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n honor of the Zags breaking through to the FINAL FOUR, we tapped Shann Ray — author, poet, professor, former college basketball player — to peer into the “greatest sporting event in the world,” March Madness, and the miracle that’s become Gonzaga. Basketball, writes Ray, is “a furnace of immense heat to the character of young men,” revealing humility, gratitude and a brotherhood forged under fire: “Their courage and grit can give those of us who are fans a window into a deeper understanding of ourselves and others when we face the intensity of life together.” Our coverage begins on page 20.

Also this week: Novelist and short-story writer Sam Ligon has questions for Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (page 54). Among them: “Does it matter if poor people get sick and die? I mean, I know it matters, but does it matter matter?”

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HOW MUCH FURTHER DO YOU THINK THE ZAGS ARE GOING TO GO IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS? DYLAN DYKES

I think they’ll probably play the last game this week. I don’t think they’re going any farther than this.

So basically this Final Four is it?

Yeah.

What do you think the final score will be against South Carolina?

I don’t think it’ll be super high-scoring. No more than 73, either team.

JAMAAL EDWARDS

Oh, they’re going all the way. They’re going all the way. South Carolina can’t touch them.

What do you think the final score’s gonna be against South Carolina?

Oh it’s gonna be, like, 78-72. It’s going to be a good game, but I feel like the Zags are gonna come out with it. [Przemek] Karnowski’s gonna be down low and go to work.

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How far are they at right now?

They just made it to the Final Four.

See, I’m not really that much of a basketball person, but I think they’re gonna make it pretty far. We have a pretty solid team so far.

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I think they’ll win it, the whole thing.

What do you think the score’s gonna be this Saturday against South Carolina?

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eople talk a lot about how the Gonzaga Renaissance started in 1999, with that first blitz through the NCAA brackets. They talk about how much the on-court success that followed has rubbed off on the university, growing its enrollment like Karnowski’s beard, from about 4,200 in 1999 to nearly 7,600 today. I’d add that what feels to me like a Spokane Renaissance started around that same time, with all the mentions in national media putting our city on the map, even as we made improvements like River Park Square and the Davenport Hotel.

But it goes back way further than that, with dates like 1980, 1887 and even 1591 looming large in the moment we find ourselves in this week, with Gonzaga and Spokane set to enjoy the biggest of spotlights at the Final Four.

I use the word “renaissance” for a reason: Gonzaga University traces its spiritual core all the way back to the Italian era of l’uomo universale — the Renaissance notion valuing the “health of body, strength of character and wealth of mind.”

It was a time of new thinking and of city-states competing with each other, sometimes on the field of battle but more often in the arts and commerce. In that world lived a young student from a powerful family who devoted himself to those emerging ideas. And to God. That young student disappointed his father by joining a fledgling order of Catholicism — the Society of Jesus. He wound up studying at Roman College, the world’s first Jesuit school. And when plague hit Rome, he followed his teachings and served the city’s sick and dying. He contracted the disease himself, died at the age of 23 in 1591, and was later canonized. His name is St. Aloysius Gonzaga, and he’s the spiritual founder of Gonzaga University and St. Aloysius Church.

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early 300 years later, on a wild continent only barely known in 1591, another Jesuit — Fr. Joseph Cataldo — struggled to keep his mission in the Rocky Mountains afloat.

Budget cuts in Rome were set to effectively eliminate his work among the Native Americans in what is now Montana, North Idaho and Eastern Washington. A visit to plead with his masters in Italy only won him a letter he could use to beg benefactors and young priests to join his cause.

Touring Europe, he raised a bit of seed money; visiting parishes in the eastern United States and Canada, that letter helped him recruit about 50 young Jesuits to help him civilize Spokane.

(Six of those recruits would go on to become presidents of Gonzaga College.)

Fr. Cataldo’s plan was to create a series of missions and parishes across the Inland Northwest, all feeding into a central college. He paid $936 for a plot of land, and in 1887, with funding from a handful of local businessmen, the new school opened its doors. The student-to-teacher ratio was enviable, as 20 Jesuits greeted an inaugural class of 18 students.

While many Jesuit colleges kept the names of their city — like the University of San Francisco, founded in 1855 — Fr. Cataldo went a more inspirational route, choosing “Gonzaga” for his school and “Aloysius” for the tiny chapel next door, hoping the Catholic Church’s patron saint of young students everywhere would bless his improbable enterprise.

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first encountered the Jesuits in 1979, as a freshman at Gonzaga Prep out of tiny Cataldo School. I had zero appreciation for the backstory of the Society of Jesus, with no idea who Fr. Cataldo was or what the name “Gonzaga” meant. We all, however, appreciated our schoolmate John Stockton’s basketball skills. Little did we know that when Gonzaga’s legendary coach Dan Fitzgerald recruited him — in 1980 — to play college ball just down the street, this whole Zag Nation phenomenon was set into motion.

Today, all these years later, I can see the impacts of Fr. Cataldo not giving up on Spokane.

We were never going to be a real city without a university, and the Washington legislature passed over Spokane by locating Washington State College in Pullman in 1890. And having an institutionalized moral compass has made this a generous city — a city that does big things together.

But in the scheme of modern-day city-states competing with each other for young people, Spokane was a bit adrift in 1980. During grad school in Missouri or when I was back East working in Boston, I gave up telling people I was from Spokane because they had no idea what I was talking about. Today, wherever you are, people know Spokane — most of them can even pronounce it. To those of us who have been here since 1980, it’s a very different place — a better place filled with strivers ready to stand up and compete with the Portlands, the Boulders and the Austins of our nation.

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tarting in 1328, the Gonzaga dynasty made Mantua, Italy, a beautiful, prosperous place by bringing in artists, architects, teachers and musicians; the notoriety of that vision created loyalty and pride, making it a place people wanted to live and do business. Basketball can be beautiful, too (just not when you play West Virginia). People on the outside are looking at us differently thanks to the Zags, creating that same kind of loyalty and pride. We can build on that.

So as we cheer on the young students who wear his name across their chests, let’s remember how we really got here and give a little thanks to good old St. Al. n

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More Work to Do Completing an independent cultural audit represents an important step forward for the Spokane Police Department

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elf-reflection can be very difficult. The process requires a vulnerability that pushes the bounds of everyday comfort.

So when Gonzaga University researchers asked members of the Spokane Police Department to explore their thoughts, frustrations and even fears for an independent cultural audit of the department, there was some risk that it could provoke angst among those in a profession that sometimes requires emotions to be compartmentalized as a way to manage call-to-call stresses.

Instead, the uniformed and civilian staff responded with humbling trust and sincerity.

Gonzaga University professor Dr. JoAnn Danelo Barbour and her research team spent thousands of hours interviewing, researching, analyzing and preparing the audit. The study includes hours of candid interviews and volumes of written comments from uniformed and civilian employees.

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Dr. Barbour and her team have given the department valuable third-party insight that will help a very good department build on its strengths and take full advantage of opportunities outlined in the study.

The study confirmed some things we have already been discussing with the City Council, such as staffing, and reminded us that there is more work to do. We have taken incremental steps forward each of the past few years to address staffing, beginning with the reopening of the basic law enforcement academy in Spokane to reduce the cost of training new officers. We have worked with the City Council to establish a hire-ahead program that more quickly fills vacant officer positions and added more than two dozen new officers to the total department head count, including four this year.

We take to heart the feedback about the disruptive nature of leadership turnover and are confident the right team is in place to steady the department, improve communication and provide the kind of service our officers can continue to be proud of.

Comments about the struggle to break into the department and frustration over the lack of opportunities for women and minorities were difficult to read, but we can’t fix what we can’t face. The sincerity in that feedback is an important step, and police Chief Craig Meidl and his leadership team, which includes the recent addition of civilian strategic initiatives director Jacquelyn MacConnell, are already working to move the department forward.

Dr. Barbour’s study has given us a lot to think about.

She and her team identified many positives, including the commitment and dedication of the department and its officers to making Spokane safer. One of the things that struck me most is the passion for Spokane that shone through.

I hope the public will appreciate the honesty and self-reflection of the officers. By their own admission, the department is not perfect, but it is a very good department filled with great people who come to work to do the right thing, eager to serve the city they love to the best of their abilities.

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EDUCATION

Higher Expectations North Central High School has taken seventh- and eighth-graders out of middle school and into its renowned science program — and it’s working

BY WILSON CRISCIONE Andrew Liezen, 12, examines an E. coli sample in North Central’s microbiology class.

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s a seventh-grader, Ivy Pete spends her days in a professional lab, learning a college-level curriculum in a high school building.

The best part? She still gets to be around other middle-school students her age.

Ivy is part of North Central High School’s 7th and 8th Grade Institute for Science and Technology Immersion, a Spokane Public Schools program that is testing the boundaries both socially and academically for middleschool students. The program, now in its second year, allows them to take classes in NC’s IST labs — the only two professional-grade labs in a high school in the nation, according to the school.

In Spokane Public Schools, it’s one of many options that answer the call from parents for more school choice.

And it eliminates one transition for kids. Instead of going through three different schools — elementary, middle and high school — students take middle-school classes in a

high school they can eventually graduate from.

For Ivy, it’s a far cry from where she was two years ago, when she was a fifth-grader frustrated because she didn’t feel challenged. After spending sixth grade at PRIDE Prep, a Spokane charter school, she started at NC this year.

“Here, it’s really different [from elementary school].

It’s kind of unique because all the kids here want to learn, and they’re really involved in it and challenged,” she says.

There are 120 students in the program, and word is getting out. Nearly 100 families are on the waiting list for their child to be chosen for the program, which uses a lottery system, says North Central Assistant Principal Wendy Bromley.

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“The second I saw all the science equipment, I was like, ‘I’m in,’” says Jacob Gannon, a seventh-grader in the IST program. “It was so amazing, and completely different from anywhere I’d ever been before.”

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few years ago, Spokane Public Schools evaluated its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum for students, hoping to add more options. Other high schools like Ferris and Lewis and Clark decided to implement a curriculum called “Project Lead The Way,” which introduces STEM skills for engineering and biomedical science through hands-on experience.

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The IST program focuses more on molecular bioscience, including DNA sequencing, than other STEM schools.

Gering says the district wanted to find a way to add a microbiology course to the IST program, but there wasn’t any time during the year to add that course for high-schoolers.

“That’s when we started saying, ‘What if we started in seventh and eighth grade? What would those courses be like?’” Gering says.

Principal Steve Fisk pushed the idea, and in the 2015-16 school year — one year after construction finished on the new labs — North Central opened the school to a cohort of 60 seventh-graders.

Bromley, the assistant principal, says her own daughter is an eighth-grader in the IST program.

For Bromley, like many parents in Spokane, enrolling her daughter at North Central in seventh grade was a way to make for an easier transition into high school.

The transition from sixth grade into a high school can be scary for some students, and initially parents had concerns that seventh-graders might not be able to integrate safely into a high school. But what has happened, Bromley says, is that it hasn’t been much different from ninthgraders starting high school. In fact, she says many of the eighth-graders who are in their second year in the IST program feel more comfortable than ninth-graders just starting out.

Students like Ivy say there was an adjustment period going from sixth grade into a high school, but she was able to get used to it.

“Sometimes it’s a little bit frustrating for the high-schoolers or for us, when we don’t, like, completely get each other,” Ivy says. “Sometimes it’s kind of like, ‘Here’s the annoying little kids running around.’”

Seventh-grade students don’t have any shared classes with high-schoolers, so they usually see each other only in the halls or during lunch. Eighth-graders share one elective class — a language class, for example — so that middleschoolers can ease into the transition.

“I think for a lot of us it’s been hard, but for a lot of us it’s been easy, and a smooth transition,” Ivy says. “We’re able to socialize and we’re able to see into the future, and know how it’s gonna be in high school.”

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orth Central is not the only school that has grades 7 through 12, and there are now STEM schools all over.

“But in terms of, like, the microbiology course? That’s unique. That was our idea,” Gering says.

The microbiology course for seventh-graders in the IST program uses a college-level curriculum that was designed from scratch, Gering says. Seventh-graders, for obvious reasons, aren’t expected to complete the coursework at the same level as college students, so it had to be simplified. But Gering says the course fills a gap that the district hasn’t really taught until now.

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Alex Karim teaches the microbiology class, and he says it’s something you can’t get in a middle school, or most high schools.

“The idea behind the program is giving students and families something different,” he says.

The goal is not to necessarily steer all kids into STEM careers. Karim says NC wants science to be “accessible to all students.” Michaela Meek, an eighth-grader at NC, wanted to join the IST program for the science, even though she’s not looking for a career that is science-related. She says she wants to work for the United Nations, helping refugees.

It’s not only science classes that middle-schoolers take during their first two years at NC. They take a range of courses including social studies and math, just like any other high school student would. They’re accelerated courses, taught for middleschoolers. But the biggest draw for parents is the IST program.

“We want all students to have the opportunity to learn science and engage in it in an authentic way,” Karim says.

Gering says it’s possible that similar programs could be expanded to other schools in Spokane, but part of the reason North Central was able to add middle-school-aged kids had to do with space. A few years ago, North Central was the smallest of Spokane Public Schools’ high LETTERS schools.

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7-12 program at another high school, Gering says it would likely be something a little different than NC’s IST program.

Adam Swinyard, Spokane Public Schools’ chief academic officer, says the district is keeping an eye on the program while SPS examines how grades may be configured differently in the future to help solve space issues districtwide.

The program is teaching the district some lessons, he says.

“It tells us it’s important to have a variety of educational options for students in our system,” Swinyard says. “It’s a great fit.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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COURTS In 2012, Rob Repin was forced to restrain his Alaskan malamute, Kaisa, as she thrashed and screamed in pain from a BOTCHED EUTHANASIA. The reclusive gold prospector sued the state of Washington and WSU for emotional-distress compensation.

If successful, the suit could set new legal precedent for pet owners. Currently, Washingtonians can only receive emotional-distress compensation for the wrongful death of people. Much of Repin’s lawsuit was dismissed before trial, a decision that was affirmed by the state Court of Appeals. However, in his opinion, appeals Chief Judge George Fearing advocated a “change in the law,” and encouraged the state Supreme Court to review the case. Repin, of Cle Elum, has vowed to appeal his case to the state’s highest court. “I don’t think the general public is aware that their pets are considered property,” he says. “Just because emotions are based around an animal, they don’t count? That’s not right. That’s not justice.” (MITCH RYALS)

MEDIA As aggregation — pulling together and summing up other people’s reporting — becomes more and more common in the digital age of JOURNALISM, where and how to give attribution to the original source is an important debate. The Inlander found several instances where Spokesman-Review stories ran under outdoors reporter Rich Landers’ byline without making it clear when much of the writing came from a press release or another reporter’s work. A Sunday feature on rafting season, for example, included 355 of 458 words copied verbatim from an association piece on the topic, but didn’t label the writing as theirs. Landers and the S-R defend their work, saying credit is always given to the original source. Journalism professionals say thorough attribution is always necessary to avoid plagiarism. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

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Legislators in Idaho voted to repeal a tax on groceries on Monday, but it was not clear whether Gov. Butch Otter would veto the bill.

Earlier in March, Otter said he opposed repealing the 6 percent tax on groceries, and he vetoed a repeal of the tax in 2015.

As passed Monday, the bill would repeal the tax on food, as defined by the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and also get rid of a grocery tax credit, which gives Idahoans some credit on their taxes to offset the grocery tax.

During Monday’s floor debate, Rep. John Vander Woude, RNampa, cited the thinking behind the tax credit as a reason to get rid of the tax in the first place.

“I think we all agree that taxing groceries is a bad idea, otherwise why would we be sending money back to them after they paid it to us?” Vander Woude asked.

Some of those against repealing the tax, including Reps. Fred Wood, R-Burley, John Gannon, D-Boise, and Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, argued that cutting the state’s general fund revenue by what could be close to $80 million would mean other areas, such as education, health and transportation, will have to compete more for a smaller pool of money.

The measure passed the House 51-19 after passing the Senate 25-10, where the grocery tax cut was added to a proposed tax cut bill that had already gone through the lower chamber. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)

UNDERMINING THE ENVIRONMENT

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon pledged to withstand President Trump’s efforts that they say will weaken environmental protections.

“He saw some fights on the travel ban, and he saw some fights on health care,” Inslee said during a news conference last weekend. “But he hasn’t seen anything yet. We intend to stand loud and proud to protect the protections we have now for clean air and clean water.”

During a joint news conference, Inslee listed four areas of emphasis, including efforts to increase the use of electric transportation and implement regulations to cap carbon pollution and emissions.

On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, directs the Environmental Protection Agency to begin unwinding the Clean Power Plan — a cornerstone of President Obama’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming.

Surrounded by coal miners, Trump touted the order as a way to restore thousands of jobs in the coal industry and free the U.S. of dependence on foreign fuel. Energy experts, however, tell the New York Times that the order may not meet either of those goals as renewable energy sources increase and coal jobs are handed over to machines.

Although Trump’s executive order does not mention the 2015 Paris Agreement, experts say it could jeopardize U.S. obligations to reduce climate change pollution under the worldwide deal.

Immediately after Trump signed the order, Inslee issued a statement: “President Trump’s decision to ax the Clean Power Plan cedes U.S. global leadership and increases the risk that climate change will continue to damage our state. We can’t afford to slow our efforts, and we won’t.” (MITCH RYALS)

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pokane police officers are weary, but hopeful. A long-overdue audit of SPD’s internal culture was one of the remaining recommendations from Spokane’s Use of Force Commission and a separate Justice Department review. Researchers from Gonzaga University released a 94-page report last week, detailing a month of ride-alongs, interviews and surveys.

In their answers, officers plead for a bigger force with more cops and civilian staff. They talk about an internal “good ol’ boys” club and “cliquish” environment, yet emphasize a department built on a foundation of integrity, honesty and loyalty. Officers are frustrated with recent shake-ups in leadership, an often negative portrayal of police in the news and the shadow cast over the department by two of the most publicized controversies in recent years — the 2006 beating death of Otto Zehm and scandal-plagued exit of former Chief Frank Straub in 2015.

Asked about the culture of SPD, one officer said: “Tired, as our police force has been treated like a second-class organization by City Council, the media and others in the community.”

Although the report does not offer recommendations, Gonzaga professor and principal investigator JoAnn Danelo Barbour emphasized the most pressing issue during a news conference last week: “From what we understood, it’s the staffing issue,” Barbour said. “Add police officers, and add civilian workers.”

Below are several other big takeaways from the culture audit: THEY CAN’T CATCH ’EM ALL Property crime is a huge issue. Officers say they don’t

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even have enough personnel to investigate all the felonies.

“We are only able to assign about 30 percent of the solvable felony property crimes cases to detectives due to low staffing in investigations,” one officer responds. “That is abysmal and infuriates citizens and officers alike.”

STABILITY NEEDED Since Straub was ousted in 2015, three men have sat in the chief’s chair.

That hasn’t gone unnoticed by the rank and file.

“There have been so many new hires and retirements that the composition of the department is very different than it once was,” an officer writes in a survey answer. “Because of transitional leadership, the culture is changing while we speak. Under our last permanent chief, people began to look out for themselves first and jockey for power, and put the team concept aside.

Our senior leadership is slowly changing from that approach to more of a team approach, but it is slow.”

‘UNDER A MICROSCOPE’ Officers say that more communication with the public, and a better understanding of police work, would help bridge the gap between police and citizens. Generally, officers say the public’s misunderstanding of their job ranges from not knowing what cops are legally allowed to do, to not “seeing how evil people can be to one another” on a daily basis.

Most officers were frustrated with the seemingly constant feed of “negative” news coverage of the police. Without a balance of “positive” stories, officers feel like they’re under constant scrutiny.

Survey data shows that more than 70 percent of SPD employees disagree with the assertion that news media fairly represents the department’s work.

INSIDE OR OUT While veteran officers say it’s important for newer officers to prove themselves through hard work, cops new to the department describe a “cliquish” environment with “nepotism and immaturity.”

“I believe in fair treatment of employees, and in management being upfront,” one officer tells a researcher. “A lot of internal politics and backstabbing impact on the overall effectiveness of the department.”

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time moving up the ranks. The perception is that women in particular have to work harder than men to prove themselves.

“About the department, I think that they are still stuck, as far as women are still treated differently than men,” an SPD employee says. “That’s a big one.”

DEFINE SUCCESS Some officers describe success as “catching the bad guy” and earning the respect of their peers and the community at large. Others celebrate just coming home at night unharmed.

One officer told the story of a young girl who the officer previously arrested “like, five times.” On the girl’s birthday, the officer brought her a candy bar and a balloon. “She just broke down in tears and said that no one had remembered her birthday, not even her family.” When the girl saw the officer in the juvenile detention booking area later, she ran up and gave the officer a hug.

“You know, we operate in a toxic environment,” a different officer responds. “Everything we touch, there’s very few positives here. … So, success? We get out of this job alive. That’s it.

My measure is walking out of the door alive in another five, six years.”

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uring last week’s news conference, Phil Tyler, president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter, applauded the department for completing the long-awaited audit, calling it a “first step.” The culture audit included the perspectives of officers and SPD’s civilian employees, but no input from the community.

That’s a limitation that Barbour and her team acknowledge.

Deb Conklin, chairwoman of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, echoed Tyler’s concern and added some criticism of her own.

If you consider the audit’s conclusion that SPD’s foundation is built on integrity, honesty and trustworthiness, Conklin suggests, how do we reconcile that with the recent news that 11 Internal Affairs complaints were withheld from the police ombudsman’s office? The department is working to ensure that doesn’t happen again, but “as an outsider looking in, where’s the integrity in that?” she asks.

Additionally, the audit only turned up one response that mentioned bullying or abusive behavior.

“There’s pretty good evidence that when Straub was chief, there was an inappropriate atmosphere that he was involved in, if not creating, with bullying and inappropriate ways of talking to people,” Conklin says. “It struck me that the investigators said they only found one respondent who mentioned bullying. This was only a year-and-a-half ago. You cannot pretend that issue didn’t happen.”

Ultimately, Chief Craig Meidl says the next steps will be working with the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Diagnostics Center to gather feedback from the community.

“I felt like the officers really wore their hearts on their sleeve,” Meidl says. “They were really honest and upfront and straightforward about things that were on their minds.” 

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True Grit Chemistry, team culture and courage: The miracle of Gonzaga and its first Final Four appearance

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f you are a Zags fan, you may be near insanity with your plunge into fanaticism during the past two weeks. Gonzaga University has made it to the Final Four after how long?…

19 years in a row of March Madness?... and before that… forever? How did this unlikely event happen, and does this team really have a shot at a national championship?

A single moment can be miraculous, and nearly all NCAA men’s basketball championship teams have encountered something of the miracle in their separate paths to the pinnacle of what some call the greatest sporting event in the world. March Madness is a single-elimination tournament that pits the 68 top teams in men’s college basketball against each other for three weekends in March and April, until there is only one team left standing.

Fanatics go wild for it, spend every waking hour following it, and often fall into depression when their team loses. Remember the loss to UCLA in the Adam Morrison years? There was a swath of Spokane that seemed caught in a haze of pain and regret, a broken-hearted zombie-land more real than many would like to admit. OK, some of us get crazy over sports.

That said, does Gonzaga have a real shot at winning it all this year? Multiple sports figureheads have said no, not just this week, but from the beginning. So it might take a miracle. And if it does, for me the miracle is in the mundane. Basketball can become a furnace of immense heat to the character of young men — a crucible, a testing fire that generally wilts the spirit or makes one stronger. In the case of the 2016-17 Zags men’s ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shann Ray teaches basketball team, and so leadership and many exceptional Zags men’s forgiveness teams that have gone before, studies at Gonzaga I see three unifiers that are University. He generally unsung, but form a played college powerful engine at the heart basketball at Montana of great teams. First: humble State University and Pepperdine coach, humble team. Second: University, and professional gratitude generates brothbasketball in Germany’s Bundesliga. erhood and self-sacrifice.

In 1986, he played in March Madness Third: courage makes people for a 16th-seeded Montana State gritty, and grit is contagious. team that had the lead in the second half but lost by nine to the In the human arena, as No. 1 seed, St. John’s. His heart is fraught as it is with unrest, still broken. alienation and outright inequity, it seems right to me that college basketball teams sometimes represent a place where young men develop a brotherhood that transcends many of our all-toocommon human ills. Mundane but ultimately decisive qualities such as humility and gratitude can form a bridge that connects these young men, and their courage and grit can give those of us who are fans a window into a deeper understanding of ourselves and others when we face the intensity of life together. In persistent acts of humility and gratitude, a team reveals its character. In purposeful acts of courage and grit, a team proves its chemistry, its culture. With these Zags, their mettle may be most fittingly captured in what transpired in the final minute of the game against West Virginia to advance to the Elite Eight. Before nearly 17,000 screaming fans, in a game like a junkyard dogfight, a moment of sheer tenacity unfolded. Every possession was of extreme value: every turnover meant the lost dream; every made basket meant the dream was still alive. Approaching the final minute, ...continued on next page

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Zags point guard Nigel Williams-Goss gathered a huge rebound, but when he tried to dribble, the ball was stolen and in a flash, West Virginia’s big man Nathan Adrian had it, soaring toward the rim for a sure two points that would seal the victory for the Mountaineers.

But then came the miracle.

Zags guard Josh Perkins, 6 inches shorter than Adrian, seemed to rise from nowhere, climbing the ladder swiftly and blocking Adrian’s shot cleanly from behind, above the rim. Williams-Goss recovered the ball and sped upcourt, zigzagging between defenders until he spotted shooting guard Jordan Mathews on the left wing and threw a sharp diagonal pass. Tipped slightly by West Virginia’s vaunted full-court press, the ball angled downward but Mathews dug it out, rose smoothly and released a deep 3 with gorgeous form. His eyes were fierce, his frame focused and confident.

The follow-through was like the neck of a swan, and when the shot went in, the crowd exploded with a deafening roar.

Moments later, the Zags made a heroic defensive stand in the final seconds, with Williams-Goss hounding powerful West Virginia point guard Jevon Carter’s 3-point attempts, and the team working as one to deny the Mountaineers’ final opportunity.

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hen it comes to basketball, I think of grit as something honed by a season of mundane choices (practicing precision, effort and discipline over and over again) that eventually build to moments of courage during the chaos of competition. Social scientists tell us that humility is related to greater emotional well-being, and gratitude is related to greater critical thought. But who thinks of the effects of such values on major college sports teams? Where do these virtues come from? I’m not sure, but I found them over and over in listening to Zags coaches and players. I tend to listen to the pre- and post-game press conferences, because they provide a unique lens through which to view the heart of the coach and the hearts of the players.

Nearly three decades of mundane choices — to be purposeful, to refuse to take the easy way out — have resulted in something we might call a miracle: this team plays defense with alacrity, and plays offense beautifully.

Head coach Mark Few often reiterates that it wasn’t easy, the effort to build a successful basketball program.

“I’ve been here [nearly] 29 years,” Few said. “The first year we won four Division I games. All this [referring to the 19-year NCAA Tournament streak, and now the Final Four] was impossible.” Few was asked what he thought a Final Four appearance would do for his legacy. Nothing, he implied, going on to clarify that winning basketball games is

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a misguided way of thinking of legacy.

In fact, Few framed his views on legacy with comments about relationships, saying he values his players and their respect for him. Then he went in an entirely different direction than basketball, telling the reporters that when he thinks of legacy, he thinks of his dad.

“I’m far behind my father,” he said, “a Presbyterian pastor for 54 years.” He implored the room to think of what his father had done… helped thousands of families get through their tough times, led thousands of souls. “That’s the legacy I’m looking at. I’ve got a long way to go, living up to that guy’s standard. He’s a titan of a man when you talk about the impact he’s had on people.” He told reporters he deeply loves his team, and all who’ve played for him, Gonzaga, and the Spokane community, and he’s always wanted his players to have the best experience possible. He spoke of what a great pleasure it is to coach his players, calling beloved bearded center “Shem” Karnowski “the Magic Johnson of 5 men,” referring to Nigel WilliamsGoss as “the greatest leader he’s ever coached,” and naming Jordan Mathews “Big Shot Bob.” Zags players also spoke of relationships in their press conference statements. Mathews said that “being with all these guys has been nothing short of amazing.” Johnathan Williams III, known as “J3,” in answering questions about winning the Most Outstanding Player award for the West Regional this past weekend, stated, “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for my brothers,” referring to all his teammates, and looking to Karnowski, Williams-Goss and Mathews seated next to him on the podium.

Williams-Goss, a devoted studentathlete and one of the most elegant player-spokesmen in college basketball, said of the brotherhood he’s experienced with his team, and now the Final Four, “I’m thankful. As bad as I wanted this for myself, I wanted it first and foremost for my coach. There’s no one more deserving as a coach than him. I wanted to do it for him, and for all the Gonzaga supporters across the country, especially in Spokane, and the past players. Because this really is a family, and I wanted to do it more for them than I wanted to do it for myself. I’m so happy for everyone who believes in Gonzaga basketball.”

Center Przemek “Shem” Karnowski, a Polish phenomenon and one of the many leaders on this team, looked at Williams-Goss with a sly grin. Shem is 7-foot-1. He weighs at least 300 pounds.

He’s gritty. His teammates love him.

“We’re in the third week of the Madness,” he said. “We still have some work to do.”

For the Zags, in a few short days the march continues to the door of the Final Four in Phoenix.

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How the Zags got to their first Final Four, and who stands in the way of a national championship

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iven the team’s long history of regular-season and NCAA Tournament success, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Gonzaga finally reached the Final Four mountaintop. But as the final seconds ticked off in their West Regional final on Saturday and the reality set in that the Zags would be playing in Phoenix this weekend with a shot at the national championship, it was still a goosebumps moment for Spokane college hoops fans.

Finally, after years of oh-so-close, the Zags are in the final stage of March Madness, and no matter what happens in Arizona, the 2016-17 team will go down in Gonzaga history as the school’s best team ever — at least until the next Final Four run.

Here’s a look at the steps the team took during this March Madness run, and a scouting report on their national semifinal foe, South Carolina.

MARCH 16: GU BEATS SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 66-46

The pesky Jackrabbits hung tough until the second half, evoking Gonzaga’s previous trip to Salt Lake City for the tournament’s early rounds when they barely beat 16thseeded Southern. Johnathan Williams held SDSU star Mike Daum in check defensively, foreshadowing a strong run of performances that ultimately resulted in Williams being named the West Regional’s Most Outstanding Player. Fellow transfer Jordan Mathews led a balanced Zags attack with 16 points.

MARCH 18: GU BEATS NORTHWESTERN 79-73

The Wildcats made some school history themselves, becoming the first Northwestern team to reach the NCAA Tournament. They nearly made their run even more significant, delivering a furious comeback against the Zags in the second half after being down 18 points at the break. Northwestern got the lead down to five with five minutes to play when the Zags’ Zach Collins got away with a goaltending call when he reached up through the hoop to block a shot. Wildcats coach Chris Collins was

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hit with a technical foul for arguing about the play, and the comeback momentum was effectively thwarted. The Zags breathed a sigh of relief and headed to the Sweet Sixteen. Nigel Williams-Goss led the way with 20 points and eight rebounds.

MARCH 23: GU BEATS WEST VIRGINIA 61-58

The Mountaineers’ infamous pressing defense definitely affected Gonzaga’s offense, but the Zags’ defense proved even tougher on West Virginia, holding the Mountaineers to 26.7 percent shooting from the field in an ugly, foul-filled game that went right down to the wire.

Mathews’ three-point shooting proved key for Gonzaga, especially his last shot that came with just under a minute to play and put the Zags up for good. There were a total of 51 fouls called, and only 34 field goals scored between the teams; the old March Madness axiom of “survive and advance” was never more apt for the Zags.

MARCH 25: GU BEATS XAVIER 83-59

After their team had scuffled through parts of their previ-

ous three games, Gonzaga fans enjoyed a performance like the ones they’re used to when the Zags play West Coast Conference foes. On offense, the team hit 12 of 24 three-point attempts and methodically picked apart the Musketeers’ defense behind Williams-Goss’ playmaking, center Przemek Karnowski’s passing and Williams’ sheer athleticism. Williams-Goss scored 23 points, Williams 19, but it was truly a team effort, as the Zags led by 10 points at halftime before pulling away to become the first WCC team in the Final Four since the University of San Francisco in 1957 — and the first Gonzaga Final Four team ever.

ON SATURDAY AT 3:09 PM, CBS: GONZAGA VS. SOUTH CAROLINA

Any Zags fans feeling overconfident because South Carolina entered the tournament as a No. 7 seed need to check themselves. The Gamecocks are a well-coached team, and after already making their deepest-ever March Madness run, they’re full of confidence. More important, South Carolina brings a tough-as-nails defense to every game. The Zags’ game against West Virginia should serve them well, as they prepare for another team that doesn’t have the size Gonzaga does, but boasts a deep roster that delivers what the media loves to call “swarming” D. Gonzaga will have to keep East Regional Most Outstanding Player Sindarius Thornwell in check; the sharpshooting senior guard averages 21.6 points a game and has been the key to the Gamecocks’ tournament wins against Marquette, No. 2 seed Duke, No. 3 seed Baylor and No. 4 seed Florida, boosting that production to 25.5 points per game. 

The Globe Bar & Kitchen transforms into a dance club on Friday and Saturday nights.

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NIGHTLIFE

Bromuda Triangle On one downtown block, you can glimpse the thrill and the chaos of Spokane’s changing nightlife scene

BY WILSON CRISCIONE, MITCH RYALS AND TUCK CLARRY

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pokane has never had a place quite like this. Sure, dance clubs have opened and closed. New bars and pubs always pop up.

But a mix of both, concentrated in one block on the city’s busiest street? Until now, the city has been missing that.

Walk down Division Street between Main Avenue and Spokane Falls Boulevard at night, and you’ll see a crowd waiting to get into one of the newer dance clubs on the block. Outside, you might hear a DJ’s voice blaring over speakers, welcoming people to the party. You’ll feel the presence of a police car hanging out in the area, making sure no one drives drunk or gets into a fight.

New ownership in recent years has turned this strip of bars into what it is today — a raucous, drunken retreat for partiers from all over the region.

Jeremy Tangen, who bought Fast Eddie’s six years ago, saw potential for more entertainment on the block.

He was also the owner of MarQuee Lounge, a prominent

dance club on Riverside Avenue. After it closed down in 2013, Tangen opened up Borracho Tacos & Tequileria in what used to be Ugly Betties.

He wanted the strip to be more than the typical cluster of bars. He wanted DJs, dancing, a good patio and good food.

“I wanted people to know they could come to this area of town and find something to do,” he says.

On the other side of the street, the Blind Buck opened in 2013, followed by the reopening of the Globe Bar & Kitchen in 2015. Both are owned by Ryan and Dianna Bates, who had a vision similar to Tangen’s.

“It just created a dynamic atmosphere for a younger group, with DJs, a fresh place to go and beautiful bars,” Bates says.

It’s been called the “Bromuda Triangle,” and sometimes for good reason. But there’s more than what you may think of as a “bro” here. There are people of all ages celebrating their birthdays by spinning the prize wheel at

Fast Eddie’s, or groups of women out for a bachelorette party. There’s an older crowd, maybe sticking around for some more drinks after watching the game.

It’s the go-to spot for a late night in Spokane. And on a recent Friday night, three Inlander bros joined the party.

‘I MIGHT BE DRUNK’

The common Lyft drop-off for Borracho is the asphalt that parts the tequileria from the Revolver and Fast Eddie’s. At night, dozens of bar crawlers wearing outfits ranging from slinky club wear to oversized Seahawks jerseys wait to get into the dimly lit bar, named after the Spanish word for drunk.

“I just feel like you get sucked in,” says Lyft driver Shelby Marvel. “As soon as you go to one of the bars, you end up going to all of them. Everybody’s here, there’s no escaping it.”

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Some revelers who grew up in Spokane say they don’t recall a nightlife scene like the one on Main and Division.

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“‘BROMUDA TRIANGLE,’” CONTINUED... from a dozen televisions and a large projection of 3-D graphics above the miniature dance floor. A DJ wearing can headphones bobs his head to his mix of G-funk, contemporary hip-hop and big-room EDM that provides a soundtrack for the peacocking throughout the bar.

Around 10:30, a guy in his early 20s, wearing a button-up shirt with sleeves rolled up, orders himself a beer, and a mixed drink for the weary girl he has palmed by the back of her neck. She scoops up the plastic cup and wriggles out of his grasp to go speak to her friends, who form a wall around her. The exchange plays off as routine for both parties. The rebuked bro then shakes his head toward his mates, found farther down the bar.

Outside on the patio, there’s a fire sandwiched by two large glass panes.

Cameron Strauss, a student at Seattle University who’s from Spokane, is catching his breath in the middle of a long night. Whenever Strauss visits home, he goes out to this strip of bars.

“I love how it’s all condensed together,” he says. “You can just park your car and go from Fast Eddie’s to Borracho to the Globe, and then to the Red Lion.”

Just in front of the door to the patio, two hulking 20-somethings chest-bump and hug. The one whose hair is in a man bun shouts an all-too self-aware “I MIGHT BE DRUNK!” over the house music.

For Steph Dunn, a former downtown bartender, the biggest draw for Borracho is the “fresh meat,” she says.

This isn’t a place where people hang out and talk.

“They come to party.” (TUCK CLARRY)

Reese is assigned to SPD’s downtown precinct. Today is his day off, but he picked up an overtime shift.

On weekends with big events and some holidays, SPD will send a handful of officers to patrol the cluster of bars at Main Avenue and Division Street (Globe, Blind Buck, Borracho, Revolver, Fast Eddie’s) and on East Sprague (Mootsy’s, Stray, Lucky’s Irish Pub, etc.). The thinking is that with cops milling around, drunk people will be more well behaved.

In an interview later, Reese says that St. Patrick’s Day was fairly typical for a party weekend downtown: a few minor skirmishes that officers handled without arresting anyone. In all, there were eight calls for service for the

“It’s like Frogger, watching people down here on Friday and Saturday nights...

I’m surprised nobody’s been killed.”

KEEPING WATCH

A young man in jeans and a T-shirt speckled with raindrops shuffles across Division Street, making his way from the row of establishments on the east side of the street to those on the west. A car stops short to avoid hitting him, and comes to rest close enough for the man to steady himself on its hood. Three police officers looking on shake their heads, and the man gets in a line that’s wrapped around the corner. About 100 people are waiting to get into the Globe Bar & Kitchen.

“It’s like Frogger, watching people down here on Friday and Saturday nights,” says Spokane Police Sgt. Kurt Reese. “I’m surprised nobody’s been killed. Dozens of people are crossing the street, like, every two minutes.”

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entire weekend to that block of Division Street, according to police statistics. That’s nothing compared to just a few years ago, says Reese.

“Nobody wanted to go downtown for nightlife,” he says. “But it’s changed quite a bit with the downtown [police] precinct and revitalization of downtown.”

Another man, older and rounder than the dude who was almost hit by a car, clutches four slices of $5 pizza purchased from the nearby whiskey bar. He delivers greasy slices to another group in line for the Globe. Just ahead of the pizza eaters, women in skirts and sleeveless dresses clutch their arms and shiver while men play on their phones.

Slowly, the line shrinks as midnight approaches.

A group of women walks out of the Blind Buck. Each of them gives the three officers high-fives on their way across the street. One takes a selfie with them.

That happens often, Reese says. “People just want to come talk to us. They tell us stories.”

The majority of people are younger, 20-somethings.

But you’d be surprised, he adds: 30-, 40-, 50-year-olds are down here all the time. He sees elderly people on occasion, too.

“People gravitate to those bars to see what Spokane is

all about, and see what the nightlife is all about downtown.” (MITCH RYALS)

NIGHTCAP

It’s past midnight at the Globe Bar & Kitchen, and things are getting weird. By now, people waiting in line have already consumed plenty of alcohol. The DJ plays Huey’s “Pop, Lock & Drop It.” The now-sticky floor has an odor of sweat and beer.

The line of TV screens above the bar, which showed college basketball in the daytime, now flash different shapes and colors to accompany the music. The tables, where families and friends ate dinner hours ago, now serve as a vantage point for onlookers.

Spokane has always had some sort of club scene, but nothing quite like what you get at the Globe and Borracho, says Tillianni Thompson, who says she comes here almost every weekend. Thompson grew up in Spokane, moved to Portland, and came back around the time this place opened. Spokane’s nightlife on this strip of bars, she says, is new to her.

“I don’t ever remember it being like this at all,” Thompson says.

Some come here from out of town. Around 1 am, a group of women wearing white tutus walk into the bar and head straight to the dance floor. They’re from the Tri-Cities, and came to Spokane for a bachelorette party.

Following the Eric Church concert at the Spokane Arena, the Globe was a no-brainer destination for the afterparty.

“There’s nothing like this in the Tri-Cities,” says Brittney, a friend of the bride-to-be.

In the walkway between the Globe and Blind Buck, a security worker blends in with the crowd. He’s wearing short shorts and a tank top that exposes his bulging arms.

One of several security personnel, he’s making sure nobody starts any fights, that everyone there is just having a good time.

A guy named Cameron Dietz walks past him wearing a St. Patty’s Day stovepipe hat. On his way around the bar, walking toward the dance floor, he hears compliments left and right about the hat. He seems to love it.

As it gets later in the night, he says, this becomes the place to be. It’s where you meet people. It’s where, in the blur of the club scene at 1 or 2 am, girls and guys “start to click.”

“Everyone ends up here at the end of the night,” he says. (WILSON CRISCIONE) n

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Springtime Blues The eighth annual Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival is set to bring authentic roots music to an idyllic setting

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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s music festival season gets underway, a lineup of acclaimed blues artists is again taking over the Coeur d’Alene Resort, offering great views to complement the music.

For the past eight years, the Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival has brought together regional and touring bands that specialize in the most American of musical genres, and they perform all over the resort — in the convention center, on the roof, in the lounges and restaurants, even on the water.

Craig Heimbigner, the festival’s founder and director, estimates that the event draws 1,200 or so dedicated blues junkies to North Idaho.

They’ve formed something of a community, he says, meeting up in Coeur d’Alene every year, then meeting up again at other blues festivals later in the spring and summer.

“I think people are just thrilled to come out,” Heimbigner says. “They’ve been cooped up all winter, and now this blues crowd gets to come out and have fun.”

Here are a few of the artists and events you can look forward to this weekend:

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CLEARWATER REVIVAL

Now an annual staple of the Blues Festival, the Friday night Blues Cruise takes the live music out onto the tranquil waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene at 7 pm. For $25, you can board one of two boats, where the Bobby Patterson Band and the Kenny James Miller Band will perform.

“There’s music going on both boats at all times, and you can go back and forth,” Heimbigner says. “It’s always a party.”

Patterson’s band will perform again on two separate Saturday cruises, new to this year’s festival, at 12:30 and 2:30 pm. Tickets are $10.

A UNIQUE VOICE

This year’s main stage headliner will be familiar to regular viewers of the NBC reality-TV singing competition The Voice. With his shoulder-length hair, bushy beard and John Lennon spectacles, Laith Al-Saadi really stuck out from the mob of contestants vying to be the next big pre-packaged pop star.

The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based singersongwriter made it to the top four during the show’s 10th season, and although he didn’t end up winning, he certainly made an impression.

Al-Saadi’s blind audition, a gritty, growly take on Joe Cocker’s version of “The Letter” (complete with a show-off guitar solo), especially impressed Voice judges Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, the latter of whom became Al-Saadi’s mentor throughout the season.

But Al-Saadi wasn’t some amateur who NBC talent scouts just picked up off the street: According to the guitarist himself, he’s been playing 300 or so shows every year for the past two decades, and he majored in guitar at the University of

Laith Al-Saadi, known to viewers of The Voice, is this year’s main-stage headliner. NBC PHOTO Michigan.

“He’s a great player, he’s got a lot of personality and he has a different audience,” Heimbigner says. “He isn’t just known to the blues crowd, so he has this crossover thing.”

Before Al-Saadi hits the main stage on Saturday night, you can check out the folk-tinged blues of the Stacy Jones Band from Shoreline, Washington, the Southern-fried rock of Portland’s Ty Curtis Band and local favorites Robin Barrett & Coyote Kings. Following Al-Saadi’s performance, the Sara Brown Band will provide the entertainment at a late-night afterparty.

BLUES WITH YOUR BRUNCH

On Sunday morning, you’ve got two chances to enjoy some music while also enjoying Coeur d’Alene Resort’s fine dining. At 10 am, the Joyous Praise Gospel Trio will take you to church during brunch in the resort’s Dockside Restaurant.

Tickets are $32.95 (yes, that includes brunch).

Another lake cruise takes off at 11 am, this time with a full brunch menu and an acoustic performance from the Ty Curtis Band. n Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival • Fri-Sun, March 31-April 2 • $5-$60; prices vary per event • Coeur d’Alene Resort Convention Center • 115 S. 2nd St. • cdabluesfestival.com for full schedule • 208-765-4000 ext. 21

VIVALDI’S CLASSIC RE-IMAGINED Ten Artists with Spokane Symphony Musicians

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Joining Farces

Gary Pierce plays Selsdon Mowbray in Noises Off.

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Noises Off can be as much a delight for actors as it is for audiences

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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he abiding appeal of Noises Off, Michael Frayn’s 1982 — and since revised — farce about staging a farce, isn’t easily reduced to one single aspect. It’s not just the multilayered contrivance of a play within a play. Or the guilty pleasure of watching a dramatic train wreck unfold. Or the way it shifts 180 degrees to reveal the backstage dynamic that audience members so rarely get to see. It’s the combination of all those and more.

“Many people feel that it is the best comedy ever written,” says William Marlowe. “And the strength of the show is that it constantly surprises you. You just never quite know what’s coming around the bend.”

Marlowe, who heads the drama department at Spokane Falls Community College, is directing a new production of Noises Off at the Spokane Civic Theatre.

This play has been on his “bucket list” for years, he says, but its set demands couldn’t be accommodated by the

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14-foot proscenium on the SFCC stage. The opportunity to perform it on the Civic’s main stage provided him not only with the necessary space, but the theater’s customary pull of acting talent during the casting phase.

“Two years ago, I directed The Three Musketeers at the Civic Theatre and had a great turnout. And I thought, you know, this is a smaller show, I hope I have a good turnout. My gosh, I had 55 people audition. So I really got to pick from the best of the talent in Spokane. If a director can get the right cast, 70 percent of his job is already done. And I’m really feeling that way with this cast.”

The resulting group of players is a mix of faces both fresh and familiar. Jerry Sciarrio and Gary Pierce, who play Lloyd Dallas and Selsdon Mowbray, respectively, fall into the latter category. Dallas is the volatile and priapic director of the play’s nested door-slamming, pants-drop-

ping farce called Nothing On, and Mowbray is a hard-ofhearing souse whose better years are well behind him.

Just imagining those two characters might be enough to warrant a few giggles, but there are seven more to round out the dysfunctional ensemble: the aging TV star Dotty Otley (played by Audrie Pursch), tongue-tied leading man Garry Lejeune (Jack Fogarty), self-involved ingenue Brooke Ashton (Rushele Herrmann), hypersensitive understudy Poppy Norton (Mikyla Bordner), hemophobic Frederick Fellowes (Kyle Ross), breezy Belinda Blair (Laticia Brannon) and agitated stage manager Tim Allgood (Samuel Peters). Some of the actors have studied with Marlowe at SFCC, and most have had only minor local theatrical roles to date, making them fairly new to the Spokane stage.

“The thing that’s so wonderful” about Noises Off being an envelope for Nothing On, says Marlowe, “is that you get to see [the characters] in three different incarnations through the course of the rehearsal and then the tour.

And then you have that delicious Act Two, where you get to see what’s going on from behind the scenes, which is really insightful on the part of the playwright, who got the idea from watching a farce from backstage. It’s just a very, very clever device.”

It’s also the reason why Frayn’s play can be such a treat for the actors themselves. Noises Off offers them a lighthearted, self-referential way to showcase what goes into putting on this show and others like it.

“Our job as actors is to make what we do look easy.

And the audience has no idea of the heartache, the difficulty, the struggle to learn lines, the physical demands of the role, doing a show on a set with three different staircases — there’s a lot of stuff,” says Marlowe. “So the audience really gains a much greater appreciation of the art and craft of live theater performance. Also, I think they walk away with a greater understanding of what the art form is really like.”

In this particular production, Marlowe says there’s more for audiences than a comedic object lesson in the occasional messiness and absurdity of the artistic process: “I think they’re going to really love this exquisite set that Matt Egan has designed. The stage left wall is done in a beautiful representation of an old stone wall, and it really has that English country estate quality to it.

“And, of course, Jan Wanless always does an amazing job with her costuming. There’s all kinds of things — pants that rip, shirts that rip off and,” he says, unsuccessfully curbing the urge to chuckle, “people spontaneously in their underwear due to circumstances beyond their control.” n Noises Off • March 31-April 23: Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $20-$29 • Spokane Civic Theatre • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

Taste the World A new downtown shop is happy to teach you all about tea

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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avannah Breeden has sipped tea around the world, but in her hometown of Spokane, she never felt like she could get the sort of high-quality, loose-leaf teas she was after. Now she and her husband, Thomas Kilborn, have plenty of it on hand at Urban Nirvana, their newly opened café in downtown Spokane.

Urban Nirvana is not the first teahouse in the region, but it’s certainly raising the bar for tea-centric shops. The specialty café offers more than 40 organic and fair trade loose-leaf teas, while also serving coffee. If you’re hungry, Urban Nirvana also has locally made baked goods from Sweetwater Bakery and Sweetbox Delivery, among other items. But the main focus is the tea, says Breeden.

“On our window we have a beautiful sign that says, ‘the journey of a thousand cups begins with one sip.’ And that is who we are, that is what tea is — not just a drink, but an experience you can smell, and taste exotic flavors and worlds, without ever having to leave the room,” Breeden says.

Breeden, who has traveled throughout Asia working on tea farms, also worked in the tea industry stateside.

She didn’t seriously entertain the notion of opening her own shop until her father, who passed away last August, said that she should focus her energy on opening her own shop. Eventually, Breeden and Kilborn turned their life savings into Urban Nirvana.

Inside the space (the main entrance is on Riverside, despite the address), which was formerly part of the Jaazz hair salon, you’ll find a brick interior and tidy tables surrounding the service area. You’ll also often find Breeden, who can help you navigate the world of loose-leaf tea, even if you’re a novice. If your knowledge doesn’t extend past Earl Grey, that’s fine. Breeden can show you some loose-leaf teas to smell until something clicks.

As we head into the warmer months, Breeden plans to change with the season, introducing spring flavors as well as cold teas.

“We sell ceremonial teas, and we appreciate tradition and honor it, because tea is one of the oldest drinks, but we are a teahouse for modern people as well — with new and ever-changing blends and varieties — that some are shocked to know it’s even tea,” she says. 

Thomas Kilborn and Savannah Breeden are introducing tea to Spokane’s masses.

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Urban Nirvana • 108 N. Washington, Suite 100 (enter from Riverside Avenue) • Open Mon-Sat, 7 am to 5 pm • urbvana.com • 315-4590

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FOOD | BENEFIT

Suds for Spark River City and Lantern Taphouse team up on a new beer to benefit local programs for kids

BY DAN NAILEN

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ven the most casual observer of the Inland Northwest’s craft brewing scene knows that the folks behind our tasty local beers don’t limit their work to their respective brew houses. They’re active members of the community who help promote local artists and chefs, political causes and worthy nonprofits.

How often have you heard about No-Li raising money for a family who has suffered a tragedy, or Iron Goat donating funds to service workers whose restaurant is closed as a result of a fire? It seems that almost every week, there’s another worthy event where you can enjoy a good beer while doing some good at the same time.

River City Brewing has spent much of March promoting this year’s Riverkeeper IPA fundraiser and awareness campaign for Spokane Riverkeeper, the organization working to defend our favorite waterway from polluters (visit RiverkeeperIPA.com for more info). Between rallying local restaurants to be part of this year’s

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Nope. River City is jumping right into another project, a collaboration with the Lantern Taphouse on a beer they’re calling Sparky Red. They’ll launch the brew — a fundraiser for Spark Central — with a party at the Lantern this Thursday night, March 30, starting at 5 pm and featuring tunes from Milonga starting at 8. The beer will be on tap at both River City and the Lantern Taphouse into April as long as the kegs keep pouring.

“Most of the time when you do a collaboration beer, you do it with another brewery,” says River City owner Gage Stromberg. “But we consider this a collaboration beer. Mike and Melinda [Dolmage, the Lantern’s owners] are obviously serious beer people.”

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Stromberg notes that while River City has often done benefits for outdoorsy nonprofits and recreation groups, the chance to help a youth-oriented entity like Spark is particularly exciting.

“Kids are part of the craft-beer world,” he says, noting the number of young parents among the brewing community. In fact, the Dolmages welcomed a baby themselves this past fall.

“We came up with the idea of doing Spark because obviously it’s kid-focused,” Stromberg says. “Their programs are available to kids regardless of their economic status, and it seems very R E S TA U R A N T volunteer-oriented. We want to FINDER support that.”

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Who knows — maybe a year from now we’ll all be doing a Sparky Red crawl through Spark Central’s Kendall Yards/West Central neighborhood. 

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Have a Pint for Spark Central • Thu, March 30 from 5-10 pm • The Lantern Taphouse • 1004 S. Perry • lanterntaphouse.com • 315-9531

— UPCOMING EVENTS —

Mammoths & Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 4/1 – 5/7

Earth Day Celebrations, 4/22 and 4/23

Black Violin, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 4/1

National Geographic Live: I Bought a Rainforest, INB Performing Arts Center, 4/26

Every Woman Can Pink Ribbon Run, 4/23

Get Lit, Literary Arts Festival, 4/17 – 4/23

Don’t miss the next First Friday: May 5th, 2017

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Seeing the world through the eyes of a child.

An Animated Adolescence In the bittersweet, Oscar-nominated My Life as a Zucchini, an orphan finds his place within a quirky surrogate family

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here’s nothing remotely realistic about the animaAbbate), who’s somewhere between 10 and 12 years old. tion style of My Life as a Zucchini. Its characters He lives with his abusive, perpetually drunk mother in resemble painted ceramic or clay figures, with a house that’s littered with beer cans, which Zucchini big, bulbous heads, protruding ears and eyes that take sheepishly collects so he can stack them into structures in up nearly half of their faces. Its “sets” resemble shoebox his cramped attic bedroom. One day, he accidentally kills dioramas or dollhouse interiors. Everything moves with his mother when she comes after him in an alcohol-fueled the slightly herky-jerky rhythm of the most primitive rage, and he’s placed in an orphanage by a friendly police stop-motion techniques. officer (Nick Offerman).

And yet this unassuming little film, a Swiss-French At first, Zucchini is tormented by a bully named co-production based on a novel Simon, but they eventually become

by Gilles Paris, turns out to be a confidantes when they realize they’ve MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI endured similar upbringings. Simon fills surprisingly believable, bittersweet Rated PG-13 portrait of several troubled adolesin Zucchini on all of the orphanage’s Directed by Claude Barras cents, who all talk and behave like denizens. One kid’s dad is an armed robStarring Will Forte, Nick Offerman, real kids even if they don’t look ber in prison, and another’s parents were Ellen Page, Amy Sedaris it. It’s humble in both scale and deported. There’s the kid who suffers scope — it only runs an hour, minus from hallucinations; another clearly has credits — but it’s dealing seriously and thoughtfully with PTSD and is likely inflicting self-harm. particularly heavy subject matter. (It’s appropriately rated “We’re all the same,” Simon tells Zucchini. “There’s PG-13; younger kids might be disturbed by it.) no one left to love us.”

The movie’s erstwhile hero is a timid boy nicknamed The film is more about environment than it is Zucchini (voiced in the English-language version by Erick incident, though there are some minor-key plot develop-

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ments. The kids go on a skiing excursion and visit a carnival, and a romance develops between two of their teachers (Will Forte and Ellen Page). Zucchini also nurses a crush on a new girl named Camille (Ness Krell) and hatches an escape plan when her negligent, money-grubbing aunt (Amy Sedaris) tries to regain custody of her.

But My Life as a Zucchini doesn’t follow a standard plot line for the most part, which is actually one of its many strengths. It’s most concerned about entrenching us within the routines of the orphanage and the various idiosyncrasies of its inhabitants, who seem all the more believable because they’re not being marched through a manipulative, Hollywood-friendly formula.

And despite its themes of abandonment, abuse and alienation, the movie never feels like a depressing, earnest slog, and much of that has to do with its vibrant animation style, which filters the characters’ predicaments through a childlike worldview. My Life as a Zucchini may have lost the Oscar for Best Animated Feature to Zootopia, but, in its own modest way, it would have been a more deserving winner. It’s playful one moment and sobering the next, just like real life so often is. n

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The latest from DreamWorks Animation casts Alec Baldwin as an infant who wears a business suit, talks like Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock and offers up such pearls of wisdom as “cookies are for closers only” (because kids sure do love their Glengarry Glen Ross references). But here’s the twist: Baby Baldwin’s antics are all in the mind of his imaginative 7-year-old brother, who’s afraid the arrival of a new sibling will attract all of his parents’ attention.

(NW) Rated PG

GHOST IN THE SHELL

This live-action reimagining of the highly-regarded 1995 anime feature, itself adapted from a popular manga, arrives in theaters having already courted controversy for its casting of Scarlett Johansson in a central role that critics say should have gone to an Asian actress. Johansson plays Major, a half-human, half-cyborg assassin who attempts to stop a cabal of terrorists from hacking into people’s minds and controlling them for their own nefarious aims. (NW) Rated PG-13

LAND OF MINE

In the aftermath of World War II, a group of German POWs, most of them still in their teens, are forced to physically excavate the land mines that their fellow countrymen had buried on the Danish coast during the war. This harrowing drama is based on real events and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars.

(NW) Rated R

MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI

Although it may feature a large cast of adolescent characters, this Oscarnominated stop-motion story, a SwissFrench co-production, will probably be a bit intense for younger viewers. For older children, though, it’s a disarmingly honest, bittersweet tale of a timid little boy who accidentally kills his abusive, alcoholic mother and winds up in an orphanage with other kids from similar troubled backgrounds. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Twenty years after the first Trainspotting, everyone’s favorite Scottish junkies Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie are back in a sequel that serves as a self-referential tribute to the original cult favorite. Long-awaited follow-ups rarely deliver on the promise of their predecessors, but the return of director Danny Boyle and writer John Hodge, along with solid reviews from European critics, bodes well. (NW) Rated R

The true story of Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), a Botswanan prince (and later, president) who aided in securing his country’s independence while married to a woman (Rosamund Pike) who was both European and white. During the late 1940s, their marriage was initially met with resistance from both the British and South African people, though they came to be generally beloved political figures. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Continuing the trend of remaking its animated classics as live-action features, Disney’s update of its great version of Beauty and the Beast is reverential to a fault. The plot goes more or less unchanged — the bookish Belle (Emma Watson) is taken captive by the horrifying Beast (Dan Stevens), who turns out to be cuddlier than expected — though this script provides more backstory for its central characters. Still, it’s not enough to make you forget the 1991 original, which probably shouldn’t have been monkeyed with in the first place. (SR) Rated PG

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Jessica Chastain stars as Antonina Żabiński, who, along with her husband Jan, turned her once-thriving Warsaw Zoo into a safe haven for Polish Jews during WWII. It’s a remarkable true story, most famously documented in Diane Ackerman’s bestselling book, but this film adaptation looks to be another handsome but conventional Hollywood biopic that was made to win Oscars it won’t ever receive. (NW) Rated PG-13

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Goofy and gory in equal measure, the latest attempt to revive King Kong for 21st-century audiences is essentially a bonkers drive-in movie with an A-list cast and a blockbuster budget. The film is set in 1973, as a group of scientists, mercenaries and soldiers drop into the jungle and find themselves in the middle of a turf war between the legendary giant ape of the title and the horrifying monsters (known as “skullcrawlers”) that decimated his species. Skull Island is a lot of things at once — a war movie, a breathlessly paced chase film, a creepy-crawly creature feature, a man vs. nature parable — but it all works in its own crazy way. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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Shirley MacLaine stars in this Sundanceapproved comedy as Harriet Lauler, a successful but lonely retiree who’s been a perfectionist all her life. Knowing she doesn’t want a garden-variety sendoff when she eventually dies, Harriet hires a tenacious journalist (Amanda Seyfried) to pen her obituary, but it quickly becomes clear that nobody has anything nice to say about the old lady.

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The improbably delightful original LEGO Movie found a brilliant game plan for turning a toy into a story: combining a child’s anarchic sense of play with a savvy adult’s perspective on how goofy yet inspired that play can look from a distance. The LEGO Batman Movie adds another level of self-awareness about the entire recent history of comic-book movies, making for a wonderfully engaging mix of action spectacle and genre parody. (SR) Rated PG

LIFE

A Mars probe discovers and obtains a sample of an extraterrestrial organism, and it’s handed over to a small team of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The life form seems docile at first, but it turns out to be intelligent and malevolent, escaping captivity, multiplying in size and wreaking havoc on the ship. The film copies a lot of its moves from Alien, but relentless, heart-pounding suspense isn’t one of them. (NW) Rated R

LION

This multiple Oscar nominee is based on a memoir by Saroo Brierley, who was separated from his mother in Calcutta as a child, adopted by an Australian couple and later used Google Earth to locate the tiny Indian village he left behind. Although the film’s middle section drags considerably, this is an undeniably powerful true story, and Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and 8-year-old Sunny Pawar deliver standout performances. (NW) Rated PG-13

LOGAN

The third film in the stand-alone Wolverine trilogy is by far the best of the bunch, and probably the best X-Men movie yet. Set in 2029, 25 years after the last known mutant was born, a haggard Logan (Hugh Jackman) has retreated into the desert to care for the ailing Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart).

The existence of a little girl with uncanny powers soon becomes known, and Logan agrees to transport her to a faraway mutant refuge known as Eden.

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Power Rangers, a cheap, Americanized repackaging of the long-running Japanese series Super Sentai, started as a fad in the early ’90s, and it’s somehow still inspiring new merchandise and spin-off TV shows. It was inevitable, then, that Hollywood would eventually mine the franchise for a reboot, producing a new group of kids who are morphed into heroes, differentiated solely by their brightly colored super suits. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE SALESMAN

As they’re preparing to appear in a production of Death of a Salesman, a husband and wife living in Tehran are shaken following a violent assault. An observant character study that unfolds with the propulsive nature of a thriller, this recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film also functions as an insightful, sometimes harrowing portrait of life in modern-day Iran.

Writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) further cements his reputation as one of the best filmmakers currently working in any country. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

THE SHACK

While on a camping trip, a little girl is abducted and murdered, leaving her family emotionally shattered. But don’t let that gruesome premise fool you: This is an inspirational film for Christian audiences, and pretty soon the girl’s father (Sam Worthington) is receiving cryptic messages that seem to be coming from on high. Co-starring Octavia Spencer, Radha Mitchell and Tim McGraw. (NW) Rated PG-13

WILSON

Another misanthropic comedy from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World), this time starring Woody Harrelson as a petulant, socially clueless weirdo who convinces his estranged exwife (Laura Dern) to reconnect with the daughter they gave up for adoption 17 years ago. The movie presents a tricky balancing act — it wants to be crass and confrontational while also engendering sympathy — but its stabs at sweetness come across as disingenuous. You’ll either laugh or recoil. Or maybe both.

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Of course, it’s possible to cobble together a Life was written by Rhett Reese and Paul compelling genre film out of spare parts, and this Wernick, the guys behind the script for Deadpool, one does manufacture a couple of well-crafted and their dialogue offers fleeting glimpses of their sequences of suspense. But Life apparently didn’t pop culture savvy, though there’s hardly enough learn the most important lesson of Alien, which is of it. When Reynolds, for instance, makes a that less is more when it comes to creepy-crawly passing reference to the ’80s cult classic Re-Anicreatures. mator, I couldn’t help but wonder if any of these At first, we only catch glimpses of the monastronauts had actually seen Alien, because if they ster, nicknamed Calvin, as it slithers through had, they probably wouldn’t be in this mess in vents and disappears into tight spaces. But with the first place. 

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Beats Meet Bach

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As influenced by Beethoven as Biggie Smalls, Wil B and Kev Marcus of Black Violin are all about shattering stereotypes

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henever Wilner Baptiste travels, he’s invariably asked about his viola case. It’s not because the case is unusual in any way, or because the inquirers have somehow never seen one before.

It’s simply because he doesn’t fit the narrow stereotype of what a violist is supposed to look like.

“I always play around with them, like, ‘Why don’t you guess what’s in the case?’” says Baptiste, who goes by the stage name Wil B. “And they’d say it was a piano before they say viola. ... If someone saw me walking by, they would never assume I play the viola.”

Baptiste and violinist Kevin Sylvester (aka Kev Marcus) are the duo Black Violin, a genre-busting project that blends complex string arrangements with the beats of contemporary hip-hop tracks. In the decade-plus since they started playing together in earnest, Sylvester and Baptiste have opened for Alicia Keys, performed with the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye West and are now headlining their own high-energy concert.

“It’s a fun, inclusive show, no matter who you are, where you’re from, what color you are,” Baptiste says.

“It’s always about the music. It’s a universal language.

And here we are, 13 years later.”

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n the beginning, though, neither Baptiste nor Sylvester really wanted anything to do with classical music.

Baptiste was actually drawn to the saxophone,

but a mix-up in scheduling placed him in the string orchestra at Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s Dillard High, a magnet school for the performing arts that also produced R&B star Jason Derulo. That’s where he met Sylvester, forced into the same class by his parents, who shared Baptiste’s love of rap. The two were initially more concerned with becoming the next Timabaland than the next Tchaikovsky.

“Just like any kid in the public school system, (playing classical music) is just what we did in second period,” Baptiste says. “Hip-hop was something we experimented with just to keep our interest in the instrument. It was just fun. We didn’t think anything of it.”

But after college — Baptiste attended Florida State in Tallahassee, while Sylvester went to Florida International University in Miami — they realized they had an unusual angle, and they started playing their stringed instruments over pre-programmed beats. The Black Violin concept initially inspired skepticism (“Just imagine going up to a club promoter saying, ‘We have these two big black guys and they’re going to rock it on violins,’” Baptiste laughs), but they started drawing attention by playing in front of the very venues that wouldn’t book them.

“This is before YouTube, Twitter, before Facebook.

To convey what we did, we just had to do it,” Baptiste says, and the gigs soon followed. In 2005, Black Violin won an amateur talent showcase of the long-running

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Showtime at the Apollo series, “and that’s when we realized, OK we’ve got something here,” Baptiste says. “That was the beginning.”

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n discussing his own musical influences, Baptiste is as quick to rhapsodize about Kendrick Lamar as he is the Russian pianist Dmitri Shostakovich, and he loves the romantic, atonal compositions of Brahms as much as anything from the Motown era.

You can hear all of those disparate stylistic muses intertwining on Black Violin’s most recent album, 2015’s Stereotypes, their first release on Universal Music’s classical imprint. Despite being signed to one of the industry’s biggest labels, Baptiste says he and Sylvester still feel like independent artists: They’re hands-on when it comes to every aspect of recording and writing, from the producers they work with to the themes they want to explore.

The title track of Stereotypes is the most concise and forthright communication of Black Violin’s self-professed mission statement: Not only does it feature audio clips of people reading various definitions of the word “stereotype,” but you can also hear Sylvester and Baptiste discussing the preconceived notions they encounter as black men.

“Just because I’m 6-foot-2 and 260 pounds doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be afraid of me,” Sylvester says on the recording, noting that he often gets sidelong glances when stepping onto an elevator. “The reason I smile onstage is because I know I’m completely crushing people’s perceptions.”

“We try to break stereotypes in one state at a time, not just about what a black man is capable of, but what a violin is capable of,” Baptiste says, echoing the sentiments heard in the song. “Kids call it ballerina music. But we’re here to make that art form cool.” n Black Violin • Sat, April 1 at 8 pm • $35-$45 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.com • 624-1200

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or music geeks, one of life’s simple pleasures is discovering some kickass crew totally by happenstance, just being in the right place at the right time. When I came across Couches, the right place was lurking over the upstairs railing at Mootsy’s, and the right time was last spring during Volume, when the San Francisco trio knocked out a set of catchy-as-hell, straightforward rock tunes they like to characterize as “slacker indie-rock meets soft grunge.” That’s tongue-in-cheek, I presume, but not necessarily inaccurate. “Soft Grunge” is also the somewhat sprawling but winning closer of the band’s new Motivational Speaker release, a tune that recalls early Modest Mouse. They deliver loud enough for hard rock fans and catchy enough for the indie-popinclined — Couches bring people together!

Joined by the Smokes and Funeral Homies, this show has the makings of one fine Friday night.

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BEEROCRACY, Open Mic BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen J CHAPS, Spare Parts J J CHATEAU RIVE, Davina & The Vagabonds COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred CRUISERS, Open Mic Jam Slam hosted

by Perfect Destruction and J.W. Scattergun THE EMPEROR ROOM, DJ Felon, AYZIM, BrainFunk, BNGRZ FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Harmony Clayton HILLS’ RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, Floating Crowbar JOHN’S ALLEY, Mama Magnolia THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Milonga (Trio) LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Wyatt Wood J THE OBSERVATORY, Male Blonding, Flannel Math Animal THE PALOMINO, Lethal Injektion: Sex M$ney Power Tour feat. Catalyst, Burning Clean, Jacob VanKnowe J THE PIN!, A World Without, Fed to the Flames, A Cryptic Ending, Widower POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Christy Lee THE RESERVE, Liquid with DJ Dave THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter &

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here are two distinct sides to Marco Benevento — the avant-garde jazz experimenter and the polished pop craftsman. The songwriter’s early work is mostly instrumental and occasionally spacey, but his recordings have become more melodic and straight-up catchy in recent years. And he’s started singing. Benevento’s latest studio release, the quasi-concept record The Story of Fred Short, takes its cues from ’70s album rock (think Elton John or Van Morrison), but he hasn’t abandoned his art-music roots completely: The album’s second half consists of a seven-part mini-suite about the 19th-century Native American shaman who reportedly once lived in the building that now houses Benevento’s studio in upstate New York.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Marco Benevento with Water Monster • Thu, April 6 at 8 pm • $15 • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

Steve Ridler TIMBER GASTRO PUB, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Blake Braley

Friday, 03/31

219 LOUNGE, Miah Kohal ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Evan Denlinger J J THE BARTLETT, The Wind and the Wave, Allison Pierce BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Usual Suspects J J BING CROSBY THEATER, Alive She Cried: The Ultimate Doors Experience

BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Sterling BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Upstairs Strangers COEUR D’ALENE CASINO (CHINOOK LOUNGE), Echo Elysium COEUR D’ALENE CASINO (NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE), Ryan Larsen Band CRUISERS, The Price of Being, Rusted Hand CURLEY’S, Nightshift DI LUNA’S CAFE, Gary George EICHARDT’S, The Brandon and Cole Show

FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Kyle Swaffard IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Aaron Williams IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Wyatt Wood IRON HORSE BAR, JamShack JOHN’S ALLEY, Daniel Mark Faller and the Working Poor J KNITTING FACTORY, Tech N9ne, feat. Brotha Lynch Hung, Krizz Kaliko, Stevie Stone, Ces Cru LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Chuck Dunlop MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta la Vista MICKDUFF’S BREWING COMPANY, Moses Willey

MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Son of Brad NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon, DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Couches (see above), the Funeral Homies, the Smokes PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Riff Hangers J THE PIN!, City of the Weak THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter &

Steve Ridler RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Bill Bozly THE ROADHOUSE, The Stepbrothers SILVER FOX, Steve Livingston and Triple Shot SILVER MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, Devon Wade VICTORY SPORTS HALL, Dan Conrad ZOLA, Gladhammer

Saturday, 04/1

219 LOUNGE, Still Tipsy and the Hangovers ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, KOSH BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Son of Brad BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BIGFOOT PUB, Usual Suspects BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Stud BOLO’S, Chris Rieser and the Nerve J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Nevada Sowle J CENTERPLACE REGIONAL EVENT CENTER, Caspar Babypants Family Concert COEUR D’ALENE CASINO (CHINOOK LOUNGE), Echo Elysium COEUR D’ALENE CASINO (NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE), Ryan Larsen Band

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CURLEY’S, Nightshift THE EMPEROR ROOM, Menace Made Ent, Verbal Assault 6 FLAME & CORK, Bill Bozly J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Black Violin (see page 41) IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Truck Mills IRON HORSE BAR, JamShack JOHN’S ALLEY, Smoking Bill J KNITTING FACTORY, GTS Presents Spring Revival, feat. All But Lost, Fed to the Flames, Noctyms Decent, Sons of Donovan LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam MAX AT MIRABEAU, Kosta la Vista MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Devon Wade MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Brother Music NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon, DJ Tom NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, DJ Patrick J THE OBSERVATORY, Working Spliffs, Breadbox with Lucas Brown J THE PIN!, Young Neves, Capp, KC, King Skellee, Jalil, PNL, Raskl POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Ron Greene PROHIBITION GASTROPUB, Wyatt Wood THE RESERVE, American Pinup, Elephant Gun Riot, Moments, ACPO THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Last Chance Band

THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave ZOLA, Dangerous Type

Sunday, 04/2

DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE, Live Irish Music THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Sunday Karaoke Night ZOLA, Whsk&Keys

Monday, 04/3

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

Tuesday, 04/4

THE EMPEROR ROOM, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J THE PIN!, Doktor Reaktor, Lunagoth, H0BG0BL1N, Killmore THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open Mic/Jam Night ZOLA, Dueling Cronkites

Wednesday, 04/5 THE FLAME, Demon Assassin GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with Host Travis Goulding

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JOHN’S ALLEY, Cascade Crescendo LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 THE PIN!, DJ Freaky Fred THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Live Piano RIVELLE’S RIVER GRILL, Jam Night: Truck Mills and guests THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Johnny Qlueless THE THIRSTY DOG, DJ Dave TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE, Cruxie ZOLA, Haley Young and Champagne Jam

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 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 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 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 DIAMS DEN • 412 W. Sprague • 934-3640 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE EMPEROR ROOM • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208667-7314 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 THE LARIAT • 11820 N. Market St. • 466-9918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N. Lidgerwood St. • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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FILM WATCHING BIG BROTHER

In this era of “alternative facts,” George Orwell’s 1984 proves its chilling relevance on what seems like a daily basis. Orwell’s 1949 novel, along with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, formed the blueprint for all dystopian fiction that followed, creating a neutered, totalitarian society where free thought and expression are grounds for termination. Because of the novel’s renewed topicality, its most famous big-screen adaptation — originally released in its titular year and starring the late John Hurt — is being shown at the Garland on April 4 (the novel’s action actually begins on that date). It’s one of at least 140 screenings of the film occurring around the country, and a dollar from each ticket will be donated to Spokane’s Planned Parenthood facility.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER 1984 • Tue, April 4 at 7:15 pm • $5 • Garland Theater • 924 W. Garland • garlandtheater.com • 327-2509

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WORDS BE THE STORY

February saw the birth of Pivot, Spokane’s own Moth-style storytelling slam, featuring an array of talented writers and community members hopping on stage and telling true autobiographical tales to a rapt audience. While Pivot’s main events are planned to occur quarterly, organizers are launching a series of smaller story slams for community members interested in taking part. The first Pivot Story Slam is April 1 and revolves around the theme “Fool.” Anyone is invited to show up with a five-minute tale to share. The basics: Show up early and throw your name into the hat — the number of storytellers who get to take the mic depends on how many show up, and spots aren’t guaranteed. Your story needs to be true, personal, and at least somewhat related to the “Fool” theme. You can find more tips for honing your story on the Pivot Story Slam Facebook page.

— DAN NAILEN Pivot Story Slam: Fool • Sat, April 1 from 7:30-9 pm • Spark Central • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • facebook.com/pivotspokane

COMEDY THE SQUAWKER

Gilbert Gottfried’s grating and squawky voice is unforgettable and somehow endearing, if you can tolerate it. The voice actor for Aladdin‘s Iago the macaw and formerly the Aflac insurance duck is known to ruffle feathers with his risqué and often dark comedic stylings. The cringe-inducing comedian comes to the Spokane Comedy Club for two sets on one night only, on April Fool’s Day (but not a joke). Gottfried’s material runs the gamut regarding showbiz and his life as a comic for nearly 50 years. Much of Gottfried’s time now is devoted to his long-running Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, which focuses on Old Hollywood and showbiz interviews with memorable character actors and former child stars.

— TUCK CLARRY Gilbert Gottfried • Sat, April 1 at 7:30 and 10:30 pm • 21+ • $22 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub. com • 318-9998

COMMUNITY READY, SET, GO!

Whether it’s your first or your 15th time participating in Bloomsday, Spokane’s famous springtime tradition that’s celebrating its 41st running this year, there’s still plenty of time to get in shape. And trust me on this one — unless you regularly run or walk for exercise, it’s not a good idea to hit the pavement for the first time on race day. Training for Bloomsday is easier done by partaking in the annual race-prep clinics hosted during the seven weeks leading up to the big day. While the sessions have already started, you can still register to attend this graduated conditioning program that adds a mile to each week’s route. There are water and first-aid stations along the courses, and each session opens with a short lecture from local health and fitness experts. Lace up those running shoes!

— CHEY SCOTT Bloomsday Training Clinics • Saturdays through April 29 at 8:30 am • Free • Spokane Community College Gymnasium • 1810 N. Greene • bloomsdayrun. org • 474-3081

COMMUNITY CELEBRATE TRANS LIVES

Spokane TALL (Transgender Advocacy, Learning and Leadership) hosts its transgender visibility event at the EWU Riverpoint campus on the day following the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31. The internationally recognized observance was created specifically to celebrate the transgender community and their stories. Preceding the event is a resources fair, followed by a series of short films and a discussion panel. Spokane TALL provides resource referrals that are “safe and affirming” to the transgender and gender-nonconforming community, and “advocates for safe spaces by providing visibility for the community and offers education and training to businesses, schools, groups and organizations.”

— TUCK CLARRY Transgender Day of Visibility • Sat, April 1 at 1 pm • Free and open to the public • EWU Riverpoint Campus, Room 122 • 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. • bit. ly/2mYLd9i

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I SAW YOU MEAT PUPPETS FRONT ROW We talked while waiting for the Pups to start. I first saw them in ‘85, and you first saw them in ‘90. We share a love of Mark Lanegan. You disappeared late in the set. Not sure of your status, but would enjoy talking music over a beverage sometime.

HANDSOME BALDY AT STARBUCKS I had about 20 minutes to kill before my next meeting and swung in to Starbucks on 2nd and Division (March 16 around 10:30 AM).

We made eye contact a few times and I was more than prepared to say hey but you took a phone call before I had a chance to. Would love to be able to say hey again.

ULTRA-SUCCESSFUL? Joey, Nico, and Matt!

Where is your Ultra-Successful podcast? All of your loyal listeners have been WAITING since December for another episode!

Hope to hear from you soon! — Your Loyal Listeners BELATED BIRTHDAY LOVE We used to be best friends, but I missed your birthday and now we’re not. Sometimes I’ll see you zipping around downtown in your nifty new 4Runner, walking from your office with a gym bag full of softballs, or taking a lunch break at our favorite burrito spot.

I want to yell “I MISS YOU!!” and grab your hand and skip down the street until we’re besties again. I am so very sorry for missing your birthday, I hope you will forgive me.

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STILL DON’T LIKE AU GRATIN POTATOES We tried once before but I wasn’t ready yet.

It wasn’t that the spark wasn’t there. It was, I just couldn’t see it until now. Now, it burns within me. I’ve been broken but those scars are almost healed. You’ve always wanted to look in the ‘I Saw You’ and have someone write about you. I want to be that person.

Your the only girl my kids have ever liked.

Hoping your’s like me too. You spend all day making sure peoples hearts are in the right place. I think mine is back to where it’s supposed to be... but I still don’t like au gratin potatoes. Can’t wait to see you again!

FOLKINCEPTION @ THE BARTLETT Saint Pattys Day I found myself next to you on the dance floor after retrieving my jacket, we exchanged subtle glances but the vibes were strong. The girl you were with didn’t seem like your date but I still didn’t want to disrespect. I was with a friend and as we left i saw you outside on the patio, we exchanged more looks (elevator eyes) and I was happy when we walked the wrong direction and we had to pass you once more after turning around. Still being too shy to say anything, like introduce myself, I was cheesy and tried to be cute by saying “You again??” I’ll stop beating myself up for not making any moves, just meet me back at the dance floor for Folkinceptions next show at The Red Room Saturday 4/08 KNOCK KNOCK [Signor] Oliverotto often sits high atop justice hill waiting for his shift to end. When it’s done, he sometimes hits the bar to chill with a few other VIP security buddies. He said he suddenly allowed me to join them after his daughter put in a good word for me at the food bank. Heads-up, babe you asked if we could go to a more private place but they are why I am here.

One day I would like to take you to dinner — if I see you again & if we can find the time.

You won’t have to dress to the nines. P.S. Remember what book you were reading.

Thank you so much hun.

WHITE CHEVY CRUZE To the chic with the bye felicia sticker, your a cutie. I was in the dirty envoy, good driving miss. If you would like to grab coffee some time and discuss life, email me at fixedonflow@gmail.com. sincerely, the bearded gentleman.

SUPER HERO FUN RUN AND YOUR SUPER HEROINE POWERS AMAZED ME I was minding my own business on my annual Super Hero’s fun run with my friends and

their 3 little Super Hero’s. When suddenly I saw what appeared to be 2 damsels in distress on the bridge in need of their picture taken. So me and my sidekick my giant red beard swooped in, only to find 2 super ladies having it all under control. Your sister was kind enough to let me assist in capturing your picture. You were the super blonde heroine with the adorable smile. If I

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had to guess your super powers are: grace, kindness, and an overarching care for mankind as you were on a fun run for good will.

CHEERS TO THE FUTURE; CHEERS I see you everyday. // And my goodness, what joy that brings. // When i look at you, it occurs to me how // beautiful your smile is, how gentle your eyes are, // and the kindness your soul possesses. // Most especially, how lucky i am. // When i met you the hands of time stood still. // Now we have a family. // Our dog, our lizard, and us. // In our sweet, small, peaceful home. // And you have become my greatest treasure. // My bestfriend, my lover, my extra big smile. // I love you Troy. // Cheers to being happy. // Cheers to the future.

PIZZA, COPS AND REBELLION Picture it.

Saturday afternoon. The sun is actually shining. My friends’ teenager decides to exercise his freedom of speech and then proceeds to take off on his own. ‘Cause you know, what else do you do? Bit of a jeer to him but a major cheer to the good folks at the STA Plaza. Christmas (that’s her name!) at Pizza Rita contacted the transit officer on duty and they were very professional, understanding and competent. Though the kid turned up somewhere else, it was great

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SPOKANE IS RISING! Cheers to Spokane Rising and other innovative thinkers!

Sprague, Perry District, and now Monroe will be revitalized! So excited to see this run-down street get some love — it will benefit everyone to have a welcoming

INSURANCE About so called 100% AHCA/ OBAMACARE covered Doctor physicals, it is BS. The only way you will be not paying for this is if you lie and tell them you are as healthy as an ox. Ditto to even get your employer to toss a few bucks towards your insurance that covers nothing. If you you so much as tell your doctor you stubbed a toe or occasionally have trouble sleeping you

Trump is a fool, but hopefully at least sooner or later us young, healthy people can opt out of this dumpster fire we call insurance in this country.

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

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

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to know people at the STA Plaza were keeping an eye out for him.

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walk-able and shop-able street. Keep Rising Spokane!!

I LOVE YOU MORE You never fail to amaze me. Given the recent changes in our life, you don’t even blink an eye, I do not know how I got so lucky. You are a very patient husband to your crazy wife, and an amazing father to our girls, I do not even know where to start to thank you for everything you do and for loving all your girls UNCONDITIONALLY...

WE love you and I LOVE YOU MORE!

JEERS LANDLORDS WHO RENT TO DRUG DEALERS Shame on the owners/landlords who knowingly rent to drug dealers. You know what they do since they are home all day and night. Pay cash for rent. People constantly coming and going. Police and ambulances who show up when someone overdoses or there’s a fight. Especially the place on the 900 block of South Lincoln.

RE: LEAVE MONROE ALONE Just stop talking, you’re making a complete fool of yourself. Not sure how NOT improving Monroe will prevent you from being behind a bus and you say use the money for “the roads” — Monroe is a road. Also, Grand IS already a two way, so like I said — just stop talking, you’re an idiot.

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have a “pre-existing condition.” Then you pay up the ass. Screw insurance as it exists, don’t buy it. Trump is a fool, but hopefully at least sooner or later us young, healthy people can opt out of this dumpster fire we call insurance in this country. I’m done paying monthly into a 10k yearly deductible plan that covers nothing...

WHAT PART OF YAMAMOTO DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND? I get that the Zags are all that right now but to not give a shout out to the athletic season that home grown jock Kailer Yamamoto had this year ain’t cool. I am sure that Happy Valley, Yakima and Bydgoszcz are all beautiful little bergs but how about a little home town flavor to the ‘Best of the Inland Northwest’ when it’s right in front of you to be recognized. 

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HAVE A PINT FOR SPARK CENTRAL Join Spark supporters for the debut of the limited edition River City Brewing ale “Sparky Red,” made to benefit Spark Central. Also enjoy live music from Milonga, 8-10 pm. March 30, 5-10 pm. The Lantern Tap House, 1004 S. Perry St. (315-9531) KINDA BLUE A wine tasting of premier Walla Walla, Spokane area, and North Idaho wineries, plus jazz and a silent auction to benefit a regional support group serving pulmonary hypertension patients from E. Wash, N. Idaho and W. Mont. March 31, 5-8 pm. $25/ person. WSU Spokane, 600 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (208-882-7255) 11TH ANNUAL SPRING TEA The signature event for the Women & Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen includes a 4-course luncheon, raffle and silent auction. April 1, 11 am-2 pm. $50/person; $400/table of 8. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. springtea.org FOOL HEARTED: AN MDA FUNDRAISER A benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, featuring performances by Chris Cook (poetry), Devin Devine (comedy), The Cascade Artists (theater), Angela Marie Project (music) and on site art projects. April 1, 6:30-10 pm. $12/$15. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. www2.mda.org/foolhearted (325-3747) THE HUNGER RUN A collaboration of the Union Gospel Mission and Second Harvest for a timed, family-friendly run/walk offering 5K/10K course options. April 1, 9 am. $25-$50. Plantes Ferry Sports Complex, 12308 E. Upriver Dr. thehungerrun.org (532-3810) REACH FOR THE STARS GALA A charity event for the Victoria Siegel Foundation to help prevent drug overdose, featuring special guest Mrs. America, Natalie Meredith Luttmer. Includes catered appetizers, desserts, live music, a wine wall and silent and live auctions.

April 1, 6-9 pm. $40/person; $320/ table of 8. Philanthropy Center, 1020 N. Riverside Ave. facebook.com/mrsspokanecounty2017/ WALK MS: SPOKANE Team up with friends and family to raise research funds for the National MS Society, and awareness of multiple sclerosis. April 2, 9 am. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. walkms.org (855-372-1331) SPOKANE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON The annual fundraising

event celebrates the impact of Girl Scouting on girls and young women.

Funds raised at this event support troops in your community. No prepayment required, a minimum $100 donation is suggested. April 4, 11:30 am-1 pm. Hotel RL by Red Lion at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. gsewni.org YOGA FOR A CAUSE The shot-put and pole vaulting area of the new Colfax High School track is the recipient of all donations from this month’s event.

April 4, 5:30 pm. By donation. Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St. whitco.lib.wa.us CASA RAY OF HOPE LUNCHEON A one-hour lunch to spread awareness about local victims of child abuse and neglect, during which a teen speaker shares her story of abuse and recovery.

The event also recognizes local CASA partners in child protection. April 5, 12-1 pm. Free with RSVP. The Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. northidahocasa.org KOPANGA BENEFIT CONCERT Join Partnering for Progress in celebrating the power of community. Includes live music by Troubadour and Funky Unkle, a raffle for a painting by local artist Katie Staib, artwork by Salik Seville, a 50/50 raffle, food, and more. April 7, 7 pm-midnight. $10 suggested donation. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. partneringforprogress.org APRIL SHOWERS The Lands Council’s 22nd annual benefit includes a dinner and live/silent auctions to help support the restoration and revitalization of Inland Northwest forests, water, and wildlife. April 8, 5-9 pm. $75/individual; $800/table. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. landscouncil.org SPA GALA & AUCTION The Spokane Preservation Advocate’s 2017 gala and auction supports local historic preservation programs and projects. April 8, 5:30 pm. $50. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad. spokanepreservation.org

COMEDY

GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) LOUIE ANDERSON A live show by the three-time Emmy Award winner, also named one of the 100 greatest standup comedians of all time. March 30, 8 pm. $28.50-$36.50. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404)

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Paying the Piper The consequences of lighting up in the age of global governance, and how we got here

BY CONNOR DINNISON

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n the pictures, a young Barry Obama is gesticulating and smiling, eyes half-shut in a Panama hat, a joint to his lips, smoke curling up; a pastime, he told a town hall in his first campaign for president, that he frequently indulged in during those days. “That was the point,” he told his bemused admirers. They hoped his election to the country’s highest office would begin to unravel

The road to legalization has been long and winding. the knot of hysteria and scapegoating around cannabis, which to some extent it did. Still, the tangled threads of the War on Drugs extend far beyond American shores.

Five years, to the day, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (now forever immortalized as the eponym of a turn-of-the-century Scottish postpunk quartet) on June 28, 1914, the Treaty of Versailles brought peace to a European continent still smoldering from the War to End All Wars (it didn’t). The armistice, largely a collective guilt trip on the German Reich for trying to take over Europe (this also didn’t work), incorporated 1912’s International Opium Convention, the world’s first collaborative attempt to control the “manufacturing, importing, selling, distributing and exporting” of consciousness-altering drugs (again, not a paragon of success).

Despite being targeted for prohibition by Egypt in a revised treaty, with backing from Uncle Sam here in the U.S., marijuana eluded the powermongers of the new world order until 1961. That’s when the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, implemented by the United Nations, put handcuffs on cannabis sativa the world over, which remains to this very day chained to the levers of global gerrymandering and busybody-ing. As described in an issue of the Bulletin on Narcotics shortly after the ink

of the treaty’s signatures dried into infamy, “This is a goal which workers in international narcotics control all over the world have striven to achieve for half a century.”

Another half a century has passed, and world governments are still striving to paint a paper tiger as an actual menace.

Sing an “obscene ballad” or spit in public in Singapore, and you may earn a visit to the nearest stony lonesome, but hold a little more than a pound of pot?

That will get you noosed and hooded. In Malaysia, too, possession of 200 grams (about 7 ounces) of cannabis will punch your ticket to the gallows (literally: hanging is the customary method of execution). Stoners in Saudi Arabia, where Sharia law considers any intoxicant haram (forbidden), have met the same grisly fate, albeit by beheading.

Thankfully in the tolerant, lenient West, you can often get off scot-free (at least here in the Evergreen State and our coastal neighbors), or, say in Oklahoma, be spared the electric chair with a sentence of merely life imprisonment. Obama, to no one’s surprise, has planted roots in D.C., where he can recreate those hazy days of yore (legally) and conduct the Left from the comfort of his couch. n

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EVENTS | CALENDAR ZOLTAN KASZAS Over the last few years, Zoltan has won numerous regional comedy competitions. March 30 and April 2, at 8 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509318-9998) AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) COMEDY NIGHT AT THE INN Featuring Grant Lyon with Carmen Morales on March 31, and David Nickerson with Aaron Woodall, on April 1. Both shows start at 8 pm; doors at 7. Ages 21+. $15.

Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway Ave. (208-765-3200) JOSH BLUE Perhaps best known as the comedian who puts the cerebral in Cerebral Palsy, Blue centers much of his self-deprecating act around his disability. Shows at 7:30 and 10:30 pm.

March 31. $20-$27. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) 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 GILBERT GOTTFRIED Not an April Fool’s Joke! See a live stand-up show by the celebrated comedian and actor.

Shows at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. April 1. $22-$30. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com SAFARI: The Blue Door’s fast-paced, short-form improv show. The gamebased format relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Rated for mature audiences. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509-318-9998) THE PUNDERGROUND 12 potential punsters are paired up randomly; each pair is given a topic to pun. Then, turn by turn, they’ll have to pun within that subject matter without repeating puns or using clichés. April 6, 7 pm. Free.

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MAMMOTHS & MASTODONS: TITANS OF THE ICE AGE The highly-interactive touring exhibit from the Field Museum in Chicago features hands-on activities, hundreds of fossil specimens from around the world, full-size models of Ice Age megafauna. Through May 7; open Tue-Sat, 10 am-5 pm (to 8 pm on Wed; half-price admission on Tue). $10-$15. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org WWI: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS A new Spokane Valley Heritage Museum exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States’entry into World War I. March 30-Nov. 30; open Wed-Sat, 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6 admission. Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague. valleyheritagecenter.org (922-4570) TOWN HALL WITH BEN STUCKART Spokane City Council President and 5th District Congressional Candidate Ben Stuckart invites Eastern Washington residents to attend listening sessions in light of the defeat of the GOP’s health care law. Sessions scheduled

for: March 31, 3 pm, at Garfield County Democrats in Pomeroy; April 1, 5:30 pm, at CAVU Cellars in Walla Walla; April 2, 1 pm, Clarkston City Hall; April 2, 5:30 pm, Holiday Inn Express in Pullman; April 4, at 5:30 pm, 1427 W. Dean, Spokane. facebook.com/benstuckart EASTER FOR KIDS The Vine Church invites kids ages 3-12 to a day of Easter activities, including crafts, songs, activities, games, and an egg hunt. Preregister online. At Skyway Elementary, 6621 N. Courcelles Parkway, CdA. April 1, 10 am-noon. Free. TheVineIdaho.org BLOOMSDAY TRAINING CLINICS Get ready for the 41st Bloomsday race at free clinics from Providence Health Care and Group Health. Walk, jog or run at your own pace. Routes begin with one mile, adding one mile each week. Through April 29, meets Saturdays at 8:30 am. Register online. Free.

Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. phc.org (474-3081) TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY A day to show support for the trans community that also aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading knowledge of the trans community. April 1, 1-3:30 pm. Free.

EWU Riverpoint Campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. (343-8188) SHARING THE DHARMA DAY April’s event is combined with a traditional Tibetan Buddhist ceremony to mark the end of retreat and thank the volunteers who supported the monks and nuns in their meditation practice. April 2, 9:45 am-3 pm. Free, donations accepted.

Sravasti Abbey, 692 Country Lane Rd. sravasti.org (509-447-5549) UNFILTERED: A WOMAN’S VOICE A community conversation hosted by Greater Spokane Progress and Spokane Women/Art/Media. Moderator Marina Treichel, from Berlin, visits with a panel of special guests about the current political climate for women in the US. April 2, 3 pm. $25. CommunityMinded Television, 104 W. Third. bit. ly/2oa1NUt A JOB SEEKER’S TOOLKIT A class to help determine professional/education goals, whether prepping for the workplace or exploring continuing education. April 4, 1-2:30 pm. Free.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. (208-667-1865) TRACE YOUR ROOTS This two day workshop teaches teens (12-18) how to search, and what to look for. Local genealogists also help attendees create a family tree. April 4-5, at 1 pm. Free.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. (444-5336) NATIONAL TARTAN DAY The St. Andrews Society of the Inland Northwest celebrates with plaid weaving demos, a history of plaid and kilts, help to find your Scottish clan, Scottish dancing and more. April 6, 3-5:30 pm. Free.

Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley. inlandnwscots.org

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PURPLE EGYPTIAN BARLEY PROJECT The weekly series showcases a collaborative beers and breads made from the landrace grain known as Egyptian Purple Barley. Thursdays, through April 7. Bellwether Brewing, 2019 N. Monroe. facebook.com/bellwetherbrewing

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Advice Goddess LOOT CONQUERS ALL

Nobody expects a free meal from a restaurant. So what’s with wedding guests who think it’s acceptable to give no gift or just $100 from two people? My understanding is that you are supposed to “cover your plate” — the cost of your meal (at least $100 per person). If you can’t, you shouldn’t attend. I’m planning my wedding and considering not inviting four couples who gave no gift at my two siblings’ weddings. Upsettingly, most AMY ALKON are family members (and aren’t poor). I’d hate to cut out family, but if they won’t contribute, what else can I do? —Angry Bride If gift price is tied to meal price, it seems there should be a sliding scale. Uncle Bob, who’ll singlehandedly suck down 16 trays of canapes and drain the open bar, should pony up for that Hermès toaster oven. But then there’s Leslie, that raw vegan who only drinks by licking dew off leaves. Whaddya think…can she get by with a garlic press and a handmade hemp card?

The truth is, this “cover your plate” thing is not a rule. It’s just an ugly idea that’s gained traction in parts of the country — those where bridezillas have transformed getting married into a fierce social deathmatch, the wedding spendathalon. What gets lost in this struggle to out-lavish the competition is the point of the wedding — publicly joining two people in marriage, not separating their friends and relatives from as much cash as possible. And though it’s customary for guests to give gifts, The Oxford English Dictionary defines “gift” as “a thing given willingly” — as opposed to “a mandatory cover charge to help fund the rented chocolate waterfall, complete with white mocha rapids and four-story slide manned by Mick Jagger and Jon Bon Jovi.”

But because you — incorrectly — believe that guests owe you (more than their company), you’ve awakened your ancient inner accountant, the human cheaterdetection system. Evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby describe this as a specialized module the human brain evolved for detecting cheaters — “people who have intentionally taken the benefit specified in a social exchange rule without satisfying the requirement.”

Identifying and punishing freeloading slackers was especially vital in an ancestral environment, where there weren’t always enough grubs to go around. These days, however, maybe you have the luxury to do as I advise in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck”: refuse to let a few (apparent) Stingy McMingies shape “who you are — which is created through … how you behave.” Instead of grinding down into tit for tat, you can decide to be generous. It’s a thematically nice way to start a marriage — in which 50/50 can sometimes be 95/“Hey, don’t I at least get your 5 percent?” It also makes for a far less cluttered invitation than “RSVP…with the price of the gift you’re getting us — so we know whether to serve you the Cornish game hen at the table or the bowl of water on the floor. Thanks!”

HELLO HATH NO FURY

Though my boyfriend is loving and attentive, he’s bad at responding to my texts.

He’s especially bad while traveling, which he does often for his work. Granted, half my texts are silly memes. I know these things aren’t important, so why do I feel so hurt when he doesn’t reply? —Waiting You’d just like your boyfriend to be more responsive than a gigantic hole. (Yell into the Grand Canyon and you’ll get a reply. And it isn’t even having sex with you.)

What’s getting lost here is the purpose of the GIF of parakeets re-enacting the Ali/Frazier fight or the cat flying through space on the burrito. Consider that, in the chase phase, some men text like crazy, hoping to banter a woman into bed.

But once there’s a relationship, men (disproportionately) use texting as a logistical tool — “b there in 5” — while women continue using it as a tool for emotional connection. That’s probably why you feel so bad. Feeling ignored is also not ideal for a relationship. In research psychologist John Gottman did on newly married couples, the newlyweds who were still together six years down the line were those who were responsive toward their partner’s “bids for connection” — consistently meeting them with love, encouragement, support, or just attention.

Explain this “bids for connection” thing to your boyfriend. (That mongoose in a dress is just meme-ese for “Yoo-hoo! You still there?”) However, especially when he’s traveling, a little reasonableness from you in what counts as a reply should go a long way. Maybe tell him you’d be happy with “Ha!”, “LOL,” or an emoji. You’d just like to see more than your own blinking cursor — looking like Morse code for “If he loved you, he’d at least text you that smiling swirl of poo.” n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR VINO WINE TASTING Friday, March 31st’s tasting is with California’s Vina Robles, from 3-6:30 pm. On Saturday, April 1, sample wines of Argentina.

Tastings include cheese and crackers.

Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) IBU CHALLENGE IV: EURO TRIP Inland Brewers Unite Homebrew Club’s annual challenge. Attendees taste and judge several flights of beers. The only rule for home brewers is to use European Yeast. See link for more details. April 1, 3-5 pm. $10. Community Pint, 120 E. Sprague. bit.ly/2mxUqZF SPRING BREAK COOKING CAMP Kids can learn fun cooking skills including creating their own salad dressing, cooking a delicious breakfast, making bread and more. Ages 8-12. April 3-6, from 2-4 pm. $75. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front. (252-6246) BEYOND SUNDAY BRUNCH Luna’s Chef Joe Taylor shares recipes from the popular South Hill brunch spot.

Proceeds support people experiencing hardship and food insecurity to enjoy community cooking classes at no cost.

April 5, 5:30-7:30 pm. $50. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org

MUSIC

COEUR D’ALENE BLUES FESTIVAL Headliners of the 8th annual, three-day festival include Laith Al-Saadi, Stacy Jones Band, Ty Curtis Band, Robin Barrett & Coyote Kings. March 31-April 2.

See website for complete details and tickets; some events are free; others range from $5-$35. CdA Resort, 115 S. Second. cdabluesfestival.com MESSIAH! The Northwest Sacred Music Chorale presents Parts II and III of Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio masterpiece. March 31 at 7 pm and April 1 at 3 pm. $16-$22. Trinity Lutheran Church, 812 N. Fifth St, CdA. nwsmc.org PUCCINI ONE-ACT OPERAS UI’s Opera Workshop performs two of Puccini’s operas, “Gianni Schicchi” and “Suor Angelica.” March 31 and April 2, at 7:30 pm. $5-$8. University of Idaho Administration Building, 851 Campus Dr. uidaho.edu (888-884-3246) ALIVE SHE CRIED: THE ULTIMATE DOORS TRIBUTE The band incorporates Jim’s poetry, unpredictable stage antics and improv within a structure that recreates the magic and mystique that the Doors were known for. April 1, 8-10 pm. $25/$35(VIP). Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. aliveshecried.net PALOUSE CHORAL SOCIETY CHILDREN’S CHOIR The ensemble of singers in grades 4-7 from across the Palouse performs selections from various cultures, languages and time periods, from Bach to Calypso to Kenyan folk music. April 2, 4 pm. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. (208-669-2249) SYMPHONY CHORALE CONCERT The program includes the majestic German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. April 2, 4-5:30 pm. $15/perosn; $35/family. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. spokanesymphonyassoc.org (220-0661) CELLO CONCERT Enjoy an afternoon of cello and piano, as Spokane Symphony cellist Kevin Hekmatpanah is joined by a pianist to share a Russianthemed program that includes works

by Shostakovich and Prokofiev. April 6, 1:30 pm. Free. Touchmark South Hill, 2929 S. Waterford Dr. (536-2929)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

WHAT TO KNOW WHEN YOU’RE ON THE WATER Join members of the Spokane Sheriff’s Department Search & Rescue team to learn about recreating wisely on the water. March 30, 6-7:30 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe St. rei. com/spokane (328-9900) BEGINNING BIRD WATCHING CLASS The Friends of Turnbull NWR again hosts this session on the first Saturdays of April, May and June. Spokane Audubon Society member Joyce Alonso leads a classroom session, followed by a walk on the Refuge. Meet in at 8:45 am; walk is from 10:30 to noon. $3/ car. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/activities.html (235-4723) SANDPOINT STREET SCRAMBLE The third annual scavenger-hunt style event meets at before 9:45 to register. After the 10:15 am start, run or ride your bike around Sandpoint to the spots marked on the map and once you find it, answer a question about something there. April 1, 9:45 am-1:15 pm. $5/$7. Sandpoint West Athletic Club, 1905 Pine. ewoc.org FIND YOUR PARK: MT. RAINIER NATIONAL PARK REI staff help you discover Mount Rainier National Park’s best spots to recreate along with the first-hand knowledge to enjoy your time on the trails. April 5, 6-7 pm. Free.

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HOLDING ON - LETTING GO An honest, humorous and heartrending look at a family forced to come to terms with end-of-life. Through April 9, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $25. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) SISTER ACT In this divine comedy, a woman hiding in a convent helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she rediscovers her own. March 30-April 9; Thu0Sat, 7:30 pm; Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm. $12-$20. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand. rtoptheatre.org ILLUSIO: TOUR OF MAGIC An evening of magic by Isaiah Daniels and his crew.

March 31, 7:30-8:30 pm. $12/adults; $10/kids. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. (270-6865) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Robby French and Jadd Davis are Jesus and Judas in this production of Jesus Christ SuperStar, directed by Troy Nickerson.

March 31-April 2, April 6-8, 13-16 and 20-23 at 7:30 pm.; $24-$30. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave. lakecityplayhouse.org A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM A performance of the Shakespeare classic by the Moscow Community Theatre.

March 31-April 9; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. (208-882-4127) NOISES OFF! The classic farce presents a manic menagerie as a cast of traveling actors rehearsing a flop. March 31-April 23, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $18-$27. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com SHE KILLS MONSTERS Laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and ‘90s pop culture, this dramatic comedy offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all. March

31-April 8; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm and Sun at 2 pm. $8-$10. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts. wsu.edu (335-8522) STAGEWEST: MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET Meet the Nowaks of Buffalo in this production inspired by the classic comedy “Miracle on 34th Street.” Through April 8; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Dinner theater April 8, 6 pm (reservation only). Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm, Cheney. stagewestct.org (951-1355)

VISUAL ARTS

DAN MCCANN: A LOOK BACK A solo, retrospective exhibition by the mixed media artist. March 16-April 27; open Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm (closed March 2731). Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Bldg. (359-2494) MFA THESIS EXHIBITION The Spring exhibit features a wide range of styles and stimulating experiences. Featured artists: Hayley Black, Stephen Cohen, Annie Cunningham, Andre Fortes, Yuanwen Lin and Laura Pregeant. April 4-May 6, open Tue-Sat, 10 am-4 pm.

Reception April 7, 6-8 pm. Free and open to the public. Museum of Art/ WSU, Wilson Rd. museum.wsu.edu DROP IN & DRAW Adults and teens are invited to drop in and draw with others in a session led by artist Niah Ferlito.

Wednesdays, from 4-5:30 pm. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org BOOKERS DOZEN The biannually touring exhibit exploring books as pieces of art returns to the library. On display daily during regular library hours, through the month of April. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. cdalibrary.org

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READING: PALOUSE PRAIRIE FIELD GUIDE A reading by the book’s author, Jacie Jensen of Thorn Creek Native Seed Farm. March 30, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com AUTHORS BOB MANION & AURORA DAWNING A signing event with the two romance genre authors. April 1, 11 am-3 pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 15310 E. Indiana Ave. (850-4600) BOOTSLAM Last chance to qualify for Spokane Poetry Slam FINALS. Anyone is welcome to compete, and the top 8 point-earning poets from 2016-17 earn places on the Finals stage, later this month. April 2, 7-10:30 pm. $5. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org (703-7223) THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR: SOUTH AMERICA IN THE COLD WAR Kevin Chambers, professor of history at Gonzaga, gives the 2017 Art and Craft of History lecture focusing on the career Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay for 35 years, to analyze how dictatorships emerge and maintain power.

April 4, 7-8 pm. Free. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. (313-3690) WHITWORTH DEBATE VS. IRISH CHAMPIONS The award-winning Whitworth forensics team hosts the national debate champions of Ireland in an exhibition. April 5, 7-8:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. (777-4739) n

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JESSIE HYNES ILLUSTRATION

Things we didn’t talk about

BY SAMUEL LIGON

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ast Friday night, Congresswoman Cathy McMorto, too. She likes to spend time with her people, esperis Rodgers and I did not go out for cocktails. We cially if they buy their own health insurance or have an did not sip martinis and talk about poor people employer who does, like mine. Not that I need health inor the blind or bass fishing or abortion or all the acid we surance. Not that anyone does, really, except sick people took when we were Deadheads crossing paths at various and pregnant people and dying people and people who shows before Jerry died. We did not talk about Pavement need to get things taken out — like spleens and tumors — or Public Enemy or Sonic Youth or all the other bands or things put in — like glass eyes and wooden legs — or we loved so much when we were young, before we had people who need shots and probings and Pap smears and to worry about crumbling infrastructure and socialized colonoscopies, which I’m really not that into, to tell you medicine and men trading their penises for vaginas and the truth. I’m more like, Let’s celebrate life! women trading their vaginas for penises and everyone L’chaim! saying “penis” and “vagina” constantly, all those college nyway, I didn’t call Cath to set up the sit-down. I kids everywhere demanding safe spaces. We didn’t talk didn’t want to distract her when she had so much about Cathy joining the Republican Whip Team in on her plate.

Olympia, or how she fought like hell to keep the word Actually, I did want to distract her. It’s not only coal “Asian” from replacing “Oriental” in state documents, miners who deserve a day off every once in a while. perhaps hoping one day to replace “Oriental” with Cathy needs a day off sometimes too, along with a “Chinaman.” We did not talk about how she came into sympathetic ear and a cocktail or some whip-its. Maybe herself as she ascended, revealing her essential Cathydrinks and dinner at Ruins. Or beers ness once she landed in D.C. Proud. and a bag of Dicks. It would have been Conservative. Pliable. Buyable. Tripher call. I just wanted to serve her the ping her ever-loving brains out.

DISTILLED way she’s always serving us.

If we had gotten together, Cathy A SHOT OF LIFE I would have given her plenty of and I would have shared a bowl of time to unwind, to kick back and get cashews and a pitcher of Manhattans real with one of her best constituents, at the Davenport. We would’ve gone to the kind who does not give a single shit about health Hogwash for Old Fashioneds or Durkin’s for Blood and care, who is untouched by the hypochondria infecting evSands or Boots for vegan hash and coffee. We would’ve eryone else today. We would’ve started at Central Food, talked about the old times, when doctors came to our out on the patio. I’m not exactly clear on my politics, but houses and gave us check-ups and no one got sick, really, I do know I’m in favor of more for me. Mainly, I wanted and everything was practically free. to hear about the Republican Whip Team. I didn’t think But we didn’t go out Friday. it would involve actual whipping, but maybe it was a way We wanted to. I wanted to. Cathy probably wanted

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to incentivize good health, just the threat of a Republican whipping making insurance unnecessary. I’d been jotting down questions for her, like, why is everything so regulated all the time? Isn’t it my choice if I want poison medicine or rotten meat or clothes made of broken glass or toxins oozing up in my basement or guns blowing up in my face?

Or, why is the free market so excellent, and why won’t the government get off my back? Shouldn’t all public land in the West be free for me to graze my cattle on and train my donkeys on and mine uranium on and build bombs on and do whatever else I want to do on it?

Isn’t all public land in the West actually mine?

I understand that we’re a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws, as you’ve pointed out, and a nation of guns, I might add. But why can’t there be more guns all the time everywhere?

Also, how does one become a member of the Republican Whip Team? Are there tryouts of some kind? Do we get to wear uniforms and do routines?

Cath, do you ever drink whiskey out of a baby bottle?

And have you ever wondered why crippled people and the blind get all the good parking and tax breaks?

Does that seem fair?

You’ve talked about our need in America to move from racism to gracism. That sounds pretty neat. I imagine a syrup bottle with Grace Kelly’s face on it, and all of us realizing something about ourselves as a result of drinking that syrup, how we’re really all the same person, but different. So why did Obama hate cops so much?

Does it matter if poor people get sick and die? I mean, I know it matters, but does it matter matter?

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peaking of poor people, if someone wants to be whipped by the Republican Whip Team, how does one arrange that, exactly? Can anyone be whipped?

Or are the whippings only for the poor? Or maybe for those rich people wanting to be whipped?

Speaking of rich people, in the 2010 election you beat Daryl Romeyn in a landslide — 177,235 votes to 101,146.

Even more to your credit, you spent $1,381,220 on that election to Daryl’s ridiculous $13,318. In other words, while each of your votes cost a handsome $7.79, each of Daryl’s votes cost a pathetic $0.13. Nearly eight dollars a vote (you) versus 13 cents a vote (pathetic Daryl). Do you have any idea how money you are?

Is it true that taxes are to regulation as abortion is to gun control?

And if that is true, why can’t America be run more like a business, where we fire people we don’t like and sexually harass people we do?

Finally, are you tripping on acid right now? Is all of Congress tripping all the time, or is it more like an ongoing, never-ending, steroid/meth/gin rage?

I know that’s probably too many questions, Cathy.

And I know they were probably too heavy, when you’re here at home, trying to chill with your peeps. Maybe we should’ve just had a couple of drinks and screamed Violent Femmes songs down by the river.

Still, it was fun not going out. I’m already looking forward to next time, when we can not talk about how much we love the people of Eastern Washington, which is why we have to do everything we can to take away their health insurance — transforming hurtful, socialist entitlement spending into economic-developing, freedomloving tax breaks for the rich. Please do look me up next time you’re in town and don’t want to hang with the crybabies. I can’t wait to not get drinks again soon!  Samuel Ligon’s most recent books are Wonderland and Among the Dead and Dreaming. He teaches at EWU and edits Willow Springs.

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