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rom the beginning, the idea of VOLUME has been simple: “The music festival for all.”

Here at the Inlander, we wanted to create a community event where everyone felt welcome, where downtown Spokane reverberated with music and throngs of people turned out to find their new favorite band. This year is no different: Over two nights, we have 100 local and regional acts representing every interest and genre we could think of. While there are too many festivals to name, Volume is a little different: It unites the city’s music venues, big and small, for one spectacular weekend, while showcasing the Northwest’s up-and-coming talent. Hold onto the 28-page guide inside.

Also this week: staff writer Chey Scott looks at up-and-coming talent in the region’s literary world (page 21) and news writer Mitch Ryals rides along with Spokane’s bike cops (page 13).

— JACOB H. FRIES, editor

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s the sun shines our way, minutes more each day, we Inland Northwesterners shed our winter clothing as fast as we can. We bare our skin and liberate our toes and drink in the spring green of the trees.

And when the days are ripe enough, we’ll head to the trails to bike, or the hills to hike, or the streams to fish, or the lakes to motor. It’s the time of year that we most appreciate our amazing range of open spaces — public lakes, public parks and public land.

Idaho boasts 30 state parks and manages 2.4 million acres of forested trust land. Within the Idaho borders lie 437 lakes. In addition, Idaho contains 34.5 million acres of federal public land.

This abundance of natural landscape attracts outdoor sportsmen and sportswomen from home and abroad and keeps lifelong residents from straying very far.

But protecting our natural heritage requires vigilance on the part of everyday Idahoans who hunt, fish, hike and camp. I repeat the old cautionary slogan: “They’re fixin’ to steal your land.”

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rom the beginning of Idaho’s history, some faction or another has tried to convert our public lands to private use. In the past 50 years, we’ve watched the waxing and waning of the Posse Comitatus, the Sagebrush Rebellion, the Wise Use movement, and most recently the Cliven Bundy brigade, who moved in on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge next door in Oregon for 40 days.

These periodic flare-ups are triggered by resentment of the presence and power of the federal government and its environmental regulations. Nobody likes to be told what to do or not to do — and Western farmers and cattlemen are especially touchy. Their land is an extension of their egos, and they may think that your public land is theirs, too.

Frequently, these Western rebellions have been led by gun-waving, on-the-fringe rebels of the West who believe that their physical presence gives them a right to ownership of land they may be squatting on.

North Idaho’s former state Representative Phil Hart was more subtle. Phil quietly helped himself to land and lumber, and spent eight years in the Idaho legislature before his voting constituency ousted him from office.

The current effort to transfer Idaho’s federal lands is a well-disguised heist being run by Idaho’s sitting legislators. Converting Idaho’s federal land to state ownership would take an act of Congress — and we all know how hard it is to get Congress to act. Besides, taking over the federal

lands is a wild and crazy pipe dream.

In no way can Idaho afford to manage those 34.5 million acres of federal lands and all the programs that go with them. Idaho is a debtor state that receives more in federal funds than it pays in federal taxes.

So the logical extension of taking over the federal lands would be to sell them. And if not to sell, to manage them for profit.

Idaho’s chronicler Randy Stapilus tells us that over the years, 41 percent of the state lands that Idaho received upon gaining statehood have been converted from public lands to private hands. So it can happen.

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he May 17 primary election may bring us some hope for sanity on the federal land grab and other down-to-earth issues.

Three of the most right-wing conservative legislators were turned out by their fellow Republican voters — Senator Sheryl Nuxoll of Cottonwood, along with three-term Representatives Shannon McMillan of Shoshone County and Kathy Sims

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Two other elected officials who lost their jobs on May 17 have been especially vocal in support of taking over the federal lands — Idaho County Commissioner Jim Chmelik, and seven-term state Representative Pete Nielsen of Mountain Home, who was once quoted as saying a woman cannot become pregnant after rape and incest because it is too traumatic. (Rep. Nielsen reportedly retracted the statement, but his words were too bizarrely ignorant and offensive to let them die.)

These public officials didn’t lose their elections entirely on their federal land takeover stance, or due to their embarrassing public statements. The public may just want less anti-fed talk and more common-sense action.

This time it’s our own legislators who may be fixin’ to steal our public land. Tell them it’s a rotten idea.

And appreciate the run or walk over the public trails and the delicious swim in our public waters. Summer in Idaho’s public lands is glorious. 

COMMENT | TRAIL MIX

A Lukewarm Endorsement LACK OF ENTHUSIASM

More and more Republicans across the nation are now aligning themselves with presumptive Republican presidential nominee DONALD TRUMP, and that list now includes Eastern Washington U.S. Rep. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress.

But she’s not too excited about it.

“Did I cast my ballot with enthusiasm? Not exactly,” she wrote in a Facebook post. She argues that HILLARY CLINTON would shrink freedom and limit opportunity to the White House, and that Clinton “lacks the integrity to be President, and she could never earn my support.”

Democrat JOE PAKOOTAS, who will again challenge McMorris Rodgers in November’s election after losing to her in 2014, says her support of Trump demonstrates that she is out of touch with women.

“I am appalled that McMorris Rodgers would align herself with someone who has mocked women, veterans and people with disabilities,” he wrote in a statement.

Even though McMorris Rodgers points out that Trump has said things she “vehemently” disagrees with, she says she still will support him against Clinton, and will call him out if he says such things again. She hopes Trump can “radically transform the way government works so it stops making the centralized federal bureaucracy more powerful.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

‘HOWEVER HE CHOOSES’

As the presidential race approaches the final stretch of primaries and caucuses, it’s becoming increasingly likely that former Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON will face off with real estate mogul DONALD TRUMP. But if you ask Vermont Sen. BERNIE SANDERS, the race isn’t settled; he insists he has a chance at beating Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination.

As of press time, Clinton has 2,293 delegates (including an overwhelming majority of superdelegates), putting her within striking distance of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination. Sanders has 1,533 delegates.

Clinton’s supporters in Congress have directly called for Sanders to give up, suggesting that he would only help Trump by drawing out the contest.

The Democratic National Committee, possibly motivated by fear of splitting the party, has tried to play nice, offering Sanders five seats on a 15-member committee that writes the Democratic Party’s convention platform.

Earlier this week, when asked on NBC’s Today if his continued candidacy would hurt Clinton in the general election, Sanders responded by likening assumptions that she would be the nominee to the country reverting to a “monarchy.” He added that the party’s convention in late July could get “messy.” (JAKE THOMAS)

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COMMENT | HOUSING gration and long-term stability of our neighborhoods.

For the hundreds of thousands of Spokane County residents living at or under 180 percent of the federal poverty level, we are already in the midst of an affordability crisis. According to “Missing the Foundation,” a report published by the Spokane Regional Health District, more than half of all renters and one in three households are already paying more than a third of their income for housing every month. When housing takes up more than 30 percent of monthly income, it becomes difficult to meet basic needs, prevents the possibility of building up savings accounts, and can put families one paycheck or illness away from homelessness. In fact, the

We must make it a priority to build a city where everyone who works can afford to meet their basic housing needs.

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The Affordability Bubble Why our affordable housing crisis must be acted upon before it’s too late

BY MARIAH McKAY

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ouses in Spokane are so affordable!” is a frequent exclamation when praising our city. The invariable response goes something like “Shhhh, don’t let the outsiders in on our secret!” While such refrains make middle class folks feel good about the stake we’ve claimed in this beautiful place, they also encourage us to ignore the need to improve affordable housing availability for the many low-income families who already struggle to survive here.

Mounting real estate pressures on the West Coast, and even in the tourist and vacation-home boomtowns to the east, have already begun to send a steady stream of housing refugees our way. If land and housing prices become inflated before the right public policies are in place, the meager public funds available for affordable housing will continue to be too little, too late. This is a problem that must be addressed before middle class voters begin to feel the squeeze. If we are not ready to balance new market-driven development with the pressing need to increase our affordable housing supply, we may miss out on a one-time opportunity to improve the economic inte-

lack of affordable housing is a top contributing factor to local homelessness, ranking above mental health, physical disabilities or drug and alcohol abuse issues.

Some people think society has no duty to ensure housing affordability. Instead, they believe that widespread suffering is the only way to motivate people to lift themselves out of the misery of poverty. Not only has this not worked, it flies in the face of what science tells us about behavior change, and ignores the basic reality that even if everyone could get a job, there would still be more people in need of affordable housing than units available on the market. We must make it a priority to build a city where everyone who works can afford to meet their basic housing needs. Without the promise of the ability to live with a basic modicum of dignity, people are forced into a cycle of desperation and despair.

Spokane’s slower economy could turn into our opportunity to get re-urbanization right. Regional housing and health institutions, along with the city of Spokane, just won an Invest Health grant to create an affordable housing plan. Let’s demand that our local leaders work toward meeting basic housing needs before our affordability bubble bursts forever. n Mariah McKay is a fourth-generation daughter of Spokane and a community organizer campaigning for racial, social and economic justice. She currently serves as a public health advocate.

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GLENN TABBERT: I can think of how this can be abused. One employee says a small thing, it gets massively out of context, next thing you know, the business is essentially blacklisted.

And not by its own choice.

SARAH MCCLURE: If employees are making “small comments” to trans people, then they clearly aren’t trans friendly... and quite frankly, should be blacklisted. Train employees to behave like adults, there won’t be a problem.

AMANDA B BRALEY: I imagine people would be receptive to a business owner who finds themselves blacklisted AND then reaches out for help correcting the situation. I suspect avenues exist to protect your business from “false” accusations. And I know organizations exist in town to help business owners train employees on the topic of treating LGBTQ customers respectfully.

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JESS PONIKVAR: I’m not transgender but I want to know who not to support in Spokane, as long as it’s legit.

KARLY LARGIN: Are transgender people really targeted that much?!

I had no idea! It is so sad to me that people still attack others in today’s society. Can’t we all just get along!?!

DYLAN KUNZE: Stupid, the world is a cold harsh place. I understand they just want a stress- and discrimination-free place to go, shop and eat. I’m fine with that, but why should a business get besmirched because of a careless comment or other stupid thing?

The only red dots should be from a refusal to serve.

APRILLE SPIES: I think the site is a great idea, however I don’t think one comment from one staff member should automatically put a business on the unsafe list! If it was more than one staff member, or if the individual spoke with management and if their response was negative, then they should be put on the unsafe list! As everyone knows the actions of one should not condemn a whole group, organization or business! But that’s just my opinion! 

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All the regulars, at least. There’s Little Youngster and Burger. Matt Matt, Red and Bam Bam. Tweaker James, Famous, Kansas City and Grasshopper, to name a few. As a downtown patrol officer, Jones can hardly make it one full city block without hearing his name echo off the buildings. People approach and rap about life. They leave with a fist pound.

“Be good,” Jones tells them.

It’s midday on a Wednesday in May. Jones is rolling with two other officers — John O’Brien and Micah Prim.

The three of them are on bikes today, rather than patrolling in cars.

“I like the bikes because you can interact with the community more,” Prim says. “It helps because a lot of people doing criminal activity will see a police car pretty easily, so if you’re on a bike, it helps you get there quicker and smoother. And I get a workout.”

The trio gets a call to the bridge over Stevens Street.

An employee for a nearby business complained about people drinking beer underneath the bridge, a violation of the city’s controversial ordinance that criminalizes sitting or lying on the sidewalk within the downtown core.

The two men and a woman are huddled under a blanket when Jones and crew ride up. Prim spots a halfdrunk Bud Ice tallboy and pours it out. A condom falls from the blanket as the group stands.

“Grasshopper, how many times have we talked about this?” Prim says to the man wearing a white North Carolina football jersey and a flat-billed hat. “You can’t sit on the sidewalk.”

“Where are we supposed to go?” asks the woman, Rhoda Surveyor. “We’re homeless.”

Prim helps the woman into her nearby wheelchair, and hands Grasshopper a ticket. He’s been warned several times before about sitting on the sidewalk with an open beer, Prim says.

As the group gathers their belongings, Officer

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O’Brien tells the other man, who goes by the moniker Kansas City, that he’s been added to the list of people warned about sitting on sidewalks. Next time he’ll get a ticket, O’Brien tells him. Kansas City says he understands and promises not to do it again.

Situations like these, where cops cite people for minor “quality of life” crimes prevalent among the homeless and drug-addicted, are common in downtown Spokane.

Actions like sitting on the sidewalk, peeing in public and minor trespassing could get you a ticket or a few nights in jail. Most minor crimes committed downtown are routed through Spokane’s innovative Community Court, which focuses on helping people address underlying causes of crime, rather than punishment. Grasshopper’s case will go through Community Court, and it’s not the first time he’s been there. The resident public defender, Francis Adewale, knows him well and has tried to help get him housing before.

“By the time it goes to warrant,” Grasshopper tells the cops, “We’ll be in Seattle.”

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get rid of the shakes, Seibold says.

“That told me it was time to slow ’er down,” he says.

About a year ago, a downtown cop gave Seibold a ticket for peeing in a bush underneath the freeway. At that time, he says, he was heavy into “druggin’ and drinkin’” and was living in shelters or on the streets — spending some nights in the recliner.

He tells his story now from his corner spot in the Collins Apartments, a low-income housing building, where many of his neighbors have faced similar issues with drugs and homelessness.

“It’s not much, but it’s mine,” Seibold says, adding that he might still be out on the streets if not for the Community Court.

That day, he says, Judge Mary Logan watched as Seibold offered a sympathetic shoulder to a man crying in the audience. She threw out the charges, and imposed a fine a little over $100 if he agreed to seek housing.

“I told her, ‘Ma’am, I’m homeless and have no income. If you make me pay that fine, I’m going to end up right back here in front of you,’” Seibold recalls.

Logan nixed the fine. “You’re clean,” he recalls her telling him. “Start over again.”

After that, Seibold says he began working in the kitchen at the House of Charity. Within 30 days he moved into the Collins.

Spokane’s Community Court has been around since December 2013. Through Febru-

ary of last year, the court has processed 1,295 charges involving 586 individuals. Nearly 70 percent of those charges were dismissed, and less than 20 percent ended in a guilty plea or conviction, according to a data analysis by Jacquie van Wormer, criminal justice administrator for the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council. Most dismissals come on the condition that people will seek treatment, counseling or housing.

This past Monday’s docket included 140 cases, four of which involved sit-lie violations.

Adewale, the public defender, says it’s rare to see that many in a single week. Indeed, according to the most recent sit-lie report provided to city councilmembers at the Public Safety Committee meeting, 79 citations have been issued since 2014, when the law went into effect. Twenty-four percent of those violations resulted in someone getting booked into jail.

As many as 20 different service providers are present in the court each week, making for one-stop shopping for people trying to quash their charge, get treatment and apply for housing, among other resources.

Recently, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded Spokane a $200,000 grant to bolster these efforts and possibly expand the model to other areas of the city. The two-year grant will fund a Community Court coordinator who will develop and maintain relationships with service providers, a job formerly delegated to the court’s two attorneys.

The court’s innovative approach to criminal justice has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the region. Representatives from Yakima, Olympia and Eugene visited Spokane to observe how the court operates ahead of launching similar efforts. So far, Olympia and Eugene have done so.

For his part, Seibold draws strength from his neighbors for help controlling his drinking and curbing his drug use — meth is his vice. But he’s honest with himself about the habit that started decades ago, when his pockets were flush with cash from his days as an ironworker.

“I’m not gonna say I don’t trip once in awhile,” he tells the Inlander. “I’ve slipped. Did a line about two weeks ago.”

Seibold says he’ll dabble with drugs until the day he dies. He still drinks just about every day, though he says he’s cut down.

The big difference is now he does it in his air-conditioned apartment instead of on a recliner on the street corner.

“I jumped through all the hoops, and had a lot of help from a lot of people,” he says. “Been here about two years, and I got no wants, no warrants. I’m doin’ pretty good.”

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A kid with star tattoos peeking out from under his collar walks toward Jones.

“Hey Jonesy, is that your 20 bucks on the ground?” he asks.

Officer Jones looks.

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That draws a chuckle out of the cop. “Good one,” he says.

Jones whips out his cellphone, shows the kid a picture of a blueand-white marathon bicycle and asks if he’s seen it. He hasn’t, but “I’ll put the word out,” the kid says.

The bike belongs to Julie Moran, who lives in Elk, Washington. She’s training to do the half Ironman Triathlon in June and planned to ride in a race last weekend. She came to Spokane LETTERS to train and spend some quality Send comments to time with her daughter when editor@inlander.com. her bike was stolen from the back seat of her car. She says it’s worth about $12,000.

“That bike cost more than my car,” she says. “And I’ve been training for six months for this race.”

Bike theft is common in downtown Spokane, and rarely are they recovered in one piece. Jones shows the picture to almost everyone he talks to.

These downtown patrol cops have formed relationships with the chronically homeless, the drug addicts and the street kids.

They find people half-frozen under the freeway in the winter, and passed out in a pile of their own vomit in the summer.

“We’re dealing with the castaways, the homeless, the forgotten, the people who nobody wants to deal with or see,” Jones says. “We know these people, we see them every day and we care about them.”

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Jones, O’Brien and Prim are nearing the end of their shifts when they get another call to the bridge over Stevens Street. Kansas City is sitting in the same spot, and the woman, Rhoda Surveyor, is in her wheelchair, snacking on some chicken wings.

O’Brien issues the man a ticket, but doesn’t give one to Surveyor. The city’s code carves out an exception for persons with disabilities. O’Brien explains that Kansas City must appear in Community Court the following Monday. He nods dismissively as the two move along.

On Monday morning, both Grasshopper and Kansas City showed up for Community Court. Attorneys agreed to dismiss the charge against Kansas City due to an error with the ticket.

They agreed to do the same for Grasshopper on the condition that he get into housing and complete community service.

“Downtown Spokane’s got its own vortex; there’s a great divide between society that obeys the law and people who have their own rules, their own economy,” Jones says. “We’re not living their lives, but we live in their world every day.” n mitchr@inlander.com

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IDAHO Some North Idaho residents can now TEXT TO 911, granted they use one of the five cellphone carriers who support the service. Dispatch centers in Bonner, Shoshone and Kootenai counties, as well as the Post Falls Police, can now receive emergency text messages from people with cellphone plans from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Comcast. Spokane County implemented its emergency text service in August 2015 and has similar restrictions on which cellphone carriers support the service. The new announcement comes just as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver spotlighted deficiencies in 911 dispatch centers around the country. According to one FCC report Oliver cites, improved 911 accuracy could save more than 10,000 lives per year.

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‘Nancy’s Decision’ Budget cuts put SFCC’s Pullman campus in peril; plus, another high-profile resignation at City Hall COST-CUTTING CONSEQUENCES

With Community Colleges of Spokane facing budget cuts of up to 10 percent, the future of the PULLMAN BRANCH of Spokane Falls Community College is in doubt.

The SFCC branch in Pullman offers courses for students who would like to complete a two-year transfer degree. It serves an average of 175 students per quarter, with 15 faculty members and four staff members.

But right now, while budget details are being determined over the next few weeks, SFCC is not processing applications for new students. SFCC President Janet Gullickson says that students already taking courses in Pullman will continue to be served, but whether the branch will stay open beyond that is less certain.

“We don’t know,” Gullickson says. “Everything is on the table in terms of what we have to do to make up our budget.”

CCS Chancellor Christine Johnson offers a slightly different outlook. She says there will be services in Whitman County, “but we’re looking at doing it in a way we can afford to do it.” She didn’t explain exactly what that means, though it’s possible that the school could find a different location or offer more online classes.

Community Colleges of Spokane has experienced a 30 percent reduction in state funding since 2009, Johnson says, and also had to contribute $1.7 million after the state settled a class action lawsuit. There also have been glitches in the rollout of a new software system called ctcLink. All of that has contributed to an $8 million deficit for CCS. No final budget decisions will be made until June.

“The real story is not whether we [at the Pullman branch] close or stay open,” Gullickson says. “The real story is we don’t have enough money to operate.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

ISSERLIS DEPARTING

A little more than a month after Assistant City Attorney Erin Jacobson announced her resignation from the city of Spokane, her boss — City Attorney NANCY ISSERLIS — has followed suit.

“This is her decision. She decided to resign,” city spokesman Brian Coddington says. “This was completely Nancy’s decision.”

In a short resignation letter Monday, Isserlis did not mention the whirlwind of litigation, scrutiny and independent investigation surrounding the termination

of former Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub, who had named Isserlis in his $4 million claim against the city.

Isserlis and other city attorneys have refused to speak with the investigator in the Straub investigation. Even if the mayor decided to order her to participate, Isserlis’ pending departure removes any leverage he’d have.

Asked if Isserlis’ resignation was related to the concerns over attorney-client privilege in the Straub investigation, Coddington declined to get specific.

“She’s just looking to move on,” Coddington says.

“This was just something she decided the time was right.”

When Mayor David Condon hired Isserlis, one of her first decisions was to fire Assistant City Attorney Rocky Treppiedi, who took heat from federal prosecutors for his handling of the case of Otto Zehm, the mentally disabled janitor who died after being beaten by police in 2006.

Councilmember Breean Beggs, who squared off against the city in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Zehm’s family in 2009, says that Isserlis shifted the city away from Treppiedi’s strategy of spending money to fight every legal claim tooth and nail. Instead, Isserlis was willing to settle valid claims quickly, saving the city money in the long run.

When Isserlis became city attorney in 2012, she said she hoped the city would be able to move on from the two big controversies of the time.

“I think the police accountability and the ombudsman issues, at least for the time being, [are] going to be front and center. I think I can do my part in helping this community heal,” Isserlis said back then, adding, “I can’t make it heal.”

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And many go to college not knowing how to navigate the college system, or not knowing where to turn to when they have a problem with things like course enrollment or financial aid.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re valedictorian or top of your class, because that transition is really tough [for firstgeneration students], and oftentimes you just don’t have anybody at home,” says Nicole DeVon, a counselor for Eastern Washington University’s American Indian Studies Program. “Whatever seems to be happening, their parents can be proud, but they can’t really relate.”

Local colleges, both public and private, have made helping these students a focus through a variety of programs and scholarships. And while graduation rates locally may be better than national rates, school officials agree there’s more work to be done.

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Students from Rogers and North Central high schools celebrated at a “First in the Family” ceremony for kids who are first in their families to graduate and go to college. JEFF FERGUSON PHOTO

An Unfamiliar Path Why first-generation college students can struggle, and how local colleges are trying to help

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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saiah Flick didn’t think much about graduating from high school as a kid, let alone college.

There were times when he wanted to give up on school. As a child, he moved from home to home, never knowing his father, and taking care of his little sister while his mom worked for the little money they had.

“I just really wanted to give up and say I can’t do this anymore, like all this stuff’s hitting me too hard,” Flick says.

Then he realized he needed to change, and that he wanted to do something more than being another dropout high school student, or ending up in prison, he says.

He will graduate from Rogers High School this year and attend Central Washington University this fall. Last week, he was one of 60 students from Rogers and North

Central high schools who were celebrated at a “First in Family” ceremony for kids who are the first in their family to graduate high school and go to college.

But for many of those students, the hardest part, college, hasn’t even started. Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Education, there’s a wide disparity between graduation rates of first-generation students and students whose parents graduated from college. Only about one in four first-generation students attain a bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to more than half of non-first-generation students. Of first-generation students who are considered low-income, just over 10 percent earn a bachelor’s within six years.

These students have multiple factors working against them. They typically carry more of a financial burden,

uci Loera, vice president for access, equity and achievement at Washington State University, says the challenges many first-generation students face go deeper than their will to graduate. Many times they don’t have a plan, and don’t know where to go for information.

“For many first-generation students, in high school, their goal was to get into college,” she says. “In college, we have to have those discussions and conversations and help them plan out and map their next step, in terms of their career.”

At Washington State University, about two out of every five freshmen are considered first generation. The gap between six-year graduation rates is about 6 percent for first-generation students (63 percent) and non-firstgeneration students (69 percent).

While public universities have programs in place to help low-income and first-generation students, the difficulty is that there are more of those students to serve.

Take, for example, Eastern Washington University’s Eastern Advantage program. First-generation students can qualify for a $1,500-per-year scholarship for tuition, and meet at least twice per quarter with an advisor who can answer questions about the enrollment process. But the program only serves about 250 students per year, not even a third of the first-generation students who enter school every year.

EWU has the highest rate of first-generation students of any local university — more than half of incoming freshmen this year would be the first in their families to earn a college degree. The graduation rate for lowincome, first-generation students within six years is 38 percent, eight percentage points below the rate for all students.

Heather Page, director of academic advising at EWU, says that expanding advising for these students is crucial:

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“I’ve been told that the number of advisors serving undergraduates had not changed for over 10 years, but our student population has nearly doubled.”

Page says EWU will be expanding advising services soon.

“That is the biggest thing, is being able to rearrange and do that on a bigger scale,” says DeVon, the EWU counselor.

“Because there’s already programs like ours that are doing it on a small level. We’ve gotta do it on a bigger level.”

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irst-generation students are more likely to choose a public college over a private college, despite research suggesting they would be more successful at private institutions.

According to a 2011 study by the Higher Education Research institute at UCLA, first-generation students are 14 percent more likely to graduate at a private university than a public university.

Whitworth University has graduation rates for first-generation students over 60 percent, says David Garcia, assistant dean of student diversity, equity and inclusion. He says that smaller colleges and universities are sometimes better equipped to help first-generation students.

“First-generation students come in without the GPS,” Garcia says, adding that other students are more naturally able to navigate the college system. “For first-generation students, there are unspoken rules that nobody has shared with them.”

At Gonzaga University, the most recent numbers show the graduation rate for first-generation students is 83 percent, slightly below the 84 percent graduation rate for non-first-generation students.

Those strong numbers, says Gonzaga social justice and outreach program director Sasha Gibson, are due in part to mentor programs for first-generation students. BRIDGE — Building Relationships in a Diverse Gonzaga Environment — connects first-generation students with counselors for an easier transition to college. Another program, LEADS — Leadership, Education, Academic Development, and Success Skills — matches incoming first-generation students with an older student mentor.

Trang Lynn Tran, 20, who will be a junior at Gonzaga next year, is a LEADS mentor as well as a first-generation college student. She says when she started as a freshman, there were a lot of things that she didn’t know.

“I didn’t even know the resources available or the questions to ask,” she says. “So I kind of took things as they went.”

Coming from a lower-income family in Tacoma, she says that one of the hardest parts about going to Gonzaga was the culture shock. People assumed that everyone’s parents went to college, and she says it was hard to feel like she was coming from the same place as those students. She says the BRIDGE program helped her with that when she was a freshman. She doesn’t think she’d be in school still without it.

“I think one of the best things about being a first-generation student is you’re changing the dynamics in your family, and changing the possibilities,” she says. “Because for a lot of people in my family, they didn’t really think about college, or think about that as an option.” 

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Writing I Their Way LITERATURE

How the success of Spokane’s literary community is inspiring and nurturing the next generation of talent

BY CHEY SCOTT

n a city with writers who regularly publish acclaimed work, a group of talented teenage wordsmiths are paving their own paths to success.

Inspired partly by those successful adult writers, yet driven by an urge to write that’s been burning within them for most of childhood, these teens are publishing poetry collections, curating anthologies of their peers’ work and landing major accolades.

While these are truly impressive feats for a set who haven’t yet marked two decades on Earth, the teens are quick to point out that the positive attention, potential scholarship opportunities and adult praise — the least of which are comments

along the lines of “Wow, that’s really good for someone your age… ” — are not why they do it. Rather, they write for the sake of writing.

“I think there is a strange cultural perception of what teenagers are, and it’s perpetuated by people thinking that’s what they are,” remarks 19-year-old Spokane poet Lauren Gilmore.

“It’s also funny to me that people are surprised that teens can do things, because, obviously!” she continues, laughing.

At 16, Gilmore won the title of Spokane Poetry Slam Grand Champion, but she was too young at the time to compete in the national competition (the minimum age is 18). Last year, the Portland-based ...continued on next page

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ike Gilmore, Brittan Hart and Madison Seipp are local teens who are “doing things.” This week, the duo, both 15, launch their co-led project Riverside Storybook, an 85-page collection of poems, prose and art by their peers across Spokane County.

Hart, a homeschooled student, was inspired to curate a teen-only anthology after seeing the first edition of past Spokane Poet Laureate Thom Caraway’s Railtown Almanac anthology, released in 2014 when she was in seventh grade. Soon after that, she and Seipp, a freshman at Lewis and Clark High School and a neighborhood friend of Hart, teamed up to organize the project.

A call for submissions went out in January of this year asking local teens in grades 6-12 to send in their art, poetry and other works for the project. After sorting through 127 submissions, Hart and Seipp — with the help of three other students — narrowed down the final publication list to 76 pieces by 47 teens.

The teens did most of the work on their own, but local poet Brooke Matson, program director of the INK Art Space and Spark Center, offered some guidance.

“It’s rare to find that much motivation and gumption in a ninth-grader, and it’s rare to find someone who is going to chase their dream that aggressively,” Matson notes. “[Brittan] had the vision from the beginning, and knew what she wanted it to look like.”

The resulting collection of mostly poetry and photography-heavy art submissions in Riverside Storybook showcase creative output at all levels; from novice poets in the early stages of honing their voice and style to standouts like 16-year-old Ben Read. Two of his poems are printed in the collection.

Read is a Lewis and Clark junior whose mother, Laura Read, happens to be the current Spokane Poet Laureate. Last year, Ben was named one of the top 15 Foyle Young Poets of the Year by the UK-based Poetry Society. The international competition chose his piece “Mario Kart: Brain Circuit” out of more than 12,200

submissions.

Growing up in a household where the written word is held in high esteem, Read most enjoys writing creatively for the process.

“I love the feeling of creating and bringing something into the world that has value that wasn’t there before,” he says. “Finding that image or combination of words that really resonates with the poem, or me as the writer, or with the reader, is always a really great moment.”

The accomplishments of his peers — Gilmore, Hart and Seipp included — also inspire Read. He and a group of classmates are currently launching Lewis and Clark’s first-ever student literary journal, and they look to Riverside Storybook as a prime example.

Continuing this interconnected web of

“It’s also funny to me that people are surprised that teens can do things...” inspiration and support, Read’s mother has been an instrumental mentor to Gilmore’s writing pursuits, also helping connect the aspiring novelist with local, published authors Kris Dinnison and Sharma Shields. Both have read drafts of Gilmore’s novel, volunteering their advice to a writer new to novel writing.

“I was thrilled to get to read more of her work. Her prose has that same beautiful quality her poetry does,” notes Dinnison, having seen Gilmore perform at local poetry slam events.

While her eventual goal is to publish the novels, a trilogy blending drama with elements of fantasy and magic, Gilmore is mainly focused on honing her craft and writing a version she’s happy with.

“Don’t worry about your peers considering you as strange,” Gilmore offers as advice to other young writers. “Because if you step back a little, there are people in the community more than willing to help. You’re not on your own, and there is not one way people become writers or write. It’s all very subjective.” n cheys@inlander.com Riverside Storybook Vol. 1 Release Party • Fri, May 27, from 6-7 pm • Free to attend; buy a copy for $10 • Spark Center / INK Art Space • 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. • sparkwestcentral.org

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The proposed $12 million, 300-seat venue Modern Theater planned for midtown Coeur d’Alene.

he Modern Theater has announced that it’s currently eyeing property in Coeur d’Alene’s Midtown area for a proposed $12 million, 300-seat venue that would supersede its longtime performing space on East Garden Avenue.

George Green, the theater’s executive artistic director, says a new facility has been a topic of discussion ever since he took the helm of Lake City Playhouse in 2010, four years prior to the organization’s merger with Spokane’s Interplayers Professional Theatre and subsequent regional rebranding as The Modern Theater.

“We aren’t quite part of the core tourism attraction of the North Idaho area,” Green says. “And that was one of the big things we discussed. It’s always been a vision of our team and our board to have a much larger venue that would allow us to do larger-scale shows. Midtown, oddly enough, was put on the table as a place to research. We felt Midtown would be a really awesome opportunity to grow, and it seemed to make the most logical sense.”

After roughly 18 months of internal planning and discussions,

The Modern broached the proposal for the 31,000-square-foot venue with ignite cda, a Coeur d’Alene urban renewal agency.

“I told the ignite cda board that they started writing the book” — that is, by initiating aesthetic and infrastructure improvements to the Midtown business corridor — “and we’re ready to give them a really cool ending chapter to it.”

That ending chapter is some ways off, however. Green says ignite cda still has yet to give the OK and put the “puzzle pieces in place.” Provided that happens, he’d like to be cutting the ribbon on the new venue in 2022, leaving six years of further planning, acquisition, fundraising and construction.

“Most of the e-mails and comments that we’re getting are all very supportive of what this could do,” says Green. “We’re not asking for tax dollars. We’re asking to build a performing arts center that would bring tourism in the shoulder months of North Idaho, when there’s not a lot of opportunities for people to come into town. It would be a landmark for many years to come in the Inland Northwest.”

— E.J. IANNELLI

COMMUNITY ARTFEST APPROACHES

The 31st annual ArtFest celebration hosted by the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture is coming up next weekend, June 3-5. Featuring more than 150 juried artists who create art across the media spectrum, ArtFest takes over Coeur d’Alene Park — which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year — in Browne’s Addition. (Make sure to check out the street murals installed last weekend around the park.) For this year’s ArtFest, several prominent local artists — including Ric Gendron, Melissa Cole and others — have left their signature touch on cardboard art masks, to be auctioned off during ArtFest. The community can preview the masks in the MAC’s lobby up until ArtFest weekend.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

BY CHEY SCOTT

TV Cartoon Network’s STEVEN UNIVERSE series offers plenty of depth to draw in audiences of all ages. Premiering in 2013, the show’s cast of characters are now entering their third season. The show follows the coming-of-age adventures of Steven, a goofy kid who lives under the guardianship of the three magical humanoids called the Crystal Gems: Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. In each 11-minute episode, Steven (who’s also a half-Gem) and the Gems set out to save the world from dangerous monsters, with each short containing enough humor and meaningful life lessons to keep kids and adults glued to the screen. Notably, Steven Universe is the first Cartoon Network show created by a woman, and has received widespread acclaim for its world-building, characterization and art design.

COMIC It’s Halloween night 1988 when a group of newspaper delivery girls come into contact with a band of futuristic (or alien) time travelers. That’s the general premise of PAPER GIRLS, a new comic book series by the acclaimed Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) with art by Cliff Chiang (Wonder Woman).

A sincere ode to both ’80s kid nostalgia and kick-ass female characters, the title’s 12-year-old paper girls are smart, sassy and strong, heading out on their predawn paper routes armed with a hockey stick, walkie-talkies and some legit street cred.

YOUTUBE I thought I was way behind the times after recently discovering the amazingly hilarious video series EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY, but as it turns out (at least in my peer group), there are plenty who also haven’t been introduced. Now entering its fifth season, the series pitting figures — historical and pop culture, fictional and real — against each other in fully produced, over-the-top rap battles is the 20th most-subscribed-to channel on YouTube.

Major names have guest starred on the channel, including Snoop Dogg (as Moses) and the comedy duo of KeeganMichael Key and Jordan Peele (Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.). n

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Mikyla Bordner and Scott Worley play the leads in SFCC’s take on The Crucible.

The Forest for the Chairs

A new SFCC production of The Crucible abstracts the setting to highlight its timeliness

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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ll plays, you could say, are products of their time, but The Crucible is rare in being the product of two times.

The first is the Salem witch trials of 1692–93, which supply the play with its semi-historical plot. The second period concerns the anti-Communist purges of 1950–54, publicly spearheaded by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

These are what prompted playwright Arthur Miller — who would himself later be interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee — to dramatize the acute parallels

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between the panic and fearmongering of a religious milieu and that of his nominally more political one.

Because its Puritanical setting is so tightly interwoven with its allegory, many productions of The Crucible tend to be literal.

Yet that’s exactly what Josephine Keefe wanted to avoid in a new production of the play she’s overseeing at Spokane Falls Community College.

“Initially when I was asked to direct The Crucible, I kind of eye-rolled because I’ve never really seen a good production of it.

For me, I get almost nauseous when I see this Thanksgiving pageantry on stage,” she says. Consequently, she sought to disentangle The Crucible from the 1690s as well as the 1950s.

“By making it too much of a period piece, we continue to distance ourselves from those events. I wanted to find a world in which the past and the present are living together,” says Keefe. “I think that is manifested through the costume design by a very talented student, Lexi Saeger, and it’s told through this very surrealistic, stripped-down set design by Teko Dumoulin. And then we have music composition by Julia Keefe, my sister, and lighting design by Preston Loomer that’s going to play with the distortion of light and shadows.”

Keefe says she wanted the overall design to take on more of an “expressionistic characteristic” and “to play with angles and to play with unity and disunity, to play with harmony and chaos. When are things perfectly in line with each other, and how do those elements slowly unravel? The telling of the play is just as much a part of the scenic design as it is about the actors staying true to Arthur Miller’s text.”

Abstracting the setting while remaining faithful to the text was important, she explains, because Miller’s “protagonists [are] not cut and dry; they’re men and women who are dealing with their own inner demons.” It’s a vital ambiguity she’s impressed upon Mikyla Bordner and Scott Worley, who play Elizabeth and John Proctor, the flawed and persecuted couple at the center of the events.

“They’re the moral compass of the show, and we needed to define the characteristics that drive that compass,” says Keefe.

One way that will happen is through a “purpose-driven” approach to props and scenery. Instead of vanishing between breaks, they’ll be permanent parts of the mise en scène.

“I love productions where every single set piece remains on stage,” Keefe says.

“One of the things I can’t stand is transitions — it just stops the flow of the show, the energy drops. You see everyone lugging everything onstage, offstage.

“In this production, if there is a chair that isn’t being used, it becomes an architectural piece in the background. At times in the show, the chairs are stacked on top of one another to produce what I’m calling trees, because the forest — or the chaos of that forest — plays a part in the storytelling of The Crucible,” says Keefe. “Every prop has a value, every movement means something.

People might hate the scenic design, but what I’d love is if two people who have different views of my production were able to go get coffee afterwards and discuss it.

That’s a success to me.” n The Crucible • Through June 5: ThuSat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $10 • SFCC Spartan Theatre • 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr., Bldg. 5 • 533-3592 • spokanefalls.edu/drama

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Volume, the Inlander Music Festival, is a celebration of the local music scene on June 3rd and 4th. But then, downtown is a celebration of music every single day, from street buskers to piano bars to concert venues to…well, to your ears.

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ne of the most thrilling weekends in Spokane is finally upon us.

That’s right, the Inlander’s own Volume music festival rolls out June 3rd and 4th, and we couldn’t be more excited. With more than 100 bands on 10 stages, this is our biggest event ever. To top it off, we’re bringing in Seattle hip-hop superstars Shabazz Palaces before they head off to open shows for Radiohead. This is a festival truly designed for all generations and musical tastes. On the following pages,

HOW WE SELECTED THE BANDS TO WATCH

The Bands to Watch committee — which consists of seven people from all around the local music scene including radio DJs, past Band to Watch winners, writers, promoters and sound technicians — takes the selection process quite seriously. We first met in March and discussed dozens of local acts that make this scene great. Whittling that down to four this year was no easy feat, with many arguments ensuing, but in the end we ended up with a diverse list that shows off the Inland Northwest music scene well. There were quite a few bands on the cusp this year, and to them we say: Keep playing shows, going on tour, making new music and, please, curate your social media presence. We see you!

OFFICIAL CHARITY

The Inlander again selected the Spokane Humane Society as its designated charity and will donate a portion of proceeds from Volume to the organization.

The Spokane Humane Society is a 501c3 nonprofit local public charity dedicated to the welfare of companion animals.

Since 1897, the Society has acted as a refuge for animals in peril by providing care shelter and placement for tens of thousands of lost, neglected and unwanted animals in the greater Spokane area. For more info, visit spokanehumanesociety.org.

read about all the local and touring acts coming our way, as well as the 2016 Bands to Watch. Also check out the specially curated lineups, which give you an idea of where to start. (To help you get between shows, hop on the Spokane Party Bus for a free ride; see map on page 14.) In the end, it’s nearly impossible to see every band you’ll want to see, but we dare you to try!

— LAURA JOHNSON, Inlander music editor

BEHIND THE SCENES: Volume wouldn’t be possible without the tireless efforts of PATRICK KENDRICK, SHEA WALSER and JEFF GLINSKI, who handle talent and production for the festival.

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Northwest and Beyond Volume opens its doors to acts from all across the country

BY AZARIA PODPLESKY

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olume is Inland Northwest-born and bred, celebrating our constantly growing and wonderfully diverse music scene. But we’re also proud to recognize talent from beyond our neck of the woods. Consider these:

PORTLAND

A quartet of Rose City acts make a small yet mighty impact.

FRIDAY: As per their Facebook page, plan to join math-rock/alt-country duo the Hague for a post-show snack at Dick’s (The Big Dipper, 8:15 pm). Puff Puff Beer brought their blend of blues, funk, rock and hip-hop to Volume 2014, and the six-piece is back for another round (Red Room, 10:15 pm).

SATURDAY: If you actually mixed sugar and spice with everything nice, you’d probably end up with “sparkle pop” duo Mini Blinds (nYne, 8:30 pm). Forget the dream of the ’90s; punk is alive in Portland thanks to chaotic punk-rock quintet GaAsp (Mootsy’s, 12:15 am).

SEATTLE

Two dozen Seattle-based artists will represent about half as many genres.

FRIDAY: In “Weird Girl,” feminist punk scene standouts Mommy Long Legs proudly proclaim themselves to be “freaky f---ing girl[s].” If you can relate, you’ll love their set (Mootsy’s, 8:15 pm). Xurs combine thrashing punk with a captivating talk-singing vocal style (Baby Bar, 8:15 pm). Sebastian and the Deep Blue pull from pop, folk, orchestral and funk, then they add a threepiece brass section (nYne, 8:45 pm). Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings specialize in pure Americanafolk, with hints of bluegrass (The Bartlett, 9 pm). Indie/ folk-pop act Kris Orlowski is no stranger to performing in Spokane. This time, his quintet brings a new album with them (nYne, 10:45 pm). Surf rock, punk rock, New Wave: VATS loves it all (The Observatory, 11:30 pm).

“Put my power into writing / Pull my strength from the galaxy,” DoNormaal talk-sings over a trance-like beat in

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“Wide Awake.” Prepare to be hypnotized (The Observatory, 12:30 am).

SATURDAY: Take a heavy dose of pop sweetness, add scuffed sneakers and ripped jeans for some edge, and you’ve got Hoop (The Pin! Side stage, 6:45 pm).

There’s a tropical vibe to much of experimental pop trio Powerbleeder’s music, though the band isn’t afraid to play with unconventional elements (The Pin! Main stage, 7:30 pm). Spokanite-turned-Seattleite Mark Shirtz and the Dirtyshirtz Band brings his Allen Stone-like soulful tunes back home (Red Room, 7:45 pm). The Bad Tenants fit call-and-response rapping, jazz- and blues-inspired instrumentation, and live brass into one set. (Terrain stage, 8 pm). Hip-hop artist Lou Era is Seattle swag and Cali cool combined (Terrain stage, 9 pm). Grenades slowly turn up the volume on their snarls and screams over a math rock base until the quartet creates a mountain of sound (Mootsy’s, 9:15 pm). Sweet, dreamy vocals paired with darker electronic beats is a match made in heaven for youryoungbody (The Bartlett, 9:15 pm). When Validation frontwoman Judy Davis starts screaming, stay out of her way. That goes for the rest of the hardcore punk band, too (The Observatory, 9:30 pm). From indie to folk to just plain loud, Duke Evers incorporates the entire rock spectrum into its music (nYne, 9:45 pm).

Hip-hop trio Brothers From Another aren’t exaggerating when they call themselves “Seattle summer kings”; their sunny rhymes are perfect for the season (Terrain stage, 10 pm). X Suns piles layers of instrumental math rock and hints of heavier metal on top of each other until it’s almost too much to handle (Mootsy’s, 10:15 pm).

Power-pop quartet The Hoot Hoots’ carefree vibes are so infectious, it’s nearly impossible not to shimmy while listening (nYne, 10:30 pm). Alt-rock/no-wave trio Nail Polish have mastered the art of packing serious punch into minute-and-a-half-long songs (The Observatory, 10:30 pm). Festival headliner Shabazz Palaces really need no introduction: it’s the kooky experimental hip-hop duo of Digable Planets’ Ishmael Butler, aka Palaceer Lazaro,

and multi-instrumentalist Tendai “Baba” Maraire (Terrain stage, 11 pm). The only thing more powerful than the messages in blues-rock trio Ayron Jones and the Way’s songs is the rasp in Jones’ voice (Red Room, 11:45 pm).

Who knew that practically monotone vocals, guitar and electronic backing tracks could be so captivating?

Pleather is onto something (The Observatory, 12:30 am).

THE OUTLIERS

Vancouver, B.C.-based acts dominate the weekend, with Boise representing on Saturday.

FRIDAY: There’s an air of secrecy surrounding Co-op, and the trio’s morose post-punk just adds to the mystery (The Big Dipper, 6:15 pm). A fellow writer described punk band Crazy Bugs’ female singer’s voice as “the piercing shrieks of a cat being murdered.” Catch them live if you dare (The Pin! main stage, 9 pm).

Volume isn’t always necessary to make a big impact, as easygoing indie-rock trio Cave Girl proves (The Pin! side stage, 9:45 pm). Marshall Poole may be from Boise, but the quartet has Southern rock in its soul (The Pin, 11:15 pm).

SATURDAY: If you dig punk-rock undertones muddled by layers of peppy synth and distorted vocals, you’ll dig S1ugs (The Observatory, 8:30 pm).

FAR AWAY

Acts from Boulder, San Francisco and Oakland make the long trip to Spokane.

FRIDAY: They’ve only been together for a yearand-a-half, but Boulder, Colorado’s A Shadow of Jaguar has mastered the Delta rock sound (The Pin! side stage, 10:30 pm).

SATURDAY: San Francisco’s Couches puts some new oomph into the tried-and-true mix of jangly guitar and distortion (Mootsy’s, 8:15 pm). Chaotic punk rock quartet Never Young brings fuzzy riffs and we’re-notgonna-take-it vocals all the way from Oakland (The Pin! main stage, 9 pm). n

You’re also playing Sasquatch! this year. Do you like doing festivals, rather than more intimate shows?

I like ’em both. Festivals come secondary, of course, because we’re not that big of a band and we’re scheduled in the daytime most of the time. It doesn’t have the dramatic effect, with the overall mood. It’s got its own idiosyncrasies: it’s summer, the weather is nice, it’s different and you just change gears. Most people would like to perform with any opportunity they can get.

How did you hear about opening for Radiohead?

We knew they had some interest in having us open up for them. ... We were hoping that we would get that opportunity. Actually, when I was living in Oakland with my daughter, we listened to OK Computer over and over. I immediately told my daughter when we heard the news and she was impressed. So yes, we’re excited.

Lese Majesty came out two years ago; do you have anything new up your sleeve?

We do a lot of improvisation, so it’s always new with every show. But I’m always nervous, like before a basketball game, when you get to the moment of truth, you have the skill and nervousness and you rely on what you’ve been practicing for.

Where does the music come from in you?

That within me is a talent and a passion. It’s an ethereal divine happening. It’s like being open to the vibrations; I don’t know where they come from. I’m not doing it so much as it’s happening with me.

Ishmael Butler says he’s not the biggest fan of snakes.

Float Like a Butterfly Q&A with Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces, Volume’s big headliner

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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hen Shabazz Palaces takes to the stage, there’s no plan. As MC Ishmael Butler explained from his Seattle home recently, about half of their sets are improvised. The jazz-influenced, experimental hip-hop duo headlines this year’s Volume, closing out the Overbluff Cellars/Terrain Stage on Saturday, and not even Butler knows exactly what that will look like. As a professional musician since the early ’90s, it would seem that Butler’s career has been somewhat improvised as well.

There was a time when the Seattle native had to get out of Washington. He fled to the East Coast for college and eventually went on to form the alternative hip-hop trio Digable Planets in Brooklyn, where he was known as Butterfly. After moving back home, Butler started Shabazz Palaces with fellow hip-hop artist Tendai Maraire in 2009, and they soon were signed to Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, becoming only the second hip-hop group on the label.

Butler has a busy summer ahead of him. Digable Planets heads out on a reunion tour, including a spot at

Sasquatch!, and it was recently announced that Shabazz Palaces would open for Radiohead at a set of Los Angeles shows. We caught up with Butler to find out what it’s like being him.

INLANDER: There’s so much going on for you with your two groups. How do you keep it all straight?

BUTLER: Just practicing a lot. It’s natural. I’m very familiar with the material and I always get excited by the opportunity. And that people want to come and listen to us, it’s an exciting reality. It’s easy to get motivated and want to participate. Right now, for Digable Planets, I rehearse with the band in Seattle and the other two [Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira and Craig “Doodlebug” Irving] fly in and we tighten it up.

How does it feel to be headlining an entire festival in Spokane?

Sounds good to me! (laughing) We never played music there.

Is there ever a moment where you think something may be too strange for people to get?

I don’t worry about it. I know it’s a possibility and a probability. There’s some mainstream music that’s weird as f--- to me, so there’s always going to be another side. I know it’s going to happen. I just realize that I do my own thing.

How old are you?

46 years, not sure how long in this body though. I have visions from all different kind of times that seem too intimate to be fantasies. I probably spend more time channeling that rather than the present reality.

What’s a normal day like for you?

You know, I spend a lot of time by myself. I read a lot; I make a lot of music. On guitar or drum machine or effects machines. I exercise. I daydream a lot. I don’t get bored. I try to avoid as much device time as possible.

I’m old, and we don’t trust these things. But I’m not anti-social media, even though you’re by yourself when you’re doing it. I’m aware it’s something I have to do.

What made you come back to Washington?

My mother, she got sick. I was away and young. I was caught up in the success and it took me far. I miss my mom, I missed Seattle. I had been gone a long time, I felt drawn and came back [in 2004]. It was a feeling and I did it.

What can we expect from the performance?

We each have a lot of equipment, a lot of sound-making modules, we use it all. We have no set list, we kind of just vibe off the crowd, off the atmosphere, and go from there. No, there aren’t any dancers with our set, not that we’ll be bringing anyway, but people can come up and try. We don’t block people’s expression. n Shabazz Palaces plays Volume on Sat, June 4, at 11 pm on the Terrain Stage • 304 W. Pacific • All-ages

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JAN FRANCISCO

One 17-year-old’s solo music is taking the Spokane rock scene by storm

BY JORDAN SATTERFIELD

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ike many of the world’s great artists, Norman Robbins is charmingly bad at talking about himself.

The 17-year-old Robbins is the sole member of Jan Francisco, a local music project that is pushing the sharp simplicity of rock ’n’ roll to its limits. Typically speaking, a Jan Fran show lineup consists solely of Robbins, his guitar and a kick drum under his right sneaker.

What Jan Francisco lacks in personnel is more than compensated for by a truly stunning combination of prodigal songwriting prowess, crunchy overdriven tones and biting social satire implying a man wise beyond his years.

Robbins, who also finds time to play in Spokane rock outfits Outercourse and Holy Cows (which he plays in with his parents, Mark and Kristen Robbins of the Camaros), is unsurSOUNDS LIKE: prisingly eloquent The pounding heart when chatting about of ’70s punk and rock musical gear, local ’n’ roll refusing to die. bands and the like.

But when attempting to explain himself, things get tricky. He’s not overthinking what he makes — he’s just making it.

“Movies,” Robbins says, are among his biggest influences. “One thing that got me really interested in music is film scores, and how they musically connect to the visuals.”

Coming from a performer with a refreshing lack of dramatic overtheatricality, this answer comes as a bit of shock. Yet it’s completely in line with how Robbins appears to approach music: as a storyteller.

“My lyrics are something that I really want to be a special part of my music,” says Robbins, who has been writing songs since he was 13. “I’d rather it be the lyrics that move somebody than my music.”

This certainly goes hand-in-hand with the atmosphere at a live Jan Francisco show. Robbins says he’d like to think of Jan Fran as something more like performance art.

Still, this isn’t a conceptual art piece. There’s no pretension, no self-indulgence.

“I’d like the performance atmosphere to be

less of a live show and more of a party,” Robbins explains.

Anytime he plays around town, which is often, the exceptionally friendly Robbins leaves the room, and Jan Francisco enters. With some variety of vintage guitar around his neck, he’ll stomp the kick drum at his feet with furious abandon, managing to keep steady time. The blistering tones bursting out of his simple guitar setup are hotter than hell. The angular chords cut deep, and his vocals spit salt into the wounds.

“I like to write songs from the perspectives of different characters,” says Robbins, “and it is sort of a way for me to use different points of view to talk about the stupid things that people do.”

Despite Jan Francisco being a take on a decidedly classic sound — one that would be at home on any bill with Iggy Pop or Richard Hell — Robbins’ musical influences are disarmingly contemporary. Among them, he references Animal Collective member Avey Tare and the recently re-formed LCD Soundsystem.

While those influences don’t speak much to his overall sound, they shed some light on not only his interest in blending musical styles, but his keen ear for sound. When and if Robbins gets around to recording a Jan Francisco record, rest assured it will sound stellar.

For now, Jan Francisco is partially special because of its limited availability. It’s lightning that may be difficult to catch in a bottle, as a large part of Jan Fran’s magic is improvised.

“I’ve got all of the parts written, but I usually decide how I want to put them together on the spot,” Robbins explains, adding that improvisation is one element of his performances that makes the concept of Jan Francisco becoming a full band close to impossible.

More important, Robbins gets a kick out of how much he can distill the ingredients of rock music down to its simple core. Any added instruments or elements would only serve to bog down the captivating purity of the one-man-band setup he has mastered. n Jan Francisco plays Volume Fri, June 3, at 6 pm on the Terrain Stage • 304 W. Pacific • All-ages

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June 12 SUNDAY - Kicho Solo Acoustic Classic Rock/Country and more!

June 17 & 18 - Ryan Larsen Band June 19 SUNDAY - PJ Destiny June 24 & 25 - Jam Shack Local favorite!

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July 1, 2, 3 - Still Kickin’ Firework Festivities on Sunday the 3rd July 8 & 9 - Hot Wired July 10 SUNDAY - Vibe Raiders July 15 & 16 - Stagecoach West Band 3rd Annual Juluau on Saturday the 16th July 17 SUNDAY - Riverboat Band Great summer dance music!

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FROM LEFT: Kevin Cashion, Chase Howard, Oblie (mascot), Beck Shepherd, Nathan Roe, Landon Myers, Zachary Croft and Tonya Ballman.

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Youth and talent combine to create a ska/soul band nearly devoid of limitations

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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ince March, five of the seven members of Ragtag Romantics have lived on the upper South Hill in a five-bedroom home they call the Ragtag Romansion. The band’s drummer finally moves in next month, but guitarist Zachary Croft studies physics at Washington State University, and subsequently misses out on a lot. Today, the Ragtag Romantics (minus Croft) lounge in their backyard, surrounded by a green lawn and a patio covered in chalk art — some drawings and words more appropriate than others.

This is a ska/soul band ranging in ages from 20 to 22, who are in no way controversial. They don’t party excessively. Here, the rent is cheap and no one judges the amount of cheese being consumed.

“Most of what we do is play video games,” says Tonya Ballman, the group’s singer/keyboardist. “It’s so nice to come home here. I’ve never had roommates that I feel so comfortable with.”

In actuality, they SOUNDS LIKE: needed a practice College jazz band space that wasn’t all meets lyrics about the way out in Deer becoming an adult Park, where most of meets a dance party them are originally you’ll never want to from. In their new stop. basement they can practice their energetic and jazzy tunes until 10 pm (when city noise ordinances kick in), and they rehearse about three times a week. They say it’s too bad they can’t play longer into the night, as they once did.

That’s when the writing flow comes.

On brass, there’s sax player Nathan Roe, trombonist Kevin Cashion and trumpeter/vocalist Beck Shepherd. Landon Myers kills it on electric bass while drumming falls to Chase Howard, who joined the band last year. The vocalists take care of the lyrics (often exploring the ways that adult freedom changes things), but the music is written collectively. That works with a group so well acquainted with one another.

“I got into this to get a girlfriend,” Shepherd

admits, as the group laughs around him. “But it hasn’t happened yet. I should probably quit right now.”

Ragtag Romantics originally came out of high school jazz band, when the two Deer Parkarea high school programs came together to jam.

They were called the Bonus Tracks at one point, but when most of them went off to Eastern Washington University, the band idea stalled.

Two years ago, after watching The Blues Brothers on repeat, they formed Ragtag Romantics.

The band’s mascot even looks a little like Dan Aykroyd. Not only is Oblie — a creepy woodcarving found in Roe’s dad’s garage, which now sports sunglasses and a suit — on the cover of their 2015 EP From the Very Start, but he’s at every show. One time, they even forgot him before a show, and had to turn around.

“It’s not the same without him,” Roe says.

In the past few months, there’s been a shift.

It’s more than just Oblie and their parents coming out and dancing at shows. Now promoters and venues are contacting them for gigs, and they’re starting to get recognized in the local music scene. They won EWU’s Battle of the Bands earlier this year and they keep furiously writing new material. That they were named an Inlander Band to Watch this year is the cherry on top.

“It’s something you’d call your parents about,” says Howard.

They’re planning a tour this fall and intend to record a full-length album. They say the goal is to play music full-time. For now, they want to take their shows to another level. Even from the recent live EP recording, it’s apparent how much this group has improved. Brass lines are tighter, the vocals are more surefooted and the music is an absolute riot.

“People deal with a lot of stress in their lives,” Ballman says. “I want people to get into the moment with our band and forget about the other things for a while.” n Ragtag Romantics play Volume Fri, June 3, at 6:45 pm at nYne • 232 W. Sprague • 21+

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FROM LEFT: Matt Slater and Himes Alexander KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO

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THE SMOKES Rugged and raw garage rock is the rule with this two-man band

BY DAN NAILEN

W

e live in an era when recording studio trickery can make any screechy warbler “sing” like an angel, fans willingly pay to watch performers lip-sync at shows and a laptop of preprogrammed sounds often fills in a band’s music.

The Smokes are not one of those groups.

The garage-rock duo revels in authentic, gritty rock ’n’ roll, and celebrates the imperfections of the music they play and that which inspires them — everything from stomping electric blues and propulsive punk to “hopeful garage-soul,” gospel and hip-hop.

You can hear bits and pieces of all those genres and more in the songs created by guitarist Himes Alexander and drummer Matt Slater, cousins and Spokane natives who started SOUNDS LIKE: playing together less A runaway train futhan two years ago. eled by mean guitar And even though riffs and propulsive their tastes and sonic beats, barely staying approach touch on on the rails as it barmyriad genres, the rels through hairpin Smokes’ music — turns. captured on their full-length debut Slave released last fall, and the Black EP that came before — remains deeply rooted in their home state.

“I grew up in the Northwest, and there’s an appeal to grunge music, to sludgier, more introspective music,” says Alexander, 29. “I just like the sludge.”

Slater, 31, praises Tacoma garage-rock pioneers the Sonics for creating a sound so good back in the ’60s that bands and producers are still trying to equal it more than a half-century later.

“You listen to a Sonics record, the drums sound like a freight train hitting you in the face,” Slater says. “The energy is so palpable there, because shit wasn’t perfect. The recording was a little dirty, it was a little bit nasty. It was good.

You can feel it.”

You can feel it at the Smokes’ live shows as well, a palpable energy as the band rips through original songs and well-chosen covers — a recent gig included garage-rock classics by Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs and the Animals.

While both praise the supportive Spokane scene, they’re dedicated to touring as soon as they can, both to spread the Smokes’ music to a broader audience and to escape some of the

racism they’ve grown up with in the Inland Northwest. In just the couple of years playing as the Smokes, they’ve been told to show up to one North Idaho club later than typical, “after the regulars have gone home,” and been pulled over in rural Eastern Washington after a Moscow gig for probably, as Slater puts it, looking “like we’d been in the sun too long.”

“Part of living in the Northwest is that people move here because there aren’t people who aren’t white,” Slater says. Alexander concurs, adding “We grew up in this shit.”

The Smokes have a sound that could take them as far as they want to go. They trade lead vocals or sing together. Loquacious drummer Slater delivers most of the between-song banter while Alexander showcases a laid-back stage presence and remarkably pliable singing range.

He studied vocal performance in college, and his training goes back a little further.

“I’d been in bands before, singing a little bit,” Alexander says, “and then I joined a musical when I was in high school, and I ended up wanting to study music later in life.”

“You were in a musical?” Slater asks, genuinely surprised.

“Anything Goes,” Alexander says.

Slater’s passion for the drums started early, too, well before high school. He got a drum set for his birthday in seventh grade — the same one he plays today.

The Smokes originally started as Slater and another singer/guitarist, with Alexander joining on bass to make the band a three-piece. The former singer left town and the cousins continued, writing new songs.

“We were playing some of the old stuff, but once we started writing together, it had a very distinct flavor and taste to it,” Slater says.

The songs arrive out of bimonthly practice sessions they record and listen back to in search of the best beats and riffs to develop further.

Asked if the familial bond might have something to do with how easily songs come together, both men demur.

“I think we’re always trying to get at the best sound that we both like,” Alexander says. “It’s like, intense compromise.” n

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Three members of Age of Nefilim: Josh "J" Rodriguez, Traci Barringer and Matt Lefebvre.

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AGE OF NEFILIM

Meet the region’s most creatively ambitious black metal act

BY MIKE BOOKEY

I

t took nearly a dozen years for Age of Nefilim to make a proper album. Sure, they’d recorded here and there, but it never quite captured what the band’s composer and lead guitarist Matt Lefebvre was going for.

But last November the band finally released Cataclysm in the Land of the Watchers, a razor-sharp production that has impressed the band’s black metal colleagues while also revealing an accessible side that is likely to cross over to new fans. It was a serious effort, Lefebvre says, with engineer Anthony Stalker weaving together as many as 100 tracks on certain songs.

“We’ve had a few other recordings, but this is the first that I can say I’m truly happy with,” says Lefebvre of the album, which ranges from spooky soundscapes to surging, sludgy SOUNDS LIKE: metal cuts featuring Beethoven took growling vocals. an interest in black All the while, the metal. symphonic element of the band shines through, mostly through Traci Barringer’s complex keyboard parts. Last November, Age of Nefilim took their symphonic interests a step further when they paired with the Spokane Falls Community College symphony and choir for a show and live recording. Despite his guitar virtuosity, Lefebvre had never taken a music class in his life, so the experience was a crash course at times.

“I had only a few months to learn everything I could about arranging, the different ranges of all the instruments, notation, and so much more,” he says.

The result was one of the most unexpected and ambitious projects to come out of the local music scene in recent years. For Lefebvre, it was

a chance for Spokane’s musical community to see the possibilities available to them.

“It was such a rewarding experience, musically. It was nice to be considered part of the musical collective elite, even for a brief period, with some of the players, where we’d otherwise be ignored because we wore metal shirts,” says bassist Kevin George.

While it was a massive undertaking, Lefebvre and company think they could do something like this again. Maybe even take it a step further.

“I would love to do something on an even grander scale, incorporating some sort of visual performance as well,” says Lefebvre.

Over the past year the band has changed its lineup, adding George and drummer Devon Jensen. Lefebvre sees the band’s sound evolving along with the new lineup. Influenced heavily by video game soundtracks, Lefebvre is also looking at other unexpected influences to process through a black metal spectrum.

“Lately I’ve been very interested in trying to take musical influence from other time eras and cultures and make them metal,” he says.

With the lineup changes, a solid full-length record that captures the band’s innovative nature and the symphony collaboration in the books, Age of Nefilim finds itself in a good spot, energized for its next decade (or more) of pushing the boundaries of heavy metal.

“What keeps me wanting to be a part of this musical journey is not only that I really enjoy the music itself, but that it’s also a lot of fun sharing many similar ideas and aspirations with the guys,” Barringer says. n Age of Nefilim plays Volume Sat, June 4, at 7:30 pm at the Observatory • 15 S. Howard • 21+

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4 OVERBLUFF CELLARS/TERRAIN (GLOBAL STAGE) 304 W Pacific Ave; all-ages 5:00 pm • Twin Towers 6:00 pm • Jan Francisco 7:00 pm • Jus Wright 8:00 pm • Breadbox 8:50 pm • Jah & Co. 10:00 pm • Flying Spiders

827 W 1st Ave; all-ages until 9 pm 2:00 pm • 20 Sided Records Showcase: The Hague, Wild Pacific, Hoop, Couches 6:30 pm • The Holy Broke 7:30 pm • Wind Hotel 8:30 pm • Prairie War 10:00 pm • DJ Ca$e

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228 W Sprague Ave; all-ages 6:00 pm • Carli Osika 7:00 pm • Liz Rognes 8:00 pm • Pérenne 9:00 pm • Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings 10:10 pm • Julia Keefe

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24 W Main Ave; all-ages 10:00am • Som’s Soul Brunch with Benny Blanco and Breezy Brown

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IN-PERSON: Visit Inlander HQ (1227 W. Summit Parkway), M-F, 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

ONLINE: Visit Volume.inlander.com; you will pick up your wristband at the Inlander HQ (1227 W. Summit Parkway) or at the festival.

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You have two choices to pick up your wristband: — EARLY PICK-UP: On Wednesday and Thursday, June 1-2, pick up your wristband at Inlander HQ (1227 W. Summit Parkway), 8:30 am-5 pm.

— PICK-UP AT THE FESTIVAL: At 5 pm-10 pm on Friday, June 3, pick up your ticket at the booth at 304 W Pacific Ave (Overbluff Cellars/ Terrain). On Saturday, ticket pick-up is open 5-8 pm. Don’t miss those pick-up times!

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HOW MUCH?

In advance, two-day wristbands are $20. If you wait until Friday, June 3, the price for the pass is $30 — if they don’t sell out before then.

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228 W Sprague Ave; all-ages 6:15 pm • The Dancing Plague of 1518 7:15 pm • BITWVLF 8:15 pm • Crystalline 9:15 pm • youryoungbody

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15 S Howard St 4:00 pm • Blackhouse Records Showcase: Willow, The Colourflies, Scatterbox 7:30 pm • Age of Nefilim 8:30 pm • S1ugs 9:30 pm • Validation 10:30 pm • Nail Polish 11:30 pm • Loomer 12:30am • Pleather

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Well, use your own two feet. Or, better yet, display your wristband and hop a free ride with the Spokane Party Bus (see the route on the map).

Stop by the Sprint tent at ticket pickup location (304 W Pacific) and use their charging station.

WHAT’S UP WITH THE SIDEWALK GAMES?

Global Credit Union, our presenting sponsor, is hosting game stations (think Connect Four, Snakes and Ladders, Chess and Checkers) at the ticket pickup (304 W Pacific Ave) and at the corner of Washington and Sprague.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Ticket proceeds go to support the event, pay artists and support a local nonprofit. (This year’s charity is Spokane Humane Society.) Orlison, the official beer of Volume, is also pitching in to support the Humane Society, donating 50 cents of every pint sold at its downtown tap room (1017 W First Ave) June 2-4.

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827 W. First: all-ages until 9 pm GUILT GIFT Spokane | 6:15 pm If guitar-driven indie rock of the lo-fi persuasion is your bag, consider this a gift worth opening. The trio of singer/ guitarist Matt Lakin, bass player Ben Jennings and drummer Claire Walker released a tasty, live two-song recording this spring, including “Misunderstandings” and “Ethics,” that serves as a fine sample of the band’s rambling sonic approach, a perfect complement to Lakin’s conversational lyrical approach.

EMPTY EYES Spokane | 7:15 pm This is a relatively new Spokane band, having played just a few shows before Volume, and includes members from local punk acts Hard Time and Bloody Gloves. While they’ve yet to hit the recording studio, their live shows deliver feedback-drenched, melodic indierock excellence.

XURS Seattle | 8:15 pm Xurs is determined to keep listeners off-kilter. With some of Seattle’s most angular punk guitar playing and point-

ed talk-sung diatribes, the tunes from the band’s recent self-titled debut album make for a good body-slamming soundtrack.

DJ CA$E Spokane | 10 pm With nearly 20 years behind the onesand-twos, DJ Ca$e knows what gets bodies out on the floor. You may have cut a rug or two yourself to one of his choice picks. Working exclusively with vinyl and bringing to the table everything from classic disco to Chicago house and Detroit techno, he’s guaranteed to have the room moving.

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228 W. Sprague: all shows are all-ages CARLI OSIKA Spokane | 6 pm Carli Osika is a teenage singer-songwriter and guitarist with a penchant for pop-country and a web camera.

She’s working on an EP, but the real musical action is on her YouTube channel, where she covers big-name artists like Lady Antebellum, Cam and Johnny Cash, and she’s racked up 66,000 views. It’s easy to see why online viewers like her videos: Osika can sing and play, and she’s charming.

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LIZ ROGNES Spokane | 7 pm David Berman of the Silver Jews once said, “All my favorite singers couldn’t sing.” This is not the case with Liz Rognes, a Spokane-based, Midwestrooted singer-songwriter who is also a classically trained soprano. Over the past half-dozen years, Rognes has released a couple of albums worth of warm, jazz-flecked indie-folk songs.

They’re deeply rooted in the trials and triumphs of life, and they provide a solid foundation for her incredible voice.

PÉRENNE Spokane | 8 pm What started as a solo project of sorts for singer-songwriter Kim Westcott has since grown into a quartet (Westcott, Morgan Rose Lynch, Caroline Schibel and Ashley Lewan), or, in the the folk quartet’s own words, “Westcott and a rotating band of hooligans.”

Check out the wistful “Come Find Me,” available on Bandcamp.

TEKLA WATERFIELD AND THE SWEET NOTHINGS Seattle | 9 pm It shouldn’t surprise you that singersongwriter Tekla Waterfield is part of a book club dedicated to creating art inspired by literature. Take a listen to this indie-Americana musician’s lyrics

and it’s all about the story. Sure, those stories are mostly about love, but like great literature, everything she does is honest. Jazz lines breeze through this music, as does bluegrass-tinged fiddles. But the sound is carried by Waterfield’s unaffected vocals.

JULIA KEEFE Spokane | 10 pm The chameleon-like Julia Keefe — who recently moved back to Spokane from California — effortlessly adapts her jazzy voice to whatever project she’s working on. Earlier this year she made her Spokane Civic Theatre debut as Meg March in Little Women: The Musical. More recently, she appeared in an Oscar-themed burlesque show. She’s also an adjunct faculty member at Gonzaga University, where she teaches jazz.

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171 S. Washington: all show are all-ages CO-OP Spokane | 6:15 pm Co-Op is great at being mysterious.

Good luck Googling them, and when you finally do find their Bandcamp page, it’s a shadowland of unidentifiable objects, scrawled letters and dour post-punk. They’ve only released three

songs, all in April. But those songs are good. They’re a slow-moving collision of prickly guitar parts, muffled rhythms and murmured vocals that sound like they were recorded in a cave. You’ll want to know more.

FUN LADIES Spokane | 7:15 pm A veritable Spokane supergroup, this raucous foursome excels at the kind of frantic, beer-stained garage punk that pairs so well with our fair city. Featuring members of a number of notable local bands, both past and present, Fun Ladies know how to bring the party.

Expect dancing, sweating and a whole bunch of yelling at this show.

THE HAGUE Portland | 8:15 pm Lots of bands like to tout their disregard for genre boundaries. Few can back it up musically. The Hague is one of them. The Portland-based combo, founded in 2009, possesses a sound that marries serpentine math-rock, sparkling synths and a subtle, dusky roots-pop vibe that turns out sounding unlike just about anything else.

The Hague’s 2014 album Samsara feels sturdy and interesting.

PINE LEAGUE Spokane | 9:15 pm At only two years old, rock quartet Pine League is already a vet of the local music scene. The band, fronted

by Tyler Aker and featuring former members of The Lion Oh My, has made a name for itself as a reliably solid live act, having performed at everything from Pig Out in the Park and the 50 Hour Slam to Elkfest and, this year for the third time, Volume.

VON THE BAPTIST Spokane | 10:15 pm Von the Baptist creates swirling, psychedelic blues-rock that sounds like it was made for a lonely astronaut stuck in space. Some songs are tearin-your-beer tales of heartache that build up and explode, while others blast you right into the ether from the get-go, with no hope of returning to Earth.

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406 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ ITCHY KITTY Spokane | 7:15 pm Raucous self-described “pussy punks,” Itchy Kitty have been scratching their claws around Spokane for several years, leaving a trail of growing fans, due in large part to the visceral screams of guitarist Ami Elston and bassist Naomi Eisenbrey. Meow!

Itchy Kitty are the cat’s pajamas.

MOMMY LONG LEGS Seattle | 8:15 pm Coming up in Seattle’s feminist punk scene is Mommy Long Legs, a garage-pop quartet listing its genre as “barf-core / fart-core” on Facebook.

Don’t be fooled, however: These four women know how to write and deliver sharp, hyper-hooky songs with a smile. For proof, check out the band’s snappy new Assholes EP. DÉFORMER Spokane | 9:15 pm Déformer is a screamo band. Not the kind you’d hear blaring out of Hot Topic’s speakers in malls across America, but the kind you’d find in the singles section of a used record store, nestled next to bands like Orchid, Saetia, and Pg.99. This Spokane duo delivers a potent jolt of emotional aggression.

YOU DON’T KNOW ME Spokane | 10:15 pm This trio of locals serves up heaping portions of good old-fashioned thrash punk. Loud, fast, and angry, it’ll take you straight to a sweaty California basement, circa 1986. Formed in 2014, they have one EP under their belts and have staked a claim as one of Spokane’s most formidable heavy bands.

SUMERIANS Spokane | 11:15 pm If you’re looking for pop-punk, forget

it. But if you love your tunes aggressive, confrontational and downright scary, the four-piece Sumerians deliver with songs full of raw power like those found on their 2015 demo. You can dance to it, but it will be in a pit and you might catch a hard elbow or two during “Church of the Ponzi Scheme” or “Shooting Gallery.”

COLD BLOODED Spokane | 12:15 am When it comes to heavy sounds in the Inland Northwest, there’s pretty much none more metal than Cold Blooded. The quartet hits Volume with a new live EP of ear-shattering excellence in tow, This Place is Death, recently released on Blackhouse Records. If you like your guitars screaming, your growly vocals the same, and your tunes delivered with a minimal amount of BS, this is your band.

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232 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ RAGTAG ROMANTICS Spokane | 6:45 pm Ragtag Romantics throws huge parties all over town disguised as shows.

Their set includes mostly big, wide originals, but look out for their cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” — it’ll give you chills. This is soul/R&B/ska music with a killer brass section practically engineered to get into your bones and make you dance. Ragtag Romantics are also recent winners of Eastern Washington University’s Battle of the Bands. This is a 2016 Inlander Band to Watch.

NAT PARK AND THE TUNNELS OF LOVE Spokane | 7:45 pm The sound might be a rocked-up version of ’50s-era rock ’n’ roll and Motown — and the occasional Little Richard cover — but bands don’t come much more fresh than Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love, who will play their first-ever Volume show.

That said, you know some of these guys from other projects like Mirror Mirror, S1ugs and dearly departed Spokane surf-rockers BBBBandits.

SEBASTIAN AND THE DEEP BLUE Seattle | 8:45 pm There’s an overwhelming amount of sound when Sebastian and the Deep Blue hit the stage. The group’s core stays grounded in indie-rock songwriting, with a violinist adding elements of chamber pop. But then come the heavy horns. The threepiece brass section throws an interesting wrench into the mix without venturing into ska territory, giving the group a sound unto itself.

DUKE EVERS Seattle | 9:45 pm For starters, there’s no one in Duke Evers named Duke or Evers (it’s the

name of Apollo Creed’s trainer in the Rocky movies). Led by Spokane native Joshua Starkel’s husky hounddog vocals, the Seattle trio plays music that easily shifts from tender to beer-driven hot rock, with just an occasional dusting of modern romanticized folk-rock.

KRIS ORLOWSKI Seattle | 10:45 pm This isn’t Kris Orlowski’s first trip to Spokane. The indie folk-pop artist and his band have come through town multiple times, finding favor with those who are into feel-good tunes. With a brand-new album out, Orlowski’s music continues to grow, moving into more contemplative subject matter and even a little bit heavier instrumentation.

DJ JG Spokane | 11:45 pm Anyone who’s hit up nYne on a crackin’ Friday or Saturday night has probably experienced DJ JG’s work.

Known as Joel Gorman by day, DJ JG doesn’t just spin Top 40 hits; he also makes music that’s trippy, and perfect to listen to while sipping on your gin and tonic.

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DARK WHITE LIGHT Spokane | 6:30 pm A riff-spewing power trio of the heaviest order, Dark White Light builds dense, churning soundscapes that run the gamut of speed, volume and intensity. Building off the triedand-true combination of guitar/ bass/drums, they’ve cemented an intricate, interwoven style in which each instrument plays a vital role, as evidenced on their recently released debut album.

BULLETS OR BALLOONS Spokane/Olympia | 7:30 pm Bullets or Balloons fit snugly in the canon of weirdo outsider punk that’s always existed in the Pacific Northwest underground. Comprised of members of Cyrus Fell Down and MeteoritesAttack!, the trio explosively delivers songs that combine elements of hardcore, math rock and even funk all at once, and usually all shoved into two minutes or less.

SIAMESE SUICIDE Spokane | 8:30 pm Siamese Suicide is one of those bands that can pack so much raucous energy into a minute-and-a-halflong song, audiences feel as if they’ve been dancing and/or moshing for much longer once it’s over. Case in point: “ThE oNe,” a tune on the punk trio’s Bandcamp page. It’s an oldie (well, from April of last year), but a goodie. ...continued on page 18

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Expert Advice

• SO YOU WANNA DANCE? FRIDAY 6:45 pm, nYne: Ragtag Romantics 7:15 pm and midnight, Red Room Lounge: wax808 7:45 pm, nYne: Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love 8:45 pm, nYne: Sebastian and the Deep Blue 11:30 pm, The Observatory: VATS SATURDAY 6 pm, The Pin! main stage: Super Sparkle 6:15 pm, The Bartlett: The Dancing Plague of 1518 8:30 pm, Mootsy’s: Couches 8:30 pm, The Observatory: S1ugs 9:30 pm, nYne: Summer in Siberia 10:30 pm, nYne: The Hoot Hoots

• SO YOU’RE NOT QUITE 21?

FRIDAY 7 pm, The Bartlett: Liz Rognes 7:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Fun Ladies 7:30 pm, The Pin!: Wayward West 8:15 pm, Baby Bar: Xurs 9:45 pm, The Pin! side stage: Cave Girl

SATURDAY 7 pm, Terrain Stage: Cary Hays 7:30 pm, Baby Bar: Wind Hotel 8:15 pm, The Big Dipper: The Bight 8:15 pm, The Bartlett: Crystalline 8:30 pm, Baby Bar: Prairie War 10 pm, Terrain Stage: Brothers from Another

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FRIDAY, JUNE 3 [THE OBSERVATORY, continued]

• SO YOU HAVE KIDS, A MORTGAGE AND WANT TO LET LOOSE? FRIDAY 7:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Fun Ladies 7:30 pm, The Observatory: Bullets or Balloons 7:30 pm, The Pin! main stage: Wayward West 7:45 pm, nYne: Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love 9:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Pine League 9:45 pm, nYne: Duke Evers 10:45 pm, nYne: Kris Orlowski 11:30 pm, The Observatory: VATS SATURDAY 6 pm, The Pin! main stage: Super Sparkle 7:30 pm, nYne: Friends of Mine 7:30 pm, Baby Bar: Wind Hotel 8:15 pm, The Big Dipper: The Bight 8:30 pm, Baby Bar: Prairie War 9:30 pm, nYne: Summer in Siberia

• SO YOU’RE INTO INDIEFOLK/AMERICANA MUSIC? FRIDAY 7 pm, The Bartlett: Liz Rognes 8 pm, The Bartlett: Pérenne 9:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Folkinception 10:45 pm, nYne: Kris Orlowski 11:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Marshall McLean Band SATURDAY 7:30 pm, Baby Bar: Wind Hotel 8:15 pm, The Big Dipper: The Bight 8:30 pm, Baby Bar: Prairie War

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PERU RESH Spokane | 9:30 pm Punk lovers, prepare to pogo. A brand-spanking-new punk trio, Peru Rush spent the spring knocking out a six-song demo full of relentlessly catchy songs, from the tight twominute burst of “Time for Endings” to the blazing “Phone Home,” ripping by in less than a minute. Shout-along choruses, complex rhythms and, yes, short, aggressive songs are the rule here.

PHLEGM FATALE Spokane | 10:30 pm Don’t mistake the two-piece setup to mean this duo’s sound is lacking.

Bassist/vocalist Kendra McKay and drummer Haili Kiehn create a mighty garage-rock ruckus, complete with a dose of metal and a dash of prog rock, underneath McKay’s otherworldly shouted wails. They were a 2015 Inlander Band to Watch just a year after getting together and laying waste to punk shows large and small. If you’re looking for delicate, move along.

VATS Seattle | 11:30 pm Weird is good, and VATS are weird.

Not, like, way-out-there weird, but weird enough to stand out from the sizable pack of rock bands oozing out of Seattle right now. Imagine a cassette compilation of surf-rock, postpunk, new wave and ’60s soul bands left to melt on the dashboard during

summer. Now figure out a way to play that goopy tape, and what you’ll hear is something like what VATS does.

DONORMAAL Seattle | 12:30 am “Morbid emotional prayer” is how Christianne Karefa-Johnson describes her singing/speaking/rapping for her hip-hop act DoNormaal (a take on a Dutch phrase meaning “stop acting weird”). And indeed, her music often fluctuates between spoken word poetry and atonal chanting.

Her subject matter is all about staying strong, never fearing death and the beauty she finds in this world.

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412 W. Sprague: all shows are all-ages WAYWARD WEST Coeur d’Alene | 7:30 pm This North Idaho power trio brings it loud and powerful, delivering the kind of monster riffage that would serve as the perfect soundtrack for dinosaurs stomping their way across a movie screen. Think of the bluesbased hard rockers of yesteryear, modernized and improved upon.

Their new Generation Blues EP showcases an up-and-coming band to keep an eye on.

CRAZY BUGS Vancouver, B.C. | 9 pm Your parents would probably hate Crazy Bugs. The band’s female vocals

can only be described as the piercing shrieks of a cat being murdered.

Emerging from far chiller Vancouver punk acts Weed and Other Jesus, it’s nails-on-the-chalkboard discomfort for the sake of riotous noise. The band has almost no internet presence, so the only way to experience Crazy Bugs is live. If you dare.

A SHADOW OF JAGUAR Boulder, Colorado | 10:30 pm This two-piece has only been around for about a year, but they’ve already toured all over the country, sharing their inspired Delta rock sound. While they do have a song about bath salts, which they claim to have never tried, their music is all about honesty and frustration and getting shit-faced.

BLACKWATER PROPHET Spokane | Midnight If you haven’t caught a Blackwater Prophet show, just know that this year’s Volume performance is their last for a while. Yes, the 2014 Inlander Band to Watch is going on hiatus after this show, but they say they’re not giving up on music. Just three years ago, the psych-rocking threepiece started to take their band seriously, amping up their grungy skuzzy sound, playing as many gigs as possible and eventually recording two albums. We’ll certainly miss them in their absence.

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THE COLOURFLIES Post Falls | 8:15 pm Over the past year, the Colourflies signed a record deal with Coeur d’Alene’s Blackhouse Records, released an album (Been There, Seen It, Lived It, Licensed It), saw single “Jurassic Park!” played on radio stations in eight countries and entered the studio yet again to record three new songs. Whew! If anyone deserves a vacation, it’s these fuzzedout rockers.

CAVE GIRL Vancouver, B.C. | 9:45 pm Compared to much of Volume’s rock

MARSHALL POOLE Boise | 11:15 pm Marshall Poole isn’t a person; it’s a four-piece rock ’n’ roll outfit that originated in the Boise suburbs at a New Year’s party in 2011. While the band is most certainly from Idaho, much of the music of their late2015 release Totems is full of grizzly, psychedelic Southern rock licks. It’s music that speaks to your soul while also slapping you in the face.

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521 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ WAX808 Spokane | 7:15 pm and midnight A longtime Spokane hip-hop DJ with a weekly residence at the Red Room Lounge, wax808 can be found backing up local MCs and also performing his own electronic compositions, which feature a prominent reggae and hip-hop bent. Doing shows for more than a decade, this guy knows how to pack the floor. ...continued on next page

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AMPERSAND Spokane | 6:45 pm Ask a band to name some of their influences and they’ll often change the subject, wary of being pigeonholed or labeled a soundalike. Not Ampersand. Listed on the Spokane group’s Facebook page are dozens of supposed influences, though one wonders if names like Wynonna Judd, Snoop Dogg and Queensrÿche are there in jest. That’s because Ampersand plays meandering, melodic indie rock, à la avowed favorites like Built to Spill.

lineup, Cave Girl feels like a cool, refreshing summer breeze. The Canadian band pushes out laid-back, ’90s-style indie-rock riffs and Claire Newton’s soft-spoken-but-notquite-twee vocals. Recommended for those who don’t always need the knob turned up to 11.

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Expert Advice • SO YOU LIKE BANDS THAT MELT YOUR FACE OFF? FRIDAY 6:30 pm, The Observatory: Dark White Light 8:15 pm, Baby Bar: Xurs 8:15 pm, Mootsy’s: The Hague 8:30 pm, The Observatory: Siamese Suicide 9:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Déformer 10:15 pm, Mootsy’s: You Don’t Know Me 11:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Sumerians SATURDAY 7:30 pm, The Observatory: Age of Nefilim 9 pm, The Pin! main stage: Never Young 9:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Grenades 9:30 pm, The Observatory: Validation 10:15 pm, Mootsy’s: X Suns 10:30 pm, The Observatory: Nail Polish

• SO YOU WANT SOME HIPHOP/DJS IN YOUR LIFE? FRIDAY 5 pm, Terrain Stage (also 6 pm Saturday): Twin Towers 8:50 pm, Terrain Stage: Jah & Co. 10 pm, Terrain Stage: Flying Spiders 10 pm, Baby Bar: DJ Ca$e 11:45 pm, nYne: DJ JG 12:30 am, The Observatory: DoNormaal SATURDAY 10 am, Boots: Som’s Soul Brunch 6:15 pm, The Bartlett: The Dancing Plague of 1518 7 pm, Terrain Stage: Cary Hays 7:15 pm, The Bartlett: BITWVLF 8 pm, Terrain Stage: The Bad Tenants 9 pm, Terrain Stage: Lou Era 9:30 pm, nYne: Summer in Siberia 10 pm, Terrain Stage: Brothers From Another 11 pm, Terrain Stage: Shabazz Palaces

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FRIDAY, JUNE 3 [RED ROOM LOUNGE, continued] WATER MONSTER Spokane | 8:15 pm A 2015 Inlander Band to Watch, Water Monster creates grooves for days in the service of Max Harnishfeger’s uncanny vocal range. With musical partner Scott Ingersoll adding vital texture, Harnishfeger’s compositions veer from luscious electro-pop like “Slow Sea” (check out the new video for that one on YouTube) to more beat-driven tunes like “New Year.”

FOLKINCEPTION Spokane | 9:15 pm For five years, Folkinception has been one of Spokane’s most impressive musical voices. The band’s Kickstarter-funded 2014 album Tower Mountain skillfully walks a tricky line between well-crafted and well-performed Americana music and the kind of ragged, “everybody now!” soulful folk-rock that people dig these days. Tight tunes that hang together while also oozing authenticity are harder to make than it sounds.

PUFF PUFF BEER Portland/Oakland | 10:15 pm In a shocking turn of events — OK, not so shocking — Puff Puff Beer has a lot of songs about smoking and drinking. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Grab a drink

and watch the West Coast band blur genre lines between rock, funk and hip-hop in a way that would make people who still own Sublime shirts happy.

MARSHALL McLEAN BAND Spokane | 11:15 pm With the Marshall McLean Band, Spokane is privy to “Inland Northwest Americana” — a mix of traditional instrumentation with a strong alt-country and folk influence that seemingly matches perfectly with the peaks and valleys of our region.

A former Inlander Band to Watch and Inlander Best Of poll winners the past two years, the three-piece (sometimes four-piece) is hitting their stride.

OVEBLUFF / TERRAIN STAGE 304 W. Pacific Ave: all shows are all-ages

TWIN TOWERS Spokane | 5 pm This enterprising local DJ duo has been packing dance floors in Spokane for the past couple of years.

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.

JAN FRANCISCO Spokane | 6 pm The nom de guerre for singer/songwriter Norman Robbins, Jan Francisco deals in tasty lo-fi, and honed his chops with nonstop gigging at all-ages venues in his hometown (he is just 17, after all). Whether it’s the acoustic-tinged pop of songs like “Drama Committee” or feedbacklaced rockers like “Tend To Me,” a couple of new recordings that saw the light of day in the past six months or so, Jan Francisco is truly a treat for your earholes. Jan Francisco is a 2016 Inlander Band to Watch.

JUS WRIGHT Spokane | 7 pm John “Jus” Wright moves back and forth between Spokane and Hawaii, and his breezy reggae music greatly reflects that. Sure, the traditional island rhythms are here, but Wright’s sound works in a bit of mainland rock as well. His recent Eternal Fire EP works in the usual reggae topics — peace, love, etc. Wright often collaborates with River City Roots.

BREADBOX Spokane | 8 pm Singer-songwriter, guitarist

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multi-instrumentalist Lucas Brown has performed locally under a number of guises, most notably as the driving force behind Bodhi Drip. A fixture of the Spokane jam-band scene, Brown continues to build on his impressive catalog of solo songs, which touch on blues, funk and bluegrass traditions while maintaining his own distinctive style.

JAH & CO. Spokane | 8:50 pm An eclectic group of like-minded musicians with a myriad of influences, Jah & Co. draw from hip-hop, funk, and rock with the aim of creating a music all their own. With each member getting a chance to shine in his or her own way, this is truly a collective effort. Expect their first album in the near future.

FLYING SPIDERS Spokane | 10 pm Spokane’s premiere hip-hop orchestra continues to do their late frontman Isamu “Som” Jordan proud by always bringing the party to Spokane. With a smooth sense of groove and musicianship that keeps things on point even through lineup changes, the good vibes should be flowing as the collective plays songs from its most recent album The Pillaging Effigy.

Never Young

Itchy Kitty

SATURDAY, JUNE 4 BABY BAR

827 W. First: all-ages until 9 pm 20 SIDED RECORDS SHOWCASE 2 pm Kicking off the Saturday afternoon music right is the 20 Sided Records Showcase, which features four rockin’ bands celebrating the San Francisco-based record label. Each getting 30 minutes of stage time are The Hague (Portland), Wild Pacific (Spokane), Hoop (Seattle) and Couches (San Francisco). Only Wild Pacific is not playing another set during the festival.

THE HOLY BROKE Spokane | 6:30 pm Kent Ueland, formerly of local favorites Terrible Buttons, has been exploring country music and Americana as the Holy Broke for a couple of years now, establishing himself as one of the Northwest’s most promising songwriters. With a new album in the works, Ueland looks to build on an already impressive catalog of songs in the classic country traditions of love, loss and longing.

WIND HOTEL Spokane | 7:30 pm This local act doesn’t have a bass player. Instead, Austin Ulmer’s organ serves as the rock for indie act Wind Hotel, which started late last year. The instrument also works as the filler and flair for the often-ambient garage rock four-piece, which includes two guitars, wild drums and David Hensrud’s soul-soaked baritone.

PRAIRIE WAR Spokane | 8:30 pm Prairie War is a trio made up of Fawn Dasovich, Bartlett co-owner Karli Ingersoll and Caroline Fowler, and seeing them live is almost as tricky as snapping a picture of Bigfoot. The elusive group formed in 2013 but have only played a handful of shows since — most recently the Bartlett’s Northwest of Nashville showcase in February. Based on that show’s reception, Spokane is ready for more of the trio’s acoustic country and folk blend.

DJ CA$E Spokane | 10 pm With nearly 20 years behind the ones-and-twos, DJ Ca$e knows

what gets bodies out on the floor.

You may have cut a rug or two yourself to one of his choice picks.

Working exclusively with vinyl and bringing to the table everything from classic disco to Chicago House and Detroit Techno, he’s guaranteed to have the room moving.

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THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518 Spokane | 6:15 pm And the award for best name goes to… yes, the Dancing Plague of 1518 is long, but who doesn’t like a band moniker that pulls from an actual historical event? Here, the electronic might of Conor Knowles, from the local duo Sea Giant, gets the solo treatment. He recently released two new singles and continues to deepen his arsenal of electro-pop gimmicks. ...continued on next page

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Expert Advice

• SO YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE SOME STRAIGHT-UP ROCK ’N’ ROLL? FRIDAY 7:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Fun Ladies 7:15 pm, Baby Bar: Empty Eyes 7:30 pm, The Observatory: Bullets or Balloons 8:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Mommy Long Legs 9:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Pine League 10:30 pm, The Pin! main stage: A Shadow of Jaguar 11:15 pm, The Pin! side stage: Marshall Poole

SATURDAY 7:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Dead See Squirrels 8:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Couches 9 pm, The Pin! main stage: Never Young 9:45 pm, Red Room Lounge: Hey! is For Horses 10:45 pm, Red Room Lounge: The Smokes 11:45 pm, Red Room Lounge: Ayron Jones and the Way

• SO YOU JUST ATE A SPECIAL BROWNIE AND WANT TO GO RELAX?

FRIDAY 7 pm, Terrain Stage: Jus Wright 7:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: wax808 8:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Water Monster 8:50 pm, Terrain Stage: Jah & Co. 9 pm, The Bartlett: Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings 10:15 pm, The Big Dipper: Von the Baptist SATURDAY 6:15 pm, The Bartlett: The Dancing Plague of 1518 6:45 pm, The Pin! side stage: Hoop 8:15 pm, The Bartlett: Crystalline 8:30 pm, Baby Bar: Prairie War 9:15 pm, The Bartlett: youryoungbody

• SO YOU LIKE YOUR BANDS WITH CREATIVE NAMES? FRIDAY 7:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Itchy Kitty 7:45 pm, nYne: Nat Park and the Tunnels of Love 8:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Mommy Long Legs 10:15 pm, Red Room Lounge: Puff Puff Beer 10:30 pm, The Observatory: Phlegm Fatale

SATURDAY 6:15 pm, The Bartlett: The Dancing Plague of 1518 7:15 pm, Mootsy’s: Dead See Squirrels 7:30 pm, The Pin! main stage: Powerbleeder 8:15 pm, The Pin! side stage: Outercourse 9:45 pm, Red Room Lounge: Hey! is for Horses

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4 [THE BARTLETT, continued] BITWVLF Spokane | 7:15 pm Producer/DJ Bitwvlf’s dark electronic tunes are so ghostly, so haunting, it feels like someone might be watching you while listening. It’s as if Bitwvlf (aka Eric Kerzman) wants listeners to keep looking over their shoulder to check whether someone, or something, is lurking in the shadows.

CRYSTALLINE Spokane | 8:15 pm Readers may recognize Tobias Hendrickson and Matthew Bogue’s names from their time in electro-rock trio BIAS (which featured Caroline Schibel of Mon Chéri on vocals). Crystalline is a stripped-down, but not watered-down, continuation of that band that takes a more electronicpop approach. Judging by “You Can Feel It,” the first single from the duo’s upcoming album, Gradient Gold, it’s all synths here, all the time.

YOURYOUNGBODY Seattle | 9:15 pm It’s about to get loud, as youryoungbody’s dark electronic tunes are nearly entirely deafening. Now, if you were to listen to Duh Cripe’s sweet and dreamy vocals without any accompaniment, you’d never guess what sort of band she sings for. But combined with her musical partner Killian Brom’s electronic beats, the result is terrifyingly gothic. Just when you think the music may turn happy, it gets dark and loud once more.

THE BIG DIPPER 171 S. Washington: all shows are all-ages

WAKE UP FLORA Spokane | 6:15 pm Bearded and tattooed singer-guitar-

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ist Kyle Siegel wants to bring light to dark places with his music. In the last few months, he’s taken to making short music videos around town, which feature him playing his small acoustic guitar and singing his heart out. His lyrics are all about hope.

It’s as if he sings about the subject enough, he might just believe that life will all work out, too.

LOCAL PAVLOV Spokane | 7:15 pm Featuring dudes from local rock groups Normal Babies and Mirror Mirror, the shoegaze/dream-pop act comes from the imagination of frontman Ryan “Gil” Gilbert, who recently moved to Spokane from Coeur d’Alene. Like billows of smoke, the surprisingly upbeat music rolls over itself, echoing and reverberating.

You’ll remember this music long after it’s done playing.

THE BIGHT Spokane | 8:15 pm There’s an aggression to the Bight’s music that puts the quartet somewhere between indie and punk rock.

Singer/guitarist Matthew Winters practically growls in “Ghosts,” from the quartet’s self-titled EP, only to soften considerably in the next tune, “Cars,” with the rest of the band following suit. After last year’s EP, the Bight is working on a full-length to be released later this year.

THE BACKUPS Spokane | 9:15 pm Armed with tight pop hooks and infectious vocal melodies that you’d need a pair of pliers to pull out of your head, the Backups have been building traction by steady gigging locally and across the Northwest.

The young band just released a video for their song “Mrs. Jones” and is rumored to be in the studio recording what’s likely to be a concise indie pop record that still features shiny and shimmering indie rock, of course.

THE BROKEN THUMBS Spokane | 10:15 pm With their fresh, EDM-laced approach to contemporary alternative rock and a robust online presence, local trio the Broken Thumbs seemed poised for bigger and bigger stages. Their heartfelt lyrics and inventive arrangements — courtesy of their vocals/synth/drums lineup (yes, no guitars!) — have left their mark on the area, especially after their first album was finally released earlier this year.

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24 W. Main: all-ages VOLUME 2016 SOM SOUL BRUNCH | 10 am We pay tribute to the influential Spokane music-maker Isamu Jordan by continuing his awesome Soul Brunch.

Come down to Boots on Volume’s second day, dust off your hangover with a cocktail and enjoy the soulful tunes of Spokane’s finest: DJs Benny Blanco and Breezy Brown.

MOOTSY’S

406 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ DEAD SEE SQUIRRELS Spokane | 7:15 pm Menacing and funny, tongue-incheek and sincere — these traits seem to be contradictory, but in that space is where Dead See Squirrels

Marshall McLean Band

seems to relish and thrive. A bombastic live band, frontman Bart Templeman leers around the stage and in the crowd like a more playful David Yow from the Jesus Lizard. These local scene veterans will tickle you with their dynamic rock and roll till you cry sweet tears.

COUCHES San Francisco | 8:15 pm All hail Couches, unsung heroes of the ongoing indie rock revival. On their most recent release, 2014’s Slackin’ Since the ’80s, these Bay Area beardos’ guitars jangle and bend, then get run through a thick layer of fuzz before receiving a new coat of (Doug) Martsch-ian vocals.

It’s a simple and well-tested formula, and Couches execute it impressively.

The dream of the ’90s is alive, friends.

GRENADES Seattle | 9:15 pm Since 2010, the four dudes in Grenades have been steadily cranking out a particularly husky brand of hardcore punk — the kind that smells like sweaty black T-shirts and feels like a boot to the back of the head.

The quartet’s most recent release, last year’s Lou Diamond Phillips EP, showcases Grenades’ other interests, too, with a math-rock zigzag here and a death-metal growl there.

X SUNS Seattle 10:15 pm X Suns, pronounced “Ten Suns,” plays instrumental post-metal that builds and builds throughout each song. Just when you think your head might explode, that you can’t take it anymore, they pull back. Expect hints of meticulous guitar math rock and creepin’ bass sludge metal along

the way. This music is the perfect soundtrack for the next time you hitch a ride into outer space.

FAUS Spokane | 11:15 pm Local hardcore mainstays FAUS have proven themselves to be one of the Inland Northwest’s most intense live bands. Formed in Colville in 2005 and currently based in Coeur d’Alene, the heavy quartet brings a focused aggression to the stage, with shifting time signatures and intricate riffs served up at punishing noise levels.

They’re currently working on songs for a new album that should be released this year.

GAASP Portland | 12:15 am With all the hippy-dippy stereotypes about Portland, it can be easy to forget about the delightfully seedy aspects the city has to offer. The crust punks of GaAsp blend metal guitar shredding and hardcore vocals to create songs that would gladly beat the snot out of any artisanal folkie who accidentally stumbled into their path of chaos.

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232 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ BANDIT TRAIN Spokane | 6:30 pm Call it chiptune, call it 8-bit music, call it “electronic house post-rock.”

No matter what Bandit Train’s style of music is called, there’s no denying its nostalgic appeal. The duo of brothers Chris and Mike Malsam, who for a time went by Please Draw In Me, create songs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a favorite childhood video game.

Mommy Long Legs

FRIENDS OF MINE Spokane | 7:30 pm Growing up is hard, and Friends of Mine guide you through the turmoil of being in your 20s by penning songs filled with post-adolescence woes — like not being able to stay out and party because of work in the morning, or having to deal with moving back in with your parents, or even something as small, but still crushing, as losing your favorite sunglasses.

Friends of Mine will hold your hand while serenading you with enough power-pop jams to ease the pains of adulthood.

MINI BLINDS Portland | 8:30 pm Rose City two-piece Mini Blinds feels like a hazy dream of beach rock lore.

Singer and bassist Beth Ann Dear leads the self-described “sparkle pop” act through sunny, carefree jams that brighten every corner of a room.

SUMMER IN SIBERIA Spokane | 9:30 pm Summer In Siberia originally started as Justin Hynes’ solo project, but the group has recently rebooted with Hynes, Alex Brandt, Eric Shears and Travis Hurley. On its self-titled debut, the group crams together ’80s new wave and 21st century alt-pop, and the result sounds something like a swaggering guitar-rock band digitized and blasted into the bleepbloop future. The songs? Catchy. Always. Expect a whole bunch of new material at their upcoming Volume set. ...continued on next page

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4 [NYNE, continued] THE HOOT HOOTS Seattle | 10:30 pm It’d take a real sourpuss to not get swept up in the fun, playful vibe of Seattle power-pop weirdoes the Hoot Hoots. Boasting airtight melodies and charmingly fuzzy keyboard lines, the group’s pretension-free tunes float high in the sonic spectrum like colorful bubbles that you never want to pop.

DJ C-MAD Spokane | Midnight DJ C-Mad doesn’t put music or mixes online for all to hear. “One must come watch live,” he says with a smile. Spoken like a man who knows how to rock a party! C-Mad has been nYne’s resident DJ for four years. In an effort

to keep people on their toes, he plays music from across the stylistic spectrum: “It’s all about having fun and letting loose.”

THE OBSERVATORY 15 S. Howard: all shows are 21+

BLACKHOUSE RECORDS SHOWCASE | 4 pm Another record showcase is going down Saturday afternoon, this one featuring the Coeur d’Alene label Blackhouse Records. The show includes performances from local experimental/ hardcore/punk rockers the Colourflies, Willow and Scatterbox (out of CdA).

The latter two bands only perform during the showcase, so catch them here.

AGE OF NEFILIM Spokane | 7:30 pm Symphonic death metal is vast and scary and spectacular in its scope, and Age of Nefilim is one of the only local acts doing the genre justice. Last fall, the group played a live show with the Spokane Falls Community College orchestra, which is about as ballsy as it gets. Around for nearly a decade under frontman Matt Lefebvre, this is music that isn’t afraid to get weird, not that you can understand the lyrics anyway.

Age of Nefilim is a 2016 Inlander Band to Watch.

S1UGS Vancouver, B.C. | 8:30 pm On his Facebook page, S1ugs (aka Nat Braden Von Mooter) proclaims, “If Ramones were slugs, they would listen to S1ugs.” He’s right. Underneath layers of peppy synth and distorted vocals, there are punk rock undertones that anyone who can appreciate a good drumbeat would be drawn to.

VALIDATION Seattle | 9:30 pm Validation normally results in positive feelings. That is not the case for hardcore punk quartet Validation. The instrumental sound veers on the heavy end of the punk spectrum while the group’s frontwoman (and former Spo-

kanite) Judy Davis bemoans her ills by talk-screaming listeners down like an authoritarian school principal. When she bellows “I have daddy issues!” on “Trigger,” you believe her.

NAIL POLISH Seattle | 10:30 pm If brevity is the soul of wit, then the guys in no-wave trio Nail Polish must be witty as all get-out. If you like your songs to last more than two minutes, look elsewhere. The group’s dissonant angular rock riffs come only in short bursts of guitar yelps, as displayed on their aptly named debut album, Abrupt.

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LOOMER Spokane | 11:30 pm Actually talking about your feelings is challenging, yet Loomer frontman Jordan Satterfield seems to have no problem singing about subjects that aren’t always happy. Miraculously, none of this band’s work comes off as whiny. Instead, this 1990s-charged rock ’n’ roll three-piece, which also was an Inlander Band to Watch last year, wallows in self-doubt while still showing their fans a great time — as in their recent single “Jen Menzer,” which you should check out now.

PLEATHER Seattle | 12:30 pm For a taste of Seattle’s underground

D.I.Y. electronic scene, check out Pleather. Claire Nelson’s vocals manage to sound simultaneously sweet and entirely emotionally detached as Andrew McKibben strums guitar lines over shimmering electronic backing tracks. It’s like a dismissive, stoned shrug from the girl who was actually too cool for school in musical form.

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POWERBLEEDER Seattle | 7:30 pm Don’t get confused by Powerbleeder’s name — this isn’t some speed metal collective or emo songwriter.

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NEVER YOUNG Oakland | 9 pm For any of you who’ve accidentally called a fax machine number before, the high-pitched stutter heard on the other end is exactly what Never Young’s music sounds like in the intro of many of their songs. Driven by fuzzy, undulating wails and gnashing of teeth, the Bay Area punk band chaotically complements heavy guitar and grungy vocals with sputtering electronic licks. ...continued on next page

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412 W. Sprague: all-shows are all-ages HOOP Seattle | 6:45 pm It’s no secret that female punk-pop musicians in Seattle are killing it right now, and now we can add Hoop to that list. Caitlin Roberts, Pamela Santiago, Leena Joshi and Inge Chiles bring mostly pop sweetness, and even some ballads, to a scene full of sneering and sarcastic musicians. That’s not to say they still don’t come off as strong; these women could kick your ass any day.

OUTERCOURSE Spokane | 8:15 pm Outercourse has only been around since late last year, but the lo-fi band has already released a five-song demo and a one-off tune called “Pile,” and have become Baby Bar staples.

(They’ve also played at the Bartlett and Jones Radiator.) Vocalist/guitarist Ben Jennings, bassist Norman Robbins and drummer Alex Smith recently added another guitar player to the mix, so even bigger tunes are on the horizon.

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521 W. Sprague: all shows are 21+ MARK SHIRTZ AND THE DIRTYSHIRTZ BAND Seattle | 7:45 pm Originally from Spokane, Mark Shirtz is

coming back across the mountains to play his brand of soulful R&B that could easily have fit well in early ’90s radio.

There’s pop and rock mixed into his sound for good measure, but his silkysmooth vocals are the star of the show.

FAT LADY Spokane | 8:45 pm Fat Lady, started by frontman Schuyler Dornbirer of Left Over Soul, has only been a group for a few months, but already their hard-hitting take on ’60s rock has gotten people talking. Their shows thus far have consisted mostly of covers, with their five original songs peppered throughout. Watch out for the saxophone/flute player to absolutely blow your mind.

HEY! IS FOR HORSES Spokane | 9:45 pm Aside from opening for Ayron Jones and the Way recently, Hey! is For Horses’ Facebook has been playing it cool for the past couple of months. Fingers crossed this means the quintet, fronted

by Elkfest talent agent John Blakesley, will debut some new Pacific Northwest-inspired blues-rock tunes during their set, along with their solid mix of rockin’ standards.

THE SMOKES Spokane | 10:45 pm Once again proving that all you need is guitar and drums, garage rockers the Smokes consistently bring a clas-

CARY HAYS Spokane | 7 pm Cary Hays grew up in Oregon, got into some trouble, ended up in Seattle and made a handful of hip-hop albums under the name Haze. But that was a different time. Now, Hays is older, he uses his real name, has a family and just played his first show in two years.

His 2015 mixtape Mixed Signals pairs sturdy flow with arena-ready beats.

His follow-up, Answers, is due soon.

sic combination of volume, hooks and groove to Spokane stages. Boasting an urgent, proto-punk sound and a solid catalog of riff-heavy songs — not to mention some excellent on-stage charisma — this local duo released their debut LP last year. The Smokes are a 2016 Inlander Band to Watch.

AYRON JONES AND THE WAY Seattle | 11:45 pm You probably aren’t ready for Ayron Jones and the Way’s grungy sound, thick with blues and a side of syrupy R&B. Jones not only shreds his guitar to bits, his howling vocals are completely mesmerizing. The band’s 2013 album Dream was produced by “Baby Got Back” master Sir Mix-a-Lot, and it’s easy to see what he likes about this amazing rockin’ three-piece.

THE BAD TENANTS Seattle | 8 pm The Bad Tenants know how to make playful music. Not only do they play with genre — fusing jazz and blues instrumentation seamlessly with their hip-hop sound — but their music is joyous and quirky. Their shows, which are often multigenerational, include live saxophone, trombone and trumpet, along with impressive back-and-forth vocals.

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LOU ERA Spokane | 9 pm Rapper Lou Era is definitely a product of his environments. The Spokane-viaLos Angeles MC mixes the laid-back musical vibes of hip-hop from the 206 with the cocky swagger of his hometown’s sound. He shoots for championship glory on his freshly released album Lombardi Shit (as in the Super Bowl trophy).

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TWIN TOWERS Spokane | 6 pm This enterprising local DJ duo has been packing dance floors in Spokane for the past couple of years. 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.

BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER Seattle | 10 pm Let Brothers From Another help kick off your summer early. Released last year, the band’s sophomore LP, This Summer, is the perfect album to get you in that sunny mood. Mixing California electronica with Seattle garage funk, the three-piece makes music that takes on serious subjects like race relations, but also marijuana, hittin’ on ladies and even day drinking. They’re also playing this year’s Sasquatch! Festival.

SHABAZZ PALACES Seattle | 11 pm Half of Shabazz Palaces is also in Digable Planets. Yes, the influential New York jazz/hip-hop trio that’s currently on a reunion tour and playing this year’s Sasquatch! shares a member in Ishmael Butler, aka Palaceer Lazaro.

Started in 2009, this experimental duo, also featuring multi-instrumentalist Tendai “Baba” Maraire, is the first hip-hop group to be signed to Sub Pop Records. Shabazz Palaces, this year’s festival headliners, is absolutely one of the most exciting bands to play Volume — ever. n

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Then we give it away at 1,100 locations all over the region. So you can read it over coffee to find your new trivia night.

Stuff it in your backpack to share with your roommates. Or tear out the story about that improv comedy troupe and stick it on the fridge. Heck, wrap a birthday present with it if you want — we’re cool with that. As long as it helps you do the stuff you love.

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A Different Tune Coeur d’Alene’s new Bluebird offers eclectic eats in midtown

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iljo Basso is excited about his pickle plate — asparagus, beets, fennel and onion — one of many unusual dishes on the menu at the Bluebird restaurant, which he and his wife/business partner Autumn Basso recently opened in midtown Coeur d’Alene.

There’s a daily toast trio ($7), three crostini with options like anchovy on goat cheese and strawberryrhubarb jam over Brie. Try charred octopus and warm potato salad with cucumber-mint yogurt ($10).

The Muscovy duck is cooked confit-style and served with Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and bacon ($18).

“The menu is the culmination of things that Autumn and I have eaten over the years,” says Basso, whose 20-year culinary history includes working at such acclaimed Seattle restaurants as Rover’s, Cascadia and Mashiko.

Popular items include frisée salad with a fried egg and crispy pig ear ($5/$10), and hanger steak with wilted pea vines and fries ($22). For dessert, have crème brûlée ($5) or doughnuts with mascarpone cheese, jam and chocolate hazelnut spread ($6).

Seasonal ingredients and local vendors are featured: Pilgrim’s Market bread. Spokane produce.

Local breweries, mostly from Idaho. The back of the menu — it resembles the paper used for brown paper bags and features a watercolor painting of a bluebird — includes a note about how dining out helps support an entire community, from dishwashers to the folks who deliver the food.

The Bassos relocated to the area from Seattle and opened first one, then another midtown restaurant.

They started Syringa Japanese Café & Sushi Bar, which they still run, in 2007. Next door to Syringa is the Garnet Cafe, which they created as a breakfastonly place until they sold it in 2013.

The Bluebird space was too good an opportunity to pass up, says Basso. They kept most of the prior owners’ interior — fashioned as an old Western saloon — the same. Basso says that, and its unusual menu, adds to the Bluebird’s appeal: “It kind of morphed into an eclectic bistro.” n The Bluebird • 816 N. 4th St., Coeur d’Alene • Open Tue-Thu, 4-10 pm; Fri-Sun, 11 am-10 pm • 208-665-3777

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hortly after Station House Pizza in the Hillyard neighborhood closed in March, Lora Corners saw an ad for the business on Craigslist. About 10 minutes later she went to check it out, and just two weeks later she signed the lease.

“I grew up in a family of restaurateurs. My dad owned a pastrami parlor in L.A. and taught culinary arts at UC Berkeley,” says Corners. “I’ve always wanted to open my own place.”

Corners wanted to keep the Station House name and theme, but rather than make pizza, she created a sandwich menu and opened the Station House Bar & Grill. With an open view into the kitchen, customers can watch the chefs prepare their sandwiches with fresh ingredients and Petit Chat Bakery bread before placing them in cast-iron skillets to cook in the oven. Not surprisingly, the hot pastrami ($10) has been the most popular.

Less than a week after opening, though, customers were coming in asking for pizza, so Corners added it to the menu. All pizzas ($10) are build-your-own 12-inch pies, with no additional charge for toppings. There are plans to further expand the food menu to offer breakfast during football season.

Beyond the full bar and food, Corners is most excited about the restaurant’s new layout.

ENTRÉE There are now tall tables Get the scoop on local between the red booths lining food news with our weekly the walls, along with a huge, Entrée newsletter. Sign up newly opened patio space. The at Inlander.com/newsletter. backyard offers covered booth and patio chair seating, along with a beanbag toss, a shed housing pool and darts, and soon a stage for musical acts.

“We have set hours, but if people are actively buying food and drinks, we’ll stay open until 2 am for them to enjoy this space,” says Corners. “We had just finished closing up the other night around midnight, and 10 guys showed up. So we told them ‘Come on in!’”

Soon, Corners hopes to start up karaoke nights, host a Ladies’ Night, and begin jam session nights where musicians can come together with their instruments and make music.

“We’re about people who just want to come in and have a good time together,” says Corners. “And I feel a little bit spoiled by the response we’ve had so far.” n The Station House Bar & Grill • 3020 E. Queen • Open MonWed, 10 am-midnight; Thu-Sat, 10-2 am; Sun, 1-10 pm • 8422325 • Facebook: The Station House Bar & Grill Spokane WA

The Rule of Threes X-Men: Apocalypse doesn’t even try to be anything but more of the same

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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here’s a snarky in-joke in X-Men: Apocalypse that ends up backfiring about as spectacularly as a snarky in-joke can. Taking advantage of the story’s 1983 time frame, director Bryan Singer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg have a group of the mutant superheroes exit a theater showing Return of the Jedi, where Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) notes that “the third one’s always the worst.” It’s likely a dig at the generally reviled X-Men: The Last Stand as the wrap-up of the Singer-launched original X-Men trilogy, and maybe even a little knowing self-deprecation as this current incarnation of the comic-book team hits its own third go-round.

Yet it comes in a movie with no apparent idea of how not to perpetuate that truism.

It’s hard to remember that 2000’s X-Men was in its way a pioneering movie, pre-dating Sam Raimi’s SpiderMan series, Christopher Nolan’s Batman triology and the now-ubiquitous Marvel Cinematic Universe in establishing that there was an audience hungry for comic-book adventures brought to life. But franchises inevitably face this dangerous question: “Why should this story continue, other than because we would leave money on the table by not continuing?” All too often, the response is that it can be made bigger. It can be made faster. It can be made just plain more.

X-Men: Apocalypse’s version of bigger-faster-more means that our mutant protagonists will need to save humanity from a villain who wants to destroy everything. You know, just everything — but especially bridges and recognizable world landmarks. That villain is En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), an ancient Egyptian quasi-god who awakens from a centuries-long slumber ready to eradicate pitiful, primitive humanity from the planet. He’s got his traditional “four horsemen” as personal bodyguards and pavers of the way for

apocalypse: Angel (Ben Hardy), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), X-Men: Days of Future Past. Singer even recycles the most Storm (Alexandra Shipp) and even good old Magneto memorable single sequence in that film, giving Quicksil(Michael Fassbender), whose latest personal tragedy has ver another slow-mo showcase for his super-speed set to refreshed his rage. Standing against them are Professor a pop radio staple. This barely feels like a new movie.

Xavier (James McAvoy), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) You’ll flip past it on cable a few years from now, and and Beast (Nicholas Hoult), and newer recruits includhave no clue which one it is. ing the aforementioned Jean Grey, Quicksilver (Evan By the time X-Men: Apocalypse trots out a big cameo Peters), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and appearance of a familiar character Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee). And — already spoiled, thanks to the X-MEN: APOCALYPSE let the melee begin. marketing campaign — it’s become Rated PG-13 Epic hero brawls have already been painfully obvious that this franchise Directed by Bryan Singer fairly ubiquitous in 2016 thanks to Batman Starring Michael Fassbender, is running on fumes. Its allegory for v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain civil-rights battles by a feared minorJennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy America: Civil War, which achieved varying ity has become just a talking point, degrees of success in the cinematic equivaand remains the only idea these lent of kids picking up their favorite action figures and movies are interested in exploring. We get the point smacking them into one another while going “PCHOW! that “the third one’s always the worst” largely because PEW-PEW-PEW!” X-Men: Apocalypse delivers its own everyone involved is simply going through the motions, slew of three-point-stance hero poses and “who would operating under the impression that it’s fine if you have win a fight between… ” moments, as Singer slings his nothing different to say, provided you’re willing to say characters around the CGI battlefields with the practiced the same thing even louder this time.  ease of someone who knows which one-liners and set pieces will play well to his audience.

There is, however, almost nothing new to see here, and almost not even the pretense that there’s anything new to see here. Once again, as has been the case for more than a decade in this series, the central conflict is really between the worldviews of Xavier and Magneto regarding mutants interacting with the human world; their relationship has become an infinitely resettable cycle of “Hello, old friend” / attempts to murder one another / “Goodbye, old friend.”

Lawrence’s Mystique continues to serve as the living rope for their philosophical tug-of-war, with Kinberg seemingly clueless as to how to exploit her potentially fascinating ambivalence over her actions in

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Darcy and Elizabeth will forever have our hearts, but there can only be so many Pride and Prejudice adaptations.

Instead, Love & Friendship delves into Jane Austen’s unfinished satirical novella “Lady Susan.” Starring Kate Beckinsale in the title role, the zany costume drama follows the new widow as she tries to find a husband for herself and her mousy daughter. When she befriends a married man, oh, how people do talk. (LJ) Rated PG

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X-Men: Apocalypse’s version of bigger-faster-more means that our mutant protagonists will need to save humanity from a villain who wants to destroy everything. You know, just everything — but especially bridges and

recognizable world landmarks. That villain is En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), an ancient Egyptian quasi-god who awakens from a centuries-long slumber ready to eradicate pitiful, primitive humanity from the planet. (SR) Rated PG-13

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

After Alice, now the captain of a British merchant ship, becomes a hero for leading her crew away from a pirate attack, she escapes London for the Underworld. There, she again finds Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the Cheshire Cat (the voice of Stephen Fry), who inform her that Hatter (Johnny Depp) is out of sorts and needs her help to find his family. (MJ) Rated PG

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ANGRY BIRDS

On a magical island exists a bunch of birds who can’t fly but are totally happy with this and everything else in their life — including their belief that there is no world outside of the island. Any birds who aren’t happy, i.e., “angry,” are outcasts. But when green pigs invade the island, the angry guys come in handy.

(MB) Rated PG

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Meanwhile in the Marvel Universe… a disagreement between superheroes — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) take opposing sides when the United Nations demands authority over superhero actions. Aside from a lackluster score and unnecessary visual distractions, Civil War makes for a magnificent fireworks display to kick off the first week of summer blockbuster season at the multiplex. (PC) Rated PG-13

THE DARKNESS

Taking your family to the Grand Canyon is a beloved and perfectly wholesome American pastime, right? Well, not if one of your kids becomes possessed by some sort of ancient ghost and mysterious black handprints begin appearing all over your walls once you return home. That’s the premise here in this Kevin Bacon-anchored horror flick.

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DOUGH

Kosher baker Nat Dayan, a widower, is struggling to keep his family business afloat as a chain grocery store moves into the neighborhood. He hires Ayyash, a refugee from Darfur who takes an apprenticeship with Nat as a cover for his real job — dealing marijuana for a dangerous small-time criminal as a way to help his mother pay the rent. Avyash is Muslim, and that causes some sideways looks in the neighborhood, but when Avyash begins putting weed in the baked goods, nobody cares enough to stop buying.

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The iconic meeting of President Nixon and Elvis Presley is now manifested in a comedic fashion on the silver screen.

During the winter of 1970, the White House received a handwritten request from Elvis (Michael Shannon) to meet with President Nixon (Kevin Spacey), resulting in a photo of the two which is now one of the most requested prints in the National Archives. (MM) Rated R

EYE IN THE SKY

As British Intelligence forces gain eyes on a group of terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya, Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) and Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) face complica-

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tions as they command a United States operated drone to launch a missile to assassinate the terrorist group. The allied forces are faced with a decision to strike the group, which would include killing a civilian girl, or face the consequences of continued international terror. At Magic Lantern (MM) Rated R

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS

Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a nevermarried 60-something woman whose life for years has consisted of nothing more than taking care of her elderly mother in their Staten Island home and doing data entry in the same Manhattan office. Then Doris’ mother dies, leaving her alone and adrift. At around the same time, her company hires new art director (New Girl’s Max Greenfield), inspiring an infatuation that completely takes over Doris’ thoughts. (SR) Rated R

JUNGLE BOOK

Jon Favreau takes a break from making the Iron Man franchise to craft this live-action adaptation of the Disney classic. There’s some genuine action to be found as Mogwai tries to escape danger, as well as a few laughs with the Bill Murray-voiced Baloo the bear, but overall it’s Disney forcing a kid-friendly feel on a genuinely engaging film. (MB) Rated PG

THE LADY IN THE VAN

Based on the true story of eccentric Miss Shepherd (played by beloved British actress Maggie Smith) in Alan Bennett’s story, a temporary visit turns into 15 years when she first parks her van in Bennett’s London driveway. At first he hesitantly allows this as a favor, but soon a relationship is cultivated that permeates and changes both of their lives. At Magic Lantern (CS) Rated PG13

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Last time around, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne were new parents who moved into a new house, expecting marital bliss and all that. But then a fraternity moved in next door and were loud as hell and, led by Zac Efron and his abs, tried to kill Rogen with stolen airbags.

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Set in late-’70s Los Angeles, The Nice Guys pairs a gruff hired goon named Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) with an alcoholic, single-dad private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling).

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Prepare Ye Sasquatch!-Goers How to survive a weekend at the annual Memorial Day weekend festival

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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he Sasquatch! Music Festival is technically made for everyone, but not everyone is made for Sasquatch! Before purchasing a ($350, not sold out yet) ticket, you must know thyself. Over the long weekend you will inevitably get dirty, have a hangover, poop in a Honey Bucket, get offered acid, experience a sunburn and yearn for your own bed.

If that sounds groovy to you, well, then Sasquatch! and all its hordes of bros, hippie wannabes and Canadians is exactly the festival for you. Here you will be rewarded for your troubles with some of the best views in all of Washington, as well as the most thrilling acts working in music today.

Now, we’re all new the first time around, so we wanted to put together a helpful list of guidelines, many of which have been learned the hard way.

WEATHER

The glorious Gorge Amphitheatre, right outside of Quincy, Washington, is the kind of place that can experience multiple weather patterns within an hour. Daytime temperatures can reach as high as 100 degrees and nighttime can retreat into the low 50s. Sometimes it rains, then there’s a fierce windstorm. You’ll go to bed shivering in your sweatpants and wake up from the oppressive sun (probably no later than 8 am, sorry) thinking you may die of heat stroke if you stay in your tent a minute longer. PRO TIP: The weather is serious business at the Gorge.

MUSIC PLANNING

Don’t be one of those festivalgoers who came to party, rather than experience the music. Instead, come with

a solid plan to see a select number of acts each day, but always stay loose with your itinerary, as you never know what amazing band you may discover if you simply float around. PRO TIP: Remember it’s OK for your group to split up; go see the bands you want.

FOOD/DRINK

Inside, they’ll try to take your hard-earned money.

Tallboys run about $12, hot meals as much as $15.

Instead, pack your car with snacks and anything easily made using boiling water — hot dogs, oatmeal, couscous packages. Remember all The Inlander goes to the healthy and unhealthy Sasquatch! this weekend. snacks and pre-made Follow our coverage on pasta salad. For the final our Facebook and Twitter night of the festival, treat accounts, and also music yourself to a hot dinner. It editor Laura Johnson will be amazing. Another @lowesays. thing: alcohol is allowed at the campsite, so always drink (slowly, steadily and smartly) beforehand. Pay for one drink inside, if you must, but mostly drink water.

PRO TIP: Beef jerky and Goldfish crackers in a plastic bag is the best snack to bring into the park. Sounds gross, but it’s not.

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It’s a weekend to let go, and be someone you aren’t any other time of the year. Some groups chose to wear actual costumes — look out for the bananas — while ...continued on next page

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MUSIC | FESTIVAL “PREPARE YE SASQUATCH!-GOERS,” CONTINUED... other festivalgoers opt for fake tattoos, booty shorts and flower headbands. As stated in the weather paragraph above, you must wear layers throughout the day and proper footwear to hoof it through the hills and dust. PRO TIP: No one cares what you look like. Are you warm in that poncho? Great.

SASQUATCH! MAGIC

Be skeptical if you will, but there’s something about Sasquatch! that causes you to run into people. On the second day of the festival, phones run out of juice, and service is spotty anyway.

(If you’re in a big group, always have a meeting spot or use a themed totem so you can find one another). But just know every year, without fail, you’ll run into someone who you haven’t seen

in 10 years. It’s destiny. PRO TIP: Don’t argue with magic.

CAMPING

Do not expect that you’ll be camping in actual dirt lots surrounded by trees. Rather, expect to pull up to your general admission campsite in a huge grass field, and get packed in like sardines.

Get to know your neighbors. They’ll come in handy if you forget anything. Things to pack include: Tent, sleeping bag, table camping chairs, gas camping stove, lighter, coolers with ice, tent canopy, jumper cables (for when you accidentally run your car battery down) and sunscreen. PRO TIP: Opt for the Gold Camping. It’s worth the extra money for free showers, larger lots and much closer access to the festival entrance. 

BANDS ON THE MUST-SEE LIST

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here are always folks who complain that a lineup isn’t as good as the prior year. Ignore them.

Here are the main acts you can’t miss.

(Bands like Speedy Ortiz and Digable Planets and Brothers From Another have all been written about elsewhere in this issue, so take a look).

FRIDAY • Grace Love & the True Loves, 4:45 pm, Sasquatch stage Someone has to start off the main stage on the right foot, and this year it falls to the soul/funk band out of Seattle. This is the upbeat, crazy fun band that will get us all in the mood.

• Andra Day, 8 pm, Sasquatch stage She was born in Spokane but grew up in San Diego, and she’s had one big past year, with a Grammy nomination and a Christmas commercial with Stevie Wonder. She calls her music retro/pop/soul; you’ll call it cool.

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SATURDAY • Hop Along, 6:25 pm, Yeti stage Frances Quinlan started Hop Along as her own freak-folk act, but soon added three other musicians. The group offers a raw sound you won’t soon forget.

SUNDAY • Ty Segall & the Muggers, 4:50 pm, Bigfoot stage Singer-songwriter Ty Segall gets to the bottom of “emotional mugging” with his recent album of the same name. His backing band the Muggers only help to make his lo-fi garage rock sound that much more convincing.

• Mac DeMarco, 8 pm, Bigfoot stage With that hazy, slacker rock sound, the Canadian-born singer-songwriter is surprisingly somewhat prolific. Over the past four years he’s released four studio albums.

• Alabama Shakes, 9 pm, Sasquatch stage The best part about this Southern rock band is frontwoman Brittany Howard.

Her voice is true and shining. Don’t you dare miss this set.

• Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram), 12:30 am, Bigfoot stage The electronic duo Phantogram came through Spokane in December, just without Big Boi (of Outkast). Here, you can finally see the collaborators jamming out late into the evening.

MONDAY • Childbirth, 2 pm, Yeti stage It’s too bad this show is early in the afternoon, as many, still lounging at their campsites, will miss out on the Seattle rock supergroup — Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt, Bree McKenna of Tacocat, Stacy Peck of Pony Time — and the trio’s crazy dance party.

• Sufjan Stevens, 9 pm, Sasquatch stage The Brooklyn singer-songwriter does what he wants. He’s written albums about states, about Christmas and most recently, Carrie & Lowell. His show should lighten and uplift the spirit before we all have to go home.

• Kurt Vile and the Violators, 10 pm, Bigfoot stage Formerly of the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile is a singer-songwriter who isn’t afraid to make you feel sad. That may seem like a downer, but his music is transcendent.

• Florence and the Machine, 11 pm, Sasquatch stage Florence Welch and the rest of her crew are no longer indie. Now, it makes sense that Sasquatch! promoters chose to save the biggest act for last — to get people to stick around on Monday, the most mentally trying of the days.

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adie Dupuis won’t take your guff. Not even for a second. In an indie rock era chock-full of badass feminists, Speedy Ortiz’s guitar-shredding, gender-nonconforming, donut-consuming, powder-keg-of-a-poet lyricist stands out even amongst her immensely talented peers. As she puts it with a spiteful snarl on the chorus of “Raising the Skate,” “I’m not bossy / I’m the boss.” After the angular guitar and heady wordplay of 2013’s Major Arcana earned Speedy Ortiz comparisons to every hip, ’90s guitar-driven indie rock band under the sun (and spots opening for many of them, including the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Thurston Moore), the group took things in weirder, more diverse, and yet somehow poppier directions with one of last year’s best albums, Foil Deer. Soak in the gleeful, noisy chaos before the band heads west to play Sasquatch!

— SETH SOMMERFELD Speedy Ortiz with the Good Life, Tancred • Sat, May 28, at 8 pm • $12-$15 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Evan Denlinger BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Sunny Nights Duo J THE BARTLETT, Jazz Night with David Larsen Group, Nathan Lansing THE BIG DIPPER, Thready Thursday feat. Shwex, Craftal, Actualizer, Corax42 BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Wyatt Wood FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Truck Mills NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM (927-7770), Ken Crikicki Jazz Guitarist O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo THE OBSERVATORY, Vinyl Meltdown J THE PIN!, Anvil, Unleash the Archers, Graveshadow RED ROOM LOUNGE, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 J RICK SINGER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO (838-3333), Gail Pettis THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, The Bobby Patterson Band ZOLA, Anthony Hall and Boomshack

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or years, Shakey Graves (aka Alejandro Rose-Garcia) lived the type of ramblin’ man lifestyle so often romanticized by gruff, folky singer-songwriters of his ilk.

Before settling in Austin, he bounced between New York and L.A., picked up acting jobs between shows (“The Swede” on Friday Night Lights), and toured the country as an energetic one-man band with a MacGyvered suitcase kick drum as his only on-stage companion. With tunes that blended blues, freak folk and Americana, and a knack for gentle, engrossing melodicism, he soon became a darling of the NPR revival set. But it can get lonely out there by yourself. For his 2014 LP And the War Came, Rose-Garcia expanded Shakey Graves to a full band, one that’s capable of rocking out or stepping aside to let him do his captivating solo work. Ramblin’s more fun with friends anyhow.

— SETH SOMMERFELD Shakey Graves with Kaleo, Calliope Musicals • Tue, May 31, at 8 pm • $18 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Nashville-style Writers’ Round feat. Jesse Quandt, Erika Anderson, Breanna Yeager, Courtney Biggs, Luke Yates, Christy Lee BOLO’S, FM J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Reuel Lubag Trio J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Andrew Dempsen THE CELLAR, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia Trio J CLOVER (487-2937), Robbie French COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kicho, Strictly Business CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Tell the Boys CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Kicho, Echo Elysium, Carli Osika CRAVE, Stoney Hawk CURLEY’S, Dragonfly

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Disclosure, A$AP Rocky, Chet Faker, Andra Day, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Grace Love & the True Loves (See story on page 31) IRON HORSE BAR, Somebody’s Hero J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Nick Schauer with Friends LOON LAKE SALOON, Six-Strings n’ Pearls honoring Memorial Day MOONDOLLARS (208-777-704), The Powers MOOSE LOUNGE, Usual Suspects MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Kosh NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon feat.

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Saturday, 05/28

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J BABY BAR, The Numerators, Outercourse, Wild Pacific BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim J THE BARTLETT, Speedy Ortiz (See story above), the Good Life, Tancred BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOLO’S, FM J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Heather & the Soulmotions THE CELLAR, Donnie Emerson and Nancy Sophia Trio COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kicho, CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Tell the Boys CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Kosh, Ron Greene, Wyatt Wood CRAVE, Stoney Hawk CURLEY’S, Dragonfly J DOWNTOWN HARRISON, Summer concer series with Simon Tucker

J DOWNTOWN SANDPOINT, Summer Sounds Concert Series feat. Monarch Mountain Band GARLAND PUB & GRILL, YESTERDAYSCAKE J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Sasquatch! music festival feat.

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Sunday, 05/29

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Spare parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh, Jam Shack CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Tell the Boys CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN, Kosh, Bill Bozly, Tommy G DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church DI LUNA’S CAFE, Colleen Raney &

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Monday, 05/30

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Sasquatch! music festival feat.

Florence & the Machine, Sufjan Stevens, Kurt Vile, Grimes, Childbirth, Joseph LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

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LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Delta G Blues J THE PIN!, Elektro Grave THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Open mic Jam Session SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

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Unlike typical dog show formats, this two-day event in Coeur d’Alene lets owners show their own canines, in lieu of a professional handler. While the entry period for dogs to participate in the show has closed, spectators can attend and see dogs judged in breed conformation, obedience and agility categories. Special events at the show also include special events for “beginner puppies” between four and six months of age who are new to the world of American Kennel Club shows, to help them become socialized in the dog show setting. If you love dogs and have ever wanted to experience an AKC show in person, check it out and get to know the diverse breeds.

— CHEY SCOTT Coeur d’Alene Dog Fanciers All-Breed Dog Show • Mon, May 30, 7:30 am-7 pm; Tue, May 31, 7 am-6:30 pm • Kootenai County Fairgrounds • 4060 N. Government Way • cdadogfanciers.org/dogshow.htm

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COMEDY SINGING STAND-UP

THEATER LIVING MUSEUM

Craig Robinson • Thu, June 2 to Sat, June 4: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat at 10:30 pm • $37.50/$52.50 • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague • spokanecomedyclub.com • 318-9998

Deep Creek Civil War Reenactment • Sat, May 28 to Mon, May 30: Sat-Sun from 9 am-5 pm, Mon from 9 am-2 pm • $10/adults; $5/ ages 13-17; free/kids under 12 and military; $25/family • 811 N. Deep Creek Rd., Medical Lake • spokanecivilwar.com

If a big part of a person’s act is delivered sitting down, can it really be called stand-up comedy? Maybe we should call Craig Robinson a performance artist? Nah — let’s go with just calling him “damn funny.” Whether he’s telling jokes behind a microphone, playing a piano and crooning sexy, silly songs, or acting in TV shows and movies like The Office, Eastbound & Down or This Is The End, the man knows how to inspire good times. You have five chances to see for yourself this weekend.

— DAN NAILEN

Learning about history doesn’t come much easier than experiencing it yourself. That must be part of the appeal of Civil War reenactments like the big one happening just outside Spokane over Memorial Day weekend, this one focused on the Battle of Deep Creek. Besides hearing and seeing the artillery fly, the camp includes all manner of more genteel pursuits, like a Civil War fashion show, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee (well, actors in the roles) discussing the war and a lantern tour through the opposing camps.

— DAN NAILEN

CULTURE TREASURE ON THE MOVE

Get down to the MAC this weekend for a last chance to see the trove of precious loot on display as part of the museum’s current exhibit Treasure!, including shipwreck salvage, collectible antiques, museum artifacts and more.

Besides learning about the incredible artifacts on display — including cargo from a Spanish ship that sank off the coast of Florida in 1633 — Treasure! offers interactive components ideal for families with kids. Also tying in with the touring exhibit created by a Seattle-based curator, staff have brought out some of the MAC archive’s more unusual and exciting items. Next up on the MAC’s exhibit schedule is an engaging look at “Animals in Art,” opening in mid-June.

— CHEY SCOTT Treasure! Closing Weekend • Open through Sun, May 29; open Tue-Sun from 10 am-5 pm (also on Mon, May 30) • $5-$10 admission • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture • 2316 W. First • northwestmuseum.org

CELEBRATION WOODY DAY

In 1941, folk singer Woody Guthrie traveled the Columbia River, taking a look at public works projects, including the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, that were part of the ongoing recovery effort from the Great Depression.

During his monthlong visit, Guthrie penned 26 songs about the region, many of which describe the natural beauty found along the mighty Columbia. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the project, Seattle author and KEXP DJ Greg Vandy has penned 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest, and the book’s release coincides with a celebration at the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center. The daylong event features film screenings, panel discussions, a laser show and a reading by Vandy.

— MIKE BOOKEY Woody Guthrie Day • Sat, May 28, beginning at 2 pm • Free • Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center, Coulee Dam, Wash. • woodyguthrieday.com

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BENEFIT

COMMUNITY DAY A portion of all proceeds go to KYRS Thin Air Community Radio. June 1, 5-9 pm. Soulful Soups & Spirits, 117 N. Howard St. bit.ly/1RlHRn3 UPSCALE SALE The 8th annual event hosted by Spokane Symphony Associates features gently used jewelry, decor, furniture, antiques, artwork and more. June 3-5 (preview on June 2, 5-7 pm, $5). Free admission. At 611 E. Sprague, Spokane. (990-6418)

COMEDY

ANDREW NORELLI Andrew has appeared on numerous late night shows, on Comedy Central and at major comedy festivals. May 26-29, at 8 pm, also Sat. at 10:30 pm. $10-$20. Spokane

Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) GUFFAW YOURSELF Open mic comedy night; every other Thursday at 10 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First Ave. (847-1234) AFTER DARK A adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s Friday show; last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045)

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I SAW YOU PRETTY BLUE POLICE INTERCEPTOR You: driving a bright blue Ford Police Interceptor. Me: riding president in the car next to you. You turned and smiled with a very gorgeous face and glasses.

When I turned to sneak a look at you again, you were laughing (hopefully not at my embarrassment!) You turned down a street on Nevada but also into my brain. I would love to see your smile again and meet for coffee. If you read these, drop an email at littleblueinterceptor@gmail.com I STILL SEE YOU. In Winco deciding on where to drop off the marshmallows, at the gym working up a sweat, or in the mirror sitting on the couch having coffee. I still see the most beautiful woman ever! ToY RED TRUCK BOY You: a medium height, sandy-haired journalist boy. You interviewed me a couple of weeks ago in the SFCC parking lot and I answered your questions as best I could, but I couldn't help but get lost in your deep eyes.

Gazing into them was like falling into the ocean of your soul, and the way your hair swooped perfectly matched the swooping of my stomach. I found myself giddy with laughter and going blank at all your questions. I was the shortest blonde of the group. I would love to answer more of your questions sometime. Care to have coffee sometime at the place of your choosing? sunglassesgirl489@ gmail.com

CUE STICK CLOWN In early March, at The Big Foot Tavern, you were getting cleaned out by your friends, who were betting against your ability to play pool with a broomstick as your cue. You hammed it up and were quite the clown about it. Maybe you were too tipsy to remember, but I was there with a friend, playing pool at the table next to you. We exchanged some smiles, and you made me giggle. I can't get you out of my head. do_eyed_doll@yahoo.com

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TO MY BEST FRIEND OF 13 YEARS Ashlee or Ashwee as I call you, Ever since we met in high school, I knew we were gonna be best friends. We always had each others backs when it came to anything, we've always been willing and able to keep the other in check. We've both gone through a great amount of trials and tribulations in both of our lives, we've both been each others shoulder to cry on through these tough moment.

With that being said I know the past week has been extremely rough for you but I am always here with open arms!!

I'm always here to send you a silly photo to make you smile, and I am ALWAYS SO PROUD OF YOU!!! You are so won-

and urine-soaked Confederate flag at David Duke's wretched compound.

BEST GARDEN EXPO EVER The Inland Empire Gardeners would like to thank our amazing volunteers that make Garden Expo happen every year on the second Saturday in May. Shout out to our incredible vendors that put their heart and soul into our garden show. Cheers to the public that comes out in force to support Garden Expo! Mark your calendars for next year's show date, May 13, 2017 at Spokane Community College. Remember the Garden Expo is a show put on by gardeners and it will always be free!

STONE COLD STRANDED A big THANK YOU to the Good Samaritan who went

owe u my life u are a wonderful person and I will always be happy to see u in the store

JEERS ADDING DRAMA TO GRIEF Shame on the brother/sister act who used their own sibling's memorial service to serve your own interests. Shame on you for disregarding the wishes of the deceased simply because they did not suit you.

Greed and manipulation have no place at a time like this. Shame on you for taking what was promised to another without discussion, consideration, or respect for anyone but yourselves. May he rest in peace, while you find none!

Thanks again to the Good Samaritan and hope I can return the favor someday. Pay It Forward Spokane!

still need gardening supplies in early June after 8 pm on a Friday :-). Check out the missed connections section on CL. MY BLUE CAP (GO HAWKS) A couple of weeks ago, you asked me to be patient.

I have been and am waiting for your approach. I haven't seen you for quite awhile, but I am giddy with anticipation.

CHEERS I'LL ALWAYS HOLD YOU CLOSE TO MY HEART I'll never forget that night. You were at your house on Sanson and I was at my parents house in the basement trying to make you a song. I called you and you said and we hung up. My spirit broke along with my heart that night and the notes in that song bring me to tears whenever I hear them. I regret not being the man that I should have been.

No matter what our current life situation leads our futures, I want you to know in your heart of hearts that I love you and our two little girls. Wake Me Up When

derful and deserve all the good things in life!!! Thanks for being an awesome friend, I'm looking forward to seeing the next 13 yrs+ of our relationship. I love you with all my heart ASHWEE!!! Love, Amberlamb.

GOOD INLANDER Cheers to the Inlander for helping transform our beautiful city with a promising future into an Inland Empire Wonderland that celebrates tolerance, diversity, helping the less fortunate, much needed pedal power lanes, sensible growth and living wages for all workers. I thank Buddha every week that you provide the usual racial equality, pro-humanity, progressive, socially equal excellence that helps encourage all Spokanites of all means to enjoy our livable, workable city. Gracias for informing families of all demographics to fairly elect a sensible forethinking citizens first City Council that supports small businesses and open minded, hopeful citizens. Good on ya Inlander. P.S. May the writer of last week's jeers to you suffer a miserable demise, wrapped up in a turd

SOUND OFF 1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3.

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

out of his way, along with his family, who stopped to offer help outside Stone Cold Ice Cream at Lincoln Heights the night of May 19th. My car had overheated and was leaking antifreeze. He not only stopped to help, he drove to O'Reilly's to buy not one, but two gallons of antifreeze/coolant. I had no cash and offered to send him what I owed. He told me not to worry about it. Thanks again to the Good Samaritan and hope I can return the favor someday. Pay It Forward Spokane!

HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY, TIM! Born 5/31/80 in Los Angeles. May it be one of the best birthdays ever with many more to come. I wish you nothing but the best.

You are continually in my thoughts, heart and prayers.

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SKINNY JEANS? This skinny jeans thing is getting ridiculous. If your waist size is bigger than 28, or you weigh more than 130 lbs., please don't wear anything with the word 'skinny' on the label. They are called skinny and not sausage jeans for a reason! Has our society forgotten what shame is? 

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MY FAVORITE CUSTOMER AND FRIEND Dear terisa I am so thankful for u u are the one that was there when I went down and u saved my life I am so greatful that u came in at the time u did if there was anyway to say thank u I would I litteraly

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EVENTS | CALENDAR COMEDY CONFESSIONS: NEVER HAVE KIDS Local comedians Phillip Kopczynski, Darryl Burns, Ginny Isbelle, Ken McComb and Harry Riley confess their funniest stories; this month sharing parenting-related anecdotes. May 31, 8 pm. $5. Tamarack Public House, 912 W. Sprague. bit.ly/1TIfe5k TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com CRAIG ROBINSON Beginning in 2005, Robinson portrayed Darryl Philbin on the American version of “The Office,” and was promoted to a starring role in the fourth season. June 2-3 at 7:30 pm, also Fri-Sat at 10:30 pm. $37.50-$52.50.

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

Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com

COMMUNITY

ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT This year’s route winds its way through the historic Browne’s Addition neighborhood. After identifying all 13 clues, enter your answers online to be entered into a drawing for the prize of your choice. Free to participate. Details at historicspokane.org; event continues through the month of May.

TREASURE! A touring exhibit exploring the history of treasure and treasure hunting, the technology used to look for it, and the people obsessed with finding it. Through May 29. $5-$10/ museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY: THE LIFE OF ISAAC STEVENS An exhibit showcasing the Governor’s controversial treaty negotiations, his Civil War heroics and his connection to Spokane Valley history. Through May 28, museum open Wed-Sat, 11 am-4 pm. $4-$6.

Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, 12114 E. Sprague. valleyheritagecenter.org MEET THE NEIGHBORS: SPOKANE BUDDHIST TEMPLE The final event of Spokane Interfaith Council’s six-month tour of Spokane’s diverse religious landscape. Meet members of and tour the Spokane Buddhist Temple. May 28, 2-4 pm. Free and open to the public.

Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry St. bit.ly/20wy9VC (534-7954) MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND HONOR A weekend to celebrate and honor United States men and women who have died serving their country in the military. The following local cemeteries fly 3,500+ flags honoring those we’ve lost: Fairmount, Greenwood, Riverside, Spokane-Cheney, Woodlawn, Pines & South Pines. May 28-30, 9 am-5 pm; also see website for special service details: fairmountmemorial.com REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS See vintage military memorabilia displays, large-scale model military vessels and more. Guests can bring a military photo to add to the “Wall of Honor.” The Spo-

kane Eagles Band performs May 29-30 at 2 pm, also see the Fairchild Air Force Base Wing Commander & Guard Presentation. Refreshments provided. Free.

Heritage Funeral Home, 508 N. Government Way. heritagefunerals.com SWING INTO SUMMER The dance begins with a swing dance lesson taught by a professional instructor, from 7-8 pm. Following the lesson until 10 pm will be general dancing, refreshments, door prizes, mixers, and more. May 28, 7 pm. $5-$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. (208-699-0421) ARABIAN HORSE EXTRAVAGANZA: A night of majestic Arabian horses preforming in eight special class events, with horses and riders dressed to the hilt in sparkling Western and refined English style. May 28, 7-9:30 pm. Free.

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. (292-9685) MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY The public is invited to the Washington State Veterans Cemetery Memorial Day Ceremony, featuring music by the Lilac City Community Band at 10:30 am. TheA ceremony begins at 11 am. Limited seating available. May 30, 11 am-noon. Free.

Washington State Veterans Cemetery, 21702 W. Espanola Rd. dva.wa.gov/ cemetery (299-6280) FIRST FRIDAY SWING DANCING A monthly community swing dance, beginning with a crash-course lesson in vintage swing followed by live swing music at 8:30 pm. Fridays, 8-11:30 pm through June. $10. The Gathering House, 733 W. Garland. vintageswingspokane.com (919-9162)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess The LiTTer Prince

My boyfriend and I just moved in together, and it’s going well, except for how he leaves empty containers and trash everywhere. I asked him to please just put these in the garbage. He did this — for a single day. These empties everywhere are driving me crazy, not because I mind picking them up but because I feel disrespected. It’s weird, because he’s otherwise sweet and attentive. —Exasperated

AMY ALKON

That used Q-tip is only a collectible if he used to be Elvis.

Of course, because your eyes go right to the empty cans and fast-food carcasses, you’re thinking his must, too. Maybe — but maybe not. Psychologists Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals contend that men and women evolved to have differing spatial abilities, corresponding with the sexual divisions of labor — men as hunters and women as gatherers (of salad and appetizers).

Experiments by Silverman, Eals, and others support this theory. Men have more distance-oriented visual and navigational abilities, which would have been useful for tracking prey across a big plain: “Yo, bros, I believe that’s dinner!” Men also excel at “mental rotation” — turning objects around in their minds — which would have helped them land a spear in a moving four-legged dinner entree before it got away.

Women, on the other hand, do far better (sometimes 60 to 70 percent better) on tests of “object location memory” — remembering objects and their placement in a setting. This ability for noticing and recalling detail would have helped them remember wee landmarks pointing back to where to find those yummy grubs. (It’s less helpful with a boyfriend who waits to toss trash until it requires a backhoe.)

The fact that your boyfriend tidied up upon request suggests he cares about your feelings. His doing that only once maybe just means it isn’t a habit. Habits — behaviors we do pretty automatically — get ingrained over time through repeated action. They are triggered by cues in our behavior and environment. Unfortunately, for him, the action of throwing back, say, the last drop of Mountain Dew has been associated not with slam-dunking it into the wastebasket but with leaving it on the coffee table for the archeologists to find.

You could try to help him make the trash-trashcan association, maybe by one day tacking notes on the empties — like “Hello, Mr. Archeologist. I was enjoyed in 2016.” The reality is that he may not always remember, in which case you should remind yourself that a guy who’s otherwise “sweet” and “attentive” isn’t leaving the mess to mess with you. You and he can also figure out ways he can do his part around the house (washing the cars, bringing in the garbage bins, etc.) so you can pick up after him with a laugh instead of loathing. Someday, you two may bring new life into the world, but it shouldn’t be a mystery fungus inside a Chinese food container that got kicked under the bed.

IRRECONCILABLE INDIFFERENCES

My girlfriend of two years seems to be gradually moving me out of her life. Seeing her two or three times a week has dwindled into maybe once — and no overnights. She’ll meet me at the movies and then ditch me afterward, saying she’s got a bunch of things to do. She denies anything’s wrong, claiming she’s just “very busy.” I think there’s more to it. —Left Hanging It seems you’re right; she’s really looking forward to your dates — the way a cow looks forward to a personal tour of the slaughterhouse.

People talk about what a high falling in love is, and they aren’t wrong, because their body’s basically in the throes of a biochemical drug binge. University of Pisa psychiatrist Donatella Marazziti looked at blood samples of people who’d been madly in love for less than six months and found that they had serotonin levels comparable to people diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Luckily, obsessively having sex is more fun than obsessively washing your hands.

Falling in love also alters testosterone levels — though differently in men and women. Men’s drops — making them more cuddlywuddly — and women’s goes up, increasing their interest in sex. Unfortunately, this increased interest is temporary. Marazziti found that T levels went back to normal between the one- and two-year mark — which is when the feeling “We’re perfect for each other!” can start to be replaced by “We’re perfect for other people.”

This may be how she’s been feeling. To get an answer — beyond knee-jerk denials that anything’s wrong — email her. Ask her whether you two have a problem, and tell her to take a couple of days to think about it. Upon reflection, she should either decide to try to fix things or break up with you — and not in a way that mimics continental drift. n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR FREE SHRED DAY Community members can have sensitive documents securely shredded. Limit is two bankers boxes or grocery bags. June 3, 9 am-noon. Free.

Numerica Credit Union- Sullivan Branch, 722 N. Sullivan. (991-7056) THE FARM CHICKS SHOW The annual antique, vintage and handmade vendor show fills more than 90,000 square feet with curated, juried vendors. June 4, 9 am-6 pm and June 5, 9 am-4 pm. $8/day; $15/weekend pass. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. thefarmchicks.com ARTFEST The MAC celebrates the 31st annual arts festival, hosting live music, food, fine arts booths, kids activities and more. Free to attend. Coeur d’Alene Park, 300 S. Chestnut St. northwestmuseum.org FREE STATE PARKS DAY As part of the Discover Pass legislation, residents are offered access to any state park without needing a Discover Pass. Includes access locally to Riverside and Mount Spokane State Parks. Upcoming free days: June 4, June 11, Aug. 25, Sept. 24.

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FILM

LOUDER THAN BOMBS A widower (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons must cope with new details about the death of his wife (Isabelle Huppert), a famed war photographer. Rated R. May 28-29, times vary. $5-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-255-7801) INTO THE HEART OF RWANDA Spokane photographer and videographer Rajah Bose accompanied Healing Hearts Northwest to Rwanda, where he captured the groups work there in a 10-minute documentary. Then, watch “Rising From the Ashes,” a movie about the Rwanda racing team and how its members healed from the devastation of the 1994 genocide. June 1, 7 pm. $15.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. healingheartsnorthwest.com FIRST FRIDAY CINEMA: MONO (ARTIST MOVING IMAGE INITIATIVE) After you tour the First Friday exhibits, head to Spark Center for a free community film on the big screen. June’s film is about an international art and film project. June 3, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) SPOKANE CHILDREN’S FILM FEST The Bing hosts the second annual Spokane Children’s Short Film Festival, featuring 19 award-winning short films perfect for kids and the child in all of us. June

3, 7 pm and June 4, 2 pm. $10. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org/SCFF (534-5805)

FOOD & DRINK

HIGHER GROUND ANIMAL SANCTUARY PINT NIGHT Bellwether Brewing hosts a pint night benefiting Higher Ground Animal Sanctuary; $1 from every pint sold is donated to the local nonprofit. May 26, 3-9 pm. Bellwether Brewing, 2019 N. Monroe. (280-8345) PRESERVATION HAPPY HOUR In honor of the Steam Plant’s centennial, the Spokane City/County Historic Preservation Office hosts an event with a presentation on preservation success stories from the past year and a video on the history of the Steam Plant. RSVP requested. May 26, 4:30-6 pm. $20.

Steam Plant Square, 159 S. Lincoln St. historicspokane.org (625-6986) SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar from Cigar Train during an event on the headed, outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. facebook.com/Prohibition.

Gastropub.Spokane1 (474-9040) VINO WINE TASTING Friday, May 27 highlights Vino’s best sellers, from 3-6:30 pm. Sat, May 28 is a tasting of wines from the Columbia Valley, from 2-4:30 pm. Wines also available bythe- glass. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino! A Wine Shop, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com (838-1229) SPRING BARREL TASTING Explore the secrets of the cellar and learn why China Bend naturally ages its organic sulfite-free wines up to four years in the barrel. Sample the wines and gourmet organic food products during a weekend of events, live music and more. May 28-30, noon-5 pm daily. free. China Bend Winery, 3751 Vineyard Way. chinabend.com (509-732-6123) PANCAKE BREAKFAST An all-youcan-eat breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage, orange juice and drinks. $5/ adults, $3.50/ages 6-12 years, free/ ages 5 and under. May 29, 8-11 am.

Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com (979-2607) INL FOOD TRUCK RALLY An event benefiting Inland Northwest Lighthouse (INL), featuring local food, beer and fun while celebrating jobs, independence, and empowerment for people who are blind here in Spokane.

June 2, 4-8 pm. Free to attend. Inland

Northwest Lighthouse, 6405 N. Addison. inlandlg.org (487-0405) IVORY TABLE SUPPER CLUB This month’s dinner is also a special celebration of the cafe’s second birthday. The menu features a multi-course, rusticstyle dinner prepared by chef/owner Kristen Ward, with wine pairings. June 3, 6 pm. $65/person. The Ivory Table, 1822 E. Sprague. (474-1300) SPO-CAN The fifth annual canned craft beer fest offers more than 50 canned beer and cider, along with the Spokes Mobile canning on site again to can your home brew. June 4, noon. Free admission. The Elk Public House, 1931 W. Pacific Ave. bit.ly/1qHlVNv

MUSIC

LIVE MUSIC NIGHT This monthly showcase features intimate performances from groups and solo artists playing original or cover material. May 27 and June 24, at 7 pm. $7. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. bit.ly/24kN0VY (342-2055) MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS WITH CAKE Friday Musical presents the last of its 2015-16 Centennial Concerts, featuring performing mothers and daughters including Melissa Drum and Angela Hunt, Sheri and Connor Jacobson, and Pat Sexton and Tamara Schupman. The final 100th birthday celebration also features cake and punch for all. May 27, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Central Lutheran Church, 512 S. Bernard St. (624-9233) SPOKANE SYMPHONY + TERRAIN: UNCHARTED After the success of 2015’s collaboration, these two local arts organizations collaborate for an auditory and visual feast for the senses, a retelling of “Peter and the Wolf.” May 27, 8 pm. $15-$50. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING EWU’s Concert, Symphonic, Collegians, and Vocal Jazz Choirs explore “Love and Understanding” in a spring concert program. June 2, 7:30-9 pm. $3-$5.

United Church of Christ, 423 N. Sixth St. cheneyucc.org (359-2241) CRESCENDO COMMUNITY CHORUS The spring concert, “Earth, Sea, & Sky,” offers an evening of choral music. $5/ person; $20/family. June 3, 7-8 pm. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 5720 S. Perry. crescendocommunitychorus.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY GALA FEAT. TONY BENNETT The American icon performs with a quartet to mark the

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SAVING STROKES The American Stroke Association and Rockwood Health System invite stroke survivors and their caregivers to enjoy a day of golf. No prior golf experience is needed, and golf pros will provide the instruction. May 26, 9 am-1 pm. Free; RSVP required. Downriver Golf Course, 3225 N. Columbia. savingstrokes.com (536-1500) 24 HOURS ROUND THE CLOCK A team 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.

Entry fee varies. May 28-29. Riverside State Park. roundandround.com SPRING COLORS BIRD WALK Join Spokane Audubon Society member Marian Frobe for a walk through Turnbull to spot birds in their brighter colors; learn to identify birds by habitat, behavior and color. May 28, 8 am-noon. $3/car entrance fee. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 26010 S. Smith Rd. fotnwr.org/activities.html (448-2291) ADULT GYMNASTICS & PARKOUR A class covering all men’s and women’s events, and parkour classes teaching skills to move freely over and through any terrain using only the abilities of the body. Sessions on Wednesdays, through June 15. $17. Spokane Gymnastics, 2525 N. Locust. spokanegymnastics.com FIESTA 5K! Race entry includes a taco bar/non-alcoholic margaritas after the race, along with live entertainment. All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. June 3, 6:15 pm. $35. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash. relayforlife.org/Fiesta5KWA JUNE BUG FUN RUN The annual 3- or 5-mile run/walk benefits programs of Lutheran Community Services Northwest. June 4, 9 am. $20-$25. Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St. lcsnw.org/junebugrun/ (533-7000) TOURNAMENT OF THE INLAND EMPIRE The Epona Equestrian Team hosts the second annual tourney, featuring jousting, archery, longsword fighting, equestrian skill-at-arms and a mounted melee! June 4-5, 8 am-8 pm. $5. At 6493 Hwy. 291, Nine Mile Falls. facebook.com/inlandjousting

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GUYS & DOLLS Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, “Guys and Dolls” is a high-energy romantic comedy. Through June 19, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com (325-2507) THE LADIES FOURSOME A comedy set during an outrageous round of golf, during which four women discuss life, love, men, sex and careers. Through May 29; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2:30 pm. $20-$24. Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. (455-7529) SFCC DRAMA PRESENTS: THE CRUCIBLE See the riveting drama about the Salem Witch trials in 1962, written as a commentary about the 1950’s McCarthy hearings. May 26-June 5, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10/public; Free/ students with ID. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. spokanefalls.edu CTY PRESENTS: SEUSSICAL Favorite Dr. Seuss characters are brought to life on stage, from Horton to the Cat in the Hat. Through May 29, Fri-Sun; times vary. $10-$12. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com MARY POPPINS A musical production based on the book by Julian Fellowes.

Through June 12, Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $12/adult, $8/ages 12 and under.

Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. spokanechildrenstheatre.org SHREK: THE MUSICAL Seventy local children ages 8-18 present a stage adaptation of the Dreamworks film.

Through May 29; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, SatSun at 3 pm. $9-$15. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cytni.org

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FROM THE COLLECTION: NEW ACQUISITIONS This summer, the Museum of Art/WSU offers a rare glimpse into new gifts of the permanent collection.

Through July 1, gallery open Tue-Fri, 12-4 pm. Free admission. Museum of Art/WSU, Wilson Rd. museum.wsu.edu NORMA BASSETT HALL Guest-curated

by Dr. Joby Patterson, this is the first solo exhibition of Hall’s work since her death in 1957, and is the first time that more than 60 of her prints have been gathered for in more than 50 years.

Through May 29. $5-$10/admission.

The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) TOM WAKELEY: ALONG THE TRAIL A month-long-showing of original contemporary oils by Priest Lake artist Tom Wakeley, with an artist reception on May 29, from 1-3 pm. Show runs

through June 1, gallery open daily at 10 am. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd., Priest Lake. entreegallery.com COMPULSION Eastern Washington University’s annual BFA Senior Exhibition features the work of six BFA candidates working in a variety of media and styles. May 27-June 10; reception May 27 from 6-8 pm. Free. EWU, 526 Fifth. ewu.edu (359-2494)

WORDS

RUSSELL ROWLAND & SHANN RAY Montana native Rowland reads from his new book, “Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey.” He’s joined by Spokane author Shann Ray, of “American Copper.” May 26, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (823-0206) READING: WILLIAM STIMSON A reading by the author of “Instilling Spirit: Students and Citizenship at Washington State.” May 27, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) RIVERSIDE STORYBOOK VOL. 1 RELEASE PARTY Celebrate the first volume of teen writers, poets, photographers, and artists. This teen-created, teen-curated journal is the first of its kind in Spokane. Issues are for sale for $10. May 27, 6 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) WILLOW SPRINGS READING Local writers Sharma Shields, Tod Marshall, Maya Zeller, and others present during an evening for readings, raffles, and books.

May 27, 6 pm. Free. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. thebartlettspokane.com BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s longest-running, weekly open mic reading series, open to all ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org READING: RICHARD RIPLEY The Spokane author reads from his new book, “Against the Torrents: Adventures from the Idaho Whitewater Life.” June 1, 7-8 pm.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) READING: INGRID THOFT, FRANK ZAFIRO AND STEVE OLIVER An evening of suspense and mystery as visiting author Ingrid Thoft is joined by local crime/mystery writers Frank Zafiro and Steve Oliver. June 2, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com

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State law does not preempt federal law; possessing, using, distributing and selling marijuana remains illegal under federal law. In Washington State, consuming marijuana in public, driving while under the influence of marijuana and transporting marijuana across state lines are all illegal.

Marijuana has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. It can also impair concentration, coordination and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. For more information, consult the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board at www.liq.wa.gov.

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Marijuana Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all things weed. The app, the “Lite” version of which is free, features

information about more than 175 strains, maps to local clinics and dispensaries, a dealer etiquette dictionary and recipes for homemade edibles.

PotSnob, Stoner’s Handbook and Weedmaps also are worth a download.

Releaf was created with medical marijuana patients in mind.

A patient downloads the app and records “feels” with each puff. A “feel” is a way to track the user’s experience, and includes everything from pain relief to whether the strain makes the user feel energized or sluggish and the intensity of the high.

Releaf then creates personalized reports to help patients figure out what strains, in which doses, are most effective.

The creators of Releaf also hope that the combined, anonymized user information will add to data on how medical marijuana is used as well.

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In this game, players create a character who moves through each stage of the marijuana growing and selling process, from growing and producing to marketing and selling the cannabis in a dispensary.

The game, which is being developed by HKA Digital Studio, doesn’t have a release date yet, but a teaser video on the Green Rush Daily YouTube channel shows a character choosing the strains he wants to grow, waiting until the cannabis is ready to be collected, then selling said cannabis to customers who bounce around a store.

There are also scenes of the city in which the shop is set, perhaps foreshadowing interactions with fellow growers in other parts of the town.

For smokers looking for like-minded friends, there’s Social High, an app created by Spokane’s Marsh Sutherland, which was featured here in Green Zone last September.

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LEFT: Dan Jackman, a mechanic at Mosaic Community Bike Shop; RIGHT: Levi Corker chats with Petra Crinklaw as they work. Both came across the shop by accident and have been coming back to volunteer ever since.

‘Not Just a Bike Shop’ A new nonprofit bicycle shop downtown picks up where another left off

BY JAKE THOMAS

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etra Crinklaw’s hands are tar-black from the bike grease, and her gaze is fixated on a BMX bike wheel, its axle clamped into a vice grip.

“Shhh. Don’t judge me,” whispers Crinklaw, who uses a pair of pliers for the especially tricky task of adjusting the bearings, small metal balls inside the wheel that allow it to glide forward. “I’m going to do this.”

Months ago when Mosaic Community Bike Shop opened up in a vacant parking lot and Crinklaw saw all of their bikes, she wandered in and kept coming back.

“I spent an entire summer teaching myself everything I know [about bikes] without asking any questions,” says Crinklaw, who now has help at the shop. “I hate them; but I love them. I hate the fact that they never want to work, and when you put the pieces back together and you have extra pieces.”

The shop is essentially the successor to Pedals2People, a lower South Hill nonprofit that sought to encourage bicycling by selling inexpensive refurbished bicycles and teaching people how to make repairs before closing its doors in 2014, says Doug Porter, Mosaic’s manager.

The shop, which opened downtown last September in a shuttered rental car office on Second Avenue, has a similar mission. It rents out repair stands for $10 an hour and sells bikes for prices ranging from $30 to $600, which helps Mosaic cover its costs, says Porter.

But Mosaic has more of a social component, says Porter. People in Community Court can complete their required volunteer hours by working in the shop. And Porter hopes that the shop will serve as a way for people

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to learn new skills that’ll help them land jobs, like the junior from Ferris High School who is getting credit for working in the shop.

The shop was also started by Mosaic Fellowship Spokane, a nondenominational church that purchased all of Pedals2People’s frames, wheels, handlebars and other various bike parts that are stored in a warehouse. Porter says that the church started the shop as a way to interact with people downtown “without being churchy” while filling a niche for the city’s cycling community.

“If nonprofit bike shops didn’t exist, there’d be no place to get used parts or learn to work on your own bike,” says Jason Spade, the shop’s volunteer business manager. “Because most of the high-end bike shops don’t do that.”

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an Jackman says he’s always been a tinkerer. In the back room of Mosaic, he’s tinkering on an “old, stiff and dirty” bike that someone brought in for a tune-up.

As he carefully threads a cable through the bike’s derailleur, he says that he used to work as a millwright, repairing and maintaining machinery at construction sites. His back problems limit his employment options, and he was working as a night security guard when he one day struck up a conversation with Porter and Spade.

“For better or for worse, I’m good at sticking my two cents in,” recalls Jackman, who made some suggestions on how to organize the shop. They listened, and hired him to fix up bikes and show other people how to work on theirs.

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“Sometimes we get people who come in who just want to talk,” says Jackman. Sometimes, he says, people who walk in are having a hard time and are losing faith in themselves and others and just want a sympathetic ear.

Morgan Schmidt, Mosaic’s public relations manager, says that although the shop is connected to a church, proselytizing and judging aren’t priorities.

“The bike shop is a place where it meets people where they’re at,” she says. “If you make $60,000 a year or $60 a week, you are welcome there.”

Porter says that before the shop opened up, it was a big vacant parking lot in a crime-ridden area. Now, he says, people feel ownership over the shop and the block.

He says a volunteer sweeps every day, and the two bikes that have been stolen were swiftly found and returned by volunteers.

“It’s not just a bike shop,” he says. “We’re trying to reclaim people’s lives; we’re trying to make an impact on this area of downtown.”

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hile Crinklaw continues working on the wheel, she banters with Levi Corker about his facial hair. His fingers are tattooed with letters spelling “Hillyard” and are obscured by black bike grease.

“He thinks he’s so funny with his Abraham Lincoln beard,” says Crinklaw.

“Hey, it took a long time to get this, OK?” he replies.

“Four score and seven years ago?” she asks.

“Maybe twice that,” he responds.

Crinklaw says she appreciates how Porter doesn’t “force the whole church thing on anyone.” Working on bikes at the shop, she says, provides her with a sense of satisfaction, seeing something that she built. Eventually, the shop plans to start offering a bike mechanic certification course that Crinklaw says she’ll enroll in.

“In all honesty, I think it’s a lot better than other bike shops,” she says. “And you can do this stuff yourself, and not have to worry about walking on eggshells.”  jaket@inlander.com

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