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The Fans Speak Fans outside the Tim McGraw show reflect on their favorite Spokane Arena memories: BARBARA KELLY The first show I ever saw at the Arena was also Tim McGraw, with Faith Hill — their first Soul2Soul tour. I can’t remember the exact year, but the concert was great.

Behind the Scenes It’s 5:30 pm — nearly four hours before country star Tim McGraw is scheduled to perform — and already lines are forming outside the front doors of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. Inside, Marketing Manager Becca Watters and General Manager Matt Gibson are chatting on the concourse, their hand-held radios connecting them to all corners of the building. Though they’ve each done this dozens of times before, they still seem electrified. It could be that concerts always have a unique energy to them. It could be that tonight marks the much-anticipated opening of the Boone Street Taproom, which will add locally brewed craft beer to the variety of concessions already on offer. Or it could just be the buzz that sets in before exhaustion. Watters has been at the Arena since 6:30 am, when she arrived to greet the riggers and stagehands who set up Tim McGraw at the Arena on Sept. 3 tonight’s concert. “Every event day is like this,” she says. “When there are no events, it’s an 8-to-5 job, but when we have events at the venue, the hours depends on what their schedule is.” It wouldn’t be unheard of if she were here until midnight or later, tying up loose ends and paying the accountants, who will want to close the books (a process known as “settlement”) before the encore. She and Gibson laugh in describing it all. It’s not quite as glamorous as people may think. “There are a lot of preparations that are made from the beginning — months before the actual event up until that very night when guests pour through the doors,” says Gibson. “Our responsibility is to make sure everyone has a great time while our crew pulls it all off again and again.” The doors have opened, and the concourse is now bustling with concertgoers. Minutes later, the radio Juggling her iPhone and radio, Becca Watters crackles. There’s been a spill. Watters makes sure someone is dealing with it. It’s a quiet night, she admits keeps the Tim McGraw show running smoothly. with some relief. Not all shows go this smoothly. “It’s a lifestyle,” she says. “You have to be committed to coming in early and leaving late. But we’re lucky that we get to do this. There are teachers who love being teachers, artists who love being artists. It just happens to be that we love doing this.” NEXT TIME: Take a tour of the high-tech gear that makes the Arena rock.

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ohn Boehner’s resignation as Speaker of the House and congressman was as much a surprise to his former colleagues as to his fellow members. His resignation, however, is best described as an act of courage driven by his faith as a devout Catholic — a man who has taken the words of Pope Francis to heart. For more than 20 years, John Boehner has been urging speakers to invite the pope to address Congress. (As a young congressman, Boehner is said to have asked then-Speaker Tom Foley, also a Catholic, to invite the pope to Washington.) Now, as speaker himself, he realized a career-long ambition to be graced by the presence of Pope Francis, a devoutly religious man dedicated to serving others with humility and genuineness — two traits Boehner himself possesses. Known for loving people generally and other members specifically, Boehner spent summers traveling America in his customized bus to attend fundraisers for Republican incumbents and challengers alike. (He helped me in 1994, appearing in Walla Walla at a political event, and has appeared for my successor since her election in 2004.) Unable to control his emotions, he wept openly when Pope Francis addressed the joint session of Congress, as millions watched. It was not unusual that Speaker Boehner paid such emotional attention to the pope’s remarks of unity, sacrifice and common good. Touched by those admonitions, Boehner decided to call it quits the day following Pope Francis’ remarks, for the good of the House he has so loved over his more than two decades of service to Ohio. It was likely no coincidence that Boehner reached his decision after being deeply touched by the pope’s appearance, a crowning achievement for his tenure as speaker.

years battling to achieve House unity, fighting through White House conflict, while striving to achieve legislative progress and achievement in the face of a critical electorate. But it was the speaker’s faith and courage, awakened by Pope Francis’ unselfishness and hopeful message, that convinced Boehner the time for self-sacrifice was now. One of 12 children, raised a devout Catholic, Boehner was first elected from Ohio’s 8th District in 1991. Safely re-elected ever since, Boehner has enjoyed House popularity for his ethics, wry sense of humor, golfing skill (he was interviewed by the Golf Channel’s David Feherty about golf and politics in July) and good nature. Reliably conservative, he has always been practical, recognizing the political persuasions of more moderate members from less conservative areas, acknowledging that Republicans are not philosophically monolithic.

“Speaker Boehner opted to act for unity in the House, recognizing that institutional integrity transcended career security.”

oehner doesn’t have much left to accomplish as a congressman. Threatened by insurrection on the political right, frustrated by President Obama’s intransigence on federal budget control, participating as one of the “Gang of Seven” conservative coalition in the early ’90s objecting to Democratic misbehavior, accomplished as a committee chairman and safe in his home district, Speaker Boehner opted to act for unity in the House, recognizing that institutional integrity transcended career security. Boehner may have been influenced by the actions of his close friend, former Iowa Rep. Tom Latham, who announced in 2013 that he would not seek re-election the following year. Latham’s subsequent time in Florida, free of the contentiousness of the House today, not facing mandatory congressional meetings every 20 minutes, had to be of interest to Boehner after so many

When Boehner observed Pope Francis’ genuineness, compassion for others, message of sacrifice, view of the “big picture” and obligation to be unselfish to the less fortunate and afflicted, he had to have been moved to actions he might not otherwise have appreciated as deeply without the pope’s emphasis.

ohn Boehner will be a post-Congressional success. While his title will be “former speaker,” he will most certainly devote a portion of his life to following the papal example to do good works for others. He will take to heart the pope’s words and actions and will commit himself to focusing his energies to benefit the less advantaged, the poor and those in need. Speculation abounds about his future plans. I predict that lobbying won’t be an option, but enjoying life will. At 65, he’s still young enough to contribute to the betterment of mankind. Helping others is independent of age restrictions. It will be enough if Boehner, having committed much of his life to public service, opts for charitable service, using his actions to demonstrate profound faith and courage as evidence that he follows the example of his religious mentor, the leader of his chosen faith, Pope Francis of Argentina, the Sovereign of Vatican City. n

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pokane and its one-term mayors: It’s a punch line we love to repeat, but it’s not that funny anymore. Recent events have shown there’s a reason for our one-term-itis — Spokane mayors live and die by their relationship with the Spokane Police Department. Now David Condon is feeling it. When the Police Lieutenants and Captains Association sent a letter complaining about their boss, Chief Frank Straub, Condon quickly secured his resignation. Did Condon, fearing for his re-election, shy from a fight? Was Straub really that bad? We don’t have answers; there’s way too much secrecy surrounding this episode. Meanwhile, Condon has taken a major political hit. And the timing of that letter, just weeks before the election, was political. Our police unions seem to have become part political action committee. Ironically, Condon probably won that election because cops soured on Mary Verner. Four years ago, right about now, the SPD was suddenly being quoted on every newscast about how Verner’s budget would cut property crime investigations. Again, odd timing — especially for a decision that was made with the police’s blessing six months before. Condon pounced with powerful talking points, and the one-term curse continued. And the political activism goes back even further. Alan Chertok, who made a lot of dumb mistakes on his own, was fired as police chief when officers started to formally complain. While some thought the charges were petty, City Manager Bill Pupo, in a panic, cut him loose after nine months. Chief Anne Kirkpatrick got a mysterious vote of no confidence from the Police Guild — mysterious because they never revealed the voting tallies. She tried to dole out swift justice to wayward cops, but was stymied at every turn. Chertok, Kirkpatrick and Straub were all outsiders brought in to improve our local department. “Morale” — a repeated, vague complaint — is often pegged at “an all-time low” when out-of-towners are in charge. So if you’re a police union leader, it’s hard not to conclude that if you don’t like your bosses — either the mayor or the chief of police — you can probably get them fired. This arrangement is not working for the citizens, their elected leaders or the Spokane Police Department. Otto Zehm was killed a decade ago next March, and what we’ve had since is a revolving door of mayors and police chiefs. Thanks to Straub and Condon, some lasting reforms have been enacted, but between Straub’s exit and our farce of an ombudsman process, Condon’s plans — Spokane’s plans — are in ruins. It falls to the next mayor to effectively engage the community and the police department to figure out how to break this ugly cycle.  JEN SORENSON CARTOON

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ometimes I think about Hitler and the ethnic cleansing that occurred in Europe. It hurts my heart to imagine the pain, suffering, and loss at the hands of such a monster. They say that approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Six million humans were destroyed because of ignorance, hate and lack of humanity. Take a moment to imagine it. Now can you imagine the

survivors, descendants and families of the victims being asked to celebrate a holiday in honor of Hitler? You can’t imagine it? Does it make you sick, thinking of any modern society doing that to the Jewish people? It makes me sick. It makes me want to rage at the idea. What a horrible thought: The survivors of one of the largest ethnic cleansings in history having to “celebrate” the life of their killer, their oppressor, their hunter, their nightmare. I just can’t imagine it. And yet, as a modern society, we ask the First Na-

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tions people in America to celebrate the life of the man whose deeds led to the eradication and genocide of upward of 50 million people (and that’s the conservative estimate). Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas was the cataclysmic event that led to the largest genocide known to human history. So why is it OK for the one, but is unimaginable for the other? I’ve asked myself this question many times. Sometimes I justify it with excuses of ignorance and an education system that lacks perspective and facts. Sometimes I shrug it off and ignore it, because it’s so much easier to pretend that it doesn’t matter to me and the almost 5.2 million other Native American/Alaskan Native people in the U.S. But most of the time, I just can’t understand the callous treatment of our First People. No, I get it. Every child raised in the public school system has been taught to worship and proudly proclaim Columbus as a hero because he “discovered” the New World. The reality, as we know, is that there were whole civilizations already here, and other European explorers had made landfall centuries earlier. And remember: Columbus was not even trying to get to the Americas; his job was to find a route to the East Indies for LETTERS easier commerce. He Send comments to failed completely in editor@inlander.com. that regard. But he thought that he had reached India; hence, why we refer to the indigenous people of the Americas as “Indians.” That misnomer has stuck. And now, banks close and the mail carriers get a holiday to glorify the man who failed to make it to India, misnamed millions of people and more than 500 different tribes, and served as the tipping point in the eradication, enslavement, murder and abuse of those people. Both the cities of Seattle and Minneapolis, among others, have elected to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day instead. It’s refreshing to know that there are people out there who care about the truth of Columbus’ legacy, and want to honor our First Nations people in a real and authentic way. Sure, I’d love for the federal government to follow suit. It’s doubtful, but I can hope. I can also hope that the mayor and city council of Spokane see the value in celebrating our First Nations people. Hint, Hint. Continuing to celebrate Columbus is a sign that we still have work to do regarding race relations in America. 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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THANK YOU, CHIEF STRAUB n all the discussions about how good/bad Police Chief Frank Straub was

for Spokane, I don’t see mention of what the people he was hired to serve think of him. I hear about senior police staff, commissions and politicians. As a member of the plain ol’ public of Spokane, I liked the chief. Before his tenure, I was genuinely afraid of the city police with their felonious salutes and trigger-happy ways. In a recent encounter with the police, I saw a more professional, calmer, less physical display among the officers. I know Chief Straub was a change agent and his tenure would be short and unhappy for the officers. Resistance LETTERS to change is proportional to the time Send comments to allotted… lots of change in a short editor@inlander.com. time generates lots of resistance. Chief Straub took this department on when it was at its absolute worst, so bad no other qualified candidate wanted the job. I think he needs the thanks of the citizens, and not a kick in the pants, for turning around a dangerously out-of-control department. I really could care less if the brass, assorted females and the mayor found him to be abrasive. MARILYN WRIGHT Spokane, Wash.

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SHAUN PETERSON: Spokane’s labor force and income levels do not justify a hike of this magnitude. If you want to help the workers, a targeted wage subsidy would work much better. [In] Seattle, it’s fine because the labor market is much tighter and prevailing wages are already much higher than $15. Spokane has the exact opposite problem. HALEY MCSPADDEN: It would not make a difference for the better. Businesses would raise their prices to accommodate the new wages. And those that make more than minimum wage would have a more difficult time paying for items that have now had a price increase. This is not a winning situation. ASHLEY EVANS: Did everyone forget the concept of inflation? I work in customer service starting out at minimum wage and I do not want $15 an hour, because I’ll lose several hundred to taxes for being a single independent making over $1,000 a check for making pizzas, and then paying $10 for a gallon of milk. It’s stupid. JASON WIEBE: Why limit the minimum wage raise to businesses employing over 150 people? If it’s good and right to establish $15/ hour, it should apply to all Spokane businesses. Under this plan, an entry level employee at Red Robin gets at least $15/hr, but an entrylevel employee at a locally owned restaurant gets far less. Where is the equity in that? 

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A member of the council’s majority, Karen Stratton is facing a challenger backed by Mayor David Condon BY JAKE THOMAS

iane Crow stands in the parking lot at Indian Trail Elementary School before six people who are giving up a few hours of one of the last days of summer to talk to strangers. Specifically, they’re here to ring doorbells alongside Karen Stratton in hopes of convincing voters that she should keep her seat on the Spokane City Council.

Crow, an old friend of Stratton, explains what to do: Wear a name tag, have a script to read from, don’t put campaign literature in the mailbox, she says. Also, adds Crow, be prepared to remind voters that the race is nonpartisan. “Do you know what nonpartisan is?” she asks. “What I usually say is these are nonpartisan races: They

look at the citizens and the district; that’s what the vote is basically on.” The race is indeed technically nonpartisan. But it’s drawn interested parties, namely the mayor, the city council president and their allies, who are keen on shaping its outcome. After working for a decade in city government, including for two mayors, Stratton, 56, successfully applied last year to fill out the term of Councilman Steve Salvatori, who resigned early and moved away. Since then, she’s become associated with the council’s so-called veto-proof majority that’s helped left-leaning Council President Ben Stuckart thwart the more right-leaning Mayor David Condon. The mayor, hoping to tip the balance on the council, is backing Evan Verduin, the owner of architectural design firm Studio Called MAKE, who Condon says will bring a needed business-oriented perspective to ...continued on next page

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“FAULT LINE,” CONTINUED... the council. Verduin says Stratton votes in near lockstep with the council’s majority, which he says has strayed from its core mission of municipal services into divisive social issues. “The way [Stratton] is going to vote on issues is pretty predictable,” says Verduin, who says he’ll be more independent. “And I think there needs to be someone who is more willing to say what is in the interest of Spokane, the community and our district.” Stratton says the mayor’s level of involvement in the race has damaged their relationship. The assertion that she and the council don’t support business is ill-founded, she says. “I didn’t know I was running against the mayor too,” says Stratton. “This is unprecedented.”

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ost city council votes are unanimous, concerned with dry functions of municipal government. But on more controversial issues, the council tends to break down on a 5-2 voting pattern. Verduin says Stratton has voted with the liberal-leaning majority 91 times out of 95 on what he calls “partisan votes.” Stratton calls those numbers “a disservice to citizens,” saying they leave out how those votes were for jobs and human services. She says she’s never been told how to vote. Stratton has abstained from voting on anything marijuana-related because she co-owns a recreational pot farm. She voted against an agreement between the city and ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft, and voted against

borrowing money from an investment fund to pay for a new city facility. She also opposed removing Councilman Mike Fagan from the health board after his controversial comments regarding vaccines. As for her lack of independence, Stratton points to a vote she hasn’t taken on an ordinance, key to Stuckart and his allies, that’s been put on hold. For most of the year, Stuckart has been crafting a sick-leave ordinance that would require employers to offer paid time off to workers to deal with illness. In August, he announced that the work would be suspended so council could focus on the budget. Behind the scenes, Stratton says she told Stuckart that although she supports the concept behind the ordinance, it needed more work and outreach before she would vote for it. She’s concerned how it might affect “mom-and-pop” businesses, and thought more work was needed to determine what kind of exemptions it should include. She also worries that a separate Worker Bill of Rights initiative could pass, placing too many new requirements on businesses at once. “I have gone out of my way to open up discussion with my community on sick leave and table it until we’ve had more discussion,” says Stratton. Stuckart says he’s been “very frustrated” with Stratton. Stratton says that Stuckart told her she would lose electoral support and funding for her position on the ordinance (Stuckart says he doesn’t recall the conversation), but their relationship has improved and he

supports her campaign. Indeed, as the council’s newest member, Stratton has been active on hiring and management practices in the city administration. She successfully sponsored an ordinance requiring the mayor to provide justification for appointments outside the civil service system and another establishing reimbursement rates for city employee meal expenses. She supports services for low-income families and seniors and notes that she voted for an ordinance that provides a framework for business incentives.

erduin and Condon met through a mutual friend. At the time, Verduin was becoming more interested in city politics after starting a business, and Condon appointed him to the Plan Commission last year. He has the endorsements of Condon and developer Jerry Dicker, as well as former councilmembers Steve Salvatori and Nancy McLaughlin. Despite being a political unknown, Verduin quickly outpaced Stratton in fundraising shortly after filing to run. As of press time, he had raised $42,000 to Stratton’s $39,000. Condon, who has outraised westside politicians, has appeared at fundraisers for Verduin and the two share donors, although Verduin says he isn’t close with the mayor. “I think the citizens Evan Verduin says he would bring expect us to philosophically more independence to the council. disagree and having those debates is fine,” says Condon, who downplays any conflict with Stratton. Condon says he supports Verduin because his perspective as a small business owner raising a young family is needed on the council. Despite the blessing from the city’s more right-leaning politicians, Verduin says he’s a centrist, highlighting how he’s received neither endorsements nor money from political parties. He’ll be independent, he says, like Salvatori or Councilman Mike Allen. “They are very open-minded about the policies they address and are willing to explore options, and you don’t know how they are going to vote on every single item,” says Verduin. So where does he stand? Verduin opposes the LETTERS sick-leave ordinance, saying Send comments to it should be a state or federal editor@inlander.com. issue. He supports the sit-lie ordinance. He would have voted against an ordinance requiring apprenticeship work on city public work projects. He says that local police generally shouldn’t be concerned with immigration matters. He still says that the council didn’t need to pass a controversial ordinance codifying a police policy preventing officers from inquiring into people’s immigration status. He would have supported an ordinance making it illegal to block driveways, although anti-abortion activists felt targeted by it. He supports an ordinance requiring two firefighters on non-emergency calls, but would have liked to have seen more flexibility. If elected, Verduin says he would spend about 20 hours on his business and 30 hours on the city council activity each week, and he might not hire a legislative aide, which would make him the least involved member of the council. Other members of the council have stepped back from their businesses after being elected. Salvatori resigned to focus on his business. Verduin is confident he can do both, especially if the council focuses on the right things. “I think some people just want their city council to be working,” he says. “They don’t want a larger agenda.” n jaket@inlander.com

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BELABORING THE POINT Spokane city workers want a NEW BOSS. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 270, the union representing non-managerial rank-and-file workers in Spokane’s municipal government, has endorsed Shar Lichty, who is challenging David Condon for mayor. Jim Tieken, the union’s political action coordinator, told the Inlander that the endorsement boiled down to Lichty being more receptive to better pay and benefits for city workers than Condon. Lichty took the endorsement as a sign of “Condon’s poor leadership.” Condon replied that he would continue to work with union if elected to a second term, while also finding ways to make the city more efficient. (JAKE THOMAS)

THE STABILIZER Interim Police CHIEF RICK DOBROW is no amatuer — or so he told us during an interview in his office a few days after he was tapped to fill in for outgoing Chief Frank Straub. Dobrow joined SPD in 1994 after a 13-year stint as a cop in Stockton, California, and will be the interim chief indefinitely until Mayor David Condon fills the position. We asked Dobrow about his relationship with former Chief Straub, his priorities for the future of the department and how he sees his role as interim chief. Read the whole Q&A on our blog. (MITCH RYALS)

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The American Civil Liberties Union and the Terrell Marshall Law Group in Seattle filed a class-action lawsuit against Benton County for jailing people who cannot afford their COURT-IMPOSED DEBTS. “The practices in Benton County are particularly egregious because there is a fully integrated system that routinely leads debtors to prison simply because they’re too poor to pay court fines and fees,” says Vanessa Hernandez, an attorney with the state branch of the ACLU. Toby Marshall, an attorney with the Terrell Marshall Law Group, says his firm assisted the ACLU with an investigation into the practices in Benton County, which covers the Tri Cities. Benton County is making “a substantial amount of money” by jailing people for nonpayment because cities must pay the county about $70 per day to jail people, Marshall says. Instead of collecting, for example, $400 in fines from debtors, the county will get $1,400 from cities for the use of its jail. Another way the county squeezes money from its low-income citizens is by tacking on fees for participation in work crew or the issuance of a warrant. If a person misses a payment, for example, and a judge issues a warrant, another $100 is added to the bill. Defendants must

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The Land and Water Conservation Fund, a federal program that’s directed close to A BILLION DOLLARS FOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS in Washington and Idaho during its 50 year history, has expired after Congress failed to renew it last week. The fund received its revenue from payments made by energy companies drilling on public land. The money was then used to acquire public lands as well as improve national and local parks. Washington has received more than $600 million from the fund. In Spokane County, it’s been used on Mt. Spokane, the Dishman Hills Natural Area and others. Across the border, Idaho has received over $200 million,

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, is drawing fire for her less-than-enthusiastic support of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. part of which has been used to acquire Tubbs Hill as a public park and to make improvements to Sandpoint’s beach front park. U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican who chairs a key House committee, wouldn’t reauthorize the program in its current form over concerns that it was being used to expand federal landholdings at the expense of local communities. Both Washington and Idaho’s senators have called on Congress to reauthorize the fund. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, also wants to see it reauthorized, but wants to see it reworked first. “I want to look at ways to strengthen our state and local parks and limit the practice of bureaucrats in D.C. buying up large swaths of farmland and rangeland, which too often is poorly managed and inaccessible to the public,” Rodgers says in a statement. (JAKE THOMAS)

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How a debate over adding two more commissioners turned political and personal BY DANIEL WALTERS

ver the years, plenty of local politicians have mused about the merits of expanding the number of Spokane County commissioners. In 2007, Commissioner Bonnie Mager argued that five commissioners would provide more representation. In 2011, Commissioner Al French — after defeating Mager — noted the commissioners’ workload was so large that he’d rarely get home before 8 or 9 pm. The cost to add two more commissioners, he said, was tiny enough to basically be a “rounding error.” When Mary Lou Johnson unsuccessfully ran against French last year, she brought up the idea unbidden in an interview with the Inlander. “I think we need, really, to have that conversation about expanding the board of commissioners to five people,” Johnson said. As recently as February, Jim CastroLang, chairman of the Spokane County Democratic Central Committee, said he liked the idea of expanding the number of commissioners: “The way it is now, if two people kind of get on the same side about something, everything’s decided before you get started,” he said. When Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn pitched the idea to community groups earlier this year, she says she was surprised by the level of bipartisan support. But last week, when CastroLang stood up at a county hearing to testify about county Proposition 1, which would add two more commissioners, it was in firm opposition: “We don’t want any of the county’s time, resources, or money spent on this,” CastroLang says. “It’s not the right time.” Mager, French and Johnson have also fervently opposed the measure. It isn’t just the big number that matters, they say. It’s the fine print.

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e had three county commissioners when we first become a state in 1889 and had a county population of 55,000. Today we have 495,000,” Commissioner Todd Mielke says. “Three commissioners simply can’t do it well anymore. We live in a much more complex world.” Mielke and O’Quinn both take a look at their calendars and lament the fact that they can’t be everywhere at once. Mielke tallies 116 county votes that French missed this year because he was attending other meetings. There are supposed to be three commissioners at the Spokane

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Regional Health District board meetings. Often, O’Quinn says, she’s been the only commissioner there. “People walk away feeling slighted when we can’t get to their meeting,” Mielke says. “It’s like, ‘Well, gee, I must not rate as high of a priority.’” There’s another issue: Three commissioners are often muzzled from communicating with each other. It has to do with open public meeting laws. On the Spokane City Council, one member can legally argue with another about the city budget, say, without calling a public meeting. The city council has seven members, and two aren’t enough to change the outcome. But with only three commissioners, two’s a crowd. Many discussions about county business between two commissioners are legally required to take place during public meetings, usually advertised a week in advance.

hese days, Johnson and other Democrats are clear that they don’t just want to expand the number of commissioners: They want to change the way commissioners are elected. “My question would be: Why add two commissioners if we don’t get better county government?” Johnson says. “This does not give us better representation.” While Democrats like Mager and John Roskelley have served as county commissioners in the past, in recent years they’ve struggled to win county LETTERS seats. In part, blame the Send comments to odd way commissioner editor@inlander.com. elections work: In the primary, only voters in the candidates’ districts can vote. But in the general election, the entire county votes. In more liberal districts, like French’s, a Democrat could do well in the primary and still get trounced in the countywide general. Johnson and others argue that if we really want more diverse representation on the board of commissioners — instead of just two more Republicans — we need to elect commissioners by district. But to do that would mean switching the county to a “home rule charter,” a complicated process that would also mean answering other tricky questions. Should we appoint our sheriff instead of electing him? Should voters be able to elect the county executive like they elect a mayor? Support on the board of commissioners for electing

commissioners by district, however, is minimal. “I think it’s a horrible model,” O’Quinn says. She says it would create needless division on the board, with candidates fighting for what’s best for their district, instead of what’s best for the entire county. Mielke and O’Quinn see partisanship driving the call for district elections. “The missive of that group,” Mielke says, “is to find a way to elect more Democrats.” While adding commissioners wouldn’t preclude the county from later launching a home rule charter process, local Democrats like Johnson worry that Proposition 1 would kill the momentum and motivation for such a big change. “If we decide to take this bend in the road, we are stuck with the status quo but have two more commissioners,” Johnson says.

ronically, it’s French who provides an implicit rebuttal to the idea that Republican commissioners will invariably vote in lockstep. During his first term, he and his fellow commissioners were generally unanimous on every decision. But that shifted after his re-election: These days, French’s bon mots are often lobbed directly at the Republicans sitting beside him. “Bickering among the members of the board over the last months makes your constituents wonder whose interest you have at heart,” CastroLang told the board at last week’s hearing. French clashed intensely with the other commissioners over a proposed STA tax on the ballot back in April. He investigated whether his fellow commissioners broke public meeting laws by communicating on their cell phones. (They hadn’t.) When a committee of local business leaders chose Mielke as the top pick for the Spokane County CEO position in June, O’Quinn made a motion to hire him for the job. But the motion died when French refused to offer a second. Indeed, when French addressed Prop. 1 at the hearing, he let the accusations fly. Other arguments raised even more eyebrows. French says Mielke and O’Quinn “enjoy a personal relationship that goes beyond their responsibilities as county commissioners” and “when they are seen in public after hours or on weekends, it raises the question as to the nature of their conversations.” O’Quinn was not amused. “I’m sure that when ac-

cusations were made about him and his assistant, that he did not find that amusing or entertaining,” she shot back. French later said his comments were not intended to refer to anything sexual, but rather to call attention to the importance of the county’s business being done in the public. And he has other concerns. “Two of three commissioners can get in a room and draw the boundaries,” French says. “Did I mention they’re up for reelection?” He suggests the new districts drawn by O’Quinn and Mielke could look like the “broken leg of a cat” or a “twisted willow branch” as a way to avoid showdowns with potential opponents. ooming over the five-commissioner Furthermore, he says, the commissioners could question is another issue: Who theoretically drag out the will be the next CEO of Spokane boundary-drawing process, County? When Al French refused to supstalling competitors from port Todd Mielke for the position in June, joining the race. Mielke abandoned his pursuit of the role. “Clearly, the two “My chapter is done with the current commissioners supporting makeup of the board,” Mielke said in the this measure will benefit Spokesman-Review. politically and financially,” That phrasing, naturally, has led French wrote in a docucritics to speculate that Mielke is pushing ment (“Political Motivafor two more commissioners so he could tions for Five Commissionhave another shot at the CEO position. ers”) that he handed out to “It’s an absolutely ridiculous accusareporters. tion,” Mielke says. “We are working to O’Quinn and Mielke resolve the county CEO position sooner scoff at such accusations. rather than later.” By the time new com“Our legal counsel says we missioners are elected next year, Mielke absolutely had no conflict says, the CEO will already be chosen. of interest,” O’Quinn says. “I am looking for someone who is She already has outlined going to be around for a while,” Mielke her priorities for drawing says. The commissioners continue to new boundaries: Each disfight over how to pick that CEO. Mielke trict should hew to existing and O’Quinn want to try to directly geographic lines and arterirecruit candidates from Spokane, before als, she says, and include having county staff recruit candidates urban and rural areas. outside the region. French says his French, however, wants to use previous support for five an independent headhunting firm to commissioners eroded for find candidates this time. The previous several reasons. He got attempt to have the county recruit canmore efficient at doing his didates produced “horrible results,” he job and sent his assistant says, with most of the 84 applicants not to cover some meetings he even meeting the minimum qualificacouldn’t attend. Prioritizations. tion, he says, not work“I thought we could do better,” load, is the limiting factor French says. “We just used the wrong for the three commisprocess.” (DANIEL WALTERS) sioners. After all, Mielke managed to complete the University of Washington’s Executive MBA program while serving as commissioner. And French points out that, thanks to annexations and incorporations, the number of unincorporated citizens in the county has actually fallen in the past 25 years. He says the budget situation doesn’t leave much room for new commissioners: He points to county employees who haven’t received a raise in five years, arguing that the county can’t justify the $500,000 he estimates the proposition would cost. For that, he says, “I can put five more deputies on the road.” Mielke, by contrasts, pegs the cost of two more commissioners at $250,000, arguing that the three staff assistants should be pooled to work for all five commissioners. And compared with a general fund budget 600 times larger, Mielke suggests, that’s, well, basically a rounding error. Instead, he says Prop. 1 hinges on one basic question. “The question is: Is three a sufficient number to run county business and represent all the different groups?” Mielke says. “To me, that’s the debate.” n

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Current ombudsman commission chair Deb Conklin speaking at a city council meeting last year about the importance of police oversight. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

What Lies in Wait What exactly is Spokane missing without a police ombudsman? BY MITCH RYALS

rom day one, Spokane’s new police ombudsman — interim or not — will walk into office greeted by a stack of backlogged complaints and at least four requests to conduct investigations independent of the police department’s Internal Affairs Division, something that has never been done before. Those four cases will test police accountability advocates’ argument that the ordinance passed by the city council in 2014 weakens the ombudsman’s authority to investigate independent of the

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police department. The citizen commission overseeing the ombudsman office voted unanimously last week to offer Robert Breeden an interim, four-month appointment. Breeden declined the offer, but said he is still interested in the permanent job. In the meantime, the commission will send an investigator to Florida to take a closer look at allegations that Breeden belittled former employees. They plan to send someone to British Columbia, too, as they’re still

considering candidate Raheel Humayun for the job. Whatever happens, Spokane could get an answer to the debate over whether or not the Spokane Police Guild’s collective bargaining agreement and the ordinance passed in 2014 allows for independent police oversight, as called for by voters with Proposition 1, that amended the city charter. “It’s created a legal stalemate, to say the least,” says Tim Connor, a local activist and former Center for Justice spokesman who worked on Prop 1 in 2013. “This is not what we had in mind at all. What we got was a hijacking of the democratic process.” Others say it’s too soon to tell, because the current system has never been put to the test. “I believe there is independent investigative authority,” says Council President Ben Stuckart. “It just hasn’t been tested yet. We haven’t seen the process and whether it works or not.”

our requests for independent investigations have accumulated since 2014. The substance of the requests include fatal police shootings and officers’

treatment of a homeless transgendered woman. In May 2013, police shot and killed 21-yearold Justin Cairns at his grandparents’ Nine Mile Falls home while they slept inside. Police fired 12 shots, striking Cairns with at least five .223 caliber rounds. He was unarmed except for his cell phone, though police say he reached for his waistband. The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office cleared three officers of criminal wrongdoing in Cairns’ death. As the Inlander reported in June of last year, Cairns’ family filed a request with the ombudsman to conduct an independent investigation. “Our hopes with this is to get answers of what happened,” Cairns’ mother, Lorinda Fernandez, said then. “And… to hopefully prevent things like this from happening in the future.” Tim Burns, who retired as Spokane’s police ombudsman this past January, said he intended to open his own investigation, but never did. Another request was submitted by a woman who was accosted in a downtown restaurant earlier this year. Two men followed Jacina Carla Scamahorn, a homeless transgender woman, into Boots Bakery and Lounge after she spat in one of their faces for allegedly demeaning her with slurs. According to court documents, Adam Flippen admits to hitting Scamahorn once, but denies using any slurs. Scamahorn and another witness say Flippen also kicked her in the face after she fell, breaking her nose. Boots’ manager, Johnny Dandurand, filed a complaint with the ombudsman stating that “officers did not try to help, argued about the name the victim used, [and] chuckled and rolled their eyes.” The complaint was investigated by internal affairs and later classified as an “inquiry,” which means officers didn’t violate any policies and will not face discipline. Last week, assault and malicious harassment charges were dropped against the two men for lack of evidence, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. These requests, if taken up by an ombudsman, could test the parameters of the city’s existing laws. Currently, the charter says the ombudsman’s office “shall independently investigate any matter necessary to fulfill its duties,” within the confines of state law, the Spokane Municipal Code and any collective bargaining agreements. According to the ordinance, however, the ombudsman can only launch an independent investigation under limited circumstances. One way is through direction from the commission. If the commission is unsatisfied with a completed departmental investigation or if the department refuses to investigate at all, it can tell the ombudsman to initiate one, but police officers are not required to participate in interviews. The commission could also hire a third party to investigate. Another avenue to independent investigations are through specific requests by citizens. These inquiries can only lead to recommendations in policy changes and cannot affect discipline.

Breean Beggs, the attorney for the ombudsman commission, agrees with Stuckart that, as is, the ombudsman can act independently. “It’s there, but it could be more explicit,” Beggs says of the ombudsman’s independent authority. “If it were, there wouldn’t be a danger of the police guild trying to prevent it with a complaint to the Public Employee Relations Commission.”

he Office of Police Ombudsman has been completely empty for the past week and will remain so for at least one more. The office’s only staff member, Luvimae Omana, is

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“Our hopes with this is to get answers of what happened and… to hopefully prevent things like this from happening in the future.” on vacation, during which time the City Attorney’s Office will be responding to complaints. Since the beginning of this year, there have been 42 complaints filed with the ombudsman office and forwarded to police internal affairs. The internal investigations continue without oversight. Complaints against the Spokane Police Department have dropped significantly, from 156 in 2013 to 118 in 2014 and 82 through August of this year, according to the department’s Office of Professional Accountability. Those totals include complaints submitted directly to the police department and the ombudsman office. Of the 82 complaints received this year, 55 have been closed as inquiries.

uring a meeting last week when the five-member citizen commission decided to offer Breeden the interim position, their frustration over the events of the past nine months was clear. Rubbing his forehead, Commissioner Scott Richter expressed his disappointment with the selection committee’s refusal to send a list of approved candidates for the interim position. A.J. VanderPol, a new commissioner and mayoral appointee, lobbied in favor of hiring Breeden based largely on the fact that the process has taken so long and the complaints were piling up. Afterward, Deb Conklin, the commission chair, told the Inlander that had it not been for the dismemberment of the commission in May, when three members left amid a whistleblower complaint, they might have voted to hire an attorney to direct the selection committee to deliver them a pool of interim candidates. “Without an interim ombudsman, we effectively have been in violation of the charter and the ordinance for 10 months, and that’s illegal in Spokane,” Conklin says. “The charter says if the position becomes vacant, you will immediately get an interim. The community has not been served.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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hen Larry Ellingson was 16, his music instructor admonished him, saying he would look back on his life and realize he was the proverbial jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Ellingson’s response? “Cool.” Turns out his teacher was mistaken about Ellingson,

whose audio-visual industry career spanned nearly four decades and allowed him to work with two media simultaneously: sound and visual images. But he was right that Ellingson marched to the tune of his own drum. His journey, which landed him a current art exhibition, “Force of Attraction,” at North Idaho College, offers

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Larry Ellingson is known for using industrial materials in his artwork. DANIEL D. BAUMER PHOTO

Ellingson’s “Prisoner of Time” (top) and “Deep Neural Portal.”

“MULTIMEDIA COMPOSER,” CONTINUED... making business inside the former Kroll Building, then sold it and became engrossed in working with sound. As he explained at an NIC gallery talk, purchasing an earlymodel synthesizer and tape deck was transformative. “The fabric of the universe shifted perceptibly,” he says of the time. Before Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Apple’s GarageBand made it possible to look and sound like a rock star, Ellingson was creating multimedia presentations and composing music on the cutting edge of digital technology. By 1986, Ellingson had taken over Inland Audio Visual; he ran the company until 2005. Business losses and the proliferation of cheap, fast, portable technology (by then, more than half of American households had at least one computer) led to filing for bankruptcy. Although he continued to operate the company as a rental business until 2011, Ellingson hadn’t been making music for several years. Instead, he’d returned to an early love: art. His first piece in 2003, nicknamed The Egg, was a mixed-media sculpture for his future wife, Jan Wigen, at the time serving as development officer for Cheney

Cowles Museum (now the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture). More pieces quickly followed, each as fantastical as the previous one. Although Ellingson can and has made art with just about any material, he favors industrial elements — rusted metal, circuit boards, car parts — unusual surfaces and whimsical touches like doll parts, fish leather, an old tire pump. He’s also gathered materials from travel (he’s visited 50-plus countries with Wigen) and scours the grounds of Pacific Metal for materials. “I’m interested in stuff people want to throw away,” says Ellingson. Many artworks have quirky titles, like (Thomas) Edison Meets (Aleister) Crowley’s Pet, or Cubist Nouveau Gynoecium from a lamp base, cow horn and bat “wings” off a replica of a Leonardo da Vinci invention. Some art incorporates lights, some sound. Four Voices consists of four lantern-like tableaux, each eerily lit — LED, cathode fluorescent or incandescent light — with self-contained MP3 players featuring music he composed and programmed to play randomly. Collectively, they represent a highly engineered synthesis of visual art,

performance and sound. Ellingson says he didn’t think much about what people thought of his work when he started out; he only knew he enjoyed making things and if he sold some, he could make more. He’s since shown at such places as Barrister Winery, the Chase Gallery (with acclaimed poet Nance Van Winckel), Saranac Art Projects and the former Tinman Gallery. At 67, Ellingson is still enthusiastic about making things and learning new skills — he recently tried Arduino programming — and is philosophical about what he has and has not yet accomplished. He quotes modernist composer John Cage: “All I know about method is that when I am not working, I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.”  arts@inlander.com Larry Ellingson: “Force of Attraction” • Through Nov. 6 • Free admission • North Idaho College, Boswell Hall Corner Gallery • 1000 W. Garden Ave, Coeur d’Alene • nic.edu

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BEER In the Dining Out section of this week’s paper, you can read about Paradise Creek Brewing’s Alpha Madness IPA, just one of the local FRESH HOP BEERS currently pouring throughout the region. This seasonal brewing style uses whole, wet hop flowers in the brewing process, making for a very aromatic and tasty beer. These beers are typically made in small batches that don’t last very long, due to both the fresh hop process and demand, so get out there and taste them while you can. Check out fresh hop creations at Trickster’s, Iron Goat, Perry Street, 12 String and many other breweries.

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he eighth edition of Terrain, which has become one of Spokane’s most anticipated cultural events, packed the downtown Washington Cracker Co. building with some 8,200 people over the course of Friday night. Terrain, which featured wall-to-wall artistic exhibits, live music, literary readings, film screenings and more, took advantage of an

expanded space this year that led to the sale of more than $14,000 worth of art. The arts organization, evolving beyond just a once-a-year event, is using a Kickstarter campaign titled The Campaign for Terrain in hopes of building a permanent home for cultural happenings on the site. You can donate toward their $25,000 goal through Nov. 2.

TV “UNAUTHORIZED” SELLS 1990s teen-targeted soap Beverly Hills 90210 tackled many hotbutton issues during its 10-year run. Designer drugs. Domestic violence. Showing up at the prom in the same dress as your best friend. The real drama, though, unfolded backstage among the show’s stars, at least if you believe the tabloids. The Lifetime network delves into all the filthy-but-fun details in The Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 story, airing Saturday at 6 pm, in which a pack of really attractive young actors reveal who slept with who, who was drunk while they did it, and why everyone hated Shannen Doherty. Make it a flashback double-feature — The Unauthorized Melrose Place airs right after.

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ARTICLE Suicide, a devastating epidemic within the ranks of our military, has in certain years claimed more lives than combat. Janet Reitman’s “THE GOOD SOLDIER” in the most recent issue of Rolling Stone tells the story of an exemplary young West Point graduate who was consumed by suicidal thoughts throughout his life. But instead of killing himself, the soldier went AWOL, eventually becoming part of the French Foreign Legion under an assumed name. It’s a fascinating read that reveals a lot about how the military is dealing (and not dealing) with the issue of mental health. TV We’ve told you about Comedy Central’s NATHAN FOR YOU before in these pages, and for good reason; the show is comedic mastery. The premise: comic Nathan Fielder poses as the host of a reality show that purports to help struggling businesses. The twist is that Fielder only suggests ridiculous gimmicks, like when he convinced a mechanic to take a polygraph test every time he gave a price quote, or when a yogurt shop developed a poop-flavored yogurt. It’s hilarious stuff, but along the way Fielder has a habit of making revealing commentary about human nature. The third season of Nathan for You debuts Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10 pm. n

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Bad Kitty series

Dan Gemeinhart The Honest Truth

S. E. Grove The Golden Specific

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Kelly Milner Halls

Katherine Pryor

A.L. Sonnichsen

Kazu Kibuishi

Liesl Shurtliff

Sherri Duskey Rinker

Animal Rescues: Blazing Courage Amulet series

Claire Rudolf Murphy My Country Tis of Thee

Zoraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zucchini

Jack: The True Story of Jack & the Beanstalk

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SpoYo SCHEDULE EWU SPOKANE CAMPUS EVENTS All of the below events take place on the EWU Spokane campus, Phase I building, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. 9 – 9:30 a.m. Reading by Katherine Pryor, author of Zora’s Zucchini

Ages 4 – 8

Room 114

Ages 9 – 12

Room 118

Ages 8 – 12

Room 108

“Sing a Song of Protest” workshop with Claire Rudolf Murphy

Ages 8 – 12

Room 111

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site with author Sherri Duskey Rinker

Ages 3 – 6

Auditorium 122

Reading and Q&A with A.L. Sonnichsen, author of Red Butterfly

Ages 8 – 12

Room 112

“Show Don’t Tell” writing workshop with Liesl Shurtliff

Ages 9 – 12

Room 109

SpoYo Presents: Nick Bruel, author of the Bad Kitty series

Ages 3 – 9

Auditorium 122

Reading by Dan Gemeinhart, author of The Honest Truth

Ages 9 – 12

Room 112

“Weaving Facts Into Your Freaky Fiction” workshop with Kelly Milner Halls 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Kazu Kibuishi Reading and Q&A 10:30 – 11 a.m.

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Lunch break During the break designated for lunch, we’ll have lots of hands-on activities and fun things to browse! For example, you can make your own bookmark, create an “About Me” book, write a poem or story, take a photo with Bad Kitty, browse books from Auntie’s, and get your books signed! 12:30 – 1 p.m. The Magic of Books: a talk by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Ages 5 – 9

Auditorium 122

Writing workshop with author S.E. Grove

Ages 10 – 12

Room 113

Illustration and storytelling workshop with Nick Bruel

Ages 8 – 12

Room 109

Writing workshop with A.L. Sonnichsen

Ages 9 – 12

Room 118

Graphic Novel and Comics workshop with Kazu Kibuishi

Ages 9 – 12

Room 108

Writing workshop with Dan Gemeinhart

Ages 9 – 12

Room 114

Slam poetry workshop

Ages 8 – 12

Room 118

1:15 – 1:45

2 – 2:30 p.m. 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. 3:30 – 4 p.m.

BING CROSBY THEATER 7 p.m. S.E. Grove’s 2014 debut for middle-grade readers, The Glass Sentence, was a New York Times Bestseller. Its new sequel, The Golden Specific, continues the 19th century oceanfaring adventures of its young protagonists. The author will read from and talk about her work, as well as take audience questions. Books will be available from Auntie’s Bookstore.

Suggested for ages 8+ *This event is free to all youth. $5 suggested donation for adults.

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Kewaunee Lapseritis with his dowsing rods.

Sasquatch Man A man in Chewelah says he can communicate with Sasquatches and aliens, and also find water in the ground BY DAISY PONGRAKTHAI

n Chewelah, there’s a man named Kewaunee Lapseritis, his first name Apache for “he who travels in search of knowledge and brings that knowledge back to his people.” He’s a social scientist and anthropologist, and also a master dowser who says he’s helped more than 100 people find water. As if those credentials didn’t already have you leaning in with curiosity, just wait. Lapseritis also claims to communicate with Sasquatches and aliens telepathically, a distinction that’s made him a frequent guest on paranormal TV and radio shows and has inspired his two books. Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Lapseritis was brought up on hunting, fishing and trapping. When he was 12, he stumbled across a Sasquatch article that inspired him to begin his journey into the world of paranormal phenomena. He began writing to Rutgers University and other research institutions worldwide, seeking more knowledge of these Sasquatch people. He’s now 58 years into his research of cryptoanthropology, the study of hidden

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people. With a strong, muscular build, Lapseritis is a proud 72 years old. With laughing Rodney Dangerfield eyes, he can throw out some amusing stories, spinning the seriousness of life into comical satire. But he’s straightforward and serious about his work, much of which was inspired by a night 36 years ago, he says. “My first encounter with a Sasquatch started back in September of 1979. He started talking to me telepathically, and I was puzzled,” says Lapseritis. As outrageous as it sounds, every time Lapseritis thought something, the Sasquatch would answer. Then, as if talking to a Sasquatch wasn’t enough, he says an alien contacted him telepathically right after that. “I said ‘I don’t see you.’ The ET answered, ‘I’m what you people call a UFO. I’m just above you in another dimension,’” recalls Lapseritis. He claims they told him to write a book about his experiences, and he has two to date — Sasquatch People and The Psychic Sasquatch & their UFO Connection.

Lapseritis has been a world traveler, living in Japan, East Africa, England and Australia. His ongoing research on the Sasquatch eventually landed him in the Seattle area. Upon wandering deeper into the forest of his research, he strayed away from urban life to interact with the Sasquatch people. He and his wife, Kelly, finally moved to the Chewelah area last year, noting that the Sasquatch said to move to a safer zone. Exploring more of Lapseritis’ unusual world: He delved into divining 36 years ago and discovered he also had the gift of dowsing. He asserts having found missing persons, pets, lost objects, minerals, oil, plants, wild animals and unusual phenomena. When it comes to finding water, he says he’s accurate about 85 percent of the time. “Over the years I have helped people find 123 water wells, in which I can also tell the depth of the underground water source, and how many gallons per minute they will get out of that well,” he says. In the 1980s, Lapseritis became wellknown around his southern Oregon community for his dowsing ability. In a 1986 Eugene Register-Guard article, a mechanic detailed how Lapseritis had helped him find a missing carburetor part; others praised his water-finding abilities. Around this time, Lapseritis says he also helped law enforcement agents track down a wanted killer. The same piece ventures into Lapseritis’ thoughts on Sasquatch and aliens, and the intersection of the two. Around that time, he was just going public with his claims about communicating with these paranormal entities. “I totally admit that all of this is bizarre,” he told the paper back then. “I know that it sounds very unscientific to discuss this. It’s hard for me to share this reality, and it still worries me at times. I could be ridiculed. I could hurt my own credibility.” Nearly 30 years later, Lapseritis has embraced the bizarre and made a career out of it. When people ask how he implements his dowsing magic, he explains the best he can: “You feel an energy within the body. Keep in mind, as far as water dowsing, our bodies are 85 to 90 percent water, so like attracts like. This also means whatever is in your system, or thinking of, can be attracted. I often start out dowsing on a large map, then go ‘field-dowsing’ … I go to the area when possible, using rods and a pendulum.” Lapseritis asserts further that he basically talks to the universe, and the universe will react back in doing so. He chuckles, realizing that his skeptics may roll their eyes at a statement like that. “Why would I, as a social scientist with 10 years of college, want to dabble in dowsing for 36 years in helping people if it didn’t work? I wouldn’t waste my time if not… It’s never completely been scientifically proven, but to me, science doesn’t have all the answers, namely because it’s based on an antiquated empirical model,” says Lapseritis. “It’s limited and does not include universal reality. They can’t explain things like Sasquatch, UFOs and psychic phenomena.” n

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Tell us a Story THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE CAME FROM SOMEWHERE. IT’S A COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS, MADE WITH TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT ALL OVER THE WORLD AND CAREFULLY ASSEMBLED FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT BY PEOPLE WITH BACKSTORIES OF THEIR OWN. IN OTHER WORDS, EVERY DISH TELLS A STORY. WITH THAT IN MIND, THE inlander SPOKE WITH SOME OF THE REGION’S MOST RESPECTED CHEFS TO GET THE STORIES BEHIND THEIR FAVORITE, MOST INFLUENTIAL OR MOST POPULAR DISHES, AS WELL AS SOME PERSPECTIVE ON HOW AND WHY THEY COOK. THROUGH OUR INTERVIEWS, WE FOUND AMAZING TALES OF PASSION AND PERSONAL GROWTH, AS WELL AS STORIES FROM CHEFS’ FAR-OFF HOMELANDS AND THE POWER OF FAMILY WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD. WE ALSO APPLIED THE SAME PHILOSOPHY TO A UNIQUE BEER AND A LOCALLY CREATED COCKTAIL. LIKE SUPERHEROES, YOUR FOOD HAS AN ORIGIN STORY OF HOW IT CAME TO BE AS GREAT AS IT IS. HOPEFULLY, THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL ADD A LITTLE APPRECIATION TO YOUR NEXT VISIT TO ONE OF THESE RESTAURANTS. OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, YOU’LL HAVE SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT OVER DINNER. — MIKE BOOKEY, CULTURE EDITOR

PHOTOS BY YOUNG KWAK TONY BROWN (RUINS) ................................3 ALMAZ AINUU (QUEEN OF SHEBA) ..................5 CHARLIE CONNOR (WILD SAGE) ..........................8 SCOTT HILL (HILL’S RESORT) .................... 10

RACI ERDEM (WHITE HOUSE GRILL) .............. 12 LAURENT ZIROTTI (FLEUR DEL SEL) ...................14 ARIEL ST. CLAIR (VOLSTEAD ACT) .................... 16 TOM HANDY (PARADISE CREEK).................. 18

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t’s noticeably delicious, but you’d that make up the spices on the halibut. The be forgiven for not regarding Tony herbs are carefully selected, as are the poBrown’s halibut dish as life-changing at tatoes or, sometimes, edamame that round first glance. out the dish. He agrees. It’s simple upon inspecHe cooks the halibut, spice side down, tion — a spice-encrusted piece of halibut in in a pan before sending it into the oven. a mushroom sauce and accompanied with Others might fire it up in a pan, but that potatoes and fresh herbs — but the dish would compromise the flavors, he says. was transformative for Brown, the owner Again, it’s about patience. of Ruins who’s known as one of Spokane’s “You’re used to cranking up all the most adventurous chefs. fire. My cooks will attest to this — anytime In 1999, at 23, Brown had arrived there’s any fire in the kitchen, I tell them in Chicago equipped with dreams of an to throw it away. The fire is getting into architecture degree and not a whole lot the food,” Brown says. “There’s something of money. He did, however, have experito be said for cooking everything at the ence cooking in the kitchens of Spokane temperature you’re supposed to be cooking restaurants and that was enough currency at. If you want it to taste good, you need to to get him a job at Vong’s Thai Kitchen, take time and that might mean low heat.” an instant hit of an eatery that would go Brown is patient when it comes to the on to launch the careers of celebrity chefs kitchen process, but the same can’t be said like Top Chef stars Stephanie Izard and Dale about his menu or his business practices. Levitski, among other culinary stars. Brown Currently at Ruins, the restaurant is rotatwas the only one in the kitchen withing its menu every week for an out culinary school experience entire year, from, say, Russian-inand was immediately expected fluenced cuisine one week to to make Thai-inspired food Greek the next. They’re open with French techniques. to any suggestions for a RUINS “I get in there and featured week, if you have 825 N. MONROE ST. everyone is throwing out them. Brown says he gets 443-5606 French terms I’d never bored easily, and that’s why heard,” Brown recalls, sitting his halibut dish, although beat a table in the 38-seat Ruins loved, isn’t on the menu right near the Spokane County Courtnow and might not be for some house as his kitchen preps for the time. When he got tired of cooking evening’s dinner service last week. “But I at Mizuna, he opened Stella’s, the gourmet told them I could learn quickly, and I did.” sandwich shop named after his 12-year-old Of the three dishes he oversaw, one was daughter. When that became routine, he the halibut. Again, it’s simple to look at, but opened Ruins. He’s hoping he doesn’t get in its preparation, Brown had a moment bored with this latest venture. where he felt he really understood cookBut if Brown were to move on again, ing. He didn’t get goose bumps and a light which he doesn’t think he will anytime didn’t shine down from the heavens, but soon, he’d engineer even more of his cuihe’d turned a corner. sine from the ground up. “Before, I had been chopping onions “My dream someday is to have my own and tomatoes and just kind of throwing it farm,” he says. “But I like the idea of a chef in a pan and cooking it. This was the first owned farm where you have 12 seats and [dish] that was really refined,” says Brown. you cook for those people every night. And “Every little component had a purpose. It you tell them, ‘I grew this, I raised that.’” took all day to prep everything, but then For a guy who appreciates the process during service it was done. It was the of cooking, a farm seems the next logical first time I realized that prep is probably step. It’s an admirable quality in a chef — the most important part of the cooking quality over all else, even at times over efprocess.” ficiency. And it all goes back to that kitchen The mushroom sauce alone requires in Chicago and a seemingly simple halibut Brown to dehydrate mushrooms and then dish. rehydrate them in sherry vinegar and “It was the first time that I realized chicken stock before cooking it down with how much went into cooking,” says Brown. brown butter and lemon juice. It’s six hours “From then on, I just wanted make food, before the sauce is ready. He toasts the fenno matter how long it takes, but it’s going nel seeds, cumin, coriander and bay leaves to taste good.” n

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he menu at Queen of Sheba is Ainuu learned to cook the dish at full of dishes both traditional an Ethiopian boarding school where and exotic — traditional to chef her mother served as the school’s cook and owner Almaz Ainuu’s homeland, and her father grew all the vegetables and exotic for American customers used in the kitchen. who perhaps have never eaten Ethio“I learned how to cook when I pian food before she opened in the was 7, but this one, I had to be older,” Flour Mill building five years ago. Ainuu says, recalling when her mother Those years introduced Inland taught her how to make Doro W’et. “My Northwest food lovers to an array mom would make me sit and watch. of dishes perfected by the former She’d say, ‘One day you’re going to get preschool teacher, a mix of vegetarian married, and it’s huge. Then you’re goand meat entrées layered with spices ing to have to do it the right way.’” and rich flavors, and usually presented Households are judged on the qualon injera bread, a spongy flatbread ity of their Doro W’et when they serve made from teff — a high-fiber Ethiopian it to guests, she says, and making it grain — that replaces silverware properly is a meticulous process, in the communal dining style especially in Ethiopia, where in which diners scoop up they use all parts of the chickpeas or lamb with chicken. Learning how to pieces of the injera. cut it so you use every QUEEN OF SHEBA “Everything has to part is why Ainuu 621 W. MALLON be served [with injera],” had to wait a couple of AVE. #426 (INSIDE Ainuu says. “That’s years into her cooking THE FLOUR MILL) what makes our food lessons. 328-3958 different, the flatbread. “There’s 12 parts Different parts of Ethiopia of the chicken,” Ainuu serve different things, but it’s explains. “They do the wings, important to start with the flatbread.” the shoulders, the legs, so you have to While every dish on the menu learn how to cut that, the right way to takes Ainuu home again, and takes do it. You really have to do it perfect. visitors on a culinary trip unlike any And it’s slow cooking with lots of onother in the area, one in particular, the ion, lots of red pepper, so it’s a couple Doro W’et, evokes special memories for hours of cooking.” the chef. “It’s really very traditional,” At Queen of Sheba, the Doro W’et Ainuu says. “Each home, if you have uses just drumsticks, but it still takes a visitor, or if it’s a holiday, we make time to skin them, wash them and Doro W’et.” prepare them just right. “There’s a It’s a spicy chicken dish served process,” Ainuu says. “It’s very considprimarily using drumsticks at Queen ered.” of Sheba (rather than a whole chicken, It’s also one of the most popular as they do in Ethiopia) that’s simmered items on her menu, although once for hours in a berbere sauce — a housein awhile people do make a special made spice blend — as well as garlic, request that she finds odd: “Hold the ginger, cardamom and onions. It’s hard-boiled egg.” topped with a hard-boiled egg. “I think some Americans are really “In Ethiopia, mostly they like vegweird. They’ll ask ‘Can we leave the etables,” Ainuu says. “Meat, they don’t egg out?’ because they’re used to haveat it every day. Traditionally, it’s just ing that with breakfast,” she says. “For for the holidays, special occasions. And us, it’s really the highlight. The Doro, it’s time-consuming; I think that’s why the chicken, you have to have it with they don’t do it every day.” egg.” n

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harlie Connor’s love of fishing and cooking goes back decades. Now, at 34 and working as the executive chef of downtown Spokane’s Wild Sage bistro, Connor has combined these two early influences in the restaurant’s kitchen, where he’s worked since 2008. Connor shares a detailed annotation on one of Wild Sage’s menu mainstays, the Silver Creek Golden Trout, a favorite for its flavor, local story and nostalgic connection. It’s served with a lemon chive beurre blanc, Connor’s variation on a classic butter sauce, over a bed of steamed wild rice and quinoa tossed with sweet roasted onions, peppers, arugula and heirloom tomatoes. Topping off the dish is a fresh chive garnish and edible marigold blossoms.

and we filled the camper with aromas of pan-fried trout. That fish wasn’t exactly my favorite, but the memory of the aroma of the fish fry never left me. Jump ahead about 20 or more years, when there was a need to add another seafood choice to our menu. I thought of trout as an option and remembered what I’d learned about cooking trout in culinary school, and in the kitchens I have been in over the years. I also remembered back to my early days, cooking with my dad on the side of the road in that VW camper. I saw this as a great opportunity to take trout to another level and was excited to give it a try. I figured most people have had CONNOR: After taking the helm rainbow trout, so I did some research as executive chef, I was ready to conand found there is also a rainbow WILD SAGE tribute to the menu and represent my trout that has different pigment 916 W. SECOND culinary experiences and what I’ve and is golden in color. This trout AVE. | 456-7575 learned through the years. I wanted happens to be available in Idaho — I to add to what Wild Sage has become source it out of Buhl, Idaho. It is susknown for, and that was true to our tainably raised in clear, cold, springconcept of regionally inspired Northwest fed water pools along the Snake River. cuisine — food that is approachable, yet The producers follow strict guidelines for unique. water cleanliness, feed, etc., which in turn produces Our Golden Trout dish is just one of many a consistently great-tasting, clean, fresh fish. I learned favorites we have crafted at the Wild Sage. I grew up to cook trout first at Beverly’s [at the Coeur d’Alene loving to fish, and I have many great childhood fishResort] about 13 years ago. I prefer to score the ing memories. As a young teen on a cross-country skin and descale it; to me, the skin is the best part if road trip with my dad, after my persistent requests cooked properly. to go fishing, he pulled our VW camper up to the I try to encourage guests to eat it the way it’s boat launch at Donner Lake in California. I caught prepared, with the skin, and we get great feedback my limit of rainbow trout within about an hour, from it. It really imparts and reflects our concept mainly because of the Fish and Wildlife Department as far as the ingredients used. We like to use the truck dumping stockies into the lake right next to us. best ingredients we can, and sometimes keeping it The fun part was over, and wanting to encoursimple and using some restraint in your cooking is age good ethics and good-tasting fish, my dad insistthe best way to represent the food you’re making, so ed that we prepare and eat what we harvested right the guests can really taste the food and understand away. He pulled us over on the side of the highway what’s going on. 

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F y o l i o d m s a F THE RAVIOLI AT HILL’S RESORT ISN’T FAR FROM THE RECIPE THAT CHEF SCOTT HILL LEARNED FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER AS TOLD TO FRANNY WRIGHT

estled between the trees, right on Priest Lake, ing something new at home, and we would always sits Hill’s Resort, which has been owned and go out to nice places. operated by the Hill family since 1946. George My dad would also always embarrass us and Hill wanted to open a resort on the lake he loved after go into the kitchens of these restaurants, and talk returning back from World War II; combined with his wife to the chefs to find out why they were doing what Lois’ love for the region, they made their dream resort a they were doing. He’d come back from the kitchen reality, still visited by many today. with a new recipe or a new idea. Our spinach salBack in the 1970s, George and Lois’ son Scott was ad recipe, for example, was one of them. He tried ready to get more involved in the family business, but he three different spinach salads with three different wasn’t quite sure what aspect of the resort interested him recipes. After he had talked with the chefs about most. Scott spent a day behind the bar, a day serving and each of them and liked different aspects from each a day in the kitchen, but in the end, all he wanted to of them, he came up with a recipe in his head that do was cook. After 34 years of cooking and we like so much that it is the spinach salad serving as the chef at Hill’s for the past recipe we still use at Hill’s today. 20, he’s still passionate about his family’s Our wild game ravioli is basically tradition. my family’s homemade ravioli recipe HILL’S RESORT One of those traditions is his that I learned from my grandma. 4777 W. LAKEmother’s Italian recipes, which she Northern Italian cooking is a SHORE RD. | PRIEST passed down through her family and are certain kind of thing, and really kind LAKE, IDAHO now found on the Hill’s Resort menu in of understated. It’s minimalistic on 208-443-2551 the form of their beloved ravioli. Here’s the flavors. Scott Hill on the dish: My grandma always had ground beef, Italian sausage, spinach and ParHILL: Both my grandma and my mesan cheese inside the ravioli. We decided to grandpa were full Italian — specifically, Northern do elk ground sirloin and spicy Italian sausage to Italian — so my mom was clearly Italian, too. My replace the ground beef, so we have a wild game mom’s got all of the Italian food recipes. ravioli. We grill the elk over whiskey charcoal In the 1980s she wrote a cookbook with all before it gets diced and put inside the ravioli. of the family Italian recipes. Between both of my We also put wild mushroom spaghetti sauce parents, we always had elaborate family dinners on top. We pick the morels — boletes — locally, growing up. As kids, we just wanted to get out which is the Latin name for mushrooms. This and play, and we would have to sit down and have wild game edition of our family’s ravioli has been these huge meals all the time. We were always trynice, and people so far have been loving it. n

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d L o e l v l i e r G RACI ERDEM FINDS COMFORT AND CONNECTION IN HIS KOFTË

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sk Raci Erdem to talk about making koftë, a tion of the dish in the same manner as the proprietary ground meat dish, and the conversation is French Champagne; one must be certified to make as much about kitchens and customers as it “true” Adana kebabs with a particularly seasoned is cuisine and culture. mixture of ground lamb, formed onto a long, flattened “It’s not just the food,” says the affable Erdem, iron skewer and grilled. Flatbread soaks up the flavorwho started the White House Grill in 1996 and is ful fat as the meat cooks, and is also used to wrap and known for spontaneously playing the hand drum as serve the cooked meat, similar to a Greek gyro. he moves through the Post Falls restaurant. Greek and Turkish food, says Erdem, isn’t “I’ve been very passionate about the all that different. restaurant business.” “One of the funniest things that people Before moving to the northwest, will ask me is, ‘Is baklava Greek or TurkTHE WHITE Erdem lived in New York City, a ish?’” HOUSE GRILL recent arrival from Istanbul, Turkey. He’d say Greek or even Mediter712 N. SPOKANE ST. He worked fixing carpets, and when a ranean, because it’s more familiar to | POST FALLS friend found him a job serving coffee Americans, especially Northwest diners. 208-777-9672 at a Turkish restaurant, Erdem had Sometimes it’s difficult to trace the origin an epiphany. The food, the money, the of a dish, he says. atmosphere. This is what he wanted. “The countries there — in the Middle “From that day forward, I promised myself East — they live together over 500 years under one I would never, ever be in any other business other than empire.” Mixing cultures means mixing eating and the restaurant business,” he said. cooking habits, he says. The White House Grill menu tracks back to Erdem serves two variations of koftë: beef and Erdem’s first restaurant job, although some roots go lamb. He calls his beef dish Bahce, an inside reference deeper. to his favorite Turkish soccer team, Fenerbahçe. It’s Every city in Turkey has a version of koftë, says Ermade with chunks of onions and seven to eight herbs, dem. One such city is Adana, which protects its iterasuch as sumac, a distinctly tart flavoring found in a

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range of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine, including Adana kebabs. He grinds fresh lamb to make Sarma or lamb koftë. This allows him to control the quality and the fat ratio — fat usually equals flavor and is essential to holding the meat together during grilling — and ensures zero waste. He seasons the meat with cayenne, cumin and ground onions (readers should note: this is one of few dishes not laden with garlic at this famously garlicky restaurant), then forms it onto a skewer and grills it. “We’ve been doing the same koftë for 19 years, and every time we make a new batch,” he says. “A piece goes on the grill before it goes to the customer. It’s tasted.” That, he says, ensures that the dish is always prepared correctly. Of all the items on their menu — souvlaki, Turkish cigars (spinach and feta wrapped in phyllo and lightly fried), grilled sea bass — the koftë is most like what you’d find in a traditional home: an economical comfort food. Like American meatloaf. His father, says Erdem, was a teacher, “and like every teacher in the world, they were not well-paid,” so koftë was a typical meal, even for large gatherings. “You can bring 50 friends, you can barbecue koftë, they all would love it, and you didn’t pay $500 on steaks. Made right, it’s as good as steak.” 

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ight now, this dish is his favorite. It’s the one mushrooms, but dried varieties can run $175 a pound. that other chefs order when they come to Instead, he added trumpet mushrooms, which can be Fleur de Sel. And it’s one that is new for so used more cheaply year-round and are also steeped in many guests. For co-owner/chef Laurent Zirotti, his take memories. on the French classic sweetbreads and morel mush“I didn’t do a lot of things with my dad, but one rooms — added to the menu this spring — is less a nod Sunday, I was 6 or 7, we went looking for mushrooms to the foreign and more about nostalgia. in the forest,” recalls Zirotti of his Italian father. “He In Zirotti’s version, a shallow dish comes with saushowed me what they look like; we called them black téed sweetbreads, Parisian gnocchi, Oregon black trumtrumpets, because they’re black. We separated; I found pet mushrooms and green beans in a brandy cream a place that seemed like an acre, a prairie of black sauce. Each food element, flavor and texture is trumpets. I shouted, and he came to me and was selected to complement one another. You can amazed.” eat it with just a fork. The pillow-like and quick-to-melt “This dish has everything,” says Parisian gnocchi fit in the dish perfectly, Zirotti, 50, sitting at his restaurant’s bar Zirotti says. There are no potatoes or FLEUR DE SEL last month. “There’s the crunch of the cheese in them, like the Italian version. 4365 INVERNESS mushroom, cream of the gnocchi, and Instead, it’s poached cream-puff dough DR. | POST FALLS sweetness of the sauce.” made up of flour, water, butter and eggs. 208-777-7600 But the star is the main ingredient, The recipe is finished with a decadent the sweetbreads. As always, the Frenchcream sauce cut with brandy. Green beans man, who went to cooking school in the bring a pop of color. French Alps at just 15, starts an idea for a new Zirotti doesn’t always think about cooking dish by first selecting the protein. He was drawn to or creating. The restaurant is closed two days a week sweetbreads, as they’re not often used at area restaufor a reason; he and his wife/co-owner Patricia often rants and he considers them a comfort food. Sweetgo out to their remote cabin. But about once a month, breads — not to be confused with sweet breads, like a the restaurant hosts wine dinners, pushing Zirotti to croissant — are the thymus glands and pancreas of a calf continue work on new recipes. The sweetbreads dish or veal. Zirotti uses beef or, if possible, veal. The meat was first introduced there. has folds similar to brains, but differ in taste from other “I put all of my heart into a dish,” he says. organs. Zirotti says that people view French food and “Sweetbreads, it depends on how they are they restaurants as being cocky and expensive, with small prepared; it’s a mild flavor,” Zirotti says in his smooth portions. But that’s not what he’s trying to do at Fleur French accent. “It’s not like liver or heart that have a lot de Sel. The sweetbreads dish is $15. of iron or steel flavor, it’s more mild, and sauce makes “We are not a traditional French restaurant; you it good — although you can eat a piece of wood with a won’t see beef bourguignon or snails in the shell,” good sauce.” Zirotti says. “I’ve been living in this country for almost The classic preparation of this dish, the process 20 years. So as much as I have the accent, I’m not 100 you’d learn at a French cooking school, includes morel percent French anymore.” 

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here was barely room inside Tom Handy’s Jeep Wrangler for him to actually drive. Every other square inch of the vehicle other than his driver’s seat was occupied by 190 pounds of freshly picked hops. It wasn’t the most comfortable trip, but there wasn’t time to think about comfort as Handy made his way from Carpenter Ranches hop farm in the Central Washington town of Granger back to his Paradise Creek Brewery in Pullman. There, brewer Keith Tyler was waiting, with the base of the beer already in progress. Although the inside of the Jeep was cramped, there was some comfort afforded to him by the hops. “You almost get a natural high just breathing the hops,” he says. “The aroma is incredible.” To brew something like this — the third iteration of Paradise Creek’s Alpha Madness Fresh Hop IPA — timing is everything. The hops can’t sit and dry out, and the rest of the process can’t wait too long for the hops to be

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BY MIKE BOOKEY added, as is the case with brewing any fresh hop (sometimes called “wet hop”) beer, a style that Handy says makes for a beer season that’s like “Christmas for IPA fiends.” But again, nothing about it is easy. First, you need to know someone who can get you freshly picked hops, which Handy, who founded Paradise Creek in 2010, gets through a chance meeting that turned into a friendship with one of the Carpenter Ranches’ owners. Being based in the Inland Northwest does, however, make things a touch simpler. “We’re blessed in a way to live where we do, and the majority of the hops grown nationally are grown right here within our reach,” he says. By “within reach” he means a drive to the middle of the state that has him hitting the road by 6 am, alerting Tyler to get the brewing process started. From there, the two constantly communicate throughout the day, knowing that a construction delay or road blockage could seriously foul up the Alpha Madness. At the hop farm, there’s no chitchat or much time to stretch road-weary legs. You load up the

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Starting Small The Moscow Farmers Market has a history of helping local food businesses gain traction BY TARYN PHANEUF A customer looks through goods from Pokey Creek Farm at the Moscow Farmers Market. ALISON MEYER PHOTO

ith the last of the molasses ginger cookie batter mixed, Connie Rosendahl starts collecting her baking supplies before returning the kitchen to its rightful owner. Rosendahl’s business, Sisters Cookie Company, has shared the oven and counters at a pizza shop in downtown Moscow a couple of mornings a week for a year. “We’re pressed for time here,” she says. She seals containers of flour and sugar and baggies filled with white chocolate chips. She looks forward to one day soon when she’s “not just coming in, getting it done, and getting out by 9 o’clock.” You can’t see it from where she stands near the industrial mixer, but just out the front door, about 100 feet to the right, her own bakery nears the end of construction on the corner of East Second Street and US 95. It should open this month. Sisters Cookies started at the Moscow Farmers Market in 2010. Rosendahl and her daughters, Sarah and Anna, opened a children’s booth that was supposed to last a couple of weeks and teach the 8- and 12-year-olds to handle money. But Rosendahl stumbled into the kind of demand entrepreneurs dream about. Two weeks turned into a market season, which led to a second. They outgrew their home kitchen, then shared spaces. Her daughters, now 13 and 18, have friends who aspire to work in their family bakery. And no one is as surprised as Rosendahl. “I didn’t even want to go to the market on day one,” Rosendahl confessed. “I figured there are so many good cooks out there and so much great food, why would I show up with cookies and expect people to buy?” The Moscow market takes pride in its role as a small business incubator. This year, three restaurants with ties to the market opened downtown in addition to the bakery. As art director for the city of Moscow, Kathleen Burns oversees the 38-year...continued on next page

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“STARTING SMALL,” CONTINUED... old market that spans three blocks on Main Street every Saturday from May through October. Hosting about 80 vendors, some of which have been around for almost two decades, the farmers market attracts loyal customers, she said — up to 5,000 a week. Loyalty subtly describes the kind of support that has allowed businesses to move beyond the market. After giving new vendors a chance on Saturdays, customers become invested, returning faithfully with friends and family in tow and making suggestions that shape these fledgling businesses. Customers pushed Rosendahl to branch out from chocolate chip cookies and rewarded her with orders she’ll need her own bakery to fill. In the middle of its second season, Humble Burger,

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another startup, crowdfunded more than $14,000 to purchase costly equipment before opening a restaurant in September. “People are able to depend on people here,” Burns said. “You have your customer loyalty before you even open up your storefront. You’re doing your marketing, your promotion, your awareness — you’re doing all those first-run business activities in a one-day system. There’s a really good test market there.”

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as-incubator route is well-worn by others. Panhandle Artisan Bread Co., started at the market seven years ago, and Patty’s Mexican Kitchen grew out of the sale of homemade salsa and tamales. “We couldn’t make enough to last at the market. We sold out by 10 am,” says Gerardo Alvarez, who was a graduate student at the University of Idaho when he and his wife, Patty, made their initial $50 investment in supplies in 2001. After one season, they turned a 12-by-16-foot shack on Sixth Street into a kitchen with a walk-up window and outdoor seating. “It just kept growing and growing and growing from there,” Alvarez said. “We’ve grown into this pillar at the market and in the community.” n

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Down Home Scotty’s Doghouse is a pub built for its neighborhood BY FRANNY WRIGHT

ith a yellow exterior and athletic-themed stickers on the windows, Scotty’s Doghouse, the newly opened sports bar near Gonzaga, is everything it seems it would be — and a little bit more. Owner Scott Wilburn’s passion for skiing inspired the bar’s sports theme, and with nine TVs, it’s nearly impossible to walk in and not catch some sort of sporting event playing. Wilburn hopes that Scotty’s Doghouse will become a home for sports fans to not only watch games, but to spend time together. “Though we are focusing on showing the Seahawks and college sports, like Gonzaga basketball, we also want to host events for groups, such as club sports at Gonzaga or a ski flick night,” he says. Groups can also call ahead to reserve a section in the back accommodating around 20 people. “We’re most excited about selling a good time, though,” says Wilburn. The most unexpected part of this sports bar is that it transforms into a dance club — all of the strobe lights you’re thinking of included— on Friday and Saturday nights, featuring DJs from around

The beer lineup at Scotty’s. KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO the state. Though they’re still deciding which other themed nights will make for weekly traditions, they’re looking at hosting “Taco and Twister Tuesdays,” trivia, beer pong and potentially a country music DJ on occasion. And no matter what day of the week it is, there’s always pool, darts, Skee-Ball and a photo booth tucked away in the corner. Scotty’s Doghouse is beginning a mug club loyalty program, providing each member with their own mug to decorate, which will be kept above the bar. Membership runs $40 per year, but takes $1 off every beer purchased.

Beyond their drinks, the full menu at Scotty’s Doghouse offers a wide variety of pub fare, including signature hot dogs, sandwiches, burgers, salads and deep-fried snacks. They also have a few larger entrées, including fish and chips ($10.95) and fish tacos ($11.95). Their most unique menu item — fried chicken and waffle cone — is fried chicken strips, mashed potatoes and either maple bacon country gravy or splash of honey Sriracha sauce, all inside a cheesy waffle cone.  Scotty’s Doghouse • 1305 N. Hamilton • Open SatSun, 11-2 am; Mon-Fri, 4 pm-2 am • scottysdoghouse. com • 241-0208

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Bernd Barrel fills a social void in Sandpoint BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

ack in 2007, Sandpoint was awash in wine bars, including Coldwater Creek’s secondfloor sanctuary located above its downtown retail space. Shoppers could pop up to the sleek room, renovated to the building’s near-original 1900s brick-and-timber quality, order a glass of excellent wine, and enjoy the upper-level view. Eight years later, Coldwater Creek is gone and that wine bar with it, yet the historic Bernd building in which the former clothing giant was housed still stands. But owner Chris Galle couldn’t bear to leave the place sitting empty, says Denise Alveari, who manages the Bernd Barrel social club. In some ways, it looks like its former wine-bar self: massive stone fireplace surrounded by comfy chairs, original brick, framed artwork by local artists throughout the year. The wine list is abundant. Punctuated with personality, it’s loaded with descriptors to help you select the perfect pour, like “semi-sweet and succulent” Chateau Ste. Michelle Cold Creek Vineyard Riesling ($5/$20) or a “luscious, flavorful & funky” Zinfandel from 7 Deadly Zins ($32). Beer is also bountiful at Bernd, with choices

numbering near 40, including six rotating taps, plus ciders and mead. Bernd Barrel deliberately drew from a range of regions so as not to compete with local breweries like MickDuff’s, says Alveari. Besides, she says, “we send people [to the popular brewpub] all the time.” Bernd Barrel, she says, is more about a casual place to just relax and visit, maybe over a bite to eat. The cheese plate, for example, features four artisanal cheeses, homemade jam (from Pend d’Oreille Winery), olives, Marcona almonds, dried fruit, sliced baguette and Lavosh crackers ($20). Although they’re considering booking live music — especially from acts not typically heard on the Sandpoint circuit — they’ve forgone the boisterous environment of big-screen televisions or rock bands. “We wanted a place where people could actually talk,” says Alveari.  Bernd Barrel Social Club • 311 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • Open Tue-Thu, 3-10 pm; Fri, 3-11 pm; Sat, 1-9 pm • Facebook: The Bernd Barrel • 208-263-1596

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ORIGIN-AL SINS Whatever Pan is supposed to provide a backstory for, it’s not Peter Pan. BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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ometimes, to understand the end, you have to know the beginning,” goes the early narration in Pan — and it’s hard to imagine a 2015 movie that fails so spectacularly at fulfilling its own thesis statement. We’ve become accustomed to movies that attempt some new spin on a familiar pop-culture character, whether it’s the seemingly infinite brand extensions in Disney’s live-action versions of their animated classics, or relatively sedate tales like Mr. Holmes. It’s easy to understand, in the risk-averse world of modern moviemaking, that studios would take advantage of opportunities where half the marketing work is already done for them, and there can often be a uniquely fertile creative ground in reimagining well-known narratives for a different era, or to explore new themes. But there’s a promise implicit in the above quote, as well as in the related tag line (“Every legend has a beginning”) employed in Pan’s ad campaign: This movie is going to provide a backstory that evolves logically into the Peter Pan that is known and loved from J.M. Barrie’s book, or from the beloved Walt Disney version. And that does not happen. The screenplay by Jason Fuchs opens with a child being left on an orphanage doorstep in London by his mother (Amanda Seyfried), accompanied by a letter and a necklace with a pan-flute charm. Twelve years later, in the middle of the World War II blitz of London, young Peter (Levi Miller) lives with the other orphans, getting

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into adventurous shenanigans that vex the greedy, cruel ing the warrior princess Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara); the nun who runs the place. Throw in a few musical producmysterious tale of Peter’s mother — intended to build an tion numbers about their hard-knock life, and you’d have archetypal hero-quest character arc for Peter as he tries Pannie. to determine if he is “The One” foretold by prophecy to Soon, most of the orphans have been kidnapped by defeat Blackbeard and the pirates. But the fundamental the bungee-jumping crew of a flying pirate ship, and spirnature of the hero quest is that it’s a coming-of-age story, ited away to the airborne island of Neverland. Here they which makes literally zero sense when the character we’re are turned into slave laborers for the pirate Blackbeard talking about is Peter Pan. The character’s single most (a pleasantly campy Hugh Jackman), mining defining trait — the one everybody knows — is the rare mineral that provides the fairies with that he never wants to grow up. Yet somehow, PAN their fairy dust, which includes among its someone thought it was a brilliant idea to sugRated PG powers the ability to bestow eternal youth. gest that the legend of that mischievous eternal Directed by Joe Wright It’s here that Peter meets James Hook adolescent began with him learning the imporStarring Levi Miller, Hugh (Garrett Hedlund, chewing over his dialogue Jackman, Garrett Hedlund tant life lessons that allowed him to accept his with a ferocity that might convince you heroic destiny. he’s faking his actual American accent); the It’s fair to ask if such a reading ignores surly, fedora-wearing adult apparently has been workwhat Pan delivers as simple fantasy spectacle, and indeed ing in these mines since childhood, and presumably will it is occasionally satisfying on that superficial level. Some eventually lose his hand and turn into Peter’s primary of the characters die in explosions of pastel powder that adversary. It’s also here that director Joe Wright (Anna make the action sequences resemble a Hindu Festival of Karenina) gets cutesy with trying to turn Neverland into Colors; the soaring pirate ship flies past spherical floating a place out of time, so that the kids can chant the lyrics oceans inhabited by strange creatures. But the decision to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” upon the arrival of the new to take an energetic, kiddie-oriented blockbuster and recruits, and we can learn the new level of chutzpah connect it to the story of Peter Pan was one made by the required to ignore the ironic significance of “Here we are filmmakers, and you can’t have it both ways: If you’re now / Entertain us.” going to pull viewers in by telling them you’ll explain The rest of the plot is a dense collection of elements how a young boy became Peter Pan, you’d better actually — a hidden population of fairies with a near-infinite supgive them Peter Pan. We already understood the ending, ply of “pixium”; a group of Neverland natives, includand whatever beginning it might have, this isn’t it. n

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From writer and director Aviva Kempner comes this moving documentary about Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish immigrant who rose to become the president of Sears and change civil rights in American. Partnering with Booker T. Washington and driven by the Jewish belief in Tzedakah (justice and righteousness through charity), Rosenwald used his immense wealth to create the Julius Rosenwald Foundation in 1917, opening over 5,400 schools for African-American communities in the South. At Magic Lantern (MC) Unrated

GOODNIGHT MOMMY

Originally titled in German Ich seh, Ich seh (translated to “I spy with my little eye”), this Austrian horror film is as dark as they come. When the mother of two twin boys returns home after facial reconstruction surgery, her face covered in bandages, the boys (Elias Schwarz and Lukas Schwartz Thorsteinsson) begin to feel that something is wrong. With their mother’s actions becoming stranger and stranger, the boys’ suspicions become very real as they begin to try to figure out what

is going on. Using a stark contrast of a modern house and its beautiful countryside location, directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz create a deep sense of dread and discomfort from start to finish with this mother of all mom-related nightmares. At Magic LAntern (MC) Rated R

PAN

The film opens with a child being left on an orphanage doorstep in London by his mother (Amanda Seyfried). Twelve years later, in the middle of the World War II blitz of London, young Peter (Levi Miller) lives with the other orphans, getting into adventurous shenanigans that vex the greedy, cruel nun who runs the place. Soon, most of the orphans have been kidnapped by the bungee-jumping crew of a flying pirate ship, and spirited away to the airborne island of Neverland. Here they are turned into slave laborers for the pirate Blackbeard (a pleasantly campy Hugh Jackman), mining the rare mineral that provides the fairies with their fairy dust, which includes among its powers the ability to bestow eternal youth. Rated PG (SR)

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This documentary takes us back to the precise moment when campaign coverage turned into entertainment as it recounts ABC News’ dramatic ratings gamble in 1968 to skip gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in favor of a new, untested feature — a series of 10 debates between the arch-conservative magazine editor William F. Buckley, Jr. and ultra-liberal author and iconoclast Gore Vidal. (DN) Rated R

BLACK MASS

Black Mass tells the story of notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, played here by Johnny Depp. The cast struggles with their Boston accents and Depp’s performance is lacking in energy, even if there are some menacingly exciting scenes. As a gangster flick it’s OK, but doesn’t do justice to the insanity that was Bulger’s life. (MB) Rated R

EVEREST

In their final ascent to reach the highest point on Earth, a group of climbers are engulfed by one of the fiercest blizzards ever experienced by man. The mountaineers are pushed to their limits as they face freezing temperatures, harsh winds, and dangerous terrain. Based on a true story, Everest shares the inspiring tale of survival against all odds. (MW) Rated PG-13

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

GRANDMA

Lily Tomlin, riding her hot streak from killing it in Grace and Frankie, is an acerbic loner whose 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up at her door with news that she’s pregnant. That sets off a hilarious day-long trip around the city in which she has to come to terms with the choices she’s made in life while Sage does the same. Also stars Sam Elliott, Laverne Cox, Marcia Gay Harden and Judy Greer. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

THE GREEN INFERNO

This thriller follows a group of college students who travel to Peru in an attempt to stop the destruction of the Amazon. Upon their arrival, the wide eyed activists are shocked to find the native people they intended to protect have other plans for them instead. Director Eli Roth will make you think twice about wanting to save the rainforest in this suspenseful horror. (MW) Rated R ...continued on next page

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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2

The all-star monster cast returns in this family-friendly comedy from Sony Pictures Animation. When Mavis pays a visit to her human in-laws, Dracula enlists his grandson Dennis in a “monster-in-training” boot camp since he has yet to show proper signs of a blossoming young vampire. Things get a little scary when great-grandpa Vlad pays a visit to the hotel and finds things aren’t quite how they used to be. (MW) Rated PG

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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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Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway star in this feel-good comedy about second chances and unlikely heroes. De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who, through the dull days of retirement, finds himself eager to get back in the game. When an opportunity arises for him to become a senior intern at an online fashion company led by his daughter, he jumps right in and helps his younger colleagues navigate life with wisdom and wit in the process. (MW) Rated PG-13

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Apparently Nick Swardson is still alive, and he is back at it, starring with Mila Kunis and many others in this delightfully dark stop-motion comedy directed by Tom Gianas and Ross Shuman. When Curt (Rob Riggle) is dragged into hell, his two best friends Remy (Swardson) and Augie (T.J. Miller) have to go in after him. Along the way, they are met with assistance from Deema (Kunis) and Orpheus (Danny McBride), who help the three friends escape the menacing clutches of the Devil, played by Bob Odenkirk. (MC) Rated R

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THE MARTIAN

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

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This sci-fi sequel continues the story of the Gladers, a group of teenage boys who must survive the desolate outside world known as the Scorch in order to resist the dominating WCKD. The film portrays a desolate dystopian world the Gladers must find a way to save. (MW) Rated PG-13

MERU

Meru gets its audience emotionally invested in what’s happening on screen with the efforts of three mountain climbers to scale a 21,000-foot peak known as the Shark’s Fin on India’s Mount Meru. And it does it by some simple additions to the tried-and-true tropes of lesser films in the genre; namely, by giving viewers each of the climbers’ personal backstories, exploring their respective motivations for such a death-defying lifestyle, and illustrating the importance of the team’s interpersonal relationships in pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R

MINIONS

Minions opens with a grand history of the race, starting with their evolution from tiny one-yellow-celled creatures from the Despicable Me movies floating in the primordial seas through the form we see them in now. The film is overly thick with backstory about the cute little buggers and distracts from

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FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is the lead on a hostage-finding and -rescuing team, and as the film begins, we see just how brutal this work can be. And yet, Kate’s experience here is nothing compared to what she will encounter when she joins an interagency task force with a much larger purview. She’s not sure why the task force needs her, and she’s not even sure she’s gotten a clear answer as to who these guys are: Is flip-flop- and Hawaiian-shirt-wearing badass Matt (Josh Brolin) DEA? CIA? It’s all a brutal look at the war on drugs. (MJ) Rated R

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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. (DN) Rated R

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Robert Zemeckis takes viewers into the death-defying world of Frenchman Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked a high-wire strung between the two towers of the World Trade Center. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Kingsley, this film will bring audiences to the edge of their seats, with stomach-churning visuals from the man often referred to as one of the greatest visual storytellers of all-time. (Max Carter) Rated PG

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Zac Efron stars in another music-based movie as Cole Carter, a DJ who wants to make it big. He is soon torn by the people who represent his passions: his mentor who wants to help shape him into a successful DJ, his mentor’s girlfriend who he becomes romantically entangled with, and his friends with whom he has both struggled and partied. (MS) Rated R 

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Begin Again For its event coordinators, this year’s Bartfest feels almost like the first time BY LAURA JOHNSON

hey didn’t know if there would be another Bartfest. Last year’s indoor music festival at the Bartlett and nYne did not go over well. People just didn’t show up. For married Bartlett co-owners Karli and Caleb Ingersoll, it was a wake-up call. While they say the music was brilliant, it was Bartfest’s sparse attendance that crippled their spirits. “It was so awful to have bands that are good and popular with only 40 people in the audience,” says Karli, hanging out at the Bartlett last week. “We thought: ‘What did we do?’ I mean, it was embarrassing.” They are the first to admit that overconfidence caused them to go too big, too soon. Those days right after Bartfest were dark; they were devastated financially. “We were rescued, we had some help. But we’re still paying for it,” Karli

says. And they had to hold onto the dream. Too many people believed in them — after all, the venue was originally helped by an Indiegogo.com campaign. At the beginning of 2015, they decided to give Bartfest another go, this time with some important changes. Rather than $90, a day pass is $20. The festival was moved to October, instead of conflicting with the onslaught of endof-summer events in September. Instead of three days, it’s been shortened to two. Essentially, it’s like a regular show at the Bartlett, but with eight bands on the nightly lineup, and nYne also is involved. Also, this year’s pre-party and poster art show on Thursday is a part of the ticket price. So far, it’s all paid off: This year’s ticket presales are on par with that of the entirety of last year’s sales. ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | EVENT “BEGIN AGAIN,” CONTINUED... “We’re actually excited this year,” Caleb says with a smile. “This almost feels like the first year we’re doing this.” They worked hard on this year’s lineup to get bands they knew Spokane would jump for, bands that would be familiar to a lot of people. “Spokane is not very progressive,” Karli says. “It likes more genres that revolve around folk or cover or singersongwriters. And of course party rock, metal and grunge rock. Spokane loves their grunge. Last year, Bartfest was very much an electronic pop lineup.” This year’s Bartfest lineup is carefully curated to reflect a particular indie/folk/ electronic sound, where the bands fit well together. Here’s some insight into why the Ingersolls picked the headliners, in their own words.

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Thursday, after 8 pm at nYne Caleb: That just worked out. I wasn’t really familiar with them before this, but I found out they were on tour and I thought they would be a perfect fit. Karli: For the pre-party we wanted it to be fun, kind of an open house feel, where people can come and get their tickets. Their music is more chill and progressive, but it’s also happy-go-lucky.

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Friday, 9:50 pm at the Bartlett Caleb: She was on tour, so we had decided to do the festival in October because of her schedule. Karli: Which is how we booked last year, around a certain band; it’s a foundation. When she plays she is amazing, her songwriting is amazing. She has this crazy confidence on stage. Caleb: Even if she wasn’t on tour I would have wished we could get her, but we wouldn’t have been able to afford her. Karli: Her show here last summer was inspiring for me as a musician. Her set was mostly loud and rock ’n’ roll. Then at the end of the set, her band left and she played her six-minute song “White Fire,” locking eyes with the audience the whole time. Who does that? I didn’t talk to her afterward because I was too nervous.

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Friday, 10:20 pm at nYne Caleb: We love Horse Feathers. They played at my venue back in the Tri-Cities. It’s been cool to see them progress and change, because their sound now has changed quite a bit from when they started; they’re more rock now. Karli: They played Halloween here last year. They’re a lot more high-energy than their more orchestral albums, which I loved too. They have that Northwest feel, but they’re taking their sound in this different direction.

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Saturday, 10:20 pm at nYne Karli: We saw them play at Fisherman’s Village in May. Jessica Dobson is like an animal on the guitar. She’s amazing, and they’re a really impressive band when you see them play; you think it’s not real. Caleb: Part of it, they’re the last band to play on Saturday, and energy-wise we wanted someone who could end Bartfest well. They’ve never been here before, so we wanted to get them here. Karli: Their music is a little more rock than other bands. But there’s a pop songwriter foundation, so it fits in with the Horse Feathers and Angel Olsen vibe. n Bartfest • Thu, Oct. 8, at 8 pm (preparty); Fri-Sat, Oct. 9-10, at 6 pm • $20 one-day pass (weekend pass sold out) • All-ages, 21+ after 9 pm at nYne • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • nYne • 232 W. Sprague • bartfest.com • 747-2174

BELLAMAINE Friday, 7:15 pm at nYne There are probably dozens of bands in the Pacific Northwest that you could call the region’s best-kept secret (or next big thing) and you wouldn’t be wrong. But say it about Bellamaine and you’d be right. Big hooks. Sweetly chiming guitars. Warm breezes of synthesizer. This band sounds like dreampop heaven. Yes, please. JOSEPH Saturday, 8:40 pm at the Bartlett Fans of picture-perfect harmonies, get thee to the Bartlett Saturday night for Joseph, a trio of sisters from eastern Oregon who have spent three lifetimes dialing in their stunning sound. The recent ATO Records signees (and Bartfest returners) work from a foundation of folk, rock, gospel, blues and Americana, and their songs are well-crafted wonders. But... those voices. No, really: those voices.

BRYAN JOHN APPLEBY Saturday, 7:30 pm at the Bartlett Bryan John Appleby’s new album The Narrow Valley won’t be released until midNovember, but its two advance singles foreshadow a huge step forward for the Seattle singer-songwriter. Appleby has apparently eschewed the slow, sparse sound of his 2011 debut in favor of an intensive exploration of Beach Boys-style wall-of-sound orchestrapop. The Narrow Valley sounds like a lush, sun-dappled good time. LOCH LOMOND Friday, 7:30 pm at the Bartlett Portland is chockablock with orchestral folk-pop bands, but few turn out songs as consistently charming and beautiful as Loch Lomond. Built around Ritchie Young’s elegant songwriting and versatile voice, the band is delightfully delicate, giving Young space to spin his crystalline yarns. Loch Lomond may not be Portland’s best-known band, but they may be the most Portlandsounding band in town. — BEN SALMON

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t’s 100 degrees in Arizona last week, and Civil Twilight is sweating through their loadin for an upcoming show. Drummer Richard Wouters comes to the phone. He’s tired; you can hear it in his voice. But he’s not going to complain, because this band is everything to him. For nearly two decades, music has bonded these guys together. As young teens in beachside Cape Town, South Africa, Civil Twilight started jamming and writing, emulating the rock music coming out of the United States and Europe. Frontman Steven McKellar, his guitarist brother Andrew and Wouters dreamt of coming to the U.S. to play music for a living. Ten years ago, they made the leap, landing in Los Angeles and later Nashville. None of it was easy. But then came the big breakthrough in 2010 when their single “Letters from the Sky,” a piano-dense, droning soundscape, caught the ears of many indie rock fans. “Let’s be honest, bands are kind of weird things,” says Wouters, 34, in a light South African accent. “You’re kind of stuck together, you’re a family [including Kevin Dailey on keys and guitar; the group’s lone American has been with them for three years]. We’ve been through all kinds of things; we’ve done badly and well. Communication — as with any relationship, it’s the most important thing.” Recording their recent album Story of an Im-

migrant was trying. There were arguments. But what came out was their best work yet. This is the album that conveys their real voice; they’re no longer another generic indie rock band trying to sound like someone else. It incorporates South African rhythms and jazz and tells the band’s immigrant story, albeit in a broad way. They’re not trying to make political statements with their songs, just give a different point of view. “We grew up surrounded by this sound, but we’d never really embraced it,” Wouters says. “I don’t know if it’s like that for everyone, but we felt where we were from wasn’t good enough. We wanted to be like other bands, and then on this record we decided that wasn’t true for us.” Heading toward Spokane next week, Wouters says he enjoys meeting people all over this diverse country, that he hasn’t found the idea of the stereotypical ugly American to be true. “There’s a sense that you can make something of yourself here, even in an area like music,” he says. “In South Africa, the most common response to wanting to be a musician is ‘That’s not a real job.’ Here, there’s more openness to adventure and dreaming.” 

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HIP-HOP FLYING SPIDERS

fter everything they’ve been through, Spokane hip-hop collective Flying Spiders are still going strong. On their brand-new release The Pillaging Effigy, the band lets us in on all of their feelings from the past two years: The sadness of losing their beloved leader Isamu “Som” Jordan in “Introduction (Let’s Remember),” their affection for Spokane in “Sun Dwellers” and, of course, just wanting to spread the love of life in “Just Love.” The old-school beats are still there, as well as more electronic exploration. The positive vibes, examination of social justice issues, cuss-free lyrics: those facets will never leave the band that’s had to find its own voice all over again. CDs are $10 at the release show. — LAURA JOHNSON Flying Spiders EP release and Isamu Jordan benefit • Wed, Oct. 14, at 7 pm • $5 suggested donation • all-ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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J THe BarTLeTT, Bartfest (See page 39 for more info) feat. Angel Olsen, Lionlimb, Loch Lomond, Perenne BeVerLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S, Dragonfly BOOMerS CLaSSiC rOCk Bar & GriLL, Jammin Knights BuCer’S COFFeeHOuSe PuB, Eric E. THe CeLLar, Fur Traders COeur d’aLeNe CaSiNO, Carli Osika, Misfit Toys CurLeY’S, Tracer

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riven by fuzzy, undulating sounds that chaotically complement heavy guitar and grungy vocals, Bay Area punk band Never Young brings their high-voltage energy to Baby Bar Tuesday night. Layers of noise fill the band’s self-titled EP, released in March, engulfing listeners with driving rhythms and mindblowing guitar effects. Opening track “Like a Version” sets the tone, kicking things off with ear-shattering electronic anarchy before jumping into the sludgy first verse. Never Young’s fusion of electronic sounds and classic punk riffs encourages listeners to simultaneously burn something to ashes and run a marathon. Despite their new-age sound, die-hard punks have no need to fret; Never Young will still leave you as full of angst and aggression as a 23-year-old Iggy Pop. — MAX CARTER Never Young with Local Pavlov and the Poids • Tue, Oct. 13, at 9 pm • Free • 21+ • Baby Bar • 827 W. First • 847-1234

FedOra PuB & GriLLe, Wyatt Wood Fizzie MuLLiGaNS, Chris Reiser & the Nerve FOrza COFFee CO. (VaLLeY)(5357179), Phil Lamb HaNdLeBarS, Night Shift irON HOrSe Bar, Phoenix THe JaCkSON ST., Howard and the Usual Suspects JOHN’S aLLeY, Cure for the Common JONeS radiaTOr, Humours, Mercy Brown, Rhine THe LaNTerN TaP HOuSe, Freshtival feat. Bart Budwig LeFTBaNk WiNe Bar, Kori Ailene LiTz’S Bar & GriLL, Oktoberfest feat. VooDoo Church, Martini Bros. Max aT MiraBeau, Ticking Time Bomb NaSHViLLe NOrTH, Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J NYNe, Bartfest (See page 39 for more info) feat. Horse Feathers,

River Whyless, Bellamaine, Windoe PeNd d’OreiLLe WiNerY, Dave Hannon J PiNNaCLe NOrTHWeST, DJ WesOne rePuBLiC BreWiNG CO., Jeff Scroggins and Colorado THe ridLer PiaNO Bar, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THe rOadHOuSe, Southerland Road THe rOCk Bar & LOuNGe, YESTERDAYSCAKE TaMaraCk PuBLiC HOuSe, Dan Conrad THe VikiNG Bar & GriLL, Stepbrothers zOLa, Uppercut

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THE BIG DIPPER, 1 Tribe, Oct. 15 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Hemlock, Dysfunktynal Kaos, Heart of an Awl, Armed and Dangerous, Oct. 15 J THE BARTLETT, Civil Twilight (See story on page 41), Oct. 15 KNITTING FACTORY, Lil Boosie, Bonaphied, Kae One, Certified Outfit, Oct. 15 CHECKERBOARD BAR, Antonette Goroch, Oct. 15 TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, Sol Seed, Jus Wright and the River City Roots, Oct. 15 SWAXX, Zomboy, Freaky Fred, Deathstar, Oct. 15 JONES RADIATOR, The Knowle Roars, Oct. 16 BING CROSBY THEATER, Raekwon from Wu Tang Clan, Oct. 16 REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Pine Hearts, Oct. 16 THE BIG DIPPER, KYRS 12th Anniversary Kick-off Party feat. Marshall Poole, Oct. 16, 7:30-10 pm DI LUNA’S CAFE, Barbara Jean & Jack Klatt, Oct. 16 KNITTING FACTORY, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Skinny Lister, Beans On Toast, Oct. 16 RICK SINGER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO, Yann Falquet & Pascal Gemme, Oct. 16 CHECKERBOARD BAR, Amoriginal, Itchy Kitty, Oct. 16 NASHVILLE NORTH, Steve Starkey and DJ Tom, Oct. 16-17 THE BIG DIPPER, Noah Guthrie (of “Glee”), Ron Greene, Grooveacre, Oct. 17 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Third Day with Brandon Heath, Warren Barfield, Oct. 17 THE SHOP, Lyle Morse, Oct. 17 THE BARTLETT, William Fitzsimmons, Oct. 17 KNITTING FACTORY, Gwar, Born of Osiris, Battlecross, Helldorado, Oct. 17 THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Odyssey, Flannel Math Animal, Oct. 17 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Can You Sing? feat. Strictly Business, Oct. 17 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, HIBRIA, Oct. 18 KNITTING FACTORY, Tremonti and Trivium, Wilson, Oct. 18 THE BARTLETT, Wild Belle, Oct. 18 KNITTING FACTORY, Escape the Fate,

A Skylit Drive, Sworn In and more, Oct. 19 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Arkaik, Bermuda, Enfold Darkness, Serpentspire, Withheld Judgement, Oct. 19 SPOKANE ARENA, Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies, Beartoth, Oct. 20, 7 pm. KNITTING FACTORY, Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Knothead, Oct. 20 JOHN’S ALLEY, Turkuaz, Oct. 21 THE BARTLETT, Viet Cong, Oct. 21 KNITTING FACTORY, Buckcherry, Sons of Texas, Oct. 21 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Elektro Grave, Oct. 21 KNITTING FACTORY, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity, the Shrine, Oct. 22 THE BARTLETT, Gregory Alan Isakov, Laurie Shook, Oct. 22 NASHVILLE NORTH, Jackson Taylor and the Sinners, Oct. 22 NECTAR TASTING ROOM, Kori Ailene, Oct. 23 THE BIG DIPPER, Andy Rumsey CD release, B Radicals, Flannel Math Animal, the 3H Band, Oct. 23 CHATEAU RIVE, Celebrate with Peter Rivera, Oct. 23 JONES RADIATOR, Spokane’s First Northern Soul & Ska Night, Oct. 23 NASHVILLE NORTH, 1 year anniversary party feat. Jeremy McComb, Steve Starkey, Luke Jaxon, Jake Barr & Kenny Sagar, Oct. 23 THE BARTLETT, The Round No. 11 feat. Courtney Marie Andrews,

Kent Ueland, Karli Ingersoll, Mark Anderson, John Merrell, Oct. 24 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Queensrÿche, Oct. 25 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Vital Remains, Necronomicon, The Kennedy Veil, Rutah, Oct. 26 THE BARTLETT, Delta Rae, Oct. 26 KNITTING FACTORY, Beats Antique, Moon Hooch, Oct. 28 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project, Oct. 28 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Mini Kiss, Oct. 29, 7 pm. PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Madchild of Swollen Members, Oct. 29 THE BARTLETT, Oh Pep, Oct. 29 KNITTING FACTORY, Seether, Saint Asonia, Oct. 29 THE HIVE, Monster Mash Halloween show feat. Champagne Wolfgang, Head To Head, Oct. 30 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Halloween Cover Show, Oct. 30 KNITTING FACTORY, The Wonder Years, Motion City Soundtrack, State Champs, You Blew It!, Oct. 30 THE BIG DIPPER, Marshall McLean, Wartime Blues, Oct. 30 THE BARTLETT, Trails and Ways, Oct. 30 THE HIVE, Halloween Bash with Dumpstaphunk, Oct. 31 KNITTING FACTORY, GA’s Too Broke to Trick or Treat feat. Trapt, September Mourning, Oct. 31

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BIG BARN BREWING • 16004 N. Applewood Ln, Mead • 238-2489 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 THE FOXHOLE• 829 E. Boone • 315-5327 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent, Spokane Valley • 309-3715 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN RAIL PUB • 5209 N. Market • 487-4269 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 PINNACLE NORTHWEST • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SULLIVAN SCOREBOARD • 205 N Sullivan Rd • 891-0880 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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FESTIVAL SWINGIN’ IN SPOKANE

If you happen to have two left feet, you might not realize that Spokane is home to a vibrant and active swing dancing community. This group of Lindy Hoppers presents SWINGtoberfest, an annual weekend celebration of vintage swing music and dance. The festivities include a variety of workshops taught by accomplished choreographer, performer and instructor Chris Chapman, as well as concerts and dance contests for swing enthusiasts. Dancers will twirl to the tunes of the Coeur d’Alene Charter School Jazz Orchestra, Hot Club of Spokane, and Johnny J & the Flat Foot Floogies. Come cut a rug and get a taste for the community’s swing dance culture. — MAKAYLA WAMBOLDT SWINGtoberfest • Fri-Sun, Oct. 9-11; times vary • $5-$20/ event; $105/weekend pass • Moran Prairie Grange Hall • 6106 S. Palouse Highway • vintageswingspokane.com • 919-9162

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WORDS LITERATURE’S FUTURE

The long-running Get Lit! literature festival is introducing the Spokane Youth Book Festival, aka SpoYo, to the community’s youngest bookworms. The inaugural event showcases a diverse mix of youth lit authors, including many locals. Guests authors include Nick Bruel (pictured), creator of the popular Bad Kitty series, and Kazu Kibuishi, the author of the Amulet graphic novels. Free workshops and readings are held through the day, for kids ages 3 to 12. The day concludes with a presentation by S.E. Grove, author of the middle-grade bestseller The Glass Sentence. — CHEY SCOTT SpoYo • Sat, Oct. 10, from 9 am-7 pm • Free • EWU Spokane Campus • 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. • getlitprograms.org/spoyo

POLITICS BREAKFAST WITH THE TIMES

Usually a man of written words, author and New York Times columnist David Brooks takes the stage over breakfast for Whitworth’s fall President’s Leadership Forum. Brooks uses his writing to share intuitions about selflessness, character and moral depth in our success-driven world. Writing on topics such as U.S. prison systems, the Pope and ISIS, Brooks provides relevant thoughts for his readers with a relational and occasionally humorous tone. — MAX CARTER Whitworth President’s Leadership Forum • Tue, Oct. 13, at 7:30 am • $50/person; registration required • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • whitworth.edu/leadershipforum

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WORDS EAST MEETS WEST

Dubbed by organizers as the “greatest assemblage of literary talent between the Snake River and the Salish Sea,” writers from both sides of the Evergreen State are uniting for an evening of poetry and prose. Writers from the Emerald City head to the Lilac City for a collaborative evening hosted by Seattle’s Pacifica Literary Review and Spokane’s (technically, Cheney’s) Willow Springs Review. Five writers presenting include our own Nance Van Winckel and Alexandra Teague. Then the following week, Willow Springs’ writers make the cross-state trek to host a similar event in Seattle with Pacifica, also with writers from the Los Angeles Review. Willow Springs editor Sam Ligon describes it as a collaborative, statewide version of the popular Pie & Whiskey event he organizes during Spokane’s Get Lit! festival. — CHEY SCOTT Spokanity and Grohls • Fri, Oct. 9, at 7 pm • Free • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • on.fb.me/1Vn4P0f

mxm mxm Saturday, October 10 Noon – 5 pm Cliff House Estate

VISUAL ARTS CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

Seeking to create a connection between visual arts, writing and performance art, Marmot Art Space and Spark Center are teaming up for Spokane Arts Month’s second collaborative event combining these three creative disciplines. Verbatim brings together seven writers and seven artists, who are paired into duos and tasked with creating an art piece and a seven-minute performance. The art pieces are to be auctioned off, with proceeds supporting Spark and INK Art Space’s creative and educational programming. Join this year’s writers and artists around the corner at Marmot Art Space for a gallery showing of the collaborative art pieces, and follow them into Spark Center to see each pair’s live performances. — KAILEE HAONG Verbatim • Sat, Oct. 10, at 5 pm • Free • Spark Center and Marmot Art Space • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • spokanearts.org

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SOUP FOR THE SOUL Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center’s annual, month-long fundraiser to support the Arts in Healing program features local restaurants donating a portion of proceeds from the purchase of soup, including: Fieldhouse Pizza, Clinkerdagger, High Nooner, Huckleberry’s, Morty’s, Picabu Bistro, Steelhead Bar, Selkirk Pizza, Take Five Cafe at Holy Family, The Cafe at Sacred Heart and Waterfall Cafe at St. Luke’s. (474-3008) UNEMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT BASH A social to spread awareness of the Unemployment Law Project. There will be food, drinks and more. Oct. 8, 5:30-8 pm. $30. Community Building, 35 W. Main. (624-9178) BEYOND PINK The annual designer

bra fashion show raises funds to for local women to receive thermography exams, an early-detection technology for breast cancer and diseases. Oct. 9. $50/person. Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. beyondpink.net CDA SUMMER THEATRE GALA A Great Gatsby-themed fundraiser event with live vocalist performances, a speakeasy-themed game room, dance lessons and live/silent auctions. Oct. 9, 5-11 pm. $75-$90. Coeur d’Alene Inn, 506 W. Appleway. (208-660-2958) MEN OF ROTARY FASHION SHOW The Spokane Valley Rotary Club’s annual fundraiser event features 16 male Rotarians acting as models, with all proceeds benefiting its programs to support local children. Oct. 9, 6 pm. $50/person. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. (924-5672 or 714-2629)

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W I SAW U YOU

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CHEERS JEERS

I SAW YOU ALL AMERICAN HOTTIE I saw you getting gas on September the 11th at the Fred Meyer on Thor and Freya. You were driving an '88 Suburban and everything about you screamed red blooded American. Well, I can't get you off my mind. YOU ON HERE, BRO? To the owner of the black LGT that waved to me on Progress; sorry I didn't wave back, I didn't see it until the last second. Want to meet up for some 'za and 'da? MY REASON FOR REASONS, MY LOVE I have loved you for a lifetime it seems. even though it's only been 12 years I have not a memory that doesn't seem like you were there. Even memories long before we met I swear I felt you there. You and me were meant to be and I am thankful our roads crossed paths. I don't know what would of been of me if you were never a part of my world. I have always been a brat but lately I have been going though some weird changes and find my self being rude 2u and just want to say I am sorry you are amazing and handle my manic ways with grace and the way you encourage and care, dude it seems unreal. You are "wow" my saving grace I appreciated and am so thankful for you daily. It is nice to have someone who really cares, I never had someone that loved me until you and our kids you are my family ,and I just want to say thank you, Thank you Jesus for this man, this beautiful man whom just seems not of

this world, at least not in this age. You are a godly man; integrity and honor were wrote about you. With all that I am and will ever be I crave you I devote my soul to you. I surrender my time to you and invest my heart to you. With you I found me and there is no me that exists without you to me. Forever and forever we will be and with each day I promise to love you a little more here is to the obstacles, and trials and triumphs to come with you hand in hand to take this life and rock the shit out of it. Adventures only get better. ON THE MENU? I've seen you more than a few times at a little strip mall right next to NorthTown Mall. You work at my favorite Mexican eatery, and although I love the delicious food you guys make, I have to admit that I come in as often as I can, hoping to see your handsome smiling face. I think your name is Ryan, but I could be wrong? I believe you're the manager of said Mexican eatery, and you always make me feel welcome whenever I come in. I visited your place of employment on 10-1-15 to order my favorite thing off the menu, and I was pleasantly surprised to see you working the tortilla station. You can butter my tortillas any day ;) C'EST LA VIE The last couple of times I seen you, you have smiled, it is good to see you smile, and to hear you laugh. wow. I hope we run into each other again. P.S. you look like you are doing well these days. #howmanyselfiesdoesittaketogettothecenterofatootsiepop. Slainte! CHURCH I was standing outside my church, on Arden St., a couple of weeks ago, waiting for my ride. You stood behind me with some of my friends & we talked briefly. When I turned again to look for my ride, I heard you say, "she's a nice lady". I'm a widow & am wondering if you are "free" also, for a nice friendship? If this sounds like you, & you remember our brief meeting, I'd like to talk again. Hope you get in touch. YAK LADY X 2 So she dosnt respond fine...i saw her again she was wearing a beautiful grey sweater and a odd scarf that I wanted to barf on but I still adored it. She was asking her daughter about music... oh how i love a woman that has taste... Maybe a taste for me plz respond. I love u even though I dont know u which can change soon

I AM NOT GEORGE NOR ARE YOU. You are not 18 — shazaam, your body is. Love country music and country dancing — my bud likes coffee. You had rings on every finger. You are not George either. Both George and I looked

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answer your question about who? I will always Love my Beautiful Sunshine!!!!! MAN ON THE 25 BUS HEADED DOWNTOWN When the girls were taking pictures of the lady on the bench with

A pox upon the jerk who left the foot-long paired dents in my beloved blue Subaru.

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— DENT-A-CAR COWARD

for you the rest of the day. I dance swing. Estate stale on Riverview Drive you had a red car and we both drove into a dead end, thought you knew where you were going. Hope to see you again. You had us smiling the whole day.

YOU SAW ME LITTLE SURPRISES To the person that left a note on my car for coffee on the 29th. Sorry I missed you. Your note was a very sweet offer & quite a delight. I wish people were like that more often! However, I do not recall who you are based off of the lack of description you left. Maybe you'll see me around again..

the clown makeup and shrieking, "What is that?!" you replied calmly, "That's a real person." Thanks for speaking up.

JEERS

DENT-A-CAR COWARD A pox upon the jerk who left the foot-long paired dents in my beloved blue Subaru in the doctor's parking lot of SHMC on Wednesday, Sept. 30 without leaving so much as a note. Karma's a bitch, honey, and I hope you're in your shiniest, most expensive Beemer when the uninsured, hit-and-run dent-devils help karma bite your ass.

MY "NEW DOG" SAVIOR Thank you to the people/person who picked up my new dog who got out on me. It was on the north side around Monroe and Rowan on Wednesday the 30th around 2:30 pm, very small duch/cha mix, mostly black. I had only had him about a month as I had to put my other two dogs down due to illness. Thank you so much for bringing him, not only to SCRAPS but then back to me as well. YOU ARE AWESOME!!

RE: "MORE COW BELL" YES you are a cranky old man and YES just stay home next time! Queen is a rock band, and the performers specifically asked the audience to stand up, clap along, and dance! Most attendees (myself included) were not spring chickens, but getting older doesn’t mean you can’t get into the music. A 70-ish man in front of me was on his feet and rocking out the entire time! Save your suits, ties, dresses, and heels for a sedate symphony performance. Freddie Mercury would turn over in his grave if Queen fans went along with your sorry-ass wishes!

RE: IN MY HEAD Have no doubt that it is me. Still have the same routines, same stops and places. In fact, ironically I saw you driving this morning while going to pick up the newest copy of this. And to

BULLY MOM to the "mom" at the wagon in riverfront park 10/03/15 who put your hand in my daughters face. Completely unacceptable behavior from an adult. First you deny it (when I flat out watched

CHEERS

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.”

you) then you justify yourself by stating she tried to cut and I need to teach my daughter how to act in public. I don't doubt she tried to, despite every time she came down and me reminding her to be respectful she IS 3 and sometimes her excitement gets the better of her (like ALL kids) and she needs gently reminding. I couldn't tell you how many times I went up there with her (on other occasions) when there has been several kids running to cut or not waiting patiently and my gentle "please wait your turn" is respected. When it is not i would never feel it would be appropriate to put my hand in a child's face!! The fact you do is pretty disgusting. You thought you were pretty slick yelling at me as I walked off about how I need to teach my daughter. My daughter is taught. The fact she is 3 and tried to cut after getting overly excited says nothing negative about her or my raising her; however you putting your hand in her face shows you as abusing your power as an adult. way to go mom. be proud. RIVALRY GONE WRONG?! Hey all! I am a 49er fan in Washington! You read right! But that doesn't give someone the right to smash my rear windshield in because I have a SF decal on the back of my car! It is a game, and rivalries are all good and fine. But when it comes to damaging personal property or harassing someone who has done nothing to deserve it, that is just low. This activity is a disservice to all the great Seahawk fans out there, and I'm sure not encouraged by most levelheaded individuals. Great news though! All was caught on the company cameras, and the police have all the evidence! So just a matter of time before this idiot is brought in. 

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EVENTS | CALENDAR OLD FASHIONED SPAGHETTI FEED The center hosts its Fall Fellowship Spaghetti Feed with all the trimmings, complete with musical entertainment. Proceeds benefit the center’s programs. Oct. 9. $10. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (535-0803) INTO AFRICA Partnering for Progress’ annual dinner and auction offers an African-themed menu, along with informational booths demonstrating the nonprofit’s work in Kenya helping provide access to health care, education and clean water. Sat, Oct. 10 at 5:30 pm. $65/person; $500-$650/table of eight. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. intoafricaauction.org JUNK2FUNK See a collection of ecofriendly fashions by local artists, all made from everyday junk, trash and recycled materials. Oct. 10, 7 pm. $25. CdA Eagles, 209 Sherman Ave. kealliance.org/junk2funk (209-667-9093) TEAM HOPE WALK, 5K, & 10K The first annual walk raises awareness about Huntington’s Disease, and funds to support education, research, advocacy, and services for Huntington’s families. Oct. 10, 10 am-noon. $25. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. hdsa.org/thwspokane BISHOP’S BRUNCH Catholic Charities of Spokane hosts its annual fundraiser breakfast (formerly known as the Poor Man’s Meal) to support and share the mission of the House of Charity. Proceeds benefit the facility’s Sleeping Program. Time/price TBA. Oct. 11. House of Charity, 32 W. Pacific Ave. catholiccharitiesspokane.org/events PEOPLE WHO CARE Transitions for Women’s 13th annual benefit breakfast and luncheon event, supporting the organization’s programs to aid local women and children and celebrating its 20th anniversary. Doors open at 11:30 am, program/lunch from noon-1 pm. Oct. 13. Red Lion at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. help4women.org

COMEDY

KATHY GRIFFIN The two-time Emmy and Grammy award-winning comedian performs live. Oct. 8, 7:30 pm. $55/$75/$95. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com 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 MIKE WALLY WALTERS + GREG BEACHLER Live comedy show. Ages 21+. Oct. 9-10, at 8 pm. Oct. 9-10. $12. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. (483-7300) NO CLUE An all-improvised murdermystery comedy. Fridays in October, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com SPOKANE COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring: Vanessa LeAnne Pugh, Alayna Becker, Ginny Isabelle, Ryan Dean Tucker, Matt Dargen and more. Oct. 9, 9 pm. Free. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. LAUGH FOR THE CURE The Susan G. Komen Eastern Washington Affiliate presents the fourth evening of comedy to raise awareness and funding for breast health programs in our community. Event features heavy appetizers, a raffle, auction, wine-pull and a rated PG stand-up comedy show. Oct. 15, 5-10 pm. $75/person. Lincoln Center,

1316 N. Lincoln. easternwashington. info-komen.org (315-4715) SPR PRESENTS: PAULA POUNDSTONE Poundstone is probably best known as a frequent panelist on NPR’s hit current-events quiz show, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” Oct. 15, 7:30 pm. $40-$42. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com

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COLVILLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH The annual 12-acre corn maze, pumpkin patch and market is open daily: Mon-Thu, 4 pm-dusk; Fri, 4-8 pm; Sat-Sun, 11 am-8 pm. $5-$7. Colville Corn Maze, 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com (509-684-6751) SCARYWOOD HAUNTED NIGHTS Silverwood transforms into its scariest version, with five haunted attractions, seven “scare zones” and theme park rides in the dark. Not recommended for visitors under age 13. Oct. 8-29, Thu-Sat from 6:30-11 pm and Oct. 30, 7 pm-midnight. $21-$40. Silverwood Theme Park, 27843 U.S. 95. scarywoodhaunt.com (208-683-3400) CREEPY HALLOW The Northwest Renaissance Festival grounds convert from medieval history to creepy. Oct. 2-31; Fri-Sat from 7 pm to midnight. $5/person. Northwest Renaissance Festival, 6493 Hwy 291. facebook.com/ CreepyHallow (276-7728) POST FALLS LIONS HAUNTED HOUSE The annual haunted house is open FriSat, through Oct. 31, from 6 pm-midnight and Oct. 27-29, from 6-10 pm. Discounted admission with two cans of donated food. At Fourth and Post Street, Post Falls. $5-$7. facebook. com/Post-Falls-Lions-Haunted-House SVFD OPEN HOUSE The Spokane Valley Fire Department celebrates 75 years of service with a day of family fun. Meet Mako the Arson Dog in his final public appearance, take pictures in fire gear and on trucks, learn CPR and more. Oct. 10, 10 am-4 pm. Free SVFD Training Center, 2411 N. Pioneer. spokanevalleyfire.com (496-3344) BECK’S HARVEST HOUSE MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH Beck’s Fall Harvest Festival events include the cow train, jumping pad, activities and tasty fall treats, including pumpkin donuts. Giant Corn Maze open Sat-Sun, 10 am-5 pm through Oct. 25; Harvest House open daily, from 9 am-6 pm. $10/person. Harvest House, 9919 E. Greenbluff Rd. greenblufffarms.com (238-6970) EVERGREEN MODEL RAILROADERS EXHIBITION The Modelers have set up their most complete model railroad layout to date, featuring trains that represent 100+ years of history, using Northwest topography with mountains, bridges, a town, large city and more. Oct. 10, 5-9 pm. Free. Evergreen Model Railroad Club, 18213 E. Appleway Ave. (939-5845) STAR WARS READS DAY The fourth annual event includes games, crafts, and special Star Wars crafts. Oct. 10, 1 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org TRAUTMAN RANCH PARK DEDICATION The Trautman Ranch property is annexed inside the boundaries of Riverside State Park during an event with guided hike’s by the property’s former owner and more. RSVP requested. Oct. 10, 10:30 am-noon. Free. Trautman Ranch, 10205 Hill St. (329-2939)

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Six years ago, I was dating this guy on the East Coast. He and I share a deep love of the arts. We started arguing on the sidewalk, and I got so upset that I vomited all over myself. He refused to drive me home or let me back into his apartment to change. Finally, he gave me a pair of pants, but he made me change in the stairwell. Shortly afterward, I moved out west. I told him I still loved him and couldn’t get him out of my system, but AMY ALKON his response was downright cruel. Eventually, I fell in love with my current boyfriend. Well, East Coast Guy now wants me back. I do miss our mutual passion for theater and art. (West Coast Guy isn’t interested in attending artistic events.) However, I’ve had poor job-hunting luck and I’m fearful about my financial future, and West Coast Guy recently made me his heir. I’m tortured. Should I give East Coast Guy another chance? —Torn Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm wrote that mature love is “I need you because I love you.” Rather different from “I need you because I don’t want to be living in a packing crate when I’m 50.” As for the love you could have…it seems that — awww! — even now, East Coast Guy wants to be the reason you walk home alone in an upchuck-decorated dress. (Sell framed, numbered snippings and it’s art!) Your entertaining a re-up with a guy who treated you so cruelly is bizarre — unless you consider a psychological gotcha called “the Zeigarnik effect.” Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman explain that when a task or goal gets interrupted, the automatic, unconscious part of our brain keeps pinging the conscious part, nagging us to finish up whatever we’ve left incomplete. (Unfortunately, our subconscious is only interested in getting the thing finished, not whether the guy in question is a complete douche-iopath.) A way to shut off the Zeigarnik effect is to complete the incomplete thing — like by ending it for good with East Coast Guy or maybe picking up where you left off. But before you do the latter, consider another factor that’s surely in effect here — the cognitive bias of “selective perception.” This is our tendency to go all forgetsenheimer’s about the stuff that’s emotionally uncomfortable (ego battering, for example). Shoving it in some mental closet allows us to focus on more appealing beliefs, like “I can always count on him — to share my enthusiasm for gallery openings where everybody has complicated hair.” Real love draws lines in how somebody treats you — how even when they’re angry, they act lovingly (assuming you haven’t, say, sauteed their parrot and served it up with a side of peas). As for whether you need a more arts-going man, that’s something to figure out before you get all relationshippy with somebody who’d rather stay home watching YouTube videos of a raccoon riding a Roomba. But also consider that life involves trade-offs, like maybe going to arts events with a friend instead of demanding that your partner meet your every need like a giant human Costco: “Love me, leave me money, and live to attend haunting performance art, like a woman reading a Chinese takeout menu for nine hours straight and then clipping her toenails and lighting them on fire.”

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I’ve always been a sexual free spirit, but I’d like to get serious with this guy I’ve been dating. Is it ever good to tell a guy about other guys you’ve slept with recently or who are still nosing around? I think it might make a guy feel you’re desirable and commit, but my guy friends say it’s really off-putting. —Just Wondering For a woman, finding somebody to have sex with is about as hard as finding an Indian guy running a 7-Eleven. Yay, huh? Uh…except for how harshly women get judged for being “sexual free spirits.” This comes out of what anthropologists call “paternity uncertainty” — the fear men evolved to have that they’ll be bringing home the bison to feed a kid who’ll be passing on the genes of Mr. Monobrow in the next lean-to. So men take issue with women who get around, whereas for men, there’s no such thing as “stud shaming.” In other words, never tell who or how many. And by the way, some guys claim they’ll be okay with knowing — just before they start keeping you up all night with questions like “Was it recent?” “Was there overlap?” and “Was this BEFORE you got Lasik?” The reality is, a boyfriend will want to believe that your body is a temple — and not the sort that’s been an international tourist hot spot with a eunuch outside operating one of those little clickers. n ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR COLLEGE NIGHT CONTRA DANCE: Spokane Folklore Society hosts a special college night contra dance, with the Spokane Mini-Mega Band playing and caller Ray Polhemus. Oct. 14, 7:30-9:30 pm. Free/students; $5-$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. spokanefolklore.org (509-838-5667) PJAL’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY Explore nonviolence as a strategy for change with a screening of “A Force More Powerful,” followed by discussion. Stay afterward and socialize with light refreshments while viewing displays representing PJAL’s work over the past four decades. Oct. 15, 7-9 pm. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. on.fb.me/1LuhP4J

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WASHINGTON STATE CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL The inaugural event features 31 displays of more than 3,000 pieces of lit, Chinese Lanterns, built and installed by Chinese artisans throughout an expanse of Riverfront Park. Other events include five weeks of Chinese cuisine, each week featuring a culinary region of China, prepared by awardwinning Chef Jeremy Hansen (Thu-Sat, 5-10 pm) and live performances by Chinese artists nightly at 6 and 8 pm. The festival runs through 26-Nov. 1, and is open daily: Sun-Thu, 5-10 pm, Fri-Sat 5-11 pm. $12-$60. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. spokanelanternfestival.com SWINGTOBERFEST Lindy Town, USA hosts the longest running Lindy Hop event in Spokane and the sister event to the Spokane Vintage Swing Festival. Events include live music by local groups. Oct. 9-10, from 7:30 pm-midnight. $20/event. Moran Prairie Grange, 6006 S. Palouse Hwy. vintageswingspokane.com (919-9162) APPLE FEST The festival offers apple dumplings, pie, baked goods, arts and crafts vendors and live entertainment. Oct. 10-11 and 17-18; Sat 10 am-5 pm and Sun, 12-5 pm. Green Bluff United Methodist Church, 9908 E. Greenbluff Rd. (979-2607)

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FINDING NOAH A screening of the documentary about a team’s quest to find the remains of Noah’s Ark. The crew included two Spokane residents who traveled to Mt. Ararat’s desolate summit. Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone (CdA). Oct. 8, 7 pm. $13. findingnoah.com POST-APOCALYPTIC SURVIVAL FILM SERIES Explore post-apocalyptic worlds through the film Blade Runner (Rated R) and partake in a post-film discussion with a local film expert. Oct. 8, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) SPR GOES TO THE MOVIES: ALIEN Includes a Movies 101 taping, where hosts Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss the film, the Alien film franchise, and the work of director Ridley Scott. Oct. 8, 6:30 pm. $12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com MULHOLLAND DRIVE The North Idaho College Film Club hosts a screening of the David Lynch film (Rated R). Oct. 9, 6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org ROAR The film follows wildlife preservationist Hank, who lives harmoniously alongside a menagerie of over 100

untamed animals on a preservation in the African plains. Oct 9 at 7:30 pm and Oct. 10 at 1:30 pm. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org ROCK DOC DOUBLE FEATURE: SPOKANARCHY! & SALAD DAYS Salad Days shows at 8 pm, a look at the DC punk scene from the early 1980s to the decade’s end. Screening at 10 pm is Spokanarchy, a 2011 documentary chronicling the 1980s punk rock scene in Spokane. Oct. 10, 7:30 pm. $5. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. bigdipperevents.com WISDOM EARNED: A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER’S PERSPECTIVE Screening of the documentary about Chris Kopczynski’s journey to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents — he became the 12th man in the world to accomplish the feat. Proceeds of the show benefit the Spokane Guilds School. Oct. 10, 7 pm. $25. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com THE DROP BOX A documentary telling the true story of a courageous pastor named Lee Jong-rak, who over the past decade has rescued hundreds of abandoned babies in Seoul, South Korea. Oct. 11, 2 pm. $13.50. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. panida.org THE WOUND AND THE GIFT A screening of the documentary (a 2015 SpIFF selection) about and human-animal connection, in a benefit for 10 local animal rescue groups. Oct. 11, 5:30 pm. $10. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. on.fb.me/1NsshYW (327-1050) THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE SOCEITY PRESENTS A motley crew of film enthusiasts who gather monthly to explore the exotic, extreme, independent, romantic and depraved world of celluloid. Not for the faint of heart, weak of will, or unsullied of soul. Oct. 11, 6-10 pm. $10-$12. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. on.fb.me/1ja8qDf PALOUSE FRENCH FILM FEST: GIRLHOOD Girlhood/Bande de filles: Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. Oct. 13, 7-10 pm. $15; $55/fest pass. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) POST-APOCALYPTIC SURVIVAL FILM SERIES Explore post-apocalyptic worlds through the film Children of Men (Rated R) and partake in a post-film discussion with a local film expert. Oct. 13, 6-8 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8330) CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: SO YOUNG When 18 year-old Zheng Wei arrives at college, she encounters a diverse world she’s never experienced before. Oct. 14, 7-10 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

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OKTOBERFEST AT ARBOR CREST Featuring beer from Square Wheel Brewing Co. and Arbor Crest’s wine, with live music by the local Latin band Milonga and German style food from Catered 4 You. Oct. 10, 12-5 pm. Free admission. Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. arborcrest.com COOKING CLASS WITH KRIS MCILVENNA A cooking class with the chef/ owner of 315 Martinis & Tapas and the Greenbriar Inn. Oct. 14, 5:30-8:30 pm. $50/person. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklin-

center.org (208-457-8950) HEALTHY COOKING ON A FAMILY BUDGET Get suggestions and tips from a pro chef as we cook and learn together. Meets on Oct. 14, 21, and Nov. 11 (attend all sessions). Free (limited seats); register at sparkwestcentral.org. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org

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COEUR D’ALENE + WHITWORTH SYMPHONIES: REALM OF STARS A concert program featuring scores from Star Wars, Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Holst’s “The Planets” and more. Performed in collaboration with the Whitworth Symphony Orchestra. Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm and Oct. 10 at 2 pm. $10$27. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasymphony.org (208-660-2958) PIANO + VIOLIN CONCERT David Hyun-su Kim, piano, and Lauren Basney, violin, a husband-wife duo from Walla Walla, present a program of piano-violin duo, and piano solo works by Smetana, Ravel and more. Oct. 9, 7 pm. Free. Steinway Piano Gallery, 13418 E. Nora Ave. (327-4266) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS NO. 2: AMERICAN WONDERS A concert program exploring the exuberance of American classical music, from William Schuman’s spirited American Festival Overture to George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue. Oct. 10 at 8 pm and Oct. 11 at 3 pm; come an hour early for a pre-concert lecture. $15-$54. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org GONZAGA JAZZ COMBOS Under the direction of David Fague and Brian McCann. Concerts are held in the Music Annex I Hall, at the corner of Boone and Pearl. Oct. 11, Nov. 7 and Nov. 21, from 1-3 pm. Free. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/music (313-6733) THE YEAR OF THE ORGAN Dr. Andrew Unsworth, a full-time organist with the Mormon Tabernacle, presents an organ recital. Oct. 11, 4-5:30 pm. $10 donation. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. (838-4277) GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH ELMIRA DARVAROVA Violin soloist Elmira Darvarova joins the orchestra for a program including Rossini, Tschaikovsky, Saint-Saens and the US premiere of Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Oct. 12, 7:30-9 pm. $13. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) HARVEST OF SOUND Performances by the North Idaho College Cardinal Chorale, Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers. Oct. 13, 7:30 pm. Free. CdA First Presbyterian Church, 521 Lakeside Ave. (208-769-3275) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHAMBER SOIREE: AUTUMN The Spokane Symphony perform an assortment of baroque, classical and contemporary chamber music. Also includes wine and hors d’oeuvres. Oct. 13-14 at 7:30 pm. $20-$48. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. spokanesymphony.org

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16TH ANNUAL FARRAUGT OPEN DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT A sectioned PDGA B-Tier event; all ages welcome from amateur to pro level players. Oct. 10 from 9 am-6 pm, Oct. 11 from 8 am-3 pm. Farra-

gut State Park, 13400 E. Ranger Rd. facebook.com/FarragutOpen2015 (922-9941) CABELA’S LADIES DAY OUT Hunting, fishing, and camping events especially for women, taught by women. The first 100 ladies through the door get a free gift. Oct. 10, 8 am-3 pm. Free. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. cabelas.com/postfalls MUSHROOM FORAY WITH RICH LEON Come celebrate the addition of the Trautman property to Riverside State Park’s system of biking and hiking trails. Oct. 10, 10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. inlandnwland.org WATER POLO CLINIC A clinic focusing on the basics of water polo, with opportunities to discuss questions and work on specific topics. Participants also have the opportunity to scrimmage at the end. Oct. 11, 9 am-4 pm. $15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. (208-667-1865)

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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, THE MUSICAL Spokane Civic Theatre’s season premier of the musical, based on the hit film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and a true story. Through Oct. 18; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com THE ELEVATOR A romantic comedy about a couple who get trapped in an Elevator for several hours. Oct. 8-10 at 7 pm. $12. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway. (342-2055) OTHER DESERT CITIES The award-winning script exploits what happens when family wounds are exposed and lines are crossed. Through Oct. 11, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$24. Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. (455-7529) ROCK OF AGES A musical comedy about big bands with big egos and big hair. Through Oct. 10, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$27. The Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. (208-667-1323) A MEDIEVAL MURDER MYSTERY AT KIRTLAND CASTLE A murder mystery play produced by the Cutter Theater Players, written by Lynn Barnes and Tara Leininger and originally performed in 1997. Oct. 9-10, times TBA. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St., Metaline Falls. cuttertheatre.com ALEXANDER & THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY An adaptation of the popular book. Oct. 9-25, Friday at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $8-$12. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org ANNE OF GREEN GABLES StageWest Community Theatre’s fall performance was adapted from the original novels by L.M. Montgomery. Through Oct. 17; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater only ($30) on Oct. 17, at 6 pm. $10-$12. Emmanuel Lutheran, 639 Elm St., Cheney. (235-2441) MOSCOW COMMUNITY THEATRE: STEEL MAGNOLIAS The story of a closeknit circle of friends whose lives come together in a small parish in Louisiana. Oct 9-10 at 7:30 pm. $8-$10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) SYLVIA A performance of A.R. Gurney’s play about how a dog changes the lives of an empty-nester couple in Manhattan. Oct. 9-11 and Oct. 15-18. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. (509-332-8406) WAITING FOR GODOT Unknown Locals presents a production of Samuel Beckett’s existential classic. Through Oct. 10, Fri-Sat at 7 pm. $10-$12. Heartwood Center, 615 S. Oak St, Sandpoint. (208-610-8005)

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