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How social media can smother the life of teenagers SPECIAL INLANDER REPORT

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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’ll shoot up the school with u to go first”: This is what BULLYING looks like now — an endless stream of horrific threats sent to a kid’s phone all hours of the day, delivered anonymously via Instagram or other social media apps.

The problem is rampant, research shows. Most kids in America report being bullied or harassed online, and most feel that the adults around them — teachers, police, politicians and social media companies — are failing to address the issue.

The result? Terrorized kids, whose schools practice for the worst-case scenarios, who sit in math class wondering if the kid next to them is the one vowing to kill them first. This week staff reporter Wilson Criscione’s special report centers on the story of Emily, a local high school student, and how threats against her rattled an entire school and sent police scrambling to find the person responsible.

Every parent should read this story, beginning on page 22.

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JAMES MOORE Little things get blown out of proportion.

What’s an example?

One-word phrases that politicians will make, or a slip, will get blown up into a heaping headline story that has no point. Or you go down a rabbit hole. You start looking at something and you end up 16 pages, and “How am I looking at ‘Cats of Persia?’”

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RUBY COLVIN Bullying.

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CINDY LAWSON The fighting, the arguments, the disagreements, when it tears apart families.

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Just to see what’s going on everywhere, to keep in touch with friends, family. Most of my family is far away, so it’s a way to connect, to see what’s going on, to see pictures of people you probably wouldn’t see, because you don’t get to visit. Just connections.

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he latest stupid thing our misfit president has done is to threaten to cut off aid to Central American countries known in the real world as El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. (He often confuses these countries with Mexico, but anyway.)

As Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson points out, if you want to make things worse at the border, just do what Trump wants to do. He apparently doesn’t even know most of this aid goes to NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), not to the governments he wishes to punish for allowing too many “Mexicans” to come to the

U.S. illegally.

Frankly, the case can be made that the United States is responsible for much of the disaster in Central America. The story goes back decades.

To promote the commercial interests of the American corporations in the region, the U.S. sent in the CIA, and under the guise of fighting communism they effectively turned Central America into so many “banana

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republics.” They undermined young democracies while installing right-wing, military dictatorships.

The story is best told by Stephen Kinzer in his book The Brothers. In 1954, the Central Intelligence Agency, directed by Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, with the approval and support from the secretary of state, his brother, John Foster Dulles, overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and installed a dictatorship. The immediate reason was Arbenz’s land reforms, which affected the interests of the United Fruit Company, at the time the single largest landowner in Guatemala.

The United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana) employed the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Both Dulles brothers worked at that firm and were actually United Fruit board members. Both had played major roles in negotiating the giveaway land deals that so benefited United Fruit in the first place.

And all they needed to continue getting what they wanted was to overthrow Arbenz, who was elected in 1951. The Dulles brothers launched their anti-Arbenz propaganda (or as they preferred, “public relations”). Their effort was led by the founder of modern PR, Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud. Under Bernays’ guidance, the Dulles brothers worked to brand Arbenz a communist taking orders from the Kremlin — a tactic that would be used over and over again, eventually taking America into the Vietnam War. Bought-and-paid-for hoodlums, mostly from Nicaragua, attacked Guatemala. Arbenz went to the United Nations seeking fact finders but got nowhere.

Thus it was that the 10 years of democratic government in Guatemala ended. Arbenz was granted asylum by Mexico; the Dulles brothers and Wall Street had won.

The American-led assault on democratically elected leadership in Central America, however, had just begun. Back then, following the Dulles’ script, what you did to prevent even the hint of reform was to haul out the threat of communism, take aim at whatever reformer you sought to defeat and let Bernays’ propaganda acolytes take over. Worked every time.

The mess we helped create, that we nurtured in Central America, all in the interest of Wall Street, continues to this day, with migrants fleeing these same nations that have been caught in this cycle of exploitation ever since.

Ronald Reagan, while running for president in 1980, used those same reasons to attack President Carter’s Panama Canal treaty. This bit of cheap demagoguery infuriated none other than John Wayne, who could hardly be termed a “lefty.”

“Now I have taken your letter,” Wayne wrote him, “and I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people.”

He signed the letter ‘’Duke’’ and enclosed with it a five-page rebuttal — written on the stationery of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Wayne then wrote President Carter in support of his stand.

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Q&A JUSTIN KOBLUK WestCoast Entertainment’s new president brings a lifetime of entertainment experience to the job

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hen Justin Kobluk left Spokane for college at UW in 1985, the new president of WestCoast Entertainment thought he might become a professional musician like his father Mike was before working for Expo ’74 and leading the city’s entertainment venues for 28 years. “I learned early on that no one was going to pay me to be on stage,” Justin Kobluk says. “But I also love the business of entertainment and what goes into putting on an event, so I got into that in college and after college jumped on the road with a number of groups. One of my first things out of the gate was going on tour with the Rolling Stones.”

The 51-year-old father of two returned to Spokane 25 years after leaving, having worked in everything from venue management to event promotions, and has since booked concerts at Northern Quest before targeting touring Broadway shows with WestCoast Entertainment. We talked with Kobluk about the upcoming Best of Broadway season and what art means to a community. The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

on my iPod. And the same thing with Broadway. I think RENT probably would be my number one favorite. I say that only because it’s so powerful, the music in it, and I’m a music guy first.

INLANDER: What’s your oldest memory of live theater?

KOBLUK: My father was an entertainer back in the ’60s and a relatively large name (he played in the Chad Mitchell Trio). And so I kind of grew up in that forum. I grew up with celebrity, I grew up with people around me that were somewhat famous. I mean, when I was born, my father was on tour. So I don’t remember a time when I didn’t see shows or be in that atmosphere.

What do you think bringing Broadway shows to town adds to a community’s life?

Art in general, whether it’s music, whether it’s art, whether it’s what’s at the museum versus what’s live, it all adds. The greatest thing is experiences that you could take away, whether you’re seeing a show for the first time or seeing a show that you saw 20 years ago with your parents who maybe aren’t alive anymore. Or sharing it with someone on a date night. It just adds so much to the culture that’s around. n

How much of a Broadway fan would you say you are? And what’s your favorite show?

People ask me what my favorite music is and my iPod is ridiculous because I’ve got something that’s about from every single genre in the world

Drawing entertainment to Spokane, whether it’s a big concert or big show, what’s the most common challenge?

We’re not the biggest market in the world.

Hamilton is a perfect example, people were screaming for Hamilton for years. Well, Hamilton plays a half-dozen markets in a year. They sit in one space for a month, or two months in some larger cities, and we’re the 73rd-ranked market size-wise in the country, I think, right around there. So it’s going to take a while. For us, we’ve got to outperform a lot of bigger markets. And that’s true for even one-off concerts. If you’re looking at a Keith Urban or Brad Paisley, they’re going to do 60 days in a year, right? And those 60 days don’t have to be here.

They make more money going to bigger markets.

So we have to really kind of swing over our head a little bit to land some of the bigger shows. And we do in Spokane.

WestCoast Entertainment recently announced its 2019-20 Best of Broadway season, find details at wcebroadway.com. Hamilton arrives in the 2020-21 season.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Readers respond to layoffs announced in Spokane Public Schools due to a budget shortfall (“Give and Take” 4/18/19):

MICHELLE MOYER: “Every librarian in the district received notice that they will lose their jobs.” This is a nightmare. The library and librarian at Hamblen Elementary, and working in the library after school, changed my life. I don’t even know who I would be without them.

Readers respond to assistance Rep. Matt Shea allegedly offered to right-wing extremists to target liberal Spokane residents with background checks, according to a recent Guardian article:

ALAN WALKER: Enough already, the guy needs to be recalled and removed from the state Legislature!!!

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MICHAEL FOX: How do you mismanage an entire school district?

Did they not know there were changes coming to funding sources and procedures?

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JENNIFER MATHEWS: Matt Shea is dangerous to our community. Pretty simple.

KIRA BURT: Contact your state reps to call for Shea’s censure and removal from the Legislature.

LAUREL HENDERSON: Matt Shea is absolutely off his rocker. I can not believe Spokane Valley re-elected this extremist nutball! The chat referred to in this article is violent and creepy and people who plan such things belong in jail, not the state government!

KËLLY ZIMMERMAN: Shea needs to be prosecuted. He’s not stable.

PHILIP LEVY: This is crazy. We are just sleepwalking into disaster.

PAM EARLSCOURT HAMBLIN: I’m sorry but what is wrong with the people who live in the Valley and keep voting this nutjob in? He is clearly a danger to society and is spreading around hateful propaganda. The voters even knew of his pending issues and still voted him in. What is going on in this county?

Has he gerrymandered the district so he always wins or are the people just this hateful or ignorant who vote him in?

ERIKA DEASY: Sickening. He needs to be taken out of office, though he may become even more dangerous as a private citizen. His position of leadership only lends power to him creating a following.

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bout this time two years ago, the Air Force knocked on Kevin Anderson’s office door to ask if they could test Airway Heights’ drinking water.

Anderson, the city’s public works director, said, “Of course,” not realizing just how significant those results would soon become.

About a week later, the city learned its three main wells contained high levels of PFOS and PFOA, members of a family of persistent nonstick chemicals (perand polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS) that had been used in firefighting foam on Fairchild Air Force Base for decades.

Where Environmental Protection Agency guidelines recommended no more than 70 parts per trillion for health advisory limits — that’s less than a drop of water in an Olympic swimming pool — the city’s wells came back with results in the low thousands.

Three crazy weeks followed, Anderson says. The city

shut off its wells, issued an emergency declaration, and the Air Force handed out bottled water to residents in the city of nearly 10,000; milk trucks were brought in and cleaned to ship water to manufacturers in the area; an emergency contract with the city of Spokane was drawn up so Airway Heights could temporarily buy more water from an existing water line it usually only draws from in summer.

At first, Airway Heights staff thought they could try simply flushing an accumulation of the chemicals out of their system, Anderson says. They were sorely mistaken.

“We were hoping it wouldn’t take too long. We were not correct. Talk about persistence in the environment? It was persistent in our pipes,” Anderson says. “Half of our water supply was out of commission. The only water we had that was free of contaminants came from the city of Spokane.”

That’s still the case. Because the existing pipe system

connecting Airway Heights to Spokane water could only handle about 1,500 gallons per minute, the two later reached a new contract to install a second connection that could be used to meet the rest of the need for up to five years.

By July 2018, that new connection was in service.

Airway Heights continues to get 100 percent of its water from Spokane, with the Air Force paying for the costs that go above and beyond the city’s usual costs in years past, Anderson says.

Now, the West Plains city is still working with the Air Force, state Department of Health and various agencies to figure out short and long-term fixes for its water supply, Anderson says. Buying water from Spokane is expensive, and with other unknowns about chemical plumes, the city could be looking for a new place to tap into the groundwater. ...continued on next page

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Monday morning, April 22, it’s warm and windy as Anderson walks around the eight-tank system, stepping over hoses and past pipes as he describes how the Air Force installed the more than $1 million structure by the end of September 2018.

“This well pumps about 1,200 gallons per minute,” Anderson says. “That’s about half our total water supply.”

The good news, he says, is that tests in October showed that water run through the filtration system didn’t detect the harmful PFAS chemicals, meaning the process works.

The bad news is that the water was coming out milky white — the result of millions of microbubbles. They’re harmless and will settle if a glass of water is left to sit, he says, but they were understandably aesthetically concerning for residents.

“We’re doing some troubleshooting on it this week,” Anderson says. “We’re hopeful the problem gets solved and we’re back up and operational some time next month.”

Still, the filtration system can only be used during warm months, and even then, it’s only likely to be a temporary fix to the larger problem, maybe for the next couple of years at most, he says.

PFAS are just the latest branch of chemicals to come up as serious concerns associated with the Superfund site that is Fairchild. Other harmful chemicals were discovered decades ago and

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Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced it will study the effects of PFAS exposure by testing residents on a voluntary basis at eight different sites throughout the country, including near FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE. The study will be designed to select for a variety of households, and people won’t be able to volunteer to give blood and urine samples for the study unless their address is one of those selected for the research. Details of how that study will operate are still coming together. (SW)

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continue to be treated. While filtration is working for the known problems, Anderson says, it’s not clear what unknown chemicals of concern the future might hold.

“I think everyone would feel better if we had a completely clean source of water,” he says.

To get there could require drilling a new well or wells, and the city might use a combination of filtration and new water supplies in order to meet its demands, Anderson says. That could run into tricky territory with negotiating water rights.

“We have sufficient water rights for many years of growth up here, but that assumes water is being taken out of the aquifers it’s assigned to,” Anderson says. “So if we move to a different location, how can we make that transaction occur?”

“Everyone would feel better if we had a completely clean source of water.”

Because the Air Force has been a very cooperative partner, it’s unlikely Airway Heights residents would be saddled with large infrastructure costs associated with getting new water resources put in place, Anderson says.

But the answer won’t necessarily come easy. Planning partners, including attorneys, military representatives, hydrologists and more, only just kicked off an in-depth look at long-term solutions in January, he says. They’ll have to sift through a slew of options to make sure they meet the city’s criteria, and also make sure they’re feasible and legal, which is no insignificant undertaking.

“We don’t yet even have the universe of options we’re even looking at,” Anderson says. “Any way we go, there’s gonna be risks.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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The Lost Investigation In 2014, the city of Spokane quietly dropped a sexual harassment investigation; now officials have come to regret it

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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ith his job and reputation on the line, city of Spokane recreation supervisor Adriano Eva stands before the civil service commission and shows them just why so many people have described him as charming and charismatic. His rousing testimony last month touches on his Brazilian heritage, his worldwide travels, his multilingual expertise, American values of fairness and the fundamental importance of forging personal relationships with his employees.

“I am your diversity,” Eva says. “I don’t think there’s anybody in this building with nearly the vastness of the experience that I have in terms of interpersonal skills and building relationships.”

Eva had been demoted and effectively fired after an HR investigation concluded that he’d violated the city’s sexual harassment and general harassment policies. But last month, the civil service commission overruled the city, ordering Eva to be reinstated.

Among other accusations, the city said he’d peppered Conor Wigert, his temporary seasonal subordinate, with questions about Wigert’s faith and sexual orientation. He told Wigert that he had “love in his heart for all people,” but believed what the Bible said about homosexuality.

He’d outed Wigert to another employee. He’d told him that, in Brazil, he knew a gay barber who gave haircuts to boys for sexual favors.

But Eva argued that he’d done nothing truly wrong.

He was asking heartfelt questions, driven by a desire to understand his employees, he argued, and never had any reason to believe that anything he’d said or done was unwelcome.

“I have the courage to say, ‘Please feel free to let me know if this uncomfortable to you at all,’” Eva testified.

And they never had. He pointed to all his past assistants who’d attended the hearing and could attest to his integrity.

“Any of them could speak of my character, my motivation and my intent,” Eva says.

But there’s another story, one the civil service commission doesn’t get to hear: This isn’t the first time Eva has been accused of harassment.

In 2014, he’d been investigated for repeatedly subjecting a subordinate two decades younger than him to inappropriate comments and overtures. But Human Resources Director Chris Cavanaugh says the HR report was never officially submitted and so Eva was never officially disciplined. The lack of action handcuffed HR’s ability to reference the case during last month’s hearing, Cavanaugh says. The city believes it seriously screwed up.

“I wish we could go back to do it over,” city spokeswoman Marlene Feist says. “It’s painful for Chris, for me, for others.”

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Adriano Eva listens during a hearing. Last month, the civil service commission voted to overturn the city’s demotion and reinstate him.

The Inlander repeatedly offered Eva a chance to weigh in on the 2014 allegations. However, Eva’s attorney, Marshall Casey, ultimately declined, arguing “they relate to Mr. Eva’s marriage and family” and are irrelevant.

Instead, Casey argues that human resources’ “overly zealous prosecution” of Eva shows the HR department continues to be flawed.

FIRST REAL JOB

She was only 19. It was her first real job. Back in 2014, Shelby — who requested the Inlander not print her last name — was a temporary seasonal worker at Riverfront Park, first at the Carrousel, and then at the Ice Palace.

That was where she first met Eva. He was giggly as he asked her questions, she says. Despite being at least 23 years older than her, despite being married, he seemed to be flirting with her, she thought.

So she says she was almost relieved when, about a week later, he told her he wanted to offer her a temporary job as his secretary at his parks department office when she wasn’t working for Riverfront Park.

“Oh, this guy wasn’t flirting with me,” Shelby recalls thinking, “He wants to work with me.”

But those, it turned out, weren’t mutually exclusive, according to the account she gave the city in 2014 and relayed to the Inlander. When she wore a blouse and skirt — having Googled “appropriate office attire” for her first office job — she says Eva told her she looked hot. On one occasion, she says, he asked her to touch his chest, to feel how fast she was making his heart beat. He told her he hadn’t felt that way in a long time.

“To be honest, I totally had a crush on him,” Shelby says now. He was nice. He was charming.

So when she learned the city wouldn’t continue to let her moonlight for Eva, she says she was disappointed.

But she’d also been feeling confused. She talked about her uncomfortable feelings with her mom, with her roommate and with her friends. Shelby later learned one of those friends, a police officer, contacted HR to warn them that Eva was subjecting Shelby to “inappropriate work behaviors.”

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But even after Shelby was removed from Eva’s office, Shelby says that Eva’s overtures didn’t stop.

He brought her a cake to the Carrousel, telling her he’d Googled her and had found out that her dad had been a sheriff’s deputy who died when she was 8. Shelby found it creepy.

He’d text her and he’d call. One moment, she says, he was inviting her out to lunch or coffee, telling her how attracted he was to her, describing intimate details about his marriage, and the next he was telling her they should stop all contact. But then, a day later, he’d start texting again.

It all culminated with an incident in his Riverfront Park office. Eva asked Shelby if she wanted him to kiss her. When she said she did, he locked the door.

The kiss was longer and more aggressive than she expected, she would later tell HR. She says he pushed her against the wall, groped her breasts. Shelby tells the Inlander she went home in tears. She says Eva called her the next day to say he’d confessed everything to his wife.

And then a few days later, on the evening of March 14, 2014, Shelby got a text message from Eva, from an account he stressed the city wouldn’t be able to track, informing her that HR was investigating them. He passed along speculation that someone must have been “jealous” of them together and warns her that they “can’t trust anyone.”

The texts, obtained by the Inlander, show that Shelby was initially outraged by the investigation and argued they hadn’t broken any city rules.

But Eva said that, because he was her older, male boss, the city wouldn’t want to risk it: Shelby could sue the city five years later, he said, for not protecting her.

“The city policy is like that: ‘Screw the man!’” Eva wrote. “Any lawyer would love to have your case. You can add a bit, make the story more dramatic and I’m doomed. Good thing I didn’t touch you inappropriately.”

Eva told Shelby that they needed to meet to come up with a “storyline that goes seamlessly together” to match the record of romantic text messages on his city cell phone. He proposes not telling anyone about the kiss. At

first, Shelby agreed, but later insisted on telling the truth.

“I will not add to the immoral behavior,” she wrote.

Eva assured her he planned to tell the full truth as well. But when Shelby refused to accompany him to speak with the city about the situation, he accused her in the texts of “going down a road that will make it harder for everyone” and that “someone has told you it is better that you play the victim.”

She wasn’t blameless, she texted, but she did feel like a bit of a victim.

“You were my superior and I was a lot younger than you,” she wrote to Eva. “I never texted. I never asked to meet. I didn’t compliment you on your looks constantly or look at you up and down the way you looked at me.”

After speaking to HR, she wrestled with the stress, the guilt, the fear. Eva stopped contacting her, but from the outside, it seemed like little had been done — to him, anyway.

Shelby’s roommate, Saarah El-Bakkush, got a job at Riverfront Park and had a front-row seat to hear all the gossip. She says she heard from supervisors that Shelby wasn’t welcome to come back the next season.

“They considered her to be a ‘trouble-maker’ and ‘promiscuous,’” El-Bakkush says. “They didn’t want someone who caused problems to come back to the park.”

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

For four years, the draft HR report on Eva sat in a file in City Hall. Cavanaugh, the HR director, says the city rediscovered the file last fall while investigating the more recent complaints against him.

In the report, authored by former HR analyst Dan Daling, Eva admits to kissing Shelby — though Eva portrays the kiss as gentler, briefer and without any inappropriate touching. But Daling ultimately finds Shelby to be more credible and less culpable than Eva. To “ensure that these negative and disrespectful behaviors stop immediately,” Daling urges for Eva to cease contact with Shelby, to never be placed in a supervisory role with her again, to be moved from Riverfront Park, and to be retrained on “respect in the workplace.” Finally, he calls for Eva to be sent to a “predisciplinary hearing to determine what discipline, if any, is appropriate.”

But Cavanuagh says that, from what the city can tell, that hearing never happened. The report isn’t signed, and appeared like it had never been completed. Cavanaugh says she reacted with “shock and horror that we had not resolved it.”

Cavanaugh says the parks department director at the time told her he was never sent the report. Today, Daling tells the LETTERS Inlander that he’d submitted Send comments to the draft to then-HR Director editor@inlander.com.

Heather Lowe — but he has no idea what she did with it.

For the past five years, the HR department has remained a turbulent place, wracked by internal strife. In 2016, Lowe left the city amid a scandal sparked by the firing of a police chief who’d been accused of sexual harassment. When Cavanaugh took over, she says, there was no master log of investigations. Cavanaugh says she can’t find any of Daling’s interview notes associated with his Eva investigation.

“It kind of makes me mad,” says Daling, who Cavanaugh ousted in 2016. “Everything I did is in a file cabinet that was in front of Chris Cavanaugh’s office.”

Statutes of limitations mean it’s too late to do anything about the 2014 harassment investigation. If the city had handled the investigation properly, Cavanaugh says, the city could have pointed to the discipline during last month’s civil service hearing as proof Eva should have known his behavior was inappropriate.

“We would have been able to cite the case,” she says. “We could have taken much more significant action.”

Instead, the 2014 investigation was only alluded to briefly at the hearing, and Eva pointed to the lack of action as an effective exoneration. ...continued on next page

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NEWS | CITY HALL “THE LOST INVESTIGATION,” CONTINUED...

“There was an issue that was brought up, it was investigated, and it was dropped, because there was no violation, I would assume,” Eva said. “Apparently there was nothing there.”

Eva claimed at the hearing that he’d been the one to report the issues to HR and his supervisors. And he said that his supervisors, his employees and HR had never directly told him — other than suggesting he was being too emphatic during meetings — that he’d stepped over the line or made anyone uncomfortable. Daling strongly disagrees: He says he was there at the meeting with Eva and his superiors, after which at least one action was taken. “[Eva] was transferred to an office in City Hall,” Daling recalls. “He was told to stay out of the park.”

Casey, Eva’s attorney, not only says that Shelby’s case is legally irrelevant to the recent civil service hearing, he says that Eva’s recent experience shows that “there are failures of HR, currently.”

music was making Wigert, one of his employees, uncomfortable, especially after his supervisor raised concerns about the music. But the HR report hadn’t mentioned the fact that Wigert had put on gospel music himself, nor the fact that Wigert had asked Eva for prayer.

“Can you reasonably know a person doesn’t want to discuss religion when they come and ask for prayer?”

Casey asked the civil service commission.

Eva said he hadn’t been able to bring character witnesses. His perspective hadn’t been included in the HR report. He had been effectively denied due process, he said.

“I came up against a bias from the very beginning,” Eva said at the hearing.

GUILT AND POWER

After Eva’s discipline was reversed by the civil service commission, he gave City Councilwoman Karen Stratton a big teary hug.

It was a painful thing to watch, she says. Eva’s career and reputation had been damaged, she notes. “To me, nobody really won,” Stratton says.

Today, the city is appealing the civil service verdict, and Eva will remain on paid leave until after it’s completed.

Earlier this month, Wigert — the gay employee who Eva had been accused of harassing — and recreation supervisor Carissa Ware sat in a City Hall conference room, each dabbing away tears as they shared their stories. The civil service decision, Wigert says, felt “invalidating,” like he’d been “silenced.”

But he’s also been feeling something else: guilt. He’d

“Can you reasonably know a person doesn’t want to discuss religion when they come and ask for prayer?”

“Ms. Cavanaugh was driving the investigation that failed to ask key witnesses and failed to bring out key evidence,” he tells the Inlander.

In one instance, the city charged that Eva should have known that discussing religion and playing gospel

studied gender, race, sexuality and social justice in school, trained to be the sort of activist who would stand up for others. But he felt like he had failed to stand up for even himself. He hadn’t told Eva directly that he was uncomfortable. He felt he’d bitten his tongue for the sake of his career.

And Ware, who’d ultimately reported Wigert’s concerns to HR, was feeling guilty, too. As a lesbian, she’d experienced similarly uncomfortable conversations with Eva when he was her boss.

“I felt that, if I would have stepped up, Conor wouldn’t have experienced the things he did,” Ware says.

But speaking up was difficult. Ware and Wigert say that Eva repeatedly pushed for a personal relationship, demanded “loyalty” and “trust,” and underscored how much he could help their careers. After Ware testified against him, Eva texted a co-worker that Ware had “betrayed” him.

From Eva’s perspective, everything he’d done, he’d done with consent. He’d asked if they felt uncomfortable, and they’d always said no. But to Wigert, Ware and Shelby, that argument ignores the considerable power that Eva had over them, whether with authority, with age or with influence. It’s a point Shelby had stressed to Eva five years ago, while they argued about whether their kiss was relevant.

“Last summer, two male employees kissed in front of the public at Merkel. Two boys, two gay boys. Nothing happened,” Eva had texted her. “Why do we need to make a mess of it?”

“Was one the superior?” Shelby countered. “That’s the difference.” n danielw@inlander.com

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LURKING AMONG US BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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Anonymous threats on social media can paralyze an entire school. But for one Spokane teenager, targeted again and again, the nightmare wouldn’t stop.

This is her story

ramped in the backseat on the car drive home from a family trip, Emily checks her Instagram to pass the time.

A red dot pops up in the upper right corner of her phone.

It’s a direct message from someone she doesn’t recognize — someone with the handle steven_smith__4.

Emily, then a 15-year-old sophomore at Lewis and Clark High School, thinks it’s probably just some creepy boy being weird. She ignores it. When she gets home that night — Memorial Day last year — it’s just like any other school night. After dinner with the family, she curls up on the basement couch to finish the last of her homework. But first she takes another look at her Instagram. She finds more messages from steven_smith__4.

Emily doesn’t know anyone by that name, but whoever it is seems to know her. He keeps saying she should like him because he’s better than the other guys she supposedly likes. She asks who he is. He brings up how she just made the cheerleading team.

When she stops responding, he seems to get aggravated, and the messages spiral into something much darker. He calls her a slut and a whore. He sends her porn. He threatens to rape her, explaining in graphic detail — words that can’t be printed here — how he’d do it. He says he will shoot up the school.

“I’ll shoot up the school with u to go first,” he writes, according to court records. “Can’t wait till the day that I get to rape u when the least is expected.” ...continued on page 24

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Emily, 16, says her life has been changed by repeated threats against her life on Instagram.

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TIMELINE MAY 28, 2018:

steven_smith__4 sends a series of Instagram threats targeting a student named Emily and Lewis and Clark High School.

MAY 29:

Emily goes to school and sits in math class with Ryan Lee, later identified by police as the source of threats.

MAY 30:

Police track the Instagram account to the home of Ryan Lee, who later that day confesses, according to court records.

AUG. 3:

Arrest warrant issued for Lee for violating release conditions.

NOV. 3:

An account named steven_ smith__4 threatens to shoot Emily and her friends at Lewis and Clark.

JAN. 21, 2019:

Emily sees a bio from Lee’s personal Instagram complaining of humiliation and trauma he has suffered.

JAN. 27:

Account called dan__theman_n sends explicit messages to Emily and posts threats targeting her and her friends and family.

JAN. 30:

Lee is arrested in connection with latest threats and later posts bond.

MARCH 8:

Lee arrested a third time after violating release conditions.

MARCH 12:

Lee is released on bond again.

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Emily, who asked that her last name be withheld so as not to make herself a bigger target, runs upstairs to find her parents. They call 911 and notify a school administrator. The threats toward her and the school appear in the comments of public photos. Hundreds of students see them and in no time they’re taking screenshots. Parents text each other and spread the pictures on Facebook. Emily’s mom, Callie, tells the other moms not to post the threats with Emily’s name. But within hours, seemingly everyone in Emily’s world has seen it. Even people on the other side of the country, with little connection to LC, are in the loop.

Yet nobody knows how seriously to take it. After all, nobody took the social media threats seriously from the shooter in Parkland, Florida. Some parents decide to keep their kids out of school the next day. Spokane Police officers try to keep everyone calm as they make plans to post police officers in front of the school the next morning.

This is the state of fear gripping teens across America today.

With images of mass school shootings seeped in the national consciousness, social media has provided a platform for school-shooting threats to pop up every day. They appear more often following shootings — Spokane County schools handled more social media threats after the 2017 Freeman High School shooting that killed one boy. Parts of Florida averaged a threat per day in the months after the 2018 Parkland shooting, according to news reports.

Often, the threats target teenage girls or minorities. In September, someone threatened to rape and kill several girls and open fire at students and the school principal at Freedom High School in Oakley, California. In March, schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, closed following anonymous online posts threatening an “ethnic cleansing” at Charlottesville High School.

And as schools go to great lengths to keep students safe and secure, sometimes they can feel more like prisons than places of learning.

“I have teenagers thinking through and thinking aloud, ‘If something were to happen here, what is my strategy? What would my actions be?’” says Lewis and Clark Principal Marybeth Smith.

“Not thinking of those is not a luxury we have anymore.”

For Emily, the vile messages launched what’s now been nearly a year of torment. Each time she thinks she can move on, a friend sends another screenshot of an Instagram user threatening to shoot up the school and calling her out by name. She’s lost her sense of privacy and control. She’s felt anger and frustration as the person allegedly behind it all has so far escaped serious jail time.

But now, she feels empowered, speaking as a girl who has confronted the terror and anxiety triggered by social media.

“We’re hiding behind these screens, and all these terrible, nasty things can happen behind it and kids feel like they can’t get caught,” Emily says. “Social media is just a terrible thing.”

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“Could he go get a gun?

Yes. Is his mind in a place that he could do something terrible? Yes.”

he day after the first threats, on Tuesday, May 29, Emily passes by police officers guarding the front door of Lewis and Clark, the largest school in Spokane with 1,800 students. Outside the principal’s office, more officers keep an eye out for anything suspicious. Around their wrists, hovering over their guns, they wear #freemanstrong bracelets in recognition of that fatal shooting.

Emily doesn’t know what to think. Police have no idea who made the threats. It could be a joke, a hoax, anything. It could be a complete stranger. It could be a boy sitting next to her in class.

“You don’t know what could happen, and at the same time, in the back of your head, you want to think it’s not real,” Emily says.

Emily didn’t get an Instagram account until the summer before seventh grade. Most of her classmates already had one, and she

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felt social pressure to start her own account. She felt obligated to post somewhat regularly. Even the filter she used seemed to matter. The best profiles, she learned, used the same one for each picture.

Still, she enjoyed Instagram more than other social media apps. She learned how toxic social media can be from another app called ASKfm, where kids could anonymously pose deeply personal questions. Sometimes, it was a way to spread rumors and bully each other behind anonymity. It helped Emily learn not to react to what people say on social media. And she learned not to let people know you care.

“It just tears you down more and more, because they get the reaction,” Emily says. “It was definitely not something you should be exposed to, because I think it was really degrading to a lot of kids.”

But she never experienced the kind of harassment and hate like she received last year.

After that first day back at school, police are still trying to find the person who threatened Emily. She blocked the account, and it temporarily went hidden, but that evening it returns to make more threats to the school.

The profile’s bio claims there’s a “special date planned for LCHS...BE READY...I’m sry ahead of time for those who will not be alive the next day.” Spokane Public Schools sends a message to parents saying law enforcement doesn’t believe the threats are “credible.” Yet there would again be increased security for the next day.

At least 1,000 students — more than half the school — stay home on Wednesday. So does Emily, who has trouble sleeping the whole week.

The Spokane Police Department, meanwhile, obtains search warrants for Facebook and Comcast. They track the IP address to a home on the South Hill, about a fiveminute drive from where Emily lives.

It’s the home of a boy named Ryan Lee. Emily shares a math class with him. He’s a quiet boy, who sometimes offers to help her with homework, she recalls.

Then she realizes this: On that first day back to school after Memorial Day — hours after being threatened with rape and murder on Instagram — she had sat one desk away from the boy allegedly behind it all.

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ast year, Instagram unveiled a new tool aimed at limiting bullying and “spreading kindness.”

They called it “machine learning technology” that could find bullying in photos and send it to a team to review. The idea was that even if victims of bullying don’t report it, Instagram could detect it.

“It will also help us protect our youngest community members since teens experience higher rates of bullying online than others,” Instagram said in a press release.

Instagram is popular among teens and typically considered less vitriolic than other social media platforms.

But harassment remains a problem among its more than 1 billion monthly users, and even with its new “machine learning technology,” it doesn’t always shut down harassment when it sees it. It can take days for the company to respond, oftentimes after the damage is done. The Atlantic spoke to one man diagnosed with a form of dwarfism who, as a teen, was constantly harassed, insulted and bullied by trolls. “My entire experience of high school was completely ruined by Instagram harassment,” he told the magazine.

Instagram declined to comment for this article when reached by the Inlander.

On Wednesday, May 29, police take in Ryan Lee, then 18, for questioning. After initially denying everything, he admits to creating the account and sending the messages to Emily, court records show. He is charged

with felony harassment and communication with a minor for immoral purposes. He spends weeks in a local hospital for mental health treatment before he is booked into jail on June 12; he’s then almost immediately released after posting $100,000 bond. On his iPhone and tablet, police are unable to find anything connected to the Instagram account, but investigators do find that the browsing history includes searches of school shootings and serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the days before the threats. They also find searches asking “Can the FBI track Instagram Accounts,” from the day he’s taken in for questioning, court records say.

The school district and law enforcement tell the media that the threats are not credible because police didn’t find weapons in the house, and Lee told investigators that he had no actual plan to carry out the threats. But Callie, Emily’s mom, thinks saying it wasn’t credible diminished what felt very real to her daughter.

“Could he go get a gun? Yes. Is his mind in a place that he could do something terrible? Yes,” Callie says.

“When a student makes a direct threat against students or the community, it’s credible.”

Summer arrives, and Emily tries to get her life back to normal. But even away from school, it’s hard. Emily worries she’ll see Ryan Lee somewhere, like the grocery store nearby. During Hoopfest, with thousands of people in downtown Spokane, Emily is terrified when she’s told that Lee is nearby serving as a court monitor for the basketball tournament. Lee’s father is Lewis Lee, who co-founded Lee & Hayes, a firm specializing in intellectual property and internet technology. The elder Lee is also on the Hoopfest Board of Directors.

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By the fall, Emily is looking forward to a new school year. She has a leadership role as a cheerleader. She is in choir. Everyone at the school is supportive of what she went through.

But in November, Emily is hanging out with her friends on a Sunday night when someone sends her another post using the same handle, steven_smith__4.

“Cant wait to carry out what I said last school year,” it says, claiming police arrested the wrong guy before. It repeats the same threats as before: Emily would be the first to be shot. Then it would be Emily’s friend. “Then I’ll follow my list.” The account follows other girls’ accounts, making some feel like they are on the hit list.

All of the emotions — fear, frustration, anger, embarrassment — come back.

“It seems like I’m exaggerating, but it kind of feels like the world is falling apart,” Emily says. “And it’s really hard because the second something’s out, it’s going to spread everywhere, and everyone’s going to know.”

Smith, the LC principal, says the teachers and staff were angry and heartbroken. They wanted to protect their students. But they also felt powerless.

“We just thought: How did we land here?” Smith says. “How did we land to where this is our reality, where our most vulnerable, innocent, sweet, ridiculous kids are the ones getting threatened?”

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ids often don’t know the consequences of their words, and have no intention on following through, says Shawn Jordan, Spokane Public Schools director of secondary schools. At the same time, the district has to take every threat seriously.

“The way we look at it from a threat assessment team perspective is: Does the person pose a threat? Not did the person make a threat,” Jordan says. “The things we’re looking at are, is there a premeditated plan? Is there a specific target?”

More than three years ago, Spokane Public Schools established a threat assessment team. The district had to do something to respond to a growing concern of social media threats, says Jordan, who’s part of the team.

The team as it currently works is based on a model created by John Van Dreal, the director of safety and risk management for the Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon. It includes school directors, counselors, administrators and school resource officer supervisors. In situations involving anonymous social media posts, it will convene and discuss how to communicate with the community, enlist the help of police if necessary, and come up with a plan to assist potential victims.

It’s a trending idea in education. A bill that this month has been sent to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk would require each school district to establish such a team.

But it doesn’t address the underlying issue of cyberbullying and social media attacks overall. Even SalemKeizer School District, widely respected for its threat assessment program, doesn’t seem to have a good answer for anonymous attacks on Instagram. Just this month, a private Instagram account posted anonymous attacks bullying students at North Salem High School. One post said they wished a student was dead, the Statesman Journal reported.

A majority of U.S. teens, nearly 60 percent, say they’ve experienced cyberbullying in some form, according to a survey done by the Pew Research Center.

Name-calling was most common, but one in four teens said they received explicit images they didn’t ask for, and 16 percent experienced physical threats. Girls were more

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Percent of U.S. teens who say they have experienced cyberbullying online or on their cellphone Any type of cyberbullying listed below Offensive name-calling

Spreading of false rumors Receiving explicit images they didn’t ask for Constant asking of where they are, what they’re doing, who they’re with, by someone other than a parent Physical threats Having explicit images of them shared without their consent likely to receive explicit images and to have false rumors spread about them, according to the survey.

Some schools across the country have begun adopting software that scans student social media accounts to flag threats and attacks. Last fall, the New York Times reported that more than 100 school districts and universities had hired social media monitoring companies in the last five years, including Newtown Public Schools in Connecticut. A federal report on school safety highlighted a Google-funded program in Seattle Public Schools to “identify and negotiate the removal of cyberbullying content,” though the district tells the Inlander that program is no longer in use.

Amelia Vance, director of the Education Privacy Project for the Future of Privacy Forum, says the concern with this kind of technology is, well, privacy. Though the technology looks at social media posts that are public, students may not appreciate having “Big Brother” watching their social media interactions. When it comes to identifying threats, having an easily accessible reporting tool that goes straight to the district would be more effective, she says.

“I work with a ton of school districts and they’ve told me in the wake of every school shooting, they receive an unending list of emails from companies saying, ‘We can keep your students safe. We can identify threats for you,’” Vance says. “There hasn’t been any real efficacy other than anecdotal evidence.”

Spokesman Brian Coddington says Spokane Public Schools is aware of such technology, but the district has concerns about its reliability. Plus, if it’s flagging posts 24/7, then the district needs to have someone to respond to it at all hours.

Source: Pew Research Center, survey conducted March 7-April 10, 2018

“We’re not overly confident that we’ve found the right solution or that that is the right solution,” Coddington says of the technology. “But that is something we’ve started exploring.”

The district monitors social media accounts, mostly just to be aware of “conversations out there,” Coddington says. But it’s nearly impossible to catch social media threats before students and parents do. And by then, it’s too late. Everyone is terrified.

“We’re already playing catch up,” Coddington says.

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mily misses a whole week of school because of the threats in November. School attendance at Lewis and Clark overall is down that week, but not as much as the first time. Emily hears one student even wore a bulletproof vest to school.

Police aren’t able to connect the threats to Lee’s IP address this time. But at a certain point, Emily needed to go back to school, says her mom, Callie.

“Parents are in a dilemma because you’ve got to get your kid back to school,” says Callie. “You have to believe everything’s going to be OK. But then you feel guilty because you’re telling your kids to go to school and what if something happens that day?”

Toward the end of lunchtime on the first day back, Emily is walking with friends to class. Suddenly the sound of alarms pierces through the hallway. She thinks her worst fears are coming true. She rushes to an administrator and asks if she knows what’s going on.

“No, I don’t,” the administrator tells her. “Just get out.”

But her fears weren’t coming true. The reason for the lockdown was some smoke up on the third floor,

says Smith, the principal. Still, the thought that there could be a shooter momentarily shakes the school to its core.

“That was a bad one,” Smith says. “People were super angry about that.”

In December, a Washington Post analysis found that 4.1 million students endured at least one lockdown in the 2017-18 school year. In Spokane, schools including Lewis and Clark went on lockdown during the shooting at Freeman High School. Yet even as school shootings remain relatively rare, it’s the terror created by constant threats and lockdowns in schools that weighs on kids, says Scott Poland, a psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

And that doesn’t even count the lockdown drills to plan for an active shooter, which schools are increasingly trying to make more realistic. In Washington state, schools are required to do three fire drills and six crisis drills per year, which could include an evacuation or lockdown. Sometimes, administrators in Spokane Public Schools won’t tell staff or students when it’s a drill to make it more realistic, says Jordan, the district’s director of secondary curriculum.

Other schools are more extreme. In March, teachers in Indiana were brought into a room and shot with plastic pellets execution style to replicate an active-shooter situation.

“We’re going a little over the top,” Poland says. “The bottom line, and the message that is lost, is that schools remain the safest place that kids go.”

High schools in Spokane have taken other security measures.

Students now can only enter the school through the front door.

Classrooms remain locked during class. But further measures can be controversial: Arming resource officers could help in the case of a school shooting, but student advocacy groups have pushed instead for more mental health counselors. In Parkland, a school security consulting company called Safe Havens International advised against Broward County Public Schools using metal detectors, but some parents objected. (Safe Havens, meanwhile, is currently conducting a safety audit of Spokane Public Schools.)

Emily appreciates the efforts to keep school safe. She was escorted to class the week after the November threats. During lockdown drills, they make sure she’s in a comfortable place. But it can also make her feel singled out and isolated, and that can be worse than the fear sometimes.

“She just wants to be able to go to school and be a normal kid,” Callie says.

And every time it looks like she can move on, the nightmare repeats itself.

On Jan. 21, Ryan Lee activates his own Instagram account. In the bio, he writes “no words can describe the public humiliation and trauma I have been put through for the heinous acts of which I was falsely accused of doing.”

It’s a slap in the face, Emily says. She can’t believe he would complain about public humiliation.

Then, less than a week later, someone sends Emily another post.

“Mom,” Emily said. “There’s more.”

It is another threat from an account called dan__theman_n. And there’s a photo of Emily and her friend, with an X drawn over them saying “put a bullet between their heads.”

There are more sexually explicit messages. There’s a picture of an assault rifle on an American flag. And this time, the threats extend to Emily’s entire family.

The repeated threats have been “corrosive” to Lewis and Clark, says Smith, the principal. Students feel fatigued. The fear is the same as the first time, she says. It’s just more normal now.

The public posts are reported to Instagram for a threat of violence. Instagram says they do not violate their community guidelines, but that “reports like yours are an important part of making Instagram a safe and welcoming place for everyone.” ...continued on next page

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ack in hallways of her school, Emily passes by students who no doubt know what’s been happening to her. She wonders if the other students and parents believed it when she was called the nasty things that were said.

Lately, she’s become more withdrawn. She goes for drives on her own, maybe just to a park. Her grades have suffered. Looking for ways to take back control of her life, she wrote a song on the piano about her experience.

“I’m just trying to find my escapes,” she says.

Police trace IP addresses from the Instagram account in the latest threats back to the Lee house, records state. Again, Ryan Lee is arrested. Bail is initially set at $1 million, but his defense attorney is able to successfully lower the bail to $100,000.

Again, Lee is bailed out of jail.

Emily’s not sure what should happen to Lee, who’s now 19 and charged with harassment, cyberstalking and a violation of a no-contact order in connection with the January threats. Court records show that Lee’s parents don’t believe Ryan did any of it and that it’s not consistent with his character, despite his early confession last year. A trial date has been scheduled for June.

Emily still has some sympathy for him, and mostly she wants him to get help. But she feels relieved every time he goes to jail, and LETTERS anxious whenever he’s released.

Send comments to While most kids are out with editor@inlander.com. friends on weekends having fun, Emily stays home where it’s safe, Callie says. She worries about the long-term effects on her daughter.

“The emotional toll that it’s taken on her is really hard to watch as a parent,” Callie says. “It’s a hopeless, helpless feeling.”

Emily is not looking for sympathy. She knows all she can do is learn from this, and grow, and try to help other girls in this situation, she says.

But it’s changed her. In 10 years, Emily doesn’t think she’ll remember all the good things about high school. It won’t be cheerleading, being on drill team, or socializing with friends that stands out most.

“If I think of high school,” Emily says, “this will be all I think about.”

On a recent Monday afternoon, the thick wooden doors at Lewis and Clark High School slam behind Emily as she leaves for the day. She’s done with school before everyone else, since she opted to take an online class in place of sixth period. She steps outside, but then she realizes she needs to get back in.

“Do you have your pass?” asks a woman over an intercom.

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Connor is back. Incredibly, he showed up at the Pendleton Roundup, handing out flyers offering a reward for an “abducted child.” For months, Miller Cane and 8-year-old Carleen have been on the run in the wildfire-choked West — with Miller doing side research on historical figures for a textbook he’s writing. Carleen’s mom, Lizzie, is in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, her estranged husband, who suddenly came back into their lives when he learned that Carleen is to inherit a massive family fortune. Lately, they’ve been in La Grande, Oregon, with Miller’s friend Avery and staying with Avery’s girlfriend, Shelly. For a moment, everything seemed sort of normal — Miller finding a friend in Shelly’s sister, Monica, and Carleen finding one in Monica’s daughter, Bella — but nothing lasts forever.

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utside, he tried to breathe. He had to keep it together to get her away from the Roundup and out of town. There wasn’t any smoke anymore, hadn’t been for days, but he hadn’t noticed ’til now when he was trying to breathe. Maybe the fires were under control. Maybe the winds had shifted. Inside, Avery was watching Connor — who Miller could see through the plate windows — handing out flyers, people looking up and away from the photographs of Miller and Carleen under stacked text: REWARD REWARD REWARD MISSING/ABDUCTED CHILD REWARD REWARD REWARD

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And over Carleen’s photo on the left: “Have you seen this child — Carleen Callahan?”

And over Miller’s photo on the right: “Have you seen this man — Miller Cane?”

And under the photos, a block of text: “Carleen Callahan was last seen in Mount Vernon, Washington, in the unlawful custody of Miller Cane, a known liar and sex offender, travelling in a beat up motorhome, covered in bumper stickers. If you have seen these people PLEASE Contact Carleen’s Father, Connor Callahan. Any information leading to her rescue will result in a $250,000 reward, all the money I’ve been able to scrape together by the will of God.” And across the bottom, a phone number and more words: “Please help me find my little girl!”

Miller would kill him. He’d get a gun and shoot him, and then Miller and Lizzie would both be in jail because of him, all of Carleen’s parents gone. So, no, they’d go, get far enough away to never see him again, even though he deserved more pain than anyone would ever be able to give him.

Miller didn’t see any cops and no one was paying attention to him, a dude outside hunched over his phone, like any dude waiting. Then somebody bumped him and Miller swirled.

“Sorry,” an old man said, sort of panicky, holding up one hand with a cane in it, his other arm on the shoulder of a younger woman — his daughter maybe — steadying him.

From the old man’s reaction, Miller knew he looked insane now, murderous.

“No,” Miller said, “I’m sorry,” holding up his hands.

“My fault,” he said, which was ridiculous — he’d just been standing there when the old man bumped him.

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He hunched back over his phone, but heard the daughter say, as they walked away, “Wasn’t that him?”

“Who?” the old man said.

“That guy on the flyer.”

Miller started walking — the other direction, head down, not too fast, not too slow — just walking. Everyone could see him now. But they wouldn’t see Carleen because she was with Avery.

Connor might see her though. Not that he’d seen her in years.

Miller kept his eyes on his feet. He had no idea how many people had seen that flyer, how many would recognize him.

Carleen had her cowgirl hat. He had nothing.

He texted Avery to meet him at the car, to make sure Carleen wore her hat.

“Everyone can see me,” he wrote.

“Stay cool,” Avery wrote back. “We’ll get there when we can.”

“Is she out?”

“Busy now,” Avery wrote.

What did that mean?

Miller wrote, “What’s happening,” but Avery didn’t respond.

Miller kept walking, the crowd thinning. Another four or five blocks and the people could have been from anywhere, bars, restaurants, nobody left from Happy Canyon.

But for Connor to call him a sex offender — him! — when Connor was the one who’d left her, neglected her, was still neglecting her, hurting her worse now than ever.

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Better to get the gun and learn how to use it and put him out of his misery. But no. Get it just to stop him, for self-defense.

His phone buzzed with a text from Avery: “Moving,” it said.

Miller didn’t dare hope they were okay. Not yet.

There was a gas station with a bathroom door he walked through, locking it behind him. He needed a minute out of the crowd, to settle himself. But taped to the mirror was the goddamn flyer!

He tore it down, balled it up, threw it away.

He slipped out, away from the light, toward Avery’s car. They weren’t there. He leaned against a tree trunk in the dark, watching. And then he heard them down the block, a murmur that could have been anyone, then Carleen’s voice: “Waffles is not a Himalayan.”

She seemed normal, fine.

“He’s a Ragdoll,” Carleen said.

She didn’t know anything, hadn’t seen anything.

Miller waited until they were almost to the car before stepping out of the shadow.

“Hey, there,” he said, trying to seem as normal as Carleen.

“Hi, Miller,” she said. “Are you sick?”

“Not anymore,” Miller said. “Feeling better.”

They got in the car.

“Let’s go,” Miller said.

“Yep,” Avery said, pulling out.

Carleen talked about Happy Canyon, the parts that seemed real, like the Indians at first, and the parts that didn’t seem real, like everyone dancing together. Avery

talked with her. Miller looked back and couldn’t tell if anyone was following them or not. He’d been awake for thirty-nine hours. Once they got on the interstate and the miles unfolded, he started to settle into his seat. It was a miracle nobody had seen them. If it was even true. Miller didn’t know anything, except that they had to leave now, tonight, as soon as they got to Shelly’s place in La Grande.

He texted Monica. “Something came up,” he wrote.

“We can’t do tonight,” and Monica wrote, “Tomorrow maybe?”

“I screwed something up,” Miller wrote, “some business. We have to go tonight. I’ll tell you about it later. I promise.”

“Okay,” Monica wrote back. “Soon, I hope.”

Then she texted seven hearts and Miller texted ten hearts back, like they were twelve years old.

He couldn’t tell her anything. Ever. He shouldn’t have told Avery or Dena or Mickey or Grace or Cara.

They were all contaminated now.

When they pulled down Shelly’s long driveway, the house was dark.

“Sweetie,” Miller said to Carleen, “I just got a text from Monica. She and Bella can’t do tonight.”

“What?” Carleen said. “Why?” “I don’t know exactly,” Miller said.

“Well, we can see them tomorrow,” Carleen said.

Miller waited a second and then said, “No, we can’t, sweetie.”

There was nobody behind them, but that didn’t mean anything anymore.

“Why?” Carleen said.

“Because we have to leave tonight.”

“What? No! Why?” “I made a mistake,” Miller said. “But we’re going to

see those guys later.”

“When?”

“I’m not sure.”

“What mistake?”

“I was supposed to have something for George,” Miller said, “based on a place in Montana. We have to go there. Remember George? The editor of our book?”

Avery parked in Shelly’s dirt driveway, opened his door.

“I don’t care about George,” Carleen said.

“I know,” Miller said.

Avery stepped out of the car.

“I don’t care about our stupid book,” Carleen said, unbuckling her seatbelt.

“Okay,” Miller said.

“I want to have a sleepover,” Carleen said. “With Bella.”

“I know,” Miller said. “I screwed up. I’m sorry.”

“It’s not fair,” Carleen said, opening her door.

“I know,” Miller said.

“Stop saying that!” Carleen said. “Just stop!”

She got out of the car and walked toward the motorhome.

They said goodbye to Avery and Shelly, settled into the motorhome and pulled away, Carleen silent and furious in her seat beside him as he drove them east and away. And even if everyone in Oregon had seen that flyer, and everyone in Washington, no one in Wyoming had probably, no one in Nebraska, no one in Tennessee or Florida. He just had to keep driving till they were far enough away. Carleen fumed, until she finally fell asleep, while Miller drove and drove and drove through the night. n

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CRAFTS

Knack for Knots Social media, houseplant cultivation and contemporary decor trends have nudged macrame back into popularity

BY CHEY SCOTT

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his isn’t your mother’s macrame.

The knot-tying craft’s modern rebirth is definitely more refined and chic. Gone is the scratchy brown jute twine in favor of soft, cream-colored cotton fiber. Pieces are still distinctly bohemian and natureinspired, but design creativity is unlimited. Potted plant hangers abound, yet wooden bead-eyed owls remain a relic of a bygone era.

Some argue we can blame macrame’s return on millennials and their penchant to DIY almost everything in their homes, but the craft’s resurgence has many connections, perhaps most notably the current revival of houseplant collecting. Decorating’s embrace of neutral palettes and texture-filled spaces, paired with the resurgence of other fiber arts — embroidery, sewing, felting, weaving, knitting and crocheting — and even hobbies-turned-side gigs have also helped push macrame back into relevance.

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By current indications, the fairly uncomplicated craft based on the tying of various knots is here to stay a while, made more accessible than ever through a wealth of online tutorials.

If that’s not your learning style, two Spokane women are not only selling their hand-knotted fiber wares — from commissioned wall hangings to ready-to-hang planters — but also host regular macrame workshops.

Annecia Paulson’s craftsman home in the Garland District is filled with house plants. The leafy green progeny perch in pots in bright sunny corners, line window sills in pretty glass containers and hang from the ceiling in textural macrame hangers she’s created.

Paulson’s desire to learn macrame came from necessity.

“I wanted more plants in my house, so I taught myself to make some plant hangers,” she recalls.

ABOVE: Sage + Moss owner and artist Annecia Paulson displays various macrame pieces in her home.

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LEFT: A woven wool piece

by Laurie Ann Greenberg, inspired by the modern macrame revival.

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She made her first piece, a small wall-hanging attached to a lichen-adorned tree branch, three years ago after watching a tutorial on YouTube. Now, Paulson has incorporated her practice-honed knack for knotting into her terrarium and plant business, Sage + Moss Designs.

Locals can find Paulson’s plant hangers, terrariums and other macrame pieces at the Pop Up Shop in downtown Spokane, and online at sageandmossdesigns. com. She’s currently prepping for the big Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair in June, and Terrain’s Bazaar a few weeks later. A rack in her home’s bright basement is loaded with handmade plant hangers ($30 each or $40 with a plant) and stunning oversized wall hangings that will be available at Sage & Moss’s booth during both events.

For fellow DIY-ers who’d rather make their own macrame masterpiece, Paulson regularly hosts workshops

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aurie Ann Greenberg has been playing with fiber for as long as she can remember, starting with knitting when she was six or seven. Learning macrame decades later was a natural progression for the artist, who also makes and sells her large macrame wall hangings, plant hangers and commissioned pieces to customers near and far. Greenberg also teaches classes at her East Spokane home and occasionally at local businesses. “[Macrame] is very much like knitting, it’s very meditative and creative and there’s an infinite amount of possibilities,” Greenberg says. “And with Instagram, I have seen in the last year how exponentially it’s exploded.”

Most macrame designs are based around a basic square knot.

Greenberg recommends beginners start with something small, like a plant hanger, which she teaches for many of her workshops ($55-$65). For updates on her upcoming macrame classes, follow @fourstrands4 on Instagram.

“Large pieces are not necessarily harder, just a lot more knots, time and more rope,” she says. “You don’t have to know a lot to make something really beautiful.”

Locals can spot some of Greenberg’s macrame pieces on display and for sale at local businesses, including Ladder Coffee, Boutique Bleu and 1889 Salvage Co., the latter of which sells macrame garland kits (ideal for beginners) that come with instructions and materials.

Drawing upon her deep background in knitting and fiber arts, Greenberg often incorporates other materials, like unspun wool, and weaving into her macrame pieces to create a unique blending of techniques. The artist’s home is filled with original pieces of art, macrame of all types included.

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hough many of us associate macrame with the boho bonanza of the 1970s, the art of knotting rope and other fibers to create pieces from vests to bags, hammocks to wall hangings, dates back centuries.

The artform is believed to have originated in the 13th century in the name of function, versus fashion. Decorative knots at the heart of macrame, used WEEKEND to secure the ends of woven C O U N T D OW N textiles, were also picked up Get the scoop on this and improvised upon by sailors weekend’s events with across cultures. Already skilled our newsletter. Sign up at at tying crucial knots, seamen Inlander.com/newsletter. took to the artform out of boredom and even sold pieces when their ships docked. Macrame also became an in-vogue hobby for women in Victorian England.

Its popularity and prevalence has waxed and waned throughout centuries, so why now, again?

“Personally, I love texture in my home. To have that cotton hanging on your wall provides a really nice, comforting texture,” Sage & Moss owner Paulson explains. “In the ’60s and ’70s they used jute, and it can look really harsh. The white is more pleasing to the eye and it can blend in easily with your surroundings.”

Greenberg notes the accessibility for macrame artists to share original designs online, thus inspiring others.

“In the ’70s you were just in your own community, and you couldn’t find out what someone across the country was doing.

Now that we’re so globally connected, I think that creativity has expanded and exploded,” she says.

Simultaneously, Greenberg sees macrame — a tangible craft easily learned from other makers — as a way to connect with others.

“People want to connect. We’re all wanting to be a part of something. I think macrame or any craft can bring people together.” n cheys@inlander.com

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“People are really excited. It’s really encouraging because they get to go home with a finished project and I love that,” she reflects. “I have a few students who have continued macrame and are even selling it.”

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CULTURE | DIGEST

STAGE LEFT 2019-20 Spokane’s Stage Left Theater announced its 2019-20 season recently. For season tickets and more information, visit spokanestageleft.org.

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Sept. 6-22 The Threepenny Opera, Oct. 18-Nov. 3 Venus in Fur, Nov. 22-Dec. 8 Mandelstam, Jan. 10-26, 2020 Lonely Planet, Feb. 14-March 1, 2020 Fast and Furious Festival, March 6-8, 2020 A Voice of My Own, March 27-April 11, 2020 Kids Korner Festival, April 16-19, 2020 Leftovers Festival, April 24-25, 2020 Ada and the Engine, May 15-June 7, 2020 (DAN NAILEN)

I never GoT into Game of Thrones, and I don’t care

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BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

ay before “Winter is Coming” became a meme, there was whispered enthusiasm that quickly grew into a roar as people started talking about this new show, Game of Thrones.

When the fantasy series first came out in 2011, I was still in college, and at the recommendation of a few friends, figured I’d give it a shot.

Now, I know it’s a show (based on a book series) set in “the age of dragons.” I get that it’s trying to be true to form with the ways that people fought to grow their kingdoms in centuries past, plus a little magic to make

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DANKO JONES, A Rock Supreme. If you need some straightforward kickass rock, this is your band.

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JOSH RITTER, Fever Breaks. Ritter’s latest is produced

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, In League With Dragons. The hyper-literate pop-rock crew is coming to Spokane Sept. 1. (DAN NAILEN)

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things interesting. But the overt “rape and pillage” thing, emphasis on rape in the first two episodes, immediately turned me off.

I can stomach pretty gory and dramatic themes — I loved Dexter and Breaking Bad, and I’m binge-watching How to Get Away With Murder. But with GoT, it felt like HBO emphasized the violence, sexual assault and nudity as much as possible to start, just because it could, not because the series needed it. After a few episodes, I stopped watching.

That means for years, I’ve had to explain to friends, co-workers and even strangers why I don’t watch. “Give it another shot!” they’d say. “It really gets better if you keep watching.”

But struggling through several episodes just to get into the series didn’t seem worth it. I accepted I’d just have to keep explaining why I’m apparently one of the only losers on the planet who doesn’t watch the show.

Fast-forward to 2019 and you’d think GoT rules the freaking country. With the final season in progress, it’s hard to go anywhere without seeing GoT-themed events, ads, or social media posts. The president is even using the series’ signature font to make memes claiming victory over the Mueller report.

Victoriously for me though, not caring about GoT has given me the blissful ability to scroll through Twitter and Facebook for a decade without worrying about things like “Red Wedding” spoilers. I glean just enough to follow along in polite conversation, but gladly let my eyes glaze over as people debate plot theories or scream not to spoil anything when they’ve been dumb enough to miss the most recent episode.

As you GoT lovers devour your final season, go ahead and stay on your high horse. I’ll just be over here humming to the tune of “Jimmy Crack Corn” — I bet “Jon Snow dies, and I don’t care.” n

BARRY’S SIDEKICKS HBO dramedy Barry is back for its second season, and while Bill Hader as the hitman/aspiring actor title character and Henry Winkler as his unsuspecting acting coach rightfully garnered effusive praise for their Season 1 work, I’m here to recognize a couple of other, smaller characters. Anthony Carrigan is brilliant and hilarious as the surprisingly sensitive Chechen mobster “NoHo Hank,” who forges an unexpected bond with Barry. And Stephen Root is his typically excellent self as Barry’s handler, the only man who truly knows the hitman’s past. Without those two, Barry wouldn’t be humming along as one of the best shows on TV. (DAN NAILEN)

BRING ME A DRIVE-IN Bummer news dropped by Outdoor Movies at Riverfront Park crew, who announced via Facebook last week that they won’t be showing any movies in the park this summer after six years of newish flicks and classics under the stars. In their statement, though, they did say the movies “may return in 2020.” (DAN NAILEN)

DISSECTING BREXIT Everyone’s heard of Brexit. Less people know how it happened. But don’t worry: HBO and Benedict Cumberbatch are here to help. In the recently released fastpaced drama, Brexit: The Uncivil War, Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, the arrogant yet optimistic brains who orchestrated the successful Leave Campaign using modern political techniques such as social media and analytics to target voters — as well as some outright deception — harboring feelings of nativist resentment and economic anxiety. It’s an entertaining look at how a longstanding pipe dream of some British conservatives became a reality. (JOSH KELETY)

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Renn Francis’ work addresses societal expectations of women.

With the second annual Spokane feminist art event, Fem+Fest invites everyone to explore what feminism means

BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL

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irst thing’s first: The Spokane Feminist Art Festival, a.k.a., Fem+Fest, is not a “women’s show,” explains festival director Annette Farrell.

“My intention is to invite all artists who identify as feminists to display their artwork together so we as a community can explore what that means to all of us in Spokane and the Inland Northwest,” says Farrell, who co-founded the festival last year with Kelly Rae Matthews.

“What is feminism here in our place and time in Spokane, and Sandpoint, and Moscow, and Eastern Washington?”

This year’s event theme is pretty broad, Farrell says, with a call put out for “diverse and empowering representations of feminism in the Inland Northwest.” She and other artists want the event to speak to the importance of intersectional feminism, which addresses the complex cumulative effects of discrimination, specifically drawing things like race, physical ability and sexuality into the conversation of equality.

The show will take place at the Downtown Spokane Public Library on April 27, and feature work from more than 25 artists, as well as dance, poetry and music performances.

One featured artist, Renn Francis, is a relatively recent Spokane transplant who moved here from Portland in late 2017. For much of her art, Francis uses vintage souvenir postcard booklets and reproduction paintings, which she adds oil paint lettering on top of, usually featuring some

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powerful or funny message that speaks to her.

Growing up in a fundamentalist religious household, Francis says it wasn’t until later that she was able to express her queer identity and use strong language, so she typically lets that shine in her art. Her pieces in this show, however, are a little milder (it is the library, after all). She opted to work on floral paintings, which reference societal expectations for women to look and smell pretty, Francis says.

White oil paint on one of the pieces reads: “How to cat call: Step 1: See a cat.* Step 2: call out to it. *do not attempt with jungle cats.”

While it might seem lighthearted, the piece was actually inspired by derisive catcalling Francis says she’s experienced since being in Spokane.

“I have been catcalled a ton here, more than anywhere I’ve lived,” Francis says. “In like a few months of living here I was called a ‘carpetmuncher’ on the street.”

The piece is her attempt to poke fun at the practice while asking people to examine why they even do it.

“You see a cat, you call out to it. That’s what catcalling should be,” Francis says.

Artist Meagan Varecha, a junior at Eastern Washington University, says her digital art tends to use female models to explore the relationships people have with pain.

Her piece “B.I.L.L.I.E.” shows a line drawing of a woman, back-to-back with an identical mirrored image. They’re layered over bright geometric shapes on the left, and dark ones on the right.

“I’m an artist with chronic pain so I try to show that through my artwork,” Varecha says.

“So this piece is really about sort of the science between having chronic pain and the double side to it. On the left, it’s an average, every day. The girl on the right side is sort of representing more the internal feeling [of pain].”

In addition to the displayed art and performances, there will be art vendor booths, a virtual reality painting setup and the chance to take selfies on the Glitter Couch.

The event is hosted in partnership with Spokane’s chapter of the National Organization for Women and the Spokane Public Library and received a $6,000 grant from Spokane Arts this year. In part, the grant money will help organizers compile a zine of the artists’ submissions and descriptions after the event. n

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ike DeTar is devoted to craft beer. One year after opening the Hidden Mother Brewery, DeTar is moving his business from Liberty Lake to Spokane, where he’ll boost production and open his first taproom. At the same time, he tells the Inlander, he’ll be merging with Post Falls’ Selkirk Abbey to form Devotion Brewing.

DeTar’s journey through the industry began as an obsessive hobbyist, brewing 60 gallons of beer every week. He was working as a bread baker at the time, and became fascinated with yeast cultivation. Living in a culde-sac in East Oakland, he set up kegerators at friends’ houses to keep up with his recreational production of beer. He called himself Mad Max Brewing, named for his first son Maximillion, whose initials are MAD. “At that point, I just had to make a move and open up a brewery because 60 gallons a week was kind of obsessive,” he recalls.

In 2015, he landed his first commercial brewing job as head brewer for Paradise Creek Brewery in Pullman.

But he lived in Spokane, meaning he had to figure out how to simultaneously work in both cities. He bought a 1984 Ford camper van and stayed in it three nights a

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Spokane’s Hidden Mother Brewing is growing fast thanks to the success of its experimental craft beers

BY DEREK HARRISON

week. He still sleeps in the same E-250 at beer events and festivals.

The Hidden Mother Brewery was also simultaneously in the works. DeTar sold his house in early 2014 and started planning in a way that he now says was somewhat compulsive. Rather than going the typical route of purchasing equipment, he began building his own five-barrel brewhouse with a friend who’s a sanitary stainless welder.

Even the business name and branding stems from countless late nights. The Hidden Mother is a reference to a term Saint Louis and Saint Theresa once used for the Blessed Virgin Mary. While he admits he’s no expert, DeTar used out-of-the-box methods to develop his marketing.

“I probably overthought a lot of this,” he laughs. “I’d take 800 [beer] labels, stick them on the wall and then stare at them trying to figure out what exactly stuck out on each one.”

The production-only brewery eventually opened in March 2018 when DeTar made his first sale. His first brew day happened to coincide with the Gaelic feast day celebrating Saint Brigid, so he used an Irish yeast.

“It just worked out because she’s the patron saint of

brewing and it just happened to be the first day we were operational,” he recalls.

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n one whirlwind year, Hidden Mother made a name for itself not just in the local beer scene, but nationally.

The brewery took gold and silver in the experimental category at the Washington Beer Awards after only two months of operation. Eight of the nine submissions from DeTar made it to the medal round, resulting with his Pine Tree Peppercorn Saison and Morel Mushroom Red at the top.

“That put us on the map,” he says.

DeTar predicted everything was going to quickly take off from there, and recruited help. He hired Remington Oatman last July to assist with brewing.

The Hidden Mother’s schedule quickly became packed with collaborations between highly reputable breweries throughout the West. Oatman and DeTar flew to the Bay Area, where they worked with craft beer giants Drake’s Brewing Company and Heretic Brewing Company. Shortly after, they made a trip to Denver to collaborate with two more breweries. More recently,

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Jamie Floyd, the founder of Oregon’s Ninkasi Brewing, travelled to the Inland Northwest to brew on DeTar’s custom-built system.

The gold-winning Pine Tree Peppercorn Saison — and other Hidden Mother beers made with the same technique — helped land the brewery features in various industry publications and a sponsorship with Stihl chainsaws.

The recipe adapted from colonial times was developed by DeTar during his homebrewing days.

He starts with a small pine tree, hollowing it out with a chainsaw. After the boiling stages of the soon-to-be beer, he uses the tree as a chute from one of the brewing tanks. Gravity forces the wort down the log into another hose connected to a pump that pushes it back into the upper tank. He continues to recycle the hot liquid through this system for about 45 minutes.

“We’re having a lot of fun.”

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he Hidden Mother continues to grow at a rapid rate.

In the midst of moving the brewery from its former 12-by-48-foot space attached to DeTar’s parents’ garage in Liberty Lake to a 3,700-square-foot building at Washington and Sharp, near the Spokane Arena, DeTar announced a merger with Selkirk Abbey owner Jeff Whitman.

The two brewery owners are teaming up to form Devotion Brewing. Each brand will continue to operate under their original names, but the parent company will be jointly owned by DeTar, Whitman and their other business partners.

“This isn’t like a sell out. This is a partnership,” DeTar explains. “It’s like we have two badass boats that we both can drive now.”

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Mike DeTar (right) and Jeff Whitman of Selkirk Abbey are preparing to merge their two breweries to form Devotion Brewing. DEREK HARRISON PHOTOS Whitman says Selkirk Abbey is remaining focused on Belgian-style beers it’s made a name for itself with, but the 24-barrel brewhouse attached to Selkirk’s Post Falls taproom will also act as the production brewery for Devotion. The new location in Spokane will serve as a smaller “pilot” brewery. Hidden Mother brewer Oatman and Selkirk brewer Jordan Luikens are working with DeTar. “I have a taproom that’s in a difficult location that doesn’t have food, and isn’t producing what it could,” Selkirk Abbey’s Whitman explains. “But, I’ve got a massive production facility with tons of capacity that’s unused. “[DeTar] is going to have a taproom that is huge — it’s virtually four times the size of my taproom in a great location that he’s going to be able to pack,” Whitman continues. “But, he doesn’t have the capacity to get all the beers. There’s the taproom. Here’s the production facility. It just makes sense.”

DeTar is aiming for a June 1 opening for Hidden Mother’s Spokane location. Both he and Whitman hope the brewery merger will also be complete by then.

Meanwhile, DeTar is looking forward to spending more time brewing and less time worrying about the business end of things.

His next wild dream is diving into the world of spontaneously fermented, oak-aged sour ales.

“If I can just disappear into a barrel room the rest of my life,” he says, “I don’t think I’d want to leave.” n derekh@inlander.com The Hidden Mother Brewery • 1311 N. Washington • Projected opening: June 2019 • thehiddenmotherbrewery.com

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Bao Bun Base The newly opened Tasty Bun near Gonzaga serves a multicultural take on Chinese steamed buns

BY ARCELIA MARTIN

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eff Skaife invited his friends over for dinner with one rule: They had to tell the truth. How’d the food taste?

Bringing out one bun after the next, Skaife handed them notecards to write comments and suggestions about his newest recipes.

That “how could this be better” thinking is how Tasty Bun, the new small eatery located just off of Gonzaga University’s campus, got started.

When visiting Seattle’s Chinatown, the Tasty Bun chef and owner ate steamed buns — also known as bao or baozi — at a restaurant and left disappointed. He didn’t enjoy the texture of the dough, or the size of the buns, so he decided to experiment.

Working as a cook as a young adult around Spokane familiarized Skaife with classic recipes that gave him the basics to put his own spin on the palm-sized provision fusing American flavors with Asian cuisine.

Soft, puffy bao buns are made from a flour-based dough that’s formed into round balls after rising, and then stuffed with filling, pinched close and steamed to cook.

Tasty Bun near Gonzaga serves four American cuisine-inspired versions of Chinese steamed buns.

What Skaife came up with for Tasty Bun are four farfrom-traditional fillings, all priced at $3 each. The vegan bun is filled with ginger-infused barley, mushrooms and carrots, creating a flavor that truly rivals a steamed pork bun. Tasty Bun’s Asian pulled pork offers a hearty taste

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Most recently before opening Tasty Bun, Skaife was a carpenter for Spokane Public Schools and was unhappy with his daily work. Despite the financial risks involved with opening a new restaurant, the 56-year-old took a chance on pursuing happiness and opened Tasty Bun. “It’s kind of one of those things where if you wait for everything to be perfect you’re never going to do it,” Skaife says. “So I talked to my wife… and you know life’s too short, so we said R E S TA U R A N T ‘OK, let’s do this.’”

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BY DANIEL WALTERS AND NATHAN WEINBENDER

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vengers: Endgame, the 22nd entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is hitting theaters this week.

Maybe you’ve heard about it. As of press time, only a select few have seen the summer’s most anticipated release, but it’s expected to bring a (relatively) definitive end to a decade-long saga that has grossed billions of dollars and changed blockbuster filmmaking forever.

Not that the studio needs any advice, but we’re offering up some helpful suggestions for what the MCU should do differently going forward. Hey, Marvel — listen to us! We have good ideas!

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Home trailer comes in the very last moments, when the orchestral score starts to thrum with a few familiar notes. That… that’s the Spider-Man theme! By lifting the theme from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon and giving it a blockbuster remix, Marvel had come up with a better theme than the 21 previous Marvel movies. Because that, more than anything else, has been the biggest missed opportunity of the Marvel series: Think of how iconic the specific themes of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings became.

Think of how composers like John Williams and Howard Shore were able to develop specific musical themes, and then remix elements of those themes at crucial moments.

Now think of the diverse array of heroes in the Marvel stable, all of whom could have been infused with the sort

of catchy tunes that high school bands would be playing today. When all else fails, steal. Or, rather, license. Don’t just settle for playing “Immigrant Song” — remix the sucker. Want Thor to feel sad? Slow it down and add a mournful cello. Just give me something I can hum.

(DANIEL WALTERS)

HIRE MORE ADVENTUROUS DIRECTORS

Ever since Edgar Wright walked away from Ant-Man due to supposed “artistic differences,” the head honchos at Marvel seem to have gotten the memo: You rarely get a visionary film without a visionary in the director’s chair.

They’ve started hiring filmmakers with distinct voices and styles — Taika Waititi, James Gunn, Ryan Coogler,

PRESENTED BY DOWNTOWN SPOKANE the Russo brothers — and have handed entire franchises over to good directors with little blockbuster background, like former music video helmer Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and indie duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel). They should take this approach up a notch. Bring in an old pro, and let them do whatever they want. Have the courage to release a movie that totally defies the factory settings of the standard Marvel product, that doesn’t look or move or feel like its predecessors. I mean, people will still pay to see it. Think about what Steve McQueen or George Miller or Kathryn Bigelow could do with a Marvel property — assuming they’d want to even take the assignment.

(NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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First.

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You’ve got your Captain America elevator fight. You’ve got your Hulk vs. Hulkbuster smackdown. But when’s the last time you actually felt nervous during a Marvel action sequence? By contrast, think of how you feel when watching Tom Cruise hang off a helicopter skid during a Mission: Impossible movie. Marvel should match that. But first, it has to lean into vulnerability. Handicap your heroes. Iron Man is most thrilling when he’s working at 10 percent power and half a suit. Black Panther’s fights were best when he’d gobbled down the power-stripping berries, ditched the claws, and was lobbing bare-chested haymakers atop waterfalls. The airport tarmac rumble in Captain America: Civil War gets praised for its playful comic-booky chaos, but it was empty of emotion or tension and ploddingly paced, the cinematic equivalent of backyard wrestling. By contrast, the Civil War scene that actually worked was the smaller one at the end, the one driven by character-based emotion. You could hear how hard the punches hit. You were worried for the characters. It was the closest Marvel ever got to the brutal bathroom brawl of Mission Impossible: Fallout.

(DW)

DEEPEN THE VILLAINS

Oh so slowly, Marvel is beginning to figure out how to make their villains as good as their heroes. Marvel learned to stop hiding a villain’s personality under CGI and makeup, and that making villains a tad sympathetic actually strengthened them. In SpiderMan: Homecoming, Vulture showcased a wry blue-collar charm — and harnessed the inherent terror that every high schooler feels around his girlfriend’s dad.

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Even Thanos, such a dull lunk in countless post-credit sequences, was endowed with a sort of melancholic nobility in Avengers: Infinity War, a welcome contrast from the countless other cackling mustache-twirlers who’ve wanted to destroy half the universe.

The next step? Make a villain who’s actually scary. If Marvel can’t find anything to their tastes in its existing rogues’ gallery — create a new character. That’s what screenwriters used to do in the olden days, before the dark times. (DW)

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SERIOUSLY LOWER THE STAKES

You can only snap your fingers and destroy half the human race so many times before we start to shrug it off. Instead of doubling down on the stakes each time, Marvel should do the opposite.

Consider that one of the best sequences in the MCU comes near the beginning of Avengers: Age of Ultron, and doesn’t involve any feats of derring-do: It’s a scene in which our heroes sit around getting drunk and challenging one another to lift Thor’s hammer.

It’s really the only time Age of Ultron is a straight-up delight, and it made me realize that I’d totally watch a movie that’s just superheroes hanging out, Breakfast Club-style. Or saddle the characters with the mundanities of the real world: What would happen if Star Lord got stuck with jury duty, or Bruce Banner went to Costco on a Sunday? OK, not really, but if the resulting movie is funny, cleverly written and visually inventive, we won’t care that the fate of the entire world isn’t hanging in the balance. (NW) n

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Maybe you’ve heard of this. The biggest Marvel installment yet and the summer’s most anticipated movie finds the remaining Avengers reassembling to undo Thanos’ fatal snap and save the world. (NW) Rated PG-13

HER SMELL

Elisabeth Moss plays an out-of-control rock star trying to get clean and reinvigorate her career. From writerdirector Alex Ross Perry. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

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A prickly office worker (Taylor Schilling) unexpectedly bonds with her troubled adolescent niece, who wants to run away from home and become a Juggalo. (NW) Rated R

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In rural North Dakota, two sisters start selling opioids in order to save the family home and cover their medical expenses. An empathetic and disarmingly feminist neo-noir/Western. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R

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Based on an erotic novel that started as Harry Styles fan-fic, in which a doeeyed college student falls for a badboy pop star. (NW) Rated PG-13

BREAKTHROUGH

When a teenager nearly dies after falling through a frozen lake, his small town unites in prayer in this religious drama based on a true story. (NW)

CAPTAIN MARVEL

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

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The Conjuring universe adds another monster to its roster, this one a 17th century ghost that kills children.

There’s no mounting sense of dread, and it relies on tiresome jump scares.

(JB) Rated R

DUMBO

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

HELLBOY

The Dark Horse comics antihero gets his very own reboot — with David Harbour now donning the red suit and horns — and the results are ugly, incoherent and insanely dull. (NW) Rated R

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

The third entry in the hit DreamWorks franchise finds Hiccup and Toothless up against a hunter that wants to

eradicate all dragons. Even for fans, this one’s a bit disappointing. (MJ) Rated PG

KALANK

A Bollywood epic set in 1945 India, as star-crossed lovers are buffeted by the turbulence of war and cultural change.

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In a reverse Big situation, a self-centered business mogul is transformed into her younger self. Perhaps lessons will be learned. (NW) Rated PG-13

MISSING LINK

The latest from the usually dependable Laika animation studio is a letdown, the well-trodden tale of an explorer who discovers a gentle bigfoot-like creature and wants to bring it to the public. (SS) Rated PG

THE MUSTANG

A violent convict is placed into a program where prisoners rehab horses, and he bonds with a wild, unbroken stallion. Surprisingly involving and tenderly acted. (NW) Rated R

PENGUINS

The latest Disney nature documentary anthropomorphizes two Antarctic pen-

guin friends — one called Steve, the other Wuzzo. Narrated by Ed Helms.

(NW) Rated G

PET SEMATARY

Stephen King’s novel about a graveyard that brings dead things back to life is resurrected itself. It feels pretty perfunctory, and individual sequences work better than the film does as a whole. (ES) Rated R

SHAZAM!

DC’s latest attempt at levity finds a scrawny kid inhabiting the body of a muscular superhero. It’s torn between the studio’s dour and goofier sensibilities, making it a curious thing, indeed.

(JB) Rated PG-13

UNPLANNED

A faith-based feature about a Planned Parenthood employee who becomes an anti-abortion activist. From the writer of the God’s Not Dead series.

(NW) Rated R

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A family is menaced by violent duplicates of themselves in Jordan Peele’s much-anticipated follow-up to Get Out, and it’s another deeply unnerving and brilliantly realized thriller. (MJ) Rated R n

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Nicole Kidman is a drunk, emotionally fried police officer investigating a murder that sends her back to the dangerous undercover operation that changed her life. A twisty, morose thriller from director Karyn Kusama that overcomes its distracting age makeup with a gripping Michael Mann-esque crime plot. (NW) Rated R

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Lily James is one of many lost souls floating through Nia DaCosta’s neo-Western Little Woods.

Hard Country

Set amidst opioid addiction and financial ruin, Little Woods is a surprisingly empathetic slice of rural noir

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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ike any good neo-noir, Little Woods is a film about desperation, and about people whose most life-threatening decisions are the result of financial insecurity. But this movie’s hardships are more specific: They stem from the characters’ lack of medical care, from homelessness and drug addiction and bankruptcy. It’s as much a lean, nerve-jangling crime drama as it is a heartbreaking treatise on the precarious state of life in America’s most isolated places.

The story is set in a sleepy North Dakota town, which seems to consist entirely of abandoned industrial sites separated by miles of nothingness. Oil fracking once made the place prosperous, but the boom has died down, and everyone’s struggling.

We meet a woman named Ollie (Tessa Thompson), who’s in the final days of a probationary period following an arrest. She was caught smuggling opioids across the Canadian border, a scheme necessitated by her own late mother’s addiction, which just about everybody else in the town seems to share. She’s now attempting to turn her life around: Instead of pills, she sells cheap breakfasts and coffee to the guys in the oil fields, and she’s hunting for a job so she can pay off the liens on the family home.

Ollie’s sister Deb (Lily James), meanwhile, is in an equally troublesome position. She’s just barely scraping by, living with her young son in a makeshift trailer park that has taken over a shuttered big-box store parking lot. She discovers she’s pregnant — the father (James Badge Dale) is an alcoholic, and she can’t afford to support another kid — and yet there’s nowhere she can go to safely get the abortion she wants.

So she turns to Ollie, who reluctantly returns to the forest where she was arrested, and where she left behind a buried stash of pills. And Ollie

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Little Woods is the feature debut of writerdirector Nia DaCosta, who developed the script through the Sundance Institute. She has described the film as a Western, which is most immediately apparent in its depiction of harsh, unforgiving American LITTLE WOODS landscapes. But Rated R she has given the Directed by Nia DaCosta genre a feminist Starring Tessa Thompson, Lily James underpinning, At the Magic Lantern particularly in the ways she makes predatory men such an inescapable threat — from the drunks in the local watering hole to the rival opioid dealer to the leering guys selling fake IDs. We have seen stories like this before, where economic depression inexorably steers people toward a life of crime — screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Wind River) has made that subgenre into something of a cottage industry. But rarely has it been told with this kind of political subtext, and with so little judgement about how its characters get by.

This is the kind of movie that we expect to explode into violence, or to devolve into predictable thriller mechanics. It has its tense moments, but it mostly stays at a low boil. Its most inescapable horrors are the ones that everybody in rural America has no doubt experienced — how one small hardship can build atop another until it’s an avalanche of problems, how hopelessness can breed lawlessness, and how most of the crimes these characters commit probably shouldn’t be illegal in the first place. n

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PROFILE

Glamorama Soul Man Black builds a danceable, daring debut out of young adulthood’s defining experiences

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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Soul Man Black at the 2018 Volume Music Festival.

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ylan Black tends to think about the big picture first, then work backwards to iron out the tiny details. For instance, he was still in high school when he started telling everyone that he was going to become a glammed-up rock singer, and that he’d call himself Soul Man Black. He even got the planned title of his evenual debut album — Free Soul — tattooed on his right forearm when was 18.

That’s commitment.

“Once I start something, I’m going to do it,” Black says.

It’s just that sometimes grandiose ideas take a while to actually come to fruition: Now he’s 24, and that album he’s been promising for six years is finally finished.

For the last year and a half, Black — as Soul Man Black, of course — has enlivened the Spokane music scene with his dramatic, bleeding-heart electro-pop that takes influence from performers who are as defined by their recognizable visual aesthetics as their distinctive voices. Think Judy Garland meets David Bowie by way of Jim Morrison.

A typical live show involves Black alone on a stage, but you can expect glitter, eyeshadow, synchronized lighting setups, props and eye-popping costume changes.

“I like it when people tell me, ‘I just came to see what you’re gonna wear,’” Black says. “Which is great, but I hope you stay for the music.”

It’s no surprise that Black is a lifelong theater kid. He recalls being in first grade when he choreographed a dance number to “All That Jazz” from Chicago, which was deemed too risqué for the school talent show. (His teacher, Black says, let him put on a private show for his class anyway.) He went on to perform in several musicals while he was a student at Lewis and Clark — “all that shit that goes with being a little gay kid,” he laughs.

But he also grew up in a musical household: Black’s father Dan was part of the local scene for years, fronting the popular country-rock outfit the Big Bucks Band in the ’80s.

Just a day after performing a father-and-son showcase at the Observatory last year — Dylan singing with Dan on guitar — Dan suffered a stroke. This was a week before Soul Man Black’s first set at Volume Music Festival, and Black admits now that he “walked through” his next few gigs, for understandable reasons.

But now he’s focused again, and Free Soul is, among other things, the document of a songwriter growing up and learning the ins and outs of music production as he goes along.

“I didn’t really know about electronic music, or how to go about writing things on my own,” Black says. He worked for a bit with the guys in surf-rock duo Runaway Octopus ...continued on next page

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before deciding he wanted to go forward as a solo act, making arrangements in GarageBand and Logic.

“And then I started figuring out what goes into a song and the beat and melodies,” he says.

Black wrote the first song for the album about five years ago, and he’s been chipping away at the record’s other eight tracks since. The album itself has morphed during that time, both in terms of its vision and its thematic content: Black says he originally envisioned Free Soul as a sprawling concept album that would empower outcasts and “liberate the masses,” akin to what Lady Gaga has done with her devoted army of fans. But the final version, which will be released at the Bartlett this weekend, is more modest in scope, and more personal in approach.

“You’re right out of high school and you think the sky’s the limit, and everything just happens and you’re the coolest person,” Black says. “I had this grand idea that I was going to write this really big album. … I thought it was going to be this whole collective movement, and that’s not how life works. That seems really silly to me now.”

The songs on Free Soul instead deal with all those defining early adulthood experiences — first love, heartbreak, the realization that the world isn’t fair, finding the confidence to be your best self — that have long defined the pop pantheon.

“I’ve spent so much time with the music, because I’ve had it written for so long, that all of [the songs] now take on totally different meanings. They’re little snapshots of those four or five years where I wrote it all,” Black says. “It’s about those things you learn. But some of it you just want to dance to.” n Soul Man Black album release with Mini Murders and Skelf • Sat, April 27 at 8 pm • $8 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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GLOBAL POP

Little Orchestra, Big World Pink Martini’s never-ending world tour stops in Spokane

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ver the past 25 years, Thomas Lauderdale has steered Pink Martini into some pretty incredible places. What started out as a sort of house band for political events in Portland has since performed all over the world, from New York City’s Carnegie Hall and the Cannes Film Festival in France, to the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the opening of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art. While there are many moving parts to this unique musical success story, the engine is unquestionably Lauderdale, a charismatic pianist and composer with a flair for the dramatic and the chops to follow through.

“More is more for Thomas. More instruments. More singers. More everything. He does what he wants to do for the music regardless of whether it makes sense economically or strategically,” says China Forbes, Pink Martini’s longtime singer and Lauderdale’s classmate at Harvard.

The more practical Forbes used to try to balance out Lauderdale’s grand visions, she says.

Now, she stays out of his way, in part because he has delivered time and again, and in part because the unpredictability is what makes Pink Martini so fun. Lauderdale writes the set list himself and delivers it to the players. Sometimes he brings in unexpected guests. Occasionally, he’ll ask the audience for requests and launch into an unplanned medley.

“That’s my favorite thing to do, is spontaneously sing songs I didn’t know I was going to sing,” Forbes says. “Which is why I’ve been a

Pink Martini will keep you on your toes with international flair. good singer for this band. Because often we don’t know what’s happening and I’m kind of OK with that.”

In Spokane, you can expect to hear a smattering of selections from across Pink Martini’s vast recorded catalog, from the 1997 debut Sympathique, which established the band’s cosmopolitan sound, to the most recent album, 2016’s Je Dis Oui!, featuring songs sung in French, Farsi, Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Xhosa and English. No matter the words, Pink Martini’s sonic specialty sits somewhere in the spaces between jazz, classical, lounge, Latin music and vintage pop — a combo that makes its global success all the more amazing.

This is, it should be noted, a band that seems to be able to play wherever it wants, whenever it wants, every night of the year if it wanted to.

After stopping in Spokane, Pink Martini will play a museum benefit in its hometown before jetting off to North Carolina and then a six-show engagement in Turkey. After that comes a one-off in South Korea, two nights in Hawaii, dates in Canada, France, Belgium, Hungary and Spain, and then a three-night stand at the 17,500-capacity Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

And that’s all before the calendar turns to September.

“It’s been such a long process,” Forbes says.

“So on the one hand it feels totally natural, but when I’m really forced to look at it, I do see how unexpected and remarkable it is, because when I got involved, Thomas just had this local band in Portland. There was no record, no touring. That feels like a million worlds away.”

In 2019, however, Pink Martini’s world is one of “amazing peak experiences,” to use Forbes’ term, where a concert in a gorgeous concert hall is nestled between playing a top-shelf cultural event and some pinch-me-I’m-dreaming artistic collaboration. It all can be a little overwhelming, Forbes says, which is why the band tries to focus on a mission that cuts across all events, venues and audiences.

“In an unspoken way, I know that we bring joy to people and we bring unity to communities,” Forbes says. “We’re not out there making political speeches or anything, and there are some moments when you just can’t not say something.

But we generally try to just lead by example. We are diverse and we’re inclusive.” n Spokane Symphony Pops: Pink Martini • FriSat, April 26-27 at 8 pm • $43-$90 • All ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 624-1200

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A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic J THE BARTLETT, Corey Kilgannon, Chris Molitor J BERSERK, Jack Alzheimer, Runaway Octopus BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Leilani Wolfgramm, Drew Blincow, Aspen Deck THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BISTANGO MARTINI LOUNGE, Kosh J BOOTS BAKERY, The Song Project BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Downtown Jam J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen CRUISERS, Open Jam Night FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Country Dance HOGFISH, Black Magic Flower Power, Wayward West, Children of Atom HOUSE OF SOUL, Jazz Night THE JACKSON ST., Songsmith Series JOHN’S ALLEY, ENDR WON J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LIBERTY LAKE WINE CELLARS, Jimi Finn THE MASON JAR, Matt Henson Group MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, Kyle Swaffard NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia Trio O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, O’Pen Mic Thursdays ONE WORLD CAFE, The Brothers Footman J THE PIN, Maddie Zahm POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Pamela Benton RAZZLE’S BAR & GRILL, Songsmith Series feat. Dave McRae RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Jam Series THE ROXIE, Music Challenge ZOLA, Blake Braley Band

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espite critical accolades and a growing fan base, Tim Showalter found himself uninspired and questioning whether to continue his band Strand of Oaks after finishing the tour for his last album. A note from My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel turned it around, though, and Showalter soon found himself in a recording studio surrounded by four-fifths of My Morning Jacket and Americana hero Jason Isbell, creating arguably Strand of Oaks’ best album yet. Veering from raucous guitar burners, to delicate folk, to electronic-tinged pop, Showalter felt like he had to raise his game to match the musicians playing for him, and he succeeded. Strand of Oaks’ live show is the type to make you a fervent convert, too.

— DAN NAILEN

ROCK WOOLEN MEN

Strand of Oaks • Sun, April 28 at 8 pm • $18 • All ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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he three members of Woolen Men cut their teeth in Portland’s punk scene, playing in countless bands before settling into their own thing, and their music has morphed right along with the city itself. Their early output is jittery, uber-fuzzy and drenched in reverb; think the Feelies by way of Guided by Voices. Flash forward to their most recent album, 2018’s Post, and they’ve become steadier, sweeter and disarmingly melodic. It almost verges toward pop, recalling the low-key anthems of early R.E.M. and fellow Portland stalwarts Wipers. But that nervous, pent-up energy is still there, just waiting to explode.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Woolen Men with L.O.X. and Ex-Pets • Sat, April 27 at 9:30 pm • $5-$7 • 21+ • Baby Bar • 827 W. First • 847-1234

Friday, 04/26

219 LOUNGE, The Brendan Kelty Trio and Crooked Tooth A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Skwish ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Isaac Walton BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE BIG DOG BAR & GRILL, DJ Dave BIGFOOT PUB, Wild Card Band BOLO’S, The Caretakers BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke BOOMERS, Mojo Box BRIDGE PRESS CELLARS, Tuck Foster & the Tumbling Dice J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Phoenix Blues THE BULL HEAD, Jacob Vanknowe, Silent Theory, Better Daze CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Dallas Kay CORBY’S BAR, Karaoke COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Into the Drift

CRUISERS, Texas Hippie Coalition, Still We Rise, Sovereign Citizen & The Non Prophets CURLEY’S, Rewind J THE HIVE, Life During Wartime HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM AND GRILL, Kevin Gardner HOUSE OF SOUL, Jan Harrison Blues Experience IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, BareGrass IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Kori Ailene JOHN’S ALLEY, DJ Miles J KNITTING FACTORY, Invasive, Traitors Gate, Ragbone, Chemist LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Cris Lucas J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Pink Martini (see page 49) MARYHILL WINERY, Ron Kieper Jazz Duo MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Miah Kohal Trio MAX AT MIRABEAU, Bobby Patterson Band

MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, High Trees and Ammunition MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Kicho NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Smash Hit Carnival O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots OLD MILL BAR AND GRILL, Gil Rivas PACIFIC PIZZA, Lucas Brown, Ruthie Henrickson PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike and Sadie THE PIN, Downlink, Al Ross, Raskl, Beauflexx, Direwolf RED ROOM LOUNGE, Storme REPUBLIC BREWING CO., Claude Bourbon RICO’S, Crosscurrent RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Karaoke with Tom ZOLA, Whack A Mole

Saturday, 04/27

219 LOUNGE, Devon Wade 3RD WHEEL, Bombshell Molly, Half Step Down, Kevin Black A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, DJ Exodus ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Craig Catlett Trio J BABY BAR, Woolen Men (see above), L.O.X., Ex-Pets BARLOWS, Jan Harrison Jazz J J THE BARTLETT, Soul Man Black Album Release (see page 47) with Mini Murders and Skelf BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Powerman5000, Sins and Sinners, Undercard BIGFOOT PUB, Wild Card Band BOLO’S, The Caretakers BOOMERS, Mojo Box J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Red Light Challenge CHECKERBOARD BAR, Steeltoe Metronome, Sciandra’s Game, Heroes for Ghosts

CHINOOK STEAK, PASTA AND SPIRITS (CDA CASINO), Dallas Kay COSMIC COWBOY GRILL, Son of Brad CURLEY’S, Rewind GARLAND PUB, Usual Suspects HAPPY TRAILS TO BREWS, Crazy Mountain Billies J HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, Daniel Hall IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY, Kevin Dorin IRON GOAT BREWING CO., BG3 THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke JOHN’S ALLEY, DJ Miles J J KNITTING FACTORY, ISAAC Music Festival J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LAUGHING DOG BREWING, Brad Keeler LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Kari Marguerite J J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Pink Martini (see page 49) MARYHILL WINERY, Kori Ailene MATCHWOOD BREWING CO., Ruff Scrumpie and Miah Kohal MAX AT MIRABEAU, Bobby Patterson Band MICKDUFF’S BEER HALL, The Groove Black

MOOSE LOUNGE, Karma’s Circle NASHVILLE NORTH, Ladies Night with Luke Jaxon and DJ Tom NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Smash Hit Carnival OBJECT SPACE, Ambigere, Birthdaymoanz, Ergot Rye PACIFIC PIZZA, The Dead Channels, Crusty Mustard PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, The Ronaldos J THE PIN, Echo Ridge, Violet Ice, Lunch Money, Sushi, Screaming Screeching Eagles of Fiery Burning Metal Death POST FALLS BREWING, Sam Leyde RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos THE ROXIE, Kozmik DreamZz On Janis Joplin Tribute J THE SHOP, Danielle Nicole and Jake Stevens SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Stagecoach West STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Karaoke THE VIKING, GetchFest feat. Bret Allen, Joey Anderson, Nathan Chartrey & more WESTWOOD BREWING, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Whack A Mole

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Sunday, 04/28

IRON HORSE (VALLEY), Daniel Hall LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open Jam MARYHILL WINERY, Warren Frysinger O’DOHERTY’S, Traditional Irish Music ONE WORLD CAFE, Wayne Willingham PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Peter Lucht THE ROXIE, Hillyard Billys STORMIN’ NORMAN’S, Karaoke ZOLA, Lazy Love

J THE PIN, A Night Like This: Tribute to The Cure RAZZLE’S, Open Mic Jam RIDLER PIANO BAR, Country Swing Dancing THE ROXIE, Open Mic/Jam SWEET LOU’S, Sam Leyde THE VIKING, Songsmith Series ZOLA, Desperate 8s

Monday, 04/29

219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills & Tom Duebendorfer BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J BLACK DIAMOND, Songsmith Series feat. Daniel Hall CRAVE, DJ Dave CRUISERS, Open Jam Night GENO’S, Open Mic IRON HORSE (CDA), Open Jam THE JACKSON ST., Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil J THE LOCAL DELI, Devon Wade LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 J THE PIN, Humane Society Benefit feat. AA Bottom POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE (SOUTH HILL), Justin James RED ROOM LOUNGE, Blowin’ Kegs Jam Session RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos ZOLA, Cruxie

J J THE BARTLETT, Lady Lamb, Renata Zeiguer THE BULL HEAD, Songsmith Series J CALYPSOS COFFEE ROASTERS, Open Mic CHECKERBOARD BAR, Songsmith Series feat. Darren Eldridge CRAVE, DJ Dave EICHARDT’S, Jam with Truck Mills J THE PIN, Hemlock, InComing Days, Day in Eternity, Dysfunktynal Kaos, Avalysion RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with Lucas Brookbank Brown ZOLA, Perfect Mess

Tuesday, 04/30

219 LOUNGE, Karaoke with DJ Pat J BABY BAR, Nicholas Merz & The Humblers, BaLonely J THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville feat. The Powers, Kevin Pace and more BOOMBOX PIZZA, Karaoke CRAVE, DJ Dave GARLAND PUB & GRILL, Karaoke LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tue.

With special guests including:

The Wild Feathers

The Last Chance Band

Red Dirt Rangers

Devon Wade

Micky and the Motorcars

Bryant Lamar Will Porter

John Fullbright

Casey Ryan

Blackfoot Gypsies

The Stylees

Whitney Rose

Evan Egerer

Blake Noble

Hayes Carll

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

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Local storytellers (like Keleren Millham, pictured here) at Pivot’s next main stage installment are sharing memorable “last shots.”

DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

WORDS SHOOT YOUR SHOT

It’s their last shot. Storytellers from across Spokane are sharing stories of their final bets, ultimate tries and critical junctions at the next installment of Pivot. The series was founded by a group of community members who wanted to promote the art of storytelling and celebrate the humanity that binds us together. If past editions are any guide, expect tales of triumph and heartbreak and everything in between. You’ll hear stories from Chris Cook, James McPherson, Vik Gumbhir, Liz Slamkowski, Jessica Watson, Katherine Morgan and Molly Allen, along with event host Mika Maloney.

— ARCELIA MARTIN Pivot Mainstage: Last Shot • Thu, May 2 at 7 pm • $10 suggested donation • Washington Cracker Building • 304 W. Pacific • pivotspokane.com

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THEATER IN A DAY’S WORK

Five playwrights and five directors head to Stage Left Theater on Friday night. Paired at random, the playwrights and directors are then tasked with writing, staging and producing a play in 24 hours.

It’s up to each director to bring a stage manager and two to four actors along for the mayhem. As the clock begins its second lap, the house is filled with waiting audience members. With each iteration of the annual blitz titled Leftovers, produced by Rebecca Cook (pictured), there’s no chance of taking stories home to reheat later, because the 24-hour festival is one night only. Break a leg!

— ARCELIA MARTIN Leftovers: 24-Hour Theatre Festival • Sat, April 27 at 7:30 pm • $12 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727

WORDS BIBLIOPHILES, UNITE!

In case you’re too much of a weekend warrior to have taken advantage of some of the early activities of this year’s Get Lit! Festival, there’s no need to feel ashamed. There are plenty of great opportunities in the days ahead, full of incredible authors from both Spokane’s own literary community and from across the country.

Friday night at the Downtown Spokane Library, for example, the “popular poetry” session features readings by Kaveh Akbar (pictured) and Kelly Schirmann ($12/free for students). Saturday there are entertaining sessions all day at the Montvale Event Center, and Saturday night of course is hilarious rabble rouser and best-selling author Roxane Gay at the Bing. Be sure to check out the full schedule online and Get Lit! before it’s too late.

— DAN NAILEN Get Lit! Festival • Through Sun, April 28 • Times and locations vary • getlitfestival.org

SCENE: 175

COMEDY DAD JOKES

The Films are short.

The Riffs are epic.

The beers are cold.

The rides are free.

It’s no surprise that Jim Gaffigan’s Spokane visit, as of this writing, is nearly sold out. The three-time Grammy-nominated funny guy, known for his profanity-free and always self-deprecating brand of humor, hasn’t been to the Lilac City since headlining the Fox for a charity benefit back in 2012. And, who doesn’t connect with his everyman observations about some of American life’s most common denominators: laziness, a love of food and parenthood? Answer: No one. Get warmed up for the occasion by bingeing through the wholesome comedian’s many specials or his synonymous TV show, and relive beloved jokes like that meme-worthy one about Hot Pockets, along with plenty more about food — especially bacon, cake and donuts.

— CHEY SCOTT Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time Tour • Sun, April 27 at 7:30 pm • $36-$60 • Spokane Arena • 720 W. Mallon • spokanearena.com • 279-7000

Dinner at Incrediburger & Eggs, 50 Hour Slam: 9th Annual Inland Northwest Short Film Festival, The Bing, 5/4

MUSIC FIT AS A FIDDLE

Heading into its 51st year, the Northwest Regional Fiddle Contest is still the go-to place for burgeoning country and bluegrass musicians to show off their adeptness on the strings. Competitors range from as young as 8 years old to the 60-plus crowd (registration to compete has closed, by the way), and the panel of judges listen to each musician remotely, judging purely on the timing and tone of their playing styles. The finalists in each age category next move on to June’s nationals in Weiser, Idaho. Beyond the primary contest, Saturday night offers entertainment from the Nashville-based band Fireball Mail alongside fiddler Tyler Andal and mandolinist Isaac Eicher, all of whom have won major national bluegrass competitions.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER Northwest Regional Fiddle Contest • Sat, April 27 and Sun, April 28, starting at 7 am • $20 for Fireball Mail tickets • Players & Spectators • 12828 E. Sprague • northwestregionals.com • 228-9030

Dinner at Steelhead, School of Rock: the Musical, First Interstate Center for the Arts, 5/8–5/12

David’s Pizza pairs with the Spokane Brewers Festival, Spokane Arena, 5/18 Dine at Queen of Sheba then see Young Frankenstein, Spokane Civic Theatre, 5/17–6/16 Shop at Carhartt, hop on free Wheatland Bank horse and carriage ride, Fridays starting 5/31

Plan your neverending story: www.downtownspokane.org

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W I SAW YOU

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I SAW YOU IN PASSING I saw you crossing the parking lot at Rosauers in Brown’s Addition.

Neatly dressed, perhaps 16, you shambled toward the door. Your hands fidgeted with your pockets. As we passed each other, you dropped you crack pipe at my feet. I went home and you? You broke my heart, child.

2 FOR ARBYS? I saw you at the Division Arbys last Friday. I love seeing others who compliment restaurant workers and clean up after themselves and those around them. You were equally excited about the 2 for $6 gyro deal and helped many clean up messes with a smile.

Your laugh and charisma impressed me. I’d love to share the deal with you sometime?

CHEERS “RELEASE THE HOUNDS!” I yelled that at Deaconess ER on April 6 while having a small stroke as I was worried about my dogs. The ER staff were incredible!

Within a half hour I was hooked up to “everything” and had four or five doctors. Excellent job and thank you for saving my life. The hospital staff were just as wonderful especially the nurse in recovery who listened to my innane chatter!

Just a suggestion to nurses, please say you are leaving before your shift ends.

I missed thanking many of you. Born in Deaconess 56 years ago. You rock!

SCHOOL CUTS Cheers to Senator Mark Schoesler for submitting an editorial to the Spokesman that spelled out how area school districts now find their money trough near empty. There will be fingerprinting all around without real consequences, and the usual media blitz of sad, difficult decisions in an effort to goad the populace into a tax raising action; i.e., lower the levy threshold for passage. In the adult world, when a household’s expenses exceed its income, it usually results in a rearrangement of priorities and a reduction in spending.

Let’s hope that the school districts can do the same.

JEERS SMASHED To the person or persons who broke out the driver’s and rear window of the red Ford Escape parked in the North parking lot of the Illinois Bar and Grill. There was nothing to rob and you shattered both windows. The owner is a Vietnam veteran and genuine nice guy who didn’t deserve the expense or aggravation. PS: You are on the security camera. Don’t come back.

SPOKANE DRIVING MORONS Dear driving moron: Just because you want to get into the far left lane on a two lane street with an additional short third turning lane doesn’t mean you have the right to do so. When rush hour is occurring in Spokane, there is a lot of traffice on some roads. It’s amazing how many times I see a moron cross multiple lanes of traffic on a short stretch of road to get into the turning lane. Also, when you do this and nearly cause a traffic accident, it’s your own fault you filthy piece of s--t! So, you can keep your skinny silly middle finger in the down position. Learn to drive defensively morons. Otherwise, a shortened life you will find. Hopefully, only you’re killed in the accident and not an innocent victim of your stupidity.

KHQ: STRONG SIGNAL Jeers to the engineering geniuses at KHQ TV, who can’t seem to figure out how to get

their long-ago-dependable over-theair broadcast signal to reach beyond Hastings Road, barely nine miles north of their downtown HQ’s. Time for the FCC to nut up and yank the Cowles family’s broadcast license and give it to an organization which actually will craft a concrete commitment to making free-

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don’t understand why someone would get an animal and totally neglect basic hygiene. Astounding!

TOO MANY, TOO... 1) Idiots on the road still using their phones while driving, though it is morally and physically dangerous. 2) Road construction crews

may have lost it can never get it back because you claimed it as yours!!!

Congrats on getting that money and I hope karma screws you over in the long run... I can prejudge also and maybe your just another meth head in need of somebody else money!

If the money wasn’t yours, then why claim it? And after you did take it, you could’ve donated it to a local charity and/or to the food bank.

to-viewers over-the-air broadcasting a priory. The Cowles family apparently already has sold their KHQ HQ’s building to a Florida entity. Our backwater Hearst-wannabes should just take that next step and sell the whole shebang to someone — preferably not a far-away mega-corporation’s mogul — who actually cares about viewers’ access to their signal — and, who knows, maybe even someone wo cares about bona fide indepth local television journalism. As in, more than reporting on parades, traffic accidents, mundane criminal violence, weather and garden variety local college and pro sports. There are people in their 20s and 30s living here who’ve never, ever seen a real piece of impactful investigative reporting on KHQ — and they probably never will as long as the Cowles keep their broadcast license. And not just because KHQ has a crappy broadcast signal barely strong enough to power the light in your fridge.

RESPONSIBILITY I work for a lawn maintenance service and occasionally house sit, pet sit. My question is, why don’t dog owners clean up their dogs poop?

Backyards filled with crap. No place for your beloved companion to walk without having to dodge their own excrement. I

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.”

Coke-ing and smoking on site when they should be working to fix our on-ramps and major arterials in a timely fashion rather than milking their contracts.

3) Local school districts pink-slipping librarians and special ed teachers while hanging to jock coaches and overpaid administrators, further enhancing the Trump-mandated illiteracy of this nation.

4) Religious and New-Age morons placing the public health at risk by not vaccinating their little ones. 5) Spoiled brats at Starbucks. 6). Infiltration of overlyChristianized zealots into high-profile public offices, public protection, and public schools. 7) Irresponsible and complacent adults who should have never parented today’s kids... Let’s continue the list. Please add to this next week!

RE: TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN If the money wasn’t yours then why claim it?

And after you did take it you could’ve donated it to a local charity and/or to the food bank. You need internet access to post in “Jeers” which means you already have more than others.

RE: TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN Bonus?

You didn’t earn that and yet you assume it was a drug dealer who dropped it.

Maybe it was a senior!!! Anybody who

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TERRIERS You don’t need to pull your kids away when you see somebody walking their pit bull in your direction; nobody is going to take an aggressive dog for a walk- they could be sued, etc.

Stop the ignorance — pit bulls are no more aggressive than Chihuahuas; in fact, research shows little dogs are the most aggressive types of dogs.

STUDDED TIRES Come on, people. It’s almost May! Us bicycle riders can hear your studs tearing up the road. We have smart phones. I’m reporting license plates of cars who are STILL running studded tires. Do the right thing. Get them off your car! n

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SIP, SWIRL & SAVOR The annual event showcases the skills of Inland Northwest Culinary Academy students, who prepare and serve a five-course dinner paired with award-winning wines.

Proceeds support the Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation, which provides relief to students through scholarships and programs. April 26, 5:30-9 pm. Mukogawa Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Rd. ccsfoundation.org LIGHT THE WAY DINNER AUCTION All funds raised benefit ACCOIN, a nonprofit that improves the lives of local children with cancer and their families by providing education, practical hands-on support and financial assistance during their childhood cancer treatment. April 26, 6-11 pm. $100. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. acco.org/inlandnw GREAT SPOKANE ART PARTY An annual fundraiser for Blueprints for Learning, a nonprofit with the mission to improve the quality of early care and education in the Spokane community. April 27, 6:30-10 pm. $60. Community Building, 35 W. Main. facebook. com/SpokaneArtParty/ (232-1950) ISAAC MUSIC FESTIVAL + MUSIC MEMORABILIA AUCTION Enjoy music by Royale and Elijah Friese, a local teen touched by autism. Family/ autism friendly. The ISAAC Foundation also auctions off autographed music memorabilia between sets in a live and online bidding. April 27, 6:30-9:30 pm. $10. Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. theisaacfoundation.org KARAOKE FUNDRAISER A benefit for the Kootenai Recovery Center. Ten percent of all drink sales go towards keeping this vital resource open. April 27, 5-8 pm. Free; donations accepted.

Calypsos Coffee Roasters, 116 E. Lakeside Ave. (208-665-0591) SPOKANE CITIZEN HALL OF FAME The annual breakfast recognizes individuals in Spokane for their achievement in one of six categories while providing an opportunity to raise funds for the Spokane Public Library.

May 1, 7:30 am. $50. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org (444-5336) IDAHO GIVES IN MOSCOW In addition to the online event, residents can visit the Moscow Chamber to learn about local nonprofits’ mission to serve the community. Idaho Gives, a program of the Idaho Nonprofit Center, is de-

signed to bring the state together, raising money and awareness for Idaho nonprofits. May 2, 8 am-5 pm. bit. ly/2IQdgpd SAFE PASSAGE VIOLENCE PREVENTION BREAKFAST Safe Passage aids crisis victims from across North Idaho and beyond, providing resources to rebuild their lives and feel safe again.

May 2, 7:30-8:30 am. By donation.

Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. safepassageid.org 2ND ANNUAL CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT A fundraiser for the 2019 community market with prizes offered for first and second place. Sign up by April 25. Event also includes a beer garden and info on the market. May 2, 5-9 pm. $20/team. Kellogg, Idaho. silvervalleychamber.com (208-784-0821) WAYWARD ADVENTURES FUNDRAISER The nonprofit provides active supportive care and cancer advocacy to women impacted by cancer. It offers outdoor adventures, healing retreats and community workshops. May 2, 6-8 pm. By donation. Wild Walls, 202 W. Second. everywomancan.org

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GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (509-847-1234) ALL AGES COMEDY OPEN MIC Signups start at 6, humor at 6:30. All are welcome to perform and watch. April 26, 6-8 pm. Free. Calypsos Coffee, 116 E. Lakeside, CdA. (208-665-0591) LATE LAUGHS An improvised comedy show featuring a mix of experiments in improv, duos, teams, sketch and more.

First/last Friday of the month at 9:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com RED GREEN: THIS COULD BE IT! The latest one-man show features new handyman projects, advice to married guys, tips on getting old, an apology to the world on behalf of all baby boomers and more. April 26, 7-9 pm. $46.50.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the BDT’s monthly show. First/last Saturday at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW! Comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more! Last Sunday at 8 pm. $8-$14. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998)

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by CBS that shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe marijuana should be legal — an increase in 6 percent since last year. It’s a big jump since 2013, when the same poll showed less than half of Americans (45 percent) thought marijuana should be legal. The poll also shows that 56 percent of Republicans now support legalization, which could be crucial in Idaho.

Belville says he’s seen the sudden shift in attitudes himself.

“One anecdote I can tell you: I graduated Nampa High School in 85. In 2005, I came back to Boise for my 20 year reunion. I told people I’m working with cannabis patients, and my high school friends from 20 years ago were very reticent,” he says. “Fast forward to 2015 and I come back, and those same friends are like, ‘Hey, I have friends who have an eating disorder… What can you tell me about CBD?’” Idaho is one of only a few remaining states around the country that has remained opposed to recreational or medical marijuana — even products as tame as CBD and hemp — though cannabis activists have petitioned for

ballot initiatives in the past.

Cannabis activists in Idaho were originally discouraged during this year’s legislative session when Rep. C. Scott Grow (R-Eagle) proposed legislation that would have imposed severe restrictions on voter-led ballot initiatives. But even after Gov. Brad Little vetoed those restrictions, the initiative process will still be a tough fight and subject to “political shenanigans,” Belville says.

“There are all sorts of ways to subvert an initiative process, and we expect every trick in the book to be used against us,” Belville says.

A big part of the fight will be combating bad information, he says. Law enforcement organizations and other groups will use “junk science” to cherry pick data on homelessness or car accidents to dissuade people away from legalizing marijuana, when really it comes down to a moral argument, he says.

“I always have to bring it back to the moral issue: What are we trying to achieve by arresting people for using marijuana? Prohibition isn’t achieving any of the stated goals. Why shouldn’t we legalize it?” he asks.

“Oklahoma has the most liberal legal medical marijuana laws. It’s a more liberal law than California’s, and no one thinks Oklahoma is turning into some hippie cesspool.” n

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JIM GAFFIGAN: QUALITY TIME TOUR The three-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, twotime NYT bestselling author, Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist returns to Spokane. April 28, 7:30 pm. $34-$60. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com THE SOCIAL HOUR COMEDY SHOWCASE Featuring comics from the Northwest and beyond, and hosted by Deece Casillas. Sundays from 8-9:30 pm. Free. The Ridler Piano Bar, 718 W. Riverside Ave. socialhourpod.com

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REFUGEES: MYTHS & REALITIES, DILEMMAS & CONTRIBUTIONS Dr. Kassahun Kebede & Dr. Fred Strange from EWU’s Anthropology Department lead this discussion about the challenges faced by refugees, what assimilation looks like from the inside, and the stories refugees have to tell about their experiences before and after arriving in the U.S. April 25, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org (893-8350) SCIENCE CAFE: CLIMATE CHANGE Join the INCS for a climate change discussion with world-renowned climate scientist Dr. Steve Ghan. A social event follows the discussion, location TBD. April 25, 7-8 pm. Free. EWU Riverpoint Campus (Building 5 auditorium), 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. bit.ly/2FRsubA SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Join PJALS and members of the community to continue work fighting white supremacy, supporting racial justice organizing led by people of color, and deepening our understanding of race locally. Meets second and fourth Thursday of the month, from 5:30-7 pm. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. pjals.org (232-1950) DROP IN & RPG If you’ve ever been curious about role-playing games, join us to experience this unique form of game-playing, and build a shared narrative using cooperative problem solving, exploration, imagination, and rich social interaction. Second and fourth Friday of the month, from 4-7 pm.

Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org (279-0299) FRIENDS OF THE SPOKANE VALLEY LIBRARY BOOK SALE Proceeds from book sales support library programs, activities, and services. April 26 from 3-5 pm (presale; $10) and April 27 from 9 am-3 pm. Free. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scldfriends.org TAKE A STAND AGAINST RACISM The YWCA Spokane event aligns with YWCA USA’s national theme: “No Hate. No Fear. Immigrant Justice is Racial Justice.” In addition to bringing awareness to the racism immigrants experience, three immigrants in Spokane share personal experiences. April 26, 11:30 am-1 pm. Free and open to the public. Philanthropy Center, 1020 W. Riverside. ywcaspokane.org ASSOCIATED GARDEN CLUBS PLANT SALE The AGC provides gardeners in the Spokane area with plants grown in local conditions, with no pesticides or herbicides, that do well in our hot dry summers. Proceeds go to AGC’s grant program, which distributes funds to nonprofits that need help with their gardening projects. April 26 from 9 am-5 pm, April 27 from 10 am-3 pm.

Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. bit. ly/2UXGXuQ FEM+FEST SPOKANE FEMINIST ART FESTIVAL This annual event presents visual arts, spoken word, live music and other entertainment that highlights empowering and diverse representations of feminism in the Inland Northwest. April 27, 7-10 pm. Free.

Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanenow.org/femfest GHOST SIGNS OF SPOKANE Meet at Museum and walk to downtown Spokane for this popular tour experience as Anna Harbine leads guests along the streets of Spokane to view some more of the city’s historical commercial buildings’ fascinating signs. April 27, 10-11:30 am. $18-$20. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org PRESCRIPTION TAKE-BACK EVENT An event is for the public to dispose of unused or expired prescription medication in a safe and easy way. Prescription and over-the-counter medications are accepted. Medications can remain in original containers; labels don’t need to be removed. Medications not in their original containers also accepted. April 27, 10 am-2 pm. Cheney CHAS Clinic, 1720 Second St. (444-8200) SCOUT-O-RAMA FAMILY FUN DAY The annual “trade show” of Boy Scouting in the Inland Northwest, offering exhibits, competitions and displays. April 27, 8:45 am-2:30 pm. Free. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way, Post Falls. (951-2442) SPOKANE MASTER GARDENERS PLANT SALE Arrive early to get the best choices of veggies, perennials and ornamental grasses. Plants were grown by Master Gardeners and local nurseries. Vendors are offering garden art, native plants and specialty plants.

April 27, 9 am-2 pm. WSU Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. bit.ly/2Vj3TEY (477-2173) SPOKANE WALK TO DEFEAT ALS The ALS Association’s premier event, a 2.5 mile walk, is an outlet for communities across the nation to demonstrate their concern for and the urgent need to find the cure for ALS while providing the best care for those currently battling the disease. April 27, 10 am-noon.

Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. webwa.alsa.org (863-4321) SPRING COMPOST FAIR & ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION The Spokane County Master Composters/Recyclers host its semi-annual compost fair in conjunction with the City of Spokane’s Arbor Day Celebration. Attendees must arrive by 1:30 pm to complete all compost fair activities by close to qualify for a free compost bin. April 27, 11 am-2 pm. Free. John A. Finch Arboretum, 3404 W. Woodland Blvd. spokaneparks.org (625-6521) SWINGIN’ IN THE RAIN DANCE The dance begins with a 1-hour East Coast Swing lesson followed by general dancing from 8-10 pm, with refreshments, door prize drawings and mixers. April 27, 7 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. usadancesandpoint.org (208-263-3317) TAKE BACK SPOKANE Coalitions across the Spokane-area host prescription drug take-back events in conjunction with National Drug Take Back Day. Events are for the public to dispose of unused/expired prescription medication in a safe and easy way.

Prescription and over-the-counter medications are accepted. Medica-

tions can remain in original containers; labels do not need to be removed.

Medications not in original containers accepted. Events from 10 am-2 pm at Northwest Spokane COPS (806 W. Knox); Market Street CHAS (5921 N. Market) and the David C. Wynecoop Memorial Clinic in Wellpinit. April 27.

Free. takebackyourmeds.org WASHINGTON STATE NOW CONFERENCE This year’s theme is “The Power of Persistence.” Explore some of the most pressing topics related to intersectional feminism and social justice in our hometowns, across our state, and nationally. April 27, 9 am-4 pm. $25$35. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. spokanenow.org CATS RUN WILD FUN RUN A 2K or 5K run for all ages to support the Mt. Spokane Booster Club and Athletic Programs. Includes race T-shirt. April 28, 2-4 pm. $20. Mt. Spokane High School, 6015 E. Mt. Spokane Park Dr. jotform. com/catsrunwild/mshs EARTH DAY CELEBRATION A family friendly event hosting educational booths, presentations and crafts, along with a bicycle check-up station, an invasive species boat inspection demo and more. April 28, 12-4 pm. Free.

Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY SPRING TEA Join the local chapter for a spring tea with food and a talk titled “Creating The Regency World” by Pamela Aidan, local author of the “Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman” series. April 28, 2-4 pm. $20-$26. The Seasoned House, 215 SE Paradise St., Pullman. bit.ly/2YLFwi5 PARKER PET ADOPTION DAY The 8th annual event at Parker Subaru (Hwy. 95 at Dalton) includes six regional animal shelters on site with adoptable dogs and cats. April 28, 11 am-2 pm.

Free. Coeur d’Alene. (448-5601) YOM HASHOAH: SPOKANE OBSERVANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST The annual observance includes a candle lighting ceremony, children’s candle processional, exhibit of artistic entries themed for the observance, keynote speech and music. April 28, 7 pm. Free and open to the public. Temple Beth Shalom, 1322 E. 30th Ave. (536-7745)

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PALOUSE CULT FILM REVIVAL: THE ROOM & BEST F(R)IENDS The Palouse Cult Film Revival returns with four cult classics. Includes a no-host bar, prop bags and a Q&A with The Room’s Greg Sestero. He’ll also do a signing and live script reading of The Room. Ages 18+.

April 25, 7 pm. $15. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main, Moscow. kenworthy.org CAT VIDEO FEST A curated compilation of the latest, best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. This local screening benefits the Palouse Humane Society. April 26, 8 pm. $10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) MODIFIED This documentary interweaves the personal and political, while exploring the reasons why genetically modified organisms are not labeled on food in the U.S. and Canada.

Showing April 26-28, times vary. $5$8. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org PETER RABBIT Kinderhaven and Bonner General Health present this free movie event at the Panida. Rated PG.

April 28, 2-4 pm. Free. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org PROSECUTING EVIL / A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN A screening of two recent documentary films in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day. Sponsored by the U of Idaho College of Law, the UI Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the WSU Department of History, and the WSU Emeritus Society.

April 28, 4 and 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY Screenings of this documentary on heroic actions to record the truth from the Jewish perspective are hosted by esteemed members of the local Jewish community, with facilitated discussions to follow. May 1-2 at 7 pm. $9.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanternonmain.com WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL The Spokane Riverkeeper and Mountain Gear host a screening of the festival’s environmental films. May 2, 6-9:30 pm. $12. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. spokaneriverkeeper.org

FOOD

COOKING CLASS: SWEET POTATO GNOCCHI Learn to make sweet potato gnocchi with Chef Jeannie Lincoln and try the Estate’s famous chicken cacciatore for dinner. April 26, 6-9 pm. $55.

Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini.com PREBIOTIC & PROBIOTIC COOKING This class reviews several food sources with naturally occurring probiotics as well as prebiotic rich foods to keep those beneficial bacteria around.

April 26, 6-7:30 pm. $37.50. My Fresh Basket, 1030 W. Summit Pkwy. bit. ly/2OoTLoc WINE TASTING Taste wines from Portugal. Includes cheese and crackers.

April 26, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com 70TH ANNUAL SUKIYAKI DINNER The annual event includes a bake sale, homemade crafts, inarizushi displays and food for takeout or dine-in. April 27, 12-6 pm. $16. Highland Park United Methodist Church, 611 S. Garfield St. hp-Spokane.org (509-535-2687) COOKING CLASS: ITALIAN COOKIES & SWEETS Make Italian biscotti and polenta cookies, and taste three additional Italian sweets. Includes coffee and tea. April 27, 12:30-3:30 pm. $40.

Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini.com EATING LOCAL FOR YOUR HEALTH Learn from a panel of experts about health benefits of eating local. April 27, 6:30 pm. Free. The Innovation Den, 415 E. Lakeside Ave. (208-818-0654) OOOZAPALOOOZA FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL A selection of Greater Spokane Food Truck Association trucks satisfy cravings with a beer garden to wash it all down. Proceeds from alcohol sales go to Newby-Ginnings of North Idaho and GSFTA Gives Back.

April 27, 11 am-5 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. greaterspokanefoodtrucks.com/events WINE TASTING Taste rosé wines. Includes cheese and crackers. April 27, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com AUTHENTIC MEXICAN COOKING Enjoy a margarita and learn from Davenport chef Eric Nelson how to make tortillas, enchiladas and tamales. May 2, 6-8 pm. $59. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene. (279-6030)

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AMY ALKON

I’m a slim woman in my early 40s – successful in my field – and I am always in jeans, a vintage ripped t-shirt, and boots. I mean, ALWAYS. Granted, I have an extremely expensive handbag and perfectly highlighted blonde hair, and I always wear winged eyeliner. My friends say that going “underdressed” like this is disrespectful and inappropriate for (corporate-type) business meetings. Are they right, or is rocking your own thing no matter what a sign of confidence?

(P.S. I’d kill myself before I’d wear a blazer.) –Punk Rock Corporate

There’s actually something to be said for a person who goes into an important business meeting dressed like one of their LinkedIn endorsements is “Aggressive Panhandling.”

Sure, to a lot of people, it looks like career suicide in progress. However, research by Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino suggests that rebelling against norms for business attire can make you come off as higher status than people who dress all junior CEO. Gino ran a number of experiments that led her to this conclusion, but my favorite is from a seminar on negotiations she taught at Harvard to two different groups of bigwigs in business, government and philanthropy. For each session, she dressed in the requisite “business boring” – a dark blue Hugo Boss suit and a white silk blouse. But then, for her second session, she paired this outfit with a pair of red Converse high-tops. As she made her way to the classroom, a few fellow professors did give her the WTF-eye. However, seminar participants, surveyed after each session, guessed that she was higher in status and had a pricier consulting rate when she was wearing the red sneaks.

Gino explains that a person who is seen to be deliberately violating workplace wardrobe norms sends a message that they are so powerful that they can shrug off the potential costs of not following convention.

Anthropologists and zoologists call this a costly signal: a trait or behavior that’s so wastefully extravagant and/or survival-threatening that only the highest-quality, most mojo-rific people or critters could afford to display it. This, in turn, suggests to observers (whether predators or predatory executives) that it’s more likely to be legit – and not false advertising.

So, it seems your dressing all hobo honcho could actually ramp up your status in others’ eyes. And let’s say someone suspects you’re dressing this way because you’ve lost it on some level – psychologically or financially. Gino writes in her book “Rebel Talent” that to signal status, it’s critical that people believe an individual is “consciously choosing not to conform” and willing to assume the possible costs of that. Well, with that pricey handbag (plus the megabucks highlights and Instagram influencer winged eyeliner), you swat away any suspicions that your poorgeoisie-wear reflects actual impoverishment. Just don’t be surprised if, post-meeting, as you’re making a call on a bench outside the building, two kindly old ladies drop a Ziploc in your lap with socks, a granola bar, and directions to the nearest shelters.

EYE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

I’ve long been a “Shallow Hal,” attracted to women’s youth and physical beauty and less concerned with integrity. Not surprisingly, I keep getting into relationships with women who aren’t very good people. How can I stop being so superficial? –Man With Eyes It isn’t wrong to initially be looks-driven: “Now, she’s a woman I wanna have sex with!”

– as opposed to “Now, she’s a woman I wanna debate on Jeremy Bentham’s views on utilitarianism!”

Also, you should no more feel guilty for being drawn to young women than you would for having your taste buds be more “All aboard, baby!” for chocolate cake than for a “burger” made out of broccolini. This preference evolved to solve the “How do I pass on my genes?” problem for our male ancestors. (And no, the answer to that would not have been “Date grannies!”)

However, it helps to understand what psychologist Daniel Kahneman has explained as our two thinking systems – fast and slow. Our fast system is emotion-driven, rising up automatically, and is often home to toddler-like demands: “Gimme cake!” Our slow system, the home of rational thought, needs to be forced to do its job – examining our impulses and assessing whether it’s wise for us to run with them.

In other words, your problem comes from running with your initial impulse without putting it through the Department of Reasoning. Though it’s natural to be led by your eyes, you need to implement a next step – assessing the character of these foxerellas before you turn them into girlfriends. (This starts with generating standards so you can determine whether a woman meets or misses them.) In short, when you tell some babe, “Honey, everything looks good on you!” one would hope that you don’t eventually learn whether “everything” includes a police-issued spit mask. n ©2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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CHAMBER CLASSICS The North Idaho College Music Dept. presents a concert by the Cardinal String Quartet and Friends. April 25, 7:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave. (208-769-7780) SPOKANE ACCORDION ENSEMBLE The ensemble presents “Music From The Movies,” including songs from Fiddler on the Roof, The Phantom of the Opera, ABBA and more. April 26, 7-9 pm. $10 suggested donation. St. Mark’s Lutheran, 316 E. 24th. (290-6858) SPOKANE SYMPHONY POPS: PINK MARTINI The self-proclaimed “little orchestra” performs sultry originals and sophisticated interpretations of blockbuster hits and classics from all genres.

April 26-27 at 8 pm. $43-$90. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com CAROLYN CRUSO: HAMMERED DULCIMER A performance of this ancient instrument; includes traditional Celtic tunes and original compositions. April 27, 7-8:30 pm. By donation. Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St. bit. ly/2I82fzE (253-4719) CONCORDIA CHOIR Festivities begin with a home-cooked German-style dinner. Concert starts at 7:30 pm, followed by dancing to the music of Norm Seeberger. April 27, 6:30 pm. $18. German American Hall, 25 W. Third. (954-6964) IMAGINE JAZZ BRUNCH An event in celebration of Jazz Appreciation month.

Check-in begins at 10:15 for 10:30 food service and 11 am music set. Ticket includes food, music fee, coffee and juice service. April 27, 10 am-1 pm. $25. Nectar Catering and Events, 120 N. Stevens St. imaginejazz.org (509-869-1572) A MUSICAL FEAST A progressive evening of music, food and drink from around the world to benefit the historic music center’s programs for all ages. April 27, 5 pm. $40/person; $75/ two. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. (326-9516) RENDEZVOUS IN THE PARK SHOWCASE A fundraiser for Moscow’s Rendezvous in the Park, featuring six bands competing for three spots opening for this summer’s concerts in July. April 27, 7 pm. $10. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org RISE TOGETHER FEATURING SADIE SICILIA A fundraising concert for the youth sports organization, Next Level Academy, featuring performances by Sadie Sicilia and other local bands. April 27, 7-9:30 pm. $12-$20. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. nextlevelacademy.us WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY: YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT A celebration of the musical talent of local youth for final concert of the 47th Season.

April 27, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. Pullman High School, 510 NW Greyhound Way. wa-idsymphony.org SHINE! CHORAL CONCERT The Spectrum Singers perform old and new classics exploring the importance of self-expression and community. April 28, 3-5 pm. $10-$15. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanespectrumsingers.com SPOKANE STRING QUARTET A concert featuring guest artist Eric Moe, trumpet. Program includes works by Shostakovich, Ewarzen and Beethoven.

April 28, 3 pm. $12-$20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404)

GONZAGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The season finale conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah includes a performance from winners of the Young Artists’ Concerto/Aria Competition. April 29, 7:309 pm. $13-$16/general; Free to GU staff, students. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 11 E. Desmet. gonzagasymphonyorchestra.com

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

MEDICAL LAKE GEOLOGY WALK Walk along the trail with EWU geology professor Chad Pritchard, and history professor Larry Cebula. Dr. Pritchard shares recent research of Medical Lake granite and other geologic wonders in the area.

April 27, 1-3 pm. Free. Waterfront Park, 1386 S. Lefevre St. scld.org LILAC CENTURY FAMILY FUN RIDE The 26th annual Gran Fondo is timed for 25, 50, 66 and 100-mile routes and includes a baked potato feed after the ride. April 28, 6:15 am-4:30 pm. $50$60. Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. lilaccentury.com (475-2862) SPOKANE RIVER RUN An annual trail run through Riverside State Park (starts at 7 Mile Airstrip), featuring 5, 10, 25, 50 and 50K team relay courses. Benefits Spokane’s Garfield Elementary’s APPLE program. April 28, 7:30 am-4 pm. $19$67. spokaneriverrun.com

THEATER

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME The final production in Aspire Community Theatre’s season; a retelling of Victor Hugo’s epic story of love, acceptance and what it means to be a hero.

April 24-27 at 7 pm; April 27-28 at 2 pm. $19-$25. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. aspirecda.com JAY OWENHOUSE: THE AUTHENTIC ILLUSIONIST The legendary escape artist and esteemed illusionist returns to Spokane by popular demand. April 25, 7:30 pm. $29-$89. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com A NEW SEASON: GRAND OPENING OF THE MYRTLE WOLDSON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Join Gonzaga Dance, Music and Theatre students and colleagues as they collaborate on an opening production celebrating the four seasons and a vibrant season ahead for regional arts with the new Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center. April 25 at 7:30 pm, April 26 at 10 am and April 27-28 at 2 pm. $15-$75.

Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 11 E. Desmet. gonzaga.edu/mwpac THE THREE KEYS OF CAPTAIN HELLFIRE: A rousing pirate comedy full of buried treasure, secret passions and thrilling fights, written by U of I alumna Ariana Burns, with original shanties by Portland musician Shandeen. Free for U of I students; matinees are pay what you can. April 25-27 at 7:30 pm; April 24 at 2 pm. $5-$15. Hartung Theater, 875 Perimeter Dr. uitheatre.com TIGER DRAMA: XANADU Based on the (in)famous 1980 Olivia Newton-John film. April 25-27 at 7 pm. $8-$10. Lewis & Clark High School, 521 W. Fourth Ave. tigerdrama.com (509-354-7000) BLOODY MURDER The usual British murder-mystery types (major, actor, dowager, etc.) gather for a weekend

retreat. Through April 28; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $12-$15. Ignite!

Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave. igniteonbroadway.org (795-0004) THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY A comedy about four Southern women seeking to escape their daily routines.

April 26-May 11; Fri-Sat at 7 pm; Sun at 3 pm. $5-$10. StageWest Community Theatre, 639 Elm, Cheney. (309-9929) LEFTOVERS Five directors and five playwrights come together with a team of actors to write and produce a 10-minute play in 24 hours. April 27, 7:30-9:30 pm. $12. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org

ARTS

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND A show higlighting works of vintage collage artist Shanda Woodward and wood craftsman Antonio Fletcher. April 26, 5-9 pm. Free. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague. newmoonartgallery.com CLOSING RECEPTION: TEST TUBES - MEASUREMENTS OF EXPERIMENTATIONS This collection of 36 new works by Robert Kraut melds painting and sculpture into numerous paint skin wall formations. April 26, 5-8 pm. Free.

Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. kolva-sullivangallery.com (458-5517) YOU’D LOOK BETTER WITH A SMILE: ARTIST TALK & PANEL DISCUSSION Artist Myesha Callahan Freet discusses her interactive portraiture project addressing the intrusive behavior of men by prompting subjects to respond through art. April 26, 6-7:30 pm. Free.

Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. bit.ly/2vflgIh

WORDS

RECLAIMING BLACK EXPERIENCES A series presented by the EWU Africana Studies Program featuring weekly talks by professors/lecturers in the program.

April 25-May 16, Thursdays from 6-7:30 pm. Free. South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. spokanelibrary.org (444-5331) GET LIT! POETRY SALON Featuring Kaveh Akbar, Kelly Schirmann, Janaka Stucky, Claudia Castro Luna and Anastacia-Renee Tolbert. April 26, 9-10:30 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. getlitfestival.org GET LIT! POPULAR POETRY: KELLY SCHIRMANN & KAVEH AKBAR An event featuring readings from two highly sought-after poets on the rise.

Tickets free to students with a valid student ID and $12 to the general public.

A portion of proceeds support the Spokane Public Library. April 26, 7-8 pm. $12. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. getlitfestival.org GET LIT!: PLAY WRITING IN THE INLAND NORTHWEST A panel moderated by poet/playwright Jonathan Johnson. Four acclaimed playwrights and directors — Susan Hardie, Sandra Hosking, Kathleen Jeffs and Bryan Harnetiaux — discuss their experiences plying their craft in the region. April 26, 12-1 pm. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. getlitfestival.org GET LIT!: AN EVENING WITH ROXANE GAY Roxane Gay’s work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. April 27, 7 pm. $25-$35. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. getlitfestival.org n

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pring is a time to clean out the old and welcome the new. Where else but downtown Coeur d’Alene will you find the latest fashions, the comfiest footwear and the freshest styles around?

Celebrate the colors of spring like zesty yellow-green, festive orange and what Pantone color experts and trend watchers call Princess Blue. Redefine your fashion palette at MARMALADE FRESH CLOTHING, downtown on Sherman Avenue. Upstairs, you’ll find up to the minute styles and onpoint accessories. There are also treasures to be found downstairs at MARMALADE UNDERGROUND, like vintage Chanel bags in perfect condition. Just down the street at T-BLUE BOUTIQUE, look for designer labels, premium denim and the latest floral dresses — pairs well with boots, heels or bare feet! If you love what you find here, make sure to also visit T-BLUE II, its sister store in Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone Village for more boho, funky and fresh styles, and an even slightly lower price point.

Boho chic is always in style at GRACE & JOY, where you can find unique items like a hand-felted purse or a cashmere wrap for those still cool spring mornings and evenings. Speaking of keeping warm, C O E U R

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Based on the Victor Hugo’s epic story of love and acceptance, this lushly scored musical features songs from the Disney animated feature’s Academy Awardnominated score, as well as new songs

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