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f not for marriage, it’d be considered rape. Let that sink in: Thousands of American children have gotten married to adults who otherwise might face charges of statutory rape. Yes, in these United States, more than 200,000 KIDS got married between 2000 and 2015, studies show. In most cases, they’re young girls marrying adult men. And it’s all perfectly legal.

Indeed, while most states want you to be 18 or older when you tie the knot, all but two states allow kids to marry if they get approval from parents and, in some cases, a judge. This is true in Washington as well as Idaho, which has the highest rate of child marriage per capita in the country, according to one study. Last month, Idaho legislators killed a bill that would have aligned the state’s marriage rules with its statutory rape laws. Opponents cited parental rights in voting it down.

One woman, Angel McGehee of Sandpoint, wishes she had a chance to talk with lawmakers before their vote. She could have told them about getting married at 13 and how that forever changed her life. Instead, she’s sharing her incredible journey with staff writer Samantha Wohlfeil for this week’s special report on page 22.

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oward Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, may run for president in 2020 as an independent. He’s dismissed the far left and the far right as extremists, incapable of representing the nation effectively. He will decide whether or not to run in the coming months.

Schultz was raised in poverty, abused by his father and is in all respects a self-made man. He’s now worth billions, having turned Starbucks into a worldwide phenomenon with more than 500 stores throughout Washington state. He’s said he won’t run as a Democrat and is as disgusted as most Americans are with how Republicans have performed in Congress. He believes Americans have been let down by government.

Democrats have also criticized Shultz, though

some die-hard Spokane Republicans recently found Schultz impressive.

Some are saying he’s a spoiler who will only help President Trump. Historically, independents have garnered votes but have won no states in the Electoral College. Ross Perot received 19 million votes in 1992, Jesse Ventura ran in Minnesota as an independent and was elected governor, though he left office after one term and having run up a big deficit.

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Steve James, an assistant research professor at Washington State University who works on policing issues, says a new program pairing local police with mental health professionals is setting the bar. See that story on page 13.

political party mechanisms — that network of yard sign installers, volunteers to hand out campaign pamphlets and surrogates to speak on a candidate’s behalf. Independent campaigns are usually personality-driven. Perot led the effort to stop excess federal spending and hired campaign veterans Ed Rollins and Hamilton Jordan, who came from opposite sides of the political spectrum, which gave his candidacy legitimacy.

Still, Perot may have delivered the presidency to Bill Clinton, who defeated George H.W. Bush with only 43 percent of the popular vote. Ralph Nader and his Green Party effort acted as a spoiler when he ran in 2000. And Donald Trump was elected in 2016 when Green Party candidate Jill Stein received votes that likely would have gone to Hilary Clinton, perhaps enough to elect her as the 45th president.

The time may be ripe for an independent, especially in Eastern Washington.

But the time may be ripe for an independent, especially in Eastern Washington, as less than 50 percent of voters in Spokane County supported Trump in 2016. America remains polarized and divided, with less than a majority of voters nationally now supporting Trump. Three millennial voters in their 20s recently confessed in Colorado their loyalty to independence, not Republicanism, though all three hold conservative principles. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a former Republican congressman, and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper believe that independents may prevail in 2020, especially if President Trump continues to disappoint voters.

Schultz criticizes the leftward movement of many of the current Democratic candidates for president, calling the Green New Deal impractical and “Medicare For All” too expensive and limiting. He also abhors Trump, calling him unfit for office, and blames right-wing Republicans for extreme policy positions.

Schultz speaks of loving America and claims to speak for those middle-income voters who were faced with a Hobson’s choice in 2016, between a dishonest Hillary Clinton and an inexperienced Donald Trump.

Schultz plans to use his business experience, impoverished upbringing and honest demeanor to attract disaffected Democrats and Republicans who may be ready for a candidate who speaks common sense to them. Schultz believes now is the time for an independent. Making a visit to Eastern Washington could help his candidacy.

While independent candidates usually have difficulty winning against establishment candidates, Eastern Washington may like what they hear and vote for Howard Schultz. Perhaps Washington State could end up not being blue in 2020 after all. n George Nethercutt represented the 5th District of Washington state as a Republican in Congress from 1995-2005.

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Q&A RAND MILLER Myst creator Rand Miller has gone from black-and-white floppy disk games to virtual reality dreamlands

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he world of video game development is infamously brutal, grinding up some of the most successful game creators to dust. But not Cyan. The small Spokane indie-game developer entered into the computer game business in 1988 with The Manhole, a point-and-click game with a graphical palette limited to only two shades, black and white.

Just five years later, the company created Myst, a gorgeous 3D adventure game that became one of the most influential computer games of all time. And on Tuesday, Cyan launched a Kickstarter campaign for Firmament, their first game to be designed from the ground up for virtual reality headsets.

The Inlander talked to Myst’s creator, Rand Miller, about his decades-long quest to immerse gamers in virtual worlds. Here are a few selections, edited for length and clarity.

INLANDER: Cyan has outlasted countless other developers, including big names like LucasArts and Sierra. How have you guys been able to survive?

MILLER: We’re scrappy. I think a lot of it has to do with the Myst momentum. That was huge. It opened doors, and at least makes people pick up our phone calls. The other thing was just luck.

After Myst and Riven, we started working on a really huge massive multiplayer game. But it didn’t work. We had to shrink in size. We’re clinging on barely by the skin of our teeth, and then the iPhone comes out. We said, “You know what? Our game would work on the iPhone.” It’s touch. Our original icon on Myst was this.

[Rand Miller holds up his palm.]

We’re actually removing a layer of abstraction on the phone and the iPad. So we started converting: It just was the right place at the right time, to dribble some more money in and keep us alive a little longer.

Why take the risk on VR? There are more VR headsets that can play our

game now than there were computers that could play Myst when we did that.

Ultimately, it’s about this magic. When you put a VR headset on, it’s an order of magnitude different from looking at a flat screen. I mean I remember going from a black-and-white monitor to color and it just blows your mind. We’ve taken every bit of innovation that’s come out and said, “Well, how can we make our worlds better?” And VR feels like that.

The Myst games had the hand icon that you used to turn wheels and pull levers. To what extent do you see VR as a natural fit? What were the challenges?

With Firmament, we are intent on making your hand a part of the game. Can we really map hands so that it becomes intuitive? Oh my gosh it was incredibly difficult. You’d think it would be like point-andraise hand.

No. Those simple things in a virtual world? People are inhibited or they don’t lift their fingers far enough or they don’t wave enough.

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We finally editor@inlander.com. overcame it. But it took months where I thought we would have it within a week. You know, fine-tuning angles of fingers.

How has what you love about game development changed over the last three decades?

It’s the same thing, oddly enough: The psychology. There is something so intriguing about making people feel like they have free will, and yet knowing where this leads.

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REDUCING HARM FOR THE VULNERABLE irst, cut out any derogatory, dehumanizing language about the home-

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less. Sue Lani Madsen’s column in the Spokesman-Review (3/23/19): “We flushed out a woman and a dog sleeping in a red car, a woman crashed out on a mattress; and the pitiful 85 percent showing up nightly at the House of Charity drunk, drugged or addicted.”

We are talking about human beings here. Words matter. Dehumanizing language is just wrong.

And second, regarding the blue lights installed in the Spokane downtown library to deter drug use, without a safe injection site, people in desperate situations will keep injecting in public spaces. No one mentioned that needles have now been found in the bookshelves and other very public places in that library, but at least the plumbing bills have gone down.

LETTERS Wow. Send comments to The article questioned whether editor@inlander.com. we are creating a new problem.

Absolutely. Just wait for the first innocent child to prick their finger on a needle from a bookshelf. Until we meet vulnerable people where they are with compassion and understanding, no one is going to improve. Lynn Everson at the Spokane Regional Health District’s needle exchange has exchanged needles for thousands of clients for 30 years. She does not judge anyone and provides the one safety net in their life. This is where drug addicts go when they are ready for help.

As controversial as it may seem, we need safe injection sites in Spokane.

Let’s join the dozens of other cities who are facing this hard fact and doing something about it.

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POINT OF CONTACT A new program pairs mental health specialists with police officers in hopes of directing people toward help — rather than jail

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nside a small office of the downtown police precinct at the Intermodal Center, Jae Dobbs, a 23-year-old mental health clinician with Frontier Behavioral Health, is about to dig into her packed lunch.

Suddenly, Neighborhood Resource Officer Joe Dunsmoor, 42, walks in. He’s run into a homeless man outside the building. The man, Dennis Michael Cronin, is a familiar face to both Dunsmoor and Dobbs. “He’s not staying anywhere right now,” Dunsmoor says.

Outside, the duo walk up to Cronin, a scruffy 53-year-old man with a small rolling suitcase full of personal belongings. They start asking him largely health-related questions in a warm and non-accusatory manner, with Dobbs taking the lead. (“Are you having any thoughts to hurt yourself right now?” and “Are you on any medications right now?” are among the questions she asks.)

Cronin says that he slept on a park bench at Lewis and Clark High School last night, was recently trespassed from his former apartment, occasionally uses meth and

marijuana, and took some pills that he found on the street earlier to help alleviate joint pain. “I was going to go in and chill out a bit,” he says, referring to the Intermodal Center’s waiting area.

Dobbs eventually asks him if he’d like to go to the Catholic Charities shelter that’s only blocks away, where a private bed with a designated case manager is waiting for him. Cronin agrees and Dunsmoor and Dobbs give him a lift in their squad car over to the shelter.

The episode is indicative of the work of Community Diversion Unit, an innovative new grant-funded program that pairs mental health workers with Spokane law enforcement to help get people suffering from addiction, mental illness and homelessness connected to services and keep them out of jail and crowded emergency rooms.

Operational since last summer, the Community Diversion Unit currently consists of four full-time mental health clinicians from Frontier Behavioral Health who ride along with patrol officers five days a week, respond to 911 calls, and offer referrals to a variety of services,

ranging from substance use disorder treatment to shelter beds.

Mariah Rhodes, director of transitional services at Frontier Behavioral Health, says that the program is intended to increase diversion and decrease recidivism in the legal system, as well as keep people out of emergency rooms — assuming that they don’t have any dire health conditions.

But, “primarily what they’re doing is decreasing incarceration,” Rhodes adds.

This is done through the mental health worker coordinating with their assigned police officer for the day to set up alternative plans (such as securing a bed at a mental health or drug treatment facility) for a given individual, assuming that they’re willing to accept services, don’t pose a significant safety risk, and have only committed low-level misdemeanor offenses, if any at all.

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“POINT OF CONTACT,” CONTINUED... jail. (Dunsmoor says that people facing felony charges “always get booked.”) But having mental health specialists alongside them working to connect individuals to services makes them feel more comfortable with not making arrests, proponents say. (Even in situations where people are still arrested by the unit, the clinician will often call ahead to jail staff to give them a clinical assessment of the individual to help get them on an appropriate treatment plan.)

“As this program developed, you could see more officers seeing the benefit of having us,” Dobbs adds. “We’d get other officers saying ‘Hey, can your mental health person come up to where we are?’”

a difference,” Dobbs says. “There’s been a ton [of people] who have been diverted from hospitals and being taken to jail when there was a more appropriate solution.”

Steve James, an assistant research professor at Washington State University who works on policing issues, says that Spokane is unique in establishing the Community Diversion Unit model.

“For a city of our size, there’s no one else doing as much,” he tells the Inlander. “Spokane is

“There’s been a ton [of people] who have been diverted from hospitals and being taken to jail when there was a more appropriate solution.”

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fficer Dunsmoor says that, when he’s out on patrol with Dobbs, he usually won’t wait for a criminal violation to take place to engage people: “If Jae’s riding with me, I try to ask them if they need any services because she’s here and it’s a great opportunity, you know?”

According to Frontier Behavioral Health’s internal numbers, the program is proving successful. To date, roughly 700 people have been contacted by the unit, and around 487 of those individuals were diverted, meaning that they weren’t transported to an emergency room, involuntarily hospitalized — state law allows for involuntary hospitalization if a person is deemed a threat to themselves or others — or arrested when the unit found them. Additionally, Rhodes estimates that only 25 percent of those 487 people have been contacted a second time by the unit.

“Overall, as a program, it’s definitely making

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really punching above its weight.”

Still, some officers are hesitant to call the program a smashing success.

“There’s a lot of people who refuse the help.

Some people are just unwilling to get off the street and go into treatment or see mental health services and take their meds,” says Sgt. Jason Hartman. “Then we just end up having to deal with the behavior-specific issues: ‘Are you committing a crime?’”

“Does it always work? No. But they have some decent success stories,” he adds.

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hile the Community Diversion Unit may not look like standard policing, the impacts are just as tangible for those touched by it.

As Dobbs and Dunsmoor drop off Cronin at Catholic Charities, Michael Jones, a homeless man with heavily bandaged fingers due to frostbite, approaches them, begging to be taken to the Union Gospel Mission men’s shelter and

Officer Joe Dunsmoor and Jae Dobbs talk with Dennis Michael Cronin.

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addiction recovery facility.

After a quick call to the facility to make sure that they’re expecting him, Dobbs and Dunsmoor get Jones and his backpack into the squad car. During the ride, Jones, who is sobbing, is apologetic about his situation. (He says the frostbite on his hands and toes stemmed from a methamphetamine bender after a 11-year-long sober stretch.)

“You can run my name if you want to make sure that I don’t have any warrants,” Jones says through the tears.

“There’s no reason to run your name, Michael. I trust ya,” Dunsmoor responds as he drives. “I think it’s most important for you to make yourself comfortable at the UGM for now.”

Minutes later, Jones says: “You seem to be a really stand-up police officer.”

The deployment of the Community Diversion Unit is also illustrative of police officers’ increasing role as the front-line response to homelessness and behavioral health issues, such as mental illness and addiction — serving as both enforcers of the law and social workers.

“The bottom line is police are dealing with a significant public health problem that our public health system is not equipped to deal with,” says Jacqueline van Wormer, an assistant professor of criminology at Whitworth University. “When we lack the necessary facilities, when we lack proper resource investment, law enforcement becomes the de facto response.”

“I don’t think Sir Robert Peel, the father of modern policing, ever envisioned that this is what cops today would be dealing with,” James says, referring to addiction and mental illness.

Looming on the horizon is the question of how to keep paying for the program: The grant paying for the program is set to run out after 18 months. (Money from a recent settlement in the infamous Trueblood case, where the state was sued for not giving mentally ill inmates timely competency evaluations, is paying for the grant.) Rhodes says there may be more money available from a second round of grant funding from Trueblood, but it’s still up in the air.

Regardless, on the streets of Spokane, the Community Diversion Unit still gives some cops the feeling that they’ve got better tools to deal with the gamut of behavioral health issues they encounter on a daily basis: “We can battle through just about everything,” Dunsmoor says. n

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SHE’S (STILL) RUNNING David Condon finishes his eighth and final year as mayor of Spokane this year, leaving him looking for a new job. And the speculation had been simmering that, perhaps, his former boss, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (above) would decline to run next year, opening up her seat for a Condon run. Well, speculate no longer: McMORRIS RODGERS says she is in fact running in 2020 again.

Instead, political speculators can turn their attention toward former KXLY anchor Nadine Woodward, who confirmed to the Inlander she’s leaning toward running for mayor, but she hasn’t determined a timetable yet. (DANIEL WALTERS)

FEATURING NATIONAL NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

CRUSADE AGAINST THE CARDINAL You may have seen the advertisements that Stephen Brady, of the Roman Catholic Faithful, has been running in the Inlander. Brady has been going to the former dioceses that Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, formerly led, including Spokane, to DIG UP DIRT on the controversial cardinal. But though Spokane’s current bishop, Thomas Daly (above), is from a more conservative wing of the Catholic Church than Cupich, Daly put out a statement recently opposing Brady’s anti-Cupich efforts. “I am not supportive,” Daly writes. “I do not believe such an endeavor reflects an authentic attempt at renewal in our church.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

KIMMELSPIRACY THEORY Is Gonzaga basketball coach “Mark Few” in fact a crisis actor played by star of stage and screen KEVIN BACON? Can anyone prove that Gonzaga isn’t just one wild shroom-sparked hallucination from former Gonzaga forward Josh Heytvelt? These are the hard-hitting questions the Inlander is asking since late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel claimed Gonzaga University is in fact a fake college. We’re not saying conclusively that Gonzaga doesn’t exist. We’re just asking questions. (DANIEL WALTERS and WILSON CRISCIONE)

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NEWS | BRIEFS

Test Them All Idaho to examine old rape evidence

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daho will test all sexual assault evidence kits, with the exception of kits that victims request be collected anonymously, after Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 116 into law on March 22.

Sponsored by Democratic Rep. MELISSA WINTROW, the bill follows on other legislation she helped pass a few years ago that required the state to start tracking the testing status of every rape kit.

The idea behind requiring every kit get tested (with few exceptions) is that more DNA evidence is entered into CODIS (the Combined DNA Index System), which is used by law enforcement across the country, Wintrow noted in a news release. In some cases, entering the DNA from one case can come back with a match to another, helping identify serial offenders and potentially helping investigators identify unknown suspects.

“These are proactive efforts to stop serial offenders and seek justice for survivors,” Wintrow says in the statement. “If we are going to ask a victim to endure a long invasive process to collect evidence of a crime, then we should be testing the evidence and not let it collect dust on shelves.”

Wintrow also worked with the Idaho Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (ISAKI) to pass legislation in 2018 to ensure that victims don’t have to pay for the sexual assault examination kit to be collected. Her news release notes it “was the only crime requiring victims or insurance

to cover the costs of criminal justice procedures.”

(SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

BREWING OPPOSITION

At a packed meeting at Morning Star Baptist Church in northwest Spokane on Monday night, justice reform advocates railed against proposals from regional elected leaders to build a new CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. “We are absolutely clear: No new jail,” Liz Moore, director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane and a member of the Smart Justice Spokane executive committee, told the enthusiastic crowd sitting in the church pews.

Over the past few months, County Commissioner Al French has pushed the notion of hashing out a plan to replace the aging and overcrowded Spokane County Jail and Geiger Corrections Center — even suggesting putting a financing proposal before voters in the fall. French and others have argued that a new facility is necessary to improve conditions for inmates and jail staff. The push also comes after a string of inmate deaths last year.

But at the meeting — which was organized by Spokane Community Against Racism (SCAR), a coalition of criminal justice reform advocates — speakers from a variety of local advocacy organizations pointed to a slew of statistics highlighting racial disparities in the the county jail population, the broader justice system, and local policing practices as evidence that the construction of a new jail will only exacerbate the existing issues.

“Why are we having a conversation about a new jail when we’ve had eight deaths in 14 months? When we had five deaths in six months prior to that?” Kurtis Robinson, president of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP, told the crowd in a pre-recorded video.

Instead, the speakers from organizations like the

Center for Justice and the Bail Project argued that money should be poured into community resources, such as affordable housing and prison re-entry programs, before the county makes any moves towards building new facilities. Specifically, they pointed to the recommendations in the 2013 “Blueprint for Reform Report,” which called for implementing reforms such as expanding pretrial services before pursuing a new jail.

“We are using the county jail as public housing,” said Layne Pavey, founder of I Did the Time, an advocacy organization. “And our elected officials, Democrats included, are talking about ‘well, maybe we’ll just build a nice smaller jail.’ But they’re not talking about permanent supportive housing.”

Throughout the event, Liz Moore of PJALS the speakers called on the community to mobilize in opposition to any new jail proposal.

“There is no substitute for an organized community,” Moore said. (JOSH KELETY)

THE DIRECTION OF DOWNTOWN

During a wide-ranging Spokane City Council meeting on Tuesday, the council grappled with two ordinances in particular. While both were minor proposals, both drew heat for their symbolism. They tapped into what is shaping up to be the defining debate of the city’s 2019 election cycle: What do we do about downtown?

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The lone holdout was Councilwoman Kate Burke, who accused the ordinance of “perpetuating a cycle of poverty, crime and recidivism into our jails” and that it flew in the face of “smart justice principles.” None of her fellow council members were swayed by her argument.

Still, Burke successfully passed an ordinance of hers, 5-2, that had repeatedly been tabled. The ordinance was a policy that allowed anyone to stay in the lobby of City Hall, or other LETTERS city-owned buildings, as long Send comments to as they want without being editor@inlander.com. disruptive. The ordinance also establishes a Facilities Safety and Accessibility workgroup to assist with executing the new policy. Critics of the ordinance argued it would amount to turning City Hall into a HOMELESS SHELTER. Councilwoman Karen Stratton joined conservative Councilman Mike Fagan in arguing the ordinance was needless. Stratton argued that the measure had “driven a bigger wedge between those helping the homeless” and those trying to grapple with the impacts of those efforts.

City Council President Ben Stuckart, who has tried to straddle the growing divide between homelessness activists and the business community, supported the ordinance. He took the opportunity to slam Seattle is Dying, a KOMO TV documentary that recommends Seattle instead spend its homelesness money on turning the McNeil Island prison into an involuntary drug treatment facility.

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Close to Home As elder abuse cases rise, Lutheran Community Services launches a project to combat gaps in system

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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ary couldn’t believe it was happening. She didn’t want to believe that her adult son, whom she had raised as a single mother and still lived with her, would abuse her.

He destroyed their house in Spokane, throwing plates around and smashing everything in sight, Mary says.

He wrote “hateful” messages on the wall. He poured scalding hot water on her. When she changed the locks of the house, her son, in his early 20s at the time, tried to kick down the door before smashing through the front Victims advocates Ligeia DeVleming (left) and Kristina Hammond assist vulnerable adults through the legal system. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO window, says Mary, who asked to be identified only by ing. “We petitioned for this grant because we noticed that LCS will be able to meet elder abuse survivors at her middle name. not only people later in life, but people with disabilities or first appearances in courts and assist with civil orders of “I thought I fell into a bad movie,” Mary tells the vulnerable populations aren’t able to have a direct contact protection.

Inlander. “And someone told me, ‘No, you fell into a horto services and we wanted to fix that.”

But helping victims navigate through complex ror movie.’”

It’s difficult to get a handle on how prevalent abuse systems is just one part of the Elder Justice Project. The When she finally wanted to report the abuse two of older adults is locally. And that’s a problem, says other? Finding ways to improve the system itself. years ago, Mary found herself facing a legal system Spokane County District Court Judge Patti Walker. The she didn’t know how to navigate. She wasn’t quite old hen Mary reported being assaulted to the pocourt system doesn’t keep statistics that separate intimate enough for the state’s Adult Protective Services to step in. lice, she didn’t want to get a no-contact order partner violence from other types of domestic abuse like And since her abuse wasn’t from an intimate partner, but to protect herself. what Mary experienced. from her son, she couldn’t get domestic violence services “It was my son, and I felt like that was punishing The state’s Gender & Justice Commission, which from the YWCA. him,” Mary says.

Walker is part of, has asked state lawmakers to colEventually, she found Lutheran Community Services But it can be hard to get that sort of protection even lect data about domestic violence cases and distinguish (LCS). Her experience, and others like hers, served as when people do want it. Prosecutors in district court last between intimate partners and other family the catalyst for the recent expansion of year started to drop the domestic violence label from relationships.

Lutheran Community Services’ Elder C O N TAC T cases if they didn’t involve an intimate partner like a “[We would like] to get a valid number Justice Project, which assists vulnerable Lutheran Community spouse or significant other, according to the minutes of so that we know what resources we need to adults through the criminal justice process.

Services: 747-8224 a November meeting of the Spokane Regional Domestic provide to those individuals,” Walker says.

Kristina Hammond, who now leads the Violence Coalition. Removing that label could prevent Overall, however, the data does seem project, says LCS has seen a spike in 24/7 Sexual Violence those victims from getting a criminal no-contact order. to indicate that elder abuse is on the rise reported abuse of vulnerable adults in Support Line: 624-7273 When victim advocates complained, prosecutors agreed in Washington. Reports made to Adult recent years. And with the older populato keep the DV labels but moved those cases out of the Protective Services have tripled in the last tion rising in Spokane County, she hopes specialized DV courtroom. decade, in part due to an aging baby boomer population. the project’s expansion can lead to greater understanding Mary’s assault case was filed in municipal court in In Spokane County, the population of those 65 and older of how to serve older abuse victims not abused by an 2017, and the DV tag wasn’t taken off. Justin Bingham, has increased by roughly 20,000 since 2012, according to intimate partner.

Spokane city prosecutor, says the DV tag is dropped only the state Office of Financial Management.

“We’re trying to fill gaps that are already in the “in very particular situations” and is done on a case-byThat has coincided with victim advocates at Lutheran system,” Hammond says. “And right now we’re the only case basis.

Community Services seeing a rise in vulnerable adults ones filling this gap.”

The Elder Justice Task Force, started last August, who have experienced abuse. In the span of just a few tries to address other issues that may impact victims as years, Hammond says the number of elderly or vulnerhe physical abuse Mary says she suffered from well. Already, Hammond says they identified a communiable adults she had jumped from roughly 20 percent of her son is only part of the story. There was vercation issue with Adult Protective Services and local law her caseload to, last year, 80 percent. Hammond typically bal and financial abuse, too, she says. enforcement. handles dozens of clients per year.

“It was just untenable,” she says. “I didn’t raise him “Having all those people every month at the table to The $250,000 grant LCS received from the Washingto be that way.” discuss emerging issues and gaps is really wonderful,” ton Office of Crime Victim Advocacy will give the SpoIt’s a situation not uncommon in cases of elder abuse, Walker says. kane community two more dedicated victim advocates says Ligeia DeVleming, the victim advocate at LCS for Mary says she’s doing better than she was two years to increase services to elder abuse victims. Walker says Mary. Situations like that typically involve a cycle of powago. She isn’t in contact with her son, who has moved having more advocates is extremely valuable because er and control, and it can include financial exploitation, away from the state and has a warrant out for his arrest. the court relies on advocates for safety planning and to psychological and emotional abuse. Without assistance, She credits the help she got from LCS. provide access to resources. older adults can be lost when it comes to connecting with “I had to be safe,” she says. “And what this agency “When [victims] are suffering from trauma, it can be counseling or legal services, especially if they’re not old did was restore my confidence in being safe.” n overwhelming and scary,” Walker says. “Having advoenough to qualify for help from Adult Protective Services. wilsonc@inlander.com cates there is tremendous.”

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GIVEN AWAY Idaho prides itself on personal freedoms, but one child bride explains how her parents’ freedom cost her dearly

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

Angel McGehee, née Dwyer, holds a photo from her wedding day, when she was just 13. JEFF FERGUSON PHOTO

The United Nations estimates nearly 33,000 girls under 18 get married around the globe every single day. That’s about 12 million a year. Of the more than 200,000 children who got married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015, 87 percent were girls, and 86 percent were marrying adults, according to PBS Frontline research that built on numbers compiled by Unchained At Last and Tahirih Justice Center, organizations that work to end forced marriage and child marriage.

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ngel Dwyer’s family came to North Idaho for the beautiful log cabin home they were able to buy in the middle of nowhere, not too far from the pristine waters of Priest Lake. They came because Idaho is a place known for respecting personal freedoms. They came because they knew people wouldn’t ask questions.

Questions like: How old is Angel? And how old is her husband?

They wouldn’t ask about the wedding ceremony Angel’s mother conducted in their living room or how she’d directed her newly 13-year-old daughter, dressed in a mail-order wedding gown, to read handwritten vows to her 16-year-old tuxedoed boyfriend.

They wouldn’t ask how the boy had come to live with Angel’s family in California, or why Angel’s mom and stepfather would encourage such a young girl to marry the second boy she’d ever had a crush on.

This story isn’t from the distant past: That young girl is now a busy 27-year-old mother of five living in Sandpoint. Sitting in a bustling coffee shop there one morning in March, the short woman with long brown hair nervously smiles as she lays out how that marriage impacted her life.

“All of my childhood, my teenage years and everything I could’ve done as a young adult has been stolen from me, by people who made decisions and had the freedom to make those decisions for me,” Angel says, keeping her composure despite tears rolling down her cheeks.

Looking back on her wedding in California, she doesn’t happily recount the ceremony or proudly recall that, at 13, part of her felt like a little princess who was about to get her “happily ever after.” No, that fantasy was ultimately tainted by years of living with an abusive husband, by memories of a mother who never told her she deserved better

and by traumatic experiences that took her years to finally escape.

Instead, when Angel quietly describes her wedding day, the thing she focuses on most is that each and every adult in that living room could have said something — should have said something to stop it.

“My neighbors, they knew something was wrong because my boyfriend came to live with me, and then they stopped letting their kids hang out with us,” says Angel, whose last name is now McGehee.

“My stepdad, my mother, his mother, my neighbor, my aunt — all of these people could’ve said, ‘This is wrong. Why is this happening?’ but nobody did.”

The U.S. State Department calls child marriage a “human rights abuse” — and wants to ban the practice in other countries — but in America, all but two states allow kids under 18 to marry under certain conditions, generally with approval from parents and, in some cases, a judge. Over the past 20 years, more than 200,000 children like Angel have been married in America, the vast majority of them to adults who might otherwise face charges of statutory rape.

Idaho, in particular, has the highest rate of child marriage per capita in the country, according to one study. The Gem State ranked higher than Kentucky, Arkansas and Wyoming in a comparison of 38 states where data was available.

The consequences can be huge: Studies show American minors who marry young are 31 percent more likely to be impoverished, 50 percent more likely to drop out of high school, and an estimated threequarters of marriages involving a child end in divorce. Most underage spouses are young girls, and research shows they are more susceptible to frequent pregnancies and violence. ...continued on next page

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CHILD MARRIAGE

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1999

415

2000

441

2001

338 350

2002 2003

278

2004

336

2005

290 308 279 263

2006 2007 2008 2009

201

2010

138

2012

13

109

2013

100

2015

78 77

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15

16

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2014

2017

1999-2017

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2011

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CHILD BRIDES IN IDAHO BY AGE

Girls are the younger party in the majority of Idaho marriages involving people under 18. The number of girls marrying in the state with licenses has decreased steadily over the past two decades, and the number under 16 has dropped significantly. However, some believe more work remains to drop that total even further. An effort to eliminate marriage for those under 16 failed in the Idaho House last month.

“GIVEN AWAY,” CONTINUED...

States are beginning to rethink their stance on child marriage, with nearly a dozen legislatures considering laws this year to end exceptions allowing marriage under age 18. Washington state lawmakers introduced a bill in February to eliminate those exceptions, but it never received a hearing and died.

Meanwhile, Idaho lawmakers considered a compromise bill last month that would have aligned the state’s marriage laws — which have allowed girls as young as 13 to marry in recent decades — with its statutory rape laws, leaving in place exceptions only for those who are 16 or 17.

But Republican lawmakers killed the bill, arguing that parents and families should have the freedom to do what they feel is best. For her part, Angel wishes she had known about the bill and that she had a chance to explain how some freedoms come at a cost.

“My mother’s freedom to do whatever she wanted

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with me here was the catalyst to my imprisonment to what she wanted to do with me,” Angel says. “The freedom of parents to do whatever they want with their kids means their kids have no freedom if their parents don’t want them to, and that was me. I had no freedom.

Government is supposed to protect the people, individuals who have no power. I had no power and nobody protected me.”

IDAHO RULES

Idaho Rep. Melissa Wintrow, a Democrat representing the north Boise area, first considered changing the state’s marriage rules while serving on a human trafficking subcommittee. One of the things that came up was the possibility that people travel to other states to marry because the rules are more lax.

“So I start asking more questions and realize we don’t even have a floor for the minimum age of marriage,”

Wintrow says. “To think that somebody 30 could marry somebody 13 didn’t seem appropriate, especially such as that our consent laws say that you can’t consent. … We’re defining statutory rape, but then we have a loophole for some people to get around it.”

In Idaho, those who marry under the age of 18 are almost always girls, and in recent years they’ve legally married men in their 20s, 30s, 40s or even older.

Idaho allowed a 20-year-old man to marry a 13-yearold girl in 2001, which would have been considered statutory rape outside of that institution getting approved by a parent and a judge. It also allowed a 46-year-old man to marry a 16-year-old girl in 2006, and in 2010, a 65-year-old man married a 17-year-old girl, according to state health data.

To prevent Idaho from becoming complicit in child abuse, Wintrow suggested aligning the state’s marriage law with its statutory rape laws. That means no one un-

der the age of 16 could marry, and those who are 16 or 17 would need to get parental permission as well as judicial permission, and they could not marry anyone more than three years older than them.

Currently in Idaho, those who are 16 and 17 just need parental permission, and those under 16 need a judge to agree that a medical professional has signed off on the child being mature enough for marriage and that the union would be in the “best interest of society.” (In Washington state, those who are 17 can get married with parental consent, and under that age, court permission is also needed.)

Wintrow also proposed that the judge would need to find the marriage is in the best interest of that child.

“We’ve come a long way, but girls are still kind of fed different cultural messages about being rescued and the importance of a man in your life,” Wintrow says. “I remember what it was like to be 14, 15, you’ve seen all those Disney movies and it’s before you’ve had the chance to experience the world. You’re easily coerced or persuaded.

We need to safeguard them.”

In committee, Wintrow invites Judge Barry Wood, deputy administrative director of the Idaho Supreme Court, to answer questions about the judicial approval process. Lawmakers want to know how the courts sign off on these cases where children are under 16, and he quickly explains that they’re rare, but there is a fairly simple process.

“A petition needs to be filed, there has to be consent, and the court needs to employ the services of a physician who has to opine that the person under 16 is capable physically and mentally of performing the contract of marriage,” Wood tells a House committee on Feb. 21.

Idaho state health data shows that the number of teens getting married has steadily decreased over the last 20 years. More than 540 girls under 18 and about 100 boys under 18 were married in 1999, which dropped to about 75 girls and 15 boys in 2017.

In total, 4,858 girls under 18 were married in the state between 1999 and 2017, the most recent year for which data was available. Of those, 105

were 15, 14 or 13 at the time of marriage, making up about 2 percent of the child brides who got state licenses.

One of the main concerns for the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, which worked on the bill with Wintrow, is whether any of those teens who are under 18 could adequately protect themselves or utilize the courts if anything were to go wrong with their marriage.

“If you look at young women ages 16 to 24, they experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence,” says Annie Hightower, the coalition’s director of law and policy. “So I guess our concern with that then is, when you have these young women who are married, often to men who are much older than them, they don’t have any means of protecting themselves.”

While some Idaho case law exists establishing that minors become emancipated when they’re married, actually being able to access domestic violence services or get to court to represent yourself could prove extra difficult for teenagers, especially if they can’t drive, Hightower says.

“They may not have finished high school, they may not get assistance to file for divorce in court, or in some rural communities even be able to get there,” Hightower says.

Before Wintrow’s House Bill 98 goes to the floor for a vote, Hightower speaks with some waffling legislators. She’s not sure if there’s enough support for the bill in Idaho, where there’s a premium placed on religious and parental freedoms.

“I think there is a really strong feeling here in some communities if you end up pregnant you should be married, regardless of the age,” Hightower says. “And I’m sure there are also those people that have been together with their high school sweetheart since they were 14 and think, ‘This worked for me.’”

Indeed, when the measure reaches the House floor on Feb. 28, Republicans who speak in opposition to the bill cite teen pregnancy and familial freedom as primary reasons for voting against the changes.

Rep. Christy Zito, a Republican representing southwest Idaho, questions the statistics on high divorce rates and points to how many Idaho high school students are sexually acOver the years, some famous cases involving young brides scandaltive. (The Centers for Disease Control ized the U.S. and also helped spark rule changes. and Prevention found about a quarter In 1926, people were offended to learn about 51-year-old milof Idaho’s high school students lionaire Edward “Daddy” Browning’s marriage to 15-year-old Frances reported they were sexually active in a “Peaches” Heenan. Shortly before the two had met, “Daddy” had 2017 study.) famously conducted a public contest to find a daughter about that “If we pass this law, it will then same age to adopt as a sibling for his other child. become easier in the state of Idaho A decade later, 22-year-old Charlie Johns posed for photos to obtain an abortion at 15-and-a-half with his new 9-year-old wife, Eunice Winstead, in Tennessee for the years old than it will to decide to form February 1937 issue of Life magazine. The girl’s mother said she had a family,” Zito says. no problem with the marriage and indicated that, at least at first, the On the Democratic side, Colin two weren’t living together. That scandal prompted the Tennessee Nash, filling in for Rep. John McLegislature to raise the minimum age for marriage to 14 within weeks. ...continued on next page

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Crostie (D-Garden City), argues that Idaho is enabling forced marriages like that of resident Shirley Perez, who shared her story with the Post Register in Idaho Falls last summer. She was married at 13 to her 39-year-old rapist in the 1960s, had five children and was left penniless after finally escaping the abusive relationship, he recounts.

“When it’s legal for a 30-year-old to marry a 15-year-old, that is not marriage, because they are not equal partners.

That is institutionalized child abuse. That is arranged statutory rape,” Nash tells fellow lawmakers during the debate. “I think debates over the last decade have shown this body to believe it has a duty to define and protect the sacred institution of marriage. But marriage in Idaho cannot be a sacred institution so long as it institutionalizes child abuse.”

Shortly after, the House rejected the bill with 28 votes for and 39 votes against, with three excused. Republican Reps.

Heather Scott and Sage Dixon, whose district covers Sandpoint, were among the no votes, and only one North Idaho lawmaker, Rep. Paul Amador (R-Coeur d’Alene), supported the bill.

“I was at a loss, honestly, because I do think I compromised,” Wintrow tells the Inlander after the vote. “We set ages for a reason — that’s why people are banging their fists I didn’t put it at 18, because that’s more in line with the other age appropriate lines in the sand we’ve drawn for engaging in contracts on your own. But again, I was trying to compromise, and even then, the compromise wasn’t enough.”

STOLEN YOUTH

Growing up, Angel says her mother had always been skeptical of government and anyone who might tell her how to raise her children. She’d homeschooled them, which is a generous way of saying she never put them in school, but taught them the basics of how to read and write, Angel explains.

They never went to the doctor or the dentist. Even the public library was considered too government-connected, so they weren’t allowed there either. Angel’s only connection to the outside world was through the internet and the few neighbors next door. Soon after the wedding, Angel’s mother worried even they might be a threat.

“I only had her, I didn’t have any coaches or any mentors or anybody else speaking into my life,” says Angel, who has been estranged from her mother for several years now. “We were very isolated, very secluded, and that’s why she moved us into North Idaho, because nobody around here in the boonies of North Idaho asks questions about those sort of things.”

Just after her living-room wedding, which was her mother’s idea, Angel says her family encouraged her to go lose her virginity in the other room to her new husband. By 14 she was pregnant, and at 15 she had her first son.

Now that her oldest son is 12, Angel says she realizes

just how strange it was that when she told her mother she had a crush on a boy she’d met in an online gaming forum, her mother’s response was to fly the family out to meet him in New York. She ended up marrying that boy’s best friend, whom she met on the trip.

“I still wonder, ‘What the heck? Why would you do that, when your daughter’s 11 and interested in some boy over the internet?’” Angel says. “Think of that. I have a 12-year-old son. I look at him and I think there is absolutely no way I would ever think, ‘Let’s get you married to the first girl that you’re interested in!’”

So it made her mad to see that a majority of Idaho representatives found no problem with children as young as she was getting married.

“It’s like they’re saying that my experience was OK. Like it validates it somehow to them,” Angel says. “If a 13-year-old girl cannot get a tattoo, cannot smoke, cannot, you know, do any of those, why should she be getting married and having babies? Those are choices that affect the rest of your life, and we prevent children from doing other things that we know are harmful for them.”

Because her marriage was actually performed without a license, the Idaho legislation didn’t directly affect her, Angel says, adding: “But it did indirectly affect me because that’s why my parents moved here, because of the fact [that] legislation like this is in place.”

Sure, she notes, in some cases, young marriages could turn out fine. But hers was extremely limiting.

“You can’t do certain things without permission, so he becomes your legal guardian, your legal authority,” Angel says.

“So if he’s abusive? It ends up where you are a prisoner.”

She didn’t have a driver’s license or a job. She became completely dependent on a husband she says strangled and berated her on a regular basis. When he choked her again while she was pregnant with their third child, she reported him to the police with the help of Priest River Ministries Advocates for Women, and he wound up serving time behind bars.

For her, maybe the hardest thing is feeling like she lost out on the opportunity to enjoy her youth. After separating from her first husband, she spent two years single and then dated and married a man she says has been a great partner to her. They had two children together, so she’s now got five kids between the ages of 2 and 12 to take care of. She never got the chance to go to school, or to learn who she was as a person before having to raise other people and teach them how to be independent.

“Look at all the good years we could’ve had when I was a teenager not knowing who I was and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life,” Angel says. “I feel a lot of guilt for saying there’s part of me that wishes I didn’t have my kids so young because there’s so much I want to do in life. It’s

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GREEN CARD CHILD BRIDES While states start to consider eliminating child marriage, advocates who work to end forced marriage globally say that federal immigration law may also be enabling the practice, with some girls being married off for citizenship purposes.

Currently, immigration law allows citizens to request a visa for a spouse if they’re a minor, so long as the marriage was legal in the country of origin. American minors can also request visas for adult spouses from other countries.

From 2007 to 2017, the United States received nearly 8,700 visa petitions where either a spouse or fiancé was a minor, according to a January 2019 congressional report for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The majority of those requests were likely approved, and in 95 percent of cases, girls were the younger spouse, the report states.

The issue intersects with state policy because U.S. immigration law is also supposed to look at whether the marriage would be legal in the state they plan to live in, and many states still allow exceptions to be made for those under 18.

One American woman shared with Congress how she was forced to marry her cousin at age 13 while on a trip to Pakistan so he could later attempt to get citizenship.

After those concerns about the system were flagged, the Trump administration announced in February that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will scrutinize applications involving minors more closely, the Associated Press reports.

not about them, right? It’s not about not wanting them. Just maybe it would’ve been nice to have them a little later. But now that I have them, all my life is devoted basically to being a mom.”

FIGHTING THE FIGHT

In recent years, more attention has been drawn to the issue of child marriage both domestically and abroad.

The Vatican announced in February that Pope Francis would raise the allowable age of marriage for girls in the Catholic Church from 14 to 16, to match the minimum age for boys.

In 2018, Delaware and New Jersey became the first two states to restrict the age to 18 or older, with no exceptions, and several other states are considering similar rules.

A major proponent of that type of legislation is Fraidy Reiss, executive director of Unchained At Last, an organization she founded in 2011 to help girls and women avoid or get out of forced marriages after getting out of her own forced marriage.

“This is the reason I became so passionate about ending child marriage: More and more girls under the age of 18 started reaching out to Unchained to ask for help either avoiding a pending forced marrriage or getting out of one that already happened,” Reiss says. “I discovered there was almost nothing we at Unchained could do for these girls.”

Girls under 18 often can’t stay at domestic violence shelters due to liabilities based on their age or state laws about runaways, Reiss says.

“Also in some states, an advocate who helps a child leave before 18 can be charged legally,” Reiss says. “That happened: One of our volunteers was charged criminally for helping a girl.”

It’s hard to find an attorney to represent someone under 18, because contracts they sign could legally be found to be void, Reiss says. In some states, those under 18 can’t represent themselves in court for a divorce without a parent or guardian petitioning for them.

“If this girl was forced to marry, it was probably her parents who did that. Now she has to go to her parents and say, ‘This guy is not good. Please help me divorce him,’” Reiss says. “That’s why I say marriage before 18 is so dangerous.

This is not about maturity, we all know very mature 17-yearolds and, by the way, very immature 40-year-olds. … We’re talking about entering into a really serious contract, typically the only contract states allow children to enter before they have the tools they need. This puts the lock in wedlock.”

Reiss knows from experience that parental permission often looks more like parental coercion, even for those who

don’t legally need permission anymore. She was 19 when she was forced into an arranged marriage that became abusive.

After 12 years, she was able to escape with her two children, but her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family shunned her. She had to create a new life on her own, which is why she wanted to start Unchained, to help others escape situations they didn’t need to be in.

In the several years Unchained has been around, they’ve helped more than 500 people, mostly women and girls. Reiss says she had expected to find that religion would play a common role, but in fact, she says child marriage and forced marriage crosses every spectrum.

“This is happening in every major religion, minor religion, and also in secular communities. In every socioeconomic level, with immigrant families, on every inhabited continent, as well as with families that have been in the United States for many generations,” Reiss says.

“That was surprising to me.”

Noteworthy for Reiss is that the State Department has called marriage under 18 a human rights abuse that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood.”

The idea that states like Idaho enable a judge to sign off on those young marriages and make exceptions seems especially perverse, she says.

“That a judge could find that a human rights abuse is in a child’s best interest, that’s offensive,” Reiss says. “When a child is being forced to marry by their parents, you’d think judicial review would eliminate that, but unfortunately what we have seen is when a child is forced to marry, again, usually the parents are forcing them to.”

To change the practices of child and forced marriage will take both legislation and a cultural shift, Reiss says.

“We want to get people thinking again about the value of the girls and the role of marriage, and the value of women in general beyond their ability to bear children,” she says.

“Legislation has a really powerful impact and I think a really powerful ability to make people stop and think, ‘Well, why isn’t child marriage illegal here?’”

“That a judge could find that a human rights abuse is in a child’s best interest, that’s offensive.”

MOVING ON

Years after separating from her first husband and spending time in a domestic violence support group, Angel is just now starting to feel like she’s finding some balance in her life.

She volunteers once a week with Priest River Ministries, which she credits with saving her life and enabling her to get out of an abusive situation. They helped partner her with an attorney who helped her prove she was born in New Jersey and get a birth certificate, which enabled her to get a driver’s license, which enabled her to find work. ...continued on next page

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“I just got a part-time job, so my life at this point is really now just portunities. I don’t want them to ever say to me, ‘Mom, you didn’t let blossoming, because I have a super supportive husband,” Angel says. us do what we wanted to do,’” Angel says. “’Cause I want to say that She’s thinking about going to school, though to my mom. I want to be able to say to her, ‘Mommy, she’s not sure yet what she wants to study. Because you didn’t let me do anything I wanted to do in life, she and her siblings basically fended for themselves, and that sucks because that’s not what parents are LETTERS both for sustenance and for education, Angel says supposed to do. Parents are supposed to protect their Send comments to she has an incredible hunger for knowledge. kids.’” editor@inlander.com.

“I realize that education is the most empowering It’s still extremely difficult for her to process what thing,” Angel says. “You see it throughout history, she’s been through. Angel says she still suffers from when that is removed from people — when they are PTSD, which hasn’t always made things easy in her not allowed to learn, to read, to have access to education, to have new relationship, “but he’s just an amazing man who loves me in access to opposing viewpoints, when they are brainwashed — they are spite of all the mess.” able to be controlled. To me, education is the most empowering, the Some of the healing process has meant letting herself try some of most freeing thing someone could have.” the activities she always wanted to do. She started doing improv last Though she grew up in a secular household, Angel joined a Bible year because she always had an interest in acting and says it’s been study to make friends when her family moved to Idaho, and that “the most freeing thing ever.” helped create her first connection to the domestic violence agency.

“Finding little things to get out and nurture my spirit and who She’s now considering going to divinity school.

I am has been good,” she says. “The more I go over it, I guess the “A huge part of my life is God and loving people like Jesus did,” more it becomes a little easier, but I don’t know if it’ll ever [feel right].

Angel says. “Part of that to me is standing up for those who are opBecause all of those years are gone and I can’t get them back, I don’t pressed and setting the captives free.” know if I’ll ever be OK with that. And that’s why I don’t want that She homeschools her oldest children, but says they’ll likely enroll for other people.” in school, and her youngest will likely start school from the get-go. In Her hope is that by sharing her story, those in similar situations the meantime, she makes sure they have access to as many educaknow that they have value, what is happening is not their fault, and tional tools as they can, and enrolls them in plenty of extracurricular there are ways out. activities.

“I know a lot of other women are out there experiencing the same “Unfortunately I think I overbusy it sometimes … I recognize thing I did,” Angel says. “I want them to know that there’s hope, and that’s because I never want them to feel like I did, where I had no opthat there is a life after.” n

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Miller Cane has been on the run with 8-year-old Carleen across the smoke-filled West, trying to keep her away from her estranged father while the girl’s mother rots in jail.

Before this, Miller had been on the road with a different mission: comforting and conning the survivors of America’s mass shootings. A high school teacher by trade, Miller is using his time with Carleen to return to a long-ignored writing gig: He’s crafting short biographies of historical figures for a high school textbook — each profile begins with a central question, “Hero or Villain?” — but so far, Miller’s editor hasn’t appreciated the literary license he’s taken.

CHAPTER 5, PART 7 HERO VILLAIN V — THREE AMERICAN SISTERS: LIBBY CUSTER, HELEN KELLER, NARCISSA WHITMAN

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t’s Helen we love the most and not because of what she overcame, though that’s part of it. Mostly, it’s how good she was in spite of everything, how kind and warm and funny and sweet and blind and deaf and limbless. It’s Libby we love because of her beauty and carnality and perseverance as a professional widow — 57 years she spent burnishing the legend of her vain, unbearable husband, getting rich off the spoils. It’s Narcissa we love because… because… actually it’s so hard to love Narcissa, unless you’re Henry Spalding, who Narcissa spurned, and who went West with her and her husband anyway and later invented the game of basketball, Henry who was a bastard and raised in foster homes, who fell

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in love with haughty, spiritual Narcissa — who married Marcus instead, because she had to marry someone in order to serve the benighted heathen, and anyone, it seems, was better than Henry Spalding.

In a more enlightened time she might have been as famous and sensual as her nephew, the beloved poet Walt Whitman, who wrote: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Like Walt, Narcissa celebrated herself, but those who knew her did not. Nor did they celebrate her husband. The year before the Whitmans ventured into the darkness of heathendom, Marcus attended the Rendezvous in Sturgis, where trappers gathered to sell furs and buy whiskey and cook meth, and as he travelled West with the American Fur Company’s caravan, “very evident tokens gave us to understand,” he wrote, “that our company was not agreeable, such as the throwing of rotten eggs at me.”

Poor Marcus. But a bronze likeness of him stands in the Statuary Hall in D.C., where each state commemorates American hero villains, Marcus all mountain man missionary with his buckskins and bible and fur cap and saddle bags, perched on a pedestal that reads, “My plans require time and distance,” and if his plans shifted from saving the benighted heathen to opening the West to white settlement, from a distance of time, his plans were indeed fulfilled. Perhaps you’ve seen his statue among the others in the Hall, including one from Alabama representing his sister in law, Helen Keller, embracing a water pump, on the verge

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Other hero villains in the Hall include George Washington and Robert E. Lee, both from Virginia, one being the father of our country and the other being America’s drunk ex-husband. Or maybe her drunk ex-husband is Jefferson Davis, whose pedestal reads, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” There’s heroic polygamist Brigham Young and renegade Puritan Roger Williams, great grandfather of Ted Williams (a famous baseball player and bread salesman nicknamed The Splendid Splinter). There’s Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States, whose pedestal reads: “I am afraid of nothing on the earth, above the earth, beneath the earth, except to do wrong.”

Poor Alexander Hamilton Stephens.

Almost everything he did was wrong, such as explaining that, “Our new government is founded upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”

There are lots of bigots and white supremacists in the Statuary Hall, and until 1986, no African Americans, but now there are four — Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, MLK and Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, who replaced one of the Hall’s confederate generals. So change is possible — though, sadly, sometimes we change for the worse, tearing ourselves to pieces.

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presidents (including Jackson but not Lincoln, Reagan but not Jefferson, assassinated Garfield but not the assassinated Kennedy doll); there are agronomists and inventors, lickspittles and kingfish, shipbuilders and planters, puritans and bed-wetters, plus an actual saint, Junípero Serra y Ferrer, who built the first missions in California and worked for the Spanish Inquisition, to whom he filed a report from Mexico regarding “a large congregation of Christian non-Indians… and these persons, flying through the air at night, are in the habit of meeting in a cave… where they worship and make sacrifice to the demons who appear visibly there in the guise of young goats.”

Yes, there were witches and demons in the olden times. Kings and queens, too.

And even though we hate kings and queens, there’s one in the Statuary Hall we like, King Kamehameha of Hawaii, along with six native Americans and two persons of Hispanic descent, but only one blind deaf person — Helen.

It’s hard to choose the most heroic deaf American. You might think of Thomas “Tommy Gun” Edison or Lou “The Hulk” Ferrigno, but those men were hard of hearing, not deaf, whereas Oscar winner Marlee Matlin was deaf, but not as kind as our Helen. And while the most heroic blind American might be Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles, there’s only one most heroic blind deaf American, and while we all tell horrible, hurtful jokes about her, we love her dearly — because she was more Alice B. Toklas than Gertrude Stein, more Loretta Lynn than Chrissie Hynde, more Eleanor Roosevelt than all the other first ladies combined, solid, reliable, erotic as hell.

Carnegie had an affair with her. So did Vanderbilt and Houdini. She might have been a raging socialist, but the industrialists loved her.

Her sister Libby was just as lusty, desired by senators and presidents and secretaries of war.

Libby mentioned in a letter to her vainglorious boy General, “a soft place upon Somebody’s carpet,” that needed attention — and how she “longed to sit Tomboy for a ride!”

“I know where I would kiss somebody if I was with her tonight,” Custer wrote back. He cut off his mustache and mailed it to her that night.

We remember him as a vain, self-involved man baby, but all the glory he sought was for Libby: “When I think how successful I have been of late and how much has been said of my conduct and gallantry I think, She will hear of it, and will be proud of her Boy! That is all the reward I ask.”

Others wanted bloodier rewards for him.

Iron Hawk, a Hunkpapa Lakota who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn said, “These Wasichus wanted it, and they came to get it, and we gave it to them.” President Grant said, “I regard Custer’s massacre as a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself.” Libby did not care for that kind of talk at all. She became her husband’s tireless champion, dying peacefully in her sleep half a century later.

Narcissa did not die peacefully in her sleep.

She was shot, beaten, and thrown face down in the mud. Thirteen people died at the Mission

that day, but “all the women and children were spared except Mrs. Whitman,” Harry Clark wrote. That’s how hard she was to love.

Like her sister’s boy general, Narcissa had an abundance of self-regard. “Everyone who sees me,” she wrote, “compliments me as being the best able to endure the journey over the mountains.” And if she did not share with her husband a passionate love like her sister’s and the man baby’s, Narcissa and Marcus did invent the missionary position. She “loved to confide in his judgement and act under him. He is just like Mother in telling me my failings.”

“They worship and make sacrifice to the demons who appear visibly there in the guise of young goats.”

Poor Narcissa. What she longed for — a chance to save the benighted heathen — did not make her happy, even if she was the first white woman to cross the Rockies. She had so much hope early on. “Our manner of living is far preferable to any in the States,” she wrote as she and Marcus travelled west. “I wish you were all here with us going to the dear Indians.” But a few months later, her first impressions of the Cayuse was of “Old Chief Umtippe… full of all manner of hypocrisy, deceit and guile. He is a mortal beggar as all Indians are.”

Narcissa tolerated the Indians at first, and was then inconvenienced, repulsed, and finally indifferent to them, as more and more white people streamed west. Her only daughter drowned, after which she took in orphan children, many of whom witnessed her murder, and two of whom — boys — were murdered with her. In her last letter home, she wrote: “the poor Indians are amazed at the overwhelming numbers of Americans coming into their country.”

The Whitmans could have left when the Cayuse lost interest in their preaching, or blamed Marcus for poisoning their people, or when friends warned them to leave. But to go back to America was to fail — so they kept failing where they were. Narcissa didn’t want to be horrible.

She wanted to be as good as her sisters and nephew, Libby Custer maintaining the glory of her massacring, massacred husband, Helen Keller transcending limitations only a hero could overcome, beloved nephew Walt Whitman becoming our national poet, who wrote: “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem…. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations…. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes.”

And villains.

But mostly heroes.

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The point of the allegory is to warn against the dangers of inaction in the face of incremental negative change. Its premise is echoed in the familiar (and frequently misappropriated) poem by the Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, “First They Came…,” which was an attempt to illustrate the Nazis’ systematic aggrandizement

of power under Adolf Hitler during the 1930s. First they purged one group. Then another. Then another. And each time it was explained, excused, normalized, until an entire continent was boiled alive.

Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day, written only a few years before the playwright found success with Angels in America, could be seen as a loose dramatization of Niemöller’s poem. It’s set in an apartment that drifts between Berlin, Germany, during the rise of Nazism and Long Island, New York, a half-century later during the early years of the Reagan administration. In the 1980s, the apartment is occupied by a woman named

Zillah, who’s outraged by the president’s indifference to the AIDS crisis. In the 1930s, it’s inhabited by Agnes Eggling, an aging actress who entertains a bohemian set of artists and would-be revolutionaries who are unsettled by the turbulent collapse of the Weimar Republic.

Lindsay Teter is directing a new production of A Bright Room Called Day for Stage Left. Although she’s previously appeared on the theater’s stage for productions of God’s Country and Cyrano, it’s her first time directing a non-collegiate show.

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“HISTORICAL SLACKTIVISM,” CONTINUED... says. “I’ve been so lucky to have a professional-level cast with lots of years of experience and a lot of training. So, walking in, I didn’t have the same responsibility to explain some of the ground rules. It’s just jump right in and get started.”

That 10-person cast includes Christine Mullaly (Agnes), Dalin Tipton (hedonistic “Baz” Bazwald), Scott Doughty (Hungarian filmmaker Vealtninc Husz), Tami Rotchford (Paulinka Erdnuss, a rival actress to Agnes) and Harper Clanton (painter Annabella Gotchling). The play’s struggles between activism and acquiescence unfold through their conversation.

“Two of my male leads, Scott Doughty and Dalin Tipton, both very seasoned actors, have an ability to know when to take up the space and become a commanding presence, and they also have this chameleonic ability to disappear while still being onstage. It’s all about knowing how to draw the focus. We do have some younger, greener actors, too, and it’s been such a fun process watching them learn these techniques.”

As a result of some “cast shifting,” Mullaly was brought on slightly later than the others. She’d been away from the stage for some time but arrived, Teter says, with a “nose-to-the-grindstone commitment” and some valuable ideas about how she should approach her role. As did the rest of the cast.

“Coming in, I lived with these characters in my head for six months, so I thought I had a really clear idea of who they were.

And within a week of getting the cast around the table, just reading the show and discussing things, they were able to completely change so many ideas. I watched them imbue these people with a real humanity and a playfulness that I wasn’t expecting,” she says.

Zillah, who serves as a link between past and present, is played by Katie Pease. Teter acknowledges that the character’s alarmism over Ronald Reagan could seem overblown in retrospect, but she resisted the temptation to update. She felt that drawing more contemporary parallels might create a “lit match” and “spark controversy rather than conversation.”

“With the character Zillah, who’s speaking from the Reagan era, you’ve got a person who’s living in the moment. In 2019, we could look back and say, OK, that’s a bit of a stretch. We certainly didn’t reach these sorts of lows.’ But during that time, that fear was of course so very palpable, and I didn’t want to dismiss that.

I wanted to have that fear and uncertainty be just as fresh for Zillah as it is for our characters going through the world of the 1930s.”

Keeping Zillah rooted in the 1980s was also a way to create another point on a longer timeline that extends to the present day.

“I think we’re able to look at history on such a grand scope, but it’s currently happening all around us every day,” she says.

“There’s a line from the show that I always hearken back to: ‘This age wanted heroes. It got us instead.’ To not let yourself be passive in it is my biggest point — whether you’re active among your group of friends or on a national scale, don’t just sit in your quiet little room and accept what’s happening.” n A Bright Room Called Day • March 29-April 14; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $20 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727

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My cat’s DNA results surprised me SUNSET SHOWDOWN Love daydreaming of your someday lavish Hollywood lifestyle while watching Real Housewiveslevel drama? Netflix’s new reality show Selling Sunset has it all, following the stupidly gorgeous female real estate team that sells the most expensive properties in L.A. to people who *spoiler* are sometimes kind of the worst. I couldn’t stop watching, sucked in both by the team’s drama and the chance to peek into the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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was far less interested in the secrets of my own DNA than to discover my cat’s much more mysterious genetic ancestry.

My partner and I have always believed that our 8-year-old Dellie has some Maine Coon in her blood.

She has the breed’s characteristic large paws for walking atop snow, a long graceful tail and an ultra plush, fluffy coat.

So when I came across a holiday promotion from feline genetics company Basepaws, we ordered one of their “CatKits” for $95 without hesitation. After mailing some fur samples back to Basepaw’s Los Angeles lab, we waited excitedly.

Dellie’s genetic report arrived a few weeks ago, and I was totally amazed by the results. Our little rescue kitty, it turns out, is genetically most similar to the Persian (81

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MEKONS, Deserted. The British punk-folk collective is back, and they are angry.

SON VOLT, Union. Alt-country heroes return with tales of the working class.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, GUY. Earle takes on the tunes of his hero Guy Clark.

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percent), Ragdoll (70 percent) and Turkish Angora (65 percent) breeds. Maine Coon, meanwhile, is No. 8 on the list, at 38 percent.

Unlike human and even dog ancestry tests, Basepaws isn’t able to determine for certain that a mixed breed kitty — or a polycat, as it’s coined these feline “mutts” making up about 95 percent of the world’s feline population — like Dellie is directly descended from any purebred ancestor. That’s because cats’ evolutionary history since domestication (beginning around 8,000 years ago) is relatively young. Up until about 150 years ago, cats weren’t being selectively bred for specific traits we see in each breed today.

“All these purebreds are specific mixed breeds or polycats,” explains Chris Menges, chief veterinary officer for Basepaws. “A cat may have inherited from a purebred that got back out into the population, but most likely it’s the polycat ancestors more than anything.”

To determine Dellie’s closeness to these breeds, Basepaws compared her sequenced DNA to its database of purebreds and other polycats. The young company, founded in 2017, is working to expand its genetic sample size and plans to add several new reports, including inherited disease markers, parentage and even personality indicators. Basepaws’ health reports are slated to come out later this year, Menges says. Existing and new customers in the foreseeable future will get updates from each new report to come as part of their initial CatKit purchase, he adds.

As for Dellie’s unexpected purebred connections, it certainly explains her beautifully colored soft fur (it never gets matted), her incredibly affectionate purrsonality (she’s obsessed with us) and high intelligence (she knows several commands and tricks!). n Find out more at basepaws.com.

FOR THE WYNN Think of ContraPoints as a guiding light through a miserable world of racism, misogyny and xenophobia. Show host Natalie Wynn meticulously and hilariously deconstructs the underpinnings of the alt-right with philosophical knowhow. Wynn doesn’t pull punches, but she’s surprisingly sympathetic in a political climate seething with resentment.

According to a recent VICE News segment, her video series has been helpful in deradicalizing some young men from right-wing extremism. I stumbled on the YouTube page shortly after the Christchurch mosque attacks and felt that, maybe, there’s still some hope out there. (QUINN WELSCH) WONDER STRUCK Everyone calls it First Friday, yet in Coeur d’Alene, Artwalk actually occurs on the second Friday of the month, leaving CdA’s Art Spirit Gallery an opportunity to expand its reach into Washington.

Although they’ve collaborated with Barrister Winery to participate in Spokane’s February First Friday since 2014, Art Spirit’s new venture is a pop-up experience they’re dubbing AS2. Spring Forward, the debut AS2 exhibition, runs April 5-7 at the Wonder Building (just south of David’s Pizza) and was curated by local Kim Deater and Seattle’s Andrew Whitver. (CARRIE SCOZZARO)

PROGRESSIVE PROG I went to the Baroness show Sunday at the Knitting Factory expecting some face-melting prog-metal, which the band duly delivered. What I didn’t expect was how joyful their show would be, and much credit for that goes to the infectious energy of the band’s lead guitarist Gina Gleason. Gleason joined the band in 2017 and will be part of the band’s upcoming Gold & Grey double album, and on Sunday night her wide smile, energetic head-banging and toe-to-toe shredding with band leader John Baizley was something to behold. (DAN NAILEN)

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We have a lot in common with Canada, much of it positive, yet in at least one area, we share a common bond rooted in bigotry, ethnocentrism and horror: the forced relocation and re-education of indigenous peoples through a system of Indian Residential Schools.

While U.S. schools, also known as Indian boarding schools, outpaced those in Canada by nearly four to one, Canada had yet to closes all its schools until recent history. By some estimates, Canada’s Indian Residential Schools accounted for the death of nearly 6,000 Indian children in the 120 years they operated.

That got artist Daniella Zalcman’s attention, so the bi-coastal photographer who lives in both London and New York turned her lens towards survivors, earning a 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her work. She is the keynote speaker at North Idaho College’s Fourth Annual Diversity Symposium on Tuesday, April 16. (CS) “What is Cultural Identity?” • April 16 • Free • North Idaho College • 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene • nic.edu/ events • 208-769-3300

The Hanninen family is part of North Idaho’s Finnish contingent, having arrived in the region in 1904.

Same Story, Different Names Season-opening exhibit at North Idaho Museum describes how “Immigrants Shaped Our Region”

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he new exhibit New Land, New Life: Immigrants Shaped Our Region is what happens when the local museum does a 23 and Me-type ancestry check of North Idaho. And just like those tests, the results were predictable: mostly Scandinavian and European.

North Idaho Museum Director Dorothy Dahlgren already knew there was a strong Scandinavian population here. Back in 2010, the museum staff worked with the local Sons of Norway to create Nordic Roots Run Deep, an exhibition about local ties to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

“This year, I thought, ‘Well, we didn’t get to talk about all the other people who came here.’”

She started with state data on ancestry and worked backwards, finding patterns of migration: French Canadians; British Islanders; Scandinavians; northern European; southern and eastern Europe. Shoshone and Bonner counties proved especially Italian.

But, like the ancestry test commercials promise, there are surprises. Dahlgren found families from Greece, Russia and Czechoslovakia, like the Jenicek family

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whose patriarch turned a popular Harrison bar inside the International Order of Odd Fellows building into One Shot Charlie’s.

Dahlgren then reached out to the community for stories and photos to create displays for each region of North Idaho, which will include country of origin flags.

When the show opens April 2, visitors will also be able to contribute information about their own immigrant background, as well as view the permanent museum history exhibit.

What Dahlgren didn’t find might be equally interesting. Although Chinese immigrants came to the area’s mining camps, Dahlgren didn’t connect with any descendants. Rather than leave their presence unaddressed, however, Dahlgren shared some history and a glimpse of why today there might be fewer than 1,000 people of Chinese ancestry in Idaho. “Their religions, customs, clothes, burials, manners, queues of hair, insistence that their bones be transported back to China — all were ridiculed,” reads the New Land, New Life display.

Yet another ethnic group eluded Dahlgren, who knew

of a Hispanic family whose roots run deep in North Idaho. She couldn’t persuade anyone to share information for the show. Nonetheless, Dahlgren figured an exhibit on the region’s immigrants would be easy to pull together and feature dishes, clothes, tools and other evidence of lives lived from late-1800s onward. She laughs at that thought now.

They had to cull from the museum’s archives for items after not getting enough, or the right type of, artifacts from the community. “It’s turning out that most of the immigrants who came really didn’t bring a lot of stuff with them,” she says.

Or families didn’t keep what little their ancestors had.

Gail Hanninen didn’t have anything from her Finnish grandfather who arrived in North Idaho in 1904, nor from her father, who died when she was 9. What she did have were photos. More importantly, she had stories about how Finns settled along the western edge of the Silver Valley.

“What was important in my mind was [conveying] how people in that North Fork area of the Coeur d’Alene River functioned as a community,” says Hanninen.

She shares a story about how after she’d gone to college, her widowed mother married her father’s good friend, also a Finn, whose name and stories Hanninen inherited as well. So in addition to sharing Hanninen stories, she shared the Hallstrom one about the barn built from railroad timbers after the Coeur d’Alene River flooded in the ’30s, a barn that still stands in the Lancaster area of Hayden.

“To me it’s important to tell that story,” says Hanninen, “Otherwise it’s lost.” n New Land, New Life: Immigrants Shaped our Region • April 2-Oct. 31; Tue-Sat 11 am-5 pm • $4 adults/$1 children/$10 family • Museum of North Idaho • 115 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d’Alene • museumni.org • 208-664-3848.

CULTURE | MARCH MADNESS “He does a pretty good job of taking a business approach to the game of basketball,” teammate Zach Norvell Jr. says. “He can have a monster dunk but he’ll get right back to being level-headed and knowing it’s the next play. That’s big-time for us, with him being one of our key pieces. He’s a guy who can get the crowd going but also stay level-headed and stay in the moment.”

When Clarke arrived in Spokane last season he was about as unknown as an upperclassman on Gonzaga’s roster could possibly be. The 6-foot-8 forward spent the first two years of his career at San Jose State, where he earned all-Mountain West Conference first team honors as a sophomore. But the Spartans have had just one winning season this century and have finished with less than 10 wins more often than not. Clarke was a great player toiling away in obscurity.

That’s not the case anymore.

Earlier this month Clarke was named as a finalist for the Wooden Award, given to the best player in college basketball, and the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award, which is a bit more self-explanatory.

Clarke recorded over 100 blocks during the regular season. Before him, the single-season record at Gonzaga was 70.

“When he gets on the court, you gotta get out of the way.”

Brandon Clarke’s breakout season continues.

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Gonzaga’s Brandon Clarke is here to posterize fools on the court and outmaneuver them at Fortnite in his downtime

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n one moment Brandon Clarke is in the air, around the basket, ready posterize an opponent with a highlight-reel dunk. Or, maybe he’s about to block someone’s shot into oblivion. Either way, Brandon Clarke is

in the air, around the basket, about to do something that will send the energy level at the game through the roof.

And, a moment later, he’s jogging back down the court looking as calm as can be.

For the guys in the program this hasn’t come as much of a surprise. Clarke spent last season refining his game, taking advantage of a redshirt year like so many Zags before him.

“One of his first practices, it was an open gym and we were just playing pickup,” Corey Kispert says. “Afterwards we were messing around he went and tried to touch his head on the rim and he actually cut his lip on the rim jumping so high. We all knew he was athletically gifted.”

It’s not all hard work for Clarke, though. The balance he shows on the court, with bursts of emphatic energy surrounded by stretches of serene composure, appears off the court as well. When he’s not working on his game, he’s playing games. Each of his teammates told me the same thing when asked what he would be doing in his downtime.

“Playing Fortnite, 100 percent,” Kispert says. “That’s probably a pretty common answer. He’s the best we got so, whenever he’s on and I’m on, it’s a privilege for me.”

Clarke doesn’t disagree about his video game prowess.

“Yep. I am, yeah,” Clarke says with a laugh. “Probably just the best at video games in general but Fortnite is the main game that we all play. I guess the guys always like talking about our Fortnite rankings. I’ve been at the top all year, though.”

For a guy who has spent all season saying little, and focusing on his teammates when he has spoken, that’s a surprising bit of attitude. But, when you’re the best, you may as well enjoy it. Which is clearly what Clarke and his teammates are doing off the court, as well as on it.

“He’s super relaxed. Super chill. Really, really easy going,” Kispert says of Clarke. “Maybe it’s all just pent up inside of him, but when he gets on the court you gotta get out of the way because he’s coming after everybody.”

For the rest of this month and into April, Clarke and the Zags are coming after whatever stands between them and a national championship. n Gonzaga plays Florida State Thu, March 28, at 4:09 pm. The game will air on CBS.

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he qualities of a definitive French dip, as it turns out, can be a little contentious. Is anything but melted Swiss cheese OK? What distinguishes it from a Philly cheesesteak?

What toppings, if any, are acceptable? Like many American staples, the sandwich’s defining origins aren’t totally clear. And as illustrated here, plenty of chefs take creative liberties with this beloved classic. There are, however, a few required elements for a “true” French dip sandwich: served hot, with thin slices of beef piled on a hoagie roll or baguette (i.e. French) bread. Above all, it absolutely must be served with a side of savory, rich au jus for dipping.

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801 N. Monroe What we got: French Dip, $10 Located at the edge of Spokane’s bustling courthouse campus, Charley’s Grill & Spirits on Monroe offers up exactly what you picture when you think of a good ol’ fashioned French dip — a nice warm sandwich stuffed with thinly sliced roast beef topped with melty Swiss cheese and onions that’ve been sauteed to get that perfect softness with a hint of sweet caramelization. The roll is toasted especially crispy on the edges, which gives the sandwich the hold you need when dipping it into the salty cup of au jus. Served with soup, salad or fries, and coming in at only $10 before tax, it’s a great way to grab some comfort food at lunch (or dinner: they’re open 11 am to 11 pm weekdays and evenings on Saturday).

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length of time, some friends and I debated what makes a “true” French dip sandwich. I always fell on the side of “meat, bread, au jus and that’s it!”

With age, though, comes wisdom — or at least an evolving palate — and I’ve come to accept various restaurants’ and delis’ insistence on throwing additional toppings on what was, plain and simple, an already delicious sandwich. In fact, in the case of the North Hill on Garland’s Tri-Tip Dip, I’ve even embraced what once made me recoil in horror. And that’s because their combination of house-smoked tri-tip steak, caramelized onions, baby Swiss cheese and — this is vitally important — horseradish cream served on a soft bun with a side of pleasingly salty au jus has become a cravable sandwich that sticks in my brain even when weeks go by between visits. The relatively new spot on Garland has a nice vibe, just a few booths and a bar, and serves the Tri-Tip Dip with a side of green salad, pasta salad, chips or the soup of the day. (DAN NAILEN)

THE ONION

302 W. Riverside What we got: French Swiss Dip, $10/half; $14.50/full As someone who usually opts for a sandwich with more veggies and less meat, a French dip with a hefty serving of beef and melted Swiss usually isn’t my first choice. But maybe I should reconsider. Not only is the Onion’s French dip a deliciously hearty sandwich, it’s a fun meal. How often do you get to dunk your lunch? The briny au jus absorbs deliciously into the sandwich, adding more flavor to the beef and the bread.

The beef sits in a grilled hoagie roll that whispers garlic. You can pair this French dip with fruit, fries or a pea salad. I also recommend closing out your meal at the Onion with the Messy Face Brownie ($8.75), because every night should end with a half-pound chocolate chip brownie covered in vanilla ice cream and molten fudge.

(ARCELIA MARTIN)

6314 N. Ash What we got: The Steak Dip, $15 Warm, filling, juicy, cheesy, toasty, salty. These six worthy traits and more you’ll find in the perfectly executed take on the French dip at Cascadia Public House in North Spokane. The popular neighborhood joint teams up with regional supplier St. Helens Beef to source its THE ELK PUBLIC HOUSE sandwich’s sliced culotte steak, piled atop a fresh 1931 W. Pacific Alpine Bakery hoagie roll, and cooked well but What we got: French Dip Royale, $13.50 perfectly soft and easy to bite into. Melty fontina This Browne’s Addition mainstay has a few cheese coats each bite, and the bun is spread with great sandwiches to a house-made horseradchoose from, but their ish aioli giving a nice ALSO TRY: take on the French dip kick that contrasts to the Lost Boys’ Garage: Roast Beef & French Onion ($11) has got to be the star savory, salty cup of au The Screaming Yak: Yak Dip ($11) of the menu. It starts jus. Add crispy or grilled off simply enough, onions for 75 cents extra, 1898 Public House: House-smoked Brisket Dip ($15) with sirloin steak on a if you prefer. While I love Outlaw BBQ: Brisket French Dip ($10; Wed only) baguette roll, but the onions on most sandwichDockside: Prime Rib French Dip ($17) neighborhood pub tops es, I went with the classic that with caramelized preparation and didn’t Italia Trattoria: French Dip ($13; brunch only) onions and melted miss out. To balance out True Legends Grill: The French Connection ($13) Swiss cheese, which the filling and salty main Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar: French Dip ($13) add a sweet and savory course, I picked a salad element to an otherwise as my side; other options Central Food: Mushroom Melt ($12; vegetarian) simple sandwich. Then are fries or fruit, with The Satellite Diner: Philly Steak Sandwich ($12) there’s the horseradish soup, mac and garlic or mayo, a bit of heat that parmesan fries available perfectly complements the salty au jus. You have as upgrades. (CHEY SCOTT) your choice of several sides at the Elk — includNORTH HILL ON GARLAND ing chips, salad and soup — but there’s no better 706 W. Garland option than their famous roasted corn pasta, What we got: Tri-Tip Dip, $12 which is refreshing and a little spicy and totally For what seems in retrospect like a ridiculous addictive. (NATHAN WEINBENDER) n

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heney’s loss was Coeur d’Alene’s gain when Rokko’s Teriyaki & BBQ relocated to the Riverstone development late last

year.

“We brought back what I think was missing in the Japanese street food scene,” says David Hall, who opened the restaurant with wife Inez Hall in 2012, roughly four years after seeing their daughter off to Eastern Washington University.

After their daughter graduated, the Hall’s stayed in Cheney, finding success with Rokko’s, which they named after the family dog, a 9-year-old heeler. Their biggest challenge? High employee turnover. “[Rokko’s] food is personal in the way it has to be prepared,” Hall says.

They’d invest in employees, only to watch them leave, which meant the couple themselves could not. And they couldn’t grow the business.

Hall says they’re encouraged by Coeur d’Alene’s dining scene, growth potential and companies like Uber Eats, which has been a nice bump for them. Located adjacent to a Starbucks Coffee, Rokko’s new Coeur d’Alene location gives the Halls much more visibility than in

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Cheney, yet the space has seen a rapid succession of restaurants in recent years: Martino Tuscan Grill, Rivelle’s River Grill, Melone’s Public House and the Mill.

Rokko’s street food approach seems to be gelling with diners, however, as have their specials. On Tuesdays, tacos are $2 for a charbroil flour tortilla stuffed with garlicky, gingery, spicy ground beef and wasabi coleslaw. Wednesday is $1 beer night. The restaurant’s vibe is hip, casual and fun, with red walls covered in artwork from local ArtCoLab design: a rearing blue dragon, a Japanese-style cat doll, graffiti lettering.

Most plates are priced between $8 and $10 in one of five basic offerings: teriyaki (choose your level of spice and type of protein), salads, barbecue, yakisoba noodle bowls and fried rice.

Rounding out the menu are four specials, like the Hawaiian Loco Moco, a hamburger patty over white rice, with an egg and smothered in gravy ($9.75).

The Japanese curry ($10), Hall says, is one of his favorite dishes and reminds him of what his brother-in-law used to make before he passed away. The macaroni salad is Inez’s version of something her father used to make, and the stirfry dishes are all from Inez’s mother, Chiyoko Black, whom Hall met while a youngster growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. That’s where he and Inez attended the same school and where Hall spent considerable time amongst Japanese-American communities, including church potlucks where the type and quality of food left a huge impression on him.

The restaurant is one way the Hall family is carrying on these traditions from the past, especially now that their son is working at Rokko’s.

“He just watched his grandma make this food since he was a baby,” Hall notes. n Rokko’s Teriyaki & BBQ • 2360 Old Mill Loop, Coeur d’Alene • Open daily 11 am-9 pm • Facebook: @rokkoscda • 208-930-0092

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These hearty, flavorful beef Colorado tacos often appear on Central Food’s menu

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lan ahead for your next taco Tuesday night at home and make these beef Colorado tacos using a recipe from Central Food chef-owner David Blaine. The dish often rotates onto the Kendall Yards eatery’s menu, but now that you know how to make it at home, you won’t have to miss out even when it’s on hiatus.

At a glance, the slow-cooked, pull-apart beef may seem complex, but Blaine assures us it’s not.

“I think the dish is easy to prepare, even if not quick,” Blaine notes. “This style of cooking is a good technique for people to learn because it utilizes lots of ingredients in different ways.”

The tacos first made their way onto Central Food’s menu when Blaine found himself with an unexpected bounty of chuck from the restaurant’s grass-fed beef supplier.

“I started thinking about different slow-cook foods that would allow us to take advantage of

such good quality beef. Later we stockpiled jalapenos during a bumper crop year and brought back the Colorado to use them up,” he recalls.

Blaine says the warm blend of spices and charred veggie sauce coating the beef is reminiscent of a good stew, much like the tacos’ namesake, chili Colorado, a traditional Mexican dish.

(The name comes from the Spanish word for “colored red,” colorado.)

The dish’s heat hits in the middle of the spice spectrum, Blaine says, but can be tweaked depending on the peppers used.

“I always err on the side of milder so I can then add hot sauce,” he says.

Blaine recommends pairing pickles on the side, like spicy carrots or radish. A crisp beer is his choice of beverage.

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BEEF COLORADO TACOS BY CHEF DAVID BLAINE INGREDIENTS 5 lbs. beef chuck, cut into 1.5-inch cubes 1 teaspoon ancho chili powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4 tablespoons ground coriander 4 tablespoons cumin 2 tablespoons smoked paprika 1/4 cup oil 1 large onion, diced 6 garlic cloves, peeled 1-2 serrano or jalapeno peppers

2 lbs. Roma tomatoes, cored and halved 1/4 cup cilantro leaves DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine spices and oil and rub beef with spice mixture.

2. Char onions, garlic, tomatoes and peppers under the broiler for approximately 10 minutes.

3. Add cilantro to charred veggies and blend until smooth.

4. Sear beef cubes on all sides in a hot, oiled pan.

5. Combine seared beef and sauce in a covered baking dish and bake at 400 degrees for 4 hours.

Then, check beef for pull-apart tenderness. It should pull apart easily; if it doesn’t, put it back in the oven.

6. When beef is done, cool and serve, or refrigerate and reheat later. Serve on 6-inch corn tortillas and garnish with fresh cilantro and radish.

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PUTTING THE “DUMB” IN DUMBO An elephant never forgets, but you won’t remember Tim Burton’s Dumbo remake after it’s over

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ho is the target audience for Disney’s new This version centers around two young children of “live-action” remake of Dumbo? circus performers, Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley It remains baffling that Disney is conHobbins), whose mother died and whose father Holt tinuing to do these “live-action” (quotes because they’re (Colin Farrell) is just returning from World War I, where mostly CGI) remakes instead of re-releasing the animated he lost an arm. Their traveling circus is led by Max Medimusical classics in theaters (like how popular films used ci (Danny DeVito), who just bought a pregnant elephant to just pop up periodically pre-home viewing via VHS), that eventually gives birth to the floppy-eared Dumbo. but at least with upcoming versions of The Lion King and Milly and Joe stumble into teaching Dumbo how to fly, Aladdin, or even the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, the studio making him an instant attraction, but also garnering the was tapping into childhood nostalgia for the prime 18-35 attention of entertainment tycoon and theme park owner demographic that loved the originals as children.

V. A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who is flanked by his But Dumbo? Despite one or two iconic arm-candy acrobat Colette Marchant (Eva moments, the 1941 original is a profoundly Green).

DUMBO un-good movie with an added dose of that It’s no surprise Burton has a fondness Rated PG ol’ timey Disney racism (the leader of the for the oddities of classic circus style, but Directed by Tim Burton minstrel crows is literally named Jim Crow).

Dumbo’s aesthetics come across as more Starring Colin Farrell, Michael More to the point, is Disney really trying grandiose than grand. The same can be Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green said for the performances: While DeVito’s to tap into the nostalgia of the 75-and-over lot with a kids’ movie? (Clint Eastwood playfully over-the-top acting sporadically already owns that demographic — get off his lawn!) works, Keaton hams it up to an eye-rolling degree (lines So the elephant in the room (or flapping its big ears like “Cancel my dinner with the president — we have through the air) is that there’s no reason for this new business with an elephant!” don’t help). The two children Dumbo to exist, yet here we are. Tim Burton takes the are serviceable, but Farrell unfortunately seems like he’s helm of this go-around, and since the narrative of the been pulled from a much more serious film. Only Green original takes place among talking elephants and mice hits the right tone, seeming to realize the whole thing is and runs a scant 64 minutes, the story is reworked and silly but to not overdo it. expanded.

The screenplay comes courtesy Ehren Kruger, the

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writer of The Ring and some Transformers movies. If that seems like a weird fit — correct! Perhaps the thought was if they filled the script with enough baffling choices and reactions by the human characters, then a flying elephant would seem rational by comparison. In the original Dumbo, he was ostracized by his fellow (talking) animals.

This at least tracked. Here the ostracizing is left to the humans, which just doesn’t make sense.

Max panics when he first sees Dumbo’s ears because who would want to see an unusual elephant at the circus?

(Umm… everyone? It’s the circus.) When Vandevere is in charge he insists on adding Colette riding Dumbo… because a crowd wouldn’t be impressed by just seeing a world-famous flying elephant? At one point a crowd demands refunds because… while they saw an elephant fly, they didn’t see him fly for long enough? And while never directly addressed, parts of the movie rely on Dumbo comprehending English. There are some nice references to the original film (storks heralding Dumbo’s arrival, a mouse costume suggesting OG Dumbo pal Timothy Q. Mouse, and a nod to the drunk Dumbo’s hallucinations), but also some head-scratching ones (the minstrel crows’ song essentially gets transposed by ring announcer Michael Buffer).

They say an elephant never forgets. Hopefully said elephant will be able to rid its mind of the unnecessary exercise in messy mundanity. n

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Tim Burton’s live-action reimagining of the animated Disney classic is pretty pointless and lifeless, a fable about a sweet flying elephant that never takes off. (SS) Rated PG

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terror attack on an Indian hotel, centered on the staff and guests held hostage. Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star. (NW) Rated R

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A junked cyborg is rebuilt by a futuristic scientist, discovering she was once an all-powerful warrior from Mars. It looks nifty, but James Cameron’s script is as clunky as can be expected. (NW) Rated PG-13

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

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Set during the early years of Colombia’s cocaine boom, an epic tragedy about an indigenous family that becomes immersed in the drug trade. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

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The 21st Marvel feature goes back to the ’90s, introducing a superhuman fighter pilot (Brie Larson) who’s torn between warring factions of Earth and space. Hardly revolutionary, but fun, nostalgic and empowering. (SS) Rated PG-13

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In the years following an alien invasion, a group of dissidents in Chicago rise up against an oppressive government. A promising sci-fi conceit that’s undone by vague worldbuilding. (NW) Rated PG-13

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A Fantastic Woman Julianne Moore shines in Gloria Bell

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n 2013, director Sebastian Lelio made a touching, low-key dramedy about a middle-aged woman named Gloria rediscovering her confidence and self-reliance as she navigates the singles scene as a divorced woman with two grown kids. Now in 2019, Lelio has done the same thing again, only in a different language. Gloria Bell very closely follows Lelio’s Gloria, which he made in his native Chile, but it’s not just a carbon copy of the previous movie. As the title character, Julianne Moore brings warmth, vulnerability and inner strength to the role, with a slightly more steely portrayal than Paulina Garcia in the original.

It’s really Moore’s movie, and she carries it from beginning to end, through Gloria’s minor triumphs and

Julianne Moore is great in just about everything, and Gloria Bell provides a showcase for one of her best performances. tragedies, in her efforts to find love or just feel comfortable in the life she’s ended up with. That’s a pretty good life overall as the movie begins: Gloria has a stable job as an insurance agent and lives in a decent apartment in L.A. (albeit with a loud neighbor who sometimes keeps her up at night). She spends time with her son (Michael Cera) and daughter (Caren Pistorius), even if they don’t always appreciate it, and she remains on good terms with her ex-husband (Brad Garrett). She enjoys cutting loose at nightclubs for older singles, exuberantly flirting and dancing with whoever catches her eye.

She still struggles with loneliness, though, and she’s pleasantly surprised when a one-night stand with the recently divorced Arnold (John Turturro) turns into something more, a burgeoning romance with someone who appreciates her for who she is, and wants to take the time to get closer to her. Arnold has his own issues, though, and he can’t quite break away from his needy, overbearing daughters and ex-wife to fully commit to his relationship with Gloria.

Moore and Turturro have a lovely, relaxed chemistry, and while Arnold can be an insensitive jerk at times, he never comes off as a cartoonish buffoon. Like Gloria, he’s a flawed, genuine character dealing with complex personal problems that aren’t easily resolved. Even so, the movie is always on Gloria’s side, and it’s the latest in Lelio’s empathetic portrayals of marginalized women finding their voices, following 2017’s Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman and last year’s underrated Disobedience,

Lelio’s English-language debut. Lelio doesn’t shy away from depicting Gloria’s frustrations and failures, but the tone is never pitying or condescending.

Indeed, the best moments in the movie are the transcendent, giddy instances of Gloria just letting go, whether she’s singing along in her car to some cheesy soft-rock anthems or dancing like nobody’s watching. At her best, she’s the human embodiment of the stereotypical middleaged woman’s favorite inspirational poster (“Live, Laugh, Love”), only without the cloying sentimentality. She’s just a good person, someone happy to spend 100 GLORIA BELL you’re minutes getting to know.

Rated R Even if you already got to Directed by Sebastian Lelio know a slightly different verStarring Julianne Moore, John sion of Gloria in Lelio’s previTurturro, Michael Cera ous movie, there are enough new pleasures here to make the experience feel fresh. Gloria and Arnold take a trip to Las Vegas, and Lelio gives the city a sense of wonder and discovery in contrast to most Vegas-set movie moments.

He uses the same cool, neon color palette here as he did in the original, but those lights are shining on different locations, and they reflect back slightly differently. Even the title song transitions from Umberto Tozzi’s Italian original to the English-language cover by Laura Branigan that was a massive hit in the U.S. Lelio has created a cover version of his previous film, and in the process he’s managed to give it new life. n

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ROCK MOVIES

Shower After Viewing The Dirt is Mötley Crüe’s latest effort to brand themselves into legendary status

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he genius of Mötley Crüe isn’t that the L.A.-based quartet created some amazing new hard-rock sound. No, the genius of Mötley Crüe (and I’m using the phrase “genius” extremely loosely) is that the group of Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee knew how to brand themselves as everything many American teen boys of the ’80s wanted in a rock band.

That brand? Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — in that order.

The Crüe’s music was loud and basic, their tour stories were exceedingly crude, and their off-stage lives were so full of the kind of shenanigans — sex tapes, lethal car accidents, near-lethal overdoses, marriages to Hollywood actresses and Playboy playmates — that a feature film depicting the band’s golden years seemed like a natural.

That film arrived on Netflix over the weekend, packed with Crüe songs, terrible acting, shocking antics straight out of the band’s VH1 Behind the Music episode and incredibly antiquated attitudes toward women — here presented mostly as naked, nameless playthings for the four lead characters when they’re not being mean moms or cheating girlfriends. Ugh. The Dirt is based on the Crüe’s best-selling (and admittedly entertaining) four-headed 2001 autobiography, and the movie was years in the making before finally landing with an obnoxious, slimy thud on the streaming service. The Dirt was, fittingly, directed by Jackass veteran Jeff Tremaine, and its 108 minutes are packed with as many of the shocking scenes and as much of the band’s interpersonal drama as he could fit. ...continued on next page

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Is The Dirt a good movie? Well, no, not really, but it’s never boring. I came away from watching with the same feeling I have about the band as a whole: pretty terrible, but captivating nonetheless. I grew up at the perfect time and place to be a Mötley Crüe fan, the Midwest in the ’80s. And even though my tastes at the time leaned more toward the funky pop of Prince or collegerock cool of R.E.M., I still found myself watching Crüe videos on MTV, reading about them in metal magazines like Circus, eventually even going to see them in concert on their triumphant Dr. Feelgood tour.

That tour was basically the end of the glory days for Mötley Crüe, and The Dirt movie ends shortly after showing that even though the four band members were (mostly) sober for Dr. Feelgood’s recording and tour, interpersonal turmoil soon split the band via lead singer Neil’s firing/quitting (that point was left unclear in the movie, and the book, and in every interview with every band member I’ve ever heard). The Dirt spends a couple minutes on the Crüe’s failed attempt to continue with a different singer, then has a quick scene of band reconciliation and ends with the original foursome taking the stage together again, accompanied by the message “Mötley Crüe played together for another 20 years.”

That’s not exactly true. After the initial reunion, Tommy Lee quit for a while, replaced by two different drummers. And there are definitely liberties taken throughout The Dirt for the sake of speeding the narrative along; one of the best bits is when Mick Mars (played by Iwan Rheon) breaks the fourth wall to tell the viewer that the movie version of how the band met powerful manager Doc McGhee (David Constabile) is total bullshit, as McGhee would never have visited the dumpy Sunset Strip apartment where the band lived pre-fame.

That choice to have the band members speak directly to the viewers works well at first, and repeats how the book version of The Dirt is structured, with each taking turns telling their perspectives on band history. The problem is when those scenes are done in just voiceover — it’s impossible to tell which guy is talking (although we can assume it’s always Tommy Lee when the line readings start with “Dude!” or “Bro!”). Each one of the Crüe WEEKEND dude-bros are presented as C O U N T D OW N an utterly cartoonish version Get the scoop on this of the real thing. Neil (Daniel weekend’s events with Webber) is a cocaine-loving our newsletter. Sign up at dim bulb rarely seen without Inlander.com/newsletter. a naked actress nearby. Sixx (Douglas Booth) is the tortured artist with a heroin problem. Lee (Machine Gun Kelly) is a party hound who falls in love too easily, and Mars is the band’s elder statesman and resident weirdo; having Mars dropping deadpan jokes at every turn is one of The Dirt’s best decisions.

In fact, much of the movie is delivered as comedy, which certainly helps it move along. Between the goofball style and debauchery, it’s more fun than it has any right to be. The big problem is when it tries to deliver drama. Whether it’s Lee’s frustration with a smacked-out Sixx ruining his wedding to Heather Locklear, or Neil dealing with the death of his 4-year-old daughter from cancer, none of the actors have the chops to make the serious scenes work nearly as well as those played for laughs.

The drama comes off very TV-movie quality. And while the performance clips are pretty strong, the (band-produced) movie’s attitude that Mötley Crüe was, as Sixx says at one point, “showing the kids something they’ve never seen before” is just laughable.

Like their music, The Dirt is best viewed through the lens of the band’s decades-long effort at branding themselves into being legends. It’s not a good movie, but it continues building their selfconstructed mythology years after the band’s last gig. Unlike the sanitized version of Queen captured in Bohemian Rhapsody, The Dirt is a grimy, misogynistic, sex-and-drugs-fuelled warts-and-all look at one of the ’80s most popular bands. For good or ill. n The Dirt is now streaming on Netflix.

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Turn It Up Showstopping duo KOLARS step into the way-back machine on their latest record

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he last time the Inlander caught up with Los Angeles-based rock band KOLARS, Rob Kolar (guitar, vocals) and Lauren Brown (percussion) were turning heads with their unusual stage setup. In addition to more traditional drumming techniques, Brown provides the band’s rhythmical backbone by tap dancing on an overturned bass drum.

But they’re not strictly about the drum schtick.

The husband-and-wife duo makes compelling enough “glam-a-billy” music to have captured the attention of Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. On Friday, the band’s swaggering new pump-up jam, “Turn It Up,” is being released on 7-inch vinyl via McCready’s label, HockeyTalkter Records. The song’s vintage vibe was achieved at Valentine Recording Studios in Southern California, which closed in 1975 and reopened in 2016 with all of the original recording equipment completely untouched.

Ahead of the band’s upcoming Spokane show, Kolar chatted with us about their retro recording experience and the inspiration behind “Turn It Up.” INLANDER: Did recording at Valentine feel like stepping into a time capsule?

ROB KOLAR: The studio was built by this guy Jimmy Valentine, and when he died he left it in his will to his kids, but his kids weren’t really into recording or studio stuff. Next door is an auto shop; he also had all these incredible vintage cars. I think his kids were more into that. They used the studio, funny enough, as a storage space, so they would deconstruct these cars and put the parts in the drum room. But they never touched anything — the decor, the gear. For four decades, it went completely untouched. … You even had magazines dated from 1973 on the counters. You walk into the control room, and you have shag carpets. It’s like walking onto a movie set.

What were your sessions like?

We went in there for four days and tried to cram in as much as we could. We were focusing on the drums especially, because we wanted that 1970s, dead-disco, fat analog sound. We knocked a bunch of songs out; a lot of our next album was recorded there. It really helped capture the vibe and energy we were after, that retro-FM kind of quality. And the beauty of it now is that you can take those older sounds and bring them into Pro Tools for editing or mixing. I like the marriage of analog and digital.

Do you think recording in that setting influenced the music itself? Did your songwriting change at all?

When you’re in that room, you do feel like you’re in a different time, or that time doesn’t exist. It’s like you’ve taken a time warp to a different dimension.

That affects you as a musician. The space is somehow captured in the audio when you record it. Wherever you are, there’s something captured in the sound that is also a reflection of the place. You listen to records made in

KOLARS capture the spirit of the ’70s on their new single “Turn It Up.” different countries, recordings made in like Jamaica, and you get a little window into that place, which is pretty wild to think about.

What can you tell me about the meaning of the song “Turn It Up”?

As a young kid, I was always really into singing. My family led a strange life where we moved around a lot to different countries, which was exciting but also a lot to take in. Singing was a great way to express myself in a comfortable way, and feel better about all the changes. I remember trying out for choir groups, but I didn’t have a very good voice so I never got accepted. It stuck with me because it was hard and heartbreaking to have something that you really want to do, but you’re not good enough, somehow. So, I became very self-conscious about my voice because I had been rejected early on.

As a kid, I’d sometimes listen to [the L.A. radio station] K-Rock, and I heard them play this band Rancid. The guy’s voice wasn’t perfect, but it had all of this emo-

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tion — it felt guttural and inspiring and raw. I could sing along and it didn’t matter that I wasn’t singing perfectly on key. It was a breakthrough for me, that somebody could express themselves that way.

“Turn It Up” is your tribute to raw expression, then?

A celebration of freedom and catharsis through rock music?

I always thought it’d be great to write a song about how music makes you feel, especially how — as cliche as it might sound — it helps you get through tough times.

“Turn It Up” is about that. One of the lyrics says, “I’ll be getting high with the music up.” The idea was never about smoking weed or doing drugs, it was about music being able to elevate you and inspire you to face your demons. n KOLARS • Sun, March 31 at 8 pm • $12 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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he discography of Acid Mothers Temple is as sprawling as many of the Japanese collective’s epic songs, a seemingly never ending catalogue of live recordings, offshoots, crossovers, EPs, mixtapes and studio albums.

2018 alone saw seven releases from the Mothers’ original project the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. That’s impressive. Since the mid-’90s, AMT founder Kawabata Makoto and his ever-shuffling coterie of collaborators have produced hundreds of mind-expanding instrumentals, implementing static and modulated synths and hurdy-gurdies to wild effect. Watching them create their trippy, psychedelic soundscapes live and in the flesh should be a real treat.

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J THE BARTLETT, The Bright Light Social Hour, Sea Moya BERSERK, Vinyl Meltdown J THE BIG DIPPER, Lincoln Durham, Dapper Devils THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, KOSH J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Downtown Jam J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Lowfaith, Greet Death, Headless// Heartless, Bitch Fits CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance THE GILDED UNICORN, Nick Grow HUMBLE BURGER, ings, The Ophelias, Mother Yeti, okay okay THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series J KNITTING FACTORY, Space Jesus, Buku, Huxley Anne, Eazybaked J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Jimi Finn MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Benny Baker O’SHAYS, O’Pen Mic Thursdays OBJECT SPACE, CJ Boyd, Birthdaymoanz, Ellingson J J THE PIN, Slug Christ and Nacho Picasso with Rad Dog, Yung Thot, Astral Bodiez and more RAZZLE’S, Songsmith Series RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series THE ROXIE, Music Challenge ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

Friday, 03/29

219 LOUNGE, Bum Jungle 3RD WHEEL, The Veer Union A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus

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yrics Born has always infused his work with the places that inspire him, from his birth country of Japan to his hometown of Berkeley. The rapper, real name Tom Shimura, took inspiration from an extended stay in New Orleans on his jazz-infused 2015 album Real People, and its follow-up, Quite a Life, continues with the brass licks and brash energy of a French Quarter street parade. It’s full of party jams, from double entendre-laden opener “Chocolate Cake” to closing salvo “Baby I Made It,” but Shimura doesn’t shy away from issues of race and gender equality in his industry, including a riff on James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” that brings the R&B classic into the #MeToo era.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Lyrics Born with Kung Fu Vinyl • Sat, March 30 at 9 pm • $12 • 21+ • Red Room Lounge • 521 W. Sprague • holdmyticket.com/ event/331404 • 838-7613

J THE BIG DIPPER, GS3 THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Tufnel BLACK LABEL BREWING CO., Dylan Hathaway BOLO’S, The Cruizers BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, The Cronkites J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Korey Quinn CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Wyatt Wood J THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival (see page 50) COEUR D’ALENE TAPHOUSE - UNCHAINED, Bobby and Randy CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad THE COUNTRY PLACE, Steve Starkey

CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Bubble & Squeak CRUISERS, Karaoke with Gary CURLEY’S, Kosta La Vista HOUSE OF SOUL, We Party, We Rave IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Muffy and the Riff Hangers J INDIE AIR RADIO, Raygun Carver IRON GOAT BREWING, Merry Makers IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival THE JACKSON ST., Alisha & The Loose Change Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Ben Rice Blues Band J KNITTING FACTORY, Aaron Watson, Josh Ward J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Cris Lucas MARYHILL WINERY, Scott Nordahl MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Bright Moments

MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jan Harrison Blues Experience MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Big Phatty & The Inhalers MOOSE LOUNGE, The Caretakers MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Kicho NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NYNE, Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs J OUTLAW BBQ, Songsmith Series PACIFIC PIZZA, Vannah Oh!, Bush Brothers PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Ron Kieper Jazz Trio J THE PIN, Steve’n’Seagulls PRIME TYME BAR & GRILL, Wild Wooly RED ROOM LOUNGE, Children of Atom, Wayward West, Laminates RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom

SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Just Plain Darin ZOLA, DragonFly

Saturday, 03/30

12 TRIBES RESORT CASINO, The Company Band 219 LOUNGE, Harold’s IGA 1210 TAVERN, Alisha & The Loose Change Band A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish THE AGING BARREL, Lyle Morse J THE BARTLETT, SUSTO, Frances Cone J BERSERK, The Estranged, Muscle Dungeon, Peru Resh J J THE BIG DIPPER, Itchy Kitty, Indian Goat, Buffalo Jones BOLO’S, The Cruizers CHECKERBOARD BAR, Jrod the Problem, Prodigy, Dopy T, Sick Jayy

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Wyatt Wood J THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT, Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival (see page 50) COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CRUISERS, Voodoo Death Gun, Earth to Ashes CURLEY’S, Kosta La Vista FREDNECK’S, Gil Rivas GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Slow Cookin’ J HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Just Plain Darin HOUSE OF SOUL, Nu Jack City J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Scott Roddan IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Kevin Dorin J INDIE AIR RADIO, Raygun Carver IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Haley Young and the Bossame IRON HORSE (COEUR D’ALENE), Smash Hit Carnival THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Laney Lou and The Bird Dogs J KNITTING FACTORY, Koe Wetzel LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chuck Dunlop LION’S LAIR, Hip-Hop Showcase MARYHILL WINERY, Michael and Keleren Millham

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MAX AT MIRABEAU, Jan Harrison Blues Experience MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Brendan Kelty MOOSE LOUNGE, The Caretakers MULLIGAN’S, Isaac Walton NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom PACIFIC PIZZA, DJ Benny Blanco PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mostly Harmless THE PIN, Still We Rise, Children of the Sun, Sins & Sinners, Jacob Vanknowe J RED ROOM LOUNGE, Lyrics Born (see facing page), Kung Fu Vinyl REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Kory Quinn RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT (NOAH’S), Robby French SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Stagecoach West STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Karaoke THREE PEAKS, Nick Grow WESTWOOD BREWING CO., Pat Coast ZOLA, DragonFly

Sunday, 03/31

J J THE BARTLETT, KOLARS (see page 47) COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Jack Russell’s Great White DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Rev. Yo’s VooDoo Church of Blues Jam GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Cover 2 Cover KELLY’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Maxie Ray Mills LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam

MARYHILL WINERY, Gil Rivas MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Ken Mayginnes NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Dragonfly PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Piano Sunday with Dwayne Parsons THE PIN, Monday Will Suck Much More Than This Dance Party THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys J SOUTH HILL GRILL, Just Plain Darin STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

Monday, 04/1

BABY BAR, Preening, Lip Sick, Moss Promise THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Pickering Simmons Project CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Kerry Leigh RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 04/2

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke J KNITTING FACTORY, Brett Young, Adam Hambrick LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue.

RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Bill Bozly THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Wednesday, 04/3 219 LOUNGE, Kevin Dorin J THE BARTLETT, Slothrust, Rituals of Mine J BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Ken Davis CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, Tylor & The Train Robbers J KNITTING FACTORY, Elevation Worship LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Just Plain Darin POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), Justin James RED ROOM LOUNGE, Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos WOMAN’S CLUB, Contra Dance ZOLA, Cruxie

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Saturday, March 30th, 2019

10am-6pm / Spokane County Fair & Expo Center Adults: $7 advance – $10 at the door / Kids: $3 advance – $5 at the door / Kids 4 and younger: FREE Sponsored by:

Supporting Sponsors:

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

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MUSIC KIND OF BLUE

When the Fabulous Thunderbirds had a couple of surprising radio and video hits in the mid-’80s with “Tuff Enuff” and “Wrap It Up,” it was a sweet reward for lead singer Kim Wilson and guitarist Jimmie (brother of Stevie Ray) Vaughan, who’d started the band more than a decade before. The years since have seen numerous lineup changes, but Wilson (one mean harmonica player) is still there leading a crew of ace musicians through a brand of blues-rock that always pleases. The Thunderbirds are the Saturday night headliner of the three-day Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival that also includes a “Blues Cruise” on the lake Friday night, and a Sunday morning gospel brunch.

— DAN NAILEN Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival • Fri-Sun, March 29-31 • $42.50 for Saturday show; prices vary for other events • The Coeur d’Alene Resort • 115 S. Second St. • cdaresort.com • 208-765-4000 ext. 21

PERFORMANCE QUIET STEPS

Broomsticks, matchsticks and garbage cans. For most, these are simple household objects, not instruments. That’s not the case for STOMP. The eight-person percussion troupe started in Brighton, United Kingdom, and performs internationally combining music, theatre and acrobatics. Inching closer to celebrating their 25th anniversary, STOMP touches down in Spokane at the First Interstate Center for two nights in early April.

— ARCELIA MARTIN STOMP • Tue, April 2 and Wed, April 3 at 7:30 pm • $32-$52 • First Interstate Center for the Arts • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com • 279-7000

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BENEFIT SISTERS IN LAW

Lady Justice may be blind, but it’s hard not to wish that she sported a more fabulous ensemble every once in a while. Fear not, then: Gonzaga University and the law school’s gender and sexuality alliance are throwing a Saturday night drag showcase that benefits the Odyssey Youth Movement, a local organization that provides resources and social programs for young LGBTQ+ people. The event is being hosted by Nova Kaine, who should be well known to anybody with even a passing familiarity to Spokane’s drag scene, and will feature performances from local queens and a student drag competition that’s Disney themed.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Objection! Drag Show • Sat, March 30 at 7 pm • $15 general, $20 VIP • nYne Bar & Bistro • 232 W. Sprague • nynebar.com

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COMMUNITY PET PARTY

Be prepared to pamper the pawed and clawed residents of your home during this annual event that’s gone to the dogs, cats, birds, reptiles and fish. This year’s expo is expanding into another exhibit hall of the fairgrounds, which means more vendors (over 100), along with adoptable animals and activities — including a police K9 demo, canine fashion show and more — that all focus on our (mostly) furry family members and their well being. This year’s event is hoping to break attendance and adoption records from last year: more than 4,000 humans came and more than 50 animals were adopted from local agencies. A portion of event proceeds support the SCRAPS Hope Foundation.

If you go, please leave your pets at home for their own safety and comfort; only legitimate service animals are allowed inside the event.

— CHEY SCOTT Northwest Pet Expo • Sat, March 30 from 10 am-6 pm • $7-$10/adults, $3-$5/ages 5-12 • Spokane County Fair & Expo Center • 404 N. Havana • northwestpetexpo.com • 329-4307

There’s nothing quite like a First Friday.

On Friday, April 5th, head downtown to celebrate the creativity of local artists and enjoy free refreshments while you mingle with friends old and new. Find participating locations at downtownspokane.org, and make plans to see it first, hear it first, and taste it first.

WORDS A TOAST AT THE BRINK

Portland author, writer and editor Stevan Allred prides himself in many feats.

He’s survived a religious upbringing, many bad haircuts, male pattern baldness, teenage children and other hardships. Allred is next heading to Auntie’s Bookstore to share his second novel, Alehouse at the End of the World. This story tells of a 16th century fisherman who receives a letter about his love’s death. On a quest to find her, the fisherman is swallowed by a whale, where he then reaches the Isle of the Dead. This story for adults mixes mythology and an epic love story with some drunken incidents, all being as complex as life — for Allred or any of us — really is.

— ARCELIA MARTIN

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April 5TH, 2019

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April Featured Poster Artist: Stacie Boyer

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

Stevan Allred: The Alehouse at the End of the World • Fri, March 29 at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • auntiesbooks.com • 838-0206

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I SAW YOU BASKETBALL TEAM To the lady who I had kindly told we could not seat your group of 15 basketball girls and all of your family last night but yet you came in anyways and demanded to get a table. I was kind enough to split up your group to fit into smaller tables but yet that wasn’t enough for you and you clearly did not notice the extra 30+ people in our restaurant also waiting for a table PATIENTLY. It would be rude to say I wish you had gotten food poison but you sure made every one of our employees dislike you very, very much.

MY FRIEND, MISSING YOU! Jeff P. my friend, it has been a long time, a lot has happened in my life but there is Two things I want you to know, 1: that I still think about you all the time, and there are time I wish I could go back in time and change things, the 2nd thing I want to tell you: I need to do face to face, it is the type of thing you don’t do like this. I have been trying to find you for the last 2+ years. Please stop by the Village Tavern in Airway Heights on a Thursday I will be there at 5:30 pm or email me at bellacoon66@gmail.com... not even sure you are still around or if you went back to the Seattle area to be around your family.

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TOMATO STREET GUY I saw you at Tomato Street in Friday looking effortlessly dapper in that paisley and stripes combo. You were calm and at ease in that busy weekend start rush.

I’d love to take you out to pasta sometime soon! You’ve got my number!

CHEAP EATS ON THE STEPS I saw you enjoying some taco bell on the steps of Kendall Yards, overlooking the city.

You were a vision in gray with neon sunglasses and your friend seemed really concerned about losing his hat.

My 2 girlfriends and I were also enjoying the view and some cheap eats.

They teased me when you complimented me. I loved your smile. Maybe I will see you around soon?.

CHEERS 13 YEAR FLIPPER Cheers to the off duty firefighter that flipped me off after I flipped him off: I just wanted to say i didnt know you were a firefighter and I’m sorry for doing that and thanks for your service.

JEERS ANTI-CHOICE PROTESTORS Shame on all of you! Seeing so many people gathered in favor of abortion abolition is sickening. There were well over 100 people there encouraged to harass people seeking medical care, outside of a clinic that doesn’t even perform abortions! I am so glad there is a fundraiser to match your presence in donations to the very organization you oppose.

RE: WHAT THE HECK Dear not from Spokane: Sad our EVERGREEN trees are getting in the way of your naturenot-wanted photos. The best advise this little Spokanite can offer you, and all “transplants” to the area like you.

Please feel free to return to a place where starbucks customers dress in ridiculously priced garb. Or from whenceforthever you came. We like it simple here.

RE: WHAT THE HECK Normally I’d say welcome to Spokane. You, however, are more than welcome to get out.

RE: WHAT THE HECK In response to the person who sold their Southern

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LAST TRY AT A SUBMISSION This is my last try at a submission and then I retire my attempts since the Inlander is obviously more interested in the same boring verbiage as always. This jeers goes out to that local company that

or contempt]: Tarpeian Rock, a common departure point for ladies of the night with infection, have endured a similar fortune as discussed in your private chamber; yet for want of reason, I implore you to consider their

Normally I’d say welcome to Spokane.

You, however, are more than welcome to get out.

California “mini mansion” to come here and complain about our home town, GO HOME! You are no longer in the land of superficiality. Real people live here. We pack guns, drive trucks and prefer the opposite sex. Your disgust at our lifestyle is a big red flag telling you to GET OUT! We don’t want you!!!!

RE: WHAT THE HECK Sorry to read that you find the Spokane area so distasteful. It could be worse. You could’ve moved to northern Minnesota and gotten eaten alive by the mosquitoes so there’s that. Since this area and its folks are seemingly so unpalatable to your rarified sophisticated taste(s) might we suggest you move back to SoCal and, when you get there, head straight to one of its many fine beaches and pound sand in your sanctimonious posterior! Good riddance and have a nice day!

JEERS TO VOTERS The top three 2020 presidential contenders: Trump, Biden and Sanders. All way too old, way to white and way to male. Come on voters! We can do better! And guess what? I am old, white and male.

STAY IN YOUR LANE Boo to a bike shop: You charged me too much for a simple tune up yet failed to fix my bike correctly.

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

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

owns apartment complexes that feels like foliage is too much to maintain, so removed it all and allowed resident complexes to have no protection from cold and wind. The same company allowed snow to sit in parking lots and stalls weeks on end, waiting for it to melt intead of removing it. The same a-holes allowed cars to stay parked in spots for months on end with expired plates without enforcing rules. Spokane police, please begin to patrol lots belonging to these corrupt owners and place tickets on those cars who have expired plates going back many months. Meanwhile, these scumbags continue to make money off their junky apartments without providing basic services inherent in rent.

Example: A place to park.

JUST US Having examined a previous act of Petty Officer X, not present in today’s proceeding, I shall govern future thoughts as such: so much relies on precedence, hitherto fractured skulls a consequence of “talking sh*t”. Sir(s): I hereby indulge with your greatness, a slice of heavenly want, in and for an articulation of clarity, of colour. I stand before our emperor, his glory, that chair: in the old dominions of Venus, Securitas, and Poena... with an eager subject who intends to express a need for continuance in time, for the purpose of a consideration of alternatives [authorization,

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permutations of civilian materiel which fostered their fate. Today, if military service would somehow create a just condition as a remedy for the contravention of misuse of a royal colour, this subject, your subject, is prepared to serve His Majesty at cost. In this court, you’ll find a young mother who frets continuously in regards to the crime which has been committed by her only son. What they did was wrong, and with your guidance, help them see the light; with truth, and in love, and in all that is right and proper. As to this provocative lad, he sees hard times as incoming. Therefore, with your stewardship those times may prove to be didactive in nature... a white dove for us all to cherish. Thank you for your fine work, and your dedication and devotion to Emperor Caesar. Ciao e grazie. Gratias. n

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BENEFIT

MT. SPOKANE SKI RACE TEAM BENEFIT AUCTION The MSSRT is a nonprofit youth sports organization for athletes ages 5+. This year’s 18th annual auction is a semi-formal event. March 29, 5:30-9 pm. $75. Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague Ave. gossra. org/2019-mssrt-auction-registration OBJECTION! Gonzaga School of Law’s annual drag show, presented by the Gender and Sexuality Alliance. This year’s theme is “Circus,” and features a student Disney Drag Competition along with Nova Kaine and other local drag performers. Benefits Odyssey Youth Movement. March 30, 7-10 pm. $15. nYne, 232 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2UYngzK TSUKI’S LUNAR GALA & CHARITY FUNDRAISER KuroNekoCon hosts its annual anime and geek culture semiformal dance and charity fundraiser.

Includes geek music, photo booth, wine and beer cash bar. Proceeds benefit SpokAnimal. March 31, 7-10 pm. $12.

The McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific. kuronekocon.com/tsukis-lunar-gala THE PEARL PROJECT An experiential, contemplative and interactive learning event weaving together the elements of sacred text, art and ritual. The series on Mondays, 7-8:30 pm, through April 1, explores ancient sacramental atonement in both Hebrew and Christian thought in the death/resurrection/ ascension event of Christ. $10/event.

West Central Episcopal Mission, 1832 W. Dean. (208-446-6015) LIGHT THE STACKS BLUE FOR AUTISM AWARENESS DAY A celebration for World Autism Awareness Day, which kicks of Autism Awareness Month. Includes a (indoor) rooftop celebration with a lighting of the stacks at 7:20 pm, with drinks and food for purchase. April 2, 6:30-8 pm. Free. The Steam Plant, 159 S. Lincoln. theisaacfoundation.org 13TH ANNUAL HUMAN RACE The Gonzaga Journal of International Law (GJIL) presents the 13th annual 10k and 5k charity fun run/walk benefiting the American Cancer Society. This race is held yearly in honor of Kristina Glover, founder of the race, who lost her battle with cancer in her last year of law school in 2008. This year, we are proud to also be honoring Heidi Miller Keele who lost her battle with cancer in her last year of law school this past fall. April 6, 9:30 am-noon. $15-$25. Gonzaga School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati. (747-3304) CORAZON NIA A NIA Dance Jam to

support education for women and children in Guatemala. Snacks are provided. Includes an opportunity to purchase beautiful corazon scarves. April 6, 10 am-noon. $5-$20 suggested donation.

Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org KITTEN SHOWER The Humane Society of the Palouse is throwing a baby shower to support the kittens born this year under its care. Please bring an item from our wish list or a make a $5 donation (kids under 12 free). April 7, 1-4 pm. $5 or donated item. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St, Moscow. humanesocietyofthepalouse.org/events (208-883-1166)

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2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted

by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) THE PUNDERGROUND: MARCH The Punderground is back at the downtown library, up on the third floor. Improvised punning is open to 12 spots. Doors open at 7, show at 7:30. March 28, 7-9:30 pm.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2WfDTr2 (444-5336) LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more.

First and last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. Rated for mature audiences. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) THE DEPLORABLES Blending comedy, observational humor and music, the comedy group unleashes the conservative mindset, transcending politics and unabashedly mocking liberals while celebrating the American Dream. March 30, 7:30 pm. $44-$129. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (279-7000) SAFARI The BDT’s version of “Whose Line,” a fast-paced short-form improv

show that’s generally game based and relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Ages 16+. Saturdays at 7:30 pm through March 30. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW! A comedy showcase where comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more! Presented by Tyler Smith, featuring nationally touring comedians with various tolerances to marijuana. Last Sunday at 8 pm. $8$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays, from 8-9:30 pm.

Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside. socialhourpod.com (822-7938) MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY Hosted by Jared Chastain, with local acts followed by open mic. Mondays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main, Pullman. etsibravo.com (715-1037) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) THE SOCIAL HOUR AFTER DARK The show combines stand-up, sketch comedy, improv, interviews, music and more, hosted by Deece Casillas. April 5, 10-11:30 pm. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998)

EXPLORE ELECTRICITY WITH SNAP CIRCUITS Explore electrical engineering concepts, like short and parallel circuits, with Snap Circuits. Together we’ll build things that chime, light up, spin, and use alternative energy. Ages 8 and up. March 28, 4-5:30 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org HOMEBUYER EDUCATION SEMINAR Explore the major aspects of the homebuying process in an unbiased format with SNAP instructors certified by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Register by calling 3193040. March 28, April 23 and April 25 from 6-8:30 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. snapwa.org SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Join PJALS to continue work fighting white supremacy, supporting racial justice organizing led by people of color, and deepening our understanding of race locally. Second/fourth Thursday, from 5:30-7 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. pjals.org (232-1950)

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Advice Goddess CRONE’S DISEASE

I’m a straight single woman nearing 50. My best friends are a lesbian couple. I’m going to get some nonsurgical skin tightening on my face, and they got very judgmental about it: “We think you’re beautiful as you are.”

Next, it was “What if it goes wrong?” and “Will you keep getting procedures till you don’t look like you?” I ended up crying and then getting really angry. First of all, it’s my face. Secondly, I don’t think they understand AMY ALKON the pressure on straight single women to look young and beautiful. Thirdly, I think my friends should support me in my decisions even if they don’t agree with them. Am I wrong? –Upset I’m 55. Eventually, if a man catcalls me, I’ll go over and give him a dollar.

So I do understand the desire for dermatological intervention – in lieu of a little windup thingy behind your neck that you could crank to tighten the face flesh. That said, your friends probably feel they have a right (and maybe even a mandate) to tell you what to do – probably because they’re trying to look out for you. The problem is, criticizing people doesn’t make them want to change; it makes them want to clobber the person doing the criticizing. And this seems to be the case whether that person is giving unsolicited advice to a friend or muttering “Dude...seriously on the 24-pack of doughnuts?” to that stout stranger in the supermarket.

This happens because our brain’s threat response system is a little primitive.

A central player in it is the amygdala – a pair of lima bean-shaped neuron clusters – which makes split-second decisions about whether we’re in danger. Unfortunately, to your amygdala, an attack is an attack – which is to say, a verbal attack triggers the same bodily responses as a physical attack. Your adrenaline surges, your heart pumps like crazy, and blood gets shunted away from your reasoning center and to your extremities. This gets you into the perfect bodily state to bolt or punch your attacker in the nose – a state that’s not exactly helpful for one’s social survival.

Tell your busybody friends that it means a lot that they care about you, but that their context – as two nesting lesbians – is not your context as a single straight woman careening toward 50. Set a boundary: Explain that you want their advice on your appearance only if you ask for it. You could also ask them to be supportive of you – even if they aren’t on board with the steps you’re taking – simply on the grounds that you’re trying to improve yourself and go after what you want. It’s nice when your photo on a dating site makes some man reminisce about a classic beauty from his youth – but not when it’s his grandma’s prized Hermes alligator clutch.

WORST-CHASE SCENARIO

I’m a guy, and I’ve noticed that many women (at cafes, etc.) give me flirtatious looks, suggesting they’re interested in me, yet they never approach me. Why don’t they just come over and say hi and get my number and call me or message me? –Annoyed It isn’t hard to get a woman to chase you. Just grab her purse and take off down the street.

However, as a dude, if you’re looking for dates or a relationship, you should plan on doing the chasing rather than the waiting. “Males chase/females choose” evolved to be kind of a thing across species – those in which the females get stuck with the greater share of child production and caretaking (“parental investment,” in anthro terms). As evolutionary scientists Peter K. Jonason and Norman Li explain (in their research on playing hard to get), “the sex that bears the greater obligation to offspring is the more choosy sex (females in most species) and will put the opposite sex (usually males) through ‘tests’ for access.”

Keep in mind that many men will have sex with a woman they aren’t all that interested in simply because she pursues them. (In guy terms: “My wrist is tired. You’ll do.”) In line with this, Jonason and Li’s research finds that women benefit from playing hard to get in a way men do not. A woman who refrains from pursuing a man “may increase her perceived value” in his eyes and motivate him to work harder to pursue her. “In contrast,” they write, “men who limit their availability may pay heavier costs than women will through the loss of potential mating opportunities.” As for what this means for you, waiting for women to ask for your digits and blow up your phone with calls and texts is a fantastic idea -- if your mail comes addressed to Chris Hemsworth, 26 Movie Star Avenue. 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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March 30, 11 am-3 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. Also at the Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org (893-8400) NORTHWEST PET EXPO This year’s expo has expanded into another exhibit hall of the fairgrounds to host more vendors, along with adoptable animals and activities, including a police K9 demo, canine fashion show and more.

March 30, 10 am-6 pm. $3-$5. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. facebook.com/northwestpetexpo POKEMON TRAINER’S ACADEMY Learn how to play the Pokémon card game; get your own deck and some special foil promo cards and then learn how to play the game. Suggested for ages 8+. March 30, 2-3:30 pm. $5. The Comic Book Shop, 4750 N. Division. thecomicbookshop.net SEED SWAP Gardeners are invited to bring extra seeds, roots and tubers and take home different varieties for spring planting. Envelopes, labels and markers provided. Organized by the Woman’s Club Spokane-Community Garden Alliance, Friends of Polly Judd Park Community Garden and Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild. March 30, 1:30-4:30 pm. Free. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org (838-5667) SPOKANE ORCHID SOCIETY SHOW & SALE View orchid displays and shop from vendors with orchids and Vinn’s Insectivorous plants for sale. March 30 from 12-6 pm and March 31 from 10 am-3 pm. $2. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. spokaneorchidsociety.org ARC FILM SCREENING To conclude national Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (March), the Arc of Spokane is celebrating inclusion with a film screening, live music, drinks, raffle and more. March 31, 7 pm. $6-$12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7404) FIRST MONDAY NETWORK FOR SPOKANE ENTREPRENEURS A networking event held the first Monday of the month (5:30-7:15 pm), hosting sponsors and speakers who can help business owners and entrepreneurs in taking their business to the next level. $10. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. (208-640-1331) PEOPLE FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT (PEG) FORUM Guest speaker Joe Albert of Gonzaga University discusses the psychological dimensions of leadership, a profile of the kind of leader that succeeds in the current world environment, and an analysis of presidential leadership from the perspective of emotional intelligence. April 1, 7 pm.

Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal St. pegnow.org (953-8696) VOLUNTEER FAIR Join Spokane Public Library and local organizations to learn about ongoing volunteer opportunities.

Participating nonprofits include: SpokAnimal, American Red Cross, Mobius Children’s Museum and Science Center, Spark Central, Women & Children’s Free Restaurant and Community Kitchen and more. April 1, 3-7 pm. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry. spokanelibrary.org 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HATE STUDIES This year’s theme is “Building Peace through Kindness,

Dialogue, and Forgiveness.” Events include live performances, presentations, documentary screenings and more. April 2-4; see complete schedule online. $25-$50. Gonzaga University Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave. bit.ly/2J5X3Og (313-3665) BELONGING: THE CONNECTION WE ALL NEED American culture glorifies rugged individualism, yet deep inside, we all feel the need to belong to a group or community. What does it mean to belong? How can we fill that need in a healthy way? American Buddhist nun Thubten Chonyi shares how to connect with ourselves and others in ways that are meaningful and beneficial. April 2, 6:30-8 pm. By donation.

North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. sravastiabbey.org (208-660-5477) ORGANIZE YOUR FINANCES Experience the benefits of getting your files and money organized. Workshop presented by STCU; register at stcu.org/ workshops. April 2, 6-7 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne.

(893-8350) BECOME DEBT FREE Assess your current finances and learn how to use tools that make debt-free living possible.

Registration required at stcu.org/workshops. April 4, 6-7 pm. Free. Airway Heights Library, 1213 S. Lundstrom St. (893-8250) GIRLS GO CYBERSTART Through a series of digital puzzles & challenges, this free interactive event introduces students to the field of cybersecurity.

There’s a global shortage of cybersecurity professionals, in particular, female professionals; by the year 2022, a projected two million jobs will be left unfulfilled in this critical field. Open to grades 9-12. April 4, 3:45-5:45 pm. Free.

Gizmo-Cda, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Hedlund Building, Suite 142. gizmo-cda.org LATE NIGHT NERF BATTLE When the library closes, let the Nerf battle begin!

We supply the Nerf toys, rounds and snacks. Grades 3–5. Registration and signed permission form required. April 4, 7-9 pm. Free. Cheney Library, 610 First St. scld.org (893-8280) FAMILY DANCE AND POTLUCK Learn easy circle, line, folk dances and contras at this monthly event. No experience or partner needed. All dances taught by Susan Dankovich, with live music by Whirl’d Peas. First Friday of the month from 6:30-8 pm. Donations accepted.

St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. stjohns-cathedral.org (533-9955) FLAG SALUTE A salute of the American flag and the Vietnam heritage/freedom Flag at the entrance of Spokane City Hall entrance in honor of Vietnamese Heritage Day on April 6, and to honor Vietnam Veterans. April 5, 11 am. Free.

Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (899-5058) INLAND NORTHWEST COMMUNITY GARDENS: SPRING SPEAKER MEETING + POTLUCK Guest speakers Thom and Torie Foote present “Creating the Small Permaculture Market Garden Farm.” Become a member of the club for a reduced rate of $8, and stay for the members-only seed swap, resource tables, silent auction and potluck. April 5, 6 pm. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana. incgincommunitygardens.org (477-2193) LATE NIGHT NERF BATTLE When the library closes, let the Nerf battle begin!

We supply the Nerf toys and rounds and snacks. Grades 3-5. Registration and

signed permission form required. April 5, 7-9 pm. Free. Moran Prairie Library, 6004 S. Regal. scld.org (893-8340) PLANT CLINIC & INFO BOOTH Local Master Gardeners can help with a wide variety of horticulture issues, including plant selection, installation, maintenance, pest identification and much more. For information about preparing a sample for pest identification, contact Master Gardeners at 477-2181 or mastergardener@spokanecounty.org. April 1 and 19; May 3 and 17 from 1-5 pm. Free.

Cheney Library, 610 First. scld.org 10TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL FAIRE This event celebrates cultures from around our community through authentic ethnic food, music, artifacts and crafts. Food and drinks are available for purchase. April 6, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Lakes Middle School, 930 N. 15th St., Coeur d’Alene (208-659-0192) 23RD ANNUAL MOSCOW HEMP FEST A full day of information with speakers, music, arts and craft booths, food and more. Learn about hemp legislation and a new cannabis petition for Idaho.

April 6, 10 am-7 pm. Free. East City Park, 900 E. Third. moscowhempfest. com (208-883-4779) EASTERN WASHINGTON GENEALOGY SOCIETY OF SPOKANE: SUNNY MORTON The local chapter hosts a seminar with genealogy expert Sunny Morton, a popular lecturer for the global genealogy community who shares research strategies and inspiration with audiences worldwide. April 6, 8:30 am-3 pm. $40. Prince of Peace, 8441 N. Indian Trail Rd. ewgsi.org FOX FAMILY SERIES: THAT PHYSICS SHOW Lifetime professional physics demonstrator David Maiullo brings his scientific “magic” from the world of physics to the stage. April 6, 7 pm. $25-$60. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com HOLISTIC FESTIVAL The festival offers an introduction to a variety of healthy lifestyle practices through free, 25-min. lectures and 50 booths filled with organic/natural products, remedies, body care and pain relief. Also meet practitioners such as chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists and more.

April 6, 10 am-6 pm. $6. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (468-9001) SPOKANE’S SEEDY SATURDAY Learn how to grow all kinds of seeds for planting later in the spring in a class ($10-noon; 10 am). Then check out the seed swap (12-3 pm) with vendors from around the region selling and trading seeds they’ve harvested, including heritage and local varieties. April 6, 10 am-3 pm. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana. extension.wsu.edu/spokane/event/spokanes-seedy-saturday VIETNAMESE HERITAGE DAY An event to commemorate Vietnam’s founding fathers and 5,000-year-old ancient civilization with music, food, art/history exhibition, slideshows, speeches, gifts, cultural performances, traditional opéra, and to honor Vietnam Veterans.

April 6, 1-4 pm. Free. Genesis Event Center, 9315 N. Nevada. freevietnews. com/audio (899-5058) BUDDHHIST OPEN HOUSE Tour the largest and oldest Buddhist temple in Spokane. Minister assistants are available to answer questions about Japanese Shin Buddhist practices. April 7, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Spokane Buddhist

Temple, 927 S. Perry St. SpokaneBuddhistTemple.org (509-534-7954) SHARING THE DHARMA DAY The day’s schedule includes a guided meditation, vegetarian potluck lunch, and facilitated discussion on the day’s topic. The program is offered freely, and donations as well as food offerings for the resident nuns and monks are welcomed. Venerable Sangye Khadro, American Buddhist nun and author of the book How to Meditate, is the featured speaker. April 7, 9:45 am-3 pm. By donation. Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravastiabbey.org UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE MINORS INFO NIGHT An information night for anyone interested in becoming a foster family for refugee youth. LCSNW is looking for families who want to provide a loving and caring environment for these refugee youth coming to the U.S. Second Tuesday of the month, from 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Lutheran Community Services, 210 W. Sprague. lcsnw.org/program/foster-care/

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SCREENING: INTO THE ARCTIC Each Thursday and Saturday at 1 pm and 2:30 pm, the MAC screens this 47-minute film telling the compelling story of artist Cory Trepanier’s first leg of his multi-year quest to explore and paint the dramatic wilderness of the Canadian Arctic. Weekly through May 11. $5-$10/admission. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) FISH & WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL Presented by the U of Idaho College of Natural Resources, the festival is dedicated to enhancing knowledge and fish and wildlife, the wild landscapes they depend on, and the communities that they sustain. March 28, 6:30 pm. $5 general. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar/fwff BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY See the film celebrating disability and the supports that afford the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. A panel discussion follows the 45 minute film. Bring a nonperishable food item for the Little Free Pantry. March 29, 7-9 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org/calendar/saln-film-festival MOVIE NIGHT: THE LORAX Gather your family and friends for a community movie night with food and drinks for sale. Doors at 6:30; movie starts at 7 pm. Hosted by the Teen Board and Liberty Creek Elementary. March 29, 7-9 pm. Free, donations welcome. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. bit.ly/2TxWlJG UNPLANNED Presented by Life Choices and 40 Days For Life, Unplanned brings an eye-opening look inside the abortion industry from a woman who was once its most passionate advocate. Rated R. March 29, 7-9 pm.

Free. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). March 30-31, times vary. $3-$7. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org/calendar SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO An animated feature film about the true story of a stray dog which joins his new master on the WWI battlefield.

For his valorous actions, Sgt. Stubby is still recognized as the most decorated dog in American history. Rated PG.

March 30-31 and April 5-6, times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) RIDE WITH LARRY This powerful documentary film follows Larry Smith, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease over 20 years ago. Larry wants to do one last big thing before it’s too late: ride his bike 300 miles across his state of South Dakota to inspire other people living with Parkinson’s and to prove that sometimes the best cure is to live life to the fullest. In Todd Auditorium.

April 3, 5-7 pm. Free. Washington State University, Pullman. (208-883-0523) APOLLO 11 A documentary film about the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by Commander Neil Armstrong and Pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, featuring never before seen archival footage, and crisp 70mm large-format film of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments. April 4-7; times vary. $5-$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org

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Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. gourmetwayhayden.com/wines BARTENDER BATTLE SPOKANE Local bartenders make their signature drink for the crowd to sample (1 oz.) and vote. The top bartenders move to a live, timed battle and are challenged to make their best cocktail using vodka, tequila, gin, rum and whiskey for the judge’s to decide a winner. March 29, 6-10 pm. $20-$40. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. bit.ly/2A1PfpZ COOKING CLASS: ORECCHIETTE PASTA Class culminates in a delicious meal, served family style, inside the historic estate. On the menu: rustic Italian bread, house salad, basilinfused orecchiette pasta and gelato.

March 29, 6-9 pm. $40. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini. com (466-0667) WINE TASTING Taste unusual Italian varietals. Includes cheese and crackers. March 29, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino!

A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (838-1229) BEER PAIRING DINNER A beer and food pairing dinner with chef Steven Swanson and Bobby Wood, an Advanced Cicerone, brewer, bartender and Seattle native. Dinner features some of Bobby’s favorite breweries from the Seattle area, including Holy Mountain, Skookum, Urban Family, and more. March 30, 6-9 pm. $60.

Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens St. nectartastingroom.com COOKING CLASS & DINNER: GNOCCHI Class culminates in a meal, served family style, inside the historic estate.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SIP AND SAMPLE The market’s weekly afternoon tasting, featuring 1-2 wines and something to munch on. Saturdays from noon-4 pm. Petunias Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com BREAKFAST FOCACCIA CLASS & BRUNCH Learn the basics of a perfect focaccia bread, then master the Italian egg dish, frittata. Class culminates in a meal.

March 31, 10 am-1 pm. $45. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini. com (466-0667) APRIL FOOLS EGGS AND BEGGIN’ Clover Chef Kory Schimanski is preparing an off-the-menu take on savory-meetssweet brunch with this special ticketed event for SecretBurger.com. April 1, 4:309 pm. $20. Clover, 913 E. Sharp Ave. secretburger.com (487-2937) BELLWETHER + INLAND CURRY BEER DINNER A three-course menu with beer pairings, featuring traditional Indian dishes prepared by chefs with Inland Curry and Sandpoint Curry. See menu at link. April 1, 6 pm. $40. Bellwether Brewing Co., 2019 N. Monroe. bit.ly/2FkzUnb KID’S SPRING BREAK COOKING CAMP Kids learn how to cook healthy recipes featuring each food group, improve their knife skills, kitchen safety and cleanliness, and more. Kids eat what they make each day and take home recipes for their creations. April 1-4; 2-4 pm. $100. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org (252-6249) RCB GARAGE PARTY An event celebrating live music, local food and RCB beer with music by Whisk&Keys and art by Caitlin Keogh. April 5, 4-10 pm. Free.

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by Cochinito chef Travis Dickinson, with beer pairings from Iron Goat. Reservations required. April 7, 6 pm. $69. Cochinito Taqueria, 10 N. Post. facebook.com/ cochinitotaqueria (474-9618) MIMOSA SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES Chef Steven and team create a buffet brunch to pair with a mimosa bar offering a variety of choices. Pour your bubbles, pick your juice, and garnish with fruit. Price includes mimosa bar service. Sundays at 9 am and 10:30 am, April 7-May 26. $20. Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens St. nectarcateringandevents.com TERIYAKI FEST Enjoy traditional recipes for chicken or tofu teriyaki dinners ($15), along with various sushi, snacks and Japanese desserts ($5-$6). Dine-in or takeout available; pre order online. April 7, 11 am-3 pm. Entry free; Food $5-$15. Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry St. SpokaneBuddhistTemple.org (534-7954)

REAL COOKING WITH REAL FOOD Join Main Market and Recipe for Self for a series of cooking and nutrition classes designed to take the mystery out of whole foods cooking and teach the skills you need to obtain optimal health in the kitchen and the market. Upcoming classes: April 9 and 23, May 7 and 21, from 6-7 pm. $18/class. Main Market Co-Op, 44 W. Main. mainmarket.coop

MUSIC

BEATS, RHYMES, & LIFE: A CONTEXT PROJECT HIP HOP INCUBATOR Join performance poet/hip hop artist Devin Sommer (Camden Scholars) in cultivating a dynamic and vibrant hip hop culture in the greater Coeur d’Alene area. Hip hop enthusiasts and artists alike are invited to participate in monthly workshops on the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 pm through May 2. Free. Emerge, 208 N. Fourth St. bit.ly/2XrKArs COEUR D’ALENE BLUES FESTIVAL The annual blues fest features local, regional and national acts, including the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ben Rice Band, Harlis Sweetwater, Sara Brown Band, Bobby Patterson Band, Nu Jack City and a dozen more. Includes a cruise on the lake with two live bands, two stages of music, parties a brunch and more. March 29-30; see link for detailed schedule. $42.50+; packages available. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdabluesfestival.com NORTHERN STARS RISING A showcase to further the ability of local performers to pursue their careers. Performers audition and then compete for cash prizes and the notice of regional talent scouts.

This year’s performance features: SHS Choir Barbershop Quartet, Emily Grace Nicholson, Milla Coggin, Brendan Kelty with Pete Hicks, Riley Anderson, and Stone Cloud 4. March 29, 7 pm. $10-$15.

Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-9900) SING VIENNA Chorale Coeur d’Alene’s next concert offers music conjuring up 19th century Vienna in all its ambiance and glory. The 70+ member Chorale is accompanied by piano, organ and chamber orchestra as it presents pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and a medley from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music.” March 29 at 7 pm and March 30 at 2 pm. $10-$20. Trinity Lutheran Church, 812 N. Fifth St. ChoraleCdA.com (208-446-2333) STOMP The acclaimed eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments — matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps — to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. April 2-3 at 7:30 pm. $32-$52. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (509-279-7000) THE FAB FOUR: BEATLES TRIBUTE The world-renowned group’s performances include three costume changes representing every era of the Beatles everchanging career. April 5, 8 pm. $35-$63.

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com HAGFEST NORTHWEST The Inland Northwest Country Music Association brings its Merle Haggard tribute show to Spokane featuring 12 of the most popular artists from the region for an evening of music and memories. April 6, 8-10 pm.

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SPORTS & OUTDOORS

PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUALIFIER The annual volleyball competition is held in Spokane for two weekends: March 22-24 and 29-31 at the Spokane Convention Center, HUB Sports Center and EWU Reese Court. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. pacificnwqualifier.org (279-7000) CABIN FEVER GARDENING SYMPOSIUM The 10th annual all-day event hosted by the Master Gardener Foundation

of Spokane County, offering professional talks on roses, vegetables, permaculture, soil, wildlife, composting and more.

Tickets include four break-out sessions, lunch, prizes, raffles and vendor fair. Reservations required by March 23. March 30. $65; reservations required. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. mgfsc.org (688-0300) JAM 4 CANS CHARITY RAIL JAM A freestyle competition for skiers and snowboarders with the purpose of collecting donations for local food banks and raising community awareness of their needs.

Entrance fee for competitors is 15 cans of food; free for spectators, though all are encouraged to donate. Local food vendors are on site, along with the blood bank donor bus and a bounce house for kids. March 30, 6:30-9:30 pm. Summit Northwest Ministries, 1486 W. Seltice Way. jam4cans.com (208-773-5950) SPOKANE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Sundays, from 4:30-7:30 pm, and Wednesdays, from 7-10 pm. $5+/visit.

West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St. spokanebadminton.com SCOTCHMAN PEAKS AT IRON GOAT Enjoy beer and food at Iron Goat while learning about how to find your wild place this summer in the Scotchman Peaks. Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness are available to chat about group and solo hiking in the area, trail project adventures, the Trail Ambassador program on Scotchman Peak and more. April 3, 4:30-7 pm. Iron Goat Brewing Co., 1302 W. Second. scotchmanpeaks.org/event/ scotchman-peaks-at-the-goat COMMUNITY DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT Join North Idaho College and the Human Rights Institute for an afternoon of games to celebrate the International Day of Sports for Peace with a com-

munity Dodgeball tournament. Includes concessions, kids’ activities, vendors and more. Open to teams of six. Register

by April 2. April 5, 5-8 pm. Free. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. bit. ly/2uayupe (208-769-3316) BEGINNING BIRD WATCHING CLASS A class and outing to learn basics about bird watching followed by a walk at the Refuge to see and identify what we can.

Meet in the classroom and be prepared to walk for 1.5 hrs on the Refuge. Families with children 8 and up are welcome.

Offered April 6, May 4 and June 1 from 8:45-11:30 am. $3/car entrance. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/activities.html (235-4723)

THEATER

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME 15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever. Through April 14; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $29-$27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) LES MISERABLES (SCHOOL EDITION) Waldorf School presents the G-rated “school edition” of Les Miserables. March 27-28 at 6 pm. $7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. sandpointwaldorf.org A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Student director Jaron Fuglie presents this delightful, dark and delicious comedy by Shakespeare. March 28-30 at 7:30 pm. $5. Gonzaga University Magnuson Theatre, 502 E. Boone. bit.ly/2CPGm37

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TRUE WEST Sam Shepard’s character study examines the relationship between Austin, a screenwriter, and his older brother Lee. It is set in the kitchen of their mother’s home 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Through March 31; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20-$23. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. facebook. com/lakecityplayhouse (208-673-7529) A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY This play

by Tony Kushner epitomizes the struggle against inaction, apathy, and fragmentation. March 29-April 14; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org WITCHES VS. PRINCESSES A delightful contest between the little witches and the little princesses performed by students in grades 3-6. March 29-30 at 7 pm, March 31 at 3 pm. $7-$12. Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave. pendoreilleplayers.org (447-0706) DIE WALKÜRE – MET LIVE IN HD The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity. March 30 at 9:45 am and April 8 at 6:30 pm. $20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) MOBY DICK: A MUSICAL An original production workshop of the captivating story embedded in our culture; even those who have not read it are familiar with the tale of Ahab’s obsession, just as Ishmael, Ahab and Moby Dick a​ re household names. April 5-6 at 7:30 pm. $15.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com

MOSCOW COMMUNITY THEATRE: DIE, MOMMIE, DIE! A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960s “grande guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.

April 5-14; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. moscowcommunitytheatre.org SHEN YUN Experience a lost culture through the art of classical Chinese dance and performing arts through a blend of colorful costuming, high-tech backdrops and live orchestra. April 9-10 at 7:30 pm.

April 9 and April 10. $82-$152. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com (279-7000)

VISUAL ARTS

BLAKE LITTLE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GAY RODEO Photographs documenting the lives of cowboys on the gay rodeo circuit in the late 1980s and early 1990s are on display as part of an exhibit in the second-floor exhibit space of the UI Library at Moscow. Through April 30.

Free. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. libcal.uidaho.edu (208-885-6111) GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY EXHIBITION The Jundt features the work of full-time Gonzaga art department faculty Mary Farrell, Matt McCormick, Mat Rude and Laura Truitt. A diverse show in terms of content as well as materials, works include printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, painting and drawing, photography and video.

Through May 11; Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm.

Artist reception Feb. 1 from 4-9 pm. Free admission. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt HARVEST HERITAGE: THE STORY OF HUMANITY IN TWELVE FARM PAINTINGS A collection of 12 works includ-

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ing originals, first editions and reprints, depicting harvest and related scenes of rural life from the 16th century to present day. This exhibit represents a small portion of what has been acquired by curator Richard Scheuerman as research into his many books on the subject. Through March 28; open daily. Presentation on March 28 at 7 pm. Free. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us HUSH: KRISTY KUN + DALE LIVEZY + GABRIEL KULKA + SUSAN MATTSON The Art Spirit’s March exhibition features ceramist Susan Mattson and landscape painter Dale Livesey both of Helena, Montana; sculptor Gabriel Kulka of Bozeman, Montana, and fiber artist Kristy Kun of Portland. Through April 6; Wed-Sun 11 am-6 pm. Free. Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com INTO THE ARCTIC This exhibit by Cory Trépanier presents the most ambitious body of artwork ever created from the Canadian Arctic, a wilderness so remote and untouched that many of its landscapes have never been documented before. Adding to his majestic paintings are a series of three Arctic films, which cinematically convey the wonder, awe, and challenges of his northern painting expeditions. Through May 12; Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) THE INUIT ART OF POVUNGNITUK The artists in Povungnituk, Quebec, have been recognized for over a quarter century for the quality and distinctive style of their printmaking. Povungnituk sculptures and prints chronicle the history and legends of a people. Through May 12; Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10.

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Will Idaho ever go green?

IDAHO

‘Clear Tyranny’ Idaho’s marijuana fight in 2019 will likely be all uphill

BY QUINN WELSCH

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hings ain’t easy for Idaho’s pro-pot crowd. While would-be weed smokers can find hope in the Idaho Cannabis Coalition’s recently filed medical marijuana petition for the 2020 ballot, the path forward is shaping up to be more difficult than it’s ever been.

New legislation introduced by Sen. C. Scott Grow (R-Eagle) would immediately require that all future initiatives increase the amount of signatures to make it onto the ballot from 6 percent of voters in 18 of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts, to 10 percent of voters in 32 of those districts. The bill barely passed the Idaho Senate on Friday, March 22, 18-17. (The legislation came directly after a voter-approved initiative to expand Medicaid in

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Idaho, though Grow denies it has anything to do with Medicaid.)

For the people behind the marijuana petition, the new legislation would retroactively apply, although technically the petition was filed before the legislation was even introduced.

Idaho Cannabis Coalition spokesman Bill Esbensen told the Idaho Post Register the bill was “clear tyranny.”

“It doesn’t matter if we had a marijuana initiative or an initiative to eliminate sales tax, it’s insane to me to make it harder for this process — almost impossible,” he said.

Though this isn’t the first time marijuana advocates

in Idaho have pushed for legalization, 2019 marks a year when the state is increasingly fenced in by surrounding governments that have enacted legislation for hemp, medical marijuana or all-out recreational use.

Earlier in the legislative session Rep. Caroline Nilsson Troy (R-Genesee) introduced a hemp bill, which would bring the state’s hemp laws in line with the 2018 federal Farm Bill. The bill passed the House, 63-0 on March 18. Though Troy’s bill only dealt with hemp, she tells the Inlander she didn’t see any interest in marijuana this legislative session.

Contrast that with some stern words from Serra Frank, a pro-marijuana advocate: “The people of Idaho want it, the politicians might not, we don’t care what they say,” Frank told Boise’s KTVB in the beginning of the year. “We are the people, this is our Capitol building, we are going to make this happen.”

In the meantime, Legalize Idaho, another promarijuana lobby, will host a meet and greet for Idaho marijauna advocates at 4:20 pm (of course) on April 6 at the Idaho Pizza Company in Boise. The Idaho Cannabis Coalition will also be collecting signatures for the petition at the fourth annual Boise Hempfest on April 20. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR LUMINOUS: DALE CHIHULY & THE STUDIO GLASS MOVEMENT Partnering with Tacoma’s Museum of Glass and Portland-based collector George Stroemple, the MAC presents its first all-glass art exhibition. Thirty-three international artists working in glass, including Dale Chihuly, are featured.

Chihuly has been a leader in the studio glass movement for five decades, exploring new and old techniques and pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. Through June 23; Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm. $5-$10. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org UNWANTED JOURNEYS An exhibit of poetry and personal narratives by refugees and mixed-media sculptures and drawings of refugees created by artist Ildikó Kalapács. Open daily during library hours March 30-April 30.

Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org (893-8350) SOME CONTEMPLATION ON HUMAN EXISTENCE IN BRUEGEL’S LABORS OF THE MONTHS In this the fourth of five lectures in her art history series focusing on the Northern Renaissance period, Dr. Shimizu examines Pieter Bruegel’s “Labors of the Months”, which was commissioned by the wealthy Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jonghelinck and intended as part of a large-scale decorative scheme for the interior of his house. March 31, 2-3 pm. $10, suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org MAX URIARTE ARTIST TALK Telling War presents a presentation by Lance Corporal, Maximilian Uriarte, USMC, aka “Terminal Lance,” a serial comic created poking fun at the Marine Corps with an emphasis on the grunt’s point of view. He’s the creator of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel “The White Donkey.” In the Cataldo Globe Room. April 1, 7-8 pm. Free.

Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Ave. gonzaga.edu/tellingwar (328-4220) SPOKANE OBSERVANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST: STUDENT ART EXHIBIT The Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust committee is displaying art submitted by middle school and high school students competing in our annual contest. This year’s theme is “Speaking Up for the Other.” April 2-15, Mon-Fri from 8 am-6 pm. Free.

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THE EARLY YEARS OF THE STUDIO GLASS MOVEMENT Richard Royal, a featured artist in the current exhibit “Luminous: Dale Chihuly and the Studio Glass Movement,” is recognized as one of the most skilled and talented glass blowers in the American studio glass movement. He’s best known for his large, abstract, blown shapes that often combine broad areas of complementary color. March 28, 6:30-8 pm. $10. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) INLAND NORTHWEST MILESTONES A new lecture series based on Robert Singletary’s upcoming book, “Coeur d’Alene: Beautiful and Progressive, 1878-1990.” The book and lecture series give an overview of Coeur d’Alene’s major economic, political, social/cultural developments. March 28, April 25 and May 23 at 7 pm. Free.

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THE NCAA MONEY RACE: CAN IT BE STOPPED? An expert in sports economics, Andrew Zimbalist presents this public lecture at the Foley Institute at WSU. Earlier in the day he also holds a public conversation with WSU Athletic Director Pat Chun about financing athletics at WSU. March 28, 4:30 pm.

Free and open to the public. Washington State University, 2000 NE Stadium Way. foley.wsu.edu DELIA OWENS: WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING The Coeur d’Alene Public Library Foundation’s benefit event features Delia Owens, author of the bestselling novel “Where the Crawdads Sing.” March 29, 7 pm. $30. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) STEVAN ALLRED: THE ALEHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD Hear from the author of this an epic comedy set in the 16th century, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry and other unusual characters. March 29, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com BOOK SIGNING: JENNIFER ZEIGER The local author signs her book “The Adventure,” a children’s book with 26 possible endings. March 30, 11 am-3 pm. Free. 2nd Look Books, 2829 E. 29th. 2ndlookbooks.com SPOKANE POETRY SLAM Spoken word warriors battle for Inland Empire supremacy, and a $50 grand prize.

Each poem is judged by five audience members, and after two rounds of poetry, the poet with the highest cumulative score is declared winner. Doors at 7 pm. $5. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org TUESDAY GALLERY TALKS Visitors can engage directly with works of art and historic artifacts in the exhibit galleries through informal talks led by museum director Wesley Jessup, or staff curators. These gallery talks focus on a specific exhibition each week.

Talks depart promptly each Tuesday at 11 am and last 20-25 minutes. Included with admission ($5-$10). Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm.

Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org DIVERSE VOICES WRITING GROUP A writing group for all experience levels that supports and elevates diverse voices. First Thursday of each month at 5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org LOVE & HATE IN DIGITAL MEDIA GU assistant professor of communication studies Melissa Click explores the increased visibility of dislike, disgust, and hatred expressed in and toward fan cultures. April 4, 4:30-5 pm. Free.

Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. (328-4220) READING: JAMEL BRINKLEY The Whitworth English Dept. hosts a fiction reading from the author of “A Lucky Man: Stories,” a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. April 4, 6-7:30 pm.

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Bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens is the featured speaker at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Foundation’s benefit event.

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Saturday, head up to the resort’s rooftop for MasterClass Big Band, which pairs top student musicians with local music professionals to perform hits from contemporary artists, R&B and the Great American Songbook ($5). Robb Boatsman performs in Whispers Lounge (free), while Bobby Patterson revs up the crowd with an all-ages blues cruise ($11.50).

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