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do hope that both Elizabeth Warren and James Webb join Bernie Sanders to challenge Hillary Clinton. Why? Because America has transformed its presidential elections into two years of “showtime.” In order to keep ratings up, we need more than one cast member — we need heroes and villains, a gripping story line, plus a kind of Clint Eastwood “make my day” ending. And of course we need time for all those commercials.

Sad but true. Like it or not — and I don’t — it is what it is. The very worst thing you can do, as a producer, is bore your audience. A bored audience is a dwindling audience. If your audience dwindles too much? You’re canceled.

If Hillary were to have little or no competition in the presidential race? For the next 18 months? Boring!

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hat’s much more important is the debate the country needs to hear.

Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who surprisingly might just turn out to be a most interesting candidate, has already used his new status to make a dent, associating Hillary’s foundation problems with the broader issue of so much corporate money. This issue needs to be confronted, and it isn’t clear that Hillary Clinton will go there. We know that Republicans won’t.

Instead, Republicans are ramping up their latest production of a play they premiered more than 60 years ago. Joe McCarthy and friends called it “Who Lost China?” Then came Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” The template was then picked up by the Karl Rove Production Company. Historian Richard Hofstadter saw these kinds of productions as reflecting “the paranoid style in American politics.” I call it “McCarthyism Redux.”

Some might say that the latest performance with Hillary as the target is just about the Clintons, who for three decades have been the villains in the GOP’s play. But if this were true, Barack Obama would not have been subjected to the same treatment — yet from day one, he was.

What’s worse, Obama has also been the target of racist slurs. Week after week we heard from “the birthers.” And then came the Muslim charge, and we learned that in addition to “pallin’ around with terrorists,” Obama had been influenced by a radical (Saul Alinsky), so he was a socialist, and on and on. Obama has even been called “the Antichrist” by fundamentalist ministers — from their pulpit.

All this despite the fact that what we have here is a First Family from central casting.

I mean, if you were a producer making a movie of the ideal, accomplished American family, you would call down and say, “Get me the Obamas.”

Discredited but unbowed, and without missing a beat, the right wing now denounces Obama for his diplomatic efforts with Iran.

They charge that he is selling out both Israel and America. (Netanyahu told them so.)

The knowledgeable Jessica Mathews, writing for the New York Review of Books, takes a different view: “If Congress takes steps to reject the nuclear deal before it is completed, or it undermines U.S. negotiators by raising doubts in Tehran that Washington will ever meet its commitments to lift sanctions, it will have done significant damage to U.S. power that no amount of military strength can offset.”

Now, with Hillary, the GOP script has shifted again, this time to the Benghazi frenzy — an issue that the Department of Defense has concluded was really not an issue. Clearly, the “McCarthyism Redux” strategy knows no bounds.

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hy are we seeing this passion play performed again? My guess is the Republican leadership knows that Jeb Bush’s money situation, once exposed, will make Hillary’s look minor league by comparison. Christie is a goner, Ted Cruz a joke, Rand Paul a nonstarter. And Scott Walker, the Koch brothers’ candidate of choice? Does the term “John Birch Society” ring a bell?

Republican LETTERS leaders look Send comments to over all of this editor@inlander.com. and realize that voter suppression alone won’t do the job; unless they can destroy Hillary before the election, they will lose again — for the sixth time in seven contests.

(Gore won the popular vote in 2000.)

Were Webb and Warren to join the campaign along with Sanders, the smear campaign would become diluted; more people would tune in to hear what these candidates have to say about themselves, about Hillary, about the Republicans, about the state of the country and the world. Then — presto! — ratings go up, sponsors line up and more voters show up.

More important, without a clear candidate of destiny, as Obama was in 2008, who knows what might happen? Webb and Warren, even Sanders, might actually become serious challengers. And that would be a good thing — maybe the best our flawed “showtime” process can hope to produce. n

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or the past couple of years, I banned myself from talking about it. I’d become a broken record, bringing it up with any public official who’d listen. So I quit harping on it. But since Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn said she’d like to see five commissioners in Spokane County, maybe it’s finally time to talk about how dumb it is that we have only three county commissioners here. So I’m lifting my self-imposed moratorium.

Here are some facts: We’ve had three commissioners since the 19th century. That’s, like, before the automobile. King County has nine, while Pierce County (Tacoma) has seven. Clark County (Vancouver) also has three, but officials there have been trying to move to five.

What’s the problem with three? As Commissioner O’Quinn has discovered, the workload is brutal — so many leadership roles spread over just three people is a tall task. Next problem: Any time two commissioners meet in a hallway, it qualifies as a public meeting under state law. Productive communication is stunted. And finally, when three Republicans or three Democrats are on the board, the entirety of the county is not properly represented.

Agreement on issues can be unspoken, the cone of silence descends over big decisions and we should all worry.

Yes, adding commissioners has the potential to create better representation and better decision-making. So why can’t we just vote on it already?

Every commissioner I’ve ever talked to has said he or she supports at least letting the residents of the county decide.

Here’s the thing: It takes a state-mandated process, led by elected Freeholders (who are everyday citizens), to write and propose a new Home Rule charter for Spokane County to vote on. A citizens’ petition can get the process started, but the commissioners can, too — something they’ve been reluctant to do for fear of being branded as big-government types.

As a bonus, the Freeholders could take a look at some other nagging problems — poorly qualified people running our crucial public agencies, for one. Why is the county CEO hired instead of elected? It’s too important a job to leave to knee-jerk politics. We switched from an elected coroner to an appointed medical examiner because we were electing unqualified people as coroner. Another solution could be to remove the partisan titles (as in city elections) from county offices — for too many candidates, the only qualification voters are looking at is the tiny letter next to their name.

If commissioners like Shelly O’Quinn are serious about this issue, they don’t have to wait. They can start the process any time now. n

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COMMENT | OIL

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BY PAUL DILLON

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t’s a recurring nightmare that plays out like a disaster film, but is all too real: A train slips from its moorings and rolls off the tracks, sparking an explosion that sends massive fireballs hundreds of feet into the sky. That’s exactly what happened in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013, when a train carrying extremely volatile Bakken crude oil derailed, killing 47 people.

I live one block from the tracks in an area of downtown that is experiencing a housing revitalization. I am no stranger to seeing one of 16 Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains that will riskily pass through this week from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields on its way to a Western Washington refinery. Across the state, that number could

rise to 137 a week by 2020. Unlike other parts along the tracks, we have the highest urban area at risk. Numerous businesses, Lewis and Clark High School, and Sacred Heart and Deaconess hospitals — all are in the blast zone.

Nearly two years after the tragedy in Quebec, we’ve tried nationally and locally to address the problem of increased crude-by-rail shipments; however, we keep coming up short. The growth is staggering: U.S. railroads delivered 7 million barrels of crude in 2008, 46 million in 2011, 163 million in 2012, and 262 million in 2013. Our aging infrastructure and safety standards can’t keep up.

Since February, there have been four fiery derailments of crude oil trains in North America, as well as many more spills. This week, news broke of a BNSF crew who spotted oil sheen on the side of a tank car at the Hauser, Idaho, refueling depot; 13 of the other tank

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cars were found to be leaking. The Spokane ValleyRathdrum Prairie Aquifer, sitting just 160 feet below the refueling depot, is the sole source of drinking water for an estimated half-million people in Kootenai and Spokane counties.

The state passed a notification bill for responders when a train comes to town, watered down from more preventative measures. During the past election cycle, oil refineries and railroads poured thousands of dollars into Senate Republicans’ coffers for control. Tesoro operates a refinery in Anacortes and proposes to locate a large crude oil train terminal and export facility in Vancouver.

The company gave $22,500 in contributions to independent expenditures on behalf of Republican candidates.

In the most recent Spokane City Council race, BNSF made two $5,000 contributions, including to the Eastern Washington Political Action Committee — which was managed by Mayor David Condon’s re-election campaign manager — on attack ads against city councilmembers Jon Snyder and Candace Mumm, both of whom have called for oil train disclosure. The money spent on races might be better used for other purposes; BNSF has an awful track record. The company claims that the past year was their safest to date, when in fact, more oil was spilled from their trains than during the previous 38 years combined, according to government data.

Just-released federal regulations will force manufacturers to thicken their tank cars to avoid rupturing, and require electronic brakes. However, the rule is “just like saying, ‘Let the oil trains roll,’” said Washington Senator Maria Cantwell.

Cantwell gets it; she has introduced legislation requiring regulators to set a volatility threshold for the oil loaded into the tank cars, which isn’t addressed in the national regulation.

Her legislation also would authorize $40 million for training programs and grants to communities to update emergency response and notification plans. Cantwell commented that “firefighters responding to derailments have said they could do little more than stand a half-mile back and let the fires burn.” In fact, the International Association of Fire Chiefs doesn’t have a specific code for response. They use NFPA 472, the same code for responding to weapons of mass destruction.

That doesn’t help me sleep any better at night. I’m not sure how the oil companies, BNSF — or the political players carrying out their dirty work — do. n Paul Dillon is the Eastern Washington Program Director for YMCA Youth & Government, teaching democracy to youth through hands-on civic engagement. He has worked in the state legislature and currently lives in downtown Spokane.

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A poll conducted for STA last fall showed support ranging from 55 percent to 60 percent among 400 residents.

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KAREN KUEHN: The proposed Central City Line does nothing for me as a Spokane Valley taxpayer. If I am going to share in the expense of something, I want it to be something that also benefits me and my community, which tends to be east of Argonne.

CRISHNA BRANTH: Tax increase was a 100 percent influencing factor in my vote. They should increase bus fares to pay. Why should people who buy things in Spokane be responsible for the transit? People who buy more stuff get penalized and have to pay for buses. No, thank you.

ANNE HIATT: Here, let me help: after cutting routes for years — when people needed a sound transportation option in a crumbling economy — and not doing a better job of promoting the benefits of public transit, people have no sympathy when asked to raise taxes for a system that has been too “mefocused” for too long.

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ake no mistake, Sen. Patty Murray is very liberal. Her voting record has twice earned her National Journal’s “Most Liberal Senator” ranking, and the liberal magazine Mother Jones called her “as far left as you can go without alienating the centrists in the party.”

And make no mistake, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is very conservative.

In 2012, statistical guru Nate Silver ranked him the most ideologically extreme vice-presidential nominee in more than a century. In March of 2013, Democrats accused Ryan’s proposed budget outline of “draconian cuts” and of being “totally uncompromising.” Murray has long led the charge for abortion rights, while Ryan is a devout, fervently pro-life Catholic.

So putting the two in the same room to hammer out a budget deal seemed like a doomed exercise.

And yet, after months of closeddoor negotiations, Murray and Ryan stood together at a press conference in December of 2013, Ryan’s 6-foot-1 frame towering a foot above the diminutive Murray, and announced that rarest of all things: a bipartisan agreement.

“Two very different people, two very different budgets, two very different philosophies,” Murray tells the Inlander. It was no “grand bargain,” but they’d proved that Congress could still agree on something.

Since then, Republicans have seized control of the Senate, and Murray is no longer the chair of the Budget Committee. But in recent weeks she’s continued to find roads to compromise, untangling the knots in a heated human-trafficking bill and penning a bipartisan update to No Child Left Behind policies.

“She seems to be a go-to person when a deal needs to be struck, behind the scenes,” says Jill Lawrence, who published a lengthy analysis of the Murray-Ryan deal for the Brookings Institution in February. “She seems to have a way to get to yes.”

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The year 2013 was brutal for Congress. In the spring, sequestration — sweeping, intentionally crude automatic budget cuts — had taken hold, a consequence of the failure of 2011’s “super committee” to agree on more sophisticated cuts. The government partially shut down for 16 days as Republicans unsuccessfully demanded major concessions from Democrats over health reform, and congressional approval ratings plummeted.

But that also meant that the table had been cleared for compromise.

Republicans wanted to restore their charred reputation. Both parties wanted a win.

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“These are all part of the things that make things work.”

Lawrence suggests that the years of failed negotiations set a foundation for success. Instead of calling for brand-new cuts, the sequester meant that negotiators were replacing clumsy cuts with smarter ones.

As soon as she was named Budget Committee chair, Murray and Ryan started meeting and listening to each other. “My goal was to find out what made him tick,” Murray told Lawrence. “What does he feel passionate about?”

Crucially, the team negotiating the budget deal was kept small — just Ryan, Murray, and selected trusted aides. The typical deal-sabotaging leaks to the press were avoided.

“Inside that room, we had a really important agreement that what we agreed upon wouldn’t be used against the other person,” Murray says. “You have to put things on the table and trust that the person won’t go out and hold a press conference saying, ‘You won’t believe what Senator Murray was giving away.’”

The negotiating turf was narrow. Ryan and many of his fellow Republicans had signed pledges to never raise taxes. Murray, meanwhile, wrote “Revenue Must be Included in Any Deal” in a January 2013 budget memo.

But there was a solution: user fees. The ultimate deal more than doubled certain fees charged on airline flights, for example.

“We challenged ourselves together to find that common ground, to look at each other not as foes, but collaborators,” Murray says.

Many Republicans remained skeptical, but Ryan’s deeply conservative reputation helped convince enough

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of them. And Murray made some surprising concessions: In 2011, she had threatened to kill the initial sequester bill if veteran benefits were cut. But in her budget deal with Ryan, she agreed to cut military pensions. It proved phenomenally unpopular; Murray and most her colleagues voted to reverse the cuts two months later.

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Lately, Murray has been instrumental in both setting roadblocks and finding ways to surmount those same roadblocks. In March, Murray and other Democrats learned that a bill under discussion to combat human trafficking extended the 1976 Hyde Amendment — which prohibits the use of taxpayer funding for most abortions — to a newly established Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund. They were outraged. “It is absolutely wrong and, honestly, it is shameful,” Murray told the media.

Both sides lambasted the other for holding up a bill on human trafficking because of abortion. Democrats stalled the bill, and Republicans retaliated by holding up Loretta Lynch’s attorney general nomination.

But Murray helped find a compromise. The agreement prohibited the fund from being used for medical services at all. Both sides called it a victory — Republicans prevented the fund from being used for abortions, while Democrats stopped an expanded Hyde Amendment precedent.

talk and get to know you, and then you can find ways to compromise,” Murray says.

Many of her deals have been with the few remaining Republican moderates, like Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander. In 2011 he stunned observers by actually stepping down from a leadership post, saying he wanted to seek bipartisan compromise.

For Republicans, compromise comes with the risk of being labeled a RINO — Republican in Name Only — and attracting primary challengers. Alexander was no

“We challenged ourselves together to find that common ground, to look at each other not as foes, but collaborators.”

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exception. Last year, he faced not one, but six primary opponents. But when he beat them all, he trumpeted his deal-cutting philosophy as the way forward.

So as Alexander worked on fixing the No Child Left Behind law this year, that idealism gave Murray an avenue of persuasion. The law requires an increasing number of students to pass state standardized tests each year. By 2014, every single student was supposed to pass state standards, an impossible standard for most districts to meet. Today, both parties despise it, but haven’t agreed on a replacement.

Initially, Murray says, Alexander developed his own “very partisan” bill. But Murray called upon his

bipartisan sensibilities to work with her to instead come up with something together.

“Do you think the law’s broken?” Murray recalls asking Alexander. “Yes. If you work with me, and we can find some common principles, then we can actually get it signed into law.”

After all, while Republicans control Congress, they still need the Democrats. Democrats still have enough members to filibuster, and a Democratic president still has his veto pen.

“I listened to her; I took her advice, and it was good advice,” Alexander said, according to Politico. But there aren’t many Republicans like Alexander left. Social researchers calculated that Congress has become more polarized in the past few years than any time in American history since Reconstruction. These days, most deals have to be done with the support of people like Ryan.

Recently, Murray has championed left-wing issues, like a higher minimum wage and mandatory paid sick leave, while Ryan has been pushing for welfare reform as the cure for the “poverty trap.”

But their relationship continues, even as the success of one agenda often means failure for the other.

“Patty is a good friend of mine,” Ryan says in a statement to the Inlander. “We have our policy differences, but she’s a tremendous public servant.”

One of Murray’s first interactions with Ryan came directly after Mitt Romney and Ryan lost their presidential bid in 2012.

“He and I talked about how hard it was to lose,” Murray says.

But by November 2014, with Republicans winning the control of the Senate, their fortunes had reversed. Throughout the entire day, as returns poured in and the map turned red, Ryan and Murray were texting back and forth. “I texted him and said, ‘Congratulations. I’m sure you feel great tonight. I know you know how I feel.’” Murray says. “You have to be able to have that kind of rapport with people to talk about tough issues.”  danielw@inlander.com

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COOKIE GAP | The three female members of Spokane City Council held an overtly SEXIST BAKE SALE to benefit a local nonprofit. But the point of the bake sale, which charged men a dollar for a cookie and women only 78 cents, was to highlight what they say is a problem: Women working for the city of Spokane make on average $11,614 less than men. To remedy the situation, the three female members of city council, Candace Mumm, Karen Stratton and Amber Waldref, announced that they will introduce a resolution to create a task force that will look into the pay gaps. (JAKE THOMAS)

PEN PAL SENTENCED | The convicted felon and pen pal of former Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor MARRIYA WRIGHT (pictured) was sentenced Monday in federal court. The relationship between Matthew Baumrucker and Wright included over 1,000 text messages, heart-felt jailhouse letters and at least one make-out session in Wright’s car, according to witnesses.

Baumrucker, a 32-year-old Spokane man, who pleaded guilty to a felony possession of a firearm charge earlier this year, was sentenced to almost eight years in prison. He opted to serve his time in a facility in Florida to be closer to family. (MITCH RYALS)

NEWS | BRIEFS

So Long, Farewell State Rep. Susan Fagan resigns amid an ethics investigation; plus, a Coeur d’Alene police officer is wounded on the job THE ROADS NOT TAKEN

Facing a heap of ethics allegations, Rep. Susan Fagan, RPullman, resigned last week. In a statement, House Chief Clerk Barbara Baker says she began examining suspicious travel reimbursement forms from Fagan last fall. In a Dec. 30 meeting, Fagan was encouraged by the House Speaker and the House Republican Leader to resign.

While Fagan denied the allegations that she had intentionally FALSIFIED MILEAGE for more reimbursement, Baker investigated further.

“This new information appeared to show these discrepancies were more than just paperwork errors,” Baker says in a report. “In sum, there are allegations of theft, fraud and the improper use of staff to falsify expense reports.” She estimates that within a 10-month period, Fagan overcharged the state of Washington by at least several thousand dollars.

Not only did Fagan give incorrect locations of events to claim more mileage reimbursements, it’s alleged that she asked for reimbursements for events that were “simply made up — that is, there was no such meeting, town hall or other event.”

Furthermore, the report alleges Fagan enlisted aides to falsify reports, with one former assistant claiming she

felt like a “dumb puppet that [Fagan] can manipulate” and like “that goat in Jurassic Park, tied up, waiting to be eaten alive.”

In a statement announcing the resignation, Fagan maintained that the violations stemmed from “careless record keeping” and that she quickly reimbursed problematic entries from her account.

“It is disappointing and painful to end my public career this way,” she wrote. “I know that my resignation is the better decision for the people of the 9th District, whom I have been so proud to serve.” (DANIEL WALTERS)

INMATE FOUND DEAD

A SPOKANE COUNTY JAIL inmate was found dead in his cell Monday afternoon. The inmate, whose name had not been released, was unresponsive and a sheet was wrapped around his neck. A jail deputy called for backup and began “life-saving efforts,” according to a Sheriff’s Office press release. Additional jail staff and emergency responders tried to revive the inmate, but to no avail.

Spokane County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Detectives were called in to investigate the death.

Deputy Mark Gregory expects more information

will be released after the investigation into the death has been completed. The inmate’s name will be released once the medical examiner notifies his family. Foul play is not suspected.

“Any time there is a death that wasn’t something that was planned upon that occurs, whether it is at a residence or a jail, we always treat everything as a criminal investigation,” says Gregory. (LAEL HENTERLY)

COEUR D’ALENE SERGEANT SHOT

Coeur d’Alene police sergeant Greg Moore is in CRITICAL CONDITION at Kootenai Health & Medical Center after being shot by 26-year-old Jonathan Daniel Renfro early Tuesday morning, authorities say.

“He’s still very critical, still fighting for his life,” sheriff’s Sgt. Christie Wood said at a press conference Tuesday morning.

On a routine patrol in the Sunshine Meadows neighborhood, Moore, a 16-year veteran of the Coeur d’Alene Police Department, stopped Renfro for suspicious behavior and ran his information through dispatch, officials say.

That’s when they say Renfro shot him and stole his police cruiser, leaving him to die.

Police tracked the stolen patrol car as it reached speeds of 125 mph heading west on I-90. Renfro abandoned the car near a Sysco Spokane Inc., officials say. Several agencies, including some from Washington state, worked to set up a perimeter, and a K-9 unit located Renfro near the axel under a semi truck.

“The investigation has been turned over to the multiagency criminal investigative unit led by the Idaho State Police,” Lt. Stu Miller said at a press conference Tuesday.

“There’s a lot of detectives from a lot of different agencies that are currently out in the field doing what they do best.”

Renfro was on felony probation for grand theft auto and battery on an officer, Miller said. He was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon. (MITCH RYALS)

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NEWS | COURTS

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With Open Hands Why defendants in Spokane County courtrooms no longer wear shackles

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young man stands with his hands clenched behind his back in a Spokane County Superior Courtroom one afternoon. His palms are red and sweaty from squeezing so tight, and he’s wearing yellow pants and a yellow shirt that says “Spokane County Jail” on the back.

The man waits while Judge Linda Tompkins reviews his criminal record before sentencing him for a felony charge. He hopes that Tompkins accepts the recommended sentence agreed upon by the attorneys — three months with credit for time served.

The courtroom is silent as the judge leans into the microphone.

“I’m satisfied with counsel’s recommendation of the three months with credit for time served,” she says.

The man’s hands unknot from behind his back and dangle at his side. He signs a few court documents, shakes his attorney’s hand and turns around so the Detention Services officer can cuff him for the trip back to jail.

That handshake — that universal signifier of human dignity and respect — was only recently possible again in Spokane thanks to a Washington State Court of Appeals ruling and a new jail transport policy in Spokane County.

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tarting around 1996, in order to save time and make transportations from the jail to courtrooms more efficient, the Spokane

County Jail started bringing inmates to court six, seven and eight at a time, hooked together in belly chains with their hands cuffed in front.

Case law dating back decades, even centuries, has established that it’s unconstitutional for a defendant to be restrained in front of a jury (unless the court finds good reason to do so), a Sixth Amendment right. However, appearing in cuffs and shackles at a hearing was more nebulous.

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Appeals ruled that defendants are to appear at all court hearings unrestrained unless the court sees good reason to do so. In State v. Walker, the court denied appellant Vernon Walker’s appeal for a new sentencing hearing, but the case raised some interesting questions: Who should ultimately decide if an in-custody defendant should be uncuffed in front of a judge?

How is that decision made? What are viable reasons for leaving restraints on?

Ultimately, the court decided, the presumption is for defendants to appear uncuffed during all hearings.

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om Krzyminski, director of the Spokane County Public Defenders’ Office, estimates that in late 2012 transport officers, citing safety concerns, began refusing to remove

handcuffs during all court hearings — motions, first appearances, arraignments, pleas, sentencings — even if the defendants were not connected by belly chains. Jail protocol at that time said a minimum of two officers could escort a maximum of eight inmates restrained by belly chains. One officer also might escort two or three inmates at once, but wouldn’t take the cuffs off for safety reasons.

“They kind of created their own security issue by bringing in two or even 10 [defendants] at a time,” says Krzyminski, who notes that before 2012, officers would bring over one inmate at a time and take the cuffs off in the courtroom.

Sgt. Ian Purcell says an increase in transfers also contributed to Detention Services’ decision to escort more inmates at once,

“They kind of created their own security issue by bringing in two or even 10 [defendants] at a time.” and according to Spokane County Jail transport records, he’s right. Requests for transportation to court have been rising slightly over the past six years, but is efficiency enough reason to violate constitutional rights?

The Washington State Court of Appeals says no. Despite the February ruling, Spokane County only recently implemented a policy (on April 20) that says all “inmates will be unrestrained for their court proceedings” and directs Detention Services to escort no more than three inmates at a time.

“Safety is our first and foremost concern for everyone involved,” says Training Coordinator Tom Frantz, who’s been a detention officer in Spokane for 28 years. “As soon as those restraints come off, it’s more dangerous for everyone.”

“The issue is the lack of dignity,” says Matt Harget, a Spokane County public defender. Transport officers “were doing it to every defendant, regardless of if it was a nonviolent drug charge or a homicide.” He gives a recent example of a nonviolent 69-year-old client who was no threat to escape; without the appellate court’s ruling, in Spokane, the client would have been restrained.

The court decision and new policy in Spokane allows Detention Services to request that a particular inmate remain in cuffs if they believe there is a security risk. Officers must submit a request for an on-the-record hearing to make their case, and the court will then make a decision.

For Judge Tompkins, that input from detention officers is vital, as they’re the ones interacting with inmates on a daily basis, and therefore have the best idea of who might try to escape or who could be dangerous.

However, Krzyminski sees a possible problem with a hearing to determine if his clients should be restrained.

“I could see where you might not want the judge to know some of these reasons before sentencing because they might be bad things but have nothing to do with the charge,” he says.

Revealing the fact that a defendant has been fighting in jail, for example, could be presented as an argument for leaving the cuffs on and could weigh on a judge’s mind at sentencing.

Tompkins disagrees.

“I’ve been doing this for way too many years to have anything get in the way of my look at the criminal history,” she says. “If an individual is inclined to act up in court, that probably just supports the criminal history, but it doesn’t add anything to the criminal history.”

Krzyminski acknowledges that the new policy is an improvement on the cuffs-no-matter-what system.

“If we start with the presumption that cuffs come off during all court hearings, I’m fine with that,” he says. “Then we can go from there.” n

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NEWS | HOUSING ity. Individuals and families who receive these vouchers pay only 30 percent of their income in rent. When the authority last opened its waiting list, it received more than 4,500 applications for a lottery with just 600 slots available.

“If you are a single mom working a minimum wage job ... there’s not as many resources for you.”

Maggie Lankford, who lives in downtown Spokane, struggles to make rent each month. She’s not alone.

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Spokane rents aren’t as bad as in some other cities, but tell that to people spending more than half of their income on housing

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t nearly 62, Maggie Lankford years. Now a local agency that adminiswishes she was preparing to enter ters a much-coveted program is pivoting her golden years. But these days, to devote more of its limited resources to she doesn’t feel so golden. the very poorest in the area.

Despite 27 years in customer service, verage rents in King County, she still makes about minimum wage home to Seattle, are $1,270 working as a call center representative. a month, according to 2014 Part of her paycheck is garnished, due to numbers from the Runstad Center for an old debt from a stay in a hospital as a Real Estate Studies at the University of result of her bad heart. With no cartilage Washington. In Spokane County, the in her right knee, her work options are rent is considerably lower at $749. But limited. the county is less affluent, with a lower “After rent is paid, after phone is paid, median income and a higher poverty rate. after electric and food, if I have $50, I feel Earlier this year, the Washington State lucky,” she says in her Oklahoma drawl, Department of Commerce confirmed which hasn’t waned despite Lankford what many low-income residents already living in the Inland Northwest for the past knew when it released its 2015 Washingeight years. ton State Housing Needs Assessment.

The biggest check Lankford writes The report provides a new glimpse each month is $450 rent for her studio into Spokane County’s housing situation, apartment in downtown Spokane. Lankrevealing that 24,515 households, or 13 ford says she’s looked at senior housing, percent of the county’s but it’s not any cheaper. households, are “severely Lankford knows she’s NEXT WEEK cost-burdened,” meaning not the only one feeling A look at Spokane’s that they pay more than the pinch. “housing first” experiment half their income on rent.

Although Spokane In Spokane County, rents aren’t as high as there are 12 units of affordable housthose in the western part of the state, ing, according to the report, for every a large swath of the city’s population 100 households that make less than 30 struggles to pay for housing. State and percent of the area’s median income federal sources of money for affordable (around $13,000 or less), a situation that’s housing has been on the decline in recent

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expected to only modestly improve in coming years.

“Because resources are so so tight, we are not seeing the units being built,” says Marj Dahlstrom, a manager at Walnut Corners, an affordable housing complex run by Spokane Urban Ministries.

The state Department of Commerce operates a Housing Trust Fund, which makes funds available to cities, developers and local housing authorities to build housing for households making less than the median income. In the most recent budget cycle, the fund appropriated $56 million, which, according to department spokeswoman Penny Thomas, is 52 percent less than the previous budget cycle. In 2008, according to department numbers, the city of Spokane received $8 million from the fund to build multifamily housing, which dropped to $1.3 million by 2011.

Cindy Algeo, executive director of the Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium, says the biggest drop in resources for affordable housing has been at the federal level. In the past three years, she says, housing money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has dropped by 40 percent.

A key housing program is HUD’s Housing Choice Vouchers, administered locally by the Spokane Housing Author-

Last week, the Spokane Housing Authority enacted an administrative plan that directs half of its highly soughtafter Housing Choice Vouchers, as they become available, to clients of local social service organizations.

“We’re really trying to change the way we are working with our community and trying to be a better partner,” says Pam Tietz, the authority’s executive director. According to Tietz, the idea behind the plan is to help bolster the city and county’s Regional 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness by helping social service providers connect their most vulnerable clients to housing.

As the authority shifts how it distributes the vouchers, Algeo says they’ll become harder to obtain for families and individuals who may be burdened by rent, or who are on the cusp of homelessness but still aren’t deemed vulnerable enough for a voucher.

Monique Kolonko, associate director for seniors and housing at Catholic Charities, says that a housing voucher is likely the “best bet” for someone struggling with housing, but now they are being directed to the very poor.

“If you’re chronically homeless, there’s going to be housing for you,” she says. “If you are a single mom working a minimum wage job and you’re scraping by, there’s not as many resources for you.”

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lthough Lankford struggles to make ends meet, she says she’ll never go back to Oklahoma. She enjoys helping people solve problems at her job, and she’s developed many good friends while living in Spokane. After receiving her biggest check of the month, Lankford had enough money left to go out to Irv’s, a downtown bar where she says she’s known as “Mama Maggie.”

Her friends help her out from time to time, but she still wishes she could get just a little more relief — even just $100 off her rent would be a boost to her finances.

She’s looked into getting a voucher, but the waiting list was too long.

“A voucher would help,” she says.

“But I can’t live on the streets until someone helps me.” n

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May 22 Movies based on Disney theme park attractions are a gamble — everyone loved Pirates of the Caribbean, but remember Haunted Mansion and every other Pirates of the Caribbean movie? (No? Exactly.) In Tomorrowland, adolescent Casey finds a pin; touching it gives her a vision of a futuristic land of tomorrow. She tracks down Frank (George Clooney), who takes her to that fantastical world, one that may not actually be the happiest place on Earth. The good news? Writer/director Brad Bird is an incredible director. Seriously; he directed The Incredibles. His creativity can turn a bland studio movie into something much more exciting and inventive. The screenplay is by Damon Lindelof, the writer who gave us Lost, Prometheus and Star Trek Into Darkness. So expect Tomorrowland to begin with intriguing ideas, awkwardly drop those ideas halfway through, then end in an absurd way that leaves most of the audience angry. Rated PG (DANIEL WALTERS)

PITCH PERFECT 2

May 15 Three years ago, Pitch Perfect took Glee’s a cappella craze to college. The film was a surprise hit for Anna Kendrick, and her reworking of the Carter Family song “When I’m Gone” registered on the Top 40. Naturally, a second film had to be made. All the favorite characters are back: Kendrick as Beca the unlikely choirgirl, Rebel Wilson as Fat Amy and Elizabeth Banks (who also makes her feature directorial debut) as one of the worst commentators ever. This time around, the Barden Bellas are at the top of the collegiate a cappella world. But when a concert — in front of the president, no less — goes awry, they must clear their good name by entering in an international voice competition that no American team has ever won. We all know how this one is going to end, but what matters is the journey, and you can be sure there will be more usage of “aca (insert any noun)” and possibly projectile vomiting. Rated PG-13 (LAURA JOHNSON)

ALOHA

May 29 God bless you, Cameron Crowe, for still giving us movies.

The writer-director behind Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire delivers his first feature in more than four years with a story about a military contractor (Bradley Cooper) who arrives in his old Hawaii stomping grounds to assist with a satellite launch. There, he’s followed by a sparkplug Air Force pilot (Emma Stone) while looking for closure with his former love (Rachel McAdams), all the while trying to make sense of his tumultuous yet successful life. If those names don’t do it for you, take a taste of the rest of the cast: John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin, Danny McBride and… Bill Murray. Yes, Bill Murray. Rated PG-13 (MIKE BOOKEY)

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oes this summer at the movies feel a lot like the past few summers? You’re not alone. It’s another parade of superheroes, reboots, sequels and sequels to superhero reboots. We’ve come to expect that from this season of Hollywood check-cashing, but there is something unique, and that’s the volume and projected box office totals we’re looking at.

The first summer smash, Avengers: Age of Ultron, is already out and absolutely raking in the cash. By summer’s end, some box-office prognosticators think it could haul in $600 million.

The rest of the summer should follow suit with Jurassic World, a Despicable Me spin-off (Minions), a Mad Max reimagining and sequels galore filling the hottest months.

We’re not saying it’s all big-budget nonsense.

There’s plenty of good stuff in there. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a down-on-his-luck boxer in Southpaw, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig team up for the uproarious Masterminds and Cameron Crowe returns with the star-packed Aloha.

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JURASSIC WORLD

June 12 This reimagining of the beloved trilogy features a familiar plot line but an entirely new cast, and even a new director. Though Steven Spielberg is executive producer, Colin Trevorrow has stepped up to the role of director for this fourth journey into the Jurassic extravaganza. Set 22 years postJurassic Park, the dreamed-about, fully functioning dinosaur amusement park is finally a reality.

But when the imagination of the park’s creators begins to run wild, there’s a request for the creation of a hybrid dinosaur for the purpose of behavioral research. When the experiment goes just about as poorly as it seems any prehistoric genetic modification would, it’s up to staff member Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and the rest of the park workers to try to stop the mutant dino before she stomps out the entire park and all of its visitors.

Rated PG-13 (KAITLYN ANSON)

INSIDE OUT

June 19 The Pixar stamp is no longer the sign of an automatic masterpiece (thanks, Cars). Inside Out is from Pete Docter, the Pixar vet who wrote and directed Up. The man knows his way around human emotion. It’s appropriate that human emotions — Joy! Anger! Disgust! Sadness! Fear! — are the literal characters of Inside Out, which delves inside into the mind of Riley, a girl struggling to adjust to a move to San Francisco. I’m expecting a dark psychodrama exploring Riley’s Jungian shadow self. Rated PG (DW)

DOPE

June 19 Not every black kid in Compton is a wannabe gangster, or gangsta rapper. In the comedy Dope, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) plays punk rock with his buddies and has aspirations to go to Harvard until a drug deal goes awry and threatens his future. Suddenly thrust into the stereotypical ’hood life for a day, Malcolm and his buddies have to dodge bad guys, get rid of a backpack full of drugs and keep their dreams of getting out intact.

Not yet rated (DAN NAILEN)

TED 2

June 26 It’s more than a stretch to prove that a crass stuffed animal is a person in the eyes of the law, but that’s what newlywed Ted (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) must do if he wants to adopt a baby with his wife, Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). After a failed — and of course sketchy — attempt to recruit a certain Patriots quarterback to father his child, Ted asks his childhood best friend John (Mark Wahlberg) to be his sperm donor. Soon, Ted finds himself seeking out a lawyer (Amanda Seyfried) and serenading the courtroom in an effort to prove he’s got soul.

The premise of the film tugs at the heartstrings slightly more than the original did, but everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed bear is in fine form even as he plans to start a family. Cue the crude humor, a major mishap at a fertility clinic and unexpected empathy for a boorish but lovable teddy bear.

Rated R (HILARY KORABIK)

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I am driven to make a difference.

As an English Instructor at Spokane Community College, I look forward to arriving at class every day. And I’m inspired to do it in a way that makes our planet healthier. The Spokane Transit racks make it easy to ride my bike and use the bus instead of adding pollution to the air. I’m driven to travel by two wheels, and I’m driven by STA. MAX

June 26 Withdrawn teenager Justin (Josh Wiggins) spends his time absorbed in video games and avoiding his family after his older brother Kyle (Robbie Amell) is killed in Afghanistan. In an attempt to find some healing, the family adopts Max, the war dog who had bonded so closely with Kyle that he can’t work with anyone else. As Justin and Max grow closer, Justin has a chance to discover what really happened that day on the front. Rated PG (HK)

MAGIC MIKE XXL

July 1 This is a friendly reminder that a film depicting Channing Tatum artfully stripping on a stage was released in multiplexes around the country three years ago. That first Magic Mike, a semi-autobiographical story about Tatum’s life, pre-Hollywood stardom, directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, certainly made the ladies scream. But it was slightly dark, focusing on the seedy, drug-fueled side of the business, and not exactly what moviegoers excited to see the aforementioned grinding scenes thought they were signing up for. Magic Mike XXL looks to focus on exactly what the people want: less script, more dancing. Be sure to bring a handheld fan to the screening — you’ll need it.

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THE COMEDIES

The best funny movies heading your way this summer

July 29 I would bemoan the filmmakers messing with the classic 1983 National Lampoon’s Vacation if several lackluster sequels hadn’t already shredded the memory of the inaugural Griswold family jaunt across the country. But maybe there’s been enough time since 1997’s wretched Vegas Vacation, the most recent theatrically released chapter in the series, to give the old Family Truckster another spin. In the new Vacation, Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold (the fifth actor to tackle the role originated

by Anthony Michael Hall) as an adult, trying to recreate his memorable childhood road trip to Walley World. He has his own wife (Christina Applegate) and kids now, and the rest of his family shows up, including Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo — the only two to be in every Vacation flick — as now-grandparents Clark and Ellen Griswold. If this new version can capture even half of the glorious original’s laughs, it could be worthy. There are certainly plenty of funny people on board this time around, including Charlie Day and Kaitlin Olson from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Keegan-Michael Key, Nick Kroll and Tim Heidecker. Here’s hoping Randy Quaid figured out a way to get his Cousin Eddie in the flick without being caught by the “authorities.” Not yet rated (DN)

plot revenge after falling victim to a mortifying prank executed by the high school Queen Bee (Claudia Lee). Tired of living under the reign of the “populars,” the school misfits band together in this summer comedy. Not yet rated (HILARY KORABIK)

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May 8 Jack Black gets back to the big screen (where he belongs) with this indie comedy in which he plays one of those dudes who insists on giving himself a nickname. In this case, that’s Dan Landsman, aka “The D Train.” As the head of his 20th high school reunion committee, Dan heads to L.A. to convince a classmate (James Marsden) who’s now on a national TV commercial to come to the reunion.

Rated R (MIKE BOOKEY)

THE OUTSKIRTS

May 26 Did anyone ever humiliate you in high school? Is there still some bitterness in your heart? Have you ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?

If so, you can now live vicariously through Mindy (Eden Sher) and Jodi (Victoria Justice) as they

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June 2 Director Paul Feig goes back to the well with Melissa McCarthy for their third movie together (Bridesmaids, The Heat). McCarthy plays a meek CIA agent thrust into an epic globetrotting adventure alongside professional ass-kicker Jason Statham and über-suave Jude Law as they try to hunt down sexy foe Rose Byrne, another Bridesmaids veteran. Expect the slapstick physical comedy and poetic obscenities that worked so well for the leading lady in her past collaborations with Feig.

Rated R (DAN NAILEN)

June 3 “Vince is doing the movie!” The unique Four Loko punchbowl of Entourage mixed the mystique of celebrity egoism with the essence of douchey frat guy, garnished with a backward baseball cap.

On the TV show, things looked like they wouldn’t work out, there was a lot of panicking, and agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), wearing sunglasses, would rant into a cellphone at a pool filled with generic babes in small bikinis. Maybe there’d be a Brett Ratner cameo if they really wanted a classy episode. Then movie star Vince (Adrian Grenier) would smile and shrug, and everything would work itself out. A tight crew of movie bros knew how to cut loose and have a good time. Expect the same from the movie, with a Warren Buffett cameo. Rated R (DANIEL WALTERS)

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

June 12 In an unending parade of reboots and sequels, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl offers a breath of originality to the summer film lineup. The indie film was a huge hit at Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize. With a wide release, now everyone can see why. In the film, high school student Rachel has leukemia and classmates/filmmakers Greg and Earl decide to make a film for her. Through it, themes of life and death, friendship and what it means to grow up are explored with tenderness and a witty, Juno-esque script.

Greg’s parents, played by Connie Britton and Nick Offerman, are especially awkward and wonderful.

PG-13 (LAURA JOHNSON)

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July 17 Perhaps no comic has enjoyed the sort of meteoric past couple of years as Amy Schumer. The foul-mouthed yet brilliant standup took her routine to the small screen with her excellent sketch comedy TV show Inside Amy Schumer while taking on awardsshow-hosting duties and demolishing the late-night talk show circuit. The obvious next step is for Schumer to hit the big screen, which she does with Trainwreck, a script she penned with plenty of influence from her own welldocumented and apparently disastrous love life. Here, she teams up with king of funny Judd Apatow, who directs Schumer as the lead character, a career-focused thirtysomething who prides herself on staying single. But when she meets a goofy sports doctor (Bill Hader), she has to re-evaluate her stance on just about everything. Fun fact: LeBron James plays himself in the movie. Rated R (MB)

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July 10 A spin-off from the adorable Despicable Me franchise, Minions focuses on the story of what those strangely lovable yellow creatures were up to before settling down to diligently serve their master Gru. After accidentally destroying all of their evil leaders, the Minions take to Antarctica to create their own life.

Thanks to a series of unfortunate events undoubtedly paired with slapstick comedy, the minions end up on a variety of adventures, traveling everywhere from New York City to London to find their perfect life. Rated PG (KAITLYN ANSON)

ANT-MAN

July 17 In one of the trailers for Marvel Studios’ next big summer blockbuster, our title hero (Paul Rudd) asks a rhetorical question that fans less familiar with him may all be wondering: “Is it too late to change the name?” Um, yeah... it is. As lackluster as it sounds in comparison with, say, Black Widow or The Hulk, AntMan’s name is indicative of his abilities — being able to shrink to a size smaller than an ant (so small, in fact, he can ride one), while also gaining strength, thanks to his special suit. He’s also one of the original Avengers, debuting in paperback in the early 1960s. In the character’s film debut, Rudd plays sneaky and skilled criminal Scott Lang. Under the guidance of the original Ant-Man, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Lang is tasked with a major heist to save the world and take down public enemy No. 1, Darren Cross, aka Yellowjacket. Not yet rated (CHEY SCOTT)

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July 24 Paper Towns looks to be a welcome, refreshing change in an era where every popular dystopian teen novel is being adapted into a movie franchise. The 2008 young adult book by John Green is a bestseller too, but grounds itself in reality, albeit as much as a teenage romantic mystery can. For those who haven’t read the book, Paper Towns follows average high school senior Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) as he tries to track down his mysteriously vanished neighbor/love interest/cool girl Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevingne), who leaves a trail of clues for him to follow. Not yet rated (CS)

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July 24 In 1982, NASA sent a capsule into space hoping to contact other life forms. Inside were cultural mementos of the time, including recordings of classic arcade games: Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Frogger and Centipede.

This gesture goes all wrong when, decades later, an alien life form sends holographic, weaponized versions of these games back to Earth for an all-out war. It’s up to a crew of goofy retro gamers, played

by Adam Sandler, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage, to save the day using their pro gaming skills. Even though the plot — also considering the cast — sounds ultra-dorky, the nostalgia factor and expected kidfriendliness of Pixels should reel in the crowds. Not yet rated (CS)

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July 24 Critics and fans alike hope that Southpaw has the potential to become a modern-day Rocky, doing its part to bring the boxing film back to relevance. Loosely based on the experiences of rapper Eminem (originally picked for its leading role), Southpaw is indeed a story about a boxer, not a rapper, but one who faces struggles similar to its real-life inspiration. Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) is at the height of his boxing career and has everything going for him. But his adoring wife (Rachel McAdams) wants him to hang up his gloves to be a full-time family man. Then without warning, everything Hope loves and has worked for starts to crumble. Soon, all that remains is his will to keep getting up. Forest Whitaker also stars as Hope’s trainer. Not yet rated (CS)

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THE RETREADS

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD May 15 In a parched, postapocalyptic world, extremely dirty (and often mutilated) humans fighting for survival ride dirt bikes, souped-up cars and strangely armored tanks to catch or outrace one another. The story isn’t so important here with the new Mad Max reboot; it’s all about the thrill of the chase. More than three decades after the first low-budget Mad Max starring Mel Gibson captivated audiences, Australian director George Miller is back at the helm of the most visually stunning Mad Max yet. Filmed in the sweltering heat of the Namibian desert, sand and grit permeate every shot, making stars Charlize Theron (with a buzzed head) and Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) look badass as ever. Impressively, the film was made with as little CGI as possible, with about 80 percent of the stunts and explosions actually performed in real life. It’s also in 3-D, hopefully making it all the more spectacular. For fans of the original, look for baddie Hugh Keays-Byrne (aka Toecutter) to steal the show. Rated R (LAURA JOHNSON)

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POLTERGEIST May 22 Dying time’s here! The 1982 original found scares in the simplest of setups, as does this remake: A suburban family suddenly finds their house possessed by ghosts obsessed with their youngest daughter. The tension ratchets up with every new visitor to the home or clown doll discovered in a toy box, and you can bet Sam Rockwell (in the role originated by Spokane’s own Craig T. Nelson) will be awesome, as usual. Rated PG-13 (DAN NAILEN)

There’s no shortage of remakes and additions to old franchises this summer

TERMINATOR: GENISYS July 1 John Connor is like the James Bond of postapocalyptic sci-fi. He’s seemingly the sole man standing between mankind and its destruction in every one of the Terminator movies, and different actors slide into the role with every episode. This time around, Jason Clarke follows in the footsteps of Edward Furlong, Nick Stahl and Christian Bale as Connor in a story that also includes the return of the robot-fighting couple from the 1984 original (John’s mom Sarah Connor and sent-fromthe-future bodyguard Kyle Reese) and a certain musclebound ex-California governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as a hitman robot — a perfect role given his verbal dexterity. The latest episode bounces between 1984, 2017 and 2029 in the Terminator story, so keeping up might require viewings of the original, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and maybe Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines to get all the necessary background. Or you can simply lean back and enjoy the new Terminator for the same reason the older chapters were worth a look — insane stunts, killer special effects and some seriously idiotic (and occasionally hilarious) one-liners from the Governator. Not yet rated (DN)

FANTASTIC FOUR Aug. 7 Much like the 2012 rendition of the The Amazing Spider-Man which traded in Tobey Maguire for Andrew Garfield, this Fantastic Four is yet another reboot of a not-that-old movie. Starring fresh faces like Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara, this film will be both new and nostalgic as the four well-known heroes seek to save the planet from a deadly enemy, utilizing their special powers harnessed from another world. Not yet rated (KAITLYN ANSON) 

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July 31 This is no remake of the 2000 supernatural thriller, but it does share some chills. This Gift stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as a couple who return to his hometown and meet up with an old friend who is none too friendly. Or rather, way too friendly, leaving gifts and stalking them.

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Aug. 7 Meryl Streep steps about as far away from The Devil Wears Prada as you could get and possibly toward yet another Oscar in this comedy-drama, portraying an aging musician who left her family years ago to pursue her dreams of becoming a rock star in California. The story begins when her ex-husband asks for her help in getting their estranged daughter — played by Mamie Gummer, Streep’s actual daughter — back on her feet after her divorce. Their reunion of sorts could be the chance to rekindle the family that dreams of rock-and-roll once wreaked havoc on, but it’s unlikely that it will go down without a fair share of mayhem. And it’s a chance to see Meryl rocking platinum extensions, lace-up black boots and a whole lot of leather.

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Aug. 14 Released in Argentina in 2013, the animated film’s country of origin, Underdogs tells the story of foosball master Amadeo who must save his small town from total destruction at the hands of his childhood rival. With the help of foosball players come to life, he must win a real soccer match or lose everything. The film was originally set for release last August, and after several pushbacks is finally seeing the light of day with an American dubbing (featuring the voices of Matthew Morrison, Katie Holmes, Ariana Grande and more). Not yet rated (LJ)

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Aug. 14 The inner workings of pioneering gangsta rap crew N.W.A held enough drama to make for a great feature film. The fact that police violence against black men is more of a hot-button topic than ever — decades after N.W.A’s songs like “F--- Tha Police” and “Straight Outta Compton” tackled the subject — makes this biographical flick about the early years of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E and their brothersin-rhyme a must-see for hip-hop fans this summer. The movie tackles the group’s showdown with police agencies and the FBI over their lyrical content, their tumultuous relationship with manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) and their split into various factions after they became platinum-selling superstars who put West Coast rap on the map. Even if the producers somehow fumble turning this into a winning drama, at least the soundtrack will be slamming. Not yet rated (DN)

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ASCENDING ARTIST

Brittany Stodgell A wealth of projects and ideas pushes this busy young artist to create beautiful work at the zero hour

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rocrastination is Brittany Stodgell’s incentive for inspiration.

It’s what drove her to stay up through the night before a solo art show at the start of the year and paint — from start to finish — a 5-foot-by-2-foot acrylic piece. It’s why she created a series of watercolors using a technique she’d never used before, just hours before an evening First Friday event in March. The 29-year-old artist followed a similar timeline leading up to the submission deadline for 2013’s Terrain, the popular, one-night arts showcase held in October.

“Procrastination is my best friend,” Stodgell says, laughing. “It’s stressful, but it forces me to create. When I have a deadline that’s months away, I come up with too many ideas instead of focusing on one. But when I have a hard deadline, I can sit and focus on one idea and get everything done.”

Her other weakness? Not saying no.

“When people offer projects, I usually have to tell them, ‘OK, but I have these things in my personal pipeline,’” she says.

As she was settling into a new job last month, as a graphic designer at downtown firm Propaganda Creative, Stodgell agreed to personally design posters at low or no cost for the recent Startup Weekend Spokane and the 50 Hour Slam Audience Choice film screening.

In addition, she was working on another project to hand-letter phrases onto the walls of newly opened Nectar Wine and Beer in Kendall Yards. ...continued on next page

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Beyond finding the artist’s signature bold, fluid lines and shapes in these places, her work is featured in many notable local projects. She designed a 40th anniversary Expo ’74 logo for the Spokane Parks Foundation’s gala last year. In 2013, she co-founded Halftone, an annual group art show that raises funds for area nonprofits and Eastern Washington University’s visual communication design program, of which she’s a graduate.

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hile most of her recent projects have been in lettering and digital design, Stodgell also dabbles in drawing, painting and photography.

“I just like to create. I try to do something artistic every day,” she notes. “Every piece of art has a sense of purpose to me, so I rarely throw anything away or shove it in a corner. I find a use for everything I create.”

Stodgell and her best friend and fellow artist, Amanda Johnson, also co-own Black Sheep Paper Co. a greeting card and print shop on Etsy.

They sold their cute, pun-laden and geek-themed designs (based on Star Wars, The Legend of Zelda, rap lyrics and old-fashioned idioms) at Terrain’s sister event Bazaar last summer, and plan to return again this year.

Of all the hand-lettered prints Stodgell has designed, the most popular sales-wise are a kitchen-themed, black-and-white set of prints inspired by rap lyrics: “When you dip / I dip / we dip,” hand-lettered above a bowl of chip dip, and “big pimpin’ / spendin’ cheese,” with a wedge of

Swiss, and two other popular songs with associated food puns.

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he projects an amiable and effervescent charisma, yet Stodgell labels herself an introvert, and in the past, she was much more critical of her art style.

“The biggest thing I’m proud of overcoming is that I used to think my artwork and design was no good, because it wasn’t like anyone else’s,” she recalls. “Two weeks into my first quarter of the last year of my design degree, I was astonished by the talent I was surrounded by, and I looked at my work and thought, ‘It looks nothing like theirs, so it must not be good.’”

She credits EWU design professor Travis Masingale, who has continued to play a mentoring role, with helping her stay motivated to continue her arts education.

Though her parents live on the west side of the state, Stodgell has been a Spokane resident since moving here in 2006 to attend EWU, originally to study elementary education. She’d like to go back to school and get a master’s degree to someday teach collegiate-level art but doesn’t see herself leaving the region any time soon: “I’ve always been interested in helping the community grow and being a part of something bigger. With artwork, it’s a way to speak out without speaking.” n Find Brittany Stodgell’s work at brittanymadethis.com and at the Etsy shops Black Sheep Paper Co. and BrittanyMadeThis

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e think of Tim Allen as a family man — as the notskilled-at-fixing-anything Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor on Home Improvement or the voice of Buzz Lightyear. But what’s most striking about the comedian, who brings his gruntfilled stand-up routine to the Northern Quest Resort & Casino this weekend, is how he transformed from Michigan bad boy into one of the most beloved family-friendly celebrities of the 1990s.

Timothy Alan Dick (Allen’s given name) was just 11 when a drunk driver killed his father. By his early 20s, an angry Allen was selling cocaine. In 1978, he was arrested for possession of 650 grams of the substance at the Kalamazoo airport, enough to put him away for life. Through a plea deal, he served 28 months in a Minnesota federal correctional institution.

People always thought he was funny; even the judge who sentenced him to prison suggested that the young Allen continue

his comedy trajectory once his sentence was completed.

Through comedy, he was able to get his life back together.

And as he’ll show Saturday night, Allen’s self-deprecating, “man’s man” stand-up routine is where it all began — it’s where he was always able to relate most to his fans.

When he’s not doing the occasional comedy performance, or lending his voice to those “Pure Michigan” commercials, Allen spends his time on his ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, a show that somehow has been on the air for four seasons. A fourth installment of Toy Story is in the works; thankfully, no sequels to Wild Hogs are on the horizon.

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ALBUM | It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since My Morning Jacket’s breakthrough album Z took them from cult favorites to arena-sized favorites, largely on the strength of some epic Bonnaroo festival appearances that showed the band is as capable of appealing to drugged-up hippies looking for a psychedelic jam-out as they are to prog- and classicrock fans. The band’s new one, THE WATERFALL, touches on all of Jim James and Co.’s strengths, and is reportedly the first of two full-length sets of new MMJ tunes on the way after a four-year hiatus.

DOCUMENTARY | For wrestling fans of a certain age, there is no greater heel in squared-circle history than The Iron Sheik, the Iranian grappler (real name: Khosrow Vaziri) who spent much of the ’80s as the World Wrestling Federation’s biggest villain, putting Hulk Hogan and other “good guys” in his patented “Camel Clutch” while mocking the rabid, often xenophobic audiences that made pro wrestling must-see TV during the Reagan years. In 2014 documentary THE SHEIK, now streaming on Netflix, he reflects on his career in the ring, and his later success as a Twitter sensation (@the_ironsheik) and spoken-word nightclub act.

BOOK | Directing cultclassic films like Pink Flamingos and Hairspray (the original, not the musical) earned John Waters several memorable nicknames, e.g.

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CULTURE | DISTILLED

The Drink That Won’t Go Away

Boo Radley’s Damn Fine Gifts

BY JAKE THOMAS

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ountless songs have been written about it. Chuck D, the rapper of Public Enemy fame, objects to it so much that he filed a lawsuit over being associated with it. Local governments, including Spokane, have taken action against it. With an amber hue, it has a slight resemblance to gasoline, and it tastes just a bit better.

Favored by street drinkers, ’90s gangster rappers and other less-than-favored social segments, malt liquor is the pariah of drinks.

But when brewing companies started to introduce the American public to the potent libation, they took pains to present it as a classy beverage.

“The brewing industry is about to bring forth a sudden rash of new products occupying the ‘twilight zone’ between beer and liquor,” reads a 1964 story that appeared in the New York Times business section. According to the article, these early incarnations of malt liquor featured names like “Gentry,” “Country Club” and “University Club.”

The image projected by brewing industry marketing departments began to shift almost as soon as it hit the shelves. By the late ’80s, groups involved with minority issues began protesting malt liquor makers, claiming that they were deliberately targeting blacks and Hispanics. In the 1990s, the 40 oz., almost too big for one hand and big enough to get you tipsy for a few bucks, became infamous through rap lyrics.

Now, as is true in many cities, you can’t buy it in large swaths of Spokane. East Central and down-

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town Spokane have been deemed Alcohol Impact Areas by the state Liquor Control Board, meaning that stores in these areas have to stop selling malt liquor and other low-cost high-alcohol beers and wines favored by street drinkers.

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According to a LCB report, Spokane sees an influx of “transient chronic public inebriates” in mid-April. While these restrictions on where they can buy their alcohol are making the situation more manageable, according to LCB reports, some are just getting their drink of choice elsewhere.

Just ask Shaunda, a clerk at a liquor store just across the Division Street Bridge from downtown. Beginning at around 8 am, she sees “transient chronic public inebriates” who go straight to the malt liquor that’s tucked away on a bottom shelf in the store.

“They seem really nice,” says Shaunda. She has developed a rapport with the regular “transient chronic public inebriates,” who are easy to get along with. “It’s pretty much the way you treat them.”

They tell her that they come across the bridge to get their malt liquor. She’s not sure where they drink it, but the store goes through 10 to 12 cases a week.

Despite efforts to suppress it or restrict how it can be marketed, brewers won’t give up on this powerful drink. Neither will its drinkers. 

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“I pound on a keyboard all day writing code, transforming data, and solving virtual problems,” says Lowe. It’s worthwhile, he says, but there is nothing physical to look at or touch.

On weekends and evenings, however, Lowe explores a more tangible type of touch.

“Pottery is completely different,” he says. “I do find that my time at the studio allows me to stop thinking about all the multi-variable details that fill up my workday and lets me focus on a completely different set of problems to solve.

Problems that are both simpler and, in many ways, more complex than telling a computer what to do.”

Lowe, who began working with clay three years ago, is president of Urban Art Co-op and one of five founding members of the new art space. Other founding members include Karen Mannino, who has a degree in studio art, as well as Autumn Bunton, John Newman, JoDee Moody and Keith Harger, all of whom teach classes there. “[The idea behind the project] was to create a place that would support local artists of all levels and create an environment of collaboration among different art media,” says Lowe.

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The classes taught at Urban Art Co-op are mostly along the lines of wheel-throwing and hand-building, says Moody, the co-op’s marketing director. They’re adding workshops in other media, such as jewelry-making and felting — a technique for making fabric — and hope to set aside space to display artwork.

All ages and ability levels are welcome at Urban Art Co-op, says Lowe, who notes that one of the things that attracted him to working with clay is its experimental nature.

“Using only my hands, I physically choose what properties I want to give to the lump of clay spinning on the potter’s wheel,” he says, adding that, unlike in computing, mistakes not only happen, they’re a great teaching tool.

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When Brewers Unite Collaborative beers show the spirit of Spokane Craft Beer Week

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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hen Matt Hanson had to pick brewing teams for Spokane Craft Beer Week, he took a decidedly old approach to this new event. He dropped the names of 12 of the region’s breweries into a hat and created some unlikely duos, who have now gone on to create inspired and unique beers.

The collaboration brews all will be unveiled during the inaugural Spokane Craft Beer Week, a series of events taking place across the region aimed to celebrate the local brewing industry. At restaurants and breweries throughout the region, you’ll also find brewer’s dinners, brewery tours, chances to chat with the beer makers and plenty of other drinking and educational opportunities along the way. But the collaborations are the most tangible (or perhaps most tasteable) way to

capture the spirits of the brewing community.

“I’ve been to a lot of beer weeks and I haven’t seen this many collaborations,” says Hanson, who is in the process of opening a yet-to-be-named brewery and tasting room in Spokane and volunteered to spearhead this first-ever event.

The idea is simple: put two breweries together and see what they come up with. For River City Brewing’s brewer Todd Grove, teaming up with Big Barn Brewing Company felt a lot like his days as a musician, when he’d jam with different artists.

“I think it’s art. That’s how I come at brewing: a blend of art and science,” says Grove, who worked alongside River City brewmaster Moose Sanders and Big Barn’s Craig Deitz and Brad Paulson on the project.

The two breweries converged at Big Barn’s bucolic Green Bluff facility, where they went to work on a creation they eventually dubbed Barn City Flower Power, a session IPA (6.6 percent ABV) made with Amarillo and Cascade hops and flavored with culinary lavender grown on a nearby farm.

“It’s a standout brew. Both [Sanders] and I agree that it has an incredible nose on it,” says Deitz, who credited River City’s yeast and the knowledge of Sanders, who learned his brewing techniques in Germany, for some of the beer’s uniqueness.

The city-meets-country collaboration was a nice change of pace, says Grove — who typically works his days in the ultra-urban River City space — and also a chance to bounce ideas off the Big Barn folks.

“The other thing is that brewing is labor-intensive,

THE COLLABORATIONS BARN CITY FLOWER POWER:

Big Barn Brewing Company and River City Brewing A session IPA with lavender, Amarillo and Cascade hops.

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STEAM SETTER:

Steam Plant Brewing Co. and English Setter Brewing Company A malty American-style IPA.

TOWER OF SOUR:

Iron Goat Brewing Co. and Paradise Creek Brewery Spokane’s Iron Goat and Pullman’s Paradise Creek put together five of their sour beers to create this monster.

JAZZYWAG:

12 String Brewing Co. and Laughing Dog Brewing This Belgian golden strong ale, flavored with oranges and lavender, has an ABV of 8.2 percent.

DON’T FORGET NO-LI

No-Li Brewhouse isn’t part of the collaboration list, but that’s not because the oldest brewery in Spokane doesn’t play well with others. The godfather of Spokane’s new wave of brewing is getting in on Spokane Craft Beer Week with the release of their OYSTER STOUT. They collaborated with Taylor Shellfish Farms in Shelton to create what head brewer Damon Scott calls a salty-meets-sweet treat. “It’s in the realm of a chocolate stout, but the oysters we added to the boil give it a briny, salty feel, too,” says Scott.

River City Brewing’s head brewer, Moose Sanders, left, and Big Barn Brewing Company co-owner Craig Deitz with pints of their Spokane Craft Beer Week collaboration. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

and when you get more people in the room, it shares the labor load, so it’s more relaxed,” says Grove. “You’re comparing ideas and sharing experiences.”

The collaborative brews (see the full list below) will be released at a May 12 party at No-Li Brewhouse and also will be featured at other release parties throughout the week. They’re just part of the festivities surrounding SCBW, which coincides with American Craft Beer Week, celebrated somewhat unofficially throughout Spokane over the past few years. It took hold this year thanks to the growth of the Inland Northwest Craft Brewers Association, which includes breweries from North Idaho, rural Washington and the Palouse, in addition to the Spokane area. The group has grown exponentially in the past couple of years, along with the region’s craft beer industry. Part of that growth and success, Hanson says, is the nature of the region itself.

“It’s a perfect-sized city. It’s big enough to make an event feel special, but it’s small enough for people to be able to rally around something like this,” he says. n

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Waddell’s Brewpub and Wallace Brewing Company A single-malt and singlehop bock.

RASPBERRY GOSE:

Ramblin’ Road Craft Brewery and McDuff ’s Brewing Company A fruit-forward, German-style ale, flavored post-fermentation with coriander and sea salt.

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Mix ‘n’ Match

Know how to pair your beer with your food for Beer Week

Manito Tap House owner Patrick McPherson employs a staff of highly educated beer experts to help match a pint with your meal. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

BY DAN NAILEN

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s the number of craft breweries and range of beer styles has exploded, even the most casual of sippers has gotten savvier to the array of flavors available. We haven’t quite reached the point where diners regularly ask their servers for beer recommendations based on their entrée of choice — but that day is coming.

The Cicerone Certification Program trains restaurant employees in the minutiae of beer and beer service, putting students through a series of exams to attain the status of Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone or Master Cicerone — a level attained by only nine people so far.

At Spokane’s Manito Tap House, owner Patrick McPherson is a Certified Cicerone, as is bartender Riley Elmer, and all the waitstaff are Certified Beer Servers. As McPherson puts it, “it’s certainly been a competitive advantage for us that all our servers know quite a bit about beer.”

Since we all can’t eat at Manito Tap House every night, we tapped McPherson for some basics of food-and-beer pairings that can come in handy whether cooking at home or eating out. One of the basic tenets to keep in mind, he says, is that “you usually want to get something that’s either going to complement or contrast.” For example, an IPA typically goes well with a spicy dish because the spiciness and hops of the beer nicely accompany the heat. A contrasting, sweeter beer can also work.

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I threw a variety of food and beer styles McPherson’s way, and he made some suggestions, while noting that, as in all things food-related, it’s all “super-subjective.”

FISH

We’re spoiled with salmon in the Northwest, and McPherson suggests — particularly with smoked salmon — going with “a beer that’s got a bit of a smoke background to it,” perhaps a smoked porter.

For lighter fish with their “delicate flavors,” try a blonde or a British pale ale. “The British is a little less hoppy than the American versions, it would go really nicely,” he says. And for fish and chips, a nut brown ale “would be delicious.”

HOT WINGS

“A pale ale or IPA is going to pair really well with that,” McPherson says, because they have a spicy, strong flavor that can stand up to those hot sauces.

BEEF

Much depends on your preparation. A burger’s toppings change the flavor dramatically, so picking a beer can be tricky. A nut brown ale — “not real light, not real heavy” — is one option. If you’re grilling a steak with some chipotle rub, you might want a porter flavored with chipotle, or a smoked porter.

PULLED PORK

For one of my favorite BBQ staples, something with both smoky and sweet notes works best, McPherson says. Perhaps a brown porter, as that’s “going to be a little less dark, almost towards a brown. It’s going to have little bit of caramel notes to it, a little sweet, but some smoky [notes] from the dark malts.”

MEXICAN FOOD

For spicy Mexican dishes, a pale ale or IPA is a good call. But not all Mexican food is spicy, and as McPherson notes, “Mexico was kind of instrumental in keeping the Vienna Lager style alive.” So you can feel good about grabbing one of those, or a pilsner, McPherson says, “a nice, light beer.”

ITALIAN FOOD

I almost stumped McPherson with the idea of eating spaghetti and meatballs with beer, but Elmer chimed in quickly when challenged with a red-sauce pairing. “There’s acidity,” he says, “It’s darker, stronger flavors, and it could be a little spicy. Maybe an IPA.”

DESSERT

That’s right, you need a beer with dessert. A nut brown ale has “some nuttiness and some caramel tones,” so they pair nicely with sweet treats. 

WHERE TO BE, WHAT TO DRINK

A sampling of Spokane Beer Week events MON, MAY 11

River City Pint Night

Pacific Ave. Pizza Kick off the celebration with pint specials and special swag giveaways from River City Brewing from 5 to 7 pm.

TUE, MAY 12

Collaboration Beer Festival

No-Li Brewhouse Some folks might assume that something called Spokane Beer Week means one of those big festivals with tents and tokens and little plastic taster glasses.

While the week is much different from that format, you can still get a taste of the classic beer fest with this party. Head to the No-Li Brewhouse lawn to taste six collaboration beers made by partnering breweries and sip along to the sounds of the Trailer Park Girls. 4-7 pm

Beer 101

Republic Brewing Company Make the drive out to the small northern Washington town of Republic and get properly schooled in the process of making craft beer. Also includes a tasting and a tour. 6 pm, $15, $10/mug club members.

WED, MAY 13 Beer Dinner

Durkin’s Liquor Bar After you’ve read our story on beer pairings, head to Durkin’s for a six-course meal paired with six Perry Street beers. 6 pm, $60/person (tip and tax included). Call 863-9501 for reservations.

THU, MAY 14 Meet the Brewers

12 String Brewing At this event, you have a chance to match a face to your

favorite beers. The brewers from Paradise Creek, No-Li, Iron Goat, Selkirk Abbey, Laughing Dog and Waddell’s all will be on hand to discuss their beers.

FRI, MAY 15

Mango Mamba Release Party

12 String Brewing 3 Ninjas food truck will be on hand to pair their spicy goods with 12 String beers; you also can celebrate the release of the brewery’s Tequila Mango Mambo, their latest creation.

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SAT, MAY 16

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Stella Strong Whole Hog Benefit Auction

Lantern Tap House For the second year, the Lantern hosts this party to raise money for Stella, a 6-year-old who is battling leukemia. The Lantern also will debut its collaboration brew with Alameda Brewing, called Summer SPF Ale, and auction off an entire Ramstead Farms pig. 5 pm, $50.

Small Batch Festival

No-Li Brewhouse This festival is now in its third iteration, bringing a dozen of No-Li’s rare and cask-conditioned beers to the public. The past two have sold out fast, so advance tickets from beerfests.com are recommended. 11 am-3 pm, $20.

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Manager Brian Carpenter (left) and co-owner/chef Darrin Gleason at the newly opened Republic Pi. MEGHAN KIRK PHOTO

New But Familiar Republic Pi brings wood-fired pizza to the South Hill

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eat stacks of applewood sit on creatively shaped shelves lining the restaurant’s walls. Their final fate: the 775-degree wood-burning pizza oven cooking up thin-crust pies.

When its owners opened Republic Pi, a sister restaurant to the Flying Goat and Downriver Grill, they wanted to make the pizzas different, but not too different, from

what Spokanites know and love from the Flying Goat. At the Goat, you get a crust with a slight sourdough flavor; at Republic Pi, they spent a lot of time perfecting the dough to combine the Neapolitan style with New World.

“It’s like a nice, crispy outside and a tender dough all the way through,” says chef Darrin Gleason, who coowns the new South Hill restaurant with his wife, Shelly,

alongside Jonathan and Lisa Sweatt, and Jodie and John Stejer. “I believe we hit it. We wouldn’t be open if we didn’t.”

You’ll recognize a few of the combinations ($10$16) from the Flying Goat. The Waikiki with cured ham, coppa, and roasted pineapple and jalapeños is a direct carryover, while the South Hill is reminiscent of a past Goat pizza with its prosciutto, arugula and shaved Pecorino Romano toppings. The #37 is the egg-topped Kiernan renamed for Steve Gleason, with a dollar from each pizza donated to ALS research.

The new pies include the Republic, a puttanesca pizza with fried calamari, and a vegan pie called the Naturalist, spread with green garbanzos and topped with roasted peppers, smoked onions, carrots, mushrooms and Brussels sprouts.

The Shou Sugi Ban combines lemongrass-grilled pork with mozzarella, green onion, and carrot and daikon salad. It’s named for the Japanese technique of preserving wood by torching it and finishing it with natural oils. The technique was used on the woodwork throughout the restaurant, from the pickup counter to the star-emblazoned Republic Pi flag to the bar, where you’ll find 21 beers on tap.

Many Spokane brews mingle with a bit of everything else, and the wine list features both Italian and Northwest varietals. Among the signature cocktails are revitalized classics, like the Republic Greyhound with fresh-squeezed grapefruit, ginger liqueur and Ketel One. n food@inlander.com Republic Pi • 611 E. 30th • Open Mon-Thu and Sun, 11 am-11 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-midnight • facebook. com/RepublicPi • 863-9196

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Buddy Flop Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon don’t quite click in Hot Pursuit

BY ED SYMKUS

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K, we get it. This is a girlpower film: female director, two female leads doing a riff on the usual male road-trip-buddy movie. But that’s no excuse for kicking it off with a cover of Tom Petty’s great “American Girl” by Elle King that’s just plain awful. It’s off-putting and distracting, and gets Hot Pursuit off to a bad start. Unfortunately, except for some sporadically funny scenes, it doesn’t get much better.

A cute sequence that shows a young girl pretty much growing up in the back seat of her daddy’s police cruiser, and coming to learn and love what he does for a living, introduces us to the person who will become Officer Cooper (Reese Witherspoon).

It’s not until later, in a flashback, that it’s revealed what went wrong with her dream, and why she’s been demoted to running an evidence room and thought of as a geek by her fellow cops.

HOT PURSUIT

PG-13 Directed by Anne Fletcher Starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara But she’s determined to get past that “incident” (yes, it’s funny), and her chance comes when, for no sensible reason (the first of so much of the script’s nonsense), she’s put back in the field to chaperone the wife of a testifying drug cartel member to witness protection.

Things go wrong, and they’re deadly serious rather than funny. But this is a movie where moods change quickly, and the comedy soon comes back with a study of the two women — opposites who do not attract — at the center of it. Cooper follows orders, even if those orders concern protecting a woman who has no regard for the law, who wants only to stay fabulously rich and smartly dressed, even though the world she knows is

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falling down around her.

She is Daniella, played by Sofia Vergara with the same over-the-top approach she gives to Gloria on Modern Family. A big problem here is that the script appears to be satirizing stereotypes, but Vergara comes across as embracing the stereotypical Latina.

She’s too sassy, too tough, and, man, that accent is exaggerated! One of statuesque Daniella’s first lines upon meeting the diminutive Cooper (OK, the height-difference business is kinda funny) is, “You’re like a little dog that I can put in my purse.”

Witherspoon, on the other hand, has the right idea. Her use of humor is believably self-deprecating instead of forcibly so, the way Vergara plays it. Witherspoon also shows off a flair for slapstick. In a scene where she is accidentally doused (that’s “doused,” not “dosed”) with a huge amount of cocaine, she goes so bonkers, she delivers about three pages of dialogue in less than a minute. Yes, more funny stuff.

But before long, repetition sets in.

The script gives us two women whose lives are in danger but just don’t like each other. They get over it and become close, then don’t like each other all over again, and again, and again.

A running gag of Daniella lugging around a heavy suitcase gets tiring, and the payoff isn’t worth it.

Yet there are moments when you think that the film might finally take shape and fly. A sequence in which Cooper starts speaking Spanish, and the women have a “conversation,” is really well done, as is a point where, after their situation has lightened, everything gets serious. It’s only a brief interlude from the silliness, but then, much too soon after that turn, another serious turn is added. It’s a structural mistake in the script, one that comes so late, it doesn’t allow the film to recover from it. The happy ending is one that isn’t earned, and isn’t at all satisfactory. 

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Jack Black plays the head of his 20th high school reunion planning committee who’s having trouble getting his former classmates to RSVP for the party. When he spots one of those classmates in a TV commercial, he heads to L.A. to try to convince the cool guy (James Marsden) to come to the reunion, hoping others will follow his lead. Unfortunately, the cool guy turns out to be hilariously unpredictable. (MB) Rated R

DIOR AND I

This documentary chronicles the 2012 arrival of new artistic director Raf Simons at the Parisian House of Dior and the mere eight weeks he had to produce his first collection for an audience of fashionistas and their perfectly manicured talons. At Magic Lantern.

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HOT PURSUIT

Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are the odd couple on the run from both the law and from murderous thugs in this sporadically funny comedy about a geeky but ambitious cop (Witherspoon) who’s trying to

protect the brassy wife (Vergara) of a drug cartel member who’s testifying against his gang. The script keeps jumping back and forth between silly and serious, just as the two lead characters keep switching from liking to hating each other. The actresses try their best, but a bad script does them, and the film, in. (ES) Rated PG-13

MR. TURNER

This biopic dives into the life of eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner, a man known for his eccentricities as much as his genius with a brush. Directed

by Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies), brings the 19th century visionary to the forefront, reminding of the influence the painter had on modern art. (MB) Rated R

THE SALT OF THE EARTH

Nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar, this film tells the story of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has captured some of the most iconic images of his time. The film tells of his globetrotting adventures to photograph some of the world’s most downtrodden people in the hopes of exposing their plight. (MB) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING THE AGE OF ADELINE

Blake Lively finally takes a turn in a leading role as a young woman hurt in an accident and, upon recovering, realizes she is no longer subject to the aging process. She remains in perfect shape throughout the decades until she meets a super-hot dude for whom she might risk her immortality. Also starring Harrison Ford and Ellen Burnstyn. (MB) Rated PG-13

THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has made an AI creation that he calls Ultron with some nifty powers from the defeated Loki (from the last movie).

Ultron (the voice of James Spader) has some of Tony’s attitudes, but a glitch in its “birth” makes it go a bit cyberinsane, and it extrapolates Tony’s notion of world peace to mean “a planet without humans.” Oh, and the Hulk has gone bonkers, so the Avengers also have that mess to clean up. (MJ) Rated PG-13

CINDERELLA

Director Kenneth Branagh’s version of the Disney animated classic goes heavy on the back story, introducing the beloved mother (Hayley Atwell) of young Ella (Lily James) before mom’s untimely passing and Ella’s merchant father (Ben Chaplin) remarrying, ultimately leaving poor Ella with a stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and two stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera) who treat her poorly as Cinderella step-family characters are wont to do. (SR) Rated PG

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

Kristen Stewart breaks out of the Twilight shadows in what might be her most intriguing role to date alongside the always brilliant Juliette Binoche in this sleeper hit. Binoche is an esteemed actress, with Stewart as her assistant, who takes a role in a play that has her opposite of a young talent (Chloe Grace Moretz). But when the play’s material hits too close to home, Binoche’s character begins to crumble.

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The tagline of the latest installment of this series is: “Vengeance hits home.”

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Will Ferrell plays James, a wealthy, spoiled, selfish fellow who lives in a huge home with a beautiful fiancée but soon finds himself arrested for fraud and facing jail time. To toughen up, he hires the only black guy he knows, a square played by Kevin Hart, to show him how to “get hard” for prison. It’s not Ferrell’s (or Hart’s, for that matter) best work. (ES) Rated R

HOME

Oh is an alien who finds himself very out of place on Earth when he’s banished by his race of aliens, bent on making the planet their own by capturing all humans. Soon, he meets Tip (voiced by Rihanna) and the pair try to elude the aliens. (MB) Rated PG

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In the second film of the Divergent series, Shailene Woodley returns as Tris Prior, a young woman living in a dystopian future in which people are segregated into a social caste system by personality. As part of the Divergent class, Tris finds her group heading for annihilation at the hands of the nefarious leader of the Erudite class played

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LITTLE BOY

Eight-year-old Jakob thinks his dad is a super hero, but when that dad is sent to fight in World War II, he finds his world shattered and will do anything to bring his father home. After a magic show, he soon learns that if he believes in something, he can make it happen.

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a cowboy who falls in love with a city girl (the awesome Britt Robertson) but then gets kicked off a bull and severely injured. Everyone wants him to quit, but he just can’t, because he just can’t.

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Disneynature’s newest documentary surrounds the life of a newborn monkey and his mother in their journey to survive in the South Asian jungles. As is its way, Disney produces an experience that is both visually enthralling and pleasantly educational. Watch as the monkey duo faces the competition of social hierarchy and everyday dangers of the Sri Lankan jungle. (CB) Rated G

PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2

Paul Blart (Kevin James) has been a mall security master for six years now and it is finally time for a vacation.

When he takes his daughter on a trip before sending her off to college, Blart discovers that safety never sleeps and he must protect the hotel from imminent danger. (CB) Rated PG

SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION

Seymour Bernstein had been a brilliant and highly praised concert pianist, but had given up performing at the age of 50 due to stage fright and his dislike of artistic commercialism, and took up teaching full-time — the better to spread his ideas about music and life.

When beloved actor/novelist/screenwriter Ethan Hawke struck up a friendship with Bernstein, this documentary (directed by Hawke) was born. (MB) Rated PG

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Ben and Saoirse are left motherless, and as such, big brother Ben is tasked with babysitting his mute, 6-yearold sister while their father, Conor, shrouds his grief in his work manning the family’s lighthouse. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Song of the Sea follows the children as they try to get back to their father. At Magic Lantern (CS) Rated PG

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Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a New York Times writer recently fired by the pa-

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But prior to his capture in Mexico and for reasons unknown, Longo had used the alias of Michael Finkel while he was a fugitive. Now, Finkel wants to get the real story in a series of prison interviews. (MB) Rated R

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Russell Crowe directs and stars in this epic-sized historical drama about an Australian farmer with a gift for finding water in arid lands who travels to Gallipoli, a Turkish peninsula, to search for his three sons killed there during World War I. Along the way, he discovers a bond with his country’s former enemies, a potential new love interest in a Turkish innkeeper — and clues that not all of his children are dead after all.

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

Jemaine Clement, best known as half of Flight of the Conchords, co-wrote and co-directed this hilarious mockumentary about a group of vampires living in a mansion together. It’s like The Real World for the undead. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

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Ben Stiller plays Josh, a serious New York documentarian who, along with his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts), are the proverbial last couple to not have kids. When a 20-something aspiring documentarian named Jamie (Adam Driver) and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried) come into their lives, both couples learn a whole lot about the lives ahead of them. (SS) Rated R

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History gives Woman in Gold all the drama required of a top-notch thriller in this true story of a woman trying to reclaim the humanity torn from her family by the Nazis. Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew forced to flee during World War II, who is navigating the international legal system in an effort to find her family’s possessions that were stolen by Hitler’s regime. (DN) Rated PG-13 

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Here On Earth

Local existential rockers B Radicals on their new album, current events and why they’re not exactly hippies

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aturday was moving day for Bradford Little.

Sunday afternoon — after many Spokanites had finished huffing and puffing through Bloomsday — B Radicals met in the unfinished basement of Little’s mostly empty South Hill duplex for one last rehearsal.

It’s where the four-piece have assembled on a weekly basis for many of their seven years together, crafting their jam-band sound by listening hard to one another.

This week, singer/guitarist Little moves north to Sandpoint. While their practice space is changing (probably to drummer Lancer Roethle’s home just outside Spokane), the band isn’t going anywhere. After all, they’re throwing an album release party Saturday.

“We’re still not over Brad moving,” says bassist Konrad VanDeest with a smile.

“But he’s already put so much energy into this band, we believe him when he says he’ll make the drive down for weekly rehearsal,” adds David Egly (percussion and synthesizer).

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With a man on the inside in Idaho, it’s easier to expand their already devoted fan base. Here in Spokane, they’re part of a peace-loving group of musicians who often play at the Red Room Lounge or the Big Dipper.

Groups like Real Life Rockaz, Smiles Davis, the Tone Collaborative, Moksha (VanDeest is also a member) and Quarter Monkey by no means sound the same musically, but in their worldview they get each other.

Down in this basement, they mention people like Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Bob Marley as influences both musically and in life. The band speaks of feeling the vibrations, light versus dark, being ambassadors for peace and how music causes them to feel present in this world. It’s not trite for them; it’s not fake. They truly believe that music can change the world, with a sincerity that makes you want to believe too.

“There’s so much happening right now, with the Baltimore riots and unease around the country,” Egly says.

“But if you don’t f---ing love humanity, that’s messed up.

There’s just so much to love.”

B Radicals wouldn’t call themselves hippies, exactly — especially not in a the stereotypical sense. Yet three of them sport long hair, and their collectible band T-shirts come in five shades of tie-dye. Just last weekend, the crew attended a barter faire party in the woods, which featured banging on drums and dancing around a campfire into the early morning. And since 2009, they’ve never missed an Earth Day celebration at Riverfront Park. This year was especially memorable, as the band ended up playing their set during a nearby protest against Avista energy.

“We’ve been described as Tool for hippies,” VanDeest explains. “And I’m by no means offended by that.”

In preparation for the release of their debut album Free Your Imagination: A Sonifesto (a made-up term meaning trying to reach things you can’t express), recorded with excellent clarity at Amplified Wax last Memorial Day weekend, the quartet coined the term “existential experimental rock/psychedelic/funk” to try to explain their sound. But that doesn’t do them justice.

A B Radicals song —with titles like “Chunky Smooth” and “Go Go Gadget Funk” — is like an extensive sonic ride through the musical universe. It’ll start out harmonious and crunchy, blur into a slow groove, then pick back up into a bluesy beat that makes you want to move.

“It’s like busting a dam; we’re trying to open up

FROM LEFT: Lancer Roethle, Bradford Litte, Konrad VanDeest and David Egly.

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every possibility,” Roethle explains.

Although those jam-band sensibilities are there, the songs are quite structured. There are certain spots reserved for improvisation, but as Egly says, they’re not just making things up on stage.

Over the years, the band has stayed at four members but grown in instrumentation, filling in gaps where other musicians could have been added. Roethle’s drum kit is especially a sight to behold — not quite Neil Peart level, but the array of cymbals is impressive. They keep pushing themselves to write better and more unexpectedly, and currently have enough songs to fill two more albums. As the music has matured, so has the band, with marriages, babies and real jobs.

Their upcoming show is a celebration of all of that and, as always, will be one big party. They’re inviting their friends to join them on stage. Hula-hoopers, burlesque dancers, performance artists and optimistic music will fill the Big Dipper with the affirmation of life.

“We want people to leave from hearing all of that crazy, positive energy on our stage and go home and paint or dance or climb a mountain,” Little says.  lauraj@inlander.com B Radicals album release show feat. Real Life Rockaz, Smiles Davis, Andy Rumsey and performance artists • Sat, May 9, at 7 pm • $8 admission/$10 album • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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.O.A. is “toward the tail end” of finishing its new studio album, Hard Rain Falling, says the band’s founder and frontman, Joe “Shithead” Keithley.

At the same time, Keithley is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the album.

Donors get the record plus extra goodies like stickers, autographed drum skins — even lawn signs from Keithley’s past political campaigns. As of Tuesday, they’ve exceeded their $3,947 goal.

“I had enough faith in D.O.A.’s fans to think that we would raise enough money that we could start recording,” Keithley says in his typical plainspoken style. “And so far, so good.”

Such is the power of a devoted fan base, one that has been building for nearly four decades.

Keithley started the now legendary D.O.A. in the late 1970s in Vancouver, B.C., and by the time the band DRINKSPOTTER released its Visit Inlander.com/drinkspotter to Hardcore ’81 find the happy hour nearest you. album, it had become one of the architects of the burgeoning hardcore punk scene, alongside Black Flag, the Germs and Bad Brains, among others.

Since those early days, D.O.A. has taken long breaks and gone through a number of lineup changes, all the while playing punk rock that’s loud, fast and uncompromisingly political, with a hard lean to the left. This is a band, after all, whose unofficial slogan is: “Talk - Action = 0.”

For Keithley, however, the Kickstarter campaign is not solely a financing method.

He also sees parallels to the way punk used to operate. He likens D.O.A.’s army of donors to the tight network of bands that toured back in the 1980s: how they communicated and looked out for each other, steering others toward honest promoters and away from shady types. And he compares crowdfunding to starting his own label, Sudden Death Records, to put out D.O.A. albums when no one else would.

“When I was a teenager, we thought having a rock band (meant) you had to have a lot of money to have really good gear, and get noticed by a record company,” Keithley says. “And where we were in Vancouver was the total boondocks; no record company was interested in … a loud, noisy punk band from Nowheresville.”

Keithley’s record label model is “peopledriven as opposed to company-driven,” he says, which fits snugly with the do-it-yourself ethic of punk rock. It’s that ethic that is punk’s greatest legacy, he says.

“Although obviously punk’s been co-opted a number of times, and resold and repackaged, and people have come up with endless, mediocre, terrible versions of it,” Keithley says. “But the essence of the DIY spirit and self-expression is, I think, why punk’s still around and it still has some relevance, which is a hard thing after 40 years.”  D.O.A. with Dead Ones USA, Free the Jester, the Camorra • Thu, May 14, at 8 pm • $13/$15 day of • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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his band’s new singles sound almost like something played on pop radio. That’s not a bad thing, just quite a departure from what we’ve come to expect from the indie-pop/psychedelic Portland-based trio Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Now they’re less lo-fi and more funky/electronic (listen to “Multi-Love” and “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone”). Moving and shaking is just in their nature. Their upcoming tour should include both old and new; chill and dance-inducing.

— LAURA JOHNSON Unknown Mortal Orchestra with Nurses • Sun, May 10, at 8 pm • $12/$15 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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pace, time, Southern social norms, politics, death and art combine in the Bright Light Social Hour’s music to form what could be described as this generation’s Lone Star rock. Started as an artrock experiment at a small Texas college, the band moved to Austin to pursue a career in music. Since then, they’ve won six SXSW Austin Music Awards and released the 2013 single “Wendy Davis” (the Texas state senator whose pro-choice filibuster went viral and who ran for governor last year). Their latest work, Space Is Still the Place, the band’s first album in nearly five years, more than proves the old adage that anything worth doing is worth doing right. It’s wild, fuzzy, loud, trippy and a soulful delight.

— LAURA JOHNSON The Bright Light Social Hour with Talk in Tongues • Sat, May 9, at 8 pm • $10/$12 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

Ryan Larsen Band CurLey’S, Chris Rieser and Snap the Nerve J Di LunA’S CAfe (208-263-0846), Josh Harty Concert eiCHArDT’S, Bright Moments feDorA puB & griLLe, Robby French fizzie MuLLigAnS, Uppercut HAnDLeBArS, Raised in a Barn iron goAT BreWing Co. (4740722), Wyatt Wood iron HorSe BAr, Aftermath JACkSon STreeT BAr & griLL (3158497), The Usual Suspects JoHn’S ALLey, Sol Seed J kniTTing fACTory, Wildcard album release show feat. Pops, Knothead, Overtime, Tyler Denbeigh, Daethstar J LAgunA CAfé, Nick Schauer & Danny McCollum LefTBAnk Wine BAr, Truck Mills THe MeMBerS Lounge (703-7115),

DJ Selone and DJ Eaze nASHviLLe norTH, Jeremy McComb, Luke Jaxon Band nyne, DJ C-Mad THe pALoMino CLuB, Royal Bliss, Wayland, Acidic, Elephant Gun Riot, the Broken Thumbs penD D’oreiLLe Winery, One Street Over J pinnACLe norTHWeST, Solstafir, Ancient VVisdom, Tsuga THe riDLer piAno BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THe roADHouSe, Robbie Walden Band THe viking BAr & griLL, Fusbol zoLA, Karma’s Circle

Saturday, 05/09

BArLoWS AT LiBerTy LAke (9241446), Jan Harrison J THe BArTLeTT, The Bright Light

Social Hour (See story above), Talk in Tongues BeverLy’S, Robert Vaughn J THe Big Dipper, B Radicals CD release show (See story on page 50) feat. Real Life Rockaz, Smiles Davis, Andy Rumsey and more BigfooT puB, Bobby Bremer Band BLACk DiAMonD, DJ Posa BooMerS CLASSiC roCk BAr & griLL, Mojo Box BoWL’z BiTez & SpiriTz (noW CrAve), Likes Girls BuCkHorn inn, Six-Strings n’ Pearls THe CeLLAr, Cable Creek J CHApS, Just Plain Darin with Tyler Coulston Coeur D’ALene CASino, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia, The Ryan Larsen Band CurLey’S, Chris Rieser and Snap the Nerve fizzie MuLLigAnS, Uppercut

HAnDLeBArS, Raised in a Barn iron goAT BreWing Co., Don & Thomas Thomsen iron HorSe BAr, Aftermath JoHn’S ALLey, Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets THe LAriAT inn, Widow’s Creek LefTBAnk Wine BAr, Rachel and Nick Linnie’S THAi CuiSine (835-5800), Karaoke and Dancing with DJ Dave nASHviLLe norTH, Jeremy McComb, Luke Jaxon Band nyne, DJ C-Mad THe pALoMino CLuB, Luke Wade, Wyatt Wood , Truck Mills J pinnACLe norTHWeST, DJ K-Phi THe riDLer piAno BAr, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THe SHop, Starlight Motel SWAxx, Antiserum

THE ROADHOUSE, Robbie Walden Band THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Thunderhound, Seven Cycles, Hostile Approach ZOLA, Karma’s Circle

Sunday, 05/10

J THE BARTLETT, Unknown Mortal Orchestra COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Ron Greene, Kosh CRUISERS (624-1495), Kicho DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE FLAME, Open mic with SixStrings n’ Pearls ZOLA, Soulful Max Trio

Monday, 05/11

J THE BARTLETT, Mimicking Birds, Chris Staples J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills UNDERGROUND 15, Open Mic ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

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315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, The Rub J THE BARTLETT, David Bazan CHECKERBOARD BAR, Todd Selau FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JOHN’S ALLEY, Lorin Walker Madson JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness KELLY’S IRISH PUB (208-667-1717), Arvid Lundin & Deep Roots THE LARIAT INN, Robert Moss J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Maid Myriad, The Fine Constant RED ROOM LOUNGE, Unplugged with Jimmy Nudge THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Steve Ridler and Chuck Swanson SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, Kyle Fletcher and the Buckthorn Brothers

Wednesday, 05/13

THE BIG DIPPER, Through the Roots, Stranger, Dimestore Prophet, Evergreen THE BOAT LAUNCH RESTAURANT & LOUNGE (447-2035), Scotia Road J CHAPS, Land of Voices with Dirk Swartz CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN (208-292-4813), Kyle Swafford EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard GARLAND AVENUE DRINKERY (3155327), Open Mic with DJ Scratch n Smith GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES (368-9087), Open Mic with T & T JOHN’S ALLEY, Will West & The Friendly Strangers

LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell LEFTBANK WINE BAR, The Lamb Band LITZ’S BAR & GRILL (327-7092), Nick Grow LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 MELONE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Robby French J PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Forevermore RED ROOM LOUNGE, Next 2 the Tracks SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Kosh SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic THE ROADHOUSE, Blues Wednesday ZOLA, The Bossame

Coming Up ...

J THE BIG DIPPER, D.O.A. (See story on page , May 14 CHECKERBOARD BAR, Morning Bear and Grayson Erhard, May 14 KNITTING FACTORY, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, the Interrupters, May 14 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Fallow, Magpies, Wandering I, the Feutch, Happen the Whale, May 14 JOHN’S ALLEY, Harold’s IGA, May 14 THE BIG DIPPER, One Bad Son, Tap Weilding Hethens, Heart Avail, Quarter Monkey, Jar in the Yard, May 15, THE BARTLETT, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, We Are Hex, May 15 JONES RADIATOR, Why Did Johnny Kill, Itchy Kitty, May 15 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Today is the Day, Lazer Wulf, Diazepam, Rasputin, May 15 THE BIG DIPPER, Soul Proprietor, May 16 BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA, Chrome Cobra, May 16 THE BARTLETT, The Lowest Pair, Dry and Dusty, May 16 UNDERGROUND 15, Von Grimorog, May 16 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, Blood, Sweat & Tears feat. Bo Bice, May 17 PINNACLE NORTHWEST, Slick Rick the Ruler, Raw B, Jaeda, Lilac Linquistics, Tyrell & Moe Davis, May 18 THE BARTLETT, The English Beat, May 18 KNITTING FACTORY, Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromantix, May 20 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell, COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Salt-NPepa, May 21 JONES RADIATOR, Star Anna, Emma Pie, May 21 THE BIG DIPPER, The Young Evils, the Camarros, May 21 CHATEAU RIVE, Bakin’ Phat, The Doghouse Boyz, May 22 INB PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Lindsey Stirling [Moved locations], May 22 UNDERGROUND 15, The 3H Band, Flannel Math Animal, Andy Rumsey, May 23 THE BIG DIPPER, Ava Luna, Cathedral pearls, May 25 KNITTING FACTORY, Spoon, May 25

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEVERLY’S • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 THE BLIND BUCK • 204 N. Division • 290-6229 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BOWL’Z BITEZ & SPIRITZ• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 5359309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent Ave.• 924-3720 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRV’S BAR • 415 W. Sprague Ave. • 624-4450 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LATAH BISTRO • 4241 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 838-8338 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP • 121 E. Fifth St. • 208882-8537 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO CLUB • 6425 N. Lidgerwood St • 443-5213 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 PINNACLE NORTHWEST • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 THE ROCK BAR • 13921 E. Trent Ave. • 43-3796 ROCKER ROOM • 216 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave. • 208-676-2582 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 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 SPLASH • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 UNDERGROUND 15 • 15 S. Howard St. • 290-2122 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 WEBSTER’S • 1914 N. Monroe St. • 474-9040 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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MUSIC ACCORDION, ORGAN & ZAPPA

The final Spokane Symphony classical concert of the season kicks off with a bang — Frank Zappa’s Dupree’s Paradise. Composed in 1983, the legendary songwriter’s jazz/rock flavors are sure to ignite the Fox Theater stage. The concert also includes a sultry and virtuosic tango-infused accordion concerto performed by Spokane-based accordionist Patricia Bartell, and concludes with a Saint-Saens symphony featuring the pipe organ. Certainly a variation from the usual classical program.

— LAURA JOHNSON Spokane Symphony Classics No. 10 • Sat, May 9, at 8 pm; Sun, May 10, at 3 pm • $15-$54 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

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WORDS A MEDIA LEGEND

THEATER EASY SELL

Spokane Public Radio presents Cokie Roberts • Thu, May 14, at 7:30 pm • $42 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • spokanepublicradio.org • 328-5729

Glengarry Glen Ross • May 8-24; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $10 • Stage Left Theater • 108 W. Third • spokanestageleft.org • 838-9727

Spokane Public Radio hosts renowned journalist, NPR commentator and author Cokie Roberts as a part of its 35th anniversary celebration. Roberts will share her ideas on a number of political topics, including musings on public radio and her constant research into the ever-changing role of women throughout American history. Her most recent book, Capital Dames, delves into the realities of women in D.C. during the Civil War and the responsibilities they took on.

— KAITLYN ANSON

David Mamet has a long history of penning memorable dialogue for his plays and films, and one could certainly argue that his script for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross is Mamet at the height of his poetically profane powers. It’s easy to see why actors flock to be part of the ensemble of the real-estate office that sets the scene, where the cast of agents will do anything to sell undesirable properties. Many remember the 1992 film adaptation for its star-studded cast, but Mamet’s script is the real reason to see it.

— DAN NAILEN

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Sure, you can lose hours clicking and dragging around, exploring the satellite topography of Google Earth, or even Google Street View, but the breathtaking, large-format images in the Smithsonian touring exhibit “Earth From Space” can’t be lumped into the same category. Touring since it left the National Air and Space Museum in 2006, the exhibit features 41 huge banners of satellite images of our world captured over the past 30 years. Learn more about our glorious green planet with the exhibit’s interactive, 3-D “fly-along” with a NASA satellite, and see video captured by the Mars rover Curiosity.

“Earth From Space” opens this weekend, but remains in town through Aug. 1.

— CHEY SCOTT Earth From Space • May 8-Aug. 1; open Wed-Sat, from 11 am-4 pm • $4-$6 • Spokane Valley Heritage Museum • 12114 E. Sprague • valleyheritagecenter.org • 922-4570

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The lilacs are blooming, the days are growing longer and local farmers markets are dusting off their sandwich boards for another season. It’s time to usher in the summer. The newest market to the local scene is the first-year Kendall Yards Night Market, and the name itself implies nearly all you need to know. Most of us are fully aware that this north riverbank neighborhood has blossomed, and folks from all over are invited to enjoy its assets during the weekly, warm-season market. Beyond locally grown produce — from growers like the West Central neighborhood’s Project Hope garden — the night market also hosts live music and tasty food trucks.

— CHEY SCOTT Kendall Yards Night Market • Starts Wed, May 13, from 4-8 pm; runs weekly through mid-October • Summit Parkway and Cedar Street • kendallnightmarket.org

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I SAW YOU Chilawack6pak "You are the rodeo bronc rider. I asked if you were the clown or bull rider. Okay? I could be anyone. How do I stand out from the rest, hmmm... you emailed me and I didn’t reply. You replied but I was no longer there. You have a very “”western”” name. Normally I would just let this go as not meant to be, but I have to try one more time since a nagging little voice won’t leave me alone until I do. I don’t want to sign up again, but would love to know if I really caught your interest. Does any of this sound familiar? If so, please respond and tell me your first name and mine to sweetecho1@outlook.com."

us. Hit me up if you’re interested. isawuinspokane369@gmail.com

CHEERS Guys and Dolls Cheers to Brad and Kim who generously invited us — a pair of complete strangers! — to join them in the front row for the Best of Broadway performance of Guys and Dolls on 4/26.

We really enjoyed the show and getting to chat with the two of you. Thanks again! We'll be sure to pass along the kindness.

Mexican guy at the guitar store Thanks for sharing those licks. When you came in I was playing a guitar tuned to an open "D". Any string on the third fret fits

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to help out our community, just do it. When we all become a society of "service to others", then we will build a new garden of Eden. Cheers to the volunteers!

Glad intelligent bicycists spoke up Thanks, whomever you are. Also to "Iron Man Racers" in the Jeers Column.

If cycling is to be able to convince taxpayers to help out with cycling lanes and events, the jerks need to be removed from the pool.

JEERS Real Facts RE: Studs RE: Those who speak against studs. Amazing indeed your rant starts off criticizing

about driving in those very adverse conditions, it was 30% the vehicle, 70% the person behind the wheel. In other words, a driver’s experience and skills will trump a vehicle’s setup including tires any day of the week, one more fact! As usual with cries for studded tires, the minorities of those who demand on keeping studded tires have very self centered reasons, and spout reasons they wish were facts, but in reality seem to have little idea of what a fact truly is. It’s also very self centered to expect the majority of tax payers to keep throwing massive amounts of money to fix roads chewed up from these over-sized grinding wheels so you and/or others can live in hard to get to locations, so their children can get to

“A huge and heartfelt thank-you to every Bloomsday volunteer. You all make it such a fun and beautiful event.”

into a nice blues improvisation. I hope to see you again for another lesson. I am practicing those two string scales you showed me up and down the neck.

Gemini Princess Out of all the women, you sought me out. I’m still not sure why but I’m glad you did. Our conversations leave me anxious for the next one and ready to peel away more layers. We both believe people’s paths cross for a reason. I’d like to think ours isn’t just crossing but instead forging a new secret and unknown one. Is this princess more than you can handle or do you like the challenge?

To A Very Kind Couple There really are super nice people out there and how do I know? Friday May 1st I was at the Subway on east Broadway by Walmart and I had a fun conversation with this cheerful young man in front of me and as he and his lady were leaving and I went to pay for my sandwich the employee said that man paid for it.I got to thank him as they went out the door.

Young man you are so very nice and well mannered plus fun.You make your parents proud.And this little lady thanks you for the sandwich plus making my day.Smile it warms the heart :)

Bad Timing You: Jamie, the beautiful brunette with 4 kids, 8, 6, 5 and 5.

Me: the motorcycle rider doodling on his paper. We sat at the same table in a parenting seminar. We made eye contact a few times. I would’ve asked for your number but it was a little awkward with my ex sitting between

Bloomsday volunteers rock! A huge and heartfelt thank-you to every Bloomsday volunteer. You all make it such a fun and beautiful event. I hope your commitment to help will inspire more of us to do what we can to help others where ever and whenever we can. Whatever it is that inspires you

anonymous posts, with an anonymous post. Then you go on and on spouting about supposed made up facts with your own made up facts. First let’s debunk the ‘blame it on semi’s’ rant.

The one distinguishable fact that separates the drive trains of semis from auto is dual tires. The ruts in our roads are single width and that is a fact! Advances in the materials our roads are constructed with have been just that; advances. I worked in street/ road construction, and the materials are much better than ever before, and that too is a fact! Finally, where you choose to live is a personal choice and part of that should require knowledge of conditions that make access difficult and how to manage access in those conditions. The world got along quite well without studs, they weren’t even around when I started driving and currently I drive a 2003 Sable with all season radials and get around just fine, that’s a fact! I also own a 73 CJ-5 since 1978, have 38” tall tires on it and used to 4-wheel in the mountains quite often. We always agreed on one thing

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school, or whatever else but mostly because they refuse to refine their adverse weather driving skills. My name is Tom Peacock, so if they print that there goes another of your anonymous rants, and that’s a fact!

Re: 8th St. Speed Racers I knew one day I would be mentioned in a jeer.

So, here is one back to you. Maybe if you didn't stand out on your porch and yell at people as they drive by to "Slow down F-ing B" then you wouldn't have a problem. Kindness goes a long way FYI. Because that is what I remember driving down the road, I speed by your house on purpose just to kick up dust!

Next time be nicer to people and they wont feel the need to be rude back!

You shouldn't let your kids play in the streets that is what a yard is for and on top of that why don't you pay (like the rest of the people who have dirt roads) to get it oil? cost about $110/person on your street! Take it upon yourself if you are so worried about breathing in dust and stop relying on the state to pay for everything!

Someday There will come a day that you will realize what Love is and how to accept it. Someday, you will see "The one" is still out there. Someday, you will regret how you handled the situation.

Someday, you will be kicking yourself with the torture of knowing how much you were Loved and Adored. Someday, Love will find your way again. Someday, I will have to let you go. Someday may never come around Varekai Jeers to the man siting in front of my husband and I on the 29th during the performance of Varekai. During intermission my husband apologized for his knees being in the way due to his large height (they were on either side of your seat); We understood that you wanted to put your arms further back on the armrest but couldn't due to knees, you kept looking back at him during the first half like it he was doing it on purpose, when this was not the case.

All you could say back to him was "you should have moved". We were planning on moving down since there were seats next to us that were not being occupied but not until intermission since my husband is a disabled vet and one fall could or trip could undo his surgery and nothing more could be done for him; thus we needed the lights to be on so he could watch his footing. Next time please be more courteous in asking someone to move. Although you can not see my husband's disabilities they are there as there are for many others.

RE: Hooyah for Breeders How nice it was to read your sarcastic opinion about those of us who had decided to have children. After finishing your message, I could not help but think how sad it was for the rest of us all that your parents did not share your derisive attitude toward breeding. They would have been doing the world a favor. 

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COMEDY MICHAEL GLATZMAIER: MOSTLY IMPROVISED Phillip Kopcyznski, Casey Strain and Nick Theisen open for Glatzmaier’s one-man musical comedy show, which is being recorded and is set to be the comedian’s last show in Spokane. May 7, 7:30-9 pm. $15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. on.fb.me/1CqOVMt (227-7404) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-andcoming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. (838-6688) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) TIM ALLEN Live comedy show featuring the Golden Globe- winning actor, writer and comedian. May 9, 7:30 pm. $65$95. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com STAND UP / SHOW DOWN Live comedy, Mondays at 8 pm. Free.

Sapphire Lounge, 901 W. First Ave. facebook.com/spokanecomedyfan OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe St. (835-4177) GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234)

COMMUNITY BIKE TO WORK SPOKANE The annual cycling awareness/promotion campaign features events through May 22; see schedule of related activities at spokanebikes.org SWING DANCE LESSONS Strictly Swing Spokane offers a progressive

benefit the private school; tickets available at the door. May 15, 3-6:30 pm. Free. St. Mary’s Catholic School, 14601 E. Fourth. stmarysspokane.org MONTHLY SWING DANCE A monthly dance for all swing dance styles, including Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast, West Coast, Balboa, or Country Swing. Open to all ages. Includes a lesson from 7-8 pm, and dancing until 11 pm. Third Fri. of the month, 7-11 pm, through July 17. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (944-5071) KIDICAL MASS BIKE RIDE Kids and their families are invited to join a fun, safe bike ride of about 3 miles, cycling on anything that rolls: bikes, trailers, Xtracycles, bakfiets, tandems, folding bikes and trikes all are welcome. May 16, 1 pm. Free. Chief Garry Park, 2701 E. Sinto Ave. summerparkways.com

Come celebrate the region’s best local beer - May 11th-17th 3 0 + e ve n t s i n c l u d i n g b r e w e r y c o l l a b o r a t i o n s , beer dinners, tap takeovers, and more.

FILM SPOKANE FILM SOCIETY The local group screens a film to get audiences thinking, with each month focusing on a new theme. Beer/wine and food for purchase during the show. Thursdays at 9 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. (327-1050) THE BEST OF SEATTLE SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL The top 10 films from the annual fest are screened, including Spokane filmmakers/artists’ Mischa Jakupcak (“The Hero Pose” and Kendra Ann Sherrill (“Seranade”). May 8, 8 pm. $10-$15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS A “modern” vampire comedy about three flatmates struggling to get through life while also dealing with the trials of being a vampire. May 8-10; show times vary. May 8-10. $6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127) PROFESSIONAL FILM ACTORS WORKSHOP Actors can learn about the film industry and receive tips on auditioning, head shots, and other ways to market themselves. May 9, 1-3 pm. Free. White Tree Productions, 2775 N. Howard, CdA. filmalliancenw.org PLANT THIS MOVIE A film exploring the zeitgeist of urban farming around the world. Hosted by the Moscow Food Coop. May 11, 7 pm. $4-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127) BACK TO THE ‘80S: TEEN WOLF Tuesdays in May are ’80s nights at the Kenworthy, as it hosts some of the decades most memorable classic films.

May 12, 7 pm. $3. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) RIFFTRAX LIFE: THE ROOM Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 offer their signature commentary during a screening of the 2003 romantic drama. May 6 and May 12, at Regal Cinemas NorthTown and Riverstone (CdA). fathomevents.com SFCC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 10th annual SFCC International Film Festival brings films from France, Spain, Hong Kong, Cuba and Italy to Spokane.

Tuesdays at 7:15 pm, through May 26. $5/public; free/SFCC students. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (533-3472) BACKSTREET BOYS: SHOW ‘EM WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF A behind-thescenes look into the lives and careers of Nick, AJ, Kevin, Howie and Brian of the 90s boy band. May 13. At Regal Cinemas Northtown and Riverstone (CdA). fathomevents.com

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May 9, 6-9 pm. $20. St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church, 505 W. St. Thomas Moore Way. (994-8639) BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE Annual country dance, dinner, raffle/auction featuring the Kelly Hughes Band, in the historic Harrison Gym. Ages 21+. May 9, 3:30-10 pm. $35/person; $60/two.

Harrison, Idaho. (208-689-9789) WALK N ROLL FOR MS Locally organized walk/run to raise funds and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis.

Includes a 1K and 5K walk/run along the Centennial Trail. May 9, 9 am. $10-$15.

Mirabeau Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy. walknroll5k.com (922-3299) MOPS ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE Offering gently used clothes, shoes, toys, appliances, furniture, books, jewelry, household goods and more.

Proceeds benefit the nonprofit MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). May 15, 9:30 am-3 pm. First Presbyterian, 318 S. Cedar St. spokanefpc.org (777-1555) RUMMAGE SALE FUNDRAISER The annual neighborhood sale benefits community outreach programs and offers estate-quality items. May 15-16; 8 am-4 pm. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 5720 S. Perry St. (448-2255)

six-week Lindy Hop swing dance series for all ages. Meets Thursdays, May 7-June 11, 7-8 pm. $25. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com (838-5667) 2015 BOWL FOR KIDS’ SAKE Start a team by registering and recruiting members, who are each asked to raise/ donate $100 to Big Brothers Big Sisters, and then celebrate at a party with free bowling, pizza, soda, prizes and more.

May 8 from 3-5 and 6-8 pm; May 9 from 6-8 and 9-11 pm. Lilac Lanes, 1112 E. Magnesium Rd. nwbfks.kintera.org/ Spokane (509-328-8310) EARTH FROM SPACE A Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit of images captured by high-tech satellites constantly circling the globe. Also includes an interactive fly-along with NASA satellites in 3D, video from the Mars Rover Curiosity and images from the Hubble Telescope.

May 8-Aug. 1; open Wed-Sat 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6. Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague Ave. valleyheritagecenter.org (922-4570) SANDPOINT CONTRA DANCE Monthly community dance, with live music by Out of the Woods, with Nora Scott calling. May 8, 7-10 pm. $5. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. cityofsandpoint.com (208-263-3317) SHRINERS MOTHER & SON DANCE The El Katif Shriners host a dance for moms and their sons, with a live DJ playing hits all ages can enjoy. Proceeds benefit the work of the El Katif Shriners. May 8, 7-10 pm. $20/pair. Shriners Event Center, 7217 W. Westbow Blvd. elkatif. org (624-2762) A JAPANESE STORY Join students from Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute for a Japanese story and session to make bookmarks and ornamental origami that’s suitable for a Mother’s Day gift.

May 9, 3 pm. Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley St. (444-5390) 5TH ANNUAL FAMILY FUN FAIR Offering information on local parenting resources, support groups, summer camps; photo ops with local mascots; kids activities, a petting zoo, live entertainment, pet adoptions and more.

May 9, 9:30 am-3 pm. Free. Riverfront Park. nwfamilyfun@yahoo.com MINDS IN MOTION WALK The Inventors Association of Idaho invites all aspiring inventors to a slow-paced, informal opportunity to walk, talk and pick the brains of the area’s inventors and invention development professionals.

May 9, 10:30 am. Free.

MOTHER’S DAY HISTORIC HOMES TOUR The 26th Annual Mother’s Day Weekend Tour of Historic Homes features six homes on Manito Blvd.

All proceeds benefit the MAC. This year, take a horse and carriage ride while learning about the history of the neighborhood. May 9, 12-4 pm and May 10, 12-4 pm. $15-$20. northwestmuseum.org (456-3931) NORTH IDAHO VETERANS STAND DOWN Annual event to provide services to homeless and disadvantaged veterans in the five northern counties of Idaho. Offering resources on medical, dental, housing, clothing, food assistance, haircuts, bike repair and more. May 9, 8 am-2 pm. Free.

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I read your manners book and loved it. I just feel that for most men, chivalry is dead. Maybe feminism killed it, and maybe men have just gotten lazy. Well, I was staying over at a (platonic) male friend’s house, keeping him company because he’s sick with cancer. Despite that, I woke up to him serving me breakfast in bed! Is it really so much to ask for a guy I’m actually sleeping with to at least hold the door open for me? I mean, come on!

—Disappointed Woman

Especially if you’re under 30, expecting a man to open a door for you can be a bit like expecting him to remove his cape and lay it across a puddle or challenge your neighbor to a duel for blocking your driveway with his trash cans.

What we still call “chivalry” got its formal start in medieval times. It was a knightly code entailing, among other things, courage, honor, and the defense of those more physically delicate — as in, women and children (who were not exactly grabbing battle-axes, donning blue face paint, and going all Mel Gibson on the fields of Scotland).

But chivalry actually traces back through millions of years of evolution. As developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson writes in “Warriors and Worriers,” an excellent new book on evolved sex differences, “Throughout most of human history, men and women have specialized in different behaviors necessary to ensure the survival of their children to adulthood.” Men evolved to be warriors, physically and psychologically prepared to do battle in a way women are not. Most men have far more muscle mass and physical strength than women and far more of the hormone of aggression, testosterone. Even very young boys show a love (not shared by girls) of play fighting, of having an “enemy” to battle, and of weaponry — to the point where Benenson finds it common for boys in preschool who lack toy guns to shoot “bullets” out of a doll’s head.

In addition to women being physically weaker, research finds that they are more fearful than men — from infancy on — and rarely engage in physical fighting. This makes sense, Benenson points out, as physical injury would jeopardize a woman’s ability to have children or to survive to protect the ones she’s already had. So women evolved to prefer men who would protect them and their children — a preference that is still with us today. (Our genes are clueless about the women’s movement and the fact that a woman can defend herself just fine by using a pink Glock with a Hello Kitty slide cover plate.)

This is why it makes sense for men today to at least symbolically show they are protectors, like by putting their coat around a shivering woman’s shoulders. (This implies that they’d tackle the valet guy or invade Cleveland for her if necessary.) The problem is that men sometimes get hollered at for door opening and such — largely as a result of the bro-ification of women that comes out of feminism’s biologysnubbing confusion of “equal” with “the same.” So, before the first date, a man should ask a woman where she stands on this stuff. And you should let men know the sort of woman you are — one who responds to a door being held for her by flipping her hair and saying thank you, not twirling her mustache and snarling, “Smash the patriarchy!”

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I have a crush on this really hot musician guy. I know he’s trouble with a capital “T.” He’s super-charming, handsome, and promiscuous. (He’s “slaying” on Tinder — juggling women and getting lots of sex.) My plan is to become friends with him first — as a prelude to becoming his girlfriend. I feel like that might give me some insurance against being one of the ones he just uses and tosses.

—Strategic What a sweet person you are, trying to show this guy that there’s more to life than Tinder-swiping his way to empty sex with a bunch of near strangers — or, as he probably refers to it, sexual Disneyland. Women, especially, have a tendency to believe in the transformative power of their fabulousness. And sure, people do change — when their life is no longer making them happy (or, in his case, thrilled, ecstatic, and out of his manhussy mind with joy). And though a man who feels emotionally attached to a woman is more likely to stick around after sex, he also has to be up for a relationship to begin with. In other words, by becoming this guy’s friend first, yes, you could become a very special person in his life — the woman he knows he can always drop in on when he can’t find his phone charger. n ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT: FINDING MR. RIGHT City girl Jiajia is traveling to Seattle to give birth to the son who’s going to help her win over her rich, married boyfriend.

Includes a pre-show introduction by the U. of Idaho’s visiting instructor from China.

May 13, 7 pm. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127)

FOOD & DRINK GLOBALLY FAMOUS REDS Taste reds from the top wine-producing regions of the world, including Bordeaux from France, Tempranillo from Spain, Sangiovese from Italy, Malbec from Argentina and more. May 8, 7 pm. $20, registration requested. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (343-2253) SPRING RELEASE WINE WEEKEND Downtown Spokane wineries offer samplings of their newest, springtime wine releases. May 8-10; daily from noon-5 pm. Prices vary. downtownspokane.net “BUT I COULD NEVER GO VEGAN!” Members of the Inland Northwest Vegans group give an overview of why people choose veganism, plant-based dairy and meat replacements and planning and local resources. May 9, 3 pm. Free. East Side Library, 524 S. Stone St. (444-5375) CUPCAKES & COCKTAILS A preMother’s Day celebration offering free cupcakes, chair massages and complimentary orange juice and champagne mimosa cocktails. At the CdA Resort Plaza Shops. May 9, 11 am-3 pm. Free. (855-508-6877) MOTHER DAUGHTER TEA The lunch

menu includes salad, rolls, sweet treats and hot/cold tea and mimosas. Prizes for best dressed; hats encouraged.

Also includes live entertainment. May 9, 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $20. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. postfallschamber.com (208-773-5016) MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND BRUNCH Commellini Estate hosts its first ever Mother’s Day weekend Brunch. May 9-10, reservations available from 10 am-2:30 pm. $32/person. Commellini Estate, 14715 N. Dartford Dr. commellini. com (466-0667) MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH Annual champagne brunch offering an all-youcan eat buffet with carving stations, made-to-order omelets, desserts and more. May 10, 9 am-2 pm. $30/adult; $10/ages 6-12. Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, 6910 S. Ben Burr Rd. ihrc.net (448-1224) SPOKANE CRAFT BEER WEEK More than 30 events throughout the inaugural, week-long celebration of the region’s growing craft beer industry include brewery collabs, beer dinners, tap takeovers, and more. May 11-17; see full schedule at spokanecraftbeerweek.com HEALTHY HOME FERMENTATION Fitness and nutrition experts Ben and Jessa Greenfield introduce attendees to the world of fermentation and how to start preserving at home. May 12, 12-1 pm. Free. Otis Orchards Library, 22324 E. Wellesley Ave. (893-8390) YOGA/PILATES + WINE Pilates/ yoga instructor Larkin Barnett leads an evening of exercise and fine wine.

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MUSIC WHITWORTH JAZZ QUARTET A Mother’s Day weekend benefit with jazz musicians from Whitworth, a silent auction, drinks and more.

Childcare offered. May 8, 7-9 pm. $20/person; $120/table of 8. New Community Church, 1003 E. Trent Ave. libertyparkkids.org (534-0957) LOVE YOUR LIBRARY CONCERT Former Library Foundation Executive Director Ruth Pratt is the featured vocalist for the third annual event. She’s joined by theBoKatz Quartet with Craig Catlett, Chuck Boris, Tom Schager and Bruce Pennell. May 9, 7:30 pm. $25.

CdA Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org (208-769-2315) MOTHER’S DAY TEA FEAT. PEPPER QUARTET Enjoy treats from Roost Bakery and entertainment by the award-winning Pepper Quartet, coming off back-to-back wins as Sweet Adelines Regional Quartet Champions. May 9, 2-4 pm. $25. Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W. Custer Dr. pepperquartet.com (953-1231) SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA The season finale concert, “Springtime in Paris,” for SJO’s 40th year features guest vocalist Heather Villa in a European jazz celebration. May 9, 7:30 pm. $24-$26. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. spokanejazz.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY Classics Series No. 10 “Spokane’s Own Patricia Bartell Plays Piazzolla” features the accordion virtuoso par excellence & President of

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Data analyzed from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health show that alcohol is more of a catalyst for trying other psychoactive substances, beating out marijuana in the addiction arms race.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration measures the prevalence of drug, alcohol and tobacco use in U.S. citizens ages 12 and older. Data has been collected since 1974, with minor reporting modifications throughout the years.

One section of the survey examines the age when users tried an intoxicant for the first time, and the next intoxicant (if any) they went on to use. Researchers use this information to support the gateway drug theory — the hypothesis that using one intoxicating substance leads to future use of another.

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Simply put, most people who use marijuana do not go on to use harder substances, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Alcohol is more commonly used. Surveys report that 88 percent of alcohol users had never tried another drug before drinking. While the number of people who stop at alcohol is slightly higher (50 percent) than the number who stop at marijuana (40 percent), a third of drinkers move on to marijuana as their next drug.

Most important, correlation does not imply causation. While 11 percent of marijuana smokers started using cocaine, that doesn’t mean that one drug led to the other, the Treatment4Addiction analysis asserts.

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THEATER THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES The award-winning Central Valley Theatre Dept. performs. May 11-13 at 7:30 pm. $8-$10. Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan Rd. (927-6848) MARY POPPINS The U-Drama program performs a new musical is based on the popular stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film. May 7-17; Thu-Sat at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 1 pm. $12. University High School, 12320 E. 32nd Ave. bit.ly/1DPQ8cq (228-5240) THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 A comedy poking fun at the ridiculous aspects of “show biz” and the corny thrillers of Hollywood. May 1-17; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. The Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org SYLVIA Romantic comedy, directed by Melody Deatherage. Through May 23; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. (325-2507) CYMBELINE Director Matt Foss leads a production of the Shakespeare work that’s accessible and contemporary.

Through May 10; Thur-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $5-$15. University of Idaho Hartung Theater, 6th & Stadium Way. (208-885-6465) BROADWAY UNBOUND Whitworth Theatre presents its annual showcase to highlight students’ work. May 8. $3.

Whitworth Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-3707) FUDDY MEERS This poignant and brutal new comedy by David-Lindsey Abaire traces one woman’s attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters. May 8-9, 15-16 at 7 pm; May 14 at 5 pm and May 17 at 2 pm. $10. EWU Cheney campus. on.fb. me/1Jvsqqy (359-2459) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS The 1984 Pulitzer-winning play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate. May 8-24; FriSat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727)

VISUAL ARTS JUST SO WONDERFUL A BFA senior exhibition, featuring the work of Krystn Parmley, Ashley Vaughn, Jessica Earle and Victoria Deleon. Runs through May 14; gallery open Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, Cheney campus. (359-2898) ALLEN & MARY DEE DODGE The Coeur d’Alene-based artist couple’s work can also be found in public art installations around the region. Opening reception May 8, 5-8 pm, and artist talk/demo May 9, at 1 pm. Show runs May 8-June 6; gallery open Tue-Sat, 11 am-6 pm.

Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com TOM WAKELEY The Entree Gallery opens for its 38th season with a show of contemporary paintings by Tom Wakeley. Opening reception May 24, from 1-3 pm. Mother’s Day Open House

is May 10, from 10 am-4 pm, with door prizes and light refreshments. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd, Priest Lake. entreegallery.com (208-443-2001) ART & SOUL BENEFIT AUCTION Freeman HS Fine Arts’ 5th annual spring art festival to highlight student art and music. Also hosts professional local artists and includes art demos, live/silent auctions, live music, food and public art participation. May 13, 5-8:30 pm. $5. Freeman High School, 14626 S. Jackson Rd. (509-291-3721)

WORDS LOCAL AUTHORS NIGHT Featuring Jim Roloff, DVM, author of “Mending God’s Creations,” Carrie Stuart Parks, author of the suspense novel “Cry From Dust,” and former policeman Michael Cover, author of “Behind the Badge.”

May 8, 6:30 pm. The Well-Read Moose, 2048 N. Main, CdA. (208-215-2265) SATURDAY SIGNING & READINGS The day’s schedule includes Donna Peterson, author of “Wise, Strong Women,” from 2-3 pm; a signing with middle grade author Joe O’Neill, of the “Red Hand Adventure Series,” at 2 pm; also a reading/signing with Chris Hoke, author of “ Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders,” at 7 pm. May 9. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) THE WORDWRIGHT’S WORKSHOP A workshop providing writing prompts and a positive atmosphere for constructive feedback. Open to poets, writers, and others of all skill levels.

May 9, 4:30-6 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. spokanepoetryslam.org LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER SPOKANE Local writers read original work on motherhood and mothering during the fifth annual event. Reception to follow at Ovations. May 10, 7 pm. $17. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) AUTHOR SAM HAMILL Hamill reads from and signs copies of his work, followed by a discussion led by EWU Creative Writing professor, Jonathan Johnson. May 13, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. losthorsepress.org BRUCE HOLBERT & JACKSON HOLBERT The elder Holbert reads from and discusses his second novel, “The Hour of Lead.” He’s joined by his son Jackson, a student at Brandeis University and fellow writer. May 14, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) SPR PRESENTS: NPR’S COKIE ROBERTS In honor of SPR’s 35th Anniversary, NPR Senior Analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts comes to Spokane to talk about current affairs and her new book. May 14, 7:30 pm. $40. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. spokanepublicradio.org

ETC. GARDEN EXPO The Inland Empire Gardeners’ annual event, featuring 250+ garden-related vendors, along with prizes, seminars, demos and more. May 9, 9 am-5 pm. Free.

Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. tieg.org (535-8434) MILLENNIAL MEETUP: RETRO GAME NIGHT A program for patrons in their 20s and 30s. May’s event uses the library’s Wii system, laptops, LEGOs, and board game collection. May 14, 7-8:30 pm. Free. CdA Library, 702 E. Front Ave. on.fb.me/1DPQ64a (208769-2315) n

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