock N Rumble feat. Children of Atom, Northfork, Knights of Tears, Concrete Grip CRUISERS, Kicho CURLEY’S, Uppercut J DAHMEN BARN, Summer Concert Series: The Senders DOWNTOWN SANDPOINT, Sandpoint Summer Sounds feat. Mobius Riff EAGLE’S LODGE, Bobby Bremer Band FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Dragonfly THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike, DJ WesOne GATEWAY MARINA AND RESORT,

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9771), Chris Rieser, the Berfuela Brothers Reunion MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE (208765-3200), Michael Ross NYNE, DJ C-Mad J PAVILLION PARK, An Evening with Dawes (See story on page 49) J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Singled Out, Red Scare, Keep In Check, Bad Hex, Late show: Judgement Hammer, Pandemic, Morbid, Inc. J RED LION HOTEL AT THE PARK, The Dodgy Mountain Men, Folkinception REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Hillfolk Noir THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (208-783-1111), Brews Fest ‘15 feat.

Doghouse Boyz, Civilized Animal, Clumsy Lovers TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, New Mud THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Echo Elysim J FESTIVAL AT SANDPOINT AT WAR MEMORIAL FIELD, Wilco (See story on page 47), with Vetiver, Owen & McCoy ZOLA, Milonga

Sunday, 08/16

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Tuxedo Junction J BABY BAR, Health Problems, Space Movies, Hard Mode, the Beat Reds, with visual art by Video Destroyer J THE BARTLETT, Summer Canibals BIG BARN BREWING CO. (238-2489), Scotia Road

THE BIG DIPPER, The Vaude Villans Present: G-String Quartet COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Bill Bozly J COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, CdA City Park Concert Series feat.

Strictly Business CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, The Ryan Larsen Band CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Casey Ryan CRUISERS, Kicho CURLEY’S, Los Chingadors DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE JACKSON ST., Acoustic Jam ZOLA, Soulful Max Trio

Monday, 08/17

J BABY BAR, Daisy World, Healers, Mirror Mirror J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Sissy Brown, Cowtown Crisis EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Mrs. Skannotto, Among Criminals, Ragtag Romantics, Razzzmatazzz ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

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J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, B-Sharp Music Studio Performing FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Dave Hannon J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, In Defence, Bitch Slapped, Noctyms Descent, the Camorra ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 08/19 BARRISTER WINERY, Maxie Ray Mills DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Pinky & the Floyd EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard JOHN’S ALLEY, Talia Keys LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 OFF REGAL LOUNGE (743-9401), Improve Your Sax Life with Edward Orgill and friends PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, David Lane Walsh J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Avoid the Void, Deaf To and more THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic ZOLA, The Bossame

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FILM A BIG-ASS STUNT

The Inlander’s Suds and Cinema series has decided to step outside this summer to give you a movie under the stars and beers from Spokane’s own River City, delivered to you by the Hop Shop’s mobile Tap Mobile. The movie? Oh, just a little 2007 flick about the worst damn stuntman ever. It’s called Hot Rod and it features Andy Samberg with a memorable fake mustache and a surrounding cast that includes Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Isla Fisher and Will Arnett. The movie is totally free, but bring a chair or blanket to sit on.

— MIKE BOOKEY Suds and Cinema: Hot Rod • Thu, Aug. 20; beer garden opens at 6:30, movie at 8 pm • The Nest in Kendall Yards • 1335 W. Summit Pkwy. • facebook.com/theInlander

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FESTIVAL CELEBRATING CULTURES

SPORTS BELLES ON WHEELS

Unity in the Community • Sat, Aug. 15, 10 am-4 pm • Free • Riverfront Park • 507 N. Howard • nwunity.org

Spokarnage • Fri, Aug. 14 to Sun, Aug. 16 • $8-$15/day or $20-$25/weekend pass • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • spokarnage.com

The Unity in the Community multicultural celebration is the largest of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Now in its 21st year, the annual event welcomes people from all communities to come together to celebrate diversity and raise cultural awareness. This year’s event includes live performances, a cultural village where attendees can learn the about the heritage and history of different cultures, and a large vendor area with booths offering information on everything from careers to health. Grab your lawn chair and a blanket to sit on the grass and take part in a day filled with events fit for all.

— ERIN ROBINSON

Two dozen teams of badass derby dames converge on the Lilac City this weekend for the third annual Spokarnage roller derby tournament. It’s crazy to think how much roller derby has grown locally and nationally in the three years since the inaugural tourney — the Inland Northwest is now home to more than 10 leagues, each with multiple teams. Spectators at Spokarnage get to see more than the excitement of teams whizzing around the track — there’s also a motorcyle show, beer garden, live music and vendor fair.

— CHEY SCOTT

COMMUNITY ROW YOUR BOARD

About one in five people who die from drowning are kids ages 14 or younger, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For its fourth annual Paddle, Splash and Play event, the Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club intends to teach young kids and their families how to stay safe in the water and overcome that statistic. By providing all sorts of fun water equipment — like stand-up paddleboards, canoes and all types of kayaks — paired with experts, the event aims to teach a lot of important water safety skills while providing a full day of fun. To speed up the process, bring a Discover Pass to enter the park, and your own life jacket (while many are provided, they’ll be in high demand).

— MATTHEW SALZANO Paddle, Splash and Play • Sat, Aug 15, from 10 am-2 pm • Free • Nine Mile Recreation Area • 11226 W. Charles Rd., Nine Mile Falls • sckc.ws

BEER BREWS AT THE LAKE

If, like most of us, you use the Centennial Trail, the least you could do is tip back a brew in its honor. The third annual Ales for the Trail Microbrew Festival offers a full lineup of beer from 16 breweries from Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho, along with live music from the Idahobos and classicrock cover band Strange Brew. Admission includes six 5-ounce drink pours, and the first 350 registrants get a stainless steel Chug Mug. Proceeds aid the North Idaho Centennial Trail Foundation in its mission to protect, maintain, expand and advocate for a healthy trail system. Sign up online and spend your Saturday sampling some suds for a cause.

— LAURA REGESTER Ales for the Trail Microbrew Festival • Sat, Aug. 15, from 2-8 pm • $30 • McEuen Park • 420 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene • nictf.org

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BENEFIT

BE A DANCER TO BEAT CANCER The 17th annual oldies dance benefits the American Childhood Cancer Association of the Inland Northwest’s family day camp. Aug. 14, 7 pm. $30-$35.

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (928-3782) DINNER UNDER THE STARS Proceeds support the Shared Harvest Community Garden; attendees enjoy dinner and bid for local artisan goods in a silent auction. Aug. 15, 6-9 pm. $25. Shared Harvest Community Garden, 1004 E. Foster Ave., CdA. kealliance.org/dinner-under-the-stars (208-667-9093) SRAVASTI ABBEY ALMS BOWL The annual Food Fund rummage sale pays for the weekly groceries for Abbey residents. Aug. 15, 9 am-3 pm. Free.

Runge Furniture, 303 E. Spokane Ave. adams.danna@gmail.com INL: THE VIP EXPERIENCE The fundraiser event includes a catered lunch, brief presentation about Inland Northwest Lighthouse, and a chance to work alongside INL employees to build a wallboard. Aug. 18, 12-1:30 pm. $250 donation. Inland Northwest Lighthouse, 6405 N. Addison. seattlelighthouse.org/inl (487-0405) STARS ON THE HILL FEAT. MASTERCLASS BIG BAND P.E.O. Chapter CW hosts its fifth annual benefit, offering hors d’oeuvres, dessert and music by Spokane’s MasterClass Big Band. Proceeds from the event will be used to support P.E.O. philanthropies. Aug. 18, 5-9 pm. $20/person or $35/pair. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. on.fb.me/1RdXVYU (290-2917)

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W I SAW U YOU

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I SAW YOU YOKE'S ARGONNE VILLAGE I was in line behind you @ Yokes August 5 and I mentioned that I buy the same beer. You were very sad as you told me you had to put your dog to sleep. I so felt for you as our pets really are our children.Your pain over your loss brought back so many memories for me too. If you want to talk about it let me know. Again I'm so sorry.

Smile: it warms the heart.

ARIZONA I saw you, we talked. You're unhappy. MAYBe I can help.

YOU MADE MY DAY! I was the one in the white car on Saturday morning who by way of your stunning beauty, was compelled to turn around and tell you how gorgeous you are! I told you that you made my day and you got a big smile and said that I made yours. Not sure if your attached, but I would love to have coffee or a drink sometime! email me at est5194@gmail.com if that sounds good. :-) GARLAND ST. FAIR BALLOON GUY I saw you near the end of the event, surrounded by kids waiting for their awesome balloon animals. My daughter was the one excited about all the kids' balloons while waiting for hers. I was the mom with the cane ;) I was hoping your eye contact was just as intentional as mine. We should hang out :) justine. donae@gmail.com ATTICUS THURSDAY You: Standing in line, long dark hair, white top, dark

pants. Occasionally talking to friend or maybe brother. Me: Reading at the table behind you. Tall,glasses, gray shirt, black beanie. Wanted to order a second drink to get back in line, But my first wasn't gone yet and I didn't want to be obvious. Meaning, I thought you were very attractive. Beautiful. I hope you saw me too and want to get coffee with me this week. If yes, tell me at isawyoudidyouseeme@yahoo.com LOVE OF MY LIFE! I saw you standing in my doorway a couple weeks after your birthday almost 13 years ago. You were wearing a white shirt and black pants, and had the most beautiful green eyes and dark red hair I have ever seen! We were set up, and neither of us wanted to date, but by the time we got to the fountain at Manito, I knew I wanted more of you! Almost 13 years later, our life is still amazing and getting better! Happy Birthday my love!

VALENTINE ROSES IN AUGUST To the prettiest girl ever, the sloe-eyed stunner with the long black hair and that sparkly little heart of gold, working hard for the man at your job. You are the coolest, bro. I want to run slow motion through a field of wildflowers to high five you, just for being your J-RO self. I want to hand engrave trophies with your name, and give them to you every time you breathe.

I suspect even your toots are amazing. I bet they smell like strawberry shortcake.

Or pizza. You make me feel like I'm jumping off eight-story buildings doing karate moves in a gold spandex jumpsuit. You make me feel like I'm closing the deal, fighting the fires, and saving the children without any pants on. On our five-year friendiversary I will wrap you up like a little burrito and sing you to sleep, but not in a creepy way. Just in a fun bro way.

If you see yourself in this ad and contact me, that is. Love, the other rose

CHEERS REGARDING "MOTORCYCLE CRASH ON I-90" Cheers! I glad to hear you are ok! When I saw you go down it was scary, and I was further back than most.

I wasn't sure what I would find when I approached the scene, but I was glad to see you up and awake. I left when state patrol got there as I had to go, so I wasn't able to see you through. Thank you so much for posting so we know you are ok!

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You make me feel like I’m jumping off eight-story buildings doing karate moves in a gold spandex jumpsuit.

MISSION AND 30TH I THINK I SAW YOU in the neighborhood of Mission and 30th at a lemonade stand. I couldn't help but notice that you still looked so thirsty drinking from that dixi cup. I smiled at you, knowing that it's people like you that continue to pass on hope to the younger set of dreamers and do-ers.

Cheers to you, my friend.

THANK YOU!! Thank you for reading this. Thank you for waking up today.

Without YOU the experience wouldn't be the same. Don't sell yourself short. Smile.

It looks good on you.

SEVENTH DAY EVENT God Bless all of the sponsors of the two day free health clinic. It was fantastic. I was able to get my two teeth pulled which I know I couldn't afford. God Bless the dentist from Omak and his assistant from Colville, very wonderful people. God Bless the all the volunteers who help, with getting it set up. I hope they come back to Spokane. GOD BLESS ALL. PEACHES I've wanted to write you for awhile, but I never know the perfect thing to say. I'm not great at expressing my feelings, but you should always know how much I love you. You're my best friend and the love of my life. I hope people are starting to see that no matter how they feel, or what they do, we are going to be together and no one can stop us. We always have so much fun and now we've taken the big leap and are sharing a home, I've never felt so lucky to have anyone in my life. You've grown into an amazing person and you are an amazing man, don't ever let anyone try to tell you otherwise. You have taken all of my heartache and all of the bad people, and lifted it all off of my shoulders. Thank you, for being there for me everyday. I love you more than I could ever show. I love you, Pears.

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

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

— VALENTINE ROSES IN AUGUST

WORK PLACE EQUALITY Cheers to the owners of ESS. I am an employee (I won't disclose my name or gender, as I'm not the only gay employee and I'm not sure who is and isn't out of the closet so I don't want to identify anyone). I work for a small company who understands that as a homosexual individual, I have certain needs that heterosexuals don't. I tend to take breakups very difficultly, requiring additional time off that straight employees might not require.

I'm allowed special circumstances, such as privileges that allow me to do things that might make others uncomfortable, because as a gay adult you can't risk offending someone like me as it might result in a law suit. I could go on and on about my special allowances, but I'll just say this: It's a good company to work for if you're gay, because the owners understanding of what the gay community needs allows us to get privileges and preferential treatment not available to heterosexuals.

WONDERFUL HUSBAND! Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary! The Past 8 Years have been Amazing! We've gone thru So much Together (good and bad) and its Only Made Us Stronger And Our Love For Each Other and Our Family Stronger.

Thank You for being the Man of my dreams. I Love you more and more each day Babe. Love, Heether ;) FLOATING THE RIVER I just gotta send a HUGE thank you to my friend. He is most wonderful, thoughtful, kind, caring and above all my most favorite person to float the river with. Not only for my day drunks but for always laughing out loud with me and sharing moments that will last my lifetime. Forever Friends

JEERS

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PRODUCE A DISAPPOINTMENT! This message is for the farmers. I grew up in the Spokane Valley and I'm still around here and when I buy a half watermelon like the organic Blacktail I bought yesterday I was once again unhappy with it.

When I was a kid the melons were ever so sweet and my parents always had them on hand. I love them but whatever you farmers are doing growing them...

IT's WRONG, I bet I'm not alone in this quest for a really sweet melon, for that matter the peaches are like hardballs and the cantaloupe is horrible too. Please go back to growing great fruit or just give it up. Smiles JEERS TO THE INLANDER FOR PRESOLVING THE CROSSWORD PUZZLES The Inlander is the only publication I know of that prints the main solution to the crossword puzzle attached to the puzzle gridwork itself. Since the full solution is already printed on another page, why must you dumb-down the puzzle page? Some of us prefer the challenge.

If Pop Culture's David Levinson Wilk is the one doing it, couldn't you ask him to stop? It wasn't always this way. 

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COMEDY

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

Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com (483-7300) EXPEDITION Live improv comedy show. Fridays in July and August, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. (838-6688) 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) VANTASTIC VOYAGE COMEDY TOUR An evening with touring comedians Ryan Stalder, Michael Longfellow, Mason Pipes and Cole Schlesinger. Aug. 15, 11 pm. $5. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; signup at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+.

No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane IMPROV JAM SESSION An open-mic style improv comedy night, open to all regardless of experience. Tuesdays in July and August. $5. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First.

(847-1234) THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER Liberty Lake Community Theatre’s comedy improv troupe. Aug. 22 and Sept. 19 at 8 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway. (768-6429)

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LATE NIGHT @ THE LIBRARY Wear play clothes and be ready for games, snacks, crafts and more. For kids entering grades 3-5. Pre-registration and signed permission form required. Aug. 14, 7-9 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8340) 2BU HARVEST PARTY AND OPEN HOUSE The community event includes games, lunch ($5/plate), prizes and fundraising efforts to support the local nonprofit. Aug. 15, 11 am-4 pm.

2BU Youth Ranch, 17412 E. Foothills Rd. 2buyouthranch.com (922-1981) CONTRA DANCE FEAT. THE CANOTE BROTHERS Spokane Folklore Society presents “An Incredibly Fun Evening of Contra Dance” with live music by the Canote Brothers, and Emily Faulkner calling. Also includes a potluck dinner.

Aug. 15, 7-10 pm. $10-$12. East Spokane Grange, 1621 N. Park Rd. spokanefolklore.org (747-2640) PET SAVERS’ 10TH ANNIVERSARY The local low-cost clinic celebrates 10 years, and its 50,000th spay/neuter surgery.

The event includes tours, prizes, food and more. Aug. 15, 11 am-3 pm. Pet Savers, 7525 E. Trent. on.fb.me/1JB0NiW SPARK CENTER GRAND OPENING The new literacy, tech and community resource center hosts a grand opening celebration, with live music, vendors, exhibits, demos and information on its maker lab, lending library, skillshops and community programs. Aug. 15, 12-6 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Parkway. sparkwestcentral.org STRIDE FOR STRONG BONES The fifth annual osteoporosis awareness 5K walk/run also features a raffle, bone screenings and educational information and presentations. Aug. 15, 9 am. $15$25. Waterfront Park, 1386 S. Lefevre St., Medical Lake. wastrongbones.org MYTH-BUSTING: SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY An evening with attorney Randi Johnson, who shares the differences between the SSA disability programs, including discussion about for whom the programs apply and briefly what that process looks like. Aug. 18, 6-8 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Parkway. sparkwestcentral.org JUSTICE LUNCHBOX: CLEAN WATER & DIRTY MINING Indigenous activists from Alaska and Montana who are visiting Spokane talk about their communities’ resistance to corporate resource extraction which threatens their way of life. Aug. 19, 12-1 pm. Free. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. cforjustice. org/justice-lunchbox (835-5211) GSI BUSINESS AFTER HOURS ON LOCATION An evening of networking, followed by a night at the ball game with the Spokane Indians as they face the Vancouver Canadians, plus it’s OTTO’s Birthday Bash. Families welcome. Aug. 20, 5-7 pm. $5-$15. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. greaterspokane.org

FESTIVAL

BONNER COUNTY FAIR “Season’s Open at the Bonner County Fair” is the theme of 2015’s annual traditional county fair, offering animal and ag expos, food, carnival rides/games, a demolition derby, live entertainment and more. Aug. 11-15. Bonner County Fairgrounds, 4203 N. Boyer Ave., Sandpoint. bonnercountyfair.com CHILLIN’ N CHATTAROY A three-day outdoor festival with a poker/pool tourney and live music. Aug. 12-15. At the Prime Tyme Bar & Grill, 4211 E. Westwood Ave. Free. Chattaroy, Wash. (238-6253) OMAK STAMPEDE The 82nd annual event includes traditional crowd favorites, such as the morning ride-in, the famous Suicide Race, a carnival, Indian Encampment, rodeo, vendor fair and more. Aug. 13-16. $10-$25. Omak, Wash. omakstampede.org GOODGUYS ROD & CUSTOM SHOW The annual car show feautures 1,500K rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks through 1972, along with a swap meet, model and pedal car show, kids entertainment and cruises/parades.

Aug. 14-16; Fri-Sat, 8 am-5 pm; Sun 9 am-3 pm. $6-$17. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. goodguys.com/gnwn-2015 (477-1766) HOG AUGUST NIGHTS The Elk Commu-

nity Park hosts the second annual bike show, featuring several divisions for competition, local vendors, live music, and more. Aug. 14-16. Elk, Wash. facebook.com/ECPHAN (509-292-8279) GARLIC FAIRE A gourmet food, wine, and music event where garlic is king, featuring live music, dancing, belly dancers, food, wine tasting, arts and crafts, and lots of garlic. Aug. 15-16, 12-5 pm. $5. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way, Kettle Falls. chinabend.com (509-732-6123) GREEN BLUFF PEACH FESTIVAL Head up to Green Bluff for fresh-picked peaches, peach ice cream, cobbler, and pies. Peaches fest runs Aug. 15 through Labor Day weekend. See individual orchard/grower schedules for hours and details. Green Bluff Growers. greenbluffgrowers.com PICKIN’ ON THE PRAIRIE The fourth annual event at Past Blessings Farm features 50 booths of antiques, vintage finds, primitives, one of a kind furniture, handmade artisan crafts, food and much more. Aug. 15-16, from 10 am-4 pm. $4 admission. Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie. pastblessings.com UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY The annual multicultural celebration features performances from local cultural/heritage groups, food, kids activities, visual art displays, free school supplies (K-8, while supplies last) local resource information and more. Aug. 15, 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Riverfront Park. nwunity.org SASQUAN: WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION The 73rd annual Worldcon, a gathering of fantasy and science fiction fans from around the world, is hosted in Spokane this summer. Events include panels, presentations, readings, autograph sessions, discussion groups, cosplay events, and art show, music, games, and more. Aug. 19-23. $90-$210. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. sasquan.org (279-7000) LINCOLN COUNTY FAIR The annual county fair event offers traditional ag demos/displays and contests, entertainment and more. Aug. 20-22. Davenport, Wash. co.lincoln.wa.us NORTHEAST WASHINGTON FAIR Stevens’ County’s annual community fair, this year themed “Make It, Grow It, Show It,” hosts agricultural exhibits in livestock and produce, a fair, parade and more. Aug. 20-23. Northeast Washington Fair Grounds, 317 W. Astor Ave. co.stevens.wa.us (684-2585) 7TH ANNUAL MILLWOOD DAZE The annual community celebration is a benefit for Meals on Wheels Spokane, and events include the 5K Fun Run, Red Wagon Parade, family activities, live music, food and more. Aug. 22. Downtown Millwood. mowspokane.org PEND OREILLE COUNTY FAIR “Summer Days, Country Ways,” is the theme of the 2015 fair, offering traditional events including ag exhibits, food, carnival rides, live entertainment, a rodeo and more. Aug. 20-23. $2-$7. Cusick Fairgrounds, 419152 Hwy 20. povn.com/ pocofair (445-1367) THINK BIG FESTIVAL The annual robotics and A.I. festival features speakers from Microsoft, Boeing, Harbrick, Johns Hopkins, Tesla, Qualcomm Ventures, UCLA IDEAS Platform, Singularity and more, along with self-driving car rides and the world’s fastest sedan test drives. Aug. 20-22. $100-$250/person.

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YMCA Central Spokane, 930 N. Monroe St. ywcaspokane.org (777-6922) WHISKERS & WINE Partners for Pets’ annual fundraiser gala, with local food, beer and wine, and a silent auction, games, live music and more. Aug. 22, 5-9 pm. $25. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. on.fb. me/1SoQc07 (509-477-1766)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess A Force To Be reckoned WhiFF

My new boyfriend travels a lot for work. Before he left on this trip, he gave me his weird onesie lounging garment.

It’s this disturbing “As Seen On TV” thing called a Forever Lazy. It’s like a fleece blanket, but with legs, a hood and a… umm….back flap for easy bathroom access. I was hesitant about taking it, but he said, “Take it! It’s so comfy! It’s the bomb!” Of course, I don’t wear this weird thing, but it smells just like him. I’ve found myself cuddling up with it AMY ALKON and sniffing it. Like, a lot. And it’s not just about missing him; it’s about the smell. I feel like a serial killer! What is wrong with me?! —I’m Weird Welcome to the decline of civilization playing out in a single garment. If a grown man who wears one of these things says something like “Let me slip into something more comfortable,” you’ve got to think, “What, the womb?”

What seems weird to me is that you’re able to have sex with a man who wears a giant romper. What doesn’t seem weird is your sniffing Mr. Baby’s onesie.

This suggests that you two might be a pretty good match, at least genetically — which isn’t to say your genes and his have lots in common. Studies by Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind and others have found that women seem to prefer the body odor of men whose genes are dissimilar to theirs. Which sounds so hot: “Hey, baby, I love how genetically dissimilar you smell in the morning.”

It’s a set of immune system genes that matter. They’re called the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC. “Histocompatibility” is a mouthful, yes, but it’s really just the Greek word for tissue — “histo” — bumming a ride on “compatibility.” MHC molecules are basically immune system security guards that sound the alarm on incompatible stuff in our bodies — icky infectious microorganisms that don’t belong in our “tissue” (really, our cells). If you and a genetically similar man have kids, your combined MHC genes will only be able to recognize a very similar, limited set of trespassers. But with a genetically dissimilar man, the immune systems of any kids you have will have a much larger force of security guards, able to recognize a much broader group of icky invaders.

Regarding your onesie sniffing, the most interesting, relevant finding on MHC is by experimental psychologist Christine Garver-Apgar and evolutionary psychologist Steven Gangestad. Instead of just testing individuals as previous studies did, they tested couples. They found that as the proportion of MHC genes that couples shared increased, women were less turned on by their partner, cheated with more men, and were more attracted to men other than their partner, especially during their most fertile time of the month.

In other words, it’s a very good thing that you’re into how this guy smells — so much so that you can overlook the fact that he’s a grown man who wears a onesie made from some fabric cousin of the airline blanket. Here’s to your living fleecily ever after with your new man. But should this not work out, remember that smell is important, and look for a man who also smells good to you — maybe even one who isn’t afraid of hard work, like the agonizing chore of pulling on both sweatpants and a sweatshirt.

FiFTy ShAdeS oF nAy

I’m an in-shape, intelligent, funny 35-year-old guy with a good job. I went on a date with a beautiful woman. We had a terrific time — wonderful conversation over a nice dinner. When I asked her out again, she said she thinks I am a “supernice guy” but she just wasn’t feeling the “chemistry.” Well, it was only one date.

Can chemistry grow? I’d like to see her again. I’m convinced I could sweep her off her feet if given the chance.

—Ambitious You didn’t get the job. Picketing the office isn’t going to change that.

Not feeling the “chemistry” is polite code for “I’m not physically attracted to you” (or, in really dire cases, “I’d chew through rope to avoid having sex with you”). Unfortunately, there’s no sweeping a woman off her lack of chemistry with you, though you might sweep a lesser woman off her integrity by inviting her out for a slew of free dinners. Over time, you might even charm the woman into loving you — kind of like she loves her grandma. But keep in mind that biological anthropologist Helen Fisher and other researchers find that physical attraction comes out of a person’s look, smell, and manner. In other words, persisting when a woman lets you know she isn’t attracted to you is ultimately a big ol’ losing proposition. (You can try harder, but you can’t, say, try taller.) 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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FILM

A BOLD PEACE Dr. Matthew Eddy hosts a showing of his new documentary film telling the story of how and why Costa Rica abolished its military in 1948 and “became the happiest country on Earth.” Aug. 13, 7 pm. By donation. Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. aboldpeace.com COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHT All are invited to a free outdoor movie and popcorn night; bring blankets or lawn chairs to enjoy Frozen (August 13), and Nemo (August 30). Films start at 8:30 pm. Whitworth Community Presbyterian Church, 312 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitpres.org (466-1627) ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL 17-year-old Greg’s life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia. Aug. 13-16, show times vary. $3-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org MILLENIAL MEETUP: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Millennial Meetups, a program geared for patrons in their 20s and 30s, is offering another “Cheesy Superhero Movie Night.” Popcorn and refreshments are provided. Aug. 13, 6:30 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org SOUTH PERRY SUMMER THEATER: GHOSTBUSTERS The annual summer movie series returns, screening at the parking lot of The Shop. Movies start at dusk, preceded by a fundraiser for a local charity. Aug. 15. Free. The Shop, 924 S. Perry St. (534-1647) SUMMER CAMP 2015: GREASE The Garland’s summer movie series returns, and includes beer specials from River City Brewing. Tuesday’s showings also include contests and prizes. Aug. 16, 18 and 20. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. (327-1050) INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: IDA A film about Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, who struggles to discover the truth of her past and her family. Aug. 18, 7-10 pm. $5/film. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: DIRTY DANCING Outdoor movies are screened Tuesdays, with drive-in or picnic-style seating. Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk (around 9 pm.) $4-$5/person without a car; $20$25/carload of 4+, or $5/person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only. Concessions provided by local food trucks/businesses. Aug. 18. Spokane Drive-In Movies (North), 4307 E. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. facebook.com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Escape the Ordinary during a screening of this new Marvel adventure. Rated PG-13.

Aug. 19, 2 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org SPOKANE DRIVE-IN MOVIES: AMERICAN GRAFFITI Outdoor movies are screened Wednesdays, with drive-in or picnic-style seating. Gates open at 7 pm, with movies starting at dusk (around 9 pm.) $4-$5/person without a car; $20$25/carload of 4+, or $5/person for cars of 1-3 people. Cash only. Concessions provided by local food trucks/businesses. Aug. 19. Spokane Drive-In Movies (West), 750 N. Hayford Rd. facebook. com/OutdoorMoviesSpokane SUMMER MATINEE MOVIE SERIES: MINIONS The midweek summer matinee movie series screens family friendly

films through the summer. Aug. 19-20, at 1 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) THE BEATLES’ “HELP!” A special, one-night showing of the digitally remastered film, from 1965, in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary. Event hosted by SPR’s Movies 101 reviewer Nathan Weinbender, and host Leonard Oakland. Aug. 20, 6:30 pm. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. spokanepublicradio.org (227-7404) SUDS & CINEMA: HOT ROD Beer flows at 6:30 pm; movie shows at 8 pm. Bring your own chair for this special outdoor screening, featuring beer ($4) from River City, ice cream specials from Brain Freeze food offerings from Kendall Yards’ restaurants. Aug. 20. Free. The Nest at Kendall Yards, 1335 Summit Parkway. facebook.com/theInlander

FOOD & DRINK

SECRETS OF SAUERKRAUT Local food safety/preservation specialist Anna Kestell teaches how to make your own sauerkraut with just cabbage and salt.

Pre-registration required; class limited to 20 people. Aug. 13, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) SUNSET DINNER CRUISE Cruises depart from Independence Point Dock daily, through Sept. 13, at 7:30 pm. Buffet menu offers round of beef, baked king salmon, au gratin potatoes, summer salad, fruit, rolls and cheesecake. $28-$52. The CdA Resort, 115 S. Second. cdacruises.com (208-765-4000) VINO WINE TASTING Friday, Aug. 14 showcases Northwest “summer favorites,” from 3-6:30 pm. Saturday, Aug. 15, highlights “warm weather favorites,” from 2-4:30 pm. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com WALLACE HUCKLEBERRY FESTIVAL The 29th annual festival offers family events, live music, huckleberry-themed activities, a fun run, pie-eating contest and more. Aug. 14-15; Fri, from 11 am-6 pm, Sat from 10 am-6 pm. Downtown Wallace, Idaho. wallace-id.com/heritage.html (208-753-7151) ALES FOR THE TRAIL The annual fundraiser event offers Northwest craft beer tasting from local breweries, live music, food and more, to benefit the North Idaho Centennial Trail. Aug. 15, 2-8 pm. $30. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front St. nictf. org (208-292-1634) BREWS FEST ‘15 Silver Mountain’s annual summer beer fest atop the mountain, with live music by the Doghouse Boyz, Civilized Animal and Clumsy Lovers. Price includes gondola ride, six tasting tickets and a beer mug. Aug. 15, 1 pm. $30-$45. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com GARDEN BRUNCH The Pumpkin Patch Community Garden hosts a free brunch for the community featuring the garden’s organic produce. Aug. 15, 10 am-1 pm. Free. Held in the garden at the intersection of Argonne and Maringo, Spokane Valley. joyamado94@gmail.com MUSIC, MICROS & BARBECUE “Island Beach Party” is the theme of August’s event, featuring live music by Milonga (Spokane) and beer specials. Aug. 15, 5-10 pm. $17. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com FARM TO FORK An event featuring cooking demonstrations (3 pm; $10)

and food tasting by Top Chef Judge Chef Hugh Acheson. Also includes a farmers market (free admission) from 10 am-2 pm. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com SECRETS OF SAUERKRAUT Local food safety/preservation specialist Anna Kestell teaches how to make your own sauerkraut with just cabbage and salt.

Pre-registration required; class limited to 20 people. Aug. 17, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb St. (893-8330) MEDITERRANEAN SMALL PLATES Chef Charlie Martin hosts an evening all about Mediterranean cooking, sharing his recipes for classic tapas, meze, antipasti and more, with wine pairings for each dish. Aug. 19, 6-8 pm. $59. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. incaafterdark.scc. spokane.edu (533-8141)

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CALISTA KAZUKO Calista studied classical piano at London’s Royal Academy of Music before collaborating with songwriting legend Elliott James Frisby.

She also sings a blend of pop and blues.

Aug. 13, 7:30 pm. $10 suggested donation. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. (326-9516) CELTIC RHYTHM WITH FLOATING CROWBAR Spokane-based, multiinstrumentalists Don Thomsen and James Hunter join forces with guitarist Rick Rubin and fiddler Morgan Andersen to form the configuration known as Floating Crowbar. Aug. 13, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St. cahw. org (893-8250) THE COFFEY TWINS A 1950s and ‘60s style rock and roll show, with a dinnertheater option. Aug. 14-15. $10-$25.

Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2, Newport, Wash. (208-448-1294) CELTIC RHYTHM WITH FLOATING CROWBAR Spokane-based, multi-instrumentalists Don Thomsen and James Hunter join forces with guitarist Rick Rubin and fiddler Morgan Andersen to form the configuration known as Floating Crowbar. Aug. 15, 2-3 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 208 Forest St. (893-8300) SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: THE SENDERS The Senders specialize in ‘50s and ‘60s popular music that combines their love of surf music, the Beatles and classic rock. Aug. 15, 7-10 pm. $25/couple; or $15/person. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way, Uniontown, Wash. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) FESTIVAL AT SANDPOINT FINALE FEAT. SPOKANE SYMPHONY The 33rd annual festival culminates with a concert by the Spokane Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gary Sheldon and featuring a solo by pianist Vadim Neselovskyi. The “Taste of the Stars” complimentary wine tasting event precedes the concert, at 4:30 pm. Aug. 16, 7:30 pm. $11-$40. War Memorial Field, 855 Ontario St. festivalatsandpoint.com LEON PATILLO The singer/songwriter best known as the lead singer in the 70’s rock band Santana presents a concert of ministry through music and word. Aug. 16, 10:30-11:45 am. Free.

Community United Methodist Church, 1470 W. Hanley Ave. cdaumc.com FIVE MINUTES OF FAME Open mic night open to all writers, musicians, etc. Third Wednesday of the month, at 6:30 pm. Cafe Bodega, 504 Oak St. fosterscrossingantiques.com/cafe.html (208-263-5911)

SPOKANE SYMPHONY: SOIREE ON THE EDGE The Spokane Symphony Orchestra performs two outdoor summer concerts in the beautiful setting of Arbor Crest Winery. Aug. 19, at 7 pm. Aug. 19, 7 pm. $20-$70. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest. com (509-927-9463)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

DINNER CRUISE AND EAGLE WATCHING Enjoy casual dining with a buffetstyle dinner prepared by local caterers as you cruise to an area to observe the resident bald eagles. Must reserve no later than noon the day of the cruise, 15-passenger minimum required. Offered Tuesday and Thursday, from 5:30-8 pm, through Aug. 27. $37-$43.

Sandpoint. lakependoreillecruises.com SCKC THURSDAY NIGHT PADDLES The Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club’s weekly Thursday Night Paddle meet-ups take place at a different location each week (see website for details). Thursdays at 5:45 pm, through Sept. 17. sckc.ws SPOKANE INDIANS VS. SALEM-KAIZER VOLCANOES Five-game series, Aug. 12-16, Wed-Sat at 6:30 pm, Sun at 3:30 pm. Aug. 14 is $1 family feast night, with select $1 concessions. $5-$20.

Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. spokaneindiansbaseball.com (535-2922) COEUR D’ALENE ARENACROSS RACING Arenacross I is July 10-11 and Arenacross II is Aug. 14-15. Each day from 5:30-10 pm. $10-$15. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. mrparenacross.com (208-765-4969) SHOES & CINEMA A community run through the neighborhood followed by a screening of McFarland USA Aug. 14.

Free. Half Moon Park, 19995 E. Meyers Ave. pavillionpark.org SPOKANE TO SANDPOINT RELAY The 8th annual, 200-mile relay race starts atop Mt. Spokane and is open to teams of 4-12 runners. Aug. 14-15. $420/high school team; $900/team of 4-6; $1440/ team of 7-12. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. spokanetosandpoint.com (509-238-2220) SPOKARNAGE: A KILLER ROLLER DERBY TOURNAMENT The Spokannibals and Spokane Sports Commission host the third regional roller derby tournament, featuring bouts, beer gardens, after-hour events and more. Aug. 14-16; Fri 4-9 pm, Sat 9 am-9 pm, Sun 9 am-2 pm. $8-$25. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokarnage.com (279-7000) CABELA’S FALL GREAT OUTDOOR DAYS Events include an elk camp set up, field dressing demos with Idaho Fish & Game and Columbia River salmon fishing techniques, and archery.

Aug. 15-16, from 8 am-4 pm each day.

Free. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. cabelas.com/postfalls (208-777-6326) PADDLE SPLASH & PLAY An event for children and their families to promote the healthy and refreshing world of paddling. Kayaks, stand up paddle boards, canoes and PFDs provided to introduce kids in a safe and supervised setting. Event waiver and Discover Pass required, available on site. Aug. 15, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Riverside State Park Nine Mile Recreation Area, 14925 N. Hedin Rd. (487-7085) SPLASH & DASH The Boys & Girls Club of Kootenai County and the Kroc

hosts The USAT Youth Splash & Dash Aquathon, for kids ages 5-15. Aug. 15, 10 am. $30. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. kroccda.org/splashanddash. html (208-667-1865) VOLUNTEER WITH WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION Signup online to improve trails 130 and 160 for all park users, on Aug. 16 and Aug. 18, from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Mt. Spokane State Park, 26107 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. wta.org/ volunteer/east (921-8928) WEST PLAINS WUNDERWOMAN TRIATHLON The women-only event includes sprint and Olympic distance courses, and raises awareness for women’s osteoporosis. Also includes free bone-density screenings. Olympic triathlon starts at 7:30 am, sprint distance at 8:15 am. $90-$100/individual, $155-$160/team. Aug. 16. Waterfront Park, 1386 S. Lefevre St., Medical Lake. emdesports.com (953-9924)

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SHREK THE MUSICAL CST presents the funny and charming un-fairytale about an ogre, a princess, a donkey, and whole lot of fairytale creatures.

Through Aug. 23, Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $49/adult; $42/senior, $27/children. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com TWELFTH NIGHT A performance of the Shakespeare classic. Through Aug. 16; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20$24. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org THE VAMPIRE WHO LOVED IN VEIN OR ONE MONSTER OF A MELODRAMA! Will Count Guano infiltrate the Frankenbein’s castle, stealing the family secret (and the girl) while he’s at it?

An original play written and directed by Eli and Brady Bourgard. Through Aug. 23; Wed-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Sixth Street Theater, 212 Sixth St., Wallace, idaho. sixthstreetmelodrama.com CCT PRESENTS: THE ADDAMS FAMILY Performance of the new musical comedy. Aug. 14-15 at 7 pm. Also Aug. 8, 15-16 at 3 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com CDA MURDER MYSTERY THEATRE A dinner-theater style production of “The Mafia Murders,” set in a speakeasy, circa 1920’s. Someone in the family is out to destroy the “Godfather.” Vintage attire suggested. Aug. 14, from 6-8:30 pm. $35. CdA Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdamurdermysterytheatre.com ON GOLDEN POND CST presents a staged reading of the drama play. Aug. 19, 7:30-9:15 pm. $25. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre. com (208-660-2958)

VISUAL ARTS

SARANAC ART PROJECTS A display of art by 16 members of the Saranac Art Projects, a local nonprofit artist cooperative. Through Sept. 20. Museum admission (5-$10) applies. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) SPOKANE ARTS ALL MEDIA JURIED EXHIBITION Spokane Arts hosts a juried group exhibition featuring the work of artists across the region. Submissions are juried by Ryan Hardesty, Curator of Art and Exhibitions at the WSU Museum of Art. Through Sept. 29, gallery open Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org (625-6081)

DEL GISH A solo show by the Northwest-based oil painter. Aug. 14-Sept. 5; open daily from 11 am-6 pm. Opening reception Aug. 14, from 5-8 pm. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com (208-765-6006) SANDPOINT ARTIST’ STUDIO TOUR Take a self-guided tour of the working studios of Sandpoint’s painters, sculptors, jewelers, potters, glass artists and more. Aug. 14-16 and Aug. 21-23. Free. arttourdrive.org SECOND FRIDAY ARTWALK Coeur d’Alene’s monthly celebration of local art, with local galleries around downtown hosting artist receptions, live music and original art. Second Friday of the month (Aug. 14) from 5-8 pm. Free. artsincda.org/artwalk (208-415-0116)

WORDS

JEFFREY COOK Formerly from this region, Cook comes to the bookstore for an evening to celebrate his new steampunk book, “Dawn of Steam: First Light.” Aug. 14, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT Featuring author Benjamin Scribner, sharing his book “My Life Above the Clouds,” alongside author Clark Roberts who shares his book “Wags to You: Short and Long Dog Tails.” Aug. 14, 6-7:30 pm. Free. The Well-Read Moose, 2048 N. Main, CdA. facebook.com/TheWellReadMoose (208-215-2265) SPOKANE VETERINARIAN DENNIS THOMAS Thomas reads from his new book “Whole-Pet Healing: A Headto-Tail Guide to Connecting With and Caring for Your Animal Companion” and takes questions from the audience about his holistic caring techniques.

Aug. 15, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206) THE TRIPLE NICKEL: BLACK PARATROOPERS DURING WWII Robert L. Bartlett presents on the first all-black paratrooper unit’s mission and service involving Washington state. Trained by U.S. Forest Service Rangers, members of the 555 jumped on some 36 forest fires as first responders, including the 1945 Mt. Baker fire. Aug. 16, 2-3 pm. Free.

Cheney Library, 610 First St. (893-8280) SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Competitive performance poetry, in which poets are judged by 5 audience judges, chosen at random; winner gets a $50 prize. Held the third Monday of the month at 8 pm; doors open at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. spokanepoetryslam.org ELIZABETH GUIZZETTI The Seattlebased sci-fi/fantasy writer reads from her newest release, “The Light Side of the Moon,” the second book in her series. Aug. 18, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free.

Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org MEET THE AUTHOR: KEVIN J. ANDERSON The prolific science fiction author talks about his journey from being a small town fanboy to working for Star Wars, X-Files, Dune, Batman, Star Trek, Superman, and the legendary rock band Rush. His most recent novel, The Dark Between the Stars, is nominated for a 2015 Hugo Award. Aug. 20, 7-8:30 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) n

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“We didn’t see that this nasty financial mindset would hack away at our constitutional medical rights,” McHenry says. “No one saw the forced shutdown of all medicinal dispensaries in Washington. It’s a final effort to get people in the recreational shops so the state can make tax money.”

McHenry opened the Eastern Washington Cannabis Market in 2014. The medicinal farmers market is home to nine vendors and serves up more than 100 strains and countless products to more than 3,000 patients.

The one-stop shop gives patients a competitive advantage and helps regulate Spokane’s medical cannabis prices, McHenry says. The tight-knit group of vendors will remain open up until the pending legislative deadline.

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By July 2016, licensed retail stores may apply for a medical marijuana endorsement from the state. Endorsement specifications have yet to be released, and opponents like McHenry fear patients won’t have access to CBD and CBN products — cannabinoids almost exclusively used for medicinal purposes.

“I’m fearful from a medical standpoint,” he says. “I’m afraid Washington state is headed away from treating marijuana as a medicinal plant. It [weed] is going to become just like Budweiser or Jack Daniel’s — just for fun.”

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False claims about Michael Brown continue to be shared on the web, even a year after he was shot dead in Ferguson.

When Sharing Isn’t Caring In the world of social media, we all have a responsibility to exercise due diligence

BY SCOTT A. LEADINGHAM

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haring is everywhere these days. There’s even an entire economy of sharing, from renting your house online to rideshare services like Uber.

Make no mistake, sharing isn’t only ubiquitous, it’s positive. Give unto others. Share the wealth. What could go wrong?

Unfortunately, a lot, at least when it comes to sharing — and quickly spreading — incorrect, false and, in some cases, blatantly defamatory information. But you’d never do that, right?

Maybe you wouldn’t intentionally, but it’s possible you have, or at least it’s very easy to do nowadays. Just hit the ever-present “Share” button on Facebook and you’re off.

Case in point: The ongoing smear campaign against Michael Brown, facilitated in large part by Facebook sharing.

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Aug. 9 marked the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri, by officer Darren Wilson. With the occasion came predictable “Ferguson: One Year Later” coverage by news media, and renewed demonstrations around the “Black Lives Matter” movement that gained significant steam after Brown’s death.

One year later, as journalists “analyze” racial progress (or lack thereof) in Ferguson and beyond, and activists continue to put out their message, another group carries on what they’ve been doing all along: painting Brown as a kind of “thug” or “gangsta,” an aggressive bully who was no angel or gentle giant, as his family and some news media have portrayed.

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That’s not uncommon when these cases of police shootings gain national attention. The smoke has barely cleared from the gun barrel before people on both sides present “proof” (or their interpretation of it) that the officer was or was not justified or the victim somehow deserved what he got.

Look no further than Facebook or any number of Internet sources to see it.

In Brown’s case, a video that purports to show him viciously beating and antagonizing an older man and taking a backpack is still making the rounds online at the one-year mark of his death. It’s been circulated widely since August 2014, in every case used to suggest that Brown was far from a “gentle giant.”

The video came across my Facebook feed (and possibly yours) having been easily shared by a friend who added the sarcastic comment: “Didn’t know Michael Brown was such a stand-up guy. Not.” I was immediately skeptical but watched anyway.

After the two-minute video, I was relatively sure that the person in question was decidedly not Michael Brown.

A quick Google search for “Michael Brown punching video” confirmed that.

The sleuthing website Snopes explains: “Skin tone is difficult to compare in general (particularly in lower resolution footage), but the person in the ‘Mike Brown video’ appeared to have a far deeper tone than Brown. As well, the features of the unnamed man in the video (from the brief portions in which his face is visible) look nothing like Brown’s, and the person in the video has pierced ears (Brown did not). The footage seen here was originally posted to the Internet back in

2012, when Brown was just 16, under original title ‘only in Woodland City.’ The video was apparently taken at a large apartment complex in Dallas, Texas (a state in which Mike Brown never lived), called Woodland City Apartments.”

BEARING RESPONSIBILITY

There’s an old maxim in journalism that immediately came to mind, of which I reminded my friend in a comment on his post: If your mother says she loves you, get a second source.

Journalists by nature are skeptical of information they receive — or they should be. Certainly journalists and news outlets are just as guilty (if not more so) of sharing and spreading incorrect information. Name any breaking news event and you’ll have many examples of journalists jumping quickly and breathlessly to share information that later proves wrong.

The problem that all journalists face when inevitable mistakes happen is that the toothpaste is really hard (read: impossible) to put back in the tube. Corrections are necessary, but inevitably far fewer people will see (or care about) the correction than see the original inaccuracy.

In this day, when information is so easily spread, it’s incumbent upon everyone — not just journalists — to take responsibility for the information they share. If you see a video shared online that purports to show someone or some event — particularly in big, controversial cases like Michael Brown’s — take a moment to think (and do a Google search) before hitting Share or Retweet or forwarding that chain email from your crazy Uncle Larry.

In these cases, it’s worth remembering wisdom uttered by our 16th president, Honest Abe Lincoln: “You can’t believe everything you see on the Internet.”

I saw that quote in a Facebook meme, which I quickly shared. So it must be true. n editor@inlander.com Scott A. Leadingham is director of education for the Society of Professional Journalists and editor of its magazine, Quill. On Twitter: @scottleadingham.

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