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he greatness of a free society is not measured by how well it preserves the interests of the wealthy and powerful, but how much it protects the rights of everyone — yes, even ALLEGED CRIMINALS. The right to an attorney was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 in the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision. In practice, however, that right is being threatened, as public defenders’ offices around the country are woefully underfunded. In Idaho, the situation has created strange alliances, uniting Gov. Butch Otter with the ACLU in calling for reforms. Read Jake Thomas’ special report on page 20.

In thinking about the real measure of a free society, we can’t help but reflect on last Friday’s horrifying attacks in Paris. One thought gives me a modicum of comfort in the face of such indiscriminate violence: The righteous will win out. It’s not an argument for inaction or turning the other cheek. It is instead a belief that fear — the tool of tyrants and terrorists — simply isn’t sustainable in the long run. Only justice is.

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BELIEF: Before that socialist Obama came to office, America had the best health care system in the world.

REALITY: Nonsense. America spends a greater percentage of its GDP on health care than any other industrialized country — upward of 18 percent. Compare this percentage to Canada (11.2 percent), Japan (9.6 percent) or the UK (9.4 percent). Meanwhile, our results aren’t anywhere near “the best.” Compared to 17 peer countries, America has a terrible infant mortality record, the third-worst mortality rate caused by nutritional deficiencies, and the second-worst rate of death through respiratory disease. Worldwide in life expectancy, the World Health Organization ranks America an uninspiring 34th — tied with Cuba.

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BELIEF: Obama inherited a peaceful Iraq, but then he pulled out all the troops, and the very next day? ISIS arrived, and Putin became the world’s de facto leader.

REALITY: “Peace” had never broken out in the Middle East. Obama did make a tactical error when he chose to stay on the “high road” and let Bush/Cheney off the hook; in retrospect, perhaps he should have trashed them both instead of getting sidetracked by that illusion of a “post-partisan” America. And yes, calling ISIS a “jayvee team” of terrorists was dumb. But it did no damage, certainly not when compared to Bush’s MISSION ACCOMPLISHED whopper. Most certainly, the Republican “base” to the contrary, ISIS did not form on Obama’s watch.

The culprit — and this, I suggest, will end up as the biggest elephant in the smelly Republican tent — was, once again, George W. Bush. First came his disingenuous and poorly thought-out invasion of Iraq (just ask Colin Powell). Then came Paul Bremer: Chosen as Iraq czar by Bush, Bremer summarily disbanded the Iraqi army in 2003 and set up a Shia-dominated government.

The ISIS trail leads back to these two decisions, as explained by former intelligence officer Joel Rayburn in his book Iraq After America:

At first no one fought the Americans, not the British, not the army officers and not the tribes. But when the Americans formed the Governing Council (2003) with thirteen Shiite and only a few Sunnis, people began to say, “The Americans mean to give the country to Shia,” and then they began to fight and the tribes began to let al Qaeda in.

IMMIGRATION

BELIEF: Immigrants are taking our jobs.

REALITY: Many of them are doing jobs in America that most Americans don’t want to do.

CLIMATE CHANGE

BELIEF: The federal government can’t be trusted and can’t do anything right. As regards climate change, this charge typically leads back to Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a former insurance salesman. Inhofe speaks for all the debaters when he charges that federal agencies are “colluding” (the word he uses) on the question of climate change. He is arguing that NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Navy and scientists from many agencies across government and the private sector are colluders in league to perpetrate this hoax for some nefarious reason.

REALITY: Republicans have denied climate change for the past 30-plus years. They still aren’t talking about it, even as downtown Miami prepares for flooding due to warming oceans. But President Obama is now forcing the issue — from the Paris conference, to his treaties, to his clean power plan, to his torpedoing the Canadian pipeline, to his ever more successful efforts to promote wind power and solar power.

The president has taken control of the narrative.

Meanwhile, our batch of presidential debaters reflect their perceived “base” by staying far away from this issue. But rest assured, they will face it next year in a national election that won’t be decided by the GOP base alone.

When viewed as a hobgoblin, the federal government is viewed as more reason to maintain a state of denial about observable facts. That is always troublesome, but it can be flat-out dangerous. The New Republic just ran a lengthy article on the state of climate change worldwide which closes with this warning: “The most ominous threat to climate progress may be a Republican taking the White House in 2016 or 2020.”

Why? Think denial, beliefs, mythology and hobgoblins. n

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s a planet, we’re connected like never before. With nearly 3 billion smartphones in use worldwide, even little moments can shoot across humanity almost instantly. Marshall McLuhan’s “global village” is no longer a theory.

And the world we are connected to is at once glorious and terrifying; it’s no wonder the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” is the emoji that shows the little smiley face laughing and crying at the same time.

Big, shocking events, like the attacks in Paris, can hit us like a sucker punch. But soon enough, we naturally settle on that one particular stage of grief: anger. France launched air strikes on ISIS strongholds; we went after al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Nobody can argue with either.

Yet many want more “boots on the ground.” President Obama has, to many, been frustratingly cool — too careful, they say, to defeat ISIS. Think about Western interventions in the Middle East — natural resource grabs, genuine Good Samaritan acts or simple colonial meddling. The common feature among all have been the unintended consequences.

Lawrence of Arabia led the charge to liberate the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire, but his “success” led to chaos and the resumption of bloody religious infighting. Great Britain, broke and dispirited after World War II, decided to partition India in 1947, creating Pakistan; all hell broke loose, with hundreds of thousands killed and a tense relationship between nuclear powers as its legacy. In 1948, Britain tried to broker a deal for Israel, but ultimately bailed out of negotiations; Israel still became a nation, but Palestinians were left as the orphans of the region, creating a divide that has only grown. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to liberate that nation from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. But once his Baathist party was expunged, Iraq slipped into civil war. Bashar al-Assad is still in power in Syria because the world so recently found out what happens when you eliminate a strong despot you despise.

And that leads us to ISIS, which has found a foothold in the failing states of Syria and Iraq. What does ISIS want? They say they want to rule the Middle East, displacing the Saudis as the true Wahhabis. But getting there seems to include sowing terror everywhere they can.

Global awareness brings enlightenment, too. People should see that Obama and allied leaders are right to temper their anger and consider the unintended consequences that are scattered like roadside bombs across the region. This is war, to be sure. Here’s hoping that all our planet’s leaders are wise enough to learn from the past as we fight it.  JEN SORENSON CARTOON

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he Spokane City Council is debating whether Greater Spokane Inc. and its functions should be split in two: One half forming an organization to act as a chamber of commerce for existing businesses and the other to attract new businesses.

In part, this is due to them being tired of giving more than $100,000 a year to an organization that often lobbies against their proposals. The current structure also creates a conflict, as businesses currently within the city look to block newcomers that might compete with them — oc-

casionally leading to GSI actually lobbying against new economic growth.

I suppose a split would be fine, but as long as Spokane is reconsidering its approach to economic development, why not aim for real reform? It’s time for a paradigm shift in how we look at economic development in this nation.

Today, the dominant approach to economic development is figuring out how to directly help businesses. We offer to cut taxes, waive fees, build business incubators, provide grants and advertise our business climate. Too often this leads to a race to the bottom, as cities and states compete to see who can give the most away to businesses

in wooing them to set up shop within their borders.

Besides leaving everyone with less tax income to provide community services, this approach also doesn’t actually create any wealth; it just shuffles companies around the country.

My proposed alternative: Let’s stop all of it. Let’s shut down the government-funded economic development offices and departments of commerce. No more government subsidies and corporate giveaways. Let’s stop worrying about how to create a great place for businesses and start figuring out how to create a great place for people.

Because here’s the truth: While there are some businesses that are shopping around for the best deal and moving to wherever they find it, most businesses tend to stay where they were founded.

So the key to creating economic growth is figuring out how to attract entrepreneurs to your city. But here’s the secret: Entrepreneurs are really just people like you and me. What attracts them is what makes anyone want to live anywhere.

What this means is the way to attract economic growth isn’t through fancy marketing or incentives, but actually creating a better community. Particularly, economic development would be better focused on children and their educations.

This is an idea so radical that I am actually stealing it from the outgoing director of the Idaho Department of Commerce, Jeff Sayer, who recently told a committee of Idaho legislators that businesses didn’t need more tax breaks, they needed a stronger education system creating the talent to fuel the economy. (Admittedly, Sayer didn’t advocate for shutting his whole department down, so maybe my ideas are still a little radical.)

So Spokane, what do you say? How about pioneering a new paradigm and focusing all your attention on building a place you can be proud of, a city you love.

One that is filled with excitement and joy, whatever that means to you.

Build and maintain great parks, good schools and solid infrastructure. Particularly, make it a great place for your kids to grow up, the kind of place they want to stay or come back to, to raise kids of their own.

Some of those kids will become entrepreneurs — some probably already are. Invest in them and enable them to build your next generation of businesses. After all, who else are you creating this economic development for anyway? n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, studied at the College of Idaho and currently resides in Seattle. He has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s Republican Party politics.

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Response to the announcement this week (11/16/15) that Washington Gov. Jay Inslee would continue welcoming Syrian refugees, as other U.S. governors said they wanted to close their state borders to refugees:

JOSEPH WILLIAM FEHLIG: Yes bring the terrorists to us. If Seattle would stop electing this guy that would be great.

ANNE SCHUERMAN PERKINS: Thank you, Governor Inslee for making that statement.

SARA HARRINGTON LESHER: I am fine with whomever coming to the USA, but if and only if our own have jobs, food, shelter and clothing.

DUSTIN WOZNY: No no no, let’s recall Inslee; no Syrian refugees in Washington. Call your state senator and tell them no Syrian refugees in Washington.

MIKE HOLLINGSWORTH: He can’t turn them away, no matter how bad you Islamophobes want him to. It’s not a state right. Good for Inslee.

ANNA BREKKEN: Thank you Gov. Inslee! A few random terrorists cannot scare us from taking the poor, the tired — America’s tradition. How would any of you like it if you were born in Syria and NO ONE would help you and your family? Try to have some empathy and compassion. It is the Christian way, after all.

This is the right thing to do.

DANA ROODMAN: They’d better stay in Olympia or Seattle because they won’t be welcome in Eastern Washington.

ANNETTE REMSHARD: It will be interesting if the first terrorist attack is the governor’s mansion. What will Inslee say then? Make Eastern Washington citizens pay for the West-side idiot messes.

MORGAN ROBINSON: Yep, because it is so intolerant to protect your own people. Not only are we a sanctuary city, the whole of Washington is headed in that direction.

When will people finally stand up and defend themselves, rather than comply with every ludicrous demand because they are scared of “hurting feelings”?!

MIKE JONES-THAMES: Fear and hatred is what ISIS wants… they win.

CASEY BAULNE: Proud of my governor! I’m from the Spokane area, and those refugees (who are human beings, by the way) are welcome any time, including in my home!

HOLLY ROBERTSON: Some of you pathetic excuses for humans clearly need to read what is written on our Statue of Liberty. 

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everal camera phones point toward the soonto-be-ordained priest in the middle of the room. Draped in a bright white robe lit by sunlight beaming into a small chapel in northwest Spokane, a bishop finishes the “laying on of hands,” a Catholic tradition for the ordination of priests.

He then invites any members of the congregation to come forward and lay hands on the church’s newest minister as a showing of community affirmation. Almost all get up.

Giving the entire congregation a chance to lay hands on their new priest is not common practice in the Roman Catholic tradition, but this isn’t a Roman Catholic congregation. This is a service for the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, a faith system that follows most of the Catholic tradition but distinguishes itself on several key points. The other significant difference for this particular ordination?

The priest kneeling in the middle of the room is a woman.

For the past three years, Linda Kobe-Smith has attended St. Clare Ecumenical Catholic Community, and in the spring of 2014 its members voted to call her to be ordained as a priest — or rather, priestess.

“I’ve already been presiding and preaching, so this is just a continuation of what I’ve been doing for 30-something years,” she says. “Now I’ll be able to do it a little more publicly, and I carry the blessing of the community.”

Ecumenical Catholicism follows many of the same core beliefs of the Roman Catholic tradition, including all seven of the sacraments, but has carved out a place for itself by promoting inclusivity. In an age where equality regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender has been pushed to the forefront of public dialogue, Ecumenical Catholicism offers a place to worship for progressive Catholics who don’t agree with some traditional teachings.

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Linda Kobe-Smith, accompanied by her husband, Dan, is the first woman to be ordained as a priest in Spokane, and the second in the entire state. JEFF FERGUSON PHOTO

obe-Smith, 65, was raised in a Roman Catholic household and attended a fairly conservative church in Utah as a child. She remembers attending all-Latin mass, for example, before the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.

For a while after Vatican II, Kobe-Smith remembers thinking that the church might be headed for the institutional change she thought was necessary. By the 1970s and ’80s, though, it was obvious that wasn’t going to happen. Only men could be priests, and bishops still appointed them, sometimes without much input from the laypeople.

Despite the hierarchical structure, she continued to go to church.

In 1983, she enrolled in a four-year program for a Masters of Divinity at Gonzaga University.

Known as an M.Div., the degree is typically one of the requirements to become a Catholic priest.

It was during this time that her eyes opened wider to the breadth of religious scholars — particularly women scholars — and she began questioning Roman Catholic traditions more seriously.

“What I appreciated about them was that they opened so many doors, rather than keeping God in a really tiny box,” she says. “Somehow God is only defined in maleness, or by heterosexuality, or by one small piece of the prism. I think if we don’t have the ability to wonder, or be perplexed or astounded, then whatever perception we have of God is going to be very, very tiny.”

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At that time, the parish priest was a member of the Order of Franciscan Monks, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. He would come to Spokane occasionally, but for the most part Kobe-Smith ran the show. She did everything from preaching to marriage preparation, but still couldn’t perform any of the sacraments. She says the parish emphasized the community over church leadership.

All that changed in the mid-1990s when the Franciscans left, and the parish came back under the control of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane.

Kobe-Smith continued as a pastoral assistant until 2003. Frustrated with the top-down approach and exclusionary rules, she went churchless for nearly 10 years (though she continued studying with friends).

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cumenical Catholicism got its start after the First Vatican Council in 1869-70, which decided that the pope had complete infallibility, or universal jurisdiction, over the entire Roman Catholic Church and its adherents.

Many Europeans didn’t agree. They continued to live their lives as Catholics without recognizing the pope’s authority. Although not called the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, as it is today, their system of beliefs stem from that schism.

The belief that women cannot be ordained as priests, for example, comes from Jesus’ 12 apostles, all of whom were men.

“Jesus named 12 apostles and they were all

men, but he also empowered women in many ways beside the priestly office,” says Bishop Thomas Daly, who presides over the Catholic Diocese of Spokane. “The church changes some things, but others are so fundamental that they have remained the same.”

Ecumenical Catholics take a more decentralized approach to church hierarchy and morality.

For example, in the Roman Catholic Church, a bishop is responsible for appointing priests to each parish within his diocese, and can do so without the input of the laypeople.

“As a bishop, in consultation with a group of five priests, I assign a priest to a parish,” says Bishop Daly. “I would get input from the community, and try to match it, but in Catholicism there is a committee [of clergy]. It’s not a democracy.”

In Ecumenical Catholic Communions, the congregation votes to call a priest to be ordained, and the qualifications are still the same: a psychological evaluation, background checks and preferably a Master of Divinity.

With headquarters in St. Louis, the Ecumenical Catholic Communion first put down roots in the U.S. in 2000, and has now spread throughout 51 churches in 20 states, with an estimated membership of about 10,000. Washington state has two other ECC parishes, in Olympia and Seattle.

Despite a recent Pew Research survey that found many American Catholics are leaning toward more progressive opinions — including remarrying after a divorce, the use of contracep-

tives and acceptance of homosexuality — and some are leaving the church as a result, the Catholic population in Eastern Washington remains steady. According to numbers from the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, which includes parishes throughout Eastern Washington, membership has grown slightly, from 107,271 in 2013 to 108,559 in 2015.

“We’re not trying to compete against the Roman Catholic Church,” says Bishop Tom Altepeter, who started St. Clare in 2012. “This is a way to include those who feel excluded or have been excluded.”

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bout 100 people fill the small chapel surrounded by evergreens, just off the Centennial Trail. The congregation is almost double that of a normal Sunday morning.

“It’s like seeing the Beatles,” says Helen Evans, a longtime friend of Kobe-Smith. “It’s something I’d never thought I’d see before I die.”

Friends and family of Kobe-Smith traveled from Pullman, Colville and Seattle to witness her ordination. Some members of St. Ann’s came to show their support as well.

“This moment highlights who we aspire to be,” Altepeter tells the congregation during his sermon. “And it has emerged out of many community discussions. In the eyes of Jesus there is no distinction between black and white, straight and gay, male and female.”

Afterward, when the congregation recites the Lord’s Prayer in unison, they begin with “Our Mother and Father in heaven… ” They have a gluten-free communion option as well.

“I didn’t leave the Roman Catholic Church in order to be ordained,” Kobe-Smith says. “I left because I needed a different life, and I found St. Clare to be life-giving. Whether I was ordained or not, I would have been happy.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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REFUGEE CAMPS The governors of Idaho and Washington state sent two very different messages Monday. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter joined the dozens of other governors worried that, since a (possibly fake) SYRIAN REFUGEE passport was found after terrorist attacks in Paris, terrorists could slip into the United States under the guise of refugees.

“While I understand that immigration and refugee resettlement are authorized under federal law, I am duty-bound to do whatever I can to protect the people of Idaho from harm,” Otter wrote, calling for a halt to refugee resettlement in Idaho. Yet Washington Gov. Jay Inslee reiterated the state’s commitment to taking in refugees, “regardless of where they come from or the religion they practice.”

(DANIEL WALTERS)

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SPD UNDER FIRE The president of the SPOKANE POLICE GUILD and a 24-year veteran of the Spokane Police Department was put on paid administrative leave last week as part of the latest developments in the investigations into an allleged sexual assault and destruction of evidence within the department. Sgt. John Gately is a “person of interest” for his possible involvement in the leak of information about the contents of a Sheriff’s Office search warrant to Sgt. Gordon Ennis and Ofc. Doug Strosahl. Ennis is accused of sexually assaulting a female officer while she was passed out on a bed at a drunken police party.

(MITCH RYALS)

NEWS | BRIEFS

Never Simple An update on the future of the Ridpath; plus, why more oil trains will be heading through Spokane RIDPATH, STILL TANGLED

Back in March, local developer Ron Wells assured the Inlander that there was only one major hurdle — a letter of intent from an investor — until he could start pushing at full speed to turn the old RIDPATH HOTEL into a 13-story apartment complex.

But with the Ridpath, nothing is ever so simple. In the months since, Wells appears to have lost the bid for several other pieces of the Ridpath. The hotel had been cut up into numerous pieces by a Las Vegas hotelier and con artist Greg Jeffreys before it closed in 2008. In the years since, it has sat empty, plagued by bankruptcies, lawsuits and competing interest groups.

“No sane lender would have wanted to take this on if they’d known it would take this long,” Wells said back in March.

Eventually it was winnowed down to two big groups: On the one side, there’s Wells, with the support of the city of Spokane, with plans to create a number of relatively low-priced micro-apartments. He even advertised them on Craigslist in 2013. On the other, there’s Stephen Antonietti, the self-appointed savior of the

Ridpath who had poured time and money into repairing its worst problems; he wanted to transform the Ridpath into a major hotel-entertainment complex.

In September, according to the Spokesman-Review, a bankruptcy court put two portions of the Ridpath up for bid, but Crystal City LLC — with Antonietti’s involvement — narrowly edged out Wells’ group. If the sale is made official, control of much of the Ridpath property will fall into the hands of Antonietti’s group. As of Tuesday, however, details still hadn’t been finalized.

“It’s delayed for a couple of days,” Joe Trenchuk, a member of Crystal City LLC, said when asked to clarify the status of the Ridpath. “Just wait for a couple of days… Everything is going ahead.”

Over the past few years, of course, plenty of such statements have been made about the Ridpath. And it’s never so simple. (DANIEL WALTERS)

WHAT’S WORKING

Washington state’s community supervision program got a complete overhaul in 2012 with policies that had never been tested on a statewide basis. The goal was to save money and reduce RECIDIVISM while bringing uniformity to a system that could vary widely across the state.

Some of the changes to the state’s community supervision program included mandatory but reduced jail time (one to three days) for “low-level” violations such as missing a check-in appointment or failing a drug test, swifter penalties for violations and evidence-based drug treatment.

Earlier this month, researchers at the Washington State University Institute for Criminal Justice Research released a 73-page report detailing how the new rules impacted community supervision. According to the report,

which includes data from about 5,000 participants and focus group interviews with 79 corrections officers and 56 offenders, it’s working.

Specifically, the report says offenders’ odds of going to jail were reduced by 20 percent, and their lengths of stay were reduced by an average of 16 days. The odds of offenders being convicted of another crime fell by 20 percent, as did offenders’ propensities for low-level violations. Additionally, for every dollar the state spent on policies associated with the new rule, it saved $16. At last count, that’s about $40 million so far, according to Dan Pacholke, secretary of Washington state’s Department of Corrections. (MITCH RYALS)

PIPED UP

The number of potentially explosive OIL TRAINS passing through Spokane and the rest of the Northwest is expected to increase as a result of President Barack Obama’s rejection of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to a report commissioned by a Seattle environmental think tank.

The report was produced by Oil Change International on behalf of the Sightline Institute. It used the oil industry’s modeling and forecasting tools to conclude that oil from Canadian tar sands is likely to be transported using rail to terminals in the Northwest, now that Obama has rejected the pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of crude to the Gulf Coast.

“The states of Washington and Oregon are facing a quadrupling of their crude-by-rail terminal capacity to over a million barrels a day,” reads the report.

The problem with oil trains is that they derail and explode, a situation that has caused concern in Spokane, the only urban center the trains pass through on their way to Western Washington. (JAKE THOMAS)

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NEWS | ENERGY

Avista says Colstrip, a coal plant located in southeastern Montana, remains an important part of its energy portfolio.

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Risky Business As the region plans its energy needs in coming years, Avista holds on to a source of power that it says provides customers with reliability. Critics say it’s becoming a liability

BY JAKE THOMAS

T

om Eckman stood in a conference room in the Red Lion River Inn last week showing about 30 people a series a graphs, all with steep curves that made one important point: The energy needs of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana could be met for the next 20 years through conservation and better managing demand.

As Eckman continued his wonkish talk, the crowd, there for a hearing on the region’s future energy needs, wore confused expressions as he pointed to two smaller lines on the graph representing solar and wind energy and their limited use.

“So we didn’t find those to be very useful in meeting winter capacity because the sun doesn’t shine very much here in the winter, and the wind doesn’t blow when it’s really, really cold, so those are both problematic resources,” continued Eckman, the director of the Power Division for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, a four-state panel formed by Congress to plan for the region’s energy demands.

Eckman had another set of graphs about another problematic source of energy: coal. These graphs pointed to how the region could meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations to reduce carbon emissions and pollutants by replacing coal plants with natural gas.

The four-state region, like much of the country, is moving away from coal, a source of energy that has come under increased scrutiny for polluting the air and contributing to climate change.

Avista, an investor-owned utility that provides electricity for nearly 340,000 customers in Idaho and Washington, recently filed a separate plan with regulators indicating that energy generated from Colstrip, a coal-powered plant located in southeastern Montana, will remain a part of its energy portfolio for the next 20 years.

Critics say that the plant is likely to become more expensive under new regulations and the cost will be borne by ratepayers and shareholders.

“Avista now becomes an outlier, saying they are going to be keeping this dirty coal plant for another 20 years,” says Doug Howell, senior campaign representative for the Sierra Club.

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But Avista says its analysis shows that the plant will likely remain economical to operate for another 20 years, and will provide ratepayers a steady source of energy when natural gas prices fluctuate and less hydropower is available when rivers run low (as they have been during the historic drought). Jason Thackston, Avista senior vice president of energy resources, says that renewables, such as wind and solar, have a long way to go before they are viable.

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n 1980, Congress passed legislation authorizing Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to develop a plan for the region’s energy needs. Currently, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, the panel that oversees these efforts, is finalizing a five-year update to its regional energy plan. One of its key conclusions is that the region’s growing energy needs can be met through 2035 by developing 4,500 megawatts of energy efficiency, including home weatherization, more efficient appliances, building codes and other measures, says John Harrison, spokesman for the council.

LETTERS Another takeaway Send comments to from the plan is that editor@inlander.com. carbon emissions will drop from 55 million metric tons to 34 million metric tons as coal-burning plants in Centralia, Washington; Boardman, Oregon; and Valmy, Nevada, close between 2020 and 2026.

Nationally, coal-burning plants are being taken off line as natural gas (considered to be a cleaner form of energy) becomes cheaper. New federal regulations requiring reductions in mercury, acid gases and toxic metals emissions from power plants also are making coal less attractive, according to an analysis from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The analysis forecasts that 60 gigawatts of energy (enough to power tens of millions of homes) produced from coal will be taken off line by 2020. But Colstrip, owned by a consortium including Puget Sound Energy, Talen Energy and Avista, is different, says Harrison.

“The cost of running Colstrip is so low that the utili-

ties have decided to keep running it until they can’t,” he says.

“I think it’s important to understand what drove the decision to drive down Boardman and Centralia,” says Avista’s Thackston. “What was really driving that was pure economics. Those are older generating facilities.”

Those facilities, he says, would have required prohibitively expensive upgrades to meet new environmental regulations. Colstrip, he says, is a newer facility and won’t require any upgrades for another 20 years.

Avista has a 15 percent ownership in two of Colstrip’s four generation units, which are adjacent to the Rosebud Mine, and Thackston says it’ll continue to be a reliable source of energy.

Public utilities, such as the Bonneville Power Administration, have to adhere to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s energy plan, says Harrison. But for investor-owned utilities, such as Avista, the plan is purely advisory. Recently, Avista submitted a two-year plan (called an Integrated Resource Plan or IRP) to regulators in Washington and Idaho outlining the capacity for its energy portfolio, 9 percent of which will come from coal.

But the Sierra Club’s Howell says that Avista’s actual use of coal tends to be much higher than what’s been presented in its IRP. He also says that new environmental regulations could cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than Avista anticipates.

“What they like to show people is what the total capacity of their resources are, because it makes them look clean,” says Howell, who points to reports Avista files annually with the state Department of Commerce detailing their sources of energy.

Avista’s IRP, a dense 212-page document, projects the utility’s carbon emissions to climb to 3 million metric tons by 2035. The document expects Colstrip to remain open until 2026, largely unhindered by environmental regulations. Although it notes that the facility may have to make some potentially high-cost upgrades, such as installing new sulfur dioxide scrubbers, to comply with environmental regulations, the document concludes that “Avista does not believe this scenario represents a likely future for Colstrip.”

Thackston says some of these regulations were just recently introduced, and it’s not clear how they will be implemented. For now, he says, Colstrip is in compliance with existing regulations. Coal is Avista’s second-cheapest form of energy, after hydroelectricity, and the utility says it keeps costs down for consumers.

“When we are putting a plan together, we have to do it on proven technology and the economics we see today,” says Thackston.

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urrently, two Washington state groups are working on competing ballot measures for 2016 that would impose a tax on carbon emissions. One of these proposals, from a group called Carbon Washington, would tax out-of-state emissions from companies like Avista. But the company’s IRP states that under its analysis, the plant would only remain “marginally uneconomic” under both the increased regulations and new carbon taxes.

Robert Mcilvaine, president of the energy consulting firm the Mcilvaine Company, says that coal, for all its downsides, isn’t going away anytime soon, and there are technologies being implemented that will result in less pollution. Avista’s plan to get only 9 percent of its energy from coal, he says, would barely protect it from fluctuations in the rest of its portfolio, and most utility companies get at least 20 to 40 percent of their electricity from coal.

“It’ll be many decades,” he says, “before we can count on wind and solar to be major sources of energy.” n

NEWS | CRIME

Gone Too Soon What happened to Kim Vezina?

BY QUINN WESTERN

J

ennifer Goe doesn’t know the Kim Vezina who had a drug and alcohol problem. The Kim she knew was her little sister, who’d make up annoying songs as a kid and do spot-on Austin Powers impressions. The little girl Goe pictures is one with such a dynamite sense of humor that she could make the Kim Vezina, 27, was found angriest of folks burst into laughter. dead on Nov. 9.

It’s the memories of that laughter, and performing Stuart Smalley sketches from Saturday Night Live together, that Goe wants to recall now. “Kim loved to entertain people and make people laugh,” Goe says. “She should’ve been an improv comedian.”

Vezina, 27, was found floating near Fullers Bay in Lake Coeur d’Alene on Nov. 9.

Nearly two weeks later, investigators and the people who knew Vezina are still trying to figure out how she could meet such a tragic end. The authorities are seeking witnesses and have labeled her death as suspicious “because people don’t normally end up dead in the lake,” says Lt. Stu Miller, spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. “And she wasn’t reported missing.”

Goe, who is 29, was about to head to a parent-teacher meeting when her husband handed her a phone. Her aunt was on the line and Goe immediately knew something was wrong. Her knees gave and she was floored. Her baby sister was dead.

Goe vowed to herself to find out what happened to her sister.

“I’m not going to give up,” says Goe, who lives in Moses Lake. “I’m going to see these people on trial. And I’m going to see them be sentenced. Somebody knows something. I have hope.”

Vezina and her sister grew up in north Spokane in an area known as Shiloh Hills. In June 2000, their father had a seizure while driving. Both of their parents died in the crash.

“Kim just didn’t get the help that she needed when that happened,” Goe says.

Their aunt moved them to California, but Vezina returned and went to Mt. Spokane High School because it was home. She got an “SH” for Shiloh Hills tattooed on her shoulder.

She made some bad choices and dropped out of school, Goe says. The death of their parents was a turning point. Goe recognized it and got help. Vezina continued to go down a bad path.

Her criminal record included three felonies, including forgery.

“I was just waiting for her to get clean and be a part of my life again,” Goe says.

There were a lot of lives she touched in different circles in Spokane, adds Phil Andrade, a close friend and local rapper known on stage as Wildcard. He added with a grin that Vezina called herself the Queen of the Kane. “I wish she could’ve met more people because she was super helpful,” Andrade says. “She was tough, but still a beautiful person.”

Besides her sense of humor, Vezina was known among friends for her love of music. For a woman well-known in the hip-hop community, not many knew that the lyrics-reciting, VIP-crashing woman made her own music. She was shy about sharing it with Andrade. Which is ironic, he says, considering she was louder than life in every other aspect.

“If she were here,” Andrade says, exasperated and then laughing, “I wouldn’t have gotten a word in.”  A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 1 pm at Cedar Creek Village in Spokane. Anyone with information can reach Detective Darrell Oyler at 208-446-1339 or submit an anonymous tip at kcsheriff.com/anonymoustip.html.

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TIPPING POINT Everyone from Gov. Butch Otter to the ACLU says Idaho’s public defender system is broken — and fixing it won’t be easy

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Lisa Chesebro, a Kootenai County public defender, meets with Gavin Ottomeier, who is facing a felony charge of intent to deliver marijuana that carries a possible five-year prison sentence. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

T

he bulky stack of papers look as if they’d slide from Lisa Chesebro’s arms should she loosen her hold — even just a little.

This embarrassing nightmare scenario has happened before, with the brown accordion folders full of pleadings, complaints, paper clips, letters to the court and other critical documents tumbling out of her grasp and spilling all over the Kootenai County Jail parking lot.

Chesebro is one of Idaho’s overloaded public defenders, someone paid with public funds to defend people who society at large would casually condemn to incarceration and second-class citizenship. It’s Chesebro’s constitutionally mandated job to make sure that drug users, thieves, the wrongly accused and otherwise benign

people who make boneheaded decisions get their day in court. It’s also a job that state officials acknowledge has been chronically neglected, and they’re not sure what to do about it.

Chesebro opens the door to the county jail while clutching her mass of papers, stepping into the lobby where she waits to meet her clients. One is five months pregnant. Another has been diagnosed with mental illness, and another is facing what those in the field call “the bitch,” a habitual offender designation that could mean a life sentence.

While Chesebro waits, she chats with Pastor Tim Remington — the director of Good Samaritan Rehabilitation who is here to offer inmates a Christian solution to drug and alcohol addiction — about

their seemingly endless workload.

“We just take what’s been given to us in life,” says Remington. “Some things just come in like a flood.”

After 15 minutes in the lobby, a voice heavy with authority and indifference booms through the intercom: “Attorney, go to Booth 5.”

A metal door slides open and Chesebro enters a room with brick walls painted white, a gray carpet smudged with stains and six booths separated by glass panels scuffed from inmates striking the phone against them. It’s here that she meets her first client, Stephanie Lewis, who emerges from behind a door on the other side.

Her pregnancy is starting to show from underneath her orange jail uniform.

Her blue eyes carry a worried expression

that brightens when she sees Chesebro.

Using the phones on either side of the glass panel, they discuss the charges against her: using a credit card she found on the street, burglary and possession of Oxycontin, and how it could help her get probation if her friends and family can be at her sentencing hearing this afternoon.

“I think it says a lot if they can be there,” says Chesebro. “It shows you have a lot of support.”

Chesebro herself can’t make the hearing, and the news disappoints Lewis. If she were a private lawyer, it’d be different.

Instead, Lewis’ case will be passed to another public defender, a situation that’s far from ideal.

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE | IDAHO “TIPPING POINT,” CONTINUED... court appearance, especially at sentencing,” says Chesebro. “I don’t have that luxury because I have to be at someone else’s sentencing.”

At any given time, Chesebro is juggling about 100 felony cases. The American Bar Association recommends that defense attorneys only take 150 felony cases per year. By comparison, the situation in Kootenai County isn’t as dire as in other parts of the state, where poor defendants are churned through the system with minimal defenses.

State officials are increasingly recognizing the untenability of the predicament that attorneys like Chesebro face. There’s a growing consensus in Idaho that attorneys like Chesebro are so overburdened that the Gem State’s promise to the rights of the accused is routinely broken. Poor defendants often make their initial court appearances without a lawyer present, and many public defenders lack investigators and other resources that private defense attorneys would have access to.

“The courts have made it clear that our current method of providing legal counsel for indigent criminal defendants does not pass constitutional muster,” said Gov. Butch Otter, in his State of the State and Budget address in January. Last year, former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Burdick told lawmakers that “Idaho’s public defender system today has significant deficiencies.”

Now, after half a decade of studies and incremental reform, the Idaho chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says the state still hasn’t fixed what it considers to be the underlying problems of the system and is now suing, a strategy that has worked in other states.

Despite the lawsuit and near-universal agreement that the system is broken, few see a clear path to fixing it.

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In his most recent State of the State and Budget address, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter called on lawmakers to continue reforms of the state’s public defender system. lawyer to anyone charged with a crime.

Gideon asked the court to provide him with an attorney. His request was denied, and he was sentenced to five years in prison while appealing his case all the way to the nation’s top court. In 1963, the court ruled that the promise of the U.S. Constitution’s Sixth Amendment to a fair trial included a lawyer at public expense for those who couldn’t afford one.

At the time, 22 state attorneys general filed a brief arguing that the accused deserved a lawyer. Among them was Idaho, whose state court had ruled 40 years earlier, in 1923, that the indigent have a right to a lawyer under the state constitution.

“The unfortunate reality is that Idaho used to be a champion, historically,” says Leo Morales, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho, which filed a lawsuit in June against officials in charge of its public defense system. “Even before the state was granted statehood, already they were leaders in this.”

In 2010, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, at the request of the Idaho Criminal Justice Commission and Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission,

delivered a damning 135-page report examining the state’s public defender system. It concluded that the system is underfunded, public defenders are overburdened and defendants aren’t getting the defense they’re entitled to under both the U.S. and state constitutions.

“I think you could easily say Idaho is in the bottom 10 states [for public defense],” says David Carroll, executive director of the Sixth Amendment Center, who worked on the report.

The report found that the central problem with public defense in Idaho is that it’s left up to its 44 counties. Each county determines how many attorneys to hire, how they’re hired (sometimes prosecutors screen résumés), their caseload standard (if any), how much they’re paid and if the service is contracted out.

According to the report, counties such as Ada and Kootenai direct more resources toward public defense than their more rural counterparts, meaning the degree of justice a poor defendant receives is determined by county lines.

According to numbers presented to a legislative panel last year, there is one public defender for every 4,683 people

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in Idaho’s First Judicial district, which encompasses Kootenai County and North Idaho, but only one public defender for every 11,611 people in the state’s Seventh Judicial District in the northeast part of the state.

Public defenders also are outgunned.

Results of a survey of 26 counties provided to lawmakers found that they spent a combined $22 million on prosecutors and only $14 million, or more than 36 percent less, on public defenders. Some counties spent three times as much on prosecution as defense.

“The counties don’t know what’s required of them, so they therefore fail,” says Carroll. “It’s easy to think of this as giving money to criminals rather than upholding our constitutional rights.”

Morales says that another problem with Idaho’s public defense system is the use of flat fee contracts. Although state lawmakers prohibited their use in 2013, 21 counties continue to contract out defense services to private attorneys for a set fee, regardless of the number or complexity of cases they are assigned.

This arrangement, says Morales, gives attorneys a disincentive to spend time

on public defense cases over more lucrative private work. Flat fee contracts are a particular problem with complex cases.

In 2005, brothers Matthew and James Wells were charged with murder in the killing of University of Idaho football player Eric McMillan. Charles Kovis, who was contracted by Latah County to serve as public defender, was appointed their lawyer.

Kovis asked for a second lawyer to assist with the case, the norm with highstakes charges. But Latah County commissioners balked at paying for another lawyer, even hiring an outside firm to block the county public defender from hiring help. A judge later ruled that the public defender could hire a second lawyer.

“It’s almost like doing a brain operation with one doctor in the room,” says Tim Gresback, a Moscow attorney who ended up working on the case.

The funding levels, says Morales, are also at the whims of county commissioners. Kovis served as public defender until 2013, when every county employee received a 4 percent raise, while his contract only saw a 2 percent increase.

“I have tons and tons of overhead,” says Kovis of how underpaid he was under the contract. “Bottom line: I might as well have been a greeter at Walmart.”

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Lisa Chesebro at her desk with massive stacks of legal documents.

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“TIPPING POINT,” CONTINUED... individuals charged with crimes that it argues didn’t have adequate defense. Among them:  Tracy Tucker of Sandpoint didn’t have his public defender present at his initial court appearance in March. After that, according to the ACLU complaint, he spoke to his attorney a total of three times for a total of 20 minutes to discuss charges of attempted strangulation and domestic battery in the presence of a child. The court set his bail at $40,000. Unable to pay, he spent three months in the Bonner County Jail, according to the complaint, where he tried to reach his attorney 50 times before he pled guilty to attempted strangulation in June; he has been placed on probation.  Naomi Morley, another plaintiff in the ACLU complaint, was told by her lawyers that if she wanted an expert to challenge the state’s allegations of drugs in her system following a car accident in Ada County in March of last year, she’d have to pay for it herself, according to the complaint. Morley, through her own efforts, obtained a sworn affidavit from another person acknowledging responsibility for the accident, according to the complaint, and her public defender was unable to investigate the vehicle involved in the accident before the state scrapped it, destroying evidence. According to the suit, Morley remained in the county jail with serious injuries from the accident for three weeks until her bail was reduced. Currently, Morley is on trial and facing 15 years in prison if convicted of all counts.

“If someone did commit a crime, it’s likely the government will take their freedom away.

Then it’s especially important for them to have effective assistance of counsel,” says the Idaho ACLU’s Morales. “When we begin to pick and choose who gets effective counsel, then our system of justice is watered down.”

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fter her trip to jail, Lisa Chesebro returns to her office. On the wall hangs a sign that reads, “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”

She has stacks of papers to go through. She has a felony trial she’s worried about next week, meaning more work on evenings and weekends. She has a phone that rings constantly. She wakes up in the night thinking

about motions she needs to file. Before heading out to her afternoon court hearings, she consoles a client who cries in her lobby.

The hardest part of her job, she says, are the cases where there’s not much she can do.

“Sometimes the writing is on the wall, and it feels like no matter what efforts you put into it or what you’re presenting to court [that], even if you’d done nothing, it’d be the same outcome,” she says. “And sometimes it feels you’re just a cog in the wheel; you’re just slowing down the process but you’re not changing what’s going to happen, and sometimes that makes sense, but sometimes it’s hard.”

She recently had a case where a client was charged with attempted strangulation and battery. Despite the charges, she describes her client as a “really nice guy” who has no record and is seeking treatment. But the state, she says, won’t cut a deal.

She also has victories, like the client who was falsely accused of rape and was exonerated because of her efforts. She makes about $57,000 annually and could make much more as a private attorney, but she says she’d miss the work.

Mayli Walsh, another Kootenai County public defender, says that part of her job requires standing in front of hostile crowds in courtrooms and defending the indefensible.

“I tell juries that soldiers don’t go overseas and fight to make it easier for prosecutors,” she says.

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orales says that the lawsuit the Idaho ACLU brought against the state is overdue.

“The state has been on notice for five years that its public defender system has been ineffective, disastrous, broke,” he says, referencing the National Legal Aid & Defender Association report. “And for the last five years it’s been kicking its responsibilities down the road.”

The counties have indicated that they don’t even want the responsibility. Last year, the Idaho Association of Counties passed a resolution stating that they didn’t want the responsibility or cost of providing public defense, and called for the state to take it over.

“I’m glad they are suing the state,” says

Kootenai County Commissioner Dan Green of the ACLU. “I just want the standard [of how many lawyers to hire], so I’m following the U.S. Constitution, and I can tell the taxpayers that I’m being prudent with their dollars.”

John Adams, the county’s chief public defender who has a reputation as an aggressive lawyer, is always bargaining for more money, says Green, who adds that having a statewide caseload or funding standard would make these negotiations easier.

But over the past two years, Idaho lawmakers’ efforts have been incremental. They passed bills establishing who is eligible for a public defender, requesting more study and not much else.

They also voted against a bill that would have placed the public defender system under the purview of the state.

Earlier this year, the Idaho State Public Defense Commission issued a report finding that a significant barrier to more extensive reform was the lack of data on lawyer caseloads. The state is currently implementing the Odyssey computer system for the state judicial system, which would produce the needed data, but it won’t be completed until 2017. (Across the border in Washington, the ACLU, beginning in 2005, began suing local jurisdictions, alleging that public defenders had such excessive caseloads that they were unable to provide adequate defense. In 2013, the state Supreme Court issued a ruling that established caseload standards.)

Meanwhile, the Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association has questioned the need for a sweeping overhaul. It called the conclusions of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association report “insulting and inflammatory” and has pointed to the organization’s ties with controversial philanthropist George Soros.

“There are improvements that can be made,” says Grant Loebs, a Twin Falls County prosecutor. “But I think to say it’s unconstitutional is a spectacular statement without basis in fact.”

Rep. Janet Trujillo, R-Idaho Falls, points to a more entrenched obstacle to reform.

“Public defense in Idaho is at the local level,” says Trujillo.

“And there are some that don’t want to give up the possibility of that local control going away.”

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hesebro ends her day by arguing to get a client, Lucas James, who has been charged with stealing a car, out on bail so he can receive mental health services while living with his mother, who tears up as she takes the stand.

“He’s bipolar and extreme ADHD,” she says, choking back tears as she tells the court that her son’s support network is with her in Loon Lake, Washington.

“And if he were to reside with you in Loon Lake, Washington, are there services he can access to address those diagnoses?” asks Chesebro.

“Yes,” she replies. “We just recently had him diagnosed.”

Chesebro tells the court that James is doing well in jail. His medication is stable, and he’s applying to mental health court.

“He wants to fast-track as much as possible his involvement, or hopeful involvement, in the mental health court,” Chesebro tells Judge John Mitchell. “Knowing Lucas as long as I have now, I do believe that’s a good program for him.”

The prosecutor acknowledges that mental health is an important part of the case, but the defendant is too much of a risk to the public, which he says is the overriding concern.

Mitchell seems open to the idea of mental health court and would consider moving the sentencing hearing up if he’s accepted.

“But for today,” he says, “the motion is denied.”

Chesebro packs up her stack of papers and chats with James’ mother before walking out to the court’s parking lot and climbing into her green Honda CR-V. She recently bought a house near a treatment program and sometimes sees her clients.

Although she’s headed home for the day, her thoughts don’t stray too far from work. Next week, she has a felony trial she has to prepare for on top of her other work, which will mean working on evenings and the weekend. She has to. With such a hefty load, everything could slip from her grasp. n jaket@inlander.com

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Sparkle and Shine After decades in the fashion industry, two best friends started a high-end jewelry company based in Spokane

BY CHEY SCOTT

Millianna founders Arianna Brooke (left) and Sharmilla Persaud.

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n a blustery fall day as leaves swirl across the downtown streets, the talk is all things spring on the sixth and top floor of Spokane’s ironically named Empire State Building.

Natural stones and wooden beads; bright, warm color palettes and delicate designs are on top of the minds of jewelry designers Sharmilla Persaud and Arianna Brooke, founders of the Spokane-based jewelry house Millianna (the company’s moniker is a melding of the two women’s first names). Their elegant, neutraltoned winter collection was just released, but — as any fashionista can attest — the industry moves forward fast. The women are always looking far past the current season.

Millianna’s collections are sparkly and eye-catching — with multifaceted, cut crystal beads, metallic sheens and opaque glass pearls.

Silhouettes range from heavy, bib-style statement necklaces to delicate, draping pieces.

Creating confidence in wearers of all ages and grabbing the attention of onlookers is Persaud and Brooke’s mission in jewelry design.

“We wanted to do something that was fashion-forward, but still fun and approachable and very statement-driven,” Brooke explains.

She’s wearing the edgy but distinctly Art Deco-inspired “Lottie” necklace, a metallic black piece that wraps around the neck as a choker, draping down the chest with hand-beaded tassels at each end.

“Everything we do, we try to do in very sophisticated color palettes. It offsets the fact that it’s a cut crystal, which can be a little over the top,” she adds. “We don’t want to look like Las Vegas, we want to look like Paris.”

In mid-November, the business partners and best friend duo are planning and designing Millianna’s spring-summer collection in person — a rare break away from their usual daily Skype sessions. Though the company is based in Spokane, Brooke’s hometown, Persaud lives three time zones away in Greenwich, Connecticut, an hour northeast of Manhattan.

Despite the challenges, Millianna’s East Coast-West Coast division is an ideal fit for the business. Persaud, 47, who designs the majority of the jewelry, is right outside one of the world’s fashion capitals, available to meet with clients and keep a watchful eye on the latest trends.

Meanwhile, Brooke, 44, oversees the company’s marketing and production in Spokane’s affordable business market. About 90 percent of Millianna’s handmade pieces are made to order in Spokane, then shipped to accounts across the U.S. and around the world.

“We’ve always kept in contact, and we’ve always been friends,” Persaud says. “We think the same, and we completely trust each other — that’s why it’s been functional. We’re not perfect, but we get things figured out.” ...continued on next page

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Most of Millianna’s jewelry pieces are handmade in Spokane.

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fter spending decades working in the fashion industry — the women met and became close friends in the 1990s while at the label BCBG Max Azria in Los Angeles — the duo realized their dream of owning a fashion company together when Millianna was founded in 2010. Brooke’s background is in fashion marketing, and Persaud was a designer for BCBG and Rampage, attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she grew up.

Millianna’s sales have since grown year after year, and its pieces have received attention from numerous national magazines and have also been worn by actresses on TV shows and in films.

“One of our biggest challenges when we were starting out was people thought it was just for holiday or the opera,” Brooke says. “And we were like, ‘No you can wear it with jeans and a jacket and heels — desk to dinner!’”

Rather than focus on what’s trendy in jewelry design, the duo pay close attention to clothing trends on the runway, to design timeless pieces that also complement whatever is “in.”

“From a design perspective, I don’t look at what I feel is ‘This goes with this,’ it’s what you feel like in fashion is going to be strong — what necklines and silhouettes. I’m constantly thinking about how a piece goes with an outfit, and wearing it from day to evening,” Persaud explains. “[Our jewelry] has an aesthetic that’s not going away. I think a lot of women would keep our product in their top drawer.”

Nearly all of the hand-beaded or handwo-

ven pieces in Millianna’s collection are made by trained female artisans around Spokane. Millianna’s owners assert that the quality of materials and construction is better than mass-produced factory counterparts, but this careful attention to production means prices for the handmade pieces are also higher. Pieces range from $55 for a pair of earrings to more than $700 for a heavily detailed necklace.

The 20 or so local artisans work on a parttime basis and are paid by the piece, depending on how much time it takes to complete each item.

Several of Millianna’s jewelry makers are local refugees who were connected to the company by the humanitarian nonprofit World Relief Spokane.

Most of the company’s wholesale clients are based on the East Coast and in the South and Midwest, but orders can be placed through Millianna’s website (millianna.com) or by visiting the downtown office and showroom in person.

While the cost of Millianna’s pieces may not be in every local budget, Brooke says she’s working on getting the collections featured in more regional boutiques.

“Our product, when you see it in person and put it on, it’s very different than what you see in photography and on the website,” she says.  On Thursday, Nov. 19, Millianna hosts its annual friends and family holiday sale, offering discontinued and sample pieces at heavily discounted prices. The event, open to the public, is from 3-7 pm, at 905 W. Riverside, Suite 608.

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t’s an unlikely place for an arts-based business. Atop a bar, bordered by a pool hall, cannabis outlet, auto parts store and lots of asphalt, Hatch: Creative Business Incubator steadily has been transforming 9,000 square feet of industrial space with artists, musicians, writers and assorted creatives.

Darrell Wilcox, Jared Anderson and Willow Rosales have taught art classes. There have been drawing sessions from a live model, murals by Todd and Cain Benson, music jams and art exhibits.

Businesses renting space there include Loud and Proud Online Entertainment, which promotes LGBTQ bands; ARU: A Creative Company; Magicraftsman Printing; LollarPop Productions, which does digital animation; and Terra Obscura arts magazine.

The plan is to be an outreach-focused nonprofit.

“Art heals and creative expression liberates,” says Jennifer LaRue, a co-founder of Terra Obscura. “Our mission is to serve as an anchor; a secure place in which expression, critical thinking and growth is possible by offering a voice for those who wish to speak, and the means to do so.”

This weekend, the “We Are Still Here” art show will give voice to nearly two dozen Native American artists and musicians from near and far — Coeur d’Alene, Colville, Spokane, Blackfoot, Navajo, Sioux, Tlingit, Hopi, Iroquois. Some are well-known, like painter Ric Gendron and musician Jim Boyd.

Curated by Joeseph Arnoux, the three-day event interweaves traditional and contemporary Native American culture. Besides beading and painting, for example, there’s a live painting by Jacob Johns, as well as spoken word and drumming, but also dubstep.

The exhibition’s timing — during the week when most Americans celebrate Thanksgiving — was intentional. “This show

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A piece by Tarran Kipp Last Gun featured at the “We Are Still Here” exhibit. is not to glorify the romanticized vision we all learn to know in elementary school,” says Arnoux on the event’s Facebook page.

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Beautiful Vacuity Flasks and flapper dresses make the Wild Party a Jazz Age spectacle, but it still feels empty

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ville.”

So runs the evocative couplet that opens The Wild Party, a 1928 long-form poem

by Joseph Moncure March. It also opens Andrew Lippa’s eponymous musical, the first of two semi-recent dramatic adaptations to find inspiration in March’s Jazz Age tale of tragic hedonism. In all its forms, the core plot of The Wild Party remains essentially the same: Tired and resentful of each

other, Queenie and her lover Burrs decide to host a party to end all parties in their squalid studio apartment, hoping that it will reinvigorate their relationship. Or present them with new avenues of escape.

You can see why March’s poem might seem ripe for the leap to the stage. Instead of the debauched trinity of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, which almost never fails to titillate and engage, The Wild Party swaps out leather trousers for flapper dresses. It’s still seedy, yes, but it’s a wonderfully vintage seediness; a hip flask and an old Victrola

give wanton self-degradation so much more flair.

Directed by Troy Nickerson, The Modern’s current production of the “Lippa” version of The Wild Party — not to be confused with the Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe adaptation that hit Broadway around the same time — makes inadvertent nods in this direction. The 19-person cast features at least 12 members from Rock of Ages and Spring Awakening, both outstanding rock musicals that previously ran at the theater’s Coeur d’Alene arm and

McKeevers’s character Burrs seesaws between brutal and charming. trod equally risqué territory in very different ways.

But where Rock of Ages and Spring Awakening had some sense of fullness and thrust, The Wild Party feels thin and protracted. The static interior world that can be rendered so effectively on the page is at odds with the “show, don’t tell” maxim so fundamental to live theater. As a result, the musical’s characters — who are the sum total of the insecurities, the doubts, the schemes, the longing in their heads and hearts — have no more depth than computer programs whose only function is to sing their own source code.

Nor does Lippa’s bitty, fashionably dissonant pastiche of jazz, gospel, funk and sub-Kander & Ebb tributes offer a lot to work with in that regard. Queenie’s closing number “How Did We Come to This?” is so lyrically trite and musically incongruous as to give an air of comedy to everything that preceded it.

This is a shame, as every one of the stylistic elements (direction, sound, music, lighting, design, choreography) along with the massive cast are at or near top form, even by The Modern’s impressive standards of late. Quinn Vaira is a quintessential Queenie with a noirish quality. As Burrs, Daniel McKeever fittingly seesaws between charming and brutal, though he tends to project like a sinister game-show host. Jordan Taylor’s Mr. Black is the embodiment of the tall, dark and handsome stranger; as Kate, Alyssa Day brings dimension to a cursorily sketched role.

But even with all this talent, the musical itself has too much in common with its characters, and the most it can hope to attain is a beautiful vacuity. n The Wild Party • Through Nov. 29: Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $23-$27 • The Modern Theater Spokane • 174 S. Howard • 455-7529 • themoderntheater.org

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THE OG’S

Organizers: Scoter Pischel and Larry Montague Drinks: Beer and wine Food: Tri-tip, salmon, sausages, “Bacon Explosion” When Scoter Pischel moved to Cheney in 1985, he had no idea that he would become a staple in the tailgating culture before games at Roos Field. Now for every Eagles home game, Scoter and his friend Larry Montague get the gang together, as 30 season ticket holders take to the parking lot for pregame, mid-game and postgame festivities. According to Scoter, the group has been tailgating for at least 12 years, and the celebrations got even better a few years ago when Brett Hoblin and Dan Haslebacher hand-built the smoker that is now used by “The OGs.” Twice a season, these faithful Eagles fans throw 30 racks of ribs into the smoker for a couple of delicious Saturdays.

Scott and Andrea LaPlant host a big crew before a recent home game at Roos Field.

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In search of the best tailgate gatherings at EWU games STORY AND PHOTOS BY MAX CARTER

T

he Eastern Washington University Eagles have had a rough go the past couple of weeks, with a loss at home to Northern Arizona and then a blowout defeat at Montana. But don’t count on the Eagles faithful to desert their team for the season’s final

game, Saturday at home against Portland State. You can also count on a festive scene in the parking lot, where tailgaters like the folks we talked to at a recent Eastern game gather hours before kickoff.

THE FOODIES

Organizer: Tim Daniels Drinks: Miller Lite and wine Food: Seafood buffet: chowder, smoked salmon, calamari, scallops, clam strips, fried halibut, french fries, etc.

If you like good food and you’re at an Eagles game in Cheney, you definitely should be on the lookout for Tim Daniels and company. Featuring portable heaters, heat lamps for food and 250 TV channels, Daniels and his tailgate know how to do it right. What makes Daniels’ tailgate unique is the fact that he is a food distributor, which allows him to provide a fantastic array of delicious food week in and week out. At a game against Cal Poly earlier this fall, it was a seafood buffet. “The Foodies” have been going at it for more than 20 years, although according to Daniels, the tailgate blossomed into what it is within the past 10.

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Tim Daniels cooks up a seafood buffet before some Eagles home games.

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Organizers: Scott and Andrea LaPlant Drinks: Beer; microbrews, IPAs, Grapefruit Sculpin Food: Chips, cookies, crackers Season ticket holders for the past five years, the LaPlants are in their first year with their current tailgating spot, but are no strangers to a good ol’ time before kickoff. Touting classic snacks such as chips, cookies and crackers, the LaPlants and their guests like to keep it classy as well, drinking primarily microbrews before game

time. Traditionally, they prefer to go with a couple of different IPAs, but at the most recent home game they spiced it up a bit with a Grapefruit Sculpin to entertain co-workers who joined in on the fun.

THE PARTY

Organizer: Joe Tjards Drinks: BYOB Food: Brats cooked in beer, onions and peppers; jalapeño poppers Joe Tjards and his tailgate exude a youthful energy usually found only in the student section at Roos Field. Tjards, who

has been tailgating at Eagles games for 13 years, has a vision for the football program at EWU, and he thinks that tailgaters can be a part of that vision. The enthusiastic Eagles fan explained to me that he has a deep desire to build both a great football culture and a great fan culture at Eastern, and he thinks it’s up to the fans and tailgaters to create that experience. “Once people come out and experience tailgating for an Eags game, they are going to want to come back,” said Tjards. n

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TREE OF SHARING Nov. 20 through Dec. 13 | The 33rd annual program collects and distributes requested items to regional nonprofits and social service agencies serving low-income, disabled and elderly members of the community. Pick up a tag to shop and make sure to drop off items by Sunday, Dec. 13. Tags available at Northtown, River Park Square and Spokane Valley malls. treeofsharing.org (808-4919) WHITE CHRISTMAS Nov. 20-Dec. 19 | The Spokane Civic Theatre brings back this holiday classic made famous by the timeless Bing Crosby film. Shows on Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm (also Sat, Dec. 19 at 2 pm). $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivitheatre.com (325-2507) MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS Nov. 22, at 6:30 pm | A holiday tradition led

by Grammy Winner Chip Davis is back in the Inland Northwest to help celebrate the season, performing their beloved Christmas music set to a show of multimedia effects.

Sun, Nov. 22, at 6:30 pm. Tickets: $27.50, $37.50, $47.50, $67.50, $97.50. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com

David’s Pizza, now serving its signature pies just across from the Arena.

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ollowing a nearly four-year hiatus, DAVID’S PIZZA (803 N. Post • davidspizza.com) is now firmly established in its new downtown-area location and back in full swing. In addition to unconventional pies like The Elvis (spicy Thai peanut sauce, seasoned chicken, green onions, peppers) and more familiar ones like the popular Maple Street Bridge (pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, olives), the menu is brimming with hearty fare like stromboli, calzones and hot sandwiches. Seating is ample, so groups can drop in for pies and a pitcher before an event at the Spokane Arena.

If the fun motorcycle racing décor at HOLESHOT (River Park Square • facebook.com/holeshotpizza) didn’t boldly announce that these pizza-obsessed folks are also motocross buffs, the name certainly would.

Holeshot is the sport’s term for the first rider through

the first turn, who typically goes on to take the race.

One thing’s for sure, though: The brick-oven pizza here is a definite winner. “Our chicken barbecue pizza is to die for,” says owner Kevin McRae. “We have the basics on the menu, but we’ll make any topping combination to order. We’re all about making people happy. We also have daily specials, and it’s all backed by great, downhome fast service – that’s why ‘Get there first’ is our slogan.”

Founded by the same couple behind the Seattle Coffee Company, MOD (707 W. Main • modpizza.com) promises, “Simple food for complex times.” And that’s exactly what this casual pizza restaurant dishes up — quickly. The menu has classic topping combos plus build-your-own options. Best of all? It’s affordable. The 11-inch personal pizzas are all in the $7 range.

MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER Nov. 23, at 7 pm | Experience the exquisite artistry of world class Russian dancers, playful puppets and the unmatched splendor of hand-crafted sets and costumes during a performance of this holiday classic. Mon, Nov. 23, at 7 pm. Tickets $28-$175. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov. 27, at 8 pm | The progressive rock band returns to Spokane to help kick off the holiday season, performing “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” and other popular hits.

A portion of ticket sales to benefit Mobius Children’s Museum. Friday, Nov. 27, at 8 pm.

Tickets $33.50, $45, $56, or $65. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com

SPOKANE WINTER GLOW SPECTACULAR Nov. 27-Dec. 31 | The new holiday event in Riverfront Park returns for its second year, featuring lighted displays through the park, including an animal lights zoo for the kids. Lighting ceremony on Nov. 27 at 6 pm; displays are lit daily at 5 pm, through Dec. 31. Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard. spokanewinterglow.com

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cesses are set to make appearances as the family entertainment begins at 6:30 pm. At 7 pm, be sure to grab your hot drinks, scarves, family and friends and gather ’round the mall’s famed, 50-foot-tall evergreen in the Atrium to see the official lighting of the tree. Jolly ol’ Saint Nick even takes some time off from his busy schedule especially for the night, so make sure to grab a few photos and help him update his Christmas list.

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ames are always a safe bet for Christmas gifts. Sometimes too safe. Doesn’t everyone already own a version of Scrabble or Battleship? At UNCLE’S GAMES (404 W. Main • unclesgames.com), you’ll find aisle after aisle of board games, card games and jigsaw puzzles that are sure to pleasantly surprise the casual gamer and thrill the aficionado. “Uncle’s Games is pretty much a one-stop shop for literally any game you can think of. We have games that big box stores don’t have,” says J.J. Jensen, a games specialist at the store. “So if you want to get out of Monopoly, Catan or Uno and experience the gaming renaissance, Uncle’s is where it’s at.” Not sure you’re in the know? You can ask their staff for recommendations and even try out games before you buy.

Education and fun don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Nowhere is that more apparent than WHIZ KIDS (River Park Square • whizkidstoys.net), which carries 6,000 different items — ranging from science sets to construction sets, figurines and wooden trains to puzzles — from 200 different manufacturers. They’re

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An Uncommon Venture In Kettle Falls, two brothers are farming tomatoes by their own rules

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own on the Columbia River, about 15 miles out on the Inchelium Highway, a simple tomato farm has made successful headway into local markets in its first year. With 6,000 plants on one acre, the farm has sold several thousand pounds.

The venture began with the big dreams of 26-yearold Kettle Falls journeyman carpenter Owen Eaton and his brother, Isaac Eaton. This spring, Owen decided to start the tomato farm enterprise, rendering him a smalltown tomato entrepreneur by harvest time.

“We had been strategizing, and throwing the idea around of investing in growing a product that will not only bring us returns, but also provide a superior product in abundance,” says Owen. “We designed no formal plan, but it was essential to us to include good principles and practices.”

After some thought and serious consideration, the Eatons decided to focus primarily on growing four varieties of tomatoes for their farm, which they named Garden of Eaton.

The brothers use all organic heirloom seeds and also follow an ideal they call “exchange in abundance.”

“It means giving our customers more than what they pay for, and feeling good about it,” says Owen. You don’t

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have to sell at outrageous prices, then dump the surplus if it doesn’t get sold.”

For instance, a basket of Garden of Eaton’s cherry tomatoes goes for $1.50 at the Kettle Falls Farmers Market; direct from the farm, they go for a dollar a basket.

Although Florida-born, the boys moved to northeast Washington as toddlers, residing in Nine Mile Falls, Chewelah and Colville and finally landing outside Kettle Falls on a 10-acre property with the ideal sandy loam growing soil.

The first groundbreaking proved to be the initial challenge. It’s been at least 18 years since the land had been used, and back then it was a hay farm. A rototiller wasn’t doing the job, especially since it was virgin soil, so the Eatons finally borrowed a tractor to get the land tilled. Since they weren’t too sure about the new land’s well-water abundance, they decided to plant just an acre.

With 6,000 plants to maintain, using natural pest con-

trol methods along with the Eatons’ philosophy of abundance, the Garden of Eaton is tasting success in its first year, which is still ongoing.

“Since we’re close to the Columbia, we still have some growing time left. Local folks were talking about harvesting into November,” says Owen.

The Eatons have an ongoing contract with Meyers Falls Market in Kettle Falls and had projected setting up agreements this year with Huckleberry’s in Spokane, Spokane Produce, and Super 1 in Colville.

There have been challenges along the way. For example, their “exchange in abundance” philosophy meant their prices were too low, compared to other sellers for some farmers markets. But the brothers would rather stick to their ideals than stray from the mission statement that gave birth to the farm.

“You have to have the feeling right, too,” says Owen.

“If you have that feeling right, and you know you’re doing the right thing, you’re really feeling good about what you’re doing, you never give up, eventually you’re going to get whatever you’re going for.” n food@inlander.com Garden of Eaton • 680-5813

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n the midst of preparing dinner on a crisp Friday evening, a mother in the house behind the market sends her young son off with a wad of dollar bills in his hand and an errand: get some fresh carrots.

Owners Barb and Floyd Pagarigan know Aiden and his family — they’re already regulars — and greet the boy as he walks in. Barb even tells him to just take the carrots as a favor since his mother lets them park nearby, but he returns two minutes later, breathless, and says his mom insists he pay for the produce.

The Fresh Plate Market, on the corner of North Nevada Street and East Empire Avenue in Spokane’s Lidgerwood neighborhood, opened late last month and already is establishing itself as a neighborhood staple. With the nearest grocery stores more than a mile away, the small market fills a niche in the neighborhood by offering GMO-free, organic and other specialty food products. The Pagarigans say they’re already seeing a fairly even mix of neighbors and commuters heading up and down the Nevada arterial, coming in to grab a few items.

Also owners of the local Bistro Box food truck and the Fresh Plate Café at the downtown Spokane Riverpoint campus, the Fresh Plate Market is another extension of the couple’s food business.

In the back of the building is a commercial kitchen where catering orders are prepared, along with some of the to-go meals served at the market and the campus café. Opening at the beginning of this year, the Fresh Plate Café is the only full-service eatery so far on the growing campus.

Since the Pagarigans were already using the space for their catering business and the food truck, the couple — both have extensive experience in the grocery industry — decided to open the market to be able to sell healthier food ingredients and products that are all GMO free. Along with that, some items are organic and some are gluten free. Aside from a varied selection of fresh produce, shelves around the tiny market’s perimeter offer baking mixes, condiments, crackers, snacks, health bars, juice, cereal, soups and more. Fresh Plate Market also carries products from local producers Roast House Coffee, the Spiceologist and Chattaroy Cheese Co. A refrigerated case in the back corner offers to-go meals — many are the same items sold at the café — like Parmesan chicken, roasted Brussels sprouts, veggie and quinoa bowls, dips and spreads, hummus and the sauces used on the Bistro Box’s fries and burgers. The couple say they plan to expand their prepared food inventory as the market becomes more established, possibly offering take-home freezer meals and other made-to-order dishes. n Fresh Plate Market & Catering • 3818 N. Nevada • Open MonSat, 10 am-7 pm; Sun, 10 am-5 pm • facebook.com/freshplatemarket • 808-6195

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WINTER BEER IS HERE

PowderKeg returns to the convention center this weekend

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A pastrami sandwich from Rivelle’s. CARRI SCOZZARO PHOTO

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elone’s Public House has a new name: Rivelle’s River Grill. Located inside Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone development, it’s still serving pub-like American fusion food catering to health-conscious eaters.

Chef Tariq Rahman has adjusted the menu a bit.

Instead of Melone’s “saints” and “sinners,” the menu is organized into starters, sliders, sandwiches, sautés, street tacos and salads. There’s even a kids’ menu, including cheesy items (grilled cheese, quesadilla, mac and cheese), but also fruit.

Many of Rahman’s hallmark items remain, such as

the Detox salad with kale, spinach and Napa cabbage ($9) and sliders with hand-cut fries (2/$9). There is also a smattering of Asian-influenced flavors like the banh mi sandwich or Korean tacos with cucumber kimchi ($12).

Salads are served with nearly every meal, ranging from cabbage slaw to cauliflower couscous to mixed greens, and their menu notes other items appealing to health- and eco-conscious eaters: mostly local and organic produce, grass-fed beef, wild-caught seafood and free-range poultry.

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he blustery conditions this week may have been reminder enough that winter is upon us, but if not, the arrival of winter beers will do the trick. You can get your fix of the malty, festive flavors of our local and regional craft breweries at the Inlander’s PowderKeg beer festival, which is happening in tandem with the annual Snowlander ski and snowboard expo at the Spokane Convention Center on Nov. 20-21.

The festival features 24 craft breweries and cideries — even Hierophant Meadery is in on the fun. Many of your favorite local breweries are set to be on hand, including Bennidito’s, Big Barn, No-Li, Orlison, River City, Trickster’s and Waddell’s. There’s also a collection of Northwest favorites like Deschutes, 10 Barrel, Elysian, Icicle, Iron Horse and Sockeye.

Almost all breweries are bringing a winter-style beer, but even that classification is fairly broad: You’ll find everything from a double stout to porters to winter ales. There are even some old-style ales and a few saisons. The breweries also are bringing a “brewmaster’s choice,” which includes some of their favorite seasonal beers, as well as flagship creations.

The festival runs from 4 pm to 9 pm on Friday and 11 am to 7 pm on Saturday. Tasting packages range from $15 to $25. n

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Wrapping it Up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen brings the Hunger Games series to a thrilling end

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here are many ways in which the Hunger Games movie series has been groundbreaking. It has given us a world-changing heroine in the mold of the countless boys and men Hollywood has cast in such a role, and showed up the caricature by depicting her as more human than most of them: more conflicted, more unsure, more afraid, yet also more brave for overcoming all that... and also simultaneously more principled and more selfish.

Katniss Everdeen has never been about some romantic, idealistic notion of heroism; she has always been about protecting the people she loves. The series has given us a look at a world in which women are presumed to be as capable and as authoritative as men, and has delved deep into the potent influence of propaganda.

With the final installment, we might even see the films that have come before as a kind of propaganda that has primed us to expect a certain sort of wrap-up to the story of Katniss and her rebellion. Spoiler alert (not really): we do not get that kind of ending. What has already been one of the smartest and most enthralling sci-fi film series ever sees itself to a thoroughly engaging and very fitting end by questioning all of our assumptions about war, politics and peace, particularly as blockbuster film series tend to present them. Where things go here might feel anticlimactic to some. There is no final battle that, as bloody and brutal as it could have been, nevertheless would have represented a neat and tidy finale and a pat triumph of good over evil.

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Nothing here is that easy. on the propo mission — the idea is to show Snow and The thwarting of war-movie clichés starts early, the Capitol citizens that Peeta has recovered from the when the public face of the people’s unrest, Katniss horrendous conditioning he’d been subjected to, which Everdeen (the amazing Jennifer Lawrence), doesn’t forced him to denounce Katniss and the rebels — and lead the rebels of District 13 in what everyone hopes has turned back toward the forces of good. The team will be a definitive assault on the Capitol. Instead, she’s is taking a huge risk in having him along: he isn’t actubringing up the rear with the propaganda filmmaking ally quite recovered, and will likely try to kill Katniss. team, making videos that will hopefully sway the hearts PTSD is a big thing here... and how war impacts those and minds of the Capitol citizens, who naturally aren’t who fight it has hardly ever been something that big, on the rebels’ side. Why should they be? We don’t see loud action movies have cared much about. any of Katniss’ “propos” this time, only her disgust There are real stakes here for Katniss, and very with being forced back into this role again, even as she high prices she has to pay before the rebellion she acappreciates the need for it. cidentally started is finally finished. It’s the impact on But we do see some of the broadcasts Panem Katniss that lingers most here. This film features some president Snow (Donald Sutherland) of the most breathtaking makes to the citizens of the Capitol: and original action sequencTHE HUNGER GAMES: one of them comes with the unspoken es we’ve seen yet: Snow MOCKINGJAY — PART 2 underlying suggestion that luxury such has turned the Capitol into Rated PG-13 as the Capitol enjoys is its own kind of a deadly obstacle course Directed by Francis Lawrence propaganda: “If we’re rich, we must be for the invading rebels; Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, right,” basically, and “Comfort is its own Liam Hemsworth one character sardonijustification.” That’s not what Snow says, cally deems what they’re but it’s what he means. It’s unsettling to up against as the “seventhrealize that’s not an unusual subtext to much of what sixth Hunger Games.” But matters of trust intimate we see in our world today. and personal, as well as social and political, that haunt This is so-called “young adult” dystopian science Katniss make this an emotional experience as much fiction with an unusual resonance. We see it, too, in as an explosive one. That’s perhaps the most radical tortured and tormented Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutchthing about the way this series concludes: not with erson), Katniss’ former Hunger Games partner who a bang, but with whispers of doubt, grief, regret and has been rescued from the Capitol and is now along soul-searching. 

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Facing the last Christmas Eve before the birth of his first child, Isaac (Seth Rogen) and his buddies Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) take off on a quest to find the best Christmas party in New York City.

In a massively surprising twist, The Night Before comes complete with a stoned Rogen, as well as the remnants of a bad-boy JGL from Don Jon. Featuring the mandatory appearance by James Franco, the absurdity bar seems to have been raised a little higher when it comes to holiday laughers.

(MC) Rated R

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Julia Roberts reminds us why she is one of the most badass women in Hollywood as Jess, an FBI investigator who finds her daughter’s dead body while answering a call. Thirteen years after the murder, with the help of her old partner Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and their DA supervisor Claire (Nicole Kidman), the three sleuths find a lead that may finally solve the case.

Suspense abounds throughout The Secret in Their Eyes, as Jess will go to any lengths to find the man who killed her daughter — and serve up the justice that her daughter deserves. (MC) Rated PG-13

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — PART 2

In the last installment of the franchise, Katniss Everdeen (the amazing Jennifer Lawrence), doesn’t lead the rebels of District 13 in what everyone hopes will be a definitive assault on the Capitol. Instead, she’s bringing up the rear with the propaganda filmmaking team, making videos that will hopefully sway the hearts and minds of the Capitol citizens, who naturally aren’t on the rebels’ side. She’s going to take down President Snow, no matter what it takes. (MJ) PG-13

SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, the Boston Globe editor-inchief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) asked the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team — Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children. And as they begin digging — at first reluctantly — into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a massive scale in hushing up cases of abusive priests. (SR) Rated R

NOW PLAYING THE ASSASSIN

The tale revolves around a young woman, Yinniang (Shu Qi), who is abducted as a child and sent to study martial arts under a strict nun. Years later, now a lethal assassin, she’s sent back to her homeland to murder her cousin and the man she was supposed to marry, Tian Ji’an (Chang Chen). He, in turn, is in the process of dealing with all kinds of palace intrigue, trying to protect his region from imperial invaders and an enemy master of the dark arts, and backstabbing members of his inner circle. At Magic Lantern (DN) Not Rated

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

BRIDGE OF SPIES

Set in 1957, it’s the fact-based story of how Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) came to be assigned as the public defender for Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Russian spy facing possible execution for espionage. The prosecution and judge

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want the appearance of a fair trial that holds up America’s ideals during the peak of the Cold War, but they don’t really care about whether it’s actually fair. (SR) Rated PG-13

HITMAN AGENT 47

Gamers will recognize Hitman Agent 47 for the video game series it is based on. Action film fans will see it as the reboot of the 2007 film Hitman, which has a similar structure — a bald white man is a genetically modified killer with superhuman abilities and, in the next 90-ish minutes, there’s lots of action and conspiracy. However, the 2015 reboot is more about that main character, known as Agent 47. (MS) Rated R

THE LAST WITCH HUNTER

Let’s see, who is best suited to play Kaulder, a witch hunter who centuries ago destroyed the Queen Witch with his enormous sword, rock hard abs and overall bad-assery? Duh, Vin Diesel.

When the Queen Witch is resurrected in the modern world, Kaulder must take up his sword again alongside a brave priest Dolan 37th (Elijah Wood) to defeat the evil spirits. (MC) Rated PG-13

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The first family comedy of the holiday season comes sledding in hot with this extremely creative Christmas story about a dysfunctional family’s holiday reunion. If that scintillating plot isn’t enough to get you interested, Love the Coopers is complete with sassy little children, the classic dinner table scene that results in food being thrown on somebody, and the cutest old couple of all time in Diane Keaton and John Goodman. Despite a solid cast including Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried and Ed Helms, the laughs and good times aren’t enough to pull this film out of the igloo full of stale holiday movies. (MC) Rated PG-13

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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My All American chronicles the journey of Freddie Steinmark, an undersized defensive back who played his way onto the University of Texas football team in 1969. Already considered an underdog, Freddie was diagnosed with bone cancer above his knee following his legendary effort against the University of Arkansas in what was known the “Game of the Century.” Steinmark’s fight with cancer spurred the passing of the National Cancer Act of 1971, contributing greatly to the beginning of the modern fight against cancer. (MC) Rated PG

THE PEANUTS MOVIE

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The Little Red-Haired Girl has just moved into town, and Charlie Brown is simultaneously desperate to impress her, and terrified of actually interacting with her. So he embarks on a series of likely doomed endeavors to prove his worth: entering the school talent show; learning to dance so he can dazzle at a school event; binge-reading War and Peace so he can write the most erudite book report in third-grade history. (SR) Rated G

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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,

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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

SPECTRE

In the immediate aftermath of the events of Skyfall, Bond (Daniel Craig) has gone rogue, chasing hints of a big bad guy around the globe, while back in London, the new M (Ralph Fiennes) is battling with C (Andrew Scott), who is about to launch a new blanket electronic surveillance scheme that will replace the 00 program: something about drone warfare being more efficient than spies with a license to kill.

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STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, touches on all these aspects of Jobs’ legacy. Framed as three distinct scenes, it follows Jobs in the minutes before three major product launches: the Macintosh announcement in 1984 that led to his firing from Apple; the introduction of Jobs’s first and only post-Apple project, the NeXT Computer, in 1988; and his triumphant return to Apple with the announcement of the first iMac. (PC) Rated R

SUFFRAGETTE

Carey Mulligan stars as Maud Watts, a Londoner who was born and raised in a laundry, in 1912 London as the fight for women’s right began to take hold. As a group of women campaign for voting privileges in a movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), a detective tries to undermine and dismantle their efforts. (PC) Rated PG-13

THE 33

It’s based on the real-life incident in which 33 workers at a gold-and-copper mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert were trapped after a massive rock fell and blocked the only exit, inspiring rescue efforts that drew international attention. The improbable circumstances behind their (historical spoiler alert) survival is a natural for cinematic treatment, one that could be inspirational both as an example of resilient faith and as a case study in institutional determination. (SR) Rated PG-13

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Based on Naomi Klein’s book of the same title, this documentary goes around the world to take a look at the different faces of climate change, and also some of the factors causing it.

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TRUTH

In 2004, CBS anchor Dan Rather (Robert Redford) and producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) found out when they lost their jobs and their careers due to a 60 Minutes story regarding President George W. Bush’s military service.

Citing documents detailing Bush’s absence from service and his AWOL status, Rather and Mapes faced a sea of criticism and doubt that they never foresaw. At Magic Lantern (MC) Rated R

WE COME AS FRIENDS

In 2011, South Sudan claimed independence from North Sudan and malicious president Omar al-Bashir. At that time, a small prop plane, handmade by director Hubert Sauper, landed in the region with the purpose of recording the events that were about to unfold. The result is We Come As Friends, an eye-opening, breathtaking look into the lives of Sudanese people.

Through intense images and a haunting soundtrack, Sauper calls viewers to take action against the industrialization and colonization of Africa. At Magic Lantern (MC) Unrated 

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How a new batch of optimistic entrepreneurs plan to bring more live music to Spokane

BY LAURA JOHNSON

I

t takes gumption to open a new business, even more so when that business relies heavily on live music. Yet two Spokane venues have recently started up. The Observatory opened quietly — they don’t even have an overhead sign yet — barely two weeks ago in the downtown space that housed the Blue Spark for nearly 15 years, and more recently, Underground 15. And in north Spokane, off Francis Avenue, is the Palomino, which was last known as the Palomino Club, and before that the Center, and Spokane EpiCenter.

These two venues are moving in where other businesses have come and gone. Their owners say they’ll do things differently. This time, they say, things will work.

THE OBSERVATORY

While making finishing touches on the Observatory

two weeks ago, co-owner Isaac Lariviere told bar manager Nehemiah Zilar, “I can’t wait for this place to open up so we can serve people.”

“He said this without an ounce of sarcasm,” recalls Zilar at the bar last weekend. “None of us could wait for this place to open.”

The four owners of the Observatory turned this downtown space at the corner of First Avenue and Howard Street around in three months, adding new flooring, booths and polished, astronomy-themed décor. People told them that that time frame wasn’t possible. But last week, they opened the doors of the Observatory with little fanfare, simply with a celebration with beers and well-made cocktails. There was also gourmet bar food by co-owner Alicia PurvisLariviere, who’s married to Isaac.

The vision for the bar is simple: A place where people 21 and over come to enjoy one another’s com-

pany. There aren’t any TVs in sight, but there soon will be live music.

Currently, the musical aspect is still a work in progress. The first show isn’t booked yet; that may happen in a few weeks, or maybe in a month. According to co-owner Tyson Sicilia, they’ve already had bands approaching them to play; it’s just a matter of when the sound and lighting systems are finished. The stage, set up in the back corner of the venue, is waiting to be used.

Jeff Glinski (of Mirror Mirror, and previously many other local acts), who has booked up-andcoming alternative shows at places like Baby Bar and Mootsy’s, has been commissioned to bring in music to the 162-capacity venue. His goal is to lure acts that would normally pass by Spokane.

“I’m trying to bring not your average bands, but ...continued on next page

Flugelhorn player Michael Lenke, left, and vocalist/keyboard player Kari Marguerite perform at the Palomino last weekend. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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MUSIC | LOCAL SCENE “TURNAROUND,” CONTINUED... kind of more abstract but accessible ones,” Glinski says over the phone this week.

This business is clearly a family affair.

The other co-owner, Esa Lariviere, is Isaac’s sister and Sicilia’s partner. As most of the owners have worked in the food industry for years, owning their own place has always been a dream. Over Hoopfest weekend this year, they found out the downtown space would soon be available.

But the venue isn’t without difficulties; previous owners blamed street kids for scaring away business.

Already, in the months since they signed the lease, when the Observatory had two windows broken, things have changed with the next-door Ridpath Hotel: There’s now an on-site security guard.

“We haven’t had any problems since,” Sicilia says. “We just want this area to stop being known as a dark block. We want to create community here.”

The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • Open daily, 11 am–close • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

THE PALOMINO

The doors of the new Palomino opened for a DJ bash on Halloween night. For the first time since June, decked-out people experienced the handsome 500-capac-

ity space right across from the Spokane Eagles Lodge. But only about 150 showed up.

“It could have gone better,” admits owner Marc Fechter, also the producer/ audio engineer for Perfechter Productions.

“But it was our first event.”

In the weeks since, Fechter and his business partner and girlfriend Wendy Jordan, along with a staff of 12, have hosted club nights, open mics and jazz nights, as well as a couple of fundraisers. Talking in their spacious office last Wednesday, they’re planning auditions for a Star Searchin’ competition and a drag show event.

“We’re an all-inclusive venue,” Jordan says. “We want to host all kind of events and bring a sense of community here.”

While most nights are 21 and over, some events like local fashion shows, which Jordan has coordinated for years, will be all-ages.

Gone is the “Club” part of the Palomino name, although the venue’s signage hasn’t changed. When Fechter took over the vacant club in late September, he says it just made sense to keep the previous name, but still make it his own — hence the Palomino. While there was plenty of promotion and planning to finish, Fechter and Jordan say they didn’t have to change

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The Observatory at 15 S. Howard. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO much about the club; it was outfitted last year with high-end light and sound gear, new flooring, three bars and even new bathrooms. They plan to start serving high-end bar food, which wasn’t available in the club’s previous incarnation.

The partners realize the sturdy-looking building’s location has been an issue for other owners, as it’s outside of the downtown core (16 minutes by car from the STA Plaza).

“What we have going for us is this is a performance venue,” Fechter says.

“We’re not just open on the weekends.

We want to always have something going on.”

The pair, who already run a handful of talent and music production businesses

between them, come up with new ideas for their venue daily. They plan to bring in national touring acts of all genres (not just country) to the Palomino, though they’re not ready to announce names.

They also want to be a one-stop shop for local bands, through recording and performance.

“There’s a lot of talent here,” Jordan says. “Yes, it’s hard to get people to come out to shows. But in the years I’ve lived here, Spokane’s cultural scene has grown, and I want to be a part of that growth.

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Cause hasn’t performed together in 10 years.

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The Next Generation Veteran punk-rock quartet Cause want to teach young musicians a thing or two

BY AZARIA PODPLESKY

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t was 1993, and punk rock was king in the Spokane music scene. In the thick of it all was Cause, a quartet of friends who bonded over a love of the genre.

“People were holding shows, and we got interested, then we turned it into this next generation,” guitarist Jeremy Goldsmith says after a recent practice for the

band’s upcoming reunion show.

Cause came together after singer Kameron Read rounded up fellow punk rockers Goldsmith and bassist Rick Eyre as part of the Jantsch Alternative High School and the REAL School. They met drummer Merv Eggleston Jr. after he moved to Spokane from Alaska.

The four-piece played shows around

town and eventually sent cassettes to bookers across the country using a Maximum Rocknroll supplement called “Book Your Own F---ing Life,” eventually getting gigs in cities including Boston and Atlanta.

“The work that went into it, the DIY aspect, is really what represented our generation of punk rock,” Read says.

But in 1998, despite a strong fan base and several releases, Cause began to fall apart. It all started when a band member didn’t respect the rules of calling shotgun before a show in Seattle.

“I wanted to sit shotgun in the van and someone had my spot, so I decided I wasn’t going,” Read recalls with a laugh.

“Every show after that, it seemed like another member didn’t show up, so we stopped playing.”

“We just became interested in other things,” Goldsmith adds.

The four went back to school and earned degrees, while also playing in local bands like Black March (Eyre and Eggleston) and Crickets of Cascadia (Eggleston). Read joined the military and played in bands in Korea and Baltimore.

He’s back in Korea now, returning to Spokane just for this show.

Following a 2005 gig at Mootsy’s — a night of fans moshing to Cause’s we’renot-gonna-take-it-anymore brand of angry punk just as hard as they did in the ’90s — preparation for this reunion marked the first time the quartet played together in 10 years. They’d like to get together more often, seeing their shows as a punk-rock family reunion of sorts, but they’re wary about today’s punk scene.

“I haven’t been here physically to witness it, but I definitely keep track of what’s going on, and I don’t think it matches what the ’90s and ’80s punk scene in Spokane had to offer,” Read says. “Kids were active. Now, they’re just content.”

But this show has the potential to ignite a spark in the next generation of punk rockers, just like the older generation did for Cause.

“One of the greatest things is that we have people that were in our circle bringing their kids to this show,” Goldsmith says. “They’re going to see that, so I think that’s fantastic.” n Cause with Siamese Suicide and You Don’t Know Me • Fri, Nov. 20, at 9 pm • $8 • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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aniel Mills, under the moniker Son of Brad, plays many a coffee shop around the Inland Northwest, often cranking out heartfelt acoustic covers. But this time, it’s all about his work. This weekend, Mills releases a new album full of his original songs at the Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene, where Mills is from. He won’t be alone on stage; the talented Son of Brad Quartet will fill in the spaces. The music on Evergreen is mellow and laid-back, and pumped full of choice electric guitar licks (check out the band’s “UFO’s” music video to get a taste). There’s a faith-based element to the lyrics, but the album is mostly about relationships and love, and even moving to Portland.

— LAURA JOHNSON Son of Brad Quartet CD release with Casey Strain, Flying Mammals, the Powers Band and Sammie White • Sat, Nov. 21, at 7 pm • $10 • All-ages • Kroc Center • 1765 W. Golf Course Rd., Coeur d’Alene • kroccda.org • 208-667-1865

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ailing from Athens, Greece, chillwave group Keep Shelly in Athens brings their laid-back European sounds to Spokane for a relaxing night of live electronic music. Consisting of producer RTTR and singer Myrtha (who recently replaced original singer Sarah P.), the duo is currently on their largest North American tour to date. The group has a history in Washington, as their original three tracks were featured on Seattle radio station KEXP in the summer of 2010.

Their sophomore release, Now I’m Ready, came out last month.

— MAX CARTER Keep Shelly in Athens with Different Sleep and Lavoy • Tue, Nov. 24, at 8 pm • $10/$12 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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:Eazzy Duz It, Courage, Kosh, Social Suicide, Stay Focus Nu Era, God Squad, Alvin Artziz, Young West, Benny Bee, Ceez Carter, Screeg, Triple 6, Kenda Locc THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler  THE SHOP, Kiarah Perrault SWAXX, Antiserum + Mayhem (b2b set), JSTJR THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Spokane Dan and the Blues Blazers ZOLA, Island Soul

Sunday, 11/22

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church  THE GATHERING HOUSE (7472818), Christmas Music and Magic with Stevie Lynne & Company  JAVA ON SHERMAN (208-6670010), Powderroom THE PALOMINO CLUB, Jim Bury & The Cyphers ZOLA, Soulful Max Trio

Monday, 11/23

 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fusbol

Tuesday, 11/24

315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub  THE BARTLETT, Keep Shelly in Athens (See story on facing page), Different Sleep, Lavoy BROOKLYN DELI & LOUNGE, Open Mic FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness KELLY’S IRISH PUB (208-667-1717), Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots  MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Greg Hodapp  PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Elektro Grave’s “Gothsgiving” SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 11/25  THE BARTLETT, Songwriter showcase feat. Feral Anthem, Grant Cole, Hope Hines BUCKHORN INN, Donnie Emerson EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Wyatt Wood LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE PALOMINO CLUB, Thanksgiving Throwdown feat. Moretta, Free The Jester, Helldorado, Banish The Echo

 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, DJ Freaky Fred THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic THE ROADHOUSE, Sammy Eubanks, fundraiser for families in need ZOLA, The Bossame

Coming Up ...

MOOTSY’S, Thanksgiving celebration with Pine League, Nov. 26 KNITTING FACTORY, All That Remains, Devour the Day, Sons of Texas, Audiotopsy, Nov. 27 THE BARTLETT, Christopher Paul Stelling, Bart Budwig, Nov. 27 THE HIVE, Sweatshop Union, Nov. 27 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, The Commodores, Nov. 28 THE BARTLETT, The Round No. 13 feat. Bob Riggs, N. Sherman, Ruth Henrickson, Fitz and Jon Deviny, Nov. 28 THE BIG DIPPER, Amnija, Minds Decay CD release show with The Dead Ones, Naked under the Bus, Nov. 28 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Puscifer, Luchafer, Nov. 29.

PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Cancer Bats, Jedediah the Pilot, Cold Blooded, I Hate This City, Nov. 30 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Alex Boye, Nov. 30, THE BARTLETT, Tacocat, Sallie Ford, Nov. 30 BABY BAR, Lysol, Validation, Sumerians, Nov. 30

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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 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 443-5213 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 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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THEATER MERRY AND BRIGHT

After a two-year hiatus from this beloved holiday show, the Spokane Civic Theatre is dusting off the scripts and costumes for its third revival of Irving Berlin’s heartwarming White Christmas. Made famous on film by cherished Spokane son Bing Crosby, the staged version of the story is much newer than its film predecessor, debuting in 2004 — a full half-century after the Paramount film. Though from another era, the story of an unlikely Christmastime revue at a Vermont lodge has become a timeless holiday tradition, one that many of us enjoy year after year, on screen or on stage.

— CHEY SCOTT White Christmas • Nov. 20-Dec. 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $22-$30 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

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BEER / SPORTS WINTER PREP

MUSIC SEASONAL SOUNDS

Snowlander Expo and PowderKeg Brew Festival • Fri, Nov. 20, from 4-9 pm; Sat, Nov. 21, from 10 am-7 pm • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • snowlanderexpo.com

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas • Sun, Nov. 22, at 6:30 pm • $27.50-$97.50 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

This weekend’s annual Snowlander Expo has broad appeal for all types of snow sporters. The usual regional retailers and resorts will all be on site offering discounts on gear, season passes and more, but if you could care less about snow on the slopes, don’t forget about PowderKeg. A diverse lineup of local and regional breweries are pouring their best seasonal offerings, so warm up from the inside with a winter warmer or two and then head outside to catch the second Rail Jam in the Convention Center atrium, on Saturday.

— CHEY SCOTT

Long before acts like Trans-Siberian Orchestra were bringing bombastic rock moves to holiday concerts, Mannheim Steamroller and group founder Chip Davis created an unstoppable Christmas-tunes machine out of keyboard-heavy, classical-meets-rock renditions of traditional carols. And while the Mannheim sound has become ubiquitous in waiting rooms and hotel lobbies since the group released its first Christmas album 31 years ago, the group’s flashy concerts have made it a touring staple this time of year, too.

— DAN NAILEN

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CLASSICAL BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

As the basis for the smash hit musical Rent, the storyline of Giacomo Puccini’s famed opera La Bohème is every bit as dramatic as you’d imagine. In this story, instead of battling AIDS in New York City, the characters take on tuberculosis and poverty in Bohemian Paris. This weekend’s semi-staged version of one of the most popular operas around (and a perfect introduction to the opera world) is a collaboration between the Spokane Symphony and Opera Coeur d’Alene. Playing the tragic heroine Mimi is singer Leah Partridge, who has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera. Soloists include Elizabeth Caballero, Eric Margiore, Ryan Bede, Mark Walters and Matthew Trevino.

— LAURA JOHNSON La Bohème feat. Spokane Symphony and Opera Coeur d’Alene • Sat, Nov. 21, 8 pm; Sun, Nov. 22, 3 pm • $15-$54 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200

MUSIC PUPPIES WITH ATTITUDE

Fueled by intriguing yet smooth rhythms, laid-back sounds and intricate, melodic riffs, the 13-piece instrumental group Snarky Puppy has been revolutionizing jazz and R&B music since 2004. After winning a Grammy in 2014 for Best R&B Performance, the innovative band out of Denton, Texas, was also voted Best New Artist in Jazztime magazine’s annual readers poll.

Though still considered “underground” music, the group has all but outgrown that label, establishing themselves as one of the most respected instrumental groups in the world.

— MAX CARTER Snarky Puppy • Fri, Nov. 20, at 7:30 pm • $49-$100 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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I SAW YOU WSU ON TV AT THE STAR To the guy who was sitting at the bar in the WSU cap, watching the WSU football game on the TV at The Star bar. I thought you were pretty cute and wanted to say something. My redheaded friend commented on the game to get me to say something to you about it. I didn't catch her hint and missed my opportunity to say "hi". You can email me at cbeaudreau35@hotmail. com whether that night works for you or not. I hope to hear from you soon. Or you can reply here and reference "WSU football."

SAASHA ROSE The only reason for the Facebook notice was I was worried about you.. I have been clean now for 9 months and life is starting to make sense again. I have finally become ok with being alone and I really don't mind it. You are the only person I miss or have regrets about. Even if I never see you again I will always leave a light on and a place in my heart for you.

Thanx for everything I wish you could have been around to see me sober. Be safe and remember that you are always loved and never alone. PS. Got my first phone in 2 and a half years... Love always David Lee SCHOOL CARNIVAL HOTTIE To the blonde with brown-eyed mama: I saw you last Friday night volunteering in the gym at Seth Woodard elementary. Your beauty caught me off guard and all I could say was good night. You can whack my mole anytime. I'd love to meet you.

MICHAELS VALLEY CRAFT STORE I parked, looked up and there you were. I thought O.M.G. wow! But, it's a busy day and I refocus on why I'm there. I get to the store and there you are holding the door for me. We glance at one another and I proceeded to look for what I was in need of. Is this random coincidence or is something else in play. When I left the store, you were there in the parking lot, you stopped and turned around and looked at me. It's a star-crossed and delicate balance between strangers. My point is something happened. The essence of pure angelic spirit contained ever for a moment, someone they didn't know, who had chanced to touch their hearts in some positive way, "who, that has ever loved, has not loved at first sight?" This white knight waits in the stage wings of the future possibilities in your life, email me: violetseed2@gmail.com POWERS THAT B Vans store hunk, you wanna get together sometime? I promise I won't hate on Tom Waits. -girl in red coat H&M AARON I've seen you a few times working at H&M (did I read that name tag right?), always wearing a white t-shirt, looking foxy. You've got a number of tattoos on your arm and the kind of beard a woman can admire. Last time I saw you, I was suspiciously flipping through the boy's section wearing a red bandanna, rosie-theriveter-style, even though I am in no need of any kind of boy's attire. If you're single and interested, you know where to email: rosietheriviter@outlook.com.

CHEERS MY BELOVED PEPITA Thank you for three months of learning and loving.

You're a shooting star and I'm honored to have caught a glimpse of your beauty. I'll be here to catch you should you ever fall to earth. I love you. The Goat THANKS CITY OF SPOKANE! For putting in the new sidewalk on Bernard south of 29th. I am a pedestrian commuter and I frequently have to walk on that stretch of Bernard when it is dark out. For years I have had to dodge traffic when walking on the street as several houses had put bushes and landscaping all the way out to the street leaving no place for pedestrians to walk safely. So thank you city planners for the making my part of the

city more pedestrian friendly!

FRANCE — WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Haven't had ONE blog posted here in so long I'm guessing this will get the "Delete" button too. However.....Many here in Spokane actually DO care about World Events. The recent Paris attacks are shocking and MOST upsetting. Many

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they use much less energy. It's a win-win situation. Thanks for the upgrade!

THANK YOU! At last weekend's Folk Life Festival my husband and I met the kindest gentleman and his family. Upon learning that we would soon celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, he gave each of us a two-dollar bill. Such a nice

of towels, socks, underwear, and some of my most worn shirts and dresses that I can replace... There was a shirt in there that I just recently bought at a concert from my favorite band, a shirt only available at their shows, that I only had the pleasure of wearing once. If you have any urge to do something nice, I'd very much like at the very least that shirt back... Give

You’re a shooting star and I’m honored to have caught a glimpse of your beauty. I’ll be here to catch you should you ever fall to earth.

here in Spokane have been to Paris (Many times) and have friends that live there. That is Not the only reason to take Very Close Observation of the events happening there. This is a Clear message that ALL countries involved in the Middle East are going to have to be ready for this to happen on Their soil. Spokane?

Remember that two men here wrote the torture protocols for CIA torture.

You think people don't take notice of that kind of behavior? Many in Spokane (I think wrongly) support torture. I've heard business people in meetings say so. Torture has been discredited with saving lives and sends the wrong message to other countries that we would find similar behavior appalling!

STOLEN THINGS Cheers to the lady in the Shadle area who found some of my stuff and called me after it was stolen out of my car on 11/11/15 Wednesday morning between midnight and 3:30 am then went a brook in to her car. Thank you for calling me. After feeling violated you gave me a little hope that there are good people in this town. Have a Great Holiday.

LET THERE BE LIGHT! Cheers to Avista for replacing the old high pressure sodium streetlights with the new LED streetlights. The difference is almost like night and day. Not only do they provide more light to keep our streets safe but

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.”

— MY BELOVED PEPITA gesture. Many thanks and we wish you and your family the very best.

JEERS HIGHWAY 195 We rejoice with the completion of Highway 195 after dealing with lane closures all summer and into fall. I only have one question. Did we as taxpayers have to pay more for the preinstalled ruts? Anyone who has driven the Southbound lanes north of Hatch Road find our vehicles being moved around the lane. This passed inspections? Will this be safe in icy conditions?

Another job well done, NOT! RE: TOYS IN THE HOOD I don't know if this was directed at our house, but if it is, I apologize. The truck is my elderly father's, we park it here for the winter so it doesn't get hit by the snow plow (again); and we moved my husband's car closer to the house after it was vandalized. We have them parked neatly next to the house, not all over the place.

Please remember that some are honest, hard-working folks that are just trying to make a bad situation better.

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it to the manager in the office. I doubt anyone else would want it... And it hurts thinking maybe you just grabbed what you wanted and tossed my memories.

But I guess the shirt is right... "everything is so damn tragic" CAR WINDOW BREAKERS Jeers To the people going around breaking in to peoples cars on Spokane's Northwest side of town. Get a job, we work hard for what we have and for you to come in the middle of the night and break into our cars and steel from us is not cool at all, and I hope you get caught. And to those of you who know who these people are and not doing anything to stop this from happening, you are just as bad as them. I hope karma will come back at you and give you all you deserve. 

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THE BROADMOOR LAUNDRY ROOM To whoever decided I didn't need my two loads of laundry that happened to be in the dryer... You suck... While it sucks that there were probably $300-$500 worth

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FURRBALL The Spokane Humane Society’s 16th annual auction, dinner and dance benefits the animals in its care.

Includes two parades of adoptable animals, live jazz music and live/silent auctions. Nov. 21, 6-11:30 pm. $125. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanehumanesociety.org THE POWER OF 5 The nonprofit celebrates its 4th year of providing educational stipends for 180 children in Nepal. $10 allows a child there to attend school for one month. The community is invited to an afternoon of entertainment and a silent auction. Nov. 21, 2-5 pm. Free. nYne, 232 W. Sprague Ave. bit.ly/Powerof5Nepal (448-6561) FREE THANKSGIVING YOGA Nonperishable food or monetary donations are accepted at the door to support the Moscow Food Bank to help families during this holiday season. All are welcome.

Nov. 26, 9 am. Moscow Yoga Center, 525 S. Main St. (208-883-8315)

COMEDY

STAND-UP OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s, 2721 N. Market. bluznews.com (483-7300) BEFORE IT’S IN THEATERS Improv actors get creative with a themed improv show.

Fridays in November, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon, 1406 W. Third. (838-6688) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER Improv comedy show. Nov. 21, 8 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. libertylaketheatre.com STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; signup at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+.

No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. (535-4007) AFTER DARK A adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045)

COMMUNITY HOMEWORK HELP WITH THE ZAGS Need help with your writing homework, or homework in general? Stop

by Spark Center from 3:30-5:30 pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays to get guidance from Gonzaga students. Program runs through Dec. 17. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Parkway. sparkwestcentral.org NATIONAL HUNGER & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK Held annually the week before Thanksgiving, the weeklong movement includes local events to help end hunger and homelessness in the community, and to help understand the plight of those without a home or living in poverty. Nov. 14-22.

More information at voaspokane.org.

RANDOM FANDOM Whovians, Bronies, Otakus, Trekkies, and more are invited to geek out on al things fandom-related.

Come share your enthusiasm, make crafts, play games and more. Upcoming events Nov. 19, Dec. 17 and Jan. 21, from 4-5:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) SPOKANE INTERFAITH COUNCIL: MEET THE NEIGHBORS A six-month series hosted by the Spokane Interfaith Council, in an effort to build trust among religious and cultural groups in our community. Free/members; $20/ non-members. Nov. 19, 6 pm. Temple Beth Shalom, 1322 E. 30th Ave. spokaneifc.org (747-3304) NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY The day includes festivities at the court house for family and friends, with many adoptions taking place throughout the day; each with incredible stories regarding the lives of the adoptive family and children involved. Nov. 20, 10 am-3 pm. Spokane County Courthouse, 1100 W. Mallon. spokanecounty.org GIRL SCOUT CRAFT FAIR Handmade crafts by local girl scouts for the whole family at reasonable prices; most under $5. Help girls achieve their goals by buying a girl-made craft for your loved one.

Nov. 21, 10 am-4 pm. Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington & N. Idaho, 1404 N. Ash St. (208-779-2119) SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE LOSS DAY Join with a community of suicide loss survivors to find comfort and gain understanding as we share stories of healing and hope. Program includes a screening of “Family Journeys: Healing and Hope after a Suicide,” a new documentary that traces the ripple effect of a suicide through families and communities. Nov. 21, 2:30-5 pm. Free. SNAP Fort Wright, 3102 W. Fort George Wright Dr. hospiceofspokane.org (456-0438) TURKEY TROT OPEN HOUSE Meet the animals, tour the Outdoor Learning Center, play fun games and activities with your family. Nov. 21, 10 am-2 pm. $5 suggested donation. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org (340-1028) WHATEVER GIRLS PRINCESS BALL & FATHER OF THE YEAR AWARD The third annual Princess Ball and Sonora Smart Dodd Father of the Year Award also benefits Teen Closet with a clothing drive to support local teens in need.

Nov. 21, 6:30-9 pm. $30-$55/fatherdaughter pair. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. bit.ly/1WWIJYo (327-8000) PEACE CORPS PANEL DISCUSSION A panel discussion with three returned Peace Corps volunteers who share their experiences, answer questions and offer tips to guide applicants through the process. Nov. 24, 5:30-7 pm. Free. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main. 1.usa.gov/1MAMbwJ WEE MAC EXPLORATION SESSIONS: The MAC revives its pre-K museum educational exploration sessions, with activities to foster exploration and social development in prep for Kindergarten. Kids and a parent will engage in art activities and viewing, discover walks, songs, story time and more. Tuesdays from 9:30-11:30 am. For kids ages 4-5. $5/two people. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org STORYTIME & ART AT SPARK Join us for Spark’s story time for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Parents and guardians are invited to sit with their little ones for an interactive story time that incorporates song, movement, and puppets.

An optional art activity will follow sto-

ries. Wednesdays, from 9:30-10:15 am, through Dec. 16. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org FREE STA RIDES ON BLACK FRIDAY Spokane Transit Authority offers free bus rides on all routes on Friday, Nov. 27.

Annually, the organization provides one free fare day and hopes complimentary rides on Black Friday help ease the stress and hassle of driving and parking on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Free. Spokane. staholidays.com THE FESTIVAL OF FAIR TRADE The 31st annual event helps support Spokane’s local economy as well as communities in need across the globe.

Features sweatshop-free handcrafts, clothing, jewelry and pottery from Nepal, Mexico, Chile, Guatemala and other far corners of the world. Nov. 27-29, from 9 am-5 pm. Free admission. Community Building, 35 W. Main. festivaloffairtrade.com (448-6561) FOURTH FRIDAY PUB PEDDLERS Group cycling ride, making a few stops along the way to a final destination.

Meets at 7 pm, departs at 8 pm. Free.

Swamp Tavern, 1904 W. Fifth. (251-2107) SQUARE DANCING Square dancing fun and fellowship. The public is welcome to join us to view the entertainment, food and fellowship. Nov. 28, 7-10 pm. $5. Western Dance Center, 1901 N. Sullivan Rd. squaredancespokane.org TWO WOMEN VINTAGE GOODS COUNTRY CHRISTMAS SALE The fifth annual sale features antiques, vintage goods, arts and crafts, holiday decor, salvage items, baked goods and more. $5 admission; good all weekend, ages 12 and under free. Nov. 28, from 10 am-5 pm and Nov. 29, from 10 am-4 pm. Two Women Vintage Goods, 112 S. Cedar. on.fb.me/1YdUhno (624-4322)

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Register online. Nov. 19, 6-8 pm. Free.

Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The world tour of the winter sports/mountain culture film festival stops in Spokane for three showings, hosted by Mountain Gear. Nov. 20-21 at 7 pm, Nov. 22 at 6 pm. $20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE VATICAN MUSEUMS Ultra HD film cameras have for the first time been allowed inside the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, bringing never before seen art to audiences around the world.

Nov. 22, 1 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com FADE TO WINTER The latest film from Matchstick Productions muses on the changing of the seasons and the return of the winter sports peak, and captures the personalities of nine skiers who go to great lengths to get out into the powder. Nov. 27, 7 pm. TBA. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org THE TERMINATOR: COMEDY EDITION Spokane’s up-and-coming comedians and “critically acclaimed” movie critics are at it again with another screening of a classic movie that could use some poking fun at. Nov. 28, 7 pm. $12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (5345805)

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I’ve been in a long-distance relationship with my dream man. When we aren’t together, I feel superdisconnected and needy. I’ve never been that sort of person, but he is a master of compartmentalization and just calls or texts back when I contact him and is happy to see me when he sees me. This just isn’t working for me. I need a guy who’s excited enough about me day to day that he takes a little initiative to talk to me. I’ve AMY ALKON asked him repeatedly to even just text me first from time to time so I can feel like I matter to him. However, nothing changes. I now think I should end it. I do love him, though, and my friends are telling me that I’ve already invested nine months of my life in this relationship and I might as well see it through now. There is the possibility he’d move to my city, but that wouldn’t be for at least eight months, and it is only a possibility.

—Across The Country In situations like this, “absence” would be more useful if, instead of making the heart “grow fonder,” it made the heart grow little legs and trot off to a bar to chat up somebody new.

You’ve told this guy what you need — no, not diamonds, furs, and surgical conjoinment; just a textiepoo at some point in the afternoon or maybe a call as he’s on his way someplace. He pretty much responded, “I hear ya, baby — and can’t wait to keep doing the exact same thing!” This led you to the obvious (and healthy) conclusion: Time to jump off the lost-cause train. But just then, up popped your friends to yank you back into the boxcar, advising you to put up with the unhappy and see where it goes — because you’ve already put in so much unhappy. Right. This sort of thinking is called the “sunk cost fallacy.” It’s a common cognitive bias — an error in reasoning — that leads us to keep investing in something simply because we’ve already invested so much. Behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman explains that even when we sense that investing further is futile, we’re prone to do it because of how powerfully loss affects us. His research finds that we may even feel twice as much pain from a loss as we feel happiness from a gain. So, rather than take the hit to our ego by admitting we’ve wasted our time, we waste more time doing whatever wasted our time in the first place.

The rational (and misery-reducing) approach is recognizing that the time we’ve already put in is gone and that throwing more time in after it won’t change that. What makes sense is deciding what to do based on how likely it is to pay off in the future. In this case, sure, your boyfriend could have a near-death experience, re-evaluate his life, and start texting you heart emojis every 20 minutes — and Elton John could divorce his husband and start dating women. Of course, if you do ditch this guy, your replacement dream man may not pop up immediately in his wake. But at the very least, you should find that there are many men out there who can fail to meet your needs without your spending thousands of dollars a year on plane tickets.

EVENTS | CALENDAR STAGE TO SCREEN: HAMLET A screening of the National Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s great tragedy with Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Nov. 29, 2 pm. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) CODE-CRACKING WITH CUMBERBATCH A night of fun and film as we learn how to write and crack some old-fashioned codes (and jokes), and then watch “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch on our big screen. Ages 21+ only (alcohol will be served). Dec. 1, 6:309 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org

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TASTEFUL THURSDAYS Weekly events feature live music and seasonal product samples — wine, beer, cheese and more — from local and regional producers.

Thursdays, from 5-7 pm, through Dec. 18 (except Thanksgiving Day). Free. Moscow Food Co-op, 121 E. Fifth. (208-882-8537) THE VERY VERSATILE CREPE Chef Jean-Pierre shows the many ways crepes can be used for appetizers, savory suppers, and deserts. Nov. 19, 6-8 pm. $40.

Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com (208-762-1333) GIRLS PINT OUT Join the local craft beer social club during a painting + beer night.

Visit the group’s Facebook page for more info and to buy tickets. (Advance purchase recommended to reserve a seat.) Nov. 20, 7-9 pm. $26.25/person.

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POWDERKEG INLANDER BREW FEST Snowlander’s winter beer festival returns for its third year, featuring 24 local and regional breweries, cideries and one meadery. Nov. 20-21, Fri from 4-9 pm, Sat from 11 am-7 pm. $8 expo admission; tasting packages from $15-$25. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. snowlanderexpo.com (279-7000) NOUVEAU WINE BARREL TASTING Taste and compare the 2015 “Nouveau” or “New Wine” with older Vintages from the Oak Barrels in the Cellar. Nov. 14-15 and Nov. 21-22, from 2-5 pm. Free. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way. chinabend.com (732-6123) AMERICAN ITALIAN CLUB SPAGHETTI DINNER The 47th annual dinner benefits the club’s scholarship and charitable programs. Nov. 22, 12-6 pm. $5-$10. Gonzaga Prep, 1224 E. Euclid Ave. (319-4613) THE HISTORY OF YUM: CHOCOLATE, COFFEE & GINGERBREAD Food historian Monica Stenzel teaches a threesession class about chocolate, coffee and gingerbread. Take one or all three.

Each session features special treats to sample: Hallett’s Chocolates, Thomas Hammer Coffee, and gingerbread from Madeleine’s. Limited to 30 participants.

Nov. 22 and Dec. 13, from 2-3:30 pm. $31.50-$35. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org FREE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER The local restaurant hosts its fifth annual free community Thanksgiving dinner, open to all. Nov. 26, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Fedora Pub & Grille, 1726 W. Kathleen Ave. (208-765-8888) TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING DIN-

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MUSIC

THE GATHERING OF BANDS Featuring the North Idaho College Wind Symphony performing alongside area middle school bands. Nov. 18-19 at 7 pm. Free and open to the public. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu (208-769-3258) JON MENDLE The musician has toured with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and made his Carnegie Hall debut while still a student at the age of 19. Nov. 19, 7:30 pm. $25. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com WHY THE ARTS MATTER TO FAITH Jeremy Begbie, Ph.D., presents the Staley Lecture, “Out of this World? – Why the Arts Matter to Faith,” in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre. The lecture will be illustrated extensively with Begbie’s performance at the piano. Nov. 19, 7 pm. Free and open to the public.

Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu (777-3280) SAXSATIONAL JAZZ FEAT. ROB VERDI Come celebrate the Panida’s early days during a concert that pays tribute to a handful of legendary sax players who contributed to the development of jazz and popularity of the sax. Rob will be joined by members of the Sandpoint HS Jazz En-

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Unfortunately, there’s really no such thing as “constructive criticism.” As I explain in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” “Criticizing people doesn’t make them change; it makes them want to clobber you.” That’s because we’re living in modern times with an antique psychological operating system. A verbal attack sets off pretty much the same biochemical alarm as a guy in a loincloth and face paint coming after you with a bloody spear. The good news is that turning criticism into opinion often makes all the difference in getting it heard. In this case, this simply involves telling your girlfriend how you like to be kissed — and then (fun!) showing her. It’s great to have a woman who takes your breath away — but not because she’s trying to give you a laryngectomy with her tongue. 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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semble. Nov. 20, 7-9 pm. $8-$10. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. (208-255-7801) SNARKY PUPPY The New York-based quasi-collective has gone from bestkept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music, with a 2014 Grammy win. Nov. 20, 7:30 pm. $49$100. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com SWING DANCE WITH ATOMIC JIVE Strictly Swing’s monthly swing dance, which also includes beginner swing dance lesson from 7-8, with a live band from 8-10, and DJ’d music from 10-11 pm.

Nov. 20, 7-11 pm. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (838-5667) INLAND NW BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION SHOWCASE Live music performed by local and regional bluegrass bands and related acoustic music performers. Monthly on the third Saturday, from 7-9:30 pm. $5-$7; ages 12 and under free. Trent Elementary School, 3303 N. Pines Rd. spokanebluegrass.org GONZAGA JAZZ COMBOS The Gonzaga University Jazz Combos play 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 on the west end of campus. Nov. 21, from 1-3 pm. Free. Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/music (313-6733) KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT: BROWN’S MOUNTAIN BOYS The Spokane bluegrass group features Mark Harding, Dan Gore and Kelly Bogan, who played together for years in “Molly & Tenbrooks,” and added fiddler Aaron Castilla to round out the quartet. Nov. 21, 1 pm. Free. Bing Crosby

Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS NO. 4: LA BOHEME The Spokane Symphony partners with Opera Coeur d’Alene to present a semi-staged version of one of the greatest operas of all time. Giacomo Puccini’s tragic tale is set in the counterculture world of Bohemian Paris, and deals with real people facing real issues.

Nov. 21 at 8 pm and Nov. 22 at 3 pm. $15$54. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org WHITWORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The symphony orchestra presents its fall concert. Nov. 21, 3 pm. $5. Whitworth Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne Ave. whitworth.edu/theatre/ CELEBRATING THE PATRON SAINT OF MUSIC Performing Handel’s “I Will Magnify the Lord” the Cathedral Choir and resident Cathedral Collegium Consort, (string quintet and oboe) with vocal soloists, throughout St. John’s Sunday morning liturgy, celebrate St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. All are invited to attend. Nov. 22, 10:30-11:45 am. No cost. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org (838-4277) COFFEE HOUSE CONCERT Donivan Johnson plays on the grand piano from the “Great American Songbook.” Coffees, wine and beer, and soft drinks are available for purchase. Nov. 22, 2-5 pm. $5. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St, Metaline Falls. cuttertheatre.com LILAC CITY COMMUNITY BAND The community band (approx 45 members) play everything from Shostakovich to Sousa in its first official concert. Nov. 22, 2:30-4 pm. By donation. Medical Lake

High School, 200 E. Barker St. (981-9811) MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS Grammy Award winner Chip Davis’s show features the beloved Christmas music of the band with dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. Nov. 22, 6:30 pm. $27.50-$97.50.

INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (279-7000) TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA The band performs “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” and other top favorites. Nov. 27, 8 pm. TBA. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com (279-7000)

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KING OF THE CAGE: UNTAMED Mixed martial arts event. Nov. 19, 7-10 pm. $25/$45/$60. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. (800-523-2464) SNOWLANDER EXPO The Inlander’s annual expo hosts local winter sports vendors offering season-low sale prices.

Also includes the Washington Trust Rail Jam in the Convention Center breezeway (Saturday only) and informational seminars on avalanche safety and other topics. Nov. 20-21, Fri from 4-9 pm, Sat from 10 am-7 pm. Expo admission $8 (good both days; kids under 12 free) Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. snowlanderexpo.com SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. SWIFT CURRENT BRONCOS: Regular season hockey match. Nov. 20, 7:05 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. (279-7000) PARASPORT WHEELCHAIR BASKET-

BALL TOURNEY An event to help raise money for the local nonprofit ParaSport Spokane, offering a chance for ablebodied players to try out basketball in a wheelchair, like what ParaSport’s athletes use to be able to play. $250/team of up to 10 players. Wheelchairs provided.

Entry deadline is Nov. 9. Nov. 21, 9 am-3 pm. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. parasportspokane.org SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. MOOSE JAW WARRIORS Regular season hockey match. Nov. 21, 7:05 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. (279-7000) SPOKANE CHIEFS VS. VANCOUVER GIANTS: Regular season hockey match.

Nov. 25, 7:05 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com TURKEY TROT The annual fun run on Thanksgiving morning, hosted by the Bloomsday Road Runners Club, collects money and food for Second Harvest Food Bank. Race starts at 9 am, with the options of 2-, 3- or 5-mile routes. Includes prizes, coffee, cider and pre-feast opportunity to burn calories! Nov. 26, 8:45-10:30 am. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. (868-6433)

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THE BIG MEAL A student-directed play about the challenges and triumphs of a family over generations told through dinner gatherings. Nov. 19-21, at 7:30 pm. $5. Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/theatreanddance EWU THEATRE: POCATELLO Against the harsh backdrop of Samuel D. Hunter’s Idaho, this heartbreaking comedy is a cry

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for connection in an increasingly lonely American landscape. Rated R. Nov. 2021, at 7:30 pm; and Nov. 19 at 5 pm. EWU Cheney, 526 Fifth St. (359-2459) THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT SFCC drama students perform the play written

by Jean Giraudoux, a mid-20th century French Impressionist fantasy where those on the fringes of life try to save the world.

Through Nov. 21, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $1 admission with food donation. $1/$10. Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3222) NT LIVE PRESENTS: THE AUDIENCE Nominated for three Tony Awards, Helen Mirren reprises her Olivier Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in a production broadcast from the National Theatre. Nov. 19, 7-11 pm. $12. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) THE CRUCIBLE John R. Rogers ENCORE Drama presents “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, directed by Kris Freeland, that details the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Nov. 13-14 and Nov. 19-20, at 7 pm. $5/students, $7adults. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley. facebook.com/rogers.drama SHREK THE MUSICAL The FHS Performing Arts Departments presents a staged version of the Oscar-winning animated film. Nov. 19-21, at 7 pm. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. spokaneschools.org/ferris (354-6067) THESPIANS’ CHOICE A performance of student-directed, one-act plays. Nov. 1920, from 7-9 pm. $5. Lewis & Clark HS, 521 W. Fourth. tigerstage.nationbuilder.com/ thespians_choice

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No matter the topical, Victoria Robinson, owner of the Peaceful Choice, a Spokane medical marijuana shop, recommends products with a 1-to-1 CBD-to-THC ratio for maximum pain relief. A combination of smoking and topicals can also increase the relief.

“If you’re wearing a topical and then take a hit out of a joint, it’s only going to accentuate it,” Robinson says.

LOTIONS AND BALMS: Cannabis-infused lotions and balms are used to treat sore muscles. Robinson says that since the lotion is absorbed through the skin, the soothing effect is amplified.

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People with skin irritations can also take advantage of topicals for relief.

Robinson recommends that those hoping for relief from psoriasis try a cannabis/aloe lotion, and anyone looking to get the most bang for their buck should check out lotion from the Seattle-based Center for Palliative Care, which comes in a special prescription bottle.

“You get every single pump of the medicine, so nothing is wasted,” Robinson says.

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“These types of patches are great for during the daytime when people have to drive, go to work; they have to function, but they have a lot of pain,” she says.

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THE WILD PARTY Based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem of the same name, Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party to end all parties. Through Nov. 29, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$27. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org (455-7529) ALADDIN, JR. A young actors’ performance of the story based on the Disney classic film. Through Nov. 22, FriSat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $6-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendorielleplayers.org (447-9900) CDA SUMMER THEATRE: FIRST DATE Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre presents an encore presentation of the hip, hysterical Broadway hit. Nov. 20-22, Fri at 7 pm, Sat at 2 pm and 7 pm. $25.

CdA Eagles, 209 Sherman Ave. cdasummertheatre.com (208-660-2958) CURTAIN CALL: A VAUDEVILLE REVIEW A variety show featuring the most memorable songs, quips and skits from the first 32 years of the Sixth Street Theater’s “Kelly’s Alley Revues.”

Through Nov. 22, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $13-$15. Sixth Street Theater, Wallace. sixthstreetmelodrama.com RUMPLESTILTSKIN A play that cleverly dramatizes the traditional Grimm story, performed in a reader’s theatre format. Nov. 20 at 7 pm, Nov. 21 at 2 pm. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. (342-2055) WHITE CHRISTMAS Based on the timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation tells the story of veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who have a successful song-and-dance act after WWII. Nov. 20-Dec. 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com MET LIVE IN HD: LULU Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme fatale, who shatters lives, including her own.

Four hours, 50 minutes approx. run time. Nov. 21, 9:30 am-2:30 pm. $15$20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS MUSICAL A musical comedy set in the Armadillo Acres trailer park. When a freak bout of amnesia strikes the trailer park Scrooge, neighborly love is put to the test. Nov. 27-Dec. 20, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$27. The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208-667-1323)

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Free and open to the public. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave., CdA. (208-769-3276) MIKE HASTIE PHOTO ESSAY “Lying is the Most Powerful Weapon in War” is hosted by Spokane Veterans for Peace.

Through Nov. 30, open Mon-Sat, from 10 am-6 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main. spokaneveteransforpeace.org NATURE CONNECTS: LEGO BRICK SCULPTURES The MAC displays 27 giant sculptures created by nationallyrenowned, award-winning artist Sean Kenney, the first artist to be named a

LEGO Certified Professional. Through Feb. 7, 2016. Gallery hours Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Museum admission applies. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org “WE ARE STILL HERE” NATIVE AMERICAN ART SHOW Showcasing artists and musicians, both elderly and youth, female and male, traditional and contemporary. Nov. 20, 5 pmmidnight and Nov. 21-22, 10 am-5 pm.

Free. Hatch: Creative Business Incubator, 9612 E. Sprague. facebook.com/ wearestillhere.natives (768-0309) NEW MOON ART GALLERY OPENING An opening night reception featuring an art nouveau theme with the works of Melissa Cole, Kim Long, Ann Contois and Steve Reynolds. New Moon Gallery is the new name and location for Manic Moon & More, which has relocated. Nov. 20, 4-8 pm. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague, Ste. B. newmoonartgallery.com (413-9101) HOLIDAY BAZAAR Local artists show and sell their work in pottery, metal work, felted scarves, eco-printed scarves, jewelry, porcelain and silver.

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Brew Wars Beer companies are being bought and sold at a rapid pace — but the drinker is still in power

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here’s this weird thing about the beer industry; as not announced that it was selling off its 58 percent share beer drinkers, we don’t seem to necessarily think in MillerCoors in order to dodge antitrust laws when the of it as a business. Obviously, we’re aware of the deal goes through, we’d have one company owning the reality that beer costs money and we are adult enough to majority of the world’s beer. realize that someone’s making a profit off the fact that we “By pooling our resources, we would build one of the like a refreshing buzz after a long day. But we hold beer world’s leading consumer products companies, benefitcompanies to a different standard than we would, say, a ing from the experience, commitment and drive of our manufacturer of light bulbs. combined global talent base,” AB InBev CEO Carlos We expect more from the folks who make our beer.

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We pretend we have a relationship with our favorite But there’s the problem. I’m not sure beer drinkers brewery. There’s an emotional attachwant to drink the creation of one of the ment we have with a favorite IPA, and we “world’s leading consumer products D I S T I L L E D companies.” It sounds like they’re sellassociate a sense of tradition with a sixer of tall cans when packing them along for a ing Soylent Light.

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AB InBev clearly has plenty of Craft breweries, especially in the cash on hand, and they’ll continue to Northwest, have succeeded in treating their patrons as make up a sizable chunk of the U.S. beer market, but more than customers or even fans, instilling in drinkers a they’re a little worried about how drinkers, especially sense of equity in their operations — like they’ve helped younger drinkers, are opting for local craft beers over the build something pint by pint. That’s probably the most sort of stuff sold with bikinis on billboards. Because in worthwhile return (other than tasty beer, of course) you our corner of the country, most of the beer taps at your get by devoting your money and free time to a particular neighborhood pub are from local or regional breweries, brewery. you might be surprised to know that craft beer made up But there is big money in beer. We’ve been reminded only 11 percent of total U.S. beer sales last year, accordof that a lot recently, mostly because one company, AB ing to the Brewers Association. No matter how poetic I InBev (a Belgian company that bought the Anheuserwax on this subject, the reality remains that a hell of a lot Busch empire), is hoping to acquire SABMiller for $107 of people in a hell of a lot of places want Coors Light for billion in what would be one of the biggest financial some reason. Still, the craft share is growing, and growing mergers — of any industry — in history. Had SABMiller fast.

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So what do companies like AB InBev do when their dominance, all but unquestioned for so long, is truly challenged? They buy up their competitors, of course. Just this week, Ballast Point Brewing out of San Diego was purchased for the astonishing sum of $1 billion by Constellation Brands, a company that owns numerous wine labels, including Robert Mondavi, as well as Corona, Black Velvet whiskey and other spirits and beers. That number is insane, but Ballast Point has doubled production from 2014 to almost 123,000 barrels a year in 2015, and Constellation is clearly betting on the future of the brewery.

Closer to home, both Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing and Seattle’s Elysian Brewing Company were sold to AB InBev within the past year. Some devoted fans of those brands jumped ship at the news. Others just shrugged, because the beer has remained pretty damn good. And although every local brewer I’ve asked has told me they’d never sell out to a big beer conglomerate, I imagine that when a suit walks into your taproom with a $25 million check (the estimated price paid for 10 Barrel, which had only been open for eight years), you might change your mind.

There is, however, a keen way to bridge the divide between being a brewing behemoth and tapping into the beer fan’s loyalty, and you can see it with Pabst Brewing Company. The company, under the direction of CEO and beer industry veteran Eugene Kashper, has bought up nostalgic regional brands and kept them alive. In the Northwest, they have Rainier and Olympia; in Texas, it’s Lone Star; in Chicago, Old Style. Perhaps on the ledger books, this isn’t much different from AB InBev’s steamroller. But it sure feels a lot better when you go looking for a cheap sixer to pick up something unique to your region, and not a Big Brand.

Again, it would be ignorant, at best, to think that brewers large and small would eschew the trappings of free-market capitalism just because beer snobs have a warm feeling in their guts. But in the end, any product’s fate is controlled by the consumer, right? Drink with authority, because you’re shaping an industry and you don’t want to be sold a light bulb. 

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