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f all the things that could have happened in 2017 — a border wall, the end of Obamacare and the beginning of a nuclear war — what’s perhaps even more surprising is this: 2017 was a breakout year for the Inland Northwest, and not solely because the Zags cracked the code of March and played for a national championship (although that was something to see).

Truth is, there are lots of reasons to look back fondly on the past 12 months. Major projects are going up, Spokane is figuring out better ways to fill potholes and competing agencies are working collaboratively to lure manufacturing and industry. Also, let’s not forget that Zuill Bailey won a Grammy, Garth Brooks played to 72,000 fans and medical students flooded the Lilac City. Yes, signs of PROGRESS were everywhere in 2017. Check out our special coverage beginning on page 24. — JACOB H. FRIES, Editor

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nvestment into a meaningful number of emerging businesses is vital to achieve favorable economic growth for any region. Among other benefits, rapidly growing young businesses create high-paying jobs, develop innovative and proprietary intellectual property, attract strategic resources from outside the region and contribute to a dynamic arts and entertainment culture.

These new businesses are also necessary to complete the “circle of life” as companies in our region are acquired by outside entities. This past year saw four mergers/acquisitions of leading Spokane companies, including Demand Energy Networks by Enel Green Power, Avista by Hydro One, Telect by Amphenol and NextIt by Verint.

Assuming only two out of 10 emerging companies succeed on a large scale, the region needs to spawn 20 new companies to replace what was acquired away in 2017.

But there’s always been that feeling that Spokane and the surrounding region just doesn’t have the wherewithal to tend its own economic garden with big enough investments to make a difference. Yet 2017 seems to contradict that longheld notion, as informal calculations indicate that 14 local companies received at least $65 million in growth capital in 2017, up from seven companies and $7 million in 2016. (These informal calculations were prepared by the Spokane Angel Alliance, a group that I serve as president.)

The number of emerging businesses receiving fresh capital, and the amount of capital infused in them, bodes well for future economic growth in the region. Of the 14 companies receiving investment, eight represented first rounds of capital, while six were follow-on financings. The number of new companies raising their first round of capital is a key indicator of the vibrancy of Spokane’s startup ecosystem.

2ND WATCH, which provides cloud-based applications, raised the largest round — a $19 million follow-on financing.

PHYTELLIGENCE, a five-year-old spin-off from Washington State University that uses a proprietary process to grow fruit trees in more efficient and sustainable ways, closed on an estimated $16 million of additional capital.

STAY ALFRED, a technology-based disrupter in the hospitality industry, secured $15 million in a first-round equity raise. (I serve on the Stay Alfred board.)

RISKLENS, a cybersecurity company that helps businesses understand how much cyberattacks could cost them, landed a $5 million followon financing.

And GESTALT DIAGNOSTICS, a developer of digital pathology systems, raised $2.6 million in its first outside financing.

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he financings for 2nd Watch, Stay Alfred and Risklens were led by institutional investors based outside of our region; local investors led the capital raises for Phytelligence

and Gestalt Diagnostics.

Both counter claims that there is no capital in Spokane for homegrown, emerging companies, and that leading outside investors will not invest in companies in the Spokane area.

Five other local firms, Vaagen Timbers, TMS Solutions, Obloco, Gravwell and Safeguard, raised first rounds of equity capital totaling $6.2 million. Vaagen Timbers is constructing a facility to manufacture cross-laminated timbers.

TMS Solutions deploys FDA-approved medical devices for the treatment of depression, PostTraumatic Stress Disorder and other indications.

Obloco has developed an expense-reporting solution for banks to offer to small- and mediumsized businesses. Gravwell is a data analytics startup focusing on correlation of data. Safeguard produces wearable devices that send an alert when an individual is too close to high voltage.

The remaining four businesses included in this tally have not publicly reported their 2017 fundraising activities. There are likely other emerging companies in the Spokane region that raised capital in 2017, but they did not come to the attention of the Spokane Angel Alliance. Notably, however, members of the Spokane Angel Alliance invested approximately $10 million in 10 of the 14 companies in its informal survey.

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he growing role of angel investment groups is another positive sign. Kick-Start III (which I manage) is a new angel fund having raised $5 million in 2017. It is the third in a family of angel funds focused on investing in emerging companies. In 2017, Kick-Start III invested in six local companies and in two Seattle-based companies. Kick-Start III selectively invests outside of the region as part of a broader network of other angel investors that we encourage to evaluate investment opportunities in Spokane. Many people are working to get Spokane start-ups on the regional investment radar.

While it’s difficult to predict the amount of investment and merger/acquisition activity on an annual basis, with the public equity markets at record levels, lower corporate and individual tax rates and the prospect of continued regulatory relief, I expect a continued high level of activity in the near term. In the longer term, the primary factor affecting the number of new companies to be started and funded in Spokane will be the overall attractiveness of our region to entrepreneurs as compared to other communities. n Through funds or personally, Tom Simpson is an investor in Phytelligence, RiskLens, Gestalt Diagnostics, Vaagen Timbers, TMS Solutions, Safeguard and Kick-Start III.

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COMMENT | 2017

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The Year of Narrative The power, promise and peril of storytelling in 2018

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or as long as I can remember, whenever I drive on U.S. 95 at Chilco, I take a moment to look at the waterfall.

It’s easy to miss; it’s just a small stream that spills over some rocks behind a farmhouse on the east side of the highway. I guess my parents must have pointed it out when I was a kid. Since then I’ve made innumerable trips over that stretch of road, coming from or going to Sandpoint. Almost all the most important travels of my life have brought me past that waterfall

at some point. It has become a kind of talisman: touched mentally for luck on the way out or in gratitude that I’m almost home.

Of course, you can never go home. Still, we try — especially this time of the year. Like most people, I just wrapped up a season of family visitation. This was the first holiday season we’ve spent in North Idaho since my son was born in 2012. My daughter, who turns 3 on Jan. 8, had never spent Christmas with her grandparents.

My cousin resurrected our traditional Christmas Eve gathering of extended relatives, largely dormant since my grandmother’s passing five years ago. While my kids were new additions, my uncle was notably absent — for

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At my parents’ houses, the pictures on their fridges reminded me of how fast a decade can pass. In both ritual and remembrance, my son was deemed finally old enough to be introduced to my childhood collection of Legos. I made the mistake of glancing at the dates on the instruction booklets we so meticulously preserved over the years and, while the Legos themselves evoked entire sense memories — songs on the radio, the woodgrain of an old dining room table, the smell of grilled cheese — the dates seemed impossibly remote. How could 30 years have passed since I first built the Black Falcon’s Fortress?

Body blows of mortality are par for the course at the turning of the new year, as we consider how our story has developed and in what ways it might end. For some inexplicable, deep-mind reason I’ve been listening to Nina Hagen’s “Du has den Farbfilm vergessen” (“You Forgot the Color Film”), in which she rips her boyfriend Micha for doing as the song title suggests, thus failing to adequately record a day at the beach. Buried not far beneath its poppy veneer, the song is a lament about memory and who controls it in crafting a life story. Fortyfour years after “Farbfilm” was released, InfoTrends estimated 1.2 trillion digital photos were taken in 2017 alone. Truly: “Pictures or it didn’t happen.” Maybe more accurately, amid a global media culture where billions of people gabble simultaneously around the village campfire of the internet: “If it didn’t happen, you didn’t happen.”

Looking back on “post-truth” 2017, which began with the largest presidential inauguration crowd in history that wasn’t (“just look at the pictures!”) and is ending with censorship in government documents of words like “evidence-based,” “science-based,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender” and “fetus” — it seems clear this was the Year of Narrative.

Dominated by President Donald Trump, maybe our first true storyteller-in-chief, superlatives stand for ideas and rhetorical flourishes fly to Jerry Bruckheimer heights.

Never mind that he’s an orange sack of Big Macs with spun butterscotch for hair, we made him president because he sufficiently scared and/or entertained us around that primordial campfire. A year later, the bullshitter son of a shyster father, Trump is writing our national story like it’s a treatment for one of his reality TV shows.

Heading into 2018, maybe the most powerful resolution for all of us — from the personal to the societal — is to take greater control of our narrative. We are our stories and if we don’t watch carefully, they’ll write themselves without us. n

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sold to the public, it reminds me of my years in Liberia, under President William Tubman. Tubman was dearly loved by the poorest in the country, which actually didn’t make any sense at all. But needy citizens would come to his office for financial help — for a funeral, a wedding, or just hard times. He would gladly oblige with a gift of up to $500. In fact, he had envelopes marked with various amounts of money already prepared to distribute.

Yet, he neglected to support job growth so these poor citizens could afford basic expenses from their own work LETTERS and not depend on his “generosity.”

Send comments to The way the new tax bill is editor@inlander.com. framed has some similarities to my experience in Liberia — deceiving the low and middle classes by giving with the right hand (estimates of $2,000 on average per family), but taking away more with the left — much more than $2,000 when considering health insurance, the crumbling infrastructure, the national debt, etc.

The country is being duped by President Trump and our Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Please wake up before it is too late.

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Counting It All How the city of Spokane is radically reinventing its yearly homeless count

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n a cold day last January, an outreach team had just left from the Crosswalk teen homeless shelter, ready to conduct the same mission the city of Spokane has every year: Find homeless community members and ask them a battery of questions like “Where did you stay last night?” and “What caused your homelessness?”

Done right, the federally mandated annual point-intime count can give a vital sense of the scope and nature of homelessness in Spokane.

But several aspects of the count were frustrating.

There was a sense that there were a lot of homeless people out there who were inevitably being missed. In particular, the winter seemed like a terrible time to be looking for homeless kids.

“It doesn’t feel like an authentic template for getting actual numbers, for me,” Courtney Lehman, an outreach team member, said at the time. “If you really, really want to address this problem, you’re going to design an outreach program in a way you reach the most people.”

With the next homeless count approaching at the end of January, that’s exactly what the city has tried to do.

Staffers have spent the last few months radically reinventing the way Spokane tallies the homeless.

More volunteers will be sent out countywide. Youth events will be held in order to bring homeless kids to a place they can be counted. And by using a smartphone app specifically designed to conduct a point-in-time count, the city hopes to not only get better data — but save so much time and money it can afford to do a count in the summer as well.

They’re calling it “Everybody Counts.”

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David Lewis, manager of the city of Spokane’s homeless data system, fidgets with excitement as he raves about how doing a better job of collecting information could alter the course of homeless people’s lives.

“There’s this sense of seeing numbers, crunching numbers, doing the analysis, wanting to see where

the trends are going, wanting to do more,” Lewis says.

“Knowing that this data we’re collecting — it means something. It can better people’s lives and lead to solutions.”

The annual count isn’t just about tallying stats about how many homeless people are in Spokane. It’s a tool to build personal profiles, a sort of passport that follows a person from agency to agency — from, say, Frontier Behavioral Health to Catholic Charities to the Salvation Army. At its best, the system can help social services find exactly what each Spokane resident needs to escape homelessness.

Last time, Lewis says, the city had around 20 volunteers who weren’t a part of social service agencies helping with the count. This time they’ve already recruited at least 75.

And this time, they won’t be just targeting downtown Spokane.

“We’ll be collecting data in Cheney, Airway Heights, Spokane Valley, Mead, Deer Park,” Lewis says. “We’ll be able to reach further than we ever have before.”

Crucially, the city is largely doing away with the piles of blue paper forms that volunteers manually fill out.

Want to count the homeless? There’s an app for that.

First piloted in a small town in Massachusetts in 2003, Simtech Solutions, Inc.’s Connect Us app allows volunteers to use their smartphone to fill out the survey directly in the field. It’s been adopted by the states of Connecticut, South Dakota and Rhode Island, and cities like Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas. ...continued on next page

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All each volunteer has to do is download the app, tap in a code provided by the city, and they’re connected with the city’s questionnaire.

Most volunteers will use their smartphones. For those who don’t, the city’s providing digital tablets, purchased using a grant from the Walmart Foundation.

In Spokane, the strategy fits snugly into the Condon administration’s goal of slashing inefficiencies, tracking performances using data and finding unconventional solutions.

It used to take weeks and weeks for the city staffers to manually enter the count forms into a computer. A single survey could take 15 minutes to enter in, as staffers struggle to decipher volunteer handwriting to enter the info into the system.

Now, the moment each survey is completed, the information’s sent electronically to the city’s database.

Meanwhile, Lewis will be back at the city’s command center, able to see a dot pop up on the monitor with the exact location that the survey was taken — crucial to understanding where homelessness is the most concentrated in the community.

In real time, they’ll be able to see the answers coming in. If something looks odd with the information or if they spot that a volunteer’s making a mistake, the team can call the person immediately to address the problem.

Like generals deploying their forces, they can spot areas that the outreach teams may be missing, and redirect their troops to the gap.

And all of this year’s data will be used to make next year’s count even more effective.

“The power of this is not only going to be the first year it’s done. Or even the second year. It’s going to be the third year,” Lewis says. “Future planning, future counts.”

MAKING KIDS COUNT

This year, the city is trying to focus on one undercounted population in particular: kids. A $40,000 study in 2015 from Priority Spokane found that youth homelessness was 33 percent higher in Spokane than the rest of the state. Local social service agencies have made fixing youth homelessness a priority.

Federal law requires the homeless count to be done in the last 10 days of January. But homeless camps — and even shelters — can feel particularly dangerous for youth, and when it gets cold, kids are more likely to double up with their friends than stay on the streets.

Bridget Cannon, who runs the Crosswalk teen shelter with Volunteers of America, says many kids are reluctant to trust a stranger with a clipboard who starts asking questions.

“They think someone is going to contact the parent, CPS, or the police and they’ll be arrested or returned to an unsafe home or end up in foster care,” says Cannon.

So instead of merely wandering the streets to find homeless kids, the city’s seeking ways to bring homeless kids — and their friends — to them. During the week of the annual count, several “magnet events” will be held throughout the city. On Jan. 26, the Downtown Library will hold a virtual reality gaming event from 2 pm to 5 pm, where homeless kids will be given the homelesscount survey.

In the following days, similar events will be

With a new homeless-count app, the city will be able to shift where outreach teams are being deployed. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO held at the Shadle, Hillyard and Eastside libraries and at Opportunity Presbyterian Church.

These events aren’t just about gathering stats, Lewis stresses.

They’re also about providing crucial information to kids about the sort of social services that are available to help their homeless friends out.

“My hope would be that they’re not scared or intimidated,” says Tija Danzig, the city’s homeless services program manager.

“We want to open it up and make it more inviting, so if a youth needed the support they wouldn’t be afraid to ask for it.”

DIFFERENT SEASONS

No matter how the homeless count is conducted, there are inherent flaws with only having one a year. On any given day, a tastier meal option at a homeless shelter may artificially inflate the count, while, say, extra downtown security for an ice skating competition can artificially deflate it.

Winter is a better time for counting people in shelters. Summer is a better time for counting youth.

“Really, if you want an accurate reflection, you would do multiple counts,” says Cannon. “But I know it’s expensive.”

And Lewis says the city is considering doing just that: Adding a second count in the summer.

Right now, Jonathan Mallahan, the city of Spokane’s outgoing director of neighborhood and business services, says there’s no official commitment from the city for doing a second count. But he says the city should find a way.

“I think that it’s an absolute necessity,” says Mallahan. Lewis is optimistic it will happen.

Among both city officials and social providers there’s the sense that homelessness really is on the increase, both in Spokane and the rest of the Northwest. More homeless camps are popping up. More people are packing into shelters. Housing availability is at rock bottom levels.

“Homelessness is a community problem,” Lewis says. “So it requires a community solution.” n danielw@inlander.com

“THE KALISPEL TRIBE IS INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE OF OUR MILITARY.” Sandy Kates, Committee Chair, Operation Spokane Heroes

Since opening Northern Quest Resort & Casino in 2000, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians has donated more than $18 million to local nonprofits in Spokane and Pend Oreille Counties—including Operation Spokane Heroes, a volunteer organization that helps the families of active and reserve military and veterans in our area during difficult times.

“People would be surprised at the level of need in our community,” says Committee Chair Sandy Kates of Operation Spokane Heroes.

“Sometimes our families need help paying a power or car repair bill while their loved one is deployed. We also help those in dire need of assistance, including homeless veterans.”

“I’m always amazed at the Tribe’s generosity and the heart they have for helping others,” added Kates.

If you’d like to help, learn more at www.operationspokaneheroes.org. kalispeltribe.com

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? The city of Spokane wants to name the pedestrian and bicycle BRIDGE — called to this point the University District Gateway Bridge — something a little less, well, pedestrian. Construction has halted for the winter, but the city expects the bridge to be finished by September. The city says it is looking for names that “will stand the test of time.” If the bridge is to be named after a person, the city is asking that it’s someone who has made an “outstanding contribution” to the city and who has been a resident of the city of Spokane. If it’s a political nominee, they must have been retired from political office for at least five years. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

DONATIONS WANTED The city of Spokane is asking for donated items that volunteers can hand out to people experiencing homelessness as they conduct the annual point-intime count later this month. Through Jan. 22, for the EVERYBODY COUNTS drive, the city is looking for donations of items such as baby wipes, blankets, first aid materials, boots, phone chargers, toiletries, diapers, hats, gloves, coats, socks, soap, laundry detergent, underwear, winter layers, and more.

Drop boxes are located at city and county libraries, all Umpqua bank locations, local university campuses, city hall, and more, and you can also donate or find a drop box by calling 311. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

lidays SHOW ME THE MONEY For now, at least, there’s no question that Riverfront Park’s new ICE RIBBON is a much more successful ice-skating facility than the old Ice Palace under the Pavilion. “In the first 17 days, we’ve already surpassed the gross revenue for the Ice Palace in 2016,” says Riverfront Park Director Jon Moog. In that time, he says, ticket sales, season pass sales, and skate rentals brought in $239,920. That’s over double the $112,000 in gross revenue raised from ticket sales, season passes and rentals from the Ice Palace last year. Yes, the comparisons aren’t certain, Moog stresses, noting he’s not quite sure if the 2016 revenue figures had already subtracted taxes from the totals. But other numbers for success are clear: In all of 2016, the Ice Palace had around 26,000 paid admissions. With more than 21,000 paid admissions this season, the ice ribbon is rapidly closing in on that figure, too. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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NEWS | BRIEFS

A December Surprise Mayor Condon vetoes campaign finance reform; plus, minimum-wage earners get a raise SURPRISE VETO

On the final Friday of the year, Mayor David Condon made an unexpected move: He announced he planned to veto City Council President Ben Stuckart’s sprawling local CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORMS that the council had passed, 6 to 1, nearly two weeks earlier.

Condon argues that the council’s ordinance would create a burden on the city’s bureaucracy, would push spending to less-accountable political action committees and could potentially run into legal problems. He says that such campaign finance regulations should be handled at the state level. “I think the state system is working,” Condon says.

It’s not the first time the conservative-leaning mayor has vetoed city council measures that impose additional regulations. Condon vetoed the council’s sick leave mandate in 2016. But this time, the council didn’t see it coming.

The city council had run the bill by several departments, including city legal, grants management and human resources, but the mayor, in a departure from past practice, hadn’t told the council he had any concerns.

In particular, Condon criticizes the ordinance for

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not being “evenly applied,” arguing that, by imposing campaign finance restrictions on city contractors but not on city unions, it would unconstitutionally restricted free speech rights of one group but not another.

“When you prohibit one versus another, it starts getting into a definite legal gray area,” Condon says.

But according to Stuckart, one of the reasons why they exempted unions from the restriction was because of concerns raised by the city’s own HR and legal departments.

“My original version was something [Condon] probably agreed with,” Stuckart noted wryly.

But ultimately, Condon says he fundamentally disagreed with the council president on key features of the ordinance. While the original bill passed with enough votes to override the mayor’s veto, Condon says he hopes it will spark discussion.

“In my opinion, the veto will help us [have] a longer debate,” Condon says.

But Stuckart says that debate could have easily happened last month.

“I wish we would have had that discussion before we passed it,” Stuckart says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

GIVE THEM A BREAK

It’s a new year, and for many workers in Washington state, that means getting PAID SICK LEAVE to go along with a pay bump.

Starting Jan. 1, employers are required to provide paid sick leave to most employees if, for example, the employees need to take care of themselves or their family members, if their workplace or child’s school has been closed by a public official for a health-related reason, or for absences that qualify for leave under the state’s Domestic Violence Leave Act, according to the state’s Department of Labor & Industries.

The requirement was put in place under Initiative 1433, which was approved by voters in fall 2016, not long after Spokane City Council passed its own sick leave ordinance.

Employees accrue paid sick leave at a minimum rate of one hour for every 40 hours worked, including parttime and seasonal workers. It must be paid at normal hourly compensation. Employees can begin using accrued paid sick leave beginning on the 90th calendar day after the start of employment.

The statewide initiative is also responsible for the increase the minimum wage. In 2018, minimum wage increased from $11 to $11.50 per hour, though workers who are 14 or 15 years old can be paid as low as $9.78 per hour.

In the 2017 session, the Washington legislature passed a paid family and medical leave law, which will provide workers with 12 weeks of leave following the birth of a child or a serious health condition. But the Employment Security Department won’t start collecting premiums to pay for that law until 2019, with benefits available in 2020. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

HUNTING RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION

In a major victory for people who are part of the Arrow Lakes (Sinixt) tribe, one of the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a ruling officially RECOGNIZING THE SINIXT as aboriginal people with hunting rights in Canada.

In 2010, Richard Desautel, a Sinixt descendent and member of the Confederated Colville Tribes, hunted for elk in traditional Sinixt territory, then alerted B.C. authorities about the hunt in an intentional move to force the courts to examine the issue.

By bringing charges against Desautel, the government argued that although the Sinixt may LETTERS exist in the United States, they no longer exist in Canada, and therefore Send comments to editor@inlander.com. don’t have hunting rights there. The Arrow Lakes Band was declared “extinct” by the Canadian government in 1956, and their reserve land was reverted back to the provincial Crown’s ownership.

But the Colville Tribes argued, and now two courts have agreed, that their people lived in the area that now straddles the border long before European contact, and their rights should be upheld there, despite the international border that was imposed.

“Until 1846, Okanogan and Ferry county, those were parts of Canada,” says Colville Tribal Chairman Michael Marchand.

“We didn’t really move anywhere, Canada moved, the border moved.”

It’s hard to convey just how important the Dec. 28 decision is for the Sinixt people, says lawyer Mark Underhill of Arvay Finlay in Vancouver, B.C., who worked Desautel’s case.

“They have the right to hunt, but more importantly, and this sounds a little strange to say, they’re getting their identity back,” Underhill says. “That just means everything to the Sinixt people. They’ve been fighting for generations for recognition in Canada.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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NEWS | SPOKANE COUNTY

Mike Hermanson, Spokane County’s water resources manager, has worked to create a water bank for years.

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Water Workaround With a new water bank, Spokane County has saved some residents from the effects of a controversial water rights law

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

E

ight years ago, near the start of the recession, Judy and Bill Moxley bought five acres of land north of the city for $69,000. There, in the quiet, serene country with a couple of friendly neighbors, they would build a single story home. There, they thought, they would grow old together.

A few years passed with no construction, as they weren’t immediately ready to build. But then, last year, the Washington State Supreme Court delivered what the Moxleys thought would be a death blow to their dream.

Known as the Hirst decision, the court ruling blocked the retired couple from getting a building permit, because Spokane County couldn’t say water from a domestic well would be legally available for the home.

“We thought we didn’t have any hope,” Judy Moxley tells the Inlander. “We thought we had all this money invested in five acres, and it had become worthless.”

The court decision was supported by environmental groups like Seattle-based Futurewise, which brought the original litigation. In areas of the state like the Little Spokane River Watershed, an area north of Spokane that has low groundwater levels and strict regulations for obtaining water rights, the decision effectively halted any new development.

Officials at Spokane County, however, weren’t giving up. The county continued looking for ways to allow for private development in the Little Spokane watershed, where the Moxleys bought their five acres.

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Late last year, the county announced it would set up a water bank. In December, the county announced it reached an agreement that would allow it to offer building permits in 40 percent of the Little Spokane River Watershed. It meant that people looking to build in that area could buy a certificate to use that water, enabling them to legally get a building permit.

It meant, despite the Hirst decision, it’s once again possible under state law for the Moxleys to build their retirement home.

The Moxleys are one of 32 applicants for a water bank certificate. It’s a solution that Spokane County officials like Mike Hermanson, water resources manager, started working on years ago, before the Hirst decision even went into effect. And it allows for private development in North Spokane, even if state lawmakers maintain the Hirst decision as the law.

“We’re reviewing legislation and trying to figure out, how can we represent Spokane County’s best interest?”

Hermanson says.

TRICKLE DOWN THEORY

The Hirst decision carried two major impacts for Spokane County. For one, it shifted responsibility for processing permits for water rights from the Department of Ecology to the county. Secondly, for the county to grant a permit, it had to make sure a private well on that property would not infringe on another property owner’s water.

For the Little Spokane River Basin, those parameters shut down any chance of Spokane County issuing a permit for a new home in the last year.

However, the county had the idea for a water bank in its back pocket years before the Hirst decision. Hermanson says the county started looking at water rights available for purchase in 2014. The Hirst case was in litigation then, and he says the county had an idea what direction it was headed.

“The writing was on the wall,” Hermanson says.

The idea is pretty straightforward: Since it’s impossible to obtain a new water right, the county instead buys a water right from someone already using it for agriculture. When purchased, the county stops using the water from that water right. By not using it, more water flows downstream, making that water available for other property owners — without further draining the water supply of the watershed. So the county can then offer certificates for water use, up to the amount being saved by not using the original water right that the county purchased.

The trick is finding a water right that will impact the largest area possible. The location of one water right purchased by the county for the water bank, for example, is further upstream on the northside of the Little Spokane River Basin. Any water downstream of that water right, as determined by the county and the Department of Ecology, would be available for the water bank. The county and Department of Ecology agreed in December to place the water rights purchased into a water bank that encompasses 40 percent of the Little Spokane watershed.

Hermanson and the rest of the water resources department will continue to find water rights allowing for permits in the rest of the 60 percent of the Little Spokane watershed. Putting together which water rights will impact which area is a little like a puzzle, he says.

Keith Stoffel, the Department of Ecology’s eastern region water resources section manager, praised Spokane County for the work. It’s not the first county in the state to set up a water bank, but Stoffel says about a half dozen other counties have already applied for grants to set up a water bank, citing Spokane County as an example of what they want to do.

“Their forward-thinking allowed the county to develop a solution that provides a legal supply of water for rural household use while also protecting the Little Spokane River,” Stoffel says.

NOT A PERFECT SOLUTION

The three-member Board of Spokane County Commissioners will continue to advocate for a legislative solution to the Hirst decision. Commissioner Al French, in a press release, floated the theory that it could involve a water bank in all areas of the state with instream flow rules, or rules like the Little Spokane watershed has.

For the dozens of property owners looking to build a home, the water bank solution that the county came up with was a huge relief. It not only makes it possible to obtain a building permit, but it increases the property value in the Little Spokane River Basin after it had dipped this year.

But it doesn’t solve all the problems for those hoping to develop homes north of Spokane. For the Moxleys, who are in their 70s, the water bank from Spokane County took away their biggest obstacles, but there are others: They still need to make sure their well wouldn’t impair a neighbor, and the certificate for the water bank costs $5,000. The increased costs, she says, has changed their house plans.

“By the time this is all said and done, I’m not sure at our age if we’re gonna sell the land or put our house up,” Judy Moxley says. “We just don’t know how long any of this is gonna take.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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NEWS | REMEMBRANCE

A Wonder of the World

Harold Balazs explores one of his sculptures on his property in 2008. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Harold Balazs’ legacy of his life and work live on

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

T

hroughout his life, Spokane artist Harold Balazs transcended a lot: the challenge of providing for his family through his artwork, the ailments that come from working with concrete, metal and fire, and the “bullshit” of bureaucracy (a word which he immortalized in his 1974 sculpture known as the “Lantern” outside of the INB Performing Arts Center).

In a career spanning seven decades, Balazs produced hundreds of public works throughout Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, Montana and Idaho, as well as a piece in Westlake, Ohio, where he was born. “[Balazs’] legacy is spread all over town and what he’s left behind, in all the churches and residences and commercial buildings,” says fellow artist and longtime friend, Steve Adams, in Planned Chaos, the first episode of Spokane Arts’ “Meet the Makers” video series. “To call him a Renaissance man doesn’t even cover it; he’s so multi-talented in so many different ways and works in so many different materials.”

Balazs died at his Mead home Saturday night at age 89, although a final exhibition, I Did It My Way, is set

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to open next week at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene. It will mark the end of long and remarkable career of an artist whose legacy looms large over the region.

Up until the past few years, Balazs could still most often be found at Mead Art Works, the shop on the Peone Creek land where he lived for 58 years with wife, Rosemary, and their children and grandchildren. Working. Making art. Creating wonder, as he called it.

No one was exempt from the wonderful world of Balazs, even strangers. Longtime friend, former apprentice and fellow artist Ken Spiering tells this story about Balazs’ anonymous generosity when Spiering was traveling to San Francisco: “Harold handed me a box of a hundred fired ceramic ‘coins’ about 2 inches in diameter, suggesting that I scatter them in the sand along the beaches. These coins had mysterious writing that could have been ancient Greek, Assyrian, or alien, and ‘fossils’ of bugs and creatures unlikely to have been of this earth, perhaps though of Middle Earth. This was the fun Harold had with those people he would never know, but felt connected enough

to the rest of humanity to entertain them, to help promote wonder in this world.”

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n 1998, MAC curator Beth Sellars wrote in the exhibition catalog: “Harold Balazs the artist/artisan and Harold Balazs the man shared equal intensity. To know only the artist’s work is to miss a large part of what Harold is about.”

So if you consider that transcend also means “to surpass,” Balazs did just that in his life and his art, the two being nearly inseparable. When pestered during an interview about the meaning of his work, an irritated Balazs told a reporter: “My art means food for my family,” relays Tom Kundig, a family friend and owner/principal at Seattle-based design company Olson Kundig.

Balazs impacted the arts community, locally and beyond. He supported Mead School District’s Eye4Art fundraiser, for example. He advocated for “percent for art” legislation — less than 1 percent of public funds dedicated to art for publicly funded buildings — which has infused art into communities throughout Washington and Alaska, as well as paved the way for similar initiatives elsewhere.

Although he somewhat eschewed institutional education, Balazs, by all accounts, was an outstanding instructor. His physical presence — tall, with piercing eyes, a squared jaw and a shock of hair gone whiter well ahead of his perpetual mustache — combined with his sense of humor, content knowledge, and delight in sharing made for a dynamic delivery.

Balazs’ workshops “were spellbinding orations in themselves and you became mesmerized by the devel-

opment of an idea through gestures and words and a joke, or his knowledge of art history or contemporary issues,” wrote the late Rudy Autio in Art is an Art Form.

Autio, who earned national recognition as a ceramicist, including as the first artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, was Balazs’ classmate at Washington State College.

Many artists whom Balazs mentored are mentors themselves, like Spiering, an art teacher at Freeman High School, whose public works include the oversized Radio Flyer (“The Childhood Express”) in Riverfront Park.

“Fifty years ago as a student,” recalls Spiering, “I met Harold ‘schussing’ from on top of a desk in the art room at Gonzaga University, demonstrating his method of skiing a mountain — straight ahead without reservation.”

Spiering was struck by how Balazs “filled the room, not with ego, but with his enthusiasm at being alive and with a need to share that with those around him.”

“Harold had stories nonstop,” adds artist Allen Dodge, “a sort of currency that he’d developed, like his calligraphic sort of art-language that is so recognizable as ‘a Balazs.’” Dodge’s favorite story recalls Balazs “stalking through the woods with a big butcher knife and a bag, madly, gleefully harvesting these succulent [wild mushrooms], laughing like a mad man. Pure joy.”

Dodge and his wife, Mary Dee, credit Balazs with steering Allen toward more metalworking and both artists toward enamel. “Being near Harold, you are treated as a contemporary, a friend and a co-conspirator in art,” says Dodge, who worked with Balazs on a 2007 commemorative piece for the late Pat Flammia, an artist who helped create Coeur d’Alene’s Art on the Green festival and one of Balazs’ earliest collaborators from 1951.

Balazs’ deepest influence, says Dodge, “has been on the artists and architects and planners in our community who heard him and understood his insistence that art is important, that it is vital to a place, be it home, city, state or country.”

When Allen says Balazs, he means Rosemary too.

“The art and the life they have lived couldn’t have been possible had they not worked together; he madly spinning out artwork, she calmly keeping all feet on the ground and the household running, not to mention her work grinding, pounding, pouring concrete in the shop, etc.”

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undig, an architect who worked for and with Balazs at several stages in his life, shares a story about Balazs gleefully hurling down the ski slopes in “terrible form but faster than heck,” with kids following him, maybe recognizing Balazs was of their tribe.

“Everyone calls [Balazs] a ‘force of nature,’ and of course he really was, and his influence just is multigenerational,” says Kundig, whose father, Moritz Kundig, met Balazs in the ’50s while skiing. The senior Kundig, an architect and designer of the Unitarian Church and Spokane Civic Theatre, was part of a cadre of modernists who helped define Spokane’s cityscape, and Balazs fell right in with them.

Balazs’ work ethic, ingenuity and understanding of the building process earned respect from builders and architects alike, Kundig included. In 1966 the American Institute of Architects, for example, awarded Balazs a gold medal for craftsmanship, while the Joel E. Ferris house, for which Balazs did interior metalwork, garnered another AIA gold medal for the architectural team. In 2001, Balazs was included in Seven Living Treasures of American Craft by the Northwest Designer Craftsmen and has two works in the venerable Smithsonian American Art Museum.

“Harold didn’t distinguish between art and architecture,” says Kundig, who credits Balazs with inspiring his love of steel, the mechanics of design, and to believe

A young Harold Balazs COURTESY OF THE ART SPIRIT GALLERY

Steve Gibbs and Harold Balazs

COURTESY OF THE ART SPIRIT GALLERY

In his studio in 2008 YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

in himself despite any forces to the contrary. Also, says Kundig, “I learned how to work hard.”

One needn’t have worked for Balazs to experience a connection with his wide assortment of artworks, especially locally. Since 1951, Harold’s artworks have been in, on or near numerous schools, banks, private and public spaces, and houses of worship. Before it was stolen in 1997, “Sacajawea” resided at Eastern Washington University, while all who entered St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church would have opened doors covered in Balazs’ vibrant enamel-work. A cast-stucco tree graces the exterior of Hennessey Smith Funeral Home, and the Rotary Fountain at Riverfront Park is a 24-feet high, gleaming-metal pavilion where children splash and squeal in the water.

Balazs forged strong ties in other communities as well. In Coeur d’Alene, he was an early supporter of The Art Spirit Gallery and its founder, the late Steve Gibbs.

He exhibited there since 1997, contributing to the gallery’s growing reputation for contemporary art.

“Throughout Harold and Rosemary’s life together, Harold has been the gregarious public personality touching the lives of so many people,” says Beth Sellars, the MAC curator. “Rosemary however has been the quiet support behind Harold’s every waking hour. She is Harold’s backdrop, his solid rock upon whom he has depended for nurturing all things in his life.”

Sellars met Balazs in 1975, when she was installing his watercolors for an exhibition at the Boise Gallery of Art, for which she served as assistant director. They stayed in touch and in 1985, when Sellars was curator at the MAC, Balazs rallied Steve Adams to participate in an outdoor festival that would become ArtFest, one of the museum’s significant fundraisers and a favorite Browne’s Addition summer event, now in its 32nd year.

Ali Shute remembers being excited to meet Balazs at ArtFest and purchased one of his works. She didn’t have cash and Balazs didn’t take credit, says Shute, who now runs Coeur d’Alene-based Arts & Culture Alliance, but he let her have the work if she promised to pay him later.

She was stunned.

“Harold is the most generous guy I know,” says longtime friend and fellow artist Mel McCuddin, who met Balazs in the mid-’50s at the Corbin Art Center. McCuddin’s earliest impression of Balazs was of how devoted he was to making a living with his art, especially his enamel jewelry and other items he sold through the former furnishings store, Joel. He sometimes wondered if Balazs might have had an easier time living elsewhere.

“He felt about New York like I do; you could get swallowed up by it,” says McCuddin, who was 80 when he and 85-year-old Balazs exhibited together at The Art Spirit Gallery. Even though they shared a profession, they bonded more over the outdoors — hunting, fishing — and family, all of which provided necessary fuel for Harold’s larger-than-life appetite. “He’s going to leave a big hole,” McCuddin says.

Balazs was not religious per se, adds Spiering, who notes how well-read Balazs was in religion and related subjects. “Harold had respect for worshippers in those faiths he did work for, and the thoughtfulness in meeting the needs and superseding the expectations of his clients was paramount in his work.”

Kundig thinks Balazs was a very spiritual person, even as he wonders which word Balazs would have used. “His effect and his influence was the support of the creative spirit and everybody’s creative spirit, not just his own.” n Harold Balazs: I Did It My Way • Jan. 12-Feb. 3 • Opening reception Jan. 12 from 5-8 pm • Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene • theartspiritgallery.com

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PROGRESS EDITION

HOW FAR HAVE

WE COME? THE RIVERFRONT PARK ICE RIBBON FINALLY UNFURLS

In the three years since voters approved the $64.3 million bond to reconstruct Riverfront Park, the development process has been slowed by setbacks and controversy. Frustration over unexpected costs and controversial design decisions even became a key plank in former Park Board member Andy Dunau’s unsuccessful city council race in November.

But when the park’s first new feature, the ice ribbon on the south bank, finally opened in December, most of those debates were set aside as thousands of residents flocked to the attraction. There was plenty to buzz about. A miniature rink on the west side of the loop gave would-be Brian Boitanos and Michelle Kwans space to practice their pirouettes and triple lutzes.

Within just a few weeks, the ice ribbon had blown away the revenue that the old Ice Palace had made in an entire year. (DANIEL WALTERS)

CITY AND COUNTY LEADERS CREATE AN ECONOMIC RUNWAY FOR AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT

Open for less than a month, Riverfront Park’s ice ribbon is already paying dividends.

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At times, Spokane County and the city of Spokane have feuded over sprawl, water rights and annexation. But last year, we saw what could happen when the two sides team up. Joining forces with the Spokane International Airport, local leaders like Council President Ben Stuckart and County Commissioner Al French created the West Plains Public Development Authority, a zone encompassing the airport and several thousand extra acres of county and city land nearby. The goal was to both strip away the bureaucracy that can impede major aerospace manufacturers from moving to the area and dangle enough incentives to tantalize local manufacturers.

And just months after the board started meeting, it had already set its crosshairs on a major target: Boeing’s new midsize airplane. The West Plains PDA, as well as Greater Spokane, Inc., is pitching Spokane County as the perfect spot for the airplane to be designed, built and assembled. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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PROGRESS EDITION COEUR D’ALENE TRIBE OPENS AVIARY, IS HONORED FOR POWWOW WORKOUTS, AND MORE

Since opening the first tribal aviary in the Pacific Northwest in late 2016, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe has been providing care and a permanent home for eagles who have been injured and couldn’t survive in the wild. As eagles have sacred or spiritual importance for many tribal members, their aviary may gather the feathers that the birds shed naturally and the tribe may distribute them to verified members of federal tribes.

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe also gained national media coverage in early 2017 for a series of “Powwow Sweat” workout routines it developed based on traditional powwow dances, with help from a federal grant. And in other health news, in late 2017, the tribe changed the name of its Benewah Medical & Wellness Center to the Marimn Health and Wellness Center, using the tribe’s traditional word “marimn” which means “medicine” or “they treat others.” (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Developer Ron Wells has begun to transform the historic hotel into a mixed-use apartment complex. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

DOWNTOWN SPOKANE GEARS UP FOR A RESIDENTIAL EXPLOSION

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SPOKANE FILLS IN THE HOLES

Last winter featured massive snowfall, an eruption of potholes and the sudden, unexplained firing of the city of Spokane’s streets director. But with new leadership helming the department, the city eagerly sought to figure out a faster way to fill the craters and fissures that scar Spokane’s streets. A flurry of brainstorming followed and by the end of it, the city had charted a new course: Employees from the water and wastewater departments were tapped to lend extra pothole-filling hands to go out with the street department.

New sorts of materials and a fancy new all-in-one pothole-filling piece of equipment were tested on Spokane’s streets. And a local asphalt plant opened early in order to provide crews with a more effective hot asphalt mix.

By the end of the year, the city had launched a new snow-plowing strategy, too, one that finally got tested in the last days of December. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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It’s been nearly a decade since the old RIDPATH HOTEL went dark in 2008. But in 2017, after all the legal disputes, ownership struggles, bankruptcy cases and fraud investigations had been untangled, developer Ron Wells was able to finally start construction in order to transform the historic hotel into a new Ridpath apartment complex.

“It’s the best of Spokane’s past, present and future coming together in the Ridpath,” says Lars Gilberts, CEO of the University District to the east of downtown. “Symbolically, I love that.”

The Ridpath, he notes, is just one of a major spate of new residential projects being constructed in the downtown core and its immediate outskirts.

“The thing that I think most about, and that I’m hearing the most talk about, is bringing residential downtown,” Gilberts says.

In the past two years, the vacancy rate in Spokane County has plummeted, sending demand for new apartments and homes soaring. Spokane needs all the units it can get, but the local developers are delivering.

The Cowles Company, which owns the Spokesman-Review, bought the old Macy’s building in order to turn it into THE M, a mixed-use complex that includes over 100 apartment units. In April, over a half-dozen new apartments in the company’s Chronicle building also came on the market.

“The M is beautiful,” Gilberts says. “It’s a next evolution of what a single owner with a vision can do for the good of a community.”

Across the river, developer Larry Stone wants to turn

the old YWCA property into hundreds of swanky apartments, hotel rooms and condos in a two-tower building called THE FALLS. At the same time, Kendall Yards developer Greenstone prepares to construct 120 new apartments in a multi-use complex near their new My Fresh Basket grocery store.

Yet Spokane city leaders also see barriers preventing downtown Spokane from bringing the dense residential housing that the market craves: City Council President Ben Stuckart sees the large number of downtown surface parking lots as taking up large swaths of downtown real estate while providing little comparative value.

“I want to create more covered parking,” Stuckart says.

“Less surface parking lots.”

Stuckart is pushing a proposal from the Downtown Spokane Partnership to give tax breaks to developers who build anything — including a parking garage — to replace a surface parking lot.

Combine that strategy with the under-construction PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE in the University District and the upcoming Central City Line electric bus route, and downtown theoretically moves one step closer to a dense, thriving big-city core.

As the slew of planned properties begin to come online in 2018, Gilberts says, will be the real test for just how deep the demand for residential units is.

“Everybody has realized there’s a demand,” he concludes, “but [nobody knows] how big it is.”

(DANIEL WALTERS)

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PROGRESS EDITION CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS WORK TO END HOMELESSNESS

Catholic Charities’ Rob McCann is leading efforts to end homelessness in the region.

SPOKANE TRIBE FINISHES CASINO AND WORKS TO IMPROVE TOWN ON RESERVATION The Spokane Tribe had a busy year, pushing forward with plans for major improvements both on the reservation and off.

After overcoming pushback, the tribe was able to kick off its new $40 million casino in Airway Heights and will open the Spokane Tribe Casino doors for the first time at 7 pm on Jan.

8. Future development on the 145-acre site could include a hotel, tribal cultural center, and new retail and commercial buildings.

The tribe also moved forward with major plans to redevelop Wellpinit, the main town on the tribe’s reservation, and a major part of its status as a Promise Zone. The tribe’s Promise Zone

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is one of only 22 in the country eligible for targeted investment to combat poverty. Completing their plans could take more than a decade, but work has already started on a $1 million solar array to support elder housing, the design of a biomass plant that could heat a redesigned town core, and more.

(SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

The Spokane Tribe’s Planning Manager Maria Cullooyah, in front of new solar panels in Wellpinit, Wash. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Homelessness continues to be a growing problem in Spokane, as it is nationwide. But in 2017, a combination of efforts from local organizations provided hope that those who are homeless, with some guidance, can find housing and shelter.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES director Rob McCann told the Inlander in January that he’s on an endeavor to build an apartment for every homeless person in Spokane by 2020.

“We decided, if we can beat this, we can do it now,” McCann said.

In July, Catholic Charities got permits from the city to build 76 units of affordable housing for the chronically homeless. In December, Catholic Charities opened DONNA HANSON HAVEN, a 51-unit apartment building to house the homeless — the fourth building completed by Catholic Charities in recent years to support those without housing.

But as the apartment buildings slowly stack up, the homeless who needed shelter immediately were mostly able to get it. Catholic Charities focused on keeping its shelter, HOUSE OF CHARITY, open 24/7. It briefly stopped getting funding to keep it open in the spring, but the city of Spokane decided to fund it in July.

And crucially, House of Charity now is not the only 24/7 shelter in Spokane. After Family Promise of Spokane opened a day shelter in February, called OPEN DOORS, it turned it into a 24-hour shelter to accomodate families as summer began.

City leaders, meanwhile, pushed a program that they hope will help the homeless and cut down on panhandling.

It’s called the “GIVE REAL CHANGE” campaign. Bright orange meters, which look like parking meters, have been posted around the city where panhandlers typically ask for money, with the idea that people should instead put money in the meter. That money then funnels to a charity or organization in the city helping the homeless.

The number of homeless youth, however, continues to rise, reaching more than 3,000 students in Spokane County (counting kids who sleep on couches or who are “doubled up”). PRIORITY SPOKANE, an alliance of community organizations, continued its mission of finding housing for those homeless youth, and its pilot program to do so seems to be working. The project put two different community health workers in local schools to identify students in need of housing and help them obtain it. In the first year, they found housing for 74 out of 100 homeless students and their families. And the project, says Executive Director Ryan Oelrich, could have impacts outside of Spokane.

“What’s most important is we meet the needs here and address issues here,” Oelrich told the Inlander. “But we have more than just local eyes on this.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY OPENS ITS MEDICAL SCHOOL A total of 60 medical school students started taking classes at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in August, a signature achievement for the university that fought for years to be able to open its own medical school in Spokane. WSU used to partner with the University of Washington for medical education before the two parted ways in recent years. The UW partnered with Gonzaga, and in 2016 welcomed 60 medical students to Spokane. In 2017, Washington State University followed suit. The goal, school officials say, is to help address the doctor shortage in Washington affecting rural areas of the state by recruiting local students. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

SPOKANE GIVES CONVICTED FELONS A FAIRER CHANCE FOR EMPLOYMENT

Both the city of Spokane and Spokane County joined the national push to ensure that convicted felons get a fairer chance when applying for jobs. In October, the Spokane County Commission voted to “ban the box” on applications for employment with the county, meaning employment applications no longer will ask if a candidate has been convicted by a court of law within the past 10 years. A month later, the city of Spokane took it one step further and banned the box for private employers in the city. Starting in 2019, private employers could face fines for asking about an applicant’s criminal history before an interview.

(WILSON CRISCIONE)

Narrowly avoiding a government shutdown, Washington state lawmakers finally reached an agreement on how to fund education. Gov. Jay Inslee signed a budget deal that adds billions in state funding to schools over the next four years, paid for through a hike in statewide property taxes. At the same time, the deal limits how much school districts can collect through local property tax levies. The deal was widely seen as significant progress in funding schools, though the Washington Supreme Court ruled afterward that the deal didn’t fully satisfy its 2012 McCleary decision, which mandated full funding of basic education. Still, even the justices noted that the deal represented progress on that front. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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PROGRESS EDITION

Chef and restaurateur Adam Hegsted

INAUGURAL CRAVE! NW FOOD FESTIVAL HOSTS LOCAL AND CELEBRITY CHEFS

Despite some rainy weather, the inaugural Crave!

NW Food and Drink Celebration in Spokane Valley this past June was successful enough that organizers have already announced plans for year two. Spearheaded by award-winning local chef and restaurant owner Adam Hegsted, Crave! featured 10 events over four days with 50 chefs — both local and nationally recognized names — hosting small plate tastings, demonstrations and other themed events. The second annual Crave! is set for July 12-15, with tickets already on sale at cravenw.com. (CHEY SCOTT)

Inland Pacific Kitchen opened in January in Spokane’s Cracker Co. Building.

Rendering of the tribe’s new RV resort.

KALISPEL TRIBE BREAKS GROUND ON MAJOR CASINO EXPANSION AND FORMS UTILITY

In February 2017, the Kalispel Tribe announced plans for a $20 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion to the Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights. With a new luxury RV resort and kid-friendly gaming and day care centers on the way, as well as new retail and food options, the casino expansion is slated to be finished at some point in 2018. Ground was broken for the first phases of construction in August, at which point more expansion was announced, with additional plans for new market-rate apartments and a Movie & Dinner boutique theater, also expected to open in 2018.

The tribe also finalized formation of Kalispel Tribal Utilities, a tribe-owned utility, through which power can be purchased and sold. By buying wholesale power from the Bonneville Power Authority, the new utility will start by providing power for the tribe’s casino and resort and could expand from there. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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SPOKANE AND COEUR D’ALENE CONTINUE TO GROW AS A FOOD AND DRINK DESTINATION Following a pattern established over the past several years, the Inland Northwest continued adding restaurants and other eateries throughout 2017, including many spots already considered to be well worth a visit from diners both near and far.

Starting off the year in January was the debut of Kate and Jeremy Hansen’s progressive and upscale INLAND PACIFIC KITCHEN in downtown Spokane. Later in the year, the couple also announced plans for two dining projects in the revitalized Ridpath Hotel building. In August, the couple debuted the casual biscuits-and-gravy counter BISCUIT WIZARD inside downtown’s Saranac Commons.

The first six months of 2017 also saw the rebirth of THE VIKING pub, under new ownership by a group of local partners who overhauled the more-than-30-yearold space and its menu while staying true to the pub’s neighborhood hangout roots. Spring also brought a new contemporary gastropub on the southwest edge of Spokane Valley; the locally owned CRAFT & GATHER opened in the former Painted Hills Golf Course clubhouse at the end of April. Before summer’s arrival, another Northwestfocused eatery, CASCADIA PUBLIC HOUSE, opened on the opposite side of town, at North Spokane’s Five Mile

Shopping Center. Also new on the north side is MONROE STREET GRILL, which opened in fall in the former Shari’s building at the corner of Monroe Street and Northwest Boulevard.

In the still-growing Kendall Yards development of downtown, PAPER & CUP cafe from Chaps’ Gina Garcia and Celeste Shaw debuted this past summer, as did the long-awaited grocery shopping destination, MY FRESH BASKET. North Idaho also saw its fair share of new restaurants, including RELIC SMOKEHOUSE & PUB and MIDTOWN PUB in Coeur d’Alene, as well as two new eateries from Chef Adam Hegsted: REPUBLIC KITCHEN + TAPHOUSE in Post Falls and FARMHOUSE KITCHEN & SILO BAR in Ponderay.

Growth in the beer, wine, cider and spirits sectors also didn’t go unnoticed. The past year brought with it the debuts of several new tasting rooms from established local purveyors, including WHISTLE PUNK BREWING, DRY FLY DISTILLING, ONE TREE HARD CIDER and a Spokane tasting room for Washington’s awardwinning MARYHILL WINERY. The new and already popular beer bar COMMUNITY PINT also opened in the former home of Jones Radiator bar. (CHEY SCOTT)

THE SPOKANE ARENA HAS A PLATINUM YEAR

Garth Brooks played to an estimated 72,000 people during his run of Spokane shows.

GONZAGA MEN REACH NATIONAL HOOPS CHAMPIONSHIP

At the beginning of the 2016-17 Gonzaga men’s basketball season, we were wondering if Przemek Karnowski could come back from injury and whether transfers Nigel Williams-Goss, Johnathan Williams and Jordan Mathews could fit in with the team’s homegrown talent, Coach Mark Few’s system, and heralded incoming freshman-turned-NBA lottery pick Zach Collins. I guess you could say it worked out just fine, as Gonzaga had the best season in school history, making a run all the way to the NCAA championship game. The effort made 2017’s March Madness utterly electrifying for the team and the Spokane community that lives and dies for college hoops. The fact they fell just short in the final to North Carolina, finishing with a 37-2 record, couldn’t sour the feeling that these Zags were something special. (DAN NAILEN)

SHAWN VESTAL KEEPS SPOKANE IN THE LITERARY SPOTLIGHT

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Given that Shawn Vestal’s 2013 short-story collection Godforsaken Idaho won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize for a debut in fiction, it was no surprise that his first novel, Daredevils, would prove to be an entrancing tale. The story of a young woman fleeing a fundamentalist Mormon compound in Arizona and a young man chafing at his own mainstream Mormon upbringing in Idaho, Daredevils captures teenage rebellion, a love story (of sorts) and more than a little dose of Evel Knievelinspired mayhem in a book that earned Vestal the Washington State Book Award for fiction in 2017. Vestal became the third straight Spokane author to earn the fiction prize sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book, following wins by Sharma Shields and Bruce Holbert. (DAN NAILEN)

Although Spokane isn’t exactly synonymous with A-list entertainment, whenever a bona fide music luminary comes to town, it’s often thanks to the Spokane Arena.

The venue had a particularly impressive 2017, with a number of living legends taking its stage over the course of the last 12 months. It started in March, when pop icon Sir ELTON JOHN returned for his fourth Arena gig and played a set list of classics to an adoring, sold-out room. Then in June, legendary singer-songwriter PAUL SIMON came through town, followed by the Dave Grohl-led rock band FOO FIGHTERS just a few weeks ago.

Even bigger than those impressive acts was GARTH BROOKS, the best-selling solo artist in history, who rolled into town in November and blew through a whopping seven sold-out concerts at the Arena. That’s standard practice for the country superstar, who typically plays multiple shows at each tour stop, but the fervency with which the Inland Northwest embraced him (and his opener and wife TRISHA YEARWOOD) made it abundantly clear that Spokane really loves Garth Brooks. The feeling, it seems, was mutual.

The Arena’s management estimated that some 72,000 folks came through the Arena’s doors to see Brooks and Yearwood, and Visit Spokane estimated that local businesses raked in something like $14.6 million in revenue during Brooks’ stint here. He’s got friends in high places, for sure.

On top of its roster of hugely popular performers, the Arena also recently unveiled a new menu, with a food court offering a wider, higher quality variety of items beyond the cheap concessions typically associated with concert going.

(NATHAN WEINBENDER)

SPOKANE CELLIST TAKES HOME GRAMMY AWARD

Last February, the list of Grammy Award recipients featured a lot of the usual suspects: Adele, Chance the Rapper, Beyonce, the late David Bowie. But one of those winners, name-dropped several times in the classical categories, should have looked especially familiar to Spokane folks: Zuill Bailey. The cellist and music director of the Northwest Bach Festival added the music industry’s most prestigious award to his roster of accomplishments last year, winning for a live recording of his performance of Michael Daugherty’s concerto Tales of Hemingway with the Nashville Symphony. Bailey spoke to the Inlander the day after the awards ceremony, calling the experience “exhilarating chaos,” and Bailey’s career post-Grammy should follow suit.

(NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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PROGRESS EDITION IT’S

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WHAT’S SUPPORTING YOUR GOWN?

Construction along East Sprague.

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EAST SPRAGUE AND U DISTRICT GROW CLOSER

The links between downtown Spokane and the neighborhoods to the east continue to grow as once-industrial areas are developed for education and technology and major road improvements aim to change the character of East Central.

More than a decade after it was first envisioned, work on the nearly $12 million University District Gateway Bridge was started. When finished, the span will enable pedestrians to easily cross the train tracks from the U District — where Washington State University’s new Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine started its inaugural class this fall — to an area of East Central getting more attention.

Across the tracks, a half-mile stretch of East Sprague was given a pedestrian-friendly main street feel over the summer, as a $4.3 million road project brought new sidewalks, trees and lane reductions that will calm traffic through the major commuter corridor. And in March 2017, Avista announced that it plans to build the Catalyst Project on the south side of the pedestrian bridge, with an initial 140,000-square-foot multi-use building that could house high-tech bioscience lab space, offices, classrooms and more.

(SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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In North Idaho, Kootenai Health continued expanding its facilities and services with major investments. After spending $57 million on a first phase of upgrades and starting a more than $45 million second expansion phase in 2016, work on many of the new amenities started to get close to completion in 2017. The new Emergency Department expansion was opened to the public, with 13 additional treatment rooms, a new drop-off area that can take five ambulances, and new behavioral health rooms. Work also progressed on the new surgical department, which will more than double in square feet, have more operating rooms, and majorly expand pre- and post-op recovery space. This spring construction will begin on a new hospitality center, a collaboration between Kootenai Health, Community Cancer Fund and Ronald McDonald House Charities. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL) n

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VISUAL ARTS

Matter of

Perception Shana Smith explores the nature of things in a philosophically and visually compelling new exhibition

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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n Perceptions of an Artist, which opens Jan. 5, exactly who is doing the perceiving? Do the artworks reflect the perceptions the artist has of us? Or of herself? Those type of questions get artist Shana Smith talking.

“I’m obsessed with people,” she says, “especially drawing them.”

Her list of obsessions is continuous: psychology, Da Vinci, communication, humanity, honesty, painting, art.

Ever since she was a little girl growing up in Montana, she liked to draw, says Smith. The family’s women were skilled at art — her aunts, mother and grandmother — and offered advice, solicited or not. “My grandmother told me there are no rules in art,” she says, laughing. “She also told me I was doing [the artwork] wrong.”

Smith also remembers being told not to draw eyes first, that those were the hardest part, and not to draw people, which were harder still. She figured differently, revealing a gritty determination that’s served her well.

“If people are the hardest, and I can draw people,” she says, “then I’ll just focus on the hardest and everything else will be pretty easy.”

One senses that little in Smith’s life has been easy, but art has been a grounding force. When she was little, says Smith, art could be a necessary escape.

She didn’t pursue art past high school, however, until she made a promise to her younger brother to enroll if he did so too. While bartending to support herself, she attended Flathead Community College, then University of Montana, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting.

She relocated to Spokane in 2015

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and found her groove, with artwork in the art magazine Art Chowder, exhibiting at Terrain 9 and numerous local venues, although at one of them (the now defunct Jones Radiator) her painting, “Unveiled” was stolen and remains unfound.

Smith gave art lessons, did some painting for a local theme park and continues to do commissions.

She also met Chris Komski, a fellow artist and musician, with whom she shares a home and strong bond. That, she says, allowed her to broach the idea of self-portraiture for Perceptions of An Artist.

“It’s the first time I’ve really been able to lock down the investigation of myself,” says Smith.

Last year, Smith participated in another exhibit at the Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Behind Closed Doors, with the “I Am Not One” series. In it, seven female figures with animal heads represent the Seven Deadly Sins, as inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks on his bestiary or list of animals, usually fantastical.

For both her recent series, Smith deliberately uses faces and bodies of anonymous figures in her work, making them less referential — to her or another specific person or time in history — and leans toward a muted, earth-tone palette.

That elevates the use of the paint itself as an expressive tool.

“My obsession is in style studies and the technical manipulation of paint,” says Smith, who describes her growing “paintlanguage.” Scrubby areas of paint, thin washes, expanses of matte color, subtle layering to build up translucence, and crisp whitish edges are all shorthand for Smith, not unlike the notes she writes to

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Artist Shanna Smith relocated to Spokane in 2015 and soon began exhibiting her work. herself on the wall or jots in her journal.

What she’s trying to communicate varies, of course, yet in Perceptions of an Artist, says Smith, she’s really trying to connect with the viewer and convey complex and elusive things like emotion or states of being.

For example, Smith employs nine stylized portraits of famous women to convey the varied and often conflicting perceptions she had of what it means/meant to be a woman: Janis Joplin, Jacqueline (Kennedy) Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo. Smith also identifies with “Protagonist,” a figure with a gorilla head that references the Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous “feminist activist artists” that originated in New York City in the ’80s.

Other paintings in the exhibit offer a philosophical rabbithole. “Acatelepsy” is both disturbing and compellingly beautiful, the double-exposed eyes and mouth offset from each other, almost vibrating on the canvas, making it difficult to stare at for long. In the painting, the gamine face challenges the viewer, her plump mouth downturned at the corners, nostrils flared, her eyes somewhat hooded.

What emotion or message does her face convey? Smith consults a dictionary to explain the title, which means incomprehensibility and “that human knowledge amounts only to probability and never to certainty.”

She hopes that when people see her paintings, they’ll start by looking “inside themselves and reflect on their own perceptions of the world and question where that comes from.” n Perceptions of an Artist • Jan. 5-26 • Opening reception Jan. 5, 5-9 pm and Jan. 6, 5-9 pm, Free • Kolva-Sullivan Gallery • 115 S. Adams, #A • 458-5517

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CLASSING IT UP You might not consider yourself a fan of classical music, or perhaps, like me, you’re just generally ignorant of the form. That shouldn’t keep you from checking out the Spokane Symphony sometime if given the chance.

I did it on New Year’s Eve for the annual performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” and while the music delivered by the musicians and Spokane Symphony Chorale was powerful, it was worth braving the cold and crowds just for the visuals. The Fox is obviously an artistic wonder, top to bottom, but watching conductor Eckart Preu (pictured) bounce on his feet, flail his arms dramatically and whip his wispy hair this way and that was a blast from beginning to end. (DAN NAILEN)

Resolutions for the Realist in All of Us

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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t’s that time again, when we look back in shame at what we failed to accomplish from the list of New Year’s resolutions we scribbled with ruddy faces last January, and compensate by planning to change even more things this year. Didn’t lose 20 pounds? Let’s lose 30! Didn’t travel as much as you’d hoped? Look out world, this global traveler is hitting the scene in 2k18!

Let me make a counter proposal: Instead of failing and then deciding to set the bar even higher, how about we go lower? That’s right, this year I’m resolving to be a realist. Come Dec. 31, 2018, I’ll at least be able to look back knowing I’ve achieved something, however mediocre, from an arbitrary list!

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY IT Sherman Alexie’s newest book You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, released in 2017, ended the year on many best-of lists, including the Washington Post’s “notable works of nonfiction.”

The memoir about the death of his mother is, in the end, less about Alexie’s mother, Lillian, and more about Alexie himself.

It’s about his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and going to high school in Reardan, and his complicated relationship with his family. There are times you may wonder why Alexie spends so much time talking about himself. But throughout the beautiful prose and poetry, even if he doesn’t directly mention his mother, her presence is felt. Alexie delivers a page-turning, raw account of his mother and both of their shared pain, joy and grief. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

THE BUZZ BIN  2018 seems as good a year as any to grow my hair out even longer, ensuring it will dip into more soup bowls and drag through more runny egg yolks, ideally when I’m out in public. You know the old saying: Yolk in the hair is better than egg on the face!

FIRST SECOND FRIDAY Although First Night Spokane celebrations on New Year’s Eve don’t directly overlap with the first official Friday of January, Downtown Spokane Partnership’s monthly First Friday arts showcase is bumping back a week to give folks a little break from the holiday hustle and bustle.

The official date for January’s event is Friday, Jan. 12. Even so, this might be a little confusing, because we’re also aware of many downtown businesses and galleries that are hosting separate events on the actual first Friday, Jan. 5. (Some of those events are listed at inlander. com/events.) To keep track of what’s when and where, we’ll be publishing our regular First Friday event guide in next week’s issue (out on Jan. 11), but you can also visit firstfridayspokane.org or search Facebook’s events to find the upcoming details on your favorite venues’ or local artists’ plans. (CHEY SCOTT)

 How about being more honest and open? Hey, online dating profile, prepare to exclusively feature photos that people I barely know tagged me in on Facebook. The ones where they look poised and fabulous, but I lurk behind, eyelids half-closed, mouth somewhere between a smile and a sneeze. If you can’t handle me at my doublechinned worst, you don’t deserve me at my looking-upat-the-camera-in-the-bathroom-mirror selfie best.  I will keep ending calls with friends I haven’t talked to in months by telling them we should talk more often — weekly! monthly! — but not call any more often. We’re really in a routine now, why ruin a good thing?  I want to one-up every jerk I hear trapping a cashier in miserable conversation when all they did was try to be polite while ringing up their stuff. “The snow/rain/ heat/smoke is awful! I can’t believe this weather!” they’ll start. “I know!” I’ll interject, “I’ve never seen anything like this in the last three to nine months! Who even knew it was possible? Why don’t you do something about it, cashier? Why did you bring the scourge of seasons upon us, cashier? Curse your mother and her entire lineage, cashier!”  Lastly, I resolve not to let lists dictate my life. So, if none of these things happen, at least one of these things happened. Mic drop. n

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HEY, THANKS! The February issue of Sunset features the magazine’s list of “20 game-changing places to live,” and Spokane gets a nod as one of the “cities and towns that exemplify the best of Western living for today and tomorrow.” While Tacoma is “best” of the Northwest, Spokane is a runner-up alongside Sisters, Oregon, and Corvallis, Oregon, thanks to the Lilac City’s “new medical school [pictured], the planned mixed-use community of Kendall Yards, and a city program looking to incorporate air-quality sensors, solar panels, and smart metering into urban planning.” Spokane’s infamous potholes are not mentioned. You can see the whole list now at Sunset.com. (DAN NAILEN)

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ong before Modern Family was on TV, Falsettos was on stage. The musical by William Finn and James Lapine, which hit Broadway in 1992, plunged headlong into the gnarled tangle of traditional ideas and contemporary realities of what constitutes a family.

Consider its protagonist and patriarch, Marvin. Far from being the sage, emotionally reserved father figure of yesteryear, Marvin is high-strung and deeply conflicted. And, as it happens, gay.

When Falsettos opens with the number “Four Jews in a Room Bitching,” Marvin is trying to reconcile his relationship with Whizzer, his libertine new boyfriend, with the relationship he wants to continue having with his ex-wife and son. Is it so unreasonable, he asks through the song “Tight-Knit Family,” to “want it all,” to have “kid, wife and lover” live harmoniously in this kind of unconventional arrangement?

Though set more than decade earlier than it was written, Falsettos remains topical and resonant enough to have warranted a highly acclaimed Broadway revival during the 2016-17 season.

Nearly a year to the day after that revival wrapped up its run, Lake City Playhouse is staging Falsettos with a local cast that includes Brandon Michael (recently seen in Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s South PaWEEKEND cific) as Marvin, C O U N T D OW N Alyssa Hersey Get the scoop on this as his ex-wife weekend’s events with Trina, Aidan our newsletter. Sign up at Headley as his Inlander.com/newsletter. son Jason, and Duncan Menzies (the Civic’s West Side Story) as Whizzer.

Kasey Davis, who previously appeared in The Music Man and both directed and choreographed Shrek: The Musical at CdA Summer Theatre, is heading this production.

“It’s fairly timeless, even though it sits within a very specific time and place,” she says. “There’s an element of strong women and feminism in this play that is very relevant right now with the #MeToo hashtag and women speaking up for themselves.”

Much like Rent, another enduring musical that emerged during the same time period, Falsettos also deals with AIDS and the disease’s profound personal impact.

“It is about sickness,” Davis says of Falsettos,

“but it’s much more about actual relationships.

Anything that’s written well is about the thing it’s about, of course, but it’s more about the people and the relationships that they have. And this show is nothing if not about relationships.

There’s a piece of each character that you can identify with no matter who you are.”

This marks Davis’ first time directing in this venue. Owing to the novelty of the space as well her past experience with Falsettos, she readily agreed when Lake City Playhouse approached her with the offer.

“I also love working with small casts. Having been a musical theater person for a long time, I feel like I’m often involved in very large productions, so I loved the idea of a seven-person cast. As an actor and as a director, it’s so fun to have the time and the ability to be more intimate with a small cast. You can really dive into the material.”

The limited number of available roles and the musical’s popularity meant that competition was tight. Davis says that made the audition process tougher than usual.

“Talent-wise, it was tricky. We had a couple of women who were super talented, and it was a hard decision, which was a wonderful problem to have. Part of it also came down to those relationships and piecing together who we thought seemed like they would work well together as couples.”

Given the swift, episodic nature of Falsettos, which began life as two one-act plays written nine years apart, establishing credible onstage chemistry quickly is key. It will be doubly important on the modestly sized Lake City stage, where the performers will also be joined by music director Jenny Twitchell on keyboards.

“Musically, it’s a huge, huge show. The amount of counterpoint and the way the actors interact through song — it’s quick and it’s witty,” she says. “Another challenge is that the show just doesn’t stop moving. How can you make that work in a space with no wings and no fly?”

Yet Davis aims to turn all of that to her advantage, as did previous small-scale productions of Rent and Les Misérables here.

“In this space, you’re going to feel like you’re right there with them. Because you almost are.” n Falsettos • Jan 5-21 • Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $23-25 • Lake City Playhouse • 1320 E Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene • lakecityplayhouse.org • (208) 676-7529

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Community Curry A Spokane transplant turns his love of cooking ethnic cuisines into the weekly take-out kitchen Inland Curry

BY CHEY SCOTT

Daniel Todd has gained a loyal following since debuting Inland Curry last June.

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n Wednesdays, Daniel Todd shops. First, he hits up Cash & Carry for bulk items, like rice and other dry goods. Next, he heads to the Oriental Market on Trent Avenue for specialty items, like spices. Then it’s over to Sonnenberg’s Market & Deli on East Sprague to pick up fresh chicken and other meats featured on the week’s menu. If he’s still missing something, finally he’ll hit up Rosauers.

The next morning, the owner of Inland Curry packs up his newly purchased foodstuffs, along with cookware, utensils and other supplies, and heads over to the Spokane Woman’s Club on the lower South Hill for a long day in the kitchen.

Todd started the take-out only Indian cuisine venture last June, not long after his family moved to Spokane in January, but since then he’s established a local following, including many regulars

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who come by each week to pick up orders of traditional Indian dishes like lamb saag (a spiced, marinated dish), dal (red lentil curry), naan bread, basmati rice and various rotating curries.

“I don’t have much background in food — I’m not a foodie or anything, but I love to cook and I love food,” Todd says.

He began honing those cooking skills more than a decade ago while his family was living in Guatemala, where he was taught how to prepare authentic Thai food (still his personal favorite cuisine) by a native of the Asian country whom he’d befriended.

Since moving from the Midwest to the Inland Northwest, Todd has also spent more time with Sandpoint-based family friends Pete and Fiona Hicks, who own Curry in a Hurry, a similar popup style restaurant that’s currently on hiatus as ...continued on next page

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“I went up there every Monday to make Indian food for six months with Pete, who is a tremendous cook and spent time in India and learned from friends there how to cook,” Todd explains.

Todd also credits his friend with helping to get Inland Curry off the ground. In addition to the small business’s weekly shopping and cooking days, Todd also teaches a couple of online English college courses for a school outside the region.

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ach week, Inland Curry’s featured menu is posted online several days in advance, usually on Sunday night or Monday morning, after which customers can place and pre-pay for orders to then pick up in the late afternoon and early evening of Thursday.

Walk-in orders are also offered during that time, from 4 to 6:30 pm.

Todd starts prepping the menu around 9 am, often receiving help from his wife Kristin, 19-year-old daughter Mallory, and two sons Cristian, 15, and Dominic, 10. His days don’t usually end until the kitchen is all cleaned up, as late as 12 hours later.

Residents of the neighborhood surrounding the Woman’s Club, where the family also lives, have become weekly customers of Inland Curry since its launch more than six months ago. Todd estimates that he sells orders of varying sizes to an average of 35 to 40 customers each week.

“It’s so cool to see half a dozen people who come each week,” Todd says. “I didn’t anticipate it — I didn’t know what would happen.

The neighborhood has been incredibly supportive and it’s been a cool way to meet neighbors and meet interesting people. I’ve even had a few Indian customers come in and they came back, and that was super encouraging, too.”

Inland Curry sells its entrees in 12- or 16-oz. portions (averaging between $9 and $15 each), with various sides available as well, including basmati rice ($2) and naan ($3/two pieces). The larger of the two portions is plenty for two people to share, Todd says, while the 12 oz. is enough for one.

LETTERS Each week, he prepares at least Send comments to four curries: two with meat (usually editor@inlander.com. chicken, lamb or beef) and two that are vegetarian, like the red lentilbased dal. Todd’s favorite dish, which he features on the menu at least a few times a month, is called lamb madras, a coconut milk-based curry.

“Everything is made from scratch each week, except the naan, and complimentary masala chai tea to warm yourself up,” he says.

“We started selling the chai because people liked it so much.”

The traditional black tea drink, a blend of cinnamon, cardamom, clove and milk, is sold in 12-oz cups for $2 each.

When it comes to bringing the heat to his Indian food, and since all the dishes are prepared in bulk, Todd cooks at what most would consider a mild spice rating. For customers who like a bit more kick, Inland Curry offers a complimentary chile chutney — made from serrano chiles, onion, lemon juice and salt — to customize the spice intensity of individual portions.

While Todd doesn’t have plans yet to extend his hours to lunchtime operations or more than one day a week, he is working on a new monthly dinner series that kicks off this month, featuring traditional international cuisines with menus prepared by members of the regional refugee community.

On Friday, Jan. 12, Inland Curry is hosting its first event in that series, with a menu prepared by local Nepalese refugee Pingala Dhital.

Tickets for the dinner aren’t on sale just yet, but Todd estimates the cost will be around $40 per person. So far, the night’s menu includes saag (a mustard greens curry), black lentils, thebe (pickled carrot and radish), mixed vegetables and zeera (cumin) rice. Tickets will be presold on Inland Curry’s website for the limited seating meal. Todd has an Afghan-themed menu planned for February’s event.

“I hope to use Inland Curry as a platform to help these folks show up and cook something, and get the community together to get to know them and their food,” Todd explains. “That is something I am really passionate about.” n See menus and order online at inlandcurry.com.

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Dreams Come True At new Coeur d’Alene eatery Vine & Olive, owner Naomi Boutz shares her passion for food

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

N

aomi Boutz is an accomplished woman: a graduate of Lewis Clark State College’s business administration program who considered law school, an avid triathlete and a former server at the Wine Cellar who worked up to manager and wine steward at the Cellar (the second iteration of the currently shuttered downtown Coeur d’Alene restaurant).

Yet she’s humbled by the response to her new Coeur d’Alene business, Vine & Olive Eatery and Wine Bar. “I’m finding people are very fierce in their support,” says Boutz, whose restaurant planning has been several years in the works.

All 120 wine club bins have been spoken for (the restaurant is adding 32 additional bins to meet demand), and she’s been delighted by visits and well-wishes stretching back through her career to her high school years in St. Maries, Idaho.

Boutz’s vision for Vine & Olive was specific and client-focused from the outset: Europeaninspired shared plates featuring local, seasonal ingredients; a chic décor with rustic accents (meaning no televisions), an emphasis on Northwest wines and a modest price-point.

The menu features mostly shareable dishes, a few entrees — all but the diver scallops ($26) are priced under $20 — and desserts. Pair crunchy chickpeas ($3) or lightly fried acorn squash ($6) with Vine & Olive’s eight rotating beers. Sink into braised short ribs with creamy polenta ($18) or share flatbread ($10) and what Boutz calls a

“superfood salad” of ancient grains: farro cooked tender in apple cider with kale, microgreens, roasted red pepper, cold-smoked apple, and red wine vinaigrette that’s topped with fried farro and shaved Fontina cheese ($7).

Everything is scratch-made (except the restaurant’s bread, which is sourced from Pilgrim’s Market), including chef Paul Mason’s pasta, which will spoil diners from wanting anything but homemade. The fettuccine elevates the noodles beyond a vehicle for sauce, which here is restrained with just pancetta, butter and a perfectly fried egg for Vine & Olive’s spin on bacon and eggs ($12).

Boutz specializes in wine pairings, recommending the 2012 Estola Reserva red, for example, alongside cured King salmon with sweet pickles, thin crackers and a delicate salad of microgreens, shaved celery and parsley ($10).

Not sure about that or any other pairing?

Vine & Olive also offers 3-ounce pours on all 14 of its wines by the glass. For other questions, just ask, says Boutz, who is meticulous about service and encourages everyone on staff and her customers to share in her passion for food.

“I don’t feel like I’m working,” says Boutz, “I feel like I’m building my dream.” n Vine & Olive Eatery and Wine Bar • 2037 N. Main St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Sun-Thu from 11:30 am-9 pm; Fri-Sun from 11:30 am11 pm • vineandolivecda.com • 208-758-7770

Upping the Ante

Go big or go home: Jessica Chastain is as good as she’s ever been in Molly’s Game, the latest from Aaron Sorkin.

Jessica Chastain takes a gamble in the fact-based, Aaron Sorkin-helmed drama Molly’s Game

BY MARYANN JOHANSON

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don’t want to jinx it, but is it possible that Hollywood tion but on her own terms, and by her own rules. Which is warming up to the idea of flawed women as approincludes a helluva lot more generosity and integrity than priate — even riotously entertaining — protagonists of the men display. their own stories? There’s been a solid handful of really As Bloom, Jessica Chastain is absolutely badass: great examples of movies this year about women as fully cheerfully vulgar and solidly principled as she walks an human people, and 2017 is going out on a wonderful endless tightrope of keeping these men happy so they high note with the bold, tough Molly’s Game. keep coming back and keep tipping her lavishly (that’s This is all true stuff. Molly Bloom was a competitive how she makes her money). Her Bloom is every woman skier on track for the 2002 Winter Olympics when a who has ever clawed her way to success: overcoming freak accident knocked her out of contention, insane obstacles and setbacks, being MOLLY’S GAME underestimated (or not estimated at and instead of heading to law school as she Rated R had planned, she took a break and moved to all) by men who believe themselves Los Angeles. By the end of the decade, she was Directed by Aaron Sorkin her superior, and ultimately betrayed running an exclusive underground high-stakes Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, by them anyway.

Kevin Costner poker game favored by celebrity actors, rock There might not be much in the stars, tech billionaires and finance dude-bros way of story here if Bloom didn’t with money to burn. come under FBI scrutiny for, primarily, starting an even All men, of course. more exclusive poker game in New York that drew This may be a woman’s story, but unless she’s a cloisplayers from the Russian mob, which embroiled her in tered nun, any woman is going to be dealing with a lot of a corruption and money-laundering court case via those men (and a lot of jerks). Bloom’s story is all about how players. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks she plays a man’s game — not poker, but their entitled that jump around her past as she discusses her case with masters-of-the-universe crap — with audacity and ambilawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba). There’s a lot of rapid-

fire snark and banter between them in a script by Aaron Sorkin, of Sports Night, The West Wing and The Newsroom TV fame.

This is Sorkin’s debut as director as well, a feat he pulls off with aplomb: He has created a sort of visual equivalent of the whip-smart, fast-talking dialogue he is renowned for, barely letting us catch our breath as the film delves into the intricacies of, say, elaborate poker bluffs.

It makes for a film that gets you a bit giddy in a grand way, like a new Goodfellas but about a woman who, as her therapist father (a terrific Kevin Costner) notes, built a multimillion-dollar business on nothing but her wits, but who also succumbed to some of the inevitable pitfalls. Sorkin cleverly lashes up mystique and mythology in the same way that Bloom does, only to then smack it down with the harsh realities of her business.

The mystery of Bloom’s celebrity player X, for instance, whom she refuses to identify, soon twists into nastiness as he reveals himself to be a grade-A bastard. Michael Cera plays him as a loathsome villain who would be delicious if he weren’t standing in for a real person.

Molly’s Game is a cheerworthy portrait of an incredible woman, not because she’s perfect or because she triumphs — neither is the case — but because she perseveres in the face of what grows to be seemingly insurmountable odds in a world in which expectations are not the same for her as for her male clients, and in which justice is too often nonexistent for those who transgress boundaries not of law but of culture.

The fact that Bloom is a real person is astonishing enough. That her story became this hugely engaging movie is something of a level beyond even that. I hope it is a harbinger of good things to come for women, from Hollywood and from reality. n

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Insidious: The Last Key

OPENING FILMS INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY

If horror franchises have taught us anything, it’s that the word “last” means nothing. This fourth Insidious movie, which delves into the backstory of the series’ central parapsychologist Elise Rainier, might wrap up the saga or inspire a whole new branch of spinoffs, but do you care either way?

(NW) Rated PG-13

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Jessica Chastain is absolutely badass as Molly Bloom, a competitive skier who starts running high-stakes poker games in L.A. after an injury derails her career. Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, based on a true story, is a hugely engaging movie that could represent a harbinger of good for women, from both Hollywood and reality. (MJ) Rated R

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ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

The 1973 kidnapping of oil fortune heir Jean Paul Getty III is dramatized in Ridley Scott’s dark thriller, as the teenager’s mother (Michelle Williams) tries to convince her miserly father-inlaw (Christopher Plummer) to cough up the ransom money. More concerned with methodology than motivation, well-made but emotionally uninvolving. (NW) Rated R

COCO

On the eve of Día de los Muertos, 12-year-old Miguel finds himself in the land of the dead, where he discovers he’s descended from a legendary Mexican musician. The latest from Pixar creates a vivid world and then runs around in it, all while conveying a message about the importance of family that actually feels sincere. (ES) Rated PG

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ics as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who’s settling into his first term right as Hitler’s power intensifies.

If Oldman doesn’t take home the Oscar for this one, it won’t have been for lack of trying. (ES) Rated PG-13

THE DISASTER ARTIST

The funniest movie of the year is a behind-the-scenes look at the worst movie of all time. James Franco directs and stars as Tommy Wiseau, the wannabe auteur behind the misguided 2003 curiosity The Room, which became a so-bad-it’s-good cult favorite.

This is a hilarious tribute to the original film, but it also has a compelling message about the elusive nature of artistic success. (SS) Rated R

DOWNSIZING

In director Alexander Payne’s imaginative satire, a drab middle-class couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) sign up for a procedure that shrinks you down to just a few inches, hoping it’ll make the world a better place. The film functions both as social commentary and

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Twin brothers Owen Wilson and Ed Helms embark on a roadtrip to find their biological dad, only to discover there are more viable candidates than they thought. Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Ving Rhames and Christopher Walken are all cashing quick paychecks in supporting roles. (NW) Rated R

FERDINAND

An animated adaptation of the 1936 children’s book about a misunderstood bull (voiced by former wrestler John Cena) who would rather frolic in fields of flowers than fight in an arena. A smart, funny family film that espouses a refreshing message about gender stereotypes. (MJ) Rated PG

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reate the success of the earlier movies, without appreciating what made them work. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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As the evil First Order tightens its grip on the galaxy, Jedi-in-training Rey and her fellow Resistance fighters team up for a last-ditch attempt at victory. The most anticipated blockbuster of the year seems to be dividing audiences, but love it or hate it, we should all be happy that the Star Wars universe still sparks fiery imaginative passion. (SS) Rated PG-13

THOR: RAGNAROK

The third film in the Thor franchise is the best of the bunch, with the character’s comic energy getting a muchneeded jolt from director Taika Waititi.

This time around, the God of Thunder learns he has a long-lost sister (Cate Blanchett, snacking on scenery), who casts Thor and Loki off to a prison planet and steals the throne of Asgard.

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When her daughter is murdered, an angry mother (Frances McDormand) erects a trio of uncouth billboards calling out the local police department, causing a stir in her tiny town.

While the all-star cast delivers emotionally wrenching, award-worthy performances, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s inconsistent script occasionally veers into idiotic absurdity that undercuts the gravity of the drama. At the Magic Lantern. (SS)

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Greta Gerwig’s first foray behind the camera is a funny, observant and empathetic coming-of-age story about a fiercely independent teenage girl finding her true identity in post-9/11 Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan is phenomenal as the title character, as is Laurie Metcalf as the mother she’s often at odds with. A remarkably assured directorial debut. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

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A little boy with facial deformities (Jacob Tremblay of Room) is sent off to a public school for the first time, with his encouraging parents (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson) looking on. A sweet and gentle adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s bestselling YA novel that nonetheless bashes you over the head with its already obvious themes and messages.

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A bittersweet drama from the country of Georgia about a middle-aged teacher who decides to abandon her bustling family in their cramped apartment and live on her own for the first time. It’s both perceptive about human behavior and fascinatingly insightful about one woman’s modest act of rebellion in a conservative, patriarchal culture. (NW) Not Rated

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With its lineup solidified, Portland pop quartet the Hugs has become more than just a solo project for songwriter Danny Delegato (center).

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INDIE POP

Smooth Around the Edges Indie-pop band the Hugs aren’t rough enough for Portland, and they like it that way

BY HOWARD HARDEE

O

ver the past decade or so, the Hugs have carved out a niche in the Portland music scene as a DIY group with more polish than most indie-rock groups. In a place where roughness is celebrated, they “try to play as perfect as possible,” says frontman Danny Delegato, so they’ve taken a fair bit of crap from snobby scenesters for being too polished and poised for commercial success.

“There was an article written about how we’re the band hipsters love to hate,” says Kauri Voss, the band’s bassist. “There’s a lot of shoegaze bands and the ‘it’s cool to be uncool’ sort of stuff out here.”

Some of the resentment may be tied up in the group’s history. It seemed the sky was the limit when Delegato and a couple of his 18-year-old cohorts formed the Hugs and almost immediately created a buzz with their garagerock, Britpop sound. They signed to vaunted label 1965 Records and reportedly entered the studio with White Stripes producer Liam Watson,

but the 1965 debut never materialized and the buzz died. The Hugs kept going, though.

Some critics say that, over the years, the band became solely a vessel for Delegato’s output as a singer-songwriter. But that changed when the band revamped its roster last November, adding guitarist Jack Burgess out of London, Voss from Chicago, and Detroit-based drummer Keagan O’Brien.

Speaking with Inlander by phone ahead of the Hugs’ Saturday show at the Bartlett, the band says they’ve adopted a much more democratic approach to writing songs. To make the long-distance thing work, Delegato — the only remaining founding member — records demos and sends them to his bandmates, who come up with suggestions for changes and accompanying parts before they get in a studio together.

“I just try to write stuff that sounds good to me,” he says. “It sounds re...continued on next page

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“SMOOTH AROUND THE EDGES,” CONTINUED... ally simple, but it seems to work. I just try to record with a certain style in mind, like I want to have a big pre-chorus or I try to write hooks that make sense, with verses and choruses that fit together in a song.”

Everyone has to agree on which songs to play live, as well.

“I think it’s very evident when you see a band and they’re not into what they’re playing,” says Burgess. “If you want to keep that energy and enthusiasm about your songs, I think everybody in the band has to be on board with them.”

Lately, everyone has been down to explore new sounds.

The Hugs have sounded like a poppy four-piece rock band for its entire history, but they recently started messing around with synthesizers, drum machines and electronic programming thanks to their new drummer.

“I had a couple of beats when I first joined the band,” O’Brien says. “One of the first demos I played for Danny, he just kind of latched onto it and wouldn’t let it go. We started jamming around some of the hooks I had and then went back and wrote lyrics and really carved out what the songs would be.”

The result is a new three-song EP, New Utopia, which includes the superb dream-pop track “Friends Can Break Your Heart.” The EP is due for release on Valentine’s Day. “It’s a big detour from what we normally do, which is like ’90s garage-pop,” Voss says.

“Now we’re doing ’90s garage-electronic,” adds Delegato with a laugh.

They’re still figuring out how to do justice to the new songs in the live setting, given the technical challenges of performing electronic-based music as a four-piece rock band. But that’s more of a short-term concern, Delegato says. After the fun, experimental detour of New Utopia, the band is getting back down to business: This spring, the Hugs are headed into the studio to record the band’s as-yet-untitled fifth full-length album.

“We just did this thing called the 20-song challenge, which was brutal,” Voss says. “It’s this exercise where you write 20 songs in 12 hours, and we got a lot of good bits and pieces out of that.

Now we have two songs we could possibly look at again, and lots of little parts that sounded cool. We’re going to lock ourselves in a room and hammer out the album thing this month.”

Obviously, fans will have to wait and hear the new record, but one thing’s for sure: It won’t be rough around the edges. n The Hugs with Summer in Siberia and Fruit Juice • Sat, Jan. 6 at 8 pm • All-ages • $8 • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | PREVIEW boast more hits than you remember (“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” “When You Close Your Eyes”). They’ll surely play them all. $35/$45/$65 • All-ages • Northern Quest Resort and Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2100 (DAN NAILEN)

MIRANDA LAMBERT

Friday, Feb. 2 Lambert is one of the bright lights of modern country music, a take-no-shit woman who writes her own songs and imbues them with classic honky-tonk shades while addressing thoroughly modern issues. Last year she won the Academy of Country Music’s Female Vocalist of the Year award for the eighth straight time, and there’s nothing to indicate the 34-year-old is slowing down any time soon. $42/$62/$77 • All-ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000 (DN)

THE ORIGINAL WAILERS

Friday, Feb. 2 At face value, you’re obviously going to see the Original Wailers to hear the music Bob Marley made famous.

You’ll get plenty of that, but the surprising treat from this band is the powerful guitar work of bandleader Al Anderson, the man who spent much of the ’70s contributing to reggae now-classics like “No Woman, No Cry” and “Three O’Clock Roadblock.” $32 advance/$36 at the door • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane. com • 747-2174 (DN)

THE POINTER SISTERS

Sunday, Feb. 11 The funky, soulful sisters were already popular when MTV came along, but music videos took them to a whole new level. In 1984, they reeled off four straight Top 10 hits — “Automatic,” “Jump (For My Love),” “I’m So Excited” and “Neutron Dance” — and their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire” is a killer. $45/$55/$75 • Allages • Northern Quest Resort and Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 481-2100 (DN)

BULLY Country star Miranda Lambert, at the Arena on Feb. 2, is one of the big names coming through Spokane in the early months of 2018.

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2018 already promises some high-profile live music — indie pop, punk, bluegrass and some classic-rock throwbacks

BY DAN NAILEN AND NATHAN WEINBENDER

H

eading into the first week of 2018, it’s mostly quiet on the live music front, with everyone seemingly recovering from the onslaught of holidays or nursing their New Year’s hangovers.

But we’re already looking ahead at what’s coming down the pike, marking our calendars for some of the big shows happening on Spokane stages between now and early March. Let us point you in the direction of some of the touring shows we’re most excited for in the next few months.

STRFKR

Wednesday, Jan. 24 Fingers crossed, everyone. STRFKR was previously scheduled to perform here way back in March but had to cancel the day of the concert. Now the popular, vowelless

dream-pop band is finally set to come back and make it up to us, and here’s hoping they actually get here this time. Started a decade ago in Portland by songwriter Josh Hodges, STRFKR has developed a reputation for sweat-drenched, high-energy live shows, so be sure to rest up for this one. $18 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279 (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

NIGHT RANGER

Thursday, Jan. 18 These San Francisco-based classic rockers are best known for “Sister Christian,” their monster ballad that’s popular on Guitar Hero, as the soundtrack for the best scene in Boogie Nights and at every karaoke night you’ve ever been to. The band still has its three main songwriters, and

Thursday, March 1 The last time Bully came through town, they’d just released their debut album Feels Like, boosted by raves from indie rock critics. Now they’re back on the road and returning to the Bartlett with their sophomore LP Losing, another collection of raw, shredded howls MORE EVENTS of anger and catharVisit Inlander.com for sis from songwriter complete listings of and vocalist Alicia local events.

Bognanno. Its calls to resistance and general sense of female empowerment make it a record that perfectly captures a time and a movement, and the songs are even more ferocious live than on tape. $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174 (NW)

STEEP CANYON RANGERS

Saturday, March 3 Spokane sure loves its bluegrass, and there are few working bluegrass bands more high-profile than the Steep Canyon Rangers. The North Carolina-based act, which was last here in 2014, has been performing for nearly two decades, but they really broke into the mainstream through more recent, Grammy-winning collaborations with actor and banjo player extraordinaire Steve Martin.

The Rangers won’t have the silver-haired comedian with them, but they’re megawatt stars in their own right. $39$86 • All-ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200 (NW) n

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HIP-HOP MAC LETHAL

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hether he’s rapping his pizza order, spitting verses about the glory of pancakes or blowing through a tongue twister-packed rendition of the ABCs, Mac Lethal has developed a cult following by simultaneously showing off his effortless hip-hop skills and taking the shit out of the genre’s tropes. Lethal, indeed. The Kansas City-based rapper (real name David McCleary Sheldon) hasn’t limited himself to just music, either: He hosts a radio show in his home state of Missouri, he’s a co-presenter of the MTV2 game show Binge Thinking and he has nearly a million subscribers on YouTube. Mac Lethal has only released four studio albums since his 2002 debut (with his most recent, Graduation, dropping in 2016), but he’s been cranking out EPs and mixtapes at a rate that’s as fast and furious as his own style.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Mac Lethal with Rod Mac the Ripper, Knothead, Black-tracks, Axiom, Atom MC and Joshua Belliardo • Fri, Jan. 5 at 7 pm • All-ages • $15 advance, $18 day of • The Pin! • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 624-0746

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Friday, 01/5

219 LOUNGE, Party Mountain Band BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Wild Card BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Ron Greene BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway BOLO’S, FM CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, Barry Aiken Duo CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia COMMUNITY PINT, Nick Grow CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Dragonfly DOWNDRAFT BREWING, Pamela Jean EICHARDT’S, Bright Moments Jazz FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Just Plain Darin

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n their Facebook page, Dark White Light describes their sound as “monolithic,” and that’s pretty damn accurate.

Their brand of hard rock is as heavy as marble, and imposing enough to inspire mental images of that mysterious obsidian pillar that towered over everything in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. This hardworking trio is one of those rare Spokane bands that didn’t call it quits after just a couple years: They’ve been playing around since 2011 or so, attracting fans who like their music loud and proficient, and their presence has been a huge benefit to the local scene. The band released its self-titled debut album, funded through Kickstarter, at a party at the Observatory back in January 2016. They’ll be there again nearly two years later this weekend; here’s hoping for a follow-up record sometime soon.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Dark White Light with Why Did Johnny Kill • Fri, Jan. 5 at 9 pm • 21+ • Free • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

FREDNECK’S, Deez Nutz feat. Chris Kidd, Dee Senese GARLAND DRINKERY, Drinkery Presents w/ Chad O. Moore HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio HOUSE OF SOUL, Sessionz Smooth Jazz Band feat. Heather Bowers J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Eliza Catastrophe THE JACKSON ST., Steve Livingston and Triple Shot LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Mike Wagoner LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Wyatt Wood J THE LOCAL DELI, KOSH MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box MICKDUFF’S, Devon Wade NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with

Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Uppercut NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Dark White Light (see above), Why Did Johnny Kill O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Steve Neff Duo PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic J J THE PIN!, Mac Lethal (see above), Rod Mac the Ripper, Knothead, Backtracks, Anxiety, Atom MC, Joshua Belliardo POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Kicho

J J RESURRECTION RECORDS, The Scene Photo Exhibit with Jan Francisco RICO’S, Paradox THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Mojo the Party Band THE ROADHOUSE, Christy Lee and the Broken Rosary Whiskey Thieves SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (MOGUL’S), Royale SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Son of Brad SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Tommy G UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Bill Bozly ZOLA, Dangerous Type

Saturday, 01/6

219 LOUNGE, Michael & Shanna Thompson J J THE BARTLETT, The Hugs (see page 47), Summer in Siberia, Fruit Juice BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Wild Card BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, FM CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, Mike Johnson CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia COMMUNITY PINT, Brian Stai CRUISERS, Kurt Cobain Memorial Jam

MUSIC | VENUES CURLEY’S, Dragonfly FEDORA PUB, Riverboat Dave FLAME & CORK, Just Plain Darin IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke w/James LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Lucas Brown MAX AT MIRABEAU, Mojo Box NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Uppercut NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE PIN!, New Year Artist Festival feat. LOA, William Nover, Bare Bones, Echo Ridge, Knights of Pluto and more POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Mojo the Party Band

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Sunday, 01/7

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J THE PIN!, Young Neves THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Karaoke ZOLA, Side Step

Monday, 01/8

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Evan Dillinger

Tuesday, 01/9

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of New Orleans feat. Hot Club of Spokane, Max Daniels, Olivia Brownlee, Sarah Berentson J J THE BIG DIPPER, The Monties, Marina Obscura, Ghostdivorce, The Pink Socks GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday

MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open Mic Night RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/ Jam Night ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 01/10

GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, The Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Ronaldos feat. Ron Criscione, Ray Younker and Emily Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Donny Duck Entertainment Karaoke J TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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THEATER YIPPEE-KI-YAY!

No one will ever accuse Ryan Dean Tucker (pictured) of being lazy, or of being creatively timid. The man who is the host of the new Lilac City Live! talk show and who formerly recreated a Seinfeld episode for the live stage is turning his acting talents to the cinematic classic Die Hard — and delivering the epic action flick as a one-man show. How will this work? By a clever combination of filmed parts and live acting in which Tucker will interact with himself in the roles of villain Hans Gruber, hostage Holly, limo driver Argyle, street cop Powell and, of course, our hero John McClane.

Will this work? You’ll have to show up to find out.

Nakatomi Plaza’s future depends on it, and I’m sure Tucker doesn’t take that lightly.

— DAN NAILEN Die Hard: The One-Man Show • Fri, Jan. 5 at 9 pm • $7 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Realize Your Resolutions HEALTH GETTING FIT

New Year’s resolutions beware: The annual Spokane Health and Fitness Expo is back, just days after Jan. 1, to offer plenty of activities that’ll entice anyone out there to actually stick to a new fitness regimen. It’s also an event for which the athleisure wear trend is totally acceptable and encouraged, since there are plenty of reasons to get sweaty during fitness classes and other demos to test out new-to-you forms of exercise, including a climbing wall, barre, yoga and even martial arts. Entry to the two-day event includes access to all of these demos and a packed schedule of classes offered throughout the weekend, along with seminars and an exhibitor fair. Among many other reasons to brave the cold and head to the expo is a pickleball tourney, rollerderby triple-header (featuring Spokane-area teams vs. regional rivals), a Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament and an all-female CrossFit competition.

— CHEY SCOTT Spokane Health & Fitness Expo • Sat, Jan. 6 from 10 am-6 pm; Sun, Jan. 7 from 10 am-4 pm • $8/adults, $5/ages 6-12 (cash only, good all weekend) • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana • spokanehealthfitexpo.com

HEALTH FELINE FITNESS

The yoga + fill-in-the-blank trend keeps on growing, with classes combining gentle stretching and strength training with beer, wine, mimosas, goats, marijuana and all other manner of activities or things. Yoga-plus-cats truly is one of the more commonly practiced combos, and one of the first regional sessions uniting fitness with friendly felines (to our knowledge) is happening up in North Idaho this month. The limber and agile shelter kitties of the Panhandle Animal Shelter in Ponderay (near Sandpoint) are co-hosting this series of special Thursday afternoon sessions, during which they’ll gladly demonstrate a perfect marjariasana pose, otherwise known as cat pose, on the mat right alongside you. Attendees might even meet and bring home a purr-fect yoga partner.

— CHEY SCOTT

OAC. Membership fee and restrictions may apply.

Yoga with Cats • Thursdays, Jan. 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 1-2 pm • $50 for class series • Panhandle Animal Shelter • 870 Kootenai Cut Off Rd., Ponderay, Idaho • pasidaho.org • 208-265-7297 ext. 103

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I SAW YOU PEOPLE LIKE TO RUIN THINGS. Hey, remember the time that someone commented about my ‘I saw you’ and I stopped writing them and/or showing affection in my cute way? Yea, me neither. Thank you for being you. For being my reason to brag, notice someone (you) from across the room or write loving and doting messages. I am so lucky to have you in my life. I love you.

CALM IN THE CHRISTMAS CHAOS I saw you from across the room on Christmas Eve. I have never seen someone look so good in dark gray. You exuded calm and strength as everyone seemed to be drowning in chaos. You helped everyone with a smile. I hope I can learn to be as positive, level and kind as you.

ARE YOU EDIE? It was a baseball game and we locked eyes for a moment.

It’s been years and I didn’t make the connection. Boathouse Tom is in the Spokane phone book. Would like to see how you are.

AROUND 2:45AM NORTHERN QUEST CASINO SATURDAY DEC. 30. 2017 You were quite easily the hottest girl in the place alt./punk I had noticed you right away once or twice painfully brief

earlier inside but at that point was on the verge of a panic attack and tend to be horribly shy and to make matters worse had sat somewhere foul and the smell had transferred to my clothes and so when you had come out and sat solitary upon the cold metal bench and though I wanted to approach you at least for a chance to chit chat or at the very least make you more aware of how completely beautiful I found you to be. But instead I paced back and forth like a curious Ferrell cat or some creep or at the very least weirdo unable to qwite approach..until you seemed to get fed up with the whole thing and returned into quest...min.s later you and I assume your boyfriend but possibly just a friend. whom also had class and style or what I consider to be. got into a red SUV with Idaho plates and drove away I feel our whole near interaction is most definitely fodder for this I saw you and at the small chance to even befriend you and if by circumstance your friend/boyfriend obviously he has taste hes hanging out with you...whomever you are..

YOU ARE THE ONE I tell those close to me that I love you, and even they say that you are not good for me. Honestly, it tells me more about their hearts

AT BUFFALO WILD WINGS IN THE VALLEY You, blonde stting at short table in the bar with a brunette and two guys. I was the older gentleman with his back to you they kept staring. You were out smoking a cigarette when I left, I should have stopped and said hi. I’ll be back for several Zag games if you’re interested hope to see you and buy you a drink

HUCKLEBERRY’S KINDNESS ON NYE Thank you so much to the thoughtful person who left a card at Huckleberries to be passed on as a New Year’s gift, and to the nice cashier who kindly chose to pass it along to me at the register. I’m an AmeriCorps volunteer working with a hunger relief nonprofit, and as a low-income community member, getting by on the small stipend can be tough. Your surprise gift absolutely made my day, and the ingredients you helped purchase will be shared with love.

CHEERS IPHONE RESCUER A simple “thank you” does not adequately express my gratitude to the young man who found my iPhone and returned it went out of his way to return it. My husband offered him a gift card as thanks and he refused it. This young man’s integrity has helped restore my faith in the goodness of people.

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B.E.A UTIFUL RELATIONSHIPS there could ever be! Thank you so much for all that you do for our little family and especially for me. I love you, I love

your eventual auto accident will be a solo one and only you are the one who gets injured. Asshole!

When and after it snows and the roads become icy, here is a general rule for the stupid people. You slow down!

than it does make me doubt our love.

Religion is for those who are afraid to go to hell, spirituality is for those who have already been there. No one knows the depths of despair I have had to go through to realize that divine love comes when you let everything go, and thats when I knew you were the one. Perfect love casts out fear, and where there is fear there is no love. Our love has transcended fear.

TO MY SOULMATE We have been pushing through this journey of what is called life for the better part of 6 yrs now and I couldn’t be happier! A child, an addiction, a number of different homes. You and me have had our bad times but on the other side of things we also have one of the most

us! Cheers BOOBALOO I’LL ALL WAYS LOVE YOU AND BE EVER THANKFUL AND GREATFUL YOUR YOU AND YOU CHOSE ME!

JEERS DRIVING IN SNOW AND ICE When and after it snows and the roads become icy, here is a general rule for the stupid people. You slow down! By doing so, you reduce the risk of sliding through intersections. Duh! Also, for you same dumbos, they have these signs in Spokane that have one straight line and one non-straight line. Dumbos, that means that two lanes converge into just one lane. If you can follow the math, one lane is fewer than two lanes. When a road sign indicates that, it doesn’t mean that you suddenly shift into the right lane, speed through the intersection with your shitty looking auto and cut off the person who has the right of way in the left lane. The DMV has these wonderful books and other resources that stupid people can read to learn how to drive over snow and ice safely. I suggest you look them up. You can find them at the web address “learnhowtodriveduringthewinterasshole.gov”. Hopefully, when you don’t have enough intelligence or courtesy to learn how to drive safely,

TINDER TWO-TIMER Jeers to all these “decent” men who claim to be single, when in fact it’s quite the opposite.

They think they’re so sly, with their charm and wit. They also believe that they’re smart and that us women will never find out about the blonde they have back home. Well you know what, I found out. And I just hope you remember that karma is a bitch. Have a nice life, asshole. n

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BENEFIT

VICTORIA SEASON 2 PREMIERE & TEA PARTY KSPS Public TV hosts an advanced screening of the highly anticipated Masterpiece: Victoria Season 2 premiere, with a Victorian tea party with mimosas, a photobooth and more.

Jan. 6, 10:30 am-noon. $40 donation.

KSPS Public TV, 3911 S. Regal. ksps.org UPTIC STUDIOS + SPOKANE ARTS: Please join Uptic Studios at its third annual fundraiser for Spokane Arts, featuring three local artists: Christy Branson, Matt Smith and Aryn Lindsey.

A percentage of all proceeds directly support Spokane Arts. Jan. 11, 5-8 pm.

Maryhill Winery Spokane, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2qekawH

COMEDY

2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. (244-3279) GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) IVAN PECEL The stand-up comedian and juggler has appeared on MTV, America’s Got Talent, and the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Jan. 4-5 at 8 pm and Jan. 6 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $8-$22.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) IMPROV! The Fire Brigade is Ignite’s inhouse, family-friendly improv troupe, ready to bring you buckets of laughter. Shows on the first Saturday of the month, at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (795-0004) THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm.

Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) TIM MEADOWS Meadows is known for his roles on SNL and in movies like and “Ladies Man,” “Mean Girls,” and “Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story.” Jan. 12 at 8 pm and Jan. 13 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $20/$27. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com HOG WILD AT THE HOGFISH Mark Morris Comedy presents a night of comedy featuring Mika lahman, headliner Harry J Riley and special guests. Hosted by Mark Morris. Jan. 13, 9-11 pm. Hogfish, 1920 East Sherman Ave. facebook.com/ hogfishbarcda (208-667-1896) COMEDY SHOWCASE The Monday night showcase lets the audience help pick the “Best Set” of the night from among four local comedians. Third Monday of the month, from 8-9:30 pm.

No cover; two-item min. purchase. The

Buzz Pizzeria, Bar and Lounge, 501 S Thor St. thebuzzspokane.com

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THIRD ANNUAL KRAMPUS TAKEOVER Groups of with have 60 minutes to right the wrong Krampus has done and put Christmas back together again.

(Use promo code “inlander55” for 30 percent off your order at checkout).

Through Jan. 15; Thu-Sun from 4:3010 pm. Unit 55, 225 N. Ella Rd. cartelhaunts.com (509-869-3830) THURSDAY EVENING SWING Weekly swing dance classes and open community dances; Thursdays from 6:45-10 pm. Includes progressive (6:45 pm) and drop-in (7:45 pm) lessons, followed by open dancing (8:30-10 pm. $8-$50.

Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit features more than 120 real artifacts all recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Oct. 21 through May 20, 2018; open Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 8 pm). $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/ages 6-17, $13/college students w/ ID. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) COHOUSING ARCHITECT RECEPTION Join the members of The Perry Group LLC at a special event with the cohousing project’s nationally-acclaimed architect Charles Durrett. Jan. 5, 6:30 pm.

Free. Craftsman Cellars, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy. bit.ly/2CFTaZG (509-328-3960) CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING Boy Scout Troop 400 is recycling natural Christmas trees in two locations in Spokane Valley, CVHS and U-High. Home pickup also available. Jan. 6-7, from 9 am-3 pm. All proceeds support Scout troop activities. $5-$10. troop400.net SPOKANE WEDDING EXPO This annual event showcases the services of members of Spokane Weddings & Events, an association of regional wedding professionals. Jan. 6, 10 am-4 pm.

Hotel RL at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. SpokaneWeddingExpo.com OPEN HOUSE Visit the local studio, sample classes, meet staff; see schedule online. Jan. 6, 9 am-6 pm. Free. Harmony Yoga, 1717 W. Sixth. harmonyoga. com (509-747-4430) 350 SPOKANE MEETING A public climate action planning meeting. Jan. 9, 6:30-8 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main. (232-1950) HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR Explore the major aspects of the homebuying process in an unbiased format with SNAP Spokane instructors certified by the WA State Housing Finance Commission. To register, email Dunning@SNAPWA.org or call 319-3032.

Jan. 9, 6-8:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. (893-8340) UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE FOSTER PROGRAM INFO Lutheran Community Services is seeking Spokane-area individuals and families interested in fostering refugee youth. Learn more on the second Tuesday of the month, from 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Lutheran Community Services, 210 W. Sprague. lcsnw.org SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with music by the Jam Band and host caller Karen Wilson-Bell. Beginner workshop

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at 7:15 pm. Jan. 10, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org MARKETING MUST-HAVES FOR SMALL BUSINESS Learn about six important marketing must-haves any small business needs for successful marketing. Space is limited; registration required. Jan. 11, 12:30-1:30 pm. Free.

North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (509-893-8350) ORGANIZE YOUR FINANCES Experience the benefits of getting your files and money organized. Register online at stcu.org/workshops. Jan. 11, 6-7 pm.

Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (509-893-8350) RANDOM FANDOM TRIVIA NIGHTS: LORD OF THE RINGS This trivia night takes on the biggest realms of fandom: the LOTR universe. Cosplayers welcome. Ages 16+. Jan. 12, 6:30-8:30 pm.

Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) THE GOOD LIE A screening of the feature film about the work Sun City and other Valley churches to help refugees in area schools and about the new Unaccompanied Refugee Foster program at Lutheran Community Services. At Sun City, 10920 E. Sprague. Jan. 14, 3-5 pm. Free. (343-5018) COMPUTER PROGRAMMING DAY CAMP Join other inquisitive girls as you learn how to solve problems, create a computer game, and explore basic computer coding using Scratch and other interactive activities. Preregistration required;event is open to Girl Scouts and non-Girl Scouts in grades K-8. Jan. 15, 9 am-4 pm. $25.

Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and N. Idaho, 1404 N. Ash St. (747-8091)

FILM

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI The darkly comedic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Rated R. Jan. 4-7; times vary. $6-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) THE ROOM This cult classic film is seeing remarkable resurgence due to the popularity of James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist.” In addition to the fulllength feature, moviegoers also enjoy a special look at the new “Best F(r)iends” trailer, starring Wiseau and Greg Sestero. Jan. 10, 8 pm. $13. Regal Cinemas, 4750 N. Division. fathomevents.com

FOOD

SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) STIGGY ART + DINNER WITH AUSTIN STIEGEMEIER Emerge presents an intimate evening of Spanish tapas, signature cocktails, music, and art. Proceeds benefit Stiggy and Emerge. Jan. 4, 6-9 pm. $49/person. The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. emergecda.com TASTY THURSDAYS A weekly event featuring live jazz by “The Tasty,” and complimentary wine and beer tastings.

Thursdays, from 6-9 pm. Uva Trattoria, 309 E. Lakeside Ave. uvacda.com/ events (707-930-0573)

Advice Goddess VENUS ENVY

AMY ALKON

I’m a 30-something woman, tall and thin, whom friends describe as beautiful. Perhaps for this reason, I’m often confronted with rude social assaults by people who assume things are handed to me on a silver platter. I am financially independent and have a full-time job and own a home and car. I dress and act modestly. Yet, I’m repeatedly insulted by people who suggest I got my job and other benefits because of my looks. What can I do to avoid or deflect these demeaning insinuations? —Not Just Skin Deep

Inner beauty, unfortunately, only turns heads of people with X-ray vision: “Excuse me, miss, but has anyone ever told you that you have a very pretty appendix?”

Sadly, complaints about the difficulty of being eye candy in a world of eye kale tend not to engender much sympathy, and researchers haven’t helped matters.

There’s a considerable pile of research that has found a “beauty premium” (especially for women) — a bias toward hiring and promoting the hotties of the workforce — and, depressingly, an “ugliness penalty” holding back the more Shrekalicious among us.

But it turns out that the methodology behind this slew of findings — and the conclusion that simply having cheerleader good looks acts as a sort of express elevator for your career — was a bit overly broad. According to a 2017 paper by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa and sociologist Mary Still, once you drill down into the details — control for health, intelligence, and personality characteristics (along with some other individual differences) — you see a more nuanced result: “It appears that more beautiful workers earn more, not because they are beautiful, but because they are healthier, more intelligent,” and have more desirable personality traits: more conscientiousness and extroversion and less neuroticism.

Sure, this probably sounds absurd — this association of good looks with intelligence, a winning personality, and good health. However, take that last one. It turns out that beauty is more than nice human scenery; it’s also advertising for what’s on the inside. For example, consider the preference across cultures for faces with “bilateral symmetry.”

“Facial bilateral symmetry” is anthropologist-ese for both sides of a person’s face being a strong match — meaning, for example, that one eyelid isn’t a little droopier than the other. Facial or bodily asymmetry is an indicator of the presence of parasites or disease, and we evolved to be drawn to healthy people — though we just think, “What a pretty face!” not “There’s someone who isn’t a foster home for tapeworms!”

I don’t want to go too far into the weeds on why outer beauty might reflect good stuff on the inside. However, for one more example, Kanazawa and Still speculate about the personality benefit associated with being pretty (referencing evolutionary psychologist Aaron Lukaszewski’s research): “Because physically attractive children are more likely to experience positive feedback from interpersonal interactions,” they’re more likely to develop an extroverted personality than less physically attractive children.

Getting back to you, just as previous research on “the beauty premium” failed to zoom in on the details, there’s a good chance you’re seeing your problem a little too broadly — seeing “people” engaging in the “rude social assaults.” Research on sex differences in competition by psychologist Joyce Benenson suggests it’s probably women who are doing most or all of the sneering.

Men — from childhood on — tend to be comfortable with hierarchy and openly duking it out for top spots in a way women are not. Women tend to engage in covert aggression — like with frosty treatment and undermining remarks — in hopes of making another woman dim her own shine and voluntarily relocate lower down the ladder.

The best way to combat such sniping in the moment is to go placid pokerface, treating their comments like lint to brush off. (There’s little satisfaction in verbally battering somebody who doesn’t appear to care.)

In the long run, however, your best bet is being somebody who’s hard to hate.

Research by behavioral economist Ernst Fehr suggests it’s in our self-interest to be altruistic — to engage in behavior that’s somewhat costly to us (in, say, time or energy) in order to benefit other people. This means, for example, developing a reputation as someone who’s always looking out for your colleagues’ interests -- like by tipping off co-workers about opportunities and publicly cheering colleagues’ achievements.

Finally, if I’m right that women are your main detractors, consider Benenson’s observation that women show each other they aren’t a threat through sharing vulnerabilities -- revealing weaknesses and problems. Ideally, of course, these should be difficulties along the lines of “Sorry I’m late. My car’s a useless piece of tin” and not “Sorry I’m late. ANOTHER guy drove into a pole looking at me, and I had to wait with him for the ambulance.” n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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Jan. 5, 7-8:45 pm. $67/couple. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd. modernistcooks.com (789-0428) VINO WINE TASTING Friday (Jan. 5) features selections from Vino’s wine of the month club, from 3-6:30 pm.

Saturday’s (Jan. 6) tasting features staff picks under $20, from 2-4:30 pm.

Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) WINE TASTING: COZY WA REDS Taste six “cozy” Washington state red wines, including a syrah, cabernet, merlot, malbec and a couple of blends. Jan. 5, 4-7 pm. $15. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison. petuniasmarket.com MAKE YOUR OWN SAUERKRAUT Learn how to make your own sauerkraut from food preservation expert Anna Kestell. Jan. 6, 3 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. (444-5390) COOKING CLASS: NEW YEAR, NEW YOU In this class, discuss topics to help you achieve your healthy eating goals for 2018. Topics include meal prepping and healthy snacking. Jan. 10, 5:30-8 pm. $30. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front.

FRIED CHICKEN & LOCAL BEER SERIES The monthly event from Chef Adam Hegsted features fried chicken paired with beers from a local brewery. Second Wednesday of the month, from 6-9 pm. $35 (tax/tip included).

The Wandering Table, 1242 W. Summit Pkwy. thewanderingtable.com PLANNING MEALS FOR NUTRITION & SAVINGS Educators from 2nd Harvest share tips for planning easy, nutritious meals and shopping for quality, affordable food. Jan. 10, 4 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. (444-5331) JANUARY SUPPER CLUB: MODERN INDIAN CUISINE Featuring guest chef Deepak Saxena, chef/owner of popular food cart Desi PDX. Dinner includes five courses paired with wine. Jan. 13 at 5:30 pm and Jan. 14 at 4:30 pm. $60/ person. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com

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JACKASS DAY Celebrate the mountain’s history with retro-priced $12 lift tickets, fireworks, night skiing, a rail jam, best retro outfit contest, and birthday cake in Moguls. Jan. 5, 8:15 am-11 pm. Silver Mountain Ski Resort, 610 Bunker Ave. silvermt.com SPOKANE CHIEFS Regular season matches; vs. the Portland Winterhawks on Jan. 5, Prince George Cougars on Jan. 12 and Everett Silvertips on Jan. 13; all matches start at 7:05

pm. $10-$35. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com SPOKANE HEALTH & FITNESS EXPO The annual expo features the latest in health and fitness related products, services, and ideas, plus Ninja Warrior obstacles, aerial silks, a climbing wall, pickleball, roller derby, and so much more. Jan. 6 from 10 am-6 pm and Jan. 7 from 10 am-4 pm. $5-$8. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. SpokaneHealthFitExpo.com

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FALSETTOS Told through a series of rapid-fire vignettes, Falsettos examines the early 1980s through the eyes of Jewish father Marvin, who, despite his conflicting attractions, is still trying all methods of constructing a “tight knit family.” Jan. 5-21; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$25. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook.com/lakecityplayhouse AT THE SWEET GUM BRIDGE This play is dedicated to the Choctaw nation and particularly to chief Apushamatahahubih, a contemporary of Andrew Jackson when he was a general fighting the early Indian wars. Jan 12-28; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third.

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ANDREW SEWELL: INTERMINGLING Passionate, outdoorsy and driven, the full-time artist desires to paint what would be difficult or next to impossible to capture with a camera, yet possible to visually create in a painting. Jan. 4-Feb. 25; open Thu-Sun from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) CONNECTIVITY | MATTERS Through collage and mixed media, five local artists construct their own narratives through pieced-together fragments as they form their own connections with what matters. Jan. 2-March 29; reception March 2 from 5-8 pm. Open Mon-Fri from 8 am-5 pm. Free. Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanearts.org (321-9416) MONOLITHS & MEMORIES: TYBRE NEWCOMER AND COZETTE PHILLIPS This exhibition seeks to underscore the dualities of the beautiful and devastating elements, both natural and manmade. Jan. 3-Feb. 9; Mon-Fri from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. Lecture with Tybre Newcomer on Jan. 10 at 11:30 am. Closing reception and gallery walkthrough Feb. 8 at 11:30 am. Free. SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr., Bldg. 6. spokanefalls.edu/gallery FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new art. NOTE: January’s official event has been moved to Jan. 12.

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MOVE ME SAP Members’ kinetic group show of art that moves, and art that has the potential of movement. Jan. 5-27; Fri-Sat from 2-6 pm; opening receptions Jan. 5 from 5-8 pm and Jan. 6 from noon-8 pm. Free. Saranac Art Projects, 25 W. Main. saranacartprojects.org THE SCENE: PHOTO EXHIBIT & LIVE MUSIC January’s show features works by photographers who have turned the camera towards the audience, including works by Alleyworks Photography, AMIA ART, Alicia Hauff,

Cody Thomas, Cody Schroeder, and musician Jan Francisco. A portion of profits from the show support cancer funds of Susan Webber and Kelly Fay Vaughn (donations accepted).

Jan. 5, 6-9 pm. Free. Resurrection Records, 1927 W. Northwest Blvd.

SHANA SMITH: PERCEPTIONS OF AN ARTIST Smith is a visual artist on a mission to dissected the precepts of a painting. Receptions Jan. 5 and 26, from 5-8 pm; otherwise open by appt. Free. Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. RURAL ALLIANCE MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW This exhibit showcases paintings, drawings, pottery, collage, and sculpture created by 90 talented local middle and high school students, representing schools in Colfax, Garfield-Palouse, Oakesdale, Rosalia, and St. JohnEndicott. Jan. 6-12 during library hours. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us PAINTING CLASS WITH KIM LONG A painting class for seasoned as well as novice painters, taught by wellknown local artist Kim Long. Jan. 7, 12:30-3 pm. $50. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague.

SONG OF SILENCE: EMBROIDERED TAPESTRIES OF KYRGYZ NOMADS EWU student Angeline Nesbit curated the exhibit with Kyrgyzstan tapestries from Anne Marie Burk’s collection located in Spokane. Jan. 8-Feb. 9;l open Mon-Fri from noon5 pm. Artist reception Jan. 25. Free to the public. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St. HAROLD BALAZS: I DID IT MY WAY A showcase of works by the late, local iconic artist. Since the ’50s, Balazs’ work has populated churches, colleges, parks, and numerous public spaces around the country. “I Did It My Way” features 130+ pieces representing the seven decades of his work, including new paintings from 2017, along with enamels, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media assemblages. Jan. 12-Feb. 3; Tue-Sat from 9 am-6 pm. Opening reception Jan. 12 from 5-8 pm. Panel discussion Jan. 13 at 1 pm. Free to view. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com

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Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org DIVERSE VOICES WRITING GROUP A writing group for all experience levels that supports and elevates diverse voices. Long ago, when we had only darkness at night, people came together around the fire to tell stories and describe visions. In this circle there is only support and caring. Open to teenagers and adults.

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cent more than what was reported in October of 2016.

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And that coincides with the national narrative of sales, as the Marijuana Business Daily reports that legal U.S. pot sales rose 30 percent in 2017. The national estimate is $6.1 billion, and with California and other states entering the market next year the total for 2018 is expected to hit somewhere between $6.7 billion to $8.8 billion. Similar to the boom in Washington, the report also projects the national sales to reach a whopping $17 billion by 2021.

In November, Canada’s House of Commons passed a bill that would legalize recreational pot by July of next year. They join Uruguay — who legalized in April — as the only two countries to have the recreational aspect of the drug completely legal. The year also saw Mexico and Germany legalizing medicinal marijuana. n

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ROOM NIGHTS

6:30PM

Join us at The Coeur d’Alene Resort Plaza Shops after the festival for live music and a no-host bar!

S TA R T I N G A T

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*based on availability

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SPONSORED BY THE COEUR D’ALENE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

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Kraig Parker - A Tribute to Elvis Presley Thursday, Jan. 11 | 7 pm Tickets from $15 The look, the voice, the moves!

Fridays in January | 3 pm – 9 pm 30 contestants will have a chance to step into the whirlwind machine and grab their share of cash and EPC! One free drawing ticket. Starting at 9 am, earn up to 10 additional tickets per 100 points earned. Drawings begin at 3 pm.

Sunday, Jan. 28 | 7 pm Beginning January 1, for every 250 points earned, you will receive one electronic drawing ticket through the kiosks. 2X entries all day on Tuesdays, January 2, 9, 16 & 23!

Must be present to win. Swipe into the kiosk by 6:45 pm on drawing date to activate electronic drawing entries.

G I V E A W A Y

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