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epublicans want to believe that Donald Trump is an aberration. Notables like Mitt Romney are “supporting” the muchhated Ted Cruz instead. But it’s cynical, as they don’t expect — or want — Cruz to win; they do hope he can win enough votes to force a brokered convention. These so-called establishment Republicans see this scenario as their last hope of maintaining the party they have known for the past half-century.

But the fact is, the GOP isn’t a political party — not any longer. James Madison, I believe, would agree that the GOP has transformed itself into a “faction” masquerading as a party. Trump isn’t an aberration; he is a champion of faction, which is the secret of his success.

In Federalist No. 10, Madison defines the term: “By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

Madison also accepted that factions were inevitable: “The causes of faction are sown in the nature of man, and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.”

The trick was, Madison argued, to force factions to seek consensus and compromise as the cost of pursuing their collective and individual interests. The country, he thought, could accomplish this through the creation of large and diverse republics, otherwise known as states.

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rump and today’s GOP faction are clinging to just the opposite modus operandi.

They regard consensus to be unnecessary, evidence of unprincipled conduct. (So, too, does Trump.) Worse yet, compromise is viewed as proof of immorality. (Vintage Trump.)

Fearmongering has been the common denominator that knits all this together. Whether in 1949 (“Who Lost China?”), or in the early 1950s (McCarthyism), or beginning in 1968 with Nixon’s Southern Strategy, or the Patriot Act, or the invasion of Iraq — it’s all been fearmongering.

(Pure Trump.)

And it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same. It took Trump and Cruz only a few days after last week’s Brussels attacks to begin their fearmongering: The president should reintroduce torture and assign more police patrols to “Muslim neighborhoods.”

The GOP as faction has been sustained, in part, by gerrymandering and voter suppression, but also by the “big smear” — a tactic that Karl Rove turned into a dark art form. Recall the case of Bill Clinton, a centrist Democrat who, despite eight years under constant attack, left office with

an approval rating above 60 percent, a budget surplus and no war. (That took some political skill.) From almost his first day in office, he was engulfed by a flood of big-smear demagoguery — Whitewater, “Who Killed Vince Foster?” and Travelgate. Not a single Republican had the courage to come to his defense. No, factions don’t tolerate breaking ranks.

As noted, Madison assumed that a federal system would automatically produce the necessary diversity, but it didn’t and it hasn’t. V.O. Key wrote about this in his 1949 classic, Southern Politics in State and Nation, arguing that whatever their differences, the South continued to be bound by what he termed “Black Belt Politics.”

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urns out that some things haven’t changed much, like injecting race into politics. Let’s go back to Ronald Reagan, who launched his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the town where three young civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. Or recall George H. W. Bush’s “Willie Horton” smear of Michael Dukakis that came out of nowhere in 1988.

Ancient history? OK, let’s jump ahead to 2008. I refer to Barack Obama and disingenuous charges that he is really a Kenyan and a Muslim.

As recently as 2012, 43 percent of all Republicans still believed that Obama was a Muslim.

Nor does the birther story go away, as Trump sent “investigators” to Hawaii just last year. At the Iowa caucuses, 59 percent of Republican participants expressed doubts about Obama’s birthplace.

Factionalism in the GOP Senate today is alive, but not doing all that well. I give you Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his refusal to even shake hands with, let alone hold hearings on, the president’s excellent Supreme Court nominee. McConnell’s actions are at best obnoxious, and at worst seditious. Where does it say in the Constitution that the president’s term is three years?

McConnell is no outlier; he is carrying out his faction’s baseline rules — no matter the importance of the political question at hand, there will be no consensus and no compromise. It’s like Madison said: a “passion… adverse to the rights of other citizens.”

The longtime comic-strip character Pogo might observe that in coming face to face with the specter of Trump as their standard-bearer, the Republican faction has finally “met the enemy, and he is us.” n

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BERNIE SANDERS had a few advantages going into the Washington state caucuses on Saturday. The Vermont senator has struggled in states with large minority populations, but Washington is comparatively white. Sanders attracts the sort of passionate fans willing to put into the time and energy to spend a big chunk of their day at the caucuses. And it’s not like liberal Seattle is afraid of the word “socialist” — not with a socialist on its city council.

The problem: For Democrats, some votes in Washington state are worth more than others. Out of Washington state’s 101 delegates, 17 aren’t determined by caucus results.

They’re “superdelegates,” and they can select any candidate they want.

Sanders captured 73 percent of the vote in Washington, but most of the state’s superdelegates, including Gov. Jay Inslee and Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, have already backed HILLARY CLINTON. The vast majority of Washington’s superdelegates are from either the Puget Sound, Olympia or Vancouver regions, with only Spokane’s Valerie Brady Rongey from the eastern half of the state.

Sanders supporters, however, have demanded that Washington state’s superdelegates honor the will of the voters and feel the Bern. Or at least do a decent job of faking the Bernie sensation. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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The bird, and the Internet’s obsession with it, perfectly encapsulates Sanders’ campaign. Even during Republican debates, pro-Sanders posts have dominated Reddit and Twitter. A recent Washington Post analysis found that the 74-year-old Vermont senator received more votes from people under 30 than HILLARY CLINTON and Donald Trump combined. Their affinity for Sanders may not be quite enough to win him the nomination, but his attention to issues plaguing young people in 21st-century America has cemented him as a dominant progressive voice for years to come.

“I think there’s maybe some symbolism here,” Sanders said after the bird flew away from the podium. “I know it doesn’t look like it, but that bird is really a dove asking us for world peace. No more wars!” (MITCH RYALS)

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COMMENT | GUEST EDITORIAL Moving Forward plan may not be the ideal blueprint that urbanists crave, but they will make a big difference by introducing frequent, simple and late-night service.

No doubt, the ambitious plan should be placed on the November 2016 ballot and ultimately approved.

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was recently talking with a friend at school about what type of place I’d like to live and work upon graduation. We discussed a number of locales, like San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.

I was shocked that for the first time, I mentioned that I saw my return to Spokane not “as soon as possible,” but after “a few years.” Was I slowly losing touch with my hometown?

Maybe. Maybe not.

I want to live in a beautiful, vibrant city with an

outstanding quality of life, a distinct culture and easy access to outdoor recreation. I want to take in amazing art, explore new neighborhoods and districts, and build the local community.

So why was I discounting Spokane?

Perhaps it’s the lack of local entry-level jobs for recent college graduates. Perhaps it’s the allure of big-city culture and paychecks.

But let’s not discount the less expected factors.

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We can look to other cities for inventive solutions.

San Jose, for example, adopted an “urban village” master plan, singling out dozens of small neighborhoods for denser, more concentrated housing and retail development. Seattle has introduced a number of measures to improve livability, including allowing more density in single-family zones, approving building a record number of microunits and expanding Sound Transit to the tune of $50 billion. And then there’s Portland, which pioneered the concept of freeway revolt in the 1970s, redirecting the funds for their canceled Mount Hood Freeway to the now world-class MAX Light Rail system.

Let’s be clear. These aren’t radical ideas. Spokane can become a city that millennials crave. But it must act now if it wants to avoid making the same mistakes it has made in the past. We must commit to walkable neighborhoods and fast, frequent transit.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

NO MORE NORTH SIDE SPRAWL anito Park is 90 acres. Riverfront Park is 100. Both are destinations

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that have folks traveling to from all over the Northwest. Meanwhile, in the 30 years I have been living on Spokane’s North Side, development has given us a relentless strip of box stores, decaying strip malls and weedy parking lots.

A 400-plus-acre wooded parcel along Highway 2, just north of Target (and the now ancient Newport Cinemas, vacant since the late ’90s), is finally seeing its day on the chopping block. Costco is planning a 160,000-squarefoot box store which will deforest 15 acres of land without appreciably improving the quality of life for anyone on the North Side. The rest of the acreage, according to the county website, is doomed to be more soulLETTERS less subdivisions.

Send comments to What the North Side needs is a editor@inlander.com. corollary to Manito Park and Kendall Yards. Planned development could attract visitors up the North-South Freeway. It could offer a beautiful park experience for county dwellers up north. It would improve property values and quality of life for generations of North Side residents.

County dwellers on the North Side of Spokane need to tell their commissioners that we insist on modern planning and development, development that leans on mixed use and preservation of green spaces. Why should our landscape be slated for more asphalt wastes, more desolate cement graveyards? Those of us who have spent our lives in North Spokane are proud of the beauty here. Let’s require new business ventures to invest in environmental improvements and be more socially responsible beyond making another dollar.

SARAH BEN OLSON Spokane, Wash.

Reactions to last week’s news story “Paradigm Shift” about growing tensions among members of the Spokane Valley City Council:

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CHRIS DUTTON: Does the city government do anything besides fight over who controls the meeting where they discuss who makes the rules for setting the next meeting? By the looks of this article, there is no reason for residents of the city to care what these idiots are up to.

Should we? Why? Sure would be nice if someone would tell us.

ROSEANN COPELL: The Spokane Valley Planning Commission and Valley Council backed up my neighborhood and helped block the rezoning and over-development of a neighborhood lot so I definitely care about who’s on the team and what they’re up to. I appreciate their past efforts and I hope going forward that things can be less hostile among members.

It’s kinda strange that they oust the city manager here so often and I don’t totally love the idea of Tea Party leaders, so yeah. I care.

DIRK VASTRICK: Anybody that didn’t see this coming when Ed Pace was elected wasn’t paying attention. I am ashamed of my city.

The majority (by 99 votes) acts like they are now the dictators.

Good luck in the next election. Now everyone knows what you are. And transparent certainly is not one of those things. 

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A Student and a Half Spokane Public Schools faces scrutiny for a policy that, some argue, discriminates against special ed students

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aura Pieper was supposed to change special education in Spokane for the better. At least, that’s what she thought.

Pieper, formerly a Bellevue School District school administrator for 14 years, says she accepted the position as Spokane Public Schools’ director of special education in 2014 because she was explicitly told that the district needed someone to fix the system.

It’s less than two years later, and Pieper has since resigned, accusing district officials of forcing her out because they didn’t want to change policies that Pieper thought violated the civil rights of special needs students. Before she left, she filed a complaint with the U.S.

Department of Education Office of Civil Rights that alleges district discrimination against special ed students.

As the federal investigation into that complaint continues, Pieper, more than she ever did as an employee, is attracting scrutiny to special ed practices in Spokane — something many parents and special ed advocates have desperately wanted.

The district has a different story regarding what led to her resignation last year. It denies that Pieper’s desire to change special ed policies had anything to do with her resignation, and rejects the notion that it violated any laws in the first place. Instead, SPS spokesman Kevin Morrison says her separation was based on multiple

allegations of employee mistreatment and creation of a hostile work environment. Pieper calls those claims a fabrication.

No matter what led to Pieper’s departure from Spokane Public Schools, her complaint questions the district’s special ed practices, mainly how the district weights special ed students as 1.5 students for class-size purposes, as opposed to mainstream students who are weighted as 1.0. That, she says, is discriminatory, because it makes it harder for special ed students to enroll in classes, and it goes against the spirit of including special ed students in the general education environment.

Again, the district says this is not discriminatory. It maintains that weighting special ed kids as 1.5 students actually helps them because it lowers class sizes and workload for teachers.

But for Kelly Knutson, a parent who says her son was denied entry into a class because of the weighting policy, this is another example of the overall culture of denial the district has created.

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Let’s say there are 24 students in a second grade classroom, one fewer than the maximum number of students currently allowed in a Spokane second grade classroom. Both a mainstream student and a special ed student want to enroll, but the special ed student is weighted as 1.5, per the agreement between the teachers union and district.

In this scenario, the mainstream student would most likely be allowed in without issue.

Yet students with an Individualized Education Plan, which can be created for kids diagnosed with anything from dyslexia to autism, may be told there is no room.

That is what Pieper argues is discrimination and violates the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a federal law meant to ensure disabled students a free and appropriate public education. Spokane is the only district in the region to weight students with IEPs as 1.5 students, and it’s done so for decades.

In Spokane Public Schools, more than 16 percent of the student population, or roughly 4,800 kids, is considered special ed, among the highest rates in the state, according to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The district, like many across the nation, is in the midst of a teacher shortage disproportionately impacting special education positions. Through all of this, the district has been trying for years to implement a so-called “Inclusion Model,” an ongoing national movement to integrate special ed students into general education classrooms so they can spend more time with their peers and learn content at their own grade level.

The weighting policy is intended to ensure that none of this creates class sizes too large for teachers, says Jenny Rose, president of the Spokane Education Association.

“When you keep adding students, that is not good for the students in the classroom,” Rose says. “If teachers have a 25 class-size limit and 29 kids, you’re not serving any of those kids.”

She says that more inclusion into general education classes came with no additional training for those teachers.

At Rogers High School, there are currently about 300 special ed students who all have IEPs. Due to the teacher shortage, some special ed teachers are on “super contracts” to compensate

for a heavier workload, says Nicole Kilgore, the school’s special ed department lead.

She says the weighting policy has had little impact on inclusion either way.

“Personally, I don’t understand why we need to do a 1.5 [policy],” Kilgore says. “I think these kids are regular students, and to say they’re 1.5 is to say they take that much more time than regular kids. And I don’t necessarily believe that.”

The district, in its response to Pieper’s complaint, argues no law states that weighting students differently is illegal. It argues that Pieper gave no examples of students being discriminated against based on the policy, and as long as weighting is not “applied in such a manner as to prevent students from being mainstreamed or denied a free and appropriate public education,” then it violates no laws or civil rights.

Yet Pieper did provide at least two written examples of students who could not enter classrooms for “inclusion opportunities” due to classroom caps, according to the complaint.

Lisa Pacheco, Spokane Public Schools’ new director of special education, says it was rare that students would not be accepted into a classroom based on weighting, and that was before the language was LETTERS modified in Send comments to the teachers’ editor@inlander.com. contract last year to ensure a student is not turned away because of their designated weight.

“That has since gone away. If there is a position — if there is a 1.0 opening and a student is considered weighted — they will still have access,” Pacheco says. “So I think that was a concern that might be one piece that could impact inclusion, but it doesn’t at this point.”

Kelly Knutson would beg to differ.

Her 8-year-old adopted son, Zachery, has been diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome and has anxiety and behavioral issues. She says he has been the victim of the weighting policy twice — the first time as a first grader, when she wanted him to switch classes at Indian Trail Elementary.

More recently, in December, she tried to switch schools altogether based on a recommendation from his therapist, because the classroom environment had her son picking at his skin. She called four other schools to see if they had an opening, and one of those schools told her they had no room because he was weighted as 1.5 students.

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For Knutson, the weighting policy is an issue that represents a broader problem for special education in the district.

“Laura Pieper is not the district’s problem,” Knutson says. “She understood the law, she was an advocate for our kids, and then there was pushback.”

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When Spokane Public Schools was interviewing candidates for the director of special education in 2014, it reached out to the Laura Pieper, the former director of special Special Education Parent education at Spokane Public Schools, has filed Advisory Committee, a a complaint with federal education officials. group Knutson is part of.

Included in that group is Nikki Lockwood, who also has a special needs child in Spokane. She says Pieper was brought in because she was an agent of change and she advocated for parents.

“I had a significant issue with my kid, and she made phone calls and helped us,” Lockwood says. “But that’s just a parent perspective.”

Yet there were several reports of Pieper not getting along with employees, even acting aggressively, before she was ultimately transferred, put on administrative leave and officially left the district late in 2015.

Some of what she advocated for is now being carried on by this group of parents who want more consistent care for their special needs kids at all schools. Knutson, for example, says now that she finally has her son in another school, he’s doing better.

“We either know of or have experienced what good looks like, so we really, really know what bad looks like,” Knutson says.

“We’ve seen both sides of that, and we’re aware of both sides of it, and that inconsistency is really a struggle.”

Pacheco taught special ed for 13 years before working her way up as a principal and eventually to head of special education.

She says her door is open, and most issues can be solved with a conversation.

But unlike Pieper, is she confident that the district’s policies are in accordance with the law?

“I’m confident that, yes, we’re doing a great job,” Pacheco says. “I don’t think any system is perfect, but I think we’re doing an outstanding job, and working as hard as we can to make sure that we’re following the letter of the law.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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Delegates will head to Philadelphia this July to pick either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the party’s standard-bearer. Sanders won the caucuses with 73 percent of the vote, and in Spokane County by 78 percent. Caucusgoers also selected delegates to the Spokane County Democratic Convention.

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SITTING AND CITING The Spokane Police Department released numbers regarding enforcement of the city’s SIT-LIE ORDINANCE last week that reveal how the controversial law is being applied. The data shows that fewer people are being booked or cited under the ordinance, which critics says effectively criminalizes homelessness by prohibiting people from sitting or lying on sidewalks. Additionally, the data shows that police rarely use the ordinance to arrest people, because doing so is so time-consuming for the arresting officer. Another takeaway is that people are rarely cited later at night when they might be trying to find a place to rest, a concern that was raised when the law was expanded in 2013. (JAKE THOMAS)

WISH UPON A BLUESTAR In February of 2014, following up on an FBI raid of Spokane’s BlueStar Digital Technologies, the Inlander uncovered a wild tale of malfeasance and mismanagement at the troubled Blu-ray manufacturing firm, involving outlandish promises, angry investors, two separate evictions, Michael Jackson’s dad and a bikini contest in the Bahamas. Last week, BlueStar CEO ERICK HANSEN pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, with sentencing scheduled for June 22. Before accusations of fraud flooded in, multiple Spokane mayors had praised BlueStar, and Greater Spokane Inc. even nominated the deal to bring BlueStar to Spokane as the 2007 “Economic Development Deal of the Year” for Business Facilities magazine. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Head of the Class WSU picks its next president; plus, a new way to look at incarceration rates WSU CHOOSES ‘CANDIDATE C’

After a secret search, Washington State University has chosen a new president to replace the late Elson Floyd, who died of cancer-related complications last June.

KIRK SCHULZ, currently the Kansas State University president, will be the 11th WSU president. He was chosen unanimously by the WSU’s Board of Regents last Friday.

During the board’s discussion of the three finalists for the job on Friday, Schulz was referred to as “Candidate C.” The school decided early on in the process that names of candidates would not be released, so their employers wouldn’t be tipped off that they were looking for other jobs.

In an interview with the Seattle Times, former state auditor Brian Sonntag says not discussing the candidates openly violates the state’s Open Public Meetings Act. The regents say the process was approved by WSU’s attorney. Other schools, including the University of Washington, have used similar processes of not naming candidates in a presidential search.

Schulz, a professor of chemical engineering, has been Kansas State’s president since 2009. He is also on the NCAA Board of Governors.

According to a WSU news release, regent Mike Worthy, who chaired the presidential search committee,

says Schulz had all the qualifications the school was looking for.

“When we did the opportunities and challenges document, laying out the characteristics Cougs said they wanted in a president, well, [Schulz] has them all — leadership, commitment to academic quality, administrative skills to complete the strong trajectory WSU is on,” Worthy says.

Schulz has indicated he will serve as KSU president until May and transition to WSU in June. School officials say they plan to fly Schulz here this week to meet students, staff and media. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

NUMBERS GAME

Washington is the second least punitive state in a new CRIME AND PUNISHMENT metric from Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project.

Idaho, on the other hand, is the second most punitive.

For decades, criminal justice analysts have pointed to the millions of people sitting in prison — 900 per 100,000 adults in the United States in 2014 — as a gauge of how the country deals with criminals. The 2.2 million people in U.S. prisons and jails in 2014 is the most of any country on the planet.

But in a “more nuanced assessment of punishment,”

Pew suggests comparing the number of inmates to the frequency and severity of crime, rather than to the population — in other words, a “punishment rate” rather than an “imprisonment rate.”

Pew’s calculation divides the imprisonment rate (the count of inmates sentenced to a year or more per 100,000 residents) by a severity-weighted crime rate, which measures the frequency and severity of reported crime per 100,000 residents. Each crime is weighted relative to the average amount of time people are sentenced for it. A homicide would be weighted more heavily than a theft, for example.

Notably, this calculation does not include drug offenders, who make up a significant portion of the country’s prison population.

Washington state’s punishment rate is LETTERS 237, about half of Send comments to the nation’s average. editor@inlander.com.

Idaho checks in at 808, second only to Mississippi. According to the data, all states became more punitive from 1983 to 2013, with Washington state increasing by 61 percent and Idaho increasing by 339 percent in that time period.

There is, however, at least one inherent flaw in Pew’s metric. As The Marshall Project points out, Pew is comparing people in prison to the crime rate, but there is a lag between crime and punishment.

Pew concedes that the calculation paints an incomplete picture, but is still an “essential tool” in understanding correctional trends among states, showing where certain crimes are punished more, or less. (MITCH RYALS)

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Binders Full of Women On the heels of a new study showing the city hires far more men than women, the city is asking whether the entire civil service system needs to be overhauled

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hose who missed Thursday’s Gender and Race Pay Equity Task Force press conference or haven’t read its 49-page report can find a chalk summary on the ground outside City Hall. In bright greens, pinks, oranges and blues, local artists have etched pie charts, diagrams and statistics from the report.

One headline stat from the report: Women working for the city government make only 85 cents for every dollar male employees earn.

That’s not because sexist department heads are just deciding to pay less, the report found. It’s more that women haven’t applied, or been hired or promoted for the same high-paying positions in the city of Spokane as men.

In other words: want to solve the wage gap?

Solve the hiring gap. A diagram, stenciled with miniature green male and pink female silhouettes on the concrete, lays out a brutal statistic: Women make up 48 percent of the workforce in Spokane, but only 24 percent of city employees.

It’s left leaders examining whether the civil service system, put in place long ago to ensure fair hiring practices, has actually perpetuated the gender gap. After all, the demographics are markedly different for employees who have been appointed directly by Mayor David Condon, instead of through civil service.

Condon not only made his second-in-command a woman — City Administrator Theresa Sanders — but he’s also hired and promoted more women than men. It’s against this backdrop that the Condon administration is examining a potentially explosive possibility: wholesale reform of the civil service system.

“You know, civil service is a 130-year-old system,” Sanders says. “And they would say they haven’t achieved the goals we desire. Clearly we have some room for improvement. ”

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For most entry-level jobs in the city of Spokane, getting hired hinges on filling out 100 bubbles on a Scantron sheet in a small classroom on the fourth floor in City Hall.

Score in the top 10 and your name gets added to the list forwarded on to a department’s director — where she’ll select the candidate she prefers. But bomb it and, no matter how impressive your résumé or recommendations, you’re removed from consideration.

Other jobs may require applicants to write essays describing their qualifications, or answer questions orally. In each case, the goal is to strip the hiring process of any subjectivity.

“When we hire employees for the city of Spokane,” Chief Examiner Gita George-Hatcher says, the mission of the civil service division is “that they be hired on the basis of merit principles.”

Yet the statistics show that the meritocratic process results in more men being hired in the city.

By contrast, Condon’s cabinet, and a number of management positions in the city, are exempt from constraints and rules of the civil service.

The mayor can hire or fire whom he chooses, reaping the praise or the criticism.

In a 2014 Inlander interview, George-Hatcher argued that the civil service system was better at avoiding discrimination more than a system “where you’re simply appointing people with no process or mechanism in place.”

The statistics challenge that. Of the Condonappointed employees currently with the city, 23 are women and only 16 are men. Sanders says she can’t recall explicitly considering gender for an appointment, but thinks the mayor’s more open hiring process has helped with diversity.

“I have to admit I’m not a fan for testing people for a job,” says Sanders. “If you’re going to create a merit-based system, there has to be more than one element of merit.” In other words, a bad test-taker, with considerable experience, could still be a great employee.

Various studies have shown that despite earning higher grades in college, females score lower on SAT, ACT, GRE and other standardized tests than males. The gender gap is the most pronounced for multiple-choice tests — the format used for entry-level civil service tests.

George-Hatcher says she’s open to continue examining whether the testing process itself could be a barrier for some qualified employees. The gender and racial equity report, for example, recommends anonymously surveying applicants after they take civil service tests about their thoughts regarding the exam. She wants to look for ways to improve it.

“We want to diversify the workforce considerably,” George-Hatcher says. But even if the city wanted to make race and gender part of its hiring rubric, it can’t: A 1998 Washington state voter initiative banned state and local governments from considering race or gender when hiring.

George-Hatcher notes that the blame for the disparity can’t all be placed on civil service: She says that in one six-month period, the civil service department submitted female names 236 times for consideration — 18 percent of the total.

But department heads chose to hire only 23 of them.

It’s difficult to figure out how much of the civil service gender gap is a result of the types of jobs being offered: Many are labor-intensive — in departments like streets, engineering, sewer, wastewater, and solid waste — and traditionally male. While about 92 percent of clerical and secretarial jobs in the city are held by women, those jobs generally don’t pay as well.

Chief Examiner Gita George-Hatcher (right) and Nicole Goes, an analyst with the civil service department, say the city of Spokane is searching for ways to hire more women. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO The types of city jobs can’t explain everything, however.

About 36 percent of employees working for the city of Seattle are female, compared with less than a quarter in Spokane.

“In the past, human resources would do an [Equal Employment Opportunity] report every year,” George-Hatcher says.

These reports would dive deep into the demographics for each position and develop plans for improving diversity. After 15 years without such a report, George-Hatcher wants to bring those back.

Mostly, she’s focusing on broader recruitment to bring more women to the city. “This year, for the very first time, we are doing a city-sponsored job fair,” she says. The fair, to be held on April 14 at the fire department training facility, will attempt to “demystify” the civil service process by giving attendees a chance to take a sample test.

“We’re trying to cast a really wide net, and recruit people to all walks of life,” George-Hatcher says.

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Beyond the recommendations of the Gender and Race Pay Equity Task Force, the Condon administration is looking at a much more radical solution: A full-scale, piece-by-piece interrogation of every step of the civil service process — from hiring to training to promoting.

“You have to pull the systems apart,” Sanders says. “You have to look at every single kernel of this.”

She suggests bringing back “technical panels” of experts to assess candidates in civil service jobs that require specialized knowledge. She says that department heads should get to look at all the civil service applicants, not just the handful of top-scoring candidates.

“If you had 57 people test, I want to see ’em all,” she says. “I want to look for more factors than just how well they did on a test.”

Sanders knows this is tricky political ground. Nearly every major controversy that has dogged Condon the past four years — from the hiring of the son of the public facilities director to the ousting of the city’s planning director and police chief — has focused on hiring and firing practices. City Councilmember Karen Stratton, a former civil service employee herself, has been highly critical of Condon’s chipping away at civil service by adding exempt positions.

Sanders says the key to navigating all the politics is for the administration, unions and civil service system to come together to create goals up front to improve civil service.

“If the goal is to get a level of diversity that reflects the community, then I think you have to be thinking, through every step: What are the barriers?” Sanders says. n danielw@inlander.com

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Geroge Crowe has lived in a hospital for the last month. Not because he’s sick, but because he has nowhere to go.

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Hospitalized and Homeless Why one man is stranded in a Spokane hospital, and what that reveals about the state of long-term care for the disabled and elderly in Washington

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eorge Crowe, a 67-year-old quadriplegic, was sent to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center to treat a life-threatening bladder infection last month. A month later, the infection has been treated, but Crowe hasn’t left the hospital. That’s because he has nowhere to go.

Crowe had been living at Arbor Rose, an adult family home on Spokane’s South Hill.

A bike accident in Pullman last July left him without the use of his arms or legs. After he was released from St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in October, Arbor Rose took Crowe in. It was there that staff fed him, bathed him, took him to the doctor and generally did all the things he couldn’t do for himself.

“They had a fountain out back, and a patio you could sit on,” recalls Crowe of Arbor Rose.

“And the room was nice, with a big window.”

But Crowe says that he received unexpected news the morning after he was admitted to Providence to treat his infection: The hospital staff told him that he no longer had his room at Arbor Rose, and his things had been cleaned out.

Arbor Rose owner Steve Andrews tells the Inlander he didn’t take Crowe back in because the home couldn’t provide the level of care he needed and declined to comment further. But Crowe says that his discharge was improper, and suspects it was because Andrews was seeking a different client who could pay more than the Medicaid rate Crowe was paying. The incident is currently under investigation by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.

For the past month, Crowe has been in a

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rare but not unheard-of state of limbo where he’s lived in the hospital because there is no other adult home or other facility that can take him in.

Although Crowe isn’t out on the streets, his stay at the hospital isn’t cheap. Providence spokeswoman Jennifer Semenza couldn’t say exactly how much Crowe’s stay costs, but in an email points to numbers showing that the average cost per night at a Washington hospital is $3,189.

Floyd McKnight, Crowe’s former roommate who now manages his finances, says that Medicare covers Crowe’s medical costs, meaning that taxpayers are paying his bill.

Providence won’t discharge Crowe until he has a safe place lined up. Elizabeth DeRuyter, Providence’s director of external communications, says that Crowe could get more appropriate and less costly care outside of the hospital, and hospital social workers are trying to find a more permanent place for Crowe. But there are times, he says, when he thinks he might have nowhere to go: “Of course I’m worried.”

There’s a broader trend underneath this situation: Crowe has been caught in a statewide crunch involving adult family homes, and it’s likely to get a lot worse.

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n the 1990s, adult family homes began growing rapidly in Washington. They’re considered a less expensive option than nursing homes, which have more extensive medical facilities, and keep elderly and disabled clients in a residential setting close to family and support.

Each of the state’s 2,757 adult family homes provide around-the-clock care, including food,

therapy, laundry and other services.

John Ficker, the executive director of the Adult Family Home Council of Washington State, says that fewer of these facilities are available at a time when they are increasingly needed.

“What we’ve seen overall is a 10 to 15 percent decrease in total beds across the state over the last four or five years,” Ficker says. “And we’re seeing a demographic change that shows us that there are more and more people in need of long-term care services.”

According to state numbers, 827,677 Washington residents were 65 or older in 2010. By 2015, that number had risen to over a million, and the population is projected to grow to more than 1.9 million by the year 2040. Ficker also says that people with developmental disabilities are living longer, putting more demand on long-term-care facilities.

In Spokane, there are 905 beds in 161 adult family homes, according to Eastern Washington Regional Long Term Care Ombudsman Aaron Riley, most of which he says are currently at capacity. He says that some adult family homes may not be equipped to provide the high level of care for a quadriplegic like Crowe.

“The list [of available adult family homes] just keeps shrinking down and down and down,” says Lynn Kimball, executive director of Aging and Long Term Care of Eastern Washington, an organization that coordinates services for seniors and people with disabilities.

Kimball says there are fewer adult family homes in more remote parts of the state, which she says can be a challenge when trying to place someone near family. Some homes are also better equipped than others to deal with specific conditions, such as dementia or behavioral issues, she says.

Ficker says that problems include getting good staff. In 2011, state voters passed a ballot measure requiring that long-term-care workers receive certification showing they’ve passed background checks and undergone training. Ficker points to a 2014 state auditor’s report finding that 42 percent of people who applied to be long-term-care workers did not obtain the required certification and were unable to work.

The bigger issue is reimbursement rates from Medicaid, a federal program that pays for the health care of low-income individuals, says Ficker; 57 percent of residents in adult family homes rely on Medicaid to finance their care, he says, and the program’s reimbursement rates often don’t keep up with the average cost ($110 a day) of keeping someone in a home. The average reimbursement rate, says Ficker, is $87, and can be as low as $47 to provide care, housing and meals for a resident. He says the top end is $150 per day, for clients who often require more care.

“It kind of puts the entire industry at risk for not being sustained,” says Ficker, who says that more homes will turn to more privately paying clients.

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n most days, Crowe sleeps until about noon. When he’s up, he usually has lunch, then rides around the hospital on an electric wheelchair he controls by breathing into a tube. He likes to go up to a visitor room and watch the trains go by. The rest of the day, he watches Fox News and episodes of Law and Order.

He depends on nurses for essentially everything, whether it’s scratching his nose, wiping the sweat from his brow, feeding him meals or helping him make phone calls.

Long before the accident, Crowe played bass in rock bands in California and worked in the music industry. He lived in Pullman, where he had gone back to school, attending Washington State University as a communications major and living in a house owned by a family he’s close to. He says he hasn’t been back to the house since his accident, because entering it requires climbing stairs, and it’ll require retrofitting before it’s accessible to him.

In the long term, Crowe hopes to regain movement in his limbs and return to Pullman. In the meantime, he just wants out of the hospital.

“I’d like to be somewhere where they have a porch, where I can go outside when the weather gets nice,” he says. n jaket@inlander.com

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Nothing But the Some police officers caught lying or committing crimes remain on the job. What that means for prosecutors and the integrity of the criminal justice system

By Mitch Ryals

Truth?

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ops are only as good as their word.

And their words wield great power: An officer’s report and testimony loom large with prosecutors, judges and jurors tasked with deciding between guilt and innocence, incarceration and freedom, life and death.

“People’s freedom relies on us telling the truth,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says. “If you have somebody out there lying on a police report, it can be devastating.”

But law enforcement officers found to be lying are not always fired, and without a reliable tracking system, discredited officers remain on the streets or in the courtroom. Frequently, they’re given the opportunity to resign before internal investigators can condemn them. They’re then free to continue policing in a new department with an unblemished record.

By law, prosecutors have a duty to tell defendants about any evidence that could help their defense or discredit a government witnesses. This effort at transparency dates back to the 1963 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, which says that prosecutors who withhold such evidence are violating the accused’s due process rights.

Although the Brady ruling is more than 50 years old, judges and legal scholars say it’s routinely ignored. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski says the problems are “epidemic,” adding that even when violations of the Brady ruling are discovered, judges are reluctant to toss out convictions.

Born of the Brady case are “Brady lists” — records of police officers whose credibility has officially been called into question.

These lists indicate prosecutors’ commitment to meeting their legal obligations, but not all jurisdictions maintain them.

The Spokane County prosecutor’s list contains 38 names of discredited cops and crime lab scientists. At least 18 of them still work in law enforcement. The prosecutor’s office says it largely relies on the police departments themselves to forward names for the list.

The county public defender’s office, however, says that by its count, the current list of “Brady cops” should be nearly twice as long.

Several local attorneys point to one Spokane County deputy in particular.

Deputy Travis Smith was fired in 2011 following sustained findings of sloppy report writing, improper searches and seizures, conduct unbecoming of an officer, failing to log evidence, neglect of duties, excessive force, discourteous treatment of the public and, the final straw, criminal property damage in which he plunged a 4-inch knife into the seat of a truck he was searching.

Smith appealed Knezovich’s decision to fire him. Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office began investigating perjury allegations stemming from Smith’s testimony in federal court.

In late 2011, an arbitrator hired Smith back, and Knezovich says county attorneys advised him to stop the perjury

investigation because it could look retaliatory. The internal investigation, however, indicates that Smith was at the very least misleading in his report and testimony.

He declined to be interviewed for this story.

“In my opinion, [Smith] committed a crime and was never truthful about it,” Knezovich says. Regarding the arbitrator’s decision to reinstate Smith, the sheriff says: “I just went, ‘Heh, OK, so he gets a pass on this one.’”

“How do rogue forensic scientists and other bad cops thrive in our criminal justice system?” Kozinski, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge, writes in a 2013 opinion. “The simple answer is that some prosecutors turn a blind eye to such misconduct because they’re more interested

case. Of the three, only McIntyre is still employed by the SPD. The fact that the list even exists indicates prosecutors’ acknowledgement of their Brady obligations, but local defense attorneys question its reliability.

Since 2012, Spokane’s Brady list has grown significantly. In February 2015, when the police watchdog website bradycops.org received the list, it contained only nine names. Three months later, following inquiries from Spokane County public defenders, the list grew to its current count of 38, with 26 names added in May 2015. No names have been added since then, and the list does not include any officers from police departments in Airway Heights, Liberty Lake and Cheney. (Additionally, the list provided

to prosecutors they work with is a clear conflict of interest.

“What makes this so precarious is the decision to follow the rule is kind of like the fox guarding the henhouse,” says local attorney Chris Phelps. “The [prosecutor] is deciding what is or isn’t a Brady issue, and what they’re required to disclose.”

It was Phelps who first suspected in 2009 that Smith lied in federal court and in his reports, and yet the deputy is not on Spokane County’s Brady list.

“When the list first came out, I immediately looked for him, like, ‘I know this guy is on here,” Phelps says. “Unbelievable. It makes you wonder: ‘What’s it take to get on there?’”

Driscoll, who is in charge of maintaining the list, says he’s aware of some issues

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in gaining a conviction than achieving a just result. … We must send prosecutors a clear message: Betray Brady. … and you will lose your ill-gotten conviction.”

A GROWING LIST

One of the first formal Brady lists dates back to 2002 in Los Angeles County. It was compiled in the wake of the so-called Rampart Police scandal, in which scores of LAPD officers lied, stole drugs, planted evidence to gain convictions of innocent people, shot and beat suspects and other crimes.

Like L.A.’s, Spokane County’s list grew out of a notorious police scandal — the 2006 death of Otto Zehm at the hands of SPD officers and the subsequent cover-up. The first three names on the list, Tim Moses, Sandra McIntyre and Karl Thompson, were involved in the Zehm

to the Inlander in November 2015 and again in February 2016 via public records requests is inexplicably missing one name that appears on the list provided to public defenders.)

“We rely on law enforcement’s [internal] investigation, and if they go through the whole process, that’s what we base our decision on,” says Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jack Driscoll, who is in charge of maintaining the list. “If it’s unfounded, then typically we wouldn’t view that as potential impeachment disclosure.”

As for the 26 names added to Spokane’s list last year, Driscoll says his office received a stack of letters from the Washington State Patrol around that time, notifying them of state troopers and forensic investigators whose credibility had been scrutinized.

For local defense attorneys, the reliance on departments self-reporting

with Smith, but hasn’t added him to the list because there were no “sustained” findings of dishonesty. Driscoll says he was not aware of the federal perjury allegations.

Recently, Smith popped up as an arresting officer in a case handled by Spokane County public defenders. A judge signed an order for prosecutors to send over Smith’s personnel file, but the stack of documents was incomplete, public defenders say, forcing them to submit another court order. The second installment included the perjury investigation.

“It really begs the question, in every one that we do from this point forward: What else might there be that we don’t know?” public defender Andrea Crumpler says. “It’s very frustrating to know that you can’t trust the records you’ve received when we should be able to.” ...continued on next page

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Other than Smith, public defenders question why several other cops haven’t made the Brady list. Among them are:  Spokane Police Officer John Yen, who was charged with domestic violence and armed burglary when, during an argument with his girlfriend who is a Spokane County deputy prosecutor, he forced his way into her house. Yen eventually pleaded guilty to an amended misdemeanor trespassing charge and was suspended for five days. Internal investigators noted “past domestic violence and anger management issues” unrelated to this incident, in addition to a possible “pattern of anger and insubordination issues in [Yen’s] SPD work history.”  Spokane Police Officer Darrell Quarles, who was suspended for two months without pay for associating with a meth-addicted, burglary-committing prostitute, while knowing about her crimes.

He also conducted an unauthorized search of internal police records to check on the status of a criminal investigation into the woman. The investigation into Quarles’ misconduct led to the dismissal of felony gun possession charges against a man after police refused to release the details of the internal investigation to attorneys.  Spokane County Deputy Scott Kenoyer, who told dispatchers he was on a break when he actually was having sex with a woman while on duty. Kenoyer admitted to it when confronted by investigators, but Knezovich fired him when he turned down a “last chance agreement.”

A state arbitrator later hired Kenoyer back, prompting Knezovich to issue an agency-wide memo stating “sex on duty is a breach of not only the public trust but also it is a breach of our code of ethics, core values, officer safety, etc.” He added that anyone found intentionally falsifying information in an official law enforcement process would be subject to termination.  And former Spokane County Deputy Brian Hirzel, who was fired for driving his patrol car to and from his home in Hayden without permission after he was told not to. Hirzel is also the deputy who

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has supported state legislation to hold dishonest officers accountable, with little success. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO shot and killed Wayne “Scott” Creach, a Spokane Valley pastor, in 2010. He was cleared of wrongdoing.

The first official Brady list in Washington state didn’t arrive until 2007 in King County, a jurisdiction often held up as a model system. Prosecutors in King County automatically receive a notification when they take on a case involving one of the 106 individuals on the list.

Spokane has a similar automated notification. Both counties have also assembled a “Brady Committee,” made up of senior deputy prosecutors. They’re charged with maintaining the list and determining which information must be disclosed.

Prosecutors in King County have at times taken a more aggressive approach than Spokane, adding to their list officers whose credibility could be attacked in court — even if the officers in question weren’t ultimately disciplined by their own department.

However, even a model system can falter. Just last week, Judge Kozinski wrote a contentious opinion, accusing two King County prosecutors and a records keeper

of intentionally withholding details of plea bargains offered to a prosecutor’s witness.

The witness then lied about the deals on the stand, and prosecutors didn’t correct him, Kozinski adds.

“That this was a deliberate tactic rather than oversight is demonstrated by the fact that the prosecution kept [the witness’] signed plea deal agreements secret until two days after [the accused] was convicted,” Kozinski writes.

Pierce, the state’s second most populous county, does not keep a Brady list, and in response to a public records request, the prosecutor’s office said it would not disclose the list to the Inlander even if it did exist. In Idaho, neither Ada, nor Kootenai counties maintain lists, saying they disclose relevant issues to defense attorneys on a case-by-case basis.

‘RULE OF LAW’

There was no doubt that Ken Olsen made the ricin. He admitted to it. In 2003, a jury found him guilty of “developing a biological agent for use as a weapon.” He

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was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The Spokane Valley man described as a “computer geek” denied having any heinous intentions. He was instead driven by an “irresponsible sense of curiosity” about “strange and morbid things,” according to court documents.

It’s easy to see why the jury didn’t believe him. Among all the evidence and testimony presented at trial, arguably the most damning was a bottle of allergy pills apparently “spiked” with ricin. Prosecutors used the pills to support accusations that Olsen intended to kill.

What neither Olsen nor the jury knew, however, were the results of an investigation into Arnold Melnikoff, the forensic investigator who handled the pills.

Leading up to Olsen’s trial, at least three inmates in Montana were exonerated due to flaws in Melnikoff’s work there. The Washington State Patrol, where Melnikoff later worked, launched an investigation, which was completed two months before Olsen’s trial.

The WSP investigation found “mistakes in the case documentation, administrative documentation, evidence analysis, data interpretation, and written reports.”

“There were often contaminants or unexplained material in the blanks, and these contaminants were often not noted or identified, and no obvious attempt was made to remove them,” the report reads.

Melnikoff was eventually fired.

During Olsen’s trial, however, Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Hicks never disclosed the results of the investigation. In fact, Melnikoff’s lawyer, Rocco Treppiedi, appeared in court to tell the judge that WSP was “in the process of investigating” the issues and that its scope was “purely administrative.” (Treppiedi was fired from his position as assistant city attorney in Spokane in 2012, related in large part to his handling of the Zehm case).

The judge at Olsen’s trial also recounted his incorrect understanding of the WSP investigation in court, asking Hicks to “check me if I’m wrong,” which Hicks did not. (Although Hicks knew of the investigation, it is unclear whether he

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was aware of its conclusions. Still, according to the rules under Brady, ignorance is no excuse.)

Despite serious questions surrounding his veracity as a forensic investigator, Melnikoff testified in front of the jury. In regard to the pills “spiked” with ricin, Melnikoff sent those to a different lab for testing, but not before he dumped them onto his laboratory workbench, where he previously had been examining other items with “ricinpositive powder,” according to his testimony in court.

The pills were destroyed during testing, so it was impossible to determine if the ricin was a result of Melnikoff’s contamination.

A panel of three Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled that prosecutors violated their Brady obligations to disclose the investigation, but that the violation wasn’t “material” enough to impact the jury’s decision. They rejected Olsen’s appeal for a new hearing. Kozinski, then the chief justice, went off LETTERS on everySend comments to body. editor@inlander.com.

He slammed Hicks for turning a blind eye to his duties under Brady, and suggested the possibility of sanctions. He criticized the three-judge panel for compounding the “violence done to the Constitution by the Assistant U.S. Attorney,” and called the case an example of a systemic problem, listing in his opinion 29 other cases nationwide from 1998 to 2013.

“When a public official behaves with such casual disregard for his constitutional obligations and the rights of the accused, it erodes the public’s trust in our justice system and chips away at the foundational premises of the rule of law,” he wrote.

“When such transgressions are acknowledged yet forgiven by the courts, we endorse and invite their repetition.”

Olsen, who has completed his prison sentence, declined to be interviewed for this article.

Kozinski says that Olsen may have spent time in prison that he shouldn’t have, but emphasizes what he believes was the system’s failing. The three-judge panel essentially decided what a jury should have

considered at trial.

“It’s all colored by the fact that the jury decided the way it did, and the problem is you have to make this judgment, which is very nebulous and subjective years after the event, when really the jury is supposed to have all the evidence, and then make a decision,” Kozinski tells the Inlander. “The American criminal justice system truly bends over backward to favor the defense, but in a large spectrum of ways, it is geared to convict whoever the prosecution decides to go after.”

NEED FOR CONSISTENCY

For Central Washington University criminal justice professor Mary Ellen Reimund, the patchwork of policies, state to state and county to county, present another problem in tracking discredited officers.

“The evidence presented suggests that there is a need for consistency regarding Brady policies in prosecutor’s offices across the state and perhaps even across the country,” she wrote in the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science in 2013.

“Without uniformity or sharing of information, it is possible that an officer could be terminated in one county and still work for a department in another county and not be classified as a Brady officer.”

To that end, the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys adopted a model policy for Brady compliance in 2013 (the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision). Tom McBride, the association’s executive secretary, says the policy is intended to provide guidance for the state’s 39 counties, though none are required to adopt it. Most significant, the suggested policy places the burden on prosecutors to discover evidence that is potentially damning to their case, and to disclose it.

Additionally, the standard for disclosure is not based only on “sustained” findings, but rather “what a reasonable person could believe.”

Yet others argue that police at least deserve the same due process as anyone else. A spot on a liars’ list has career-ending implications. Along with questions over whether officers should be branded with law enforcement’s scarlet letter comes

the question of redemption. Should, for instance, an officer who lied 10 years ago, but has kept a clean record since, remain on the list?

According to the Brady rule, prosecutors still must disclose the information, but it’s up to a judge whether it can be used at trial.

McBride adds that prosecutors can face repercussions for adding names to a Brady list.

Within the past nine years, at least three cops in Washington state have sued for issues relating to Brady disclosure. In one example from Snohomish County, former veteran Sgt. Jonathan Wender won an $815,000 settlement. Wender was fired for issues surrounding his honesty during a drug investigation in 2005 and was then added to the prosecutor’s Brady list. As a part of the settlement, his name was erased from the list.

Knezovich is very familiar with the problem of dishonest deputies, but getting rid of them is a different story. In recent years he’s pushed for legislation that would make it easier to fire cops who lie, and in some cases revoke their commission.

During this legislative session, however, a bill addressing Brady cops passed out of the state Senate Law and Justice Committee, but did not come up for a vote on the Senate floor. The bill would have barred police departments from firing officers solely because they land on a Brady list.

A place on the list doesn’t mean an officer can’t continue policing, but it certainly complicates things for departments that must decide to assign an officer to patrol — or to a desk. Keeping discredited officers on the force could lead to what’s known a “rubber gun squads” or “Brady units” — groups of cops who earn a law enforcement salary, but don’t do much to enforce the law.

“Testimony in court, truthfulness and integrity are essential in our profession, and if an officer loses that, it certainly could be a career ender,” says Spokane Police Lieutenant Dave McCabe, president of the Lieutenants and Captains Association. “There’s only so many spots in the police department that we would want to put an officer without wasting a bunch of money.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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The Brady rule requires prosecutors to hand over to the defense (before trial) any evidence that could show the defendant is innocent or evidence that could discredit a government witness.

However, another U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2002, United States v. Ruiz, weakens that rule for plea bargains, according to Tim Lynch, director of the Cato Institute’s project on criminal justice.

The Supreme Court ruled that in bargaining plea agreements, prosecutors need not make the same disclosure of evidence favorable to the accused.

“The overwhelming bulk of cases that go through the American criminal justice system are resolved by plea bargains, not trials,” Lynch says. “This ruling means a person can accept a plea bargain in the dark, not knowing their case may actually be stronger than they realize because the government doesn’t have to turn over the evidence to them.”

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Becoming Belle A young actress realizes her childhood dream of playing the classic Disney heroine on stage

BY CHEY SCOTT

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s kids of the 1980s and ’90s, we grew up with Belle, Aladdin, Ariel and Simba by our side. We’d play our VHS cassettes until the magnetic tape stretched and the picture warped. We’d gather on the playground through grade school for impromptu renditions of “A Whole New World.”

The peak of our childhood arrived in the midst of the “Disney Renaissance,” that time between 1989 and 1999 during which Walt Disney Animation Studios underwent a major creative resurgence, releasing 10 wildly successful animated films — Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Mulan, etc. — all based on classic stories and fairy tales. It was a great time to be a kid.

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Of all films from that magical era, Beauty and the Beast has always held a special place in actress Brooke Quintana’s heart. It wasn’t Belle’s enviable, sunshine-yellow gown or her princess character status. And not even entirely because the 20-something is now playing Belle in the touring Broadway production adapted from Disney’s film.

“Belle was always my favorite princess, and it’s because she’s not a princess — she’s a real girl,” Quintana says on the phone from Columbus, Ohio, a few weeks before the show’s two-night run in Spokane.

“She’s smart and she’s funny and witty and caring — she’s not a damsel in distress. She’s a strong, independent woman. She’s very much a 21st century woman,” Quintana continues.

The New York City-based actress grew up with Belle and company, and she names Beauty and the Beast as her favorite Disney film. It’s also her mom’s favorite, making Quintana’s current role even sweeter.

“I am now doing something everyday I just love so much and adored as a child,” she says, adding: “My mom and I are very close, so knowing I’m doing something she also loves is really special to me as well.”

With a degree in musical theater from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, Quintana jumped right into the industry upon graduation, performing in several stage classics, including A Chorus Line and Peter Pan. About a year later, she moved to New York City and began auditioning, first landing the role of Éponine in Les Misérables for a production that took her to Indiana.

“I got a few [roles] pretty quickly, but not really what I wanted,” Quintana recalls. “So I thought ‘I’ll stick it out,’ because I wanted to do a show I really wanted to do, not just because it was available. It’s important to do things you’re passionate about in this business.”

After Les Mis, she came back to the city and spent the next five months in and out of 11 rounds of auditions for the NETworks company’s touring production of Beauty and the Beast. Last May, Quintana got the call she’d been waiting for.

“It was the best day of my life,” she says. “This absolutely was a dream role for me.”

While the story of Belle and her imprisonment in the Beast’s enchanted castle is mostly familiar to both the show’s cast and audiences, after nearly 200 performances so far for this tour,

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Brooke Quintana is playing the role of a lifetime as Belle.

Quintana asserts that each show is a fresh experience for her.

Though nuanced, each audience reacts differently, an observation the actress frequently notices as the company travels across the U.S. and Canada to perform, which they’ll continue to do through July.

“Some nights you can hear a pin drop in the audience during some of the scenes. Those are the moments that you think, ‘This doesn’t get old.’ They’re so invested in the story and it makes it fresh for us every day,” she says.

As Quintana grew up with the rest of us in that generation of children eagerly anticipating each new animated Disney creation, Belle’s magical love story gained new meaning. Moments in life beyond childhood brought elements of the film’s story to light that she’d never noticed before.

“As a child it was this amazing magical story, and now as I’m older it’s still very magical, but it’s a very real message,” Quintana says.

“With everything we see going on today, the message of Beauty and the Beast is that’s so important is to stop looking at the outside of everyone — to look inside and see what’s there and stop judging people.”  cheys@inlander.com

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Weirdly Funny Chris D’Elia on his love for the stage, his TV stardom and how he’s funnier than the Sistine Chapel

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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hris D’Elia gets a lot of backhanded compliments. Actually, it’s the same compliment… over and over.

“I have a weird crush on Chris D’Elia,” a young woman tweeted at him. He also often told that he’s “weirdly attractive.”

As the scraggly-haired, unshaven lead on comedies like Whitney and more recently Undateable, D’Elia has had plenty of eyes on him, which translates to more confused crushes.

“It used to irk me,” says D’Elia. “But I think I’m just supposed to be the funny guy and not the attractive guy.

I mean, I know I’m not Leonardo DiCaprio. I’m the guy making goofy faces.”

Recently, D’Elia, 36, hasn’t had much time to waste on those who question their attraction to him. He

recently wrapped Undateable on NBC, the entire season of which was presented on live television, and has two movies coming out this summer. He’ll be in Spokane for four nights beginning this weekend, so you may see his weirdly attractive face around town.

A television actor whose star is on the rise like D’Elia doesn’t have to hit the road the way he does. He’s playing eight to 10 nights per month from now until the end of the summer in cities across the country. D’Elia wants to get out there and begin work on his next special, the follow-up to the 2015 Netflix hit Incorrigible. The road is where he, like many other comics, test out material and begin to craft a memorable act.

“I think it always has to come back to [stand-up] and seeing it live. No matter how many times you’ve watched YouTube clips, there’s still nothing like it,” says D’Elia.

“It’s like in Good Will Hunting, where they talk about actually seeing the Sistine Chapel firsthand — not to say my comedy is equal to the Sistine Chapel. It’s probably funnier, though.”

D’Elia’s stage act sometimes has a throwback feel to it. He relies on physical comedy and ramps up his brash New Jersey accent and attitude for extra effect over the course of a high-energy set. The fodder for his material is often the usual suspects — women, sex, and, if you haven’t seen it, a memorable riff on “dudes.”

For D’Elia — who grew up with a television directorand-producer father — stand-up has been his main comedic vehicle, even if his TV roles have made him into a star. After spending his young adult years acting, he almost worked exclusively in stand-up from 2006 until the debut of Whitney, in which he played the boyfriend of the show’s titular character, Whitney Cummings.

As he moves into film, D’Elia wants to make a shift.

He has an action script he’s shopping around in the

Chris D’Elia stars on NBC’s Undateable while also hitting the stand-up stage. hopes of starring in something other than a funny movie.

Action stardom, actually, has been at the top of his mind as of late. In fact, he doesn’t really even watch comedies.

“I’m not sure why it is, maybe because I’m a comedian, and it’s just that my whole life is that. To me, nothing is funnier than being at a diner with your friends and f---ing around after a show. That’s what I find funny,” he says.  Chris D’Elia • Thu, March 31, at 7:30 pm; Fri, April 1, at 7:30 pm [sold out] and 10:30 pm; Sat. April 2, at 7:30 pm [sold out] and 10:30 pm; Sun. April 3 at 7:30 pm • $27-$31 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com

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Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Patty Duke passed away this week at the age of 69. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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nna Marie “Patty” Duke, the legendary actress who has been a North Idaho resident since the late 1980s, passed away at age 69 on Tuesday from sepsis due to a ruptured intestine.

Duke was a superstar in Hollywood before reaching adulthood. First, she won accolades for her stage portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker on Broadway, a role she reprised for the film adaptation, for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1962. From there, Duke went on to star in her own sitcom, The Patty Duke Show, in which she played two identical cousins.

In the course of her television career, Duke won three Emmys and was nominated for eight others.

After marrying Michael Pearce in 1986, the couple moved to Hayden, Idaho. Although Duke continued to work in television and film, she also appeared in local theatrical productions.

“What’s different for me now — one of the few positives of

aging — is that you do get a certain kind of perspective on what really matters,” Duke told the Inlander in 1999 when she appeared in a Spokane Civic Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie. As late as 2014, Duke was cast in a Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre production of My Fair Lady, but had to drop out of the play due to illness.

In addition to acting, Duke — who was open about her battle with bipolar disorder — was a proponent for mental health awareness. She also took joy in mentoring young actors in the region, as she recalled in a 2013 Inlander story when she was starring in a production of The Giver.

“It’s probably the old lady in me that says, ‘I must pass on something.’ It has to do with what I’m leaving behind. To my grandchildren, my children, or someone I’ve never even met.”

— MIKE BOOKEY

BATMAN V SUPERMAN CRITICS CAN’T BRING DOWN DC’S DREAM TEAM It was quiet — almost too quiet — leading up to release date for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, DC Comics’ effort to kickstart a franchise fountain à la Marvel’s endless stream of Avengers-related flicks. After the hype when Ben Affleck was tapped to play Batman a couple of years ago, the trickle of interviews, relative dearth of TV commercials and late-March debut might have led one to believe Warner Bros. was trying to bury the flick. But even though critics roundly drubbed it as “dispiriting” and “dull,” audiences ponied up $166 million domestically over Easter weekend, and more than $424 million worldwide. It is, indeed, a new DC dawn.

PODCAST THE BLACK TAPES podcast has been called a cross between NPR and the X-Files, which is pretty much the best way to describe this docudrama that is both highly bingeable and very creepy. The podcast (which was clearly influenced by Serial) follows reporter Alex Reagan as she delves into the work of the enigmatic Dr. Richard Strand, a skeptical researcher who’s made it his life’s work to debunk paranormal explanations for strange events. Although Strand can casually dismiss most his cases with science and logic, there’s a few he can’t quite explain away. Theses cases, called the black tapes, lead Reagan deep into incidents involving demons with upside-down faces, a sound that opens a portal to hell and a bizarre cult, as well as Strand’s own mysterious backstory.

BAND Before the Pacific Northwest began churning out angsty grunge acts, indie-rock darlings and groovy synth pop, there was DEAD MOON, a chronically overlooked act that quietly influenced the region’s music scene. The Portland trio spent about two decades building a loyal following with their brand of stripped-down rock, infused with heavy doses of country and punk, before splitting up in 2006. The band briefly reunited in 2014, but the reunion ended earlier this month when drummer Andrew Loomis died after being diagnosed with cancer last spring.

Although the days of seeing Dead Moon play in a bar on a drenched Seattle night are gone, the band left behind a prolific pile of recordings. Go listen to one.

ARTICLE Dan Baum argues in “LEGALIZE IT ALL,” the cover story of the April issue of Harper’s, that with a consensus emerging that the war on drugs has failed, it’s time to have the conversation of how to begin outright legalizing illicit substances. He points to the success story of Portugal, which decriminalized cocaine, heroin and other illicit substances in 2001 and saw drug use decline. However, Baum argues that such an approach likely won’t work in the U.S., and calls for a state-run system that carefully dispenses drugs. The biggest revelation from the article is John Ehrlichman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, admitting that the war on drugs was about “criminalizing” black people and hippies and “disrupting their communities.” 

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The Big Friendly Racists, bullwhips and the looming smell of fire: Road-tripping to America’s heartland and back

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he soundtrack of the Midwest last summer was 1970s Album Oriented Rock, and not just some places, but everywhere we went: Fong’s Pizza and Tiki Bar in Des Moines, Iowa, Zup’s Market in Ely, Minnesota, the YMCA in Omaha, Nebraska, a hotel lobby in Minot, North Dakota. In coffee shops, bars, bookstores and bakeries, if it wasn’t Billy Joel’s good dying young, it was Grand Funk’s American band; if it wasn’t Bob Seger’s black-haired beauty, it was Led Zeppelin’s woman who would not be true; if it wasn’t Elton John’s tiny dancer, it was Neil Young’s cowgirl in the sand. It was all dudes all the time, Seals and Crofts and Hall and Oates and Steely Dan warning Rikki not to lose that number, drinking scotch whiskey all night long and dying behind the wheel.

The beer was Grain Belt, “The Friendly Beer,” or Grain Belt tallboys, “The Big Friendly.” We drove 120 miles an hour on Route 2 for a few minutes, way up at the top of North Dakota, the road wide and empty and flat and Fleetwood Mac begging us not to stop thinking about tomorrow. Kate opened a Big Friendly before we stopped for the day and we passed it back and forth as we drove past prairie potholes full of ducks, so many cabbage moths fwapping against the windshield we thought

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it was hailing. The beer was icy from the cooler, perfect after a long drive. In the 1930s, Grain Belt was promoted as “The Friendly Beer With the Friendly Flavor,” and the flavor was friendly, which is to say it was more water than boiled hop stew.

Grain Belt’s an old-fashioned brand, or pretends to be — part of our current nostalgia, our longing for something authentic from the past, something friendly. And while there’s something inauthentic about friendliness today, something fraudulent about the D I S T I L L E D word “friend” as a verb (friend me!), A SHOT OF LIFE something false about so many of our interactions with our friends on Facebook, some of whom we hardly know or have never met, the people in the Midwest, where Grain Belt’s brewed, were friendly, especially Iowans, and not in an irritating, stupid-seeming way, or a pretending-to-like-you-but-really-hating-you way. People I met there wanted to talk and listen, and they were good at it. They possessed a disarming, selfdeprecating sense of humor, too, illustrated perfectly by a story in the Des Moines Register about the word “Moines,”

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which Iowans have long believed is “a French derivation of Moingona, an Indian tribe that once lived along the banks of the Des Moines River,” but that’s really a joke that French explorers didn’t understand, one tribe mocking another tribe and the explorers themselves. The “Moines” in Des Moines doesn’t originate from “Moingona,” but from “mooyiinkweena” — which translates, politely, to excrement-faces.”

Most of the people I met in Des Moines, however, were not excrement-faces. They knew they weren’t part of the Brooklyn/Austin/Portland cabal of cool, but they also knew they had good food, good coffee, good bookstores, and good bars filled with people who could laugh at themselves. Maybe that laughing and friendliness, which felt like the opposite of poser cool, was what felt authentic or genuine about the place, even if Grain Belt’s “Friendly Beer” tag is nothing more than empty marketing.

I did meet one excrement-face in Des Moines — in the Western tent at the Iowa State Fair. I was in line to buy a bullwhip, not to satisfy a fetish or a ranching need, but because when I was 10 years old and driving from Michigan to Oregon with my family, we stopped at a store in Cheyenne where I bought a black cowboy hat and a braided, wood-handled whip. I whipped everything that summer, trees and sidewalks, my bike and the grass and a railroad-tie retaining wall. My mother confiscated the whip several times for whipping too close to my siblings, but I never actually struck anyone and finally whipped the thing into shreds. Now, in 2015, I wanted another whip like that one. But bigger. A bullwhip that rotated on a wooden handle when you whipped it around your head, almost whipping yourself in the face every time you cracked it. I didn’t go into the Western tent looking for a whip, but once I saw one I wanted it.

Unfortunately, buying a whip brought out the excrement-face in me, too — and just when it seemed I

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hat’s where I met the racist cop, maybe an hour later. Nice guy. Which was what made his racism so confusing. I don’t think he knew he was racist. Maybe most people don’t know when they’re being racist, though less than a week later I’d meet a self-described racist in Omaha, who would tell me stories about the town he grew up in, and about Templeton Rye, which markets itself as The Good Stuff and which is good stuff, though also bad stuff, a craft whiskey with naughty origins. According to Templeton’s propaganda, “It was in the early 1920s that many defiant residents of a small town in Iowa became outlaws — producing a highcaliber and much sought-after whiskey known as Templeton Rye.” But there’s another way Templeton’s bad, far less romantic than defiant outlaw bad, more a manipulative, lying, marketing bad.

Like many “craft” distillers, Templeton wants

us to believe its product is local, made from a special recipe infused with romantic history. In fact, Templeton’s distilled in a factory in Indiana owned by Midwest Grain Products, where a whole lot of other “craft” whiskey is produced, including Bulleit rye. Templeton is Iowa-made like Facebook is a community of our friends, something so blatantly fake going on in both cases.

The dude who told me about Templeton in Omaha, though — he was not fake, not a poser.

He was a true-blue racist, and he knew it. He didn’t act proud of it, but he didn’t seem to think it was awful, either. It was just a fact. Like the fact that he was American, Lutheran, Baptist, agnostic, Democratic or Republican, independent or indifferent. He told me how his dad’s white unit in World War II was supported by an African American unit in Italy, jam-packed with the most lazy black troops you could imagine, nearly getting the white boys killed. He told me how lucky I was to live in the Northwest, because Indians in the Northwest are better than Indians in Nebraska and South Dakota, who are nothing more than drunkards and thieves. He was an older man, the relative of a friend I was with, and he liked to talk.

“I’m a bigot,” he told me, and I didn’t argue, didn’t know what to do or say, and so I did nothing. I don’t think it was politeness on my part that kept me silent. As demonstrated by my experience with the bullwhip and the excrementface, I can be rude and pushy.

“I’m a bigot,” he told me. Not proud. Just a statement he could make to a white dude he didn’t know.

At least he knows he’s a bigot, I thought. But what value did that have? Why would I give him credit for showing that ugly piece of himself?

Maybe the racist cop in Des Moines a week earlier knew he was a bigot too, but just so happened to be nice — to me at least. The friendly bigot. We sat next to each other drinking coffee in the food building. He was not in uniform. It was through conversation that I learned he was a cop. I used to work with cops as a teacher’s union leader on Long Island. The public sector unions around New York City share common interests, often bargaining health care and administering benefit funds together. I’d learned how to talk to cops, to be comfortable with cops.

And even though I’d always been wary of cops, I had the advantage of having worked with them, and the advantage of being white. I was wearing shorts and a button-down shirt, drinking coffee, non-threatening as hell. This cop had not seen my excrement-face behavior in the Western tent.

We talked overtime, back pay, force reduction — union talk.

The friendly cop told me that every single cop he knew was being or had recently been investigated for harassing or profiling or otherwise acting “unprofessional” with a minority motorist.

Since Ferguson, he said, it was nearly impossible to pull over a non-white driver without some kind of charge being filed.

He told me when I asked that, yeah, Ottumwa was okay, if you liked tacos. But the way he said this, and the way he talked about Ferguson earlier, somehow didn’t seem as awful in the air as it did in my mind later, or now on the page.

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was learning friendliness. The dude in front of me was wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat — this was a Western tent after all, even if it wasn’t 1886. I don’t know why it was taking him so long to buy his wife a pair of boots. Maybe the friendly person working the register was kind of stupid. I needed to complete the whip purchase because Kate had business elsewhere at the fair. It was hot in that Western tent. Time was running out. The cowboy in front of me finally finished his transaction and I advanced to the register with my whip. That’s when the excrement-face behind me spoke up. “Excuse me,” she said to the cashier. “Can I just ask you something real quick?”

The cashier waited.

I tightened my grip on the whip handle, feeling every second I’d lived on the East Coast boiling inside me.

The excrement-face said, “Can you just tell me where the saddle something/halter something/ bridle something-something is?”

The clerk walked out from behind the counter. “Let me go find it,” she said.

Something particularly unfriendly rose in me then. I said to the cashier, “Can I just ask you something real quick? Since I was next in line, can you just help me before you help the person who was behind me?”

The cashier looked between me and the excrement-face, but returned to her register. The excrement-face grunted. Everyone in line was mortified. I know that because I could feel their mortification burning holes in the back of my neck. I know that because Kate, whose parents were raised in Iowa, sighed almost silently beside me.

I laid the whip on the counter. I’d handled the whole situation wrong, betraying something of this place I was growing to like. I had the feeling that nobody approved of the excrement-face or her bad behavior any more than I did, but nobody would have stopped her either, something about two wrongs not making a right, about not being willing to meet aggressive rudeness with aggressive rudeness. This was before I’d discovered Grain Belt, the friendly beer. I was failing as an Iowan, disappointing and embarrassing everyone. Maybe the bullwhip was another indication of my failure. I bought it anyway and got out of there fast, sort of ashamed. I walked past the tractors and trailers and balers and cultivators and backhoes and hot tubs to the food building.

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bigots in the Midwest than anywhere else. I do know, though, that people were nicer in Iowa than they are in New York, than they are in Washington state. he was just stating one of the facts of his life. Because his On the way home, Kate and I drove fast along the voice was sort of musical.

Canadian border, drinking a Big Friendly before we were He said that Amish people were the most dependent done for the day. The next day, we drove through the oil independent people you could ever meet. They could do fields of North Dakota, the man camps, boom camps, less very little for themselves, really. Not that he minded! Just populated now that the price of oil was tanking, but the something to note! drilling rigs and pumps everywhere and flames from the He told me the state fair used to require fewer cops, flare stacks creating a kind of shimmering hellscape. The but then there was the incident a few years back when sky was hazy and smelled like smoke. We’d been gone the East Side homies ran wild on East Side Appreciation for weeks and didn’t remember that the West was on fire Night or Neighborhood Night or whatever it was, the — Oregon, Montana, Washington and Idaho all burning.

East Side homies harassing families and couples and kids, We thought the smell and haze was from the oil fields, and now the cops had to have a tactical team at the fair the flare stacks, but the haze and smell most nights. got heavier and thicker, more decidedly I kept asking questions, helping LETTERS campfire and then forest fire, burning our him reveal himself, all in the friendliest, Send comments to eyes as we drove on Route 2 in Montana, calmest, most bigoted way. Then, a week editor@inlander.com. the Highline. later, the dude in Omaha showed me his We smelled and tasted fire for two bigotry. Was this part of the big friendly? days, the haze everywhere, as pervasive as the ’70s Was it nothing more than clan behavior, tribal recogniAlbum Oriented Rock we’d heard all over the Midwest. tion and entrenchment, white dudes finding other white We stayed in East Glacier for next to nothing because no dudes and trying to bond based on opposition to/disdain one wanted to stay near a national park surrounded by for/hatred of non-white dudes? Maybe. But neither fire, and on the next day, our last day, we drove through of these men seemed to be looking for my approval. the Flathead Reservation, through a tiny town called Hot They didn’t require that I nod along with them. I was a Springs, past their high school, with a sign out front that sounding board, yes. And I didn’t walk away. I didn’t say said, “We Support our Savage Heat.” We looked at each “Ottumwa sounds like my kind of place.” I didn’t say “I other, a long look that said: Is it possible that teams from love the Amish.” I didn’t say “Shut up, man.” I didn’t say a reservation high school would be called the Savage anything.

Heat?

Google told us it was possible, that the name of the n the weeks that followed, I couldn’t stop talking teams had been changed in 2007 from the Savages to the about these people, but no matter how many times I Savage Heat. Google also told us that the town of Hot told the story, I couldn’t get to the end of it, couldn’t Springs, within the Flathead Reservation, is 77 percent let myself off the hook. I don’t believe there are more

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When the Savages changed their name to the Savage Heat, the Missoulian reported the Hot Springs school superintendent as saying, “There was a lot of public support for the name Savages, but also a very vocal opposition to it. The board elected to keep the name… but this year the kids took it up, and I couldn’t be more proud of them. They wanted something they can be proud of, and using ‘savage’ as a descriptor and not something that would indicate any people was their idea.”

The kids voted, and their team wasn’t going to be the Savages anymore, but the Savage Heat. Savage as descriptor. A friendly decision, a polite decision, so that some people — formerly savages — wouldn’t have to feel bad. This was a town with hot water, with hot springs you could soak in. We drove past those springs, which looked like a swimming pool, people on the deck drinking from cans of something, beer probably. Grain Belt, probably. The Big Friendly. None of those people looked like excrement-faces. All of those people looked like excrement-faces. The soundtrack was the Starland Vocal Band — “Afternoon Delight.” Earlier in the summer the fires had burned parts of the Olympic Peninsula — fire in a rain forest. Now they were burning through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Eastern Washington, all that smoke and haze everywhere, the Starland Vocal Band dripping sweet, sticky harmonies all over us.  Samuel Ligon’s second novel, Among the Dead and Dreaming, comes out this spring, as does Wonderland, a book of short stories illustrated by Stephen Knezovich. He teaches at EWU, edits the journal Willow Springs, and is artistic director of the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference.

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Growing Future Farmers Local colleges and nonprofits collaborate to make sure we have people ready to feed a growing population

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merica needs more farmers — especially 30-somethings like Emily and Luke Black — if it’s going to feed a projected 40 million additional hungry bodies by 2030. By 2060, there could be another 100 million mouths, according to a recent U.S. Census report.

In the meantime, however, the average age of farmers has increased — most are between 55 and 64 years of age — while the number of farmers under 35 has decreased.

That, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, will leave a dearth of 700,000 farmers over the next few decades.

Nationwide, vested organizations are working to reverse that trend, helping people start or expand their farms. Efforts include classes like Sustainable Small Farms Education offered by Cultivating Success, a collaboration between University of Idaho and Washington State University, both of which have offered variations of the class since 2001, and Rural Roots, a nonprofit representing the food and farming industry across Eastern Washington and North Idaho. A recent USDA grant helped Cultivating Success facilitate a condensed, reasonably priced ($115) class for new farmers in both Idaho and Washington.

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Kay and Mike Teisl, seen here with sons Tanner (left) and Michael, operate Cross-Cut Farms.

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and sales, “was our opportunity to learn Idaho laws and connect with more local farmers.” She and her husband Luke, a computer programmer, hope to add chickens — they already grow peppers, radishes, zucchini, beets, soybeans and potatoes — at their Lone Mountain Farm in Athol, Idaho.

Course content emphasizes planning and problem solving, covering accounting, marketing and sales, as well as basic farming — testing soil, evaluating equipment, distribution, working with livestock — supplemented by hands-on discussions with farmers.

In the Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls location, Pokey Creek Farms’ Greg Sempel and Killarney Farms’ Ellen Scriven offered sage advice to existing and would-be farmers. Farming, said Stempel, is a lifestyle and a passion, “not necessarily get rich quick, although you can make good money.” Scriven advised starting small with bare essentials, learning and investing as you go.

Statewide, 170 students participated at nine locations, says Iris Mayes, organizer and small farms educator for UI Extension in Latah County. Out of 63 North Idaho survey respondents, for example, farming experience varied from more than five years (11 participants), one to five years (29), and absolutely none (22).

The Sustainable Small Farms class is one of many Cultivating Success programs, according to organizer Cinda Williams, UI extension educator for community food systems and small farms.

More classes, field tours and workshops are planned in addition to a small farms website featuring guidance on accessing valued resources, such as land and capital.

Another Cultivating Success component is paid training for farmers to mentor others, which resonates with farmers and soonto-be farmers alike.

“I think as a society we need to keep advocating for farmers and not keep pushing them down,” says Kay Teisl, who works for USDA’s Risk Management division and attended the class with her husband, Mike.

Mike Teisl recalls how, at 10 years old, he’d been pulled from school to run the tractor on the family farm in Oregon; 43 years later, he found himself back in school taking, perhaps ironically, a farm class.

“You don’t have to do a lot,” he advises future farmers. “You just have to do one thing well.”

Like the Blacks, the Teisls took the class to network with other farmers and grow their knowledge base. They started Cross-Cut Farms last year on a 10-acre plot of sloping Post Falls farmland, raising chickens and cows, and producing vegetable starts. Nodding to her two youngest, Michael and Tanner, Kay says it’s important for kids to understand where their food comes from.

Mayes sees the importance of local food production on many levels, “including support of our local economy, having healthy, fresh food to eat, the existence of healthy local jobs and opportunities for small businesses.” Culturally, she notes, “local food access, for example at farmers markets, contributes to quality of life and community connectivity.

“Additionally, our local food supply is estimated at three days if the transportation system shuts down during a crisis,” says Mayes. “In that case, it seems important to try to have more local food available as an ongoing part of our local food system.” n

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Nutrition Up North Method Juice Cafe takes its freshness to a second location

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right lights, loud music and… cold-pressed juice? Five years ago, Seven2 digital advertising agency co-owner Nick Murto fell in love with juice bars while frequenting Los Angeles and New York on business trips and has since made this combination work in Spokane.

“I was addicted to these juice bars on every corner, and then would come home and just look around wishing we had some in Spokane,” says Murto.

After talking co-owner Tyler Lafferty into a plant-based lifestyle, they opened Method Juice Cafe in downtown Spokane in 2012. Also wanting to promote staying active, they opened the Union Studios in 2014.

“The mixture of yoga and spin classes next to Method just makes sense,” says Murto.

“People can pre-order an acai bowl before a class and then grab it right when they’re finished.”

Inconvenient downtown parking and limited space restrict the downtown Method, but a parking lot and huge kitchen at the newly opened Method attached to the Union in north Spokane on Division Street provide opportunities for new juicing technology and significant menu expansion.

Method ENTRÉE makes smoothGet the scoop on local ies ($7) and food news with our weekly juices ($8), Entrée newsletter. Sign up but Murto is at Inlander.com/newsletter. most passionate about the nutrient-packed, cold-pressed juices. Unlike smoothies, oxygen isn’t really introduced when making juices, so they last around three days without the oxygen breaking down the nutrients and flavors.

A refrigerator-sized juicer pulverizing and pressing 10 to 12 gallons of juice per hour allows for Method to expand to at least 12 different flavors. Method is also now an authorized Bulletproof coffee vendor — an organic meal replace-

Method Juice Cafe is now open on North Division. KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO ment that is said to boost energy, burn fat and help with mental clarity. Made with coffee beans, ghee, and XCT oil — along with the option to add collagen protein and Brain Octane oil — each coffee can contain 8 grams of protein and 30 calories ($6-$8).

Method’s food menu now offers four bases for acai bowls ($7) — peanut butter, chocolate, greens and regular pure acai — rice bowls ($7) with additional flavors and sauces, and four new salads with more dressings and toppings.

Murto hopes to soon expand the north Method’s hours, along with purchasing a refrigerated truck to sell juice out of and transport juice to the downtown Method.

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hey don’t make biopics about the mundane. It’s a risen to become a mega-star, struggled with drugs and cinematic genre based on showcasing individual women, then perished. Hiddleston doesn’t perfectly nail greatness that transcends into iconography. the singer’s voice, but he comes awfully close, including Apparently no one passed this information along to the singing the musical numbers. Often consisting of whole filmmakers behind the new Hank Williams biopic I Saw renditions of hits like “Move It on Over” and “Hey Good the Light. The movie barely manages to tell a coherent Lookin’,” these segments prove to be I Saw the Light’s high paint-by-numbers story, let alone come anywhere close to points, crackling with energy that contrasts the rest of the showcasing the greatness that made Williams a country film’s oppressive drabness. music legend.

I Saw the Light’s storytelling fails beTom Hiddleston (Loki in The cause it tells viewers what happens instead I SAW THE LIGHT Avengers) stars as Williams, and he of actually showing it on the screen. As Rated R does his damnedest to make someWilliam’s career grows, the reason why Directed by Marc Abraham thing of the movie. The film starts he’s important never comes across. There Starring Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen out with Williams getting hitched to should be a few moments that crystallize his wife Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen) what make him a star who transcends in 1944 while he was still a small-time radio performer generations, but they never come. When Williams tells a in Alabama. By the time the film ends in 1953, he’s reporter that his songs tap into people’s “anger, darkness,

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misery, shame,” viewers have to take his word for it. The film sometimes feels like it wants to be an extremely poor man’s version of Walk the Line, focusing on Hank and Audrey’s relationship more than his career, but neither lead can claim to be marginally as compelling as Johnny Cash and June Carter. Characters constantly proclaim that Williams has issues with alcohol and womanizing, but the destructive habits aren’t hammered home forcefully on screen. Hiddleston does a fine job of portraying Williams in booze-hazy moments, but there’s never any depth built into the character to explain his self-sabotaging shortcomings.

Biopics don’t come hollower than I Saw the Light. It not only fails to show what made Williams unique, it doesn’t give the audience a single reason to pull for its protagonist. In the end, I Saw the Light just seems like a crummy movie about a crummy man. 

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This Colombian drama that travels into the heart of the Amazon is a highly original take on the oft-told story of how indigenous cultures are wiped out (often inadvertently) by Western explorers. (MB) Not Rated As British Intelligence forces gain eyes on a group of terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya, Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) and Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) face complications as they command a United States operated drone to launch a missile to assassinate the terrorist group. The allied forces are faced with a decision to strike the group, which would include killing a civilian girl, or face the consequences of continued international terror. (MM) Rated R

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A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up after a serious accident to find herself being taken care of by a doomsday survivalist type (John Goodman) who tells her the world outside his bunker is an uninhabitable wasteland. This isn’t exactly a sequel to 2008 hit Cloverfield, but expect some of the same mix of humor and horror. (DN) Rated PG-13

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After Superman’s last brawl with his nemesis General Zod, the city of Metropolis is in for another heart-stopping fight between characters — but this time, it’s between two heroes. As Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) begins to conclude that Superman is a threat to humanity, he plots an attack to end the Man of Steel’s time on Earth. Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) also joins in the fight to get his own piece of Superman’s downfall.

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Our hero, Tris (Shailene Woodley) returns to find herself up against the Factionless leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts), who’s effectively in control of the city and inciting mob hatred against the defeated Erudite Faction, which has pushed Chicago to the brink of total civil war. Now, Tris and company wonder if reaching out to the outsiders they learned of in the previously installment of the series could help them. (MJ) Rated PG-13

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In the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we find the redclad assassin Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) seeking out a man named Francis (Ed Skrein) for his role he played in ruining his life. But we also see his former life as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking mercenary. (SR) Rated R

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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN

After young Anna Beam finds out that she has a fatal digestive disorder, her mother Christy (Jennifer Garner) will stop at nothing to find a cure to save her beloved daughter. But after Anna falls headfirst into a tree in the Beam’s backyard, everything changes when she reveals that she made a visit to heaven after her tumble. Even more miraculously, she begins to recover from her fatal condition in the weeks following her fall. (MM) Rated PG

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2

Fourteen years after the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding became a household name, its sequel has now arrived. In this new installment, married couple Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian Portokalos (John Corbett) struggle to inspire their marriage with passion and deal with a teenage daughter who is at odds with Greek traditions. And when a family secret is revealed, the Portokalos clan band together in preparation for the biggest wedding yet. (CS) Rated PG-13

SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, the Boston Globe editor-inchief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) asked the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team — Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children.

And as they begin digging — at first reluctantly — into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a massive scale in hushing up cases of abusive priests.

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In Michael Moore’s latest documentary, the provocative director “invades” other nations — stalking into Norway and Italy, and also France and Germany and Finland and Iceland, even Tunisia — in search of great ideas America can steal, from improved health care to better childhood education. At Magic Lantern (MJ) Rated R

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Based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by journalist Kim Barker, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF, get it?) places Tina Fey in the leading role of a war correspondent sent to cover the events of Operation Enduring Freedom.

On this assignment, she forms relationships with her international reporter colleagues, played by Margot Robbie and Martin Freeman, while dodging bullets and comedically struggling to succeed in this far-away war zone. (CS) Rated R

ZOOTOPIA

Judy Hopps, the first female rabbit on the big city police force, must work with a con artist fox to solve a disappearance case that no one else will take. The film is Disney’s 55th full-length feature, and it delicately explores the issues of race and discrimination in a way that’s entertaining (for kids and adults alike) and never preachy. Actors lending their voice talents include Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell, Shakira and even Tommy Chong.

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Karamakate (played by Yet Embrace of the Serpent is Nilbio Torres as a young EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT man and Antonio Bolívar not an ideological treatise Not Rated or ethnographic document as an old man), who is the Directed by Ciro Guerra (although it shares commonlast survivor of his tribe.

Starring Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, alities with those approaches): Years after Theo’s disapYauenkü Migue The film is also comic, pearance, Evan (Brionne At Magic Lantern mysterious and structurally Davis), another scientist, ambitious, while offering appears and beseeches old numerous points of entry and perspective.

Karamakate to accompany him on his search for The storyline follows poetic logic more than the yakruna plant. Karamakate insists he has lost narrative logic, and as such it becomes a chalall his memories, but due to his belief system, he lenge to describe. Embrace of the Serpent stands in thinks both scientists have a single soul and are, sharp rebuke to the truism that history is told by indeed the same man. the victors. Ciro Guerra and his co-screenwriter The two journeys taken on the river also Jacques Toulemonde Vidal incorporate the echo each other. Trading stops with various indigenous people’s perspective into the film’s native tribes and at a berserk Catholic misnarrative arc. Essentially, the film tells two intersion illustrate the filmmaker’s ideas about the locked stories set decades apart, and though it is encroachment of Western civilization. It’s filmed inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers in stunning black and white (by David Gallego), (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans which also lends Embrace an air of ethnographic Schultes), who traveled through the Colombian familiarity, as though we are really seeing the reAmazon in search of the sacred and difficultcordings of the two scientists, who both, tellingly, to-find yakruna plant, which has psychedelic use old twin-lens cameras. The film also contains properties, Embrace is purely fiction. elements of a road movie and the picaresque, but Theo (Jan Bijvoet, best known for his starring the heart of the movie is Karamakate, whose tale role in Borgman), is an ethnographer who came this really is. Embrace of the Serpent does a remarkto the Amazon sometime around the turn of the able job of telling a multifaceted and compelling 20th century. He stayed there for decades, and story.  sent his drawings, photographs, and notebooks

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Edmond Bruneau, left, and John Rigg of Robot Raven have been friends for 40 years. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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n 1974, a longhaired Edmond Bruneau envisioned being Eastern Washington University’s next associated student president. He had the hippie vibe, but says it didn’t make him cool. Instead, he enlisted John Rigg, his co-worker from Columbia Paint. Rigg had a rock band called Abiqua, and Bruneau thought an on-campus campaign concert might bring him some votes.

“I wasn’t a part of a fraternity or anything, which meant I didn’t win,” Bruneau says. “But John and I are still friends.”

Now, 40 years after that show, which Bruneau released a live recording of a few years back, the two have started a classic rock band together called Robot Raven.

Bruneau writes the lyrics and Rigg does everything else — vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums, recording and mixing.

“I’m the Bernie Taupin to his Elton John,” Bruneau explains.

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Theory. He has thousands of robots, as well as some horses, and a bunch of recording equipment. Meanwhile, Bruneau is essentially retired from his advertising company, Creative Consultants, which he also used to write jingles for, hanging out on his Greenacres property he calls Raven Haven. The arrangement works for them because they have no desire to play live.

The act isn’t opposed to performing, but they’d have to get some more instrumentalists, and that would take work. They say being a studio band wasn’t all that unusual for rock acts in the 1960s and ’70s. After all, the Beatles didn’t tour in the final four years of their existence.

Through platforms like Facebook, ReverbNation (they’re currently ranked No. 3 locally and No. 49 worldwide by listeners) and Internet radio site Jango.com, people all around the planet are exposed to Robot Raven’s music.

“We know a lot of people in Spokane have never heard of us,” Bruneau admits.

The group started last year after Rigg, who got back into writing and recording music in 2012, grew tired of making music alone in his 10-by-8-foot studio space.

“I needed another person, so the music wasn’t just my ideas,” Rigg says. “But didn’t necessarily want to deal with the drama MORE EVENTS of a full band again.”

Visit Inlander.com for He reached out to some of complete listings of his musician friends via email, local events. and Bruneau responded.

Together for about a year, the band makes fun of the fact they already have two Greatest Hits albums out.

“It’s supposed to be a joke,” Rigg says.

Each record has 18 tracks, ranging from psychedelic rock tunes to boot-stompin’ country to British punk. There’s even a bit of hip-hop. They explain that while their music borrows from classic rock bands — and that nearly every band out there influences them, including Adele — they are doing all-original stuff.

They’re not ripping off other acts.

“Our music doesn’t get old,” Bruneau says. “This is old, new classic.”

The guys have faith in one another that writing separately will work out. Bruneau will send the lyrics to Rigg, who then composes the music. A poet, Bruneau says writing songs with a chorus, theme and basic time constraint is a completely different animal, and Rigg will call him out.

“If I can’t sing it when I read it, then I know it’s not going to work as a song,” Rigg says. “I have no problem sending lyrics back and saying it sounds too much like poetry.”

Bruneau says his words — covering love, politics, redemption and more — are pulled from life experiences, but that he’s never afraid of getting too personal.

“People think they’re special, that only certain things happen to them,” says Bruneau, who lost his wife to cancer and in 2011 suffered a major heart attack. “And that’s why nothing is off limits in songwriting. Even if I am writing about myself, it applies to other people, too.”

Rigg points out that every track is recorded with real instruments and vocals. There was a time he wanted a violin solo for one track, and when multiple instrumentalists backed out, he learned how to play it himself.

“I only had to learn 12 notes or so, it didn’t have to be perfect,” he recalls.

Currently, the group is working on a new record, not a “Best Of” compilation. They’d like to have other people record their songs and be featured on TV and film soundtracks. They want their music to spark the Spokane music scene, they say.

“Currently, there’s not a lot of good music out there,” Bruneau says. “When this stops being fun, we’ll pack it in. But for now, there’s still music to keep making.”  lauraj@inlander.com Find Robot Raven’s Greatest Hits Part One and Two at bostonbooks.org.

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Eazy Does It Rapper G-Eazy finds the nerve to open up on his sophomore album

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n G-Eazy’s music video for “Me, Myself & I,” the hot first single off his December release, When It’s Dark Out, viewers see three sides of the Bay Area rapper.

G-Eazy No. 1 wants to be left alone at a surprise birthday party; G-Eazy No. 2 is unabashedly enjoying the booze and babes; and G-Eazy No. 3 berates G-Eazy No. 1 for not appreciating everything his career has brought him.

All three sides have their time in the spotlight on When It’s Dark Out. This wasn’t intentional, but the rapper says he isn’t surprised that each part came through.

“I’m as Gemini as a Gemini could be,” he wrote in an email. “They’re all different sides of my personality, so it’s natural for each of them to find their ways onto my album.”

Though When It’s Dark Out, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard charts, is not without a few party anthems for clubgoers to eat up (especially “Order More” featuring Starrah and “You Got Me”), the album shines most when G-Eazy opens up.

Exhibit A: “Everything Will Be OK” featuring Kehlani, a song in which G-Eazy addresses losing friendships and relationships because of his career, thanks his brother for shouldering the weight of their mother’s illness and also about finding his mother’s girlfriend dead from an overdose.

Exhibit B: “Drifting,” featuring Chris Brown and Tory Lanez, is about growing apart from people you care about.

G-Eazy says these stories weren’t featured on his first album, 2014’s These Things Happen, because he simply wasn’t ready to

tell them.

“It takes a lot of nerve and bravery to go there, and then on top of that, to put it out there and share it with the world,” he says.

“I had to work up the confidence and courage to open up like that in my music.”

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears, personally and professionally, for G-Eazy to get to this point, but he says it was all worth it, as fans now have a better understanding of who he is.

“The only stories I can tell are my own,” he says. “I hope they inspire people.”  G-Eazy with Nef the Pharaoh, Marty Grimes and Daghe • Thu, April 7, at 7:30 pm • $29.50-$39.50 • All-ages • Star Theatre at Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearea.com • 279-7000

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he festival’s Twitter page reads “Make Pullman’s music scene great again.” And Kazzufest (called Kazzuzapalousa for last year’s inaugural event) is doing just that, bringing in indie acts, mostly from Seattle, for a one-day event. Put on by the student-run Washington State University radio station KZUU 90.7 FM, the public is invited to come out and support the scene. Seattle’s pop-punk act Tacocat (pictured left) is the festival headliner this year; the other acts are Altesse (DJ), Jarv Dee (hip-hop), Tangerine (pop/garage rock), Cam the Mac (hip-hop), Lo’ There Do I See My Brother (rock), Illridic (hip-hop) and Northern Natives Collective (beatmakers). It would be better if festival promoters had included some Inland Northwest bands, but overall, the lineup is solid.

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BArLoWS AT LiBErTy LAKE, Sunny Nights Duo J ThE BArTLETT, Jared & the Mill ThE Big DiPPEr, Thready Thursday ft. kLL sMTH, Resonant Language, Mugsy J BiNg CroSBy ThEATEr, Joanna Newsom BooMErS CLASSiC roCK BAr & griLL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BooTS BAKEry & LoUNgE, The Song Project J BUCEr’S CoFFEEhoUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKhorN iNN, The Spokane River Band J ChAPS, Spare Parts CoEUr D’ALENE CASiNo, PJ Destiny FizziE MULLigANS, Kicho ThE FLAME, DJ WesOne ThE JACKSoN ST., Steve Livingston acoustic jam JoNES rADiATor, Sweet Rebel D and JonEmery Dodds J LAgUNA CAFé, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WiNE BAr, The Nate’s MooN TiME (208-667-2331), Kalida o’ShAyS iriSh PUB & EATEry, Open mic with Adrian and Leo rED rooM LoUNgE, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 J ThE PiN!, White Flag/White Tee 10 year anniversary party TriCKSTEr’S BrEWiNg Co., Hanna Rebecca zoLA, Boomshack

Friday, 04/01

J BABy BAr, Tough Customer, Mirror Mirror, Phlegm Fatale BEvErLy’S, Robert Vaughn J ThE Big DiPPEr, GrooveAcre, Nathan Fox, Paula Boggs BiSTANgo MArTiNi LoUNgE (624-

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FUNK SOUL PROPRIETOR

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or 25 years, Soul Proprietor has inspired local music lovers of all ages to get up and shake their booties. The band’s music, a superb mix of funk, soul, R&B, Motown, blues and classic rock, is magnetic in its ability to keep fans guessing, and covers range from Michael Jackson and Genesis to Elton John and Bruno Mars. The musicians, including a four-piece horn section and Patrice Thompson-Rose’s powerhouse vocals, make this local cover band stand out. The band is a mainstay at big events like Pig Out in the Park and Art on the Green in Idaho, and often slays the Big Dipper, but this April Fools’ Day (no joke), they take their talents to the Palomino. Expect three hard-hitting, funk-filled sets.

— LAURA JOHNSON Soul Proprietor April Fools’ Funkfest • Fri, April 1, at 8 pm • $7/$10 day of • 21+ • The Palomino • 6425 N. Lidgerwood • spokanepalomino.com

8464), Karrie O’Neill BLACK DiAMoND, DJ Major One BoLo’S, Tracer BULLhEAD SALooN (838-9717), Usual Suspects ThE CELLAr, Kosh and the Jazz Cats (standards) ChECKErBoArD BAr, Mr. P Chill & DJ Uppercutz, Storme, Corax42 CoEUr D’ALENE CASiNo, Smash Hit Carnival, Kicho, CrAFTSMAN CELLArS, Robinsong CrAvE, Stoney Hawk CUrLEy’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE FEDorA PUB & griLLE, Wyatt Wood FizziE MULLigANS, Tell the Boys ThE FLAME, DJ WesOne ThE gAThEriNg hoUSE (747-2818), First Friday Swing Dancing iDAho PoUr AUThoriTy (208-5977096), Truck Mills iroN horSE BAr & griLL, Uppercut ThE JACKSoN ST., Intentionally Blank

LEFTBANK WiNE BAr, Carey Brazil MooSE LoUNgE, The Vibe Raiderzz MULLigAN’S BAr & griLLE, Rusty Jackson NAShviLLE NorTh, Luke Jaxon feat.

DJ Tom NECTAr TASTiNg rooM, Cris Lucas NoDLAND CELLArS TASTiNg rooM (927-7770), Mary Chavez NorThErN QUEST CASiNo, DJ Ramsin NyNE, Club night with DJ J ThE oBSErvATory, Wind Hotel, Loomer, Empty Eyes J ThE PALoMiNo, Soul Proprietor April Fools’ Funkfest (See story above) PATiT CrEEK CELLAr (522-4684), Stuntcoaster PEND D’orEiLLE WiNEry, The Powers PEND orEiLLE PLAyhoUSE (4479900), Open Mic

ThE rESErvE, April Fools Day feat. Flying Mammals, Ragtag Romantics, Deschamp ThE riDLEr PiANo BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler rivEr PArK SQUArE NorDSTroM, Maxie Ray Mills J ThE PiN!, MOTION THEATRE , A Method of Conflict, Broken Identity, Knights of Pluto ThE roADhoUSE, Chris Rieser and the Nerve v DU v WiNES (742-3200), Crushpad band zoLA, Kalida

Saturday, 04/02

315 MArTiNiS & TAPAS, The Rising Tide BArLoWS AT LiBErTy LAKE (9241446), Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny Mc Collim

J ThE BAyoU (208-570-0274), Boat Race Weekend, Skinny the Kid, Monika, Mise J BELLToWEr (334-4195), Kazzufest Music and Arts Festival feat. Tacocat, Altesse, Jarv Dee, Tangerine, Cam the Mac, Lo’ There Do I See My Brother, Illridic, Northern Natives Collective (See story above) BEvErLy’S, Robert Vaughn J ThE Big DiPPEr, Down North, B Radicals, Cattywomp BLACK DiAMoND, DJ Major One BoLo’S, Tracer J BooTS BAKEry & LoUNgE, Arden E. Leas ThE CELLAr, Kosh and the Jazz Cats (standards) J CENTrAL grANgE (464-4273), The JonnyForest & Project Narwhal CoEUr D’ALENE CASiNo, Smash Hit Carnival, Kicho,

COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Pamela Benton CRAVE, Stoney Hawk CURLEY’S, YESTERDAYSCAKE DI LUNA’S CAFE, Michael Trew of Autumn Electric FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Echo Elysim FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Tell the Boys THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike  GARAGELAND (315-8324), Rewind monthly DJ night IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Uppercut THE JACKSON ST., Intentionally Blank  KNITTING FACTORY, Killswitch Engage, Memphis May Fire, 36 Crazyfists, Toothgrinder LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam THE LARIAT INN, Black Jack Band LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Karrie O’Neill MOOSE LOUNGE, The Vibe Raiderzz MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Bill Bozly NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon feat.

DJ Tom NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Mary Chavez NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin NYNE, Club night with DJ  THE OBSERVATORY, Haybaby, Wrinkles

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THE PEARL THEATER (208-6102846), Michael Seward THE RESERVE, Spokane Dan & The Blues Blazers THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Truck Mills  THE SHOP, Todd Milne and Moksha  THE PIN!, Broken Identity, Lions Beside Us, Gentleman’s War, Mike Forland  TURNING POINT OPEN BIBLE, Tenth Avenue North, I Am They, Hawk Nelson ZOLA, Kalida

Sunday, 04/03

 THE BARTLETT, Operators, Bogan Via  THE BAYOU, Ostraca, Deformer, East Sherman COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE JACKSON ST., Zaq Flannery acoustic jam LINGER LONGER LOUNGE (208-6232211), Open jam NEWMAN LAKE GRANGE, Country Jammers ZOLA, Caprise

Monday, 04/04

 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills

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LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 04/05

THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx  THE PIN!, Intervals, Plini, Angel Vivaldi ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 04/06 EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic  SWAXX, Pegboard Nerds  THE PIN!, Slaves, Capture the Crown, Myka Relocate, Outline in Color, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

 SPOKANE ARENA, G-Eazy (See story on page 43), April 7 CHATEAU RIVE, An Evening With Tyrone Wells, Tommy Simmons, April 8 THE BIG DIPPER, KYRS Presents: Rabbit Wilde, Howling Gaels, April 8 KNITTING FACTORY, Soblivios, Invasive, Children of the Sun, Cold Blooded, Broken Identity, April 8 THE OBSERVATORY, Night Beats, Mirror Mirror, Von the Baptist, April 8 KROC CENTER, Son of Brad, The Marco Polo Collective, Hanna Rebecca, April 9 THE BIG DIPPER, Ayron Jones, Hey! is For Horses, April 9 THE BARTLETT, Folkinception, the Holy Broke, April 9 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, For King & Country, April 9 THE PALOMINO, The Verbal Takeover 2016 feat. Mista Snipe, Cary Hays, Mr. Dalo and more, April 9 THE ROADHOUSE, Chris Shay Benefit feat. Band of Brothers, Steve Starkey, Sammy Eubanks, Keith & the Hankers, Smash Hit Carnival, Men in the Making, April 10 THE BARTLETT, Pete Yorn, April 10 KNITTING FACTORY, Third Eye Blind, April 13 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Salt-NPepa with DJ Spinderella and En Vogue, April 14

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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BIG BARN BREWING • 16004 N. Applewood Ln, Mead • 238-2489 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 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 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 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 Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent, Spokane Valley • 309-3715 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 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 Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MIK’S • 406 N 4th, CdA • 208-666-0450 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 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 St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 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 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 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Empire wide receiver Samuel Charles

SPORTS IOWA IS GOING DOWN!

If you haven’t gotten hip to the Spokane Empire in its inaugural season, let us bring you up to speed. They used to be called the Shock, but now are in a different league with a different name. But they can still win games. Oh, and they brought back the Shock’s old coach, Adam “Shack” Shackleford. The Empire comes home to the Spokane Arena with a 2-1 record to face the Iowa Barnstormers, a long-established indoor football outfit that once employed Kurt Warner. You can now get four tickets for just $50 at participating Fred Meyer locations.

— MIKE BOOKEY Spokane Empire vs. Iowa Barnstormers • Fri, April 1, at 7 pm • $15-$60 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokaneempire.com

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BENEFIT WILL RUN FOR FOOD

Running season in the Northwest is upon us, and one of the first benefit 5Ks of the season is happening this weekend — just in time to get you prepped for Bloomsday, the Negative Split and all the other races to come this spring and summer. The inaugural Hunger Run is a collaborative fundraising effort supporting Second Harvest of Spokane and the Union Gospel Mission, both working to fight hunger in the Inland Northwest. The 5K route along the Centennial Trail in Spokane Valley is family friendly and open to all levels. If you haven’t registered online before the event, day-of registration starts at 7:45 am at the race site.

— CHEY SCOTT The Hunger Run • Sat, April 2, at 9 am • $30/person • Starts/ends at Mirabeau Meadows • 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy., Spokane Valley • thehungerrun.org

THEATER DUAL ROLES

Playwright Tom Stoppard had a long history of success thanks to popular and critical favorites like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Night and Day when Hapgood first hit theater stages in 1988 to an overwhelmingly tepid response. Years later, the espionage thriller is enjoying a rebirth for its story centered on a government agent juggling motherhood with flushing out a mole in her midst from a crew of secret (maybe double-secret) agents, one of whom is leaking secrets to Moscow.

— DAN NAILEN Hapgood • Through April 10: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $22 • Spokane Civic Theatre • 1020 N. Howard • spokanecivictheatre.com • 325-2507

CULTURE FIRST GOVERNOR

Out on East Sprague, the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum continues to bring in educational exhibits for all. Kicking off a new series looking at the early history of the area is an exhibit exploring the life of Isaac Stevens, Washington Territory’s first governor. Museumgoers will learn about Stevens’ Civil War contributions (he died in 1862 in the Battle of Chantilly), his controversial Indian treaty negotiations, and his exploration of the Spokane Valley.

— LAURA JOHNSON Young Man In A Hurry: The Life of Isaac Stevens • Through May 28, museum open Wed-Sat, 11 am-4 pm • $4-$6 admission • Spokane Valley Heritage Museum • 12114 E. Sprague • valleyheritagecenter.org • 922-4570

CULTURE TRIBAL TRADITIONS

For a while, the stick game was close to being lost to history. The longstanding betting game, steeped in Native American lore and tradition, has seen somewhat of a resurgence at tribal gatherings in recent years. To celebrate their heritage and make sure the stick game is passed on to future generations, the Coeur d’Alene Casino hosts the first of three annual stick game tournaments this weekend. The game is simple yet complex, with practiced techniques and careful skill involved. Playing in this event is a big deal for competing teams from around the region, as they vie for a top place and a share of $39,000 in prize payouts.

— CHEY SCOTT Honoring Our Elders Stick Game Tournament • April 1-3, times vary; free to watch • Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort • 37914 S. Nukwalqw, Worley, Idaho • cdacasino.com

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BENEFIT

DINE OUT TO FEED SPOKANE Dine at participating restaurants (see link) in March and part of the proceeds go to Feed Spokane, which rescues prepared food in the community from being tossed out and transports it to local charitable meal sites to feed the foodchallenged in our city. bit.ly/1phcfth INTERNATIONAL FLY FISHING FILM FEST Money raised from the raffles/ silent auctions go to helping fund a tracking survey to determine if Redbands from the Spokane River are using Hangman Creek to spawn or not. . April 1, 7 pm. $15-$18. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) WILD IDAHO RISING TIDE CELEBRATION Celebrating another year of confronting the root causes of climate

change with a benefit concert, potluck dinner, slide show, and wine/beer for purchase. Event is preceded by a parade assembling at Friendship Square at 6:30 pm. April 2, 7 pm-midnight. Donations requested. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow. wildidahorisingtide.org YWCA SPRING FLING The annual champagne brunch fundraiser supports the programs and services of the YWCA of Spokane. Registration required. April 2. $55/person. Anthony’s at Spokane Falls, 510 N. Lincoln St. ywcaspokane.org (509-328-9009) STOP VIOLENCE BREAKFAST Learn how you can support child victims of physical and/or sexual abuse. RSVP required; call or email for more information. April 7, 7:30-9 am. Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway Ave. safepassageid.org (208-664-9303)

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W I SAW U YOU

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I SAW YOU BREAKING BENJAMIN You were the cute blonde girl from CdA there with your friend standing by the rail in the bar area of the Knit. My friend and I were behind you and I mentioned that you looked familiar, but I couldn't place where from. Drinks sometime? cda_ native_girl@yahoo.com GREEN FACES AND MICE M, I saw you for the first time near the mouse lair.

You walked up to me as I was green from my mission to mars and one too many margaritas. Thanks for the mexican food suggestion. It worked wonders the next day.

BLUE WINDBREAKER 3/23/16 at The MAX restaurant at the Mirabeau Park Hotel on Sullivan. You: tall guy in a blue windbreaker jacket. Me: sitting in a group with my family waiting for a table. You walked by and tried to get my attention.

On your second attempt as you headed out the door we made eye contact and you gave me a devastating smile, which I returned. Want to get in contact? Email me at spokanewa509@yahoo.com and tell me what I was wearing!

YOU SAW ME MY IRISH NINJA! i love you too! you are my hope and you are my future! you are the man of my dreams! you are so warm and soft and kind and gentle-hearted, you are the sweetest dear heart of my life! you are the one i have always been

looking for, and i found you, and you have always been there! you are my miracle, and you are my heaven, you are my rainbow, you are my sunshine, and you are all i have every prayed for! i'm not afraid of anything anymore because you are here now! i can't wait for the day to be held and kissed by you and to wake up next to your handsome face! i love you so much!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo!

APARTMENT 22 If your initials are JC you looked incredible in your jammies!

WAS IT ME? To the guy who noticed the redhead in the dirty Impala: What color was that Impala? I happen to have red hair (most of the time), drive an Impala, and often take the Argonne exit for work.

I listen to Notorious often and drive like a boss almost always. I specifically remember that day; it was the first super nice day so far this year. I will look for a reply...

CHEERS BEAUTIFUL BLONDE AT THE COFFEE SHOP WITH THE LOVING HEART Y o u were there all alone on Sunday sitting at a table and watching the four youth at a table across from you. I made mention that they were flamboyant. You said it didn't bother you. You wanted them to just be themselves and that's why you let them sit away from you. I apologized not realizing they were yours. You sighed and said you wished they were yours but they weren't. This is when you told me a little about them and who they truly were. There was nothing but love in your voice for them. I could see the tears in your eyes and asked why. That's when you told me that there were days when you felt like shutting down and never allowing another person in your life.

Today was one of those days. Then you looked at those four youth with so much love. "See, if I do that, then that means I'm letting them down. I can't do that.

These four just want love and acceptance so I would never do that. I love them too much." You called them over after I told you my name and introduced me to them. They were so well-behaved with excellent manners. I just want to thank you for taking care of these youth when others have turned them away. Please never shut down. I could see how much love you had in your heart for them. I know you wished you had room for them in your home. Maybe someday you will.

I know you have a lot of room for them in your heart. Please keep loving them.

Keep opening your heart to them.

SERVICE WITH A BADGE Cheers to the awesome policeman I saw 3/16 on my way to work. He was stopped behind a disabled car on the very narrow eastbound shoulder of I-90 around freya as I

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pumping gas, and told me he wanted to put $20 in my gas tank for me. Shocked, I politely declined. But Patrick insisted.

As he was putting fuel in my car for me, I began to bawl. No one has ever done anything so kind for me before. A complete stranger. I asked if there was anything I could do for him to repay him, he told me to study hard, and be a good

MY BEAUTIFUL FIANCEE I want to say cheers to the love of my life. we have been together a little over 3 years and I could not be happier she is my world she has stood by me threw alot when I was in the hospital when I was in-between apartments she was right next to me I love u baby more then u will ever know and Im so happy to be able to spend the

To the bespectacled brunette at the downtown library: You lift my spirits whenever we speak.

was driving westbound into work downtown. The occupants of the disabled vehicle, a man & woman, were standing outside the car while the cop was on his knees, back to the freeway, changing a tire. It was a really kind gesture to see & I was reminded of how the police serve the community in countless ways.

BURGER KING WINDOW LADY To the BK window attendant on E. Sprague on 3/10 at around 6:30 pm. Thank you so much for your kindness regarding my ordering snafu. It had been a tough week, and "a very long day." You were wonderful... and the fries were delicious.

KTM DRIVER Most of the time, people complain about all the a-holes on the road. Today I wanted to say 'thanks' to one of the nice guys. Sunday we were heading eastbound (home?) on I-90.

We drove together for quite some way, clipping along at a perfect speed (fast), and you took it upon yourself to keep me out of cop's radar. If you knew how often I get pulled over, you would really understand my appreciation. You exited (272), I waved to say thanks, but really wanted to 'cheers' you, because you were THAT cool! If only you could give driving lessons to the rest of the population. Hoping you're on the freeway every time I am.

PATRICK I will never ever forget your kindness, Patrick. I am a single mom, and college student, and was paying for my gas (4.75 in change none the less) and Patrick approached me while I was

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.”

mom. Then put another $10 of gas in my car. ($30 all together) I am still crying at your generosity. I will never forget you Patrick. I will pay it forward. And please know, you made a huge impact on my life and my faith in humanity. Thank you from the very bottom of my heart.

MY DEAREST TIMOTHY AKA TIMI It's been 18 years since we went our separate ways but I have never forgotten you.

You have always held a special place in my heart. You gave me something I never had and will never have again-the chance at being a mom. I discovered the joy and the heartache in it. There was always joy more than anything else. I promised you I would always be supportive of all your decisions. The day you told me it was time to return to your family and leave me behind was very difficult.

However, I made you a promise that I could not break. Yes, it was painful. At the same time, I realized the blessing you gave me even if it was only for a short while. I am sorry if I ever did anything to hurt you. Please forgive me. I also want to thank you for allowing me in your life and giving me that chance to be a mom.

You will always hold a special place in my heart. I love you.

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rest of my life with you love you forever Monique HELLO, LOVELY LIBRARIAN To the bespectacled brunette at the downtown library: You lift my spirits whenever we speak. Whether we're talking about our dogs, movies, literature or ourselves, I enjoy being with you. Set down that book and let's get a coffee.

JEERS JEERS TO THE FAT RACIST IN THE OLD COP CAR Jeers to the fat racist in the old cop car that screamed at the crosswalk on the corner of Freya and Hartson "Don't let that ni**er cross!" and threatened me and my wife. You are so pathetic. It's bad enough that you are a bigot, but that girl couldn't have been more than 13 years old. Shameful! I called the real cops and gave them your description. Ever wonder why your life sucks? It's called karma. 

THIS WEEK'S ANSWERS

AUDRIE WITH THE PARK AVENUE BUICK I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your kindness and empathy there at Northwest Blvd./ Ash will always be unforgettable. Truly a refreshing experience in a world full of con/ripoff artists. Thank you again Audrie,

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CHRIS D’ELIA Recently named one of Variety’s “Top 10 Comics to Watch,” D’Elia can next be seen starring as Danny on NBC’s new comedy Undateable. March 31-April 3 at 7:30 pm, also April 1-2, 10:30 pm. $27-$41. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) UNCLE D’S FINAL STAND-UP OPEN MIC: Uncle D’s Comedy Underground is closing after 10 years in business. Come celebrate the place many local comedians in the Spokane area call home. Free.

Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market. bit.ly/22uEfew (483-7300) COMEDY NIGHT AT THE INN Shows opens with special host Alvin Williams, also featuring Nick Cobb (April 1) and John Novosad (April 2) with Nigel Larson and Debbi Praver. Doors open at 7, show starts at 8 pm. $15. Best Western Coeur d’Alene, 506 W. Appleway Ave. cdainn.com/comedy-night-at-the-inn LADIES OF COMEDY A ladies comedy showcase featuring Mika Lahman, Ginny Isbelle, Candace Ellersick, Adrienne Balderson, Jay Mitz and Kay Harris. April 1, 9 pm. Free. The Viking Bar & Grill, 1221 N. Stevens St. bit.ly/1Rr6tfI 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 LOCAL COMEDY NIGHT FEAT. JARED MUNSON A night of comedy featuring Jared Munson, Michael Glatzmaier, Phil Kopczynski and Steve Johnson. April 2, 8 pm. $8/$10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. thebartlettspokane.com SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; signup at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+.

No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com 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. (318-9998) ANDY WOODHULL This past summer Andy was the first comedian to make his network television debut on the “Tonight Show: Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

April 7-9, at 8 pm; also Sat. at 10:30 pm. $10-$20. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy the first Thursday of every month in Impulse Nightclub at 8 pm (doors open at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region. Ages 21+ only. $10.

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY SPRING BOOK SALE Most items are less than $1; customers can fill a bag with books from their choosing for $3. Proceeds benefit the Spokane Public Library.

March 31-April 1, 10 am-5 pm, April 2, 10 am-2 pm. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanelibrary.org MEET THE NEIGHBORS: ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL Spokane Interfaith Council hosts a 6 month tour of Spokane’s religious landscape. Each month, visit a House of Worship in the community for a tour, to hear from civic and religious leaders, and partake in inter-religious and intercultural workshops to help build a more inclusive, pluralistic community. March 31, 6-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. on.fb.me/1pqgItR TREASURE! A touring exhibit exploring the history of treasure and treasure hunting, the technology used to look for it, and the people obsessed with finding it. Through May 29. Museum open Tue-Sun, from 10 am-5 pm. (Halfprice admission on Tuesdays.) $5-$10/ museum admission. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931) YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY: THE LIFE OF ISAAC STEVENS A new exhibit showcasing the Governor’s controversial treaty negotiations, his Civil War heroics and his connection to Spokane Valley history. It’s the first in a series examining the Valley’s early history.

Through May 28, museum open WedSat, 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6 admission. Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague Ave. valleyheritagecenter.org FIRST FRIDAY SWING DANCING A monthly community swing dance, beginning with a crash-course lesson in

vintage swing followed by live swing music at 8:30 pm. Fridays, 8-11:30 pm through June. $10. Gathering House, 733 W. Garland. vintageswingspokane.com DISCOVER YOUR FAMILY’S STORY Get started doing genealogy research with two classes taught by genealogist Miriam Robbins. The first (April 2, 3:30 pm) explains the features of Ancestry Library Edition and how it differs from a personal subscription. The second (April 16, 3:30 pm) covers how to use HeritageQuest. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) HUNGER RUN 5K Second Harvest and the Union Gospel Mission are partnering to create the Inland Northwest’s first Hunger Run. All donations received will be used to help fight hunger locally. April 2, 9 am-3 pm. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. thehungerrun.org (509-688-0300) TUTXINMEPU POWWOW The 17th annual Powwow brings together dancers, singers and drummers from 100s of tribes across the U.S. and Canada in a visual and artistic representation of Native American culture. Musical accompaniment is provided by the nationally known drum group The BOYZ, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and 10 other regional drum groups. April 2-3. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin. uidaho.edu/nasc WIZARDS, WANDS & BROOMSTICKS Come celebrate the wizarding world of Harry Potter at the library: Dress as your favorite character to participate in a costume contest. All ages welcome.

Children under 8 must bring an adult.

April 3, 1-3 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. (893-8400) FIREWISE PRINCIPLES TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY Learn techniques for thinning and pruning trees to make them less susceptible to wildfires. Ben Peterson and Garth Davis form the Spokane Conservation District discuss defensible space creation, fire department access, and flame resistant materials.

April 5, 6-7 pm. Free. Argonne Library, 4322 N. Argonne Rd. (509-893-8260) SQUARE DANCE LESSON Square dance lessons held every Wednesday from 7-8:30 pm, through May 18. No partner needed. $3/person. Western Dance Center, 1901 N. Sullivan Rd. squaredancespokane.org (270-9264) COMMUNITY DANCE FEAT. VARIETY PAK Monthly dance, on the second Friday from 7-9:30 pm, features live music by the local, 5-piece band, performing songs to fit all dance styles. $8-$10.

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This batch of revised rules, which follow revisions the board made in January, removes a few requirements and adds more specific language to a handful of proposed rules.

One revision removes the controversial requirement to put bright-green Mr. Yuk stickers on edibles, though the board notes that it will work with the Washington Poison Center to create a new sticker for cannabis-infused products.

Kris Rice, a budtender at Royal’s Cannabis, is impartial regarding the revision, as he doesn’t think a Mr. Yuk sticker would’ve affected edible sales.

“People are going to come and get their edibles either way,” he says. “I feel like it was more to help keep younger children away who know the Mr. Yuk logo.”

Another revision would allow pot shops to accept returned marijuana products with the original packaging, which Rice says they weren’t able to do before.

If the revision is adopted, employees will send returned products back to the grower and will be refunded

for the loss.

Other revisions would remove the requirement that an employee’s birthdate must be on their employee ID badge; remove inventory destruction as a penalty for producers and processors; add language stating that marijuana exposed to or containing unauthorized fertilizers or pesticides would be subject to seizure and destruction; shut down businesses operating without a board-approved marijuana licensed location; and cancel the licenses of businesses that fail to pay penalties for two or more violation notices in a three-year period.

A public hearing on these revisions will be held May 4. The board will be asked to adopt the rules on May 18. If adopted, they will go into effect on June 18.

Rice appreciates that the board is taking community members’ comments into account, but says the public hearings should be better publicized.

Nevertheless, he sees them as a positive thing for himself and his industry comrades.

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When I got remarried, I inherited a stepdaughter. At the time, I was happy about this. Though she and my husband had been estranged for many years, I was instrumental in getting them to reconcile. I’ve come to regret this. She is a rageaholic, spendaholic party girl.

She has three DUIs and an extravagant lifestyle that’s financially draining her dad and me. Though I have no problem cutting her off, my husband can’t say no to his AMY ALKON little girl — which has us on opposing ends of a bitter battle. —Stressed-Out Stepmother If you had the traditional kind of parasite, you could just put a lit match to its butt.

Welcome to the bottomless hole of wrongheaded empathy — the daddy guilt version of that “bottomless cup of coffee” that (if you ask politely) the Denny’s waitress will keep refilling until you finally die in the booth. Obviously, your husband means well. Unfortunately, he’s engaging in what’s called “pathological altruism.” The primary researcher on this, Dr. Barbara Oakley, explains it as an intention to help that actually ends up doing harm (sometimes to both the do-gooder and the do-goodee).

Enabling can feel so right in the moment, Oakley explains — in part because we get something out of it: activation of the same regions of the brain that “light up” from drugs and gambling. (Say hello to the “helper’s high.”) Refusing to “help,” on the other hand, is uncomfortable and tends to lead to ugly interactions, like screaming matches if Daddy says no to putting his retirement money into retiring last season’s Versace for this season’s Vuitton.

Being judiciously helpful takes asking the feel-bad questions, like “What’s the likely result of consistently attaching a garden hose to our bank account and washing away any consequences from Princess Partyhardy’s actions?” That’s a question that should get answered before she gets her fourth DUI — possibly leading to a need for somebody to pick up not only the cost of the fancy DUI lawyer but the pieces of some cute 5-year-old from along the side of the road.

You can keep telling your husband this until your teeth fall out, but because of his emotional ensnarement — along with the fear and anger that you’ll try to stop him — he’ll probably just fight harder to go along with her little-girl-voiced shakedowns.

And though, with your emotional distance, you have a clearer eye on how your stepsponge is playing her dad, there are surely a few rationality-eating emotions bubbling up in you. There’s got to be anger (because your money’s getting tossed down the drunken-spendy princesshole) and some fear (that you’ll end up on a street corner, begging people to drop change into your “World’s Greatest Stepmom” mug).

Fear and anger make for the worst argument partners. They trigger the amygdala, a central player in the brain’s threat-detection circuit. It, in turn, sounds the alarm, triggering the release of fight-or-flight hormones and shutting down functions not needed to battle or bolt, like — whoops — higher reasoning. And more bad news: When you keep repeating a behavior, your brain cells go, “Wait — we do this all the time; let’s put that on auto.” And this is what has happened here — which is to say, you two could be doing permanent damage to your relationship.

Advice columnists tend to squawk like parrots, “Therapy! Therapy!” (Like that option wouldn’t otherwise occur to anybody.) However, in your situation — because you two can’t seem to dial down the “bitter battle” — there is an intermediary you should consider engaging: a mediator. (Look for a marital one at Mediate.com) Mediation is dispute resolution. It’s issue-focused, so it’s worlds faster than therapy. (The mediator won’t take a month to figure out how you really felt when you were 6 and you didn’t get that cookie.)

The mediator’s job is to dial down the emotional temperature and get you two listening to each other — to the point where you understand each other’s feelings.

(This is how you come to empathize with somebody — which motivates you to act in their interest and not just in your own.) The mediator then guides you to come to a decision as a couple and can help you set up a framework for discussing emotionally charged issues so date night doesn’t devolve into hate night.

Still, it’s important to recognize that every problem isn’t perfectly solvable. What’s essential, however, is the “C-word” — compromise: understanding that you ultimately win by being willing to lose a little. This means accepting that you won’t always get the exact outcome you want — which, in this case, would probably involve picking up a time machine at Best Buy so you could go persuade your stepdaughter’s mother to have a purse dog instead of a child. n ©2016, 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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FILM

THE REVENANT While exploring the uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his beloved family. Rated R. Showing March 31-April 3, times vary. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) EDDIE THE EAGLE Inspired by true events, this film is a feel-good story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. Rated PG-13. April 1-3, show times vary. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) FIRST FRIDAY CINEMA After seeing Spokane’s First Friday exhibits on April Fool’s Day, head to Spark Center for a free film screening of “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” April 1, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) SOCIAL JUSTICE & DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING Multi-media artist Tim Guthrie works in drawing, painting, and sculpting as well as digital animation, 3D printing, and filmmaking. This event includes a screening of a short (20 min.) documentary “Mother Kuskokwim” and an artist’s talk by Guthrie on the process of social justice filmmaking. April 5, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299)

FOOD & DRINK

CHEF’S WEEK PNW Four days of culinary education and chef collaboration, with free demos during the daytime open to the public and evening dinners prepared by teams of regional chefs.

March 30-April 2. Event times and prices vary. See schedule online. Free-$150.

Washington Cracker Co. Building, 304 W. Pacific. chefsweekpnw.com IVORY TABLE SUPPER CLUB For April, explore the flavors and wines of the Italian Islands. Chef/Owner Kristen Ward prepares a rustic supper, featuring the flavors of the season as wine expert Mike Scott, of Noble Wines, leads diners on an Italian wine tour.

Only 30 spots available. April 1, 6-8:30 pm. $65/person. The Ivory Table, 1822 E. Sprague. ivorytable.com (202-2901) COOK & EAT CLEAN Participants prepare and sample leafy greens, whole grains, plant based protein and brightly colored vegetables. April 4 and 18, from 2:30-4:30 PM. Register online. $25/ class. Second Harvest, 1234 E. Front.

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MUSIC KPBX KIDS’ CONCERT: SOURDOUGH SONGS Brad Keeler and Linda Parman look for gold as they perform 1890sera songs in a program titled “Music from the Alaska Klondike.” April 2, 1 pm. Free. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com MICHAEL SEWARD With a rugged past, rugged life, and some say a rugged man, David Michael Seward, aka Mike Seward, sings about what he’s lived, believes and hopes for. April 2, 7-9:30 pm. $10-$15. The Pearl Theater, 7160 Ash St, Bonners Ferry. thepearltheater.org (208-610-2846)

SPOKANE SYMPHONY CLASSICS: GENIUS EVOLUTION The ninth classics series program features compositions

by Bach, Bruckner and Osvaldo Golijov.

April 2, 8 pm and April 3, 3 pm. $17-$54.

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) NORTHERN EXPOSURE The Palouse Choral Society’s Chamber Choir performs compositions by famous and yetto-be-famous composers from our region, some pieces in their premier. April 3, 4-5:15 pm. $8-$15. First Presbyterian Church, 405 S. Van Buren St., Moscow. palousechoralsociety.org (432-9630) NINE PINT COGGIES This Scottish fiddle band plays ancient to contemporary music of Scotland and beyond with jigs, reels, strathspeys, waltzes, polkas, airs, mazurkas, polskas and more. April 8, 7-9 pm. $10. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William. thejacklincenter.org

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SPOKANE EMPIRE Arena football game vs. the Iowa Barnstormers. April 1, 7 pm. $15-$110. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanefootball.com STICK GAME TOURNAMENT Join in the excitement of Stick Games, a tribal tradition of betting and entertainment. Free to watch, this classic event is held three times a year at the Casino Events Center.

April 1-3, 10 am-5 pm. Free. CdA Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. (800-523-2467) BLOOMSDAY TRAINING CLINICS Get in running shape in time for the 40th Bloomsday Run with hosted community training clinics, offering graduated conditioning and supported training courses. Saturdays at 8:30 am, March 12-April 23. Free. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. bloomsdayrun.org EWOC STREET SCRAMBLE Walk, bike or run to as many of the 30-40 map points in three hours as you test your navigation and observation skills. Registration from 9-9:45, mass start at 10:15 am. Refreshments are served after the race. Reserve a spot and map before March 30. April 2, 10:15 am-1:15 pm. $6/$8. Sandpoint West Athletic Club, 1905 Pine St. ewoc.org (208-263-9894)

THEATER

HAPGOOD Dual natures of light — and people — are the theme of Tom Stoppard’s espionage thriller. Through April 10, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com THE ODD COUPLE A group of the guys assemble for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. April 1-2, 7-8 at 7:30 pm, April 3 at 2 pm. $10-$12.

Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye. pullmancivictheatre.org THE DINNER PARTY Six people are invited to dine at a first-rate restaurant in Paris. Not knowing who the other guests will be or why they have been invited, they have a sneaking suspicion that this unorthodox dinner party will forever change their lives. April 1-2 and April 8-9; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm; also Sat at 2 pm. $5-$10. Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, Washington State University Pullman Campus. performingarts.wsu.edu BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The Disney classic animated film comes to live on stage in this Broadway musical. April 5-6, at 7:30 pm. $32.50-$72.50. INB

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VISUAL ARTS

POTLUCK An exhibit featuring the work of eight U of Idaho MFA students.

The artists explore mediums from ceramics to drawing and painting, to performance and mixed media, and back again. March 31-April 24; opening reception April 3, 1-3 pm. Gallery open Thu-Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Dahmen Barn, 419 N. Park Way. artisanbarn.org ELISE ENGLER: A YEAR ON BROADWAY Prints from the New York-based artist’s “A Year on Broadway” are on display from April 1-May 6. An artist’s reception is held on Thu, April 21, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The exhibit is a part of the second year of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series including speaking engagements on April 20-21 at SFCC, Terrain, and EWU. Gallery open Tue-Fri; hours vary. Free. EWU Downtown Student Gallery, 404 Second St., Cheney. bit.ly/1URKGDF (359-6802) FIRST FRIDAY Art galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane and beyond host monthly receptions to showcase new displays of art. Receptions are held on the first Friday of the month, from 5-8 pm. For complete event details, visit Inlander.com/FirstFriday.

MUSEUM OF ART/WSU 2016 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION The spring exhibit features the work of six MFA candidates, showcasing a wide range of styles. Candidates featured: Dani Brooks, Alx Dockter, Kayleigh Lang, Dylan Steinmetz, Nicole Nee, Kayla White. April 4-May 7, opening reception April 8, 6-8 pm. Gallery open MonSat. Free. Museum of Art/WSU, Wilson Road. bit.ly/1LVgzso (509-335-1910)

WORDS

READING: TIMOTHY EGAN The wellknown historical nonfiction author reads from his new book, “The Immortal Irishman.” March 31, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s first Friday poetry open mic, with Remember the Word featured reader Himes Alexander from The Smokes. Open mic readers can share up to 3 minutes’ worth of poetry. Guest host is Spokane Poetry Slam commissioner Isaac Grambo. April 1, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com BOOTSLAM PERFORMANCE POETRY COMPETITION The last qualifying slam before Spokane Poetry Slam finals! Enter for a chance to win the $50 grand prize.

April 3, 7-10:30 pm. $5. Boots Bakery, 24 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org SAMANTHA NUTT The award-winning humanitarian, bestselling author and acclaimed public speaker is featured at the University of Idaho’s 2016 Borah Symposium, April 4-6 and themed “Waging Peace.” April 6, 7 pm. Free and open to the public. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu/class/borah

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ACROSS 1. Memo-heading initials 4. Afts and eves 7. “They call me ____!” (classic 1967 film line) 14. i piece?

15. Have something 16. Male prom date : boutonniere :: female prom date : ____ 17. Ripen 18. Beats by ____ (audio equipment brand) 19. Submits via USPS 20. Inflicts harm after splitting into groups of two?

23. Without company 24. Fr. miss 25. Insect in a vespiary 28. Soccer star Lionel who went pro at 13 32. Affects the world through diplomatic agreements?

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38. Org. for the Suns or the Heat 39. Sushi eggs 40. Goose egg 41. Contents of some wells 43. Communicates, but not all at once?

47. Simple-living sect 48. Grain, e.g.

49. Looking up 52. Punching bag in the back of the mouth, in cartoons 56. Brings commodities from abroad using seaside locations?

62. Primed 63. Biblical verb ending 64. Signs off on 66. Uranus’ largest moon 67. When repeated, a Latin dance 68. Drain-clearing chemical 69. Vidal who was flown to Hollywood to cut Mia Farrow’s hair for the

film “Rosemary’s Baby” 70. Trivia whiz Jennings 71. Turn blue, say DOWN 1. Org. that approves new pharmaceuticals 2. Berra whose 2015 New York Times obit read “Yankee Who Built His Stardom 90 Percent on Skill and Half on Wit” 3. Agenda part 4. Go by bike 5. Chef Batali 6. Like disciplinarians 7. Year Theodore Roosevelt took office 8. Equine color 9. Common game show prize 10. Like the teaching offered in a madrassa

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11. Pesto ingredient 12. She’s a hip-hop fan 13. Have a feeling 21. “Come to ____” 22. Certain playoff game

25. Come out on top 26. Both: Prefix 27. ____ folder 29. Wyoming senator Mike 30. Option on “Wheel of Fortune”

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THIS 44. Commercial bribes 45. Feng ____ ANSW WEEK’S 46. Miles away I SAW ERS ON 49. Civil eruptions YOUS 50. “Labor ____ vincit” (Oklahoma’s motto) 51. Tiffs 53. Sweater style 54. Words before river or wazoo 55. Celeb who once released a pink lipstick called “Lindsay” 57. Member of Clinton’s cabinet for all eight years 58. TLC, e.g.

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On the Red Carpet The Best of the Inland Northwest gathered at the Davenport Grand Hotel last week to celebrate PHOTOS BY JEFF FERGUSON AND YOUNG KWAK

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ess than a year into its life as a hotel, the Davenport Grand has already won local hearts and minds — in fact, it beat out the Historic Davenport for first place in last week’s Best of the Inland Northwest readers poll issue. So it was fitting to have the annual awards party right there in the winning hotel’s fancy, new ballroom.

Hundreds of winners gathered March 23 to sample the best beer, wine, cider and spirits — along with food from the Davenport’s many eateries, from the Post Street Alehouse to Table 13. The swanky Vintage Hollywood theme was driven home by the vocal stylings of Heather Villa and her band, Villa Blues ’N Jazz.

Inlander owners Jer (pictured) and Ted McGregor greeted the winners of the 23rd annual readers poll and inducted five new members into the Best of Hall of Fame. Twigs, the Spokane Civic Theatre (pictured), Liberty Park Florist & Greenhouse, the Swinging Doors and Art on the Green all hit the milestone of 10 wins in 10 different years.

Congrats to all the winners, and if you somehow missed the issue, check it out at Inlander.com. n

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