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Dismantle and Rebuild It’s time to reimagine public safety

BY JOHN T. REUTER

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he San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a resolution urging its Civil Service Commission to prohibit hiring police officers with a history of serious misconduct. Let that sink in.

In one of the most progressive jurisdictions in the nation — a region regularly hauled out by Fox News talking heads to show how liberals are “out of control” — what’s the bold step they are taking in response to nationwide protests over police violence? To stop hiring officers with serious misconduct complaints filed against them in other cities, which may well be the reason they’re seeking new employment.

Similarly, many of the policies currently being proposed seem to be just plain common sense — if also not nearly enough. Take, for example, the “8 Can’t Wait” proposals from Campaign Zero, which aims to end police violence in America.

Over 40 years of research, including an analysis of the 100 largest U.S. cities in 2016, show that restrictions on the use of force are the most effective way to reduce police violence. Basically, having policies that reduce the use of violence do, in fact, reduce violence.

Specifically, Campaign Zero has identified eight policies that when fully implemented were “associated with 72 percent fewer police-involved killings compared to departments with none of these policies in place and a 54 percent reduction for the average police department.”

Here are those policies:  Ban Chokeholds and Strangleholds.

Choking and strangling too often result in unnecessary deaths and serious injuries.  Require De-Escalation. By communicating and maintaining distance, along with other tactics, officers can de-escalate situations and eliminate the need to use force.  Require Warning Before Shooting. Giving a verbal warning before using deadly force seems pretty basic, but it often isn’t official policy.  Require Exhausting All Alternatives Before Shooting. Exhaust all other alternatives, including non-force and less-lethal force options, before resorting to killing people.  Duty to Intervene. If you see another cop using excessive force, stop them.  Ban Shooting at Moving Vehicles. Shooting at moving vehicles never makes sense. It is dangerous and ineffective.  Require Use of Force Continuum. Actually have a system that determines what level of force is appropriate in various situations and only allow severe types of force in the most extreme situations.  Require Comprehensive Reporting. If an officer uses force, threatens force or points a

gun at someone, it needs to be included in their report.

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one of these policies are radical. All are currently implemented in some police departments. This raises the question: Why haven’t these basic reforms been implemented everywhere?

Frequently the answer has been police unions. Police unions have forcefully advocated for broad discretion in the use of force and minimal accountability. The argument has been that both are needed to protect the safety of officers.

Police unions’ success in this advocacy has often made it difficult to fire officers for even blatant misconduct and near impossible to convict them when they commit crimes while on the job.

Police unions also frequently defend officers beyond any rational standard.

For example, during a recent protest in Buffalo, after an officer was caught on tape forcefully pushing and injuring an elderly man, the union initially claimed he had tripped. (He had not.)

Then, they said, officers were ordered to clear the square and were just following orders. They weren’t specifically told not to knock over elderly gentlemen, so how could they have known?

It’s perhaps unsurprising given this approach and attitude that cities with police unions see greater occurrences of police violence.

But also they don’t actually realize any improvement in officer safety. That’s right. Police unions, as a whole, have made policing less safe for the people they are sworn to serve without actually increasing officers’ own safety.

However, despite the despicable statements made and the counterproductive policies proposed by some of their elected union leaders, I’m still sympathetic to the challenges faced by frontline officers.

In many ways, they’ve been given impossible jobs. Former Dallas Police Chief David Brown spoke to this in 2016.

“Every societal failure, we put it to the cops to solve,” Brown said. “Not enough mental health funding? Let the cops handle it. Not enough drug addiction funding? Let’s give it to the cops.

Here in Dallas we have a loose dog problem. Let’s have the cops chase loose dogs. Schools fail? Give it to the cops. … That’s too much to ask. Policing was never meant to solve all those problems. I just ask other parts of our democracy along with the free press to help us.”

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t’s clearly time to reimagine public safety. This goes beyond the simple prescriptive steps described above. We need to dismantle police departments across our nation and rebuild them to actually tackle the challenges we face.

This approach may sound radical, but actually isn’t. It isn’t even new. In 2013, for example, in New Jersey, the Camden Police Department was disbanded and then reformed as the Camden County Police Department with a dramatic refocusing on community policing.

It’s time for this kind of overhaul of police departments to be conducted across the country with an even greater emphasis on the different types of public safety personnel and responses required by different situations. Sometimes we will still need the overwhelming force of a SWAT team, but more often situations call for social workers and other types of highly skilled, but unarmed, civil servants.

Over the last weekend, a supermajority of the Minneapolis City Council committed to exactly this kind of reimagining.

City Council President Lisa Bender tweeted, “Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.”

She acknowledged in an interview with CNN that they don’t know exactly what they’re building yet, but they do know it will be built for and with the people who live within their community.

They know they will build it for this moment, to expand justice and in aspiration of achieving their highest values.

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MAKING CHANGE How a Spokane Valley mother’s story inspired a new state law to give aid to parents of crime victims

Kasandra Turner’s story helped to spark a reform that takes effect this week. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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s soon as Kasandra Turner found out her daughters were being sexually abused, she made it her job to protect them at all costs.

But between the criminal court case and hospital visits, it took a financial toll. Turner and her family were going broke.

“I felt like a failure,” Turner says. “You want to provide for your kids. I was a mom who had to deal with my kids being hurt. So I was grieving and dealing with that, as well as wondering how we were going to make it.”

Worried she couldn’t recover from the time she took off work, Turner contacted state Sen. Mike Padden’s office last year. Padden (R-Spokane Valley) pushed for a bill that would allow parents of children who are crime victims to receive benefits under the Crime Victims’ Compensation Program. It passed unanimously, and earlier this year Gov. Jay Inslee signed it into law.

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for a portion of a victim’s lost wages. But previously, parents of a minor child victim couldn’t recover those wages through the program. The bill, signed by Inslee on April 3, will allow parents to be able to recover up to 30 days of lost wages due to time they spent helping children through legal proceedings or medical and counseling services. Parents can apply for the benefits for up to three years after the crime was reported to police.

“It was something we could do for victims because a lot of other legislation I pass doesn’t always take into account the victim’s perspective or the impact on them,” Padden says.

And it was Turner’s story that sparked the change.

“She was definitely the motivation to look into the issue,” Padden says.

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hen Turner’s twin daughters told her on June 11, 2019, that they were victims of sexual abuse, she says it turned her “whole world

upside down.”

“I turned into a mama bear,” she says.

She contacted the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, which sent out an officer that day to take a report from the girls. Then, she went to file a restraining order against the alleged abuser, who lives in Okanogan County. The officer set her up with an advocate from Lutheran Community Services.

She missed the next LETTERS few days of work, Send comments to where she’s a customer editor@inlander.com. service representative for a health insurance company. She’s typically passionate about her job, but couldn’t bring herself to work.

“I’m doing what I love to do, and I had no ounce of energy to do it,” Turner says.

She anticipated that over the next several months she’d have to miss more work and run out of paid time

off. Turner considers herself resourceful, so she tried to find ways to save money by asking her creditors for extensions and using the food bank. She found out about the Crime Victim Compensation Program and started filling out an application in an effort to recover some of her lost wages. But the questions were for victims themselves, not for a parent of a victim or minor children.

Brigitte Yamamoto, a crime advocate for Lutheran Community Services, says she’s heard similar frustrations from other parents of victims.

“That’s where Kasandra was thinking that gap of service was,” Yamamoto says.

Feeling like she was hitting a brick wall, a friend suggested Turner email Sen. Padden’s office.

“I needed help,” she says.

Padden’s assistant quickly responded to Turner’s email.

“She told me he’s going to take this to his people in Olympia,” Turner recalls.

“I felt like somebody wanted to listen, like I could make a difference in other people’s lives.”

But it wouldn’t be an immediate fix. And she was taking a harder financial hit than she anticipated. One of her daughters began having gastrointestinal issues, causing her to be hospitalized multiple times. Turner says the doctors told her it was related to stress and trauma, like what happened to her was literally “tearing her apart.” When her daughter was hospitalized, she made sure to be there, causing Turner to miss more work.

Both daughters were already in counseling, and they increased sessions to twice a week, Turner says. Her other daughter — who wasn’t having severe medical issues — was admitted to a local hospital for intensive mental health treatment.

Meanwhile, Turner had to drive back and forth from Spokane Valley to Okanogan County several times to handle the court case, which is ongoing.

In total, she estimates she missed around a month’s worth of work to help her daughters, and she wasn’t able to recover much of that time. On top of that, the family had added expenses from the hospital visits and the travel for the court case.

“I just kind of felt defeated,” Turner says.

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n January, she heard from Padden’s office again. They wanted her to testify in support of a bill in the Legislature.

It wouldn’t give her the compensation she needed earlier, but it could help her later on.

“I felt like I won the lottery,” she says. “I had butterflies in my stomach. I felt like somebody wanted to listen, like I could make a difference in other people’s lives.”

The bill had no opposition. Through the process, Turner says she realized it was so much bigger than her.

“So many people out there are in worse situations than myself,” she says.

Padden says he was surprised to find out that someone like Turner wouldn’t have qualified for compensation in the first place.

“Obviously you have to have regulations and rules of who gets it and who doesn’t. I didn’t think it was right that she didn’t qualify, and she’s taking time off work,” Padden says. “I just thought it was good policy to make those changes.”

The bill will go into effect June 11, exactly one year since Turner learned of the abuse against her daughters. The family is still recovering, and still seeking justice, she says. Thankfully, both her and her husband have been able to work during the pandemic.

As she and other families continue to navigate all that comes with being a victim of a crime, she can take some solace in the fact that compensation will be available in the future.

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NEWS | POLICE until there is not another case of injustice, maltreatment, or abuse of people at the hands of the police.”

And what does it say, Logue says, if Spokane can’t get real reform done now, with all this national demand for change?

“If not now,” he writes in a refrain he repeats multiple times throughout the letter, “then when?”

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Heading Backward?

As thousands march for more police accountability, a proposed Spokane Police contract could result in less

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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ometimes, timing is everything. Spokane’s Police Guild has gone over three years without a new contract. Since 2017, the city and the Guild have been locked in behind-the-scenes negotiations over pay scales, benefits and police oversight. Even after an ordinance passed this November requiring union negotiations to be held in public, neither side was willing to say what proposals were being offered behind closed doors.

The public could only wait for an official draft of a proposal to be released.

Last Friday, they got one. But the proposed new contract, argues City Council President Breean Beggs, ultimately represents a step backward for police oversight, one that he believes could create a chilling effect on the police ombudsman in charge of ensuring police accountability.

One proposed change, he says, would allow the Guild to try to remove a police ombudsman or a member of the volunteer ombudsman commission for “exceeding their authority.”

“You might as well not have an ombudsman if you have that provision in there,” Beggs says. “I can’t vote for the contract with that.”

City Administrator Wes Crago argues that the ombudsman has been “strengthened” overall.

But on Monday, Spokane’s current police ombudsman, Bart Logue, sent an email to Crago, the City Council and the mayor ringing many of the same alarm bells

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as Beggs, warning that “this potential contract greatly infringes upon the independence” of his office.

That loss, he writes, would be devastating.

“In this job, I have faced numerous accusations, disrespect, and outright hostility from the police guild. I have faced countless obstacles from the police department and city as I have worked to fulfill the requirements of the office,” he writes. “What has become crystal clear to me over nearly four and a half years, is that there would be NO chance I would still be standing in this role without independence from the city.”

The City Council plans to vote on the contract next week. It would have been a tough sell for the council to approve at any time.

But right now? Night after night, Spokane’s streets are packed with protesters decrying police brutality and racism. Similar protests have hit all 50 states.

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The city of Minneapolis has even announced a plan to dismantle and rebuild the police department entirely.

“It has become very clear that in communities nationwide, trust of the police continues to erode,” Logue writes. “The protests and outrage should impress upon us the seriousness of their concerns; we should not rest

protester on Sunday marches through downtown Spokane holding aloft a posterboard sign almost as big as she is, inscribed with the familiar slogan: “SAY THEIR NAMES.” And underneath there’s a familiar list of victims killed by police, including New York City’s Eric Garner and Sean Bell, Louisville, Kentucky’s Breonna Taylor, and Ferguson, Missouri’s Michael Brown. But the first name the protester wrote — Otto Zehm — was the death that forever altered policing in Spokane.

In 2006, Zehm, a mentally disabled janitor, walked into a Spokane Zip Trip to get a Snickers, only to be tased, beaten and hogtied by Spokane Police officers. He died, and police officers lied about it. The officer who struck Zehm 13 times with his signature ironwood baton was sent to prison — though not before 50 officers in the courtroom, including future Police Chief Craig Meidl, stood up and saluted the convicted officer.

Long before he was council president, Beggs sued the city on behalf of Zehm’s family. He was a major force in pushing the city to empower an independent police ombudsman to scrutinize SPD’s actions.

Almost immediately, however, the ombudsman’s office was defanged by a state arbitrator, who declared a significant portion of ombudsman’s powers to be an “unfair labor practice.”

Even after 70 percent of Spokane voters supported an ordinance in February of 2013 to etch the ombudsman’s right to conduct independent investigations into city law, that power has remained at the mercy of the Police Guild’s contract.

Even now, Logue says, he still doesn’t have the full investigative authority. And the new contract wouldn’t fix that.

“Right now, the Guild’s stance is that we can only investigate things that the police department won’t,” Logue says. “That’s them dictating what we can look at.”

Even his limited ability to write non-binding reports about the police department’s actions would be weakened if this passes, Logue argues. He wouldn’t be able to declare that an officer’s actions broke the SPD policies. He wouldn’t be able to cite specific citizens’ complaints when he recommends changes for the department.

Sure, Beggs and Logue say that the proposed new contract contains some improvements. The ombudsman would be guaranteed more access to evidence. He’d be able to investigate minor complaints. Most of his powers are expanded to his assistants in the ombudsman office as well.

But all that modest progress, Beggs and Logue say, is washed away by the proposal to give the Guild the power to try to get the ombudsman — or a member of the ombudsman’s commission overseeing him — fired for either leaking confidential information or “exceeding their authority.” The union would be able to file a grievance and send the issue to arbitration to enforce the agreement.

“If the overseen can fire the overseer, that’s a problem,” Logue tells the Inlander. “That’s an absolute problem. In no way, shape, or form should that be part of that contract at all.”

The proposed contract doesn’t outline what exactly “exceeding their authority” means. But Beggs is worried that simply the threat of losing their job could cause the ombudsman to play it safe — and not challenge the police department when it should be challenged.

Similarly, the proposed contract requires all appointed members of the ombudsman commission to have a reputation for “even-handedness,” and it allows the union to file a grievance to try to prevent candidates who they feel aren’t evenhanded from joining the commission.

“To be honest, I’m appalled,” says Jenny Rose, chair of the ombudsman commission.

“Why are you doing this right now when the country is like this?”

Rose isn’t anti-union. She says her dad used to be president of Spokane’s police union back in the 1980s. She herself served as the president of the Spokane Education Association for eight years. But she still feels like the Spokane Police Guild is going too far.

“I think they think they’re too powerful,” Rose says. “A lot of people are trying to not make them angry... I also think a lot of people are scared of them.”

The Spokane Police Guild did not respond to a request from comment Friday.

multiple areas of city government and operation, and that would be no different,” he says.

Coddington reels off a lengthy list of ways that the city has reformed its police department since the death of Zehm, including adding body cameras, reducing use-of-force incidents, and implementing crisis-intervention training.

The proposed contract, he says, involved compromises made long before the current national conversation about police brutality.

But even Michael Cathcart, the most conservative member on the City Council, says he doesn’t know if he can support the proposed contract.

“It still does not comply with the charter of the city of Spokane with regard to an independent ombudsman. I’m disappointed if they’re not there yet,” Cathcart says. “Seven years after the charter amendment was approved — 14-15 years after the tragedy that was Otto Zehm.”

Cathcart says he wishes he could separate the financial piece from the oversight piece — granting the police department their long-overdue uring last year’s campaign, Mayor raises without approving the limitations on the Nadine Woodward repeatedly touted the ombudsman.

Police Guild’s endorsement of her, apBetsy Wilkerson, the sole black woman on pearing beside them in campaign ads and going the council, echoes that frustration. out doorbelling with its members.

“These people in blue have been waiting so She proposed placing a term limit on the omlong for the next chapter of their lives,” Wilkbudsman and lamented that the conflict over the erson says. “[But] that ombudsman thing that ombudsman’s powers may have been hampering has dogged us forever. The community needs negotiations over the police contract. reconciliation on that.”

The closed-door union negotiations mean The community needs transparency and that we don’t know precisely how Woodward’s accountability from the police department, she philosophy has influenced the proposed contract. says, to provide healing and build trust. But says she’s not tipping her hand for how she’s going to vote on the contract.

“I want to listen. I want to hear,” Wilkerson says. “I now Last Sunday, May 31, a represent a large part of the woman named Andrea city. I remember that, as black Gallardo was caught as I am, I represent others, between a cloud of tear too.” gas and a line of police Beggs hits a similar officers. When police told theme.

He still believes the her to move on, she told same things he did when he them, “There’s nowhere to was an attorney fighting for go,” she recalls to the Inpolice reform — but he knows lander. Then, in an incident that he’s now representing captured on video, officers A screenshot of the video showing the arrest. both the cops and those who tackled her into the cloud are marching and calling for of tear gas and pressed a knee to her neck briefly. defunding them.

The Spokane Police Ombudsman, Bart Logue, says he’s received “Whether you’re the permultiple complaints about the arrest, including from Gallardo. Spokane Police son who got a knee on their Chief Craig Meidl, in a statement, says that night “once the very clear and neck or you’re the person dounequivocal direction was given to disperse, opportunity was provided for ing it in the middle of the riot, individuals to leave. Many individuals decided they would not leave, per the they’re all people,” Beggs says. lawful directive.” Read more at Inlander.com. (WILSON CRISCIONE) “We have to not demonize each other.”

“Generally speaking, as she came into office, Even if the council approves the negotiated she had it a priority to get the contract done,” contract, it will expire at the end of the year. says city spokesman Brian Coddington. “The Negotiations on the next contract will likely Police Guild has operated for three years without start this fall. As the outcry reaches a volume it. It was a priority for her to make sure that for that’s rarely ever been seen in Spokane, Beggs both parties of the contract there was resolution says simply punting on the police oversight quesand clarity moving forward.” tions until the next contract has become a lot Coddington says that the city’s attorneys more difficult because of the protests. concluded that the contract didn’t clash with the Yet both he and Logue see that as an opporcity’s charter and that the provision allowing the tunity for real reform.

Guild to try to remove the ombudsman isn’t all “We’ll never have as many sympathetic ears that unusual. as we will in this moment,” Logue says. n “There are grievance processes that exist in danielw@inlander.com

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Sizing Down Drastic budget cuts due to the pandemic put a spotlight on EWU priorities on racial equity and academics

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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n early March, Shari Clarke got an unexpected call from Eastern Washington University President Mary Cullinan.

It wasn’t good news. Cullinan told Clarke, the vice president for diversity and inclusion at EWU, that her position created in 2017 would be discontinued by the end of the year, due to a “reorganization of the institution.”

Clarke was stunned.

“I was very concerned what it would mean for the university and our students in underrepresented populations, who did not have a voice and who did not feel they were adequately represented in the past, which is why it existed in the first place,” Clarke says.

She wasn’t the only one. Other faculty members were surprised, too. Julia Smith, the faculty organization president at EWU, says she was “disheartened” that Clarke’s position was terminated without a plan already in place to support diversity and inclusion. It didn’t help that the decision was made just days after the EWU Board of Trustees declined to authorize a review of athletics

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EWU is considering potential cuts to athletics that it previously rejected. spending, with the university facing what would now be considered relatively modest budget cuts.

That, however, was all before the pandemic. Today, EWU is projecting it will lose tens of millions of dollars in state funding and tuition and may need to reduce its budget by 12-15 percent. Already, the university is preparing cuts that will impact 400 staff, including layoffs.

And the university may declare a “severe financial crisis” that will allow it to entertain cutting academic programs.

“I hate to use the ‘perfect storm’ line, but really, it’s a whole bunch of things that came together,” Cullinan says.

“It’s a bitter time. It’s extremely stressful. And we’re losing people in their jobs, which is just heartbreaking.”

The budget crisis is forcing EWU to rethink what it will look like in the future. While it dismissed the idea of cutting athletics spending months ago, for example, the Board of Trustees has now authorized an outside consultant to review all aspects of athletics.

Yet as it considers where to make cuts, it’s put more scrutiny on what EWU prioritizes: Will more programs benefiting students of color get cut? Will EWU put academics above athletics?

“In the current world, we’re having to ask ourselves, what are the pieces that really matter?” Smith says.

“What are the pieces we can’t live without?”

PLANS GONE ASTRAY

A combination of factors, not just the pandemic, got Eastern Washington University to this point.

During the last recession a decade ago, EWU lost more than $50 million in state dollars, Cullinan says, and the university struggled to make that up without raising tuition too much. Then, a few years ago, enrollment started to dip from a headcount of 10,650 students in 2015 to, in 2020, 9,869. That’s caused budget reductions

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of 3 percent in 2019 and 2020, which already had faculty frustrated.

In February, a group of faculty suggested one way to save some money: Look at athletics spending.

Led by associate physics professor David Syphers, the faculty members compiled a report that found athletics cost EWU $12 million to $14 million per year. They presented an array of options to save money, including cutting athletics entirely. The Board of Trustees, however, didn’t take the idea of examining the athletics budget very seriously — they quickly declined to authorize an independent review of athletics.

Meanwhile, the university in March decided to cut Clarke’s position in the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, a move first reported by the Black Lens newspaper.

Clarke says she’s “clueless” as to why the decision was made, but says since she was hired in 2017, she got pushback on various projects she hoped to pursue.

“There were a lot of barriers to moving an agenda of inclusive excellence forward,” she tells the Inlander.

“And I don’t know if the barriers were based on financial concerns or a complete and total lack of commitment to the position, and true understanding of what diversity is, really.”

Clarke says she was very disappointed with the decision. It was crucial to have a person of color on the executive leadership team advocating for students, she says. A petition started by the Multicultural Coalition of EWU urges the university to reverse course, and it’s gathered more than 1,000 signatures.

Cullinan, however, says that spaces for students of color won’t be taken away. The EWU Multicultural Center and Pride Center will be put under student affairs. And four academic diversity programs — Chicanx, Africana, American Indian and women and gender

studies — will now report to one department chair, as they should according to the faculty contract.

“A student isn’t going to feel it. They’re not going to see a difference,” Cullinan says. “We felt what really needed to happen was that we needed a leader in academic affairs,” she says.

In her view, that new position, an assistant vice president for equity and inclusion, can potentially make more of a difference in the classroom. Plus, they would still be on her leadership team.

Then came a hitch with that plan: COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, Cullinan says they haven’t been able to do a search to hire someone for that position. EWU can’t do those interviews over Zoom, and she doesn’t know when that will change.

So when Clarke is finished at EWU, there won’t be a position focused on racial equity and inclusion on Cullinan’s leadership team.

“It’s a serious problem,” Cullinan admits.

Not only that, but the pandemic made the simmering budget issues at EWU burst into flames. Without students on campus to use dining services, book stores or the rec center, all of the pieces generating revenue for EWU stopped, costing millions. And the state has made it clear that it will pull millions more in financial support for universities, Cullinan says.

As EWU moves to more online learning due to COVID-19, Clarke worries about every student having equitable access. And she worries about other programs for students of color being cut.

“I had a call last week from another area on campus, saying they needed the help of my office, because students of color were absolutely terrified, in the midst of COVID-19 and the lynching [of George Floyd] we saw, and all the situations going on,” Clarke says. “I think there’s a lot of fear and concern. And you need an office that can deal with students right there.”

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At the May 29 Board of Trustees meeting, Julia Smith, the faculty organization president, shared a message.

“What’s a university? At the core — at the heart — of a university are students. And specifically, students’ relationship with faculty, with learning, with becoming wiser, more knowledgeable, more ethically sophisticated than they were,” Smith says in a written statement.

That means the core responsibility should be instruction and degree programs, she says.

“We can be a university without housing as we know it, even without dining,” she says. “We can be a university without a football team, even without any collegiate athletics. We know this because other universities with superb undergraduate and graduate education do so.”

Cullinan says that, truly, everything is now on the cutting table. That includes athletics. The university already decided not to give the athletics budget $2 million that was previously going toward it, and an independent consultant should provide more input before the fall.

“Where could costs be cut, but also what changes could be made that could help us be more fiscally responsible in those areas?” Cullinan says. “That’s a big section of the university that is separate from academics, although our student athletes are wonderful students.”

Smith says she’s encouraged that EWU is listening to faculty on the athletics spending, even if it took a pandemic for EWU to do so. But she says the situation for EWU remains dire.

“We’re not deciding what to give a haircut to,” Smith says.

“We’re deciding what arm we can live without.”

Smaller degree programs could be cut, though Cullinan stresses that students in those programs would be able to graduate first. With hundreds of staff members impacted by layoffs or pay cuts already, faculty could be next.

Still, if there’s a message of hope to be shared, Cullinan says it’s that EWU will come out of the other side of this crisis, somehow.

“We will emerge from this probably a smaller institution,” Cullinan says. “But my vision is that we will be even more focused on what students need, and be an even stronger resource for the whole community.” n

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LIVELY UP YOURSELF On the 40th anniversary of Uprising, Bob Marley’s final album before his death, we consider where it ranks among the reggae legend’s catalog

BY DAN NAILEN

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ike millions of American kids, my introduction to Bob Marley came via his ubiquitous 1984 greatest-hits collection Legend. Colleges were basically required to issue a copy to every incoming freshman back in the day; that’s the only explanation of how unavoidable Legend was. It’s sold more than 15 million copies to date, and for many, it was a gateway to a lifelong passionate musical affair with the man who took the ska sound of his native Jamaica, combined it with rock and turned reggae, and himself, into a global phenomenon.

June 10 marks the 40th anniversary of Uprising, the last album Marley recorded before he died of cancer at 36. Its 10 songs encapsulate Marley well, ranging from stridently political tracks of social commentary (“Real Situation”) to love songs (“Could You Be Loved”) to praise for his Rastafarian religion (“Forever Loving Jah”). And you can’t really do better than “Redemption Song” as the last song on a final album from any artist.

Marley’s career-spanning themes of equal rights and justice for all on songs like “Blackman Redemption” and “Survival” are as relevant in 2020 as they were during his lifetime. I’ve been listening to a lot of Uprising lately, and musing on where it ranks among his studio albums. As summer takes over, any of these albums makes for a fine soundtrack. But let’s rank ’em, starting at the best, at least in this fan’s opinion: ...continued on page 16

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NATTY DREAD 1974 Bob Marley’s first album made without his long-time partners Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer inspired his best work, and his dramatic move into matching amazing music with serious political messages. While party anthem “Lively Up Yourself” is a classic, and nostalgia trip “No Woman, No Cry” its most famous song, it’s tracks like “Them Belly Full (But We Hungry),” “Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Road Block)” and “Revolution” that give this album the edge over the rest of Marley’s catalog.

BURNIN’ 1973 Arguably Marley’s most consistent set of songs, thanks to the presence of all-time killers like “Get Up, Stand Up,” “I Shot the Sheriff,” “Small Axe” and “Burnin’ and Lootin.’” The only reason it’s not my top pick is that several of them are re-recordings of old songs.

CATCH A FIRE 1973 The Wailers’ first album for Island Records and their introduction to global audiences, Catch a Fire is massively important for introducing reggae music beyond Jamaica’s borders. “Concrete Jungle” and “Stir It Up” are highlights.

SOUL REBELS 1970

Recorded by Jamaican legend Lee “Scratch” Perry and released on Trojan Records, this is the sound of the Wailers evolving from a ska crew into a reggae band. Perry’s sparse approach to production gives the songs a grit missing in some of the glossy majorlabel releases to come.

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KAYA 1978 Dismissed by many for lacking the hard political edge of other albums, Kaya is one of my favorite Marley albums for that very reason. While recorded at the same time as the more strident Exodus, this set is Marley’s best set of love songs (“Is This Love,” “She’s Gone”), and an ideal listen if you’re looking for good vibes, starting with opener “Easy Skanking.”

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EXODUS 1977 Marley recorded this classic and Kaya in London after an assassination attempt on his life in Jamaica in late 1976. Incorporating traditional soul and blues into his reggae, Marley filled Exodus with a nice balance of love songs and social commentary.

It would probably rank higher for me if I hadn’t heard it so much through the years, thanks to “Jamming,” “Three Little Birds” and “One Love.”

SURVIVAL 1979 The follow-up to the fun-loving Kaya is the sound of Marley realizing his global strength as a personality and performer. Songs address global issues, like opener “So Much Trouble in the World” and “Africa Unite.”

UPRISING 1980 The last album released before Marley’s death is packed with songs praising his Rastafarian religion and focused on his spiritual life. Rather than being obnoxious, though, it comes off as a bright addition to his catalog thanks to opener “Coming in from the Cold” and the hit “Could You Be Loved.”

The closing acoustic take on “Redemption Song” is an all-time great performance.

RASTAMAN VIBRATION 1976

Marley takes listeners to the streets of Jamaica’s Shantytown via songs like “Crazy Baldhead” and the brilliant “War,” a song Sinead O’Connor performed right before

CONFRONTATION 1983 Released posthumously, Confrontation is stronger than any odds-and-ends collection deserves to be. “Buffalo Soldier” is the most famous song, but the best might be the closing “Rastaman Live Up!”, co-written with Lee “Scratch” Perry.

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Despite the title, this isn’t a compilation of early tracks by Marley, Tosh and Wailer, but rather the Wailers’ fourth album.

Recorded by Jamaican legend Leslie Kong, it has early versions of “Soul Shakedown Party” and “Stop the Train.”

SOUL REVOLUTION 1971 Early, gritty versions of “Kaya” and “Lively Up Yourself” are among the treats on this early album recorded by Lee “Scratch” Perry.

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A compilation of early singles is a nice time capsule of when the Wailers were shifting from traditional Jamaican ska into reggae and includes unexpected covers like “What’s New, Pussycat.” n

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But summer is right on the horizon, and we’re looking forward to the simple pleasures that summertime can offer — a warm day, a cold beverage, a quiet afternoon on the lake. It’s the change of pace that a lot of us could use right now.

The Inlander’s Summer Guide is here to help make those simple pleasures even more pleasurable. Looking for a way to keep your kids entertained in the next few months? We’ve got you covered.

Want to enjoy the sunshine on the water, on your bike or even from behind the wheel on a day-long road trip? We can help you out.

We’ve also got handy guides for activities relating to local food, drink and weed, and even a handful of indoor events for when you need that dose of air conditioning.

Though restrictions are easing up and businesses, state parks and beaches are gradually reopening, make sure that social distancing protocols are always a priority; some venues may have their own special guidelines to follow, too. There’s also a chance that some of the events we’ve chosen to highlight will be canceled and postponed in the future (see inlander.com for calendar updates), but we’re looking on the bright side anyway. Have a safe and happy summer.

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Arts FAR, FAR AWAY

Concerts, art festivals, live comedy and theater to entertain your summer days

BY INLANDER STAFF

While the remainder of the Spokane Symphony’s 2019-20 season was canceled back in March, one installment of its popular movie music concerts got a new date late this summer. The orchestra’s performance of “Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert” is now set for Sept.

12 and 13, and features a screening of the complete 1977 film as John Williams’ iconic score is performed under the direction of Morihiko Nakahara. Before taking their seats, concertgoers can enjoy activities in the Fox Theater lobby, including photo ops with local Star Wars cosplayers, a kids lightsaber-making activity and more. Tickets are still available ($20-$103) at foxtheaterspokane.org. (CHEY SCOTT)

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The Spokane Symphony’s “Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert” is now set for Sept. 12 and 13.

OUTSIDE SOUNDS

This summer’s gilded list of touring musicians and entertainers has something for everyone. Have an urge to go see an alt-rock legend? Weezer is kicking off Northern Quest’s Outdoor Summer Concert series July 14 with tickets starting at $79. Would you rather bust down with the man who truly defined West Coast rap?

Ice Cube is there Aug. 23; tickets starting at $49. Country artists Brantley Gilbert (Aug. 13) and Dustin Lynch (Aug. 2) are also on the summer lineup at the popping casino venue in Airway Heights. Get tickets and updates at northernquest.com. (JEREMEY RANDRUP)

VINTAGE PILGRIMAGE

Normally scheduled for early June, the 2020 Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair has a new date set for the weekend of Aug. 22-23.

The massive market at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center is an antique and vintage lover’s dream, hosting hundreds of vendors selling everything from furniture to clothing, art to salvaged farm implements. Because of the rescheduled date — show founder Serena Thompson is also working on alternative operating plans in case circumstances are less certain come August — admission for this year’s event, the 20th iteration of Farm Chicks, is just $8 for both days. Find the latest updates at thefarmchicks.com. (CS)

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The lively and cheer-filled Trolls movie, released in 2016, has since given way to the live stage adaptation Trolls Live! featuring the film’s upbeat characters. When the Trolls face a loss of their “Hug Time,” an ironically appropriate plot twist, characters search for ways to find happiness in new ways through interactive audience experiences. In Spokane, the two-day engagement Aug. 18-19 at the First Interstate Center for the Arts offers two evening shows and one matinee. Tickets range from $27-$107, along with VIP packages that include a meet-and-greet with characters like Poppy and Branch. (LIZZIE OSWALT)

LAUGH A LITTLE

The Spokane Comedy Club reopened its doors in June and has plenty of shows booked through summer, all while implementing guidelines to keep guests, staff and performers safe. Highlights from the club’s summer lineup include some big names in the comedy world: Damon Wayans Jr. (July 2425), Bobcat Goldthwait (July 31-Aug. 1), Mike Epps (Aug. 7-9), Sarah Colonna (Aug. 27-29), Jason Mewes (Sept. 10-11) and Tim Meadows (Sept. 17-19). Visit spokanecomedyclub.com. (CS)

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For rock fans of a certain ilk and age, this summer’s tour pairing of Wilco and Sleater-Kinney is a dream. Both long-running critically adored bands are headliners on their own, so getting both for the price of one concert ticket is an instant bonus. Then consider that both bands are renowned for their epic live shows, and it’s legitimate to wonder what band will play first — no one should have to follow Sleater-Kinney’s slinky punk or Wilco’s slow-burning guitar rock. Both released excellent albums in 2019, and both have deep catalogs to draw on to thrill fans who’ve been with them for decades. If both bands are playing at their typical levels when they hit the First Interstate Center for the Arts Aug. 6, it’s hard to imagine a better rock show in Spokane this year. Tickets range from $35-$90; visit firstinterstatecenter.org. (DAN NAILEN)

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While museums like the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture can’t reopen their galleries to the public until Spokane County moves to Phase 3 of the governor’s reopening plan, MAC staff are happily anticipating extra time with two exhibits that were cut short due to the pandemic. Pompeii: The Immortal City and Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory have both been extended through Labor Day weekend, until Sept. 6.

The added time is good news for those who previously missed seeing the internationally touring Pompeii exhibit, which features artifacts recovered from the ancient Roman city buried in volcanic ash after Mount Vesuvius’s infamous 79 AD eruption. Coinciding with that show’s spectacular interactive features is the MAC’s curated look at the 40th anniversary of Mount St. Helens’ eruption in 1980, an event that widely impacted the Pacific Northwest and forever altered the course of volcanic study. Visit northwestmusem.org. (CS)

ROLLER RALLY

An asphalt roller and art-making converge in Coeur d’Alene for Emerge’s fourth annual Ink! Print Rally, this year set for Saturday, Sept. 12. The interactive printmaking event showcases local creatives in a festival atmosphere (beer garden, food trucks and music included), but its highlight is parking lot printmaking using an asphalt roller to transfer designs carved into wood panels onto large pieces of fabric. This year’s rally theme is “Awakening,” which inspires artists and attendees to explore “a revival of interest or attention; a rude awakening to disagreeable facts.” Seems pretty timely. (CS)

COUNTRY LIVIN’

Up-and-coming country artists are back for a second year at the Labor Day weekend FarmJam music festival up in Stevens County, Sept. 4-6. Bring some blankets and chairs to relax on the grass or stand up front to listen to some jams from Drake White & the Big Fire, the Last Chance Band, Jessie Leigh and more. $160 gets you the full pass, or pay $40 to go on just Friday and $80 for Saturday or Sunday. For the full festival experience, get a camping pass for $25 per car or $125 for an RV. It’s country music on a farm — doesn’t get much more authentic than that. Visit farmjamfestival.com (JR)

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It was a pleasant shock to see R&B superstars TLC land on the concert calendar at Coeur d’Alene Casino well before any of us knew what COVID-19 was. T-Boz Watkins and Chilli Thomas are carrying on the legacy they created with third partner Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in selling more than 70 million albums worldwide on the strength of monster hits like “Waterfalls,” “No Scrubs” and “Creep.” They play Aug. 13 and tickets are $55, available at cdacasino.com.

They’re not the only show in Worley this summer, though; country fans will want to check out Mr. “God Bless The U.S.A.” Lee Greenwood, when he pops in July 2. The price is certainly right — this customer appreciation show is free; visit cdacasino.com to reserve up to four tickets. (DN)

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This summer’s movie release schedule also took a big hit from the pandemic — movie theaters in Washington can’t reopen until Phase 3, and at only 50 percent capacity; meanwhile, Idaho’s cinemas are currently open at that level. That doesn’t mean movie watching in a group setting is a total bust. It turns out drive-in theaters are the perfect social distancing-friendly way to catch a flick. In the Inland Northwest, the oldest still-operating drive-in is the Auto-Vue Drive-In Theatre in Colville, around since 1953.

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Movies start at dusk and currently are shown Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, with tickets at $7 for adults and $3 for kids ages 11 and under. Sunday night is the carload special for $15. Grab some classic concessions — popcorn, nachos, candy, hot dogs and soft drinks — and settle in for a fun, old-school night. Movie schedules are posted on the Auto-Vue’s Facebook page. (CS)

VIRTUAL VIEWS

One of the region’s biggest visual arts festivals of the season, Art on the Green, has joined the ranks of many local events opting not to invite community members to congregate this year for the benefit of public health and safety. Instead, the 52nd annual juried arts show is heading to the virtual sphere for the first time in lieu of its usual stomping grounds at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene. The festival is traditionally held in late July/early August.

“Keep Art in Your Heart” is the theme of Art on the Green’s digital showcase, which is set to offer festival merch, a virtual arts marketplace for patrons to directly support this year’s featured artists, and art project video tutorials for families to complete at home. Proceeds from the sales of festival merchandise fund the purchase of art supplies distributed to local schools. Art on the Green’s online marketplace opens on July 20; find it at artonthegreen.org. (CS)

CON ON THE LAKE

The Coeur d’Alene Public Library is a hub of literature and community, but it also becomes a place to celebrate geek culture during the free, annual Coeur d’Con on Saturday, Aug. 22. Worlds collide as people dress up as their favorite characters from games, comics and movies. Don’t have a costume? You can still take up arms and duel your friends with LARP weapons to immerse yourself in this gateway to pop culture. Costumes and original art are judged at contests where everyone can flex their appreciation for a movie or game they love. Don’t be surprised to see Princess Leia and Wolverine in the same place. Visit coeurdcon.weebly.com (JR)

NIGHTS AT THE KNIT

While the concert industry has dramatically convulsed due to coronavirus, we can hold out hope that Washington state’s slow reopening might happen in time to enjoy some live music sooner than later. There are several killer shows either at or produced by the Knitting Factory that haven’t pulled the plug yet, starting with the Drive-By Truckers ($25) at the Knit on July 15, touring in support of their excellent new album The Unraveling. We Came As Romans (Aug. 10) and Nirvana tribute act Smells Like Nirvana (Aug. 8) are still scheduled, as are Knit shows hoping to happen at Lucky You Lounge, including Della Mae (Aug. 5) and American Aquarium (Aug. 4). Visit sp.knittingfactory.com. (DN) n

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know that summer technically begins whenever the scientists tell us it does, but my personal barometer is based on something far more nebulous. As far as I’m concerned, it isn’t officially summer until the first Big

Summer Movie comes out, hitting 4,000 U.S. screens simultaneously and ushering in the start of a three-month stretch of chase sequences, explosions, wild stunts and big, dumb spectacle.

If coronavirus closures hadn’t derailed everything, summer 2020 would have started (by my highly scientific estimation) on May 22 with the release of the ninth Fast & Furious movie, a franchise that makes the Venn diagram of “stupidest things I’ve ever seen” and “things I love dearly” into a perfect circle.

But F9 has been pushed to 2021, along with every other major studio release. (Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is still aiming for a July 17 debut, making it the first wide-release film to hit theaters since March, but things could still change.) And so, weirdly enough, the simple summer pleasure I’m yearning for most is being inside, cocooned in the arctic chill of multiplex air conditioning, reclining in a plush pleather seat and watching Vin Diesel and company defying all the basic laws of physics.

I’ve always been an indoor kid, and even on the most perfect, 75-degree day, you’re more likely to find me alphabetizing my BluRay collection than scampering through a verdant meadow. So when the notion of being cooped up in my apartment for a couple months was floated back in March, it didn’t really sound all that bad. But now that we’ve been robbed (for now) of a new adventure with that diverse band of street racers and their outrageous heists, that indoor idyll has been punctured.

OK, I’m being a little overdramatic (it’s in keeping with Dominic Toretto’s general demeanor). But as far as I’m concerned, there’s no better night than taking in the latest studio-mandated product with a group of friends, leaving into the balmy summer air and traipsing to the neighborhood bar to argue its merits over pitchers of beer. I look forward to getting that Hollywood ending we all deserve.

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The Spokane Public Library has launched virtual storytimes and book clubs for kids.

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Keeping the kids busy this summer is not optional — it’s absolutely essential

BY JACOB JONES

HIT THE BOOKS

Despite the endless closures and cancellations, books can still whisk away homebound readers of all ages on new adventures. Youth Services librarian Katie Rickard with Spokane Public Libraries says they have adapted many summer reading programs for online access with hopes of introducing additional activities to keep kids connected.

“We’re just trying to figure out what would be fun,” she says. ”We’re trying to keep kids busy and engaged.”

Local authors Chris Crutcher, Kelly Milner Halls and Kenn Nesbitt will lead online discussions and presentations in July. The library will also host an array of concerts, craft workshops, puppet shows and magicians this summer. You can register and find more information at spokanelibrary. org.

The library has also launched virtual storytimes and book clubs for kids to share what they are reading with others and hear about new books. Rickard says librarians will help lead discussions and offer recommendations for further reading.

To counter “virtual fatigue,” Rickard says the library also plans to put together take-home activity kits with origami, paper airplanes or other hands-on projects. The library is also working with the parks department to create a Story Walk where visitors can follow the pages of a book through a public park.

Older kids can log in to library resources to access an education edition of Minecraft, stream movies via Kanopy or get instructions to make their own escape room at home.

Rickard says the popular Lilac City Live! program also hopes to host a Lilac City Kids talent show later in the summer.

“We’re trying our best with what’s available,” she says. “[And] this community has a lot to offer.”

PLAY PALEONTOLOGIST

At the Clarkia Fossil Bowl, located about 40 minutes south of Saint Maries, Idaho, visitors can hunt for their own fossils in an ancient riverbed. Don’t expect to unearth any massive dinosaur bones, but the preserved imprints of prehistoric plants can be found throughout the site (next to an off-road

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raceway). For $10 a person, you can rediscover a world buried millions of years ago, and take your fossils home with you. Plenty of fossils can be found in the shallow layers of rock. Some light hand tools can help. Wear rugged clothes and pack plenty of water on hot days.

MAKER CAMPS

If your budding scientists prefer STEM over stegosaurus, Gizmo-CDA, a nonprofit makerspace in Coeur d’Alene, has a number of workshops and day camps scheduled for this summer. Some five-day camps will explore coding or robots. Others will cover graphic design or woodworking skills. Organizers say camps will be held outdoors in small groups whenever possible. Programs are open to kids as young as 7, but many require children to be at least 12.

Camps cost about $200 for the week. Visit gizmo-cda.org.

MARCH TO YOUR OWN DRUM

Kids love to make noise. Maybe use this summer to start them on a musical instrument. Ethan Johnson, an elementary school music teacher in Pullman, says you can introduce young kids to music through movement first. Let them dance along. Play stop-and-go games to teach them about rhythm and timing. You can help kids develop a critical ear by asking about what instruments they can hear or what parts they like best.

“You’re only limited by your own imagination,” he says.

“It’s all about giving kids the skills to talk about music and why they like it or don’t like it.”

Children as young as 5 can start on easier instruments like ukulele, bells or tapping with drumsticks. If you’ve been looking to pick up an instrument, Johnson says parents can play along, too, modeling the practice and perseverance needed to learn a new skill. “It makes it seem a little bit more doable,” he says.

Older kids can experiment with other affordable instruments like harmonicas, tin whistles, hand drums or melodicas. Few instruments require batteries or plug-ins, so you can take them camping or send kids to practice outside when the “music” gets too loud.

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ne of my longest-lasting legacies can be found in a hole in the ground behind my childhood home. Actually, it is the hole. About 3 feet wide and 4 feet long, it cuts barely a couple of feet deep. Nearly 30 years ago, my little brother and I shoveled that squat crater out of the gravelly ground. There it remains.

We spent hours and then days toiling at that hole. We didn’t have to. It was not part of any project or chore. Sometimes we were digging for dinosaur bones. Sometimes we were digging battle trenches. Sometimes we were mining for gold.

Often, we just dug for the hell of it, reveling in our new ability to reshape the earth to our own designs. We passed the summer scraping and scratching away a few inches at a time. Grit clung under our nails and dust caked to our clothes. On hot days, we would drag a hose over and fill the hole with water and sink toys in the muddy pool.

My children have recently discovered the joy of digging. They keep saying they plan to find a subway running under our house.

Or maybe they’ll dig all the way to China.

They can’t wait to visit Grandma and Papa’s house to take over work on the old hole — make it a multigenerational effort.

When the time comes, they will dig down after their own designs.

They will get tired and filthy. But hopefully, they will also learn that with a little hard work and dedication they can leave their mark on the world.

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Everybody likes bubbles. They’re bright and magical, but more importantly cheap. You can make your own at home with easy-to-find ingredients.

Start with one part dish soap and three parts water. You’ll want to add a couple teaspoons of sugar for every one-quarter cup of dish soap to help thicken the solution. Stir together gently. You can find more advanced recipes that use glycerine or corn syrup online. A buddy of mine swears by using denatured alcohol and guar gum as thickening agents. Experiment with different mixtures and get your bubble on.

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When kids start getting stir crazy, a home obstacle course can challenge them to move in new ways.

Obviously the complexity of your course depends on your child and what you have on hand, but having some goal-oriented movement can help keep kids engaged. Sidewalk chalk can be used to scribble different hurdles, dances or puzzles on driveways to get kids zigging and zagging.

(You can put masking tape on the floor if you’re indoors.) Kids also love to balance, so you can use 4-by-4s, rocks or a slackline to create different crossings or mazes. I’ve also found a rope suspended from a tree or roof beam can be used to swing between platforms. Free pallets can be used to make ladders or other obstacles. Online you can find backyard ninja warrior sets that include monkey bars, rings, cargo nets and other obstacles along a suspended line. But I’d start with the chalk.

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The United Way’s Volunteer Spokane online portal can connect kids with a local volunteer organization to sew masks, help with a local farmers market, work at a food bank or help with outdoor planting and trail work. For younger kids, the ongoing Hand Drawings for Heroes program lets kids share photos of their artwork with local health care workers, grocery store workers, teachers and first responders. Visit volunteerspokane.org.

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With its usual outdoor science camps canceled, the University of Idaho’s McCall Outdoor Science School has launched weekly online challenges to help kids study the natural wonders of their own backyard. Program coordinator Beth Kochevar says lesson prompts will guide students through soil science, plant ecology, bird songs, wildfire impacts and other natural phenomena.

Students can collect and share their data through a joint app to see what other regional students have observed.

“We’re hopefully teaching them that they can learn any place,” she says.

“It’s kind of an experiment for us.”

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Road Trips

We could all use a great escape right now

BY E.J. IANNELLI

GHOST TOWNS OF IDAHO (AND ONE OF WASHINGTON) Ghost towns “serve to humanize the landscape,” says Idaho state historian HannaLore Hein. Their overgrown ruins are tangible reminders that “real people lived there, real people died there, and real people left their mark.” If only briefly.

Idaho’s Shoshone County harbors a cluster of ghost towns, many of which can be found along Prichard Creek Road. The most straightforward way to get there is by traveling east on I-90 from Spokane, then taking Coeur d’Alene River Road north at Kingston, Idaho.

A few inconspicuous graves are all that mark the former site of Eagle City, which materialized when A.J. Prichard discovered gold nearby in the early 1880s. When not busy jumping claims, Wyatt Earp and his brothers operated a saloon out of a circus tent there.

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miles down the road. Though it became the county seat in 1885, Murray would vanish before the turn of the century. It’s now a “semighost” town with several preserved buildings and extant shells.

The fleeting mining camp of Potosi Gulch forms the third point of a loose triangle with Eagle City and Murray. A crumbling cabin and tiny, two-grave cemetery are its only vestiges.

If your imagination needs a bit more to work with, venture north of Wallace, Idaho, on State Highway 4. The proximate towns of Burke and Gem, once sites of massive mining operations and civil unrest, still have standing storefronts and other industrial facilities — largely because Burke’s mining operations continued up to the early 1990s.

“In so many instances, it was circumstantial as to whether a town was going to succeed and becoming something more, or if the

resources were going to dry up,” Hein says. That’s why visiting ghost towns isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia.

“It’s really an opportunity to imagine what things can be like in the future. What can we learn from that failure, especially when you compare that to the mythic or romanticized understanding of what the American West was at the time when these places were boomtowns?”

Eighty miles from Spokane in the opposite direction is Govan, Washington. An abandoned schoolhouse is its most prominent and oft-photographed feature, but there are a few other disused structures that hint at the once-thriving town. Like so many other locations, its fate was sealed when it was bypassed by a major thoroughfare. Today, we make the intentional detour to linger over its remains.

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The main draw to Soap Lake is its namesake, a mineral-rich body of water purported to soothe sore muscles and smooth skin. It was once a gathering spot for Native Americans and later fueled Soap Lake’s heyday as a spa and resort town in the first half of the 20th century. Despite a dusty climate and dwindling population, there are ongoing efforts to boost the town’s tourist appeal — including a 60-foot novelty lava lamp that’s been in the works for nearly two decades. Some itineraries suggest taking I-90 and turning north at Moses Lake, but Route 28 might make the drive a little more interesting.

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Just a short while ago (on the geological timescale), Dry Falls was a raging, 400-foot cascade five times as wide as Niagara Falls. Now, as its name suggests, the eroded canyon walls and cliffs are the only evidence of its glacial past. There are plenty of hiking and sightseeing opportunities nearby, and it’s only 20 miles north of Soap Lake. Combine them into the same trip by taking U.S. Highway 2 out and then dropping down to Soap Lake along State Route 17, returning east on State Route 28. Distance from Spokane: 110 miles.

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Who says road trips have to be long? Starting in Spokane, take the 10-mile journey on Indian Trail Road to Little Spokane River Natural Area, where riparian hiking trails abound and the Indian Painted Rocks stand as a testament to the centuries of indigenous culture that existed before “manifest destiny” became a shared delusion.

From there, it’s just another 15 miles north to the McLellan Conservation Area, a 410-acre forest of Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs on the shore of Long Lake. It’s home to moose, osprey and black bears. On a different day, head 20 miles south of Spokane to the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, a stunning and geographically diverse nature preserve spanning 18,000 acres on the eastern edge of the Columbia Basin.

SCENIC DRIVE: SPOKANE CITY DRIVE

If you like road trips but for the speed and distance, try the Spokane City Drive. It’s a 21-stop tour of the city that includes historic landmarks like the Campbell House, The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and Fort George Wright along with areas of natural beauty like Manito Park, Bowl and Pitcher and Finch Arboretum.

The Visit Spokane website has the full itinerary. Distance from Spokane: 0 miles.

WALLA WALLA

Walla Walla is more than a sweet onion production hub or a punchline in Three Stooges and Looney Tunes shorts. Since 2000, it’s become a key marketplace for regional vineyards and likewise a top destination for wine lovers. Is it possible for a city to be quaint and hip at the same time? To find out, take the scenic route south on U.S. 195 to State Route 127 to U.S. Route 12. Distance from Spokane: 160 miles.

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MOUNT SPOKANE

The views from Mount Spokane will help you plot your next adventure.

Thirty miles north of the city on route 206 (actual drive time is close to an hour), you’ll reach Mount Spokane. Thanks to its 5,887-foot elevation and relatively accessible hiking paths, it offers gorgeous vistas of the surrounding area, making it an ideal spot to identify all the places you’d like to visit on future road trips.

COLVILLE NATIONAL FOREST

The Colville National Forest lies a little over two hours north on U.S. 395. As one of the waypoints on the famed International Selkirk Loop, it’s located in an area where the mountains are craggier, the woodlands are more rugged and the wildlife is a little more danger-

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ous. Wolves, cougars, lynxes, bears and caribou can all be spotted at various times of the year. Distance from Spokane: 100 miles.

SCENIC DRIVE: THE PALOUSE TO OAKESDALE

Bona fide road trippers know that a destination is just an excuse for the journey. So why keep up the pretense? A relaxed drive down State Route 27 runs more or less parallel to the Washington-Idaho border. You’ll have ample views of the undulating Palouse fields from the car while passing through rustic agricultural towns that sprang up around the area’s rich yields of wheat and lentils. If you need a fixed turnaround point, historic Oakesdale (population 422) is as good a place as any. Distance from Spokane: 60 miles.

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THE PALOUSE TO PALOUSE TO PALOUSE FALLS

Should the scenic jaunt to Oakesdale leave your wanderlust unsated, keep going. Once you reach Palouse (the town, that is), head west on state routes 272 and 26 for about 90 miles. You’ll pass through Dusty and Washtucna before reaching the majestic splendor of Palouse Falls State Park. Various plateau overlooks provide views of the park’s nearly 200-foot waterfall from different vantages. When you’re done picnicking and exploring, another 110 miles along State Route 261 and I-90 will bring you back to Spokane. All told, you’re looking at 5.5 hours of driving.

WALLACE, IDAHO

Wallace has a little bit of everything: natural beauty, a colorful mining history, small-town charm and a hint of kitsch, given that a manhole cover at the intersection of Bank and Sixth streets ostensibly marks the official Center of the Universe. Instead of taking I-90 directly from Spokane, start your trip on the Route 27-to-95 loop into Coeur d’Alene past the Fightin’ Creek Smoke Shop in Worley. It’ll add 20 minutes or so, but you’ll get to pass through both Mica, Washington, and Mica, Idaho. Distance from Spokane: 100 miles.

JOSEPH, OREGON

Joseph, Oregon is in some ways an epicenter of the resistance to the appropriation of Native American lands. Named back in 1880 in honor of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the small (population 1,100) alpine town at the base of the Wallowa Mountains is close to the Nez Perce National Historical Park and Monument. The park contains the sites of the Battles of Bear Paw, Clearwater, White Bird Canyon as well as other historical events.

To get there, leave Spokane on 195 and head due south for 200 picturesque miles. n

A DRIVE TO NOWHERE W hen there’s no more bubble bath left and you’ve run out of recipes to attempt for your upcoming dinner, it is time to leave that stuffy house. Make yourself something healthy for dinner to replenish your energy and grab your aux cord; it is time for a sunset drive. The beauty in this mini-adventure is that there is no final destination. All you have to do is roll your windows down, find a nontrafficked road and hit shuffle on your favorite playlist.

I have found Green Bluff to be a particularly captivating spot to enjoy meditative drives. The rays of sun lighting up the bright green and golden pastures set the

perfect backdrop for you to relax and look inward. In a time where none of us are certain what lies ahead, it is important to give ourselves moments to reflect on our emotions instead of ignoring them and burying them down deeper. Yes, it is perfectly OK to burst into tears while shouting “Sign of the Times,” with Harry Styles.

The wonderful part about a sunset car drive is its simplistic yet powerful ability to give you the space you need to breathe. Get yourself some alone time and return home with a clear mind. Then go to bed.

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RIDE THE GR8 LAKES

In the more than 20 years coordinating the 8 Lakes Leg Aches Bike Ride, Christie McKee got used to doing it a certain way.

This year will be much different.

“We’ve had to make a lot of changes with the bike ride,” McKee says.

In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the 8 Lakes Leg Aches Bike Ride will be a virtual event this year. That means no longer will you be able to ride together as a large group in one day.

Instead, riders are encouraged to enjoy one of the 8 Lakes routes sometime between July 11 and July 18, then document and share it

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The ride includes an option of a 30-mile route, a 45-mile route and a 75-mile route that takes you past Chapman Lake and toward Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Riders will still be able to stop at certain checkpoints for goodie bags.

Riders can register for $50, or if they want an 8 Lakes designer jersey, T-shirt and socks, it’s $200. The proceeds go towards the programs of Lutheran Community Services Northwest, which provides support and resources to people affected by violent crimes and life-altering events. McKee, the development manager

for Lutheran Community Services, says the agency relies on those funds for things like emergency services.

The ride was originally scheduled for June 20, but it was moved back to July to maintain safety. Even with the new format, however, she says canceling the ride altogether was never a good option.

“We had to do something,” McKee says.

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RIDE SPOKANE VALLEY

There’s more than one way to benefit a good cause with your bike this summer. On Sunday, July 26, you will get another chance to do exactly that with the Spokane Valley Cycle Celebration, an event presented by Valleyfest with all proceeds benefiting the Valleyfest Children’s Foundation. Cyclists can register for a 10-mile, 25-mile or 50-mile ride all starting at the North Centennial Trailhead. Adult registration is $29, and all riders get a box lunch from Brothers Pizza.

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Silver Mountain Resort boasts nearly 40 singletrack trails. them, there’s a possibility they will chase you. But on a bike? You’re likely to ride past some street turkeys, in which case you won’t really have to worry about running them over and you won’t have to worry about a turkey attack.

BIKE THE SKI MOUNTAINS

The days of hurtling down a slippery mountain while standing on two waxed sticks are over. Now are the days for hurtling down a mountain on two wheels. That’s right, it’s mountain biking time, and the ski resorts in Idaho offer ample opportunity.

Of course, there’s the classic Route of the Hiawatha, which is part of the Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area. The 15-mile route is for everyone, with its gentle downhill ride along the Idaho and Montana state line. It’s the most popular ski area bike trail in the country with over 60,000 riders last summer. It’s accessible

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through Sept. 20. And for you night owls, they’re offering fullmoon night rides July 5, Aug. 3 and Sept. 2. Call ahead at 208-7441234 ext. 19 to reserve one.

If you want to stay for a while? Book a night at the Wallace Inn, which offers trail passes and shuttle passes for the Route of the Hiawatha.

Closer to Spokane and Coeur d’Alene is Silver Mountain Resort, home to Silver Mountain Bike Park and nearly 40 singletrack trails.

There, serious mountain bikers can race in the Northwest Cup July 17-19. Meanwhile, Schweitzer Mountain Resort also has more than 40 miles of mountain bike trails just waiting to be used.

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An event for bike enthusiasts and also everyone else, SpokeFest should come back for the 13th time this September, though it’s going to look a little different.

It, too, will be a virtual event, encouraging people to ride the course in the week up to its planned date of Sept. 13. It’s the Inland Northwest’s largest bicycling event, with more than 1,000 riders last year. Starting in Kendall Yards, SpokeFest has options for a 50-mile, a 9-mile or a 21-mile loop. They can be a challenge, but it should be manageable even for first-timers. SpokeFest is also a nonprofit, and has given grants to local organizations to promote bicycle safety and education.

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MAKE YOUR OWN ALE TRAIL

Pretty much every brewery in the region is open right now — whether it’s full service or solely for to-go only. Either way, maybe you’re not ready to drink out yet. No worries, we’ve got the perfect plan: Pick a region and a few breweries you may have never visited before. (If you’re in Spokane, a trip to North Idaho would make it a nice day trip.)

Safely hop around from brewery to brewery, checking in with your local beertender and grabbing some delicious craft beer to-go.

Once you’ve gathered quite the collection, head home and start drinking. (DH)

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Hanging out at the Arbor Crest estate might be the perfect option for wine enthusiasts during the summer of COVID-19. Grab your crew (keep it at five or less during Phase 2) and have a nice social-distanced evening paired with wine and great views. The destination winery is currently open on a reservation basis. Visit arborcrest.com to reserve your spot. (DH)

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pokane, as all my college friends are happy to continually remind me, isn’t perfect. The falls in Spokane are too frigid, the winters are too slushy and sloppy, the springs are too rainy and sneezy — and the summer days are often too hot, too itchy, too bright. At their worst summer days, Spokane feels heavy, bloated like a hangover.

But, oh, those summer nights.

The sun dips lower, the colors deepen, the shadows stretch. The heat ebbs just enough to stop being sharp and start being rich. The temperature hits a zone of perfect that no amount of thermostat fiddling could ever achieve.

The ambient noise becomes a symphony, the sprinklers hissing, bike spokes clicking, kids laughing, insects chirping, the bird songs, the ice cream truck jingles, the hum of backyard barbecues all harmonizing together. It almost sounds like nostalgia, except for the present instead of the past.

And then we decide to get a bite to eat. We don’t drive. We’d be fools to spend a second caged up in a car in an evening like this. Instead, we walk downtown — thank God, I live close enough — our route meandering like our conversation does. The waiter asks if we want to have dinner on the patio, almost rhetorically — “yes” is only a formality. We linger over one drink, then another, then another. It’s dark, but we keep talking. We tip more than usual.

In most seasons, the downtown either shuts down or speeds up at night. But here, it’s like time slows down instead, letting us drift along for hours in our shared smiles, our sublime silences, our little sighs of tranquility.

And on the walk home, I can feel myself falling in love with the woman walking beside me.

Or maybe — maybe it’s not her at all. Maybe I’m falling in love with this moment, with this city — with the Spokane summer nights.

— DANIEL WALTERS

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CHANNEL THAT INNER BARTENDER

If your favorite patio is still closed for the foreseeable future, consider finally building up that at-home booze collection. Having everything you need for the summer classics — like rum and orange curaçao for a mai tai — makes it easy for you to mix yourself a drink and just lounge in your backyard or third story apartment balcony.

You’ll probably save a few bucks in the process. (DH)

BRUNCH BOOZE IN BED

Now that you have seemingly unlimited alcohol in your possession, it can be easy to go overboard in a single day. Bruncheonette is here to help out with that. While they are currently open for dine-in service, you can still order their menu to-go. That includes things like the spicy bloody mary mix (no alcohol included) or a variety of mimosa kits (champagne and all) and make the perfect boozy hangover remedy at home. Going out for brunch is so 2019. (DH)

A PINT IN THE PALOUSE

It’s not every day you get to enjoy a craft beer or spirit in the middle of a barley field. Especially the same barley field that provided the grain for said beverage. This is the experience you can get at the annual Baronesse Barley Harvest Day hosted at Joseph’s Grainery just outside of Colfax. In collaboration with LINC Malt, it’s a chance to meet the farmer, maltster, brewers and distillers. This year’s event is scheduled for Aug. 22 and features live music from Tone Sober. Head over to josephsgrainery.com to RSVP for free. As of right now, this very well could be the only beer event of the summer. (DH)

GET HIGH WITH MARIE KONDO

Getting a little stoned before undertaking some mundane task is almost always a good idea. No doubt your place could use a little belated “spring cleaning” after months of self-quarantine, so why not pick up a copy of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (or just queue up her show on Netflix), take a little toke and uncover the wonders of the recesses of your sock drawer?

Of course, when you’re high you just might find everything in your house brings you joy. (DN)

BETTER THAN YOGA

I don’t know that you have to be high to enjoy playing hacky sack, but I wouldn’t bet against it. While large gatherings are still banned, Phase 2 means you and four friends can enjoy some recreational cannabis (BYO) and then get a little physical activity right in the comfort of your backyard. I spent at least one of my college years hacking in a small apartment living room, so you don’t really even need the yard. (DN)

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Any semi-regular toker has seen someone smoke pot out of a nontraditional delivery system — a soda can, an apple, etc. Some of my college buddies managed to turn their coffee table into a functioning bong. In the age of legal cannabis, there’s really no reason to build your own pipe except for the challenge and the creative outlet. Who knows? If you’re clever enough, you might find yourself with a new Etsy business at the end of the pandemic. (DN)

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Find yourself a good view of the U.S. Pavilion in Riverfront Park, either up close or from a moderate distance, and take in one of the nightly light shows. The creative displays are awesome even when you’re sober, but a little cannabis can enhance the effect. (DN)

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PALOUSE IT

I loved hiking from the Sky House at the top of Schweitzer Mountain Resort down to a beer and wine festival a couple summers back. But cannabis is illegal in Idaho, so let’s be smart and instead head to Kamiak Butte in Whitman County, which rises some 3,600 feet above the rolling hills of the Palouse farmland and features a 3.5-mile forested trail. Killer views and killer weed are a nice combo. (DN)

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We’ve all learned by now that watching concerts on the internet will never be the same as experiencing a show live, but until we’re able to gather by the thousands and share a joint with a stranger again, it’s the only way to see some bands do their thing. Get online with some friends, share a stream of Metallica (above) or the Dead or Radiohead or (insert your favorite artist here), and have a socially distanced hit or two with your pals while you reminisce about great shows you’ve seen in the past, and the ones you’ll get to see in the future. (DN)

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This summer is going to look different from any summer you’ve ever experienced, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be a blast if you do it right. One way to do that? Make a point of exploring some of the myriad cannabis strains Washington has to offer, all those delectable flavors you look at on occasion, but pass over in favor of your old standby.

There are a lot of strains that bring the summer vibe, judging by their names. Root Down’s Grape Pie is one example, promising a “relaxed,” “euphoric” and “happy” experience. Dawg Star’s Lemon Drop, Blueberry and Strawberry Banana strains bring bright, fresh flavors to the season. Natural Mystic Farms’ Blue Hawaiian and Pineapple Express likewise are sure to put you in the mood to throw on an Aloha shirt and forget you’re stuck at home instead of beach bumming through summer. (DN) n

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TRAVEL THE TRAIL

If you’ve spent any time here, you’ve no doubt used the Centennial Trail. Walk through Riverfront Park and you could be on it without even knowing. So this summer, why not commit to traveling its entire length? A serious biker could travel the 61-mile trail, from Nine Mile Falls to Higgens Point on Lake Coeur d’Alene, in a single day. Or you could split it into segments, allowing for leisurely forest exploration in Riverside State Park or a quick dip at City Beach in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

NO FLOWERS, NO PROBLEM Memories of lilacs in bloom will be a distant memory on Sept. 20, but that won’t stop Bloomsday from taking to the streets. The 12-kilometer race normally brings 40,000 or so participants of all ages and abilities together on the first Sunday in May, but coronavirus got in the way this year. Hopefully, by the end of summer, the world will be safe enough for the 44th running of this massive community event. Register before Sept. 2 to avoid late fees.

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he shadows from the trees at Comstock Park sprawl across the court. My filthy hands can hardly grip the basketball.

My legs ache, and my shirt is soaked with sweat.

But I want to keep playing.

One more game. One more shot.

Soon, I won’t be able to see the basket, or I’ll stumble on a pinecone, or the ball will take a nasty bounce off the double rim and land far away in the grass, and I won’t have the energy to get it. I’ll know then it’s time to go. Until that time, I’ll savor this moment, like I’m a kid outside with my friends, waiting for our moms to call us in for dinner.

I don’t get these moments playing on an indoor court, where the light can turn on or off, where I decide when I’ve taken my last shot. I tell myself I have to end on a make, but that leads to more made-up rules in my head: I have to end on a perfect swoosh, or maybe two in a row, or actually let’s say three and, dammit, I missed.

Outside, as the sun dips down and the air cools, it’s not up to me. I can just play. I’ll play 3 on 3, then 2 on 2, then 1 on 1, then I’ll shoot on my own, until dark, before I walk through the grass with my ball under my arm back to my car.

It’s become difficult to get my basketball buddies together to play at the park, as some have moved away and as we’ve all fallen out of shape. I wonder when it will happen again.

Hopefully, at least, once more.

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We are surrounded by awe-inspiring natural experiences.

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in Browne’s Addition I could do the same, but the park had a river instead of a pond. One of the best things about Spokane is how well our community has allowed natural beauty to survive in the middle of our city. There’s something magical about sitting on a shady rock in Edwidge Woldson Park and looking out at the skyline, mere blocks away. The view isn’t as good as it is just above, on Cliff Drive, because it’s obstructed by trees. That’s what I like about it. You can be surrounded by hustle and bustle, and a forest, too.

No matter where you are around town, there’s a place like this within walking distance.

Probably quite a few.

— WILL MAUPIN

Outdoors & Sports Last year, women’s soccer brought us a World Cup. This year it’s bringing back American sports. The National Women’s Soccer League will take to the field starting on June 27 with a match between powerhouse clubs Portland Thorns and North Carolina Courage. Which makes the NWSL, as of press time, the first top-flight American league with a scheduled return date. Instead of a traditional season, though, the league will be going with a tournament format similar to the World Cup. All teams will convene in Utah and play, without fans in attendance, over a one month period. Games will be broadcast live on CBS and CBS All Access.

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Hoopfest normally takes over downtown on the final weekend of June, but coronavirus pushed it back to Aug. 22 and 23 this year. No matter when it happens though, it’s a weekend of basketball all over the city of Spokane.

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There might not be any single place that captures the essence of the Inland Northwest as well as Coeur d’Alene’s Tubbs Hill. Walking the 2.2-mile loop trail around the base of the hill connects you with forested slopes and the shimmering blue waters. Views of the lake and mountains which surround it give way to the buildings of downtown Coeur d’Alene once you reach the end. It’s a place to experience the outdoors without having to leave town. Just know, it can get pretty busy on evenings and weekends.

KEEP IT CLEAN

If you’re looking for a way to get outdoors while also making a positive impact on the environment, head down to the river and pick up some trash! The Spokane Riverkeeper and Spokane River Forum are partnering to host five organized river cleanups over the summer, as well as weekly socially distanced clean-ups on Wednesdays.

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Sure, you could go for a lonely jog all by yourself. It’s healthy or whatever. But why do that when you could go running with your friends? Running clubs are nothing new, but in recent years they’ve started becoming a lot more fun. Clubs gather at bars like the Lantern on the South Hill and the Monkey Bar in the Valley for regular weekly runs washed down with a pint. The Flying Irish are the biggest of them all, with routes that take runners to a different bar or restaurant every week. It’s probably best to give your fellow runners some distance, though.

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Look up at Tower Mountain from the Palouse Highway and you can’t miss it: There’s a really big rock perched atop the ridge. Some maps even list it as simply “big rock” while others refer to the area as the Rocks of Sharon. Whatever you call it, it’s worth a visit. A short, but steep hike from the south along Stevens Creek will get you there quickly, but I like to come from the north. The Iller Creek route leading up from just off Dishman Mica Road takes longer, but it’s worth it. The forest canopy provides shade as you wind your way up. At the ridge, where trees give way to rocks, you’re presented with a breathtaking, panoramic view out across the rolling hills of the Palouse.

Bowl and Pitcher is to Riverside State Park what the falls are to downtown. It’s the gem. It’s what you have to see and, in this day and age, probably feel compelled to share on social media. As is the case with downtown, though, there’s a lot more to see and do in Riverside State Park than simply snapping a photo on the swinging bridge.

In the northern part of the park, you can travel back in geologic time as you descend into and through Deep Creek. The aptly named stream may run dry when you visit, which not only makes the trek easier but adds to the splendor. It’s hard to fathom an ephemeral creek cutting what is almost a slot canyon through 100 feet of basalt.

You’ll find almost the opposite at Plese Flats, where the broad, calm river slowly winds through meadows and forests. The gentle terrain may not stand out like the wild geological formations elsewhere in the park, but it’s perfect for a leisurely stroll. The east bank of the river is dotted with wildflowers, and the more hilly west bank often reflects beautifully on the still water.

There are densely forested hillsides and broad open plains. Trails for horses, mountain bikes and hikers alike.

You can go from dramatic vistas and steep cliff walls to tranquil settings that would’ve inspired Monet. There’s Bowl and Pitcher, too, of course, but it’s surrounded by this incredible variety of sights and adventures that will make you forget you’re only like a five-minute drive away from a fast food joint. The park is an amazing escape and it’s literally on the edge of the city. n

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SWIM LAKE PEND OREILLE

For the last 25 years, hundreds of swimmers have taken to Lake Pend Oreille for the annual Long Bridge Swim, accomplishing the feat of a nearly 2-mile swim toward Sandpoint. While the August event has been canceled this year, there’s still the chance to prepare for next year.

When people aren’t sure if they can do the full swim, organizers often say to start by practicing with one-quarter of a mile, then half, then a mile. Luckily, there’s an easy route to try this on: swim out from Dog Beach Park (typically where the Long Bridge Swim ends), and if you go out to the 12th piling and back, you’ve gone a little more than a mile! Fair warning: The lake can be pretty chilly so a wetsuit is recommended for long swims.

RIDE THE GONDOLA

The scenic Numerica SkyRide, which offers visitors a gondola ride over Spokane Falls and under the Monroe Street Bridge, reopened at the end of May. Special precautions are in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Visitors from the same family can ride together in groups of up to five people, and it’s recommended that people pay ahead online, by using a QR code near the attraction at River-

Kids under 2 ride for free.

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front Park, or by using a debit or credit card on site. Some of the restrictions may be lifted later in the summer as the county continues to reopen businesses under Washington’s phased plan. The ride is free for kids under 2, $6.75 for kids 3-12, and $9.75 for everyone else. There’s also a 10 percent discount for military, seniors (55+), college students, and AAA members. The wheelchair-accessible gondolas run from 10 am to 6 pm seven days a week.

PADDLE AND PLAY

Take the chance this summer to get out on the water by renting a kayak, stand-up paddleboard, or other boat and hitting the Spokane River, Lake Coeur d’Alene, Priest Lake, and more. There are several outdoors shops ready to help you get out on the water, including Fun Unlimited, which offers boat rentals in Post Falls as well as along the Spokane River. The company offers both single-day rentals, which run as low as $25 for an hour on the river, and season passes that enable users unlimited use of kayaks or paddleboards (typically trying to keep trips to three hours so everyone can enjoy the gear) for as little as $145.

At the Post Falls location, you can also rent motorized watercraft, from jet skis to pontoon boats.

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Spokane’s public pools and splash pads won’t be able to reopen for summer until the county can enter Phase 3 of the state’s reopening plan, which could be in late June or even later.

While you wait, why not create your own water park on the fly in the backyard? This is kind of the perfect solution if you’re worried about not having the summer bod you wanted this year (even though we vote every body is a summer body). You get to soak in some sun, cool down with your personalized water accessories of choice, and drink whatever the heck you want in the privacy of your own darn house!

PICK YOUR POOL

Wading pool: On a budget? These are available for as little as $10, and they’re great for keeping your feet cool while you sit in a lawn chair and sip on some seltzers.

Inflatable: If you wanna “swim” (read: sit all the way in the water and lounge), an inflatable pool is a good bet for a reasonable price. Just avoid pokey things (putting a tarp down can help) and pick your style, from the glorified outdoor bathtub-for-one to the make-your-neighbors-wonder-how-much-that-thing-cost model that can fit multiple adults.

NOVELTY FLOATIES (REQUIRED)

2020 is the year everyone decided that floaties should be whimsical, damn it. Giant unicorn? You got it. Shaped like dry ramen noodles? Yep. They’ve also got your pizza slice, a giant llama, pink flamingos to hold your drinks, and you can even lay on a “bottle” of rosé while drinking rosé all day. Even if you don’t get the big pool, at least one floaty is required. Sit on it, sleep on it, talk to it because you’re still in quarantine. This is your permission to buy the funny float.

SIMPLE PLEASURES

No backyard pool is complete with some cute, novelty floaties.

STAYING COOL

Set up an umbrella, break out the bucket hat you found while cleaning your house during the 20-year-long month of April, ask your friend to stand a little to the left to be a human sun shield.

Whatever your method, just remember to get some shade.

Get some water guns so you can definitely not rudely wake your friend up because they fell asleep in the sun, and definitely not squirt that one squirrel against which you harbor an unhealthy amount of rage. Spray bottles are also great for misting your sweaty face and chafed thighs. (It’s hard not to get chub rub when you’re racing the unicorn into the pool, OK?)

LASTLY: THE SUSTENANCE

Set yourself up with a cooler full of ice, water and your favorite beverages, because even if the fridge is just inside, this is your oasis! You wanna be able to lounge! Pour yourself a cool drink and put a little umbrella in that thing. Your oasis snack bar might have

pickles and peanut butter, while mine might have watermelon and white cheddar Cheetos. Either way it’s good to have something salty (you sweaty oaf) and something sweet. Ready, set: go live your best summer life.

CRUISE COEUR D’ALENE

Every day, you can hop on a scenic cruise of Lake Coeur d’Alene that leaves from the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Daily cruise times are at 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm and 4:30 pm and boarding is on a first-come, first-served basis at Independence Point. Tickets can be bought at the booth where you board, and are $27.25 for adults, $25.25 for seniors, $16.25 for kids 6-17 and kids under 5 can ride for free. No need to be a guest at the resort to ride. The cruises pass by celebrity homes, the world’s only floating, movable island golf green, oftentimes wildlife, and include historic narration. The resort also has sunset dinner cruises and cruises of the St. Joe and Spokane rivers, with details on each online at cdaresort.com. n

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hen I was a kid, I watched my dad mow the lawn and yearned for the day when I’d be old enough to do the same. When I was a slightly older kid, I realized it was the kind of activity that could earn an enterprising youngster a few bucks to buy candy and baseball cards. And a couple years later, when I was officially tasked with tackling my parents’ corner lot, I found that dealing with flying grass, powerful machinery, random and hidden dog-poop bombs and midsummer heat wasn’t anything I would call fun. Reality can bite like that.

Most of my adulthood was spent living in apartments or in completely xeriscaped environments, and it was pretty great never thinking about cutting grass. But when I moved to Spokane six years ago, I found myself living in a house with an actual yard. Grass, trees, flower beds, the works. My partner is a gardener, so she handles the tricky stuff. I, surprising myself, happily reengaged with the mowing life. It’s a bit of a nostalgia trip, for sure. I crank up some ’80s metal and become 15 again, mowing in different patterns to the sounds of Faster Pussycat, Dio or RATT — stuff I’d never turn on in decent company.

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When every competitor is slow and steady, there’s no telling who will win the race.

Every Friday at 10 pm at Crafted Tap House + Kitchen in Coeur d’Alene, six turtles put it all on the line. For guts. For glory. The patrons place their bets — and with it, the chance of winning a $1 pint of the selected beer. And then, they’re off, the reptilian equivalents of Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt, heroes in half-shells, cool but rude — and for 15 seconds the world fades away into a blur of testudines and testosterone. It’s neck and neck! It’s “M.F. Jones” by a claw! And the crowd goes wild!

SEE COOL ANIMALS AND LEARN COOL ANIMAL FACTS

It’s basic science: Many facts are fun, but no facts are as fun as animal facts. The West Valley Outdoor Learning Center is a great place to introduce your kids to all sorts of neat animals, like owls and red-tailed hawks and snakes and tortoises and frogs. And while the coronavirus has shut down in-person visits for now, they’ve been streaming Facebook videos on awesome stuff like “Woodpeckers” and “Insects,” usually on most Fridays at 11 am. They’re even open to setting up individual appointments to teach your kid about their awesome animals directly over Zoom.

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Prepare for the possibility of another stay-home order by bringing the animals to you. Build a bird feeder or — if it’s been too long since middle school woodshop — buy one at your local hardware store. If nothing else, it will keep the cat interested.

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s a communications student at Whitworth, I’m used to feeling like there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything I need to do. I’d be reading, studying and doing homework late into the night and through the next morning only to sleep a few hours and have some left to do before class begins. I longed for more free time to rest!

Now, I see that I have too much of a good thing, because I’m definitely going crazy without as much to be productive toward. Is this the plight of someone fresh out of university, compounded with the onset of quarantine cabin fever? Probably, but I’ve learned there are still plenty of things to do to maintain personal growth.

Eventually, I realized the feeling of craziness from not being as busy also acted as untapped, creative potential. Now, I can actually journal consistently like I told myself I would. I can even

stick to a routine and finally ascend above the disorganization of my undergrad self. Finally, I can work on all of my video ideas with my housemates and brainstorm funny skit ideas for future projects! All of a sudden, my free days have become days filled with meaningful and intentional creativity.

Having time to work on personal growth also means trying new things. My housemates and I like to play chess, especially out on the grass under the sun. I also flip butterfly knives and execute tricks with them, watching the blade dance and flourish around my hand. I find that between working on creativity and branching out to new experiences, I keep my life interesting. That’s very important to me, since I get easily bored. It’s easy to get too comfortable with being lazy at home, so I always try to push my comfort zone.

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Of all the rodents, beavers are the most badass. Rats may have changed history, but beavers change topography.

So the summer is the perfect time to pick up local beaver expert Ben Goldfarb’s book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, and then walk over to Gonzaga University’s Lake Arthur to try to spy one of the critters yourself.

“I’ve actually been meaning to organize a beaver vigil down there one of these nights,” Goldfarb tells me.

If you’re lucky, and it’s dusk, you may see a beaver gliding gracefully through the water or waddling comically on land.

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BECOME A TIGER KING AT CAT TALES

When Tiger King hit Netflix, it opened up the floodgates of people wondering how, exactly, they could become a Tiger King themselves. Unfortunately, the costs are quite prohibitive. A visit to Spokane County’s Cat Tales — which features not only Siberian and Bengal tigers, but also bears and a lion — is the next best thing. For now, Cat Tales — like many local wildlife-viewing spots — is still officially closed in Washington state. But there’s a good chance Washington will hit Phase 3 later in the summer and Cat Tales will open again. Stay turned to cattales.org.

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LOW-EFFORT WILDLIFE-SPOTTING AT PEOPLE’S PARK

The problem with hikes, nature walks and other wildanimal spotting behavior is a simple one. They require walking. Walking is exhausting. And thanks to three months of COVID-shutdown-related gym closures, we’re staggeringly out of shape. So how can you see a bunch of animals while barely walking at all?

Two words: People’s Park. Drive west down Riverside until you hit the park next to the Sandifur Bridge crossing, not far from downtown. It’s less than 100 feet to a trail down to the creek by the road embankment. First, stop by the large white bushy tree, where you’ll find a bunch of buzzing bees (and so far, very few murder hornets).

I like to grab a few killer pics of non-killer bees with my telephoto camera lens.

And as soon as you hit the Hangman Creek, you can look to your left to see a horde of swallows flittering about underneath the Riverside bridge crossing. In the river, see the ducks gaze at the geese and — hopefully — spot an adorably little squadron of goslings.

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ahead. Cross under the bridge and find a pack of marmots scurrying about at your feet, sunning themselves on the rocks, poking their heads up from their marmot-holes, staring at you with a cocked head as if to say, “Why so glum, chum?”

Well, the pandemic, to start with. And the whole racial inequity thing. But you, marmot? There’s nothing wrong with you at all.

IMMORTALIZE YOUR DOG INTO HISTORY AT CENTRAL BARK

If you thought the name of the coffee shop on Friends, “Central Perk,” was hilarious, you will double-over laughing at Central Bark, the aptly named 1.8-acre dog park on Nez Perce Road in Coeur d’Alene. And after your dog gets done running around sniffing all the dog butts he could ever dream of, you can donate $30 dollars to support Coeur d’Alene’s dog parks and show off your own pet-related wordplay by getting your dog’s name inscribed on an engraved brass bone, whether it be “Sir Yips-A-Lot,” “Wags Benedict,” “General James Mattis” or “Spaniel Walters.”

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If you have an attic, a garage or any other kind of storage space, no doubt it’s filled with old electronics and pieces of technology that are merely collecting dust. They may be outdated, but they’re also treasures, and charming but clunky media formats from the past would no doubt be fascinating to anyone under the age of 20. Look at vinyl records, which may have fallen out of fashion in the ’90s. They’re back in a big way, and if you haven’t jumped aboard the vinyl train already, you should consider starting a collection. Groove Merchants in the Garland District is a go-to for vintage listening equipment, while indie shops like Resurrection Records, 4000 Holes and the Long Ear in Coeur d’Alene can help you add new titles to your unused record collection. VHS tapes and laserdiscs were all the rage in the days before BluRays

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and streaming, and most young people have probably never even seen one in the wild. Most thrift shops have VCRs or laserdisc players for a pittance, and you can check out the ol’ reliable Ray’s Video Station to peruse their collection of tapes and discs. Start writing your great American novel on that old Smith-Corona you’ve kept for sentimental reasons (you can usually find usable typewriter ribbons in vintage stores or, if all else fails, on eBay). And if you happen to have a bulky VHS camcorder or one of those handheld Super 8 cameras, film your own home movies and screen them for family and friends.

There’s something comforting about experiencing art through old methods, because it’ll make you appreciate just how slick and convenient our everyday streaming and digital technologies really are.

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Speaking of retro, the Jedi Alliance arcade in the Chief Garry Park neighborhood is a cool, slightly offbeat family hangout, a place that’s reminiscent of a time not so long ago when seemingly every suburban storefront had at least one video game cabinet. Jedi Alliance houses dozens of classic arcade titles like Pac-Man, Galaga and Centipede, as well as a collection of movie and music memorabilia and more than 30 pinball machines from the ’70s to now.

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If your kids haven’t experienced these technological dinosaurs, getting behind the joysticks of a Burger Time or Galaga machine might foster an admiration for the design and aesthetics of these vintage machines, and an appreciation for just how much effort and strategy went into mastering the gameplay. The Jedi Alliance will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between 6 and 10 pm, and there’s a $12 per person admission fee.

READING IS FUNDAMENTAL

Remember in grade school when you and your classmates were challenged to read a certain number of books, and if you reached the goal you were rewarded with a pizza party or a class trip to Silverwood? Simpler times. But grown-ups could probably use the same kind of motivation: Instead of expanding our minds with a good book, we’re vegging out in front of an episode of The Office we’ve already seen a dozen times before. And nothing motivates

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purchases, curbside pickup and shipping orders. Amongst the buzzed-about books you can add to your to-read list: new novels from local authors, like S.M. Hulse’s Eden Mine and Ian Pisarcik’s Before Familiar Woods, as well as recent releases from prominent African-American authors like Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half) and Abi Dare (The Girl with the Louding Voice).

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The Spokane Public Library is a reliable place for free, which makes any of its branches an ideal place to pass the time when the outdoors are off limits. You can take a virtual tour of the local big cat sanctuary Cat Tales on Aug. 10, when the library will send out a link to its live video on social media platforms. Teenagers who are obsessed with video games can all play together, a selection of co-op and competitive games, on Aug. 19 and 25. On the last Saturday of every month (that’s July 25 and Aug. 29 during a potential smoke season), the Hillyard Library hosts a Joy of Crafting class that’s strictly for adults, and it’s a great way to keep your hands and your mind busy.

Visit events.spokanelibrary.org.

Got bored teens? Send them to the library to play some video games.

CURING BOREDOM

Even when we aren’t on lockdown, we spend so much of our days with eyes glued to various screens; the record-breaking sales of Nintendo Switches in the last few months is proof of that. In order to stay engaged and keep your brain sharp, consider swapping out a couple hours of screen time with time sitting around with a good board game. The downtown Spokane location of Uncle’s Games has a wide selection of tabletop and card games, and they’re able to order titles that aren’t in their current inventory. Some favorites amongst Inlander staffers include Blokus, a color-based, Tetris-like strategy game; the fast-paced card game Sushi Go!; the tactical dungeoncrawl game Gloomhaven; and the role-playing adventure Pandemic Legacy, which is both hugely popular and obviously topical. And if you want to go with a throwback, learn a classic parlor game like Chinese checkers or cribbage, or finally teach yourself how to play chess after years of promising to do so.

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DATING Make your own film festival.

A FESTIVAL IN YOUR LIVING ROOM Summer is, traditionally, film festival season, but all of the major festivals around the world were put on hold this year. In lieu of spending hours in a darkened theater, consider programming your own household film festival and expand your cinematic horizons. Make a day of it. Make some popcorn. Pick a theme — a specific actor or director, or a genre that you’ve always meant to explore — and find four or five streaming titles that meet your criteria. Or maybe dig up the titles that have been sitting at the bottom of your Netflix queue for years. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as crossing things off your to-do list, and it’s even better when you don’t even have to get up off your couch. n

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hen a gal-pal told me back in March she was dating, I was incredulous.

“Where’d you meet him?” I asked, knowing the answer; women “of a certain age” don’t go to bars much (besides… they’re still closed because of COVID!). After meeting online, their first date was at an essential business — hardware, how romantic. I admired my friend’s moxie.

“You spend way more time getting to know each other upfront,” she explained. “Phone, email, even Zoom.”

A few months later, I’d warmed to the idea of dating again. OK, I admitted to my somewhat introverted, love-mysingle-life-self, I missed dating, especially the way it used to be. There, I said it.

I miss getting gussied up for a good lookin’ fellow — three weeks since I shaved my legs, really? Wearing lipstick (not needed under a mask). Talking in a normal voice, whispering even (is he angry? He seems angry. Or maybe he’s just yelling because he’s 6 feet away from me). And if there’s a way to Zoom without making either one’s nostrils or forehead ridiculously huge, please share.

I survived a Catholic-ish upbringing (which encouraged misconceptions like heavy petting led to the devil). And the easy ’80s and ’90s (when HIV, HPV and other Vs first reared). So it’s ironic that mere heavy breathing (if one party unknowingly has COVID) could be my undoing.

So, yeah, I miss the simple pleasure of saying yes — to whomever you might be. Yes to meeting in person, to feeling audacious and carefree.

Grownup dating was challenging enough before the pandemic.

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SUGAR DADDY

Just in time for Father’s Day (June 21), Electric Sugar Cookie has a “pizza” kit the little ones can “cook” with dad. For $24, you get an 8-inch round of cookie dough (crust), one bag each of red and white icing (sauce, cheese) and more to make toppings like bell pepper and olives. Visit Facebook: Electric Sugar Cookie.

HOT TO TROT

Greenbluff’s Harvest House is hosting the 42nd annual Cherry Pickers Trot and Pit Spit (say that without laughing). It’s seriously good fun supporting Second Harvest Food Bank, July 16. Register to run, show up for the “spit” (5:30 pm) or just chill on-site. Visit greenbluffgrowers.com/cherry-pickerstrot.

TASTE COEUR D’ALENE

Art on the Green may have gone virtual but Panhandle Kiwanis’ Taste of Coeur d’Alene event is on for July 31-Aug. 2 at City Park. You’re outdoors by the lake eating something yummy at a picnic bench. Yeah, feels like summer.

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BINGEFEST

It’s the kind of bingeing that won’t impact your waistline: hours of food TV for when you can’t be outside. Rediscover Ratatouille — ze rat iz ze cook?

Go back in time with Anthony Bourdain. Get hooked on Netflix’ Sugar Rush.

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It’s ol’ fashioned fun in Wallace for the annual Huckleberry Festival celebrating Idaho’s favorite fruit. Shop the farmers market, queue up for huckleberry pancakes, listen to live music and have local beer from 9 am to 2 pm on Aug. 15. Visit wallacehuckfest.com.

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

When the pandemic hit, Spokane Food Fighters marshaled efforts to help deliver food to those in need. Want to join? Sign up at spokanefoodfighters. org for a two-hour shift Sunday through Thursday, roughly from 4-6 pm, then deliver the microwave-ready meals to homes.

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Melted chocolate, toasted marshmallow and Graham crackers make for an all-ages camping favorite. Tinker with this classic by subbing gourmet chocolate or other cookies, adding fruit or peanut butter. Or try campfire cone s’mores: Fill waffle cone with chocolate and marshmallows, wrap in foil, grill, unwrap and top with ice cream. Delish!

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Enjoy peach season and the second annual Food Trucks and Fruit Festival, 10 am-4 pm on Aug. 22-23 at Beck’s Harvest House in Greenbluff. It’s live music, peach-themed events, and some of your favorite area food trucks. Visit facebook.com/becksharvesthouse.

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Food FARMERS MARKETS CHEWELAH FARMERS MARKET Fridays from 11 am-3:30 pm through Oct. 16. At Chewelah City Park, Chewelah. chewelahfarmersmarket.com CLAYTON FARMERS MARKET Sundays from 11 am-4 pm through Sept. 27. At the Clayton Fairgrounds, 4616 Wallbridge Rd., Clayton.

Facebook: Clayton Farmers Market and Small Farm Animals EMERSON-GARFIELD FARMERS MARKET Fridays from 3-7 pm through Sept. 25. At the IEL Adult Education Center, 2310 N. Monroe St., Spokane. market.emersongarfield.org FAIRWOOD FARMERS MARKET Tuesdays from 3-7 pm through Oct. 13. At the Fairwood Shopping Center, 319 W. Hastings Rd., Spokane. fairwoodfarmersmarket.org HILLYARD FARMERS MARKET Mondays from 3-7 pm, June 22 through Oct. 19. At 5102 N. Market St., Spokane. facebook.com/hillyardfarmersmarket KENDALL YARDS NIGHT MARKET Wednesdays from 5-8 pm through Sept. 30. On West Summit Parkway between Cedar Street and Adams Alley, downtown Spokane. kendallnightmarket.org

KOOTENAI FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 9 am-1:30 pm through October (Highway 95 and Prairie, Hayden) and Wednesdays from 4-7 pm through September (Fifth and Sherman, downtown Coeur d’Alene). kootenaifarmersmarkets.org LIBERTY LAKE FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm through Oct. 10. At Town Square Park, 1421 N. Meadowwood Ln., Liberty Lake. libertylakefarmersmarket.com MILLWOOD FARMERS MARKET Wednesdays from 3-7 pm through Sept. 30. At Millwood Park, 9103 E. Frederick Ave., Millwood. farmersmarket.millwoodnow.org MOSCOW FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm through October. At Friendship Square, Fourth Avenue and Main Street, Moscow. ci.moscow.id.us N.E.W. FARMERS MARKET Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm through October. At 121 E. Astor St., Colville. newfarmersmarket.org NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm through October. At 236 S. Union Ave., Newport. Facebook: Newport Farmers Market

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started going to summer camps on Lake Coeur d’Alene the summer after first grade, returning each year for a week or two in the woods along the beautiful water body. We’d hike through the evergreens, trying not to kick up the dry dirt of the trails as we looked forward to making crafts, playing games, and of course, waterfront time.

Even into late July, the shock of the cold water would often leave you gasping for air for a second after you jumped off the dock. But it was quickly the most welcome feeling after a long day in the heat.

It was during one of those coveted hours in the water that I learned of a magical afternoon snack I’d never had before: frozen grapes. What was this? They’re just grapes you put in the freezer for a while? Yep. It was incredible how satisfying it was to chomp on the quickly-thawing frozen fruit, not quite popsicles, but way more special than normal grapes. In fact, I’ll go ahead and say there were days we wanted those grapes more than ice cream itself. 10/10: This camper would recommend. If it’s new to you, it’s easy: Just wash your grapes, pat them dry, and freeze for about two hours. Then when you’re ready to eat them, let them sit in the sun for a little bit so they’re not too hard and enjoy!

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PULLMAN FARMERS MARKET Wednesdays from 3:30-6:30 pm through Oct. 14. At the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center, 150 E. Spring St., Pullman facebook.com/pullmanmarket

SPOKANE FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm through Oct. 31; Wednesdays from 8 am-1 pm through Oct. 28. At 20 W. Fifth Ave., Spokane. spokanefarmersmarket.org

SANDPOINT FARMERS MARKET Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm through Oct. 10. At 231 N. Third Ave. (city lot across from Joel’s Mexican), Sandpoint. sandpointfarmersmarket.com

SPOKANE VALLEY FARMERS MARKET Fridays from 5-8 pm through Sept. 18. At CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place, Spokane Valley. spokanevalleyfarmersmarket.org

SOUTH PERRY THURSDAY MARKET Thursdays from 3-7 pm through Oct. 29. At Perry St. and 10th Ave. (behind the Lantern Taphouse), Spokane. thursdaymarket.org

WONDER SATURDAY MARKET Saturdays from noon-4 pm through October 10. At the Wonder Building, 835 N. Post St., Spokane. wondersaturdaymarket.com

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Ever heard a quiet square dance hall? Of course not; these folks know how to have a good time! Join them at their annual outdoor barbecue salmon dinner on Aug. 23 at Western Dance Center from noon to 4 pm (entertainment from 2-3 pm). Tickets are $10 for kids, $12 for 65 and up and $15 for adults. Visit facebook.com/SpokaneSDC.

STAY HOMEGROWN

Remember when you learned how to grow something, like a bean in a Dixie cup? That little fist of green emerging from the soil — you did that. Well, you helped at least. Recreate that magic and what might be a lifelong interest in growing your own food. Start with peas, beans, potatoes, or even culinary herbs in a windowsill planter and let the magic happen. Then see where your garden grows.

IN A PICKLE

Looking to eat more veggies? Pickle them. Quickly.

Simply: vinegar, salt, spices and a good recipe. (We like thekitchn.com.) Easily transform garden surplus into a crisp, refreshing, healthy snack that pairs with whatever’s on your plate and is fridge-safe for weeks.

FAIRLY GOOD

Mark your calendars for the fair: Aug. 26-30 in North Idaho at Kootenai Fairgrounds (nisfair.fun) and Sept. 11-20 at Spokane’s Interstate Fairgrounds (spokanecounty.org).

Lots of good eats at both. Just remember to let it settle before hitting the rides.

PIG OUT IN THE PARK

Nothing says savor summer’s end days like Pig Out in the Park, Sept. 2-7, from 11 am-10 pm. They’re celebrating 41 years of filling people up with food and togetherness in Spokane’s jewel, Riverfront Park. Visit pigoutinthepark.com.

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June 18 is International Picnic Day, a reminder that picnics get you out enjoying nature and each other’s company both.

Unless there’s a table handy, create a dining area with a thicker blanket you can wash later. An umbrella makes for portable shade, while a few throw pillows, according to Country Living, can make leaning for long periods more comfortable.

Travel expert Rick Steves recommends real cutlery and a good knife — wrap in a towel, which can be used for cleanup. A heavy plastic lid doubles as a plate and cutting surface.

To carry the goods, coolers provide a sturdy surface and seat, but for hikers, backpacks become soft coolers through plastic bags, ice packs and careful packing. Lidded plasticware, for example, keeps things from getting crushed and act as serving containers. Double up on water, too; partially fill and freeze freezer-safe water bottles for ice packs that melt into drinking water later.

Then there’s food, which can be classic — fried chicken and potato salad — to fancy-schmancy wine and charcuterie. Raid the grocery’s ready-to-go aisle, order up sushi, or hit the easy button with sandwiches. Just remember to leave no trace so the next folks can enjoy nature, too. n

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HOME, SWEET HOME I

’ve always been a homebody at heart. That doesn’t mean quarantine has been remarkably easier to weather, but I’m comforted to know that leaving the house less than usual in the coming months to travel or socialize won’t be a major hardship for me.

Being content at home with family is something I learned to embrace at an early age, growing up in rural Stevens County miles away from my school and all my friends. My sister, brother and I learned to (mostly) enjoy each other’s company and the refuge of nature on our 20acre property. We were pretty good at keeping ourselves entertained and busy, indoors and out.

My lasting contentment at home is deeply grounded in that nostalgic, childhood sense of comfort and safety.

When the afternoon breeze makes dappled leaf shadows dance across the white curtains, I’m brought back to hot summer afternoons in the cool haven of the sole air-conditioned room at my grandparents’ nearby home.

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When I lay down to read on a warm Saturday afternoon with all the windows open, I remember my sister and I playing dolls in our stuffy upstairs bedroom. Even if it was 85 degrees inside, we were stubbornly willing to endure the heat with just a box-fan breeze because we had to play inside at that moment.

I’m sure this summer there will be brief escapes from

the city, up to Priest Lake or to a nearby trail for a late afternoon hike. But in between all that, I know I’ll be just as happy to eat dinner on the patio every night, read plenty of books, take my cat out on her leash in the backyard, tend to my vegetable garden and find simple solace in another summer at home.

— CHEY SCOTT

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6/21 Mothers, Fathers & Families

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6/27 North Idaho Flea & Swap, Lake

6/13 Jeremy McComb & Luke Jaxon,

FILM

6/13 Ohmme, V.V. Lightbody, Lucky You

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6/11 The Grey Fox, Panida Theater 6/13 Bozeman Film Festival of Shorts, Panida Theater

Celebration Brunch, Immaculate Heart Retreat Center 6/27 Second Annual Bunny Stop & Hop, Lake City Center

FOOD & DRINK

COMEDY

6/12-13 Crepe Cafe Sisters, Olmsted

6/17-24 Open Mic Standup, Spokane Comedy Club

6/18-20 Chris Porter, Spokane Comedy Club 6/25-27 Brendan Schaub, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

6/11-30 Pompeii: The Immortal City,

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (pending Phase 3) 6/11-13 J Spokane Virtual Pride: Going Viral (Online) 6/11-30 Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (pending Phase 3) 6/11-30 Museum of North Idaho summer hours (Tue-Sat) 6/12-28 Pavilion Light Show, Riverfront Park (Fri-Sun) 6/12-28 All-You-Can Play Game Nights, Jedi Alliance (Fri-Sun) 6/20-21 GreenBluff Summer Kick-Off Scavenger Hunt & Craft Fair, High Country Orchard 6/26 Think Big Festival 2020, Coeur d’Alene

6/11-30 Daily Sunset Dinner Cruise, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

Brothers Green 6/13 Party On The Patio, Prohibition Gastropub 6/19-26 Girls Wine Night Picnic in the Orchard, High Country Orchard 6/19 J Neon Nights Dine & Drive, Garland District 6/26-28 5th Anniversary Weekend Celebration, Nectar Wine & Beer 6/27 Cooking Class: Dim Sum, The Culinary Stone 6/30 Cooking Class: Flavors of the Yucatan, The Culinary Stone

MUSIC

6/12 Wiebe Jammin’, Pend d’Oreille Winery

6/12 J Classic Rock ‘80s Patio Party,

Bridge Press Cellars 6/12 Thom & Coley, Di Luna’s Cafe 6/12 Kelly Hughes Band & Luke Jaxon, Nashville North 6/13 Fancee That!, Pend d’Oreille Winery 6/13 Solid Country Gold, Lake City Center 6/13 Sean Owsley and the Rising, Bridge Press Cellars

Career, Education and

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6/14 Piano Sunday with Bob Beadling, Pend d’Oreille Winery

6/19 Ben Baker, Pend d’Oreille Winery 6/19 The Rub, Bridge Press Cellars 6/19 Northwest Saxaphone Quartet,

The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center

6/20 J Built to Spill, Lucky You Lounge 6/20 Pamela Benton, Pend d’Oreille Winery

6/21 Piano Sunday with Peter Lucht,

Pend d’Oreille Winery 6/23 (hed) P.E., The Pin 6/26 Perfect Mess, Pend d’Oreille Winery 6/26 Sammy Eubanks, Bridge Press Cellars 6/27 Dawna Stafford Music, Coeur d’Alene Cellars 6/27 Echo Elysium, Pend d’Oreille Winery 6/27 Sara Brown Band, Bridge Press Cellars 6/28 Piano Sunday with Dwayne Parsons, Pend d’Oreille Winery

SPORTS & OUTDOORS 6/11-30 Lake Coeur d’Alene Scenic

Cruises, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

6/13 Washington State Parks Free Day 6/18 J Summer Parkways 2020, South Hill, Manito-Comstock neighborhood 6/19-21 Pick Your Path Community Challenge 5, 10, 25K (Virtual)

Summer Parkways is scheduled for June 18.

6/20 Sprint Boat Races, Webb’s Slough,

St. John’s 6/20 Trailblazer Triathlon, Duathlon, 5K, Medical Lake (Virtual) 6/26-28 Glamping on the Farmstead, Medical Lake

VISUAL ARTS

6/11-24 Follow the Sun: The Holland

6/24 Figure Drawing with Tom Quinn, Spokane Art School

CRAFTS

6/15-19 Build a Guitar, Gizmo-Cda 6/15-29 Beginning Clay, Gizmo-Cda 6/15-22 Laser Cutter: Make a Tea Light Lantern, Gizmo-Cda

and Orton Collections, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (Online) 6/11-30 Etsuko Ichikawa: Broken Poems of Fireflies, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (Online) 6/11-30 Betty Feves: The Earth Itself, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (Online) 6/11-26 Soften, Chase Gallery (Online) 6/12 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 6/13-20 Introduction to Mosaics, Art Salvage Spokane 6/18-19 2020 SFCC Grad Show (Online)

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6/18-25 CNC Router: Turn Reclaimed

Wood Into a Map of Idaho, Gizmo-Cda 6/22-26 Dream It! Make It! Market It!, Gizmo-Cda 6/24 Soap & Felt, Gizmo-Cda 6/27 Indigo & Botanical Dying, GizmoCda 6/29 It’s All About the Sticker, GizmoCda

WORDS

6/20 Story Time with Andrea!, Auntie’s Bookstore (Online)

6/24 J Gordon Jackson in

Conversation with Shawn Vestal, Auntie’s Bookstore (Online)

Health Fair

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Cultural Village

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BENEFIT

7/12 CdA Makers Summer Market, The

7/10-18 J Art for the Animals, River’s

Wish Animal Sanctuary (Online) 7/11 Shangri La at the Lake, Sandpoint 7/11 Riding with Rover, SpokAnimal

COMEDY

7/1-29 Open Mic, Spokane Comedy Club 7/16-18 Bobby Lee, Spokane Comedy Club

Coeur d’Alene Resort 7/18 North Idaho Flea & Swap, Lake City Center 7/25 2nd Annual Dutch Jake’s Birthday Carnival, Calypsos Coffee Roasters

FESTIVAL

7/9 Glow Fest North West, Happy Meadows Venue

7/17 Tin Foil Hat Comedy, Spokane

Comedy Club 7/19 Virtual Comedy Class Graduation, Spokane Comedy Club 7/24-25 J Damon Wayans Jr., Spokane Comedy Club 7/25 Comedy Magic Show, Panida Theater 7/31-31 J Bobcat Goldthwait, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

7/1-31 Pompeii: The Immortal City, The

MAC (Pending Phase 3) 7/1-31 Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory, The MAC (Pending Phase 3) 7/3-31 Pavilion Light Show, Riverfront Park (Fri-Sun) 7/3 Idaho Statehood Day Parade, Wallace, Idaho 7/3-31 All-You-Can Play Game Nights, Jedi Alliance (Fri-Sun) 7/4 J Fourth of July Fireworks Cruises, The Coeur d’Alene Resort 7/4 Pullman’s 45th Fourth of July Celebration 7/4 Liberty Lake Fourth of July Celebration, Pavillion Park

7/10-12 Post Falls Festival 7/11-12 J U-pick Lavender Festival, Evening Light Lavender Farm

7/11 J CdA Maker Mania, North Idaho

College 7/17-18 Car d’Lane, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 7/18 Fun in the Sun, Greyhound Park & Event Center 7/24-25 Hayden Days, Hayden, Idaho 7/25 J Spokane VegFest, Spokane Community College 7/31 J Coeur d’Alene Street Fair, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 7/31 J 52nd Annual Art on the Green, North Idaho College (Virtual)

FILM

7/7 When God Left the Building, Panida Theater 7/10 Movies in the Park: Abominable, Valley Mission Park 7/24 J Movies in the Park: Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone, CenterPlace Event Center

FOOD & DRINK

7/1-31 Daily Sunset Dinner Cruise, The

7/1 Cooking Class: Filipino Cuisine, The

Culinary Stone 7/3-31 Ride & Dine, Silver Mountain Resort 7/4 J Fourth of July Vegan BBQ, Calypsos Coffee Roasters 7/7 Cooking Class: The Secret of Sous Vide, The Culinary Stone 7/8 Cooking Class: V is for Vermouth, The Culinary Stone 7/10 Cooking Class: Flavors of Oaxaca, The Culinary Stone 7/17 Cooking Class: Sous le Soleil de Provence, The Culinary Stone 7/18-19 J Northwest Winefest, Schweitzer Mountain Resort 7/18 Cooking Class: Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken, The Culinary Stone 7/25 Cooking Class: Souffles, The Culinary Stone 7/28 Cooking Class: Balinese is Back, The Culinary Stone 7/29 Cooking Class: Cuisine de Bouchon Lyonnais, The Culinary Stone 7/31 J Taste of Coeur d’ Alene, Coeur d’Alene City Park 7/31 Girls Wine Night Picnic in the Orchard, High Country Orchard

MUSIC

7/1 Fox & Bones, Panida Theater 7/2 J Lee Greenwood, Coeur d’Alene

Casino 7/10-11 Stateline Summer Jam, Cruisers 7/10-13 J Wallace Blues Festival, Wallace, Idaho 7/10 Ryan Larsen Band, Bridge Press Cellars 7/11 NightShift, Bridge Press Cellars

7/14 J Weezer, Northern Quest 7/14-15 Mozart on a Summer’s Eve, Manito Park

7/15 J Drive-By Truckers, Knitting Factory

7/16 Nu Jack City with Brady Campbell, Riverstone Park

7/16 David Archuleta, Bing Crosby

Theater 7/17 Ron Greene Band, Bridge Press 7/18 Diego & the Detonators, Bridge Press Cellars 7/23 Sway Wild, Riverstone Park 7/24 Devon Wade Band, Bridge Press 7/25 J Spokane Jazz Orchestra: The Great American Songbook Then & Now, Bing Crosby Theater 7/25 Nu Jack City, Bridge Press Cellars 7/30 Max Hatt & Edda Glass with Hanna Rebecca, Riverstone Park 7/31 The Grindin & Dining Tour ft.

Kuttl3ss, C-Major, Phil Mauro, The Pin

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

JULY THEATER

7/17-19 One Act Play Festival, Pend Oreille Playhouse

VISUAL ARTS

7/2 First Thursday Art Walk, Moscow 7/3 J First Friday, Spokane 7/3 First Friday, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery

7/10-31 43rd POAC Sandpoint Artwalk, 7/10 Second Saturdays on Garland 7/10 Second Friday Artwalk, CdA 7/11 Basic Impressionism Using Color Blocking, Spokane Art School

7/11 Intro to Paper Marbling, Spokane Print & Publishing Center

7/24 Introduction to Encaustic, Spokane Art School

7/27 Draw, Print, Tie-Dye, Stamp, Spokane Art School

7/1-31 Lake Coeur d’Alene Scenic

7/29 Acrylic Painting with Tom Quinn,

7/5 CdA Full Moon Ride, Coeur d’Alene 7/11 Mud Factor Spokane, Airway X

WORDS

Cruises, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

Motocross Park 7/12 Game On!, Terrace View Park 7/16 J 42nd Annual Cherry Pickers Trot & Pit Spit, Beck’s Harvest House 7/17-19 Northwest Cup, Silver Mountain 7/18 Mt. Spokane Vertical Challenge 7/26 J Spokane Valley Cycle Celebration, Mirabeau Point Park

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7/17 J Welcome To Night Vale, Bing Crosby Theater

7/31 J Emily McKay and Tracy Wolff

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AUGUST

8/19-22 Bonner County Fair, Bonner

BENEFIT

8/13 Cheers for Kids: A Beer Pairing

Experience, The McGinnity Room 8/22 Spokane Preservation Society Sparkle & Spend, Barrister Winery 8/30 Steps for Autism, Riverfront Park

COMEDY

8/1-1 Bobcat Goldthwait, Spokane Comedy Club

8/7 Rodney Carrington, Northern Quest 8/7-9 Mike Epps, Spokane Comedy Club 8/13-15 Dan Soder, Spokane Comedy Club

8/20-22 Kelsey Cook, Spokane Comedy Club 8/27-29 Sarah Colonna, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

8/1-30 Pompeii: The Immortal City, The MAC (Pending Phase 3) 8/1-30 Pavilion Light Show, Riverfront Park (Fri-Sun) 8/1-30 Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory, The MAC (Pending Phase 3) 8/1-30 All-You-Can Play Game Nights, Jedi Alliance (Fri-Sun) 8/7 J Historic Monument Dedication: Walter Lawson, Greenwood Memorial Terrace 8/8 J Geek Garage Sale, Spokane

County Fairgrounds 8/20-23 Pend Oreille County Fair, Pend Oreille County Fairgrounds 8/26-30 North Idaho State Fair, Kootenai County Fairgrounds 8/29 Friends of Manito Fall Plant Sale, Manito Park

FESTIVAL

8/1-2 J Coeur d’Alene Street Fair 8/1 Barefoot in the Park, Pavillion Park 8/1-2 52nd Annual Art on the Green,

North Idaho College (Virtual) 8/7-9 Goodguys Rod & Custom Show, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 8/7-9 J Hillyard Festival, Hillyard 8/7-8 Malicious Monster Truck Tour, Stateline Speedway 8/8-9 POAC Arts & Crafts Fair, Downtown Sandpoint 8/14-15 J Wallace Huckleberry Festival, Wallace, Idaho 8/15 J Unity in the Community, Riverfront Park 8/15 J Bazaar, Downtown Spokane 8/22-23 J The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 8/22 J Coeur d’Con, Coeur d’Alene Public Library 8/29 J Spokane Dahlia Festival, Northland Rosarium

FOOD & DRINK

8/1-2 J Taste of Coeur d’ Alene, Coeur d’Alene City Park

8/1-31 Daily Sunset Dinner Cruise, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

8/5 Wheat, Wheat Don’t Tell Me! Live

Podcast Recording, Mountain Lakes Brewing Co. 8/7-28 Ride & Dine, Silver Mountain 8/15 J Silver Mountain Brewsfest, Silver Mountain Ski Resort 8/22-23 J Food Truck & Fruit Festival, Beck’s Harvest House 8/22 Baronesse Barley Harvest Day, Colfax 8/22 Sandpoint Beerfest, Trinity at City Beach 8/22 The Office Trivia Bar Crawl, Red Lion BBQ 8/23 Salmon Barbecue Picnic Dinner, Western Dance Center 8/28 Girls Wine Night Picnic in the Orchard, High Country Orchard 8/29 Margarita Crawl, Downtown Spokane

MUSIC

8/1 Robin Barrett and the Coyote Kings, Bridge Press Cellars

8/2 Dustin Lynch, Northern Quest

Resort & Casino 8/4 American Aquarium, Lucky You Lounge 8/5 J Della Mae, Lucky You Lounge.

8/6 J Wilco & Sleater-Kinney, First Interstate Center for the Arts 8/6 The Powers with Jackson Roltgen, Riverstone Park 8/7 Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues, Bridge Press Cellars 8/8 Smells Like Nirvana, The Knit 8/10 We Came As Romans with The Devil Wars Prada, Gideon, Dayseeker, Knitting Factory 8/12 Kacy & Clayton, Lucky You Lounge

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8/13 J TLC, Coeur d’Alene Casino 8/13-15 Rockin The Rivers, Three Forks,

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8/13 Brantley Gilbert, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 8/15 J The Lumineers, Gorge Amphitheater 8/20 The Barry Aiken Group with Scotty Dodson, Riverstone Park.

8/21 Jesse Quandt Band, Bridge Press Cellars 8/22 J The Killers, Gorge Amphitheater 8/22 Coeur d’Alene Symphony with the Weddle Twins, Riverstone Park 8/23 J Ice Cube, Northern Quest Resort & Casino 8/28-30 Bass Canyon Music Festival, Gorge Amphitheater

SPORTS & OUTDOORS 8/1-31 Lake Coeur d’Alene Scenic

Cruises, The Coeur d’Alene Resort 8/1 J Spokane Midnight Century, The Elk Public House 8/3 Full Moon Ride, Coeur d’Alene 8/8-9 Spike & Dig 2020, Dwight Merkel Sports Complex 8/8 Coeur d’Alene Triathlon 8/9 J Huckleberry Color Fun Run, Schweitzer Mountain Resort 8/15 Color Me BMX Race, Dwight Merkel Sports Complex 8/20 House of Fury MMA, Coeur d’Alene Casino 8/22-23 J Hoopfest, Spokane 8/25 Washington State Parks Free Day 8/29 Equestrian Poker Ride, Riverside State Park Equestrian Area

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8/29 Sprint Boat Races, Webb’s Slough, St. John’s

8/30 Bay Trail Fun Run, Trinity at City Beach, Sandpoint

THEATER

8/18-19 Trolls Live!, First Interstate Center for the Arts

8/21 Shakesplosion, Ferris High School 8/22 Shakespeare in the Parks: Cymbeline, Sandpoint

8/23 Shakespeare in the Parks: A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pavillion Park

VISUAL ARTS

8/1-28 43rd POAC Sandpoint Artwalk 8/6 First Thursday, Moscow 8/7 J First Friday, Spokane 8/7 First Fridays with POAC, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery

8/14 Second Saturdays on Garland, Garland District

8/14 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene

8/15 Large-Scale Cloud Workshop, Spokane Art School

8/22-23 J Art & Glass Fest, Arbor Crest Wine Cellars

8/22 POAC Art Party, Heartwood Center

8/28-31 Matrix Press: 20 Years of

Collaboration, Jundt Art Museum.

8/29-30 J Coeur d’Alene Artist Studio Tour

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BENEFIT

9/12 American Legion Riders 9/11

Memorial Ride, Lone Wolf HarleyDavidson 9/19 WSCFF Burn Foundation Cornhole Tournament & Auction, Big Barn Brewing Co. 9/19 J Runway Renegades Fashion Show, Riverside Place

COMEDY

9/2 Open Mic Standup, Spokane

Comedy Club 9/3 Bill Engvall, Coeur d’Alene Casino 9/6 The Hodgetwins, Spokane Comedy Club 9/10-11 J Jason Mewes, Spokane Comedy Club 9/12-12 Jeff Allen, Spokane Comedy Club 9/17-19 Tim Meadows, Spokane Comedy Club

COMMUNITY

9/1-3 J Pompeii: The Immortal City,

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (Pending Phase 3) 9/1-4 Mount St. Helens: Critical Memory, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (Pending Phase 3) 9/1-30 Museum of North Idaho summer hours (Tue-Sat) 9/4-25 Pavilion Light Show, Riverfront Park (Fri-Sun) 9/4-7 Under the Freeway Flea Market, Wallace, Idaho 9/4-27 All-You-Can Play Game Nights, Jedi Alliance (Fri-Sun) 9/5-6 Coaster Classic Car Show, Silverwood Theme Park

SEPTEMBER

9/10 North Idaho Job Fair, Lake City Center

9/11-20 J Spokane County Interstate

Fair, Spokane County Fair and Expo Center 9/16 Climate Action Committee Meeting, Kootenai Environmental Alliance 9/19 Palouse Days, Palouse, Wash.

9/19 Family Day in the Park 2020, Coeur d’Alene City Park

9/12 J Spokatopia, Camp Sekani 9/13 J SpokeFest, Kendall Yards 9/19 Numerica Happy Girls Run

Spokane, Mukogawa Institute

9/20 Scenic Half Marathon, Sandpoint 9/20-21 Washington Bike, Walk and

FESTIVAL

Roll Summit, Spokane Convention Center 9/20 J Bloomsday 2020, Spokane

9/2-7 J Pig Out in the Park, Riverfront Park

VISUAL ARTS

9/4-7 J Schweitzer Fall Fest,

Schweitzer Mountain Resort 9/5 J Garden Expo, Spokane Community College 9/13 Classic Car Show, Arbor Crest Wine Cellars 9/19 J Wallace Center of the Universe Craft Beer Pub Crawl Party, Wallace, Idaho

9/1-30 Etsuko Ichikawa: Broken Poems

FOOD & DRINK

Ice Cube plays Northern Quest Resort & Casino on Aug. 23.

9/1-13 Daily Sunset Dinner Cruise, The Coeur d’Alene Resort 9/18 J Farm to Table Extravaganza, Spokane County Fair & Expo Center 9/19 Bourbon & Bacon Bash, The Hangar Event Center

MUSIC

9/4 J FarmJam Festival, Colville 9/4 Kären McCormick, Liberty Lake Wine Cellars

9/8 J The Doobie Brothers 50th

Anniversary Tour, Spokane Arena

9/20 Dwight Yoakam, First Interstate

9/10 Super Diamond, Coeur d’Alene

Center for the Arts

Casino 9/11 Soul Proprietor, Bridge Press Cellars 9/12-13 J Spokane Symphony: Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox 9/13 Kidz Bop Live!, First Interstate Center for the Arts 9/18 OG Nixin, The Pin 9/18 Leon Atkinson in Concert, The Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center

SPORTS & OUTDOORS 9/1-7 Lake Coeur d’Alene Scenic

Cruises, The Coeur d’Alene Resort

9/2 Full Moon Ride, Coeur d’Alene 9/4 Proving Grounds MMA Fights, HUB Sports Center

9/6 Windermere Marathon, Spokane 9/12 Chafe 150 Gran Fondo, Sandpoint

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SATURDAY

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of Fireflies, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (Online) 9/1-30 Betty Feves: The Earth Itself, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (Online) 9/1-30 Matrix Press: 20 Years of Collaboration, Jundt Art Museum 9/3 First Thursday, Moscow 9/4 J First Friday, Spokane 9/4 First Fridays with POAC, Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery 9/11 Second Saturdays on Garland, Garland District 9/11 Second Friday Artwalk, Downtown Coeur d’Alene 9/12 Basic Impressionism Using Color Blocking, Spokane Art School 9/12 Palouse Plein Air, Moscow/Pullman 9/12 Underpainting for Drama, Spokane Art School 9/12 J INK! Print Ralley, Emerge 9/18-20 Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour (Central Washington)

SUNDAY

DRAKE WHITE & THE BIG FIRE

AARON CRAWFORD SANTA POCO BLAKE NOBLE

COLVILLE, WA

SCOOTER BROWN BAND STEPHANIE QUAYLE CORB LUND DILLON CARMICHAEL

DJ Matty

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EVENT CONTACTS

PLEASE CHECK WITH EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND/OR CANCELLATIONS.

Northern Quest Resort & Casino,

Spike & Dig,

northernquest.com, 242-7000

spikeanddig.com

Spokane Arena,

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture,

spokanearena.com, 279-7000

northwestmuseum.org, 456-3931

Spokane Art School,

Palouse Wash.,

spokaneartschool.net

Spokane Arts,

visitpalouse.com Panida Theater, panida.org, 208-263-9191

spokanearts.org

Spokane Comedy Club,

Pend Oreille Arts Council,

spokanecomedyclub.com

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center,

artinsandpoint.org

Pend Oreille County Fairgrounds,

spokanecounty.org, 477-1766

pocfair.com

Hoopfest is scheduled for Aug. 22-23.

Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, arborcrest.com, 927-9463

Art on the Green,

artonthegreen.org, 208-667-9346

Auntie’s Bookstore,

auntiesbooks.com, 838-0206

Bazaar,

terrainspokane.com

Bing Crosby Theater,

bingcrosbytheater.com, 227-7638

Bonner County Fairgrounds,

Coeur d’Alene Casino, cdacasino.com, 800-523-2464

Coeur d’Alene Resort, cdaresort.com, 208-765-4000

Coeur d’Alene Triathlon & Duathlon, cdatriathlon.com

Emerge,

emergecda.com

Fox Theater,

foxtheaterspokane.com, 624-1200

Friends of Pavillion Park, pavillionpark.org

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Pig Out in the Park,

Hoopfest,

Post Falls Fest,

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU,

Pullman Chamber of Commerce,

spokanehoopfest.net museum.wsu.edu

Jundt Art Museum,

sp.knittingfactory.com, 244-3279

Spokane Valley Parks & Rec, spokanevalley.org

Spokatopia Outdoor Adventure Festival,

sandpointchamber.org

Summer Parkways,

schweitzer.com, 208-263-9555

The Culinary Stone,

shakespeareintheparks.org

The Friends of Manito,

silvermt.com

The Pin!,

silverwoodthemepark.com, 208-683-3400

Unity in the Community,

Shakespeare in the Parks,

midnightcentury.com

Silver Mountain Resort,

moscowchamber.com, 208-882-1800

Silverwood Theme Park,

mozartspokane.com

Spark Central,

Green Bluff Growers,

artsandculturecda.org

spokanetribecasino.com

spokaneriverfrontpark.com

kcfairgrounds.com, 208-765-4969

cdadowntown.com, 208-667-5986

greenbluffgrowers.com

Spokane Tribe Casino

pullmanchamber.com, 509-334-3565

spokatopia.com

Schweitzer Mountain Resort,

Kootenai County Fairgrounds,

Moscow Chamber of Commerce,

Coeur d’Alene Arts Commission,

spokanesymphony.org, 624-1200

postfallsidaho.org

Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce,

Knitting Factory,

Gorge Amphitheatre, livenation.com

Spokane Symphony,

Riverfront Park,

gonzaga.edu/jundt, 313-6611

bridgepresscellars.com

Car d’Lane / CdA Street Fair,

spokaneparks.org, 625-6200

spokanepigout.com

hillyardfestival.com

Midnight Century,

gizmo-cda.org

Spokane Parks & Rec,

pendoreilleplayers.org, 671-3389

Hillyard Festival,

Gizmo-Cda,

bonnercountyfair.com

Bridge Press Cellars,

Pend Oreille Playhouse,

Mozart on a Summer’s Eve,

summerparkways.com culinarystone.com, 208-277-4116 thefriendsofmanito.org thepinspokane.com nwunity.org

Wallace Chamber of Commerce,

spark-central.org, 279-0299

wallaceidahochamber.com

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Black Voices on Film

I BOOTS ON THE MOON! It appears that Michael Scott left Dunder Mifflin under the Witness Protection Program and assumed command of the nation’s newest branch of the military in Netflix’s new original series, Space Force. Steve Carrell plays Gen. Mark Naird, an uptight former pilot who finds himself competing with the inflated egos of our nation’s top military brass. The goal: “Boots on the moon” by 2024 — which is, in fact, a real-world aspiration of the Trump administration. It’s not quite The Office, but there are some highlights (John Malkovich, and space chimp Marcus). (QUINN WELSCH)

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

n the wake of nationwide protests and support for civil rights movements like Black Lives Matter, people are turning to art that illuminates the black experience in America.

You can digitally purchase a trio of powerful documentaries about civil rights and racism via the Magic Lantern Theater, with proceeds benefiting the Carl Maxey Center, a local nonprofit providing economic and education opportunities to Spokane’s African American community. The titles available: I Am Not Your Negro, which examines racism in America through the writings of James Baldwin; Whose Streets?, a look at the demonstrations that took over Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer killed Michael Brown; and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, a portrait of the Nobel-winning author who died last year. The individual films are available for $7, and in a bundle for $15, at magiclanternonmain.com.

Here are some other powerful films from and about black voices that you can stream: THE CRITERION CHANNEL The service that specializes in arthouse and international films has pushed several historically significant black

THE BUZZ BIN films to the front of its site. Among them is a curated collection called Pioneers of African American Cinema, which includes work by groundbreaking filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams, as well as supplemental documentaries providing historical context. More contemporary films on the channel include several from independent icon Charles Burnett and Cheryl Dunye’s queer romance The Watermelon Woman.

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music hits online and in stores June 12. To wit: SAMMY BRUE, Crash Test Kid. The precocious blues rocker is on his third release before his 20th birthday, and it’s really good.

GONE WEST, Canyons. A country-rock supergroup of sorts featuring Colbie Caillet brings some breezy pop to the summer.

NORAH JONES, Pick Me Up Off The Floor. After an initial delay, Jones’ latest arrives complete with a Jeff Tweedy appearance. (DAN NAILEN) Release dates based on latest information available at press time.

NETFLIX Two of director Ava DuVernay’s most powerful films are available: 13th, a documentary that compellingly argues that various American institutions are still engaging in slavery, and the Emmy-winning miniseries When They See Us, a harrowing dramatization of the Central Park Five case. Spike Lee is dropping his newest film Da 5 Bloods on Netflix this weekend, and you can screen two more of his best and most relevant films — 1992’s Malcolm X, a biopic of the civil rights leader, and Get on the Bus (1996), following a trio of friends on their way to the Million Man March.

HULU Boots Riley’s wild, hallucinatory satire Sorry to Bother You is the perfect comedy right now, a film that takes a sledgehammer to racism, gentrification, corporate monopolies, workplace abuses and the vilification of unions. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel about a couple separated by the racially oppressive legal system.

And for some excellent music documentaries: Amazing Grace, a long-lost 1972 Aretha Franklin performance, and Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a look at the stereotype-shattering pop star. n

SELF ANALYSIS, PODCAST-STYLE NPR podcast Against the Rules, hosted by Michael Lewis, analyzes intriguing insights into how we view fairness and self-discipline. Focusing on the roles coaches and authority figures play in American society, the new second season unearths how we can apply these structures to our individual journeys of growth and improvement. It asks the audience to see their coaching figures and own instincts as tools to build the people they are becoming.

This inner reflection works wonderfully, leaving listeners with a new introspective lens. (LIZZIE OSWALT)

BRAIN DRAIN Few things have brought joy to my Twitter feed better than the account of one “ANGRY NORTH IDAHO,” who tweets in ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME @AngryNIdaho, although occasionally his “public health cats” take over the feed and ditch the SHOUTING. The cats recently posted that ANGRY NORTH IDAHO was leaving Athol for Portland. Portland! I can only hope the ol’ “constitutional conservative” keeps tabs on his old compound and keeps me entertained from his new home. (DAN NAILEN)

ENTER THE DUNGEON The highly anticipated Minecraft Dungeons offers an exciting new dungeon-crawling adventure for fans of the blocky original. The game is a charming homage to the Minecraft universe without being too violent or difficult, making it a fun, all-ages experience. As players hack and slash through levels — defeating skeletons, creepers, zombies and evil “illagers” — they find new weapons, armor and special items. The initial release is a quick play, but more levels have already been announced. The base game ($20) is available for Switch, PS4, Xbox and PC. (CHEY SCOTT)

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CULTURE | SHOP LOCAL LARRY’S BARBERSHOP Men’s barber services, 3015 E. Fifth Ave. facebook.com/larrys.barbershop, 509-534-4483 MO-NU HAIR CITY Beauty supply shop, 4224 E. Sprague Ave. 509-808-8933 EXCLUSIVE BARBERSHOP Men’s barber services, 1423 N. Argonne Rd., Spokane Valley instagram.com/myexclusivebarberspokane SMOOV CUTZ BARBER SHOP Men’s barber services, 13817 E. Sprague Ave. and 14700 E. Indiana Ave., facebook.com/SmoovCutz BLACK LONDON’S Barber and salon, 1618 W. Second Ave. facebook.com/blacklondons, 509-981-0605

Queen of Sheba owner Almaz Ainuu.

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Black-owned businesses of the Inland Northwest COMPILED BY CHEY SCOTT

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any Inlander readers have been asking for a list of blackowned businesses in our region that locals can support as the community and the nation struggles to reconcile with its deep-rooted, systemic racism. We will continue to update this list in case there are any we’ve missed. If you know of a blackowned business not listed, please email editor@inlander.com.

RESTAURANTS

QUEEN OF SHEBA Chef and owner Almaz Ainuu has been serving her traditional Ethiopian dishes inside the Flour Mill for 10 years now. 621 W. Mallon Ave., Suite 426; queenofshebaspokane.com, 509-328-3958 CHKN-N-MO Owner Bob Hemphill has been serving his Southern-style fried chicken, ribs and catfish to Spokane diners for 28 years. 414 1/2 W. Sprague Ave.; chicken-n-more.com, 509-838-5071 EZELL’S FAMOUS CHICKEN This longtime Seattle-based fried chicken chain expanded to Spokane in 2015 and is owned by business partners Lewis Rudd and Faye Stephens. 4919 S. Regal St.; ezellschicken.com, 509-448-4881 CASCADIA PUBLIC HOUSE This sustainably focused, vegan-friendly Northwest gastropub co-owned by Jordan Smith was named Best New Restaurant in the Inlander’s 2018 Best Of Readers Poll. 6314 N. Ash St.; cascadiapublichouse.com, 509-321-7051 SPOKANE CHEESECAKES Thomas and Gillian Speight began selling their European-style cheesecakes at local markets and opened their Sprague Union District bakery in late 2013. 1420 E. Sprague Ave., Suite 104B; spokanecheesecakes.com, 509-570-0658 (temporarily closed) FRESH SOUL This nonprofit eatery is owned by the Spokane Eastside Reunion Association and operated by Michael and Lorrie Brown and family, serving traditional Southern American cuisine. 3029 E. Fifth Ave.; spokaneeastsidereunionassociation.com, 509-242-3377 (temporarily closed)

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BIG ROD’S TEXAS BBQ This Texas-style barbecue truck based in Nine Mile Falls is owned and operated by Texas native Rod Smith. 12602 N. Nine Mile Rd.; bigrodstexasbbq.com, 509-218-7087 THE JAMAICAN JERK PAN / GREEN BLUFF FRESH CATERING CO. Jamaica native Roian Doctor and his wife Sabrina Sorger opened their traditional Jamaican food truck in 2012, followed by their Green Bluff-based catering company on Sorger’s family’s homestead that dates back to the late 1800s. Find food truck locations at facebook.com/TheJamaicanJerkPan; catering info at greenblufffresh.com, 509-795-9050

FOOD & DRINK

THE CHOP SHOP BARBER CO. Men’s barber services, 1428 S. Lincoln St. 509-624-1007 GIFTED HANDS SALON & SUPPLY Salon and cosmetology, 9405 E. Sprague Ave. giftedhandssalon.net, 509-482-6745 LOCAL LEGENDZ Men’s barber services, 1917 E. Sprague Ave. facebook.com/LocalLegendzBarbershop, 509-608-9699

BOUTIQUES

NINA CHERIE COUTURE Bridal shop, 9212 E. Montgomery Ave. ninacherie.com, 509-240-1782 DECORUM GIFTS Gift shop, 126 N. Washington St. decorumgift.com, 509-340-9830

HEALTH, PUBLIC SERVICES & MORE

BLACK LABEL BREWING CO. Craft brewery, 19 W. Main Ave. blacklabelbrewing.com, 509-822-7436

THE CARL MAXEY CENTER Nonprofit African American community advocate and resource center, 1312 N. Monroe, #148 carlmaxeycenter.org, 509-795-1886

BOOEY’S GOURMET Local hot sauce company facebook.com/BooeysGourmet

MAXEY LAW OFFICE Criminal defense attorney, 1835 W. Broadway Ave. maxeylaw.com, 509-828-4936

BARBERS, SALONS & PERSONAL CARE

THE BLACK LENS Community newspaper focused on news and events of importance to the region’s black community, 1312 N. Monroe St., #148 blacklensnews.com, 509-795-1964

KIM’S BATH SHOP Handmade bath products, based in Spokane Valley kimsbathshop.com CLASSIC CUTS Men’s barber services, 327 W. Third Ave. 509-714-3531 BEAUCHAMP & CHASE Locally made soaps and skincare, sold at From Here, 808 W. Main Ave., beauchampandchase.wixsite.com WRIGHTWAY BEAUTY SUPPLY Beauty supply store, 2103 N. Division St. wrightwaybeautysupply.com

AS WE THRIVE COUNSELING SERVICES Mental health and doula services, 222 W. Mission Ave. aswethrive.com, 509-222-0653 ONE BODY ONE MIND MASSAGE THERAPY Massage therapist, 33 E. Lincoln Rd. facebook.com/onebodyonemind509, 509-710-5461 PACIFIC AUTO SALES Used car dealership, 16614 E. Sprague Ave. n To help us keep this list updated and as comprehensive as possible, please let us know if we’re missing any black-owned

CULTURE | BOOKS

Book Tips from the Pros

collection of her essays and speeches written in the late ’70s and early ’80s that speak on matters such as racial equality, feminism, heterosexism, classism, and more.

What I like most about reading Lorde’s work is that, though theoretical by nature, her writing is accessible.

I often found myself stopping every few paragraphs to think about the state of the world at the point in which she was writing,and the world today. Unfortunately, I drew many similarities. Sister Outsider provided me with a deeper understanding about the systemic root of our many “-isms” today, and provided many calls-to-action about how I can be a better ally.

Black voices on the page to add to your summer reading list

PATSY, BY NICOLE DENNIS-BENN

BY KAILEE HAONG

W

e need to read and listen to black voices. Not just today and for the next week or two or three — we need to make a habit of it. Black lives matter. Black voices matter. Black stories matter.

Because it is so pertinent to listen to black voices at this time, I have a few suggestions:

THE NICKEL BOYS, BY COLSON WHITEHEAD

Though a work of fiction, The Nickel Boys recreates a real-life reform school from Florida — the Dozier School — and follows the lives of two young boys who attend the school, Elwood and Turner. A winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, this novel is absolutely devastating, but needs to be read, shared, and taught. Examining racism, boyhood, and friendship in the 1960s, Whitehead’s elegant prose, authentic anecdotes from the reform school the novel was based off of, and memorable characters will keep you on your toes, inspire you, and break your

heart all in one sitting. I believe The Nickel Boys should be required reading. Be it in high school, or college, or just in your free time, everyone needs to read this book.

SISTER OUTSIDER, BY AUDRE LORDE

Lorde was a pioneer in many ways. As she often begins most essays, she was a black lesbian feminist, a cancer survivor, a mother, an educator, a poet. Sister Outsider is a

This novel explores the life of Tru, a young girl at home in Jamaica in contrast with the life of her mother Patsy, who left Tru with her father so she could live out her American dream in New York on a visa. Dennis-Benn explores the complexities of gender, sexual orientation, culture, and motherhood in this expansive novel. It recently won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and rightfully so. Patsy is opportunistic, romantic, and perhaps even selfish, while her daughter Tru is selfassured, strong-willed, and hopeful. While at times the characters seem as though they could not be any more different from one another, their similarities and likemindedness develop as Tru grows up. Though I often stray away from books that are over 400 pages, I could not set this one down as soon as I opened it. n Kailee Haong is a queer woman of color who primarily writes fiction. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Eastern Washington University. Her work has been published in Split Lip, The Brown Orient, Spokane Writes, Lilac City Fairy Tales and others.

Electrical Maintenance and Automation is just one of the 90 areas of study offered at Spokane Community College and the more than 120 offered through Community Colleges of Spokane.

Enroll now! scc.spokane.edu

This message supported by a Department of Education Carl D. Perkins Act grant, but does not necessarily represent DOE policy. (EDGAR 75.620) Community Colleges of Spokane provides equal opportunity in education and employment.

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perspective. You’ve helped me improve myself even in your absence. And I go back to the nights when we stayed up until 3 or 5. Those were nice. Not knowing when we’d talk again made it hard to leave whenever we were together. Hope you continued to dance, maybe ballet like you had started.

Your gentle, uplifting, and sweet personality and presence is missed by all. -T

CHEERS CABELA’S PARKING LOT You backed your truck out, accidentally causing a stray cart to hit my car. You genuinely apologized to me, and I didn’t acknowledge you. Jeers to me. Thanks for taking the time to care, even though it wasn’t your fault the cart was left there, and no harm came to my vehicle. I hope I didn’t ruin your day by being in a bad mood. Cheers to you.

I SAW YOU

NURSES THANKFUL TO OUR COMMUNITY Providence St. Joseph’s Care Center in Spokane would like to give a huge THANK YOU to those who helped us celebrate our nurses for National Nurses Week last month! Our facility was able to give all of our nurses a gift basket filled with goodies donated by our amazing community and provide lunch each day of the week! Dutch Bros Coffee, Sip N’ Paint Studio, Board and Brush, Dandles Candles, Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop, Mt. Spokane Ski and Snow Park, Kona Ice, Petal Pushers, Jimmy Johns, Sweeto Burrito, Meltz Extreme, Dick’s Hamburgers, Soulful Soups, Mary Lou’s Ice Cream and More, Costco, and Big Rods, BBQ. We are so appreciative of the support and love you helped us show our nurses during this difficult and unsure time in the healthcare world!

7-11 SWEETHEART I saw you May 24th at the 7-11 on Washington & Indiana. I held the door you bought my slurpee. You: Very handsome man, driving a white truck. Me: tall blond wearing white pants. You asked where I was going all dressed up. I told you work. I really just wanted you to know you made my day with your kind flirty words.

It’s been a long time since I have received that kind of attention. Oh! And thank you again for the Slurpee! You are a sweetheart!!

FIREFIGHTERS AT THE BLM PROTEST 6/7 Dear Hot Firefighters, activism suits you well, well enough to date my smokin’ sister.

When values align, the stars align. (#BLM) Whichever one of you has a mustache under your face-mask, you may take my sister on a date. (She’s classy and asked me not to do this.) Sincerely, the Married Sister

TO HARRY FROM SALLY Thank you for driving 250 miles to fix my plumbing disaster on such short notice. Not only did you effectively save me thousands of dollars your presence was an absolute salve to my recent heartbreak & your act of kindness reminded me of the love I deserve. ‘Til our paths cross again, boy...

THE ROMANIAN Reading this column lately has struck some reminiscent chords and cause me to reflect and I saw you crossing from Manito on Friday. I’d always wondered if you left because of age, maybe social approval from family and friends. One thing I know for sure is it was fear and that was fed by comparison. I wasn’t looked at for me. I change things in my life because people matter to me more than things that can be replaced. Naturally my interests change as most interests and habits for people generally do over time. People change if they are willing and it does take time. Usually in subtle, unnoticeable ways from a daily

JEERS GIRL WITH THE TWO BRINDLE DOGS I’ve seen you a few times walking over to the Cedar Springs 4 apts. next door and letting your dogs poop in the grass. You don’t

pick up after them. You walk back to your side of the street, essentially leaving it on your neighbor’s lawn. If you are too lazy and don’t want the responsibility of having to clean up after your dogs, you probably shouldn’t have pets. It isn’t anyone’s responsibility but yours to clean up after them, so stop making it a problem for someone else. Would you want someone

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doing that to you and your property?

ILLEGAL SCHOOL ZONE CAMERA Jeers to the city of Spokane for placing the Automatic school zone camera on North Nevada by Longfellow Elementary 718 feet (three blocks and a red light) from the school property. RCW 46.61.440 states that a school speed zone may extend only 300 feet from school property. And Jeers to the state of Washington for setting that fee at $237 (18 hours at minimum wage). If you’d like more homeless single moms, this is the way to do it!

ALOHA, BOOGERLOOS Aloha is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy - none of which are capable of being enforced at the point of a gun, Hawaiian shirts notwithstanding. Tiki torches must have fallen out of fashion.

NEWS FUELS THE FIRE RE I submitted a jeers to all the local stations about their constant coverage of protests gone awry 5-31-20. I did not mean to say that it shouldn’t be covered. I was upset because it seems to me that All media shows the same footage over & over and tells the same things over and over giving the perps (not peeps) undue fame. I think we need to quit rewarding perps with airtime for their bad behavior. I also think the news should

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a mask due to nasal surgery. I know you’re a white male in America but your life is not more precious than anyone else’s. Don’t be a rude maskless jerk who doesn’t social distance when asked nicely the first three times and then not at all. Next time if you’re at an estate sale where masks are require maybe wait until someone is done looking until your force your way in. I hope your mom is ashamed of you. She raised a real selfish, jackass.

MIKE AND MARY Jeers to all of you that said we were too young. Jeers to all of you who said it would not last. Jeers to all of you who said she must have been knocked up. Happy 40th wedding anniversary. Mike and Mary!!!

RE: CADUCEUS Your JEERS is directed at the wrong person. First off, I guarantee the cheating husband/father is not “broken.”

Oh I am sure he regrets it now because like any DOG getting caught with his head in the trash, he is suffering the consequences of his actions. Secondly, the wife should not lose her self esteem because her husband is more focused on tail than his own family. Be your own woman, don’t let that pig define you. YOU did not stray, he did. Why should that make you feel less than? Thirdly, it is the married partners responsibility to not stray from his/her family. The woman he

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bedroom and away from his family. She did not take any vows for you, he did. She owes you nothing while he owes you everything wonderful and beautiful in his life. Judging by your jeers, you have probably convinced yourself that counseling will solve the problem. In reality the only thing that will stop him from straying again is finding a lawyer to rip everything from him as you should.

Allow the next poor woman who gets stuck with him to deal with his indiscretions.

You deserve better and can have better.

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You backed your truck out, accidentally causing a stray cart to hit my car. You genuinely apologized to me, and I didn’t acknowledge you. Jeers to me.

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ummer is the season of road trips, camping and outdoor exploration. We are blessed to live in a part of the world that is absolutely loaded with phenomenal summer experiences. We’re also blessed to live in a place with legal cannabis.

So, if you’re thinking of elevating your summer fun with weed, more power to you! But you should know a few things first.

Even though cannabis is legal here in Washington — as well as in our beautiful, outdoor-loving neighbors Canada and Oregon — it’s not as welcome everywhere as your reusable water bottle or tube of sunscreen. For

instance, in Idaho. Spokanites flock to the Gem State’s shimmering, silver lakes and wild mountain trails during the summer. But those who bring weed with them are violating the law, because weed isn’t legal in Idaho.

While it is legal in Washington, it’s also not legal in parts of Washington. And even in the parts where it is legal, it might not be legal to consume it.

Let’s start with the simplest rule: Everywhere in Washington, it is illegal to consume cannabis in view of the public. That’s why you aren’t allowed to smoke a joint in a city or state park.

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because it’s federal land and cannabis remains illegal federally, which means the law is even stricter: You can’t so much as possess a joint on federal land. That includes national parks, national forests and Bureau of Land Management lands, among others, and the roadways within them.

This is where it gets complicated, but there’s no need for paranoia — so long as you know the land you’ll be on, and the land you’ll be passing through.

Let’s say you’re driving along State Route 25, which parallels Lake Roosevelt as it runs between Davenport and Canada, and let’s say your destination is a cabin, on private land. In your trunk is an unopened, legally purchased gram of marijuana.

That’s all well and good, except that State Route 25 weaves in and out of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. In some places it runs for long stretches inside the borders, but at others, it’s popping in and back out again after just a matter of feet. While outside the boundary, you’re a law-abiding citizen. But while inside the boundary, you’re on land controlled by the National Park Service (federal land), which means you can be breaking the law without even knowing it. n

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Grinders make everything easier. From rolling joints to making edibles, fine and consistently ground flower is preferable to solid nugs. Think about every way there is to consume flower and there might not be a single one that isn’t made better by using a grinder.

It’s not just the nice consistency that a grinder gives your cannabis that makes using one so great, though. For being a simple tool, grinders offer a ton of benefits.

The cost of the grinder will pay for itself in no time at all by making you into a more efficient smoker. No more wasted chunks of black and stinky nug, burnt but not fully smoked, needing to be knocked out of your bowl piece. A fine grind will allow the flame from your lighter easier access to every bit of the cannabis you pack into a bowl.

They also help you save your kief, the little crystals on your buds which have a habit of sticking to fingers, surfaces or anything they may come in contact with — except for the bud itself, where they belong.

All grinders help contain your kief, but three- or four-piece grinders allow you to harvest the kief that otherwise would be lost. Some even come with a tiny scoop tool that fits inside the grinder to help transport those sticky little crystals to your pipe, joint or wherever you’re planning to consume them.

Another great thing about grinders is more doesn’t necessarily mean more expensive. And they’re not that spendy to begin with. There are countless options out there with a kief screen that will only set you back between $10 and $20. Not a bad price for a product that will take your cannabis game to a considerably higher level. n A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander’s glossy Green Zone Guide.

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My roommates have a text thread that includes all three of us. They chat on it all day long, and it’s driving me absolutely insane. We all live together and work at home, so I don’t see the need to keep texting nonstop.

I turned off notifications for the group text, but that doesn’t mean the convo has stopped, and I’m annoyed seeing it lit up every time I look at my phone. (What’s with this ridiculous need to communicate one’s every thought?) I want to tell them they need to reel it in AMY ALKON and to leave me out of it, but I also don’t want to be rude.

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Shakespeare was Shakespeare in large part because there were no smartphones in Elizabethan England: “Now is the winter of our...triple poo emoji?”

I confess that I personally see cellphones as tiny instruments of death for writerfocus and leave mine on Do Not Disturb, an underappreciated wonder of the technological world. I try not to go all Judge Judy on those who live differently, but let’s be honest: To be human is to get lots of exercise leaping to uncharitable conclusions about other humans.

Take a woman who called in to a radio show when I was being interviewed about my advice on cellphone manners. She compared people staring into their cellphones to the pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and called it “antisocial” to be texting in public.

Like this woman, we often assume we know what’s best for other people, especially when whatever that is presents a lovely frame for our own moral and intellectual superiority. But as I wrote in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” unless you’re such an obliviously wandering phone zombie that it “causes me to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid running you down, it really isn’t up to me to dictate whether you text your days away or spend them reading Good Books Approved by the Reviewing Staff of The New Yorker.”

Also, texting in public isn’t “antisocial.” It’s socializing with somebody who isn’t in our immediate environment. And being social, whether in person or with someone miles away via a tiny wireless “window” in our palm, is something we crave.

That’s probably because humans evolved to be a cooperative species, living in groups and working together. In this context, cooperation means sometimes putting aside our self-interest to act in the interest of others. Friendship and the emotional bonds that result suggest that our friends’ interests have become in our self-interest, and this, in turn, suggests our friends can rely on us when the chips are down.

Human cooperation is a psychological adaptation, an evolved solution to recurring problems that impinged on survival and reproduction. Cooperation is basically, “United we stand; divided we fall” (and maybe get eaten by something with sharp fangs). Psychiatrist and evolutionary researcher Randolph Nesse explains that our emotions act as our survival and mating support staff, pushing us to behave in evolutionarily optimal ways. Feelgood emotions like joy, excitement, and love motivate us to keep doing what we’re doing so we can keep those feelings coming.

Feelbad emotions like depression and fear, and loneliness when we feel isolated, drive us to change what we’re doing so we can stop feeling so crappy.

Accordingly, psychologist John Cacioppo, who researched loneliness, explains, “People may think of feeling lonely as a sad condition,” but it’s “not just sad but also dangerous.” It’s associated with substantial mental and physical health costs, including impaired reasoning and self-control, fragmented sleep, diminished immunity to disease, and increased risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. In contrast, “Satisfying social relations with others is the one demonstrable factor that systematically differentiates very happy people from unhappy people,” Cacioppo explains. In other words, social connection feels good because it’s a sort of insurance policy for our emotional and physical well-being that we evolved to maintain.

Chances are you haven’t felt comfortable about making the (totally reasonable!) request to not be included in the roommate textathons because of your less-than-charitable feelings about theexistence of these conversations (like that the roomies are “ridiculous,” etc.). Maybe through your understanding the evolutionary benefits of social engagement and what they might get out of this emotionally, you can see your roommates in a kinder light and request accordingly: “I’d rather talk to you guys face-to-face...” As poet John Donne wrote, ask not for whom the group text tolls; ask that it stop tolling for you — unless it’s deeply urgent: “Your room is on fire. Where do we keep the fire extinguisher?” or if somebody just got photos of a mongoose dressed as Batman. n ©2020, 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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Or maybe he’d prefer a Lake City local item from CDA IDAHO CLOTHING COMPANY, like the stylish denim baseball hat with the silhouette of the lake on it or a Tubbs Hill T-shirt.

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Specialty shops are what makes shopping Coeur d’Alene special, with mostly local, longtime family-owned places like FIGPICKEL’S TOY EMPORIUM, run by the same folks as Mrs. Honeypeeps for 13 years. All-natural soaps and related products are the focus of MOUNTAIN MADNESS SOAPS like the “bug off” lotion bar for outdoor enthusiasts and “goddess” perfume rollerball designed to keep your inner you shining strong wherever you go.

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Art and décor make for great gifts any time of year. Check out the selection of thoughtfully sourced items and original artwork at MIX IT UP. Find the perfect pair of earrings or your new favorite painting at STUDIO 107, where you can order a glass of wine and a light snack because — let’s face it — there’s so much to see downtown that you’re going to need to fuel up and take a little sitbreak.

Midtown

Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve replenished your energy, take a short walk (or drive) a few blocks up Fourth Avenue because downtown isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only place to play. The Midtown corridor is chock full of second-hand stores that are entirely worthy of making it onto your Instagram account, thanks to their curated selections and inspiring merchandising. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss MIDTOWN HOME & VINTAGE MARKET, where you could literally spend hours browsing all the different vendors. LOVELY CHAOS next door, will also inspire you to feather your nest with artful accessories, or to update your wardrobe with a flowy skirt or on-point top.

Riverstone

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to spend an entire enjoyable day of shopping, and eating, at Riverstone. The open-air village nestled along the Spokane River offers a diverse smattering of stores, from its beloved independent bookstore THE WELL-READ MOOSE, to one of the best kitchen shops in the region, THE CULINARY STONE. Turn to T BLUE II BOUTIQUE for a flirty dress perfect for date night on nearby BARDENAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S riverside patio or pickup the latest Patagonia trucker hat at ESCAPE OUTDOORS before wandering over to Riverstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CORK & TAP for some live music and wine tasting. But before you call it a day, make sure you leave time to browse at WHITE BRICK INTERIORS, where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a carefully curated selection of home decor -- much of it made by small local makers and artists.

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