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rowing up in Spokane, it was a point of pride to see Johnny Depp — heartthrob of the ’90s — gallivanting on the big screen in Benny & Joon, with the Lilac City as the backdrop.

There he was, all eccentric and charming, strolling through Riverfront Park. And yet it almost didn’t happen; Spokane nearly lost out to Tacoma, of all places, as director Jeremiah Chechik explains in our cover story this week (page 22).

Spokane, in the end, went on to influence the film’s tone: “The city itself really did affect and inform not only the story, but the way the story was told and the feeling we all had when we were there,� Chechik tells film editor Nathan Weinbender. The 1993 flick is returning to the big screen this week for the 20th annual Spokane International Film Festival, and we have full coverage of all the must-see films. — JACOB H. FRIES, Editor

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Spokane is Rover’s first and only office outside of Seattle, and the company was not recruited by any economic development effort.

This is a meaningful datapoint for our region as it demonstrates the attractiveness of Spokane to leading technology-based companies in the Seattle area. It bodes incredibly well for the prospect of recruiting similar companies to Spokane.

Rover runs the largest pet services marketplace, matching more than 200,000 vetted sitters across 10,000 cities in North America with pet-owners looking for someone to take care of their dogs and other animals. A service is booked on Rover every four seconds. The company acquired its largest competitor, DogVacay, in 2017 and has raised a total of $156 million from leading venture capital firms. The company was born out of a Startup Weekend event in Seattle, and in 2011 Rover was named Startup of the Year by Geekwire.

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over’s top reasons for seeking a presence outside of Seattle was to establish geo-redundancy in the event of an outage at its headquarters, and to tap into emerging talent. The company evaluated several cities in the United States, and its key criteria were: workforce quality; labor and real estate costs; and distance to Seattle. It was particularly important that prospective employees shared Rover’s culture and values as they relate to people and pets.

Spokane won out, Teepe says, because of the caliber of talent and values of the community, as well as for its “super-compelling” real estate cost structure. She also referenced the caliber of candidates produced by Gonzaga, Whitworth, EWU and the other universities and colleges in Spokane.

Downtown was picked as a location due to its “great vibe,” which Teepe says, “reminds me of Denver.” She continued that downtown Spokane offers “great hotels and restaurants, a place to walk dogs by the river, a number of other new businesses and the many cool things coming.

“I love walking out Rover’s doors to one of three independent coffee shops in the neighborhood,” she adds. “I have a particular affinity for Indaba Coffee, and for exploring books and grabbing tea at Atticus.” She also highlighted the benefit of getting off an airplane and to a hotel in less than 30 minutes.

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were two senior team members from Rover, one from Seattle and the other from Santa Monica, who joined the company as part of its acquisition of DogVacay.

Spokane’s quality of life was a major factor in pitching these out-oftowners to relocate to Spokane, says Teepe.

Rover currently has approximately 80 people in Spokane in customer operations, both in office and working remotely. About 50 employees are focused on safety and enforcement to ensure positive outcomes for its users. This team is based in Rover’s Bennett Block offices. The balance of its Spokane headcount is in customer service and works remotely.

Teepe expects to scale customer operations in Spokane at a higher rate than in Seattle. By year’s end, she expects to add approximately 20 people across customer operations. Currently, Rover has 11 open positions in Spokane including a senior manager of customer operations and a humans resources manager. On the front lines of customer contact, the company is seeking individuals with a diversity of experiences, including those having veterinary tech, animal care and contact center backgrounds.

Rover has had “outstanding success” in securing qualified candidates, the “retention rates have been very good” and its Spokane team members “are excellent,” says Teepe. She continued that the Spokane community has been “very welcoming.” Based on its experience, Rover has no current plans to open additional offices outside of Seattle and Spokane.

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hen I asked Teepe if she would recommend Spokane to other rapidly growing technology companies seeking a satellite office, she joked: “No, we want all the candidates to ourselves…” followed by an unequivocal, “Yes!” I concluded my discussion with Teepe by asking her what more Spokane could do to be more attractive to Seattle area companies. She responded with “build awareness, make Spokane known to Seattle,” followed by “get on Seattle’s radar, invite companies to visit and meet with Seattle’s venture capitalists, who can recommend Spokane for new company expansion.”

Rover’s successful experience in Spokane follows that of another leading Seattle company, F5 Networks, which also has an office in the Spokane area. This trend has a potential flywheel effect, both in attracting more tech companies to the region as well as in spawning more startups. I am hopeful we’ll see more of both. n

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From Boors to Sh--holers An American story, from Ben Franklin to Donald Trump

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iven that national outrage now operates on pace with the heartbeat of a hummingbird, it already feels like a lifetime ago that President Donald Trump dismissed immigrants from places like Haiti as infectants from “shithole countries.” The crassness of his remarks notwithstanding — it was hard to miss the barely contained glee with which expertly coiffed TV news people deadpanned the word “shithole” for the better part of 72 hours — Trump’s dismissal is less shocking in the context of early American history.

Anglo-American journalism has been grappling (uncomfortably) with a central question since long before Trump: Who should, or shouldn’t, be allowed to join the “the public” and why? It’s safe to say not a lot has changed rhetorically in 309 years.

Consider the “shithole country” of the early 18th century: Germany. Of course, there was no such thing then as “Germany” in the way we’d conceive of it. Rather, it was a collection of princely states ruled by regional grandees. One such region was the Palatinate, destroyed by war with Catholic France and a run of harsh winters.

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stakes and made their way via Rotterdam to London, where their refugee shanty camps were the cause of much dismay among already-overcrowded Londoners.

Daniel Defoe — the guy who wrote Robinson Crusoe — was then publishing his Review of the State of the British Nation, which historians have referred to as one of the first true newspapers. As such, Defoe has been regarded as “the first journalist.” Among his first subjects was what to do about “the poor Palatines,” a moniker he came up with over the course of many articles supporting their amnesty in the Empire. Defoe’s unpopular argument was that making the Palatines British would both add to the labor force and provide a bulwark against the Catholic threat looming from French Canada. (Shrewd bit of messaging, there.)

Paraphrasing his opponents’ argument, Defoe wrote on June 23, 1709, that the immigrants would “starve our poor, rob the manufacturers of their bread, LETTERS and help impoverish Send comments to us. … [I]n Time we editor@inlander.com. shall drain all Germany of their poor.” Britain, the anti’s said, should take care of Britons first.

Queen Anne ultimately sided with the party in Parliament that agreed with Defoe, and paid to send more than 1,000 Palatines to the colonies.

Public reception wasn’t much better on the other side of the Atlantic. By the 1750s, Benjamin Franklin, an ink-stained wretch, put the Palatines on blast in prose that evokes the unabashed nativism of Breitbart (Benbart?).

“Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours?” he wrote in the essay “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, People of Countries, etc.,” published in 1755. “Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs …”

These “boors” from the “shithole” of Germany included a Rockefeller who served as co-lieutenant in a New York regiment during the Revolution with a Hagedorn. I can’t speak for the Rockefellers, nor even the Hagedorns, but #shitholers before The Founding had much to give to “the public.” The same is true today.

Franklin and Trump — though one trembles to put the two in the same sentence — were on the wrong side of history. n Zach Hagadone is a former co-publisher/owner of the Sandpoint Reader, former editor of Boise Weekly and current grad student at Washington State University.

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WHAT KIND OF HOLE? bout Chelsea Martin’s most recent article (“Hidden Treasure,” 1/25/18):

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Back in the mid-’90s my friends had an apartment in Harlem, and one day somebody accidentally knocked a small hole in the sheetrock wall of the hallway by the front door. Looking through the hole we could see light, and so we began to widen the aperture, and sure enough there was an entire room walled away behind there. Turns out under the law, at LETTERS least in New York City, if you change Send comments to the dimensions of a space, even by editor@inlander.com. diminishing them, you can raise the rent all you like on the next tenant.

My friends were pretty upset, as we had often had a shortage of sleeping space at that place and this missing room was lovely, with old hardwood floors and a window and even a closet. New York is weird. Anyway, I’m not sure that helps solve your mystery but it was pretty funny.

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KEVIN KELLY: Hopefully they replace it with some cool shrubs and plants that people can walk by.

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RISING TIDE DEVELOPMENT

Terry Horne’s sump pump wasn’t enough to keep water out of her basement two times last year.

For years they’ve pumped water into the street to keep their homes from flooding; now they want Spokane County’s help

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aking up to find water seeping up through the carpet of her finished basement was the last thing Terry Horne wanted just six months after moving into her new home with her wife.

The first-time homeowners had no idea when they bought their house near Cheney in 2016 that it might end up inundated with water. But after checking with others in the neighborhood, which sits north of the Fairways Golf Course, it became clear that it is a common problem in the area. They’d later come to find out that county officials had known about drainage issues there for at least a decade.

Horne, who bought the home with a Veterans Affairs home loan, says she felt blindsided. No one, from the previous owner to her inspector or appraiser, had caught

or disclosed that the home might have water issues, or that it was in what the county considers a “high risk drainage area.”

“You can never prepare yourself as a homeowner for this,” Horne says. “How come I was never disclosed this?”

Her home’s sump pump, she noticed, pumped water from a pit in the ground just behind her home, through a shallow pipe that cuts right through the sidewalk curb, where it spews into the street. Most of her neighbors also have pumps that do the same, all to keep the water away from crawl spaces and basements, but because the land is so flat, it pools in the road, sitting stagnant in warm weather, and turning the whole block into an ice rink when it’s cold.

So Horne started digging into public documents, at first in an attempt to find a remedy for her own situation.

It quickly became a full-time passion, and a year into the research, Horne believes the home designs should never have been approved in an area known to have wetlands and a high water table without proper drainage in place.

Now she wants Spokane County to solve the problem for everyone.

“You know there’s already a problem with how water gets drained around here, and yet you still allowed a basement to be built in this area?” Horne says of the

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county’s signing off on the building permits. “They have an opportunity to come in here and do what is right.”

But the county argues that while the water is causing issues in the public right of way and putting a higher demand on its winter crews, the homeowners will have to shoulder the costs of the most likely solution, which would be to connect their sump pumps to a drainage pipe leading into the county stormwater system.

“The county, as much as anybody, wants a solution, because it’s prematurely destroying the road, and that’s expensive to replace,” says Matt Zarecor, Spokane County stormwater utility manager. “It’s just who is going to participate, to what degree, and what will that solution look like.”

Mostly, the question is who should foot the bill.

It’s been 15 years or more since the homes were built, and the phone numbers for various builders connected with the early phases of the neighborhood have been disconnected. Richard Boyden, who helped do the early land study and plat for the development, says he wasn’t involved in any of the building and he hasn’t heard anything about the site since selling the land.

As for the county, there are limited resources for maintaining any roads, let alone local access roads, Zarecor says. ...continued on next page

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The homes on Horne’s street were built over the course of a few years, mostly in 2003 and 2004, nearly a decade after early plans to develop the area were submitted to Spokane County.

Monitoring of test pits dug in the area in the mid-’90s showed that groundwater was encountered as close to the surface as 2.7 feet down, and hard-to-infiltrate clay was noted in the soil makeup.

In part because that geotechnical engineering work showed high groundwater levels, the Spokane County Hearing Examiner decided in 1996 that the area was not suitable for basements, and if builders wanted to put them in, they’d have to ensure the drainage systems in that area were designed to handle extra water from sump pumps.

It wasn’t until after the first homeowners noticed water coming into their crawl spaces and basements that the builder installed the pumps, and even then, they didn’t install a system to get the water to the ponds. For homes like Horne’s, the nearest stormwater drain is more than 500 feet away, so the water just gets pushed onto the flat road in front of her house, where it pools and runs back toward her outlet pipe.

Among the first to build in the neighborhood was Ken Chapman, whose home went up

in 2003. Soon after, the retired veteran learned a neighbor was having issues with water, and he quickly bought a pump to keep water out of his own basement. Like Horne and others who moved to the neighborhood well before her, Chapman had no idea drainage might be an issue before building there.

“I come in from Iceland, built my house and boom I’ve got a flood problem. That’s not what I was looking for,” Chapman says. “I would’ve built a cabin in the woods or something.”

Part of the problem is that in 1999, the county tried to prevent basements from being built in areas where water would be an issue, unless an engineer signed LETTERS off saying it Send comments to would be OK editor@inlander.com. first, but the courts threw the rule out (largely for procedural reasons), Zarecor explains. The county was eventually able to put more restrictions on building basements in high-risk areas, but that was after these homes in the West Plains area went up.

When the homes were only a year old, residents started calling the county to report their basements and crawl spaces were filling with water and their foundations were cracking, according to complaints made to Spokane County Public Works in 2004.

Many went to their builder, and sump pumps were soon installed in certain homes, but instead of tying the water discharge into the stormwater

system, the pipes were routed through shallow ground (which makes them susceptible to freezing in the winter) to the edge of the sidewalk, where they spit the water right into the street.

The water in the road is so bad, Chapman says he “got a daggum John Deere tractor,” to break up the ice dams that form whenever the county plows the road. He and his wife can’t get in or out of their driveway otherwise. Their house is near one of the only storm drains on the street.

When Zarecor was working for public works’ development services division, he learned that the homes were discharging water into the road, which was never county approved.

“They didn’t ask, they just went and did it,” Zarecor says.

“They put in sump pumps and punched a hole in the curb.”

He asked his boss what the county should do, but after realizing that if they required the owners to shut off the pumps that the properties would certainly flood, they decided they’d have to let it be.

“He shrugged his shoulders and goes, ‘I guess you let it go,’” Zarecor says. “We could go cut them off and tell them no, but there’s no good answer for these folks. We know if it won’t go in the ground, there aren’t any options.”

CONNECTIONS

While the owners have continued to pump water into their street, just down the road, more homes have gone in, and while some have been hooked into the storm system as they should, others, like Kayla Brooke’s, haven’t.

Brooke and her husband had their home built in August 2010, and lived there for two years before realizing they had had multiple feet of water sitting in their crawl space.

“We had a newborn, we were terrified of getting mold,” Brooke says, so they went to their builder to demand a fix.

The company, Copper Basin, gave them a sump pump, but after running nonstop for a month, it broke. They got another, and that one broke too. Finally, the fix was to give them two pumps to constantly cycle water out of the space. Now they’re looking at a $12,000 price tag to actually fix their problem in a way that’s not just “throwing a Band-Aid on it,” Brooke says.

“There’s no good answer for these folks. We know if it won’t go in the ground, there aren’t any options.”

“This story is not unique,” says Jessica Berwick, who lives on another street near one of the drainage ponds. “There are many houses with multiple sumps.”

Zarecor has suggested Horne gather support among her neighbors to have a meeting with the county to talk about options. Until there’s a sense of how many might participate, the county won’t be able to estimate the cost to tie into its system.

The county also would need easements to install the connections, and contracts for who ultimately would maintain the pipes once they’re in place.

“That sort of thing would take the bulk of the neighborhood to be interested,” Zarecor says.

For her part, Horne continues to hunt down documents and hopes to take the issue to the county commissioners. She has also asked a lawyer to find out if there is potential for a class action lawsuit, if it were to come to that. Her dedication, bordering on obsession, has earned her a nickname among some neighbors: Terry “Brockovich,” after the legal clerk who was instrumental in building a case against a natural gas company that polluted groundwater in California.

“The issue they’re having is who is going to pay for it, and we’re not going to,” Horne says. “You failed us from the beginning. Where was your building inspector? You finalized this plat and let these builders walk out of here. How dare you put this on us.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE By the time you read this, most of the IMAX THEATER in Riverfront Park will be gone. The city of Spokane had planned to tear it down at some point in March, but bumped up the demolition because the heavy equipment they needed was already on site. The walls of the theater started coming down early Monday morning, with one of the first scoops cutting right through the “IMAX” lettering on the building’s side. It was installed after Expo ’74, and though there had been some efforts over the years to save it, a lack of audiences ultimately sealed the theater’s fate. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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PEE TEST: LAWMAKER VS. SUPREME COURT Get arrested for DRUNK DRIVING, and a judge can order you to stop drinking. But the way in which a judge can monitor that restriction is up for debate. In what Spokane Valley Sen. Mike Padden calls “purely a technicality,” the Washington State Supreme Court restricted the type of testing a judge can impose before a person is convicted of a DUI. Urinalysis tests are too invasive, the court ruled last year. Plus, state law does not allow judges to order that level of testing, the court also determined. Padden has filed a bill to fix what he sees as a loophole in the law. But some attorneys are saying Padden’s bill is an unconstitutional sidestep of the court’s decision.

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Mo’ People, Fewer Problems The Spokane City Council pushes for density; plus, efforts to tackle suicide at local universities CONFLUENCES OF COTTAGES

With Spokane’s vacancy rates at rock-bottom levels, driving up both the price of rent and homelessness, City Council President Ben Stuckart wants the city to build a lot more housing and build it fast. But to do that without increasing urban sprawl means figuring out ways to put more people into smaller spaces. That means easing up on some of the regulations that limit how many homes can be in the single-family zones.

“It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our transportation network. More DENSITY lowers the house prices for everybody,” Stuckart says. “Density spreads out the costs of government services to more people, so you can have more services with less taxes.”

For two years, a city Plan Commission subcommittee met to try to dream up new ways to increase density. Monday night, one of those proposals was approved.

The council passed a “cottage housing” ordinance: Developers can now ask permission from the city to build 12 homes under 1,000 square feet per acre instead of just 10

homes in a single-family residential zone.

They’d also be able to apply to build up to 14 tiny homes under 500 square feet per acre in single-family residential zones within quarter-mile from the city’s designated “centers and corridors.” That includes areas like Garland Avenue, Perry Street, Market Street and Hamilton Street.

“We can’t say we’re against sprawl, and not do everything possible to get the land inside the city developed,” Stuckart says.

(DANIEL WALTERS)

HOLY SMOKES

Where do the free-speech rights of a government employee stop, and the rights of a government department to restrict that speech begin?

That is a central question in a case decided last week by the Washington State Supreme Court, which ruled in a 5-to4 decision that the Spokane Valley Fire Department violated Captain Jonathan Sprague’s FIRST AMENDMENT right to free speech.

“Their position was that as long as

they ban all religious views, they’re not being unfair,” says attorney Matt Albrecht, who represents Sprague. “But that elevates non-religious speech over religious speech.

You can’t let someone talk about meditation practices, but say you can’t talk about prayer.”

Spokane Valley Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Rose says the department is considering its next steps, but could not comment further due to the pending litigation.

The case will be sent back to the Spokane County Superior Court to determine whether Sprague was fired for reasons other than the protected speech.

Sprague was fired in 2012 after he was disciplined several times for sending emails with religious comments through department’s internal email system. Sprague also posted religious content on an internal electronic bulletin board.

The department’s Civil Service Commission unheld his termination, and Sprague then sued in Spokane County Superior Court. The case was dismissed and

the decision upheld by the state Court of Appeals.

The recent Supreme Court decision reverses that dismissal.

According to the majority opinion, Sprague’s termination was directly related to the religious messages and his repeated defiance of superiors’ orders.

“While SVFD’s policy was reasonable, SVFD applied it to Sprague in a manner that was not viewpoint neutral,” Justice Charles Wiggins writes for the majority. “SVFD permitted some viewpoints, but excluded Sprague’s viewpoint.”

The case will now be set for trial, Albrecht says, but could also be settled out of court. (MITCH RYALS)

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In Washington state, 12 percent of college students have thought of suicide in the past year, according to a recent national survey called Healthy Minds Study. Roughly 5 percent reported having a plan to end their life.

Along with the recent suicide of Washington State University quarterback Tyler Hilinski, the numbers may help fuel a push to prevent suicide among college students in the Washington state legislature. TWO BILLS have been introduced for that purpose in this year’s session.

The first, House Bill 2513, would create a statewide resource for behavioral health and suicide prevention in colleges, which would involve the Department of Health contracting with an entity to provide curriculum publicly available through a web-based portal and provide training for faculty, staff and students. The bill has bipartisan support, with Rep. Jeff Holy (R-Cheney) among the sponsors.

A second bill, HB 1737, would require four-year colleges in Washington to have a full-time mental health counselor to work with military veterans and their families. Among the sponsors are Holy, Rep. Mike Volz (R-Cheney), Rep. Bob McCaslin (R-Spokane Valley) and Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley). (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Learning the language Idaho schools are struggling to keep up with an increase in English-language learners

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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n any given day, Ruth Hawley may teach students in three different buildings at Coeur d’Alene Public Schools. As the district’s only full-time “English learner” teacher, she spends her days in a high school, a middle school and, on a good day, an elementary school.

Her goal is to help students who normally speak a different language learn English, until they can fully transition to mainstream classrooms without her help. Yet soon, Hawley thinks it will be her who may need a little more help.

Right now, there’s only one other English-learner teacher in Coeur d’Alene, and she works part time. But in the last three years, the number of English-learning students has more than doubled.

“Probably having more staffing would be nice, being able to provide more time — I don’t always see my elementary kids every day,” she says.

Other Idaho schools report similar increases in students for whom English is a second language. And across the state, according to a recent report by Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, many schools are struggling to keep up with increasing enrollments of English-learner students. Of schools with at least 20 English-learner students, about a quarter didn’t have an English language development teacher at all in 2016-17.

It’s left Idaho education officials, including state superintendent Sherri Ybarra, clamoring for a way to keep up.

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oday, 51 students qualify as English learners in Coeur d’Alene, up from 22 students just three years ago, according to the district. In Idaho, nearly one in 20 students are English learners, a term for students who have a primary or home language other than English and have not yet tested proficient in English.

The dramatic increase in English learners in Coeur d’Alene doesn’t have much to do with a changing demographic in North Idaho. Rather, it reflects a change in standards that saw more students fall LETTERS under the EnglishSend comments to learner umbrella. A editor@inlander.com. few years ago, Idaho adopted World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) standards, which have been adopted by 35 other states. Under those standards, fewer students tested proficient in English.

“More kids qualify to be a part of our program and fewer kids are exiting the program because of the high standards that have been put into place,” Hawley says.

A majority of those students are in elementary school. The students receive a mix of individualized instruction in an EL class, but spent most of the day in mainstream classrooms.

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State Superintendent Sherri Ybarra has requested increased funding for English learners in Idaho.

That’s true even if a student knows no English, Hawley says. She remembers one kid showed up in the eighth grade without knowing a word of English. He spent time with Hawley one hour a day, and the rest of the time he took classes with his peers. Hawley helps his other teachers with curriculum because, as a recent district memo says, “EL students are everyone’s responsibility.”

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ther districts in the state may do EL instruction differently. But high-poverty schools, it’s clear, have a harder time finding teachers for English learners than low-poverty schools.

According to the Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest report released this January by the state department of education, high-poverty schools had an average of 38 Englishlearner students per teacher. For low-poverty schools, the ratio was just nine per teacher.

The Idaho State Department of Education thinks more support may be needed. In their budget request this legislative session, Ybarra and Gov. Butch Otter asked for money to keep up with the increased number of English-learner students in Idaho — a total of $4.87 million. That number would boost the per student funding amount and make up for the decrease districts have

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received per English learner. They also asked for more funding for a software program called Imagine Learning, which schools can use for English-deficient students.

To really keep up with the increasing number of students, however, districts may need to look for ways to solve the teacher shortage plaguing teaching subjects across the state, says Havala Hanson, the author of the Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest report. That could mean exploring easier ways for adults to become teachers, or recruiting from outside of Idaho. She says it’s also important to create an environment within schools

“More kids qualify to be a part of our program and fewer kids are exiting the program because of the high standards that have been put into place.” that encourages teachers to stay.

Regardless, Hawley says providing more resources for English learners can be vital to their success.

“It’s all tied to how well kids are going to do in high school,” Hawley says. “If they don’t have the proficiency in English when they hit high school, it’s going to be easier for them to get discouraged and try to go work than it is for them to finish school.” n

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SpIFF’S VARIETY SHOW

Not all cities the size of Spokane have an annual film festival. Even fewer have film festivals that have been an institution for two decades.

The Spokane International Film Festival, now entering its 20th year, is the event that local cinephiles always look forward to, a bit of welcome counter-programming to Oscar season bombast. The fest was founded as the Spokane Northwest International Film Festival (or, amusingly, SNIFF) in 1998 by late film critic Bob Glatzer, and it’s grown exponentially since then, bringing pieces of the rest of the world to the Inland Northwest every February.

I first attended SpIFF back in 2005, when I saw exceptional films from places I didn’t even know made movies — Slovenia, Bosnia, Tajikistan — and I’ve been back every year since.

2018’s roster no doubt contains buried gems, too: There are animated features about women in the Middle East; documentaries with subjects like modern dance, immigration and bomb disposal units; an underdog sports film from Estonia; and a low-budget sci-fi movie involving weird cults and monsters.

If that’s not variety, I don’t know what is.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Ticket info at spokanefilmfestival.org.

Johnny Depp as Sam, and Mary Stuart Masterson as Joon.

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SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WHEN HOLLYWOOD FOUND SPOKANE BENNY & JOON DIRECTOR JEREMIAH CHECHIK TALKS ABOUT HIS TIME IN SPOKANE AND HOW THE CITY INFLUENCED THE FILM

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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t’s a cliche to suggest that a film’s location is practically another character, but you could argue that’s the case with the Spokane backdrops of the 1993 romantic comedy Benny & Joon.

Shot in the summer of ’92, it’s the story of a brother and sister, orphaned as children, struggling to live together under the same roof.

Benny (Aidan Quinn) is a soft-spoken auto mechanic; Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson) is an artist prone to manic episodes. Enter Sam (Johnny Depp), an eccentric modeled after silent-screen icon Buster Keaton, who ends up moving in with Benny and Joon and becomes an unlikely mediator.

Benny & Joon was directed by Jeremiah Chechik, and it was his second feature following 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Both films followed similar trajectories: They were respectable but minor hits upon initial release, and have since developed into beloved cultural mainstays.

We spoke to Chechik in anticipation of the Spokane International Film Festival’s screening of Benny & Joon, discussing the film’s legacy, the serendipitous moment that led the production to Spokane, and how the city itself shaped the movie’s tone. (The interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.)

INLANDER: WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE PROJECT IN THE FIRST PLACE? CHECHIK: It was sent to me by the producers, and we set it up at MGM with Alan Ladd Jr. It’s very hard to make those kinds of movies today, and even then, as a studio movie, it wasn’t exactly in their wheelhouse. But we convinced them we could do it for a price, and off we went. The original script was quite different. It was similar in structure, but the characters were different. Benny was a fast-talking loudmouth, and his brother wanted to get him into show biz. It was an L.A.-based story, and we redeveloped it for the more everyman character

Aidan would eventually play. And Johnny would kind of envelop — and this is what I wanted to do — a quieter, more mysterious character.

WOULD YOU SAY, THEN, THAT DEPP WAS THE TUNING FORK THAT THE REST OF THE MOVIE WAS SET TO? I don’t want to oversimplify it, but in many ways, the quirkiness and specific commitment of Johnny to that character certainly allowed a broader framing device of the same kind of offbeat quirkiness in the overall tone. So I guess the short answer to your question is yes.

THE MOVIE ALSO HAS AN IMPRESSIVE ROSTER OF SUPPORTING ACTORS — WILLIAM H. MACY, JULIANNE MOORE, OLIVER PLATT, CCH POUNDER — AND SOME OF THEM BEFORE THEY WERE MUCH MORE FAMOUS. Julianne auditioned, and I think she’d only made one or two movies before. She was just so great. Macy I kind of knew, so I got him in.

And Ollie — I forget. He’s a friend of mine, and I think I just offered it to him. I try to get my team as cogent as possible and as talented as possible to make me look good.

WELL, YOU GOT A GREAT CAST, SO IT DOES REFLECT BACK ON YOU A LITTLE BIT. [laughs] I hope!

I FIND IT FASCINATING THAT THIS BEGAN AS AN L.A. STORY. CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW SPOKANE BECAME THE PRIMARY SHOOTING LOCATION? I never intended to make an L.A. story, so we quickly moved off that and into a much more middle-class town. So we were very open as to where it could be shot. We really explored a lot of the Pacific Northwest; I felt that was the right kind of vibe for it.

It’s actually a funny story how we ended up in Spokane. We looked at Seattle and Tacoma.

In fact, Tacoma really attracted me; it had the ...continued on next page

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FILM FESTIVAL “WHEN HOLLYWOOD FOUND SPOKANE,” CONTINUED... right kind of tone for the film. We had received a huge pile of photographs from the Washington Film Commission, and there was a loose photo of a house under this bridge, and it just kind of slipped out of this file folder.

There weren’t any real markings on it or an address. And I remember turning to Bill [Badalato], who was the line producer, and saying, “This is it. This is their house! We must find where this is.” So everyone put their eyeballs to the photo and we started to ask around, and we identified where the bridge was. … So off we went to Spokane, and we started to ask everyone around. There were no scouts; it was just Bill and myself driving around, and eventually we found the house.

We pulled up in front and I went up and knocked on the door, and it was better than I had ever imagined.

I think it was a lady who answered, and I said, “Hello, you don’t know us, but we want to use your house for a movie.” And lo and behold, they agreed. As soon as I saw that house, it inspired me to really find the locations that matched it. It just had exactly the right tone. But I still remember going up to that house like it was yesterday.

DID YOU KNOW THE CURRENT OWNERS HAVE TURNED THAT INTO AN AIRBNB AND ADVERTISE IT AS THE BENNY & JOON HOUSE? [laughs] Wow! I did not know that. And we built [Joon’s art] studio in the back. That was a construct.

THE LOCATIONS YOU PICKED, LIKE PEACEFUL VALLEY AND MARY LOU’S MILK BOTTLE, HAVE A BUILT-IN QUIRKINESS TO THEM. DO YOU THINK THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE MOVIE’S TONE? Yes, absolutely. The sense of place is extremely important in that particular film. … There’s a warmth, I think, to all the locations we chose. I can’t over-intellectualize it, because often one selects locations with one’s personal tastes, instinctively, [or] because they’re practical.

I think that everyone who made that movie bonded over our experiences there. You wouldn’t describe Spokane as a hotbed of night culture, but that really helped us. At the end of the day — we’d shoot 12 or 13 hours, and we built a little music studio on the stage — so we would order in food and we’d play music. On the weekends, we’d have rotating parties for each other. We built our own community, and I think if we were in a city with a lot more distractions, it’d be more difficult to build that camaraderie and really bond. The city itself really did affect and inform not only the story, but the way the story was told and the feeling we all had when we were there. … We would sit shooting nights on that block, and neighbors would sit in their chairs and watch and bring us food. It was a very warm, great environment to make the movie.

ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT PEOPLE ARE STILL CONNECTING WITH THIS MOVIE, AND THAT IT STILL HAS A LIFE ALL THESE YEARS LATER? With Benny & Joon, we definitely wanted to make something that would last, that was a universal fable in many ways. The fact that, years later, people are still watching it, commenting on it and enjoying it is heartening, because that was our intention, though it doesn’t always succeed in that way.

You make a movie, you do the best you can, you try to inject your own humanity and humor and pathos into the film and the filmmaking process. Then it goes into the world and it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. When 14-year-olds say, “Oh, I just watched this with my mother, and I love it,” it feels good, but it doesn’t feel like it serves my ego. It’s wonderful, and I’m glad to have been part of that. n

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BENNY & JOON LANDMARKS T

he first film shot in Spokane was Fool’s Gold, a 1919 silent melodrama that turned out to be the only feature ever produced by the short-lived Washington Motion Picture Corp.

Since then, Spokane has played temporary home to plenty of movie stars. Matthew Modine in Vision Quest.

Peter Coyote and Karen Allen in The Basket. Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Biel in Home of the Brave. Chuck Norris in The Cutter. Cuba Gooding Jr. in… a lot of things.

But certainly Benny & Joon remains the most famous and beloved of Spokane-shot films, not least because it features a pre-Ed Wood Johnny Depp cavorting around some of these distinct Inland Northwest locations.

BENNY AND JOON’S HOUSE 301 N. Cedar The titular characters live in a house in the Peaceful Valley neighborhood, on the corner of Cedar and Water with the Maple Street Bridge looming above it.

Although some of the interiors were shot on a soundstage constructed behind the house, its exteriors feature prominently in the movie, so much so that its current owners have turned the two-bedroom home into an Airbnb and have decorated it in ways the movie’s characters might have.

BENNY’S CAR CLINIC 5404 N. Market The site of Benny’s auto repair shop, one of the first locations seen in the film, is still in operation as Hillyard Tire Center.

ERIC’S HOUSE E. Springfield Benny’s coworker Eric (Oliver Platt) lives in a small house on the 2100 block of E. Springfield, and a shot from his front porch, with the dilapidated grain silos towering in the background, is one of the most eye-catching in the movie.

RIVERFRONT PARK Downtown Spokane One of the joys of Benny & Joon is the sheer physicality of Depp’s performance, informed by the deadpan dexterity of silent-screen comedians. The dinner roll scene may be the film’s most well-known, but the best showcase for his work is his impromptu mime performance on a walkway in Riverfront Park, overlooking the clocktower.

AMERICAN CLASSIC VIDEO 423 W. First The tape rental shop where Sam gets a job late in the film is located in the old Minnesota Building downtown. The building is still standing and is now a salon and spa. Wish we had the same good news about video stores in general.

Ferguson’s Cafe

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THE DINER 802-804 W. Garland Through movie magic, two beloved Garland neighborhood restaurants become one. The exteriors of the diner that the film’s characters frequent are of Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle, with its locally famous plaster-and-stucco bottle shape. The interiors, meanwhile, are of the neighboring Ferguson’s Cafe, also featured in Vision Quest, whose lunch counter hosts Depp’s Chaplin-inspired dinner roll dance. Both properties were extensively damaged in a 2011 fire but reopened the following year.

RUTHIE’S APARTMENT 1303 W. 10th The diner waitress played by Julianne Moore, who eventually becomes Benny’s girlfriend, lives in a lower South Hill apartment building with a columned facade and street-facing balconies. It still looks like it did in 1993.

EMMA SHERMAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 1216 N. Superior When Joon has a mental breakdown, she briefly ends up in a mental institution, and Sam tries to break her out. It’s now a retirement community called the Academy, located in a quiet neighborhood near Mission Park.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

WHAT TO WATCH...

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he schedule for this year’s Spokane International Film Festival has a little something for everyone — documentaries, animation, comedy, sports, historical dramas, inspirational stories. Here’s a rundown of the 14 features you can check out in the next week, listed in order of showtime; see the festival’s website for information on the various short film programs. (All screenings are at the Magic Lantern Theater unless otherwise noted.)

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genres, styles and tones — there’s romance, heartbreak, death, demonic possession and even a music video. Keep your eyes peeled for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it “cameo” from comedian Marc Maron, who happened to wander into Garageland during production and agreed to be a background extra. (NW)

BENNY & JOON (U.S.)

Fri, Feb. 2 at 8 pm, Bing Crosby Theater Shot and set in Spokane, this 1993 romantic comedy stars Mary Stuart Masterson as Joon (short for Juniper), a mentally ill artist who lives with her hardworking mechanic brother Benny (Aidan Quinn). Joon is prone to manic episodes and has driven away multiple caregivers, but then she meets Johnny Depp’s Sam, an eccentric who models himself after silent-movie comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and seems to understand what makes Joon tick. Alongside its distinctive Inland Northwest locations, the film also boasts a stellar supporting cast — Oliver Platt, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, CCH Pounder and Dan Hedaya. Benny & Joon was only a modest commercial hit when it was released, but it has since developed something of a cult following due to its quirky, offbeat sensibilities and Depp’s inspired performance. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

WINDOW HORSES: THE POETIC PERSIAN EPIPHANY OF ROSIE MING (CANADA)

Sat, Feb. 3 at 6:30 pm This award-winning animated film is based on director Ann Marie Fleming’s graphic novel of the (almost) same name. Rosie Ming is a young Canadian poet — and stickfigure — whose first junket away from home (to Iran, where she has been invited to perform her poetry at a festival) inspires new opportunities for self-discovery and kinship through art. (CD)

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Sat, Feb. 3 at 12 pm Director Carla Simón’s feature debut is the tale of 6-yearold Frida, whose life is uprooted after the deaths of her parents. The dramatic arc of the story follows her struggle to cope with orphanhood in the clutches of a new family and a new landscape, a childhood memoir that the Hollywood Reporter says artfully transcends “self-indulgence and sentimentality.” The film, with its dialogue in Catalan, was Spain’s submission for the foreign language category at this year’s Oscars, a telling selection with obvious political connotations given the separatist uprisings of Catalonia that rocked the country late last year. (CONNOR DINNISON)

THE GARAGELAND CHRONICLES (U.S.)

Sat, Feb. 3 at 12:30 pm This year’s SpIFF schedule includes the premiere of local filmmaker Shaun Springer’s debut feature, an eclectic anthology film shot in piecemeal fashion over the course of two years. It’s a collection of vignettes loosely structured around the Spokane business Garageland (which, at the time of filming, was a record store), and it hops between

Sun, Feb. 4 at 12 pm Actor and dancer Okwui Okpokwasili is the star of this documentary by Andrew Rossi, a film that examines the experiences of “brown bodies” in America through Okpokwasili’s provocative solo stage performance. It’s a portrait of pain and emotion in a turbulent friendship between two 11-year-old girls, a not-so-subtle invitation to be, in the artist’s words, “born again as a black girl,” and a glimpse into the passion of creation that spurred Okpokwasili to share her childhood with the world. (CD)

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Sun, Feb. 4 at 6:30 pm Urban Dictionary describes “the feels,” a staple of Millennial jargon, as a “wave of emotion that hits you like a truck,” rendering you speechless. Jenée LaMarque’s improvised film The Feels surfs a similar dynamic in its comic portrayal of a decidedly post-modern affair: a lesbian bachelorette weekend getaway in wine country.

Awkward situations arise, temptations abound, ecstasy (the drug) is experienced and taboos are crushed. (CD)

ARMED WITH FAITH (PAKISTAN)

Sun, Feb. 4 at 6:45 pm Emmy-winning Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary Armed with Faith imbeds the viewer in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit, the ordinary men charged with the task of curbing the Taliban terrorist threat — imported from Afghanistan — to peace and security in Pakistan and, ultimately, globally. Their daily lives on the front lines of war assume an almost surreal quality in the presence of constant violence, fear and death. (CD)

downs, blood, guts and tears: it’s all here in HD. The technical achievement of the University of Cincinnati students who risked life and limb to produce the film is a feat of hefty proportion, too. (CD)

THE ENDLESS (U.S.)

Wed, Feb. 7 at 6:30 pm Verging on the supernatural, the latest sci-fi flick from writer-director duo Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson follows two brothers (played by the creators) back into the “UFO death cult” at Camp Arcadia from which they had escaped a decade prior, and down a veritable maze of rabbit holes. Variety calls it “a paranormal mystery that involves cults, time travel, and some sort of ambiguous Lovecraftian monster.” (CD)

NO MAN’S LAND (U.S.)

Mon, Feb. 5 at 6:30 pm Ammon Bundy became a household name in the winter of 2016 when he organized an armed occupation of a ranger station on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, a siege which lasted for 40 days.

David Byars’ documentary pierces the heart of the matter, from its improbable beginnings through the standoff with FBI agents and police to the wild conclusion. (CD)

THE FENCER (ESTONIA-FINLAND)

Tue, Feb. 6 at 6:30 pm This fictional account of Estonian fencing champion Endel Nelis chronicles his evolution from man-on-the-run into teacher and father figure to children orphaned during the Russian incursion in the 1950s. Director Klaus Härö portrays a life of calculation and risk, tempered by tyrannical secret police and the moral ambiguities that haunt victims of events beyond their control. An invitation to coach his students at a fencing tournament in Leningrad, from which Nelis fled, brings the story’s drama to a head.

A 2016 Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Film. (CD)

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Thur, Feb. 8 at 6:30 pm The Islamic Republic of Iran does not have a reputation as a bastion of liberalism, an unacceptable fact for expat director Ali Soozandeh, who takes the country’s rigid mores and hypocrisies to task in this animated film. The capital city of Tehran is painted (animated, actually, using the rotoscope method of tracing film frame by frame) as a hotbed of corruption and repression through the eyes of characters — usually women — whose desperation inspires them to confront the Ayatollah’s absurd (to Western sensibilities) legal framework around sexual and political liberties. (CD)

DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKEY (U.S.)

Fri, Feb. 9 at 7:30 pm, Bing Crosby Theater When he died late last year at 94, Seattle mountain climber Fred Beckey left behind a legacy that few other climbers will likely ever be able to match. Beckey made more first ascents of North American mountains than any other climber, a so-called “dirtbag” — a term for a more rebellious, nomadic member of the climbing community — who apparently didn’t mind stepping on a few fingers if it meant he could get to the top of a peak before anyone else. Director Dave O’Leske’s documentary chronicles Beckey’s colorful, complex life. (NW) n

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egardless of the duration or intensity of a deployment, the return to civilian life after active military service is a marked and sometimes unsettling transition. Spending months or even years speaking a different lingo, working by a different timetable, shouldering different responsibilities and living under radically different conditions is an experience that can profoundly change the way a soldier sees the world. Yet it’s a singular, hard-won vantage that’s rarely comprehended much less shared by those who have never been soldiers themselves.

Rather than trying to distill the full experience of deployment into one performance, a new theatrical

production called Coming Home: A Soldiers’ Project is instead dramatizing the frustrating, alienating and discomfiting effect that the transition between military and civilian life can have on service members.

Written by Kathleen Jeffs, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Gonzaga University, and directed by assistant professor Charlie Pepiton, Coming Home can trace its origins back to a multi-year veteran survey project led by Gonzaga psychology professor Anna Marie Medina. During the interviews, vets were asked questions such as, “What’s the first thing you did when you came home?” and “In what ways are home and family life different than before you were deployed?”

“The project started before I came to Gonzaga, and it was called The Oral History of Homecoming,” Jeffs says.

“Basically, Anna Marie really got passionate about interviewing veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and a few from Vietnam who were connected to Gonzaga in some way, or part of the Spokane community. She was really interested in zeroing in on that moment when [they] first came home from deployment.”

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Around autumn of last year, he and Jeffs “I was like, ‘Heck, yes. This is absolutely an started workshopping with students to “theatriamazing opportunity for something dramatic, calize these non-theatrical texts.” The separate whether it’s a play or we just read excerpts.’” anonymous interviews were merged and refined At the same time, Jeffs felt that the developto form eight “aggregate characters.” Pepiton says ment of a full-scale theatrical production called this creative step remained true to the interviews for more than one person. because of certain consistencies between them.

“I knew that I wanted to write it but I didn’t Pepiton points to terms like “delay,” frewant to direct it. You need two minds on somequently used by the soldiers to describe distant thing like this, two different filters videoconferencing with family WEEKEND to do it justice. Then Charlie and friends as well as the growing C O U N T D OW N joined the faculty and I sudsense of culture shock on their reGet the scoop on this denly thought, ‘I think we have turn. Words like “wall” and “barweekend’s events with a director for this piece.’ Charlie rier” cropped up repeatedly too. our newsletter. Sign up at comes with a physical theater “Poring through all the tranInlander.com/newsletter. background, which I felt the piece scripts, you would never see those really needed.” things jump to the surface the way In the fall of 2016, students in Jeffs’ playwritthey do in the show,” he says. But what Pepiton ing class were tasked with sifting through the says is most unique about Coming Home is its “iminterviews and creating scenes and characters mediacy” and its “hyper-local” roots in Spokane. based on the themes that emerged. Together “This play touches you if you live in this they developed a script with heavily fictionalized area,” Jeffs says. “People who serve and come elements that Jeffs later reworked back into more back are part of our direct community. This factual “verbatim interviews from the vets woven particular way of looking at it touches everyone together into a play.” Names were changed, despite your political affiliation, what you think sometimes genders, and a prologue of sorts was about war, what you think about the military. written to invoke Plato’s allegory of the cave.

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F ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores Feb. 2. To wit:  JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, Man of the Woods. That album title is what we call “rebranding.”  AWOLNATION, Here Come The Runts.

The alt-rock dudes promise more guitars, less electronics  FIELD MUSIC, Open Here. These British power-poppers create incredibly pleasing ear candy.  SIMPLE MINDS, Walk Between Worlds.

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or this year’s Super Bowl (Sunday, 3:30 pm, NBC), I’m in the position I imagine many others find themselves in every year — that of not caring even a little bit about the game.

I have no rooting interest in whether the Massholes of New England or the Santa-booing fans of Philadelphia are happier come game’s end. I won’t make a point of watching Justin Timberlake at halftime, as I’m a grownass man and I already saw that show in 2004. As for joining the ranks of people who “only watch the game for the commercials,” well, I can’t begin to fathom what’s the matter with you folks. They’re commercials.

But I’ll still be watching Sunday, because it’s what I’ve done every Super Bowl Sunday I can remember. So to pick a team to cheer for, I used the amazing internet to guide me toward things I do care about from each team’s city: music, movies and food. Let’s see how they stack up:

THE BUZZ BIN MUSIC Boston has spawned tons of great bands, including some of my personal favorites: Pixies, the Cars, Dinosaur Jr. I even have a soft spot for pre-rehab Aerosmith. But Boston also gets a big demerit for foisting Marky Mark (you know, Mark Wahlberg rapping in his underwear) on the world.

Philly is a great music launching pad, too, judging by a list that includes the Roots, the War on Drugs, Beach Slang and Hall & Oates. The most embarrassing band I could find from there is ’80s hair farmers Britny Fox — and I would much rather listen to them than Marky Mark. Still: ADVANTAGE NEW ENGLAND

“Spokane is rad! Our new friends Matt & Melissa put us up. They had two really cool dogs and they gave us whiskey and soup.”

— BANDITOS The Alabama-bred rockers who played an excellent show at the Bartlett over the weekend ended the night asking if anyone had a place for the sextet to stay. This is what they said when we asked via Twitter @BanditosBand how it turned out.

LAST CHANCE When most people learn that I was born in Kyrgyzstan, questions follow: Where is that? How do you pronounce it again? Not many people are aware of the Central Asian country that borders a few others ending in “stan.” From its cuisine to its art, it is colorful yet faithful to tradition — especially its tapestries. To experience a taste, catch the exhibit “The Song of Silence: Embroidered Tapestries of Kyrgyz Nomads” before it ends Feb. 9 at the EWU Downtown Student Gallery in Cheney, 404 2nd Street. Facebook.com/ewudowntownstudentgallery for more info. (ALLA DROKINA)

MOVIES Boston’s been the setting for some pretty great flicks, from Spotlight to Mystic River to Good Will Hunting.

(R.I.P. Robin Williams.) It also was the setting for the awful Jimmy Fallon vehicle Fever Pitch.

Philadelphia was the setting for Rocky. ’Nuf said.

ADVANTAGE PHILADELPHIA THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

With that in mind, the Spokane designers behind the strategy-based party card game Hammered Heroes have launched their third Kickstarter campaign, running until Feb. 28. This time they’re asking for $10,000, half as much as before, to get the game printed and into the hands of players.

Back the drinking-themed game for $20 to get your copy, and don’t wait — the devs promise this will be the last time they attempt to raise funds.

For all things Hammered Heroes, and a link to the campaign, head to facebook.com/HammeredHeroes. (CHEY SCOTT)

FOOD Boston, of course, is best known for seafood: fish ’n’ chips, lobster rolls, Boston clam chowder. Oh, and Boston Cream Pie, which is damn delightful.

Philadelphia is home to cheesesteaks, soft pretzels, hoagie sandwiches and “whoopie pie,” which is some sort of bastardized pastry that Wikipedia says can be considered “a cookie, pie or cake.” Um, hell yeah.

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RAGIN’ FULL ON Rage Spokane might sound like a great name for our next short-lived arena football team, but it’s actually a new business that caters to folks who just need to blow off some steam — violently.

For packages $25 and up, you strap on some protective gear, grab a hammer (or crowbar, or baseball bat) and commence bashing everything from dinner plates to TV screens. Whatever makes you feel better, really — you can even bring your own faulty monitor or pics of a hated ex. Visit RageSpokane.com for more info. (DAN NAILEN)

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Artistic Saturation February’s First Friday art showcase shines a spotlight on artists of color for the second annual SATURATE

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pokane’s monthly arts showcase features events, including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists, across the downtown core and sometimes beyond. For February’s event, also called the Winter Arts Tour, Spokane Arts has coordinated coinciding shows and arts events for the second annual SATURATE. The city-wide collaboration presents a special focus on diversity, and highlights the work of often under-recognized artists of color. Venues that are specifically hosting SATURARE events are denoted below with blue stars. Events not specific to SATURATE, but that are still part of the Winter Arts Tour, are listed here, too.

All events are organized alphabetically by venue and take place on Friday, Feb. 2, from 5-8 pm unless otherwise noted.

The following listings were compiled from information provided

by Spokane Arts and Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks. For more info, visit firstfridayspokane.org and spokanearts.org. (CHEY SCOTT)

1900 HOUSE AND HOME, 114 W. Pacific Featuring art by Tea Kurtz, Isaac Denton and Heidi Farr.

ANTHROPOLOGIE, 885 W. Main Laurie Ann Greenburg showcases her collection “Four Strands” and hosts a macrame knot-tying class.

J AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main A reading with poets Davy Nguyen and Kimberly Povloski. Also includes the monthly “3 Minute Mic” series (8 pm) with guest Patty Tully.

AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone “Abstracts in Color,” macro-photography by artist Jerry Mudge.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second Expressionist watercolors by Jessica Wade. Reception 4-9 pm.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Larry Ellingson showcases his newest wall-mounted sculptures, with live music by Maxie Ray Mills. Reception 5-10 pm.

BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, 39 W. Pacific Nature-themed photography by Tiffany Hansen, with live music by William Nover. Reception 5:30-9 pm.

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J J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

A continuation of “Connectivity | Matters,” featuring work by Heidi Farr, Jake Miller, Naoko Morisawa, Rachel Smith and Patrick Sullivan. February’s reception includes performances by the Weddle Twins at 6 pm.

COMMUNITY BUILDING, 35 W. Main A showcase titled “Community Building in Zeller Frames,” featuring works by multimedia artist Bob Zeller, including posters, photos and more.

CORE PILATES & WELLNESS, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy.

Paintings by Becky Gromlich.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Paintings by Tamara Toth Taylor.

J DODSON’S JEWELERS, 516 W. Riverside “Pouring Passion” by Elise Beattie features post-pointillism paintings exploring various subjects and themes.

J J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, 906 W. Main The collaborative human trafficking and domestic violence awareness art show “If You Really KNEW Me,” continues on the third floor gallery, along with a community art show in the first floor gallery. Local beatboxer/ vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bro-

A piece from the installation “Close/Divide” by Spokane artist May Kytonen at Saranac Art Projects. tha Nature performs from 6:30-8 pm.

The library also hosts Spokane artist Daniel Kytonen’s new art installation “Consolation & Desolation: Presence in the Interstitial” consisting of site-specific paintings.

J FELLOW COWORKING, 304 W. Pacific Featuring John deRoulet’s oil paintings and prints of Spokane residents. Also includes an analog synth workshop with Technological Taxidermy.

J HILLYARD LIBRARY, 4005 N. Cook St. “African Americans: Our Cultural Impact” by Art Jacobs features charcoal and pastel portraits of prominent African Americans throughout history.

J INDIAN TRAIL LIBRARY, 4909 W. Barnes Rd. See “A Mixed Media Melange,” a collection by Tracy Poindexter-Canton.

JUNDT ART MUSEUM, 200 E. Desmet Ave. A reception for the new exhibit “From the Collection: Pop! and Beyond,” with custom, on-site screenprinting by Ammonite Ink. J J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams “The comeuppance of a lazy antisocial rabbit” by Melanie Lieb Taylor expresses childish themes and the underlying political agenda to condition the young mind.

KRESS GALLERY, 808 W. Main Central Valley High School’s third annual student art exhibition, “Unearth.”

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Jeremy Salazar’s work emphasizes impressionism through portraits in a variety of media. Reception 4-11 pm.

J LIBERTY CIDERWORKS, 164 S. Washington “In the Field” by Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton celebrates the physicality of wilderness and reflecting on human impacts on wild places.

J J THE LORRAINE BUILDING, 308 W. First “Forward Movement” by Jacob Johns is a performance “with new works made to move society forward.”

Feb. 2-3 at 7 pm.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

The gallery celebrates its “unofficial” third anniversary with a collection of oil paintings from Peterson/ Roth gallery in Bend, Oregon.

J MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Featuring the work of sculptor, painter and designer Katie Staib.

J NEW MOON ART GALLERY, 1326 E. Sprague “Birds of a Feather: Through Thick and Thin” features art by Melissa Cole, Ric Gendron and Kim Long.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington February’s guests artists are Cassandra Quintero, who makes handmade bow ties, and pressed-flower artist Judy Meddaugh.

J J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main “Close/Divide” is an installation exploring Asian American identity and community by Spokane artist May Kytonen. SAP also showcases “Growth Chart” by Yaro Shon Neils, an exhibition focusing on cultural metaphors about pregnancy and the womb.

J SHADLE LIBRARY, 2111 W. Wellesley Artwork by Amber Holt.

J SPARK CENTRAL, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy.

The Diverse Voices writing group, open to all experiences, seeks to support and elevate diverse voices.

Thursday, Feb. 8 from 5:30-6:30 pm.

SPOKANE ART SCHOOL, 811 W. Garland “Breath Strokes,” led by artist Deanna Camp, lets participants transfer their artistic energy onto paper or canvas using a gentle yoga practice and mediation. Sat, Feb. 3 from 10 am-2 pm ($40/session.)

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CULTURE | ESSAY

Tod Marshall’s path as Washington state’s poet laureate took him to every corner of the state.

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Thirty Nine Counties (With Interludes) Tod Marshall reflects on two years behind the wheel as Washington State Poet Laureate

BY TOD MARSHALL

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n Metaline Falls, The Postman production team supposedly paid people off when dogs were run over during the movie’s shooting. I love sharing poems here; in our state, about 17 percent of children have subsidized meals; in Pend Oreille County, that number is 43 percent, highest in the state.

On one visit to Kettle Falls, I detoured because of a washout. I left home early and arrived with time to gawk at the mountains. Every event in Stevens county brought listeners with questions, people eager to share words.

Sometimes, when I told people from Seattle I was from Spokane, they’d raise an eyebrow. “Do many people over there even like poetry?” I don’t know what this means exactly, but I can guess.

Endicott hosted me at their school with a potluck.

There’s no longer a gas pump in town. The event at the library brought in a small crowd, but we had already shared a good dinner.

Asotin is on Highway 129: pleasant weather, engaged teachers, eager students. The photos of the highway sign make me smile.

The community presentation in Pomeroy happened

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at the downtown senior center. They have a policy: nothing can be sold inside. I understood; we set up my display on the sidewalk; the book covers faced a sunny street.

In Dayton, elementary school classes packed an auditorium. Later in the day, I ran into a couple of the students with their mom; they showed off by reciting (“Old stone pond / frog jumps / splash!”). * * *

WHAT I DID

I drove 42,000 miles. I flew another 16,000. I wrote editorials, talked on radio and shared poems. Most frequently: “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats, Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Sometimes I’d talk about memorization, and my talk would go like this: “How many of you can recite a commercial or a TV show theme song? (Cue: “Nationwide is on your side.”) We all carry uninvited words; I think of those words as parasites, word-ticks,

syllable-leeches. I try to memorize poems all the time; sometimes — especially as I get older — this is hard, but I try because words matter. If you like poetry, then find a poem that speaks to you, that shows the world as you have known it to be — or as you’d like it to be — and invite that poem inside of you. Memorize it. If poetry isn’t your thing, then find other words that matter — from Martin Luther King or the Bill of Rights. Memorize words that matter to you: invite them inside, show them the hospitality of your heart. * * * Walla Walla seems tipsy from wine revenue, an echo of the gentrification in Seattle, Vancouver, and other places. I spoke at The Foundry, a stunning artistic space.

The librarian and I had to get out dozens of additional chairs. Several poets read with me. Words sparked. I drove home and arrived after midnight. I was OK with that.

On the way home, I went by Connell, population 5,000. (Half are inmates.) The next month I was sched-

uled to give a workshop at Coyote Ridge Correctional Facility and visit schools; the sign-up for the prison event was full. I waited with other visitors. A loud TV was on; the librarian came to get me, but the guard said my paperwork was lost.

I visited Ritzville — a quick I-90 sprint — a couple of times. We gathered in the library’s basement and made poems.

I thought that I might fish while visiting Odessa, but the water was muddy and high. At the library, someone asked, “Why does poetry even matter?” I got that question a lot.

In Republic, an impromptu open mic at the brewery moved people to play music and read poems. One tipsy attendee recited “The Death of Sam Magee.” The next morning, I met students in Curlew. We talked about favorite-sounding words. I ate at all three restaurants in town. The library has a reading area that’s about 200 square feet. Seventeen of us crammed into the space. The Q&A lasted a while; I got on the road late. I was okay with that. * * *

THE HOLOCAUST

I don’t know the reason for this obsession — perhaps trying to understand that there is no limit to the awfulness of which we are capable. Probably, the election had something to do with my return to the subject. I read Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder, and Jan Gross’s powerful Neighbors. In Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Snyder writes about a teenage girl marched to the edge of a killing pit; as the bullets whizzed by, she collapsed among the dead bodies. More people are shot; the bodies pile on top of her. A soldier walks on corpses, fires into tangled limbs. The girl is hit in the hand. Dirt covers the bodies. The girl digs out. Bloody, filthy, she goes to a nearby cottage; she is turned away; she goes to another cottage where they turn her away. She goes to a third cottage where she is again turned away. The fourth cottage welcomes here, and she survives.

Snyder asks, “Who lives in the fourth cottage?” * * * At lunch in Omak — on break from a day with great students — I ate delicious tacos from a truck that parked near the school; driving home, I thought about words: otherness, difference, intersectionality. How many shuttered shops I’d seen in Omak and throughout the state.

Driving to Waterville nearly cost me my clean record.

In Reardan, I dutifully puttered through town and then, with the open road before me, accelerated. Too soon. A sheriff walked to the driver’s door, and I, in the last few weeks of my appointment, thought that I’d try to slither out of the ticket.

“Officer.”

“License, insurance, registration. Do you know why I pulled you over?”

“Maybe I was speeding?”

“Thirteen over. The change to 60 isn’t for another hundred yards.”

“I’m sorry. I was hurrying because I’m headed to meet students to talk about poetry.” Desperation. “Look (flashing him a bookmark with my sweater picture), I’m the Washington State Poet Laureate appointed by the governor to increase awareness of poetry throughout the state.”

“Yeah, that’s great. Please stay in your car.”

In Soap Lake, the librarian panicked. She worried that no one would show up — something that happened only once in my travels — and so, she decided to move my event. I’d speak to the entire high school. I’d been

preparing for a small gathering at the library, and so, when I found myself in a gymnasium, nervous about how I’d fill an hour with 350 students in bleachers, I was grateful when a kid kicked a soccer ball my way: I juggled it on my feet and thighs, balanced it on my head like a seal, and earned about 20 minutes of tuned-in attention from high school students who applauded an old guy’s mad skills.

Students in Poetry Out Loud memorize poems that they recite in a scored performance. I suspect a POL state champion may soon come from the Tri-Cities; they have a good program.

The Glass Onion in Goldendale makes delicious food, but I had a scary moment at the library; frazzled from the road, my brain occasionally blundered — I’d be forgetful, have dizzy spells, get nauseated. In Goldendale, I had an episode right in the middle of reciting Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium.” I don’t know what I said for a minute or so, but I’d like to think it was interesting. No one left the room.

“Memorize words that matter to you: invite them inside, show them the hospitality of your heart.”

I was in Yakima on the day after the election. At an open mic, people wept and yelled. For two years, I did my best to remember that the poet laureate is a nonpartisan appointment, but on several occasions, I found this impossible. Words matter. I probably shouldn’t write about this anymore.

The first Ellensburg’s Poetry Prowl focused on Charles Baudelaire and began with an introduction read over the emergency broadcasting system in the downtown. I remember dozens of Banditos, a motorcycle gang, staring up inquisitively at the speakers, maybe wondering about this scandalous poet and his Flowers of Evil before they rode.

In Chelan, I bought apples, and we talked about poetry of witness. Later, in Wenatchee on Jan. 21, I’d march through town with two thousand people and read with the wonderful Claudia Castro Luna, our state’s next poet laureate. * * *

WHY POETRY MATTERS

The horror of Snyder’s story seems sharpened by the divisions of our moment. The question is complicated: who lives in the fourth cottage? My answer: Every time we open ourselves to the human imagination, every time that we try to understand an experience not our own, we stretch our empathy, our potential to open the door, to welcome a stranger. That’s one of the reasons poetry matters.

* * * I gave an award to the Jack Prelutsky in Bellingham.

He played guitar and sang poems.

The Skagit River Poetry Festival is a great international gathering. Tom Robbins had me over for shrimp appetizers. I won’t forget that.

The Tulalip tribe hosted me at their cultural center.

We had a story circle, and I listened to David Spencer, Sr., someone who keeps the Lushootseed language alive.

In Columbia City, the African American Writers Alliance shares works at the library. They welcomed me to join them. I remember reading with Heather McHugh and the late Lucia Perillo in downtown Seattle. Two Washington geniuses.

Tacoma’s “Creative Colloquy” is the sister tongue twister to “drowsy Puyallup.”

In Olympia, I occasionally wore a tie; I also hung out with The Old Growth Poetry Collective (while not wearing a tie). Our governor once wrote a poem on climate change, and I wrote a poem on the 50th anniversary of Lacey, Washington.

Onalaska and Eatonville seemed like echoes of Metaline Falls and Ione. Mt. Rainier looms over everything in this part of the state.

At Mt. Pleasant elementary, the kids were full of energy: wind warnings in the Columbia Gorge had kept them cooped up. We made metaphors and later they went outside and kited about in the breeze.

The Ghost Town Reading Series might have become a misnomer: Vancouver is electric, gentrifying as it turns into a suburb of Portland.

In Longview, a man collapsed during my talk. He’s OK. I performed as warm-up act for Krist Novoselic and Robert Michael Pyle at the first Cathlamet Arts Festival; Pyle is amazing; he combines scientific and lyrical writing. Novoselic didn’t really talk to me, which is OK. He seemed like a nice guy.

In Tokeland, I dined at the same hotel Robert Plant once visited; you can see photos in the lobby.

At Aberdeen Community College, no one showed.

We drank delicious tea in Shelton (and heard delicious poems).

Reading with Tess Gallagher was an honor; eating pie at the grave of Raymond Carver was an honor and a delight.

I rescheduled my visit to Forks; the gig was during the Twilight festival. I believe in the power of poetry, but I didn’t want to test it against male dancers dressed up as werewolves.

In Oak Harbor, fighter planes flew low while mechanics patched a hole in one of my tires.

My reading on Orcas Island coincided with Gonzaga playing North Carolina. I didn’t watch the game. * * *

FINIS

My Subaru is worn, and the divisive election has become our divisive historical moment. After speaking with thousands of people, after listening to thousands of poems, after watching many people make poems, after reading poems, talking about poems, writing about poems, obsessing poems for two years, I believe that words matter, that there are more words to be welcomed, more people to greet with the same hospitable grace that I encountered again and again throughout our state. n From 2016-18, Tod Marshall, a Gonzaga University professor, served as the Washington State Poet Laureate, sponsored by Humanities Washington and Arts Washington. He visited all 39 counties in our state.

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CULTURE | LITERATURE

Lay Bare the Heart Terese Marie Mailhot’s new memoir is a revelation of the Native woman’s experience, told through trauma, healing and the search for meaning

BY CHEY SCOTT

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eart Berries shook me to my core. It wasn’t just the emotionally jarring, painful experiences shared by author Terese Marie Mailhot, from her youth on an Indian Reservation in British Columbia and her diagnoses of bipolar disorder and PTSD, but also by her unembellished, electric prose. Mailhot has received high praise for the compact collection of deeply personal essays. Fellow writer Sherman Alexie, who wrote the book’s introduction, calls her a “world-changing talent,” and Heart Berries is named on numerous lists of 2018’s most-anticipated books.

Just a day after the book’s release, Mailhot stops in Spokane for an engaging and enlightening conversation with Spokane author Sharma Shields about her life, writing career and this new contribution to Native literature. I recently caught up with Mailhot via phone; what follows are highlights from our conversation, edited lightly for length and clarity.

INLANDER: How would you describe the tone and content of Heart Berries?

MAILHOT: I think it’s about an experience often not written about; rez life and being a young mother from a nation like mine, and how do you will yourself to break a cycle of dysfunction and do something significant with your talent, and believe you have a talent to begin with. It’s a type of story relative to a lot of people — we all come from a space, whether that is from big trauma or little, that shapes us and gives us something to triumph over.

Can you contextualize the opening line of the book, “my story was maltreated?”

I believe like most Native people, when we impart the truth of our life or our story, it’s bound to stigmas and stereotypes. We will often tell someone our story or circumstances — a social worker or teacher, or a community member — and that story is maltreated with all of the burden of politics and ideology and stigmas placed against us.

What was the hardest part of Heart Berries for you to write?

I went into a coffee shop and was working on my thesis for graduate school, and I was holding a cup and remembered things that were in the recess of my mind. I knew there was that moment in the shower with my father, and I knew he hurt me, and I knew I couldn’t exact [it] or say it out loud. I wrote down that I could avoid the mysticism of my culture, but I couldn’t avoid the truth of it. My people believe that things come to you when you’re ready — memories, ideas, stories and songs — and I believe in that moment that I

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Mailhot’s hotly anticipated memoir.

had to write essay [versus fiction], and that this thing happened to me… I wasn’t the only one he victimized, but so many other women have lived through this, and the more we speak these stories, the brighter we can be — you bring light to the dark.

What do you hope readers of any background take away from Heart Berries?

I hope that they’re pulled into the singular truth of my life and they can recognize that everyone has a singular truth, and that it’s a really beautiful thing to offer up to the word and craft themselves. I hope it makes them feel bolder to try and communicate the truth of themselves. I hope it makes them feel like there is nothing they can’t say — there is nothing they can’t do — there really isn’t anything too ugly for this world, and whatever kind of thing you felt ashamed about, there is something redeemable about your experience to impart with the world or to communicate. n cheys@inlander.com Heart Berries Memoir Release with Terese Marie Mailhot • Wed, Feb. 7 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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FULL STEAM AHEAD After a six-month renovation, the historic Steam Plant reopens its restaurant and brewery with an all-new look and menu

BY CHEY SCOTT

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ne hundred years ago, the massive coal-fueled furnaces inside the Steam Plant burned hot and bright, day and night, to warm the city’s core.

Now, the only fire burning there is fed with the wood of apple trees, heating the newly remodeled Steam Plant Kitchen’s stone-hearth pizza oven.

Pizza is one of many new features on the menu of the re-envisioned restaurant and brewery housed inside the historic brick building topped by the iconic twin smoke stacks visible across the cityscape. In fact, nothing from the menu of the restaurant’s former iteration, Stacks at Steam Plant, remains since the venue emerged from a nearly seven-month-long, $4 million refresh of its interior space, equipment and menu.

The newly named Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery now serves what its new manager John Lockhart describes as “polished casual” fare. The restaurant’s culinary team, led by chef Steve Leonard, another new hire and Le Cordon Bleu Paris-trained industry vet who comes to Spokane by way of Chicago, is employing techniques in the kitchen such as sous vide (vacuum-sealed food slow-cooked in a low heat water bath), rotisserie and other scratch-cooking practices using high-quality ingredients.

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A restaurant consulting firm helped remake the menu, which includes approachable fare like sandwiches, salads, pizza and shareable, pub-style appetizers: skillet cornbread, mussels, mac and cheese and chicken wings.

Several fine-dining entrées include beef filet ($32) in a red wine sauce with wood-roasted mushrooms, spinach and a vanilla celery root purée, and steelhead ($25) with piquillo romesco (pepper and nut) sauce, broccolini and fire-roasted potatoes.

Lunch service starting at 11:30 am daily is also back after ending more than a decade ago, offering lighter fare and fast turnaround for downtown workers. Many of the new menu’s offerings are served all day, such as its three 10-inch, stone-fired pizzas: a classic margherita, the “powerhouse” pepperoni, and the sweeter, dessert-like Granny Smith apple and fig ($10-$14).

For its house favorite the “stack house” Reuben ($16), Chef Leonard and team apply an intensive, seven-day process to marinate, brine, smoke and sous vide cook the sandwich’s short rib pastrami. Topped with crisp, housemade pickles, jalapeño slaw, Swiss cheese and a special sauce, the Reuben also comes with a side of thick-cut fries.

Each item on the menu includes a suggested beer

ABOVE: Steelhead is one of many new items featured at the Steam Plant.

BELOW: The filet mignon is another reimagined entrée. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

pairing from one of the Steam Plant Brewery’s many offerings served on 14 house taps. Cocktails and wine are also served at the bar.

While the installation of new brewing equipment during the renovation required Steam Plant head brewer Ben Quick to pause or borrow other local breweries’ equipment, the brewery is now back at full production of its mainstays, like the Firebox IPA, Double Stack Stout, Cutter’s Pale Ale and more, along with its seasonal rotators.

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eyond the reimagined dining options, the bulk of the Steam Plant’s recent overhaul is visible throughout the cavernous, former industrial facility that was converted into a mixeduse space — the first former steam plant in the nation to be reused as such — that opened to the public more than 17 years ago.

Those renovations, which included repairs to maintain the structural integrity of its two 225-foot-tall stacks, began in July of last year. The project also involved constructing a new event space on the building’s rooftop. That space opened in December, and features two outdoor patios overlooking the city, a full bar and catering kitchen prep space, says Steam Plant Facility Manager Spencer Sowl.

On the Steam Plant’s main-level dining room, retro-inspired, penny-style hexagonal tiles throughout (also in the bar) complement the space’s historical roots. New leather-backed booths on a raised platform look into the open-view kitchen, which also features a diner-style bartop where customers can see staff at work.

Around the main-level mezzanine are smaller bistro-style tables, backed by oversized historic photos of Steam Plant workers from its operational era.

Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery recruited Executive Chef Steve Leonard from Chicago.

“We wanted to stay really true to the history of the building with any materials and artwork,” Sowl says. “Sticking to that was really important to us, but we also wanted to capture a little bit of edginess and keep the industrial feel.”

As walls were demolished or opened up during renovation, crews found old elements like beat-up tiled walls and painted concrete that were cleaned up and now showcase the space’s past and its character, he adds.

Perhaps the most striking change is seen in the lower-level lounge, which before was carpeted and largely unchanged from its early 2000s aesthetic. Now, sleek booths line the back walls, with plush leather sofas and chairs tucked in cozy corners. Two long communal tables run down the center of the crisp, contemporary space, designed by local firm HDG Architecture.

The Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery now offers free valet parking for restaurant guests for up to two and a half hours. Offered daily from 4 pm to close, diners have the option to drop off their car at a valet podium on southbound Lincoln Street, or in the alley near the Steam Plant’s breezeway entrance. Management hopes this new service makes coming to the downtown venue less stressful for its visitors.

“We’re excited about the building being open, and I think the community is going to be surprised at what we did, and that excitement alone is a big deal to us,” Sowl summarizes. n cheys@inlander.com Steam Plant Kitchen + Brewery • 159 S. Lincoln • Open MonThu from 11:30 am-11 pm, Fri-Sat until midnight, Sun until 9:30 pm • steamplantspokane.com • 777-3900

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FOOD | MARKET

To Market The Spokane Central Market, set to open later this year, will house a dozen or so restaurants inside a shared space

BY CHEY SCOTT

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y sometime later this summer, downtown Spokane will be home to a trendy new food hall.

Called the Spokane Central Market, the space in a building at the corner of Wall and Riverside will be similar in nature to the Saranac Commons on the east end of downtown that’s home to a brewery, bakery, café, biscuit counter and a few other non-food retailers.

Spokane Central Market, however, will be significantly larger in size, totaling 20,000 square feet and with enough space to house between 12 and 15 tenants. Similar to a food court, seating and other public areas inside the space will be shared by all of the market’s tenants.

Another regional comparison is the Pine Street Market in downtown Portland, which opened in 2016 and is home to nine food vendors, including a Korean barbecue, burger joint, juice bar and Japanese ramen chain. The same developer of that project, Seattle-based InterUrban Development, is building Spokane Central Market.

The food hall is taking over a historic space once home to the Crescent department store that was most recently an Umpqua Bank branch. Demolition to gut the

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Spokane Central Market as it’s envisioned from Wall Street. space is almost complete, and the project’s developers are already seeking potential tenants by reaching out to local business owners who they feel would be a good fit for the concept. They’re seeking to fill the market with a non-overlapping mix of complementary eateries, as done in their Portland venue.

“It’s a really great synergy, and it’s going to be ac-

tive,” says Steve DeWalt, an associate with InterUrban.

“Even if your space doesn’t have people sitting there at that moment, the rest is going to feel busy. People coming to markets like this are ready to discover something and walk around, and explore and do something different.”

The downtown food hall project is a partnership between Denver-based Confluent Development and InterUrban, the latter of which is owned by Rob Brewster, who developed the Montvale Hotel.

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Central Spokane into a mixed-used space with first-level restaurants, a brewery or distillery and upperfloor office space. Recently, InterUrban also announced plans to convert a historic former grocery store building in the South Perry District into a neighborhood cafe, set to open later this year.

InterUrban can’t say yet who they’ve been in talks with to move into Spokane Central Market, but DeWalt says those announcements will be made as the project progresses. InterUrban’s goal is to have the market open by this summer.

“We really are truly excited about this. We think it’s a fantastic location, and it really is right in the core of downtown — there are office workers all around, and all the new housing going in [and] you’re surrounded by hotels,” DeWalt says. “We’re aiming for that really good mix of community and visitors; making it a destination but also just a local staple.” n

FOOD | OPENING

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New Fat Pig eatery opens in Sandpoint with options for carnivores and vegetarians

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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t’s hard to know how to take the name of Sandpoint’s new eatery, the Fat Pig, in the former Bistro Rouge portion of the Pend d’Oreille Winery. Being a fan of all things pork, the stomach thinks, “Yay, flavor!” yet the memory of evil teenage taunts about weight still stings.

Not to fear, though. This is a place that rejoices in food and flavor and welcomes all diners, including the vegetarian-minded. In fact, the availability of not only a vegetarian lunch and dinner menu but also a vegetarian snack menu was the first of many welcome surprises

here, and speaks to the owners’ lifelong involvement with food.

“There is no particular ‘theme’ to the menu,” says Kelley Kennedy, who opened the restaurant with husband Brett Mullinder.

“We definitely consider our menu meat-centric, and we like to work with alternative cuts of meat to offer our guest something different than they normally see.”

Look for lamb meatballs, for example, with Mediterranean baba ganoush (pureed eggplant dip) and fried chickpeas ($10), bacon-wrapped chicken thighs baked in a brown sugar chili rub ($9), and the porchetta sandwich, which is rolled pork belly with cracklings and a fried egg ($12). Also try udon noodle bowl ($19), and delightful duck confit nachos with grilled corn and mild salsa roja ($10).

The couple, who hail from Maine and relocated to the area to work at Schweitzer Mountain in 2002, also serve a vegetarian menu with items like bean fries ($8.50), sweet potato tacos ($9), and polenta with wild mushrooms and Brussels sprouts ($15). House-made burrata cheese and pickles demonstrate their commitment to detail.

The other surprise, at least for longtime Sandpoint residents, is the separation of the restaurant from its neighbor, the Pend d’Oreille Winery. Although both are housed in the beautifully restored former Bellwood Furniture building, the winery is under new ownership. Now, food is only available in the restaurant portion of the building, and a door has been added inside the restaurant to help distinguish the two spaces. n The Fat Pig • 301 Cedar St., Suite 102, Sandpoint • Open Mon-Sat from noon-9 pm • sandpointfatpig. com • 208-265-7675

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Mute-y and the Beast Guillermo del Toro crafts a gorgeous and moving fairy tale for adults with The Shape of Water

BY SETH SOMMERFELD

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Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins plays a woman whose love has gills in The Shape of Water, a twisted fable from the director of Pan’s Labyrinth.

here’s a societal need for fairy tales. Their stories brings in an “asset” — a fish creature pulled from a river of magical fantasy helped spark initial creativity in South America — and chains it up in a tank in one of and imagination in all of us. the lab’s secure rooms. Fascinated, Elisa begins sneaking But fairy tales are inherently designed for children. in and forming an unspoken bond with the creature. As As we grow older, the world wears us down and our idyltensions rise and things begin to get dire for the creature lic notions fade to the point where stories of kids getting — including getting caught up in the maneuverings of in trouble in the woods or princesses finding true love Cold War spying — Elisa must figure out how to protect feel silly and unsubstantive. While we may have always the creature she’s beginning to love. known the stories were fiction, they no longer feel real.

As Elisa, Hawkins delivers a stunning masterclass The Shape of Water is a fairy tale for adults. Its 1960sin non-verbal acting (one that should end with a Best set story of a mute woman falling in love with a captive Actress Oscar). There’s not a wasted millimeter on her fish-man has all the elements of spellbinding wonder of face as she conveys longing for something beyond her classic children’s tales, but also features doldrums, loving warmth toward her moments of legitimate gore, festering THE SHAPE OF WATER amphibious beau, excitement when severed appendages and frank discussharing hard-boiled eggs or music with Rated R sion of human-amphibian sex. Guillher confined pal, fear when confronted Directed by Guillermo del Toro ermo del Toro possesses a beautifully

by Col. Strickland, or anger when she Starring Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, twisted mind. feels metaphorically voiceless. Above Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins As a mute janitor who commuall, she carries a childlike wonder and a nicates via American Sign Language, hopeful innocence, making her a perfect Elisa (Sally Hawkins) lives a literal quiet life. She resides protagonist for a fairy tale love story. alone in an apartment above a movie theater and is close Always a director with distinct vision, del Toro takes with her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins), a kindhearted things to an even higher level with The Shape of Water. artist who does ad copy work and has a romantic secret With apologies to Pan’s Labyrinth, this is his finest film to of his own (the type that isn’t accepted in his era). She date. He and director of photography Dan Lausten subworks at a secret United States government lab in Balmerge the viewer in a sea of gorgeous aqua-neon colors timore alongside her only other friend, Zelda (Octavia and artful compositions. The production design captures Spencer), who’s chatty enough for the both of them. the polarity of the ’60s: that classic American dream One day, Col. Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) sheen of Cadillacs and white-picket-fence family life

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meets the gritty, unseemly undercurrent of oppression.

Without giving anything away, the apartment flooding scene dazzles like few things committed to film in recent memory.

Of course, all the style would be naught if the fishman it all revolves around looked stupid. Thankfully, del Toro’s affinity for classic creature features helped prevent a CGI catastrophe. The core of the performance (billed as “Amphibian Man”) comes from practical effects, namely Doug Jones acting in a heavy rubber and latex suit (enhanced by digital effects).

There’s no getting around that The Shape of Water is a monster movie. But the monster isn’t the character that can breathe underwater: It’s Col. Strickland, or rather, what he represents. Played with the steely menace that has become Shannon’s calling card, he is a monster of oppression. He’s a monolithic symbol of the powerful white American man: a cold, humorless, self-interested and sexually manipulative being who can’t fill the hole in his hollow life, so instead uses his energy to destroy the lives of those below him. While it’s obvious he sees this fishy captive as less than human, an affront to God’s will not made in “His image,” Stickland’s America really feels the same way about Elisa. And Zelda. And Giles.

In lesser hands than del Toro’s (and co-writer Vanessa Taylor’s), Col. Strickland might seem like a cartoonish archetypical evil, but it works within their contextualization. A fairy tale ending works better if love really does have to conquer all. n

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Maybe you’ve heard of the Winchester Mystery House in California, where hallways lead to dead ends and staircases go nowhere. Helen Mirren plays

the matron of the mansion, designed to keep away some pesky, Conjuringstyle ghosts that slam doors and pop out of dark corners. Spooooooky.

(NW) Rated PG-13

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A true story about the first Special Forces who were deployed to Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11 and witnessed the escalation of the war in the Middle East. Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Peña star. (NW) Rated R

CALL ME

BY YOUR NAME

One of the best films of the year, a swooning romance in which a 17-yearold American kid (Timothée Chalamet) spending a summer at his family’s Italian villa becomes infatuated with his dad’s slightly older research assistant (Armie Hammer). A delicate work of art and a passionate love story, simultaneously ethereal and earthy. (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

THE COMMUTER

Liam Neeson plays a former cop who swings into action-star mode when a shadowy cabal offers him a fortune to locate a mysterious object on his train ride home. As preposterous as you’d expect, but only sporadically exciting.

(NW) Rated PG-13

DARKEST HOUR

Gary Oldman is unrecognizable under pounds of makeup and prosthetics 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

DEN OF THIEVES

A January release starring Gerard Butler that runs 140 minutes? This should be good. Here he’s an LAPD officer on the trail of an elusive group of bank robbers planning to knock over the Federal Reserve. (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

FOREVER MY GIRL

In what’s sure to be the best Nicholas Sparks story Nicholas Sparks didn’t actually write, a hunky country star returns to his small hometown only to discover he has a daughter with the woman he left at the altar. (NW) Rated PG

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

A lavish, Moulin Rouge-y musical fantasy inspired by the life and career of P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), the circus empresario who created modern show biz as we know it. The splashy songs are co-written by Oscar-winning La La Land lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. (NW) Rated PG

HOSTILES

A racist military man (Christian Bale) is forced to transport a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) to his homeland in the 1890s. Scott Cooper’s brutal tale of frontier justice is unfortunately far more concerned with the redemption of the white man than the Native American experience. (MJ) Rated R

I, TONYA

A raucous bio-comedy about figure skater Tonya Harding, who tripleaxelled into infamy in the early ’90s.

The film may be predicated on questionable morals — it wants us to laugh at its subjects, then condemns us for laughing — but it’s also centered on blistering performances by Margot Robbie as the disgraced Harding and Allison Janney as her monstrous mother. (NW) Rated R

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

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

That magical board game becomes an old Atari-esque gaming console in this better-than-you’d-expect reboot, with a ragtag group of high schoolers getting sucked into a perilous video game world. Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and a scene-stealing Jack Black star as the kids’ in-game avatars.

(NW) Rated PG-13

LADY BIRD

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At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

Yes, they’re still making Maze Runner movies, and in this third and final installment, our generic post-apocalyptic hero and his friends must escape yet another trap-filled labyrinth. Or something. (NW) Rated PG-13

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(NW) Rated PG

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This Bollywood epic dramatizing the legend of a 14th-century Indian queen has inspired plenty of controversy in its native country, with its cast and crew receiving death threats over its supposed historical inaccuracies. It’s also one of the most expensive Indian films ever made. (NW) Not Rated

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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

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

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

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) n

PHANTOM THREAD

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Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson explores the world of 1950s fashion, with Daniel Day-Lewis in his (supposedly) final screen role as a high-end dress designer whose relationship with a much younger woman (Vicky Krieps) becomes fraught. Not exactly what you think it’s going to be, a sly dark comedy sewn inside a stunningly beautiful costume drama. (NW) Rated R

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The Bellas a cappella troupe reunite for one last gig during a haphazard USO tour in this third (and hopefully final) installment of the once enjoyable musical-comedy series. A flailing attempt to recreate the success of the earlier movies, without appreciating what made them work. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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Steven Spielberg’s latest concerns 1970s Washington Post publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) fighting for the paper’s right to publish the Pentagon Papers, which detailed the Johnson administration’s lies regarding the Vietnam War. A thrilling fact-based drama about the importance of the free press.

(MJ) Rated PG-13

THE SHAPE OF WATER

With apologies to Pan’s Labyrinth, this is Guillermo del Toro’s finest film to date, a grisly adult fairy tale about a mute cleaning woman’s plans to free a captive amphibious creature from the government facility where she works.

Weird, gory, eye-popping, disarmingly

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

NOW STREAMING THE FORCE (NETFLIX)

A documentary chronicling the Oakland Police Department over two harrowing years, during which its newest chief nearly rehabilitates the agency’s troubled public image before resigning in the wake of several PR nightmares. Director Peter Nicks examines a complex social environment through the eyes of police academy students, veteran officers, local politicians and Black Lives Matter protesters. (NW) Not Rated

A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE (NETFLIX)

The short, turbulent life of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney (Will Forte) is dramatized here, in a fourth wall-breaking (and ultimately surface-level) study of a brilliant mind that burned bright and flamed out. Despite a deep cast of comic ringers and some unusual narrative devices, it’s far more conventional and ordinary that it wants us to believe. (NW) Not Rated

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Dead End

If you’ve felt deprived of generic YA action heroes lately, you’re in luck: There’s a third Maze Runner movie.

The third Maze Runner movie will make no sense to you, even if you’ve seen the earlier installments

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bunch of boys are trapped in a Minho (Ki Hong Lee) from WCKD HQ, mysterious Glade at the center of which is in the Last City. Its inhabitants a massive Maze full of monsters. walk around wearing ties and high heels Some of them have been there for years. and riding buses and checking their smartThen Thomas arrives, and he is the Hero, phones and are they kidding? It’s the end of and also handsome and brilliant, so they the world and civilization is dead, and how all escape right away, but not before a Girl do they have the resources for any of this? arrives for him to fall in love with, because How did they have the resources to build what else are girls for? That was The Maze the Maze? None of this makes any sense.

Runner. It was like Lord of the But Thomas — he is so MAZE RUNNER: Flies, but nicer. special. He is always right THE DEATH CURE Once the escapees are and noble and upstanding.

Rated PG-13 outside they discover that Even when people tell him Directed by Wes Ball it’s the apocalypse. There that he is wrong to do someis an evil organization, actu- Starring Dylan O’Brien, Ki Hong Lee, thing — like rescue a friend ally called WCKD, running Kaya Scodelario because it puts everyone in the end of the world, and danger — they always come they were experimenting on the kids in the around to his way of thinking and show up Maze because they are immune to the virus just in the nick of time to help him. Everyand were hoping to find a cure. This was one loves Thomas, so who cares if every Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. plot point that isn’t a cliché is a plot hole?

And now we have No. 3, The Death You will feel like you’ve seen this movie Cure. (Spoiler: Death is not cured.) This before even while you are watching it for time Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) is leading a the first (and only) time. rescue mission to grab their Glade friend Before Thomas and his friends sneak

into the Last City, outside in the scorched dead world, it all feels like Mad Max: Fury Road fan fiction enacted by enthusiastic cosplayers. Inside the Last City is a bit Blade Runner meets RoboCop with a dash of Gattaca, lots of neon and glass and sneaking past security cameras into the sleek evil medical labs where Minho is being experimented on. Apparently they are scaring him with virtual reality while draining his blood to get that Flare virus cure, and this is “not as effective as the Maze” where they left kids for years without taking any blood, so does anyone actually know anything? Maybe all the real doctors died in the apocalypse.

Anyway, the Girl from the Maze, Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), is here, and she’s still a villain (as we discovered before this movie opened), but Thomas still has Feelings for her. “There’s something about your blood I don’t understand,” she says, which will never be on a Valentine’s card. Thomas is so special that even his blood is special.

And it’s still not even the cure for death.

This movie lies to you from the opening credits, and then goes on to be two hours and 20 minutes of empty blah. Generic characters who aren’t even distinct enough to be stereotypes. A pedestrian collapse of civilization that has no resonance at all even when it should. Bland flattened emotion that barely rises above the level of “Go on without me!” and “I ain’t leavin’ you, man!” It would be hilarious if that wasn’t happening at the point at which you’re restraining yourself from shouting at the screen, “Just be over already!” n

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Both Sides Now

Folk legend Judy Collins enters her sixth decade of performing, having worked as a solo singer-songwriter and an interpreter of other artists

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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t’s common practice in folk music for artists to record their own versions of the songs that influenced them, which explains why there are countless covers of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and Pete Seeger’s “Turn!

Turn! Turn!”

Judy Collins is one of the most successful artists to come out the fabled Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, and with her ethereal vocal delivery, she took the work of other artists and put her own distinctive spin on already classic tunes.

But what was unusual about Collins was that she chose to record as many old folk standards as new material by songwriters who were still finding their voices, and her interpretations of compositions by Randy Newman, Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen gave those then-fledgling songwriters much-needed attention.

Her signature song is 1967’s “Both Sides, Now,” which was written by Joni Mitchell and became both women’s first Top 10 hit. And she’s tackled the song-

books of other great artists, including Lennon and McCartney, Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, whose showtune “Send in the Clowns” became a pop hit when Collins recorded it in 1975.

So how does Collins pick her material? Well, it’s not exactly a science, and it’s the same now as it was all those years ago.

“I have to fall in love with the song. Whether it’s my song or somebody else’s, if I don’t like it, I don’t want to hear it again,” she says with a laugh. “It has to be compelling and I have to fall in love with it. Those are the only requirements, really. It could be about anything.”

While Collins is probably best known as a perceptive folk interpreter, she is a prolific songwriter herself (she says she still writes every day), and has explored multiple genres and styles in her nearly six-decade career.

“Folk music is not exclusive to what I do, since I’ve always been an interpretive artist,” Collins tells the Inlander. “I think the folk music label entitles me to claim

activism and songs of social protest, as well as self-written stories of my life and the occasional Pete Seeger song.”

As a kid living in Seattle and Denver, Collins was exposed to art through her musician father, and she studied classical piano as a teenager. But when she heard the political songs of Woody Guthrie and Seeger, she knew her calling was in folk music.

“I grew up in an activist family, people who really thought you should speak out and try to change the world for the better,” Collins says. “But it was the stories that got me, and I think that’s essentially what folk music is. … I write a lot of different kinds of songs, but many of them are stories.”

She’s bringing those stories to town this weekend, returning to Spokane following a 2015 stop. This time, however, Collins will be performing with the Spokane Symphony, and it’ll be one of at least 100 performances for the singer this year. ...continued on next page

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On top of her solo shows, Collins has also been touring with fellow ’60s icon Stephen Stills, with whom she has a long personal history: They dated for a short time in their twenties, and Collins was even immortalized in the title of the Crosby, Stills and Nash classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.”

“We’ve been friends for 50 years now,” Collins says.

“He says that’s because we married other people, and that’s probably true. It’s turned out to be more fun than a barrel of, well, whatever you want.”

One could argue that the 78-year-old Collins is as relevant now as she was when that classic Joni Mitchell composition won her a Grammy in 1969. Last year, Collins received her first Grammy nomination in 40 years for her 2016 album Silver Skies Blue, a collaboration with singer-songwriter Ari Hest, which she says is the longest gap between nominations in the awards’ history.

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Collins’ upcoming Spokane gig promises to marry the lushness of a big symphony performance with the intimacy of a folk show.

A concert hall might seem miles away from a 1960s New York coffee shop, but Collins says performing with orchestral backing gets her back to her classical roots.

“I’m as happy as a clam with an orchestra,” Collins says. “It’s me and the orchestra, and that’s it.

We’re excited to bring out some songs we haven’t done yet with an orchestra … and we’ll top it off with ‘Send in the Clowns.’ But there will be some other surprises.” n Spokane Symphony Pops 4: Judy Collins • Sat, Feb. 3 at 8 pm • $43-$86 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

MUSIC | FOLK

Jeffrey Martin’s music finds empathy and understanding in blue-collar anxieties.

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Songs of Devastation Jeffrey Martin’s music gives voice to folks on the fringe

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effrey Martin talks about the English language the way most people talk about their favorite sports team, or a decadent dessert, or the TV show they binge-watched last night.

“I’m obsessed with words,” the Portlandbased folk singer says. “I’m just in love with words and literature and writing of all types.”

Martin gets that from his dad, who didn’t play an instrument but did spend a lot of time listening to lyrically driven musicians like John Prine, Neil Young and Jackson Browne. And he made sure his son Jeffrey listened to them, too.

“As early as I can remember, he’d kind of walk me through the song if I didn’t quite understand what was going on,” Martin says. “He always made a point to say, ‘You’ve got to listen to the words. You can’t just bob your head to the music.’”

Jeffrey Martin’s music is not head-bobbing music. Instead, the man specializes in slowmotion story songs packed with exquisite details and easygoing vocal melodies, set to a handful of chords strummed on an acoustic guitar. On his excellent new album One Go Around — released last fall on Portland’s Fluff & Gravy Records — he writes mostly about blue-collar families, downand-out folks, jilted lovers and others who’ve had better days. Recurring themes include struggle, heartbreak, restlessness, anguish and, every once in a while, a sliver of hope.

Martin gets his interest in hard-luck stories from his father, too. He grew up in Eugene, where Dad led a church that focused its efforts on reaching and helping the local homeless population. Most days, Martin would accompany his dad out into the streets to hand out food and clothes to people who needed it.

“I feel like I have all these stories in me from that,” Martin says. “I learned over and over again the lesson that an overwhelming percentage of people on the street ... are really, really good hardworking people that just got screwed by a medical bill or something that’s out of

their control.”

That’s the message that courses through “Poor Man,” the stunning first track on One Go Around. It tells a story of a young couple — he’s a road worker, she’s pregnant — struggling not only to make ends meet, but also with the psychic weight of trying to get by in a world that feels like a dam ready to burst at any moment.

The song’s coda, sung from the road worker’s perspective, is endlessly haunting: “I’m not a bad man, I’m a poor man / I’m not a bad man, I’m a poor man sinking.”

Martin understands where his narrator is coming from. In June of 2016, he quit his full-time job teaching English in Junction City, Oregon, to focus on his music career. That decision has worked out well enough: More people have heard One Go Around than Martin’s previous albums, booking gigs is getting a little bit easier, and the bills are getting paid.

Still, teaching provided a stable income. Writing stories and singing them for people keeps Martin closer to the edge.

“It’s such an embedded part of our culture.

If you have money we assume that you are a decent person, and if you don’t have money we assume there’s something wrong with your character,” he says. “What’s great about being a singer-songwriter is you’re kind of deadlocked into a life of counting your pennies at the end of the month. … It keeps us honest.”

And for Martin, being honest is what it’s all about.

“In a lot of ways, my music has grown really organically, where I’ve just been writing songs and taking them on the road,” he says. “And that’s just what I’m going to keep doing.” n Jeffrey Martin with Marshall McLean and the Holy Rollers and Taylor Kingman • Sat, February 3 at 8 pm • $12-$15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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t face value, you’re obviously going to an Original Wailers show to hear the music Bob Marley made famous. But you can get that from literally thousands of cover bands playing around the world at any given moment, or from that well-worn copy of Legend tucked in the glove compartment of your car. You’ll get plenty of Bob’s best with the Original Wailers’ show, from political screeds to easy-skanking shuffles, and there are far worse ways to spend a night than a couple hours of live Marley music. But the surprising treat from this band is the powerful guitar work of bandleader Al Anderson, the American-born axe man who spent much of the ’70s alongside Marley, contributing to reggae now-classics like “No Woman, No Cry” and “Three O’Clock Roadblock.” Seeing him and this band of reggae lifers in a small club should be a joyful experience, and a vivid reminder of why Marley’s music stands the test of time.

— DAN NAILEN The Original Wailers • Fri, Feb. 2 at 8 pm • $32 advance/$36 day-of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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ROCK BEAR CALL

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t’s hardly a surprise to discover that Bear Call is based out of San Francisco, because they’re clearly paying homage to the grungy garage rock that put the Bay Area music scene on the map in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Or, rather, they’re channeling the sounds of fellow California retro stylists Thee Oh Sees, Shannon and the Clams or Wavves.

Either way, Bear Call has a penchant for deliberately sludgy, analog sonics, with razorsharp guitar lines and spacey synth drones slicing right through the fuzz. The band has been kicking around for a little less than two years, formed by frontman Skyler Warren after several failed attempts to get a band off the ground in Seattle. And while they don’t have much music out there yet — only a handful of tracks on their Bandcamp profile — what you can hear is already promising.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Bear Call with Marina Obscura and Eliza Catastrophe • Sat, Feb. 3 at 9 pm • $6 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Echo Elysium CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, Lyle Morse CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, FM FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Keanu FREDNECK’S, Just Plain Darin GARLAND DRINKERY, Kyle Richard

J HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio HOUSE OF SOUL, Jip Skippy and the Unprepared IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Mostly Harmless JACKSON ST., The Mighty Dreadful LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Dylan Hathaway LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Wyatt Wood J THE LOCAL DELI, Ally Burke

MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Steve Rush, Kevin Dorin & Scott Taylor MOOSE LOUNGE, Vern and the Volcanoes MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Bill Bozly NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NECTAR CATERING, Jamison Sampson NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Gigawatt NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick

O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J PALOUSE BAR & GRILL, Tommy G PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Patrice Webb and Doug Bond PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic J THE PIN!, Bass Knock, Dirty Ders, DJ OC, Havok, Alterum, Estevan RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE, Gladhammer SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad

SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Pamela Jean SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Ashley Pyle J J SPOKANE ARENA, Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi, Turnpike Troubadours THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ WesOne and DJ Big Mike: I Love the ‘90s UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Pamela Benton ZOLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

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12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, The Marlin James Band 219 LOUNGE, Brown Salmon Truck ARBOR CREST, Jan Harrison J J THE BARTLETT, Marshall McLean and the Holy Rollers, Jeffrey Martin (see page 49), Taylor Kingman BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, GS3 J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Eric Johnson BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Kevin BOLO’S, My Own Worst Enemy J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Jon & Rand

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CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Echo Elysium J J CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO, Eddie Money COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Wyatt Wood COMMUNITY PINT, Dan Conrad CURLEY’S, FM FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kyle Swaffard FLAME & CORK, Devon Wade HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke w/James J KNITTING FACTORY, 10 Years, From Ashes to New, Children of Atom, Silent Theory MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Brian Jacobs and Chris Lynch MOOSE LOUNGE, Vern and the Volcanoes MULLIGAN’S, Ron Greene NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Gigawatt NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Bear Call (see facing page), Marina Obscura, Eliza Catastrophe J PALOUSE BAR & GRILL, Tommy G J THE PIN!, Spokane Artist Festival feat. The Uninspired POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad RED TAIL BAR & GRILL, KOSH and Kicho RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos

RIPPLES RIVERSIDE, Gladhammer J THE SHOP, Steve and Kristi Nebel SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Jimi Finn THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ WesOne and DJ Big Mike: Sexy Saturday J WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, MadeinTYO J WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Just Plain Darin

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DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music J THE PIN!, Intervals, Jason Richardson, Nick Johnston, Night Verses

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219 LOUNGE, Jeffrey Martin and Taylor Kingman GENO’S, Open Mic w/Travis Goulding J J HUMBLE BURGER, Bart Budwig, The Lowest Pair J KNITTING FACTORY, Sleeping with Sirens, Set It Off, The Gospel Youth, Southpaw LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, The Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic Night with Vern Vogal THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BRAVO CONCERT HOUSE • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 HOUSE OF SOUL • 120 N. Wall • 217-1961 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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THEATER EXPLORING YORK

York is a one-man play about yet another hidden figure in history. The personal slave of famed explorer William Clark, York was also the only black member of the Corps of Discovery.

Even though he made vital contributions along the journey, York wasn’t recognized as a member of the Corps until the year 2000. Still, we seldom, if at all, read about York in most history books. Like many important historical figures who weren’t in positions of privilege, his story was nearly erased.

Local audiences can now learn more of this story when it comes to life in theatrical form as part of Spokane’s Black History Month events. Actor David Casteal (pictured) takes the lead as York, incorporating first-person narration and live African drumming into his gripping performance. York premiered at the Spokane Civic Theatre back in April of 2005 and was collaboratively written by Casteal and local playwright Bryan Harnetiaux.

— ALLA DROKINA York • Fri, Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm • $15-$22 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • Also Thu, Feb. 8 at 6:30 pm • $10 • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • spokanecivictheatre.com • northwestmuseum.org

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MUSIC COUNTRY COOL

Miranda Lambert had plenty of piss and vinegar in her songs well before a high-profile divorce. The split didn’t slow her down a bit, though; indeed, her latest is a double album, The Weight of These Wings, that’s another in her decade-plus string of platinum releases, and one that garnered her a couple of Grammy nominations for its first single, “Vice.” Her latest roadie is called the “Livin’ Like Hippies Tour,” and she’s bringing along Jon Pardi and Turnpike Troubadours to open the show. Whether or not the Spokane Arena parking lot turns into a Grateful Dead-style hippie trading post is up to you.

— DAN NAILEN Miranda Lambert with Turnpike Troubadours and Jon Pardi • Fri, Feb. 2 at 7 pm • $40/$60/$75 • All-ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000

BEER PARTY TIME, EXCELLENT!

When River City Brewing closed its taproom just over a month ago, the sad news was tempered with promises of regular parties at the brewery. Well, here’s the first, the River City Anniversary and First Friday Garage Party, where you can shake a tailfeather to some quality tunes from Funky Unkle while sipping on $3 pints and $4 special anniversary beers like the new 2018 barleywine release.

Sustain yourself with slices of David’s Pizza, and feel free to bring the kids, this is an all-ages celebration.

— DAN NAILEN River City’s Anniversary & First Friday Garage Party • Fri, Feb. 2 from 4-9:30 pm • Free • All-ages • 121 S. Cedar • facebook.com/ rivercitybrewing • 413-2388

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COMMUNITY #TIMESUP

Following plenty of forward momentum from the #MeToo, #TimesUp and Women’s March movements, community leaders in Spokane are hosting a community gathering and forum to discuss what can be done locally to prevent sexual violence, and to achieve justice for its survivors. Panelists include professionals in law enforcement, the criminal justice system, mental health and health care workers, victim advocates and many other local experts, all of whom will be available to field questions from concerned citizens during a question-and-answer period. Panelists include Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, Judge Maryann Moreno and Spokane City Councilwoman Kate Burke.

— CHEY SCOTT Time’s Up Spokane Town Hall • Thu, Feb. 8 from 5:30-7 pm • Free • Northeast Community Center • 4001 N. Cook St. • bit.ly/2rIwENK

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“Some of you will sit down here full-voiced, others will come whispering, murmuring, silent. Some will come with anger, some with sadness, some with regret, some with joy, some with blessings to give and precious moments to tell. This circle accepts you where you are.” This is the philosophy of Spark Central’s new community writing and storytelling group, which meets for the second time this month. Open to all people with any level of experience in the art of writing and storytelling, the group seeks to create a supportive environment for all to share their stories, and for participants to find common ground in the universally human experience of others. All forms of writing and stories are acceptable for sharing in the group; for a chance to participate in this unique experience, register online.

— CHEY SCOTT Diverse Voices Writing Group • Thu, Feb. 8 from 5:30-6:45 pm • Free • Ages 16+ • Spark Central • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • spark-central.org • 279-0299

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I SAW YOU FLOWER OF THE WEST I was walking down Sherman after an appointment at a medical group and decided not to wait for a bus. You were walking south bound on Sherman. I’ve seen you before on the bus. As I was walking I kept my gaze from looking you over trying to be respectable. But you showed me kindness and greeted me with a good morning. Thank you for that. If you ever see me again and would like to meet for a coffee don’t be shy. I will be a little more talkative if you would like. Don’t be offended but I find your eyes as striking as the Rose of Sharon in the Holy Land after a parched summer.

YOU SAW ME DID YOU WITNESS THIS ACCIDENT...

On JAN 9th at 4:35pm I was sitting in the middle lane at Division & Third & A HUGE WHITE LINCOLN NAVIGATOR in the left lane coming off the freeway decided to just come over in my lane & HIT ME, there was traffic all around & a car rt behind her SOMEONE HAD TO HAVE SEEN HER HIT ME!! MAYBE you SAW ME get out of my car & walk up to HER WINDOW & BANG ON IT to let her know she hit me & didn’t real-

ize what you were witnessing. THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE IS NOW SAYING I HIT HER & even though I was just sitting at the red light doing nothing its now her word against mine & I need to find ANYONE that may have seen ANYTHING that can help me!! PLEASE IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE BEEN

BY THE PROVIDENCE UR CARE AT DIVISION & THIRD LIGHT RT WHERE PEOPLE COME OFF THE FREEWAY. PLEASE MSG ME

CHEERS HOW INCREDIBLY SAD! How sad when a talented young person thinks that the only way out is to kill themselves! Very recently a high profile football player didn’t think he had Anything to live for---Really? When does the reason for these thoughts become important for the public to know? Absolutely the privacy component is vital. However how many people hearing of this think they don’t have a reason to live if this guy doesn’t. Would knowing the issue help someone? Many? Am I just being nosey? I understand he lost a big game in December---Really a “Big Game” was the reason? I also understand that the general public hasn’t been very nice about his passing. Saying the usual anonymous postings about how “He should have killed himself” over the loss. WOW! If that was the issue once again the publics perception is WAY skewed! If it wasn’t a person that high profile’s reason might help someone who is struggling? BTW the post is in “Cheers” because there wasn’t a place for “Tragedy”.

LOST AND FOUND TRIPLE Cheers and thanks to the South Hill Trader Joe’s for rescuing my lost items over the years - my wallet, about five years ago before I started walking it on a leash, my insulated coffee tumbler that I’m in a relationship with and, just last week, my vintage flip Tracfone that had a few hundred minutes and half a year of service left on it. It’s great to live in

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What’s the difference between a Public Defender high on METH and a plumber that floods your house?

a community where folks look out for each other.

KUDOS TO A STRANGER Thank you to the gentleman that was picking up garbage outside near the courthouse on Monday, 1/22. I have an office window and frequently see individuals throw trash on the ground without a second thought. It was a refreshing site to see someone picking up the garbage and doing it all with a smile. You made my day!

JUST, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING I just need to say a big warm thank you to all the people who make my life a little more pleasant. I do bike delivery downtown and I see a lot of people.

But, I need to call out a few of you by name. Thanks to Allen and Robert and everyone who takes care of the Chase building. The place always looks good and on top of that you’re good company. Thank you all. Thomas, Mick and everyone at Bike Hub you are excellent mechanics and just a really nice guys. I could go on but I’m sure other people have things to get out. Thanks again.

PRETTY EYES AND NACHO FRIES There isn’t anyone in this world I would rather be passing back fries to pouty munchkins with on a Saturday night.

We get excited about the same silly things. You make me smile from ear to ear and you make me a better person, mother and friend. I don’t know where I would be without you and our three little cuties. Your pretty blue/ green eyes will have me captivated forever-- even if their gaze oft makes

me nervous. I love you, babe.

JEERS METH What’s the difference between a Public Defender high on METH and a plumber that floods your house? You can sue the plumber for bad workmanship. Is there a more arrogant group of people than the people in the local court system in ALL levels? If you REALLY want to experience America-all you flag wavers just get yourself mixed up where you end up in court!

Sure you say: “If you didn’t do anything bad you wouldn’t be there”. Oh contraire! There are all kinds of ways to be pushed into that cesspool---just ask me! A year of watching one’s mother get jerked for making a decision about her own estate. Took months off her life and tens of thousands out of her pockets! But she finally got an attorney that reversed the overreaching unlawful judgments. Reading about Public Defenders that are high on the job cutting deals instead of doing their jobs just makes me sick to my stomach. And what will the public say-who pay for this? Well---Nothing Of Course! You can’t ask the people of Spokane to stand up for themselves!

They’re too busy licking boots..........

THE LADY DRIVING THE WHITE NAVIGATOR On Jan 9th I was SITTING at a RED LIGHT & you decided to come over in my lane WHERE THERE WASNT EVEN ENOUGH SPACE FOR YOUR BIG@$$ SUV, AND YOU HIT MY CAR... YOU KNOW YOU HIT MY CAR

TRUMP HYPOCRISY Is Donald Trump a true Christian? Or is he a hypocrite?

And why is evangelical America hailing him as a pseudo “messiah” that will bring this country back to God and “make america great again”? This all seems to me to be a false security based on false promises, that certainly even Jesus probably wouldn’t stand for. Jesus was a poor carpenter, who was turned into the Roman government to be crucified by false allegations from his own people. So how are Jesus and Trump alike again? Oh wait they aren’t. n

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HOSPICE OF NORTH IDAHO WINE TASTING An elegant, black-tie affair featuring gourmet creations from local chefs and samples of hundreds of hand-selected specialty wines. Feb. 3, 5-10 pm. $125. Hayden Lake Country Club, 2362 E. Bozanta Dr. hospicewinetaste.org (208-772-7994) PAIRING WITH PARASPORT Join ParaSport for an evening of celebration, storytelling and fundraising to support its mission of supporting paralympic ahtlets. Feb. 3, 5-8:30 pm. $45/person or $350/table of 8. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. parasportspokane.org SOUPERBOWL SNOWSHOE & NORDIC SKI EVENT All proceeds benefit the Women and Children’s Free Kitchen.

“Souper” Bowl lunch provided; snowshoes also available for rental. Feb. 4, 8 am-1 pm. $35. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. souperbowlspokane.com

TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit takes visitors on a journey back in time to experience the legend of Titanic through more than 120 real artifacts 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. Through May 20; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 8 pm). $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/ages 6-17, $13/college students w/ID. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) DROP IN & RPG If you have ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing — we’ll build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Ages 6-17. Meets first Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm; also March 16 from 4-7 pm. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org (279-0299) FAMILY DANCE AND POTLUCK Easy circle, line, and folk dances are taught

by Susan Dankovich. All ages welcome; no experience or partner necessary.

Held on the first Friday of the month, from 6:30-8 pm. Free-will donation.

Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave. (533-9955) LET THE DRUMS SOUND This workshop from Whitworth University educator Roberta Wilburn explores the cultural roots of African Americans from their African ancestry through the civil rights movement and present day culture using a multimedia presentation including drumming, music, poetry, and visuals. Feb. 3, 3 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. spokanelibrary.org (444-5390) SEED SWAP Local gardeners can bring extra seeds (home-saved or purchased) to share with others for spring planting.

Feb. 3, 1-3 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. cdalibrary.org WINTER MARKET The 14th annual market continues the tradition of hosting local vendors selling handmade, artisan goods including gourmet food, arts, jewelry and more. Feb. 3 and March 3 from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third, Moscow. 1912center.org THE HIGH ROAD In this talk from Humanities Washington, Gonzaga professor Tony Osborne traces dialogue to its ancient roots and discusses its pre-conditions, such as the necessity of quieting the ego and suppressing the urge to “one-up” the other. Cultivating a desire to engage in dialogue teaches humility and broadens a person’s horizons.

Discover how at the deepest levels, dialogue may even bring about inner and outer serenity while checking aggressive impulses, which can be directed without, or within. Feb. 5, 6:30 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley Ave. bit.ly/2DN3gaP (509-444-5390) GEORGETOWN MEMORY PROJECTBUTLER SLAVE RESEARCH This project traced Spokane resident Patricia Bayonne-Johnson’s maternal ancestors, who were enslaved by the Jesuits of Georgetown University. In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to two plantation owners in Louisiana to pay down the university’s debt. Patricia descends from six Jesuit slaves. Traditional resources and those unique to African Americans are discussed by the Butler Team. Feb. 6, 6:30 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W.

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) SEAN KENT The critically-acclaimed standup comedian is known for his onstage performances and as the host of the popular political podcast “Resistance Radio” and the “Tennis Nerd Podcast.” Feb. 1-2 at 8 pm, Feb. 3 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $8-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) CHOOSE TO LOSE Audience members compete in this wacky all-improvised game show, in which winning is losing!

Fridays at 8 pm through Feb. 9. Rated for general audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests.

Held the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com 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.

On the first Saturday of the month, at 7 pm. $5. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com 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

Wellesley. (444-5390) GARDEN STARTERS Master Gardener Kurt Madison shares his experience on how to bring a garden from seed to harvest. Learn about layout and design, propagation by seed, and selecting plants for the region’s climate. Feb. 7, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. (893-8390) WEDNESDAY CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance this week features nationally-acclaimed touring duo Larry Unger and Audrey Knuth, along with caller Emily Faulkner.

This is a community dance; no experience is necessary. Beginner workshop at 6:45 pm. Feb. 7, 7-9:45 pm. $8/$10.

Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. (598-9111) CREATING COMPASSIONATE FOSTER CARE Dr. Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks and Janet C. Mann talk about their new book “Creating Compassionate Foster Care: Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis.” Together, they describe an innovative approach to foster care that safely allows parents to stay connected with their children during the evaluation process while engaging foster parents as important partners in this work. Feb. 8, 4:30-6 pm. Free.

Gonzaga University Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone Ave. bit.ly/2BwgTt3 LET’S MAKE A WEBSITE! A beginnerfriendly, hands-on introduction to coding the web. Feel free to bring your own laptop so you can follow along and take your creation home. Feb. 8, 6-8:30 pm.

Free. Startup Spokane Central, 610 W. Second. startupspokane.com/coworking SAFETY PLANNING WORKSHOP A special workshop presented in partnership with Lutheran Community Services, Providence Health & Services, and Spokane C.O.P.S. This session is for individuals who have experienced Nonintimate partner domestic violence, harassment, assault, sexual assault, stalking, biased/hate crimes, vulnerable adult abuse, identity theft and fraud.

Feb. 8, 10 am. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5331)

FILM BACKCOUNTRY FILM FEST Celebrate winter and human-powered adventure through 8 award-winning films about our environment and climate and ski culture. Proceeds support the Winter Wildlands Alliance and efforts to protect non-motorized winter recreation in the Lookout Pass-Stevens Peak Area.

Feb. 1, 7-9:15 pm. $10. Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet. ackcountryfilmfestival.com (313-4189) REEL MOVIE MONDAYS: MY DOG SKIP A shy boy grows up in 1940s Mississippi with the help of his beloved dog, Skip.

Rated PG. Feb. 5, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org FLY FISHING FILM TOUR Traveling through the U.S. and Canada each year the tour features never-seen footage from waterways worldwide. Feb. 6, 7 pm. $14-$17. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS See the nominated shorts before the Academy picks. Feb. 8 at 7 pm; Feb. 9 at 5:30 and 8 pm; Feb. 10 at 1:30, 5 and 8 pm. $10$21. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org

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Pot Pioneer Cannabis loses a great activist; plus, efforts to codify protections for medical marijuana

BY TUCK CLARRY R.I.P. DENNIS PERON

The cannabis community lost a legend last weekend when activist Dennis Peron passed away at 72. Peron is credited as a pioneer in the movement of medical marijuana, most notably during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. In 1991 he helped pass an ordinance legalizing medical pot in San Francisco and in 1996 authored Proposition 215, which made California the first state to legalize cannabis for medicinal reasons.

His activism can be traced back to his decision to relocate after the Vietnam War. He returned from his tour with two pounds of cannabis and the need to be open with his sexuality. He became a staple of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco and was a friend and ally of Harvey Milk.

Castro’s large gay population was a focal point of the AIDS crisis, a disease that took Peron’s partner Jonathan West in 1990.

“At that point, I didn’t know what I was living for,” Peron told the Los Angeles Times in 1996. “In my pain, I decided to leave Jonathan a legacy of love. I made it my moral pursuit to let everyone know about Jonathan’s life, his death and his use of marijuana and how it gave him dignity in his final days.”

Medical marijuana served as an anti-nausea aid during treatment. Throughout the rest of his life, Peron remained a staple in the Castro community, owning a boutique hotel in the neighborhood.

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Lost in the conversation on the government shutdown and the Feb. 8 budget deadline is the state of the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which would prohibit federal regulators from messing with state’s medical-cannabis laws.

The amendment is part of the appropriations bill for the Department of Justice, which is also tethered to the overall budget bill. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is optimistic that once a budget is agreed upon, that the focus can shift to making the amendment to the bill a federal law.

“That law will then codify the position and keep it there as a matter of record,” Rohrabacher told Leafly.

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I’m a single 33-year-old woman. Suddenly, after years of outdoor sports, I have a dime-sized dark brown sunspot on my face. It’s not cancerous, and I’m having it lasered off.

This will take a while. Though I cover it with makeup, I’m terribly self-conscious about it, and I don’t want to date till it’s removed. I know how visual men are, and I don’t want a man to find out I have this thing and see me as unattractive. My friends say I’m being ridiculous. —Insecure

It’s a spot on your face that suggests you’ve done some stuff in the sun; it isn’t Mark of Satan™ or a button with a message underneath, “Press here to activate the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

Your intuition that a clear, even complexion is important isn’t off base. Anthropologist Bernhard Fink and his colleagues did some pretty cool research on how skin tone uniformity affects perceptions of a woman’s attractiveness. This isn’t a new area of study, but almost all of the research has been on Western populations. Social science findings are more likely to be representative of human nature when the subject pool goes beyond the usual “WEIRD” participants (from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries — and, more often than not, 19-year-old college undergrads fighting a wicked hangover to answer survey questions for class credit).

So Fink and his team sought out 172 men and women, ages 17 to 80, from two remote tribes — the cattle-raising Maasai in Tanzania and the forager-farmer Tsimane tribe in Bolivia — each “unfamiliar with lighter-colored skin.” The researchers explain that these tribes have no electricity and “little or no access” to magazines or newspapers from the West. They also live far from any tourist destinations, so no -- no pale-faced college girls dropping by, all “C’mon, Mr. Maasai…just one more selfie with me and your totally adorbs cow!”

Tribe members were asked to assess “age, health, and attractiveness” from photographs of skin — squares of white-lady skin cropped from photos of faces of British girls and women ages 11 to 76. Echoing findings from Western populations, women with “homogenous skin color” — meaning even in tone overall, with little or no “skin discoloration” (blotches or spots) — “were judged to be younger and healthier” and more attractive.

Research finds that humans, in general, prefer faces with clear, uniform skin, which is associated with being parasite- and disease-free. There’s also strong support, from cross-cultural studies, for the notion by evolutionary psychologists that men evolved to be drawn to female features that suggest a woman is young and healthy — and thus more likely to be fertile. Men just don’t think of it in so many words — “Better babies when Mommy’s got skin like an airbrushed Vogue cover girl!” — especially not in places where the nearest newsstand is maybe four days away by donkey.

Because women coevolved with men, women anticipate this male preference for flawless skin — leading them to feel, uh, undersparkly when their facial landscape is less than pristine.

This brings us to you. The thing is, you aren’t just a skin dot with a person attached. A guy will look at the whole. Also, we accept that people use products and technology to hide or fix flaws in their appearance — or to enhance the features they have. Accordingly, a guy is not defrauding you by using Rogaine, and no man with an IQ that exceeds your bra size believes you were born wearing eye shadow.

Ultimately, you have more control than you probably realize over how much any imperfections affect your total attractiveness. A woman I know is a living example of this. She’s got two fewer legs than most of us. But she understands — and shows it in the way she carries herself — that she’s vastly more than the sum of her (missing) parts.

In other words, your real problem is you — your feeling that this spot is some kind of boulder-sized diminisher of your worth. Chances are, this comes from putting too much weight on your looks as the source of your value. Though you may not be where you want in your career, doing regular meaningful work to help other people — like volunteer work — might be the quickest way for you to feel bigger than that dot on your face.

There’s nothing wrong with getting it lasered off, but as long as it’s still with you, try something: Revel in having it instead of going into hiding over it. I’m serious.

After all, it’s basically a sign that you went outdoors and seized life -- not that you got drunk and joined one of those racist Tiki torch marches and now have to hit up some tattoo artist to turn the swastikas into butterflies. 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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FOOD FIRST BITE A preview event for Inlander Restaurant Week 2018, with samplings of menu items, artisan cheese, live music and the reveal of this year’s restaurants and fixed-price, three-course menus. Proceeds benefit Second Harvest Inland Northwest. Feb. 1, 6-8 pm. $31. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. bit.ly/2DJnhQk GRUITFEST Local breweries celebrate gruit, a historical botanical “pre-hops era” style of beer, which utilizes herbs and spices for flavor in lieu of hops.

Seven local breweries and one meadery showcase their gruit ales during this annual event. Entry includes five drink tickets and a commemorative glass ($2/extra tokens). Feb. 1, 5-9 pm. $25/ person. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2n1RkM4 ONE DINNER The Inland Northwest Food Network’s series of multi-course benefit dinners featuring one ingredient made by one chef on one night only; February’s dinner by Chef Tony Brown highlights local grains. Feb. 1, 6 pm. $70. Ruins, 825 N. Monroe. inwfoodnetwork.org SLEIGHT OF HAND CELLARS WINE DINNER Featuring wine from the Walla Walla winery served alongside a sixcourse menu prepared by Chef Tanya, while winemaker Trey Busch spins his favorite vinyl tracks, a trademark of the Sleight of Hand tasting room. Feb. 1, 6 pm. $85. Masselow’s, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com RIVER CITY’S ANNIVERSARY + FIRST FRIDAY GARAGE PARTY Celebrate another year of River City Brewing at an anniversary party that doubles as the first official First Friday Garage Party.

Featuring music by Funky Unkle, with food from David’s Pizza, plus featured beers. Feb. 2, 4-9:30 pm. Free. River City Brewing, 121 S. Cedar St. rivercityred.blogspot.com (509-413-2388) VINO WINE TASTING Friday Feb. 2’s tasting highlights selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month, from 3-6:30 pm. On Saturday, Feb. 3 guests can sample wines of Piedmont, Italy, from 2-4:30 pm. Free. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. First Saturday of the month, at 3 pm. $25.

Beverly’s, 115 S. 2nd. beverlyscda.com TOFU TRANSFORMATION Jamie Aquino shares proper cooking techniques and how to transform tofu’s texture from soft and bland, to chewy and complex. Offered Jan. 31 and Feb. 5 from 5:30-7 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. thekitchenengine.com DUCKHORN VINEYARDS WINE DINNER The Napa Valley-based winery partners with Chef Jeremy Hansen for a special, limited seating dinner consisting of seven courses paired with Duckhorn’s wines. Reservations required.

Feb. 6, 6 pm. $150. Inland Pacific Kitchen, 304 W. Pacific Ave. ipkspokane.com HOPS ARE IN THE AIR Treat your Valentine early with a three-course dinner paired with three Mac & Jack’s brews: the African Amber, Maxx Stout, and Blackcat Porter. Reservations suggested. Feb. 7, 6-8 pm. $35. EPIC, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com CHICKEN PAD THAI Guests learn how to authentically make this popular dish

at home. Feb. 8, 6-7:45 pm. $29. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd. modernistcooks.com

MUSIC JUDY COLLINS WITH THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY Singer-songwriter Judy Collins has inspired audiences for five decades, singing traditional and contemporary folk standards and her poignant original compositions. Feb. 3, 8-10 pm. $39-$86. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) ALEJANDRO ZIEGLER TANGO QUARTET The evening performance features the Quartet playing tango classics and original works by Ziegler, with an open dance floor. Feb. 8, 7:30-9:30 pm. $20.

Harding Family Center, 411 N. 15th, Cda. bit.ly/2DZWBNL (208-667-1323) THE LOWEST PAIR An intimate, acoustic evening with the sultry country folk duo out of Olympia. Sandpoint singer/ songwriter Jake Robin opens. Feb. 8, 6:30-8:30 pm. $15-$17. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org

THEATER COMING HOME: A SOLDIERS’ PROJECT A new theatrical production exploring the experiences of what it is like to return from war to study at Gonzaga University, by Kathleen Jeffs and directed by Charles M Pepiton. Feb. 2-11; Thu-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10$15; free/active-duty, retired military.

Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone Ave. bit.ly/2DnMeDQ THE LAST MOTHER IN THE HOUSE OF CHAVIS A family drama exploring relationships through the lens of a father who discovers his estranged son is to appear in a reality TV show...for drag queens. Through Feb. 3 at 7:30 pm, Feb. 3-4 at 2 pm. $10/public (free for UI students). The Forge Theater, 404 Sweet Ave. uidaho.edu/class/theatre WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play, this intense and riveting drama exposes the gritty and visceral breakdown between an affluent middle-aged couple. Through Feb. 11; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) DEATH OF A SMALL TOWN IN THE WEST An original play of doom in three acts by Sandpoint playwright Ben Olson. Feb. 2-3 at 7 pm. $10-$12. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org FAST & FURIOUS V Stage Left’s fifth annual staged reading of 35 short plays, including new comedies and dramas by local and national playwrights. Feb. 2-3 at 7:30 pm, Feb. 4 at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. (838-9727) YORK A one-man play from the perspective of York, Clark’s childhood companion and slave, who accompanied the Corps of Discovery as the only black man on the expedition. Feb. 2, 7:30 pm. $15-$22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater’s On the Road uses the story of Lewis and Clark to teach about history and modern-day social challenges faced by students.

Feb. 8, 7 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org YORK To recognize and celebrate Black

History Month, the MAC and NAACP host this powerful one-man play, performed by David Casteal and directed

by Susan Hardie. Feb. 8, 6:30-8 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (363-5324)

ARTS HAROLD BALAZS: I DID IT MY WAY A showcase of works by the late iconic artist Harold Balazs, including 130+ pieces representing the seven decades of Harold’s work, including new paintings from 2017, along with enamels, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media assemblages. Through Feb. 3; Tue-Sat from 9 am-6 pm. Free to view. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com FIRST FRIDAY + SATURATE Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. February’s event also includes SATURATE, a special spotlight on artists of color, organized by Spokane Arts. Feb. 2 from 5-8 pm. Free. Details at firstfridayspokane.org and spokanearts.org TWO THREE SEVEN - A SHINING THEMED SHOW Celebrate the long Spokane winter at this “Shining”themed art show by PNW artists. Also benefits the cancer funds of Susan Webber and Kelly Fay Vaughn. Feb. 2, 6-9 pm. Free. Resurrection Records, 1927 W. Northwest Blvd. (414-1429) TEN YEARS OF TERRAIN | OPENING CELEBRATION In honor of Terrain’s 10th Anniversary, this gallery show looks back at noteworthy pieces/performance from past Terrain events. Feb. 9, 5-8 pm. Free. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific Ave. bit.ly/2DNzuXo

WORDS 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic continues with featured reader Patty Tully. Readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. Feb. 2, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com POETRY WITH STEPHEN PITTERS In this program for African American History Month, poet Stephen Pitters explores his family history, life lessons about racism, and experiences such as being the first Black to live on campus at an all white Southern college in 1967.

Feb. 3, 3 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org 2018 WOMEN OF THE WORLD POETRY SLAM QUALIFIER Spokane Poetry Slam is hosting the first official qualifying competition to send a representative to Dallas this March for the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Eight local poets compete. Doors at 7:30. Feb. 5, 8-11 pm. $8/$10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2BEAJlX (747-2174) READING: TERESE MARIE MAILHOT Writer Therese Marie Mailhot is in conversation with local novelist Sharma Shields to discuss her new memoir, “Heart Berries,” which is centered around Mailhot’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Feb. 7, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com PIVOT MAINSTAGE: LOVE HURTS Eight storytellers tell true stories from their own lives that revolve around the theme “love hurts.” Feb. 8, 7 pm. $10.

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42. Note to a creditor 43. 1997 Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones blockbuster, for short 45. One in a prompt box 46. 1982 Human League hit that’s always stuck in your head?

50. “____, Brute!”

51. Bloviation 52. Letters on NYC trains 55. 1994 Toni Braxton hit that’s always stuck in your head?

61. In case it’s called for 64. Studly 65. Org. with a campaign called “Degrees Not Debt” 66. “To ____ not to ...”

67. Marcos of the Philippines 68. Caps Lock, e.g.

69. Parts of décadas 70. ____ Antilles

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Starts in Plaza Shops (210 SHERMAN)

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Winners Tickets range between $15 - $25

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Sandpoint Chocolate Bear will be bringing its truffles, pictured here, to the Chocolate Affair, in addition to more than a dozen other confectioners.

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February and Fun

Second Friday is full of chocolate, wine, live music and art this month

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ou don’t need an invitation to downtown Coeur d’Alene’s monthly party on the second Friday of the month; just show up! From April through December, it’s ArtWalk when restaurants, galleries and other establishments host artists. Otherwise, including in February, downtown businesses host live music during MUSIC WALK (Feb. 9, 5-8 pm) put on by the city’s Arts & Culture Alliance.

Both are free, family-friendly and loads of fun.

February is special, though, with even more events. Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association’s annual CHOCOLATE AFFAIR is also Feb. 9, from 5-8 pm. For $15, sample ahh-h-mazing sweets and vote for your top one (good luck picking just one)

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produced by our region’s chocolatiers and bakers. Last year, for example, the raves were for the maple bacon chocolate granache by Pastry & More.

(They’re back this year, too.)

Most vendors are keeping their sweets secret for now, yet all you need to know, including purchasing tickets, is online at cdadowntown.com or call 208-415-0116.

As if the best chocolates you’ve ever tasted for $15 wasn’t enough — consider that a good quality chocolate bar costs at least $4 — how about a wine-tasting during Music Walk? Absolutely!

Enjoy seven pours (total) and the chocolate tasting for $25 at seven host locations: ABI’S ICE CREAM, EARTHLY BEAUTY BAR, MARMALADE FRESH CLOTHING and both CASTAWAY CELLARS and SANTOSHA IMPORTS inside the RESORT PLAZA SHOPS, as well as ALL THINGS IRISH

and CHRISTMAS AT THE LAKE. The Shops is also where you’ll check-in for your wristband and/or ticket, and a map to all the chocolate locations. Just look for the chocolate fountain stocked with cookies and fruit or your dipping enjoyment!

Of course, you can just jump on the Music Walk at any of 11 participating locations to see fabulous acts like Cathy Colton at CRICKETS BAR & GRILL, and Jacob Maxwell at the newly opened ARLEN ROSENOFF FINE ART. Remember to chocolate/wine/music/art and walk responsibly or stay another night in the lovely city of Coeur d’Alene. (Contact cdaresort.com about the Valentine Bed & Breakfast package starting from $169 through the whole month of February.)

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CDA Upcoming Events Annual Bartender Mix-off FEBRUARY 3

Coeur d’Alene Casino is hosting a night of free-flowing fun. Enjoy great cocktails and food, along with entertaining world-champion bartenders from Las Vegas Flair Academy.

Tickets $30; 6 pm. Call 800-523-2464 or go to cdacasino.com/event /rock-of-all-eras.

Sip of Beverly’s Wine Class FEBRUARY 3

Find out about California-based wines in “The Gold Standard of New World Wines” from sommelier Trevor Treller. Of course you get to taste the wine, which has been expertly paired with gourmet appetizers. Tickets $29; 3 pm.

Call 208-765-4000 for reservations.

The Spinners FEBRUARY 8

Make sure to work your way to the Coeur d’Alene Casino for the sounds of the Soul Train with the musical group, The Spinners. Tickets $30; 7 pm.

Call 800-523-2464 or go to cdacasino.com/ event/the-spinners.

VALENTINE’S BED & BREAKFAST PACK AGES STARTING AT $169* PER NIGHT *Certain restrictions apply. Based on availability.

Love on the Lake Dinner Cruise FEBRUARY 10 & 14

First date or 50th Valentine’s together, this cruise is ideal for lovebirds of any feather, including people who just want to celebrate on the lake we all love so dearly. Tickets $58; 6 pm boarding. Call 855-703-4648 or go to cdaresort.com/discover/cruises/tickets.

For more events, things to do & places to stay, go to VisitCDA.org

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