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very day, Teresa Simon ties one handmade yellow ribbon to a tree outside her Spokane home — one ribbon for every day her son has been gone. More than a thousand now hang in her yard. Teresa’s son wasn’t taken by some stranger, though, but rather by two close friends Teresa and her husband once considered family. These friends wanted to raise Teresa’s son as their own, and for the past few years, the state’s court system has allowed that to happen.

At the heart of this fascinating story is a question that Washington has been trying to answer for two decades: What constitutes a parent in the eyes of the law? Don’t miss staff reporter Wilson Criscione’s special report, beginning on page 22.

Also this week: contributor Zach Hagadone tackles firearms and why entities like the CDC won’t even study issues around gun violence (page 8).

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et another leading technology company has quietly opened an office in downtown Spokane. Egnyte, based in Mountain View, California, took two floors above Luigi’s in 2017 and expects to employ 100 people soon.

The company delivers an enterprise-class collaboration platform. It allows enterprises to simply and securely share and manage their files.

Egnyte has raised $62.5 million from top venture capital firms, including Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, and from technology partners such as CenturyLink and Seagate. The company raised its initial seed funding in 2007 and achieved profitability at the end of 2017. Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain told CNBC he is readying the company for an IPO (initial public offering) in 2019.

I spoke with Colin Jordan, director of corporate marketing, to find out more. The company’s Spokane office is led by Austin Garner, a WSU graduate. Garner was working for Egnyte in its California headquarters, when, Jordan says, the company aspired to “capture more people like Austin.” In 2014, the company moved Garner and a few others to the Spokane area to secure candidates from the city’s “highly esteemed universities and young talent,” as Jordan puts it.

Egnyte’s Spokane-area employees initially worked remotely, and Garner officed out of his basement. Subsequently, they moved to a space in Spokane Valley. Garner and his team decided to relocate to downtown Spokane in 2017 because they wanted to “be visible, attract the best talent and be close to the university district,” says Jordan.

When I asked Jordan why Egnyte picked the Luigi’s building he smiled and said “we love Italian food!” Sometimes it’s easy like that.

Jordan continued on a serious note with, “it is a cool building with a rich history and offers growth potential. It’s also very well positioned downtown, walking distance to several great restaurants, close proximity to many local businesses and more. We really wanted to be part of the Spokane community.”

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he 60 employees in Spokane focus on sales, customer success and training. In addition to Mountain View and Spokane, the company also has offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, New York City and even Poland. Egntye has expanded into other locations because its CEO believes Silicon Valley workers have a “sense of entitlement” and competing to hire can be a near-impossible task.

The following is an enlightening excerpt from a CNBC story about the company: “Egnyte is doing most of its hiring far from its headquarters in Mountain View, California, [CEO] Jain says, because he can’t add them fast enough there ‘to move at startup speed.’ Workers in the na-

tion’s biggest tech hub demand high salaries and top-shelf perks and are quick to jump ship if they don’t like their work because opportunities are so plentiful, he says. ‘There are no consequences for nonperformance’ and ‘a sense of entitlement in [Silicon Valley],’ says Jain.”

Jordan adds to that by saying, “Egnyte follows a different model. We believe geographic location does not define talent. Employees today can collaborate anytime, anyplace in areas like Spokane and Raleigh. We are going to find great talent and go to them, rather than making them come to us.”

Egnyte’s experience in Spokane has been positive. “I can’t say enough about the quality and caliber of the labor pool, it is incredible,” Jordan says. “Our Spokane teams have high energy, are excited, love working in tech and enjoy being part of Silicon Valley. It is not just about money in Spokane, people here are hungry, want opportunity and have different measures of success.

“Culturally, candidates in Spokane are genuine, honest and caring, really personable people to work with. We can teach the cloud and file sharing, but cannot teach those kinds of soft skills.”

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hen asked if he would recommend Spokane to other technology companies in Silicon Valley, Jordan laughs, “No, we don’t want others to find this hidden gem. But seriously, yes. I believe a lot more companies will be looking for similar traits as offered

by Spokane. From a business standpoint, a tremendous amount of value is created in Spokane.

Our growth in Spokane is one of the contributing factors in us achieving profitability in late 2017.”

To attract more companies like Egnyte, Jordan suggested Spokane should connect its universities with incubators and accelerators in other tech hubs. “Connect talent early on. Every year there is a whole new crop of students that will eventually graduate and be looking for work,” Jordan says.

F5 Networks, Rover and Egnyte are three successful technology companies that opened offices in the Spokane area. Observing this trend, and imagining the possibilities, Mayor David Condon and his staff are meeting with businesses, universities, entrepreneurs and economic development organizations to develop a team, a collaborative plan and marketing materials to proactively recruit more companies, more highpaying jobs and better opportunities to Spokane for our graduates. More on that later. n

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Studies in Violence Beyond a lack of political will, the deep freeze on gun violence research is willful ignorance

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t wasn’t panic, but the woman looked concerned. She was running toward my son and me as we made our daily walk down the path to his kindergarten class.

I didn’t recognize the woman but judging by her school-issued neongreen vest, I identified her as a crossing guard. Watching her worried face as she closed the distance between us, I interrupted my son’s line of questions about what happened to the dinosaurs or how gravity works and pulled him a little closer.

Unbidden, my mind flashed to “school shooting.” I started listening for telltale signs of chaos at the school around the corner. I looked around to see if anyone else had broken into jog. As I turned to watch the crossing guard pass, I realized she was going to her car to get something. No big deal. Just as quickly, I was horrified and perplexed that that had been my first reaction.

It is darkly ironic that while gun violence frequently mars the very places where we’re supposed to feel safe for study, a combination of legislation, funding manipulation and political fear means we can’t or don’t study it at the federal level.

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The effective gag on firearms research dates to 1996 and the Dickey Amendment. Named for late-Arkansas Republican Congressman Jay Dickey, who prided himself on the amount of water he carried for the NRA, the amendment attached to an appropriations bill barred the Centers for Disease Control from using federal dollars to promote gun control. The Dickey Amendment, signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton in 1997, did not ban gun violence research outright but was underscored by a reduction in funding to the CDC that made it impossible to pursue. As the Atlantic reported earlier this month, “Message received. It’s had a chilling effect on the entire field for decades.”

Meanwhile, researchers have increasingly sought to address gun violence as a public health crisis, which would benefit from analysis by the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. But, as ABC News reported in October 2017, “to this day, CDC policy states the agency ‘interprets’ the language as a prohibition on using CDC funds to research gun issues that would be used in legislative arguments ‘intended to restrict or control the purchase or use of firearms.’”

It’s tempting to criticize the CDC for an apparent lack of political will, but then it must be remembered that it is somehow controversial even to point out the fact that guns are designed to damage a (frequently living) target with projectiles fired at high velocity over distance.

Beyond the blind partisanship that the NRA has managed to work into the issue, the most chilling aspect of this de facto ban is the conflation of research with advocacy. Even Dickey eventually rued the amendment bearing his name, writing in a 2012 Washington Post op-ed that, “Scientific research should be conducted into preventing firearm injuries.”

On campus at Washington State University, after dropping off my son (safely) at school, I glanced at a “what to do in case of an active shooter” sign in one of the classrooms. That made me remember a few colleagues who last semester only half-joked about trying to figure out which side of the seminar room would be safest in the event of an attack. I realized I was standing in the doorway and would have been first to be hit. I moved. Such was my decidedly unscientific strategy for “preventing firearm injury.”

Lacking political will on guns is one thing; this is willful ignorance, and it is dangerous. At the very least we need to be free from fear to study the phenomenon of gun violence before it fatally harms our ability to study anything. n Zach Hagadone is a former co-publisher/owner of the Sandpoint Reader, former editor of Boise Weekly and a current grad student at Washington State University.

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TOM STARR: Politicians with something to hide? Rubbish.

Readers respond to our article “Why Black Market Weed Continues to Leak into Idaho” (2/22/18):

PATRICK TERRILL: These are the arguments the states made for federal alcohol prohibition. If Idaho wants to keep their people in the dark ages, don’t blame Washington’s legitimate cannabis farmers.

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he map of Washington state behind Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is absolutely flooded with purple dots. Every one of those dots represents a death — a fatal overdose in Washington state related to opioids, drugs like OxyContin and heroin.

“It is one of the worst overdose crises in the history of the United States,” Cantwell says, “and it is on track to become one of the worst public health crises in history.”

And that, Cantwell says, is why it’s so important to fight against it.

Between 1999 and 2016, over 10,000 Washingtonians died from opioid-related overdoses. In nearby Idaho, more than 1,150 died during the same period. Nationwide, more than 42,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2016. That’s more than automobile accidents, Cantwell points out. And that’s more than gun deaths.

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BY DANIEL WALTERS multiple fronts, looking for ways to treat people who’ve already become addicted and looking for ways to staunch the flow of drugs that is creating new addicts.

The Inlander spoke with Cantwell, Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her opponent, Democrat Lisa Brown, asking them two questions: What have they done to fight against the opioid epidemic? And what needs to happen next?

CANTWELL’S ANSWER: Slap big fines on manufacturers who fail to track their dangerous drugs While the federal government has made major strides in cracking down on the torrent of addictive prescription opioids like OxyContin and Vicodin, Cantwell argues there’s still a big problem with legal drugs being used in illegal ways.

Huge sums of incredibly addictive drugs, Cantwell says, “end up going to gang members and organizations in large quantities. A black market trade, if you will, of opioids.”

In some cases, Cantwell says, tens of thousands of pills have been directed toward incredibly small communities. In some cases, pharmacy distribution employees have been coordinating directly with gang members.

Technically, drug manufacturers are already supposed to be tracking exactly where they send shipments of these addictive drugs. But with fines at negligible levels, Cantwell says some manufacturers have just shrugged off the requirement.

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If it works, the Drug Enforcement Agency would be able to identify suspicious distribution patterns — then work with local law enforcement agencies to stamp out problems.

“We are fighting back,” Cantwell says.

Of course, Cantwell understands that local communities need to have the infrastructure of treatment programs that addicts are directed to no matter where they show up needing help.

“We want to be able to say, ‘here we can have a treatment center, we can help people, we can get them off this addiction,’” Cantwell says.

MURRAY’S ANSWER: Treat the epidemic as a mental health issue and make sure to help the kids In the past few years, Murray’s been a major force in both health care and budget negotiations, forging compromises in even very partisan, divided environments. She’s on the committee that’s been holding hearings digging into the roots and solutions to the opioid epidemic.

She’s championed the 2016 Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, a wide-ranging bill which, among other things, armed law enforcement officers with the overdose-reversal drug Narcan and made it easier for medical professionals to prescribe the opioid addiction-treatment drug Suboxone. She supported the recent budget deal that puts $6 billion over the next two years toward helping local governments and law enforcement agencies combat the epidemic.

And just last month, she introduced the Advancing Cutting-Edge Research Act, intended to give the National Institutes of Health more flexibility to battle the crisis, including by finding non-addictive painkillers.

In an interview with the Inlander, she says there’s a “very large” canvas of things that need to be done to address the opioid epidemic. But none of those solutions are focused on jailing

addicts.

“We can no longer treat this as a crime and put people in jail. That doesn’t work,” Murray says. “We need to treat it as a health crisis… medical services and support that people need as they come out of addiction.”

And there’s one area that Murray — a former preschool teacher — is particularly concerned about. What about all the kids in school who have parents who are addicts?

“They don’t know their world is abnormal,” Murray says. “But they know that something’s wrong. And they have nowhere to turn themselves to get help, or help for their parents.”

That’s why she believes there needs to be teacher training, prevention dollars and other resources delivered to schools to help kids living in opioid-addicted households.

“That’s a real void that we have today,” Murray says.

McMORRIS RODGERS’ ANSWER: Fund treatment programs that work, and continue to research ways to help drug-addicted babies As a member of Republican House leadership — when Republicans control both Congress and the presidency — McMorris Rodgers may have more power than anyone else on the list to combat the epidemic.

Like Murray, she praises the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act and is pleased with the budget deal that increases opioid treatment funding.

Last year, McMorris Rodgers joined Rite Aid in announcing safe disposal sites for excess opioid medication at local drug stores in Spokane.

“I think it’s a great model,” McMorris Rodgers says. “This is a place people can go when they have extra prescriptions and don’t know what to do with them.”

While experts are skeptical about the efficacy of traditional treatment clinics to combat opioid addiction, McMorris heaps high praise upon Recovery Café, a treatment program in Spokane she’s visited.

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She’s impressed with the way the treatment center connected addicts with peer mentors who experienced addiction themselves in their road to recovery.

“It really was inspiring to hear the stories of recovery,” McMorris Rodgers says. “Let’s focus on what is working and that is how we can we can prioritize our support.”

She cites the Recovery Café as one example.

She also says she’s passionate about the issue of improving treatment for drug-addicted babies and intends on connecting Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, with the local medical community to discuss the issue.

“We’re still learning a lot about what their needs are and what the long-term impact is going to be,” McMorris Rodgers says.

“And how best to support them. I think more needs to be done.”

BROWN’S ANSWER: Fund medically assisted treatment, particularly for rural areas As the former chancellor of WSU-Spokane, Brown saw the creation of the WSU Spokane Medical school — where researchers are currently looking into unorthodox treatments for opioid addiction.

She sees the $3 billion a year as a good start, but not enough.

“It’s about 10 percent of what we spend on HIV/AIDS,” Brown says. “But we have a lot more death and negative impact on the economy coming from opioids.”

She supports Cantwell’s bill, but also says there needs to be a lot more funding specifically directed toward prevention and treatment.

“The treatment medications are very effective — and yet, probably 10 percent of the people who could benefit from them are actually receiving them at this point,” Brown says.

And that’s especially important in rural communities, she says, where the opioid addiction is often deep, but treatment is hard to find.

“We need an on-demand treatment opportunity in every county,” Brown says.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all federal solution, she says, the federal government needs to direct federal money toward the states, giving them some control over how to use it to fight the epidemic.

Either way, she says, the federal government needs to do a lot better with responding to the epidemic.

“It’s just been a delayed and inadequate response,” Brown says. “Too little, pretty late.” n danielw@inlander.com

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When it comes to whether or not Idaho teachers should teach students about human-caused climate change, Sen. Carl Crabtree, R-Grangeville, wants everyone to consider a sick cow.

You have a problem like a sick cow or, in this case, certain lawmakers wanting weaker language on climate change in SCHOOL SCIENCE STANDARDS. What do you do? Well, Crabtree says, you call a specialist, of course.

“We called some specialists: science teachers,” Crabtree said at a Senate Education Committee meeting last week. “We asked them what they thought.”

The science teachers came back with recommendations last year, but the Legislature didn’t like those recommendations. In 2017, the state became the first state to scrub the teaching of climate science from curriculum requirements.

“So we sent it back through the process,” noted Crabtree, a rancher.

Indeed, the science teachers came back again this year with new recommendations, with language about human-caused climate change still there, but a little bit watered down, experts have told the Inlander. But led by Rep. Scott Syme, RCaldwell, the Idaho House Education Committee cut out supporting content on climate change and the human impact on the environment.

That brought the standards to the Senate Education Committee. There, Crabtree wondered if in other situations, like when there’s a sick cow, the Legislature would distrust the opinion of experts like science teachers.

So Crabtree voted in favor of the science standards that included the information on human-caused climate change and with the supporting content that the House committee wanted to take out. In the end, the standards

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For years, Washington state has had one of the largest property crime rates in the nation, partly because it’s the only state where most property crime offenders aren’t subject to supervision after they’re released. It’s not unusual, then, for a particularly prolific car thief to get caught, spend some time in jail and then — as soon he’s released — go back immediately to stealing cars.

To fix this problem, the Spokane community has repeatedly pushed to pass a bill to start a state-funded pilot project allowing a year of COMMUNITY SUPERVISION to be tacked on to sentences for car thieves. It got out of the state Senate with overwhelming support, with 46 “yes” votes and only one “no” vote.

But it died in the House, where it failed to get out of the Appropriations Committee before the Monday deadline. Public defenders had raised concerns that, because the bill applied only to Spokane, and not other counties, it ran afoul of equal-protection rules. But when an amendment expanded the program to the entire state to allow the bill to escape the Public Safety Committee, it became impossibly expensive to pass through appropriations.

A swarm of local leaders on Monday worked to save the bill, including Rep. Jeff Holy, City Councilman Breean Beggs, County Commissioner Josh Kerns and Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell.

They even developed a potential compromise to address the equal protection problem: Allow judges to substitute a year of a sentence with supervision instead. That might eventually save money, Beggs says, and result in better outcomes.

“When they’re under supervision they’re getting re-entry services and they’re being monitored. We believe the chance of success is greater,” Beggs says. “So does [Spokane Prosecutor Larry Haskell].”

But the proposal came too late, says Sen. Andy Billig. The bill is dead. At least until next year. “I’ve committed to sponsoring the bill next year, and the starting point will be this compromise language,” Billig says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Correspondence with “constituents” would still be considered private. So would communication between legislative staffers or legislators negotiating over bills. Both media outlets and open records groups lambasted the bill as an outrage and a travesty, but every Spokane-area legislator but Sen. Michael Baumgartner supported it. Eleven newspapers throughout the state took the extreme step of running front-page editorials calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to veto the bill. Read more on Inlander.com. (DANIEL WALTERS) BITCHIN’ BREAKFAST SANDWICHES So you stayed in bed watching hours of recipe videos this weekend, but by the time Monday morning rolled around you were running out the door to grab a bagel from the coffee shop instead of cooking delicious food. Been there, done that. Break the cycle and save some money with EASY BREAKFAST SANDWICH PREP that will run you about $1 per meal and give you a week’s worth of breakfast in the time it takes to watch you favorite TV show.

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he Inlander has never pinned its business or readership to Facebook — we’re fortunate to enjoy the highest market penetration of any urban weekly in America — but we thought it was important to explain to our readers how the social media behemoth was deprioritizing actual news stories in its so-called News Feed.

That was the subject of staff reporter Daniel Walters’s cover story “Feed Frenzy,” first published in these pages on Feb. 8. In the weeks since, his in-depth report has been reprinted in 15 other newspapers around the country, including the Boulder Weekly, Orlando Weekly, Salt Lake City Weekly,

Creative Loafing Tampa, Cleveland Scene, Detroit Metro Times, Nuvo in Indianapolis and Gambit in New Orleans. Other outlets have said they also plan to publish the Inlander article in the coming days.

Facebook, meanwhile, continues to find itself the object of scrutiny. On Feb. 16, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against 13 Russians who, investigators said, turned to Facebook as the tool of choice to disrupt the 2016 election, sowing discord and spreading propaganda.

The real problem of “fake news” — fabricated stories purposefully made to deceive and manipulate unwitting read-

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FROM LEFT: The Cleveland Scene, Salt Lake City Weekly, Illinois Times and Orlando Weekly. ers — has dogged the social network, and struggling to fight it, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced plans in January to decrease the reach of all news (real and fake) in favor of more posts from family and friends.

As Walters explains in his report: “Facebook’s new algorithm threatens to make existing fake news problems even worse. …

By focusing on friends and family, it could strengthen the filter bubble even further. Rewarding ‘engagement’ can just as easily incentivize the worst aspects of the internet.”

Still, Walters notes, there are those who believe a breakup between Facebook and news organizations could be a good thing.

Then, maybe, news outlets might spend less time chasing after clickbait stories and more time fulfilling their watchdog role as the Fourth Estate.

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‘A Power Struggle’ A new mother quit her job with Spokane County after struggling to find a place to pump breast milk

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n a multifunction room in Spokane County’s Broadway Center Building, Holly Schmehl sat with her top half almost completely exposed while she pumped breast milk to feed her newborn son.

The door was locked and a laminated sign hung outside that read: “ROOM IS IN USE Please DO NOT knock or attempt to enter.”

But shortly after Schmehl started pumping that day in September 2016, someone rattled the door in an attempt to get inside. Startled, Schmehl cleaned up and left in the middle of her pumping session. This wasn’t the first time since she’d returned from maternity leave three months prior that someone had walked in on her (or tried to). It was, however, the final straw.

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Three days later, she resigned from her position as an accounting technician for Spokane County District Court Judge Richard Leland. In February 2017, Schmehl filed a legal claim (a precursor to a lawsuit), naming Leland and other county employees. In it, she says she was not provided adequate space to pump, was constantly interrupted and felt pressured to quit. As a result of the sporadic schedule and anxiety, she noticed that the amount of breast milk she would express during each session decreased by about half.

“It became a power struggle,” Schmehl says. “I would skip sessions, delay, find excuses and avoid people so they would leave me alone. And I would think, ‘It’s me, I’m asking too much.’”

Schemehl’s attorney, Jeffry Finer, says they are still weighing whether or not to officially file a lawsuit. He says he’s filed a public records request for more information, but in the meantime he points LETTERS to the federal law Send comments to that requires certain editor@inlander.com. employers to provide accommodations for nursing mothers. Specifically, those accommodations must be shielded from view, free from intrusion and cannot be a bathroom.

“The federal law is intended to [remove] an employment barrier to the physical barriers” of nursing a child while at work, Finer says.

Schmehl’s claim lays out several emails among District Court staff alerting them to the time and place reserved for her to pump. Often, the room’s furniture would be rearranged, blocking access to the outlet she needed for her pump or others would be using the room during her scheduled sessions.

In an interview with the Inlander, Schmehl also describes hearing second hand about Leland’s displeasure with her pumping accommodations interrupting the court’s business.

Leland declined to comment for this article, citing the potential lawsuit.

As the issues persisted, Schmehl also describes feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable. She says she spoke to the county’s Human The sign outside the room where Resources Department, but nothing Holly Schmehl pumped breast milk. She changed. says it didn’t prevent interruptions.

“What’s more upsetting is the more people I talked to who’ve had children while working there, no one has really been accommodated,” she says. “I experienced a lot of physical discomfort: breasts swelling and leaking. It was probably the worst things I ever experienced publicly. I was lucky because I didn’t have a lot of the medical issues that a lot of women have.”

She’s referring to an infection known as mastitis, which can be caused by clogged milk ducts and can occur if a woman doesn’t breastfeed or pump regularly.

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However, Bartel says, the county’s preliminary investigation indicates that Schmehl’s claims are exaggerated.

“Right now it doesn’t appear we’re in that category to reach a settlement they would accept,” Bartel says. “I believe there were some things, miscommunications, and some unfavorable occurrences, but I don’t believe any of that rose to the level of liability against the county.”

“It was probably the worst things I ever experienced publicly. I was lucky because I didn’t have a lot of the medical issues that a lot of women have.”

Since Schmehl resigned, Spokane County has finished outfitting two locations designated specifically for nursing or pumping — including a “Mamava Pod,” similar to those in airports and shopping malls, Spokane County spokesman Jared Webley says.

Last year, the city of Spokane designated a “Mothers’ Room” on the fourth floor of City Hall.

“We do everything we can to accommodate those issues and any requests that come in that are reasonable, and this certainly is reasonable,” Bartel says. “We haven’t had perfect facilities — a designated room and spaces — but we’ve done the best with what we could.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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Ron and Teresa Simon, pictured here with Teresa’s daughter, Megan, have been fighting to get their son back since 2015.

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'Legalized AbductioN How two Spokane parents lost their son to friends they once trusted

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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Simon know who took their son.

It wasn’t a stranger. It was two people the Simons know well, people they once considered family.

But now, the Simons can’t get their son back from them.

“He’s missing. My son is missing,” Teresa Simon says.

“We never agreed to give him away.”

It’s been nearly three years since the Simons’ son, who the Inlander will refer to as Bruce, his middle name, has been home with his biological parents. The 16-yearold lives with people he now considers his real parents, according to court filings. Their names are Doris Strand and Wayne Janke.

Strand and Janke have been part of his life, in one way or another, since the day Bruce was born. But in 2015, they gained custody of him and simultaneously blocked his biological parents from being involved in his life. They did so by taking advantage of Washington state’s relatively loose laws on who can serve as a child’s parent.

They argued that Bruce’s biological parents were not fit to raise him. And they argued they were Bruce’s “de facto” parents, a legal definition in Washington that grants nonbiological parents equal rights as biological parents.

The situation is a new twist on a question that Washington has been trying to answer for two decades: What constitutes a parent in the eyes of the law?

In Janke and Strand’s view, granting rights to nonpar-

ents is necessary to provide children like Bruce with the home they deserve.

“He calls us ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad,’” Janke tells the Inlander. “He calls our home his home.”

But for the Simons, it’s only been a way to take Bruce and hide him behind a wall of legalese, despite a judge finding that they are indeed “fit” parents.

“It’s legalized abduction,” Teresa says.

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Teresa and Ron Simon’s only child together was born at Deaconess Medical Center in September 2001. As Teresa recovered from a C-section, it took hours before she could hold her son. Elsewhere in the hospital, family and friends gathered, waiting eagerly to see the baby.

And Teresa says that nobody was more eager than Doris Strand.

At the time, Teresa didn’t know Strand very well. She was Ron’s close friend, someone he had met in the late 1970s when he was an assistant manager at Albertsons and Strand was a checker. Teresa thought it a bit strange that Strand was there for so long on the day of her son’s birth, but she says she didn’t want to make it a big deal.

Teresa, who has bipolar disorder that she manages, says she didn’t want to give anyone an excuse to take her son from her.

“I didn’t want to make a scene, because of this disorder,” Teresa says.

For Strand, it was the the beginning of a long, bonded relationship with Bruce.

Strand declined to comment for this article, saying

she doesn’t want to trouble Bruce further. But in court declarations, she and Wayne Janke, who she lives with, portray themselves as people who began to take care of Bruce as an infant because the Simons didn’t care. She describes moments where she felt the Simons ignored their son. She wanted to take it upon herself to provide him with the care she thought he was missing.

“I made it my mission in life to give [Bruce] a life of love and joy,” she writes in court documents.

The Simons, who both worked and managed rental properties, admit that Strand and Janke helped to take care of Bruce. In the Simons’ view, Janke and Strand were something like grandparents for him — in the role they played, not because they’re any older than the Simons. They looked after him when the Simons couldn’t, bought him gifts and took him skiing and on hunting and camping trips. Teresa and Ron say they thought the relationship was good for their son. They wanted him to do those things.

“We didn’t say, ‘Here, take my kid,’” Teresa says.

The Simons, feeling Bruce would be better served in the Central Valley School District instead of Spokane Public Schools, used Strand and Janke’s address for school records — a move Strand and Janke would later use as evidence in court that he resided there. Teachers would later report in court that they thought Strand and Janke were Bruce’s parents.

As years passed, Bruce stayed with Strand and Janke more. Sometimes Teresa picked him up from school, and sometimes Strand did. He did karate with his father, Ron, ...continued on next page

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FAMILY “LEGALIZED ABDUCTION,” CONTINUED... three nights a week. But he also did Cub Scouts, which Strand or Janke would help with. He’d often stay with them on weekends if they were going skiing. Everything was always with the Simons’ permission, they say.

For holidays, they’d all gather together. Christmas was always held in the Simons’ household.

But there were times when the Simons thought Strand and Janke went too far, especially around 2012 when the Simons say Janke inherited a significant sum of money. The trips became more extravagant — Disneyland, the Bahamas. The gifts became more and more expensive — an all-terrain vehicle, a jet ski. And often, the Simons didn’t know they were buying things for their son.

“Everything was always over the top,” Teresa says.

Megan Juneau, Teresa’s daughter and Bruce’s older sister, didn’t benefit from the same kind of relationship with Strand and Janke. Juneau, now a 23-year-old student at Eastern Washington University, says she didn’t know Janke and Strand until her younger brother was born. She says she was confused why Bruce would say mean things about her and his parents after being with Strand and Janke.

And she says Janke and Strand never were interested in her life like they were with Bruce.

“I didn’t understand why I wasn’t a part of it,” Juneau says.

In 2015, Janke booked a trip to take Bruce to Hawaii with him for spring break. The Simons say they didn’t give permission, and when they found out, they tried to set stricter boundaries on Bruce’s time with them. In a court declaration filed in 2015, Janke laments Teresa’s efforts to restrict the time and cancel the trip to Hawaii.

“The tickets are already purchased and we were ready to go when his biological mother took him from us and now refuses to let us see him,” Janke says in the filing.

But it was Janke and Strand who ended up taking Bruce. In March 2015, Bruce filed a Child in Need of Services (or CHINS) petition in Spokane County Superior Court, alleging abuse and an unstable household at the Simons, focusing on Teresa in particular. That petition was quickly dismissed, and an assessor from the state’s Department of Social and Health Services found the abuse allegations unfounded and recommended reunification with the Simons. She later testified that Bruce was “coached” in making the allegations.

Instead, on March 31, 2015, Janke and Strand filed different petitions that promised for a longer, more drawn-out process.

They argued that they were the de facto parents for Bruce, functioning as his real parents for his entire life. Separately, they argued the Simons were not “fit” parents to take care of Bruce.

And the Simons were hit with a restraining order.

Bruce went on the Hawaii trip with Janke. He hasn’t been home with the Simons since.

'OLDEST FUNDAMENTAL LIBERTY

Until recent decades, there had been little reason to question who the legal parents of a child were. Put simply, the biological mother and father of a child held legal and constitutional rights as the parents.

But it’s not always so simple. Does a man who donated sperm to a same-sex couple for artificial insemination deserve parental standing? Should a stepmother who raised a child from birth in the absence of a biological mom be considered a parent?

The state of Washington, more than perhaps any other state, has been liberal in granting parental rights to nonbiological parents.

In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Washington state law that the court said violated the rights of parents. The central issue was whether or not grandparents had the right to visit their grandchild if it was in their grandchild’s best interest, even if the actual parents objected. State law allowed for such visitations, but the U.S. Supreme Court objected.

“The interests of parents in the care, custody and control of their children,” writes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “is perhaps

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The Simon family pictured with Doris Strand and Wayne Janke.

Ron Simon walks through Bruce’s bedroom, with childhood toys still on the shelves, in hopes he returns someday. the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this court.”

But five years later, the Washington Supreme Court ruled on a different kind of issue. A lesbian couple had a baby together by artificial insemination, but eventually the two split up. Both were the child’s parent, but only one the biological parent. The state Supreme Court ruled that the nonbiological parent was a de facto parent and had the same rights as a birth parent when it comes to visitation.

The decision set up the de facto parentage doctrine in Washington state. And it outlined four factors that courts must consider when determining a de facto parent. A couple like Janke and Strand, for example, could permanently have the same rights as the Simons if: The Simons permitted them to have a parent-like relationship with Bruce; Bruce lived with them; they assumed obligations of parenthood without expecting financial compensation; and if they had an established, bonded, dependent relationship with Bruce.

Since the 2005 case deciding the rights of the separated lesbian couple, the de facto doctrine has further evolved. The courts allowed for de facto status to apply to stepparents even when there were already two fit, legal parents, for example. And it may not matter if the alleged de facto parents are blood-related to the child at all, says Scott Marlow, a Washington attorney who handles parental custody cases.

“The court has clearly indicated that anybody can become a de facto parent as long as they meet the fourprong test,” Marlow says.

Some states have followed Washington’s direction in giving parental rights to nonbiological parents, while others have rejected it. Idaho recognizes the de facto parent doctrine. Oregon has enacted a statute that allows nonparents to petition for custody or guardianship against the parents’ wishes under certain criteria. California

passed a law allowing for a legal third parent. Wyoming, however, rejected the de facto doctrine.

The de facto law isn’t the only way nonparents can gain parental custody of a child. A nonparent can also file a “nonparental custody petition” that separates a child from their biological parents temporarily. For that to happen, a court must find that the biological parents are “unfit” and can’t meet the child’s needs, or that placement with the biological parents would result in “detriment” to the child.

“I don t care how biological you are. When the child bonds, that s the bond.”

“It’s still a new and developing area of law,” Marlow says. “A lot of people agree, but a lot of people don’t agree with it.”

It’s meant to protect children, Marlow says. If a child has developed a relationship with someone he or she saw as a parent, it could be harmful to take that adult out of the child’s life. And it can help them live in a stable home.

But Shayla McKee, a family law attorney in Washington, says few states grant nonparents rights as liberally as Washington.

“The vast majority of states do not agree with our

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idea of de facto parentage,” McKee says. “The trend definitely is being more liberal in establishing who is the parent of a child and taking a broader look to acknowledge that stepparents, or other family members, can have a right to have a say.”

McKee wonders whether the federal courts will eventually say Washington has violated parents’ constitutional rights. She goes back to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the parent-child relationship is a “fundamental liberty.”

The debate has been central to the case between the Simons and Janke and Strand. Janke and Strand filed both a de facto petition and a nonparental custody petition. The legal battle over both has lasted years, as Bruce gets closer to becoming an adult.

Janke argues that the law has served kids like Bruce well. More kids should live with who they consider their real parents, despite who the biological parents are, Janke argues.

“I don’t care how biological you are. When the child bonds, that’s the bond,” Janke says. “[The Simons] didn’t give him a chance, because they didn’t care.”

But for the Simons, the ongoing legal dispute — even when rulings are in their favor — may have already damaged any chance for a normal relationship with their son.

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It’s the middle of July 2017. For most 15-year-olds, it’s a perfect day for summer vacation. But for Bruce, it’s a day in court.

“I want you to listen to me, OK? Is that alright?” asks Superior Court Judge Maryann Moreno.

“Yes,” he says.

“You have four people that love you very much. You know that, right?”

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Teresa Simon and her daughter, Megan Juneau, go through old family photo albums.

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Moreno explains what she had just ruled — that the Simons were fit parents, and that he needs to reunify with them. He nods.

She says both he and his parents need counseling. He nods.

After that, she says, there will be visits with his dad at the end of August. He nods.

And then, with tears trickling down his face, he’s handed a box of tissues and leaves the courtroom.

“This is going to be a tough one,” Moreno says after he’s gone. “But we’re going to make — it’s got — we’ve got to make it work. We’ve got to make it work.”

The Inlander’s repeated attempts to reach Bruce, through Strand, Janke, and Bruce’s guardian ad litem, Kimberly Kamel, were unsuccessful. The above exchange is the only time his voice is heard in the case. But according to his guardian ad litem and declarations and other court filings, Bruce doesn’t want to return to his biological parents. And after nearly three years away from them, he may never want to. “[Bruce] will never have anything to do with those people as long as he walks the face of the earth,” Janke says.

After the Hawaii trip and the petitions for custody in 2015, it took a year and a half for a ruling to be made on whether or not Strand and Janke were, in fact, his de facto parents. Bruce stayed in the custody of Janke and Strand that whole time.

In fall of 2016, Moreno issued her ruling. Never had she seen a de facto parentage case with these circumstances. In the end, she sided with the Simons. It’s their fundamental right to make decisions and care for their child, she ruled. She noted that a number of statements Strand and Janke filed in their initial declarations were flat-out untrue. And she honed in on the allegation that

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Teresa abused drugs, mentally and physically abused Bruce and was mentally ill and unfit to be a Bruce’s parent.

“All of those allegations were untrue other than the fact that she suffers from bipolar disorder, which many people in our community have, and it’s controlled,” Moreno says.

In her rulings, Moreno says Strand and Janke were involved with “some level of coaching” of Bruce. She noted “an attempt to alienate” him from his biological parents. (Janke and Strand deny both allegations.) She reminded Strand that she is not, in fact, Bruce’s mother.

At the same time, Moreno questions why the Simons were OK with Strand and Janke spending so much time with their son when he grew up.

“No adult here is without fault,” Moreno says. “All four of you have really caused great harm to this child.”

For the Simons, winning the de facto case was only half the battle. They still had to prove that returning their son to their care would not cause him detriment. So Bruce stayed with Strand and Janke.

In the months between court hearings, Teresa did anything she could to tell the world she lost her son. She posted on Facebook. She messaged the sheriff. She protested in front of the courthouse. She put up cameras in her house, just in case she might be able to use some footage to defend herself in court.

“She has completely submerged in this case,” says Juneau of her mother. “It has been absolutely devastating for our family.”

In July 2017, Moreno ruled the Simons are “fit” parents, but the judge also expressed concerns with Teresa’s public behavior, wondering if it further hurt Bruce. She deferred her official ruling

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on nonparental custody, opting to try for a slow reunification, first with Ron, then with Teresa. That’s when Moreno brought Bruce into the courtroom, and Bruce walked out with tears.

Moreno decided it would cause detriment for Bruce, who has been estranged from his biological parents for years, to return to them.

McKee, the attorney, says she’s never seen a judge find the parents “fit” and still not return the child.

“It seems to fly in the face of our laws,” McKee says.

In September, Bruce turned 16. His visits with Ron in public chain restaurants like Starbucks or McDonalds didn’t go well.

Then they stopped altogether.

Later, in January 2018, Moreno expressed her disbelief: “If the Simons didn’t recognize it, the ball was in their court,” she says. But the Simons contend that it’s not their fault. They tried to set up visits, they say, but nobody else was cooperating. Allegations have been thrown both ways, each side blaming the other, or the court, for reunification not working. Nobody can agree on a counselor to facilitate reunification between the Simons and their son. The Simons say Strand continues to alienate Bruce, and the court says the Simons are failing to follow the instructions.

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“She has completely submerged in this case. It has been ... devastating.”

And Teresa continues to bury herself in legal paperwork, trying to break through the wall. She blames Strand. She blames the judge. She blames the guardian ad litem. She blames her attorneys. She blames corruption. She blames the system, as her own son continues to live with someone else.

But through it all, she never blames her son. “[Bruce],” she says, “is a victim in this.”

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Each day, Teresa Simon walks outside and ties a yellow ribbon, handmade from Dollar Tree tablecloths and pipe cleaners, to a tree in front of her home in East Central Spokane. There’s one for each day her son has been gone.

By now, there are more than a thousand ribbons. With another 500 or so, Bruce will be 18, his childhood a thing of the past.

“My son is coming home, and I don’t care who thinks they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do,” Teresa says.

Yet as Janke tells it, Bruce is sick of the legal battles. The kid “just wants to be left alone.”

“He just wants to be a kid again,” Janke says. “It’s so sad, and he’s just a great young man.”

The battle is far from over, it seems. Each step in the process seems to drag on. Moreno’s ruling that Strand and Janke are not “de facto” parents is being appealed. The Simons still can’t prove that their son coming back would be in his best interest.

Ron and Teresa can’t accept any of it. On a Wednesday in February, Ron and Teresa sit at the dinner table. Stacks of paperwork stand between them. They discuss how to get their son back, and they’re running out of answers. They want to see changes in Washington’s family courts so that no other parents lose their son.

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NATHAN WEINBENDER’S PICKS SUPPORTING ACTOR Willem Dafoe The Florida Project Woody Harrelson Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig Lady Bird Christopher Nolan Dunkirk Jordan Peele Get Out

BEST ACTOR Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Daniel Day-Lewis Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya Get Out Gary Oldman Darkest Hour Denzel Washington Roman J. Israel, Esq.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS Mary J. Blige Mudbound Allison Janney I, Tonya Lesley Manville Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf Lady Bird Octavia Spencer The Shape of Water

BEST ACTRESS Sally Hawkins The Shape of Water Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan Lady Bird Meryl Streep The Post

BEST PICTURE Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

GOLD The 90th Academy Awards take place this weekend, and we’re picking favorites

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he Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nearly 6,600 members, and none of them are movie critics. That’s by design, of course, but having a couple critics in the voting body might have prevented some blunders over the years (Dances with Wolves winning Best Picture over Goodfellas, for instance).

That, of course, doesn’t prevent me from pretending I’m an Oscar voter, marking up my annual fake ballot for the films and performances I think deserve to win. Most of the time, my picks don’t jive with the Academy’s, but this year’s awards have proven harder than usual to predict. Here are my choices in the top six categories, listed in the order they’ll be announced on Sunday’s broadcast.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

WHO SHOULD WIN: The biggest Oscar surprises often happen in the supporting categories, so don’t be shocked if this year’s favorite Sam Rockwell (who should have been nominated several times before this) loses out to one of his elders: Possibly Richard Jenkins, so lovely and heartbreaking in The Shape of Water, or maybe even my pick, Willem Dafoe, whose beleaguered motel manager in The Florida Project is the soul of the film.

WHO WAS LEFT OUT: Michael Stuhlbarg (he’s in three of this year’s Best Picture nominees) as the empathetic father in Call Me by Your Name; Barry Keoghan as a weird teenager who torments an unsuspecting family in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

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WHO SHOULD WIN: Allison Janney’s been sweeping awards shows since the Golden Globes (her Oscar will sit on a mantelpiece next to her seven Emmys), and her take on Tonya Harding’s abusive mother is the best part of I, Tonya. But it’s Laurie Metcalf, as the prickly ...continued on next page

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and fiercely self-possessed mother in Lady Bird, who wowed me most. As one of the film’s characters observes, she’s both scary and warm, more believable than the parents you typically see in movies.

WHO WAS LEFT OUT: Holly Hunter as another tenacious mom in The Big Sick; Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip, the funniest scene-stealing comic performance since Melissa McCarthy’s Oscar-nominated turn in Bridesmaids.

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WHO SHOULD WIN: This is the strongest group of candidates in recent memory, and I’d be fine with any of them winning. Guillermo Del Toro, having won top honors from the Directors Guild of America, will almost certainly be the victor, but my vote would be for Greta Gerwig.

Her movie is the least showy, but there’s a different (and no less precise) craft required in making a film like Lady Bird: It is a movie of terrific and subtle style, and just because her craft seems effortless doesn’t mean there isn’t any.

WHO WAS LEFT OUT: If only we could expand the category: Both Call Me by Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino and The Florida Project’s Sean Baker were equally deserving of recognition.

BEST ACTRESS

WHO SHOULD WIN: It’s a shame that performances as great and career-defining as those of Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand and Saoirse Ronan have been pitted against each other. Them’s the breaks. This was my toughest decision of all the categories, but I can’t deny the raw power of Frances McDormand’s work as a grieving mother in the flawed yet fascinating Three Billboards. It’s one of the most difficult acting jobs of recent years — she must be obstinate one moment, maternal the next — and the film tunes itself to her performance.

WHO WAS LEFT OUT: Vicky Krieps as a fashion designer’s muse in Phantom Thread, whose naivete masks a sadistic streak; Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman, who nails a much trickier balancing act than most action stars are required to pull off.

BEST ACTOR

WHO SHOULD WIN: Gary Oldman’s win is a sure thing, and his Winston Churchill is a remarkable feat of imitation that doesn’t move me at all. Conversely, I love the complexities that the two Daniels — Day-Lewis and Kaluuya — brought to their roles, though I’m marking my fake ballot

for Timothée Chalamet. His performance is almost diametrically opposed to Oldman’s: He’s naked and vulnerable, completely exposed both physically and emotionally. And if the year delivered a more powerful shot than his much-discussed close-up at the end of Call Me by Your Name, I didn’t see it.

WHO WAS LEFT OUT: Robert Pattinson as a petty criminal in the Safdie brothers’ hedonistic thriller Good Time and the late, great Harry Dean Stanton as a 90-year-old Navy veteran in Lucky.

BEST PICTURE

WHAT SHOULD WIN: This is an impressive collection of candidates, and I think six of the nine are four-star films. But my favorite is Lady Bird, the kind of personal, small-scale movie that might have been overlooked before the Academy expanded its Best Picture pool. And while most Oscar prognosticators aren’t giving it much thought, I think it still has a shot at winning the night’s biggest prize. (Don’t write off Get Out, either.) Frontrunners The Shape of Water and Three Billboards have their detractors, but it doesn’t seem that anyone outright hates Lady Bird.

WHAT WAS LEFT OUT: Rewatching The Florida Project recently, I was struck all over again by how vivid, funny, heartbreaking and simply alive it is. It deserved to fill that 10th possible Best Picture slot, and years from now it will be looked upon as one of the great American films of our time. Mark my words. n

DRINK IT IN! You need to get a bit fancy if you want to watch the Oscars right on Sunday, March 4. We’ve concocted a handful of cocktails inspired by some of the nominated films, none of which we’ve actually tried but all of which sound totally award worthy.

Call Me by Your Name

The Italian Peach For those who have found remarkable new uses for pit fruits.

Muddle a ripe peach, mix with moscato wine and a little rum, add sugar and lime juice to taste. Garnish with an apricot pit.

Get Out

The Sunken Place Mix Earl Grey tea, an ounce or so of gin and simple syrup to taste.

Pour into an antique porcelain cup and stir noisily with a silver spoon.

Lady Bird

The Dave Matthews Mocktail For when you’re only 17 and in need of a good cry while listening to “Crash into Me.” Pour your lemon-lime soda of choice into a martini glass, add a splash of grenadine, and pretend you’re a jaded liberal arts major.

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That Bottle of Whiskey in Your Bottom Desk Drawer Taking down the Nixon administration is a stressful job. Take a quick pull from the half-empty bottle of Johnnie Walker hidden underneath those photocopies of the Pentagon Papers, light another Pall Mall and get back to your typewriter.

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AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, 402 W. Main The monthly “3 Minute Mic” series, hosted by Chris Cook. Open mic readers can read up to three minutes’ worth of poetry. Starts at 8 pm.

AVENUE WEST, 907 W. Boone “Mosaic” features stained glass art by Jillian Ross.

BARILI CELLARS, 608 W. Second The winery continues its display of watercolors by Jessica Wade.

Reception from 4-9 pm.

J BARRISTER WINERY, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. The winery hosts “Crossing Borders: Celebrating Regional Artists with the Art Spirit Gallery.” Reception from 5-10 pm, with live music by “Lonesome” Lyle Morse.

BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, 108 N. Post Live music by Ron Greene, with food and drink specials.

BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, 39 W. Pacific Watercolors by award-winning artist Ginny Brennan, with live music

by Emily Rose Ridler. Reception from 5:30-9 pm.

J CHASE GALLERY, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

A continuation of “Connectivity | Matters,” featuring art by Heidi Farr, Jake Miller, Naoko Morisawa, Rachel Smith and Patrick Sullivan.

CORE PILATES & WELLNESS, 1230 W. Summit Pkwy.

The studio displays work by Spokane watercolor artist Julie Tozzi.

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CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, 1194 W. Summit Pkwy.

Nora Egger’s oil paintings depict scenes of Washington’s desert regions. Reception from 2-9 pm.

J DODSON’S JEWELERS, 516 W. Riverside A series of plein air paintings of the Dishman Hills Natural Area by LR Montgomery, with 20 percent of art sales supporting the Dishman Hills Conservancy.

DOWNTOWN SPOKANE LIBRARY, 906 W. Main A performance by local women’s vocal ensemble The Celtic Aires, from 6:30-7:30 pm.

HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 401 W. Main Music by the Back Porch Trio: Maxie Ray Mills, Alan Fischer and Rick Singer.

J KOLVA-SULLIVAN GALLERY, 115 S. Adams “Art From the Model, Labors From Form,” features work by 10 regional artists who regularly come together to capture the form of live models. Reception from 5-9 pm.

KRESS GALLERY AT RIVER PARK SQUARE, 808 W. Main (third floor) Art by students at Shadle, Ferris, North Central, Rogers and Lewis & Clark high schools.

LEFTBANK WINE BAR, 108 N. Washington Local artist and graphic designer Ali Blackwood showcases her acrylic paintings. Reception 4-11 pm, with music by Jessica Haffner.

J LIBERTY CIDERWORKS, 164 S. Washington “In the Field” by Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton features mixed-

media art celebrating the physicality of wilderness.

A showcase of local photography by Misty Olson.

J MARMOT ART SPACE, 1202 W. Summit Pkwy.

The gallery celebrates its threeyear anniversary with a collection of new encaustic paintings by Spokane artist Melissa Cole.

J SPOKANE ART SCHOOL, 811 W. Garland “Alchemy for Cells and Other Beasts” showcases art by Carrie DeBaker, the Seattle-based illustrator of Spokane poet Maya Jewell Zeller’s poetry collection of the same name.

Reception includes a reading by Zeller; art on display through April 27.

J MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, 1303 W. Summit Pkwy.

Artist Sandy Konyo’s “Silhouettes Body Project,” with live music

by Dry and Dusty from 4:30-7:30 pm.

J OBJECT SPACE, 1818 ½ E. Sprague “Unwanted Journeys” by Spokane artist Ildikó Kalapács is themed around an expression of refugee crises around the world, and includes work by and participation from local refugees. Includes an artist talk on Friday, March 9 from 5-7 pm.

POTTERY PLACE PLUS, 203 N. Washington “Purveyor of Piscatorial Pursuits” features watercolors and hand-tied fishing flies by guest artist Tom Miller. Reception from 5-9 pm.

J RESURRECTION RECORDS, 1927 W. Northwest Blvd.

“Malignant Muse for a Benign Being” by Susan Webber explores female identity, nature and the beauty of darkness. Reception from 6-9 pm.

J RICHMOND ART COLLECTIVE GALLERY, 228 W. Sprague “Left Behind: Memory and Migration” features art by Tamalin Baumgarten, Brian Deemy, Ira Gardner, Julie Gautier-Downes, Grace June, Hannah Koeske and Reinaldo Gil Zambrano exploring themes of relocation, displacement and the meaning of home.

J SARANAC ART PROJECTS, 25 W. Main “Out of Print,” a group exhibition by members and guests artists who display various forms of prints.

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TRACKSIDE STUDIO CERAMIC ART GALLERY, 115 S. Adams Functional ceramic forms and sculptures by studio founder Chris Kelsey.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. Watercolors and acrylic paintings by Spokane artist Dan Eacret.

URBANNA NATURAL SPA • SALON • WINE, 104 S. Division Art by Edward Gilmore, with a wine tasting from 5:30-8 pm.

V DU V WINES, 12 S. Scott Spokane photographer Charles Gurche displays his latest works.

Reception from 5:30-9:30 pm with live music by Crushpad.

VINO!, 222 S. Washington Art by Lenora Lopez Schindler, and wine tasting from 3-7:30 pm.

J WASHINGTON CRACKER CO. BUILDING, 304 W. Pacific “Ten Years of Terrain” offers a look back at the past 10 years of the annual, one-night arts showcase.

Reception from 10 am-7 pm.

WEATHERS & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING, 105 S. Madison Paintings by Brittney Avila.

WILLIAM GRANT GALLERY & FRAMING, 1188 W. Summit Pkwy.

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1900 HOUSE AND HOME, 114 W. Pacific Watercolors by Sheila Johnston, alongside photography by K West.

A piece from Dishman Hills: Paintings by LR Montgomery at Dodson’s Jewelers.

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe celebrates

pokane’s monthly arts showcase features events, including gallery receptions, live music and a chance to meet local artists, across the downtown core and beyond. Receptions for this month’s event happen on Friday, March 2, from 5-8 pm, unless otherwise noted below, where events are listed alphabetically by venue.

These listings were compiled from information provided by First Friday’s organizer, Downtown Spokane Partnership, as well as host venues and artists. Red stars denote Inlander staff picks; for additional information, visit firstfridayspokane.org. (CHEY SCOTT)

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Hearts Full of Hope Dear Friends, Neighbors and Patrons:

A celebration is in order. I write to you as the Chief Executive Officer of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort, and I’m proud to be the third Coeur d’Alene Tribal member with the honor to hold this position. Wholeheartedly, I am inviting you to share in our 25th Anniversary, and to experience all we have to offer as a resort, and as a motivated, creative and progressive tribe.

Since opening day on March 23, 1993, we have striven to achieve our current selfsufficiency, to firmly establish a growing, diverse and sustainable economy on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, including the positive impacts that have spread to North Idaho and Eastern Washington.

Yes, we made promises, not only keeping each and every Francis SiJohn one, but succeeding beyond even our own expectations.

As I reflect on the vision of the visionaries who created this success, I am deeply proud of our tribe. However, we are far from finished. There is much more to this vision and the challenging goals we have yet to pursue.

As so many of you know, we began as a small bingo operation — not even full-time. We have evolved into a magnificent destination resort, including a world-class golf course, 300-room hotel, a spa unsurpassed in its beauty and amenities, six dining venues, top-shelf entertainers and, of course, a gaming operation that has produced a number of million-dollar winners.

In the pages to come, you will see our whole story, and how we’ve grown from those first 96 employees, some of whom are still with us here today. Here 25 years later, we have had an employment count as high as 1,200, and our economic impact on the region has reached well over $300 million annually, supporting some 3,800 jobs beyond the Coeur d’Alene Reservation.

We succeed with your support, and we pay it back. To date, more than $33 million, our 5 percent commitment from profits, has gone to schools and educational institutions, just one of the many promises we’ve kept.

Enjoy the articles and our story. Celebrate with us. Abject poverty is long gone here, and our tribal members see the future with eyes wide open and hearts full of hope. I know this well. I’m one of them.

Lim lemtsh (Thank You!) Francis SiJohn CEO, Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

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his all began on a wheat field, and not much of one at that. The soil was heavy with clay, covered by seasonal wetlands with thorny wild roses sprouting up all around. But these 80 acres of wheat, nestled near the intersection of THE JOURNEY highways U.S. 95 and Idaho 58, was to be the place where the Coeur d’Alene Tribe would spin that wheat straw into gold.

And it’s no fairy tale.

The Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort has evolved over these 25 years into a stunning destination resort, with its 300 rooms, seven dining areas, 1,400 gaming machines, bingo, some 100,000 square feet of gaming space and the world-class Circling Raven Golf Club among its amenities.

Those who visit see the results, and they Robert S. Bostwick has worked in public relations for the the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe since the early-1990s.

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come from all over the world. Those who were here before see a powerful vision realized. They see their children and grandchildren looking hopefully toward the future. They feel their ancestors looking down at them, approving and proud.

BINGO

Those 80 acres were just enough when the original building, housing bingo, opened for business in March of 1993, offering seating for about 1,000 players. There were a few offices, one meeting room, a small cantina and a lobby.

That’s it. To build it, the tribe borrowed $2.9 million from an economic development fund at the Bureau of Indian Affairs — a fund that doesn’t even exist anymore.

David Matheson, a tribal member, former councilman and chairman, University of Washington graduate with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, was the brains behind the boom. Over the preceding four years, he

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had served President George H.W. Bush as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior/Bureau of Indian Affairs. He knew all the ins and outs of Indian gaming, and how to start it with bingo.

“I like to tell the story,” says Matheson. “I got all kinds of advice from very smart and successful people in the region. They all said the same thing: ‘Don’t build it way down there, build it as far north as you can get.’ Of course, the three rules of business are ‘location, location, location.’ We had none of the three.”

What the tribe also did not have were jobs, opportunities and scholarship dollars. But what the tribe did have was vision. It had commitment.

It had unwavering leadership.

The Tribal Council at the time included Al Garrick, Dominick Curley, Margaret Jose, Lawrence Aripa, Henry SiJohn and Norma Peone. Ernie Stensgar was the Tribal Chairman.

Only Jose, Peone and Stensgar are still living.

Their backsides at the time, and no one else’s, were on the line. But their tribe was enduring

abject poverty — its unemployment rate hovering around 70 percent.

“Oh, we preferred the money issues to the poverty, so we never hesitated to take the risk,” recalls Jose, who served on council six years, her eyes lighting up at the memories. “It sure was exciting, and yes, we did have concerns, but everyone came together then. Everybody had a ‘can-do’ spirit, and so much support from all the tribal families was wonderful to see.”

Leaders in Idaho state government were not so pleased. In July of 1992, the tribe notified then-Governor Cecil Andrus that it would seek negotiations for a gaming compact, a process required by the U.S. Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. But in those days it was a process often held up by states dragging their feet.

Andrus didn’t drag his feet. Instead, he called the legislature into special session, the first one in decades, to take the first step — to write an amendment to the state constitution that would ban all casino type (Class I) games. That November, the amendment passed as Proposition One, and it came via a whopping 59 percent majority.

Then the compact was negotiated in a reasonably timely manner. Bingo was protected already by federal law, as was Class II gaming.

The compact allowed for the Tribe to do any type of Class I gaming allowed in the state — horse racing, mule racing, dog racing (now banned), sports betting and lottery. Yes, lottery.

SUCCESS

With or without dice, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe was on a roll. Then came a few machines, mostly in the lobby, then a few more. Revenue was flowing modestly. Expansion was needed.

Remember that $2.9 million loan? The 15year note was paid off in three years, and the “mortgage burning” ceremony included in a

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were taking notice. Expansions had included a hotel, pool and restaurants, and fur was flying at the state capitol in Boise. The tribe decided to take their message to the people.

With success growing and glowing, it still took another vote, this time of the citizens, to seal the deal with Idaho for good. The tribe successfully petitioned to put their proposition

We’ve done great things as a tribe and as individual tribal members.

Our promises have been made and kept. bingo promotion. Other such “burnings” would follow.

But the tribe still faced challenges, as lawmakers, governors and anti-gaming interests

on the ballot in 2002, asking the people of Idaho to confirm the legitimacy of lotterystyle machines. A statewide campaign was launched, and it passed, carrying a conservative,

Republican and considerably Mormon state by, guess what? Again, 59 percent.

Idahoans appreciated that the tribe had erased that 70 percent unemployment rate. The Tribe today is at full employment, with more jobs, in fact, than it has Indians to fill them.

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Today the Coeur d’Alene Tribe can boast full employment. It can boast a more diverse and a sustainable reservation economy, supporting some 1,800 jobs at the tribe’s enterprises and government programs. It can boast health care not just for tribal members, but at a new medical center that serves the non-Indian public as well.

It can boast about a half-billion dollars in new construction over these 25 years, some, but far from all, at the casino resort.

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“WE DREAM AS WE GO,” CONTINUED University, Francis SiJohn took over as CEO of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort in 2016.

He is also a tribal member and former tribal council vice chairman.

“We’ve done great things as a tribe and as individual tribal members,” SiJohn beams. “Our promises have been made and kept. In fact, we’ve gone far beyond the expectations of 25 years ago, or even 10 years ago.

And there’s more to come.”

Current Tribal Chairman Chief Allan currently holds the reins in Plummer, maintaining the same firm commitment he saw growing up.

“We continue to create opportunities, jobs, education, health care and more,” Allan says. “So many benefit from all this, tribal or otherwise.

We have clearly shown that as the tribe benefits, so does the region.”

And the tribe can rely, if not rest, on its self-sufficiency.

Just as importantly, it has established economic sustainability. Vision is ever present. Ideas will continue to grow, as will the resort.

“We began all this to create jobs, end poverty here and create dollars for education, for programs and for Tribal members to have the same opportunities we see elsewhere,” says SiJohn.

“I don’t think we’re going to be complacent. We have the capacity to do more, so I think the time will come to expand again.”

From that wheat field and the clay beneath, dreams came true. Hopes became reality.

Success took over from abject poverty. It’s been 25 years, and it ain’t over. “We dream as we go,” says SiJohn. “We dream as we go.”

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TOP: Coeur d’Alene Tribal Elder Marian Staten with her mother Lucy Finley. LOWER LEFT: The Coeur d’Alene Wildshoe family in their 1916 Allis Chalmers. The car was given to Philip Wildshoe by his mother, who used her crop income to buy it. LOWER RIGHT: Mildred Bailey, a Coeur d'Alene Tribal member, and one of the top singers of the jazz era.

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he history of a people is inextricably bound to their language. The words they use to describe their environment, their beliefs, their routines and themselves offer insight into the forces that have shaped their way of life and their identity.

For the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, this is as true as ever.

They call themselves Schitsu’umsh. The discovered ones. Those who are found here.

“One meaning is that other people discovered us living here, where we had always been,” says tribal historian Quanah Matheson. “At the same time, there’s a spiritual meaning: Creator gathered up his children and put us on this land.”

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“discovered” the Schitsu’umsh around the end of 18th century that the French name Coeur d'Alene, or heart of an awl, was applied to them.

“They called us the pointed hearts because they couldn’t get one over on us,” TRIBAL HISTORY Matheson laughs. “We were savvy and always won on the business deals. We were known as being a little fierce, a little ornery, very businesslike.”

Yet the history of the Coeur d’Alenes begins long before their contact with early white traders. The land that the explorers regarded as wilderness — roughly 3.5 million acres centered around today’s Idaho Panhandle — had been home to the Tribe for more than 10,000 years, according to archaeological evidence, though oral

The Coeur d’Alene Tribal Joseph family, with father Wakai and mother Hapshna; their daughter Margaret (lower right) is Laura Stensgar’s grandmother.

history traces the origins much further back.

“The elders always told us that we’ve been here since time immemorial. We hunted ancient beasts. We took a highly respectful stance toward living with nature. We followed our seasonal calendar.

We knew when to get roots when they were ready, knew when to fish, when to hunt, when to gather,” Matheson says. They knew intimately their land’s forests, its camas prairie, its waterways, its mountains.

It was around the time that fur traders arrived that the great chief Circling Raven, who legend says lived for 150 years and ruled the tribe between 1660 and 1760, issued his famous prophecy: During times of hardship, men with crossed sticks and long black robes will come to the people.

This foretold the two forces that would shape the Coeur d’Alenes’ history: illness and religion. Between 1777 and 1842, an estimated 90 percent of the tribe was killed by smallpox and other foreign diseases against which Native Americans had no immunity. The tribe’s numbers dwindled to around 500.

Then came missionaries like Father DeSmet and other Jesuit priests, who converted all but a handful of the remaining members to Roman Catholicism. As a result, the Coeur d’Alenes began to concentrate around church and school buildings and became Palouse-area farmers.

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“THE DISCOVERED ONES,” CONTINUED increasing steps to suppress and confine Native Americans.

In 1873, an executive order by President Ulysses S. Grant established the Coeur d’Alene Reservation — just 600,000 of what once was millions of acres of ancestral land. The Dawes Act of 1887 later forced the Coeur d’Alenes to become individual as opposed to collective landowners. Subsequent federal acts shrank the size of the reservation even further to just 345,000 acres, much of which was considered undesirable for white settlement.

What followed was more than a century of challenge and further hardship.

“When you think about what can be done to a people to break them, that’s what was done to the Coeur d’Alene people,” says Matheson.

“They destroyed our culture, our language, our heritage, our landbase. They took everything away. But the tribe was very resilient.”

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 was one government initiative that did work in Native Americans’ favor. Within four years, the Coeur d’Alenes had successfully negotiated a gaming compact with the State of Idaho. That led to the creation of a tiny bingo hall opening in

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March of 1993 — 25 years ago this Sandpoint month.

Aboriginal All these Territory years and several 1873 expansions later, Reservation the Coeur d’Alene MONTANA Casino Resort is Spokane testament to what Thompson Falls Cataldo a proud, resilient and businessPlummer savvy people can St. Regis build when given the chance. Today IDAHO the luxury hotel offers 300 rooms, Present Colfax and the casino Reservation Moscow features more than WASHINGTON 1,400 gaming Source: Coeur d'Alene Tribe GIS-SK, gisinfo@cdatribe-nsn.gov machines across 100,000 square are reconnecting with their ancient Salish feet of space. The Circling Raven Golf Course language, rediscovering what it means to be The is a premier golfing destination. The tribe has grown to around 2,500 members, many of whom Discovered Ones.

“Our language is based upon our land,” says now have the solid, self-sufficient economic Matheson. “Our language can be traced back to foundation their elders were denied. one place, and that’s here.”

Importantly, more and more Coeur d’Alenes

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TIMELINE

1988

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act passes Congress, infringing on tribal sovereignty, but also allowing tribes to create gaming operations.

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1991-92

In accordance with those new federal laws, a gaming compact is negotiated and finalized between the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the State of Idaho, allowing gaming to start on tribal lands.

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1993

Coeur d’Alene Tribal Bingo opens for business on March 23 — 25 years ago this month.

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1997

The first Julyamsh is organized by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and held in Post Falls, open to tribes from across the United States and Canada. After 17 years, the event takes a hiatus, coming back in 2016 bigger than ever, now at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.

1998

The complex’s first fullservice restaurant, the Chinook Steakhouse, opens to diners. Today there are six unique dining areas available.

2002

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe wins a spot on the statewide ballot for an initiative to allow gaming machines at their growing operation. The measure passes with 59 percent of the public vote.

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unctioning much like a city council but with the oversight of a state government, the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Council is responsible for making the important policy and legislative decisions that affect the tribe. The Council consists of seven members, each of whom are elected to three-year terms. They meet weekly to deliberate and vote on resolutions.

Like many things throughout the Coeur d’Alene people’s history, the Council was a hard-won gain. First formed in 1947 to align with the self-government provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, it was formalized two years later under a written constitution after fraught negotiations with the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.

TRIBAL COUNCIL Joe Garry, son of the tribe’s last traditional chief, Ignace Garry, served as the council’s first elected president. Joe would go on to make history as the first Native American elected to the Idaho state legislature, serving in both the Idaho House and Senate in the years that followed. Joe went on to become a hero to tribes across the United States, as he became president of the National Congress of American Indians in 1953. As Congress worked to dissolve tribal governments and liquidate tribal lands — a battle waged on many fronts via a series of federal laws from the 1940s to the 1960s known as “termination” — the man who organized the opposition was a Coeur d’Alene born in a tipi, Joe Garry.

History is still being made today. Now in her second term on the council, Margaret SiJohn, hotel director for the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort, is seeing more young tribal members pursue postgraduate degrees and then return to become involved in tribal civic life and politics. She says the makeup of the current council is reflective of that.

“We on the council are all different ages, and we all have different views,” SiJohn says, “but we’re open to discuss how we feel and where we come from. Even if we

2003

In August, the Circling Raven Golf Course fills its first tee times, and remains listed today among the nation’s Top 100 public golf courses.

2004

The Coeur d’Alene Casino becomes a proper resort, as the tribe adds 200 rooms to accommodate overnight guests.

2011

disagree, we’re willing to compromise with one another and make a decision that we all feel is best for the Tribe.”

Together, by continuing to protect the sovereignty of the tribe and identify more paths to self-sufficiency, they are helping to guide this ancient people into a promising new era.

“Past leaders put in their time and their life experience to get us here,” SiJohn adds. “Their focus on getting the younger generations educated and aware of what’s happening outside the reservation has really helped put us where we are now.”

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The Coeur d’Alene Tribal Council: (top left to right) Treasurer Don Sczenski, Chris Luke; (bottom left to right) Chairman Chief Allan, Leta Campbell, Charlotte Nilson, Margaret SiJohn, Vice Chairman Ernie Stensgar.

The Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort expands again, with the Spa Tower, adding 100 more hotel rooms, the new Chinook Steakhouse and a 15,000-square-foot spa.

2017

The Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort launches its Cultural Tourism program, inviting visitors to learn even more about the tribal stories, traditions and values of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

2018

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe celebrates the Casino’s 25th birthday, with hundreds of new jobs created and contributions to local educational efforts topping $33 million. The entire Inland Northwest is invited to join the party!

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A Boom on the Palouse

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harles “Chuck” Matheson recalls a time when the total number of job opportunities on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation was in the double digits.

When he graduated from high school in 1977, he eventually took a job with the Tribal Police.

“At that time, on our wall in the police department, we had a list of all the tribal employees and their phone extensions,” ECONOMIC IMPACT he says. “One day, I counted everybody on there, and I think there were about 50, and maybe only two or three that were paid out of tribal funds. The rest would have been funded through grant money or

training programs.”

As limited as those opportunities were, they actually represented an improvement. When Matheson was later elected to the Tribal Council, he became close to Ernie Stensgar, who had been a young adult on the reservation during the ’50s.

Stensgar related stories about the dire poverty on the reservation at a time when America was experiencing a postwar economic boom.

“If they weren’t allowed to go out and get some deer or elk, they would have just starved.

There was nothing else — no money, no work,” Matheson says.

In 1993, the year the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Bingo opened, unemployment on the reservation

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ducation fosters an appreciation for the world around us and opens doors to success and personal fulfillment that would otherwise remain closed. The Coeur d’Alene Tribe has long recognized this and held EDUCATION education as one of its core values.

That’s one of the reasons why, when tribal leaders were negotiating the gaming compact

donating more than $33 million to schools, universities and education-related activities across the Inland Northwest. Each year organizations throughout the region are encouraged to submit a funding application for review by the grant committee.

The tribe’s commitment to education is evident in other areas, too. For example, its Marimn Health Wellness Center holds classes on nutrition and fitness that are

is almost unquantifiable.

Regardless of whether they are tribal members, all employees have the opportunity to take part in a free program to prepare for and take the GED; they can also have their college tuition and books covered. Many employees have achieved four-year and master’s degrees via the program.

All this emphasis on education, coupled with the strong economic foundation the casino provides,

with the State of Idaho in 1992, they insisted on voluntarily allocating 5 percent of the casino’s net annual revenue to educational initiatives.

Since then, the tribe has made good on that commitment,

available to tribal and non-tribal members alike. The center’s annual budget exceeds $20 million, largely funded by gaming revenue, yet its positive impact on the health and well-being of the area’s population

has paid huge dividends. Nearly 400 tribal members are currently in its “education pipeline,” which accounts for every student in the early Head Start program up to and including PhD programs.

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still hovered above 70 percent. Young, educated tribal members who wanted careers felt confined to two options: either leave the reservation behind or stay and face an uncertain existence.

The casino changed that. Despite its humble beginnings, it quickly put the Tribe on an entrepreneurial path to self-sufficiency.

“It started out almost like a tent. But it had some machines and it had bingo, and little by little it grew,” recalls Yvette Matt. In a story that parallels many tribal members, Matt grew up off the reservation but returned when she saw the chance to put her degrees in business and marketing to good use. Today she serves as the casino’s marketing director.

“I truly have watched this place go from smaller to a little bigger, to bigger, to even bigger.

We’ve had five expansions.”

“It’s been nonstop growth,” adds Matheson.

“Now, instead of 96 positions and just a small handful of them paid through tribal funds, we have around 600 in the tribal government and around 850 currently employed by the casino.”

The total number of jobs created by the tribe is estimated to be close to 4,400, making it the second-largest employer in Kootenai County and the largest in Benewah County.

The casino’s economic impact is far wider than in-house employment. When the facility expanded with an additional 100 hotel rooms and a spa in 2011, it was a $75 million boon for local contractors, consultants and laborers. A 2014 study by the University of Idaho found that the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s combined economic and government operations have a $330 million impact on the regional economy every year.

“You can see how the reservation and the employment rate have changed because of the casino,” says Matt. “The casino is a testament to believing in your tribe and believing in your ability to make things better.”

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25-year employees of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort: (left to right) Laura Stensgar, Candi Abraham, Jesse Hodgson, Marian Staten (seated) and Ray LaSarte (not pictured).

Part of the Family

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rancis SiJohn is telling a story: As Casino CEO, he likes to walk the floor, talking with guests and employees. One day he recognized a frequent guest. They chatted about each other’s lives, and SiJohn asked the man if there was anything he could do for him.

COEUR VALUES “Yes,” said the man, explaining his concern. Together they walked over to where the issue originated and resolved it. As SiJohn departed, he invited the man and his wife to come for dinner. A new employee accompanying SiJohn was curious about what he’d just seen. “Number one, they’re coming into our house,” answered SiJohn. “And number two, they are guests of ours… but they’re also our friends.”

Tribal hospitality, says SiJohn, is ingrained into Coeur d’Alene culture, and it carries over to employees, he says, who should feel “as important as every guest who walks in the door.”

for Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort.

Hodgson and Stensgar are two of only a handful of people whose dateof-hire anniversary date-of-hire to the casino’s anniversary; the others include Candyce Abraham, Ray LaSarte and Marian Staten.

Today the casino employs around 850 people, which climbs to 1,100 in peak season. Many have been on the team for many years. And many more have siblings, parents, cousins and friends who also work at the casino Dee Dee Morris has 17 years at the casino. A tribal elder who has served as ambassador and hostess and worked the floor, Morris has two daughters, a son and a grandchild working there.

Often stationed at the Info Booth along Skycatcher, Morris can answer any question you have — dining, events, spa specials, gaming. And if you ask her for directions, she’d rather just take you there so she knows you got there.

“You want to take care of customers,

and you want to make sure they have a good visit and that they’ll come back to you,” says SiJohn.

Creating a welcoming environment for guests is a vital business strategy in more competitive markets, adds SiJohn, but it’s also an extension of the business savvy first documented by French traders who called his ancestors “Coeur d’Alene.” He credits past tribal councils, tribal members, the employees and the community for working together to create and sustain the casino, which in turn has been a tool for educational opportunities, economic growth and sustainability, better health care and infrastructure in the community.

It’s hard to predict what the next 25 years will hold, says SiJohn. Coeur d’Alene people have suffered, he says, but they’ve persevered and even prospered because they adapted while holding traditions sacred. “Be a good human being,” says SiJohn, and “look for the best in each other.”

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That’s how Jesse Hodgson feels.

“From day one, it’s always been a family,” says Hodgson, who started at the bingo hall in 1993 and now manages Video Gaming Services. Spending a lot of time together, especially through all the holidays, says Hodgson, connects you with others.

“You have regulars come in,” she says, “and they’re part of your family, too.”

Laura Stensgar remembers opening day at the bingo hall like it was yesterday.

“There was great anticipation in the air,” she says, “a sense of something great to come, and we were part of it.”

Stensgar stood among friends and family that cold and snowy day. “Then we assumed our positions, broke the ribbon and the crowd came in, we knew it was a new beginning.”

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A Land Apart

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visit to the Coeur d’Alene Reservation is a trip into the natural world — to that place where the pine forests meet the rolling hills of Palouse farmlands, and where rugged foothills encircle and drop down to the shores of the lake that bears their tribal name.

For at least 10,000 years, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe has called the lands centering on modern-day North Idaho home. The Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort blends the excitement of the entertainment complex with the profound beauty and quiet of its surroundings. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience, with nature all around you.

Wildlife is abundant, including elk, deer, moose and an occasional black bear. In fact, Circling Raven Golf Club was delayed from opening early last year due to damage on two greens by migrating elk.

A proud member of the Audubon International Sanctuary System, Circling Raven is home to two nesting bald eagles, George and Gracie. One or both can commonly be seen perched atop an old cottonwood tree, enjoying a commanding view of the first and 10th tees.

The seasonal changes are features that also mark these lands, from the golden browns of the late-summer harvest, to the green hills and flooded wetlands of the spring, to the serene whiteness of winter. Any time of year, your experience will change, offering a peek into the world the Coeur d’Alenes have lived in for millennia.

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Come One, Come All

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ince the earliest times, stories reflect that Native Americans have held many types of gatherings — private and public, men- or women-only, with varied types of dancing.

Yet the modern powwow follows a generally accepted format dating to the 1800s. From the first Grand Entry to the horse parade to the final Head Woman’s dance, powwow is all about family, celebration, culture and tradition, as age-old customs and beliefs are honored and strengthened through dance, drumming, prayer and shared time together.

“It’s a place we can enjoy our gifts,” says Quanah Matheson, the Coeur d’Alene JULYAMSH Tribe’s Cultural Affairs Director, whose eyes soften as he reminisces about seeing his father at powwows, as well as seeing his own children dance today.

In 1997, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe invited all — both other tribes and the community at large — to attend the inaugural Julyamsh powwow at the Post Falls Greyhound Park.

Recently, after a two-year break, Julyamsh reemerged in 2016 at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds and was attended by 20,000 people, including 800 dancers and 60 drum groups, says Matheson.

Most people come to powwow with families, says Yvette Matt, Marketing Director, so Julyamsh organizers added campers’ night for special events, like namegiving ceremonies, as well as a campers’ breakfast.

Powwows are about social interaction, adds Matheson. That includes amongst family and one’s own tribe, with tribes across the United States and even Canada, and with non-tribal members of the community.

“My absolute hope,” says Matheson, “is that we can celebrate together.”

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haring is a way of life for the Coeur d’Alene people. As stewards of the environment, including the reservation’s 344,900 acres and the lower Lake Coeur d’Alene basin, they have spearheaded efforts to restore and preserve precious waterways after decades of industrial dumping by others. Early in the development of their gaming plans, the Coeur d’Alenes committed to sharing profits with the educational community, again to widespread benefit. And Marimn Health Wellness Center (formerly Benewah Medical Center) benefits native and nonnative communities throughout Idaho, as well as Washington and Montana.

Throughout the tribe’s history, they have also shared their culture, hardly to their benefit during the colonial encounter, yet they have been steadfast in expressing and preserving their language, stories and

important events such as Winter Blessing and Julyamsh Powwow. For example, the year following the annual powwow’s transition to a new location — from the Greyhound Park in Post Falls to the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d’Alene — the casino hosted their “Cultural Experience,” with gifts of salmon and

When we have these events, we try to educate people: ‘This is who we are.’

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“When we have these events, we try to educate people: ‘This is who we are,’” says Quanah Matheson, Cultural Affairs Director for the Casino.

Matheson’s role, according to one of numerous cultural presentations he’s shared with the region’s many civic, educational

ABOVE: The Coeur d’Alenes Cultural Tourism program visits the Cataldo Mission and learns more about the role of bison in tribal history. LEFT: Miss Coeur d’Alene Kyra Antone (left) and Little Miss Coeur d’Alene Olivia Pakootas at Julyamsh. and other institutions, is as “trainer, educator, outreach, greeter, cultural specialist, entertainer, dancer, singer and cultural tourism specialist.”

He’s also responsible for the Chatq’ele’ Interpretive Center inside Heyburn State Park, which they co-manage with the state of Idaho. He works to ensure that Coeur d’Alene heritage is included in “planning, architecture, business philosophy and presentation.”

In mid-summer of 2017, the Casino took its first steps in implementing its Cultural Tourism program, which has been in development for more than three years. They offered four packages for adventure-minded, culturally curious visitors, including to a nearby bison ranch and a guided trip to Cataldo Mission’s landmark exhibition, “Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet & the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West.” Additional programs involving the Mission are slated for development, while current efforts involve promoting the inherent beauty of their tribal lands.

The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, for example, extends through 14.5 miles of reservation land, across the breathtaking 3,100-foot Chatcolet Bridge trestle towards Harrison, en route to trail’s end in Mullan. A partnership with Union Pacific Railroad, and both the state and federal governments, the Coeur d’Alene portion of the trail features educational mile markers, such as Hn’ya’pqi’nn, Coeur d’Alene for “gathering place” at the trail’s origin in Plummer.

“We are on our home lands,” says Francis SiJohn, Chief Executive Officer of the Casino. As the 25th anniversary approaches, he has been thinking about the future, too, and expects cultural tourism will continue to be important.

Planning for the coming season has begun, says Matheson, who hopes to see more tribal members involved in the process, especially sharing stories through storytelling and dance. It’s always a balance, says Matheson, wanting to share culture, making it enjoyable for all, while preserving and promoting Coeur d’Alene culture, yet being respectful of the history and traditions of the Schitsu’umsh.

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So Many Options

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hen it opened in 1993, the Coeur d’Alene Bingo Hall was able to offer little more than sandwiches to hungry players. Today there are seven unique dining areas available, including the High Mountain Buffet, which initially opened as a steakhouse and was the first restaurant created specifically for the new casino in 1998.

Susan Brunelle, who started 19 years ago as a baker, remembers the rollout of all the casino’s restaurants spanning DINING three remodels. The job has been great for her, says Brunelle, who lives nearby and whose kids have also worked at the casino. “I do feel part of the community,” she says.

Brunelle is one of about 250 employees who

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care for guests’ food and beverage needs, serving visitors and fellow employees alike. Although each restaurant has its own kitchen, some dining services, including baking, are centralized, providing all from-scratch desserts, bread and baked goods for hotel room service, bus tours (they provide cookies Executive Chef Steven Walk to the passengers), special events, and both quick-serve and sit-down dining.

Quick-serve spots include Jackpot Java and

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Creamer, or the Huckleberry Deli in the Spa Tower wing for a breakfast sandwich, burger or sweet treat like salted caramel stuffed pretzel.

Casual sit-down meals can be had at the Sweetgrass Café or Red Tail Bar & Grill, where the skewers are a favorite.

Guests can partake of food and beverage at the Nighthawk Lounge, which features a unique 360-degree bar and free, live entertainment Thursdays through Sundays.

Chinook Steak, Pasta and Spirits features several locally sourced ingredients, says Executive Chef Steven Walk. They use local produce, NW Cattle Company beef and huckleberry honey from Shaver Farms, he says, as well as about 1,200 pounds of salmon per month, which they get from the Nisqually Tribe in Washington.

In addition, says Walk, “This upcoming summer we are working with the tribal farm [Susan Brunelle’s son, Jeremiah, works there] to produce more of a steady supply of vegetables to use.”

Warmer weather has diners looking outdoors, including for special events. When the golf course is open, so is Twisted Earth Grill for light fare inside the Circling Raven Pro Shop.

Nearby is the Stensgar Pavilion — built in 2009 and named in honor of then-Tribal Chairman and current Vice-Chair, Ernie Stensgar.

The Pavilion offers an ideal spot for large gatherings with floor-to-ceiling windows and a large patio for panoramic views of the Palouse.

For even larger gatherings, at 15,000 square feet each, the Chinook Meadow offers a beautiful outdoor experience, while the Event Center can accommodate the largest of crowds in any weather. Of course, if events involve food, the casino’s food service team provides catering, as well.

“Golf tournaments, corporate events, weddings,” notes chef Walk, “all of our spaces are great for any type of event.”

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We can’t wait to see what you accomplish in the coming years.

We of the Spokane Tribe of Indians congratulate the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

You brought a dream to life 25 years ago with the opening of your beautiful Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel…and the dreams have grown ever since.

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Scenes of Circling Raven: Hole No. 17 (main picture), No. 16 (upper left) and No. 8 (above center).

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ircling Raven Golf Course is a special place to so many, and not just the golfers and writers — including for Golfweek, GOLF Magazine, Men’s Health, The Golf Insider — who have raved about the course.

It was the landscape itself that inspired veteran course designer Gene Bates’ vision for Circling Raven, CIRCLING RAVEN which opened in 2003.

It covers 620 acres, roughly four times larger than the average course. More than half the course is native grasses, while wetlands comprise 162 acres.

Thirty-six acres of existing conifer trees were incorporated into the design, as well. For example, No. 12 is a Par 5 with magnificent pine trees in the center of play so you have to choose left or right, says Tom Davidson, Circling Raven’s Golf Director.

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Davidson has difficulty choosing his favorite spot on the golf course. No. 15, he says, is “very picturesque” — cut out of Ponderosa forest with the green sitting down the hill a ways, and mountains in the background.

Not only does each hole have its own character and unique landscape feature, each hole has a name. No. 8, a Par 4 facing southeast with a view of where the Coeur d’Alene mountains converge with the St. Joe National Forest at the south end of Lake Coeur d’Alene, says Davidson, is called mqhwwqin, or Snow on the Mountain.

The course name honors Circling Raven, a spiritual leader who was aided by his kinship with Raven and Crow and in 1740 prophesied the arrival of men in “black robes.” (Jesuit missionaries arrived in the 1840s.)

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nearby Plummer-Worley School District.

Davidson describes the course as challenging, but player-friendly: Players can tee up from five different locations inside the tee-box. Greens fees include a GPS-equipped cart, and access to a 25acre practice area.

“Circling Raven is built purposely so that people can go out and experience tranquility and isolation,” says Davidson. “From the back nine, you can’t see another hole from the one you’re playing.”

The course is rugged, too, supporting a diverse animal population of elk, deer, moose, black bear, pheasant, quail, grouse, eagle, porcupine, cougar, wolf and coyote. In 2004, the course was recognized by the Audubon International’s Cooperative Sanctuary System for its commitment to the environment, including preserving natural habitat.

Weather on the course can be unexpected and powerful, says Davidson, creating a memorable golf experience that has drawn competitors from all over the world, including Scottish golfers who love huge courses, too. “We’ve often said you can experience four seasons in one day.”

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he Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort earns its “Resort” status in so many ways, from golf at Circling Raven to some good old-fashioned pampering at the 15,000-squarefoot spa added during the 2011 expansion. Spa Ssak’wa’q’n, which translates to “water on the head” in the Coeur d’Alene language, is nearly as large as the Event Center, yet unlike the excitement throughout the casino, the spa is tranquil, with a minimalist décor of natural cedar and stone.

A staff of 11 offers a wide range of services, all intent on making guests feel as welcome inside the spa as anywhere else at the resort.

Have a manicure, pedicure, facial or indulge in a 30- to 120-minute treatment designed to tone and revitalize. Massages include deeptissue and hot stone therapies, sports and prenatal massage, and those encompassing aromatherapy and THE SPA hydrotherapy. Combination packages are available, like the Native Spirit package (one hour each Ssak’wa’q’n massage and facial).

Facilities include the sauna, steam bath or three tubs of varying temperatures: Inside tubs, with their meditative décor, are kept at 70 and 95 degrees, while the outside soaking spot puts you right in the middle of nature and is kept at a bracing 104 degrees.

Spa services and the resort’s premier Circling Raven Golf Course have worked together to create crossover connections, such as the golfers relief package: 150 minutes of muscle massage, men’s facial and a pedicure for feet that may have just covered a lot ground.

Cocooned within the spa, guests may opt to have a light meal from the Red Tail menu in their own private dining room. No need to change out of a comfortable robe and state of relaxation. The outside world can wait.

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Way Beyond Bingo

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n 1993, only one game existed — bingo. It offered a lot of winning numbers: 93 people employed, and the Tribe’s $2.7 million 15year loan was paid off in just three years.

As more people visited the Tribal Bingo Hall, wanting to play more and stay longer, the hall expanded — dining, lodging, amenities — becoming the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort as we know it today.

The numbers are still good. There are six ways to play: There’s Keno GAMING (play from your perch anywhere inside the casino, like the Red Tail Grill), video blackjack and 10 televisions offer simulcast, off-track betting every day. And of course the biggest number to remember is the 5 percent of net proceeds that go to education, which to date totals more than $33 million.

“The best thing we have done, and what I want to focus on is the customer experience,” says Oscar Flores, who signed with the Casino in early 2017 to become Director of Video Gaming.

In 2017, Flores helped revitalize the 60,000-square-foot gaming floor’s 1,400 machines, including 100 new ones like Buffalo

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Grand, which lets you win up to five ways. The new Tim McGraw machine lets you listen this country star sing, while old-schoolers can roll with the Pac-Man Wild Edition.

Customer feedback has been great, says Petra Nielsen, Executive Marketing Director.

“Even if they like their old favorites, they always like to see the latest and greatest.”

Of course, you can still play bingo at the

machines, while still keeping the games fun for all levels, from a nickel up to $100.

The focus on the customer includes increasing opportunities to play and earn rewards through the Coeur Rewards program.

Benefits, depending on level of play, include a birthday gift and automatic inclusion in the birthday drawings for your month, and an invitation to participate in monthly gaming promotions like “Young at Heart Mondays,” which rewards members 55-and-older with food and lodging discounts and Extra Play Cash.

More play equals more Coeur Rewards points, which can be redeemed for Extra Play Cash, spa services, gift shop and pro shop merchandise, discount on local fuel, bingo buy-ins, food and beverages, rounds of golf at Circling Raven and even hotel stays.

Coeur Rewards is free and as easy as signing up with a government-issued photo ID at the rewards booth along the Skycatcher walkway, says Nielsen.

Even if they like their old favorites, they always like to see the latest and greatest. casino, which by spring of last year reported a 40 percent increase in gaming jackpots paid out since the prior year — about $1.5 million.

Even before the 25th anniversary, Flores and his team had been working on ways to continue improving the customer experience, including the addition of horseracing video and craps

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here’s no mistaking the distinct profile of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort, which has blossomed from those sturdy roots planted in 1993. The tribe has since added many amenities: conference and event facilities, the golf course, restaurants and a spa. Remodels and expansions have driven the need for overnight accommodations, and although the resulting hotel projects employed different design styles — two expansions in 25 years — they balance each other like the seasons.

ACCOMODATIONS The Mountain Lodge Hotel gives off the feeling of a warm fire in late autumn, or a lazy morning in summer, with its lobby of tawnycolored timbers, tumbled stone, brick-red fabrics and wide, welcoming entryway.

In 2004, 11 years after creating the bingo hall, the hotel opened with 200 cozy

rooms in several sizes, including executive and VIP suites.

In 2011, the second expansion was completed, adding 100 rooms in the Spa Tower, so-named because the ground floor contained a 15,000-square-foot spa.

With abundant windows and high ceilings, the Skycatcher walkway and Spa Tower lobby is decorated in the muted tones of winter on the prairie, or perhaps the shifting patterns of light after a spring rain.

Hotel rooms in both the Mountain Lodge and Spa Tower welcome guests with the availability of room service, and feature flat-screen televisions with satellite channels, coffeemakers and a room safe. In addition, guests may access free WiFi and valet parking, a fitness center, an ATM and plenty of places in the casino to grab a quick bite or settle in for a longer meal.

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2004 Light Through Connection RATHDRUM’S GOLLUM OF COMICS Alli White, an Idaho-based illustrator, character and costume designer, heads to Seattle’s Emerald City Comic Con to showcase her artwork to thousands of other comic nerds this weekend. Though the comic scene is much bigger in Seattle, White (who studied art in Redmond) says the interest is growing in the Inland Northwest. Besides, she much prefers her quiet mountain town of Rathdrum. Big city life is too much, says the artist.

“I stay hidden away like Gollum most days.” Check out her work at skirtzzz.com. (QUINN WELSCH)

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BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

was skeptical about interviewing the author of a children’s picture book with only one word in it.

But it wasn’t just any writer behind La, La, La, a story told mostly through brilliant artwork by illustrator Jaime Kim. This was Kate DiCamillo, best known for her beloved children’s novels Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. Both were made into movies, one I read as a kid.

My skepticism was quickly and righteously dashed.

Although La, La, La started out as a doodle, a way for DiCamillo to turn away from words for a moment, in just a few minutes she’s able to describe this story about a little girl with a song to sing in a way that gives it depth and humanity.

“I can’t draw, let’s be very clear about that,” DiCamillo says, shushing her dog Ramona, named after Beverly Cleary’s quirky character. “But I storyboarded a whole thing out.”

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ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores March 2. To wit:  ANDREW W.K., You’re Not Alone. He still likes to party and, I would imagine, party hard.  SUUNS, Felt. The Canadian quartet loosens up a bit on its latest.  THE MEN, Drift. The Brooklyn rockers evoke romantic Lou Reed among louder moments.  THE BREEDERS, All Nerve. Bow to Kim Deal, back leading the Last Splash lineup of these alt-rock killers.  TITUS ANDRONICUS, A Productive Cough.

One of New Jersey’s best bands delivers an album with easily the best title I’ve heard so far in 2018. (DAN NAILEN)

From DiCamillo’s simple two circles, Kim created a vibrant, colorful world, bathing the girl in light as she ventures out to share her tune.

“It’s this feeling of wanting and needing to connect and finally connecting, and she captures that so beautifully,” DiCamillo says. “It’s the same story that I’m telling in all the novels. It’s that search for light through connection.”

When DiCamillo does speaking events like the one she’ll do in Spokane, there are often adults there who read her books as kids, and that, too, makes for powerful connection.

I let slip that I read Winn-Dixie growing up, and before I know it, we’re talking about our elementary school teachers, growing from readers into writers, and she’s apologizing for tearing up.

“I cannot get over that,” she says. “That the kid you read that book.”

My emotionally-distant journalist facade crumbles, and I also have to clear my throat, totally ruining my reputation as the only person in my family who doesn’t choke up at the drop of a Hallmark commercial.

When DiCamillo was young, it never occurred to her that books were written by actual people, so she does her best to show others she’s a broken-hearted, messy person, in hopes maybe one kid will walk out thinking she, too, can be a writer.

“The more human you are — ’cause I’m nothing but a messy human — the more suited you are to be a writer and to tell the stories about your heart,” she says. n Kate DiCamillo • Sat, March 3, at 7 pm • Purchase of La, La, La ($17.99) required (admits two) • Spokane Public Library • 906 W. Main St. • auntiesbooks.com/event/ kate-dicamillo-la-la-la

That’s the last time Metallica played Spokane, on their “Madly in Anger with the World” tour.

The metal pioneers and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers return to Spokane Arena on Dec. 2. Tickets are $65 and $135 and go on sale Friday, March 2. Visit spokanearena. com for details.

TOTALLY NOT THE SOUP If you were a fan of long-running E! Channel show The Soup, a weekly snarkfest poking fun at all the week’s best worst TV moments, you’re in luck. The show is back — sort of. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale recently debuted on Netflix, and it’s basically exactly The Soup, complete with nonsensical guest drop-ins (Jason Priestley!), jokes at the writing team’s expense and a whole lot of McHale being pleased with himself. New episodes arrive on Sundays. (DAN NAILEN)

TACO PARTY Though it happened a day after Taco Tuesday, Cochinito Taqueria’s debut couldn’t have come sooner for the many eager customers and soon-to-be fans of Spokane chef Travis Dickinson’s new downtown restaurant.

The spot at the corner of Post and Riverside offers both classic and creative takes on the street taco, with walk-up counter service for a fast-casual feel despite fine-dining techniques in the kitchen. Other items on the Latin-forward menu include sopes, elote (street corn) bowls, soups, salads and plenty of house-made sauces.

Cochinito is open Mon-Thu from 10 am-9 pm and Fri-Sat from 10 am-10 pm. (CHEY SCOTT)

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The Grammy-winning Ying String Quartet.

Guess Who’s Bach Northwest Bach Festival celebrates 40 years in 2018

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s the Northwest Bach Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, its Grammy-winning artistic director Zuill Bailey says he always strives to choose music that requires both the audiences and musicians to appreciate the sounds “with a fresh set of ears.”

To that end, Bailey will go to the ends of the earth — sometimes literally — to find interesting and unusual interpretations that he and his guests can deliver in the festivals’ venues. This year, those guests include the Grammy-winning Ying String Quartet and jazz pianist Matt Herskowitz, in addition to some of the best musicians working here in the Inland Northwest.

“In my travels, I always go digging for catalogs and collections and libraries, searching for something interesting and new,” Bailey says, noting that’s exactly how he came across cellist Laszlo Varga’s unique arrangement of Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, created for a sextet, that Bailey found through some internet sleuthing and a visit to the University of North CarolinaGreensboro.

“I had heard a rumor that he’d given his collection of all of his works” to the school, Bailey says, “so I went to the school and went straight to the department and asked, ‘Is this true?’ And they said, ‘Not only is it true, but here are copies!’”

The performances of Varga’s rare Don Quixote are just some of the things that make the North-

west Bach Festival a unique asset for the region’s cultural life. The series of shows have a little something for everyone, from the classical music expert to utter neophyte.

While superfans attend every minute they can, perhaps you need to be a little more choosy in plotting a night with Bailey and friends.

You can find the complete schedule and ticket information at nwbachfest.org; here are a few highlights to consider:

GET BACH

On Friday, March 2, at 7:30 pm, Bailey and the Ying String Quartet tackle works by the festival namesake J.S. Bach, as well as Schumann and Arensky. The Schumann concerto should be a true highlight, as the five musicians attack the piece that requires five virtuosos to pull off. The show is at Hamilton Studio, 1427 W. Dean Ave. in Spokane, and costs $35, or $15 for students.

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The West Coast premiere of Varga’s arrangement for sextet of Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote on Monday, March 5, at 7:30 pm, will feature Spokane musicians Mateusz Wolski (violin), Nick Carper (viola), Daniel Cotter (bass clarinet) and Emily Browne (horn), joined by pianist Matt Herskowitz and cellist Bailey. This show is at Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. in Spokane. Tickets are $35, or $15 for students.

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John Bodinger, the organist at St. John’s Cathedral, takes center stage in a special show at the church on Sunday, March 11, at 3 pm. Bodinger will do some solo work on Bach’s original instrument, the organ, plus play selections with pianist Elizabeth DeMio and cellist Bailey.

“To me, this brings it back to Bach. Bach was an organist. I wanted to showcase Bach’s instrument with the organ, but in a way that brings it around in a different way,” Bailey says. Hence, the show will focus on solo organ before adding Bailey’s cello and DeMio’s piano as it moves along. The show is at St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave., in Spokane. Tickets are $35, or $15 for students.

Zuill Bailey, the festival’s artistic director

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Bailey brings some guests every year for free shows in River Park Square, and this year they’ll be on Thursday, March 1, and Thursday, March 8, at noon at the Kress Gallery on the mall’s third floor. Bring a lunch or just drop by to hear some incredible musicianship during the hour-long programs. Bailey also does two “Flash-Bach!” shows for free at downtown venues announced the morning of the shows. This year, they’ll be at noon on Friday, March 2, and Friday, March 9; locations will be announced at 8 am those mornings via the WEEKEND Northwest Bach Festival FaceC O U N T D OW N book page.

Get the scoop on this “The important thing for weekend’s events with me is to break down that wall our newsletter. Sign up at of inaccessibility to performers Inlander.com/newsletter. and audience,” Bailey says. “To put them in a setting that is very up close and personal and very visceral, so that people are close with their families and friends to these instruments, in a setting where they can have conversations and be social. Musically, what I’m looking for is a kind of tapas-menu of sounds.

“It’s amazing to see how music stops people in their tracks.

When I sit down in a shopping mall and start playing my cello, when I start no one’s around me. By 15 minutes later, I have this mob all standing there with their phones out.” n Northwest Bach Festival • through Sun, March 11 • Various locations • For times and prices, visit nwbachfest. org for complete show schedule and details • Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006

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On the Springy days I hear lots of people asking what they can do in their gardens? For me, that change from Fall to Winter was so quick I never cut off my perennials! Now is a great time to get into the garden, rake up the leaves that are still on the ground, and cut back the dead growth on your perennials.

Once you’ve cleaned up your garden, you’ll likely notice that the weeds are already coming up. If you want to eliminate some of those hours of weeding in flowerbeds and perennial beds, put down a pre-emergent. HOWEVER… not just any preemergent. You’ll want to read the label to make sure it can be applied to flowerbeds and perennial beds, and make sure you read the proper way to apply it too. There is even a few preemergents that are for killing invasive grass in your perennial beds. So remember to always read the labels and never use a pre-emergent where you want to plant seeds.

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WITH THE GRAIN Baker Shaun Thompson Duffy is opening his Culture Breads storefront later this month.

The Grain Shed will showcase beer, bread and other baked goods made with locally farmed grains in Spokane’s South Perry neighborhood

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eer and bread — two of the oldest recipes in the world — unite for the forthcoming South Perry bakery and brewery at The Grain Shed.

The venture is a regional collaboration between a baker, a pair of brewers and a farmer, whose respective focuses sustainably and economically complement one another.

Work to renovate a historic 1920s-constructed building at 1026 E. Newark — once home to a grocery store and a barbershop on the north edge of the South Perry Business District — to house the Grain Shed has been ongoing for the past several months. A projected opening is now just weeks away.

A majority of the grains, which are landrace, ancient or heritage strains (these terms refer to grains that are pre-hybridized, primitive or were introduced before the development of plant genetics), that will be baked into bread and brewed into beer at the Grain Shed are grown

by Palouse Heritage farms, near Endicott, Washington.

Local baker Shaun Thompson Duffy, who operates the Grain Shed’s bakery component, branded as Culture Breads, will mill those grains into flour to bake a variety of breads and other pastries inside the bakery’s Old World-style, wood-fired oven custom built over several weeks late last year.

At times, Duffy will also use spent grain malt from the bakery’s counterpart Grain Shed Brewing, run by brewers Joel Williamson and Teddy Benson.

“I was looking to try and open a spot by myself, and

Joel and I have always been friends and we started talking about incorporating grain and all of its uses, and he started talking about the beer aspect,” Duffy explains.

“Then Joel and Don [Scheuerman, of Palouse Heritage] started talking about what we could do. Joel and Teddy are brewing beers with grains that no one brews with, these landrace grains… they were really taking it to a different level — the highlight is the malt and not the hops.”

Williamson is a well-known figure in the local farming and brewing community, having co-founded LINC Foods farm cooperative and the Palouse Pint grain malting operation.

The cooperative venture’s bakery is set to open first, sometime later this month, while the brewery side is expected to be up and running in April, pending the approval of various permits. (See sidebar to the right.)

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n the mornings, and until the day’s inventory is depleted, customers can purchase fresh-baked breads and other pastries. In the coming months, as the baking schedule and the “personality” of Duffy’s oven (which he’s named Eleanor) are smoothed out, more house-made items will be introduced, including a lunch menu featuring flatbreads, sandwiches, and other items, like pasta, that all highlight Culture Bread’s deep focus on grains.

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BEER LAB Joel Williamson and his-brother-in-law Teddy Benson have each been homebrewing for about a decade and always envisioned founding their own brewery someday.

That dream is now being realized with Grain Shed Brewing, a microbrewery set to open later this spring highlighting beers made from lesser-known and nontraditional beer malting grains.

“At LINC, when we started malting two years ago now, that changed everything for me,” Williamson explains. “It was a great way to explore what else is really out there as far as ingredients, and that is when I got interested in malts and the different flavors at our farms… that changes beer and that no one is exploring.”

The duo plan to brew beer a couple nights a week on their one-and-a-half barrel system that’s set up right behind Grain Shed’s bar.

“It’s a pretty small location, and we knew we couldn’t have something too big on site, and the other idea was that the mill and the oven are there, and we want to make sure people can experience the brewing side as well,” Williamson explains.

On tap, the Grain Shed will feature a series of flagship beers named after the unique grains the brewery uses in each, like its Purple Egyptian Barley beer. Special one-off and experimental batches will frequently rotate.

“We’re not going to make classic beer styles that people are used to,” Williamson says. “We’re highlighting the unique flavors that Don [Scheuerman] grows. In general, the styles and flavors that we’re trying to highlight are not as popular in the U.S., they’re more malt forward.”

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heat it retains and how many loads we can do is going to base what we can do realistically for a lunch service.”

Coming into the Culture Breads’ side from the street (the Grain Shed is open to all ages, but will have separate bakery and brewery entrances), customers are immediately greeted by the sight of the massive double-deck stone oven, built with a face of blue and white glazed bricks.

“A big reason for the oven to be front and center is to highlight wood-fired baking,” Duffy notes. “It’s such a rare thing.

Wood-fire baking is a skill, and not a lot of people are doing it in America. It’s a shame to see it die, it’s such a way of life.”

Duffy worked with two professional oven masons to build the custom bread oven, which includes features that will allow the business to bake more than just bread and pastries throughout the day.

At night, the lower oven deck is filled with wood to slowly burn through the night, uniformly warming the bricks on that level and the second deck above for the following day’s baking schedule. The next morning, the remaining ash and embers are swept out of the bottom deck. Baking on both decks throughout the day is possible from retained heat inside the stone walls, with specific styles of bread going in first at the oven’s peak temperature, and on until the oven is at its coolest, before the fire is lit again.

Rather than only use that long-retained heat for pastries and bread, Duffy wanted to take advantage of the oven at its cooler temperatures to offer midday items, like pizza and sandwiches, in a bakery-café format. Later this year, he also hopes to launch a once-monthly, ticketed dinner series featuring multiple courses for themed menus, all prepared using the oven. And on Monday nights, when most other South Perry District restaurants and businesses are closed, Duffy is planning to stay open later for pizza night.

Beyond bread, Duffy foresees baking German-style malted pretzels and bagels and hopes to make other non-baked items inhouse, like jams, spreads and butter.

Come late spring and summer, the Grain Shed will open sidewalk bistro tables out front and patio seating in the back.

The daily lineup of loaves for purchase will begin with seven

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or so unique breads, including Old World styles such as German dinkelbrot, vollkornbrot whole grain rye and pain de mie, a softer bread often used for sandwiches and French toast.

“Most of the bread will be named after the grain,” Duffy says.

“Each bread will have a different characteristic from that grain, the [sourdough] culture, sea salt, flour and water.”

The majority of breads will be naturally leavened, with commercial yeast used when needed.

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uffy has been professionally baking for more than a decade now, getting his start at the Portland mill, bakery and cafe Tabor Bread. He brought skills learned there to Spokane about five years ago, working at Luna restaurant’s in-house bakery for a time, where he first began milling his own flour. After leaving Luna, he independently established Culture Breads, first operating the business as a bakery subscription service.

“I’m real adamant about milling my own flour,” Duffy says.

“With freshly-milled flour, there is no going back — there is no alternative to buying bags of flour sitting in a warehouse. If you want to bake bread as a living, you gotta have a mill. That was the first thing I purchased.”

Duffy’s stone flour mill, set up in the back of the bakery, will be visible to customers through a large window. There, he’ll mill flour from wheat strains like Crimson Turkey, Khorasan, Sonoran Gold, White Lammas and Red Russian, along with Purple Egyptian barley and Gazelle Spring rye. A farm near Cheney is providing a Black Einkorn, which Duffy describes as “the very first sort of wheat known to man,” and which has an oily characteristic, requiring the flour to be refrigerated.

“I like it because it has great flavor,” he says of the einkorn.

“I’m in this game milling fresh and using these crazy grains not as a health kick, but all about the flavor kick… You want to start with the most flavorful grains as possible to make your job easier.” n cheys@inlander.com The Grain Shed: Culture Breads and Grain Shed Brewing • 1026 E. Newark • Hours TBA • On the web: Instagram.com/ culturebreads and palouseheritage.com

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Four staffers share their favorite places and courses so far for Inlander Restaurant Week 2018 THE RESTAURANT BY HOTEL RL we now recommend to others without hesitation, I tend to use Restaurant Week to explore places I’ve either never been to or that opened since the previous year. The Restaurant by Hotel RL has undergone a major facelift, along with the rest of the hotel, so I headed over, drawn by the trout fish and chips on the menu. Fish and chips are pretty common around here, but trout fish and chips aren’t, and this batch coated in River City Ale batter was delicious — not too heavy, not too oily. The gherkin tartar sauce was another nice, subtle twist on an old standby and the house-made potato chips were served hot. I was tempted to go for the black truffle popcorn or boneless sriracha wings for my first course, but I can’t resist onion rings, and Hotel RL’s were perfect — fat rings with batter that didn’t slide off on first bite. They were served with a tasty chipotle crema sauce. I resisted yet another fried dish for dessert and went for the mini huckleberry crumb sundae. The portion of Milk Bottle huckleberry ice cream was small but satisfying, and the whipped cream and chocolate cookie crumbles lent a nice sweet finale to a meal that was actually worthy of drawing locals to dine alongside the Hotel RL’s guests, especially for just $21. (DAN NAILEN)

FLEUR DE SEL

Not even the snow and ice this past weekend could keep us from making our long-planned trip out to Post Falls to enjoy a Restaurant Week dinner at this impeccable French eatery. My partner and I first dined at Fleur de Sel during Restaurant Week two years ago, and it’s a place

regardless of the season. After seeing the restaurant’s three-course menu more than a month prior, I knew exactly what I was going to order.

I enjoy salmon in any preparation, and Fleur de Sel’s coulibiac entree is now one of the best I’ve had: a puff pastry filled with salmon, mushroom and spinach INLANDER duxelle, and R E S TA U R A N T served amid WEEK a creamy, The 10 tastiest days of the savory lobster year continue through Saturday. sauce. Fleur Visit InlanderRestaurantWeek.com de Sel’s sauces for complete details. are always dreamy and true to their European origins — this was no exception and was so good I wished it was publicly acceptable to lick my plate clean. Before the coulibiac, I treated myself to the foie gras panna cotta. The sweet and savory unification came with two petite slices of soft brioche bread and a side of bacon jam. To savor the creamy, whipped spread I made quick use of the sliced baguettes complementary to the table. To cap off the evening’s delightful exploration of flavors and ingredients, the chocolate lover I am was naturally drawn to choose the dark velour on white chocolate, a half-sphere of fluffy mousse and a drizzle of blackberry coulis. Meanwhile, my partner ordered the 63 degree egg salad, the veal gratinée and the house-made orange sorbet, called The Admiral, though I’m pretty positive the three dishes we didn’t order were just as delicious. (CHEY SCOTT)

ITALIA TRATTORIA

The best meal I’ve ever had, back in 2011, in Spokane was a duck dish at Italia Trattoria. This year’s incredible Inlander Restaurant Week deal made for the perfect excuse to return to see if Trattoria, whose head chef Anna Vogel was just named a semifinalist for the James Beard award, still had it. I took my younger brother with the clever strategy that we’d get twice the selection of dishes if we both snagged a few bites off each other’s plates.

It worked marvelously. I started with the duck liver mousse pâté. Pâté is inherently a weird looking dish, resembling a meaty Nutella, but the pâté’s taste had a rich and complex palette. Even more interesting was my brother’s choice of appetizer, the Italian ricotta and spinach malfatti. Think of it almost like manicotti, deconstructed and transformed into a delicious little dumpling.

For the main course, I went with the grilled pork steak. The steak was solid, particularly when you included the dark green salsa verde topping in your bite. But even better was my brother’s choice: The pan-seared sole. The skin of the fish in particular was perfectly crisp, with a peppery zest. I had no idea what this dish, described as a salmon “quenelle,” was. Turned out it’s pureed salmon, ground into a mound, almost like fishy mashed potatoes. Don’t worry, it totally worked.

We bypassed the ice cream sundae for dessert (who goes to a gourmet restaurant and orders the ice cream sundae?), instead ordering the Italia tiramisu and the caprese chocolate torta. They made for a fine epilogue, but the sole remained the meal’s climax.

My brother, the manager of a local sandwich shop, left a massive tip. “It was just really good,” he says. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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To start my meal, I went with the mango and drunken goat cheese salad and ordered a pint of Silver City Tropic Haze IPA. The sweet mimosa vinaigrette paired well with the juicy, citruspacked IPA. Underneath the dressing was a savory blend of goat cheese soaked in red wine and candied pepitas. Next up was the smokey mushroom stroganoff. I know I have to order a dish when it features roasted wild mushrooms in lieu of a hearty meat.

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Into the Shimmer Annihilation is a heady, cerebral sci-fi puzzle from the director of Ex Machina

BY ERIC D. SNIDER

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hat we know at the beginning of Annihilation is that a lighthouse was struck by a projectile that fell from the sky (seldom a good omen) and that Natalie Portman, in hospital clothes, is being interviewed by three men in hazmat suits who want to know what happened “in there.”

What follows is a gripping, uneasy sci-fi horror story in the tradition of Aliens or Predator (though not Alien vs.

Predator, strangely), thoroughly engrossing, occasionally gross, with a bit of Kubrickian trippiness thrown in for good measure. It’s the second film directed by screenwriter Alex Garland, following 2014’s Ex Machina, and while it’s an adaptation of a novel by Jeff VanderMeer, it has some of the same themes as original Garland scripts like 28 Days Later and Sunshine: A small group of people exploring the unknown, unsure what terrors await them.

Portman plays Lena, a Johns Hopkins biologist who spent several years in the military. That’s where she met her husband, Kane (Oscar Isaac), who went on a secret mission a year ago and never returned. But wouldn’t you know it, at the very moment Lena is listening to sad Crosby, Stills & Nash songs and repainting her and Kane’s bedroom to symbolize her decision to move on, he shows up, seemingly none the worse for wear. What happened? Where’s he been? He doesn’t really know.

He’s… not the same.

Where he was, it turns out, was with a team investigating that lighthouse. Or trying to investigate it. The

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extra-terrestrial object that hit it created a shimmering bubble that has expanded to cover many miles of land and shows no signs of stopping. Simply called “the Shimmer” by the military’s top scientists, it’s not clear what effect it has on people because so far, except for Kane, nobody who has entered the Shimmer has returned.

Something in there is killing every team they send, driving them crazy so they kill each other, or a combination of the two.

Whatever it is, Lena wants to know, for reasons both scientific and personal. She joins four other scientists on one more excursion into the Shimmer: Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a passionless psyANNIHILATION chologist; Josie (Tessa Rated R Thompson), a kindly Directed by Alex Garland Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason physicist; Cass (Tuva Novotny), a European Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac anthropologist; and Anya (Gina Rodriguez), a fiery paramedic. There’s a certain fatalism in embarking on a mission that almost no one has ever come back from, and the movie is overshadowed by a sense of doom from this point forward.

The Shimmer has overtaken a chunk of what must be Florida or thereabouts, covering marshes and swamps and at least one very large alligator. The scientists find that their compasses and communications devices don’t work (no surprise), and that the alien substance alters —

that is to say, mutates — whatever plant and animal DNA it comes in contact with. Simply being in the Shimmer, whether you touch anything or not, seems to be enough to do the trick, a fact that dawns on our quintet gradually.

I won’t tell you anything else that happens in the Shimmer. (It’s like Las Vegas in that respect.) Having introduced us to a world with limitless possibilities, Garland lets the madness creep up on us: paranoia here, dangerous creatures there, always a sense of disorientation. Lena is the only character whose thoughts we’re privy to, and we see flashbacks to her and Kane before the mission that shed some light on their motivations.

The other women, though not as well developed as characters, each add flavor to Garland’s tense and frequently terrifying concoction, even if some of their doom-laden conversations don’t amount to anything more than dreadful garnish.

A few elements, like the Shimmer’s effect on one’s sense of time, are announced but unexplored, though I note that the Annihilation novel is the first in a trilogy. (I also note, however, just by reading the Wikipedia summary, that the movie deviates significantly from the book.)

The finale fits the tone of the rest of the film — things weren’t cheerful before, why would they start now? — in a way that will feel cold and perhaps unsatisfying to some viewers, but I ate it up, reveling in the unsettling events and their eerie implications. n

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The 1974 Charles Bronson exploitation classic gets a 21st-century facelift, with Bruce Willis taking the reins as a father who becomes an urban vigilante after his wife and daughter are attacked.

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As an antiques appraiser makes his rounds from house to house, the narratives of his customers — and their attachments to family heirlooms — begin to weave together in unex-

pected ways. The all-star cast includes Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Catherine Keener, Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn.

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Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian ballerina-turned-assassin? Sure, why not.

She’s sent to take down a CIA operative (Joel Edgerton) in possession of incriminating information on her government, but things get messy when they get the hots for each other. (NW) Rated R

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If you didn’t get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated World War II epic on the big screen, now’s your chance. A powerful study in sensory overload and an examination of the traumas of battle; its structural and stylistic daring make it one of the most absorbing war films of recent years. (NW) Rated PG-13

GET OUT

Returning to theaters following its four Oscar nominations, comedian Jordan Peele’s horror satire mines black fears and liberal racism as an African-American guy’s meet-the-parents weekend with his white girlfriend becomes something far more sinister. Unsettling and impeccably paced, Peele’s smart script is designed to deepen and mutate upon repeat viewings. (NW) Rated R

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Clint Eastwood directs this fictionalized account of three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack on a train in 2015. The twist: He cast the actual men to play themselves and recreate their act of heroism. They’re not especially good actors, and the movie is only compelling in its final moments. (NW) Rated PG-13

ANNIHILATION

Alex Garland follows up 2014’s Ex Machina with another cerebral sci-fi trip that’s gripping, eerie and a bit of a head scratcher. Natalie Portman fronts a team of badass biologists who infiltrate an environmental disaster area to determine what happened to the soldiers who went missing there. (ES) Rated R

BLACK PANTHER

Marvel’s latest is set in the nation of Wakanda, where its new king T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) must face warring factions who want to usurp the throne. As directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed), it’s more serious-minded than typical superhero fare, full of nobility and purpose without sacrificing fun and charm. (ES) Rated PG-13

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One of the best films of the year, a swooning romance in which a 17-yearold American kid (Timothée Chalamet) spending a summer at his family’s Italian villa becomes infatuated with his dad’s slightly older research assistant

(Armie Hammer). A delicate work of art and a passionate love story, simultaneously ethereal and earthy. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

DARKEST HOUR

Gary Oldman is unrecognizable under pounds of makeup and prosthetics as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who’s settling into his first term right as Hitler’s power intensifies.

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

EARLY MAN

The usually reliable Aardman Studios produce a rare dud with this animated comedy about soccer-playing cavemen. Missing the sharp humor and cinematic flair that made the studio’s best works, including Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, so memorable. (MJ) Rated PG

EVERY DAY

A fantastical twist on the teenage romance, with a 16-year-old girl falling in love with a being that manifests itself in a different body every 24 hours.

From the YA bestseller by David Levithan. (NW) Rated PG-13

FIFTY SHADES FREED

E.L. James’ trilogy mercifully ends with the idyll of Anastasia and Christian’s married life being disrupted by her vengeful former boss and his inability to open up emotionally. As shallow and sterile as its predecessors, but ...continued on next page

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HOSTILES

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

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

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

You belong at Holiday.

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

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This year’s Academy Award-nominated short films hit theaters this weekend in two separate programs: animated and live-action. Both are strong and varied collections, showcasing myriad styles, tones and storytelling methods. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

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An evening of board games and merlot amongst friends is interrupted by violent thugs and kidnappers. The only problem is everyone thinks it’s all a gag.

The comedy gets dark, but it’s never nihilistic or mean-spirited, and the actors, particularly stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, play to their strengths. (ES) Rated R

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Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s character gets the anthropomorphic, wise-cracking CGI treatment, voiced by James Corden and perpetually pestering Domhnall Gleeson’s bumbling Mr. McGregor. Sounds a bit unbearable, but, hey — it worked for the Paddington movies. (NW) Rated PG

PHANTOM THREAD

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

THE POST

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

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SAMSON

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THE SHAPE OF WATER

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

Weird, gory, eye-popping, disarmingly sweet and featuring a masterful star turn from Sally Hawkins. (SS) Rated R

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WINCHESTER

California’s Winchester Mystery House seems an ideal setting for a horror film, but it’s wasted in this conventional ghost story, as is Helen Mirren as the mansion’s widowed owner. Standard PG-13 scares, with Conjuring-style specters that pop out of dark corners accompanied by musical stings on the soundtrack. (ES) Rated PG-13 n

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Bruce Willis is a one-man vigilante squad in the unfortunately timed Death Wish remake.

Die Harder Is now the best or worst possible time for a Death Wish reboot?

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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he premise of Death Wish is the same now as it was nearly 45 years ago.

Paul Kersey is a family man whose world is shattered when his wife and daughter are beaten and raped by a gang of home intruders. His daughter is badly injured; his wife dies. Paralyzed by grief that gives way to anger, Kersey gets himself a gun and starts indiscriminately killing off all the bad dudes scurrying about New York City like so many cockroaches.

The 1974 film, loosely based on a novel by Brian Garfield, exists in a kind of far-right fantasia wherein a liberal softie (played by Charles Bronson) can transform into a ruthless Dirty Harry type overnight. It’s the “good guy with a gun” argument in cinematic form. Violence, the movie shows, is a scourge upon society. It is also the only solution.

The original Death Wish has now been remade by gorehound Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) and has Bruce Willis taking on the Bronson role. It was originally slated to hit theaters last Thanksgiving, but its release was stalled just a few days after a gunman opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival on Oct. 1. MGM, the studio distributing the film, didn’t cite the massacre as the reason for the delay, but the timing couldn’t have been incidental.

And now Roth’s Death Wish is finally in theaters, right on the heels of yet another mass shooting, this time in Florida.

Watching one of the film’s trailers, in which Willis legally procures an arsenal of weapons while AC/DC’s “Back in Black” rip-roars on the soundtrack, I had a thought: Why this movie, and why now? It’s not just that I’m suffering from a perpetual remake hangover; I don’t know if I want to sit through a ridiculous thriller about

how easy it is for a middle-aged white guy to become a self-employed one-man army.

I looked back at the original Bronson-starring Death Wish out of morbid curiosity and found a troubling but fascinating snapshot of America’s anxieties in the early ’70s. It’s like finding an old Polaroid yellowing in a shoebox: Director Michael Winner’s film captures the griminess and uncertainty of its era, when TV news reports of skyrocketing crime rates, the war on drugs and the intensifying Watergate investigation were the norm.

Of course, the movie’s attempts at gritty, urban realism are kneecapped by the sheer ridiculousness of its action set pieces: Everywhere Kersey goes, he not only encounters menacing, leering muggers and murderers but seems to be emanating some kind of pheromone that attracts them.

That absurdity is only amplified in the four(!)

Death Wish sequels, which descend further and further into some kind of fascistic hellscape.

What’s so strange about them is that they’re hilariously outlandish and queasily violent at the same time, and their treatment of women is particularly nauseating: Female characters exist in the Death Wish universe only to be brutalized so Bronson can go on another rampage.

It’s easy to laugh at the general incompetence of the Death Wish series, but it’s also difficult to ignore the poisonous morality and murky politics at its core.

I can’t imagine Roth, one of contemporary cinema’s least subtle practitioners, bringing much nuance to this dusty old formula, though I’m willing to keep an open mind. (As of publication, the film hasn’t been screened for critics.)

And perhaps it’s unfair to make an example of the new Death Wish when so many movies now playing (Black Panther, Game Night, Red Sparrow, Annihilation, even Fifty Shades Freed) revel in gun violence.

But the very conceit of Death Wish seems wildly out of place today, so glib in its presumption that the law only exists to be usurped. Will this new iteration, like its forebear, find something — anything, really — to say about the violence it’s depicting, or will it merely try to titillate us with it? Either way, do we need it? n

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Carlos Santana, one of the most influential guitarists of all time, will perform at the Arena on Sunday night.

ROCK

Passion Play

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana brings his namesake band to Spokane

BY BEN SALMON

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hen you have a conversation with Carlos Santana, it doesn’t feel like you’re talking to one of the greatest and most influential electric guitar players who ever lived. It’s more like an easygoing chat with a spiritual advisor, or a life coach, or simply a 70-year-old man who is grateful for each day. Or all of those rolled into one.

But every once in a while, Santana says something that reminds you of the fire that has lived inside his fingers for decades.

“There comes a time with integrity where you know you cannot do it at a certain level that you’re accustomed to,” he says. “So the mechanics leave you, just like walking from one room to another. When you can do it better than you did it before — like a lion, you can still get it done — then you should still be on the

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road. If you cannot, then I appreciate people who say I can’t do it at that level so I’m going to do something else with my life.”

Santana is reacting to the recent rash of retirements by artists from his generation, such as Paul Simon, Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne and Neil Diamond. But along the way, he quickly — almost imperceptibly — compared his world-famous, generation-defining, otherworldly technical skills on the guitar to…walking from one room to another.

Like most of us walk from one room to another, Carlos Santana plays the guitar.

Don’t misunderstand: Santana doesn’t take his abilities or his career for granted. Quite the opposite.

The Mexican-born musician — who moved to the Unit...continued on next page

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MUSIC | ROCK “PASSION PLAY,” CONTINUED... ed States in the early 1960s — now lives a blessed double life as both a bona fide guitar legend and a classic rock zen master, willing and able to dispense wisdom at the drop of one of his name-brand hats.

“Someday the world will be gardens with no thorns. It will be light with no shadows,” he says. “I truly believe that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for and that with music we can help do things that religion, politics and a lot of our institutions have yet to do, which is to bring compassion, bring equality, fairness and justice and really heal. You heal the world by correcting your mind.”

Santana’s star-making journey started in San Francisco’s famous 1960s music scene, and he burst into global consciousness with a fiery set at Woodstock in 1969, the same month his namesake Latin rock band released its self-titled debut album.

Santana was the first of a series of records the band put out in the early 1970s, taking each as an opportunity to explore and incorporate the sounds of psych, Afro rock, blues, jazz fusion and beyond.

After slowing down creatively and commercially in the ’90s, Santana experienced one of the greatest late-career resurgences in rock history with his guest-laden 1999 album Supernatural, which topped Billboard’s album chart for weeks, won eight Grammys and sold more than 30 million copies — a year after Santana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

That’s quite a legacy, but Santana, as always, is more interested in the present and future than the past.

“I love this moment, when I believe ... I can go to Woodstock right now with this band and have more ener-

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John Lennon and Bob Marley, I am them now.

They graduated to another plane along with Prince and Michael Jackson, but I’m here and I love all of them, so therefore when I present myself I bring all of them with me.”

In the past couple of years, Santana fulfilled two long-time dreams: He recorded an album — 2016’s Santana IV — with his original band for the first time since 1971. And he recorded an album — 2017’s Power of Peace — with WEEKEND soul pioneers the C O U N T D OW N Isley Brothers, Get the scoop on this whose iconic weekend’s events with hit “Twist and our newsletter. Sign up at Shout” came out Inlander.com/newsletter. around the same time Santana moved to San Francisco. Both were well received by fans and critics and both sizzle with the same sense for exploration that has always powered Santana’s music.

“When your toe touches the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii or (anywhere), it’s the same ocean all the way to the Atlantic. So when you touch the ocean, you touch all of it. It’s all connected,” Santana says.

Santana IV “So for me, I derive inspiration from the same gy than the first one. Why would I show up if I couldn’t divine imagination. For you, for me, for Einstein do that?” he says. or whoever: eureka! When people say, ‘Wow that was “I hope people understand that there’s arrogance and brilliant how you played that,’ that’s because it’s coming then there’s spiritual conviction. Those are two differfrom the same ocean of divine creativity.” n ent things, you know?” he continues. “When you have spiritual conviction you can say, ‘When I hit a note, Santana • Sunday, March 4, at 8 pm • $65.70, $75.50 100,000 angels go with that note, so I’m not alone.’ I’m and $85.50 • All ages • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Malnot playing for Carlos Santana. I’m playing for creation. lon Ave. • Spokanearena.com • 279-7000

MUSIC | BLUEGRASS

The seasoned musicians in Steep Canyon Rangers, performing with the Symphony this weekend, are pushing the boundaries of bluegrass.

Bold Explorations Steep Canyon Rangers took big risks recording their new album, with rewarding results

BY DAN NAILEN

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early 20 years into a career that’s already given a band ever-increasing popularity, Grammy awards and opportunities for genre-defying collaborations is not exactly the time you’d expect that group to start taking dramatic chances.

There’s no other way, though, to look at how bluegrass heroes Steep Canyon Rangers approached recording their latest album, Out in the Open, other than “risky business.” Arriving to the studio to work with roots music-focused producer Joe Henry — a Grammy winner for records he made with Solomon Burke, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Carolina Chocolate Drops — the Rangers quickly realized they were in for an altogether different process than they were used to.

Rather than playing and recording piecemeal, putting the guitars, banjos, fiddles and rhythm section parts together layer by layer, then adding vocals and making a “perfect” record, Henry intended to take advantage of the band’s tight musical cohesion forged over years of live shows. His plan was to record every single aspect live with the whole band playing together at once.

Every instrumental note. Every lyric sung. Every mistake, too. The result is a killer set of 12 songs recorded in a lightning-fast three-and-a-half days.

“The aesthetic of this record is all due to the beautiful mind of our producer,” says Rangers drummer Mike Ashworth via phone before the band launches a tour, stopping in Spokane for a show with the Spokane

Symphony on Saturday. “It was almost a spiritual experience. Joe, the things he brought to the table were hard to quantify. He brought a mood, or he would bring an idea about humanity. It was such an intense recording session. … He wanted to capture us in our most true form, and I feel like he did.

“This recording style he brought to us has really impacted the way we approach music. It’s really changed everything because he caught us at such a candid moment.

We’re now working to make every moment as humble and as real and as approachable as they can be.”

The high-wire recording stunt might sound scary for long-time fans who already love the North Carolina crew’s music, and there are a lot of those people.

The Rangers first formed in 2000 and in 2006 won the Emerging Artist of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. A couple years later they started touring and recording with comedian Steve Martin, blending his jokes with serious bluegrass throwdowns in memorable shows from coast to coast.

While the Martin collaboration earned the band plenty of new fans, their own music kept earning accolades as well, including a Best Bluegrass Album Grammy in 2013 for Nobody Knows You. It’s easy to predict that the new set of songs on Out in the Open will garner similar attention. Guitarist and vocalist Woody Platt, banjoist Graham Sharp, mandolinist Mike Guggino, fiddler Nicky Sanders, bassist Barrett

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Smith and Ashworth have crafted an album that pushes beyond bluegrass into folk, country and blues.

Ashworth says the band’s evolution has come naturally through the years as the members pushed themselves to try new things. Ashworth joined the band full time about five years ago after decades of collaborating with the Rangers because the band’s sound increasingly needed the drive of a drum kit, an instrument that is anathema to some bluegrass traditionalists.

The decision to join a band he was friends with and a fan of — and one already successful without him, playing a more traditional style — was both “seamless, and completely daunting,” Ashworth says.

“I’ve been making music with all the guys in different capacities for over a decade, so I knew in that sense it wouldn’t be a big deal joining,” Ashworth says. “At the same time, I was a big fan of the band, and at that point I didn’t really know that adding percussion was such a great idea. … It became clear that the songwriting was already going that way, and it just made artistic sense.”

The Rangers’ expanded sonic palette has made them comfortable playing everywhere from traditional bluegrass festivals to rock clubs to staid performing arts centers. While they were working with Martin, they had a few songs worked up for shows with symphony orchestras. The Rangers liked the results enough to start working with composer Jonathan Sacks on more of their catalog so they could do more symphony shows. “[The symphony shows] are pretty special to us,” Ashworth says. “We don’t get to do it a lot because it’s a big thing to wrangle a symphony in a town. It’s just a huge rush to have all that power behind you and all these different interpretations of the things you’re trying to do.” n dann@inlander.com Steep Canyon Rangers with the Spokane Symphony • Sat, March 3, at 8 pm • $39-$86 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

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MUSIC | SOUND ADVICE

HIP-HOP ATMOSPHERE

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ean Daley and Anthony Davis (better known as Slug and Ant) are the minds behind Atmosphere, the Minneapolis hip-hop duo that’s proved you can amass a huge following whilst tiptoeing around the mainstream status quo. In the two decades they’ve been releasing albums, Atmosphere has never had a Top 40 single, and yet they’re popular enough that they just sold out The Knitting Factory. Much of their appeal comes from Slug’s reflective lyrical style, and he spends much the duo’s most recent album, 2016’s Fishing Blues, calling out false prophets, waking up in strange places after a night of partying, and reflecting on “the good ol’ days” and realizing they weren’t. It feels like a relapse record following 2014’s clean-and-sober Southsiders, and yet it still flirts with optimism.

In the end, he realizes that there are, in fact, way too many songs about breakups.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Atmosphere with Evidence • Sat, March 3, at 7 pm • Sold out • All ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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Thursday, 03/1

J BABY BAR, Pardoner, Dumb, PIT J J THE BARTLETT, Bully, Melkbelly J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CORBY’S BAR, Open Mic and Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Open Jam Night THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flanary and the Songsmith Series J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Dirk Swartz J THE LOCAL DELI, Ethereal in E MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Open Mic with Kevin Dorin J MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE, Open Mic Hosted by Scott Reid NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack J J NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Queensrÿche J ONE WORLD CAFE, Brett Hendrix POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Justin Sherfey THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke SLICE & BISCUIT, Bluegrass Jam THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ WesOne Thirsty Thursday ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 03/2

219 LOUNGE, Fat Lady ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Son of Brad

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he Philadelphia three-piece band Good Old War formed a decade ago following the dissolution of the group Days Away, and their gentle, poppy folk stylings are actually miles away from the previous act’s emo-influenced prog. The trio’s latest release is an EP called Part of You, which is not only a companion piece to last year’s five-song collection Part of Me (an upcoming third EP, yet to be titled, will complete the loose trilogy) but also marks the return of original Good Old War drummer Tim Arnold, who had left the band briefly to focus on family. His presence clicks a missing piece back into place, and there’s an obvious comfort in sinking into these songs, even if they’re new to you.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Good Old War and Justin Nozuka • Sat, March 3, at 7:30 pm • $20 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

J THE BARTLETT, Corey Kilgannon, Mr. Manager J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DIPPER, Jip Skippy and the Unprepared BIGFOOT PUB, Slow Cookin’ BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Ron Greene BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Kosta la Vista BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Emily Ridler J CEDAR COFFEE, Dario Ré CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke

CRAFTSMAN CELLARS, First Friday with Dave McRae CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Karma’s Circle CURLEY’S, Dangerous Type DRY FLY DISTILLERY, Nick Grow FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends J HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Back Porch Trio HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR, Heart Avail, Quaggadog, Better Daze IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Ocelot Wizard

IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Children of the Sun, Ragbone JOHN’S ALLEY, Ragtag Romantics J J KNITTING FACTORY, Young Dubliners, Buffalo Jones, Nathan Chartrey LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Jessica Haffner MAX AT MIRABEAU, The Sidemen MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Blues Night with Steve Rush, Kevin Dorin and Scott Taylor

MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, The Cole Show NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NECTAR CATERING AND EVENTS, Jamison Sampson NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots J THE OBSERVATORY, Cathedral Pearls, La Fonda, Mama Doll J ONE WORLD CAFE, Animesh Patt PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Bridges

Home PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic J THE PIN!, Secrets, Moretta, Alive in Barcelona, Velafire, Of Truth J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Vel the Wonder, Divedeye, Heron & more RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Gladhammer THE ROADHOUSE, DJ Breece SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Eric Neuhauser SLICE & BISCUIT, Brett Hendrix SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Kaylee Goins THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ WesOne and DJ Big Mike: I Love the ‘90s UP NORTH DISTILLERY, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

Saturday, 03/3

219 LOUNGE, Naughty Pine ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Truck, Craig & Mel J J THE BARTLETT, Good Old War (see facing page), Justin Nozuka J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Cattywomp, The Monties, Quaggadog

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BIGFOOT PUB, Slow Cookin’ BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Kevin BLACK LABEL BREWING, Gabriella Rose BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Kosta la Vista COMMUNITY PINT, Gil Rivas CRUISERS, Dysfunktynal Kaos, Cobrajet, Jacob Vanknowe, God’s Money Shot CURLEY’S, Dangerous Type FLAME & CORK, Ron Greene GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Usual Suspects J THE HIVE, The Nth Power HOGFISH, Wayward West, Boat Race Weekend, BarTalk HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR, Black Jack J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Aaron Cerutti HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City & DJ P-Funk J IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Clint Darnell IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Gigawatt THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, A-Mac and The Height J J KNITTING FACTORY, Atmosphere (see facing page), Evidence THE LARIAT INN, Spokane River Band LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kori Ailene J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Steep Canyon Rangers with the Spokane Symphony (see page 49) MARYHILL WINERY SPOKANE, Ken Davis

MAX AT MIRABEAU, The Sidemen J MOOTSY’S, Casual Hex, Miscomings, Mala Vida, Pit J MT. SPOKANE SKI & SNOWBOARD PARK, One Street Over MULLIGAN’S, Echo Elysium NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE PIN!, Spokane Artist Festival POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Gladhammer THE ROADHOUSE, Christy Lee J SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Ethereal in E J THE SHOP, Dave McRae with Retro Roger SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Jimi Finn THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ K-Phi & DJ A1 WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Just Plain Darin ZOLA, Raggs and Bush Doktor

Sunday, 03/4

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Keys N Krates, Promnite, Jubilee LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music

THE ROADHOUSE, Sharon Daggett J J SPOKANE ARENA, Santana (see page 47) ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 03/5

J J THE BIG DIPPER, Comrades, Boat Race Weekend, Ghost Heart J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 03/6

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Covering Country with The Holy Broke GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Tuesday Takeover with Storme THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/ Jam Night THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 03/7

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills J BABY BAR, Tender Age, Wild Body, Stares J THE BARTLETT, Covering Film with Scott Ryan GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES,

Open Mic with Travis Goulding IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Ron Greene THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, The Higgs LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, The Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic Night with Vern Vogal THE THIRSTY DOG, Donny Duck Entertainment Karaoke TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

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

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FROM LEFT: Ben Dyck as Ben Robbins, Dalin Tipton as Elliot Leeds and Julie Berghammer as Catherine Powell in 2.0 (Two Point_Oh).

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THEATER DEAD OR ALIVE?

Jeffrey Jackson’s 2.0 (Two Point_Oh) pushes the boundaries of where live performance meets technology — both in its plot, and in the play’s production. The story revolves around one Elliot Leeds, a Steve Jobs-type software mogul who goes missing in a plane crash. Months later, his widow finds a virtual-reality simulation of Leeds that he’d designed before his disappearance. The electronic version of the man is remarkable, sharing Leeds’ memories and holding conversations.

It even gets smarter the longer it’s online, raising the question, is this new Leeds “alive”? Blending satire with poignant questions about how much we’ve let technology enter and, at times, dictate our lives, 2.0 (Two Point_Oh) promises an altogether different kind of theatrical experience.

— DAN NAILEN 2.0 (Two Point_Oh) • March 2-25: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $27 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

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HISTORY TEXTILE FILES

There’s a mysterious object deep in the archives of the MAC, and it’s coming out for a rare public viewing during a special event and discussion. Since 1937, the museum has had in its possession an unusual and elaborate handmade quilt bearing a note that simply says “old quilt brought to America.” New findings by textile researcher Dana Forbes Bowne suggests that this puzzling piece was made as early as the 1600s in Bengal, India, which would make it one of the oldest known quilts in existence in the U.S. Bowne will discuss more of her theories about the quilt’s origins during a public presentation and also share its connection to a prominent Spokane family. Attendees will also have a chance to view this rare piece of history after her talk.

— CHEY SCOTT Discussion: “Old Quilt Brought to America” • Sun, March 4, from 2-3:30 pm • $9 suggested donation • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

BENEFIT MOUNTAIN MANEUVERS

Support Spokane’s local chapter of the Washington Student Cycling league, a nonprofit, holistic mountain bike program for students in grades 6-12, by attending the Red Carpet Premiere of Deathgrip.

Hosted by local cycling shop The Bike Hub, the event includes a screening of the riveting mountain bike film by Clay Porter and Brendan Fairclough, with snacks and one non-alcoholic beverage free with admission. This second annual event seeks to spread awareness about youth cycling in Spokane, and to raise funds to provide students with opportunities to keep attending races and events throughout Washington state. Through a positive outdoor experience, WSCL aims to foster youth development, confidence, leadership, health and public stewardship. Get your tickets at any Bike Hub location or online.

— ALLA DROKINA Bike Hub’s Red Carpet Premiere: Deathgrip • Fri, March 2 at 6:30 pm • $10 • The Bike Hub • 817 S. Perry • thebikehub.com • 443-4005

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The ninth annual Hemingway Festival is back this weekend at the University of Idaho’s Moscow campus and around the Palouse town, celebrating and recognizing this year’s PEN/Hemingway Award winner, Yaa Gyasi (pictured), along with many other literary-focused community events. The prestigious award recognizes a novel or collection of short stories by an American author who hasn’t previously published a book of fiction. Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing explores the lasting damage of the slave trade on one family across a span of 200 years. In addition to a reception and reading (March 2 at 7 pm) with Gyasi, the festival features expert panels on the festival’s namesake and his legacy, a screening of Papa’s Shadow: Hemingway in East Africa, and the presentation of awards to local students for the Hemingway High School Writing Contest. Visit the link below for complete festival details.

— CHEY SCOTT

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Hemingway Festival • Thu, March 1, to Sat, March 3; event times vary • Events at the University of Idaho and venues in Moscow • uidaho.edu/ class/hemingway • 208-885-6156

FILM OH HI, GARLAND!

Since it first appeared on a single Los Angeles screen in 2003, Tommy Wiseau’s bizarro romantic drama The Room has developed a reputation as one of the strangest, most unintentionally hilarious pieces of cinema ever made. It recently made its way onto the A-list: James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, a comic look at The Room’s behind-the-scenes antics, just received an Oscar nomination for its script. Now you can see Wiseau’s original “masterpiece” for yourself, and just as the bad movie gods intended: at a midnight screening with a boisterous audience at the Garland Theater. Like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Room has become an interactive filmgoing experience. Be sure to bring your best friend, an ill-fitting tuxedo, a football (for throwing) and a handful of plastic spoons (also for throwing). The film isn’t often screened outside big cities, so getting your tickets now would be good thinking.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

out of bed sometime between 6am and 3pm.

1 Get Go to work if that’s your thing. your friends at 5pm. Not literally, of course— 2 Grab that’s just rude. a gallery for free food and free fun. Repeat…oh, 3 Hit a couple dozen times before 8pm.

Don’t miss the next First Friday: March 2nd, 2018

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For event listings visit: www.firstfridayspokane.org Most venues open 5-8pm

The Room • Sat, March 3, at 11:45 pm • $5 • Garland Theater • 924 W. Garland • garlandtheater.com • 327-2509

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I SAW YOU MOVIE ANGEL i was the guy with the blue eyes, you were at the northtown mall with your friend. i got the courage to walk up and ask you what you were doing. but you took it a step further, you and your friend asked me if i wanted to see maze runner with you. i will never forget your beautiful face. thank you for making my day jasmine. we should go out for a movie some time if you want.

VINTAGE VINES You were on crutches, having a drink with a girlfriend. We smiled at each other a couple of times.

You and your friend have the greatest laughs. I wish I would have said hello.

Maybe I’ll see you there again.

BEAUTIFUL GIRL I saw u we had sex spontaneously that might last year it was amazing hope to see u soon sexy kel SWEET TREAT WITH YOUR SWEETIES I saw you in Sunday the 25th with three little kiddps, enjoying an ice cream at Ben and Jerry’s downtown. You had a pretzel cone and kept all three of those babies smiling with ease. Your smile was contagious too. What a fantastic father!

THE PRAYER VIGIL FOR DREAMERS I saw you at the Spokane First Presbyterian Church on Thursday, February 22nd. We both were going in at the same time and quickly spoke to each other. You had the Our Lady of Guadeloupe candle

and offered it to me. Please send me an email @ gltelford@gmail.com Blessings, Louise

CHEERS INDIAN EYES This is for my beautiful Indian eyes just remember by golly you’re worth it and that we love you and respect and adore you ,you’re a very special woman my beautiful Indian eyes, kiss the Irish BULK BAG ENTHUSIAST Cheers to the cashier at Yokes on North foothills. I came through your line with reusable bulk bags and I have never met someone so excited. Your enthusiasm made my day!

HOPE I know we both struggle with depression and PTSD, maybe that’s why we need each other, so we can help each other feel loved. Maybe the healing we both need is true love. I know you feel like you don’t measure up to this worlds standards, but you mean the world to me, and you are that revolutionary man i have always known who always had a vision. I see who you really are, and i know you feel like an outcast, but so do i, and i love you because you aren’t like everyone else, your true colors are beautiful like a rainbow, let them shine through.

FOUND, AT LAST... Thank you for finding me this past summer, for afternoons afloat under bridges and strolls along the river. Thank you for standing at my side, as we grew to love each other and for showing me I was stronger than I ever imagined. You are my Buttercup, I love you.

THANK YOU To the gentleman at Walmart in Airway Heights. I bought 2 chairs that didn’t fit in my car. He saw I was struggling and that the chairs wouldn’t fit. He offered to go out of his way, to take my chairs to my home in his SUV, which he did. When I offered him money, he refused. His kindness without want for return has continued my hope for humanity. I, in return will pay it forward. Thank you sir. You are an inspiration.

PACK IS BACK THANK YOU to the person or persons who found my backpack at the KPBX Record Sale on Saturday and turned it in. My phone and other items I would not want to lose were inside.

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honesty and kindness. I asked God to bless you, and I trust that He has and will continue to.

ER SUPERHERO You were so amazing last week. I cannot begin to tell you how thankful I am for your help with the kids while I was ill and how you advocated for me in the ER. All of your love, care and adoration has been just the medicine I need. Xox

JEERS JEERS TO THE NRA AND THEIR REPUBLICAN MINIONS Jeers to the NRA and their Republican minions who are trying to convince us that the solution to gun violence in our schools is even MORE guns in schools. And Cheers to the students and millennials and democrats for being brave enough to stand up to the gun manufacturers to demand sensible gun laws.

RE: PROLIFERS Don’t stop with slaughtered children in schools. What about immediately after birth? Where are the Prolifers then? Are they stepping up to raise all the unwanted babies? I doubt it, considering the media is overrun with parents who do horrible things to their children: neglect, torture, starvation, enslavement, filthy living conditions, foster homes, murders and sexual abuse just to name a few. How much worse would

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general permit. This requires fingerprint, proper ID & background check. In fact I wouldn’t object to a DNA sample as part of any permit to own a firearm. Keep in mind NRA members are law abiding US citizens, “good guys with guns” who follow the law, possibly protecting your

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our world would be if every unwanted baby was born? Read Freakanomics if you have any doubt. I became ProChoice when I reached adulthood & decided that no one has the right to tell anyone what to do with their body. This was also shortly after I gave birth to my 1st child,

a job I wanted and fully accepted. Not everyone has or wants that privilege. So put your money where your mouth is. Go adopt tons of kids, volunteer with at risk youths, or become a foster parent. The placards of dead fetuses are tacky & only show how close minded you are.

STA FREEZE So I am regular STA bus rider, taking it to work and back home very late at night and never seems to fail, it’s always frozen on the bus. You would think with the money that STA brings in they can run their heaters so riders can’t be somewhat comfortable... Why the price hike on all routes when they obviously didnt expand very much and all passengers have to frozen to the seats.

Come on STA get your crap together and if the heaters are broken..THEN FIX ‘EM!!!!

That’s what our tax dollars are supposed to be doing... Right??!!

REBUTTAL TO TRAITORS JEERS OF LAST WEEK Is there something wrong with you to compare ISIS to the NRA? First of all, your comment is constitutional protected under freedom of speech, as is the right to bear arms. You do not get to use only the constitutional rights that suit you, unless of course you have ISIS inspirations. I’m all for background checks, 21 years old to purchase ANY firearm, & mental health check. In fact,why not have any persons wishing to purchase a firearm be required to apply for a gun permit, not just concealed, but a

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life.This requirement would still uphold the 2nd amendment. I do agree rapid fire rifles should be banned. Finally, as a matter of mention, alcohol is illegal for younger citizens, they acquire it anyway, drugs are illegal, they manage to get it, also tobacco, the underage folks can get it, therefore we all know that the criminal element will get guns to rob, steal, rape and kill. NRA members and/or law abiding citizens protected by the constitutional 2nd amendment will protect all citizens under threat with deadly force if confronted with evil. I can only hope if evil comes your way a NRA member is near to save you. Perhaps then you will appreciate how firearms can protect all citizens. You should be ashamed to call US citizens traitors. Learn your history.

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BENEFIT

BIKE HUB’S RED CARPET PREMIERE: DEATHGRIP A premiere screening of the mountain bike film Deathgrip to support and spread awareness about youth cycling opportunities in Spokane and surrounding areas. March 2, 6:30 pm. $10. The Bike Hub, 12505 E. Sprague Ave. bikehub.com (443-4005) WINE, STEIN & DINE The 22nd event, benefiting the Post Falls Education Foundation, offers tasting of 100+ regional microbrews, hard ciders and wines, along with an array of foods from 14 local restaurants, live music, raffles, and a silent auction. March 3, 7-10 pm. $45. Greyhound Park & Event Center, 5100 Riverbend. pfefwsd.org JAM FOR BREAD Sidhe, Spokane Area Youth Choirs and The Weddle Twins perform to raise money for Crosswalk, Volunteer of America’s teen shelter in downtown Spokane. Vern Windham emcees. Also includes a raffle of gift baskets. March 4, 3-5 pm. $8-$12.

Westminster Congregational UCC, 411 S. Washington St. (624-1366) THE FIG TREE BENEFIT LUNCH This year’s theme is “Including Everyone: We Need Each Other.” Speakers include Sima Thorpe of The Arc of Spokane, Hershel Zellman from Temple Beth Shalom, Christina Kamkosi of Empire Health Foundation, and James Casper of Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho.

Please RSVP; event is free to attend but guests will be asked to make a contribution. In the Cataldo Hall Globe Room.

March 9, 11:45 am-1 pm. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. thefigtree.org TOAST THE TIGERS A social tradition uniting Lewis & Clark High School families, community and alumni for an evening of entertainment to raise funds for the LC Senior All-Nighter. Includes a live and silent auction. March 10, 6:3010 pm. $50. The McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. bit.ly/2mSVK6Q (981-8439) NW BACHFEST CELEBRATION A festival finale celebration with Artistic Director Zuill Bailey to close Bach ‘18 with a buffet dinne, no-host Barrister wines, pianist Matt Herskowitz’s musical treats, an inspiring Flamenco dance performance, auction items and more.

March 11, 5:30-8 pm. $75. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. nwbachfest.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) GARY GULMAN Originally from Boston, Gary has been a college football player, an accountant, a barista, a doorman, a waiter and a teacher. Now he’s a touring comic and has performed on every late night comedy program. March 1, 8 pm. $18-$28. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) LATE LAUGHS An improv show featuring a mix of experiments with duos, teams, sketches and special guests.

Events on the first and last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming

local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com STEVE JESSUP Steve popped into focus when his drunken arrest videos on his riding lawn mower and a scissor lift turned him into well-known personality.

Some 50 million views later, he decided to start doing a weekly show from his shop called “Whiskey Weed Women.”

March 2 at 8 pm, March 3 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $15-$23. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509-318-9998) AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) IMPROV! The Fire Brigade is Ignite’s inhouse, family-friendly improv troupe.

First Saturday of the month, 7 pm. $5.

Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) SAFARI The BDT’s fast-paced, shortform improv show in a game-based format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays from 8-9:30 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays from 8-9:30 pm. Free.

The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com SPOKANE’S BEST COMICS Featuring performances by Folger Emerson, Larry Callaway, Sophie Thomi, Brian Hood, Devin Devine and Phil Kopczynski.

March 4, 8 pm. $5-$12. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) 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. (509-318-9998)

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TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION This blockbuster exhibit takes visitors on a journey back in time to experience the legend of Titanic through more than 120 real artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. The objects, along with room re-creations and personal stories, offer haunting, emotional connections to lives abruptly ended or forever altered. Through May 20; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 8 pm). $10-$18. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing. Ages 6-17. Meets first Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm; also March 16 from 4-7 pm. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org HOUR OF CODE FOR KIDS Explore the world of coding using game-based lessons on Code.org and Scratch. No experience required; register online. Grades 3-6. March 3, 10 am-noon. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org (279-0299) PARADE OF NATIONS A multicultural celebration of traditions from around the world including performances, foods, arts and crafts, a fashion show, and more. March 3, 6-9 pm. $5. EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (206-883-7779) SEED SCHOOL IN A DAY A workshop aimed at shifting the seed paradigm back into the hands of our communities. The program covers topics span-

WHERE PASSION & PRODUCTION EXPERTISE MEET ning the history, science, business, and craft of seeds taught by farmer and seed saver Casey O’Leary. March 3, 9 am-5 pm. $50-$65. Inland Northwest Wildlife Council, 6116 N. Market St. inwfoodnetwork.org (208-546-9366) THE STRENGTH OF A WOMAN: AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION Women from diverse backgrounds and experiences share their stories and experiences in leadership. Panelists also answer audience questions. March 3, 4-6 pm.

Free. Human Rights Institute, 414 1/2 Mullan, CdA. bit.ly/2CM46mV WINTER MARKET The 14th annual market hosts local vendors selling handmade artisan goods including gourmet food, arts, jewelry and more.

March 3 from 10 am-2 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. 1912center.org LOAVES & FISHES Earth Ministry and Save Our Wild Salmon host a discussion and light lunch with farmers, commercial fishermen, Native Americans and faith leaders to discuss concerns surrounding salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin. March 4, 12-3 pm. Salem Lutheran Church, 1428 W. Broadway Ave. (928-830-8433) “OLD QUILT BROUGHT TO AMERICA” Since 1937 the MAC has been home to a mysterious, elaborately embroidered quilt. A handwritten note in its file describes it as an “Old quilt brought to America” from England. Recently published research by a local textile researcher now suggests that it was actually made in Bengal during the 1600s.

March 4, 2-3:30 pm. $9. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org HOPE IS HERE SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM ASWSU hosts a panel with three international speakers considered experts in the mental health field. Panelists touch on the subjects of mental health, suicide prevention, finding hope and connecting to resources for help.

March 5, 7 pm. Free and open to the public. Beasley Coliseum, 925 NE Fairway Rd. beasley.wsu.edu (335-3525) RAISING BEES FOR INCREASED POLLINATION Learn how to raise the Blue Orchard Mason Bee, which are docile, non-aggressive and safe for families and pets. March 5, 6-8 pm. $10. uidaho. edu/extension/county/kootenai/garden (208-446-1680) DISASTER PREPAREDNESS A discussion of how to prepare for an unexpected emergency, in four steps, including safety for human and animal family members, and how you can become prepared for any hazard. March 6, 7 pm.

Free. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. (907-378-7255) MILLWOOD HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS GATHERINGS Attend lively discussions of the Millwood community’s past, from the paper mill to the families down the street. The local group invites all to join the discussion and bring photos, interesting items and memories. Upcoming meetings on March 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 1-2:30 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. (893-8250) NEXT GEN JOB FAIR An entry-level, early career hiring event focused on connecting young adults ages 16-24 with local employers who are hiring for entry-level positions and/or can share about career pathways in their organizations. Employer registration closes March 1. March 7, 12-3 pm. Free and open to the public. Spokane Transit Plaza, 701 W. Riverside. nextgenzone. org/nextgenjobfair (509-456-7277)

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REGULATION

Show Me the Money For now at least, the feds want pot money in banks

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.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the so-called Cole Memo left many in the cannabis industry wondering what federal action might result in regard to everyday business operations.

Even when the Cole Memo was in effect — which laid out the feds’ enforcement priorities in states that had legalized weed — marijuana businesses still had a tough time when it came to banking. That led to guidance by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in 2014.

The stated policy allowed banks to accept money from cannabis businesses on the condition that they regu-

larly file reports on the transactions. And in December, FinCEN detailed an increase in banks participating in its reporting program. From the beginning of 2017 to September, 60 more banks opened their accounts to cannabis businesses, bringing the total number to 400.

Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the House Financial Services Committee that he intends to keep policies allowing marijuana businesses to access banking services.

“I assure you that we don’t want bags of cash,” Mnuchin testified. “We want to make sure that we can collect our necessary taxes and other things.”

In the meeting, Mnuchin did admit to the department “reviewing the existing guidance” but he has no intention of removing the FinCEN protocol without an alternative policy to replace it. A bipartisan effort on the hill has emerged, asking the Treasury Department to maintain the policy even after the removal of the Cole Memo.

And Mnuchin confirmed that Sessions did not consult his department prior to his ruling at the beginning of this year.

“I did not participate in the attorney general’s decision and what he did, but we are consulting with them now,” he testified. “We do want to find a solution to make sure businesses that have large access to cash have a way to get them into a depository institution for it to be safe.”

Last November, Republicans in the House Financial Services Committee used a procedural ruling to block a vote on a cannabis banking amendment on a stress testing bill for financial institutions. Previous efforts to add assurances for banks and businesses have been blocked

by Congressional Republican leadership, dating back to a proposed 2014 House amendment that was never amended to an annual appropriations legislation.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SPOKANE CONTRA DANCE Spokane Folklore Society’s weekly dance, this week with The Jam band playing and caller Penn Fix. No experience necessary; beginner workshop at 7:15 pm.

March 7, 7:30-9:30 pm. $5/$7. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org (598-9111) OPEN HOUSE: POST FALLS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY Visitors can tour the facilities and interact with local National Guardsmen and their equipment. Participants can also learn about benefits of serving in the Guard. Includes a free lunch catered by Franko’s Dog House (11 am-1 pm, while supplies last). March 8, 10 am-2 pm.

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PAPA’S SHADOW The U of Idaho’s Hemingway Festival presents a screening of the documentary about Ernest Hemingway’s legacy in and relationship to Africa, starring Patrick Hemingway and Joseph Mbele. March 1, 1 pm.

Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) LEONARD A OAKLAND FILM FEST Whitworth University hosts the 10th annual film festival, featuring highlights including the 2017 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film, an American comedy-drama listed in the National Film Registry, and a documentary created by a Whitworth graduate. March 2-3 at 7 pm and March 4 at 3 pm. Free. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu/ oaklandfestival (777-4605) NO MAN’S LAND FILM FESTIVAL EWU and EPIC Adventures host a screening of inspirational outdoor films highlighting women who defy stereotypes.

Includes a post-film panel with women from the Spokane community involved in outdoors, sports, and recreation.

March 2, 7 pm. $2.50/public; free/EWU students. EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (359-4014) LAST STAND: THE VANISHING CARIBOU RAINFOREST A screening of the new documentary film with proceeds benefiting the South Selkirk Mountain Caribou recovery efforts. Includes special guest David Moskowitz and retired Spokesman outdoors writer Rich Landers. March 3. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. kalispeltribe.com/caribou (242-7000) OSCAR SHORTS 2018 A screening of the 2018 Oscar-nominated animation and live action short films. Animated shorts at 5 pm; live action at 7 pm.

March 3, 5 pm. $7-$10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org THE ROOM A screening of Tommy Wiseau’s cult “masterpiece,” where concepts of impassioned acting, brilliant dialog and moving plot are redefined!

March 3, 11:45 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. bit.ly/2GMvMuk 90TH ACADEMY AWARDS Join the Kenworthy for an evening with the Stars and a live telecast of the the 90th Academy Awards ceremony. March 4, 5 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org REEL MOVIE MONDAYS: MAUDIE Based on a true story, this film tells of an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. March 5, 7 pm. By

donation. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127)

FOOD

CULINARY 101 CLASS: FLAVOR COMBINATIONS & TECHNIQUES Chef Rob produces everything for attendees enjoyment in a class with hands-on preparation and plenty of tips, tricks, and industry secrets from him. This class focuses on braising, blackening, and caramelizing techniques of chicken, salmon, and vegetables. March 1, 6-8 pm. $40. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com PIZZA & BREW Learn to make a tasty dough, build your own toppings and pair with your favorite beer. March 3, 7-8:45 pm. $27. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd. modernistcooks.com (789-0428) SIP OF BEVERLY’S An introductory wine class and tasting event with Beverly’s Sommelier Trevor Treller. Interactive sessions include appetizers and featured wines at discounted bottle prices. First Saturday of the month, at 3 pm. Ages 21+. $25. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second St. beverlyscda.com SCIENCE & HISTORY OF CRAFT BEER Discover the history and science behind one of the world’s most popular beverages with local beer expert and brewer Adam Boyd. March 6, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley. scld.org (893-8390) GNOCCHI COOKING CLASS Executive chef Jeannie Lincoln leads a hands-on class to create the delectable pillowlike pasta. Class culminates in a familystyle meal inside the historic Estate’s main venue. Ages 21+. Offered March 7 and 8 from 6-9 pm. $50. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini.com (466-0667) CRAW FISH BOIL Learn to cook a Louisiana-inspired crawfish boil during this hands-on class. March 8, 7-8 pm. $39. Modernist Cooks & Catering, 1014 N. Pines Rd. modernistcooks.com SEED SAVING BASICS Learn seed saving techniques for several “easy to save” herbs, flowers, and vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, beans, and peas. March 10, 10 am-noon. $10.

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TEN STRINGS & A GOAT SKIN This bilingual folk/fusion trio from Prince Edward Island plays traditional and original music inspired by their Atlantic Canadian roots, infusing Irish, Acadian, French, and original creations with pop and world rhythms. March 1, 7:30-9:30 pm. $9-$18. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu (335-8522) TITANIC ENSEMBLE A musical performance featuring a local cast, telling the gripping story of the ocean liner’s maiden voyage and tragic demise.

March 1, 6-8 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org CELLO + PIANO CONCERT Kevin Hekmatpanah, cello, and Paulina Zamora, piano, perform music by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and contemporary composer, Karina Glasinovic. March 2, 7-8:45 pm. By donation. Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St, Harrington. harringtonoperahouse.org (253-4719)

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Advice Goddess WAITY ISSUES

I’m a married gay woman. Whenever I ask my wife to discuss some problem in our relationship, she’ll say, “Can we talk about this tomorrow” (or “later”)? Of course, there’s never a “tomorrow.” I end up feeling resentful, and this makes even a minor issue turn into a big deal. Help.

—Postponed Putting things off is a relief in the moment but usually costs you big-time in the long run — like when you procrastinate in going to the dermatologist until the mole on your neck has a girlfriend and a dog.

Procrastination — the “See ya later, alligator!” approach to problem-solving — is defined by psychologists as voluntarily delaying some action we need to take, despite our knowing that doing this will probably make the ultimate outcome much worse. Procrastinating seems seriously dumb, right? But consider the sort of tasks we put off. Chances are, nobody needs to nag you 45 times to eat cake or have what you’re pretty sure will be mind-blowing sex.

Research by social scientists Fuschia Sirois and Timothy Pychyl suggests that procrastination is a form of mood management — a knee-jerk emotional reaction to emotional stress that involves putting “short-term mood repair over long-term goal pursuit.”

I know — not exactly the stuff Valentine’s Day cards are made of. But focus on the “knee-jerk” aspect of the mood management response. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains that our brain has two systems — an instinctive, fast-responding emotional system that jumps right in and a slower rational system that we have to force to do its job.

That’s because reasoning — applying judgment to some dreaded problem — takes what Kahneman calls “mental work.” We have to make ourselves focus on the problem and then put cognitive energy into figuring things out. That’s a grim chore — the antithesis of a mood booster. And that’s probably why there’s a term “pay attention!” but there’s no “pay emotion!” Emotion is automatic. It just busts out, all “An issue to discuss? Oh, wouldja look at the time?! I believe I’m five minutes late for moving to Florida!“ Because personality traits tend to be consistent over time and across situations, chances are, your wife has a habit of ducking all sorts of emotionally uncomfortable stuff.

Understanding this — as well as why we procrastinate — can help you see her ducking as a human flaw rather than a sign that a particular human doesn’t love her wife.

To keep resentment from poisoning your relationship, when she says “tomorrow…” say, “Awesome, babe. What time works for you?” Maybe even have a regular weekly wine ’n’ chat. Ideally, the conversations should mostly be lovey-dovey, not the sort she prefers to have on the third Tuesday in never: “Okay, I could have my toenails pulled out with rusty pliers or have this conversation. This isn’t to say I’m dreading it; I just want to give some thought to how attached I am to wearing open-toe shoes.”

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I’m a 33-year-old guy on the dating scene, looking for a relationship. I’m pretty picky, so most of my dating isn’t going past the three-week mark. My problem is that it seems mean to call a woman and tell her why I’m not interested, but it also seems mean to just ghost — disappear on her without telling her why. What’s a good and kind way to end things?

—Nice Dude It’s disappointing when a prospective relationship isn’t working, but it’s much worse when it just disappears. Can you imagine coming home one day and your stove is just…gone?

“Ghosting” somebody you’ve been dating — vanishing forever, sans explanation — cues what psychologists call the “Zeigarnik effect,” which describes the mind’s habit of annoying us (over and over and over) to get “closure” when we have unfinished business.

Some people “ghost” because they have all the conscience of a deer tick; others believe (or tell themselves) that it’s kinder than laying out exactly why they’re done.

But consider that when moving on, you only need to communicate one essential thing: There will be no more of you in their future.

Should a woman press you for further info, stick to vague explanations — “spark just wasn’t there” -- instead of going into detail about, say, how her breath reminds you of a decomposing gerbil. Also to be avoided are explanations that give a woman hope that your vamoosage is temporary — for example, telling her you have to end it with her because you still aren’t over your ex. That can lead to a closure of sorts — of the zipper on the tent she’s pitched on the grassy area in the middle of your cul-de-sac. (Stalker?

Um, she prefers “watchful urban camper.”) n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR INTERNATIONAL STRING TRIO The trio’s performances encompass a range of styles, including Gypsy swing, oldtime Appalachian laments, traditional Irish reels, celebratory klezmer, passionate tango, graceful French musette, and burning bluegrass. March 2, 8 pm. $15/$18. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) NORTHWEST BACH FESTIVAL The 40th annual classical music festival offers 14 days of performances including the Festival Classics Concerts, Twilight Tour Concerts, and other special performances, from Feb. 26-March 11 at various Spokane venues. For a complete schedule and tickets, visit nwbachfest. com TELL THE WORLD Tracing the history of African American spirituals, this concert addresses universal issues of the human condition: hardship, joy, sorrow, and hope. March 2, 7:30-9 pm. $8-$60 St. James Episcopal Church, 1410 NE Stadium Way, Pullman. palousechoralsociety.org HOWLING GAELS Listen to lively jigs and reels, love songs, airs, drinking songs and traditional Irish songs sure to get your feet tapping. March 3, 2-3 pm.

Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. scld.org (509-893-8260) LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100 To celebrate the 100th birthday of the American icon, composer Donivan Johnson discusses his life, works and influence.

March 3, 2-3:30 pm. $9 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (363-5324) SING FOR YOUR HEART All four ensembles of the Spokane Area Youth Choirs, along with special musical guests, present an uplifting evening of songs for all ages. Also features a silent auction and raffle to support SAYC programs. March 3, 4-5 pm. $6-$10. Central Lutheran, 512 S. Bernard St. (624-9233) STEEP CANYON RANGERS WITH THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY The modern bluegrass group’s hard-charging innovators merge with the musicians of the Spokane Symphony for this special program. March 3, 8-10 pm. $39-$86. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanesymphony.org BASSOONARAMA The annual event at EWU brings together more than 40 bassoons for a day of learning and performance. This year’s special guest is Mark Eubanks of the Oregon Symphony and the Bassoon Brothers Quartet.

March 4, 4-5 pm. Free, donations accepted. EWU, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu/ cale/programs/music (359-2241) NORTHWESTERN + WHITWORTH CHOIRS The A Cappella Choir of Northwestern College (Orange City, Iowa) and the Whitworth Choir present a joint concert featuring a variety of sacred and secular works. March 6, 7-8:30 pm.

By donation. Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th. (712-707-7062) FLOATING CROWBAR The local group plays a high energy mix of Irish instrumental music and songs drawn from traditional and contemporary sources.

March 8, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Airway Heights Library, 1213 S. Lundstrom St. scld.org (893-8250)

SPORTS

HOUSE OF FURY BOXING Live professional boxing returns to Coeur d’Alene Casino with a tribute to the memory of Moe Smith, who was integral in bring-

ing boxing to the casino in 1996. March 1, 7 pm. $25-$60. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com

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LC TIGER DRAMA: ALMOST, MAINE On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. March 1-3 at 7 pm. $8$10. Lewis and Clark High School, 521 W. Fourth Ave. bit.ly/2FbuE6f MEASURE FOR MEASURE Spartan Theatre celebrates its 50th Anniversary with this dark comedy exploring the balance between power and mercy.

March 1-11; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $5-$10/public. Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3605) SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD The Civic presents Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s first musical in a new, fully realized production. Through March 4; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15-$32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) STEEL MAGNOLIAS The classic story explores the bond between six southern women living in northern Louisiana as they discuss topics both deep and superficial. Through March 4; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$22. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook.com/lakecityplayhouse/ 2.0 (TWO POINT_OH) A pioneering software mogul makes headlines one last time when his private jet plunges into the Pacific. Months later, his griefparalyzed widow Melanie discovers hiss greatest creation: a virtual-reality simulation of himself that he masterminded before his demise. $27. March 2-25; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com BURNT BY THE SUN A staged production by Peter Flannery, based on the screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov. Directed by Lorna Hamilton. Through March 11; FriSat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) ASSASSINS THE MUSICAL Perhaps the most controversial musical ever written, “Assassins” lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the president in a one-act historical “revusical.” March 3-18; Fri-Sun at 7 pm. $10. Theater Arts for Children, 2114 N. Pines Rd. facebook. com/theaterartsforchildren MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A local performance featuring Shakespeare’s most delightful heroines, dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. March 9-10 and 15-17 at 7 pm; also March 10 and 17 at 2 pm. $12. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. (342-2055)

ARTS

THE AMERICAN SCENE, 1932-1946 An exhibition featuring a selection of etchings, engravings, lithographs and other works on paper from the permanent collection of the Jundt, on display in the Arcade Gallery. The temporary display features a sampling of American works on paper created during the era of the

Great Depression and World War II. Through May 12; open Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free and open to the public.

Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt (509-313-6843) FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. March 2, from 5-8 pm. Free. Additional details at firstfridayspokane.org.

(DE)CLUTTER Gonzaga art professor Laura Carpenter Truitt uses shape, texture, and space to construct architectural landscapes that bleed through our physical realm into realms unknown.

March 5-April 6, Mon-Fri from noon5 pm. Artist reception March 15 from 4:30-6 pm. Free to the public. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St. ewu.edu/downtowngallery LECTURE: PORTLAND ARTIST BEN BUSWELL View an ongoing installation

by Buswell in collaboration with SFCC art students. Talk on March 8, at 11:30 am; installation open Mon-Fri, 8:30 am-3:30 pm, through March 14. Free.

SFCC (art dept., building 6), 3410 W. Ft. George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu

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HEMINGWAY FESTIVAL The 9th annual festival includes a film screening, as well as MFA graduate student readings and dance party. The festival also honors the 2017 recipient of the PEN/ Hemingway Award, Yaa Gyasi, who reads from her debut book “Homegoing” on March 2 at 7 pm in the Moscow High School Auditorium. Festival events March 1-3; times and locations vary, see link for details: uidaho.edu/class/ hemingway BOOK LAUNCH: STRETCH-MARK MY HEART Following the adoption journey of Matt and Niki Tschirgi, this book explores what it takes to adopt a child.

March 3, 1-4 pm. Free. Booktraders, 907 W. Garland. (326-7653) READING: KATE DICAMILLO Auntie’s and the Spokane Public Library host a presentation, reading and signing with the two-time Newbery Award winner and bestselling children’s author in celebration of her new picture book, “La La La: A Story of Hope.” March 3, 7 pm.

Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org 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. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org GONZAGA VISITING WRITERS SERIES: MARIE HOWE An evening with the acclaimed American poet, whose work is recognized for incorporating Biblical and mythical allusions and moving deftly between biographical and metaphysical aspects of human life. In the Cataldo Hall Globe Room.

March 6, 7:30-9 pm. Free. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Ave. (313-6681) DIVE THE TITANIC In this third of four lectures, former Deep Ocean Expedition project manager and long-time Spokane resident Guy Zajonc presents a video journey from topside of a Russian research vessel into a 3-person submersible and 12,500 feet deep to see the Titanic. March 8, 6:30-8 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org (363-5324) n

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under ski free (through April 8, and other blackout dates may apply). Rates vary depending on stay and room choice (visit schweitzer.com/vacationpackages/#/specials or call 208-2639555).

Buffet breakfast is included when you book an overnight stay through the hotel adjoining TRIPLE PLAY FAMILY FUN PARK AND RAPTOR REEF INDOOR WATERPARK. So are three 2-day passes to all the park’s features, such as bowling, bumper boats and laser tag. One-night stays start at $279 (visit 3play.com/packages or call 208-772-7900).

How about an evening cruise on the lake — so majestic, even in winter — and an overnight stay at the COEUR D’ALENE RESORT AND HOTEL? Awake refreshed and ready to plan a few hours together in town before heading home. With your $50 breakfast credit, you can enjoy a leisurely meal from room service or pop down to Dockside Restaurant for lakeside views while you eat. Packages start at $249 (visit cdaresort.com or call 855703-4648).

Robert Vaughn at Beverly’s

Steel Magnolias

Sip of Beverly’s

If it’s date night, then Beverly’s Lakeview Lounge is your destination for a romantic evening, complete with distinctive cocktails, elevated appetizers and Robert Vaughn’s soulful jazz guitar. Thursday, 7-11 pm; Friday-Saturday, 8 pmmidnight.

One of the most well-known and beloved American dramas opens at Lake City Playhouse this month. Steel Magnolias explores the bond between six Southern women as they cope with the mundane to heart-wrenching loss. Tickets $20$22; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm; Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave.

Join knowledgeable sommelier, Trevor Treller, for an interactive wine class and tasting session paired with exquisite appetisers on the first Saturday of each month. Ages 20+; $29 per person; 3:00 pm; Beverly’s at The Coeur d’Alene Resort; Call 855703-4648 for reservations.

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THROUGH SATURDAY MARCH 3RD

Beverly’s

Sweet Lou’s

115 S 2nd St • Coeur d’Alene, ID

601 E Front Ave, Ste 101 •

(855) 379-5478

Coeur d’Alene, ID

Collective Kitchen 501 E Sherman Ave • Coeur d’Alene, ID (208) 930-4762

Dockside 115 S 2nd St • Coeur d’Alene, ID (855) 379-5478

(208) 667-1170

Tito’s 210 E Sherman Ave • Coeur d’Alene, ID (208) 667-2782

Uva Italian 309 E Lakeside Ave • Coeur d’Alene, ID (208) 930-0573

Seasons of Coeur d’Alene 209 E Lakeside Ave • Coeur d’Alene, ID (208) 664-8008

SEE LISTINGS IN THE IRW GUIDE

SPONSORED BY THE COEUR D’ALENE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

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