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CHANDRA LOWRY The bands, and how the people act. People can get too drunk and too rowdy. Are you planning on going to any this summer? Yeah. I haven’t really had time to look because I’ve got kids to deal with. I want to go to Watershed. I love country music.
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f Idaho’s two congressmen, Rep. Mike Simpson and Rep. Raúl Labrador, had voted against the ridiculously inadequate health care bill that passed the House of Representatives on May 4, the vote would have been tied, 215 to 215, and the bill would have failed. Ker-plop. But that’s in the “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride” category. The bill stumbled its way through to victory, and now we are wondering what’s in Idaho’s health care future. We’re in the beggars’ role, wishing that health care for all could be settled once and for all. Republicans in Congress celebrated their victory with drinks in the Rose Garden; they are in the saddle and riding high. A couple of realities can ease our concern. First, the House health care bill isn’t going anywhere in Congress, because the Senate won’t touch it. The Senate Republicans are writing their own health care bill, thank you very much. Perhaps Democrats may be drawn in to make it a bipartisan effort. We could wish that the two parties could simply correct shortcomings in the existing Affordable Care Act and be done with it. But that would be too reasonable. Second, the House health care bill isn’t really about health care at all. It’s about cutting taxes for the very wealthy. Republicans may or may not respond to their constituents’ concerns about health care, but they do have a one-size-fits-all attitude about tax cuts. For Republican leaders in Washington, there’s no disease that tax cuts for the rich can’t cure. Wealth is one pre-existing condition this administration and Congress are certain to protect.
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epublican legislators just can’t resist tax cuts. They dream about them. I liken it to our current national addiction to bacon. Bacon flavoring is now being infused into just about every type of food — bacon-flavored mustard, bacon-flavored mayonnaise, bacon-flavored ice cream. A very special member of my family is a dedicated vegetarian who eats no meat — except for bacon. An addiction to cutting taxes is just as unhealthy for the body politic. Moreover, giving tax cuts to those who need them least — while denying health care to those who need it most — is bad policy and bad politics. Even in a conservative state like Idaho, voters have shown they are willing to pay more at the local level to support better schools. Whatever they may think of Obamacare, conservatives, liberals and moderates alike should be able to agree that tax cuts for the wealthy are the wrong prescription. Congressman Labrador has been ridiculed over TV, radio and social media to outer space and back for suggesting that “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”
Sometimes the only thing worse than a politician who says what he means is one who means what he says. The public is paying more attention to events in Washington than any time I can remember, short of wartime or Watergate. Callous Republicans eager to take away benefits and protections should remember that over the past two decades, no issue has shortened political lives more than health care. It is reassuring that the Idaho Medical Association stands fast in its position that any national legislation that takes medical coverage away should be opposed. The Idaho legislature has not chosen to accept the benefits of expanding Medicaid. In so doing, Idaho has not benefited from the large infusion of federal dollars that other states have received. The count of Idahoans who earn too much to receive Medicaid, but not enough to pay their bills, has been steady at 78,000 for several years now. This number is expected to rise if the national Medicaid budget is slashed as President Trump has indicated, and no adjustment is made for those unlucky enough to live inside this Medigap.
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n another subject: Idaho Republican legislators are now angry because Governor Butch Otter vetoed their bill that does away with taxes on groceries. They have actually taken their own Republican governor to court over the issue. Otter gave solid reasons for his veto of the grocery tax removal bill. He said the grocery tax provides a stable source LETTERS of tax revSend comments to enue, because editor@inlander.com. everyone has to eat. And he maintains that the grocery tax credit adequately eases the financial pain to low-income families. The governor stated the grocery tax repeal would cost Idaho $201 million in revenue in 2019. With this veto, he also gives longtime Lieutenant Governor Brad Little — who is running against Labrador, among others, to take Otter’s place — a chance to champion the popular cause of getting rid of the tax on groceries. Even if the cause is just, legislators and gubernatorial candidates will need to come up with another source of revenue to cover the loss of the grocery dollars. Politicians love bringing home the bacon. It’s up to voters to remind them of the price. n
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COMMENT | CRIME quent forms of racism. Bias typically operates at subconscious and institutional levels. Tools such as the Implicit Association Test predict unfair treatment, and show how flash judgments toward people of different racial backgrounds can have devastating effects. How would one prove that Bushnell or the members of this jury were not part of the 48 percent of white Americans found by the Pew Research Center to “prefer white over black” in a 2015 study? Such subconscious perceptions likely underpinned Bushnell’s case for “selfdefense” in two ways: First, in the sense that his actions were deemed not premeditated, and second, his snap assessment of the degree of threat posed to himself and Poindexter’s partner.
Just because such biases are subconscious does not mean they are inevitable, or right.
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ang! Bang! With that, 45-year-old William Poindexter was dead. In 2015, Spokane was scandalized by the scenario that led to his death. Trained soldier Edward Bushnell had intervened as a bystander in a domestic dispute, fighting Poindexter with two knives while Poindexter fought back with a bat. As Poindexter and his girlfriend were clearly leaving the scene, Bushnell retrieved a firearm from his backpack and fatally shot
Poindexter in the back from about 30 feet away. With the jury exonerating Bushnell of any wrongdoing, we’ve been scandalized twice. Once by the tragic death of a troubled black man, now by the legal disregard for the value of this man’s life in our own city at the hands of a white killer, overseen by a white judge and all-white jury. “But race had nothing to do with it!” insist people clinging to colorblindness. While more visible and easier to decry, acts of overt interpersonal racism (such as name calling or graffiti) are actually some of the more infre-
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political bias cherry-picked on Democratic candidates with larger war chests than their Republican opponents, including reference to his own win over Tom Foley in 1994, when he vowed he would serve for a maximum of three terms. He served five. Regarding Hillary’s funding, Nethercutt conveniently ignored the estimated 2 billion dollars’ worth of free media coverage Trump received and funding of 16 other Republicans in the primaries. Also ignored is the overwhelming amount of corporate and billionaire-funded “dark money,” “issue ads” and Republican gerrymandering. Yes, Georgia’s Jon LETTERS Ossoff in a field of 18 candidates has Send comments to so far outraised the last Republican editor@inlander.com. standing, 67 percent of his funds in small donations, much from outside his district. Nationwide, solicitations for small donors, unfortunately, are now necessary to counter dark money that can flood into tight races just days before the election. How many Republican candidates in competitive races can match a 67 percent small-donor ratio? I suggest Nethercutt show less partisanship and support specific proposals, including neutral-party redistricting, increased competition with ranked-choice voting, and a U.S. constitutional amendment stating money is not speech and corporations are not people, as expressed overwhelmingly by Washington state voters in 2016 with the passage of I-735. ED DUHAIME Spokane, Wash.
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CHELSEA WEHRLI: Or you know, just get rid of the rust heap... Wouldn’t cost as much then! MONICA VEILLETTE: Too bad. It is beautiful and the kids enjoy it so much. JD STEWART: Or use the money to fix the potholes, but the bigwigs of Spokane are notorious for ignoring everybody. TORI CHAMBERLAIN-BAILEY: I love the fountain and am glad they are trying to keep it. Riverfront Park should be a gem in the central part of the city. The fountain should be a part of that. TRENA JACKSON: I never did like this eyesore. I miss the old fountain next to Rite Aid. They could have built something less... The fountain is a nice feature and fun for the kids but it didn’t have to be this huge monster of a distraction. For a city with the slogan Near Nature, Near Perfect, isn’t the river and the park enough? n
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Dean Strouse, 17, who has always been interested in forensics, created art depicting how luminol can reveal traces of blood.
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ean Strouse didn’t use any beakers, flasks or Bunsen burners for her chemistry project at the Community School. Instead, Strouse created a piece of art. It’s a black box lit up with ultraviolet light. Inside, paintings symbolize hydrogen peroxide reacting with luminol, a chemical that glows blue to help detect traces of blood at crime scenes. It may not be the kind of project that other science classes would accept. But at the Community School, teachers hope that Strouse and her classmates will understand concepts of chemistry more deeply through art and poetry than if they had learned in a more traditional way. “I think this really gives us a way to apply ourselves,” Strouse says. “This project in particular made us interest-
ed in chemistry. They make it fun while we’re learning, and we still have all the standards that other schools do.” The Community School uses what’s called “projectbased learning” as its main teaching method. In projectbased learning classes, students come to understand certain subjects by investigating a complex question, problem or challenge, before demonstrating their knowledge with some kind of project. It’s not a radically new concept, but it’s one that’s gaining momentum. And the project of communicating chemistry through art — subjects that traditionally had little to do with one another — encapsulates much of the debate surrounding project-based learning, or PBL. The research on the effectiveness of PBL is mixed, and the method can create an extra strain on teachers. Yet
students consistently report being more engaged with this type of learning, and it can help them with collaboration and teamwork skills that pay off down the road in college and in the work environment. In Spokane, schools are increasingly LETTERS using project-based Send comments to learning as a teaching editor@inlander.com. tool, and it’s starting to spill into more traditional schools. Ferris High School, with more than 1,500 students, started a PBL program that started with 12 students a year and a half ago, but already plans to enroll 200 students this fall. ...continued on next page
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NEWS | EDUCATION “A DIFFERENT WAY,” CONTINUED... “It’s an instructional strategy that, if done well, can really help illuminate a student’s understanding of a topic, in a way that a traditional test may not,” says Steven Gering, Spokane Public Schools’ Chief Innovation and Research Officer.
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also has great risks attached to it.” Advocates of PBL say it allows students to take control of their own education. Critics, however, argue that there’s value in teachers doing more traditional teaching. In 2006, three educational scholars — Paul Kirschner, John Sweller and Richard Clark — published a paper in the journal Educational Psychologist arguing that minimal guidance during instruction does not work. Spokane Public Schools’ Gering says that
Project-based learning in Spokane Public Schools started as a way to reach kids who weren’t responding to traditional teaching methods, the kind that involve more lectures, more sitting in a classroom, and more memorization. That was the kind of environment that Emma Linklater, a junior at the Community School, wasn’t responding to during her freshman year at a traditional public high school. “I got bored, going to class after class,” Linklater says. “I felt like I wasn’t doing anything that mattered. I was doing worksheets and Emma Linklater, 17, says PBL helps her understand the big picture of a subject. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO worksheets, and it was useless.” At the Community School, she says the work project-based learning works best in conjunction feels more applicable to real life. The school, part with other traditional methods. If a teacher were of Spokane Public Schools, was founded in 2011, to pull someone off the street and give them a and moved to its current location in 2013. It uses project, offering no other instruction, and the pera national model for project-based learning, and son could do it, then it’s probably a bad project. currently has 157 students. Other PBL schools in Ideally, projects could demonstrate something a the area include Spokane charter school PRIDE student has just learned. Prep, Mead’s Riverpoint Academy and West ValHutchison agrees. If poorly managed, he ley City School. says that students would only scratch the surface Schools across the globe have similar ideas. when learning about a given topic. But a project In New Zealand, a charter school called South that incorporates different subjects, like expressAuckland Middle School integrates curriculum ing chemistry through art, can be a rewarding and, like the Community School, often incorpoexperience for students. He says research has rates art into the projects. shown that one of the most effective ways to Project-based learning, in Spokane and learn is when students can challenge themselves around the world, isn’t an idea that has been by connecting new information with things they adopted by entire school systems. Rather, it already know. emerges from the ground up in different pockets, “I think that’s where the rich learning hapsays David Hutchison, a professor of teacher pens, in finding those connections,” Hutchison education at Brock University in Ontario. says. “I think project-based learning comes with Tami Linane-Booey, a teacher at the Commutremendous opportunity,” Hutchison says. “But it nity School, says she is teaching there because,
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in her view, project-based learning can help reform education as a whole. Teachers are no longer training people to be factory workers, and no longer do students need to memorize information the way they used to. “A lot of people are trying to figure out how to fix education,” she says. “We all kind of agree that it’s broken, but we don’t all agree on how to fix it. And the problem is, there is not one way to fix it, because every kid is different.” So far, students at the Community School have done well above average on English and language arts state tests, but not so well on math. Students use a web-based math program at the Community School, not project-based learning. But Linane-Booey says the skills her students can use down the road far outweigh any negatives. “We want students to work with others, think critically, think outside the box, and be lifelong learners, and know that you can teach yourself anything you want to learn,” she says. “And that is, for me, the power of project-based learning.”
SCHOOL WITHIN A SCHOOL
At Ferris High School, assistant principal Sammy Anderson saw for herself that a number of kids just weren’t involved in school. They’d come to school but not go to class, or they’d go to class and not care. But rather than tell those kids about another school better suited for them, Ferris decided to provide its own option for kids: a project-based school within the school. This school year, 40 students took the program. Next year, Ferris is expecting up to five times that number. “We like the school-within-a-school model, because then students have access to our excellent music program, or our drama, or debate,” Anderson says. “I think that’s one of the cool things about a comprehensive school — to go to our [convocations], to be in leadership class, and then have this other option within the day that is project-based.” From a teacher’s perspective, the project-based classroom can be both invigorating and challenging, says English teacher Emily Torres, who has taught at Ferris for 15 years. While classroom instruction may not be as intensive, coming up with a curriculum and projects can be time-consuming. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a lot of work,” she says. “I was ready for a challenge, and certainly got it.” Gering says Spokane Public Schools will continue to train teachers in the project-based method of teaching, if the teachers want it. He doesn’t see project-based learning as the “end all, be all,” but as a tool that some people can use to help demonstrate learning. Even believers in this method, like Linane-Booey, don’t think it should be forced on all schools. “We have to stop saying, ‘Every kid fits in this box and we’re all going to learn this way,’” she says. “So as we’re developing that, we’re developing more choices. And the district is behind choices and different ways of learning.” n wilsonc@inlander.com
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WATER Not long after 17 wells southeast of Fairchild Air Force Base tested high for two chemicals long used in firefighting foam, the city of Airway Heights found out that some of its drinking water also had higher-than-advised levels of the contaminants. Suddenly, instead of dozens of people being told only to use bottled water to drink and cook, it was thousands. The Air Force planned to meet with concerned citizens on Tuesday, with experts on hand to discuss the PFOA AND PFOS CONTAMINATION and what it could mean. At least one resident has filed a legal claim over the potential impact the chemicals may have had on her health and property value. While Airway Heights is figuring out how to flush its pipes and potentially use another water source, options for the residents who rely only on wells on their properties could take months or years for the Air Force to determine. The Environmental Protection Agency considers the chemicals emerging contaminants, and the testing was prompted in part by a lifetime health advisory limit the EPA set for them in 2016. (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
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EDUCATION This year, high school students in Washington must pass a BIOLOGY END-OF-COURSE EXAM in order to graduate. But for around 3,000 students in the state, that test may be the one thing preventing them from graduating, according to the State Board of Education. In Spokane Public Schools, 72 students have met all requirements for graduation other than the biology test, as of last week. The state board asked the state legislature earlier this month to eliminate the end-of-course test as a graduation requirement, but it’s unclear when, or if, the legislature will take action, according to Alissa Muller, communications consultant for the state board. “We don’t know what they’re gonna do,” she says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
RANKINGS To my fellow young people: Search no longer for our grand refrain, because our great city of Spokane is #44! We’re number 44! The oh-so-memorable number 44 on Growella’s list of 100 U.S. cities that should apparently be the most ATTRACTIVE FOR MILLENNIALS to move to. I know what you’re thinking: “Great... another list.” But this list doesn’t rely on hipness. Rather, its algorithm focused on cold, hard facts, like how far your paycheck goes, how many other young people live there, the commute, and jobs. To be fair, Spokane was beat out for the top 43 slots by some steep competition. Really, who can upstage the perennial millennial favorite Seattle (how will we ever get out of your shadow?) or the place where you couldn’t buy alcohol outside of a bar or restaurant until 2009, and still can’t on Sundays: Lubbock, Texas (18th, for blue-law’s sakes!). (SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL)
REAL ESTATE A little more than a week after the Spokane City Council voted to extend $1.75 million in credit to developer Ron Wells to turn downtown’s long-shuttered RIDPATH HOTEL into affordable housing, the troubled project was hit by another blow: On May 2, a lien from Crystal City LLC was filed against Ridpath Penthouse LLC, the company owned by Wells. It alleged that Crystal City had, in the span of seven days, conducted work on the Ridpath project that also happened to total exactly $1.75 million. But when a judge assessed the lien last Friday, he concluded that the lien was “made without reasonable cause, is clearly excessive, and frivolous,” fined Crystal City owner Ivan Kriger $5,000 and raised the possibility that Crystal City would also need to pay more than $26,000 in attorney fees. The sale of the rest of the Ridpath to Wells’ group is scheduled to go forward this Friday. (DANIEL WALTERS)
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DEVELOPMENT As the East Sprague neighborhood from the Hamilton Street Bridge to Freya Street undergoes construction to improve the streetscape, businesses and neighbors no longer want to be known as “East Sprague.” Instead, they want to be called the SPRAGUE UNION DISTRICT. The name stems from the area being called Union Park in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the district was filled with working-class citizens, factory workers and immigrants. Several years ago, the district tried to brand itself as the “International District,” but that didn’t catch on, says Jim Hanley, owner of the Tin Roof furniture store. The name change coincides with the city of Spokane accelerating the timeline for its streetscape improvements, with the second phase of construction, from Napa to west of Helena, beginning on May 22. “We’ll have new streets, new lighting, new hanging pots, a new name and a new trademark,” Hanley says. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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Burden of Proof The challenging and changing shape of police oversight in Spokane BY MITCH RYALS
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pokane City Hall has emptied out and gone dark for the night, but one first-floor office glows soft yellow. Police Ombudsman Bart Logue is working late again, awash in the light from his computer screen. For the former Marine Corps diplomat, the long hours are taking a toll. As the sole person charged with overseeing the police department’s internal investigations, Logue regularly works well into the evenings and spends many weekends attending community events. Logue’s concerns over the office’s workload boiled over in a contentious public meeting earlier this month. During the meeting, Logue explained to the ombudsman commission — the five-member volunteer board that acts as his boss — that he and ombudsman analyst Luvimae Omana consistently work beyond the required 40 hours a week without compensation. “This office is not staffed appropriately,” Logue tells the commissioners. “And I’ll say it again, this office is not staffed appropriately. These are expectations that are unrealistic, and to continue to put that on two people, I have a problem with that.”
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Logue’s comments prompted commissioners to vote to close the office to the public on Fridays if its employees have worked the required 40 hours. Commissioners also praised him for doing an “outstanding job,” and expressed frustration with the perception that city administrators only pay lip service to the police oversight office. “It’s a start,” Logue says. “But what I really want is a person.” And now, potentially, come new duties: City Councilman Breean Beggs plans to introduce a new ordinance that, among other changes, requires the ombudsman to write detailed “closing reports” that include “independently determined material facts.” Logue sees value in a police watchdog empowered to write his or her opinion on the outcome of an investigation. But he raises concerns about placing more mandates on an already overburdened office. He questions how to reach a “material fact” if the ombudsman can’t compel an officer to participate in the investigation. “That’s a pretty strict legal standard,” he says. “I need to have the tools to arrive at those. That’s all I’m asking.” Much of the ombudsman’s impact on investigations into alleged police misconduct under the current ordinance comes from the ability to sit in on internal investigations and ask questions, Logue says. But the only voice the ombudsman has is the ability to “certify” a case as timely, thorough and objective. If an investigation does not meet all of those criteria, Logue sends the case back for more digging. So far, the department has obliged. In Beggs’ draft ordinance, a new emphasis on “closing re-
ports” amplifies that voice. “[The reports are] just to show what happened, and identify ways that would prevent harm in the future,” Beggs says. “That’s what people want out of that office, an independent, objective person to say ‘This is what happened.’” Spokane Police Guild President Sgt. John Griffin has not seen the proposed changes and declined to comment. The draft ordinance also more clearly defines the path for the ombudsman to launch an investigation outside of the police department, and specifies that it cannot impact officer discipline. Rather, they are intended to offer an objective summary of facts and provide a basis for recommendations to the department. Officers are not required to participate. Exactly what an ombudsman investigation looks like, though, is left purposefully vague in Beggs’ proposed ordinance, so that the ombudsman can tailor it to each situation. This year, Logue will attempt the first-ever ombudsman investigation. He intends to dig deeper into a use-of-deadly-force incident outside the House of Charity, he says. The officers in that case were cleared of criminal charges and internal policy violations. But during internal interviews, one officer, who fired a rifle, told investigators that he aimed for the man’s head.
With the backlog of cases from 2015 cleared, Bart Logue prepares to launch the first ombudsman investigation. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO That answer, and the lack of a follow-up question by SPD internal investigators, is Logue’s jumping-off point. His investigation will seek to determine how and where officers are trained to shoot in Spokane. “My doing this investigation isn’t to say that I think the police department’s all jacked up,” Logue says. “But what were the other options available to that officer at the time? If there weren’t any, that’s something that we really need to talk about.” In an email to Logue, Chief Craig Meidl ensured SPD’s “complete cooperation.” “It’ll be interesting to see what we can find,” Logue says. “I don’t think a headshot was justified in that case, but if deadly force was justified, how can you say that? That’s a difficult hair to split.” n mitchr@inlander.com
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Jerad Kynaston (center) was prepared to plead guilty. Then his lawyers, Jeff Dahlberg (left) and Alison Guernsey discovered previously unreleased police reports. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
Cannabusted? Maybe Not A Spokane Valley man faces life in prison for growing pot, but the case against him might be unraveling BY MITCH RYALS
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erad Kynaston lives with his mom. The 29-year-old has a long-term girlfriend, a puppy and has started a construction business, all while the specter of a mandatory life sentence hangs over his head. In an instant, it could all be gone, because six years ago he was busted for growing hundreds of marijuana plants in Spokane Valley. The case has languished in the system for the past five years, and last week it seemed that Kynaston was ready for it to end; he and at least two other co-defendants were prepared to plead guilty. But less than 48 hours before the hearing at the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in Spokane, the defense team stumbled onto police reports written in March 2012 that federal prosecutors had not previously turned over. The pleas were scrapped. The reports, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Cashman’s statements in court, recount conversations with at least four of the defendants, the police and at least one federal prosecutor. Cashman described those defendants
as “cooperators,” indicating that they were potentially giving information to law enforcement in exchange for leniency. Defense attorneys say the five-year-old reports contain information pointing to the men’s innocence, but would not elaborate, nor would they give details of the anticipated plea deals. “I want the record to show, and everybody to understand, that this kind of delay, unless there’s a good reason, is not acceptable in this court and particularly in view of the nature of this case,” an indignant U.S. District Judge William F. Nielsen says from the bench. “Hanging this guillotine over these people for all these years, whether they’re guilty or not guilty, is not right.”
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entral to this case is whether or not Kynaston and each of the co-defendants were growing medical marijuana, which has been legal in Washington state in some fashion since 1998. The federal government cannot spend money prosecuting marijuana crimes in states where it is legal, according to what’s known as the Rohra-
bacher-Farr amendment, which was renewed earlier this month when Congress passed a spending bill to fund the government through September. But despite the shifting attitudes toward marijuana nationwide — 29 states allow medical marijuana, and eight, plus the District of Columbia, allow it for recreational purposes — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seems bent on dragging the country back into the “War on Drugs.” In a memo issued this month, Sessions ordered federal prosecutors to pursue the “most serious, readily provable offense,” which include those that carry mandatory minimum sentences. The memo is a reversal of Obama-era policies, which allowed leniency for nonviolent drug offenses.
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n 2011, local and federal law enforcement raided the house where Kynaston and seven other people were running a marijuana grow operation. Police found more than 1,000 plants (though 677 of those “plants” were either empty pots, or pots that contained “the root structure of suspected harvested marijuana plants”) and one handgun. All seven men were indicted in 2012 on violations of the Controlled Substances Act. If found guilty, some are potentially facing mandatory 10-year sentences due to the amount of marijuana that police found. With Kynaston’s prior marijuana-related felony convictions, he faces a mandatory life sentence. He’s also facing a firearms charge. The recently disclosed police reports could offer evidence that the men were in compliance with state law, federal defender Alison Guernsey told Judge Nielsen. They could also indicate that the firearm linked to Kynaston actually belonged to someone else. But beyond concerns over the content of the reports, Guernsey added, is federal prosecutors’ unwillingness to initially hand them over. If not for a “fortuitous” conversation with another attorney representing a defendant who has already pleaded guilty in this case, she never would have known about the reports. When Guernsey first asked about the reports, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Cashman and Timothy Ohms claimed ignorance. But, she points out, another federal prosecutor was present for each of the interviews detailed in the police reports. “I find it incredibly troubling, and perhaps indicative of a larger systemic problem at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, that one attorney on a case is not keeping the other attorneys on that same case in the loop as to what discovery is available,” she said. “It indicates there simply is no process by which we as defense counsel, and the court as an arbiter, can be entirely sure that we’re ever going to get all the information to which we’re entitled.” Cashman, the federal prosecutor, told Judge Nielsen that the police reports did not contain any new information. He added that because the reports detailed interviews with “cooperating” defendants, the government had agreed to keep them confidential unless the case went to trial. Judge Nielsen clarified that regardless of how the information was received, the government has an obligation to hand over all Brady material — any information that could point to a defendant’s innocence. The judge ordered prosecutors to review their entire case file to ensure that the defendants have every piece of information to which they’re entitled. If the 2012 reports tend to point to the men’s innocence, Nielsen promised sanctions “that not only impresses upon the government the importance of meeting their obligations, but also takes into account the excessive duration of time that the defendants have lived under the cloud of indictment without resolution.” Those sanctions could include monetary fines, suppression of evidence, or even dismissal of the entire case. Calls to the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking comment were not returned. Guernsey and other defense attorneys have declined to elaborate on specific details in the 2012 police reports, nor would they share them with the Inlander. “We have no idea why it wasn’t turned over,” Guernsey says. “But it’s our position that the information is material to whether Mr. Kynaston is guilty.” n
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Unsoak the Poor
Can state legislators use this year’s budget to prevent taxes from punishing low-income earners? BY DANIEL WALTERS
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ashington, ostensibly, is a liberal state. It hasn’t voted for a Republican governor since 1980 and hasn’t voted for a Republican president since 1984. Yet it has a tax system that would give Bernie Sanders nightmares. It punishes the poor and lets the rich off easy. That’s why David Schumacher, director of the state Office of Financial Management, has such trouble trying to convince voters that Washington’s tax burden as a share of its economy is relatively low. For many residents, it certainly doesn’t feel like a low-tax state. That’s because for the bottom 40 percent of earners, it isn’t. “Convincing them they live in a low-tax state is a fool’s mission,” Schumacher says. In its 2015 “Terrible Ten” rankings, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy described Washington as having the absolute worst regressive taxes in the nation — and it wasn’t even close. Our sales-tax-heavy state tax system means that the bottom 20 percent of our non-elderly citizens pay nearly 17 percent of their income in taxes. The top 1 percent? Only 2.4 percent. The big culprit is Washington’s sales tax, which — while it exempts groceries — punishes those living paycheck to paycheck. Not only that, but the state’s Business and Occupation tax charges based on gross receipts, meaning small businesses that are losing money still might face a big tax bill at the end of the year. Combine that with subpar K-12 education funding, which has resulted in districts relying increasingly on local levies to make up the difference. For districts with expensive homes in cities like Seattle, it’s a lot easier to raise large amounts of money through local property taxes than in small rural towns like Deer Park. And while the state chips in part of the difference, it’s not enough to make up the wide disparity between rich districts and poor districts. “It’s a double whammy,” says state Sen. Andy Billig (D-Spokane). “The millionaire in Bellevue pays 2 percent of their income in state and local taxes and gets the best schools for the community. The low-income person in Wapato is paying 17 percent of their income in state and local taxes and getting worse-funded schools.” That inequality is central to the state Supreme Court ruling that the state legislature was violating the constitution by failing to adequately
fund public schools. And as Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate hammer out their respective budgets, both are trying to raise money for education while repairing a tax system that hurts the poor far more than the rich.
EVERYTHING BUT AN INCOME TAX
The most obvious way to move the tax burden from the backs of the poor to the pockets of the rich is also the most politically impossible. Puget Sound economic forecaster Dick Conway, author of the study “Washington State and Local Tax System: Dysfunction & Reform,” says that Washington has the worst tax system in the nation, but most proposals are dodging the real issue. “We are one of the few states that doesn’t have an income tax,” Conway says. He says that most of the other states without an income tax have enough oil, gas or gaming tax revenue to compensate. Washington doesn’t. His proposal is incredibly simple: Everybody pays a 10.5 percent income tax, and all other state taxes are eliminated. Even a flat income tax would come as a major relief to low-income earners who lose a huge chunk of their income to sales taxes. But every time an income tax has been attempted recently in Washington, it’s been absolutely slaughtered at the polls. The most recent attempt was Initiative 1098 in 2010, proposing an income tax on high earners: Nearly two out of every three voters voted against it. “People are suspicious that if you impose an income tax, the government wants to pick your pocket,” Conway says. This year, Democratic press releases eagerly point to how “a janitorial staffer could pay up to 686 percent more in taxes as a share of his income as the CEO whose office he cleans,” yet an income tax increase isn’t on the table. Instead, part of the House Democrats’ plan to raise more than $1.5 billion a year would actually increase sales taxes: The Democrats’ plan would slash a number of minor exemptions, like those on bottled water and extracted fuel. It would also level sales taxes on out-of-state internet purchases, intending to help local businesses compete with online retailers. But Washington state Rep. Kris Lytton, chair of the state finance committee in the Democratically controlled House, says that other pieces of the plan would reduce the overall tax burden for the poor. “Half the people in our state will pay less in taxes,” she says. The plan reworks old taxes to hit the rich harder. It would eliminate nearly three-quarters of businesses from the B&O tax, then slam some of the biggest businesses with a 20 percent rate hike. Similarly, the tax on real estate sales would be rejiggered to tax large transactions at a higher rate than small ones. It also introduces one big, new tax proposal aimed at the super rich: A capital gains tax. Democrats euphemistically refer to it as “ending the corporate tax break on capital gains.” Aimed at big windfalls of investment income — and excluding sales of single-family homes and farmland — it’s intended to raise more than $350 million a year from less than 2 percent of the population.
The problem with a capital gains tax, Conway says, is its lack of stability. The amount of revenue from a capital gains tax can swing wildly from year to year. Schumacher says that’s easy to fix — you just need to set aside a chunk in a reserve account to smooth out the peaks and valleys. Still, conservative groups object to the notion of a new tax, wherever it comes from. It may start limited, they say, but it won’t necessarily stay that way. “Capital gains is a new tax structure which will grow in the future,” predicts the Washington Policy Center’s Paul Guppy. And Republicans? They see it as just an income tax by another name. And Washington, remember, hates income taxes.
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s 2015 analysis shows how much of a smaller share rich Washington state residents pay than poorer residents.
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So instead of raising revenue with an assortment of taxes, Senate Republicans are proposing one big move, intended to shift the burden of funding K-12 education from the districts to the states and from poor areas to wealthy areas. “I think we have to take bold, decisive action this year to do things differently,” says Sen. Hans Zeiger (R-Puyallup). “We want to make a clean break from our current system;” In other words, if the problem with disparity in education is with varying levy rates, then eliminate the local levies for a year. But also, level a flat $1.55 property tax statewide for every $1,000 of assessed property value. That means that in particular, King County would see tax bills skyrocket, while Eastern Washington would see relief. Schumacher, of the state’s Office of Financial Management, estimates that about 40 percent of the state would see their tax bill increase, while 60 percent would see it decrease. In the subsequent year, the plan would restore the ability of local districts to pass levies — but at a lower rate, and only for expenses that aren’t considered “basic education.” Democrats note that the Republican plan raises less money for education than theirs does. They also note that, depending on how many districts raise levies after the initial moratorium, property taxes could increase in more places than advertised. They’ve borrowed from the anti-tax-rhetoric playbook. Billig and others argue that a flat property tax rate is unfair, because those who own expensive property would pay more than those who own cheaper properties. That’s an issue with property taxes in general. After all, with the way that property values have skyrocketed on the state’s west side, it’s hard enough to afford a home without needing to pay a higher property tax on top of it. With a property tax increase, elderly people on fixed incomes may struggle to pay their tax bills. “I don’t think we need to tell that working-class family in Seattle that the only way you can live in your state is to sell your house,” Billig says. But ultimately, Billig says, neither side’s arguments have won out. Budget negotiations are locked in a stalemate. “The House and the Senate plans are both dead,” Billig says. “Neither one of them can pass the full legislature.” Whatever tax plan the House and Senate eventually agree upon will likely be the product of a compromise — and a significant disparity between the rich and the poor will remain. n danielw@inlander.com
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Artist Mallory Ware sprinkles familiar Spokane landmarks in a skywalk that stretches across Main Avenue.
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Art in Season With the arrival of warm weather, outdoor public art projects in Spokane are picking up BY CHEY SCOTT
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hough the colorful sights surely help to brighten the drab days of winter, the growing number of new public art installations around Spokane is perhaps noticed more when the sun’s rays beckon us to head outdoors. With summer soon here, local artists are once again picking up their paintbrushes to liven up the city’s streets, parks, underpasses and other communal spaces. Here’s a round up of some of this year’s public art projects overseen by the nonprofit Spokane Arts that are already underway, or coming up this summer:
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On display since early this spring, three downtown skywalks near River Park Square have been turned into pop-up galleries paying tribute to a host of annual events and activities throughout the spring months, from April through June. Featuring the artwork of local artists Michaelanne Foster, Mallory Ware and Marina Gulova, the skywalks’ glass panels showcase original art in each artist’s distinct style, representative of events including Get Lit!, Blooms-
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day, the Lilac Festival, Spokane Pride, Hoopfest and Earth Day. All installations are visible from the street level; two of the decorated skywalks cross Main Avenue and the third crosses Post Street just south of the Square’s atrium. Get an up-close view by heading to the second level of the mall, and take a loop from the skywalks around the corner from Bloem chocolates, then around the Melting Pot and MÜV Fitness, and back toward the mall near Nordstrom. The installations will be up through the end of June.
HARMON PARK MURALS
Similar to previous years’ projects featuring local artists’ and students’ work on portable plywood panels, Spokane Arts recently led a project to install 30 mural panels at Hillyard’s Harmon Park. Students from the neighborhood’s Shaw Middle School spent a recent Friday outside the classroom to paint murals they’d previously co-designed during brainstorm sessions with local artists who partnered on the project. The colorful, 4-by-8-foot panels began with ...continued on next page
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CULTURE | PUBLIC ART Submissions for this year’s round of signal box designs, to be installed along Division Street and in the Hillyard and the East Central neighborhoods, close on June 11. Interested artists can apply at spokanearts.org.
ALTAMONT UNDERPASS
Another continuing Spokane Arts endeavor to update public murals around the city continues this summer. This year’s focal project seeks to update the faded murals on the I-90 underpass at Altamont Street in East Central Spokane. The mural, as it currently exists, was painted 20 years ago, and Spokane Arts is seeking an artist or team of artists to refresh the concrete canvas with some input from East Central residents serving on the artist selection committee. “Particularly because of the city’s plans to develop that area and along East Sprague, we thought this would be a good time to refresh this mural,” Huggins says. “We’re trying to solicit as much community input as we can, and do it in coordination with the neighborhood, so they feel they have some say in what it looks like and how it connects to their neighborhood.” Proposal submissions for that project close soon, on May 31.
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Marina Gulova’s skywalk installation features bold-lined art inspired by spring community events, like Hoopfest.
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“ART IN SEASON,” CONTINUED... base designs by 26 artists, including Tiffany Patterson, LauraLee White and Daniel Lopez. Shaw students then painted atop the artists’ sketched outlines, leaving their own creative mark. The 30 panels are displayed along park fencing throughout the summer.
SIGNAL BOX ART
Continuing a project that began in 2015, Spokane Arts is currently seeking submissions for the third round of traffic signal box wraps to be installed later this year. The first year of that program saw 13 of the grey metal boxes
that control the traffic lights downtown along Second Avenue decorated with local artists’ digital designs. Last summer, more signal boxes downtown and in the Garland and Hillyard business districts were given visual facelifts. “They’re a comparatively small public art piece, but they have such a huge impact,” says Spokane Arts Executive Director Melissa Huggins. “People really notice them and comment on them, and get really excited about them — even people who don’t normally call themselves art lovers, so that is exciting.”
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As it continues to support artists of all disciplines, Spokane Arts also recently awarded the second round of 2017 grant funding through its new SAGA (Spokane Arts Grant Awards) program, which has two more rounds of funding to be distributed this year. Interested artists can find the grant requirements and other details at spokanearts.org; the next round’s deadline is August 1. SAGA recipients thus far include Millwood Print Works, ArtFest, Window Dressing and numerous individual artists, all of whom are listed on Spokane Arts’ website. Huggins highlights another public art project on the horizon, which involves lines of poetry being stenciled with spray paint onto sidewalks around the city. The featured poems were created last year as part of Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read’s “I am a Town” project, which sought public participation during workshops that guided participants in writing poems tied to specific places in the city. Thirteen selected poems will be painted at the spots that inspired their creators, in West Central, Browne’s Addition, downtown and elsewhere. So keep an eye out both above you and beneath your feet as you trek around the city this summer. n cheys@inlander.com For more details about Spokane Arts’ programs and projects, visit spokanearts.org, where you can sign up for its newsletter. Also find regular updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION BY SAMANTHA WOHLFEIL
BOOK About 18 years ago, Claudia Rowe, then a reporter in Poughkeepsie, New York, stringing for the New York Times, wrote her first letter to someone in jail. The man she wrote to, Kendall Francois, had recently admitted to killing eight women over the course of two years, and keeping their rotting bodies in the home where he lived with his parents and sister. Rowe, fascinated with what could have created someone like Francois — his hoarder lifestyle, his family life, his rage sitting just below the surface of a quiet personality — embarked upon a years-long correspondence that wound up raising many more questions about her own life and motivations. In THE SPIDER AND THE FLY: A REPORTER, A SERIAL KILLER, AND THE MEANING OF MURDER, Rowe is unwavering in her grisly descriptions of filth and decay in Kendall’s home, and the lives of addiction and sex work experienced by his victims. The book is also introspective, considering her own upbringing and relationships, and questioning her own choices as a reporter, as a woman, and as a person. If you liked In Cold Blood, Rowe’s book, released in January, should be your next read. BEAUTY It’s officially festival season, which means subjecting your hair to sun, heat and sweat for hours on end. Unless you’re willing to wait out the lines for a cold shower, or want to single-handedly try to bring back the grease of grunge, one of your best bets for a hair refresh while at a festival or camping is AMIKA PERK UP SHAMPOO. The rice starch in this dry shampoo helps absorb oil, and easily combs through hair without leaving a powdery residue. It smells great, and seems to work well even on dyed hair. Available at Sephora, Birchbox, and other online retailers.
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Chuck Palahniuk has published 22 books, including, famously, Fight Club.
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ven Chuck Palahniuk had doubts about his writing. But after his novel Invisible Monsters was rejected for being too disturbing, he continued to plug along with the words of his mentor, Tom Spanbauer, driving him, he tells The Believer magazine. “What you write should entertain you and serve you first,” he says. “Don’t worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you’ll succeed in the world.” That advice seems to be working for Palahniuk, who to date has published 22 books running the gamut from novels and short story collections to a graphic novel and a coloring book. Much of his work has been adapted for film, including Fight Club, a cult classic starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. This week, Palahniuk will be in Spokane
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to talk with fans and aspiring writers and filmmakers as part of the Connecting Writers with Hollywood conference. Palahniuk is scheduled to speak Thursday, May 25, starting at 7 pm. Tickets to the three-day conference are $195 each. Those who are only interested in Palahniuk’s talk can buy separate tickets for $25, but they’re going fast. The rest of the conference features information sessions, panel discussions and individualized pitch sessions with producers looking for their next project. Brian Bird, a 30-year veteran of the film and television industry, is the conference’s keynote speaker. — MITCH RYALS
hen Kevin Smith showed up at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, he was an unknown New Jersey filmmaker with a black-and-white, ultra-low-budget movie in hand. By the time he left a few days later, he had a deal with Miramax and that movie, Clerks, was on its way to becoming a cult classic for film fans, and a towering example for fellow filmmakers that they could make a passion project outside the Hollywood system and still hit the big time. That’s exactly what Smith did, even if some naysayers might argue that the big time eventually hit him right back after some critical and commercial failures. After Clerks, Smith’s world expanded into more films — some good (Dogma, the underappreciated Zack and Miri Make a Porno) and some bad (Jersey Girl, Cop Out) — and beyond the big screen into comics, books, spoken-word tours, reality TV, podcasting and more. His 2016 movie Yoga Hosers (now on Netflix) barely made a blip in the public consciousness, but Smith remains a hero among a segment of nerd culture who can’t get enough of his myriad projects. He recently announced on his Jay and Silent Bob Get Old podcast that he’s making a sequel to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and I, for one, will be happy to hang with those characters from Clerks again. — DAN NAILEN
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The raucous scene last year at the Terrain stage.
BEHIND THE SCENES Volume wouldn’t be possible without the passionate work of countless people — the artists, venue owners, volunteers and sponsors — but certain efforts shouldn’t go unrecognized. The enormous talent on display at this year’s festival has been assembled by Program Director Patrick Kendrick and his crew: Production Manager Shea Walser and talent buyers Jeff Glinski and Kris Hafso. Making it all come together falls to a large contingent from the Inlander, including Kati Bronson, Kristina Smith, Dan Nailen, Nathan Weinbender, Kristi Gotzian and Jer McGregor, among many others. (JACOB H. FRIES) CONTRIBUTORS Kristen Black, Tuck Clarry, Connor Dinnison, Dan Nailen, Ben Salmon, Jordan Satterfield COVER DESIGN Derrick King
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Volume Way Up There are a lot of music festivals out there.
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ig festivals. Small festivals. Fests for every proclivity and taste. Like jam bands? There’s a festival for you. Hip-hop? No problem. Want to take in some bluegrass or folk or country, or all three? Someone out there has got you covered. But there aren’t many festivals like Volume. The Inlander’s annual celebration of all things music boasts a two-day lineup of 100 or so bands, performing at venues within a half-mile radius of one another and covering every genre imaginable. And it’s all only $25. How many
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festivals can boast that kind of deal? For this year’s festival, our sixth, we’ve added a new venue into the mix: a 30’ x 24’ outdoor stage by the Steam Plant, which will also be host to two food trucks and a Terrain-organized beer garden. And while we’re unbelievably psyched to have Boise’s Built to Spill as our big headliner, there are more than enough acts — local, regional and touring — on this lineup to satiate anybody’s sonic palette. — NATHAN WEINBENDER, Inlander music editor
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Built to Spill Band leader Doug Martsch on the joys of small music festivals BY DAN NAILEN
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ver the course of Built to Spill’s quarter-century touring the world from their home base in Boise, the indie-rock crew, led by singer/guitarist Doug Martsch, has played a lot of rock festivals. Large and small. Awesome and awful. As far away as Spain, and as close as the Treefort Music Festival right in their hometown. And while all festivals have something to offer, and Built to Spill still goes big — they’re playing Riot Fest in Chicago this year alongside Nine Inch Nails and Wu-Tang Clan — Martsch has come to love the smaller regional festivals like Volume.
“They definitely have more of a local feel and they feel more special, unique to the area,” Martsch says. “There’s more local bands playing them, and it’s just cool seeing smaller bands. There’s not that many big bands I get excited about seeing.” Built to Spill has played pretty much every massive American fest — from Coachella to Sasquatch!, Austin City Limits to Lollapalooza — and the excitement that accompanied the festival scene when it migrated from Europe has been replaced by ever-more-corporate vibes and lineups that look the same at every stop. Martsch says the
band has noticed the change as big festivals have grown more cookie-cutter, “even down to the food they serve.” “It’s kind of like people are just doing their job,” Martsch says of bigger festivals’ performers and staffers. “It’s not very friendly.” At the smaller events, Martsch says, “you get a broader audience, more like a fair or something, where people come out of the woodwork who wouldn’t usually go to some big concert festival. People who just go out to see what it’s all about and aren’t such hard-core music fans. And that’s always fun. They kind of do it because it’s something going on in their town.” As a Boise local, Martsch says watching Treefort blossom has been a treat; he compares the annual March festival to a “Christmas-type experience” because the Boise natives — from “every old jaded person” to “every young person” — are so excited when the festival rolls around. “It’s magical. Everybody in town loves it, everyone I know,” Martsch says. “It feels really good. It gets a little bigger each year.” Headlining Built to Spill has played a crazy Volume, an event assortment of cover tunes in aspiring to have their lifetime. Here’s hoping the same effect on we hear one or more of these: Spokane music lovers, is cool, Martsch Macy Gray, “I Try” says, because the The Smiths, band gets to play “How Soon Is Now?” a full show — and Ozzy Osbourne, “Mr Crowley” not in the middle of Blue Öyster Cult, the afternoon, like “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” they would at a big Grateful Dead, “Ripple” festival. And while Neil Young, “Cortez the Killer” his biggest memory Creedence Clearwater Revival, of Spokane is seeing “Effigy” basketball star John Bob Dylan, “Jokerman” Stockton’s family at New Order, “Age of Consent” breakfast, Martsch The Clash, “Train in Vain” just might gain some new ones watching other bands on the Volume bill, like he does at his hometown festival. “The small bands and the local bands, my experience is they really raise their game,” Martsch says. “They practice their asses off and they’re playing for a big crowd, so even bands I see all the time, all of the sudden they have a super-killer show.” No doubt Built to Spill will show us how that’s done Saturday night. n Built to Spill plays the Steam Plant Outdoor Stage on Sat, June 3 at 8:30 pm, after sets by Chastity Belt, Blossom featuring Myke Bogan, Super Sparkle and Motopony.
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man poised to bayonet another); the band’s screaming, sludgy sounds are the aural equivalent. Self-described as “idiot crust,” Askevault rose from the ashes of Bay Area rockers Femacoffin, and they’re driven, according to their Bandcamp page, by a disgust of “where things are going these days.” Sat, June 3, 9:15 pm, Mootsy’s BALONELY Rock Norman Robbins’ latest project isn’t too far removed from the work of his alter ego Jan Francisco: He’s still channeling his inner Lou Reed, furiously speaksinging his droll character-based lyrics, but now he has a bassist and drummer — Kristin Robbins (his mom) and Cody
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Brooks of Heavy Seventeen — backing him up. Sat, June 3, 8:30 pm, Baby Bar BANDIT TRAIN Electronica Brothers Chris and Mike Malsam are back. Spokane’s sibling duo Bandit Train brings an electronic collage of sounds and styles that sit comfortably within genres like chiptune, eight-bit and postpunk. The bouncy, soundtrack-styled music will be sure to get you moving. Fri, June 2, 8 pm, The Bartlett BELT OF VAPOR Hard Rock These guys are elder statesmen of the Spokane music scene: They started playing together way back in 2004, they were named one of the first Bands
to Watch by the Inlander a year after that, and they played a set at the firstever Volume in 2012. (They were also the only Spokane act on the lineup of Seattle’s recent Upstream Festival.) The hard rock trio hasn’t been playing nonstop for more than a decade — there’s been a hiatus here and there — but it’s undeniable that they’re getting better with age. Sat, June 3, 12:15 am, Mootsy’s BLACKTRACKS Experimental Eugene’s Blacktracks is the project of songwriter, producer and poet Jake Jerome, who originally hails from Spokane. He often combines his spokenword manifestos with gloomy post-
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BUFFALO JONES Alt-Rock Longevity is a rare quality for local bands. Buffalo Jones has earned that after crafting harmonies for more than a decade with a bluesy and catchy brand of alternative rock that will remind you of a relocated Wilco. Their catalog was extended with an EP that came out this year, which will be sure to fill you with ’90s pop-rock nostalgia. Sat, June 3, 8 pm, Terrain BUILT TO SPILL Indie Rock Boise’s most famous band is the big Volume headliner this year, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Built to Spill is fronted by primary songwriter Doug Martsch, the only consistent member in the band’s 25year history, known for his high vocal register and clever, unpredictable guitar lines. BtS still tours regularly — they played the Knit just last summer — and are still releasing albums (most recently Untethered Moon in 2015), but their classic material, on LPs like 1997’s Perfect from Now On and 1999’s Keep It Like a Secret, still holds up beautifully. Sat, June 3, 8:30 pm, Steam Plant CATHEDRAL PEARLS Indie Pop Local luminaries Karli Ingersoll (Windoe) and Max Harnishfeger (Water Monster) co-lead a soulful rock and pop project that will no doubt leave you captivated. Joined by Caleb Ingersoll on drums, the band mixes swooning harmonies with electronic textures and guitar landscapes that are reminiscent of acts like the Dirty Projectors. Sat, June 3, 11 pm, Terrain CATTYWOMP Blues Rock Although their name conjures something flimsy and weird, Spokane’s Cattywomp are, on the contrary, a tightly knit sextet that peddles skatinged funk in the vein of the Dave Matthews Band. The collaboration between guitarists James Volz and AJ Stromberger first bloomed in 2015, and its current iteration re-
leased its debut record, Stay Away, last September with a show at the Big Dipper. But don’t take the album title literally: They really want to play you the blues. Fri, June 2, 9:15 pm, Red Room Lounge CHARLATAN Rock Like your noise with a pop sheen? Or like your pop with some rough edges? Seattle’s Charlatan delivers what you need with reverb-drenched vocals, bombastic electronic beats, buzzing synthesizers and some mighty guitar squall cutting through at just the right moments. Songs like “Supermax” thrill while also evoking some genuine dread. Sat, June 3, 10:30 pm, The Observatory CHASTITY BELT Indie Rock The four women of Seattle’s Chastity Belt are all about challenging gender norms, tackling misogyny and disemboweling the patriarchy. They’re also wickedly smart songwriters, creating music that’s equal parts ethereal and effervescent. “We’re just a couple of sluts,” they sing on their most recent LP. “So what?” The band’s next album, titled I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, comes out in June, so expect to hear some new tunes during their Volume set. Sat, June 3, 7 pm, Steam Plant CHOIR BOY Electro-Pop Adam Klopp, the Salt Lake City-based producer and songwriter who’s the key creative force behind Choir Boy, clearly worships at the altar of Brian Eno and Roxy Music. Klopp’s most recent album, the brilliantly titled Passive with Desire, pulses with warm electronica soundscapes, and his vocals float along with an ethereal beauty; ’80s goth kids, rejoice. Sat, June 3, 7:15 pm, The Bartlett COLD BLOODED Metal If you pay any attention to local hard rock bills, you’ll have noticed that Spokane’s Cold Blooded turns up
often. They’ve been playing around since 2011 and are signed to Coeur d’Alene metal label Blackhouse Records, and their Facebook bio says it all: “Fast. Pissed. Loud.” Who’d wanna pass that up? Fri, June 2, 8:50 pm, The Pin! Side Stage THE COLOURFLIES Rock The fuzzy, lo-fi Post Falls band is back at Volume, and their rock and roll sensibilities have obviously progressed. The Colourflies blast through genre barriers with each of the blitzing songs they’re likely to play during their sets: One moment they’re a blaring alt-rock band; the next, they’re a thrashing punk fourpiece. Regardless of what prism you catch them in, their hooks are undeniable. Fri, June 2, 5:55 pm, The Pin! Side Stage CRIMEWAVE Hip-Hop Combining deathcore sensibilities with trap and electronic music, Tacoma’s Crimewave is a truly singular one-man hip-hop project. A former member of the Boiler Boyz rap collective, Crimewave’s verses swerve around frenetic percussion and bouncing synths, and he shows his versatility when his songs flip into another gear and he bellows bars like hellfire. Fri, June 2, 8:20 pm, The Pin! Main Stage THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1815 Goth Pop When he isn’t performing with local electronica duo Sea Giant, Conor Knowles plays by his lonesome as the Dancing Plague of 1815, hunkered over a synth with eerie visuals (usually from silent or foreign art films) projected behind him. Listening to his recent EP Habitual, you’ll hear a dash of Depeche Mode, a hint of Echo and the Bunnymen, a whole lot of Joy Division; if any of those artists perk up your ears, you’ll wanna catch the Plague. Fri, June 2, 9 pm, The Bartlett ...continued on page 9
NONPROFIT PARTNER TERRAIN Terrain began in 2008, founded by five friends who were tired of seeing Spokane’s most talented and creative people move to other cities looking for community and opportunity. Nine years later, we have pioneered some of the largest arts events in the Northwest — nearly 20,000 people attend our three flagship events: Terrain, Bazaar and Uncharted. We also run an art gallery, performing arts space and Window Dressing, an economic development program that trains artists and artisans to become entrepreneurs, then seeks to fill vacant storefronts with visual
art and creative enterprise. We do this all in service of building a stronger, more diverse and expressive Inland Northwest by helping emerging artists find their voice, find their community and find economic opportunity. To learn more about Terrain and to get involved, check out terrainspokane.com. n
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ATTICUS COFFEE & GIFTS 222 N. Howard St. 10% Off your total purchase in the gift shop & the cafe BISTANGO 108 N. Post St. Buy One Beer – Get One for a Quarter* (one per person, no sharing) BLOEM 808 W. Main Ave, River Park Square .50 off chocolate dipped cheesecake, ice cream & frozen bananas BOO RADLEY’S 232 N. Howard St. 10% Off your total purchase BREWS BROS. COFFEE 734 W. Sprague Ave. 16oz drip coffee and breakfast sandwich for $5 GAMERS ARCADE BAR 321 W. Sprague Ave. $1 Off any drink. HOTEL RL 303 W. North River Dr. Special Room Rate | 10% Off food & drink purchases INDABA COFFEE 210 N. Howard | 1425 W. Broadway $1 Off coffee, tea, beer, wine or cider drinks MISSING PIECE TATTOO 410 W. Sprague Ave. 10% Off a henna tattoo ORLISON $3.50 Pints at all participating Volume venues SPOKANE PARTY BUS FREE Rides from venue to venue SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 901 W. 1st Ave. In the Hotel Ruby 15% Off total purchase SCRATCH 1007 W. 1st Ave. Happy Hour all day TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE 912 W. Sprague Ave. 15% Off food & beverages TOMATO STREET 808 W. Main Ave, River Park Square 15% Discount off check TORTILLA UNION 808 W. Main Ave, River Park Square 15% Off food items TWIGS 808 W. Main Ave, River Park Square 15% Off food items WOLLNICK’S GENERAL STORE 421 W. Main Ave. 25% Off purchase
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DAPPER DEVILS Americana The instrumentation might be acoustic, but don’t let that fool you into thinking Spokane’s Dapper Devils are soft in the least. Playing what they dub “gritgrass,” this crew of mean pickers touch on various aspects of the Americana big tent — from bluegrass to folk to old-fashioned drinkin’ songs. This is high-energy stuff that will leave you sweaty at the end of their set, rather than cryin’ tears in your beer. Sat, June 3, 9:30 pm, The Pin! Side Stage DARIO RÉ Singer-Songwriter Dario Ré can’t sit still. According to the artist’s website, his crafts include “painting, assemblage, installation, video, performance, sound and songwriting.” When the folksy guitarist isn’t playing open mic nights around town, he’s often found teaching the instrument to neophytes, foraging for mushrooms and enmeshing his interests in art and the natural world in subtle combinations. Sat, June 3, 9 pm, Terrain DARK WHITE LIGHT Hard Rock Competing with the Challenger Deep when it comes to finding new bottoms, Spokane’s Dark White Light is also finding new lows — sonic lows, that is — in their progressive metal and heavy rock act. The bottom end of the experimental threepiece could leave your ears ringing and your bones shook if you try to face these riffs head on. Sat, June 3, 10:15 pm, Mootsy’s DEER Instrumental Following the dissolution of local post-hardcore band the Lion Oh My, three of its members broke off to form Deer, an experimental, instrumental five-piece. The new stuff isn’t recognizable from the old stuff (and it’s even further removed from the hook-heavy rock of Pine League, which also features three members of Deer). Although they’re relatively new and have only played a handful of shows, you should definitely keep an eye out for what they might do next. Fri, June 2, 6:15 pm, Big Dipper
THE DIRTY MOOGS Electronica Resistance is futile. This Boise band brings synths, synths and more synths to create a sound guaranteed to fill dance floors. We have a feeling that if you’re a lover of Kraftwerk or Sparks (or if you’re proficient at the Robot), you might find yourself a new favorite band here. Songs like “Tight Tight Pants” and “Julie’s an Android” will inspire your inner automaton. Sat, June 3, 7 pm, nYne
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DJ CASE Spins Stay out late on enough Saturday nights and you’ll eventually see DJ Case play a set at the Observatory or the Baby Bar. And if you do see him behind his turntables, the odds are good that you’re going to be dancing like a fool. You can be certain, too, that Case will introduce you to some stuff you’ve never heard before — have Shazam at the ready — but he’s definitely not averse to spinning party jams everyone knows. Fri, June 2, 9:30 pm, Baby Bar; Sat, June 3, 10 pm, Baby Bar DJ C-MAD Spins It seems appropriate that DJ C-Mad is playing an after-hours Volume set at nYne, since the local stalwart seems to be spinning there most weekends. And anyone who’s ever been to nYne on a Saturday night — either after a show at the Bartlett or as the last spot on your bar-hopping quest through downtown — knows that it’s nearly impossible to stay off the dance floor during a C-Mad set. Fri, June 2, midnight, nYne and Sun, June 3, 11:30 pm, nYne DJ ZOZI House If you’re damned tired of reeling in your exuberance at some of these shows and just wanna cut loose, find the dance floor that’s being run by producer Sophie Sweetland, aka DJ Zozi. Openly nodding to the sound of classic raves, Zozi masterfully layers breaks and house chords in a nonstop assault on musical stagnancy. Fri, June 2, 12:30 am, The Observatory ...continued on page 11
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eattle’s moody, jangly rockers Chastity Belt grace the Steam Plant stage at Volume this year, just one day after the release of their gorgeous, shockingly mature new LP I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone. The band’s vocalist and guitarist Julia Shapiro spoke to the Inlander last week, and it was deeply pleasant and enlightening. Here’s what she had to say. INLANDER: What got you into playing the guitar? SHAPIRO: In the 7th grade, me and my best friend both started learning how to play the guitar together. I would teach myself Blink-182 songs. Who’s your favorite guitarist? [Without hesitation] Elliott Smith. The last three times I’ve seen you play, you’re sporting a killer Fender Blacktop Jaguar. It’s great. I love the variety of tones you can get, plus it looks awesome. The only problem is that it’s super heavy. If we practice for too long, my back starts to hurt. If you had an unlimited budget for a single piece of gear, what would you blow it on? I imagine it would be a guitar, but I don’t waste too much time drooling over crazy expensive guitars.
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Do you have any musical influences that no one ever picks up on that you wish someone would notice? Recently, a friend of mine came up to me
after a show and told me that we sounded like the Cure, and I was like ‘Yeah, I love the Cure.’ I listen to them all the time. What’s the most insulting compliment your band has ever gotten? ‘You guys are actually really good for being girls.’ What’s the least orthodox venue you’ve ever played a show in? We played at a batting cage called Everybody Hits in Philadelphia, which was sort of strange and great. We also played at a bowling alley. Are there any bands at Volume that you’re excited to see? I’m excited to finally see Built to Spill. We’ve been playing a bunch of festivals that they’re also playing at, but somehow I never get a chance to see them. Are there any aspects of your life that being a full-time musician has made changed or made difficult that you wish you could have back? It has made it very hard to stay in touch with my friends at home. Touring so much makes it very difficult to stay connected. Your dream director comes to you and asks you to do the soundtrack for their newest film. Who is it? Probably Werner Herzog. I imagine it would be a documentary. Chastity Belt plays Sat, June 3 at 7 pm on the Steam Plant stage.
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The Echolarks DREAMDECAY Rock The first thing you notice about Seattle’s Dreamdecay is the big, swirling cyclones of guitar and squelching feedback barreling toward you. But just when you think you’ve got ’em figured out, they’ll veer into a hushed, contemplative psych-rock sprawl. And then they’ll turn another corner and you’ll be rocking out again. Sat, June 3, 11:15 pm, Mootsy’s THE ECHOLARKS Dream Pop If dreamy power-pop is your thing — and really, it should be everybody’s thing, at least a little bit — you’ll want to drop in on the Echolarks. This tasty quintet hails from the Tri-Cities and now calls Seattle home, and the guygirl vocals shared by guitarist Davey and keyboardist Grace Ingersoll (yes, they’re related to the Spokane Ingersolls) make for some mighty fine ear candy. Sat, June 3, 9:15 pm, The Bartlett THE EMILYS Indie Pop You might have seen the Emilys when they were known as the Back-
ups, but they’ve since revamped their sound right along with their name. The Spokane band doesn’t have much of an online presence, but their Soundcloud demos channel irresistible mid-’60s bubblegum pop, bouncing along on retro, surfy guitars. Sat, June 3, 8:15 pm, The Bartlett EMPTY EYES Rock On the four short tracks of their self-titled tape, Spokane power trio Empty Eyes (who perform live as a quartet) marry the blown-out sonics of an on-the-fly punk recording with the ear-candy melodies of the best power-pop songs. They’d be right at home amongst Burger Records’ roster of retro-pop craftsmen. Sat, June 3, 9:45 pm, Red Room Lounge FAT LADY Soul If you’re looking for a mild-mannered concert experience, then avoid Fat Lady at all costs. Led by Schuyler Dornbirer, one of Spokane’s premier guitar players, the group’s ’60s rockinspired originals and covers are far from tepid or trepidatious. This band
gets loud and gets down. Sat, June 3, 11:45 pm, Red Room Lounge FOLKINCEPTION Folk Rock Spokane’s Folkinception tactfully brings you the intermingling of roots music with rock and roll and anthemic pop-soul. The sextet has been around for more than five years, and they continue writing fresh interpretations of raggedy Americana with a fully realized sound that captivates audiences. The band’s sophomore album is set to drop later this year. Fri, June 2, 10:15 pm, Terrain
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FOREST LINES Indie Folk This crew straddles the line between folk and chamber-pop, and whatever you want to call their sound, it’s entrancing. That’s all the more impressive given that the Spokane band comprised of Mordekye Allen, Ian Miles, Kelsi Garvin and Benjamin Hall played its first gig at the end of March. With the emotional intensity displayed on songs like “Cascade or the Crown,” you can expect to hear a lot more from them. Sat, June 3, 7 pm, Baby Bar ...continued on page 13
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NAT PARK AND THE TUNNELS OF LOVE Sat, June 3, 10 pm, Terrain KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO
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GODDAMNED ANIMALS Rock Consider this band’s moniker apt: There’s nothing refined about the aggro rock delivered by the Goddamned Animals. The Portland quartet barrels through rapid-fire riffs and screamo-ish vocals while striking all the boss rock poses one could hope for. Hot tip: Bring earplugs and get ready for some hot mosh action. Fri, June 2, 10:15 pm, The Big Dipper
INFRABLASTER Grindcore Hailing from Richland, Infrablaster is a project that synthesizes the most blaring parts of grindcore, thrash, hardcore and noise. Existing in one way or another since 2012, the group is known for short song structures that sonically blitz straight through innocent bystanders. Fri, June 2, 7:05 pm, The Pin! Side Stage
THE HALLOWS Hardcore Sometimes you just need a little catharsis, and what’s better for blowing off some steam than cranking up a band that’s already loud-with-acapital-L? This local screamo band is definitely there for you in that scenario: Vocalist Ken Wolcott has some pipes on him, and the dueling guitars of Dakota Koerner and Stephen Stebbins really jack the energy up to 11. Fri, June 2, 9:15 pm, The Big Dipper
ITCHY KITTY Punk A refreshing blast of punk mayhem with utterly modern sensibilities, Itchy Kitty are already stalwarts of the Spokane scene, unmistakable in their gravity-defying mohawks and aggressive, abrasive tunes like the glorious “Year of the Slut” and “Diffuse the Rat” from their awesomely named album Careless Whisker. Fri, June 2, 10:15 pm, Mootsy’s
DYLAN HATHAWAY Folk Pop When it comes to teen troubadours, things can go wrong quickly when they aim for a sound beyond their years. That’s not the case with Spokane’s Dylan Hathaway, a singersongwriter with serious skills, whether keeping it simple with an acoustic guitar or fleshing out his songs with some pre-recorded beats or electric six-string. Fri, June 2, 6 pm, Terrain HONEY BUCKET Indie Rock Honey Bucket’s 2016 album Magical World is a charming slice of the vibrant DIY rock scene happening in Portland right now, where post-punk snarl and lo-fi aesthetic meets woozy acoustic strum-pop and classic indierock vibes. But heads up: This scene waits for no one. Honey Bucket has already released another record, Patch of Grass, which doubles down on the wiry, no-nonsense chug. It’s also terrific. Portland remains one of the best music scenes in America, and Honey Bucket is one of the best rock bands in said scene. Don’t miss ’em. Fri, June 2, 8:15 pm, Baby Bar
J GRGRY Electro-Pop If lush electro-pop balladry is your thing, Seattle’s J GRGRY should be, too. Led by Joe Gregory, the quartet is a sonic reset by a singer who spent years in indie-pop pursuits and record label hell before returning to his hometown, reconnecting with some old musician friends and starting this project. The songs filling his new Gold Teeth + Glass Eyes collection will thrill fans of both old-school synth-pop (à la Depeche Mode and Eurythmics), as well as modern electronica fans. Sat, June 3, 9:15 pm, nYne
INNOVATIVE INLANDERS are more than just readers. They’re everything from baristas to beer snobs, and from soccer moms to CEOs — all with ever-changing appetites for media. So we have to be more than just a paper. We’re event planners for things like our own Volume Music Festival and Inlander Restaurant Week. We’re digital geeks offering daily news coverage online, along with ways to find your favorite local events right on your smartphone.
We’re even philanthropists, supporting local charities and nonprofits every year. All the while, we remain committed to the award-winning, independent journalism you expect and deserve. It’s a big job for a hometown paper to keep innovating and changing with its readers. But we’re in this for the long haul — informing, supporting and maintaining the vibrant community we call home. And that will never change.
JAN FRANCISCO Lo-Fi Rock Jan Francisco was opening for some big names in the indie rock scene while its sole member, Norman Robbins, was still in high school. Often armed with just a guitar and a kick drum, Robbins proves that you don’t necessarily need a full band to command a stage. Check out Robbins’ other band BaLonely, also in the Volume lineup. Fri, June 2, 7:45 pm, nYne ...continued on page 17
ART SHOW June 2 is the start of Volume, but it’s also the first Friday of the month, when galleries and businesses across downtown Spokane open their doors to the public for new displays of art. At HOTEL RL (303 W. North River Dr.), inside their über-hip and welcoming lobby, you’ll find an exhibit showcasing photos of Volume through the years. It’ll be on display in the days leading up to the festival and during the festival weekend. For other First Friday happenings, visit firstfridayspokane.org. For a free show inside Hotel RL, don’t miss Misty Mountain Pony Club, playing in the lobby at 2 pm on Saturday, June 3.
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In advance, two-day wristbands are $25. If you wait until Friday, June 2, the price for the pass is $35 — if they don’t sell out before then. On Saturday, June 3, one-day passes will be sold for $25.
HOW DO I BUY A WRISTBAND NOW?
• ONLINE: Buy tickets at Volume.inlander.com/tickets, and pick them up at the festival. On Friday, pick up your tickets outside the Washington Cracker Co. Building (304 W. Pacific, where Terrain is located) from 4:30 to 9 pm. On Saturday, ticket pick-up is at the Steam Plant Stage (140 S. Post), from 2 to 10 pm. Don’t miss those pick-up times! • IN PERSON: You can buy Volume passes at the following Global Credit Union locations (Global HQ, Argonne, Sullivan, Fairchild, Shadle, CdA, Post Falls, Kennewick, Pasco); and at nYne, the Bartlett, Baby Bar, the Observatory and Resurrection Records.
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PICK-UP AT THE FESTIVAL: On Friday, pick up your tickets outside the Washington Cracker Co. Building (304 W. Pacific, where Terrain is located) from 4:30 to 9 pm. On Saturday, ticket pick-up is at the Steam Plant Stage (140 S. Post), from 2 to 10 pm. Don’t miss those times!
HOW DO I GET FROM VENUE TO VENUE?
Well, use your own two feet. Or, better yet, display your wristband and hop a free ride on the Spokane Party Bus (see the route on the map).
WHAT IF…?
... THE WEATHER IS BAD: Volume will go on, as best and safely as we can. Volume reserves the right to cancel the event, or any parts of the event, in circumstances Volume deems unsafe for musicians and festival-goers. In such cases, tickets will not be refunded. Festivalgoers bear all risks of personal injury incidental to the event, whether occurring before, during or after the event. ... A PERFORMER I WANT TO SEE CANCELS: We will do our best to notify everyone of any schedule changes, but lineups are subject to change, at any time, without notice. All sales are final.
WRISTBAND DEALS Show your Volume wristband and get these special discounts: HOTEL RL, 303 W. North River Dr. 10 percent off food & drink purchases; special Volume room rate SPOKANE PARTY BUS (995-4525) Free ride from venue to venue on the Spokane Party Bus with your Volume wristband TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 912 W. Sprague All-day Happy Hour and 15 percent off food and beverage menus with wristband INDABA COFFEE, 210 N. Howard $1 off coffee, tea, beer, wine or cider drinks SAPPHIRE LOUNGE, 901 W. First 15 percent off total purchase BREWS BROTHERS, 734 W. Sprague 16 oz. drip coffee and breakfast sandwich for $5 BISTANGO, 108 N. Post Buy one beer, get the second for a quarter
ATTICUS COFFEE & GIFTS, 222 N. Howard 10 percent off your total purchase: café & retail BOO RADLEY’S, 232 N. Howard 10 percent off your total purchase WOLLNICK’S GENERAL STORE, 421 W. Main 25 percent off purchase Volume weekend SCRATCH, 1005 W. First Happy Hour all day with wristband BLOEM, 808 W. Main, #241, River Park Square 50¢ off chocolate-dipped cheesecake, ice cream & frozen bananas TOMATO STREET, 808 W. Main, #106, River Park Square 15 percent discount off check MISSING PIECE TATTOO, 410 W. Sprague 10 percent off a henna tattoo
BABY BAR
827 W 1st Ave; all-ages until 9 pm 6:15pm • Two Moons 7:15pm • Wind Hotel 8:15pm • Honey Bucket 9:30pm • DJ Case
HOTEL RL’S LOBBY
303 W North River Dr; all-ages ongoing • Volume Art Show: Festival photography through the years
MOOTSY’S
406 W Sprague Ave 8:15pm • Street Tang 9:15pm • Sir Coyler & His Asthmatic Band 10:15pm • Itchy Kitty 11:15pm • Six State Bender
NYNE BAR & BISTRO
232 W Sprague Ave 7:45pm • Jan Francisco 8:45pm • Woolen Men 9:45pm • Water Monster 10:45pm • Weeknites 12:00am • DJ C-Mad
RED ROOM LOUNGE
521 W Sprague Ave 8:15pm • The South Hill 9:15pm • CattyWomp 10:15pm • Brotha Nature 10:45pm • Soul Ipsum 11:15pm • Kalaj 12:15am • Myke Bogan feat. Blossom
TERRAIN
304 W Pacific Ave; all-ages 6:00pm • Dylan Hathaway 7:00pm • Little Wolf feat. Marshall McLean 8:00pm • Kori Ailene 9:00pm • Windoe 10:15pm • Folkinception
THE BARTLETT
228 W Sprague Ave; all-ages 7:00pm • Pop Goddess Athena 8:00pm • Bandit Train 9:00pm • The Dancing Plague of 1518 10:00pm • Small Million
THE BIG DIPPER
171 S Washington St; all-ages 6:15pm • Deer 7:15pm • Mini Murders 8:15pm • Monuments 9:15pm • The Hallows 10:15pm • Goddamnanimals
THE OBSERVATORY 15 S Howard St 8:30pm • Peru Resh 9:30pm • s1ugs 10:30pm • Lithics 11:30pm • Mall Walk 12:30am • DJ Zozi
THE PIN’S MAIN STAGE
412 W Sprague Ave; all-ages 5:30pm • Narrow Minded 6:20pm • Scatterbox 7:30pm • ZAN 8:20pm • Crimewave 9:10pm • Nobodies 10:25pm • Ras Kass 11:30pm • Nacho Picasso
THE PIN’S SIDE STAGE
412 W Sprague Ave; all-ages 5:10pm • Lust for Glory 5:55pm • The Colourflies 6:45pm • Blacktracks 7:05pm • Infrablaster 7:55pm • Rot Monger 8:50pm • Cold Blooded 9:45pm • Slug Christ
SATURDAY, JUNE 3 BABY BAR
827 W 1st Ave; all-ages until 9 pm 6:30pm • Maidenhair 7:00pm • Forest Lines 8:30pm • BaLonely 10:00pm • DJ Case
BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE (ALL AGES)
24 W Main Ave 10:00am • Som’s Soul Brunch with Twin Towers
HOTEL RL’S LOBBY
303 W North River Dr; all-ages 2:00pm • Misty Mountain Pony
MOOTSY’S
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Old-school skills, but far from stuck in the past BY TUCK CLARRY
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n the digital age, it’s hard to go unnoticed. Message boards and social platforms will obsess over and pick the meat entirely off of every niche movement or scene, especially when it comes to music. Yet in a genre and style that’s so prominent in today’s social climate, rapper Ras Kass (real name John Austin IV) is one of the most underrated. The 43-year-old’s 1996 debut Soul on Ice — its title a reference to the essay collection that Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver wrote in prison — is heralded by true hip-hop heads as the West Coast rap album. Like Cleaver’s book, Soul on Ice offers an outspoken, intelligent voice in the ongoing discourse on American race relations; it’s a cultural and political document that could just as easily have been released today. 2014’s Blasphemy saw Ras Kass paired with virtuoso producer Apollo Brown; it’s an album that showcases Ras’ evisceration of American politics and organized religion. In one verse on the track “Deliver Us from Evil,” he’s able to dismantle the nobility of English royalty through their Germanic roots, proclaim his identity as a Black Hebrew Israelite, castigate the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians and argue that Jesus Christ was, indeed, black. At a time when Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike is a frequent guest on CNN and Bill Maher panels, perhaps Ras Kass
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remains unbooked out of fear. His sophomore album, 1998’s Rasassination, offered a who’s-who of ’90s rap luminaries, with guest features from Dr. Dre, RZA, Xzibit, Kurupt, Mack 10 and Twista. The album saw him hit No. 63 on the Billboard charts, but for as many “right place at the right time” breakout stories, there are just as many (if not more) divergent tales. The rapper faced classic industry disputes, with his first label, Priority Records, getting bought out by Capitol. His third album, Van Gogh, was left hanging after the merger, with bootleggers distributing the near-finished album before any singles could be officially released. He’s since moved on to flourish as an independent artist. Perhaps the lack of respect and notoriety is rooted in the fact that Ras Kass, the self-proclaimed “Kendrick before Kendrick,” is technically a relic in today’s hip-hop landscape. Maybe it’s the radio play and fanfare for mumbling rappers who have displaced bar-spitters like Ras Kass. But don’t pigeonhole the MC as just old hip-hop: Look up the single “Another Pint,” featuring grindcore act (and fellow Volume performers) Rot Monger. Not exactly the boom-bap you think of with old-school rap. n Ras Kass plays Fri, June 2 at 10:25 pm on The Pin! Main Stage.
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J GRGRY KALAJ Hip-Hop Funk This Spokane band dances all over the lines between funk and soul, hip-hop and jazz, and does it with style. One moment, they might be kicking some serious bass lines and deep beats to get a dance floor moving; the next, a soaring guitar solo will send listeners’ minds into the stratosphere for a psychedelic workout. Whichever way they go, you’ll want to follow. Fri, June 2, 11:15 pm, Red Room Lounge KORI AILENE Singer-Songwriter Fresh off her first full length release, Bear with Me, Kori Ailene plays country-inspired folk that pairs all too well with a tumbler of whiskey or a pint of beer. After going on hiatus and relocating to Hawaii, Ailene is back and playing regularly again, and she’s nabbing the attention of those lucky enough to hear her honeyed vocals layered atop plucky guitar. Fri, June 2, 8 pm, Terrain LIÉ Punk It’s honestly refreshing to hear a band that’s as fiercely committed to blasting out old-school, no-bullshit punk rock as this Vancouver-based threepiece. There’s some undeniable riot grrrl DNA in there, too: Just listen to their song “Capture Bonding,” with its chilling but stingingly satirical refrain of “my hero / my captor.” Sat, June 3, 12:30 am, The Observatory
LITHICS Art-Punk Every year, Portland alt-weekly Willamette Week polls scores of local scenesters to determine the best new band or artist in town. This year, the winner of that contest was Lithics, an icy art-punk quartet with guitars set to slice and dice. The band’s 2016 album Borrowed Floors is a dancing fountain of musical parts that intertwine into a whole that’s both mesmerizing and challenging. Layer on Aubrey Hornor’s dead-eyed vocals and you’ve got something that could splinter your skull if you stare at it for too long. Devo meets Sleater-Kinney? Yup. Believe it. Fri, June 2, 10:30 pm, The Observatory LITTLE WOLF, feat. Marshall McLean Folk Roots music is harder to pull off than one would think. Friends Josh Hedlund and Justin Landis of the Marshall McLean Band pull it off quite well in their paired project, based in Sandpoint. Their distinct folk songs play out like intimate vignettes, with crooning vocals and appealing slides on guitar. Fri, June 2, 7 pm, Terrain LOCAL PAVLOV Indie Rock Since forming a few years ago, Spokane’s Local Pavlov has developed into a prominent presence on the live music scene, and if you haven’t seen them by now, you’re probably not
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Mall Walk hanging out in the right places. The four-piece, fronted by guitarist Ryan Gilbert, has also been playing shows in Seattle and Portland, so hopefully that means we’re in store for more of their absorbing, reverby, lo-fi rock. Sat, June 3, 7:15 pm, Big Dipper LUCKY CHASE Post-Punk A little more than a year after their first show, this Spokane band continues to harken back to a time when moody post-punk reigned supreme. Singer Brooke Squires knows how to command a stage, and her shut-up-and-listen vocals will give you flashbacks to the days when Siouxsie Sioux and Exene Cervenka were the leaders of the punk pack. Sat, June 3, 7:15 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
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LUST FOR GLORY Rock This power trio got their start in Portland more than a decade ago and continued their rockin’ ways when they moved to Spokane. Dedicated to a lo-fi, warts-and-all approach, Lust for Glory might evoke a Melvins-like psychotic excursion one moment, and a Rush-style dive into prog-rock the next. Spinning tunes from their various albums and EPs, one quickly realizes this is a band without sonic limits. Fri, June 2, 5:10 pm, The Pin! Side Stage ...continued on page 19
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MAIDENHAIR Experimental Despite Maidenhair being Alex Moe’s solo project, don’t assume it’s onedimensional. Hunkered down behind a mixer, keyboards and laptop and looping beats to go along with his guitar, Maidenhair proves a remarkably dextrous beast, capable of producing waves of sound. The fact that Moe is able to add vocals isn’t just impressive, it takes the songs into an otherworldly realm well beyond what you might expect. Sat, June 3, Baby Bar, 6:30 pm MALL WALK Indie Rock The guys in this alt-rock trio have been fixtures on the Bay Area music scene for a while now, which would explain how a relatively new band has already developed such a remarkably confident sound. “Pales in Comparison,” the first song listed on the band’s Spotify profile, should hook you right away; it’s a dreamy slow-burner that you’ll want to listen to again the second it’s over. Fri, June 2, 11:30 pm, The Observatory MINI MURDERS Rock Psych-rock with synthesizers isn’t a common soundscape. But the latest local project from guitarist Vaughn Wood (Dead Serious Lovers, Von the Baptist) and synth player Tobias Hendrickson (Crystalline, TechTax) sees them combining the respective sounds they’ve carved out for themselves, with journeyman Nick Tibbetts adding feverish drumming to create a project with a sounds wholly its own. Fri, June 2, 7:15 pm, The Big Dipper MISCOMINGS No-Wave With all the fury and dissonance of early Sonic Youth, Seattle’s Miscomings doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to hitting you with an aural blitzkrieg of twisty, gnarled post-punk. Bag of Knives, the band’s latest cassette, is perfectly named, a short-and-sweet collection of songs in which the band’s wiry, unpredictable guitars gleefully assault your speakers. Sat, June 3, 9:30 pm, The Observatory MISTY MOUNTAIN PONY CLUB Country The Spokane-based duo of Sally Jablonsky and Milo Krims specialize in old-timey country songs that conjure up images of outlaws, cattle drivers and lonely hearts on the open range. Even while you’re listening to their Volume set in the middle of the city, you’ll no doubt be transported to the windswept plains of the Old West. Marty Rob-
bins would be proud. Sat, June 3, 2 pm, Hotel RL MONUMENTS Instrumental Art-rock The on-again, off-again, back-onagain instrumental rockers Monuments don’t need vocals to get their message across — at least, if their message is one of lovely, sprawling songs that bounce between driving, straightforward rock riffs and spacey prog moves. The band made up of Spokane and Portland musicians has chops for days, and the ability to keep the audience’s attention through multi-movement epics like their tune “Oceans.” Fri, June 2, 8:15 pm, The Big Dipper MOTOPONY Rock This Seattle band’s music fuses two big trends of the past decade — soaring, sing-along pop-rock and shimmering electronic music — into one unstoppable sound that would be right at home in a commercial for a small, boxy car or in the most important scene of a film filled with good-looking young people. This is 21st century pop-rock: heavy with digitized atmosphere, hookier than a well-stocked tackle box, muscular and melodic at the same time. Sat, June 3, 3 pm, Steam Plant and 10:15 pm, The Bartlett MYKE BOGAN AND BLOSSOM Hip-Hop/R&B Based in Portland, rapper Myke Bogan spits deeply personal, socially conscious verses over lush, laid-back musical arrangements. It’s perfect chill-out music. Bogan will perform at Volume with his frequent collaborator Blossom, also based in Oregon, whose silky-smooth R&B vocals perfectly complement his vibe. Fri, June 2, 12:15 am, Red Room Lounge; Sat, June 3, 5:45 pm, Steam Plant NACHO PICASSO Hip-Hop For years, Nacho Picasso has been one of the most ready-to-bustout figures in Seattle’s perpetually ready-to-bust-out rap scene. The guy is a talented MC with a killer rasp in his voice, perfectly weird taste in beats and a tendency toward sexually suggestive rhymes that are more funny than gross. (Your mileage may vary.) Now signed to East Coast super-producer Harry Fraud’s Surf School Recordings label, Nacho seems to be on the verge of something big. Which is awesome, because he’s been grinding away over there in the 206 for a loooong time. Fri, June 2, 11:30 pm, The Pin! Main Stage ...continued on next page
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NARROW MINDED Hardcore Narrow Minded’s breakdowns are a thing of violent beauty. The chugging guitars cut through pauses and play around with structure, transporting you straight into a nightmarish circle pit. They’re at their best when they’re gradually adding elements into their mix, layer by layer. Fri, June 2, 5:30 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
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POP GODDESS ATHENA Dance The cover of Pop Goddess Athena’s album Jejune, featuring a brightly colored cartoon character with a gun to its head, perfectly sums up the music it’s illustrating. Local producer-singersongwriter Cameron Gorman’s beats are as irresistible as they are irrepressible, but his lyrics often go to dark, introspective places. Dance along, with tears in your eyes. Fri, June 2, 7 pm, The Bartlett
NAT PARK AND THE TUNNELS OF LOVE Rock Named for a long-defunct Spokane destination spot and featuring some members of the dearly departed surfrock outfit BBBBandits, this local fivepiece is in the classic tradition of the Sonics and the Kingsmen. They’re really the ideal bar band, building back-tobasics rock songs atop fat guitar riffs and screaming organ licks. The Tunnels of Love actually debuted at last year’s Volume, and they’ve since developed a reputation for their combustible live energy. Sat, June 3, 10 pm, Terrain
RAS KASS Hip-Hop Ras Kass, who hits Volume following a tour with rap luminaries Dead Prez, is a true legend among hip-hop heads: He’s best known for being a member of the rap collectives The HRSMN, alongside Canibus, Killah Priest and Kurupt, and the Golden State Warriors, which helped launch Xzibit to fame. Ras Kass’ debut album, Soul on Ice, is a must-listen for any fan of West Coast rap. Fri, June 2, 10:25 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
NOBODIES Hip-Hop Florida’s Matt and Jah are the best kind of aggro on top of their self-produced beats. Banging hip-hop pianos and brass back the duo, who shout their verses until they go hoarse. It’s impossible to not get swept up in their catchy hooks and effortless flow, as both their vocals and instrumentals are run through distortion and effects, giving the impression that they’re being blasted through a megaphone. Fri, June 2, 9:10 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
ROT MONGER Grindcore Spokane’s Rot Monger creates a wall of noise, feedback and chugging guitars in blistering songs that cover topics ranging from police brutality to substance abuse. The four-piece has had the privilege of playing with British metal legends Napalm Death, and their song “Another Pint” infuses their grindcore sensibilities with a featured verse from hip-hop staple Ras Kass (see above). Fri, June 2, 7:55 pm, The Pin! Side Stage
OUTERCOURSE Rock When they first started up a couple of years ago, it seemed like Outercourse never played with the same group of dudes twice. But the Spokane quartet has since solidified its lineup and found its identity as an outlet for songwriter and frontman Ben Jennings, who has an uncanny ear for melodies that come at you sideways. The band recently dropped a new tape of deliberately fuzzy, feedback-heavy basement rock that’ll worm its way into your brain. Sat, June 3, 11:30 pm, The Observatory
RUNAWAY OCTOPUS Alt-rock From their nautical name to their Dick Dale-inspired guitar tones to the expressionistic painting of crashing waves on the cover of their album Laveering, you can practically smell the salt in the air when you listen to Runaway Octopus. The work of two dudes and a reel-to-reel tape machine, the music might also remind you of throwing a beach party on a rainy day, and we mean that in the most complimentary way possible. Sat, June 3, 7:45 pm, Red Room Lounge
PERU RESH Punk Never let it be said that punk attitude and genuine musicianship can’t coexist. Peru Rush knows better, packing their tunes with some gloriously sneering lyrics on songs like “Forever Burnouts” and “Phone Home” while also displaying impressive instrumental chops. Even if you don’t join the pit for their set, the killer hooks might cause a neck injury from bobbing your head to the tunes on their self-titled EP. Fri, June 2, 8:30 pm, The Observatory
S1UGS Electronica Self-described as “cheap synth punk,” the available tracks from the solo project of Seattle-based musician Nat Mooter consist of just a few elements — Mooter’s voice (often harmonizing with himself), a pre-programmed beat, a simple keyboard line. But this is hardly basic music: It’s morose, occasionally beguiling electro-pop that should appeal to anyone who’s ever swooned to Bauhaus or Suicide. Fri, June 2, 9:30 pm, The Observatory ...continued on page 23
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VIOLET CATASTROPHE Sat, June 3, 9:15 pm, Big Dipper KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO
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SO YOU LOVE SYNTHS? FRIDAY 7 pm at the Bartlett, Pop Goddess Athena 8 pm at the Bartlett, Bandit Train 9 pm at the Bartlett, The Dancing Plague of 1815 9:30 pm at the Observatory, S1ugs 9:45 pm at nYne, Water Monster 10 pm at the Bartlett, Small Million 10:45 pm at Red Room Lounge, Soul Ipsum SATURDAY 7 pm at nYne, The Dirty Moogs 7:15 pm at the Bartlett, Choir Boy 8:15 pm at the Big Dipper, Techtax 10:15 pm at the Big Dipper, Summer in Siberia
SO YOU LOVE FOLK OR SINGER-SONGWRITERS? Scarlet Parke SALVE Indie Rock They’ve only got a couple of shows under their belt, so local trio Salve are still feeling their way through their own dreamy, shoegaze-y sound. When the Inlander asked them what bands they’d compare themselves to, they told us they’re for fans of Smashing Pumpkins, Built to Spill and the ’90s in general. You know who you are. Sat, June 3, 8:30 pm, The Observatory SCARLET PARKE Soul Singer Scarlet Parke has range. The Port Orchard vocalist offers a timeless experience that neatly ties together her pop, soul and blues tendencies. While listening to Parke and her accompanying band break down their classic sound, it’s almost guaranteed that the hair on your neck will stand on end and you’ll be slapping your leg along to the beat. Sat, June 3, 10:30 pm, nYne SCATTERBOX Punk You might not think Coeur d’Alene and punk rock would go hand in hand, but Scatterbox dispels that notion. The band is the grandaddy of the city’s thrash scene, playing together in different iterations since 2000, and they’re still crafting old-school, balls-to-the-wall hard rock. If you’re still hanging on to those Black Flag and Minor Threat concert tees from the ’80s, don’t miss these guys. Fri, June 2, 6:20 pm, The Pin! Main Stage SHAWN JAMES AND THE SHAPESHIFTERS Blues Rock Straight out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, this blues-rock crew formed in 2013 and have been picking up speed ever since. Led by James’ soulful roar and featuring some instrumentation you might not expect from such a hard-hitting band (banjo?), this is one show that is going to leave everyone in the room dripping with sweat and smiling all the more for it. Sat, June 3, 10:45 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
SIR COYLER AND HIS ASTHMATIC BAND Rock This Seattle three-piece sounds like they were beamed straight out of a suburban garage in 1966: They classify themselves as “choogle-punk” on Facebook, which is either going to speak to your CCR-lovin’ soul or leave you scratching your head. Either way, Sir Coyler and Co. are a hell of a lot of fun: They’d be right at home on a double bill with Spokane’s own Whiskey Dick Mountain. (Hint, hint: Let’s make that happen.) Fri, June 2, 9:15 pm, Mootsy’s SIX STATE BENDER Rock Call ’em punk, psychobilly, hard rock or whatever you want, this long-running Spokane crew brings it aggressively and with little thought for safety. Spinning through tunes like “Boogie Van” and “Spokane Drunk City,” they hit on universal rock and roll themes — road trips, drugs, sex, violence. You know, the good things in life when you’re a bad man with a guitar in your hand. Fri, June 2, 11:15 pm, Mootsy’s SLUG CHRIST Hip-Hop Atlanta’s Chaz Bell creates codeinecoated, Southern trap-fused hip-hop that generally focuses on his surprisingly playful look at drug abuse, depression and religion. He inspires comparisons to Three 6 Mafia and Lil B, as well as the more trapinspired tracks from witch-house groups like Salem. Fri, June 2, 9:45 pm, The Pin! Side Stage SMALL MILLION Synth Pop Combining Americana with thick electronic layering, the Portland two-piece featuring Malachi Graham and Ryan Linder promise a cathartic, textured and emotive experience. Graham’s vocals echo over Linder’s reserved synth and guitar, and light percussion creates an endearing minimalistic experience you can still move to. Fri, June 2, 10 pm, The Bartlett
Small Million SOUL IPSUM Electronic Wyatt Schaffner’s experimental electronic project isn’t one for genre defining. The Portland producer spins plenty of plates in terms of layering, engulfing listeners with walls of bass and ambient noise while throwing abstract melodies and breaks into the fray. Soul Ipsum is able to slowly entrance you, then throw you through a musical space-time continuum, all the while leaving you wondering how you got there. Fri, June 2, 10:45 pm, Red Room Lounge THE SOUTH HILL Indie Rock Coming together in 2015, the members of the South Hill quickly coalesced around a rootsy indie-rock sound grounded in killer harmonies and guitar. The tunes, abetted by cello and keyboards, touch on blues and folk, while their narrative-style lyrics transport listeners well beyond the band’s Spokane hometown. Fri, June 2, 8:15 pm, Red Room Lounge STREET TANG Rock Tyler Aker really gets around in the Spokane music scene. He’s probably most recognizable as the frontman of Pine League, one of the tightest and catchiest pop bands in the 509, and now he’s hitting stages with this relatively new solo project. His past work has proven that he’s got a real ear for melody, and he’s got one of those voices that’s unmistakably his own. Fri, June 2, 8:15 pm, Mootsy’s SUMMER IN SIBERIA Electro-Pop Evoking the best of alternative synth-pop artists of yesteryear while staying rooted in the here and now, Spokane’s own Summer in Siberia deliver both bombast and beauty in their sets. The quartet blends traditional rock instrumentation with synthesizers, all topped off with Justin Hynes’ inviting, evocative vocals. (Full disclosure: Hynes is an Inlander staffer.) Sat, June 3, 10:15 pm, Big Dipper ...continued on next page
FRIDAY 6 pm at Terrain, Dylan Hathaway 6:15 pm at Baby Bar, Two Moons 7 pm at Terrain, Little Wolf 8 pm at Terrain, Kori Ailene 9 pm at Terrain, Windoe 10:15 pm at Terrain, Folkinception SATURDAY 7 pm at Baby Bar, Forest Lines 9 pm at Terrain, Dario Ré 9:30 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Dapper Devils
SO YOU WANNA DANCE? FRIDAY 9:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Sir Coyler and His Asthmatic Band 9:30 pm at Baby Bar, DJ Case 10:45 pm at nYne, Weeknites 12:30 am at the Observatory, DJ Zozi SATURDAY 10 am at Boots, Twin Towers 4:15 pm at the Steam Plant, Super Sparkle 7 pm at nYne, The Dirty Moogs 10 pm at Baby Bar, DJ Case 10 pm at Terrain, Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love 11:30 pm at nYne, DJ C-Mad
SO YOU LOVE BANGING YOUR HEAD TO METAL? FRIDAY 7:05 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Infrablaster 7:30 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Zan 7:55 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Rot Monger 8:50 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Cold-Blooded 9:15 pm at the Big Dipper, The Hallows 10:15 pm at the Big Dipper, Goddamned Animals SATURDAY 8 pm at Mootsy’s, Askevault 10:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Dark White Light 12:15 am at Mootsy’s, Belt of Vapor
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SO YOU LOVE HIP-HOP? FRIDAY 8:20 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Crimewave 9:10 pm at Red Room Lounge, Nobodies 9:45 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Slug Christ 10:15 pm at Red Room Lounge, Brotha Nature 10:25 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Ras Kass 11:30 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Nacho Picasso 12:15 am at Red Room Lounge, Myke Bogan and Blossom
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FRIDAY 5:10 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Lust for Glory 8:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Street Tang 9:15 pm at Red Room Lounge, Cattywomp 9:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Sir Coyler and His Ashthmatic Band 11:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Six State Bender
SUPER SPARKLE Soul Pop For when you absolutely, positively have to get your groove on, consider Super Sparkle. The collective effort of a heaping crew of Spokane’s finest musicians, this “sparkly retro indie-pop” band has a way with creating hooks for days, as exemplified by their brand new EP that arrived this spring. If glorious harmonies, guitars that make you move your ass and insistent horn blasts are your thing, this is a band you won’t want to miss. Sat, June 3, 4:15 pm, Steam Plant
SATURDAY 7:45 pm at Red Room Lounge, Runaway Octopus 8 pm at Terrain, Buffalo Jones 8:30 pm at Steam Plant Outdoor Stage, Built to Spill 8:45 pm at Red Room Lounge, Supervillain 11:45 pm at Red Room Lounge, Fat Lady
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SUPERVILLAIN Rock Don’t let the vintage gear and straightforward rock approach fool you into thinking Spokane’s Supervillain are mere retro rockers. There’s a sly sense of humor tucked in the lyrics of songs like “It’ll Be Soon,” a tune that delves into thoughts on global warming while keeping a monstrous Southernrock guitar riff front and center. This trio is as comfortable kicking out blues-rock licks as punk-fueled burners, which you can hear on their new album, It’s Easy When It’s Easy. Sat, June 3, 8:45 pm, Red Room Lounge
TechTax TECHTAX Electronica TechTax (short for Technological Taxidermy) is the space-age electronica project of local musician, producer and programmer Tobias Hendrickson, who also moonlights as a member of the new project Mini Murders, also playing Volume. Hendrickson’s icy, evocative soundscapes will make you feel like you’re chasing replicants through a futuristic sci-fi nightclub. Sat, June 3, 8 pm, nYne
Tender Age TENDER AGE Psych Pop This Portland quintet calls their music “slo-fi pop,” and they’re not kidding. Fans of ’90s shoegaze bands will find plenty to love in songs that go from delicate croons to psychedelic freakouts in a blink. Songs like “Get High” and “Mirrors” showcase a group that seems as happy playing in the shadows as they do delivering bright bursts of sunny, shimmering guitar. They’re a band for all seasons. Sat, June 3, 8:15 pm, Big Dipper
TRASH DOGS Alt-Rock Combining a love for ’80s punk and ’70s country, brothers Matt and Johnny Wade create a backdrop perfect for swigging a pint while you bob your head and tap your feet. The Seattle band offers ear-catching hooks and classic rock vocals that will leave you smiling and entertained. Sat, June 3, 8:45 pm, The Pin! Main Stage
Two Moons TWIN TOWERS Spins The enterprising local DJ duo of Paul Dillon and Erik Solberg have been packing dance floors in Spokane for several years now. Mixing everything from soul and hip-hop to pre/post/ chill/witch/new/old house, they draw from a range of influences and are sure to have the walls sweating. Sat, June 3, 10 am, Boots Bakery
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TWO MOONS Lo-Fi Elliott Smith is (rightfully) a deity in Portland. So you won’t find folks comparing contemporary musicians to Him too often, for fear of (a) ridiculous overstatement and (b) burdening a bright new talent with unreasonable expectations. Two Moons doesn’t so much sound like Smith in song or structure, but the Portland trio’s Strings EP definitely has the same kind of gentle lo-fi vibe. It’s an added bonus that Two Moons kind of sounds like a more languorous version of Midwest pop-rock band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Fri, June 2, 6:15 pm, Baby Bar
UNWED SAILOR Experimental Rock This long-running group revolves around its sole mainstay member, bassist Johnathon Ford, creator of the band’s predominantly instrumental approach. The sound veers from straightforward rock to ambient noise and touches on myriad genres in between over the course of the project’s two decades. Unwed Sailor’s most recent release, Take a Minute, arrived in March. Sat, June 3, 7 pm, Terrain ...continued on next page
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SO YOU LOVE PUNK? FRIDAY 5:30 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Narrow Minded 6:20 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Scatterbox 8:30 pm at the Observatory, Peru Rush 10:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Itchy Kitty SATURDAY 7:15 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Lucky Chase 9:30 pm at the Observatory, Miscomings 10:30 pm at the Observatory, Lithics 12:30 am at the Observatory, lié
SO YOU LIKE MUSIC THAT SOUNDS GREAT WHEN YOU’RE HIGH? FRIDAY 8:15 pm at the Big Dipper, Monuments 8:45 pm at nYne, Woolen Men 9:15 pm at The Pin! Side Stage, Slug Christ 10:15 pm at Red Room Lounge, Brotha Nature 11:15 pm at Red Room Lounge, Kalaj SATURDAY 7 pm at nYne, The Dirty Moogs 7 pm at Terrain, Unwed Sailor 8:15 pm at the Big Dipper, Tender Age 8:30 pm at Steam Plant Outdoor Stage, Built to Spill 10:45 pm at The Pin! Main Stage, Shawn James and the Shapeshifters 11:15 pm at Mootsy’s, Dreamdecay
Weeknites VERSING Noise Pop “Sounds like a whale is dying,” reads one of the comments under the “about” section on Versing’s Facebook page. That’s too harsh, for sure: This Seattle band might be loud, but there’s some honest-to-god pop songcraft going on behind all the fuzz and feedback. If you dig the anthemic arena-rock-ona-budget of Japandroids, you’ll totally be into these guys. Sat, June 3, 10:45 pm, Red Room Lounge
VIOLET CATASTROPHE Pop-Rock Spokane’s Violet Catastrophe, fronted by Eliza Johnson from the local three-piece Friends of Mine, play witty, playful pop tunes that might sound sweet but actually have some bite to them. They specialize in, according to their Facebook profile, “short loud songs mostly not about love”; if that doesn’t pique your interest, we don’t know what will. Sat, June 3, 9:15 pm, Big Dipper
WATER MONSTER Electronica Like a prehistoric behemoth slowly emerging from a tranquil lake, the music of Spokane’s Water Monster doesn’t reveal itself to you all at once. Songwriter and vocalist Max Harnishfeger typically starts with a sparse chillwave foundation, and then he’ll gradually stack layers on top of it — a funky bass line here, some handclaps there — before building to an undeniably catchy sing-along chorus. The songs shimmer there for awhile before dipping back below the surface. Fri, June 2, 9:45 pm, nYne
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Windoe WEEKNITES Post-Punk Seattle’s Weeknites are adept as hell at catching you in the net of guitar hooks and bouncing synth melodies they cast. One second they’ll nab you with their frenetically paced drums, and then you’ll be writhing in their rhythmic power-pop dance numbers. Their diverse sound will leave riffs and hybrid melodies knocking around in your head. Fri, June 2, 10:45 pm, nYne
WIND HOTEL Indie Rock There’s a twisty prog-rock streak running through the evocative, sometimes beautifully mournful songs of the local five-piece Wind Hotel, but they’re mostly in the vein of art rockers like the Velvet Underground or Joy Division. These guys have been playing around since early last year, and they’ve already carved out a distinctive sound that you don’t hear much of in Spokane. Fri, June 2, 7:15 pm, Baby Bar
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WINDOE Singer-Songwriter The solo project of singer-songwriter and Bartlett co-owner Karli Ingersoll, Windoe recently released a debut EP called Shake It Out. Ingersoll’s celestial vocals hover over the many different instrumental backings of her minimalistic four-piece band, who provide, depending on the mood, jangly rock, dreamy soundscapes and melodic melancholy. Fri, June 2, 9 pm, Terrain
THE WOOLEN MEN Garage Rock If the Feelies, Camper van Beethoven and Devo had a perpetually nervous love child and sent it off to embed itself within the Portland music scene, it would sound an awful lot like the Woolen Men. Like fellow post-punk Oregon stalwarts Wipers, this trio specializes in lean, wiry rock, which either comes at you in 90-second blasts or slowly unspools over the course of five jittery minutes. Fri, June 2, 8:45 pm, nYne
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MEAT MADNESS I love brisket more than is probably safe — or healthy — for a guy my age BY MIKE BOOKEY
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bout a year after our first child was born, my wife suggested I take up a hobby. I’d become a guy who worked a lot and parented a lot, then filled the rest of his time with watching basketball or baseball or football, which is not the sort of guy I ever expected to become. But I didn’t go out and join in on a weekly pickup game or sign up for painting lessons. I didn’t start fixing up old cars. I didn’t start playing guitar in a terrible ’90s cover band with other stressed-out dads. I began smoking meats. Well, a meat, specifically — the beef brisket. It’s a tough son of a bitch to get right, but probably the tastiest piece of animal known to man if you succeed. It was the challenge I needed, and one that let you drink beer while confronting it. But on a late April morning, as I stood in the rain confront-
ing the 7-foot flames ripping out of the upright smoker I’d received from my father-in-law after it had been sitting on his deck for a couple of decades, it occurred to me that my pursuit of the perfect barbecue brisket might just burn down my goddamn house. I’d let the water pan go dry, and it had filled with fatty drippings that smell like heaven, but can apparently burn like the fires of hell. The fire ignited about three years worth of other brisket remains inside the smoker, and when I ripped off the top, I found my 12-pound piece of USDA Prime beef aflame. While the smoker burned, sending flecks of flaming paint skyward, I yanked the meat from the inferno, singing my arm hair in the process. I poured water on my brisket, hoping to salvage the dozen hours I’d already devoted to this piece of ...continued on next page
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“MEAT MADNESS,” CONTINUED... beef. The fire itself was a secondary concern. It occurred to me at that point that there’s a difference between a hobby and an obsession. Maybe Captain Ahab’s wife had merely suggested he take up fishing, and things just kind of got out of hand after a while.
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he brisket is part of the chest muscle of the cow. It’s a tough cut that’s nearly inedible if you don’t take your time cooking it, but people have been eating brisket for thousands of years. It wasn’t until the late 19th century that people started smoking it, but mainly for something that’s closer to pastrami. A few decades later, folks in the South — especially Texas — began developing what we know as the barbecued brisket. In recent years, the brisket has experienced a renaissance of sorts, as more backyard cooks try their hand at it and restaurants incorporate the meat into their menu. I’d eaten a lot of brisket before I snagged that smoker off my father-in-law’s deck, but was largely clueless as to how to prepare it. I found guidance from the internet, of course. Amazingribs.com received 34 million pageviews in 2016, and I assume most of those clicks came from guys like me, with a laptop open next to an intimidating slab of raw meat. The site is the brainchild of Craig “Meathead” Goldwyn, a Chicago-area writer and cook who has revolutionized backyard cooking by adding a dose of science to his perspective. If you’re going to get into smoking, Goldwyn’s 2016 book Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling should be your bible. I reach Goldwyn by phone (“Meathead,” he answers) one afternoon shortly after he and his
staff resolved an issue that has taken amazingribs. com — among the top 20 most visited sites on the internet — temporarily offline, but he’s got plenty of time to talk brisket. I tell him that he’s been a virtual mentor of mine during my three-year quest. “I’m flattered,” he says, as I realize how ridiculous this all sounds. But I want to know why I, and so many others, have been lured into this pursuit. “It’s difficult, it’s complicated, and it requires a little bit of understanding. It’s not taking meat and forming a patty and throwing it on the grill. There’s trimming and seasoning and smoking and getting it tender,” he says. Goldwyn’s method is insanely detail-oriented, but he backs up his madness with the scientific help of Dr. Greg Blonder, his consultant, who helped Goldwyn prove that soaking your wood chips in water doesn’t do anything (the water doesn’t really penetrate the chips), fatty juices don’t “soak into” the meat while cooking, and that beer-can chicken is mostly nonsense (the chicken would be dried out if you got the beer inside the chicken hot enough to release any flavor). The process for Goldwyn’s Texas-style brisket includes a salty rub of your choice several hours before the meat goes on the smoker, a focus on steady temperature (many say 225° Fahrenheit, but some go as hot as 270°), wrapping your meat in foil if the meat’s temperature stops climbing and countless other instructions, including how you slice the finished product. But a lot of success depends on what meat you begin with. “Knowing your butcher is more important than knowing a stockbroker. You can pick stocks if you follow the financials, but a butcher will
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steer good meat to you,” says Goldwyn, who recommends at least USDA Choice beef. If you can get Prime, all the better. I’ve taken to buying whole, untrimmed packer briskets from Costco, usually between 12 and 14 pounds. Often, I don’t buy anything else and walk the quarter-mile to the checkout with the slab under my arm with an unwarranted sense of primal accomplishment.
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talk about brisket more than I should, and have bored the hell out of too many polite strangers in that Costco checkout line as a result. They don’t care about my choice of hardwood, or that I inject my brisket with beef broth before it hits the grill. I can now empathize with marathon runners and, oddly, vegans, in the need to discuss one’s hobby ad nauseam. Thus, rapping about brisket with folks in Spokane who barbecue for a living was a relief. I sat down with Bob Hemphill of beloved Chicken-N-More in downtown Spokane, who makes one of the best briskets in the region. Yes, he’s also been making insanely good fried chicken in Spokane for 25 years, but get the brisket sandwich, because Hemphill grew up in Texas eating brisket for breakfast. I ask him what makes a good brisket. He says “temperature,” and details his process for knowing when to pull the meat, but there’s more to it than that. “You know what I tell a lot of guys, Mike? It’s like marriage. It’s trial and error,” he says. This is true. My first brisket was a dried-out hunk of leather that had to finish in the oven. Most people fail the first couple of times, which is maddening, and even Meathead’s scripture won’t save you if you don’t learn the quirks of your own smoker. You can find brisket elsewhere in the region, and I’ve eaten most of it. Longhorn, the big name in barbecue in Spokane, does a solid job. So does Dickey’s, even if it’s a chain. I’ve eaten it in a sandwich at Central Food and in a breakfast hash at Luna. When Texas True Barbecue opened this past winter in downtown Spokane, I bonded with owner Peter Grundhauser over brisket technique. Eventually, I found myself out at JJ’s Tap and Smokehouse on Indian Trail Road. It’s a bit of a drive, but if you show up on Fridays, you can get a platter of kitchen manager Cory Pippenger’s USDA Choice brisket. He’s been in the business for 15 years, but learned how to smoke from his dad long before that. Pippenger’s brisket is a labor of love in a lot of ways. “I’m here 12 to 15 hours a day. I’m putting as much into this meat so that people can enjoy it as much as they possibly can,” he says. “When the meat is perfect and you bite into it, it just melts.”
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teve Eller is a tall drink of water with Texas-sized ambitions for his new Cosmic Cowboy Grill’s location and menu with a healthy twist on Southwestern food. As a former commercial real estate broker, Eller followed the first rule of real estate — location, location, location — when deciding where to construct the eatery, located at the prime junction of Highway 95 and Interstate 90 in Coeur d’Alene. Although construction was somewhat stymied by months of rain, only the patio was delayed upon opening, and business has been brisk since its soft debut in early May. Inside the restaurant, local firm HDG Architecture balanced industrial, modern and natural elements to create a welcoming space for fast-casual dining. Artwork is large and bold, reminiscent of pop artist Andy Warhol, including a four-part sendup of iconic musicians Eller relates to as “cosmic cowboys.” “A Cosmic Cowboy,” he explains on the restaurant’s website, “has Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, and The
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PATIO DINING THE BLACKBIRD TAVERN + KITCHEN 905 N. Washington 392-4000 In the historic Broadview Dairy building on the north side of the Spokane River, the Blackbird is best explained as the more refined version of its pubfood counterpart, Manito Tap House, both owned by local restaurateur Patrick McPherson. A menu of upscale comfort food — with appetizers like “malted waffle hush puppies” and a brisket sandwich on a sticky bun — was influenced by head Chef Molly Patrick’s upbringing in Atlanta. On hot and sunny summer afternoons, the east-facing patio is pleasantly shaded during happy hour and dinner. THE BACKYARD PUBLIC HOUSE 1811 W. Broadway 822-7338 More than two years ago, the Backyard took over the former home of the Broadway Bar & Grill, and the former dive bar has since become a neighborhood favorite for happy hour, trivia night and bingo, and simply a spot for good drinks alongside a burger. The spot exudes the feel of a neighborhood pub, serving the sort of creative (yet affordable) cuisine that
may come as a surprise to newcomers. With interior walls of reclaimed wood from Kettle Falls, high tables and warm lighting, there’s a comforting vibe that’s easy to sink into. LUNA 5620 S. Perry 448-2383 Up on the far southern edge of Spokane’s South Hill, Luna hides in a mostly residential pocket off 57th Avenue, but don’t let its lower visibility keep you from finding this gem. The natural-light-filled restaurant offers a seasonal, scratch-made and local-ingredient-focused menu, not unlike its regional counterparts. Though it offers favorites like wood-fired pizza made in an oven imported from Naples, Italy, Luna also caters to those with gluten sensitivities. In the warmer weather, don’t miss the chance to sit on Luna’s beautifully shaded patio. CRAFTED TAP HOUSE & KITCHEN 523 Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene 208-292-4813 Though it’s not on the lake, Crafted’s stylish, expansive patio is arguably one of the most happening places in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Crafted takes HDG Architecture’s rustic, industrial design and adds rotating
special menus with fresh ingredients. Mainstays have funky names like the “#42” (ground beef burger with bacon jam, Cambozola and arugula) and the “Rockefella Ya’ll” (chicken and vanilla waffles with bacon and huckleberry syrup). Appetizers include the pretzel and white cheddar Hefeweizen fondue and super fuzz chicken wings with blood orange purée and Elysian ale.
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Arrrgh, It Blows! It may have raked in billions, but the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has run aground BY MARYANN JOHANSON
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K, make it stop. This amusement park ride has gone on long enough. I adored the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. They were smart, fun popcorn flicks that worked as clever updates on the classic Hollywood swashbuckler films. I tolerated 2011’s On Stranger Tides, the series’ fourth entry, because it still had hints of what made the original trilogy great. No such luck here. With this, the uncalled-for fifth chapter in the franchise, Pirates has officially outstayed its welcome. Dead Men Tell No Tales is a cacophony of CGI spectacle that assails the senses, but forgets to give us a reason to care about the people caught in the middle of it. It is pandemonium, and incredibly boring. It is full of the supernatural, but it has no magic. Dead Men Tell No Tales does avoid one of the signature problems of blockbusters of recent vintage, in that so few of them seem interested in crafting something new for our eyes to behold. A lot of the action we witness here isn’t like anything we’ve seen before, yet almost none of it actually entertains, like a joke with a great setup and an unfunny punch line. One early sequence involves a bank robbery by Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his crew that goes
very wrong, and it should be absolutely hilarious. But it falls completely flat. It’s loud and kinetic and crashy, but it has no pizzazz whatsoever. Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg aren’t only new to the Pirates series, they’re new to big-budget FX extravaganzas, and it shows. But lackluster action takes a backseat, problem-wise, to lackluster characters. One big flaw of On Stranger Tides was that Jack Sparrow was missing the Bones and Spock to his Captain Kirk, which he’d previously had in Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner and Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann. A bigger flaw in Dead Men Tell No Tales is that Jack is saddled with incredibly dull new sidekicks. Brenton Thwaites, as Will’s son Henry, and Kaya Scodelario, as woman of science Carina, share one expression between them — a slack-jawed, dead-eyed befuddlement — some cringeworthy banter, a painful lack of chemistry and one of the least convincing on-screen romances ever. Dead Men Tell No Tales cannot escape another problem of the 21st century blockbuster: too much plot. Screenwriters Jeff Nathanson and Terry Rossio seem to think that more is better, but in reality, it’s just more, and in this case, the story’s attempt to find footing is confusing, convoluted and crammed with too many characters. Jack, Henry and Carina are all seeking a mythical object called the Trident of Poseidon, which is said to break all curses of the sea. Henry needs it to free his father, cursed in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End to endless service on the Flying Dutchman. Jack needs it because pirate
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hunter Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) — who Jack long ago condemned to a sort of zombie-sailorhood — has vowed revenge. And Carina needs it because… well, that’s never entirely clear, but it has something to do with “Galileo’s diary,” which she inherited from her unknown scientist father. Jack’s old frenemy Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) is also hanging around, waiting to be shoehorned into the story. As torturous as the writing is, it’s also lazy, with abuse passing as wit and coincidence as fate. Worse, it doesn’t even seem to appreciate the balancing act that the previous films managed to pull off, making pirates romantic and heroic and making us forget that they’re actually brutish criminals. Here, it’s really difficult to accept Salazar as a villain: He’s portrayed as an honorable Spanish naval captain whose mission was to clear the seas of the scourge of pirates. And it’s really difficult to accept Jack as someone we should feel any sympathy for: He’s cruel to his friends, comes across as stupid rather than cunning, and lacks all the crafty charm he once had. We should be rooting for Salazar, and mostly, I was. n
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The recent failure of the CHiPs movie doesn’t exactly bode well for this raunchy take on one of TV’s biggest guilty pleasures, though that film didn’t benefit from the million-watt star power of Dwayne Johnson. He’s donning those iconic red swim trunks and teaming up with Zac Efron’s disgraced former Olympian to crack the case of a beachside murder. And in case you were wondering, yes, David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson make cameos. (NW) Rated R
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Ace character actors Debra Winger and Tracy Letts star as a long-married couple who break off their relationship when they discover they’re both engaged in ongoing affairs. But some-
thing about their separation reignites the spark that had faded between them, and they’re soon cheating on their new romantic prospects — with one another. (NW) Rated R
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There was a time when Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow could enliven any tired script, but that ship has long since sailed. The bloated Disney behemoth splashes back into theaters, and this fifth big-budget adventure involves a zombie pirate hunter and a magical trident… or something. It’s about as much fun as waiting in an endless amusement park line on a 100-degree day. (MJ) Rated PG-13
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Set a decade after Prometheus, this latest Alien adventure finds a crew of scientists sent to populate an Earthlike planet that is — surprise, surprise — inhabited by those chest-bursting, face-hugging creatures we’ve come to know and love. Although it’s directed by Ridley Scott, who jump-started the franchise in 1979, the film is, like its most recent predecessor, filled with questionable character motivations and intriguing ideas that the screenplay simply drops. (ES) Rated R
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Continuing the trend of remaking its animated classics as live-action features, Disney’s update of its great version of Beauty and the Beast is reverential to a fault. The plot goes more or less unchanged — the bookish Belle (Emma Watson) is taken captive by the horrifying Beast (Dan Stevens), who turns out to be cuddlier than expected — though this script provides more backstory for its central characters. Still, it’s not enough to make you forget the 1991 original, which probably shouldn’t have been monkeyed
with in the first place. (SR) Rated PG
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The latest from DreamWorks Animation casts Alec Baldwin as an infant who wears a business suit, talks like Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock and offers up such pearls of wisdom as “cookies are for closers only” (because kids sure do love their Glengarry Glen Ross references). But here’s the twist: Baby Baldwin’s antics are all in the mind of his imaginative 7-year-old brother, who’s afraid the arrival of a new sibling will attract all of his parents’ attention. (NW) Rated PG
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Just in time for that Twin Peaks revival, this documentary sits down with the cult series’ co-creator David Lynch, primarily to examine his long career as a visual artist. Beginning with Lynch’s nomadic childhood and wrapping up as he’s making his 1977 feature Eraserhead, the film is an intriguing look into the mind of a singular storyteller, even if it’s probably only of interest to Lynch completists. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated ...continued on next page
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Maddie (Amandla Stenberg, The Hunger Games) is an 18-year-old girl with an autoimmune disease, trapped inside a hermetically sealed suburban fortress. When a cute, adventurous boy (Nick Robinson, Jurassic World) moves in next door, she discovers she’s willing to risk her well-being to explore the outside world with him. The latest in a line of post-Fault in Our Stars teen romances based on YA novels, this one from a bestseller by Nicola Yoon. (NW) Rated PG-13
Written and directed by Jordan Peele, this psychological thriller tackles the same issues of race and masculinity that were regularly explored on his Comedy Central series Key and Peele. Daniel Kaluuya (Sicario) and Allison Williams (Girls) play an interracial couple who visit her family’s country estate, which he discovers has a curi ous history with its African American staff. A clever, consistently funny racial satire and horror film that mocks white liberal cluelessness and finds humor in (without dismissing) black people’s fears. (ES) Rated R
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The fourth feature adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s popular book series finds title wimpy kid Greg and his family embarking on a predictably disastrous road trip that involves a piglet, a runaway minivan and a video game convention. Mom and Dad are played this time by Alicia Silverstone and Tom Everett Scott, which should make us all feel super old. (NW) Rated PG
Just when the Fast and Furious crew thought they were out, they get pulled back in. The team’s eighth go-round finds them re-immersed in the criminal underworld when Dom (Vin Diesel) is seduced by a devious hacker (Charlize Theron), and it’s up to his gang — excuse us, his family — to bring him back from the dark side. F8 (“fate” — get it?) is perhaps the nadir of a seemingly endless franchise, an overstuffed, incoherent jumble of halfbaked plot points and jarring tonal shifts. It’s predictably nonsensical, but it also isn’t any fun. (MJ) Rated PG-13
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Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin take on roles originated by George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg in this remake of a 1979 comedy about old dudes who decide they’ve got nothing left to lose and rob a bank. Directed by (of all people) Zach Braff and written by Theodore Melfi, who helmed last year’s Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures. (NW) Rated PG-13
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Summer movie season officially kicks off as Star-Lord and company blast back into theaters, and this brightly colored, exuberantly paced sequel turns out to be just as funny and flashy (if not quite as fresh) as its predeces-
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sor. The story this time around — as the Guardians are pursued through space, the ever-smirking ruffian Peter Quill is reunited with his swashbuckler father — is secondary to the action set pieces and the soundtrack of ’70s pop hits, but that’s just fine with us. (SS) Rated PG-13
man soon finds himself in the middle of a political scandal even he can’t sweettalk his way out of. Despite a conveniently scripted climax, this is a sharp and keenly etched character study. (MB) Rated R
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Emily Dickinson’s final years are examined in the latest from writer-director Terence Davies, a patiently paced, empathetic character study that avoids many of the pitfalls of traditional artist biopics. Cynthia Nixon delivers a terrific performance as the troubled but brilliant poet, who challenged the status quo and whose work wasn’t fully appreciated until after her death. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
When his much older and much richer wife dumps him, a fading lothario (Eugenio Derbez from Instructions Not Included) is forced to move in with his sister (Salma Hayek) and her nerdy son. The odds are good that he’ll learn what really matters in life. Directed by comic actor Ken Marino and featuring Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell and Raquel Welch in supporting roles, this low-key comedy has been a sleeper hit at the box office. (NW) Rated PG-13
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD
Here’s something nobody really asked for: Yet another cinematic retelling of the Arthurian myth, this time slathered with an extra layer of grit and grime, starring ho-hum Charlie Hunnam as the knight of legend and an ultra-camp Jude Law as the evil king whose reign he must topple. Director Guy Ritchie uses rapid-fire editing and special effects to try and disguise the fact that this is one dull spectacle. (NW) Rated PG-13
THE LOST CITY OF Z
In the early 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett became convinced that a long-dead civilization had once existed deep within the Amazon, and his expeditions to find the place, which he nicknamed “Z,” eventually consumed him. Based on the bestselling nonfiction book by David Grann, this elegantly made, beautifully photographed and ultimately engrossing historical drama feels like it was beamed straight out of the 1950s, creaky tropes and all. It’s worth seeing, particularly on a big screen, but it’s also studious to a fault. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
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Richard Gere is terrific as the unassuming and enigmatic Norman Oppenheimer, a self-proclaimed “fixer” who networks and glad-hands his way through the upper crust of New York City. When one of his prospects becomes the Prime Minister of Israel, Nor-
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Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn play a mother and daughter who, while on a tropical vacation together, are kidnapped by criminals. Even if this is lousy (and the lack of early reviews suggests it might be), it’ll be nice to see Hawn back on the big screen again — this is her first film role since 2002’s The Banger Sisters — in something resembling the screwball comedies she made in the late ’80s. (NW) Rated R
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During World War II, a group of filmmakers sanctioned by the British government are assigned to develop a mostly-based-on-fact war movie that will boost the nation’s morale. Part history lesson, part romance and part behind-the-scenes comedy, this is an unabashedly old-fashioned, corny and ultimately entertaining tribute to, well, old-fashioned, corny entertainment. The stellar supporting cast includes Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons and Richard E. Grant. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R
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Jessica Chastain stars as Antonina Żabiński, who, along with her husband Jan, turned her once-thriving Warsaw Zoo into a safe haven for Polish Jews during WWII. It’s a remarkable true story, most famously documented in Diane Ackerman’s bestselling book, but this adaptation looks to be another handsome Hollywood biopic that was made to win Oscars it won’t ever receive. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13 n
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he pretty-boy veneer that has often overshadowed some of Richard Gere’s best performances is nowhere to be found in the finely honed character study Norman, which has been aptly subtitled The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer. The popular actor disappears into the title role, a New York Jew who wants nothing more than to be connected to the movers and shakers of the world, to walk beside them as a valued player and associate, but who has no ambition to be a leader himself. Norman Oppenheimer wants to be the glue that connects important people — a macher, to use a Yiddish term that has no single English equivalent. The film’s alltelling subtitle uses the word “fixer,” though that doesn’t fully encapsulate the sense that Norman wants to be a big shot who can
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eyes, we witness a big payoff on one of his gambles. Norman notices a minor Israeli dignitary named Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi) admiring a pair of shoes in a Fifth Avenue store window, so he buys the ridiculously expensive footwear for the politician. His bank-account-breaking bet pays off three years later when Eshel becomes Israel’s Prime Minister and remembers his old benefactor, a connection that Norman then attempts to parlay into other deals. Yet those deals aren’t about attaining riches so make things happen, but from behind the much as consolidating Norman’s influence scenes instead of in the spotlight. Reflected among financial players, family, and even glory is good enough for Norman. his synagogue, where Steve Buscemi plays He’s a man of the streets; in fact, we the rabbi. never see the inside of his home. Instead, Writer-director Joseph Cedar, a New we always see Norman outside, on the York-born Israeli, builds on the knowing move in Manhattan, clad in a camel hair insights evident in his previous film Footnote, coat and natty cap, a telephone cord which also co-starred Ashkenazi perpetually dangling from his as a Talmudic scholar working NORMAN alongside his rivalrous father. ear. Always at the ready is his Rated R ambiguous business card that Cedar has an acute understandDirected by Joseph Cedar ing of the conflicting intersections simply reads “Oppenheimer Strategies.” In many ways, he’s a Starring Richard Gere, Lior of religion, family, personality stereotype of a pushy Jew, using Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen and politics, and these elements vague connections to get his foot tangle into a beautiful knot in in the door, relying on bluffs and wiles to Norman. Despite a climax and denouement worm his way into the lives of those who that are conveniently scripted to favor would rather avoid his tacky ways. classic tragedy over believability, the film is Just when we’re about to give up on a sharp and keenly etched study of a man Norman as merely a legend in his own who would be the sidekick to kings. n
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The recently reunited dance-rock band LCD Soundsystem returns to Sasquatch! this weekend.
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he Sasquatch! Music Festival has come a long way from its initial 2002 single-day, seven-act lineup that included Ben Harper, Jack Johnson and the String Cheese Incident. That first year sold out in advance, and the next year, founder Adam Zacks and crew booked 24 bands, among them Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse. In 2006, the festival went from one day of music to three, with names on the order of Beck and Nine Inch Nails. “Sasquatch! started with the name and an instinct that there was an appetite for a destination style event like this in the Pacific Northwest,” Zacks says in an email. “There were bookings along the way that made me feel like we were hitting our stride: Coldplay in ’03, Kanye West [in ’05], Beastie Boys in ’07.”
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Since then, the festival has fluctuated between three and four days, and has expanded its style, bringing in more electronic music, rap and R&B artists, and mainstream headliners alongside plenty of indie rockers. This year’s headliners include LCD Soundsystem (after Frank Ocean canceled), Twenty One Pilots and Chance the Rapper. At its peak in 2013, the festival sold out in about an hour, a major accomplishment, as the Gorge’s main amphitheater can hold about 25,000 people a day. The next year, after multiple sellouts likely had festival planners feeling ambitious, organizers announced that 2014 would get not one, but two weekends jam-packed with unique lineups. But the second weekend, set to take place over July 4th, was canceled more than a month
before Memorial Day rolled around, after ticket sales for July’s dates proved to be lackluster. “We’ve developed a loyal group of discerning music enthusiasts for whom this festival means something substantial in their lives,” Zacks writes. “Where I think we’ve stumbled and learned some lessons is in how to simultaneously grow the tent and invite more people in and stay true to the loyal base that got us to where we are. It’s a tricky dynamic.” Promoters wouldn’t share recent attendance numbers, but they’re way down, according to numbers provided by the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, which contracts with Live Nation to provide assistance during events at the Gorge. This year, about 14,000 people are expected to be
there for each day of the festival, says Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones. Last year, the office told the Oregonian that only 11,000 ticket holders showed. That’s down significantly from years where it has sold out, Jones says. For what it’s worth, the country music festival Watershed, which takes over the Gorge in July, tried to expand to two weekends last year, but it’s back down to a single three-day festival again this year. Other festivals have also been hit with dwindling attendance and more competition as other festivals keep popping up. TIMELINE Some couldn’t take the heat. Pemberton 2002: Sasquatch! Music Festival is born Music Festival in British Columbia 2003: Coldplay is on the second year’s filed for bankruptcy much-expanded lineup on May 18, less than a month after 2006: The festival expands to three announcing its July days lineup for this year, apparently screw2007: Comedians first play a major ing fans out of role in the festival, with a stand-up tent their ticket costs in featuring Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari addition to canceling and Michael Showalter the festival. With Pemberton out of 2009: Some frisky fans have sex buttthe equation, Sasnaked on the hillside, just outside the quatch! could again fence, in plain view of the mainstage become the primary crowd while the Decemberists play destination for music fans looking to camp 2009: In an especially memorable year and jam out in the for random fame, the “dancing guy” Pacific Northwest. shows the world (as documented in a With all that in video that now has more than 14 milmind, what does the lion YouTube views) that it only takes future of Sasquatch! one person to start an epic dance party look like? on the hill. Or, as later cited in a TED Zacks declined Talk, maybe it actually takes two — to comment on that someone has to be the first follower subject; public relations representatives 2011: The festival adds a fourth day for the festival say they “don’t discuss 2014: Organizers announce that trade practices.” Sasquatch! will have a second weekend Even though with its own unique lineup, only to later attendance is down, cancel the expansion due to a lack of there are still plenty second-weekend ticket sales of fans with a special place in their hearts 2016: High winds cancel some sets for the funky (in on Sunday, and a fast-moving brush style and smell), fire near the venue almost sparks an flowers-in-theirevacuation, but the show goes on hair, bro-flag-flying, costume-wearing mishmash of people who gather at the Gorge to brave sunburns and rainstorms every Memorial Day weekend. Even the sheriff digs the relatively mellow vibe of the Sasquatch! attendees. “This crowd, I actually enjoy this crowd myself. It’s a very low-key crowd,” Jones says. “They come out there to do exactly what they’re there for: listen to music. They’re very respectful, and friendly.” Jones’ main words of advice for Sasquatch! goers: stay hydrated. This year’s weather is forecast to be hotter than normal, and when people start consuming alcohol and forget to drink enough water, that causes most of the medical issues they see, he says. n Sasquatch! Music Festival • Fri-Sun, May 26-28 • $99.50 for single day tickets; $295 for weekend passes • Gorge Amphitheatre • 754 Silica Rd. NW, George • sasquatchfestival.com
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t’s hard to believe that T.I. has been kicking rhymes in the public eye for nearly two decades now. The Atlanta rapper helped blaze a trail for trap-style hip-hop (think ominous lyrics matched with synths, strings and, of course, booming beats) alongside Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy, but T.I. quickly eclipsed any easy genre labels and became a full-on pop star. He appeared on monster songs like “Soldier” by Destiny’s Child and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and knocked out a series of huge singles of his own, like “What You Know,” “Bring ’Em Out” and “Whatever You Like.” The man’s won three Grammys, enjoyed seven Top 5 albums on the Billboard charts and, like so many hot rappers, expanded his fame into acting roles in movies (Ant-Man, ATL) and eventually starred in a couple of reality shows. Oh, and in 2016 he opened his own strip club in Atlanta. Because of course. His Hustle Gang tour features a large crew of T.I. associates, along with the man himself. — DAN NAILEN T.I. Presents: The Hustle Gang Tour • Sat, May 27 at 8:30 pm • $39.50 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory. com • 244-3279
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aomi Wachira’s childhood in Kenya comes through loud and clear in her mostly acoustic fusion-folk, which is as inspired by the radio-friendly pop of Tracy Chapman as the sounds of traditional African music. The singer-songwriter is currently based in Seattle, where her profile as a socially conscious, melodically minded tunesmith has been growing steadily, and it’s no wonder: Just listen to her signature song, the autobiographical, Swahili-inflected “African Girl,” and hear a poignant but nonetheless defiant rallying cry: “I am trying to defy everything they said of us,” Wachira sings, “we who have chocolate skin.” — NATHAN WEINBENDER
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MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N. Liberty Lake Rd. • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEEROCRACY • 911 W. Garland Ave. THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S • 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUZZ COFFEEHOUSE • 501 S. Thor • 340-3099 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY • 116 E. Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208-665-0591 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague Ave. • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley, Idaho • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 DIAMS DEN • 412 W. Sprague • 934-3640 EICHARDT’S PUB • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-263-4005 THE EMPEROR ROOM • 25 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 THE FEDORA • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208-7658888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 HOTEL RL BY RED LION AT THE PARK • 303 W. North River Dr. • 326-8000 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208667-7314 JACKSON ST. BAR & GRILL • 2436 N. Astor St. • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. Sixth St., Moscow • 208883-7662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th Ave. • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N. Market St. • 466-9918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan • 924-9000 MICKDUFF’S • 312 N. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208)255-4351 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • 208-265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-664-7901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • 208- 7653200 ext. 310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR CATERING & EVENTS • 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST RESORT • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY • 15 S. Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N. Lidgerwood St. • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S • 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • 208-9300381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 THE THIRSTY DOG • 3027 E. Liberty Ave. • 487-3000 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416
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COMMUNITY HISTORY LESSON
Take a step back more than 150 years in time this Memorial Day weekend and get a taste of the harsh realities of 1860s warfare during the region’s annual Civil War reenactment west of Spokane. Besides seeing battle formations recreated in the fields and forest, spectators can wander through military camps populated by reenactors in period-appropriate dress. The three-day event includes a number of presentations about life in America during the war, including what the Union and Confederate soldiers ate, women’s fashion, and how the ladies of the time served as nurses and spies while the men were away in battle. Don’t miss the chance to have your own tintype portrait ($10; by appointment only) taken using the authentic processes of the time. — CHEY SCOTT The Battle of Deep Creek • Sat, May 27 and Sun, May 28 from 9 am-5 pm; Mon, May 29 from 8:30 am-2 pm • $25/family, $10/adults, $5/ages 13-17, free/12 and under & active military and family members • Deep Creek Farms • 811 N. Deep Creek Rd., Medical Lake • spokanecivilwar.com • 233-8912
OUTDOORS TIME CAPSULE
The story of the Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens is one that never ceases to fascinate me. It’s truly like Spokane has its own version of the Secret Garden, that fictional oasis of the mesmerizing children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Built in the nineteen-aughts along a steep hillside on the edge of Spokane’s South Hill, the gardens were all but lost to time and the forces of nature until their remnants were discovered more than 20 years ago in the wake of Ice Storm ’96. The gardens reopened in 2007, after a decade-long restoration that recreated the terraced landscape as it would have looked more than 100 years ago. Take a stroll through the gardens this spring during one of three guided tours, which offer insight on the gardens’ history and the process to revive them. — CHEY SCOTT Heritage Garden Tours • Sat, May 28 at 11 am; also June 8 at 2 pm, June 18 at 11 am • Free • Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens • 507 W. Seventh • heritagegardens.org
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COMMUNITY TALK IT OUT
The movement of human beings is nothing new; for more than 200,000 years, homo sapiens has roamed the planet, changing locales based on weather, food sources or warfare. This movement can cause all kinds of problems for both the roaming people and those whose homelands are being roamed into, and this month’s Humanities Washington Think & Drink discussion dives into the question of whether we humans should be able to move and live anywhere we want. Host Shann Ray will lead the discussion, featuring Gonzaga political scientist Stacy Bondanella Taninchev and UW international studies expert David Fenner. Note that Think & Drink is changing locations to the Magic Lantern, and there will be a small fee to help cover the cost of the building. Otherwise, the thinking and drinking continues unabated. — DAN NAILEN Think & Drink: “Should Anyone Be Allowed to Live Anywhere? Exploring Human Migration” • Tue, May 30 at 7 pm • $5/advance, $8/door • Magic Lantern Theatre • 25 W. Main • humanities.org
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Music festivals. Parades. Car shows. Art. Basketball.
And that’s just June.
COMEDY STAND-UP STANDOUT
Margaret Cho is a woman of many talents. She acts, she makes music, she’s a noisy political activist and, above all else, she’s funny as hell. Her comedy is informed by growing up in the Bay Area during the late ’60s and early ’70s, as well as being the all-American daughter of Korean parents. She mines everything from sexuality to family life to politics in her stand-up routine, and you can expect plenty of jokes at the expense of the White House’s current resident. Cho’s most recent album, American Myth, earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album; you can bet she’ll have plenty of new material to work with for this show. — DAN NAILEN Margaret Cho • Thu, June 1 at 7:30 pm • $45/$55/$75 • Northern Quest Resort & Casino • 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights • northernquest.com • 242-7000
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No one disputes that musicians are artists, but so, too, are the brilliant designers who craft the instruments that make all that music possible in the first place. This Saturday, the Palomino hosts a showcase for both local musicians and builders: Not only is the evening’s lineup loaded with acclaimed Spokane artists, but all of the equipment on stage — the guitars, amps and pedals — are the product of local engineers and luthiers (a fancy term for folks who build stringed instruments). Performers include local roots rockers Folkinception and singer-songwriters Alex Ashley (pictured), Ruthie Henrickson and N. Sherman. — NATHAN WEINBENDER Inland Northwest Guitar Summit • Sat, May 27 at 7 pm • All-ages • $7/$10 day of • The Palomino • 6425 N. Lidgerwood • spokanepalomino.com • 242-8907
Volume, the Inlander Music Festival 6/2-6/3 (Outdoor stage presented by Downtown Spokane)
OutSpokane Pride Parade & Festival, 6/10
Festival of Speed Downtown Car Show, 6/2-6/4
Hoopfest, 6/24-6/25
Bazaar, Presented by Terrain, 6/17
Artfest, 6/2-6/4
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I SAW YOU DENIM & LEATHER Not just a great Saxon album, Patches, we go well together. Your birthday girl pulled you away from the green, you disappeared into the night. Let’s go on an epic Quest together. Come on blondie, lets double down on the om shanti.
CHEERS WELCOME AND THANK YOU Cheers to the two women I saw 5.18 in the Albertsons parking lot on 57th. All of this is based on my presumption, but it seemed that Woman A is a recently resettled refugee, who had three children with her, and Woman B seemed to be a Spokane native who is helping Woman A in her resettlement and had two children of her own. They were talking in the parking lot, and Woman B was telling Woman A about a series of events that will take place over the coming days, various appointments for the family. Again, all of this was based on my short bout of eavesdropping, but if I am correct, I just want to say “Welcome” to Woman A and her family. I truly hope that Spokane invites you in and you find a peaceful home here. And while undoubtedly not all will feel this way, please know there are many in this community who are grateful
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you are here and want your family to thrive. I also want to say “Thank you” to Woman B for taking the opportunity to help this family in their journey and settling them into a new culture in a new place. You represent what is good in humanity, whether this is your job or a humanitarian mission you are on, or both. I am sorry I didn’t think to say this to you in person at the time, but I was happy to see you together and am proud that both of you are part of the fabric of the Spokane community. RE: THE CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG. Who let the dogs out on this one? Yes, the Camas Club team was VERY appreciative of our words. We received a thank you for a thank you. :) Their comments back to us were sweet, beautiful and amazing and put a smile on our face, filled our hearts with joy and brought tears to our eyes. We have hearts of gold? We beg to differ. The CC team are the ones who work a job that can get busy and be stressful yet they are ALWAYS cordial and pleasant and CONTINOUSLY provide nonpareil customer service. THEY are the ones with the hearts of gold; NOT us. TO ALL WHO POST CHEERS IN THIS SECTION Don’t just post a Cheers here. Please go one step further. If there is someone who helped you and went above and beyond, get their name and then contact management of that employee’s workplace and let them know how you were assisted. This also will have an impact on that employee’s quarterly performance review which will always be a positive thing for an employee who receives excellent reviews from their customers. Please take the time to do this. We are often so quick to send in negative comments but slow to send in positive ones, if ever. DAVID, YOU’RE A D*%$ Cheers to you, David... For the best 5ish months... Unfortunately, you’ll be leaving soon and it seems that I’ve fallen in love with you. And I know that’s not your style, but I’m hoping that you’ll see how truly great we are and would be together (despite the long distance thing) and
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JEERS I-90 ROAD RAGE Big muscle man in the white mini-van Westbound got mad at me when I changed lanes into the left lane in front of him. The speed limit was 70 but he was doing 65 in the fast lane (as far too many people do).
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are all only accountable for ourselves, our own actions. I would have liked a moment with you to talk it out as men who respect ourselves and each other. Violence would not resolve the issue. I wish you well and hope the next time we meet we can shake hands and be friends. God bless you. Aside from that, for everyone who reads this, slow traffic keep right. ;)
Years! And this time it is the US government not some fat cat public utility. Anyway we’ve been “Down Winders” for so long (think elevated MS numbers as one of the most obvious issues) that this story probably won’t even register with anyone that’s been here for more than a few months (gray cells dropping like flies). So if there is an Erin Brockovich here she won’t need great Boobs. There are plenty here all ready.
That man you harassed walked with dignity and confidence, unlike your drive-by cowardice.
He tried to speed up and block me but I moved over anyway to get around even slower traffic in the right lane. It seems that not being able to control me is what upset him. So, when he got a chance to, he sped up next to me and began yelling and pointing at me obviously angry, so I waved and smiled and sarcastically blew him a kiss. Now into the 60 mph zone West of Flora Rd. He pulled in front of me and hit his brakes. Keep in mind I’m not speeding or anything wreckless, I only changed lanes in front of him when he didn’t want me to. We both take the Pines exit and he is behind me. While I’m stopped at the red light he pulls up next to me and stopped so, I rolled down my window. This is when he tells me how lucky I am that my kid is with me because he was going to F... embarrass me, F... beat my A$$, F... F, F so many F words and threatening. I suggested he not travel in the fast lane if he won’t do the speed limit. He told me that the limit is 60 mph and how he would love to beat my F... a $$. I said you probably could because I’m disabled. He said, “even more reason to beat your F... A$$ you disabled faggot.” I would like to say, sir, I don’t have an issue with you. I hope you find peace in your life. We
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AMERICA IS ALREADY GREAT! We have problems, now more than ever. Diversity is what makes us great, our Muslim citizens and visitors included. Jeers to the fascist on the 66 using hateful rhetoric to demonize a group of people I have found to be more kind and compassionate than most americans. Mohammed was a feminist, preached compassion and kindness, despite what you “believe.” Try understanding instead of cherrypicking the things that suit your hatred. WHERE’S ERIN BROCKOVICH? Best line out of the movie “Erin Brockovich” is “They’re called Boobs-Ed”. That’s the explanation of how Julia Roberts got some poor hapless small town city employee to give her all kinds of incriminating information about the “Plume”. And NOW we have one of our very own! If you read This paper the story (Fairchild water contamination) was so similar to the above movie that it’s scary. Same length of timesame misinformation-same smoozy anecdotal prescription of who or what it won’t affect by drinking the water on the West Plains. Of course No One in Spokane will want to believe this as the base has been our Economic friend for
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(Think the Monroe Street project in a city of a zillion pot holes) 5/22 BEHIND NORTHTOWN MALL You, a 30something pig in a slate blue sedan, yelling insults out your window at a well dressed man with a scarred face who was crossing the street... What do you think you accomplished? Who even does that? Did it make you feel better about being scum on the inside? That man you harassed walked with dignity and confidence, unlike your drive-by cowardice. And after you’d zoomed past, leaving witnesses aghast, he straightened the collar of his shirt in the reflection of his truck window and walked TALLER. You lose. Beauty is something you simply don’t understand. Shame on you. n
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KISS ME, KATE See this popular musical and support Partnering for Progress. Includes complimentary appetizers before the show and a no-host bar. $35/ adults, $30/students; $300/package of 10. May 31, 6:30-8:30 pm. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. partneringforprogress.org/civic-theater-benefit 2ND ANNUAL POAC ART PARTY Join POAC for a gourmet dinner prepared by Tango Cafe and learn about POAC’s education programs and next year’s events schedule. The line-up includes the presentation of 2017 appreciation awards, entertainment, an art sale and a silent auction. June 3, 5 pm. $75. Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery, 302 N. First. artinsandpoint.org (208-263-6139)
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2.0PEN MIC Local comedy night hosted by Ken McComb. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First Ave. facebook.com/districtbarspokane/ GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night hosted by Casey Strain; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) RYAN DAVIS The comedian’s Internet show generated more than 100 million views in 2016 alone. His versatile comedy style attracts a diverse audience. May 25, 8 pm. $25. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) DUOS Several BDT players are paired up two-by-two and given free rein for 15 minutes to do whatever style of improv they want. Last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. For mature audiences. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH Smith has written and directed numerous films, including Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. As well as being the creator of AMC’s “Comic Book Men,” he can be heard daily at Smodcast.com, a vast network of podcasts. May 26 and 27, at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. $35-$40. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (509-318-9998) I SAW YOU A live improv show based on the Inlander’s reader-submitted Cheers, Jeers, I Saw Yous/You Saw Me, and other classified ads. Fridays at 8 pm, through June 2. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy fea-
turing established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com AFTER DARK A mature-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Saturday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) SAFARI The Blue Door’s fast-paced, short-form improv show relies on audience suggestions to fuel each scene. Rated for mature audiences. Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com KANE HOLLOWAY This Seattle native has been traveling across the US with his live stand up show. His conversational style and relatable observations make the crowd feel like they’ve known him for years. May 28, 8 pm. $10-$16. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com THE QUEENS OF COMEDY Drea Rose and the Emperor Room present the Inland Northwest’s top female comedians back for an encore presentation. May 29, 9 pm. $5. The Emperor Room, 25 E. Lincoln Rd. (839-9928) OPEN MIC XL Live comedy, Tuesdays at 9 pm. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. observatoryspokane.com (598-8933) OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (318-9998) CARLOS MENCIA The comedian known for his show “Mind of Mencia” and numerous comedy specials on HBO and Comedy Central performs live in Spokane. June 1-3; times vary. $30-$52. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com MARGARET CHO Margaret’s career spans more than 25 years and includes multiple national and international tours including Notorious C.H.O. (1999), which was recorded and released as a feature film, later picked up by Showtime. June 1, 7:30 pm. $45/$55/$75. Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com
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WWI: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS An exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I. Through Nov. 30; open Wed-Sat, 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6. Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114
E. Sprague. valleyheritagecenter.org DAYTON MULE DAYS The annual community festival includes the parade, chuck wagon, mule and donkey competition, a summer market and more. May 26-28. Dayton, Wash. historicdayton.com DROP IN & CODE FOR KIDS Explore the world of coding using game-based lessons on Code.org and Scratch. For kids grade 3 and up. Meets the last Friday of the month, from 3-5:30 pm. Free. Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkcentral.org (279-0299) NATIVE PROJECT OPEN HOUSE Includes facility tours, an Indian market and a free barbecue catered by Longhorn BBQ. May 26, 12-3 pm. Free. NATIVE Project, 1830 W. Maxwell. bit. ly/2rb3m9p (483-7535) ARABIAN HORSE EXTRAVAGANZA A night featuring horse showmanship, food, music, art, and a silent auction for the 49th annual Memorial Day Classic horse show. May 27, 6-10 pm. Free. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. IEAHC.org (292-9695) HARRISON 100 YEAR FIRE COMMEMORATION The Harrison Chamber of Commerce celebrates and remembers the massive fire that almost wiped out the town 100 years ago with a commemoration with firefighters from the St. Maries Fire Protection District. Includes live music in the park and other family activities. May 27, 10 am-5 pm. Free. Harrison, Idaho. harrisonidaho. org/look-like-a-firefighter.html MEMORIAL DAY AT FAIRMOUNT The Fairmount Memorial Association hosts activities to honor those who’ve died serving our country. More than 3,800 American flags decorate all seven the properties, including Riverside Memorial Park, Pines Cemetery and Greenwood Memorial Terrace. Events throughout the weekend include veterans’ displays, free refreshments, an honor guard flag folding and presentation, and Memorial Day ceremonies. May 27-29. Details at fairmountmemorial.com MOORE-TURNER HERITAGE GARDENS TOURS A guided tour of the gardens, restored in 2007 to look as they did when in use in 1915. Learn about the discovery, the restoration and the two influential families of early Spokane who made this their backyard. Tours offered on May 28 and June 18 at 11 am, also June 8 at 2 pm. Free. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org
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I have this disturbing pattern. I’ve dated three different guys, each of whom said he didn’t want to get married, wasn’t ready, whatever. But then, the next girl they met… BAM! Walking down the aisle. Why am I marriage boot camp but never the one the guy marries? —Aisle Seat It’s depressing when the only place you’re ever “registered” is at the DMV. AMY ALKON There’s a reason you suspect your experience is a meaningful pattern, and it’s the same reason people think they see the Virgin Mary in their toast. Our minds are meaning-making machines. We evolved to be deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty — probably because an uncertain world is a more dangerous world. Say a man hands you some blue liquid in a glass. You’re all, “Hmmm…should I drink that or take it home in case I ever need to dissolve a dead body in the bathtub?” We figure out what things are by looking for patterns — ways that the things match up to things we’ve encountered before. So, regarding that blue liquid, yes, Drano is blue, but it isn’t sold in a martini glass and garnished with a tiny paper umbrella. Also, bartenders keep their job by having you pay your tab, not having you carried out in convulsions by a couple of EMS dudes. Although our mind’s tendency to recognize patterns helps us quickly identify threats and opportunities, it often does this too quickly and on too little evidence. Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga and psychologist Daniel Kahneman each caution that our mind is so intent on having things be concrete that when we’re faced with ambiguous or incomplete information, it will invent a tidy explanation to fill in the blanks. Your mind may be doing that now in seeing a meaningful pattern in guys sweeping you off your feet and then, like that annoying shopper who’s just reached the register, their going: “Ooops…don’t want this one. Gonna run and grab the other one. Sorrreeeeee!” However, epidemiologist and stats ninja Sander Greenland reminded me that just because we’re prone to see a pattern where there is none doesn’t mean a particular pattern isn’t meaningful (as opposed to occurring randomly — by coincidence, like if you tossed a coin and got heads three times in a row). One way you figure out whether something is due to coincidence or is a real effect is by having lots of examples of it. If you’d dated 10 men who’d left you to marry somebody else, it might say something. Might. But three? Greenland points out that in looking at what seems to be a pattern, “we tend to forget the times it didn’t happen (like before we started noticing the claimed pattern).” Also, if you believe there’s a pattern — that you’re a sort of fruit bin where men go to ripen — maybe you start acting differently because of it, coloring your results. (Self-fulfilling prophecy kinda thing: “Why try? He’ll be outta here anyway.”) In short, maybe this is a meaningful pattern or maybe it is not. What you can explore is whether there are patterns in your behavior that could be tripping you up. There are three biggies that research suggests can be relationship killers. Blatant Boy-Chasing: Men often claim they like it when women ask them out. However, research suggests that this may permanently lower a woman’s worth in a man’s eyes. Men value women who are hard to get, not those who eagerly pursue them — sometimes with all the subtlety of a golden retriever chasing a hot dog down a hill. Being Hard To Be Around: A review of research on personality by psychologist John M. Malouff finds three characteristics that are likely to eat away at a relationship: neuroticism (a psych term for being nervous, chronically distressed, and volatile), a lack of conscientiousness (being disorganized, unreliable, and lacking in self-control), and disagreeableness (being an unpleasant, egotistical, hostile and argumentative mofo). The Undercooked Man: Behavioral science research supports the evolutionary theory that women — even today — prioritize male partners who can “invest” (a preference that men coevolved to expect). For example, marriage researchers Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe find that “men want to be financially ‘set’ before they marry.” Career attainment and stability are likely a major part of this. So, unfortunately, a relationship with a man in transition can end up being a sort of FEMA tent on the road to permanent housing. Ultimately, instead of deeming yourself death row for “happily ever after,” try to choose wisely and be a valuable (rather than costly) partner. That’s really your best bet for eventually walking down the aisle — and not just to hear, “Do you take this woman … till the last of your nine little lives do you part?” n ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)
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EVENTS | CALENDAR BETWEEN THE RIVERS GATHERING The annual campsite focuses on teaching basic outdoors, survival and primitive living skills, and includes communal meals twice a day, enrichment classes and workshops and more. May 29-June 3. betweentheriversgathering.com DROP-IN JOB & CAREER HELP Refine your resume or start one from scratch, write an eye-catching cover letter, or discover your ideal career with a business librarian. Laptops available for use. Held on Mondays, from 7-8 pm, May 15-June 12. No cost. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main. scld.org THINK & DRINK What really happens when vast numbers of our fellow humans are on the move? This event goes beyond the rhetoric to examine the roots and the routes of human migration, the reasons people leave their native lands, and the effects of migrants on the economy and culture of established societies. May 30, 7 pm. $5/$7. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. humanities.org (509-209-2383) A BEER WITH GSI’S TODD MIELKE Join us for SYP’s May event “Beer With” Todd Mielke, CEO of Greater Spokane Incorporated. May 31, 5:30-7:30 pm. $5/$10. Gathering is in the courtyard of the Spokane Regional Business Center, at 801 W. Riverside. (321-3641) PREVENT FRAUD & IDENTITY THEFT Be proactive and learn how to protect your hard-earned money from predators and scams. Register online at stcu. org/workshops. May 31, 6-7 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. stcu.org/workshops
FAMILY DANCE & POTLUCK Easy-tolearn line, circle, contra, and folk dances are taught, accompanied by live music. No partners or experience required. Potluck at 6:30 pm with dance at 7. First Friday of the month, 6:30-8 pm. Free, donations accepted. St. John’s Cathedral, 127 E. 12th. (533-9955)
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ARTFEST The annual fine arts showcase hosted by the MAC features more than 150 regional artists and artisans selling handcrafted goods and fine art, along with live music, local food vendors, a beer/wine garden and kids activities. June 2-4. Free admission. Coeur d’Alene Park, 300 S. Chestnut St. northwestmuseum.org THE FARM CHICKS VINTAGE & HANDMADE FAIR The “bucket list” of vintage and handmade fairs features more than 300 curated booths from vendors around the U.S. June 3, 9 am-6 pm and June 4, 9 am-4 pm. $8/day or $15/ weekend pass. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. thefarmchicks.com (954-1692) VOLUME INLANDER MUSIC FESTIVAL The Inlander’s annual local/regional music festival returns, offering two nights, 10 stages and 100 bands performing throughout downtown Spokane on June 2-3. This year’s headliners include Built to Spill, Chastity Belt, Blossom, Lithics and more. $25/advance; $35/day of. Downtown Spokane. volume.inlander.com LILAC CITY COMICON The 11th annual event features 175+ exhibitors across
50,000 square feet, including comics, toys, collectibles, art, gaming, books, video games, T-shirts, jewelry and more. This year’s special guests include: Doug Jones (Hellboy I & II, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer), Tim Russ (Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager), Andrew Gray (Red Ranger from Power Ranger Mega Force) and more. June 3, 10 am-6 pm and June 4, 10 am-4 pm. $15/Sat; $10/Sun. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. lilaccitycomicon.com (262-8923)
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COLOSSAL This rom-com is at the top of new quirky releases, starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis. May 25, 27-29; show times vary. $4-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org GOING IN STYLE Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin team up as lifelong buddies who decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. Showing May 26-28; times vary. $3-$6. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) MEMORIAL DAY MOVIE MARATHON A day of movies featuring classic comedies. First film starts at 10:30 am and films run all day until 11 pm. See complete schedule of films online. May 29, 10:30 am-11 pm. Free, donations accepted. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. kenworthy.org (208-882-4127) 80’S FILM SERIES: SPACEBALLS The evil leaders of Planet Spaceball, hav-
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BACKYARD BAR PARTY Weekly backyard parties include local beer from Slate Creek, local cider from Summit Cider, a featured wine of the week, live local music, lawn games and more. Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 pm, May 25 through Aug. 30. Free admission. The Blackwell Hotel, 820 E. Sherman Ave. blackwellboutiquehotel. com (208-765-7799) CONTAINER HERB GARDENS Learn about the benefits of container gardening, what makes a good herb garden container, and what grows well in a confined space. Then create a small herb garden to take home. Registration required. May 25, 7-8 pm. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350) SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) TASTY THURSDAYS A weekly event featuring live jazz by “The Tasty,” and complimentary wine and beer tastings. Thursdays, from 6-9 pm. Uva Trattoria,
309 E. Lakeside Ave. uvacda.com/events THURSDAY WINE SOCIAL The weekly complimentary wine tasting event features different wine themes and samples of the shop’s gourmet goods. Thursdays, from 4-6 pm. Free. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Government Way. (208-762-1333) VINO WINE TASTING Featuring wines from Chateau Ste. Michelle in honor of its 50th anniversary. May 26, 3-6:30 pm. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (509-838-1229) PANCAKE BREAKFAST An all-you-caneat breakfast of pancakes, sausage, eggs and drinks. $5/adults; $3.50/ages 6-12. May 28, 8-11 am. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com INL FOOD TRUCK RALLY The annual event benefits the work of Inland Northwest Light house which empowers sightimpaired individuals in the community. Featuring family-friendly activities, raffles, a beer garden, facility tours and food from seven regional food trucks. June 1, 4-7 pm. Free admission. Inland Northwest Lighthouse, 6405 N. Addison. bit.ly/2qbb0fN (509-487-0405) PLAN, SHOP, SAVE, COOK A four week series, each week covering a topic regarding meal planning, grocery shopping, budgeting, and cooking. Meets Wed, 5:30-7 pm, June 8-28. Thursday sessions, 12:30-2 pm, also offered June 1-22. Registration required. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. secondharvestkitchen.org (252-6246) IVORY TABLE SUPPER CLUB June’s dinner focuses on the wines of South America, with a menu of prawn ceviche, empanadas, charbroiled flank steak and flan for dessert. June 2, 6 pm. $60/person; +$20/wine pairings. The Ivory Table, 1822 E. Sprague. ivorytable.com (202-2901)
SPOKANE COMICRAWL Dress up as your favorite pop culture character for the inaugural Comicrawl and collect buttons from participating downtown bars as you sip comic-themed drink specials. See link for participating bars and checkin information. June 3, 4 pm. $12/person. Downtown Spokane. bit.ly/2owji3T
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CDA SUMMER THEATRE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISE Enjoy a delightful evening of history, trivia, anecdotes, drinks, entertainment, and good company. May 25, 6-9 pm. $25. Coeur d’Alene Resort, 115 S. Second. cdasummertheatre.com CDA CHARTER ACADEMY CONCERT “From Bach to ROCK!” is the academy’s season finale for 2017. Performances include all Charter Orchestra and Band students, including the Jazz Band, Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. May 25, 6-8:30 pm. Free. Schuler Performing Arts Center at North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. cdacharter.org SANDPOINT HIGH BAND SPRING CONCERT The Sandpoint High School Jazz and Concert Bands present their spring concerts. May 25, 7-9 pm. $5. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org FRIDAY MUSICAL’S SEASON FINALE Friday Musical wraps up its 102nd year, featuring performing members and guest performers, including soprano Andrea Olson, youth from Spokane Valley Summer Theater, cellist Kevin Hekmatpanah, and pianist, Joyce Kelly. May 26, 1-2:30 pm. Free. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th Ave. (747-6677) INLAND NW GUITAR SUMMIT Four bands and artists take the stage to showcase the best in music and instru-
ment/equipment craftsmanship made in the Inland Northwest. May 27, 6-11 pm. $7/$10. The Palomino, 6425 N. Lidgerwood St. (242-8907) MOUNTAIN DEW BOYS A bluegrass and gospel music concert by the local group. May 27, 7 pm. $6. Green Bluff United Methodist Church, 9908 E. Greenbluff Rd. (979-2612) GIRLS ROCK LAB JAM SESSION Kids of all musical abilities are invited to jam with their friends and experiment with sound in an encouraging environment. Registration required. For grades 3-7. May 30, 6-7:30 pm. Free. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main. spark-central.org TREBLED, NOT TROUBLED Join the ladies of Le Donne Choir for an evening of vocal music and serenity. May 30, 7-8 pm. Free, donations welcome. Central Lutheran, 512 S. Bernard. (624-7992) SPOKANE BALLET STUDIO: TEACHER’S CHOICE The studio’s 5th annual recital features performances to a variety of classical works and contemporary music. May 31, 7 pm. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) JUGALBANDHI This musical event features an ensemble of North Indian instruments: sitar, veena, tabla and mridangam. June 2, 6-9 pm. $10-$25. Unity Spiritual Center, 2900 S. Bernard St. unityspokane.org (467-5558)
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BEARS IN THE BACKCOUNTRY If you’ve ever looked suspiciously over your shoulder in the back country, wondering if a bear is on your trail join officers from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for this free class. May 25, 6-7 pm. Free. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/
spokane (328-9900) KING OF THE CAGE Mixed martial arts event; the main Bantamweight event features Coeur d’Alene local Zach “Scrappy” Lari against Alex “The Beastman” Eastman and local Eduardo “El Torro” Torres versus Zane “Tweak” Douglass in the Jr. Flyweight event. May 25, 7-11:45 pm. $25$60. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com (800-523-2464) RIVERSIDE STATE PARK PLANNING MEETING The Washington State Parks & Rec. Commission is starting a public process to update long-term recreation and land use plans for the Lake Spokane area at Riverside State Park. The public is invited to attend meetings on May 24 (Lakeside Middle School, in Suncrest) and May 25 (Shadle Park High School), from 6-8:30 pm. bit.ly/RiversideSP-plan SPOKANE EMPIRE Versus the Arizona Rattlers on May 12 and June 3; the Colorado Crush on May 26. Kick-off at 7 pm. May 26 and June 3. $13-$95. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon. spokanearena.com 24 HOURS ROUND THE CLOCK A relay mountain bike race, beginning at noon on Saturday and ending at noon on Sunday. Teams and solos compete for medals, prizes and bragging rights. Register online. May 27-28. Riverside State Park, Spokane. roundandround.com CIRCLING RAVEN DEMO DAY The fourth annual demo day lets attendees test the latest products from participating top brands including Callaway, Titleist, Mizuno, Cobra, TaylorMade, Ping and Bridgestone Ball Fitting. Proceeds from the day benefit First Tee of the Inland Northwest. May 27, 9 am-3 pm. Coeur d’Alene Casino, 37914 S Hwy 95. cdacasino.com ...continued on page 52
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The crowds at Sasquatch! retailer to the Gorge, to see what a Sasquatch! weekend is like. There are other shops en route to the Gorge from Spokane, like the Grass Station in Ritzville, but GoodBudS is the only shop near the venue. Located outside the rural community of Quincy about 18 miles from the Gorge, GoodBudS is gearing up for a rush of customers looking to stock up before the festival. For many of them, it’ll be their first experience with Washington’s recreational cannabis market. “We get a lot of Canadian travelers [before Sasquatch!]. Canada is a little more lax, but it’s not legal,” says Sarah May, the manager at GoodBudS. “It’s a really nice crowd. It’s fun to just talk and just explain, and be a good example of what legal marijuana looks like.” The lead-up to a big show at the Gorge makes for a festive time at GoodBudS, says May. When Dave Matthews Band played last summer, the line was out the
door and down the sidewalk. For Sasquatch!, GoodBudS plans to make things equally entertaining with specials on edibles, pre-rolls and variety packs of different strains and products, May says. And after you’ve shopped, the 11 acres of property that GoodBudS sits on serves as a fine resting spot while you wait to set up your caravan to head to the venue. “We have swing sets and a basketball court, so it’s a great meeting spot,” says May, adding that the store was once a Seventh Day Adventist school, the irony of which is not lost on her. There’s no consuming the product on the premises, of course, but folks are free to hang around and enjoy free bottled water. When you get to the Gorge, remember that you’re not supposed to be using cannabis in public, per Washington state law. And that’s the rule that the venue follows. “Many people now assume they are free to use marijuana following the recent changes in the law. But it is unlawful to open a package containing marijuana, or consume marijuana in view of the general public. A person who violates this law is guilty of a class 3 civil infraction — therefore the use or display of Marijuana at the Gorge is prohibited,” says a statement by Live Nation, the entertainment behemoth that manages the Gorge. If you’ve been to Sasquatch!, you may have seen Gorge security confiscate cannabis during pat-downs at the gate. You probably haven’t seen many festival-goers get popped while discreetly smoking, or popping an edible. Good judgment makes for a good festival. n
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THE ARSONISTS A play by Max Frisch that paints a darkly comedic picture of modern human complacency in the face of terrorism. May 25-June 4; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Spartan Theater at SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. (533-3592) KISS ME, KATE Combine Cole Porter’s music and lyrics with Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew to get one of Broadway’s most endearing shows. Through June 11, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$32. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) CYT NORTH IDAHO: SNOW WHITE & THE PRINCE 73 students perform a clever retelling of the classic fairy tale. May 19-28; Fri-Sat at 7 pm; Sat-Sun at 3 pm. $9-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytni.org (208-762-9373) CYT SPOKANE: LION KING JR. A stage adaptation of the classic Disney animated musical. May 26, June 2-3 at 7 pm; also May 27, June 3-4 at 3 pm. $12-$15. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com THE TEMPEST A presentation of the Shakespeare play by students at Immaculate Conception Academy. May 26-28 at 7 pm. $7. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) THE VAUDE VILLIANS: FAIRYTALE FOLLIES A fairy-tale themed performance by the local burlesque group. Ages 18+. Doors open at 8 pm. May 27, 9 pm. $15/$20. The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. bit.ly/2qOIEez
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CHAISE LONGUE EWU’s annual BFA Senior Exhibition features the work of graduating seniors enrolled in EWU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. It includes a variety of media and styles by participating artists: Jennifer Acevedo, Jessica Brooks, Olivia Evans, Aziz Jamal, Jeremy Lenhartzen, and Gilbert Sumerlin. May 25-June 8; opening reception May 25, 6-8 pm; gallery hours Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm. Free. EWU, 526 Fifth St. (359-2494) POINTS OF INTEREST: REFLECTIONS ON PLACE An exhibit featuring four WSU faculty members — Ruth Boden, Kevin Haas, Taiji Miyasaka and Linda Russo — each providing a lens on the multi-faceted idea of “place.” In addition are selections of place-based works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Through June 30; open Tue-Sat, from 12–4 pm. Free. Museum of Art/WSU, Wilson Rd, Pullman. museum.wsu.edu (335-1910) UNMASKED POSSIBILITIES An exhibit featuring work from four graduating master’s students from the College of Art and Architecture, each with unique styles, including printmaking, mixed media installation, painting and performance art. Through May 26; open Tur-Sat, 10 am-8 pm and Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Free and open to the public. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main, Moscow.
prichardart.org (208-885-3586) ARTIST TALK: NANCE VAN WINCKEL The local artist and poet’s pho-toems are on display in the Level Up space on the third of the library. During this artist talk, Nance explains what a photoem is, how she came to make these works and why she is inspired by them. May 30, 6 pm. Free. Downtown Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org SPOKANE ARTIST TRADING CARD SWAP Artist Trading Cards are 2 1/2” x 3 1/2” works of art that are produced to trade with other artists at swaps. ATCs can be drawn, photographed, painted, sculpted, collaged, stamped, sewn, beaded, welded, etc. Bring cards you’ve created to swap or just drop by and check out what it’s all about. The Spokane group meets monthly on the last Tuesday, from 6-8 pm. Free. Lindaman’s, 1235 S. Grand Blvd. facebook. com/spokaneartisttradingcards HOUSING FOR RARELY OR NEVER SEEN BIRDS A parallel-dimensional coot (mathematically proven to exist), a carnival act assistant, an alien artifact, a bird that can only be seen when illuminated by lightning, and the ever dangerous “Dark Matter Duck” are just some of the creatures that inhabit the extreme edges of existence for which artist Steven Sattler has designed housing. June 1-30; open daily during library hours. Free. North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne Rd. (893-8350)
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CONNECTING WRITERS WITH HOLLYWOOD A writer’s conference for any stage of the author’s career. Novelists and screenwriters alike are encourage to attend for an opportunity to pitch in person to producers, agents, and literary managers. May 25-27. $195. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. cwwh2016.com CHUCK PALAHNIUK The bestselling author speaks and signs books, with special book discounts offered by Auntie’s. Guests must have tickets to attend. May 25, 7 pm. $25. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. bit.ly/2qo72Dk NORTHWEST MILESTONES The role of the military in North Idaho, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Farragut Naval Training Station, is the next subject for the library’s local history series. May 25, 7 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave. cdalibrary.org READING: DR. BRIAN KING The author reads from his new book “The Laughing Cure,” in which he combines wit with medical research to reveal the benefits of laughter and humor on physical and emotional health. May 26, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. spokanepoetryslam.org (847-1234) THE PUNDERGROUND 12 potential punsters compete and are paired up randomly. Each pair is given a topic to pun when they are called to take the stage; then they’ll each have to pun within that subject matter without repeating puns or using clichés. June 1, 7 pm. Free. Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main Ave. bit.ly/2ruXCal (7037223) n
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Bob Dylan, Donald Trump, Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Bukowski, Ice-T, Ronald Reagan and Debbie Harry all have something to say.
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hose who know do not speak,” Lao Tzu said. “Those who speak do not know.” “We’re idiots, babe,” Bob Dylan said. “It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves.” “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech,” the First Amendment said, “or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” “Freedom of speech,” Ice-T said. “Just watch what you say.” “If you can’t say anything nice,” my mother said, “don’t say anything at all.” Shit goddamn, I said to myself. “In the beginning was the Word,” John said, “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “We know little that is certain about words,” Virginia Woolf said, “but this we do know — words never make anything that is useful; and words are the only things that tell the truth and nothing but the truth.” “The truth is more important than the facts,” Frank Lloyd Wright said. “Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams said. “Facts are stupid things,” Ronald Reagan said. “It really doesn’t matter,” Donald Trump said, “as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” “The ass is the face of the soul of sex,” Charles Bukowski said. “Love me tender,” Elvis said, “Love me sweet.” “You don’t know what love is,” Billie Holiday said. “Elvis was a hero to most,” Chuck D said, “but he never meant shit to me.” “Speak softly,” Teddy Roosevelt said. “And carry a big stick.” “Sticks and stones will break your bones,” my mother said. “But words will never hurt you.” “My bones?” I said. “Your poor huddled masses,” Lou Reed said, “let’s club ’em to death.” “Patriotism means to stand by the country,” Teddy
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was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I’m a man.” “Heaven,” Frank Sinatra said. “I’m in heaven.” “Go to heaven for the climate,” Mark Twain said, “hell for the company.” “Hell is other people,” Sartre said. “You’re an icicle,” Elliott Smith said. “You’re a tongueless talker.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” the Declaration of Independence said, “that all men are created equal.” “What’d I say about mouthy?” Jeff Jebeau said. Then he punched me in the face. “That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” the Declaration of Independence said. “I don’t want no peace,” Peter Tosh said. “I need equal rights.” “You need coolin’,” Robert Plant said. “That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” the Declaration of Independence said. “Hang the last king,” Diderot said, “by the guts of the last priest.” “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,” the Declaration of Independence said, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” “I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword,” Mother Jones said. “I will tell the truth wherever I please.” “Will you please be quiet, please?” Raymond Carver said. “We here highly resolve,” Abraham Lincoln said, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” “Lying is done with words,” Adrienne Rich said. “And also with silence.” “Fire,” my neighbor Connie said. “I will make my words in thy mouth fire,” the Bible said. “Fire,” my neighbor Mosel said. “Don’t fire,” someone at Bunker Hill said, “until you see the whites of their eyes.” “Fire,” we all started to say at once. “A burning ring of fire,” Johnny Cash said. “But he meant love,” my mother said. We knew what he meant. Words could be fire and fire could be fire. And fire could be love. We cleared our throats to sing. n
People Co-ing Above & Beyond for Spokane // Bette Largent
Caring For Our Community Carousel Bette Largent was working at the Riverfront Park gift shop 25 years ago when someone suggested she apply to be the restorer for the park’s famous carousel. Bette loved the idea. So did her family. “When I told them,” said Bette, “they were excited. My daughter, who was 12, even offered to call the interviewer and recommend me.” Bette won the job as the carousel’s restorer and immediately got to work. She researched Spokane’s Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, but discovered no books on restoring carousels. She would need collaborators. So Bette turned her search away from libraries to a family member who worked in art supplies. The two co-operated on ideas for paint and chemistry. She also spent a lot of time in hardware stores, gleaning knowledge and ideas from experienced woodworkers. With all these ideas, Bette began the detailed work of restoring the many nicks, cuts, and rubs that had accumulated on the carousel’s horses. After many long hours, the results shone. The bright Crayola colors and gold trim on the horses sparkled with newfound luster.
Today, Bette has been the caretaker of the carousel for 25 years. She now has another restorer who co-operates with her to maintain the beautiful figures. The carousel has about 300,000 riders per year and needs to be completely repainted around every 10 years. All the restoration work has made Bette into a national specialist in carousel restoration, and she is currently the President of the National Carousel
Association. Even today, she loves watching Spokane’s children clamber aboard the horses, giraffe, and tiger — even if all the fun produces some wear-and-tear.
“Today, others think the carousel is a leftover, an old-fashioned machine,” said Bette. “Not me. It’s beautiful. I see it as a work of art.”
“The goal was to create each figure that is beautiful in its own right,” said Bette, “while also coordinating the total composition, the whole carousel. I am looking for the wow factor when someone enters the building.”
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