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he rise of PODCASTS is a bit counterintuitive.

We now have at our fingertips endless collections of highly produced video content, thousands upon thousands of hours of movies, TV shows and comedy specials available to us on demand.

And yet across the Inland Northwest, on couches, around kitchen tables and in makeshift home studios, people are talking into microphones — about important or just plain funny things — and people are listening en masse. More than 75 million people in the U.S. regularly listen to podcasts, according to one study.

Meanwhile, the number of podcasts has exploded — with the offerings on Apple’s podcast service doubling in the past three years, to more than 600,000 different shows. Among them are a bunch of locally made podcasts produced by interesting people with something to say. Don’t miss our coverage beginning on page 22.

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Neat concepts that are explored in depth.

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There’s this podcast called Limited Resources, it’s [about] Magic: The Gathering card game.

I’m a huge fan of Merlyn’s. Yeah, [Magic] is a huge hobby of mine.

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rowing up in Kooskia, Idaho (population 607), politics and government were the furthest things from my mind. Later on, as a student at the University of Idaho, I focused my studies on chemistry and Spanish and mostly avoided political controversies.

But then suddenly, as a young mother, politics happened to me. My newborn son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a rare genetic disease requiring expensive pharmaceuticals, therapies and medical specialists to stay alive.

My husband and I quickly realized that politics — like it or not — would be an unavoid-

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able part of our lives. As parents of our extraordinary child, we would be intensely vulnerable to changes in health care policy and insurance coverage.

In the decade since, my husband and I volunteered as health care policy advocates. We met repeatedly with lawmakers to discuss crucial coverage programs like Medicaid, and I became national advocacy co-chair for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Over the years, I grew increasingly discouraged by the Idaho Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid access to the 62,000 Idahoans struggling without health insurance in the “Medicaid

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gap.” Frustration finally compelled me to engage in politics at the grassroots level. I partnered with Reclaim Idaho, a new organization of grassroots activists who were traveling the state in a bright-green 1977 RV dubbed the “Medicaid Mobile.” Together with supporters from every region of Idaho, we worked to build enough community support for a ballot initiative to finally close the Medicaid gap.

I was so inspired by the campaign to expand Medicaid that I decided to run for a seat in the Idaho Legislature and to make Medicaid expansion the cornerstone of my platform. As I continued to work with Reclaim Idaho, our grassroots organizing ignited a level of community action rarely seen. Volunteers gathered 75,000 signatures statewide to qualify Proposition 2 for the midterm ballot.

Although my bid for a seat in the Legislature was unsuccessful, on election night I joined thousands across the state in celebrating a huge health care victory for the people of Idaho.

Medicaid expansion was approved by a landslide. A whopping 61 percent of Idahoans voted yes, including a majority of voters in 35 of Idaho’s 44 counties.

By ignoring the brutality of the Medicaid gap for so many years, Idaho lawmakers inadvertently helped create a massive network of engaged citizen lawmakers. In my view, the community organizing around Idaho’s Medicaid expansion represents the most positive, inspiring story in American politics today.

Since the election, I’ve been reflecting on the other critical issues demanding urgent policy action in Idaho. On the campaign trail, I heard countless heartbreaking stories from people struggling to make ends meet due to Idaho’s outdated minimum wage, which is less than half of Idaho’s calculated “living wage.”

Meanwhile, poll after poll demonstrates that Idaho voters are deeply concerned with the issue of K-12 funding. Ever since a major overhaul of our school-financing laws in 2006, funding has become drastically less equal across districts. The shameful result is that an Idaho child’s educational opportunity now depends on his or her zip code, with affluent districts receiving far more funding per student than poorer districts. All across the state, underfunded school districts are struggling to recruit and retain talented teachers.

With so much urgent work remaining, I look forward to continue organizing at the grassroots level. I’m especially thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the talented team at Reclaim Idaho as their executive director. Through grassroots organizing, each and every one of us can become citizen lawmakers and enact sweeping policy change. As far as I’m concerned, Reclaim Idaho is doing the most important work in the state and I’m chomping at the bit to embark on the next statewide, issue-based campaign as part of their team. You haven’t heard the last from Idaho’s citizen lawmakers. n Rebecca Schroeder is a lifelong Idahoan, residing in Coeur d’Alene with her husband, Brock, and son, Brady.

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Q&A SANDY WILLIAMS Activist Sandy Williams saw a gap in coverage of issues affecting Spokane’s black community, so she started her own newspaper

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efore she started the Black Lens newspaper, focused on issues affecting the black community in Spokane and around the country, Sandy Williams was well known for her work as a community activist.

Her dad’s military career originally brought their family to Spokane when she was 12, and after studying psychology and then moving onto a film degree, Williams spent a lot of time between the Inland Northwest and California doing advocacy. She’s worked in suicide prevention, in LGBTQ support, with at-risk youth, and in calling out disparities in minority communities.

“You name the oppression, I’ve pretty much done work in that area,” Williams says, “and I keep sort of getting called back into that.”

Four years ago, while running Eastern Washington University’s Pride Center, she felt called to start the Black Lens, which she writes, edits, designs and sells ads for all on her own. She also distributes all 1,400 copies, with about 250 subscribers getting issues mailed to them around the country.

We moved here when I was 12, so even though I’ve left a couple times, I still have a long history of knowing the people, knowing the issues, knowing the community, and there has just always been a need for a mechanism of communication. There had been a newspaper in the ’90s called the African American Voice … and that paper lasted I think three, four, five years, something like that, and went away.

“You name the oppression, I’ve pretty much done work in that area, and I keep sort of getting called back into that.”

INLANDER: You had done film before. Was some of that journalistic in nature, or is this totally brand new to you?

WILLIAMS: No, I had no journalism background whatsoever, except storytelling. I’ve always been a storyteller from the time I was a kid. I was always writing stories and poems. I was not a talker. I was a very withdrawn, quiet kid, so I wrote a lot. … I think even the narratives of my paper I would argue are more storytelling than journalistic. I’d argue that’s more of my bent.

I tell people, you know the newspaper for me was just another form of activism. Same as I did a radio show here on KYRS for a while. That was activism.

Everything is through that lens of activism for me.

Why did you choose to focus specifically on the African-American community around here?

Because it needed it. You know, that’s my people.

So from the ’90s there was nothing, and I mean it’s the 2000s already and there’s like no black newspaper, there’s no black radio, there’s no black part of town, there’s like no black anything, except for churches. So you know there was lots of conversation about the need, but there was just no avenue for somebody to sort of step into that, or kind of have an understanding of how to do that.

Are there things you’ve covered that you feel like the rest of Spokane media still have pretty much missed the ball on?

I think racial disparities in general. I think Spokane doesn’t like to talk about that. We do a lot of surface stuff, and I would toot my horn a little, because I think the fact I keep bringing it up is forcing other media to address it more.

You know the other thing is, like, I don’t do a lot of sports stories. Not because I don’t think sports are important, but it’s like in Spokane that’s the only time you ever hear about black people, is when they’re athletes.

I think that’s valuable, but I intentionally don’t cover that. n

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CONVERSATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS he animosity expressed by tone of voice, facial expressions and

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questions about undocumented people (i.e., illegal aliens ) at political meetings amazes me. I attended a Conversations with Cathy meeting in Medical Lake in October 2018 when disdain for the undocumented was expressed by one woman who shouted out “Build that wall” and others appeared to agree.

On Feb. 21, I attended another Conversations with Cathy meeting in Medical Lake. After Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodger’s opening remarks, the first rather aggressive question was why the laws already on the books concerning undocumented workers (11-20 million according to the questioner) LETTERS weren’t being enforced.

Send comments to Later, in response to a question editor@inlander.com. concerning the housing shortage in the area, Rep. McMorris Rodgers relayed a conversation she just held with a general contractor who was involved in the housing development behind the Airway Heights Walmart — he could build more housing, but for lack of electricians, plumbers and other skilled workers.

How interesting that in many parts of the country, that work, along with many other skilled and unskilled jobs, is carried out efficiently and successfully by the “undocumented.” Contributions of immigrants to this country, both legal and illegal, are often overlooked by many “documented” Americans.

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Readers respond to a Q&A with the Willard Elementary educators who created the courtesy club to instill better manners among students (2/21/19):

ALICIA MARIE: OK but seriously, I love the idea of teaching positive social interaction, but they always lose me with the “kids these days” rhetoric.

And a lot of adults — yes, even our preciously held teachers — need to learn to respect the autonomy of children. Really wish we’d focus on that once in a while.

MICHELE STANDER-REIMER: When my mom was a kid, they had her class read a “kids these day” article. It was written by Aristotle.

Because everyone all over the world is annoyed by “kids these days.”

My mom always remembered that people who say that have gotten to the stage in their life when they refused to any longer adapt; something way more concerning.

HEIDI PENFIELD: I remember when “please” and “thank you” were some of our baby’s first words and he, in turn, taught his three the same thing. Being kind and polite should be with us our whole lives. n

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eading into 2019 — with new reports showing drastic changes are imminently needed to avoid the worst climate change impacts — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and environmental groups made it clear that they wanted to make this the “Year of the Climate.”

So far, they appear to be getting close to making that a reality, with a slew of clean energy bills that were included on their climate-focused agenda chugging through the Democrat-controlled state House and Senate.

Many of the goals proposed are aggressive. One set of bills would push Washington to get to 100 percent clean energy by 2045, with most utilities nearing that goal by 2030. If passed, Washington would join California and Hawaii, which have already set that 2045 clean energy goal, and several other states are considering similar clean

If a group of energy-focused bills become law, Washington state would move toward 100 percent clean energy by 2045. energy legislation this year.

Another package of bills is meant to tackle the secondlargest source of emissions in the state: inefficient buildings and appliances.

Yet another proposal would have Washington join the rest of the West Coast, from California to British Columbia, in adopting a clean fuel standard to reduce emissions from fuel used for travel.

Each of those three major packages are moving rapidly through committees in the Legislature, and the answer to whether this could be a year of major change for Washington’s energy consumption could come in the form of floor votes in those first chambers as soon as this week.

But the climate agenda hasn’t moved ahead without

pushback, particularly on those changes targeted at the utility and fuel industries. Industry lobbyists have cited concerns that the policies could create significant price increases that would impact consumers, and utilities want to be sure they can provide reliable power backups as necessary considering the intermittent nature of solar and wind. Others representing the agricultural and trucking industries have concerns measures like the clean fuel standard could harm jobs by raising costs for those who grow food or transport goods to market.

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found nearly eight in 10 voters support setting a goal to get utilities to 100 percent clean power by 2045.

“You don’t get eight out of 10 agreeing on much these days, but eight out of 10 want clean energy,” says Jesse Piedfort, Washington chapter director for the Sierra Club. “What that shows is people understand this is an urgent problem.

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Widely watched among the environmental measures are Senate Bill 5116 and its companion House Bill 1211, which would get Washington to 100 percent clean power in about two decades and accomplish a laundry list of items environmental groups have pushed for in recent years.

Under the current versions of each bill, utilities would have to switch away from all coal-fired power by Dec. 31, 2025, which would accelerate current plans. Currently, Washington utilities Avista and Puget Sound Energy plan to be at least financially ready to stop using the Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana by 2027. The legislation would still allow utilities to spend money decommissioning the plant and remediating the site after that 2025 deadline.

Then, by Jan. 1, 2030, utilities in the state would have to provide 100 percent of their energy from greenhouse-gas-neutral sources.

Through 2044, there’d be an exception for up to 20 percent of that power, which could instead be covered by buying renewable energy credits, making an alternative compliance payment of at least $60 per megawatt hour of power that’s not from renewables, investing in “energy transformation projects” that reduce emissions but don’t generate electricity, or by buying energy from a facility that burns municipal waste and was built before 1992. (Spokane’s Waste-to-Energy facility went online in 1991).

“In practice, it’s an 80 percent by 2030 clean energy requirement, but most of Washington’s utilities are going to be well over 80 percent because they already get a lot of their power

from hydropower,” Piedfort says. “By 2030 we’re probably going to be something like 90 percent clean in our electricity grid if this passes.”

On. Feb. 18, Sen. John Braun (R-Centralia) attempted to amend the Senate version of the bill to prevent enforcement if retail utility customers were to see a 10 percent increase in their bills, a 25 percent increase in their bills, or a 50 percent increase in their bills, but none of his three amendments were adopted.

“The comment’s been made that we had a lot of lobbyists up here for this bill, but we had no lobbyist for the ratepayer and the ratepayer is the one that’s going to be most affected by this bill ultimately,” Braun said during the Senate Ways and Means Committee discussion.

Sen. Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle), prime sponsor on the clean energy bill, asked for no votes on those amendments, noting that the legislation contains a directive to the state Utilities and Transportation Commission to continue protecting ratepayers and not allow increases of more than 3 percent per year.

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Though often overlooked, buildings “are the second largest source of emissions in Washington behind transportation,” says Amy Wheeless, policy associate with the Northwest Energy Coalition.

If passed, a suite of bills focused on achieving more efficiency in buildings and appliances could account for a quarter of the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals in coming years, Wheeless says.

One measure, SB 5293/HB 1257, would establish an efficiency standard with incentives for large commercial buildings that could put Washington at the forefront of national policy, she says.

“Washington would be nation-leading. No other state has passed this kind of policy before, looking at large commercial buildings and saying, ‘We need you to reduce your energy use to a certain level by a certain date,’” Wheeless says.

“When we talk about buildings and helping them

be more efficient, we’re often looking at new construction. But when buildings are built, they’re there for a while.”

Under that proposal, the state Department of Commerce would have to establish an energy standard for existing commercial buildings that are more than 50,000 square feet by November 2020. The largest buildings would need to comply with those standards as soon as 2026. The legislation exempts industrial buildings, those used for manufacturing, and those used for agriculture, as well as those in financial hardship.

Two other bills would focus on appliance efficiency and the chemicals used in them. One proposal would limit the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a category of greenhouse gases typically used in refrigeration and air conditioning. The second, SB 5115, would establish water and energy efficiency standards for appliances like computers and computer monitors, electric water heaters, urinals and more.

Currently, the state doesn’t create separate efficiency standards for appliances that already have a federal standard, but 5115 would change that, in part because there’s been a lag on the federal level to update or implement some efficiency standards, Wheeless says.

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CLEAN FUEL STANDARD

In addition to those other policies, environmental groups hope to see Washington adopt a clean fuel standard similar to what’s already been adopted in California, Oregon and British Columbia with HB 1110.

The legislation would, among other things, incentivize creation of biofuels and lower-carbon fuels, encourage the transition to electric vehicles, and require greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels to drop to 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028, and 20 percent below those levels by 2035. Fuel used for boats, planes and trains would be exempt from the Clean Fuel Program.

The legislation is supported by groups like Climate Solutions, a nonprofit that pushes for clean energy policies. Climate Solutions points to potential benefits from the policy: On top of reductions in emissions (more than 30 million tons of carbon pollution have been avoided in California), a study of how things have played out in California showed that $2.5 billion in public health costs were avoided due to reduced pollution that can LETTERS cause health problems and Send comments to hospitalizations. Other analysis editor@inlander.com. with input from AAA, the American Petroleum Institute and a UC Berkeley professor found that the low-carbon fuel standard only accounted for about 1 percent of the cost of gas in the state. The rest of the variability is largely due to the global market.

Washington already creates some of the clean fuels being shipped to states with low-carbon fuel standards, which makes proponents hopeful the policy could create more jobs here.

Those opposed to the legislation include groups like the Washington Trucking Association and Food Northwest, who are concerned with the potential for increased costs to industries that rely heavily on fuel.

“This is essentially a hidden gas tax on top of the secondhighest gas tax in the nation,” Ben Bucholz, lobbyist for Food Northwest and the Northwest Agricultural Cooperative Council, told legislators in a public hearing on the bill.

OTHER BILLS TO WATCH

Among the other bills being watched by a coalition of environmental groups are Senate Bill 5323, which would ban single-use plastic bags from retail and grocery stores and charge a 10-cent fee for recycled paper or plastic bags that would be allowed; Senate Bill 5577, which would protect southern resident orca whales by adding fines for boaters that get too close to the whales or go too fast near them; and HB 2047, which would have the Department of Natural Resources get a stronger grasp on how Washington’s forests and public lands can be used to sequester carbon. n samanthaw@inlander.com

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THIS NUMBER HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED It’s increasingly become a frustrating irony for journalists: Even as the internet has stripped away our privacy, the rise of the cell phone and the end of the PHONE BOOK have made what was once one of the easiest pieces of information to find into one of the most obscure. At the same time, contacting sources by email or Facebook can be unreliable. On Inlander.com, we explore one of the biggest problems facing investigative journalists: How do you call strangers for comment if you can’t find their phone numbers?

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A NEW HOPE A few years ago, when Fawn Schott took over as CEO for Volunteers of America, she immediately identified a gap in services for homeless women: The Hope House women’s shelter in Spokane didn’t have nearly enough space to meet the need in the community. There are 40 beds in the shelter, and Hope House has to turn away 15-20 women a night. “Knowing that at any time we have 300 homeless women on the street, we needed more beds,” Schott says. After years of trying to obtain funding, MORE BEDS are finally on the way. Volunteers of America in Eastern Washington & North Idaho says it’s received the funding it needs to build “Hope House 2.0.” Construction is set to start this fall, with it being complete in fall of 2020. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP Washington State University says it added the “leadership seminar” taught by coach MIKE LEACH and his buddy Spokane County Treasurer Mike Baumgartner to the spring schedule. Students can sign up for the noncredit seminar series, titled “Leadership Lessons in Insurgent Warfare and Football Strategies,” starting Feb. 26.

The first seminar session will be held on March 27, and three more will be held April 3, 10 and 17. The class only has capacity for 40 students. A final lecture on April 23, however, will be live-streamed online so that anyone, even you, can watch. Baumgartner, a former state senator, says football will be used as a “vehicle” to introduce students to concepts of insurgent warfare. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Locally, the Spokane Police Department has long utilized state civil asset forfeiture laws to take property, garnering roughly $170,000 annually in recent years. Department officials did not provide details about how the ruling will impact their practices. (JOSH KELETY)

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NEWS | BRIEFS

‘Warrantless’ Washington’s AG weighs in on immigration sweeps in Spokane

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wo weeks after Portland comedian Mohanad Elshieky’s tweets about being interrogated by Border Patrol landed Spokane’s Greyhound bus depot in the national spotlight, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has sent a letter to Greyhound, calling for the transit company to “terminate its practice or policy of voluntarily permitting federal agents to board buses to conduct warrantless immigration enforcement checks at the Spokane Intermodal facility.”

Border Patrol has consistently relied on a law allowing them to board “any railcar, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle” within 100 miles of the border to justify searching GREYHOUND buses in Spokane without a warrant. Greyhound has maintained that they hate the impact of Border Patrol’s sweeps on their passengers, but have said that, because of this law, they have no choice but to allow the sweeps to occur.

Not so, Ferguson argues. He points to a 1973 Supreme Court case that concluded that a warrantless search 20 miles from the Mexican border didn’t constitute a “border search” because the road was “essentially an east-west highway.”

Today, he points out, Greyhound buses being boarded at the Spokane Intermodal Center are often those traveling exclusively on east-west routes that never

Bob Ferguson takes Greyhound to task.

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cross the border once.

Yet Ferguson’s letter isn’t aimed at Border Patrol: It’s aimed at Greyhound, the private company caught in the middle. Ferguson suggests that voluntarily allowing Border Patrol agents “appears to infringe on passengers’ rights in a place of public accommodation on the basis of race or national origin.”

Ferguson claims that by allowing the federal government to board its buses, they’re likely violating Washington’s Consumer Protection Act and Washington’s Law Against Discrimination.

Greyhound was not immediately available for comment. But in the past, the company has repeatedly supported laws that would more clearly constrain Border Patrol actions. (DANIEL WALTERS)

ATTACKING GLUTEN FROM THE INSIDE

In a few years, people with celiac disease and those who are gluten-intolerant might see a strain of wheat they can digest if all goes well with work led by a team of researchers affiliated with WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY.

The team is working to develop a strain of wheat that can break down gluten proteins from the inside by including an enzyme in the wheat itself.

The research is led by Sachin Rustgi, an adjunct assistant professor with WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and assistant professor of molecular breeding at Clemson University, along with a team of scientists in Chile, China and France.

If proven safe and put on the market, the strain could be good news for digestion for everyone, not just those who are gluten-intolerant, Rustgi says.

“Healthy individuals cannot consume gluten completely, we excrete most of it out,” Rustgi says. “These enzymes help you get more out of one slice of bread.”

Before it could go to market, the strain would have to make it through rigorous testing, Rustgi says, including crop testing and tests in the lab to make sure the wheat doesn’t cause a bad reaction in cells of people with celiac.

In an agronomic test in a field in Pullman, the team already found there was no visible difference between the mother strain of wheat and the genetically modified version, Rustgi says.

Rustgi was drawn to the research after seeing how much gluten intolerance is a problem in other parts of the world like India and other parts of Asia, where he says those who see negative impacts from eating gluten are sometimes misdiagnosed as having “summer diarrhea.”

“That was kind of the initial trigger,” he says. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

ALT-WEEKLY SLOW DEATH

Seattle Weekly, the 42-year-old alt-weekly, will publish its final issue this week and has laid off its three remaining editorial staffers, marking the final nail in the coffin for the longstanding print publication as other alt-weeklies

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Josh O’Connor, president and publisher of SOUND PUBLISHING — the media company that owns Seattle Weekly — says that the paper will switch to a “web only” format starting on March 1, as first reported by Crosscut. Additionally, all of the publication’s content will now come from freelancers and from small community papers owned by Sound Publishing.

However, the paper will be a shell of what it was in its heyday.

Founded in 1976 by David Brewster and reformatted into a free alt-weekly paper in 1994, the paper quickly carved out a niche in the Seattle media market for its smart and authoritative reporting on all things metropolitan — from City Hall to arts and music. As Knute Berger, a former editor of the Weekly, tells the Seattle Times: “The Weekly was always very interested in city building — in making a better city, making a more sophisticated city.”

But going into the 2000s, the paper struggled to maintain stable financial footing in the internet age. It changed owners several times, until Sound Publishing bought it in 2013. However, layoffs continued, culminating in a dramatic restructuring in 2017, where the paper’s staff was reduced to three and its layout format altered to mirror Sound Publishing’s numerous smaller community papers in the region.

In statements to the press, O’Connor partially blames the previous owners of Seattle Weekly for the paper’s financial troubles: “A series of ownership changes — including Village Voice Media and Voice Media Group — left Seattle Weekly on shaky financial footing by the time Sound Publishing acquired it in 2013,” he tells Crosscut.

Berger tells the Seattle Times that the company’s record with Seattle Weekly is typical of its general strategy, saying that Sound Publishing specializes in “keeping costs down and consolidating services” by purchasing community papers and reducing them to editorial staffs of “one or two.”

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NEWS | GUN CONTROL

I-1639, Explained Dissecting the gun reforms that have sheriffs across Washington in open revolt and how the new law might fare in court

BY JOSH KELETY

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ast November, roughly 60 percent of Washington voters approved Initiative 1639, a package of new gun control laws. But its rollout has been less than smooth.

Over a dozen sheriffs across the state have publicly declared that they won’t enforce the new gun laws, claiming that the measure is unconstitutional. Even Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich jumped into the fray, making similar allegations. Additionally, the National Rifle Association and the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation have filed a lawsuit in federal court against I-1639 on constitutional grounds, naming Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl as one of the defendants.

Still, as parts of the initiative begin to take effect, confusion continues to swirl around the law and what may come from any court challenge. Each side agrees on this, though: The stakes are high.

AGE REQUIREMENTS

Under I-1639, people under 21 are no longer able to purchase semi-automatic assault rifles, which are defined as any rifle that automatically chambers new rounds from a magazine and requires separate trigger pulls to fire each bullet.

Supporters argue that the new gun laws extend existing restrictions on handguns to semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO This means that everything from the popular Ruger 10/22 sport rifle to the notorious AR-15 fall under the new restriction.

It’s also one of the portions of the law that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against I-1639 have called out as a violation of the Second Amendment.

“People in that age group have been able to buy long guns for decades,” says Dave Workman, editor of thegunmag.com, a publication owned by the Second Amendment Foundation. “I don’t know if a constitutionally enumerated right can be voted on like that.”

Previously, longstanding state law allowed 18-yearolds to buy semi-automatic rifles, while limiting pistol purchases to those 21 and older.

Tallman Trask, policy and advocacy director for the Alliance for Gun Responsibility — the organization that

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originally pushed I-1639 — tells the Inlander that this portion of the initiative was basically drawn from the state’s own regulations for handguns. “It mirrors what we do with handguns,” Trask says.

Washington state’s own restriction of handgun sales to people under 21 has never been challenged on constitutional grounds, according to Bellevue-based firearm rights attorney David Newman.

The new rule brings Washington in line with several other states, including California, Florida, and Illinois, all of which limit purchases of semi-automatic rifles to people 21 and up.

According to Hannah Shearer, a staff attorney and Second Amendment specialist at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, similar age restrictions on purchasing firearms have been upheld in court. “It’s on pretty solid Second Amendment ground,” she says.

She points to several recent rulings in 2012 and 2015 and where federal courts upheld federal and state laws largely barring people under 21 from purchasing handguns: “Two federal appeals courts have upheld restrictions on firearm access and gun carrying by minors under 21,” Shearer says by email.

Shearer adds that Washington’s new age requirement is also supported by other recent case law upholding various local-level bans on assault weapons.

“Washington’s law is even more likely to be deemed constitutional, since it is narrower than the assault weapon bans courts have upheld,” she writes.

This increased age requirement is the only portion of I-1639 that is currently in effect. The rest kicks in on July 1.

OUT-OF-STATE BUYERS

Opponents of the initiative argue in their lawsuit that I-1639’s ban on nonresidents purchasing semi-automatic rifles violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by “impermissibly” impeding trade between states.

Backers of the initiative argue that this policy is designed to streamline the process for local law enforcement running the additional background checks called for by I-1639 by saving them from also having to check records with out-of-state agencies.

Generally, federal law requires that people go through licensed dealers in their home state to purchase handguns sourced from out of state, while rifles can be obtained by non-residents if the laws of both the buyer’s and dealer’s states allow it.

Under Washington state law, nonresidents are already prohibited from buying handguns in Washington.

Trask says that I-1639’s new restriction is transplanting Washington’s existing laws governing pistol sales to nonresidents to semi-automatic rifles. He adds that Idaho and Vermont both have similar laws when it comes to handguns.

While federal laws preventing out-of-state handgun purchases have been upheld in court as recently as 2018, there’s no notable case law to indicate how courts have treated similar state-level measures restricting firearm sales to nonresidents.

BACKGROUND CHECKS AND MORE

Local law enforcement agencies will soon be required to run local-level background checks on potential buyers of semi-automatic rifles for gun vendors, while dealers themselves will have to meet a host of other restrictions on customers designed to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

Prior to I-1639’s passage, state law only required that purchasers of handguns go through federal and locallevel background checks — the latter of which includes combing state databases for open warrants and involuntary mental health commitments. In contrast, vendors only had to run potential buyers of semi-automatic rifles through the highly efficient National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

So, like other components of I-1639, the measure’s proponents argue that the enhanced background checks are simply extending existing procedures to more firearm sales.

“It’s making sure that what already applies to one class of weapons also applies to another class of weapons,” Trask says.

Five other states already have laws on the books similar to Washington’s former rules, where only handgun sales required local and federal background checks, while 13 rely strictly on local records to clear potential buyers of both pistols and rifles.

While this segment of the initiative is not being litigated in the lawsuit against I-1639, it has been singled out by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson in a strongly worded Feb. 12 letter as the one component that local law enforcement agencies have a “legal obligation” to enforce.

But the new local background checks do place more of a burden on law enforcement agencies, which might soon have to devote more staff to searching records.

That’s why the initiative allows the Department of Licensing to require that gun dealers charge a $25 fee to buyers to help local agencies cover the cost of doing more checks.

Additionally, under the measure, legal buyers of semiautomatic rifles will have 10 days before obtaining their new firearm to allow for a cooling off period in case they are emotionally unstable at the time of purchase.

They’ll also have show proof that they’ve undergone recognized firearm safety training within the last five years.

SAFE STORAGE

Spokane County Sheriff Knezovich recently claimed that the “safe storage” component of I-1639 is unenforceable partially because the Fourth Amendment prevents law enforcement from proactively searching people’s homes to check if their guns are locked up.

But according to the initiative’s backers, the “safe storage” provision is simply meant to be an after-the-fact misdemeanor or felony charge that prosecutors can levy against gun owners whose unsecured firearms are accessed and used by children or other prohibited persons (e.g. felons) to cause harm. (Additionally, the rule doesn’t define what exactly constitutes “safe storage,” leaving it up to the courts to decipher that.)

“It’s not a mandate: ‘You must store your firearms this way or else,’” Trask says. “It’s an incentive.”

Firearm vendors will also have to post signage informing buyers of the new safe storage law.

Currently, 11 states have some type of safe storage law on the books. Massachusetts is the only state that mandates that all firearms be locked-up when not in use, while New York and California enacted laws requiring that gun owners who live with people otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms lock up their guns.

Shearer with the Giffords Law Center says that I-1639’s safe storage provision is less strict than child access prevention laws in California and Massachusetts since it only punishes gun owners’ behavior after a tragic incident has occured.

“It just imposes liability after something bad happens,” she says of laws like I-1639. “It’s a weaker version of the law.” n joshkelety@inlander.com

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Sweet Talk Inland Northwest podcasters have a lot of reasons they want to be heard

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he benefits of podcasts are obvious just by looking at the name they used to be called: “audioblogs.”

Blogs allowed anyone with an internet connection and a laptop to “publish” their creative writing, their reported nonfiction and their really deep thoughts on everything from French fries to cats to the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Add a microphone to the mix, and suddenly that massive (potential) online audience is out there to hear everything from professional-sounding drama to panel discussions of childhood friends waxing on about Game of Thrones. And a podcast has a distinct advantage over blogs and traditional radio broadcasts: No reading is required, and you can listen to your favorite podcast whenever you want.

The first podcasts go back to the ’80s, but the form really took off in the mid-’00s when iPods and other digital listening devices became common. Recent developments suggest that what started out as a “quirky backwater of digital curiosity,” as vulture. com termed it, is about to become serious, and big, business. Earlier this month, Spotify bought Gimlet, one of the largest podcast publishing companies, and Anchor, a company that helps people create podcasts, as part of a planned $500 million that Spotify will spend on podcast-related content in 2019, according to the Washington Post.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers study indicated about 78 million people in the U.S. are regular podcast listeners, and most podcasts remain free to listen to — passion projects of people who have something to say they believe others might want to hear. And if someday that podcast turns into a money-maker, like it has for a lucky few? All the better.

Here in the Inland Northwest, you’ll find plenty of locally produced podcasts. Some are aiming for a national audience, some are clearly focused on life in and around the Inland Northwest, and some are essentially an excuse for some friends to get together and swap stories. We listened to them, talked to their hosts and met a lot of creative folks with a lot to say, as you’ll see in the following pages.

— DAN NAILEN, Inlander Arts & Culture editor

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Informal Introductions I Don’t Know Her explores the “women you’ve probably never heard of, but should have”

BY ARCELIA MARTIN

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eanette Rankin — do you know her?

If you don’t, then Amanda Mead and Rita Vigil have found another woman whose life and accomplishments warrant more recognition than it receives. The two Spokane women started their weekly podcast, I Don’t Know Her, earlier this year to share the stories of women you’ve maybe never heard of — but should have.

Mead knew three things about Rankin before Vigil brought her story to their makeshift recording studio in an upstairs guest room at Mead’s house doubling as the laundry room. Mead knew that Rankin was from Montana, was the first woman elected to Congress and was the only person to vote against entering World War I and World War II. What Mead, a high school librarian, didn’t know was that Rankin was gay, she says.

“As a queer little girl growing up in eastern Montana,” Mead says. “I would have loved to have known that.”

“What would have made a difference in her life had she had that queer female as a role model?” Vigil says. “And that’s what we need, and what we need to bring to the forefront.”

Mead and Vigil are telling these stories because they would’ve loved to have these women to look up to.

“Think of that woman that is significant in your life,” Vigil says.

“And think about all the women that could be that for you, that you don’t know. Think about what you’re missing… So why not listen to something for an hour and learn something new and inspirational?”

I Don’t Know Her is Mead’s brainchild, but it took a while to come to fruition.

Mead grew up watching her aunt and mother work at, and eventually own, the local radio station in their small Montana town.

And when podcasts became more accessible to hosts not sponsored by major networks, Mead knew she wanted her own.

She kept a journal of podcast ideas and then would check to see if the idea had been taken. They usually were.

Then one night when Mead couldn’t fall asleep, the idea to talk

Hosts Amanda Mead, left, and Rita Vigil record I Don’t Know Her at Mead’s home earlier this month. about women who aren’t household names, but accomplished huge feats, came to her. She checked, and there were other podcasts with similar concepts, but nothing like what she wanted to do, so she called Vigil. Vigil, unlike Mead, had never done anything like this before. But the thought sounded fun.

Their first episode wasn’t their best work, Vigil says, but it made them laugh.

“It’s shaking out those cobwebs, but then as soon as it became me and her as best friends in a room, discussing and discovering these issues together, it’s gotten a lot easier,” Vigil says.

Mead knew that she didn’t want to embark on this adventure as a solo act because her favorite podcasts have two or three people who share chemistry. And for Mead and Vigil, talking to each other has never been an issue in their six-year-long friendship. The two not only host a podcast together, but also run marathons together and share a best friend.

They met through Mead’s wife, Abbie Speer, who worked with Vigil at a local brewery in 2013. As Speer and Vigil became close friends, so did Mead and Vigil.

“We make each other laugh,” Mead says. “I knew I wanted [the podcast] to be funny, too, and I didn’t want it to be like, ‘Let’s have your history lesson of the day, kids.’”

I Don’t Know Her features more than just the triumphs of women past. The podcast also highlights the challenging, but genuine, narratives from their own lives as mothers, full-time employees and as people handling their own issues — with plenty of comedy and cursing.

And that’s why people should listen.

“Everybody should know about these women,” Mead says.

“Their stories are amazing and captivating, they’re inspiring, they’re sometimes cautionary tales — and we’re funny.” n The duo releases their hour-long episodes every Friday on their website, idkher.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn and SoundCloud.

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Podtrac's Top 10 U.S. Podcasts 1. The Daily, by the New York Times 2. This American Life, by This American Life/Serial 3. Stuff You Should Know, by iHeartRadio 4. Up First, by NPR 5. TED Radio Hour, by NPR 6. The Ben Shapiro Show, by Daily Wire 7. Pardon My Take, by Barstool Sports 8. Planet Money, by NPR 9. Freakonomics, by Freakonomics 10. Fresh Air, by NPR Numbers for January 2019.

Podtrac’s rankings based on number of unique audience members who listened to a show in a given month.

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PODCASTS

Sparking Interest Why the host of Amalgam Podcast wants to pick your brain

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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oogle the word “amalgam,” and the results mostly are about dentistry.

But for Corbin Mendenhall, the word means much more.

It takes him back to his childhood, when the DC and Marvel comics had several issues where the universes combined. It was called the “amalgam universe.” Where worlds collide.

Where ideas come together.

That’s why Mendenhall called his podcast Amalgam Podcast.

“The purpose of the podcast is to take pieces from all these guest experiences and ideas and concepts — all of that information — and hopefully the audience can do something different, inspired by the show.”

Each podcast features a new creative type or entrepreneur, though those are essentially the same thing in Mendenhall’s eyes. It was launched in January 2018, and so far Mendenhall has hosted all kinds of guests, from local chef Jeremy Hansen to prominent blogger and photographer Briana Malmquist.

Mendenhall had no experience with podcasts before he decided to start one. He handles day-to-day operations for a small production company, but he’s always been drawn to the creative world. He grew up in Bellingham, where he was connected to a strong artistic community. In 2014, he started a freelance design business on his own.

“I just always enjoyed picking people’s brains,” he says. “The way that a creative or entrepreneur solves a problem can be similar to the way you approach things.”

He knows it’s hard to differentiate his podcast from the hundreds of thousands that are out there. What’s important, he says, is staying true to the purpose of why he wanted to do it in the first place. He wanted to learn.

He wanted to ask questions. He wanted to get inspired by other people. He’s not faking his interest in his guests — he genuinely is fascinated by them.

“I think it’s interesting,” he says, “so maybe somebody else will.” n Amalgam Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher and other places you might find podcasts.

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Daily Probes

Producer Jeremiah Puhek and host Andrea Parrish talk after a recent recording session.

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The A Thousand Things to Talk About podcast seeks to feed your brain with bite-sized, research-packed daily episodes on random questions

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ndrea Parrish, a 34-year-old Otis Orchards resident, grew bored back in 2013 with people’s repetitive posts in her news feed — all those posts about people’s meals — and decided to start asking daily questions on Facebook to start a discussion.

“Essentially, I was sick of talking about the same thing every single day,” she says. “None of it was really conversation.

And I was and am an old-school debater. I did high school and college speech and debate.”

After getting an initial great response with active and thoughtful online conversation, she kept doing it, and at one point she began archiving all of the questions she posted.

Now, those posts fuel a novel project: the A Thousand Things to Talk About podcast, where she answers those questions with heavily researched two-to-four-minute episodes five days a week, aided by the technical skills of Jeremiah Puhek, the show’s audio-production wizard.

“This was kind of the natural extension of that project,” she says. “‘Hey, I have this giant database of questions, we want to do something with it, and I have a habit of researching everything anyway so we might as well do something with that.’”

The daily episodes cover topics ranging from the emotional and psychological impact of being a hardcore sports fan to “what imaginary friends did you have as a kid?” And while the shows may be short, they are not lacking in substance: The production quality and the number of studies Parrish breaks down in a given episode are impressive. (The first episode aired in early 2016.)

“This is like her superpower: that she can take doctorallevel research and compress [it] to four minutes,” Puhek says of Parrish.

Neither Parrish nor Puhek originally set out to publish a podcast: Parrish has run a candy business and been a communications director while Puhek is an electronics engineering technician with a background in radio production. (“I’ve been climbing radio towers for 20 years,” he says.) But now, they’re teaching podcasting classes at Spark Central in Spokane.

And while they work out of a guest room retrofitted into a studio at Parrish’s house (they say it only cost a couple

hundred bucks), Puhek’s expertise comes through on the show, which could sit alongside BBC’s Newshour in terms of production quality. “A lot of people listen to it and they say, ‘This sounds like something from NPR’,” he says.

But they still stand out: “We’re so short,” says Puhek.

“There’s very few other podcasts that are under 10 minutes.”

The show garners an estimated 50,000-56,0000 downloads every 90 days. And while their largest audience is in the United States, their fanbase is global, ranging from Turkey to Australia, from English language learners to teachers and curious discussion groups.

“We’ve got a bunch of listeners in Australia who just use it as their ‘Hey, let’s just chat about this’ thing,” Parrish says.

Part of the impetus for the project is also Spark Central regularly hosts to help people be more Make Your Own Podcast willing to ask questions, classes. There is one focused engage in discussion, and on editing on Feb. 28, and cultivate intellectually one on “bringing your substantive community, podcast to life” March 7. Visit Parrish says. She points spark-central.org for more. to studies she’s read that indicate that asking questions has positive social impacts, such as making curious people “more liked.”

With such a positive reception built up over the years, the duo are going to keep at it, though the future is somewhat uncertain: They both have day jobs, are doing this on their own dime and don’t quite have the pull in the market to attract either local or national advertisers. Besides, Puhek notes, ads would likely double the length of their daily episodes.

Parrish says that if they get more Patreon subscribers, they may start doing “deep dive” episodes that clock in at 10 to 15 minutes more regularly. (Currently, they only do these occasionally when time permits.)

But next steps are still largely an open-ended question.

“It’s kind of up in the air and that’s both exciting and really scary,” she says. n Listen at athousandthingstotalkabout.com.

Boozy Breakfast Banter Drunch, a Spokane project “by womxn, for womxn and about womxn,” highlights female issues in a relaxed, conversational format

BY CHEY SCOTT

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runch is the podcast equivalent of you and your closest pals going to weekend brunch, having perhaps more than a few mimosas and, with a sincere sense of shamelessness, talking about everything from parenthood in the modern age to feminist issues, healthy sex lives to community activism.

It’s a wild and fun ride, offering an informed and judgment-free space for discussion in each of its (usually) biweekly episodes. Hosted by Spokane women Lara Estaris and Alisha Merkt, Drunch was launched in early 2018, and has since released 15 full-length episodes.

“We used to have these girls nights at another co-worker’s place and we would just make dinner and drinks and share stories with each other with no inhibitions, no shame or guilt,” recalls Estaris.

“And I was like, ‘Why are we not recording this?’

The stories we were telling were really hilarious and almost unbelievable. Alisha and I have such a good rapport with each other, we decided to start a podcast.”

Most of Drunch’s episodes so far feature women in the Inland Northwest community, including the hosts’ friends who’ve volunteered to be featured, pitching their own topics to discuss. For last year’s Father’s Day episode, however, Drunch invited a local single-parent dad with a young daughter, and for its recent Valentine’s Day epi-

Alcohol isn’t required, but it helps Lara Estaris, left, and Alisha Merkt break the ice. sode, the women quizzed a straight man and a gay man on women’s reproductive anatomy.

“It’s really informal,” Merkt notes. “We make sure to talk to guests about what they want to talk about, although we still have some things planned.”

Before sitting down to record, the co-hosts cook a breakfast meal requested by their guests, like vegan chicken and waffles, Dutch babies or breakfast casseroles.

Alcohol is also served, but not required for guests to consume.

“We do want it to be more of a conversation they would be having with a friend,” Estaris says. “Drinking helps if you’re nervous to be recorded, and food makes everyone happy.”

Then, one of the hosts starts off the episode with an icebreaker, telling a personal anecdote or awkward memory, like the time teenage Merkt unknowingly downloaded lesbian pornography on Limewire that was mislabeled

To Thine Own Selfie Be True How #SelfieDad became #PodcastHusband

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s routes to Instagram celebrity go, Spokane comedian Burr Martin’s ascent was unusual. Instead of, say, trying to be a fitness star or fashion maven, Martin went the cosplay route: Specifically, he decided to cosplay as, well, his 19-year-old daughter. The 48-yearold Martin — a guy who looks a little like a good-natured but dorky schlub in a beer ad — started taking selfies in the exact same coquettish poses as his daughter’s Instagram pics.

And then one of those selfies — Burr’s version of one of his daughter’s Instagram selfies with her head cocked, lips pursed and midriff baring a belly tattoo — somehow hit a vein of Internet luck. The selfies went viral.

#SelfieDad Burr Martin.

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International news outlets wrote about it. He was invited on Bishop T.D. Jakes’ show. He and his daughter were flooded with praise — and the accompanying ugliness. He says he got 14 marriage proposals — though, to be fair, eight of them were from men.

So where do you go from there?

Martin had already been a radio producer. He’d already experimented with an extremely low-budget “talk show” on YouTube, filled with one-liners about current events. He’d already had a solo humor podcast he called Last Week Because, launched amid the popularity.

Enter the Burr Martin Experience, Martin’s new podcast, riding the wave of #SelfieDad phenomenon.

At first, he experimented with doing the podcast alone or with a variety of guest co-hosts, including his

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as an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy. After chatting with their guests for an hour and a half to two hours, Drunch closes with a track by an up-and-coming music artist.

For future episodes, the co-hosts hope to continue expanding the diversity of their guest list, bringing on more people of color, local business owners and activists, even sex workers and drag queens.

“We want to promote women and people of color and queer people and trans and nonbinary,” Merkt says. “And promoting taboo things that shouldn’t be taboo, like regular body functions and stereotypes about women… We just want everyone to embrace how they are and love themselves and not feel ashamed for anything.” n Stream episodes of Drunch on Soundcloud, Podbean, iTunes, Pocket Casts, Stitcher and other podcast apps.

Follow Drunch on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

wife. And then one episode, his wife came in with notes.

She was prepared. It won her a permanent guest-host slot.

“It’s a date night for my wife and I, about an hour and a half,” he says.

It’s a scheduled time, every week, where they’re able to put aside most of the chaos from their day, and just talk about life’s absurdity. At first, the podcast focused on parenting. He was #SelfieDad, after all. That’s what the people wanted, right? But that didn’t last long.

“I forced myself to do something I really wasn’t interested in,” Martin says. “It slowly morphed into, ‘Let’s just talk about the weird stuff in the world.’”

Today, with 100 episodes under his belt, his podcast resembles nothing so much as a morning radio show.

They’re the Radiomen. They’re Dave, Ken, and Molly.

He and his wife riff on comic-book movies and crazy news stories. His youngest daughter — not the one who posted all those selfies — comes on to talk about the hippest slang and news stories that cool kids these days know about, and Martin laughs long and hard at the absurdity of an artist named Blueface, while his daughter groans at her dad’s dumb jokes.

Already, his podcast has even produced a spinoff: His wife raises Boston Terriers and she’s launched a podcast of her own called Dog Lady Rants. He’s not a co-host, though he is a subscriber. Subscribing to your spouse’s podcast, after all, is a crucial part of modern marriage. n Listen at pantspending.com/burr.

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PODCASTS Timesuck!

With Dan Cummins

Spokane-bred stand-up comic Dan Cummins has forged a career touring the country, but how to stay up to date and pleasing his fanbase when he’s home in Coeur d’Alene?

Enter Timesuck!, Cummins’ endlessly entertaining weekly podcast that takes its listeners on roughly two-hour rides into weird history, politics, science, conspiracy theories — basically anywhere Cummins’ voracious mind takes him. His research and passion for knowledge comes through whether he’s talking about the “Lizard Illuminati Conspiracy” (Episode 1), the rivalry and murders of Tupac and Biggie (Episode 76) or, more recently, episodes about the Black Panthers or the amazing story of Northwest folk hero/hijacker D.B. Cooper. Listen at timesuckpodcast.com. (DAN NAILEN)

Basic Brainheart

For her podcast Basic Brainheart, Liberty Lake-based podcaster Hannah Camacho regularly lands behindthe-scenes interviews with the pros behind Hollywood hits such as A Quiet Place, Arrival and Inside Out. When she’s not making marketing magic happen at her day job with Numerica Credit Union or hanging out with her kids, Camacho is interviewing everyone from animators and composers to producers and directors about their creative processes and how they broke into the biz. “I want to maybe demystify what that process looks like to become a better storyteller, better artist, a better creative.” Find the newest episodes of Basic Brainheart on Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud.

(SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Weed & Whiskey

When local comedians Casey Strain and Josh Teaford sit down to record an episode of their podcast Weed & Whiskey, there’s plenty of livingroom-style shootin’ the shit between the two buds and their guests, who often imbibe in one substance or the other and let the conversation flow.

Tune in for their take on everything from the nutritional value of bacon to the local music and comedy scene, and feel like you’re sitting around with old pals. Episodes posted at weedandwhiskey.net/ podcast. (SW)

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The Ouija Broads Podcast

The SacCast crew, along with a few Photoshopped friends.

Movie Mavens Two local film podcasts celebrate the highs and lows of cinema

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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verybody has had a lively argument about a movie and thought afterward, “Man, I wish we’d gotten that on tape.”

That’s sort of how SacCast, a long-running Spokane movie podcast, got its start. It was founded by Isaac Joslin and Clancy Bundy, two filmmakers behind the Transolar Galactica web series, back in 2012, and they recently dropped their 100th episode. The show has evolved into a monthly free-form discussion, typically fueled by beer, about the movies they and their co-hosts — filmmaker Adam Harum and former Spokane International Film Festival director Adam Boyd — have recently seen.

“At some point it became apparent that we had a lot to say about movies,” Bundy says.

“We didn’t have any aspirations or long-term plans for [the podcast]. It was just a chance to vent about movies we were watching.

“We’re surprised it’s still going.”

Part of the appeal is their divergent tastes.

Joslin says he tends toward the outre, like Nicolas Winding Refn’s arthouse curiosity The Neon Demon, which inspired one of the show’s more contentious debates. Bundy, meanwhile, gravitates toward blockbusters and Marvel movies.

“Clancy’s the populist,” Joslin says with a laugh.

SacCast is driven by a tried-and-true formula, as is CinemAbysmal, a podcast in praise of the best bad movies. It’s a show in the vein of the popular podcast How Did This Get Made?, with its three hosts — Nick Spanjer, Holly Hill and Dylan Sorenson — picking apart cinematic failures dictated by specific themes: A recent episode found the hosts each picking a film associated with a particular religion, like the Scientology-inspired flop Battlefield Earth.

Other discussions have involved the hokey made-for-Disney Channel features of the early 2000s, as well as horrible Christmas movies.

There’s an occasional one-off show about their favorite unsung films.

So what exactly makes a movie so bad that it’s kinda good? Spanjer says a lot of it has to

do with the filmmakers’ misplaced sense of earnestness.

“You realize, holy shit, this person was really trying to make a good movie, but their intentions outweighed their art and what they were capable of,” Spanjer says. “A lot of time it’s foreign directors coming from countries that have grown up watching American movies, but don’t understand the social differences between their country and ours.”

Spanjer started CinemAbysmal as a written feature on a now-defunct pop culture site called poweranks.com, and turned it into a podcast a couple years ago. The show is recorded via Skype — Spanjer and Sorensen are in Spokane, Hill lives in Portland — and it comes out monthly.

CinemAbysmal has become something of a podcast network, hosting shows like Just F Already, a humorous celebration of romance novels, and the upcoming Buckle Up, which will feature local folks’ stories of drunken shenanigans.

“My biggest surprise is when people you don’t know have heard of it,” Spanjer says.

“It’s cool, too, because all my friends now have podcast ideas.”

Although CinemAbysmal and SacCast take different approaches, both are driven by the appeal of eavesdropping while a group of friends banter about the things they love.

“It gives us an excuse to all hang out together for an hour and a half once a month,” Joslin says. “It’s just another podcast about nerds watching movies. What differentiates us from other movie podcasts is the quality and depth of our opinions. I don’t hear my opinions parroted much on things I listen to.”

“And we have a slogan — ‘bereft of gimmicks and bullshit,’” Bundy adds. “It’s just four dudes talking about movies. We’re brutally honest with each other.” n CinemAbysmal is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and SacCast is on iTunes.

Lifelong friends Liz Wood and Devon Kelley have been making each other giggle and gasp with stories of creepy and haunted things since they met at Spokane’s Chase Middle School.

For the past couple of years, they’ve continued their passionate interest in all things weird and wacky in the Pacific Northwest with a podcast that explores everything from UFO visits to mythological animals to truly horrific history in the region like an episode dedicated to the Cedars, which they called “basically a concentration camp for women with STDs in Oregon” way back when. Listen at ouijabroads.com.

(DN)

One Offs WITH Phill Kop Spokane comedian Phillip Kopczynski launched his One Offs podcast in 2018, and his weekly episodes — typically around a half-hour long — will feel familiar to fans of other comedians’ podcasts. There are some teases to upcoming shows, some guests stopping by for interviews here and there.

But the highlights are the glimpses of the not-so-glamorous life of an upand-coming comic working in small towns and unusual venues. Check out his episodes about doing stand-up at the county fair, great gigs in Eastern Washington small towns and visiting strip clubs with his fellow comics.

Listen at phillipkopcomedy.com/oneoff-podcast. (DN)

A Senseless Death

A senseless tragedy with a killer unknown, the murder of Zachary Lamb in Spokane remains mired in more questions than answers more than four years after he was shot outside of his lower South Hill apartment. In a four-episode podcast, host Lindy Boustedt goes over the details of Zachary’s case from a somewhat personal perspective — her sister dated him for a time and they’d remained friends before his death. Boustedt examines how road rage may have been involved, how red light camera rules are meant to protect privacy but could be preventing a breakthrough in the case, and how Lamb’s family remains afraid of the unknown killer who shot the 26-year-old while his pregnant fiancée was still in the car nearby. Listen at asenselessdeath.com. (SW)

PREVIOUSLY...

Miller Cane is in Walla Walla visiting an old buddy named Avery. Miller and Carleen, a “Little House on the Prairie”-loving 8-year-old, have been traveling together across the smoke-filled West in Miller’s motorhome, driven by two impulses — to keep Carleen safe and to pick up Miller’s long-ignored writing gig. He is crafting short biographies of historical figures for a high school textbook and he’s considering a profile of Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to cross the Rockies, who was later killed in the Whitman massacre. Miller’s been taking care of Carleen while her mother sits in jail for shooting and injuring her estranged husband, Connor. Before all this, Miller had been on the road with a different mission: conning the survivors of America’s mass shootings.

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e woke to Carleen in her loft crying, just sniffling, then nothing. Maybe she wanted privacy. At six in the morning it was already too hot to visit Fort Walla Walla, which was a relief really. They didn’t need another diorama of friendly pioneers encountering curious Indians — at least not for a few days. But now Carleen was upset and he had nothing to distract her with. That’s when he remembered Narcissa’s hair, a relic he’d seen at the college years ago. Carleen would love it.

He drifted in bed for a while, and when he woke again, the motorhome was silent. He called her name, but she didn’t respond. He jumped from bed and checked her loft. Empty. She was probably right outside the door.

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But she wasn’t right outside the door.

He ran to the playground, the showers, the horseshoe pits. He ran to the water — she wasn’t anywhere — but then she appeared, rounding a bend in the creek. He took a deep smoky breath.

She saw him and waved.

He walked toward her, pointing at his ears, meaning take off your headphones so you can hear me. He took another breath.

“What is it?” she said.

“You can’t be by the water alone like this,” he said, and she said, “Why not,” and he said, “Because it scares me.”

He could hardly breathe.

She kicked at the water.

“It’s barely above my ankles,” she said.

“I know,” he said. “But remember how Laura almost drowned in Plum Creek?”

She looked down, then squinted at Miller.

He didn’t know what else to say.

“I’ll just,” he said, and pointed up the hill, then walked in that direction, toward a picnic table where he could watch her. He could feel his heart beating. Neither of them was wearing a respirator. He’d have to talk to her about telling him when she was leaving and where she was going and when she’d be back, not that he’d ever let her out of his sight again, not with Connor out there waiting, not until they were farther away. He wondered if she’d be better off without him — with Dena in Spokane, or Cara out on the Peninsula. Maybe he wasn’t fit for this. Maybe her wandering off was proof.

He waited, breathing the bad air. When Carleen walked up the hill, he followed her to the motorhome.

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She wrote in her notebook while he made sandwiches, and at lunch she told him how the creek led to the same river the Whitman’s daughter had drowned in. She showed him on the park map — Mill Creek leading to the Walla Walla river. “But the water was shallow today,” she said. “And it wasn’t the river anyway — it was only the creek.”

“I know,” Miller said. “I just — ” “You were scared,” Carleen said. “But I’m not a baby.”

“I know you’re not,” Miller said. But she had been a few years ago.

He told her about Narcissa’s hair at the college.

“Really?” she said. “Do you think it’s still bloody?”

“No,” Miller said. “I’m sure it’s clean.”

“Good,” Carleen said, and later, when the librarian brought it out — a single blonde lock bound by a blue ribbon, sealed in plastic — Carleen said, “Is it really hers?”

“It really is,” the librarian said.

She placed it on top of the other material Miller had requested.

“It’s beautiful,” Carleen said, picking up the hair and studying it.

Miller was pretty sure no one had any idea if it was real. But who cared? He opened the envelope containing Narcissa’s first journal.

“Are we allowed to touch the pages?” he asked the librarian.

“Yes,” she said. “Just be careful.”

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MILLER CANE: A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY  Chapter 5, Part 3 continued... read some letters aloud, then parts of the journal to himself, Carleen drifting away as Miller followed Narcissa to Vancouver then back to Waiilatpu and the building of the mission, Narcissa’s disappointment with her life and the Cayuse gradually leaking through her stoicism. Carleen sat across from him writing in her notebook. She got a drink while Miller read. She went to the bathroom and came back. Narcissa was going blind, asking Marcus to get her some spectacles in the East, from whence he’d bring a big group of emigrants along the trail. Things were not going well for the Whitmans — or the Cayuse.

“Miller,” Carleen said, “come up for air.”

Both Carleen and the librarian were looking at him. He’d gotten lost in Narcissa’s words.

“What?” he said, and Carleen said, “I think it’s time to go.”

He looked at his watch. They were going to be late to Avery’s.

He packed everything and returned the boxes, wondering if Narcissa’s molecules were all over him now from her journal, which they probably were.

“We’re just missing the hair,” the librarian said.

“Right,” Miller said.

He went back to the table, but it wasn’t there.

He unpacked the boxes and envelopes and went though everything again. He didn’t want to think Carleen — “Is it possible you might have it?” he asked her.

“No,” she said. “I don’t even have pockets.”

He made a show of emptying his own pockets, turning them inside out.

“Just bring it back when you find it,” the librarian said. “It’s okay.”

But she looked pained. Of course she was pained. Narcissa Whitman’s hair was missing. “That’s not the only lock we have,” she whispered to him, which was some relief, and probably suggested that the whole thing was fraudulent. But, still.

Now, hours later, Avery said, “And you think Carleen took it.”

“What else could have happened?”

“It fell into one of the envelopes,” Avery said, “one of the boxes.”

“I looked,” Miller said.

Carleen came running across the lawn with Waffles.

“I got him,” she called, and when she reached the patio, she held him out to Avery.

“What a handsome boy,” Avery said.

Miller hoped Waffles wouldn’t pee all over him.

“He likes you,” Carleen said, “of course he does.”

Waffles was purring. Carleen beamed as Avery rubbed the cat’s belly.

“When did you become a person, anyway,” she asked.

Avery looked at her.

Miller said, “What do you mean, Carleen?”

“A long time ago,” Avery said, laughing, and Carleen laughed with him.

“I mean,” Carleen said, “when did you become a person exactly?”

Miller didn’t think he’d told her about slavery and the census and how each black American had been counted as three-fifths of a person. But maybe she knew. And now — “Sweetie, I’ve always been a person,” Avery said.

“I thought — ” Carleen said, her face turning red.

She slid deeper into her chair.

“Sit up,” Miller said.

Carleen looked at Miller, at Avery, at the table.

“You thought what?” Avery said.

Carleen looked at Avery again and away.

It wasn’t as if Miller missed the massacres, but out on the circuit at least, you never wondered what came next.

What else was going to happen today?

She shook her head.

“You can tell me,” he said. “It’s okay.”

“I thought,” she said, her voice shrinking, “you were a cat.”

“A cat?” Avery said.

“Before you became a person,” she said, her voice tiny.

“Carleen,” Miller said.

“A panther,” she said.

It was quiet for a second and then Avery laughed.

“Oh,” he said, and he laughed harder.

But Carleen wasn’t laughing. Carleen was going to cry.

“It’s okay, honey,” Avery said, sliding his chair closer. “You’re right — I was a Panther.”

He reached out to pet Waffles.

“You said you were,” she said.

“I did say that,” Avery said. “And I was. I’m going to tell you about it, okay?”

“Okay,” Carleen said, but she didn’t look sure.

Miller sank into his own chair as Avery soothed her. He wondered how long they could keep this up. It wasn’t as if Miller missed the massacres, but out on the circuit at least, you never wondered what came next. Another massacre would happen and then another one and you knew what your job was from one day to the next.

“Did you ever grow your fingernails long like claws?” Carleen asked.

“We didn’t,” Avery said, “but I like that idea.”

“I like it too,” Carleen said.

Miller went inside and took the pie out of the oven. When he came back out, she was writing in her notebook.

“What are you working so hard on?” Avery asked her.

“A history,” Carleen said.

“Just like your dad,” Avery said, and Miller and Carleen looked at him.

“My dad?” Carleen said. n

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ENVIRONMENT

Stay Wild, CdA

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival aims to inspire a new generation of conservationists

BY QUINN WELSCH

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ometimes the solutions to environmental problems aren’t always so far out of reach. Sometimes it just takes the smallest inspiration to move us to take action to combat a daunting issue like climate change. And sometimes that inspiration can come from something as simple as seeing a movie.

“Solutions” is one of the main themes of the upcoming Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Coeur d’Alene. The Kootenai Environmental Alliance and the Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper program are bringing the festival to North Idaho March 7 to raise money for conservation efforts, and to inspire the next generation of activists to continue their work.

We talked to Kootenai Environmental Alliance board member Doug Fagerness about what Wild & Scenic is all about. Fagerness, a self-described “old guy,” says getting young people on board is always an uphill battle, but he’s been inspired by the energy of the next generation of conservationists.

“That’s what I need at this point in my life,” he says.

“I need hope to hang my hat on.”

The responses below have been edited for length and clarity.

INLANDER: How would you describe the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to someone on the street?

FAGERNESS: The festival is an opportunity to see some creative, independent voices that use film

to express themes that impact all of us who share this planet.

Is there an overarching theme to the films at the festival?

Connection(s) and relationship(s) are strong threads that run through the films. Conservation moves from an abstract to a reality of which we are all a part.

What are some of the challenges for conservation in North Idaho?

There’s a point where all these various points intersect, and it has to do with water. It’s a universal element and if we can’t find commonality there, I don’t know where we can. From an economic sense there is virtually no one in Coeur d’Alene and North Idaho that isn’t impacted by water quality. It’s important that we spend more time learning about that. I think the people who moved here and live here … recognize the beauty of this place. Beauty is predicated on the natural environment.

Are there any films that you have personally enjoyed?

The second half of the film festival focuses on solutions. I am drawn to that because hope can be such a fragile tendril on which to hang our future. To see the opportunities and creative actualities strengthens hope for me and I believe it will have the same impact on festival participants.

What do the Kootenai Environmental Alliance and the Coeur d’Alene Water Keepers hope to achieve with this festival?

[The] Wild & Scenic Film Festival will support our Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper program by raising public awareness, recruiting volunteers and raising funds. The Waterkeeper program serves as an on-thewater advocate The Wild & Scenic Film Festival will working to also be at Colville’s Alpine Theater on ensure that Thursday, Feb. 28, and at Chewelah’s Lake Coeur Quartzite Brewery on Saturday, March d’Alene is swim2. Both festivals are hosted by the mable, fishable Kettle Range Conservation Group. Visit and drinkable. wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/events The Waterto find others coming up this spring. keeper program works to protect against threats to the public’s water resources in the Lake Coeur d’Alene watershed through enforcement, community action, education, restoration and advocacy.

How do the event organizers feel right now about climate change and public opinion? Defeated? Inspired? Something else?

Public opinion seems to be shifting, as more people accept that climate change is here. Our work with engaging our youth to help identify solutions for the many challenges facing our home environment is not only important, it is urgent. We remain optimistic that many individuals, businesses and communities are taking innovative steps to adapt to the climate changes we are experiencing and we remain hopeful that government leaders worldwide will unify these efforts. n Wild & Scenic Film Festival • Thu, March 7 at 6:30 pm • $10/$5/students/free for NIC students • Schuler Performing Arts Center, North Idaho College Campus • 880 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene • wildandscenicfilmfestival.org

Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen is one of eight films playing at North Idaho College.

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NOT TENNIS RACKETS As 11 of us tromped through fresh powder near Lake Gillette in the Colville National Forest Sunday, a new friend trying snowshoeing for the first time mentioned, “I honestly thought we were going to be wearing tennis rackets.” If you’ve never tried the winter sport, the shoes have thankfully advanced far ahead of those old cartoonish nets to lightweight paddles made from metal and plastic fitted with crampons. You don’t need to be a pro to try it, either: Spokane Parks and Recreation offers beginner hikes throughout the winter, which include transportation on a nice bus and all the gear needed.

Our guides helped us smash a trail through the snow and each time we paused, snow falling off the evergreens would catch the sunlight, sparkling over silent meadows. Check out the remaining opportunities in March or keep an eye out for next year’s snowshoe trips at my.spokanecity.org/parksrec. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

Red Dead 2 barely fits in its cowboy boots.

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BY QUINN WELSCH

ast weekend Red Dead Redemption II was on sale on the Xbox Store for about $20 off its original price. It was a hell of a deal for a marketplace that is almost always overpriced.

Red Dead, which came out in late 2018, is a lot like the hyper-violent Grand Theft Auto series (it’s made by the same company, Rockstar), except that it’s set in the Wild West and there are moral repercussions to going on murder sprees. I was excited to giddyup and explore what is one of the biggest games I’d yet to play. Except for one thing. The download size was more than 100 gigabytes of data.

It took more than a day to install.

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THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores March 1. To wit: GARY CLARK JR., This Land. Carrying the torch for the blues, this guy is the real deal.

HOZIER, Wasteland, Baby! The Irish singer-songwriter has basically sold out his show at the First Interstate Center for the Arts.

IN FLAMES, I, The Mask. In case you like your Swedish death-metal on the melodic side (and who doesn’t?).

ROYAL TRUX, White Stuff. The lo-fi garage-rockers’ first album of new tunes in 19 years. Delicious.

WEEZER, Weezer (aka The Black Album). Does Weezer put out an album every week, or does it just seem that way? (DAN NAILEN)

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For a little bit of historical context, the original release of the Xbox console in 2001 had a dainty 8 gigabytes of internal storage. The games I grew up playing on Sega Genesis, and later on Nintendo 64, were all far less than a single gigabyte in size. Increasingly, I’m finding myself scrapping older and smaller games installed on my Xbox to make room for whatever is newer and bigger, though not necessarily better.

The larger games in my catalog include: • ARK: Survival Evolved, 66.4 gigabytes • Grand Theft Auto V, 65.4 gigabytes • Warhammer: Vermintide 2, 58.4 gigabytes • Ghost Recon Wildlands, 57.7 gigabytes • Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, 40.4 gigabytes What is going on here? Just a couple years ago I was grudgingly paying for 25 gigabytes of new content.

Now, that’s chump change. Red Dead is a more recent example, but it is quickly becoming the rule, not the exception.

Physical media for video games (compact discs) are being quickly phased out in favor of weightier digital downloads you buy from your couch.

As much as I lament these large installs, I have to concede that it is, at least, convenient. It saves a trip to the store, and keeps my shelf space tidy. Even the games I own on disc often need digital updates anyway. But how does one manage this?

There are no easy answers, except to “buy more storage space and better internet connections.” The issue doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, and games are not likely about to get any smaller. As PC Gamer wrote: “But at least our big, big games are going to look shiny (or specular) as hell.”

Yay? n

COMBO BOTS The new Transformers Trading Card Game was launched last fall, and being the total nerd I am, of course I play (#TeamDinobots)!

The game’s second set of cards, Rise of the Combiners, is out March 1. Based on this name alone, TF fans should guess the set includes character cards that can transform into some of the franchise’s favorite combiner robots, including Devastator, Predaking, Bruticus, Menasor, Superion and Volcanicus. The two-player game is fast, fun and easy to learn, and yes — you get to transform your bots from car/alt mode to bot mode and back again, and also combine these new special teams into their megasize forms. (CHEY SCOTT)

POWDER HOUND Mead author Cris Currie is being honored by the International Skiing History Association with its Skade Award, recognizing Currie’s “outstanding creative work in ski history” for his book Spokane’s History of Skiing: 1913 to 2018. He’ll pick it up at the ISHA’s awards banquet in Park City, Utah, in April. Learn more about the group at skiinghistory.org. (DAN NAILEN)

A TASTE OF PSYCHO My favorite thing about the baking show ¡Nailed it!

México has been Psycho Clown, a guest judge and Mexican wrestler, or luchadore, on episode two. Of course, it’s also hilarious watching people fail miserably at the impossible baking tasks they are assigned, and on this show it’s all about the quinceañeras and futbol. But Psycho Clown brings a certain humility to the show that you just don’t get in American TV. (There’s also much more singing.) “Your cake is very delicious. Congratulations,” Psycho Clown says after squeezing a piece of cake into his scary-clown-mouth hole. (QUINN WELSCH)

CULTURE | THEATER

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he Flick is both the title and the setting of Annie Baker’s 2014 Pulitzer Prizewinning drama about the employees of a classic single-screen theater as it undergoes an ambivalent transition from film-based to digital projection. The play is receiving its regional premiere in a new production in Spokane Civic Theatre’s Firth J. Chew Studio space.

Andrew Start, a former Spokanite and now a Portland-based acting instructor at Centralia College, is heading the production. It’s the first time he’s returned to the Civic since performing in the mid-to-late 1990s with the theater’s long-running (and now defunct) Box ‘n’ Hat Players troupe under Jean Hardie.

“I grew up in Spokane,” he says. “I basically left Spokane at 18, went to a few different colleges, and then lived in New York for about 12 years.” While in New York, Start participated in regional theater as well as national tours for Evita and the Leonard Bernstein-scored Wonderful Town.

“I was inching ever closer to Broadway as a principal dancer and on an understudy track, and I had a few really big near misses. Which, I think, is common in the industry.”

As a result of his own experience and the advice of his agent, Start drifted away from dancing and began pursuing nonmusical dramatic acting.

He moved back to the Northwest last year to work as a choreographer and acting teacher.

In 2017, Start bumped into the Civic’s creative director, Jake Schaefer, over the Christmas holidays. The two had first met through Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, where Start had performed throughout his 20s, and Schaefer suggested that he direct a show during the Civic’s forthcoming season.

“I presented short little blurbs about how I would approach four of the different shows in the season. And for [The Flick], I said that my background in kitchen-sink realism, studying Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen’s techniques, would lend itself really well to this play” in which “essentially every scene is these two characters cleaning a movie theater.”

Baker’s writing has drawn both praise and criticism for its warts-and-all naturalistic conversation in these static scenes, where the characters’ inarticulate complaints about the messiness of moviegoers and debates over the artistic merit of different films are punctuated by long silences.

“It’s somewhat mundane,” laughs Start, “but it’s really beautiful if you can explore the actual reality of this sort of Sisyphean task and how a

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relationship can be built through a boring job.”

As director, he’s therefore encouraging his cast of four — Will Gilman (underachieving Sam), Marvin Hughes (film buff Avery), Aubrey Peterson (replacing Megan Levi as the “sexually magnetic” Rose) and Johnny Monday (enigmatic Skylar/Dreaming Man) — toward “playing action instead of emotion” in order to keep the characters’ dynamic from becoming too stylized.

“I’m really just speaking to [the actors] about connecting and living in moment-to-moment truth, which is a Meisner phrase. That can sort of lift us out of that enhanced reality that we often see, especially in musical theater, and really working to ground them in what we call the ‘reality of doing.’ When does the conversation become more important than the task, and when does it not?”

Start says that creates a “ping-pong match of human connection” that mirrors our real-life relationships and makes for such a strong piece of theater. It also means Baker’s play runs for nearly three hours, which tested the audiences’ patience when The Flick debuted in 2013.

“In my director’s notes, I’ve alluded to the fact that audiences walked out at Playwrights Horizons before [the play] started getting all the awards that it did. And I’ve asked for people to share in the silence and take from it what they can.”

Younger theatergoers, he says, are likely to hear themselves echoed in the play’s “contemporary” language, but Start is also of the opinion that The Flick is a unique and potentially rewarding drama for anyone who appreciates all the ineffable moments that “happen in the subtext.”

“If they can find any solace in the meditations, they’ll find beauty in the acute sensitivity with which Annie Baker explores relationships and just how human her characters are. We communicate so much through what we don’t say to each other.” n The Flick • March 1-24; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $27 • Firth J. Chew Studio at the Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard St. • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

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EVENT

International Invitation Local dinner showcases food from local refugees to support Global Neighborhood’s job training program

BY CHEY SCOTT

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iners can take a multicultural trip around the globe in just one evening.

Featuring flavors from the Middle East and Eastern Europe — along with sounds from Latin America — the Dine Global, Partner Local dinner on March 10 is raising funds to support local nonprofit Global Neighborhood’s job readiness program, which provides newly arrived refugees with skills to succeed in the American workplace.

One of many Spokane-area refugees supported by the program is baking a traditional Russian honey cake, made with stacks of ultra-thin cake layers between frosting.

Svitlana Negodaieva left her home in Ukraine in September 2015. Since arriving here, she became employed at the nonprofit’s central Spokane thrift store, where she currently works as a cashier. Negodaieva was taught how to bake by her mother and grandmother.

“We came to Spokane because my sister lives here,” Negodaieva says of her family. Just a few weeks ago, she was happily reunited with the last of her four children, a daughter who waited five years to start her own life anew in the U.S. “I have been working at Global Neighborhood almost three years,” Negodaieva continues. “I started to speak English there. It’s a big help for me. I [now] have a lot of friends — American friends — in Spokane.”

Negodaieva has also made her prowess for baking known amongst Global Neighborhood’s staff and program managers, says Jen Landis, director of the nonprofit’s job readiness program who’s helping coordinate the upcoming dinner. ...continued on next page

Global Neighborhood Thrift’s production supervisor Svitlana Negodaieva is baking a traditional Russian honey cake for the upcoming dinner. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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“I can testify to several of Svitlana’s cakes,” Landis says. “I’ve never had cakes like that until she started bringing them. They are unique and so delicious.”

Before guests get to enjoy this exquisite dessert, however, they’ll be treated to a meal of Syrian-influenced ingredients and flavors, prepared by Syrian refugee and chef Nabil Alzouabi along with Dan Todd of the local takeout kitchen Inland Curry.

Alzouabi came to Spokane in August 2016, having fled his home in wartorn Daraa, Syria, leaving all of his former life behind him, including a successful restaurant.

He’s not currently working in the restaurant industry, but dreams of opening his own eatery in Spokane serving authentic falafel, hummus, kabobs, shawarma and more.

“He is very interested in making American people [familiar] with Arabic food in general and Syrian food, especially. It has very good flavors,” says Alzouabi’s Arabic translator, Khalid Samir, also a refugee and Global Neighborhood employee, originally from Iraq.

Alzouabi may not have his own restaurant yet, but still finds ways to share his love of Syrian cuisine with his new community. The chef partnered with Todd in January to prepare and serve a Syrian meal for Inland Curry’s monthly International Dinner Series. Despite the language barrier between them, the two cooks found common ground in their shared love of food.

“Nabil has a charming confidence in the kitchen, almost a swagger,” Todd says, smiling. “It was fun to work side by side with him. He has a relaxed demeanor in the kitchen and I don’t — I get really stressed out. He clearly loves food and loves to cook. He kept saying ‘Try this, try this.’”

“I’m trying to find more ways for people like Nabil to cook their food, so people can try their food and the chefs can make some money.”

The Global Neighborhood benefit is set to feature many of the same dishes he and Alzouabi cooked together then: fattoush, a Syrian salad with greens and khubz, an Arabic flatbread, along with kabobs, falafel, hummus, rice dishes and shawarma, marinated meat often served in pita bread, similar to a Greek gyro.

Food will be served family style at two long communal tables. The dinner begins with a cocktail hour and appetizers, and local musician Nic Vigil of the Latin music group Milonga entertains with live music.

Though the Dine Global event quickly sold out all 50 tickets, Landis hopes to host similar benefit dinners for Global Neighborhood in the future. In the meantime, local diners seeking authentic international flavors prepared by refugees like Alzouabi and Negodaieva should follow Inland Curry on Facebook for updates on future collaborations for its International Dinner Series.

“I’m trying to find more ways for people like Nabil to cook their food, so people can try their food and the chefs can make some money,” Todd says.

“I think what Global Neighborhood does and the International Dinner Series go well together,” Landis adds. “[Dan] is offering cooking opportunities for chefs who are refugees who want to be cooking and they get paid, and we offer job training programs.” n Dine Global, Partner Local • Sun, March 10 at 5:30 pm • $50 [SOLD OUT] • Central Food • 1335 W. Summit Pkwy. • global-neighborhood.org

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Diners’ Delight

These stuffed mushrooms are on Chinook Steak, Pasta & Spirit’s Restaurant Week menu.

Checking in with restaurants and diners halfway through Inlander Restaurant Week 2019

BY CHEY SCOTT

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handful of diners, like Ali Brast, don’t miss a single night of Inlander Restaurant Week, strategically planning and budgeting to truly make the most of the 10-day culinary showcase offering three-course, fixed-price menus for $21 or $31 per person at more than 100 restaurants.

While many of us can’t budget the funds or time to be that committed, super-diners like Brast are a testament to the economic boost a region-wide event like Restaurant Week can provide to the local hospitality industry.

When we spoke to Brast Monday morning, five days into the 10-day event, the Spokane foodie had already been to Downriver Grill and the Wandering Table in Spokane, and the Cedars Floating Restaurant and Midtown Bluebird in Coeur d’Alene.

“It’s kind of like my Olympics,” Brast says, laughing. “I plan for it and save up for it and use it as a chance to go out with friends and my husband. My friends kind of make fun of me, but also come to me with suggestions, so it’s my job to pore over the menus to give good recommendations.”

So far, Brast gives her highest praise to Midtown Bluebird in Coeur d’Alene — “a great menu, and I loved the vibe and creativity,” she notes — and is excited to return to Central Food in Kendall Yards later this week because it’s been some time since she last visited.

Queena Hale, who frequently reviews restaurants as one of the Spokane Culinary Arts Guild’s resident tastemakers, has also been quite busy during the first few days of Restaurant Week. Hale and dining guests so far have enjoyed their restaurant choices, with a trip to the Lantern Tap House in South Perry standing out.

“At Lantern, we had really good service. We went on a Friday night and had no reservations,” she says.

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“They were busy, but took care of us and our food came out on time or even a little sooner than that.”

Hale noticed the creativity on the Lantern’s menu, like its first course option of a hot reuben cheese dip, served with marble rye crostini toast. She also plans to return to reorder its featured entree and menu mainstay of “famous” fish and chips.

Hale was also impressed with the attention to detail at Iron Goat Brewing, which she notes was extremely busy, yet efficient, when her group of eight came in last weekend for Restaurant Week. Next up on her list is Wiley’s Downtown Bistro and the Cedars in Coeur d’Alene.

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n the other side of every three-course menu during Restaurant Week are the owners, chefs and staff at each restaurant. The few we spoke with Monday between the lunch and dinner rush expressed gratefulness to customers who’ve been by for Restaurant Week. Restaurant management also acknowledged that the 10-day event carries an urgency to deliver a positive experience to all diners.

“We got absolutely hammered on Friday and Saturday night,” says Austin Stolp, executive chef and general manager at the Ref sports bar in Spokane Valley, a first-time Restaurant Week venue this year.

He’s not complaining, though. Stolp says despite the unusual influx of customers, the restaurant received several online reviews praising its food and service.

Across town at Cascadia Public House in North Spokane’s Five Mile neighborhood, a major boost in traffic is a shared experience.

“It’s been really good business-wise,” notes Cascadia co-owner Jordan Smith. “We had some stuff from last year we tweaked, and faced some new challenges, but we’re getting it all dialed in. People are really liking the food and the atmosphere.”

The biggest challenge, he says, has been a lack of tables to meet customer demand each night. The fairly small restaurant has seen its waitlist up to 40 names long, and only takes a limited amount of reservations as to accommodate these walk-in customers.

Cascadia’s Restaurant Week menu is sort of a greatest hits sampler of its most popular regular menu items, Smith says, so that new customers are inspired to return after Restaurant Week has ended.

“We’ve been having a lot of people here for the first time and that has been great,” he says. “We really try to make a huge point to staff that we need to win these people over and they want to come back here.” n Inlander Restaurant Week continues through Saturday, March 2. Find three-course menus for all 107 participating restaurants at inlanderrestaurantweek.com.

ART HISTORY From the director of The Lives of Others, the Oscar-nominated drama Never Look Away is an epic bore

BY JOSH BELL

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n 2006, writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck delved into a dark period of German history via a compelling personal story with his Oscarwinning historical drama The Lives of Others, about an East German secret police operative who becomes obsessed with the couple he’s been assigned to spy on. After a misguided Hollywood detour with 2010’s The Tourist, von Donnersmarck returns to Germany for Never Look Away, another historical drama that attempts to meld the personal with the political (picking up an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in the process).

Never Look Away has a wider scope than The Lives of Others, running a little over three hours and encompassing decades of German history, including two of the country’s darkest periods, under Nazi rule and then divided into East and West following World War II. The movie’s window into the country’s evolution is painter Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling), who’s loosely based on

renowned German artist Gerhard Richter. ian ambitions from Nazism to Communism, Carl has This isn’t a Richter biopic, though, and for most of reinvented himself as a top East German official. the movie von Donnersmarck seems almost entirely unEventually, once he defects to the West along with interested in art. At first, Kurt doesn’t even appear to be Ellie (of course, Carl defects, too, now aligning his evil the main character, as the movie opens with nearly half ways with capitalism), Kurt finds his true artistic voice, an hour focused on Kurt’s aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosenand the movie’s final act focuses on his rise in the art dahl), a mentally ill free spirit who is first institutionalized world with paintings that embody his aunt’s philosophy and then executed by the Nazi regime. of confronting difficult truths head-on.

The man most directly responsible for Elisabeth’s But Kurt himself remains a cipher, and Schilling is a treatment is the cruel, calculating Dr. Carl Seeband (The void at the center of the movie, merely a vehicle for the Lives of Others’ Sebastian Koch), who becomes the movie’s story to hit the touchstones of German history from the overarching villain, a sort of stand-in for Nazis’ early days in power the various destructive forces in German through the rise of the Berlin NEVER LOOK AWAY society. Koch plays him as an overt villain, Wall. The initial romantic Rated R the kind of Nazi commander who’d be passion between Kurt and Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck more at home in an exploitation movie.

Ellie is the movie’s highlight, Starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer Traumatized by the abduction and disapwhen it strikes a balance pearance of his aunt, sensitive young Kurt between heady ideas and the grows into an equally sensitive young man, taking to intimate connection between two people. But every time heart his aunt’s advice to “never look away” from trouCarl intrudes back into the story, the movie turns into a bling or disturbing images. heavy-handed history lesson rather than the chronicle of He aims to capture such images in his art, but living an artist’s life. under the Communist regime in East Germany, he’s inLike Kurt’s paintings, the movie is meticulously, stead forced to produce social-realist works that celebrate gorgeously composed (it was also nominated for an the proletariat. As an art student, Kurt meets fashion Oscar for its cinematography), and it has the feel of an student Ellie (Paula Beer), and the two quickly fall in love old-fashioned historical epic. Yet the characters at its core and plan to marry. Unbeknownst to Kurt, Ellie’s father remain inert, swept along on the tide of history without is the same man who sentenced Kurt’s aunt to death all making much of an impact either on the course of their those years ago. Simply shifting his sadistic, authoritarnation or on the viewer watching it all unfold. n

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Right on the heels of First Man comes this acclaimed documentary about the 1969 NASA mission that landed on the moon. Demands to be seen on an IMAX screen. (NW) Rated G

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Isabelle Huppert tears up the scenery as a disturbed piano teacher who ensnares a lonely young woman (Chloe Grace Moretz) in a twisted battle of wits. (NW) Rated R

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A junked cyborg is rescued by a futuristic scientist, who rebuilds her and turns her into a fighting machine.

Based on a ’90s manga series. (NW) Rated PG-13

AQUAMAN

The half-man, half-fish superhero gets his own vehicle, in which he inherits the Atlantean throne and fights with his evil brother. It’s got some crazy visuals and hammy performances but still manages to be kind of a slog. (JB) Rated PG-13

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Murder! Revenge! Snowplows! Liam Neeson is a snow removal specialist who goes after the drug dealers that killed his son. Based on a 2014 Norwegian film. (DN) Rated R

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A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL

The 11th (and apparently final) film to feature Tyler Perry’s slap-happy matriarch finds her arranging an unexpected funeral. There’ll be casket jokes aplenty. (NW) Rated PG-13

NEVER LOOK AWAY

An Oscar-nominated, 3-hour epic inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter, about the loves and losses of a fledgling artist in post-WWII Germany.

It’s as beautiful and occasionally tedious as it sounds. (JB) Rated R

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A pianist and a singer fall in love in post-WWII Poland, and are separated and reunited many times over the course of a decade. A haunting portrait of a broken relationship and of a country in turmoil. At the Magic Lantern.

(NW) Rated R

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A plucky canine is separated from its owner, and makes a dangerous crosscountry trek to get back to him. If you saw the trailer, you’ve basically seen the whole movie. (NW) Rated PG

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In 18th-century England, two women jockey for a position of power within the coterie of an ailing Queen Anne. A lacerating, cutthroat dark comedy with great performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.

(SS) Rated R

FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY

The true story behind the career of wrestler Paige, who left a British bluecollar town to become a WWE star. It hits every inspirational sports movie beat you can imagine, but it gets by on sheer charm. (MJ) Rated PG-13

FREE SOLO

A documentary following climber Alex Honnold’s attempt to successfully ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan rock formation sans rope and safety harness. Not for acrophobes, especially in its stunning final minutes. (NW) Rated PG-13

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M. Night Shyamalan continues his Unbreakable saga, with the indestructible Bruce Willis returning to fight supervillains Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy. It’s got some intriguing ideas, but the payoff is meager. (NW) Rated PG-13

GREEN BOOK

A white driver (Viggo Mortensen) ferries a black jazz pianist (Mahershala Ali) through the American South in the 1960s. Its racial politics are undoubtedly simplistic, but its central performances more than make up for it. At the Magic Lantern. (MJ) Rated PG-13

HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U

Sequel to the surprise horror hit elaborates on its zany premise of a college student who re-spawns every time she’s offed by a masked killer. Goofy and overplotted, but fun. (JB) Rated PG-13

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

The third entry in the hit DreamWorks franchise finds Hiccup and Toothless up against a hunter that wants to eradicate all dragons. Even for fans, this one’s a bit disappointing. (MJ) Rated PG

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight is a tender adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel, a drama about a young couple separated by imprisonment as they prepare to welcome a baby. At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated R

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

Rebel Wilson is an unlucky-in-love woman who hits her head and finds herself stuck inside a cheery, convention-riddled romantic comedy. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART

In this sequel to the 2014 hit, Bricksburg is attacked by exploding Duplo toys and Batman is entrapped by a shapeshifting queen. It might not have the novelty of the original, but it’s still entertaining. (NW) Rated PG

THE PRODIGY

A hyper-intelligent little boy is possessed by the spirit of a Hungarian

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SKIP IT

serial killer, and his mother is the only one who believes it. Standard supernatural horror stuff. (NW) Rated R

ROMA

The best film of 2018 is finally hitting the big screen in Spokane, and it’s worth a trip to the theater. Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white epic is sweeping yet intimate, a powerful study of class divide in 1970s Mexico. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

RUN THE RACE

A faith-based drama about teen brothers — one a football MVP, the other a track star — trying to escape their hometown and their drunkard father. (NW) Rated PG

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Spider-Men from various dimensions converge in the world of a teen web slinger, and they help him find his powers. A brilliant and funny animated feature that looks and feels like a comic book come to life. (SS) Rated PG

STAN & OLLIE

Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly play legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the twilight years of their long career, in a gentle biopic that’s a bit cheesy but still enjoyable to watch.

At the Magic Lantern. (JB) Rated PG

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

Peter Jackson’s documentary about British troops in WWI, featuring colorized and CGI-augmented footage from a century ago, is more of a museum piece than a film. Still, it’s an often moving monument. (MJ) Rated R

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THE UPSIDE

A remake of the French hit The Intouchables, with Bryan Cranston as a paralyzed millionaire and Kevin Hart as the troubled man who becomes his caretaker. It thinks it’s a feel-good drama, but it’s actually manipulative trash. (ES) Rated PG-13

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WHAT MEN WANT

Sports agent Taraji P. Henson gains the ability to hear the thoughts of the men, and uses it to her professional advantage. Like the 2000 comedy that inspired it, this squanders a clever premise with lazy farce. (NW) Rated R n

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“I’ve always wanted to play hard,” says Coathangers drummer Stephanie Luke (right). And that she does.

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PUNK

The Drummer You (Should) Know Stephanie Luke of the Coathangers talks about the punk trio’s life on the road and their explosive new album

BY C.A. COYLE

S

tephanie Luke, aka “Rusty Coathanger,” is a rare punk-rock triple threat.

For one, the self-taught drummer has developed a distinctive, infectious style that stands out among her fellow bashers prowling the club circuit. Her signature injection of a disco-like groove into a raw slab of punk angst is one of the elements that gives her band, the Coathangers, a unique sound.

Secondly, the Atlanta native takes her musicianship up a notch by adding a matchless voice to the mix.

Whereas her bandmate Julia Kugel handles the high notes, Luke brings a bite to the lower sector with a beautifully potent roar.

Then, there is the the proverbial X-factor — the third threat — in Luke’s makeup, which is her no-nonsense, bubbly, “let’s just party” character. She cusses like a sailor

but is probably excited to give you a hug.

With her mates Kugel and bassist Meredith Franco, Luke is touring the West Coast in support of the Coathangers upcoming LP on Suicide Squeeze Records, The Devil You Know.

Exploding out of Atlanta in the mid-2000s, the Coathangers have gone from a quirky punk-rock outfit playing house shows to an internationally recognized combo. Through years of touring and cranking out releases each year, the band has created a monster much more powerful and threatening than what many of the “psych-lite” contemporaries have developed.

“I’ve always wanted to play fast and I’ve always wanted to play hard,” Luke admits. “I’m always pushing for something that makes me a little uncomfortable …. ‘I might not nail this, but I’m gonna f---ing try for it!’ I think

it’s good with any instrument to push yourself.”

Luke’s risk-taking behind the kit and ferocity behind the mic pays off on The Devil You Know. After solidifying a distinctive sound on the previous two full-length studio albums, Suck My Shirt (2014) and Nosebleed Weekend (2016), the band continues its ascendence into crafting spectacular anthems, playing to each members’ strengths.

Luke and Kugel reprise their beautifully contrasting vocal styles in duet form on a lot of the new tunes as opposed to trading off lead duties on a song-by-song basis. Luke’s raspy growl serves as the perfect complement to Kugel’s fearless primal high-end range. The album’s first single and opening track “Bimbo” is a sturdy, up-tempo pop hit that flirts with Hüsker Dü-like heartbreak. Kugel’s peaceful, piano-backed melody is washed away by Luke’s ...continued on next page

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rainstorm of a chorus that projects regret towards a romantic endeavor.

The vocal pairing goes even darker than a traditional soprano-contralto marriage. On “Crimson Telephone,” the trio channels the Scientists’ acid years, most notably with Franco’s glazed-yet-chunky bass line yielding only to the song’s turbulent changes — transmutations Luke and Kugel embrace. “[The Devil You Know] is kind of a mash-up of the production level of Nosebleed [Weekend] but it has the vibe of Suck My Shirt,” says Luke.

“There’s a punk-rock aesthetic that we have, of course, but we’ve also got some really weird tracks on it. Every album that we write, we push ourselves to not write the same song over and over again.”

“Hey Buddy” fits Luke’s assessment of a new cut that doesn’t fit the traditional Coathangers mold. In fact, if it wasn’t Luke’s voice to enter the realm after a few measures, most people would understandably anticipate Mick Jagger’s 1969-era howl to come forth and comp the rhythm section. Lyrically, Luke’s message is quick to shame those who seek to disrupt social progress or belittle injustices.

“We all came to the table with songs, melodies and lyrics,” says Luke. “We didn’t put a lot of pressure on ourselves. We just wanna write this f---ing album, and if people like it, they like it. If they don’t, they don’t. Because sometimes you can psych yourself out and the songs can be overworked.”

According to Luke, most of the album was written at the band’s practice space in Long Beach, California (which has become the makeshift West Coast home for the band now that Kugel resides there). The rest of the material was, unsurprisingly, written on the road because the three are virtually always en route to a gig.

The Coathangers’ growing success over the past decade can be credited in part for the trio’s willingness to “get out and play” no matter how grueling the traveling may be. And for Luke, the relentless itineraries are welcomed with open arms.

“I personally love touring,” she says. “I’m good at touring, I’m good at playing live shows, I’m not good at very many things. I just f---ing love it. I love talking to different people and seeing other bands and being in a different city every night. I love that shit. It’s difficult to a certain extent but it’s also the opportunity of a lifetime. If I wasn’t in this band there’s no way in hell I’d be able to travel around the world. It’s insane. I’m a college dropout [laughs].”

Finding a downside to road life is difficult for Luke, but she admits potato chips can only satisfy for so long. “I miss eating meals the most [laughs]. I like eating food. But I look great on tour, very model thin [laughs].” n The Coathangers with Sadgirl and Itchy Kitty • Tue, March 5 at 8 pm • $10 advance, $12 day of • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | DANCE

From buskers to headliners, Moon Hooch makes danceable sounds out of unusual instrumentation.

Battle of the Saxes

With just saxophone and drums, Brooklyn’s Moon Hooch will make you wanna dance. Or else.

BY HOWARD HARDEE

M

ike Wilbur is in a surly mood when the Inlander calls him on a recent afternoon.

He’s in a van with his Moon Hooch bandmates somewhere outside of Houston, and because his mind-changing substance of choice remains under prohibition in the Lone Star State, he’s had no choice but to get overly caffeinated.

“I’m on edge,” he says. “Weed’s still illegal here and we don’t have any, so that’s a bummer.

I smoke a lot of weed.”

It’s a strange and mildly hostile introduction to the trio of virtuosic, classically trained jazz players. Wilbur met fellow saxophonist Wenzl McGowen and drummer James Muschler while attending the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York. They formed Moon Hooch in 2010, cutting their teeth by busking on the subway and throwing illegal raves.

Moon Hooch’s “cave music” — the band’s preferred term — is a mix of jazz and house dance beats, performed with a rare sort of raw, animalistic energy. Roughly 30 to 40 percent of their live sets are improvised, with frequent detours into bizarre noise-making sessions in which Wilbur and McGowen mimic the abrasive sounds of dubstep with their horns. They’ve found low-end frequencies to be particularly effective in the dance setting.

“We’ve been using a lot of bass instruments like the contrabass clarinet and a Moog synthesizer,” Wilbur says. “We also have an octave drop on our baritone saxophone, which is pretty beefy and sick.”

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Their performances come off as a little crazy, which is pretty much the point. Everyone had better jump around, or else.

“We like to get wild. The more you learn about how f---ed humanity and society is, the crazier you get and the more disassociated from this reality you become,” he says. “To me, this society is weird, we’re not weird. When I walk into somebody’s house and they’re watching this TV series they’re really invested in, that’s kind of weird to me. ... It’s more normal to do things that are good for you and make you a better person than to, like, sit around and do nothing. To me, that’s crazy.

“We’re animals, we’re supposed to be jumping around like f---ing apes,” he continues.

“That’s still part of who we are, we’re still wild creatures. I think everybody should jump around and act crazy as long as they’re not hurting each other or being racist assholes.”

Given their academic background, some jazz traditionalists probably frown upon the trio’s wild ways, but Wilbur, for one, couldn’t give a fig about offending anyone.

“There’s always going to be people who aren’t into what you’re doing, no matter what, even in jazz, ” he says. “If you play like Charlie Parker, there’s going to be this, like, sect of specialists who think you’re an idiot for doing so. I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t leave the house who really hate us.”

After nearly a decade of making percussionbased, highly improvisational music, Wilbur has no wisdom to share about the science of making people dance. It’s just all about that beat.

Muschler always keeps the groove going, even beneath the fiercest squalls of woodwinds.

“The important thing is that you have a fouron-the-floor kick drum at 120 beats per minute,” he says, more than a little saltily. “You could fart on top of it and people would still dance.”

Clearly on too much coffee and not enough weed, Wilbur is still convinced everyone around them is crazy by the time the tour van pulls up to the venue in Houston: “Man, people in Texas drive like psychopaths.” n Moon Hooch • Wed, March 6 at 8 pm • $15 advance, $15 advance, $18 day of • 21+ • nYne Bar • 232 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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ROCK LOU BARLOW

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ndie-rock singer-songwriter Lou Barlow has proved himself incredibly prolific. Between his songs from Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion and his solo records, there’s more than enough to fill the two-plus hours of this “an evening with” tour stop. The intimate shows touch on all aspects of his career — requests welcomed — and Barlow says, “I also tend to talk about the songs, my kids and whatever else happened that day. I’m most comfortable in this setting.” Superfans can even pay $100 and have dinner with Barlow and Dino Jr. bandmate Murph before the show.

I’ll be content to cross my fingers and hope he plays classics like Sebadoh’s “Brand New Love” and Folk Implosion’s “Natural One.” — DAN NAILEN An Evening with Lou Barlow • Tue, March 5 at 7:30 pm • $25 • All ages • The Senator • 618 N. Monroe • eventbrite.com: An Evening with Lou Barlow in Spokane

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Thursday, 02/28

BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Open Mic J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen COEUR D’ALENE EAGLES, Theresa Edwards & Vern Vogel THE CORK & TAP, Truck Mills CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance THE GILDED UNICORN, Lucas Brookbank Brown HOUSE OF SOUL, Mike Johnson & Scott Steed THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series JOHN’S ALLEY, Funky Unkle & BG3 J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, O’Pen Mic Thursdays THE OBSERVATORY, Reverend Yo’s Blues Hour THE PIN, NKNGS & Friends, Pest, Benjamin Carlton, Anxiety, Treezy, DJ Sassy POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Rusty Jackson RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. Justine Ponsness RED ROOM LOUNGE, I Want BNGRZ RICO’S, Raul Blanco & Jazz Wires THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series THE ROXIE, Music Challenge ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 03/1

219 LOUNGE, The Miah Kohal Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Randall, Gardner & Catlett

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s Atmosphere sprints toward the middle of its third decade, the long-running, Minneapolis-based duo of Slug and Ant has turned its lyrical focus toward aging, settling down (and calming down), and raising a healthy family, all while staying true to an original artistic vision that’s edgier and riskier than those themes suggest. There’s a reason their recent output has been dubbed “dadrap,” which might sound more derogatory than it actually is. Atmosphere’s 2018 album Mi Vida Local continues their penchant for fusing hip-hop with disparate genres — funk, rock, electro-pop — and even though they occasionally stray into dark introspection, it’s mostly glass-half-full vibes.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Atmosphere with deM atlaS, the Lioness and DJ Keezy • Fri, March 1 at 7 pm • $27.50 • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279 J THE BARTLETT, Joshua Radin, Lily Kershaw J THE BIG DIPPER, Sons of Donovan Record Release with Live Forever, Die & Rise, InComing Days THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, DragonFly BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Dallas Kay BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and The Nerve BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Haley Young and the Bossame Band THE BULL HEAD, Deep Forest Project CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Kicho CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Mojo Box J DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, Don Hawkins EICHARDT’S, Ron Kieper Jazz Quartet

THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike HOGFISH, Green Jelly, Cigggarette Machine, Farmacy IRON GOAT BREWING, Lucas McIntyre JOHN’S ALLEY, Polly O’Keary and The Rhythm Method J J KNITTING FACTORY, Atmosphere (see above), Dem Atlas, The Lioness & DJ KEEZY KOOTENAI RIVER INN & CASINO, Brown Salmon Truck LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nic Vigil LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Wyatt Wood MARYHILL WINERY, Nick Grow MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Usual Suspects MULLIGAN’S, Ron Greene

NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J THE OBSERVATORY, Vanessa Silberman, Carissa Johnson, Itchy Kitty, Vanna Oh! and The Anys J OUTLAW BBQ & CATERING MARKET, Songsmith Series PACIFIC PIZZA, Indian Goat, Pink Boa PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Brian Jacobs PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic THE PIN, Minesweepa with Slik Vik, Dj F3LON, PEWPEWSPLOAD, Wheez THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos J RIVER CITY BREWING, Left Over Soul ROBERT KARL CELLARS, TONYA J THE ROXIE, Ashley Pyle EP Release with Haley and the Hitchhikers & Tyler Alai

SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Son of Brad SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Just Plain Darin SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Kori Ailene J SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Jarabe Mexicano ZOLA, Whack A Mole

Saturday, 03/2

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, Shy-Ann 49 DEGREES NORTH, Quarter Monkey 219 LOUNGE, Joan Zen Band ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Pat Coast J J THE BIG DIPPER, Swager Sessions with ASADI BIGFOOT PUB, DragonFly BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and The Nerve COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Clint Darnell

CURLEY’S, Mojo Box EAGLE’S LODGE, Loose Gazoonz THE GROWL’N DOG, DJ WesOne & DJ Big Mike HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Kevin Gardner IRON GOAT BREWING CO., The Thomsen Trio THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Moscow Mardi Gras with Sol Seed LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene MARYHILL WINERY, Dawna Stafford MAX AT MIRABEAU, Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice MOOSE LOUNGE, Usual Suspects MULLIGAN’S, John Keith Walton NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom J THE OBSERVATORY, Gabriel & Dresden, Sub Teal PACIFIC PIZZA, Dapper Devils PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Truck Mills J THE PIN, Steaksauce Mustache with Pound, FOES, ZAN, Narrow Minded, thrpii, Ghost Heart POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos

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DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Bad Suns, Vista Kicks LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Katie Fisher MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Ken Mayginnes ONE WORLD CAFE, Kitten Fight, Illicit Nature, Traffyk Jam THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 03/4

J J THE BARTLETT, Wolf Parade, Water Monster THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Dave McRae CRAVE, DJ Dave

EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills J THE PIN, Preston 2003 EP Release with Jay Avenue, C4dw3ll, iLLUSiON RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 03/5

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J J THE BARTLETT, The Coathangers (see page 39), Sadgirl, Itchy Kitty BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave ETSI BRAVO, Mardi Gras w/Whole Milk GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke THE HIVE, Fat Tuesday Party with Dirty Revival LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday J THE PIN, Dissolution Covered RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam J J THE SENATOR, An Evening with Lou Barlow (see facing page) SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE, Just Plain Darin THE VIKING, Songsmith Series feat.

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J J THE BARTLETT, Donavon Frankenreiter BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. HJ Lally COEUR D’ALENE CIDER COMPANY, Nick Grow CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night Hosted by The Jam Band GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Liquid Stranger LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J MILLWOOD BREWING COMPANY, Dawna Stafford J NYNE, Moon Hooch (see page 41), Willdabeast, Elena Shirin THE PIN, The Strange Afterparty POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), Justin James RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ZOLA, Cruxie

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MUSIC | VENUES 219 LOUNGE • 219 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-2639934 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. BERSERK • 125 S. Stevens • 714-9512 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 THE HIVE • 207 N. First, Sandpoint • 208-457-2392 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOUSE OF SOUL • 25 E. Lincoln • 598-8783 IRON HORSE BAR • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL • 11105 E. Sprague Ave., CdA • 509-926-8411 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MARYHILL WINERY • 1303 W. Summit Pkwy, Ste. 100 • 443-3832 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 381-5489 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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MUSIC GUESS WHO’S BACH?

The Northwest BachFest and Grammy-winning artistic director Zuill Bailey (above) are back, and this year are showcasing an expanded reach for the festival that brings some incredible classical music to the region. The spring BachFest this year is split in two, starting this week and continuing with a week’s worth of shows in May. Week One kicks off with pianist Yuliya Gorenman’s Bach Extravaganza tackling the composer’s WellTempered Clavier, Book 1 in the beautiful confines of St. John’s Cathedral. It’s a rare opportunity to hear the entire piece at once, and done by a remarkably skilled musician. As the week progresses, catch Gorenman as well as shows featuring the Richter String Ensemble, pianist Greg Presley and Bailey himself performing at venues including Coeur d’Alene Resort, the Hagadone Event Center and Barrister Winery. Visit the Northwest BachFest for all the details, the full week’s schedule and tickets.

— DAN NAILEN Northwest BachFest Week One • Sun, March 3 through Sun, March 10; times and locations vary • $35/general; $15/students per show, $99 for Spokane or Coeur d’Alene series package • nwbachfest.com

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MUSIC GOING SOLO

THEATER A SECRET LOVE AFFAIR

Spokane Symphony Pops 5: Seamus Egan Project • Sat, March 2 at 8 pm • $39-$86 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1011 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

Shakespeare in Love • Feb. 28 through March 10; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $10 • Spartan Theater at Spokane Falls Community College • 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. • spokanefalls. edu/drama • 533-3500

Seamus Egan has been a leader in traditional Irish music since he was a teenager. Starting as a young prodigy, to starting his Irish-American band Solas, to now touring as a solo artist with his friends and other musical guests, Egan has helped define the Irish music scene. He’s a master of the Irish flute, tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, tin whistle and more. Later this month, Egan is set to release his first solo, all-instrumental album. His last, When Juniper Sleeps, was released in 1996, when Clinton was president and Pokemon were just being introduced to the world. His new album Everything Always Was is now available for pre-order.

— ARCELIA MARTIN

Spokane Falls Community College’s ambitious drama department next presents its own spin on the romantic Shakespeare in Love.

Held in the Spartan Theater, this play tells the story of young William Shakespeare and how his love affair with a spoken-for woman, Viola de Lesseps, leads him to write Romeo and Juliet. The theme for the 51st season of Spokane Falls Community College’s theater season is “Breaking Rules and Breaking Hearts.” If you attend a Sunday matinee show, bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the college’s food bank for $5 off admission.

— ARCELIA MARTIN

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— Your neverending story —

J-bach and indy rock.

flappers and saints.

benders and snappers.

MUSIC SONGS OF INCLUSION

Pianist Lara Downes has always worn her artistic influences on her sleeve.

Her 2018 record For Lenny was a loving tribute to the songbook of Leonard Bernstein, and this year’s release Holes in the Sky is a celebration of female songwriters and features appearances from the likes of Judy Collins and Rhiannon Giddens. It makes sense, then, that one of her upcoming local concerts will benefit Girls on the Run, a nonprofit that emphasizes physical fitness in pre-teen girls and has been implemented in several elementary schools around Spokane. Downes will also be performing on March 1 with the Spokane Symphony, accompanying vocalist Thomas Hampson.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER An Evening with Lara Downes • Sat, March 2 at 7 pm • $30-$75 • Patsy Clark Mansion • 2208 W. Second • gotrspokane.org • 920-474-6875

— UPCOMING EVENTS — Varietals at Barrister Winery, then violins at Northwest BachFest, 3/6 Postmodern Jukebox, Fox Theater, 3/14 Spokane Symphony Special: Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fox Theater, 3/16

WORDS LIT YA LIT

Fans of young adult fiction won’t want to miss this triple-author lineup coming to Auntie’s for “an evening of stories about resilience, courage, adversity and triumph.” Acclaimed Spokane YA author Mary Cronk Farrell shares her newest book, Standing Up Against Hate, which tells the true history of women of color serving during WWII. She’s joined by fellow YA author Maureen McQuerry, whose new title Between Before and After is a dual timeline narrative about the bonds between mothers and daughters, set in 1918 and 1955. Rounding out the stellar lineup of storytellers is author Stephen Wallenfels, known for his work in the thriller and sci-fi genres. His newest, Deadfall, is about two brothers on the run who encounter an abducted girl in the Oregon mountains.

— CHEY SCOTT

Go green at O’Doherty’s or Lucky’s Irish Pub, then at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 3/16 Christopher Titus, Knitting Factory, 3/16 Legally Blonde: The Musical, First Interstate Center for the Arts, 3/21

Don’t miss the next First Friday: March 1st, 2019

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Plan your neverending story: www.downtownspokane.org

YA Survival Guide featuring Mary Cronk Farrell • Wed, March 6 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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I SAW YOU MARINE To the Marine we met at the Best Western Downtown Thursday morning, 2/21: it was an honor and a pleasure. I wish we’d have had more time. I hope you get the help you desire from the VA. You’ll get through this. And after, you will now have the tools and discipline to do ANYTHING you want with your life. We’re going to think of you. All the best.

CORPORATE CRUSH I work a few desks down from you in a large office.

You - blonde hair and blue eyed. Me brown hair and green eyed. Your kindness, your sense of humor, and maybe your good looks too help make every day a little less mundane and a little more enjoyable. Sometimes days are just really tough, but your smile makes it worth it! I appreciated you for all the laughs and inside jokes!

BREWS OF DESTINY Oh Blackbird beer library - New to Spokane, you were a source of inspiration to me. 2014 Rye on Rye, 2013. Bruery Anniversary beer, oh you were my closest friend. And now I see you’re closed. I miss you.

Please oh please let me know where you end up.

SHARP SHOOTERS 2/24 AT 12:30 Sunday afternoon at Sharp Shooters, you were in a grey T-shirt. You had a

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little boy with you (your son?), and you were with a buddy in a green camo sweatshirt. You shot my dad’s Kimber to see if you liked it. Me: short brown hair, jeans, Bloomsday T-shirt, smitten by your smile. Is there any chance you are single?

BLUE TOYOTA TRUCK BLUE SHIRT Sat. afternoon Feb. 23 ... you blue truck. Me, cute passenger in Dodge four-door, checking you out;) Sorry my friend drives like an idiot, cause I was ready to hop in your truck. Hope your not married, cause I want to know you. rexcook38@yahoo.com CHIPS AND SALSA & SOCIALISM I saw you at the Valley Azteca last Tuesday.

I was impressed by your compassionate patience with your rowdy dinner dates and you looked fantastic in those suspenders and bow tie. Maybe we can grab a margarita sometime soon?

I loved your Bernie pin too. Bernie 2020!

MISSED CONNECTION I saw you in Pacific Ave Pizza, you had that amazing black turtleneck and jeans, laugh carrying over across the room. It changed everything. You got a beer, I got a beer, and we sat and chatted for a while. You amazed me with your intelligence, humor, and ability to drink a much darker porter than I. Alas, it ended far too soon and we had to go our separate ways, but there was just one thing I wanted to ask: Let’s get together and do this again sometime, shall we?

CHEERS AGREE STA EMPLOYEES DOING GREAT JOB I have been riding the buses since I got sick. Just like Seattle Metro, STA employees do a fantastic job, on the phone, at the Plaza, and on the buses. On the 25 route the employees always have a bright shiny face! They dispense helpful info and make the trip easy. Riding around with all the snow makes it harder with all the berms to get on and off the buses, but the drivers

work hard to get to a place at the stop that makes it easier for us. Someone actually cleaned out areas so the passengers can get on or off easier!

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Since I started working there, I have donated to Spokanimal, Children’s Miracle Network, Wishing Star and Operation Spokane Heroes. Because

you move to a suburban neighborhood or out in the boonies if you don’t like the sounds of the city. Do you want all the city parades and city events to stop

Why don’t you move to a suburban neighborhood or out in the boonies if you don’t like the sounds of the city.

SNOW ANGEL I would like to thank Darcy for being a snow angel and shoveling my walk and driveway. I now have a new shovel, and an uplifted spirit! Thank you for your kindness!

HELP IN SNOW IN CHENEY Cheers and thank you to the gentleman and his wife who helped me get unstuck from the Mint Condition Dentist parking lot on President’s Day. A hygienist also came out to try to assist, as well as another gentleman with a truck who offered to help tow. I’m grateful to live in a town with such kind people!

SEXY Sexy, your the best thing that has happened to me in a long time!!! I will always love you an will never stop thinking about you.

JEERS PUNCHING UP AT THE GIRL SCOUTS Ah, the Spokane County Republican Party sinks to new depths of swinishness. Really boys, going after little girls now. Big girls might hit back, huh?

I CAN GIVE TO WHOM I PLEASE The company I work for does this wonderful thing where I have so much taken out of my check and they match every dollar I have put in and it goes to the charity of my choice in November.

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.”

I think it’s important to spread the wealth for the good work these organizations do. Because an organization helped my elderly grandmother, in April and May of 2018, I chose to donate to them. After I made my request to have my donation and my match sent to this agency which helps the elderly, I was asked to see Human Resources. Apparently, the leadership of our company has decided that our donations and match can only be sent to the following: Vanessa Behan or 2nd Harvest! What? I was told that our company leaders “feel” Vanessa Behan and 2nd Harvest are the most important agencies, right now with the Homeless Crisis. I said no and I wanted my portion of the donation back to give to the agency that helped my grandmother. They said no and I received a verbal warning for not being a “Team Player”. On February 5, I received a thank you letter from one of the two agencies, I won’t say which, thanking me for my generous donation of $500.00! What is this the Fund-Raising mafia? Needless to say, I opted out of the giving program, this year.

BOURGEOISIE To the bourgeoisie who live in downtown Spokane who have stopped the rights of Spokane street musicians and buskers to have amplification when they perform. Why don’t

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too? Is it because you feel superior because you are an elitist bourgeoisie with no class, who obviously doesn’t even deserve to be living in the city.

You are the enemy of all art, and you are a killer of dreams. You bourgeoisie have your money, isn’t that good enough for you? Do you really have to take away someone else’s dream because being filthy rich was the only dream that came true for you?

WHERE IS YOUR BUSINESS LOCATED? The Inlander covers a lot of area. If you want someone to go to a presentation at your venue, please put in the name of the town in which you are located. This goes for the Panida and the Kenworthy in particular. Lots of Main streets around here, ie in Spokane, Post Falls, Coeur d’Alene, Pullman and Sandpoint. n

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‘I WILL HAVE POETRY IN MY LIFE. AND ADVENTURE. AND LOVE. LOVE ABOVE ALL.’ SPARTAN THEATRE & BIGFOOT DRAMA present

BY TOM STOPPARD, MARC NORMAN, AND LEE HALL MUSIC BY PADDY CUNNEEN DIRECTED BY ASHLEY DEMOVILLE

3410 W FT GEORGE WRIGHT DR

February 28, March 1- 3 & 7-10, 2019

Thurs- Sat, 7:30 pm • Sunday, 2 pm • SFCC, SPARTAN THEATRE • Bldg 5

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE: www.sfcc.spokane.edu/drama

SFCC Spartan Theatre

General Adm — $10 • SFCC Students — FREE! • Discounts for students, employees, seniors, & military!

Community Colleges of Spokane provides equal opportunity in education and employment.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE FUNDRAISER To raise awareness and financial support for local individuals who’ve been affected by a brain injury the Spokane chapter of the Brain Injury Alliance of Washington hosts its annual fundraiser. The event includes a silent auction and hors d’oeuvres and an opportunity to learn more about the local nonprofit’s work. March 1, 6-9 pm. $50. Double Tree Hotel, 322 N. Spokane Falls Ct. biawaspokane.org O’DANNY BOY BASH Raise a glass to O’Danny Boy and toast the Emerald Isle with a limerick supper, snack bar, live music, festive libations, bagpipes and more. Proceeds benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest, providing temporary lodging, comfort and support for families with critically ill or injured children accessing medical services in Spokane.

March 1, 5-11 pm. $20-$25. The McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. themcginnityroom.com/odanny-boy2019 CHANGE THEIR LUCK PUB CRAWL SpokAnimal’s first annual pub crawl in the Garland District, with seven bars on the route: Garland Pub & Grill, Revolver North, North Hill, Brown Derby, Garland Drinkery, Beerocracy, and Bon Bon. Register at Garland Pub. March 2, 5 pm. $20. Garland Pub & Grill, 3911 N. Madison St. bit.ly/2WYPv2A AN EVENING WITH LARA DOWNES Downes is among the foremost American pianists of her generation, dedicated to expanding the resonance and relevance of live music for diverse audiences. She performs in benefit of Girls on the Run of Spokane County.

Tickets include CD and drink. March 2, 7-9 pm. $30; $75/VIP. Patsy Clark Mansion, 2208 W. 2nd. (920-474-6875) NO FEAR IN LOVE RACE A run to celebrate healthy, soul-nourishing dating relationships among 16-24 year old and prevent abusive dating. March 2, 6:30 am. $27. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. bit.ly/2MFRnZm (440-0921) WINE, STEIN & DINE An annual event showcasing fine wines, microbrews and cider from over 85 wineries and breweries, along with food from a dozen local restaurants and caterers.

Includes live music by Bill Bozly, a silent auction, photo booth, and a wine and brew raffle tree. Proceeds support the Post Falls Education Foundation.

March 2, 7-10 pm. $45. Greyhound Park & Event Center, 5100 Riverbend Ave. pfefwsd.org (208-691-4675) SPOKANE MARDI BRAS Drop off your donations of women’s undergarments and feminine hygiene products and meet staff from Volunteers of America Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho and Transitions during a celebration of the donation drive’s culmination.

March 5, 5-8 pm. Berserk, 125 S. Stevens St. bit.ly/2ICxvrC (509-714-9512) THE FIG TREE LUNCH Guests attend for no charge, but are invited to donate to support The Fig Tree. March 8, 11:30 am-1 pm. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. (509-328-4220) IGNITE! GALA & AUCTION This event supports Riverpoint Academy, an innovative, award-winning, project-based STEM+Entrepreneurial high school in the Mead School District. Funds raised support student projects, scholarships, travel and more. The evening event offers food, conversation and more.

EVENTS | ARTS

March 9, 6-9 pm. $50/person; $90/ couple. Northern Quest Resort, 100 N. Hayford. IgniteRA2019.eventbrite.com

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. (244-3279) GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more.

First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv show. Ages 16+. Saturdays at 7:30 pm through March 30. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) FIRE BRIGADE IMPROV The theater’s in-house, family-friendly comedy troupe performs monthly. First Saturday of the month at 7 pm. $5. Ignite!

Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org THE SOCIAL HOUR AFTER DARK Spokane’s late night talk show combines stand-up, sketch comedy, improv, interviews, music and more, hosted

by Deece Casillas. March 3, 7:30-9 pm. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2RplS6G (318-9998) MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY Hosted

by Jared Chastain, with local acts followed by open mic. Mondays at 8 pm.

Ages 21+. Free. Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main, Pullman. etsibravo.com (715-1037) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) BILL ENGVALL From improv to acting to dancing and even a game show host, this Blue Collar Comedy Tour alumnus has done it all. March 10 at 5 and 8 pm. $39-$69. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com (509-242-7000)

COMMUNITY MAKE YOUR OWN PODCAST This is second of three Podcasting 101 sessions offering hands-on training on recording and editing audio using the free editing software Audacity. Feb. 28, 7-8:30 pm. $0-$10. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central. org (279-0299) NEXT GEN JOB FAIR This annual event connects area businesses with jobready young adults ages 16-24. Feb. 28, 12-3 pm. Spokane Transit Plaza, 701 W. Riverside. nextgenzone.org/nextgenjobfair (960-6259)

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pokane’s monthly arts showcase takes place across the downtown core and beyond. Receptions for this month’s iteration are Friday, March 1, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue. Listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday’s organizer, Downtown Spokane Partnership, host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information visit firstfridayspokane.org.

J AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone Art by Ladd Bjorneby and Tom Quinn.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second Paintings by Ricco DiStefano and music by Free Whiskey.

BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. Paintings by Jessica Bryant with live music by Lyle Morse.

J BERSERK, 125 S. Stevens Mixed media by Chaeliegh Baucom.

BISTANGO, 108 N. Post Music by Dallas Kay. CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

Explorations XVI features artwork by students from Whitworth, Gonzaga, EWU, North Idaho College and SFCC. CORE PILATES & WELLNESS, 1203 W. Summit Pkwy.

Art by Carol Herrmann.

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Photography by David Powers.

DOWNTOWN SPOKANE, locations vary The Give Love Public Art Project features 28 pieces painted by local artists to support Ronald

McDonald House Charities of the Inland Northwest.

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS, 331 W. Main Art by Janie Edwards.

FIRST AVENUE COFFEE, 1011 W. First Art by Alice Harmon and Chuck Harmon.

IRON GOAT BREWING CO., 1302 W. Second Mixed media by Ildikó Kalapacs.

KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams St. Wood Work by Erika Osborne.

KRESS GALLERY, 808 W. Main (third floor) Art by students at Spokane area high schools.

LADDER COFFEE BUILDING, 1516 W. Riverside Grand opening of the new shop, Lookout Spokane, featuring locally made artisan goods.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Paintings by Kim Long.

J LIBERTY BUILDING, 203 N. Washington Art by Megan Perkins, Missy Kennedy and Linnea Tobias.

LUCKY LEAF CO., 1111 W. First Art by Christian Lyze.

A piece by Jeff McClenahan at Maryhill Winery.

MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

Four-year anniversary celebration with art by Jim Dhillon.

J MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Mixed media by Jeff McClenahan.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington Rural Roots by Gayle Havercroft.

ROBERT KARL CELLARS, 115 W. Pacific Ave. Art from the Bear Creek Mercantile and music by TONYA. J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main Forged by Fire by sisters Julie and Kristen Gautier-Downes and Natural Abstractions by Mariah Boyle and Lisa Soranaka.

SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, 117 N. Howard Art by Rachel Wright.

SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 906 W. Main Open mic night and concert with Don Hawkins and Dirk Lind; 6:30 pm.

STEELHEAD BAR & GRILLE, 218 N. Howard Art by Ellen Blaschke.

J TERRAIN GALLERY, 304 W. Pacific Ave. Midnight Sun by Todd Mires and Re-lationship by Aleeta Renee Jones.

J TRACKSIDE STUDIO, 115 S. Adams Undone by Mark Moore.

VINO!, 222 S. Washington Art by Yevgeny Ampleyev.

V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott St. Art by Tom Wakeley and music by Crushpad.

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STRAINS

Spring in Your Step Active strains to stretch out before the weather turns

Let’s get physical! dio. The energetic and euphoric flower is a great calming agent while not letting you hunker down on the couch.

Indulging right before an extensive workout will also allow you to drop off nicely into a relaxing resting point.

your motions without leaving any sort of stimulated edginess. Pair this with an active morning routine and you’ll be floating the rest of your day.

he days are getting longer, and the snow seems to slowly be getting lower, so why not spark up some high activity strains to get yourself out of the cabin and out doing things? Spring is another three weeks away, but don’t be caught lagging when finally it’s time to be outside. Here are some strains that can lead to you being active in a gym or yoga studio or when you brave some outside trekking.

SUPER SILVER HAZE

This one is for the battle tested. The sativa strain is known to pack a punch and is the perfect pairing for those with cabin fever looking to do a full-day excursion like some snow hiking or snowshoeing. The euphoric and high-energy strain has a citrus front and will leave you tripping your way up the mountain.

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If you’re not all about braving the elements but you still want to remain active, look no further than this sativa strain that will help spur you to be the master of the stu-

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Let this be the carrot at the end of stick. Super Silver Haze is a sativa that will galvanize you while you’re running on the elliptical or playing pick-up with your mates.

The high-energy sativa is uplifting but can bring on paranoia if you overindulge and are in a crowded space. But when you’re around your friends or just making goals on a treadmill, the strain is a perfect go-to.

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SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Join PJALS and members of the community to continue fighting white supremacy, supporting racial justice organizing led by people of color, and deepening understanding of race locally. Meets second and fourth Thursday of the month, from 5:30-7 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main. pjals.org SPOKANE HOME & YARD SHOW The 41st annual expo hosts 100s of displays, demonstrations and other resources for both DIY-ers and the green-thumb-inclined. Feb. 28 and March 1 from noon-8 pm; March 2 from 10 am-7 pm; March 3 from 10 am-5 pm. $8/weekend admission; kids 12 and under free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. custershows.com (477-1766) TELLING WAR: VETERAN INTERVIEW SESSIONS Veteran-focused interview sessions with Ron Osgood, Vietnam veteran, documentary filmmaker and professor emeritus from the Media School at Indiana University. Feb. 28, 10 am-3 pm. Free, registration required.

Community-Minded Television, 104 W. Third. community-minded.org DR. SEUSS CELEBRATION In honor of America’s most famous reading teacher, the library has planned “lots of good fun that is funny.” We’ll be reading books, making crafts, and playing games.

March 1, 3:30-5 pm. Free. At both the Argonne and Cheney branches. scld.org FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Enjoy food and dance at the monthly event, held each first Friday at 6:30 pm. All jigs and reels, line and folk dances are taught by Susan Dankovich with music by Whirl’d Peas. Dinner at 6:30, dancing from 7-8 pm. Suggested donation to the band.

St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org (533-9955) 1912 CENTER WINTER MARKET Local artists, craftspeople, growers and producers gather at the center throughout the winter to sell their products, including handcrafted art and artisan goods, food products and more. Nov. 3 and 10; Dec. 1 and 8; Feb. 2 and March 2, 2019, from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. (208-669-2249) DANCEFEST An event showcasing a variety of dance styles, with free workshops on various styles, along with performances from local groups in jazz, tap, ballet, folk and more. March 2-3 from 10 am-3:30 pm. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. (927-0972) FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE Hosted by the Liberty Lake Kiwanis with dinner and dancing in a chocolate-factory themed setting. March 2, 4-9 pm. $109/ pair; $32.50 each additional child. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. mirabeauparkhotel.com (924-9000) DR. SEUSS CELEBRATION In honor of America’s most famous reading teacher, the library has planned “lots of good fun that is funny.” We’ll be reading books, making crafts, and playing games. All ages. March 4, 4-5 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne. scld.org BUDGETING 101 Take control of your financial life with a budgeting plan that’s simple, reasonable, and effective.

Registration required at stcu.org/workshops. March 5, 6-7 pm. Free. Airway Heights Library, 1213 S. Lundstrom St. stcu.org/workshops (893-8250) COPYRIGHT: IMAGES & MUSIC IN CREATIVE PROJECTS Find images and music for your creative projects without infringing on copyrights. This session discusses and clarifies the differences

between copyright restricted, royalty free, fair use, and public domain material. Also covers where to find royalty free works. Ages 16+. March 6, 7-8 pm.

Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org (893-8400) MAKE YOUR OWN PODCAST This third of three Podcasting 101 sessions covers how to get your podcast listed in major podcast directories, creating an online presence, building fan communities, and tracking your success. March 7, 7-8:30 pm. $0-$10. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing, and build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Priority seating provided for participants age 17 or younger. Second and fourth Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY NIGHT In partnership with SPL and EWU is this afterhours community event to share and celebrate philosophy and ideas through public lectures, literary readings, discussions, and screenings. March 8, 7-10 pm.

Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org

FILM SCREENING: INTO THE ARCTIC Each Thursday and Saturday at 1 pm and 2:30 pm, the MAC screens this 47-minute film telling the compelling story of artist Cory Trepanier’s first leg of his multiyear quest to explore and paint the dramatic wilderness of the Canadian Arctic. Weekly through May 11. $5-$10/ admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR The festival features a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and inspiring documentary films curated from the Mountainfilm festival held yearly in Telluride, Colorado. March 1, 8-10:30 pm. $15. The Innovation Den, 415 E. Lakeside Ave. facebook.com/TheGoldenHourCDA SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL This festival showcases award winners that embody hope and resilience during today’s whiplash times. March 1-3 from 4-9 pm. Free/by donation. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. socialjusticefilmfestival.org (670-3746) ROMA The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón. Rated R. Spanish with English subtitles. March 2 at 4:45 and 8 pm; March 3 at 3:45 and 8 pm. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar SPOKANE FILM PROJECT OPEN HOUSE A networking event for all area filmmakers to learn about what the Spokane Film Project’s board has in store for 2019. March 4, 6 pm. Free. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. LUNAFEST WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL A national film festival showcasing original short films by, for and about women, and a fundraiser for Chicken & Egg Pictures. Hosted by the U of Idaho Women’s Center, the local event beings with a casual reception of hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar. March 5, 6:30 pm. $8. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-885-2777) QUEENS & COWBOYS: A STRAIGHT YEAR ON THE GAY RODEO The Latah

County Historical Society and University of Idaho Library, in partnership with the University of Idaho, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, present a screening of this documentary, which compliments the show “Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo” on display at the UI Library now through April 30. March 6, 7 pm. $7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-885-6557)

FOOD PIZZERIA PIZZA & STROMBOLI AT HOME Drawing from Neapolitan and California influences, make pizza dough and learn what is needed to ensure that perfect crust every time.Feb. 28, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. campusce.net/spokane/category/category.aspx THURSDAY WINE SOCIAL The weekly complimentary wine tasting event features different wine themes and samples of the shop’s gourmet goods.

Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com/wines WINE TASTING Taste March selections from Vino’s Wine of the Month Club.

Includes cheese and crackers. March 1, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com SIP & SAMPLE The market’s weekly afternoon tasting, featuring 1-2 wines and something to munch on. Saturdays from noon-4 pm. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison. petuniasmarket.com SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Sommelier Trevor Treller. Interactive sessions include appetizers and featured wines at discounted bottle prices. First Saturday of the month, at 3 pm. 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second. beverlyscda.com (208-765-4000) WINE TASTING Taste the wines of Gard Vintners. Includes cheese and crackers.

March 2, 2-4:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com 66TH ANNUAL SAUSAGE FEED An allyou-can-eat meal; dine-in is first-come, first-served; to-go available. Menu includes sausage made from a secret recipe, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, green beans, applesauce, rolls, pie and beverage. Beer garden for ages 21+.

Tickets at the door; cash/check only: $13/adults, $9/ages 6-12; $2/under 6.

March 3, 10 am-5 pm. $13. Uniontown, Uniontown, Wash. uniontownwa.org (509-229-3414)

MUSIC THURSDAY EVENING SWING Weekly swing dance classes and dances, with a dance lesson at 7 pm followed by social dancing. No partner necessary. Feb. 28 from 7-10 pm. $12/event or $50/5 week punch card. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. strictlyswingspokane.com CLASSICAL GUITARIST MICHAEL MILLHAM Faculty guitarist Michael Millham performs the music of Leo Brouwer in honor of the composer’s birthday at the University Chapel, College Hall 331.

March 1, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Ave. (263-4678) BOB REYNOLDS QUARTET Matt Henson Music presents The Bob Reynolds Quartet, in partnership with Terrain Spokane. Reynolds is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and Grammy Award-winning member of the band

Snarky Puppy. March 2, 7:30-9:30 pm. $15-$25. Terrain, 304 W. Pacific Ave. bit. ly/2DEDBlN (847-4543) ELEMENTS OF SONGWRITING Practice writing your own music and lyrics during this 2-day program. Ages 10-teens; Feb. 23 and March 2. Free; registration required. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) SPOKANE SYMPHONY POPS 5: SEAMUS EGAN PROJECT From his beginnings as a teen prodigy, to his founding of the Irish-American band Solas, Egan has helped define the sound of Irish music today. March 2, 8 pm. $39-$86.

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony. org (624-1200) JAM FOR BREAD Local folk singer Dan Maher performs in concert to benefit Crosswalk, Volunteers of America’s teen shelter in downtown Spokane. The Spokane Area Youth Choirs also perform; Vern Windham emcees. March 3, 3-5 pm. $10/adults; $8/students/seniors; $12/families. Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington. westminsterucc.org NORTHWEST BACHFEST OPENING: BACH EXTRAVAGANZA The 2019 festival opens with the distinguished Russian-American pianist Yuliya Gorenman presenting a rare complete performance of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I. March 3, 3-4:30 pm. $35/ general; $15/students. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. nwbachfest.com EWU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FEAT. DR. JODY GRAVES Featuring the music of Fung, Ravel, and Shostakovich. Dr. Jody Graves is the featured soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto. March 4, 7:309 pm. $5/general; $3/student, senior; Free/EWU students. EWU, 526 Fifth St., Music Building Recital Hall, Rm. 119 ewu. edu (359-2241) GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BEETHOVEN TRIPLE CONCERTO A spring concert conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah, opening with Schumann’s powerful Enigma Variations, followed

by Beethoven’s celebratory Triple Concerto. Featured soloists are Denise Dillenbeck, violin; Kevin Hekmatpanah, cello, John Pickett, piano and guest conductor Nikolas Caoile. March 4, 7:309 pm. $13-$16. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. gonzagasymphonyorchestra.com NORTHWEST BACHFEST: SCHEHERAZADE Yuliya Gorenman presents her arrangement for one piano of RimskyKorsakov’s Scheherazade. March 5, 7-8:30 pm at the Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. Also March 6 from 7-8:30 pm at Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. $35; $15/students. nwbachfest.com WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE The Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, with music by the Red Herring Band and calling by Penn Fix. March 6, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. myspokanefolklore@gmail.com BEATS, RHYMES, & LIFE: A CONTEXT PROJECT HIP HOP INCUBATOR Join performance poet/hip hop artist Devin Sommer (Camden Scholars) in cultivating a dynamic and vibrant hip hop culture in the greater Coeur d’Alene area.

Hip hop enthusiasts and artists are invited to monthly workshops on the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 pm through May 2. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. bit.ly/2XrKArs

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Advice Goddess YOUTH HOSTILE

I’m a 35-year-old woman who’s been married for a year to a 70-year-old man. My husband’s closest female friend is also one of his exes. He’s known her for 40 years. She’s a real sore point for me. She stayed at our apartment while we were away. She wouldn’t reply to any of my emails but constantly emailed my husband.

Recently, I saw a text my husband sent telling her to just email him at work because I have access to his AMY ALKON phone. (That’s how I discovered that she was dissuading him from fixing things with me when we were fighting.) I feel that a husband shouldn’t have marriage-undermining friendships. I want him to stop talking with her. Am I wrong here?

–Angry Take a counterintuitive approach and put yourself in this woman’s shoes: Where’s she supposed to shop for men...the cemetery?

Older women get seriously annoyed at how men their age – typically the wealthiest and most eligible – dip down through the decades for partners. On dating sites, even a 98-year-old man in an iron lung will set his age preference at 18-30, just in case some woman is “open-minded” (uh, about dating a man who has socks far older than she is).

Another thing to consider: In a relationship, it’s common to ask for and expect sexual fidelity. But how much social fidelity is it reasonable to expect? The notion that a relationship involves becoming somebody’s “one and only” socially, too, sounds romantic but is actually in sharp conflict with the complexity of many people’s lives. Your husband, for example, has had a friendship with this woman for 40 years – five years longer than you’ve even been on the planet. His cutting her out of his life would mean cutting out somebody who understands who he is and where he’s been in a way few people probably do.

That said, it’s natural that you’d wish he’d give this woman the heave-ho.

The jealousy that gives rise to feelings like this is wrongly maligned as a “bad” emotion. However, like all emotions, it’s actually “adaptive” – which is to say functional. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that jealousy seems to have evolved to protect us against threats to our relationship – alerting us to possibilities that our partner will cheat on us or leave us for another. But jealousy can also be toxic to a relationship and damaging to the mate value of the partner who expresses it. (Nothing like endlessly fretting to your mate that he could trade up to suggest that he should.)

Additionally, consider how counterproductive it often is to tell somebody what to do. The late social psychologist Jack Brehm came up with the term “psychological reactance” to describe a motivational state that automatically rises up in us when we feel our freedom to do as we choose is threatened. Basically, the more somebody tries to control our behavior the more we want to resist, rebel – do whatever they’ve been trying to stop us from doing. (In short, nothing like being shown that there are straps to put someone in a mind to gnaw through them.)

This isn’t to say you’re necessarily off base about this woman. Chances are, she resents you and is trying to chip away at your bond with your husband. Rotten. However, as for how successful she could be, do you think your husband married you by accident? Like maybe you just happened to be in the passenger seat when he pulled into a drive-thru chapel: “Oops. Thought this was a car wash.”

As annoying as it must be to have this woman lurking around the borders of your marriage, consider the thinking from psychologist Erich Fromm that love is not just a feeling but something you do – sometimes by being a little more generous than you’d really like to be. This isn’t to say you have to shut up entirely about this woman. You can be honest with your husband that you find her undermining.

Ironically, the best way to control your romantic partner is not by trying to control them but by being so loving, supportive, kind, and fun that it would be idiotic for them to leave you. Also, let’s quash any fear you might have that this woman could steal your husband. There’s little novelty (and thus little excitement) in getting together with somebody one’s known and been in touch with for 40 years. Also, recall how men, throughout their life span, tend to be most attracted to the younger ladies. Chances are, if he were to suddenly develop a thing for anything “midcentury,” it would be something like Eames chairs – not a woman who’s aged out of every dating program on TV, unless, of course, you count “Antiques Roadshow.” n ©2019, 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 NORTHWEST BACHFEST: B-A-C-H PRISM FROM ART OF THE FUGUE The B-A-C-H Prism program is interspersed with short waves of light by 20th-century composers, which bounce off the prism cast by Bach in his final and enduring work, one of combined simplicity and complexity with the Richter String Ensemble. March 7, 7 pm, at the Hagadone Event Center, Coeur d’Alene. March 8, 7 pm, at Barrister Winery, Spokane. $35; $15/students. nwbachfest.com

SPORTS & OUTDOORS WIAA HARDWOOD CLASSIC: BOYS & GIRLS 1B/2B BASKETBALL The Washington state high school basketball tournament for the 1B and 2B divisions.

Feb. 27-March 2. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com SNOWSHOE HEADLAMP HIKE WITH TRANSPORTATION Watch the glimmer of your headlamp illuminate the snowy trails as we hike through the quiet forest of Mt. Spokane. Snowshoes, guides, walking poles, headlamps and transportation provided. Ages 15+. March 1 from 6-9 pm. $23. spokaneparks.org WOMEN’S SNOWSHOE TOUR Tour the trails of 49 Degrees North with a guide offering tips. Hike is followed by lunch in a yurt. Includes trail pass, guide/instructor, poles, snowshoes and lunch.

Ages 15+. March 2 from 10 am-1 pm. $39. 49 Degrees North, 3311 Flowery Trail Rd. spokaneparks.org PANHANDLE NORDIC CLUB MEETING Topics discussed include club field trip updates and awards for kilometers skied/snowshoed. March 5, 7-8:30 pm.

Free. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. panhandlenordicclub.com PERMACULTURE DESIGN 101 This method of landscape planning can be applied to a home garden, farm, city block or entire village. This course explores the practice of designing sustainable human habitats by following nature’s patterns. March 9, 9 am-3:30 pm. $40. Spokane Conservation District, 210 N. Havana. sccd.org/permaculture-101 (535-7274, ext. 217)

THEATER DISNEY’S NEWSIES Inspired by the Newsboy Strike of 1899, this fictionalized story explores themes of social injustice and exploitative labor. Feb. 28-March 2, March 7-8 at 7 pm; March 9 at 2 pm. $8-$10. Lewis & Clark High School, 521 W. Fourth. tigerdrama.com SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Penniless and indebted to two demanding producers, young William Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he meets beautiful Viola de Lesseps. Their passionate love affair becomes the basis of Romeo and Juliet. Feb. 28-March 10; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu/drama CYT NORTH IDAHO: GODSPELL A small group of people help Jesus Christ tell different parables by using games, storytelling techniques and comic timing. Through March 3; Fri-Sun at 7 pm. $12-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytnorthidaho.org CYT SPOKANE: DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR. Based on the Academy Awardwinning film and hit Broadway show comes this tale about a street rat who

learns his true worth lies deep within.

March 1-2, 8-9 at 7 pm. March 2, 9-10 at 3 pm. $12-$16. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE FLICK In a run-down theater, three underpaid employees’ battles and heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, more gripping than the secondrun movies on screen. March 1-24; ThuSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $14-$27.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard.

(325-2507) GOOD NEIGHBORS The third new fulllength play by Pend Oreille Players as a part of its New Works Program. March 1-10; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. $10$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave., Newport. pendoreilleplayers.org HECUBA A contemporary retelling of an ancient tale of war, women and tragedy. Through March 10; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org MAP OF MY KINGDOM This play looks at the human challenges of transitioning the farm business from one generation to the next. March 1, 7 pm. $10 suggested donation. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. momk-moscow.eventbrite.com MY FAVORITE TOY WAS DIRT An original musical comedy by Patrick F. McManus, starring Tim Behrens with music by Olivia Brownlee. March 1, 7:30 pm. $15$27. Opportunity Presbyterian, 202 N. Pines. mcmanusplays.com PRESENT LAUGHTER A light-hearted comedy classic about a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis.

March 1-10; March 1-2 and 7-9 at 7:30 pm; March 2-3 and 10 at 2 pm. $5-$15/ public; free/UI students. Hartung Theater, 875 Perimeter Dr. uitheatre.com MET LIVE: LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. March 2 at 9:45 am and March 4 at 6:30 pm. $15$20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) SEUSSICAL JR. Favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life in this delightful Seussian gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk. March 7-23; Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sat at 2 pm. $16. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway. bit. ly/2E6Y2cn

ARTS INTO THE ARCTIC This exhibit by Cory Trépanier presents the most ambitious body of artwork ever created from the Canadian Arctic, a wilderness so remote and untouched that many of its landscapes have never been documented before. Through May 12; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org THE INUIT ART OF POVUNGNITUK The artists in Povungnituk, Quebec, have been recognized for over a quarter century for the quality and distinctive style of their printmaking. Through May 12; Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) LUMINOUS: DALE CHIHULY & THE STUDIO GLASS MOVEMENT Partnering with Tacoma’s Museum of Glass and Portland-based collector George Stroemple, the MAC presents its first all-glass art exhibition. Thirty-three international artists working in glass, including Dale Chihuly, are featured.

Through June 23; Tue-Sun from 10

am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new art. March 1 from 5-8 pm.

Details at firstfridayspokane.org.

WORDS MID-CENTURY MODERN SPOKANE Spokane Preservation Advocates host a presentation with Diana Painter, discussing Spokane’s mid-century architectural survey completed in 2017. Includes a tour of the host venue, designed by Kenneth Brooks. Feb. 28, 6-8 pm. Free. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 310 E. 14th. spokanepreservation.org READING: MARY CLEARMAN BLEW The Moscow-based author reads from her latest novel “Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin.” Author and special guest Debbie Lee also reads from her latest memoir. Feb. 28, 7 pm. Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com (208-882-2669) STORYTELLING OPEN MIC Hear family-friendly stories from people of all ages from the community, or share your own. Ages 12+. Feb. 28, 7-9 pm. Free.

The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. scld.org 3 MINUTE MIC Open mic readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry.

March 1, 8-9 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com EWU VISITING WRITERS SERIES: SUZANNE MATSON The author’s new novel “Ultraviolet” received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and was included in Real Simple‘s roundup of “The Best Books of 2018.” March 1, 7:30-8:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org BOOK RELEASE PARTY: SHARMA SHIELDS’ THE CASSANDRA Washington State Book Award winner Sharma Shields unveils her newest novel, The Cassandra, alongside Northwest fiction writer and PNBA/Lambda Award winner Alexis M. Smith. (Event rescheduled from Feb. 12.) March 2, 10:30 am. Free to attend. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2V1rk1X BOOTSLAM Spokane Poetry Slam’s allages performance poetry competition with a $50 grand prize. First Sunday of the month; sign-ups at 7, slam at 7:30 pm. Poets have three minutes to read their work and are scored by five random audience members. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org (703-7223) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free.

Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org (509-847-1234) READING: JENNIFER LADINO The author reads selections from her new book “Memorials Matter,” followed by a conversation about public memory, emotions about place, and tourism in the American West. March 6, 7 pm.

Free. BookPeople of Moscow, 521 S. Main St. bookpeopleofmoscow.com YA SURVIVAL GUIDE Auntie’s hosts young adult literature authors Mary Cronk Farrell, Maureen McQuerry and Stephen Wallenfels for an evening of stories about resilience, courage, adversity and triumph. March 6, 7 pm. Free.

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Six different ways to embrace winter in North Idaho

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t’s easy to have some enthusiasm for winter when snowflakes first fly, making Christmas lights and holiday decorations all the more picturesque.

But when the snow is still falling in March, that initial enthusiasm can give way to the winter blahs. If that’s where you find yourself, here are six different things to do that might just help you fall back in love with winter.

1. Rent a fat bike. Just because there’s snow on the road doesn’t mean you have to abandon cycling. Instead, embrace the white stuff and rent a fat bike and take the the trails. For beginning riders, you can get the hang of those wide tires on fairly flat terrain at FOURTH OF JULY SUMMIT LOOP. The more experienced rider will find groomed trails with steeper climbs at CANFIELD MOUNTAIN NATURAL AREA. For more tips on where to ride or to rent a bike, stop into COEUR D’ALENE BIKE CO. Half-day to 24 hour rentals range from $55-$75.

2. Go downhill skiing. North Idaho is blessed with an abundance of excellent ski hills. Embrace winter at SILVER

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MOUNTAIN RESORT, where part of the experience is a scenic gondola ride, not to mention epic glade skiing. Live music and a packed event calendar extend past winter all the way into April. Stay at the MORNING STAR LODGE at the heart of Silver Mountain Resort’s Gondola Village, and you’ll receive complimentary admission SILVER RAPIDS, the resort’s indoor waterpark. SCHWEITZER’S vibrant village is also a draw, with slopeside lodging and 2,900 acres of lift-serviced terrain which ranks Schweitzer as among the largest resorts in North America.

LOOKOUT PASS also has some bragging rights, including a reputation for the best snow, with an average of more than 400 inches of light, dry powder annually.

3. Go tubing. Nothing makes you feel more like a kid than sliding down a hill in an inner tube. And nothing makes you feel like an old man like having to walk back up the hill. So head to SILVER MOUNTAIN or SCHWEITZER where a magic carpet will whisk you back up the hill.

4. Go ice skating. FRONTIER ICE ARENA, has open skating times on Tuesdays,

Fridays and Saturdays. In addition to skating classes for both children and adults, the arena offers time for hockey practice, curling, broomball and is even available for birthday parties.

5. Head to TRIPLE PLAY. There’s no end to the fun at TRIPLE PLAY FAMILY FUN PARK, from the arcade games, bowling, and laser tag, to the Raptor Reef indoor water park, where it’s always a balmy 86 degrees, even when winter remains in full force outdoors.

6. Take a cruise. While you may think boating is best in warmer weather, the snowy beauty of lake Coeur d’Alene is absolutely majestic. THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT offers a variety of scenic cabin cruises throughout the winter, including hot cocoa cruises, which feature a hot cocoa bar for adults and kids.

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Spend two nights laughing when the Inn hosts back-to-back comedy nights featuring Tim Homayoon (March 1) and Kenny Smith (March 2). $8-$17.50; Ages 21+; 7 pm; Coeur d’Alene Inn.

Scenic Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises MARCH 1-3

Sit back and enjoy the 90-minute scenic tour of the lake. A hot cocoa bar will be available onboard with hot cocoa for the kiddos, and spiked cocoa for the adults. $10-$15; Noon and 2:30 pm; See visitcda.org for more details.

Wine, Stein and Dine MARCH 2

Enjoy tastings from over 85 wineries and breweries, along with delicious food from a dozen local restaurants at the 23rd Annual Wine, Stein and Dine. This event also features live music by Bill Bozly, a great silent auction, photo booth and more. $45; 7-10 pm; Greyhound Park and Events Center; see visitcda.org for ticket purchase locations.

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