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Also this week: Staff reporter Mitch Ryals takes a deeper look at Spokane Police Sgt. John Gately, who’s kept his job even though he tipped off a fellow officer under investigation for rape (page 18).

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BY ROBERT HEROLD

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isa Brown’s campaign against Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is proceeding about as predicted: Rodgers has more money, while Brown is closing in. But as for press coverage and what passes for policy debates? It’s all so very civil. Focus on the issues.

Show deference to both candidates. Find those distinctions without differences. All these things are otherwise known as being “Spokane Nice.” I coined this still-relevant term in 1994 for a piece that appears in the recent collection of my past columns, Robert’s Rules.

With the 2000 change in Spokane’s government — from council manager with at-large elections to strong mayor with elections-bydistrict — local elections became less Spokane Nice and more relevant. Congressional elections, not so much. The last two losing Democratic challengers seemed more intent on winning the Mr. Congeniality Award than actually winning — evidence that here in 2018 Spokane Nice remains alive if not well.

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s a result, so far we are missing the only point in 2018 that really matters, and that’s how a vote for Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a vote for Donald Trump. If formal presentations, questions and exchanges fail to make this clear, we will have learned nothing of importance. Rodgers has been Trump’s most loyal water carrier since his campaign began. She has supported his every proposal and has had nothing to say about his abysmal conduct and irrational behavior. Nothing.

Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Mueller is getting closer and closer to the Oval Office, where Trump’s son-in-law doesn’t have a security clearance but is parked in the White House cutting deals. OK by Cathy, apparently.

The very concerned former CIA Director John Brennan described Trump as “unstable, inexperienced and unethical.” She ignores all of this concern.

She has bought Trump’s routine hook, line and sinker, for the past four years parroting the Republican line, which has become Trump’s line, from health care to tax reform to gun control to trade to race relations to immigration to gender issues to education. On health care, Rodgers was front and center against what President Obama sought to accomplish, with her “Repeal and Replace” mantra, which became a Trump line that proved, as do so many of his lines (aka tweets), to be both disingenuous and, frankly, pure nonsense.

On health care, what Rodgers and her party eventually agreed on (absent congressional hearings and with Trump’s full support) revealed that they were starting over on health care but they had no plan, playbook or clue. On taxes?

The Congressional Budget Office predicts their

bill will cost America billions of dollars.

Wealthy donors love it, because those billions are headed their way.

As of yet, she hasn’t even criticized Trump for his recent unilateral decision to raise tariffs, a decision that, if allowed to stand, could prove disastrous for our local agriculture industry. And what the tariffs don’t wreck, Trump’s rabid anti-immigration campaign will.

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here are so many non-Spokane Nice questions just begging to be directed to our sitting congresswoman. Hopefully the media and Lisa Brown can pose them.

QUESTION: Since the massacre in Florida, a number of companies have dropped NRA involvement.

Do you favor such efforts in the interest of public safety? If not, why not?

QUESTION: Would you consider reinstating the assault weapon ban that your predecessor helped kill? If not, why not?

(And just to make sure we are working off the same page, note that refusal to take action against military-style weapons can’t be traced to the Second Amendment. Justice Antonin Scalia, in explaining his very controversial opinion in the Heller case, was explicit that in no way did that decision preclude gun control.)

Some very knowledgeable writers — E.J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein and Thomas W. Mann, to name only three — continue to hold out hope that once Trump is gone, America can retrieve some semblance of sanity.

Kevin Baker writing in the New Republic, however, says, “Forget it. A ruthless movement has seized the United States the likes of which has not been seen in our time, or maybe ever.”

Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ Republican Party, continues Baker, “went rogue decades ago … and has slipped any remaining traces of civic decency, cynically installing a man it knows to be a ranting incompetent in the White House just to advance its self-interested end.”

All of which leads to the final two-part, nonSpokane Nice question, the first part directed at both candidates, the second only to our sitting congresswoman: QUESTION: How would you rate President Trump’s performance at the end of his first year in office?

And do you agree with former CIA Director John Brennan’s assessment of the president?

QUESTION: Congresswoman, do you continue to support President Trump? In the name of the best interests of the 5th District, why? n

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Speaker for All Will November bring new profiles in courage?

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ome things in politics, we’re told, are like gravity.

They’re unchangeable truths, for better or worse.

This kind of thinking can blind us to dangers. For example, believing that the United States is an unbreakable democracy can stop us from defending our institutions due to certainty they will stand. Alternatively, such thinking can hide from us new possibilities that might

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allow us to fly beyond the limits of our current politics.

One such unbreakable rule is that the speaker of the house will be elected by a majority of his or her own party in a closed-caucus meeting and then everyone will fall in line to elect that speaker on the floor. Over the years, that proposition has been challenged by a few rogue members casting dissenting votes against their party’s pick, but it has stood as the norm.

Now, No Labels, an advocacy group that aims to pull elected officials together across party lines to address our nation’s biggest challenges, is proposing a radical new approach to electing the speaker.

No Labels suggests that members of both parties together should select the speaker, ultimately resulting in a bipartisan pick. The result would be a House that was governed not to suit a majority of the members of the majority party (the socalled Hastert Rule), but an actual straight-up majority of the House.

It’s an audacious idea. Either party may hold a slim majority after this year’s midterm elections, but it’s hard to imagine rank-and-file Democrats or Republicans being willing to betray the majority of their party’s pick for speaker

in favor of a consensus selection with their opponents across the aisle. But then, the unimaginable has happened before in the U.S. House.

In 1910, Republican George Norris was a relatively new representative from Nebraska and he, too, had an audacious idea. As John F. Kennedy wrote about in Profiles in Courage, Speaker of the House Joe Cannon had consolidated tremendous power.

Consequently, standing up to Cannon seemed political suicide, but that’s exactly what Norris did. And shockingly, he won. A majority of Norris’ colleagues joined him in voting for reforms that removed Cannon from the Rules Committee and increased the autonomy of all committee chairs.

Norris remained independent and brave or reckless (depending on your point of view) throughout his political career. He filibustered President Woodrow Wilson’s initial efforts to join World War I and endorsed a Democratic candidate for president over his own party’s nominee, Herbert Hoover.

But perhaps, most relevant to the current reform proposed by No Labels, was Norris’ efforts just before and after he left the U.S. Senate.

Norris proposed perhaps the boldest reform to the structure of the government since Emancipation. He offered a citizen initiative in Nebraska to shift from a twohouse legislative branch to a single, nonpartisan body, where senators would be elected without a party label and the entire body would elect a speaker, as well as each committee chair. Nebraskans embraced the reform in a vote of 286,086 in favor to 193,152 against. (Norris went on a roadshow, trying to sell other states on the idea, but ultimately found no takers.)

The Nebraskan system has worked well, regularly electing a selection of bipartisan committee chairs and pragmatic centrist speakers.

Key to preserving the system in Nebraska has been electing the speaker and committee chairs by a secret ballot. This protects legislators from partisan attacks from the far right or left for supporting consensus candidates.

Of course, as I noted earlier, this all seems an extraordinary long shot in today’s political climate. How could either party reasonably be expected to share power with their adversaries in our increasingly divided nation?

Here’s the thing: Whichever party fails to be the majority after this year’s midterms would have every incentive in the world to vote for a new system that gave them a voice in selecting the speaker. Assuming a vast majority of votes from that minority for a rule change, all that would be required is a renegade group of moderates from the majority proposing the change.

Ultimately reform rests not in hoping for a broad set of lawmakers willing to buck the system but a small group willing to offer a modern set of profiles in courage. n

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Phil Tyler, a community leader whose three ex-wives have accused him of domestic violence.

THE CORRECT RESPONSE IS AN APOLOGY n response to the controversy surrounding your story about Phil Tyler

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(“History of Violence,” 3/1/18), first I’d like to say bravo for bringing to light a subject many will probably not. As a survivor of domestic violence, I know for a fact the behavior is very often perpetuated in one form or another, unfortunately. I am not judging either way as I don’t know both sides of the story. This being said, I do believe that anyone who is to hold a public office has to be subject to public scrutiny. If there is anything in their past, and especially when it is an act reportedly committed multiple times, it needs to be taken into account. After all, aren’t all folks who hold a title of LETTERS distinction always held to a higher Send comments to level than us everyday folks? editor@inlander.com.

I am dismayed at those who would quickly come to the defense not knowing the entire story or history. As a survivor, we are oftentimes made to feel like the perpetrator and not the victim. That is wrong treatment, and when somebody has more than one complaint against them, one has to think perhaps that person may have an issue. While they may indeed not be that person now, I still feel that as a citizen I should be privy to a person’s background especially when put in a decision-making position.

We all need to be accountable as adults for our own actions. The correct response is an apology, not excuses for bad behaviors. I take matters like these both seriously and into consideration.

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Meet the students behind a wave of Spokane protests calling for action to end school shootings

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fter a week of TV interviews and public feuds with school administrators over a scheduled walkout honoring school-shooting victims, three Sacajawea Middle School students gather on a Saturday afternoon in a living room and make their final plans.

They sit with their feet up on the couch, looking down at their laptops and workshop the speeches they’ve prepared for the walkout on March 14. Pink scissors, markers and packets of paper lay scattered on the coffee table surrounding Abby Baker’s cat, Cucumber. Next to Baker, the only eighth-grader of the middle school trio, there’s a stray piece of paper with Sacajawea’s rules for unexcused absences. Written in pen at the bottom of the paper is their simple strategy for overcoming any discipline the school might hand out for the walkout: “Overload the system.”

“We’ve had a few sleepless nights, working on printing stuff and deciding what our next move is,” says Baker, 13.

Baker, Tula Webber and Clara DePaolo have been organizing the walkout for weeks. They want to remember the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida while calling for an end to the constant school shootings. And they want to share the message in their own way, not anyone else’s, especially not the school’s.

“They say children are too young to understand,” says DePaolo, who is 12. “But we’re the ones who are being directly affected by this. We’re the ones who could

be conceivably killed in schools.”

They joined students all over the Spokane region and the United States in planning one of a series of demonstrations this spring, calling for gun-safety measures and an end to school shootings. After the March 14 walkout, on March 24, area students will lead a “March for Our Lives.” And on April 20, students will again walk out of class on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.

The recent surge in activism is new to many schools, which must balance the right to protest with a desire not to disrupt the school. But these students are OK with rocking the boat a little.

“This is going to be kind of a disruption,” DePaolo says. “That’s what it has come to with these school shootings every other week.”

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Four days before the actual walkout, Baker takes a breath as she prepares to recite her speech. “I don’t have a fancy intro like you guys,” she tells Webber and DePaolo.

She recounts her experience with school shootings, an experience similar to just about any other kid her age in the United States. There’s the confusion she felt when she heard about Sandy Hook in the third grade. There’s the routine of constant drills preparing for a tragedy.

There’s the fear when her school went into lockdown after a shooting nearby at Freeman High School. There’s the anger and frustration when she heard that 17 people

were killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida, then the inspiration when the survivors demanded action.

“This is our generation’s reality,” Baker says. “If you do nothing for us, we will do it for ourselves.”

She imagines a movement where gun laws are changed, where another school shooting is not tolerated.

She throws in a line about wanting more from adults than thoughts and prayers, more from schools than “holding assemblies.” It’s a reference to the school-wide assembly that Sacajawea scheduled for the same time as the March 14 walkout, an effort by the school to provide a schoolsanctioned platform for students to share their thoughts instead of students leaving school for the walkout.

“A little shady,” DePaolo tells Baker about the “holding assemblies” comment. “I love it.”

Schools varied widely in how they handled the 17-minute walkout. Students have a constitutional right to peacefully protest, but schools do have some discretion to discipline for absences or school disruptions. Sacajawea’s handling of the walkout was not punitive like other U.S. schools that threatened students with suspensions.

Spokane Public Schools, says spokesman Kevin Morrison, took an unwavering approach, treating it just like any other absence. In high school, students were “unexcused” if they participated without parents calling the schools to give their approval. At the K-8 level, adults were told they must come to the school in person to excuse the absence. Students can be disciplined for ...continued on next page

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unexcused absences depending on how many they’ve had.

Morrison says there’s been no discussion within the district about changing the rules for walkouts or demonstrations.

“Because at what point do we start making exceptions?” Morrison says. “What we have to do is weigh what is best for all families. And that’s why you come up with policies and procedures that are fair to absolutely everyone and follow them.”

Coeur d’Alene Public Schools, by contrast, cleared hurdles for students who wanted to participate in the walkout. The district superintendent, Stan Olson, sent a message to families beforehand assuring them that students would not be disciplined for a peaceful protest.

As districts prepared for the demonstrations, so too did the students. Like others, the Sacajawea students got the word out by making an Instagram page. They printed posters, flyers and permission slips to hand out so students could easily participate.

They were frustrated when their principal scheduled an assembly for the same time as the walkout because they felt nobody would to listen to a school-sanctioned assembly. When they’re together, they mock the inspirational videos

they’re shown in school. They say they’re always told in middle school to “think outside the box,” and that “the sky is the limit.” But once they actually tried to do that, Webber says, they were shut down.

“If a student’s like, ‘I want help writing a letter to SeaWorld,’ they’re like, ‘Oh, great!’”

Webber says. “And then we say we want to do a

“I think we have hit our limit.” walkout because we don’t want any more school shootings, and they’re like, ‘No, what do you think this is? Children aren’t old enough to handle these issues.’”

They’re mature enough to know people have different opinions. They just giggle at the comments on news stories about them where people say they’re just trying to skip school. They’re all on honor roll, after all. The controversy with the school doesn’t quiet them, but only makes them more defiant. They eventually scoff that the penalty for one unexcused absence is a trip to the

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“If they’re going to send 50 to 100 kids to the counselor,” Webber says, “have fun.”

They’re following the lead of the Parkland students. Students in high schools all over the region — Lewis and Clark, Mead, Coeur d’Alene, just to name a few — latched on to the movement and planned their own walkouts. Fiona Whitver, the student who organized the walkout at Lewis and Clark High School, says she thinks students are rising up now because they’ve finally just had enough of the school shootings.

“I think we have hit our limit,” Whitver says.

MORE ON THE WAY

The student activism against school shootings in Spokane won’t end with one walkout. In a labor union building north of downtown, around a dozen students from high schools in Spokane meet to organize the “March for Our Lives” that will take them through the streets of Spokane on March 24.

The high school students — from Shadle Park, Gonzaga Prep, Ferris, North Central and University — sit in a semicircle, flanked by a few members of local activist organizations like Fuse Washington. The adult activists have buoyed the students’ cause, helping with logistics like planning a route through the city and notifying police. But it’s Ellary Lockwood, a junior at Lewis and Clark, leading the meeting with a giant note pad.

Soon after Parkland, she realized a student needed to step up and take charge of Spokane’s march, one of hundreds worldwide to end gun violence and mass shootings in schools.

“I thought March For Our Lives would just kind of happen.

I hadn’t thought about organizing it because usually marches are things you show up to and don’t give a thought to how they happen,” Lockwood tells the Inlander. “I thought, since we needed students organizing this, I can be one of those students.”

The issue may fade away from the minds of adults in the aftermath of a shooting, but not from students, Lockwood says. She always hears about threats to local schools, or about kids caught bringing a gun to school. Tragedies like the Florida shooting or Sandy Hook remind her how devastating it can be, and the shooting last year at Freeman reminds her it can happen here, too.

Another Lewis and Clark junior, Caroline Slater, is planning a walkout called No Kids Left Spokane on April 20, the anniversary of the Columbine shooting, for similar reasons. In between taking SATs and her regular school work, she launched a social media campaign for the walkout advocating for more background and mental health checks along with stricter laws on the sale of assault weapons.

She knows not everyone, even students at her own school, agrees on what can change it. But when she saw the Parkland students on the news running out of the school, it hit home. It reminded her of her high school, where she feels there’s little stopping the same thing from happening. So she decided to join the national push.

“Nothing is going to happen,” Slater says, “if we do nothing.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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It’s been 14 years since Time magazine raved that Spokane’s downtown wireless experiment made the city “a live-in laboratory where city-employed nerds are crash-testing the wireless technotopia of the future.” That experiment long ago failed.

But now, City Councilman Breean Beggs has been exploring the possibility of something new to help Spokane get more connected: a publicly owned BROADBAND NETWORK. The city may be getting into the business of improving its internet speed and decreasing its costs.

“We have about 30 miles of fiber that the city owns under the streets. Everytime we rebuild an arterial we do that,” Beggs said in a City Council meeting last month. “It’s sitting unused.”

With new technology, Beggs says, it’s possible for the city to connect to that fiber and sell it to customers.

That doesn’t mean, Councilwoman Lori Kinnear says, that the city would be competing with Comcast as its own internet service provider. (Seattle examined such an option and rejected it in 2015.)

But since the city would own the wires instead of Comcast, other companies like Centurylink would be able to compete with Comcast, ideally driving down the price and driving up speed.

And that, Kinnear says, could attract businesses.

“You want these businesses to come in and have choices,” Kinnear says. “It’s long overdue.”

Last month, the city approved a resolution to form a working group to look into the feasibility of a municipal broadband network.

Jess Ponikvar, a cloud consultant with the technology company Second Watch, praised the city’s previous work with the downtown wireless hot spot and complimented its latest examination of municipal broadband.

“The time is right,” Ponikvar says. “The talent is here. Spokane has always been about self-determination.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

OFFICIALS BASH OFFSHORE DRILLING

The Washington State Department of Ecology has joined several state offices in asking U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke not to allow OFFSHORE DRILLING along Washington’s coast.

In a March 8 letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Ecology Director Maia Bellon says she is extremely disappointed that Interior included Washington in its draft five-year plan to issue offshore leases for oil and gas exploration along America’s coastlines.

“There is no reasonable, rational justification for including Washington’s Outer Continental Shelf in the 2019-2024 Oil and Gas Leasing Program,” Bellon writes.

As mapped out in the proposed program, one lease would be issued for the coastal area between the southern end of Oregon and the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Bellon points out in her letter that a significant portion of the peninsula coastline falls within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, which is protected from development by federal law.

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has threatened to sue Interior if Washington isn’t removed from the plan, and Gov. Jay Inslee has formally requested Washington be removed from consideration.

Bellon and other state officials cite risks to the state economy and fisheries, potential for violating tribal treaty rights and risks to sensitive marine environments.

With the public comment period over, Interior will now work on a proposed program and draft environmental impact statement, which will both be open for 90-day public comment when released. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

MALICE AND DEADLY FORCE

After years of wrangling over the Washington state law that has made it virtually impossible to charge police with a crime for NEGLIGENT SHOOTINGS, lawmakers facilitated an agreement to appease police reform activists and police. Now that compromise is the target of a lawsuit, claiming the Legislature’s action is unconstitutional.

For decades, state law has required prosecutors to prove that officers acted with “malice” in their use of deadly force. The malice standard is unique to Washington.

The agreement last week, backed by activists and law-enforcement groups, enacts an initiative to the Legislature that removes the malice standard. Lawmakers also passed a bill that changes the law further — in effect, the bill amends the initiative.

Four days after lawmakers struck the deal, and Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill into law, conservative activist and frequent initiative-sponsor Tim Eyman filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of that process.

According to the state constitution, initiatives to the Legislature can be handled in three ways: lawmakers can approve the measure; lawmakers can reject or ignore the measure, and it ends up on the November ballot; or lawmakers can suggest an alternative to appear alongside the original on the ballot.

The Legislature’s compromise amounts to a fourth option: to pass the initiative and then quickly amend its changes. Both the initiative and the new law remove the “malice” standard and include requirements for de-escalation and other training. A major difference between the initiative and the bill is the process in determining whether an officer acted in “good faith” in the use of deadly force.

Before the bill passed, some Republican lawmakers voiced concern over the process. Spokane Valley Republican Sen. Mike Padden pointed to a 1971 state attorney general opinion that calls into question the Legislature’s action in this instance.

In a committee hearing, Padden says he has “great doubts legally” that it will work. (MITCH RYALS)

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ON A FULL STOMACH Students in high-poverty schools will be offered breakfast during class time starting in 2019, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last week. The bill, commonly referred to as the “BREAKFAST AFTER THE BELL” bill, would expand a program that feeds students from low-income families nutritious meals in the morning. It’s designed to make it easier for students on free or reduced lunch to access meals, which they may miss if it is served before school starts. Studies have shown that students learn better when they’re not hungry and that providing low-income students meals after the bell rings, rather than before school begins, is more effective. Rep. Marcus Riccelli, DSpokane, says it’s a bill he’s “really excited” about. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT In October 2017, when WSU football players Zaire Webb and teammate Anthony White were accused by police of stealing from a Walmart in October, coach MIKE LEACH kicked them off the team the next day. They violated one of Leach’s rules, which are: don’t do drugs, don’t steal and don’t abuse women. But now, Webb, whose theft case has since been dropped, is suing Leach (pictured) and WSU for dismissing him and not applying those rules to other players. The lawsuit, filed on March 2 in Whitman County Superior Court, points to multiple examples when players accused of more serious crimes were not immediately kicked off the team. “WSU was and is committed to providing Mr. Leach with whatever he desires, even if it means WSU policies and procedures are not followed in the case of student-athletes such as Mr. Webb,” the complaint says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES Last week, the Inlander published a story detailing three decades of domestic violence allegations against community activist PHIL TYLER from his three ex-wives. While Tyler (pictured, right) fervently denied he’d ever been violent toward women, the community reaction was swift. The YWCA Spokane called the allegations deeply disturbing and wrote that the women’s stories resembled the stories of many of the victims they worked with. The Spokane chapter of the National Organization for Women wrote that they believed the Tyler’s accusers, and demanded that community leaders who had appeared with him in a #MeToo video speak out. In response, Spokane Mayor David Condon, Police Chief Craig Meidl and Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer sent out a statement that, while it did not mention Tyler, condemned domestic violence.

Every Spokane City Council member expressed grave concerns about the allegations, with at least six indicating they believed that Tyler had committed physical violence. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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ormer Spokane Police Sgt. Gordon Ennis was convicted last week of raping a female officer while she was asleep. He is currently awaiting sentencing in the Spokane County Jail and is expected to appeal the conviction. But there is at least one more question lingering in the case that began in October 2015.

What about Sgt. John Gately?

The veteran officer and former president of the Spokane Police Guild, the union representing rank-and-file officers, refused to testify at Ennis’ trial, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

“If Gately really wanted to honor his oath, he would have gone on the stand and told the truth,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says. “It’s his constitutional right to do so, but not taking the stand diminishes, in the eyes of the public, every badge out there because you didn’t stand up and tell the truth. You took the Fifth.”

Gately did not respond to a request for comment.

Before Ennis’ trial, Gately was charged with obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor. During the first 24 hours of county detectives’ investigation, Gately placed two phone calls to Ennis.

During the second conversation, prosecutors say Gately alerted Ennis to the fact that detectives were preparing a warrant to collect his DNA. When detectives went to serve the warrant, Ennis’ fingernails appeared “freshly trimmed,” according to court records.

A 12-person jury could not decide whether Gately’s actions were criminal and prosecutors have so far declined to retry the case. Meanwhile, SPD’s internal investigation dinged Gately with a week of unpaid leave, the equivalent of $2,177, according to city payroll data.

Based on the fact that Gately’s discipline has been finalized, Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl was careful in speaking last week about the situation out of concern for legal action from the Police Guild.

“There’s some understandable frustration and concern in the community about the behavior,” Meidl says. “His current assignment does frankly limit his exposure to the community. His span of control is very limited.”

TIPPED OFF

Initially Gately was informed of the sexual assault accusations against Ennis as a member of the department’s Peer Assistance Team, which is a group of officers who support others within the agency. Later, though, he was kept in the loop as the guild president. Meidl acknowledges that serving both roles presents a conflict of interest and says he won’t allow that situation to happen again.

By 11:20 am on Oct. 26, 2015, Gately had learned that Spokane County Sheriff’s detectives were working on a warrant to be served on his fellow sergeant, Ennis.

By 11:36 am, Gately was on the phone with Ennis, according to phone records. As guild president, Gately called to inform Ennis that SPD was preparing to release a public statement that Ennis would be put on leave, according police records.

The press release contained no information about the warrant Spokane County detectives were seeking. Still, Gately would later testify in court, during the phone call he told Ennis that detectives would be coming to his home. Ennis asked “Why?” “Probably for your DNA,” Gately responded.

Sgt. John Gately is currently assigned to the special events office, acting as a liaison to the public for event permits. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO Immediately after the two sergeants got off the phone, Ennis worked to find an attorney, his phone records show. Eventually, he would hire attorney Rob Cossey, and by the time sheriff’s detectives showed up at Cossey’s office to serve the warrant, Ennis’ fingernails had been cut down to the nail bed, too short for detectives to collect any potential evidence of the alleged rape, court records show.

Prosecutors have argued that Ennis, who is trained in how to collect evidence from a rape suspect, trimmed his nails after he was tipped off

by Gately. Ennis has denied this, saying in court that he trimmed them days earlier.

Gately was charged in December 2015 with a felony. The charge was eventually dropped to a misdemeanor, but the jury deadlocked. Eight jurors voted to acquit and four believed Gately was guilty, police records show. At trial, Gately testified that he “just answered [Ennis’] question.

I didn’t think about it,” according to news reports at the time. So far prosecutors have declined to retry the case.

Then SPD’s internal investigation began.

‘YOU KNEW’

By many accounts, Gately knows what he did

was wrong.

In the department’s internal investigation, which was completed in early 2017, a panel of captains and lieutenants admonished Gately for his poor decision to call Ennis.

“Sgt. Gately is a veteran officer, with a wealth of experience and knowledge,” Lt. Steve Wohl writes on behalf of the panel.

“With over 25 years of law enforcement experience, Sgt. Gately should have known the information given to him by [Assistant Chief Selby] Smith was confidential and/or sensitive in nature.”

Still, the panel cleared Gately of wrongdoing, in part because of mistakes by his superiors in notifying him in the first place.

Ultimately, the panel believes that Gately did not act with malicious intent.

Meidl wasn’t so forgiving.

In a letter informing Gately of his decision to overrule the panel, Meidl quotes from Gately’s attorney’s argument in court.

In his closing statement, Gately’s attorney, David Allen, told the jury that: “We probably shouldn’t have said that,” referring to Gately’s statement to Ennis about sheriff’s detectives seeking DNA. “And John would agree.”

At trial and in an interview with SPD internal investigators, Gately said he told Ennis that detectives might want to collect his DNA, but did not say anything about a search warrant.

The letter from Meidl tackles that issue.

“You knew Ennis had been a corporal, you knew Ennis was familiar with how DNA was gathered and what would likely be needed, and your statement about any part of the criminal investigation was inappropriate and outside your role as a guild president,” Meidl writes. “Whether you told him directly or not that [the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office] had a search warrant for his DNA is irrelevant; your statement to Ennis that they ‘probably’ wanted his DNA was tantamount to informing him that they were going to respond to his house to execute a search warrant for his DNA.” The only reasons he did not fire Gately, Meidl writes, were because of the sergeant’s minimal policy violations throughout a long career and because “SPD administration bears some culpability.”

MOVING FORWARD

Gately is currently assigned to the special events office where he acts as the liaison to the public for permits for events such as the Lilac Bloomsday Run or Hoopfest. Meidl says it’s “out of the question” for Gately to eventually be moved into a position where he investigates sexual assault or internal policy violations.

He’s also been removed from his position on the Peer Assistance Team.

“A lot of our positions as supervisors require demonstration of good judgment, and I believe the investigation against him showed a lack of judgment,” Meidl says. “So for me, he’s in a spot that best meets the concerns for the community while also meeting the needs of the department.”

It’s unclear whether the department’s internal findings will be enough to label Gately a so-called “Brady cop,” whose credibility can be called into question in court proceedings. His name is currently absent from the prosecutor’s list of Brady officers.

Meidl acknowledges Gately’s mistakes. He also mentions another officer, who was “somewhat dismissive” when first told of the sexual assault in 2015. However, Meidl says, two more officers immediately reported the assault to authorities and tried to help the victim.

The victim is still employed with SPD. Meidl says he’s reached out to her after her testimony during Ennis’ trial that she felt ostracized by some in the department. She has so far declined to file a complaint with SPD’s internal investigators.

Anecdotally, Meidl says, he’s heard there is a small group of officers, who were friends with Ennis, and may be causing the victim to feel outcast. But for the most part, he believes the department is rallying to support her.

“I can’t stand bullying behavior,” Meidl says. “I want to do everything I can to change that behavior or send them on their way.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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‘Slap in the Face’ The state says Spokane’s medical examiners followed protocol in more than a dozen questioned cases, but the families still want answers

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o Heather Ostby, it doesn’t matter that the commission that oversees the practice of medicine in Washington state did not find anything wrong with the way her mother’s autopsy was conducted.

The commission’s decision this month to close a yearlong investigation into 14 autopsies means that both Spokane County medical examiners are, in the state’s eyes, in the clear. In short: They didn’t deviate from the standards of care in their work.

But that doesn’t change the facts in her mom’s case: Cindy Lou Zeppenfeld Bergan was trying to escape domestic violence and had filed for a protection order before she went missing in January 2016. Her body was found that month on the side of the road near Cataldo, Idaho, wrapped in plastic and duct tape.

Yet the 46-year-old’s death certificate says she died of natural causes.

Dr. John Howard, one of Spokane’s medical examiners, conducted an autopsy and found that Bergan likely died of a heart attack. Relying on the forensic pathologist’s expertise, the Kootenai County deputy coroner signed off that the death was natural.

Making that call is absurd to Ostby, as she believes it required overlooking other injuries and ignoring the circumstances around her mom’s disappearance and death.

So last spring she joined more than a dozen other families with similar concerns in filing complaints against Howard and fellow medical examiner LETTERS Dr. Sally Aiken. Each Send comments to family questioned the editor@inlander.com. official rulings on their loved one’s cause or manner of death, which can be listed as suicide, homicide, accident, natural causes or undetermined. In some cases the rulings affected whether and how police and prosecutors pursued investigations.

But the governor-appointed Medical Quality Assurance Commission doesn’t have the power to change a death ruling, says Micah Matthews, deputy executive director of the commission.

“There were some limitations on what we could do,” Matthews says. “Our ability to question these decisions and reverse them is extremely limited. We don’t have the ability to do that.”

In a typical case review, a panel of the commission’s doctors and members of the public might be asked to look at whether a patient was harmed. But even if, for example, they found someone was misdiagnosed, they wouldn’t issue a different diagnosis, Matthews says.

“Not to be blunt about it, but in this case there isn’t a possibility for patient harm because they are deceased,”

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Suzan Entwistle believes the public should call for the resignation of Spokane County’s medical examiners.

Matthews says. “It was tricky for us to narrow down what is our legal ability here, who can reverse those [decisions].”

The commission instead focused on whether a doctor with similar training would reasonably have followed the same procedures in the autopsies, and ordered an unnamed expert in forensic pathology to review the cases.

Based on that report, the panel closed the case March 1.

But that won’t stop the families from demanding their cases get a deeper look.

“Let’s call it a closed chapter,” Ostby says of the investigation. “Really it’s about finding the next place to go. The next best option is to fight for justice for my mom’s case.”

‘UNDETERMINED’

“I don’t think their decision, by any means, means that these are great medical examiners, and these are great conclusions,” says Dr. Suzan Entwistle, who has doggedly pursued review of several of the cases, including that of her husband, Dr. John Marshall.

Marshall, chief of surgery at the Mann-Grandstaff Veterans Affairs Medical Center, went missing during an early morning jog on Jan. 25, 2016. His body was found floating in the Spokane River the next day, and Howard ruled that he had accidentally drowned.

Entwistle, also a surgeon, disagrees. After reviewing the autopsy and photos, she believes her husband was severely beaten and dumped in the river. She notes that he was found on the north shore near the Monroe Street Bridge, which is not typically where bodies or objects dumped into the river near downtown wash up.

For Julie Beauchaine, learning that the commission had closed its investigation put her at a loss for words. In 2012, her cousin Kala Williams’ body was found cut in half and stuffed in sleeping bags in the woods.

Howard performed the autopsy on her remains and ruled the cause and manner of her death as “undetermined,” as the circumstances surrounding her death weren’t clear. Meth was found in her system, and according to the Spokesman-Review, Howard explained that

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he couldn’t rule out that she’d died of an overdose and someone had disposed of her body.

But the Spokane Police Department hired a second forensic pathologist, Dr. Carl Wigren, to review the autopsy, and in a 2013 report he determined she was likely sexually assaulted and killed, and her death should have been ruled a homicide until proven otherwise. Wigren’s report pointed in part to stab wounds that could indicate she defended herself and the fact her undergarments had been cut open.

DNA on tape and clothing in the bags came back to Robert G. Davis, according to police, but Davis, currently in prison for sexually assaulting a Coeur d’Alene woman in 2014, hasn’t been charged in relation to Williams’ “undetermined” death.

“It’s a complete slap in the face for all these families and potential victims that are going to be out there,” Beauchaine says of the commission’s lack of findings against the medical examiner. “They’re just not looking at the facts. They just don’t want to go through all these other cases to rectify the few.”

Multiple people involved in the complaints wonder why Howard and Aiken seem unwilling to change their determinations. All the families have talked to the medical examiners about their cases, but Entwistle says they’ve pretty much dug in their heels and stuck with their initial findings.

“These cases are blatantly homicides,” Ostby says. “It is beyond comprehension why they’re not able to look at these autopsies as medical examiners and see the truth any more. I think they’ve become blind to it.”

Neither Howard nor Aiken responded to multiple emails requesting comment.

OTHER OPTIONS

Now that the state’s investigation is closed, the families are weighing their options, which in most cases appear to be limited.

They can appeal the commission’s decision within 30 days, but would need to include new evidence of some kind to reopen the investigation.

Another option, according to commission staff, would be to file a civil suit demanding a judicial review of the case. But Entwistle’s counsel told her that that process is mostly in place for families who want to overturn a suicide ruling, as that can prevent life insurance from being paid out.

Entwistle requested an outside peer review of her husband’s autopsy from the Spokane County Commissioners, but they pointed her to the same judicial review law cited by the medical commission.

“Right now there is no process to appeal a medical examiner’s decision,” Entwistle says. “The only thing they say is you could take them to court, but you have to pay for it and the burden of proof is on you. How many violent-crime-victim families can do that?”

Entwistle and Ostby think the medical examiners should step down, or the Spokane County Commissioners should fire them, and they hope other elected officials at the local and state level will stand up and ask that their cases get reviewed.

The state did not find anything wrong with the work of medical examiners John Howard and Sally Aiken.

“I think it’s time that they resign,” Ostby says. “There’s cases here where they’ve had government agencies and independent examiners say, ‘You’re wrong. Change this,’ and they’re refusing.”

In light of the fact that some determinations can stop police investigations in their tracks, Gayle Libutti wonders whether it’s the protocol for making judgment calls about how someone died that should be changed.

Her daughter, Sarah Schmidt, was found in the Spokane River in May 2016, and Aiken ruled her death a suicide before the results of a toxicology report came back. Schmidt had handprint-shaped bruises and other injuries, but once police shared evidence with Aiken and she made her ruling, the investigation was concluded, leaving the family wanting more answers.

“Based on all that I have been told by professionals, it appears to me that it is the protocol that requires attention and change,” Libutti writes by email.

Like the other families, Libutti just wants her daughter to be remembered for the great person she was.

“We want others to remember those we dearly loved, not as the young female found in the river partially clothed, or the doctor who was initially believed to have fallen into the river while running, or the woman wrapped in plastic and found alongside the road,” Libutti writes. “There is so much more to their stories.

And there is such a need for justice… and peace.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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GLOBAL APPEAL THE ZAGS' INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS FIND SUPPORT ON CAMPUS, AND FROM EACH OTHER

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asketball has become an international game. Which should come as no surprise if you’ve been paying attention to Gonzaga basketball for the past two decades.

There are more than 100 international players on NBA rosters this season. Two of those, Lithuanian Domantas Sabonis and Canadian Kelly Olynyk, played at Gonzaga. In head coach Mark Few’s nearly two decades at the helm, Gonzaga has sent 14 players to the NBA, and of those 14, six came to Gonzaga from somewhere other than the United States.

“People are starting to know the name Gonzaga because of basketball, even abroad,” says Sarah Alami, senior international student advisor at Gonzaga.

Rui Hachimura (11.3 points per game) and Killian Tillie (13.4 points per game) look ready to become the latest international players to make their way to the NBA after a stop in Spokane. Zag fans have watched the pair of sophomores, from Japan and France respectively, go from bit players as freshmen to become high-level talents this year. What fans weren’t able to see, however, was everything that happened behind the scenes and off the court to make that possible.

That’s where Alami and the rest of the staff in Gonzaga’s Center for Global Engagement come into play.

For Hachimura, lauded by some as the greatest Japanese basketball talent of all time, something very simple limited his minutes last season: the English language.

“It’s been really cool because Rui is a student who, when he came in, there was a lot of potential,” Alami says. “Everybody talked about him and everything he was going to do. And then, because of his English language, he didn’t do that much with the team. He didn’t play that much and that was kind of disappointing.”

Hachimura played in just 28 of Gonzaga’s 39 games last season. During Gonzaga’s NCAA tournament run he averaged only one minute per game.

“A lot of times when the international athletes come, their priority is the sport,” Alami says. “Students like Rui or others may forget that they really do need the English language, and to continue improving on their English to be successful in basketball and in their other academic activities.”

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achimura has put in the work to improve his English skills, and it’s already paying dividends on and off the court. The 6-foot-8 forward has become Gonzaga’s leader coming off the bench and was named to the All-West Coast Conference first team for his performance this season.

“We’ve seen him improve tremendously and grow tremendously in both language and in maturity,” Alami says.

That growth was put on public display during Gonzaga’s dominant win over BYU in the WCC tournament championship game March 6.

Hachimura drew the assignment of defending BYU’s star player, sophomore forward Yoeli Childs. The two players are athletic talents otherwise unmatched in the WCC, and both were named as all-conference first team performers this season. So, guarding Childs is no small task. He scored 20 points in that game.

BY WILL MAUPIN Gonzaga starts its 2018 NCAA tournament journey at 10:30 am Thursday against UNC Greensboro. The game will air on TNT.

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Japan-born Rui Hachimura will need to be a force for the Zags.

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THE JOURNEY

HERE ARE THE KEY GAMES IN GONZAGA’S JOURNEY TO REACH THE NCAA TOURNAMENT FOR THE 20TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

BY WILL MAUPIN

NOV. 23 VS. OHIO STATE ZAGS 86, BUCKEYES 59

The Zags blew out Ohio State, and at the time nobody thought much of it. Gonzaga was supposed to be good and Ohio State wasn’t. But a lot has changed since Thanksgiving Day. The Buckeyes ended the regular

season tied for second place in the Big Ten and boast an unexpectedly respectable 24-8 record. Gonzaga owns just one win over a team in the top-25 of the RPI, and that win came against Ohio State.

NOV. 24 VS. NO. 7 FLORIDA GATORS 111, ZAGS 105

When this game went down in Portland as part of the PK80 early-season tournament, it was Gonzaga’s first real test of the season. In a nationally televised game against a top-10 team, the Zags showed they weren’t going to take much of a step back after last season’s run to the

national championship game. They came up short in the end, but this double-overtime thriller was largely considered to be the best game of the season to that point. In what was a clinical display of offense from both teams, Gonzaga’s Johnathan Williams led the way with 39 points.

DEC. 21 AT SAN DIEGO STATE AZTECS 72, ZAGS 70

San Diego State has been one of the West’s premier programs for more than a decade, but that doesn’t matter to the NCAA Tournament selection committee. All that matters is that this game is, by far, Gonzaga’s worst loss of the season according

to the RPI rankings that help determine a team’s tournament seeding.

Losing to San Diego State, which barely ranks in the top 100 of the RPI, might have cost the Zags one or two seed lines in the tournament.

FEB. 10 AT NO. 11 SAINT MARY’S ZAGS 78, GAELS 65

This just might have been the biggest game in West Coast Conference history. With Gonzaga ranked No. 12 in the AP Poll and Saint Mary’s ranked No. 11, it was the first top-15 matchup in league history. But that’s not why it was the biggest game

of the season for the Zags. Saint Mary’s had a one-game lead in the standings thanks to a three-point victory in Spokane on Jan. 18. The Zags needed this win to stay in the league race, and they got it in emphatic fashion.

MARCH 6 VS. BYU ZAGS 74, COUGARS 54

Making the NCAA Tournament is basically a foregone conclusion for Gonzaga, but that doesn’t make the day the Zags officially punch their ticket to the dance any less sweet.

This was a primetime game, nationally televised on ESPN, with Dick

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Vitale providing color commentary.

In short: a big game. Gonzaga played amazing defense, shot well on offense and led by as many as 32 points. And the Zags did it against a good team. It was truly a sight to behold. n

“Once you get through one year, it’s way easier,” says Killian Tillie.

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But not one of those points was scored while Childs was being defended by Hachimura.

“Rui’s really, really came on on that side of the ball,” Few said after the game. “He’s gained a much better understanding of the terms and what the game plan is.”

Once seen as a defensive liability, Hachimura’s growth with language has transformed his ability on the defensive side of the ball.

Even though his English has improved dramatically, he still rarely faces the media from the podium of a postgame press conference. During the WCC tournament that responsibility fell on Killian Tillie’s shoulders. When the Frenchman arrived on campus, he didn’t have as much trouble with the language as Hachimura did, but that’s not to say his experience has been a cakewalk.

“The language is hard,” Tillie says. “All the classes are a little bit more challenging because of the terminology. But once you get through one year, it’s way easier.”

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ow in his second year on campus Tillie, like Hachimura, is flourishing.

As a freshman, Tillie was a rotation player for the Zags. His minutes were limited more because of the talent Gonzaga had ahead of him rather than any difficulties he had with the language. This season Tillie is one of the very best players on Gonzaga’s roster.

And, for the past three games, he has been the best player.

Tillie was named most outstanding player at the WCC tournament. He averaged 24 points per game and made seemingly every shot he took. His performance elevated him into the pantheon of elite big men to play at Gonzaga.

It’s a club overwhelmingly dominated by international players.

“Obviously Gonzaga has a lot of experience with international players,” Tillie says. “It was the success that the international bigs had before

that made me want to come here.”

Like Ronny Turiaf, Kelly Olynyk, Domantas Sabonis and Przemek Karnowski in seasons past, Tillie is now one of those international bigs that Gonzaga is having success with. Their time at Gonzaga has a two-fold effect on the international players who follow. Their success draws the next generation of big men, like Tillie. But, before they leave, they pass their knowledge on to the next generation.

Last year, the wise elder of Gonzaga basketball was Poland’s Przemek Karnowski. His knowledge helped Gonzaga to 136 wins over the course of his career, making him the winningest player in NCAA Division I history. It also helped with far simpler things, like showing the freshmen where to find food.

“We have lots of international guys coming in,” Karnowski told the Inlander before last season. “As an international player, I’ve been here for so long that I try to help them out even with simple life things, like showing them where the store is.”

One of the guys Karnowski helped was Killian Tillie.

“Przemek was very helpful last year,” Tillie says. “Explaining the plays, explaining English things, American things.”

Barely a year later, Tillie is already inheriting some of Karnowski’s responsibilities. Next season Tillie will be playing alongside Filip Petrusev, a 6-foot-11 center from Serbia. This year he’s getting a smaller-scale crash course in mentorship with a fellow Frenchman, freshman guard Joel Ayayi.

As basketball becomes a more and more international game, competition for international players will continue to rise. Don’t expect Gonzaga to fall behind, though. And not just because of their track record of success.

“Nowadays they’re used to it and it’s easier for us,” Tillie says. “Also, the fact that everybody is so friendly and welcoming here is a good thing.” n

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hances are that at some point during Gonzaga’s tournament play, the television announcing team will marvel at the global scale of the Zags’ roster.

You have another French connection in Killian Tillie, the rising son of Japanese basketball in Rui Hachimura, a Great Dane in Jacob Larsen.

And in large part, it’s thanks to the recruiting efforts and general wanderlust of head assistant coach Tommy Lloyd, who is on year 17 with the program and the head-coach-in-waiting.

He credits his passion for international recruiting to his parents’ participation in foreign exchange programs and his time spent playing overseas.

“The recruiting overseas deal was something I was interested in from the jump in my career because I had a real comfort level with dealing with people from different cultures,” Lloyd says.

Lloyd was originally a transfer recruit while playing at Walla Walla Community College when Dan Monson was the head coach at Gonzaga.

“He ended up taking a player that was better than me and gave me the parting line that if I ever wanted to get into coaching to give him a call,” Lloyd says. “So I did.”

Lloyd delayed his coaching journey when he had the opportunity to play a year overseas in Germany and Australia in 1999. During that year, Gonzaga turned into the Cinderella that took down the likes of UConn and Florida.

“At the time Gonzaga was just starting to turn into the program that people know it as today,” Lloyd says. “When I first showed up, it was a head coach, two full-time assistants, one grad assistant and I was the volunteer guy. I came at a good time where they needed manpower. They were understaffed and if you have an opportunity to have a guy show up and work and not make any money — that’s just how coaching is.”

“He’s been on the same path that I was on,” says head coach Mark Few. “I was fortunate enough to work for two guys who weren’t afraid to delegate and let young assistants have a lot of responsibilities.

WE’VE MOVED! 1802 N. Monroe, Spokane 509.343.6252 • RiverPointRX.com Tommy Lloyd’s passport is full. HUNTER LEE/GU ATHLETICS PHOTO “As he grew and came up through the ranks he’s gotten better at every aspect of what he’s doing,” Few continues. “With recruiting he’s found a niche there overseas because he has a great network there and has built up a lot of respect, but he’s also great with American kids.”

When March ends, Lloyd’s globetrotting begins. He’ll spend a week hopping around Europe, from Eastern Europe to France, Germany and Italy to take advantage of open contact periods and make home visits to build a bond with kids and families who have a complicated decision to make.

“Kids overseas have different options than American kids,” Lloyd says. “A good player over there is not just getting recruited by me and other colleges, they’re also getting recruited by professional teams.”

As Lloyd has built his network for recruiting, his 17 years with Few have developed a personal ownership in all aspects of the job. If Lloyd finds a recruit he likes, he has the green light to make an offer on his own.

“There’s just a lot of trust because we’ve been together for a long time,” Lloyd says. “One of the great things about Coach Few is that he’s not afraid to try things. I don’t think either of us are riverboat gamblers but we’re not afraid to make subtle or big adjustments if we think it’ll help our team be better.

“I think for the most part we’ve done a pretty good job of being at the forefront as the game evolves and trying to be a step ahead of things,” Lloyd says. “And that’s something we’ll continue to do.” n

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SCOUTING

Zach Norvell.

Tillie’s streak of three-point shooting in Las Vegas continuing into the NCAA tournament would be crucial in opening up opportunities for the ever-consistent Johnathan Williams III down low. Hachimura could be the instant offense off the bench who could quench opponents’ runs and pin fouls on front courts that don’t match the Zags’ depth. And Norvell could be the offensive guard who seems necessary for any team looking to advance.

THE ZAGS WE LOOK AT THE BEST CASE — AND WORST CASE — SCENARIOS FOR GONZAGA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT

BY TUCK CLARRY THE ZAGS COULD GO DEEP IN THE TOURNAMENT AGAIN IF...

Gonzaga is peaking at the ideal time for another late run into March. They’ve raised their defensive intensity to the point that opponents have shot a combined 38.8 percent over the last 10 games. Gonzaga, meanwhile, has shot 44.5 percent from the perimeter the last three weeks.

If they maintain those averages, we’re looking at a real threat.

This year’s team doesn’t appear to have the depth,

THE ZAGS COULD MAKE AN EARLY EXIT IF…

Zach Norvell is a candidate for a March Madness breakout.

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defense or efficiency of last year’s team. But no team in the tournament looks as good as the 2016-17 Zags.

A big first step will be shaking off the inevitable rust of not playing for nine days after winning the WCC tournament in Las Vegas on March 6. The Bulldogs’ high seeding of late has helped them immensely by getting the kinks out against inferior competition early in the tournament.

Last year’s squad benefitted a great deal with the emergence and introduction of freshman big man Zach Collins on a national stage. The Zags have three guys who could break through in a similar way with sophomores Killian Tillie and Rui Hachimura and freshman

Guard play is always crucial in the tournament, and the Zags will need to look at their upperclassmen ball handlers and “Microwave” Norvell to assert themselves if they want to play into the second week of March Madness. Gonzaga’s midseason sputters came when their guards weren’t aggressive and were missing shots.

Gonzaga is 2-2 when allowing opponents to shoot 50 percent or better. Those two wins came in overtime against the North Dakota Fighting Hawks and a nine-point win against San Francisco. The Zags are the 222nd-ranked three-point defense in the country, and a high-powered shooting opponent could doom the Zags’ hopes.

Someone will also need to step forward as the steady hand when the going gets tough. Last year’s multifaceted team had plenty of options to make you think there wasn’t a de facto go-to guy on the squad. But Nigel Williams-Goss still led the team in scoring in four of their six postseason games. The Zags’ depth will be an advantage, but hoping for a hot hand late might prove hairy. Who will be this year’s go-to guy when the going gets tough? n

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range as a team. Given Gonzaga’s weakness defending the three-point line, Zags fans will have to hope the Spartans don’t have an unusually hot night and hit, say, 15 three-pointers to make things interesting.

With only two players averaging double digits in scoring, the team leans on Spanish junior guard Francis Alonso and senior forward Marvin Smith for its inside-out attack for a team that averages about 74 points a game while holding opponents to 62.

If they win, the Zags will play the winner between Ohio St. and South Dakota State on Saturday

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CONFERENCE/RECORD: Southern Conference regular season and tournament champs (27-7) HEAD COACH: Wes Miller SCOUTING REPORT: Scouring the season stats for the Spartans, nothing leaps out to make it look like UNC Greensboro can beat Gonzaga, save one line: the team’s three-point shooting. Collectively, the Spartans make about 10 three-pointers per game and shoot 36 percent from long

CONFERENCE/RECORD: Big Ten Conference tied for second place (24-8) HEAD COACH: Chris Holtmann SCOUTING REPORT: Zags fans undoubtedly remember the 27-point dismantling Gonzaga put on Ohio State back at the Thanksgiving weekend tournament in Portland.

The Buckeyes have grown up a lot since then under first-year head coach Chris Holtmann. They put up a 15-3 record in the competitive Big Ten, including wins over highly seeded squads Michigan State, Michigan and Purdue. The team boasts four doubledigit scorers, and are led by leading scorer and rebounder Keita Bates-Diop, a junior

forward who averages 19 points and nine rebounds per game. The Buckeyes lost early in the Big Ten tourney, and will be looking to rebound strong. If they can beat South Dakota State and get a rematch with the Zags, expect a closer game than their first matchup.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE JACKRABBITS

CONFERENCE/RECORD: Summit League regular season and tournament champs (28-6) HEAD COACH: T.J. Otzelberger SCOUTING REPORT: The Jackrabbits enter March Madness having won 11-straight games and 19 of their last 20, and they’ll be a popular pick to pull an upset in their matchup with Ohio State. This is South Dakota State’s third-straight tournament appearance (they lost to Gonzaga by 20 in the first round last year), and they are a high-scoring squad, averaging 85 points per game. They’re led by Mike Daum, the junior forward averaging 24 points per game, along with 10 rebounds. While Daum bangs inside, freshman guard David Jenkins Jr. gives them an outside threat, averaging 16 points.

If the Jackrabbits get hot, they can make life interesting for both the Buckeyes and, potentially, the Zags on Saturday. n

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WCC history. So dominant was Gonzaga that the Zags clinched the league regular season with three games left on the schedule. Which is impressive in and of itself, but even more so when you take a look at what was on their late-season schedule.

Five of the Zags’ final eight games came against three of the league’s four best teams: BYU, Saint Mary’s and San Diego. The Zags went 7-1 during that stretch to finish the season four games ahead of second place Saint Mary’s.

Gonzaga now owns 13 of the past 14 West Coast Conference regular season titles.

The individual accolades keep rolling in as well. So it’s safe to say coach Fortier, who took home WCC Coach of the Year honors, and her staff found answers to those early season questions.

Junior forward Jill Barta (18.8 points per game) was named 2018 WCC Player of the Year.

Fellow juniors Zykera Rice (12 points per game) and Chandler Smith (9.5 points per game) were named second team all-WCC. Newcomer Jenn

BY WILL MAUPIN Wirth landed on the all-freshman team. inning games, dominating the West Coast The team’s lone senior, Emma Stach (7.4 Conference and making it to the NCAA points per game), didn’t receive the same recogniTournament aren’t exclusive to the Gontion from the league as her teammates, but her zaga men’s team. The women’s team has presence has been invaluable this season. been doing it for years now, too, and this “Emma is very even-keeled out there,” Fortier season was no different. said. “I know she’s going to do her job.”

With a 79-71 victory over the San Diego Stach scored 36 points during three games Toreros in the WCC Tournament Championin the WCC Tournament. Her tenacious play ship on March 6, Gonzaga punched its ticket to helped Gonzaga overcome a physical semifinal the NCAA Tournament for the second straight battle with San Francisco and a tough, backseason. It’s Gonzaga’s 10th trip and-forth title game tilt with San to the Big Dance since 2007. The Diego.

Gonzaga landed a 13 seed in program has come to expect this Stach’s solid play helped push the NCAA tournament and level of success, but there was no Gonzaga back into the NCAA face No. 4 seed Stanford in guarantee of it after a rocky start Tournament, just in time for what Palo Alto at 3 pm Saturday. to the season. could be the most mad month The game will air on ESPN2.

“This team had a lot of of March Spokane’s ever seen. question marks early in the year,” As usual the Gonzaga men and head coach Lisa Fortier said. “We had a lot of women are going to the dance. Making this year new players and a lot of people with new roles.” even more crazy is that some of the dancing will Gonzaga struggled through the first month go down right here. of the season and sat at 3-3 entering December.

Spokane Arena is hosting Sweet 16 and Elite Since then the Zags have lost just twice, to the Eight games on the women’s side on March 24 University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Dec. 9 and and 26. Gonzaga won’t be part of the Spokane Saint Mary’s on Feb. 10. scene like they were three years ago, but no That loss to Saint Mary’s was the Zags’ only doubt fans would be happy to see them make the loss in WCC play. With a 17-1 league record, Sweet 16 working through the Lexington Region they finished the season with the most wins in instead. n

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THEATER

Feeling Festive

From first-graders’ imaginings to 24hour turnarounds, Stage Left’s festival lineup has something for everyone

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Actress and director Rebecca Cook helps Stage Left vie for new audiences through creative festivals.

n the six years since its inception, Spokane’s Stage Left Theater has made a point of performing the kinds of lesser known and experimental plays that might not be commercially viable to larger venues but have some intrinsic social, intellectual or artistic merit worth highlighting. The theater’s current season, for instance, kicked off with Michael Hollinger’s recent translation of Cyrano de Bergerac before moving on to works like Yussef El Guindi’s post-9/11 drama Back of the Throat and the Native American historical play At the Sweet Gum Bridge.

Amid longer runs of full-length plays, Stage Left’s 2017–18 calendar has also continued or introduced a variety of short-run festivals. These have the slightly different but parallel role of

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presenting new or noteworthy work by a variety of playwrights while also giving green actors and directors the opportunity to produce them.

The theater’s Fast and Furious festival took place at the start of February. Now in its fifth year and under the primary supervision of local actress and director Rebecca Cook, Fast and Furious, true to its name, is a rapid-fire showcase of single-page, roughly two-minute plays from writers around the globe.

“I always say in the curtain speech that no other festival is going to give you this much variety. It tends to lean just a little heavily toward comedy, but I think there was a really good mix this year of drama and comedy. Dark comedy, ...continued on next page

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“We decided to add more plays this year, so we had 39 plays [out of] 89 submissions from all over the world: New Zealand, England, one from Norway. We do try and give a little bit of favoritism to local playwrights because it’s nice to have them in the audience.”

This year the festival featured seven local writers, a trio of directors and a combined cast of 27 in plays such as Immortal Combat and The Bigfoot Sighting. One in particular, Mark Harvey Levine’s I’m on a Train, was the play that “everybody talked about every night,” she says.

“It’s a drama, but it’s a particularly poignant piece where you’ve got two actors sitting opposite, looking away from one another onstage. One is talking about how he’s imagining she’s on a voyage on a train, and she’s describing the things she’s seeing. It’s very sweet. And then in the end you realize she has passed away, and this is how he’s trying to hold on to her memory. It gets you in the gut.”

As a whole, Fast and Furious 5 was “really well received,” Cook says. “We had full houses every night. It’s become such a popular festival and such a fun night.”

and one is a kind of a nice holiday mix of the two. I would call it a dramedy set at Christmastime. It references O. Henry and has an O. Henry kind-of-flavor to it. It’s not a take on Gift of the Magi, but if you’ve read his stories, it takes you on a weird journey and leaves you feeling good,” says Cook.

At the very end of March comes the fifth installment of yet another festival, Leftovers.

help of the theater department at Spokane Falls Community College.

Cook calls the results “beautifully insane.”

“It’s hilarious,” Wooley says. “Kids write about whatever their passion is, whether it’s cats or oranges or princesses or fish or leprechauns. And the stories don’t necessarily make sense, but my thought is to help the kids see how their thoughts can be words on paper, which can then be translated into something that an entire room full of people gets to watch and enjoy.”

Kids Korner has been such a hit with both students and audiences that it’s been “fully embraced” by the Evergreen curriculum. Wooley is also creating a workshop that’s designed to help the festival expand to other area elementary schools.

Like its counterparts, Kids Korner is meant to align with the theater’s mission “to provide a venue for people who want to increase their level of experience to have a place to perform, direct or write something to be directed,” Wooley says.

“What’s beautiful about the Stage Left festivals is that there’s something for everyone between them — young or old, experienced or inexperienced,” Cook adds. “While they’re a wonderful playground for us to cultivate new talent, it’s also a wonderful place for our community to experience new forms of theater that we wouldn’t see on a lot of fully produced stages.” n

“You have no idea what you’re going to get until you show up.”

“It’s a 24-hour festival where we get a team of directors and actors together,” explains Stage Left Managing Director Tia Wooley. “They draw the playwright’s name [at random], and we give them a prop. Then they have to write a show that night around the prop, rehearse it the next day, and we perform it that same evening.”

The framework might be straightforward, but the results are consistently unpredictable.

“You have no idea what you’re going to get until you show up,” says Cook with a laugh. “We don’t even know what they’re going to be until we get the plays that morning. And there’s always a variation in how successful the plays are, but the stamina of these actors, directors and playwrights is what makes it so magical. It’s one of the most unique festivals we have in town.”

Along with The Long Form, Wooley’s other brainchild is Kids Korner, scheduled for May 11 to 14. First-graders from Evergreen Elementary in the Mead School District write plays that are then transposed to the stage with the

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his weekend (March 16 to 18) brings The Long Form, which sets itself apart from Fast and Furious by spotlighting a handful of 30-minute plays solely from regional playwrights. There’s Dilemmas, written by Blake King Krueger and directed by Adam C. Sharp; A Sprig of Mistletoe Up in That One Little Corner of the Jail by Matthew Weaver and directed by Jennie Oliver; and The Cosmological Constant by Ron Ford, directed by Jerry Sciarrio.

“One is definitely a comedy, one is definitely a drama

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PLAN AHEAD The Spokane Civic Theatre announced the lineup for the 2018-19 season for both its Main Stage and Studio Theatre stage over the weekend. Tickets are now available at spokanecivictheatre.com.

Here are the basics: MAIN STAGE Mary Poppins, Sept. 14-Oct. 14 Elf the Musical, Nov. 23-Dec. 23 You Can’t Take It with You, Jan. 25-Feb. 17, 2019 The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time, March 22-April 14, 2019 Young Frankenstein, May 17-June 16, 2019 STUDIO THEATRE Bug, Sept. 21-Oct. 4 Constellations, Nov. 9-Dec. 2 The Memory of Water, Jan. 18-Feb. 10, 2019 The Flick, March 1-24, 2019 The House of Blue Leaves, May 5-25, 2019

Still Making Sense

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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avid Byrne released his latest solo album, American Utopia, last week, and it proves he’s still hung up on the same themes — technology, industry, the niceties (and absurdities) of modern life — as when he was burning up the charts with Talking Heads.

The art-rock pioneer, known for his pinched vocal delivery and onstage theatrics (remember those oversized suits?), is one of the few artists to ever score massive commercial hits with songs that so brazenly defied classification.

It got me thinking about Byrne and his legacy. He’s one of pop music’s most brilliant conceptual minds, one of the few rock frontmen who’s so much more than just a rock frontman. He’s also: AN INNOVATOR. Take a listen to his and Brian Eno’s 1981 sound collage album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,

THE BUZZ BIN

ON THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music arrives online and in stores March 16. To wit:  THE DECEMBERISTS, I’ll Be Your Girl.

First single “Severed” sounds more ’80s synth-pop than you’d expect from the hyper-literate Portlanders.  MOUNT EERIE, Now Only. The Anacortes songwriter follows up his brilliant musical obituary to his wife, 2017’s A Crow Looked At Me.  SNOOP DOGG, Bible of Love. Snoop Dogg made a gospel album. Check that: Snoop Dogg made a gospel double-album.  YO LA TENGO, There’s a Riot Goin’ On. Still buzz-worthy after three decades together, this is the New Jersey trio’s first new album in five years. (DAN NAILEN)

which still sounds ahead of its time. Blending clips of religious chants, radio broadcasts and international music, it introduced the art of sampling to a wider audience. Even before that, Byrne was one of the first white American artists to explore African rhythms, using instruments like the djembe and surdo on Talking Heads’ great 1979 album Fear of Music, also produced by Eno. A FILMMAKER. Byrne’s most famous big-screen foray was in Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984), the Talking Heads concert film that’s generally considered the finest of its genre. But Byrne deserves acclaim for directing and co-writing the wonderfully strange True Stories (1986), in which he serves as a tour guide through a small Texas town and its weird residents, played by the likes of John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz and Pops Staples. It’s a quirky cult comedy, available to rent on Amazon and iTunes.

A COLLABORATOR. Byrne’s most frequent creative partner has been Eno, but he often works with younger artists. In 2010, he teamed up with Fatboy Slim to write Here Lies Love, an off-Broadway musical about the former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos. 2012’s Love This Giant, meanwhile, is Byrne’s collaboration with St. Vincent, perhaps the closest thing we have to a female David Byrne. The album is a seamless marriage of both artists’ unusual sensibilities.

A LABEL EXECUTIVE. In 1988, while still with Talking Heads, Byrne founded Luaka Bop, a record label he envisioned as a medium to spread his love of world music.

While a handful of artists have recorded with the label, Luaka Bop serves primarily as a curator of older, obscure material. Amongst the musicians Byrne has helped receive wider recognition: Brazilian psych-rock pioneers Os Mutantes, late Nigerian funk svengali William Onyeabor and Belgian Afro-pop artist Zap Mama. n

ADVENTURE CAT GO! I’ve met some cool cats in my day, but few as cool as Leon. I met little Leon as I was running the trails outside of Kendall Yards. I noticed a small fluffy thing slinking along the ice and snow, out for a stroll with his human, Megan Ferney, a program assistant at Gonzaga’s business school.

You can see all of the places that Leon and Megan travel to on Instagram at @leonadventurecat, as they are both avid hikers. Not only is Leon a better hiker and outdoorsman than me, he also has more Instagram followers. (QUINN WELSCH)

DON’T BEAUREGARD THAT JOINT! Our anti-pot Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now the unwitting mascot for a pro-marijuana group.

The marijuana advocacy group called #JeffSesh is selling rolling papers featuring the AG’s cartoon mug with a fat doobie pinched between his lips.

General Jeff’s “Old Rebel” Session Papers go for $5 online. A portion of the profits will be donated to the Drug Policy Alliance, according to the group’s website. (MITCH RYALS)

IT’S ALSO SUNNY IN SCHOOL It’s hard to imagine Glenn Howerton playing a character other than Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

And the good thing about his new role in NBC’s A.P. BIO is you don’t really have to. The premise — a bad teacher (Howerton) using his students to advance his own selfish agenda as a weak-willed principal (Patton Oswalt) tries to rein him in — isn’t particularly original or complicated. But the reason I’m eagerly awaiting the rest of the season is just as uncomplicated: It makes me laugh. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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CULTURE | FIRE

Ray Kresek and artifacts housed in his Fire Lookout Museum in Spokane.

Looking Out for Others

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The Spokane Fire Lookout Museum and a U of Idaho photo exhibition offer unique perspectives on wildland firefighting

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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mokey the Bear has his own bedroom at Ray Kresek’s north Spokane home, situated on what resembles a pine tree clearing in the National Forest.

Really, though, it’s Kresek’s homage to bygone days of wildland firefighting at his Fire Lookout Museum.

Thirty varieties of regional conifers and other native shrubbery fill most of Kresek’s 1-acre plot, forming the backdrop for a unique structure in his backyard: a nearly 90-year-old fire lookout cabin. Built during the 1930s when forestry departments wanted to top every mountain with a lookout, resulting in more than 8,000 such structures nationwide, the cabin now sits atop a manageable 6-foot platform. Adjacent is Kresek’s other on-site lookout: a replica of a tower style incorporating pine trees as part of the structure, jutting 60 feet upward.

Next to the lookouts is a 1936 garage built by the Civilian Conservation Corps for use by the Washington Division of Forestry in Usk. It houses a fully restored, fire-engine red 1935 Chevrolet fire pumper, formerly “Spokane Fire Dept. Truck-75,” which Kresek purchased from the department from which he retired. Otherwise, the shed itself and many of the items at the non-profit museum were donated by like-minded history enthusiasts.

The house is full, too. A basement room contains 2,400 Smokey the Bear items, while the meticulously

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researched, restored and documented collection numbers around 19,000 total items. Some objects have been replaced by newer technology, such as one of six panoramic cameras used to pinpoint fires, as well as glass vacuum tubes from old radios.

Other items testify to the awesome power of fire, like the charred remains of the U.S. Forest Service sign from the 2014 Carlton complex fires — the largest Washington wildland fire on record at more than 250,000 acres burned.

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needed projects,” says Kresek, who had been collecting memorabilia since the 1960s. Yet the museum didn’t fully take shape until Kresek retired from the city’s firefighting force in 1988.

That summer, he and his late wife spent their time volunteering at the aptly named Heaven’s Gate Lookout tower. Located above Idaho’s Hells Canyon at 8,429 feet, it offers breathtaking views across Idaho to Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains, as well as to peaks in Oregon and Washington. It was heaven, he says, but also gut-wrenching.

“We watched Hiroshima-size smoke columns rise in the sky almost daily for a month while nearly a million acres in Yellowstone National Park and thousands more burned in the Selway and Frank Church Wilderness

areas of Idaho. It was a bittersweet summer for someone who had been taught to put out fires to have to watch them burn until they became a disaster.”

Kresek went on to visit nearly one-third of the Northwest’s 3,313 lookout towers in preparation for writing Fire Lookouts of the Northwest in 1998; he updated the book in 2015.

Across the nation, lookouts continue to disappear. Of Washington’s original 656 towers, only 107 still stand, and only 30 are manned. In Idaho, which had the most towers in the U.S., at 989, only 196 towers remain, 60 are staffed.

While some towers have become popular vacation rentals — recreation.gov makes forest service towers and cabins available through its website — others are no longer populated with paid staff or volunteers, leaving them vulnerable to vandalism. The cabin atop the Lookout Mountain tower in Boundary County, Idaho, for example, was removed after vandals damaged it last year.

Although he’s in his 80th year, Kresek stays busy updating the collection, slated to eventually go to the Stevens County Historical Society. Kresek has also been talking with the National Museum of Forest Service History in Missoula, Montana, which is nearly halfway to its $10.5 million goal for constructing a museum for its 50,000-plus item collection.

Kresek was featured in a 2011 Idaho Public Television Outdoor Idaho segment and honored the same year with a Silver Smokey Bear Award on behalf of the Ad Council, National Association of State Foresters and the Forest Service for “sustained excellence in wildland fire prevention.” And he continues to support the cause. He’s a member of the Forest Fire Lookout Association, formed to document lookout sites, organize restoration, and even list lookouts for sale. Members range from environmentalists to lookout enthusiasts, writers to forest-fire personnel, many of whom know each other or know of each other in the rarified world of wildland firefighting.

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resek met fellow FFLA member, C. Rod Bacon 20 years ago at the Idaho Panhandle National Forest’s St. Joe Ranger District. From Pullman, Washington, Bacon is currently exhibiting his photography at University of Idaho’s Prichard Gallery in an exhibition entitled Lookouts in Fire Detection.

Bacon’s exhibit is in conjunction with Facing the Inferno: the Wildfire Photography of Kari Greer, which features 64 up-close-and-personal photos of every aspect of firefighting: a line of firefighters in telltale mustard yellow shirt and olive work pants digging a fire break, smoke-choked highways, a chopper framed in a plume of fire retardant as it hovers above a hotspot. Some images, though, are just shapes defined by a palette of fire colors: cherry, orange, gold and black.

Both Greer’s and Bacon’s exhibits provide a unique look inside wildland firefighting culture, which continues to evolve as discussions focus on the future. Issues range from state, federal and even local funding, to the impact of climate change, to the best allocation of resources — apps, drones, air patrol, firefighters — in spotting, preventing and fighting wildland fires.

Not surprisingly, Kresek believes lookout towers are essential. n Facing the Inferno: the Wildfire Photography of Kari Greer • Through April 14, Tue-Sat, 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-6 pm • Prichard Art Gallery • 414 S. Main St., Moscow, Idaho • uidaho.edu/caa/galleries-centers-andlabs/prichard • 208-885-3586 Fire Lookout Museum • Open by appointment • March-November • 123 W. Westview Ave. • firelookouts.com/museum • 466-9171

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O’Doherty’s traditional Reuben, the “Hooligan & Hannigan,” truly delivers.

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Irish Influence The Reuben sandwich is an American invention with many cultural connections; here’s where to eat one in the Inland Northwest

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he Reuben sandwich — that famous combination of corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, rye bread and Thousand Island dressing — wasn’t invented in Ireland, nor by an Irish cook, according to the most prevalent accounts (one credits a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska; another a deli in New York City). Even so, the sandwich so regularly attributed to the Emerald Isle indeed has lasting ties to Irish culture in its two main ingredients: corned beef and cabbage. How corned beef became synonymous with Irish cuisine — thanks to British influence and the economics of salt taxes — is a long story for another day.

(Read more in “Is Corned Beef Really Irish?” at smithsonianmag. com.)

Like many American food favorites, the Reuben is a mashup of cultural influences, and its modern flavor is largely due to Jewish cooking practices. Around the turn of the 19th century, Irish and Jewish immigrants had settled together in pockets of New York City, where the Irish bought salt-cured beef brisket from Jewish kosher delis that often threw in cabbage and potatoes with the meat. This popular trio didn’t make it back home until more recently; in Ireland the traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal is lamb or bacon.

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In the end, the Reuben is an American invention, thanks to our country’s long history as a melting pot for people from around the world. Just in time for everyone’s favorite Irish holiday, our team rounds up some worthy locally made Reuben sandwiches to sink your teeth into. (CHEY SCOTT)

SUFFOLK REUBEN ($9)

O’Shay’s Irish Pub & Eatery, 313 Coeur d’Alene Lake Dr., Coeur d’Alene You needn’t wait until St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate Irish cuisine at O’Shay’s Irish Pub & Eatery, a fixture of Coeur d’Alene’s East Sherman district for nearly 15 years. Of course the restaurant also serves fish and chips, shepherd’s pie and corned beef and cabbage, plus a few Irished-up dishes, like Irish nachos with potatoes instead of chips.

O’Shay’s Suffolk Reuben is a wee variation on the classic combination of corned beef, melted Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing and grilled rye bread. In lieu of mustard, the restaurant uses horseradish sauce for a nice kick without the mustardy tang, and their scratch-made corned beef is lean and not too salty. It’s not the biggest Reuben you’ll find in the Lake City,

OTHER TASTY REUBENS HERBIE’S FAMOUS REUBEN, $8.25 Herbie’s Deli, 4055 N. Government Way, Hayden What’s special: Pick corned beef, pastrami or both STACK HOUSE REUBEN, $16 Steam Plant, 151 S. Lincoln What’s special: Made with short-rib pastrami marinated, brined and smoked for seven days REUBEN SANDWICH (LUNCH MENU ONLY), $14 Safari Room Fresh Grill & Bar, 111 S. Post What’s special: Comes with the Davenport’s signature Louis dressing in lieu of Thousand Island ULTIMATE REUBEN, $16 1898 Public House, 2010 W. Waikiki Rd. What’s special: Sauerkraut with balsamic and Thousand Island with horseradish REUBEN, $8 Main Market Co-Op, 44 W. Main What’s special: You can’t always get it, but when you can, it’s a cheap version of a classic take.

yet its year-round availability and hearty pub environment make it a local fave, made all the better by the likelihood of hearing the local firefighter Pipe and Drum band come that special day in March. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

HOOLIGAN & HANNIGAN ($13)

O’Doherty’s Irish Grille, 525 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

It’s no surprise an Irish pub would serve what is arguably the best Reuben in the Inland Northwest. Somehow the flavors of this sandwich are enhanced when accompanied by a properly poured Guinness (patience, people!) and the sound of Celtic tunes or loud customers cheering on Notre Dame in whatever sport.

All the ambience and libations don’t mean anything, though, if the Reuben doesn’t deliver. O’Doherty’s does, particularly in its traditional “Hooligan & Hannigan” version. They also do a “New York Style” Reuben (no Thousand Island dressing or sauerkraut) and a spicy chicken Reuben, but I’m a traditional guy. The Hooligan & Hannigan features plenty of the tender corned beef required by any good Reuben, balanced perfectly by its sauerkraut and Swiss cheese. And while I’m a fan of a marble rye, the toasted dark rye bread favored by O’Doherty’s certainly makes the red corned beef pop for the eye, and has plenty of great flavor, too.

You can get a half-sandwich version ($10), but you won’t want to after you try it. (DAN NAILEN)

TRADITIONAL REUBEN ($13)

The Two Seven, 2727 S. Mt. Vernon St. You want salty, moist and delicious meat? You want soft rye bread? You want house-made sauerkraut, Thousand Island and melted Swiss all blending together? Well, then you want the Reuben from The Two Seven (or The Elk).

Reubens, when they’re done wrong, can be too dry — both in taste and in texture. But this Reuben avoids that mistake. The corned beef is cooked slowly, and each bite of it reminds you of a thickly cut slice of bacon that somehow falls apart in your mouth.

It can get messy with the sauce and the cheese, but it’s welcomed chaos, and the thick slices of bread can handle it. The sauerkraut gives it a subtle flavor, giving more room for the strengths of the sandwich — the meat and sauce — to breathe. If you’ve never had a Reuben, this sandwich will leave you wanting to come back for more. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

THE RUDE-BEN, AKA, REUBEN’S DRUNK UNCLE ($12.50)

Bruncheonette, 1011 W. Broadway Ave. I first encountered this beautiful sandwich outside of Perry Street Brewing, served up from the Couple of Chefs food truck, whose owners went on to open this brick-and-mortar location in 2016 in the shadow of the county courthouse. That tasty first impression made me all too happy to take this assignment.

The genius of this drunken Reuben is just how juicy the shredded corned beef is; it alone would make one swoon. But add in a little sweetness (with caramelized onions), a little sour (with Guinness-braised sauerkraut), a little sauce and a little cheese (Dubliner Irish cheddar) and you’ll hold in your hands a sandwich worth remembering. Side options include house salad, a potato medley, fries and, as I opted, tater tots, served hot and heaping in a large bowl. (JACOB H. FRIES)

GUINNESS BRAISED REUBEN ($13)

True Legends Grill, 1803 N. Harvard Rd., Liberty Lake Here’s the setup: Juicy corned beef is braised with Guiness beer and sliced while still warm. Meanwhile, the marble rye bread is toasted. Piled on top of the salty meat goes a mound of sauerkraut and True Legends’ housemade Thousand Island dressing.

Melted Swiss cheese envelops the whole thing.

“It’s our most popular sandwich,” says True Legends’ chef Kyle Barbieri. “We developed the rescipe in house to bring out the flavor in the corned beef.”

You’re sure to lose some of the sauerkraut and juices with each bite — this is a three-to-four-napkin sandwich that comes with fries: steak cut, sweet potato or tater tots. For St. Paddy’s Day this weekend, you can also order Irish stew as a side.

“It goes great with a glass of Guinness,” he says. (MITCH RYALS) n

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FOOD | BOOK

Everyone at the Table Seattle activist Laura Titzer comes to Spokane to talk about her new book, a guide to creating lasting change in the food system

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he modern food industry is one of the most complexly interconnected systems in the world. After all, everyone has to eat. In America, food connects to much beyond its production, harvest, processing and distribution — there’s the economy, the environment and political and cultural influences. So how do we change the system as a whole to make sure that everyone can have continued or improved access to life’s sustaining force?

Laura Titzer These questions and more are explored in No Table Too Small: Engaging in the Art and Attitude of Social Change, a new guidebook of sorts for community-based food organizers by Seattle activist and writer Laura Titzer.

Throughout the book’s chapters, Titzer utilizes her own experience from more than a dozen years working with groups addressing food insecurity, environmental and economic sustainability and increased access to locally produced food. Before stopping in Spokane for a reading and discussion, co-hosted by Catholic Charities Spokane’s Food for All program, we caught up with Titzer by phone. The following responses have been edited for length and clarity.

INLANDER: Who is this book for?

TITZER: I think the core audience is people who are either currently trying to change the food system, or wanting to get involved in that and haven’t for whatever reason. The interesting thing about the book is that it’s applicable to people not just in the food system, but people trying to make change in a lot of different systems.

How would you summarize the book to potential readers?

It really talks about the importance of engagement and inclusion, and not just including all the like-minded people who are wanting to see the change, but all the voices, and the ones you may not agree with. And, how we really bring those voices and opinions to the table and how we work with that.

How did you become an active organizer in the food system?

It started maybe 12 years ago. I was in Indiana and I got started in an environmental group called Earth Charter. I got loosely involved with them, and I joined a food justice book club. So in this book club we’re reading books each month, and I got tired of reading the books. I wanted to go out and do something.

What are you doing now?

I am at the Washington State Farmers Market Association, working with folks we contract with throughout the state to increase food access at all markets through SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]. I also provide consulting services for groups and organizations outside of that.

What is the biggest issue today in our food system?

What’s really coming up for me now, and has been of late, is the structural and institutional racism, which presents a lot of barriers and challenges. We see it a lot in the fact that most people who are low income and hungry are people of color, and people who make the lowest wages are people of color — also in the food system, the food workers at restaurants or manufacturing, processing and distributing.

What are we doing right in the food system, or moving toward doing right?

In the emergency food system realm there is a national movement to look at racial justice within that system, and what that means… and to look at being more than a charity model.

There are also a lot more groups supporting these grassroots, small movements or organizations on the ground trying to make that change in their community, whether a group of workers at a farm, or a small person-of-color-led organization. n Laura Titzer: No Table Too Small • Thu, March 22, at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

FOOD | OPENING

Momo’s gluten-free teriyaki bowl.

Less is Mo’

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New Coeur d’Alene restaurant MoMo focuses on the details with Asian menu of select sushi, wok-cooked and grilled items

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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oused in the former home of Bonsai Bistro, MoMo Sushi.Wok.Grill is the largest restaurant space Grace and Scott McNiel have ever run, at 10,000 square feet and three levels. Yet with Grace’s background in business and Scott’s in computer engineering, the McNiels’ focus on small, specific details are what matter.

Sushi, explains Grace, is a slower process, and more focused on presentation, while wok-cooked food is much, much faster.

Wok-executed food can’t be prepared ahead of time and simply reheated, she says. “It has to be fresh.”

In lieu of the type of sushi bar some diners might expect, MoMo prepares its two dozen sushi rolls in the kitchen, like the popular spider roll with soft-shell crab ($12) and North Idaho Roll with shrimp tempura ($12).

The menu is purposely small, says Grace. There’s one page each of sushi and wok items, and one page of soup, salad, noodle dishes and appetizers, like chicken lettuce wraps ($12) and salt ‘n’ pepper calamari ($14).

Grace’s older brother Hyun Son runs the kitchen, having relocated to Coeur d’Alene with the McNiels in 2014.

“He’s the guy with the gift,” says Grace of her brother, who notes that the restaurant’s food is all scratch made and rooted in her family’s Japanese and Korean heritage.

Korean bi bim bap, for example, is a spicy dish with marinated beef, vegetables and fried egg over a bowl of rice ($16), while shrimp tempura udon features enoki and shiitake mushrooms, and kamaboko, a traditional Japanese fish paste over thick noodles. The menu also includes a smattering of pan-Asian dishes such as Thai coconut curry ($16-$17) and Chinese-style ginger broccoli beef ($14).

MoMo Coeur d’Alene follows the sushi, wok-cooked and grilled food format of the family’s two other restaurants, explains Grace, who was attending Seattle Pacific University when she and Scott met. When she left for Colorado, where her parents had purchased a small sushi restaurant, Scott followed her. MoMo (which translates from Japanese to peaches) opened in Canon City, Colorado, in 2007, followed by Tsunami, in Pueblo, Colorado, in 2013.

The couple and their children are excited about their new downtown Coeur d’Alene location, with its unusual lower-level dining area, and are also looking forward to summer, says Grace.

In the meantime they keep looking for ways to create the optimal dining experience for their guests. n MoMo Sushi.Wok.Grill • 101 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene • Open Tues-Sat from 11 am-2 pm and 5-9 pm; Sun from noon-9 pm • facebook.com/momocda • 208-966-4076

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In & Out A few tone-deaf moments aside, Love, Simon is a warm, uplifting story about a gay teenager’s self-acceptance

BY ERIC D. SNIDER Nick Robinson plays a teenager grappling with his sexuality — and keeping it a secret — in the coming-out comedy Love, Simon.

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ove, Simon is the first film about a gay teenager’s coming out ever distributed in wide release by a major studio. We’ve seen mainstream films with queer youth as supporting characters, and numerous coming-out centered films that played the arthouse circuit. But one of the majors (20th Century Fox, in this case) backing a sort of gay teenage romantic comedy, showing it in every multiplex in the country? That’s new.

And given the number of people now running Hollywood who were gay teens 20 to 40 years ago, it’s surprising this is the first.

One of those gay former teens is Greg Berlanti, creator or producer of gay-friendly TV shows like Dawson’s Creek, Everwood and Riverdale. His indie comedy The Broken Hearts Club (2000) was notable at the time for not being about important issues, with gay characters just living their lives. He’s made one other movie since then, the (straight) rom-com Life as We Know It, and now returns to the big screen with the warm and fuzzy Love, Simon.

Even though it’s based on a novel by Becky Albertalli and adapted by This Is Us producer/writers Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, it feels like a personal movie for Berlanti.

I mention all of this up front because there are a few fusty, out-of-touch moments in Love, Simon that remind you it was directed by a 45-year-old man whose own teen years were radically different from his protagonist’s. It’s altogether a friendly, old-fashioned movie, very tame in its depiction of burgeoning sexuality, without life-or-death melodrama or rejection — and that pleasantness can make it seem less revolutionary than it is, like it’s the hun-

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dredth one of these, not the first. out, whether on his own terms or Martin’s, none of his Simon (Nick Robinson) narrates the story via emails friends or family are going to reject him, and any opposihe’s writing to his pen pal, a fellow student at his school tion he faces will be the minority opinion (and a socially who came out anonymously on the school message board unpopular one at that). His reluctance — and he seems and calls himself Blue. Under the name Jacques, Simon to know this, at least subconsciously — is self-inflicted, has begun a correspondence with Blue, discussing their caused by uncertainty over whether he accepts himself as shared secret and falling in love. Meanwhile, of course, gay.

Simon is trying to figure out which of his classmates Blue The blackmail subplot provides conflict for a story is, plugging each new suspect into his imagination as he that otherwise wouldn’t have any, and for which not makes his guesses. having any is kind of the point. Because Simon hasn’t come out to anyone but this isn’t a movie about a gay teen who LOVE, SIMON Blue. He hasn’t told his lifelong best friend bravely comes out of the closet in the face Rated PG-13 Leah (Katherine Langford), who has a of adversity, which it would have been if Directed by Greg Berlanti crush on him that he doesn’t see; or Abby it were made even 10 years ago. This is Starring Nick Robinson, Jennifer (Alexandra Shipp), who’s just been cast a movie about a teen who overcomes his Garner, Josh Duhamel as the lead in the school musical; or Nick own hangups to come out into a world that (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), a soccer player who’s accepts him — which is the only way to in love with Abby. He hasn’t told his loving, progresmake this movie in 2018. Our progress as a society has sive parents (Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel) or his rendered a once-reliable fictional device ineffective. Being younger sister (Talitha Bateman). gay is no longer an automatic source of conflict.

His secret is threatened when another student, smartLove, Simon is important because it conveys this new mouthed busybody Martin (Logan Miller), discovers reality in a way that’s loving and affirmative, not to Simon’s emails to Blue and blackmails him: He’ll out mention funny and sweet, with an unabashedly cornball Simon unless Simon sets him up with Abby. This thread finale to tug at the heart of romantics across the sexualof the story is tiresome, a contrived conflict that lacks ity spectrum. (I suspect the teenage girls who would authenticity (though it’s on par with the nonsense typical swoon over Simon in a traditional rom-com will be just as of a teen rom-com), but it spotlights the film’s curious delighted to see him find happiness on the “other team.”) position.

The message isn’t “be tolerant of gay people.” It’s “we’re Set among non-religious people in a non-backwards tolerant of gay people now, so let’s enjoy some fun, kind, part of America in 2018, the movie can’t realistically presuplifting stories about them the way we would anybody ent Simon’s sexuality as a problem. When he does come else.” n

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In 1976, an Air France flight was hijacked by German reactionaries, with Israeli Defense Forces swooping in to intervene. It’s an event that’s been dramatized many times before; Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike play the hijackers here. (NW) Rated PG-13

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE

A faith-based drama about Bart Millard, the frontman of Christian rock group MercyMe, who escaped his abusive childhood through music. The title is lifted from the band’s signature song. (NW) Rated PG

LOVE, SIMON

Popular teenager Simon (Nick Robinson) begins anonymous email correspondence with another boy, only to discover they’re the only gay kids in their school, and they’re both in the closet. Overlooking a few unnecessary subplots, this is a funny, sweet and uplifting coming-out and coming-of-age comedy. (ES) Rated PG-13

TOMB RAIDER

Videogame heroine Lara Croft returns to the big screen, this time played by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, in an origin story detailing the famed treasure hunter’s first adventure on a fabled Japanese island. (NW) Rated PG-13

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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

DEATH WISH

The 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. As pointless and out-of-touch as you’d

expect, and Willis isn’t even trying.

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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 with a couple car chases thrown in, because these characters are apparently action stars now. (NW) Rated R

GAME NIGHT

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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A group of criminals plot to rob the U.S. Treasury, hoping that a looming Category 5 tropical storm will serve as the perfect distraction. The weather has other plans. We’re still not totally convinced this is a real movie. (NW) Rated PG-13

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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 get-

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PETER RABBIT

Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s character gets the anthropomorphic, wisecracking CGI treatment, voiced by James Corden and perpetually pestering Domhnall Gleeson’s bumbling Mr. McGregor.

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(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. (MJ) Rated PG-13

RED SPARROW

Jennifer Lawrence is a Russian ballerina-turned-assassin, hired to take down a CIA agent (Joel Edgerton) in possession of incriminating information on her government. A well-made but disappointingly rote grab bag of spy movie tropes; your average episode of The Americans has more intrigue and suspense. (NW) Rated R

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

THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT

That trio of masked home invaders from the 2008 horror hit return, menacing a road-tripping family in a desolate trailer park. Brief flashes of style and pitch-black humor don’t compensate for all its slasher movie cliches.

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Two weird, wealthy adolescent girls rekindle their friendship over a plot to kill one of their boorish stepfathers in this morbid dark comedy. It’s wellacted and imaginatively shot, but doesn’t have much new to say about the insularity of privilege or teenage sociopathy. (NW) Rated R

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

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ALL THAT GLITTERS Spokane’s Super Sparkle wants to bring the party to you

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typical Super Sparkle concert is closer in spirit to a party than your standard rock show.

The band’s eight members, two of whom are energetic backup dancers, crowd the stage. They’re often wearing matching ensembles, and they’re usually surrounded by a halo of confetti, streamers or twinkling lights.

If you’ve ever seen them live, you’ll know that the good feelings they generate are pretty damn infectious.

“Each time we play, you’re going to get something a little bit different,” says Karli Ingersoll, one of the band’s guitarists and vocalists. “It’s not going to be the same set.

It might not even be the same people every time. We have different dress codes we cycle through.

“You’re not going to regret it if you come to every single show we play, because we’re

going to make it really fun.”

Super Sparkle has been performing since the spring of 2016, and they’re something of a local supergroup, featuring musicians who are involved in projects like Cathedral Pearls, Water Monster, Windoe and Mama Doll.

Ingersoll started the band, and is one of three primary songwriters and vocalists alongside keyboardist Max Harnishfeger and guitarist Scott Ingersoll (her brother-in-law), who also performs locally as Scott Ryan.

The trio is joined by bassist Adrian Saludes, drummer Claire Fieberg, saxophonist Caleb Brown and choreographed dancers Jen Landis and Darrien Mack.

“The [original] idea was that it’d be a rotating cast,” Ingersoll explains. “You’d have a set of songs, and people would cycle in and out, and anyone could play the parts. So it’d ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | POP “ALL THAT GLITTERS,” CONTINUED... be kind of like a surprise when you’d show up.”

The band’s core lineup has been more concrete than that, but that sense of spontaneity — the idea that no two Super Sparkle shows are totally alike — has become the group’s driving principle. Consider their upcoming show at the Washington Cracker Co. Building, where they’ll be joined by longtime Spokane Symphony percussionist Bryan Bogue and a small string section on a handful of songs.

If you’re familiar with its members’ other projects, Super Sparkle’s music might not be what you expect the first time you hear it. It’s inspired by buoyant 1960s pop and soul, and the classic grooves of Motown, a slick mix of sugary harmonies and catchy melodies. There was initially talk of the band itself employing simple choreography to match the music, similar to the moves pulled by old doo-wop groups, but that task was eventually doled out to Landis, who then recruited Mack. “[The choreography] is extremely collaborative,” Mack says, explaining that he and Landis spend hours standing in front of mirrors and working through their routines. “We have tiny movements for each song, and then we bring that together and flesh it out. … We’re listening, thinking, ‘What would we naturally do?’ and put that into something that’s synchronized.”

“We’re not just this band that’s coming together to play songs. We actually hang out with each other. I think that joy manifests itself in the music, too.”

Certainly it’s the band’s live energy, the kind that makes it easy to dance along to, that has resulted in their local popularity. They’ve sold out several shows at the Bartlett, including two nights in a row on the most recent New Year’s weekend. And they’ve already recorded a self-engineered EP, filmed music videos and have a batch of new songs that will be released over the next couple months.

“It’s really easy to connect to [the music] and relate to it, and I think that might have to do with how quickly the following came,” Harnishfeger says. “We’re not trying to challenge or push any buttons, and just trying to make people happy.”

“We’re all friends and we hang out,” Saludes says. “We’re not just this band that’s coming together to play songs. We actually hang out with each other. I think that joy manifests itself in the music, too.”

And now the band is set to play their first out-of-town shows — at Boise’s Treefort Music Festival in late March, and in April at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle.

There are obviously complicated logistics and coordination involved when your band is an octet, but there are certain benefits of having so many members: Super Sparkle’s collaborative process has been easier than expected, likely because they have more people to bounce ideas off of. Even the band’s most seasoned players admit they’re somewhat taken aback by how effortlessly the music has come to them.

It’s chemistry, and it’s right up there on the stage.

“For a lot of us who have played for a long time in different groups, everybody looked around and was like, ‘This feels too easy, putting these songs together,’” Ryan says. “Everybody was quickly on the same page about what the band was. If that’s not carrying over to the live show, something’s not right.”

“The sweet spot is when you have this communal joy, but people also like what you’re doing,” Ingersoll says. “My mantra with the band is ‘go where it feels good.’” n Super Sparkle with Blake Braley • Fri, March 16, at 8 pm • $12 general, $25 VIP • All ages • Washington Cracker Co. Building • 304 W. Pacific • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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MUSIC | ROCK

Ferris PTG presents their 55th Ham on Regal Show:

The Regrettes bring their fierce, empowering rock to the Bartlett next week.

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Spontaneous Spirit

Lydia Night of the Regrettes strives for raw and real performances

BY HOWARD HARDEE

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s frontwoman of the punk-rock band the Regrettes, Lydia Night doesn’t like planning ahead. She usually packs her clothes the night before leaving for a tour, isn’t big on rehearsal and disdains canned stage moves and banter.

A frequent concertgoer herself, she values authenticity from performers. “I hate when I can tell whoever in the band is speaking has totally planned out what they’re going to say,� she says. “When you don’t plan anything and you are in the moment, you are a much easier target. You feel much more vulnerable, because anything can happen at any second.�

The Regrettes are coming to the Bartlett on Thursday, March 22. Expect a zero-shits-given stage demeanor from the four-piece, which is rounded out by Genessa Gariano on guitar, Sage Nicole on bass and drummer Maxx Morando.

Their sound is firmly rooted in modern rock, but branches out with a doo-wop vibe recalling classic acts such as the Temptations and Buddy Holly.

For an example, check out the band’s recently released single, “Come Through.� It’s a pop-punk banger about a flaky boyfriend that starts with a bouncy bassline and builds up to a massive chorus. Night sings, “You don’t come through / Like you say you do / Now I don’t need you to / ’Cause I don’t need you.�

Talking to the Inlander from her home in Los Angeles, Night, 17, says she appreciates the element of risk as a performer — the sense that everything could fall apart (but probably won’t).

Unlike many touring bands, the Regrettes don’t play along to a metronome or any prerecorded sounds. “I understand why certain artists do it,�

Night says. “The Kills use a lot of programmed instruments during their performances, and they do it in a way that still feels authentic — I still feel like I’m watching somebody make music, and it doesn’t feel like a cop-out. I really think there’s a right way to do it. For us, we don’t have like 30 tracks or any weird sounds that we need to recreate live, and I really like having it where you see everything that you’re hearing.�

To get in the right mindset before shows, Night isolates herself from the rest of the band, puts on headphones, and thinks about female performers she admires, such as Beyonce and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “I’ll tell myself I’m a bad bitch,� she says, and then gets together with the band for a huddle before greeting the crowd. “When an artist gets up on stage, they’re obviously the center of attention,� she says. “Everyone in that room mostly has their focus on them, and that can be scary. For me personally, to perform well, I can’t be in my head and be thinking about that. I can’t be thinking, ‘Oh my God, all these people are watching me.’ I think the best performances are when the artist is completely out of their head; they’re just in the moment.�

That’s why Night was totally unprepared for what happened last October at the Growlers Six, a music festival in Southern California. In the middle of the Regrettes’ set, a reportedly intoxicated woman wearing a MORE EVENTS superhero Visit Inlander.com for cape climbed complete listings of on stage and local events. shoved Night to the ground before being restrained by security. It’s taken several months for Night to move past the incident and feel comfortable on stage again. “When the whole attack thing happened, it was so shocking and it took me a while to get over it,� she says. “It freaks you out. It’s like, ‘Oh, shit, maybe I need to have my guard up more when I play shows.’ But I know that doesn’t feel right to me, and it was such a rare, crazy thing.�

True to the spirit of punk rock, Night likes music that’s raw and real. That means being ready for anything — but definitely not planning for it. n

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The Regrettes with Mt. Eddy • Thur, March 22, at 8 pm • $10 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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FOLK JOHN CRAIGIE

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ortland folkster John Craigie is as much storyteller as musician. His songs resemble character sketches, and the narrators on his latest album, No Rain, No Rose, include retired astronaut Michael Collins and the state of California, as well as assorted ramblers and wanderers and hopeless romantics. No Rain is something of a tribute to Craigie’s home city and its vibrant music scene: It was recorded in his living room with his folk musician friends, including the Shook Twins, Jay Cobb Anderson and Gregory Alan Isakov, and it captures the feel of an impromptu sing-along session.

Sometimes deliberately shaggy, the LP leaves in some of the idle chatter that happens between takes, and even features a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice” from Exile on Main Street, another album recorded in a house-turned-studio.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER John Craigie with Jenny Anne Mannan • Wed, March 21, at 8 pm • $15-$18 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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f you’re still hanging on to your platform shoes, leisure suits and medallion necklaces, it might be in your best interest to check out this show. The Motet are a septet that has been performing since the late ’90s, formed by bandleader and drummer Dave Watts, and their brand of funk features furious horn licks, strutting disco guitars and spacey synthesizers. Just listen to the recording of their 2016 concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in their home state of Colorado, and you’ll get a feel for their infectious live energy and their improv prowess. They’re also known for their Halloween shows, where they’ve covered everyone from Prince to the Beatles to (no surprise) Parliament.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER The Motet • Fri, March 16, at 8 pm • $15 advance, $18 at the door • 21+ • The Hive • 207 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • livefromthehive. com • 208-457-2392

J THE BARTLETT, Smooth Ignition, Poohbenji, Outsiderrz, Beau Skinner J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Heather and the Soulmotions J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, B-Sharp CEDAR STREET BRIDGE, Mike Johnson CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary

CURLEY’S, Bad Monkey FARMHOUSE KITCHEN AND SILO BAR, Tom D’Orazi and Friends FEDORA PUB, Jacob Maxwell FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Whack a Mole FORZA COFFEE CO. (VALLEY), Austin Hagel J THE HIVE, The Motet (see above) J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Daniel Hall HOUSE OF SOUL, Swatkins and the Positive Agenda IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, John Firshi IRON GOAT BREWING, Wyatt Wood IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival THE JACKSON ST., Pamela Jean JOHN’S ALLEY, Joe Hein

J KNITTING FACTORY, NF, Michl LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Grow MARYHILL WINERY, Truck Mills THE MASON JAR, Karen McCormick: MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Dragonfly MULLIGAN’S, Son of Brad NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick THE OBSERVATORY, The Dead Channels, Crusty Mustard, Dust Fuzz PALOUSE BAR AND GRILL, KOSH

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, One Street Over THE PIN!, Fresh Voices Hip-Hop Showcase (7 pm, all ages); Tryger, Dee Jay Soup, Wheez, DJ FYSH, Illektrik (10 pm, 18+) THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Ron Greene, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Tracer SILVER MOUNTAIN, Pamela Benton SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Dario Ré SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, TNT SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West J J WASHINGTON CRACKER CO. BUILDING, Super Sparkle (see page 47), Blake Braley ZOLA, The Cronkites

Saturday, 03/17

219 LOUNGE, Rick Dorin & Steve Rush ARBOR CREST, Jan Harrison J J THE BARTLETT, Romaro Franceswa, DJ Marvelous, Jango, Mr. Nice Nice, Soultanz J BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIG BARN BREWING CO., St. Paddy’s Vinyl Spin with Kevin Brown BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Kevin BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve J BUCER’S, Dan Maher THE BUZZ, Brook Gannon Trio J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Post Falls Music Academy CAPONE’S, Colby Acuff CHECKERBOARD BAR, Kid Kaotic, Robert Maddox, Toxic Tok3r, Tryger, DJ McFly CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Bill Bozly COMMUNITY PINT, Just Plain Darin CORBY’S BAR, Zach Cooper Band CRAVE, DJ Stoney Hawk CRUISERS, Limberlost, Strangely Alright, Heart Avail CURLEY’S, Bad Monkey DISTRICT BAR, Tsuga, Phantom 309 FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Whack a Mole

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FLAME & CORK, Pamela Benton J HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Front Porch Trio HOGFISH, Scatterbox, Wasted Breath, The Dead Channels HOLLYWOOD REVOLVER BAR, Jacob Vanknowe, Strawberry Rocket, Mike Moskowitz J HOTEL RL AT THE PARK, Oliver Orr HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City & DJ P-Funk IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Brown Salmon Truck IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Jeff Crosby KELSEY’S BAR, Son of Brad J KNITTING FACTORY, Invasive, Dirtbag, Heavy Petal, Sins and Sinners LAGUNA CAFÉ, The Ronaldos LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chuck Dunlop MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, The Other White Meat MIDTOWN PUB, Dino/Soars MOOSE LOUNGE, Dragonfly MULLIGAN’S, Wyatt Wood NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), JamShack NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick NYNE, DJ Breece, The Shea Tea Folkin’ Irish Band, DJ MC Squared, Angus Scott Pipe Band, DJ C-Mad J PACIFIC AVENUE PIZZA, Indian Goat, Donna Donna PALOUSE BAR AND GRILL, KOSH

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Get Down River J THE PIN!, Latin Vibe Night with DJ Americo, DJ Khali POST FALLS BREWING CO., Ron Greene PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Joshua Belliardo REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Lazy Love RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos RIPPLES RIVERSIDE GRILL, Tracer THE ROADHOUSE, Theresa Edwards Band SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Rusty Jackson WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Andy Rumsey ZOLA, The Cronkites

Sunday, 03/18

J THE BIG DIPPER, He Is We, Vendetta Red DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), KOSH LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Daniel Hall O’DOHERTY’S, Live Irish Music J THE PIN!, Bodysnatcher, So This Is Suffering, Set Your Anchor ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 03/19

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 03/20

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J THE BARTLETT, Mirah, La Louma GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tues.

RAZZLE’S BAR, Open Mic Jam RED ROOM LOUNGE, Storme RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam THE ROADHOUSE, Karaoke ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 03/21

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills, John Fershee J J THE BARTLETT, John Craigie (see facing page), Jenny Anne Mannan GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Echo Elysium THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Micky & the Motorcars LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J THE PIN!, Dead Country Gentlemen POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Cronkites RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROADHOUSE, Open Mic THE THIRSTY DOG, Karaoke TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Matt Mitchell ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

Coming Up ...

J J THE BARTLETT, The Regrettes (see page 49), Mt. Eddy, March 22 THE OBSERVATORY, Wimps, Kinski, Tissue, Peru Resh, March 23 J NORTHERN QUEST, The Commodores, March 28

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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MUSIC LISTEN LOCAL

The Spokane Jazz Orchestra is mixing it up a bit with their latest show, foregoing some of the classic tunes you’ve probably heard them play in favor of a set packed with songs written strictly by Northwest composers. It’s always nice to get something fresh, right? In this case, some of the songs have been composed by members of the orchestra itself, while others were penned by the night’s guest vocalist, Nicole Lewis, as well as a few from University of Idaho music professor and composer Vern Sielert. Talk about a perfect way to cap off an evening full of local beer or wine or dinner from a local farmto-table restaurant.

— DAN NAILEN Spokane Jazz Orchestra Northwest Composers Showcase • Sat, March 17, at 7:30 pm • $17-$27 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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MUSIC TENACIOUS TEN

MUSEUM PARTY LIKE IT’S 1912

It’s not easy for me to get goosebumps watching a musical performance through a screen, but The Ten Tenors manages to elicit that reaction from me everytime. I can’t imagine what the effect would be like live. The Australian music group covers classical favorites ranging from songs like “Hallelujah” to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” both of which have garnered millions of views on YouTube. After 16 years of sold-out performances, The Ten Tenors are still going strong. The ensemble is equal parts charm, talent and delight; each singer’s vocals complement the others’, transporting listeners to an ethereal musical landscape. The friendship and warmth that emanates from their performances is apparent. Experience the feeling in person when The Ten Tenors stop in Spokane on their “Wish You Were Here” tour.

— ALLA DROKINA

Get ready for a night of raucous, old-fashioned fun and experience some of the happier moments of the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. In conjunction with the ongoing Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition (open through May 20), the MAC is hosting a period-themed shindig with plenty of festive Irish music to dance to, period-appropriate snacks to much on and a costume contest for guests who choose to dress the part in steampunk or turn-of-the-century inspired attire. Those of age can also enjoy beverages from a no-host bar, and artists of all ages can try their hand at sketching a live (and fully clothed!) model during a special competition. Perhaps best of all is that this evening event includes access to the museum’s galleries, where guests can learn about the excitement surrounding the famous ocean liner’s maiden voyage and its tragic end.

— CHEY SCOTT

The Ten Tenors • Thu, March 22, at 7:30 pm • $42-$75 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

Third Class Titanic Bash • Fri, March 16, from 6:30-10 pm • $20 • All ages • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

COMEDY ONE DOPE DUDE

I tuned in to the first episode of HBO’s 2 Dope Queens expected plenty of laughs from co-hosts Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson, but the pleasant surprise was stand-up guest Mark Normand, who did what I gather they call in the business a “tight five.” Jumping online, I discovered Normand has serious comedy huzzahs from all corners. Besides a resume packed with appearances on Conan, Colbert and other late-night shows, the guy took first place at the Great American Comedy Competition and was named “Best Comedian of 2013” by the Village Voice in his adopted hometown of New York City. You might have heard that town’s big for comedians.

— DAN NAILEN Mark Normand • Thu, March 15, at 8 pm • Free/women; $8-$15/men • Fri, March 16, at 8 pm • $15-$22 • 21+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

DRINK LUCKY NIGHT

Don your best kelly green attire and hit the streets of North Spokane to celebrate America’s favorite Irish holiday, in 2018 conveniently occuring on a Saturday.

This year also marks the second annual Garland District St. Paddy’s Pub Crawl, with stops at some of the many bars and restaurants along the quaint neighborhood’s streets. Join other revelers at the crawl’s six locations: Beerocracy, Bon Bon, Garland Drinkery, Revolver North, Garland Pub and The Brown Derby. Get a wristband when you start and make sure to check in at each bar to be entered into a drawing after you depart the final stop of the night. In addition to the many eateries of Garland, two local food trucks, Crate and Skewers, will be serving up tasty eats to hungry bar hoppers.

— CHEY SCOTT Garland District St. Paddy’s Day Pub Crawl • Sat, March 17, from 6 pm-1 am • $7 • 21+ • Garland Business District • bit.ly/2oENDf8

HAM ON REGAL A frazzled show chair drifts off to sleep while watching “The Wizard of Oz.” March 14-17 at 7:30 pm and March 17 at 1:30 pm. Ferris High School, 3020 E. 37th Ave. bit.ly/2Hei57v PICNIC IN STYLE A picnic dinner and style show starting at 6:30 pm to benefit youth technology programs at the Whitman County Library. Includes a nohost bar. March 15, 5:30 pm. $25-$160.

Colfax Library, 102 S. Main. (397-4366) SKI FOR MS All proceeds support scholarships to enable families with MS attend the life-changing programs of Can Do MS. March 17. Schweitzer Resort, 10,000 Schweitzer Mountain Rd. schweitzer.com (208-263-9555) U-HIGH DINNER & AUCTION Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day while supporting the University High School Class of 2018 Senior All-Nighter. March 17, 5-10 pm. $40.

Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague. (795-0981) JAM 4 CANS A local rail jam series open to skiers and snowboarders with the goals of collecting food for local charities and promoting community awareness of their needs. Entry is 15 cans of food per competitor. March 24, 7-9 pm.

Summit Northwest Ministries, 1486 W. Seltice Way. summitnorthwest.org

COMEDY

CARLOS MENCIA At times considered controversial yet truthful, Mencia takes the stage to share his take on current events, social issues and politics. March 15, 7:30 pm. $39-$69. Northern Quest, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com 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 BRIAN REGAN A regular on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Regan has also made 28 stand-up appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, the most of any comic in the show’s 22 years. March 18, 7 pm. $45-$55. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com COMEDY SHOWCASE The Monday night showcase lets the audience help pick the “Best Set” of the night from among four local comedians. Third Monday of the month, from 8-9:30 pm.

No cover; two-item min. purchase. The Buzz Pizzeria, Bar and Lounge, 501 S Thor St. thebuzzspokane.com COMEDY NIGHT Featuring Spokane comedian Harry J. Riley. March 22, 8-10 pm. $5. Midtown Pub, 826 N. Fourth St. facebook.com/teedubsmidtownpub-

COMMUNITY

LILAC CITY LIVE! The “late night” talk show features Spokane talent at the Library, with drinks, music and more.

March’s guests include KXLY’s Kris Crocker, Summer in Siberia, artist Jessie Hynes and Austin Langley. March 15, 7-9 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org 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 artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. Through May 20; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 8 pm). $10-18. The

MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) IRISH FOR A DAY! Enjoy Irish food and entertainment from MSD Irish Dancers.

March 16, 3-5 pm. $15. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (327-1584) THIRD CLASS TITANIC BASH A special evening featuring festive Irish music, a no-host bar, light snack items and other special activities related to the museum’s ongoing exhibit. March 16, 6:30-10 pm. $20. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (363-5324) BEGINNING BEEKEEPING Learn the basics about how to set up a beehive and how to care for the bees. March 17 and 24, 11 am-3 pm. $35. Pizza Factory, 123 S. Broad St. wpbeekeepers.org DRIP IRRIGATION MADE SIMPLE Join Mark Stiltz, WSU Master Gardener Emeritus, as he shares steps to practical, water-wise landscapes. March 17, 10-11 am. Free. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org EMERALD BALL An event held as part of Inland Empire Shuffle, a swing dance and jazz music festival. Includes a beginner lesson followed by dancing from 8-11 pm. March 17, 7-11 pm. $15/$20.

Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. strictlyswingspokane.com INVENTION CONNECTION FOR KIDS Drop in and play with Code-a-Pillar, Little Bits, Minecraft, Ozobots, Squishy Circuits, Lego robotics and bricks, building toys and more. March 17, 10 am-noon. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org IRISH DANCERS ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY Join local Irish dancers for two quick pre-parade performances at 11 and 11:30 am. March 17. Free. Hotel RL

by Red Lion at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. msdirishdance.com SPOKANE ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE Hosted annually by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Proceeds from the parade are donated to several area nonprofit organizations to support the community. March 17, noon. Free.

Downtown Spokane. facebook.com/ thefriendlysonsofstpatrickspokane/ NIC INTERNATIONAL EXPO Celebrate the culture of China, Honduras, Netherlands, Indonesia and Peru through language, art, dance, food and history.

March 20 from 12-1 and 6-7 pm. Free.

North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden. facebook.com/NICIntlstudentclub/ SALISH: FIRST PEOPLES, FIRST TONGUE Join Salish School founder LaRae Wiley to learn about the first language of the Northwest and her struggle to keep it alive. March 20, 7-9 pm.

Free. Rockwood Retirement Community, 221 E. Rockwood Blvd. (995-2264) SAVE YOUR PHOTOS Learn to create a back-up plan for your treasured photographs and videos to avoid heartbreaking losses. March 20, 2 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5331) CREATING COLLABORATIVE COMICS Join local comics creators for a collaborative experience writing and illustrating comics. March 22, 7-9 pm. $10.

Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org

FILM

MUNE: GUARDIAN OF THE MOON In this animated film, a demon and his minions steal the sun of a magical world. New guardians of the sun and the moon must embark on a quest to

save their world from disaster. March 17-18, times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW The Garland’s regular screenings of the cult classic include prop bags, shadow casts and other revelries. Screenings at midnight on March 17, June 9, July 21, Sept.

8, Oct. 27 and Dec. 22. $7. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: SAMI BLOOD A 14-year-old girl belonging to a Scandinavian ethnic minority is subjected to racism and eugenic scrutiny in the 1930s when she is removed from her family and sent to a state-run school that aims to reeducate her into Swedish culture. March 20, 7 pm. $5. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org MERCHANTS OF DOUBT Join 350 Spokane and the Lands Council for our viewing of this film inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. March 20, 6:30-8:30 pm.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. actionnetwork.org FOOD FOR THOUGHT FILM SERIES: THE TRUE COST The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. This film asks us to each consider, who pays the price for our clothing? March 21, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org

FOOD

SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) SHOP THE STORE NUTRITION TOUR: GLUTEN-FREE A 30 minute informational tour offering tips and tricks for shopping gluten-free. March 15, 5-5:30 pm. Free. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER The annual VFW dinner with a performance by the Shadle Park HS Dancers and Bagpipes. March 16, 5-7 pm. $11.

VFW Post 1435, 212 S. David. (535-9315) SALAD DRESSING 101 Learn about the difference in olive oils, the basic formula behind vinaigrette, and more. Proceeds support Second Harvest. March 16, 5:30 pm. $40. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front. (252-6242) SHOWING UP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP Join educator, activist and author Paul Kivel for a conversation on race, class, gender and social justice. March 16, 7 pm. $5-$10.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. pjals.org WINE TASTING: BASEL CELLARS Meet the “new” guy at Basel Cellars, winemaker Dirk Brink. March 16, 4-7 pm. $15/person. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison. petuniasmarket.com GARLAND ST. PATRICK’S DAY PUB CRAWL The second annual crawl features six locations along with food trucks and $700+ in cash/prizes. March 17, 6 pm. $7. bit.ly/2oENDf8 ST. PATTY’S DAY POTATO BAKE Support the Grange at a fundraiser dinner.

Also featuring entertainment by the Haran Irish Dancers and the Jr. Grangers kids’ talent show. March 17, 5:30-8 pm. $5-$8. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com (907-378-7255)

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I SAW YOU TIME FOR THAI I saw you on Thursday at Thai Bamboo- you were so helpful and kind to the waitstaff and those two little cuties that you brought with you. Those auburn curls sure looked amazing lit by that everchanging ceiling. Maybe we can grab some curry alone sometime?

MR. PRESIDENT Teachers carrying guns?, is a barbaric suggestion. So are you saying we should add more guns to an already “out of control” gigantic gun significance in our country? For goodness sake Mr President, if nothing else get beyond yourself & think logically. We are watching you.

CHEERS YOUNG LADY AT COSTCO To the young lady in the northside Costco parking lot on Feb 2 who jumped in to help my elderly mom lug those large bags of potting soil into the trunk of her car, YOU ARE AWESOME! Thank you for being so caring. You give me hope for the future! The guy who sat in his car and watched, waiting for the parking spot, not so much...

DOUBLE HOT-STUFF You just so happened to pick up 2 kinds of oreos and oreo cereal for me on Monday. Your handsome face was alight with laughter when I discovered them all. Thank you for making every day fun! xo BIRTHDAYS! Shout out to Jeremy and

Alexis, my amazing students. Happy Birthday and know that we all think you are wonderful!

FUN-DUE FOR 5 Thank you for helping me care for our littles and talking to them about love and happiness. I thoroughly enjoyed our family fondue night and the kind words you said about me. They were genuinely the nicest things anyone has ever said about me. I love you endlessly, my partner in life, my super hero and my best friend. Xo SEXY LADY to the nicest sweetest lady I have ever met. I know you’re going through some difficult times, I I hope you know this I love you with all my heart. you are the best thing that has came into my life I don’t ever want to see you leave. I hope the rest of the time that we have together will be incredible. love you forever, and hey spring is here sexy let’s go play. (You’re handsome) SPOKANE FASHIONISTA I saw you walking from Peaceful Valley to uptown and my driver wouldn’t stop so I could ask if you’d be my date for the Titanic party I’m attending Saturday night. You looked so dapper with bouffant hair, red ascot, fabulous 3 piece suit, gloves, walking stick, and oh, those shoes (spats?) Thanks for stirring my imagination!

BEAR LAKE GOOD SAMARITAN Huge shout out to the wonderful person that saw our car keys on the ground and hung them on the drivers side door handle of the Hyundai Santa Fe parked in the first lot at Bear Lake on March 11th. I drove but, I handed the keys to my husband to carry. They have a metal container on the key ring that holds his nitroglycerin pills. He was so out of breath when we got back to he parking lot and he stopped to sit on a rock, I asked for the keys and he realized that he dropped the keys.

I was getting ready to re-trace the route we walked- all the way around the lake! when I looked over and saw the keys on the door. I literally yelled out “thank you, kind stranger” The other people there probably thought I was nuts! I was just seriously beyond happy and grateful!!

MEDICAL LAKE CITY OF VOLUNTEERS AND PHARMACY Just want to send a big “THANKS” to the Medical Lake voluntary Medical Response and Fire department on March 24. Prompt, efficient, friendly and very professional. Refreshing to know they

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NRA VS ISIS COMPARISON From the last issue, CHEERS to the person who compared the NRA to ISIS. You were right the first time, and didn’t need to apologize. Like ISIS, the NRA feeds on ignorance, hatred and violence. Both the NRA and ISIS adopt single-focused polices and practices that maximize human suffering and carnage.

By forcing its wicked approach to community safety (that is, less safe communities), indeed the NRA is a terrorist organization.

RETURNED WALLET Thank you kind, thoughtful person who turned in my wallet to Nectar Wine and Beer in Kendall Yards.

I must’ve dropped it in the slush filled street while trying to get into my car that evening. It is people like you that renew my faith in humanity and I continue to pay it forward every day. Thank you also to the owner of the winery. I can’t wait to return to your gem of an establishment and enjoy a glass of wine!

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ROCKING INDIGNATION To the guy at the Bartlett on 3/3 who insisted on singing offkey at the top of his lungs while clapping as loud as possible as though this somehow makes you the supreme ultimate fan of the universe. You annoyed everyone within a 30ft radius and considering the small venue I believe that was everyone in attendance. I’m all for audience participation and believe that a good crowd can enhance the musical experience, but you my friend were disruptive and annoying and when asked to tone it down, you just seemed to step up your game of irritation. It was disrespectful to the people around you and to the band itself. I know its hard to believe but no one paid to listen to your off-pitch sour harmonies drowning out the actual band, but I would have gladly paid just to have you muted even a little bit!!!

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March 18 and 25, from 7 am to 2 pm. $15-$18. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com PERMACULTURE FOR THE HOME GARDENER Discover the basics of permaculture principles and how to apply them to your garden. March 19, 6-8 pm. $10. Kootenai County Admin. Building, 451 N. Gov’t Way. (208-446-1680) SPRING DESSERT FAVORITES Chef Eva from Just American Desserts teaches how to make all of her spring dessert favorites. March 20, 6-8 pm. $35. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. myfreshspokane.com (558-2100) ASYLUM CIGAR PARTY A three-course dinner with cigar pairings and libations to complement. March 22, 6-8 pm. $55.

Legends of Fire, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com CRAB FEST Feast on a variety of options including fresh crab, clams casino, cod Veracruz, New England clam chowder and more. March 22, at 3 pm. $30-$35. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com LAURA TITZER: NO TABLE TOO SMALL The community food organizer’s new book explores how to provoke social change and engagement in the food system. March 22, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com

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THE CAPITOL STEPS The musical political satire group pokes fun at both sides of the political spectrum. March 15, 7:30 pm. $42-$54. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com (624-1200) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY: DISCOVERING GENIUS A concert conducted by artistic director candidate Jorge Luis Uzcategui, featuring performances

by National Young Artist Competition winners. March 16 at 7:30 pm, March 17 at 2:15 pm. $10-$20. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasymphony.org ANGUS SCOTT PIPE BAND The group plays the Great Highland bagpipes, accompanied by snare, tenor and bass drums. March 17, 3:30 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA This concert by the SJO features awardwinning guest Nicole Lewis. March 17, 7:30 pm. $17-$27. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHAMBER BAROQUE This concert features some of the best-loved works from the Baroque period, set in two local churches.

Sat, March 17 at 7 pm, at Westminster Congregational (411 S. Washington) and Sun, March 18 at 3 pm at Spokane Valley Church of the Nazarene (15515 E. 20th). $36. spokanesymphony.org AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS The church’s Bosch tracker pipe organ is the site of Christopher Nelson’s recital of pieces based on the Genevan Psalter of 1562. March 18, 4 pm. Free. Messiah Lutheran, 4202 N Belt. (624-5627) LIFE IS A CABERET Jessi Little, a 2009 CHS graduate, returns home to perform a cabaret filled with story-telling songs interlaced with entertaining anecdotes, and special guest appearances by Callie Cabe, Hudson Drake and David Eldridge. March 18, 7 pm. $15-$20. Jacklin

Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. lauralittletheatricals.com PALOUSE COUNTRY COWBOY POETS An evening of music and poetry. March 18, 2 pm. $10. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org (509-229-3414) SPOKANE BRITISH BRASS BAND: STAGE & SCREEN A concert featuring a British style brass band playing music from the movies. March 18, 3-5 pm. $10/ adults; free/kids, students. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (999-8717) NIC WIND SYMPHONY A joint concert with the Whitworth University Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Richard Strauch. March 21, 7:30 pm. Free.

Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden. (208-769-3424) THE TEN TENORS Fresh off the success of their 20th Anniversary World Tour, the group from Australia returns with their new show and album. March 22, 7:30 pm. $42-$75. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague.

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BIG HORN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SHOW The 58th show features more than 300 outdoor-oriented vendors, guides and nonprofit exhibitors. March 15-16 from noon-8 pm, March 17 from 10 am-8 pm and March 18 from 10 am-4 pm. $10/adults; $8/military, seniors, students. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. bighornshow.com OSPREYS OF NORTH IDAHO Learn more about the lifecycle of the osprey, challenges they face and how we can ensure this iconic species continues to thrive. March 16, from 3-4 and 6-7 pm. $5. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. idahoconservation.org SPOKANE CHIEFS Versus the Tri-City Americans. March 16 at 7:05 pm. $10+.

Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com BLOOMSDAY TRAINING CLINICS Get ready for Bloomsday 2018 at free training clinics, Saturdays at 9 am, March 17 to April 28. Free. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. providence. org/bloomsday FREE STATE PARK DAYS All Washington State Parks are open for use without needing to show a Discover Pass; includes access locally to Riverside, Mt. Spokane and Palouse Falls state parks.

Upcoming free days: March 19, April 14 and 22; June 2, 9-10. parks.state.wa.us HIKING THROUGH THE DOLOMITES Chuck and Wendy Huber talk about their hike through the mountain range of northern Italy during the Spokane Mountaineers’ next meeting. March 19, 7-8:30 pm. Mountain Gear Corporate Offices, 6021 E. Mansfield. spokanemounteers.org

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2.0 A software mogul leaves behind a virtual-reality simulation of himself created before his death. Through March 25; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A local performance featuring Shakespeare’s delightful heroines, dancing wordplay and more. March 15-17 at 7 pm; March 17 at 2 pm. $12. Liberty Lake Community

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Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth St. bit.ly/2HbxyFz (359-2459) ASSASSINS THE MUSICAL The controversial musical lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the president. March 3-18; Fri-Sun at 7 pm. $10. Theater Arts for Children, 2114 N. Pines. (703-7335) DISNEY’S CINDERELLA Inland Empire Theatre Co. presents its second annual production; cast members include students from both Tekoa and Rosalia.

March 17 at 7 pm and March 18 at 2 pm. $7; kids 5 and under free. Empire Theatre, 126 S. Crosby St, Tekoa. (523-3112) STAGE TO SCREEN: HAMLET An encore showing of the National Theatre’s production, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. March 18, 2-4:45 pm. $7-$15.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org THE SOUND OF MUSIC A new production of the beloved musical story of Maria and the von Trapp Family. March 2224 at 7:30 pm, March 24 at 2 pm, March 25 at 1 and 6:30 pm. $39.50-$79.50.

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QUARTERLY: FIVE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS This exhibition features works created by EWU’s faculty, and includes an array of artistic styles in a wide variety of media. March 15-23; open MonFri from 9 am-5 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Building. ewu.edu/cale/ programs/art/gallery (359-2494) SYMBIOTIC Featuring art by painter Clancie Pleasants, coupled with the clay works of Coliista Bejjani and a fine artisan jewelry collection by Carol Landts. Light appetizers and refreshments. March 16, 4-8 pm. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague, Suite B. newmoonartgallery.com (413-9101) CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS: JESSICA L BRYANT Larn about the “wild side” of artist residencies with this local watercolorist, a frequent Artist-in-Residence for the National Park Service. March 17, 10-11 am. Free. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com

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NEGOTIATING BLACK MASCULINITY The acclaimed author, speaker and professor from Duke University presents the 2017-18 Powers Lecture, “Devil Wanna Put Me in a Black Tie: Negotiating Black Masculinity in Contemporary America.” Neal is the author of several books on the subject and produces the weekly podcast, Left of Black. March 20, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet. (313-5955) POWER 2 THE POETRY OPEN MIC An open mic with poems related to women and women’s history. Fifteen slots available, sign up to read is first come, first served from 5:30-5:50 pm. March 20, 6 pm. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s weekly open mic reading series. Wed at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org n

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I have a history of terrible relationships that end in awful heartbreak. The advice I keep getting is to date down — get together with a man who is less attractive than I am and who likes me a little more than I like him. I was kind of into the idea of equality on all levels, but maybe I’m wrong. —Rethinking Woman After you’ve had your heart broken, it’s tempting to opt for romantic safety measures. For example, a garden gnome could be an ideal partner — because few women will fight you for your 18-inch “Man of Resin” and because his stubby little legs are molded together, making it impossible for him to run away.

There’s a name for this “dating down” thing you’re contemplating: “the principle of least interest.” This is sociologist Willard Waller’s term — from his observations of dating dynamics between college students — describing how whichever partner is the least emotionally attached is in a position to “exploit” the other.

Now, you aren’t looking to clean out a guy’s bank account or make him scrub the baseboards with Barbie’s toothbrush. Regardless, you’re likely to have more power in any relationship — and be less likely to be the exploitee — if your response to a guy’s “I love you SO much!” involves polite gratitude or pointing skyward: “Look! A UFO!” The problem is, how do you engineer this sort of situation? Only “swiping right” on men you have the lukewarmies for? Only accepting dates from men you don’t entirely respect? Of course, even an “I’m just not that into you” strategy like this isn’t foolproof, because what anthropologists call “mate value” can shift — like when the mouth-breathing nerdy loser becomes the mouth-breathing but unexpectedly sexy startup multigazillionaire.

Tempting as it is to look for hacks to avoid heartbreak, it’s probably more helpful to look at whether there was anything you could’ve — and should’ve — done differently in your past relationships. (Were there red flags you spotted and then dropped off at Goodwill with the weird tablecloth from your aunt?)

Beyond any willful blindness on your part, the reality is, relationships sometimes end in heartbreak. It’s just the price of getting together with a man you love and lust after — as opposed to one you approached with “You know, I’ve always kinda pitied you and found you borderline sexually repellant. Whaddya say we get a beer?”

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There’s a mutual attraction between this guy in my doctoral program and me, and we have great conversations. I’d date him, but he’s in a long-distance relationship.

Recently, he started giving driving lessons to earn extra cash. I need to learn to drive a stick shift, so I signed up. This has morphed into our spending time together on weekends, having lunch, etc. My friends say this is a bad idea. But I guess I’m just following my heart. Is that so wrong to do? —Crushing “Follow your heart!” is like that “forget about money; do what you love!” professional advice. And go right ahead with that career in lentil sculpture — assuming you’re looking forward to spending your golden years in a very nice retirement tent.

As for all this time the guy is spending with you, consider that we seem to have evolved to have the romantic version of a spare tire in the trunk — a “backup mate” (to the partner we’re with). Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and Joshua Duntley explain that “mates might cheat, defect” (run off with another), “leave, or die. They might suddenly drop in mate value.” Their research finds that both men and women seem to maintain backup mates — three on average — and “try to keep their backup mates out of other relationships” (like by giving them false hope during automotive lurchings around the parking lots of closed superstores).

You might also consider that there’s more to making yourself attractive to a potential boyfriend than a few swipes of MAC and Maybelline. Social psychologist Robert Cialdini, reflecting on what he calls “the scarcity principle,” points out that we value is what seems out of reach (as opposed to what’s all over us like orange “cheese product” on a kid’s veggies): “Study after study shows that items and opportunities are seen to be more valuable as they become less available.”

In other words, until a man is girlfriend-free, it’s in your best interest to be about as accessible to him as the upholstery of my late Grandma Pauline’s couch was to the rumps of most of humanity. There were people she would remove the plastic covering for — visiting movie stars and members of the British royal family (a la “I’m bored with St. Barts. How about a slushy January in suburban Detroit?”). 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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‘The Hottest Product’ The prospect for CBD-derived products has some salivating, but the debate over medicinal uses continues

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annabidiol (CBD), marijuana’s non-psychoactive compound, was a focal point at the Natural Products Expo West, which hosted 80,000 professionals in Anaheim, California, during the March 8-10 weekend.

A hub for alternative supplements and heralding lesser-known ingredients, the natural products could prove to be the latest marketplace for the ever-growing hemp industry.

“This is the hottest product in the history of natural products,” Josh Hendrix, director of business development for extract company CV Sciences Inc., told the expo floor. “And there’s an opportunity for retailers to

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really sink their teeth into this whole hemp category.”

Hendrix’s speech was a part of a “CBD Summit” within the expo, where organizers and members in the trade community speculated on the ultimate viability of the compound, which many see as the next answer for nutritional and wellness concerns.

The Hemp Business Journal projected the CBD market to hit $646 million by 2022, with the potential overall sales eclipsing $1.9 billion if and when the potential first pharmaceutical CBD drug, Epidiolex, is approved by the FDA. By focusing on a solution that won’t leave you inebriated after using or ingesting, CBD is seen as an answer

to addictive sleeping aids and a potential escape for those trapped in the current opioid crisis.

That sentiment is lost on Drug Free America, however. The anti-pot group sent a letter to legislators in legalized states urging them to reconsider the narrative that cannabis could be a useful alternative medicine.

“The marijuana lobby is pushing states to expand medical marijuana access to include opioid use disorders,” the letter states. “The evidence that increased access to marijuana has reduced opioid overdose deaths however is weak and short sighted.”

The letter cites a National Institute of Drug Abuse study, which found that marijuana users were more than twice as likely to have an opioid-use disorder than nonusers and 2.6 times the greater odds of abusing opioids.

But the data contrasts with other major studies that have suggested that cannabis could stunt or lessen the drastic use of prescription painkillers. The American Journal of Public Health found in a study released last year that there was a reduction of .7 opioid overdose deaths per month since Colorado’s retail sales legalization from 2014.

Since legalization, the 13 states with at least medicinal marijuana allowances have seen a 33 percent decrease in opiate-related deaths. In 2010, states with legalized medical marijuana saw approximately 1,700 fewer opiaterelated overdose deaths. n

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Lucky Day

Everyone gets to share in the luck o’ the Irish during St. Patrick’s Day in Coeur d’Alene

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t has a French-sounding name and traces its history to the Native American tribe for whom it’s named, yet Coeur d’Alene puts on a heck of an Irish party during St. Patrick’s Day with places to stroll, shop, savor the sights and sounds, and treat yourself to a wee celebration downtown.

Free, festive and family-friendly. That’s the annual ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE along Sherman Avenue by the Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association, starting at 4 pm, March 17. Free. Visit cdadowntown. com for details or call 208-415-0116.

When planning parade day, consider timing a meal prior to or after the parade, such as fish ’n’ chips and a pint of Guinness. Find that and more Celtic fare at O’SHAY’S IRISH PUB & EATERY (313 E. Sherman), or head to midtown for CAPONE’S PUB AND GRILL (751 N. 4th) for their Paddy’s parking lot party, including live music, food and drink specials and an appearance by the COEUR D’ALENE FIREFIGHTERS PIPE AND DRUMS. As you would expect, ALL THINGS C O E U R

IRISH (315 E. Sherman) is the epicenter for, well, all things Irish, all day long. Live Irish music begins at 10 am with Deep Roots. The Firefighters’ Pipe and Drum band will also play at the store just prior to the parade. Pop into the shop to get your green on, and then take advantage of free face painting and the Max photo booth.

LAKE COEUR D’ALENE CRUISES has five ways to celebrate on the lake this St. Patrick’s Day, perfectly timed so you won’t miss a minute of the parade. Book a corned beef buffet cruise for lunch or dinner ($39.25; 1:30 pm, 5:30 pm), a scenic cruise ($14; 2 pm, 6 pm) or the 21-and-over Shamrock Celebration voyage ($14; 8:30 pm). Call 855-7034648 or go to cdaresort.com/discover/ cruises/tickets.

And for even more live music, traditional Irish food — corned beef, soda bread, Irish stew — and the once-ayear-tradition of consuming green beer, check out COEUR D’IRISH at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Tickets, $40. 5:30 pm.

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Make it a soul swingin’ weekend at the 9th annual Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival featuring local, regional and national blues artists. The weekend kicks off with a Blues Cruise, gives way to a music-filled Saturday evening and finishes up with a blues brunch. Tickets range from free to $450 for inclusive overnight packages; Coeur d’Alene Resort; Call 208-765-4000 ext. 21 or visit cdaresort.com

Quilters

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Quilters at Lake City Playhouse celebrates the lives of American pioneer women as it blends a series of interrelated scenes into a rich mosaic which captures the beauty, terror and joy of frontier life. The action depicts the lot of women on the frontier: girlhood, marriage, childhood, illness and death through music, dance and drama.

Tickets $23-25 at lakecityplayhouse.org; 7:30pm; Lake City Playhouse.

It’s an age-old argument. Wine vs. beer: Which is better? If you’re ready to do the tough research, Castaway Cellars is prepared to provide the lab. The Wine vs.

Beer dinner will feature seven courses, with five Castaway Cellars wines and five Founders Brewery selections. Tickets $125 per person; 6 pm; Castaway Cellars. Call 208-819-1296 to reserve your spot.

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