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hings can get mighty strange in politics when elections are involved, and you can often count on Idaho to ramp up the strange to levels we haven’t necessarily seen before. Case in point? Next week’s GOP primary in which Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, a favorite of far-right extremists near and far, is facing off against incumbent Gov. Brad Little, who would be considered a pretty hardcore conservative almost anywhere in the country, but in Idaho right now is being cast by McGeachin and her fans as too liberal to represent the Gem State. Senior investigative reporter Daniel Walters hangs with “patriotic” biker gangs and hard-charging political campaigns in this week’s cover story on Idaho’s GOP CIVIL WAR (page 16).

Also this week, Samantha Wohlfeil joins Inland Northwest tribes studying how juvenile salmon headed out to sea manage to navigate dams on their way out, and how many make it back upstream (page 10), Drink Local Editor Derek Harrison gets the story on new Common Language Brewing in downtown Spokane (page 28) and Summer Sandstrom clues us in on this year’s Asian, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Day celebration (page 26).

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I have a granddaughter and through these last few days when it’s been in question, I’m afraid for my grandchild, who’s a girl. I don’t know if she’ll ever need to take advantage of that, but I would like it if it was available. Also, it’s very curious, but the men are making the choices for the women.

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Hope on the High Seas American history shows that winning a single battle or sinking an important naval vessel — like Russia’s Moskva — is not the same as ending a war

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ussia suffered its greatest humiliation yet in its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on April 14, when Ukrainian forces sank the cruiser Moskva. Though a somewhat aged man o’ war — it was launched in 1979 — the loss of flagship of the Black Sea Fleet is deeply embarrassing for the Putin regime. While Russia has been crowing about the “modernization” of its military over the past decade, the loss of an important warship to a country that doesn’t really have a navy to speak of suggests that the Russian military is an arm of the Keystone Cops, rather than a major world power. The sinking of the Moskva also provided a welcome morale boost for Ukrainians locked in a David and Goliath struggle against the Russian invader.

Two centuries ago, Americans celebrated their own surprise naval victories during the opening months of the War of 1812. Just seven

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years after Admiral Horatio Nelson’s decisive victory over the combined FrancoSpanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, the British Royal Navy was humbled in a series of defeats at the hands of the United States Navy.

The U.S. fleet was tiny in comparison with the Royal Navy. Moreover, the Americans lacked any ships of line — large battleships that could carry over 100 guns — which fought fleet actions in the Age of Sail. Instead, the United States maintained a small fleet of heavily armed frigates. More powerful than most British frigates and much faster than the wooden behemoths of the Royal Navy’s battle fleets, the United States Navy played to its strengths by picking its battles.

Although the Royal Navy was preoccupied with its long struggle against Napoleonic France when the United States declared war on Great Britain in 1812, most neutral observers expected that the most powerful navy in the world would make short work of the Americans. They were wrong. On August 19, 1812, the USS Constitution captured the HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia in an engagement that earned the American ship the nickname “Old Ironsides” for her imperviousness to British shot. Two months later, the USS United States captured the HMS Macedonia near the Azores in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and in December, the Constitution struck again to defeat the HMS Java near Cape Verde.

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merican victories at sea in 1812, however, did not end the war. And this provides a cautionary lesson for thinking about the longevity of the Ukrainian conflict. The early successes of the United States Navy in single-ship duels boosted American morale, but they did not affect British naval supremacy.

The Royal Navy established an increasingly effective blockade of the Atlantic seaboard in 1813, and in 1814 British forces launched an invasion through the Chesapeake that culminated in the burning of Washington, D.C. While it is right that Ukrainians should celebrate the sinking of the Moskva, it is important that her allies realize that such victories do not win wars on their own. Logistics win wars. Ukraine’s bravery must be matched by military and humanitarian aid from the West if it is to decisively defeat Russia over the long term.

It is difficult to see how Putin can back down from a conflict that he has invested with almost divine significance without losing face.

This conflict is far from over. The British government in 1812 found itself fighting a war that it had never wanted to fight. Even so, the conflict lasted over two years. Vladimir Putin, by contrast, chose this war. And even if he privately regrets his decision to invade Ukraine, it is difficult to see how he can back down from a conflict that he has invested with almost divine significance without losing face.

The War of 1812 ended when British politicians decided that they had had enough. Distracted by the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the political map of Europe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and faced with voters who were sick of paying wartime taxes, the British government welcomed peace in 1814.

It is hard to see the endgame for Russia in Ukraine. For Putin, Ukraine is the main theater in its imaginary fight against NATO and the West. Moreover, Russia is an autocracy, and its elections are compromised at best. Many Russian citizens fear falling foul of the authorities. And for good reason: At least 15,000 antiwar protestors have been arrested across the country. Millions more are sold an alternative reality of the Ukrainian war through a constant bombardment of government propaganda. Under a new Russian law, to tell the truth about the invasion is to risk 15 years in prison.

President Joe Biden was right when he said that Putin cannot stay in power. This brutal conflict can only end when Putin is no longer president of Russia. But for that to happen in a repressive autocracy, the Russian people are going to have to suffer far greater pain and humiliation than the sinking of the Moskva before they are ready to run the scoundrel out of the Kremlin. n Lawrence B.A. Hatter is an award-winning author and associate professor of early American history at Washington State University. These views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of WSU.

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t starts raining just as two trucks hauling juvenile salmon arrive near the end of a gravel road at Chief Joseph Dam in the Central Washington town of Bridgeport on Friday, May 6.

The trucks, driven by scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Coeur d’Alene Tribe Fisheries Program, stop with the last group of salmon from what was initially about 5,000 total summer chinook reared at a Coeur d’Alene Tribe hatchery in Plummer, Idaho.

This will mark the final release of juvenile salmon whose journeys down the Spokane and Columbia rivers are being tracked by several Inland Northwest tribes in hopes of understanding the viability of returning salmon to their once free-flowing homewaters.

With the haul of young salmon now on the road below Chief Joseph Dam (the main portion of which opened in 1955), a team of volunteers gets ready to start hauling buckets of fish down the steep hill to the water, navigating over rip-rap boulders.

Casey Baldwin, a research scientist for the Confederated Colville Tribes, is in waders and prepared to spend some time in the water. He directs the group how to line up and heads down to the water’s edge, where he’ll delicately empty each bucket into the water across the way from the dam’s powerhouse outflow.

“We’re trying to monitor their survival in these different reservoir reaches,” Baldwin explains, “and their survival as they go through the dam.”

There are stairs down to the water nearby that would be much easier to use to release the salmon, but whenever the spill isn’t running over the top of the dam, the water running through the powerhouse creates a slight back-current, Baldwin says. The team doesn’t want to risk confusing the fish with an eddy pushing them toward the dam when they should swim away from it, so roughing it to carry the buckets over the slippery rip-rap it is.

Other releases from this group of chinook have already taken place upriver along the Spokane and Columbia. This release is timed roughly to coincide with those earlier groups as they make their way through the turbines at Chief Joseph. With fish released above and below the dams, scientists will be able to tell how well the fish survive going through or over each dam compared to those that were released below each specific dam.

The work is part of the second phase of a roughly 20-year plan worked on by the Spokane, Confederated Colville, Coeur d’Alene and Kalispel tribes, along with the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, USGS, and other interested parties.

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t some stages of the journey, the fish will only have the option to go with the water through massive turbines used to generate electricity. For example, at the enormous Grand Coulee Dam, fish won’t likely see the opportunity to take spilled water onto the next stretch of river, as the structure maintains its reputation as the largest hydropower producer in the country by directing most water through its powerhouses. ...continued on next page

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To better understand the exact outmigration of the juvenile fish in this study, a fraction are tagged with expensive (we’re talking hundreds of dollars per fish) acoustic tags that enable scientists to pick up their signal from hundreds of meters away. The batteries in those tiny tags are only able to last maybe 75 days or so, Baldwin explains, but they should last most of the journey downriver.

On Friday, roughly 75 fish have the acoustic tags, which were surgically implanted the day before. The tags will regularly send out a long alphanumeric code, unique to that fish, to receivers set up along the rivers.

Those fish, along with about 900 others that don’t have acoustic tags, are also tagged with PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) tags that don’t require batteries and can be picked up when fish are within a few feet of detection equipment at dams lower down the river.

The PIT tags are very accurately monitored when adult salmon are returning and using fish ladders to climb over the dams lower in the system, Baldwin says. Some of those dams also include PIT detection equipment in bypass streams that are designed to help juvenile salmon get around dams on their way out to sea, so some of the study fish could be detected by that monitoring system as well.

“The release timing was to match the natural and the hatchery releases of chinook in the Columbia Basin,” Baldwin says. “[Acoustic tags] allow us to evaluate the fish in places like these big reservoirs around dams that don’t have juvenile bypasses and they’re not wired for PIT detection.”

The acoustic tags pinging off arrays may also

give a sense of how the fish approach each dam, whether that’s from river right or river left, or whether fish prefer going over the dam through spill (when that opportunity is available) or through powerhouses, Baldwin says.

“Every five seconds it pings saying, ‘This is who I am,’” Baldwin says. “The receiver reads that and then says, ‘OK, that fish was at this spot, on this day.’ By doing that on down through the system, we’re able to model survival and, to some degree, behavior.”

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aron Penney, supplementation biologist for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Fisheries Program, stands in the back of one of the two pickup trucks, next to a tank full of young salmon. As volunteers run full buckets down the hill and return with the empties, Penney reaches into the tank to refill the buckets with a little water, then uses a net to gather the next group of juvenile fish that will be passed down to the water.

Usually, he says, they’re able to hook a hose up to a valve on the side of this tank and release fish directly into a body of water, but this study is bringing salmon to some locations for the first time in decades, where crews have had to get clever with their use of buckets, rope and manpower.

Their work is already paying off.

At least two of the fish the tribes released in Latah Creek (also known as Hangman Creek) near Tensed, Idaho, crossed Bonneville Dam on April 3, Penney says. After Bonneville, the fish traverse the estuary and make their way to the Pacific Ocean, where, if they’re extremely lucky, they don’t become food and instead mature, grow for a few years, then turn around to fight

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their way upstream to spawn and die.

For the Chief Joseph Hatchery, the smoltto-adult rate of surviving fish that return to the area is somewhere close to 1.5 percent, Baldwin says. That can vary from year to year, with ocean conditions playing a major factor.

This year’s release will mostly help researchers understand the survival rate for the juveniles on their way out, Baldwin says. But as only a few of the roughly 5,000 total fish may ever return as adults, the group likely won’t create a sample size large enough to study the return journey.

Nations there are also looking at what it might take to return salmon even further upstream into the cold waters they once used to reach, Desautel says. Early conversations with those groups have started to ensure the work on each side of the border can be useful to everyone.

“Particularly in light of climate change, we have warming climates, warming water temperatures and that’s extremely detrimental to salmon,” Desautel says. “We think there’s a lot of potential up here because this is where the cold water comes from. … The river functions as one system, the fish eat as one system.”

Understanding that system with comparable data should help leaders along the intertwined waterways find solutions, he says. Once larger questions are answered, the groups may better be able to pitch who should be paying for those solutions and what timeline would help manage costs.

“It’s questions that haven’t been asked before, so it’s not just policy work but legal work to ask what’s allowable,” Desautel says, “and if there are fixes, to see what those would be and where those requests for potential legislation might come from.”

The 20-year plan could also wrap up sooner should the research prove that salmon don’t need extra help on their way downriver in areas such as the Spokane River, where spill over the dams is already common in the spring, Baldwin says.

“Spill tends to be very fish friendly in terms of getting them downstream quickly,” Baldwin says.

“We don’t know that it is for sure yet at those facilities, but if we do learn that bypass may not be necessary, it could save a chunk of time.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

“We think ther’s a lot of potential up here because this is where the cold water comes from.”

However, the tribes are already working on raising fish for a larger release for next year, and ultimately they hope to increase release numbers to something closer to 100,000 fish or more, Baldwin says. One hangup is that most hatcheries are already rearing fish at or near capacity, so this project may require the creation of more space to raise the fish before they’re released.

While the agencies that run the dams aren’t officially involved in funding the work yet, some leaders hope that might change. The Washington State Legislature this year agreed to put $3 million toward the project, explains Cody Desautel, the Confederated Colville Tribes’ Natural Resources director.

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here’s a similar story playing across the American West: A small, picturesque mountain town gets discovered by wealthy patrons, drawn by natural beauty and opportunities for winter recreation. Those wealthy patrons purchase second homes and short-term rentals that can be used as Airbnbs. Real estate prices skyrocket, and locals get priced out. All of a sudden, the restaurants, ski resorts and other amenities that drew those wealthy patrons can’t find workers, because those workers can’t afford homes.

The story is nothing new for larger mountain towns like Aspen and Vail, which have struggled with exorbitant home prices and a scarce workforce for more than a decade. But in recent years, the crunch has spread to smaller mountain communities like Bonner County in North Idaho, home of Schweitzer ski resort.

Dennison Webb, who directs a nonprofit outdoor leadership program in Bonner County, says the rising prices have had a significant impact on local families and the businesses that employ them. Webb’s non-profit, Selkirk Outdoor Leadership and Education, raised wages by almost 40 percent in a single year and is still having trouble filling positions.

“More and more people are becoming aware and concerned about what’s happening, because it’s going to turn into Aspen,” Webb says. “It’s not going to be good if we don’t get a handle on it.”

Local leaders in Bonner County have been exploring a variety of solutions, including Culver’s Crossing, a proposed affordable

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housing development designed specifically for locals who have been priced out of the market. In the short term, some businesses have looked to address the problem head on: If your employees can’t find housing, why not just build it for them?

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ki resorts in larger towns like Aspen and Vail have been building employee housing for decades. It’s only recently that rising rents have forced smaller resorts like Schweitzer to invest in employee housing as well, says Scot Auld, human resources director for Schweitzer.

Over the past two or three years, Auld says the resort has seen regular employees leave because they couldn’t afford housing, and some new recruits have been forced to turn down offers because they couldn’t find anywhere to live.

In 2020, Schweitzer repurposed a former assisted living facility in Sandpoint to create dormitory-style housing for 16 seasonal and full-time employees. This month, the resort announced plans for a $22 million, 84-unit apartment complex that will provide housing, a full-service daycare and other amenities for Schweitzer employees and their families.

It’s a significant investment, Auld says, and a sign of the urgency of the problem.

The workforce shortage has hit other industries in Bonner County, and some businesses are looking at Schweitzer’s employee housing as a potential solution.

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“There’s a lot of interest from other employers and recruiters in the Sandpoint area to do something similar because everybody is feeling the same pinch,” Auld says.

Schweitzer’s employee housing complex will be built in Ponderay, just north of Sandpoint, which serves as the gateway to Schweitzer Mountain. Steve Geiger, the mayor of Ponderay, owns a painting business that usually employs around 20 to 25 people.

Even with good benefits and wages, he says the lack of affordable housing has made it difficult for him to retain workers.

Geiger owns property and has considered developing it into something he could rent to employees. But with construction materials and building costs almost three times what they were three years ago, Geiger says the idea no longer makes fiscal sense.

“It’s really tough,” Geiger says, “even for a guy that has property like I do.”

Geiger isn’t alone in his hesitation. In a July survey administered by the City of Sandpoint, several local businesses said they had looked into buying a house to rent to employees, but were unable to because of high prices.

“We have looked into building a small apartment complex, but the cost of land, permits, impact fees and materials is too expensive,” wrote one business owner.

“If we could afford a small rental complex, the company would consider purchasing one to help house employees at reasonable rates,” said another.

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“If employers want to be competitive, I think they need to have housing as one of the arrows in their quiver.”

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he Bonner Community Housing Agency has been working on a variety of programs to alleviate the region’s housing woes. One tool, says Executive Director Rob Hart, is the employer-directed workforce housing program, which involves meeting with employers and showing them the benefits and process of building housing to rent to employees.

It’s a program he’s worked on in other cities across the country, and he says it can be a huge benefit to both employers and employees.

“If employers want to be competitive,” Hart says, “I think they need to have housing as one of the arrows in their quiver.”

Hart acknowledges that employer-sponsored housing does have potential to complicate the relationship between bosses and employees. He brings up the company towns of the 1800s, where entire communities were owned and operated by employers, leading to poor working conditions and exploitation.

“We have to be careful [because] there is some negative history with it, but we’re in a housing crisis right now,” Hart says.

Auld says Schweitzer is talking with other ski resorts about the best practices for managing employer-sponsored housing.

“Anytime that employers are also involved in the housing side of people’s lives, there are going to be some challenges as well,” Auld says. “We know that going into this, but we also understand that it’s something we have to do because of the current situation.”

Hart has met with numerous local employers in North Idaho but struggled to convince them to take the plunge and start building. The main problem is a lack of land, but there are also fiscal hurdles that make many businesses hesitate.

Webb, the director of the nonprofit outdoor education program, continues to look for solutions to his employee’s housing problems. His long-term vision is to buy land near his organization’s headquarters and build a field campus to house staff members and students. But for an organization of his size, the costs of land and materials are still far out of reach.

Webb says he’s glad Schweitzer is building housing for their employees, he just wishes it was a solution his organization could afford.

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RED AND It’s Republican versus Republican in this week’s primary elections, but will voters choose old-school Idaho moderates or the farther-right to lead the Gem State?

Incumbent Gov. Brad Little personifies the traditional Idaho Republican who doesn’t quite know what to do in the face of an intra-party insurgency. His solution? Lay low until Election Day.

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BY DANIEL WALTERS

ompared with the historical examples of ambitious leaders addressing crowds of white nationalists, Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s video broadcast at the America First Political Action Conference in February wasn’t particularly rousing. She sits on a bright yellow chair against a vivid blue background, staring straight ahead, and speaks haltingly, pausing in odd places. Her prerecorded video crashes. (“Fire the intern!” someone in the crowd yells.)

It restarts, first without any sound, then with a kind of fluorescentbulb feedback buzz humming in the background as she talks.

Still, McGeachin gets her message out, telling the alt-right crowd to “keep up the good work fighting for our country,” and that she’s busy “battling the establishment in both parties.” She even wins a cheer when she talks about her executive orders — made acting as the governor while Gov. Brad Little was out of town — that banned non-existent mask and vaccine mandates in Idaho. She condemns Little for reversing them. She highlights how Donald Trump himself had endorsed her primary challenge against Little for governor.

At the end, she calls the audience to join her struggle.

“I need freedom fighters all over this country that are willing to stand up and fight… even when that means fighting within our own ranks,” McGeachin says. “We are literally in the fight for our lives... Together we will fight to make Idaho great again.”

By April, she’s sick of explaining how exactly her video ended up on a screen for a gathering of alt-right trolls put together by Nick Fuentes, the most prominent white nationalist in America.

“I’ve said over and over and over again,” she tells me at an April 28 Moscow event with lieutenant governor candidate Priscilla Giddings and other right-wing candidates, “I was invited by [right-wing columnist] Michelle Malkin to make a video for the conference.” Malkin, despite being Chinese-American herself, has increasingly embraced white nationalist rhetoric — touting Fuentes as the future of the conservative movement.

McGeachin adds that she’s made a statement condemning racism and insists she didn’t know who Fuentes was. Why not research the event before she attends it?

“I don’t have time to answer those kinds of questions. I have one staff member in my office,” McGeachin responds. “I trust people. I don’t have time to go check out who all’s going to be speaking.”

McGeachin tells me that it frustrates her that some people label her an extremist. But if she had Googled “Nick Fuentes,” she could have seen Fuentes saying Trump was “awesome because he was racist” or a smirking Fuentes denying the Holocaust using a grotesque analogy featuring Cookie Monster trying to bake six

REDDER-ER million cookies. She could have seen a 2017 Inlander story where we witnessed Fuentes mocking a woman who’d recorded him calling race-mixing “degenerate.”

But when I ask if, knowing what she knows now, she would speak at the conference again, she doesn’t say no.

“I’m always open to go talk to people who are sharing the same ideals of supporting America First policies,” McGeachin says. “They’re young conservatives. Thousands of them around the country.”

This was a crowd that roared with cheers when a speaker said he’d been called the “biggest racist in the country” and that chanted “Putin! Putin!” when Fuentes asks for a round of applause for Russia at the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

McGeachin isn’t expected to win the May 17 Idaho primary to become governor, but there’s something deeper at stake. As Republicans charge aggressively deeper into the culture war, rallying against abortion, gay rights and critical race theory, they’ve also been fighting an internal battle. It’s about identity as much as power — about who gets to call themselves a “true conservative” and who gets exiled for being too liberal or too dangerous.

It’s about where Idaho conservatives will draw their bright red line.

GUNS AND COFFEE

They have nicknames like Viper, Wildman and Deaddog. They have tattoos on their arms — snakes, guns, a Holy Bible, a broken heart. The designs on their leather jackets vary — a skeletal hand raising a red-white-and-blue middle finger, a logo for the far-right Three Percenter group — but they all have one design in common: an American-flag patterned “Punisher” skull beside the silhouette of an AR-15-type rifle, the patch of the Panhandle Patriots Motorcycle Club.

McGeachin and Giddings yard signs rest on the back wall of a conference room in a Coeur d’Alene coffee shop, as the Panhandle Patriots pass around the room the manifestation of the threat they’re fighting against: a children’s book. There’s a colorful drawing of a smiling girl on the cover, “We take this very personally, some of the stuff that they’re trying to put in our libraries,” says the Panhandle Patriots founder, Michael “Viper” Birdsong. “Here, thumb through this, you see that?”

The book’s called I am Jazz, written by a transgender YouTuber Jazz Jennings, and it’s one of the many books that has come under fire from the right in the last few months for teaching children about gender identity.

At some moments, the Panhandle Patriots forum feels indistinguishable from a Rotary Club meeting. Three political candidates are here, answering a battery of tough questions from bikers and others in the audience, ranging from whether they think the 2020 election was stolen (“Yes,” is the answer they’re looking for) to how Idaho should discourage Washington state visitors (if not a wall, one audience member jokes, why not a toll?).

Often it’s shadowy conservative groups full of out-of-state cash that get blamed for a state’s hard-right turns in state politics.

Not in Idaho, says Devin Burghart, an extremism researcher at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

“There’s not a lot of evidence that activism is astroturfed in any way,” Burghart says. “These are local efforts, by and large funded by local individuals who don’t have deep pockets.” ...continued on next page

Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s explanation for speaking before a white nationalist audience? “I have one staff member in my office… I don’t have time to go check out who all’s going to be speaking.”

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Panhandle Patriot biker Justin “The Judge” Allen (right) speaks with Michael “Viper” Birdsong at LYFE Coffee Roasters & Public House last month. DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

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In other words, the Panhandle Patriots is the kind of grassroots activism that pundits like to romanticize. And these bikers hawk tickets on the club’s website for a meet and greet with Priscilla Giddings. (“Great to meet so many Panhandle Patriots at Cruisers this afternoon!” Giddings writes.) They call on fellow Patriots to go door-knocking for McGeachin. They provided security for a trucker convoy and former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea at an anti-vaccine rally.

But firearms can change the tone of grassroots activism.

Two years ago, this place was Calypso’s Roasters, one of the few businesses to complain about the impact of the squads of armed counter-protesters who had come to downtown Coeur d’Alene to meet Black Lives Matter protesters and, they claimed, deter looters and rumored van loads of Antifa. The Black Lives Matter protesters, one of the coffee shop managers wrote, “felt scared, intimidated and in some cases harassed” by the presence of firearms.

The Panhandle Patriots refer to that day reverently, almost as a legend. They call it “Gun d’Alene.”

Since then Calypso closed — the backlash to criticizing the armed counter-protesters was only one of several factors — and the building sold and became LYFE Coffee Roasters & Public House, an acronym for “Live Your Freedom Everyday.”

This year, they’re planning a heavily armed celebration of the second anniversary of “Gun d’Alene” to intentionally coincide with “Pride in the Park,” Coeur d’Alene’s annual gay rights festival.

The Revolutionary War quote, “…if they want to have a war, let it begin here,” is on their flyer. The Panhandle Patriots are planning some sort of “peaceful” showdown with Pride in the Park. (“Didja get that, Inlander?” Birdsong says, emphasizing that the speaker used the word “peaceful.”)

Justin “The Judge” Allen is standing up, resting his hands on the conference table. He looks up, eyes blazing with purpose. He says he doesn’t care if you’re gay or if you wanna marry a fencepost, as long as you leave children alone.

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“You already ruined Seattle. You ruined Portland. You ruined parts of California. You want to live that way and go do your gay stuff in the streets? Go live there,” Allen says.

“Because you’re a small margin of society. Why do we have to accept what we do not believe is right for our kids, for our community?”

He’s drawing his own red line: The Pride event being held at a park where children could be.

“Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable,” Allen says. “I am not a violent man. But I am not a peaceful man, either.”

CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND

Across the nation, liberals have increasingly dominated the urban centers and the coasts, while the rural areas and Middle America have become a haven for conservatives. The left moved left, the right moved right. The ideological distinctions between Democrats and Republicans have grown sharp enough to draw blood.

Idaho became filled, increasingly, by conservative Californians who fled the Hollywood values of the Golden State to the promised land of North Idaho. Post-apocalyptic fiction author James Wesley Rawles even gave the region an explicit name in 2011: The Redoubt. It was billed as a sanctuary for conservative Christians, a bulwark against liberal persecution, and a regional fortress in the event of governmental collapse.

That same year, Idaho election law changed to only allow registered Republicans to vote in the Republican primary.

Politics jolted even more rightward.

A slick Kootenai County Republican Central Committee ad, released last week, starts with eerie music over news clips about how Idaho is the fastest-growing state in the nation, before shifting into a building montage of horrors, timed to a driving percussive soundtrack like a Fast and Furious trailer.

Opioids and overdoses. Gay rights marches and transgender awareness days. Drag queens reading story books. Heroic citizens standing with guns armed against the threat of looters.

he Redoubt — and the associated “Patriot Movement” of Three Percenters and the Oathkeeepers — is usually distinct from the alt-right. With some exceptions, it’s about guns, land rights and “prepping,” with a big dose of conspiracy about government tyranny, not about race.

But there’s an older version of a similar concept, called the Northwest Territorial Imperative, the kind championed by the Aryan Nations, the presence that once haunted Idaho’s national image.

“We got rid of that image, and thankfully, a return to potatoes and tourism and the good things about Idaho,” says former Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney. “It’s really damaging our reputation.”

That national reputation appears to be at risk again, as a new cadre of alt-right figures — many relatively new to Idaho — are trying to influence North Idaho Republican party politics and shape the state’s image. And it’s not subtle.

On a 2021 BitChute video, alt-right videostreamer Vince James is broadcasting in front of an image of a Google Map route between Southern California and Coeur d’Alene.

In the bubble of the young trollish far-right, Vince is a celebrity. “Vince! Vince!

Vince! Vince!” the crowd chanted when he spoke at white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First Political Action conference.

He’s a holocaust-denier who refers to “antiwhite propaganda” as a “declaration of war.” And now he’s moved to Coeur d’Alene.

“North Idaho is a utopia,” James says.

“Utopia!”

Gorgeous scenery. No masks. A ton of conservatives. Great gun laws.

“I want to live in a place that’s white, obviously,” James adds on the stream.

In North Idaho, even the landscapers and gardeners and fry cooks and hotel workers are white, he enthuses.

He says he plans to connect with people in Coeur d’Alene and eventually get into politics.

“A lot of the people that you guys know of are living up there,” James tells his alt-right audience. “I can’t say who, but many of them.”

Forget voting for Ammon Bundy for Governor, James tells his followers in another video.

TOURISM “We don’t have any connections to him, we can’t push him, we can’t influence him,” he says. But Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin? He claims to have influence on her. You can see Vince James in a selfie with McGeachin and another politician named Dave Reilly.

Reilly resigned from his Pennsylvania radio host job after his coverage of the 2017 Charlottesville protests, including a string of tweets that seemed to be cheering on the alt-right. But he would never apologize, he declared in a 2020 tweet.

“The idea that one can be contaminated by an association is Jewish,” he wrote.

Reilly deleted his old tweets from 2019 and 2020, but anyone who knows how to use the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine can find dozens of his anti-Semitic and antigay posts. You can see him call Fuentes and Vincent James his friends. You can see him cheer on the alt-right during the “Groyper Wars” — where Fuentes’s followers packed conservative events to ask trollish questions about Israel and gay people.

When Reilly tried to run for the Post Falls school board, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee endorsed him. Even as some of his old tweets emerged, the Kootenai County Republicans stuck by him. Reilly lost anyway.

Today, Kootenai County Republican Chair Brent Regan offers a number of reasons why they didn’t unendorse. That there’s a lengthy process for undoing endorsements. That tweets “lack context.”

That “you get in a fight, things get heated.”

That “I sat down and had a discussion with him and I was satisfied.” That “Twitter is a sewer.” And what about that time D-list actor Kathy Griffin took a picture “standing there with Trump’s severed head?”

In March, the Coeur d’Alene Press revealed a recording of a plot by some local Republicans to try to take control of the local Democratic Party and install Reilly as chair. Ironically, that’s exactly the sort of plan the alt-right has explicitly laid out for the GOP “We can fight an insurgency within the GOP to replace it from the inside with people who are America First,” Fuentes wrote on Twitter in 2020. “This is our mission.”

Reilly retweeted it.

— DANIEL WALTERS

A guy holding a “Muslims are rad” sign silhouetted against a background of flame. Thugs smashing windows. Cue the cascade of one-word-at-a-time flashes of black-and-white text.

“Don’t. Let. Idaho. Turn. Into. California.” Swoosh to the Kootenai County Republican elephant logo flickering to life.

It’s an age-old political ad formula, but for once the villain isn’t Portland or Seattle. It’s the place so many Idaho conservatives came from to escape. It’s California, playing both hero and villain. What’s the source flooding Idaho with deeply conservative voters? California. What represents the future that Idaho conservatives fear? California.

You might think a Republican state becoming more Republican — where winning was ever-more-assured — would make it calmer, a place where everyone could finally get along.

But that’s not what happened.

Some Republicans started looking for new territory to conquer, new infidels to vanquish.

“The grassroots, ultraconservative Republicans have figured out that the real power is not in party politics or even the elected positions, the real power is on the nonpartisan boards” like the board of North Idaho College, says Bjorn Handeen, Region 1 chairman of the Idaho GOP. “We’re actually threatening the swamp now.”

And in the midst of such battles, Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin, a libertarian who achieved a minor kind of celebrity long ago for penning the first few For Dummies series of books, says that parts of the right in North Idaho have increasingly become a kind of echo chamber, feeding their own frenzy.

“They’re actually spending party money to campaign against Republicans,” Gookin says of the Kootenai County Republicans. “Tens of thousands of dollars to tell Republicans to vote against other Republicans.”

Meanwhile, Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Chairman Brent Regan says the party has a methodical process designed to separate the real Republicans from the phonies.

“Voters were complaining that people who were carrying the Republican banner really didn’t believe in the platform,” says Regan. “They weren’t really Republican.”

They have standards. They endorsed McGeachin, not Little. But Gookin argues the kind of purity demanded by local conservative activists is absurd.

“They praised me for my stance on guns. My stance on masks. Density. Growth. ‘Oh my god, you are my hero,’” Gookin says.

But the moment he steps out of line?

“Then I’m Satan,” Gookin says. “I’m the outcast, I’m Darth Vader.”

win the cultural narrative.”

Last month, the Freedom Fighters put on a “Live Your Freedom Gala” featuring the comic stylings of Owen Benjamin, an anti-vaccine, Holocaust-denying comedian who’s been kicked off most major social media platforms.

Idaho has podcasts like Idaho Speaks, websites like the Idaho Dispatch, and far-right blogs like Redoubt News. In Kootenai County, there’s the People’s Pen, a print publication with, for example, a cover with heavily armed men and women — including a brawny mustached dude who looks like a stylized version of Regan — standing at the corner of Fourth and Sherman.

Then there’s a particularly aggressive news website, the Idaho Tribune — not to be confused with the Idaho Press Tribune — which popped up after an incident last year where a swastika was drawn on a campaign sign that included the name Dave Reilly, a Post Falls school board candidate with an extensive prior record of anti-semitic and anti-gay tweets.

Along with pieces slamming the Coeur d’Alene Press and Ukraine — and an interview with Birdsong from the Panhandle Patriots — it’s filled with headline phrases like “Janice McGeachin: The Donald Trump of Idaho,” “Antifa in Idaho Openly Recruiting for Brad Little” and “Triple-Vaccinated Californian Reporter Attempts ‘Hit-Piece’ on Idaho Freedom Foundation,” all under the byline, Samantha Collins.

But there’s no “Samantha Collins” registered to vote in Idaho, and a Chrome app designed to spot AI-generated images determined with 99.2 percent certainty the profile picture was a fake. Idahofreedomfighters.org, a defunct site built from the same Squarespace account as Reilly’s campaign page, now directs to the Idaho Tribune site. Directly after denying to the Inlander he was involved with a different news site, Reilly refused to respond when we asked about his involvement with the Tribune.

Lately, Idaho Republicans — and activist groups like the Idaho Freedom Foundation — have more frequently refused to talk to traditional media outlets, or even participate in debates.

“There is a much higher degree of hostility to local media than there was in the past, because they have these other outlets they can turn to,” says Burghart of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. (McGeachin, to her credit, spoke to the Inlander for a few minutes after her campaign event; Gov. Little’s campaign did not answer repeated attempts to schedule an interview.)

Yet a partisan echo chamber not only strengthens your own bubble, it makes the other side feel all the more sinister and threatening: Sites like Twitter elevate the other sides’ most outlandish opinions about race and gender. Sure, sure, you’re against censorship, but have you seen the stuff the other guys are saying?

So while McGeachin tells the Inlander her support for “free speech” is one reason she gets unfairly labeled an “extremist,” she appointed Giddings to a “Task Force to Examine Indoctrination in Idaho Education Based on Critical Race Theory, Socialism, Communism, and Marxism.”

No matter how high and strong you build your fortress, the barbarians are always at the gate, always ready to end civilization.

“We are the number one on the radical left target list,” Giddings says in her speech in Moscow. “People have headquarters, they have journalists, they have lawyers, they have everything. They stand up fake news organizations, literally, to attack us and to flip our state.” ...continued on next page

“They’re actually spending party money to campaign against Republicans. Tens of thousands of dollars to tell Republicans to vote against other Republicans.”

YOUR OWN PRIVATE BUBBLE

A certain type of orthodoxy isn’t just enforced by the local party or right-wing activist organizations like Idaho Freedom Foundation (Regan is the chair of that board, too), but by a whole explosion of local alternative right-wing media.

As a minor example, after Gookin wrote a fiery Coeur d’Alene Press editorial condemning the Kootenai County GOP, local John Birch Society member Erin Barnard shared a photoshop of Gookin’s face pasted onto a parody book cover titled Turncoats and Traitors for Dummies.

Barnard runs a local right-wing news site called the Kootenai County Spectator that mixes community updates, posts about meetings and live blogs. She’s part of the North Idaho Freedom Fighters, which puts on regular events to raise funds for, among other things, creating “newspaper, online news sites, podcasts, documentaries, music and fictional material to

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At an event in Moscow, Idaho, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin promises if elected she’ll “end all medical tyranny” and in schools “eliminate all this nonsense Common Core, all this teaching of Marxist theory.” DANIEL WALTERS PHOTO

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But trust the alternative outlets enough, and politicians can get in major trouble. Last year, Giddings was brought up on ethics charges for sharing a Redoubt News article that not only named the former intern accusing Idaho Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger of rape, but mocked her, scoffed at her story and photoshopped her high-school photo. Von Ehlinger was convicted of rape last month.

Idaho Speaker of the House Scott Bedke, running against Giddings for lieutenant governor, is blunt and brutal.

“When the rapist was up on ethics charges in the House, she was the voice that tried to excuse and rationalize his behavior,” Bedke says.

THE ROAD TO RADICAL

McGeachin tells the Inlander she really hasn’t changed her views much since 2012, when she served in the state legislature. But people who knew McGeachin when she represented Idaho Falls in the Boise statehouse from 2002 to 2012 say she has changed. A lot.

“She was, as far as I was concerned, a good representative. She didn’t draw any undue attention to herself,” says Speaker of the House Bedke. “Certainly not the firebrand and political opportunist that we see now.”

Cole LeFavour, who served as Idaho’s first openly gay legislator until 2012 and came out as non-binary two years ago, didn’t have a problem with McGeachin either.

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“I found her fairly reasonable,” LeFavour says.

But something shifted.

“I suspect that she must have just found a political path, kind of a Sarah Palin route she planned to take to rise,” LeFavour says.

It’s tough to draw a clear political lesson from McGeachin’s first victory as lieutenant governor. Facing four other opponents, she won less than 30 percent of the vote to become the GOP nominee in 2018.

Yes, an Idaho Falls Post Register reporter spotted one of McGeachin’s bodyguards with a Three Percenter tattoo, but she didn’t necessarily win that race by being the most extreme candidate — in fact, she distinguished herself from one of her opponents by clearly stipulating that she wouldn’t seek the death penalty for women who got abortions.

But once in office, she very visibly latched on to socalled “Patriot Movement” groups like the Three Percenters and Ammon Bundy, the far-right figure who led the Malheur wildlife standoff. (Bundy, however, had his own ambitions to run for governor.)

Then 2020 hit. It was an Avengers moment, uniting far-right groups across the spectrum. A global pandemic.

“I suspect that [McGeachin] must have just found a political path, kind of a Sarah Palin route she planned to take to rise.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daniel Walters, born and raised in Spokane, has been writing for the Inlander since 2008. In that time, he’s written about Idaho Rep. Heather Scott’s ties to the far right, pressed Boise State’s president about free speech issues, and dug up death threats wolf lovers sent to Washington state employees. He’s a biker too, but his bike comes with a cute little bell.

Reach him at danielw@inlander.com.

Cities burning, racial tension increasing. Claims about a stolen election. Want a reason to get radicalized? Pick one.

McGeachin made her stand on the pandemic, playing a rebellious Goofus to Little’s uptight Gallant. Little encourages mask wearing; McGeachin burns masks she got at Winco at a far-right rally. Little pleads with Idahoans to get vaccinated; McGeachin tries to ban vaccine mandates while Little’s out of town. She promises from the campaign trail she will “end all medical tyranny,” and argues that the damage Little’s policies did to the state during the pandemic are still lingering.

“I’ve talked to people all the time that are making decisions between being able to buy food and medications,” she tells the Inlander. “The pandemic and the way it was managed just really was very destructive.”

But Bedke looks at the way Idaho’s economy took off from the pandemic as proof that McGeachin and Giddings’ dire assessment is wrong. Like the Kootenai County Republicans’ ads, Bedke points to Idaho’s status as the fastest-growing state in the nation. But to him it’s not something to fear; it’s proof of how successful Idaho’s leadership has been.

“Idaho is very, very successful,” says Bedke. “We didn’t fall to the top of the pile. We worked our way to the top of the pile, implementing pragmatic, conservative principles. I don’t think we’re in a precarious position at all.”

THE MODERATES STRIKE BACK

For all the grief McGeachin got about attending the White nationalist-packed “America First” conference, she has simply doubled down. Her rally last Wednesday in Meridian involved no fewer than three speakers — Malkin, Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers and vaccine conspiracy theorist Stew Peters — who also spoke at the America First conference with Fuentes and McGeachin.

“The regular Republicans are just silent,” says Emily Walton, co-founder of Idaho 97, a group intended to counter the Idaho far-right. “There’s a huge vacuum there, where the far-right is very loud. That makes themselves appear much bigger than they actually are.”

Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad, running as a Democratic write-in candidate for governor, hammers Little for taking three whole days to issue a statement condemning McGeachin’s appearance at the America First conference.

“They may walk and talk like a moderate, but at the end of the day they don’t have the strength and the will to stand up to the movement,” Rognstad says of Little and Bedke.

But now, it seems, some moderates are standing up to the movement.

Jack Riggs was once a lieutenant governor like McGeachin. His wife, Sandy Patano, was once vice-chair of the state Republican Party. And they’ve watched uneasily what’s happened in the past decade — a lot of traditional conservatives weren’t even defeated in elections so much as they gave up because it was so exhausting.

“One by one, less of them would run, because it’s such an unpleasant experience,” Riggs says.

The situation at North Idaho College, where the chaos introduced by Kootenai Republican-endorsed board members has put the college’s accreditation at risk, was the final straw: Last month, they joined with almost 100 former officials to form the North Idaho Republicans, a counterweight to the local party.

“A lot of the people in our group are conservative, but they know that we live in a society where, you know, you do have to make some compromises,” Riggs says.

“The threats haven’t been this bad in quite some time. I do think this could be like one of the more aggressive years for the far right.”

They’re not the only group. A slew of retired law enforcement officers, including former Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger, joined together with “Defend and Protect Idaho,” a political action committee dedicated to defeating political extremism, pointing to McGeachin’s associations in particular. Then there’s Take Back Idaho, developed as a moderate counter in recent years to the powerful Idaho Freedom Foundation.

Adding to their electoral strength are Democrats like Walton, who registered as a Republican to vote against far-right candidates in the primary, “because we’re getting so close to the edge,” Walton says.

Over 12,000 Idahoans who voted as Democrats in the 2020 Idaho primary are now registered as Republicans. Walton is one of them.

Indeed, there are a whole lot of the policies that Idaho progressives hate that can’t be blamed on McGeachin or Giddings, but trace to Little and Bedke.

Bedke points to the Texas-style abortion restriction bill that the legislature passed this year and Little signed into a law as an example of a major accomplishment this year. Giddings voted against it.

“Quite simply, results over rhetoric,” Bedke says. “To the extent that some of the Republican Party has moved away from common sense, pragmatic, conservative solutions, that’s on them, certainly not me.”

Cole LeFavour, the former Idaho legislator, is horrified by these kinds of laws, but sees the alternative to Bedke and Little as a lot worse.

“I may wish Little’s line were in a different place. But at least I believe the man has a line.”

But if McGeachin became governor of Idaho? “I don’t feel like there would be any line.”

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None of this happens in isolation. Local tensions can be inflamed by national media frenzies.

Take the Florida bill banning K-3 teachers from “instruction” about “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” Supporters of the bill started wildly accusing anyone who opposed the bill of being a “groomer” — essentially, a pedophile.

Soon you see that word “groomer” pop up everywhere. It’s on TikTok. It’s in internet comments. It’s a meme. Then versions of the latest hysteria show up in candidate stump speeches.

“We need to do better for our kids,” gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin said in her recent speech in Moscow. “We need to protect them from the scourge of pornography and the sexually explicit materials that are coming into our schools and our libraries.”

On Gab, an alt-right social media site, alt-right videostreamer Vincent James — who moved to Coeur d’Alene last year — posts a photo of a poster in a clothing store promoting an April drag show for the Gender and Sexuality Association at North Idaho Community College.

“Groomers are planning a drag show in North Idaho,” he writes.

He also posts the store’s phone number. Someone in the comments says it would be “a shame” if the clothing store burns down. The clothing store is hit with a trio of angry, insulting phone calls.

When he posts the ad for Coeur d’Alene’s annual Pride in the Park event, he includes a modified image, with lines in the poster drawn together to resemble a

lopsided Star of David. He also posts a spreadsheet with the name of every sponsor on the list.

At a Panhandle Patriots’ gathering, an audience member in the back sporting a “Let’s Go Brandon” t-shirt, claims he’s seen “groomers — that’s the only word for it” secretly hand out condoms to little kids at the Fourth of July parade.

“We’re going to be going after the groomers,” Michael “Viper” Birdsong tells the group. His own daughter died a decade ago. Car accident.

“I lost my kid,” Birdsong tells the Inlander later. “But there’s a lot of kids out there who don’t have a dad. We will fill in.”

So the rumor that some people are trying to “groom” kids can carry a lot of weight with Birdsong, just like the idea that the 2020 election was stolen.

You could see Birdsong in the footage of the Capitol Riot on January 6 last year — Panhandle Patriots jacket on his torso, “Don’t Tread on Me” patch on his chest, pieces of chest protector stuck to plywood and strapped to his left arm to create jury-rigged armor to deflect potential knife blows. He thrusts his finger at Capitol Police officers, yelling at them, grabs at one of the barricades and pulls it aside. He doesn’t go into the Capitol — he’s not stupid, he says — he didn’t get violent, and he hasn’t been charged with anything.

“Violence is the last thing we’d ever want to bring.

But it doesn’t mean we’re not incredibly good at it,” Birdsong tells the gathering in the Idaho coffee shop. “Mess around with a kid and find out.”

But combine armed protesters with baseless “groomer” charges flying around, and even if there’s no violence, supporters of Pride worry innocent people can be intimidated and pushed away.

“The threats haven’t been this bad in quite some time,” says Joey Pugmire, vice-president of the North Idaho Pride Alliance. “I do think this could be like one of the more aggressive years for the far right.”

He says the planners of Pride in the Park are well aware of what’s happening. And no, he says, they do not give sexual paraphernalia like condoms to children at Pride.

“There’s not a history of children going to a Pride festival and being abducted and groomed. That’s just ridiculous.”

He says their board is developing a safety plan and that one of their board members is even a state trooper.

He says they’ve removed the list of sponsors on their website to shield them from some of the blowback.

“If people are going to try to threaten us, that’s their prerogative,” Pugmire says. “That’s on their conscience, but we’re going to try to ignore the fear-mongering as best we can.”

If they’re doing anything for children, Pugmire says, they’re trying to prevent them from killing themselves.

“If you’re growing up your entire life being told that your mere existence is a mistake and a mess up,” Pugmire says, “it’s not going to be a happy existence for anybody.” n

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FASHION

REDUCE, REUSE,

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hy wear vintage? For vintage fashion enthusiasts, the reasons are as multifaceted as their outfits.

It’s a nod to history. Old clothes tell a story and often have special significance. The construction and materials are frequently superior to modern clothing. It’s unlikely you’ll run into someone else wearing the same piece as you. Even more, wearing vintage is an ultra-sustainable choice when the facts are clear that the fast-fashion industry is wasteful and exploitative.

Uniting these trends of sustainability and originality in a fashion-forward double whammy, a trio of Spokanearea women are taking old clothes and textiles and making them “new” again.

At Do It With Soul, a local brand and boutique that moved into its new storefront in downtown Spokane’s West End District early this year, co-owner Erin Corder-

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Brown repurposes thrifted band T-shirts by stitching cut-out graphics onto vintage flannel button-ups.

The apparel design major who studied at Washington State University breathes new life into myriad other upcycled pieces, with an eye for fun, funky and on-trend streetwear style. Color is added or removed via dye or bleach, and embellishments like patches or sequins are stitched on. Another of her popular creations are “split tees,” for which two T-shirts are cut in half, and a side from each is swapped out and sewn to the other.

Do It With Soul, a venture Corder-Brown started in 2013 with her sister, Emily Barbour, also sells vintage pieces as found, along with a curated selection of new clothing that reflects their aesthetic of mixing and matching fashion from different eras. The shop also has accessories and various gift and decor items, both vintage and new, and even vintage furniture.

Do It With Soul’s Erin Corder-Brown (left) and Emily Barbour.

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“I think we got into it because we’ve done it personally since we were kids, upcycling and adding stuff to [clothes],” Barbour says. “I just found a bunch of pictures of an old sweatshirt where the pouch had ripped off, and I cut apart a Mexican sarape blanket and put it on as the pouch,” in lieu of throwing the piece away.

“I don’t really recall any defining moment other than just being raised with ‘Well, don’t toss it out,’ and a fix-it type of mentality,” she continues.

The sisters’ creative frugality morphed into Do It With Soul after Corder-Brown found herself constantly asked by friends, who saw her wearing her custom, upcycled pieces, if she could make them a similar piece.

“I think because I learned how to traditionally sew, and the ways you do it according to the textbook, then I was able — because this has always been my mentality — to learn the rules and break them,” Corder-Brown says.

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ecycling clothing and textiles is an age-old practice, but has been slowly fading away with recent generations. Consider the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when frugal homemakers repurposed cloth flour and animal feed sacks into clothing, linens, quilts and more.

Some of those feed-sack fabric quilts are now seeing the light of day again, remade as colorful and cozy “quilt coats.”

Seated in front of a sewing machine in her cozy, second floor studio, Diane Ellsworth is surrounded by shelves overflowing with colorful, vintage fabrics and well-worn quilts. On a recent spring afternoon, she’s making tote bags from salvaged denim patches and even some Star Wars kids’ bed sheets from the 1970s. Often, though, she’s taking old patchwork quilts too tattered for continued use and piecing less-damaged sections into coats of many colors.

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“At first I was like, ‘I don’t want to make those,’ but then I really liked them the more I made them.”

Ellsworth’s quilt coats and other pieces are sold at Teleport Vintage + Co., a shop just north of Spokane’s downtown core. She also makes throw pillows from old fabric scraps, and customizes vintage denim — cutoff shorts, jackets and jeans — with colorful patches.

Ann Schluting is another skilled local seamstress making one-of-a-kind coats from old quilts. The longtime vintage reseller recently closed a vendor mall booth to bring her post-retirement business back home, and sells quilt coats on Etsy under the shop name Redux Vintage.

“I’ve always been interested in vintage and have been a thrifter and reseller most of my life,” Schluting says. “I’ve always loved vintage quilts, and I saw somewhere someone had made a coat out of one, and thought that’s a great idea to repurpose quilts that may not have any more life left or need a lot of repairs.”

For both Ellsworth and Schluting, cutting apart a family heirloom or well-preserved quilt that’s still usable as a bedspread is completely off limits. Both feel it would be unethical, but say there are others out there making coats from rare or extremely old quilts.

“A lot of times, I’ll buy just a corner of a quilt that’s still good and you really can’t even use it as a quilt,” Ellsworth says. “I feel like I’m giving it life.”

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hen either Ellsworth or Schulting finds a quilt in good condition, they often contact fellow vintage reseller Janessa Campbell, who buys and sells collectible and usable quilts (among many other items) via Instagram, @marigold_vintage_ness. The relationship goes both ways; Campbell and other local vintage pickers regularly think of the two as they come across worn-out quilts that can be remade into coats.

“I can’t imagine cutting something like that up, if they’re all hand stitched and in good condition,” Schluting says. “I have a

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TOP: Seamstress Diane Ellsworth in her sewing studio. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO ABOVE: Some of Ellsworth’s quilt coats. PAUL FORSTER/TELEPORT VINTAGE PHOTO few of my own that I’m going to keep forever.”

Even more, both women reuse as much of a damaged quilt as they can. Schluting uses small scraps to make zippered pouches, while Ellsworth has become known for her adorable cat-shaped decorative pillows.

The Do It With Soul sisters feel the same way when it comes to repurposing band tees, which are often highly collectible among fans and vintage collectors.

“I have a Spice Girls T-shirt — I will never cut that up,” Corder-Brown says. “Sometimes I leave [shirts] on the rack, so if someone’s like, ‘I want that as a T-shirt,’ fine, buy it, but if you want it added to the back of a denim jacket, come on up.”

Taking a tattered quilt, even if it’s incredibly old or was painstakingly hand-sewn, and remaking it into a jacket that can be appreciated and used again, is both an art and a practice in history preservation, Schluting says.

“It’s an honor to do that, and I feel obligated to make it as beautiful as I can,” she says. “I hope it will last another 50, 100 years, and that’s what makes it extra fun — it becomes wearable art.” n

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“Jack, I’m flying!”

My first time… watching Titanic

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BY MADISON PEARSON

ecently, I’ve become interested in the world of film and I’m working my way through a list of “must-see” movies. Last summer I traversed the Marvel universe, watching all 22 films and subsequently keeping up with new releases since. I finally got around to Edward Scissorhands, Whiplash and Interstellar, all of which I truly enjoyed and would give a near-fivestar rating. But there’s one film that I haven’t exactly been excited to watch.

Titanic came out in 1997 exactly one month after I was born. As I saw it, I came into the world blissfully unaware of the film and I always thought I would leave the world in the same fashion. It became my go-to fun fact when I was presented with the opportunity for an ice breaker: “I’ve never seen Titanic! Haha, yeah I know, it’s so weird!”

I’ve never understood the hype around the film — I guess it was a “you had to be there” kind of moment in cinema. I just didn’t get who would willingly watch a 3-hour-and-15-minute film, the contents of which are basically spoiled by a distant 4th grade history lesson.

I’ve seen clips of it throughout my life, I know the entire story, from the epic tale of Jack and Rose to the sinking of the ship. I’ve even yelled “I’ll never let go, Jack!” on a variety of occasions when I saw fit.

Maybe I’m just not into romance or Leonardo DiCaprio, but I digress, settle into my couch and prepare to check Titanic off of my list.

Once I was about 20 minutes into the movie, I realized our main characters weren’t even aboard the ship yet. I wasn’t aware of the set-up and backstory I was

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being shown. More importantly, I had no idea that this film was where the “it’s been 84 years” meme originated. I chuckled when it happened and I’m not ashamed.

And fine, I thought that this opposites-attract trope was going to be utterly cheesy and hard to watch. But I liked it. I liked that they taught one another lessons about their respective worlds. Their romance was tolerable, and at times actually endearing, to this fluffaverse, action-movie lover. Of course it was predictable.

Predictable doesn’t always mean bad, though.

I assumed the love story was going to be the main focus of the film, which for the first half it was; however, I wasn’t prepared for the latter half of the movie to be focused solely on the disaster element of the ship’s sinking. As soon as we got a dramatic zoom-in on an extra in the crow’s nest, I knew what was coming. My hands began to sweat and my heart was pounding in anticipation of the inevitable. The tension and suspense were palpable — James Cameron does not let the viewer forget the gravitas of the Titanic’s final hours.

And then the ship was half underwater, the band was playing their final gig and Jack and Rose were positioned on the bow of the ship where their love story first started. Yes, I shed a tear when Rose had to let go of Jack and when she threw the necklace overboard.

All in all, Titanic isn’t as overhyped as I once believed. It’s artful, impactful and, albeit a little drawn out, definitely a classic film worth watching at least once just to experience the phenomenon — no matter how late you jump on the bandwagon.

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Meet the Neighbors Asian, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Day offers a chance to experience Spokane communities and cultures often left out of the spotlight

BY SUMMER SANDSTROM

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ou’d have to spend a lot of time and a lot of money to jet off and explore the countries of the Pacific Rim and Pacific Islands; to dine on authentic banh mi sandwiches in Vietnam, to party at a luau in the Hawaiian Islands, or watch the incredible skills of Samoan fire knife dancers.

For most of us, such an excursion is not in the realm of possibility, but thanks to the Asian, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Day celebration this weekend in Spokane, locals can experience those far-flung cultures’ right in our own backyard.

The event Saturday at Riverfront Park is organized

by Spokane’s United We Stand, a community-based organization founded in March 2020 with a mission of sharing history, traditions, culture and experiences of the ANHPI community.

“Spokane’s ANHPI community, starting with the Chinese and the Japanese, have been here a very long

The Northwest Hula Company is one of many groups performing at Spokane’s ANHPI Heritage Day on Saturday. time, starting in the 1880s,” says Charity Doyl, the event’s lead organizer.

“They helped build the city of Spokane, and we’re always forgotten in the narrative when sharing about… the history of Spokane. So we’re using this opportunity to remind the city that we’ve been here for a very long time, we’re a part of this city, and we’re a part of this community.”

Spokane’s United We Stand is partnering with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture to create a historical exhibit for the event highlighting the contributions of Spokane’s ANHPI community to the city. The exhibit includes photos of Spokane’s Chinatown and Trent Alley, which, according to the website Spokane Historical, consisted of a plethora of Chinese and Japanese businesses from the late 1880s to mid-1900s.

The ANHPI Heritage Fest also hosts food trucks serving Laotian, Vietnamese, Chamorro, Hawaiian, Samoan and Filipino food. A luau starts at 5 pm, after hours of slow cooking.

“In the Pacific Islander culture, the luau starts when the pig is done,” says Doyl. “This is a really hands-on opportunity to really learn about the Native Hawaiian and the Polynesian and the Pacific Islander culture. That is our focus for this event.”

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oyl anticipates roughly 150 vendors and a variety of ANHPI visual artists and interactive cultural activities that attendees can participate in, as well as live music and dance performances throughout the day.

The Pavilion’s Central Plaza is hosting a dizzying array of performances, including by guzheng player Ena Wang, Spokane Junior Symphony’s Christopher Anderson, Ukestra Spokane, Northwest Hula and the Samoan Fire Knife Dancers.

There will also be sounds delivered by the Spokane

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Taiko Drummers, K-Pop from the Korean Language School, and dances from the Bon Odori Dancers and the Filipino American Northwest Association Dance Troupe, plus Bollywood performances from the Natanam Dance School.

“Our goal is to provide a free event where the entire community is invited to learn about our culture and our traditions, our food, and just learn about the other ANHPI residents who call this city home,” says Doyl.

United We Stand is partnering with a few other local groups to remove financial barriers so that as many people as possible are able to attend.

“Spokane Quaranteam is also buying lunch for the first 500 attendees from our participating food trucks,” says Doyl.

The ANHPI Heritage Day event is in May to coincide with the month’s national declaration as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. United We Stand is also planning additional events in the future to celebrate more ANHPI cultures and traditions.

“For Lunar New Year, we focus on the cultures that celebrate the Lunar New Year tradition, which are China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines,” says Doyl, noting next year’s Lunar New Year happens Jan. 28, 2023.

This fall, the group is planning to host the Diwali Festival of Lights, which focuses on Central Asia.

Right now, though, the focus is on the Inland Northwest’s ANHPI community and throwing a great party on Saturday.

“We just wanted the community to have an authentic event that really highlights this culture,” she says. n ANHPI Heritage Day • Sat, May 14 from 1-8 pm • Free; $15-$75 VIP seats (available via email to charitydoyl@yahoo.com) • Pavilion at Riverfront • 574 N. Howard St. • spokaneunitedwestand.org

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Charlie Thudium moved to Spokane from Davis, California, to help open Common Language.

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Common Language is Spokane’s newest brewery and aims to make more than beer

BY DEREK HARRISON

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ean Owens likes to say he has a lot of “lofty goals” for Common Language Brewing Company. Beyond being a typical gathering place, Owens wants the brewery to be a leader in supporting marginalized and underrepresented groups in the region.

One way he plans to accomplish this goal: give away a portion of its profits.

“At the end of the year, we’re committed to giving 20 to 25 percent of our profits to organizations in town that support LGBTQIA, BIPOC, women and children,” he says. “Sort of unmet needs for people in the community.”

Owens, a retired veterinarian and professor, is president and one of six owners of Common Language.

The new downtown Spokane brewery is located inside the Chronicle Building, neighboring the Fox Theater and Knitting Factory. Owned by The Spokesman-Review’s Cowles family, it was once home to the printing presses of the Spokane Daily Chronicle.

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opening a brewery. The idea came about after his wife, Dori Borjesson, received an offer to be the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University. With a move to Pullman on the way, he started looking at the next phase.

“My buddy (Jeremy Johnson, co-owner and treasurer) and I were sitting down and said, ‘Why don’t we start a brewery?’” Owens recalls. “Give profits away and use it as a training ground for people early in their career, people who are underrepresented in the industry.”

The conversation prompted Owens, a longtime homebrewer, to attend the Master Brewers Certificate Program at University of California, Davis. He then landed an internship at Three Mile Brewing Co. in Davis and met Charlie Thudium.

“Charlie basically taught me everything I know about commercial brewing,” Owens says.

Thudium, now co-owner and head brewer of Common Language, is a recent graduate from the UC Davis

Food Science and Technology program, with an emphasis in brewing science. His Scottish export style ale won the school’s 2020 Iron Brew competition. Before moving to Spokane, he was the lead brewer at Three Mile for almost a year.

“For me, it’s just about brewing the stuff that I like,” says Thudium. “Kolsch and Czech Pilsner are my absolute favorite beers.”

Owens and Thudium are just two members of a quickly growing team.

Co-owner Dallas Hobbs, a former Washington State University football defensive lineman, works as the brewery’s director of marketing and design. He creates its can labels and has led their early philanthropic efforts — his first event was a pint night with the Women Helping Women Fund during which one dollar of each beer sold went to the nonprofit. Taproom manager Gary Hughes also has plans to add a trivia night, mug club, more live music and to host food trucks on the weekends.

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long trip for lager beer — we like the sound of that. If you’re looking for a lastminute adventure to get out of town this weekend, Yakima Valley’s Varietal Beer Co. is hosting GoatFest at its Sunnyside taproom on May 14.

The Saturday beer festival returns for the first time since its inaugural year in 2019. Consisting solely of German bock-style lagers, eight participants range from iconic Portland and Seattle breweries to Spokane’s Whistle Punk Brewing.

They’re joined by Chuckanut, Grains of Wrath, Heater Allen, Holy Mountain, Lowercase, Lucky Envelope and Wayfinder. Spokane Valley’s LINC Malt is the official sponsor of the event.

Sipping on easy-drinking light lagers is one of our favorite pastimes and GoatFest’s beer menu is shaping up to be a great one. Highlights include Chuckanut’s classic Maibock, Holy Mountain’s Formless Dread (heller bock) and the Barleywraith — a collaboration heller bock between Heater Allen, Wayfinder and Varietal.

Varietal co-owner John Cope is especially looking forward to Whistle Punk’s Doppelbock. Literally translating to “double bock,” it’s a stronger version of lighter bock beers.

“Whistle Punk is probably bringing the most exciting beer to this whole thing,” says Cope. “That Doppelbock is crazy.”

A $45 ticket (search GoatFest on Brown Paper Tickets) gets you beer, a GoatFest dimple mug, and the rockabilly sounds of Seattle’s Shivering Denizens. A limited amount of tickets are available the day of, but Cope expects to sell out of glassware. Food is provided by local trucks Triple C’s (tacos, burgers and more) and Cascade Crust (wood-fired pizza) Looking for a place to crash?

Cope recommends staying at the Best Western Plus Grapevine Inn. But if you want to make it a day trip, designated drivers get free admission as long as they’re accompanied by a ticket holder. Dogs and kids are allowed, too.

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fter more than a year in the making, Common Language finally opened its doors in April. The walls of the vibrant taproom are painted in an array of blue, orange and green. Copper light fixtures hang over a copper bartop. The standard taproom tables and chairs are bordered by two seating areas that consist of four vintage-style chairs circling a coffee table.

What guests may not see when they first walk in is the well-equipped brewing space. The 10-barrel brewhouse is joined by four 10-barrel fermenters and one 20-barrel fermenter. Between tanks sits a small canning line. A lab area in the back is filled with gadgets to calculate alcohol percentages, hop bitterness, pH levels and more. Next to that is a reverse osmosis water system designed by co-owner Chris Durrant.

“I wanted to give Charlie, and whoever he finds as assistant brewer, all the tools to make the best beer,” says Owens.

The brewery debuted with five of its own beers and a hard seltzer on tap. Owners kept the tap list pretty well-rounded with an Irish stout (modeled after Guinness Extra), brown ale, West Coast double IPA, hazy IPA and the newish-style cold IPA — it’s similar to a West Coast IPA but fermented with lager yeast at cooler temperatures. We Be Lymin, Common Language’s first go at a hard seltzer, is made with ginger and lime and served with a maraschino cherry.

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FROM LEFT: Charlie Thudium, Sean Owens and Gary Hughes The taproom also hosts a few guest spots — first up were a couple offerings from Hunga Dunga Brewing Company in Moscow — plus local cider and wines from Liberty Ciderworks and Chronicle building neighbor Terra Blanca Winery.

For several weeks, Thudium was unable to crank out additional beer due to some hiccups on the production side of things. The brewery is back up and running now, though, and have a few new brews in the works.

Up next is a kolsch, New England IPA and a raspberry hard seltzer.

As for the origins of Common Language’s name, Owens says it’s a reference to the fact people have been gathering around beer for thousands of years.

“Beer is a common language,” he says.

His idea was to create a space where people can play music, meet new (or old) friends and debate over trending topics. He wants to be a hub for the community.

“We’ve got a lot of lofty goals. I found that everyone always says you shouldn’t have these lofty goals, but I think by throwing these passions out there in the world, people hold you to it.” n Common Language Brewing Company • 926 W. Sprague Ave. • Open Tue-Wed 3-9 pm, Thu 3-10 pm, Fri 3-11 pm, Sat 12-11 pm, Sun 2-9 pm • commonlanguagebrewing.com • 509-309-7729

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onzaga University men’s basketball player Dominick Harris was unfortunately sidelined for the 2021-22 season with a foot injury, but the soon-to-be junior guard is making his own fortune by developing his own brand.

With an assist from older brother and sports agent Deshaun Harris, the younger Harris recently collaborated with Cascadia Public House (6314 N. Ash St.) to develop a sandwich for the North Side eatery.

“We’re really excited to be able to help Dom on his entrepreneurial journey,” says Cascadia’s co-founder Jordan Smith.

The Dominator ($18) features crispy chicken plus avocado, lettuce and tomato. Its spiciness is like a slam dunk for your mouth from pepper jack cheese and a zesty habanero aioli featuring a Spiceology blend Cascadia calls “Dominator Dust.” Like all of Cascadia’s sandwiches, the Dominator comes on a bun from the local Alpine Bakery.

“I think when you do a partnership you have to have a shared vision,” says Smith, who’s keen on collaborating with local, like-minded businesses and supporting the community.

To that end, Cascadia is donating five percent of sandwich sales to local community centers and charities, with plans to do additional promotions, perhaps involving live appearances by Harris.

FOOD ON THE MOVE

LAUGHING DOG BREWING (805 Schweitzer Plaza Drive) in Ponderay, Idaho, is under new ownership and recently debuted several new food and beverage options in its taphouse.

Earlier this year, Eat Good Group’s Adam Hegsted became a partner in the 17-year-old company, which now includes Summit Cider and Current Seltzer. Hegsted has been working with Laughing Dog’s team on rebranding and adding a seasonal beverage program, including cider and seltzer. In addition, Laughing Dog Brewing beverages are now available at all Eat Good Group restaurants, such as Baba in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene’s Honey Social Club and Eatery.

LE’S TERIYAKI & PHO (2018 N. Hamilton St.) recently announced its closure via social media, effective May 31. The former Le’s building is to become the new home of the first BIRRIERIA TIJUANA east of the Cascades, opening as early as June. Birria is an evolving style of Mexican cooking characterized by slowly

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simmered meat (originally goat, but later beef and more recently other types of animal protein) with a rich broth. Visit facebook.com/birreriatijuana.

Tangen Hospitality is currently working with management at THE GLOBE BAR & KITCHEN (204 N. Division St.) and BIGFOOT PUB & EATERY (9115 N. Division St.) and eyeing both as a potential purchase, according to company founder Jeremy Tangen. Stay tuned for details.

In North Spokane, Petunia’s Marketplace rebranded in summer 2021 as VETTORE CAFE (2010 N. Madison St.). It’s still the home base for Mutu Coffee Roasters, and also still doing regional Italian-themed dinners. Also look for fresh pasta, chocolates, charcuterie items and other gourmet goods at Vettore. Visit vettorecafe. com.

In 1955, the region north of Coeur d’Alene was the absolute hinterlands, an unincorporated area of open fields, small farmsteads and fewer than 800 residents known as the Village of Hayden. That same year it became the city of Hayden, and Von and Edna Sargent secured the city’s first liquor license for their then five-yearold business, SARGENTS RESTAURANT (9021 N. Government Way, Hayden).

The restaurant building included a partial structure from the Farragut Naval Training Station, and was a humble-yet-popular spot for steak dinners and celebrations for more than 70 years. A few months ago, Sargents’ most recent owners, Terry Eastman and Jerry Thompson, sold the business, noting via social media that the (undisclosed) new owners plan to remodel the place and launch a new restaurant concept. Stay tuned for updates. n To-Go Box is the Inlander’s regular dining news column, offering tasty tidbits and updates on the region’s food and drink scene.

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ALSO OPENING FAMILY CAMP

Christian comedy duo the Skit Guys take their act to the big screen with this story of a family reluctantly attending church camp and getting into hijinks. Rated PG

FIRESTARTER

Based on Stephen King’s acclaimed novel of the same name, this horror/sci-fi thriller follows a young girl struggling to control her pyrokinetic abilities while a secret government agency attempts to hunt her down to capture and control her powers. Rated R

Life isn’t a party for Anamaria Vartolomei’s Anne in Happening.

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Her Body, Her Horror The French abortion drama Happening is vital filmmaking made even more resonant by recent news

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appening is a drama about a young student in small-town France in 1963 who needs an abortion, a medical chore made extremely difficult because abortion is outlawed. I first saw this French film in early March, and it was a harrowing and very necessary cinematic experience.

I watched Happening again just after the Supreme Court leak indicating the justices will overturn Roe v Wade, effectively outlawing abortion across wide swaths of America. Anyone paying attention in recent years knew this was coming, but the seeming confirmation was shocking anyway. Watching this film for the second time with the almost certain knowledge that what it depicts may soon no longer be historical but current reality felt like a kick in the teeth.

I cannot overstate the urgency of this film; movies don’t get much more essential than this. It’s true that anyone who thinks abortion should be illegal is unlikely to seek out an extremely sympathetic dramatization of the trauma of being pregnant when you do not want to be, when remaining pregnant will derail the future you are working toward. But even those who adamantly support safe, legal access to abortion should see this. I suspect many people, particularly anyone too young to remember how things used to be, do not appreciate just what a nightmare reproductive health care for anyone who can

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get pregnant was once like, and might soon be again. being a “good girl” elevates you, if just slightly, above the With startling intimacy, director Audrey Diwan “bad girls.” Female solidarity, where Anne finds it at all, immerses viewers into the psyche of Anne (Anamaria is cold and meager.

Vartolomei), an independent living woman in her early An adaptation by Diwan and Marcia Romano of 20s who discovers she is pregnant as she is preparing Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical short novel called to take the rigorous entrance exams to a prestigious L’événement, the original title translates to “The Event.” university. Diwan and cinematographer Laurent Tangy And we may presume that what happens now will be the utilize a throwback 1.37:1 aspect ratio, a squarish look defining moment of Anne’s existence. Whether she dies that replicates films of that era. But — far more imporhaving a back-alley abortion (not unlikely) or succeeds in tantly — the frame constrains Anne. She is boxed into her the termination or has the baby; whether she ends up in predicament, with no easy way out. prison; whether she will go on to have the life she wants, Onscreen labels count off the progress of her pregon her own terms and her own schedule, or not. The nancy — “3 weeks,” “4 weeks,” on and on — isolation of her experience — even as while she desperately explores her incredibly so many other women are walking the HAPPENING limited options even as she is unable to talk same path — is deadening.

Rated R directly to anyone about them. “The law is unThis is a horror movie. Anne’s life Directed by Audrey Diwan sparing,” her appalled doctor tells her when she narrows down to hushed euphemisms Starring Anamaria Vartolomei alludes to termination; prison is a real possibilas her schoolwork suffers and as her At the Magic Lantern Theatre ity for anyone who helps her. Other men take time runs out. Vartolomei’s intense appalling advantage of her vulnerability and performance is one of focused terror, the ignorance about pregnancy that her world has inculone she must keep still and silent with lest anyone guess cated in her. She has close female friends, but dares not what she is enduring. Happening is body horror evoked mention her situation to them either... and the judgment by knitting needles and medical instruments prepared on of other nasty, catty young women at school scarcely a kitchen table, more suggestive than outright graphic, bears thinking about. Internalized misogyny is real: girls but that’s enough. This is what we’re staring down once and women can be brutal enforcers of patriarchy when again. Do not look away. n

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hen Netflix recently announced a net loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, it was treated as a seismic event in the streaming world. Netflix’s response has seemed desperate: cutting budgets and projects, laying off workers, laying out plans to bring in advertising, even cracking down on password sharing. All this as monthly subscription fees continue to rise. Especially for users who signed up for Netflix when the original streamer boasted a vast catalog of older movies and TV series since been supplanted by lowquality Netflix originals, the utility of the service may be waning.

If you’re one of those people and looking to redirect the $15.49 you’ve been paying monthly for Netflix’s most popular plan, I’d suggest splitting that cost between the two best streaming services currently available. For just a little more money per month, you can subscribe to both the Criterion Channel and Shudder, two carefully curated repositories of vintage and recent films which also feature select new releases. The Criterion Channel is an outgrowth of the Criterion Collection, the long-running home video label that’s been bringing classic, independent and foreign films to Blu-ray, DVD and even laserdisc since 1984. Shudder is a horror-focused streamer from AMC Networks that takes an expansive view of the genre, with an emphasis on both longtime favorites and new discoveries.

Even added together, the content libraries of the two services don’t nearly match the breadth of what’s available on Netflix or other major streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max. But while you could spend hours scrolling through those other services without

finding anything worthwhile to watch, you could pick nearly any movie or series on Criterion or Shudder — even without knowing anything about it — and be rewarded with a satisfying viewing experience. For years now, Netflix’s strategy has seemed to be to throw as much content as possible at audiences. The programmers at Criterion and Shudder take the opposite approach, choosing each selection with care, rotating through content so there is always something fresh to discover, and grouping movies and shows in a way that rewards curiosity and encourages experimentation.

Each month, Criterion debuts themed collections that may introduce viewers to master international filmmakers or allow them to delve into specific areas of Hollywood history. For example, I recently tore through the “Pre-Code Paramount” collection of delightfully disreputable studio movies from before the implementation of the restrictive Hays Code. Movies are often accompanied by the kind of extensive bonus material that once could be found on DVDs and Blu-rays — commentary tracks, supplemental interviews, etc. — but that has become a lost art as physical media has declined. Criterion also picks up new releases that fit with its cinephile mission.

Want to watch Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, the other 2021 movie from Oscar-winning Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi? Criterion is the place for that.

At Shudder, you can find the building blocks of horror with classics like Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but you can also find discarded exploitation obscurities ripe for rediscovery and restorations of forgotten masterpieces.

Last year, Shudder was instrumental in restoring and releasing horror legend George A. Romero’s lost 1975 film The Amusement Park. Shudder’s originals are rarely just low-budget horror quickies; the service picks up artistically ambitious horror and genre films at festivals and gives them the chance to reach a wider audience. Even for people who are squeamish about scary movies, Shudder offers a range of horror-adjacent titles that give a fuller picture of what the genre can be (like ingenious Japanese indie film One Cut of the Dead, Chilean animated fable The Wolf House, and ‘80s teen dark comedy Heathers).

Even with its current troubles, Netflix remains a behemoth that will likely continue to dominate streaming for years to come. There’s no risk in letting your subscription lapse for a bit and redirecting resources to services that care more about cinema’s past — and the vibrant potential for its future. n

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If the robotic uprising is carried out by neon EDM cats, it wouln’t be that bad.

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MEETS SONIC FRICTION Black Tiger Sex Machine marries their dark EDM with sci-fi visuals for a sensory treat

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lack Tiger Sex Machine makes the sort of electronic dance music that’s designed to liquify brains and bring the juice inside glow sticks to a boil.

It’s dark, heavy and metallic-sounding EDM that draws from the extremes of Justice, Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails — lots of robot noises, wobbly bass and hard drops in the mix. It’s cinematic in the Michael Bay kind of way, and comes paired with appropriately apocalyptic 3D visuals — skulls and snakes, dark symbols of the atomic age, and scary robot cats.

The Montreal trio of Patrick Barry, Marc-André Chagnon and Julien Maranda formed BTSM about 10 years ago, and slowly developed into a proper pyrotechnics-and-lasers EDM act that has played at Ultra Music Festival and Lollapalooza.

After having its biggest-ever tour canceled about midway through because of COVID-19, Black Tiger Sex Machine began easing back into live performances at outdoor venues last summer and is currently on its first major road outing since early 2020. The 28-stop tour has been a major release of energy for the group as well as audiences looking to lose their minds to dance music once again.

“Some of the shows we’ve had so far have been some of our craziest energy so far — people are just going nuts and screaming and dancing and singing nonstop,” Barry says. “This tour is what we were hoping we could do in 2020. We kind of redid it and took it to the next level, basically.”

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n 2020, Black Tiger Sex Machine released its second LP, Futuristic Thriller, alongside a live-action video with a central character, Naomi, and her robot-cat friend — which one surmises is the black tiger sex machine — fighting her way through a dystopian cyberpunk futurescape.

The video was incorporated into the group’s alreadyimmersive stage show.

“We have this built up universe around our music,” Barry says. “When people come to our show, our goal is to take them into our universe and create a different experience, to have the visuals tell a story so it’s not just listening to music, it’s a whole audio-visual experience.”

The storyline continues with the same characters returning for more sci-fi action on the trio’s third album, Once Upon A Time in Cyberworld, which dropped earlier this year.

“Growing up, we were big fans of sci-fi movies, anime and video games and all of that, and we’ve tried to bring those influences into our project,” Barry says.

“That’s been the backdrop of our music since we started 10 years ago, from our simple cover art and then getting into music videos and now these much bigger shows that we’re doing.”

Unlike some DJs who simply hit the spacebar on their laptops and dance around the stage, Black Tiger Sex Machine uses an array of hardware — loopers and drum machines and synthesizers — to pull off their sound in real time.

“It’s more interesting for the crowd and more interest-

ing for us, too,” Barry says. “There’s three of us so we can have a bit more going on onstage. Since the beginning, we’ve been trying to do this hybrid DJ set where it’s very fast-paced and there is a lot of energy we’re trying to maintain throughout the whole show, but also use these live elements to add something more unique and organic to the show.”

As always, the trio will take the stage in Spokane wearing robot-cat helmets, which are adorned with LEDs that sync with an elaborate lighting rig.

“We didn’t start off with the helmets,” notes Barry, “but at a certain point we were like, ‘Hey, this could be a cool idea to add a little lighting element to our show,’ and it kind of worked for some reason. People responded to it and we built on it not just for our imagery, but having that focus on bringing the best musical and visual production we can.”

Putting on the robot-cat helmets also helps Barry and his bandmates get in character and lose themselves in their bone-rattling, mind-melting performances.

“It’s kind of an athlete putting on gear or an actor putting on a costume,” he says. “The last part of our stage outfits that goes on in the helmet and it puts you in that focused mode.” n Black Tiger Sex Machine, Kai Wachi, Hairitage, Vampa • Sat, May 14 at 8 pm • $30-$35 • Allages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague Ave. • sp.knittingfactory.com • 509-244-3279

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urt Vile revels in meandering. If you’re one of those folks that thinks people looking like they’re trying super hard is profoundly uncool, Vile is your guy. The indie singer/songwriter/guitarist has built up a fanbase with crafting fuzzy guitar rock songs that seem in no hurry to get anywhere, a stoned-out extension of classic rock songs with slackjaw vocal delivery. Make sure to get to the Knit early as Seattle mid-tempo indie standouts Chastity Belt open the show (the ladies make music that’s — for my money — roughly 1,000x better and more interesting than Vile).

— SETH SOMMERFELD Kurt Vile and the Violators, Chastity Belt • Thu, May 19 at 8 pm • $27-$30 • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague Ave. • sp.knittingfactory.com • 509-244-3279

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Thursday, 5/12

A&P’S BAR AND GRILL, Open Mic Night with KC Carter ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Michael Vallee J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam J COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Purple Reign: Prince Tribute Show JOHN’S ALLEY, Micky and The Motorcars, Eli Howard and The Greater Good J KNITTING FACTORY, Said The Sky THE MASON JAR, Brendan Roof MOOSE LOUNGE, Country Night with Last Chance Band NIGHT OWL, Thirsty Thursdays with Storme NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Heather King Band POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Tod Hornby THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Karaoke with Rich STEAM PLANT RESTAURANT & BREW PUB, Pat Coast ZOLA, Desperate8s

Friday, 5/13

BABY BAR, Griffey, Flannel Math Animal, August to August BERSERK, Bongo and Leeroy’s Laboratory J BING CROSBY THEATER, Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters CHINOOK CRAFTED BY ADAM HEGSTED, Steve Starkey CHINOOK CRAFTED BY ADAM HEGSTED, Live Music + Cocktails J D-MAC’S AT THE LAKE, Gil Rivas DRY FLY DISTILLING, Lucas Brown LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Warren Dunes, Water Monster, Automatic Shoes NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Heather King Band OLD MILL BAR AND GRILL, Nate Ostrander QQ SUSHI & KITCHEN, Just Plain Darin

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here is only one woman who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Her name is Stevie Nicks. Any singer would kill to have a run as iconic as her stint with Fleetwood Mac or her solo career.

Nicks’ charismatic magnetism and vocal power were so hypnotically enthralling and captivating that some people legitimately accused her of being a witch during the late ’70s. That’s power. She’ll need no dark arts to conjure up a magical hit-filled night of music and natural beauty at the first Gorge Amphitheatre concert of the year.

— SETH SOMMERFELD Stevie Nicks • Sat, May 14 at 8 pm • $50-$995 • Gorge Amphitheatre • 754 Silica Road NW, George, WA • livenation.com

J RIVER CITY LANES, Karaoke with Rich SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Land of Voices J SPOKANE ARENA, For King & Country, Dante Bowe SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Stagecoach West ZOLA, The Happiness

Saturday, 5/14

CHINOOK CRAFTED BY ADAM HEGSTED, Steve Starkey THE CORK & TAP, Son of Brad J J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Stevie Nicks J J KNITTING FACTORY, Black Tiger Sex Machine, Kai Wachi, Hairitage, Vampa LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Magic Sword, Dance With The Dead NIGHTHAWK LOUNGE (CDA CASINO), Heather King Band J PONDEROSA BAR AND GRILL, Nate Ostrander POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Just Plain Darin

J RIVER CITY LANES, Karaoke with Rich SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Pat Coast SPOKANE EAGLES LODGE, Sharky and the Fins ZOLA, Blake Braley

Sunday, 5/15

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Triple Threat J J THE BIG DIPPER, Jango, Monsterwatch J CRAFT & GATHER, Music on the Lawn: Justyn Priest Trio

Monday, 5/16

J EICHARDT’S PUB, Monday Blues Jam with John Firshi

Tuesday, 5/17

J J KNITTING FACTORY, Citizen Cope LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Zonky Night ZOLA, Guilty Pleasure

Wednesday, 5/18 J KNITTING FACTORY, Marcus King STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Steve Starkey ZOLA, Runaway Lemonade

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ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Ron and the Ronaldo’s, May 19, 5:30 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, Symbolik, Singularity, Flub, Torn Open, May 19, 6:30 pm.

J THE MASON JAR, Spokane Symphony Quintet, May 19, 7 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Alcohol & Feelings (Covers Show), May 19, 7:30 pm.

J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam, Thurs., 8 pm.

J J KNITTING FACTORY, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Chastity Belt, May 19, 8 pm.

DRY FLY DISTILLING, Kicho, May 20.

BARRISTER WINERY, Stagecoach West, May 20, 7-9 pm, July 6, 7-9 pm and Aug. 17, 7-9 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, David Larsen and The Larsen Group, May 20, 7 pm.

BERSERK, Bongo and Leeroy’s Laboratory, 8 pm-midnight.

J KNITTING FACTORY, Aaron Watson, May 20, 8 pm.

J LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Kuinka, May 20, 8 pm.

J RIVER CITY LANES, Karaoke with Rich, 9 pm-12:30 am and 9 pm12:30 am.

ZOLA, The Happiness, 9-11:55 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, NOT.GREENDAY, Deschamp Unconfined, May 21, 6:30 pm.

WHIM WINE BAR, Kari Marguerite and the 76, May 21, 6:30-9:30 pm.

J CREATE ARTS CENTER, Bridges Home, Dave and Tami Gunther with Joanne Heinz, May 21, 7-9 pm.

J BING CROSBY THEATER, Wishbone Ash, May 21, 8 pm.

J KNITTING FACTORY, Two Feet, May 21, 8 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Jenny Don’t &

The Spurs, Dog Party, May 21, 8 pm.

ZOLA, Blake Braley, 9-11:55 pm.

J CRAFT & GATHER, Music on the Lawn: Perry & Vogel, May 22, 4-7 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Macey Gard, May 22, 5:30 pm.

J J KNITTING FACTORY, 311, May 22, 8 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Esme Patterson, May 22, 8 pm.

J EICHARDT’S PUB, Monday Blues Jam with John Firshi, 7-9 pm KNITTING FACTORY, Animal Collective, May 24, 8 pm.

ZOLA, Guilty Pleasure, Tues., 8-11 pm.

PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Live Piano with Bob Beadling, May 25, 5-7 pm.

STORMIN’ NORMAN’S SHIPFACED SALOON, Steve Starkey, 6 pm.

NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO, Boz Scaggs, May 25, 7:30 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Giant Rooks, May 25, 8 pm.

ZOLA, Runaway Lemonade, 8-11 pm.

ZOLA, Carter Hudson, 8-11 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Ron Greene, May 26, 5:30 pm.

THE MASON JAR, Ali Pomeroy, May 26, 7 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, Pound, May 26, 7:30 pm.

SPOKANE VALLEY EAGLES, Stagecoach West, May 27, 7-10 pm.

BACKWOODS WHISKEY BAR, John Pitcher, May 27, 8-11 pm and May 28, 8-11 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Matt Mitchell Music Co., The Rodeo, May 27, 8 pm.

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J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Illenium, May 28, 4 pm and May 29, 4 pm.

J LAKE CITY CENTER, Rusty Jackson’s 70’s Show, May 28, 6-8:30 pm.

POST FALLS BREWING COMPANY, Son of Brad, Fourth Sat. of every month, 6-9 pm.

DRY FLY DISTILLING, James Wolff, May 28, 6:30-8:30 pm.

J J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Bob Dylan, May 28, 8 pm.

J KNITTING FACTORY, Snow Tha Product, May 28, 8 pm.

J MARTIN WOLDSON THEATER AT THE FOX, Chris Botti, May 28, 8 pm.

SILVER FOX, Dangerous Type, May 28, 8 pm-midnight.

J CRAFT & GATHER, Music on the Lawn: Kyle Richard feat. Fizi,

May 29, 4-7 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Spare Parts, May 29, 5:30 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Jonathon Tibbets, June 2, 5:30 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, Sensi Trails, River City Roots, New Reb, June 2, 8:30 pm.

J KNITTING FACTORY, MasterClass Big Band, June 3.

PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE, Open Mic, J MONTVALE EVENT CENTER, Zonky Jazz Band with Ken Peplowski & Julia Rinker, June 3, 7 pm.

J LOCALMOTION HYDRAULICS & ACCESSORIES, Spice 1, June 4, 11 am-7 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, Nonpoint, VRSTY InComing Days, June 4, 7 pm.

J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Chris Stapleton with Margo Price & Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs, June 4, 7 pm.

KNITTING FACTORY, Fuego: DJ A1 & Son Dulce, June 4, 8 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Boot Juice, Fat Lady, June 4, 8 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, SuperChrome-Kosh, June 5, 5:30 pm.

J PAVILION AT RIVERFRONT, Zach Bryan, June 5, 7 pm.

J SPOKANE ARENA, New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley, En Vogue, June 6, 7:30 pm.

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J KNITTING FACTORY, Crown the Empire, The Word Alive, D.R.U.G.S., Until I Wake, June 8, 7 pm.

WINE COUNTRY AMPHITHEATER, ZZ Top, June 8, 7 pm.

CRUISERS, Haystak, June 8, 8 pm and June 9, 8 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Empath, June 8, 8 pm.

J THE BIG DIPPER, Through the Roots, June 8, 8:30 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Justin James, June 9, 5:30 pm.

J FIRST INTERSTATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, ZZ Top, June 9, 7:30 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Joe Purdy, June 9, 8 pm.

J SPOKANE ARENA, Kevin Gates, June 10, 7 pm.

WINE COUNTRY AMPHITHEATER, Aaron Lewis, June 10, 7 pm.

KNITTING FACTORY, Community 3: VitaminV, B2B, Blood Klotz, Wreck Room Takeover, Dirty Vacation, June 11, 8 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Son Volt, Jesse Farrar, June 11, 8 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, CDA Big Band, June 12, 5:30 pm.

LUCKY YOU LOUNGE, Jesse Daniel, June 14, 8 pm.

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Kaitlyn Wiens, June 16, 5:30 pm.

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Rock climbing is one of the most daunting sports. Imagine standing at the bottom of a cliff face knowing that, if everything goes to plan, you’ll soon be belaying down after reaching the top. Now imagine doing that with one hand.

Maureen Beck, speaking for National Geographic Live’s next event, was born with one hand and learned how to rock climb through adaptive climbing innovations, trial and error, and her own passion for the sport. In her talk, “Improbable Ascent,” Beck discusses her climbing goals and accomplishments, which include journeying to Canada’s Cirque of the Unclimbables to attempt the first unassisted, adaptive climb of the Lotus Flower Tower. That’s certainly a tall order but Beck has defied odds before, and she can certainly do it again.

— MADISON PEARSON National Geographic Live: Improbable Ascent • Wed, May 18 at 7 pm • $25-$31 • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • foxtheaterspokane.org • 509-624-1200

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Spokane Garden Expo • Sat, May 14 from 9 am-5 pm • Free • Spokane Community College • 1810 N. Greene St. • tieg.org/ garden-expo-attend

Women Helping Women Fund: An Iconic Night at the Fox • Tue, May 17 at 4 pm • $135 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague Ave. • whwfspokane.org/an-iconic-night • 509-328-8285

Pay no attention to the weather; spring has sprung with the return of the Inland Empire Gardeners’ one-day extravaganza known as the Spokane Garden Expo. Postponed in recent years, this one-day event on the campus of Spokane Community College features more than 250 vendors from the Antique Rose Farm to Zay Doe garden hooks. Food, clothing, gifts, home decor and remodeling — find it at the expo. Bring your garden cart or sturdy bag and fill up on starts, seeds and stuff to make your garden or yard the talk of the town. Learn from experts like Pacific Northwest TV and radio personality Ciscoe Morris, of Gardening with Ciscoe, or Spokane Library’s Juan Juan Moses for the 411 on chickens. And don’t miss the free seminars on a variety of garden-related topics inside the Spokane Community College Lair starting at 10 am.

— CARRIE SCOZZARO

Icons and their legacies never die, and neither will the fundraising efforts put on by local philanthropic groups in Spokane. The 30th annual fundraiser put on by the Women Helping Women Fund honors late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the goal of empowering women and children in Spokane and providing them with the support to reach their full potential. This year’s keynote speakers are Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, authors of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There’s also a live performance by the Spokane Symphony, as well as a cocktail hour to conclude the event. All proceeds go directly to the fund’s grantees, scholars and community-based solutions for women and children in Spokane.

— SUMMER SANDSTROM

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Comedian, writer and actor Fortune Feimster’s profile has grown exponentially over the past decade, as gigs working on cable talk shows like Chelsea Lately gave way to becoming a regular cast member on sitcoms like The Mindy Project and, eventually, to her own Tina Fey-produced sitcom Family Fortune and having a couple of her movie scripts bought by Steven Spielberg’s company. The easy charm that comes through in her roles also infuses her standup specials like 2020’s “Sweet & Salty,” in which her Southern background and coming out as a lesbian in her mid-20s make for sometimes thoughtful, always hilarious cultural explorations when she’s on stage.

— DAN NAILEN Fortune Feimster • Sat, May 14 at 7 pm • All ages • $35-$60 • Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.org • 509-624-1200

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— DAN NAILEN Henry Rollins • Wed, May 18 at 8 pm • $32.50-$42.50 • All ages • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • bingcrosbytheater.com • 509-227-7638

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GARLAND ROCKET BAKERY We passed each other grabbing coffee Monday morning and caught eyes. Sweet Arc’teryx jacket. Grab your drink next time? Climb? Ski?!

CHEERS

I SAW YOU BABY PLEASE DON’T GO! “Dreams aren’t real. Wishes don’t come true. Words cannot express the depth of my love for you. Life is nothing like movies, there are no happy endings.

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn sell happiness to helpless hope fiends, Hopeless romantics, and everyone in between..... Me? Traded my Chevy, got something red, a type S 300... You thought id look good in it. I said “”not until you are sitting next to me.”” I used to know the right things to say. I’m supposed to start feeling better right? I mean any day... I miss you, I need you. I said things outta spite. I can’t let you go.

It just doesn’t feel right. I hurt inside and I’m finally feeling the emotions from that one cold December night. Are you gonna be FAR? GO! If you must. This feeling is love. Nothing like lust..... Yet we’re in real life, this isn’t the movies. Where’s our happy ending? Do you still feel the same for me? Because if you do, well I have one wish... I wish that you would forgive me for acting so erratic. If I had a dream that were to come true, I’d dream that you were still mine and I’d live forever with you! But in reality ...Dreams? Ha, they’re not real. Wishes,they don’t ever come true. Baby Please Don’t Go.... I’m still in love with you! "

TO MY ANGEL AT SPOKANE TRIBE CASINO On April 17th I was enjoying my $2 Blue Moons and celebrating being on “vacation” (all the way from Spokane Valley). We were having a lot of fun!! Until we left and 10 minutes later I realized that I had lost my wallet. “Vacation” was surely ruined now. We went back and learned that someone good had turned it in with everything intact. I’m not sure if it was an employee or a guest that found it, but I was so appreciative and relieved that I didn’t have to spend the next few hours canceling credit cards and going through the hassle of switching all my autopay bills. Thank you so much!! I cannot believe that I did that.

PLAY BALL! Cheers to the Spokane Indians ball club! Thanks for hanging in there and coming back stronger than ever. I am SO excited to see baseball games this summer!

RETURNED WALLET Cheers to you for being an honest Man and returning a billfold to its owner. We were at a park on N. Standard, and my son dropped his billfold, and when you heard his name on the playground, you verified the ID and returned it. Thank you so very much!

You are an awesome Dad setting the standard and doing the right thing. Bless you!

HELLO DOGGY! Cheers to the guy who said hello to my dog while I was picking up a copy of the new Inlander in front of the Milk Bottle on Garland. I’m sorry he didn’t say hi back. He was distracted by the delicious smells wafting from the diner.

SOUND OFF

SMELLS LIKE KIND SPIRIT! Cheers to the young Burger King drive-through employee with the great hair who complimented my mom on her Nirvana t-shirt. You made her day!

ENTWINED IN THANKS Cheers to those who will stand up for others when disrespect and injustice presents.

Cheers to those friends who are the voice for those who cannot speak for

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Ideology” considering a recently leaked court opinion draft.

that side of the road next year and let the runners have the right side of the road.

PARTY OF WHO? Republicans say that they’re the party of Lincoln, i don’t see how that can be true considering thier objection to slavery being taught in our schools. I think a better face of their party would be one of Pinocchio. If you think about it, it makes perfect sence, their master Trump is a compulsive liar,

GREAT... NOW I’M THE BAD GUY? To the Starbucks employee expecting me to pay it forward. I am so sick and tired of this whole gratitude, show kindness BS! It legitimately has me on the brink of a breakdown. The next car ahead of me that pays for my drink may result in a fit of unexpected rage. I could care

Fine, you can be the post-abortion generation.

Welcome to child support payments!

themselves. Cheers to those who see the good in all and the opportunity/hope for betterment in others. Cheers to the friend who would support without selfthought, and love without self-doubt.

This family thanks you. We are entwined together, as humans, and as family.

Signed T. Panda fan club

JEERS BABY DADDIE$ Fine, you can be the post-abortion generation. Welcome to child support payments! FOR EVERY BABY YOU SPAWN! Oh yeah. That’s how this is going to roll. Nobody wants to pay for your babies, man. It’s going to be on YOU. You dum-dums. Didn’t you notice that every other guy out there is in a financial hole right up to his neck because he’s hitched to child support payments for DECADES? Looks like we can expect about a million more baby daddies a year.

REVISED BRANCH OF GOVERMENT It looks like it’s time to revise one our three branches of goverment, we have the legislative, executive and judicial, which should be revised to “Political

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

McCarthy, Jordan, Greene, etc, all liars.

And of course we have lying-under-oath Supreme Court justices.

RE: BLOOMSDAY CHEERS AND JEERS Kudos to the Cheers and Jeers Bloomsday insight. I couldn’t agree more. However, I don’t see the participant behavior improving. For one, Spokane is a town of people who express the behavior “who cares about you? I only care about me.” So, if they line up ahead of where they should be, then jog for a hundred yards before coming to a comatose walk, they don’t care how many people have to swerve around them. Some people who “ran” the event actually started walking the opposite direction. Imagine having so little brain power that you walk against roughly 25,000 people going the opposite direction. Oh wait a minute.

It actually wouldn’t be against 25,000 since the fools that did this started ahead of where they should have started. Also, here is a study aid for those who can’t understand where to walk. If you hold up your left hand (that’s the one on the left side of your body), that’s also the left side of the road. When you walk Bloomsday, that’s the side of the road you’re supposed to be on. Please move to

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST: BOWL FOR KIDS’ SAKE The campaign is a critical source of funding for Big Brothers Big Sisters, a national leader in mentoring programs for at-risk youth. All funds directly support mentoring programs for at-risk children in the community. Donate online or text 50155 to BFKSINW22 in May-June. nwbigs.org (509-328-8310) ROCK THE RUNWAY The Arc of Spokane hosts its annual fashion show featuring its clients as the models in clothing from The Arc Thrift Store. Also includes live and silent auctions, raffles and more.

(Rescheduled from fall 2021.) May 12, 6 pm. $100. Historic Flight Foundation, 5829 E. Rutter Ave. arc-spokane.org/ rocktherunway (509-535-6000) CATHOLIC CHARITIES GALA The annual fundraising event for the Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington, supporting all programs. Ages 21+. May 13, 5:30 pm. $125. Davenport Grand Hotel, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. cceasternwa. org/gala (800-918-9344) A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE This year’s Coeur d’Aleers concert includes performances of folks songs, love songs, spiritual tunes, jazz and rock and roll.

Donations benefit Kootenai County local charities. May 13, 7-9 pm. Free; donations accepted. Trinity Lutheran Church, 812 N. Fifth St. trinitylutherancda.org (208-4572234) 350 SPOKANE: CATALYST FOR COOL FUNDRAISER Bid on auction items from local craftspeople, businesses and artists, enjoy live music, local food and drinks, a “Waste to Wearables” fashion show and hear spoken word artists perform pieces on the theme “speaking for those who cannot speak.” May 14, 5-8 pm. $25.

Madison Home Market Event Center, 2928 N. Madelia St. 350spokane.org HARRISON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE The annual fundraiser’s activities include live music, a silent auction and a barbecue dinner.

May 14, 3:30-10 pm. $45. Country Barn Bed & Breakfast, 18500 S. Old Lane Rd., Harrison, Idaho. (208-755-4431) PINTS FOR PARKS Celebrate Spokane Parks with live music, specialty pint glasses, vendors, beers and a raffle.

Includes live music by Atari Ferrari.

All proceeds support the Spokane Parks Foundation. May 14, 4-8 pm. By donation. Brick West Brewing Co., 1318 W. First Ave. brickwestbrewingco.com (509-279-2982) SPOKANE PUBLIC RADIO RECORD SALE After two years, the Spokane Public Radio Record Sale is back. From Beethoven to the Beatles, U2 to Motown favorites, albums from a broad crosssection of musical genres are available.

May 14 from 9 am-5 pm and May 15 from 11 am-5 pm. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. spokanepublicradio.org (509-688-0300) WOMEN HELPING WOMEN FUND: AN ICONIC NIGHT AT THE FOX Attendees hear from Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, authors of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” discuss important issues affecting women and children of the Spokane community and learn about local organizations making a difference.

May 17, 4-6 pm. $135. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. whwfspokane.org (509-328-8285)

BLOOM IN TUNE The annual sale benefits the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. A master gardener is on hand to answer gardening questions. May 19, 9 am-5 pm.

Free. Judy’s Enchanted Garden, 2628 W. Northwest Blvd. facebook.com/JudysEnchanted-Garden-125901600798552 BEYOND WORDS BREAKFAST The 2022 event features guest speaker Matt Santangelo, former executive director of Spokane Hoopfest Association and a past early life speech and language parent.

May 19, 8-9 am. Free. Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside Ave. spokaneclub.org (509838-2310) STREAKS TO DEFEAT Get a pink streak added to your hair or a clip-in hair extension. All proceeds support local residents who are fighting cancer. May 20, 12-4 pm. $5 donation. La Tourrettes, 1412 N. Fourth St, Couer d’Alene. (208664-6417) CORBIN SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER 54TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION FUNDRAISER Celebrate the Center’s 54th anniversary with a social hour and music by the live band T&T. Tickets include a catered meal and a drink ticket. May 22, 3:30-8 pm. $60. Historic Flight Foundation, 5829 E. Rutter Ave. corbinseniorcenter.networkforgood.com (509-327-1584 ex: 13) DAYBREAK’S BATTLE OF THE BANDS: LIP-SYNC BATTLE FUNDRAISER Daybreak Youth Services is hosting a battle of the bands lip-syncing fundraiser in partnership with local Spokane individuals and businesses who are competing to raise funds in support of youth in the community with mental health needs, as well as Daybreak’s newest program, which helps sextrafficked youth. May 26, 6-11 pm. $50.

Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. daybreakyouthservices.org MOWTOWN DOWNTOWN Live music from Nu Jack City, hor d’oeuvres, beer, wine, live and silent auctions. All donations help provide hot, nutritious meals to home-bound seniors served by Meals on Wheels Spokane. May 26, 6:3010 pm. $100. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. mowspokane.org ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISH: ONLINE AUCTION Items include gift certificates, landscaping gravel, mattresses, collectibles, massage certificates, car washes and more. Donation collection begins May 26 and continues through June 5. May 26-June 5. By donation. St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1104 W. Heroy Ave. 32auctions.com/StFrancis INNOVATION HIGH SCHOOL FASHION SHOW & ART EXHIBITION In addition to the fashion show, activities include digital music/media presentation, a visual arts gallery, and booths with concessions, plants and plant accessories, school merch and more. All proceeds benefit Innovation High School. May 27, 6-8 pm. $5. Innovation High School, 811 E. Sprague Ave. innovationspokane.org 4TH ANNUAL STACHE DASH After a two-year hiatus, Stache Dash is back.

Proceeds provide funding for children with special needs to receive speech, occupational, physical and other therapy services as well as home therapy equipment. June 4, 8:45 am-noon. 2555. Plantes Ferry Sports Complex, 12308 E. Upriver Dr. elevationsspokane.org/ stache/ (509-385-2116) CASA PARTNERS: MAKE TIME FOR KIDS The event features one-of-a-kind clocks designed and fabricated by local artists, designers and people in the

community along with various other items auctioned off. June 4, 6-9 pm. $30-$225. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (509638-3557)

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BRIAN POSEHN On top of being a generally funny guy, Brian Posehn has multiple credits including reoccurring roles on New Girl and The Big Bang Theory. May 12 at 7:30 pm, May 13-14 at 7:30 & 10:30 pm. $18-$32. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com BLUE DOORS & DRAGONS Improvised comedy celebrating table-top RPGs, inspired by a roll of the dice. Fridays at 7:30 pm in May. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre. com (509-747-7045) COMEDY NIGHT WITH JEREMY NUNES Jeremy has appeared in The Layover, The Break-Up and on Last Comic Standing. May 13, 6:30 pm. $20-$30.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. merlinscomedyclub.com (208-667-1865) FORTUNE FEIMSTER: HEY Y’ALL Fortune Feimster’s newest stand-up comedy show. May 14, 7 pm. $34.50-$5950. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane. org (509-624-1200) SAFARI The Blue Door’s version of Whose Line, a fast-paced improv show with a few twists and turns added. Saturdays at 7:30 pm. $8. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com JEFF ALLEN Jeff combines clean, hilarious humor. Besides performing at corporate functions and fundraisers, he regularly appears on TV, radio and casinos across the country. This show is family friendly (ages 13+). May 15, 7 pm. $30-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com NEW TALENT TUESDAYS Watch comedians of all skill levels work out jokes together. Tuesdays at 7 pm (doors at 6 pm). Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub. com (509-318-9998) CRAIG CONTANT Contant recently appeared on MTV’s Greatest Party Story Ever Told, where he received accolades for his unique comedic voice. He also has his own podcast, Community Service, which takes a humorous approach to accepting change in life. May 19, 7:30 pm. $15. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com NATE BARGATZE Following the continued success of his Netflix special The Tennessee Kid, the comedian, actor and writer is extending his best-selling “Good Problem to Have” stand-up tour, with stops in more than 40 US cities. (Rescheduled.) May 19, 7 pm and May 20 at 7 & 9:30 pm. $42-$152. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (509-227-7404) NICK SWARDSON Nick Swardson is best known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series Reno 911!, for his work with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions and for his own personal sketch comedy series, Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time. All shows 18+ with valid ID. May 26, 7:30 pm, May 27-28 at 7:30 & 10:30 pm. $40-$55.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com JON DORE Dore is best known for being a former correspondent for Canadian

Idol. His show, The Jon Dore Television Show, appears on The Comedy Network.

June 2, 7:30 pm, June 3-4 at 7:30 & 10:30 pm. $15-$30. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com COMEDIC CODY A performer popular on TikTok for his lip-syncing videos and comedy voice-over work. June 5, 7:30 pm. $30-$75. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com PATTON OSWALT LIVE: WHO’S READY TO LAUGH? Patton Oswalt, known for his laugh-inducing specials and guest appearances on TV, is coming to Spokane with his newest special “Who’s Ready To Laugh?” June 5, 7 pm. $50-$60. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.org

COMMUNITY

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAM: 50 YEAR CELEBRATION NIC nursing students, faculty, alumni and retirees, as well as community members, are invited to several events to celebrate 50 years of nursing excellence at NIC. See website for full schedule. May 12, 3-6:30 pm. Free. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu/nursingreunion GOLDEN HARVEST: FLOUR SACKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION The MAC’s collection of cloth flour sacks offers a unique window into the early development of Eastern Washington’s wheat industry, which today contributes billions of dollars to the state’s economy.

The sacks are also a tangible reminder of the mills that played a critical role in Spokane’s early growth. Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm, third Thu from 10 am-9 pm through May 15. $15-$20. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org KHQ/WORKSOURCE JOB FAIR Employment opportunities span from entry-level to executive, and range across all industries. Online on May 12 from 11 am-2 pm. Free. jobfairspokane.com ONLINE STORYTIMES: LIVE Children have fun learning as library staff read stories, sing songs and share fingerplays during storytime. Ages 2-5 and their families. Registration required. Thu 6:307 pm and Fri 9:30-10 am. Free. scld.org SOCIAL FABRIC SERIES: DIRTY LAUNDRY This self-guided, miniexhibition inside the Campbell House wrings details from diaries, correspondence and interviews to interpret personal and private topics not frequently shared in polite society. TueSun from noon-4 pm (entry included with admission) through June 30. $15-$20. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org STORYTIME SHORTS A great way to help young children learn language and literacy skills that help them get ready for kindergarten. For ages 2-5 and their families. Tue/Thu at 10 am on SCLD’s Facebook: scld.org/facebook AFTER HOURS MINIATURE GOLF Play some nature-themed, after-hours miniature golf in the library with family or a group of friends. Registration required. May 13, 6:30-8:30 pm. Free.

Cheney Library, 610 First St. scld.org LGBTQ+ SENIORS OF THE INW All LGBTQ+ seniors are invited to join weekly Zoom meetings, Fridays at 4 pm. “Senior” is roughly ages 50+. Email NancyTAvery@comcast.net to be added to the email list. Free. facebook.com/ SpokaneLGBTSeniors

RUMMAGE & BAKE SALE The sale includes specialty tables, a jewelry table, books, collectibles and small furniture.

May 13-14 from 9 am-3 pm. San Souci Mobile Home Park, 3231 W. Boone Ave. (509-326-1148) ANHPI HERITAGE DAY & FAMILY FUN FAIR Experience diverse culture activities including live music, traditional dance and food trucks serving Laotian, Vietnamese, Chamorro, Hawaiian, Samoan and Filipino food. A Family Fun Fair features family resources and services. May 14, 1-8 pm. Free. Riverfront Park (Pavilion), 507 N. Howard. SpokaneUnitedWeStand.org INLAND NORTHWEST SKYFEST Skyfest is headlined by the USAF Thunderbirds and features family-friendly activities all weekend. May 14-15, 9 am-4:30 pm.

See website for details. Free. Fairchild Air Force Base, Airway Heights. fairchildskyfest.com (509-957-2108) KIMEKOMI WITH JENNI BARRY Kimekomi is the unique Japanese art form of tucking fabric into a groove on a hand-drawn pattern. Tools, base and some fabric provided. May 14, 11 am-3 pm. $36. Create Arts Center, 900 Fourth St., Newport. createarts.org NEYFS FAMILY SPRING MARKET Northeast Youth and Family Services is celebrating two years serving the Spokane community. This family-friendly event features live music, locally-crafted goods, tours of the community clothing closet and podcast studio, puppies available for adoption and a scavenger hunt. May 14, 9 am-4 pm. Free. Northeast Youth and Family Services, 19 E. Queen Ave. neyfs.org/family-spring-market PRAIRIE DOG PET MERCANTILE GRAND RE-OPENING Celebrate the new Prairie Dog Pet Mercantile space in Kendall Yards with goodie bags, raffle baskets and more. Donate cash or pet supplies to help local rescue animals.

Furry friends welcome. May 14, 9 am-5 pm. Free. Prairie Dog Pet Mercantile, 1206 W. Summit Pkwy. pdogpet.com PUBLIC LAUNCH MEET & GREET: KOOTENAI COUNTY NAACP Meet fellow members and welcome new ones.

Taco Works is serving up tacos, burritos chimichangas and more. May 14, 12-3 pm.

Free. G.O. Phippeny Park, 827 N. Eighth St., Coeur d’Alene. kootenaicountynaacp. org (208-991-2142) SWING INTO SUMMER DANCE A swing dance hosted by the Spokane Folklore Society featuring live music with the Zonky 5 Jazz Band. May 14, 7-10 pm. $10$15. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org WORLD DANCE PARTY In light of the Ukrainian crisis, this event recognizes that everyone shares a united love of music and dance. May 14, 7-10 pm. $7$10. East Spokane Grange, 1621 N. Park Rd. (509-838-2160) THE LAST BATTLE TOUR The Steptoe Battle of 1858 was a conflict between the U.S. government and the Coeur d’Alene, Palouse and Spokane Tribes. This fullday tour with local historians and tribal member guides includes a visit to the Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage site. May 17, 8:30 am-4 pm. $70. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S. Nukwalqw. cdacasino.com (800-523-2464) EDUCATION JOB FAIR An opportunity for recent college graduates interested in working in the field of PK-12 education to connect with regional school districts.

May 20, 9 am-3 pm. Free. ESD 101, 4202 S. Regal St. (509-789-3504)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR LOST IN THE 50’S OPEN HOUSE Stop in for a tour, a cold brew or to check out classic Charlie Chaplin shorts. May 20-21, Fri from 2-7 pm and Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org/event/openhouse (208-263-9191) A CLUELESS MURDER Show off your sleuthing skills as you piece together clues and uncover “who dunnit” during this Clue-themed murder mystery game. Ages 21+. May 21, 6-9 pm. Coeur d’Alene Fresh, 317 Coeur d’Alene Ave. crimesceneentertainment.com DOZER DAY Kids can hop in the driver’s seat and drive dozers, loaders, excavators and much more while educating about building sustainable communities, industry opportunities and public safety. May 21 and 22, 11 am-4 pm. $11. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. (208-777-6300) MOTHERS OF MAY OPEN HOUSE Play games, meet and learn about furry and scaly friends and the wonders of animal life-cycles. May 21, 10 am-1 pm. By donation. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. olc.wvsd.org (509-340-1028) OTIS DAYS Celebrate Otis Days with a parade, a community fair and other activities. May 21, 11 am. Free.

Otis Orchards Elementary, 22000 E. Wellesley Ave. reallifeotis.church (509315-5829) SPOKANE LILAC FESTIVAL ARMED FORCES TORCHLIGHT PARADE The 84th annual parade is back after a two-year hiatus with a new theme, “Our Town”, and other events to accompany the parade. See website for schedule of events. May 21, 7:45 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane. spokanelilacfestival.org ONWARD & UPWARD WOMEN’S CONFERENCE A conference featuring world-class speakers who inspire, educate and open perspectives. May 25, 9 am-4 pm. $79. Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene Inn, 506 W. Appleway Ave. onwardandupwardcda22.eventbrite.com TRIVIA: HAMILTON Fans of Lin Manuel Miranda’s popular musical can compete to see who knows the most about Hamilton. If you know the lyrics to your favorite songs, which Schuyler sister said what and everything about your favorite founding fathers, don’t miss an evening of fun facts and friendly competition. Registration required. May 25, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. scld.org TAKE IT APART Curious about how things work? Using basic tools, gloves and safety goggles, take apart electronics, small appliances and other donated devices. Kids 8 and under must bring an adult. Grades K+. Registration required. Friends and family, of up to four people, may register as a group.

May 28, 10 am-noon. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. scld.org (893-8350) LOCALMOTION CAR SHOW The first annual event features live music, food vendors, merchandise, raffles, prizes and more. June 4, 11 am-7 pm. Free.

LocalMotion Hydraulics & Accessories, 3038 E. Trent Ave. (509-960-0178) NORTH MONROE BLOCK PARTY A summer kick-off event including cultural food, music, immigrant-owned businesses and local organizations.

June 4, 10 am-2 pm. Free. North Monroe Business District, North Monroe Street. facebook.com/NMBDspokane (509-309-8404)

LILAC CITY COMICON The 2022 event features 200+ exhibitor booths to browse, buy comics and related products, as well as special guests and panels. See website for full schedule.

June 4, 10 am-6 pm and June 5, 10 am-4 pm. $5-$32. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. lilaccitycon.com (279-7000) THE FRIENDS OF MANITO SPRING PLANT SALE The annual spring plant sale includes a wide selection of perennials, house plants and handmade home and garden decor items. June 4, 8 am-3 pm. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org

FILM

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION: THE EXHIBITION From the makers of Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls, comes an extraordinary exhibition celebrating over 25 years of DreamWorks Animation. The show includes more than 400 items including rare and never-seen-before concept drawings, original artifacts, interactives, film clips, and more. Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm (third Thursdays until 8 pm) through Sep. 11. $15-$20. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org (509-456-3931) FULL DRAW FILM TOUR Enjoy bowhunting on the big screen. This year’s films feature extremely close encounters with elk, moose and more.

May 12, 7 pm. $10-$20. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org THE WEEKEND SAILOR A film about captain Ramon Carlin’s nine-month deadly round the world regatta. All proceed support the Sandpoint Sailing Association. May 14, 7 pm. By donation.

Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191) TOTALLY TUBULAR TUESDAYS The Garland’s cult favorite film series is back. See schedule and pre-buy tickets online. Tuesdays at 7:10 pm through May 31. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com ALL SORTS A lonely data-entry clerk stumbles into the world of championship folder filing. Daily showings May 20-25 at 7 pm. $10.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. magiclanternonmain.com PNW FILM MAKER SHOWCASE Featuring live music by Craig McQuain and 11 assorted short films.

May 26, 7-11 pm. Free. Auto Vue Drive-In Theater, 444 Auto View Rd. facebook.com/Auto-Vue-Drive-InTheatre-120740527937813/ MONTANA FISHING FILM FESTIVAL Anglers from all walks of life, fishing close to their own backyards in freshwater destinations, share films from their fishing adventures. June 1, 7-9 pm. $16. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. mtfishingfilmfest.com

FOOD & DRINK

ROCKET WINE CLASS Rocket Market hosts weekly wine classes; sign up in advance for the week’s selections.

Fridays at 7 pm. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com WINE TASTING Explore the wines of the Loire Valley. Includes cheese and crackers. May 13, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino!

A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) WINE TASTING Old world vs. new world wines. Includes cheese and crackers. May 14, 2-4:30 pm. $10. Vino!

A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) BIKE TO WORK WEEK KICK-OFF BREAKFAST Start Bike to Work Week with a hearty breakfast at the North Bank Shelter. Share stories with other cycling enthusiasts, eat pancakes and learn about upcoming bike infrastructure projects. May 16, 7-9 am.

Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane DUNHAM CELLARS WINEMAKER DINNER Gander & Ryegrass hosts Dunham Cellars for an all-inclusive, sixcourse pairing dinner featuring Walla Walla wines. May 17, 4:45-9:45 pm. $125. Gander & Ryegrass, 404 W. Main Ave. ganderandryegrass.com KILL THE KEG & SERVICE INDUSTRY NIGHT This weekly special includes $2 off select GHP beer, $1 off select guest beer and a 20% discount for service industry patrons. Tuesdays from 3-9 pm. The Golden Handle Project, 111 S. Cedar St. goldenhandle.org SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER MONTHLY LUNCHEON Join the Center for good food, good company and entertainment. A new theme/menu is offered each month. Third Tuesdays from 11:30 am-1 pm. $10-$12. Southside Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (509-535-0803) MEDICAL PERSONNEL APPRECIATION NIGHT All medical and healthcarerelated personnel, students, staff and professionals receive a 20% discount off all GHP beer and food. Wednesdays from 3-9 pm. The Golden Handle Project, 111 S. Cedar St. goldenhandle. org (509-868-0264) GRILLING & CHILLING Learn to make grilled favorites including marinated chicken, grilled steak, summer vegetables, skewered prawns and a spinach salad. May 19, 5-7 pm. $69.

Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. ccs.spokane.edu (509-2796144) WINE TASTING “Sicily Through the Years” with Feudo Montoni. May 20, 3-6:30 pm. $10. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com SPOKANE LILAC FESTIVAL BREWFEST Taste beers from 16 local breweries. Included with purchase are 10 tasting tokens and a special edition tasting glass. May 21, 1-5 pm. $35-$45. Downtown Spokane. spokanelilacfestival.org SUKIYAKI TAKE OUT DINNER The annual dinner is takeout-only this year and includes a bake sale, homemade crafts and inari sushi. Call to reserve a plate and set pick-up time. May 21, 12-4:30 pm. $18. Highland Park United Methodist Church, 611 S. Garfield St. (509-999-1053) WINE TASTING Taste a selection of Spain’s Conde Valdemar and Valdemar Estates. Includes cheese and crackers.

May 21, 2-4:30 pm. $15. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine. com (509-838-1229) PAUL HOBBS WINE DINNER An exclusive wine-pairing dinner showcasing wines from Paul Hobbs winery in Napa Valley. May 25, 6-9 pm. $136. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second St. beverlyscda.com (208-765-4000)

DOUBLEBACK WINE DINNER This year’s dinner features six courses crafted by Beverly’s Executive Chef Jim Barrett paired with Drew Bledsoe’s award-winning Double Back wines from Walla Walla. May 26, 6-9 pm. $195. Beverly’s, 115 S. Second St. beverlyscda.com (208-765-4000) YAYA BREWING BEER LUNCH Gander and Ryegrass’ monthly coursed pairing lunch in partnership YaYa Brewing featuring four to five beers paired with unique courses. May 28, 11 am-2:45 pm. $85. Gander & Ryegrass, 404 W. Main Ave. ganderandryegrass.com SUMMER DECK PARTY Learn to prepare appetizers like salata avocado, antipasto kabobs, shrimp and cucumber canapes, grilled zucchini, ricotta roulades, stuffed jalapeños and fresh strawberry salsa. Substitutions to accommodate dietary restrictions are available. June 2, 5-7 pm. $69.

Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. campusce.net/spokane/ course/course.aspx?c=1186 ITALIAN COOKING CLASS Make gnocchi, roasted zucchini and a chocolate torte. This class takes place over Zoom. June 4, 3-5 pm. $55. Wren Pierson Community Center, 615 Fourth St. cityofcheney.org (509-489-9250)

MUSIC

NEIL BERG’S 50 YEARS OF ROCK AND ROLL With a cast of stars from Broadway’s greatest rock musicals and rock bands, Neil shares the songs and stories behind the music that changed the world. From Chuck Berry to the Beatles to Bruce Springsteen and dozens more icons of rock and roll. May 12, 7:30 pm. $17-$36. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. gonzaga.edu/myrtle-woldsonperforming-arts-center/events FLAMENCO DE RAÍZ WITH MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ Experience Andalucía, Spain as artists present traditional and original compositions and dance numbers rooted in the centuries old art form known as Flamenco. May 13, 7 pm. $22-$25. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191) BAROQUE QUARTET A concert of 17th and 18th-century music performed by four soloists including harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, viola da gambist Susie Napper, baroque violinist David Greenberg and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan. May 14, 2 pm. By donation.

St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. salishseafestival.org (509-838-4277) GERMAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY SPRING CONCERT & DINNER Featuring the Concordia Choir and special guest performers, the Spokane String Quartet. May 14, 5-11 pm. $25.

German American Hall, 25 W. Third Ave. (509-954-6964) KELEREN MILLHAM: THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: THEN AND NOW A program featuring a blend of classic songs from the canons of jazz and current music that SJO Music Director Dr. Don Goodwin believes will be awarded classic status in 50 years. May 14, 7:30 pm. $27-$32. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com JAYDEAN LUDIKER & HER FIDDLE ORCHESTRA Group Therapy performs hoedowns, waltzes and tunes that will take you back to another time.

May 15, 2-3:30 pm. By donation.

Harrington Opera House, 19 S. Third St. harringtonoperahouse.org (509253-4719)

PROJECT JOY’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The concert includes performances from talented singers, dancers and musicians. Learn about the history of the organization and meet entertainers. May 15, 3-4:30 pm.

Free. Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave. projectjoy. org (509-313-2787) WHITWORTH CHOIR: IN REMEMBRANCE The Whitworth Choir presents its spring 2022 concert as a tribute the loved ones we have lost.

Directed by Xiaosha Lin, featuring music from both classical and current composers. May 15, 3 pm. $5-$7. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATES CANTABILE CHAPTER: TRUE LIGHT Contemporary choral music that explores themes of light featuring the Spokane Symphony Chorale Chamber Singers, members of the Palouse Choral Society and the Eastern Washington University Symphonic Choir. May 16, 8 pm. $26. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spokanesymphony.org PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM Favorite compositions are selected from Chorale Coeur d’Alene’s past season concerts. Meet new Artistic Director Dr. Keith Whitlock and accompanist David Brewster. May 17, 7-8:30 pm. Free.

Peace Lutheran Church, 8134 N. Meyer Rd. ChoraleCdA.com (208-446-2333) SPOKANE SYMPHONY OUT & ABOUT CONCERT SERIES: FIRST AVENUE COFFEE A 45-minute concert of light classical music from small groups of two to five Spokane Symphony Musicians. May 18, 5:30 pm. Free.

First Avenue Coffee, 1017 W. First Ave. spokanesymphony.org WEDNESDAY EVENING CONTRA DANCE Join the Spokane Folklore Society each Wednesday for contra dancing. First-time dancers get a coupon for a free dance night. All dances are taught and walked through, then called to live music. Come 15 min. early for a lesson. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30 pm. $7/members; $10/ general (18 and under free). Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. womansclubspokane.org BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET The quartet has played a variety of styles in a number of different groups, as well as with their father, jazz giant Dave Brubeck. May 19, 7:30 pm. $27.

Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. artinsandpoint.org (208-263-6139) SPOKANE SYMPHONY OUT & ABOUT CONCERT SERIES: THE MASON JAR A 45-minute concert of light classical music from small groups of two to five Spokane Symphony Musicians. May 19, 7 pm. Free. The Mason Jar, 101 F St., Cheney. spokanesymphony.org CELTIC WOMAN Comprised of four young Irish women, this ensemble celebrates Ireland’s rich musical and cultural heritage with a repertoire of Irish classics, contemporary songs and stirring originals. May 20, 7:30 pm and May 21, 7:30 pm. $49-$79. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY OUT & ABOUT CONCERT SERIES: SLIGHTLY CHARRED A 45-minute concert of light classical music from small groups of two to five Spokane Symphony Musicians. May 20, 5 pm. Free. Slightly Charred Wood Fired Pizza, 816 W. Sprague Ave. spokanesymphony.org

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Legalization Push Speeds Up Breakthroughs in legalization used to come years apart, now however they’re coming fast

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ast week was a busy one for those fighting for cannabis legalization, with seemingly each passing day bringing a new, major announcement about decriminalization or legalization from around the nation.

First, on May 4, the New Hampshire House of Representatives approved attaching text from cannabis legalization legislation to an amended bill. The amended bill had previously been passed by the Senate, which has repeatedly voted against cannabis legalization on its own, but now the bill will have to be taken up again.

A day later, on May 5, the Delaware House passed legislation that would legalize possession of cannabis

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many signatures as were required.

When voters in Missouri take to the polls this fall, with the ability to legalize cannabis in their state, they will be doing so two days removed from the 10-year anniversary of Washington and Colorado becoming the first states to do so. Should the ballot measure pass in Missouri, assuming no other state acts faster, the Show Me State will become the 20th state in the union to have legalized recreational cannabis.

Colorado and Washington opened the floodgates in 2012, but only a trickle immediately followed. Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia followed two years later, and Nevada, Massachusetts, Maine and California did so two Legal cannabis is finding new places to flourish across the country. years after that. Two years after those four states, Michigan joined the club. Since then, it’s been in the state. Delaware Online reports the legislation is exan annual deluge. Illinois in 2019, followed by Vermont, pected to pass in the Senate, but faces an uncertain future New Jersey, Montana and Arizona in 2020 — South Dain front of an anti-legalization governor. kota did as well, though it was subsequently struck down On May 7, voters in Austin, Texas, overwhelmingly in court. Last year Virginia, New York, New Mexico and voted in favor of a decriminalization measure on the balConnecticut jumped into the fold. lot. Misdemeanor possession will no longer result in arrest Now, Delaware, New Hampshire and Missouri are all or citation in Austin, though Texas as a whole continues home to active cannabis-legalization efforts. Three states, to have some of the toughest cannabis laws in the country. and we’re only one third of the way through 2022. While Then, on May 8, activists in Missouri submitted over this year isn’t looking great at the federal level, it has 385,000 signatures in an effort to get legalization on the potential to be a banner year nonetheless. n 2022 ballot. The group submitted more than twice as

BE AWARE: Marijuana is legal for adults 21 and older under Washington State law (e.g., RCW 69.50, RCW 69.51A, HB0001 Initiative 502 and Senate Bill 5052). State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington state, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal. Marijuana has intoxicating effects; there may be health risks associated with its consumption, and it may be habit-forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. Keep out of reach of children. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR NORTHWEST BACHFEST: CHEE-YUN KIM & NATASHA PAREMSKI Guest artists Chee-Yun Kim and Natasha Paremski join Zuill Bailey for two performances of duo, solo and trio selections including music of Beethoven, Chopin, Kodaly, Rachmaninoff and more. May 21, 7 pm and May 22, 3 pm. $55. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. barristerwinery. com (509-465-3591) SPOKANE SYMPHONY POPS 3: HAVANA NIGHTS The Symphony is joined by soprano Camille Zamora for an adventure through the passionate music of Cuba, Spain and Latin America with the Mambo Kings. May 21, 8 pm. $43-$92.

Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spokanesymphony.org SPOKANE STRING QUARTET Featuring guest artist John Marshall, viola. The program includes Joseph Haydn (String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2, “The Joke”) Dmitri Shostakovich (String Quartet No. 10, Op. 118) and Johannes Brahms (Viola Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111). May 22, 3 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. spokanestringquartet.org LINK UP: THE ORCHESTRA ROCKS! Students who learned to sing and play recorder perform an end-of-program concert. May 25, 7 pm. $6. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. spokanesymphony.org ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The EWU Music Program presents a concert by students, faculty and alums featuring music from Beethoven to the Beatles. May 26, 7:30 pm. $13-$23. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.org (509-624-1200) SPOKANE SYMPHONY OUT & ABOUT CONCERT SERIES: THE CARL MAXEY CENTER A 45-minute concert of light classical music from small groups of two to five Spokane Symphony Musicians.

May 27, 6:30 pm. Free. Carl Maxey Center, 3116 E. Fifth Ave. spokanesymphony.org

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SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EUGENE EMERALDS Promo events during the six-game series include Businessperson’s Special Day (May 17), Fields of Green Sweepstakes Night (May 18), Doris The Mascot’s Birthday Night (May 19), Storybook Princess and Fireworks Night (May 20), Family Feast Night (May 21) and Youth Sports Game (May 22). May 17, 12:05 pm, May 18, 6:35 pm, May 19, 6:35 pm, May 20, 6:35 pm, May 21, 5:09 pm and May 22, 1:05 pm. $8-$22. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. milb.com/ spokane (535-2922) DAD & DUDES NIGHT A night of fun, games and activities for all ages. May 21, 6-9 pm. $5-$15. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave., Liberty Lake. hubsportscenter.org (509-927-0602) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT AQUASOX Promo events during the six-game series include Bark in the Park Night (May 24), Smokey Bear Night (May 25), Jersey Off the Back Night (May 26), Armed Forces Appreciation Night and Fireworks Night (May 27), $10,000 Grand Slam Night (May 28) and Dollars in Your Dog Day (May 29). May 24, 6:35 pm, May 25, 6:35 pm, May 26, 6:35 pm, May 27, 6:35 pm, May 28, 5:09 pm and May 29, 1:05 pm. $8-$22. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. milb.com/spokane

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RIVERFRONT MOVES: CORE FOUR COLLECTIVE Held in partnership with local health and fitness businesses and Providence Health Care, this fitness series offers exercise classes for all ages and fitness levels. May 26-June 16, Thu from 6-7 pm. Free. Pavilion at Riverfront, 574 N. Howard St. my.spokanecity.org STARS ON ICE After missing two seasons due to the pandemic, the 2022 Stars on Ice tour presents the best of the U.S. Figure Skating team competing in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. May 27, 7:30 pm. $32-$142. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. spokanearena.com SPOKANE GARRY: A HISTORICAL EXPEDITION Dr. David Beine, Dean of the College of Global Engagement at Spokane’s Great Northern University, guides an expedition to historical sites around the Spokane region related to Spokane Garry. May 28, 9 am-1 pm. $50.

Great Northern University, 611 E. Indiana Ave. dbeine.regfox.com/spokane-garrytours (509-284-7100) KETTLE FALLS SUP CUP The first annual Kettle Falls SUP (stand-up padleboarding) Cup is an all-levels paddleboard race with recreational and competitive divisions. Participants need to bring their own gear. June 5, 10 am-3 pm. $40-$50. Kettle Falls, Wash. paddlesignup.com/Race/WA/ KettleFalls/KettleFallsSUPCup SPOKANE FESTIVAL OF SPEED The festival brings together iconic and pristine vintage sports cars and highpowered ground pounders, along with world-famous and historic formula cars from the glory days of American and European road racing. June 3-5, see website for full racing schedule. June 3-5. $20. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. spokanefestivalofspeed.org

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ART: YASMINA REZA A Drawn Together Art staged reading of Yasmina Reza’s play examining the nature of friendship and art. May 12-14 at 7:30 pm. May 12-14, 7:30 pm. $20. The Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. drawntogetherarts.com THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT Fresh out of college, Jim Fingal’s job is to fact-check articles for one of the best magazines in the country. His boss has given him a big assignment: to apply his skill to a groundbreaking piece by author John D’Agata. Fingal has one huge problem — D’Agata made up a lot of his article. In the Studio Theatre. Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm through May 29. $10-$20.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com HAMILTON The story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, Hamilton has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre — a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics and education. It has won Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors. Tue-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1 pm, Sun at 7 pm through May 22. $39-$249. First Interstate Center for the Arts, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. broadwayspokane.com (509-279-7000) ALICE IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll’s unflappable young heroine takes a tumble down an enchanted rabbit hole to an off-kilter world of mock turtles,

dancing flora, punctual rabbits and mad tea parties. May 20-June 5; Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $12-$16. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org IGNITE! COMMUNITY THEATRE When a documentary filmmaker sets up a camera and the wine starts flowing, a lot more than literature gets discussed. Truths are told and secrets are revealed as six young professionals find that there is more to a book — and life — than the cover in Karen Zacarías’s The Book Club Play. May 2022, Fri from 7:30-9:30 pm, Sat-Sun from 2-4 pm. May 20, 7:30-9:30 pm, May 21, 2-4 pm and May 22, 2-4 pm. $5. Project ID, 4209 E. Pacific Ave. projectidspokane. org (509-795-0004) KIDS KORNER After moving to a virtual platform during the pandemic, this collection of short plays written by local first-grade students returns to the stage. May 21, 7 pm and May 22, 2 pm.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. stagelefttheater.org (509-838-9727) MET LIVE IN HD: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR The Kenworthy’s annual series of MET Live in HD operas. Lucia Di Lammermoor features soprano Nadine Sierra, tenor Javier Camarena, baritone Artur Ruciński and bass Matthew Rose.

Conducted by Riccardo Frizza. May 21, 9:55 am and May 23, 6 pm. $15-$20. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy. org (208-882-4127) MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS A plot-twist masterpiece that’s thrilled mystery lovers from television, radio, film and now theatre. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. May 27-June 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$35. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. spokanecivictheatre.com CYT SPOKANE: MATILDA THE MUSICAL Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life. May 27-June 5, Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $14-$18. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. cytspokane.org EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR Nan has decided to teach her husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past. Through this night of emotional trials and ridiculous theatrics, Nan and Kyle are both freed from their past in this smart, dark revenge comedy.

May 27-29, Fri-Sat from 7-9 pm and Sun from 3-5 pm. $12-$16. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. cadeprophet.org JT: TARFUFFE REIMAGINED Moliere’s Tarfuffe reimagined to be set in Texas.

June 2-5, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Pay what you can. Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Whistalks Way. sfcc. spokane.edu/drama

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AWAKENINGS: TRADITIONAL CANOES AND CALLING THE SALMON HOME The MAC, in collaboration with the United Tribes of the Upper Columbia, tells the story of the annual inland canoe journey,

from the purchase of old growth cedar logs and carving the dugouts, to the annual launch and landing at Kettle Falls, through contemporary and historic canoes supported by the words of those who have experienced it. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm through Aug. 21. $15-$20.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org BASKET ILLUSION ART Louis Toweill’s basket illusion pieces are wood-turned bowls designed and painted to look like something else. April 26-May 23, Mon-Fri from 9 am-5 pm. Free. Wenaha Gallery, 219 E. Main St., Dayton. wenaha.com ELLEN VIETH & JEAN ARNOLD: A CONVERSATION The two artists are exhibiting a range of work they created and selected in response to conversations that they’ve held. Thu-Fri from 12-5 pm, Sat from 11 am-3 pm through May 14.

Free. Moscow Contemporary, 414 S. Main St. moscowcontemporary.org POP! ARTE BLANCHE This show features the ceramics of Noah Riedel, the paintings of Pat Siler, the textile work of Helen Parsons, the sculptural work of Chris Riccardo and the constructions of Michael Horswill. Wed-Sun from 11 am-6 pm through May 28. Free. The Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave. theartspiritgallery.com (509-765-6006) REAL FREE SPEECH AND COMMENTARY Artwork in all mediums by artists John Thamm, Roch Fautch, Jesse Swanson, Rick Davis, Matt Wolf, Travis Chapman, Darrell Wilcox, Audreana Camm and Hank Chiappetta. May 13, 5-8 pm and May 14, 12-4 pm. Free. Shotgun Studios, 1625 W. Water Ave. ShotgunStudiosSpokane. com (509-688-3757) SUPERSTITIONS NIGHT MARKET & STREET FAIR A monthly block-party, and vendor fair with live music, immersive art events and an ArtWalk exhibit presented

by The Wavy Bunch. Second Friday of every month, from 5-9 pm, through Oct. 14. Free. Coeur d’Alene Bike Co., 314 N. Third St. (208-920-1856) BASIC IMPRESSIONISM Learn how to paint in an impressionistic manner with T Kurtz. It’s recommended to take a basic drawing course before this one.

Ages 16+. May 14, 10 am-noon. $80.

Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool@gmail.com STYLIZING ANY ANIMAL WITH ANDI KEATING For beginner/intermediate artists looking to have fun exploring different ways of stylizing animals in art. Ages 11+. May 14, 11 am-3 pm. $40.

Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net (509-325-1500) DROP IN & DRAW Join a creative community for this weekly free-form program. Explore artistic mediums, develop skills and ideas and cultivate imaginative thinking through art. All skill levels welcome. Supplies/projects provided. Wednesdays from 5:30-7 pm.

Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. spark-central.org 2022 BFA THESIS EXHIBITION Eastern Washington University’s annual BFA Senior Exhibition features the work of graduating seniors enrolled in EWU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. May 19, 2-4 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Building. ewu.edu/cahss BEGINNING NEEDLE FELTING Take basic needle felting skills to the next level with step-by-step instructions on building a complex form, creating life-like attributes and adding a finishing layer to your new friend. May 21-22, 11 am-3 pm. $80.

Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave.

spokaneartschool.net (509-325-1500) BRUSH ON THE BLUFF Dozens of local artists set up their easels on the bluff and draw inspiration from the natural beauty around them. The public is encouraged to walk the trail, meet the artists and observe their work. Other activities include art workshops, art hikes, nature bracelet making and more. May 21, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Polly Judd Park, West Cannon Place Ln. friendsofthebluff.org OUR STORIES, OUR LIVES: IRWIN NASH PHOTOGRAPHS OF YAKIMA VALLEY MIGRANT LABOR The bounty and diversity of Washington state’s agriculture is possible because of the labor of agricultural workers. In 1967, Irwin Nash visited the Yakima Valley to take photographs for a freelance magazine piece on valley agriculture. He returned to Yakima each season until 1976 to document the lives of these workers. In the process, he created an archive of more than 9,400 photographs. May 24-Dec. 10, Tue-Fri 1-4 pm, Sat 10 am-4 pm. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, 1535 NE Wilson Rd. museum.wsu.edu GARLAND SKETCH CRAWL Sketch the landmarks of the Garland neighborhood with Megan Perkins. May 25 and June 8 from 5-7 pm and July 13 and Aug. 17 from 9-11 am. $20. Spokane Art School, 811 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net M.A.D. CO LAB STUDIOS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY Celebrate M.A.D. Co Lab Studios and Celestial Beans being in business for one year with a live DJ, a children’s painting and drawing station and multiple raffle prizes. May 28, 5-10 pm. Free. Mad Co Labs Studios, 3038 E. Trent Ave. madcolabstudios.com

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JACK NISBET: THE DREAMER AND DOCTOR Swedish immigrant John Leiberg was a botanist and prospector; his wife Carrie, a practicing physician.

Jack Nisbet explores their lives and how their observations resonate with issues and opportunities we still grapple with today in his new book. May 13, 7-9 pm. By donation. Create Arts Center, 900 Fourth St. createarts.org (509-447-9277) NANCE VAN WINCKEL, DAN BUTTERWORTH & JOHN KEEBLE Celebrate new work in poetry by three local poets. May 13, 7-8 pm. Free.

Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (509-838-0206) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm; sign-ups at 6 pm. 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. bit.ly/2ZAbugD VIRTUAL CONVERSATION WITH RESMAA MENAKEM Menakem is a healer, longtime therapist and licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. May 18, 12-12:45 pm. $59. unitedwayspokane.org HENRY ROLLINS The punk icon has shifted into being a storyteller in his oneman shows. May 18, 8 pm. $33-$168. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. sp.knittingfactory.com (509-227-7404) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE: IMPROBABLE ASCENT Born with one hand, Maureen Beck, 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, shared how creativity, grit and determination made her a top paraclimber. May 18, 7 pm. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. foxtheaterspokane.org n

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