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very year, teams of volunteers and outreach workers comb the streets, shelters, public libraries, underpasses and hideouts along the river to find and count the HOMELESS population of Spokane. The resulting number is important — it figures into funding and policy decisions — but in counting the homeless, the teams are also trying to capture their stories: how and why they ended up on the streets. We joined outreach workers during the annual count last week and sent five of our journalists far and wide to get a handle on the issue.

Encouragingly, there’s hope among advocates that Spokane is uniquely positioned to house the homeless. However, there are still too many people like Bill and Linda Skelton, pictured on the cover of this issue, who hunker beneath sleeping bags and blankets at night, waiting for the sun to rise. The stories gathered by our reporters (page 20) are heartbreaking, revealing, inspiring. As Rob McCann, director of Catholic Charities, tells us: “Once you get to know the reality of the homeless population, you will never again think it’s their own fault.”

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f you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.” This is one of my favorite quotes, attributed to now-retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki. Case in point: Blockbuster could have been Netflix, but the company failed to respond to evolving market conditions and went out of business.

Change in dynamic organizations is constant; successful entities are always questioning existing strategies and pursuing new initiatives. Yet the routine of doing today what was done yesterday is comfortable, regardless of its effectiveness.

On the other hand, it’s uncomfortable to objectively assess what’s working and what’s not — to research and dream about more beneficial outcomes and to ultimately take the risk in pursuing alternate paths. For example, etailz, the company I cofounded, pivoted a few years after its formation away from selling environmentally friendly products via a direct website to offering a vast array of merchandise on third-party marketplaces. This change was difficult and not broadly embraced, yet had we not evolved, we likely would have suffered the same fate as Blockbuster.

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he Spokane region is asset-rich in many areas and has world-class expertise in several industries. But are we deploying our resources and prioritizing our economic development efforts to optimize economic growth? A simple, useful framework to evaluate a portfolio of business units is the Boston Consulting Group Growth-Share Matrix, which judges industries by their growth rates and by their overall economic impact, or market share. High-growth, high-market share industries are “stars,” while low-growth, low-market share ones are “dogs.” Meanwhile, low-growth, high-market share industries are judged “cash cows,” while a high-growth, lowmarket share combination equates to a “question mark.” This is where speculative, fledgling industries usually land.

In this context, I’m comparing the industry sectors our community chooses to focus on to business units within an organization. The goal, of course, is to allocate resources to the stars.

Question marks should be analyzed to determine whether they are worthy of investment. Cows, exhibiting low growth rates yet high market share, should be “milked.” As for the dogs, harsh as it may sound, they should be put to sleep.

Is Spokane properly allocating its resources to those industry sectors — the stars — that are expected to enjoy high growth rates and enable high market share? The poster child in this box is Healthcare Services and Information Systems, given the presence of such industry leaders as Sacred Heart Medical Center, the University of Washington School of Medicine, WSU Health Sciences, Inland Imaging, INHS, Jubilant HollisterStier, Paw Print Genetics, Medication Review and GenPrime, among others. Other star sectors

include Telecom/Networking (Telect, Purcell Systems, 2nd Watch, F5 Networks, RiskLens and Ciena), Utility Services (Itron, Ecova and Safeguard Equipment) and Digital Marketing (Imprezzio, Kochava, Seven2 and etailz).

And what are the question marks that could become future stars?

Some are speculating it could be robotics. Nick Smoot in Coeur d’Alene has done an exceptional job of branding his city as a robotics hub and has gained tremendous support from the local business community and research institutions.

Robotics, like technology, is a broad label that can describe a range of innovation. Companies in our region that fit this description include Next IT, Rohinni and xCraft.

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his begs the question: Are we overallocating support and emphasis to certain sectors that, while perhaps providing steady jobs now, are likely to experience low growth? Cash cows have an important place in a portfolio, yet a disproportionate share of our resources should be devoted to rising stars. Where, for example, would Fairchild Air Force Base land on the growth matrix? Despite exhaustive local efforts, the Air Mobility Command recently announced that Fairchild was not selected as a preferred base for the next generation of tankers.

Have we been devoting too much effort to legacy sectors at the expense of future opportunities that may provide a more robust economic upside?

We must have a healthy dialogue regarding which sectors are likely to exhibit high market share, but the exercise cannot be skewed by those protecting slower-growing industries. Unless, of course, businesses within other mainstay regional industries — defense, agriculture and mining, for example — are thinking outside the box and pursuing game-changing, disruptive innovations. Locally, Berg Manufacturing is an industry leader in manufacturing entirely new shelters for the defense industry, HyperSciences has developed technology that increases oil and gas drilling rates by 10 times compared to conventional methodologies, and Farb Guidance is developing self-driving tractors for the agricultural industry.

To act upon whatever conclusions such an analysis shows us, we’ll need to learn to think the way investors do as they seek the next big things.

And we need to foster a local culture willing to embrace change. Choosing to focus on the right sectors, investing in innovation and highlighting the incredible quality of life offered by our region will ensure that Spokane is not “Netflixed” by other cities seeking economic growth. n tsimpson@inlander.com

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We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight Why we’re filling the streets to protest Trump’s inhumane, dangerous policies

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fter little more than a week in office, Donald Trump is well on his way to becoming the worst president in United States history, causing more damage to our position in the world than a terrorist could hope to accomplish. Sticking to an ugly campaign promise — yes, I see all you “give him a chance” supporters out there — it took just a few days for him to declare war on refugees and close our borders to Muslims who are fleeing violence, oppression and persecution.

The executive order that Trump signed barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the U.S., countries where he has avoided

major business ventures, was reviewed by virtually no one, coming as a surprise to even his staff. Not only is it unconstitutional — lawyers in four states already have taken him to court and won — but it is antithetical to American values, and more proof that those shouting “All Lives Matter!” never really cared about all lives. Or as Pope Francis said last October in response to Trump’s campaign statements, “It is hypocritical to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee.” (Note: Jesus Christ wouldn’t make it through customs today.)

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With most of the Republican members of Congress — including Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers — supporting the ban or keeping silent, they cannot be excused for being deluded enough to think, in the face of all the evidence, that this measure will somehow make America safe. These leaders are acting cruel and inhumane, while giving a voice to discrimination and hate. Yes, that voice has always been there, but so has a voice to defy discrimination and hatred with love, acceptance and unity. We — voters, constituents and community members — won’t wait.

Therein lies the other story, of course: Spokane is rising and resisting. If one thing was proven this past month — from Martin Luther King Jr. Day to the Women’s March and the solidarity rally for refugees — it’s that when times get tough, we get tougher. Facing unprecedented attacks, we are witnessing groups who normally wouldn’t be aligned in protest come together in every way possible.

Too much is at stake: At the state level, opponents of equality rushed to file a ballot initiative that would roll back nondiscrimination protections which have protected transgender Washingtonians for 10 years. In the Idaho Legislature and on the ballot, they’re seeking to change state code to make performing or undergoing an abortion an act of first-degree murder.

In the city of Spokane, efforts are afoot to repeal the city’s protection law saying that the immigration status of an individual “shall not be the sole basis for a contact, detention or arrest.”

More marches and rallies will come. As we meet, we can’t forget that this is bigger than who is president, or simply a matter of favoring one political ideology over another. Our differences are not as important as what we are all up against, and we must march and rally for policies that will lift up the whole and ensure justice that makes peace a reality for all of us.

In a contemptuous critique of the Women’s March, which she didn’t attend, Spokesman-Review columnist Sue Lani Madsen said that “protest marches are pointless if not focused.”

Well, I have news for her: We’re not going to let up.

Not on immigration. Not on refugees. Not on public safety. Not on health care and reproductive rights. Not on the environment. Not on human rights.

Not on anything — because this is what democracy looks like. 

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Thousands turned out for Spokane’s march.

Readers continue to react to the outpouring of support for the Women’s March on Spokane; here are comments on our story recapping the event from the Jan. 26 issue:

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ISAAC JACK JR.: What do you feel has been accomplished here in Spokane? Increased equality and respect are common ground.

What helps? I know I keep [my] ear to the ground regarding law enforcement brutality and profiling.

ALLIE RAWLINS: I’ve seen a lot of people asking what the march was about. While standing in line to enter the convention center, my friends and I took our sign around and asked people to write what they were marching for on the back.

I liked the idea of showcasing the multitude of issues that brought so many out that day. A lot of critics are trying to narrow it down to one or two things, but we marched for everyone that day. The love and inclusion could be felt by everyone there.

WILLIE STREETER: Not being smart what rights are women losing ANGELA DICKEY: Donald Trump just signed an executive order to cut federal funding for abortions. We are losing safe abortions and I’m pretty sure he’s coming after birth control, too.

VIRGINIA RHODES KORN: By de-funding Planned Parenthood, women are losing the right to affordable health care, birth control, and mammograms. Women still don’t earn equal pay for equal work.

By cutting funding for battered women’s shelters, abused women are forced to live with their abusers or try to escape with their kids and go into hiding. They need protection.

DEAN LAMBSON: Oh look! Another man who likes to tell women how to live their lives because of his belief in a 2,000-year-old comic book written by a bunch of men that didn’t know where the sun went at night. If you don’t believe in abortions, then don’t get one, but you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” when you vote to cut funding to the child’s food, housing and healthcare benefits. You aren’t pro-life, you are pro-birth. 

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The Next Yards The gaps continue to be filled in at Kendall Yards

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n 2010, Greenstone Homes began to fill in the vast swath of empty space in the center of the maps of Spokane. The Kendall Yards development has taken the 78-acre scar of old railroad land just north of downtown, and slowly began to occupy the gaps. Over the past seven years, townhomes, lofts, cottages, restaurants, retailers — and even the Inlander — have sprung up.

But major significant blank spaces remain in the Kendall Yards development. Most obviously, there’s the flat, windswept expanse of snow and rocks stretching from the Inlander building to the Monroe Street Bridge. Last fall, it had been repurposed as a dirt parking lot. But now, that — and many of the other gaps in the Kendall Yards properties — are about to be filled in, as Kendall Yards gets bigger and denser than ever.

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Nearly 200,000 square feet of residential, retail and office space will be constructed in the space between the Inlander building and the Monroe Street Bridge. During the summer, it had been used as an ad hoc parking lot for Kendall Yards’ Wednesday Night Market events.

But Kendall Yards won’t lose any parking to the new complex.

“We always saw it as a larger mixed-use building over

an underground parking garage,” says Jim Frank, founder of Greenstone Homes, Kendall Yards’ developer. He says this sort of strategy has always been part of the Kendall Yards plan — the south side of the project would be more dense, relying on structural parking instead of surface parking lots. And while a parking pass will be required during the day, Frank says that after hours, the parking will likely be free.

“Economically, it’s a just a big project. Its probable total value is $50 million,” Frank says. “It’s a big project for downtown Spokane, it’s a big project for Greenstone.”

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One building, adjacent to the Centennial Trail, will feature a restaurant and coffee shop. The other, facing the park, will be a small, mixed-use retail spot, with restaurants and three residential spaces.

The trickiest part of building out Kendall Yards, Frank says, is finding small, independent retailers.

“You’re not in a situation where the retail market is growing,” Frank says. “The retail market for brick-and-mortar stores is shrinking.”

That said, he does have a wish list.

“It would be nice to have a fly-fishing shop. Because the river is so close, it provides convenient access for people who might want to float the river,” Frank says. “An REI-like place where you could get bicycles and fitness equipment and clothing. That’s the kind of retail that would be nice in the neighborhood.”

Meanwhile, the spot between Nectar Wine & Beer and Spa Paradiso will get a new restaurant and retail space — though Greenstone isn’t allowed to say who’s moving in. The space will, however, include a community fitness center for Kendall Yards residents. n danielw@inlander.com

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The suddenness of President Donald Trump’s executive order BANNING REFUGEES and visitors from seven majority-Muslim countries late Friday took even members of his own administration by surprise. Chaos and confusion overtook airports across the nation as customs and border officials began detaining incoming passengers.

Almost immediately, protesters flooded into the streets and airports objecting to the move. In downtown Spokane, hundreds of protesters rallied Sunday in front of the Lincoln statue on Monroe Street, chanting and cheering as cars drove past. Check out Inlander. com for more photos of the event.

Many of the protesters also packed the Spokane City Council chambers Monday night, as the council unanimously voted to bar city employees from participating in the creation of any religious registry. During his campaign, Trump gave a series of vague and sometimes confusing answers to questions over whether he supported creating a registry of Muslims. Initially, Trump seemed open to considering it, but his team has since explicitly denied that he supports such a proposal. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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The AG’s office also filed a temporary restraining order that would immediately block Trump’s action from being enforced.

The executive order, which seems like an attempt to make good on one of Trump’s core campaign promises, temporarily bans all refugees from entering the U.S. and indefinitely bans Syrian refugees. It also temporarily halts immigrants coming into the country from seven Muslim-majority countries.

On Saturday, the day after Trump signed the order, travelers in airports across the country, including in Seattle, were detained and put on planes departing the U.S. Judges in four cities — Seattle, New York, Boston and Alexandria, Virginia — ruled in favor of individuals detained or otherwise impacted by the executive order, but Ferguson’s lawsuit seeks a much broader determination that would strike down portions of the order nationwide.

This week, details surrounding Trump’s haste to enact the controversial ban came to light. First were the reports of a “dissent memo” circulating at the State Department; the memo is essentially a message to Trump that his order could make the threat of terrorism worse, not better. Meanwhile, Washington-based Microsoft and Expedia filed declarations in support of Ferguson’s lawsuit, detailing how the order has impacted their employees.

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HOMEWARD BOUND The city of Spokane may be on the cusp of solving homelessness — and for those who are still homeless, the solution can’t come fast enough

BY DANIEL WALTERS, WILSON CRISCIONE, MITCH RYALS and RAVEN HAYNES

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omelessness is snuggling under a pile of blankets with two other people to stay warm, and it’s using meth to stay awake, so you don’t freeze to death in your sleep.

Homelessness is teasing the downtown cop you know by name, and it’s being arrested on a warrant at a substance abuse clinic.

Homelessness is digging through dumpsters for food, and it’s smoking half-burned cigarettes you found on the ground.

Social worker Bob Peeler talks to Anthony St. John about available housing. St. John says he’s not interested.

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And homelessness is nearly a thousand separate stories that we as a community listen to once a year, in the dead of winter.

Last week, volunteers, advocates and outreach workers scoured the shelters and searched under freeways, in the library, the bus plaza and wherever else Spokane’s homeless population frequents, trying to tally who exactly the region’s homeless are.

“Once you get to know the reality of the homeless population,” says Rob McCann, director of Catholic Charities, “you will never again think it’s their own fault.”

Back in 2011, amid the recession — as unemployment drove some Spokane residents to the streets and budget cuts threatened to shutter shelters — the possibility of dramatically reducing homelessness in Spokane looked bleak, almost impossible.

Even McCann scoffed at then-President Barack Obama’s dream of ending homelessness within a decade.

“That may have made great fodder for a speech by a politician trying to get elected, but it’s not reality,” McCann told the Inlander then. “You’re not going to end homelessness in 10 years.”

A half-dozen years later, that reality has changed. Today, McCann is the voice of optimism. He speaks with a rapid passion as he puts forth a radical notion: Homelessness can be beaten.

“This is not a problem that is unsolvable. Most people look at homelessness and say, ‘Ah, you’ll never solve it. You’re never going to solve peace in the Middle East. You’ll never solve hunger in Africa. You’re never going to solve homelessness in Spokane,’” McCann says. “These problems are not the same.

We can solve homelessness in Spokane.”

Not only that, but he believes it can be largely solved in the next three years.

“Let’s say there’s 350 chronically street-homeless men and women in Spokane,” McCann says. “We endeavor to build an apartment for every one of them by 2020.”

He’s not ready to say that homelessness can be ended, but he believes there will come a time where shelters like Catholic Charities’ House of Charity will see attendance dwindle, as more and more of the homeless are given homes. Local advocates have their eye on “functional zero,” where the moment someone becomes homeless, the community floods them with resources to immediately find them a home again.

In the past two years, McCann says, Spokane has been at a crossroads: It could go the way of Seattle, where more than 300 members of the city’s homeless population have set up camp amid the rats and needles and garbage heaps underneath the I-5 freeway. Despite the booming economy and liberal populace, sky-high property values make building housing for the homeless nearly impossible.

Instead, Spokane has tried to attack homelessness while it still has a fighting chance. That’s meant an alliance between charities, hospitals, business groups, the Spokane Housing Authority and advocates.

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

It’s meant gathering immense amounts of data to understand the shape of homelessness in Spokane. It’s meant — just this winter — dramatically expanding the amount of space in the shelters and ensuring that shelters are open every hour of every day of the week.

And, crucially, it’s meant giving the homeless homes.

McCann points to the poster boards scattered about his office, renderings of apartment complexes aimed at housing the chronically homeless. Catholic Charities has already built three, and three more are under construction or completely funded.

“We’re not just dreaming or hoping or praying, ‘Oh, gosh, I hope we build these buildings.’ We’re doing it,” McCann says.

“Imagine how many cities in the United States would kill to be able to say we are sheltering every homeless person in the community?”

SEARCHING FOR THE HOMELESS

The Point-In-Time count of the homeless, held every January, will always be imperfect. The numbers can be dramatically impacted by the weather, by the amount of shelter space available, even by what the House of Charity is offering for lunch that day. Last year, the county found 981 homeless people. But the point of the count isn’t just to determine the number of homeless, which has been steadily decreasing in the past five years. The point is to find out who they are and to catalog their stories.

An outreach team sets out from Crosswalk — a shelter for homeless youth in downtown Spokane — and heads straight for the STA bus plaza, armed with blue Point-In-Time count forms.

Almost immediately, the team finds Matthew Bancroft, a homeless 19-year-old at the STA Plaza.

One of the outreach team members begins running through the questions. Where did you stay last night? In a vehicle? An abandoned building? On the streets?

What caused your homelessness? Eviction? Domestic violence? Drug use? Family rejection? Aged out of foster care?

Bancroft describes a childhood spent running away from foster homes — like the one where the fridge holding the good food was padlocked — and sleeping in a park or on the benches at the train station. He describes nights where he walked hours, alone, to get to a friend’s house where he could crash.

“The community basically raised me,” Bancroft says.

His 1-year-old son, Jacob, munches on peanut butter Ritz crackers in his stroller.

“I don’t get visits with him very much because I’m always struggling,” Bancroft says.

Meanwhile, other volunteers stop in at the Spokane Public Library a few blocks away and interview Adam Jones. His questionnaire answers are often broken up by bouts of laughter; he assures everyone he’s actually 33, despite his low, gravelly voice and collection of walking canes.

While he’s now on the street, he’s previously lived for more than a year in a modified school bus, complete with two wood...continued on next page

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Homelessness burning stoves, with his family as a “retreat.” He has “something stupid like 29” bikes which he uses to exercise, and he volunteers at Mosaic Community Bike Shop fixing bikes. He jokes about being a dirty hippie.

“I get the urge to be bitter sometimes,” Jones says.

“But I still think there’s a lot of happiness to be found in Spokane.”

There’s been a lot of sadness, too. He lost his home gradually after his friends took advantage of him, he says. His wife, Jewelya, died of a heart infection. Their daughter, Dayvey, now 4, went to live with his wife’s friend.

Last August, he says, he was about six months out from graduating from his homebuilding journeyman program when he was literally blindsided — hit by a car while riding his bike. He sustained a severe concussion and soft tissue damage, and still suffers from double vision, memory trouble and chronic headaches.

Still, he wants to finish up his degree. He wants to get housing. He wants, someday, to take his daughter to Disney World. At least, he says, he and Dayvey hang out every week. But so far, he hasn’t revealed that he’s homeless.

“I say, ‘Daddy’s at work,’” Jones says. “That’s all I can really say.”

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for decades — checking on people who he knows slept outside the night before. Early on the day after Spokane’s official count, he finds Bill and Linda Skelton snuggled under six blankets and three sleeping bags on a sidewalk under the freeway. The words “NO TRESPASSING” are spray-painted on the concrete wall right behind them.

People know them as Mom and Pop. Or as BillAndLinda. One word. They’re always together.

They’ve been trying to get into a place of their own for nearly five years. But according to the housing assessment tool that Peeler uses at SNAP, that means they’re not homeless enough. People who have been on the streets for 10 or 15 years, for example, are given priority. An addiction or mental health issue gives a person priority as well.

That’s one thing Peeler says he might change about housing assessments. It would be helpful if there was a way to calculate the likelihood of a person’s success once they get into an apartment.

By the time Peeler encounters the couple, the cops have already come through. Bill and Linda have an hour to pack up their stuff and move on. That happens pretty regularly, they say.

“We can’t sit, stand, lie or anything,” Linda says.

“We have to always be moving, otherwise we get a ticket.”

Bill and Linda are not homeless by choice.

“We’re trying like heck right now to get some kind of help through SNAP,” Bill says. “I’m to the point now where I’m getting scared, because I really need help.”

Matthew Bancroft, a homeless 19-year-old, says he doesn’t get a chance to visit his son Jacob very often. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

Doctors say that Bill needs hip surgery, but making it to appointments on time is impossible. Even the walk to the House of Charity shelter a few blocks away is excruciating, and Linda does most of the work packing up their camp. Without her, he’d be in much worse shape, Bill says.

“So that’s why we’re out here,” Linda says. “So we can be together.”

For money, Bill fixes old, broken phones and sells MP3 players loaded with music. Some days, he says, he can make $200; other days, he doesn’t make a dime.

Bill doesn’t shy away from his past. He says he could have made better choices as a young man. Twenty-five years ago, when they got married, Linda saved him.

“I’m glad, because I was on a path to destruction before,” Bill says. “When I met her, I saw something that was worth becoming better for.”

Linda rests her head on his shoulder.

“The biggest thing I can say is, some people out here don’t want anything else but this kind of life, and that’s not us,” Bill says. “Since day one, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get out of it.”

THE HUDDLED MASSES

It’s almost 6 pm this past Thursday, and dozens of homeless men and women are gathered outside the gates of the House of Charity, lugging their backpacks and holding their cats and dogs.

The House of Charity had recently suffered its second norovirus outbreak — an illness that includes diarrhea and projectile vomiting. Truth Ministries, another homeless shelter, has become an ad hoc quarantine space,

Bill and Linda Skelton have been married for 25 years. They’ve stuck together on the streets for about five years. but for now most of the volunteers have white masks over their faces. Most of the homeless people outside the gates don’t have masks, but they come here anyway, because this place is warm and safe.

Suzann Calvert, 39, stands outside, waiting to get in.

“I’ve been runnin’ from my old man about nine months. He drug me down the river, hit me in the face with a gun,” Calvert says. “[The domestic violence] shelter’s full. They told me to go to the homeless shelter.”

She estimates that about half of the women waiting at the gates here have stories like hers.

“Most of us women out here — and even quite a few of the men — are getting beat up,” Calvert says. “You

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know what I mean?”

Homelessness is switching up the spot by the river where you sleep every night, believing that if your abusive boyfriend ever catches you, he’ll kill you. But tonight, Calvert says, it’s too cold to sleep outside, so she’s come here.

At one time, there wouldn’t have been room. At one time, if you weren’t inside by 8 pm, you’d lose your spot.

At one time, only men could sleep here. That all changed in November.

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A crowd of homeless men and women gather outside of House of Charity. of America, Family Promise and the Salvation Army — to pull it off, but they did it: a shelter network all day and night, every day of the week.

Beyond the 108 beds upstairs, the floor downstairs is covered in hundreds of blue mats — the type you might use for yoga. The numbers of homeless people who responded astounded House of Charity’s director, Sam Dompier.

“We’re sleeping almost three times as many people than we’ve slept in October,” she says.

“I’ve had no idea where these people are coming from.”

Some nights, more than 100 people are sleeping in the beds upstairs at the House of Charity, with another 200 on the mats downstairs. It doesn’t matter if you’re high or drunk or mentally ill — as long as you’re not disruptive, you can sleep here.

Even though the lights are still on, men — and women, in their own separate area — are already beginning to unroll their sleeping bags, take off their boots and turn in for the night.

“They pack ’em in here,” says Scott Conlee, a 63-year-old who, before he retired, worked at a metal stamping plant in Alabama making parts for Kia automobiles. “It’s a heck of a service for the community.”

He says it’s his first time ever staying in a homeless shelter.

“I’ve always been a responsible, taxpaying citizen. My wife was a retired teacher. I made good money. So this is a shock,” Conlee says. “I’ll handle it. I don’t have a choice. I will do the best with what I have. I always have.”

The House of Charity is not just a place to crash. Everyone, from the janitor on up, is here trying to build relationships with the homeless.

There are people here to help them get Social Security income, food stamps, job training or an education. And best of all, the “coordinated assessment” program helps connect the homeless with housing.

But there’s a catch to all of this. The city has been concerned that the money for the 24/7 shelter program runs out in May. “We’re not going to wait until May,” Catholic Charities’ McCann says. “In May, when it’s 60 degrees and the flowers are blooming, the people are going to care a little less.”

For now, until more of the homeless are housed, McCann says, it will take about $2 million a year in extra funding to keep all of the 24/7 shelters up and running. But he says that if Spokane County and Spokane Valley chip in, as well as the city, that’s just a drop in their massive

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budgets.

Ultimately, McCann urges local governments to look at the numbers. It only costs the House of Charity $7.22 a night to shelter the homeless, versus the astronomical bill for treating those without shelter.

“We had a guy who went to the ER 63 times in one year. Sixty-three 911 calls — ambulance, fire truck, police all roll. That adds up to tens of thousands a dollars a year,” says McCann. The next year, when the man was placed in one of the housing units, he only went to the ER twice.

“Forget about humanity and human dignity and compassion,” McCann says. “Let’s make this a math argument.”

THE FEW WHO REFUSE

It’s nearing midnight at the viaduct on Browne Street, near Pacific Avenue downtown. Cars zoom by at rhythmic intervals. The Burlington Northern train rumbles overhead. And on the trash-strewn sidewalks below, on top of a sheet of plywood, a pile of blankets shifts as the people sleeping beneath it move.

The House of Charity is only 100 feet away.

There’s plenty of space available. But a few people still choose to sleep outdoors.

“We have some folks who, no matter what, they’ll stay out. They’ll sleep underneath the overpass, even though it’s 15 degrees or less out there,” says Bob Cepeda, part of the House of Charity’s security team. “And you try to convince them to come in, and they don’t want anything to do with it.”

Still, he tries. During the day, Cepeda approaches Sid, a homeless man sitting a few blocks from the viaduct. Cepeda kneels down, and after a couple of minutes, Sid tells Cepeda he’ll stay at the shelter.

But minutes later, Sid tells a different story to the Inlander. He won’t be staying at the House of Charity that night.

“I don’t stay at the shelter,” he says. “I camp out.”

For Catholic Charities, those who refuse help and shelter can be a source of significant frustration. It’s why, even though McCann doesn’t always like the city’s prohibition against sitting and lying on downtown sidewalks, he’s asked the city to enforce it under the viaduct.

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ABOVE: TJ Byrne and the Heritage Health mobile clinic. BELOW: Bud Ohler

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he bus wobbles and creaks against the weight of the medical supplies onboard as TJ Byrne and his crew head for Lake City Church in Coeur d’Alene. The mobile clinic Byrne is driving carries everything for basic health care — splints, bandages, slings, suture supplies, a nebulizer, a defibrillator and medication.

They can draw blood and run some lab tests, too.

It’s pretty much an urgent care facility on wheels, says Byrne, a physician’s assistant and homeless outreach director for Heritage Health, a health care provider for people without insurance.

The idea behind the mobile clinic is to meet homeless and struggling people where they are — food banks, soup kitchens, crisis centers, churches and some individual campsites — and provide health services they otherwise might not have.

It can take up to six weeks to see a primary care provider at Heritage’s stationary clinic, and even longer to see a qualified psychiatrist, Byrne says.

For some, the mobile clinic is the only chance to see a doctor. For others, Byrne and his crew are like family. One man, who is here to have his blood pressure checked and ask about the ache in his shoulder, was married on the bus two years ago.

Bud Ohler carefully slips his arm out of his tan coveralls to get his blood pressure checked. The 65-year-old veteran prefers the mobile clinic to the VA hospital. There he felt like a burden, he says. Here, he feels welcome.

Ohler is lean, with tousled white hair and a beard to match. He’s worked for most of his life, he says — as a trucker, a logger, and a rig hand in the North Dakota oil fields. But he’s been homeless for several years.

“The catalyst?” he says. “Probably drugs. It just consumes you. You get out on the ground, and after a while it just becomes your norm.”

Before Ohler’s checkup, Joey Levesque, a medical assistant, gives him some leads on a place to live.

And he’s looking for a job. Driving a taxi would be good, given his experience as a truck driver, he says.

“I don’t want nothing for nothing,” Ohler says.

“I’m willing to do something for it. I’ve always worked with my hands. I can’t stand the idle time.”

Recently, Heritage Health’s homeless outreach team moved into a new brick-and-mortar office at 109 East Harrison Street in Coeur d’Alene. There, they’ve got an emergency stash of clothes, blankets and food. A counselor and peer support specialists work out of the office, too, and soon they’ll set up a clinic day at that location.

“We just want to provide people the emergency assistance they need, and get them to where they need to be,” Byrne says. “That’s what we do.”

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Homelessness With time, homelessness changes a person. And for some people, homelessness becomes home.

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For at least 16 years, according to neighbors, a man — with a guitar and a sleeping bag — has lived in the woods near the house of Ryan Oelrich, chair of the Spokane Homeless Coalition.

The man is older. He’s a veteran. He wears the same sweater and bicycle helmet every day, riding into town to the soup kitchen for food before heading back to his campsite.

A decade ago, when Oelrich moved into his house, the man in the woods came and introduced himself. Sometimes he leaves a neat bundle of trash by Oelrich’s house for him to throw away. The man never leaves a mess at his campsite. He uses emergency blankets and five sleeping bags to weather the single-digit temperatures.

When they first met, Oelrich had the same kind of thoughts anyone working in social services might have: This man should not be living in the woods. This man needs to be housed. This man needs an apartment. Oelrich offered those things to him, again and again. The man refused.

“That’s not what makes him happy,” Oelrich says.

Ultimately, Oelrich doesn’t think it’s possible to end homelessness for all people. Some are too broken; some recover.

McCann has seen this sort of thing before. Two years ago, Catholic Charities gave a fully furnished West Central duplex unit, rent-free, to a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. The vet had spent a decade living on the streets.

Having a home was a culture shock.

“He slept in the backyard for the first four months,” McCann says. “Then we finally got him to sleep on the back porch. Major victory. Then we got him to sleep on the kitchen floor. Major victory. And about nine months in, he slept in the bed for the first time. That bed was there the whole time.”

He just couldn’t get his mind around sleeping indoors.

That, McCann says, is the type of person choosing to stay beneath the viaduct. This is why, for those like Oelrich and McCann, it’s so important to prevent homelessness from happening at all.

HOME AT LAST

Unlike many of the other people in this story, Volando Peeples is not homeless. Not anymore. He says his days of couch-hopping are done.

Peeples, 42, has one of the 51 apartments in Catholic Charities’ Buder Haven apartment complex. It’s his own space, one he’s decorated with comic books and issues of Dope magazine. On one wall, Peeples has posted years of poetry, prose and rap lyrics, all laminated. He points to a particular favorite — a poem, illustrated with a sketch of Jesus, that he wrote back when he was in the county jail.

“It reminds me every time when I sin, we share tears,” Peeples says. “When I’m down and heartbroken and stuff.”

And he’s had a lot of heartbreaks. Peeples talks about miscarriages and a divorce and the deaths of his dad and his brother.

“All my friends and family, they’re dying off,” Peeples says. “From stupid stuff. Little bitty things, man.”

But this place represents a sudden turn in his luck. His

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housing specialist at Frontier Behavioral Health helped him apply to get this apartment.

“Ah, man. For me? Man,” Peeples says. “It means not just something good, it means, like, that storm is about to pass.”

He says he’s gotten focused. He’s studying journalism at Spokane Falls Community College. He’s improving his credit.

“I’m not dependent on nobody else,” Peeples says.

Like Catholic Charities’ other units, Buder Haven has a social service coordinator assigned to it, to assist the formerly homeless get connected with the help they need.

“I found out we had counseling in the building,” Peeples says.

“Then I have people I can talk to. I can open up and be myself and talk about real stuff.”

This is Spokane’s boldest move in solving the homelessness riddle, and it’s almost absurdly simple: Give the homeless homes. It’s a radical departure from the old model of fighting homelessness, where drug addiction and mental health issues had to be treated before the homeless could be placed in housing.

“If you had sat in this office 15 years ago and said, ‘Hey Rob, should you take a homeless person who is mentally ill and off their meds ... or who is actively suffering from addiction issues, and say here is the key to your apartment?’” says McCann. “I would have told you no.”

But nationally, places like Salt Lake City have pursued the Housing First model: Give the homeless homes, and then use those homes as staging grounds to address their other issues.

Four years ago, Catholic Charities opened the Father Bach Haven apartment complex right next to the House of Charity, with 50 units of low-income housing aimed directly at the homeless. And while McCann sometimes gets complaints from neighbors, the biggest fears about the apartments becoming a haven for vandalism or violence ...continued on next page

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Tobie Heideman has been homeless for four years and helps direct others toward services. She is very close to getting an apartment through SNAP. never came to pass.

“When we build a building, crime actually tends to go down,” McCann says, due to all the new cameras and eyes added to the neighborhood. “If you build a palace, people who live there will eventually believe they are kings and queens. If you build a dump, people eventually will believe they’re trash.”

So far, thanks to a generous tax-credit market, construction of these sorts of apartment complexes were almost guaranteed to be funded. Tax vouchers from the Spokane Housing Authority allow residents to pay little to no rent.

“The rest of the country is actually looking at us as a model on this,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says regarding Housing First efforts.

This past July, Buder Haven opened next door to Volunteers of America’s identical apartment complex, the Marilee.

Pope Francis Haven and another apartment complex are scheduled to open later this year. Catholic Charities is funded to build one more complex after that.

At the same time, Catholic Charities and SNAP are fighting the challenge from the other end by focusing on rapid rehousing: As soon as someone first becomes homeless, SNAP assesses who they are, and identifies exactly what they need to get back on their feet as quickly as possible.

“Where I come from, I wasn’t supposed to get past 18, in Chicago,” Peeples says.

“Here I am, I’m 42 now. That’s the reason for me still being here: To touch somebody’s life … Hopefully, my mark in life will have some sort of effect on somebody.”

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Sexton talks about the future of his charity.

The men pause and slowly walk toward He just bought a food cart, and is hoping the car. Sexton pulls two grocery bags from to help homeless people get food handlers’ the boxes that fill his back seat. Each one cards and staff it part-time. And in the contains a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, spring, The Solution is Hours, with the help a bag of chips and some cookies. of some grant money, will start a cleanup “Thanks, man,” one of them says. service downtown. The plan is to pay “Always. Much love, y’all,” people who are homeless to clean Sexton responds. up downtown and transition LETTERS It’s about 10:30 on a them off the streets.

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Spokane, and Sexton, 38, has on innovations. Mark Richbeen at it for almost two hours already. So ard, president of the Downtown Spokane far, he’s given out about 20 sack lunches Partnership, brainstorms ways to redirect and emergency blankets to people sleeping charitable giving away from panhandling under a railroad bridge, to a man lugging and toward the charities that actually help a bulging pack, to two guys sitting on a people. Drivers can text the word “Change” stoop outside the House of Charity, and to to 50555 every time they see a panhandler anyone else outside who looks hungry and in order to donate $5 directly to the House cold. of Charity.

His efforts aren’t necessarily connected Meanwhile, DSP is working with Goodto the Point-In-Time count. Sexton has will and other agencies to launch another been handing out sack lunches at night in program. A van will drive around to panSpokane for four years. He knows the spots handlers and others out of work and offer where people camp outside. them a job for the day — anything from He waits until all the shelters close to picking up trash to cleaning graffiti. They’ll make sure he’s reaching people who really be connected with services as well. need the help. Sexton usually sets out “The biggest value is not in a daily with a group of other people on bikes. But stipend,” Richard says. “The biggest value tonight, he’s driving around downtown is being in a van with a professional social Spokane in his old Toyota Camry because worker.” of the snow.

At the state level, Gov. Inslee has “I don’t have the best history,” Sexton promised to make homelessness a priority says. “But I’m a testament that people can this year, proposing that Washington build come back from their past. I devoted a more low-income housing, provide housgood portion of my life to partying. Now ing vouchers and restructure the mentalI’m redirecting all of that energy toward health system. Because, ultimately, even if helping this town.” homelessness gets solved, that’s the next His organization, The Solution is challenge upstream.

Hours, was recently granted nonprofit sta“People ask me all the time, ‘Rob, if you tus. It’s based on Sexton’s idea that if even got $1 billion from Bill Gates, how would half of the people in Spokane donated a you spend it? I tell them, I would open couple of hours per month to help address Costco-sized mental health facilities and Costcopoverty and homelessness, we’d be a lot sized substance abuse facilities,” McCann better off. says. “You will not just reduce homelessAs he drives through downtown, ness. You will reduce poverty.” n

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oug Marshall has been shooting photographs for almost as long as he’s been alive. At the age 5, he received his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Brownie. “It didn’t last very long,” he says, laughing. “I was running up the stairs, fell and it broke.” These were his first years shooting photographs, which continued through his early life.

It wouldn’t be until later that he would find, as he says, “The melding of two passions, skiing and photography.” Fast-forward to junior year of high school, when as a member of the football team, he joined them on their annual night skiing trip to Big Bear in Southern California. “It was one of those experiences where you throw skis on, head to the top of the lift and just ski down,” he explains. “The team thought it was funny to put the ‘newbie’ on skis and say ‘See ya at the bottom.’ I had to figure out how to get down. I

probably fell every 30 feet, but I just fell in love with it [skiing].” From there, he just knew he had to keep skiing.

After graduating from high school in Escondido, California, Marshall moved to the mountains and never left. His first move was to Flagstaff, Arizona, to attend Northern Arizona University, where he would major in business and minor in photography. He explains, “In photography, they don’t teach the business end of things. You can have the most beautiful photos in the world but knowing how to sell them is how to make it a business.”

He went from NAU to a short stint in Tahoe, but Flagstaff lured him back. Then in 1994, he moved to North Idaho to call Sandpoint his home. This is where Marshall would meet his wife and start his family. In 1997, he took his photography business to the professional level,

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“much to the dismay of my wife,” he says, laughing.

Marshall describes the most memorable image he ever sold: “It was of Nate Holland, to Snowboard Life magazine (now defunct). This was still while he was in high school, and undiscovered. It was the next year he started his professional career.”

Currently, Marshall is actively on assignment, heading up to Canada on two hut trips. The first is for Skiing magazine to Icefall Lodge, in Golden, British Columbia, his 11th trip to the backcountry lodge. After that, he heads to Boulder Hut Adventures outside of Kimberley, B.C., owned by another Sandpoint couple, Mark and Sarah Yancey, for a shoot for the clothing and gear company Outdoor Research. Marshall has shot for OR the last couple of years; his photos appear in their catalog and other marketing materials.

Marshall’s photographs have been published in numerous magazines, including National Geographic Adventures, Outside, SKI, Skiing, Powder and Backcountry. He currently focuses on everything from still life to ski photography, but admits, “I do a lot outside of ski photography, although those seem to be my favorite.” n

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t’s really cool to be out in the mountains with my dad, and I’m really lucky I get to do it a lot. I watched him growing up, being a professional skier, and admiring what he did. Now, I get to go out and do it with him.”

That’s professional freeskier Amie Engerbretson, talking about her closeness and working relationship with her father, photographer and videographer Jeff Engerbretson.

Jeff Engerbretson grew up in Moscow, Idaho, typically not a hotbed for for professional skiers to emerge from, but after watching a Squaw Valley segment in the 1985 Warren Miller film Steep & Deep and then seeing Hot Dog… The Movie, Jeff knew that’s what he wanted to do, and where he needed to be, if he wanted to make it as a professional skier.

In 1986, he packed up his belongings, moved out of his parents’ home in Moscow and headed straight for Squaw Valley, chasing his dream.

Within a couple of winters at Squaw, Jeff started

making a name for himself in the ski world as a ski model, working with many of Lake Tahoe’s best photographers. Over the years, Jeff appeared in numerous magazine spreads, on magazine covers, and in several ski films. More than 30 years after arriving at Squaw, he’s now on the other side of the camera, as a photographer and freelance videographer. One of Jeff’s most recent freelance jobs was in Aspen, Colorado, this past weekend, shooting for ESPN at the Winter X Games.

Amie was born into the skiing world, growing up in the ski community of North Lake Tahoe. She spent her early childhood skiing at nearby Squaw Valley with family and friends from school. At a very young age, Jeff realized that the apple hadn’t fallen far from the tree: “It was very early on, at 4 or 5 years old.

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By junior high school, Amie’s passion had drifted to dance; she was a member of the InnerRhythms Dance Theatre in Truckee, California.

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earing her college graduation, Amie’s focus began to shift, and Jeff received that phone call many college students parents dread: “I got the call from Amie in college — ‘Dad, I want to come home and ski.’ I’m thinking, ‘OK, you come home and run a chair lift and ski for a year.’ She’s like, ‘No, I want to ski like you did.’ I gave her my support, and told her to come give it a shot.”

Amie laughs when telling me about making that phone call: “I think I’m one of the few people that can call their dad when they’re about to graduate college and tell them they want to be a ski bum, and he’s psyched.”

After college Amie did just that, moving back to her old stomping grounds of Lake Tahoe. It didn’t take her long to get back in the ski groove; within a year, Amie was a fully sponsored ski athlete. Fast-forward five years and Amie’s crushing it, with contracts from several equipment manufacturers, including K2 skis, Smith Optics and Spyder active wear. In fact, you can see some of Spyder’s ads featuring Amie in Shape magazine.

Amie loves working with her dad as a ski model, though it comes with typical parent-kid bickering: “My dad and I go back and forth a lot; he thinks that he trained me, so I better be darn good — I better not mess up. There’s a lot of banter, and there’s this and that, and I’m telling him when he messes up and he’s telling me when I mess it up, but at the same time, there’s kind of a cool thing that happens when my dad and I find our flow, and a lot of times we don’t even need to talk. We kind of see things the same, we ski things the same, a lot of times we just roll up to a slope, we both see the shot, and it’s kind of

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like an unspoken magic that happens.”

That magic happens more often than not, as this father-daughter dynamic duo is chronicled in dozens of publications, billboards and ads each year. “There’s Engerbretson duo photos all over the U.S.,” says Amie. “We’ve got a big ad from Big Sky Resort this year that’s in Powder magazine and SKI magazine, and we have a few full-page spreads in some of the other major ski magazines. If you roll around Squaw Valley, there’s lots of billboards of photos my dad took.”

One of the funny things about this parentchild working relationship is that sometimes Amie gets to call the shots, as Jeff points out: “Amie’s in a position where she’s working with her sponsors and producing filming trips, and then she hires me. We did four or five trips in the past two years where she’s actually my boss.”

That’s really no surprise, as most parents know that kids are always the boss!

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or many close-knit families, a work situation like this is a dream come true. “It’s really cool to be out in the mountains with my dad, and I’m really lucky I get to do it a lot,” Amie says. “We get to travel and ski together all over the world, and it’s just a special thing to share with my dad.” Jeff is just as enthusiastic about this pairing: “This is our job, but this is what we do for fun anyway. To get paid to live this lifestyle and live in these kinds of mountains, it’s amazing.”

Jeff has passed on skills and traits to Amie that are priceless; more important, he’s inspired a sense of freedom for Amie, to go chase your dreams. “I think that’s really what my dad instilled with me. Part of this lifestyle is being able to chase that dream, whatever it may be, and to have the freedom to do that,” she says. “I know when I move on in my life and I have my own kids, my own family, I’m absolutely going to pass that message on — that you can do what you want to do and you can follow those dreams, even if they’re crazy.”

To watch a parent’s childhood dream come full circle is something many of us wish for, and Jeff is extremely proud of Amie: “When I was 16, I wanted to do exactly that, and now she’s doing even more so, living my dream. Watching her do that, and watching the joy she gets out of it — obviously, she’s not doing it for me, but to see the joy she gets out of living my dream is amazing.” n

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Offered Saturdays and Sundays, at 10 am and 12:30 pm (times vary based on hike). $20-$30. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com NIGHT SKIING 49 Degrees North opens up the runs under the light of the moon on Fri, Feb. 3 and Sat, Feb. 18. $5 lift tickets with three canned food donations; live music the night of Feb. 18. 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (9356649) STARLIGHT RACE SERIES A four-week adult (ages 21+) race series for skiers, snowboarders and

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Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) LADIES’ DAY A special women’s skiing event with a continental breakfast, lunch, demos and four hours of personal instruction from the mountain’s favorite female instructors. Fri, Feb. 10, 9 am-4 pm. $129. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) SPECIAL OLYMPICS Watch these talented local athletes compete on Noah’s and Ross’ Run. Sat, Feb. 11. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt. com (866-344-2675) MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE HIKES Explore Schweitzer’s majestic oldgrowth forests by the light of the moon during a hosted hike, followed by baked brie and soup in the village. Sat, Feb. 11 and March 11, from 4-8 pm. $40 (includes rental), advance registration required. Ages 13+. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555)

SANDPOINT WINTER CARNIVAL The 43rd annual winter celebration takes place around Sandpoint and up on the mountain at Schweitzer. Events include fireworks shows, the K9 Keg Pull, the Parade of Lights, skijoring, live music, pub crawls, and more. Feb. 15-26. Complete schedule at sandpointwintercarnival.com TOYOTA SKI FREE DAY Any Toyota owners who head up the the mountain get one free lift ticket.

Fri, Feb. 17, from 9 am-9:30 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane State Park Dr., Mead. mtspokane.com (238-2220) PRESIDENTS’ WEEKEND Head up to the mountain for a long weekend and enjoy the Starlight racing series, live music at Taps, hosted snowshoe hikes, the “Let it Glow” night parade, fireworks and more. Feb. 1820. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) DEMO DAYS Try out the latest ski and snowboard gear from Tri-State Outfitters, who will be on site in the ski check area, providing demos all day. Wed, Feb. 22 from 9 am-4 pm. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) AVALANCHE AWARENESS Whether you ski, snowshoe, snowboard or snowmobile in the backcountry, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This session covers where and why avalanches occur, and a basic approach to managing risk. Wed, Feb. 22, from 6-7:30 pm. Free, register to save a spot. REI Spokane, 1125 N. Monroe. rei. com/stores/spokane (328-9900) ...continued on next page

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COLLEGE DAZE The mountain offers special lift-ticket prices and other specials for college students who show a valid college ID. Feb. 4-5. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com

telemarkers. This year’s theme is “Schweitzer (K)nights; helmets are required, and costumes are encouraged.

Feb. 3-24; Fridays from 4-6 pm. $250/ team of five. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555)

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WINTER EVENTS FEBRUARY UP, DOWN, ROUND & ROUND A racing event for skiing and fat-bike enthusiasts, with three entry divisions to choose from. Sun Feb. 26, at 8:30 am. $15/entry. Lookout Pass, 1-90 exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout.com (208-744-1301) SMOKIN’ ACES ANTE UP SLOPESTYLE The third annual return of the Smokin’ Aces Tour features skiers and boarders of all ages showing off their best tricks.

Includes categories for all ages and skills. $35-$40. Sat, Feb. 25, from 9 am-3:30 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL Head up to the mountain before the season is over for a barbecue on the deck and other festivities to be announced. Sat, Feb. 25. Lookout Pass, 1-90 exit 0 at Mullan, Idaho. skilookout. com (208-744-1301) DOUG E. FRESH WEEKEND Co-hosted by the Hayden Ski Shack, the weekend-long event celebrates the memory of the late Doug Johnson.

Events include a banked slalom, night skiing, retro “bump run,” bar party, and more. Proceeds benefit the Doug Johnson memorial fund. Feb. 25-26.

Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (866-344-2675)

Put your slalom skills to the test during the Sheimo Cup at 49 Degrees North on March 11.

SHEJUMPS AT SCHWEITZER The national campaign to unite and support women in the outdoor sports world comes to Sandpoint, offering a day of activities including tutu making, a snowshoe hike, scavenger hunt and demos. $10 registration; $49 lift ticket special. Sun, Feb. 26, from 8:30 am-5 pm. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com

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SPORT OUTLET DEMO DAY Mt. Spokane welcomes Sports Outlet and their demos for a day of testing out the latest technology in gear. Sat, March 4. Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. mtspokane.com (238-2220) USASA SLOPESTYLE + RAIL JAM Competitors in the Terrain Park show off their best tricks and runs, with categories for everyone. Sat, March 4. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (866-344-2675) MEGA DEMO DAY Visitors to the mountain can try out gear from 13 manufacturers who are on hand to answer questions and offer insight. Proceeds support the Panhandle Alliance for Education. Sat, March 4, from 8 am-4 pm. $35-$40. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) KAN JAM Mt. Spokane hosts the annual event series, with a rail jam on Friday and the Big Air competition on March 10-11 (rescheduled from February). Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, 29500 N. Mt. Spokane State Park Dr., Mead. mtspokane.com (238-2220) SHEIMO CUP The annual event co-sponsored by Hale’s Ales offers a dual slalom race.

Sat, March 11. 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (935-6649)

CAN DO EXPRESS FOR MS Formerly known as Vertical Express, this day-long community ski event benefits people living with multiple sclerosis and their families. Events include an amateur ski race, paintballing, fat bike competition and more. Open to teams of three; entry is by fundraising. Sat, March 11, from 9 am-3:30 pm.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. mscando.org/schweitzer (208263-9555) HAWAIIAN DAYS The annual end-of-season celebration hosted by 49 Degrees’ all-volunteer ski patrol. Details TBA. Sat, March 18. 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n. com (935-6649) 24 HOURS OF SCHWEITZER Get a team together to ride the the mountain and complete random challenges for a full 24 hours, in support of a local family whose son has a debilitating condition called cystinosis.

March 24-25. Limited to 200 participants. $150/person, plus $100 in fundraising pledges. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) BAVARIAN RACE Teams depart from the Lodge deck at one-minute intervals to compete in a race consisting of beer-chugging plus skiing. Following the event, there’s live music at the Boomtown Bar. Sat, March 25. 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort,

3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n.com (935-6649)

APRIL SPRING CARNIVAL Celebrate the end of a successful season at this annual winter send-off.

Details TBA. Sat, April 1. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (866-344-2675) OYSTER FEED Enjoy fresh oysters flown in from the Washington coast in this annual end-of-season event. Sat, April 1. 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd., Chewelah. ski49n. com (935-6649) “SCHPRING” FINALE The final weekend of the 2016-17 season includes fun and silly activities across the mountain all day, including the Big “LeBREWski,” live music and more. April 8-9. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, 10000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd., Sandpoint, Idaho. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) LEADMAN 2017 The annual triathlon race begins at Kellogg Peak with a ski/board race down the mountain, followed by a mountain bike course and a 5-mile run. Event proceeds support projects of the Kellogg Rotary Club. Sat, April 22. Silver Mountain Resort, 610 Bunker Ave., Kellogg, Idaho. silvermt.com (866-344-2675) 

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Soak it Up Spokane Arts highlights local minority artists for “Saturate,” February’s biannual visual arts tour

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llen Picken was nervous about sharing her idea to highlight people of color for Spokane Arts’ expanded arts showcase, the Visual Arts Tour, in February.

“I grew up here, and when I came back [two years ago], I saw that the art scene was really growing and there was so much energy, and people were doing things they’d never done before,” she recalls. “But one thing that was really missing was diversity in the arts.”

Inspired by programs in other large cities, Picken wanted to call attention to the Inland Northwest’s diverse collective of artists who identify as a member of any cultural or ethnic minority. Even though her intentions were sincerely rooted in inclusivity, she still worried about being misinterpreted as patronizing or insensitive to the groups she sought to include.

“My pals were like, ‘No, as people of color, we are not visible in Spokane,’” Picken says, continuing, “I had to get

uncomfortable to discover this about Spokane.”

She then set out to encourage local art venues to reach out to artists of color for this weekend’s event. She emphasized not choosing artists based on their skin color alone, but also to consider the quality of their work, and if they’d ever had an opportunity to publicly show their art in Spokane.

“The point is to show the public and the venues and other artists that there are artists of color in our city, and they are available to show year-round,” she explains.

While Saturate emphasizes artists of minority backgrounds, Picken made sure that other venues which were already booked for the month, or that couldn’t find an artist who fit the event’s focus, weren’t excluded.

“I’m so proud of Spokane, I can’t even believe it,” Picken reflects. “We busted that myth” that the city is not diverse.

“This is the truth — we have people here.” (CHEY SCOTT)

SATURATE HIGHLIGHTS RESERVATION X

Richmond Art Gallery, 228 W. Sprague Feb. 2, 5:30-8:30 pm; Feb. 4, 10 am-9 pm; Feb. 5, 9 am-noon What does it mean to be an artist in contemporary society? And what does it mean to be a Native American artist, particularly in the context of Western institutions? These questions are challenged in “Reservation X,” whose title is a nod to a 1998 exhibition of contemporary Native American/ First People’s artwork that explored the power of place — life on and off the reservation — as well as the concept of community.

Hailing from the Columbia River Plateau, sisters Ryan and Carly Feddersen, both members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, and Lee Sekaquaptewa, from the Yakama Nation, bring fresh voices to the conversation about Native identity and community. Their employment of humor and pop imagery give the work a collectively lighthearted feel, while at the same time exploring complex, universal issues.

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Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery, 115 S. Adams Feb. 3, 5-8 pm; Feb. 4, noon-4 pm Exhibition organizer Gina Freuen chose the show’s theme to reflect those who are “boxed out” or excluded because of their race, religion, appearance or social status. The exhibition features 11 artists, some of whom interpreted the theme literally, others conceptually, like Chris Lamb’s YouTube video, shot mostly in blackand-white with a pivotal scene in color. Meanwhile, Medical Lake artist Dennis Smith responded with “Blended,” inspired by recent newspaper articles that featured people of varying ages, genders and ethnicities who positively impacted the community. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

DRAWN AWAY

Chase Gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

Feb. 3, 5-8 pm; show runs through March 30, gallery open Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm In “Drawn Away,” six artists push the boundaries of drawing through unusual mark making, media, and content, simultaneously investigating what cultural identity is and is not. Korean artist Jeemin Kim, for example, explores the Eastern aesthetic through negative space, and the powerful presence of something expressed through

its absence.

May Kytonen incorporates elements from her Thai heritage — rice paper, paper lanterns, gold filament — sometimes assimilating them together cohesively, other times weaving them so that a single element speaks louder than the rest. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

REZ LIFE

Philanthropy Center, 1020 W. Riverside Feb. 3, 5-8 pm; Feb. 4, 10 am-4pm Spokane tribal member Jeff Ferguson had already been organizing an exhibit depicting life on regional Indian reservations when he heard about Saturate.

“I think it’s a wonderful thing for our city to be doing,” says Ferguson, a photographer/ videographer who has coordinated several local events featuring Native American art and artists, including last fall’s One Heart Native Arts & Film Festival.

Ferguson chose artists for their ability to depict the beauty, complexity and harsh realities of reservation life. One of his own photos, for example, is of an old pickup truck surrounded by refuse, including bug-ridden mattresses donated by hotels, outside the home of a tribal elder who passed away shortly after the image was taken.

“Rez Life” also features the work of photographer and filmmaker Bob Charlo, of the Kalispel Nation, and Colville tribal members Diane Covington and Cheryl Grunlose. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

MORE SATURATE EVENTS EVENTS FEATURING ARTISTS OF COLOR ARE DENOTED WITH AN ASTERISK. FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT SPOKANEARTS.ORG/SATURATE. *Avenue West Gallery, 907 W. Boone Robert Lloyd and Denise Robertson; Feb. 3, 11 am-6 pm *Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Reading by poet Robert Lashley; Feb. 4, 7 pm *The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Art by Christopher Malsam; Feb. 3, 5 pm-midnight Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. The Best of Art Spirit Gallery; Feb. 3, noon-10 pm; Feb. 4-5, noon-5 pm *Blue Door Theater, 815 W. Garland Art by Shantell Jackson; Feb. 3, 5:30-7:30 pm *Bistango, 108 N. Post Music by Kosh; Feb. 3, 3 pm-2 am Bozzi Gallery, 221 N. Wall Tom Quinn; Feb. 3, 5-8 pm *Cougar Crest Winery, 8 N. Post Art by Amy Alicia Charbonneau; Feb. 3-4, 12-8 pm; Feb. 5, 2-6 pm Dean Davis Photography, 216 W. Pacific Julie Gautier-Downes; Feb. 3, 5-10 pm Dodson’s Jewelers, 516 W. Riverside Victoria Brace; Feb. 3, 5-8 pm Echo Boutique, 1033 W. First Emily Flynn; Feb. 3, 5-8 pm Free People, 865 W. Main

“La Primavera” by Michaelanne Foster; Feb. 3, 5-9 pm Express Employment Professionals, 331 W. Main Landscape photography by Tim Connor; Feb. 3, 5:30-8 pm Garageland, 230 W. Riverside “Intersections” by Grace Larson and Brittany O’Neal; Feb. 3, 11 am-2 am *Iron Goat Brewing, 1302 W. Second “Música, Emoción y Color” by Nic Vigil; Feb. 3, 5-9:30 pm *Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet.

“Images About the American West”; Feb. 3, 5-9 pm *Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams Ric Gendron and Karen Mobley; Feb. 3, 5-9 pm *Kress Gallery, 808 W. Main Art by Central Valley High School students; Feb. 3, 5-7 pm Liberty Ciderworks, 164 S. Washington Frank Knapp; Feb. 3-4, 4-9 pm; Feb. 5, 1-6 pm Marmot Art Space, 1206 W. Summit Pkwy.

Mixed media sculpture by Michael Dinning; Feb. 3-4, 5-9 pm New Moon Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague “Adornments” group show; Feb. 3, noon-9 pm; Feb. 4, 11

am-5 pm Pottery Place Plus, 203 N. Washington Hannah Raper and Sheri Queen; Feb. 3, 10 am-9 pm *Saranac Art Projects, 25 W. Main “Desire Lines,” curated by Rachel Smith and featuring Nicole Pietrantoni, Juventino Aranda, Stasia Burrington, Remelisa Cullitan. Feb. 3, 5-8 pm Saranac Commons, 19 W. Main “Abstract Workings” by Jason McKinney. Feb. 3, 5-8 pm *Skywalk, at 221 N. Wall Installation by Aziz Jamal, Olivia Evans, Jennifer Acevedo Nunez.

Feb. 3, 5-9 pm *Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy.

An interactive event with A.M. Darke. Feb. 3 at 5 pm *Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ric Gendron; Feb. 3, 5-9 pm *Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Salik + Friends; Feb. 3, 5-9 pm *Terrain, 304 W. Pacific “Range” by Heather Hart; Feb. 21 to May 14 *William Grant Gallery, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy.

“Landscapes and Wildlife” by Crystal Martin; Feb. 3, 5-8 pm; Feb. 4, 10 am-4 pm

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asual observers and hardened political pros alike came away from the 2016 presidential campaign thinking it was the most nasty showdown in American history, thanks to the talk of “Lock her up!” tiny hands and JFK assassination conspiracies.

In reality, the harsh tone and incredible accusations thrown around by candidates are part of the country’s long, maybe not-so-proud history, according to Washington State University political science professor Cornell Clayton. He explores the good, the bad and the ugly of American politics as part of the Humanities Washington speakers bureau, and will be in Spokane on Wednesday to lecture on “American Rage: Division and Anger in U.S. Politics.”

Clayton notes the harsh 1800 campaign of former friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, in which Jefferson’s dalliances with slave women were used against him, as an early example of divisive campaigns. FDR was called a communist and socialist by his opponents, and in the 1960s, true believers on the left and the right accused opponents of all manner of civil subterfuge. The 2016 campaign might have been nastier than other elections in recent memory, but it was far from unique.

“Americans lack a sense of history,” Clayton says. “We live in the present.”

WSU professor Cornell Clayton

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That’s not to say that the current environment isn’t unique, Clayton adds. As with past eras of deep divisions, we’re living in a time of social and economic upheaval. “What I think is a bit distinctive about today’s political period,” he says, “is not only are we polarized and deeply divided over issues, but we have remained so over a long period of time. If you go back to 1968, we’ve had a long period of elections that were extremely contested.”

Close elections and divided government, both common for the past 40 or so years, leads to the inability of government to function, dismaying Americans on both sides of the aisle, says Clayton.

“The government can’t address important social, economic and political issues,” he says. “That gridlock is so frustrating for Americans that they’re willing to reach for a strongman, populist demagogue like a Donald Trump.”

What happens next should make for some fascinating future lectures.

— DAN NAILEN Cornell Clayton presents “American Rage: Division and Anger in U.S. Politics” • Thu, Feb. 9 at 7 pm • Free • North Central High School Theatre • 1600 N. Howard • humanities.org

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Mortality Tale Author Tim O’Brien on writing, war, dying, Hemingway and his seminal work The Things They Carried

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mong students, writers and readers alike, The Things They Carried has been an object of study, inspiration and reflection almost since the moment it was published in 1990. The book’s interlocking, complementary and sometimes contradictory short stories about the Vietnam War have also become the most common point of entry into Tim O’Brien’s larger body of work, which includes novels like July, July (2002) and In the Lake of the Woods (1994).

Throughout that larger body of work, beginning with the 1973 autobiography If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, which launched O’Brien’s career as an author, war has always been present — sometimes overtly in the setting, as in the The Things They Carried, sometimes as a formative quality of a single character, as in Tomcat in Love (1998).

“For me,” says O’Brien, “war is an introduction to mortality. You go to war young, romantic and naïve, and suddenly when you’re in it, your naïveté is gone, and you realize emotionally for the first time that you’re going to die.

“And it happens to everybody. In the end, we’re all going to end up where soldiers end up. We know it intellectually, but we do cocktail party chitchat and we wash the dishes and we care about the oil level in our cars and things like that. We find that we do whatever we can do to erase it. And war does not let you erase it.”

It’s been more than 14 years since the publication of his most recent long-form work, and O’Brien, now 70, has begun to dwell on other aspects of mortality, though still partly through the prism of war. For years, he’s been working on a novella-length essay he describes as a “bizarre, very hard-to-describe memoir” that uses four Ernest Hemingway short stories — “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “Cat in the Rain,” “The Killers” and “Soldier’s Home” — as a framework for personal reflections on his craft, his family, the sense of “endingness when you have a child” and how “youth itself gets erased” as we’re swept along by life’s currents.

“I use the [Hemingway] stories as a way of writing about writing itself,” he says. “I use it as a way of writing about my children, and as a way

Tim O’Brien will read from some unpublished works. of telling my children a little about myself — the things I care about, what I’ve done in my life, and so on. So somehow, for me at least, it all hangs together, but I bet it doesn’t sound that way.”

Back in 2011, O’Brien shared early drafts of his recent writing with local Get Lit! audiences.

During his upcoming appearance in Spokane as part of Gonzaga’s Visiting Writers series on Feb. 6, he’ll be reading from the still-evolving “memoir filled with stories.”

“It’s really hard to talk about it,” he says, “so that’s why I’m probably just going to read from

“You go to war young, romantic and naïve, and suddenly when you’re in it, your naïveté is gone, and you realize emotionally for the first time that you’re going to die.” it. Because it’ll explain itself, I hope.”

Not to say that O’Brien plans to brush aside his most popular book to date. At the university’s request, he’ll also revisit the themes, mechanics and legacy of The Things They Carried for the benefit of emerging writers in the audience. And in that way, the reading should provide one more illustration of how O’Brien’s best-selling work acts as a bridge to his wider creative output: “I feel an excitement and also an anticipation as to how people will respond to this, and to the connections between this book and The Things They Carried, which I think are pretty strong. But they’re certainly not identical.” n Visiting Writers Series: Tim O’Brien • Free • Mon, Feb. 6 at 7:30 pm • Hemmingson Ballroom at Gonzaga University • 702 E. Desmet • news.gonzaga.edu/2017

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ho doesn’t like fried chicken and beer?” That’s a sentiment most carnivorous diners can get behind, and it’s what attracted Deerdra Bash of Spokane to the Yards Bruncheon on a chilly January night for the first of Chef Adam Hegsted’s Fried Chicken & Local Beer nights.

Perhaps you’ve been to a pairing dinner, where your favorite restaurant teams up with a winery, distillery or brewhouse, delivering a series of plates and drinks designed to showcase the flavors of each. Sometimes they’re great, but they can be a little stiff, offering a lot of talk about the booze or the food, but little interaction with your fellow diners.

ABOVE: Dan and Janet Henderson dig into one of many plates of chicken. LEFT: Heather Bender samples a River City Afternoon IPA. YOUNG KWAK PHOTOS

Finger-Lickin’ Friends Chef Adam Hegsted gives beer-pairing dinners a new twist, and a side of gravy

BY DAN NAILEN

Hegsted’s inaugural fried chicken feast was anything but stiff. The first edition of the new monthly event matched Hegsted’s food with beers from River City Brewing, and attracted about 30 people who filled one giant table and several booths. Rather than the tiny plates of food introduced one by one with sips of booze — the sort of pairing dinner you might have experienced before — this one was done family-style.

What does that mean, practically speaking?

It means mounds of freshly made double-fried chicken, roasted corn, garlic-tinged mashed potatoes by the bowlful, delivered en masse. Oh, and hot-from-the-oven biscuits that might have been the highlight of the night if the chicken weren’t so tasty, soaked in a light brine for four hours, as Hegsted explained, and then soaked in buttermilk for another four before hitting the fryer.

“I’ve been in a fried-chicken-and-waffles mood for the last month or so,” says Spokane’s Robyn Sciuchetti, who considered the coleslaw her favorite dish of the night.

Next to them is Heather Bender, who says that she’s been to several pairing dinners with the tried-and-true, one-dish-and-one-drink presentation, and she’s finding the family-style dinner to her liking.

“I like that it’s more casual,” Bender says. “I love the family-style; this is so much more social.

I think the experience itself is kind of nice. Any beer dinner you go to, you don’t know who is going to be there, who you’ll be sitting across from.”

This casual pairing dinner is evidence of the maturation of Spokane’s food and craft brewing scenes, says River City Brewing owner Gage Stromberg. His brewery takes part in dinners with all manner of restaurants to deepen their connection with area beer lovers, and to support the restaurants as well.

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FOOD | EVENT “FINGER-LICKIN’ FRIENDS,” CONTINUED... we’re trying to do with beer,” Stromberg says. “Wine dinners were already a thing, they were big and popular.

“Over a decade now, there’s been lots of ways of putting together courses and beers, and it’s been around a while, and it’s time to reinvent it. To me, this event works really well because instead of ‘Let’s have one specific piece of food and one specific beer,’ this is an overall ‘Let’s drink beer and eat food in a very social way.’ It still gave us an opportunity to talk about the food and talk about the beer, but it was a little more casual mix.”

That’s what they were going for, according to Ken Dupree, who manages special events for Hegsted’s restaurants. They do multicourse wine dinners monthly that are great, Dupree says, but Hegsted “wanted to do something more fun, less stuffy.

Adam’s thing is that a meal should always be friends, family and fun, and I think this really captures that philosophy.”

The Fried Chicken & Local Beer nights are the second Wednesday of every month; the next one is Feb. 8 and features No-Li Brewhouse serving Slacker brass ale, Crony brown ale and Red, White and No-Li pale ale as the three beers.

Judging by the number of people at the first dinner sitting back after multiple rounds of grub, sipping on a “dessert” of River City’s VB Stout (as in Vanilla Bourbon), there might be a few folks ready to hit the big table again. Call it a family-style reunion.

“I know Adam and I know his food, and I like food and I like beer,” says Boyd Foster as the meal winds down. The Alabama native and Gonzaga professor has been in Spokane for 17 years, and likes how the restaurants and breweries have grown together.

“I’m always looking for events and interesting things to do. It’s kind of cool it’s family-style.” n Fried Chicken & Local Beer • Wed, Feb. 8 at 6 pm • $35 includes tax and tip • The Yards Bruncheon • 1248 W. Summit Pkwy. • 443-4410 for reservations

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Not Lost in Translation The universality of an acclaimed Iranian director’s latest work transcends cultural barriers

BY MARYANN JOHANSON

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down Rana’s attacker is that he left his car and its keys n 2012, acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi behind, which seems an unlikely thing for anyone to do. won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for But on the far more important emotional level, The Saleshis magnificent divorce drama A Separation. He was man is a delicately realized portrait not only of a marriage invited to join the Academy, and it is believed that he acunder strain but of a culture that is unwilling to speak cepted (though, because the Academy of Motion Picture bluntly about sexual matters. No one seems to be able to Arts and Sciences does not make its ranks public, this bring themselves to say the word “prostitute” in reference isn’t certain). This year, Farhadi’s latest film, The Salesman, to the previous tenant; she merely, ahem, had a lot of has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Lanvisitors, or — as direct as anyone gets — was “promiscuguage Film. He will not be able to attend the ceremony in ous.” More stinging, though, is that no one seems able to Los Angeles at the end of the month because of President say the word “rape,” not even to ascertain whether Rana Donald Trump’s ban on travel into the U.S. for citizens was, in fact, actually raped in the assault. of Iran (and six other majority-Muslim countries).

And yet even that is more like our own culture than To smack bigotry and isolationism in the face would unlike. A Western movie might make no be reason enough to seek out The Salesman.

But it’s far from the only reason. In fact, THE SALESMAN bones about precisely how a woman was attacked, but our discomfort with the topic is the best reason might be the best reason Rated PG-13 not so very different. (We do not see what to see any of Farhadi’s work: because Directed by Asghar Farhadi happened between Rana and her assailant, it is so beautifully human. Anyone who Starring Taraneh Alidoosti, and the few clues we are offered as to what would voluntarily attend a Farsi-language Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi transpired are ambiguous.) Rana’s anguish film probably doesn’t need this reminder At Magic Lantern in the aftermath is a trauma that might anyway, but Farhadi’s movies are steeped accompany any significant bodily violation, in the universality of what it means to be a even if it were “merely” being confronted by a strange person alive on the planet today: Yes, even people living man in her own bathroom and knocked unconscious. under a religious theocracy are not so very different from And Emad’s inability to know how to comfort his wife is those living in the United States. The people who populate The Salesman do not seem strange or alien: they look and feel very, very familiar.

When you heard the title The Salesman, did you imagine that a central character would be someone who makes a living shifting, I dunno, plastics or something? Not so much. Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana Etesami (Taraneh Alidoosti) — “they’re in culture,” as a neighbor proudly describes them — are acting in a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in Tehran.

Just as amateur enthusiasts, you see, not professional actors; Emad’s job is teaching literature to university students. There is much discussion to be had about how the themes of the play seep over into Emad and Rana’s real life: a somewhat delusional man who doesn’t quite understand how the world works; a weary woman who is much more grounded than her husband.

The strength of their relationship is tested after a physical attack on Rana in their new apartment: a visitor mistakes her for the woman who previously lived there, and leaves her bloodied, traumatized and unwilling to be alone in what is supposed to be their new home. And it leaves Emad obsessed with finding his wife’s assailant, either by going to the police — which she refuses to do for reasons he cannot seem to understand; so much shame would be involved! — or by tracking the man down himself.

Some of The Salesman’s concrete details are a bit strained: One of the big clues Emad has for hunting

a familiar male reaction to frustrated emotion: he directs it outward, at his quest for justice, and also inward on himself, in his simmering rage.

There’s “no harm in asking questions,” Emad tells his lit class when they’re discussing books, but much of the pain all around in The Salesman comes from an unwillingness to deal directly with one’s own life. Which was, perhaps, the problem of Miller’s Willy Loman, too. It’s also a problem that many of us would recognize, no matter where we live or what language we speak. 

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Who knew the deadly effects of a cursed videotape could last so long after people stopped actually watching anything on videotape? The latest in the Ring series comes 15 years after the original introduced the idea of victims dying within a week of watching the dastardly film. This time, a young woman sacrifices herself by watching the video after her boyfriend does in an effort to save him, only to find an undiscovered “movie within the movie” that takes the scary little girls and abandoned wells you might remember to frightening new levels. (DN) Rated PG-13

THE SPACE BETWEEN US

On-screen wunderkind Asa Butterfield (Hugo, Ender’s Game) plays another space-dwelling boy in this futuristic flick about the first human born and raised on Mars, Gardner Elliot. Growing up on the red planet in a colony of just 14 other people, Gardner wonders who his father is, and what life on Earth is like. He begins chatting online with an

Earthling teen named Tulsa, whom he eventually visits. But Gardner was not built to withstand Earth’s atmosphere, and time is running out. (CS) Rated PG-13

THE SALESMAN

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012 for his divorce drama A Separation, and his latest film to reach American shores likewise delves into a marriage under duress. Husband and wife Emad and Rana are actors and teachers, and when Rana is attacked by an unknown assailant in their new apartment, Emad becomes obsessed with finding the man who did it.

Besides his traumatized wife’s reaction — she refuses to go to police and risk shaming the family by the attack becoming public — Emad’s society stands in the way of honest discussions of sexual assault. Even so, Farhadi manages to convey how reactions to trauma are universal, no matter where we live or what language we speak. At Magic Lantern (MJ) Rated PG-13

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“If you say his name, or even think it, he will come for you.” That’s the jumping-off point for this teen-oriented fright flick inspired by urban legends like Slender Man, and movies like The Ring and Evil Dead. The evil of the Bye Bye Man, discovered by three college students, passes from person to person, causing them to do unthinkable acts (apparently including appearing in this movie). The most shocking aspect of this horror-thriller timed for release on a Friday the 13th? Probably its PG-13 rating. (DN) Rated PG-13

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premiere (which was subsequently canceled), footage surfaced showing one of the canine cast members in apparent distress during a scene; an investigation into the incident is ongoing. So let that influence your decision to see this film, also starring Dennis Quaid, if you will. (CS) Rated PG

THE FOUNDER

Ray Kroc, McDonald’s innovator and later something of a business cult leader, is portrayed here by the intense, superb Michael Keaton. He’s at once genius and evil in that banal way of greedy, insecure men; the film’s protagonist is also its villain. Director John Lee Hancock is at the helm of this wild and sometimes sinister story. (MJ)

GOLD

Kenny Wells, played by Matthew McConaughey, is a drunken businessman who latches on to geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramírez) and his awesome intuition about where gold might be found in a remote valley in Indonesia. Soon, investors from Wall Street in their sleek suits are desperate to invest in what looks like the “largest gold mine of the decade,” but Wells is stubborn and wants to maintain control of his find — which is going to be harder than he expected. (MJ) Rated R

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You’ve probably never heard of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and

Mary Jackson, who were pioneers in — respectively — mathematics, computer programming and engineering at NASA, without whom it’s astronauts would never have flown. The three black women helped the space agency through its first manned space flight, as documented in this historical drama.

(MJ) Rated PG

JACKIE

Chilean director Pablo Larraín (No) makes his English-language debut with one of America’s defining national narratives. Jackie has Natalie Portman as the title character in the days following the death of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. It often nails the connection between history and image, but it’s also never about to let you forget that central idea. (SR) Rated R

LA LA LAND

When jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) first see each other, their attraction is more than magnetic — it can bend time and space. The leads help the musical construction make sense; these two are so head over heels for each other that of course everything stops for a song-and-dance number now and again. (PC) Rated PG-13

LION

Dev Patel stars as an Australian man who was adopted by parents after getting lost on the streets of Calcutta as a child. As the memories come back to him, he sets out to find the mother and brother who he lost that day, even though 25 years have passed. At Magic Lantern. (MB) Rated PG-13

LIVE BY NIGHT

Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck, who also directed the film) is making a good living in 1920s Boston as a bank robber, with no desire to get involved with the mob, but — whoops — here he is falling in with them under duress. Then he gets sent to Tampa to head up the booming business in illegal booze and swanky nightclubs as his criminal empire grows and spirals out of control. (MJ) Rated R

MANCHESTER

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Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is a handyman in several Boston-area apartment buildings, who gets news from his coastal Massachusetts hometown of Manchester-by-the-Sea that his brother has died. What he does not expect upon his return — to a place filled with ghosts, and where everyone speaks his name like he’s a local boogeyman — is that Joe has named Lee as the guardian for Joe’s 16-yearold son Patrick (Lucas Hedges), forcing Lee to confront a past that has left him broken. Rated R

MOANA

Moana is driven to find out what lies beyond the reefs off her beautiful South Pacific island paradise, reefs beyond which her people are forbidden to venture. What makes her special is how she will achieve this: she is chosen by the ocean itself, as a reward for a kind act toward a sea creature, to take on a quest involving a long and dangerous journey that will, hopefully, save her island and her people. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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Tripp (Lucas Till) is a high-school dude sick of his small town and looking for something new in his life. So he does what a lot of teens are doing these days — he builds a truck out of spare pieces found in a junkyard. Then, he finds a lizard-octopus monster thing in his garage (he names it Creech), which takes up residence in his truck, giving it extra super powers. (MB) Rated PG

MOONLIGHT

Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the film follows the life of Chiron, beginning as a 9-year-old drug dealer in Miami, as he grows up struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

PASSENGERS

The starship Avalon rockets to a distant planet, carrying more than 5,000 comatose earthlings. At the end of its decades-long flight, Avalon will rouse the humans from their suspended animation, but then Jim (Chris Pratt) is roused from his cryogenic slumber about 90 years too soon Eventually, a young woman named Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) wakes up, too, and they need to figure out what’s gone wrong.

(PC) Rated PG-13

PATRIOT’S DAY

Boston native Mark Wahlberg plays a cop who is working on the day of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and is also involved in the hunt for the perpetrators behind the attack, which killed three people and injured many others.

Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon). Rated R

RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER

The sixth chapter of the video gameturned-movie franchise finds badass super-soldier Alice (Milla Jovovich) as the lone survivor of the end-of-theworld battle that closed this movie’s predecessor, Resident Evil: Retribution.

Now she’s headed to The Hive, where the Resident Evil story began, to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. (DN) Rated R

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

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Rated PG-13

SILENCE

Set in 17th century Japan, Silence takes place during the feudal shogunate era when Western influences and religions were outlawed on the islands. Catholic missionaries were banished or tortured to death if they refused to renounce their religion, which is why two Portuguese Jesuits, Fathers Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garrpe (Adam Driver), go on a martyr’s quest to find their former mentor, Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who has disappeared amid the mass exterminations and renunciations. At Village Centre Cinemas (MB) Rated R

SING

Here’s a tale of theatrical impresario Buster Moon (voice of Matthew McConaughey), a koala, who in a last-ditch attempt to save his grand but failing theater, decides to put on a voice-talent show, open to anyone. This brings animals of all shapes and sizes to work up routines to perform. (MB) Rated PG

SPLIT

James McAvoy easily takes on his most terrifying role to date in this psychological thriller/horror from M. Night Shyamalan about a man with dissociative identity disorder (aka split personality) who kidnaps three girls. The girls realize they need to leverage one of their captor’s 24 distinctly varied personalities to protect themselves from his most violent and creepy persona, “the beast.” (CS) Rated PG-13

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On The Way Up

Ayron Jones (center) and his band The Way are on the fast track to Next Big Thing status in Seattle.

Rising Seattle blues-rocker Ayron Jones returns to Spokane

BY BEN SALMON

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s names go, Ayron Jones can drop some big ones.

“I’m being well taken care of by the Seattle circle of royalty out here,” he says by phone.

“You’ve got your Duff McKagans and Mike McCreadys, your Kim Thayils and Pearl Jams and Soundgardens and all these cats. They’re taking care of me and putting the word out and helping me get pretty set.”

If it sounds like Jones — white-hot guitar player, charismatic bandleader and prodigious vocalist — has led a charmed life … well, that’s partially true. The past few years have seen him and his two-man backing blues-rock band, The Way, elevated to Next Big Thing status in Seattle, where Next Big Things have a habit of blossoming into just plain Big Things.

They’ve had help along the way. For one, Jones has been cosigned by a gaggle of Rain City rock stars, including but not limited to those mentioned above. His debut album, 2013’s Dream, was produced by Seattle rap godfather Sir Mix-A-Lot. And he recorded his follow-up full-length — Audio Paint Job, due out June 2 — with Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and the legendary Jack Endino, aka the guy who recorded Nirvana’s Bleach for $600.

“I’m a firm believer that if you hold your intentions, things will show up,” Jones says. “I kept grinding and putting myself out there… As I did that, people started

popping up to help me out.”

But things weren’t always so simple. Raised by his aunt in Seattle’s Central District, Jones, 30, was surrounded by the music not only of his neighborhood, but also the city at large.

“The Central District was predominantly a black neighborhood full of middle-class and poor black families, so hip-hop was very prominent where I came from,” he says. “But I’m a product of ’90s music, and growing up in Seattle, grunge was everywhere, so I listened to all that stuff. Also, I grew up in the church, so I really got all that gospel and Motown influence, too.”

Jones picked up playing on his own, teaching himself guitar and piano. He also received some formal training on the violin. “The only instrument I was taught,” he says with a chuckle, “is the one I was terrible at.”

By the time he reached his mid-20s, Jones was a raw and talented guitar player and singer with little idea of how to organize his musical thoughts into song. Halfway through working on Dream, Jones says, Mix-A-Lot halted the process and told him he would need to learn how to write a song with a hook, or his music was never going to sell.

“He kind of put that bug in me. Like, ‘You are selling records, so you have to write music that’s going to sell,’” Jones says. “That stuck with me [into the making of] my

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next album.”

Indeed, the songs on Audio Paint Job are fully formed monsters that effortlessly fuse Jones’ influences into one intense and aggressive sound. Lead track “Take Me Away” is a firestorm of heavy blues stomp, barbed guitar licks and hip-hop scratching. “Emily” swings a bit more, with The Way — drummer Ehssan Kirimi and bassist Bob Lovelace — digging into a grimy, subterranean groove as Jones wails about a lost love and wrings otherworldly noise out of six strings.

Elsewhere, Jones lets off the gas on “It’s Over When It’s Over,” using a lush string section to showcase his somber side. “Play Me A Song” is a dusky, piano-driven ballad with an easygoing melody. And the electric guitars that drive “Boys from the Puget Sound” and “Lay Your Body Down” recall his hometown grunge heroes more than, say, Jimi Hendrix. Throughout, Jones belts his way through defiant and downcast lyrics fueled by a painful divorce and the addiction-related death of his mother.

“That whole time period was a blur for me, and music was really my only way to stay focused and see the light,” Jones says about the making of Audio Paint Job. “Eventually it all settled and ended up being great for me, but it was tough emotionally.”

And where Jones is now may be very different from where he is in a year. He’s currently working toward the June release on Martin’s Sunyata Records, but he’s also considering several other intriguing business offers from record labels, management companies and more.

So Jones’ future is up in the air, but of this he’s sure: Good things are coming his way.

“We’ll just have to see what comes down the pipe, man,” he says. “Either way, this thing’s gonna hit hard.” n Ayron Jones and The Way with Cattywomp, Zack Quintana • Sat, Feb. 4 at 7:30 pm • $8-$10 • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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ow deep are Belt of Vapor’s roots in the Spokane music scene? Well, the Inlander named the hard-hitting trio one of its “Bands to Watch” back in 2005 when they were mere whippersnappers knocking out aggressive tunes, full of rough angles and ear-catching hooks. They honed their sound to a more professional (but no less raucous) shine through the recording of their excellent 2013 release, The Recluse, an 11-song set with delicious, howling vocals from Aaron Powell and seriously driving rhythms. Powell and bandmates Justin Walter and Bob Homburg pushed “pause” on Belt of Vapor for a while, but Saturday night at the Observatory, they’re throwing a little reunion gig with instrumental rockers Monuments, a celebration for Spokane music geeks young and old.

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or many, Las Vegas means glitzy casinos and garish poolside parties, and concerts by either faceless DJs at sweaty nightclubs or oldies acts like Wayne Newton and Celine Dion. But every city has a seedy underbelly, and it’s hard to imagine a more appropriate soundtrack for Sin City’s dark side than Meade Ave, a metal crew named after a street dedicated primarily to adult shops and dirty warehouses. The band has seen a few lineup changes since forming in 2013 — hey, the metal life is rough — but a newly solidified four-man lineup is preparing a new album, Stitching The Torn, for release this spring. The sound? Classic metal crunch that recalls the likes of Judas Priest or the thrashier moments of Iron Maiden on tunes like “The Hangman’s Toll.”

— DAN NAILEN Meade Ave with Sins and Sinners, TwelveGaugeSaints • Fri, Feb. 3 at 7 pm • Allages • $10 • The Pin! • 412 W. Sprague • thepinevents.com • 368-4077

COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Phoenix, Bill Bozly CURLEY’S, Chiselfish J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, Ron Greene FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Nate Ostrander FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Dragonfly HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio J J JACKLIN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER, Bluestreak THE JACKSON ST., The Sidemen THE LOCAL DELI, Wyatt Wood MOOSE LOUNGE, Cary Fly Band MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Rusty Jackson

NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Patrick O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J THE OBSERVATORY, Ramona, Boat Race Weekend, Lucky Chase, Wake Up Flora PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler TERRA BLANCA WINERY, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Barry Aiken J J THE PIN!, Meade Ave (see story above), Sins and Sinners, TwelveG-

augeSaints, Dysfunktynal Kaos VICTORY SPORTS HALL, Hannah Rebecca ZOLA, Uppercut

Saturday, 02/04

BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J J THE BIG DIPPER, Ayron Jones and The Way (see story on page 37), Cattywomp, Zack Quantana BOLO’S, Whiskey Rebellion BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Haze J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Samuel Dickison COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Phoenix, Bill Bozly

CURLEY’S, Chiselfish FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Wyatt Wood FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Dragonfly THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam MOOSE LOUNGE, Cary Fly Band MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Jimmy Morrison NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Belt of Vapor (see story above), Monuments, Dark White Light THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROCK BAR, DJ Steve Baker

 THE PIN!, Kona Bass Production, DubLoadz ZOLA, Uppercut

THE VENUE, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, 5 Second Rule

Sunday, 02/05

Wednesday, 02/08

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Monday, 02/06

 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Kellen Rowe

Tuesday, 02/07

BABY BAR, Open mic THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam night with Gil Rivas

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  THE BIG DIPPER, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Naturalystics (Brotha Nature & Lucas Brown) GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Jam Night: Truck Mills and guests THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Johnny Qlueless WOMAN’S CLUB OF SPOKANE, Spokane Contra Dance feat. Brown’s Mountain Boys ZOLA, The Bossame

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 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Roots and Boots feat. Sammy Kershaw, Aaron Tippin, Terri Clark, Feb. 9  THE BARTLETT, Dead Horses, N. Sherman, Feb. 9  KNITTING FACTORY, Reel Big Fish, Anti-Flag, Feb. 10  KNITTING FACTORY, Winter Wreck feat. Traveler of Home, Over Due, We Are Captured, Sons of Donovan and more, Feb. 11 THE PALOMINO, Elephant Gun Riot, Over Sea Under Stone, Wandering, The Drag, Feb. 11

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THE ROADHOUSE, Inland Empire Blues Society, Feb. 12  THE PIN!, Silent Planet, Hail the Sun, Dayseeker, Feb. 12  THE BARTLETT, Sallie Ford, Jenn Champion, Feb. 15  KNITTING FACTORY, Kane Brown [SOLD OUT], Feb. 15  THE PIN!, Philthy Rich, Cordel Drake and Mista Snipe, Herk Kuttz and Pure Class, Treveezy, Alley Griff, TMS, Jelon, Feb. 15 ZOLA, The Cronkites, Feb. 17-18  THE PIN!, Rivercity Rockfest feat.

Second Sting, the Nixon Rodeo, Blue Tattoo, Idol Hands, Dirk Swartz,, Feb. 17 CHATEAU RIVE, Taylor Hicks, Feb. 17

 THE PIN!, Rivercity Rockfest feat.

Washed in Black, Free the Jester, Blue Tatoo, Feb. 18  THE BARTLETT, Hip Hop Night feat.

Lou Era, DJ Felon, T.S. The Solution, The Wanderers, Nijaia, Feb. 18 THE OBSERVATORY, Summer in Siberia, The Smokes, Each Both, Feb. 18 THE OBSERVATORY, Meatbodies, Loomer, Empty Eyes, Feb. 22  THE BARTLETT, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, Feb. 22  KNITTING FACTORY, Amaranthe, Failure Anthem, Citizen Zero, Cypher16, Smash Into Pieces, Feb. 23 ZOLA, Haley Young & the Bossame, Feb. 24-Feb. 25

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W Garland THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 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 • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 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 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 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 St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S• 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • (208) 930-0381 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 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VENUE • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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The National Geographic photographer shares fascinating stories of his work on Feb. 7.

BRIAN SKERRY PHOTO

WORDS SAVE THE OCEANS

In the past 50 years, 90 percent of big ocean fish have disappeared, and dozens of other saltwater species are on the brink of extinction. It’s a harsh reality to swallow, even if you’d rather not be concerned about yet another major world issue. As part of the fascinating third season of this touring presentation series, award-winning National Geographic underwater photographer Brian Skerry shares what he’s captured on film and seen with his own eyes, presenting both stunning and heart-wrenching images that offer a true portrait of our planet’s oceans. While the truth of the matter may be downright depressing, expect Skerry to also share some slivers of hope regarding how we can keep working to protect the plants and animals that call our oceans home.

— CHEY SCOTT National Geographic Live! Ocean Soul feat. Brian Skerry • Wed, Feb. 8 at 7 pm • $28.50-$38.50 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com

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TRIVIA SHE BLINDED ME WITH…

WORDS RUNNING HISTORY

Darwin on the Palouse Trivia Night • Tue, Feb. 7 at 7 pm • Rico’s Pub • 200 E. Main St., Pullman • ricospub.com • 332-6566

Taproot Speaker Series: Don Kardong • Wed, Feb. 8 at 7 pm • Free • Spark Central • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy • spark-central.org • 279-0299

Join the Humanists of the Palouse crew for a night of brain teasers dedicated to science and reason that’s also a preamble to the group’s annual Darwin on the Palouse event on Feb. 11. It’s a celebration of science and reason, and the trivia action hosted by Mick Wilkes will include categories like “GMOs” and “Vaccinations.”

In other words, leave your Simpsons quotes and knowledge of Journey lyrics at home, and maybe pick up a science book before you go.

— DAN NAILEN

Whether you’ve been in Spokane your whole life, or just a couple of years, chances are you’ve heard a Bloomsday story or two. Spokane’s annual spring road race is one of the defining events of the community, for runners and casual observers alike, and the story behind how it came to be is highly entertaining, especially coming from race founder Don Kardong himself. You can do just that when Spark Central hosts Kardong as part of its Taproot Speaker Series.

— DAN NAILEN

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FILM CLASSICAL CINEMA

Wrap up your 2017 Spokane International Film Festival (screenings for this year’s event continue through Feb. 5) experience with the Spokane Symphony’s special event that seamlessly blends a night at the cinema with live classical music. The next installment in the Symphonic Film series is the 1925 silent picture Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney Sr. in the leading role; he dons some of the most terrifying on-screen makeup even by today’s standards. With the orchestra — joined by pianist Rick Friend — playing the score live on stage, this night at the movies will be an experience like few others.

— CHEY SCOTT Symphonic Film: Phantom of the Opera • Sat, Feb. 4 at 7:30 pm • $20-$35 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • spokanefilmfestival.org

F O T S E B L A U N TH AN 24 W N D AN OLL L N I THE DER’S P REA

THEATER LEAPIN’ LIZARDS!

Generally, it’s hard to imagine yourself jamming to a song about overworked orphans, or singing along to a number about criminals stealing a little girl’s future, but Annie and its unforgettable soundtrack still has that pull after all these years (premiering on Broadway in 1977). Get a little dose of that shining 1930s optimism during this weekend’s tour stop of the classic musical — a comedy, a thriller and a family-friendly affair all in one. Shimmy along with evil caretaker Miss Hannigan, revel in Daddy Warbucks’ riches and hopefully, come out appreciating your family and friends a little more. Remember, little orphan Annie is counting on you!

— RAVEN HAYNES Annie • Sat, Feb. 4 at 2 and 7:30 pm; Sun, Feb. 5 at 1 pm • $20-$59 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • wcebroadway.com • 279-7000

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I SAW YOU ROCK POINTE Thursday, 1-19, late afternoon. We shared a lift to the same floor.

Never have a few words about snow melt been so captivating! Would you like to meet for a cup of something, sometime? Please email Winterthaw@tutanota.com YOUNG MAN WHO HIT THE PEDESTRIAN We just want you to know that our hearts go out to you. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers as you go through this difficult and devastating time. Just want you to know that someone out there is thinking about you.

ALBERTSON’S IN LIBERTY LAKE You were with your daughter. I walked a different way so you wouldn’t see me and get uncomfortable. We first crossed paths a year ago at Starbucks in LL. That’s when we started noticing each other. Eventually we gave it a go but it didn’t work out. I still think of you often. I’ve texted a few times over the past several months and you were kind enough to respond. But you moved on pretty quickly and haven’t looked back. I hope you might think of me and text me, just to check in or in my wildest dreams to extend an invitation for an early morning wake-up. I know it won’t happen but it still makes me smile to think about it. Hopefully I’ll be moving soon, maybe it will help me move on like you have. But I doubt it.

WOMEN’S MARCH MISSED OPPORTUNITY I saw you at the Women’s March. I was standing against the wall by the entrance

before the march started. I was in a black coat and pink top and you were walking by in a pastel coat and attractive grey hair. You stopped in front of me and it looked like you were going to say something but didn’t. I was too shy to say something and I have regretted it ever since. I would like to meet you.

FROM A DISTANCE Today, from a distance, I observed you. You had such an aura of confidence about you as you went above and beyond your duties to assist others. You had such a pleasant smile on your face as everyone in line waited to be helped. (And there were A LOT of people). When someone out on the floor needed assistance, you were the first to jump in and come to that person’s aid and you were extremely patient with them. Watching you Sunday was one of the highlights of my morning/ afternoon. Thank you for reminding me that there are still wonderful people like you in this world.

CIRCLES&SQUARES This goes out to the woman I love. I respect you, appreciate you, adore you, and need you! You are what keeps this family together , please never stop loving me 4 I will never stop loving you. So guess what?... I F-ING LOVE LOVE YOU TYLA ROBERTS!!!!!!!!

Love your man the man that chases you up the stairs:-) Squarest Gangsta u know Joshua Roberts I CIRCLES&SQUARES YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:-)

CHEERS THE SAFE RETURN OF MY WRIST WALLET Thank you so much to the kind person that returned my wrist wallet to the Spokane Valley Police Department. Not only did you take the time to return it, everything was in it. I appreciate it so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :-) WHAT A NIGHT Electrifying, pulse pounding, visceral, engaged and always on point: Tom Green. When I see something I want, I take it. Mr. Green dares us to think outside the box. He challenges the status quo. He makes us, YOU, want to be alive. He’s as cool as the other side of the pillow, but hot headed like Alec Baldwin on a cell phone.

Cheers to Tom Green for making a pit stop to the wicked city of Spokane. I was totally there!

GOOD MORNING Thank you to the driver of the copper colored Dodge — you paid for my coffee and croissant this morning (Thursday, 1/26) at the Hawthorne Starbucks out north. Just wanted to say thank for the nice surprise. You made my day — and I will pay it forward :)

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TO YOU, YOUNG MAN Thank you for restoring my faith in excellent customer service; for proving to me that there are still those in the younger generation who care and can carry on a decent conversation without being distracted by technology or being uninterested in conversation. It was SO WONDERFUL to FINALLY have a two-sided conversation with someone! You were so pleasant and patient with such a calm demeanor, I could have talked to you for hours on end. But you were working, and I had other things I had to do. Just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed chatting with you. You made my day a joyous one.

So a heartfelt thank you to you, young man.

You are definitely a rare jewel.

SHANEESE When I close my eyes and yours are all I see. The love I have for you is beyond comprehension and knows no end.

You are forever the one who holds my heart. I adore you always.

CAPITAL OF TORTURE The President recently came out and supported “Waterboarding”. There is a trial going on locally of two men that wrote (in Downtown Spokane) such powerful torture protocols that it even made the CIA operatives that were present sick to their stomachs.

However I can remember when this first hit the paper business people here not real

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

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

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JEERS THINK OF OTHERS... Jeers to all the houses on Argonne & Upriver Dr. area that haven’t shoveled your sidewalks. I sat at that light and watched a man climb mountains of snow, sink into snowbanks, and basically look like he was competing on a parkour course to get down that sidewalk. That is a BUSY street, and the sidewalk needs to be clear for pedestrians to be safe. And what if someone needed to get through there that was not as able-bodied as the man I watched?? Shame on all of you for not shoveling your walks — or helping your elderly neighbor keep their walk shoveled and clear. Someone in that row of homes (both sides of the street!) has got to be able-bodied and have a shovel, if not a snowblower. If you are unable, call the city, ask for help, call a neighbor, or young, able, family member. Point being — get it done.

It’s your responsibility as a homeowner, and sometimes you have to put others first, for the simple reason that you are a citizen of this community, if nothing else.

RE: EMPLOYERS Unfortunately minimum wage did increase. So did child care, gro-

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ing, no education?? We have all had to do it. We have all been under paid. We have all gone without to get by. We have all had to work multiple jobs because hours got cut.

RE: SPOKANE COUNTY JUDICIAL SYSTEM To the complaint about their stay at our local jail... dont break the law and you dont go to jail. As Jim Carey put it in the movie Liar Liar...and I quote...STOP BREAKING THE LAW A$%HOLE!!

CONGRATULATIONS COMPLAINER Jeers to the “”the farsighted yippee pig comment”” regarding citizens and political leaders from the Jan 19 issue. All I have to say is rude.

Actually if you do not like the direction this country is heading then move. I am sure some tax dollars can afford you a passport.

Good luck elsewhere with an attitude like that. 

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If your life choices led to a minimum wage career that is your fault. What do you expect, $25/hr with no experience, no train-

Thank you for reminding me that there are still wonderful people like you in this world.

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MEALS ON WHEELS CINN-A-GRAM Each $30 order includes two fresh rolls, Roast House coffee, candies, a mug, and a personal message from you.

For every Cinn-A-Gram purchased, 7 seniors receive a hot, nutritious meal.

Call/order online before Feb. 8; deliveries made Feb. 14. mowspokane.org GALENTINE’S DAY CRAFTING Ladies are invited to create Valentine crafts while enjoying food, beverages and fun. Proceeds benefit The Center restroom project at the library. Feb. 3, 7 pm. $25. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us (397-4366) PAIRING WITH PARASPORTS Join Parasport for an inaugural auction fundraiser, featuring Barrister Wineries wine, heavy hors d’oeuvres and offering an evening of celebration and storytelling. Feb. 4, 6-9 pm. $45/person; $80/pair. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. parasportspokane.org USED BOOK SALE St. Mary’s Guatemala Mission Committee hosts a used book sale. Feb. 4, from 4-7pm and Feb. 5, from 8 am-1 pm. St. Mary’s Church Parish Hall, 304 S. Adams Rd., Spokane Valley. Good will offerings. (928-6920) OUR PLACE FUNDRAISER Our Place’s 9th annual fundraiser with GU Theatre, featuring a showing of Shakespeare’s “Troilus & Cressida.” Includes a 6 pm reception and silent auction; play begins at 7:30. Feb. 9, 6-9:30 pm. $25.

Gonzaga Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. ourplacespokane.org

COMEDY

AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) CHOOSE TO LOSE Join the Blue Door Players for a wacky, all-improvised Game Show. Fridays through Feb. 10, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com COMEDY FOR A CAUSE Live standup show by Spokane comedian Philip Kopczynski. He’ll be joined by another surprise comedian. Feb. 4, 7:30-9:30 pm. $14. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) SAFARI The Blue Door’s fast-paced, short-form improv show. The gamebased format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Rated for mature audiences. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN Comedians get a topic and have four minutes to perform; the crowd then votes for a winner. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933)

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Access Pipeline. Feb. 3, 3-6 pm. Downtown Spokane. bit.ly/2jovFxA EARTH DAY SPOKANE FUNDRAISER Support the upcoming Earth Day Spokane Festival. This event showcases new highlights for this year, and also includes prizes, music, art, food, and more. Feb. 3, 6-10 pm. Free; donations accepted. Startup Spokane Central, 610 W. Second. earthday.site MISS SPOKANE SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT An event to crown the 2017 Miss Spokane and Miss Spokane’s Outstanding Teen winners; each are local preliminaries to Miss America and Miss America’s Outstanding Teen. Feb. 4, 2-5 pm. $10-$20. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash St. bit.ly/2jgMQwp SEED SWAP Participants can bring seeds to swap and take home new varieties, learn about seed saving, and learn about the seed-sharing program at the library, truetoseedcda. org. You don’t need seeds to swap to participate. Feb. 4, 1-3 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. inwfoodnetwork.org/seed-swap KYRS MUSIC + GEAR SALE Score some deals on vinyl, CDs, music gear, stereo equipment, and electronics. Donations of gently-used items accepted at the station during regular business hours. All proceeds support KYRS. Feb. 5, 9 am-noon. Community Building, 35 W. Main. kyrs.org MCCLEARY 101 An event by the League of Education Voters to educate the community on the McCleary issue and how school funding directly affects them. Refreshments and childcare provided. Feb. 6, 6-7 pm. Free.

PRIDE Prep, 811 W. Sprague. tinyurl. com/gp273mc (309-7860) CUT THE CABLE CORD Many people are choosing non-traditional ways of getting their entertainment. Learn how you, too, can save money and still watch TV. Feb. 7, 2 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone. (444-5331) DR. LOVE JONES: BLACK RELATIONSHIPS A session discussing Black and Black-mixed relationships in society.

Feb. 7, 12-1 pm. Free. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu STEM NIGHT The Mead School District showcases a variety of STEM opportunities. Includes a special presentation from former NASA astronaut and teacher Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger. Feb. 7, 6-8:30 pm. Free. Mead High School, 302 W. Hastings. (465-7655) CLASH OF THE GENERATIONS An interactive community and campus event on the opportunities and challenges that a multi-generational workforce brings to the work environment.

Feb. 8, 12-1:30 pm. Free. WSU Spokane, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (358-7500) THE DEAL WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER A session to help the SFCC community understand why Black Lives Matter is important and speaks to the unique history of the United States regarding race and belonging. Feb. 8, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu NAT GEO LIVE: OCEAN SOUL Voyage across the oceans with one of National Geographic’s most seasoned photographers, Brian Skerry. Feb. 8, 7 pm. $29.50-$39.50. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. wcebroadway.com (777-6253)

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I’m a 61-year-old guy who’s been married four times. I love the security and acceptance of marriage, but after several years, either my wife du jour or I will get bored, and we’ll agree to move on. Clearly, I like being a husband, but I do a poor job of remaining one. Can I change that?

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So, you just want the security of marriage with all the excitement of dating somebody new — which is kind of like wanting a latex hood and ball gag that are also a

comfy old pair of slippers.

Though, no, you can’t have it all, you might manage to have a good bit of it all — the security and the excitement — by bringing in the neurochemistry of the chase when you’re in the cuddly-wuddly long-term attachment stage. This probably sounds complicated, but it’s basically the brain version of how your freezer can serve as both an ice cube manufacturing area and a makeshift morgue for Squeaky the hamster, until you can give him a proper burial.

It turns out that the goo-goo-eyed “Granny and I are still so in luvvv!” and the bug-eyed “Wowee, that’s new and exciting!” can have some brain parts and neurochemicals in common. Social psychologist Arthur Aron and his colleagues did a brain imaging study of couples who were still passionately in love after being married for 10 to 29 years. Surprisingly, the results looked a lot like their previous results on couples who’d just fallen madly in love, with intense activity in regions of the brain “associated with reward and motivation.”

The neurotransmitter dopamine is a central player in this reward circuitry. Though dopamine is still widely known by its outdated nickname, the “pleasure chemical,” current research by neuroscientist Kent Berridge suggests that it doesn’t actually give you a buzz (as opioids in the brain do). It instead motivates you to do things that might — like eating cake, smoking a doob, and making moves on that girl with the hypno-hooters.

Dopamine-secreting neurons are especially on the alert for what researchers call “novel rewards” — any yummy, sexy, feel-good stuff you haven’t tried before.

Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz finds that “unpredictable rewards” may be even three or four times as exciting to us as those we’re used to.

The problem is, when there’s nothing new on the horizon, there’s no reason for your dopamine to get out of bed. In other words, there’s a neurochemical explanation for why your marriages often go dullsville. But, there’s also good news: Aron and his colleagues note that “if partners experience excitement” from, say, “novel and challenging activities” that they do together, “this shared experience can reignite relationship passion by associating the excitement with the relationship.”

Obviously, these should be unanticipated good experiences — like alternating who plans date night and surprising each other with the week’s event — not having your spouse find you in bed with the cleaning lady. You might also try to delight your spouse with small unexpected gestures every day. Ultimately, you should find bringing in surprise much more fun than simply hoping the relationship won’t die — kind of like a paramedic just staring down at a heart attack victim: “Not lookin’ good, dude!

Hope you didn’t have any big weekend plans!”

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The girl I’m in love with has a boyfriend. She and I have already fooled around, but she can’t bring herself to break up with this guy. She insists she doesn’t want to lose me and promises we’ll date eventually. I’m confused. Do you think she’s playing me? —Lost It’s nice to hope for the best about people — but still put a note, “tofu-kelp casserole,” on that foil-wrapped plate of brownies you stuck in the break room refrigerator.

However, especially when our ego is involved, we’re prone to believe the best about people, because of what psychologists call “optimism bias.” This is a form of selectovision that leads us to overestimate that things will turn out wonderfully for us and underestimate the likelihood of our experiencing bad stuff, like being in a flaming car wreck or a flaming car wreck of a relationship. In short, we believe that bad things happen to other people. For example, that cheater we’re in love with is only cheating because the other dude’s such a fuckbuckle, not because she has the ethics of a dust mite.

Because optimism bias is ego-protecting, understanding that we’re susceptible to it typically isn’t enough to dig ourselves out. What might help you, however, is telling yourself your story, but about some other girl and guy. Then advise that guy on his prospects. For example: Yes, here’s a woman you can trust completely to be faithful —whenever she’s trapped, totally alone, 2,300 feet below ground in a Chilean coal mine. n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR COFFEE WITH A COP Join the Coeur d’Alene Police Dept. to help foster stronger relationships between police officers and the citizens they serve. Feb. 9, 8-10 am. Bakery by the Lake, 601 E. Front St. bit.ly/2jP3Las (208-415-0681)

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HIDDEN COLORS A series of films on the history of Black people in America.

Feb. 2, 9, 13 and 23, from 1-3 pm. Free.

SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (533-3546) SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST SpIFF’s 2017 edition features 19 feature films and 39 shorts from more than 20 different countries as well as from local directors. Jan. 27-Feb. 5. $10.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. spokanefilmfestival.org (509-209-2383) GROUNDHOG DAY In honor of Groundhog Day, the library shows the classic romantic comedy. Rated PG. Feb. 4, 2 pm. Free. Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook St. (444-5331) BEING MORTAL Hospice of Spokane and KSPS host a special screening of the FRONTLINE documentary exploring the intersection of life, death, medicine and what matters in the end. Includes a post-film panel discussion. Feb. 9, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. KSPS Public TV, 3911 S. Regal. (354-7724)

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VINO WINE TASTING The Friday, Feb. 3, tasting highlights selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month Club, from 3-6:30 pm. On Sat, Feb. 4 sample varietals from Tempus Cellars, from 2-4:30 pm. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com (838-1229) GROWING IN NORTH IDAHO Learn about vegetable gardening in North Idaho from Idaho Master Gardeners.

Pre-registration and payment is required. Feb. 4, 9 am-4 pm. $40. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way. (208-765-4969) ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST DAY The Scoop hosts one of its biggest annual celebrations of the tasty treat, serving up ice cream for breakfast all morning.

Feb. 4, 8 am-2 pm. The Scoop, 1001 W. 25th Ave. bit.ly/2jtsioj (509-535-7171) PIE MAKING CLASS Learn innovative techniques and multiple fillings like the family favorite, cherry cheesecake pie.

Feb. 7, 5:30 pm. $45. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. thekitchenengine.com VEGETARIAN CULINARY CLASS Learn how to make Chef Jamie’s Moussaka, with roasted vegetables and topped with a yogurt and cheese gratin. Feb. 8, 5:30 pm. $39. Kitchen Engine, 621 W. Mallon. (328-3335) IRON GOAT BEER DINNER A six-course dinner, each featuring a beer pairing from Iron Goat, including the Mosaic IPA, cherry chocolate stout and blackberry apricot sour. Feb. 8, 6:30 pm. $69/person. Clover, 913 E. Sharp Ave. cloverspokane.com (487-2937) TERRA BLANCA WINERY TASTING Come enjoy some of the winery’s products while learning the ins and outs of wine making from winery owner Keith Pilgrim. Feb. 8, 5-8 pm. Free. Sapphire Lounge, 901 W. First Ave. (534-5805)

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TOWN A crash-course swing dancing lesson for beginners; no partners, experience or special clothes needed.

Lesson followed by live dancing, 8:3011:30 pm. Feb. 3, 8-11:30 pm. $10. Christ Central Church, 19 W. Shannon. bit. ly/2klimLn (919-9162) SYMPHONIC FILM: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Watch Lon Chaney, Sr. in one of his most memorable roles while the Spokane Symphony performs a live soundtrack, joined by pianist Rick Friend. Feb. 3, 7:30 pm. $15-$30. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) WORLD MUSIC CELEBRATION The two-day event includes evening concerts and a daytime masterclass with visiting musicians from around the world. Feb. 3-4, at 7:30 pm. $5-$8. University of Idaho Admin. Building, 851 Campus Dr. uidaho. (888-884-3246) JAZZNIC CONCERT More than 600 of the region’s young “jazzers” come to North Idaho College to participate in the annual jazz fest, which concludes with a free community concert. Feb. 7, 7:30 pm.

Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-3276) ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly-talented young California cellist Haas once again unleash their dazzling teamwork and passion for Scottish music. Feb. 8, 7-9 pm. $10-$25. Panida Theater, 300 N. First. (208-255-7801) MUSIC IN HISTORIC HOMES An intimate classical concert in the historic Knight House (249 W. Sumner Ave).

Feb. 8 and 9, with concerts at 3, 5 and 7 pm. spokanehistoricconcerts.org MARC TEICHOLZ The internationallyacclaimed classical guitar virtuoso performs in the GU Student Chapel, third floor of College Hall. Feb. 9, 7-8:30 pm. $10/door. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. (313-6733)

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CONQUEST OF THE CAGE A mixed martial arts event featuring the return of UFC veteran Elizabeth Phillips. Feb. 3, 7 pm. $45-$125. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com SPOKANE CHIEFS Regular season matches vs. the Medicine Hat Tigers on Feb. 3; vs. the Kamloops Blazers on Feb. 4 and the Portland Winterhawks on Feb. 8. All start at 7:05 pm. $10-$23.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com INLAND PRO WRESTLING: THRESHOLD An all-ages wrestling showcase; full bar with ID. Doors at 2:30, bell at 3 pm. Feb. 4, 3 pm. Free. The Venue, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. (294-7864)

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LION KING JR. A lively stage adaptation of the Disney film by Cataldo Catholic School as part of the 17th Annual Drama Production. Feb. 2-3, at 7 pm. $6.50/$7.50. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. cataldo.org (624-8759) TITUS ANDRONICUS The U. of Idaho presents Shakespeare’s most brutal revenge tragedy. Feb. 2-12, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Free/UI students; $5-$15/public. University of Idaho Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. uitheatre.com (208-885-6465) VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE

See one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years.

Through Feb. 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) ANNIE The beloved musical returns in time-honored form. Feb. 4, 2 and 7:30 pm, Feb. 5, 1 pm. $22.50-$61.50. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. wcebroadway.com LIGHTS! CAMERA! MURDER! An interactive murder mystery dinner and scavenger hunt. Feb. 4, 11 am-9 pm. $69.

Talus Rock Retreat, 291 Syringa Heights Rd., Sandpoint.. sandpointretreat.com PIRATES OF PENZANCE See this rollicking tale of a band of soft-tempered pirates that’s fun for all ages. $30/person; $200/table of 8. Includes dinner, beverages and dessert. Feb. 4, 6-9 pm.

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ARTS + WORDS

SATURATE / VISUAL ARTS TOUR Art galleries and businesses across Spokane and beyond host receptions to showcase new displays of art. February’s event highlights regional artists of color. Details at spokanearts.org/saturate; also see story on page 27.

2017 FACULTY BIENNIAL The Bryan Oliver Gallery presents an exhibit of Whitworth faculty’s current work. Reception Feb. 7, 5-6 pm, followed by a discussion at 6 pm. Feb. 7-March 24; Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-3258) DAVE ANDERSEN: CALCULATIONS FOR FUTURE EVENTS An exhibition of the artist’s paintings. Feb. 7-March 9; Mon-Fri, 8:30 am-3:30 pm or by appt.

Gallery walk-through Feb. 7, 11:30 am, with reception to follow. Artist workshop on Feb. 28 at 1 pm. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu (533-3746) 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic continues with “Remember the Word” featured reader Fitz and guest host Dennis Held. Open mic readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. Feb. 3, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com READING: ROBERT LASHLEY A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, Robert Lashley’s poems have been published widely. Feb. 4, 7-8 pm.

Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) GONZAGA VISITING WRITER SERIES: TIM O’BRIEN A talk by the award-winning author whose book “The Things They Carried” was nominated for the Pulitzer. Feb. 6, 7:30-8:30 pm. Free.

Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. (313-4729) TAPROOT SPEAKER SERIES: DON KARDONG The Bloomsday founder shares the story of founding the race and how it came to be the source of community pride it is today. Feb. 8, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) CRAZY POLITICS: POPULISM, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND PARANOIA IN AMERICA Join the public discussion with WSU professor Cornell Clayton, Has it always been this bad? Discover the history of conspiratorial thinking in American politics. Feb. 9, 7-8:30 pm.

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here is no shortage of pro-pot pride in Washington state, where sales since the recreational market opened in 2014 topped $1 billion last year. Everyone’s doing it! And the stigma of cannabis use is fading fast. But is there a negative side effect to its new social acceptance?

Researchers have long noticed an inverse correlation between the perception of marijuana’s risks and its use; i.e., a decrease in the latter is usually indicative of an increase in the former. A new study, in the wake of cannabis legalization in Washington, examined that relationship through the eyes of a group not often invited to the drug debates: adolescents.

“We need to better understand the impact of recreational marijuana use, so we’re better prepared to prevent adverse consequences among the most vulnerable sectors of the population,” says study leader Magdalena Cerdá at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program.

Since legalization in 2012, marijuana use among eighth-graders in Washington has increased by 2 percent.

That figure doubles among 10th-graders. Although the law unequivocally states that cannabis use is only for adults at least 21 years old, the study also found that the “perception of harmfulness” had dropped significantly (by up to 16 percent) for kids of middle school and high school age.

Perhaps that’s because mom and dad, traditionally

Cannabis use among people 45 to 54 years old has jumped 50 percent since 2002, research shows. the responsible role models, are getting high just as often.

According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last September, the use of cannabis in America among people 45 to 54 years old increased by 50 percent since 2002. For those a bit older, 55 to 64, use has skyrocketed by 455 percent.

“Teens who have learned of the risks of marijuana from their parents are half as likely to use as those who haven’t learned from their parents,” said the vice chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in a 1996 hearing before Congress, when the impact of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was beginning to wane.

Increasingly, teenagers aren’t hearing the warnings from their teachers, either. The implicitly anti-drug D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program

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In the meantime, opioid overdose deaths in the United States have surpassed deaths resulting from car accidents. On Friday, Seattle and King County revealed a plan, the first of its kind in the nation, to provide users with needles and supervision at safe-injection sites, without risk of arrest. Not everyone, however, is convinced that the normalization of drug use will be a positive development for impressionable youth.

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52. Neighbors of Croats 53. “The Simpsons” shopkeeper 54. European peak 57. Oakland daily, for short 58. Initial power source 62. “____ homo” 63. Travelers’ documents 64. Elizabeth of “Lone Star,” 1996 65. What library patrons do 66. Arms flank it 67. Public transport option

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19. Platte Valley native 20. Poli-____ (college major) 21. Gaza grp.

22. One of the ABC islands 23. Donna on “The Donna Reed Show” or Laura on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” e.g.

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36. Spice Girl Halliwell 37. Burkina Faso neighbor 38. Undertaking 39. Tangle of hair 40. Palindromic houseware brand 43. Coat named for an Irish province 44. U.S. president who was the subject of a campaign biography written by his college friend Nathaniel Hawthorne 45. One of six areas on a Risk board 47. “Fingers crossed!”

48. Fertility clinic cell 50. ____ and flowed 51. Half of a 1960s pop group 55. Dunham of “Girls” 56. Brit’s baby buggy 58. Cpl.’s inferior 59. Hit 2011 animated film 60. Mediterranean land: Abbr.

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Partisan Pagans

The political divide is even splintering Spokane’s witches

BY JORDY BYRD

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hey cast spells and they cast ballots. In Indianapolis, they hexed Donald Trump, taking to Instagram with grainy photos of Beelzebub. In New England, Vermont’s Feminists Against Trump — a group of college professors — cast spells of love to “destroy the Great Orange One.” In Brooklyn, Portland and beyond, black-clad activists identifying as witches — finding inspiration in the 1960s feminist group known as the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.) — marched amid a sea of pink “pussyhats” during the Women’s March. They clasped hands, and with lips snarled in a spell, declared in unison that they would resist.

Feminists the nation over are reclaiming the word “witch.” Some identify with the word simply as a means to invoke power, to take back a history of violent persecution against women. Others are becoming public with their faith, with their practice of witchcraft.

In Spokane, however, many area witches traded in their black pointed hats for red baseball caps. These witches — both women and men — came out of the broom closet and went public with their pro-Trump politics. The election of Trump has divided not only families seated at the dinner table, but covens of witches from the four corners of the earth.

“People are so divided politically, even amongst us witches,” says Lola Stardust ( her “craft” name), a

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45-year-old Spokane homemaker. “There is a certain stereotype that all Christians are conservative, right-wing, and that people running around casting spells in the woods are bleeding-heart liberals.”

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itches are impossible to categorize. Many practice variations of Wicca, a pagan religion developed in early 20th-century England, rooted in the worship of the sun and moon, and The Goddess and The God. The faith, popularized in the 1940s by Gerald Gardner, an English Wiccan, has transformed into offshoots like neopaganism, led by feminist activists.

Stardust is a second-degree priestess in her coven, The People of the Woods. She uses her “craft name,” which is common for witches who aren’t public with their faith. As a child she had an affinity for talking to the sun, the moon and the animals, but didn’t devote her life to witchcraft until she became a stay-at-home mom.

The People of the Woods is an outspoken, politically conservative group, though Stardust identifies as liberal.

Members of her coven — a group of witches who perform rituals together — argue on Facebook pages like Pagans/ Witches in Spokane, claiming “many Spokane area witches are celebrating the Trump inauguration. Many witches want America to be a great nation again.”

“People in my coven have very different political beliefs than my own and we have butted heads, but

The original W.I.T.C.H. group in front of the Chicago Federal Building in 1969. we leave that at the door when we worship together,” Stardust says. “It’s the separation of church and state that really needs to be practiced, and I live it with my coven.”

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lizabeth Shaw doesn’t have patience for niceties.

The 25-year-old witch and high priestess also identifies as an “intersectional” feminist — a feminist who acknowledges overlapping identities and related systems of oppression.

“As Trump became more popular, he brought out all of the hypocrisies of witchcraft,” she says. “Witches are traditionally white people who have a lot of growth and learning to do. Are you transphobic, homophobic or racist? Our religion is literally based around loving the earth and loving everyone. But we need to do more to celebrate diversity, especially in Spokane.”

Shaw became a witch in Catholic middle school, all because of a research project on Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. As the Facebook page monitor for Pagans/Witches in Spokane and Spokane Witches in Action, she sees Wiccan conflict played out online.

“If we are going to make it through this presidency, we are going to have to get along,” she says. “All I can be is loving and kind, but I’m running out of patience.”

Woods Wizard (not his real name), 66, grew up in the 1960s and is no stranger to political unrest. He’s been active in the Spokane Pagan community for a dozen years. As administrator of Spokane Pagan Village Commons, he oversees the activities of 15 local pagan groups.

He describes many Spokane witches as former veterans who are fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

While no counterculture, not even the witches, is insulated from American politics, Woods Wizard says that a utilitarian code of ethics binds witches like Stardust and Shaw together.

“The two main virtues of Wicca are freedom — so long as you harm none — and personal responsibility,” he says. “A lot of the political differences in the pagan community come down to how each of us prioritize these two virtues.” n

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